Games! (cont.)

[Zaleramancer]

Yay, I come home and it goes from 150~ kb/s to 1.2 Mb/s.

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Not everyone is a die-hard that leaves the  to download, so that's why the pause option is available methinks.

Having no luck with games lately; have many games I have yet to play, but they all turn out to be duds.
Either they are no fun or too slow (Divinity 2), complicated (4X games) or they keep crashing (Saint's Row 2).
Having difficulty with the installation Saint's Row 3, but I got it to work. Now let's hope the game works too and doens't crash, like it's predecessor.
Saint's Row is kinda like GTA San Andreas and newer. Too bad I don't have GTA San Andreas anymore.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Saint's Row is awesome...nuff said

[Zaleramancer]

So, after a extended download, I managed to play for an hour before I head to get off.

My computer refused to start after this, and I had to do a system restore.. which got rid of the downloaded program.

So yay.

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[Zaleramancer]

Mine Painter

MINECRAFT MOD.



STARE AT THE GLORY. LITTLE. BLOCKS.

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I watched Youtube for cutscenes from Saints Row and Saints Row 2, then I played through Saints Row 3. Now I only need to complete the 3x30 Survival Waves you can play from the main menu.

I'll go searching for a new game to play, but I watch way more TV series and movies, so may be a while before I found one and completed another game.

I guess I can recommend Deadpool. It's kinda fun but gets repetitive. Has some great dialogue and cutscenes though.

Inversion is your basic shooter, but sometimes the axes shift (walls becomes floor, ceiling and ground become walls). The plot has to do with gravity, so it will be explained there. Sometimes you can float in certain areas and you have to do battle there too. You can shoot gravity orbs, that increase gravity or decrease gravity (lifting enemies, crush enemies), but you never use it much, really.

Freelancer is a space trading and combat simulation video game, it's really great, but takes a lot of time. It's third person, but traveling from one place to another takes a long time. Very good choice to play.

Need for Speed games speak for themselves. Most Wanted (2005) was the best, then Underground 2. I completed Carbon for the story, was okay, but felt repetitive. Heard good things about Undercover and Most Wanted 2012, but both were hard for me. Either the game had issues, was hard, or I didn't have a good enough computer to play them on. Was curious about The Run, but I heard it was not so well-received.

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Marvelous_Miscreant wrote

Saint's Row is awesome...nuff said

I agree, might start looking for Saint's Row IV.
Have you heard of Destroy All Humans! and Destroy All Humans! 2 ?
Though Saints Row is better, I think you'd like those too.
I dunno if you have a Playstation 2, 3 or an Xbox, but those are similar to Saint's Row (also comedic but you're an alien stranded on Earth instead of a gang). They are also sandbox games, both not as big as Saints Row.

I love humor in a game, as well as references to pop and geek culture, famous voice actors and celebrity cameos.
Also, contemporary British people and black people. They are almost always witty and awesome. But this ain't exclusively for games, it's also valid for TV and films.



I'm way more into sandbox games lately. I tried Sleeping Dogs, but there was so much input lag that I chucked it. Feel stupid now, since the same thing happened with Far Cry 3. Managed to get Far Cry 3 to play normally by disabling V-Sync and lowering graphics (I still looks good, though). Wish I'd done that with Sleeping Dogs too.
I'm really psyched for Watch Dogs, and hope I can play it on my system.

So yeah, I'm playing Far Cry 3 now. First Far Cry was a great game, just the story didn't make sense. At first it's great, even when it brings in genetic experiments (okay, mutated wildlife ... I'm willingly suspending my disbelief, not that far-fetched). Once they turned it up a notch, however, what with the whole change of scenery and all (from a lush, idyllic island to menacing, red, dirty, haunting volcanoes etc. with weird mutated soldiers ...), they pushed it too far. Liked the early game way more than the end game
Never did play Far Cry 2 much. The whole malaria thing and huge distances were poor game-play choices. The malaria thing added realism and was in itself a good choice, it just was too ubiquitous, it kinda smothered the open world and story-progression.

And the completion hunting? Never was a big fan. That's because it has always been done wrong. From Prototype, which is a great game in other regards (we put 200 orbs in the game, half of them you come across and half of them are hidden so you will search in by inch), to Far Cry 2 (case with diamonds, your cellphone will beep if you have it out and are near ... in a jungle - remember where you start and I never played much?)
But with Saint's Row The Third and Far Cry it is much, much better. You can buy a Collectible Finder (Saint's Row The Third) or maps for loot and collectibles (Far Cry 3) so they will show up in your map. In Saint's Row The Third you need a certain leveel (and XP) to be able to do this, but in Far Cry 3 it's from the beginning. Both are good systems when applied properly, and in these games they are. In Saint's Row The Third the distance of the open world is doable and you'll be racing all across the city anyways, so you don't mind you get the item finder mid-game.

In Far Cry 3 you don't wanna go back to certain place just for loot or collectibles once you've been there, are done there (story-wise) or if it turns out you missed one. Largely due to the distance and location. It's never quite clear where something is if you don't see it at the given location. Is it in a cave? Under water? On that mountain you can't reach with taking a 5 minute detour? It's fine when you've got the maps and at your first attempt; some thinking and exploring. But it's just plain annoying when you missed one. And you cleared the place of everything? Guess again ... your map is clear and you move on, but it turns out left some money (which doesn't show up on your map at first), which will be indicated by a loot chest icon when you're far away. Maybe just a pet peeve of mine, overall the system has been incorporated greatly.
I've done more completion hunting in this game than the story missions, which is nothing like me. But maybe that's because it's such a large world and you don't wanna backtrack that much anymore once you're done in a region.

So yeah, backtracking ... and one crash so far (no pun intended)

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

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[Marvelous Miscreant]

I've been big into Minecraft Mod Packs lately. The one I've been playing on is called "Attack of the B-Team"

I noticed today that there was a Necromacy mod installed in it. It let's you "build" minions from...parts

I tried it out and...

DEAR GOD WHAT ABOMINATION HAVE I SPAWNED INTO THIS WORLD?!?!

[Zaleramancer]

Wait until you give things Endermen legs.

Huhuhuhuhuhu.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

I don't know if I want to now...

I think I'll take up Witchery instead of Necromancy

[Zaleramancer]

Witchery is the bomb.

[Myself]

This is why Marv is not the NB geneticist. It can be argued that I am, though whether that is any better is debatable.

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[Zaleramancer]

Witchery continues to be beautiful.

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[Zaleramancer]

New Minecraft snapshot lets you manipulate world gen using sliders.

I decided to play by bumping up the sea level on the same seed.







The biome remained the same throughout.

AND THAT'S ONLY ONE SLIDER.