Forerunner wrote:Oh wow. Mount and Blade has clearly come far since the last time I played it. When it first came out, it was so budget that Seejay used to fuck with his stats just by opening the character file in notepad xD
You can still do that, lol.
Since I'm currently in the US, and the only laptop I have is a Mac, the only games I have been able to play are Mac compatible ones... which aren;t very many. However, I have been playing a game called Amnesia: The Dark Descent, which is a first-person survival-horror adventure game with physics, puzzles, and stealth elements. To paraphrase Yahtzee, there are three types of horror games. The game where a man in a spooky mask jumps out of a closet shouting: "A bloogey, woogey woo!" (Doom 3), the game where the man in the spooky mask isn't hiding in a closet but is standing right behind you ready to shout: "A bloogey, woogey woo!" at any minute except he doesn't and you are too afraid to turn around in case he jabs you in the eye (Silent Hill 2), and the horror game where the man in the spooky mask yells "A bloogey woogey woo!" at the end of a brightly lit room before pulling out a violin, walking up to you and hitting you in the face with a steak (Dead Space.) Amnesia falls squarely into the second category, and is remarkably good at making people poo their pants (figuratively and literally.) There are some pretty hilarious reaction vid compilations on YouTube. The game is extremely atmospheric and immersive, and is very fun. There is also an expansion for it (that now comes free with the main game) called Amnesia: Justine, which is only 30 minutes or so long, but if you die you have to start again from the beginning, whereas in the main game, you respawn from your last save, minus a bit of health and whatever items you had used between the save and your death. The next game, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, is coming out next year.
Another similar, but far shorter, game is called Slender, which basically involves wondering around a dark wood at night with a torch/flashlight that illuminates an area the size of a goblin's testicle, with the stated goal of picking up all 8 pages of paper that are scattered around. However, once you pick up one page, you being to be pursued by the Slender Man, and the more pages you pick up, the more relentless he becomes, and after every few pages a new sound effect is added, making the game creepier. If the Slender Man catches you, then it is game over.
I have also downloaded and installed the Technic Pack mod pack for Minecraft, which is a compilation of 51 different mods that add a million different things including but not limited to: Copper, Tin, Bronze, Silver, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Refined Iron, Machine Blocks, Uranium, Nuclear Reactors, Mass Fabricators, Solar Arrays, Geothermal Generators, Wind Turbines, Macerators, Electric Furnaces, Reinforced Stone, Reinforced Glass, Dark Matter, Red Matter, the list goes on. However, the last update ruined my old world, so I have started again. I am currently in the process of constructing QuantumSuit Armour, the most powerful armour in the game (alongside Gem Armour.) It absorbs 100% of all incoming damage along as the suit is charged, and provides immunisation against lava, fall damage, hunger, and drowning. You can even survive a nuclear reactor meltdown explosion, or a nuke going off at ground zero range.
The Gem Armour is similarly powerful, but has different buffs. You need two Iridium plates per piece of armour (four for the chest armour) and each one consists of four Iridium ore, four Advanced Alloy, and a Diamond, and each Iridium Ore requires seven UU-Matter, which you can only get from Mass Fabricators (which require 1,000,000 units of electricity to produce one UU-matter.) Luckily, I have a nuclear reactor and an HV Solar Array, but even then producing UU-Matter is slow. Advanced Alloy is easier to manufacture, since you only need 3 Bronze (which is an alloy made from Copper and Tin), 3 Refined Iron (which you get from smelting Iron Ingots) and 3 Tin to get two Mixed Metal Ingots, which are then compressed into Advanced Alloy. Other gadgets include the Energy Condenser, which allows you to manufacture more of any item you possess (as long as they have EMC value) and Energy Collectors, which are used to power the Condenser, to produce advanced fuels, and are necessary for the production of dark and red matter. I have an Energy Condenser hooked up to five MK3 Energy Condensers, and it is fast.
In this day and age, an era where there are people who actually throw shit at each other, anything, could be possible.