The "I Got A New Game!" Thread

finally plunked down dough for borderlands 2. i played 35 hours in the first week. i really like it. not any real huge changes from 1 which is great cuz it was extremely fun too. ill be getting DLCs when the summer sale hits. and ill be getting poker night for some of the fun customs you can get there.

speaking of which, is there a b2 section in these off-topic areas? maybe a thread worth perusing?

i also got the legacy of kain series, mostly for soul reaver 1 and 2, which i had fond memories of. havent loaded them yet though.
 
I just received Locomotion in the post, or rather: Chris Sawyer's Locomotion. It's supposed to be a slightly updated version of Transport Tycoon: I assume the graphics were gussied up a bit and the engine was stabilized for modern computers, because the interface is very much kin to what I remember of Rollercoaster Tycoon. As a devout fan of the SimCity series and someone still playing Sid Meier's Railroads, this game's geek appeal is through the roof. There's so much to manage that I'm still piddling around in the first sandbox, though. My big obstacle at the moment is my inability to figure out how to raise and lower land -- SimCity 3000 has me spoiled.
 
Hammer Rabbi said:
finally plunked down dough for borderlands 2. i played 35 hours in the first week. i really like it. not any real huge changes from 1 which is great cuz it was extremely fun too. ill be getting DLCs when the summer sale hits. and ill be getting poker night for some of the fun customs you can get there.

speaking of which, is there a b2 section in these off-topic areas? maybe a thread worth perusing?

i also got the legacy of kain series, mostly for soul reaver 1 and 2, which i had fond memories of. havent loaded them yet though.
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I made a thread a while back that could be dug up, but nothing has been posted too recently, I believe.
 
I recently got:
Dungeon Keeper 2 (Awww, good times!)
Populous 3 (Also good times!)
Thief 1-3 ("Good", "Fantastic" and "Okay" times)
King of the Dragon Pass (Surprisingly great game)
 
Today in the mail I received the complete Battlefield 1942 collection, including its two expansions and, for some reason, Battlefield Vietnam. I got them because I enjoy Star Wars Battlefront so much, and it's the same kind of play. So far...eh. Most of the maps I've tried have emphasized tanks, whereas I prefer running around on foot. It also seems the tank won't fire its guns if I don't have a bot on board (do servers for this game still exist? :lol: ). The AI make frustrating allies as well: lots of medics and no assault troops. I'm so used to right-clicking to throw grenades (a convention used in Star Wars Battlefront and Star Wars Republic Commando) that having to choose them from a menu throws me off.

Are there any maps where tanks and such are marginalized, or were the developers counting on heavy vehicle action to sell the game, as it did?

I got all of this for $6. :lol:
 
Snagged Endless Space, Just Cause 2 and HL Complete Pack so far this sale.

JC2 for $2.99 (minus 75c in wallet funds from cards) was way too good a deal to pass up :)
 
cardgame said:
Snagged Endless Space, Just Cause 2 and HL Complete Pack so far this sale.

JC2 for $2.99 (minus 75c in wallet funds from cards) was way too good a deal to pass up :)
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$3 for over 20 hours of mindless fun is definitely a bargain.
 
got those borderlands DLCs. trying out a Psycho. still waiting on some other deals. most of the ones id consider right now are gonna be the same in the next sale. trying to not blow too much dough on this, so far only $17 for the DLCs. I still have $8 in my wallet to blow plus maybe another $10-$15 if the deal is really good.
 
Picked up Sid Meier's Pirates (the original, not the new one) on GOG's weekend sale. Haven't played it yet - too late to start a new game, and I already played more turns of Civilization than I intended to tonight.

Smellincoffee said:
Today in the mail I received the complete Battlefield 1942 collection, including its two expansions and, for some reason, Battlefield Vietnam. I got them because I enjoy Star Wars Battlefront so much, and it's the same kind of play. So far...eh. Most of the maps I've tried have emphasized tanks, whereas I prefer running around on foot. It also seems the tank won't fire its guns if I don't have a bot on board (do servers for this game still exist? :lol: ). The AI make frustrating allies as well: lots of medics and no assault troops. I'm so used to right-clicking to throw grenades (a convention used in Star Wars Battlefront and Star Wars Republic Commando) that having to choose them from a menu throws me off.

