What are you playing now?

[Bryy]

 

Also, I feel like I did something wrong by killing Granny Rags is some random house at the very beginning of the game?

 

What drove you to kill ol' Rags?

 

Dishonoured is definitely one of the best new IP's of last gen and will probably end up being a much better Thief game than the new Thief reboot. One of the few games I've bothered to put the time into in order to Platinum along with Dark Souls.

 

DLC is great but Billie Lurk suffers from being tacked on. She should have been featured in the main game since one DLC is far too short to give a ****.

 

She was in a house being freaky so I backstabbed her to avoid a possible jump scare.

[Oner]

Don't worry, you can't kill her yet.

[Rosbjerg]

Used M4-78EP too?

 

Nah, it seemed so rough (as in almost untouched by Obz) that I decided to forgo it. Plus droids are not my thing, the HK factory part felt like a bit of a chore as it is.

[Fighter]

I've played it on PC (no consoles), and nope, didn't seemed worse to me than ME2, ME3, AP's cover (which I ignored), GTA IV's cover (also ignored).

And I am glad to say that's all the boring gameplay cover shooters I had the 'pleasure' to play...

 

Those are absolutely piss poor shooters as far as the shooting mechanics are concerned. If those are the only ones you can name I would say you have never played a proper shooter. Not that I think you would like one with your overall attitude towards the genre.

 

The issue with Spec-Ops if I remember correctly (because it's been a while) was that the take cover button also did something else which led to some kind of issues I can't remember anymore.

 

 

They don't include an option to turn off mouse acceleration?  How does somebody put out a FPS, or any action oriented game, for that matter, on PC and not have a mouse acceleration toggle in the options?

 

 

It happens more often than you think. Metro 2033 has weird floaty aiming. Crysis 2 mouse acceleration has to be turned of by edditing the config file manually.

Edited February 2, 2014 by Fighter

[WDeranged]

Abandoned yet another BG1 character in favour of New Vegas, dunno why but I'm having trouble enjoying Infinity Engine games lately, a PST play through ended similarly last year.  Ahh well, New Vegas is as awesome as ever, even after three years there's a ton of stuff I've only ever done once and a few things I've never done.

[GhostofAnakin]

Abandoned yet another BG1 character in favour of New Vegas, dunno why but I'm having trouble enjoying Infinity Engine games lately, a PST play through ended similarly last year.  Ahh well, New Vegas is as awesome as ever, even after three years there's a ton of stuff I've only ever done once and a few things I've never done.

 

I honestly don't understand this.  Not a criticism by any means, but I can't understand how people still find stuff they missed even after they've played NV a few times already.  Is it a case of me metagaming or something?  Every play through, I find and complete all the quests.  The only exception are when you have different factions and you can choose one side or the other.  But even in those cases, I'll usually complete that quest's alternate paths in no more than 3 or 4 play throughs.

[ShadySands]

Since I've been having issues with Might and Magic X lately I switched back to Consortium. Looks like they've patched the issues I was having at launch and I enjoyed it well enough to finish it in one day

 

I'll give it an 88 out of 123 on the arbitrary grading scale

[WDeranged]

 

Abandoned yet another BG1 character in favour of New Vegas, dunno why but I'm having trouble enjoying Infinity Engine games lately, a PST play through ended similarly last year.  Ahh well, New Vegas is as awesome as ever, even after three years there's a ton of stuff I've only ever done once and a few things I've never done.

 

I honestly don't understand this.  Not a criticism by any means, but I can't understand how people still find stuff they missed even after they've played NV a few times already.  Is it a case of me metagaming or something?  Every play through, I find and complete all the quests.  The only exception are when you have different factions and you can choose one side or the other.  But even in those cases, I'll usually complete that quest's alternate paths in no more than 3 or 4 play throughs.

 

 

I think it must be play style, I tend to go slowly and poke around every nook, I also use various mods which increase difficulty and lower the level cap so my play throughs don't last far beyond 100 hours, I'll even wilfully ignore some stuff for future plays.  I should mention that I don't think there's much in the game I'm not aware of at this point, I've done almost everything at least once but there are a few plot paths I haven't been down yet, like taking the dam for House or joining Caesar's Legion.

