I still haven't been able to use the riposte mechanic at all. At the beginning of the game when you aim the ballista, the mouse doesn't work and the directions tell you to use it. Arrow keys work however. There are several goofy graphical glitches (hair spazzing out, bodies and items falling through terrain, ect). I wasn't able to hit the escape key once to save, load, go to main menu, exit game, because my character was interacting with a container and another character initiated dialog. I had to get killed (which was easy) to get that functionality back.

Combat's been a frustrating experience, probably because I can't riposte.

There isn't a way to look up the game's controls from within the game.

The story is very good though, and that's what has kept me interested despite how... unfriendly the game has been.

Ouch. I played it on the 360 and had zero issues. Sorry you're having issues because it is a pretty enjoyable game but I probably wouldn't be happy if I was having issues with combat because it is crucial to the gameplay.

Somethings wrong here.

I don't remember that game being so buggy.

I just found 14 GB worth of patches.

Are you friggin´ kiddin´ me!??

That´s more than many games I have, and it´s only patches!??

Yes, this is unbelievably huge. I don't know whether to think that's a good thing or a bad thing. It's larger than all games that I have on my computer...with one exception, and that's an online game that has had nine years worth of expansions and content patches:

World of Warcraft: 23.1
Oblivion: 5.58
Fallouit 3: 9.93
Fallout: New Vegas: 9.22
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning: 6.61
Skyrim (with approximately 150 mods installed): 13.5

It's the same size as the game install. Crazy.

Fable 3 was available for free on the xbox live marketplace a while back, not sure if it still is. I'll probably get around to play it eventually.

Has anyone else played it?

I have. Rocketed through it in a weekend. It was short but entertaining.

I got it for free and gave it away. It is probably the most shallow "RPG" I have ever played and was a step backwards for the series in my opinion.

If I'd paid a dollar for it I would have felt like I got ripped off.

Also, the replacement of menus in order to create a more real experience ended up making even the most minor tasks tedious and down right annoying.

It was very shallow. I didn't expect anything more from it after playing Fable II though. It's more fun with a friend to coop with, which is how I played it.

IMO Fable 2 was a much better game, although it was only mud puddle deep, it still had plenty of customization and was less clunky than the game that followed it. The third installment was a major de-evolution of the series in pretty much every way and served as a reminder of why Peter Molyneux shouldn't be involved in the creation of videogames.

Played some Chip´s Challenge today again. But these days I only stick to one level, level 102 I think it is. I love sliding around on the ice and see how many turns I can take before something hits me!

OMG, I absolutely LOVE Chip's Challenge! I have it on my dinosaur PC, but Microsoft stopped packaging it in the Vista's!

Do you have to have a "DOSBox" to play it?

I have been playing a lot of War Thunder. It is an open beta MMO that is free to play. You can pay to play as well, unlocking perks that are unavailable when playing for free. But I stick to the free version, since it is enjoyable enough without opening my wallet.

The game itself is a flight simulator of WWII aerial combat, with plans to add land and sea units as game development moves forward. It should probably be played with a joystick, but plays very well with mouse and keyboard controls. This is what I do because I don't own a joystick. The game's graphics and physics are excellent, making it all the more addicting.

I highly recommend it to anyone that enjoys this genre of gaming. I don't know if I am allowed to post the web site for the game here, but you can Google War Thunder and get there easy enough.

Mainly Fallout New Vegas,I'm in Camp McCarren,on my way to Freeside and Scribblenauts:Unlimited,IT'S SO GOOD.

TINY PINK DANCING FRIENDLY FAST RIDABLE KINGLY SIGHTLY CTHULU IS THE BEST MOUNT!

No, I play it straight on Windows 3.11


I have Red Baron, a flying game about WWI. Have you tried that, TSG? Chances are slim, it´s an old game

I used to play a game called Warbirds, and this sounds similar. I will look into this.

Red Baron(collection?) is available on GOG.com.

It's DRM free and fully optimised for newer PCs

I can play it on my old (dinosaur) 10 gig "XP upgrade from Windows 98" machine, but not the Vista PC. I used to keep the dinosaur up on my dining room table just to play Chip's Challenge when the mood hit, but when I stayed at my Mom's at the end of last year my husband dismantled it.

