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PostPosted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 12:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Harveyjames wrote:
I played some of Studio Pixel's other games.
- Guxt is a simple shooter which looks kind of like a gameboy game. Hard and fun.


oh, i liked guxt. here's me beating guxt:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KAVJM8IE
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Link doesn't work, dude! I think it deserves to go up on youtube, though!
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

so after about four years of stalling, and completely disheartened by my setbacks in diablo 2, i finally started up baldur's gate 2. i think i get it, now. but damn combat is hard.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been playing lots of PS3 games. Hot Shots Golf 5, Warhawk, and Disgaea 3 to be precise.

Hot Shots is my guilty pleasure. It's a golf game with a huge focus on accessability and unlockables, but because it's so accessable on the surface it's possible to do well while at the same time spending each shot learning how to read your position a little better and slightly adjusting your game to comensate. The new shot meter makes it a lot easier to get chip-ins, but a lot more difficult to get a perfect hit. At first I didn't like it, but now that I'm used to it I don't think I'd ever want to go back.

Warhawk is actually really good! It's a 3rd person version of Battlefield apparently, but I never played that. There's a good mix of shooter skills and paper/rock/scissors gameplay. I've placed number one on my team several times, but it's always with the losing team and it always happens because I don't know when to attack and when to go after the flag. I think I might like to learn!

Disgaea 3 is more of the same but with a bit more depth and a bit less charm. It's sort of the inverse of Harry Potter. They're going to demon school where they learn how to do bad things, and as such delinquents and rebels are those who show up at class and help people out. This sounds cute, and it is at first, but every cutscene hammers home this fact to the point where you just want them to move on and do something interesting. There's no subtlety. But the game itself is very good and so addictive I kinda wish I wasn't at work so that I could play it right now.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dhex wrote:
so after about four years of stalling, and completely disheartened by my setbacks in diablo 2, i finally started up baldur's gate 2. i think i get it, now. but damn combat is hard.


What're you playing as? Combat difficulty is really skewed in BG2, but life gets a lot easier later on if you're a mage. Remember you can dual- or multiclass, also.

A common cheese character starts out as a kensei fighter kit, then picks up mage after level 7 or 10 or something. Never need to wear armor, always able to beat ass with a sword.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

just a dude who stabs shit with great justice. i actually have only died twice, but the rest of my party is being treated poorly.

i think i need to finish the sewers and slavers first before going onto the cemetery.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Link doesn't work, dude! I think it deserves to go up on youtube, though!


seems like the megaupload link works.. you need to drag that file into guxt while it is running to view the replay, though.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The wife and I have started playing multiplayer Diablo 2 again. We only play the campaign, never PvP. We're right smack at the start of Act II after two sessions, the first ending when we rescued Cain and we stopped the second immediately after arriving in the desert.

The wife, as always, is playing a dual-wielding barbarian. I'm trying an amazon for the first time, a bowazon in specific. As my wife said when we just started out:

"You look like a shampoo commercial."
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

moonside wrote:
Harveyjames wrote:
Link doesn't work, dude! I think it deserves to go up on youtube, though!


seems like the megaupload link works.. you need to drag that file into guxt while it is running to view the replay, though.


still can't get it to play Sad maybe you should upload your whole guxt folder, becaise it could be that you can't view win replays until you yourself have finished it. Either that, or I've got a newer version of Guxt, or that file is wrongly named (shouldn't it be .replay?)
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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dhex wrote:
so after about four years of stalling, and completely disheartened by my setbacks in diablo 2, i finally started up baldur's gate 2. i think i get it, now. but damn combat is hard.


What're you playing as? Combat difficulty is really skewed in BG2, but life gets a lot easier later on if you're a mage. Remember you can dual- or multiclass, also.

A common cheese character starts out as a kensei fighter kit, then picks up mage after level 7 or 10 or something. Never need to wear armor, always able to beat ass with a sword.


