Random Babbling Thread 119

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Hi all, every time I see a post listed on a game I like it turns out to be something EE. Darn I'm still playing the originals!

 

It's not like you can't participate in the discussions; The games are about 95% the same.

 

I’ve only had one experience with uPlay – it might have been Far Cry3: Blood Dragon (which was a great game, crappy save system notwithstanding). I didn’t find uPlay that bad, other than for the frustrating initial account setup process. Of course, given that I had trouble just figuring out how to activate my free PoE key, that might just have been me.

Anyway, I think this year’s Steam sale is one of my worst. Or best. Depends on whether you view buying lots of games a good thing or not. So far, I’ve bought 9 games for just under $30 Cdn. I have 16 games in my library that I haven’t touched, plus I’ve just started Fallout: New Vegas (which I bought 2 years ago), and I have about a half dozen that I’ve started that I may or may not continue with (probably not). And Portal Stories: Mel is coming out next week. At the rate I play, it will likely take me 3 years or more to get through everything. Of course, thankfully I’m a looong ways away from Kenneth’s unplayed library size.

 

Even with my impressive appetite for games and aptitude for playing them, I don't imagine I'll ever play all of them.

I guess I'm overcompensating a bit for all the games I've pirated in the past (and to a much smaller degree in the present). Plus, I do what I can to support indie game devs.

 

I seem to recall a discussion you had a while back with another SP member over game-buying behaviour.

Consider two (purely hypothetical) gamers:

Person 1 - pays full price for a newly-released game. Plays game. Enjoys game. Gets what he considers to be his money's worth.

Person 2 - waits a couple of years for the price to drop, and for a sale. Because the games are cheaper, he buys lots of them. So many, in fact, that he ends up not playing most of them.

Question - in this purely hypothetical situation, who is the smarter buyer?

 

That's easy. In the game of Life, the one who dies with the most toys wins.

 

And then some adventures come and loot the whole lot.

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playing IWD EE. Surprised how much I have forgotten. Almost a new game.

 

i wish i could erasemy memories of the infinity engine games and play them for the "first" time again

 

I don't. Then I'd have to look up where to find the best items all over again.

Planescape: Torment - now that's a game I wish I could play for the first time again. Though I suspect that after all this time, most of it would seem brand new again.

 

Not having played the EE versions I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.

 

I agree wholeheartedly, out of all the IE games, it's the best one there is, and the one i love the most - the characters, the setting and the writing are all great, it's probably also the one game i've replayed the most to date .

 

I've just realized that if you replace "feminism" with "therapy" in "I need feminism" signs, it all makes way more sense.

 

I can be such a moron at times. Turned on my modem, made coffee, no connection. Shaved and took a shower, no connection. Checked connections, checked modem, no connection! Then I remembered to turn on the router. It helps to have everything on if you want a system to work!

 

@xosmi You realize you just insulted all 10' poles!

 

Must be why they're all looking so sad
This one here was so angry, it's shaking with rage :

 

Nothing to see here.

 

Ugh, a sphene gem. "Titanite" may sound pretty cool, but I've always hated its disgusting colors and uninspired shapes.