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Good-Natured Filth posted:If you look at the second post of the thread, there's a Backloggery utility linked there that ToxicFrog created, that does some automated creation of your Steam games into Backloggery. Was pretty helpful when I first setup my account, since I have a ludicrous number of games on Steam. The second post is terribly out of date and my old hack job of a script has been replaced with bltool. Use that instead (and file bug reports on github and/or post here if you have issues with it).
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Update Time! Beat: Dead Space 2 Was pretty fun, guns were still enjoyable. Had the usual flaws of horror games including a lack of horror. Story was eh worthy and the lack of bosses annoyed me a bit cause those were some of my favourite bits of DS1. Nonetheless definitely worth the $5 I paid for it Monaco Quite fun though I wish I had people to coop it with as that seems like it'd be a blast. Decent stealth mechanics and the French made it sound/feel awesome like a true caper movie. Shank Fun combat, don't really remember the story. I think it was a revenge story. However I did enjoy murdering people. I don't understand why I was told I needed a controller for it. Worked well with Keyboard and mouse. Metro: Last Light I played the Redux version and drat can this game ever look pretty. I quite enjoy these games and their mix of weird horror post-apocalyptic story with fun guns. I did however get the bad ending and will need to run through again to get the good one. Nulled: Disciples 2 I don't even know how I got this but it doesn't run and I don't really care too try getting it to run atm. Eets Does not work couldn't figure out why. Plain Sight Multiplayer only. Painkiller Overdose I think I'm past the stage in my life where non-DooM games of this style just aren't cutting it for me anymore. The levels take a while, guns never feel as nice and the enemy design can leave a lot to be desired. Maybe I just didn't give it enough time? Either way I don't care.  Non-Steam Games!Due to my lack of Wii U library on Backloggery I'm just going through the whole thing now. Beat: Legend of Zelda Wind Waker HD Great game and even better with a swift sail. I can't imagine not having that thing. I used a guide to help me achieve 100% in far less time than it should have taken and overall I regret nothing. New Super Mario Bros U Somewhat by the numbers in terms of NSMB games and nothing too special. That's not to say it wasn't a fun game and I didn't enjoy myself. Say what you will about Mario but his games are still fun. New Super Luigi U Created for the year of Luigi it features smaller harder levels with a more punishing clock to race. Fantastic game and playing as Luigi feels awesome as usual. Super Mario 3D World Fantastic expansion upon 3D Land with short self-contained levels that are all thematic in some way. Features a lot of "hidden" content that continues unlocking once you beat the "Bowser" world and continue on. The last unlockable level is a punishing one that took some time to complete. Also Cat suit Luigi is drat sexy. Cat suit toad is annoying as balls. The Cherry powerup is amazing and should be in everything. Fantasy Life Like crack for the 3DS if you like grindy mechanics in any way. Spent far too long on this game and its still not Complete. Sunk in about 80hrs by this point and there are still more non-story things to do. I'm considering it beaten cause I'm done the story though.
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I haven't seen it mentioned on here, but I've started using SteamCompletionist to track game progress. It doesn't have as many features as Backloggery, but it looks a lot nicer and you don't have to bother with importing your Steam library (which is the biggest reason why I moved away from Backloggery).
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Quick update: Nulled: Luftrausers - I'll probably get back to this later, but for now I had fun zooming around, unlocking all the parts and trying to beat the blimp. Race The Sun - A neat concept, but it didn't really hit me and I'm not too much of a score attack person. Now playing (Linux): I actually had a few games I wanted to try, but had some technical problems so I'll just try them on my windows laptop. But for now I settled with Hack 'n' Slash, as I remember hearing good things about it.
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MajorMarcus posted:I haven't seen it mentioned on here, but I've started using SteamCompletionist to track game progress. It doesn't have as many features as Backloggery, but it looks a lot nicer and you don't have to bother with importing your Steam library (which is the biggest reason why I moved away from Backloggery).
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MajorMarcus posted:I haven't seen it mentioned on here, but I've started using SteamCompletionist to track game progress. It doesn't have as many features as Backloggery, but it looks a lot nicer and you don't have to bother with importing your Steam library (which is the biggest reason why I moved away from Backloggery). Dammit, this site is not co-operating with work, which is weird, since like... nothing is blocked here at all ever.
