>>4452
Joke's on them though, it's free to use so once you've found out the cheapest price, you can spite them by not clicking the provided link and just googling it.

>>4448

Batman: Arkham Asylum, sir?

Overlord II is quite worthy of a look, as well.

Resonance of Fate if you're into the JRPGs. FFXIII is wank.

>>4454

>Batman: Arkham Asylum

I can heartily recommend this. I'm not into batman or comic stuff at all but this game was such good fun.

>>4453

That's probably less effort than just going to the shop and buying it, but still more effort than the Pirate Bay.

I looked up buzz world quiz for the ps3, 123pricecheck says cheapest price is £9.99 from gameseek. However, going to gameseek without clicking their link show the game priced at £24.99. So I had to click their link.

Which took me to a logic battery pack for the wii at £9.99. Hmm.

>>5177

And there goes any chance of me trying this game...

>>5182

You should try it anyway, it's surprisingly fun.

Just get a tileset.

Lets get this shit going, then? Which files do i transfer to the next player?

>>5190

I'd love to try it, but the investment of time just to get up and running is too much for me nowadays. If I was still at school then this would be heaven. Otherwise I have to stick with games I can get into easier or pick up and play and then put back down again between breaks or some such.

>>5193
Just find the save file folder, haven't got DF installed right now so I can't look, but it'll be something like C:/Dwarf Fortress/Save/World 13 it's the world folder you want to hand over, might have to zip it using winrar or something.
I'd play, but my computers so fucking shit the frame rate crawls to an unplayable level (probably for the best, DF is my crack).
Good luck anyway.

Savage: Battle for Newerth was amazing back in the day, there's a sequel been released which seems quite interesting. The Silverback engine is godly, I'm not sure why it hasn't been picked up on more. RTS/FPS was implemented so well, mainly because it was kind of seperated.
But yeah, go for that. I'd play with you but my current netbook can't run anything and I won't have a computer for another few months.

http://www.youtube.com/v/v-YnAIKYbVE

There's some really good MMO's coming out this winter/early2011.

Better off saving your MMO energy for SWTOR & Guild wars 2.

If only more MMOs were advert-supported. Or had a reasonable fucking subscription fee. I don't understand why it is necessary to charge every person practically the price of the full game every month, as though the revenue that brings in meets the level needed to keep the game running. I can't believe that's true, 60% must be pure profit.

This probably isn't what you're looking for, but I play Torn City, which is both text-based and in-browser.

It's also very addictive, I can't stop playing it.

>>5144

There's an entire enforced RP forum (quite a lot of EVE can happen on forums for some people, which is something I never understood) and there are RP corps as said, but in-game, there is no enforced RP. People do it but there's nothing stopping me from going 'lol, internet spaceships, fags' or whatever.

Any advice for a starter?

Downloading EVE now, looks like my cup of tea.

>>5184
Just pop in the aformentioned channel. One of us will help you out.

>>5184

>Any advice for a starter?

Do the tutorials and career agents, you'll get a lot of free stuff to start you on your way and learn about ship fitting and mission running. Don't be afraid to ask in noob and corp chat for help, and experiment. Also assume that everybody is out to fuck you over.

>>5189
>assume that everybody is out to fuck you over

I wouldnt say its THAT bad in the startintg areas. Actually, on second thought, dont take anything from someone elses jetcan unless you want to either run for your fucking life or buy a new ship.
If you take someone elses goods from a jetcan, they are allowed to attack you 'for free', with out Concorde(high sec navy police) intervening. People like to bait noobs so they can get a free kill and maybe salvage a wreck.

I used to 'steal' the better bait from jetcans to make a quick bit of cash. You can check the items market details while its still in the can and judge whether to rick taking it or not. Less income than pure mining but alot more fun.

D&D 3.5 would be the main one I play, though Paranoia XP is good for a laugh.

>>4897
We not talkin' bout tabletop here mate. Should probably make a new thread for that.

Finally, Fallout II gets a mention. Damn that game was good, brutal, bloody and with the abilty to set theiving kids alight.

On a side note, I feel theres something very wrong with the FF franchise, inclined even to say it was the fanbase itself.

The only good Ultima was Ultima IV.

That said, it was a damn fine game.

I love playing Oblivion.

>>5052

It did! I remember sitting through an entire play-through of the game on Youtube hoping for the Lemmings bit, but he skipped it. I was disappoint.

My most memorable games as a kid/teen are..
Amiga:
Putty
Pushover
Some 2d army game where you run left and right and shoot at guys, tanks, copters and buildings in the foreground.
Sega
Sonic
The Lion King (could NEVER get past the stampede level)

Other:
ffV (Kupo nuts taste like digestives, fact)
Used to play that haunted mansion game on nes/pc and silent hill 1 with a mate. We'd shit ourselves all night (mainly from the mansion one to be honest)

The Lion King was a piece of piss, the only difficult thing about it was trying to throw Scar on a three button joypad.

