Korax

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    Also.... DAWWW, the Steam critters are building a tree house! (Do they even have a name?)

    According to today's Summer Sale Group announcement, that black one with the magnifying glass is named Cyl, but that's the first I've ever seen them called anything.

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    Also, you can add and remove your full name to your profile apparently and still get the badge.

    You can also post a screenshot, comment on a friend's profile/screenshot, or recommend a game and then immediately delete the post and it will still count.

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    TELL TO ME GAMES WHICH I SHOULD BUY, AND I WILLST CONSIDER THEIR PURCHASE

    I tend to buy games I want right when they come out, so these sales are a good chance to minimize the risk and try games I wouldn't normally play. What sorts of not-usual games do all of you recommend?

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    I started it yesterday, and it's a great way to have fun so far. I like how chill most of the music is. It just lets you relax and play a weird game. I also like the way clothing works. You can layer on up to three (I think) different pieces, so you could wear a normal shirt, a vest on top of that, and a bowtie. Also, you can take off your pants and underwear and run around naked. So I've been doing that.

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    The good thing about Binary Domain is that the story is the pulpiest, most Tom Clancy rip-off stuff I have seen in a long time, and the overacting makes it absolutely wonderful. The gameplay itself is decent but nothing revolutionary in the realm of cover-based third-person shooters.

    Yeah just finished it myself, and I loved how much they just went for action/sci-fi cliche. It's very well done, played straight and without apology, and I found my self actually smiling and enjoying it when an extremely obvious thing happened.

    And look, Amazon's selling Steam codes for $10 right now, so it's not a big investment.

    Boateng, b*tches! Nuff said! :tup:

    That was sweeeeeeeeeet!

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    We knew they were cannibals immediately when they were offering a feast and only had one cow.

    That situation doesn't necessarily imply cannibalism to me. They're on a farm. The meal could have consisted of all sorts of other things that they had grown. I don't remember anyone using the word "feast," but practically anything at that point could have been a relative feast next to a couple packages of crackers and some jerky. And sure, at that time they only had one cow, but who's to say they didn't slaughter their stock at the beginning of the outbreak in order to preserve the meat and prevent the care of the animals from becoming a liability? The success of that would be questionable depending on how the story's world treats it, but I would say it's a reasonable course of action.

    But, yes, being versed in zombie narratives does raise some signals that can telegraph those events. Like I said earlier, I thought it was going to be a zombie-husband, being kept and fed because they refuse to believe he's really gone. That one has been done far more in what I'm familiar with, so that was my immediate conclusion-jump.

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    :sombrero: Putting the plank in his back pocket

    This was a ridiculous favorite of mine. I guess the axe also disappears to somewhere mysterious, but seeing Lee reach back and vanish the plank behind him highlighted its game-ness

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    Just finished Episode 2, and it didn't disappoint.

    I really liked the early-episode conversation interruption. It happened so quickly, and at a point where I felt safe enough that I wasn't actually sure what was going on for a few seconds.

    I'm also glad that I'm hating characters because of their attitudes and how they act towards me, and not because they're shitty characters. Almost every time Lilly talked to me, I would respond myself with a "Fuck you, you asshole!" in addition to whatever in-game reactions there were. I only ever talked to her when it seemed absolutely necessary. And though I know I would have brained Larry anyway, the way he acted helped to make the decision a much more quick one.

    I'm also interested to see where Kenny's going, because his talk of "taking over" the farm, being the better leader, etc. is a bit unsettling to me, and it's going to make it harder to side with him if he keeps doing things like that.

    With the way Andy was avoiding having to talk about it, and the claim that there were strange noises, I had it in my mind that the locked room in the barn was going to be a sort of kennel for the zombified farmer husband/father who was being kept and fed captured survivors. The whole cannibalism thing is much more interesting, and the added wrinkle that you have to keep people alive so they don't "spoil" makes it all the more disturbing.

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    The last patch mitigated the problems with low character caps by adding a way to train characters into the next level cap tier (or something like that, haven't played it again since the update). That pretty much takes care of my biggest early-game complaint.

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    I'm having a good time with it so far, but there's a bit of a problem with the game not explaining things to you. I'm okay with having to figure out some things, like crafting and using implants/boosters on characters. Those are easy enough to understand after a minute of digging around the character menus. Then there are things like how characters have a max level (5 or 10) that's not the game's true level cap (15, I think). Nothing came up to tell me this. I just noticed that character's hadn't leveled in a while, and that they weren't gaining any more experience when killing things. Now, it's easy enough to hire a new guy with a higher level cap, and doesn't really take much grinding to bring them up to speed, but the system wasn't explained or presented in an obvious enough way that I could figure out what was happening until I had pretty much hit the wall where enemies became to strong to defeat without heavy losses.

    Another thing I really like, though, is the music. It's some great old-school sci-fi synth that fits, but is also kind of dissonant when playing behind the brightly-colored art style.

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    I played the intro level, and so far, it's a Suda51 game. Killing greaser zombies with a chainsaw while Joan Jett & Toni Basil play in the background, all covered in a bright candy coating. I'm finding the controls a little bit awkward, but hey, Suda51.

    I really like how a lot of the violence is kind of Lisa-Franked: your chainsaw trails a rainbow as it cuts through the air, and zombies evaporate into multicolored sparkles when they die.

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    Pages don't drop until Nightmare, Tomes of Jewelcrafting/Blacksmithing drop in Hell, and then there are Tomes of Secrets in Inferno (I assume). I've maxed Shen for Hell, and am close with the blacksmith.

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    I've got my account linked to an authenticator, and haven't had anything happen to me yet, but a friend using Blizz's call-in authentication had his account broken into, and then found out that the call-in one apparently doesn't link to Diablo 3 in some way. So, heads up, maybe.