my teacher nearly had that face all the time... 

Left 4 Dead 3 under development 

If that had said hl3 I'd be running around with my hands on my head, but meh, l4d3. Guess it'll be alright :P 

So... gaben CAN count to three then!? 

do you know what's the source of that pic? 

There was a Valve office tour for some dota2 cunts. 

Haha did I do the its/it's typo? It's just too much effort proofreading back and fixing all the its and whats typos :D 

I never played the SNES game nor the pen and paper RPG of Shadowrun, but I'm having great fun with this so far. I backed the Kickstarter campaign last year on a whim, and it came out last week. The game world, being quintessential cyberpunk + magic, feels accessible and familiar, yet vast. The battle system reminds me somewhat of Final Fantasy Tactics, although perhaps there are better examples. The graphics are colorful, and tile based, so I think you can mashup the tiles used in the game levels to make new levels.

Which leads to the really cool part, the level editor is included with the game, and apparently does everything; graphics layout, scripting, conversations, etc. There's already people recreating pen n' paper Shadowrun campaigns in the game (released through Steam Workshop). Just like ye olde Quake, what we do with the game will likely outlast what the developers built.

Right now on my first playthrough, I chose an Ogre Street Samurai, a rather straightforward character that runs up to his enemies and whacks them with a machete and always tries to choose the most hardbitten noir-ish responses in conversation trees. Although being nice to people seems to grant extra karma points to spend on skills, so there is that. Next run I imagine I'll play as an Elf Mage or somesuch and just hire the muscle. 

Seems Source 2 will use Scaleform UI. 

System Shock 2 Spoilers:

Shit, I am in hydroponics and dropped one of the vials in a seemingly safe place because my inventory was full. Now it is gone. I tried looking for it in the desk I originally found it in but no avail. Did I just screw myself with a stopping bug?




Scaleform sucks so hard. Might be good to use on a console but it makes me rage in Rage with mouse focus requiring clicks and all that shit. 

i don't remember items despawning. have you checked back where you found it, maybe it respawned there.

otherwise... yeah. there's no way to get more.

also, while searching, i found this:
http://www.visualwalkthroughs.com/systemshock2/hydroponics1/45.jpg
I loved the research aspect and moving chemicals into one room for a one stop shop for researching...
i may have to pull this game up again some time.... 

the room over the left shoulder from the pic is where I found the vial and I put it right on the floor in the middle of that pic. :)

apparently there are more vials hidden than needed so i guess I am fine. really weird how it vanished though. some other item I dropped in that room is still there.

the story telling and level design are top notch! 

The vail has got to be where you have left it, as long as you saved after dropping it. SS2 saves all item drops - I remember piling an inventory full back in Engineering entrance, all the stuff was still there even before the endgame.

I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the game. 

As if you need to go out and can't find your car keys.

But with mutants. 

Is out on steam today for 14USD. I would have bought it if the coop wasn't local only.

What's there seems to be a basic port of the XBOX game from 2012. 

Also recommended Gaucamelee, which also came out today:

http://guacamelee.com/ 

Finished the other night. I had a moment of utter mind-fracturing SHOCK when the boss combat was actually fair, obvious and reasonably timed, instead of a gruelling unsaveable incomprehensible gimmick-fest of tedium that DS2's boss fight and most of the stupid QTEs in DS3 would have me believe. I mean sure it was crap and devoid of any horror BUT it was actually playable, which was nice.

The game....good in most places, great in a few places, terrible in some. Any QTEs and boss combats were stupid, awful, and removed any sense of horror and atmosphere. The minor puzzles were pretty similarly pointless. The controls were as ugly and awkward as before. BUT the overall game progressed pretty smoothly, the non-gimmick combat was mostly good, sometimes properly tense (sometimes first-time-death imba). The variety of settings this time was great, and some of those had a lot of character - floating around the ship graveyard was spectacular, and the bleak atmosphere of the abandoned ice planet was very well done. The gritty sci-fi details were excellent throughout.

A bit like Tomb Raider in a way - looks great, atmosphere is great, gameplay is mostly good, but the deliberate addition of bad controls and bad QTEs lets it down a bit. Still recommended tho. 

Metro: Last Light (just started)
Bioshock Infinite (just installed)
Crysis 3 (just mail-ordered)

(Uninstalled FC3 as it was FC2 gameplay in FC1/Cry1 setting, didn't inspire.)

Any other modern games I should try?? 

Dishonored and Deus ex maybe... I'm a bit behind. 

DH:HR, very good.

Dishonoured, great. Just got the 2 DLCs for that now. 

I have spare Steam keys for Mirror's Edge and Dead Space. Anyone interested who hasn't played any of them, yet? 

Mirror's Edge went to otp. 

I apply for Dead Space. 

I have no idea how the giveaways work, but my Steam username is ercicin. 

It's a key that you need to activate in Steam. I sent it to the email address in your profile. Have fun!

In other news, Amnesia - A Machine for Pigs is finally released on 10 September! necros rejoice!