So I picked up Spelunky and Dust yesterday and am now reminded that if a game is a xbox or psn published cross platform game, you are considered a peasant unworthy of using a gamepad unless you own one specific to that console. Is there a more elegant way to get around this than keyboard-to-gamepad programs?
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SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
Spelunky's probably way too hard for six year olds.
For the record, some of us were six when we first experienced the hard-ass unfair games of the NES era.
I'd give him Spelunky.
Yeah. Although that is a game I cannot enjoy in co-op for a serious run, for many of the same reasons I can't enjoy New Super Mario Bros. Wii in co-op. Fun at first, but after getting tossed by "friends" into spikes for the 5th time, you just want to play solo.
Nope. (As someone who bought it 'back when', I'm pretty sure that's at or near the price I paid; which suggests that they don't want to "cheat" the early backers, like many other early access / Kickstarted games.)
And let me confirm what others have said, with the added perspective of having watched this grow from "consult a sheet of numbers to see if your rocket is in a stable orbit" to a whole solar system full of SCIENCE, with more on the way: it's definitely worth it.
I'll probably wait on it since I already got like 10 games this sale. When is Kerbal supposed to come off of Early Access? I'm starting to get worn out on this Early Access stuff.
Kerbal is the gold standard for Early Access. It's feature-rich and they're still adding stuff.
Basically it's LEGO combined with NASA combined with a fully featured solar system.
Is it easy enough for a 10 year old to handle? I've thought about getting to play with my daughter, figure there will be as much amusement watching attempts fail as hoping they succeed.
Apparently I was committing a grievous sin by not owning Defiance. I apologize for that, @CorriganX, and thank you for correcting that problem![/spoiler]
Since I just recently installed it, thanks to @Edgler Vess, I'll say Defiance sure looks interesting.
But when it comes to forming new accounts, I am hugely paranoid about registering.
Is it really worth playing? To consider the account that I should be making?
Yep, it's good fun @Firebird. It's a solid shooter with light skilltree and loot elements in it's own right. Where it really shines is the frequent opportunity for emergent coop play. Either you'll be running around doing story missions and happen upon someone else at the same point and run together for a while, or you'll see one of the awesome arkfall events where pretty much everyone on that third of the map rushes together to defeat some common foe and get beau-coup loot drops.
Nope. (As someone who bought it 'back when', I'm pretty sure that's at or near the price I paid; which suggests that they don't want to "cheat" the early backers, like many other early access / Kickstarted games.)
And let me confirm what others have said, with the added perspective of having watched this grow from "consult a sheet of numbers to see if your rocket is in a stable orbit" to a whole solar system full of SCIENCE, with more on the way: it's definitely worth it.
I'll probably wait on it since I already got like 10 games this sale. When is Kerbal supposed to come off of Early Access? I'm starting to get worn out on this Early Access stuff.
Kerbal is the gold standard for Early Access. It's feature-rich and they're still adding stuff.
Basically it's LEGO combined with NASA combined with a fully featured solar system.
Is it easy enough for a 10 year old to handle? I've thought about getting to play with my daughter, figure there will be as much amusement watching attempts fail as hoping they succeed.
Depends? A lot of the physics involved, even though you don't really need the hard numbers to do stuff... Kerbal-style, you need to grasp a few things like orbital maneuvers (less intuitive than what you would believe). Rocket assembly is pretty much trial-and-error, so there's a lot of fun in that, but the more complex (and IMHO, more rewarding) aspects require some insights into the complex stuff.
EDIT: For example, I think that once you introduce her to the gravity turn, increasing and decreasing periapsis and apoapsis and orbital alignment, it'll all be easier from there. And if you don't have any idea what I just told you, there are plenty of great video tutorials online that you both can enjoy!
@Talus9952 Hit me with a full on class attack and gifted me with Mirror's Edge! I've been sitting with my finger on the buy button for this one for awhile. Thanks!
