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[s0]

cool! now i regret passing up on this game when it was on sale because it sounds quite good. :/

may still get it

[Sentaro]

Currently playing lots of Chakan: The Forever Man, Super Metroid, and Elder Scrolls online.

[ProgramGamer]

Playing Starcraft 1.

Why doesn't Blizzard advertise it as a much better intro to RTS mechanics than Starcraft II? It's a much better intro to RTS mechanics than Starcraft II.

[MeshGearFox]

I got the PSX version of G. Darius and was playing that for awhile. It's cool but apparently the Taito Legends 2 US/JP versions had better ports of it, so'p.

[s0]

holy piss, one of the most underrated roguelikes in history, caves of qud, is not only alive it's on STEAM: http://store.steampowered.com/app/333640/

it's early access right now and theyre in the process of upgrading from ascii to graphical tiles, but if you can put up with the graphics and interface this is one of the best roguelike/rpg hybrids (meaning roguelikes with an overworld, towns, quests and a story progression) in existence with an original setting and a billion ways to customize your character.

i guess the reason the devs released the more casual (but also very good) sproggiwood was to port the qud engine over to multiple platforms and fund the further development of qud after it was basically vaporware for years.

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just finished Vox Populi Vox Dei(a werewolf thriller): Episode 2 since it was in sale in steam. (took me 1h, reasonable for 1$24)

The game continues the 2009 flash game and another episode is still to come.
I don't know if i really enjoyed playing the game as it was quite punishing. but the nostalgia from the flash game was here. Could only recommend to however enjoyed Vox Populi episode 1.

(awkward controls btw. adsw to move and spacebar to jump/action.)

[Alevice]

I restarted a Long War run on XCOM, this time with a friend and I taking the controller every other battle, with one of us directing the other. Its a great faux coop experience, and we have managed to keep minimal losses so far, except when we got over one of the crashed ufo mid city missions, and an Outsider obliterated all our rookies and one SHIV, with only two specialist making it to the LZ to evacuate.

[ThemsAllTook]

Just got into the Archives in Legend of Grimrock 2. Question for those of you who've played it and gotten that far: Did you solve the language puzzle on your own, or look it up someplace? I'm super curious how many players have actually gone through the process of solving it.

[Dinomaniak]

Thems All Took :
- in LOG and LOG2 : usually I did the following thing - whenever I face a quest, I try to solve it on my own. After about 5-15 minutes, if I can't figure it out, I run the walkthrough - don't have that much time as a full time indie dev.

During those 5-15 minutes I go through a lot of trial and error, and love that part :D . Most of the quests, I solved. The really difficult ones that take a long long time to figure ( there are a lot of those in LOG2 ), I ran the walkthrough.

If you're referring to the scrolls puzzle, I figured it out with trial and error .

[ThemsAllTook]

The pressure plate sequence to open the gates to the archives is what I meant, should've been more specific. I found it really satisfying to work through it and figure it out, but it's the sort of thing I can imagine not a lot of players having the patience to decipher on their own time.

Edit: Never mind, I've been told I'd have gotten a decoding key item later in the game. Guess I did it the hard way!

[s0]

Tropico 5 is ok. It's nothing super new, basically just Tropico 4 with Civ/Age of Empires-like elements. You advance through multiple eras, research techs and so on. As a result of this, the game's sandbox mode (don't care about campaigns in gams like this, they always feel contrived to me) is more tightly structured than is normally the case for city builders. You still have a lot of freedom, but the requirements to advance to the next era keep you somewhat focused on a goal. You also get a constant trickle of quests from various factions.

Unfortunately the game lacks content compared to the previous entries in the series and the DLCs seem like a ripoff. Also the humor falls almost completely flat. I mean, there are some funny zingers here and there, mainly the research messages, which make fun of how ridiculous the idea of researching techs in a game with this sort of theme is. Yay for self awareness i guess? Unfortunately, the political "satire" has about the depth of a kiddie pool. Every single joke boils down to "hehehehe those crazy corrupt dictators amirite" and it gets real old real fast. Not that the previous Tropico games were much deeper, but it's somehow especially grating in this one.

