Utterly Mad

Playin' the Mad Max game a lot these days.

I really like it. It's not perfect, the ground combat is essentially a less flashy Batman: Arkham fighting style with more suplexes and arm breakage, and they don't really make the enemies noticeably tougher, they just send more of them, but I looove the car combat. Side-ramming, slicing with barbed wire on your tires, flamethrowers, big pieces of rebar with explosives attached to the front, it's just crazy over-the-top and fun. Destroying convoys is one of my favorite things ever.

Unless there are metal grinders in the convoy. FUCK THOSE GUYS.

"Oh here it comes, THE MIGHTY DUSTER!"

Quote from: Perigrin on September 19, 2015, 07:49:08 pm

FEAR has some of the best gunplay EVER on the PC. Graphics are still ok, and its spooky as hell.

Yeah it was weird, because all I heard about with FEAR when it first came out was "LOLOMGGUIS ALMA IS SOOO SCURY! THIS GAME IS SOUPERSCURY GAIES!". Like nearly every video I watched never commented on the gunplay, the bullet time, or anything like that. It was always about that little shit Alma. I'll be honest, outside of two segments so far (1. Where she crawls at you in those tunnels, and the other where you go down the ladder and fucking Fettel appears as soon as you get to the bottom) I'm not all that scared. They say they were inspired by Japanese Horror, but watching a little girl slowly walk towards me down a hallway is scary only for so long.

Besides I got a shotgun, this little shit can get rekt by my shotgun.

Seriously this Shotgun is literally the best shotgun I've ever played with. You shoot someone and it tears off limbs, they go flying, you can take out multiple people at the same time. I've never used a shotgun that's actually felt this much like a shotgun before. That and that one gun that shoots nails at people is also equally badass.

 

FEAR was SO fun to play the gunplay, and had ~4 moments where I got so spooked I had to take a break. (That bit in the tunnels, the ghost telling you that you don't know your name, the first few corridors in the office building, and that bit with the fucking ladder.) The Pistols are punchy and satisfying, the shotgun is a godlike implement of death, and the penetrator was fucking awesome.

For some reason I can't access the Max upgrade screen in MM. I can upgrade my car and look at the other parts of the pause screen, and I've already made it through the halfway point/Jaw or whatever, but that screen is still blacked out.

Hacknet on steam. I finally feel like a l33t hax00r.

Since I'm moving house in a couple of days i was going through all the shit I own and found a manual for Bioshock 2, with no sign of the disc anywhere (I bought it years ago and stuff like CD's tend to disappear on me), however there was a key on it so I put it into Steam, and it worked and got Minerva's den for free with it.

So been playing a bit of that
Also been playing a bit of dawn of war:soulstorm (with the ultimate apocalypse mod)

Once again I've returned to Dwarf Fortress, namely the for- City of StasisWhips.

I realized that I picked the wrong guy to be sheriff:


He also got absolutely brutalized in the siege... my first ever siege. I sent a bunch of peasants to their doom, only he survived because the Hammerlords ran in and stopped the bowman goblin from finishing him off.

I got a baby killed, because the macegoblin bashed its head into tomato sauce... the mother bled out with that being the last image she saw.

Dwarf Fortress. Again. I noticed after retiring a fort that legends mode says that the dwarves of my fort "regained their senses after an initial period of questionable judgement."
I love the idea that the player is seen as an unseen senseless force by the legends mode, some kind of incompetent boob playing puppets with the lives of the dorfs.

Quote from: saltmummy626 on November 04, 2015, 09:34:26 pm

Dwarf Fortress. Again. I noticed after retiring a fort that legends mode says that the dwarves of my fort "regained their senses after an initial period of questionable judgement."
I love the idea that the player is seen as an unseen senseless force by the legends mode, some kind of incompetent boob playing puppets with the lives of the dorfs.

It makes you wonder if what it says changes depending on how 'well' you played the fort, like retiring it once it gains enough wealth or becomes legendary to the dwarves.

Also I thought it was confirmed that we play as Armok, controlling people and adventurers at random for our amusement. I mean half the people I go up against in adventure mode makes my PC cry in fear.

I don't know about the Armok thing, but your theory about it changing depending on how well you ran the fort might be something. I recall this fort had an undead siege that wiped out all living things bringing my fort down to 3 dwarves (a fishery worker, a child, and a metal worker) from its once lofty 76 and then a second wave of undead which was crushed via the power of a giant ostrich cock, his sidekick honeybadger, and his retinue of terrified one humped camels.

I have since reclaimed the fort (I only retired it to look into legends mode) so that I might begin "The Ostrich Project." I have no idea what the project entails, all I know is that I have several ostriches stuffed into a single cage, and I need to do something productive with them. I believe the idea was to fully domesticate them, but I'm not sure.

On a related note, I'd like it to be known that I fucking love this game sometimes.