Doesn't exist in a game with permadeath!

A godlike run will see you getting hold of at least one utility item, like the scrap collector arm.

Lasers suck unless they have shield penetration, at which point they become the most powerful weapon in the game - they need to cause more 'damage per room' than the enemy has shields, so a tier 2 laser and a emp gun (or whatever the disabling blue weapon is called) will allow you to quickly tear most opponents to bits, although at later levels you'll need extra oomph from drones or something to burn out the shields. Oh, and that's per room, so make sure the red lines crosses as man rooms as possible.

Drone combat can be used, but to be effective you need a boarding drone, but even this is neutralized if the enemy has a single defensive drone.

The best tactic overall is beaming a bunch of boarders over and knocking the crap out of their crew and systems - this lowers their offensive and defensive abilities, and if you take the ship whole (kill all the crew) then it's worth more scrap.

It is however extremely ease to lose your entire boarding party if you fuck up and destroy the enemy ship or allow it to FTL jump with them aboard, so make sure to watch the charge up meter for that and deactivate automated retire as relevant.

My favourite tactic was to use fire weapons, but this is pretty difficult as well. Fire weapons destroy their systems, deplete oxygen and confuse the enemy crew ai, and leave their ship intact. I managed to get the achievement for igniting the entire enemy ship (I think it was on the massive mantis cruiser as well) so that shows how sadistic I was when playing. 

 

Considering how long I was hooked on it... 

HIB just added more games I already have - I'll gladly give the duplicated to anyone interested in playing them.

Bastion
Br�tal Legend
FTL
Limbo 

Bastion is an awesome game and everyone should play it. I never made it past the first few screens of Limbo because it's fucking boring. 

Although I liked bastion I kind of just stopped playing fairly early on.
Limbo is great. 

Dunno if it�s the right thread, its a browser based "game". Chrome...

Hello Run

I suck at it, though the visuals are quite nice... 

 

A Dark Souls 2 preview is hinting that the developer may have returned to Demon's Soul's gameplay mechanics! :P

According to the developers, playing as undead/hollow is no longer as beneficial as it was before. Other players can now invade your game when you're undead/hollow where they couldn't in the previous game. Consecutive deaths also lead to a penalty of decreased max HP with a penalty of up to 50% of your original HP.

I always thought the low HP was a good mechanic of the original and I was disappointed when it was removed from Dark Souls. 

game seems to have mouse sensitivity so low as to be unusable :( 

You need a quite powerful machine to run this:) 

Running it isn't an issue, the controls are just broken :( 

by unplugging the mouse.. 

If you haven't tried the f2p game Warframe yet (you should, it's ace) now is YOUR CHANCE! (OMG)

Simply sign up using this referral link (IMPORTANT OMGLOL) and we will both get most awesome things!

https://warframe.com/signup?referrerId=513e320b1a4d80a639000001 

Daz's Func account has been hacked and the above link is a spam trojen keylogger virus backdoor. Don't click! 

 

I would like to try out Bastion and Limbo. Thanks for your generosity! 

I would like to try out Bastion and Limbo. Thanks for your generosity!

My email address is kingold#foxmail.com, with # to be replaced by @ for obvious reasons. 

I blame slow internet connection for this. 

Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Dishonored

Haven't done much of anything the last couple of months except play these two games. Dishonored is absolutely beautifully done. You can play both these games stealthily, and I'd never played that style before and it sort of hooked me. I actually played through Dishonored a second time just to get the Clean Hands and Ghost achievements. Then I played all the DLC for both games. I guess I'm done for now, maybe I can get back to Quake mapping. 

and have yet to play!... 

Also really enjoyed Metro Last Light recently. Gameplay is good fun and atmosphere and graphics and details are top notch.

Part way through Crysis 3, really liking it. Same old gameplay but much more interesting settings than C2, ruined city is stunning. Also Psycho is pretty funny. 

Played and reviewed a couple 2009 games -

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (8/10) http://www.etherealhell.com/etherealhell/reviews/2013/call_of_juarez_bound_in_blood.php

and Mini Ninjas (6.5/10) http://www.etherealhell.com/etherealhell/reviews/2013/mini_ninjas.php

Mini Ninjas is probably a little bit overrated, but them I'm not a 10yo so it's probably not intended for me, but COJ was actually really good, much better than the first game. 

Tiggit is an open source game launcher and installer.

Our mission: to help you find all the awesome indie games that exist 'hidden' around the internet.

Tiggit is a desktop app that installs and launches games with one click. It is sort of like an open source Steam clone, but much simpler and currently with only freeware games and demos.

Features:
- Contains over 500 freeware games (and a few demos)
- New games added continuously
- No account or registration required

http://tiggit.net/ 

nice, Quake Injector for indie games.