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StoryTime posted:Okay, Persona 3 Portable is goddamn interminable. Every time I think I'm near the endgame, it turns out that "endgame" consists of dozens of floors more Tartarus. I'm over 100 hours total playtime now. Steam says I have 11 hours in Uplink. That's not how long it took me to complete the game, that's how long it took me to break the game by robbing the bank for more money than I could spend so that losing wouldn't really have been an option. I did have fun playing through the game though.
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All right, thanks all. I played 2 levels of Darwinia, and it seems pretty fun. Except for the part where you try to lug 200 brain-dead little green dudes across the map; I hope there isn't too much of that.
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StoryTime posted:I played 2 levels of Darwinia, and it seems pretty fun. Except for the part where you try to lug 200 brain-dead little green dudes across the map; I hope there isn't too much of that. Unfortunately, they are quite a big part of the game. Fortunately, you can upgrade them and make them actually useful and more fun. The levels get more interesting too. If I remember correctly, that second level is nothing more than an escort mission, which is just boring by itself.
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Mr Right posted:Steam says I have 11 hours in Uplink. That's not how long it took me to complete the game, that's how long it took me to break the game by robbing the bank for more money than I could spend so that losing wouldn't really have been an option. I did have fun playing through the game though. Yeah don't do that, it takes a lot of the fun out of it. Empty out people's accounts if they don't have a whole lot, but avoid those.
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Vizrt posted:Lost track of the thread for a while. I finished my Mass Effect game, as well as a few other games on the 360 after my PC died. Luckily Puzzle Quest has Steam cloud, so I was able to access my save file to finish it on my laptop. Puzzle Quest is an awesome game. I'm surprised that I enjoyed it because I tend to like the more "hardcore" games  How did you find DA:O on the 360? On the PC it's fantastic but I've heard bad things about the console versions.
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Lurchibles posted:Puzzle Quest is an awesome game. I'm surprised that I enjoyed it because I tend to like the more "hardcore" games From what I understand the PC version is supposed to be more strategic. I've only played the console version though. I really enjoyed it. Once I got a few key skills for my party setup, it was pretty much steam roll everything except for a few fights (Normal difficulty). I went with 3 mage party with a bow user. I imagine it would be quite different without all the firepower from the mages. I did come across a few glitches in the game, but the only one I actively remember was quite the pain until I figured out a fix for it. If you open the radial menu too fast after a cutscene, it won't pause the game like usual. Instead it pauses it once the menu is closed. Luckily it's easily fixed by bringing up start menu screen. There were a few other things, but I don't even recall what they were they were so minor. Vizrt fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Apr 22, 2011 |
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I put Condemned on hold for reasons I can't really explain. Gaming's been going slow lately, I'm dealing with some college-related poo poo. I have, however, been making progress in Assassin's Creed 2. Just got Altair's armor, and I believe I have two glyphs and three codex pages left to find. Hopefully the glyphs don't have anymore of the gorram number wheels. gently caress those things. Also gently caress the glyph with Joan of Arc and Nikolai II, where you drag the fire onto Joan and you are rewarded with a bloodcurdling scream. Those things are creepy enough as is.
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Mr Right posted:I seem to have overestimated this game. The game is horrible! There is no objective other than "survive" and the tutorial is a joke (I watched it twice to make sure I never missed anything obvious). I got burned twice by the save function in Bioshock. I lost an hour of play twice and just gave up. I've put Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® II to the side right now too. I intend on finishing it since I have to be over 50% of the way there but I'm not feeling RTS right now. I'm currently having a blast playing Borderlands over a LAN with my little brother. Still not out of Arid Badlands yet but have played it for 9 hours. The game became much more fun after deleting the start up screens (gently caress me they took forever to load!) I'm also making attempts to 100% Super Meat Boy. 100% Light World 100% Glitch levels 77% Dark World 95/100 Bandages The game quotes me at 97% (of 106%... yeah) so in theory it should only take an hour or two but it's the hardest levels left.
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Continuing the console trend, I finally beat Twilight Princess. That game really drags, I just wanted it to end by the time I started to get the mirror shards.
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Finally giving Borderlands a try. Have heard nothing but great things for so long I picked up the Game of the Year version for the 360 at Gamestop for $20. I figured it had to be a steal. After this I have Batman: Arkham Asylum and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow sitting on the shelf waiting. Might put off Batman for as long as I can to play it closer to the release of Arkham City.
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I just beat Half Life 2: Episode 2. I now understand why so many people want Episode 3 to come out. I am now in that group. Next up, continuing Freedom Force and Burnout Paradise.
