Video Game Thread 2.0

[Shane for Wax]

I find myself utterly amused with Saints Row 3. Genki Bowl is my favorite activity.

[chad sexington]

Pagan Expansion for Crusader Kings II has been announced!  About fecking time!

[ThunderWulf]

Nothing is more annoying then trying to form an Xbox LIVE party with someone who has a shitty internet connection.

[Art Vandelay]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXty2JYIjPo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXty2JYIjPo</a>
You know, shit like this is why I love indie games. For all the piles of neo-retro dross that ranges from mediocre to shovelware, the gems are really something amazing.

[Saturn500]

[Browses the Coming Soon section on Steam]

[Sees that the PC version of Ys I & II Chronicles is there]

[Pre-purchases it immediately]

[Art Vandelay]

Goddamnit, I can't run Antichamber at more than 3-4 frames per second. Though I'll hopefully have a solution to that one in the near future.

[syaoranvee]

I have almost cleared out The Savage Coast in The Secret World.  Until this point, I haven't had much trouble with the missions they throw out at me.  However, I've had "fun" with two particular missions, one dealing with having to destroy a wraith in a academy that emerges into the world through mirrors. The mission requires you to bring it down to about a quarter of it's health in which it will then run back into the mirror nearby, the problem? The mission is bugged.  The mirrors respawn faster then you can destroy them in four parallel classrooms, I sat for a hour destroying the same four mirrors over again until I looked it up and found out it's basically a unfinishable mission.

And the second mission? This fucker.  He uses the souls of children in a abandoned amusement park.  I've fought him over a dozen times already and at this point he might as well be telling me to "assume the position" when I show up now.  Fucker basically is all area damage attacks and has a high amount of HP.  An example

[Art Vandelay]

As it turns out, Antichamber is one of precious few Steam-bought games that'll run just fine without the Steam client. With a little tinkering, I just may be able to squeeze a reasonable frame rate out of this game.

[Shane for Wax]

Apparently gamefly doesn't like newborn accounts buying PC games without doing some sort of background check on you.

I guess I have to wait a bit longer for my discounted Torchlight 2.

[Distind]

And the second mission? This fucker.  He uses the souls of children in a abandoned amusement park.  I've fought him over a dozen times already and at this point he might as well be telling me to "assume the position" when I show up now.  Fucker basically is all area damage attacks and has a high amount of HP.  An example

Use things that break line of sight, I finally nailed the prick after getting real creative with abusing the hit detection.

But I've got to say, the guys who called Omerta the XCom of the mob needs to be beaten. I like the game, but it doesn't measure up to the new XCom or the old, and there are whining idiots everywhere complaining because they bought it expecting a lot more.

[Sleepy]

Played Alice: Madness Returns on the 360 for awhile and it was amazing. I love the trippy worlds and the platforming is always enjoyable.

[Dakota Bob]

The original Alice game was pretty rad too, might be hard to come by since it was only released on PC in 2000 as far as I know.

[Sleepy]

The 360 copy actually came with the original Alice, though it was kinda crummy to play with the 360 controller. I'm sure it's better on PC.

[CaseAgainstFaith]

My Current Gaming news updates

List of possible new PC Steam games that were found looking around in the CDR last night (http://cdr.thebronasium.com/cdr)

    La-Mulana

    The Splatters

    Octodad: Dadliest Catch Beta

    Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition (Duke Nukem 3D+)

    Super House of Dead Ninjas

    Fez

    LucasArts Test App

    Fast and Furious 6

    Lococycle

    Yogventures!

    Dyad

    Cut the Rope

    Shadow Warrior Complete

    THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII

    Retro/Grade

    Resident Evil: Revelations

    THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002 UNLIMITED MATCH

    THE KING OF FIGHTERS ’98 ULTIMATE MATCH

    Quantum Conundrum 2

    Halo 3

    Halo 2

    Halo: Combat Evolved

    The Witness

    Angry Birds Space

    Angry Birds Seasons

    Second Life

Also
So anyone looked at getting the new Sim City game? I don't plan on it even though I so wanted another Sim City game.

The game devs did a AMA last month and well....all of my fears for the game have come true. Here is their Reddit AMA - http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/14umm1/we_are_the_simcity_dev_team_from_maxis_amaa/ and here is a link for the highlights of it  - http://www.uproxx.com/gammasquad/2012/12/so-the-simcity-ama-did-not-go-very-well/

And lastly for those who don't know, Jay Wilson the Game Director of Diablo 3 was fired (no joke) http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/7592242994

[Alehksunos]

Since Alice: Madness Returns has been mentioned recently, for anyone who owns this game on Steam and not a physical PC CD-ROM copy or the console ports:

Does the Steam release have a code for the original American McGee's Alice? I'm saying this because I'm one of those people who like to play the first game prior to the sequel(s).