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Great, I got Terraria during the Steam sale, now I'm just about hooked on it. And it's not really a game that you "finish" either (yeah, I know there are bosses, but the bigger goal seems to be to explore and create), so it's using up time I could be putting towards completable games. Still playing through Mass Effect too, but starting to get annoyed with it again, mainly due to a really crappy cut scene during the mission when you bomb the baddie's science base and lose a crew member or two in the process. It's the cut scene right after you fight the guy. I got him down to zero health just about, barely taking any damage myself. Then the cut scene starts, for some reason I'm kneeling on the ground gasping and the baddie is walking up to me like I didn't just kick his rear end. Then something happens (somebody punches him?) and I escape/he escapes, I can't really tell what because of all the shaky cam and cutting around. I'm not usually bothered by cut scenes, but this one completely disregarded what happened before it, and was poorly set up/edited as well. How close am I to the end? If it's not much more, I'll just push through it real quick. But if I have a ways to go, I'm taking a break for something else.
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Eh! Frank posted:How close am I to the end? If it's not much more, I'll just push through it real quick. But if I have a ways to go, I'm taking a break for something else.
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Finally beat one of the few games in my backlog that isn't an indie/casual title. Beat the final installment of the STALKER series. Not one of my favorites but, at least vanilla, it's the most well constructed of the 3 (which isn't saying a lot). Now I won't feel so bad idling for hundreds of hours in Shadow of Chernobyl while I drown in several mods' gun porn. 
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Well on the plus side I set up backloggery and beat Fallout: New Vegas and Bastion in the last few days. I liked both of them quite a bit, but to be honest I think all of the Game of the Year level hype for Bastion is a bit overblown. It's a decent action game with light RPG elements and a cool narrative idea. I don't think it changed my life or anything but I definitely enjoyed the morning I spent going through it. I've also been working on Halo: Reach on Heroic on the 360, which is harder than I remember. Mostly due to the fact that a single grenade will kill you. I am like 1/3rd of the way through and am finding it frustrating and wishing I had just played it on normal. I suck at Halo apparently. As a negative I bought more games, including the XCom pack (which I wanted a lot) and Duke Nukem Forever and Homefront. I don't actually really have any interest in either of those last 2 games, but they were a grand total of $3.50 after amazon promo codes. So I guess now I've stooped to buying things I have zero interest in. Way to stay strong on not increasing the backlog! At least I hear Homefront is like 3 hours long. I can stomach that. Anyway, Here is my backloggery: 
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Slowly churning through all the games in my collection, trying to pick away at the single-level-at-a-time games as a change of pace from Skyrim and Arkham City. Just finished up the last 5 puzzles I had been skipping on Cogs, going to chip away at Orcs Must Die! next, got less than half of the levels to go.
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Completed Portal 2 by finally doing the recently coop dlc campaign, beat the singleplayer campaign of Battlefield 3, and beat Dead Space 1. The Portal 2 coop dlc campaign is ok, I mean it's just more coop levels. I recommend playing them if you've got a friend willing to play too, but you aren't missing much if you don't play it. The Battlefield 3 singleplayer campaign is basically like the intros the other games had (example) but now you're playing it and it has a story. I think it does a good job of having a cinematic feel, and the story is bearable. Though QTE were the main source of me dying, screw QTE. Recommended if you own BF3 already, but the real point of the game is multiplayer. Still need to try the coop missions. Dead Space 1... It's not really a horror game, because of the powerhouse Isaac and his boot is, but it's an interesting linear action shooter. The art style/direction is the best part with the industrial (but futuristic) theme and setting, and really the game just looks cool. Also how there is no ui, which adds to the immersion of the game. But fighting basically the same enemies throughout the entire game gets boring, I mean the regenerating mini boss dude you fight two times, why?! It felt like to me there should have been more unique enemies to the chapters to mix up the gameplay a bit. Also, all the jump scares were lame. I mean come on... Recommended for 3rd person action/shooter fans. 
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Man, after a torrent of Saints Row and Skyrim conquering, I boot up Shogun 2 and tried the tutorial, and then realized I don't know my rear end in a top hat from my elbow in combat. Good ole goons pointed out a great youtuber, and I decided to go back to Medieval Total War since I quit that game for the same reason as before. I lost four hours, like, by accident. I guess the Total War series is pretty good. Shogun 2 has really great visuals and I'm actually finding it hard to find time to load up StarCraft 2, which is basically a daily routine in my life now.
