Video Games

Erasariel

Mishgul said:

anyone else want a copy of sins of a solar empire rebellion 

HEY! I asked you for one ( send me the code or whatever.

Anaidiana

any other rune factory fans? I'm still working on tides of destiny. 

Tagg

Bayonetta 2 a WiiU exclusive?

brb, killing self

Nellaundra

Tagg said:

Bayonetta 2 a WiiU exclusive?

brb, killing self

Sarapis

Mishgul said:

Sarapis said:

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. Best RTS ever made, and your success isn't determined by how many times/minute you can click.

We should play this. I loved the hell out of this game.

If you have Forged Alliance I will happily play. It's far superior to original "vanilla" SupCom. Msg me.

Tarkanian

Old school!

Dethea

re-living this recently was awesome:

Yes, I did have a brief affair with Neopets!

Erasariel

I bought FTL earlier this week.

Best $9.99 I've spent on entertainment thus far.

Cinya

Black Ops II Zombies reveal today! The trailer is here.

For those interested, more info here. I promise it will be epicly epic. 

Erasariel

Oh my god Sins is so good.

You have ALL the thanks, Carmain!

Mishgul

If anyone else wants it, i got some more copies.

Erasariel

Advent 4lyf!

Daklore play with me

Mishgul

psh vasari loyalists ftw.

Sena

I haven't played since 2008, before the first expansion. How different is the game now?

Although looking at the system requirements, I don't think my crappy laptop could handle Rebellion.

Mishgul

I would say teh core of the game is the same, with better balancing (long range frigates and starbases are no longer the end all) btu it's not because of the introduction of titans, which can wipe out fleets on their own. Each faction gets one titan and they are all -really- powerful. Level 10 titans can have in excess of 20,000 effective health and mow down  almost anything except maybe a group of levelled capital ships/lots of carriers that are kiting/another titan.

the factions have all split into 2 so there are 6 factions now, TEC/advent/vasari and the loyalist/rebel version of each which have various unique abilities.

That said, the new abilities allow for some interesting dynamics (the vasari loyalists for example,c an become a fully mobile fleet that turn worlds into dead asteroids for resources, and gain income/technology from their capital ships instead of from colonising, and gain fleet from phase stabilisers dropped by their titan, which can also eat ships for resources, which is ridiculously powerful combiend with the fact it can blink jump). 

Daklore

Speaking of FTL: Faster Than Light... I got a copy as well earlier in the week, been playing it with some varied success and a lot of defeat. Made it to the boss once, but got utterly thrashed. Then today a series of great and super events put me against the boss again. First phase? Fine, I knew what to expect and how to deal with it. Done and done. Then the second phase. I've been here before, so I knew what was coming, and managed to hang on and scrape by with little damage(yay!). Third phase... I knew not what to expect... But I did it. I finally beat FTL. With one HP remaining.

http://i.imgur.com/Q8T1p.jpg (image is way too big and won't let me re-size it >.>)

Erasariel

You, sir, have simply and utterly won FTL.

I bow to your mad 1337 skeelz.

Xer

I like the little bits of Achaea I can see in the background. What's the about Vaehl? Did he die to some nub again?

Nellaundra

I have Dead Island now.  WE SHALL SEE WHO LAUGHS LAST, ZOMBIES!

Daklore

Xer said:

I like the little bits of Achaea I can see in the background. What's the about Vaehl? Did he die to some nub again?

Had to go and look back in my buffer, time-stamps for proof(clock on start bar says 4:43, which is 16:43)

H: 4264 (100%), M: 4237 (100%) 18160w, 19600e 99% ex|cdbk-|[16:43:35.712]

Vaehl has been slain by the might of Benedominatus Proficy.

H: 4264 (100%), M: 4237 (100%) 18160w, 19600e 99% ex|cdbk-|[16:43:38.554]

Xer

Nailed it. Though I can't really say nub to Proficy but w/e, hehe.

Paine

You can download all of the original marathon games cross platform. I set it on easy mode so I could go through the story quickly, and read all the terminals, without having to constantly reload due to death by super powerful aliens. the mazes will still trip you up.  Skipped the original and made it through Marathon 2: Durandal in about a week. I played Infinity for about a week but my head started to hurt. That was too much for my little brain.

Dethea

I just got The Basement Collection for about $4 on Steam from the dude who made Super Meat Boy. It's a collection of really neat flash games, some procedural in nature. It's worth picking up if you're into that kind of stuff (after the Humble Bundle, of course).

Rakon

No Steam for Linux (Yet)... So no bundle for me.

Cahin

I think we made a bug.

Nellaundra

WHAT.  DID.  YOU.  DO.

Cahin

My ships and Ruth's ships are trying to make a baby.

Peak

OONTZ OOONTZ OOONTZ

Idelisa

Peak said:

OONTZ OOONTZ OOONTZ

Correct.

Friztic

I've been playing Borderlands 2, and it's totally awesome. Complete improvement over the first.