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americanzero4128 posted:I just beat Half Life 2: Episode 2. I now understand why so many people want Episode 3 to come out. I am now in that group. Next up, continuing Freedom Force and Burnout Paradise. The desire for Episode 3 is like a fire that burns up inside you and consumes your thoughts. Since the end of 07 so many people have been waiting... It feels like the HL2 wait all over again. (Minus the fact that the game hasn't been announced and delayed constantly yet.) Also: Burnout Paradise FTW
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It's quite likely that it's two scenarios: Episode 3 isn't being made and Half-Life 3 is or nothing Half-Life related is being made and valve has moved onto other projects.
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Just finished Zeno Clash. That was a fun game, and had an awesome story and cool twist ending. (although I never understood what the deal with Golem was, as it is never explained. He seems to be a walking Deus Ex Machina) Kind of a short game, but it's not exactly a full price retail game either, so I have no complaints. Next up on PC is Metro 2033 as for AC:Brotherhood...well...progress on that is not going well. I had just beaten AC2 a few weeks before and I am kind of sick of this series at the moment. I can put it on the backburner for now, right?........Right, guys? Cubemario posted:It's quite likely that it's two scenarios: Episode 3 isn't being made and Half-Life 3 is or nothing Half-Life related is being made and valve has moved onto other projects. Valve can be likened to a person with OCD. They focus ENTIRELY on what is either currently floating around in their head, or whatever they believe is most popular with their fans at the time. It's not necessarily a bad business move, but it does make some of your fans think you're a lazy company. " What, Left 4 Dead is a big hit? Ok, let's get Left 4 Dead 2 out right away! Half-life ep. 3? that can wait" " TF2 hats are big, you say? gently caress all other projects, get working on more hats and a store where people can spend money to buy hats and keys!" Cryptobotanist fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Apr 24, 2011 |
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http://i.imgur.com/DhD2T.png I am at a loss as to what to play next, beyond the fact that I am too bored of F.E.A.R. to play Perseus Mandate at the moment and that I need to play The Witcher before the sequel comes out. Suggestions for a short game to play through as a break before tackling the Witcher?
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Apr 24, 2011 02:28
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ChrisAsmadi posted:http://i.imgur.com/DhD2T.png Sam & Max Season 3 is awesome and each episode is only a few hours long. I'm guessing you've played Season 2?
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SmokinDan posted:Sam & Max Season 3 is awesome and each episode is only a few hours long. I'm guessing you've played Season 2? I tried the first episode of S3 and stopped because they changed the controls to something that's much worse - is there any way to fix it and make it the same as Season 2's?
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Apr 24, 2011 02:41
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ChrisAsmadi posted:http://i.imgur.com/DhD2T.png Jolly Rover is a really fun point-and-click adventure game that will take you four hours, tops. The Shadowgrounds games are also pretty short, but I think they're awful (poor controls and repetitive gameplay.)
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I've been playing some more Darwinia. I dunno if I'm crazy or what, but it reminds me of Cannon Fodder way back in the Amiga days. BRIEFING WITH 3 SOLDIERS YOU MUST KILL ALL ENEMY COLLECT ALL DIGITAL SOULS
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Made some pretty good progress. I finished off both of the Half-Life 2 Episodes, and also managed to solve enough of Cogs to reach the credits. The credits themselves were then a puzzle that it took me almost 15 minutes to solve. Not sure whether to treat that as  or  , really.Then I played both Zeno Clash and The Ball to the first "reach this bit of the plot" achievement. I think I'll take on Zeno Clash first; howlongtobeat says both are pretty short games, but after three Half-Life games in a row I've kind of had enough of physics puzzles. My first impressions of The Ball is that it's Portal, but with a gravity gun and an alien katamari in a Mayan pyramid. I'm still looking forward to it, but I've had enough Physics for now. Once I complete those, I can move on to Bioshock and Amnesia and then I'll have cleared every single FPS off my stack. Oh, also: ChrisAsmadi posted:I tried the first episode of S3 and stopped because they changed the controls to something that's much worse - is there any way to fix it and make it the same as Season 2's? Not per se, but there are bits of Season 3 that would make the Season 2 controls kind of obnoxious (cluttered rooms with invisible floors, etc), but you can use WASD and it's much less obnoxious than the mouse controls.
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ManxomeBromide posted:My first impressions of The Ball is that it's Portal, but with a gravity gun and an alien katamari in a Mayan pyramid. I'm still looking forward to it, but I've had enough Physics for now. Once I complete those, I can move on to Bioshock and Amnesia and then I'll have cleared every single FPS off my stack. For me "The Ball" was something to keep me occupied until Portal 2. Now that Portal 2 is out I don't see myself playing it again. Although I did enjoy the 6 hours of entertainment it provides!
