I figured that maybe you should have checked the catalogue first:

http://britfa.gs/e/res/16725.html

>>19769
To be fair he probly didn't want to resurrect a thread that's been dead since last summer.

>>19770
Because...

>>19771
Mods are strict on necro-bumpers

>>19771
... that would be a daft and shitty thing to do.

Got Alien Isolation for my brithday the other day. Made sure I got the Ripley edition with both DLC missions on the original Nostromo.

Only problem is that I'm too much of a wuss for horror games. I've only played about the first twenty minutes, I just can't do it. I have to squint through some parts of the films, this is on another level. I think I'd pass out if you made me watch Insidious or whatever.

Here's me doing 33 damage to an Ethereal, which is the best thing ever, in case you didn't know.

>>19771

Because I did open a few threads from the catalogue and mouse over several more, but that one doesn't have a title, so I never noticed it. That OP's tardiness is not this OP's mistake.

>>19774

Me and my cousin went through the same thing with Doom 3, although we were 11 and 13 respectively, you great, big chicken. In the end we enabled an invincibility mod and we were fine.

>>19774
Fantastic game and one of the single best uses of the Alien Licence since the original film. I recently blasted through AC Rogue, which was fantastic too and miles better than Unity.

I've been playing Halo MCC through, as part of the reliving of my youth I've been so lamenting on here for the last few days.


Halfway through CE so far. They really made it look very nice, and it's still a good game. It feels a lot more half-lifey than I ever remember, I suppose that's because of all the character driven NPCs.

Anyone else feel there's been too many games to catch up on in the past year? Steam sales haven't helped, but I've got a backlog of things I need to finish. The only thing I've really been doing is messing around on Battlefield 3 every so often as it doesn't require any dedication.

I still need to finish the very end of Far Cry 3 and Hitman Absolution, then I have games like L.A Noire I picked up in Steam sales that I only made a small dent in. There just never seems to be enough time unless I spend all day every day playing games, but then I'm not achieving anything. Oh..It's happened hasn't it. I've grown up and gained responsibilities.

Help me.

>>19774
>I've only played about the first twenty minutes
You haven't even seen the alien yet, have you, you wuss?

I quit after I met the alien

Grey Goo. I've been desperate for a good new RTS and this doesn't disappoint. It's made by some of the guys who made the good C&C's. The Goo faction is one of the most interesting things I've seen in the genre for some time as is the use of QWERTY to access build menus.

>>19780

Base building? Is it 1998 again already?

>>19781
Base building was always my favourite part of an RTS match. I'm glad that someone's out there making games that I would like if I had any fucking time to play them.

Been playing Dying Light, and it's surprisingly fun. The combat isn't great, but combat is generally more of a last resort than it was in Dead Island. The parkour mechanics work well, and the night times are genuinely scary. It gets really dark, and tough fast zombies come out, so it's more stealth and speed based rather than combat. It's really fun traversing the world, and an abandoned Turkish city is rather novel a setting. It's the game that Dead Island should have been. Bit clunky though, and the story is very boring.

>>19780
Thanks for pointing this game out. I had seen it mentioned but hadn't bothered taking a look.
>>19781>>19782
Exactly the reason why this tickles my fancy.
As a kid in the 90s and early 00s, I was never very "good" at RTS, but I loved spending hours amassing an enormous army and winning the game in one big battle. I think modern RTS games miss out on a lot of fun that you could get from simpler game mechanics like that.

>>19768
Now I've had to go and start enemy unknown again, thanks.
Haven't bought enemy within yet, when it was released I was quite irked that it's being sold as an "add-on" which requires you to own the original, but it's being sold at the cost of a standalone. Oh well, I can get a few more months of play out of enemy unknown and maybe try some mods, and keep my eye on steam sales in the meantime.

>>19780>>19781
There is always time for base building. Love the RTS genre, always will. It's one of the few game genres that crosses many age boundaries, they're the perfect sort of game for my Dad in fact (who is in his sixties).

>>19784
I remember that most missions on the original C&C could be beaten with the simple tactic of building up your base defences then sending large enough groups to overwhelm individual units. There were glitches you could take advantage of, such as surrounding the enemy harvester with infantry or sandbagging out to build guard towers in the middle of nowhere, but those two basics served you well most times.

One of these days I need to play through the entire series properly. Except for Renegade, obviously.

Lego Harry Potter, but it just crashed on me so it can fuck off. In other news, my 6970 has had an 11th hour revival since I built my new rig, only to be replaced in a week or so by my R9 290X 8GB.

So far this weekend, the 6970 has run Alien: Isolation on Ultra at 60fps and MGS:GZ on Ultra at 30fps. I'll be sad to see it go.

>>19776

Same, I don't so much love the Alien franchise as just the first film, the rest is as 80-90s pastiche as Lasertag and Tazo's.

>>19779

No, I've only just got on to the Sevastopol and everything is making me twitch, even though in my heart I know in the typical horror style it'll be a while before I see the xenomorph. I put it on Hard mode for the intended experience.

I'm four-fifths of the way through reading the manual for Sid Meier's Covert Action and it's too late to carry on as I have mundane, non-espionage work in the morning.

>>19787
>AMD

There's your problem lad.

>>19790

Nvidia or intel bumboy m8, because we don't entertain that one word, snide shit here. Here are the facts for you. There is no denying that Intel are better than AMD when it comes to per core performance; they are simply better, only a fool would try and win that battle, but a properly cooled FX 8350 overclocked to 5ghz is a unstoppable beast (which is what I have) and I didn't have to re-mortgage the house to buy one. Now, onto GPUs, show me a better price/performance card top end card on the market than a 290X 8GB and I'll be very surprised. The difference between AMD and Nvidia at the top end is either infinitesimal, non existent or AMD comes out on top purely due to price. The 6970 was mid to top tier when it came out and the 290X 8GB is one of the best cards in the world right now and is nearly half the price of the GTX 980 with better performance, and blows the 970 out of the water in the same price bracket which has less than half the VRAM due to very strange memory leakage glitches. We'll see how things are when the 8GB versions of the GTX 970/980 come out, but they will almost certainly be £600+ and the 290X 8GB is £299 on Overclockers right now and will, at best, be relegated to the 3rd best card in the world if they turn out to be better, but still be best in the price/performance bracket. AMD also make the best APUs in the world with Intel struggling to keep up, weirdly. It's an anomaly I haven't been quite able figure out, but I digress.

Now unless you are aware of a Lego Harry Potter/AMD compatibility issue that google isn't, kindly take your brand war garbage and fuck yourself bloody with it.

>>19791
No need for a massive teary, m6.

>>19792

Back in my day, trolling meant something rather than lads simply baiting replies out of people who know more about PC parts than them.

