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Beaten Garshasp (quite fun, considering I rarely play God of War type games, but the camera is evil), Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood (decent enough, and it was short enough to not overstay it's welcome) and Nation Red (campaign sucks, considering it's the same mission 17 times with only one different one, especially the maps where zombies come from all directions). Some progress on the backlog, at least (though I also added DiRT3 and Crayon Physics Deluxe).
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ChrisAsmadi posted:Garshasp (quite fun  How long is Puzzle Quest supposed to take, anyway? I've put a solid 30 hours into it and I'm killing Lord Bane's generals so I feel like I should be at the end. I just want to cross this and Trine off my backlog.
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My Steam time for PQ says 26 hours. That's with doing all the sidequests. It did seem pretty long during my playthrough as there were multiple points in the later half where I could have sworn the game was about to end. It just kept on chugging along though. At 30 hours I'd imagine you're pretty close to the end, but I unfortunately don't recall how close to the end the generals are.
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Making decent progress on the Witcher and Tyrian 2000.
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Jul 27, 2011 15:36
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Chief Savage Man posted:Making decent progress on the Witcher and Tyrian 2000. This is stuff you put in the progress notes of your "Now Playing" games (or any games, for that matter). Have you got an account there? Updating that is a lot quicker than coming here to do so, so you could just slap your sig onto any post you make. 
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That Critical Mass game is really neat but seriously needs some patching. Besides being brutally hard even on Casual (which they've apparently acknowledged based on the in-game news ticker) everything that requires an internet connection, which is basically everything in the game, is broken so nothing gets saved and you can't get Achievements or anything.
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Jul 27, 2011 16:24
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Morter posted:This is stuff you put in the progress notes of your "Now Playing" games (or any games, for that matter). I occasionally consider signing up for Backloggery, but then I consider how much fun it wouldn't be transcribing a 500-line game list into it one game at a time and decide I'd rather spend that time actually playing the games.
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Jul 27, 2011 16:41
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ToxicFrog posted:I occasionally consider signing up for Backloggery, but then I consider how much fun it wouldn't be transcribing a 500-line game list into it one game at a time and decide I'd rather spend that time actually playing the games. But then you have a list of every game you own on every console, so if you were to, say, sell them all or just compare games it would be incredibly easy.
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Jul 27, 2011 16:44
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Drunk Tomato posted:But then you have a list of every game you own on every console, so if you were to, say, sell them all or just compare games it would be incredibly easy. The thing is, I already have such a list (in plaintext format). All putting it on backloggery would do is make it prettier. That might be worthwhile if I could just paste the entire file into backloggery and have it make sense of it, but if I have to manually add each game, not so much.
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Jul 27, 2011 16:53
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It's not that hard. It's just the name of it and how far you think you are, even if that. You also don't have to put EVERY game you've EVER played or owned. I just put down my steam list (Because it is my main "backlog". I get done with most console games I get pretty quickly), and then added any steam or console games I got after I made the account. It took a few hours initially, sure, but it's gotten me motivated to play through games I normally wouldn't, anyway.
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Morter posted:It's not that hard. It's just the name of it and how far you think you are, even if that. You also don't have to put EVERY game you've EVER played or owned. I just put down my steam list (Because it is my main "backlog". I get done with most console games I get pretty quickly), and then added any steam or console games I got after I made the account. It took a few hours initially, sure, but it's gotten me motivated to play through games I normally wouldn't, anyway. And having a huge list makes the Fortune Cookie feature extra exciting!
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Morter posted:It's not that hard. It's just the name of it and how far you think you are, even if that. You also don't have to put EVERY game you've EVER played or owned. I just put down my steam list (Because it is my main "backlog". I get done with most console games I get pretty quickly), and then added any steam or console games I got after I made the account. It took a few hours initially, sure, but it's gotten me motivated to play through games I normally wouldn't, anyway. My Steam list alone is 300 games long.  Maybe I should write a program to upload game lists to backloggery...
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Holy, to coin a phrase, poo poo: I fired this up three weeks ago to see how much worse the DOS version was from the Mac one and it didn't let me go. I still can't say it's a good game, but this is the first dungeon crawler I've beaten in longer than I can remember.
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ManxomeBromide posted:Holy, to coin a phrase, poo poo: Congrats man, that's awesome. I have still never beaten a true old school dungeon crawler, even though I have been playing them off and on for 25 years.
