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Other Games / Re: the Steam Trading Cards thread
« on: July 17, 2013, 11:00:20 am »
I have three Dead Islands, a Prison Architect and a Tomb Raider that I am looking to exchange for Football Manager or Torchlight II on a 1:1 basis. Figured I'd give you folks a crack at them before I liquidate my spares to buy the remainder.

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Other Games / Re: Steam Sales: SUMMER SALES, SPEND MONIES FOR IMAGINARY GETAWAY
« on: July 17, 2013, 10:57:25 am »
I bought Reus and love the mechanics of it, but have a ton of trouble running it. The game is suprisingly resouce-intensive and on my older computer becomes essentially unplayable as soon as I place any animals (which are fairly essential). My advice would be to pass on it for now, wait until it's had some more patches to work out the kinks and then bundle for it.

Sorry about missing the cards thread. Didn't even think to look.

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Other Games / Re: Steam Sales: SUMMER SALES, SPEND MONIES FOR IMAGINARY GETAWAY
« on: July 17, 2013, 10:19:39 am »
Decided to focus my attentions this year and get The Secret World for all my minions. Planning to do the same with Monaco and just miltiplayer my way through to winter when all the single player stuff I want shoulf have neat little GoTY packs instead of a mess of overpriced DLC.

On the cards side of things, I have three Dead Islands, a Prison Architect and a Tomb Raider that I am looking to exchange for Football Manager or Torchlight II on a 1:1 basis.

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Other Games / Re: Leap Day - MP F2P breed of Spacechem and economical strategy (dev in thread!)
« on: February 28, 2013, 10:23:19 pm »
I decided to give this a spin. I'm about a day in with the odd bit of tinkering when at home. Managed to get up to 531 daily income and feeling pretty cool for suqeezing that much out of the map. Insofar as I can tell all the other players have abandoned the game with an average of about 150 income. Well... all but one. That guy has 6,834 daily income. He's got this crazy sprawling complex dedicated to turning wood to black oak to fine lumber, which he cashes in two units of. He's bought about as much territory as the rest of the players combined, clear cuts it every day and has cleared three of the towers at the end of day 1. So in case ZanyJely39 is a B12er, I salute you sir. I am also quaking in fear.

I promise screencaps after he's had some more time to rend reality.

By the wayside, what happens when/if the map is won?

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Other Games / Re: Games you regret buying - 2012
« on: December 19, 2012, 02:25:31 pm »
Magicka tops my personal list at the moment. I bought it thinking it'd be a clever little game with enough mayhem to keep things interesting. The single player campaign was unabashedly awful due to combat balancing that felt entirely aimed at multiple players. I tried tossing a spare key for it from an Amazon bundle at a friend but he can't get it to run at all. I want to like it, but I just haven't managed to have actual fun playing it yet.

I powerfully regret my purchase and playing of Amnesia, though that's because it's very good at what it does rather than because of any actual flaw in the game.

GTA IV was a huge letdown. Much of my prior experience with the series was through San Andreas, so I was expecting something a little more varied and interesting than what the single player campaign delivered. Online multiplayer is somewhat better, but that's mostly because of all the hilarious ways you can break the game with weapon pickups and a team.

Still, a very positive year on the whole. Special shout-outs to Mark of the Ninja and Half-Minute Hero for being proof that it was worth hanging around another year.

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Other Games / Re: The War Z
« on: December 19, 2012, 02:03:03 pm »
Quote from: Thexor on December 19, 2012, 01:47:04 pm
Quote from: lordcooper on December 19, 2012, 01:37:56 pm
Quote from: Levi on December 19, 2012, 01:32:04 pm
Apparently it was just removed from steam.   I think you can still visit the store page, but it won't let you buy it.

Yup.

Also, more hilarity.  Even the title image was cobbled together from spare parts.

Oh god, you're kidding, right? Because if that's true, the devs have a big problem. Using human photographic subjects without their express permission is, IIRC, illegal. And I'm willing to bet they didn't obtain permission.  :o

Shady or unethical actions are one thing. Borderline criminal actions, on the other hand...
But those are clearly zombie photographic subjects. I'm certain if you go back and read the title image again you'll see that it was just a huge mistake on your part.

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Other Games / Re: The Secret World - Issue #2: Digging Deeper
« on: December 14, 2012, 05:58:57 pm »
Quote from: hemmingjay on December 14, 2012, 03:26:21 pm
Good news in addition to being B2P, it's on sale for $15 on amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Arts-41018ecret-World1-Download/dp/B007VTVKG6/ref=dsvrt_myd_asin_block?tag=vglnk-c864-20

This is an amazing deal if you have never tried this game since it will give you access to this very different take on MMORPGs. You will be able to play it forever a la Guildwars 2. The grind is pretty minimal but subscribing allows you to advance more quickly( a good option if you get stuck) and also gives you Funcom bucks every month that you can use to buy the expansions that will be coming out or on the cosmetic options the game offers. The game has flaws and shinning points, but for $15 for lifetime access it's silly not to jump on this!

I'd been seesawing on this, but at $15 it seems like a solid pickup. Now I just need to dragoon some friends into doing likewise. What's the cap on player parties? I must assemble a posse.

EDIT: Additionally, would my friends and I need to belong to the same faction in order to group? Probably best to ask before everyone makes characters.