[Nillo]

Reactions to FFXIV so far:
1. This game plays incredibly well with a gamepad. Maybe that's to be expected because Squeenix is a console company but still. Mad props to them for the gamepad control scheme because I never felt like I had to reach for the mouse to click on something.
2. Everybody wants me to deliver something for them. My God why can't they walk four steps to the right and hand over the item themselves instead of asking an armed soldier to do it.
3. Love the class switch feature and the fact that you only need to make one character to do everything in the game.

That said I didn't mind fetching items for the NPCs too much because it's so smooth to move around with the gamepad. It also helps that the writing is pretty darn good so you can still enjoy listening to what someone has to say when they ask you to fetch them a tube of toothpaste for the twentyseventh time.

[Tanner]

if i were going to get into an mmo, it would definitely be ffxiv.

i finally got majora's mask 3d. that game still owns.

[ProgramGamer]

Yeah, Majora's Mask is one of the best Zelda games, but I think I'm done with the series at this point. I've played every official game, beat most of them and I am sick and tired of the combat and puzzle formula. A link between worlds was fun to replay recently, but that's about it.

[SirNiko]

It's a shame that so much of Chulip is waiting around for people to show up only to have them punch you in the face when you try to kiss them.

But, just like in real life, if you stalk them for enough consecutive days they'll fall for you.

[MeshGearFox]

Dicking around with PS2 emulation.

PS2 emulation is weird, although I think I got the PS2 port of G-Darius doing what I want it to do. That and RayStorm work brilliantly -- the other stuff I'm probably gonna have to run on real hardware.

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Recently released puzzle platformer: Retsnom

mirror mechanism is well executed in this game and the puzzles are really challenging.

[s0]

replaying valkyria chronicles on pc.

i wish there was an xcom game with VC's battle system. or a VC with xcom base building.

[Keops]

Dicking around with PS2 emulation.

PS2 emulation is weird, although I think I got the PS2 port of G-Darius doing what I want it to do. That and RayStorm work brilliantly -- the other stuff I'm probably gonna have to run on real hardware.

I fiddled around with PS2 emulation a while ago and got to run Vanillaware's Odin Sphere in full HD. Damn, it looks beautiful. And now they are remaking it for PS3/PS4 and Vita with new features.

What are you trying to do ("other stuff") that can't be done on the emulator? The emulation is not perfect but it's good enough for many games. Shadow of the Colossus bumped to 1080p looks great too (not to mention you can solve the horrible framerate drops with a good PC

[MeshGearFox]

Dicking around with PS2 emulation.

PS2 emulation is weird, although I think I got the PS2 port of G-Darius doing what I want it to do. That and RayStorm work brilliantly -- the other stuff I'm probably gonna have to run on real hardware.

I fiddled around with PS2 emulation a while ago and got to run Vanillaware's Odin Sphere in full HD. Damn, it looks beautiful. And now they are remaking it for PS3/PS4 and Vita with new features.

What are you trying to do ("other stuff") that can't be done on the emulator? The emulation is not perfect but it's good enough for many games. Shadow of the Colossus bumped to 1080p looks great too (not to mention you can solve the horrible framerate drops with a good PC

Keops, basically I was messing with Taito Legends 2 -- RayStorm and G-Darius were recoded for the PS2 and they work perfectly with uspcaling and everything. The older 2D games, however, are already running under emulation and don't like being doubly-emulated I guess -- also the graphics plugins settings you need for RayStorm and G-Darius make the sprites in the 2D games break*.

Also I've been playing Tales of Rebirth in PCSX2, too. I get an unstable framerate in combat if I run it with the DX10 (Hardware) plugin. At the same time, though, if I run with the software plugin, battles are fine but the overworld only runs at 30FPS, which wouldn't be a problem but it makes the music sound weird. I thought setting the music to async would make it independent of the FPS, but I guess not :S I think I just need to hit F9 to flip between the two as necessary.

(Also ToR is crashing on loading stuff fairly often and I doooon't know why. I was previously loading the iso via PCSX2 instead of mounting it via daemontools and booting it that way. Otherwise it happened with a variety of settings so I can't really say any audio/visual/speedhack thing was causing it. I made the rip myself and didn't see any errors, so it shouldn't be a bad rip).

(Re: Disclaimer: I own legal copies of these things).

(* Not that big of a deal since there is a preeeetty high amount of filler on TL2, and 99% of the reason I went with it is cause the PSX versions of G-Darius and RayStorm don't really work right).