What game are you wasting time on?

[Sranchammer]

Trudging through The Witcher. There are times I've enjoyed it but I'm annoyed beyond belief by the running. Back to Victoria 2

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Not exactly the thread for it but SWEET CUPPIN' CAKES I hadn't played Doom RL since the graphics were added, they did a great job with that. Same great Doom RL flavor but with added eyecandy. Makes me wish that guy could sell the game on Steam 'cause he'd make money hand over fist. Maybe he should just pay for new sounds/sprites/music and rename it "ACTIONTIME SPACE MARINE ADVENTURE: THE GAME" and put it on Steam. Hell, even offer the game free on the web if he wants to keep his free to play roguelike sensibilities intact, just also make a Steam version and sell it at $5 a pop like Dredmor. I'd buy it. Especially if it had Steam achievements.

 

[Damned Registrations]

The guy does get some money from donations through his forums. There's a bounty system setup where people offer money for features to be implemented. Which gets some rather odd shit included, like a mode for helping blind people play. He probably made a rather large chunk for the graphics release, tons of people have been wanting that for a long time.

I know what you mean though, I'd love to see a proper rpguelike like this on steam rake in a crazy amount of money just to show people theres a market for this sort of thing. DoD was a step in the right direction at least. Just need someone with more balls and a better game.

 

[Roderick]

going (kinda slowly) through System Shock 1 (nearly no handholding). I want to finish it before i start system shock 2 (again, which i played for a while but couldn't finish due to having my laptop stolen)
Damn, this game is amazing, and so advanced for it's time. that System Shock portable version works great

loving it. I think there should be some penalty for using the revival chambers (like in Shock 2) though, even if i'm just reloading when i die, but i know there aren't any in the later levels. And i wish grenades where more comfortable to use, i usually end up damaging myself

 

[Gregz]

DoomRL.

Fun, fast paced rogue-like with graphical and mouse support...intuitive and well designed UI.

Absolutely killer soundtrack, most games I turn the music down or off, this game however goes to 11

 

[spekkio]

Castlevania: SOTN.

I can now see why this game is praised so much...

2 minutes later:

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[SerratedBiz]

Dark Souls. Goddamnit, this game is good.

 

[Damned Registrations]

http://i.imgur.com/j5AD7.jpg

Bat familiar? Really? That's like, the most (banal shit) boring one. And also the least effective. Not that you really need an effective familiar, but if you're going to level one up, I'd at least pick one that does something useful at high levels.

I'm still baffled as to why nobody made a proper sequel/copy of this game. I mean, it sold really really fucking well right? In an era where everyone was drooling over teh 3D gameplay of next gen as much as possible. Why the hell haven't they made another 2D castlevania game like this for a console. Would be like printing money.

 

[Aeschylus]

I'm still baffled as to why nobody made a proper sequel/copy of this game. I mean, it sold really really fucking well right? In an era where everyone was drooling over teh 3D gameplay of next gen as much as possible. Why the hell haven't they made another 2D castlevania game like this for a console. Would be like printing money.

They made them for DS. Dawn of Sorrow is very, very similar to SotN.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Yeah but there are a ton of reasons it's just not the same on a handheld.

 

[Jaesun]

Ray Dyer's B2, Keep on the Borderlands. This is a rather good and long FRUA module. <3

 

[Quilty]

Training in A-10C and getting into Rise of Flight. Both very sophisticated monoclean games that should attract more prestigious codexers.

 

[Nomask Alt]

Replaying NWN original campaign. On the verge of stopping, since it's so hard. Perhaps I'll play it on easy...

Yeah but there are a ton of reasons it's just not the same on a handheld.

I've played one of the DS games. It's just not as good as SOTN.

 

[spekkio]

Bat familiar? Really?

At least this fellow(s) is usefull from the very beginning, not from level 20...



Plus you don't need familiars so much anyway. I'm not using spells at all for example - fukcing combos, mang.

 

[Duckard]

JA2 1.13 suffering from chronic restarting syndrome but the combat is good even if I suck at it. And I don't know why, but I seem to lose track of time whenever I play it too.

Also been working through BaK for a while now but I'm a bit burnt out on RPGs after Shadowrun SNES and Wasteland, so I'm taking it slowly. It's slow-paced game anyway.

 

[Kalin]

I just finished playing Victoria 2: A House Divided as Japan.

The first couple of decades were incredibly dull (I had precious little to do but to balance the budget and accumulate research points for westernising reforms) but things quickly picked up when I civilised in early 1867 and was able to industrialise. Since I was part of the American sphere of influence I got a nice amount of technological advances for free. Had the Spaniards sphered me instead, I suspect the game might have turned out a bit different.

Throughout the game I had the Imperialist and Nationalist factions set as my ruling parties, so I only used State Capitalism and Interventionism. I also maintained the Absolute Monarchy and stubbornly refused to enact social and political reforms. This caused some discontent, but the ensuing revolts were rather easy to squash. In the spirit of Pan-Asianism I mainly restricted my imperialistic ambitions to East Asia, although I did eventually sphere and ally with some nations in South and Central America.

I first attacked China in 1880 in order to free Korea, and also laid claims to Formosa, much like Japan did in the first Sino-Japanese War. The Chinese and their allies had a lot of troops, but they were no match to a comparatively modern army. After a few years of fighting they agreed to the terms, and once the truce had expired, I attacked the newly freed Korea under the pretext of establishing a protectorate. Shortly after, I did the same with Brunei, and with both of them annexed protected, I turned my attention towards bringing the light of civilisation to Oceania, Manchuria and certain Chinese coastal regions.

