Key

^stop being a pussy

The Batlord

No. I just got all the way to the beginning of the medical wing section, after having completed the first android part, and immediately quit cause **** that ****, I need fresh beer to take on that hellhole.

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The Batlord

Due to my recent surplus in funds, I arbitrarily decided to get Far Cry 3 from Steam. Some initial headaches from having to toy around with graphics levels, and more importantly constant crashing every five or ten minutes.

In the end it turned out to be one of those dumb things where some Windows thing that you would never have guessed would be interfering with a god damn computer game. I actually had to turn off the "Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service", which I have never used, will probably never use, and have only ever opened by accident. WTF, Bill Gates?

But now all is well and the game is running like a dream. Haven't even been playing an hour and I already foresee myself being sucked into it. FC3 feels like Rockstar made a Fallout game, which is like, the best idea ever. An open-world game where I get to wander around a tropical island as a dumb American? Were Ubisoft reading my mind or something? There seems to be so much to do, from regular missions to a diverse set of side missions, that there's no way I'll make it through this game any time soon.

The plot, cinematics, and characters are also top-notch so far. And Vaas only needed one cut-scene to become one of my new favorite video game villains ever. He has that foul-mouthed, low-class goon quality of GTA villain/protagonist/pedestrian, but with a seriousness that makes him unsettling as all hell: sadistically friendly dialogue, which turns on a dime to outbursts of explosive rage; facial expressions of almost boyish innocence, belied by his eyes, intense and malevolent; and his tendency to both mock and seemingly comfort his victims before killing them without hesitation. Creepy ****ing dude and he's awesome.

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duga

Far Cry 3 was good until I realized it had devolved into doing nothing but collecting treasures and completing tasks just to clear out the map. I agree about Vaas, though. I love the actor that plays him. He's been in a ton of TV recently (Better Call Saul, for example).

If you haven't played Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, you need to play it. Michael Biehn does the voice acting in that one. It is the single greatest homage to 80's action/sci fi movies ever created.

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The Batlord

Aw ****, son. I got StarCraft 1/Broodwar a little while back, but haven't been playing it since my resolution makes it so that the game only plays in a small square at the top left corner of the screen. It didn't make the game unplayable, but it was incredibly annoying and made the mini-map kind of useless (especially whenever I would have gotten to missions on bigger maps).

There was no option in my display menu to go below 1024x768 (SC's native is 640x480) and any fix I tried had no effect, but I've finally figured out how to set a custom resolution that goes down to 800x600. There are black bars on the sides of the screen, but the game is otherwise now fullscreen, and I assume that it being from 1998, that my laptop screen is wider than SC was meant to be displayed, so it would have to stretch to reach true fullscreen anyway. So I am now happy as a bug in a rug filled with many, slutty, female bugs.

The graphics are primitive, the unit-pathing horrendous (I tried sending some SCVs to one part of the map, and they proceeded to head in the opposite direction, toward enemy territory, regardless of the fact that there was no path to their objective from their wayward course), being only able to command twelve units at a time is a pain in the ass, getting your workers to efficiently mine requires far more tedious micro-managing than in SC2, and did I mention that the unit-pathing is horrendous? (Seriously, trying to send even a small force up a narrow ramp is like herding cats, especially if the units in front have to stop to attack something).

But I am stoked to be playing a game that seems to be universally regarded as superior to its sequel. I think nostalgia colors a lot of old school SC veterans' views that the mechanics of the original are better than SC2 (and I suspect elitism plays a large role as well, since it is definitely more difficult to do basic things), but I'm curious if the claims are true that the races were more balanced and the units just better overall.

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Mr. Charlie

Great game in every sense and my fave in the series. 4 was pretty wank in compaison.

Ashwell John

Playing snake game.

The Batlord

TFW two people who you don't remember ever battling or conversing with on StarCraft 2 have sent you friend requests... wtf?

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The Batlord

I watched my friend play this years ago and have been wanting it for myself for a long time. Steam and their evil sales made it so that I could get it and the expansions for like five bucks or some ****, so obvs I had to snatch it up.

Oh my god is this game awesome. Much of the awesomeness of Civ, but without the steep learning curve that inevitably leaves all of your cities starving to death, and the battles are just epic... like, epic in the appropriate sense of the word. As the Julii, I have taken half of the Gauls' territory, about the same of the Dacians, and am currently engaged in some seriously massive warfare with both at the same time on opposite ends of the ancient world... because my empire is baller-size like that.

So far, my proudest moment has been crushing a 1200-man, Gaulish army with one less than half that size, while sustaining relatively few losses myself. Granted, my victory may not have been so complete had I not managed to catch the enemy general's unit out in the open near the beginning of the engagement, completely demoralizing his troops and starting a chain reaction of routed units, but a glorious win is a glorious win.

Sadly, the Roman general who won that battle was slain in a smaller assault the very next turn. It didn't stop his army from annihilating the Gauls down to the last man, but it was a bittersweet victory. Luckily his second-in-command took control of the army, and led it to many victories against those barbarian scum... despite the fact that, according to his stats, he's basically a useless turd. But he's a useless turd war hero, who is now winning even more victories in the east, against the Dacians, making him quite possibly my most battle-tested general, perhaps second only to my faction leader.

I'm tempted to make him the faction heir, despite him being a turd.

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NutellaPL

I'm playing Witcher 3 at the moment.
It's really well made and I have sooo much fun playing it that I would recommend it to everyone.