toxicitizen

I almost grabbed it when I saw the deal, but then I remembered the SP is very meh :/

I agree with that to an extent. A game can still feel short regardless of how well-paced it is. On the other hand, a normal length game can feel too long if it has horrible pacing. But that also usually means the game has problems other than pacing. I don't really have an opinion on RE5, though. It felt neither too short or too long to me, but this is coming from someone who liked it enough to replay on all difficulties and platinum it. That's not to say it was perfectly paced, though. But personally, I find that as long as a game doesn't stretch past the 12-15 hours mark, then pacing issues are less of a problem for me.

That doesn't sound right... I mean, don't get me wrong, it would be fucking awesome. But I don't recall RE5 being particularly short, and I would be very surprised if Capcom actually put what is essentially two full-length campaigns in a single release. Doesn't fit with their usual greedy business model. If both campaigns were to be that long, I would fully expect them to find a way to charge you double the regular price, with separate releases or something. But now that you mention it, the two campaigns thing is actually a bit reminiscent of the old "Scenario A/Scenario B" thing. That's actually pretty cool.

Just came out on GOG yesterday. I've wanted to try it for a while since I've heard for years that it's this amazing classic, kinda like X-Com.

I also liked RE5 a lot, but after having replayed RE4 a few months ago, well, it puts into perspective a lot of what made RE5 disappointing. This, though. This is looking fucking awesome. Still appears to be action heavy, but anyone still expecting a proper survival horror game from Capcom at this point is either naive or stupid. So no big surprise there. But yeah, Resident Evil is a staple of my childhood so I'm always going to get excited for a new main entry in the series. But after RE5, I honestly didn't expect to be this damn excited as soon as they revealed RE6. But I'm really liking what I just saw. Especially the Nemesis/Tyrant vibe I'm getting from that huge monster dude. Fuck that Ouroboros shit from RE5. It sucked how almost every single boss was pretty much the same mass of black gelatinous crap. Bring back proper zombies and mutated freaks with giant eyeballs in all the wrong places and I'll be happy. And yeah, I really hope they don't build it around co-op again, though. Resident Evil is a single-player experience as far as I'm concerned and 5 constantly felt like I was "playing it wrong" by insisting to play alone.

It's the other way around, imo. Kasumi was fine but a bit forgettable while Overlord got pretty damn good in the last 20mins or so. Shadow Broker is the best DLC of anything ever, though. Should probably get around to playing Arrival soon, though, considering ME3 is right around the corner. Feeling a bit dumb to have bought it full price back in october considering I haven't touched it yet and it's now on sale, but eh, it's only 2$.

Yeah, I wasn't suggesting that they added it solely because of EA. As for older games still being available, it's not that far-fetched to assume that it might only apply to current (as in games that still have DLC scheduled) and new releases going forward and not to previously available games with no new content on the way. But yeah, no way to know for sure. I'm also really curious about what exactly happened there.

That's true, but it's possible Valve added that requirement in the last couple of years, after they realized EA insists on selling their DLC outside of Steam. At least that would be my guess.

Thing is, Valve can't put EA's content on sale if they don't want them to. I think it has more to do with them not wanting to give a cut to Valve. Also, I heard something about Valve requiring that DLC for a game be available through Steam, essentially forcing them to do so. I have no idea if the last part is bs or not, though, but it does kind of make sense when you consider that both Dragon Age 2 and Crysis 2 disappeared from Steam right around the time their first DLC came out.

Yeah, totally saw this coming. Pretty glad I switched to PS3 a few months back.

Currently 6$ on Greenman Gaming. Deal ends in about 8 hours, though. I passed on it when it was about 7$ a week or so ago. I honestly have no idea what changed... I think that after spending about an hour tonight shopping around for earbuds and finding nothing, I just wanted to spend money on something. Probably also helps that today I found out I don't have a single book to buy this semester. That leaves me with quite a bit of extra cash this month

Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention Mantis. But I did mention The End and Ray vs Rex as being particularly good. Can't say I'm a fan of The Fury, though. Actually, now that I think of it, the Cobras always felt pretty generic and uninspired to me. Especially The Fear and The Pain. And I thought all four of the B&B from MGS4 were even worse in that regard.

