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!

Edited by Dayvenkirq - May 07 2013 at 21:14

Ahh, Heavy Gear. I still have my Heavy Gear 2 disc around here somewhere. Hell of a game. Haven't figured out how to make it run on 7, though.

MillsLayne wrote: heyitsthatguy wrote: playing the original Bioshock- still holds up as fantastic   I am, too, and I agree.  It's still stellar compared to today's games, although the controls took a little bit to get used to again since I had just stopped playing Infinite.  Otherwise, it's nice to visit Rapture once again.

Story's pretty sound and some of the visuals are glorious (and maybe the best start to a shooter since HL-2 came out), shame they didn't really do anything with the free-roaming gameplay aside from making you backtrack every now and then - I honestly thought 2 was better designed from that angle. Also, the original the laziest final boss.

Barbu wrote: Resting in Riverwood Level 77

http://kotaku.com/the-next-xbox-is-called-xbox-one-509069410

MillsLayne wrote: In the past two days, I managed to pick up Borderlands GOTY, Metro 2033 and Saints Row The Third on PC for $25 total.  I've got some gaming to do now.

Borderlands with friends actually surprisingly fun. I wouldn't enjoy it at all SP I think but it's a great coop experience. The console launch was hilarious but also, no backwards compatibility... I mean, that should be the first priority. Also, I've been playing more XCom... god that is an addictive game, even if I wish they'd do a proper DLC rather than Slingshot which I almost bought for the hats but didn't actually want the missions on. Planning to move to ironman impossible and name all of my characters after conservative politicians.

TheProgtologist wrote: http://kotaku.com/the-next-xbox-is-called-xbox-one-509069410 So many things about this new console pisses me off,but restricting used games and charging fees to allow other people in my home to play a game I BOUGHT is the icing on the cake. f**k you Microsoft!  Either moving on to a PS4 or a good gaming computer.

This is too great:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/21/sony-stock-up-nine-percent-after-xbox-one-reveal

...and someone posted a time-breakdown of it -- the jump is genuinely during the XB1 reveal. Verified it myself. Given that the news about spinning off SME was at the beginning of the day, it's hard not to see that this stock jump isn't a direct result of the clusterf**k that we saw yesterday. Everyone is jumping on the Sony bandwagon because Microsoft seems to have forgotten that the point of a gaming console is to be a f**king gaming console. It's not an HTPC, and nobody uses HTPCs anyway. The resurgence of the used-games-ban and always-online rumours are really just icing on the cake.

Honestly, Microsoft REALLY should have waited until E3 for the reveal. It needs games behind it and it needs press that isn't comprised solely of gamers who are down on every single idea presented yesterday.

//EDIT:  I just had to repost this:




Edited by Gamemako - May 22 2013 at 13:55

MillsLayne wrote: Triceratopsoil wrote: Real gaming has been exclusive to PC for quite some time, now Nah, the 360/PS3/Wii generation was pretty awesome.  Tons of new and great IP's were started on these consoles.  Depending on how this new generation goes, PC might win out, but honestly, it seems that PC gaming has been struggling just a little bit in the past few years in terms of support and exclusivity.

Whaaa

I dunno 'bout you, but if you want to play anything indie the PC is the platform to do it on and the last year or two has had a phenomenal mixture of indie and mid-sized games being better than all the rubbish AAA industry stuff. Similarly if you want to get games reasonably priced - I don't think I've seen anything since Red Dead Redemption that I might have wanted on PC but didn't get ported. That said, I'm mostly a PC games sort of fella anyway.


Edited by TGM: Orb - May 22 2013 at 16:21

Fair enough - PCs are a bit of a hassle (especially the multiplayer - I sometimes end up spending all the time I've been planning to play with the friend trying a ton of LAN negotiator things instead). Conversely, I quite like that when something goes wrong with a PC game you can usually just fiddle around with it and mod it until it works. On a console, particularly for big open-worldy RPG things which are just too big to play-test well, if something screws up it's pretty hard to fix it. Is it just me who finds the whole social media thing jammed into consoles pretty eerie... I mean, they should really learn from Steam, which manages to get more and more persuasive and intrusive while feeling more and more like my friend.

Edited by TGM: Orb - May 23 2013 at 19:33