So, what're you playing?

[Sky]

I've met crowds of people. Fuck crowds of people.

[Mazakiel]

Making a push to finish InFamous 1, late to the game I know.  Playing through as Hero. 

Got to the part where I was given the choice to save a bunch of people or my girlfriend.  So I chose to save the GF and got dinged for being evil.   

We spent time on this issue in my philosophy classes and we always came back to the point that sheer numbers don't make up for connections between people.  Disappointed in their choice on this one.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few is pretty standard hero stuff.  If I recall correctly, I got dinged myself there, though.  Overall, Cole tends to be a bit of a flawed hero. 

[bhodi]

I also got and have been playing the $10 MTG game. Look me up on steam and we can stomp some people.

It's pretty fun. It's kind of like Magic Lite. You can customize the decks, to a point, they must be minimum 60 cards, you can't touch the lands. If you remove all cards of one color from a deck, it removes all the lands of that color.

If you own the game, you'll want to this with machinations, tezzeret's the artifact deck. Take out the 4 white cards which removes both white and also all the shitty 'find a land from your deck' lands as well.


Basically, this is the way I'd play magic. I have no interest in paying a la carte for cards, effectively DLC. I prefer $10 for a full game's play time of fun.

[Ingmar]

Those find a land cards aren't shitty, they clear lands out of your deck for better late game draws!

[Malakili]

Bought Duels 2012, played the demo and realized right quick that it was going to be quite fun and passable as an MTG game.  I'm in the f13 steam group so feel free to poke me if you want to play (I'm Cheburashka on steam).

[Yegolev]

I did have fun playing the old Planeswalkers game, but a huge part of the fun I had when I played paper MTG was building decks.  Comparing Planeswalkers to Culdcept or even Phantom Dust, it loses in my calculations.

[bhodi]

Those find a land cards aren't shitty, they clear lands out of your deck for better late game draws!

Most of the decks in the game are monstrously slow and that deck is no exception. You should really be winning before turn 10, and so the cards are unneeded :)

[birdsguts]

So these aren't the kind of "find land" or "ramp" cards that let you play one or more extra lands per turn?
Because if they are that kind it would pretty much address the speed problem.

[HaemishM]

So these aren't the kind of "find land" or "ramp" cards that let you play one or more extra lands per turn?
Because if they are that kind it would pretty much address the speed problem.

Yes, there are a number of those cards, some decks more full of them than others. The first Green deck you go up against has a bunch of these type of cards and it makes him real hard to beat in the beginning, at least with the starter white/artifact deck.

[kildorn]

Trenched came out today, and is amusing me greatly.

[Amaron]

How many "equip" type cards are there in 2012?  Is there a fancy card list anywhere?

[Malakili]

How many "equip" type cards are there in 2012?  Is there a fancy card list anywhere?

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There is one deck with a ton of equip cards that I've been using,  Its my favorite of the decks I've unlocked so far.

[Rokal]

How many "equip" type cards are there in 2012?  Is there a fancy card list anywhere?

Deck lists are on the official website here

[PalmTrees]

Started Red Dead Redemption. So far, hating it. That damn horse is clumsier than the Mako and having to hold the damn x button down to maintain speed is hard on the thumb.

[stu]

The setting is fantastic and I like most of the dialogue. My main problem with the game is that I have to re-learn the controls every time I pick it up, since I don't pop the disc in very often. The dead-eye system is cool the first couple times, but I like to be able to do stuff for myself, which is tough when your hands are spidered all over the controller during action scenes.

[Azazel]

The setting and story are better than the controls.

[Murgos]

The setting and story are better than the controls.

I agree.  I hated the horse controls at first but it didn't take long until I didn't even notice them anymore and was finishing first in races without really thinking about it.

[AcidCat]

Trenched came out today, and is amusing me greatly.

Yeah I'm only a few missions in but the game is fun, I like the trench customization, and the off-kilter world the game takes place in. Tubes!

[WayAbvPar]

Started Red Dead Redemption. So far, hating it. That damn horse is clumsier than the Mako and having to hold the damn x button down to maintain speed is hard on the thumb.

Want PC version, dammit.

[Rasix]

I love The Wicher, but goddamn the game can be ponderous to play a times.  Too much fucking running is making chapter 4 somewhat of a slog and it's my least favorite chapter in the game.   Really want to finish this run up so I can use it as my import for Witcher 2.

Playing some Rift as well.  Easy game for me to relax with, despite the only safe "I can go afk here and poop" place being Sanctum.

[Sky]

Yeah, I got sucked into some Rift, too. $10 is apparently my whorepoint.

Still working through Amnesia in short spurts to retain my rl sanity; my FFH2 game has become a knot of sorts, in a really good way.

[Riggswolfe]

Making a push to finish InFamous 1, late to the game I know.  Playing through as Hero. 

