Video Games

PhoneLobster · Post by **PhoneLobster** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:07 pm

Fire fighting?

Look just flat out for a good FPS, Planetside 2 is brand new, has high population, and is free to play. The free to play limitations aren't altogether that bad and the game play is pretty awesome if you are just looking for endless running in shooting and dying and killing and such.

There may be somewhat more strategy to it than that at some level of play, but frankly its mostly just hoards of semi competent FPS players running face first into each others bullets over and over again on a scale that most FPS games really can't compete with.

And that's pretty fun.

edit: and if you run face first into enough bullets you will eventually earn enough points to put an extra handle on your gun, reducing horizontal recoil by insignificant amounts on a weapon where it was never really an issue!

Grek · Post by **Grek** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:15 pm

I mean the "Go into a burning building and rescue people" kind of fire fighting.

RadiantPhoenix · Post by **RadiantPhoenix** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 2:47 pm

PhoneLobster wrote:Look just flat out for a good FPS, Planetside 2 is brand new, has high population, and is free to play. The free to play limitations aren't altogether that bad and the game play is pretty awesome if you are just looking for endless running in shooting and dying and killing and such.

There may be somewhat more strategy to it than that at some level of play, but frankly its mostly just hoards of semi competent FPS players running face first into each others bullets over and over again on a scale that most FPS games really can't compete with.

And that's pretty fun.

While I would assume this is true based on Planetside 1, which was actually pretty cool, both of them are Sony games, and I am thus now morally obligated not to play them and to encourage others not to play them, because increasing their userbase would be helping Sony, and Sony is pretty evil AFAICT.

K · Post by K » Mon Nov 26, 2012 4:03 pm

Been playing Endless Space. Kind of makes me think that Masters of Orion II and Alpha Centauri had sex and made a space-opera baby, but no Special Projects or Probe Teams.

It does have heroes who lead fleets and manage systems and ship and hero XP. Also little movies for your battles using your ships where you play tactics cards to do special stuff in battle.

Factions also have a special power that makes them play really differently. So that's nice.

That being said, it is just unreasonably complex though with the ship-building with three sets of defenses and opposing attacks and extra stuff and a directed tech tree that is selectable, four-directional, and slightly altered for each Faction.

I don't even know what it says about me that I enjoy games that have a learning curve measured in years.

Leress · Post by **Leress** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 5:26 pm

Grek wrote:Can anyone recomend me a good FPS fire fighting game?

I can't think of any FPS with fire fighting, but a fire fighting game there are several:

Firefighter FD 18 (PS2)
Rosco McQueen (PSX)
Burning Rangers(Sat)
Real Heroes: Firefighter(Wii)
Fahrenheit(SCD)
The firemen(SNES)
The Ignition Factor(SNES)
Fire fighter (GB)

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 11:43 pm

Of those, I recommend Burning Rangers. It got top reviews, looked awesome in its day, and I always wanted to play that one. Curse you Sega for failing so hard with the Saturn that many of its games are forever lost.

PhoneLobster · Post by **PhoneLobster** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 1:54 am

Grek wrote:I mean the "Go into a burning building and rescue people" kind of fire fighting.

So then a First Person fire fighting game.

Rather than a First Person Shooter fire fighting game. Which is what you said and is rather confusing considering "fire fight" can also mean "exchange bullets with dudes".

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 4:06 am

I was playing some ME3 multiplayer, and got that N7 Slayer Vanguard class unlocked.

Holy shit, this is honest-to-god fun to play as.

Teleport-slashing with a katana as a melee attack. Turning your shields into a explosive ray?

It just feels badass to get right.

Grek · Post by **Grek** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 6:06 am

PhoneLobster wrote:
Grek wrote:I mean the "Go into a burning building and rescue people" kind of fire fighting.
So then a First Person fire fighting game.

Rather than a First Person Shooter fire fighting game. Which is what you said and is rather confusing considering "fire fight" can also mean "exchange bullets with dudes".

I want to shoot people with a water hose, obviously.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 2:18 pm

I've done that before. It's fun to watch people go flying after getting hit with high-pressure jets of water. Not so fun when it happens to you, which I've also experianced. Also, you get wet regardless, and wetness is the essance of uncomfortableness.

In other news, I've been searching frantically for Megaman ZX Advent, the second installment of the sequel series to Megaman Zero. And I have had shit luck finding it. I've gone to twenty different GameStops looking for it, and none have had it.

Well, except for one in Dorchester (pronounced "Dotchestah", or just "Dot"), but it should be obvious why that's a problem.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:20 am

Amazon is your friend.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:34 pm

Gamestop should also be able to special-order individual things, though it might be more expensive.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 7:45 pm

Cynic wrote:Amazon is your friend.

So it is! ThnakS!

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:47 pm

So, an update vom Shadowrun Returns(that is the single player made by Weisman)
Release-Date pushed back untill Summer 2013 (which is not really surprising)
One of their trumped out main features cut out. Namely the ability to hire other players characters into your own game. Which is not a big loss, if anybody asked me(which they undoubtly won't). Because it's adding a social networking aspect into a single player game that has no right being there in the first place!
and if it's just that they won't foot the bill on the needed server infrastructure for this feature, they could just code the game in such a way that the characters are stored in their own respective files/folders so people can copy and paste them into their own game if they want to . .

