Gaming room (It's a geeks paradise)

[ratty]

I believe an Xbox one may be in my stocking this year!

[El Pibe]

just got my mastery badge* on the M3 Lee. 5 kills (in 2 teams of 7), 1500 damage in a tier IV V match up, 900 xp

*Means that you earned more xp in a match than 99% of players in the same tank, over a rolling week.

Honestly I feel about this game the way SJ does about dark souls. At least 750 battles probably counts as addiction.

[Otta]

I have caught the Clash of Clans bug in the last couple of months. I know I should stop and that it will get me nowhere, but damn it, I want to upgrade to the biggest strongest village!

[Otta]

For those with kids, my missus and my 5 year old absolutely LOVE Heyday. And I must admit it does look very sweet and fun.

[????]

I got the kids a PS3 for minecraft....complete waste of money, they just play on the App (i got Fifa and Assassinns Creed but *meh* just not my idea of fun tooooo old); since we went Mac I can't do Total War, which I really miss...to the extent I might buy a cheap PC laptop). Sooooo just Apps for me

Crime City

Plunder Pirates

Living Dead, I think (Gree)

I've played CC since I got an ipad so am now at nearly level 200 but not spent anything

[El Pibe]

weirldy i find the app minecraft almost unplayable, but love it on the xbox.

aaanyway, not to labour the point, but app gaming.....

http://toucharcade.com/2014/07/08/world-of-tanks-blitz/

http://www.metacritic.com/game/ios/world-of-tanks-blitz

[ploberman]

Hi there,

Anyone know of a good world stragety browser game? Have been playing Illyriad.co.uk for three years and will still do so but need another good one to play. I don't want just a PvP town building, that is you don't get achancr to build anything before 100 other players flatten you. I don't mind a Role playing, again without having to fight monsters every five minutes. I play on a laptop, none of your kindles, Ipads, smartphones or tablets.

Was brought up on letter PBM and atari games so I like to take my time.

Ta very much!

[New Girl]

Has anyone been playing Alien Isolation? I've just watched my other half play it and I'm white faced and clammy. Feck is that a scare!

[El Pibe]

I'm waiting for the occulus rift version :D

Yeah it does look awesome.

Still stuck in world of tanks blitz. 1015th game, just about to hit 50% win ratio, woo!!

You do spend the first 300 games doing the headless chicken thing though!!

it works very well on my phone too btw

[El Pibe]

will we get sucked in by another zelda otta?

http://ie.ign.com/videos/2014/12/09/the-legend-of-zelda-wii-u-fullscreen-footage-from-the-game-awards

[El Pibe]

"Beseige", about a fiver for PC; marvellous combination of meccano and medieval bloodlust...and exploding sheep

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/01/19/besiege-physics-puzzler-war-machines/#more-263577

[Otta]

"Brothers - a tale of two sons" free on xbox live. Interesting game play where you control two characters simultaneously, one with each thumb stick.

[Otta]

Charming game and looks really lovely.

[Otta]

Otta Wrote:

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> Just (well on the train this morning) played the

> first 10 minutes of this

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> http://www.telltalegames.com/thewolfamongus/

>

> It looks really cool, and the soundtrack seems

> cool so far. Think it's going to be enjoyable.

Now it's all finished, I thought this was a good review.

http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/the-wolf-among-us-review/1900-6415981/

[Otta]

So, based on a weird thread in the main room, what are your top 5 game franchises?

Obviously this will depend on the sort of game you like.

Based on not a lot of thought mine are

Dizzy games

Zelda games

Mario

GTA

Eldar Scrolls

[Dopamine1979]

Mario

GTA

Street Fighter (2, Turbo etc)

Call of duty

can;t think of a 5th

[El Pibe]

mario & zelda for sure.

Resident Evil was patchy but loved a couple of those early ones, again very fond gaming memories of Tomb Raider, even if they quickly got a bit stale.

The Turok games were another that I really liked back in the mists of time.

Advance Wars on the gameboys were absolute classics!!

Oooh, metroid, both 2D and 3D were excellent

[Jeremy]

Resident Evil

Streetfighter

Tekken

Gran Turismo

Struggling for a 5th. Maybe Batman Arkham? Don't really want to suggest anything from the 8-bit era, as much as I loved them at the time, there's no point playing them now excpet for comedy value.

[Jeremy]

Forgot to mention Command & Conquer... that probably goes straight in as my #1.

El Pibe Wrote:

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> Resident Evil was patchy but loved a couple of those early ones

Yeah the early fixed-perspective ones were great, but actually I think my favourite incarnation was probably RE4 on the Wii. After that they started to lose their way and strayed too far from the "survival" gameplay.

[Otta]

Jeremy Wrote:

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Don't really want to suggest anything from the 8-bit

> era, as much as I loved them at the time, there's

> no point playing them now excpet for comedy value.

I don't know, I played Zelda 2 (Adventure of Link) a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it. But that's probably and exception.

EP how can I have forgotten Metroid? Super Metroid on SNES was amazing, and Metroid Prime also.

I had a Turok game in N64, but don't think I got that in to it.

Mate of mine LOVED Final Fantasy, but the whole turn taking combat just put me off (see also Dragon Age)

[El Pibe]

yeah never really got the FF series, though liked some of the it's 8 bit brethren, like secret of mana.

and yes old zeldas hold up really well, including some of their polished counterparts on WiiU arcade.

What was the series with snake in? stealth em ups with incomprehensible japanese stylee plots? I quite enjoyed them even if they were very silly.

[Jeremy]

Metal Gear Solid

[El Pibe]

that's them!!

[Jeremy]

BTW - I considered myself reasonable good at SF2 back in the day, played in loads on the megadrive, completed a couple of the arcade versions with a single credit. But when I play it now in Four Quarters, I get my butt kicked and struggle to get past three or four levels. Why is this? Do different versions have totally different AI?

[Otta]

No idea. I tried playing on xbox and with touch screen on mobile and found I couldn't pull off the moves. I need to play with an old SNES controller.