[GrimmSweeper]

I've seen the teleportation bug in action a couple times. Hilariously, it left one Muton far, far away from his squad of three when he was the only one to spot my squad and the others 'ported off before the 'we've spotted you' script triggered. The other occasion I had a group of Floaters appear on a house stoop where I had like three dudes taking cover nearby during a Terror mission; the Floaters didn't last long. It hasn't got to the point where it blows up in my face, but I'll bear it in mind.

Yet to see it crash, however!

The tricky bit is the time between just starting out and full satellite coverage. Then it's just a matter of coasting until you feel ready to push on the required missions.

[Broco]

Keep in mind the alien level scales up with your technology, not with time. So you should "coast" by leveling up your soldiers and engineers and go easy on the research (don't build many laboratories). I'm not sure what the precise technology breakpoints for alien level-up are, unfortunately. (BTW I just hate this kind of scaling, it's the exact opposite of fair and balanced.)

[BotageL]

Honestly, I think the harshest "scaling" is event mission triggered. Once psychic enemies start appearing, you have to get resistant troops basically immediately or you're going to fall into an inescapable loop of successive failures. Since I insist on playing Classic Ironman, I've still not gotten past that point...
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

so while messing around with a bunch of other stuff while not doing the things I should be doing, I was checking out Sennou/Sen-Know, even though it's a pretty dumb idea because this particular computer is pretty unstable, not well-equipped for MAME and in most attempted Sennou sessions totally freaked out for one reason or another.

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But anyway I was just glancing at the playable characters in the CPU versus mode (which originally caught my eye due to the Doronjo-alike among them), and I decided to pick the sort of Dracula-ish vampire dude to see more art of him.


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I was kind of disappointed to see he's not really that Dracula-ish, but I was surprised by the fact that his first match is always against a character you can't select, at least not without some code or something. Who is it?





Fucking Edward Randy, the Cliffhanger!





what the fuck?





Bear in mind that his game came out in 1990 and the arcade Sennou game came out in 1999, so it makes sense that he's no longer a teenager.





Wikipedia says that 1999 was when Data East tried to pull itself together (only to die four years later), and that included licensing stuff to other companies for $$$. Also, Kusuu Kougaku Corp. was apparently tight with Data East since the company was founded in 1991, and they were the ones who developed the game for Kaneko. I think? Maybe?

anyway, that's your thing of the day.

[Mr. Mechanical]

I'm either right at or almost at 50% in Liberty City Stories and I just got to the second island. So most of the side missions are on the first island with the story missions apparently spread out pretty evenly if I'm guessing correctly. At first I was thinking that half of the game takes place on the first island which was strange (but not really since I guess most people who play GTA probably never get off the first island anyway), but I guess they just stuck more side missions on the first island for whatever reason. There were a lot of side missions is what I'm saying.

Also the races seem more difficult than usual. The RC races in particular were giving me trouble but I finally figured out that with the RC cars going full speed is a terrible idea because you just lose control too often and keep getting behind. Instead you just need to take it slow and careful, get the lead in the beginning and then hang onto it, and you're golden. This is usually how most GTA checkpoint races go but the RC races are harder because those damn toy cars have such tight turn radii.

I'm going to fire it up again in a bit before getting to bed and try and collect as many of the hidden packages as I can because I haven't done any of that yet and I would really like some weapons and armor at my safe house. There are many places to grab some armor in the city at large but the story missions are starting to get more challenging in terms of damage dealt to the player and I would like the convenience of being able to armor up at the save spots. Really wish the newer GTAs still did this where collecting the hidden packages gives you weapons and stuff at your safe house. Maybe it'll be back in GTA V but I'm doubting it.
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[CubaLibre]

Nooo hidden packages are the worst thing in any GTAlike, easily.

One of the problems RDR fixed (RDR fixed all the problems mostly).
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[Jigsaw]

That Edward Randy appearance blows my mind :O

[Take It Sleazy]

[Deets]

Holy shit, DAIS, that's the best

[GrimmSweeper]

[Predator Goose]

Just beat Xcom on normal myself. God I love rocket snipers and crit-immune assaults. And SHIVs. Those glorious, bastard, disposable SHIVs. Jumped right back into classic and I'm looking forward to it. I've been screwed so many times with glitches though I'm not about to do a true Ironman playthrough, just the pseudo self-imposed Ironman someone already mentioned.

I always lose one country the first month. This time it was Germany. Just can't crank out those satellites fast enough or can't juggle the invasions well enough.
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[Mr. Mechanical]

[shrugtheironteacup]

RDR still has the occasional stranger mission that requires BRING 900 OF THING X and 700 OF THING Y and so on. It's collect the mobile meat packages which, if you're not really pumped about virtual animal shooting, can get pretty tedious.

