Torchlight is loads better than Diablo 2
If you're into that sort of thing
Torchlight is loads better than Diablo 2
If you're into that sort of thing
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Scarlett finally slept long enough for me to finish Portal, the new ending is a lot more creepish than I thought it would be. But the Portal 2 spoiler covers point to portals outside, that seems pretty sick
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I haven't played L4D2 for a while, I should try getting back into it.
Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of wafer thin printed circuits that fill my complex. If the word hate was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant.
For you.
Hate.
Hate.
I have a hard time getting into it. Partially due to competition of the EU3 Mamluk campaign I started while waiting for Victoria to arrive, partly because I'm a bit stretched for time at the moment. This isn't the kind of game you play when you have half an hour to spare.
edit: I also ordered NHL 09 for PS2 which I suspect won't help.
See what happens when I start ordering online?![]()
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
Finshed ME2...but lost Tali and Theed on the suicide run.. two of my favorites
They will be missed in ME3..especially Tali who's been with us from the start.
Guess it's a testament to how engrossing the game is that it upsets me.
(or more a testament to what a dork I am for caring)
I liked the ending and how it's not so black and white as the first.
No clue whether the one I got was the Paragon or Renegade ending...I like how it's more ambigous..feels more real somehow.
My impressions so far are: it's best not to figure out this game by using England, the Netherlands or France. It's also not a war game! I need to remind myself. Playing the Netherlands I went: Yee haw! Lets subdue them belgiums and had a long fight with no result. Independence? Ha! Not a war game. Not a war game.
Can you recommend an easy county to start off?
Also, it's a bitch the manual only came on cd, like it always is with old games. I want a papery thing, not alt-tabbing every effing time.
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
Been a while since I played it, but the manual isn't really worth Alt-Tabbing for anyway. There are some really good Vicky manuals and resources online though: http://www.paradoxian.org/vickywiki/index.php/Main_Page
UK not the best nation to start with, I've heard that the Netherlands can be good though. IIRC after being scared off from the UK when I first loaded it, I eventually learnt the game using the USA - not many major external threats, plenty of industriial/political opportunities to learn through, got the Civil War to fight.
I don't think I've ever played any Paradox game as England or France. They're too difficult to run before you get the hang of things, and too easy afterwards.
I think Austria was a pretty good country to start with. You'll be big enough that you'll mostly be left alone, but not so big that things become too difficult, and you have a lot of options for how you want to play the game.
It's been a while, so I don't remember everything about this game, but I do remember that you should crank up your taxes at the start. Remember, if you let your people have money, soon they'll go around getting ideas, and nobody wants that. You should also look at getting the best health care as early as possible - it pays for itself in the long run.
I remember I started with Savoy. Of course, I quit without getting the hang of the game, so. . .
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
Used to like Portugal in EU3.
Spain didn't bother me overmuch, and there was plenty to keep busy with exploration-wise and whatnot.
Is it Vicky in which Austria gets dragged into the whole reunification of Germany?
Just starting Dragon Age: Origins by Bioware. Generally like any Bioware games, the classic Baldur's Gate was my favourite and I've been after this game since it was launched.
Austria can easily avoid getting dragged into the unification. They're pretty much the only Germanic state that can stay out of it if Prussia starts going nuts. France always gets dragged into it though. That might be one of the reasons I liked Vicky - every game of mine seemed to feature France getting repeatedly gang-raped by everybody else.
Of course you knew it was coming - satisfaction is always guaranteed here at Lolli's House ofPleasurePain.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
It's been a good month for gaming so far.
The Wii is getting Fragile Dreams and Red Steel 2, 360 and PS3 get BC2 and Just Cause 2, and the DS picks up the new Pokémon games, along with Shin Megami Tensei and Infinite Space.
March isn't normally a big month, so all this stuff dropping is super cool.
I enjoy blank walls.
I got accepted into the Lego MMO beta, so I'm going to be all over that for a bit. Finishing Guildwars will have to wait.
Finally got around to reinstalling Civ4. I'd forgotten quite a bit Like how the game was explicitly tailored to keep people from using my preferred ultra-cultivation expansion style.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
I've not really lasted in a Civ game since Civ 1/II. I played the original Civ for years until II came out, played that for years too. Got Call To Power and found that rather disappointing, by the time III came out I played it for the bit and got the impression "same game, better graphics" and didn't bother for long. Same with IV. Same too I guess with Colonization, played the original for years and years, then off-and-on for a decade or so afterwards until the Civ IV-based version came out, which got played for weeks and I was bored again.
Just can't regain that same magic.![]()
Just spent most of the afternoon playing http://www.crayonphysics.com/
Addictive.
Such is Life...
God of War III tomorrow
Red Dead Redemption delayed again![]()
Finished ME2 yesterday, absolutely fantastic. Probably the best game I've ever played. Gonna buy ME1 today, work through it, then import that Shepherd into ME2 and play again. Having free time is nice.