So, what're you playing?

[Ironwood]

Yeah, I'll dig out that youtube to show you the nutter who I watched do it.

On the other hand, it's the last fight.  Who'd blame you for accessing the console at this stage and....DOING THINGS.....

[Samwise]

Hey, is anyone playing Grimrock?  I looked for a thread on it and couldn't find one.

[Rendakor]

Hey, is anyone playing Grimrock?  I looked for a thread on it and couldn't find one.

[Ironwood]

Hey, is anyone playing Grimrock?  I looked for a thread on it and couldn't find one.

You of all people should know what happens when TWO BLOKES make a thread about a game.

 

[Jeff Kelly]

Also excuse the audacity of us two discussing a game we're playing in a thread called "So, what're you playing" 

[Draegan]

Should I buy Europa IV or Crusader Kings? What DLC's should I buy if I do buy either?

I'm in the mood for a good strat game.

[Reg]

I like Crusader Kings better myself. If you get it go for the expansion packs. They add a lot.

If it was me I'd wait for a Steam sale though. It goes on sale frequently.

[Draegan]

I like Crusader Kings better myself. If you get it go for the expansion packs. They add a lot.

If it was me I'd wait for a Steam sale though. It goes on sale frequently.

I just bought Crusader Kings because I'm bored.  Which expansions? They seem to have a ton of them.

[Reg]

All of them give significant new content. Although, if the game is new to you, you can just play until you get bored then buy an expansion for the new stuff.

That's why I'd wait for a big sale or a Game of the Year edition or something.

[HaemishM]

I like Crusader Kings better myself. If you get it go for the expansion packs. They add a lot.

If it was me I'd wait for a Steam sale though. It goes on sale frequently.

I just bought Crusader Kings because I'm bored.  Which expansions? They seem to have a ton of them.

I like getting the unit packs and portraits, but I skip the music DLC. As for the expansions? All of them except for Sunset Invasion - it's "alternative" history and thus not fucking worth it. The Paradox Interactive store has the game and most of the DLC expansions on sale this weekend and I'm guessing you get Steam keys out of that.

[Sky]

The music DLC is my favorite part!

I need to mount the Paradox learning curve some day.

[Draegan]

I only had time for about 30 minutes of the tutorial scenario. Fuck this game has a crazy learning curve with all those icons and things you can do.

Should be fun to learn.

[rk47]

CK's very fun when you're busy building powerbase but as you grew the micromanagement will slowly kill your fun and you turn into a bitter old monarch who curse and swear at your incompetent successors.

[murdoc]

Gave Evolve a quick go yesterday and ended up being the Monster which is ok I guess except for I had read next to nothing about the game and had no idea what to do as the Goliath. I lasted for 30 minutes and only Evolved once since it took me a bit to learn wtf I was doing.

I can see this being a decent game every now and then, but I can't see $60 worth of entertainment there.

[Teleku]

Should I buy Europa IV or Crusader Kings? What DLC's should I buy if I do buy either?

I'm in the mood for a good strat game.

EUIV is also a very fun game, for future reference.  They've added a lot into it with expansions as well.  It doesn't have the comedy aspect that that crusader kings monarch system ads, but I feel it's the best EU game in the franchise so far and is a very solid military/Econ strategy game.

[Rendakor]

Started playing Gnomoria, after glancing at Sam's thread for getting started tips. Restarting after getting the hang of it, and turning on peaceful. I just want to build a cool kingdom, not deal with invading dickheads.

Lots of Hex too. The vague promises of new cards coming someday have got me wanting to sharpen my skills.

Still futzing around with Fantasy Life between tourney rounds too. Game needs more fast travel something fierce, and having to swap classes to turn in class-quests is fucking obnoxious since you can only class-swap at the guild hall.

[Samwise]

Started playing Gnomoria, after glancing at Sam's thread for getting started tips. Restarting after getting the hang of it, and turning on peaceful. I just want to build a cool kingdom, not deal with invading dickheads.

You are sadly depriving yourself of that game's greatest pleasure, which is designing and optimizing machines that convert the invading dickheads into money and sausages.   

[Rendakor]

There doesn't appear to be a toggle; if I could play the first year or two on peaceful then turn on monsters later it would be fine. I lost one gnome the first goblin attack and like 4 the second.

[Ironwood]

You have plenty of time to get a party of nutjobs kitted out before the first Goblin invasion.  Which, let's face it, should be just one wee goblin and a budgerigar.  You may also have time to get spike traps, but you'd be pushing it.

Sam is, however, completely right.  Peaceful mode is just like building shit in Minecraft with no monsters.  Sure, you can make pretty stuff, but it's pretty pointless.

