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[Akura]

Goddamned long mission, with a side branch that supposedly gets your safe houses upgraded(with what it never said). Said side branch has you assassinating the local king so his son can take over his money. Getting to the safe house requires blasting through three lines of entrenched guards. I crash my armored truck into a tree, but I'm surrounded so I get out instead of using the .50cal machine gun. I try to deal with one of the MG posts with a molotov, but the resulting brush fire blows back my way and explodes my truck. Despite that, I managed to kill all the guards attacking me, including the two who tried to ram me from behind with a jeep. I proceed to the safe house.

After accepting this part of the mission, I swap my assault rifle for the .50cal sniper rifle on the floor. The king was hiding in a fortress unconveniently close(you'll see why) to the original mission site. I figured I'd pop the guy from a distance. Nope. I had to slog through several more guard posts before reaching the place, using just my pistol to defend myself. When I get there, I drop several snipers on the towers, then engage in a snipe-fest with the guards inside. I kill them all, and with the area secured, I enter the room the king is hiding in. He makes a big show of threatening me and all. I make the mistake of lingering to see if he had anything else to say, and before I could react, he empties a pistol into me. I'm still alive, and I put a pistol round of my own through his head, and finish the clip into him for good measure, then I grab his ring(his son wanted it as proof). Now to drive all the way back to that safe house.

Along the way, I get rammed nearly off the road near one of the guard posts that had respawned, leading into a firefight. My sniper rifle jams. I clear the jam, then the base. Fight my way back through the entrenched guards(I fare much better this time) and back into the safe house to give the prince his ring. In return he offers me a car... which already freaking spawns there - I drove it to the fortress to kill his dad and back. I return to the original mission: to mark a giant pile of gold for extraction. Normally, these side missions give a different outcome, but this gives the same mission, only with a partner and the enemies don't appear until you mark the gold.

As soon as I do, gunfire erupts outside. I get up there(I was underground in a dry well), and me and my partner are surrounded. I drop several, but then my partner gets shot. I run over to heal them, but I get critically wounded as he gets up. I try to hide and heal, but don't get too far. "Load last save/Load save/Quit" (last save was before accepting the mission - at least 30 minutes ago)

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Far Cry 2.

[karhell]

Blighttown. Gottverdammt Blighttown. 5 more deaths in the first 50 metres. Death by fuckhuge club(twice), death by misdodge off a platform, death by toxic blowpipe, death by fuckchirping million cuts gangbang at the bottom of a ladder.

BRB, Blighttown gitguddering.

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Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition. Most truthful title I've ever seen.

[itisnotlogical]

The cyborg lady at the end of the long hallway after you restore power. She's tanky and she seems to be impossible to stun. Cue reload to try and run past the turret rather than use my precious grenades on it.

System Shock 2

[Rince Wind]

Cyborg Midwives are one of the scariest enemies ever with their talking and the audiolog that explains them.

[Akura]

Spoiler: Special note about them (click to show/hide)

They're a unique enemy type similar to robots and turrets, in that they're weak to armor-piercing, laser and EMP weapons, but the damage bonus is not as high as it is with robots. Conversely, whereas robots are immune to anti-personnel and incendiary weapons, midwives resist it.

Oh, and there's several audiologs about their creation, from different people - a few observers, the guy who created them, and one of the victims just before she was modified.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

System Shock 2 is actually a fucking terrifying game. First time I played it, played it Co-op with my friends. We immediately got separated on the very first part. One got trapped by turrets, the other was being chased by monkeys, and I turned around to see a zombie with a shotgun yell, "I'M SORRY!" just before blowing my brains out. We turned it off and agreed to play another time.

[itisnotlogical]

I imagine multiplayer would be easier, since one could focus their modules on hacking crates and replicators, and the other could focus on taking out enemies.

[GiglameshDespair]

SS2 is already an easy game with a decent build; with the set difficulty of multiplayer and two players it's a cakewalk.
Fun, but not what you'd call difficult.

[Rolan7]

A shame the multiplayer over internet was unplayably buggy the last few times I tried, even the GoG version.  All sorts of weird desyncs, if we even managed to connect. 

