Topic: Babble about a video game you are playing (Read 236618 times)

Friday · « **Reply #2440 on:** November 02, 2009, 05:25:53 PM »

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Or maybe I should first focus on getting it to stop telling me that I'm driving backwards.

have you tried rotating the track 180 degrees

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #2441 on:** November 02, 2009, 05:34:51 PM »

Quote from: Friday on November 02, 2009, 05:25:53 PM

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Or maybe I should first focus on getting it to stop telling me that I'm driving backwards.

have you tried rotating the track 180 degrees

No, you don't understand, it's left-handed.

Doom · « **Reply #2442 on:** November 03, 2009, 05:29:44 AM »

World of Goo is really great until the point where they decide that it's less about puzzle solving and thinking and more about timing bullshit for adhering one specific goo and if you fuck it up, click a fly and try again and if you run out of flies, restart the level.

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #2443 on:** November 03, 2009, 07:34:09 AM »

That's when I stopped playing too.

JDigital · « **Reply #2444 on:** November 04, 2009, 08:57:18 AM »

Played K240 again. It's still good.

It's an Amiga 4X game from 1994. You compete with aliens to establish mining colonies in an asteroid belt. It's realtime, rather than turn-based, and due to the short timescale you don't research technologies like in MoO2, but buy them as DRM'd blueprints from a megacorporation.

The premium strategy is to plonk Asteroid Engines on an asteroid you've mined dry, and ram the enemy with it. The third alien has asteroid teleporters to counter this. The fourth alien has faster asteroid engines than you do.

There's ship combat, which unlike MoO2 you can only control at the level of moving ships and fleets. Tactical level combat resolves itself in real-time.

There are asteroid-to-asteroid missiles, including the very annoying Virus missile, which spreads across your asteroid destroying buildings and ruining the surface so you can't build there again. The only counter is the Anti-Virus missile, which you fire at yourself, and must buy the blueprint for at great expense.

Brentai · « **Reply #2445 on:** November 09, 2009, 02:04:41 AM »

Going from the demo, Torchlight seems to be best described as Diablo 1.5, or even an expansion to Diablo 1 if you're feeling ungenerous. Take note, this game is not like Steampunk Diablo, it very fucking literally is Steampunk Diablo, right the hell down to the town music. There are obviously a lot of little modern changes to the original game's formula - the game is a little bit nicer about where you can stop and continue, you get a little Nethack-esque pet that sometimes doubles as a portable shop, there's a sort of gem system and horadric combinator thrown in and for some reason a god damn fishing minigame - but when you get right down to the nitty gritty it just feels like a sequel to the first Diablo, yet somehow not as much of one as Diablo II was. This is not a bad thing for everybody, I suppose.

Also the game is so far surprisingly easy. I'm playing on the second-to-hardest difficulty and I've had to heal maybe twice, playing a melee dude. I'm sure the game ratchets up the HURT YOU eventually but it's odd to get through levels by blindly clicking shit when the source material had no qualms about making you wish you had never turned on the game the second you walk into the church.

François · « **Reply #2446 on:** November 09, 2009, 09:21:16 AM »

I'm currently on what looks like the final levels of the game, and I'm just beginning to use potions at all. Let's just say I regret picking normal difficulty. I'm definitely going to go for the hardest when I replay it.

Brentai · « **Reply #2447 on:** November 09, 2009, 09:39:41 AM »

That compared with the art style and the fact that you'll probably find your first epic weapon about 5 steps into the second level makes me think the thing is just My First Roguelike or something. Except then every single enemy gets crushed into a graphically goopy pool of blood and guts.

How long is the game, anyway? It took me an hour to stumble my way down to Level Four, and most of that was spent shuffling around all the little icons in my inventory. Unless the thing is 100 levels deep I don't see much playtime in there.

Which is probably okay, since apparently the game itself is a lot like Oblivion - ~~ridiculously easy to break~~ a building base resting atop a highly exposed game engine, upon which it is assumed that modders will build and craft a more tailored experience. Also they're going to make an MMO out of it or something.

