Billion Dollar FRIDAY

[Cyrano]

HoN PBEMs with Vance, UCG, and anybody else I can scare up.

Campaign Waterloo PBEM with Doug...night has fallen on the first day...rain really can start annnny time now.

Likely some CS:ME with Doug as his Wehrmacht boys finally did get over the Dyle and earn a hard-fought minor victory.

The NOT Bayonet Games Warfighter second wave shows up at my dacha tomorrow so I'll certainly poke into the trove of treasures.

Lots of rules reading what as I got Churchill for my birthday and have yet to even try "Wing Leader".

Two more Rocky Horror: Live shows (tonight and tomorrow) ending first weekend of a five weekend run...yeah, I thought THAT was a good plan.

Roll on Weekend!!

[-budd-]

Saw the thread name, knew what the song would be, now its stuck in my head :) . Let's see what's on tap, outside fall clean up, board games with my daughter, CSME, and football. Maybe some heroes of Normandy since I bought that yesterday.

[AchillesLastStand]

Woke up this morning with this song stuck in my head.  Don't know why.  Hope it's stuck in yours now.

Wrapping up another Civ IV BtS mp.  I've taken my entire continent from Tokugawa and now it's time to expand to other lands.  Mansa Musa and Charlemagne are next.  Lots of football and maybe even some lawn mowing will go along with it.

It is stuck and thanks........
Introduced my 15 year younger wife to Alice and she loves him, ditto for Rush and Thin Lizzy as well. The albums he made with the original lineup were magnificent.

[JasonPratt]

Having finished Arkham: Blackgate earlier this week, I fired up the next story in the 'career', Arkham: Asylum last night. I don't suppose I've played this before on the PC -- I was deeply amused and surprised to see all the graphical bling which destroys the framerate for Knight, even on moderately uber machines like mine, running fully activated on my machine without any problems! Asylum never looked so good, volumetric smoke and dynamic floor debris and everything, and I've played it often enough to suspect there's also extra color audio on a regular basis compared to the PS3 version. Probably finished the first third easy last night, up near when Scarecrow makes his first appearance. It helps that I'm not going far out of my way to collect all the Riddler nonsense, since I already know from long experience it provides nothing but some extra experience for unlocking tech earlier. But the gameplay is like a warm, soft blanket...  (Well, set in a Halloweenish haunted-houseian island fortress anyway.) I had forgotten how much more useful the sonar-vision is in this first-produced game, for seeing in the dark and so for seeing in normal lighting, too. Afterward the designers made the sonar/detective vision almost useless for seeing general environment details, so that players would be less tempted to play the whole game that way.

Blackgate, by contrast... well, I already remembered it being by far the weakest of the five Batman: Arkham games and that impression was only reinforced, despite it looking super-snazzy on my monster PC. Its storyline, though sufficient, is the weakest; and by the nature of being a Metroidvania 2.5D platform brawler it is by far the most needlessly backtracky of all the games -- a factor I was especially sensitive about after quitting most of the way through Metal Gear Solid 1: Inignorance  and just watching the final hour of cinematics instead. Also, I had forgotten just how partially successful its attempt was, at porting Arkham gameplay into a platformer. Many abilities were naturally missing, and the combat was paradoxically harder for being more simplified and restricted, and I often died or failed just from the inputs not reading correctly when I needed them to. 

Also, as I will repeat whenever I think of this game until they day I die, the cutscene art is DREADFUL! -- utterly, insultingly unflattering for every character (except maybe Rick Flagg), and not in any attempt at being realistic either. The worst offender being Catwoman drawn and 'lit' as though her costume has no material in the lower ass.  :o ??? The actual game art looks fine, and up to par considering the handheld-console origin. It's the cutscene art that seems like a hateful practical joke at the expense of the players, fans, and/or main game developers.

But hey, the voice acting was still up to par as I remembered, and it was fun hearing some DCAU alumni reprising their roles (even if Conroy and Hamill opted out until later for Knight). Also, I had forgotten some of the DC Universe shout-outs in this game which don't show up anywhere else: the Superman villain Toyman existed in the Arkham games, but was apparently killed by accident while being forced to help Waller setting up the Suicide Squad, this being the explosion that wrecked the prison and allowed the other supervillains an opportunity to strike. That's some admirably deep incidental trivia plotting! 