[Hassat Hunter]

Those are absolutely piss poor shooters as far as the shooting mechanics are concerned. If those are the only ones you can name I would say you have never played a proper shooter.

I agree. A cover-based shooting is piss poor shooter.

But what ones are you talking about which would be "good" though?

The issue with Spec-Ops if I remember correctly (because it's been a while) was that the take cover button also did something else which led to some kind of issues I can't remember anymore.

Meet every single console game ported to PC where "E" is so many actions, that your when you try to pick up a kitty, you might strangle a little girl instead. Sadly no-one ever seemed to think of isolation those options on the PC where we have not a super-limited set of buttons, so you won't have to yell at your screen that you take someone captive when you want to enter a car (Saint's Row, I am looking at you...)

 

Used M4-78EP too?

Nah, it seemed so rough (as in almost untouched by Obz) that I decided to forgo it. Plus droids are not my thing, the HK factory part felt like a bit of a chore as it is.

 

[Bollockoff]

 

 

Also, I feel like I did something wrong by killing Granny Rags is some random house at the very beginning of the game?

 

What drove you to kill ol' Rags?

 

Dishonoured is definitely one of the best new IP's of last gen and will probably end up being a much better Thief game than the new Thief reboot. One of the few games I've bothered to put the time into in order to Platinum along with Dark Souls.

 

DLC is great but Billie Lurk suffers from being tacked on. She should have been featured in the main game since one DLC is far too short to give a ****.

 

She was in a house being freaky so I backstabbed her to avoid a possible jump scare.

 

 

Paranoia trumps game design.

[alanschu]

 

If anyone may have an interest in doing some MP in a game like IL-2 Sturmovik, let me know.  During the current sale I may even gift said game!

 

Reading the manual (which seems to be from Pacific Fighters, which I think I tried way back in the day) they mention an "Online Campaign" where the air missions can influence the results on the ground, which sounded interesting.  Though standard co-op (or even vs. dogfighting) would be interesting.

 

It should be noted that I'm probably not very good at this game (yet....) so I'm sure there will be a period of "Dammit Allan stop sucking!"

 

 

This game seems much more hardcore than I have really ever played in the past, but it sounds like it could be fun to play with some friends!

 

I had some buddies from a different game that had a squadron going. Tried to drag me into IL2. They were adamant on playing on "full realism" only. I could barely get off the ground and was basically of no use airborne—and this was in coop missions (which were otherwise fckn awesome), vs the AI. From what I understand, the game is a sim's sim, the flight model being especially accurate, with different types of aircraft handling closely to historical reports. So good luck to you sir...

 

 

It certainly is a sim's sim, though I don't pull on full realism myself (tweaking the trim to counter turn the engine's torque and stuff I don't care so much for, nor the micromanagement of the radiator and stuff like that). I was stalling out like crazy but am doing much better now. I'm a pitiful bomber, but can at least shoot down the odd plane here or there (watched some tutorial videos).

[GhostofAnakin]

Chapter 1 of Mars: War Logs was more interesting than Chapter 2 has been so far.  It seemed to move a lot faster, and seemed to have more interesting quests.

[AGX-17]

Replaying New Vegas, because it is my favorite game. I, surprisingly, never actually made any endeavour to shove sticks of dynamite up the rectums of my enemies, so that's my goal for the newest courier. Powder Gangers: Complete. Van Graffs: Complete. Not finished: C4 chunks in the colons of Caesar and his bodyguards (that's some impressive dexterity, Courier.)

Edited February 2, 2014 by AGX-17

[Serrano]

 

Abandoned yet another BG1 character in favour of New Vegas, dunno why but I'm having trouble enjoying Infinity Engine games lately, a PST play through ended similarly last year.  Ahh well, New Vegas is as awesome as ever, even after three years there's a ton of stuff I've only ever done once and a few things I've never done.

 

I honestly don't understand this.  Not a criticism by any means, but I can't understand how people still find stuff they missed even after they've played NV a few times already.  Is it a case of me metagaming or something?  Every play through, I find and complete all the quests.  The only exception are when you have different factions and you can choose one side or the other.  But even in those cases, I'll usually complete that quest's alternate paths in no more than 3 or 4 play throughs.

