Bigred's Video Game Thread

[eugmac]

who cares if he's taking it down? it's not like it's going to delete the game off your phone.

My high score is 162 - been playing like a damn fiend. I'm determinedddddddddddd to be the best ever because my goals in life are sky high

also I finally downloaded this League of Legends shit.

I just managed 31 and consider myself a grand master.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Thanks for reminding me about Bastion. What a beautiful experience.

I forget the exact quote, but:

"The kid didn't know how do deal with all this, so he just hacked and smashed at the world for a bit."

[bigred]

Thanks for reminding me about Bastion. What a beautiful experience.

I forget the exact quote, but:

"The kid didn't know how do deal with all this, so he just hacked and smashed at the world for a bit."

I return to that game every now and then just for the atmosphere. I love it.

[bigred]

I've started to work my way up in ranked matches. Currently at like 20. King Krush has been far more useful than I thought he would int hunter deck. I typically fend early rushes with traps, setup a prelim minion wall with a few beasts with taunt, release the hounds to charge my buzzard and hyena, and then the final blow is king krush once my opponent has over extended himself and is top deck panicking his way through my minions.

[bigred]

I still haven't touched don't starve in 2014. I don't know why but I'm scared to get back into it.

[bigred]

Bikes,

You still playing don't starve?

I feel like that game captured a certain piece of life not often illustrated in games.

[bikes]

i check in on my base every once in a while. or australia mode

[bigred]

No bikes no

[bikes]

No bikes no

i still don't have your hearthstone name.

[d0zer]

warrior rush cheese did carry me to 10 tho, no doubt. I tried my shitty priest deck at like 13 and went 1-2. straight back to warrior rush cheese.

[aubreymcfate]

my latest: tumblr_n0vdznEXsP1qcqb0xo1_400.jpg

no shame!!!

[d0zer]

it's funny how this flappy bird game has seemingly randomly taken off. I had a "default gravity, user input = up" game on my 2001-era palm pilot, but it worked by smoothly changing acceleration instead of the jerky ups of flappy dick. I played it in class, and it inspired me to do my big impossible graphics cs course final project on such a game, only it was a 3d tunnel game textured with shit I pulled from quake3. and your ship had a sweet shield to start that would like gently bounce you off the edge.

oh I found a super fancy version of sfcave on youtube. mine was black & white

[Luco]

Bad piggies

[Luco]

Multiplayer pokemon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26240191

[aubreymcfate]

I'm curious to see what that could possibly develop into because as it stands, I can't imagine the actual point of millions of users trying to control the same avatar in a fairly linear JRPG game other than the novelty factor.

A Pokemon MMORPG, on the other hand........

[Luco]

I'm curious to see what that could possibly develop into because as it stands, I can't imagine the actual point of millions of users trying to control the same avatar in a fairly linear JRPG game other than the novelty factor.

A Pokemon MMORPG, on the other hand........

That would be awesome.

[bikes]

i really really enjoy wrecking murlocs decks. no greater feeling.

[KoRnholio]

Do any of you play dota 2? It's stolen a bit of my soul :S

[oskar]

Do any of you play dota 2? It's stolen a bit of my soul :S

I've played a lot of dota last year. I seem to have hit my skill cap and I'm not sure how to crawl out of it, so I switched back to sc2. I think it's a really great game with a lot of depth, but it's no longer fun for me at the level I'm at. I'm stuck at 2.5k rating. In sc2 it took me three days to get back to masters after a one year break. I don't know what makes me so bad at dota. I guess I'm not much of a team player.

[Luco]

Humble bundle is doing a 14 day sale-a-thon!

[a500lbgorilla]

Aside from Civ 5 and ruling the world as Alexander or Augustus or Casimir, I have fallen for a rogue-like called Dungeons of Dredmor.

Reasons to play it:

Rogue-like!
You get to pick a bunch of skill trees including:!
Emomancy!
Necronomiconomics!
Mathemagics!
Killer Vegan!

I still haven't beaten it and I'm like 60 hours in. It's easy to play a bit and come back to; it's complicated; and it's cooky.

Plus, it'll be on sale for like 4 bucks total come the next steam sale, so keep your eyes peeled.

