Thread for Gamers VIII: Revenge of the Sh**

[The Huskar Social Union]

Im playing Battlefields campaign on hard and also getting all the collectibles and codex entries (because im smart and decided to do that on the hardest difficulty) and playing the Italian campaign has made me hate Flamethrowers with a passion.

FUCK YOU, you virtual Austrian fire throwing ass hats.

[Imperializt Russia]

Steam Halloween Sale. Anyone pick anything up? I got LIMBO (<£2), Resi 4 (>£5), System Shock 2 (<£2) and Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines (<£4).

Considered Dead Space 2 (£2.50), Condemned Criminal Origins (£2.50), Amnesia Dark Descent (£3.74), Zombi (£3.74), and a couple others.

[New Naephak]

I got Shadow of Mordor for $10. Didn't realise it would be so huge, though. 42 GB, must be a lot of uncompressed shit in there.

[Imperializt Russia]

Yeah, that surprises me. It's not that big a sandbox.

Maybe the Little Black Book of Orks takes up a lot of memory to run properly?

[Abserdia]

I got Shadow of Mordor for $10. Didn't realise it would be so huge, though. 42 GB, must be a lot of uncompressed shit in there.

Good freakin' game, though.

Well, the ending could have been done better, but... it's still awesome.

[Imperializt Russia]

Shady-ass marketing techniques though.

[Eol Sha]

Steam Halloween Sale. Anyone pick anything up? I got LIMBO (<£2), Resi 4 (>£5), System Shock 2 (<£2) and Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines (<£4).

Considered Dead Space 2 (£2.50), Condemned Criminal Origins (£2.50), Amnesia Dark Descent (£3.74), Zombi (£3.74), and a couple others.

I'll have to hold off until the early morning hours of November 1 since that's when money is deposited into my bank account and I have classes for pretty much the whole day.

[Imperializt Russia]

Gonna be tight. Hope you make it.

[Altito Asmoro]

I got Shadow of Mordor for $10. Didn't realise it would be so huge, though. 42 GB, must be a lot of uncompressed shit in there.

Yeah...kind of surprise me. I mean, Just Cause 2 is less than 42 GB, but holy shit the sandbox is huge on that game.

Is it possible that a lot of sandbox inside Shadow of Mordor is basically reused for the DLCs, and the reason why it so big is because there are files locked until DLC?

[Abserdia]

Finished The Forgotten City quest on Skyrim.

Dang good mod. I suggest you get it, but... be prepared for it. Once you go in, you have to finish what you started, and the quest can be a couple hours long. And most of that time, at least for me, was spent investigating or talking.

[The first Galactic Republic]

I just buy TF2 stuff and play TF2 some more.

Oh and I beat XCOM on classic.

[Seraven]

i downloaded all of BF1's like 40+ GBs in less than 3 hours.

Good connection!

You use Verizon?

[Imperializt Russia]

I got Shadow of Mordor for $10. Didn't realise it would be so huge, though. 42 GB, must be a lot of uncompressed shit in there.

Yeah...kind of surprise me. I mean, Just Cause 2 is less than 42 GB, but holy shit the sandbox is huge on that game.

Is it possible that a lot of sandbox inside Shadow of Mordor is basically reused for the DLCs, and the reason why it so big is because there are files locked until DLC?

Just Cause 2 is like 4-6GB on X360 (can't remember) and has one of the biggest sandboxes ever constructed.

[Ardavia]

Steam Halloween Sale. Anyone pick anything up? I got LIMBO (<£2), Resi 4 (>£5), System Shock 2 (<£2) and Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines (<£4).

Considered Dead Space 2 (£2.50), Condemned Criminal Origins (£2.50), Amnesia Dark Descent (£3.74), Zombi (£3.74), and a couple others.

got gifted IL-2 1946

haven't bought anything, but I've considered a bunch of games from DEFCON to Dead Space, but I only have like 3,50€ to spend so

heh

[Eol Sha]

Steam Halloween Sale. Anyone pick anything up? I got LIMBO (<£2), Resi 4 (>£5), System Shock 2 (<£2) and Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines (<£4).

Considered Dead Space 2 (£2.50), Condemned Criminal Origins (£2.50), Amnesia Dark Descent (£3.74), Zombi (£3.74), and a couple others.

got gifted IL-2 1946

haven't bought anything, but I've considered a bunch of games from DEFCON to Dead Space, but I only have like 3,50€ to spend so

heh

Always wanted to play one of the IL-2 Sturmovik games. I'm a sucker for World War 2-era games of almost any kind.

[Ardavia]

Magicka is pretty fun, as it turns out.

Every time I try to play that game with my friends, we just blow each other up.

Every time I try to play that game on my own, I lose to that death machine thing with the King.

I played with four people from a discord channel I'm in: we blew each other up quite a bit, but we managed to beat that machine thing with the King before we ended up quitting because half of the group were gonna play RUSE instead.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Ive not bought anything in this sale, most things im interested in are not out yet, and ive got my eye on some dlc for Warhammer total war, but its not on sale so im going to wait till the next one and hope it is.