Broken britfa.gs.

>>19793
Do let us know when such as person replies then, eh?

>>19791
>Intel struggling to keep up [on APUs]

Is this still true for the Intel Iris processors?

>>19794

>such as person

I've yet to see you make a coherent point.

>>19796
I guess that makes us even.

>>19797

There is no harm in admitting you don't know what you are talking about, lad. There is no shame in it. So a lad made a big post full of big words you find it difficult to understand and the extent of your typical interactions with people on the internet amount to "meme arrows" and monosyllabic insults. Is it really the end of the world you can't think of anything to say? Is passive-aggression necessary? No, chicken, it is not.

If you plan on telling him why he is wrong, by all means go ahead, otherwise best take a step back from the keyboard and maybe go for a walk... or something, maybe you have no legs. I don't know, I'm not a psychic.

>>19798
Christ lad, if you're going to be a teary bumder could you at least do it somewhere other than /g/? You could also do with losing this notion that every comment disagreeing with you is coming from the same person

>>19791
Enjoy your G-Sync.

>>19799

This isn't /g/. Also, how could we be even? A bizarre non-sequitor or an implication perhaps?

C'mon now, surely the irony of that isn't lost to you, bearing in mind your familiarity with the nature of anonymity?

>>19800

I will, thanks.

What a nice lad.

>>19801
>This isn't /g/.
It's nonetheless no more an appropriate place for tearybumdery of any sort.

>Also, how could we be even?

>You could also do with losing this notion that every comment disagreeing with you is coming from the same person

>>19803

You're fooling no one, here.

Back on topic lads.

I've recently blasted my way through each F.E.A.R game, one after another. I find it hard to find another series that fell so far, so fast.

>>19805
Which ones are worth playing?

>>19806
1 + Expansions are amazing.
2 completely ignores the expansions plotlines, but is still good albeit a bit restricted, amazing textures though.
3 is essentialy Call of Spooky and makes a complete hash of ending the story which started pretty interesting.

>>19807

Yeah, First is the best, Second is worth playing, although they removed the righteous boot, and avoid the Third.

Wimplad here. Also playing the Android version of Games Workshop's classic Talisman boardgame. It was free for a day on Amazon's app market, which is a damn site better than the Play Store.

Not too shabby at all, even on my little Moto G the UI isn't too fiddly. Hours of fun, and there's like a dozen classes to play as.

I've been trying to play Delver on my phone, which is an utterly charming game that I would probably have made myself if I knew how to code. The only problem is, it's fucking balls hard, and I have yet to make it past the first few rooms. Touch screen controls don't help, and I have a suspicion that were I to play it on PC I would be able to exploit my years of FPS twitchy finger nimbleness to succeed, but doing so would feel utterly wrong for a game that is ultimately more akin to a roguelike. I really wish they would tone down the difficulty curve at the beginning, because it's such a nicely presented little game that would be perfect to play in chunks on my breaks and whathaveyou, but in it's current state I'm never going to be able to play it in that way and it'll end up becoming just another disappointing app I uninstall and go back to Dead Trigger.

Speaking of mobile games anyway, does anyone have any recommendations on Android? I'm finding it so hard to find good ones because 90% of what's out there is freemium bullshit. It enrages me to have a phone that's more powerful than the laptop I'm currently posting on, but yet that is so lacking in quality gaming entertainment.

>>19809
>It was free for a day on Amazon's app market, which is a damn site better than the Play Store.
Come on, Jeff.

>>19810

Pixel Dungeon is my all time number one, I couldn't recommend it enough
It's a roguelike too so is right up your street, not to mention open source and actually free rather than freemium.

Pewpew is another free game I enjoy, very similar to Geometry Wars.

Going into freemium, Robotek and Radiant Defense, both by Hexage are quite enjoyable. The latter is very difficult for a Tower Defence game.

I downloaded NHL15 because it was half price on the Xbox Store. I would have been incredibly pissed off if I'd paid the full £50 for that game, it's like they took NHL14 and decided it would be better if all of the stickhandling was done in slow-motion.

The new fight engine is a nice idea, as it does mean that if you're a cunt in the game you'll get beaten up just like in real life, but it feels like they made it a little bit overzealous to try and point it out as much as possible. That or I'm just a cunt more often than I think.

Anyway, it's pretty shit.

>>19813

EA have long since giving up any pre-tense of quality in their products. If it has been less than 7 days, you can get your money back even with a digital download. For £25, I fucking would.

>>19814
If they release a new Skate game and it sucks I will burn down their head office.

I bought Just Cause 2 on Steam because it was £2.50, and after all, what's 2.5 x 10? Fuck.

Anyway, it's not very good, it's not terrible. The map's huge and quite empty, which makes traveling boring as shit. Unless you take the roads, but when you do take the roads you run into a bunch of other crap and you never get anywhere. It does kind of make a case for GTA's policy of road blocking portions of the map.

Also they use cookie cutter cut scenes. Almost all of them take place inside the exact same model of helicopter, with the models sitting in the same positions.

>>19815

Oh, can I come? We could make a day of it.

>>19816
'Cookie cutter' is a good way of describing the game as a whole. The frankly gigantic game world is impressive but there is more than a hint of the copy+paste to it. To be honest I prefer a smaller but better designed game world a la GTA IV / V.

Having said that, I had a lot of fun with JC2 and would still recommend it (£2.50 is a steal), unless you're incredibly unimaginative you can easily get that much enjoyment pinging around on your grappling hook and riding 747s around.

Have you found the Lost island yet?

>>19817

>Have you found the Lost island yet?

No. I get the feel that involves getting in a boat and holding down W for 15 or so minutes.

>>19818
Not quite, it is in a corner of the map though. One of the side missions takes you there iirc but you can find it any time. Worth exploring if you're into Lost as they put in a few random details (e.g you can ind the hatch, a crashed airliner and some other stuff) otherwise it's just a strange island.

I'm playing a few games on my new PC.

Firstly, I recently played Crysis on ultra. Nice graphics porn but the gameplay gets old pretty swiftly. I'm not really playing this anymore. Completed it though.

Next I'm on 'Sunless Sea'. It's got some good ideas but I find being on the edge of starvation and permanent fuel poverty more infuriating and irritating than I do challenging and interesting.

I'm also playing The Dark Mod, which is fucking great. It's graphically gorgeous and the stealth is top notch (pic related doesn't capture the gorgeousness, proper images are too big for .gs).

EuEuropa Universalis IV, same as ever, Crusader Kings 2, Destiny on xbox with another. gs lad and FIFA 15.

>>19907

On the contrary, I thought Crysis was over way too quickly to really shine.

