About to take off on a 4-day weekend trip to a lake where I don't even know if I'll have cell reception. Catch you later, SteamThread! And be sure to continue the assault on @Luchaire!
About to take off on a 4-day weekend trip to a lake where I don't even know if I'll have cell reception. Catch you later, SteamThread! And be sure to continue the assault on @Luchaire!
minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
So, I wanted to better express how I feel about Kentucky Route Zero. After I played the first act last night I had a long chat with @Drake about it, and we talked about how it compares to Vonnegut, Joyce's Odyssey, and lots of other stuff.
To get a few things out of the way first, it's a point and click adventure game, mechanically speaking, but I would call the actual genre of the game something like a surrealist American road story. The next thing you need to know is that everything in the game, from the art style to the actual gameplay is all in service of storytelling. It uses the pacing, placement, and emphasis on text that can only be done in a video game to tell a story in a way that a book just isn't able to duplicate.
When you start the game the main character, Conway, is a blank slate. He has a personality, of course, and a distinctly southern demeanor, but his motivations and backstory are unwritten until you start answering questions and interacting with NPCs. And not in a heavy handed way. No, it's all very subtle. An early NPC will tell you he forgot the password to his computer but he knows it was a long poem, and he'll task you with figuring it out. You'll have to choose a beginning, middle, and end for the poem, with each section having multiple options. At the end of it no matter what you choose it will be the correct password, but more importantly, the poem you piece together will say something about you as a player and Conway as a character.
Many of the other conversations allow Conway to allude to a regret over his past mistakes, or a carefree trucker attitude, but again, all in very subtle ways, such as the phrasing of your response to a question about whether you have a lot of debt. You can choose to gleefully explain that you never had much collateral to begin with, or you could regretfully admit that you owe a lot of people a lot of apologies. That's a powerful bit of storytelling in just a few short words. Even the small things have a huge meaning, like answering "Homer" when a gas station attendant asks the name of the dog riding along with you.
Another thing that KRZ does that is incredibly unique is that it will jump your control from one character to another, often times even during a conversation, effectively having you steer both sides of a conversation at once. It sounds simple, but it's a strange, engrossing feeling when you suddenly have agency over an NPC you only know a little about. It almost makes the conversations with Conway more affecting when you hear his answers from the point of view of another person. That's the defining feature of the game, I think: before you realize what is happening, you're writing your own version of Conway. It's weird, I found myself equating Conway to my dad, and the responses he might have given. That wasn't a reaction I expected at all, and I didn't even realize I was doing it until I thought a bit about why the game was making me wistful and sad. It allows you to project, but never flat out asks you to. It's rich and lush with its prose, but also just restrained enough to cause your inner imagination to kick into high gear.
My talk with Drake made me realize that KRZ shares a major quality with Joyce's Odyssey and much of Vonnegut's work (particularly Breakfast of Champions), and that's an eagerness to gleefully find joy and wonder and mystery in the utterly mundane. A bait and tackle shop. A sunset over a gas station. An accident on the highway involving a liquor truck. These things take on meaning and become points of contemplation and awe.
There's a quiet quirkiness to the game. It's a bit like Sword and Sworcery in that way, but it tells a more explicit story. It doesn't hinge on its weirdness like S&S, it just uses it as a seasoning for a really cool story with some beautiful art. It's really a work of genius, and I feel like all of you should give it a shot. It's a wholly unique bit of gaming that we don't get to experience very often. Drake and Cheesecake are right. You owe it to yourself to drop a few dollars and experience Kentucky Route Zero.
Everything looks beautiful when you're young and pretty
Got a foil from Dead Island! This is a (very) good thing because I'm in need of them dollahz so I can buy Skullgirls. I'll probably buy it tomorrow evening so if you want to fight, feel free to add me!
Please note Nuuvem is a Brazilian site, is in Portuguese, release dates will be based on the Brazilian location, and prices on the site are listed in Brazilian Reals. I have purchased from them several times with no problems.
I was hoping for a deeper discount on Skyrim during the Quakecon sale, but I guess it was not to be.
