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Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« Reply #180 on: January 29, 2011, 08:48:06 PM »
Bought Dead Space 2 the other day, played about 3.5 hours last night...

The game is very slick, some of the scare sequences are muuuuch cooler than the first. Not sure I quite like the pacing of the fights, though - the first game was very good at alternating terrifying, edge of your seat combat with tense moments, whereas things seem to be muuuuch more lethal in this game, and the numbers of enemies tend to be dramatically higher.

I'm just short of halfway through the game already, which is a little sad, because the first game had a bit more time spent in its' levels, but I've reached a sort of turning point in the story, so maybe things will slow down a bit and go for more of the cool setpiece battles from the first game, instead of the constant rain of enemies in the same few damn corridors.

My main complaint is the plot so far - I really, truly liked the plot of Dead Space. It was simple, no absolutely crazy 'they did what' moments, their portrayal of insanity and dementia was, as far as I am aware, relatively consistent. There were a few times you got to 'interact' with other members of the cast directly, and you occasionally had a place to catch your breath and, y'know, be in human contact. So far in Dead Space 2 every single person I've come into contact with has immediately died, and only one or two of the individuals contacting me by radio have recurred. There're plenty of necromorphs all the fuck over the place, but no explanation (thus far) of how they've gotten in, none of the indications of a concerted defense that a solitary mining ship was able to put up in a few hours (and this looks more like it's been days). I suppose it's not a spoiler to say that there are plot twists and varying levels of betrayal, but I would appreciate something of what was described in the initial interviews about the game, that you'd be interacting with survivors and maybe not directly benefiting from their aid, but certainly having them involved in the game.

As I said, roughly half way through. I hope to be pleasantly surprised. I haven't been able to afford any of the new weapons, maybe they completely revolutionize the combat in ways that make up for the above... We'll see.

In unrelated news, I own Left 4 Dead I & II on XBox 360. Does anyone else here play those in a medium that is not Steam-based?

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Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« Reply #181 on: January 29, 2011, 09:51:58 PM »
I bought Magicka. It's worth the 10 bucks on Steam.

Brilliant overall design flawed by some crappy monster design (easy to get stunlocked and cornered - bosses frequently are nearly impossible to kill except for one or two spells that kill them super easily)

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Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« Reply #182 on: January 29, 2011, 10:00:06 PM »
Nice, I'd really like to get a four player coop game going some time. From the time I played it's much more fun with more people.

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Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« Reply #183 on: January 30, 2011, 04:34:42 PM »
I'm playing Champions Online, which just went Free to Play not too long ago. It reminds me a lot of City of Heroes which I played for about six months back in the day. The fact that it's "free" makes it all the better.

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Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« Reply #184 on: January 30, 2011, 04:37:49 PM »
I'm playing Champions Online, which just went Free to Play not too long ago. It reminds me a lot of City of Heroes which I played for about six months back in the day. The fact that it's "free" makes it all the better.

I've been playin' CO since it came out. Great game, fun to play. Only real issue is that it lacks end-game content.
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Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« Reply #185 on: January 30, 2011, 09:58:11 PM »
Gone back to playing City of Heroes to test out the new Incarnate system. Not too bad shame they made me wait like 2 years to impliment this feature.

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Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« Reply #186 on: January 30, 2011, 10:03:35 PM »
I've started playing some Mount and Blade: Warband. Using this mod: http://www.mountfanblade.com/index.php?cat=articles&class=articles&id=21

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Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« Reply #187 on: January 31, 2011, 01:47:14 AM »

In unrelated news, I own Left 4 Dead I & II on XBox 360. Does anyone else here play those in a medium that is not Steam-based?

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Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« Reply #188 on: January 31, 2011, 02:29:03 AM »
I've got Left 4 Dead 2, Dead Space, and uh, Borderlands, far as multiplayer on the 360 goes. Gamertag is OceanSoulDog
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Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« Reply #189 on: January 31, 2011, 11:01:20 PM »
My work situation with overtime means I am unlikely to be online at any point on a weekday... well, ever. But given the snow we're expecting up north here, well, tomorrow and Wednesday look like they may be exceptions.   ::)

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Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« Reply #190 on: January 31, 2011, 11:25:04 PM »
Just finished Dead Space 2...Cthulhu in space, complete with a san-loss check mechanic.  LOVED IT.

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Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« Reply #191 on: February 01, 2011, 01:09:50 PM »
Magicka just patched, fixed a lot of crashes, connection issues among other things.

Full list:

[spoiler]Fixes
Fixed save games disappearing when disconnecting from online game. (For real this time)
Fixed crash for alternative character models appearing in cutscenes. (Chapter 7, Chapter 12).
Fixed crash caused by conjuring large quantities of elements.
Fixed crash due to beams merging.
Fixed crash where Chapter 11 boss collided with shield.
Fixed crash where Clients and servers would send old messages when reconnecting.
Fixed high-end machine jitter.
Improved network batching. (should result in serious network performance increase).
Improved startup routine to prevent threading problems.
Improved authentification on connect. (should result in fewer auth-failed)
Fixed a missing file that resulted in french text not appearing correctly.
Fixed immovable objects jittering.
Fixed issue where characters would get stuck during cutscenes.
Fixed issue where scripted player movement would remain after a cutscene.
Fixed missing boss titles.
Steam join through overlay fixed.
Fixed Chapter 1 collision. (behind door)
Fixed Chapter 3 collision. (you can now fall down the well)
Fixed Chapter 7 cutscene lockups and other issues.
Fixed Chapter 8 cutscene lockup.
Fixed Chapter 8 navigation fixed.
Fixed Chapter 9 cutscene lockups.
Fixed Chapter 11 teleport issue.
Fixed Chapter 12 cutscene lockup.
Conflagration is now properly synced over network.
Features/Balance
Chapter 3 now has proper pirates by the picnic.
Chapter 8 now has manual exit at the end of level.
Fire Damage increased from 40 to 60.
Spawned summons now capped at 16 per player.
Goblin Pirate damage reduced from 155 to 72.
Added server list filter option for “Password”.
Removed obsolete port option of game hosting (always hosted on 27016 anyways).
Server list sorting added (click the header).[/spoiler]

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Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« Reply #192 on: February 05, 2011, 02:38:14 PM »
Well recently I've been catching up with the strategy Genre.
After the shout-outs in last episode I went and procured Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic and have been playing that while listening to the APs.
I also booted up the ole Battles for Middle Earth 2 plus Mario and the Six Golden coins.
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Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« Reply #193 on: February 05, 2011, 05:25:28 PM »
My wife and I are playing Little Big Planet 2 right now and loving it! My PSN name is "catharticlobster" if anyone wants to play.
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Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« Reply #194 on: February 05, 2011, 09:02:39 PM »
Dead space 2 is fantastic. Although i did go through a stage of swearing under my breath...

...Mostly through the day care centre section.

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