Optional, but so are the hidden package percentage boosters.
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[CubaLibre]

But you actually have to do something, i.e. hunt the animal by learning its range and then actually kill it using combat, not just wander around and find 100 randomly placed things in a massive and undifferentiated environment. Also, it's not 900. It's like 10. That distinction is important.
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[luvcraft]

I just finished Chulip. I guess it would've been technically possible to beat it just using in-game hints and LOTS of trial and error, which is more or less how I was trying to play it the first time, but I had a much more enjoyable experience relying heavily on FAQs.
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[Glam Grimfire]

has anyone here played dungeon hearts on steam
i picked it up during the steam sale that recently ended for indie games not expecting much, but gosh is it an addicting, frustrating mess of a puzzle game
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[Rud31]

Just finished Apollo Justice. Which I liked a lot more than Edgeworth even though some of the connections and the ulitmate reveal were trite.
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[CubaLibre]

I really like Borderlands 2 and will rep for it against sbtaste, but only, only, only in co-op. I can't imagine playing it alone.
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[misadventurous]

yeah that's how i felt about the first one. it's just sort of boring in singleplayer, and i never got into it until a buddy convinced me to (he even said "yeah don't play it one-player it's not as fun).

[thestage]

you can actually feel your brain getting better at super hexagon

mario 3d land is quite a bit better than I had any right to think

luigi's mansion 2 feels like the start of something proper. as mario is about precision and exploration, so there could and maybe should be a general luigi series about inspection and atmosphere

[Felix]

if you think Mario 3D land is surprisingly decent, try the past couple of sonic titles!

[thestage]

lets not get ahead of ourselves, felix

[Bape Escape]

[Rud31]

Battlefield 3 is cool.
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i'm glad it's more battlefield but i'm not happy with how it was handled at all and none of the maps are very entertaining. we just find things to do that are marginally productive and giggle like schoolchildren, usually while engaging in some kind of vehicle+remote C4 hijinks. the dirtbikes are....fun
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[special blend]

damn Pokemon White and those stupid weather animations

my only complaint!
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[Swarm]

Today I played Papers Please. It's the most original 'puzzle game' I've played in a while and the aesthetic is great.

You're an immigration officer in a turbulent 1980s Eastern Europe, and you have to check people's visas for discrepancies before you can let them into the country. If they check out, you stamp their visa with APPROVED and let them though, but if they're dodgy, you don't let them in. At the start of the game, you need to check for like, if their visa is valid or if it has suspicious things (wrong photo, wrong gender etc;). By the end of the game, you're checking for smuggled goods and weapons, checking if they have a work permit, or detaining them if they start saying weird stuff. But, you have to do all this quickly, because you get paid depending on how many people you process, and your wage barely covers the rent, gas, food and occasionally medicine for your son. But if you make too many mistakes, your pay gets penalized.

There is also some Tecmo's Deception morality stuff going on, where you can choose to overlook things (such as a mother visiting her sick son, or a wife not having the correct paperwork right after you clear her husband for entry). Anyway, it's in Beta now and you can play up to Day 8 (of a planned 30 apparently).

[boojiboy7]

Yep, Resonnance of Fate is still really great, even having to restart it. Like riding a bicycle.

[Ymer]

[smartblue]

[Guillotine]

[boojiboy7]

To be fair, it took me about 15 hours the first time I played the game to totally "get" combat. It was just funny how i restarted the game recently, and I just remembered what to do as a basic strategy. Who to put where/when, when to execute the Delta/Triangle attack, etc.

This game is so good.

[another god]

[GrimmSweeper]

Started into Dishonored and it just isn't clicking with me. I'm always for games with sneaking mechanics but I just can't care for this cliche of a plot:

1. Sent away for months for IMPORTANT MISSION.
2. Come back home to find it's in a terrible state.
3. Events occur to establish your 'guilt' in POLITICAL THING.
4. Get thrown in prison, tortured and established the main antagonists. (They don't have mustaches to twirl, but if they did they would be spinning them madly)
5. Some mysterious organization allows you to free yourself.
6. Your job is now to OVERTHROW THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT 'cause you are the ONLY man who can.

Oh, and sidebar

A. You get mysterious MAGIC from some dude who's been watching FOREVER for that ONE man. You seem to fit his description!

I stopped just after coming into the city proper because it was making me a bit nauseous (if I haven't played an FPS in a while, it starts hitting me).

[BotageL]

The plot in Dishonored's pretty terrible, but it has a few amusing moments, and the actual gameplay's pretty fun.
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[nuttyevans]

Damn I've had Dishonored sitting here since Christmas and keep forgetting to start it. Oh well it can wait until Bioshock is done.

[Moogs]

Just played the really ugly and horrible Double Dragon II remake on XBLA. The boss battle featured a knockdown meter for the boss or some such, so you can't do any real damage to him until you get the meter down, but it immediately regenerates - and really quickly - when you're not hitting him. But the whole thing was just choppy and sluggish, anyway.

Gonna try the new game from The Behemoth now.

[Mr. Mechanical]

Finished Liberty City Stories to 100%. There was a side mission, the last one I did, called See the Sight Before Your Flight that you took from a booth outside the airport. You had to take a tourist on one last sight seeing run before they left on the plane. There were twelve levels, each timed, and each tourist wants to go see a specific spot and get their picture taken. You got a little bonus for taking a good picture. I really liked doing these because they showed off city landmarks that you might otherwise not pay much attention too.

Also in Vice City Stories when you do the taxi missions it's not always just take someone from point A to B. Sometimes you take them to a store and wait for them to shop and then take them to their destination. Sometimes they rob the store while inside and you have to help them evade the police. And sometimes they have you follow another car to whatever location it's driving to but you have to remain undetected. I liked that they thought to spice things up like that. Currently at 3% on Vice City Stories.
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