I might bring him back. I’ll probably talk about it next stream. Admittedly, I was worried about the joke wearing thin over time, so I didn’t want to drag it out through the whole game (and I also didn’t want to spend forever and a half on Highway 17). But people really seemed to love Smitty, so who knows what will happen…
And:
The series so far has been Playstation exclusive.
“Lost Planet 3”, an amazing game. Also, " Need for Speed: The Run", “Black Mesa”, and " Metro 2033".
It was downright massive too. I used the Boots of Blinding Speed with autorun and the minimap just to get around faster 
I would play it again if there’s a way to get rid of the stupid freaking cliff racers.
Let’s chill on the Sonic bashing, folks. You have the games you like, others have the games they like. You don’t have to agree.
There’s actually a mod that levels them and makes quite a few of them passive to make them less annoying
Does anyone else think Opposing Force is the hardest of the HL1 trilogy? It might just be my unfamiliarity with all the different enemies and weapons added, but I feel like I have to quicksave around every corner where I didn’t in Half-Life and especially Blue Shift.
I can’t honestly tell without a bias anymore. I played HL1 so many times its ingrained deep into my brain and isn’t even hard on hard anymore. I’m far less familiar with the expansions from GearBox.
Is it possible to play BS and OP full screen on a 1920x1080 monitor, or do you just have to compromise since it’s an old game?
Never actually played them before. 
What I played today: League. Patch 4.20/season 5 pre-season. Then some Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. When people say Death from Darksiders 2 moves like the prince, they weren’t kidding.
Far Cry 4
It’s pretty good so far. Fuck rhinos tho. Not in the sexual way, for all you sick bastards out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WjkRm26WRU
Ancestral Tomb in Morrowind with dungeon music from Daggerfall, (dungeon music system courtesy of Morrowind Acoustic Overhaul)
Space Station 13, on the official Baystation 12 roleplaying server.
A very dishevelled-looking, armed group turned up on our station and demanded to talk to the captain. The Head of Personnel talked with them in his absence. After a great deal of discussion, they claimed that they were from the future, and had travelled back in time to stop an event in which our station’s captain would destroy an unknown vessel and plunge the alliance into a war with an alien race that would end in the extinction of the human race. Their goal, as revealed later, was to assume command instead of the Captain and change history.
We were intensely skeptical at first, but after an unknown alien appeared from a supposedly sealed maintenance room with no way in, their story gained a bit more credibility. They explained that the aliens were attempting to follow them back in time and keep them from changing history. The Head of Security, HoP, and to a limited extent even the emergency response team started to believe them, and began arming up and helping them to fortify the station against the incoming attack.
They were, without a doubt, the best Syndicate infiltration team I’ve ever seen, even if they did technically fail to get the Captain’s nuclear authentication disk.
Yeah Smash Bros boyeeee!!!
Gah I wish I had more time to play this game right now but I have work tomorrow and a full day planned Saturday, Sunday gonna tear it up for sure though. Initially all I can say is that it’s basically more Smash. Nothing radically different, if you’ve played a previous one you can play this one. Exploring all the new content, mastering the new characters, creating and playing custom maps and characters, and understanding the particular tuning of this game (rough impression is that it’s somewhere between Melee and Brawl) promises lots of fun new stuff to do though.
Also got a Samus amiibo and I think it is hella tight.
Patchus Maximus just finished running. Hnnngggghhhhhh.
The Steam versions have proper resolution and aspect ratio for large screens.
EDIT: Perkus Maximus is pretty damned cool, although I’m admittedly not all that far in yet. I’ve also got a boatload of other mods installed. Probably the most notable is ASIS, because it’s made all of the combat a hell of a lot harder. I was getting swamped by Draugr in bleak falls barrow, and they were not going down easy.
It’s a little bit unnerving how cool my GTX 970 is running. I’m used to the 580 heating up my room when I play Skyrim.
EDIT: I was also playing Frostfall for the first time, too, but I’m yanking that out of my load order right quick. A bit 2real4me. It just adds tedious maintenance work to the game. I think I’ll keep Realistic Needs & Diseases, though.
Skyrim had been pretty fubar for me after I modded it up this weekend, even with the SMME increased memory fix, and I finally figured out why: I was using an old ini that had an increased uGridsToLoad setting. I guess you can’t do that when you have a billion and a half graphics mods installed. Back to five, and I’ve got ugly pop-in, but at least the game isn’t randomly crashing all over the place anymore.
Space Station 13. The AI got hit by an ion storm, which adds a randomly generated law to their list. We just sorta rolled with it, and by the end of the round:
Borrowed Xenoblade Chronicles from a friend, sat down and played it for five hours straight. Afterwards I realized it’s been a long time since I played a good RPG.
^ I really want to try that one.
Well, take this with a grain of salt because I’m only five hours in, but I think it’s worth the prices you’re likely to find it at (~$75). I mean I’m five hours in and barely started, but it went by fast because I was having fun and getting into the story. So for a game of this amount and quality of content I feel like it would be worth the high price. (I am hoping my friend will let me finish the game though so I don’t have to buy it right now though 
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Some comments on the game itself, if it helps inform your decisions any:
-You’ll probably find this game a mix of familiarity and freshness. It looks kinda like Final Fantasy, it plays kinda like KOTOR, and sounds kinda like the cast of Sherlock playing Chrono Trigger, but it does everything well. It’s different enough to be interesting, but familiar enough for you to pick up pretty quickly.
-Most of the main characters are quite likable. The British VAs lend a unique personality to the game and to their characters. Additionally, I think the characters are probably just better written than in most JRPGs. The main hero isn’t some whiny idiot, nor is he some bombastically inspirational figure. He’s just a normal guy, albeit rather intelligent and scientific, trying to figure out mysteries that intrigue him and do what he thinks is right.
-The soundtrack is great. Even if it was just the song “You Will Know Our Names”, it would still be amazing.
-Gameplay is fun and engaging. As I mentioned earlier, it reminds me a bit of KOTOR, although much more fluid and dynamic, allowing you to lock on and circle enemies while you choose special attacks that have enhanced effects depending on where you hit the enemy with it. The more active combat system is probably why there are no consumable combat items - all healing, buffing, and reviving is done by abilities or built into the combat system so you don’t have to leave the action to browse a menu.
-The world is pretty open so far. Not like and Elder Scrolls game but already better than later Final Fantasy games, and just judging from a very rough “world map”, the whole world is going to be huge.
-You can buy a bikini top and bottom for your female companion from the first shop owner in the game. I would be kind of upset but it kind of crosses the border into ridiculous. Plus you don’t have to make her wear it, there are other options that give better bonuses in other stats. Plus you can put your dudes into swim trunks if you really wanna.
-Graphics are definitely on the low end. It looks good for a Wii game, but that’s not saying much. Fortunately you’ll probably won’t even notice, given how engaging the actual game is.
TL;DR - I’m really loving this game and I think other RPG fans will love it too.
My modded-out-the-wazoot Skyrim. There are six dragons circling over the fields outside of Whiterun. Six. I was able to pull two of them off and kill them individually, but it takes like half an hour each time because they’re so goddamned tough with both Deadly Dragons and Dragon Combat Overhaul installed and running.
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