Well, I say it was over quickly. What really happened is you acclimatise to the pace and begin to revel in the freedom of assaulting these big encampments from whatever angle you choose. And then the games suddenly goes "Okay, you've had enough fun now, time for some corridors and aliens mate."

It's such a shame Crytek weren't the ones to work on Far Cry 2/3, those games could have been properly ace if the level of design tightness shown in Crysis had been carried over. Instead, we just have two franchises that are both mediocre.

>>19910
>And then the games suddenly goes "Okay, you've had enough fun now, time for some corridors and aliens mate."

Yeah that's what I thought. I liked the early sneaking up on Norks and skilling them up with the nanosuit, but then it just becomes a mediocre bullet-sponge blasting game.

Currently spending my time between Arma 2 with a Vietnam war mod, NHL 14, Mount and Blade with the L'Aigle mod, and War Thunder.

Started The Order 1866 earlier, I expect to finish it by tomorrow. It looks absolutely fucking fantastic. I've had plenty of moments thinking I was still involved with a cut scene before realising I was supposed to be doing stuff. It's a shame it's pretty standard TPS fare otherwise.

>>19908

>Crusader Kings II

ERGH! God damn that game. I was rebelling against the king of Lombardy when Charlemagne was all "lol that's my kingdom tho". I didn't want to give up so I just started running away from him with my meagre force of about 2000 guys. Eventually the blighter caught me with 6000 of his own guys and I was crushed. But it didn't matter! Not even a little! Because I'd killed Charlemagne and ended the war that way, now his two tiny sons were in charge and sure to get rebellion-ed to death by all kinds of idiots, leaving me to snatch up the easiest pickings.

But even less of that mattered than before, because my game crashed mere moments after Charlemagne had died, just days away from autosaving.

FF14 free login weekend, my friend offered to pay for my server transfer so I may resub.

You CK2 lot should play Victoria 2.

>>19914
Yech. Surely these days there's technology sufficient to counter this? Can't they do something like, I dunno, make two or three textures that are different yet still tesselate, and then paint them onto the surface in a random order?

>>19916
And finished. Yep, I can certainly see where the balance of story / gameplay ration comes up with this one. Whats there is entertaining enough, but there's just not enough of it.

>>19918

I have tried Vicky 2, but I feel like it's lacking in personality. I mean, CKII does occasionally have an over abundance of "personality" (pic related). But waiting for my clergymen percentage to tick over to 4 is a lot less interesting than trying to scheme a second cousin onto the throne of France, or declaring yourself King of Lancaster.

>>19919
The only way to solve it is bigger images. It sounds simple, but when you make that image bigger (or have more smaller images), then repeat that for other similar textures in the game, then it starts to eat up a whole load of extra HD space. Sometimes the effect can be greatly influenced by the skill of the individual artist who drew the texture, but most of the time it's down to a matter of bean counting to cut the size of the game down by a couple of GB.

I'm currently playing the open beta of Galactic civilisations III, pretty good game, a while back I was playing stardrive which is mostly just a clone of the same series, but GC III is quite expansive. However it's not particularly well optimised at the moment, it's the only game I've played in ages where I can't leave chrome running in the background, and even then it's got me considering getting another 8GB of RAM.

>>19923

>The only way to solve it is bigger images.

Or use generative methods, but that burns CPU cycles.

>it starts to eat up a whole load of extra HD space

That's not really a concern these days, but filling up the GPU memory is. It also takes a great deal of work to produce good textures that look natural and tessellate correctly

I'm thinking about starting the Baldur's Gate Saga again, but with playing as Bobby George, so the only weapon available would be darts which I very rarely use. What do you lot reckon his class, stats, race etc. would be?

>>19925
Pure Fighter, for grandmastery in darts. Human. And if you're a disgusting minmaxer like me, 18s in Str/Dex/Con and 16 Int.

Along with a custom portrait made from an image like this

>>19926

Beautiful.

>>19926
I take it his Wisdom would be on par with the bloke down the pub, so a standard 11 or so.

>>19919

Remember "megatextures", that big breakthrough John Carmack came up with a few years ago?

Yeah, neither does anyone else.

Got the new Resident Revelations game, it's rather fun. The first episode of the campaign was fine but only a couple of hours long, though I really like the two characters mechanic of the new game. One character is the typical shooty person, the other has more of a utility role - first half is a girl with a torch and a crowbar, second a girl who can fit in small places and detect zombies. I imagine co-op would be interesting. Story seems pretty typical Resident Evil, but is redeemed by the return of Barry Burton as the main playable character. He spends the whole time being an embarrassing but ultimately caring dad, it's great.

Most of the time I've been playing on Raid mode, which is a surprisingly deep arcade style mode. Lots of content, considering it's only £4.99 for the first chapter. Not as good as the first Revelations, but better than 5 and 6 even though it's obviously a budget title.

>>19934
>Barry Burton

Barry Burton.

I just completed Dishonored [sic]. It was pretty ok. Glad I nicked it though.

>>19942
I just completed The Knife of Dunwall. It had some good bits but the ending was shit.

Playing through GTAV on PS4 now, double dipped after having it on 360 release day.

My god, the first person mode makes it an entirely different game. I'm in no doubt this is the game they intended to release all along, the 360/PS3 version just being a cut down moneyspinner.

>>19947
What other key differences (aside from graphics) are there between PS3/360 and PS4/One versions? I played the PS3 version to death, don't know why but Rockstar games are the only games that ever motivate me to chase 100% completion.

>>19948
First person viewpoint in car and out, extra missions, races, phonecalls, customisation, cars, literally everything has been overhauled. Even the radio stations have good music on them now.

Playing picross and listening to audio books. I don't know why I find picross so addictive, it's a pretty dull idea really.

Currently playing Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition. It's great fun and it makes me feel like a little kid again. The last MK game I played was Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on the Mega Drive.

Finally completed Sleeping Dogs.

I didn't manage to get full Triad experience when doing the story and, unlike the cop missions, there are no Triad side quests to earn more. Having to go back and repeat missions I didn't do so well on trying to farm experience is a fucking ballache because you only earn the difference between your last score and your latest score, assuming it is higher.

It has ruined the post-game for me.

>>19952
It really doesn't make that much difference.

>>19953

It does when you're trying to 100% it.

War Thunder and EVE Online of late and nothing else. I'm waiting for The Division and World of Warships to come out and I'll focus like an autist on them until I burn out.

Holy shit, this game is fucking great.

I've never bought into early access but Besiege is from the loins of the gods. It's easily the best £5 I've ever spent, the creativity you can have fun with in this game is immense.

Have a look at the stuff in the game's subreddit for some gnarly shit.

>>19956
Also check out big brother.