[bigred]

Rilla, ever played Kerbal Space Program? I just got into it.

[a500lbgorilla]

No, but I took a bunch of spacecraft dynamics and controls classes, so I imagine I'd be good at it.

edit: to translate from dickish: nah, I bought it though.

[bikes]

all my mmo friends say wildstar is confirmed legit.

[Luco]

Battlefield 3 and plants vs zombies for free, last day today

https://www.origin.com/en-gb/store/f...s/on-the-house

[jackvance]

Is Zombies and Plants worth checking out?

[Luco]

Is Zombies and Plants worth checking out?

I enjoyed it anyways (until I completed it and moved on)

[bigred]

I still load up plants vs zombies 2 on my phone when out of things to watch on plane flights, etc.

Braid was on sale the other day for $2.99 so I bought it. Really fun so far. It's a 2d platformer (i.e. Mario) that introduces time manipulation as the main mechanic besides jumping on things. Each world has a different twist. For example, one world everything moves forward and backwards similar to your movements. Another is when you reverse time, a shadow clone of yourself re-executes your move in the future. For example: If you jump to a platform and enable a switch, you can then reverse time back to when you were standing by the door the switch opens, and your shadow clone will then run and execute the switch. Lots of problem solving in this game.

[oskar]

Looks pretty cool. I might pick that up if it's on sale.
The guys that made limbo introduced their new game at E3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op4G1--kb-g
I'm super hyped about that.

[boost]

Looks pretty cool. I might pick that up if it's on sale.
The guys that made limbo introduced their new game at E3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op4G1--kb-g
I'm super hyped about that.

I haven't been gaming pretty much at all for a while now, but this looks really cool. Reminds me of ICO, which if you haven't played, you definitely should.

[bigred]

Yeah. One of my favorite announcements out of E3. Looking forward to that. Limbo was great.

[bigred]

Kerbal Space Program is one of the most frustrating yet beautiful games ever. When your mission comes together, you planned the right amount of fuel, and you don't do anything stupid, you get backdrops like this....my kerbal is contemplating life from the Mun as he looks at home planet Kerbin and the Sun

[dhubermex]

My most recent game is Dark Souls II. Although the game has more areas than its predecessor, I enjoyed the former much more.

My PvP is baaaaad (winrate ~15%) so I focus mainly on PvE experience and Co-Op as a Sunbro. I know I need to 'git gud' but don't have the focus for seriously competing against others who have practiced so much more.

My current progress is NG++ at Level 212.

Favorite Levels: Lost Bastille, Forest of Fallen Giants, Iron Keep

Least Favorite Levels: Shaded Woods ("I'm hungry" gets old REALLY quick), Shrine of Amana, Huntsman's Copse

[Luco]

Steam summer sale is here. Gonna try and be good this year, you're not going to get all my money this time steam! No way, not a ch.. ooh, 80% off the Witcher 2, bargain!

[a500lbgorilla]

I bought Toejam and Earl. 2.50 for the original Sega roguelike.

[bigred]

So far I've bought the trine pack, organge box (already have portal but wanted to replay hl2 and episodes), don't starve reign of giants dlc, dmc: devil may cry, and I think that's it...maybe

[bigred]

I also bought Monaco. It's supposed to be a fun, simple heart co op game. Get it and we can play together. It was like $3

[bigred]

Playing half life 2 again, 10 years after its release, makes me realize how good that game is. It had nothing to do with graphics. It's just straight up suspense map after map.

[oskar]

^^ That a million times. I am so disappointed with modern shooters. HL had great mechanics. I have recently played a little bit of the new wolfenstein and Farcry Blood Dragon based on recommendations and, ok I get it you're tongue in cheek about it, but that doesn't mean you're not doing exactly the same thing you're making fun of. Movement feels like you're swimming through jelly and if you don't want to play it exactly like the game wants you to, you simply can't.
I'm not too sour about it since I'm not much of a shooter guy anyway, but I don't think arena shooters have improved since Quake and there hasn't been a better single player than half life since half life.
I don't even have high hopes for Evolve. They couldn't even fix l4d with a matchmaking system.

