Gaming room (It's a geeks paradise)

[StraferJack]

cables ?

in 20 years?

you'll be buying an adapter to beam it to your frontal lobe

[El Pibe]

jaysus i hope so

 

[katanita]

GTAV coming to PS4 and PC? http://www.ibtimes.com/grand-theft-auto-5-release-date-nearing-rockstar-expected-announce-pc-xbox-one-ps4-versions-e3

Just discovered PC gaming after getting a good laptop, catching up on all the stuff I've missed over the years: Portal, L4D2, even Half Life (at which I am appalling), plus a load of indie stuff like Gone Home, Limbo, Thomas Was Alone. And, er, Peggle. What else should I try?

[StraferJack]

Dark souls x 100

[El Pibe]

dishonored

[katanita]

Isn't Dark Souls meant to be insanely difficult? I think it might also be too much for my graphics card, alas. But Dishonoured has gone on the wishlist.

BTW just found this site for checking whether your graphics card can handle various games at different resolutions http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html, which is useful, but a heirarchy chart of graphics cards would be helpful, so I know where mine sits when the specs say, for example, GeForce 9800 GTX+ or ATI Radeon HD 4870+ as it does for Dark Souls on Steam, and mine is a NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M. Anyone know of anywhere you can find that info? Tried searching.

[StraferJack]

not insanely difficult - just insanely unforgiving. But therefore the most rewarding

in eurogamer's game of generation feature, Tom Bramwell wrote of his experience

"believe it or not, I was having tremendous fun. Dark Souls is often portrayed as some sort of biblical cilice that we must all wear to atone for our love of modern games that play themselves, but when I finally made time to play it at the beginning of last year that's not what I found at all.

Critical consensus

Oli Welsh reviewed Dark Souls when it first came out, awarding it 9/10. "If Demon's Souls was purgatory, Dark Souls is a descent into hell," he wrote. "From Software's follow-up to its celebrated dark fantasy ordeal is even harder, even more remorseless and bleak."

By the time the PC version was released, Rich Stanton had seen it all, but he was delighted to keep playing, as he reported in our Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition review, also recipient of a 9/10 score. "There are some few entertainment experiences that rise above mere amusement, and the world of Lordran is one of them: an endless feast to be chewed over and digested, each morsel swallowed with lip-smacking relish before returning eagerly for the next."

Instead I discovered a game that rewards patience, concentration and experimentation, and punishes haste, carelessness and narrow-minded play. A hostile and cruel game, as Oli put it in our original review, but one that cannot be called heartless or soulless. Perhaps the reason I haven't gone back isn't that I'm intimidated"

[StraferJack]

this retrospective video (of Soules) is great - it speaks to the uniqueness and the perceived difficulty and is eloquent and ace

But it looks soooo good too

but if you do nothing else with it, skip to 11:11 and hear how the design of one of the enemies is typically different and more layered

If I manage to get anyone to pick it up and play it, I know they will initially go "huh" - but I beg you stick with it. You will have all other games ruined for you

[katanita]

Well, I'm sold on DS, but I still don't think it's going to work with this graphics card, unfortunately.

[El Pibe]

My four year old has just got into Pro Evo Soccer, though obviously he hasn't got the hang of it.

He requested west ham versus london, so i gave him spurs.

I kid you not, it was 8-0!!! perhaps not the way round quids might have hoped for though :(

[El Pibe]

Monument valley is making me a bit gooey in a way that nothing has since ICO, which is no coincidence as they definitely nicked the ethos and mangled it via an Escher painting.

But still, lovely.

[El Pibe]

Hah! :)

 

[ruffers]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> Dark souls x 100

Free on xbox live in June btw. I've never played it but will be giving it a go.

[El Pibe]

really?! excellent!

[StraferJack]

now go and look at zero punctuations review of it (dark souls 1) after he had dismissed it for years

[Otta]

I might have a go if it's free.

[StraferJack]

opening tutorial session isn't the greatest but it really opens up - when you get past first boss proper you should have a fair idea

if you think it's skyrim because of setting, it couldnt be further from that game.

[StraferJack]

and if anyone needs help with bosses, let me know and I'll try and jump in

[Floating Onion]

You just want an excuse to keep playing it.

[StraferJack]

dont need an excuse - I just keep playing it

I might join in to help... or.. I might just invade your game and take your hard won souls...

[StraferJack]

anyone downloaded it yet?

[Otta]

No, that would involve turning the xbox on, and that ain't gonna happen any time soon.

Basically saying I'd give it a go was just wishful thinking.

[El Pibe]

this sounds a genuinely interesting and original prospect

http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/6/5785232/the-magic-circle-fake-remake-of-old-text-adventure

[Otta]

Surprised to find myself well in to this.

http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/

[El Pibe]

it's just nice not to be bombarded by in-app purchases on this sort of thing for once.