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Yeah I heard about the procedurally-generated maps. This game has potentially high replay value for sure.

My latest mission was one of those ADVENT Retaliations (like the Terror missions from the previous games), and my fighters were able to take down one of those Faceless shapeshifter things towards the end. Haven't encountered any Vipers yet tho.

The last two missions I forgot to loot some of the highlighted dead alien corpses, hope that won't be too much of a penalty later on. Kinda struggling to maintain a sufficient number of able recruits at my base as well. I reckon that's the whole point though, to build up your XCOM resistance militia as you progress.

  On 2/9/2016 at 6:38 PM, juiceciuj said:

really want to play witness. heard an interview w/blow from about 5 yrs ago where he talks about wanting player's to have more of an epiphany like sensation when figuring out a puzzle (kind of had this with antichamber). from what little i've read about it seems like he was pretty effective. fucking sites keep posting images half spelling out puzzles in the headline which is annoying

It's totally worth it, and you do get that feeling of epiphany - a LOT. So satisfying to finally figure out the rules.

  On 2/9/2016 at 11:43 PM, WeAreOceans said:

 

  On 2/9/2016 at 4:42 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 2/6/2016 at 4:07 PM, WeAreOceans said:

Finally got around to buying the Bloodborne DLC. First boss is kicking my ass hard. I can deal with the first phase but second just fucks me up.

Oh, Ludwig? Yeah, he can be difficult, but nowhere near as hard as the other two bosses in the DLC, IMO.

Yeah I'm up to testicle yo yo guy now, who I assume is the final boss, and he is rinsing me. I get into a nice rhythm with dodging until I slip up a couple of times in a row, and I go from full health to dead. Nuts fight, do love it though.

 

Ah, The Orphan of Kos - yeah, he's technically the final boss, but there is someone harder waiting...

LOL @ "Testicle" - it's his placenta, since the Great Kos gave birth to him on the beach and died... poor Great Kos.

One of my favourite Bloodborne battles ever. The whole setting is perfect.

X-COM 2 is definitely on the list, after it 1) goes on sale 2) bugs are fixed

  On 2/10/2016 at 8:22 PM, Bechuga said:

X-COM 2 is definitely on the list, after it 1) goes on sale 2) bugs are fixed

It's working fine for me performance-wise...for the most part. The only annoying bug I encountered so far was I had one of my troops hack an ADVENT console one time, but the screen on the hacking device was about 75 percent obscured by a nearby wall, making it impossible to read.

My advice in terms of gameplay would be to keep your units close together, hidden from enemy eyes, and take the indirect approach and flank as much as possible. Not unlike Deus Ex.

I had one pretty serious bug, when the event scanner just kept running and passing time without any events or progress happening. The game was stuck like that til I loaded back to my last save. Hopefully that won't happen again - other than that's it's been totally stable.

My ps3 copy of X-Com 1 was fucked: whenever I tried to finish the last boss in the game it would crash and leave me staring at a pixellated ocean.

Up until that point, it was one of my fave games of the year.

cool interview with Akira Kitamura, director of megaman 1 and 2 .

funny reading this after spending a good long while thinking keiji inafune was 'the megaman guy'..

http://shmuplations.com/megaman/

some other games the guy worked on ..

(( again .. i straight up always assumed little samson was an unrelated but kind of cool megaman clone ))

Finally got around to playing The Witness - Really good! I can't remember the last game I played where I had to use a notebook. Utterly frustrating at times but just makes the "aha!" moments all the sweeter. Only complaint is lack of music, it'd be nice to have something in the background but I guess sound is important sometimes. Also the gf watched me play for a bit and got a bit motion sick, it certainly has some odd movement to it.

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Has anybody found the BBC documentary clip yet? I think I'm still quite early in the game but there definitely seems to be some theme of science and knowledge going along, based on the audio clips you come across.

Finished Oddworld: New 'N' Tasty

Was nice going back to Rupture Farms with Abe. It got the remake it deserved. I hope they'll remake Abe's Exoddus too, that one was my favourite.

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On April 14, 2015, it was announced by Lanning that Abe's Exoddus would be getting a remake.

seems i'm out of the loop

next up:

Super Mario Kart is still the best mario kart, if not the best racing game ever (imo).

Playing it emulated with my 8bitdo pad for extra nostalgia. Good times!

  On 2/14/2016 at 12:22 AM, triachus said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgNUgeEryCM

What the fuck, how have I not heard of this?