This war of mine has been breaking my heart and soul for days. The bleakest game I have ever played. On my first play through I ended up with bruno, pavel and katia all broken, Katia ran away, bruno died of his wound and the girl I had invtied into our hideout ran away with all the supplies leaving the badly wounded pavel to die a broken man.

>>19959
>the girl I had invtied into our hideout ran away with all the supplies leaving the badly wounded pavel to die a broken man
We've all been there, am I right lads

>>19960

#postapocalypticbantz

>>19961
It's not post apocalyptic. It is set during the Siege of Sarajevo in the 90's.

>>19962
#mightaswellbepostapocalypticbantz

>>19960
Yeah I recommend using better knots and a heavier gauge rope. Invtying just doesn't cut it.

Been doing a lot of grinding in Monster Hunter 4. Some of the drops are such bullshit. Cut off a Rathalos' tail, try to carve it and don't get the "Rathalos Tail" item which I needed for a new switchaxe. Ended up having to fight the same monster 5 times in a row until I could get the shit I need.

On the plus side, the weapon I did make lets me bring down Khezus, Seltas Queens and Gore Magalas super fast now, meaning my grinding to make their gubbins will be faster.

I never seem to tire of this game.

Navy fucking Field 2. It's shit graphics, the sounds are annoying and the other players are cunts but by god it's addictive.

>>19967
I played navy field 1 A LOT.

I have not heard good things about 2, apparently they have made the building options a lot more limited.

>>19968

Indeed the options are a lot more limited but I've found progression through the destroyer and cruiser tiers to be a lot quicker than in Navy Field. Give it a try, I'd rate it 7/10 despite my initial slating of it.

I am also playing Xcom: Enemy Within, picked it up for a few quid on a recent Steam sale. I played through Enemy Unknown when it came out and thought it was alright - a bit short and a bit easy. Enemy Within seems to be basically more of the same, I'm struggling to remember which bits were in the original and which are new additions.

Might check out the Long War mod if I'm still motivated to play after this run through vanilla, I heard about it on some game news site and it sounded pretty impressive.

>>19971

Vanilla is just the boot camp for Long War, Commander.

>>19972

From all I've seen of Long War I'm not actually sure if I want to play it.

http://a.pomf.se/tjmrzr.webm

>>19971
I had a go at the original X-COM about a year ago - bloody hell it's merciless. It's like learning to drive, by taking your test, on the motorway.

>>19978

There's only one original X-COM and it's going to make me try and find my last dosbox tarball and try again

>>19979
Yes, that's what I was playing. What did you think I meant?

Besiege is so fucking good. Holy shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtIW6WIMXlQ

https://www.youtube.com/v/KtIW6WIMXlQ

>>19981
I played it for about two hours before getting bored.

>>19980
I'm >>19971 and I'm not playing the original. I have in the past though, and as that other poster said, it's brutal. I wish I'd had it as a kid, I would've played the fuck out of it.

>>19981

Glad you're enjoying it, but I really don't understand the appeal. I love building crap and all that, and I love extreme violence, but I keep watching these videos people are freaking out over, waiting for the good bit to start.

I dunno, it just doesn't seem as brutal as, say, Kerbal, because usually you're dooming people by accident in that.

>>19986

If you ever played and enjoyed a little game called Armadillo Run? Pretty much just that, really.

>>19979

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM:_Enemy_Unknown

Both games were named the same thing, so confusion is guaranteed. Sorry, lad.

>>19988
Come on though. Original, as in the origin. Enemy Unknown is a remake, an instalment in the series.

>>19989

It was a reboot, and while you are a smart lad there are plenty who aren't and would refer to the 2012 game as 'the original' and to Enemy Within as 'the sequel'. We both agree with each other, so no need to start a cunt off, eh?

>>19990
Not trying to cunt off! I don't think you're a cunt, quite the opposite. A dick ho ho

>>19977

You're gonna need a stronger constitution than that to get through a Long War play through. There isn't always a way through the lake of shit it likes to throw your way. Unless you savescum.

>>19994
>Unless you savescum.
Honestly this has made me feel uneasy playing it. Whenever a soldier dies it's meaningful, because they're actually dead, right? Except that I can save and reload at any point.

Reloading on a missed shot and trying again gets the same missed shot each time, but I found that moving/attacking/etc with another unit resets the RNG, so that missed shot may hit instead.

I'm not sure how much the game expects me to savescum.

>>19995

I only do it when it's a total clusterfug and I'm looking at/in the middle of a squadwipe. People die in Long War, but the fatigue system means you'll have to promote a great many more troops than in vanilla, this also means losing a trooper doesn't result 1/6 of your A team eating shit. It still sucks hard when someone goes down, and loosing a MEC 3 or high ranking Psi trooper can be devastating. However, a well rounded roaster of troops means you can still carry on.

Also this Sectopod has approximately 100 HP, sleep well.

One of my favourite youtube makers has made a video about 25 games he's looking forward to, there are some nice looking games in here, like one called We Happy Few.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa29EM-YTwo

Embed: https://www.youtube.com/v/pa29EM-YTwo

Just finished Ass Creed Unity.

I can see why it gets stick, it's just so boring compared to the rest of the series. Sure it was a return to roots in many ways, much more open plan assassinations, but they forgot to make the bits in the middle exciting.

City was lovely though.

>>20010
You didn't pay for it though, did you?

I've only played one Ass Creed game and that was AC2, which I played when I was house sitting with a load of bad PS3 games to occupy myself. I only completed it to see what happened at the end, and it was so not worth the time. I'm guessing things have just gone downhill since Ubishit just started pooping them out for the masses to gobble up.

>>20011
By all means continue to organise boycotts. Have all the people that pledged to join you renege. Witness the record-breaking success of the companies that engage in practices you find distasteful if not unethical. Train people to take games without paying for them. Stave off the realisation that you're just pissing in the wind by using words like Ubishit. Just don't do it here.

>>20013

Calm down already, Cpt. Misery-Nuts.

>>20013

Don't worry about what the AAA publishers are doing, just support independent developers. We're fortunate enough to be entering a new golden age of independent game development, thanks to the excellent free development tools available.

>>20013
Er, OK lad, just pointing out that spending the full price on buggy, poor quality video games is daft.

>>20015
Read that in PC Gamer some years back - how if the history of video games follows the same path as film, we're about to enter our Golden Age. Probably a lot of wank though.

Anyone played Battlefield Hardline yet? The Battlefield series is the only multiplayer FPS I've ever really liked, but £50 for the digital download is taking the piss. From what little gameplay I've seen it looks very much like a BF4 expansion pack anyway.

On another note, managed to pick up all three Bioshocks for under £7 on steam. It's been one of those series everyone except me seems to have played so it will be good to see what the fuss is about. Pleasantly surprised that my modest set-up can apparently run Infinite with most settings on ultra whilst still averaging 30-40 fps, definitely starting with the first one though.

