I hate it when I can see the first few words of an answer in my "Inbox" on SE, but can't actually click to read the full thing because it's since been deleted
I didn't terribly care for infamous, probably won't play infamous 2. The story was good, and I liked the general feel, but the controls were just a mess, esp coming from things like AC and PoP
@BoltClocksaUnicorn Crack in Time is what we're talking about, I finished the first R&CF game last week or so, started in on Crack In Time this past weekend
@tiddy Crack in Time is somewhat tedious to play, but maybe that's just because the controls feel really different from Tools of Destruction and the PS2 series.
@tiddy yeah, the cloning clyde-style time puzzles are fun. I was playing that in front of my step-FIL, and he was just confused by the whole thing - "how many times are you going to have to step on that switch?"
@BoltClocksaUnicorn oh, I really like the spaceship parts. I think the little planets are a cool idea. Very self contained, and each one's got its own challenges. I always do those first.
@tiddy I've got the demo installed, but waiting for a quiet moment to play it. Right now I've got crack in time during the day, witcher 2 in the early evening, and then dungeon defenders later in the evening. schedule's pretty full
The combat system in Witcher 2 gave the illusion of being really deep by its apparent difficulty at first. Once you figure it out, though, pretty much every battle from then on is trivial.
I've never seen a learning curve quite like it.
I died on the tutorial battle a hundred times but eventually pretty much stopped taking damage altogether.
@tiddy it's... rough. It's hard. like you know that I'm no pushover, but I failed the tutorial, hard.
it assumes you are going to know ahead of time what you're going to encounter
ie, if you're going to fight monsters, you need to do something that upgrades your weapon temporarily to fight monsters. and you need to drink potions so you're in good enough shape to fight. both of these things require a decent amount of planning
it's like if in skyrim, 2 monsters could beat the crap out of you, unless before every fight you went to the blacksmith and sharpened your sword, and made a bunch of "decrease damage" potions that you have to drink before the battle starts
@tiddy They added a real tutorial, the prologue that is the tutorial in the original release was very difficult if you didn't manage to figure certain things out on their own
@Fabian The tutorial in the EE is still a bit... eh. If I hadn't played the first game and didn't already kind of understand the mechanics, I would've been lost even further. It's nice, but the game is so complex
@tiddy you've got two swords, and two attack styles per sword. then you've got potions, and there's dozens of different ingredients. you can read books that increase your damage against certain monsters, and then we get into bombs, throwing knives, traps, signs/magic, stamina, parrying, dodging, status effects...
@agent86 It's been a while, but from what I remember there's one spell that stuns an enemy for a second or so, making him stumble back or some such. It gives you time to get in free hits. Rinse and repeat. If you run out of mana or whatever, run away until you have mana back.
What I want is to make my server to automatically print invitation text to every player when he connects my server. Or I want my server to say a message in fixed time interval. How do I do it?
Do I need to use SourceMod for this? If yes, how do I make it using SourceMod?
In Legend of Grimrock every character has a food meter which gradually decreases as you move, fight and rest. You find food scattered about the dungeon, both from enemies and on the floor (3 second rule clearly not an issue) to fill the meter back up.
What effect does a low food meter have? Is t...
there's one place that's got decent reviews, but they limit signups, so I'll have to get on a waiting list or something
considering perhaps in the meantime paying rackspace ~$10/mo to run a cloud instance
@PeterGrace, since you've been looking into this sort of thing recently, what's a good low-end VPS provider for around ~$60/yr? I don't need much, maybe 256 MB RAM and a small disk, on a fast network link
okay, so let's pick up a topic we haven't touched on for a while, and it is yo dawg tags, more commonly called subtags. What are your thoughts on the topic? Right now I'm not even sure I know what the status-quo is, probably a mixture of prefix-less and prefix-ful
in a way prefix-less are awesome because some we tend to get similar questions between different games and putting them in the same bucket is natural. Think boss-fights or 'where is my save file'
on the other hand some tags are just too vague without prefixes. I've argued against weapons for a while e.g. and being on the train I can't really remember what its fate has been since
Alright, so if I want to start VTC'ing "How long is Game X?" questions as a dupe, should I create a brand new question for it, or do you guys think this one already covers it?
I'm going down my huge backlog of unplayed Steam games and I'm thinking the best way to tackle the list is to go through the shortest games first and then concentrate on the 20+ hour ones. I'm wondering if there's a website that has an estimated amount of gameplay time for games. Hopefully withou...
@FOak That is very very rare and restricted by Microsoft.. I think they tried it with their Shadowrun FPS game but that is the only one I recall hearing about.
There was also something I read around the time Monday Night Combat came out for PC where they said they had to re-tune almost all the special abilities because of the control differences
I often want to know how long a game is so that I can decide whether or not to buy it, or even to decide if I've got enough free time available in the near-future to make it worth trying to play and complete over a weekend. Sometimes I even want to know just because I'm getting a little tired of ...
but as a PC FPS player, I have a ton of keys I could map for optimal control, and a mouse which allows me to aim faster and more accurately than someone using their thumbs on a joystick.
the sad truth is, if you want to play with your friends who like consoles, you have to play on the console :(
I used to be a PC gamer, and then this guy who will remain nameless (but if I was naming names, it would start with an @EBongo and end with nothing else because that's his name) convinced me to start playing console.
@RonanForman Bingo. I think there was a beta awhile ago that allowed cross-platform play. They eventually had to remove it because PC players were absolutely destroying console players.
@tiddy You do understand that every FPS released on a console has Aim Assist on it these days right? What you have to map and handle manually pretty much every console FPS does automagicly.
But at the end of the day I think what, 85% of the players are on consoles these days? So why should they care about the percent of the market you are taught to ignore (you cant please everyone so aim for pleasing 85% of everyone :))
@FOak I don't disagree. The reasoning is that it doesn't happen is because keyboard and mouse is inherently superior to straight up controller. Even taking into account aim-assist, I don't think console controls are even in the same league as keyboard and mouse.
There are times when the community reaches consensus on its own, and in most cases this is the right way to do things. I don't think it's a good idea for moderators to step in and try to set policy, except in serious situations.
When it comes to policy that changes a vast swath of questions, ...
it's amazing to me how many people say that about the wii. it's like we all collectively said we had to have it, and then couldn't for the life of us figure out why
@GnomeSlice I agree; sometimes, you don't want options out the yin-yang. I hate the consolitis that is afflicting so many ports nowadays, though. Poor design thought, if any at all for PC games.
I often want to know how long a game is so that I can decide whether or not to buy it, or even to decide if I've got enough free time available in the near-future to make it worth trying to play and complete over a weekend. Sometimes I even want to know just because I'm getting a little tired of ...
There are times when the community reaches consensus on its own, and in most cases this is the right way to do things. I don't think it's a good idea for moderators to step in and try to set policy, except in serious situations.
When it comes to policy that changes a vast swath of questions, ...
