MaxMaps wrote:Achtane wrote:Weird...so everyone's jumping on this all-in-one thing now? Is that this past gen's MOTION CONTROLLLSSSSS?
No.
It's basically Gabe Newell giving a gigantic middle finger to Microsoft and making a huge push to bring Linux into mainstream gaming. The steaming technology takes one decent computer with the ability to run PC games and allows to use lesser devices and computers to play your game as if you were sitting at your desk. I find the concept really cool, I think it was almost a year ago Nividia introduced cloud based gaming.
Other than porn my machine is geared towards video gaming only so I could really dig this. Steam is OS and is in beta but once a stable version comes out with a better driver package then I am going to partition my machine and install it.
Its a huge step in the right direction and I hope it takes off.
This is actually pretty cool then, I might have to check it out.
I'm getting back into Wurm Online
Wurm is the Everquest of sandbox games. It's like an older Minecraft for masochists. Each server is a gigantic map and everything apart from the wilderness, everything else is player-created.
There are a bunch of different skills you can raise and they're the only permanent thing the players have. Every item and building will degrade. The game's mostly creation-oriented, but if you die, you lose skill EXP. All of your shit is lootable unless you lock it up, and even then you have to barter for or craft a lock yourself out of various parts (that you also have to buy or make). There's a heavy emphasis on player interaction and community building.
Instead of digging an entire block away like in Minecraft, you have to dig each corner of a block away and lower the landscape grade by grade. BRUUUUTALLLLLLL.
Also, you can totes build a ship and sail to the other servers 'cause they're all big-ass islands in the ocean. Super sweet.
I'm not sure why I enjoyed it so much before, but I did. I think I will even more now that it finally got out of beta state (after 6 years) and there's recently been a graphics overhaul -- now things actually have animations; players walk around and move more naturally instead of everyone sharing the same floating, wooden model. Wow!
