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Didn't do too great with the GOG sale, I bought six games. I kinda stuck to my "wishlist only" goal; there were two or three games on my list that I didn't really want right now, but I found two or three games that I had never added to my wishlist that I wanted, so it pretty much evened out, I think. One of the games I got was Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. I had fun with the first one, so I went ahead and started this one to see if I can get it out of the way real quick. It's even better than the first, in my opinion, with more weapons and enemies, and I love some of the physics puzzles/traps, especially in I think it was the fifth level (the cylinder room where you can walk along the walls and ceiling pretty much fried my brain). I'm past the first boss fight, so judging by the in-between-levels maps, I believe I'm over a third of the way done. I'm also finally at the point in Mass Effect where I'm captain of my own ship and can actually leave the planet, and I'm starting to get into it more. And I also installed Alien Nations and started the tutorials since I was tired of seeing it at the top of my unplayed list on the backloggery. Probably won't play it much until I finish up Serious Sam though, don't think I want to try juggling three games at once.
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Got around to starting Blocks That Matter today. It's generally fun but I feel like the lack of rewind feature, or at least a couple of checkpoints for the big levels, is gradually eroding my patience and I'm not sure if I can stand redoing the same bits over and over again because I hosed up at the end of the level anymore. I'll give it a few more goes but I fear the absence of this one feature will pretty much kill this game for me soon enough. Otherwise I've recently finished Limbo, Nimbus, Gemini Rue, The Binding of Isaac and the Portal 2 singleplayer, all of which I really enjoyed. Portal 2 was even better than I thought it could be. Not sure what next if I do give up on BTM. New Vegas is waiting but I feel the upcoming Christmas sale might distract me too much to devote my full attention to it, so I'll probably wait till January. I also have Sanctum and Fate of the World but am not really interested in either at the moment. Maybe I'll go back to Isaac, or else cave and buy the recent Indie Royale bundle for the Blackwell Trilogy.
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Dec 14, 2011 23:33
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VisAbsoluta posted:So, after my Borderlands fiasco, I finally beat Terraria today, ~45 hours in! Woah, wait. Terraria can be beat?? I was under the impression it was 2D Minecraft with no real goal to it. If it can be beat I should probably pick it back up.
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Mr Right posted:Woah, wait. Terraria can be beat?? I was under the impression it was 2D Minecraft with no real goal to it. If it can be beat I should probably pick it back up. Welp, you've got bosses that you can summon, so when you defeat the last one, I consider the game beaten, even if there's no ending per se. 
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Dec 15, 2011 01:00
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Well it certainly sounds complete once that's done. Good games remain open to roam after the main goal is complete anyway so thanks, I'll need to pick that back up. VVV I never knew this either which is why I stopped playing Minecraft. Where have I been?? Mr Right fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Dec 15, 2011 |
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Dec 15, 2011 02:31
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Heck, even Minecraft has an ending now. Minecraft, which is even less RPG-esque than Terraria.
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Dec 15, 2011 02:34
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I think once you get to hard mode and kill all the bosses in Terraria you can put it down as "beaten". Granted, that's probably going to take you 50+ hours.
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Well I finally finished Dragon age and what a relief. Don't get me wrong it is a pretty good game it's just very, very long and feels like one giant fetch quest. Are most Bioware games pretty similar in story and combat? A friend keeps telling me to play Baldur's Gate 2 but if it's like Dragon Age then I'm really not sure I'm up to it.
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Dec 15, 2011 22:23
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Red_Fred posted:Well I finally finished Dragon age and what a relief. Don't get me wrong it is a pretty good game it's just very, very long and feels like one giant fetch quest. Dragon Age is like the Infinity Engine games with training wheels. BG2, especially is a much more diverse and complex game. I'd highly recommend playing BG1 with Tutu installed before BG2, though.
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Devil Wears Wings posted:Dragon Age is like the Infinity Engine games with training wheels. BG2, especially is a much more diverse and complex game. Well my usual RPG comparison is to Ultima VII: TBG so with that regard DA didn't do very well as the world was relatively dead. But I guess comparing open-ended to non-open-ended isn't that fair.
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Red_Fred posted:Are most Bioware games pretty similar in story and combat? A friend keeps telling me to play Baldur's Gate 2 but if it's like Dragon Age then I'm really not sure I'm up to it. Mass Effect's combat is totally different; it's closer to third-person shooter than standard RPG (though it honestly isn't that great of one if you treat it like that).
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I busted the CPU on my gaming PC because I'm a dipshit so instead of putting in serious Skyrim time over the winter break like I planned, I left my busted rear end computer at my apartment in VA and installed Steam on the family computer that has Vista (ugh) and integrated graphics. So nothing remotely new or even 3d for me. It's a good opportunity to burn through some lo-fi games I tend to overlook. First one I'm playing is Gemini Rue. It's pretty interesting so far. Other stuff I'm thinking of installing is the two double packs I have (BoD/CStW and BTDT/TGP) and LIMBO.
