Oh fuck you, I'm going to spend the next two weeks playing CTR and Crash 2.

>>20850

The girl in Crash Bandicoot ended up being his sister, if I remember right. They changed quite a lot of stuff in the final product. I can't say I'm not glad they did, what we got was brilliant.

Rumour has it that Sony are going to make another All Stars game, so there might be a Crash game off the back of it or before it as a way to reintroduce him to people. I don't think Sony own the rights to Crash though, but if it means a new game I'll definitely give it a try.

>>20850
I don't understand this obsession with third-rate stories being bolted onto games. Just give me good gameplay. They made the right choice.

>>20923

Well said, that man.

The only time I want story is if it's an RPG.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTi5EaocGaY

Are we ever going to get another poster who plays Jagged Alliance other than me?

Have you played 7.62 High Calibre? It's realtime with pause, but closer to JA than you might think.

>>20897
I'll give it a look, cheers. Blue Sun?

>>20898
Go for it, looks like it mostly does general improvements without changing too much.

Electro-City. It adds more lights to the wasteland and installs solar-powered lampposts on the highways so you can see what you're doing when you leave at night. This is especially useful if you install Fellout which makes it REALLY REALLY DARK at night, doubly so when combined with the Realistic Wasteland mod mentioned above. Also I like a star-dome replacement mod to make it look more pretty, and also replacing the pipboy with the Readius so when you wear the Ranger Armor you get to have both gloves. For that you need NVSE.

>>20824

>REALLY REALLY DARK

Oh, boy it really does. I took Early Riser after checking it out, because it's bedtime anyway once the sun's down.

Getting trapped in a midnight sandstorm is a riot.

>>20825

There's a cool weather mod you can get as well. It will rain or sandstorm massively etc. The rain is acid rain.

>>20826
I installed Nevada Skies. At night I couldn't see my arse in front of my face, so I had to install the Brighter Nights .esp. During sandstorms I couldn't see anything either so I disabled them too. Weather is one thing but making the game unplayable isn't exactly fun.

>>20824
>>20825

Realistic Wasteland Lighting is great, especially when combined with the washed out version of NMCs texture pack . The vanilla game never quite nailed the atmosphere of being in a scorching hot desert, and the other weather/lighting mods I've tried made the environments too dark, even during the daytime.

>>20797
>>20799
Not really. His team unfucked a project that had been in development for four years, and it took them a year to do so.

(This sort of thing has not been that uncommon an occurrence in the games industry, with all due respect to Iwata and co.)

>>20796
I wonder what will happen to that puppet. Imagine if they kept on using it in Nintendo Direct.

>>20801

It will be buried with him.

>>20802
Imagine some sort of Halloween Direct where it bursts out.

IT IS I! DIRECTLY FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!

>>20805

Mirth.

The mechanics are pretty good but the player base is fucking terrible in my experience. No communication or teamwork, clearly little interest in working with others, it's the sort of thing you invite when you make a game free to play.

>>20748
Nothing says 'I am not a bore' like recycling an internet meme from a batman film, and then asking for information which is easily available from the web.

>>20740
Why are the red doritos labelled as nacho cheese, instead of the chilli heatwave we know and love?

>>20749
You're a big bore!... for you.

>>20750
Don't question the dorito pope, shitlord.

>>20747
Your thought process, from what I can tell:

"These people are talking about something I don't care about. Instead of just moving the fuck along, what I think I'll do is I'll start talking about something I do like to talk about, apropos of nothing. I know! I'll talk about gamergate, because like all people who like talking about gamergate, I am literally incapable of discussing or even thinking about any other subject."

Did I miss anything out?

Update: Most of the chickens seem to be in the nether. I'm trying to wipe them out but accidentally stabbed a pigman so am fucked.

Also the golems aren't gone.
https://www.youtube.com/v/cgPqmRNjoTE

I forgot how grindy starting out in this game is. I think I may just become a farmer.

~psyk

Are there any decent basic tutorials for a complete newcomer?
I know the console versions have one built in.

>>20673

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials#Newcomers

We discussed it in the roguelike thread, one lad said he thought it was boringly repetitive and I agreed when I tried it. I could imagine co-op making it quite fun, oddly enough, but I'm not buying it to find out, sorry.

