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With EQ offline for the time being, I'm curious what games other people play to fill in the gaps?
Steam has been running rotating 75% off daily specials all of this week. I paid $20 combined for both Need for Speed Hot Pursuit & NfS Shift. I am not playing them currently, but at $10 each I couldn't resist putting them in the game library to play at some future point.
Yesterday, they had Mass Effect 1 & 2 on sale. I bought them for a combined price of $25.
Today they have Crysis 1 and Crysis Warfront on sale for $7.50 and $5 respectively (buy both for $10 even). I already own both, so I won't be buying them.
This is a good week to load up on new games for sure. I'm not sure I'll be playing any of these titles, but like I said... it's good to buy them while they're 75% off so you can play them when the mood strikes.
They haven't released what the 75% off games are going to be for Saturday and Sunday, but I'll be at least checking to see if there's anything cool in the lineup.
ONE GAME that I suggest everyone consider is Dead Space 2. I bought Dead Space 2 off of Steam last week. HOLY CRAP, that game is fracking scarey! After the introduction video, I woke up in a hospital bed with all sorts of shit going down around me. Then I died within ten seconds of gaining control of the character. There is NO such thing as easing the player into this game. I died well over ten times in the first five minutes just trying to escape the utter chaos that is the opening sequence of DS2. About an hour later, as I was skulking about in a dark room, I turned around to see what was behind me. When I did that, I leapt backwards out of my chair because MY OWN SHADOW was on the wall behind me. I thought it was a mob about to gank me, and I literally was startled with fear thinking my own fracking shadow was about to attack me.
But seriously, Dead Space 2 FTW. It is scaring the hell out of me. I've had to walk away from the keyboard a couple of times just because I've been ganked so badly by some mob. The AI in the creatures is superb. If you're walking down the hallway, a mob behind you will creep up on silently so you cannot hear it coming. However, if you turn around and happen to "see" it, then it charges because it is aware that its cover is blown. If the mobs are coming at you from the front, they use obstacles to shield themselves from your shots. They'll jump out at you, attack a couple of rounds, and then retreat before you can recover and shoot at them.
The best part about Dead Space 1 & 2 is the way you end up having to kill the mobs. Head shots don't do fuck all. You literally have to sever at least one arm and one leg of the enemies before they will stop coming after you. If you blow off their head, they start spewing corrosive crap from the neck wound and flail about blindly trying to hit you. If you only take off their legs... the top half of the torso starts to drag itself after you trying to get you.
There's this one mob that crawls around on the floor like a vampire bat crawls around on the ground. If it finds a dead corpse, it will clamp onto the body for 5 seconds and reanimate it. Then, after it has zombified the corpse, it detaches and looks for more corpse to reanimate. So, just leaving your enemies dead behind you is not enough. You would be wise to stomp on the corpses until there's nothing but body parts left, or the vampire bat mob may very well reanimate them all.
I play some Rift right now too, but Rift only makes me lament the downtime of Everquest.
Steam has been running rotating 75% off daily specials all of this week. I paid $20 combined for both Need for Speed Hot Pursuit & NfS Shift. I am not playing them currently, but at $10 each I couldn't resist putting them in the game library to play at some future point.
Yesterday, they had Mass Effect 1 & 2 on sale. I bought them for a combined price of $25.
Today they have Crysis 1 and Crysis Warfront on sale for $7.50 and $5 respectively (buy both for $10 even). I already own both, so I won't be buying them.
This is a good week to load up on new games for sure. I'm not sure I'll be playing any of these titles, but like I said... it's good to buy them while they're 75% off so you can play them when the mood strikes.
They haven't released what the 75% off games are going to be for Saturday and Sunday, but I'll be at least checking to see if there's anything cool in the lineup.
ONE GAME that I suggest everyone consider is Dead Space 2. I bought Dead Space 2 off of Steam last week. HOLY CRAP, that game is fracking scarey! After the introduction video, I woke up in a hospital bed with all sorts of shit going down around me. Then I died within ten seconds of gaining control of the character. There is NO such thing as easing the player into this game. I died well over ten times in the first five minutes just trying to escape the utter chaos that is the opening sequence of DS2. About an hour later, as I was skulking about in a dark room, I turned around to see what was behind me. When I did that, I leapt backwards out of my chair because MY OWN SHADOW was on the wall behind me. I thought it was a mob about to gank me, and I literally was startled with fear thinking my own fracking shadow was about to attack me.
But seriously, Dead Space 2 FTW. It is scaring the hell out of me. I've had to walk away from the keyboard a couple of times just because I've been ganked so badly by some mob. The AI in the creatures is superb. If you're walking down the hallway, a mob behind you will creep up on silently so you cannot hear it coming. However, if you turn around and happen to "see" it, then it charges because it is aware that its cover is blown. If the mobs are coming at you from the front, they use obstacles to shield themselves from your shots. They'll jump out at you, attack a couple of rounds, and then retreat before you can recover and shoot at them.
The best part about Dead Space 1 & 2 is the way you end up having to kill the mobs. Head shots don't do fuck all. You literally have to sever at least one arm and one leg of the enemies before they will stop coming after you. If you blow off their head, they start spewing corrosive crap from the neck wound and flail about blindly trying to hit you. If you only take off their legs... the top half of the torso starts to drag itself after you trying to get you.
There's this one mob that crawls around on the floor like a vampire bat crawls around on the ground. If it finds a dead corpse, it will clamp onto the body for 5 seconds and reanimate it. Then, after it has zombified the corpse, it detaches and looks for more corpse to reanimate. So, just leaving your enemies dead behind you is not enough. You would be wise to stomp on the corpses until there's nothing but body parts left, or the vampire bat mob may very well reanimate them all.
I play some Rift right now too, but Rift only makes me lament the downtime of Everquest.
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