Here it is! Looks like it'd be pretty fun/casual game that someone may like to play (with the liberal incentive of it not costing money!). Anyone want to try it out since it'll be available tomorrow?
Here it is! Looks like it'd be pretty fun/casual game that someone may like to play (with the liberal incentive of it not costing money!). Anyone want to try it out since it'll be available tomorrow?
yori
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 7:12amwow that looks fun
Qyn
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 7:53amIt does! I will be grabbink it.
Crazy Rambles
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 2:20pmD'oh it says the servers are too busy to process the install. >;(
Qyn
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 2:52pm>:(
I will try when I get homes.
There's no time limit on getting it free, right? Like, OMG TONIGHT ONLY OTHERWISE SO FUCKING EXPENSIVE LOLOL!!
Crazy Rambles
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 3:22pmI think it'll be free perpetually. Also, I managed to DL it and it's almost finished! 97%!
Vasya
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 8:51amI played it last night and it was mad fun. Looking forward to playing with sum amaranthians.
Crazy Rambles
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 9:19amSounds good! I liked the TF2 headgear they have too! It's a fun one!
Fap
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 9:45amso, what is this game? i thought it was a tactical-style game, but then i saw a different place that it was an overhead shooter
Crazy Rambles
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 11:13amThink L4D with various weapons, aliens, and 3rd person viewing. (the link has a game play video as well and could probably give you a better idea than what I can say).
Qyn
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 12:48pmIt's an overhead shooter (3rd person as opposed to top down though) with tactical elements. You run around with a team of 4 military types all of whom can shoot but also have other secondary skills (like a medic who heals, engineer who welds doors shut to create barriers, etc) and you have a big map with goals to achieve and aliens to explode and so you can be tactical, or you can just blow shit up.
I imagine that the harder the game gets the more tactical you have to be, though I've only played the first offline map to get a feel for the gameplay and it was not hard. The design is visually fun, but not amazing looking. I wasn't overly enthralled with the gameplay, but it's probably more fun playing with your friends and coming up with crazy tactics on the fly while annihilating swarms of aliens.
Crazy Rambles
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 1:58pmOh, the online mode is definitely better by a multiplier of at least 3 or 4. You have stats and unlockables too. Along with many more varied missions with even trickier aliens waiting to nom your face into pudding.
John
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 3:47pmSo mass effect? fun! available for mac?
yori
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 6:19pmi think so...i only played for like 3 minutes and had the revelation that in order for me to not get bored with this in an hour i need to be playing with others
Vasya
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 8:07pmSo I sort of realized we don't have a steam group, and I felt that was a strong oversight. So I created one! It's invite only, but I invited the people I know about on Steam. Holler! And then we can have adventures! STEAMY ones.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/amaranthian/
Crazy Rambles
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 9:22pmI dunno whether it is available for Mac, but with TF2's conversion maybe they'll release a Mac-able one! Either that or I missed where it says dual-compatibility.
Timmeh
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 5:13amWe had a fireside steam group, but then it didn't really do anything.