[Recently(-ish) Completed:]

Recently(-ish) Completed: Dungeons of Dredmor + All DLC at the time (Realm of the Diggle Gods, Conquest of the Wizardlands, You Need to Name the Expansion Pack) + A crapton of Mods

System: Steam

Time Spent: Nearly half my total Steam time for all my games; 144 hours.

The Story: Dredmor is on the rise and someone needs to stop him before the world is screwed. You, are that someone.

Wins on Permadeath:
Dwarfish Moderation
Radiant Wizard (Mod)
Ley Walker
Wild Magic (Mod)
Magic Training
Mana Pool Mastery (Mod)
Mathemancy
Alchemy

Elvish Easy
Crossbow Specialization
Perception
Burglary
Alchemy
Wand Crafting
Tinkering
Rogue Scientist

The Good:
+ First off, the mods. The vanilla game and expansion packs are awesome and all that but the mods really help expand the game. From skillsets that cater to warriors, wizards, sneak thieves, hybrids, tanks, packwhores and what have you to dungeon expansions, more rooms, items, the ability to breakdown obsolete weapons into ingots and a few others. Hell, on my first win I used three mods and two of them were mods that cater to the wizard class and that I always use when I go wizard. Always.
Seriously, every single time. Radiant Wizard and Wild Magic (Found in the Complete Essentials Mod pack) are two of the most amazing skill sets in Dredmor period.

+ The skill sets in the vanilla game and expansion packs are nothing to slouch over. Ranging from the classic weapon specialization to Pyromancy, Necroeconomics and other magic-oriented skills to Communism, Tourist, Bankster and Clockwork Knight. And crafting skills, which are more than just making booze and other crap. You get variety to make more than pure rogue, warrior or wizard builds, even more than hybrids and GISH (Something, magic fueling melee). And some pretty rad synergy, for obvious combos and the unlikely ones.

+ Need to give a shoutout to my boy Burglary! Second level of Infinite Lockpicks changed my life for Dredmor. Use it for every character.

+ The ability to choose your difficulty (Seriously affects XP gains), if you want RotDG's 15 floors or the vanilla game's 10 and Permadeath. The extra 5 levels do make a bit o' difference.

+/- Monster Zoos on nearly every single floor past the first. I anticipated the slaughter that was to come when I opened a door only for it to take more than 6 seconds to load and the music that plays before it says Monster Zoo. People might not like the constant threat of one every floor but I absolutely relished the chance to unleash bloody hell and slaughter a room full of monsters.

+ Wizard Keys, with some random letters scrawled on the walls in rainbow, you can get a mini dungeon if you type them in the console through the portal. A wrong set of a non-existent code nets you Diggle Hell, excellent late-game content for the ball-shattering difficulty that is Vlad Diggula. A nice little bit it is. And Wizard Keys also act as a mini storage shed once you enter it. Store all your craftables and sweet loot without clogging up your inventory!

+ Some good enemy variety, in particular the Diggles. Palette swaps are apparent but they're always around.

+ Humorous writing and it's pretty funny, let alone all the shout outs.

+ The graphics are pretty charming but the real seller is the eyebrows on the main.

+/- RotDG levels mostly have Solar Axes, packed with pimped out damage and sometimes 7 different damage types. It's good for Axe users, godly for dual-wielding axe users and sometimes those who don't specialize in any weapon but needs more variety. Sometimes mages are better off using orbs or shields instead of a weapon.

+ Drink booze to fuel magic. Grog, Pan-Am Gargle Blaster (You know the one), some wines and absinthe with a few others.

+ Gotta mention the crafting here for the sake of encrusting. Crusting up your gear grants it various buffs, over-encrusting leads to some side effects, varying in degrees of screwing you over. It's a nice touch to prevent something from getting overpowered.

+/- You can find recipes as you go but you're subject to the RNG and usefulness depends on what crafting skill(s) you take.

+/- Crafting and RNG again; subject to whatever crap you find and you might never have enough ingredients to crustify that sweet hat.

+/- Brax (Shopkeeper), his stock varies wildly and usefulness varies wildly in turn.

+ Nice music and there are a few tracks I just adore.

+ The game's got legs: Sheer variety in skill sets, randomness, difficulty, Steam Achievements (Love 'em for this one) and the mods are truly something else.

+ Low system requirements, and I mean low. If your computer has a graphics card and a monitor, there's a good chance you can play it.

+ Cheap too, and I mean crazy cheap. You should buy it immediately, or when it's on sale for a few bones.

The Bad:
- Dredmor himself, balls tough and nothing like what you fought in the 9 floors past. Monster Zoos? Peanuts to him. His power is unbelievable and can easily kick the everloving crap out of you, god forbid that you get into melee with him.