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Thewittyname posted:Jolly Rover is a really fun point-and-click adventure game that will take you four hours, tops. The Shadowgrounds games are also pretty short, but I think they're awful (poor controls and repetitive gameplay.) Tried Shadowgrounds, needs some tinkering to run at the correct resolution, so I skipped to Shadowgrounds: Survivor. It was pretty fun.
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ChrisAsmadi posted:Tried Shadowgrounds, needs some tinkering to run at the correct resolution, so I skipped to Shadowgrounds: Survivor. It was pretty fun. Probably a good idea. I just revisited both games and the original is buggy as hell and not nearly as fun as Survivor in a lot of ways. Plus the placement of the checkpoints in the original is pretty ridiculous. Some of those levels are loving long.
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ChrisAsmadi posted:Tried Shadowgrounds, needs some tinkering to run at the correct resolution, so I skipped to Shadowgrounds: Survivor. It was pretty fun. Perhaps it's out of place to recommend new games in a buying addiction thread, but if you like isometric shooters involving hordes of aliens, and can put up with some dated graphics, then you should really give Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded a try. It's 2D, but makes up for it by throwing hundreds of enemies at you at once. It also has decent customization options for your character and a good variety of weapons, plus the gameplay is more varied than Shadowgrounds in that sometimes you take over turrets or vehicles.
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I've taken the drastic step of uninstalling all but these three of my games: Left4Dead 2 Sid Meier's Civilization 3: Complete Torchlight I've quit Starcraft 2 for the time being. I don't just want to just play these games. I want to master them. And despite that desire, I will still spend any gaming time I have reading about games rather than playing them. But small steps. Small steps.
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Does anyone know any way of either cheesing or cheating past the final boss in Bit.Trip Beat? It's bloody hard, plus the paddle glitches out half the time.
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ChrisAsmadi posted:Does anyone know any way of either cheesing or cheating past the final boss in Bit.Trip Beat? It's bloody hard, plus the paddle glitches out half the time. If you're on a Wii, get a friend or three and give it a taste of its own medicine. That's the only way I've managed it. That said, the AI seems to have more trouble dealing with balls that move fast in the Y axis, so steep bank shots seem to help a bit.
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I have now hit a pretty major milestone. I just finished Zeno Clash (awesome - non-Tolkien-ripoff fantasy is so rare these days) and The Ball (also awesome, but only enjoyable in short spurts), and since The Ball was only enjoyable in short spurts I used Plants vs. Zombies as a between-level palate cleanser, and wound up clearing both. Reviewing my thread history, that makes Plants vs. Zombies the fifteenth game I've finished to "off the backlog" status since entering this thread, that was on the backlog when I joined it. (BIT.TRIP RUNNER and Cogs I didn't buy until after joining, and so they don't count.) In addition, Alien Swarm, DEFCON, and Europa Universalis III were removed from my backlog for being non-backloggy games (also EU3 kept crashing on me so that I couldn't play). Evil Genius has also been removed from the backlog. I'll get to that in a moment. I've also purchased and queued in Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Defense Grid: The Awakening. Buying Portal 2 is inevitable but has not happened yet, and as a result, my Steam backlog has dropped to a mere 25 games.  So, Evil Genius. I got about an hour of play into it. Ran the tutorial, started doing the early missions, and then this little exchange happened: GAME: NEW OBJECTIVE: Go capture this civilian and make her a hostage! ME: Minions! Go capture this civilian and make her a hostage! MINION: On it, boss! HOSTAGE: GAME: OBJECTIVE COMPLETE! ME: Yay! MINION: Yay! HOSTAGE: Boo. GAME: NEW OBJECTIVE: INTERROGATE PRISONER. ME: Minions! Someone go interrogate that prisoner! MINION: OK, boss! GAME: Oh, by the way, if you don't go send your minions out to steal stuff you won't get any money. You should probably get on that. ME: Hey, good point. Minions! Why don't a few of you go to Tunisia and knock over some banks or something? MINION: OK, so, first I open the cage, then I start taking her to the interrogation device OH HEY TUNISIA I AM ALL OVER THAT poo poo HOSTAGE: FREEDOM! ME:  MINION: OH CRAP SOMEONE'S LOOSE IN THE BASE, MURDER DEATH KILL HOSTAGE:  ME:  MINION:  GAME: WTF ARE YOU DOING KILLING THE HOSTAGE OBJECTIVE FAILED ME:  Into the cat box. If I want to give orders to hordes of minions that proceed to do the exact opposite, Darwinia's still on my stack.
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I finished Mass Effect 1 & 2 already beat ME1 before, but did it again because it's been over a year. I was a long way into ME2 as well but again, it had been a long time so I just started fresh. It was an amazing experience and it really sucked me in for a whole week. It was nice to forget about real life and get immersed. I hope the third and final installment is a success.
