[BotageL]

Wait, they removed the Down state? Is this even Gears of War anymore?
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[Brooks]

It gets sillier: Active reloads are outta there and one's loadout is now either a lancer/hambo/retro lancer or a shotgun

Think this is all in the service of making the game faster but honestly I was drawn to Gears because it was a bit of a plod

Going all Gears3Arena was certainly a sound notion but they've pruned more than they shoulda

[Moogs]

I take it you guys are talking strictly multiplayer?

[BotageL]

[thestage]

[Brooks]

Shirtless Grub all day

[firenze]

[Ronnoc]

I had not paid much attention to Judgement because I figured it would just be more Gears, but you guys are doing a good job of scaring me away ITT

[luvcraft]

[Rud31]

6 years late I finally tried Facade which uh..immediately fell apart because I couldn't stay in character and immediately tried to test my boundaries.

Weird that they kept calling me by my name though.

edit: for a bad time search Facade on the IC Archive and see everyone fight like children. Then realize that fight was again 6-7 years ago.
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[thestage]

[nuttyevans]

Just stick a little bandana thing to where the character's head is on the screen and you might as well be playing as Fenix.

I'm going through the new God of War and it's a good time and surprisingly challenging. There are a few unfortunate moments where the camera zooms way out to show you some SCALE and it's kind of hard to see what is going on but otherwise I'm having fun with it.

[stotelheim]

kim is definitely the coolest gears character to play as, is he in judgement?
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[Loki Laufeyson]

it's odd that they called that one collection "alex kidd & co.", since revenge of shinobi and super hang on are both vastly superior games to alex kidd in miracle world
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[parker]

Replaying Wing Commander 4. Veterans only on my wing. You didn't do time with me in the kilrathi war you're not doing crimes with me in the border worlds.
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[CONSUME_PRODUCTS]

got through what i imagine is most of metal gear rising in a couple of sittings yesterday, it's fun playing a metal gear that's actually content with being a videogame

also recently played: the first couple hours of vagrant story, which is intimidating even for someone who generally adores matsuno & the original shin megami tensei - a game which really fucking needs an interface overhaul (though i understand the later ports did some work on this?)

[Mr. Mechanical]

So the GTA "Stories" games and component cable for PS2 arrived way earlier than I was expecting so I'm getting on with it. I am kind of amazed at how much clearer and sharper and generally better PS2 games look running through component rather than just AV. I kind of want to go back and replay a bunch of games now just to see how much better they look but I sold off most of my PS2 games over the years so I only have a select few left. I might start a new game of FFXII at some point after I'm done with these GTAs.

Speaking of which they are much better than I remembered. Visually they're pretty rough and low poly yet with real time reflections on vehicles and better draw distances than their original counterparts. But really it's the little tweaks that make the difference, like how in Vice City Stories the odd jobs like Vigilante and Paramedic and etc. checkpoint every five levels so you can tackle them in chunks rather than having to do it all at once like usual. That speaks to the games nature as a portable handheld title originally. Liberty City Stories has more Chatterbox with Lazlow so I'm quite happy with that even though I already listened to all it while doing Taxi missions yesterday. The radio shows being shorter also speaks to the game originally being a handheld title.

I had also forgotten about the empire building aspect in Vice City Stories. It's kind of a combination of the turf wars from San Andreas and the business assets from Vice City in that you have to take over a business from a rival gang by killing a set number of waves of gang members at the business location. After that you can develop it into a criminal racket of some sort, either money laundering, drug dealing or prostitution (and maybe a couple others I can't remember) and develop it into either a small, medium or large scale operation. There's no real difference between the types other than the payout unfortunately. Running a large scale operation doesn't bring with it any greater danger than a small scale one, for instance, but it would have been neat if it had been like that.

I also really like how certain buildings or areas of the city are completely different from the way they originally appeared, and how these changes are explained and expounded upon in the games fiction. Like how Liberty City has a ferry because the underground tunnel connecting the first two islands isn't complete yet or how Vice City has a trailer park next to the car dealership that gets demolished and cleaned out by the time Tommy Vercetti shows up.

