What are you playing now?

[melkathi]

Trying out XCOM. Man is the gameplay terrible... will I have to play a strategy game with a gamepad?

[Calax]

Started playing last light and HOLY HELL is this an atmospheric game.

 

Although i think the devs need to go back in and retool SOMETHING because THIS keeps happening

 

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/560974708319183589/C26D30B0D0BFBFFB5F34F79BB31E68C14AFBC537/

 

It's the flickering of the light and I assume it's based around the fact that it can't really refresh very well but I donno.

 

[BruceVC]

Started playing last light and HOLY HELL is this an atmospheric game.

 

Although i think the devs need to go back in and retool SOMETHING because THIS keeps happening

 

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/560974708319183589/C26D30B0D0BFBFFB5F34F79BB31E68C14AFBC537/

 

It's the flickering of the light and I assume it's based around the fact that it can't really refresh very well but I donno.

 

I'm really excited about this game, I loved  Metro.

 

I'm glad it seems good

 

 

Edit : Nice review on Gamespot

 

http://www.gamespot.com/metro-last-light/reviews/metro-last-light-review-6408240/?tag=Topslot;Slot1

Edited May 14, 2013 by BruceVC

[melkathi]

Playing "Go Home Dinosaurs!"

A fun little tower defence where gophers are trying to protect their BBQ from ravenous hordes of dinosaurs.

The pop refrences and terrible puns are priceless.

Gopher grunt shoots from his tree stump: "This is my stump. There are many like it, but this one is mine."

Gopher with freeze ray: "I see dinos. Get it? Icy dinos?"

Though my favourid has to be the laser which is "historically accurate!"

[Hurlshort]

Trying out XCOM. Man is the gameplay terrible... will I have to play a strategy game with a gamepad?

 

That's funny, I was playing the original the other night using the OpenXcom mod, and I was having all sorts of trouble getting my troops in cover positions and lined up properly.  

 

Edit:  I played the new one with the mouse and the only problems I had were with occasional camera glitches.  I heard they were fixed, but I haven't checked it myself. 

Edited May 14, 2013 by Hurlshot

[Majek]

Trying out XCOM. Man is the gameplay terrible... will I have to play a strategy game with a gamepad?

Try it, i did and i liked it. Took a while to get used to keyboard and mouse when i played it again on PC. Eitherway it takes some time to get used to controls,  so just continue playing.

[melkathi]

Gave it a bit more time. May play through it, but am glad I did not pay full price for it. Most likely I will return to UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold Edition for the true UFO experience. It doesn't have fancy graphics and may be a bit deadlier, but at least gameplay doesn't feel dumbed down for consols (my soldiers can crouch ).

In this new XCOM throwing grenades is a pain. I had enemies with jetpacks jump through a solid concrete roof, then land on the roof they jumped through, so they could shoot at me from a higher elevation... It isn't as bad as UFO: Aftermath, which had random maps that i would generate from scratch when you loaded a game, even while on the map - so if you were taking cover behind a house, saved the game to have dinner and loaded afterwards to continue playing, the house would most likely not be there anymore...

[mute688]

I have an extra copy of XCOM if anyone wants it.

[BruceVC]

I have an extra copy of XCOM if anyone wants it.

 

I would love that

Thx

[Raithe]

dang it, beaten to it..

[Gfted1]

Didn't Bendu hook you up with XCOM BruceVC?

[BruceVC]

Didn't Bendu hook you up with XCOM BruceVC?

 

Yes he did, well spotted. Not to worry then

[mute688]

dang it, beaten to it..

Seems as if BruceVC already has a copy so if you are still interested Raithe,  I can send you the steam activation code.

[Bokishi]

Why did Bruce want 2 copies lol

[Raithe]

 

dang it, beaten to it..

Seems as if BruceVC already has a copy so if you are still interested Raithe,  I can send you the steam activation code.

 

Groovy. I'd appreciate it then mute688.

[BruceVC]

Why did Bruce want 2 copies lol

 

I didn't. I forgot I had it, it just shows how neglected my Steam game list is

[Calax]

Metro Last Light.

 

Has one of the most awkward and unnecessary sex scenes known to man. I could undestand the stripper earlier (long story, but having your player get a lap dance makes sense in context) but the actual sex scene comes later. Basically the only female character in the game (well, beyond the extras) is stuck with you, laments the fact that she feels alone and probably won't survive what's coming, and sits on your lap. Then it's "Go ahead, have some fun" and the screen whites out.

 

No reason for it to be there, beyond "Crap, we need another naked breast!"

[Drowsy Emperor]

What we need is an AAA porn game to outclass and make obsolete in a single stroke every sex/nudity scene in games.

 

It should feature a roster of characters from Kirby to Mass Effect to cover all possible tastes. New characters should be bought as microtransactions, and there should be anonymous multiplayer.

 

****, with this I'd be a millionaire in a fortnight.

Edited May 14, 2013 by Drowsy Emperor

[Tigranes]

With always-online DRM.

[Bokishi]

Metro Last Night

[Calax]

Why does everyone assume it's the sex scene itself that's stupid? It's the relationship between the two characters that is.

 

You see the woman all of 2 times (well three, but in one she's just background) in the game, one of which she's constantly demeaning you. The next time you see her basically has her as the damsel in distress before you rescue her, and she just goes "Hey, let's bone!". I'd have believed a gay romance between you and Pavel (You meet him in the second level) before this girl decides that she wants you.

 

Bascially I'm saying that it's about as realistic as the hooker in Boomtown who makes the question "You want to sleep with me?" literal. 

 

 

Sad part? The sex is only there for ONE purpose, in one of the endings

 

 

Either way, the game needed somebody to come in and adjust the pacing a bit. The setting seems ripe for a Borderlands Esque (more serious mind you) MMO.

[Bokishi]

Her English voice sucks too, she doesn't have a russian accent like everyone else and just sounds so generic. Actually I decided to play the whole thing in russian language with English subs, seems more authentic that way

[Calax]

True, although I think that you'd need to have speech bubbles to properly make that work given all the incidental discussions going on in the towns.

[Bokishi]

Metro Last Night is quite a system hog at max settings, it looks great, but it lags a bit in some areas even at 2560 rez. I guess they weren't joking that the recommended gpu is a GTX Titan

[Agiel]

On my Intel i7 and GTX 560 it runs and looks well enough on 1280x720, medium textures, no SSAA, and very high tessellation.

 

As for the gameplay, I'm glad for the stealth options and non-lethal takedowns (I hope the Metro has plenty of MRI machines to go around, because, you know, being knocked out for more than half and hour is super bad for you). After one of the mutant sections past the half-way mark, I was literally down to using my military grade ammo against the boss, which as you may well know is literally p***ing money away.