Bjorn

On the megathreads, I think Tanukitsune's adventure game summaries are a good example of why I like the completed games megathread. I enjoy reading those, but if there was an individual thread for each game, I probably wouldn't actually open up each one and read it.

Haha, in the conversation about waiting on Fallout 4 to load, all I could think of was Metal Gear Solid 4's install screens, which were weird but wonderful. It's just Solid Snake smoking and looking grumpy for like 10 minutes, with the old video game health warnings that would usually be in small print at the beginning of a game manual. Edited to Add: MGS4 also had a choice about how much you wanted to install, you could either do a full install, or you could just do a partial install and at like 4 other points in the game it would ask you to install more stuff if you didn't want to wait any longer than necessary to start playing.

Wizard cat in a wizard house.

I just watched KKBB for the first time last year, and quite enjoyed it.

Does anybody have experience with non-root third party tethering apps? My Internet went out a few hours ago, and being a holiday weekend I don't know if it will get fixed before Monday or not. But tethering is locked on my phone and I've never messed around with the unofficial options.

Dewar's right, it was he and I's discussion about Majesty that came up recently. I consider M1 to be one of the finest games ever made, and have replayed portions of it within the last 2 or 3 years. Majesty 2 is...eh, it's probably not terrible. But it failed to deliver on what made the original special (not surprising, as none of the original people were involved with 2 and it was running on an engine not designed to do what 1 did).

Ummm, Humble has never intended on being a publisher. They are a mission driven retailer who provides their customers with multiple options for delivery. If I'm reading you right, you want them to be something they never were and never wanted to be.

There's quite a bit that's cheap on my wishlist. I'll probably pick up a few things, but with no Flash sale, I'm in no rush. I've got a bunch of local co-op games on my list, so I'll point out some of those. Her Story - $3.59 - Police video mystery that the cast was raving about for awhile Chariot - $3.74 - Fun looking local co-op game I've been wanting to try where a princess and her fiance have to cart around the king's dead body Dropsy - $4.99 - Only 50 percent off, but given the love it's got around the forums, worth noting Gauntlet (2014) - $4.99 - Local co-op (naturally). Been this cheap before, but I've never seen it cheaper METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE - $7.49 (75 percent off) - Even though it's a radically different kind of game, I'm tempted because of all the MGS love going around Defense Grid 2 - $3.74 - Has local co-op, which is something I wish more tower defense games had as I think it plays with the genre very well

No Flash/Daily deals and no meta-activity kinda sucks some of the fun out of it for me.

FWIW, I don't think we can. I either direct link, or take a screencap if I suspect it will disappear.

It seems a bizarre complaint to levy at a company that 1) donates verifiably significant amounts to charity and 2) does provide as large of a percentage of their library as possible DRM free. Without Steam keys, it's conceivable that Humble as we know it would be dead, that they wouldn't have been able to achieve the sales numbers to stay viable.

Sooo, there's like a Steam Sale and stuff going on.

I'm genuinely surprised that the Cap'n movies have ended up being some of my favorites in the MU, and Civil War looks to continue that. I always had the impression of the Captain being a pretty boring character.

Are you just talking about Stardock games now being on GoG? I hardly consider that a mark against GoG in any way. The world is full of assholes, and if you run a business like GoG, you're going to end up working with some of them. Also, not entirely clear why Humble sucks.

And now I really miss having a PS4

I posted this in Slack earlier, but for the non-chat people, the dorm my daughter lived in at KU was imploded this morning to make room for a new dorm. We headed in to watch it, as neither of us had ever seen a building implosion in person before. It was really cool!

Ooooo, local co-op, color me interested. I know almost nothing about this game though, didn't even hear any buzz about it.

That second link cuts both ways, the writer acknowledges the discomfort of seeing people outside his culture ignorantly adopt it for the sheer aesthetics of it, and how the response to that can run from irritation to rage to avoidance. The writer is Hispanic, and the history and culture around el Dia de los Muertos is his history and culture. The conflict of that piece is that his heritage has been appropriated, in a harmful way, and that actually impacts his ability to engage comfortably with his own culture publicly. It's about how "harmless" appropriation can cause harm. Outsider's appropriation has harmed his ability to actually demonstrate his personal identity. I really read that piece as a refutation of the argument you're making.

It kinda reminds me a number of years ago during one of the many firestorms about the shittiness of Missouri highways when MODOT announced they would be running a new $5 million PR campaign to convince people that the roads weren't as bad as they thought they were. Instead of, you know, spending that money on actually fixing the broken ass roads.

I guess that looks more or less as I would expect mine (I'll see if I can find the time to do mine), which is that the experience in subjective enjoyment is not heavily tied to any critical consensus. It's tight enough that the Meta number as a predictor is more or less of no value.

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Sure, go for it. That's the kind of thing I would think about doing if I didn't have any games I'd rather play right now.

I know that Deadly Premonition had a pretty terrible Metacritic score, and it's high on my list of fav games ever. I'm one of those people who tend to seek out others opinions on a game after I've finished it, and have noticed over the last couple of years that a lot of games I liked scored in the low to mid 70s.

Over the last 5 years, there have probably been more 60-80 score games I've loved than 80-100 score games, but there's still a lot of trash in the 60-80, so it's a more or less meaningless number for me. My current obsession, Warframe, scores a 68 on Metacritic, mostly because it's a game that been actively developed for around 3 years and all the reviews are from much earlier in the development period.