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I managed to beat M&M 3 and World of Xeen way back in the day, but iirc I created a party, had them deposit all their money in the bank, then work in the slag pits for the next 90 years or so until they all died of old age. Then I created a new party, who took the giant pile of wages and most importantly, interest, and slaughtered their way through the game with effectively infinite money. Cheesy, but I was 13 years old or so. Still solved tons of neat puzzles and had a blast exploring the huge world. I never played anything after M&M:World of Xeen, but that game was an absolute blast, and still remains one of my favorite CRPGs.
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ToxicFrog posted:My Steam list alone is 300 games long. Please do.
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chippy posted:Please do. A pox on all sites that do not have official APIs. Now it's just saying "that system appears to be invalid" no matter what I do. E: it's working! It's kind of ugly, though, and requires you manually extract the cookie: header. ToxicFrog fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Jul 28, 2011 |
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It works.  Script here. Requires Lua + LuaSocket. Read the comments at the start of the file for usage instructions, and don't forget to edit USER and COOKIE. It does assume familiarity with the command line.
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ToxicFrog posted:It works. Wow, well done! If I hadn't done this poo poo manually a couple of months ago , this would save me hours
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ToxicFrog posted:It works. This is neat. Maybe I'll take the time to do this (probably not)
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I beat Descent 2 last night, it was a couple of levels shorter than I had thought. The scoreboard at the end shows that I finished in a little under 8 hours. Overall, I think I like it about the same as the first, though they both had their different flaws. Not sure what I'll play next (other than Just Cause, I mean; I like having two games going at once), maybe I'll try going back to a game that I'd started but lost interest in.
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I think I need to start toxxing myself to play video games. 
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Hello my name is Quidnose and I buy way too many steam games. This thread looks awesome, put up an account on Backloggery, used the Random Steam Game site, and the first game I shall be playing from my backlog isssssss.... Tom Clancy's Endwar.
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Quidnose posted:Hello my name is Quidnose and I buy way too many steam games. Why would you use the random steam games site, when you could use the backloggery's fortune cookie? 
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I've unlocked everything in Bad Company 2. I'm level 22. To move on to another game or to try for level 50...
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Morter posted:Why would you use the random steam games site, when you could use the backloggery's fortune cookie? Cause I haven't entered all my steamgames in the list yet?
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Yes! Finally beat the longest campaign of Atom Zombie Smasher, now I moved it into my completed directory. My weakness are those cheap 5e games that seem fun but ultimately lack so much in content and don't have the charm to keep me hooked for long, but after I saw this thread I decided I should get atleast some of them completed.
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Seems like every time I finish a game, I end up adding another to my backlog. I bought Two Worlds today, stupid GOG and their sales I tried it out and it seems fun, though, so I may go ahead and try to get through it.
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Eh! Frank posted:Seems like every time I finish a game, I end up adding another to my backlog. Speaking of which, I finished Splinter Cell and I've beaten every level in Everyday Shooter, which I'm going to call "beating" it. ("Complete" will be qualifying for and grinding out every possible unlock other than lives.) So that's seven games finished for the month!  Unfortunately, I purchased 15 games this month. Five of those seven were from the 15, though, so a lot of the new purchases haven't stayed on the backlog for long. I'm not sure if that's good or bad, to be honest. I guess I ought to start playing Chaos Theory next, or I could give Darwinia another go.
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ToxicFrog posted:It works. This is great, now is there any way of getting a plaintext list of your games from Steam?
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Ok, I've kind of fell off the wagon lately. VtM:B at five was way too good to pass up, I got DiRT 3 by pretending to be Brazilian, EYE was too intriguing not to buy, and I'm always a sucker for the Humble Bundle. Luckily I've bought two games at near full price at ~63 dollars (SR3 preorder and EYE) so I don't have a lot of money to spend on sales now. I have a few weeks until classes start up again and I have no friends here because I just moved and none of the people I know will be here for ~3 weeks. It's a perfect opportunity to get some serious backlog reduction done. The three games I've chosen are EYE which is too fascinatingly bizarre to put down, VtM:B which is pretty engrossing and Thief: Deadly Shadows which I bought long ago but just started last week and is also one of the most atmospheric games I've ever played in my life. Wish me luck, fellow addicts.