I know, never heard of it either and I normally jump on that kind of thing instantly !

  On 2/14/2016 at 3:49 PM, WeAreOceans said:

 

  On 2/14/2016 at 12:22 AM, triachus said:

What the fuck, how have I not heard of this?

 

I had to stop after an hour or so, my mind was not ready. Everything is wonky. It's great.

  On 2/12/2016 at 2:35 AM, bitroast said:

cool interview with Akira Kitamura, director of megaman 1 and 2 .

funny reading this after spending a good long while thinking keiji inafune was 'the megaman guy'..

 

http://shmuplations.com/megaman/

Yeah, Inafune gets a lot of the credit for the series by virtue of his other work at Capcom...

finished witcher 3, now playing the dlc. 88 hours in. it's insane how good this game is.

  On 1/10/2016 at 11:03 PM, Friendly Foil said:

Really looking forward to playing The Witcher 3 this week. Everything about it looks perfect.

 

<3

this is a fitting last message. RIP Foil, hope they allow M rated games in heaven

  On 2/15/2016 at 8:44 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

 

  On 1/10/2016 at 11:03 PM, Friendly Foil said:

Really looking forward to playing The Witcher 3 this week. Everything about it looks perfect.

 

<3

 

this is a fitting last message. RIP Foil, hope they allow M rated games in heaven

 

The hell you talkin' about? Did I miss something?

Anyway, just completed the Black Site mission in XCOM 2. It was a bitch.

is Mushroom 11 worth buying off Steam, or should I wait for the mobile version?

so sfv is out today. totally half baked too. core gameplay's solid but most of the single player modes aren't available. online lobbies are currently restricted to two players (update coming in march!). the single player story mode is coming in june i think? apparently the ps3 controller implementation is completely wack at this point (maybe an update coming?). couldn't connect to play last nite after dling on steam but got a couple of matches in this morning before work. really surprised it runs (albeit in low spec mode) on my aging desktop. direct input doesn't work on pc either (supposed update coming at some point).

luckily none of that shit affects me too much. if the ranked matches work as good as they were this morning (and hopefully progressively better as launch hype traffic dies down) that and training are really the only modes i'd play anyways

Played a shit ton of SFV, working fine with my PS4 stick and ranked matches and practice works... And that's all I want in a fighting game really.

The multi-person lobbies are the only thing I'm really missing.

  On 2/16/2016 at 4:44 PM, juiceciuj said:

so sfv is out today. totally half baked too. core gameplay's solid but most of the single player modes aren't available. online lobbies are currently restricted to two players (update coming in march!). the single player story mode is coming in june i think? apparently the ps3 controller implementation is completely wack at this point (maybe an update coming?). couldn't connect to play last nite after dling on steam but got a couple of matches in this morning before work. really surprised it runs (albeit in low spec mode) on my aging desktop. direct input doesn't work on pc either (supposed update coming at some point).

 

luckily none of that shit affects me too much. if the ranked matches work as good as they were this morning (and hopefully progressively better as launch hype traffic dies down) that and training are really the only modes i'd play anyways

I read the PC version *must* run at 60 FPS otherwise you get old-skool console slowdown and makes it unplayable...

I want to get the PS4 version, but I'm holding off if the single and local versus are borked... plus I have a PS3 fightstick, so that too...

i'm picking up a ps4 version this afternoon. for ~$40 after bbuy gift crap. got the steam vers. for ~$30ish but that's mainly as a backup if the missus has the tv. the low spec graphics obviously didn't look that great but the frame rate did seem solid at 60fps. surprised the hell outta me.

it sounds like the ps3 stick stuff is basically that same bad implementation from the usfiv and mkx. you have to keep one ds4 synced and live for any ps3 controller hooked up. not too big of a deal if you're only using one ps3 stick but if you were gonna use two it'd get hairy considering ps4 only has two usb ports. heard mixed reports on dropped inputs and shit but i've also heard of people playing w/o those issues too.

right now there is a small "story" mode that is just a few graphics and scenes using in game models with some absurd voice overs. i imagined it would just be like classic arcade playthroughs of yore with an ending when you beat the boss. i checked out fang's last nite when i couldn't login online. fought two rounds against a painfully easy m. bison and surprisingly... that was it. i had 100% completion for fang and i think i unlocked his story costume or something. really weird. dunno if it was a glitch or just a horrible implementation

sfv you have to unlock different colors in Survival mode, and if you switch to a different costume you have to do it all over again.

OR you can pay for them :)