Is this solo w/NPCs or did you start a multiplayer game with yourself so you can make your own party?

2 Archers are quite lovely cheese.
Rangers can dual-class to Cleric, but Clerics can't use bows or crossbows.
Too bad the Archer can't be a sling specialist.
Uber Cheese. Especially because spells would be choosable from both the cleric and druid lists. (And there's a belt/gauntlet of strength/sling of seeking uber-uber combo).

If you decide to go back and make a whole custom party, maybe do and Archer and a Fighter that switches over to Cleric. Give that fighter Grand Mastery in Sling. >)
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SuperWes wrote:

Warhawk is actually really good! It's a 3rd person version of Battlefield apparently, but I never played that. There's a good mix of shooter skills and paper/rock/scissors gameplay. I've placed number one on my team several times, but it's always with the losing team and it always happens because I don't know when to attack and when to go after the flag. I think I might like to learn!


Do you have the latest expansion (Fallen Star)? The inclusion of jet packs has totally reinvigorated the game for me. Jet packs + the new collection mode = win.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Give that fighter Grand Mastery in Sling. >)


What's with sling? Faster shot speed, cheaper ammo? Sort of like going GM dagger or shortsword?
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sediment wrote:
Redeye wrote:
Give that fighter Grand Mastery in Sling. >)


What's with sling? Faster shot speed, cheaper ammo? Sort of like going GM dagger or shortsword?


Clerics can't use bows or crossbows (1E/2E rules).

So for a fighter to dual over to Cleric, get Grand Mastery in a weapon that clerics can use.
Mace would be nice for the Disruption Mace, but the way it works is slightly bugged. The Azuredge throwing axe is supposed to disrupt undead with a -4 saving throw, but appears to give +4 or just never really work. Can't use it with a cleric classed character anyway.

So I suggest Grand Master of Sling.

Get strength girdle/etc. plus Sling of Seeking (adds strength damage bonus, not sure about "to-hit" bonus.) Spam away.

For Great Justice.


There is the Hammer of Thunderbolts and the Flail of Ages. Maybe go for GM in those.
If playing with NPC party I would stick those on Anomen.

Would make a good dual-wielding combo.
(And as a cleric you could run around with a Blade Barrier up at the same time.)
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i have never heard of this term "cheese character" i presume it means "bad motherfucker"?

anyway the story isn't too bad and the cutesy add on merchant that sells stuff from planescape is charming. i'm even coming around to the lenny from of mice and men guy, who only wants to pet the hamsters for great justice. i can appreciate that.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah, basically. kensei/wiz is total cheese because after kensei 7 you can go all wizard, all the time and eventually pick up uber spells like immunity to normal weapons, etc, and spell buff and beat ass forever.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cheese is just on the legal side of sploiting.

Some people push it over to not just sploiting but actually cheating.

Like having an accountant look for loopholes, imagine hiring a D&D lawyer to optimize your character.

Enjoy:

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sediment wrote:
yeah, basically. kensei/wiz is total cheese because after kensei 7 you can go all wizard, all the time and eventually pick up uber spells like immunity to normal weapons, etc, and spell buff and beat ass forever.


Remember to read all available scrolls to get those wizard levels quickly.

Must exceed level 7 as wizard to reactivate the Kensai stuff.

I've wanted to try Kensai with GM in quarterstaff for a while now.
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Like having an accountant look for loopholes, imagine hiring a D&D lawyer to optimize your character.


"your honor, my client's alleged history of min/maxing clearly has no bearing in this case."

finally cleared out the sewer section - picked up the evil dwarf korgan and we'll go get slaughtered in the graveyard. told the creepy lady who wants to fight the thieves' guild to go suck a lemon, and ignored the giant sign that said FORESHADOWING as she busted out.
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silentmatt wrote:
Do you have the latest expansion (Fallen Star)? The inclusion of jet packs has totally reinvigorated the game for me. Jet packs + the new collection mode = win.

