[:plant:] The GFF Game Club [Now Playing: Max Payne] Now with less spoiler tags

Sacred 2 is an awesome game, although quite the time sink if you want to see a lot of the side quests. As an advantage, there's a few of us who've already unlocked the higher skill levels so could host some experience-boosting multiplayer games.

How about an old PC game? I was playing UFO: Enemy Unknown (Called UFO Defence in the US), the first Xcom game, yesterday and it's awesome and everyone ought to play it once. I've got an ISO of the whole thing too if people want to swerve the $5 or so the game costs.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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Oh. I beg your pardon for not really reading all of the post. I'll make sure to send the PM soon.

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Is it really considered that hard? I mean, I can't take on the highest difficulty, but I don't recall it being so incredibly punishing. Actually, I take it all back, I just started up the game and I forgot that your guys can't shoot for crap to start with.

Terror From the Deep is technically harder but UFO on anything above average difficulty is hard as fuck. The new game I started yesterday was on the second difficulty up from the bottom and after 4 months (Of a game that generally runs to three years for a winning game) I'm already having to either save every turn or pick my fights better. The main problem is that research takes that much longer and until you get laser rifles and some armour, your team are walking funerals.

When TFTD was made, it was based on an early version of UFO that was bugged to play every skill level as beginner, so they ramped the difficulty up based on how hard UFO's Impossible mode was, but with it actually playing as beginner. As such, playing with anything above easy skill in TFTD requires advanced knowledge of the game and a shit ton of luck.

It is an amazing game though and if Ikaruga can be considered an approachable game, then I reckon people could cope with UFO. The trick really is just not become too attached to your soldiers...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

To expand on that, if you're doing a night mission it makes sense to put the flare in the left hand of the two people first off the drop ship so they don't waste APs getting it out to throw it. Also, it's often worth chucking a couple of smoke grenades out of the drop ship before you leave, especially on terror missions where there are likely to be a few aliens watching you land.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

this owns

How ya doing, buddy?

I remember back when I first saw Max Payne I was tempted to think of it as a gimmick driven game and dismiss it on that basis. How wrong can you be. The storytelling is probably the strongest of any shooter I ever played, and while the gameplay is based on the bullet time mechanic, it never really feels like the type of shallow and gimicky game I initially mistook it for.

I love the character of Max Payne. I love his twisted half smile, I love his voice, I love the way he's right out of every old detective film ever.

Goddamn I love this game. Only decision that remains is whether I replay it on XBOX or spring for the Steam version. I'm not much good with mouse/keyboard controls, but I heard the PC version looks a lot better so...

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What the fuck?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

So now you guys have finished your meet thing, any chance of getting this up and running again?

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