NerdyGerdy
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Post by NerdyGerdy on Dec 24, 2009 3:40:21 GMT -5
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Post by Insomniac on Dec 24, 2009 19:43:17 GMT -5
I just got done playing my 5th straight game of versus in L4D2 where the end result was my team losing by less than 50 points. So frustrating to lose by such a small margin, but at least each match was exciting right down to the very end. I just love everything about this game. Closing in on 90 hours of gameplay and it's only been out for a shade over 5 weeks.
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Post by Kruton on Dec 24, 2009 19:46:40 GMT -5
I just got done playing my 5th straight game of versus in L4D2 where the end result was my team losing by less than 50 points. So frustrating to lose by such a small margin, but at least each match was exciting right down to the very end. I just love everything about this game. Closing in on 90 hours of gameplay and it's only been out for a shade over 5 weeks. Man, I wish I had it on PC but I'm an Xbox fella. Have you tried out any of the mods that me and my friends are so envious of? How are the custom maps?
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Post by Insomniac on Dec 24, 2009 19:58:17 GMT -5
No custom maps out yet as far as I know. The authoring tools to create user-made maps/models just got released to the public this morning, so hopefully the wait won't be too long. Apparently you can mod just about any of the in-game models -- survivors, common infected, special infected, and weapons. I saw an image a while back of a sledgehammer as a melee weapon, and that's just the beginning of what people are capable of making. It's reasons like this why I love PC gaming so much: Mods just help add so much more replay value to games. So many creative minds out there that can put their skills to use to help improve an already excellent game.
BTW, my favorite thing about the PC version: 20-person servers. I've taken part in 20-player campaigns, and 10 vs. 10 versus matches. They can get kinda laggy at times, but the experience is still incredible. Only problem is that there's never enough health packs to go around ;D
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Dec 25, 2009 10:54:22 GMT -5
The PC is probably the only thing I'm using to play games nowadays. Mostly Civilization and Touhou, and eroge. There's a few eroge out there with English translation patches that can be downloaded, but there's also a few official patches out there too.
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Post by Insomniac on Dec 25, 2009 17:50:29 GMT -5
Steam has the Battlefield 2 Complete Collection for $7.50 today (ends Dec 26th at noon). Older game, but I've never played it and there still seems to be a good community for the game today. Sounds like a steal for the full game and the three expansions. Anyone else play it today or in the past? Thoughts? Link to game on Steam
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Post by Insomniac on Dec 25, 2009 18:23:18 GMT -5
Has anyone else played Killing Floor? It started as a UT2004 mod and was eventually released as a full game. It's similar to L4D in that you fight off waves of zombies, but there's no "Go from Point A to Point B". It's pretty much L4D's Survival Mode with up to 6 players. You fight off the waves round after round, with each round becoming increasingly more difficult. After you've killed enough zombies, you can go to a trader on the map and buy new weapons/ammo with money collected from killing zombies. It's pretty fun, albeit not nearly as deep as L4D. The visuals are dated (again, it's a UT2004 mod), but the gameplay is enjoyable. Steam has it for $10 on sale through January 3rd, and it seems to have a pretty decent following. If you have an older PC, or simply don't want to pay $30+ for L4D2, Killing Floor seems like a decent alternative.
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NerdyGerdy
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Post by NerdyGerdy on Dec 25, 2009 19:30:36 GMT -5
Has anyone else played Killing Floor? It started as a UT2004 mod and was eventually released as a full game. It's similar to L4D in that you fight off waves of zombies, but there's no "Go from Point A to Point B". It's pretty much L4D's Survival Mode with up to 6 players. You fight off the waves round after round, with each round becoming increasingly more difficult. After you've killed enough zombies, you can go to a trader on the map and buy new weapons/ammo with money collected from killing zombies. It's pretty fun, albeit not nearly as deep as L4D. The visuals are dated (again, it's a UT2004 mod), but the gameplay is enjoyable. Steam has it for $10 on sale through January 3rd, and it seems to have a pretty decent following. If you have an older PC, or simply don't want to pay $30+ for L4D2, Killing Floor seems like a decent alternative. They had a free weekend for it a while back, I thought it was okay, but I found no reason to buy it. It seemed like it would get repetitive after a while.