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Devil Wears Wings posted:Blue Shift is pretty poo poo, especially if you hated Opposing Force. OF is generally considered the "good" Gearbox Half-Life expansion, while Blue Shift is really just going through the motions. Don't listen to this guy. Blue shift is the best paced of the three and it lacks lame final boss syndrome. It's a bit short compared to the others but beyond that it's arguably better.
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The Goddess of Explosions has been kind to me this week: I finished Crusader: No Remorse (very good, still holds up, and even bathroom fixtures explode into giant fireballs when you shoot them) and Raptor: Call of the Shadows (a meh scrolling shooter that somehow manages to make everything exploding be annoying and boring. Tyrian 2000 is better and free). It's high time I got around to playing Bastion.
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I just beat The Blackwell Legacy in two sittings. Took me three hours, but it is a pretty cool, little adventure game, even if kinda amateurish. I recommend it to anyone who likes old point and click titles, specially at this price. Definitely looking forward to the next three games of the series. Also, big ending spoiler: http://i.imgur.com/flacf.jpg  Next up: Orcs Must Die! + DLC, which were gently gifted by goon patron Kragger99. 
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Dec 18, 2011 01:24
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VisAbsoluta posted:specially at this price Wrong link there, buddy. Three hours for all the episodes? Uh, I think I'll move it up on the backlog schedule.
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Dec 18, 2011 01:27
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Whoops, so many bundles, so little links! Anyway, it was three hours for the first episode, I don't actually know if they get longer later.
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Which would be better for beating over a month long break: Divinity II: DKS, Two Worlds II or Risen?
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I have way too many Steam games unplayed.  It's time I fix that! I made an excel file of all my steam games with an assigned number and I'll choose one at random. I do have exceptions that if the game is a sequel another game I won but have yet played, I'll reroll. Currently I was playing Dead Space before the Terraria patch distracted me. I'll finish that then movie onto my first selected game, Trine! 
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12-17-11(B) Beat: SpaceChem: 63 Corvi Mission (Steam) Now the rest of the game 
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Which would be better for beating over a month long break: Divinity II: DKS, Two Worlds II or Risen? Having only played DKS I'd recommend it. A really awesome RPG. Some tips/ things to know: mindread everyone, the start of the game is pretty hard - just kite enemies with the bow and then finish them off and the dragon parts are a little tedious. Overall, definitely worth playing. SmokinDan fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Dec 18, 2011 |
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nickhimself posted:If I make a Toxx in this thread, will I be held liable for its completion or do I need like a separate thread or something? I'm not aware of any rules that you need a special thread. Toxx away, I'm excited. (I bet you're going to say that you won't buy a single game over the sale. Ha!)
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Chinook posted:I'm not aware of any rules that you need a special thread. Toxx away, I'm excited. god dammit, you're right.  I will put my account up for perma-ban if after the holiday sale ends I make a single purchase prior to finishing 5 games in my backlog. Receiving gifts does not have any impact on this toxx. I'll post screenshots of the end of the game, total time played, or something showing that I finished it without any extreme doubt arising.
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Waffleopolis posted:I have way too many Steam games unplayed. Finished Bastion yesterday. I think it was a little overhyped, but still a really good game, and the presentation and audio were fantastic. I appreciate the fact the game was just created to do unique things and it worked. Going back in for a NG+ run for sure.
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It's a pretty great game. I'm looking forward to doing a pantheon run over break. Also, quitting TF2 has done wonders for my game completion. Since doing that I've finished Assassin's Creed II, Arkham City, Skyrim, Darksiders, Cave Story +, and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.
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SmokinDan posted:Having only played DKS I'd recommend it. A really awesome RPG. Some tips/ things to know: mindread everyone, the start of the game is pretty hard - just kite enemies with the bow and then finish them off and the dragon parts are a little tedious. I ended up using a random number gen and chose Risen, but that'll be second, thanks. As for what's helped me start finishing games, definitely the ADHD meds.
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Don't forget to post a report, I'm curious whether the game is any good or not.
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Darksiders and Jamestown finished! I had almost put Jamestown completely out of my mind but I saw it come up as having an achievement that might be related to the Steam Christmas sale so I thought I would install it and try it out - turns out it's super fun and I have been missing out for months! I'm finding a lot of really fun games that I own but hadn't tried out before these new achievements came along, and I'm hoping to finish a couple now that I actually have them installed.
