The game named "Giants: Citizen Kabuto" is free for grab today at "http://www.gog.com/game/giants_citizen_kabuto"!

So, before the offer expires, get it while you can!

Video intro to the game:"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvxDF83apCQ"

It's DRM free, though you do need a GOG account (registration is free) to do the claiming.


Also, these days, at "https://www.origin.com/en-nl/store/free-games/on-the-house", you can get a free copy of "Jade Empire". Same story with regard to account registration, Origin in this case. 

I liked Giants a lot. Good fun game with a fresh style. 

Thanks for the heads up.

I went to GoG to get the freebie and saw they also had the STALKER series on special (at a pretty low price for once), so I got that while I was there. And then added TIE Fighter for $5. Plenty more good stuff on sale there, but those should keep me busy until next year. 

Inspired by classic arcade games and 1990s First Person Shooters. Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that pits you against hordes of demons as you struggle to survive as long as you can. Compete for precious seconds with friends or global leaderboards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50-OT83O9qY

Art and sound are absolutely incredible! However, at the end of the day it's a score attack game with no level design :( 

Kind of like geometry wars, but demonic hellspawn FPS style... 

Ah yes.

"Just like playing* those oldskool** 90s FPS games*** that you loved!"

*disclaimer: gameplay may not necessarily take place in actual environments.

**disclaimer: "oldskool" is taken in this instance to just mean pixellated textures and low-resolution display.

***disclaimer: "game" may actually be mostly procedurally generated. 

Come back when you've got some levels. 

it's a bit of a shame that it's so basic. Such lovely enemy design is really crying out for some good level design.

It wouldn't surprise me if it was another rogue-like style game and the levels are fitted together like ziggurat from preselected rooms. 

Post yours...

(In approx order)

Hopefully next year...
Dishonoured 2
XCom 2
Deus Ex Mankind Divided
Doom 4
a patched version of Mordheim (if it fixes AI, balance, etc)
Total Warhammer
Battlefleet Gothic Armada
Rise Of The Tomb Raider

In the far future...
Cyberpunk 2077
Battletech game
Dreadnoughts (if single player)


(very unhyped for Battleborn, Overwatch, Paragon and anything else like that) 

So hype! 

 

Negke linked me this:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/411300

Sounds promising. 

ah shamb if you've got time to research all these upcoming games and remember them (the only one in that list I know anything about is d4) then you may be missing out on some good current games.

for instance, my next play is going to be Ride to Hell: Retribution, scored an impressive 16% on metacritic. screenshots look good so it can't be missed :D

I quite like playing some of the shitty budget action games because they're all short. the longer 20+hr RPG AAA's just take a bit too much out of your everyday life to get through. 

Amount of research varies between zero and not very much.

Part of the reason for posting on here is to get others to research for me ;) 

My most played during the last few years were DX:HR, Dishonored, Tomb Raider 2013, and XCom.

The sequels to those will be what I'm waiting for.

I did play Fallout 3 and New Vegas a lot also. 

I wonder if it has a first person view (other pic tends to suggest 3rd person.) Pics look great and compelling. I've buried a lot of time into Fallout 3 so Shambler's link really interested me. 

All of their other games were 3rd person, so this one is most likely going to be the same. IMO better than 1st person for games like this. 

So anyway it's the Christmas season which means I can usually find some time to play a game or two that I've been meaning to for a while. Next on the list was Diablo 3 (PC). I dabbled in Diablo 2 a few years back and liked it, although I only played a little into Act 2, so I'm nowhere near being one of these min-maxing poopsockers that the game seems designed to cater for.

Anyway, so playing Diablo 3, I'm sort of most of the way through Act 1 thinking "this is a bit easy" as I'm basically just walking through one-shotting pretty much everything. I don't need to use any attack or ability other than my secondary attack and the mana bar seems to refill itself faster than I can actually deplete it. A quick google assures me that this is actually quite normal and at some point during Act 2 I should expect to start to take damage. Okaaaayyyy.... So I keep playing and start ploughing through Act 2 in much the same way. The game is not getting harder, but actually easier and easier, so I google again and learn that I can increase the difficulty level. I increase the difficulty to the highest it will allow me to ("expert" apparently) and continue playing. No difference. Still instagibbing virtually every enemy that appears, even those yellow-aura boss-type chaps that show up even now and then.

So I'm starting to think that early on I stumbled into a brutal positive feedback loop where I picked up some decent gear which allowed me to kill stuff better, which levelled me up faster, which allowed me to kill even faster, which levelled me up even faster etc etc, so my player's power trajectory is on a much steeper gradient than the game's, if you get what I'm saying.

For a moment I considered purposely gimping myself by wearing shit gear, using crap skills and whatnot but then realised that would pretty much make the entire game pointless (i.e. without the mechanics of getting constantly better gear, there isn't really much of a game).

I'm not sure when it occured to me, but I realised at some point that every boss, even the act end bosses, were instagibbing as soon as they appeared, without me actually attacking them. Before, I was under the impression that my player was doing insane damage with the secondary attack - and that was true; the damage was insane - but there also seemed to be something else at work here. Sure enough, every boss would instantly explode the second it became vulnerable to damage, without me even needing to touch it or attack in in any way.

Narrowing down what was doing this, I found that the culprit was a ring that dropped somewhere in Act 1 called the Nagelring. This ring caused up to four little goblin creatures to follow you around and act as little suicide bombers, running up to enemies and exploding. I had to go into the Diablo Wiki to even figure out what damage they were doing and it turns out that each goblin (and there are up to four of these at any one time remember) - I shit you not - explodes dealing 10,000% the damage that your character does. So that's why I finished the game in a few short hours instagibbing every boss including fucking Diablo himself. Also my character was doing mad damage even without those suicide bombers, but whatever.

I guess what I'm saying is: why the fuck does a ring like that even exist and why does it drop in Act 1? Even if you chopped a zero off the end of the damage amount it would still probably be an instant "win the game" button, except it's not even a button because you don't even have to consciously press it, it's just active all the time. This game is stupid as shit. 

This game has truly come a long way from being unplayably hard at release. 

 

diablo 3 lives in adventure mode: nephalem rifts, greater rifts, bounties, etc. all in torment x and higher difficulties. store mode is boring ;)
we can rift together if you will, my id is vondur#2148. 

i guess you'll need reaper of souls addon for that. 

hahaha, the fucking nagelring is crazy. the fact that it dropped for you so early, well, you're supposed to feel lucky.

the difficulty curves in D3 are aaaaall over the place, so I acknowledge that what I'm saying is daft, but like vondur said, the 'torment' levels of difficulty really just don't give a shit if they're even possible for you, so it becomes a matter of using seemingly broken things like the nagelring to even be able to survive. I had a monk where I found some special combination of items that buffed a certain power (exploding palm) in a particular way that if I use it just right everything on screen just explodes, and I still hit a nearly impossible wall on torment 6.

that's where that ring belongs. there's so much distance between the lowest and the max difficulty that if you happen to get that lucky 0.000001% drop early enough it has the potential to have come from some crazy other dimension where the monsters have literally millions of times more hitpoints.

not the most optimal thing to occur when you're getting a first impression of the game, though.