Boo Sad

I'd been trying to hold off to see if I actually played the game more than just a little bit before I bought the expansion. See, for me it's $16 for the expansions, which is the same I paid for the game itself. I'm going to try a bit more on the standard maps before upgrading, but there's a good chance I'll step up soon.

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Yeah, I felt the same way... But! If you know someone from the same region who purchased the expansions, you can share them with each other (see http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/611680#3693649 for details on setting up a PSN game share).

One of my friends had the latest two expansions (which I was too broke/cheap to purchase) and so I was able to grab them with his account and he grabbed a bunch of random PSN titles I had that he hadn't bought yet. The only thing to remember is you have to keep the secondary PSN account (the one with the friends PSN info) on the system in order for the content to remain activated.

From now on, now that I know how easy it is to do, I'm communicating with him before buying anything on PSN to make sure only one of us makes the purchase. Just make sure they are trustworthy if you leave your credit card info stored in the account.
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bg2 update: fuck the graveyard! so i tried the castle.

man, fuck those guys, too. the trolls ain't no thing for the most part, but that snake wizard thing can suck one. (presumably eggs as i would think they'd be ovivores, no?)
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Stealing Expanisions

Yeah, I'm not really into this idea at all. Mostly because the only one I know with a PS3 is Matt and I don't want to give him access to my credit card. heh.

BUT!

I don't think I'll be upgrading anyway. I played last night and I'm really not into large-scale online games. I'm atrocious at the game and somehow I end up placing in the top 3 players on the losing team without fail. Our team also always ends up with 6 people at the very bottom who clearly didn't know what the hell was going on. I just don't like this experience. Still, jetpacks are alluring. Maybe I'll get the expansions when/if they drop in price.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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bg2 update: fuck the graveyard! so i tried the castle.

man, fuck those guys, too. the trolls ain't no thing for the most part, but that snake wizard thing can suck one. (presumably eggs as i would think they'd be ovivores, no?)


Snake wizard? Just hose spell casters down with missile weapons. They can't cast when interrupted.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, Another World is WAY more fun to watch than it is to play. Thankfully the speedruns are only about 10 minutes long.

Flashback, I think, is far more entertaining as a game, but there is a lot more cleverness on display in Another World. It's a great game, it's just a shame to have to play it.
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Arkanoid DS makes me remember being abandoned as a child.
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Context, Aderack. Did you like your parents?
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Aderack, do you need a hug?
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Thanks, but no. I have personal space issues.

I really like Battlefield: Bad Company. I've had the full game for a few days now, and it's a great mix of setpiece momentum and free-world ambling, with a dryly sardonic tone.

Don't have much context of these recent war-shooter things. I like it lots as a videogame, though! The writing is pretty great -- both the dialog and the scenario, and the way it's all reflected in the way the game plays. Sort of.
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happy birthday, eric-jon
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Even though I swore myself off Japanese RPGs after playing Morrowind for the first time I am enjoying Ys in between sessions of not being very good at MaBoShi. I like its simplicity. I also like the other one's simplicity and how it looks like a budget PS1 game. The cool thing about MaBoShi, for those that don't know about it, is that whilst you are playing it other players can come along and start playing their own game along side you in a separate window and the things they do in their game can affect yours. This is a neat feature.
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Thanks. I got Chrome, apparently.
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Arkanoid DS makes me remember being abandoned as a child.

Strangely enough Arkanoid is one of the very few games that I have strong memories of playing with my Father.

Which, I guess now makes me feel abandoned in my adulthood thinking about how things use to be.

Happy birthday*.



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Yours to the also thanking.

I'm on, I think, the second to last mission of Bad Company. It's gone all Metal Gear now. This is just after the Choplifter level.

Now I've got the fragile SMS music in my head. The music to that game always sounds like it's about to explode into tears.
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Is that game worth playing? Nothing I've heard about it so far makes it sound interesting.
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Choplifter? Not especially. The sound and visuals really press the Master System to its limit, though.