Hard Nova - A super adventure/RPG game that had a nice feel of an open world/universe that was also populated and lived in. If you read the decent comics of the day you'd feel some of the influence from that. Enjoyable world and back story that showed effort to do something a bit different from the more generic or lazy sci-fi (such as including NPCs or aliens that were intelligent non-huminoids) that was rattling around at the time. It was something of a jack of all trades, allowing for exploration with a party on the ground, roving over planetary surfaces in your lander (and engaging in combat), space travel and exploration within the solar system and travel to other solar systems too and space ship-to-ship combat and boarding. You could also equip your crew, assign them to positon on the landing teams or ship (engineer, navigator, software engineer, pilot, etc.) and everyone would gain experience and points when levelling up that you could assign.

It was an open enough universe and game that I missed a lot of things the first time I played it and even played some of the areas out of the 'proper order' (leading to a mighty but ultimately satisfying struggle).

The music was also pretty good. I could still remember the music years later. I played it again a couple of years ago and it was still fun enough to play all the way through. You can get it easily through emulation and downloaded ROMs now. The Amiga version was my favourite.

>>5180

You can find the Hard Nova theme tune here:

http://fonix.dyndns.org:40000/soamc/index.php?sb=SOAMC&sc=hard+nova&did=1&#did

Love that one. Set it on loop and enjoy.

>>5148
Simply because i mentioned anxiety?

>>5151

It does somewhat come across as "PLEASE BE MY FRIEND ;___;".

>I shower regularly and use deoderant

The fact you had to mention this says something either about yourself or DnD players. That sort of thing should be a given.

>>5168

It is oft thought of neckbeards to smell really bad.

>>5167
Okay then, disregard that sentence.
>>5168
I hail from 4chans /tg/, where in such a place it is necessary to state such a thing.

There was that britfags TF2 group... I recognised a few names in it, I felt a bit ill.

>>5128

I don't know, surely your steam username is just as anonymous, unless it's your full name or something daft like that.

>>5121

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197972301458

There you are, sir.

This game has been driving me up the wall, purely with the amount of absolute dickheads on it. I normally play TF2 which thankfully has quite a good online community because the cartoony graphics piss off the fourteen year olds too much.

If I could I'd ban everyone on my team from going Special Weapons.

>>5131
My Steam name is my real name. When I discovered the Internet as a nine year old my first usernames took the format of my real first name and a cool fake last name (because I didn't like my last name). About five years later I dropped the fake name and just used my last initial; to the present day almost all my usernames take this format. Apart from privacy and anonymity concerns, why else would you use a stupid nickname like you're trying to be a member of a secret society? I amuse myself by looking at the scoreboard in TF2 and imagining them all as 'JohnF' or 'S_T_Frederickson'.

Needless to say I saw the merit in Blizzard's badly-thought-out plans.

>>5115

Half Life 2 is a full game in it's own right before the extra episodes. TF2 is also a full game, and currently it's about double the cashe size it was on release, not to mention the countless bug fixes and balancing tweaks they've done over the years based on community feedback, hardly 'trifling updates'. Portal was overpriced as a standalone game, but trying to play down the quality or value of the Orange Box is just stupid.

No one believes Valve are doing any of it out of the kindness of their hearts, they've simply found a way to make money without shamelessly charging for every little thing they can get away with. They may not care about their customers, but they realise they'll have a more sustainable business if they aren't trying to rip them off at every available chance.

>>5134

Well I know it's entirely subjective, but personally I was very unsatisfied with the length of Half Life 2, and the episodes were frankly repetitive and dire. They wanted £19 for Episode One in my local branch of Electonics Boutique, when it plays like a competant mod.
The support for TF2 has been very good, but most of the new maps come from the community, and so have a whole bunch of the hats too, and the weapons...

Frankly theres half a dozen GOTY editions that are better value for money than the Orange Box was.

>> ORANGE BOX LOLOLOLLLLOLO

no. TF2 is on sale on it's own. I might not have bought it on its own, but it is still a standalone game.

>>5135

I wasn't even aware that the episodes could be bought anywhere other than digitally on Steam, but I agree £19 is overpriced for an episode, in the same way Portal was overpriced as a standalone game (and still is.)

There are some very good deals to be had with GOTY/complete editions, but those only seem to come about because of exploitative amounts of DLC in the first place. I don't think I'd have bothered buying most of the DLC I own if it wasn't part of a GOTY/complete edition/sale.

>>5138
You can buy the games standalone but you have to then register them on Steam to play them. All part of the plan.

>>5006
Because that's also a naive view to take. It's not entirely true.

>>5017

All they don't have is my DNA, and that's useless on it's own. It only means anything in the context of all the other information available, and they already have all of that anyway.

Then again, I'm a massive Euro-lover and just want Europe to become one country so we can properly just wander about it.

>>5062
Leave it in /pol/, please.

>>5062
What kind of attitude is that? If they have most of it already, we should be doing something to take it away, not give up the rest.

>>5067

What they have is from my drivers licence, passport and birth certificate. What does it matter if they know what my fingerprint or my retina looks like?

I don't want them to take it away. I like having identification.

Sage because >>5064 asked me not to do this, but I can't really help it to be honest.

>>5031

I have a comic that proves this.

