Bork Laser

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    I haven't had any serious issues in regard to performance in my four-ish hours with it so far.

    I am enjoying this game so far in that it is scratching the previously mentioned aRPG itch and it is a good way to sort of zone out for a bit and click bad guys. Everything feels good to me. It isn't a revolutionary game by any means, but it is getting the job done and I'm okay with that.

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    Now that kids that grew up in the 90s are getting older and have more expendable income, we're going to see a lot of things over the next few years tug at those nostalgic heartstrings.

     

    Regardless, this sounds very interesting and I appreciate the link. I think I've always used video games as a sort of escape in some form or another. Over the last few years I've leaned on them as a stress reliever and something to sort of disconnect from grown up life for a few minutes.

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    The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be.


    This lovely game released a few days ago and I thought that the Thumbs community would find it interesting. As a husband and a father a lot of the decisions you're forced to make in this game left me with a knot in my stomach. Has anyone else tried it?

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    Also, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance hacked, slashed and butt rocked its way into my heart. 

    I've been a pretty big MG fan most of my life but I never played MGR. I'm listening to its buttrock-tastic soundtrack right now and it means that I will likely buy the game when it hits PC in the next week or so.

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    Question (and I haven't read before page 11 so i'm sorry if i'm retreading old ground).

     

    I'm a baby and have never played anything Tim Schaffer (except a short psychonauts run at a friend's house). Beyond that I have never played an adventure game outside of The Walking Dead season 1 (generally they seem unnecessarily 'goofy' which isn't something I gravitate towards).

     

    With that being the case, Broken Age looks phenomenal to me (for whatever reason).

     

    What adventure games, or Schaffer esc stuff would you guys recommend? I generally have difficulty playing older, less refined games, so I understand that may be an issue.

     

    Oh, also, to clarify; I don't dislike goofy, but I dislike when games do 'goofy' things without necessity. I was considering playing Kentucky Route Zero but I heard they had some oddly silly content (something about bears working in an office building) which seemed out of place compared to the aesthetic.

     

    Full Throttle is amazing. It's a point and click adventure game, so I don't think you'd have much difficulty adjusting to it as you'll basically just use your mouse. It does have a driving mechanic during a small portion of the game that is kind of funky, but the rest of the game is pretty tame in terms of control and you shouldn't have too much difficulty adjusting to it.

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    I recently built a PC (with a nice microATX case) to play PC games on in my living room and I've got a pretty comfortable set up going. I have it set up to boot right into Steam Big Picture Mode and I am using a wireless keyboard + mouse with a lapdesk-type thing from my couch. I have the receiver for the KB+M plugged into a USB extension cable which I've set up on the end of my entertainment center to help reduce the chance of any latency. I've been playing games like this for over a week now and even with shooters I'm not noticing any serious input lag.

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    I posted a bit more about it in its main thread, but I finally got around to finishing Tomb Raider (2013) last night and while it was fun, it was a pretty standard third person action game. The set pieces and production quality make it worth trying, at least.

     

    Over the weekend I played through The Stanley Parable and I pretty much fell in love with it. I went down every path I noticed during my first run, but I'm sure there are things I missed (I think I finished it in a little over two hours). I didn't know a thing about it going into it which I think made it that much more enjoyable. I highly recommend it.

     

    I ran through Game Dev Tycoon recently, as well. If you played Game Dev Story for iOS/Android it's pretty similar structurally, but you have a bit more control over a game's development process in this game and I think it's still worth a playthrough if you enjoy that type of game.

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    I finally got around to finishing this yesterday and I enjoyed it well enough. In terms of gameplay it was pretty by-the-books in regard to the third person action game genre, but it's completely carried by its outstanding production. I played it over a rather large span of time, which I think is because I got really bored trying to find every single tomb/artifact/journal entry. When I came back to it a week or so ago I just decided to play through the main game. With a game like this, lore and collectathons really do little for me so I stuck to the thing that I enjoyed most about the game; the set pieces. I think I finished the story with 66% of the game completed.

     

    I'd still recommend the game and I'd probably play a sequel to it some time after release because I had fun with it. It's just not something I see myself going back to.

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    http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/12/09/first-look-no-mans-sky/

     

    No Man’s Sky isn’t a multiplayer game, in as much as you’ll never see another player. But the galaxy is the same between everyone and actions of “significance” will be shared. If you kill a single bird, that won’t be shared. If you make an entire species of bird extinct, then those creatures will blink out of existence for everyone.

     

    Thank the heavens. I want a lonely space exploration game. I'm fine with SimCity/Dark Souls-esque online-but-not as long as it means that I don't have to actively interact with other humans.

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    Last night I was playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 and my daughter dragged her high chair in front of the TV and made me put her in it so she could pretend to drive. She kept saying "Truck! Truck!" and making gigantic steering motions with her arms while I drove through rural France listening to some Europop.

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    Is the class/speed of SD cards of importance for the 3DS, for loading times of games, or useful only for the icons in the system menu? The standard SD card in the 3DS is class 4 I believe, but it goes up to 10.

    I'm not sure; I didn't pay attention to any details about the SD card when I bought it, really. Games run perfectly smooth and I've been using the card since New Super Mario Bros. 2 released.

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    I think Netflix is a pretty sweet service. I've probably watched thousands of hours of content and I've rarely had any serious concerns with UI. I just want to watch stuff and it works for me. I literally never run out of things to watch that I'm actually interested in, either.

    Sorry about your issues, OP.

  20. Posted

    I have a 32GB SD card and I think it should handle my digital release needs for quite some times. I've bought three digital retail games and I've barely scratched the available space on my card (with my ambassador titles & a handful of other eShop games.

    In Fire Emblem news, I think this game is really great and I'm about four hours in. I opted for the casual mode because I'm hardly able to dedicate enough time to retry battles 90 times at this point in my life. In addition, perma-death modes in games such as these tend to motivate me to drive to the nearest beach and throw my 3DS into the Atlantic Ocean.

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    My point is that I just don't think there's any room for sexist comments, be them jokes or otherwise. The people who make them have obviously haven't been in a situation where comments like are constantly thrown toward them and are surrounded by media that paints them as inferior. Maybe I'm just turning into an old turd, but I don't think that every single topic is joke material.