I am ashamed of myself that i have fun with a game that is obviously so half-assed. And even though main characters are nice, most of them is completely one-dimensional.
Oh, and music is nice.
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DrakeEdgelord TrashBelow the ecliptic plane.Registered Userregular
I am ashamed of myself that i have fun with a game that is obviously so half-assed. And even though main characters are nice, most of them is completely one-dimensional.
Just got home from traveling, just in time to actually buy stuff from the sale.
And make a couple giveaways. These are both for Adventure Team.
Final Reminder.
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The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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Idx86Long days and pleasant nights.Registered Userregular
I really enjoyed BioShock Infinite, but ohmygoodness the Burial at Sea DLC put it over the top for me. I might actually enjoy the whole thing more than the original BioShock.
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I loved that game as a kid, but man does it look a lot different than what I remember:
I never got very far in my youth, will be fun to give this another go.
i could never figure out what the jelly beans did or how to use them. it was so frustrating because i felt like maybe there was a really cool game just outside of my grasp.
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KalnaurI See Rain . . .Centralia, WARegistered Userregular
I loved that game as a kid, but man does it look a lot different than what I remember:
I never got very far in my youth, will be fun to give this another go.
i could never figure out what the jelly beans did or how to use them. it was so frustrating because i felt like maybe there was a really cool game just outside of my grasp.
I never played the original, but my understanding was it was actually one of the first puzzle platformers. The beans gave the blob different forms that were useful to a current situation, I believe? Though knowing the original NES games, trial and error was probably too big a part of the original.
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So I may actually need to join the list of annoying people who won't take gifts anymore. On the one hand, it is annoying being on the opposite end, and I do like getting gifts. On the other hand I think I'm legitimately starting to get a bit of a complex about the mass of gifted games I have I may (almost certainly) never get around to playing. Which I think is about not getting to everything I want to, more so than just the gifts themselves.
Anyway, Pixie noticed a fairly on point game and struck. This is going to demand some attention, gladiator management sim where you can plot the career of a stable of fighters and then choose their moves in battles or just let them auto play out. Wonder if I still have this stuff saved in a folder here....yep.
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I loved that game as a kid, but man does it look a lot different than what I remember:
I never got very far in my youth, will be fun to give this another go.
i could never figure out what the jelly beans did or how to use them. it was so frustrating because i felt like maybe there was a really cool game just outside of my grasp.
I never played the original, but my understanding was it was actually one of the first puzzle platformers. The beans gave the blob different forms that were useful to a current situation, I believe? Though knowing the original NES games, trial and error was probably too big a part of the original.
All you need to know* is that LICORICE = LADDER
*Nah, you needed to know way more than that. Yeah, the game was a lot of trial and error. I believe there were a finite number of jelly beans and so you could screw yourself over completely if you ran out.
The Wii remake is a significantly different. I think jelly beans are unlimited, although maybe you can only hold a few specific types at one time? It's been a while.
*Nah, you needed to know way more than that. Yeah, the game was a lot of trial and error. I believe there were a finite number of jelly beans and so you could screw yourself over completely if you ran out.
The Wii remake is a significantly different. I think jelly beans are unlimited, although maybe you can only hold a few specific types at one time? It's been a while.
I'd expect quality of life upgrades from Way Forward. Like, the Ducktales game remake was what I remembered that game to be, not what that game actually originally was.
I'd also argue that that's the correct way to do nostalgia; not reproduce exactly what was, but reproduce how we remember what was.
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Yeah, the original NES game had some really obscure, trial-and-error stuff going on. The 2009 version is a much smoother (and more charming) game.
Even though its predecessor was my favorite game of 2013, I will maintain measured expectations for the new Tomb Raider lest I be let down by over-anticipation.
Even though its predecessor was my favorite game of 2013, I will maintain measured expectations for the new Tomb Raider lest I be let down by over-anticipation.
OMG I AM SO HYPE
HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE
Anything else would be silly.
I should finish that game.
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Idx86Long days and pleasant nights.Registered Userregular
I need to install Tomb Raider 2013 and thus complete my trifecta of having the somewhat mainstream experience as everyone else with Fallout 3, Just Cause 1 and Tomb Raider being played at teh same time.
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I suppose I'll get to Tomb Raider 2013 after Dark Souls and I are done being friends.
