I finally got around to finishing ME3

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay yeah it sucked pretty bad.

The good ending that completely satisfies your wildest expectations, for which you have to pause the game at one precise instant right before the credits roll and hit up up down down left right left right B A.

/lamejoke

I’ve been waiting my whole life for this game.

Whaaaaaaat.

Fallout is free on GOG.com for the next 48 hours.

I love Good Old Games so, so much.

Bastion is 60% off right now! I’ve wanted it since it came out but somehow never got around to buying it, but when it’s only 6 bucks, how can I say no any longer?

May 8th could be a lot of fun.

Well that’s all well and good, swenson, but tell us how you feel about Stinkeyes.

I haven’t been through all the old comments, but has anyone played the DS game 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors?

I tried 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors, but I played it after playing Last Window: Secret of Cape West and Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective. (I was on a puzzle binge after finishing Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.) After those two games and their style of story telling, 999 felt too wordy. Like they wanted to write a chose your own adventure book but realized that those don’t sell anymore. They could have fixed those problems while keeping their low budget by implying action through dialogue and not going on a lecture about how the main character feels*. I hated the fact a tutorial would come on every time you came back for a puzzle you needed to go back and find something for. If the controls and gameplay make it feel like a chore to play, I’m probably not going to finish it. Though I might finish this one to check out the plot.

*This is a game. We’re supposed to feel the character’s emotions as we play along instead of have them described to us. This is a big difference between the media of books and games. With a book you’re following along someone else as an invisible passenger. With a game, you are experiencing what’s going on. We should never have to have a narrator come out and say, “The character you’re controlling should be feels dazed and confused.”

Ghost Trick was great. Jaw-droppingly great.

And yeah, I tried 999 and just never got into it enough to make it worthwhile. Too much text, too much time. The story was interesting, but once I put it down I didn’t go back.

About what organic said: I agree to this precise extent – the frequent moments when something would happen on screen and then it would be DESCRIBED. IN EXCRUCIATING DETAIL.

Like, yeah, we just SAW IT. No need to spend five paragraphs and ten button-mashes telling me about WHAT I JUST SAW.

Um, what?

It’s called hyperbole. A large part of my sense of humor involves using hyperbole to make others laugh. It’s an annoying tic, I agree, but there’s no need for verbal abuse.

I feel I’m pointing out a legitimate shortcoming of the game’s descriptive method, and exaggerating my reaction to it for the sake of comedy. Internet sarcasm is easy to misinterpret, but this approach has worked in the past, and I think most people on this forum understand what I’m trying to convey.

Western civilization is not yet dead. Please express your opinions without resorting to ad hominem.

... Seriously? You’re rampaging around about a conversation that’s two months old?

Also, you’ve just finished insulting pretty much the entire active user base of II. Take it easy.

swenson and sansafro are two of the most active people on here. Upon a close review, I guess there weren’t as many people involved as I had thought. So I retract that statement.

Mass Effect 3 is not the central focus of this site, and you appear to have completely ignored what I assure you was friendly advice. Lay off the insults. You can win an argument in the Queen’s English without making any assumptions about your opponents at all.

And over swiftly.

did anybody mention Asura’s Wrath? Because Asura’s Wrath is awesome from a narrative point of view.

Well, I’m too lazy to put Left 4 Dead 2 on now that I’ve installed the first one and it took 6 hours. So yeah, I’ll just play this one through it’s entirety and then move on. Waste more time that way. =P

According to a newsletter I got from The Secret World, I have a buddy invite to the beta, so if anyone’s interested, I believe I can get you in.

@Soup:

I’m fascinated by the synopsis but I’m not much of a gamer. So, if no one else takes you up on that, I’m in.

OH MAN YOU GUYS

SpyParty really is awesomely fun. If incredibly complicated. There’s so many things to look at and so many things to keep track of, and I’m still only doing the really basic beginner stuff!

Out of six games (3 as spy, 3 as sniper), I lost all three times as spy (ran out of time twice and got shot once) and won all three times as sniper (by sheer luck at least once… I thought I saw a tell but it actually wasn’t one! Luckily it was still the right guy). I think I need to work on my spy game a little more…

I’m thinking about getting TrackIR for playing Arma 2 (and Arma 3 whenever it’s out). It looks pretty neat.

a single enemy player can easily cap an objective

Doesn’t that completely contradict the whole team/tactical aspect? I’m thinking of TF2 here, and there are very, very few occasions where a single person could cap an objective. Even in CTF games, you need support from the rest of your team to retrieve the flag. You can’t do it on your own.

Random objective locations also seem to completely destroy any sense of balance. It might make things more interesting, but randomly generated levels are usually not that great—computers are very bad at telling how fun/boring/interesting a map is.

Go play Arma 2.

