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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 10:33 am
by Parama
The hard part about the Meat Circus was that you used to have to restart the entire thing if you game over'd, but the steam version only makes you restart the section you were on (I think?) so it's not as frustrating.
Doesn't make the level design better but it's a step in the right direction.

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:31 pm
by Oman
Elite Dangerous is pretty awesome :)

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:22 am
by ChannelDelibird
Seen some reviews for Dragon Age: Inqusition lately that have me intrigued. I love a lot of what BioWare's put out over the years but I got stuck in what I think was the early-mid game of Origins and wasn't gripped enough to go back and get myself out of it so never finished, nor played DA:II. I do love being able to transfer save data through a series, though, so I guess my question is: How significant an impact does the save transfer make on the Inqusition experience? Are we talking characters alive/dead as in Mass Effect or just a few references here and there? Worth my time overall to make the effort for the whole series or just play Inquisition blind?

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:17 am
by Sudo_Nym
Dragon Age is a lot less continuity dependent than Mass Effect, I feel. Mass Effect was a single narrative across a trilogy, while Dragon Age is unrelated stories in the same world. There's a lot of back story and such to be gained from importing saves, but nothing like "Garrus is dead in this playthrough". There's also the Dragon Age Keep, which allows you to build a save to import without playing the previous games (since DA:I is on a new engine that doesn't support importing directly from the older games).

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 3:53 pm
by Untrod Tripod

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 5:10 pm
by LlamaFluff
In post 1588, theaceofspades wrote:I haven't actually noticed much team creating based on rank at all. Seems fairly random. Though it's possible i'm just not yet good at picking out stacks.


I reached the frustration part because I keep getting stuck in unbalanced against me games. Had a run of about an hour where everyone I matched was semi-pro or pro ranked. It does seem like its using an ELO type system where your team as a whole gain/loses points which get spread out by how you perform (had a -1 on a game where I ended up +2 in spread and all partners were -12 or worse). Wonder if how you play too (my "bad" games tend to be low kills low deaths instead of a large negative spread) that has me getting put at high opponents.

New maps are okay. Don't like Pegasus though, its too PR swingy. The circular maps are always my favorites just because its balanced enough.

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 5:09 pm
by theaceofspades
my ranking comment is based on several games in a row where it's me, and 3 people who have 0 games played in the list, against a bronze and 3 onyx. Idk where that comes from

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 5:59 pm
by LlamaFluff
The other problem I have is that assists are too easy to come by. You basically just need to look at someone funny to get an assist, to the point where most games have someone hit 10 assists and its not too out of place to see someone push close to 20.

I dunno, its fun but they need to balance for skill better at release

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 5:44 am
by xRECKONERx
browser based games i can play during downtime at work, go

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 6:29 am
by Parama
epicmafia

:U

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 6:45 am
by quadz08

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:22 am
by Sudo_Nym


You fucker quadz, I just lost my whole afternoon playing as a buffalo squashing gummies to get his wallet back.

Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 3:17 am
by jmj3000
In post 1636, Sudo_Nym wrote:


You fucker quadz, I just lost my whole afternoon playing as a buffalo squashing gummies to get his wallet back.


I spent my whole day off doing this.

Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:27 am
by quadz08
should've put a warning label or something MY BAD

Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 6:41 am
by hasdgfas
I finished Shadowrun Returns last night. Starting Dragonfall soon, I've heard it's significantly better, looking forward to it.

Also trying to finish up The Talos Principle. That game is fantastic. Portal meets Stanley Parable is probably the best way I can describe it.

Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 7:12 am
by bv310
Dragonfall is excellent, though I really like that type of RPG, so I'm biased. I also bought in to the next one on Kickstarter, which is something like triple- or quadruple-funded. The number of stretch goals they're adding is sweet.

Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 11:06 am
by Zachrulez
Lightning returns is so weird. You level up by doing quests and not by fighting battles? Ok then...

Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 12:58 pm
by Sudo_Nym
Planescape says hi.

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 8:58 am
by esuriospiritus
Guild Wars 2 is on sale. Also they just announced an expansion.

Pie's current computer isn't good enough to play it but we are thinking about getting it anyway so we can play together once he upgrades. (Plus I'll be graduating soon and therefore ending my self-imposed ban from all things MMO.)

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 9:10 am
by Sudo_Nym
I really liked Guild Wars 2, but I dropped out for a variety of reasons. I'd be happy to get back in, if we'll have an actual guild to do things with.

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 1:22 pm
by Natirasha
So, who all is playing the game of the year, Huniepop? I know I am!

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 6:41 pm
by LlamaFluff
So to save on HDMI slots on my TV... I now have a PS4 hooked up into an Xbox One that I can play it off of. Miraculously it didn't destroy the universe plugging these two into each other.

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 4:29 am
by zoraster

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 4:40 am
by Untrod Tripod
Spoiler: This costs less and works just as well
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 4:42 am
by zoraster
I don't understand what you'd hope to do with that, but i don't think it costs less either.