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I have tried a few times to get into Bioshock, and every time I just kind of get bored during the first area. The story doesn't grab me, the setting doesn't grab me, the gameplay doesn't grab me. I have this same issue with Elder Scrolls games (I think I tried Morrowind and Skyrim). I think something may be fundamentally broken in the gaming section of my brain, since these games I can't sustain interest in are pretty universally regarded as fantastic games.
I dunno, give me a Mass Effect, Batman, Saints Row or Borderlands game and I'm good to go for untold hours. Civ V, CK2 and EU4 have also snared me for entirely too large a share of my life. Not even sure why some grab me and some don't.
Man, thought I was going to hold out for the next Subnautica update (updates to the water mechanics/shaders and possibly other new shiny things.)
But after watching Shade stream it for a few hours last Saturday, and playing Salt some Sunday and yesterday, I can't stay away. I can't resist the siren call of the alien deeps any longer.
So I'll be starting a new game and might as well stream it why not. Looking to go online sometime between 6-7 central tonight.
Subnautica stream will be leaving the station in about five to eight minutes.
I have tried a few times to get into Bioshock, and every time I just kind of get bored during the first area. The story doesn't grab me, the setting doesn't grab me, the gameplay doesn't grab me. I have this same issue with Elder Scrolls games (I think I tried Morrowind and Skyrim). I think something may be fundamentally broken in the gaming section of my brain, since these games I can't sustain interest in are pretty universally regarded as fantastic games.
I dunno, give me a Mass Effect, Batman, Saints Row or Borderlands game and I'm good to go for untold hours. Civ V, CK2 and EU4 have also snared me for entirely too large a share of my life. Not even sure why some grab me and some don't.
Sounds like you dislike being dropped totally helpless into an open world.
really its more like a warzone, a warzone that will make you never finish your backlog.
Speaking of, I got hit twice over the weekend, @Iolo with Cryptark, which looks awesome. Like some sorta Metroidish game except you're in a floating suit and you break into space hulks and start wrecking shit until you die or the hulk dies.
@Viking also got me with Vermintide, which I have been thinking of checking out ever since I saw @CorriganX do a stream of it a while back. It's basically Left 4 Dead but it's Warhammer and you're taking out rat people because fuck rats I played Bad Rats and this game will probably be therapy.
Open world city game where you seduce chosen people so you can lure them to be sacrificed on the full moon to the squirrel god.
Police, cults and religious orders, and vengeful families will stalk you the more you kill on a full moon.
Steal identities, change your face and body, set up alibies and scapegoats, infiltrate and cripple/control those persecuting you.
Reshape your body to better seduce your wide range of targets. I.E. Police chief is a lesbian who prefers redheads while the head knight is a pansexual who prefers baldies.
Sacrifice enough of the chosen to open the gates to the holy squirrel tree.
Started Catol's campaign in Freedom Planet triggering the first blooper was glorious. Still dunno how to fight as her. Really want to achievement hunt all the boss kills.
Oh. Tomb Raider can be prepurchased now, too. With preorder goodies? Damn.
People! Don't let the teachings of Just Cause 3 be in vain.
We have waited two months for Tomb Raider, we can wait another two days to make sure the portjob isn't shitty. I know it sucks you will miss out on preorder stuff but it's literally just a cosmetic item and cheat codes.
I have tried a few times to get into Bioshock, and every time I just kind of get bored during the first area. The story doesn't grab me, the setting doesn't grab me, the gameplay doesn't grab me. I have this same issue with Elder Scrolls games (I think I tried Morrowind and Skyrim). I think something may be fundamentally broken in the gaming section of my brain, since these games I can't sustain interest in are pretty universally regarded as fantastic games.
I dunno, give me a Mass Effect, Batman, Saints Row or Borderlands game and I'm good to go for untold hours. Civ V, CK2 and EU4 have also snared me for entirely too large a share of my life. Not even sure why some grab me and some don't.
Sounds like you dislike being dropped totally helpless into an open world.
Hrm that's a possibility, I do like a structured narrative. Now I'm trying to think if I have played any sandbox games for more than about an hour. I have enjoyed my time in Kerbal Space Program, but it's pretty easy to set a goal and there is no actual storyline to follow. Also I wouldn't consider Bioshock to be an open world game (at least the bits I played), it has a pretty clear story and it's not like I ever had a moment where I didn't have any idea what to do next, I just couldn't connect with the setting and the gameplay didn't enthuse me. On the console side I tried to play Uncharted, and got a little ways into the game and found that I just didn't enjoy the combat sections at all. I should probably hook the PS3 back up and just turn down the combat difficulty and I'd probably enjoy it, I certainly loved Tomb Raider 2013 after all.
