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Hotline Miami, Sonic Generations, Lego Batman 2 and my existing backlog should tide me over until the Christmas sale. I still need to get used to being able to play most games at 1080p with a reasonable frame rate without having to turn everything down to low.
So I was talking to my mom, and I mentioned The Walking Dead game and how it made me cry too much, and her reaction was something along the lines of "you cried over a zombie computer game?" which was about what I expected. But then I was like yeah, and she said its hard to imagine caring that much about a video game, but that she was intrigued.
Then I convinced her to play it sometime after I get home tomorrow. I'm actually really interested to see how this goes.
I doubt it would be that hilarious.
biowareaccordingtomom is great though.
My mother has repeatedly claimed that she would have one hell of a time designing video games.
She doesn't care about playing them, though.
Planescape Torment. This game. This writing. This dialogue. This is absolutely wonderful.
That game. Every time I play it, I love the writing, the dialogue, the art, the atmosphere...but the engine is just so godawful that I've never gotten very far.
I don't even have a problem with the engine, since I grew up playing way too much Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale, but every time I try to play it, I never get very far before I just sort of... forget. And I really do love it while I'm playing it.
I'm not talking about the 2E D&D engine; I'm talking about Torment specifically. Baldur's Gate seems much more playable thus far. Torment just...well, frankly, it would really benefit from just cutting combat.
Oh. I guess I just never really played enough to notice that much of a difference.
How are you finding Baldur's Gate, by the way?
I'm not very far just now, but it's grabbed my interest. There are like ten games I'm trying to get through right now, so it's slow progress.
What kind of character are you playing?
The one time I actually beat the game I was playing a Mage, and the character I just started is an Inquisitor.
I can basically speedrun everything in Candlekeep at this point, I made so many characters as a kid.
@All the PC:T talk:
This might be a thing.
^^Sorcerer. Because I like magic, but can't stand Vancian magic.
Alright, I started up the Witcher 2 and 1) I immediately saw why Alex likes it so much, 2) the plot, combat, visuals, interface, pretty much everything is FAR better than the first game.
This is going to be a good winter break.
Are you playing on easy mode?
If not, you might want to restart now. The first-act boss is absurd.
^I am.
Doesn't sorceror also have Vancian magic? But maybe it was different in 2e; I'm thinking 3.5e.
They have spells per day, but don't have to prepare them in advance.
How does that make it not Vancian? I thought Vancian just meant magic spells are neatly packaged in spells that have very particular effects.
Wikipedia says that Vancian magic means you have to choose in advance what spells you're going to use in a given day (or whatever other time period happens to be used in your game).
Wikipedia has a page on Vancian magic? If it does I couldn't find it.
But I did find this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VancianMagic
It seems that the definition encompasses both what I mentioned and what CU mentioned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(gaming)
Alex, have you played this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q7cTvQklWvU#!
Thinking I want to learn japanese...Too many games I want to play.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/121007-Ken-Levine-on-BioShock-Infinites-Bro-Tastic-Cover-Art
So, Bioshock Infinite's cover is designed to appeal (exclusively) to people who have never heard of Bioshock.
I get the logic, but...-_-
Wait seriously? that's kinda dumb. Unless you are a kid just getting into gaming, chances are you've heard of Bioshock before.
To be fair, you can easily have not heard of Bioshock if your interest in gaming is only Madden, Halo and CoD. But the thing is, it's simply impossible for me to believe that nobody searches for games they might like outside of those.