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I'm trying to push my way to the end of Puzzle Quest 2. I'm level 44 and in the Dark Dwarf Labratory, how close am I to finishing? IIRC, 50 is the max level, so I'm guessing pretty close. EDIT: Beat it, that's another game down. Too bad it was such a meh one. A Fancy 400 lbs fucked around with this message at 13:05 on Jan 8, 2012 |
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Over a week since I set up my Backloggery, and I only just cleared my first game off it: Sanctum and all its DLC. It's a good game, but it does get repetitive if you play it too much; a problem all Tower Defence games have. Now to start on Bastion. I don't know anything about it, but I've heard it's one of the best games of 2011. I'll have to start Half-Life II after that; the fact I've never actually played it makes me feel a bit of a failure as a PC gamer. 
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When it rains it pours, I guess: I've cleared the campaign in Dungeon Defenders on Medium (including the bonus mission), solved my way through "The End?" in Crayon Physics Deluxe, and hategasmed my way through Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. My "play off the walkthrough" thing turned out to be kind of a waste of time, except to notice that I had in fact blown my chance to win the game in, like, the third screen, and thus had to replay the whole game to that point. Happily I had noticed this while only about halfway through, and thus only had to run through several mazes again. Seriously, the game is at least 70% mazes and copy protection - "look stuff up in the Grail Diary that came with the game" is the solution to an awful lot of stuff, and a lot of the in-game clues are just pointers to that book. Steam does ship it as a PDF, at least - but it doesn't ship the one that includes the clues for the final puzzle. Thanks, walkthroughs! This continues to cement my opinion that the only LucasArts adventure worth a drat prior to Monkey Island was LOOM. All right, Backloggery, what should I play next? Planescape: Torment, you say. Well, it's true I've never played it, because I wasn't much into RPGs back in the day. I should probably do something about that. But shouldn't I also play something from Steam to keep myself cranking on that backlog? Preferably something that isn't a squintillion hours long? Trine, you say. OK, so be it.
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EightDeer posted:I'll have to start Half-Life II after that; the fact I've never actually played it makes me feel a bit of a failure as a PC gamer. Don't go for all achievements on your first playthrough unless you hate yourself. Most aren't that bad, but you will waste a shitload of time on Stay Off The Sand and Lambda Locator.
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I have Beaten the 3 Gundemonium Collection games: Gundemonium Recollection, Gundeadligne and Hittogata Happa. We'll ignore the first and last of the three were beaten on beginner mode and involved continuing/credit feeding.  Actually beat Gundeadligne on my first attempt without continuing on normal difficulty, so going in blind - I don't know if that means it's just easier than the other two or if I got real lucky. I'll keep playing them because they're fun and more than fulfill my daily allowance of Animes, but gently caress trying to Complete them - I have no idea how anyone could do some of the challenges/requirements they have. I am not good at bullet hell.
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I've finished a whole bunch of games since my last post: Jamestown, Blackwell Covergence and Blackwell Unbound, Alice: Madness Returns, Hard Reset, Cargo!, and Capsized. I enjoyed them all for the most part (with the possible exception of Capsized, that got relatively boring and repetitive by the end). Jamestown was the standout of the lot. Very, very fun, appropriately challenging, and a killer soundtrack. I also am considering myself completely done with New Vegas now that I've seen most of the endings and finished all the DLC. Next up, I'm considering finally finishing the drat Witcher (I checked my post history and I think I've said this same thing in three older posts but never did it!). It eternally sits mocking me, taking up space on my hard drive. However, I checked today and I haven't played the game since September of 2010.  I don't much want to start over, seeing as how it would be my third go-round and I remember enough of the prologue to make it tedious to do again. Will anyone help to point out the major stuff I should know if I think my last save is somewhere in mid-to-late chapter 2? All I remember of chapter two is a swamp. I'm sort of afraid to consult a wiki and spoil myself.
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Just beat Orcs Must Die. An action tower defense game that is insanely fun. I highly recommend playing it.
