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Doctor Goat
Jan 22, 2005

Where does it hurt?
rules:
- play past the tutorial and pretend it didn't happen unless it was super rad like saint's row the third's so you don't get bored before finishing it like most people who start games do

i'm playing FEAR 2 and it has had one really good jump scare that was just alma casually standing behind me somewhere where it was a natural instinct to back up and turn around. gunplay is pretty good but everyone uses submachine guns. dudes take like 3 headshots to take down with the SMG but sometimes there is a dude running around with a nuclear flamethrower (?!) and you can shoot him so hard he explodes in half

the atmosphere is pretty good but alma is not done all that well and it would have been nice if she had turned out to not be evil as hell but still creepy as gently caress. i was gonna say friendly but she turned out to be a bit too friendly from what I remember about Fear 3. alma is also like, around so often it's like an escort quest with an invisible friend

the controls are wonky as poo poo and unpleasant

verdict: probably not gonna keep playing

edit: dang, i forgot my mandatory poll AND a tag

Doctor Goat fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Jul 13, 2014

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Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
no joke I got dota 2

Action Tortoise
Feb 18, 2012

A wolf howls.
I know how he feels.
gently caress it when I get back home I'll reinstall homefront and write up a trip report.

Doctor Goat
Jan 22, 2005

Where does it hurt?
you don't even have to use the randomizer just go "hmm I've been meaning to play this" and do it

randomizer is handy though

http://www.moonshotsoftware.org/SteamR/index.php?Player1=&Player2=&Player3=&Player4=&num=1

Doctor Goat
Jan 22, 2005

Where does it hurt?
bad game from a few days ago trip report:

How to Survive:
it's a zombie twinstick shooter with crafting and rpg elements. it has melee. you should not use the melee.
you should not play the game.
there's a fairly charming, nicely animated thing where a guy in a welding mask gives you some neat rules on surviving but i hit 20 of them in 2 hours and they lose their charm reallllly fast

it has that problem dead island has where you can go to places and if you haven't taken the quest there's nothing there, but it's a notch worse. i uninstalled because I took a quest to rescue a child from a tree, died, and that reset the quest to not taken. then i found the kid in the tree and found out you can't get a kid out of a tree that's hanging on the edge of a cliff without parental permission

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
I've had kane & lynch 2 forever without installing it, maybe I'll try that out

Ekster
Jul 18, 2013

no thanks OP I'd rather play Path of Exile, an F2P ARPG I've already spent over 400 hours on without dealing with my backlog in any way

Wormskull
Aug 23, 2009

Shovel Knight... More like poo poo Knight. I will not be returning to this pile of trash. Will report back on another game later.

surc
Aug 17, 2004

Fallout: New Vegas is still really good.

Seshoho Cian
Jul 26, 2010

Used the randomiser and got Hexen: Beyond Heretic

Worked well with GZDoom which is pretty cool but the level design doesn't seem very good, also very dark

I thought using the ice spell to freeze dudes then shattering them with your wand thing was pretty neat but it seemed like it'd get kinda boring doing that all the time

made me just want to play doom again really

Doctor Goat
Jan 22, 2005

Where does it hurt?
Hexen's level design is really, really weird. There's tons of cool setpieces and stuff but getting to them is a pain because you hit a switch and a door opened three maps over and inside that door is a switch that opens the door you were standing next to originally.

Noitu Love 2: Evolution:
this is an A+ game and you should play it
very fast, very fun combat, made by konjak who owns
you fight by clicking on dudes hella fast which doesn't sound fun but it is. you can also grapple to things and do charge shots using the same clicking, and right clicking puts a projectile shield anywhere on screen that you want it

you should probably play it if you got it

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN
sakura spirit was pretty cool

But Rocks Hurt Head
Jun 30, 2003

by Hand Knit
Pillbug
i like the idea of this thread

Crewmine
Apr 26, 2012
Warface is a F2P first person shooter. You run around shooting people and there is a bad co-op mode versus bots. I've not played for too long, but it appears that a huge number of upgrades are paid only (some of them cost real money and expure after a week, lol).

