Video Games Randomness - Prioritize specific game threads!

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 12:08 pm

I swear the Space Engineers team updates their game almost every day.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Jun 28, 2016 9:40 pm

You know, I miss the old Gone Gold/OO gaming challenges. We did them every once in a while back in the good ol' days. We'd all pick a game, then play through it providing level-by-level commentary and discussion as we went. It was always It usually worked better with games that had some variation in gameplay, but weren't open world (Thief II was a great one), but it was a lot of fun.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Jun 28, 2016 9:58 pm

Sounds like you just took ownership. Make it happen.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Jun 28, 2016 10:55 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:Sounds like you just took ownership. Make it happen.

Too busy hinting.

Jaymon · Post by **Jaymon** » Wed Jun 29, 2016 10:57 pm

jztemple2 wrote:Count me in for RDR2 if it's on PC.

I read that as R2D2, and I wondered what new star wars game was coming out that let you play a driods.

baelthazar · Post by **baelthazar** » Thu Jun 30, 2016 10:42 am

Blackhawk wrote:You know, I miss the old Gone Gold/OO gaming challenges. We did them every once in a while back in the good ol' days. We'd all pick a game, then play through it providing level-by-level commentary and discussion as we went. It was always It usually worked better with games that had some variation in gameplay, but weren't open world (Thief II was a great one), but it was a lot of fun.

Your first challenge - beat the Witcher 3 in four hours.

GO!

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sat Jul 09, 2016 7:00 am

Oh great. Webroot thinks Steam's a threat after Steam's latest update.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sun Jul 31, 2016 11:21 pm

So, what does everyone do for filler on the PC? You know, when you have 20 minutes to kill, which isn't enough to get into a serious game, but is too much time to do nothing.

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Sun Jul 31, 2016 11:59 pm

Cat Goes Fishing

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Mon Aug 01, 2016 2:20 am

Blackhawk wrote:So, what does everyone do for filler on the PC? You know, when you have 20 minutes to kill, which isn't enough to get into a serious game, but is too much time to do nothing.

OO?

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Mon Aug 01, 2016 2:22 am

On a slightly more serious note, I often head over to OneMoreLevel.com. I usually end up playing for more than 20 minutes, but it's more mindless.

My go-to is Bubble Shooter. Though sometimes I mix it up with the Bubble Spinner. I'm also partial to Castle Wars. I used to like Dice Wars, but now that I can't figure out how to turn off the music I play it less.

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Mon Aug 01, 2016 2:31 am

I do a lot of Hearthstone but sometimes it ends up wasting a lot more than 20 minutes...

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Aug 01, 2016 9:48 am

Blackhawk wrote:So, what does everyone do for filler on the PC?

still slither.io or maybe Hitman Go.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Mon Aug 01, 2016 10:50 am

Blackhawk wrote:So, what does everyone do for filler on the PC?

Marvel Heroes.

Kelric · Post by **Kelric** » Mon Aug 01, 2016 9:30 pm

Blackhawk wrote:So, what does everyone do for filler on the PC? You know, when you have 20 minutes to kill, which isn't enough to get into a serious game, but is too much time to do nothing.

Lately it has been Atom Zombie Smasher (also has filled this role many times in the past, to the tune of 34+ hours according to Steam and I would guess it is probably closer to double that) or Qvaridga.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Aug 01, 2016 11:20 pm

Thanks, all. And it isn't so much "I don't want to play for an hour, what can I quit after 20 minutes" as it is, "I have to leave to get the kids in 20 minutes, what can I do that I can just quit and walk away from." Or "Company is due at 1, it is 12:40, I'm bored, they may be early, they may be late, but I don't want to be rude by making them watch me finish a quest/fight/match."

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 4:17 am

Then definitely avoid Hearthstone. My wife would rather eat a cold dinner than leave a match before the end.

Luckily, she knows this is true, so she won't be able to give me too much grief when she reads it...

Punisher · Post by **Punisher** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 11:07 am

Blackhawk wrote:Thanks, all. And it isn't so much "I don't want to play for an hour, what can I quit after 20 minutes" as it is, "I have to leave to get the kids in 20 minutes, what can I do that I can just quit and walk away from." Or "Company is due at 1, it is 12:40, I'm bored, they may be early, they may be late, but I don't want to be rude by making them watch me finish a quest/fight/match."

For the kids... Play longer than 20 minutes randomly. Make kids wait and wonder if you are coming. builds character.
For Company is due. Wear head phones to block them out. it's what I do.

morlac · Post by **morlac** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 11:59 am

Blackhawk wrote:So, what does everyone do for filler on the PC? You know, when you have 20 minutes to kill, which isn't enough to get into a serious game, but is too much time to do nothing.

Rocket League! or Dungeonmans. One for multi, one for solo.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 8:43 pm

Does anybody still play games with a CD in the CD player anymore?