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Deferred: Splinter Cell Conviction Can't be arsed to set up UPlay just to play this, since I have lots of good games to play that don't require DRM fuckery. Maybe I'll revisit it if UPlay is ever patched out. Completed: Karoshi & Karoshi 2.0 Short freeware puzzle games that are about an even mix between actual puzzles and directly loving with the player, both things that I enjoy. They don't start with S or T, but, well... I wanted something to play while Saints Row 4 installed, so I fired up Transformers: War for Cybertron. That caused Steam to want to checksum it again despite it not needing to do that for anything else I've moved to SSD, so I wanted something to play while that happened, so I tried Planetside 2. Planetside 2, despite already being fully downloaded through Steam, had to be downloaded again through the launcher to the tune of 5.6GB. I'm not sure if SOE hasn't been pushing updates to Steam or if they're just staggeringly incompetent. At that point I decided to just rummage through the big bucket of tiny freeware games.
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ToxicFrog posted:Planetside 2, despite already being fully downloaded through Steam, had to be downloaded again through the launcher to the tune of 5.6GB. I'm not sure if SOE hasn't been pushing updates to Steam or if they're just staggeringly incompetent.  Always an unpleasant surprise if you haven't run Planetside 2 in a while! The original Steam install has been buried by several GBs of patches by now, for sure.
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BEATEN: Trace Vector.  It's hard to imagine a game targeted more directly at me, but this is also the kind of game where you need lightning reflexes even with the time-slowing powers. It's Super Hexagon with a plot. It's awesome, but it's also hard as gently caress. Maybe 1% of players have beaten the game according to the achievement stats, and now I'm one of them.BEATEN: You Have to Win the Game. Freeware exploration metroidvania game with VVVVVV stylings, but faked PC/CGA 3-color graphics instead of fake C64. Since I just played some VVVVVV-like CGA games thanks to 3DRealms's reboot, I can say that this animates much faster than the CGA could manage, and their art design was better than the games from back then. So good show, there. Also good show using your 1080p display to actually simulate not only CRT curvature but the monitor's phosphor shadow-mask, and for making it clear that it was in fact a shadow mask and not an aperture grille. NEW GAMES: DROD 4, DROD RPG, and Hack 'n' Slash. To play on the laptop while visiting family etc. NULLED/I NEVER ASKED FOR THIS: Space Base DF-9. Mysteriously appeared in my inventory when I bought Hack 'n' Slash. I dunno. Heard it was garbage. NOW PLAYING: DROD 4. I have the worst impulse control ever. I'm almost done with it, even.
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I've failed you, but mostly I've failed myself I discovered GOG.com and now I have Master of Orion 1&2, Port Royale, Dungeon Keeper 2, and Alpha Centauri + Crossfire. I'm so ashamed.
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BEATEN (Not really but close enough): Crysis - Taking the advice of the thread, I gave up once the aliens showed up in force and the gameplay became much more of a nuisance. Marked it as Beaten on Backloggery, though, since I feel I got my money's worth and it's basically a different game at this point. BEATEN (For real this time): Crysis Warhead - A bit shorter than the original and the human enemies seem to be easier to kill, but I felt this one actually handled the transition to snow and aliens much better. No disorienting levels followed by a lame escort quest. You're still fighting Koreans as well as aliens, often with the help of teammates. Again, no escort quest, other than following a train (which was actually pretty fun). If the last third or so of the original game were more like this, I would have stuck with it. NULLED: Crysis 2 - Crysis: Call of Duty Edition. Now with no health-bar, no saving at will, no destructible buildings, and bottomless generic ammo crates! PASS!
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This backlog is taking much longer than I thought it would. PLAYED: Hammerwatch. It looked fun. I played it for an hour, and discovered that it's significantly less interesting than it appears. Ah well. COMPLETED: Descent I. This game was a major part of my childhood, but I never actually finished it before. After loving this game for nearly 20 years, the actual ending is very anti-climactic. Still one of the best games around, though. COMPLETED: Valiant Hearts: The Great War. Do you own this? If yes, play it immediately. If no, buy it immediately. Don't wait for a sale on this one, it's really worth full price. This is an absolute masterpiece. COMPLETED: Dragon Age II + DLC. I went into this with very low expectations. I was actually pleasantly surprised. It's really not up to the first one's standards, but it's okay enough. However, it really is the worst game Bioware's made since the godawful single-player in un-expanded Neverwinter Nights. Maybe I'm just easily amused though, since Origin tells me I played 103 hours of it anyway. The DLC: Exiled Prince isn't very good, because Sebastian is kinda boring and the sidequests aren't interesting either. Legacy is just a generic dungeon crawl, it's only notable feature is that it offers unique locations. Which is a far bigger deal in DAII than in other games. Mark of the Assassin is the only DLC I'd call "actually good". COMPLETED: Majesty II: Battles of Ardania. Another boring and poorly-balanced entry in the Majesty franchise. Why do I keep playing these awful games?  Up next: I've got 5 games already installed, so I guess I'll play those. Endless Space is one of them, and it's generally considered to be a good game.
