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You'll probably get all you want out of Eufloria in half an hour, so that'll be a quick one.
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From the initial suggestions: I loved Axiom Verge, and Fez was pretty good. From a quick perusal of your other games: I also loved Cloudbuilt but I recognize it's a very specialized taste. You played a ton of Hexcells, so SquareCells and CrossCells are also short servings of puzzles that might do you well. Depending on how you're tracking them you might also like the Plague Knight and Specter Knight campaigns for Shovel Knight. I was kind of ehn on Plague Knight's campaign but Specter's was great fun. If you want something a little meatier, The Ball and Transformers: War for Cybertron are both better than they really have any right to be.
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Breadallelogram posted:You'll probably get all you want out of Eufloria in half an hour, so that'll be a quick one. I put 28 hours into Eufloria and 23 into Euflora HD, so, uh. I found it really, really relaxing and meditative to play. If drguildo digs it, it's good! If not, he gets to null it sooner. 
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Thanks for all the recommendations. I actually beat Arkham Asylum years ago when I had an Xbox 360 and loved it so I wouldn't be averse to playing it again on PC. I managed to beat 2 games recently: ABZÛ If you've played Flower and Journey on the PS3 then you've pretty much already played this. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed it and it looks and sounds gorgeous, it's just that they really did just smoosh those 2 games together. It's also didn't resonate with me nearly as much as those games (Journey especially). If you haven't played them then you'll probably love it. The Final Station The gameplay was pretty repetitive and the writing was pretty terrible but it was still enjoyable enough that I kept playing. The developers clearly don't speak English fluently and didn't get somebody who does to go over their work. Grammar aside, the writing is also just not very good. There are plenty of NPC who'll spit out a few lines of dialogue at you but pretty much none of it is interesting or memorable. The artwork is excellent though and the setting and premise could have delivered so much more if the writing wasn't such hot garbage. I'm probably making it sound awful but it really isn't, it's just not especially good.
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With triple-A season really in full swing, I'm playing a few big games, but I always have time for some of that sweet, sweet HOG feeling. Finished: Hidden Object - Sweet Home It took me 8 minutes (!) to finish this. It's like the developer said "Now I have a HOG engine and 3 backgrounds - Publish". There's not even cards for the game, so I guess the developer just wanted a game on Steam. Finished: Modern Tales: Age of Invention The latest installment from Artifex Mundi. It was... alright. Finished: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands Kragger and I have had a lot of fun playing this one in co-op. We played it on Easy, so it definitely felt more like a Far Cry game than a tactical shooter, which was absolutely perfect. A huge map with lots of different types of locations, some fun set pieces and a bit of grind if you want to collect every scrap of collectible there is. In the end though, we just went straight for the bad guy as soon as we had the chance, and got one ending, as we had only cleaned up 78% of Bolivia. If you remove all the bosses, and do 100% cleanup, you can get another ending. I didn't play a lot of this solo, but Kragger mentioned that the AI is pretty decent.
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BEATEN: Rogue Legacy - I didn't enjoy it. But I beat it. It can be culled now. BEATEN: Super Mario Odyssey - The short version is.. I prefer Mario 3D World. The long version is... this is a very good 3D Mario game, with lots to do, and every inch of space put to use. There are many cute ways to earn moons. If you throw Capy by a dog, the dog will fetch it!!! As much fun as just wandering around experimenting to find moons is, the real fun is in the linear set pieces found inside of doors, pipes, holes, wells, whatever. And that's because... Nintendo is The Best at linear level design, and they're Just Good at open world design. It's not that the worlds are poorly designed, like I said, they're good. But they're not fantastic. There's no kingdom that's an outright joy to navigate around, though they are a spectacle of visual variety, from the low-poly indie aesthetic of Luncheon Kingdom to the feudal look of Bowser's Kingdom to the plastic/clay style of Lost Kingdom. A lot of the game is spent flinging yourself back to checkpoint flags. I honestly wish there was a wing cap rather than the glider lizard. But the linear levels in this game are great great great!! Much like Mario 3D World, every possible idea is explored. And each linear level has a hidden moon to find as well. The best thing about Odyssey is post-game, you unlock a bunch more 3D World-style levels in the form of moon cube pipes that sprout up in every world. So, the game is a decent compromise to fans of both branches of Mario game design. The real disappointment, for me personally, is the soundtrack, which is