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Just finished ep 3 of the first Sam and Max season. Once I am done with the first I will probably just plow through the second as well.
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The second is a massive improvement over the first, and the third even more so over the second. You can really see Telltale improve with each season.
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Feb 28, 2011 19:15
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This site may be useful in figuring out which game to play next - https://howlongtobeat.com. It gives an average time for completion for a long list of games, based on info from NeoGAF forum members. I completed Jericho - thankfully it only took about five hours - and I've moved on to Bully.
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Mar 1, 2011 17:01
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I just finished Half Life 2: Episode 1 and I really didn't enjoy it as much as I thought. I wish they kept the gravity gun the same throughout instead of gimping it after the first chapter. Alyx is still annoying as ever. Hopefully in Episode 2 she leaves after Gordon says his only words to her, "I don't like you." I also don't think the people that wrote Alyx's lines had ever talked to a girl before. "Gordon, you're my hero!" "Gordon, you're the best" gets pretty loving old.
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Mar 3, 2011 20:31
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I tried to make some legitimate progress today, lasted about 5 minutes, got a little lost in the game I was playing, and turned it off. Either I'm in a bit of a gaming slump or my patience for JRPGs is getting very thin these days.
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Mar 3, 2011 20:51
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americanzero4128 posted:I just finished Half Life 2: Episode 1 and I really didn't enjoy it as much as I thought. I wish they kept the gravity gun the same throughout instead of gimping it after the first chapter. Alyx is still annoying as ever. Hopefully in Episode 2 she leaves after Gordon says his only words to her, "I don't like you." I also don't think the people that wrote Alyx's lines had ever talked to a girl before. "Gordon, you're my hero!" "Gordon, you're the best" gets pretty loving old. Alyx doesn't follow you around the entirety of episode 2, and for that reason I enjoyed it even more. It's mostly just FPS fun in a bunch of great locales, and is, I think, the peak of the series.
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Mar 4, 2011 06:20
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Shovelmint posted:Alyx doesn't follow you around the entirety of episode 2, and for that reason I enjoyed it even more. It's mostly just FPS fun in a bunch of great locales, and is, I think, the peak of the series. They also tone down the hero worship to "normal" levels. (as far as you can tone down praising a man that more or less frees an entire city by itself). Her dad also takes a jab at her worshiping you so much, In some way.
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Mar 4, 2011 08:27
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Glad I found this thread. Victim of Steam's many sales specials with not much to show for it. Multiplayer games I have no problem with as I put tons of hours into those but single player games are a whole different story. Started playing through Braid this week and I'm having a lot of fun with that. "Random" chose Crysis for me to play next, how fitting. I don't care that I even finish the games on my list, just that I can get some good play time with them so my money doesn't seem to wasted.
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Mar 4, 2011 09:01
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I'm still playing the same games. It's taking a long time to get through them now that work is busy.
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Mar 4, 2011 09:10
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Yay. I finished New Vegas! I know i was going to beat Just Cause 2 first. But it feels good to have a Game where the money was put to use. On the other hand I didn't buy anything in the last 2 months and i'm pretty content with my coping. So off to Just Cause 2 I think I have only two Agency Missons left.
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Mar 4, 2011 09:25
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I switched to trying to get all Achievements on my steam Just Cause 2 including the one for 75%...63% and 58h in. 
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Mar 4, 2011 09:57
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Thewittyname posted:This site may be useful in figuring out which game to play next - https://howlongtobeat.com. It gives an average time for completion for a long list of games, based on info from NeoGAF forum members. How was Jericho? I remember waiting for the release, but my computer at that time couldn't handle it. I got it on steam for 2$ during the sale, but still haven't tried it.
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Mar 4, 2011 10:16
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All right, I now have a working backlog: I'm in the endgame of Deus Ex now, and so I need to start thinking about what to play next. Apparently if you play the game as if you're a cross between Faith Connors and Grey Fox, the game goes really fast. (I'm 23 hours in, which is apparently pretty low for a first playthrough. I've been doing a lot of cloak-dash-devastating-melee-attack, combined with careful sniping and jumping out of windows.) Not sure what to play next, but it probably won't be something first-person, just because I suspect any such game will suffer terribly for Not Being Deus Ex. Thus, up next shall Space Giraffe. I used to be a fair hand at Tempest, so I should be able to rock its logical negation. (EDITED to remove useless thumbnailing of list, which shrank it maybe 5% and thus did nothing but make it harder to read.)
