LadyCrimson

Since I'm a wuss, I was pleased that there is an Easy difficulty. Which I'm going to assume in this game is more akin to the average games "Normal" or even perhaps "Hard" difficulty.

Installed, started...fiddled with settings forever. Looks nice, especially once I turned off depth of field. I hate blurry backgrounds. Movement felt a little clunky. Some guy wanted 500g to train me in Sneak, which is all I had so I said no for the moment. Then I ran down to a beach, saved game, and logged out... ...because I want to defrag the HDD. Every time I install a couple games via Steam, the HDD goes from like 0-1% fragmented to 12-17%, and it's all from the Steam game files, making things chunk a bit. I farking hate it. Install non-Steam games and the HDD doesn't do that. Steam installers suck, teehee. One argument for a SSD I suppose. Oh well, won't take long. Loved the rainy weather sound/effects. My chr. looks suitably grumpy. I need to find more gold!

I had the type of old-fashioned parents that didn't seem to mind me spending all my hours reading all kinds of fantasy, fiction, spy etc. books, but thought too much TV was bad for me. Books=good, TV=the devil.

Hehe, me too, all done. I have no idea why, but I'm kinda excited. tbh, don't really expect to finish it (seems to be how I roll these days...) but I think I'm going to have fun anyway. Yar!

@Tigranes - Thanks for that info. I thought that might be the case re:steamcode but wasn't sure. Ended up just buying it at Steam. Saving $10 would be nice but didn't feel like registering yet another site account at the moment. Green Man has an interesting concept re: "selling back" games tho...I'll look into them more later. @GoA - yeah, I'm getting like that too as I get older. It highly depends on the game of course. But generally speaking, a game that's too long or worse, has a very steep learning curve (the TLDR of gaming) I can start drifting pretty fast/I won't come close to finishing, even if I like the game ok. On Steam: I also bought the Serious Sam3 bundle for the cheap. Mostly interested in #3, but they all look some old skool FPS mayhem fun. Could be my thing. Most newer FPS don't feel like FPS to me anymore. *grumpy old fart* ...

Green man gaming? New one to me. I'll check it out, thanks. Also...what does "Steam code" mean...ie, does that mean I still need Steam on/open to run it? All these options for buying now...I is confuseded. Edit: wait, green man means you have to download/use yet another client (download capsule)...or is that optional? It doesn't sound any different than Steam re: the price/DLC either. *confuddled* 2nd edit: oh, maybe with that voucher code, discount given at checkout. Hm.

I love love that mini-series. I had to "beg" my mother to let me watch it at the time (they were strict about TV ). It made such an impression on me that it's what I always think of every time John Rhys-Davies name comes up. Not Raiders of the Lost Ark...or LotR...Shogun. Good show of a very awesome book. I wish they still made mini-series like it.

Risen 2 - Anyone know the differences between buying it on Steam and buying it on the Deep Silver site? I know the Treasure DLC is free on Steam (preorder) but is that it?

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ... gimmie! ...wat, was there something else to notice?

Kevin McKidd is awesome. Mostly because he's a hunk, but ok, he's not bad in the right roles too (Rome was definitely one of them). The last thing I saw him in was Percy Jackson/Lightning Thief, and when I saw him as Poseidon I .... laughed. I wish he'd get better roles but oh well. He had that short-lived TV series where I think he did fine but the show itself wasn't good. I'm going to have to check out this Bunraku thing now myself.

It's a nice photo of some military helicopter, but what is this thread about? Any random ol' picture that you enjoyed? Your own photos? (did you take that photo?) ...I remember when we had a few more picture threads. They were fun. *nostalgia*

It starts up with the shortcut icon just fine for me. I have the opposite problem - there's no Exit option in the game menu that I've been able to find, so I have to alt-tab out and r-click close the window to get out of the game. Did you install the game in a different directory than Program Files? I find with Win7 that a lot of older games work better when installed somewhere else, even if it's a GoG version. As to the rest...can't help much there because I haven't gotten far in it myself. The controls were definitely a bit wonky feeling, which kind of put a damper in my motivation after a while. I'll try it again later but for now...

I'd be so raging/pulling my hair out in that situation. Hope the 3rd time's the charm. I need a surefire way to keep weeds and weed grasses from ever growing back in one spot again. Well, as surefire as it gets anyway. And for lazy people. Not the lawn itself. A dirtbed area. Seems like I'd have to radiate the ground or destroy the water table with chemical dumping or something, tho.

What you get to see in Botanicula if you find enough "creature cards" to get the 3rd gift. (the video frame embedding kinda spoils what it is, so in case someone w/the game wants to find cards/be surprised, I made it a cut and paste text) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FilM1cBxqY

No, I mean the scenes/pics I've seen of the chr. "floating" in space while doing stuff. I guess that's just no-gravity sections of a ship/room/area or something? Anyway that aspect looked kinda fun, but I guess it's mostly ground-bound like average.

Hm. I've never played Resident Evil's either because I'm not that into zombies. Did play System Shock 2. Dead Space looked more interesting because of the ... outer space stuff. But if that's a very minor part of the gameplay (or even non-existent) and it's just more "zombie" shooting....hm.

So, both Dead Spaces are on super sale on Steam. Shooters aren't my main thing, but these look somewhat interesting. Anyone played them? Good as many write about?

Diablo1 w/a Sorc can still give me that tense, sweaty palm ARPG feeling early on. Creeping along, trying not to trigger many enemies at once or use potions since you have no cash. Something both Diabo2 and the D3 beta failed to do. Well, D2 did have that one slug boss that originally was like that, but that's it. Risen was a game I meant to get back to at some point but never did....might get Risen2 just because it's...pirates. Something other than typical fantasy trappings. I remember they make pretty tough games...just slightly too much so for me maybe. But I think I'll try anyway.

This last episode ended at 9:53pm instead of about 9:58pm and I felt ripped off. Hahaha. It was a decent episode...like a things are starting to move after all the setup, feeling. Re: the pervy/sexy stuff - it's HBO. The more they can do scenes like that, the more it justifies that they aren't a "network" with limitations. They love any excuse to put as much in as possible. But yea, that scene was pushing the edge a bit even for me in terms of dwelling on it too long (reading it in text is a different thing than seeing it on screen, imo). We get it...Joffrey's a sadistic, sick, pervy, spoiled boy-King.

Since so many ppl who pre-ordered from GoG were annoyed with the bundle/no full soundtrack (me not included), they've apparently given ppl free copies of Machinarium and Witcher Enhanced/Dir. Cut. Which if you already have, isn't a big deal I guess....but if you're like me and have neither, that's pretty awesome. I didn't even pre-order, just technically bought before their deadline time I guess. Anyway....wasn't their fault, imo, so it's above and beyond. I can now check out Machinarium.

Wait, are you saying you can still play it? I thought it was ended? Just curious.

I'm going to install and play some Diablo1. Sure it's not as skill-choice oriented as Diablo2 and had terrible walking mechanics, but I feel like killing the Butcher and the *real* Skeleton King. Plus, the game installs in, like, 2 seconds! Heh.

I'm sure the oven thing would work too. I just don't like heated coconut, and it isn't necessary. Raw pieces straight out of the shell is the only way I actually like coconut. Don't like it in dishes/confections etc. More than one way to crack that giant nut: http://www.wikihow.com/Open-a-Coconut

What? Cook a whole coconut? Raw coconut "meat" is the way to go. Just break it open with a hammer and start eating. It's what I've always done.

Pizza!! That's all.