Anyway I've only played a little bit of each so far but I think I'll focus on Liberty City Stories first.
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[luvcraft]

Because its mentions in the hangoutitude thread coincided with my recent endeavor to (re)start the ball rolling on a similar project, I'm replaying Chulip. It's not quite as bad as I remembered, which might be due to the fact that I've played La Mulana since the last time I played it, which taught me that for some games it's totally OK to play with a FAQ open. Especially in Chulip's case, where the entire manual is a walkthrough. I honestly suspect that they did a really bad translation job, and lost most of the puzzle clues in the process, and then realized it at the last minute and someone had the brilliant idea of shoving all of that information into the manual.

EDIT: Also, naming the koala "Eucalyptuski" instead of "Kowalski" has to be one of the greatest translation opportunity fails ever.
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[Felix]

I tried out the Banner Saga. works nicely in Wine, but seems pretty dry.

[ionustron]

Weird, how far is the game along? Heard some not great things about the beta.

[Felix]

I understand that the multi is out of beta, but the campaign still isn't done?

in any case, not enough interesting variables. good thing about Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed or I don't think I'd have really put any time into anything new so far this year!

[Brooks]

Just about done with Ridic Fishing, think I've about 10 or so seabeasts yet to snag and then I will never play it agaaaaain

The writing is endearing

[Toups]

ridiculous fishing is my goty so far
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[remote]

I hear rumors that it may actually get an android port. Fingers crossed.
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[Talbain]

[SuperWes]

[Felix]

maybe so, but calling an Android port of any game a bad idea as a blanket statement isn't going to get anyone anywhere. Android is still technically ascendant right now, as opposed to iOS, the Humble Bundle folks are happy to support indie development on Android, and cross-platform development is getting easier.

[Loki Laufeyson]

wow, night striker s has so many of my videogame fetishes:

-sprite scaling

-pixel cityscapes

-soundtrack by zuntata

-looks like an 80s cyberpunk oav

everybody go and play night striker s
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[firenze]

[internisus]

[CubaLibre]

[remote]

night striker s is v rad
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[Mikey]

I saw

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[GrimmSweeper]

I blitzed through XCOM: Enemy Unknown last weekend. My second failure was pretty hilarious in hindsight but at the time I had to stop playing for a bit and start over the next day. During an Alien Invasion shortly after Mutons were introduced as enemies I had brought along a SHIV to see how they fared against an alien attack. My Support and a Heavy broke off to engage a squad of Mutons that damaged it while I sent the SHIV around a store to see I could flank them. My Heavy lined up a rocket and misfired, straight into the Support and gibbed him without touching the Muton. Welp, that's what 90% hit rate was going to be like, I figured, so I continued onward.

The SHIV and another Heavy was ready to ambush the second Muton coming out the back of the store a couple turns later. The SHIV missed and I needed to kill it before it destroyed that little robot so I readied another rocket. I'm sure you knew what happened next. That mission I was more of a threat to myself than the enemy was.

Pretty good game, though. The fixed missions on the alien vessels were sort of letdowns because they were balanced against you but I still managed to pull a win in Ironman Normal. And I still have the urge to play more!

[Mikey]

[Broco]

[GrimmSweeper]

Yeah, I tested the waters knowing full well that the aliens got a boost in their hit/crit rates. Still Ironman because it dovetails easily into how I play these games. Second alien abduction wiped out half my squad in two turns because I wasn't careful and revealed two groups of Grays in the same general area. Then after clamping down and playing safe, reaction shots let me down and let them take my Sniper and Rookie without losing their scout Gray. =/

It wasn't going anywhere but south, I sort of fucked up my satellite build order earlier on.

[CubaLibre]

I wouldn't play on Ironman anyway. The game is still buggy, and it's preposterous to lose soldiers in tense situations because of bugs. Also it likes to crash. So I'd just enforce Ironman on my own but save before every mission and reload if I got screwed by a bug.
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