Nope. (As someone who bought it 'back when', I'm pretty sure that's at or near the price I paid; which suggests that they don't want to "cheat" the early backers, like many other early access / Kickstarted games.)
And let me confirm what others have said, with the added perspective of having watched this grow from "consult a sheet of numbers to see if your rocket is in a stable orbit" to a whole solar system full of SCIENCE, with more on the way: it's definitely worth it.
I'll probably wait on it since I already got like 10 games this sale. When is Kerbal supposed to come off of Early Access? I'm starting to get worn out on this Early Access stuff.
Kerbal is the gold standard for Early Access. It's feature-rich and they're still adding stuff.
Basically it's LEGO combined with NASA combined with a fully featured solar system.
Is it easy enough for a 10 year old to handle? I've thought about getting to play with my daughter, figure there will be as much amusement watching attempts fail as hoping they succeed.
Depends? A lot of the physics involved, even though you don't really need the hard numbers to do stuff... Kerbal-style, you need to grasp a few things like orbital maneuvers (less intuitive than what you would believe). Rocket assembly is pretty much trial-and-error, so there's a lot of fun in that, but the more complex (and IMHO, more rewarding) aspects require some insights into the complex stuff.
EDIT: For example, I think that once you introduce her to the gravity turn, increasing and decreasing periapsis and apoapsis and orbital alignment, it'll all be easier from there. And if you don't have any idea what I just told you, there are plenty of great video tutorials online that you both can enjoy!
Honestly, if you've got a smart 10-year-old, I think KSP would be a fantastic fit. The "blowing stuff up on the launchpad" phase is fun, and it's a great learning tool for some really neat science.
The recently-added career mode (where you need to collect SCIENCE!!! to unlock rocket parts) eases beginners in with a limited selection of toys and adds new ones as the old ones are mastered.
Thanks for the replies, dudes. I'm looking to pick up a copy of You Need a Budget for the missus. It's already at a pretty steep discount, but I'm observing normal Steam sale rules :P
So I picked up Spelunky and Dust yesterday and am now reminded that if a game is a xbox or psn published cross platform game, you are considered a peasant unworthy of using a gamepad unless you own one specific to that console. Is there a more elegant way to get around this than keyboard-to-gamepad programs?
The Xbox 360 controller has thus far worked for every Steam game that has claimed to have controller support. Honestly, if you don't have one, you should pick one up. Unless you're the type that hates gamepads and thinks KBAM is the be all end all.
360 Controller + Steam has been a gaming revolution for me. I played all of Borderlands 2 with a controller on PC and not one of my friends noticed. I now get upset when games don't have controller support. Especially games that have console versions I really wish I hadn't double dipped on Divinity 2 for instance. I automatically assumed that since there is a 360 version, that the PC version would have controller support. Sadly, that wasn't the case
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VariableMouth CongressStroke Me Lady FameRegistered Userregular
There is software that allows for ps3 controller... Motionjoy if I remember right.
Unless you have a third party xbox controller I consider that the best way, especially if it's for 2d platformers. That dpad will drive you nuts.
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I think I'm done for this sale. I have a few dollars left in the planned budget for exceptional deals or amazing games that I have to gift out, but here's my haul, more or less.
Games bought for myself
Bioshock Triple pack
Star Wars Empire at War
Strike Suit Zero
Crusader Kings 2 Old Gods DLC
Super Hexagon
Endless Space Gold
Papers Please
Euro Truck Sim 2
Alan Wake
Gone Home
Solar 2 to Pixie (I'm not typing that name out)
Age of Empires II HD to @Berylline
To The Moon to @Variable
Crusader Kings 2 complete to @Brainling
The Stanley Parable for my wife
To The Moon for my wife
FTL: Faster Than Light to @tugga
To The Moon to @tugga
Kerbal Space Program x 7 (shut up) for real life friends, plus @kedinik
Papers Please for a good friend
Papers Please for my wife
Spelunky to @iolo
my goal for this sale was to give out equally as many games as I bought for myself or received as gifts, and if you count the multiple copies of Kerbal Space Program, I achieved my goal, so I'm happy with how this sale went.