Got to the part where I was given the choice to save a bunch of people or my girlfriend.  So I chose to save the GF and got dinged for being evil.   

We spent time on this issue in my philosophy classes and we always came back to the point that sheer numbers don't make up for connections between people.  Disappointed in their choice on this one.

I saved the other people. Honestly, the GF was a bitch and the second she made up with me I knew she was going to be a hostage at one point.  I just finished Infamous last night. I got it for free from the Sony "oops we may have exposed you to identity thieves" deal. I enjoyed it so much I asked for Infamous 2 for Father's Day and got the Hero Edition. God I love my wife.

Anyway, it's a great game and the people at Sony were geniuses by making Infamous one of the free games.

[ghost]

I've been playing the hell out of New Vegas.  I never finished it the first time around, and thought I would give it a go with the new DLC.  Sierra Madre felt like someone cloned Bioshock for the New Vegas world and was highly irritating with all the collar-blowing-you-up bits.  Thankfully I finished it and have gotten back into trying to uncover all the little hidden areas.  I'm not finding that I'm as interested in finding all of them as I was with Fallout 3.  Maybe I'll switch back over to Red Dead Redemption for a bit.   

[Rendakor]

The worst part about that Infamous choice is that your decision didn't matter; whichever choice you made, she still died.

[Mazakiel]

While that either choice you made had her die did suck, when the credits are rolling and it's all said and done, I was okay with how it played out.  Your choices do manage to effect how she dies, at least. 

[kildorn]

I love The Wicher, but goddamn the game can be ponderous to play a times.  Too much fucking running is making chapter 4 somewhat of a slog and it's my least favorite chapter in the game.   Really want to finish this run up so I can use it as my import for Witcher 2.

Playing some Rift as well.  Easy game for me to relax with, despite the only safe "I can go afk here and poop" place being Sanctum.

Remember that to make the save importable, you need to manually save at an exact point in The Witcher, since there is no end of game save created.

[Azazel]

Started Red Dead Redemption. So far, hating it. That damn horse is clumsier than the Mako and having to hold the damn x button down to maintain speed is hard on the thumb.

Want PC version, dammit.

Don't you have a 360? I can't see RDR particularly controlling better on a PC with KBM to be quite honest.

[Azazel]

Remember that to make the save importable, you need to manually save at an exact point in The Witcher, since there is no end of game save created.

Couldn't that have been easily fixed with a small patch to the original/DC? I guess I'm just asking redundant questions...

[kildorn]

Remember that to make the save importable, you need to manually save at an exact point in The Witcher, since there is no end of game save created.

Couldn't that have been easily fixed with a small patch to the original/DC? I guess I'm just asking redundant questions...

This is a series that runs like shit unless you manually clean up your saved game directory, because every autosave is a new file and accessing the menu preloads the thumbnails even if you're not going to save/load.

It's safe to say the guy who designs the saved game system has been drunk for a decade running.

[WayAbvPar]

Started Red Dead Redemption. So far, hating it. That damn horse is clumsier than the Mako and having to hold the damn x button down to maintain speed is hard on the thumb.

Want PC version, dammit.

Don't you have a 360? I can't see RDR particularly controlling better on a PC with KBM to be quite honest.

I am doing my best to never play anything that involves aiming a projectile weapon on a console ever again. It just annoys and infuriates me.

[Rasix]

The auto-aim, even on the normal difficulty setting, is just ridiculous with RDR. The shooting bits are not difficult nor are they annoying with thumbsticks.  This is coming from a person that does not buy console FPS because of my hatred of thumbstick aiming (and my meh-ness toward the genre as a whole).

[Hawkbit]

The auto-aim, even on the normal difficulty setting, is just ridiculous with RDR. The shooting bits are not difficult nor are they annoying with thumbsticks.  This is coming from a person that does not buy console FPS because of my hatred of thumbstick aiming (and my meh-ness toward the genre as a whole).

^This.  I suck at console FPS, I get all excited to try them out and then get my ass handed to me over and over.  RDR's 'normal' setting has a kind of 'snap-to' feature that makes it a hell easier.

[Sky]

Remember that to make the save importable, you need to manually save at an exact point in The Witcher, since there is no end of game save created.

Really? That's odd. Where is it, I need to go back and replay the steam version.

[Minvaren]

Ice Plains, IIRC.

Also, be sure to patch Witcher 2 before you import your save game - it actually brings your gear over if you do.

[Mazakiel]

I think the save it looks for is one from the Order of the Flaming Rose.  I'd gathered it was an autosave there, but I can't recall for sure either way.  I know you can find the saves online for various story choices that will import.  I lost my save files when the old HD crashed, and used one I found online to import into Witcher 2.  Everything seemed to carry over that was supposed to, and the extra gear did as well.