I dunno, I have a hard time quantifying my tastes in games, though zombies can stay away that much I know (also survival games).
Open world city game where you seduce chosen people so you can lure them to be sacrificed on the full moon to the squirrel god.
Police, cults and religious orders, and vengeful families will stalk you the more you kill on a full moon.
Steal identities, change your face and body, set up alibies and scapegoats, infiltrate and cripple/control those persecuting you.
Reshape your body to better seduce your wide range of targets. I.E. Police chief is a lesbian who prefers redheads while the head knight is a pansexual who prefers baldies.
Sacrifice enough of the chosen to open the gates to the holy squirrel tree.
Started Catol's campaign in Freedom Planet triggering the first blooper was glorious. Still dunno how to fight as her. Really want to achievement hunt all the boss kills.
I really enjoyed BioShock Infinite, but ohmygoodness the Burial at Sea DLC put it over the top for me. I might actually enjoy the whole thing more than the original BioShock.
I bounced off the DLC. Loved Bioshock and Infinite and I *really* thought I was going to like that DLC, but I just didn't. I think maybe after the Infinite ending there's a bit of "none of this really matters, even in this fictional universe" in my head which causes me to not care, which causes me to not enjoy.
Oh. Tomb Raider can be prepurchased now, too. With preorder goodies? Damn.
People! Don't let the teachings of Just Cause 3 be in vain.
We have waited two months for Tomb Raider, we can wait another two days to make sure the portjob isn't shitty. I know it sucks you will miss out on preorder stuff but it's literally just a cosmetic item and cheat codes.
Eh. No fear. You can't quake like a beaten dog every time someone says "preorder"... especially since Steam has refunds available now. :razz:
97.53% of the time, things work out fine. Might take a patch or two, but generally it's fine. Batman was the exception, not the rule.
Eh. No fear. You can't quake like a beaten dog every time someone says "preorder"... especially since Steam has refunds available now. :razz:
97.53% of the time, things work out fine. Might take a patch or two, but generally it's fine. Batman was the exception, not the rule.
Fair enough.
But if you blindly pay for a AAA game from our modern industry before it's even released and it turns out to be a complete mess than you've forfeited any sympathy you might have gotten from complaining about it later.
Eh. No fear. You can't quake like a beaten dog every time someone says "preorder"... especially since Steam has refunds available now. :razz:
97.53% of the time, things work out fine. Might take a patch or two, but generally it's fine. Batman was the exception, not the rule.
Fair enough.
But if you blindly pay for a AAA game from our modern industry before it's even released and it turns out to be a complete mess than you've forfeited any sympathy you might have gotten from complaining about it later.
I don't see how that's true at all. People buy things - not just games - all the time sight unseen. Doing so does not, in any way, void the expectation that you will get the product you paid for.
And in this specific instance, it's not "blindly" at all: they've shown us videos, screenshots, a description of the product, have already released it for one platform to pretty high acclaim, and have previously given us a successful game of the exact type they're selling us now. There's reasonable expectation they will come through again. We're not kickstarting My New Awesome Game by Jim-Bob McMolyneux.
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I am ashamed of myself that i have fun with a game that is obviously so half-assed. And even though main characters are nice, most of them is completely one-dimensional.
Oh, and music is nice.
Fun is where you find it.
Final Reminder.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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Also, risk is fun, but I think a play by turn Axis and Allies sounds fun to me. I haven't looked for one.
i could never figure out what the jelly beans did or how to use them. it was so frustrating because i felt like maybe there was a really cool game just outside of my grasp.
I never played the original, but my understanding was it was actually one of the first puzzle platformers. The beans gave the blob different forms that were useful to a current situation, I believe? Though knowing the original NES games, trial and error was probably too big a part of the original.
Anyway, Pixie noticed a fairly on point game and struck. This is going to demand some attention, gladiator management sim where you can plot the career of a stable of fighters and then choose their moves in battles or just let them auto play out. Wonder if I still have this stuff saved in a folder here....yep.
All you need to know* is that LICORICE = LADDER
*Nah, you needed to know way more than that. Yeah, the game was a lot of trial and error. I believe there were a finite number of jelly beans and so you could screw yourself over completely if you ran out.