No doubt this weekend I'll be smashing through Asylum again, and then because the Arkham games spoil me for true stealth-action game design, I'll probably not be playing MGS 2 and 3 but only watching some cutscene compilations instead. Eventually. More likely I'll start on City for a final playthrough.

[sandman2575]

Think I'll spend some time with Ageod's Civil War II this weekend -- the video tutorial Slick Wilhelm posted in another thread has rekindled my interest in this...

[Kushan]

Majority of my time this weekend is going to be spent recording my first Cities: Skyline Let's Play for my YouTube Channel.

Tomorrow morning is my weekly CMANO stream where I'm going to be continuing work on my next US/UK vs EU scenario. AT some point this weekend I'll also be working on another scenario, this one about hypothetical soviet battleships and battlecruisers trying to run the GUIK gap in the late 40s, with the player controlling a mix allied force of battleships and escorts and not mass carrier and land based air power.

I'll also be playing my brand new Tirpitz battleship in World of Warships. I got 7 days of premium time when I purchased it and I want to get the most out of it that I can.

Time allowing I might jump back into my Crusader Kings 2 Kingdom of Burgundy campaign, but I doubt it.

[Slick Wilhelm]

It's going to be Ageod's Civil War II, and some World of Tanks and World of Warships.

And, I'll be continuing to watch the Civil War II video by Spink Akron on YouTube. I'm on episode 20 of 60. 

[Nefaro]

I'll be going dancing, nightly, in the attic.  While the moon is rising in the sky.


O0



Edit:


There was a specific old vid with an intro I thought was pretty funny.  It seemed like an actual music video, of Million Dollar Babies IIRC, starting with Cooper yelling at some due about "WTF is this?!  We want OUR stage! OUR STAGE!".  Was pretty funny IMO.

[Rizik6]

Heroes of Normandie and some CW2 "Let's Learn" videos noted by Slick that hopefully lead to actually playing the game.

[MetalDog]

Glad you liked the song, fellas!  Alice is on the Dan LeBatard show every Friday around 12:30 p.m. EST.  He's got AWESOME stories to tell!  He told one a couple of weeks ago about how he almost killed Elvis in 1970.  Alice was in Vegas when one of the Memphis Mafia came up to him and said that Elvis wanted to see him.  So, Alice takes the elevator, along with Chubby Checker and Linda Lovelace, and goes up to see the King.  While he's up there, Elvis tells Alice to grab a handgun and Elvis will show Alice how to disarm someone holding a gun.  Now, I don't remember if the gun went off, or if Alice was just really nervous about fooling around with a loaded gun pointed at Elvis, but, everyone got out alive.  After that, Chubby and Alice went back downstairs.  Linda did not.

[Gusington]

Ooh tell me more about Heritage Hill in PoE...

[Sir Slash]

I want to hear more about Linda Lovelace. I went to Graceland with an old girlfriend once years ago. Great place to visit but Memphis can be a scary Mother. Heritage Hill on the other hand is delightful if want to work off some rage kills of POE's undead types. Familiar story about missing guards and people eating each other but decent loot and the fights scale up quickly. I haven't finished it yet and so can't say for sure if there's a twist to ending or just more killing but this game can be unpredictable in it's quests so who knows.... Maybe Elvis will show-up again.

[gameleaper]

...
Biggest project though is working on some graphics for a new game that will be coming out down the pipeline (boardgame) but I'll wait for official announcements are made before I divulge too much (hint: Mad Russian is involved).

Is this the official announcement you're talking about?

http://forums.lnlpublishing.com/threads/what-is-fire-team-red-eclipse.2057/

If so I can't wait to see what you do with it.  O0

I'll be finishing off some VASSAL work
Also continuing getting my butt handed to me by Cyrano in Heroes of Normandie PEBM++. Anyone else want a MP game of this? UCG? Gameleaper?
Also more Wing leader with SDR.
Also need to get back to my CKII campaign in 900's Kingdom of Leon.

And of course there is the continuing saga for yardwork in prepping fer winter....  :P

Sorry but I don't play Multiplayer games, I just don't like it! but thanks for asking :)

[Gusington]

Installing PoE now. Is Heritage Hill an early quest that won't slaughter me immediately?

[undercovergeek]

Installing PoE now. Is Heritage Hill an early quest that won't slaughter me immediately?

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