About to take off on a 4-day weekend trip to a lake where I don't even know if I'll have cell reception. Catch you later, SteamThread! And be sure to continue the assault on @Luchaire!
So I am supposed to be doing some housework today and I thought I would check the steam thread. Fast forward a couple hours and my desk looks like this...
Thanks guys... I'm blaming this on you.
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So I am supposed to be doing some housework today and I thought I would check the steam thread. Fast forward a couple hours and my desk looks like this...
So I am supposed to be doing some housework today and I thought I would check the steam thread. Fast forward a couple hours and my desk looks like this...
Thanks guys... I'm blaming this on you.
That is one dang-ass-wide screen you got thurr.
It's actually fairly small, like 21.5 inch. Should really get a bigger monitor this year.
What the fuck is that artifact doing on your desk? The one on the far right. Haven't seen one of those in years.
It's, uh, not mine. I swear. Actually I don't pay for phone service and the person who does bought a package with many receivers so I put a phone in my room. It comes in handy sometimes.
I sent friend invites to the peoples who have been talking about Pinball on the last couple pages. I've gotten hooked on playing the free table and need more people to compete against.
So I am supposed to be doing some housework today and I thought I would check the steam thread. Fast forward a couple hours and my desk looks like this...
Thanks guys... I'm blaming this on you.
that looks amazing! what's the best cheap way to do this with a 24" monitor?
So I am supposed to be doing some housework today and I thought I would check the steam thread. Fast forward a couple hours and my desk looks like this...
Thanks guys... I'm blaming this on you.
that looks amazing! what's the best cheap way to do this with a 24" monitor?
I have no idea, my monitor came with a swiveling stand. I got it for photoshop work so I can rotate it for portrait mode images if I wanted to. I guess just get a rotating stand for it, they make cool ones that attach to walls and you can pivot the monitor around. After that I just clicked on the ati icon in the tray and rotated the display to portrait mode. I guess the cheapest way to do this would be to get something heavy behind it and just lean it on that.
After being apart of the steam threads for some time now and reading others posts I've come to the conclusion that one should fear @Luchaire.
But... but... I'm generally nice.
Although @Dyvim Tvar is in deep, deep trouble for the above post.
I'll just pencil your revenge in my diary so I don't forget it.
*jots down*
There we go, "appointment with @Luchaire's retribution at 14:33, Saturday 15th of September 2018". That's inbetween my strength and conditioning training and watching reruns of Smallville so it's a pretty small window, if Steam support don't get back to you in time I'm afraid I won't be able to make any promises of availability for quite some time.
Skyrim DLC, I said I was going to cave, and I did, I should have just bought it during the summer dale. Oh well, I guess serving the Newell is a year round sacrifice right?
So I'm stuck at work today can anyone tell me if the elder scrolls games are the deal today and for how much! I need to rectify the fact that I havent really played any of them but the summer dale prices were not good
It was a quiet, peaceful day in the lands of Dyvimestan. The scars of the Dale Wars may still mark the land but the people were starting to put the horrors behind them, they were startling to feel safe again.
To be honest they probably shouldn't have elected a dick as their ruler if they wanted that to continue. They've really got nobody but themselves to blame for the darkening of their skies and the impact of the giftbombs crashing into their homes.
The WMC's (Weapons of Mass Class) of Pixietnam have long been the stuff of legend, their ruler had claimed the cannons were silenced and that the merciless @Luchaire had been rendered toothless. It seems rumours of her inadequacy had been greatly exaggerated.
A lone messenger managed to escape the devastation, bedraggled and traumatized he heads for the rest of the world with a simple warning. "No Time To Explain! She's back!"
Thanks Luchaire. This makes us even now, right? Slate wiped clean, yes? Ceasefire, truce, all that jazz?