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Well, um... I think my newly created Backloggery account really highlights the fact that I have a problem.  
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Alucard posted:Well poo poo, I bought Arkham City and have started that. Everything else will have to take a backseat for a while... It's a pretty fast game -- at least for me it was. I beat it in two sittings, but I was pretty engrossed by it too so time flew.
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Just beat Orcs Must Die!, a great little game that is awesome to mess around in while watching football or something else on the TV. I think I spammed the Hell out of the wall arrows though to the point that I was reliant on them too much.
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Decided on The Last Remnant for my next game. I loved my last attempt that I ended up losing the save game for in a hard drive accident, and it's pretty long, so I'm going to try to get it out of the way before classes start again on the 17th.
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Well, after Christmas I'm joining the ranks of you backloggers too. http://backloggery.com/1kx40ibo5k1n http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197963507751
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Decided on The Last Remnant for my next game. I loved my last attempt that I ended up losing the save game for in a hard drive accident, and it's pretty long, so I'm going to try to get it out of the way before classes start again on the 17th. I remember playing this briefly on the 360. Wasn't the PC version much better for some reason?
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Vrikkian posted:I remember playing this briefly on the 360. Wasn't the PC version much better for some reason? The PC version is better for a lot of reasons.
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Yeah, it was completely retuned. Sad that SE finally released a good PC port of one of their jRPGs and they're being stupid as poo poo with the pricing.
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I am do close to finished Terraria! I just finished The Destroyer twice do tomorrow I've just got to stomp Skeleton Prime and the twins, finish my full Hallowed set and call this sucker Complete!
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Well, finished off Deus Ex: Human Revolution today. Overall, a lot of fun - it manages to feel like Deus Ex without just being a rehash of it. It's clear that with a lot of the areas they were trying to evoke the atmosphere of places in DX1 - Sarif, Detroit, Hengsha, and Panchaea have obvious parallels to UNATCO, Hell's Kitchen, Hong Kong, and the underwater lab, for example - but they accomplished this without me ever feeling like I'd seen this all before and it was now boring, so good on them. I have two big complaints about the game, though. The first is that the game - not the characters within it, but the game mechanics - give you a huge incentive to take the stealthy, nonlethal approach. Nonlethal takedowns reward several times as much XP as kills, nonlethal melee takedowns are fast and silent (whereas lethal ones generate huge amounts of noise), and there's a hefty XP bonus for ghosting an area, too. I much preferred the DX1 approach of not giving you an in-game incentive either way, and leaving it between you and your conscience how much killing you want to do. The second is that Adam Jensen is dumb as a sack of bricks. Oh sure, he can be fairly smart in the conversations you control, but many of the conversations and cutscenes you don't rely heavily on him being completely oblivious, often to things that you've read in emails or heard in conversation five minutes ago. Every major revelation that was a complete shock to Jensen is either heavily implied or outright stated multiple times leading up to it, which just makes it frustrating when Jensen just doesn't get it. I'm honestly not sure whether they expect these to be shocking revelations to the player, too (in which case this is simply insulting), or whether they really are trying to write Jensen as a drooling moron (in which case they're terribly inconsistent). I do not remember JC Denton being nearly this bad. Wezlar posted:I am do close to finished Terraria! I just finished The Destroyer twice do tomorrow I've just got to stomp Skeleton Prime and the twins, finish my full Hallowed set and call this sucker Complete! Until patch 1.2, anyways 
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Yeah, it was completely retuned. Sad that SE finally released a good PC port of one of their jRPGs and they're being stupid as poo poo with the pricing. What really gets me is that the price of TLR on Steam went up $10 a couple months ago, which makes it basically the same price as if it were a brand-new game. It also made the publisher discount it got during the winter sale practically non-existent. Luckily, you can just get a boxed copy off Amazon for ~$20 and use the activation key in there.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Yeah, it was completely retuned. Sad that SE finally released a good PC port of one of their jRPGs and they're being stupid as poo poo with the pricing. They aren't being stupid as poo poo with their pricing, they're raising the price to match the cartridge prices for SNES games that are like, 20 years old! I love how it was down to what, like 29.99 at one point? Then up to 39.99, then 49.99 after christmas ended. Gotta love Square
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nickhimself posted:They aren't being stupid as poo poo with their pricing, they're raising the price to match the cartridge prices for SNES games that are like, 20 years old! It was normally $39.99 from what I remember. The pricing chart on SteamPrices shows it going up to $49.99 sometime shortly before the winter sale. It's gone as low as $10 twice, once during the summer sale and again as a daily.