fully orchestrated, but feels very derivative and lacking in... well, Mario-ness. The best track is Run Jump and Throw which feels like a brand new Mario 64 track made in the modern era. The final music tracks are suitably epic, from the final Bowser showdown to the big escape sequence, and then... uh.. Sonic Adventure style butt rock? It's weird, because to me, I feel like both Breath of the Wild and Odyssey are obvious GOTY candidates but they don't have much music that fits their respective IP's legacies. Mario 3D World's soundtrack to me is quintessential Mario music, but Odyssey, on top of having music that feels like poor retreads of Galaxy tunes, has a lot of music that's just.. odd or unmemorable, aside from the standout New Donk City music. Maybe you'll disagree with me, but that's just how I feel. BEATEN: Access Denied - Kind of mediocre The Room-wannabe. Not the movie, the game. Solve a lot of box puzzles, and that's about it. BEATEN: Adam Wolfe - The kind of trashy hidden object game spoken of in legend. Gloriously cheesy "noir" supernatural storytelling, stupidly bad QTEs and "shooting" segments, BOSS FIGHTS (lol), and of course, your standard inventory puzzles and hidden object scenes. There are additional mechanics like time travel that are just hiddenobject-adjacent puzzling to be honest. BEATEN: Metrico+ - This game killed my PC's power supply. Okay maybe not specifically, but my PC died right at the end. I was just at the end too, so I count this as beaten. I'm afraid to open it again, honestly. It's a puzzle-platformer based on a world of charts and graphs. BEATEN: CrossCells - Hmm.. it's better than SquareCells but it's still not as good as the original HexCells trilogy. At least it's a step back in the right direction, and the game, perhaps anticipating that guesswork would be necessary, no longer punishes you for mistakes, instead letting you poke and prod until you figure things out. BEATEN: Doki Doki Literature Club - Technically I watched Voidburger play it, but I did install it and poke around with files to see what would happen (stuff does happen if you poke around!). REMOVED: Epic Battle Fantasy 4 - It had a nazi in the main party. Obliterated it from my library. ADDED: Picross S, Snipperclips, The Sexy Brutale, Black Sails, Pocket Kingdom, Bulb Boy, Satellite Rush, Tales, Tattletail, The Count Lucanor, Obduction, Quern, Tacoma, Samorost 3, A Tale of Caos: Overture, Strikey Sisters, Planet RIX-13, PolyRace, Alien Splatter Redux, Barrow Hill, Ghost Master, Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet, Prisoner of Ice
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Quest For Glory II posted:REMOVED: Epic Battle Fantasy 4 - It had a nazi in the main party. Obliterated it from my library. It has a what
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From what I can tell he was a previous boss in the series, who joins your party. And for some reason, still wears his SS uniform.
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StrixNebulosa posted:It has a what It wasn't even that great a game anyway but I think I got it in a bundle and it seemed like the kind of Lethal RPG-esque casual game that I could mellow out playing while listening to podcasts. It was not to be.
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InevitableCheese posted:From what I can tell he was a previous boss in the series, who joins your party. And for some reason, still wears his SS uniform. Gross. Put this game into my garbage bin where it can rot with ! That Bastard Is Trying To Steal Our Gold !
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Lol Probably not a bad idea to skip. From Wiki: “In EBF2, Lance was a character who believed the world would be better off under his rule. After his defeat at Matt and Natalie's hand, he no longer seems to try taking over the world, though his army is still around and he still occasionally wears Nazi-esque uniforms. Lance has a socially awkward attitude around women and has a fondness of military weapons, vehicles, and arnaments. Despite being even more lecherous than Matt (in the forest, he "accidentally" lifts Natz's skirt, in the desert, he tries to get her to take her top off, and imagined her naked in EBF4 in Goldenbrick Resort), he can be quite intelligent, as shown in EBF3 when he explains The Rift to Matt and Natalie in accurate context. His perverted attitude is sometimes discouraged by Matt (in EBF4, Matt explained to Lance that Natalie would probably stop hating him if he didn't stare at her 24/7) “
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i think somebody mentioned that you get an achievement in EBF4 by clicking on a girl character's breasts. also, there's a crazed feminist character. the gameplay's pretty good tho
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EightDeer posted:COMPLETED: A Bunch of Freespace Campaigns. Many years ago, the space sim Freespace II was made open-source. Freespace has one of those dedicated fan communities that spends years polishing and making new content for their object of devotion, and the result is Freespace Open. The FSO installer comes with a number of campaigns (both fan-made and official) to install, and here, in order, are the ones I played: When you do reinstall, might I suggest Vassago's Dirge? I thought it was a pretty good campaign told in the form of you being questioned by your superiors.
