fausto higgins

I originally came into the Idle Forums after watching the Minecraft server stream because I wanted to jump on Idle MC. But I always had the wrong version of Minecraft and never could. I'm another who would be down... and I'd gladly chip in to fund a server. But if there's not a lot of people interested, it's a real bummer. Tabacco, how much did it cost per month/year?

TIL "team noobs" translates across all languages. Honestly, players speaking other languages doesn't bother me. Auto-attacking creeps does. Yes, I would strongly prefer players speaking English or Spanish, but I've had far worse experiences with English speakers than anything else. It's not because they speak English; it's because those people act like dumb babies.

After three weeks of Dota 2, I've decided I love support. So I'm playing this game and, for the first time, combined camp stacking and creep pulling as Witch Doctor on Radiant bot with Earthshaker. I get xp and farm. He gets xp and farm. It was fantastic; we steamrolled them. Their comments? EARTHSHAKER OP MAGIC CARRY BS. I was so happy, I had to tell someone. MAN, support is fun.

Me thank you, very much. THERE'S A CHRISTMAS SALE?

Yeah, Vanaman's been talking about getting into MLB The Show on the cast, and I was like, "MAN. I'm all about the 2k." Playing as the '94 Rockets is a nice touch. I had a weekly game going here in Houston, but my car died. That one ended because I was GM. And when I got my car back? One of my regulars went on tour with his band. That's good advice and exactly what I plan to do. In the meantime, I've got a great list to keep me started.

You're totally right. I've gotten back into D&D again for my hardcore roleplaying; a single-player experience, for me, was never the right medium in which to accomplish that. I never felt a real connection to my character. Conversely, I actually get more out of my characters in NBA 2k and Saints Row 3 (bro?). That went double when I made my 2k13 character Steve Francis (I'm a native Houstonian, and he was one of my favorite Rockets players). I was upset when the 76ers lowballed me in contracts and made me play shooting guard, so I became a free agent and ended up signing with the Heat (THEY HAD THE BEST OFFER). Now, I throw lob passes from the point to Lebron James and Dwayne Wade and get 18 points and 10 assists a game. EDIT FOR REFINEMENT: After each game, there's a press conference. I tend to give really snarky answers or just play it cool. When I was on the 76ers and we got blown out, a reporter asked me what I felt the team needed to do to improve. I answered back something like, "I wasn't ever particularly good at math, but I'm pretty sure if we scored more points and kept the other team from scoring as many points, we would have done better. So that's my answer: we need to score more points than the other team." I've also got custom Nikes I've designed (yes, they have an in-game shoe designer, and I signed with Nike over Jordan), I'm being followed by Justin Bieber on their Twitter-analogue, and I've been on the cover of a whole bunch of magazines. I LOVE RPGS. The scriptwriting for the female protagonist character in that SR3 was fantastic. She had these incredible throwaway lines delivered at the perfect times that did, for me, what the violence in Hotline Miami did for the the Thumbs guys. The level of utter disregard for human life a character like that would need is staggering; SR3 actually embraced it. It's like the anti Max Payne; the game never takes itself seriously, and every character recognizes that you've murdered like a million people. Really, you're right -- it was nothing special. As a game, it's the equivalent of The Expendables. But I just loved how lines were written and delivered. Thanks. I'm sure I can build a better desktop rig, but I wasn't going to compromise on my laptop. I use the same name on Steam (and pretty much everywhere else). I'm working on making all your suggestions in to a list to have on there. Every one of them I've played has been fantastic!

Quad Core 2.6ghz i7, 16gb RAM, 512gb flash storage, and GeForce 650M w/ 1gb. I should be find for most anything (though likely not everything). This is all true, but I felt it made for a better game. I just felt there was too much in Morrowind (played on Xbox). Skyrim distilled TES down to what I felt was its biggest draw: a gigantic world with stuff to do. Yeah, the Dark Brotherhood wasn't as cool as the Morag Tong. And yes, nothing in either game was as good as Shivering Isles. But I really enjoyed the characters I made in Skyrim even if they did take out my two of my favorite things (enchanting based on spells and DLC Horse Armor). I am, by nature, a min/max-er. So when I play a game like Oblivion or Morrowind, I end up spending far too much time grinding a particular stat category to make sure THAT one gets level up bonuses than just playing like I'd want to. Compare this to one of my favorite games I mentioned before: Saints Row: the Third. I don't care how dumb it is to karate kick through an airplane in-flight, shoot a guy, and then parachute out the back why some girl with pink hair says sarcastic things. It, and Amped 3, both decided to dump the over-complication and distill down to what made those games fun in the first place.

I love you all so much. Out of all the old LucasArts adventure games, the one I loved most as a kid was Sam & Max. I have Steve Purcell's collected comics (fantastic), the original game still running in SCUMMvm, and I went crazy nuts when Telltale revived it. I was a big Diablo II player way back when. And I played the original DotA ever so much. Sword and Sworcery EP was fantastic -- I played it on my iPad. That, my PSP (literally only bought for Mother 3 and to play some retro games on the side), and my Xbox have been it since Year of the PS2. Thank y'all very much, and if other people have suggestions, keep 'em coming. I'll definitely be playing my way through these. SWEET.

Hey Everyone, I feel weird posting a new topic with so little history on here, but I'm doing it anyway. I just got my first new computer in nine years. It's great; I'm super glad I bought it, and I plan to upgrade more frequently. But I've also sort of missed out years of PC gaming. Since I got my old computer (a PowerMac G5 in 2003), I've basically played six PC games -- Civ III, Civ IV, Deus Ex, City of Heroes, WoW, and UT2K4 -- and a whole lot of Xbox. I have no desire to ever play an MMO again. So I need help. I've looked through the forums and downloaded games I've seen on a few pages and downloaded games I was already interested in. Binding of Isaac, FTL, Walking Dead, Civ V, Kerbal Space Program, Minecraft, and Proteus give an idea of what I've got. I've really enjoyed them all. What else am I missing out on? I've basically been a blank slate for a decade. For the record, I'm on a high-end MacBook Pro with Retina Display (though I do plan to install Windows 8 once the drivers come out, so don't limit to Mac games).

OH MY GOSH. I just got my new computer -- my first in nine years. I played the heck out of KSP when I was housesitting for my mother once; I'm THE MOST EXCITED.

Hey, everybody. I'm El Señor Nuevo Hombre. I just upgraded my computer for the first time in nine years, so I immediately installed Steam and got to downloading Kerbal Space Program. And then I thought I should introduce myself here. Hey everybody.