I’m playing Phoenix Wright for the first time and having a preposterous amount of fun.

As /v/‘s recommendation said, you object like the mother***ing fist of the north star. It’s Gurren Lagann in a courtroom.

Oh, Phoenix Wright! I’ve intended to get the game on WiiWare since it came out, and still haven’t gotten around to it. >_>

Butbutbut

It costs money. And I need to buy RPG Maker XP.

And I need to buy RPG Maker XP.

They make you pay for it now??? What is this insanity?

There are far better free engines out there. Unity for starters

OBJECTION!

There is no reason you shouldn’t be playing Phoenix Wright right now. It’s full of extremely memorable characters, a fun little court system that really draws you into the somewhat silly drama, and a really cute storyline if you don’t examine it too closely. Even though I know several other games that has far superior storytelling and gameplay, it’s still one of my favorites. I’d go more into detail, but it’s a better game if you have no idea what to expect beyond, “you’re a lawyer and this game is quirky”. And no one has an excuse not to play at least the first one. It’s like 5$ to get it used for the DS if you can find it. No idea how much it is on the Wiistore, but I can assure you it’s less than Diablo 3.

Spoiler comment! Seriously, spoilers ahoy. For the entire series.

Also, Meet the Pyro is out

Meet the Pyro was great. I think my favorite Meet the Team video is still the Medic or Spy, but it was pretty amazing.

And can you say seriously creepy?!

Meet the Pyro was great. I think my favorite Meet the Team video is still the Medic or Spy, but it was pretty amazing.

Pyrovision is fun, too!

You get these goggles to wear during the game. When people shoot things, rainbows, balloons,and glitter come out of their guns.

Bad news, buddy. It WAS free. Legally. Back when I got it years ago. Like Open Canvas (which is my most favorite art program EVER) used to be.

Huh. That is so strange.

Well, if it’s what you’re most comfortable with. Unity is FAR more flexible (and up-to-date, not to mention multi-platform), so if you ever get stuck, it’s worth checking out.

I’ll be sure to. Thanks for the recommendation!

Aw, the sides of my screen weren’t pink (and the next day I tried to use them, the items kept not working…

But I just BARELY started playing TF2 so I’m really awful at it.

I will also show you how to be good!

And I think Pyrovision only works fully on certain maps that are set up to use it. On some, you don’t get all of the effects.

On a completely unrelated note, since the wireless at my house has been a bit wonky of late, I’ve been playing the Fire Emblem rom I got from my little brother’s girlfriend. It’s fun, but permanantly losing certain units is a pain. Namely when I only have one of their type.

Sansa would know about that. :D

>:[

@Kyllorac: Blazing Sword, the first one with an international release.

@swenson

Well, if you’re having technical problems, that can take a lot away from the fun of something… and I’ll readily admit that TF2 may not be the game for everyone.

Join the steam group d00ds. That’s why I made it. Just search for ImpishIdea. A bunch of y’all should be able to approve new members.

I was gonna say, I was pretty sure you were in it already.

I’m finding I’m horrifically out of practice after playing for a little while today. I can still play regular Demo and Engie okay, but my reflexes are too rusty to play twitch loadouts like Spy and Demoknight. Must remaster the blade!

The II group is invite only.

My name on there is the same as on here.

Haven’t been here awhile.
2 games that are pretty awesome that I’ve played
Amnesia
and Mount and Blade: Napoleonic Wars- absolutely hilarious playing a fps where it takes FOREVER to reload :) Or spawn as a drummer that can’t shoot at all, haha. Or perhaps artillerymen or cavalry. Suprisingly fun game.

Amnesia

You can’t just leave it at that, Falling. What did you think of it?

Amnesia. Can’t remember what happened…

No, I actually haven’t finished it because my hands have been recovering these last 2 months. (Keyboard at bad height while typing for school and games that use WASD combined with alt shift and ctrl rather exasperate the problem.)

However, I think it’s a game that finally get’s how to create fear. Not gross out, need a barf bag and not BOO! I jump out and you’r now scared. I’ve never found zombie games particularly scary, just really gross. Endless waves with no let up isn’t terribly scary. The most terrifying game I can remember from being much younger was Unreal (the first one, not the multiplayer) and that one also didn’t have too many enemies at least at the beginning.

It’s a game I play in segments because I need to relax a certain amount of time. Of course that’s a lot of hype and if you go into it thinking all that, maybe you’ll get overhyped. But I saw Day9 stream the game and thought “it can’t be that bad” but it was actually pretty terrifying.

I think it’s one of the games that rather feels like it ‘gets’ HP Lovecraft as well.

I just won a free for all match (five life stock) in Super Smash Bros. Brawl against three level nines (AKA the hardest NPC level). I think the custom map confused them, but still:

AW YEAH