Dakka, dakka, pow!

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1770371]

Notes:
Playing social games on Facebook totally counts as "multiplayer with friends" (if you interact) or "single player" (if the only interaction is trying to beat each other's high scores).
"On the sofa" means a console, a TV, and two or more people playing a game at the same time. Not two of you sitting on the sofa with laptops. That would be "on a local network".

Comments

[andrewducker]

I don't play online with friends much at the moment - it's mostly co-op stuff with Julie on our PCs. Magicka has been a favourite recently, although we just completed it. We need something new to sink our teeth into, if anyone has any co-op games to recommend that aren't first-person shooters.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

My non-phone portable device is also a computer. but yeah.

Also: Magicka is neat, but I'm having trouble finding anyone to, y'know, PLAY with. And single-player it's fun but more than a little fiddly and unforgiving. The number of times I've auto-died by casting BSOD and clicking on an enemy but having it target me instead of some reason, oi.

[andrewducker]

BSOD kills a random person on the screen:
http://www.magickapedia.net/wiki/Crash_To_Desktop

You want Thunderbolt, which does a shitload of damage to someone else :->

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

.... wow.

Confirmation bias at work: I thought that was a funny spell name, cast it, and the enemy I clicked on died. Cast again, and the dude I was clicking on died. Cast again, I died.... repeat several times, with me concluding that it was me misclicking to misdirect the spell.

Oi.

[andrewducker]

"I looked behind door number one and found a dead enemy."

:->

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Using Bayes' Theorem I can demonstrate that I was clicking on the wrong enemy only 5/11 of the time!

PS: Steam ID. Come play Magicka sometime! If you see me playing Mount And Blade, that's okay, feel free to interrupt. That game is eating my life.)

[andrewducker]

Added you - but I'm not generally up for multiplayer gaming at the moment. When stress levels subside I'll be up for it more. You'll still be around in three months time, right :->