Just got New Vegas and the Penumbra pack. My backlog silently weeps.

So, I got a “Name Tag” in TF2. What should I name my Scattergun? Right now I’m considering, “Remarkable Fruit Killer.”

Just started playing LA Noire and it’s super fun!

...except it’s really, horribly laggy, no matter what I do. I’ve turned all the graphics settings to the lowest possible level (or, rather, I turned them to “Performance”, which I assume is “Low”), lowered the resolution, did some command line stuff people recommended on the Internet, all to no avail. :(

The game is still playable and very occasionally starts running smoothly, but it’s incredibly annoying. It’s also made me the worst driver ever, I keep running into people. I really hope my bosses never notice how many traffic citations I deserve…

lol garry’s mod

I couldn’t get quite the composition or color mix I wanted, but hey, I’m still new at this.

Also I know the Scout is using Sniper SMGs, shut up. It looked better with them than with the pistols.

Yeah, I still have no idea how to make any kind of movies. I’m plenty content trying to make cool still images though. Here’s two more that go together!

GMod is great. I wish I had more talent at composition and filmmaking, though.

I don’t think talent has much to do with compositional ability. You just need to play with it and find angles that look cool.

This spy is a smart spy.

But maybe not smart enough.

I kinda want to see if I can make a terrible comic with this in my not-working-on-my-novel-not-playing-cave-story-not-playing-Magic downtime.

Awwwww yeah.

Star Wars: Old Republic on PC, on sale for $45 at EB. Get, or no get?

edit: never mind, I didn’t realise it was MMO. I don’t do MMOs.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is on pre-order on steam. 10% off.

ME

NOT ME?

Also, I’m assuming nobody here has purchased Persona 4 Arena? Because it is awesome.

I have one Steam Community Beta invite, if anyone wants it.

First come, first served.

I finally got around to finishing Red Dead Redemption. (About 2 years after ti was relevant). I was a bit underwhelmed by the game as a whole. I remember a while back people were ranting and raving on about how sad the ending was, but to me it just felt hollow. Right now need to do some more thinking on the exact reasons, but it felt… cheap. Mass product. Like they put a “feel bad” sticker on several parts instead of letting the story speak for itself.

I also tried Slender recently. I’m a bit disappointed there as well. It’s more fun when you have people who like being scared for the sake of being scared playing with you. Not to say it wasn’t an admirable attempt. Good horror games are hard to make and rely quite a bit of graphics freeware games just can’t give you. The game play was actually extremely well set out, though having Slenderman just standing there didn’t do much for my horror elements. You can’t fear something that you can imagine is just standing around, bored. There’s no context to fear him in. Maybe if they added in a few bodies or something to indicate that he’s a threat.

Hoping to get a better paycheck soon to get some more recent games.

Oh good God, Marble Hornets.

I need to see that again.

I’ve seen Marble Hornets and think it’s an amazing webseries. I have yet to see EverymanHYBRID. I still have a hard time responding to the game itself. Which is a pity since I usually don’t care about good graphics, but here it subtracts from the experience. That combined with the fact your character moves as slow as molasses and there’s no real in game indicators that you should be worried kind of kills the experience for me. He’s to be feared just because he’s there.

Goths! Being able to train infantry 50% faster at a cheaper cost than other civilizations is awesome.

I haven’t been keeping up with the latest season. A very big part of me doesn’t want to. At all.

It became quite lame. I haven’t watched the last few dozen entries. Early on it was really good though. Slender Man is a great modern day folk legend.

I forgot how terrible I was at this game. :p

I was like halfway to advancing to the Castle age when I got attacked on both sides by the chinese and the Celts at the same time. I didn't stand a chance.

That's the last time I play with seven opponents. :'(

I also quite enjoy playing as the Byzantines. Imperial Age costs 33% less to upgrade, their buildings gain 10% HP each age (up to 40%), monks on your team heal 50% faster, pikemen cost 25% less and cataphracts are arguably the best unit in the game. If you can survive past the early and midgame you’re pretty much unstoppable.

