Games General

[Nichi]

@Pit: You didn't like Portal? :[

On a similar note, if there's one I want removed, it'd be Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures. Played it through once, have zero desire to ever play it again; that game simply sucked. I made a post in this topic months back, going over my thoughts on it after I beat it :\

[Krizonar]

While not really the same as removed, I thought when I preordered Skyrim I was preordering for console, then when I got there, they handed me a Steam card and were out of console versions. It's literally the only windows game I have, so I have not played it since I beat it. It's not worth it to have an entire partition and require a reboot to play one already completed single-player-only game.
It was fun when it came out, but it would have been just as fun on a console and I'd still be able to mess around with it easily. I've always been disappointed they thought I meant computer Skyrim.

[Nichi]

Like me with Portal 2. I love that game, but I wish I had just preordered it through Steam instead of Gamestop; as I had a gigantic day 1 patch as soon as I got home with it, that I may as well just download the entire game from Steam in one go :\

[Pitkin]

Pentium, the idea of Portal is very interesting, but I didn't really enjoy its mechanics, story or puzzles up to when I stopped. In general, there are very few games in the first-person view that I like: I hate coordinating jumps, among other things. ^^;

I'm more of a Democracy-Tropico-Arcanum player. *nod*

[Nichi]

Ahh. Truth be told, I'm not crazy about first-person games; there are some I do like (For example, the Elder Scrolls series, Doom, Goldeneye, and most things Valve has released), but I don't really go out of my way for the genre.

Truth be told, I've never tried anything like Tropico; I know my bro-in-law loves SimCity, which I heard is similar :3

[Pitkin]

I traditionally love all SimCity games since the very first one I had on Amiga, but couldn't touch the most recent one due to its DRM.

Tropico 3 I really love for its political humour and music, but the 4th game was a let-down. They're about to release the 5th game this month, but knowing it's going to have again ~20 minuscule DLCs to for some dollars each is putting me off.

[Nichi]

Yeah. I miss the days when DLC was actually just an extra and didn't feel like it was absolutely required to properly play the game :\

These days, instead of feeling more like a nice bonus, it feels more like "you bought this football game for $60, and now you need to pay an additional $2.50 to have us inflate the ball so you can actually play, plus $15 to have goals, an additional $20 so you can actually control your character..."

[Bella]

@Pit: That's too bad; I was curious to hear what your take would be on the gender and relationship dynamics of Portal 2, if you got that far. I suppose there's no substitution for personal tastes, though. ^^;

[Nichi]

@Bella: I have 2k setup at grandma's office, so after I get off work and if you're around, want to attempt co-op on Portal 2? :3

[Bella]

Sure. ^^

[stewartsage]

I don't own nor desire the ownership of any Half-Life game.  Full of consequences or not.

[Nichi]

Bella and I just did Portal 2 co-op. Went surprisingly well; nothing like when Game Grumps did it ^^;;

Finished the first 2 sets of chambers; will likely tackle more at a later date :3

[Bella]

That was a lot of fun and not at all as frustrating as I imagined it'd be. Thanks for being so patient with my occasional lack of coordination (and occasionally accidentally killing you). ^^;

Also HECK YEAH OLD APERTURE FACILITIES ... it's less spooky there with someone else, haha.

[Nichi]

It's alright; we actually did screw up less than I anticipated ^^;;

Also, indeed -w-
(But could have benefited from more Cave Johnson)

EDIT: Just finished Half-Life 2: Episode Two. Now, aside from the expansions for the first game (Blue Shift and Opposing Force; currently playing the former), both of which are up for debate on if they're actually canon to the story, I now wait for Half-Life 3...which will likely be released alongside Diddy Kong Racing 2 and a new Guns 'N' Roses album.

[Cockleshell]

ah yes, the eternal wait for HL3.