And I'm nowhere near there :(

There was a time when we were at a similar place, but then you just took off and killed Mom several times. I'm still on 1 real kill.

Eh. It's just practice, really. I just do a "Death-per-day" while I eat my lunch.

You should try the challenges. "Meat 4 Evar!" and "Spiderboy!" are fairly easy.

EDIT: Also I use the mouse to fire, so I don't have to keep my mind on another set of buttons.

I really want to play this game. I'm pissed that it's not on Live Arcade.

It's a flash game. I don't think there are any flash games on xbox.

I recently picked up BoI. I can't say I'm playing it all the time, but it's good to make a couple of attempts to beat it at the end of each day on the laptop. No luck so far, but I enjoy the randomness of the items you receive, which might or might not give you the edge you need to survive. I was once lucky enough to get Technology, Meat, Roid Rage and some other stuff which really made a good combination, but I still managed to get killed somehow.

Fun game, all in all. It reminds me to get back to Dungeons of Dredmor, which to me was just as fun, if not even more. Even though permadeath is optional there, I never turn it off, it just adds to the experience. I only managed to beat Dredmor once on Dwarven Moderation (Normal), I'm currently in the process of beating it on Going Rogue (Hard), which is quite a challenge and involves a lot of backtracking through previous levels for healing items.

Tony Hawks Pro Skater HD. Playing this game has made me realize that games today are made far too easy for gamers...

Difficulty aside, it's a great game, but if like me you haven't played a pro skater game in years, it's going to take a good few tries before you get the hang of it again. Great fan service as all the levels have been remade straight from THPS1 and THPS2. They are currently plans to add the levels from THPS3 as DLC which really pisses me off as the game already costs 1200MSP. I would have quite happily waited longer for the game to be released just to have all the levels already there.

Oh, and no Neversoft Eyeball :'(

Close to driving.

But probably not surprised. I mean, look at it. It's a naked, crying infant blasting deformed retards into bloody mush in an attempt to escape the murderous Christian fanaticism of his obese mother.

If you were really desperate, I guess you could lug your PC into the living room and connect it to the TV, but I wouldn't blame you for doing otherwise.

I think it's probably my posture, but playing games on the pc is physically painful for me.

I know that. That's why I didn't say "Why don't you just sit at your desk and use the computer derp".

Personally, my back is currently on the seat of the chair, my neck squashed against the back and my feet sticking up the wall like a big letter 'J'. Man, I am going to have some serious deformities in old age.

EDIT: Just for clarity, the idea was that you'd use a 360 pad and basically just use the PC like a console post-setup. Then again, presumably you need it for work too, so it would be too much hassle to shift it back again. I have known people to buy a seperate "entertainment" PC for that purpose, but those people probably have more money than sense.

It's times like this that I wish the "Steam Box" wasn't just an urban legend. It would just be a console-level PC (i.e. powerful by console standards, average by PC standards) with Steam and a minimal operating system installed. Put it next to the TV, plug it in, all set. It would literally just be a little PC that you used like a console, and probably quite cheap. Revolutionary! A man can but dream, though...

I'm just not a fan of keyboard and mouse controls, I'd do a lot more PC gaming if I could figure out how to install my Xbox controller without spending money (and if I had a better PC). Though I use a laptop, I don't actually have a mouse. I'm glad I got Steam though, I was missing out on loads.

After a few problems, I got Limbo working, I wouldn't call it disturbing, but it's creepy as hell, are there any proper enemies in it? Save for that fucking spider which I cannot figure out how to get past. (Thats a lie, I'm just frightened to go near it)

No. Nope. Nada. Negative.

Also you can't get your 360 controller to work AT ALL unless it is a wired USB one.

I'm sure some USB receiver was made for the wireless controllers to.

EDIT: JG, you speedy piece of ass-butter (more imaginative than shit)
It is, well, it's wireless, but I have an adapter for charging. I'm sure there is a way to do it. I know that with a wireless one you have to buy this little piece of hardware for about 15 quid that you plug into the PC. I can't spare 15 quid, and as mines wired, shouldn't there be a driver knockin' about somewhere I can install?

Jenny is right, I used the adapter for a couple of times, there is no way to play with wireless controler w/o that.

I had the core system (yeah remember when that was still being made) so I already had a wired controller, saved me £15 :)

Did you just plug it in and start playing, then? Because like I said I have a USB adapter. It did install a driver when I first plugged it in, Play and Charge kit, it was called, I just need to know how to activate it. It would make my life so much easier.

For Windows, it was a simply case of plug and play, however for my Mac, I had to go out of my way to download a driver.