Bad husband!

Favorite room in that game, mALX?

Haven't played in a while, but I think my absolute favorite was 141 (?) - the one that was all sand with only a few oddly placed bars of stone (each containing paramecia). Everywhere you walked laid more stone down, and you had to connect to the ones with the paramecia to get to the finish line.

Of course the easiest way to do it is to cover the entire floor in stone so the paramecia just walk around the perimeter. Since that level was untimed I kind of made it a personal challenge to get every bit of sand made to stone before going to the warp pod into the next level. There were a few levels that I liked well enough to play on instead of just getting to the pod (and were untimed so I could set my own rules for that level).

There are about 5 levels I have never been able to pass, had to take the easy way out and let them move me up; it was the only way I could beat the game.

I think I know which one it is, love it too! But it´s not just paramecia, there are spiders too And it´s a much lower level than 141. And it wasn´t untimed...
Amongst us three siblings we have gotten up The Catwalk (?) level which is up where your favorite was. (It´s after Thank you, Tony)

I also liked the level with only a bunch of bombs and a clone machine with fireballs. As it´s untimed I, like you mALX, made my own personal challenges on that level. I tried to clear as many bombs I could but there are some in the corners that you can´t get. At least not without sacrifying the pushable blocks and thus missing out on other bombs. It was so much fun when you made it so the clone machine produced the fireballs very rapidly and the bombs went bambambambambambambambam!

We have never beaten this game though

That level with the bombs was a little too easy, I was surprised it was untimed - so like you, I spent my time clearing out every single bomb I could get, lol.

Yeah, it´s an easy level but it has BOMBS!!!

It´s untimed because you have to be patient; you have no other choice. But like I said, my fav now is level 102 called ICEHOUSE. Also easy but it´s fun to mess around

There are so many levels I just don´t bother with. Too much bumping into invisible walls n´stuff

Btw, how long Before you figured out the Trust Me level?

Just tried the War of Thunder. I do enjoy it even though I'm not very good at it. Every now and then I get someone on my tail that I just can't shake no matter what I do.

I have always played that level through, never knew about the glitch till the last time I played! How stupid was that, lol. I actually loved going through that level, and it did take a while to figure out the path to win safely without knowing about the glitch, lol.

What glitch?

The seven second glitch, RU, grab the first key on your left and run back to the start. How about this game, have you ever played it?


http://www.silvergames.com/dont-[censored]-your-pants


You have to type in what you want the character to do. Type in "fart" and see what happens. I can't get past level 3 in this one, lol.

I´m beginning to think we play two different games!

The Trust Me level I talk about in Chip´s Challenge has several yellow keys but only one you can reach. You just run to the right, go down past the paramecium clone machine (and the button controlling it) and get the key and then you just run back to where you started where also the warp hole is.
It´s quite fun, they gave that level plenty of time when you really only need less than ten! Tricky bastards!

Edit: Oh. I see now. I misread

*several palms in the face*

And I couldn´t get the page up but no, I´ve probably never played it

Yeah, for years I was going straight down, then fighting my way across, sliding on the ice, getting shoes, going back, running up ramps, etc - last time I played I ended up finding the glitch where you can cheat and pass that board in 7 seconds, lol. I like my way better, more fun. (but did the seven second glitch to get a good time on that board for my score).

I still don´t get how you found the glitch? What exactly do you do?

Off to play Oblivion now but I´ll be back

I would never have found it probably, but came across it on YouTube.

SCRIBBLENAUTS:UNLIMITED IS SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

I have been playing Neverwinter Nights 1. It has been years since I last played, and I never did the expansions. It has been surprisingly fun. I am playing a dual-wielding rogue, and am in the middle of the first chapter.

Is it a single player game, Sub? Looks like WoW to me

It is single player. It has a multiplayer option, I think for home made modules and a few of the expansions. But unlike Wow, it seems to be a case where you only go online with a few of your friends, with one acting as a DM (whose computer acts as the server). Its basically like an old-style pen and paper RPG done with computers. I think it is the same style as Vampire: The Masquerade. So far as I know there is no big open world you see in the modern MMOs, where you are wandering around with thousands of other yahoos.