At least there's innovation elsewhere. Hotline Miami is glorious. Paper's Please is awesome and unique. And of course Dota2 is the best game ever made. These are good times after all.

[dhubermex]

Ah... Half Life 2! That indeed was a suspense-packed game. Ravenholm was awesome.

[bigred]

Battleblock theater is on sale for $3.50 on steam. Would someone else get it so play some co-op with me?

The trailer itself makes this worth the purchase:

[Luco]

Would someone else get it so play some co-op with me?

If anyone wants to add me on steam (or psn, or xbox) just pm me. Bigred I've pm'd you my steam ID (just picked up BBT and castle crashers) but I suspect my crazy schedule plus timezones will limit our chances for co-op

[bigred]

If anyone wants to add me on steam (or psn, or xbox) just pm me. Bigred I've pm'd you my steam ID (just picked up BBT and castle crashers) but I suspect my crazy schedule plus timezones will limit our chances for co-op

Just added you. This game is great!

The one liners are hilarious. Like when I didn't do well on one map I got a C and the narrator said "I keep telling my friends how great you are and you keep proving me wrong!"

[bigred]

Battleblock Theater is fucking hilarious and fun. The opening scene had me laughing my ass off and the game is simple 2d platformer/mario fun.

[bigred]

Opening scene:

[a500lbgorilla]

Opening scene:

HNNNNNNNNNNNNNG

DLing now

[oskar]

Got worms revolution with a couple of friends. I logged about 3 hours over the weekend, they played more like 15. It's 4 players max and I'm not sure I prefer this version over Worms Armageddon. Gameplay seems more sluggish, but the worms are cuter. It's still a great game.

[a500lbgorilla]

I played battle block theater for a bit. I can already tell imma love it.

[bigred]

I played battle block theater for a bit. I can already tell imma love it.

I mean...it's a clever platformer with really funny/stupid humor narration. "Don't lose hope, I know I did!" is one of my favorites when you start a map.

[bigred]

On the final area and of course I chose the character with the cat...love the hall of dudes sign...this game has it all

[Luco]

Sigh, castle crashers is now 90% off, just after I bought it at 75% off

[bigred]

Sigh, castle crashers is now 90% off, just after I bought it at 75% off

I got it with the good sales! I'm better than you!

[Luco]

I got it with the good sales! I'm better than you!

[oskar]

I saw the castle crashers/battleblock theater bundle for -90% and didn't buy it.
How do you feel about that!

[Luco]

I saw the castle crashers/battleblock theater bundle for -90% and didn't buy it.
How do you feel about that!

You're lucky your avatar is so hot or I'd be right pissed off

[dhubermex]

Has anyone here ever played Heroes of Might & Magic III (New World Computing - 1997)? One of the best turn-based strategy games of all time imo, and still plays well 17 years later.

[bigred]

Has anyone here ever played Heroes of Might & Magic III (New World Computing - 1997)? One of the best turn-based strategy games of all time imo, and still plays well 17 years later.

I know it exists but have never tried it.

[d0zer]

Has anyone here ever played Heroes of Might & Magic III (New World Computing - 1997)? One of the best turn-based strategy games of all time imo, and still plays well 17 years later.

I loved heroes I-IV as a young lad. I recently played III and still found it fun.

[bigred]

Kerbal Space Program is on sale for $16. Buy it. It will be the best decision you've ever made. Be sure to let your kids know that as well.

[boost]

I remember III being what all the nerds (ironing intended) played at the local LAN gaming center-- but I was out of money one time (this happened often) and decided to watch them play, and decided the smelly D&D dorks were onto something. Starcraft and HL Deathmatch were still the nuts, but Heroes III and Worms Armageddon have to be the best games to get baked with a bunch of friends and waste countless hours.

[Luco]

Bioshock 1, 2 and infinite bundle is 83% off right now, has anyone played them and is it worth getting?

[dhubermex]

Bioshock 1, 2 and infinite bundle is 83% off right now, has anyone played them and is it worth getting?

I thought Bioshock 1 was a great game back when I played it. No idea how it holds up now. I played Bioshock 2 for about 30 minutes and got bored with it and Bioshock Infinite is a solid game.

