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doom 3 intro. "there'll be civilian workers there, so try not to shoot any"

* beats them all to death with fists instead. *

no consequences.
 
Sword of the Stars Complete + texture mods - Excellent classic 4X with a focus on RTS combat. I got my ass handed to me after about 120 turns. I forgot how fun and tactical this one is. Would be nice to see this one get remastered.

Stars in Shadow - Hadn't played in months, but always enjoyed it. The updates in the previous unplayed time have really added to it overall. Well done, moves at a faster pace than many other 4X's, still maintains some casualness without ruining the experience. Overall very fun, and very well done TBS strategy and combat.

Brigador: Up Armored Edition - Holy hell is this game fun. Brings me back to the 90s. Isometric destruction, controls feel great, action is solid, overall performance is great, the gameplay design is awesome. Can't believe it took me so long to get around to playing this one. Well done devs, well done.
 
Kursah said:
Sword of the Stars Complete + texture mods - Excellent classic 4X with a focus on RTS combat. I got my ass handed to me after about 120 turns. I forgot how fun and tactical this one is. Would be nice to see this one get remastered.

Stars in Shadow - Hadn't played in months, but always enjoyed it. The updates in the previous unplayed time have really added to it overall. Well done, moves at a faster pace than many other 4X's, still maintains some casualness without ruining the experience. Overall very fun, and very well done TBS strategy and combat.

Brigador: Up Armored Edition - Holy hell is this game fun. Brings me back to the 90s. Isometric destruction, controls feel great, action is solid, overall performance is great, the gameplay design is awesome. Can't believe it took me so long to get around to playing this one. Well done devs, well done.
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I liked Brigador, very amusing :)
 
Frick said:
I still can't belive that game got a remake when it wasn't even ten years old.
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It was mostly for the new consoles. It was a free update on PCs.
 
StrayKAT said:
It was mostly for the new consoles. It was a free update on PCs.
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Yeah, but still. They should have made a Freedom Force remake instead, IMO.
 
Frick said:
Yeah, but still. They should have made a Freedom Force remake instead, IMO.
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I'm afraid to say I never played it. I knew of it back in the day though. I forgot about it. I like tactical games though.
 
It's weekend, so back to Mass Effect Andromeda
I reinstalled windows, the game no longer crashes anymore. I think it also has to do with the fact i changed the sata cables to my SSD. I talked about it with a few guys here in TPU.
One thing for sure. They don't know how to make decent vegetation. Crytek and CD project win at this. But the interiors of the ships etc look very good.
For the money that you pay, there is more than enough content. No idea how far em i in the games progress , but it offers so much to do.

I have done the 3th and the most complicated Remnant Vault so far.
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Fights with the Remnant Architects, starting to get so easy. This is also my 3th Remnant . My first one was so extremely hard.

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One thing that i did noticed about game performance .

When everything set to default Low or Medium settings, the game runs normal..steady frames , a bit more cpu load .
With everything set to High settings, i get more ram usage, but other than that ... the game is super smooth . Everything loads instantly, you don't have to w8 for anything. Animations are super fast, when you turn the camera etc
It surprises me , since higher settings means more stress on the system, particularly on the gpu (and i have a mediocre one). Never have i seen this... higher settings, faster and smoother feeling. Keep in mind the fps are always the same.

Btw as it turns out after all this time, i have no idea how to use FreeSync.
After windows reinstall, i only get 60 fps. I turned the in game settings to 75Hz display, i set via console (in game) max fps 75. But with Vsync on i am capped at 60 fps. Before , i used to have 75fps (even with vsync on).
Can't complain,the game runs perfect. Just realized i don't know how to work the freesync.
 
I just played and beat Zeno Clash II today. The game is just as weird as the first one in pretty much every aspect. Surprisingly shorter than expected, it took me less than 5 hours to beat it. Well, I'm not really against it anyway. A game this size and simple mechanics doesn't really need to feel like a drag to play and that's another one from my backlog I can strike out.

