I don’t think I could go back to BW. I’ve been spoiled by rallying workers to minerals and smart-cast spells, and multi-unit select.

But yeah, why does SC2 have such high system requirements? I think one of the reasons SC1 was so successful was because it really did run on anything; I could play it on our school’s outdated 1995 Pentium II machine (don’t even know if that’s valid). They should’ve introduced a super-low graphics option, instead of extreme imo.

Day9 > all other commentators. Man’s made of awesome. Although some of Husky’s videos were pretty entertaining (lol, have you seen his banelings music video?).

I haven’t been on SC1 in ages. I actually didn’t think people would still be on, but yeah.

and I’ve finally got 6 wins!

Woo!

I can’t wait for The Last Guardian. <3

I know! I’m fortunate to have found someone with a PS3 I can borrow.

Youtube informs me that the SotC music is very good.

Portal 2 is now on Steam for pre-order!

:D

But I probably won’t pre-order. I probably won’t have time to play until summer anyway.

Marvel vs. Capcom 3. The second my Psych test is done with, I’m buying that game and spamming a Amaterasu/ Dante/ Wolverine team.

Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is very, very fun. It’s even good for people that don’t know how to play games, with the simple mode and all.

and classic games in the Wii, specially Smash Bros and Mario Kart, games better known as Chaos Games, since they make gamers to no longer recognize family and dearest friends when striving for victory.

Pshhh. Who needs friends or family when you have sweet victory? Nothing better than getting hit by a blue shell/ final smash and still winning a match.

I’ve been playing Half-Life 2: Deathmatch lately. That game is fun! I’m kinda late to the party, I know, but it’s an incredibly fun way to pass a few hours if you can find a good server.

Yesterday, I pre-ordered an aqua 3DS. I would normally have waited for the price to come down, but I’m pretty sure these are going to be really hard to get, and I didn’t want to have to wait too long to get one.

As I investigate the death of a supposed vampire with a dead body of a beggar in the basement and discover that a local merchant’s supplier has skulls, mud-encrusted boots, and shovels littering his basement, I slowly come to the realization that Oblivion is a seriously freaky game at times. Like half the quests I’ve done so far involve dead bodies somehow! And not ones that I killed, either! Cyrodiil seriously needs to step up their anti-murder-and-creepy-grave-robbing efforts.

I have recently discovered the truth of the following comic:

I am now officially addicted. That is all.

I should point out I’m still pretty awful, because I’ve only been playing for under a month. (so in that sense, I’m really not living up to my name!) I like playing pyro, but I die like every ten seconds…

Hrm, weird. Maybe you have to look me up under my normal username, which is:

? I dunno. And yes, I’m paranoid about my usernames!

Well, in that case, I’ll just have to BURN THE FLESH FROM YOUR BONES in retribution or somesuch. ;)

I’m trying to get back into gaming after along dry period… last year I bought Amnesia: The Dark Descent, which was great, but since finishing that I haven’t played anything. I have Mass Effect downloading on Steam right now, and I’m looking forward to some late-night gaming sessions. I haven’t played an RPG in over a year. Oh, the nostalgia :D

And swenson, if you don’t mind, I’d love a copy of Half Life 2. I’ve never played it XD My Steam ID is ladytonberry; anyone can feel free to add me.

Sorry, Miel, but someone got to it first… :\

Oblivion + an actual backstory/childhood + aliens + guns = Fallout 3.

I sorta squeed at the introductory chapters.

:D Suuuure you would have. You still managed to backstab me a few times anyway.

ALSO ALSO ALSO PORTAL 2. I have a history exam Wednesday morning, but there is no way I’m going to take up my precious Portal-playing time by studying for it, so I’m trying desperately to finish studying today instead. Luckily I’ve got a lot of extra credit in that class, so even if I do poorly on the test, I’ll still do well in the class.