Been meaning to invest in a proper mouse mat for a while since my Deathadder gets all wonky when I put it straight on the desk and the shitty Dell one I'm using atm is, well... shitty. It's too small, ugly and keeps sliding and won't stay in place. Was over at my aunt's during the holidays and my cousin had this one and showed it to me. It's fairly large, which is nice. But more importantly: it sticks to whatever surface you put it on! No more pausing the game to readjust the mat! Now I just need to invest in a fancy keyboard and I'll have all the shiny gamer toys I need

I see people complaining about boss fights very often, but personally I love them. They're by no means necessary, but I definitely enjoy a good boss fight. The God of War series has some great ones. They're not particularly unique and usually pretty simplistic but I think they're just crazy fun. Of course, unlike most people I have absolutely nothing against QTEs, so it's possible I'm in the minority here. Then there's the Metal Gear Solid series. I'm a huge fan of it, but most of the boss fights in it are either too easy or just annoying. Except for the sniping boss fight in MGS3. That one is just such a unique experience and I don't think any other game has come close to pulling off something so diffferent in terms of boss fights. I replayed the game last month and methodically crawling around scanning the jungle for 15mins only to finally spot the old bastard and shoot him right in his fucking head is still as satisfying as it was 8 years ago. The ones from MGS4 were just awful, though. Well, the two against Ocelot were pretty cool, especially the final one. But the Beauty and the Beast ones? Just... blergh. Whenever I replay the game I just load up on RPG ammo and one shot them. Oh and I also liked the ME2 reaper one. It had a kind of old school feel to it that I thought was really cool.

I also picked up the Indie Royale but in my case it was mostly for Nuclear Dawn. Was curious about it after TotalBiscuit mentioned it in a few videos and the gameplay looks fun enough but I was hesitant to spend 5-10$ on it alone. Now I'm really glad I held off. Fractal also looks nice. Haven't looked up Super Crossfire yet, though.

Ugh... double post. Oh well... So, I imagine I'm probably quite late to this but I just found out about Chameleon Circuit. Not quite sure yet of the actual musical quality, but I find the idea of Doctor Who-inspired music to be pretty cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_xB1AYhlCE

Digital copy, straight from Blizzard's website. Had been thinking of getting StarCraft 2 but after spending so much during the Steam sale I decided to wait a bit. So I got this instead. I actually never finished it, if you can believe that. More accurately, I never played any of the Zerg or Protoss campaigns. In fact, the only one I ever touched is the first Terran one from the original and I don't think I ever finished it.

I guess it all boils down to what you personally prefer because I feel the complete opposite. The fact that they removed all the strategy and depth of the combat in DAII to focus more on action resulted in me having zero interest in playing it. I don't think that automatically makes it a bad game, but they removed all the elements that made me love DA:O as much as I did. :/ The game could be unforgiving at times, but fuck if I didn't love how I could get my ass handed to me in a fight, only to reload, adjust my strategy and completely dominate. Some of the most satisfying combat ever, imo.

Well, I think it's fair to consider it "beat" after a single game considering there's no story and a single game can easily last longer than the average shooter. But yeah, personally I would at least go for something like each type of victory at least once or something similar before considering "finished". Pretty much has infinite replay value, anyway.

Ugh, fucking hell, had like 3 whole paragraphs written up but then some copy/paste "accident" made me lose it all and fuck retyping it all. Basically, it varies from game to game. Some will put them in their Steam directory, some will upload them to Steam Cloud in which case you don't need to worry about it, some will put them in My Documents and then some will put them in weird ass places like C:\Users\your username\AppData\ etc... Some games will also use different directories depending on the version of windows you're running.

Yeah, pretty much that. Good idea with noting the dates of completion as well. Hadn't thought of that. I think I'll also keep a goal list of sorts. A more selective backlog of games I want to try to beat before the end of the year. Curious about one thing. Civ V is listed under completed. At what point did you consider it completed? First victory or something more elaborate? So far it's looking like my first of 2012 is going to be the original Dawn of War. Skipped the expansions the first time I played it, so I decided to start over from scratch and work my way through the whole series. Space Marine made me crave more 40K.

I actually got a cool idea from reddit about this. I'll keep a list of the games I complete in 2012, in a .txt file or something. Should be interesting to see how much it grows and how fast. I'd be curious to know how many I completed in 2011, but I really don't feel like going back through every single page of this thread... The guy who thought of it found that it quickly became a strong motivator to complete more games as he found himself wanting to keep adding to the list. Should at the very least be a fun little experiment.