>>20018
I've only played the first Bioshock, but if you've ever played System Shock 2, it's a slightly more linear, dumbed-down version of that.

Here's a good deconstruction of just how dumbed-down, in this case Infinite:
http://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2013/06/press-f-to-intervene-brief-history-of.html

Lots of fun though.

>>20018
Could only barely run the beta, but it seemed kind of fun. They've really fucked it all since Bad Company though, all down hill since BF2 and a lot more expensive, with a lot more problems.

>>20018
It's apparently shit. Cynical should-be DLC with locked FOV for single player and poor gameplay relative to previous titles. What used to be a highly-regarded series of good games is now just a yearly EA cash cow. The original BF games were built to last, and still have huge player bases, but the new strategy is clearly to just release a new title every year and milk consumers for all they're worth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEaOBQkh7PI

Embed: https://www.youtube.com/v/WEaOBQkh7PI

>>20020
I hope you aren't including Bad Company itself in the "it's fucked" category, because I really enjoyed BC1 and 2. IMO the first had much better single player but the second had the best multiplayer. BF3 was alright, veering towards Call of Duty-ville with reduced destruction and even more linear single player. BF4 just felt like a BF3 addon, single player was completely token and it took way too much effort to unlock anything decent on multiplayer.

Maybe you Battlefield refugees would like to get your Project Reality on sometime?

I think I've got the itch for Red Dragon again. There's nothing sweeter than breaking through into the enemies rear and realising it's completely devoid of real defenses. Equally there's nothing as bitter as having it happen to yourself.

>>20021
For how much he plays video games, it always surprises me how shit he is at them.

>>20023
>There's nothing sweeter than breaking through into the enemies rear and realising it's completely devoid of real defenses

Yup, we all know that feeling...

>>20024

To be fair he always reviews a game while playing so concentration will always dip.

>>20025

What ever are you implying? Red Dragon is a wholesome family WWIII simulator, you animal.

>>20023
Red Dragon is very rewarding and compelling, but I find it fucking nails to get into, as a Wargame novice. I only get victories by outnumbering the enemy on the strategic map and pummeling them with katyushas.

>>20026
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQvTyvVX_ys/[yt]

>>20028

I don't know if you're talking about singleplayer or multiplayer, but one of the big fall downs about the singleplayer is how inequitably it sets you up for the multiplayer.

Regardless, one victory's as good as another. My personal tactics consist of a build up and then a break through that doesn't stop. If you just keep going, it's rare to be halted again, assuming you're sensible about it. In fact it's seemed to me on several occasions that shame of losing a few kilometers of ground has kept people feeding units into my pressing forces, long after recapturing the ground became immediately feasible.

I'm sorry, I could write a really tedious book about pretending to be a general in Red Dragon.

>>20030
The SP. I wouldn't dream of going into multiplayer without getting a sound hand on the mechanics in SP first. I just need to stop being a fucking wimp and get good, all I tend to do is position tanks, infantry in a static line, hiding in trees or buildings, and frantically artillery everything and hope they're all killed. It's some basic bitch level shit.

>>20031

That sounds fine, as long as you're not the kind of player to drag click everything from your helos to your AAA into the enemy lines then quit 3 minutes in, no one who isn't a dick should think you're a bad player.

Easter holidays, so got a couple of games to keep me sane at home from uni, and keep me distracted when I should be doing coursework. Playing Final Fantasy Type-0 HD, and Bloodborne.

Type-0 is really fun, the most fun I've had with a Final Fantasy game since IX. Story is pretty interesting, though it suffers from that l'Cie shit from XIII, and in the US it was rated MA and I can see why. The bloodiest FF game, I think it's trying to show the horrors of war which is admirable for a game about 15 year olds throwing magic cards at mechas while summoning Norse gods. Graphics are shit, barely looks better than it did on PSP, but very enjoyable.

Bloodborne is good. About 4 hours in, main differences from Souls games are no shields (except for one shit one I got after 3 hours), and not much armour or weaponry in the world to get. I've only found 3 weapons in the world itself, others I got at the start or bought. The normal enemies seem a bit too easy, especially as if they damage you you have a one second window to make them bleed and regain the lost health. Also everything has fuck all poise, so enemies are a bit too easy to stagger. I appreciate the faster pace though, and it looks like the majority of the game is spent within the city which is nice because Undead Burg/Boletaria Palace were my favourite areas of Dark/Demon's Souls respectively.

Just picked up Jet Set Radio on steam. Not very interesting as far as HD updating it goes, but it's still JSR so it's class.
Can only hope they'll do JSRF too one day.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGA4PilHdr0

Replaying Watch_Dogs.

I really don't understand quite how this game gets so much hate. Sure it's no masterpiece but it's thoroughly enjoyable.

>>20035

I can hazard a guess for you if you like?

It's fundamentally broken and unfinished, runs like shit on both PC and consoles and is basically a hacking mechanic with a buggy open world tacked onto it. The world is bland and the story is like something out of a Dan Brown thriller.

I was very disappointing. Do you think any of things may have contributed to it's reputation as yet another terrible Ubisoft game? Or only hope now for their IPs is that the Canadian government has stopped covering their losses as of 2014 so hopefully they are starting to feel the sting from year long dev cycles and rushed releases being wholly rejected on release by the majority of their fans.

>Watch_Dogs
It was proper shit though. I didn't even have high hopes for it and it still managed to disappoint, for all the reasons >>20036 mentioned but especially for the godawful storyline.

>>20036
It's essentially Assassins Creed : Hackers.

Same basic concepts, with cars & guns.

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

Sums it up pretty well. I remember there being a thread on the other place where a guy claiming to have worked on the game was answering questions. He posted a screenshot of the train tracks with 90 degree turns in them. From the sound of it, the developers were just as upset as the consumers at the outcome of the game.

>>20039

I love stuff like this, critical, analytical breakdowns of games, or otherwise just straight slating the fuck out of a crap game. Hard to find ones that are substantial without the YouTuber being a pretentious insufferable cock-end though (I'm looking at you Game Overthinker). Does anyone have any recommendations?

>>20040
I am a big fan of this bloke's channel:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY6VP24BIAo

No bullshit, no shilling, just honesty from someone who clearly loves gaming but isn't fond of a fair few things that are such a big part of it today (essentially laziness on the dev's parts). His other channel with longer let's play style videos is great as well:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HTK9Qrgj2Y

>>20041
Whilst I agree that hardline is not really worth buying, he failed to really put forward much actual criticism beyond "it's not Battlefield 1942". Gaming demographics have shifted significantly towards younger console players since 2002 and like it or not it's hardly surprising that AAA releases will target this audience. Consoles (well PS3 and 360 at least) cannot handle 64 players and huge expansive maps at the graphical quality and intensity that modern gamers demand. His arguments aren't even self-consistent, as if they had made Hardline into a rehash of 1942 that he so clearly wants then that would hardly be any more in keeping with the cops and robbers theme.