The gunplay is completely unremarkable except that you can execute a sweet buttslide where you can still shoot, so TDM servers often devolve into 16 guys scooting around like dogs with worms spraying assault rifles at each other.

Also, may upgrades are some terrible WoW poo poo. I was awarded a set of gloves for a week when I signed in for the first time that increase my reload speed by 1.5% or something dreadful.

JIZZ DENOUEMENT
Oct 3, 2012

STRIKE!
Completed first level and partially completed a castle of Shovel Knight. It seems like an average platformer and the controls are slightly off for me, maybe because I'm playing on a keyboard. There was already some kind of cute gimmicks to the castle level I tried which I liked, (floating plants that are used for platform jumping, lightning causes brief patches of light in a level). But overall I don't really understand the inventory/rpg/shopping stuff at all. Also I'm terrible at using the controls so I'm having a hard time mustering the will to try the level again after getting killed by a frog.

Goons have loved this poo poo but idk maybe it's not for me.

Wormskull posted:

Shovel Knight... More like poo poo Knight. I will not be returning to this pile of trash. Will report back on another game later.

Yeah I'm with this goon

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

wait what the fuck??

AI War. Probably a fun game buried beneath multiple layers of atrocious art. This is why you hire someone specifically to draw pretty pictures of tiny spaceships.

Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon
i played Little Inferno last night. it sucks and is barely a game yet i still played it for 3 hours because i love to set things on fire

But Rocks Hurt Head
Jun 30, 2003

by Hand Knit
Pillbug
ok i have played the first two parts of The Tiny Bang Story.

this is a hidden object / point-and-click 'adventure' game with scenes that look a lot like the machinarium family of games.

the graphics are pretty and the music is relaxing, but the puzzles are uninspired and i quickly got tired of the pixel hunting for like the seventeenth colored ball or lever after finding the first sixteen easily. i might still finish it because it's pleasant enough, i guess.

fronz
Apr 7, 2009



Lipstick Apathy

But Rocks Hurt Head posted:

ok i have played the first two parts of The Tiny Bang Story.

this is a hidden object / point-and-click 'adventure' game with scenes that look a lot like the machinarium family of games.

the graphics are pretty and the music is relaxing, but the puzzles are uninspired and i quickly got tired of the pixel hunting for like the seventeenth colored ball or lever after finding the first sixteen easily. i might still finish it because it's pleasant enough, i guess.

stop playing, trust me, it just gets more boring

Doctor Goat
Jan 22, 2005

Where does it hurt?
Renegade Ops: You drive a jeep around with a gun on it and there is no reason to ever stop holding the fire button or the turbo button, ever. you get secondary weapons but they're not that fun. if you played jackal for NES and want a worse version that lets you drive through houses, this is for you. if you like video games and you're really bored and there's a hurricane and you have a UPS but no internet maybe this is for you.

the leader is a dude with mutton chops voiced by the dude from timesplitters doing a bad gruff voice

there is a borderlands style progression tree but jesus christ i'm tired of those already, i get the feeling half the games i play are going to have one.

the game comes with an extra character

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=285665604

thuly
Jun 19, 2005

Transcending history, and the world, a tale of MS Paint and animes, endlessly retold.
Attempt 1: shadow over mystara

This won't recognize my gamepad and MAME will. Capcom and wizards of the coast both suck.

Attempt 2: knights of pen and paper +1

Obtuse interface, boring gameplay. This used to be a pay to win mobile game, right?

koolkal
Oct 21, 2008

this thread maybe doesnt have room for 2 green xbox one avs
smooth operators

its a call center simulator thats basically cookie clicker when you get down to it

you build more calling rooms and callers and then have to build service staff and office staff and crap to manage it all

except the maker is a babby coder and everything is shittily implemented so youll have as many janitors as you do rest of staff combined and nothing past your first 3 floors gets cleaned because the janitors check each room in the order it was built and if you have 5% trash in a room on the ground 4 of them will spend half their day rushing down to clean it

fronz
Apr 7, 2009



Lipstick Apathy
booted up noir syndrome which is a procedurally generated detective game. got bored in seconds, went to some various locations and shot everyone i saw until i died.