Pfft, that’s what cavalry are for! Samurai destroy cataphracts and other unique units, but they get destroyed by paladins. :P

Eh, certain civilizations are certainly better than others. The Mayans are very, very popular in the competitive scene because of how good their eagle warriors are. Cheap, fast, high HP, high conversion resistance, high sight range and they haave bonus attack against cavalry and siege weapons.

But yeah, it’s a pretty balanced game overall. To this day Age of Empires 2 is my favorite RTS game of all time.

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Now my brother can do half-life.

Black Mesa is a source mod which re-creates Half-Life on the new source engine.

Is it a fan made thing?

Because Valve’s nice. And they probably aren’t making much money off the first half-life anymore.

I never played the first Half-Life, I might check it out.

I’m so glad I came here to find this ^ ^. Thought I’d be the only one who cared about Black Mesa. I’ve only been waiting for it since they started, pretty much. I may just have to skip our homecoming stuff just to go play it.

Your move, Valve. Half-Life 3 now?

Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn & Throne of Bhaal! It’s probably older than your PC, so you shouldn’t have any problems whatsoever running it. BG2 is widely regarded as the best computer role playing game of all time, and it kind of set the bar and the standard for the RPGs you mentioned above.

I know people are all “OOOH MORROWIND”, but Oblivion is pretty fun too, at least if you install all the fanmade patches so it actually works properly (and even then you still run into the occasional floating tree in the middle of the road…). So between Morrowind and Oblivion, that gives you two more enormous games to play. :) And it’s not all that hard on a computer (or shouldn’t be, with patches installed).

Jade Empire brings back memories.

Bastion by Supergiant Games is also worth a look, if you don’t mind linear stories. Lovely artwork, music, storytelling, and gameplay in one pretty package. A demo is also available for free on Chrome if you’re not sure you want to pay for the entire package.

Black Mesa is amazing. It’s completely beautiful, it’s loads of fun, and everyone should get it right now because it’s free. You have no excuse.

Although I never finished the original Half-Life, I still noticed that there are a few changes… I think some maps have been altered and weapon placements are different. I seriously thought I’d missed the crowbar at first, so if you feel like that, don’t worry, you didn’t miss it! I’m having a blast with it (appropriate, seeing as I’m currently in the Blast Pit chapter…), which is probably more a result of the original being awesome than the mod itself.

Where can you find Black Mesa for download? I have no moneies and need a new game. As long as it doesn’t require a high-end gaming PC.

Yeah, I’ve been playing it a bunch with all the settings on low, and while my computer normally can’t run most new games I’ve been fine—though the game lags a bunch when there’s fire or the like around.

Playing through RE6 mercenaries. It’s good all-around, but I still have a preference for RE5. I’m not sure if RE5 really nailed it, or if I just enjoyed it because I was good at it and haven’t acclimated to the new version.

Learn to knife, yo.

X-Com came out today, and I’m too broke to buy it. My brother has it, though, and keeps lording it over me. I guess I’ll just have to play some more Dark Souls.

THE SPACE-SIM RENAISSANCE HAS BEGUN!

http://backup-na.robertsspaceindustries.com//

Now give me Freespace 3 and I’ll be content.

That’s why I like Let’s Plays. It’s so entertaining to watch someone else play a game, unless you’ve beaten it before and therefore want to beat your head against a wall every time they get stuck on basic things. This is why I can’t watch Portal Let’s Plays.

I’m currently playing Dishonored, the first game I’ve gotten new in the last 2 years that costs more than 10$. So far, I regret getting it on the 360 and wish I had a better conputer so I could play it on the PC and see if it’s any better. The graphics aren’t very good in any direction, but I don’t play for graphics. What I do have some objections with is the gameplay. I kind of wsh they had included a light gem so I could better judge where I can and can’t be seen by enemies instead of relying on walls, guess work and turned backs as my barriers. I also don’t like the fact you’re kind of screwed on a minimum kill playthrough if you get caught. Not because the enemies are difficult, there’s just no way to lose them. I’ll probably mention more once I get further in the game, though my gamer pride says my first play through must be a no kill playthrough on very hard, so this might take a while.