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Post by Insomniac on Dec 25, 2009 19:44:20 GMT -5
Yeah, I can see that happening since there's just the single mode of play. There seem to be a good amount of maps though, including user-made ones, to help increase its longevity. If you've got L4D already then Killing Floor is probably easy to pass on. Not as fast-paced, although it does have a lot of nice weapons, and the zombie types are interesting as well. I'm currently playing it after receiving a guest pass from a friend and it's not too bad.
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Post by thwak is T.hawk on Dec 26, 2009 7:09:02 GMT -5
so after playing my fair deal of medieval II total war and watching generation kill through netflix, I wonder, am I the only one who would think a modern war style total war game would work pretty well?
hell they could even call it total modern war!
ok, maybe they could think of another name.
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Dec 26, 2009 8:18:05 GMT -5
For anyone interested, there are English patches for the eroge/visual novel/dating sim Utawarerumono, Sengoku Rance, and Saya no Uta. There's a few others, but I'm too lazy and some of them are more /h/ than game. Still, all you need is the official games themselves, and setting the unicode settings to Japanese.
There's also Katawa Shoujo. English, and the first act is free to download. Don't play it though if you think disabled girls as characters for a visual novel is offensive.
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Post by Insomniac on Dec 30, 2009 19:59:40 GMT -5
so after playing my fair deal of medieval II total war and watching generation kill through netflix, I wonder, am I the only one who would think a modern war style total war game would work pretty well? hell they could even call it total modern war! ok, maybe they could think of another name. I don't see why it wouldn't work. I'm not a fan of the genre, but something with modern weaponry and a more modern setting would get me interested at the least. The medieval setting just doesn't interest me, which is unfortunate since it seems as though all the games in the series are set in time periods long ago. BTW, Steam with a couple nice deals today: Civilization IV Complete Edition (with expansions) for $13.60 and the original Left 4 Dead for only $7.50. Civ IV doesn't interest me, but seems like a terrific deal for anyone who likes the genre. And L4D is a great buy if you haven't tried out the series yet and want some good co-op, team-based fun. I got Killing Floor for $5 the other day along with Burnout Paradise for $7.50. Loving this holiday sale ;D
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Post by thwak is T.hawk on Dec 30, 2009 20:04:10 GMT -5
so after playing my fair deal of medieval II total war and watching generation kill through netflix, I wonder, am I the only one who would think a modern war style total war game would work pretty well? hell they could even call it total modern war! ok, maybe they could think of another name. I don't see why it wouldn't work. I'm not a fan of the genre, but something with modern weaponry and a more modern setting would get me interested at the least. The medieval setting just doesn't interest me, which is unfortunate since it seems as though all the games in the series are set in time periods long ago. BTW, Steam with a couple nice deals today: Civilization IV Complete Edition (with expansions) for $13.60 and the original Left 4 Dead for only $7.50. Civ IV doesn't interest me, but seems like a terrific deal for anyone who likes the genre. And L4D is a great buy if you haven't tried out the series yet and want some good co-op, team-based fun. I got Killing Floor for $5 the other day along with Burnout Paradise for $7.50. Loving this holiday sale ;D empire is set during the 18th century and is 25 bucks on steam right now. if you want a game that is more gun combat than melee combat that's the game for you, but be warned it's still very much a turn based strategy game.
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Post by Insomniac on Dec 30, 2009 20:20:56 GMT -5
empire is set during the 18th century and is 25 bucks on steam right now. if you want a game that is more gun combat than melee combat that's the game for you, but be warned it's still very much a turn based strategy game. Ya know, now that I think about it, I can't remember a turn-based strategy game that I've played before. Most of the strategy games I've played were real-time (Supreme Commander, Company of Heroes, Starcraft back in the day). Between real-time and turn-based, which do you prefer?
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Post by thwak is T.hawk on Dec 30, 2009 20:31:17 GMT -5
empire is set during the 18th century and is 25 bucks on steam right now. if you want a game that is more gun combat than melee combat that's the game for you, but be warned it's still very much a turn based strategy game. Ya know, now that I think about it, I can't remember a turn-based strategy game that I've played before. Most of the strategy games I've played were real-time (Supreme Commander, Company of Heroes, Starcraft back in the day). Between real-time and turn-based, which do you prefer? they're so widely different I can't really prefer one over the other. I will say this though, if you want to get into turn based strategy and you're a newbie go for civ revolution but that didn't come out on the pc. So if you do want one, try out civ 4 but do know that it can get pretty hardcore. Or if you want to try out a total war game that has some real time strategy elements, get rome total war, plus that game is only 2.50 on steam now, ten bucks if you want the complete pack. Turn based strategy, as a genre, is something that's kind of hard to get into. Plus so many of the games in that genre are old that the only games you'll find for it that are relatively new are total war and civilization.