The Wii remake is a significantly different. I think jelly beans are unlimited, although maybe you can only hold a few specific types at one time? It's been a while.
I'd expect quality of life upgrades from Way Forward. Like, the Ducktales game remake was what I remembered that game to be, not what that game actually originally was.
I'd also argue that that's the correct way to do nostalgia; not reproduce exactly what was, but reproduce how we remember what was.
Anything else would be silly.
@akajaybay wins. I'm beyond staggered. I don't even have words. Disproportionate response and all that. Holy cow.
Thank you so very much!
(...all the hype ever...)
I should finish that game.
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Just take your computer and play in your hotel room the whole time.
Steam Support is the worst. Seriously, the worst
All available paths lead to the Kiwi and the Roo at odds?
Yeah, that seems likely, thinking about it.
If referring to mine, I didn't. HiT BiT, on the other hand, does many an amazing thing around here.
Thanks @Pixelated Pixie! Nice to see you slack-jawed as the latest recipient of akajaybay's staggering class.
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I dunno, give me a Mass Effect, Batman, Saints Row or Borderlands game and I'm good to go for untold hours. Civ V, CK2 and EU4 have also snared me for entirely too large a share of my life. Not even sure why some grab me and some don't.
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Subnautica stream will be leaving the station in about five to eight minutes.
It's so good though I just dunno if I can wait. Oh nevermind Ark is working again...
Sounds like you dislike being dropped totally helpless into an open world.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Speaking of, I got hit twice over the weekend, @Iolo with Cryptark, which looks awesome. Like some sorta Metroidish game except you're in a floating suit and you break into space hulks and start wrecking shit until you die or the hulk dies.
@Viking also got me with Vermintide, which I have been thinking of checking out ever since I saw @CorriganX do a stream of it a while back. It's basically Left 4 Dead but it's Warhammer and you're taking out rat people because fuck rats I played Bad Rats and this game will probably be therapy.
Thank you both!
People! Don't let the teachings of Just Cause 3 be in vain.
We have waited two months for Tomb Raider, we can wait another two days to make sure the portjob isn't shitty. I know it sucks you will miss out on preorder stuff but it's literally just a cosmetic item and cheat codes.
Ark is technically working.
But... uh... just wait for this latest patch to settle a bit. Things are wonky right now.
I've been playing Subnautica too. I like it but I can see I will soon bang my head against the content wall. Still, very fun.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Hrm that's a possibility, I do like a structured narrative. Now I'm trying to think if I have played any sandbox games for more than about an hour. I have enjoyed my time in Kerbal Space Program, but it's pretty easy to set a goal and there is no actual storyline to follow. Also I wouldn't consider Bioshock to be an open world game (at least the bits I played), it has a pretty clear story and it's not like I ever had a moment where I didn't have any idea what to do next, I just couldn't connect with the setting and the gameplay didn't enthuse me. On the console side I tried to play Uncharted, and got a little ways into the game and found that I just didn't enjoy the combat sections at all. I should probably hook the PS3 back up and just turn down the combat difficulty and I'd probably enjoy it, I certainly loved Tomb Raider 2013 after all.
I dunno, I have a hard time quantifying my tastes in games, though zombies can stay away that much I know (also survival games).
Part of their charm.
It's not on Steam, but Sid Meier's SimGolf is the bee's knees.
I bounced off the DLC. Loved Bioshock and Infinite and I *really* thought I was going to like that DLC, but I just didn't. I think maybe after the Infinite ending there's a bit of "none of this really matters, even in this fictional universe" in my head which causes me to not care, which causes me to not enjoy.
Eh. No fear. You can't quake like a beaten dog every time someone says "preorder"... especially since Steam has refunds available now. :razz:
97.53% of the time, things work out fine. Might take a patch or two, but generally it's fine. Batman was the exception, not the rule.
Fair enough.
But if you blindly pay for a AAA game from our modern industry before it's even released and it turns out to be a complete mess than you've forfeited any sympathy you might have gotten from complaining about it later.
I don't see how that's true at all. People buy things - not just games - all the time sight unseen. Doing so does not, in any way, void the expectation that you will get the product you paid for.
And in this specific instance, it's not "blindly" at all: they've shown us videos, screenshots, a description of the product, have already released it for one platform to pretty high acclaim, and have previously given us a successful game of the exact type they're selling us now. There's reasonable expectation they will come through again. We're not kickstarting My New Awesome Game by Jim-Bob McMolyneux.