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Oh wow. It never even got to 29.99? Those idiots would sell so many more copies if they came off of their bad pricing structure.
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Finished VVVVVV the other night. Don't know whether to cry tears of happiness or frustration. Working on Serious Sam First and Second encounters now.
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blackhydra866 posted:Finished VVVVVV the other night. Don't know whether to cry tears of happiness or frustration.
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Colon V posted:Depends on if you beat Veni, Vidi, Vici or not. Don't forget Prize for the Reckless. In some ways I think it's a harder trinket.
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Colon V posted:Depends on if you beat Veni, Vidi, Vici or not. gently caress you for reminding me of that. That was just pure bullshit.
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And BAM there goes Jamestown! I actually beat it earlier in the sense of "killed the final boss" - even got the achievement for it - but I died at the same instant, so I got a game over rather than the ending screen. All in all, a pretty fun and good-looking shmup. I liked the Vaunt mechanic, too. On the other hand, the vast majority of enemies feel like they take way too long to die; it feels like I'm shooting spitballs most of the time.
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quiggy posted:Don't forget Prize for the Reckless. In some ways I think it's a harder trinket. I loved Prize for the Reckless. It was Edge Games that really drove me mad. Spoily discussion of Prize for the Reckless and Veni Vidi Vici to follow, with a minor spoiler for I Wanna Be The Guy. Alternately, you may derive what schadenfreude you can from my horrible fate the first time I attempted Veni Vidi Vici. IWBTG has a particular gag where you see a save point but SURPRISE the save point is a monster and so touching it kills you. VVVVVV, meanwhile, has Prize for the Reckless, in which save points are again the enemy, but it does it without once being deceptive about anything in the game or its mechanics. Herein, the difference between masocore games and well-designed challenges. Veni Vidi Vici did much less for me because at the end of the day it's just another 'make this input precisely' like Guitar Hero.
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Have been going through my backlog completing games I got reasonably close to finishing but gave up. Over the last few days I knocked off ... Braid - I'll be honest I needed to use a guide for about half the puzzles from world 4 onwards. The puzzles are clever but quite inconsistent near the end, I'm not sure I enjoyed this as much as I thought I would with the reviews. Zombie Shooter 2 - Lord I hated the majority of this game, though in the last few missions I bought a mechwarrior suit and a rocket launcher which spams rockets like machine gun bullets and ran through the final bit of the game (which was fun). Time Gentlemen, Please! - Preferred Ben There Dan that, this one had too much running around with some pretty obscure puzzles. The time machine mechanic was really good though and the humour excellent as with the first game. Steel Storm; Burning Retribution - Worst named game on steam and the worst story I have ever seen as well to boot. Completed this out of masochism only, I think I'm going to give up on twin stick shooters, the only one I enjoyed was Beat Hazard :/ Serious Sam HD: First Encounter - I actually like the pacing in this and the difficulty is good when you realise you need to be clever with ammunition and weapon choice. Will give a mention to Fractal which I am playing around with currently. I really actually quite like this, it can be a bit random when chaining things around (like peggle really) but is beautifully presented and addictive. It sort of seeps into your mind and I find myself thinking about solutions when in bed which I haven't had since Spacechem.