Mortal Kombat 9. T~T

Hidden for spoilers

Too many games out I want to play right now. Portal 2 obviously has to be first priority, but I also wish I could afford Radiant Historia or Pokemon Black. If only I could learn to teleport, I could buy either of those games instead of a mostly full tank of gas.

Spoilers

It was soooo good though.

Well well well, apparently working DS emulators exist. I picked Smugleaf as my starter because the Water option looked stupid.

Aww, Caroline.

About the rest of the game, though, it was fantastic. I really, really loved it. Hilarious the whole way through, and so many unexpected twists and turns!

So Dragon Age Origins was on sale on Steam yesterday, and… even though I was trying to cut back on the number of games I’m buying this year… I bought it anyway, on the advice of my friend and my brother-in-law. I’m pretty sure it was worth 20 bucks, though, as so far it’s pretty awesome. As someone who genuinely liked Kaidan, I must admit Alistair is better so far. And Morrigan is all kinds of win.

^Gimli approves that. XP

If Valve does not have expansion packs for Portal 2 co-op, I will… I will… gah! I don’t know, but I’ll be really, really sad!

My brothers got Portal 2. I think I might play it…it seemed interesting.

I’ve been playing Mount & Blade: Warband pretty much nonstop. Awesome game and I haven’t even added any mods to it yet.

^^Get both!!!!!

Night Life has vampires.

Generations has imaginary friends, which look like creepy ragdolls, but are quite amusing.

I like generations because it’s different. Night Life is like S1 Hot and Superstar mixed with S2 Late Night. Still fun.

Pets comes out in the fall, and you’re supposed to be able to play from the pets’ perspectives.

Portal 2 spoilers:

Also, I played Hunted: the Demon’s Forge with a friend (co-op) and I’m very disappointed with this game. I mean, it looks nice and all that but it’s so buggy and not to mention how stupid the characters are. Their dialogue is shit, the cut scenes are boring and it’s just. Ugh.

Like, there were these explosives and E’lara saw them and she says: “Are these the explosives the townsmen was talking about?”

What the fuck? How many explosives do you think these poor towns people have? Are you this stupid? You are two times as old as Caddoc, (which means you’re probably nearing your hundredth birthday) and yet you state the fucking obvious? D:

EDIT: Also, could they have put a little more clothes on the chick? I mean, come one. A loincloth, bra, and thongs, and high heels? Yeah, that’s the clothes I put on when I’m off to fight demons. Oh yeah. Definitely. At least give her more than a thong underneath the loincloth thingy. (Well, it’s either that or she’s just not wearing underwear.) I mean, I’m not saying they have to make her wear clothes that an actual warrior would wear, just a little more clothes. Just a little. :c

I like your hat, swenson.

Oh, I didn’t realize it was a promo thing. It did make you easy to pick out among our other 500 pyros.

You still got nothing on my Abe Lincoln setup though.

Getting back into Neverwinter Nights 2.

Gotta say, I’m having ore fun playing with the console commands than actually going through the opening fights again. Polymorph# is a lot of fun, but I can’t find a list of creature-numbers anywhere. Just have to put a number in and see what comes up.

I’m addicted to Plants vs. Zombies. O_O

A little comic for you, Miel:

That’s the sort of stuff I keep hearing. I think for now, I’m just going to work through the DAO DLC, and if DA2 ends up ridiculously on sale (like, ten bucks or something), I might consider picking it up.

Which is sad, because I very much enjoyed DAO! It may not have been the most original thing in the world, but it approached the subject matter (dwarves and elves and dragons and whatnot) in an interesting manner, and I like the combat style (although not the camera. I hate the camera in that game with the white-hot passion of a thousand burning suns.). And it made me get attached to people and and sniffle at certain parts, so I think it succeeded pretty well.

I always say the measure of a good book is that it makes you think, it makes you laugh, and it makes you cry, and I guess it’s the same for games!

Somebody on this board dominated somebody else on this board in TF2 this afternoon. I’ll leave the names out to spare the losing party the eternal shame of defeat.

