The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[garbon]

Calm it down, boys.

[Norgy]

Bleh. 
Like you have a say.

[garbon]

Why can't we all just get along?

[Grey Fox]

A gift, one that I paid for, and you call me ass?

That's like, so classy. So fuck you Francotard.

Yes, we have established you like to use the word fuck.

[Tamas]

There is a 50% off deal on Qvadriga. Buy it

http://store.steampowered.com/app/297760/

[Ed Anger]

I don't know now. Tamas is shilling now for it.

MAKE BEET SHINY!

[Syt]

There is a 50% off deal on Qvadriga. Buy it

http://store.steampowered.com/app/297760/

The game shows the racers holding the reins in their hands. My understanding is that they wrapped the reins around their waist to better handle the forces during the race (they also carried a dagger to cut themselves loose in case they found themselves off the chariot and dragged by the horses).

0/10.

[Ed Anger]

To make Tamas feel better, I'm thinking of getting War in the West when I start getting my crop checks.

[Syt]

I've blown my monthly budget on OOTP, Valkyrie Chronicles, and QVADRIGA.

In a month or three, when I've finished Pillars of Eternity, I might be able to play any of those.

I had a check if OOTP got rid of one of my pet peeves, in that Hungary and Finland share a name database and yup: random Hungarian league, and it's full of Finns. So no Habsburg Empire League anytime soon.

[Syt]

So, watched an Alien Isolation live stream and while I love the look and atmosphere of the game: nope, not gonna play that anytime soon.

[Razgovory]

So, watched an Alien Isolation live stream and while I love the look and atmosphere of the game: nope, not gonna play that anytime soon.

I can't stand scary movies but scary games are fine.  The problem with that one is that it got frustrating and going into it you already knew what the alien was, and what his deal was which deflects some of the thrills.  Still, I played it through to the end and I don't always do that.

[Syt]

I have to credit them, though - where most horror games rely on cheap jump scares, this game seems more focused on creating tension and dread through its stealth system. I have to admit, even watching this passively was stressful.

[Razgovory]

An interesting decision is in that game is to make it look like the space station is being run on an old Atari 2600.  To save you have to shove a key cartridge into a machine, and the codes look like some of the monsters from space invaders.

[Syt]

Yeah, seen that. Fits nicely with the design of the first movie. I like this (now retro) look.

[Syt]

Out There Omega Edition: you're an astronaut from Earth hurled across the galaxy and trying to find your way home through a procedurally generated galaxy of weird.

Souped up version of an Android game, beta available for 9.99 on Humble Store; will convert into a Steam key on release this Thursday.

It's FTL the text game, basically. You pick a star and head there. Upon arrival there's a chance of a random event, often with multiple choice options. At its core it's a resource management game: you need Iron to repair your hull, you need oxygen, and fuel. You can get oxygen on habitable planets (generally found around yelow stars), iron on same or other rocky planets and fuel on gas giants. Almost every action costs fuel and/or hull/oxygen points, so you constantly have to scavenge, making the game extremely hard.

You also come across artifacts that teach you new tech (chances are you just dumped the vital mineral to build the tech because you needed space for fuel), new ships that you can take over, alien life (though you have to learn the language bit by bit, and the "words" are randomized each time), and other things. There's NO combat as far as I can see.

Still, it's a fun diversion, and in 3 or 4 play throughs I had no random events repeat themselves, so there seems to be a decent number of them. It's extremely easy to get into a situation where you run out of one important resource or other, but let's you still try your luck and hope for a good dice roll to make a last ditch effort, but chances are slim that it works.