<.<
So I'm stuck at work today can anyone tell me if the elder scrolls games are the deal today and for how much! I need to rectify the fact that I havent really played any of them but the summer dale prices were not good
Skyrim legendary is 40% off ($36)
Skyrim base game and all DLC 50% off each (ends up being like $1.50 more than the legendary for everything)
Oblivion and morrowind are 75% off (roughly $6 & $5 each)
With 88 minutes played I am number 4 on my friends list for the starter table, you pinball guys need to send me friend requests or I will be top of the chart soon.
Thanks Luchaire. This makes us even now, right? Slate wiped clean, yes? Ceasefire, truce, all that jazz?
<.<
Yeah...... okay. You keep telling yourself that. :twisted:
I want to taunt you, but I've seen those YouTube videos of people taunting the zoo animals and getting assaulted, and I know that will be the inevitable result.
Edit: Was that 2 pack always there? Damn could have saved 10 bucks.
Kafka is currently off putting together a community service discipline package for Silvio Berlusconi at the request of the Italian PM, so he's not going to have much time to bump this during the weekend.
I'm of the opinion that everybody should have Space Hulk so I'll take care of this task as best I can.
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Oh you silly mortal.
You still don't understand the range of powers I can bring to bear on a situation like this?
3.5 days.
Steam profile.
Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
PSN: TheBrayster_92
I hope I never need to understand such things.
Wooden Spoon on Steam
3DS: 1005-8709-0277
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
To get a few things out of the way first, it's a point and click adventure game, mechanically speaking, but I would call the actual genre of the game something like a surrealist American road story. The next thing you need to know is that everything in the game, from the art style to the actual gameplay is all in service of storytelling. It uses the pacing, placement, and emphasis on text that can only be done in a video game to tell a story in a way that a book just isn't able to duplicate.
When you start the game the main character, Conway, is a blank slate. He has a personality, of course, and a distinctly southern demeanor, but his motivations and backstory are unwritten until you start answering questions and interacting with NPCs. And not in a heavy handed way. No, it's all very subtle. An early NPC will tell you he forgot the password to his computer but he knows it was a long poem, and he'll task you with figuring it out. You'll have to choose a beginning, middle, and end for the poem, with each section having multiple options. At the end of it no matter what you choose it will be the correct password, but more importantly, the poem you piece together will say something about you as a player and Conway as a character.
Many of the other conversations allow Conway to allude to a regret over his past mistakes, or a carefree trucker attitude, but again, all in very subtle ways, such as the phrasing of your response to a question about whether you have a lot of debt. You can choose to gleefully explain that you never had much collateral to begin with, or you could regretfully admit that you owe a lot of people a lot of apologies. That's a powerful bit of storytelling in just a few short words. Even the small things have a huge meaning, like answering "Homer" when a gas station attendant asks the name of the dog riding along with you.
Another thing that KRZ does that is incredibly unique is that it will jump your control from one character to another, often times even during a conversation, effectively having you steer both sides of a conversation at once. It sounds simple, but it's a strange, engrossing feeling when you suddenly have agency over an NPC you only know a little about. It almost makes the conversations with Conway more affecting when you hear his answers from the point of view of another person. That's the defining feature of the game, I think: before you realize what is happening, you're writing your own version of Conway. It's weird, I found myself equating Conway to my dad, and the responses he might have given. That wasn't a reaction I expected at all, and I didn't even realize I was doing it until I thought a bit about why the game was making me wistful and sad. It allows you to project, but never flat out asks you to. It's rich and lush with its prose, but also just restrained enough to cause your inner imagination to kick into high gear.
My talk with Drake made me realize that KRZ shares a major quality with Joyce's Odyssey and much of Vonnegut's work (particularly Breakfast of Champions), and that's an eagerness to gleefully find joy and wonder and mystery in the utterly mundane. A bait and tackle shop. A sunset over a gas station. An accident on the highway involving a liquor truck. These things take on meaning and become points of contemplation and awe.
There's a quiet quirkiness to the game. It's a bit like Sword and Sworcery in that way, but it tells a more explicit story. It doesn't hinge on its weirdness like S&S, it just uses it as a seasoning for a really cool story with some beautiful art. It's really a work of genius, and I feel like all of you should give it a shot. It's a wholly unique bit of gaming that we don't get to experience very often. Drake and Cheesecake are right. You owe it to yourself to drop a few dollars and experience Kentucky Route Zero.