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Finished Serious Sam: The Second Encounter last night. It's lots of fun, but I feel like I shouldn't be enjoying it as much as I do. I mean, Painkiller has the same "enter area, fill area with wave after wave of monsters, kill all monsters, move on to next area" gameplay, yet I *hated* that game and couldn't get past three or four levels. Granted, SS has much more variety (three levels in to Painkiller, I had all of two weapons and only encountered four or five enemies; same point in SS I had at least five or six weapons and probably a dozen enemies), but when I think about it, I realize I actually hate at least half the monsters (the worst being the skeletons, which of course seem to show up more than the others). Maybe it's the weapon variety. I was actually afraid of playing The Second Encounter and hating it. I liked the first one, but I was wondering if that was just nostalgia; I'd played it at a LAN party in high school along with five or six other guys on the hardest difficulty, which was a blast. I didn't have any such memories of the second one, but still enjoyed it. Then again, the gameplay is pretty much exactly the same, just different setting and a few more weapons and monsters. Oh well, whatever, I enjoyed it and finished it, time to move on. I've continued working on Mass Effect. My only real complaint so far is what's with all the elevators? You'd think with all the technology, they'd be able to come up with elevators that don't take forever. And then they go and place them everywhere. Bit annoying. And the ground vehicle controls like poo poo with KB+M, I need to try using a controller.
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Eh! Frank posted:My only real complaint so far is what's with all the elevators? You'd think with all the technology, they'd be able to come up with elevators that don't take forever. And then they go and place them everywhere. Bit annoying. Those are the loading screens.
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Chinook posted:Those are the loading screens.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:It's not up for debate, they're the loading screens. Your computer just sucks apparently.
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First Impressions of Risen: Risen is a child of the venerable "Here's how you attack. Alright, off you go then, good luck." school of wRPGs. Thankfully, unlike it's predecessors the Gothic series, everything else seems fairly intuitive. Combat is simple, middle click draws your weapon, left click attacks, holding right click blocks. You can block with a weapon or a shield, which is good since enemies hit hard. Most enemies go down in just a few hits, but they can take you down in just a few hits too. Timing is fairly important because of this. The main quirk the gameplay has is that you can't interact with anything in the environment while your weapon is drawn. While this makes sense from a "You're not going to pick healing plants while a wolf is attacking you standpoint", it can get annoying while exploring. Graphically, it's nothing amazing from an engine standpoint, but it has pretty good art direction. Everything blends pretty naturally, while still attracting your eyes to items you can interact with. The weakest point is definitely the lighting. It and the shadows seem a bit too solid for me. Also, the UI is decidedly low res. It's obviously upscaled from a single source set of graphics. Overall, while there's nothing that makes you go "Wow, that's awesome!", there's nothing that ever pulls you out either, and it's always at least pleasant to look at. Soundwise, there's not much to say. The voice acting is decent enough. It's certainly much better than your standard EuroRPG English dub, but it's nothing special. The music is standard fantasy fare. It never gets overly "epic" like RPG sountracks tend to, so that's a plus in my book, but there's nothing really memorable about it. Sound effects seem okay so far. I'm not far enough in to make any comments on the plot. Here's some screen shots: Cooking: Inside a house(good illustration of what I mean with shadows/lighting): Combat:
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I finished Skyrim this morning. Very proud of myself =]
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Tortolia posted:Finished Bastion yesterday. I think it was a little overhyped, but still a really good game, and the presentation and audio were fantastic. I appreciate the fact the game was just created to do unique things and it worked. Going back in for a NG+ run for sure. Hey, I also finished Bastion yesterday. This reaction pretty much sums it up for me, though it perhaps felt less unique because I'd just finished Crusader. I was a little ambivalent about the narrative (as opposed to the excellent gameplay) utility of the narrator gimmick, right up until the point where he doesn't know what's going on anymore and starts guessing. Guessing drastically wrong, as it happens. On the GOG side, I have been plugging away at Rayman Forever for reasons even I don't know. I've started playing off walkthroughs to deal with the scavenger hunt for invisible objects  and this is also cluing me in to the parts the walkthrough guys think are easy or hard.For reasons I don't know but now am very curious about, my reactions to nearly all the difficulty warnings or "now you can relax because you just do this" stuff is completely backwards for me. The last non-boss stage of Picture City actually had a warning that this was the level that brickwalled most players or led to destroyed controllers/game systems, and I beat it, without hints or maps or anything, and with two-thirds of the invisible scavenger hunt complete, burning maybe four or five lives. Then the boss, which was peremptorily dismissed with, basically, "just shoot it in the face", took me at least 40 tries. I'm still not sure why Michel Ancel became a Famous Game Designer after this, but I at least could see Famous Art Director. ... I also now have no Steam games on my Now Playing list. Let's see what the Fortune Cookie says... Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.  Maybe I'll play that on vacation when I only have a Mac, it works there.nickhimself posted:Hey, welcome to Steam Anonymous. Your attitude is admirably hardcore - this is the first Toxx in the thread, I think. A few thoughts on your challenge:
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I just bought over $50 of games off GOG. What is wrong with me?
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BeanBandit posted:I just bought over $50 of games off GOG. What's wrong with yo uis that you're not in the GOG anonymous thread. 
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