Video & PC Game Discussion

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Oh, Man Overboard, LOVING your retro collection! I'm very out of touch with modern games (although I do occasionally play them), I'm much more at home discussing the endless classics on Nintendo's old systems, Atari, Sega Master System, Gameboy, etc....or even better, those wonderful old Sierra Games like Kings Quest, Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, etc! I've thought about starting a Vintage/Retro games thread!

lots of Team Fortress 2. Half of the time I kick ass, the other half I play pathetically.
Pretty much the same for most FPS I play, actually.

heyitsthatguy wrote: playing the original Bioshock- still holds up as fantastic

Most recent collection of timewasters:

Dishonored

Dead good - might just have the best environment design in a 3d game ever, has some interesting concepts (say, randomisation of things in-game to give you a lot of replay value... the chaos system which leaves less enemies to dodge around if you're doing a sneaky, no-murders playthrough), and the gameplay is very rich and dynamic. Shame they screwed up the voice-acting and could've been improved a lot by more attention to storytelling and characterisation, but still probably worth a play or two.

Dawn of War 2: Retribution (campaign only so far) - weird one, has basically accepted the problem of the first game, which is that the campaign wasn't at all related to the actual RTS gameplay and just left you either steamrolling with a silly amount of resources stacking up or waiting for resources to refill so you could get your little band of heroes to go out and roll stuff over again. Consequently, the campaign gameplay is much more openly RPGish, has a lot of cool upgrades for things and lets you just get right back to fighting once you've embarrassed yourself by dying. It is basically impossible to flat-out lose (and I started on hard difficulty, then went up to the impossible one on the second try) once you get some of the fun wargear and abilities. I'm not sure it's actually impossible even before that, since you can just get back whatever you lose. It's an interesting solution to the problem that relic campaign gameplay has had and much better than the halfway house of the original Dawn of War but I'm not entirely convinced it was a good move for RTS games to make campaigns not designed around their core gameplay in order to tell more bloated, expensive and dramatic fictional storylines. Age of Empires 2 continues to be the best RTS campaigns I've played.

The fact the campaign is pretty similar and reuses a lot of assets for basically everyone but is clearly designed with the space marines in mind creates a lot of absurdity if you're not playing with them; if you are, there's a mixture of alright storytelling in a universe which has trouble holding it. The Chaos from the Warhammer and 40K universes are a painfully boring and humourless antagonist...

Company of Heroes 2 closed beta - very promising, needs a little balance and design tweaking (a few things in particular), some very good bugfixing happened, hoping they make the peer-to-peer havoc much less prevalent than it's been in relic's previous games.

Incredipede - odd little indie creature creator game. Nice music and artstyle but didn't really enjoy it.

Loving Pinball Arcade, Zen Pinball and Dust 514 on the PS3.

Been playing Planescape: Torment though now. Jesus these old RPGs are unforgiving. I have no idea what to do a lot of the time. Walkthrough in hand as I go about it (so to speak). But there is a lot of depth, so I know it's rewarding. 

It's being considered a masterpiece so far - i'm excited.

TheProgtologist wrote:

I'm jealous. I haven't even gotten Radiant Dawn because I don't have a Wii. I wish Nintendo and Intelligent Systems would release PC ports.

am i allowed to post on here as i play xbox 360?.......anyways.....i just started playing dead space.....the first one as i got it for under a fiver......nice and jumpy......especially in the dark...

Joined steamgroup. Haven't had much time for gaming lately.