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Dec 30, 2009 20:40:30 GMT -5
so after playing my fair deal of medieval II total war and watching generation kill through netflix, I wonder, am I the only one who would think a modern war style total war game would work pretty well? hell they could even call it total modern war! ok, maybe they could think of another name. I don't see why it wouldn't work. I'm not a fan of the genre, but something with modern weaponry and a more modern setting would get me interested at the least. The medieval setting just doesn't interest me, which is unfortunate since it seems as though all the games in the series are set in time periods long ago. BTW, Steam with a couple nice deals today: Civilization IV Complete Edition (with expansions) for $13.60 and the original Left 4 Dead for only $7.50. Civ IV doesn't interest me, but seems like a terrific deal for anyone who likes the genre. And L4D is a great buy if you haven't tried out the series yet and want some good co-op, team-based fun. I got Killing Floor for $5 the other day along with Burnout Paradise for $7.50. Loving this holiday sale ;D I picked up Left 4 Dead off Steam. Only my second game since I have had a PC worth a crap again for the first time in years. I can no longer play with a keyboard and mouse, I just suck out loud with it.
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Post by Insomniac on Dec 30, 2009 20:45:09 GMT -5
they're so widely different I can't really prefer one over the other. I will say this though, if you want to get into turn based strategy and you're a newbie go for civ revolution but that didn't come out on the pc. So if you do want one, try out civ 4 but do know that it can get pretty hardcore. Or if you want to try out a total war game that has some real time strategy elements, get rome total war, plus that game is only 2.50 on steam now, ten bucks if you want the complete pack. Turn based strategy, as a genre, is something that's kind of hard to get into. Plus so many of the games in that genre are old that the only games you'll find for it that are relatively new are total war and civilization. Yeah, I've always gotten the vibe the Civilization and Total War series' were hardcore and had a high level of difficulty to them. Very complicated with a lot of micro-management that seems tough to get into for newcomers to the genre. That, and their time settings, are probably the main reasons I've avoided them in the past. I picked up Left 4 Dead off Steam. Only my second game since I have had a PC worth a crap again for the first time in years. I can no longer play with a keyboard and mouse, I just suck out loud with it. I'm the exact opposite: I can't play an FPS without a keyboard and mouse. I've tried playing them on the 360 and the controls just don't suit me. I like the pinpoint accuracy that comes with a mouse, and the WASD controls for movement are just perfection.
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Post by thwak is T.hawk on Dec 30, 2009 20:47:28 GMT -5
Yeah, I've always gotten the vibe the Civilization and Total War series' were hardcore and had a high level of difficulty to them. Very complicated with a lot of micro-management that seems tough to get into for newcomers to the genre. That, and their time settings, are probably the main reasons I've avoided them in the past. total war seems a bit easier with the time setting. you could always set it to a short campaign and you'll still have around 200 turns to achieve all of your goals. and trust me, 200 turns is PLENTY, especially when you boost your economy in the first couple of turns and take over neighboring villages.
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Post by Insomniac on Dec 30, 2009 20:49:37 GMT -5
total war seems a bit easier with the time setting. you could always set it to a short campaign and you'll still have around 200 turns to achieve all of your goals. and trust me, 200 turns is PLENTY, especially when you boost your economy in the first couple of turns and take over neighboring villages. That's good to know. I'd probably enjoy shorter campaigns than longer ones. Also, I'd imagine those games come with good tutorials for newcomers, correct?
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Post by Lionheart on Dec 30, 2009 20:53:43 GMT -5
I'm the exact opposite: I can't play an FPS without a keyboard and mouse. I've tried playing them on the 360 and the controls just don't suit me. I like the pinpoint accuracy that comes with a mouse, and the WASD controls for movement are just perfection. This. I respect the heck out of people who can play FPSes well with console controllers, and from an intellectual standpoint I get that it really all comes down to what you become accustomed to, but I still involuntarily recoil in disbelief every time I come across somebody using a controller plugged into their PC to play an FPS.
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