>>20667

Just from the title this sounds like a game about working-class survival in Cameron's Britain that a mildly stoned Charlie Brooker might make while he was recovering from the flu. I really hope it's that.

>>20669
Does anyone know how to gain enough strength and stamina to defeat the JobCentre heavies? I had resolved early on that I'd violently resist any benefit sanctions given to me but by the time my JSA advisor grew tired of my excuses I'd become too hungry and weak to resist. The heavies are easily able to pin me down until the police arrive. Do I really have to steal some protein bars or something?

>>20670
You need to seek out dodgy Dealer Dave who hangs out around Spar at midnight for some special Soap bar, which allows you to mess with time & space.

>>20671

Don't forget the mini-game in the Spar itself doing the weekly shop where you have to complete a series of puzzles such as working out if a 3 for 2 deal on Birdseye fish fingers is actually better value than Spar own brand and which of the badly-labeled beers are in the "any three for a fiver" offer, all while keeping a running total in your head so you don't get overdrawn and hit with fines by your bank.

>>20613
The Kingdom Hearts games are pretty solid hack'n'slash RPGs if you can stomach the Final Fantasy/Disney crossover universe.

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, despite its very J sounding name, has good action RPG combat and fairly novel exploration - more investigation based than just wandering around a big map looking for the next cutscenes. Lot of flexibility in party structure, as it has a Pokemon style mechanic of capturing demons that can be used to aid your interactions with the world when investigating and also when in combat. Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne (Lucifer's Call in Europe) has a pretty traditional turn based system, but it's more lethal than most games, and there's a lot of flexibility in the development of your own character's skills and abilities, plus the demon capture/summoning to make up your party, as well have a branching plot where choices actually matter.

>>20629

RPGs without job systems are always arse, but ones that let every character be every class are also arse.

It's finding a balance, which I think Bravely Default got down well, but I digress

Dragon Quest VIII is a masterpiece though. It's the only turn-based RPG I still enjoy as much as when I first played it, so I would recommend it.

>>20631

Being able to choose from different weapons that changed how each character played made that game immense. Also, Beast Wars: Japanese Social Club edition. The 3 brickmen were invincible.

On the back of this JRPG discussion, I've always been really taken with the Digimon World games, for some reason.

>>20631
For decent job systems, Final Fantasy Tactics will always be my favourite. It does a better job of being a D&D-style game than most of the D&D games do. War of the Lions and Tactics Advance are games that I would consider unmissable (NB: neither are PS1/PS2, though WotL is a remake of the original Tactics on PS1).

Then again, if you're after an incredible solid RPG from an older and better time that isn't big silly hairstyles and the power of love ultimately saving the day, you can't really go too far wrong with the D&D games. Character design is basically the only point in playing them, because the stories are inexpertly told and not exactly riveting, but if you have an affinity for the D&D rulesets then you'll have a blast. Neverwinter is my go-to, I'm probably going to install it on my Surface so that I can play it on trains.

Battleship Gunner.

>>20509
Time to dust off the Dreamcast, by the looks of things.

That poor bloke.

>>20509

What was the deal with Shenmue anyway, wasn't it pretty much Quick Time Event: The Game? I can't find myself getting hyped about the third one. Nor a FFVII remake in fact, the only reason anyone likes it is because it was their first RPG as a child.

Doom 4 looks pretty fun, although as I feared, they've horribly fucked up the weapon balance. Shotguns looked completely piss-weak and the plasma rifle looked like an anaemic UT link gun. Doom was such a brilliant game because of its simplicity, and the razor sharp balance of gameplay elements. It seems they really can't get their heads around this- They could call it Quake 5 and I would be happy, but if it takes more than one shotgun blast to kill a basic grunt, then Doom it ain't.

i don't even know what I'm rambling about now anyway. E3 was a lot better this year sure, but fuck me it's like gamers actively just WANT to throw themselves back to the mercy of giant companies who want nothing but their cash. The disastrous cash-grabs of the last couple of years are entirely forgotten because your favourite corporate surrogate parent showed a fancy trailer for some games you like with bigger numbers on the end that people have been saying they should do for a while. Fuck me. Gamers deserve their industry to be in the state it's in, they really do.

