melkathi

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.

On one hand I felt that it was starting to just drag on story wise. On the other I found it was getting a tad too tricky for me - I tried and tried to get through the level and failed time and again. There had been very interesting psyches to delve into (such as the Milkman Conspiracy), but the Meat Circus was just frustrating for me, so I decided to leave the game at that point before the frustration would overshadow the otherwise great impression the game had made.

Played that game last year. Too many microtransactions that add up in the end have made me wary of games like this.

Funnily enough. It's the Meat Circus that ahd me uninstall as well.

I kinda felt as if I was on Kashyyyk and expected any minute Czerka slavers would jump out from behind the trees and try to nab the werewooki... er... I mean werewoofs... wrong furries, sorry

Seems to me you have to start a second playthrough now

Buying old games on Steam I found a bit risky. Seems they usually have done no effort to adapt them to current operating systems. My steam copy of Vice City was a great disappointment.

Well, now you wont have to do what I did: wait for all episodes to come out Though since I hardly have the time to play it now, I'll wait for the Christmas Sale

Not playing anything (other than a bit of this and that) but extremly happy that I am NOT playing the Sims. I just saw that they have a Katy Perry DLC... *shudder*

I have Trine (haven't finished it yet), I have Trine 2 (haven't installed it yet). I am missing the Trine 2 DLC. I have Eternity's Child (installed not yet played), Limbo (not yet installed), Giana Sisters: Twisted Dream (not yet finished, planned out the fanart though), Lucidity (not yet installed)... I think I got other games as well Got the box version of Machinarium. If we are talking cute, have you looked at The Maw? http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=26343200&insideModal=1

At the price I got it, even one playthrough is me robbing them blind Though I also buy games purely based on artistic merit, when I decide that their visual approach etc stands out.

If there are a hundred enemies, I think my players would have done well to have retreated fifty enemies ago Unless its one of those scenarios where there is no place to retreat to, the necromancer and his hordes are at the gates etc.

Got it wishlisted as well.

Woah! Buy 5 games for $10. Ok so its a specific list of twenty games, but there are some great ones among them. So I got myself: Unmechanical, Botanicula, the complete Blackwell Bundle, the Geneforge Bundle and Gemini Rue. Now if only I didn't have a huge backlog anyway. Still nice to see this checkout message: Total: 10 - You Save: 49.90sumthin

Devs should not force companions on players, true. But it is rather worrying that, even if it is a virtual world, so many people see annoyance as a valid reason for the death penalty.

I still don't understand why anyone would want to kill her in the first place...

You are lucky they didn't charge you for the fact that the waitress took your order

To me it is like this: I think SWTOR had potential. That is why I was subbed. In that time they did not make the impression that they were capable of working towards that potential, instead doing things that were damaging the game. So I unsubbed. Now they have gone F2P and are trying to get old subs back. That means they have not just got to say "Hey we give you stuff for free", since a lot of former subs had been quite willing to pay a subscription, just not for the state the game was in; they have to prove that the game is sub-worthy after all. Have they done that? No, not really. I for one suffer from audio corruption that I did not have before. Apparently it is a problem that krept in some time in April and hasn't been fixed yet. So a game that wasted all its budget on audio, has a bug that prevents a lot of players from enjoying the audio... Add to that, that it seems none of the issues I was unhappy with have really been addressed. Instead they are pulling a late-night tv telemarketing like move telling me to call now because the first 10 callers will get this set of kitchen knives completly free of charge. So I for one don't expect to spend either time or money on the game. The F2P conversion did not convince me that this second chance was really it. A shame because the game has potential. I thought the Champions Online and DC Universe Online F2P conversions were quite good. Enjoyed both games and gave both of them money. Also bought skins in League of Legends because I felt I should give Riot some money.

Datamining?