But yeah, it's really meant for single player anyway.  Glad it was still spooky as a group though, even if briefly.

[Akura]

Tried to fix a massive traffic bottleneck where the main highway ends at the main factory district. To my shame, it's just a sudden abrupt halt at a two-lane road that can't be expanded because of the factories along it. I get the bright idea of splitting the highway end that goes into the factory district off to the side onto a wide road and use a one-way street to link it up to the main road loop. Immediately saw positive results that appeared to remain stable.

A short while later, noticed the next massive bottleneck: I had so many normal streets intersecting the main highway(including using them to create U-turns along it), that the traffic lights were causing backups miles long. After some ugly patching that caused a few homes to be bulldozed(some without any indication it would), and using highway ramps as switchbacks instead of two-way roads, traffic began to improve.

I look back at the first bottleneck, and find that traffic isn't just backed up, it's nearly dead-stop. I give up. |.o.|

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Cities: Skylines. Also, is it possible to get rid of the Twitter Chirper feed? It's getting really annoying every five seconds having someone complain that we're so primitive that the city has a small farming district or someone going on about a great new morning it is when it's the middle of the freaking night.

[MrRoboto75]

There's several mods that disable chirper or allow you to filter out certain messages.

[Reudh]

Tried to fix a massive traffic bottleneck where the main highway ends at the main factory district. To my shame, it's just a sudden abrupt halt at a two-lane road that can't be expanded because of the factories along it. I get the bright idea of splitting the highway end that goes into the factory district off to the side onto a wide road and use a one-way street to link it up to the main road loop. Immediately saw positive results that appeared to remain stable.

A short while later, noticed the next massive bottleneck: I had so many normal streets intersecting the main highway(including using them to create U-turns along it), that the traffic lights were causing backups miles long. After some ugly patching that caused a few homes to be bulldozed(some without any indication it would), and using highway ramps as switchbacks instead of two-way roads, traffic began to improve.

I look back at the first bottleneck, and find that traffic isn't just backed up, it's nearly dead-stop. I give up. |.o.|

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Cities: Skylines. Also, is it possible to get rid of the Twitter Chirper feed? It's getting really annoying every five seconds having someone complain that we're so primitive that the city has a small farming district or someone going on about a great new morning it is when it's the middle of the freaking night.

You should consider ending your highway in a loop and use standard service interchanges to send cars off into the city itself. Even a simple diamond interchange is a thousand times better than having a non-highway contact a highway.

[itisnotlogical]

There was a room with two laser turrets, some egg things, and a camera. I didn't want any of that business, so I left a nav marker and moved to the next one over, which happens to contain goodies! I sprinted over to the goodies, the previous room gone from my mind.

Turns out, the turrets from the last room can shoot into this room. And the camera can see into it. And I still don't know what the eggs do, but I'm sure they helped kill me as well.

System Shock 2.

[Boltgun]

Not dying ingame but I died inside so that count.

I ended defending a territory against the starghosts for the first time. Went fine as always because at this stage the game fails to challenge me, I meet some bullet sponge enemies (oh joy...) but eventually they fall.

Then there is a 'cloud', that can only be damaged by energy weapons and the only plasma gun went out of ammo.

So I stunned it with a reticulan blaster and tried everything, bullets, fire... Nothing worked. And unlike most of the missions where I get victory when 90% of the units are dead of unconscious, the game refused to concede victory this time.

I had to abort and lose a territory. Seriously, this game was great at the beginning but the more I play, the worse it gets.

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UFO: Aftershock

[monk12]

There was a room with two laser turrets, some egg things, and a camera. I didn't want any of that business, so I left a nav marker and moved to the next one over, which happens to contain goodies! I sprinted over to the goodies, the previous room gone from my mind.

Turns out, the turrets from the last room can shoot into this room. And the camera can see into it. And I still don't know what the eggs do, but I'm sure they helped kill me as well.

System Shock 2.

Oooh, I think I remember that room. Killed me too, first time through.