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COMPLETED: Subsurface Circular! I wrote a review of it but the capsule summary here for thread-goers is that it's a very good sci-fi short story about robots and society and our future. Lots of interesting characters, great UI design, and the words were in turn funny and thought-provoking. The only downside is that it's two hours, but I mean, it's six dollars and I've seen worse movies for that much cash.
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Fargin Icehole posted:When you do reinstall, might I suggest Vassago's Dirge? I thought it was a pretty good campaign told in the form of you being questioned by your superiors. I'll give it a try. I didn't install it before because the description in the FSO installer is kinda bland; not a good first impression.
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COMPLETED: Portal Knights - 41 Hours - Well I beat the game, but i could build forever I supposed. A very good 3D Terraria like game with split screen coop and online multiplayer. I liked it a bunch! Playing: Axiom Verge - 2 bosses in. Under 2 hours. Liking it a bunch so far. Playing: Mario Odyssey - Im on Bowser on the cloud kindgom, which i think is technically the final boss, but I only have like 58 moons, so there is no way this is over.
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NEW GAME/COMPLETED: Opus Magnum. More recent Zachtronics games have basically been IDEs with achievements attached. It's nice to see a game in that vein that has you doing something noticably different. I might actually like it more than SpaceChem. COMPLETED: Alwa's Awakening. 2D Metroidvania that isn't 100% sure what it wants to be, so it's both slow-paced and tremendously murderous. I'm glad I stuck with it, but man, it took quite a while to get off the ground. IN PROGRESS: Skyward Sword. I'm in the fourth dungeon, and I'm about 20 hours in.
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COMPLETED: Sentience: An Android's Tale. Pretty good adventure game! You walk around and talk to people and occasionally fetch items - not the most compelling gameplay, but it makes up for it by having good writing and lots of choices. You can decide who lives and dies, there's lots of endings, etc. I enjoyed it! Not sure if I'll go back in to collect all of the endings, but I want to get a few more before I uninstall it. NULLED: Dead Rising. Like Resident Evil 4, it's a b-movie comedy about zombies with good gameplay, and fun, but... I'm not in the mood. These two go back on the shelf to await a time when I'm ready to sit down and really dig into them. So I'm not sure if nulled is the right category, but they're off my backlog for now.
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Beat: Quell Very good puzzle game. Clever mechanics and well designed puzzles. Enjoyed it a lot. Beat: Dead Rising 2: Off the Record I've beaten Dead Rising and Dead Rising 2 so this was the obvious next step. The developers of the Dead Rising games pretty much made games based around the two worst video game mechanics - timed missions and escort missions - and made games that are still fun regardless. Off the Record is pretty much just "more of the same" and despite the fact that I still hate escort missions and timers, I still had some, albeit less, fun. Playing: CrossCells I'm not enjoying this as much as the Hexcells games. Playing: STALKER: Call of Pripyat I forgot how buggy and terribly optimised these games are. It's a shame because there's nothing else quite like them. Seeing as the source code seems to have been leaked I hope that one day somebody will manage to do something about the stuttering but there don't seem to have been any commits to the GitHub project in the last 7 months so I'm not going to hold my breath. Playing: Papers, Please So far the praise that's been heaped on this game seems to be well deserved.
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Papers Please is one of those games that look simple at first but is deceptively deep. I should really get back into it.
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NULLED: Orwell for bad writing, City of Chains for being a decent rpgmaker game when I don't have the patience for one, Hostile Waters for camera bugs I'm not inclined to fix, Silent Storm (until I get the gog version) for bugs, Alan Wake for Stephen King writing, etc etc. I've been doing a lot of tidying in my steam list and it feels good to actually install and play some of these, even if I decide I'm not going to finish them. COMPLETED: Space Pilgrim Episodes 1+2. Episode 1 was a charming standalone, episode 2 is still charming but more obviously a prologue for a larger story. I'm playing 3 now!
