Video Games General

[Gretyl]

You should try Dark Souls. I'd be interested in a direct comparison.

[MarcusAurelius]

don't have a ps3 or 360.

[Gretyl]

It's currently circulating through the Redboxen if you come across somebody bored with a console.

[nippletwister]

http://www.rockstargames.com/

GTAV - trailer 11.02.11

happy

[MarcusAurelius]

first few hours of witcher 2 were pretty great, like it was a pretty sweet action game with quite complex combat, and then it turned into some gay RPG where i have 500 random stupid quests i don't care about. gah.

[Gretyl]

Uncharted 3: Who Farted? lands this Tuesday. I'm in media blackout on this, but Chloe got a boob job or something? Should be good cinematic, ledge-jumping times.

[MarkK]

I spent way too much in October, I should really cut back in November, but omg, so many games coming out

[Trevelyan]

Buy 2 Get 1 Free at Amazon, right meow: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/r ... d_i=468642

[nippletwister]

PC isn't listed

[MarkK]

I wish I'd be more on top of slickdeals sometimes... guess target did a buy 2 get 1 deal last week, but in the computers rang up as buy 1 get 1

whoops!

[Trevelyan]

There's also www.cheapassgamer.com And they list all the daily/weekly deals, both online and in store. They also do a great job of staying on top of Black Friday/Cyber Monday ads and deals.

[nippletwister]

So off and on I've been trying to play The Void. Good lord what is going on?

[Gretyl]

On a side note, we also signed up Korn to perform the title song for Silent Hill Downpour.

Oh FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--

Kill me now.

[Gretyl]

The Mac App Store is at least as good as Mac Steam for games at this moment in time.

I have the weirdest boner right now.

[nippletwister]

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/st ... a-and-pipa

Anybody think this will catch on, or is it just a one-day thing?

[Gretyl]

Opposing the ESA's support of SOPA or opposing SOPA? Which 'this' are you interested in?

The former could easily be just those five guys, but the latter has more organic, widespread support.

[nippletwister]

I guess I was asking about opposing the ESA's support. Amazing that there's a defacto representative of a big industry that doesn't represent the interests of a big chunk of that industry (like music ten years ago).

In a broader sense, the web is still in its wild west days.

[Talenos]

They also run the Video Game Voter's network which is supposed to stop unjust legislation against video games. Even though that would mean SOPA for many.

[MarkK]

I have $15 off gaming credit expiring feb 4th, anything good coming up, or shall I grab skyrim?

[Talenos]

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/stand-together-the-gaming-community-vs-sopa-and-pipa

Anybody think this will catch on, or is it just a one-day thing?

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/01/20/ ... -pipa-sopa

[nippletwister]

Well that's nice.

[Gretyl]

Just started up Resonance of Fate. JRPGfags, wheyyat?

[Gretyl]

(besides Bahamut, plz)

[Cody]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZIVmKOdrBk

[nippletwister]

That's cute.

[Uncle Sherm]

http://nintendo8.com/

I've been playing the original Mario Bros lately. I still have never beaten this game. 6 lives entering world 8-1, and still can't get all the way through the level.

[Cody]

Do you mean the original Super Mario Bros? The original Mario Bros looks like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mario ... meplay.gif

[nippletwister]

Oooh legalistic dick.




Original Super Mario Bros isn't in the constitution.

[nippletwister]

Just finished Mass Effect that I got for 5 bucks on Steam. I hope Mass Effect 2 is paced better. Starting that soon.

[nippletwister]

It's certainly more hi-res and shooterey.

[Gretyl]

Hmm, I picked that up when it was on PSN for $40. Should actually play it sometime.

[nippletwister]

Please forgive my musings. I'm guessing nobody cares, but...

Mass Effect 1 plays like it was supposed to be KOTOR 3. Both KOTOR and KOTOR 2 have deep flaws in pacing and gameplay. The thing that makes them great, though, is amazing characters that pull you in and make you care. Maybe I just played ME "wrong," but I never felt pulled in by the characters. I mean this in a fundamental way rooted in gameplay itself. I never felt like having NPC's tagging along added much to the game aside from the occasional snide comment they'd throw in. Their stories barely intertwine with the missions, so there's hardly any reason to talk to them. Add to that the fact that between missions they're scattered around this big ship - some even separated by an elevator (ugh) - so not only is there no incentive to chatting them up between missions, but the game pushes you away from it. Honestly, I spent way more time "surveying" planets (in a game mechanic that really just boiled down to a menu system broken up by needless loading screens) than I did learning about the characters in the game. If I hadn't read reviews and stuff, I wouldn't know about the sex scene. I certainly didn't get it. And at pivotal points in the game where I was supposed to make difficult decisions about which characters live and die, I didn't care. At what should have been a powerful moment where I'd pause and think about the ramifications of my actions, instead I was annoyed that game was trying to tug at my heartstrings in such a cheesy way.