I know that feeling. I steamrolled Normal Ironman(lol squad-sight double-tap sniper in archangel suit) and started a game on Classic Ironman two days ago. Took me two tries to beat the opening mission, and since then I’ve been steady hemorrhaging men over the first month and a half of the game. I think I’ve got one living soldier with a rank above Rookie right now, and his ass is laid up in the medbay for at least another week. My save is currently on the first turn of the my first Terror Mission, and my squad is four worthless rookies. I’m almost guaranteed to fail it at this point.

God I love XCOM.

I found a summary of xcom that was funny: A chess game with guns and plasma rifles featuring guys in Mass Effect armor trying to kill aliens from the 1980's. P.S. Soldier ME3 manliest class. Especially with a Renevant :D

Finally finished replaying ME3. The ending feels significantly better the second time around. Also, there was some actual closure this time, thanks to the extended ending, as opposed to “lol your ship crashed and a few people lived but you really have no idea what happened to anybody else, roll credits”.

For anyone that’s played Skyward Sword, listen to the main theme again. Then listen to this! :D

I avoided all trailers and info of the game pre-release, so I’m only figuring out this stuff now >.>

I swear it made the game more enjoyable, though!

Still a little upset about the Wild Mew I encountered in Safari Zone. Broke 10 of those useless Safari Balls before it ran away. I had a bunch of perfectly good Master Balls in my pocket. :( Also that lone Wild Tauros.

Cheater.

MASS EFFECT 3 DID NOT GIVE ME MY ACHIEVEMENT FOR WINNING ON INSANITY EVEN THOUGH I DEFINITELY CHANGED THE DIFFICULTY ON EARTH AND NEVER CHANGED IT AFTER THAT POINT

HARGLBLARGL

Oh well. I have the achievement in my heart, even if my game claims otherwise.

Did you have a save point at the end, or close to?

Try it again and see what happens.

Finished Dishonored. I really didn’t care much about the plot until the very end. I didn’t care much about most of the characters (minus the Outsider, who was only interesting because of how mysterious he was), though the gameplay was quite fun.

I kind of preferred the “bad” ending. It fit in with the feel of the rest of the game better than the good.

@organiclead – What I’ve seen of that game makes it look really fun, like Assassin’s Creed but with magic. True? I was thinking about picking it up when/if it goes on sale… although I keep saying that about Assassin’s Creed, too.

On that topic, anybody play AC3? I want it purely because I love American history (what can I say, I’m kinda biased) and an Assassin’s Creed game that takes place in sorta more recent times sounds cool.

I loved Day of the Tentacle; I actually still have the original CD and gamebox with everything in it. It was the first point and click I really, really enjoyed though I did play a few before that. The cast of characters was amazing, plus, they depicted Edison as a beer-belly with a penchant for kites. What’s not to love?

@Swenson: I tried to play AC1 but it got so intensely boring after a while that I found myself going back to command and conquer again. It DOES look good in the trailers but don’t they always? To be perfectly honest, the only game I’m waiting to play in the immediate future is Spec Ops: The Line.

You have no idea how much I prefer 90s Lucas Arts adventure games over Sierra and how happy I am that my gaming idol and creator of Day of the Tentacle, Tim Schafer, is making a new adventure game. It’s actually what started the whole Kickstarter crazy.

On Overlord, is it much more manageable on PC than the 360? I had it on the 360 but it was kind of terrible controlwise. I loved the plot, but the controls were bad enough I had to rage quit,

And Rhianna Pratchett did the writing. If that’s a selling point.

Oooh really? THAT is a selling point! I shall check it out, thank you Kyll!

Tim Schafer, is making a new adventure game.

Oh, I saw that, it was all over the gaming news. This guy is an utter genius. If Jeni was still around, we three could celebrate Indiana Jones, Grim Fandango, Psychonauts and Monkey Island together. Alas, she seems to be AWOL.