Video Game Thread 2.0

[RavynousHunter]

I found the dart gun really helps with them. It instantly cripples both legs, so it's very useful for either kiting and/or running away like a little girl.

In related news, I decided to give Psychonauts a replay. I have to say, while it positively oozes creativity and charm, when you consider the gameplay, it's not quite the masterpiece that people say it is. Still a great game, don't get me wrong, but it has its share of flaws.

As does every game.  Like, say...Portal: it locks an absolutely amazing concept inside a small, if very entertaining, puzzle-based 3D platformer.  Could you imagine the awesome you'd have on your hands if you joined Portal and Red Faction?  Using tactically-placed portals to get near enough to a building to covertly plant charges around it, then portal out to quiet safety...then blow said building straight to hell.  It would be amazinnnnnnnnnnnng.

[ironbite]

And break the game massivly

[RavynousHunter]

And break the game massivly

Isn't that the point?

[ironbite]

Oy

[Art Vandelay]

And break the game massivly

Isn't that the point?

In that case, might as well just stick with Red Faction and just knock the entire building down in 30 seconds with nothing but a hammer.

[Cerim Treascair]

Looking for a game with Gothic flair? Need a good rogue-like? Hankering for some turn-based RPG combat? Need some Cthulhu in your life? I've been assisting one of the Main Menu streamers, who helped kick off a 100 hour playthrough of the early access game Darkest Dungeon earlier tonight.  It releases on February 3rd, for about $20.  The devs are taking all the comments and critique into account as the guys play through, in order to improve the gameplay and fix issues that they find.  I know I'll be picking up three copies!

[Art Vandelay]

I recently started a new game of Morrowind. I decided to play a mage/thief hybrid, who uses illusion and alteration magic to assist in his pilfering ways. Also, none of my major or minor class skills are combat oriented, and destruction magic, which I intend to be my main damage dealer, started off at a grand total of five points.

Yeah, needless to say, It's been a wee bit of a rough and very grindy start.

In other, non-Morrowind related news, the Meat Circus is really not that difficult with a controller. Woe betide (what the fuck does that even mean?) anyone who tries it with a mouse and keyboard, though.

[Askold]

Installed Fallout 1 but turns out that something is wrong and the colours and graphics don't work. The screen goes all black whenever I do something and the graphics only come back underneath the mouse cursor... I am going to try updating or mods or something to see if I can fix it.

[RavynousHunter]

I've gotten that a time or two, as well.  It fixes itself whenever an area of the screen refreshes, methinks.  I've no idea what causes it, unfortunately.

[Second Coming of Madman]

I just realized that the sorcerer guy from the opening of Return to Castle Wolfenstein is totally Corax from Heretic. He even has the staff you start with in the beginning of the game (I don't recall the exact name, but none of the weapons from Heretic were really memorable) and makes the same pain noises.

Why he's fighting zombie (!?!) Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich the 1st (!?!!?!) is beyond me, though. And that's before the zombie Holy Roman Emperor is revived by a SS High Priestess (Oh, fuck the exclamation marks at this point) clad only in a bikini with chainmail and psuedo Nazi-occultist shit. That's pretty over-the-top even for Wolfenstein.

Holy shit, the rabbit hole never fucking ends with ID.

[RavynousHunter]

I think the story goes that Heinrich I was a bloodthirsty, nearly-immortal psychopath that, left unchallenged, would've either violently ruled or outright destroyed most life on the planet.  The mage couldn't kill him, but decided to entomb him instead.  Nazis read accounts about Heinrich's power, and decide to resurrect him and, I believe, unleash him against the Allies then seal him back up once he won the war for them by virtue of being an unstoppable killing machine.

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Then, BJ interrupts Heinrich's resurrection and kills his before his power is fully restored, thus saving the world like the badass he is.

[Zygarde]

Speaking of Nazi's (never thought I'd say that sentence in my lif- scratch that I'm a history major I will probably say that more times than I will be willing to count.) I have a new game that was on sale on steam called Dino D-Day holy mother of the goddess this game is fucking fun, it's just the right kind of over-the-top weirdness that only genetically engineered Nazi dinosaurs could bring.

[Second Coming of Madman]

I think the story goes that Heinrich I was a bloodthirsty, nearly-immortal psychopath that, left unchallenged, would've either violently ruled or outright destroyed most life on the planet.  The mage couldn't kill him, but decided to entomb him instead.  Nazis read accounts about Heinrich's power, and decide to resurrect him and, I believe, unleash him against the Allies then seal him back up once he won the war for them by virtue of being an unstoppable killing machine.

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Then, BJ interrupts Heinrich's resurrection and kills his before his power is fully restored, thus saving the world like the badass he is.

I dunno, playing it was like a screening of Lisztomania. You don't know what the hell's going on, except that there's Nazis.

Speaking of Nazi's (never thought I'd say that sentence in my lif- scratch that I'm a history major I will probably say that more times than I will be willing to count.) I have a new game that was on sale on steam called Dino D-Day holy mother of the goddess this game is fucking fun, it's just the right kind of over-the-top weirdness that only genetically engineered Nazi dinosaurs could bring.

It's never ascertained it's genetic engineering, if I recall correctly.

[Askold]

http://esports.garena.ph/newsArticle.php?contentid=00000600&cat=NEWS&subcat=LEAGUE+OF+LEGENDS

First the eSports league of League of legends announced that they will allow one (but only one) GLBT person per team in the league for women. But if there is more than one GLBT person in a team every single one of them will be banned for a year. Or if they switch that GLBT member everyone will be banned for a year.

This was apparently their great show of being "progressive" and meant to make the game "fun and safe" for everyone.


...After a backlash (including from the developers of the game) they realized that the rule was fucking stupid and from now on "anyone who identifies as female" can play in the womens' league.
http://esports.garena.ph/newsArticle.php?contentid=00000604

[Art Vandelay]

It's kind of fucking stupid to have a separate league for women in the first place. It's e-sports, not actual sports. Just because they do a thing doesn't mean you have to blindly follow along with nary a thought of whether or not it's actually relevant to you.