The Americans expanded rapidly in the Pacific, colonising as far as Papua New Guinea. I managed to colonise Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Micronesia and the remaining parts of Borneo. The Americans proved to be quite belligerent towards the European powers, but fortunately they never interfered with my own ambitions. That said, a couple of European powers certainly did.

One of them was Austria-Hungary, which remained quite powerful throughout the whole game. Having crushed Russia early on and annexed the entire Kiev region, it established the Congo Free State and sphered several minors around the world. At one point they intervened in one of my Sino-Japanese expeditions, so as to prevent me from annexing parts of Manchuria which they had friendly relations with. The bastards sunk my obsolete navy and forced me to agree to a white peace. While I never managed to punish them for that, I did at least annex the territory in question several years later.

Another righteous expedition to the mainland was similarly delayed by the nefarious French, who marched troops all the way through Siberia into my newly conquered Manchurian state. Luckily enough, I had fortified the border against potential Russian incursions, and with the help of my forts and large number of troops I managed to hold the line and beat the enemy back, albeit at great losses. It was, however, a short-lived victory, as the Frenchmen started to occupy Borneo and also managed to sink my newly built ironclad fleets. I thought they would invade the home isles as well, but their advance was halted when they got dragged into a war against the United States. I was quite happy to agree to another white peace, humiliating as it was.

As a Great Power I focused on influencing minor East Asian powers, and managed to sphere Cambodia, Dai Nam, Luang Prabang and Siam (which I somehow managed to snatch from the United Kingdom). In the Americas, I sphered the Federal Republic of Central America, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Peru.

I really wanted to conquer the Dutch East Indies, but the Netherlands had allied with France, and I was not about to fight the Frenchmen again until my army and navy would be on par with theirs. As I could not really fight the Dutch, I befriended them instead. As it so happened, I managed to enlist their help against the crumbling Spanish Empire, and eventually liberated all of the Spanish possessions in East Asia. Spain also gave up Cuba to my Central American allies.

While the Russian Empire had suffered quite a number of setbacks, it somehow managed to recover its strength in the 20th century. After having sphered most of the Central Asian states (which, by the way, was rather odd - I expected full annexations) it moved on to East Asia, where it sphered Mongolia and the Chinese Empire. With the latter, they also signed a military alliance. The message was quite clear: if I were to attack the Chinese any further, the Russians would obviously interfere.

To counter this outrageous move, I secured an alliance with the United Kingdom. We attacked China together, and as predicted, the Russians dishonoured their alliance with the Chinese to avoid having to fight us both. The United Kingdom got dominion over Tibet, whereas I got the Nanking area and profited nicely. China did not, of course, and in the end it only managed to civilise and peacefully annex its remaining substates in the mid 1930s. It never became a Great Power.

As for the other countries, Brazil was hit hard over the years and lost a lot of land to Paraguay, Bolivia and France. What little remained of the country by 1935 was constantly plagued by various uprisings. Since the mid twenties, France had become a socialist nation, and by the end of the game it suffered greatly from a particularly bloody civil war against communist rebels. The backwards Turks kept their accursed realm together but never amounted to much else, and Germany became a real industrial and military powerhouse, curiously under the rule of some kind of liberal party.

All in all it was a really enjoyable game. I finished third in terms of overall power, with Germany being second and the United States first. Now I am going to waste time on the 2.31 version, which was just released some days ago.

 

[.Pixote.]

Castlevania: SOTN.

I can now see why this game is praised so much...

I adore Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (arguably the best game for the PS1). I attempted to build a 1:1 scale map of the entire game, the things you do when you're insane. Apparently the game was a throw a way from Konami before they released the rubbish Castlevania (Nintendo 64)...remember polygons are always better than pixels. The soundtrack is a masterpiece in itself.

Oh I'm playing DOOM with zdoom-2.5.0.

 

[nihil]

Trials: Evolution.

 

[spekkio]

Completed Castlevania - SOTN:

In translated JAP version there are 2 more familiars than in US version:

One thing is certain:

I think Rondo of Blood is 10 times better, despite being 10 times shorter. At least it's a proper platforming game (miscalculated jump = instant death) not some POPAMOLE nextgen hiking simulator.



Next: either more of Dark Heart of Uukrul or Unreal - Return to Na Pali.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Playing Arkham City while waiting for Diablo II to come in the post. Aiming to get all the Riddler secrets and complete the challenge maps. Max Payne 3 coming out next month too.

 

[.Pixote.]

waiting for Diablo II to come in the post...

Surely you mean Diablo III.

 

[Ulminati]

waiting for Diablo II to come in the post...

Surely you mean Diablo III.

Games are like fine wines. You have to let them rest for a few years before they're worth savouring. That's why we only play "old" games around here. 10 years from now people will be praising the exquisite 2011 vintage DXHR on Nextgen Codex.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

waiting for Diablo II to come in the post...

Surely you mean Diablo III.

Nope, Diablo II.

 

[Gragt]

Wizardry I: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.

What have I missed all these years?

 

[Don Peste]

Quake 2 with Berserker:
And after that, and the Mission Packs, Quake, Hexen 2, Dark Forces 2, Klingon Honor Guard, Requiem, Elite Force...