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NULLED - Always Sometimes Monsters The overblown situations and caricatures just don't do it for me. Maybe I'll go back to it at some point, but for now I can't be bothered. NOW PLAYING - Uriel's Chasm This one goes out to Pink Freud, who was kind enough to gift me this along with a bunch of really good games. I look forward to the meta-narrative presented by two annoying teenagers!
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Now Playing - Paper Sorcerer Bought a bundle just for this game then promptly forgot about it for months. Started it last night and played for an hour without realizing it. Unique story, artwork looks great, classes are a nice divergence from normal dungeon crawlers. My only concern is while the combat system is really nice, starting at level 2 the battles start taking a long time due to enemy HP/Defense. I might have just run into a nasty pack (2 dwarf warriors and a defender I think). But it took almost as long as the first boss fight. This is on easy. Nulled - a whole bunch of stuff BoD/Cthulhu saves the world - just couldn't get into them. Maybe i'm to old for this type of rpg. Lone Survivor - required Adobe Air. Installed it, restarted steam, chrome etc. Still says Adobe Air not installed. Not going to spend time troubleshooting random games. Super Meat Boy - I just don't enjoy this style of game (n+, vvvvv etc). Sequence - liked the first few levels, then the lack of songs became apparent and the game got kinda grindy. Prime World Defenders - like someone else mentioned, eventually you hit a wall where you have to grind missions hoping for tower card drops. There are much better td's out there I can spend time on. Sanctum 2 - didn't like it as much as the first. Getting during the steam sale Defense Grid 2 - the original alerted me to the tower defense genre, something about automation and strategy really clicked for me. To try soon Metal Gear Rising Revengance - had this installed for months, haven't tried it. Bulletstorm - see above. Dark Souls - beat the first non intro boss (the one which you can run up the ladder) and got distracted. Divinity 2 Directors Cut - played when it was just dragon knight saga, was ok but didn't get much passed where you fight a spirit below the church. Seemed like a less fun two worlds.
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Nulled 6180 the moon: A decently fun puzzle platformer in b/w where I hit a level I just couldn't be bothered to continue trying to finish. The premise is simple: Move from left to right, and jump, but with the added gimmick of being able to jump/fall through the top/bottom. New planets adds new gameplay additions like "jump pads", stop in mid-motion etc. Angels of Fasaria 2D RPG: I started it, got through the initial dialog screens and then quit. RPG Maker JRPG if there ever was one. BasketBelle: Yeah, this is definitely not what you might think it is. A platformer where you need to bring the ball to the basket on each level to continue. Lots of puzzles, really cool soundtrack and a great art direction. I, Zombie: A reverse zombie game, where you have to infect the population while avoiding being wiped out. Not really my cup of tea. Thief Town: Very 8-bit-ish and I kinda looked forward to plying it., but alas, yet another indie multiplayer only game. I foresee a great future for this title! Completed Demon Hunter: Chronicles from Beyond: 4 hours of adventure-lite/Hidden Object relaxation. Now Playing Assassin's Creed: Unity: I don't care what people say - I'm having a blast playing this: One huge city, lots of different kinds of side missions, best environmental and crowd graphics I've ever seen, no current day crap except for being transported to alternate time zones like, WW2 Paris, Belle Epoque Paris and some other I haven't discovered yet. Yes it had a lovely launch, but having been patched several times now, it's a really awesome AC game, though there is of course nothing new, like Black Flag. Far Cry 4: A. loving. Blast. in co-op. SP itself is also pretty drat good with tons of side missions and a huge area to gently caress around in. Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey: Did not expect a clearly made-for-mobile game to be this fun.
