Railith said:

Shadows of the Damned is so fucking good.

I saw this on the shelves and the cover turned me off. What other game is it like?

Creaty said:

I saw this on the shelves and the cover turned me off. What other game is it like?

It plays like Resident Evil 4/5 and has the tone of a Robert Rodriguez movie.

I bought Sequence myself and really enjoyed it. There are some good little games in the Indie games section. You can see some really creative stuff in there, made by people who obviously love gaming... You can also find a ton of crap.

I played through Lair of the Evil Doer from the indie games section. It's a twin stick shooter/rogue-like that gets a little boring before it's over, but hey, only cost a $1. I definitely got $1's worth of entertainment out of it.

I got the King's Bounty package too and am pretty satisfied with the couple hours I've played. I also got Far Cry 2 for $5 and played it for a couple hours. Even if those are the only hours I ever spend on it, $5 well spent.

I'm grabbing King's Bounty now. I'm also thinking of getting Eternal Champions and a game pad as a further sacrifice to my wasted youth.

Combat revamps always work out well.

I found it fun enough to reactivate my account after a few-month hiatus, and I see Spankminister still logs on now and then. It's not a perfect game, but it hits a lot of right notes for me. The Star Trek setting is fun, getting to have your own ship with its name emblazoned on the hull is something more games ought to supply, the space combat has a great, ponderous feel to it, and several of the quests in it - particularly the more recent ones - are a blast. The worst part of the game was the ground combat, and that just improved by an order of magnitude.

I will probably pick it back up next year when I return home to my actually good PC instead of my terrible laptop. I absolutely love Star Trek. The weakest part of the game were the away missions so a revamp sounds great.

Spank, what is you ship model of choice?

Spankminister said:

I'm a casual player, ground combat was clearly the weak link, so I'm glad they're improving it. Looking forward to trying it out tonight.

I've run a few raids (STFs) but these days, I mostly play through the User Generated Content (Foundry), RP (which never ceases to get weird looks from people, even other nerds), and do my own mission creation.

Does ending every command with 'Make it so' count as RP? if so I may be guilty. I just made it to LC and got my new ship (escort). I like the shooter mode on ground combat. My main weapon of choice is a pair of dual phaser pistols, I forget what my second weapon is.

I'm fairly certain that later in the game you can get a phaser mini-gun, so I doubt someone with two pistols is out of the question.

http://www.stowiki.org/Phaser_Assault_Minigun
Maybe it is time for the Kung-Fu Scientist to take to the stars.

Shakespeare? Star Trek is best when it is stealing from Moby Dick.

Yeah I also recently played Braid. I enjoyed all the references to previous plate formers like Mario (well basically only Mario). Still, despite going into the game knowing the story was going to be bad I was pretty let down by the ending. When you beat a videogame you should feel accomplished. Instead of feeling elated when I finished Braid, a game one should feel good after completing given the puzzles' difficulty, I was just wondering to myself if I was rapist or Julius Oppenheimer...

Besides that I have been playing a lot of Battle for Wesnoth campaigns. Steam doesn't work in China and I left my consoles in the States so it really is my only option right now. Given that the game is still really good and some of the campaigns feel professionally designed (Southern Guard to name one.)

The unfortunate part about Braid is that the writing is so bad. That's all anyone ever talks about. And it is awful! But that final scene where you're rushing to save the girl BUT ACTUALLY she's running away from you is kind of amazing, and really smart. Way smarter than the shitty atomic bomb references.

It is so bad, and so completely divorced from the actual game, that you could actually make that argument.

The Last Otaku said:

Spank, what is you ship model of choice?

I used to play an Assault Cruiser (Sovereign) but then moved over to Galaxy Refit. I'm sort of a Tank skewed towards DPS and beams, so those are both viable options for me. I decided to go over more to the healing side, hence the switch to Galaxy Refit.

Totally unrelated, but everyone should play (or just watch a Youtube playthrough of) Mortal Kombat 9. I don't especially like the game, but it's interesting in that they chose to make the campaign mode about a single story, rather than 20 different versions of a story that fits in 3 still pictures with captions. The story at least kept my interest for a fighting game, which doesn't say a whole lot, but at least makes it better than say, God of War.

It's also just funny. The robot ninjas and mostly naked princesses are ridiculous, and while the creators know this, they play it totally straight and don't ever wink at the camera. The female characters discuss matters of Outworld politics in their preposterous stripper boots and thongs, and in a tag battle, when one character is KOed, they flail into the fore/background as though someone just pushed them offstage. But what I thought was funniest was the way the cutscenes are in the game's engine, so fights happen with the sudden severity that a fighting game anime would have, basically like:

Johnny Cage: Hey baby, want me to show you a good time?
Kitana: What the fuck is your problem?
ROUND 1... FIGHT

Much like in Heavy Rain, where the juxtaposition of the story's drama with silly quicktime events was sometimes a little jarring, in Mortal Kombat it serves to highlight how in this world you're supposed to take seriously, people fight bloody brawls for little to no reason at all.

I've put 20 hours into Saints Row 2 for no real reason in the last few weeks.

All of the king's bounty games for 35 dollars. The podcast made it sound awesome as hell. I really liked heroes of might and magic 3 back in the day.

Should i buy them shits?

Oh yea, i also got a copy of sanctum that I got with my fourpack, anyone want it?

friends invitation disabled error.

Hit me up for it, my name is the same here as on steam, and im in the fast karate group either way.

Isn't that kind of backwards?

Breath of Death VII. It's the year 20XX and the world is devastated by nuclear war or something. The world needs a sarcastic old school RPG hero but everyone on the planet is dead so naturally the main character is undead, an animated skeleton to be precise. It's very self-aware which is either good or bad and the battles are quick. It's only a few bucks on steam which about right.

Digitalguardian said:

Breath of Death VII. It's the year 20XX and the world is devastated by nuclear war or something. The world needs a sarcastic old school RPG hero but everyone on the planet is dead so naturally the main character is undead, an animated skeleton to be precise. It's very self-aware which is either good or bad and the battles are quick. It's only a few bucks on steam which about right.

I played that a while back. It was pretty fun but required a heavy dose of nostalgia.