Robsturgh

The barbs are absolutely sublime if you are playing as Gilgamesh...

I absolutely love the game. Currently Gilgamesh in a marathon game; the weird AI has 4 civs declare war on me (including Egypt on the turn I met them) without actually sending anything so I just took my time and slowly crushed them. A couple of ages later I am real far ahead of everyone simply because I have SO much land; but now everyone has just gone huge on military and one by one started declaring war on me; and are slowly pushing me back into my own borders.

It's really fun.

I'm getting into those sorts of games again, been putting a bit of time into Pillars of Eternity recently, and that's a fucking hell of a game.

Alistair Brownlee is ridiculous

I have once again died during that race.

I wasn't able to survive the end of that race. I am dead. 

Yay! Atlus remembered us!

Thank fuck the wind has calmed down for the rowing. I was worried it might be called off again and I'd have to do some work.

13 hours ago, apsham said:

Starbound is officially released now and I have to say.. wow. I'm kind of staggered by everything that there is now.

It's kind of ridiculous right? I remember looking at some footage of it when it was first in early access and thinking "Nah, this'll never be as feature filled as Terraria". Bought it yesterday and ...holy shit they've done work to that thing. Mighty fine game now.

Please Atlus. Think of Europe. Just this once.

...I struggle on the easy settings...

Transport Tycoon is currently open source and is still a brilliant game.

On 3/9/2016 at 04:38, Ruki said:

I picked up Punch Club...it's.....ok. Seems more like a cellphone game. Gonna try and get a refund (the help site says I've played 2 hours, but my client says 111 minutes...)

It's weird. Like, I've played probably about 15 hours of it, and I can't really explain why. It's a bad game, you won't miss out by not continuing.

Just completed my first run. The destructible environments are excellent, and later on just fucking lobbing explosives everywhere creates a spectacle where just everything is fucking trashed and it looks amazing.

3 hours ago, Benji said:

Why does it feel like every other indie release at the minute is a shitty faux retro sodding rogue-like? More variance is needed, damnit.

It really is getting over-saturated at the moment, and there are some REALLY good ones out there (Dungeon of the Endless) that are just getting lost in the shuffle a bit.

Honestly I think this is going to make Oculus fall way behind Samsung and Sony (assuming the price point is better, I expect it will be) with that price point. It's a shame as well, they can't help it as they are already selling it below cost I believe, but this goes to show how far we still are from our dark dystopian VR future.

1. Undertale

2. Life is Strange

3. Metal Gear Solid 5

4. Until Dawn

5. Witcher 3

6. Axiom Verge

7. LISA

8. Dying Light

9. Super Mario Maker

10. Contradiction! Spot the Liar.

3 hours ago, Bobfoc said:

I think I see what you did there.

Totally intentional.

System Shock 2 is up there with my favourites ever, I am going to get irrationally excited about this.

On 12/1/2015, 4:52:44, Ruki said:

I may have just played the first game ever to give me motion sickness....Elite: Dangerous.

I've been working with the new Gear VR (Samsung's VR device because absolutely everyone has one now), and fuck me is this going to be a problem in the very near future. Programmed our mobile graphics demo to work in a VR environment and while it looks great, it made me feel seasick after a few minutes. 

...brb finding son.

38 minutes ago, Benji said:

I kind of get that, but it still doesn't make sense to me. In games where it "ends" once you go past a certain point then it'd be a fair note, but I don't think I can name an open world game that doesn't allow you to enter post-game and keep doing side quests you missed out on.

I actually think I need to try just mainlining the story in Fallout - and see what that experience is like. I've never really done it before simply because I'm a bit of a completionist; I always like to do most of the side stuff available before moving forward. It doesn't solve the problem I have with knowing what side stuff is worth doing though.

16 minutes ago, Benji said:

I find the point about not being linear enough sort of weird. They're as linear as you want them to be, that's the point. As soon as I get bored doing side quests I'll jump back into the main story and come back to side quests when I want.

My point is that I know that I'm missing out on good stuff then, it's the weird completionist in me that's a hold over from my teen years. I simply want to see the good shit, but don't know where it is! I admit, it's a bit of a weird problem and coupled with the impatience I have in games due to my time limitations; means I'm probably a fucking arse about games these days. I'm that guy.

I've really been enjoying Fallout 4, but I have a lot of the same problems with its content as I did with Witcher 3 - I just don't have tons of time anymore, and I don't know where the "good" side stuff is. So I find myself hurrying from location to location hoping to find something good, and getting annoyed when its just another "clear out this building of enemies and loot stuff". This feeling only intensified as I reached the more built up areas in both games, there was just so much to explore. If I had more time in my life other than the odd hour, I would love this. The actual combat in those games are good, but not good enough to make them enjoyable without contextual merit; I can't just run around Fallout or Witcher 3's world and have fun just messing dudes up without an end goal. (Bare in mind I've only just got to Diamond City - I've been told to push through that first bit and the game starts to get a bit crazier)

It's why I preferred MGS 5 and it's mission structure; you have a clear set of objectives and you pick the way you approach and complete them, throw in a little situational complications and you had a really fun moment-to-moment gameplay loop that was established. 

My opinion is probably going to change over Christmas on Fallout and Witcher (though I have fucking lost my Witcher 3 save after being a moron) as I'm putting aside some serious time to play them in the exploratory way I want to. 

So for me? These open world games are more restrictive for me than their linear counterparts because of the time I can put into them. Which sucks.

21 minutes ago, Quom said:

I don't like RPGs so I'm not that interested, I can't find out why everyone loves it so much without risking spoilers which would make me even less interested.

I would say that if you do plan to play it, try to go in as blind as possible.