Surely my experience isn't the norm. Reviews suggest that the other characters in ME2 really make the game, so I'm making it a point to spend more time chatting with them.

Just something that really stood out to me as a missed opportunity in ME. Thanks for listening.

[Reagraham Lincool]

Mass Affact

[nippletwister]

fuck

edit: edited

[MarcusAurelius]

obviously you think about me too much

[nippletwister]

<3

[Gretyl]

Diablo III beta invite received, client downloading... anyone else in?

[MarcusAurelius]

Unngghhhhh how did you get that?

[Gretyl]

There's a checkbox for "gimme beta invites" somewhere in the battle.net preferences after you log in.

[Santa]

I had a few friends get in yesterday.

[Santa]

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but it seems they might have looked at diminishing WoW playtime and handed them out to people they thought might be playing Swtor.

[Gretyl]

Or they just opened the beta-invite valve blindly. I don't think they'd have to analyze at the individual level to know the kind of people with the beta toggle on.

[Santa]

Or they just opened the beta-invite valve blindly. I don't think they'd have to analyze at the individual level to know the kind of people with the beta toggle on.

That's not as good of a way to keep players away from your competitor's games. I'd be looking at all WoW cancellations/reduced playtime since SWTOR launched and giving those people the D3 beta keys.

[Talenos]

Diablo III beta invite received, client downloading... anyone else in?

Me too baby. Thought mine was courtesy of a Blizzard employee.

[Reagraham Lincool]

You thought wrong.

[Talenos]

Oops, meant to type "Though"

[nippletwister]

You though wrong.

[Gretyl]

Beta's marked as v0.6.1

good, because it plays like shit

[Gretyl]

I can see what they're trying to do, but combat's functionally broken

[Gretyl]

should be good as the code firms up a bit more

[MarcusAurelius]

I can see what they're trying to do, but combat's functionally broken

examples/analysis pl0x

[Gretyl]

when I click on a monster, I go through the attack animation

monster doesn't die, I can't attack it again, it's no longer attacking me

that and occasionally I'll "lag" back 5-10 paces when playing solo

[Gretyl]

I'd hope what's available in beta is weeks/months behind current trunk

[MarcusAurelius]

that's weird considering the mass amounts of gameplay video on youtube that's totally smooth =/

[Gretyl]

maybe they're stress-testing the network code/infrastructure? who the fuck knows

[Talenos]

Shit's about to get real... 15 gigs later.

[Gretyl]

It's actually built like the recent WoW installers (surprise!). You can play before you have all 15 gigs.

[Gretyl]

Steam should really up their game & match that feature.

[Talenos]

Unfortunately now I need all 148 megs of my new nvidia graphics driver

[MarcusAurelius]

Steam should really up their game & match that feature.

considering the vast majority of their games aren't made by the company delivering them, i don't think that's feasible.

[Gretyl]

Maybe not for all games, but AAA releases should want to design themselves to be played as soon as possible after purchase, nah'mean?

Our points are not incompatible. Play-before-fully-downloaded requires foresight and planning in game development, but if the distribution channel doesn't support it, you can't do it at all.

[MarcusAurelius]

Maybe not for all games, but AAA releases should want to design themselves to be played as soon as possible after purchase, nah'mean?

Our points are not incompatible. Play-before-fully-downloaded requires foresight and planning in game development, but if the distribution channel doesn't support it, you can't do it at all.

steam does support downloading games before release date, and then unlocking them then. i don't know what (if many) difficulties you'd encounter actually doing a play-while-downloading thing, but certainly the a priori download would be easier.

[Gretyl]

download-before-streetdate is completely different from play-while-downloading if you buy a game long after release

[Gretyl]

which is the case with the vast majority of my Steamy purchases

[Talenos]

Saved Deckard Cain and called it a night last night. Didn't see any of the weirdness Gertyl experienced. Looked solid. Had some performance issues where the system would hang for a while, but it always recovered. I turned all the settings up to high, so hopefully lowering my graphics expectations will remedy that.