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Club409

The best damn waste of time!

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Drew
Total posts: 5121
10/6/2014 6:35 AM
The Witcher - Been seeing trailers and such for the witcher 3 and internet people said it was good so I thought I'd try it out. It's only on pc 2 is out for consoles also. It's an action rpg and you're a witcher who just lost his memory of course. The story is affected by your choices but ever since mass effect if the choices don't carry over between games they don't feel as consequential. There's some clever takes on rpg conventions but they're for rpg fans. Combat is finicky you click to attack an enemy not to swing your sword so sometimes you'll end up in this awkward dance where you're slowly creeping up on an enemy you attacked and they're slowly backing away meanwhile you're getting battered from all other sides. Speaking of awkward the cutscenes need some serious editing timing is usually weird. I realize a convention I like in video games is at the very end unshackle the player in some way and let them go at it. ME1 HL2 and Castlevania: LoS are examples off the top of my head and they unshackle in different ways. I was a little disappointed in that the witcher had a good chance to involve another mechanic to narratively justify the unshackling but didn't do it. So as you go through the game you can have romantic encounters and it seemed like this would determine how things played out gameplay wise at the end but no. Music is ok. Story is ok and there's more interesting details if you look around but ain't nobody got time for that. Liked the minor details like when it was raining rando npc is like oh no my laundry is out to dry and down the street another npc is like lol neighbor's laundry is getting wet. Can't really comment on the graphics bc I was on a i5 laptop with integrated graphics actually had to override the game so it thought I met minimum requirements. Anyways if you're not already in to rpgs this isn't going to do it for you. 2.5 out of 5 poker playing demons
Oscar
Total posts: 1323
10/7/2014 2:17 PM

In case you haven't heard about it yet Kerbal Space Program is awesome and to celebrate the latest release they're having a 40% sale until Oct 10. It's basically legos with rocket parts. You have a catalog of various fuel tanks command pods rocket engines etc. and build your own rockets to explore the Kerbal (little green men) solar system. They have a sandbox mode where the entire catalog is opened up for your wildest dreams or there are science-only or science-plus-economy career modes where you start with limited technologies and have to gather science points (and funds) to advance your tech. There's also a healthy modding community that introduces lots of cool features like realistic aerodynamics Saturn V replicas and even rescaling the solar system to real solar system proportions. Some people even use it to make short films one of which I think is hands-down one of the best shorts I've ever seen. If you get stuck (the in game tutorials are kinda lacking last I checked) Scott Manley has some excellent tutorials and other videos on Youtube to help you learn the basics and beyond.

mike
Total posts: 2298
10/8/2014 3:22 AM
Is there an unhealthy modding community that mostly builds penis rockets?
Drew
Total posts: 5121
10/8/2014 5:51 AM
I learned all I need to know about KSP here (giant bomb quick look) which let me know that it's something I need unfortunately I'm doing octoberfast followed by no-spend-november and the game backlog is piling up so I'll prob have to wait for one of those steam super crazy bargain sales
Oscar
Total posts: 1323
10/8/2014 2:29 PM

Haha that video is 2 years old and a lot has changed since then but the fundamentals are the same. This most recent update revamped the explosion effects and added destructible space center buildings for extra bombing hilarity. There are also mods that add weapons for more explosions. It was also on humble bundle awhile back so check that for deals as well.

As for penis rockets I don't think there are any dedicated mods for that but you can make some phallic rockets with stock and "normal" mod parts. I did see a post today that someone made matryoshka-style nested penis rockets but it looks like it got taken down by the mods :(

Drew
Total posts: 5121
10/9/2014 12:49 PM
Any form of multiplayer? Anonymous sabotaging?
Oscar
Total posts: 1323
10/9/2014 2:49 PM

There is a mod for multiplayer but I haven't tried it. The developers have said they plan on adding it to the stock game after more of the core features are finished but who knows when that will be. A big challenge is that more ambitious missions to other planets take months or years of travel time. In single player you can warp ahead but that is difficult at best in a multiplayer setting.

Drew
Total posts: 5121
10/30/2014 9:57 AM
(Updated 10/30/2014 9:59 AM)

so people are wondering what's up with lucasarts after the disney buyout but they're making good impressions by releasing TIE Fighter with a compatibility update and some other games just this week i spent a lot of hours playing tie fighter in middle school gameport joystick hooked up to a 100 mhz compaq computer still one of the most immersive gaming experiences i had you start out as a basic tie fighter pilot they toss you out there with no shields and say good luck and work your way up into some secret society pilot leagues with high speed prototype ships at the time it was really interesting to play as the empire you had primary secondary and bonus objectives and sometimes you wouldn't know what they until stuff went haywire in the mission and it was fun to have the mission go sideways because different people kept showing up you have to manage the ship not just point and shoot (move energy from weapons to shields etc) and i remember pretty much every key on the keyboard was bound to a function and i ended up using most of them

so much backlog but i'm tempted to get it and find a cheap usb joystick and take out some rebel scum

edit: for your life perspective of the day TIE Fighter was originally released 20 years ago

mwinter
Total posts: 4337
10/30/2014 10:45 AM

Remember when soundcards had joystick ports? It sounds weird at first.. but as it turns out there was a very strong correlation between buying a soundcard and wanting to use a joystick as input to your computer.

Drew
Total posts: 5121
10/31/2014 5:41 AM

nerds gonna nerd i guess but i think i got one of those somewhere just need to fit it in the laptop somehow