Yeah, that’s the only thing about the Dead Ringer that I don’t love. If I had a Cloak and Dagger I would’ve had a much better shot at breaking that deathgrip y’all had atop the stairs.

But instead somebody was shamed to the point of taking up the Half-Zatoichi and becoming a ronin. Only blood can cleanse dishonor!

Also my laptop apparently has a built-in mic. I hope you’re ready to be trash-talked at(assuming all talk is on and we are on opposite teams).

If you’re able to keep steady with a black Scottish cyclops in your face, pyros at least don’t have much to worry about 1 on 1. Puff range is longer than sword range, so even with the Targe’s fire resistance, the demo gets worn down first.

As an erstwhile maniac Demoknight, I love the new Demo gear coming out in the next update. Unfortunately, it’s all Arab-themed stuff, and I don’t know how to taunt people in Arabic.

I haven’t got a mic, unfortunately. Not sure if I’d use it even if I had one, though.

Yeah, knowing nerds, hearing a girl on voice chat almost always draws a reaction, and a lot of those reactions aren’t always so pleasant.

When I was still trying to be a film student, the senior documentary I was planning was going to be on geek culture, and gender dynamics was the elephant in the room. You see that sort of girl in any classically male-dominated hobby, I think.

“OMGZZ GURLZ PLAY VIDYAGAMES????? NO WAAAAYYY GET BACK TO KITCHEN LOLOLOL.”

Does that really happen? The worst I’ve ever gotten was “Eh yo gurl, lemme squirtle on dem jigglypuffs”.

“Eh yo gurl, lemme squirtle on dem jigglypuffs”.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

You act as if you’ve never heard that before. :P

In other news:

Hotototototototototototot.

I have no shame.

My super-secret Steam ID is earlier in this thread, I think, but if you didn’t see it there, it’s alynnidalar. I am so excited about it being free, too! I already have it, of course, but getting moar people to play it is awesome! For what it’s worth, I looked over the differences between “free” and “premium” accounts, and it’s not significant. The only big downside is you have less backpack space and can’t trade (but then again, I don’t trade much anyway). Possibly having limited crafting capabilities could be annoying if you like that, but I don’t know how much it’s been limited. And if this all annoys you, remember that a “premium” account only takes one purchase at the Mann Co. Store, so you can get the full game (which, again, isn’t much extra) for only a few bucks.

@Rocky – Steam ID? If we get enough Imps on there, we could set up a Steam group.

@Puppet a loooong time ago – I also love the Mass Effect soundtrack. I actually have CDs of the soundtrack of both games that I listen to in my car on the way to class all the time.

@happycrab – you on Therum when that happened with the lava? Yeah, that apparently happens to a lot of people. Watch out for people getting thrown through walls with biotics in the first game, btw. If you have Liara along (or you’re a biotic) you can sometimes get them out (or just kill them) with singularity. And with this comment I have proven that I have played that game far, far too much!

And for game advice, I have to plug Portal just because it’s my favorite game ever. If you like puzzle games and are good with FPSes, I literally cannot think of a single reason why you might dislike this game. Unless you hate the color white or get motion sickness easily or something.

If therum is the place where you rescure Liara then yeah. The newest glitch to happen is I exited an underground place on a explorable planet and the framerate went to like 1fps even when I was in the menu so I sluggishly saved then reset.

I spent waaaay too long yesterday searching every planet and trying to do everything on them. It wasn’t even very entertaining. Driving the car over the bumps/mountains is annoying and I hate that the element deposits arent marked on the map meaning I’ve probably missed a lot and have to go back and search. I am a little bit of a collectionist when it comes to certain games but I can see myself giving up. I should finally go back to the story so the game will hopefully become very good again.

I played Portal 1 and 2 and loved them. I remember sansafro going on about Disgaea at one point and I will add it to the list. The list being ‘Classic great PS2 era games I want to play but probably wont ever get around to playing them all’