Monte Carlo Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 ^ Oh, and CoH also has the most awesome VO, I'm pretty sure Denis Haysbert does the US Army Ranger sergeant and the dude from Full Metal Jacket does his Drill Sergeant schtick to perfection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte Carlo Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Dennis H doesn't feature in the VO credits... but the rangers sound just like him as Snake Doctor in The Unit. VO is important to me. And RTS games aren't noted for their excellent VO (Silo Needed!) so CoH deserves a special mention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enoch Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 (edited) I'm getting tired of The Witcher. I picked it up for about $13 in the Steam holiday sale, and started playing it last weekend. It's now early in Chapter 2, and my motivation to keep going is waning. None of the characters I've met are particularly interesting. The storyline motivation isn't all that compelling. (Some guys took some stuff I don't care about from some people who claimed to know me but who I don't remember, killing some guy I just met. The game really needs an option to say "Screw you guys-- I'm going to go try to find out who the heck I am and what the heck happened to me for the last 5 years rather than chase after your missing PEDs.") The game tries to be "dark" by making everyone you talk to either a jerk or a whore, which has the effect of emphasizing that I don't particularly care what happens to any of them. The rhythm-game-style combat is tedious and lacking in any kind of challenge, and the quest design is set up to feature "walking back and forth across the same map over and over again" as what the player spends the majority of his/her gametime doing. I know that there are people around here who really like this game-- anybody care to make the case in favor of sticking with it a little while longer? Edited January 22, 2010 by Enoch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Slinky Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 I could make a long list of things I like in the game, but if you are allready in chapter 2 and you still don't like it, well, then you just don't like it. No need to like them all, move on to something you like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPGmasterBoo Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 @Enoch: no because you said you bought it so you could complain about it. Mission accomplished Btw swamps, chapter 2 were the most tedious part of the game. Imperium Thought for the Day: Even a man who has nothing can still offer his life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkreku Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Oh. I got stuck in the swamps (and some autopsy) and quit playing. It really was tedious as hell. Swedes, go to: Spel2, for the latest game reviews in swedish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPGmasterBoo Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Still playing Machinarium. Bloody wonderful game. Company of Heroes is dirt cheap now on Steam people! 3 euros for the original game + expansion! yeah, plus a fee for paying with a credit card, which in my bank at least is more than 3 euros, so these micro transactions don't really work for me, I have to lump a lot of stuff together for it to make sense. Dunno what you're talking about, my card wasn't charged anything extra. Its a Visa. Imperium Thought for the Day: Even a man who has nothing can still offer his life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enoch Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 @Enoch: no because you said you bought it so you could complain about it. Mission accomplished Yeah, that was mostly a joke. I had some suspicions that I wouldn't like it beforehand, but since I made the purchase, I have been trying to enjoy it as best I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pop Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 I don't know, I made it to Chapter 3 and I'll tell you right now - you have more porno cards to look forward to, and more vulgar dwarves. Other than that, nothing changes. Join me, and we shall make Production Beards a reality! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoonDing Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 I remember a carnivorous plant in the Witcher's swamps that kicked my ass everytime I tried to fight it... and no matter where I ran off to, it just kept following me around everywhere. Pretty annoying. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 (edited) There was also some really weird and out of place Lovecraftian stuff with Deep Ones there. Edited January 22, 2010 by Purkake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 There was also some really weird and out of place Lovecraftian stuff with Deep Ones there. Dammit.. now i'm just getting songs from the Cthulhu musical going around and around my mind ... Curse You! "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Slinky Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 I remember a carnivorous plant in the Witcher's swamps that kicked my ass everytime I tried to fight it... and no matter where I ran off to, it just kept following me around everywhere. Pretty annoying. It whooped my ass too. Then I set it in flames and made toothpicks out of it. There's skills in strong silver that gives huge damage improvement if the target