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Any of you guys play Goat Simulator? That shit is tight.
Onderzeeboot
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Goat Simulator? What's up with that. I saw an ad for it on Steam, but surprisingly enough I wasn't intrigued by the concept. Am I missing out?
Onderzeeboot
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OMFGWTFBBQ! I just watched some gameplay footage and saw a guy latch onto a hangglider with his tongue. This is not the game I thought it would be.
Man, it's great. I mean, I dunno how much I'd pay for it, I've got it cuz of steam sharing. So you're a goat, and you get to run around and do goat things. It's hard to explain why it's fun... it's completely unrealistic, for one thing. You break everything, run around headbutting people and making stuff blow up. It's like gta but you're a goat. It's terribly coded, so sometimes it'll bug out, and that's part of the fun. You can ride bicycles if you find them, but the controls are impossible. Stuff happens and you don't know why. I did something and for the rest of the time I kept spotting goats falling from the sky. Dunno why. The gravity seems to get weaker the more points you get, and actually it becomes really hard to control. When I play video games I usually waste lots of time larking about and trying to climb stuff. That kind of thing is the whole point of this game.
How about Enemy Territory? A friend of mine just reminded me about that one and I downloaded it again. Great game.
How about Enemy Territory? A friend of mine just reminded me about that one and I downloaded it again. Great game.
hahaha! That fuckin hangglider! I haven't caught it yet >:C didn't try to like it yet though, I've been going way up into the air just trying to headbutt it.
Onderzeeboot
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Ok. Added to my wishlist. This game is crazy ^_^
I spend all my video game time... playing card games. War of Omens and SolForge, specifically.
I wish I'da mentioned em on here when the Humble Bundle had starter packs for those games. Well, at least they're F2P, so nothing's stopping you from checkin em out.
War of Omens just does everything right with the UI. You never go through a tutorial that explicitly tells you "every time you play a card, your deck is shuffled. do you get it? alright, now click OK to continue." - you just KNOW that it does that because you can SEE it happening each time you play or buy a card.
Speaking of which, WoO has really sweet deckbuilder mechanics that only could be done online. In person the shuffling would be just too much work. Check how these two things interact:
It's just super slick all around. I don't proselytize for it much, though, because as yet there is no way to challenge a friend to a friendly match - you have to both hop into PVP at the same time and hope to run into each other. If/when they add that, you can bet your butts that I want to see you all in there. I play it on Kongregate, but people who love DRM and hate chatrooms can play it on Steam.
Solforge... not much to say about it. It's like Magic... constructed decks, math porn, etc. Bombs/finishers tend to be less surprising, though, because cards level up when you play them, so when your opponent plays their big bad level 3 whatever, you saw level 1 and level 2 versions of it already and you know what to expect. Draw 5 fresh cards each turn (no "pocket", sadly), play 2 of them. If you do play this one, you start out with shit-ass cards and gain new ones kinda slowly. I'd recommend logging into Kaelari's Ladder and asking someone to gift you a playset of commons and uncommons... people are pretty generous with those, and most of em are playable.
I wish I'da mentioned em on here when the Humble Bundle had starter packs for those games. Well, at least they're F2P, so nothing's stopping you from checkin em out.
War of Omens just does everything right with the UI. You never go through a tutorial that explicitly tells you "every time you play a card, your deck is shuffled. do you get it? alright, now click OK to continue." - you just KNOW that it does that because you can SEE it happening each time you play or buy a card.
Speaking of which, WoO has really sweet deckbuilder mechanics that only could be done online. In person the shuffling would be just too much work. Check how these two things interact:
- Every time you buy or play a card (with some exceptions), that card goes into your deck and your deck gets shuffled. This means that even when the cards you choose to play are no-brainers, any kid could pilot your deck, etc... the sequencing is still VERY important, especially when you're playing an All Cantrips deck, because every action you take manipulates the probabilities of your next draw.
- You draw 3 cards from your deck every turn, but your hand size is 4. So every turn, you can (and generally should) "pocket" one card in your hand to improve your odds of drawing better cards from your deck. You can't autopilot that decision either, because you might want to play all your coins and buy something with it this round, or you might even pocket an early-game card and play your basic coins into your deck so that you can buy expensive late-game cards a tad faster.
It's just super slick all around. I don't proselytize for it much, though, because as yet there is no way to challenge a friend to a friendly match - you have to both hop into PVP at the same time and hope to run into each other. If/when they add that, you can bet your butts that I want to see you all in there. I play it on Kongregate, but people who love DRM and hate chatrooms can play it on Steam.
