Is GTA IV coming out on PC at any point?
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A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.
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UTTAD - Apr 25, 2008 12:20:59 am PDT #85 of 26133
Strawberry disappointment.
Tom Scola - Apr 25, 2008 12:59:28 am PDT #86 of 26133
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Frankenbuddha - Apr 25, 2008 3:43:54 am PDT #87 of 26133
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Re: board games. Big fan of Settlers, but has anyone played History of the World? LOVE that game, though it is a major time commitment (or needs to be spread over multiple sessions).
TomW - Apr 25, 2008 3:55:13 am PDT #88 of 26133
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Yeah, I bought History of the World as a Christmas present for a friend a while back. We spent a fair amount of time playing it. It was a lot of fun, although whoever gets the Aztecs in that epoch gets screwed.
You're right though, you have to be able to put aside a fair chunk of time to get a game in.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 25, 2008 4:11:42 am PDT #89 of 26133
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
It was a lot of fun, although whoever gets the Aztecs in that epoch gets screwed.
And whoever gets Rome in its epoch has everybody else whaling the crap out of them for the rest of the game. We played around with some of the turn sequence rules, but eventually decided that the game designers had done a pretty good job setting things up.
amych - Apr 25, 2008 4:23:28 am PDT #90 of 26133
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Is GTA IV coming out on PC at any point?
The initial release is PS3 and Xbox 360, but IIRC the previous games have all hit other platforms some time after the original release -- so I wouldn't be surprised to see it sometime later.
Quoted without comment from wikipedia:
A Staten Island-esque area will not be featured in the game for the reason that Rockstar Games believes it would not be fun to play there.
Miracleman - Apr 25, 2008 4:23:35 am PDT #91 of 26133
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Top 100?
(Dammit. Had to leave work and then go to a friggin' class on house-buying and this is the first chance I get to post.)
I'm just gonna pop up here and list some of the games I currently enjoy:
Serenity RPG
D & D (after Sean dragged me kicking and screaming back into a fantasy swords and sorcery world.)
Shadowrun (though we didn't get much of a chance to play 4th ed.)
On computers I like:
City of Heroes/City of Villains (Is anyone surprised?)
WoW (Though not that much.)
And on consoles I have played and can be said to have enjoyed: Rock Band
I'm eager to figure out this Fantasy Grounds thing. I also wish someone in my area or even old group (if we get this newfangled Inter-Web-Net thingie to work) would GM as I am dead sick of it right now. I wanna PLAY, damn you!
Aims - Apr 25, 2008 4:26:51 am PDT #92 of 26133
Shit's all sorts of different now.
And on consoles I have played and can be said to have enjoyed: Rock Band
Which THRILLS me to no end, I have to say. Other than "Munch Man" our TI when I was a kid, the only other console game I ever played was Tetris on the original Nintendo. RB and GH, tho, I adore beyond reason. Our friends J&S have Rock Band so we went and bought GH2 so we could use the guitar and have all four instruments. Em was at her grandpa's that night and the four of us played for what? SIX HOURS!! Went through a lot of beer.
So I'm excited there's a game that he and I both like that we can play with pther people and have great fun. The only other one we've enjoyed together was Crash Things On Purpose with ND and KT. Werein "Pulling a Pete" was born.
amych - Apr 25, 2008 4:33:35 am PDT #93 of 26133
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Crash Things On Purpose
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I must have this!
(I mean, I get that it's not a real thing. But still, I MUST HAVE THIS!)
billytea - Apr 25, 2008 4:33:41 am PDT #94 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Re: board games. Big fan of Settlers, but has anyone played History of the World? LOVE that game, though it is a major time commitment (or needs to be spread over multiple sessions).
Yep, I have History of the World. Not entirely sure how I feel about it. I love the ebb and flow thing through the early-to-mid epochs, that sweep-of-history feel is the sort of thing I live for; but the game balance does feel a bit swingy to me, and Epochs 6 and especially 7 are particularly troublesome in this regard, as there's not really any further gametime for the receivers of (say) the US and Russia to give France and Britain their richly-deserved beating.
If you like that style of game, I whole-heartedly recommend Britannia. It's fantastic fun and better balanced (although I think the Saxon player has an edge, and is probably the easiest to play successfully if the ther players are unfamiliar with the game's flow. The Romans can be tricky with newbies.)
Oh! While I think of it, someone (Megan?) asked me in Lightbulbs as to the identities of my four Penguin-themed games. They are: the sadly ill-favoured Penguins, the kiddie-focused Penguin Pile-Up, the card-based Penguin Ultimatum (where penguin jesters fight it out to provide the greatest amusement for the Emperor), and the surprisingly strategic Hey! That's My Fish!