HOW BOUT THAT STEAM SALE?

I've only bought 4 things so far (Dear Esther, Morrowind, Jet Set Radio, and Thirty Flights of Loving), but I also got Dark Souls when it was $15 on Amazon.

Indeed. I've already thoroughly explored every nook of Morrowind, but I figured it was about time I legally owned the game.

skyrim is so grey and boring compared to morrowing. i can't live in giant mushrooms in skyrim

I got my money's worth out of Skyrim, and now I'm gonna mod the shit outta Morrowind.

But yes, you should also just play Chrono Trigger.

Dear Esther is cool. The only thing I grabbed there was Portal 2 (which I've played on 360.. but traded in right away for value).

Started, played and completed Dishonored over the break (get it.. "break").

Started Borderlands 2... I like it but I dunno if I'll stick it out. I get the feeling outside of some cute and mildly amusing dialogue, it's going to be grossly repetitive.

Started COD: BO2 today. Great production, but I feel like my hand is being held a bit too much. Cinematic shooter? I guess. Anyhow I'll plow through it so I can get max Gamespot trade in credit.

Picked up Mass Effect 1 again so I can start from the beginning and play one hell of a bitchy Femshep.

Fallout: New Vegas was alright for a while, but it didn't keep me hooked like Fallout
3 did. Skyrim has been getting on my nerves recently, I might get Morrowind soon.

I've been achievement hunting in Rock Band Blitz. Only one I have left is to gold star every song included in the game... that one is probably going to take awhile. I only have like 12 left to do but they're really hard.

I'm getting pretty stupid good at that game.

Skyrim is one of my favorite games of all time. Can't wait to achievement hunt the fuck out of it soon.

I've only done that for two games, Oblivion and Bully. Now I just don't have the time and have such a big backlog of entertainment (movies, games... music)

Haha.

holy shit you guys need to play Keyboard Drumset Fucking Werewolf.

It's from 2011, it's better than Skyrim.

I think that's its slogan.

Yamantaka//Sonic Titan are working on a game.

I'm going to spend the rest of today hunting all of these down.

http://www.giantbomb.com/cactus-software/65-1647/developed_games/

I'm enjoying it, it's not exactly deep but whatever.

I like Black Ops 2's multiplayer. I'm uh, sort of really good at it actually. Don't mean to brag. *cough*36 kills, 1 death*cough*

How are you digging Bully so far? I might get it next week.

I've been able to get through most of Persona alright, but this last dungeon is really hard and the final boss just kicked my ass and I'm done with video games until 2013.

Of Persona 1, yes (I'm assuming Pandora is the final boss, based on the narrative and it being a huge dickhole).

Hooked on Letterpress on iOS. A simple, clean word game.

Just letting y'all know that Myst is still timeless.

New Pokemon games X and Y announced (they ran out of colors):


Starters are all cute as buttons. Might be enough for me to take the 3DS plunge come October.

Whoa, and people are now speculating (based on the attacks shown in the video) that the type pairing for the starters might be grass/dark, fire/psychic, and water/fighting. That adds a second level of rock/paper/scissors to the mix, and I can finally have my glorious fire/psychic Pokemon.

Ain't as smug as this smooth operator.

She was my B&W starter~

Which reminds me, I don't think I ever finished Black.

I'm playing White now. I picked the same, Steve. I'm a fan.

I never played Gen III or IV. I'll be getting X/Y.

I always pick Grass Pokemon for some reason. I might have to do the same here. #TeamBulbasaur

Motherfucker I'm licking my atomic purple Game Boy Color with Pokemon Yellow in its back as I type this.

i always liked the lime green

I still remember exactly where I was the first time I beat pokemon blue. Those were the days.

Oh god, I can remember that moment too. The most proud I've ever felt about anything.

*blink*

I love you, Gaben.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/3852144/gabe-newell-interview-steam-box-future-of-gaming

Investing in this thing was smart, these guys are on the right track.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/01/07/valve-pc-steam-box/

Gabe's comments on Windows 8 are out to lunch. The market is saturated with tablets right now and MOST people play casual games. PC sales are on a decline because of this. Win 8 I think did or is doing as much as it can to merge the worlds (touch to keyboard/mouse and casual to business). I mean Windows in the past was so flaky because it required backwards compatibility because of it's penetration in the business market. Mac never had to do that. I don't think there's much else windows could have done to turn the tide in the "post PC (desktop)" world we live in now. Microsoft is a bit late to the tablet game, a year or two earlier would be been better but their partners (OEMS again.. assholes) just didn't have the hardware in the pipeline. This is why Windows RT exists.. and now, ironically is really DOA. Anyhow at least microsoft is keeping it's OS in front of eyes and people who still want to get work done, do it on Windows.