Nope. (As someone who bought it 'back when', I'm pretty sure that's at or near the price I paid; which suggests that they don't want to "cheat" the early backers, like many other early access / Kickstarted games.)
And let me confirm what others have said, with the added perspective of having watched this grow from "consult a sheet of numbers to see if your rocket is in a stable orbit" to a whole solar system full of SCIENCE, with more on the way: it's definitely worth it.
I'll probably wait on it since I already got like 10 games this sale. When is Kerbal supposed to come off of Early Access? I'm starting to get worn out on this Early Access stuff.
Kerbal is the gold standard for Early Access. It's feature-rich and they're still adding stuff.
Basically it's LEGO combined with NASA combined with a fully featured solar system.
Is it easy enough for a 10 year old to handle? I've thought about getting to play with my daughter, figure there will be as much amusement watching attempts fail as hoping they succeed.
While Kerbal can be complex, a lot of fun is in figuring out of rocket builds. Plus, 10 year olds will enjoy the the Lego sandbox aspect and get some science education to boot!
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Dhalphirdon't you open that trapdooryou're a fool if you dareRegistered Userregular
Nope. (As someone who bought it 'back when', I'm pretty sure that's at or near the price I paid; which suggests that they don't want to "cheat" the early backers, like many other early access / Kickstarted games.)
And let me confirm what others have said, with the added perspective of having watched this grow from "consult a sheet of numbers to see if your rocket is in a stable orbit" to a whole solar system full of SCIENCE, with more on the way: it's definitely worth it.
I'll probably wait on it since I already got like 10 games this sale. When is Kerbal supposed to come off of Early Access? I'm starting to get worn out on this Early Access stuff.
Kerbal is the gold standard for Early Access. It's feature-rich and they're still adding stuff.
Basically it's LEGO combined with NASA combined with a fully featured solar system.
Is it easy enough for a 10 year old to handle? I've thought about getting to play with my daughter, figure there will be as much amusement watching attempts fail as hoping they succeed.
Depends? A lot of the physics involved, even though you don't really need the hard numbers to do stuff... Kerbal-style, you need to grasp a few things like orbital maneuvers (less intuitive than what you would believe). Rocket assembly is pretty much trial-and-error, so there's a lot of fun in that, but the more complex (and IMHO, more rewarding) aspects require some insights into the complex stuff.
EDIT: For example, I think that once you introduce her to the gravity turn, increasing and decreasing periapsis and apoapsis and orbital alignment, it'll all be easier from there. And if you don't have any idea what I just told you, there are plenty of great video tutorials online that you both can enjoy!
Honestly, if you've got a smart 10-year-old, I think KSP would be a fantastic fit. The "blowing stuff up on the launchpad" phase is fun, and it's a great learning tool for some really neat science.
The recently-added career mode (where you need to collect SCIENCE!!! to unlock rocket parts) eases beginners in with a limited selection of toys and adds new ones as the old ones are mastered.
Kerbal Space Program is absolutely perfect to play with a young child. It has enough shiny accessible gameplay to keep them interested, and enough depth to keep you interested. It is a near-perfect blend of rocket science and accessible gameplay - you don't have to do any hard maths, but nor can you put any old rocket together and expect to make it into orbit, let alone other planets.
Nope. (As someone who bought it 'back when', I'm pretty sure that's at or near the price I paid; which suggests that they don't want to "cheat" the early backers, like many other early access / Kickstarted games.)
And let me confirm what others have said, with the added perspective of having watched this grow from "consult a sheet of numbers to see if your rocket is in a stable orbit" to a whole solar system full of SCIENCE, with more on the way: it's definitely worth it.
