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[ant19]

Dark Souls or Arkham City prob my best two games of the year. Both amazing.

[Kamakazie]

Best of the Year lists already!? Here's my tentative list this year:

1. Dark Souls
2. Gears of War 3
3. Terraria
4. Dungeon Defenders
5. Monday Night Combat

Still waiting to play Batman Arkham City, BF3, Zelda, Saint's Row 3 and Skyrim.

[fastitocalon]

Best of the Year lists already!? Here's my tentative list this year:

1. Dark Souls
2. Gears of War 3
3. Terraria
4. Dungeon Defenders
5. Monday Night Combat

Still waiting to play Batman Arkham City, BF3, Zelda, Saint's Row 3 and Skyrim.

Well he asked lol, It is obviously a touch premature. However imo zelda could cease to exist and I wouldn't even notice.

[Rush]

Dark Souls is my runaway game of the year. I expect great things from Arkham City as well, but I don't see how it could touch my infatuation with DS.

ant19, why haven't we seen you in the Dark Souls thread??

[taggart6]

Went to pick up buy 2 get 1 free from target only to find out that Dark Souls for PS3 is not sold in stores. What a gip. Maybe I could 2 copies of Uncharted 3 and sell one off?

[monroeski]

I'm not sure that I've actually played a single console game that came out this year. I guess I played inFamous 2, but I only got a few hours in, didn't even light up the second part of the city.

Glancing through my playlist, I've got 3 Android games by Kairosoft (Hot Springs Story, Grand Prix Story, Pocket League Story), Duke Nukem Forever (only 2 hours or so), Radiant Historia, Bit.Trip Runner, Who's That Flying?, Space Pirates and Zombies, Bastion, and Dungeon Defenders. I think that's it, and out of those I would say I've only completed the Kairosoft games.

[Kamakazie]

I'm not sure that I've actually played a single console game that came out this year. I guess I played inFamous 2, but I only got a few hours in, didn't even light up the second part of the city.

Glancing through my playlist, I've got 3 Android games by Kairosoft (Hot Springs Story, Grand Prix Story, Pocket League Story), Duke Nukem Forever (only 2 hours or so), Radiant Historia, Bit.Trip Runner, Who's That Flying?, Space Pirates and Zombies, Bastion, and Dungeon Defenders. I think that's it, and out of those I would say I've only completed the Kairosoft games.

How are you liking SPAZ? I gave it a buy after watching some videos and sampling the demo and I think it's pretty fun.

[monroeski]

How are you liking SPAZ? I gave it a buy after watching some videos and sampling the demo and I think it's pretty fun.

Now that I've put some hours in, it's a lot of fun. Basically invalidates Starscape, though that had a good long run. My only real issues are the lack of gamepad support and the fact that the randomly generated galaxy often leads to some annoying quirks with purchasing. For example, in each system there are two factions (Civs and UTA) with one base each; you can do missions with them to earn their favor at the expense of the other, though your relationships in one system have nothing to do with the next. So, you can be full alliance with UTA and a big enemy of the Civs in one, and right next door you have the opposite. What's annoying is that 1. shops are only available at their bases, and 2. to get some items you have to buy blueprints from more than one shop. So, you may buy blueprint 1/2 in one place then head over to the system with 2/2 only to find that it's sold at the base of the faction who defaults to being your enemy and there aren't missions available for you to earn their favor.

Other than that, it's very fun. You have three ships flying around at any given time, and you can switch control on the fly (the other two being computer controlled). I have one docking bay that can fit anything up to the largest ships and two more that can fit up to the medium sized ones, so there's a bit of variety there. With Starscape I alway felt like there was basically one "best" build so all my alt ships were the exact same, whereas with this I'm getting a lot of use out of varied loadouts and ship models. The controls aren't BAD, per se, but having twin sticks available would be much better (if you've played Beat Hazard or Geometry Wars with KB+M you know what this is like, though it's not quite as frantic as those).

I've still barely cracked open 1/4 or so of the galaxy available to me, so there's still a lot of time left, but I've like it a lot so far and have put in close to 10 hours I think.

As the developers say about the game, they realized there were no games out there like the ones they used to love so they made their own. I was never a big player of these types of games in the distant past, but they're right, there's really nothing out there that's like it anymore, so it scratches a certain itch that is fairly hard to get to.

[Kamakazie]

Now that I've put some hours in, it's a lot of fun. Basically invalidates Starscape, though that had a good long run. My only real issues are the lack of gamepad support and the fact that the randomly generated galaxy often leads to some annoying quirks with purchasing. For example, in each system there are two factions (Civs and UTA) with one base each; you can do missions with them to earn their favor at the expense of the other, though your relationships in one system have nothing to do with the next. So, you can be full alliance with UTA and a big enemy of the Civs in one, and right next door you have the opposite. What's annoying is that 1. shops are only available at their bases, and 2. to get some items you have to buy blueprints from more than one shop. So, you may buy blueprint 1/2 in one place then head over to the system with 2/2 only to find that it's sold at the base of the faction who defaults to being your enemy and there aren't missions available for you to earn their favor.

It definitely harkens back to Starscape, and I really like that about it. About buying items from hostile shops though... remember you could still dock with a hostile station; you just need to fly through hell to get to it. Alternatively, you can attack the station and blow it to hell, making it drop all shop items.

[Snakespy]

I should be able to do this Friday night if you guys are down.

The only days I game are Sun night, random times Mon, and ALL day Tuesday. The rest of the week I may play a little, but usually working or with the gf.

[monroeski]

It definitely harkens back to Starscape, and I really like that about it. About buying items from hostile shops though... remember you could still dock with a hostile station; you just need to fly through hell to get to it. Alternatively, you can attack the station and blow it to hell, making it drop all shop items.

Well ****, I didn't realize you could still dock with them. Do you just have to waste a bunch of goons to get your relationship up to the point that you can buy from them?

I haven't attacked a station yet, so I didn't realize they dropped the items, either.

[Kamakazie]

Well ****, I didn't realize you could still dock with them. Do you just have to waste a bunch of goons to get your relationship up to the point that you can buy from them?

I haven't attacked a station yet, so I didn't realize they dropped the items, either.

I'm not sure, you might be able to just buy from them as long as they are not at the ENEMY rank. I've just blown up the station if I needed something from them and couldn't get it from a neighboring system.

[monroeski]

I'm not sure, you might be able to just buy from them as long as they are not at the ENEMY rank. I've just blown up the station if I needed something from them and couldn't get it from a neighboring system.

It varies by the item, I believe. I've had a single shop selling two items before where I could buy one but I had to raise my friendship to buy the other.

[Kamakazie]

Steam sale!

http://store.steampowered.com/

[innocentbastard]

Hmm might have to grab Orcs must die for $3.74.