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Next on the list - Resident Evil 0 HD Remaster.
 
Forza 7 took a while to get it running well. Like it so far. :)
 
I'm going to be jumping between Payday 2, Consortium: The Tower, War for the Overworld, and Into the Stars for the foreseeable future.

I would happily keep playing Consortium: The Tower but I'm standing at a side objective with a light flashing S.O.S. and...I'm not entirely sure what's supposed to happen at this point. I need to ask the devs if this is a bug or something that is feature incomplete before proceeding.

Fun fact: I didn't realize it until after I bought Into the Stars Deluxe Edition but Jack Wall, whom also did Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 music, did Into the Stars' music too. :eek:

Probably going to play War for the Overworld until I pass out. I'll hopefully have an answer and be able to keep going on Consortium: The Tower when I get up.
 
Into the Stars is currently at a pretty deep discount on Steam, but the reviews aren't very good. Do you really like this game Ford?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/360510/Into_the_Stars/

If you do that's good enough for me...I'll bite at this price. Not everyday you have an 80% off sale.

:),

Liquid Cool

P.S. Still playing Skyrim! 215 hours...in two months! Help me please. :). Think I'll be moving on to the rest of my list shortly.
 
Liquid Cool said:
Into the Stars is currently at a pretty deep discount on Steam, but the reviews aren't very good. Do you really like this game Ford?
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Haven't played it yet. 25 hours left in the sale. I'll try to prioritize playing it.

Started listening to the music...first track is as good as if not better than what was available in Mass Effect. I think, for me, even if the game is garbage, it's worth $6 just for the soundtrack. That said, I'm on 1 of 18...

Edit: 2 of 18 is giving the same impression...

Edit: Playing now but won't be able to for very long...
 
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Well, you're talking to a guy who loves Farscape and has a Serenity wallpaper on his pc....doesn't take much more than the title to peak my interest! Even though I'm just about broke...smile...I think I'd like to give it a go.

I'm actually glad you mentioned the soundtrack...back when I was a little younger...I used to ignore them completely in video games as well as movies. Although, songs like this from Lord of the Rings changed all of that....:).


My Regards,

Liquid Cool
 
So...I set up my ship and crew (first impressions pretty good)...but it's acting like it is stuck on "loading..." now...

Edit: Task Manager killed the game. Started it again. Flew to an asteroid (or something) and was trying to figure out how to probe/mine it.
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FordGT90Concept said:
So...I set up my ship and crew (first impressions pretty good)...but it's acting like it is stuck on "loading..." now...

Edit: Task Manager killed the game. Started it again. Flew to an asteroid (or something) and was trying to figure out how to probe/mine it.
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I tried Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and I feel exactly like that. I found a car and all I could do was make it go in circles.
 
Ah! Can only interact with planets. Just fly close enough to it and the UI updates saying to press "F" or just click on it. Then you get your options. Still not really seeing anything repulsive about Into the Stars...

...seems like if something is going to break, it happens while "loading..."

I've only played it about an hour but I intend to keep playing.
 
Thanks for jumping in and taking a look Ford. Appreciative. I'll go ahead and nab it in the next 24 hours!

:),

Liquid Cool
 
Resident Evil 4 on Xbox 360. Loooong time since I last played this masterpiece! :toast:
 
Witch It has been keeping me interested lately. The mobification mode should be the main one though.

Also Road Redemption really is great. So glad it is fully released finally.
 
Anyone played the Star wars battlefront 2 beta?
 
Cvrk said:
No.
How can you get your hands on that ?
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Beta is over now i think,it was available on Origin during the weekend for you to install/download.
Think i'm suffering from slight bottleneck from my Vega64 though as it was only running at 60-80% of the time while playing the beta. CPU will need upgrading which i knew that..be awhile before i get round to doing that.
 
Trying out Total War: Warhammer, enjoying it so far..... not very forgiving, Been a while since I've run a TW game; Shogun, I think, being the last. Enjoying the return :)
 
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