My younger brother played through it and said it was still amazingly good, he called it one of the best games he's ever played. Sure it's nice to have played the last Bioshock games but not strictly necessary.

You can still enjoy this thing a lot without any previous experience with the series.

How else can I beat the games! ph34r me n00bs! All Your Base Are Belong To Us!

I started playing E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy again. God, this game is completely insane...

Two worlds.

It might not be the best game, but I still like it.

The second one was pretty good, didn't like the first.

I like both of them.

I´ve decided that if I get a steady job at this place I´ve been looking at, I´m gonna fire up Deus Ex the Original ™ again

I try to get enough space between playthroughs so I forget at least parts of it so I can enjoy it more when I pick it up again. So far though it doesn´t look good, I can still run the whole game in my head

Aaargh!!...

Dilemma time...*Sigh*...I hate those...

Having mentioned elsewhere, I am so very tempted to play the Fallout: New Vegas DLC, Old World Blues...

However, I watched the boy play Gran Turismo 5 earlier...My Gods that game is fun...So I also wanna play that now...

And then, this afto after Avatar, the wife went on Skyrim...My Gods that game is fun...So I als-...Wait a minute... ...

Sorry...Yeah, I'm kinda wanting to get back to me J'zirlo game... ...Just to see how difficult he'd find his dragon killing on Legendary (DL-ed the 1.9 patch earlier)...109MB in less than a minute... ...GO BT INFINITY!!*Sigh* ...*Cough*...

Aaaamywho...Dilemma time!!... ...

Anyone played MechWarrior on PC? My buddy had it and it was quite fun. Picking out a good mech and then stomping around firing at everything!

STOMP! CLASH! THROMP! TRASCH!

I have played Mechwarrior 2 and MW2: Mercenaries on the PC. Pure awesomeness.

Now when I think about it... it may have been Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries that we played... Gee, it was such a long time ago

Played Driver, Sub?

I'm currently on Fallout: New Vegas again. Quality game.

Raven Sword 2 Sword and Shadow.

I liked Mercenaries much better than MW2. In MW2 it did not matter how badly you got shot up in a mission, because you would start out the next one in a brand new mech. In Mercenaries you had to pay for repairs, and buy all of your replacement parts. So it really changed how you played. It even changed how I attacked enemy mechs, because if I completely destroyed an enemy mech, there would be nothing left to salvage. OTOH, a headshot that took out the pilot left the rest of the mech in perfect condition.

Driver? What is that, a golf game? Or a race car game? Back in the day I used to sometimes play Nascar 3 with my brother. That was a hard game if you turned on the realism settings! I could barely get around the track without slamming into a wall.



I am trying out Tomb Raider Anniversary. I have a hankering for the original game, and I would like to see what it plays like with a mouse and semi-modern graphics.

If anyone has ever played it on the PC before, WTF is wrong with the save feature? As far as I can tell, there is no quicksave at all. I made a hard save through the escape menu before typing this, went back to play the game from where I left off, and it will not let me load the game I saved. It is forcing me to start all over again. Why is there a save game feature if it does nothing?

Driver is a car game. You drive around as an undercover cop, doing jobs like ramming a building or picking someone up while avoiding the law. It´s all about the car, you never go out and do other stuff. But you do have a room which acts like your HQ but you never walk around there, you just point and click.

You can also just drive around and just look at the different cities. Fun game but far too picky with the time and where you park your car during the missions. If you´re two seconds too early or one pixel off you fail the mission and have to try again.

I had Driver 2, years ago. I don't remember all that much of it as I was about 10 when I had it, but I do remember the police would go after you for anything. Often they'd go after you for nothing at all.

IIRC the Tomb Raider series had fixed "save points" - once you reached a certain location, the game would save automatically, and you didn't have to backtrack any further. It makes the save file itself much smaller, because it only has to track health and equipment, and a location counter. I'd guess you hadn't reached the first one of those.

They certainly do. You can stand perfectly still and do nothing but as soon as you press the key that enables the handbrake they come after you as if you were America´s most wanted.

That was most of the fun, really; I loved playing the sandbox levels where you could drive around the city getting into massive car chases. Those were great fun.

In other news, I've finally decided to stop humming and hawing, and bite the bullet and get Dark Souls. Wish me luck, everybody...

I´ve seen a review of Dark Souls. Looks to be a hard game..

It's difficulty is it's main selling points, but it's supposed to be one of those games where it isn't too difficult once you pay attention to patterns and stuff like that. My main concern with the game is more of a matter of the mind; many of the Dark Souls players I've 'met' on the internet are incredibly smug and immensely up themselves about the fact that they play Dark Souls, and seem to view themselves as some kind of gaming ubermensch, so while I'm interested in trying it (I had a good amount of fun on its predecessor, Demon's Souls, which had some absolutely stellar combat) I don't want to turn into a twat.

Slap me if I do, OK?

I´ll leave that to Liz. Somehow I think she´d enjoy some random slapping..