I'll probably wait on it since I already got like 10 games this sale. When is Kerbal supposed to come off of Early Access? I'm starting to get worn out on this Early Access stuff.
Kerbal is the gold standard for Early Access. It's feature-rich and they're still adding stuff.
Basically it's LEGO combined with NASA combined with a fully featured solar system.
Is it easy enough for a 10 year old to handle? I've thought about getting to play with my daughter, figure there will be as much amusement watching attempts fail as hoping they succeed.
Depends? A lot of the physics involved, even though you don't really need the hard numbers to do stuff... Kerbal-style, you need to grasp a few things like orbital maneuvers (less intuitive than what you would believe). Rocket assembly is pretty much trial-and-error, so there's a lot of fun in that, but the more complex (and IMHO, more rewarding) aspects require some insights into the complex stuff.
EDIT: For example, I think that once you introduce her to the gravity turn, increasing and decreasing periapsis and apoapsis and orbital alignment, it'll all be easier from there. And if you don't have any idea what I just told you, there are plenty of great video tutorials online that you both can enjoy!
Honestly, if you've got a smart 10-year-old, I think KSP would be a fantastic fit. The "blowing stuff up on the launchpad" phase is fun, and it's a great learning tool for some really neat science.
The recently-added career mode (where you need to collect SCIENCE!!! to unlock rocket parts) eases beginners in with a limited selection of toys and adds new ones as the old ones are mastered.
Kerbal Space Program is absolutely perfect to play with a young child. It has enough shiny accessible gameplay to keep them interested, and enough depth to keep you interested. It is a near-perfect blend of rocket science and accessible gameplay - you don't have to do any hard maths, but nor can you put any old rocket together and expect to make it into orbit, let alone other planets.
Great! Thanks for all the input, everybody.
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KalnaurI See Rain . . .Centralia, WARegistered Userregular
So I picked up Spelunky and Dust yesterday and am now reminded that if a game is a xbox or psn published cross platform game, you are considered a peasant unworthy of using a gamepad unless you own one specific to that console. Is there a more elegant way to get around this than keyboard-to-gamepad programs?
The Xbox 360 controller has thus far worked for every Steam game that has claimed to have controller support. Honestly, if you don't have one, you should pick one up. Unless you're the type that hates gamepads and thinks KBAM is the be all end all.
360 Controller + Steam has been a gaming revolution for me. I played all of Borderlands 2 with a controller on PC and not one of my friends noticed. I now get upset when games don't have controller support. Especially games that have console versions I really wish I hadn't double dipped on Divinity 2 for instance. I automatically assumed that since there is a 360 version, that the PC version would have controller support. Sadly, that wasn't the case
I have a gamepad, its a Saitek Cyborg and I'm going to be stubborn because I ALREADY HAVE A GAMEPAD. This noise where I need to buy another one made for a console to play my PC games properly can get fucked. So what I'm reading when I look around at the problem is that microsoft decided to put their own proprietary inputs in for any games that are on xbox, because games for windows and reasons? So dies the brief window of a decade or so when you could just plug a gamepad in, any gamepad, and it would farking WORK.
So I picked up Spelunky and Dust yesterday and am now reminded that if a game is a xbox or psn published cross platform game, you are considered a peasant unworthy of using a gamepad unless you own one specific to that console. Is there a more elegant way to get around this than keyboard-to-gamepad programs?
The Xbox 360 controller has thus far worked for every Steam game that has claimed to have controller support. Honestly, if you don't have one, you should pick one up. Unless you're the type that hates gamepads and thinks KBAM is the be all end all.