François · « **Reply #2448 on:** November 09, 2009, 10:12:39 AM »

My gunslinger girl is level 33, about 30 floors down, and the game says it took me 12 hours and 27 minutes to get there. Judging from NPCs saying I'm "getting close to the source of corruption" or whatever, I'm guessing I'm in the final areas, though I have a quest to kill a guy on floor 32. I did every side quest on the way, some of which take you on non-main-quest areas, I visited maybe 2 random floors you can buy off the jewelry merchant, and I think I came across 3-4 Phase Beast portals. The random optional bits are a lot more fun than the regular dungeon, even if only because the enemy levels are increased; unfortunately it comes with the side effect of making you overleveled for the main quest.

Brentai · « **Reply #2449 on:** November 09, 2009, 10:32:00 AM »

That's kind of the vogue with sidequests these days. On the one hand I appreciate not having to do every single fetch piece of bullshit in the world to be able to finish the game; on the other I hate having to deal with completely borking the game balance if I for some reason want to see everything the game has to offer.

You know what game handled that well? FFTA2. Except you had to figure out how to play it right first, which you probably won't on the first playthrough, sadly enough*. But once you figure out "go on every non-dispatchable side mission with your main force, get a second-string team to dispatch or just ignore the others" the game actually manages a nice even pace. This is a good system - a (somewhat) challenging main quest, side-missions which give tangible rewards (the non-dispatchables in FFTA2 were usually for unlocking a new class), and then side-side-missions if you really have to powerlevel.

* lol, final fantasy

François · « **Reply #2450 on:** November 09, 2009, 06:52:16 PM »

I started a new character to see how Very Hard was. I ran out of potions by the end of the first floor and actually had to buy some. I can't beat the boss on floor 4 with just the exp I made getting to him, so I bought a lvl1-10 map scroll to grind some. The critters there are a level below me, but some of them are types that on Normal difficulty only show up on the floors where my lvl33 character currently is.

It's pretty awesome!

McDohl · « **Reply #2451 on:** November 09, 2009, 10:46:09 PM »

a boy and his blob (yes, that is the proper capitalization, or lack thereof) is like a beautiful summer vacation great adventure that you never had.

As opposed to the original NES game, which was David Crane force feeding you his wang.

Brentai · « **Reply #2452 on:** November 10, 2009, 01:58:52 AM »

I fully support the move to remaking horrifically broken games in order to actually achieve the original concept.

~~Legend of Kage remake next please.~~ Haw haw nevermind there is one and it's still pretty awful.

Fuck it, make a new Jumping Flash sequel.

JUST ANY GAME WHERE I CAN JUMP A MILE INTO THE AIR OKAY????

Frocto · « **Reply #2453 on:** November 10, 2009, 07:19:06 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp1JBytSh6M

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #2454 on:** November 11, 2009, 08:05:53 PM »

So I'm pretty sure the LHC is reaching back in time to sabotage my efforts to install and play torchlight.

Brentai · « **Reply #2455 on:** November 11, 2009, 08:18:32 PM »

There would be cataclysmic effects on the tapestry of the universe if you were to observe the Spiked Higgs-Boson of the Whale.

sei · « **Reply #2456 on:** November 11, 2009, 11:06:35 PM »

Quote from: ZedPower on November 09, 2009, 09:21:16 AM

I'm currently on what looks like the final levels of the game, and I'm just beginning to use potions at all. Let's just say I regret picking normal difficulty. I'm definitely going to go for the hardest when I replay it.

The (coming?) patch lets you change difficulty on the fly.

I started today on Normal (didn't read this thread) before finding out it was unacceptably very easy, and rerolled for VH. Having played Fate and Mythos, my expectations were about right. VH is more fun. The first story boss was dangerous (could 2-shot me) and I was doing almost no damage to it, but that's my own fucking fault for not checking the store for a better gun.

Rosencrantz · « **Reply #2457 on:** November 12, 2009, 10:25:48 AM »

I just got Phantasy Star Zero to work. Anyone else playing it yet? Pretty fun so far, but I wish there were more character customization options.

Dooly · « **Reply #2458 on:** November 12, 2009, 06:46:36 PM »

Looks like I'm finally going to have a (sort of) next-gen console of my own.

Once Canada Post Standard Shipping gets it here, anyway.

Assuming the guy doesn't send me a Wii box full of bricks.

sei · « **Reply #2459 on:** November 12, 2009, 07:28:18 PM »

Torchlight starts off pretty fun, but my finding is that most of the novelty (if you can call it that) and pacing polish wore off by level 20.

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