What are you playing?

Post by **Jonas** » Tue May 01, 2012 8:59 am

Oh yeah Risen 2 is out. Cool. It's definitely on my play list, but my backlog is growing steadily, so I won't be buying it until I know I'll have time to play it.

Since I finished ME3 a while ago, my backlog looks like this:

Assassin's Creed: Revelations (playing now)
L. A. Noire (was playing before ME3, must return to it after AC:R)
Rocksmith (I expect it'll be sort of an ongoing thing, more like guitar practice than gaming)
Sniper Elite 2 (should be out by the time I finish AC:R and L. A. Noire)
Legends of Grimrock (I'll continue playing it on and off - may stop playing when I get to the spiders though)
Diablo III (will be playing it on the PCs at work, with the colleagues)

I'm enjoying AC:R quite a bit, but it definitely seems like an intermission - sort of a thing to tide us over while they were figuring out what they wanted to do for AC3. The den defence thing is reasonably entertaining, but I'm having a bastard hard time beating the third one, and I'm glad you can lock your dens down against attack because this would get pretty tedious otherwise. I really love how they expanded on the assassin guild management system. My only real gripe so far is that I kind of broke the unlock sequence of the game - because I focused completely on building up my guild before I really started doing most of the main quests, I've already got the best armour and the best sword in the game, while only the first couple of items have been unlocked in the stores

bobby 55 · Post by **bobby 55** » Tue May 01, 2012 9:09 am

Would you mind giving your impressions of L.A. Noire when you've finished? I've read conflicting impressions by people who's opinions I respect. It's either great, or the main character is a berk depending who you read.

Post by **Jonas** » Tue May 01, 2012 9:17 am

The main character is... bland. I don't really have a problem with him, but he sure wasn't an interesting character. I'll let you know if my opinion has changed when I'm done with the game

bobby 55 · Post by **bobby 55** » Tue May 01, 2012 9:37 am

Cheers Jonas.

In other news: I thought I'd give Crysis 2 a whirl on "Post Human Soldier" difficulty. If you stick to stealthing it doesn't seem that difficult. The combat I've dabbled in is a bit more challenging though.

Jaedar · Post by **Jaedar** » Tue May 01, 2012 10:06 am

Jonas wrote:Legends of Grimrock (I'll continue playing it on and off - may stop playing when I get to the spiders though)

Spiders start appearing at level 3 iirc, so you won't see much of the game if you end at that point.

Post by **Jonas** » Tue May 01, 2012 10:48 am

May have to get a friend to play through that part for me then - unless they make regular appearances throughout the game like in Dark Messiah?

Jaedar · Post by **Jaedar** » Tue May 01, 2012 2:39 pm

Jonas wrote:May have to get a friend to play through that part for me then - unless they make regular appearances throughout the game like in Dark Messiah?

Yup, they appear from time to time

. They get kinda rare, but they don't disappear completely.

Post by **Jonas** » Tue May 01, 2012 3:08 pm

Well I enjoyed the first few levels, I guess that's it. I have more modern and better-looking games to play, anyway.

Post by **DDL** » Tue May 01, 2012 3:59 pm

Well, given that your 'less than keen' attitude to GIANT DEATH SPIDERS THAT WANT TO KILL YOU is...far from unique to you, I did a cursory search and found this:

http://www.grimrock.net/forum/viewtopic ... 6&start=20

there will probably be other, less hacky ones soon. Hopefully ones that give them top hats and monocles, too..

Also, I was amazed at how fucking "angry internet man" some people were getting in response to a request for 'no spiderz plz'.

"Why are they requesting such a ridiculous thing rather than seeking professional cognitive therapy?"

...seriously, wat

bobby 55 · Post by **bobby 55** » Tue May 01, 2012 4:32 pm

DDL wrote:
Also, I was amazed at how fucking "angry internet man" some people were getting in response to a request for 'no spiderz plz'.

"Why are they requesting such a ridiculous thing rather than seeking professional cognitive therapy?"

...seriously, wat

I wonder how they would feel if their kryptonite was placed in a game? I mean if a steaming pile of maggots was between me and the "ultimate" weapon, it'd be: "I don't need that anyway".

Also, the morphed spider mods are usually the first mods made for games that have * 'em.

* Mods I mean, I guess spiders would also work.

Post by **Jonas** » Tue May 01, 2012 9:55 pm

Hm I wish they had some screenshots so I could see the result, since a lot of these no-spider hacks are... really awful. I mean all frost spiders in my Skyrim playthrough showed up as non-animated mudcrabs, they would kind of slide across the ground, I couldn't tell when they were attacking or whether I was hitting them, and I had no idea whether they were dead or alive because they had no animation.

But fuck it, I'll take that chance. Can't be worse than the spiders themselves.

Bobby: I'm not saying your maggot problem isn't a full-on phobia, but you can't assume that these people have a similar phobia of their own. I believe arachnophobia is one of the most common phobias (along with, presumably, claustrophobia and acrophobia), and for these people to be so vehemently unsympathetic towards arachnophobes, I would guess they haven't experienced the primal terror of a real deep-seated phobia. It's quite the thing

bobby 55 · Post by **bobby 55** » Tue May 01, 2012 10:02 pm

It's not a phobia as such, just a stomache churning revulsion type thing. My mum is a fully blown arachnophobe so I know it ain't no small thing to those who have it.

AEmer · Post by **AEmer** » Wed May 02, 2012 7:43 am

Yup. Lots of people have phobias, and even ones with phobias themselves won't necessarily recognize other phobias than their own. People with acrophobia for instance won't necessarily be willing to accept that arachnophobia is the same type of deal.

I have a pretty big revultion towards centipedes and millipedes myself, so I do curse whenever those are included. The Chitaurs of Skyrim notwithstanding.

nerdenstein · Post by **nerdenstein** » Wed May 02, 2012 11:38 am

I'm considering buying a new Microphone for my computer as the one on my headset is fairly poor quality. Any suggestions to brands or models?

bobby 55 · Post by **bobby 55** » Wed May 02, 2012 12:09 pm

nerdenstein wrote:I'm considering buying a new Microphone for my computer as the one on my headset is fairly poor quality. Any suggestions to brands or models?

You after a standalone or a mic/headset? I'm a fan of Logitech peripherals. Bear with me while I attempt to get a couple of links up.

The standalone. It's okay for general use. http://www.zdnet.com/reviews/product/mi ... r/30399343

These are my current ones. The sound is great, and the mic is more than adequate. A warning though: I've had them a couple of years and the coating on the padding for the ear pieces is degrading and kinda flaking off. http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/pr ... /INLOG4404

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