360 Controller + Steam has been a gaming revolution for me. I played all of Borderlands 2 with a controller on PC and not one of my friends noticed. I now get upset when games don't have controller support. Especially games that have console versions I really wish I hadn't double dipped on Divinity 2 for instance. I automatically assumed that since there is a 360 version, that the PC version would have controller support. Sadly, that wasn't the case
I have a gamepad, its a Saitek Cyborg and I'm going to be stubborn because I ALREADY HAVE A GAMEPAD. This noise where I need to buy another one made for a console to play my PC games properly can get fucked. So what I'm reading when I look around at the problem is that microsoft decided to put their own proprietary inputs in for any games that are on xbox, because games for windows and reasons? So dies the brief window of a decade or so when you could just plug a gamepad in, any gamepad, and it would farking WORK.
Look up x360ce. It's a program that lets you fool PC games into thinking your gamepad is a XBox controller.
Look up x360ce. It's a program that lets you fool PC games into thinking your gamepad is a XBox controller.
Yeah I found that, need to tweak a little but seems to work nicely otherwise. It just bugs me that I can remember wrestling like crazy to get GTA(The original, mind you) to work
with a gamepad I had back in the days of youth, without the option to just go buy a different one, and being overjoyed when joysticks and gamepads started to just _work_ without a ton of fiddling with settings and configurations... and now here we are, having to wrestle with this stuff again.
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Dhalphirdon't you open that trapdooryou're a fool if you dareRegistered Userregular
Man, Long Live the Queen is way too much fun for what is essentially just a choose-your-own adventure book.
Spoilers for a few of my play-throughs.
First time through, I just picked whatever skills seemed interesting to me and tried for a well-balanced, jack-of-all trades build.
Not a good idea. When assassins shot an arrow at me, there were a half a dozen skills that could save me if I had focused on one of them, but not if I only had a few points in each. Elodie's half-baked medical knowledge led to her trying to push the arrow out her other side. Didn't work too well.
After that, I tried to copy A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and use my present day knowledge to modernize this backwards little kingdom. This meant specializing in areas like trade, production and military strategy. Also developed some knowledge about the surrounding countries and built up a network of spies.
Things seemed to be going well, until courtroom politics forced me into marriage with a neighboring duke, whose King then promptly usurped my powers. At least Elodie didn't die that time.
Next run, I decided to try and role-play a little, and stick to skills a 14 year old anime-princess might prefer. Dancing, riding horses, going to fancy parties, that sort of stuff.
This run went a lot better. The kingdom wasn't managed particularly well, but the nobility didn't seem to mind since I was able to follow their expected rules and traditions. The evil wizard who wanted to duel, however, was less impressed with her skills at etiquette. Ball-room dance in no match for force lightning.
Having failed in all these attempts, there was only one clear course of action to save this troubled kingdom. Become Ash from Army of Darkness. This meant that Elodie's prime skills were now cutting off peoples heads, and keeping her cool while spouting one-liners. The final results
since people are talking about Guacamelee...
I've been playing it the last few days and... it's ok.
-it has a metroidvania style map, but it's not a metroidvania. it's very linear and simply laid out, and there's almost no exploration. secrets are very clearly marked on your map.
-the combat is meh. basic beat-em-up stuff with no strategy beyond "roll through their attack and keep hitting them." enemies don't really get more complex, they just get more health as the game progresses. yawn.
-because of that, the difficulty curve is fucked. mooks are no threat, the first few bosses are reasonably tough, but the final 2 bosses are much, much harder than anything else in the game.
-the platforming is a little better, but suffers the same problem. many powerups are behind a fun, short puzzle, but 90% of the game world has zero risk, and the parts with risk have zero actual danger since falling sends you back to solid ground. OTOH, there's one late game timing sequence that's way harder than it needs to be and..
the few hidden challenge rooms are hard as fuck. I enjoyed them, but they feel like something from an entirely different game
-there are some rpg-style sidequests. it's a neat idea, but there are only a few and they're all very simple. I wish they had fleshed them out.
that said, there is fun to be had. it's very pretty, and the characters/story/worldbuilding are all entertaining. I don't get the "oh no - it has memes" complaint - only a handful of the background things are memes, the vast majority are from other games.
overall, it seems like they couldn't decide if they wanted to make a brawler or a platformer, so they ended up with a watered-down combination.