In summary, ~10 minutes of listening to a crazy northerner rant about how he's not the target demographic of games any more without making many coherent points. Compare and contrast with the TotalBiscuit video posted above (>>20021) to see how it can be done so much better.

>>20042
>Consoles (well PS3 and 360 at least) cannot handle 64 players
They certainly can - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAG_%28video_game%29 . The problem is that the publishers don't invest in servers dedicated server systems, and generally half arse the releases just to grab at as much money as they can.

I'm the chap who posted the TB video but there's definitely a place for videos like >>20041 , which paste a piece of shit game for the crusty turd nugget which it really is.

>>20043
har har spot the typo re servers.

>>20041
Also I'm enjoying his Cities: Skylines review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mf8GdN2qTY

>>20043
Fair point. That is a PS3 exclusive title however so (aside from the PS3 being slightly higher spec than the 360) I'd assume it would be more difficult to coax the same performance out of multi-platform games that aren't optimised for the hardware so much. At least, that's my naive understanding for why e.g BF3 and 4 lacked 64 player support on the PS3/360 despite having dedicated servers.

My problem isn't that he pasted it, more that he was clearly expecting to play a completely different game and was unable to modify is expectations accordingly. "piece of shit" is a bit unfair - from the gameplay it does look fun if you are looking to play a chaotic, multiplayer FPS akin to BF4 however it is obviously not expansive enough to justify a full release price tag.

Yahtzee has the same problem but at least his videos are funny and his accent doesn't make me want to pierce my eardrums with skewers.

>>20046

>slightly higher spec

It's swings and roundabouts. 360 had a better GPU while the PS3 had the Cell processor. The cell processor is actually better than the CPUs in the current gen consoles, work that one out.

>>20047
>The cell processor is actually better than the CPUs in the current gen consoles
Only in certain, very specific benchmarks. Ask a programmer which they'd rather be working with and I doubt you'd hear anyone say Cell; it's notoriously difficult to make use of that power efficiently.

In theory Cell should have given the PS3 a slight edge over the 360, but in practice architectural decisions elsewhere made it pretty much even between the two. In particular, the 360 has 512MB unified RAM which can be accessed by CPU and GPU, with 32MB dedicated for the OS, whilst the PS3 has the same amount but in the more traditional model, split by task - 256MB dedicated for the GPU, 256MB general purpose, with ~90MB dedicated to the OS (later reduced, I believe, but not by much). This meant that in addition to working with a rather odd CPU, a lot of developers faced pretty serious hurdles dealing with the memory constraints on PS3. I remember Carmack saying that for Rage they got roughly equal performance out of both systems, but the PS3 took twice the effort.

On topic: it's obviously not impossible to support high numbers of players in multiplayer games on either system. It's just very difficult, and the financial returns for doing so are diminishing as both platforms age.

>>20047
>The cell processor is actually better than the CPUs in the current gen consoles, work that one out.

Source? Given the different architectures I would have thought it difficult to compare them directly...

>>20049
See the very good explanation immediately above. The short version is that it had a lot of potential but nobody really figured out how to harness it properly without an inordinate amount of effort. It's worth noting that both PS4 and XB1 use AMD kit for both GP and graphics, which has developers working with (relatively speaking) known quantities.

>>20049
The tech/gaming press picked it up from an Ubisoft presentation at GDC.

http://www.redgamingtech.com/ubisoft-gdc-presentation-of-ps4-x1-gpu-cpu-performance/

>>20048
Is this the reason why some PS3-specific titles like the Uncharted series or MGS3 seem to be slightly higher quality compared to many of the cross-platform games, because the devs are able to spend more time getting the best optimisation for the cell processor?

Incidentally, how do the PS4 and Xbone compare to modern gaming PCs? Could you realistically buy/build yourself a PC with similar performance for anywhere near the same price?

>>20052
> Incidentally, how do the PS4 and Xbone compare to modern gaming PCs?
Pretty poorly. They run at 30fps, and not even at full HD.

>>20052

You can build one that will perform pretty much exactly the same as a PS4 for roughly £450 to £500. An i5 2500K overclocked and a HD 7970 will do you at least another 4 years at 1080p at 50/60hz

Buy them second hand and it'll be cheaper, recycle old parts from your current PC and it'll be cheaper still.

I'd recommend 8GB of Dual channel RAM (2 4GB sticks) which CeX sell cheap as fuck. You're only real expense will be a motherboard that can be overclocked on, but you can get decent ones for cheap enough these days.

>>20052
>Is this the reason why some PS3-specific titles like the Uncharted series or MGS3 seem to be slightly higher quality compared to many of the cross-platform games, because the devs are able to spend more time getting the best optimisation for the cell processor?
Sort of. Any time a developer can narrow down their target hardware to a single platform they're going to have an advantage; the more the platforms that a multi-platform developer has to target differ, the more pronounced the advantage will be.

>Could you realistically buy/build yourself a PC with similar performance for anywhere near the same price?
If you really wanted to build a PC that mimicked the PS4 you'd just need a Radeon 7850, an 8-core AMD Jaguar-based CPU and 8GB of RAM. It's a rough approximation, but the point is that the GPUs and especially the CPUs in the PS4/XB1 are just PC parts, which wasn't the case last time around - the 360/PS3 GPUs were derived from PC GPUs of the day, but both the Cell and Xenon CPUs were very different to the standard PC x86 CPUs (and though very different from each other, Cell and Xenon were both PPC-based - this being the CPU architecture that Apple switched from about a decade ago, and which continues to limp on in the Wii U).

A PS4 costs £318 at Amazon. For that price these days you could build a roughly similar gaming PC. If you already had a PC and didn't need to replace everything, for that money you'd start to see significant gains - 1080p native resolution, possibly up to 60FPS on some titles. For reference, a Radeon 7850, which the PS4's GPU most resembles, goes for about £50 on ebay (you can't buy them new any more). You can imagine how it compares to a modern £200+ GPU.

>>20055
>I'd recommend 8GB of Dual channel RAM (2 4GB sticks)

Thanks for the reply, not actually looking to build a new PC any time soon since I've only just spent my spare cash on a new laptop (I move about a lot so a desktop wouldn't be very practical), was just asking out of curiosity. Incidentally when I got the lappy they offered to 'upgrade' to two 4GB sticks of RAM (from one 8GB stick)... is there any difference?

>>20056
Yeah it's interesting how consoles are becoming more similar to PCs with each generation - the new Steam machines in particular seem like they will blur the lines even further.

