Keyrock

Wait, our hero is a fully deployed alien egg sack? I was going to go with discolored eggplant, but that works too.

Kodama. It's the vegetable-looking tree spirit physics-based puzzle platformer set in Japan you've always wanted!

"Squee Faction" is my new favorite term of the week.

Oh boy, I'm hitting the eject button now before Bruce leads me further down the rabbit hole.

Well, the government mandating equality is yet another step down the slippery slope toward totalitarianism... for our own good, naturally.

Dang, I never figured Bruce would be pro-Orwellian.

Hasn't this sort of thing been going on all along? I thought this was standard procedure over there.

My favorite of the city building genre games was Zeus. Last time I tried to get my disc running on a modern OS it laughed at me. I should scoop up the GOG version sometime so that I can play it without jumping through hoops.

^^ His acapella Guile Theme is EPIC. Also, his Final Fantasy VI Boss Battle theme gives me shivers, partially because it's so good and partially because that game is so incredibly special. I'm listening to, IMHO, the greatest hip hop album ever made, A Tribe Called Quest ~ The Low End Theory. Check the Rhime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRrM6tfOHds

On the for real tip, though. While I has some fun with Ban Banning Peter Piper Picked A Peck Of Peppered Pickles style, I was serious about the idea. Banning things is a weak ass copout we use in society to pretend to 'fix' problems. It's akin to sweeping dirt under the carpet. The dirt is still there just not immediately readily apparent, It's getting rid of an effect and pretending the problem is fixed, when nothing has been fixed. Instead of banning the effect, we should be trying to fix the cause.

I'm assuming that officially ends your MMO experiment?

I also prefer Alien over Aliens! If you missed this KS Keyrock, give it a try when it comes out, it sure looks the part so far: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bischoff/stasis-2d-isometric-scifi-horror-adventure-game Yeah, Stasis looks pretty doggone good. Also, SOMA looks like it will be quite freaky.

^^ Sounds like you're more interested in an Aliens game whereas I'm more interested in an Alien game.

Certainly an interesting idea and a welcome change of pace from the standard "Murica, **** Yeah! *brofist*" that's the vast majority of games about war.

Alright, I think I got it. It's a ban on banning with a single immutable exception built in. The ban on banning bans all banning except the ban on banning itself. Thus, the ban on banning is the only ban, all other bans will be instantly banned by the ban on banning, which is the only ban that is allowed not to be banned.

While I'm very keen on better AI in games and getting rid of patterns that make the AI predictable, I don;t think it's going to help much in making a game scary, The first few hours sure, but after that I bet reloads and frustration will replace predictable patterns. Maybe, but I'd still rather have a game where I'm nervously (virtually) clutching my trusty motion tracker and getting ready to run like crazy at the first sign of Xenomorph rather than splattering wave after wave of mindless Xenomorphs with a machine gun, because the latter certainly isn't scary.

But if we ban banning, the ban on banning will be banned. Crap, I hadn't thought of that. This is like that time a Babel Fish was used as proof of the non-existence of God. Edit: What if the ban on banning starts after the ban takes effect and isn't retroactive?

We should band together and start a campaign called Ban Banning. Banning is ruining the world.

I'm a bit intrigued by a game I stumbled across called Wander. It's in beta, plus I think they're switching engines to CryEngine at the moment. Anyhoo, it's billed as a non-combat, non-competitive, exploration-based MMO. Exploration is my jam and I'm totally down for non-combat, as combat is often times (not always) the part of games I dislike the most. I have no clue if it's any good, mind you.

I liked planetary exploration in ME1, I just hated the Mako. The Mako was the worst.

Alien: Isolation developer commentary. Well, they're certainly saying all the right things.

Tera has better combat that most MMOs (that's not saying all that much) and pretty graphics, but I couldn't personally get past the extremely creepy furry/loli fetish aspect of it.

Yep, I'm in a similar boat. I have a separate bank account I try to put some money in every month, that's my new rig fund. Currently I have $1000 in there. By the time I plan to build a new rig (roughly half a year from now) I hope to have $2000 in there. First thing I'm getting is a 1440p monitor, likely 27". Prices on 1440p monitors have been dropping and hopefully by the time I am ready to do this I can get one for under $300 if I shop around, but let's just say $300 for sake of argument. That leaves me with $1700. So if I spend $600 on a Haswell-E chip, then (purely speculative figures based on nothing but halfassed guesses) $350 on a LGA 2011-3 mobo, then another $350 on DDR4 RAM, that leaves me with $600 to buy the case, PSU, SSD/HDD, and GPU. Even if I go cheapskate and get a HDD rather than SSD and get a reasonably priced case/PSU combo, that still only leaves me at best $400 to spend on a GPU. If I instead spend $350 on a Haswell chip (and that would be the top of the line model), $150 on a LGA 1150 mobo, and $150 on DDR3 (2400) RAM, that now leaves me with $1050 for the case, PSU, SSD/HDD, and GPU, which would allow me to get a SSD and still get a better GPU.

Yeah, I will be using it for gaming and rendering (3dsmax, softimage, artlantis and similar stuff). But it's mostly future proofing, I bought this rig over 5 years ago and it served me well, processor wise, to this day. What I want now is to get in on the 8-core and DDR-4 so I can leave it alone for another 5 years. It all depends if the prices are feasible for me, mainly the processor cost and the ram cost. Yeah, I have similar ideas about future proofing. Basically, Haswell-E is our only option for DDR4 (and likely octa core) until Skylake (outside of getting an insanely expensive Xeon), which will be here late 2015 at the earliest, quite possibly not until 2016. I can't wait until then, I'm building a new rig this year, that's set in stone. Like you, I want to see just how steep a premium LGA 2011-3 mobos and DDR4 memory will be compared to LGA 1150 and DDR3 memory. I'm guessing the price difference will be staggering, but only time will tell. For me, while I plan to use the computer for a lot more than gaming, I don't expect to be doing a lot of heavy duty encoding and such, which would really benefit from the extra cores. While I certainly wouldn't mind having the extra cores, 4 cores will almost certainly be plenty for anything I want to do with the rig, gaming included. Even just half the money I save on getting a Haswell CPU (or Broadwell if magically desktop Broadwell does happen and happens this year) instead of Haswell-E and a LGA 1150 mobo instead of LGA 2011-3 and DDR3 RAM instead of DDR4 RAM would allow me to either get a better video card (e.g go from GTX770 to GTX780Ti) or get a second video card to SLI/Crossfire. Either way, it will benefit my gaming performance far more and for less money to put some of the saved money into a better or second GPU, plus DD4 will likely not grant much, if any, performance increase over DDR3 (besides lowered power consumption) for likely a couple of years, until the faster clocked DDR4 RAM arrives. I don't know, it's still a game of speculation until Haswell-E nears and prices for all these components are revealed.

So it was the voice acting that turned you off? Not the dumbed down gameplay, not the nonsensical story, not the various technical problems?