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Re: What game are you playing?
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 12:30 pm
by Paladin Tux
I'm also back on Open TTD. I finished most of Naev (if you could finish it) plus I got my hands on the OTTD addons my little brother had been stashing. Just flood a town with buses...
Re: What game are you playing?
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 7:29 pm
by ancipital
FTL.
Oh god, FTL. Specifically the iOS port on my iPad, because it works brilliantly on a touch screen. I have had it sitting on my Steam account from an old Humble Bundle or similar, but never really got into it. Over Christmas, I wanted something to play. Because I was away, I only had my iThingy to hand... the rest is a blur.
I'm guessing that a lot of people here will know FTL, as you're probably a perfect target audience, but if not...
It's a punishingly hard "Roguelike" where you command a spacecraft fleeing across a hostile galaxy with some stolen data. The game has lots of resource management, vicious combat and lots of unexpected fires. Stacking upgrades is every bit as pathological as in Elite. Time just vanishes. A wonderful game which is occasionally wonderfully unfair, and has enormous replay value. Terrifyingly good.
Re: What game are you playing?
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 12:24 am
by Diziet Sma
I keep hearing Scott Manley raving about FTL on his KSP Interstellar Quest series. Guess I'm gonna have to check it out..
Re: What game are you playing?
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 8:50 am
by spud42
a rogue-like of frustration.
Re: What game are you playing?
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 1:50 pm
by Marte
spud42 wrote:a rogue-like of frustration.
Ginsberg's Theorems:
You can't win.
You can't break even.
You can't even quit the game.
Re: What game are you playing?
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:27 pm
by ancipital
Diziet Sma wrote:I keep hearing Scott Manley raving about FTL on his KSP Interstellar Quest series. Guess I'm gonna have to check it out..
Well, consider yourself warned by some of the other comments in the thread- it's a great game, but won't hesitate to take you down hard
Re: What game are you playing?
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2015 6:38 pm
by Norby
ancipital wrote:FTL.
A wonderful game which is occasionally wonderfully unfair
This sounded like a challenge so I tried it. I think the normal difficulty is well adjusted, I finished in my 4. run and I have a feeling that I can win again in this level without problems.
But the "hard" is another story. After 9 retries I still can not arrive into the last sector so this is really hard. My ship is always outdated due to the lack of resources so I think I need a big luck to avoid the killer traps or need much more experience to win.