The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

After playing Skyrim for way too long, I picked up Oblivion fr relatively cheap. Boy, it's a great game.

I beat this game yesterday:

Resident Evil 5 (2009)

...and started playing this one:


Viking: Battle for Asgard (2008)

RE5 was a great game, but slightly disappointing compared to RE4. The focus was much more on action, and it feels a bit too much like every other game out there rather than anything all that unique. Still, it was fun and the story was excellent.

As for Viking... so far so good! I'm a big fan of these sort of hack-and-slash action/RPG's, and since I picked it up for a whopping $5, it was probably worth it.


Edited by J-Man - 21 Jun 2012 at 8:27am

^ I used to love that game as a kid.  I almost always played as Samus on both the GC and N64 versions!

Played that a lot too, but now I just find myself playing Brawl most of the time.

Wilytank wrote: Anyone play this game?  It's a real classic.

I recently purchased Resident Evil: Director's Cut for the Playstation 1, and I've been playing that lately. A damn challenging and confusing game, but a lot of fun. Figuring out the puzzles without the help of walkthroughs is an immensely satisfying feeling. 

i downloaded the Dawngaurd DLC for Skyrim, its a good excuse to play skyrim again. 

Xaxaar wrote: Well, after a lunch with Blizzard, basically inspired me to make a game.  Thinking it's going to mainly utilize a grappling hook which can other stun enemies, bring you to a target location, or fetch items. Already started on the basic story line, but still figuring out what program to use, any recommendations? It is going to be 3D, so I was thinking about Unity, although making a 2D prototype wouldn't be bad on Game Maker or something.

I have absolutely NO background in game making. I've been thinking about making a 2D action RPG in Game Maker for quite a while, though... if you also decide to make something using that software, we could potentially help each other with using Game Maker. The software looks a bit confusing.

SKwid wrote:  never looked at game maker or the likes, but it cant be too hard.

Moving from one programming language to another isn't too hard, the keywords are normally more or less the same in my experience. Programming is just one aspect of game development though. You also have to think about graphics, whether they be 2D or 3D, animation (again 2D or 3D), sound, gameplay and story, which is actually the most important aspect of the whole game.