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Mar 4, 2011 11:29
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Batman, Batman, Batman. The answer for any backlog is Batman.
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Mar 4, 2011 11:33
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Wow. $800 with 41 games. How will I ever cope!? I really should restrain myself - I buy so many games when they've just been released or are still new. Gahh. Rolled with RANDOM. Got Portal. gently caress. e: And I'm still looking to buy more games in the future 
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Mar 4, 2011 12:21
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fingerling posted:Wow. $800 with 41 games. How will I ever cope!? I really should restrain myself - I buy so many games when they've just been released or are still new. Gahh. Rolled with RANDOM. Got Portal. gently caress. It's amazing how many people roll Portal. But at any rate, it's a pretty short game and you should finish it 2-4 hours (some blow through the game quickly, others get stuck near the end for a little while). But yea, I'm in the same boat as you. I've been hammering away at my backlog, but for some weird reason I decided to buy: Fate of the World Homefront +Metro 2033 And that won't include the games I plan on buying in the near future: Shift 2, Duke Nukem Forever, Portal 2, etc.
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Mar 4, 2011 15:44
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I'm half way through Assassins Creed II, and it is WAY better than the first one. It also plays a lot better with a controller than a keyboard. I'm also about 3/4 of the way through torchlight, which is my "play at lunch" game at work. ...and then I put down a preorder on Dragon Age 2 PhancyPants fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Mar 4, 2011 |
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Mar 4, 2011 18:14
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I've been fairly productive on my backlog - decided to go on a Tomb Raider spree and completed everything up to Guardian of Light (playing it now, it's awesome). I also finished Ben There, Dan That, which I should've done a long time ago as it's clever and, most importantly, short! I'm also restraining my knee-jerk reaction to buy the Ubisoft pack this weekend - I keep telling myself no more games (with minor exceptions) until I make a much more significant dent in what I already have. Though I did impulse-buy Bit.Trip.Beat.  At least it's fun!I think after I finish up GoL I'll hit up Time Gentlemen, Please! while the first game is fresh in my mind, and then The Ball, since I started it but stopped probably halfway through.
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Mar 4, 2011 18:15
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I ran across this thread and decided I should organize my steam games into categories instead of just using the default favorites and everything else lists. So I made one to hold all the games that I have started playing but not finished, so I can really get to work on them. And now there are like 30 games in that list. I hadn't realized how bad I was about starting things out and then getting distracted by something else. And of course most of my game time goes to multiplayer games that have no end, or AI War, which has about infinite replay value. But I'm at least going to try to keep myself from starting anything new until I've finished off all the single player games that I've already started... Hopefully I can at least make a dent in it before the huge summer sale rolls around.
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Mar 4, 2011 21:28
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ManxomeBromide posted:
Just for the record, if you go into Space Giraffe expecting Tempest, you're going to be like "what the gently caress is this game" and even if you don't go in expecting Tempest you'll still say that. It's a pretty unique game with a pretty bizarre set of rules. I personally really enjoy it, though.
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Mar 5, 2011 01:47
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Skilleddk posted:How was Jericho? I remember waiting for the release, but my computer at that time couldn't handle it. I got it on steam for 2$ during the sale, but still haven't tried it. It starts out OK - the game's gimmick is that you can switch between six team members, each with fairly unique weapons and special abilities. This variety makes up for the fact that the maps are completely linear. However, the graphics are very dated for a 2007 release, it looks more like a 2003 game, there are occasional QTEs, and sometimes the game is very opaque about what you need to do to advance. The game's areas are divided between historical periods, but by the time you get to the Roman era (about two-thirds of the way through), you start to get the feeling that the developers ran out of time. The final boss is a joke, and the game ends somewhat abruptly, so don't expect any sort of closure (the plot itself is weak to begin with). Also, this isn't FEAR or Amnesia, there is no real horror or suspense in the game. All in all, if you like old school FPS gameplay and find the team-switching element interesting, it might be worthwhile, but it's by no means a great game.
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Mar 5, 2011 02:28
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Homefront, Battlefield 3 and maybe Fable 3. God. I think we need tokens.