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Alright, it's about time I posted here. I have 187 steam games. I guess including maybe DLC or some of the free downloadable stuff but that still leaves at least 150 "real" games. I can't remember beating more than 10 of them. I finally beat a game last night: Medal Of Honor: Airborne. A game I got rather recently, too. Granted it was short, but still. I want to make this a trend. I want to take this momentum and play through a lot of games I haven't played! First off, even though I should be completely random in my game selection, but I want to shave off all these shooters I have. They make up a decent majority of the gametypes that I have bought on Steam, and plenty of them I started but never finished (FEAR, Riddick, Prey, etc...) so how would I go about "randomly" choosing within a genre? Also, since I shouldn't focus on just one game in this backlog adventure, I want to have both a shooter and a non-shooter. That way when I don't feel like shooting, I'll work on my other game. Any advice or guidance you could give me would be awesome. Also, you don't have to keep track of me in the OP, I just want some advice on how to get started, maybe drop by and whine about poo poo when the Steam thread is too busy complaining about something else. 
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Morter posted:Alright, it's about time I posted here. http://steamcommunity.com/id/gvibes/games?tab=all And, uh, quote:Plants vs. Zombies: Game of the Year
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Steam Calculator gives me 186 games for $2542.65 USD while my Steam client returns 198 games. I don't really want to track stuff manually so I'm very interested in Backloggery but registration are still closing and as two days ago, shouldn't come back for weeks. Seeing how everything else is slow, I'm afraid we will never see new registrations! Anyway, I only beat a small portion of my list. Some I will never play because they came with a pack of some such. Some I beat before I bought them again for nostalgia when they made their way on Steam. I've been playing Divinity II up until 2 weeks ago but I stumbled in a spot where it's pretty difficult with massive amount of enemies... I need to visit 3 or 4 areas like that and it killed my interest. I'm about to fire it up again hoping I won't get disgusted again. Bully : Scholarship Edition is next in line after Divinity II. I own a PS2, PS3 and Xbox 360. I've got a backlog there too. Nowhere near as bad... I'm just saying because I've been playing some Mortal Kombat 9 on the PS3 lately. Hemish fucked around with this message at 16:22 on May 14, 2011 |
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Hemish posted:I don't really want to track stuff manually so I'm very interested in Backloggery but registration are still closing and as two days ago, shouldn't come back for weeks. Seeing how everything else is slow, I'm afraid we will never see new registrations! I think they'll open up registrations soon. They just recently redesigned the site and new registrations should be enabled soon.
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fatpat268 posted:I think they'll open up registrations soon. They just recently redesigned the site and new registrations should be enabled soon. Yes I visited the website for the first time yesterday and there's a message saying a couple of weeks dating two days ago. But a couple of weeks was also stated on the 19th of April.
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gvibes posted:Plants vs. Zombies: Game of the Year People just don't get how addictive this game can be. I gifted a copy to my girlfriend when it was in the Christmas sale and she spend over 7 hours on it on the first evening alone. Fantastic game.
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Lurchibles posted:People just don't get how addictive this game can be. I gifted a copy to my girlfriend when it was in the Christmas sale and she spend over 7 hours on it on the first evening alone. Fantastic game. Meh, call me crazy, but I put maybe 4-5 hours into PvZ, and that's all I'll put into it. I mean, it's ok and I don't hate TD games, but I just never got sucked into PvZ. Anyway, just beat crysis, and working on crysis warhead. Crysis was great until the aliens. Also, there must be a huge memory leak in both crysis and crysis warhead because my fps drops from ~65 to 20 after playing for about 2 hours.
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Yeah, I'm on 16h doing everything and I feel I'm nearly done with the game as it is. I cannot phantom how someone would spend 600 freaking hours on it. For comparison, I have 270 hours on Fallout 3 + DLC because there was so much to do and see, so I milked it as much as possible. I just cannot phantom 600 hours on PvZ. But please don't stop having fun! I'm just astounded, not trying to criticize.
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I've managed to rack up 178 games by this point (a great bulk of which was package deals and indie bundles). My major problem is the 5 buck threshold. If something is five dollars or less, I just have to get it on the off chance that I'll play it some time in the next thirty years. It even extends to games I already own for consoles. Mass Effect for five bucks? Why not, always nice to have a back up. Dead Space? Played it for ten minutes on Xbox but I might want to play it again on PC.. Maybe. It's a serious issue that my family and I are working to get through together. Now if you'll excuse me, Serious Sam: 2nd Encounter is $4.99. Lord help us.
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Lurchibles posted:People just don't get how addictive this game can be. I gifted a copy to my girlfriend when it was in the Christmas sale and she spend over 7 hours on it on the first evening alone. Fantastic game. Yeah I somehow found myself sitting at 20 hours and I'm just like...HOW?! Rei_ fucked around with this message at 01:00 on May 15, 2011 |
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