Go to newegg and look at cases. Read the reviews or whatever they are and freakin’ decided which case you want.
Anyway, started playing Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2. Its very pretty.
man please give us an in depth review because I am dying to know if the game is good.
I’m very worried by how hard they were trying to pump up those sales numbers
Lords of Shadow 2 impression
[details=Spoiler]It’s alright. The combats really fun, fast and responsive, and you have a good selection of moves for all 3 weapons. the 3 weapons have good unique behavior to giving them all their own feel, and cool unique properties like the Void Sword can freeze people or slow them down by partial freezing them, the Claws can bypass armor and shields as well as break them, and has a lot of guard stagger techniques. The bosses are pretty much all fun to fight. Combats the highlight of the game imo. You can even turn the QTE-ish style rings off if you don’t want to bother with them. You also get some cool powers like the ability to turn into mist to bypass gates or dodge moves (By the end of the game i was mixing up parry and mist to deal with normal attacks and dodge unblockables which was pretty dope) and a bat swarm for stunning an enemy in place to keep from being double teamed by two big guys for example. Lot of combat consumables with various effects as well.
There’s exploration, tho it’s kinda light. The locations are big and wandering off the intended path usually rewards you with something like a life or magic gem for powering up your health or magic meters. I like the pan-able camera, lets me get the angle I want, or just looks at the environment. I think the environments are most pretty cool to, the modern city with large Gothic aesthetics is cool, and the Castle itself usually looks pretty great to.
Oh also the Stealth Sections are whatever. they are neither good, nor bad, they are just kinda…there. They take like two minutes a piece and are easy as fuck. Probably should have removed them and just a put a fight in their place but they don’t bother me too much personally cuz they are simple and easy and don’t get into the way for very long (aside from section later in the game involving leaves, that one is ass plain and simple.)
The story is disappointing tho sadly. It meanders, has plot threads that don’t get closed, or just feel hollow, and the ending is pretty disappointing. It also gets off to a bit of a slow start with this laboratory section that’s not terrible attractive an environment, and moves at a pretty slow pace.
I like the music, but it’s more orchestrated stuff like the first game, so if you didn’t like the first games OST you’ll probably not like this one either.
If you’re into action games with fun, quick paced combat and cool boss fights then you’ll find something to like here, but if you need the whole package in order to like a game then you’ll probably feel burned in some way. The weakest element imo is the story, which is too bad cuz they had a really awesome launching point for it after LOS1, but from the sounds of things internal development issues got in the way and some stuff suffered for it. Stupid stealth sections man…they’re just in the way.[/details]
Thanks crotch, I figure as long as the combat is tight it’ll be amusing to grab like half off or something.
Are there any games similar to Long Live the Queen? I really liked that game, but it doesn’t have that much replay value.
Im not good at reviewing a game. Shit feels like god of war to me.
Steam family sharing is out of beta and out in the wild. The release has been kept under the radar.
The genre is called Life Simulators/Simulations.
There’s the Princess Maker series, which was actually designed by Gainax (yes, the Evangelion/Kill La Kill/Gurren Lagann Gainax). The 2nd one is the only one I’ve played (it’s now freeware, since the company who made it went bankrupt before the English release) and I really enjoyed it.
Your best bet is checking out other stuff from Hanako Games, the people who made Long Live the Queen. They also make Cute Knight, which is very similar (but has actual combat) and Magical Diary, which is more in-depth but not as polished. I’d love to see Cute Knight on Steam.
There’s another company called Winter Wolves who has an interesting looking game on Greenlight called Spirited Heart, but I haven’t played it yet, despite owning a copy from a bundle. Unfortunately, the graphics and presentation aren’t very good on any of these.
I’d love to see someone make a less cutesy version of something like this. Princess Maker 2 had some pretty mature subtexts in it (for example, you could make your foster daughter work at a sleazy nightclub, and if raised improperly she could become a prostitute, the ruler of hell, or a crime boss) and Long Live the Queen had, well… a shit-ton of insane moeblob death in it, but they all just need something more.
Bad Company 2 is only $5. Expansion is like $4.
One of the best FPS games from last-gen, it and BFBC1 were too good.
The Type Cover is a necessity if you have a Surface.
As for retro style games, I’ve enjoyed Divekick, FEZ, Bit Trip games, Monaco, Super Crate Box, Stealth Bastard, and especially Guacamelee and Spelunky. There’s many more that I have heard great things about and are worth getting but that’s what I own and enjoy so far.
Like Dwarf Fortress? (do we have a thread for that here? That’s an FGC mentality-esque game lololol)
Those fucking Vietnam maps were off the fucking chain. Once those maps came out I never played another of the original maps again. I want more maps like that.
Absolutely loved BC1, fantastic game. I’m guessing no one plays BC2 online anymore though. What else is there to do in it besides Campaign and Online?
Yaiba Ninja Gaiden Z is finally on steam.
No pre-order though.
How do I open Tex Murphy games through my steam library? When I add them to my library and click the shortcut from my steam library I get 2 ddos boxes, but when I go to mydocuments and click on the game files from the GOG folder it works fine.
Humble Weekly Sale on Sega Games
Pay $1 or more - Alpha Protocol, Company of Heroes, Rome: Total War, & Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit
Pay more than $5.99 - 10 Classic SEGA Genesis Games, Medieval II: Total War, The Typing of The Dead: Overkill, Binary Domain, & Renegade Ops
Pay more than $14.99 - Total War: SHOGUN 2
Not a fan of the RTS genre, but I could see myself giving in sometime within the week depending on my mood. Wouldn’t mind playing Binary Domain & Renegade Ops again & trying out Typing of the Dead & Alpha Protocol for as low as $6. Germany gets Sonic All Stars Transformed in place of Typing of the Dead. Had we gotten the same it would’ve been an instant sale, no question.
PSA: The keys are assigned by tiers, so gifting dupes not possible :sad:.
I already own the games I’m interested in from that Sega bundle. If gifting shit becomes the norm for Humble Bundle than I’ll be buying less bundles.
So decided to go in on GOGs Luck of the Irish sale, got Hotline Miami, Spelunky, Avadon 2, and Unepic and decided to yolo on a Pot of Gold and got Painkiller: Black Edition. Sweet.
Bump.
Also I have Mass Effect 1 and 2 on disc is there any way to transfer those saves to the steam versions of the game?
They finally patched Strider for the full-screen scaling bug. I foolishly bought it day one, got affected by the bug, and decided to put it on the backburner 'til they fixed it.
Playing on hard difficulty per everyone’s suggestion. It’s nothing frustrating, but I have died more than a few times already (the lifebar display is fairly deceptive when just glancing up at it). Compared to Strider 2, it feels odd controlling Hiryu with no double-jump. I kinda like it though, makes me more careful when jumping at flying enemies or dodging as I can’t correct myself mid-jump.
Being able to swap the analog/d-pad functions makes the PC version worth the wait (for the patch) over the console ones imo.