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We had one about two years ago. It was at the campus in the Informatics building of our university. A few of the people had been employed by the university as assistents and reshearchers or something like that so they had access to host a party like that.
 
I had never been to a LAN party before. We had an x360 with a kinect (something I've never actually used before) with some stupid game, I don't know what it was. We also played Mortal Kombat 9(?) on the 360. Or course we also had proper lan gaming, most of us had our laptops with us and played Need for Speed Underground 2. I sucked pretty bad tho. And we also had a lot of beer. A LOT of beer. Not much else to it to be honest. No crazy stories or anything particularly memorable but it was pretty fun. I wish we would do it again someday.

It sounds more like an issue of developers going for a realistic style than "graphics going too far".
 
To me, realistically styled games have little distinction between each other, making them bland and boring to look at. But there are games out there that take a more stylistic approach towards their graphics, while simultaneously being graphically advanced that don't have the issues you're talking about. Monster Hunter World is a good recent example of this.

Granted, but the used market is flooded with abused gpus and you are forced to buy all of them
i wish my laptop was faster

Granted, but it's a Dacia Sandero.

I wish all cryptocurrencies go kaput at the same time.

I saw some topics about the game on here when it was still in alpha and beta but now that it launched, nobody seems to be talking about it?
Has anyone else picked it up? How many hours have you sunken into it already? Thoughts on the story (no spoilers pls), game mechanics? Ran into any bugs?
 
I didn't back the game on kickstarter but I have known about it since the very beginning and was looking forward to it all the way. Pre-ordered it a couple of weeks before launch which is something I don't normally do.
So far I played 22hrs according to Steam. So what can I say about it?
 
First, let's get all the bad things and flaws out of the way.
The game is very demanding. I have a more than decent gaming PC (specs in my signature) with a 1070, but I can only really run it on medium settings. Even then it often dips from 60 to around 45fps.
Running the game from my HDD resulted in extremely long loading times for some reason. I'm talking loading screens before every conversation with an NPC. Also, texture and object pop in like crazy. NPCs were casually walking past me with their clothes and heads not yet loaded in. It was pretty immersion breaking so I moved it to my SSD and it's been loading fine ever since. Note that this might just be my HDD acting up so take it with a grain of salt unless more people can confirm this.
There are a lot of bugs still. I ran into a couple, including an infinite loading screen in one quest which forced me to bring up task manager, close the game and start from my last save. Thankfully I only had to replay about 10 mins but this leads me to my next point.
The save mechanism. Saving in this game is only possible in three different ways as far as I'm aware. (Unless you mod it)
Autosave when a certain point in a quest or the story is reached Save when you sleep in a bed, though not every bed counts. I read that the bed has to belong to the player, but I used other beds and it worked sometimes, sometimes it didn't. By drinking "saviour schnapps", an in game item which is expensive, in short supply and turns you into an alcoholic when you consume it too often. While I like the idea behind it, and it certainly forces you to adopt a more careful and realistic playstyle, it sucks when you lose your progress because of a bug in the game or because you have to do something IRL and can't leave your PC running. I think they should make this optional, everyone would be happy.
 
Sounds like I hate the game? I don't. I really love it actually.
Medium settings still look very good, the game world is really believable. The world map isn't the largest for it's genre but  the landscape, which was handmade and is based on the real world looks spot on. I don't live too far from CZ and this is what the landscape really looks like around here. It's beautiful.
The game has a lot of historical facts, what you would call lore in a fantasy game. Everything is very detailed. The story is interesting and keeps you playing. The player character, Henry, is just your average dude, not some hero or chosen one. He's very likeable and relatable.
The combat system is a bit janky at times, but it's fun and way more tactical than in Skyrim for example. You can control the direction of each of your sword slashes and stabs and defending also works the same way. This of course makes it way harder to take on multiple enemies so even taking out two bandits feels like a big achievement. Which is realistic if you think about it. I also like the realistic needs like eating and sleeping.
 
