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bhamv3

bhamv3

I remember playing Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles on my old Genesis. I recall there was one Sonic 2 boss that you had to jump over, and the boss was designed with Sonic's jumping in mind, but Knuckles couldn't jump as high as Sonic, so when you fought that boss as Knuckles you pretty much had to constantly take hits, then try to retrieve at least some rings before they all disappeared.

Boy that was one rage-inducing boss.

Still awesome games though.
 
Gared

Gared

Picked up Towns in the Steam sale... I'm just going to have to accept that these games (Towns, Gnomoria, Dwarf Fortress) just aren't for me. Glad I only spent $8.20 (after taxes) on Towns. I'll just stick to Skyrim for now.
 
Jay

Jay

I love the concept of towns, I really do... but just the way it plays... and the graphics... I don't ask for much neither... I still replay buck rodgers on the genesis every year but i cant do it.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Finally got around to playing Mount and Blade after having bought it last summer. Was enjoying it until a bug bilked me of my entire life savings. Now I'm not sure I'll ever play it again.
 
SpecialKO

SpecialKO

Started playing Into the Dead on my iPad on the train.

Cool concept of an infinite running game in the first-person perspective as you try and escape from zombies surrounding you after your helicopter crashes in the wilderness post-breakout.
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

GasBandit said:
Finally got around to playing Mount and Blade after having bought it last summer. Was enjoying it until a bug bilked me of my entire life savings. Now I'm not sure I'll ever play it again.
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I feel dirty suggesting this but there should be a gold cheat you can use to give yourself back an amount close to the one you lost.

I only suggest it because Mount and Blade is totally rad and you should never feel like not playing it due to a bug stealing your joy.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Azurephoenix said:
I feel dirty suggesting this but there should be a gold cheat you can use to give yourself back an amount close to the one you lost.

I only suggest it because Mount and Blade is totally rad and you should never feel like not playing it due to a bug stealing your joy.
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It was an especially aggravating bug, too. I'd basically just escaped from raiders, and had bet everything I had left on myself in a tournament at every round. I stood to make a nice pile, and sure enough, made it to the final round... then the other guy dismounts his horse when against a wall, and it puts him THROUGH the arena wall where we can't hit each other. No time limit on the match, and no way for me to win the match. So I was doomed.
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

Ahhh... they changed that in Warband. You can only bet set amounts now... not everything you own ;). Still annoying though.

I have a staggering amount of time logged in Warband. I'm up to 5 cities and a crapload of castles in my own kingdom now!
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Azurephoenix said:
Ahhh... they changed that in Warband. You can only bet set amounts now... not everything you own ;). Still annoying though.

I have a staggering amount of time logged in Warband. I'm up to 5 cities and a crapload of castles in my own kingdom now!
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Well, no, it was also set amounts... but I was left with such a paltry sum after my misfortunes that going in each round's maximum (100 dinar) soon exhausted me, and I had to start picking lower denominations such as 50 just to place any bet at all. That tournament was going to get me back on my feet with some seed money... and a bug just made it all go (fartnoise).
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Azurephoenix said:
Ahhh... they changed that in Warband. You can only bet set amounts now... not everything you own ;). Still annoying though.
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It's still the best way to make a shit ton of money early on, though honestly I could never get too far into the game despite spending hours with it. It just takes way too fucking long to get any kind of reliable income going.
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

AshburnerX said:
It's still the best way to make a shit ton of money early on, though honestly I could never get too far into the game despite spending hours with it. It just takes way too fucking long to get any kind of reliable income going.
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It's a balancing act between the amount of troops you've raised, their veterancy and the productivity of your towns and castles. I think I'm making 10,000 coins in profit each pay period and that's after raising troops and fighting wars. I was up to about 17,000 but a bunch of my hamlets were razed. I made the perpetrators pay though.

The transition from having no holdings to trying to capture your first city on your own is very very difficult though.
 
Jay

Jay

My only issue with the game is that opponent lords sure do get elite units pretty damn quickly.

It's come to the point Suno is Alkatraz.
 
Frank

Frank

Farcry 3, legitimate copy, new drivers. Pretty fun so far. Fuck komodo dragons and their propensity of attacking me out of nowhere when I'm lining up a sniper scope.

Also, I just learned that Steam counts the time you have Uplay open (when it's what opened Uplay) as your time played in Farcry.
 
SpecialKO

SpecialKO

Frank said:
Farcry 3, legitimate copy, new drivers. Pretty fun so far. Fuck komodo dragons and their propensity of attacking me out of nowhere when I'm lining up a sniper scope.
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Those fuckers are mean as hell. And they travel in packs. I ended up with 9 skins by my second hours of playing because I got jumped by komodos in the middle of a firefight with pirates (fortunately, most of them attacked the pirates first).
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

I've only got a few hours on FC3, kind of frustrated one of the early missions forces me to stealth around. If I wanted to play stealth I'd be playing Dishonored.
 
Necronic

Necronic

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I may have to pick up Farcry3. I loved the second one. Also back playing Borderlands 2 for the moment. Been playing the mechomancer. Looks like they kind of hosed the balance with that one.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Necronic said:
I may have to pick up Farcry3. I loved the second one. Also back playing Borderlands 2 for the moment. Been playing the mechomancer. Looks like they kind of hosed the balance with that one.
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Yeah, her and Axton are both pretty OP in terms of their special. Hers is particularly nasty thanks to it being a great tank for a good chunk of the game.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Yeah, Axton's turret got a major upgrade over Roland's in terms of power, but it lost all the useful healing and ammo recharging stuff. Still, it absolutely murders things.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Especially so in early-game for him and the Mechanomancer, whereas I found Salvador's Gunzerking to be horrible since it relies solely on how good your guns are. Later on, it's nice, but for Flint it was nearly useless. Deathtrap and the turret ripped him apart, though.
 
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