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chippy posted:This is great, now is there any way of getting a plaintext list of your games from Steam? There's probably a better way, but here's a quick and dirty script. Same requires as the above, produces output in a format that backloggery.lua will accept. Invoke as lua steamgames.lua steam-id. Note that it doesn't understand categories or anything and reports everything as "READY" (which will map to "Unfinished" on backloggery), so you might want to save the output and edit it to mark which games you've finished before you upload them all to backloggery. Also, backloggery.lua updated to understand "WISH" and "WISHLIST" as a game status, which will cause it to upload the game as Unfinished+Wishlisted.
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Whelp, I finally beat Shadowgrounds. I've got one thing to say about that game and that is: I'm never playing that again. I did enjoy it though. 
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Sam & Max is a real treat, I'm currently on Ice Station Santa and it keeps getting better.
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Just completed Ben There, Dan That! and only needed a guide for two puzzles which is some sort of record for me. The writing in that game is fantastic.
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Opus125 posted:I've unlocked everything in Bad Company 2. I'm level 22. To move on to another game or to try for level 50... Don't go for level 50. It may seem fun and games where you are but later levels take dramatically longer times to get. It's endless - if you like the game, play it for fun but don't go for the levels. It's NOT like CoD levelling, believe me. To be exact for a good player it would take 282 hours to get to level 50. There are also no further rewards except for the level count. There are even articles written on the subject. Even in order to get to level 30 you'll have to spend almost exactly as much time in-game as it took you to get to 22. Those hours also take into account that you're actually very good at the game, that you play every time for the correct objectives, don't goof around and have a stable accuracy. Just move on when you feel you're not having fun anymore. I'd stick around at least for a few more levels because to be fair if you only unlocked everything you have still much to learn. Finally getting the proper grope on this game where you kill pubies with crazy shots and destroy an m-com by repeatedly ramming your helicopter into it kamikaze style makes it worth it.
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Palpek posted:Don't go for level 50. It may seem fun and games where you are but later levels take dramatically longer times to get. It's endless - if you like the game, play it for fun but don't go for the levels. It's NOT like CoD levelling, believe me. I had a crazy amount of fun with the game from levels 15 to 22 when it finally clicked for me, but yea, it would seem like a chore to grind to level 50 just for the sake of getting to 50, but I definitely intend on continuing to play the game to the detriment of my backlog.
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I'm really having fun with Two Worlds. Although, I'm playing on the easiest difficulty, and at times it's a bit *too* easy (respawning after death with no penalties just feels like cheating), but that's ok, and main thing is I'm enjoying it. Reminds me of a cross between Oblivion and Diablo (the inventory and level-up system) with a bit of Fable thrown in (the cheesiness). It's going to take me a while to finish it, though. I've been doing every side-quest I've come across, and have actually gone out of my way looking for side quests, trying to explore every inch of the terrain. Plus I'm tempted to start over with a mage once I beat it with my current character, a fighter-type. The games I seem to enjoy most are these open-world action RPGs, like the Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and this, where I can spend hours just exploring and dicking around. No wonder my backlog is building up so fast.
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Well, cross Doom 2 off the list. On the whole, I didn't like it as much as the first one; the greater enemy variety is nice but some of the levels are awful and the final boss is boring. I don't see myself returning to Doom at any point, but it was kind of a fun diversion. I'm still working my way through Fallout: New Vegas; what should I be playing in parallel with it? I'm contemplating finishing up Blade Kitten, or perhaps another old-school FPS like RtCW.
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Finally finished Dark Messiah of Might & Magic. My first attempt, more than a year ago, stranded about an hour into the game, when I got frustrated as hell with the wonky combat. This time around, I almost stopped playing at the same spot for the same reasons, but I pulled through, and I'm glad I did. This game has a really hosed up difficulty curve: It's genuinely hard at the start, when it's just you and a lovely sword against an army of thugs, but once you've got some skills under your belt (Pro-tip: Learn Heal as soon as possible), it becomes easier and easier. By the time I got to the big plot twist (which was totally unpredictable and not telegraphed at all), I was basically unstoppable, and I hauled around an inventory full of potions that I never had to use. That said, I had fun with it. It's low on brains and high on action, it does not drag on too long, and the rear end in a top hat physics are an awesome, if thoroughly wacky, selling point.
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