I’m a little annoyed, because apparently Valve is updating the L4D campaigns to L4D2. >.> It’s fun. Like, stay up to two in the morning fun.

Wait, what now? Like, getting rid of the L4D campaigns completely?

And yeah, awesome games. They’re creepy as all get out and violent, but fun.

It’s convenient if you’re buying it for other people, though. I bought L4D2 for a bunch of my friends on Halloween when it was on sale and didn’t need to mess with buying the original.

I mean, you can still play it if you just hate melee weapons or Spitters or something, but overall L4D2 has superior mechanics and I’d rather play the old campaigns on it.

My problem always was that I’m, well, kinda a scaredy-cat when it comes to horror games, so I never liked to play them on my own. But at the same time, I’m not very good at them, so I wouldn’t want to just join a co-op game without having some practice first.

It’s actually more intense/pulse-pounding than it is outright scary, I’d say, just because there’s usually not that much time to dwell on things. There are some exceptions, though. The extreme downpour segment of the Heavy Rain campaign still spooks the shit out of me.

I’d say just get some of your friends to run with you through the campaigns on co-op before you try open multiplayer. That’s what I did with my cousin.

Baldur’s Gate was added to the Steam directory. If they re-release it with high-res support and patches I’ll definitely buy it for the 3rd time. :P

On ME3:

Hidden for possible ME3 spoilers. It’s a picture of a cutscene (not the [REDACTED] one), and to me it doesn’t look like it’s spoiling anything, but seeing as I haven’t played the game I don’t know this for sure.

The, “WAAAAAAAH WAAAAAAH WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH” does get pretty annoying after a while, though. :P

ME3:

ME3:

Welp, I finished ME2 again last night on the save I want to import and saved errbody for the first time(even that pansy Mordin), so I guess I’m going to start playing a different game that I just finished installing that you might know the name of.

Hey, he did tell you he wasn’t fond of holding the line…

Baldur’s Gate?

Ooh, ooh, I know, Dance Dance Revolution 87 or how many ever they’re up to now!

(actually, do they still even release DDR games?)

Yeah, that was a fun bug to try to work around. What’d you do to fix it? I used the Gibbed Save Editor to get the values, then recreate a face and get the face code from that. There was some instructions on how to do that on Livejournal, I think, or at least that’s where I got them.

And you haven’t even gotten to the good parts yet. ^_

I definitely agree with you, though. The writing and voice acting is generally very good in ME3, I like the story and locations, I like the upgrades in graphics (contrary to my initial impression from the demo), and I thought the combat was more fast-paced, which isn’t a bad thing.

Hold up. Battlefield 3 doesn’t run at 60 fps? Modern games exist that don’t do that?

I know it’s not impossible to play a shooter at a lower rate, but still, why’d they do that?

Yeah, CoD is the same thing every year, and as far as I’m concerned BF is just as bad.

Hey, Puppet!

OMG

It would appear some announcement regarding Baldur’s gate is due to arrive in 22 hours.

Interesting.

Still playing Starcraft Broodwar. Yeah! I’m getting faster- averaging 110-120 actions per minute. But I still get picked apart by mutalisk harass because my multitasking isn’t fast enough yet. Funnest game to lose at though. (And get a win or two.)

And League of Legends with Teamspeak. Yep.

3:38 now.

You should just use the lightest weapon possible. IIRC the heavier the weapon the longer your charge cooldown is.

I can’t recall off the top of my head, but I did a shotgun and an SMG for longer range/shields (especially earlier in the game, when I didn’t have charge upgraded all the way). The mods I used were for accuracy and damage. I considered the melee damage one, but I wanted accuracy more (because shotguns have such short range T_T). A lot of that was drawn from my multiplayer experiences, though, and may not have been the best loadout for singleplayer.

Although in multiplayer, sometimes I think I should just ditch the SMG altogether, because it’s so easy to just charge, shoot, nova, charge to regain shields, repeat until everything is dead and you have stolen everyone else’s kills.

@sansa – by the end of the game, I was using the Disciple shotgun and the Tempest SMG. I’m not sure how far you got into ME3 yet, but I got the Disciple during the mission where you see Samara. It has very high accuracy and low weight, which were huge selling points for me. I like having some range, and the lower weight was nice because I use powers constantly.

As for the Tempest, I liked the high rate of fire and decent accuracy, but I never played around with other weapons much, so I can’t really compare it to anything else. In ME2, I always preferred the Locust, but I didn’t try it in ME3.

It seems like they’re just adding new characters and quests and leaving the game alone for the most part. They will be using the ToB source code for BG1, however, which means the spell, class and combat system would be entirely different. They’re supposed to release screenshots next week.

ಠ_ಠ

Sen, I hope a hamster bites you in hard to reach places.

Go for the eyes, Boo!

Go get girlfriends.

HETERONORMATIST!

You know what would be great? If any other character class aside from Fighter could actually survive Melissan’s attack at the start of ToB. :| Can’t play a Bard against that kind of onslaught unless I cheat massively and maxlevel before I even start playing.

You know what would be great? If any other character class aside from Fighter could actually survive Melissan’s attack at the start of ToB. :| Can’t play a Bard against that kind of onslaught unless I cheat massively and maxlevel before I even start playing.

You pretty much need to be part mage to beat ToB, in my opinion. Protection from Magical Weapons, Stoneskin, Breach, Magic Missile, etc. are just too good.

the Disciple shotgun and the Tempest SMG

I do have the Discipline, though I haven’t tried it. The Tempest was my preferred SMG when I was still using one, but at this point I’m pretty much just using the Arc Pistol with no other weapons. I’m thinking of switching to the Paladin, though.

Give it a week, you’ll start to recover. Or at least that’s what happened to me. I actually was able to start a second game without wanting to cry/throw things out windows/light Casey Hudson’s house on fire. I just… don’t think about the ending, and then I can pretend it never happened.

But man, wasn’t the first 99% awesome?

Ahaha. Drew K.‘s books were pretty awesome, too.

ME3:

Now, on a more amusing note:

That is the funniest thing I’ve seen all day. Thanks, sansa.

So I guess Bioware is going to somehow alter the ending to ME3 now after the internet flipped its collective shit about it. I’m sure it’ll be in the form of for-pay DLC.

JUST AS PLANNED

BG: EE has been announced for the ipad (as expected). Hopefully they won’t dumb down the PC version to “match” the ipad version…

Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition. :P

Mirror’s Edge?

Aww yeah, first try. :D

I like to starve them.

Sims 3 was so 2009.

Oh wow, that’s quite something.

...We could always revive it.

I just finished Yahtzee’s review of Mass Effect 3, and he was surprisingly not too down on it. He certainly wasn’t positive, but he didn’t completely hate it, either. I get the impression that he actually kind of liked the Mass Effect series and got just as drawn in by the characters and whatnot as everybody else, even with all its various issues.

Are those ingame?

I feel like female Heavy would be terrifying.

I’m still bummed they never did a Bakumatsu-era Japan installment. I guess the setting would make it too easy.

Yeah, I mean I guess I can see why you’d want to avoid doing something obvious, but the primary means of affecting political change during that time period was assassinating political figures in the streets. That, and you’ve got encroaching foreign powers as a point of entry for the Templars, and cool buildings to climb around.

I’m sure it’s still gonna be awesome anyway though.