What game should I play?

Dave · Jul 11, 2014

I've been unable to play a lot of games for a while now. But now that I have a new PC, I have a shitload of games and I don't know where to start. Here's the list of games I've loaded from Steam (or *fuck* UPlay).

I've played a lot:

Borderlands 2
Fallout New Vegas
Legend of Grimrock
Minecraft
Shadowrun Returns
Civ V
Skyrim
TF2
Deus Ex

Games I've played but not much:

Bioshock I & II
Bioshock Infinite
Kingdoms of Amalur (started it yesterday)
Guns of Icarus Online

Games I've never opened:

XCOM Enemy Unknown (or The Bureau)
The Darkness II
Tropico 4
Watch Dogs

Or check out my Steam profile and pick a game.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Edrondol/games?tab=all

If it's a game I've never opened I can record it (since I have the ability but have yet to test that ability).

Speaking of which, does anyone here have their own Twitch account? If not, I may make a Halforums one that anyone can use. I'll put the name/password here so anyone can upload. Let me know if that's a good or stupid idea.

strawman · Jul 11, 2014

Bioshock infinite. Finish it, it's worth it.

I've heard good things about xcom as well.

PatrThom · Jul 11, 2014

I think he should install one of the 128x128 photorealistic texture packs in Minecraft (the ones with the great water shaders), turn view distance up to max and graphics to Fancy, and see how he likes it then.

--Patrick

LordRendar · Jul 11, 2014

xcom enemy unknown is realy good.

Dave · Jul 11, 2014

PatrThom said:
I think he should install one of the 128x128 photorealistic texture packs in Minecraft (the ones with the great water shaders), turn view distance up to max and graphics to Fancy, and see how he likes it then.

--Patrick

Done. I'll be going to broadcast in a bit. http://www.twitch.tv/halforums

I did about an hour of Bioshock Infinite and it didn't save it! It was live, but didn't save. I suck at this!

Fun Size · Jul 11, 2014

Shag Tag.

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Okay, I just read the OP. Not changing my answer.

GasBandit · Jul 11, 2014

Honestly, I never really thought the high resolution texture packs for Minecraft were all that great.

But let me add another one to your list.

War Thunder.

It's free on steam, and is the most enjoyable combat flight simulator since Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. You can even play it with mouse if you don't have a joystick, and it works very well (I actually have a joystick but am finding I prefer mouse, how crazy is that).

Just beware the russians. The russian devs cheated and made them OP.

Dei · Jul 11, 2014

I actually don't like using high res textures in Minecraft, it makes it not feel like Minecraft to me. >.>

Ravenpoe · Jul 11, 2014

GasBandit said:
Honestly, I never really thought the high resolution texture packs for Minecraft were all that great.

But let me add another one to your list.

War Thunder.

It's free on steam, and is the most enjoyable combat flight simulator since Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. You can even play it with mouse if you don't have a joystick, and it works very well (I actually have a joystick but am finding I prefer mouse, how crazy is that).

Just beware the russians. The russian devs cheated and made them OP.

Those same people made Star Conflict, which was a decently fun space shooter that really wished it could be called Star Wars.

Dave · Jul 11, 2014

Downloading Warframe now. I'll record as I play it for the first time, even though I have no idea what I'm doing.

drifter · Jul 11, 2014

You should stream yourself playing that Hentai Academy game (or whatever it's called) that GasBandit played.

GasBandit · Jul 11, 2014

drifter said:
You should stream yourself playing that Hentai Academy game (or whatever it's called) that GasBandit played.

There is a LOT of prep into getting a game of Artificial Academy going. You gotta set up applocale to run japanese-region games, you gotta get the patches from hongfire, and THEN you have to create all the students one by one down to the last detail.

Jay · Jul 11, 2014

I'm playing the 2nd one. It's sooo good .

GasBandit · Jul 11, 2014

Jay said:
I'm playing the 2nd one. It's sooo good .

There wasn't any documentation on the new patch.. is it easy to figure out how to increase the interaction value?

Jay · Jul 11, 2014

That dlc is being worked on. One thing is for certain though, interactions are much faster in this game.

GasBandit · Jul 11, 2014

Jay said:
That dlc is being worked on. One thing is for certain though, interactions are much faster in this game.

Hrm. I still may wait until there's an official AAXPlay2.exe translation before I launch Halforums Academy 2.

PatrThom · Jul 11, 2014

GasBandit said:
Honestly, I never really thought the high resolution texture packs for Minecraft were all that great.

I'm actually not fond of them, either (aside from the better-looking water), but I thought it would be the sort of thing that would make for some good Twitching.
Vanilla v. upgraded, especially with a computer that can handle it finally.

--Patrick

GasBandit · Jul 11, 2014

@Dave I just watched your War thunder stream, and had a couple helpful hints.

In arcade battles, always be WEPping. Always. There's no drawback. In realistic/simulator you can burn out your engine, but in Arcade mode WEP just turns off after about a minute until the engine "cools off" then re-engages again.

"crews" at the bottom of the screen is just a slot for more planes. You can have more than 3 planes per battle, you just have to have crews to pilot them (many of the planes carry more than just a pilot). So basically those are "plane slots." You can open the first one up there for 10k, and the second one for a similar amount, after that it takes golden eagles (premium currency) to get more crews. You've already been awarded one plane, Thatch's F2A Buffalo, so you should get a crew and then assign the plane to that crew.

As you play, you get research points for shooting stuff/bombing stuff. These research points go to both upgrades for the plane that gets the points, and to work toward unlocking more planes. That big "research" panel you opened at the start is the list of things you can research.

"I feel like I didn't do much" you killed 7 ground targets. That's a very non-trivial contribution toward victory (victory in this game is almost always based on killing ground targets/bombing bases). Shooting down other planes is fun, but it's rare (especially in arcade mode) that there's ever a victory come from shooting down planes.

"Assists" just means you did damage to something and then someone else killed it. You still get points for that (research points and silver lion currency).

Your machine guns have a maximum effective range of about 800 meters (2500 feet). Hit the button (I think it's button 3 on the mouse, or maybe 2, I forget) to put a targeting bracket on what you want to kill, it will tell you the range. wait until it gets to 800 meters to start shooting. It's possible to hit something further off, but you have to really allow for gravity. If it's not standing still, forget it.

Also, you definitely want to put targeting brackets on any plane you chase, as that will make it easier to follow if it flies outside of your field of vision. It's rare that a dogfight doesn't turn into a furball, especially in low tiers, so it's important to keep track of your quarry like this. You can also hold left ALT to make the camera track your current target, very useful.