JIZZ DENOUEMENT
Oct 3, 2012

STRIKE!
Dustforce; I'm super bad at it but it's pretty fun and the music owns

SombereroLad
May 18, 2006

WAHAHAHAHAHA
Fun Shoe
i got super hexagon and oh god my poor eyes

SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


SombereroLad posted:

i got super hexagon and oh god my poor eyes

this game is really fantastic

Doctor Goat
Jan 22, 2005

Where does it hurt?
super hexagon loving owns, i need to beat the third, fifth, and last levels

SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


i played beat buddy tale of the guardians and it was okay i guess im glad it was just from a humble bundle and i didnt pay any actual amount of money for it

SombereroLad
May 18, 2006

WAHAHAHAHAHA
Fun Shoe

Hog Butcher posted:

super hexagon loving owns, i need to beat the third, fifth, and last levels

it really does, it takes a good like 15 minutes to get used to it

SombereroLad
May 18, 2006

WAHAHAHAHAHA
Fun Shoe
esp. on DRUGS

Doctor Goat
Jan 22, 2005

Where does it hurt?

SombereroLad posted:

esp. on DRUGS

i got high and played it and had the exact same experience. i think a big part of the game is muscle memory + twitch reflexes

every other game i get either much worse at (street fighter) or much better at (dota)

super hexagon don't give a gently caress

A Trip Report:
Dungeon Hearts: Seems kind of fun. A good puzzgame? but it can't be beaten without touch controls according to god tier puzzgamer and gycl champion Med "i" bot.
It has rpg elements (jesus christ everything does) and it's a match 3 that works like sideways tetris or something, just look it up
if you got it for 79 cents in the humble store it was worth it, otherwise pass it up

Mr.Unique-Name
Jul 5, 2002

Random game: Dishonored

no thank you

Fenrir
Apr 26, 2005

I found my kendo stick, bitch!

Lipstick Apathy
Evoland... you know I'm not sure when or how I even got this game but it's okay for what it is. You start with it looking like a gameboy romhack, and then get upgrades like colors and free movement and save points. It's nothing special but I might actually play this more.

chajusong
Oct 18, 2002
super meat boy

i've beat this game 100% i dont want to play it anymore

Diqnol
May 10, 2010

Hmm, I randomly picked Counterstrike: Global Offensive to play. Gun hats are still dumb and I'm still pro as gently caress. I think I'm going to randomly pick it tonight, as well.

Foxhound
Sep 5, 2007
I tried Meat Boy but then me not having autism kicked in after a few levels and I uninstalled it. 1/5

I've heard Farcry Blood Dragon is pretty fun so maybe I'll try that instead.

Wormskull
Aug 23, 2009

Here are the latest ones OP.

Volgarr The Viking
- This game is a pile of poo poo! I call it "How 'Bout No"Garr the Viking.

Tiny Barbarian DX
- I would rather snort rat turds out of a gorilla's rear end crack than play this monstrous pile of poo poo again.

Wizorb
- Hurr Orbs.

Hammerwatch
- More like Shammerwatch. What a waste of drat time.

Escape Goat
- Ehh, it's pretty fun I guess.

SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


hammerwatch is pretty fun actually v:shobon:v

fronz
Apr 7, 2009



Lipstick Apathy

zen death robot posted:

Do you buy lovely games on purpose or is it just a talent of yours?

escape goat is good

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SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


i played tiny and big: grandpa's leftovers, and i played the whole tutorial and it was actually fantastic but my computer cant run the actual full game since the tutorial is in gameboy monochrome colors and the rest of theg ame is not and wouldnt run but the tutorial was really fun so check it out!

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