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Started by Keef Monkey, 11 June, 2011, 09:35:35 AM

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Theblazeuk

Hint hint for X-Com: EU (and EW)

Snipers with squad sight and a bloke with cloaking are your WMDs (and snipers with the cloaking bio-mod are required to stop those pesky tentacle freaks). Grenades and explosives do well as your opening shots so you can get through the cover.

Never spread out, always move as a unit. Support units are the most valuable class by far, despite their comparative lack of firepower - give em two nades and they can hold their own.

Managed to beat EW and EU on classic (but not with Iron man as can never come back from the inevitable squad wipe), found Exhalt the most bothersome aspect of EW.


Jim_Campbell

Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 27 January, 2015, 12:08:32 PM
I really mean this as well dude!

Just stop being such dick about it, It's not like I'm talking about raping small animals or human children.

You seem to be misunderstanding how moderation works. You were cautioned about your porn obsession; it could be argued that simply transferring your wank fantasies to the gaming thread wasn't really taking the previous moderation in the spirit it was intended...

Jim
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Keef Monkey

Alien: Isolation and The Evil Within are both fantastic games I reckon, both really intense and scary in their own ways, but both love or hate affairs seemingly. The old-school difficulty rankled with a lot of reviewers I think, it can cause frustration but I found it a really refreshing challenge.

Just this minute finished Metal Gear Solid for the first time ever, so I'm listening to the end credit music and watching FMV of trees and bears for some reason. It's a bizarre game, really clunky by today's standards (and downright terrible and annoying in places) but the manic ambition of the whole thing is quite impressive. The aspects I always thought I'd hate - the endless pretentious dialogue and over the top melodrama - were actually really endearing, like watching a particularly mad anime. Will definitely continue on and play the others.

JamesC

I'm really curious about Alien: Isolation. Other than some of the professional reviews I've heard nothing but praise for it - my problem is that I find horror games really stressful to play on my own!
I cant help but feel that I just won't have the resilience to play Alien after being at work all day and I'll end up playing something fun and happy like Mario instead.

Goaty

Not got Alien: Isolation yet but love playing Dead Space and still scary game!

ThryllSeekyr

Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 27 January, 2015, 09:14:16 AM
Quote from: CheechFU on 25 January, 2015, 08:40:40 PM
I watched the Alan Turing movie and then I played XCOM Enemy Within on my tablet while sitting on the toilet.
I don't think he, or Hitler, ever imagined such a future could be possible.

I finished Enemy Within on Sunday night. Quite liked it.

I've still got Enemy-Unknown on X-Box-360...unfinished and I sure one of my latest games saves were deleted somehow kind of setting me back a bit. I have The Bureau: Declassified completed and Enemy Within not started yet.

I have Enemy Unknown, along with all the original X-com games, as well. Including Xenonauts which is very backward, but charming impersonation of those other games all via Steam.

I'd play those like a lot of other games I have except for memory restrictions on my computer. Too much space taken up by game videos waiting to be uploaded.


Keef Monkey

Thanks for the XCOM tips guys, something to keep in mind when I go back to it.

ThryllSeekyr

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Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 27 January, 2015, 12:55:47 PM
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 27 January, 2015, 12:08:32 PM
I really mean this as well dude!

Just stop being such dick about it, It's not like I'm talking about raping small animals or human children.

You seem to be misunderstanding how moderation works. You were cautioned about your porn obsession; it could be argued that simply transferring your wank fantasies to the gaming thread wasn't really taking the previous moderation in the spirit it was intended...

Jim

Now, I'm offended.......

Now of which I wrote should be seen as a illusion my personal interest in porn which I sure do have  but, I am using restraint in that regard. Sure, I'm jnterested in seeing naked women  (Even if her rude bits are censored.) running around a make believe city in the U.S.A. killing everybody, she meets.  You might even say that I would like to see a naked man do the same thing (Slaine????) but, it's now no longer a instrumental of pornography, but something to be admired for performing like a finely tuned weapon or car while looking the part as well. (I know that sounds terrible to compare a attractive human to a machine!)  The nudity just enhances this by letting us see how well her body performs.

