playing games on a PC, misc. chatter, Steam names, etc...

thanks for that, website looks very useful. just need some £££ now!

Quiet PC are a great supplier, I buy a lot of stuff from them. The Noctua fans particularly are great - 6 in my desktop PC at the moment. The case is lined with soundproofing acoustic foam, and something else I installed was an HDD silencer http://www.quietpc.com/smartdrive-classic, which quietens an already quiet HDD down to practically inaudible unless I put my ear against the case.

FTL is out. Looks neat. Roguelike starship fun.

currently $9. If I get half the playtime out of this that I did from Hack, Slash, Loot, It'll be worth it.

http://www.ftlgame.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4imWvoqxmc

comes on Mac & Linux, too.

I wonder how long before Star Command hits.

man this game is brutal

but is it good?

i feel kinda bad saying this, but though this looks cool something about it tells me it's gonna be in an indie bundle

Big Picture update: it works, sort of, but it's a pain in the ass. Since I can't force Steam (or anything else) to launch only on my secondary monitor (my TV), and since I don't want to make the TV my primary, the best way I've found to work this is annoyingly complicated: I keep the primary/secondary setup, switch to duplicate displays when I'm ready to play something, switch the sound from speakers to HDMI, and set the game's resolution as necessary. For some games (including, surprisingly, Bastion, originally an XBLA title) they don't actually support low enough resolutions for my 720p TV.

my guess is that the 720p has a natural output at a resolution like 1388x768, i think few 720p TVs actually render at 720p

Yeah, mine is 1360x738 or something weird like that. The problem is Bastion doesn't have anything within that range- the lowest available resolution just gets me a blank screen.

How about fixing the resoltion in the steam launcher...

https://www.wsgf.org/dr/bastion/en

Thanks, I'll give that a try!

Hmm, guess I'll wait and see how this pans out before I jump in and build a new box:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/18/valve-hardware-jeri-ellsworth/

holy shit, Jet Set Radio is out steam:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/205950/

Also, Torchlight 2 out

there is something crazy that it got a PC port over ten years later. but also great because i can wait until it's on a steam sale and feel less guilty about rebuying it then

still waiting for the TL2 mac port

This really is fantastic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZE7kGax7Ds

Who the hell knows when it will be finished, though; this is actually shorter than the last alpha release that came out a year or so ago.

looks nice

Anybody for Hotline Miami?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OJ51PG0swE

waiting for Mac port, but yes, i'm pretty interested. Cactus! it's been getting good notes from all over the place, especially compared to Retro City Rampage, whose response has been more lukewarm

Death Rally is having a free weekend on Steam - available from now until Sunday @ 1 PM PST.

Are any of you playing Planetside 2?

Upgraded much of the desktop today.

Man, I need a cheaper hobby, like narcotics.

Kingfish - specs?

How to date a post to very late 2012, here we go:

I5 - 3570k
8gig ddr3 1600
MSi z77 something mobo, does not have a eide port meaning I gotta dig up an ext hdd enclosure to pull old data off old drives
120gb Samsung ssd. Damn but Win 7 loads in less than 60 seconds.

Also, bought a Radeon hd 7870 earlier in the week.

Far Cry 3 runs nicely on it, like it should.

summation of the fuss over Steam game War Z, interesting to see how Valve plays this
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/12/19/allegations-of-false-advertising-hound-the-war-z-release-on-steam/

aaaaaaaand Valve have pulled it from sale

From time to time a mistake can be made and one was made by prematurely issuing a copy of War Z for sale via Steam. We apologize for this and have temporary removed the sale offering of the title until we have time to work with the developer and have confidence in a new build. Those who purchase the game and wish to continue playing it via Steam may do so. Those who purchased the title via Steam and are unhappy with what they received may seek a refund by creating a ticket at our support site here.

http://www.capcom-unity.com/mega_man

Mega Man X Street Fighter is available for free download today

Elder Scrolls Bundle, one Steam code for £20.61 - Oblivion GOTY, Morrowind GOTY, Skyrim, Hearthfire and Dawnguard

Speaking of Steam, Gaben and other Valve guys are interviewed in 2-parter ep of Nerdist out today.

I now have 8 free copies of DOTA2 clogging up my steam gift box (it'll be free to play once it launches properly anyway but at the moment early access is £22ish so I guess this is a good deal?). Chuck me your steam name if you want one of them.

Simcity closed beta went live this weekend. Check your email for a code if you signed up for it.

FUCK STEAM aaargh fucking idiot fuckety bastard fuckers!

It's attempting to download the world's most massive update on my 2kb/s Nigerian connection. Cannot delay the update. Cannot play any Steam games inc single player. Update will complete in about a week. They haven't even done us the courtesy of saying what's *in* the fucking update. I'll take up any offers of a lift back to 1998.

i think it's the linux update. I feel your pain.

This probably belongs in the deal thread but the current Groupees/Be Mine bundle is up
http://groupees.com/bma

I mention this mostly because The Cat Lady looks like a possible so-bad-its-good throwback to '90s PC FMV adventure games

From the first hour or so in, indie Escherian puzzler Antichamber does seem to live up to the hype.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT2VlffrSMg

Has anyone here played Actual Sunlight?
http://www.actualsunlight.com/
It's pretty harrowing. I can tell you from experience that its first-person perspective of suicidal depression is completely on point.

RPS coverage if you'd rather read about it than play it, for which I can't really blame you. (Or you can read it after you've played it, the whole game is about 20 minutes.)
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/02/11/thoughts-on-actual-sunlight/

I guess I should do the responsible thing and say this game just may have some triggering effects, it's that raw

Played this tonight. By halfway through I was bored and it was repetitive and miserable and I just wanted it to hurry up and end. Which was pretty woah in itself.

this looks really cool. Patrick Klepek posted about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCg8J2NrSrE

John Carpenter Soundtrack....the game!

haha, well put sir

i am interested in this game Monaco http://www.pocketwatchgames.com/Monaco/

has anyone played this? does anyone have 'opinions'?

thank you http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110904041806/messaging/images/2/2d/Emoticon_owl.png

Playing Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, b/c I never really played a DR game before. Some of it I like a lot, some of it is hilariously japanese.

probably won't do anything about this for quite a while, but i'm thinking about doing a HTPC thing for pushing media/playing games on a TV

long-time mac user, but mac minis seem underpowered for the task, and they're still lagging on the games front (though that seems to be changing rapidly).

is it possible to get/build something reasonably powerful for not that much money? i'm sure there are billions of articles/tutorials on this sort of thing, but i figured i'd ask ilx first

currently just stringing an HDMI cable from my imac over to my (borrowed) flatscreen. this is fine for watching movies and stuff, but it seems a little janky, and my new place will probably place my computer well away from wherever the tv ends up

or should i just dual-boot windows, play games on my imac, and get something more economical for movies/streams on the tv?

A cheap roku box should be fine for streaming. Most flatscreens have USB ports that you can just plug in for movies or file watching.

yeah I was thinking that playing Civ 5 on my tv would be badass but I don't know what the setup ought to be, or there's some good reason not to do it. it's just more comfortable & sociable to game on the tv; then the fam or wife or whoever can watch instead of me isolating myself

"YAY, DADDY IS PLAYING CIV 5"

you have no idea

they loved watching me play pocket planes, wtf

you played PP on your TV?