Mind you, I don't have much experience with war FPS things, so for all I know it's lousy as a genre piece -- but Bad Company is pretty great, as a videogame. It's got excellent writing, and the tone is rather marvelous. It's very laid-back and exploration-friendly, yet not-contrarily-at-all, it's got a bunch of momentum. Open-ended setpieces, strung together in a relatively open world. You'll spend a while wandering and doing your own thing, then be hit with sudden action and be forced into creative problem-solving.

I think it's about the right length, too, judging by how close the end seems to be.

Even the multiplayer mode is pretty easygoing. Mill around, find a place to attack or defend, then improvise in a hurry when stuff starts to happen.

It all feels kind of Valvey.

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Well, from that video it looks pretty solid; I'm getting tired of blowing away Russians (though that's not what the game is about at all, the game's wiki page informs me). This looks like something I'll pick up at a discount some time.

There hasn't been any real discussion about this 'round these parts, but is there any legitimate reason to own a Playstation 3? (don't say blu ray). I bought one for the purpose of playing Metal Gear Solid 4 (after having replayed Snake Eater and marvelled at the pure pleasure of its flow and action sequences). People were saying that it was good, great even. People like Jeremy Parish, who I generally trust on videogame related matters. Why couldn't that dude have told the truth? The first half of MGS4 was okay but the drop in quality in the game's second half is so sharp that it makes Xenogears look cohesive. In fact, MGS4 recalls Xenogears in many more ways than I would have thought possible. Man, the most painful thing about playing it was feeling all that money burn, my own and Konami's, right there on the TV screen.

I should've got a 360, damn it.

Anyway, I'm playing GTA4 right now and it's pretty entertaining. One thing I don't understand is why they didn't make the main character a Russian? All the people in Hove Beach speak Russian and the "Eastern European" radio station is composed entirely of Russian music (half of which is quite good and appropriate; curiously, they got Russian rap Mega Star Seryoga to compose a track specifically for the game, the lyrics of which are totally stupid). I guess they made Niko a Serb to make him an outsider among all the groups in Liberty City, while still keeping him in a national group that Americans regard as morally ambiguous, if not downright evil, so as to explain his gun skills and willingness to ice anyone for pocket change.

Still, fun all around, though the game's frustratingly linear during the missions.
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only because they are! and who the hell knows what they're saying most of the time
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There hasn't been any real discussion about this 'round these parts, but is there any legitimate reason to own a Playstation 3? (don't say blu ray).


No. I only watch movies on mine. I actually don't like playing PS1 or 2 games on it, either. I have a 60 GB model, but I have constant control lag and the games always look grainy (PS1) or fuzzy as hell (PS2). I have my older models hooked up to a good ol' CRT in the back.
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There hasn't been any real discussion about this 'round these parts, but is there any legitimate reason to own a Playstation 3? (don't say blu ray).


Blu-Ray!

How about Media Center stuff?

Hmm. Games?

I'm going to assume you mean exclusives. Try Pixel Junk Monsters and Eden! Those are must-haves, as is Everyday Shooter.

There's a few pretty good exclusives that can be had for cheap as well. Eye of Judgement is $35 now at Target, which makes it totally worth it.

Foklore is beautiful, and pretty neat too as far as design goes. It's kind of like a beautiful, action-adventure/jRPG version of Silent Hill.

Disgaea 3 is pretty good. Hot Shots 5 is addicting. Ridge Racer's not bad. Warhawk is addicting if you're the kind of person who can get into online games.

The Last Guy is probably worth $10 also.

Other than that, uhh, yeah you probably should have gotten a 360.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, I mean there are no real exclusive must plays on the PS3 so far. Everything good on the PS3 can be found on the 360, usually done better.

White Knight Story might be fantastic. Valkyria Chronicles looks gorgeous as well. And Fumito Ueda's next title and the next gen Yakuza might be great. But that's, like, four games, that haven't even been released yet, for a console that's been out for two years now. And blu ray is worthless to me on account of not having a big enough TV to properly enjoy it (the whole blu ray thing leaves me indiffirent anyway, how much better can Wayne's World really look?).