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 9:08 pm

dbt1949 wrote:Does anybody still play games with a CD in the CD player anymore?

Yeah, a few months ago in order to play Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance on a Win98 virtual machine.

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 9:27 pm

Ooh. Birthright still worked?

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 9:53 pm

Zarathud wrote:Ooh. Birthright still worked?

I installed Win98SE on vmplayer, which doesn't have DirectX support, so I couldn't run the W95 version of Birthright but I was able to play the DOS version. I was hoping that a W98 VM would be a good solution for playing old W95/98 games, but the lack of DirectX support pretty much nixed that idea.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Tue Aug 23, 2016 6:40 pm

Wunderbar! Steam just pushed out an update that made the client decide that my entire library is not installed. Thanks gaben!

Update: I ran through the Steam "flushconfig" procedure, and that seems to have corrected whatever went awry. Phew! Manually going through and "reinstalling" each game to make Steam see the local files would have been annoying.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Aug 28, 2016 1:20 pm

Remember 5-6 years ago when we were all saying how much Steam was invasive of our PC systems and we would never use it?

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Sun Aug 28, 2016 7:22 pm

Max Peck wrote:Wunderbar! Steam just pushed out an update that made the client decide that my entire library is not installed. Thanks gaben!

Update: I ran through the Steam "flushconfig" procedure, and that seems to have corrected whatever went awry. Phew! Manually going through and "reinstalling" each game to make Steam see the local files would have been annoying.

Steam may go through a quick check of the directory the first time you load up a game after doing that. At least that's what happens when you point Steam at a new library that already contains games. It picks up and lists the games correctly, but doesn't actually do the setup until you run each game. Not a full, brand new install-type setup, but it runs through some sort of check list dealie.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 3:35 pm

Arcanum: of steamworks and magik is now on Steam. Huh.

That game was always of interest but detailed reviews always found too many issues for me to take the plunge.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 3:40 pm

It's a great game. I got it years back and patched it with a high-res patch and it worked beautifully! I didn't really have many problems as most of them had been worked out by then, mostly via the community patches. It's matured a lot since its original release.

I actually felt the original two Fallouts had more bugs on modern machines compared to it.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 6:24 pm

I got it a couple of weeks back on GOG for $1.99.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 10:21 pm

Rumpy wrote:It's a great game. I got it years back and patched it with a high-res patch and it worked beautifully! I didn't really have many problems as most of them had been worked out by then, mostly via the community patches. It's matured a lot since its original release.

I actually felt the original two Fallouts had more bugs on modern machines compared to it.

For the record when I say "issues" I really mean game play problems/balance issues/poorly thought out/working mechanics.

I don't recall what the game was like in terms of bugs.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 12:39 am

Ahh, I see. Well, there's a Rebalance Mod out there if that bothers you.

http://www.terra-arcanum.com/forums/ind ... ter.18503/

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 11:11 am

GreenGoo wrote:For the record when I say "issues" I really mean game play problems/balance issues/poorly thought out/working mechanics.

I don't recall what the game was like in terms of bugs.

I didn't really have any issues with the game, but it did have pretty exploitable mechanics - like Haste and respawns. There was one point in the game where you find an open portal that lets piles of nasties through, and if you've got mountains of Haste on you, it's possible to kill them all over and over and over and over for a lot of experience, which simplifies other things later. It does eventually run dry, but it takes a long time. Haste remains a very potent spell, though, simplifying a lot of really hard fights.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 3:36 pm

Just installed the Perfect General Internet Edition again. Still works fine. I did put a lot of time into the original. At the time I could choose between Panzer General and the Perfect General and chose the later. I was never sorry.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Sep 08, 2016 7:43 pm

I wanted to like those. I did enjoy Star General a bit.

Cortilian · Post by **Cortilian** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 4:29 am

Blackhawk wrote:So, what does everyone do for filler on the PC? You know, when you have 20 minutes to kill, which isn't enough to get into a serious game, but is too much time to do nothing.

For about the last 9 months or so it's been Gems of War. It's on mobile and Steam, haven't paid a dime and it's easy to drop if you need to.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 7:56 pm

So.

Halcyon 6.

Tell me about it.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 8:06 pm

Halcyon 1 sank into the swamp, as did Halcyons 2-4. Halcyon 5 burned, fell over, and then sank into the swamp.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 8:12 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:Halcyon 1 sank into the swamp, as did Halcyons 2-4. Halcyon 5 burned, fell over, and then sank into the swamp.

It's killing me that I can't think of the cultural reference of this. What is it?

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 8:17 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:Halcyon 1 sank into the swamp, as did Halcyons 2-4. Halcyon 5 burned, fell over, and then sank into the swamp.

Now, Halcyon 6 is our last, best hope for peace.

Also, it is Holy Grail

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 8:37 pm

All alone in the night.