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Beaten: Saints Row 4 Not completed, but I did get all the audio logs and beat all the activities and optional missions, and both story DLCs. Like SR3, this is not really More Saints Row 2. Unlike SR3, I'm ok with that! SR4 is a much better game. It still has some of the flaws of SR3, most notably the entire city being a same-y, bland mess, but the frame story of the characters knowing they're in a computer game lets them go a lot more crazy with it and makes up for its flaws. I had a blast with this. Welcome changes include the superpowers, the relegation of most activity-tutorials-disguised-as-missions to the optional side missions rather than the main storyline, and the callous disregard for the fourth wall. My wife and I are both convinced that the "real world" is just another layer of simulation, though. Now Playing: Caves of Qud (laptop game) The linux version is still a bit unstable, but I hardly ever survive long enough for it to be an issue. Now Playing: Kerbal Space Program  
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COMPLETE - Uriel's Chasm Not as bad as I expected, just dull. Is there a story to this game? Oh well at least beating it leads to... PLAYING - The Banner Saga Been looking forward to this forever! PLAYING - Quest for Infamy Even bad Quest for Glory should be pretty fun. PLAYING - Major Mayhem Looks like something that I'll try for a few hours, then null. Your bog standard bundle filler. NULLED - Strata Beat a few of the sets, but the puzzle mechanic isn't good enough to keep me going back (Kami was much nicer)
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Alright everyone be strong!  Steam sale is here.On that note I was not strong and I've already added a new game 
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Since I've been trying out the alpha of GOG's Galaxy client, I've been starting some of the games from that sites that I've had for a while. So far, just a bunch of... NULLED: Medal of Honor: Spearhead and Breakthrough - I played the original back in the day and liked it well enough, and at first I thought returning to it was like riding a bicycle. But I don't have much patience for bullshit these days. Spearhead was going fine until the second mission, where you have to make sure your squad doesn't get killed off. Unfortunately, the AI is horrible. Your squad-mates are horrible shots, will often just follow you instead of going after enemies that are clearly shooting at them, and will often wander into explosions and shoot you in the back. Plus this expansion has a bad habit of spawning enemies right behind you even though you just cleared out the area (I don't remember the original having that problem so much). I have almost zero tolerance for escort missions, so I'm passing on the rest of the expansion. Breakthrough was, again, going alright, but then for some reason the enemies stopped dropping ammo, and there were dozens of enemies. I ended up with only a couple of grenades and one squad-mate. I didn't feel like trying to inch my way through the level letting the stupid "friendly" AI take care of the enemies until I could get some ammo. Chaser - The first two levels were nothing but a series of identical hallways and enemies (I'll give it credit, though, at least the two level themes were different). Then the third level pulled out the only thing I hate more than escort missions: instant-lose stealth missions. Enemy spots you? Game over! I decided not to even bother with it. The game was incredibly bland up to that point anyways. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - I didn't really want to Null this one, it seemed like it could be a fun game. But holy crap, the controls are horrible (even when using a controller). And considering a good chunk of it is platforming (which I'm not that great at anyways), it would just be a pain to continue. Maybe I'll try again one of these days. Otherwise, I'm currently playing through Far Cry 2. Enjoying it, though I'm not fond of these huge open-world games putting the mission objectives all the way on the other side of the map. Might try switching up my play style a bit if start losing interest, and only play in small-ish chunks so I don't get burned out. Cerepol posted:Alright everyone be strong! 
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Chaser wasn't good when it was new, I can't imagine what it's like to play now. The only two things I remember about the game are some level where more than half of the doors were just ornamental and fake and that the end was the bad guy just saying HAHA THANKS YOU FOOL YOU'VE BEEN A PAWN ALL ALONG and he shoots your character in the head or something equally terrible. It was bad. e: GOOD LORD IT'S OVER NINE MINUTES LONG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmOTldrBsgQ
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Beat (again): Hitman: Blood Money - I decided to replay this on a higher difficulty after a few years. It's a good game but the last mission kinda stretched my suspension of disbelief to its limit. I blew up about eight Marines with a bomb hidden in a tourists briefcase and the rest of the White House seemed very nonplussed about an active shooter and exploding security checkpoints. Still fun though.