>>20057
If for some reason you wanted to upgrade later, you'd have to buy two sticks instead of one, and after being ludicrously cheap for years the price of RAM has been correcting itself.

>>20058
That doesn't really make sense to me. In 2012 8GB of 1600MHz CL9 DDR3 was ~£25 including delivery. It's now twice that. Is there any obvious reason for this? Technology drices don't usually "correct" themselves upwards, not unless something like this is occurring:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/07/come_get_your_share_of_the_dram_bounty_ten_bucks/

>>20057
>when I got the lappy they offered to 'upgrade' to two 4GB sticks of RAM (from one 8GB stick)... is there any difference?
If your laptop's motherboard supported dual channel RAM then you could get a (probably near-insignificant) speed boost. I suspect the real reason they asked is that a 1x8GB stick is worth more money than 2x4GB.

>>20060

The performance increase is non-trivial if you have integrated graphics, because GPUs are more easily bottlenecked by memory bandwidth than CPUs.

>>20059
>Is there any obvious reason for this?
Yes. The prices around 2010-12 were considerably lower than usual.

>>20059

The supply chain for semiconductor products is incredibly complicated. Only a handful of manufacturers have the capacity to produce leading-edge ICs, and a modern fab plant costs billions of dollars and takes years to build. For commodity items like DRAM and NAND flash chips, there are two separate markets - contract pricing, where large device manufacturers like Apple negotiate fixed-price deals over many years, and spot pricing, where everyone else buys chips at market rates. If a contract customer over-orders, then they will often dump their surplus on the spot market at a knock-down price; Conversely, spot customers will get hammered if there's a supply shortage, because contract customers get their chips at a guaranteed price.

DRAM prices had previously been artificially low for a few years, because the semiconductor industry got caught out by the financial downturn and was left with an excess of manufacturing capacity. Increasing demand for NAND flash for use in smartphones, tablets and SSDs has reduced the supply of DRAM as manufacturers switch their production over. A Hynix fab was taken offline in late 2013 due to a fire, which knocked out 12% of the world's DRAM supply. The increased demand for low voltage DRAM and the ramp-up for DDR4 production is further squeezing the supply of DDR3.

>>20063
That makes sense. Interesting, thanks.

>>20063

Hello, El Reg!

I've been playing Halo Reach for the last couple of days. It's such a great game I almost recovered my gamertag and bought three months of Live just to play it online, not that I'm even sure you still can. I looked up my profile on the old Bungie site too, egads the nostalgia is tremendous. I'm listening to the menu music of the second game right now and I can feel my brain tingling, it's unreal.

>>20066
Your post inspired me to dust it off and play it again. Amazingly there are still people playing it and at 11:30 on a weekday there are playlists with ~300 players.

Pic related, I was a bit of a purist back in the day.

>>20067

Oh, man, you have no idea how jelly I am right now.

I can't even recover my profile anyway, as I only have a 360 E to hand, and no information about my account beyond the gamertag, leaving my saves stuck in purgatory on an external 360 hard drive. It's maddening, according to Bungie I'm only twenty thousand points away from being a colonel!

>>20067
It's good to know not everyone here is useless at games.

I don't really follow gaming closely anymore, so I only just now learned of this genuine QTE in CoD. Not edited!

Finally beat Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. Last time I played it was back in 2006 on the xbox, but my console went kaput on the final level. Pretty great game; I'd recommend it to anyone who's into Lovecraft. It's really well written and oozing with atmosphere, although it can be buggy at times because the PC port was rushed. If you're interested in playing it I'd recommend the unofficial patch.

>>20070
I bought it on sale once. Got really fed up with the buggy QTEs in the fishmen level, haven't revisited it since.

>>20070
That Hotel chase scene, fuck.

>>20072
That's the bit that infuriated and annoyed me. First time it was suspenseful. Then it just ended up being a pain in the cunt, and I'm not bad at video games generally.

>>20070
I had to give that up on the boat level, because of a glitch that meant you simply couldn't progress. No one I know who played it could get past it either, it's like they just didn't bother to test it before release.

Up until that point it was a genuinely amazing game though, I'm waiting for a fixed GOG version to come out

>>20074
Did you download the community patch?

I had some fun playing SWAT 4 (which is now free!) with some strangers from another chan. Had great fun with 6 guys yelling POLICE GET DOWN, TRAILERS and DROP YOUR WEAPON etc, while shooting up deserving perps.

The game is basically abandonware now, you can find it and patches at http://swat4.net/

>>20074

Yeah, that's a very well known glitch that affects Vista and 7 users. The unofficial patch fixes the issue. I wasn't aware the patch existed when I started playing, so I used a guide that gives you the coordinates instead:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=144143757

The only other glitch I encountered was being unable to get on the ore bucket in the refinery, but injecting a bunch of morphine and firing guns while jumping onto it solved that issue. Other than that I had a surprisingly bug-free experience.

Call of Cthulhu lad here. Does Alan Wake get any better? I just played through the first episode (80 minutes or so) and I found it pretty boring. The story and atmosphere so far haven't really grabbed me; it feels like one of those cheap made for TV horror movies, and the game plays like a tarted up corridor shooter. Follow a linear path, press a few buttons, shoot these monsters. Rinse and repeat. Does it continue along these same lines for the rest of the game?

What I really loved about Dark Corners of the Earth was the mix of stealth, combat, and open levels with adventure game elements. And as I mentioned before, it was atmospheric as fuck too; the story piqued my interest within the first 5 minutes. It gave me an itch for spooky games that I can't quite scratch. Can anyone recommend some games that capture the same vibe? Maybe Dead Space or Alien Isolation?

>>20078
Alan Wake gets interesting spooky wise around Episode 3.
Dead Space & Alien are both FANTASTIC games.

>>20078
I'd also be interested to know if Alan Wake gets any better, as I had exactly the same experience.

I can say that Dead Space and Alien Isolation are both worth your time.

>>20076
I used to love playing that. All the zip-ties.

>>20068 Here. I did it, I finally did it.

I found the skeletal remains of my old 360, plugged it in, hid behind the couch because of the terrible noises it made and transfered the whole shebang to the 360 E.

Oh yeah, and guns are for chickens.

So GTA V is out for PC... and it comes on 7 DVDs?! It's hardly surprising that it takes up a lot of space but can someone explain why PC gaming hasn't switched over to blu-ray yet? It seems strange that PC hasn't caught up when blu-ray has been used on console since 2006, given that PC is usually seen as the 'cutting edge' for gaming tech.

Slightly related to above, I've noticed that GTA IV is reduced massively on Steam (presumably as part of the V hype parade), given that I've played the fuck out of it on console already does anyone think it's worth ~£4 to check out the mod scene?

