shizawn

Yup, reading the article would've helped

DaveNinja

I'm surprised to see Spelunky on there. I didnt know it was so important. I've never heard of Dwarf Fortress.

I would have thought Scorched Earth or Star Control 3 would have been on there. I guess in the pre-internet days, i didnt really know what games were popular

fumanstan

Here's the blurb on Spelunky - I also don't know anything about the game or what makes it meaningful/.

I have no idea what Roguelikes is.

DaveNinja

I assume it means the randomly created levels. The only reason i know about Spelunky is because it was free on PSN. I would have never know it was considered "important" lol.

what was that spaceship commanding computer game from around 5 years back. i think it had a three letter name. It was simple graphics with lots of text but i was amazed at how fun it was. I would have thought it would have made the list

Jay G.

A Roguelike is literally a game like the 1980 game Rogue. So it's a game genre in the same way that games in the FPS genre were originally called "Doom clones."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike

Spelunky is actually considered by some to be a "Roguelike-like," or a game with Roguelike elements, but not entirely Roguelike. Procedurally generated levels and permadeath are two main features of a Roguelike, and used in many Roguelike-like games. Spelunky is thus the game that made Roguelike-likes a thing, not Roguelikes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguel...2005-onward.29

dvd-4-life

What are the best Pro Football and Pro Basketball games?

fumanstan

Never heard of the game Rogue

DaveNinja

i remember playing some version of it on an old IBM when i was in computer class in middle school. It wasnt nearly as cool as Ultima, though.

jjcool

Admittedly my knowledge of PC games is quite limited. But I remember quite a few on that list. I was surprised that Command and Conquer wasn't on there. Perhaps some of the games I'm not familiar with on the list are very similar to it?

Jay G.

I'm guessing C&C wasn't considered different enough from Dune 2, especially considering the same game studio made both.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer

jjcool

I figured there was a game like that on the list, I just didnt recognize it. Thanks.

shizawn

Atari Vault is coming to Steam in the spring. As someone who grew up with the Atari 2600 this is pretty exciting news.

http://www.shacknews.com/article/928...in-spring-2016

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...300207666.html

Hopefully it's not too expensive. Doesn't say if the games are based on 2600, 5200, 7800, 800/800XL or arcade. Guess we'll find out at Pax South in a week.

fumanstan

Finished Undertale. Enjoyable, but way overrated. Don't really understand the GOTY hype but its a cute game with some sweet moments and good music. The "meta" aspect is neat, but not a fan of the initial ending and I had to look up what to do. Not a fan of the first ending and having to to do more for a "true" one, which I did do and feels almost necessary to have a real closure for the game. Would rather they didn't bother with that just to extend the game play.

RichC2

So basically it's another Fez or Journey that's understandably well made but not terribly interesting to play?

fumanstan

I only played a bit of Fez and never tried Journey - it's kind of the opposite where it's crudely made but somewhat more interesting to play just to see how things unfold? It was refreshing to see this little indie game be much different from the games we get these days, but the hype and praise people lump on it seem weird.

fumanstan

Jet Set Radio (and other Sega games) free on Steam.

http://steamed.kotaku.com/jet-set-ra...-ri-1759494001

T-bone22

Nice, thanks!

fumanstan

More free games from SEGA. Streets of Rage 2, Binary Domain, and Condemned.

http://www.makewarnotlove.com/results.php

fumanstan

HTC Vive is going to cost $799

http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/21/110...-will-cost-799

edstein

That a pretty good price IMO. I've tried both the vive and the rift and I like the vive much better. This doesn't include integrated audio like the rift but you can use you own headphones anyway which is nice. But it does include the controllers which work pretty good.

Now bring on the games.

Kenshiro

Greenman Gaming has pre-order keys for The Division on sale for $42.99 right now. >>> http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/e...ncys-division/

shizawn

Went on sale today, and HTC says they got 10,000 preorders in the first 10 minutes.

http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/29/ht...in-10-minutes/

RichC2

They corrected that to 15,000 preorders.

fumanstan

My fiancee surprised me with an ASUS PG278Q monitor for our anniversary. G-Sync time! First time seeing it in action, only played around with Overwatch a bit but so far i'm impressed with how smooth it was. Hard to do a side by side comparison though. I'll need to try some other games.

I was on 27" 2560x1440 monitor already, but a little weird going from an IPS panel to a TN one and adjusting to the color and image quality.

shizawn

Yeah, 25x14 144Hz G-SYNC is glorious. That Asus panel is awesome but I wanted to see if an IPS-type display like that would come out. Once the Acer XB270HU released, I jumped on it.