melkathi

Annoying that they have been doing this whole holier than thou thing in the game-retail world, and now they try to put a spin on it how they are doing it for the cause.

I've bought several early access games that were well worth even at the stage I got them: Full Mojo Rampage Age of Decadence Dungeon of the Endless Xenonauts But I am careful with what I buy early access wise. Don't want to accidentally get something which is just a tech demo, get bored and then not give the game a chance when there is stuff to do.

A playable Steven Heck...

I have work to do. Need to finish these drawings Stupid work.

Hurlshot is playing Alpha Protocol. I'm sitting in front of my laptop, looking at my steam contact list and seeing Hurlshot playing Alpha Protocol.

Now you do what I do: play something else.

I think the most obvious reference was the boss lady talking about being achievement driven like the XBOX...

Was going to go to bed. Instead I reached the Iron Age in 7 Grand Steps. Then I played three generations to reach the artisan's caste again and slowly work on regaining the family's legendary Bronze Age glory, when generations of family doctors saved the city from the plague, and even provided one of the kingdom's greatest generals. Now we are tax collectors... Death and Taxes, baby. Death and Taxes. Damn this game is addictive.

I just got 4 Broken Age -25% vouchers thrown into my inventory by Double Fine. They are valid 'till 15th March if anyone wants one.

Actually... At the current exchange rate that is $5.16. the Euro is stronger than the dollar. But Steam transaltes dollar prices to euro at a 1 to 1 ratio. So while LadyCrimson would pay $3.75, we are paying more.

So impressive as a matter of fact it borders on being expressive

Hmm, so a while ago I had made a guide for Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe on Steam. As the game is a bit obscure, of course initially it had very few views. About 50 in the first couple of months. Now it has reached 351 views and finally got enough (25) ratings for the rating to show up. So out of 25 ratings I received 3 Stars. Ratings are thumbs up or thumbs down. The thumbs up obviously include myself, the two devs and a couple of other fans of the game. Now if the 5 star rating is 100% thumbs up and the 0 star rating 100% thumbs down, then the 3 star rating is around 60% thumbs up 40% thumbs down, right? So one could asume we are talking about 15 thumbs up in this case and 10 down. Some of those upvotes obviously have the afforementioned positive bias. Equally one would assume there is a negative bias in a small number of downvotes. With such a small sample though these biased votes can't really be evened out. In this case we could for exmple assume that only 15 votes are statistically relevant. So the rating is a result of 4-5% of the total views? For other guides with more views even less? And all you need is a small group of trolls to push down ratings of random content... That whole rating system seems like a joke now that I bothered to look at it. /end rant edit: I am also fully aware that the rating probably works completly differently and I have no clue how

The Melkathi Family took 7 Grand Steps: Khet married Selk and had 5 children. They were poor farmers. the children were hungry with drawn in cheeks, as the fields had grown salty. Khet begged the priests for assistance. Even though the granaries were ull, the priests only rationed out the bare necessary grain. While buying amphorae from the city kilns, Khet talked with the potter about city life, and though the man decried crime and murder, Khet decided that his family too would some day escape to the city and a better life. Khet and Selk's eldest son Amasis married Tjetmutiu after saving her life, even though she originaly rejected his advances. They toiled their whole life to realise Khet's dream. But it would be their eldest daughter Magdy who, after being driven out of the family home, would succeed, alongside her husband Menkheperure. Magdy became a potter, like the one who had inspired her grandfather, and rose to the Artisan Caste. Of course other craftsmen resented her, but she did not mind them. Khek was to follow in his parents footsteps, but the gods had other plans. Spurned by the women of the caste, he eventually adopted an orphan named Khepri. Perhaps it was the pain of seeing her foster father die a poor man, forsaken by his caste that drove Khepri to honour his memory and succeed. And though pottery had been the family;s rise, it had also been her father's downfall. Thus Khepri turned her bright mind elsewhere and it was through her insights, that the army was reformed. Eventually even the amphorae trade picked up again. Khepri's and Jeroen's son Hamadi was a rich man (for his caste). That did not save him from being drafted and placed in command of seven other men. He tried his best, but the ilness that swept through the army did not spare him and when the battle was upon them, nothing could salvage morale. He was pronounced a War Hero, but his wife, Meretseger, was left to provide for their child alone. She was a lot like her mother in law though, and soon the galleys' captains talked about her ideas. Again though, recognition and fame did little to protect the family. When Meretseger found out about the growing tension with the City of the Sun God and spread this knowledge, so people could prepare themselves for the inevitable war, she was branded a traitor and forced to flee the city with her daughter Jamila. (the story coninutes a century later with Jamila's decendent Xeno)

Well the game has just released on GOG. So you can get it there about 8 hours before its Steam release if you really can't wait

I only found out about it yesterday by chance myself.

Aarklash: Legacy 60% off... damn I already own it on GOG

The field in the survey with the most information would be the "other" section, where every forumite would tell you about the games they have played and you didn't include

Impire has terrible writing. The writer thinks he is funny and witty but isn't. The squad management is interesting, but the dungeon building is a let-down (LadyCrimson, do not buy this game, you'd be disappointed). I had fun enough with the game, trying out all the different units etc, but the campaign is not interesting enough to play it to the end, and the dungeon building is too underwhelming to spend much time in skirmish mode. Aarklash: Legacy is very typical Cyanide: trying to do a lot of interesting things, always constrained by size, money, whatever. Disappointing for some who were looking for a RPG with loads of stats and classes and character creation, fun for people who want to run around with a small 4-man party and try not to die. And then there are the older games like Loki, Cyanide's diablo-clone, that again tried to do interesting things but somehow never managed to reach the popularity of games like Sacred, Torchlight etc.

Yeah, I hear you. I only got it on sale as it was $6 or something. Then realized I should have bought it full price

Suggestions: For Keyrock: 7 Grand Steps a board game where you guide your family through the copper age. the head of the family gets into random situations, which are affected by their character. Eventually your family joins the ruling caste of the city and you make policy decisions. It is very refreshing. (and by the same people who made Dangerous Highschool Girls in Trouble) Army of Tentacles: vote for it: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=184635793 Very interesting geeky humour and combat with words, reminiscant of the good ol' swordmaster fights. And all that by forumites

Internet... I once mentioned, in passing, to a WoW guildie that I spend the day clearing Mallware/Spyware out of my PC - he proceeded to hold a long lecture about downloading porn and using microsoft messenger (???) Then he lectured me about the merits of changing all of one's passwords every month. *shrug* A month later his account got hacked. Only person in the guild to have that happen. I had a good snigger when he told me

That's the one game of theirs I haven't played yet. Is the combat system like Of Orcs and Men? We are stil talking about Cyanide games here, right? Then you are also missing Aarklash: Legacy and Impire I think Unless you are talking about Spider studios.

I found Oblivion to be too generic, too bland, too non-memorable to remember it enough for a "worst" list

Dragon Age 2. The writing was terrible. And not in a B-Movie cult way. Never played ME3. As I did not enjoy the writing in the previous games of the series, I didn't see a reason why I should play a third game that obviously was not aimed at me. I had fun with Silver, though trying to market it as an answer to FFVII was so silly, the game should get bonus points for humorous marketing alone.

This thread nearly dropped to page 2! So some Aarklash wierdness: And some not-wierdness: