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Other Games / Re: Steam Christmas Sale Of Sales
« on: November 27, 2010, 01:47:59 pm »
Those look like some good deals at Go Gamer.  Unfortunately it doesn't look like there's much that I want to get badly enough for me to bother.

I see Steam has yesterday's featured sales still in the specials tab.  I wonder if that will go away later today.

The latest Lara Croft is half off its already low price, and it finally got online cooperative multiplayer earlier this week.

And... Check out Gamer's Gate's sale for more deals.  The Ball for $10 is tempting me, but I expect it to go lower over the next year.  FEAR 1 & 2 bundled for $20; I already have #1 so that's a bit steep for just #2.

Actually it looks like they're matching Steam daily special prices but holding that price for longer than a day.  Perhaps over the whole sale.

Fake Edit: 50% off everything at Telltale.  For those that haven't heard of them, they specialize in adventure games and related merch.

Fake Edit: Age of Wonders 1+2+expansion for $13.  Or $5 each.  Anybody have opinions on them?  I know they're old.

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Other Games / Re: Steam Christmas Sale Of Sales
« on: November 26, 2010, 03:25:50 pm »
I held out two days, but now they got me.

Buying: Machinarium, the Clever Pack for V*6, and I guess Tropico3 since it's there.

I already have Goo and Torchlight, I would consider Freedom Force for that price but I have it plus the expansion, and it looks like I have WH40K:DoW2 as well, plus lots of expansions, I wonder when I picked that up.

You know, this is a really really clever strategy on Valve's part.  I've probably given them $300 for games that I've never played and may well never play in the future.

But it's such a good deal!

Fake Edit: Portal is very much worth playing.  New mechanics are hard to find, especially in the FPS genre.  (Okay, first-person non-shooter in Portal's case.)

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Other Games / Re: Steam Christmas Sale Of Sales
« on: November 25, 2010, 12:10:39 am »
Quote from: Soulwynd on November 24, 2010, 08:51:41 pm
Quote from: Dr. Johbson on November 24, 2010, 08:46:17 pm
I watched my friend play Poker Night, and it wasn't very good, is what I wanted to say.
Hm... Then I dunno. I just happen to like poker, strongbad, max, and tf2.
Today's Poker Night review at Rock Paper Shotgun was not at all positive, either from the standpoint of a poker sim or from the standpoint of enjoying the character interaction.

Basically if you like virtual hats, you might consider buying it and grinding.

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Other Games / Re: Torchlight and Torchlight 2!
« on: November 24, 2010, 04:19:17 pm »
Quote from: 0x517A5D on November 22, 2010, 04:06:00 am
... Braid... Trine... Time Gentlemen, Please!,... Recettear... Eversion... Desktop Dungeons ...LEGO Harry Potter... Far Cry, Bioshock, Deus Ex GOTY, HL2 ep 1 & 2, Red Faction Guerilla, Crysis, Mirror's Edge, GTA3, GTA4, GTA:SA, GTA:VC, ....

I gotta stop buying games on Steam sales.

Oooh, Steam holiday sale!  I want this, I probably want that, didn't hear good things about that one but for a fiver can't go wrong, package deal already have the first but okay, wowzers 90% off games I'd never normally buy, 24 hours only gotta decide fast!  Different deals tomorrow!

Also, Beyond Good and Evil for $4.00 from some company I've never heard of before.  Anybody satisfied / unsatisfied with them?

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Other Games / Re: Torchlight and Torchlight 2!
« on: November 23, 2010, 06:53:13 pm »
Quote from: Aklyon on November 23, 2010, 04:38:21 pm
Quote from: Sergius on November 23, 2010, 01:14:11 pm
Not to mention spyware.
and possibly other malware.
Well, arguably the WT games themselves are Trojans, because they install the spyware driver without sufficient description.

I remember there was a company that installed their spy-crap even if you canceled the installation of the game.  I wanna say that was WT, but I don't know that for sure.

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Other Games / Re: Loving husband. Caring father. Secret octopus.
« on: November 23, 2010, 06:41:54 pm »
Quote from: Soulwynd on November 23, 2010, 06:12:20 pm
Quote from: Soulwynd on November 22, 2010, 10:30:20 pm

Hmmmm.
I need to quote myself since apparently, nobody got it the first time... Or maybe nobody knows him, which is sadder. :(
I got it.

Ghastly, of Ghastly's Ghastly Comics.  Self-described pervert. Carries a "gimp stick" because of a bad leg, has a keytar that was previously owned by Thomas Dolby.

His comic had at least four tentacle monster characters.

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Other Games / Loving husband. Caring father. Secret octopus.
« on: November 22, 2010, 07:36:26 pm »
This is a week or so old by now, but there's not a topic on it yet, so...

Octodad.

If the title didn't convince you, here's a trailer.

If that didn't convince you, you're hopeless.

Also, tentacles.

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Other Games / Re: FPS history
« on: November 22, 2010, 06:56:19 pm »
Quote from: de5me7 on November 11, 2010, 06:39:45 am
dont forget AVP 1999
AvP 1 (PC, not the PlayStation one) is one of my favorite games of all time.  Punishingly difficult, but brilliant.  Rebellion released it without quicksave/quickload, and were pretty much forced to add it by outraged players.

I've never used the quicksave/quickload.  Screw up, start the level over.

It's a wonderful game.  The marine runs at olympic speeds while carrying a full load of weapons and ammo; the alien moves so fast that sounds doppler.

They rolled their own engine, and it shows.  Parts are startlingly primitive, like the fact that view distance is a serious problem.  (Really, the view can't cross more than x number of polygons.)  This was covered up by having twisting tunnels and automatic doors everywhere.  The level modelers did some wonderful work hiding the engine's limitations.

But other parts of the engine are very advanced.  Real-time modeling of water, volumetric explosions, water interacting with actors, gunfire, and explosions....  Fisheye effects and non-vertical view orientation for the alien, about 8 different vision types that weren't just palette shifts....

Partially destructible bodies on the aliens -- shoot the tails off, preventing tail slaps but splashing acid blood everywhere.  God, I freaked the first time I blew the bottom half off of an alien and the top half crawled toward me, clawing and hissing.  Good times.

For a long time it didn't work on ATI cards.  That got fixed a couple of years ago.  Rebellion / Fox released the engine source (not open sourced, but made available) and there's a guy who's done some bugfixes here.  There's also a Linux port, interesting.

Um, I guess I went off topic.

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Other Games / Re: Torchlight and Torchlight 2!
« on: November 22, 2010, 06:23:25 pm »
Quote from: Sergius on November 22, 2010, 05:43:44 pm
Uh, perhaps, sorry, but I won't touch that WildTangent trojan driver thing with an 11 foot pole. Never again.

Oh.  Oh yeah.  That Wild Tangent shit.  Unstoppable invisible background process with (memory?  handle?  other resource?) leaks.  Eventually it would bring down the computer.  It took me quite a while to figure that one out.

Yeah.  Never again.  AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

But when I wanted to get my FATE install working again last year, I found a cracked executable very easily.

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DF Modding / Re: Here's a nice fixed-with font that really works well for DF.
« on: November 22, 2010, 04:46:24 pm »
That is a very nice looking font.  I've been using FixedSys Excelsior doubled to 24pt, but I'm going to at least try this one.

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Other Games / Re: Torchlight and Torchlight 2!
« on: November 22, 2010, 04:06:00 am »
Torchlight was very polished but had no substance.  It was candy.  Tasty, tasty candy, but not a satisfying meal.

I mean to finish it someday, but... I've got a lot of games waiting for me.

I bought Braid and Trine a year ago and haven't started them up once, I should get back to Time Gentlemen, Please!, I want to restart Recettear from the beginning (i.e. deleting savegame data), Eversion's waiting for me to figure out why my joystick doesn't work with it, I'm currently seriously into Desktop Dungeons, I didn't finish LEGO Harry Potter, on and on... and that's just the indies.  Far Cry, Bioshock, Deus Ex GOTY, HL2 ep 1 & 2, Red Faction Guerilla, Crysis, Mirror's Edge, GTA3, GTA4, GTA:SA, GTA:VC, ....

I gotta stop buying games on Steam sales.

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DF Modding / Re: Quick Embark Question
« on: November 21, 2010, 06:08:52 pm »
Read through these threads:

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DF Modding / Re: My dwarves don't request diagnosis.
« on: November 20, 2010, 08:11:57 pm »
I'm going to take a shot in the dark that it's the TISSUE_MATERIAL. I'd bet that only flesh and bone can be healed.

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Other Games / Re: How did you last die?
« on: November 19, 2010, 04:04:57 pm »
I was able to kill The Tormented One, but I didn't quite have enough resources to kill Frank.  He had 8 HP left of the 636 HP he starts with; I wouldn't survive the counter attack.

I chose to take the Pyrrhic victory instead of retiring.

It worked out though.  I got the credit for killing both bosses even though I didn't finish the dungeon.

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DF Modding / Re: Tech Question
« on: November 19, 2010, 03:56:37 pm »
32-bit Windows can't use more than 4 GB of RAM.  (It can be less, e.g. 3.25 GB for XP.)

On modern CPUs, this is an artificial limitation.  Microsoft could make it use all the available RAM if they chose to.  (both 32-bit and 64-bit Linux, for example, can use all the RAM you have.)

A single 32-bit Windows program can't use more than 2 GB of RAM.  (Or up to 3 GB under 32-bit Windows or nearly 4 GB under 64-bit Windows, if and only if the program has special support for it.)  This limit also applies to the WINE emulator shim layer.

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