When I've not been plotting world domination in
V, slaying Covenant or playing old-school JRPGs. I've been playing
Kitten, it's not bad little platformer running a catgirl pretty much all over the place. I think it's the only place I've heard the typical ding response of 'Gratz' vocalised. It's also a game which I recommend that a controller is used, but then I also think the console version's the one to get, as the instructions for the PC aren't very clear.
Does anyone have an opinion on
Mission Evolved, it looks interesting.
--Rod.H
I've played the demo of blade kitten, and found it interesting enough that I'll keep my eyes open for a sale. I'm also amused by the military slang that the mooks say when you show up (OMG)
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
I was also looking forward to the new Front Mission.
Then I heard about the missions where you play as a human, and became slightly less interested. From there, all I saw were lukewarm reviews- basically, they boiled down to 'decent controls, but a boring plot, one-dimensional characters, and no gameplay depth beyond a typical third-person shooter.'
I'm going to steer clear of this one.
My
Unitarian Jihad Name is:
Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate.
Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
I wanted to play the demo for Blade Kitten. But it will NOT let me use any control scheme where all the movement controls are under my RIGHT hand.
I just do not do ASWD control schemes. AT ALL.
So until I can figure out how to force it or fool it to put the movement controls under my righthand numberpad, or until the gamemakers change it so that is an option. I'm afraid I'm going to have to give this a pass as well. DAMN I didn't want to do that. Game looks incredibly cute. (sob)
jpub Wrote:Get Recettear. Now.
Or not.
Play the demo first- it's one of those love-it-or-hate-it sorts of games. I see why a lot of people like it, but it does absolutely nothing for me- and I went in expecting to love it.
My
Unitarian Jihad Name is:
Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate.
Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
I've found Recettear to be aggravatingly good once I could convince Steam to load the demo, the controls are clunky till you remember/discover that the defaults are z,x,c,v, esc + the direction arrows. A like a few flash games that are net playable.
Oh I've found out that Civ V hates Gforce 9800GTX video cards, not enough memory in 'em for epic maps, so I've updated to a GTX480 big improvement, might get more by changing to Win7 64 bit. Still get silver water environmental reflection in Team Fortress 2's 2fort map from the Sniper Wars locale, everyone on the server could hide down there and I'll never spot 'em.
--Rod.H
Recetter works far better if you have a gamepad.
As for FME, it's not a *bad* game, but it's basically a pretty average mecha game in the vein of Armored Core, with a much higher focus on arcade action than being a 'realistic' simulator. It's fun, but when you come down to it, the standard Front Mission plots and characters don't suit well to this form of game.
I enjoy it, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone above $25.
Decided to not pick up FME, picked up Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY instead. Man that's a good game. Steam had it on a weekend sale.
Fallout: New Vegas ain't bad, till it repeatedly crashes while you're in route to a new location. "Whoa look at that, it's a tree and it's green."
SW:TFU 2 is too short, plus it feels like they got the studios that make the in-game CG videos and the promo trailers to finish it off.
New Vegas is buggy as hell, but on the other hand it caters _much_ more to players of the original fallout one and two than Fallout 3 did. Hell, actual characters from fallout 2 show up, and mentions of your character from fallout 1 and 2 are in a number of places. (If you want more of the quirky humor from fallout 2 - like the dead redshirts, enable Wild Wastelands as a trait).
I haven't gotten a chance to get or play Civ 5 yet, how is it in comparison to the prior games?
So, Call of Duty: Black Ops came out today, and a boringly large number of people bought it. (Including a lot of parents who I think have only an academic understanding of the phrase "M rated", but I digress.) Still, it seems somehow... lacking something.
It doesn't have enough guns.
Borderlands, the game which does have enough guns, has been mentioned here before. But with the game of the year edition out, which includes tokens to download all four expansions, it seems like a good time to mention it again.
Or, for another unconventional shooter, why not check out Fracture? This one hasn't gotten a lot of attention, but I enjoyed both the story and the fact that it was built around a system unlike any other shooter I'd played. In Fracture, you don't just use cover - you raise and lower the terrain to make your own. (Unfortunately, this is pointless against the bosses, but that's another rant.)
-Morgan.