ASK_Story said:

Hang in there, Leo. Hope everything turns out okay.

This. Very much so.

Ravenprose said:

On a side note, keyboard/mouse sucks for FPS.

Wat.

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAARRARARARARARARAGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!

*FIRE COMING OUT OF NOSE*

DIE NPD!

Agnates said:

Oh, aspro, even if you get Beneath a Steel Sky from the scummvm website instead of gog.com, make a gog.com account and "purchase" the game there as well anyway as they have some nice extras like my avatar here among others, wallpapers, the manual, and even a comic book download. They have extras like that for most all games they sell. Plus it's nice to have the box on your digital shelf.

That was the route I was going to go, so thanks for hte heads up.

aspro said:

That was the route I was going to go, so thanks for hte heads up.

I still have a copy of Syberia that I found at a Gamestop a few years ago. I really should play it. Same with Longest Journey.

Also, I really want to play through Dreamfall but the driver issues is crippling my system. I wish the Steam version fixed it but they didn't.

...

Super Meat Boy? That sounds slightly obscene.

Huh... That's funny... it keeps on bringing up this image...

I played a bunch of demos and stuff on my brothers PS3 over the weekend.

First there was Castlevania which I enjoyed very much. Production values through the roof. It felt difficult, the dodging and blocking felt great. I had daggers right off the bat, sweet. The axe is in the game right? Only the music seemed off and the story seemed very epic and bloated for Castlevania where all that is need is "guy with whip kill Dracula in scary castle, GO!"

I played the Lara Croft demo and it was fantastic, honestly one of the best demos for a online only game I have played. If I had a working PS3 I would have bought it immediately. The controls are perfect, it use the twin stick shooting mechanics of a geometry wars like game which makes the combat a blast. There are a ton of obstacles and puzzles in the demo. There are always extra goals you can try to achieve. It was so much fun.

I got to try the new vanquish challenge demo, this demo is an arena like area with many waves of different enemies coming at you. In the arena you get a wide selection of weaponry like rocket launchers, a disc thrower, this lock on laser blast thing and a gun that shoots a huge energy ball that goes through walls. This demo makes the other demo feel like baby game, I could not finish it, it was brutal. The enemies that start to show up are relentless. There was a time that I was behind cover and I had gun fire, missles being locked on to me, grenades being thrown at me and a mega blast of death that goes through cover all coming at me at once. You have to be a badass just to survive where most games the badassness comes when you want a high score. The combat is brilliant, maybe its too chatoic, that might be an issue. Other third person shooters need to take notice cause your games feel slow and tame compared to this.

I also played NBA2K11, now I have not played a basketball game in many years so I am probably not aware of any advancements made throughout the years, I just know that it is the best basketball game I have ever played. I have never felt a basketball game that felt so right. Some NBA games have a steep learning curves, like that Elite demo which was terrible, this easy to understand but still very deep. One big shock is that the AI plays defense, they will get in your passing lanes constantly and intercept passes, so much so that almost everyone I have talked to thinks that it hurts the game, I think its more realistic. The players all feel different, Lebron and Wade don't play move the same way. Most importantly they nailed Jordan, playing as him makes you feel like the greatest of all time. The presentation is incredible from the menus to how each game starts. The Jordan mode is fun as hell and each challange is an actual challenge. I hardly got to look over the features, so many of them. It's the complete package in a way only 2K knows how to do. As I played that I felt so sad cause of what NFL2k could be like now.

Having listened to the Eurogamer and Gamespot podcasts today, sounds like Medal of Honor is "solid" but underwhelming.

I guess it is to be expected, a game out of the blue, even if it has had three years of developerment, is going to have trouble when stacked up against a game that has been iterated 6-7 times over the last 6 years (COD).