>>5036

I think we need to see for ourselves.

>>5037

It's in print and I'd have to rummage around storage to find it, then get it scanned, etc. - presuming I can find the motiviation and time.

It had some nice pics especially if you were a leg man, but I'm sure imagination could do a lot of the work for me.

I've never played this game.

Should I play it now?

>>5039

Why not? Get the mods, patches or textures for it if you can. Google should serve it right up to you.

>>4928

As far as everyone older than me reminds me, it seems the late 70s through to the mid 80s were great for arcades. I mean I live in Nottingham so the best none casino arcade was in Matlock but the prices were insanely high.

Arcades are dying out because paying £1 a game is utter nonsense now that consoles play the same games and you get infinite games for £35 and a £130-£200 investment for a media centre.

Knock them back down to 20 pence, rank up the difficulty and throw regular tournies for certain games and you should be back in business.

>>4972
Ahh Matlock Bath.

The seaside, by the river.

>>4980

Nice town. At least it was. Not been in YEARS due to lack of transport and refusal to use a train.

>>5012
Bus m8?

No mention of this video yet?
http://www.youtube.com/v/Q_kGJBv6Wr4

>>4984

I recently rampaged through Shogun, having not played it for about a decade, and I was quite bored after a while. The lack of units and buildings in comparison to later games, or even just Medieval I got me pretty bored quite quickly. It just didn't seem as fun as it was.
I personally really enjoyed Medieval 2, couldn't get into Rome as I played it after Medieval 2, haven't played any past that.

>>4996

Sounds like you are hooked on gimmicks and pretty graphics instead of thinking about strategy-related fun. It is a dangerous lure, just like modern habits destroying attention spans and tastes. There were plenty units in Shogun, certainly more variety than you'd see in most period battles. Dressing them up with slightly different costumes when they served the same function doesn't make much difference, gamewise (OOOOH, GREEN ARCHERS INSTEAD OF RED!!!!). With the expansion it had rather a lot and were mostly distinct in usage and battle implementation or style. The AI in Medieval 2 was woeful and it had bugs galore. A step backwards. The transition to the newer engines was bad in general.

The whole point of the Total War games was it was meant to be a refreshing change that concentrated on the battle and strategy instead of all the other padding (cutting out or minimising the dreary base building and moving troops around). It was lean fast-paced strategy excellence with all the fat cut off. Now each game requires more and more time spent on worthless padding and has become a lardy fat man of a game, waddling for hours to get anywhere and requiring far too much pointless and mindless nursing.

It's as bad as the constant effort to turn games into bad films. Unsatisfied developers the world over seem to keep trying to live out their lost dreams of being a third-rate Spielberg or similar (even worse than the terrible developers that fancy themselves as great writers). They lose sight of what games are and what they should be doing.

>>5003

>Sounds like you are hooked on gimmicks and pretty graphics instead of thinking about strategy-related fun.

But I'm fairly certain that it's not that. I still play my retro games with much vigour.
It's perhaps because the joy of Total War games for me lies not in the battles themselves, because my computers have been too shitty to run them well past MTW and when I was younger I wasn't a great micromanagement tactician, but in the large campaign map. Thus the fun runs out quite quickly once there's nothing new to build or strive for, just slogging across the map automatically fighting battles is how I play, thus the RTW and MTW2 thing of actually being able to use terrain on the grand map was pretty cool for me, since I couldn't run battles.

OT, I think Battle for Wesnoth might be looking into, although it can be a bit irritating with the statistic battle system, but I figure if you don't play it as a perfectionist than that just makes it more interesting.
Sniper Elite is a brilliant shooter which genuinely relies on patience (either in constant reloading or just taking it really slowly). About 10 missions but some are split up and most take hours.

>>5021

Maybe so.

The grand/map strategy part of Total War is really bad though, even as an example of that kind of thing. That's very much the weak side of it. Like eating the side salad and leaving the main dish. There's better pure grand strategy games out there if you don't like the real-time tactical side of things.

Shame to think of a game that was famed for the real time battles being reduced to a constant dreary map slog and auto-battles! Almost perverse (on the part of the game design or play).

The original games with the simpler game board style had much faster movement and battles were fewer and more important, giving a greater sense of urgency and victory. There was no ten turn half hour slog to get across a map, the chesspiece slid to the zone and you were into the meat of the game. You also didn't get fifty filler battles before you got to a town. It was a clever choice to abstract it in that manner (as opposed to the previous base-builder style games and others).

If you like turn-based strategy/tactical games in general then there's also plenty along those lines, certainly playable on most PCs around now, even if it is getting long in the tooth. Everything from squad-based to immensely complicated and detailed world-domination types. Feel free to make a thread detailing what you're interested in if you're looking for that sort of thing. I'm sure I and others could fire up some suggestions once we know what you like or want.

>>5024
I disagree. I can't get into the quick-battles without playing through the grand campaign first, I find it difficult to care about winning or losing the individual fights without an overall aim.

Also, Sniper Elite is pretty fun. Watching that little low-poly bullet pop open a maroon flap on a german soldiers head is pretty satisfying.

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