[oskar]

I've played bioshock 2 and infinite for about 10 min. each. I'm not the right person to ask because I don't particularly like shooters with crippled mechanics. I think they are more pleasant to watch than to actually play.

I pure impulse-bought Next Car Game for two reasons:
- Badass working title
- Game Studio that made Flatout 1&2

At the current stage it truly is just a tech demo but this is one crowdfunded game that I really want to see happen. I want a map editor that plays like garry's mod for cars. At this point it already has the best damage models and the most satisfying driving physics I've experienced since Flatout.
Not something I would recommend buying now, but certainly something to watch out for.

http://nextcargame.com/

[a500lbgorilla]

Bioshock 1 is a classic.

[surviva316]

I see Braid is on Summer Sale for $5. That's awfully tempting, and worse case scenario, I blow a fiver. Downside of that decision is that I don't much play video games (even this Wind Waker game I got is rotting and I friggin' love Zelda).

Heroes of Might and Magic III is an incredible game. My cousins owned it when I went to visit them for a summer in Chicago and I barely went outside because of it. I had no idea it was some famously incredible game or anything until I randomly 15 years later was like, "What the hell was the name of that game that I got so addicted to? Swords and Mages or some shit? I wonder if I could find it on the cheap on ebay?" That's when I found out it was a cult classic.

[dhubermex]

Heroes of Might and Magic III is an incredible game. My cousins owned it when I went to visit them for a summer in Chicago and I barely went outside because of it. I had no idea it was some famously incredible game or anything until I randomly 15 years later was like, "What the hell was the name of that game that I got so addicted to? Swords and Mages or some shit? I wonder if I could find it on the cheap on ebay?" That's when I found out it was a cult classic.

Yeah, one of the best unknown games out there. Everything just works well (except the Town Portal spell, which is a game breaker later on). Other than that, extremely balanced, awesome soundtrack and effects, perfect graphics for a 1997 turn-based strategy game and enough strategy to make it highly interesting without scaring off casual players.

[surviva316]

Apparently the Steam version is Windows only. There's a ported version available in the Mac App Store, but 1) I'm not sure if it'll be a seamless carry-over from Steam (though it has 295/337 5 stars; the 1-star reviews are very laughable) and 2) I don't think it's on sale; it says it's 50% off for St Patty's Day, buuuut that was kinda a while ago.

[Luco]

Just picked up trine 2 (physics based co-op platform / puzzle game) for 90% off, sounds fun and looks nice so why not

[bigred]

I picked up the Trine package (1 and 2) at the beginning of the steam sale. Haven't played 2 yet but 1 is ok. I like the idea of 3 different characters switching off but some of the gameplay is a little off. A few examples include delayed smashing of faces with my sword, missed smashing of faces with my sword, etc. Just seems like a little input lag.

How is 2?

[Luco]

I picked up the Trine package (1 and 2) at the beginning of the steam sale. Haven't played 2 yet but 1 is ok. I like the idea of 3 different characters switching off but some of the gameplay is a little off. A few examples include delayed smashing of faces with my sword, missed smashing of faces with my sword, etc. Just seems like a little input lag.

How is 2?

Only had a very brief run at it so far. Seems just like the first one tbh but I've not played much of either.

Will try and play some more co-op with you this week

[bigred]

About to enter Ravenholm in my replay of HL2. We all know that is a mistake...

[dhubermex]

About to enter Ravenholm in my replay of HL2. We all know that is a mistake...

We Don't Go to Ravenholm.

Half Life 2 is what got me back into FPS games after I had outgrown Goldeneye and Perfect Dark on the Nintendo 64. In my opinion it was superior to Bioshock on the XBOX due to how it kept you on edge at every turn. A+ classic for sure. Have fun with your re-playthrough.

[Luco]

Bigred, we must continue the research. For science.

[bigred]

Was able to play some portal 2 co op with Luco yesterday. I didn't realize I had a big gaping hole in my life until I played it. If you thought solo mode was fun...

[Luco]

Was able to play some portal 2 co op with Luco yesterday. I didn't realize I had a big gaping hole in my life until I played it. If you thought solo mode was fun...

Portal, big gaping hole, I get it!


IT'S NOT A BUTTSEX JOKE!