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Eh! Frank posted:Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - I didn't really want to Null this one, it seemed like it could be a fun game. But holy crap, the controls are horrible (even when using a controller). And considering a good chunk of it is platforming (which I'm not that great at anyways), it would just be a pain to continue. Maybe I'll try again one of these days. I haven't been to confessional in a while and I've played, beaten, and nulled many games since then, so I'll just chime in with the most recent stuff. BEATEN: Spec Ops: The Line I think I won this in a Steam Gifts giveaway a while back. I set it to easy mode as per the game's reputation of bullet spongy enemies and I'm not sorry I did, in fact I had a pretty good time playing the game. I'm not generally a fan of 3rd-person shooters, but the game had enough cool setpieces and decent progression with the enemy encounters to sustain me. The story was pretty hackneyed in a lot of ways, however, and I'm honestly kind of flabbergasted that it ends with you being Tyler Durden and people found that acceptable. It was barely a step above 'it was all a dream.' Despite that, I didn't feel like I wasted my time, which is surprising because I really disliked the hype it received and the pomposity of the developers regarding their own story, which I was mostly unmoved by. SORT OF BEATEN: NiGHTS into Dreams... This is probably the most initially confusing game I've played that was released by a major developer. Spatially the game is a 2D side-scroller for the most part, except it's just WIDE OPEN. The edge of the paths are usually off-screen somewhere and the rings/collectibles that are intended to guide you can often be sparsely placed or exist somewhere in the background's 3D space further in the level or in some bonus area, which isn't incredibly helpful. It's difficult to tell where the game is going to take you. In terms of the gameplay, it took me a little time to figure out what the hell I was doing- basically at the start of each level your character has a bunch of colored power orbs which let you get to the boss of the stage. However, at the beginning of every single stage you get attacked and mugged of your orbs by crazy critters who run off and put them in giant glass squid machines for some reason- like, you're actually controlling your character when this happens, it's not a cutscene even though it easily could be. In order to break the squid machines, I eventually figured out that you have to fly around through the levels (four in each stage, I think?) collecting blue balls which somehow attack the squid and do HP-damage when you ram into it (I think it has something like 20 HP). Often you have to fly through the entire level multiple times in order to collect enough balls, especially if you're slow, haven't bothered to memorize the stage, and don't know what the hell anything on the screen does, which I didn't and still don't really. I should mention that you start the stage as either a generic boy or girl character who can walk around the level in 3D game space, then run into the checkpoint podium and inhabit a fae, purple flying guy who only exists on a 2D plane and plays through the levels proper- the levels are timed, though, and if you run out of time you transform back into a kid and fall down to wherever you were flying over on the map and need to trudge through the level's ground geometry back to the checkpoint area. It's incredibly bizarre and once again superfluous, I honestly don't think I've seen anything like it in any other platformer. Nothing mechanical is really explained, except through vague and usually irrelevant vignettes on the loading screens after you've completed a stage, but like with most of Team Sonic's other games, NiGHTS seems to be predicated on utterly memorizing the stages and going through them as quickly as possible for maximum points. The problem with this is the stages are so big and indistinct that I can't imagine who would take the time to actually get good at this. Anyhow, I beat the six main stages & bosses, but I didn't C-rank all of them in order to unlock the last stage. Some of the bosses are similarly cryptic to beat- things like bouncing an inflated opera singer through breakable barriers in a hallway is simple enough to figure out, but there was one boss I fought, Reala, where I truly didn't understand how I beat it. I genuinely enjoyed NiGHTS, though, as a strange experiment in video games, and if nothing else it's a very bright, colorful platformer. BEATEN: Legend of Grimrock II Loved it. Categorically better than the first game, which was one of my favorite games of that year. Much wider diversity in its puzzles, aesthetic, dungeons and locations, enemy types and patterns, and the stats and leveling felt more finely tuned, with only a few minor pitfalls in terms of certain class superiority. Check it out!
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Bobby The Rookie posted:BEATEN: Spec Ops: The Line I just beat this and was going to do a writeup, but I'm just going to quote this instead because you said everything I was going to, but better than I was going to. Now I'm playing Crysis 2 and I'm on vacation for the next two weeks, so hopefully I can make some progress on my backlog.
