melkathi

I had played and loved the previous Alice game and just couldn't get into the sequel.

Even so, it still is the land you have to always be on the lookout for drop bears.

I know. 10 years ago I probably would have written a long and, more importantly, serious answer

Thought about it, remembered it is terrible and I wouldn't play more than the first level if I bought it

Deus Ex: Human Revolution at 2.99... must control urge not to buy a game I allready own Borderlands 2 50% off as well...

Just noticed that, in complete absendmindedness I bought Botanicula on both Steam and GoG and haven't even downloaded, installed and obviously played it...

Pfft I have 2 years on you, young 'un. There are always good excuses to be found why dating isn't a good idea at the time

Hey at least, unlike some of us, you are actually going out there

Yeah, that's veteran. Makes the game very easy, has some veteran only dialogue options (the oposit to rookie I guess) and lets you do both in Brayko's mansio even without high enough tech skill.

Now imagine that whole experience with Morrigan following you around

Daughter... Overlord... favourid writer... sounds like Rhianna Pratchett

I think UFO: Extraterestrials is on sale for something silly like 2.99 or so. Always felt it was the closest to the original X-Com. It's been out for a while. Someone gave impressions in the What Are you palying now thread if I remember well

Good thing the storm blew part of the roof off then, huh? At least you can get out that way if the door wont open Is it damage you can fix yourself?

A colleague and I discovered a leak to the Press today... A rather facepalm moment. I'll describe the basic rundown without names. *phone on the desk of the colleague who wasn't in today rings. I pick it up* lady on the phone (after the whole he isn't in yes I'll try to help you instead if I can talk) : "I am calling from <news agency> in regards to the president's statement this morning. We didn't get the usual email alert, instead we only got a late, very short alert from your agency a short while ago. Now our correspondent did get an SMS, but he was in the car on his way to a conference, so he requested for the full mail to be send to us here at the main office instead. Only we never recieved it. I am not sure who is responsible for the thorough press briefing, but we do require it, so I was wondering if you could tell me who I should contact so we recieve that email as well? It would be unfair if all the other agencies got it and we didn't..." Lady on the phone gives the email address that their news briefing is usually send from. It's a private gmail address... "The short briefing you got from our agency? It is the only official briefing there is and it went out at the time you recieved it. You do not need to be on a special mailing list to get it. There was no statement issued before that by a goverment agency, nor was there a longer statement. The email you gave us is <name> private email address. We do not know what agreement she may have with your correspondent..."

According to Associated Press this morning: 8 days of conflict. 4 Israelis dead (of these 2 were confirmed as military) and 12 wounded. 161 Palestinians dead. Meh, I work in a Press Office at the moment...

What's up with all the hostility in here all of a sudden?

Speaking of great voice acting and story: All three Deathspank games are 75% off. Drat, I already own them all EDIT: ok the Baconing is 75% the other two seem to be 50%

If you do I hope you have fun with it

So in other words you are saying the same thing I am

Here I am (though not knowing where here is, as this dungeon continuously shifts location through the space time continuum) chained to a PC in this aforementioned dungeon, playing RPGs just so the world continues to exist and so you can keep on laughing at my plight...

I'll have to reinstall Psychonauts at some point then. And play through it all the way from the start... good thing it was so witty, so that should be fun

What I understand about the terrible gameplay (and I find the button mashing sequences horribly off putting and mind numbingly stupid) is that for the story to work properly they needed to somehow create the break between eerie calm and the adrenalin rush of the desperate fight for survival. They tried to simulate it through mad button mashing. It doesn't really work. But I guess it could not just be left out either. Choices do seem to matter (only had a first look at episode 1) and they do manage to get you to care, even though they may have overused forshadowing and you have simply been waiing for the proverbial excrements to hit the proverbial ventilation machine. If you have played Mass Effect, think of the Ashley / Kaidan choice but with you actually caring about your choice and not basing it on Kaidan being worth less points at Scrabble.

The Walking Dead is a terrible game. It also is a great, highly emotional entertainment package. What it brings to the IP is not a "better" story or gameplay; it brings a number of choices and the emotional investment and sense of responsibility that results from you being an active participant in the story instead of just a viewer/reader.

I like games to have a story. Adventure games are the obvious choice, RPGs a close second. While RPGs may be lighter on the story part, they allow (some more some far less) the player to be more actively involved in this story -> more engaging story. Or at least that's what I like to pretend the real reason to be for me to play this genre. The ruth is far mroe sinister and tragic: People got the whole Mayan "end of the world" prediction wrong. Somewhere in translation the fine print got lost: the whole prediction will only come true if and only if melkathi stops playing RPG games. That is why a secret order of world preservation mayans (scions of the mayan oracles who made the prediction and their students) has locked m away in a secret dungeon, forced to play rpgs non-stop.

Sure things, just send me your keys through a PM here on the forum. Also: the arch-demon is your father. Join him and together you can rule the galaxy. Strike him down and he shall become more powerful than you could ever imagine.