If you had problem with me making female character that was kind of ugly and had a very obvious man's voice. This really brings me back to those episodes of Get Smart.....

Quote from: Get Smart on WikipediaCharlie Watkins/Agent 38 (Angelique Pettyjohn) is an undercover male agent and master of disguise. Agent 38 appears as a scantily clad glamorous woman in two season 2 episodes. He also appears once in season four as a different actress (Karen Authur). He can also switch to a feminine voice as part of the disguise.

It's just comedy .....that's how I see it. Otherwise, I think my urges regarding and how I interpret computer games that involve action, violence and sometime things more social is normal and shouldn't be seen as obscene. Even the extreme violence where computer games are channelling this more negative aspects further away from the real world.

I don't masturbate to these games, though it may seem that way. I hardly ever do that these days. I play the games, my left hand on the keyboard and my right on the mouse.

I swear, I think the mods are testing me for some reason.......(While gesturing by wriggling my eye brows up and down slowly knownly while winking ;)


Goaty


wedgeski

Quote from: JamesC on 27 January, 2015, 01:27:34 PM
I'm really curious about Alien: Isolation. Other than some of the professional reviews I've heard nothing but praise for it - my problem is that I find horror games really stressful to play on my own!
I cant help but feel that I just won't have the resilience to play Alien after being at work all day and I'll end up playing something fun and happy like Mario instead.
I played the first four or five hours in the dark with full surround, and just had to stop playing it that way. I spent three-quarters of my game-time cowering in foot-lockers. Even with the lights on, you have to train yourself to take risks. It is a very scary game, and probably won't be the tonic you need after a hard day at work. :)

Hawkmumbler


Dark Jimbo

Quote from: JamesC on 27 January, 2015, 01:27:34 PM
I'm really curious about Alien: Isolation. Other than some of the professional reviews I've heard nothing but praise for it - my problem is that I find horror games really stressful to play on my own!

It is just about the Gold Standard of scary games!
@jamesfeistdraws

Keef Monkey

Quote from: wedgeski on 27 January, 2015, 03:04:36 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 27 January, 2015, 01:27:34 PM
I'm really curious about Alien: Isolation. Other than some of the professional reviews I've heard nothing but praise for it - my problem is that I find horror games really stressful to play on my own!
I cant help but feel that I just won't have the resilience to play Alien after being at work all day and I'll end up playing something fun and happy like Mario instead.
I played the first four or five hours in the dark with full surround, and just had to stop playing it that way. I spent three-quarters of my game-time cowering in foot-lockers. Even with the lights on, you have to train yourself to take risks. It is a very scary game, and probably won't be the tonic you need after a hard day at work. :)

I've found it interesting how it's changed the way I play horror games. The XB1 version used the Kinect for a couple of things, including using the mic to detect sound in your living room. So basically if I round a corner and catch a glimpse of the alien, if I yelp it'll hear me and come and eat me.

It seems like a small thing, but creeping around terrified and not being able to audibly react to anything, having to stifle all my little jolts and panicked noises, added a whole extra layer of tension. It's something I've noticed I subconsciously do with other horror games now, I used to yelp and scream and swear but now I've found myself stifling everything.

It does mean I've died because I've forgotten to put my phone on silent/my girlfriend has come in the door and said hello/I've farted etc. but it's an extra level of immersion I found pretty great.

Theblazeuk

I'm about 1 hour and a bit into it, the Alien is currently not the biggest threat to me. You always know a working joe! And they are ****s.

The Enigmatic Dr X

Quote from: Theblazeuk on 27 January, 2015, 12:33:43 PM
Hint hint for X-Com: EU (and EW)

Never spread out, always move as a unit.

Until the very last fight. When the big bad [spoiler]annoyingly throws out a grenade-like vortex that kills every one of you if you bunch together[/spoiler]
Lock up your spoons!