This is what I have discovered. You can save any time, but it does not save your current situation, rather it saves your last checkpoint location. Which makes saves almost useless.

Anyone played SH: Shattered Memories? There´s this LP I watch from time to time and the atmosphere is awesome!

Meh. Silent Hill 2 is the best. Shattered Memories kind of missed the point.

Speaking of Old Skool shooters, have either of you ever played Painkiller? That's easily one of the best (if not the best) classic-style shooters around.

I´ve heard of Painkiller but as it hasn´t attracted my attention I haven´t looked into it.

Shattered Memories may not be your typical Silent Hill game, just like some people say Oblivion isn´t your typical TES game. Guess I like those non-typical games then...

Look into Painkiller. That game has a gun which fire shurikens and lightning.

And it's not so much that Shattered Memories isn't a typical Silent Hill game that was my issue with it. It was that it wasn't a typical good game that was the problem (zing!).

I guess you disliked the lack of combat? I actually found that refreshing as opposed to other games where you wander around like a tank with hundreds of weapons

More the lack of good writing, convincing characters, the missing the point of Silent Hill 2 and the lack of isolation that is the essential component of horror. When it's following on from SIlent Hill 2, a game which is an absolute master piece of atmosphere and psychology driven horror, and which had so much depth that it's got strange fish with big teeth and glowy bits at its bottom, then it's a hard act to follow, and probably one of the reasons why I didn't like it very much.

Well, I liked the mystery about everything in SM. Like, where was his daughter? And why did people keep appearing and disappearing and what´s with all the snowing and constant freezing?

It´s a strange game but that´s what I liked about it. No real monsters or zombies except from in the nightmare areas, plus except from a few people here and there it´s all empty and you feel alone.. I really like that

Good thing there´s a game for everyone

I've already lost count of the number of times I've been brutally murdered in Dark Souls. It's pretty fun.

Use the camp fires wisely

I'm doing my best to. Bloody hard work, but even beating your basic group of mooks feels very rewarding.

Also just played a game of Dungeons and Dragons with thirteen players in it. Waiting between 25 minutes and half an hour between turns is, I assure, incredibly boring. I think I might see if the smaller group at the club who were playing Star Wars D20 have a free slot...

Started New Vegas' Old World Blues DLC...Damn it's funny!!... ...

I've only just started and I've acquired about seven thousand quests... ...

I think I have given up on Tomb Raider Anniversary. The save system is just too damned frustrating.

Thanks to Gog.com, I have gone back to playing the the original Tomb Raider. Even after nearly twenty years, this game is still fun!

OWB is fun though I had a lot of fun only on my 1st playthrough, next ones were not so interesting, maybe because I knew what to expect.




I've given up on that one as well. I came close to the end but I gave up on a first level of Atlantis where you have to jump somewhere high and you have a time limit otherwise some plates move out and you fall to your death. I played original TR when it came out and Atlantis was my least favorite there as well so I didn't miss much by skipping it in TR:A.

This actually make sense to me although it shouldn´t A game can be oh so good but if a simple thing as saving is screwed up, then that game is being put back on the shelf. I mean, I just want to be able to save anytime I want and how many times I want. If I can´t do that...

Luckily it hasn´t happened alot to me

OK, so if there's one thing I learned from yesterday, it's that playing Dark Souls whilst zonked out on the codiene from some cough syrup is not a good way to make progress, and only helps you to flush 3000 or so precious souls right into nowhere. Guh.

Currently I am wasting my life away with Path of Exile, a fun, cheerful Diablo-like "MMO" in which you get to play one of six colorful convicts on a vacation island - slash - penal colony built on remnants of an old civilisation which may or may not be responsible for odd things on the island, like corpses getting up and ripping stuff into bite-sized chunks. Fun game, and it even expands one's vocabulary.

Skyrim (still), WGT Golf, and an MMO I recently found called "War Thunder". It's a WWII flight sim.

Smite,Far Cry 3,Red Dead Redemption,and Fifa 13.

I love all of them!

Oh and a bit of Oblivion and about to replay Skyrim with the Tropical Overhaul mod!

Still on Dark Souls. On one hand, I loathe it with more intensity than any other game I've played. On the other, I'm having too much fun with this game to put it down.

If you like it and can´t put it down, why do you loathe it?

Dark Souls is suuuuuuuuuuuuuper hard but you feel like you have to beat it!

That's probaly why he loves it and loathes it.

That, basically.

It's a sadistic bastard of a game and it hates me. I also hate it, which is why I'm determined to complete the crap out of it to spite the thing. It certainly helps that the combat is some of the best I've ever played. Not sold on the autotargeting it has, but the actual melee stuff is immensely satisfying.

In short, I keep ragequitting and the coming back again anyway.

If that´s not the best grade for a sadistically hard game I don´t know what is!

I've once more become addicted to Gran Turismo 5... ...Ooopsie... ...

So, has anybody played Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon yet? Only I've been looking at some trailers and stuff and that game looks insanely cool...

I haven't played it but apparently it is quite good.