>>20084
Because most people don't have bluray drives in their PCs.

If you're going to play GTA IV on your PC make sure you use the improved renderer. The port was garbage but the mod community seemed to have it pretty much fixed last I looked into it.

Alright lads, I graduate uni in about 2 months so a bit nervous but inevitably going to be moving back home.

I don't play computer games at uni and I have an Xbox 360 at home from when I really liked computer games.

Anybody recommend any games for me, I like free roam (Fallout type especially) that I can hopefully pick up cheapish now there is a new xbox I believe?

I have no interest in and know next to nothing about IRL football, but I've been playing the buggery out of Fifa 15 lately. I got promoted my first season as Crewe Alexandra and halfway through my second season I was sitting comfortably in 6th when the file was corrupted. Anyway, I've started again as Shamrock Rovers and also realised you can have "His Benevolence" as a first name as it fits perfectly.

Also, am I wrong to assume the only reason the Saudi football league is in the game is because a sheik or 12 lent on Fifa who lent on EA?

>>20083

Well, it's me again.

Without knowing the email account I can't actually get the profile online, and there's apparently no way of finding it out. I could just get a new Gamertag, but that's mountains of DLC, myriad saves and 22,000+ gamerscore totally gone.

I don't suppose anyone wants to do a Sony style hack on Microsoft and leak my deats? If you do I'll promise never to say "deats" again.

Looks like there's only one sensible thing for you to do.

>>20084
The cutting edge is forgoing physical media entirely. I don't have an optical drive in my current PC. Or even a 5.25 inch bay, so I couldn't install one if I wanted to.

>>20103
Digital downloads are all well and good but the tens of GB download size for some games now is a real ballache if your internet is capped or particularly slow for any reason. I can understand not having a physical drive in little 11/13" netbook things because of the space but that shouldn't be an issue in a 15" or bigger laptop, let alone a full desktop tower?

Besides, I'm not sure you'll find many people happy to throw their entire CD and DVD collection in the bin because their new PC can't play them. I guess it depends what you want from your comp, but as a media player a disc drive is essential.

>>20104
You can borrow an external if a CD is necessary. I still have a CD read/writer in my ATX PC but only because I found a goodun for £12 and thought it would be better to have one on hand should I need it one day.

>>20104
This is probably not helpful because I consider my computer a word processor rather than a gaming PC but it's a mini case of some sort. Just over a third of the size of a tower PC, most of my peripherals like an large HD (it has two internal SSD), scanner, DVD drive (USB 3 so no loss of speed) are external and I keep them in a drawer unless I need them. It's amusing as people will ask where my computer is, assuming that what they're looking at is just part of the sound system.

>>20103
If only there were some way of having a drive outside of the case, attached by a cable- if you wanted to that is.

>>20106
>DVD drive (USB 3 so no loss of speed)
Yeah, it's not like USB 2's top speed was twice that of a DVD drive or anything.

>>20108
Oh I don't know what I'm talking about in terms of hardware but it works fine. I'm not even sure why I contributed to this discussion other than alcohol and seeing some words that seemed familiar.

I guess I mean I could get an external bluray or something I assume that's a thing who cares.

Mass Effect 2, on PC. At first it wouldn't run and gave an error about PhysX, so I checked that I had it installed, then updated to the latest version. It still wouldn't run. I don't even have an Nvidia card! Turns out it's a specific version (of the software I don't need for a card I don't have) that's required in order for the game to even start.

For fuck's sake.

>>20123

You basically need the version that's included on the disk (or Steam install or what have you)

It's annoying as fuck, but the game's worth it.

I've been getting back into Prison Architect recently following a few months break after getting bored of it. One of the few examples of Early Access done right. I need to re-watch Introversion's alpha videos to remember what the new stuff does though.

>>20124
I didn't think to check the Steam folder, I found it elsewhere. It's version 9.09.0814, in case anyone else picked it up in the current humble bundle and is having the same issue.

I'd forgotten how much of a cunt Miranda is, good god.

>>20123
>>20126

Playing the first game on PC blew my mind, as it was the first time I'd played a game that pretty and modern on a computer.

Visiting the near empty planets always weirded me out too, especially when you start to realise how 90% of all intelligent life are the same species of wonky looking monkey.

>>20079
>>20080

Just finished Alien Isolation on hard mode.

Decent game, but I wouldn't call it fantastic. It was incredibly atmospheric in the first 8 hours or so (before the game starts dragging on) and the alien is brilliant when you're first introduced to it, but once you get accustomed to its AI and learn to keep crouching while paying attention to the beeps from your motion tracker, it becomes a lot less fearsome. A lot of the time I got the feeling that the alien was supposed to be stalking me at ground level, but because I kept crouching it would just meander somewhere above me in the vents. Halfway through the game when you get the flameflower and mix it up with some molotovs and noisemakers, the alien becomes more of an annoyance rather than the terrifying threat it's supposed to be - there were only a handful of moments in the game where I was genuinely afraid of the alien, and where successfully avoiding it felt like a real accomplishment.

The story was pretty bland and the environments were really fucking boring. I know it's supposed to be a space station, but I got tired of the endless dark corridors quite quickly. An 18+ hour game really needs far more variety, especially when you're constantly backtracking through those meandering corridors. The game also feels really linear and formulaic. Most of the time you just follow objectives and directions on the map, press a button, then continue following the map until you press the next button (repeat ad nauseam until an alien encounter). You rarely get the sense that you're solving problems or progressing through your own volition, and there's far too little player agency outside of the alien encounters.

Thinking about trying this later:

http://www.transmissions-element120.com/

It's a short HL2 mod.

"
Transmissions : Element 120 is a short single player experience set in the Half-Life Universe featuring a unique gravity defying weapon that allows you to jump buildings and sustain large falls. The story takes place at a mysterious date & location after the events of Half-Life : Episode 2. Where are you? Why have you been sent?"

I bit the bullet and bought GTAV off of Steam for £40. This is the most I have paid for a video game in my entire life, unless you count the Halo 3 DLC I used to cough up for as a yoof.

I researched the PC port reports and apparently it is a good game that functions well on PC. I can't be arsed to fanny around pirating it, since it will make patching the inevitable problems more difficult, and it's reportedly worth a buy ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeU9FKQjSXE ) by many accounts.

>>20137
... Of course I'm going to have to leave my PC running over the weekend, since the cunts at Rockstar are refusing to efficiently compress the data to deter piracy, and my cunting Landlord hasn't gotten around to getting us a >1.5 MB/s download speed broadband line yet.

>>20138
You realize that 1.5 MB/s download speed means you have a say ~15Mb line. That's not that shabby. It's not like he's still on copper ADSL.