Solforge... not much to say about it. It's like Magic... constructed decks, math porn, etc. Bombs/finishers tend to be less surprising, though, because cards level up when you play them, so when your opponent plays their big bad level 3 whatever, you saw level 1 and level 2 versions of it already and you know what to expect. Draw 5 fresh cards each turn (no "pocket", sadly), play 2 of them. If you do play this one, you start out with shit-ass cards and gain new ones kinda slowly. I'd recommend logging into Kaelari's Ladder and asking someone to gift you a playset of commons and uncommons... people are pretty generous with those, and most of em are playable.
Shovel Knight was a recent favorite. I'm currently playing Fire Emblem: Awakening for 3DS. Loving it so far.
I'm bad about actually finishing games. Games I intend to go back to and play more/finish:
Resident Evil 4
Final Fantasy VI
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Earthbound
Starcraft 2
Diablo 3
X-COM: Enemy Unknown
Civilization 4
...and some day, I will beat Super Mario Bros. 2. It will happen.
The game that I am most excited for:
Seriously, I cannot fucking wait for that shit.
I'm bad about actually finishing games. Games I intend to go back to and play more/finish:
Resident Evil 4
Final Fantasy VI
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Earthbound
Starcraft 2
Diablo 3
X-COM: Enemy Unknown
Civilization 4
...and some day, I will beat Super Mario Bros. 2. It will happen.
The game that I am most excited for:
Seriously, I cannot fucking wait for that shit.
Sweet list! Those are all classics.
Diablo 3 was just okay when it came out a few years ago, but post patch (i.e. Reaper of Souls) it's some of the most fun co-op multiplayer I've played since World of Warcraft. The endgame becomes a grind, but everything leading up to that was very satisfying and streamlined.
I'm a huge fan of my 3DS right now as well. The ability to close the console and have the game automatically suspended, no questions asked, is invaluable. I just bought Shovel Knight for it, and recently played through Ocarina of Time on it for the first time, which holds up surprisingly well.
Civ 4? There's a Civ 5, man! ...I'm not really one to talk, cause I've had my boxed copy of Civ 4 for nine years, and never really started playing it. Then I just said to heck with it and bought Civ 5 when it went on sale recently and played that instead.
Resident Evil 4 is one of the very few games that I've purchased more than once - first for the GameCube, and then again a few years later for the Wii when I felt like replaying it, with the motion control gimmick. Man, typing about that makes me want to dig out my Wii and play through it again.
Diablo 3 was just okay when it came out a few years ago, but post patch (i.e. Reaper of Souls) it's some of the most fun co-op multiplayer I've played since World of Warcraft. The endgame becomes a grind, but everything leading up to that was very satisfying and streamlined.
I'm a huge fan of my 3DS right now as well. The ability to close the console and have the game automatically suspended, no questions asked, is invaluable. I just bought Shovel Knight for it, and recently played through Ocarina of Time on it for the first time, which holds up surprisingly well.
Civ 4? There's a Civ 5, man! ...I'm not really one to talk, cause I've had my boxed copy of Civ 4 for nine years, and never really started playing it. Then I just said to heck with it and bought Civ 5 when it went on sale recently and played that instead.
Resident Evil 4 is one of the very few games that I've purchased more than once - first for the GameCube, and then again a few years later for the Wii when I felt like replaying it, with the motion control gimmick. Man, typing about that makes me want to dig out my Wii and play through it again.
Civ IV is much, much more fun than civ 5. Especially when you get into mods. Hell, Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire is more fun than civ 5.
Beyond Earth might be okay, but civ 5 turned me off so bad that for me, the "next civ game" after 4 is Endless Legend with its weird sci-fantasy flavor and interesting tactical battles between units that are fought right on the main overworld map.
Onderzeeboot
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+1 for Endless Legend. I love the custom races you can design as well, which uses a point buy system to acquire traits. Nice thing is there are traits that aren't used by the core races.
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I gotta say, the Wii U is much better than I thought it would be. Mario Kart 8 is the best racing Mario Kart experience ever. The controls are tight and the boost system feels natural and rewarding. Online play is fun and painless, the only downside would be the lack of a proper battle-mode, which detracts from the couch-play value considerably. 100% of our multiplayer play for Mario Kart 64 was spent battling, and I kind of miss it.
Both 4 player Mario games are great with a full sofa of players. New Super Mario Bros U is actually pretty frustrating with 2 players, but with 4 players the frustration of bumping into each other constantly somehow transforms into giggling and fun chaos. New Super Mario 3D World works perfectly as a 1-, 2- or 4- player experience (and, uh, 3-player), and is super polished.