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Beaten - Bulletstorm: decided to finally try it out yesterday and played through it in 2 sittings. Goddamn what a ride. All of the guns felt good to fire, and getting skillshot combos was really fun. Very linear but the set pieces were for the most part really cool to look at while going through levels. Currently playing Defense Grid 2 - really great sequel, the new customization options for towers/orbital lasers give some more strategic choice. Also you can build cheap blocker towers then build regular towers on top of them which can be buffed further. Metal Gear Rising:Revengance - think i'm also near the end of this, the only metal gear game I played was MGS2 when it first came out on ps2 and I didn't like it. So this was a welcome surprise.
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Still playing KSP on the desktop. Will probably continue playing KSP until I leave to visit family for the holidays. May continue playing it after the holidays, too. Game is crazy addictive and this time I will build that base on Laythe, dammit. Nulled: Gigantic Army Things I like: sidescrolling shooty platformy games with giant robots. Things I hate: games published in 2014, for PC (a platform where keyboard + mouse has been the dominant control scheme for longer than I have been alive), that desperately need mouse support, but lack it because they are blindly aping the necessarily terrible control scheme of the SNES games that the developers enjoyed as kids twenty years ago. No, ASTRO PORT, gently caress you. Now Playing: Caves of Qud (laptop game) Getting back into this with the Linux beta. I've finally cleared both Red Rock and the Rust Wells on one character! It's time to go get horribly murdered at Grit Gate. Not Playing: Defence Grid 2 Crashes at startup on the laptop. I'll try it on the desktop once KSP releases its death grip on me.Bobby The Rookie posted:BEATEN: Spec Ops: The Line I think the reason people like it (and SO:TL in general) is that really, most military shooters have main characters who are horribly broken psychopaths driven by bloodlust, deluding themselves into thinking that somehow they are making the world a better place, but SO:TL is the only one with the balls to actually admit it. That and the ending actually makes a lot of things, like the reactions of your squadmates, make more sense in retrospect, while a simple "ha ha none of that actually happened" ending wouldn't. ToxicFrog fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Dec 22, 2014 |
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"Beat": 100% Orange Juice. Bought this on a goon's eager recommendation but it turned out to be a bad lovely (but cheap) game. It's sort of like Mario Party except with anime waifu type characters and without any mini-games to speak of (just lots of dicerolling/other random elements). I played through a full round (and won) then decided it wasn't for me. There seems to be some kind of a story mode for each character but I pretty much got my fill after one complete game. Beat: Zeno Clash Pretty short and flawed in some ways but I only paid a dollar for it so it exceeded my expectations. The story was interesting and they kept it interesting by not giving away too many details all at once. The first-person brawling was generally pretty fun Beat: Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon Oh man, this game is a lot of fun. Hilarious and over the top storyline, solid stealth/gunplay, neat 80s-neon graphic style. Short, but sweet. I can see myself replaying this sometime. Beat: Civilization 4 I've played Civ II and Civ III long ago but Civ 4 has been sitting in my library for quite some time thanks to some Sid Meier bundle I bought long ago. Before playing it I turned up my nose at certain changes from Civ 3, but after giving it a try it was a nice experience. I suffered a bit on Warlord then coasted to a win at the Chieftain difficulty. Will likely replay it later on with the expansions enabled (they're also sitting in my library, but I elected to give the vanilla version a try first) Nulled: From Dust Liked the aesthetic but the gameplay/controls were just too clunky. Bought this years ago for the TF2 hat and even that wasn't any good. 
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NULLED - Major Mayhem Fun for 15 minutes, but no way I'm spending enough time on this to finish it. BEAT - The Forest Of Doom Found the needed items, saw most of the encounters, good enough for me. NOW PLAYING - Escape Goat Thanks to Westborn! Going to try and finish this before the sequel.
