Rhino wrote on May 19, 2013, 22:42:

Fibrocyte wrote on May 19, 2013, 16:54:
Don't Starve is good but... when you die you lose everything and that's very discouraging. I don't think they should change that, but perhaps up the survivability a little. I spent a lot of time exploring the game w/o reading anything online so I died when night came... and I died when sanity got too low and my hallucinations were attacking me... and I died when the hounds first came because that was very unexpected... and I died by freezing once because I thought I had a little more time to reach my campfire at base.

Now that I know most of what will kill me, it's stupid mistakes that end up getting me. For example, I was collecting manure and accidentally clicking a beefalo instead of the manure pile and the entire herd massacred me in 1/2 a nanosecond.

Still, the game is very neat and well done. I've also not touched Adventure mode, yet.

I would disagree with the surviving aspect. It seems just fine for me, and some of your mistakes would be easily alleviated by paying a little more attention to the information that the game issues to the player. As an example, you mentioned dying when night came: I assume this was because you didn't build a fire; but as dusk starts to settle in the Wilson character says "It's getting late. I should make a fire."

If your sanity is depleting you should have expected bad things to start to happen as there are multiple screen effects to suggest that bad things are a-comin'. Along the same lines there are methods to increase sanity, most notable of which, early on, is making the garland head gear. The description for the garland headgear suggests exactly that: "Something to sooth the nerves."

There are other examples, too; but I don't want to come across as yelling "you suck, you worm" when I'm just trying to illustrate the point.

This may simply be different play styles but the game is, for me, absolutely fantastic, and what difficulty exists is offset to some degree by reading the information that is available to the player from within the game itself as well as making the appropriate interpretations thereof. I enjoy the humour, the variety of ways to achieve goals, and the regular discoveries of using different things to achieve the same result (often accidentally), such as getting fur off of the beefalo without attacking them.

InBlack wrote on May 20, 2013, 03:45:
I love how with every new Windows we lose so much ability to actually see whats going on under the hood, so to speak, not to mention how we continually keep getting a product that is less usable than the previous version. All in the service of the almighty lowest common denominator. In like 50 years most people wont even understand what a processor is, or what RAM does, everything will work like magic and if it doesnt then you will press a button and an engineer (magician) with remote access will fix it for you....Fuck you Microsoft.

deqer wrote on May 18, 2013, 04:18:
TF2 still sucks, though. It's too balanced, that it's actually handicapped.

Also filled with the current generation of kiddy teens, and servers with emo all-talk enabled, it's just garbage.

Don't waste your time with this one.

Krovven wrote on May 16, 2013, 04:44:

jacobvandy wrote on May 16, 2013, 01:55:
I don't get it... Is this some kind of permanent boost, or more like a "bonus XP weekend" thing that only lasts while you play during this time.

"Players who log in to defend Sanctuary between May 15 and May 21"

Slayblaze wrote on May 14, 2013, 13:58:
Ubi/Blue Byte's own Settlers Online is better (much better) than Anno, at least at this stage in Anno's development. The only thing I like more about Anno than Settlers is the slightly superior updated engine being used. If they could port that over to Settlers it would be a win/win for Blue Byte.

DukeFNukem wrote on May 13, 2013, 22:21:
And taxing violet video games will accomplish what exactly? *crickets chirping*

So violet video games are "okay" with Joe Biden as long as he gets a cut of the money. Do I have the correct interpretation on this matter?

CJ_Parker wrote on May 12, 2013, 10:29:

KS wrote on May 12, 2013, 10:00:
Here's the exploit: The company continues to convince people to pay for the series in spite of it being fairly boring to many.

badda-boom!

Yep. For kiddies like yourself with an attention span shorter than your penis who need non-stop "badda-boom!" ... "badda-boom!" action, the TES games may in fact be a bit boring.
For us adults it's a slightly different story. Maybe you'll understand in a decade or so when you're in your teens.

Now fuck off and go play some CoD, CS, Angry Birds or a Lego game, kthxbye!

Xero wrote on May 11, 2013, 11:02:
The only impressive thing I've seen here was the dude's coat flapping around and we've seen that before on Mafia 2 :/ Where is the REAL tech at???

TurdFergasun wrote on May 9, 2013, 14:28:

LittleMe wrote on May 9, 2013, 12:54:
We live in a tyrannical socialist state. Don't underestimate the current degree of human insanity.

propeganada

Julio wrote on Apr 30, 2013, 19:50:
A KS that over delivers when they don't have to. Glad to have funded this.

Beamer wrote on Apr 24, 2013, 10:44:

Cutter wrote on Apr 24, 2013, 10:43:
Its biggest failure was the lack of a random map generator and/or editor. We'd all still be playing it if had that. Huge mistake not to do that. Huge.

Screw editor. It needed to be random. Enemy placement needed to be random and roving rather than 3 guys in the same places, sitting there until discovered, and occasionally teleporting in front of you. And it needed to stop showing that damn in-engine cinematic every single time you come across 3 new enemies. Every time. Every damn time!