Are there any maps where tanks and such are marginalized, or were the developers counting on heavy vehicle action to sell the game, as it did?

I got all of this for $6. :lol:
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IIRC, at least most of the tanks can fire their main gun, though not their machine gun, from the driver's position. But to fire the machine gun (or the main gun of tank destroyers) you need to be in the gunner position. You can switch positions as long as there isn't a bot already in the other one - I want to say you press the number button of the position (so probably 2 for the gunner position), but I could be wrong. I think trying it twice might convince bots to leave if they're there, too. It can be very handy to switch, perhaps even more so in halftracks, where you can drive, fire, or heal in the back.

BF1942 is a rather tank-heavy game, though. The maps where tanks are less dominant tend to be the less land-focused ones - so, mostly Battle of Britain (almost entirely about planes), and somewhat Midway (even there, tanks can make or break it if both sides gain an on-island base). I can't recall any land-focused maps that don't have tanks - at best they have something else that can turn the tide (like Flying Fortresses on at least one). So yeah, I think the developers were counting on tanks to sell the game.
 
I think Berlin and Stalingrad were pretty infantry focused, even though there were tanks there too. Never played BF:V. I'd recommend getting Battlefield Bad Company 2 + the Vietnam expansion if you can find it cheap. It's mp (haven't checked if there are bot matches, but I doubt it), but there are maps there that have much greater emphasis on infantry. A few good servers still exist where people play.
 
Berlin had a weapon crate at the soviet spawn that allowed endless granate spam into the spawn. Ah, good times. :D
 
I honestly prefer the BF:V maps, weaponry and vehicles.
 
I got Telltale Games Poker Night 2 for $2.50. It's just to unlock a couple skins for Borderlands2 and TF.
 
Got Bioshock 1 and 2 at $4.24 for both on Amazon. Figured that from all the good things I've heard about the first one in particular, $2.12/game probably made it worth getting.

GAGA Extrem said:
Berlin had a weapon crate at the soviet spawn that allowed endless granate spam into the spawn. Ah, good times. :D
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That reminded me of another odd strategy that worked particularly well on that map: Hop in a Jeep, drive full speed head-on at a tank, bail at the last moment, Jeep slams into tank and blows it up. Obviously risky since the tank might shoot and you might bail too late, but a fun and unlikely way to take out a tank.

cardgame said:
I honestly prefer the BF:V maps, weaponry and vehicles.
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My main problem with Vietnam was that it seemed like most of the maps would devolve into the sides trading off checkpoints. Whereas in 1942, the Axis side generally stayed on one side, and the Allies on the other - territory would switch sides, but you generally wouldn't have silly situations like the Axis attacking from east to west in Egypt because the British got behind their lines and they then switched which direction they were fighting from. Occasionally, one side might trap a pocket, but the permanent bases ensured full-scale swaps didn't happen much/at all.

I'm aware that the same criticism can be made of a lot of FPS games. But going from 1942 to Vietnam, where it happened a lot, it seemed like a devolution.
 
Quintillus said:
Got Bioshock 1 and 2 at $4.24 for both on Amazon. Figured that from all the good things I've heard about the first one in particular, $2.12/game probably made it worth getting.
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You're in for a treat. Bioshock (1) is probably the game I most regret never again being able to play for the first time. Most of my favorite games I enjoy in large part because of the replay value they offer. Strategy games with great depth and high skill thresholds. RPGs with huge worlds and endless trivia to uncover. Puzzle platformers with many different approaches to each puzzle. Games that start out good, then just keep getting better the more you play them. Bioshock is not like that.

It's basically linear, it's got multiple highly scripted sequences that will play out the same every game and rely for much of their impact on surprise, and there isn't that much you are likely to miss on a first playthrough if you make even a half-hearted effort at completionism. The difficulty level is not particularly high (not a cakewalk, but also not hard enough to need many playthroughs to feel you've mastered it). Bioshock shines nonetheless because it is absolutely brilliant.
 
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