What are you playing? (Redux)

[Berkut]

What is Episode 1? Is that the cliffs thing?

[grumbler]

Well, I finally finished Half-Life 2. A great game, but the ending was rather anti-climatic. Easy, even. I had no idea it was actually the end of the game, that is how not-ending like it seemed. I was surprised when the credits started rolling.

Still getting my ass kicked at Civ4.

I just couldn't get into HL2.  I didn't feel like I was making any decisions, other than how to figure out how to avoid getting killed in each successive little trick situation (and some of the answers were absurd, like "climb on the roof and try to open windows, getting killed each time you chose incorrectly, until you find the one window in the entire fucking building that opens").

I don't mind games that allow the player character to die if poor decisions are made, but ones that repeatedly kill the PC until they figure out the obscure way of getting out of each ambush bore me to tears.  In HL2 I don't think I made it much past the point where you get your suit.

[Habbaku]

Not sure what you mean by the cliffs thing.  The opening area had a lot of cliffs to be climbed up, if that's what you meant, then it eventually lead to a train-yard area with the characters trying to hijack one and escape.

It was neat, but, again, lead to nothing.  You should already have both Episode 1 and 2 if you bought The Orange Box a while back.

They're both incredibly short, so it wouldn't take you long to play.

[Berkut]

It is a shooter - the fun is in the shooting.

I actually find too many "puzzles" in a shooter annoying. If I want to do a puzzle game, you can't beat something like Portal, where they just ditch the shooting altogether, which was a great idea.

Running around trying to figure out which tunnel I should go through is, like you said, not fun.

[Grey Fox]

Torchlight. Action RPG made by Runic games formed by the survivor of the Flagship studio disaster who had designed D1 & D2.

http://torchlight.perfectworld.com/
www.torchlightgame.com

It's only 20$, well worth the investment.

Also, avalaible at GG, Steam & D2D.

[grumbler]

It is a shooter - the fun is in the shooting.

I actually find too many "puzzles" in a shooter annoying. If I want to do a puzzle game, you can't beat something like Portal, where they just ditch the shooting altogether, which was a great idea.

Running around trying to figure out which tunnel I should go through is, like you said, not fun.

I agree.  It isn't the shooter element I objected to, it was the lack of plot in terms of what one was supposed to do.

[The Brain]

I'm not a fan of shooters where ammo is a problem.

[Berkut]

It is a shooter - the fun is in the shooting.

I actually find too many "puzzles" in a shooter annoying. If I want to do a puzzle game, you can't beat something like Portal, where they just ditch the shooting altogether, which was a great idea.

Running around trying to figure out which tunnel I should go through is, like you said, not fun.

I agree.  It isn't the shooter element I objected to, it was the lack of plot in terms of what one was supposed to do.

That is a good point - I think one of the reasons I was so surprised at the ending, is that there was never any sense of an overall story, which I kept thinking would come together at some point.

The game culminates in you killing the human rep for the Combine...but you enver get the idea that that is the point of all the things you did before that.

Kind of feels like they spent a lot of time and money making this incredible engine, then kind of threw a "story" together at the last minute to drag you throught that engine.

However, some of the shooter parts where a freaking blast. Driving around on the airboat and the dirt buggy was fun, and some of the environments, like the bridge, were really great.

[Scipio]

I'm playing "wait until Dragon Age ships"

[Habbaku]

I'm playing "wait until Dragon Age ships"

I have that game, too!

[Razgovory]

Well, I finally finished Half-Life 2. A great game, but the ending was rather anti-climatic. Easy, even. I had no idea it was actually the end of the game, that is how not-ending like it seemed. I was surprised when the credits started rolling.

Still getting my ass kicked at Civ4.

I just couldn't get into HL2.  I didn't feel like I was making any decisions, other than how to figure out how to avoid getting killed in each successive little trick situation (and some of the answers were absurd, like "climb on the roof and try to open windows, getting killed each time you chose incorrectly, until you find the one window in the entire fucking building that opens").

I don't mind games that allow the player character to die if poor decisions are made, but ones that repeatedly kill the PC until they figure out the obscure way of getting out of each ambush bore me to tears.  In HL2 I don't think I made it much past the point where you get your suit.

I never had that problem.  I played through that game several times and I don't recall any windows that open.  Really did like the whole Eastern Bloc theme though.  Complete with Swaggering ZOMO types and soviet era apartments.

[The Brain]

  I thought HL2 was set in Detroit?

[Winkelried]

I'm playing "wait until Dragon Age ships"

I have that game, too!

Me too, it's boring. 

[grumbler]

I thought HL2 was set in Detroit?

Nah, way too cheery to be Detroit.  Definitely Stalinist Russia or Orwell's variant thereof.

[The Brain]

Played the Torchlight demo. Seems nice. How long is the game?