In it's current, freshly released state and without having played all the way thru it, I'd give the game a 7.5/10. (8.5 or 9 if the bugs and performance issues get fixed by a patch)
So, let's see. Maybe I'm not the only one on LTT who enjoys KC:D.
 

Granted but it got stolen instead.
I wish I I could think of a wish.

Granted but all the meteors hit you.
I wish I wouldn't keep forgetting to put a wish here.

Your task is simple:
Grant the wish made by the user above you, while at the same time corrupting it in whatever way you wish to make it different than what the previous user originally intended.
Afterwards, you make your own wish, which in turn will be corrupted by the next user.
For example:
USER A: I wish I had a million dollars.
USER B: Granted. You now have one million dollars.
In monopoly money.
I wish I had a steak.
USER C: Granted. It’s made out of rubber.
I wish Batman was real.
Etc.
I’ll start.
*ahem*
I wish I possessed an army with which I could conquer the world.

Why not have eyeballs that make the world look better?

Man, I hope Ozzy Man reviews this movie...

No, but being forced to the Windows Store causes the issues I listed... And Windows Store apps cannot be added as non-Steam games

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Ill draw in 6 dayss!!!
ill guess a number and if i get it ill keep the card

I think this is going to be my most anticipated game of 2016. I just love everything involving organised crime! I mean, oc is bad in real life and all, but so is the apocalypse and I love apocalypse stories as well.

I think this is going to be my most anticipated game of 2016. I just love everything involving organised crime! I mean, oc is bad in real life and all, but so is the apocalypse and I love apocalypse stories as well.

I think this is going to be my most anticipated game of 2016. I just love everything involving organised crime! I mean, oc is bad in real life and all, but so is the apocalypse and I love apocalypse stories as well.

Yes, just get that refund because GMG is shit.

I honestly think the story was decent at best. Definitely not amazing imo. The mystery of the Synths and Institute was cool and not knowing if someone was a synth or a human was a cool thing. However when I found Shaun it wasn't even a big moment for me since I really only had him as a baby at the start an didn't do many things together. I then started hating him more and more because he is a fucking cunt. If you choose to side with him to the end you have to kill both the Railroad and BOS even though there is a dialogue option saying you would rather not that old fuck still forces you to. I liked shooting his head off though.
 
The Minutemen are boring. Hate Preston. Keeps giving you the same stupid quest over and over again and when you go to him to get a quest he says "I've got something new for you" BULLSHIT it's the same shit as before.
Not to mention the fact that you become their general like only 30 min after meeting them. This however means NOTHING. It still feels like Preston is the leader here as he keeps sending you on his stupid fetch quests so he sends you, THE GENERAL, to do all the work of the Minutemen. K den.
 
The Institute have boring fetch quests as well. Again I don't feel like their "Father" if I'm just a guy who is sent to get stuff for them to research on.
 
The BOS quests are more interesting but I don't like their military ways.
 
The Railroad are the coolest faction imo, you even get to choose your secret agent name and their missions are pretty cool as well.
 
The ending was probably the weakest thing about the story and to me it's crucial that a story has a good ending. You're still walking around the destroyed wasteland, still saying you have hope that things will change, etc. it's not much different to how the MC feels when he gets out of the vault. 
 
Also the dialogue system is just bad which takes out most of the immersion for me.

I feel Paladin Danse has much more depth then shaun did. 

I've just finished Fallout 4. As much as I've been amazed by some of the storytelling techniques used in this game I have to say that I'm quite disappointed in the "ending".
 
