melkathi

Offspring fling is a pretty good puzzle platformer. Finishedfirst playthrough of Magical Diary. Deffinitly not for everyone. Will probably try another playthrough though with different spells to see if there are alternate ways to solve the dungeons.

A while back, but not a long long time ago, and on this very forum instead of a galaxy far far away, a forumite named Alan told us about a game a friend of his is working on. That game was (and still is) called NEO Scavenger. Well, cool thing: It's part of this week's Humble Weekly Sale! For us do-gooders a win win deal: support a good cause while supporting a friend (of a friend (of the internet and not RL variety)) Ok, the truth? I am just excited that when I looked at the screenshot I thought "Isn't that?" And when I asked Alan he said "Yes it is." Which means that I may forget my keys. I may forget to buy ink for my printer. But my memory isn't completly gone

Yeah, we can understand that.

Not really. If terrible gameplay wasn't bad enough, the game constantly breaks the gameflow. Combat starts: you take one step the game freezes to explain combat basics to you. Fair enough you think, learn the basics and move on. next combat: you punch one enemy - combat freezes so the game can explain combos to you... fair enough youn think... next combat: you punch a guy, combat freezes... 7th fight, you punch a guy... It becomes faily obvious after a while that the devs do not want you to play the game, so who are we to fforce them to have their game played

Just looked at the new list of newly greenlit games... BoneTown: Mature Edition ??? *checks calendar* Nope, isn't April 1st.

*sigh*

Except that the user would have to take extra steps to set up Linux on their PC? Once it becomes an out-of-the-box product, then Linux would offer no drawback. For example, I can get in my car and drive to the store or I can build my car and then drive to the store. Sure they both work but one method is more difficult and prone to mistake. And you continue missing the point. Maybe because you concentrate on a fragment of a sentence from a whole post. Keyrock and other linux users are happy when they can play games on the OS they are already using. That they will not need a second OS just for part of their computer usage. Bruce commented that he does not understand what the benefits of gaming on linux are, completly disregarding the simple fact: the benefit for linux users to be able to game on linux is that they'd be able to game on their chosen OS. Nobody tells you to change OS. It is not a matter of either all games will be on windows or on linux. It is a matter of giving PC users a choice of what OS they wish to use. Nothing is gained by taking away choice from customers. Someone who already uses linux gains nothing by having to swap to Windows for their gaming. It is that simple. That you or I do not use linux is irrelevant to that simple fact.

Trolls have stolen important paintings... the pirate menace: Breaking statues Trollverine...

The point is that there is no inherent benefit to playing on any OS. It doesn't matter if it is windows, mac or linux. If a game plays on it it plays. Windows is the mainstream OS so most games are made supporting that. It does not make Windows as an OS better suited for gaming, just so much more common among gamers, it makes economic sense for companies to bring out games for this OS, while not bothering with others. But it doesn't make the question "Why would anyone want to play on linux?" any more valid - if they run on linux, there is no advantage to not playing them on linux.

Yeah, but you are a lawyer, so you are wierd.

Eh, the sale probably was mostly meant to give people something new to talk about instead of the regional pricing fiasco. Finished Draw a Stickman: Epic. Great game.

Also new Age of Wonders trailer about the theocrat class:

Aqua Kitty is awesome

It is indeed. And I think, judging by this first look, they hit the atmosphere spot on.

Very early pre-alpha look at Satellite Reign:

Drat. Foiled again! Next time crazy cat moderator!

This also means we should end up with some spare Alpha Protocol keys and can force one onto Lady Crimson. No more excuses moderator cat lady. You hear hat? No more excuses

One of the reasons I like superhero MMOs, even though I hate superhero movies and find the comis boring, is that in the attempt to make people feel superheroy from the get go, there i an attempt to make even early abilities and normal gameplay heroicaly fun. It can mean that a lot of the challenge is taken out, but who needs challenge when you can send an enemy flying with one punch

Have to give them credit for their courage, if nothing else. Calling the game "Titanfall" shows a lot of confidence in the product. What with the internet being full of trolls who are just waiting for an excuse to hate the game and celebrate themselves as the pinacle of all that is witty when they call it "Titanfail".

Lotro I quit as quickly as Monte quit Conan

Fantasy MMOs indeed seem to all suck. If you go beyond fantasy... The Secret World has great writing, far superior to any other MMO, but they took the Conan combat nd made it even more boring (though in retrospect that may have been an improvement :/ ). Champions Online has the best character creator. DC Universe Online has the most fun travel power (acrobatics, throwing a rope/cable/web/whatever across to the opposit building and pulling yourself towards it: fun fun fun).

The same without guns but with a football? It is a bit simplified I guess: there are no different move speeds (everybody runs), you don't crouch, you don't change facing. You still get to set waypoints, adjust the timer on how long a player waits before the next move. So very much taken the basics of Synapse's gameplay and adapted them to a sports game. It is still earlyish in development though, so I take it a lot more stuff will be added on. Played a couple of games versus Very Easy AI so far. Won 7-2 and lost 4-7 (AI pulled off a Hail Mary pass from one endzone to the other).

As a small update: There are a number of Cheese-tactics that quite a few players fall back onto when it comes to castle design. It can make for very "meh" play sessions after a certain level. Of these tactics some are worse than others. Hopefully the devs will work on addressing that. Until then, hopefully a lot of downvoting of those castles will bury them.

The game is on... ...and he dashes for the ball: The pass is intercepted! Ouch, if he wasn't a robot, that would have hurt! He is running for the end zone... And Touchdown! Melkathi takes the lead and wins the match!

Going to post it here, even though it isn't on Steam, but I seem to have two extra digital copies (from the devs' own site) each of Frozen Synapse and the expansion Frozen Synapse Red ? (though I may be able to get steam keys) This game has been fully endorsed by Deraldin.