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    Quote from will2k

    29 minutes ago, will2k said: Finished replaying Serious Sam first and second encounter (from 2001 and 2002)

    Fighting a horde of literally 1000 enemies at once is brutally hard but nostalgia is a bitch :D

    Haha :D I'm currently playing Serious Sam 3 for the second time in local co-op. Couch gaming hardly gets any better than that :)

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    17 hours ago, Squad said: Haha :D I'm currently playing Serious Sam 3 for the second time in local co-op. Couch gaming hardly gets any better than that :)

    Agree; COOP is a blast :)

    I first played SS3 solo on hard difficulty, then a second time on normal then coop on a local LAN. COOP was the most fun of the 3 :D

    Finished playing Grim Fandango remastered; great moments and memories just like playing the original 17 years ago.

    I started Bioshock 1 now (soon to be followed by 2 then infinite)

    I still have a backlog in my steam library

    Quote from will2k

    2 minutes ago, will2k said: Finished playing Grim Fandango remastered; great moments and memories just like playing the original 17 years ago.

    I started Bioshock 1 now (soon to be followed by 2 then infinite)

    I still have a backlog in my steam library

    I hope you enjoy playing through the first one. It's definitely one of a kind. Would you kindly share that backlog?

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    On 12/14/2016 at 11:08 PM, Radu said: I hope you enjoy playing through the first one. It's definitely one of a kind. Would you kindly share that backlog?

    I managed to knock down my backlog's size of unplayed games over the past year but I still have several games to go through.

    ARMA 2, ARMA 2 Operation Arrowhead, Bioshock 2, Bioshock Infinite, Metro 2033, Metro Last Light, and some missions/expansions packs for Quake 2/Doom 2 :D. Many games, not much time.

    I'm using that HD Texture pack thing I can't recall it's name but nothing else. I wanted to relive my nostalgia because I'm grumpy and hate new stuff.

    That's cool but it isn't Deus Ex for me, you know? I want to play it like I remember it. It really is just as good as it was the last time I played it about 6 -7 years ago. I still think it even looks good for it's age too. Thanks doe :)

    I picked up Mirror's Edge: Catalyst, but I'm incredibly disappointed by it. This game should be right in my wheelhouse: I like roleplaying as an anti-capitalist terrorist, I like exploration, I'm pretty resistance to motion sickness. But the sum of the parts here ends up super frustrating because of how they were put together. I can't really "explore" because the world's designed in pretty restrictive ways that makes me feel like I'm always running along a track, rather than in an open space. There are branches, but very hard to notice without stopping and looking around, but the game has multiple systems in place to discourage you from doing that. So you've got to rely on the "Runner's Vision" thing, except that it's completely broken compared to the first game, because there are very few of the highlighted red objects this time, and instead you're mostly relying on this shitty red sprite that flies through the air occasionally but is easy to miss in tight spaces, meaning sometimes I'm forced to just stand there and spin like an idiot waiting for the shit sprite to pop out of me again so I can see which corridor I'm supposed to be running down.

    The story so far seems interesting, and I want to know more about the backstory they've set up, but the game just makes my blood boil to actually play, so I guess I'll just remain forever in the dark on it. It's really sad. I'm used to seeing games be bad because of technical failings or shortcomings from being rushed, things like that, but here it feels like they loyally implemented just really bad ideas, successfully making the game bad compared to its predecessor.

    Currently playing The Last Guardian but I'm having some trouble fully enjoying it because of low frame rate issues :( anyone else noticed? maybe I just need to get used to it. Game seems really fun so far otherwise.

    since it's holidays and I finally got some time to play games I'm going through some big releases this year.

    I finished Inside, but it didn't do that much for me. It felt like it borrowed heavily from Half Life 2, borrowed some things from Half Life 1 then turned into Katamari Damacy for the last 30 mins of the game. I still don't know what they wanted to say with that last part, it was just weird. A lot of the parts felt very scripted and that made the world lose its authenticity, which I feel should never happen in a game that relies so hard on said authenticity to tell a story. I felt the same loss of authenticity with the 2D sidescrolling part - if I can just conveniently remove an oncoming threat by going right (or left) then the threat just doesn't feel real after a few attempts (hi dogs).

    There's also quite a few places where I felt lost because the level design didn't describe the problems/puzzles well enough, so I just went around in circles trying everything until I found the solution. On the plus side I liked the minimalist presentation and the fact they made some of the environments have real depth even with simple colors and lighting. And also the shockwave area was pretty fun (even though I have no idea what it was about).


    I started playing the new Deus Ex, took me a while to get back to the controls and the settings. Maybe it's because I got older, but I feel like certain elements of the game are more grating now. Like the switch between first and third person constantly just becomes tedious. I would much rather keep it third person all the time because I would feel like I have the better overview of what's going on... and because some 6 hours in I still haven't fired or plan to fire a single weapon. I really want to play this game on a controller, but because the camera shifting like it does and the game's constant complex mechanics, it feels like the game just doesn't want to let me.

    Also, you know you're getting old when you stop to admire the kitchen in Jensen's apartment


    Here's hoping I can make this and the new Doom before the year is over.

    Finished the new Deus Ex, was enjoyable despite the camera issue. Gameplay felt great in the main areas and the side missions. Wasn't too much of a fan of some of the main missions, but those were in the minority. I didn't feel the whole story was comprehensive, and the ending was a bit meh since there were so many loose ends that weren't tied up. Also in some places I didn't feel the level design was the best because guards were able to see me despite me being far past their patrol areas. Oh and the loading times between levels was way above what it should be. Anyway. nothing gamebreaking. Overall a nice experience that took me back to the original game and even had some of the original thief influence in the design.

    Playing the new Doom now. So far I'm liking it, combat doesn't seem to cause too much fatigue because you can do the glory kills and it's refreshing not having to sit behind cover waiting your turn since every demon is a health kit smuggler. My one negative is that it seems to require a LOT of processing power in some areas. Some places drops me down to 5-10 fps while it seems for the remainder I'm hovering around 45 (which is entirely manageable). Oh and I kinda wish the story wouldn't take itself so seriously.

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