[Velorath]

Just played through Mega Man 1 and marveled at the patience I must have had as a kid to have been able to beat that game repeatedly with no save states. Still playing through Phantasy Star and a bit of Hex also. Possibly worth noting that I'm choosing to play old NES and Master System games rather than continue to play The Evil Within.

[Fabricated]

Still playing Shadow of Mordor and Destiny. Destiny has hit the "level your pants" stage which is kinda boring me a bit but I just don't really feel eager to do the Vault of Glass if it's anything like a nightfall strike because the nightfall strikes are literally the least fun I've had in a game in years.

Mordor is still really good but I kinda wonder what they were thinking making the power levels unlock so fast. Yeah you level reasonably slow so I have maybe at best half of the abilities but I unlocked all the tiers in the first zone. And that was without really excessive dicking around. I'd just hit up duels/trials/etc that were on the way to main quests or happened to be near when I was finding all of the artifacts/wall painting things. The dagger/sword/bow legend things are kinda the least fun things but they get slightly less irritating after you get the really broken shit like Shadow Strike.

[Rendakor]

You have plenty of time to get a party of nutjobs kitted out before the first Goblin invasion.  Which, let's face it, should be just one wee goblin and a budgerigar.  You may also have time to get spike traps, but you'd be pushing it.

Sam is, however, completely right.  Peaceful mode is just like building shit in Minecraft with no monsters.  Sure, you can make pretty stuff, but it's pretty pointless.

The first invasion in the early summer was 1 gobbo, but 3 came the second time. I also couldn't figure out how to equip gear.

[Ironwood]

Think Sams playthrough covered that, but you just have to define a 'uniform'.  You can do that for professions and military.  The gnomes are sometimes fucking retarded about using them though.

Also, five gnomes with weapons (and you can make 'em from stone) should fudpunk goblins for ages.  It's only when the goblins start getting armor and weapons they become a problem.  By which point you will have a maze of spike traps.

You could also just put a wall around your farms and keep the fuckers out entirely.  I don't think they tunnel for a while.

[Lucas]

- Finished Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay for the first time . What can I say? This was a spectacular, freakin' amazing game  . Great story, impeccable pace, good voice acting, good blend of game mechanics. Yeah, late to the party, but it was definitely worthy. Also, I felt my chest hair growing every time Riddick spoke a line 

- I also beat Ron Gilbert's The Cave : personally, I think that the metacritic score (68) is undeserved (I would score it around 77). It's a lovely puzzle/platformer with some great art; nice unique levels for each of the seven characters, although the bigger areas (needed to go on with the story) are shared. Good humor and the local co-op feature is a nice plus. One thing that would have made it better: some bantering/short dialogues between your characters, based on the combination of their "role".

[Samwise]

You could also just put a wall around your farms and keep the fuckers out entirely.  I don't think they tunnel for a while.

If they leave empty-handed because there's no path to your guys, the next time they bring tunnelers to open a path.  Or so I've heard.

[Ironwood]

Yeah, but reports are conflicting as to when.  I've blocked 'em off before and I've not ever seen tunnelers.

[Yegolev]

Skyrim, now with DLC.  My wife is baffled.

In related news, she has preordered the new Dragon Age.

Played some Path of Exile today while idling on a conference call and found Catarina again, which let me finally get a hideout.  I really lucked out since that is the one I wanted for my headless necromancer.

I'm still too sick for Destiny, but maybe more Orc Murder Simulator soon.

[Phildo]

I want to know what your wife thinks of Dragon Age when it comes out.  Why doesn't she post on here, anyway?

[Yegolev]

She's way too busy.  Also she might accidentally Politics, so it's for the best.

[Rasix]

There's nothing good to come of bringing one's spouse into this hive of scum and villainy.

Phil, there's at least a handful of people here that will be day 1 purchasers of DA.  Don't worry about feedback.

[Reg]

Yup that message above reminded me to get my own preorder in.

[Yegolev]

In Phil's defense, he's gone drinking with my wife and knows how cool she is.  Not really F13 material, though.

Restarted Rogue Galaxy today.  2006 doesn't seem that long ago.

[Phildo]

Yeah, Yeg did pretty well for himself.  Fair enough, though.

Y'all day 1 purchasers clearly haven't learned your lesson.  Wait at least week and don't get screwed over by server outages, etc.  This is what we know from the last 5+ years of Always Online/Day 1 Patches gaming.

[Rasix]

I haven't had this sort of issue with any Bioware game. Anyhow, I can always peek my head back into FFXIV if such issues arise.

[Phildo]

Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2 had a ton of bugs at launch.  I really liked the bug in DA2 where Isabela's companion ability actually slowed your attack speed incrementally throughout the game rather than speeding it up by x percent.  By the end of my first playthrough, my dual-wielding rogue was fighting like he was stuck in a tar pit.