I meant to ask yesterday, but should I pick it up for its local Co-opness? Been trying to find games that the kids and I can play together on the same screen. I saw it tagged as that, whats the learning curve / difficulty of it if a 6 year old were playing?
Wow. No coffee = Bad brain. I meant Spelunky.
If your child has a lot of patience and persistence then they might manage coop with you.
Spelunky coop is probably easier than single player. If one of you dies then the other can resurrect you on the next level.
Failing that check to see if some of the LEGO games offer local coop. They'd be fun for a 6 year old.
It's with a heavy heart that I tell you my car overheated on my way home today and as such I have to retire from the duration of the steam sale. It was my pleasure to send gifts, and I am thankful for those I received.
But sometimes even gaben can't work miracles.
Many feels. We had some smoke after driving on the freeway on Christmas Eve, added 2 quarts of oil and things SEEM okay. Leaving it in the driveway and trying our best to just ignore it, can't drive anyhow as the sewer repair work just got completed and our driveway is all wet concrete anyhow.
Also, while I was confident BIZY wouldn't be able to hit me, I hadn't realized I have to worry about his minions as well:
Thanks, @CorriganX!
Failing that check to see if some of the LEGO games offer local coop. They'd be fun for a 6 year old.
I haven't been up on the Lego games since uhhh, Star Wars, but I'd be surprised if any of them did not have local co-op, since that was a huge draw for the early ones.
Not only do they have a very mild punishment for dying (you just lose some of your bricks, which act as your score and currency), but the co-op aspect means that you can guide them through any puzzles (or do them yourself) while they can gleefully smashup enemies.
Also, since everyone is made of Lego pieces, there is no blood or gore when people get blown up or ripped apart. They're the perfect co-op games for parents and kids.
Man, Long Live the Queen is way too much fun for what is essentially just a choose-your-own adventure book.
Spoilers for a few of my play-throughs.
First time through, I just picked whatever skills seemed interesting to me and tried for a well-balanced, jack-of-all trades build.
Not a good idea. When assassins shot an arrow at me, there were a half a dozen skills that could save me if I had focused on one of them, but not if I only had a few points in each. Elodie's half-baked medical knowledge led to her trying to push the arrow out her other side. Didn't work too well.
After that, I tried to copy A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and use my present day knowledge to modernize this backwards little kingdom. This meant specializing in areas like trade, production and military strategy. Also developed some knowledge about the surrounding countries and built up a network of spies.
Things seemed to be going well, until courtroom politics forced me into marriage with a neighboring duke, whose King then promptly usurped my powers. At least Elodie didn't die that time.
Next run, I decided to try and role-play a little, and stick to skills a 14 year old anime-princess might prefer. Dancing, riding horses, going to fancy parties, that sort of stuff.
This run went a lot better. The kingdom wasn't managed particularly well, but the nobility didn't seem to mind since I was able to follow their expected rules and traditions. The evil wizard who wanted to duel, however, was less impressed with her skills at etiquette. Ball-room dance in no match for force lightning.
Having failed in all these attempts, there was only one clear course of action to save this troubled kingdom. Become Ash from Army of Darkness. This meant that Elodie's prime skills were now cutting off peoples heads, and keeping her cool while spouting one-liners. The final results
Hail to Queen baby!
So, that third playthrough was actually close to a win it sounds like.
Requirements for that win:
Intrigue to find a weak spot
Singing and music to pierce his icy heart
Public Speaking to drive the point home
Actually, it's probably the best possible outcome there.
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Activates on Steam, and is currently not part of the Steam sale.
Yeah. Although that is a game I cannot enjoy in co-op for a serious run, for many of the same reasons I can't enjoy New Super Mario Bros. Wii in co-op. Fun at first, but after getting tossed by "friends" into spikes for the 5th time, you just want to play solo.