To shift things up, what exclusive titles does the 360 have that are without a doubt interesting? I can think of Gears of War, Dead Rising, and ??? on the top of my head.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hadn't thought about the Russian angle. Yeah, though. That's not really the point of it. What's kind of great is that you never quite know what this war is about, and the other people on your squad don't know where they are or what they're doing or why. They're just in this for their own self-interest. Which actually becomes important after the first mission or so, when everyone says to hell with the army; let's go on a treasure hunt!

The PS3 is basically PSP: The Home System. Sort of the way the Wii is to the DS.

Lost Planet's pretty great. (Though that got a PS3 port later on, didn't it?) There are lots of quirky small things like Earth Defense Force, Bullet Witch, and Senko no Ronde. XBLA is actually pretty healthy now.

Not completely sure which games are console-side exclusives. A lot of 360 games have a PC version -- though people that usually don't count that as a competing platform.

Rare has done nothing of substance with the system. Viva Pinata is trash.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

VIVA PINATA TWO IS OUT THOUGH and they fixed everything
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll take your word for it.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been playing JOYSTICK JOHNNY which I bought for $4 as it's the current Game De Jour special. It's interesting! You're Johnny in an arcade, jumping from arcade machine to arcade machine, trying to take on a VIRUS. You can select any arcade machine from the selection in any order, but the longer you leave a game, the longer you have to play it! So, you know, play the game you suck at first! Oh and you have to beat all the games in ten minutes. And the boss levels are PROTOTYPE arcade machines with a crowd around it and people point at the screen while you play! It emulates an arcade pretty well, jumping from game to game. The music is sweet, too.

All the games are knock-offs of classic arcade games too, but... not as fun, but they are actually pretty entertaining in the higher levels. So yeah, an interesting little game. Check out the demo, I suppose!
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

the gog.com beta just opened. it has most of interplay's mid and late 90s backcatalogue for 6 bucks each. i should probably try jagged alliance one of these days. or freespace?

apparently there is more stuff to come, but it seems pretty healthy and intiutive now.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't buy FreeSpace from there. It's an excellent game, but you can also get it for free (http://www.fsoinstaller.com/), along with all of the latest patches, graphic updates, and mods. This will install FreeSpace 1 and 2, along with any one of a number of mods you choose. The graphical enhancements are worth it - the fans have been updating it for years and it looks amazing with everything checked off.

I keep eying Conquest of the New World. I have it as part of an anniversary collection that Interplay released, but it doesn't work well with new systems. All of these have been tweaked to run without problems on XP and Vista machines, so it looks like it'll be worth the $6. There's also the X-Com collection on Steam that is still $13.95. I'd say that's about $20 well spent.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Actually, update on Lost Planet. I loved what I'd played of it earlier, out of context at someone's place and in the demo. One of the things I liked the best was its elegance.

That's... not so much the case in the full version. Seems like someone at Capcom got nervous that Japanese people wouldn't understand the game, so it's buried under a pile of cliched anime bullshit and cutscenes and tutorials. The underlying game is still great, but the way it's been trussed up like a cheap whore leaves a sour taste on my brain.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ryan - i see that, but i feel i should get something because the idea is so rad i want to marry it (in california, maybe on a beach).

jagged alliance it is!
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, I was really excited about Lost Planet but gave up on it for the bullshit the game starts with.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm hoping it tapers off after a while. I played through the first (real) mission effectively unmolested. Then there was a needless cutscene. Then I quit once I hit the second level .

There's good stuff in here. Just... Jesus Christ. You can taste the executive tampering. "Oh dear," the studio chief said. "That looks a bit... Western, doesn't it. How can we counteract that?"

But, well. Now Inafune is in charge. So maybe we won't see too much more of this.
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