- Portals in the normal dungeon, most likely from the Conquest of the Wizardlands expansion pack. Not to be mistaken for the one accessed by the Wizard Keys. Some are glitchy and even found some inescapable that killed my game.

- For me, game takes a minute to load and three minutes to load up a save file 5+ floors in. Then again, I'm under the minimum requirements of 1 GB of RAM.

- Steam Cloud. Screws up your saves, sometimes your high scores and corrupts the shit out of your characters. Disable it when you install the game.

Overall: A: I LOVED this game. Absolutely adored it. It's an amazing roguelike and perfect for casual and hardcore gamers. The mod community improve an already great product and the game itself is real solid. It's cheap and easily worth the few bucks it goes for on Steam.

Dungeon Crawl, tearing shit up with a Deep Elf/Fire Elementalist/Fire Storm User and am not too shabby with a pimped out +9/+9 Saber of a crapton of bonuses. Cleared the Lair and all the subbranches in it; The Vaults and got the Silver Rune; Orcish Mines and the Elven Halls and the initial room to Hell. Taking on the Crypts and even though I can already win the game, going for the Abyssal Rune and possibly the Golden Rune in the Tomb. Risky as all hell for the latter and an absolute nightmare.

You have my sympathies TLO.

Stone Soup, got the Serpentine Rune and just dungeon diving since I don't have the corrosive resistence for the dreaded Slime Pit nor the means to brutally butcher everything in a torrent of fire, the means to get rid of Blademasters in the Elven Halls, Repel Missiles or Deflect Missiles for The Shoals and haven't found the Vaults yet.

Going to get back into Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Deep Elf/Fire Elementalist for Fire Storm and Vehumet for MP kills
That's all you need.

PP: Toronto lost 4-5 in OT to Boston. A Cinderella story in tatters after making a kickass comeback from 3-1 in the series.

AP: Leafs force Game 7 after two periods of no goals and a total nail biter after the Bruins scored with less than 30 seconds left to get 2-1.

Don Henley - Dirty Laundry

PP: Leafs lost to the Bruins in OT 4-3 and trail behind in the series 3-1. Tense game but I doubt anyone has any hope for Friday's game.

Knights of the Old Republic II, ran into a nasty bug that prevents me from leaving Telos, even if I reload a save from before I enter the area.
Might just switch to Gothic if I can't work it out.

Knights of the Old Republic II, still on Telos, still trying to figure out how to get into the underground fight club.

Knights of the Old Republic II, glad I got six saves for T- second planet. Was finally able to get the LSP for the Smuggling side quest and off to do some more detective work.

Knights of the Old Republic II, 6 hours for the Prologue and Peragus with as few levels as possible. It's like a free heal when you level up. And going as Sentinel, because they're always the best.

I never did get to beat Mysteries of the Sith. I got to the end on my netbook, which crapped out on me, and I guess steam doesn't save the saves of ALL games, unfortunately.

And even some of the saves it saves on Cloud get fudged up royally.

Wrapped up Sly 3 last week, but liked it as it began to wind down, in particular chapter 5. Felt it became better as it progressed, despite the questionable variety of all the crap you can do.

Started up Twilight Princess, continuing Kingdom Hearts II, Dungeons of Dredmor (I fucking swear, I'm going Dual-Wielding, Axes, Berserker Rage because holy fucking shit the loot I got in Axes)

First, I got a Mace of Biowarfare, 40 Crushing (!!), 20 Necromantic, 5 Transmutative and caused atom-decay with each swing.
Then, in a rapid succession, I got a pair of seriously bitching axes, dealing 75 and 80 damage each over 6-7 damage types! With one equipped and my Tomb of Petrifying, I could hit for any damage type under the sun except for Acidic.
This was about Floor 11-12, RotDG content. But seriously, going all that crap next time + Burglary. Always Burglary.

And Atom Zombie Smasher, pretty decent for the price I paid. Blendo Humble Weekly Sale.

Edit: I remember Yut talking about Mysteries of the Sith because it went on sale on Steam with all the other Star Wars games, ending up as a huge clusterfuck of... business crap. 66% off each game or the whole enchilada for 50% off. 66% yesterday for the entire meal but only a $16 difference. Fucking huge for cheap bastards. Anyway, Yut reminded me of it and I wanted the Jedi Knight Collection, already having Outcast and not the outdated Dark Forces/MotS (Half-outdated) and... Guess I want the collection for less than the sum of it's parts, not for nearly 2x the price. $11.67 compared to the bundle's $19.99. I can get the games individually, but buying the collection is that much cooler.

Not that I would get to them soon, Steam games aren't for playing immediately after you buy and install them.