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I should have specified 3D only...and definitely NO retro-pixel games. But...
Bastion - more RPG? Bit bright and cheerful for me. Swapper - this looks kinda nice actually for a 2D thing. Might be tempted for the style alone. Natural Selection - more FPS? MP only, no sale. Hammerfight - sorry fighting games have no appeal. Sins Of A Solar Empire - yes, forgot to mention, I bought that for my laptop. Any others in that style? it's a shame natural selection 2 is multiplayer only, because the graphics look pretty sweet. perhaps one day they can incorporate single player.
Isn't a kids game, and is well written. The art does give it stupid fall off world through hole you didn't see syndrome though. Recommended.
Has a training mode which you play on your own.
But seriously - if you have an internet connection, PLAY IT! Believe me I am tempted but I would ideally like something that would actually work out of the box, and if it's going to be a true 3PS RPG, then I want to be able to use my customary controls for it. Which according to a panel of experts, I can't.
Dark Souls at most needs one easy to set up Mod ( DSFix ) if you want to use Controller only. If you want to use Mouse/KB you need DSMFix on top of that. Both are pretty easy to set up.
In Mouse/KB Mode you get a Key Settings Menu ingame - not sure if you also get this with a Controller though as i only ever played it with Mouse/KB. If not, there are some controller emulators that people seem to be suggesting a lot ( x360ce and MotionJoy ), which have custom key config support. So 2 mods needed. And Le Bal tried to rebind keys to something near my config and it didn't work.
No gamepad games please, ta. AND NO FUCKING 2D GAMES THANKS. Since you liked Skyrim, never thought of trying something like Fallout New Vegas? It's pretty much Skyrim with guns (not as pretty, but better writing).
Yes sorry missed that in IRC last night. I did try Fallout 3 and it kept crashing as I was being born. I should try it again and see if it magically works - it is a good choice (although as an FPS RPG, not something new to me).
Nehrim just looks like more RPG, even if it might be good.
GlovePie could be an option but it is a lot more dicking around, I am lazy and used to just installing and playing games ;). Actually I'd be up for another modern classic ground-based RTS if anyone has any ideas?? I'm tired of L4D2 mods already, they're all the fucking same, so I reinstalled Stalker COP. This time didn't touch the settings or install complete, and haven't had a single crash, yay!
Been playing for the last few hours and I seem to be almost to the point of entering pripyat (just need a suit)... which appears to be well into the game already, over halfway? I haven't done many side quests yet, only a few, so i think i'll have to go back and do some. I haven't even found a single artifact or lootpack yet, the whole place seems empty. No interesting places to explore, no cool items yet (some fancy shotgun is the best i've got so far from a bandit leader). The graphics aren't very good either, doesn't seem to be any improvement since the original (which looked better with complete) so COP appears worse out of the box. I'm going to try this mod: http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-hd-project1 Looks like it does a pretty good job of improving the looks, just gotta wait for the 7gb download! Stalker COP:
Finding artifacts works differently from the first stalker game. They aren't simply scattered around the countryside. Your detector actually is good for something, and it's worth buying (or looting) the best detector you can afford. There are stashes hidden everywhere in the world, but unlike the first game they are not in containers and usually not even marked. You have to search buildings and structures from top to bottom. The side quests are most of the game in Stalker COP, unlike the first one. You should try Absolute Nature 3.1 (or 3 Lite if you don't want additional vegetation) and Absolute Structures with AtmosFear 3 if you want eye-candy. This HD mod has some really weird textures and is unfinished afaik.
I'm almost certain you need to start a new game with AtmosFear 3 however. 1. Google for DSfix and DSMfix.
2. Find a tutorial , start following instructions. a. Uninstall GFWL b. Uninstall GFWL marketplace c. Download and install GFWL 3. Find another tutorial, worry the first one is mistake, start refollowing instructions. a. Reuninstall GFWL b. Reuninstall GWLF marketplace c. Try to follow video instructions, no options for Win 7 d. Choose vista as the closest and hope. e. Try to log-in to GWFL, comes up with an error. Click on the error to go to Xbox site to find how to fix it, page has moved. f. Reuninstall GWFL and marketplace. g. Restart computer. h. Retry steps 2. Fails to log-in. Give up on GFWL. 4. Download DSfix and DSMfix after numerous problems and delays with servers. 5. Start Dark Souls, connect to GFWL but only in offline mode despite being logged in according to the game. 6. Copy over the DSFix and DSMfix files despite there being a confusing folder structure to the former. 7. Download some other windows bollox the guide tells me to. 8. Go through changing the settings in the DSFix.ini. 9. Start Dark Souls, successfully change resolution. Start a new game. 10. Try to perform anything with mouse in the first cell. Mouse is not captured. a. Try to escape out to Windows, escape key doesn't work b. Alt-tab and close game, restart game, get a warning that I need to use the System menu to quit the game. c. Escape still doesn't work, no obvious way to access System menu. d. Retry repeatedly. Mouse doesn't work at all. 11. Uninstall game and kiss �20 goodbye. Slightly more annoyed by the waste of 1.5 hours fucking around than throwing money away. Never again.
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