The Big MT was good but I felt like it was just a bit too all over the place. I was just going from one fetch-quest job to the next with no proper progress. The giant roboscorpion and evil robots were good though, and the credits scene of all the appliances was great.

But the horrid weather conditions of and bombed environment I loved in Lonesome Road. I don't know if I just had a run of shit weather being generated by Nevada Skies or it was like that standard, but there were no nice sunny days in LR. If they whole game was linear it would have been a bit shit, but 5 hours out of 50 was a nice change to know where I'm heading... towards the proper endgame. 

necros: Dunno, but I found the "people who give you $1 are not worth your time" aspect interesting.

Nice article about Tomb Raider http://caraellison.tumblr.com/post/94915454500/completed-the-latest-tomb-raider-for-the-third-time 

YEah. When i played TR1 , i should as hell did a lot of running away, and the game *did* have great tension/atmosphere.

(Well - fucking fininshed Fez with help of a hundred cheat pages 189%. I'll be damned if i'm gonna set my system clock to cheat any frigging game. Glad i perservered towards the end. Those lightning and rain maps had the nicest atmosphere of any of them). 

Spirit: I guess it depends on how much of that 1$ you're getting. If it's like iTunes (at least from what I understand), the cut the distributor is taking might make that 1$ small.

Also, does Steam work by paying per sale? Even when they sell at a reduced price? That's actually kind of lame. I had assumed that Steam was buying a license to sell the product or something.

Anyway, I find all that drama very tiresome...

Anyway, anyway, Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light are 75% off on Steam... I think I'm just going to pick these up instead of waiting for the redux. 

Love or hate?

http://www.moddb.com/mods/new-vision

Also, R.E. Metro Redux - isn't that just a mod that brings PC quality to console fanbois? 

and I am not usually a fan of such mods but since Deus Ex was supposed to be realistic it makes sense to update in this way. 

Have to agree with fifth, for a "real environment" type of old FPS HD textures help but its important to have ALL the texes on the same level and not a mish mash 

I don't see how the pretend realism of Deus Ex is different from Quake and how that makes putting high-res textures on low-poly walls any more beautiful. 

Deus Ex is a butt-ugly game, always was. 

Guess its personal but by example this http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/10/9009/Shot3.3.jpg first the mood of the game better than any HD q1 tex pack fits q1 for me

Maybe its the amount of textures used to represent real world "props" on simple geometry that helps it make sense. 

Borderlands 2 is currently free to play on Steam until Sunday.

Anyone up for some mindless coop fun? 

Gas mask filters... what a bizarre gameplay choice in a linear game. 

Anyone given that a try ? From Zeno Clash / Rock of ages dev.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/255070/ 

Been on the fence about it, have you bought it? Is it any good? 

It's has a lot of interesting mechanics, hit and miss.

But it also has some bugs (probably mostly fixed by now) and some dodgy mechanics - like being able to hit each other in coop. Which makes no sense! Why aren't the enemies hitting each other!? It's one 2D fighter convention they shouldn't have broken. If anything I should be able to combine my attacks with my friend's.

If you're used to button mashing it'll take some adjustment since its a slower pace, more rhythm type game, timing the attacks being tricky at first.

Not for everyone and hard to recommend, but I'm glad I bought it. 

If that doesn't clear up the indecision then nothing will.

It's a quirky game which does more things right than wrong. 

Heheh cheers Ijed :)

The style looks cool, I am planning on trying this Coop.
I see they patched in a friendly fire option.
They seem to be actively patching it which is cool. 

Work with them here in Chile - they're good developers :) 

A little late to the party on this one but holy shit talk about a good game nearly ruined by annoying platforming. I can't remember the last time a game pissed me off this much. 

Super Time Force Ultra is awesome and everyone should go play it.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/250700#scrollTop=0 

http://youtu.be/nOIzR5dpOYo

Just saw this at PAX and it looked really good. Kinda like a sci-fi Legend of Grimrock with a JRPG combat system 

That does look good.

Hope there are some tentacled aliens to kill and not just robots though. 

this game is awesome btw. In case there was any doubt. 

I got hold of it somehow, but didn't play because it got a mixed review here. 

I can see how some people wouldn't like it, but it really depends on what you are expecting.

To be clear, this is not in any way like Stalker other than it has the same post-ap feel.

This is a linear, heavily story driven game with some light rpg-like elements (purchasing weapons, minor inventory).

Also, my only complaint with this game is the gas mask filter mechanic... it's pretty weird.
1. The counter on the HUD is the number of filters you have, but this is completely useless. Ignore it.
2. The time on your watch is how much time in total you have left with all your filters
3. You do not need to replace filters, they automagically get used in sequence
4. Only the filters you buy from the first two shops in the game have their full duration on them.
5. Filters found in the world have random durations on them (can be as short as maybe 10 seconds I think, it's hard to tell).
6. After the first two shops, you can NOT buy filters for the rest of the game.
With all the above: when you are on the surface, the temptation (at least for me) is to look around and absorb the level... don't. You can make the level unbeatable by running out of filters before you can get back below ground.
If you're really stuck, you can take the mask off for a bit and put it back on after a bit (you can live for maybe 20 seconds without it?) but the instant you put it back on, the timer is reset so you can take it off again. I had to do that in the first level because I was looking around and ran out of time......