Is it easy enough for a 10 year old to handle? I've thought about getting to play with my daughter, figure there will be as much amusement watching attempts fail as hoping they succeed.
Yep, it's good fun @Firebird. It's a solid shooter with light skilltree and loot elements in it's own right. Where it really shines is the frequent opportunity for emergent coop play. Either you'll be running around doing story missions and happen upon someone else at the same point and run together for a while, or you'll see one of the awesome arkfall events where pretty much everyone on that third of the map rushes together to defeat some common foe and get beau-coup loot drops.
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Guacamelee had weird spikes but the Jaguar dude was kinda easy to spam
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Depends? A lot of the physics involved, even though you don't really need the hard numbers to do stuff... Kerbal-style, you need to grasp a few things like orbital maneuvers (less intuitive than what you would believe). Rocket assembly is pretty much trial-and-error, so there's a lot of fun in that, but the more complex (and IMHO, more rewarding) aspects require some insights into the complex stuff.
EDIT: For example, I think that once you introduce her to the gravity turn, increasing and decreasing periapsis and apoapsis and orbital alignment, it'll all be easier from there. And if you don't have any idea what I just told you, there are plenty of great video tutorials online that you both can enjoy!
I need time to prepare for a counter attack
Honestly, if you've got a smart 10-year-old, I think KSP would be a fantastic fit. The "blowing stuff up on the launchpad" phase is fun, and it's a great learning tool for some really neat science.
The recently-added career mode (where you need to collect SCIENCE!!! to unlock rocket parts) eases beginners in with a limited selection of toys and adds new ones as the old ones are mastered.
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The Xbox 360 controller has thus far worked for every Steam game that has claimed to have controller support. Honestly, if you don't have one, you should pick one up. Unless you're the type that hates gamepads and thinks KBAM is the be all end all.
360 Controller + Steam has been a gaming revolution for me. I played all of Borderlands 2 with a controller on PC and not one of my friends noticed. I now get upset when games don't have controller support. Especially games that have console versions
Unless you have a third party xbox controller I consider that the best way, especially if it's for 2d platformers. That dpad will drive you nuts.
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It was the cause of Atlantis's downfall. People just wanted to ride trains all day instead of building levees.
To be fair, they were probably bad-ass maglev trains that ran on orichalcum and worth riding around on all day.
My Civ games - let me show you them!
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Games bought for myself
Star Wars Empire at War
Strike Suit Zero
Crusader Kings 2 Old Gods DLC
Super Hexagon
Endless Space Gold
Papers Please
Euro Truck Sim 2
Alan Wake
Gone Home
Games received
Tropico 4 from @OneAngryPossum
Max Payne 3 Complete from @kedinik
Games gifted out
Age of Empires II HD to @Berylline
To The Moon to @Variable
Crusader Kings 2 complete to @Brainling
The Stanley Parable for my wife
To The Moon for my wife
FTL: Faster Than Light to @tugga
To The Moon to @tugga
Kerbal Space Program x 7 (shut up) for real life friends, plus @kedinik
Papers Please for a good friend
Papers Please for my wife
Spelunky to @iolo
my goal for this sale was to give out equally as many games as I bought for myself or received as gifts, and if you count the multiple copies of Kerbal Space Program, I achieved my goal, so I'm happy with how this sale went.
While Kerbal can be complex, a lot of fun is in figuring out of rocket builds. Plus, 10 year olds will enjoy the the Lego sandbox aspect and get some science education to boot!
Kerbal Space Program is absolutely perfect to play with a young child. It has enough shiny accessible gameplay to keep them interested, and enough depth to keep you interested. It is a near-perfect blend of rocket science and accessible gameplay - you don't have to do any hard maths, but nor can you put any old rocket together and expect to make it into orbit, let alone other planets.
