Irishjohn

I've only listened to a couple of their podcasts after plugs on Idle Thumbs. This could be interesting. I'm particularly interested in the introduction of a specific forum.

Yeah, I'm similarly conflicted. I think they really should have stuck to their guns. If this results in more paid-for DLC... well, I'll be pretty cynical. Not that I expect DLC of any reasonable quality to be available free, mind you. It just becomes difficult to know how they address the ending without creating DLC and that leaves the question open of when such DLC would really have been conceived... All very weird, really.

I avoided the whole problem by keeping all my people alive except for one character not involved in the shooting and the space magic. So, boring scanning done ad nauseum to make sure I get all the ship upgrades for the win, it seems. I am more than halfway through the game, I think, and it is really picking up steam. Still no ME:2, which I really really liked, but by no means a travesty on the level of Dragon Age 2. Man, that game still upsets me. I will probably go back and play all three games back to back after this, mainly because I have been a goody two-shoes throughout and I look forward to playing this epic space trilogy as the biggest Space Asshole going.

Welcome, guys! Nice to have you here.

Yeah, I mean even if they do sell at a loss, what price would it be? I would think they'd be almost working miracles to sell it at original PS3 prices. I know you'd be getting a heck of a lot more bang for your buck, but still. I'd be interested though. I use a laptop exclusively, but I wouldn't mind being able to relax a little the next time I buy a laptop and not have to try and get a gaming-capable machine knowing I have the Steam Box at home. Then again, not sure if Indie games alone could get me through the long research trips. It's pretty bloody exciting though. Half-Life 3 as launch title?

Congratulations mate! Great news.

Yeah... please don't do that. It's just fine the way it has been. I assume the 100k is going to more Wizard songs, by the way. 800% more Wizard.

I just want to point out that the fact that this conversation is happening is a bit part of why I like this forum. People are in disagreement, but arguments are being made in a mature, adult way. I know that we should take that as a minimum, but hey this is the Internet. Nach, it was a wonderful post and I'm glad you wrote it. There are guys who've been here for years. I've been commenting for a while and lurking around before and since. This is the only forum I ever participate in with any kind of regularity, and I am delighted that people care about this community enough to have this debate. As for moving on and back to other "life" matters... I'm pretty tired from work and I'm spending my weekend feeding this sudden and unexpected addiction to Terraria. So, life is good.

Cheers for all the brilliant advice!!! Getting excited about it again now, particularly for Planescape.

I really want it to be possible to type in "wub wub" in the PC game and get all the guns in the game. But then have them taken away somehow, because I would have then ruined the game for myself.

Hey guys, I have a question about D&D RPGs from the turn of the century. I guess this counts as backlog? Feel free to disabuse me of this notion if I'm pulling substances out of my ass. I took advantage of the GOG sale, or most recent GOG sale, on D&D games yesterday. I now have Baldur's Gate 2 and Planescape: Torment, two games that I never played but have heard a lot about. I've played tabletop RPGs so I'm not really bothered by all the dice roll stats, and I get that they didn't do hover stat things then, but I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing. In BGII, I released a fighter, couldn't find her a weapon, and then she died in the next room. I know I'm being a baby here, but is that it? Is she gone? I'm suddenly having flashbacks to saving ALL THE TIME. Anyway, any advice on these games (mods, tips, tricks) would be great. In other news, I finally discovered QWOP. Not what I was expecting.

Ok, just contributed and now I have a big smile on my face. Delighted the band is back together.

Completely right. I'm not sure anything could live up to my memories of playing Syndicate when it came out anyway. Including the original Syndicate. Funny though, I'm not really interested in FPS games at the moment. Maybe it's the imminent arrival of Mass Effect 3, but I'm all about the RPGing at the moment. I don't see myself playing Syndicate until maybe there's a sale on Steam... oh, wait.

Oh man, I can't believe I missed this until this morning. I feel a little ridiculous for this, but I'm kind of sad I wasn't able to contribute to help reach the target. Still, the podcast is getting my money. Delighted that it's coming back!

Yes! Thanks for that. I actually laughed out loud. I was amused beyond acronyms.

Ok, that's encouraging... Not sure where I got the impression that DOTA 2 would be accessible, maybe I'm just getting it mixed up with LOL, or Blizzard DOTA? I have zero experience of the original DOTA.

I might finally dip my toe a bit later. A few nights of LOL and I didn't feel a lot of grief. Admittedly, I was mostly ignoring people outside of broad strategy. I played more than one game where the other two guys just took off doing their own thing. I understand that DOTA 2 is (at least partly) and attempt to keep this kind of game reasonably approachable for people who won't be playing it for extended periods? Hopefully that would mean the input of people like myself (who, more than ever, can probably not spend more than an hour or two at a time on any one game and can rarely play the same game three days in a row) would actually be useful.

I just got an invite as well. I've played LOL a little bit. Signed up for the beta before work got nuts. I'll probably try and play a bit this weekend though. And get killed frequently.

I had a different reaction. The games cancelled each other out and now I play neither. Nuts. Though, to be fair, work has been busy and I'm just not playing much of anything.

I wish I had tips but I'm so inexperienced. Maybe Dominion? People say it's good, and it builds skills in lateral thinking and the like. I'm a bit of kid myself, I think; I love the miniatures but I'd love games that don't need too many cards and tokens and the like. I'm coming around to it now with the excellent Mage Knight, but it's been a bit of a barrier to entry for me.

Yeah, I agree. I just need people to play it with! To be honest, I've just got into this and I already have a game that hasn't been played in ages (Castle Ravenloft). I also have plenty of games I happily paid full price for, played for about twelve hours of gameplay and moved on. If you got a good group together to play Risk: Legacy, those fifteen sessions would be worth it. Also, I couldn't bring myself to tear cards though. I think I'd just put them in a baggie marked USED or something, or even put them in a box somewhere else in the house.

Loving the thread title. I'm pretty excited about this game I must say, although my experience was limited to a few hours of RE:5 and a declaration to an empty room that I wasn't having fun. Zombie president! You can't handle the truth! Parcourt (that will probably suck)! Edgy mercenary character! And so on!! Not sure how I feel about the gameplay at this point but we'll see what turns up.

Good job mate. I got 2:1s for a lot of my undergrad and finally made a push in my final year for the first. Now I have three bloody university degrees! Slow and steady wins the race, don't knock it!

Yeah, I've gotten into board games very recently, and now I need to find a third person so I can play this! I've read a couple of good reviews but now I need to ignore everything about it until I have a chance to play it. If that ever happens. Sigh. Also, Mage Knight is bloody amazing. As somebody who has only gotten into board games (other than Scrabble or Monopoly) only very recently, I can't recommend it highly enough.

Yeah, me too, and I've never thought of myself as a hardcore RPG guy, at all. I wanted to play as a thief but have basically become a kleptomaniac mage with a decent fire spell who is otherwise rubbish at fighting. Speaking of which, I was kind of enjoying combat a little, then got to a point where I died a couple of times in a dungeon and promptly made combat novice so I could get to content. I find the combat so boring there is absolutely no incentive at all for me to bother having it at any level above novice. I did that immediately with Oblivion but assumed I'd stick with normal this time, only to go back to making combat as much of a formality as possible. Am I alone in this?