3DS Friend Code: 2449-5711-0640
Nah. You just give her things.
Wooden Spoon on Steam
3DS: 1005-8709-0277
Anodyne $3.99
Hotline Miami $3.99
Papo & Yo $3.74
Nuuvem
Saints Row IV $32.88
The Bureau: Xcom Declassified $29.37
Total War: Rome II $35.07
Please note Nuuvem is a Brazilian site, is in Portuguese, release dates will be based on the Brazilian location, and prices on the site are listed in Brazilian Reals. I have purchased from them several times with no problems.
I was hoping for a deeper discount on Skyrim during the Quakecon sale, but I guess it was not to be.
Steam ID: Good Life
Or would I have just been better off to wait and craft the badges for coupons?
PSN: Vorpallion Twitch: Vorpallion
Least threatening pixie EVAR.
That's my laptop!
DS Friend code: 3840-6605-3406
Is it bad that I instinctually tried to click the Friendslist check button? I know better than to click popups, I swear.
But... but... I'm generally nice.
Although @Dyvim Tvar is in deep, deep trouble for the above post.
"Nice" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
$40 bucks is not a bad deal for Rayman Legends + Origins, too bad I'm getting it on WiiU to Multi with friends
Thanks guys... I'm blaming this on you.
That is one dang-ass-wide screen you got thurr.
That's one of those ancient fast food summoners, right? I've heard stories.
It's actually fairly small, like 21.5 inch. Should really get a bigger monitor this year.
It's, uh, not mine. I swear. Actually I don't pay for phone service and the person who does bought a package with many receivers so I put a phone in my room. It comes in handy sometimes.
that looks amazing! what's the best cheap way to do this with a 24" monitor?
I have no idea, my monitor came with a swiveling stand. I got it for photoshop work so I can rotate it for portrait mode images if I wanted to. I guess just get a rotating stand for it, they make cool ones that attach to walls and you can pivot the monitor around. After that I just clicked on the ati icon in the tray and rotated the display to portrait mode. I guess the cheapest way to do this would be to get something heavy behind it and just lean it on that.
I'll just pencil your revenge in my diary so I don't forget it.
*jots down*
There we go, "appointment with @Luchaire's retribution at 14:33, Saturday 15th of September 2018". That's inbetween my strength and conditioning training and watching reruns of Smallville so it's a pretty small window, if Steam support don't get back to you in time I'm afraid I won't be able to make any promises of availability for quite some time.
@Dyvim Tvar=Smartass
Noted.
:twisted:
2 copies, Adventure Team members only.
To be honest they probably shouldn't have elected a dick as their ruler if they wanted that to continue. They've really got nobody but themselves to blame for the darkening of their skies and the impact of the giftbombs crashing into their homes.
The WMC's (Weapons of Mass Class) of Pixietnam have long been the stuff of legend, their ruler had claimed the cannons were silenced and that the merciless @Luchaire had been rendered toothless. It seems rumours of her inadequacy had been greatly exaggerated.
A lone messenger managed to escape the devastation, bedraggled and traumatized he heads for the rest of the world with a simple warning. "No Time To Explain! She's back!"
<.<
Skyrim legendary is 40% off ($36)
Skyrim base game and all DLC 50% off each (ends up being like $1.50 more than the legendary for everything)
Oblivion and morrowind are 75% off (roughly $6 & $5 each)
Yeah...... okay. You keep telling yourself that. :twisted:
I want to taunt you, but I've seen those YouTube videos of people taunting the zoo animals and getting assaulted, and I know that will be the inevitable result.
Wooden Spoon on Steam
3DS: 1005-8709-0277
Kafka is currently off putting together a community service discipline package for Silvio Berlusconi at the request of the Italian PM, so he's not going to have much time to bump this during the weekend.
I'm of the opinion that everybody should have Space Hulk so I'll take care of this task as best I can.