Video Games

^ that's the way I always liked playing those games...

that or figuring out how to get to the objective as soon as you first spawn to win the game immediately*

craftybutcher will tell you, he was there man, he was there.

*instawin ftw!

cyoa has already broken his new laptop

You're a dick. You hacked into it somehow and destroyed the microphone. I'm reporting your Origin account.

as my mum says, buy cheap buy twice

I'm reporting your Origin account.

is that gamer speak for "i'm telling your mum".

Looks like the 2 screenshots from Rome are in-game after all. Amazing graphics

Let's hope CYOA's new laptop can run it eh? ;)

^ : )

Saw this which I thought was interesting. Hadn't heard much about the background for Valve before now:

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/economics/2012/08/valve-software-free-marketeers-dream-or-nightmare

Have you read their company handbook?

It was floating about on the internet somewhere (or maybe it's linked in that article)

Pretty good. Sounds like chaos in my mind, but I'm sure it's great in practice.

Edge magazine features an in depth exploration of Valve.
And the Steam Console
http://www.edge-online.com/features/steam-console-big-picture

The team that made Half Life and portal have set a high (crow)bar.

Anyone doing some classic gaming lately?

I'm just re-installing Morrowind because holy crap have the Mod community done some amazing things to it, and it was already the best Elder Scrolls game IMO anyway!

Sure, it takes a full weekend to actually get it set up, but who's counting! :D

Classic gaming you say, I've been playing Final Fantasy V recently and thankfully remembered where my favourite grinding spot is.

I'm pretty much invincible and super rich.

I've been replaying monkey island 1 and 2, and before that day of the tentacle.
Mi 3 next.

Is RAGE old enough to be a classic yet?

Am well aware of the technical problems on release and the gameplay being a bit 'meh', but £6.49 on Steam seemed cheap enough to take a punt.

I know where your favourite grinding spot is.

hah!

re-installing Morrowind because holy crap it's still fantastic 5/6/7 years on

ftfy
:)

Got the graphics upgrade mod I trust? Such a great improvement

ftfy
:)

Got the graphics upgrade mod I trust? Such a great improvement

Hells yeah. I've also just learned of Morrowblivion. Looks like a dick to set up and requires a super fancy PC, but the idea of playing Morrowind with Oblivion technical upgrades... Yes.

http://morroblivion.com

I've been playing CS:S loads does that count as old school gaming? Came out on 2004 lol.

Im trying hard to get back into it in preparation for cs: go... should try and get a lfgss:css thing going on.

Sounds good to me mate.

Think I just added you pal ;)

anyone played the tekkit suite of mods for minecraft? Its like a whole new game. amazing fun. I have a quarry on the go.

I dont think I understood minecraft enough to play it, let alone with ridiculous things like power plants and solar panels!

I'm out.