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Eeek!

I did a pre alpha test of the game, when it didn't have graphics and you moved letters around a grid. Devs wanted to test the bare bones concept on people. And they tried it on me because I wrote a negative review on banner Saga. The game was always inspired by, but from the very start they were working on setting it apart.

Posts like that is how computer games get people on terrorist watch lists.

Will restart Star Control. And this time I will not sell my uranium.

I bought the beta access to star control last year. They didn't give access until a couple of weeks before steam early access. Basically they announced earlier was coming and quickly handed everyone access to the melee client. Of course EA customers also got a discount. Felt cheated and have written Stardock off as a developer. That said, started the single player campaign today and it is good. At least the early bit. Very reminiscent of the feeling of SC2.

I found Ciri!

Did you find Ciri in it yet?

Started Frozen Synapse 2. Gameplay wise it is the same as the original with an added city map where you choose missions for factions and stop incursions (read: xcom alien attacks). You now buy your vatforms. Set up multiple squads. Buy buildings and set up check points to control and defend the city.

Got a 10% coupon for Frozen Synapse 2 for Steam. Bought and redeemed the game on Humble before noticing

Is that the map boss that drops fireballs everywhere and people keep running into them, then people keep running to revive the dead people and you have a bridge full of corpses?

4 hours and 47 minutes till Frozen Synapse 2 releases. I don't know what I'll be playing in 4.5 hours

I have completed Amalur. Including both DLCs. 131 Hours according to Steam. As marelooke said, the elven factions were the most interesting. So it had a neat start and a neat end (since that is when you went to the evil court's lands), with a rather dull middle. The DLC were quite fun, though The Teeth caused performance issues... must have been a memory leak or something. I keep insisting that the Widow was well written. Her contrarian nature to the elven courts and in time her unwelcoming attitude towards human neighbours came across well.

Thinking of playing some Saints Row 3 in memory of Burt Reynolds.

I will give the new Torchlight game a try when it comes out.

Taking the thread name literal for once:

Novelty of All Walls Must Fall is wearing of faster than expected.

You look human and have a plan. ... Are you a Cylon?

Started All Walls Must Fall. First impressions are positive. The combat is funny where you "log" it in the timeline once you are happy and watch the speeded up version. Reminds me of Frozen Synapse there. In the dialogue you have to do some guessing and rewinding. And it is pure guessing "Who send you?" and you give random names a few times to see if one would get a reaction "Bogdan." "Get out of here." rewind "Who send you?" "Evgeny" "****, I hate that guy." rewind "Who send you?" "Mirko." "I don't want any trouble!" walk through door.

Yeah, all the shooting through walls reviews have me wary of the game.

Lucky. Autosave didn't work for me at all on the final mission, so had to replay the whole thing

I found the original game box last week while unpacking stuff in the new apartment

I played BG 1 and enjoyed it for one 80 hour playthrough. My pc at the time couldn't cope with BG 2, so never played it and don't have the patience anymore to try now.

Not much to remember. Vahlen was the science lady who did your research. Old man Shen was your engineering guy who built your toys. Bradford was the same annoying sidekick who talks too much. That's all there is to remember. Anything else didn't happen as humanity lost too fast.

They had fixed it to a large degree in the old game. The new one is really laggy again. The good thing is that you can more easily get the EGO Pursuits for reviving other players, as they'll die to lag and you get a chance to revive them before they notice and thus before they self-rez (I uninstalled)