The Wii U, like the Wii, is plagued by an utter lack of inspiring third-party support.
I recently borrowed a friend's DS SD card with dozens of games on it and found most of the games to be fairly boring. My girlfriend and I resorted to just dueling in Tetris DS for hours on end instead of playing any other games.
Both 4 player Mario games are great with a full sofa of players. New Super Mario Bros U is actually pretty frustrating with 2 players, but with 4 players the frustration of bumping into each other constantly somehow transforms into giggling and fun chaos. New Super Mario 3D World works perfectly as a 1-, 2- or 4- player experience (and, uh, 3-player), and is super polished.
The Wii U, like the Wii, is plagued by an utter lack of inspiring third-party support.
I recently borrowed a friend's DS SD card with dozens of games on it and found most of the games to be fairly boring. My girlfriend and I resorted to just dueling in Tetris DS for hours on end instead of playing any other games.
Is the 3DS worth owning yet? What games do you guys actually like on it?
Also, I've been wanting an Xbox One, vaguely, but the only game I really really want (Master Chief Collection) is borked as fuck, by all accounts.
Also, I've been wanting an Xbox One, vaguely, but the only game I really really want (Master Chief Collection) is borked as fuck, by all accounts.
Onderzeeboot
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I own a regular DS. Can heartily recommend any of the Professor Layton game if you're into puzzels, and I can heartily recommend Henry Hatsworth and the Puzzling Adventure if you're into platformers.
Edit: Oh, and Yoshi's Island DS was fun as well, and Kirby is awesome of course!
Edit: Oh, and Yoshi's Island DS was fun as well, and Kirby is awesome of course!
No comment on smash bros?
I've only played it very briefly, I don't know, the magic isn't there. I will say it's pretty terrible to watch. To me the Smash series will always have Melee (and to a lesser extent 64) looming over it. I played Melee a few weeks ago with a friend, and the game still exists, and I still have a blast playing it.
For me it's hard to say. In college we had a ton of fun playing 64, and in the grand scheme of things we were fairly scrubby. We tried our hardest, but we had fun in a very innocent way.
Then we discovered the competitive Melee community, started watching videos, practicing wavelanding, pushing ourselves. None of us wanted to play in tournaments, but the game was so deep and rewarding.
I'm having difficulty articulating here, but for me to enjoy Smash 4 I think I'd have to just treat it as an entirely new franchise. As a light skill-based party game. For now the other games I own are satiating that niche, so I haven't really felt the need to buy Smash 4. I'll probably get it under peer pressure eventually, but for now I'm holding off.
Yeah, Wii U sadly gets a bad rap, even though it's likely the best console for couch-multiplayer out there. Smash Bros. is fantastic.
Even Nintendoland is filled with many, many hours of solid gameplay. The Animal Crossing themed mini-game "Sweet Day" is a favorite of ours.
I've thoroughly enjoyed my 3DS, but to be honest, I'll probably be selling it soon. Some of the games I had on there that I played through:
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (this was quite good, if a tad easy)
Super Mario 3D Land
Mario Kart 7
Shovel Knight
Fire Emblem: Awakening
Cave Story 3D
All good stuff, so if those sort of games interest you it's worth it. Huge online store of old games, too. I have since downloaded an NES and SNES emulator to my ipad with basically every rom (you can connect a wii remote via Bluetooth) so there's really no reason for me to buy old games on there anymore.
Even Nintendoland is filled with many, many hours of solid gameplay. The Animal Crossing themed mini-game "Sweet Day" is a favorite of ours.
I've thoroughly enjoyed my 3DS, but to be honest, I'll probably be selling it soon. Some of the games I had on there that I played through:
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (this was quite good, if a tad easy)
Super Mario 3D Land
Mario Kart 7
Shovel Knight
Fire Emblem: Awakening
Cave Story 3D
All good stuff, so if those sort of games interest you it's worth it. Huge online store of old games, too. I have since downloaded an NES and SNES emulator to my ipad with basically every rom (you can connect a wii remote via Bluetooth) so there's really no reason for me to buy old games on there anymore.
Onderzeeboot
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Goat Simulator is bonkers.
Man, this thread is blowing up. It's almost like there's a large crossover between gamers and MTG players.
Due to a weird shipping error I'll be buying Smash 4 from a Dutch colleague tomorrow at a deep discount. It'll be a birthday present to myself.