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BEATEN: Final Fantasy XIII - Uhh I have no excuses. I didn't even like the combat. I don't know what to say here. I'm sorry. BEATEN: Suikoden 1 - Compared to FF13, this was like a fuckin toll house cookie. Brisk, fast combat, a shitload of recruitable characters, an upgradable castle, all of that I'm into. Can't wait to play the sequel. BEATEN: 999 - Keeps you guessing until the end, and then the end, and then the end, and then the actual end. The final supernatural elements is where the plot kind of goes a little off the rails but, otherwise it's fun and the bad endings are just as entertaining. Apparently thinking your brother died gives you ravenous insatiable bloodlust. BEATEN: Blackwell Epiphany - Pretty cool finale to the series although to be honest I felt like the ending of the game was a forced manufactured way of ending the series. BEATEN: Heavy Rain - Uhh the game was fine until the plot twist undid all the work they had done up until that point. Was that just a random dart they threw at the wall to determine who the killer was? The story makes no sense in retrospect. What a dumb ending. BEATEN: Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - Perhaps a cheat because I only defeated Mom but technically it counts because I got credits and all. But there's still plenty more to do. NOW PLAYING: Magicians & Looters, Agonizing over the Steam Sale, SMT Devil Summoner 1, Trauma Center 2 UP NEXT: Sin & Punishment: Star Successor, Breath of Fire IV, Wild Arms, Trails in the Sky, Fract OSC
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Dec 23, 2014 07:47
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Quest For Glory II posted:BEATEN: Suikoden 1 - Compared to FF13, this was like a fuckin toll house cookie. Brisk, fast combat, a shitload of recruitable characters, an upgradable castle, all of that I'm into. Can't wait to play the sequel. You are in for a treat because the second Suikoden improves in every way on the first. The upgradable castle is in again and there is more to do (the cooking mini-game is good fun). It has a great soundtrack, too.
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Dec 23, 2014 09:57
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Quest For Glory II posted:BEATEN: Final Fantasy XIII - Uhh I have no excuses. I didn't even like the combat. I don't know what to say here. I'm sorry.UP NEXT: Sin & Punishment: Star Successor, Breath of Fire IV, Wild Arms, Trails in the Sky, Fract OSC Just think of all the games you could have been playing instead of Final Fantasy XIII. Sin & Punishment is kinda neat but boy is it a game short on content that probably sold about five copies.
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Dec 23, 2014 16:22
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Beat: Burnout Paradise Pretty neat racing game with some innovative mechanics and an open world, butthe recycling of missions and overall grindiness of the progression ("win 60 races") causes it to drag on for awhile. Maybe a better game to play in bits in pieces than for extended sessions. Beat: Gone Home Pretty underwhelming game overall. The gameplay mechanics were flat as a board and the story was kind of uninteresting too. Part of the problem was that the controls and framerate went pretty sluggish on my laptop, keeping me from getting too immersed. Beat: Shelter Another artsy game. Short and with low production values, but evokes well the feeling of caring for and protecting for badger cubs. Sometimes the gameplay felt a little rough, and a few cubs I lost for what felt like stupid reasons. Pretty interesting experience, but the ending didn't seem so satisfying (though I think I "got" it)
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I have been dealt a devastating blow by the forces of Christmas, between gift cards, outright gifts, and sales. I'd made small but measurable progress against the backlog, but all progress has been wiped out and now I'm backsliding slightly for the year. NEW GAMES: Costume Quest 2, Melody's Escape, Eryi's Action, A City Sleeps, Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons, Super Win the Game. That's one RPG, two rhythm games (one of which is also a shmup), and three platformers of questionable quality. BEATEN: DROD 4. This was written to be the new introduction to the series now that they actually know how to grade the difficulty of puzzles and get some pacing going. It's pretty drat smooth, and despite being something of a veteran at this point there were still some surprises waiting for me. BEATEN: Hack 'n' Slash. Lovely concept, unforgivably janky execution. The hacking you're doing here is basically which constants are being fed to the raw Lua bytecodes in the game scripts, and this is both annoyingly restrictive and terrifyingly broad. I managed to crash the game multiple times via changing apparently completely unrelated values, and of course those parts of the code aren't available for inspection. Combine this with several puzzles where what look like perfectly legitimate solutions end up not working for unstated reasons (Oh, so OPEN_AMOUNT has to be exactly 350, does it, we can't simply rip the door off its hinges entirely) and it's a recipe for headaches. IN PROGRESS: DROD RPG. Having some fun with this but it's one of those global optimization puzzles that make my head hurt. I'm still in Part 1 for now and I've basically been told that Part 2 will leave me feeling like I'm becoming senile early on. I guess we'll see. NULLED: Melody's Escape. For roughly the same reason Audiosurf is NULLed. IN PROGRESS: Super Win The Game. Oh man I take it all back about the "questionable quality" thing, this is loving adorable. Basically a cross between Knytt Stories and Zelda II, both of which own, and using your 1080p monitor to simulate a 20th century CRT. Seriously, I think it's individually rendering each phosphor.