First off let me start by what I did like. The main conflict of course is the dynamic between the 4 factions of the game, the Minutemen, the Brotherhood of Steel, the Railroad and The Institute. I quite like that the Synths in this game were made to be like a whole new race. Fallout had the supermutants, F2 had the Enclave, but ever since these the power dynamics weren't really all that interesting. But I have to say that when I played this game I thought the way they wrote the story was nothing short of genius. First off the Synths, and mainly the Institute are made out to be this big mysterious threat that want to destroy the Commonwealth. And then you find Nick Valentine who becomes your companion. You get to know him, you get to like him. You'll start to sympathize with him. Then you meet the railroad that want to help runaway syths. And because of your relationship with Nick you are inclined to be on their side. And then you meet the Brotherhood which want to destroy all synths because they believe that they are a threat. And this is where I start with my gripes. The game tries very hard, almost too hard to paint the Railroad the "good guys" and the Brotherhood "the bad guys". But the thing is, I think the Railroad are a bunch of lunatics. And I commend the game for giving me a choice in the matter. I very much sympathize with the Brotherhood and no matter how hard the game tried to convince me that "look how bad these guys are" I just grew more and more fond of the BoS. Okay, eradicating the Railroad might have been a bit too much, but whatever.
 
But then the big twist comes around. You get into the institute and it turns out it's led by your son! Who is ironically called "Father", which is actually quite clever because people can put him into YT videos without giving away the twist. This was pretty amazing. The whole time you are looking for your son and fighting this big bad institute at the same time, and it turns out your son is now an old man and is the leader of the very group you were fighting. But it turns out he's a total fucking nutjob. I really don't understand what the point of creating "human-like synths" is. Other than having more human looking slaves. And the game totally fails to even try to convince the players that this is a good thing. I mean, the shitty, robot looking ones seem to be able to sweep the floors and stuff. If you're going to use them as a free labor force then what's the point of making them look like humans? This is just the hubris of science, men trying to play god for all the wrong reasons, and it really rubs me the wrong way. And while they are doing their pointless, merry little experiments in their little labs the rest of the world can suck it. So other than the personal connection I didn't really find any reason to side with the Institute.
 
And then my disappointment begins. The mother son connection. Shaun is a right fucking c**t. He does not show any signs of affection, all his moves seem to be cold and calculated. Which is fair enough, at least it makes my decision easier. But after everything I've been through. After mowing down half the institute and ready to do the same with the other one, everything culminates in this one bedchamber, with a sicly old man on his deathbed. His life work crumbling all around him. This should've been an epic, moving conversation. But here the poor dialogue system shows it's teeth. I think I chose the most interesting dialogue choices and still it was utter shit. The most anticlimactic scene I've ever witnessed. And then I convinced him to give me a code, then I proceeded to shoot him in the head, then I went and blew up the whole thing. And at least the game went out with a bang, that was quite nice. And the outro was well written as well. All in all I still found it the best bethesda storyline so far, even though it had a pretty lackluster ending. There wasn't even a summary of player-actions and choices in the end which was doubly disappointing, and seems like this wasn't even an RPG, only an action game with some dialogue choices. But this is not a discussion on the gameplay and game systems, only the story. And these are my thoughts. I'm going to play through the game at least once more where I join the Institute and probably once more where I go more into the settlement building and Minuteman faction.

You should download and play Myst. You can find an updated version called RealMyst on steam. You'd probably enjoy the hell out of that game. You're pretty much required to have a pen/paper by your side unless you want to use notepad and take screenshots while constantly alt-tabing.
 
It's super easy to cheat though if you refer to a strategy guide. The game can be beaten in less than a minute if you've played through it before because it's simply puzzle solving and the last puzzle is only solvable with clues from all the other puzzles. Since there's no mechanic preventing you from solving it first if you know how to, you can just beat it and the game instantly. NEVER look at a strategy guide.

I love every kind of festivity, especially Christmas and Halloween. I love that these times have specific themes associated with them, and I always try to reflect these themes in my gaming as well. Like at Christmas now it's a given that I have to play Batman Arkham Origins, maybe the Chicago level of Splinter Cell Blacklist. But it's Halloween in a few days, and I'm contemplating what to play. There are still some quests in The Witcher 3 that I haven't finished, not to mention NG+ or Hearts of Stone. But still, I think I'll start a new game in Dark Souls and see how far I get this time.
 
What about you? Are you going to play anything in particular?