K · Post by K » Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:14 am

So Steam is doing a free weekend for Endless Space.

If people don't mind putting the shitty Steam software on their computer and playing a few rounds of a pretty satisfying turn-based space empire game, it's free to play for the weekend. The maker has stretch goals for the number of people to sign up and the reward is more free content like some ship models I REALLY want.

So.... help a brotha get some Automaton ships.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:33 am

So, I've been playing more WoW lately, on a free trial account, and am hoping to upgrade to Cataclysm and MoP this month (which would give me two free months)

I believe someone once suggested in passing a Den Guild, how many people here actually play?

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:57 pm

It is taking me longer to get my shit together than anticipated. I might be a few months.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sat Dec 01, 2012 11:55 pm

Anyone in the mood for some ~Art Games~?
http://bmo.fuckthisjam.com/submissions/89-dear-esteban

EDIT:

http://bmo.fuckthisjam.com/submissions/ ... s-vampires
http://bmo.fuckthisjam.com/submissions/ ... is-dungeon
http://bmo.fuckthisjam.com/submissions/23-to-fall
http://bmo.fuckthisjam.com/submissions/27-soldier-v1-1
http://bmo.fuckthisjam.com/submissions/ ... typewriter
http://bmo.fuckthisjam.com/submissions/20-love-interest
http://bmo.fuckthisjam.com/submissions?page=10

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 8:03 am

The latest Humble Indie Bundle is pretty nice. For around six bucks, I picked up Darksiders 1, Metro 2033, Saints Row 3, and a bunch of shooty FPS games. But it seems like Steam codes only for this bundle, no direct downloads.

If you are already into Steam, seems like a good deal. Once holiday vacation starts I intend to try playing a few things I've only seen LPs of before.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 9:36 am

So, I finally did an odd goal of mine on Borderlands 2.

On my Gunzerker playthrough, I got a badass sniper rifle as a quest reward. +65% weapon damage, +180% critical hit damage, nigh-on pin-point accurate. A critical hit would do 12k+ damage from the Gunzerker, and he doesn't have any particular bonuses for criticals or sniper rifles.

The Assassin, on the other hand, has an entire skill tree called Sniping.

Had to be level 29 to use the gun, though. I just played a few missions, he was high enough, and I switched the gun over (there's a little closet to let you do it), and tried it out with the sniper.

So turns out the gun does have a noticeable increase in performance. The damage went from 12k to 50k per critical hit. That's using the assassin's cloak/damage boost and with some other benefits, but holee shit.

For comparison, right now, 5k damage will kill all normal enemies, and lay a hurting on the brutes.

The optimizer in me is giving a huge warm-fuzzies smile.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 5:31 pm

Woah.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tal ... up-and-jam

Ikeren · Post by **Ikeren** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 6:07 pm

I'm looking for some new game recommendations as I'm in an isolated winter jobsite:

Low specs: I'm using a Lenovo X60 which is really just crammed full of random parts from a friend. 2 gigs of ram. Plays Diablo 2, Starcraft, and Populous 3 Smoothly.

I enjoy faster real-time-strategy (Starcraft, Populous, Command and Conquer) more than slower real-time-strategy (Anno 1612, Age of Empires). I enjoy Fantasy RPG's but have been finding newer stuff meh (that one RA-Salvator did with the lunge randomly combat system, I'm sick of Infinity Engine stuff)/. I also like turn based strategy (Dominions 3, Heroes of Might and Magic 2) --- I haven't played much in this genre, in particular.

So any good games, also old/low spec, that people would recommend?

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 6:12 pm

They're well known enough that you may have gone through them already, but the old Gold Box games were phenomenal. I especially recommend Pool of Radiance, which despite its age is still possibly my favorite computer RPG of all time. Also contending for that spot are Baldur's Gate and Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines: Colon Cancer, though the last one is possibly unrunnable if your machine can't handle much more than Starcraft. There may also be trace amounts of snark in that title not present in the actual product.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 8:01 pm

@Ikeren
download this
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2309215/s25rttr.zip
it's basically settlers 2, but on a completely new coded engine including full HD and Networked Multiplayer.
http://settlers2.net/return-to-the-roots/
It's still under developement so far, but already pretty darn good!
also has an auto update, so even if that one is not up to date anymore, start the right executeable file in that archive and you will get updated to the latest version.
including new and repaired maps i think.

too slow a game for you?
does not have to be, you can set the game speed from "wake me when it's finished building" to "holy crap i got overrun after 15 minutes!"

Ikeren · Post by **Ikeren** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 9:54 pm

@Stahlseele; thanks, I'll give that a shot.
@Chamomile: Baldur's Gate I've played, but I also mentioned being sick of Infinity Engine styled games...I'll check out the Gold Box stuff; they look like Final-Fantasy styled "Combat Window" games? I'm pretty friendly to that style of RPG.