 

 

Most people don't get every quest in a game like NV, that game is massive. They burn out on the gameplay, don't like to use walkthroughs and miss stuff or a new game gets released and they move on. They're wired differently so, much like I will never understand the people who collect all the feathers in Assassin's Creed, you'll probably never see a game like NV quite the way those people do and vice-versa.

Edited February 2, 2014 by Serrano

[AGX-17]

For the record, Primm, if you leave your fate in the hands of a guy named "Deputy Beagle," you really have no grounds to complain when you suddenly find yourself a less-than-willing subject of NCR taxation.

 

Edit: The fact that I'm using a Mexican flag as a rag to soak up sweat and beard grease (come on, don't tell me your post-apocalyptic hygiene is any better, you brotherhood pricks,) does not in any way diminish the utmost respect I hold for the nation of Mexico and her peoples.

Edited February 2, 2014 by AGX-17

[Fighter]

I agree. A cover-based shooting is piss poor shooter.

But what ones are you talking about which would be "good" though

 

Max Payne 3, Gears of War, (new) Tomb Raider. All have good mechanics. A game like Mass Effect (imo) is to a descent shooter what Skyrim is to a sword fighting game like Chivalry.

Edited February 2, 2014 by Fighter

[Labadal]

Booted up Banner Saga for the first time. No manual saves in this game either. I don't like this trend.

[AGX-17]

Booted up Banner Saga for the first time. No manual saves in this game either. I don't like this trend.

Yeah, one mistake and it's baaaaaaaaaack you go. One really bad mistake that doesn't play out for two hours and you're back to a new game.

[Agiel]

There is only one way to play Fallout: New Vegas, and that is role-playing as a rough-and-tumble, survivalist, gunslinging cowgir, of which this will probably be the umpteenth time I've done this run:

 

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/3316075617495300920/159E00356972744563845F92E631D8855E4D3335/

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=223603836

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=223603806

 

True to form, while not an airhead at about 6 Int (for purposes of not totally gimping my skill leveling), I put absolutely no points in Science. Problems involving computers and robots can be solved with .45-70 Govt. SWC, a Bowie Knife, or some dynamite, thank you very much.

Edited February 2, 2014 by Agiel

[Labadal]

 

Booted up Banner Saga for the first time. No manual saves in this game either. I don't like this trend.

Yeah, one mistake and it's baaaaaaaaaack you go. One really bad mistake that doesn't play out for two hours and you're back to a new game.

 

Indeed. I have already lost two characters. I know for a fact you can make one of them survive for the entire game, but I couldn't bother redo the sections before that. Perma-death in combat is ok. But when I chose the wrong option in dialog and a character died for it, I got annoyed.

[Majek]

Between the autosave and chapter saves, i never did need manual saving in Banner Saga. You just need to know when to quit.

[Starwars]

Yeah, I think Banner Saga is one of few games that does it right. It saves often enough to not be a problem, and it encourages you (well, me) to stay with the decisions and consequences. It's a not a game where you're supposed to be in control. You're thrust into being a leader in a crisis, and now you have to deal with all the junk.

 

I lost a lot of characters on my first playthrough and I loved it. Just keep playing and try to make the best of the situation.

[WorstUsernameEver]

and it encourages you (well, me) to stay with the decisions and consequences.

It doesn't. It saves too often to dissuade people from sticking with their choices. What they did right was delaying consequences a-là The Witcher 1 for some of the most pivotal decisions (*SPOILER* taking Onef with your group, for example *SPOILER*).

 

It's not an annoying save system because of that, but it's also not a good one.

[Malcador]

They should make another Crusader game.  Control scheme threw me for a loop, initially.

[Majek]

 

and it encourages you (well, me) to stay with the decisions and consequences.

It doesn't. It saves too often to dissuade people from sticking with their choices. What they did right was delaying consequences a-là The Witcher 1 for some of the most pivotal decisions (*SPOILER* taking Onef with your group, for example *SPOILER*).

 

It's not an annoying save system because of that, but it's also not a good one.

 

Well you do get a warning at the beginning about people with helmets.