Organ Trails.

It's good but I find the shooting awkward,but heck it was only €2.74!

I used to have that game...It is similar to Baldur's Gate. Turn-based single player. It was fun for sure...I'd play it again.

-sigh- Sims 3...

Neverwinter Nights is the game that got me into roleplaying. Back in 2002 three games came out, one right after the other: Dungeon Siege in April, Morrowind in May and Neverwinter Nights in June. I liked Dungeon Siege and Morrowind, but neither of them really grabbed me at the time.

I came from a first-person shooter background, so I had no idea what Dungeons & Dragons actually was. I'd heard news stories and watched talk shows back in the 80's (when I still had a TV) about kids who became obsessed with the games. That's the extent of my knowledge about roleplaying games back in 2002. This, from someone who grew up within bicycle-riding distance of Lake Geneva during the very years Gygax was inventing the genre. *embarrassed*

Anyway, NWN arrived on my porch about the time I was losing interest in Morrowind. And I was enthralled. I played for 6 and 8 hours a day. And when I finished I did something I've never done before or since: I immediate started a new game. I loved that game.

I became so fascinated I started ordering anything Dungeons-and-Dragons oriented I could from Amazon dot com. I bought Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Icewind Dale 1 and 2, Temple of Elemental Evil, Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor, and on and on. I started buying fantasy books and watching fantasy movies. It was a really horrible time in my life and all this fantasy kept me sane and alive.

The Morrowind forums were a snake pit of negativity in those days so I spent my online time on the Black Isle and Bioware forums that summer. I gradually began to learn what roleplaying was. I returned to Morrowind when Bethesda announced Tribunal in September. And this time I had some kind of idea what was going on with this game. I liked it a lot more the second time around. I might never have given Morrowind a second chance if it weren't for Neverwinter Nights.

Sorry for the long-winded reminiscence.

*Three Days Later*

What time is it?

Oh god.....

Don´t apologize! That was interseting to read even though I knew some of it already

Sounds like NWN is the game for me then. Should I care to bother looking for it Is it like Deus Ex, i.e should I get the first game first or is it like the Terminator movies and I should get the second one?

One could argue I should get the first Terminator movie first because then I get the story better and it is a good movie too, but you get what I mean! I hope

I liked them both. NWN2 obviously has better graphics, more voice acting, etc... It has more cinematic-style cutscenes too. But other than that they basically play the same. Get one, and if you like it get the other one. You should be able to get the Diamond/Platinum editions for a good price these days.

Personally I didn't like NWN2. With the sole exception of New Vegas I have not liked a single game Obsidian has ever made (and even then I liked Fallout 3 better than New Vegas).

Obsidian seems to like controlling the player's experience. Their game design philosophy just makes me dig my fingernails into my palms and grit my teeth. What they did to KotOR 2 still makes my blood boil. I hate it when my blood boils. I like to keep the temperature of my blood below 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Of course this is not possible when I'm viewing Youtube videos of Joan Jett, but that's another subject.

ANYWAY! I'm afraid could not make it all the way through NWN2. Things started off on a bad foot with me when the developers forced party members on me until we all reached the city of Neverwinter. Things went further downhill for me when the developers would not let me get out of the city of Neverwinter until I made a horribly cliched "good" or "evil" choice. At that point I was ready to throw the game out the window.

If these kinds of things don't bother a person, the game can probably be enjoyable, I suppose. I also suppose that, technically, NWN2 is a well-made game. You may notice a lack of enthusiasm in those two sentences. That is not an accident.

But...but.....guys....Obsidian are really good at writing guys......dontkillmeplease.

ALSO FOOTBALL MANAGER 2013 AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH YISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS,CAN'T WAIT TILL IT INSTALLS!

I haven't played an FM game since FM 2011.

I say you should check it out and get it during the "Empty Pockets" Sale also known as The Steam Summer Sale.

I rather give my money to the IRS than Steam

WHAT???!?!?!?!?!??!

Steam is a great service, but I don´t like being tied to them in order to play the games I paid for. Plus, I´m old school, I want physical discs, boxes and paper manuals. Steam does not provide that

QUIT LIVIN' IN DA PAST GRANDPA!