Video Game Thread 2.0

[Askold]

The protagonist could be some disgruntled war vet who slowly spirals into self-loathing and misanthropy, ending at last in the madness that is the genocidal crusade. Just like Rambo, this ends very badly.

So, basically Punisher MAX.

And now for something completely different: I have a new computer and have just downloaded Wasteland 2.

Tomorrow, if I have the time, I am going to try it out.

[Second Coming of Madman]

After replaying Doom 3, I decided to put my tinfoil hat on yet again for a grand epileptic tree of ID software jazz.

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The Praeleanthor race that inhabited Mars had their encounter with the forces of Hell led by a precursor to the Maledict (We'll call him Sataniel for now) , which employed Guardians of Hell in it's armies. However, it was defeated by their champion and cast down into the depths of hell to languish in obscurity.

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However, Nazi occultists tampered with the powers of Hell and two border dimensions (The Veil and the Black Sun) in order to aid their war effort. This allowed them to tap into the power of the first generation of Martian descendants, and the folly that destroyed them as they created the Spear of Destiny to tap into even more power with the source being Hell. Thus, the spear lay buried until World War 2 when Sataniel used it to draw it's wielder into Hell only to be defeated by the valiant Pole.

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Sataniel swore revenge, conspiring with the Maledict in order to destroy Earth. Along came a enterprising scientist by the name of Betruger, who granted Sataniel cybernetic implants and was eventually merged with Maledict. Thus, when a young Polish-American Marine comes along, all hell is unleashed...just in time for him to fix it.

[RavynousHunter]

Let's not forget that...

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Commander Keen is the grandson of B.J. Blazkowicz, thus, B.J. somehow survived the nuclear bomb in New Order, fought on, and went on to destroy the global Nazi regime.  The Nazi war machine's technological advances under Deathshead pave the way for Billy Blaze to invent the world's first light-speed spacecraft out of common household items.  Oh, and Keen's nemesis, Mortimer McMire is the grandson of Deathshead, after his family was forced to disown him and change their surname.

[Askold]

First thoughts on Wasteland 2:

a) The live action intro was a suprise.

b) The game looks old. The interface looks to be from year 2000 (IN THE YEAR... TWO THOUSAAAAAAND!) and the graphics are only slightly younger. This is a bit odd but might be because many of the people who worked on it are older game designers. That or the attempt to imitate the older games might explain the interface, but the graphics being rather primitive is a disappointment.

c) Pretty enjoyable game with lots of references to the original one. So far I've been to a few familiar locations that have evolved over the years with familiar names and places this game is built for old fans just like it was advertised.

d) This was simply a coincidence, but I often make a character named Snake and gave that name to one of the main 4 characters, then it turned out that the current leader of the Desert rangers is called General Vargas and I was wondering why was that name familiar... Snake Vargas was one of the original 4 starting characters in Wasteland 1...

e) Oh God, the manual...

Honey Badgers were reportedly well known for "not caring" before the war, but with mutations increasing them in size and toughening their hides, they're some of the most dangerous animals you will encounter in the wastes.

Mutated Honey Badgers... The horror.

The manual contains other jokes as well, such as annotations and comments from characters from the original Wasteland. (Like one of the other 4 original characters complaining that their group is referred as "Vargas and his team" and debating over the animal whisperer skill having any value since animals are just there to be eaten. )

[IanC]

Got the limited editions of Bayonetta 2 and Samurai Warriors 4 for my birthday (well day before but i didn't pay for them so!).

Haven't touched Bayonetta 2 yet, but looking forward to it. Tempted to replay the first, since the LE came with a Wii U port of that (on an actual disc, not a DL code) with added Nintendo weirdness (Bayonetta looks pretty damn good as Link, fyi). Art book is nice, and the packaging is gorgeous.

Samurai Warriors 4 is pretty damn good. Aside from the occasional grating Japanese female voice (urgh!). The LE was nice too, an anime OVA, OST CD and some DLC stuff (costumes, mostly).

[Eiki-mun]

I agree, SW4 is pretty damn great. Wish the Chronicle Mode had local co-op, though. I mean, since you have a secondary character and everything, it'd be nice.

That said, loving the game.

Beyond Earth, on the other hand, was kind of a disappointment. The tech web and new space theme, while appreciated, don't outweigh the fact that the game is nigh-on pointless over LAN - it /will/ crash within about 90 turns or so. Lame. I haven't tried online multiplayer yet, but I get the feeling that I'll have the same problem.

[Second Coming of Madman]

Brutal Doom seems to take any and all comers, but Strife and Heretic hit below the belt. Thus, I am going to get Doom 2 and run it on that instead of the questionably running Freedoom.

Harmony makes it...interesting.

[MadCatTLX]

I started playing The Movies. Damn fun, especially for a Molyneux game. The only problem is that my framerate goes through the floor before I'm even through the early game.

I sorely need a new laptop.

I need a better laptop also, for similar reasons.

I've gotten to the point in the game Prison Architect that my computer can't run it at normal speed, much less with the time warp turned up. The most annoying pat is that it's like this even though it's a graphically minimalistic game. The problem comes from the path finding that has to be done for all the prisoners, guards, janitors, and so on. This means the game gets very CPU intensive very fast. It isn't helped by the fact that the game is still in alpha and hasn't really been optimized.

My laptop also chugs whenever I play Kerbal Space Program, especially when I try building anything massive. Think of how big of a rocket you have to have in real life to get a relatively small satellite in to orbit. Now up the payload size to that of a house, and think about what kind of size you need to lift that in to orbit. And the house size payload can't be made into smaller pieces and assembled in orbit, because the house is itself a smaller module of a larger ship. Of course all of this isn't important until the B9 aerospace mod is updated to catch up to the same level the game is. The new explosion effects and destroyable space center make the failures that much more entertaining.

[Second Coming of Madman]

Oh, god. Brutal Doom is amazing, and not just for the nice heaping of Ultraviolence it adds to my new copy of Doom 2. It completes the modernization of the game started by the ZDoom engine and takes it to the next level.

[Cerim Treascair]

I've been playing the fuck out of Bioshock Infinite... dayum, this is a good game.  I'm not quiiiiiiite as completionist as I normally am, but I'm still enjoying it immensely.

[Witchyjoshy]

GOG is partnering with Disney to release a whole bunch of Lucasarts games.  Including Sam & Max: Hit the Road.

ETA: I should probably post a link, shouldn't I?

http://www.joystiq.com/2014/10/27/lucasarts-classics-reach-gog-com-on-october-28/

[I am lizard]

6v6 tf2 players are some of the most insufferable people.

 

[I am lizard]

GOG is partnering with Disney to release a whole bunch of Lucasarts games.  Including Sam & Max: Hit the Road.

ETA: I should probably post a link, shouldn't I?

http://www.joystiq.com/2014/10/27/lucasarts-classics-reach-gog-com-on-october-28/

Cool.

[ironbite]

6v6 tf2 players are some of the most insufferable people.

 

Hence why I only play on servers that max out at 24.

Ironbite-or do Mann Up Mann vs. Machine

[Sleepy]

GOG is partnering with Disney to release a whole bunch of Lucasarts games.  Including Sam & Max: Hit the Road.

ETA: I should probably post a link, shouldn't I?

http://www.joystiq.com/2014/10/27/lucasarts-classics-reach-gog-com-on-october-28/

That's awesome. I'll have to get the Monkey Island re-release.