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Dec 27, 2014 03:20
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Brothers is not a platformer and there is no question about its quality (that is to say it's really good).
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Dec 27, 2014 04:22
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BEAT - Escape Goat A really fun game, just like the sequel. One of these days I might go back and try to do all of the achievements. NOW PLAYING - Risk of Rain I remember hearing that most of the game-breaking bugs are now fixed, so decided to give it a shot. Edit: NULL - Hack n' Slash Brilliant idea, very shoddy execution. I was hoping for it to have much more of a story and be more transparent about the fact that you're changing code and how said code works. Now it's just pretty meh. NOW PLAYING - Bit Trip Runner 2 - Super Legend Something Other Gotta collect me some gold bars! Kuule hain nussivan fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Dec 28, 2014 |
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Dec 27, 2014 15:07
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Traveling for holidays gives me reasons to play my 3DS. Nulled - Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon: I got about halfway through the game but was overwhelmed with boredom. The way you have to replay the mansions several times in a row with minimal differences each time just got really tedious. Not nearly as good as the original. Completed - Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion: A spiritual successor to the Genesis game, this one is clearly geared towards kids. If it wasn't so short, I probably would've nulled it as well, since it also has a "replay each level" mechanic. 
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Dec 27, 2014 16:19
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I've been playing a lot of co-op games these past days, but last night I found time to finish a true classic. Finished - Rambo The Video Game A lovely mix of on-rails shooter and Quick Time Events, this fine game has everything you ever wanted: Janky Rambo! I did a quick summary of the story here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3687724&perpage=40&pagenumber=106#post439524357
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Dec 29, 2014 17:02
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Beat - Crysis 2. Shooting bits were fun, but any game that has checkpoint saves instead of manual saves is going to have one strike against it to start. I don't understand why these are around on God's Chosen Gaming System, but whatever. It was a fun game, graphics were pretty, shooting aliens and bad dudes was good, but I'd have a hard time recommending this just because of the loving checkpoint saves.
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Dec 31, 2014 17:56
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Null: Tomb Raider Anniversary [7] It reminds me of Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time, which is a pretty bad idea because it's also worse in every way. God drat that is some lovely combat. Null: Viscera Cleanup Detail: Shadow Warrior [6] I was thinking, as it loaded, "this is a cute concept, but I wonder how they're going to make a game about janitorial work not be mind-numbingly boring and repetitive?". Answer: they didn't. Complete: Vessel [7] A short but fun physics puzzle platformer. Unlike, say, Rochard, it manages to almost completely avoid the two bugbears of PPP games -- puzzles where you know how to solve them but can't platform well enough to carry out the solution, and puzzles where you know what the solution should be but can't get the physics engine to cooperate. That said, this is not a puzzle game about liquids; it is a puzzle game about golems that incidentally happen to be made out of liquids. So it's not quite what I was expecting. I enjoyed it, though, and the player character is a proper mad scientist, especially at the end. Now Playing: Strider Out of sequence, but it was a gift so it's allowed. I never played the original games, but I'm really enjoying this one so far, and I'm finding it a lot more open to exploration than I would expect from an "old-school" platformer. Now Playing: Unepic (Laptop Game) Apparently it has a linux version now, so I'm giving it another shot (on an easier difficulty). New Games: Broforce, Caves of Qud, DeadCore, Defence Grid 2, Desktop Dungeons, Dungeonmans, Hack & Slash, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Shantae: Risky's Revenge, Shovel Knight, Sonic All-Stars Racing, Sonic Generations, Spelunky, Strider Most of these are from the sale, either bought for myself or given to me as gifts, although a few are from earlier in the year; I haven't run bltool in months. Many of these will work well on my laptop, although Dungeonmans, Shantae, and Spelunky get to share The Hat Of Shame for being games that would work well on the laptop but have no linux version. Dungeonmans, at least, works in Wine. I also picked up the Mark of the Ninja: Special Edition upgrade, since I enjoyed the poo poo out of MotN and I'm a complete slut for developer commentary. So that's due for a replay in commentary mode sometime soon.
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I can see why you nulled Viscera Cleanup Detail, it is mind-numbing work but I think that's the point. I find the games strangely relaxing but hey different strokes.
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Dec 31, 2014 21:10
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