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Mar 5, 2011 04:37
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hogswallower posted:Just for the record, if you go into Space Giraffe expecting Tempest, you're going to be like "what the gently caress is this game" and even if you don't go in expecting Tempest you'll still say that. It's a pretty unique game with a pretty bizarre set of rules. I personally really enjoy it, though. I've been warned. In fact, I was introduced to the game by someone I think made the top-100 leaderboards back when it was an XBLA exclusive. So I've worked with it just enough to realize that if you go in thinking "must be Tempest" you'll be screwed - because the game rewards and punishes the opposite things Tempest does, even though a lot of the elements are a one-to-one match. And yeah, I love shooters, so I'm looking forward to this one. Unfortunately, I also picked up BIT.TRIP RUNNER so my stack isn't any shorter. But 10 minutes of playing with it and I was already in love, so no regrets. EDIT: I have now completed Deus Ex, siding with the Illuminati - and this time we're going to do it right. Good stuff - I can see why it's on a lot people's list as best game of all time. And to formalize my earlier comment, the next games on the stack are Space Giraffe and BIT.TRIP RUNNER; both require different attitudes to play and so I'll be shifting between them as my mood does. ManxomeBromide fucked around with this message at 11:38 on Mar 5, 2011 |
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Mar 5, 2011 06:17
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I finished The Ball (Pretty fun and unique with some dubious design choices, but it's worth a play) and Bulletstorm (Solid shooter, the dialog is amusing if a bit immature), still working through DoW2: Chaos Rising, but the new Tactics Ogre game has been a big distraction, and I'm taking a short break to play Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, which has been fun so far. Oh, and my backlog keeps growing. 
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Mar 5, 2011 16:38
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Phew, I'm not the only one who bought "Jolly Rover" for some reason.
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Mar 5, 2011 17:30
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PhancyPants posted:Phew, I'm not the only one who bought "Jolly Rover" for some reason. Mine came in a pack I bought during one of the many billion sales Steam had near the end of the year.
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Mar 5, 2011 17:56
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Finished ep 4 of Sam and Max season 1. Probably gonna finish the last two eps of the season today.
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Mar 5, 2011 18:00
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Finished up Dead Space. I've been playing too much stuff on PS3 to put a real dent on my Steam backlog, but DS was pretty great - reminded me of System Shock 1/2 in some nice ways. I'm increasingly tempted to table Witcher for Divinity 2, but I know that once I finish chapter 1 of Witcher I'll be more inclined to play it.
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Mar 5, 2011 18:37
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Check-in! Finished: The Witcher Stalker: Call of Pripyat Dead Space Deleted because it sucked: Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl Now playing: Crysis
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Mar 5, 2011 19:03
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^^^ I just couldn't finish The Witcher. Once I got to that part where you have to go into the forest for some stuff, I just got bored and stopped playing. Red - I've never even played it on steam Yellow - I never finished it Blue - I own this game either on another platform, or I bought it before it was on Steam Orange - I don't even want and I don't even know why I have it. New Vegas I just can't play anymore, because I got to the part in that closed down casino where you have to make a choice. I just can't decide what I want to do. I know that I will never play this game again once I beat it because there's too much stuff in it, so I have to make the decision a good one, and I just can't do it. Metro 2033 I can only take for brief sittings. I really love this game, I just can't play it for long periods of time, I don't know why. Maybe the game is just so depressing, but I play for about an hour and I have to close it and do something else. Call of Pripyat I barely even started. Hopefully I didn't get burned out on Shadows and Clear Sky, because I love this series. I want to start playing X3 again. The first time I played, the campaign glitched, so I just started doing free play. Then I just cheated a bunch of money to make my own system. I started playing back to the future, but I stopped playing the last Sam and Max a while ago too. I guess I burned myself out on point and clicks for a while. I kind of want to finish puzzle agent, but I think it's the same reason why I stopped playing Sam and Max. And I know this is just the steam addiction thread, but I still have to finish Asassins Creed 2, Crackdown, Mirrors Edge (not going to happen), Red Dead Redemption, and The Force Unleashed (probably never) on 360. I just can't play video games like I used to. Cojawfee fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Mar 5, 2011 |
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Mar 5, 2011 19:20
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You should finish mirror's edge if you already started it. It's like 4 hours long, you're probably already almost done.
