What are you playing?

[AEmer]

Hey man I really hope you're right. I'm pretty sure I'll get to fly around in a constellation class ship with my mates. That's good enough for me.

All of my friends like the _idea_ of Eve Online, it's just....we don't like how it plays. A dogfighting space game? That sounds pretty f'in awesome right there.

I don't think I'll be able to fly anything larger than a constellation class small freighter - which is really a millennium falcon type ship - but considering they're likely implementing a few corvettes, I'm hoping to be able to fly or crew one of those within some type of guild. I do think that'll be possible, but I may have to commit more time to the game to get something like that than I'm comfortable with....

[Jaedar]

Well yes, some people are doing good things with kickstarter. But then you have people like Clang and Double Fine who wasted all their money and have nothing to show for it essentially.

[AEmer]

Yeah....I feel like kickstarter companies need to have a poison pill clause. Basically, if they don't manage to deliver the product in due time, the contents of their development repositories must be given to the backers, collectively. This is a role which kickstarter itself must assume through a type of 'kickstarter insurance'. Simply put, kickstarter siphons 5000 US dollars off of any project agreeing to such an insurance. This is enough for kickstarter to send an employee on site, to recover the digital assets, and then upload it to a cloud host and give the sponsors access.

It effectively kills any chance that money may be earned off of the kickstarted project if certain things don't happen appropriately. Had Minecraft been a kickstarter game, for instance, somebody else would've been able to finish it. Further, it becomes possible to do an appropriate post mortem.

Any company can dodge the poison pill clause - but the kickstarter denizens will know, and they will know to adjust their expectations.

I do feel like double fine and clang are....really, really bad mistakes. Those are some bad people.

[Jonas]

Uhm, this thread has started moving a little too fast for me (or rather I've become too slow for this thread because I keep forgetting that the OTP forums exist), so I'll just ignore everything said here since I posted last, and get on with it.

I'm playing The Last of Us. I'm not sure how I like it.

The stealth is pretty good. Somehow it's a little too tricky for me, I keep getting spotted after taking out a couple of guys. Maybe it's because Black Flag has gotten me used to a completely different, much faster type of stealth gameplay, and now I'm just playing TLoU too impatiently. I rather enjoy that you can use a certain resource to execute faster stealth takedowns if you're in a tight spot, but I'm not sure how I feel about the fact that a certain enemy type can only be stealthily taken out by using one of those resources - it's kinda cool, but it's maybe a little too harsh.

The economy of the game works rather well so far. Ammunition is very sparse. There's a simple crafting system based on jury-rigging weapons and medkits out of household objects (categorised into Blades, Binding, Alcohol, Explosives, and Fabric). Everything and I mean everything is a consumable resource, including improvised melee weapons such as four-by-fours with scissors tied to them, and this is much less frustrating than you might expect.

The upgrade system is mainly equipment based, with upgrade parts more or less hidden around the levels, but there's also a sort of pseudo-XP found in the form of pills. So basically the only way to level up is to explore. Despite the game being quite linear overall, there are some nice open areas with plenty of space to move around. Played as a stealth game, these arenas afford a lot of creative manoeuvering that opens up the micro-level gameplay in a very nice way.

Human enemies are smart and dangerous, and pretty fun to fight. Unfortunately there are also zombies, and I kinda hate fighting them, but what can you do.

I wish it weren't a horror game. The post-apocalypse survival theme in and of itself is easily interesting enough to keep my attention, but I just can't stand any more goddamn zombies. I wish the entertainment industries would get over zombies already, the same way we all got over World War 2 about 5 years overdue.

But other than that it's quite nice.

[bobby 55]

Yep, enough with the zombie thing in games and vampires in movies.

Having said that, I'm playing, when my limited free time lately allows, Dead Island: Riptide. Jane_Denton's relating of the weapons you can use intrigued me enough to give it a try. Playing it sporadically doesn't afford me the opportunity to "review" it but it makes fighting zombies a (kind of) fresh experience.

[Jaedar]

I'm playing Payday2. It's a pretty cool heist simulator. If you play really well(rarely happens), you can even get in and get out without the cops ever showing up.

[shadowblade34]

It's a heist simulator right up until the hundreds of cops show up and try to kill you.

It's still pretty good.

[Jaedar]

It's a heist simulator right up until the hundreds of cops show up and try to kill you.

It's still pretty good.

You mean its not realistic that 4 guys can take out hundreds of SWAT officers and policemen?

And that police don't have specialists wearing 2 tons of armor called Juggernauts?

man, real crime must suck.

[Jonas]

We had a thing going in the office for a while where four of us would stay after hours every other Thursday and play Payday 2. But then I got a bit impatient about the loot drop system, and found a cheat script that promised to let me unlock all the weapon mods. I just wanted to unlock them, waiting for a specific mod to randomly spawn was way too slow!

Regrettably the script actually simulated 1000 loot drops, which I didn't realise when I ran it 3 times. So I also got $140 million. Enough to buy... Pretty much everything. Now the other guys won't play with me anymore

[Jaedar]

Cheater

Yeah, the weapon mod drops are annoyingly slow. I just want a new sight

[shadowblade34]

It's a heist simulator right up until the hundreds of cops show up and try to kill you.

It's still pretty good.

You mean its not realistic that 4 guys can take out hundreds of SWAT officers and policemen?

And that police don't have specialists wearing 2 tons of armor called Juggernauts?

man, real crime must suck.

I would have preferred a game with more planning and coordination and less chucking robots at you.

Anyhow, I'm trying to complete GTA IV quickly to clear up my backlog but it's just so long. It's not even really that great but it's taking up a lot of space on my HDD and it needs to go, but I MUST complete if before I uninstall it.

I'm also playing Crusader Kings 2 with all the DLC as a Muslim vassal of the Abbasid Caliphate. My current character is the son of the initial character, Abdullah al-Baghdadi (current character is Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Baghdadi). Ruling over the Shaykhdom of Mahra, Yemen. I'm using the playthrough to write a CK2 diary of sorts in the form of a history book, so I note down the events that happen and the date, then write them up again pretending to be translating an obscure Arabic book called Tarikh al-Baghdadiyyah (History of the Baghdadid's). It should be quite interesting when I finish with it.

[nerdenstein]

I really suck at Payday 2.

Playing through the original Bioshock (finally) so I can get into playing the new DLC for Infinite which also takes place in Rapture.

Can't work out if I actually like Bioshock though; it hasn't aged well for me. Perhaps because I didn't see the charm when it was released.

[Hassat Hunter]

Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout: Tactics are free on GOG.com if one wants them. Considering the site's loading times and errors, many people do.

As for playing myself; working some on TSLRCM, doing some The Old Republic... not really gaming that much

[Cybernetic pig]

Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout: Tactics are free on GOG.com if one wants them. Considering the site's loading times and errors, many people do.

As for playing myself; working some on TSLRCM, doing some The Old Republic... not really gaming that much

Cheers for the heads up.

Gah, so sloooooow.

[Jaedar]

Herve's last attempt to screw Bethesda over.

I have to say it's a lot better than embezzling money for an MMO.