I have transcended the earthly domain of consoles, and movie/franchise cash ins and rehashes.

I only play pc games. And at that, only ones that work natively on Linux.

Loved FF7, but can't get excited for this. It won't be as good, they will just dumb it down.

>>20536
>What was the deal with Shenmue anyway, wasn't it pretty much Quick Time Event: The Game? I can't find myself getting hyped about the third one.
It was one of the first games with a believable 3D representation of an open, living world. It predated GTA III by a year or two but it's been more or less forgotten by comparison; Rockstar's game was an actual game (and was hugely successful), whereas Shenmue was a walking-around-80's-Japan simulator with a few gameplay bits tacked on now and then. It did not become the Dreamcast's killer app, despite having the highest budget of any game ever when it was made, and played a significant role in the commercial failure of the system.

The Shenmue games attracted a small but very vocal fanbase, comprised of players who enjoy exploring purely for exploring's sake. I doubt their numbers have swelled much since 2001, and Yu Suzuki says he wants to keep the game design the same, so fuck knows how anyone involved expects Shenmue 3 to make money. It's being pitched as "one for the fans", but the problem with that is that it still costs a tremendous amount of cash to make an open world game like Shenmue - the Kickstarter cash won't come close to covering it, Sony have said they'll cover some of it, who knows how it'll turn out. I suspect that signing ~2000 collector's editions will be the least of Suzuki's worries.

>>20425
Wait a minute. Have people been proclaiming their mirth audible dishonestly?

>>20424

I've found when digging underground with the excavator it's easy to get caught on pieces which makes the machine impossible to move. Thankfully the developers thought of a solution - the bazooka.

>>20433

Kick them into the sea! Kick them into the sea with a giant boot made of hate!

I've been punching things to make money. Especially other people.
I met a scuba diver and stole his face, then I punched him.
I built a house, it was full of money.
I lagged a bit.
I found a plane, it doesn't explode when you crash it, it just bounces back up.
Some dramatic music whenever I touch anything I haven't touched before.

>>20388
Surely all breeding would be done through glory holes, in order to minimise the risk of eye contact?

https://www.youtube.com/v/fm4JQ3gXZIY

Just a story I got from it.

A friend was really into the game so he had lots of loot. I fresh spawned and found his base, he tells me that him and two other guys are going to raid someone elses base because that someone pissed him off (a whole nother story). So the 4 of us while waiting for nightfall get kitted out. It's a big mission and we don't know what to expect so take lots of ammo, armour, c4 etc.

It starts to get dark and we all set out on our trek to this guys base. Coming over a hill we can just make it out. There's an entrance with a small building, then a path leading to a tower base, and the whole thing is surrounded by spikes. Very well made and looking base.
We find a little glitch over the spikes and get to the base of the tower. Blow the walls and make our way in. But there's nothing fucking in it! We figure the guy bailed (with being threatened a few hours earlier), and we probably just caught some peoples ears with the explosions so decide to get out of there asap.

On our way out, one guy has one C4 left, so he decides to check the building at the entrance. And bloody bingo, it's full of guns, armour, and lots of other goodies. We start to fill our boots but hear a gunshot... "Who the fuck was that?", "Not me" x3. Next second a storm of bullets start flying at us, we take cover and with it being pitch black can only shoot at where we see the gunfire light come from, which was in many directions. One of our guys fucking legged it ha. But the rest of us stood our ground not wanting to lose all this precious loot. Sadly we got slaughtered.

And that was it! Bloody amazing experience,

>>19587
>with it being pitch black can only shoot at where we see the gunfire light come from
OP here. Next time put your gamma up, you can see in the dark.
I used to not do that, but every chucklefuck does so it's the only way to get a level playing field.

Not a fan of the new update, no towns kinda ruins it for me.

Also turns my graphics card into an oven for some reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dry_ke6pA9g

It's a long time coming. This may end up killing some of the weaker early access games - good.

Good idea, but open to abuse.

>>20385
You may want to read the terms. On the face of it they do a reasonably job of excluding most abuses.