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I haven't updated in a long time, and my backloggery is now completely out of date. All the indie bundles and Steam sales have exploded my backlog, and I think I may have added nearly 40 games in the last six months. Anyway, here are the games I've been playing in the last couple of months: Hydrophobia: This game plays like a three hour segment of a larger, uncompleted game. The water mechanic is well implemented and is pretty (although the water seems a little "light" to me, it doesn't exert the kind of force you'd expect). The hand held PDA device also adds an interesting game mechanic, allowing you to remotely hack doors and cameras, and "chain" together hacks. However, that's about it for positives. The plot is nonsensical, major parts of it are missing. When it is explained, it's laughable because your enemies are Luddites - murderous Luddites that will use nanobots to destroy the world. The shooting mechanics are blah, and the game ends so abruptly you know they ran out of money in development. Alice: Madness Returns: An excellent jumping/platforming game with gorgeous visuals. The combat is also good, with a decent variety of weapons and moves to choose from. However, the game has two big problems. First, the boss fights are weak and second, the levels are far too long. It feels like the developers were trying to pad the amount of gameplay, resulting in repetitive fights and pointless puzzles. It would have been better if the game length was cut by 1/3, just to keep everything fresh. Play it on easy to avoid most of the hassle, and it is definitely worth your time for the visuals alone. Bastion: A great game, the dynamic narration never got old throughout my playtime. My only complaint would be a lack of variety in enemy types, but the variety of weapons and power-ups more than compensate. Limbo: This is a moody puzzle platformer that is good but not fantastic. The interesting puzzles run out about 2/3 of the way in, and are replaced by simpler challenges that instead rely on split-second timing. At three hours, the length is just right, and it is worth picking up on sale. Trauma: An interactive slide show. It managed to keep my interest for the hour it took to beat it, but I'm glad I got it in a cheap indie bundle. it's definitely not worth picking up on its own. A.R.E.S.: A terrible Mega Man type action game. Very little variety in either enemies or power-ups, the best thing about it is that it's short, and the boss fights were decent. Red Faction: Armageddon: I'm of two minds about this game. The plot and voice acting are straight out of the bargain bin: Insectoids invade Mars! You're a hardend but disillusioned veteran who is man's only hope! You have a black army sidekick and a stupid love interest and guess what happens to them? On the other hand, this game features one of the best weapons in years: the magnet gun. Shoot magnets on Point A and Point B, and they'll collide together in the most satisfying way. Everything but the bare dirt is destructible, so you can shoot enemies into cavern ceilings or collapse buildings on them. You also get the giant gently caress-off power hammer and det charges, along with the more standard FPS weapons, so despite the mediocre setting, the actual gameplay is great fun. Bulletstorm: Holy poo poo why didn't I buy this game earlier? Great weapon variety, awesome set pieces and truly beautiful scenery, combined with a self-aware dirty humor makes for an excellent gaming experience. Although I haven't played it, many people say this is what they hoped Duke Nukem Forever would be. I have only minor quibbles. First, the game is too short (I want more). Second, I won't get more because the game sold poorly and so there will probably be no sequel (which the game's cliffhanger ending sets up). Third, you can only carry three guns at a time (a victim of the game's console-focused development).
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Just completed Faerie Solitaire. There are so many god drat levels in this game it's not even funny. There are eight chapters, each chapter is like 4 levels I think. Each level has 9 stages. I'm only missing a couple achievements in it, and playing it at work on my tablet gives me the time to complete those if I want. It could be my first 100% completion game. If this game was Chainsaw Death Hand Punch Time Solitaire it would be much cooler to talk about, but outside of the sissy theme, it's a really, really fun game. Total hours played: 12 jesus 
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Really loving my playthrough of The Last Remnant. One downside. It's long as gently caress if you do sidequests, but if you don't do sidequests, you can literally miss about 3/4 of the content in the game. The battle system is probably up there with Ogre Battle as some of the best jRPG combat out there though, and the art direction varies between awesome and batshit insane but awesome. )Minor early spoilers , but awesome/terrible fashion: http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/630735824417458355/928343A3F06F19D3D2AAD61B371EADF6CFB85533/(I need that coat) This city is completely uniquely modeled. It's a side area of a side area of a side area of a side area. A Fancy 400 lbs fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Jan 11, 2012 |
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I regret not getting The Last Remnant when it hit $10 or something, it seems really cool. Oh well, it's not like I don't have enough RPGs to play through!  In other news, another one off the backlog! I finally seated down with a friend and beat Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light in co-op. Overall, it's a great game that plays exceptionally well with a 360 controller. I really enjoyed the different spin on a Tomb Raider title and the puzzles, while really easy, were cool to do anyway. It's short, though — I finished with ~4 hours. Now to finish Heavy Rain, which I'm nearing the end (currently at chapter 29, it seems like there are 39).
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