I Need:
1, 2, 5, 7, 8
I have to trade:
4, 9, 10
Let me know if you have some to trade with me!
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Great! Thanks for all the input, everybody.
@LadyDustBunny I'd love to trade an 8 for that 9.
I have a gamepad, its a Saitek Cyborg and I'm going to be stubborn because I ALREADY HAVE A GAMEPAD. This noise where I need to buy another one made for a console to play my PC games properly can get fucked. So what I'm reading when I look around at the problem is that microsoft decided to put their own proprietary inputs in for any games that are on xbox, because games for windows and reasons? So dies the brief window of a decade or so when you could just plug a gamepad in, any gamepad, and it would farking WORK.
Look up x360ce. It's a program that lets you fool PC games into thinking your gamepad is a XBox controller.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Yeah I found that, need to tweak a little but seems to work nicely otherwise. It just bugs me that I can remember wrestling like crazy to get GTA(The original, mind you) to work
with a gamepad I had back in the days of youth, without the option to just go buy a different one, and being overjoyed when joysticks and gamepads started to just _work_ without a ton of fiddling with settings and configurations... and now here we are, having to wrestle with this stuff again.
Spoilers for a few of my play-throughs.
After that, I tried to copy A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and use my present day knowledge to modernize this backwards little kingdom. This meant specializing in areas like trade, production and military strategy. Also developed some knowledge about the surrounding countries and built up a network of spies.
Next run, I decided to try and role-play a little, and stick to skills a 14 year old anime-princess might prefer. Dancing, riding horses, going to fancy parties, that sort of stuff.
Having failed in all these attempts, there was only one clear course of action to save this troubled kingdom. Become Ash from Army of Darkness. This meant that Elodie's prime skills were now cutting off peoples heads, and keeping her cool while spouting one-liners. The final results
I've been playing it the last few days and... it's ok.
-it has a metroidvania style map, but it's not a metroidvania. it's very linear and simply laid out, and there's almost no exploration. secrets are very clearly marked on your map.
-the combat is meh. basic beat-em-up stuff with no strategy beyond "roll through their attack and keep hitting them." enemies don't really get more complex, they just get more health as the game progresses. yawn.
-because of that, the difficulty curve is fucked. mooks are no threat, the first few bosses are reasonably tough, but the final 2 bosses are much, much harder than anything else in the game.
-the platforming is a little better, but suffers the same problem. many powerups are behind a fun, short puzzle, but 90% of the game world has zero risk, and the parts with risk have zero actual danger since falling sends you back to solid ground. OTOH, there's one late game timing sequence that's way harder than it needs to be and..
that said, there is fun to be had. it's very pretty, and the characters/story/worldbuilding are all entertaining. I don't get the "oh no - it has memes" complaint - only a handful of the background things are memes, the vast majority are from other games.
overall, it seems like they couldn't decide if they wanted to make a brawler or a platformer, so they ended up with a watered-down combination.
If your child has a lot of patience and persistence then they might manage coop with you.
Spelunky coop is probably easier than single player. If one of you dies then the other can resurrect you on the next level.
Failing that check to see if some of the LEGO games offer local coop. They'd be fun for a 6 year old.
Eyes everywhere baby. Eyes everywhere.
I haven't been up on the Lego games since uhhh, Star Wars, but I'd be surprised if any of them did not have local co-op, since that was a huge draw for the early ones.
Not only do they have a very mild punishment for dying (you just lose some of your bricks, which act as your score and currency), but the co-op aspect means that you can guide them through any puzzles (or do them yourself) while they can gleefully smashup enemies.
Also, since everyone is made of Lego pieces, there is no blood or gore when people get blown up or ripped apart. They're the perfect co-op games for parents and kids.
So, that third playthrough was actually close to a win it sounds like.
Requirements for that win:
Singing and music to pierce his icy heart
Public Speaking to drive the point home
Actually, it's probably the best possible outcome there.
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