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Other Games / Re: Team Fortress 2: Mann vs. Machine! Co-op mode! "Now we fight robots"
« on: October 26, 2012, 03:32:22 pm »
Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on October 26, 2012, 07:11:44 am
You know what I'm most happy about this new update? Presents are now private, so the mad scramble when one spawns will no longer exist, meaning that I might be able to pick up more than one prize this year.

This just became my favorite Halloween event. Loved last year's costumes but hated trying (and failing) to actually get last year's costumes.

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Other Games / Re: XCOM: Enemy Unknown (New by Firaxis)
« on: October 09, 2012, 01:41:38 pm »
Quote from: USEC_OFFICER on October 09, 2012, 01:33:53 pm
Quote from: Furtuka on October 09, 2012, 01:31:21 pm
My Steam is stuck downloading on 99% and say's it's going 0 Bytes/S. Is it just being ultra slow or is there something wrong here?

It did the same thing for me. Just wait a bit longer, and it should work. Hitting the play button should also give you an idea of how long you should wait.
I spent about 40 minutes waiting for that to resolve with a bunch of friends piled into my livestream. Then I found out the game isn't XP-friendly the hard way. Not really my best night.

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Other Games / Re: Dark Souls
« on: September 30, 2012, 08:30:46 am »
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on September 30, 2012, 08:01:04 am
Quote from: Cthulhu on September 29, 2012, 02:51:11 pm
As far as I know, resistance is never, ever good to level up, for any reason.

Also holy shit, I am really regretting not taking the master key.  I wanted to do a real playthrough, with no twinking or sequence breaking or any of that, but god damn, Blighttown is fucked up.  If I can just get to the swamp it won't be that bad.
Try the back entrance to Blighttown. It is much closer to the swamp and requires no sequence breaking.

You're going to be assaulted by drakes, though.
This. So very much of this. The back way has far less of the bottomless pit shenanigans that plague upper Blighttown and most of the blowgunners are easily reached from that direction. You miss a bit of loot that way, but I don't think there's anything really important in the upper walks. It's still the most taxing area I've played thus far, but it's at least playable that way.

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Other Games / Re: Civilizations 5: Giveaway Unknown.
« on: September 30, 2012, 08:20:41 am »
Any mod recommendations for those of us who have recently obtained copies through the X-Com glut? Bonus points for mac-friendliness.

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Other Games / Re: Dark Souls
« on: September 22, 2012, 04:08:51 pm »
I just recently started messing about with the multiplayer stuff to try to support a friend who bought the game a few days back. We haven't managed to synch up at all, but white/gold phantom shenanigans are some of the best fun I've had in a long time. Having those extra players watching your back really changes the flow of the game from its normal cowardly pace in to a glorious demon-pummeling bout of jolly co-operation. Sunbro covenant is also a plus.

Any tips for trying to meet up with friends? We're in the same general area IRL, but I'm simply not finding his summon signs when I go looking.

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Creative Projects / Cropping a .mov, need help
« on: September 04, 2012, 11:09:41 pm »
I've been running a virtual tabletop game with some friends of mine for awhile now, and just recently figured out how easy it is to record the screen with Quicktime. I've got the thing saved but now I want to trim it down to exclude the area I was keeping my GM notes in and some other information my players don't need to see. I have no idea how to go about this and I'm not keen on spending money for it. It seems like it should be fairly easy to do, but I can't find an obvious means or utility.

I'm on a Mac running OS10.6.8 and would greatly appreciate assistance.

EDIT for clarity: I just want to remove a constant area of the screen from the recording, reduce the display area and discard what was there while keeping everything else constant.

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Other Games / Re: ATTENTION DWARVES YOUR MISSION IS TO GET HYPED. FAIL AND FACE ERASURE.
« on: August 21, 2012, 12:03:15 pm »
This might be rampant optimism on my part, but from what I remember all the timers in the first game were done in red and black. The blue motif on the teaser timer has me hoping that the sequel's going to be set in one of the other Undergrounds.

I loved the cosmology but the first game felt like a very complete story and I'm afraid that any attempt to extend it would be damaging. Using the sequel to do more with setting but telling a different and otherwise unrelated story would be grand. Maybe throw in a puckish Joshua or Hanekoma if they're feeling a need for a callback but much more than that is... concerning.

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Other Games / Re: 3DS game recommendations
« on: July 15, 2012, 11:50:46 pm »
I'll happily recommend The World Ends With You to anyone who owns a DS. It's an immensely clever RPG by Square Enix that does an excellent job of capitalizing upon the DS's more outlandish traits without ever descending into being a simple tech demo. It should be pretty cheap by this point, having come out for the original DS back in the dark days of 2008.

The narrative is a glorious story of what happens when you drop a fairly standard misanthropic amnesiac JRPG protagonist into a setting where failure to become a worthwhile human being will kill him. What follows is raw, fashion-mongering, vending-machine-dropping, pin-collecting, precision-snacking brilliance.

Oh, and in spite of what the box and Wikipedia think, the game has excellent multiplayer. The game runs separate but co-dependant combats on each of the DS's screens and it's a bit much for one brain to handle, so you'll tend to leave the partner's screen running the fairly good AI mode. Switching the AI off and having a friend use half the buttons to manage the top screen while I used the stylus to fight on the bottom one is some of the best fun I've had with a DS. Surprisingly effective too.

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