On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One

[cheshirenoir]

Anyone else playing Penny Arcade's little baby?

It runs much more cleanly on my Linux partition than on my XP partition. That may just be the drive speed difference though.

Comments

[buoy-wonder.livejournal.com]

Played the demo for a bit, not a big fan of turn based combat (unless its tactical turn based combat). Had it moments though, was quite amusing.

[cheshirenoir.livejournal.com]

Heh. That was one of the things that attracted me. I have always been a fan of this "Japanese RPG" style combat.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

I'm torn between downloading their little first-part opus, and waiting and buying (hopefully) a big shiny disc with the whole saga on it at once.

[cheshirenoir.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to buy episodic content. It matches my available budget more.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

I'm still stuck a little in that paranoid "What if I want to play the game in 5 years and can't load it off a purchased disc" thing. Which I don't think is *too* paranoid - I actually do still play video games I purchased 20 years ago.

[cheshirenoir.livejournal.com]

The challenge I tend to face is that the games I want to play are more like 10 year old. Often this means OSs that are no longer compatible.

It was a happy day when DOSBox got good enough to allow me to play System Shock again...

[mikey-ob.livejournal.com]

SS is the best, and Shodan is my GF, not yours!

Bioshock is great, very very pretty, and the steamage hacking is cool, but there is the voice of Shodan I miss...the rantings of a crazed Libertarian is just not cool, never will be.

[cheshirenoir.livejournal.com]

I'm really torn, you know. SS1 is still a hoot, but I almost think SS2 is better.

Once you add the Texture Upgrades and the High Poly models that are out there, it plays like a more modern game and SHIT it's the creepier of the two. It's the sound in SS2 that does it though. The monsters whispering to each other in the darkness.

[mikey-ob.livejournal.com]

I thought about it, I may wait for the big disc, I have too many other things to play at the moment...sigh, it's a tough life. :)

[discordia13.livejournal.com]

I thought about it but my bandwidth is allocated for quite a while downloading Torchwood S02

[maffyew.livejournal.com]

I've got the XB360 version - it really is the kind of game that you can kick back and play on your couch, and a controller just makes sense for it.

It hasn't 'grabbed' me just yet (I've explored two major areas so far) - I'm finding playing Boom Blox with friends, and My Life as a King far more enticing at present.