What games are you playing and why?

Understatement of the year.

 

I'm playing Chivalry right now, after giving it a spin on the free weekend. It's surprisingly addictive and has decent variety, and caving in heads with a giant sledgehammer never gets old. It's super gory though, with limbs and blood flying everywhere. The tone is more Monty Python than Game Of Thrones, especially the tutorial
Also, big content update coming, yay!
Bad things: Archers. Hanging at the back of the map, trying to shoot enemies 200m away, teamkilling more often than not. Like snipers in Battlefield games, only much, much worse. Oh well, I have made it my personal crusade to hunt them down and kill them. If you see a madman with a sword charging at archers and ignoring all other enemies chances are it's me.

 

Aside from having seen TB do a bunch of videos on the game... that could describe an old amiga classic: Moonstone (though you never got a sledgehammer... it was super gory, and you could get crushed in such a manner, with limbs flying everywhere, a perfect example of how gory it was: if you killed an enemy knight, before they fell down all the way they slumped down on their knees, at which point if you were fast you could gratuitously decapitate them, oh and mountain trolls could pick you up and squeeze you to death so your head popped off and your heart kept pumping out blood through your neck).

 

Yep, that looks similar Only without annoying archers.

 

Toy Story 3.

No, seriously.

 

I mentioned in the PoE thread that I took a couple of days off from playing it. What I've been doing instead (as gaming is concerned) is Endless Space yet again (as well as a bit of Rift, though definitely doing less of that as well, as I'm at the point where it's starting to get a bit repetitive/grindy).

Also, I had this insane impulse to purchase "Dungeonland" I actually like the concept. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that the game is, essentially, tailored for multiplayer (yes, it SAYS you can play solo, but...). I thought I could just learn how to play on my own, and if I decided I'd like it, I might dip my feet into the pool. So I kind of skimmed the tutorial (hardly absorbed anything from it). Unfortunately, there was one point on this map where my party wiped literally before I even knew what was happening. I exited the game, and have been too intimidated to start it up again.

One thing that I should have taken as a clue is that when you play single-player, the easiest difficulty level is called 'Hard'.

 

Grab Omerta from gog before the preorder time is up Haldursson. Turnbased = infinite thinking time.
I'm waiting it to release in about... 10 hours.

That said, in the mean time, I've gone back to the Card Hunter closed beta.

 

No, really, I am playing Toy Story 3.

 

It's the same price through steam though. Did I miss a sale?

/edit nm, I missed the part where you mentioned that the European price was higher on Steam.
Purchased .

I used to play a PBM game of a similar theme called "It's a Crime". It was fun, but because the turns were collated and fed into a computer manually, they did occasionally make mistakes. But it was fun while I played it. Yes, before there was PBEM, you could play games via snail mail.

 

I don't even want to know. My mind is fragile enough as it is, and I insist on buying adventure games.

 

I like the look of that one. I may have to try to grab a copy of it.

 

Antichamber looks neat, but I will only buy this if I like the price

 

It's just that if you don't feel the rhytm, you're gonna have a real bad time.

 

I would pay 400.000 dollars to play that game for 12 seconds.

 

Woot, it's 15€ here :/ 10€ is normally my pain threshold, if my credit card arrives in time I can get a VPN and buy it for US prices

 

Well I bought Omerta and so far it's been totally underwhelming. Been going through the start of the first mission, and it seems kind of broken. Tutorial tells me to do things, only the buttons to do them are greyed out. It's one thing to play a game and get frustrated by the difficulty, but to hit a dead end in the tutorial is just not right.

 

Frozen Synapse had a broken tutorial. Or, should I say, a potentially buggy tutorial. And I have to go through it all over again. I haven't gone back since.

But yeah, broken tutorials are the worst.