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Mar 5, 2011 19:38
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I see you never played and have no intention of playing Recettear. Give it a try, its one of those super fun and addicting games that you have no idea why you are still playing hours later.
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Mar 5, 2011 19:42
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For anyone who ended up with Jolly Rover from somewhere, I just finished it. It's suprisingly not bad! It's not the best adventure game in the world, but the puzzles all made sense (although they were pretty easy) and there was some decent humor. It's not Monkey Island quality, but still worth a playthrough. I must've had this game sitting unplayed for months.
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Mar 5, 2011 22:21
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I have so many games that I've either never finished or never really started. I tend to jump around so much that I don't really get interested in something enough to take it to completion. Case in point, Half Life. I've owned the game for a long, long time but I never finished it. When HL and HL2 were on sale this Holiday season I picked them both up and now I need to work through Half Life and its expansions. My now playing list: Half Life Deus Ex Braid Puzzle Quest 2 King Arthur C&C: Red Alert 3 Greed Corp Zombie Driver Painkiller Redemption
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Mar 5, 2011 22:41
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Industrial posted:Deleted because it sucked: I done this too but after watching an LP a bit on here I gave it another go and it's one game that got me hooked. I never had the performance issues some people get or random CTD's mind you.
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Mar 5, 2011 23:12
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PhancyPants posted:For anyone who ended up with Jolly Rover from somewhere, I just finished it. It's suprisingly not bad! Good to hear. I'm pretty sure most of us got it from the Indie Adventure Pack back during the Steam Treasure Hunt, since it was $5 for a pack containing Gish, And Yet It Moves, Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent, Jolly Rover, and Recettear. I suspect a lot of us went "Hey, five games for less than the price of one, one of which I actually want." For me, that was AYIM and Puzzle Agent, but I've since been told by a lot of people that Recettear is going to be awesome and (thanks to this thread) that Jolly Rover is actually decent. Gish is still on the list, sort of, but I'd played it with the Humble Indie Bundle and hadn't liked it much. Watching vids of decent players makes me want to be better at it, though.
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Mar 6, 2011 00:39
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Mr Right posted:I done this too but after watching an LP a bit on here I gave it another go and it's one game that got me hooked. I never had the performance issues some people get or random CTD's mind you. Game ran perfectly for me but after playing Call of Pripyat it just seemed incredibly annoying. I got really sick of shootouts with bandits in wide open areas with no cover, which became quicksave fests.
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Mar 6, 2011 01:12
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Ah, I suppose going from CoP to SoC would be a noticeable step down. Like Assassins Creed is a great game when it's not compared to Assassins Creed 2.
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Mar 6, 2011 01:29
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RTCW's starting to get on my nerves. The damage is inordinately high, and I'm on EASY mode. I'm stuck on the first part where you encounter those leaping enemies with the electric crotches, and I can't avoid losing half my health when they attack. The Venom is absurdly powerful, but it's too inaccurate to be effective. Is there some difficulty glitch I'm not aware of, or some special way to beat these guys I'm not getting? e: Got past that part by sheer luck - last electric bad guy glitched into a corner and I just stabbed him with bullets until he died. But the damage still seems ridiculously high for easy difficulty. Maybe it's just two years of World of Warcraft catching up with me, I dunno. Mr. Saturday fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Mar 6, 2011 |
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This is maybe too broad a question for this thread, but I've been trying to get into my ridiculous list of RTS games and have found a big stumbling block, in that I seem to suck badly at them and end up losing really early in the games I've tried. I am only really familiar with old RTS games like Age of Empires 2 or Dune 2 and the amount of stuff the modern games expect you to do seems overwhelming. I just tried C&C3: Red Alert for the first time (on EASY mode), which I understand is pretty noob-friendly, and during the second campaign mission I got destroyed utterly in about three seconds because a scripted ambush happened that I didn't have enough troops to retaliate from. I have had similar problems with Company of Heroes in that even using cover and special abilities I find it really hard to keep up with what is going on over the battlefield, and my guys all die in a messy explosion of units. Is there any relatively newbie-friendly RTS that has a gradual learning curve anyone could recommend so I can learn this stuff? Edit: Forgot to list what I have: CoH, Freedom Force, Dawn of War, C&C3, SupCom 2, Dawn of War 2, Stronghold (kicked my rear end). beef express fucked around with this message at 11:44 on Mar 6, 2011 |
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