That said, he's right about OnLive. I found it useless. They focused on FPS which require low latency and they put this on a high latency wan. Idiots. I'm sure people closer to the datacentres could play some of the games, ok.. but all that needed to happen to kill onlive was for a manufacturer with clout release a standardized system. Enter Valve.

Unfortunately his interview is all over the map and he sounds fairly non committal to anything. It reads like darts are being thrown blindly. Which if that is the case is really about as good as he can do since Valve doesn't make games all that much anymore. They also don't have the clout MS or Sony do to partner with a developer on a game. But this is a good time for them to consider striking. I still can't imagine yet what the console manufacturers can or will do to convince people to buy the next console. Full res 3D isn't going to be enough. The games are pretty slick as it is and the systems allow OS updates that has allowed them to expand usability for the past 8 or so years. Subtle upgrades to graphics (full anti aliasing, 1080p, high res kinect) I just don't know. Maybe if they maintain 100% backwards compat.. maybe. But even then that leaves them exposed.

Game portability is nice. But what they need is a standardized hardware platform if they want to 'save' PC gaming. Going to linux is sort of dumb for them because that cuts out a lot of their current store library and I think, for the most part, people have given up on Linux for the desktop. It's fine in a box, but not if you want to use something that already exists elsewhere on that box. With XBOX the current champion of the consoles, you're using microsoft.. they should have stuck with Microsoft. Console software sales eclipse PC software sales, everything PC now that's a "name" is a port from the console version. Linux is a mistake and in fact unnecessary as he could have went with a much cheaper embedded windows license.

I think Shield is a smart product and will do far more to save PC gaming than anything else. I would buy one tomorrow (after I upgrade my gaming rig). I'm all about home centralized computing and I spend more time on my tablets connected to my desktop PC via Splashtop than doing anything else. The PC is where the power is, I just don't want to sit at my desk after work.

I think the number of people who want to play with 8 simultaneous players on 8 different displays in a single home, are few and far between. It's a bit odd to come out of the gates with a technology focused on a demographic that is NOT the biggest purchaser of your products. Most kids friends are at home, playing them on XBOX live, because they're too lazy to walk across the street, don't have the time to go across town, or are playing too late in their pj's. Ironically, one of the things I think Console manufacturers COULD do to help next gen sales is support multiple displays (along with head tracking). Glance tracking will be neat, I would love to have it for racing games, but it's very niche and you can twitch your finger more quickly anyhow.

Soooo, when is Shield coming out?

I found a sick Evil Dead reference in Spelunky.

It's on my Gamefly Q because boobs.

I have The Witcher on Steam. Haven't played it yet, because I want to learn how to witch first.

I started projectile puking the moment I started the tutorial, that's probably not a great sign.

I can't wait until I'm over this cough, I just lost a frozen burrito I can never have back.

It didn't come out a solid

i don't know if this is the right place for it, but I got an iTunes g/c for Christmas, and I'd like to get some more fun games on my phone, do you guys have any suggestions?

I like a lot of 2D sidescrollers. Super Pizza Boy, Leps Quest and Sword and Scorcery. not crazy about Scribblenauts.

Thanks Shoey! I'll get it! ^_^

this game looks so cool that I stopped watching this in favor of playing it.

can we get the next awful dialogue quote you come across AK?

Moms are the hardest metal known to man.

hmmm. The Cave looks really cool. I'd consider it Shoey.

How's streaming voice on non XBL platforms (meaning, I've only ever used voice on Xbox and it's pretty flawless)?

XBLA would work better for me (as I have more 360's than gaming pc's), but I'm not sure how reliable I would be and when I could play it's probably 2 hours max a few days a week.

So yeah don't make any decisions around me, but my interest is piqued as I'm bit of an adventure gaming fan.

Any idea what the playthrough time is supposed to be like for this?

i found a copy of persona 3 and 4 at gamestop today, but they were both $30 wtf gamestop. it is a ps2 game fuck you

Do you guys want me to ask my brother?