is in flames. There was also some really weird and out of place Lovecraftian stuff with Deep Ones there. I thought it was strange as well. Did the writer of the books just copy the Cthulhu stuff just like that or did the devs do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pop Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 (edited) I'm recalcitrant to say that they "ripped off" anything. The Lovecraft Mythos has always been sort of common property amongst pulp fiction writers. As it should be. Besides, they weren't deep ones. I'm pretty sure they were star spawn. As for their being poorly shoehorned into the gameworld, yeah probably. It helps to make oblique references to things if you want to make your gameworld seem like it has hidden depths and goings-on far beyond the immediate concerns of the player character. As far as references go it was actually pretty good. Say what you will about the Lovecraft Mythos, it's not the type of relentlessly dull stuff you usually see in the Witcher gameworld. Edited January 22, 2010 by Pop Join me, and we shall make Production Beards a reality! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 (edited) There was also some really weird and out of place Lovecraftian stuff with Deep Ones there. Dammit.. now i'm just getting songs from the Cthulhu musical going around and around my mind ... Curse You! A Shoggoth on the Roof? I'm recalcitrant to say that they "ripped off" anything. The Lovecraft Mythos has always been sort of common property amongst pulp fiction writers. As it should be. Besides, they weren't deep ones. I'm pretty sure they were star spawn. Any self-respecting star spawn would have a bunch of deep ones with it. As for ripping stuff off, it felt just out of place, like whoever put it there just copy-pasted a Call of Cthulhu adventure in there. Using it as inspiration and building on it or referencing to it is fine, but just putting a chunk of it in the middle of your game isn't all that nice. Edited January 22, 2010 by Purkake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 A Shoggoth on the Roof? "If I were a Deep One.. blub-blub-blub-blubby-blubby-blub!" "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 (edited) Tentacles! It was most certainly Dagon and deep ones, not star spawn. Edited January 22, 2010 by Purkake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Byakhee Byakhee... Wait..is that a star or a tree... "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 It's a tree (original) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgon Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 (edited) I decided to get something my laptop can use as I find myself clocking more and more time with it. Xcom 2 terror from the deep. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Minimum: Windows XP*, 33MHz 386, 4MB RAM, 520KB Free Disk Space, DirectX 6.1 or later. You must have a mouse attached to the computer. (We mean the input device; please do not glue or staple helpless little animals to the keyboard.) The mouse driver must be Microsoft mouse version 8.01 or higher or something fully compatible with this. Minimum: Windows XP*, 33MHz 386, 4MB RAM, 520KB Free Disk Space, DirectX 6.1 or later. You must have a mouse attached to the computer. (We mean the input device; please do not glue or staple helpless little animals to the keyboard.) The mouse driver must be Microsoft mouse version 8.01 or higher or something fully compatible with this. 33 mhz processor running XP, that's one little engine that could. Edited January 22, 2010 by Gorgon Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 (edited) Just get DOSbox and play all the classics. Makes me want to play some Blackthorne right now. Edited January 22, 2010 by Purkake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Minimum: Windows XP*, 33MHz 386, 4MB RAM, 520KB Free Disk Space, DirectX 6.1 or later. You must have a mouse attached to the computer. (We mean the input device; please do not glue or staple helpless little animals to the keyboard.) The mouse driver must be Microsoft mouse version 8.01 or higher or something fully compatible with this. Minimum: Windows XP*, 33MHz 386, 4MB RAM, 520KB Free Disk Space, DirectX 6.1 or later. You must have a mouse attached to the computer. (We mean the input device; please do not glue or staple helpless little animals to the keyboard.) The mouse driver must be Microsoft mouse version 8.01 or higher or something fully compatible with this. 33 mhz processor running XP, that's one little engine that could. Wow. How old is that thing? I'm amazed that it still runs, but then again it probably produces 1/10 the heat of modern laptops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoonDing Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Makes me want to play some Blackthorne right now. Excellent game, but I could never beat the final boss. The one that looks like Tim Curry in Legend. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cronicler Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Dig up Outpost 2 and finished it again, pretty old and clunky RTS/Colony management game but nevertheless I love it's story. IG. We kick ass and not even take names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oner Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 BG 2 Couldn't kill Sarevok because of a file error. \o\ \o/ /o/ Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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