[Eol Sha]

Ive not bought anything in this sale, most things im interested in are not out yet, and ive got my eye on some dlc for Warhammer total war, but its not on sale so im going to wait till the next one and hope it is.

I'm hoping Civ 6 will be on sale during Black Friday or the Winter sale.

[Ardavia]

got gifted IL-2 1946

haven't bought anything, but I've considered a bunch of games from DEFCON to Dead Space, but I only have like 3,50€ to spend so

heh

Always wanted to play one of the IL-2 Sturmovik games. I'm a sucker for World War 2-era games of almost any kind.

it's pretty hard, heh

fun though

so far I've only really managed to crash my aircraft repeatedly while trying to take off and lost control while trying to fly the plane after starting in the air, haha

I figure my problem is that I reflexively jerk the stick too hard, so I oversteer a lot, and when I start losing control as a result, I automatically try to compensate and, well, more reflexive stick-jerking doesn't help to regain control, unsurprisingly

[Imperializt Russia]

Steam Halloween Sale. Anyone pick anything up? I got LIMBO (<£2), Resi 4 (>£5), System Shock 2 (<£2) and Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines (<£4).

Considered Dead Space 2 (£2.50), Condemned Criminal Origins (£2.50), Amnesia Dark Descent (£3.74), Zombi (£3.74), and a couple others.

got gifted IL-2 1946

haven't bought anything, but I've considered a bunch of games from DEFCON to Dead Space, but I only have like 3,50€ to spend so

heh

Dead Space 1 would be a good spend of money imo.

People who've played DS1 and 2 say they prefer 2, which is on sale at the same price, which I haven't played.

Is DEFCON on sale? I remember having fun with the demo on my last potato-puter barely running it and this is substantially more powerful.

[Ardavia]

got gifted IL-2 1946

haven't bought anything, but I've considered a bunch of games from DEFCON to Dead Space, but I only have like 3,50€ to spend so

heh

Dead Space 1 would be a good spend of money imo.

People who've played DS1 and 2 say they prefer 2, which is on sale at the same price, which I haven't played.

Is DEFCON on sale? I remember having fun with the demo on my last potato-puter barely running it and this is substantially more powerful.

defcon is currently something like 1,50, I think

E: also, re: Dead Space, I'm considering it, but I'm a jumpy bundle of nerves and I'm not sure I want to spend money on something that will probably sit in my library untouched because I don't feel like spending hours in either terrified anticipation as I wait for the second shoe to drop or utter pants-shitting terror when the shoe finally drops

much the same reason Amnesia hasn't even been installed despite owning it for a year, haha

[Eol Sha]

Always wanted to play one of the IL-2 Sturmovik games. I'm a sucker for World War 2-era games of almost any kind.

it's pretty hard, heh

fun though

so far I've only really managed to crash my aircraft repeatedly while trying to take off and lost control while trying to fly the plane after starting in the air, haha

I figure my problem is that I reflexively jerk the stick too hard, so I oversteer a lot, and when I start losing control as a result, I automatically try to compensate and, well, more reflexive stick-jerking doesn't help to regain control, unsurprisingly

If you've played it, would you say it's harder than Blazing Angels?

[Imperializt Russia]

Dead Space 1 would be a good spend of money imo.

People who've played DS1 and 2 say they prefer 2, which is on sale at the same price, which I haven't played.

Is DEFCON on sale? I remember having fun with the demo on my last potato-puter barely running it and this is substantially more powerful.

defcon is currently something like 1,50, I think

E: also, re: Dead Space, I'm considering it, but I'm a jumpy bundle of nerves and I'm not sure I want to spend money on something that will probably sit in my library untouched because I don't feel like spending hours in either terrified anticipation as I wait for the second shoe to drop or utter pants-shitting terror when the shoe finally drops

much the same reason Amnesia hasn't even been installed despite owning it for a year, haha

To be a little spoilery but not very, about halfway through the first one you get introduced to this monster that you just repeatedly dismember and it can't technically be properly killed. You fight it once, then run away, then have a boss battle with it later.

I stopped playing it as soon as I realised I was in the doorway of the boss arena and haven't touched it since

That was probably two years ago. I bought Far Cry 3 at the same time (along with FC2) and for some reason never played that.

[Ardavia]

it's pretty hard, heh

fun though

so far I've only really managed to crash my aircraft repeatedly while trying to take off and lost control while trying to fly the plane after starting in the air, haha

I figure my problem is that I reflexively jerk the stick too hard, so I oversteer a lot, and when I start losing control as a result, I automatically try to compensate and, well, more reflexive stick-jerking doesn't help to regain control, unsurprisingly

If you've played it, would you say it's harder than Blazing Angels?

haven't tried Blazing Angels (or heard of it before now, even), but tbh, I think my problems with Il-2 are mostly down to lack of experience with flight sims in general

more hours probably makes better, heh

[New Naephak]

I finished downloading Shadow of Mordor about six hours after I started. Game's really fun, stayed up into the long hours of the night playing. Mobs of basic enemies are pretty easy, but once they start throwing more elite units in it gets dicey. Had difficulty in normal combat with Berserkers, but I think switching up my playstyle to allow bow shots at close range would help with that.