Plug and play? It can't be, I had to install multiple drivers and it still won't work. Like I said, I have an adapter, though. That driver you installed on Mac, is there a Windows version?

I'm 99% sure that Microsoft would have a driver for Windows, seriously, use your head!

Everything I've been told by gamer friends to date has implied that you can literally tug a 360 controller out from the front of your Xbox and plug it into your PC, ready to use.

That said, I'm not sure I've ever been closer than six feet to an X360 in my life.

Wait. You used a wired xbox controller and it wasn't plug in and play? Shit man your windows must be fucked up. I did it and it worked perfectly right out of the box.

Meech's friend isn't wrong either.

A wired 360 controller has Windows drivers ready and waiting.

A wireless controller you have to buy a special adapter, like I did.

I used a USB adapter, doesn't that let it act as a wired controller?
I have Windows 7 Ultimate, and it has literally just been installed.

If you mean the cable for charging the battery, then no.

Here’s an image I borrowed from a search engine:

http://i.imgur.com/Gq3Ju.jpg

That doodad on the left is the adapter for wireless controllers.

WARNING: LARGE IMAGES. Not sure what good warning people is going to do, but whatever. I did shrink them... slightly.

Yeah, STM didn't really like spells, so we just ran around shooting everything.

This looks like a dramatic "Preparing to avenge" shot, but I've actually just killed him myself because I wanted his bolt pistol. It's okay, he got another one when I Revived him.

http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/5...2072100023.png

"Sorry about this."
*Electrocutes*
"Your gun is much better. I'm glad I killed you."
"I'm glad you killed me too."

And while this looks like the obligatory buddy-movie "Which way?" shot, it's purely coincidental.

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/8...2072100020.png

STM says we have something called "bromance". I told him that I had no heart, only a third testicle. He kept talking, though.

I also arranged them into a sort of movie trailer, here > http://steamcommunity.com/id/ututut/...5880672504151/

<3

Start Just Cause 2 last night, really fun game. It was difficult to play while drunk though.

Sweet, getting myself one for £5.96 off ebay now. Saw one on a market before for 20 quid, jesus.

Try playing Marvel vs Capcom 3 while drunk. Now that is a challenge. That was me last night, until I got frustrated and quit.

I actually played a game after buying it on Steam whoo

I’ve spent most of today playing Dawn of War. I forgot how addictive RTS games are.

For me, it was Retribution yesterday, which I found OK. It's supposed to be about tactics, but in most cases, it's either sending in the Venerated Dreadnaught with bolter equipped, or teleporting my Terminator squad with claws in the middle of a huge group of enemies. But I do like all the equipment I can give to my units.

I also played more of BoI. I actually made it to Mom this time, but at one point I found a cat item, which did give me nine lives, but it reduced my base health to one heart (it was a learning experience - I could've done without). Otherwise, I was the most badass dark cherub with holy water and a harlequin helper.

Retribution is great...but I found the singleplayer a bit weird. The characters weren't as memorable and one, Cyrus, just didn't make sense since in my Chaos Rising game, Cyrus was corrupted and betrayed us. I know they aren't dependent on one another, but Relic could've made a new character instead of rehashing an old one.

Magicka reminds me a bit of that Harry Potter "MMO". Except it doesn't look as shitty.

Haha, my tactics always consist of “defend the base until I have built and researched everything, then max out the vehicle and infantry limits and go on the march”. So much fun coming across a little squad of Orks and having a battalion of marines vaporise them.

Funnily enough, the character I like the most so far is The Ancient, despite the fact (or maybe because so) that he doesn't speak at all. I just equipped him with a rocket launcher and he became my general problem solver.

I guess for me it's the Space Marine thing as a whole that is memorable, instead of individual characters.

Me and STM joked about that. Every couple of hours we'd come back and be like "Hey, is he still playing?".

This is known as "turtling". Sit in your shell, then snap your beak on anything that moves.

It's not necessary, though. Nowadays I can complete DoW1 in a couple of hours, just building endless Land Speeders and Assault Marines.

The game doesn't really get hard until Winter Assault. It doesn't really get good until Dark Crusade, which was almost a proto-DoWII.

I just got home and I’m about to boot it up again.

I enjoy turtling. Playing by ear with the bare minimum just makes me worry about running into something unprepared and being decimated. Much more exhilarating marching a platoon around.

I tired of RTs's because turtling just isn't a valid strategy against anything higher than mid level AI.

PvP is all about fast paced zerg rushes, and I just can't be fucked with that shit.

Every time someone says "Zerg rush", I hear that little goblin noise Zerglings make.


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