I gave up on AC3. Too long and drawn out. Black Flag, on the other hand, is great! 

It sucked. 

It did. Keep going. They get REALLY good. I lost a lot of hours running around as Ezio ... 

I have 0.4 hours on Steam for AC1. Most of that time was me trying to quit, because it was a ~7 step process to exit the game without killing the thread manually. 

ac1 was hot garbage. the combat was just a mess and too frustrating. ac2 was a big improvement, but mostly if you like a story in your games. the gameplay wasn't really all that fun. pretty though.

ac3 I'm only an hour in. they seem to have just assumed I played ac2 because there's barely any tutorials. the puzzle section as desmond with his tightpants gf was quite cool. i'll see if I can get a few hours in today. I hope they haven't put the difficulty up though since ac2, as it was pretty good in that respect (and no difficulty selection, thanks ubisoft for assuming every gamer is the same). 

"ac3 I'm only an hour in. they seem to have just assumed I played ac2 because there's barely any tutorials."

??

The first 6 hours or so is basically one long tutorial. 

they haven't given any instructions on combat yet, other than button mash. although there appear to be combat tutorials in the menu, so maybe I'm supposed to do those. i'll just wing it though. pickpocketing not mentioned. walking in groups to stay hidden not mentioned. hiding in hay or wooden things...

maybe they're still getting to those points. doesn't matter I remember them all from II. 

finishing brotherhood. it was pretty good, better than asII, although the designers were a bit lazy in setting the entire game pretty much in one city.

what ruined it was the last 2 sequences (about 1.5hrs). utter garbage, frustrating gameplay that made all the rpg building you'd previously done completely irrelevant.

I might play Revelations next. 

has anyone tried memory of a broken dimension? played an old demo from 2012(?) I found on a steam forum... seemed cool, but i don't know how long you can keep a game going with the gameplay that's in there. 

Yeah. The aesthetic is really cool but it needs more stuff to do. Ezra (the guy working on it) is doing it by himself so I imagine it still might be a while before it's done. But I played it at an offsite PAX event and it is really cool for what it is. Seems like the core mechanic so far is akin to that scene in the Last Crusade where Indy crosses the "invisible" bridge 

It's up on Steam Greenlight http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=305638565 with a recent-ish trailer. Looks a bit less abstract, but no less intriguing.
I am excited about it! 

I played that this summer at Siggraph, and it was still pretty far from being done, but quite interesting.
The dev was a cool guy, but he didn't seem 100% sure on what direction he was taking with it at the time. 

Basically standard dark ambient noiz clip :) 

btw Mount and Blade is free on GoG... 

 

in theory, so in the witcher 2, but you need to go to GoG 7 times after waiting 24 hours each time before you can get it... 

Awesome I'm needing to get the witcher 2! Thanks necros. 

has anyone played tropico 3? or any tropico I guess..? I was thinking about trying it out as it seems like a nice mix between simcity and civ5. 

is a lot of fun. At least the single player is, I didn't really try the sandbox mode too much. They don't really explain what's going on in Tropico 3, you just kind of figure it out. Tropico 4 has a more robust tutorial, Tropico 5 too.

It seems like a much more relaxed, casual SimCity. Plus, building roads is super fun, I find it very cathartic.

Also, it's hilarious. 

I wouldn't mind the newer tropicos, but I've heard you basically have to shell out more than you pay for the actual game in DLC in order to get most of the interesting stuff. 

You might be able to snatch up Tropico 4 & all its DLC for a decent price during the upcoming Steam sales if you're willing to hold on. I always see those games on sale. 

Yes, that's a good idea! Thanks for reminding me about that. 

Speaking of which!

Tropico 4 Collectors Bundle (with DLC) 85% off on Steam this week; http://store.steampowered.com/sub/19282/ 

Just picked it up! Thanks dude! 

Gosh Assassin's Creed is a cunt on your wrist when you have to hold down 3 keys just about all game long for movement, 10-15hrs of holding down 3 keys. Fuck. Couldn't play Revelations after that, so I tried a few other games...

Hydrophobia Prophecy - 6.0. Cheap indie game, pretty good but only 3 hours long.

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad - 5/10 complete trash, dont' how this has a 76% aggregate. You play most levels 4 times over, mostly defence-style at that. Gave up on easy because I got stuck on 1 level that become very hard, but for most of the game you can pretty much just stand around waiting for timers to run out since you never seem to die unless the game decides you can die on this round.

Fable III - 7.5. Not bad, but I was expecting a bit better. Nice scenery and all that. Way too easy for an RPG though. By the time I got to double-magic-spells I was just standing still and charging the alt-magic-attack. Just kills everything and you hardly need to move. Think I used 1 health pack in the whole game. Also RPG elements are pretty basic - I collected 2 weapons the entire game, 1 extra gun, and 3-4 magic upgrades. But guns/melee are irrelevant with the overpowered magic attachs. Treasure chests were full of junk, money was irrelevant because there were really no shops. Worst thing was the character interaction, the most awkward, childish shit I've ever seen in a game. However I did enjoy about 2/3rds through when you leave the main island, it gets a bit more exciting exploring Aurora, meeting black slime dude, and there's a few good side quests. "The Game" side quest must be one of the best side quests in any game ever.