I was playing it at work. Haven’t made to much progress, since I’ve forgotten things, but it’s solid. Probably one of the best mods I’ve played in forever.
Eli’s voice is kinda ass though. The other scientist’s was perfect.
Not sure where to talk about this and I doubt creating a new thread for it in GD would generate enough interest to keep the topic alive for longer than a couple days before getting bumped off the first page.
Anyways Obisidian announced a Kickstarter today called Project Eternity. It’s an homage to past Infinity Engine isometric RPGs like Baldur’s Gate, Fallout 1 & 2 and Planescape: Torment. Obsidian’s made up of mostly ex-Black Isle Studio employees so I expect the game to be nothing short of great. Tim Cain is also working on the project, he was part of the team that made Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.
I’ve already pledged $20 for a digital copy, it’s pretty much what I’ve wanted from a WRPG.
I’ll be more comfortable if that kickstarter was for raising funds for a quality QA team. Obisidian releases the buggest games around
The publisher is usually the one responsible for QA testing. New Vegas being buggy is a combination of the gamebryo engine Obsidian was forced to work with and Bethesda not giving a fuck in general. Obsidian made their own in-house engine for Dungeon Siege 3 and its much more stable.
New Vegas isn’t even the buggest release. Thinking about the wasted potential of Alpha Protocol. That game just didn’t work.
Alpha Protocol shouldn’t have been released, but unfortunately it was and is a blemish on their record. Its bugs was a result of mismanagement and Sega constantly changing the requirements of the game so new systems kept getting added before the old ones could get fixed. I’m not really surprised though, it’s Sega after all and don’t we have a 10 page thread full of people whining over Bayo 2 because Sega dropped the ball on that franchise?
Obsidian’s new South Park RPG is being published by THQ. THQ isn’t doing too hot either, but I never experienced any really bad bugs in Saints Row 3 or Darksiders 2. I think South Park will be the same.
The good thing about video game Kickstarters is developers do not have to worry about meeting the demands of meddling publishers or having to produce a working build every few months to show them and only have to answer to fans. Usually this just means the development stays transparent, with updates and behind the scene looks. I think including any sort of fan service would remain at a minimum and they only really consider the input from the big backers (1k+ reward tiers).
Anyways I’m not trying to shill the project or anything, just spreading the word around. CD Projeckt RED’s Cyberpunk won’t be out for another couple years and this lets Western RPG players know there’s more beyond the BioWare and Bethesda tripe. I still enjoy their games but Bioware is EA now, and they seem to focus more on action oriented gameplay and writing slash fiction. Bethesda you already know what you’re going to get from them, continuously simplifying their games since Morrowind. Fallout 4 is going to be Skyrim with guns.
Deus Ex Revolution: < $8.
Yea or nay?
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Yea.
Ive been playing Black Mesa. Its pretty freakin’ cool. I never played Half Life, only Half Life 2 and the other episodes in The Orange Box.
Is this gangland (lol, its not called that) game really free to play?
They want me to sign up on their site but its under billing 
Its F2P via steam
You talking about Crimecraft?
I liked as a teenager the PC platform too. As a kid I was fascinated by the Amiga computers. Some teens I used to visit had 500 and 2000 models and all those games were light years ahead from the NES I used to have. Even better than arcades in some cases. Some genres like Horror, Strategy, Adventure, RPG, Simulation etc were only possible on computers. Consoles were for kiddies and were edited. Consoles and arcades had to be censored. Even today.
Computers were 10 years ahead of consoles. In fact consoles became more sophisticated because they adopted traits of PC games. Even if only by a fraction.
Most recent game I played was the Blackwell Chronicles, an adventure game made in old point and click style and graphics. I wasnt an FPS fan and I never played an MMO.I was interested mostly in platformers (NES background), adventures (3rd person and point and click), sports (old school, not the current simulation ones), vertical shooters and fighters. Occasionally I played some RPGs.
now the gap seems to have been bridged. there are fare less console exclusives that make it worth to buy a system. Plus most of them are overpriced. So I might as well keep the PC.
In the 90s every platform had its exclusives (Windows PC, Amiga , Sega Genesis and Saturn, Nintendo SNES and 64, Sony Playstation etc) and everyone was happy. There was even a computer gaming scene in Japan till the mid-90s.
Now Nintendo insist on the same franchises, which began to wear out with Nintendo 64 already, Sony after the success of the PS2 insist on sequels, Sega are no more and wander aimlessly from platform to platform, Microsoft ruined PC gaming by transferring good franchises on consoles, making them inferior both in graphics and gameplay etc, hence the FPS infestation.
I leave gaming to the younger generation and stick with PC gaming which reserves places for teens and adults since the old days.
those PC games will be able to run on a PC for many years to come, even on newer machines. You can run old MS-DOS games or even Windows 95 games, though the latter have some issues with Direct3D acceleration. So buying a game now will probably last for a long time, certainly more than when you buy a console and it gets defective in 10 years and the next console is incompatible.
If support ceases, you have every right to bypass DRM. Even on Steam.
An example is the old game 7th Guest. You can even get an enhanced sound track for free in the Scummvm site. As emulation and virtualization software gets better and more precise the PC and its various operating systems will be able to host all those games without trouble. Like a museum.
While consoles will focus mainly on the newer games.
that worries me too. But in case that happens, thats why we have torrents. But in any case, I hold an unofficial backup copy for Steam games I like. I have all the games in a 3 TB external hard drive and a few of them (Assassin’s Creed 2 and Monkey Island HD remakes) refuse to run on a drive larger than 2 TB. No patches available despite my complaints. While Costume Quest and Stacking support solved those issues after I mentioned them. The bigger a company is, the harder it is to communicate with the users. It would be more suitable to have the games installed in separate folders. It can be done but it is inconvenient on Steam. I have to delete the game from the external hard drive or else it thinks I launch the game from there.
I certainly agree with you on the potential here: considering the high number of controller-friendly games on Steam, it essentially turns your PC into a console (and more).
Personally, I don’t see myself using it just because I don’t want to lug the PC I play games on to the TV. I also already have a computer connected to my PC that I watch videos and do computer stuff on (although not powerful enough to run most of the games I play).
But yeah, this is making a serious case for never buying a console again. Although if more companies like EA make their own Steam-like application, we’ll have an even more divided market place on PC than in the consoles.
thats the one
I just got to “blast pit.” Man, even if it is just a remake/mod, Black Mesa is probably going to be one of my GOTY…
Halflife 1 is quite literally the last good shooter to have ever been made, in my opinion (Borderlands doesn’t count, because hybrid).
Black Mesa is money flying out of my pocket.
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Yea IF it wasn’t free to play
It is free?
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Suckers!
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Unreal Tournament 2004 would like a word with you.
If you’re talking about story… then sure, HL1 was difficult to top.
Yeeeep. Barring nostalgia there is no reason to buy/play the original or Valve’s source version ever again.
Word, I wish more remakes would be free like this. The game (Black Mesa) is really freakin’ cool. This is another one of those really cool games that I missed out on because I didn’t have a PC…well, a PC capable of running games.
Some Black Mesa Gameplay
Spoiler
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I still haven’t checked out that Big Picture shit. I watched a video of someone using it and it does seem pretty cool. I guess its convenient if Im playing something with a controller and don’t want to switch back to the mouse and keyboard when I want to navigate Steam or type a message. Can that interface be used at any time? I mean, can I fire up Steam now (using my PC monitor) and use that UI?