Anvil of Dawn
Shadow Warrior Classic
Eador: Genesis

i love motorsports in general, and with the release of f12013, im currently on a racing push, so.........

f1 2013 mainly
reinstalled gtr2 with as many awesome mods as i can find
power and glory 3.1 (the virtua lm le mans, 75 nordschleife and the targa florio are phenomenal on this)
race07 with all the addons apart from retro pack
really really playing a huge amount of motogp13, not a huge superbike fan, but the game is great, "sim lite" i would say but still retains a high level if you have it on the difficult settings. the atmosphere of the game is great and is very much like the codemasters F1 games.

also as always stalkersoup. every now and then. favourite game, favourite mod.

EDIT: BTW didnt realise steam had changed the format of race07 recently because of this "steampipe" thing, and initially had a few problems with green textures and green exhaust emissions......etc. simply validating the installed files of the game and each installed addon (even after a fresh install of them all....) fixed it, it seemed that when you initially re download the games, not all the texture files are installed.....oddly.

Kind of bored of new Shadow Warrior. I like it but it's repetitive.

Finished Minerva's Den. It's basically just more Bioshock 2, so I don't know why it's held up as some kind of amazing higher level of Bioshock-ness. I guess just because of the emo ending?

Final Fantasy 14 got boring REAL fucking fast. Not an MMO player, need to stop pretending I am. Don't let me buy Elder Scrolls Online.

Currently playing System Shock 2 and Kerbal Space Program.

World of Goo on iPhone

Conquer Online for the 9th year now.
I do play other games though, currently going nuts with Pro Pinball: Timeshock the original revised version you could get from supporting the new version that is coming out.

Blood. It's a game I dig out every few years.

Oblivion
Magic 2014

Godus Beta.

I'm not really convinced... feels too casual and adopted for mobile devices. Still, hope that the feedback of the crowd in the forum will fix that and make it a proper PC game ;P .

Started playing GTA San Andreas after several weeks of break.

I reloaded an old save game, conquered a new territory from the violent gang, and rushed to defend one of my territories right after. Went back to my crib to save the game... but it complains it can't save and I have to check the save game folder?!?

I googled where the save games are supposed to be, and some say C:/Users/Name/My Documents/Grand Theft Auto San Andreas User Files/ or somesuch, while someone in Steampowered forums claimed it is in the GTA SA installation directory itself, certain files under the Data-directory.

Needless to say, I don't find anything in either places, I don't even have that GTA SA folder under /Users/. So, where the fck does GTA SA currently find save games then, the one I can load and continue playing, but not save???

I would reinstall the game, if I only knew where the heck those save games are. This problem may be related to the /Users/ folder problem before when I had to load a Windows restoration point from earlier that same day because something went wrong with the Users directory. But if I lost the save game files then... where the heck is the game loading them now then???

Why couldn't the fcking games just keep the save game files in the game directory? The Users folder just causes me lots of problems, if I need to copy the save game files to another computer etc. After all, the earlier Users-problem I had was because I was trying to locate and copy Minecraft save game files.

For fcks sake if I have to start the whole game from the beginning because of this...

Booting into Win8 partition and looking into Windows 7 partition's Users directory, the GTA SA user files (save games) are indeed there... but for some reason they are both hidden, and read-only. The phuck?

Now I am unsure if it is safe to change those attributes. The last time I changed the attributes inside Win7 Users folder, something went horribly wrong and I had to restore the Win7 restore point.

The more the fckers try to make Windows "easier" to use for beginners, the harder it seems for me to use. Yeah, maybe there are good reasons to ram all save games into one Windows directory, but why do they need to be hidden?

Another option is that I copy those save game files to my Win8 partition, but for some reason on Win8 the mouse is not working in GTA SA. Maybe there was some workaround for that, have to google.

Yeah, fortunately GTA San Andreas works now, I got my game saves back by disabling the GTA San Andreas User Files directory's "hidden" and "read-only" attributes, by booting to a different Windows.

And the fix for Win7/8 mouse problems in GTA SA was to download DINPUT8.DLL from the internets, and copying it into the GTA SA installation directory. I don't know why I didn't see these mouse problems before, maybe I had applied this fix before, but for some reason the extra DLL file had disappeared from the GTA SA directory at some point?

Lately I haven't finished any new missions in GTA SA, but just fighting for territory against the other gangs. I don't know if I am missing something, but it seems a bit silly that I am doing all the gang fighting alone when entering a new territory. Me alone against three waves of enemies, after which I conquer the territory to myself?

If I am able to conquer all the territories from rival violet and yellow gangs, does it mean the territory wars will end, or do I still have to constantly try to defend my territories against their attacks?


I also started a re-run of Mirror's Edge yesterday, this time on hard mode, which was unlocked by finishing the game first on normal difficulty. It is advancing quite briskly, the only difference to Normal mode I can tell is that it doesn't anymore tell with red color which pipe to climb or which wheel to turn.

Still, seems that once you have played this game once, there is very little replay value. The biggest difficulty in the game was to figure out how (what route) you can run to your objective, and once you have figured it out once, there's no challenge in that anymore.

I am unsure if enemy bullets do more damage now etc., but hand-to-hand fighting doesn't really seem harder than what I remember on Normal. Same logic in disarming etc., I hardly ever need to even use the "bullet time" mode for disarming etc.

Heavy Rain.

The best looking, most interesting and worst developed game I've ever played. So far (about 75% complete) there are 2 major issues that are ultimate pet peeves of mine in games.

First, its a graphical masterpiece that plays out like a movie. They wrote an engaging plot and stocked it with believable and emotional actors... and I'm expected to notice tiny graphical queues that can appear anywhere on screen and I have 2 seconds to respond. To make it more ridiculous, several of the queues look similar when I have to respond so quickly.

Second, this is hands down the worst example of developers who expect you to read their minds at every single turn. You want me to get you three items? fine, here is the first... oops, I'm permanently screwed, because everyone knows that once you pick up a glass of water, the scene will end..... grrrrrrrr.

This is likely why the point and click genre can't seem to advance in technology... every developer that tries give its fans the finger in the process.

I'm on autopilot for the rest of the game. There is no reward for caring or trying to play a certain way despite the advertising that you can affect the endings. My characters still do the opposite of what I want. So once I see whichever horrible ending i've managed through my lack of psychic powers, I'll try it again with a walkthrough handy for every single moment of the game.

On the pro side... the other parts of the game are good enough, I'm tolerating the abysmally scripted gameplay.

Finished Mirror's Edge the second time, this time on hard.

Wow, it was shorter than I remembered, considering I started it yesterday, and only played it somewhat yesterday and today. I guess I was earlier stuck to many places for so many days, now it all went smoothly.

I guess I am done with that game for good, not much replay value even in different difficulty level. Back to Baldur's Gate 2.

i stared some of the rachet and clank games and silent hill 2