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NULLED: - Grey Goo, because it crashed on me in the middle of the final human mission, and for god's sake. The humans are the most boring faction and I want to play as the goo but not enough to devote another hour or two to getting through that mission. I'm going to move onto Homeworld instead to scratch that interesting RTS itch. - Secret World Legends. Got this in a bundle ages back, it went F2P, I finally installed it and ergh, no thanks. Too janky for me. Not to mention the plot has managed to be the opposite of compelling. - Desolate Hope. Good free game with fantastic visuals, but I'd rather watch an LP of it than wrestle with the gameplay. Glad I checked it out, but I'm out. COMPLETED: Space Pilgrim Episodes 3+4. What a good, good adventure game. I really love the characters and the plot and the bonus romance. 
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StrixNebulosa posted:Alan Wake for Stephen King writing Shaking my head. Also Desolate Hope was done by Scott Cawthon. A decade later he would take his creepy, early 90s Pixar art style to make the tiny little indie game Five Nights at Freddy's.
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al-azad posted:Shaking my head. Can you elaborate on why I'm wrong or misguided re: Alan Wake? As for Desolate Hope - it's so weird to see the guy go from making a beautiful, weird experience to making... horror with character designs that bug me. Ah well. I'm glad he's found fame and fortune through it!
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StrixNebulosa posted:Can you elaborate on why I'm wrong or misguided re: Alan Wake? People told him his art was creepy as gently caress so he made a game that launched a thousand youtubers. If you have no love or nostalgia for King or cheesy 60s sci-fi horror like Twilight Zone then you won't really get into Alan Wake because it is a loving homage to B horror.
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al-azad posted:If you have no love or nostalgia for King or cheesy 60s sci-fi horror like Twilight Zone then you won't really get into Alan Wake because it is a loving homage to B horror. Yep, that's me. Not my kind of writing or style at all.
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Nulled: STALKER: Call of Pripyat I really do think that all that these games have going for them is the atmosphere. While this was sufficiently good and novel to get me through Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Sky, I got really tired of the bugs, crappy performance, poorly-masked fetch-quest missions and annoying as heck "realism" mechanics like not being able to run for more than 10 seconds and weapons and armour needing to be repaired constantly. Yawn.
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drguildo posted:Beat: Papers, Please Glory to Arstotzka How did you treat Jorji?
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StrixNebulosa posted:How did you treat Jorji? Barring a few indiscretions (e.g. Simon Wens), I played everything by the book. So yeah, I ended up denying Jorji entry most (possibly all, I can't remember) of the time but come the end he seemed happy enough that he gave me a nice wad of cash.
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Beaten: 140 Got the achievement with the description "Complete the main game" so I'm considering this done. Didn't really enjoy this game and only persevered with it because it's short and I'm stubborn. At least it confirmed for me the fact that I do not like platformers, especially ones that have a difficulty level that makes Hotline Miami and Dark Souls seem forgiving. It lacks the ability to pause and there are no mid-level checkpoints which is a bit poo poo. The soundtrack was very good.
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NULLED: Mothlight, a free rpgmaker game that's kind of got the same vibe as OFF does, but it's more edgy? And one of the enemies is a dog who farts at you? Not my thing. Simpleplanes, which is Kerbal Space Program but for planes, and Iiii am not the kind of person who likes designing planes. Or flying them. But hey, I got it for a dollar and it was interesting for the ten minutes I tried it. Good UI, good controls, not for me. edit: a few more. - Seasons After Fall has an excruciatingly slow opening - gorgeous visuals, but slow, slow slow. I might return to it later, but... basically, why play this when I can play more Hollow Knight? - Cat and the Coup. Free game about Mossadegh, the Prime Minister of Iran. I didn't care for the game itself outside of the visuals, but it led me to read up on the fellow and ye gods, America is an evil, evil country. I'm glad I played it if only for the history lesson! (And the visuals, they are fantastic!) StrixNebulosa fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Nov 22, 2017 |
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hey y'all, it's been a while but I finally have enough beaten games to make another post. i'm gonna be pretty busy for the next few weeks so it might be a while until the next post. at any rate here we go! BEATEN: Furi - Intense boss rush game with a combination of melee splashiness and twin stick shooting. The cutscenes inbetween the levels have some interesting flavor to them, but I was disappointed that I didn't get to fight the weird bunny man (yes I know who he actually was but stillllllll). Secret boss wasn't too tough but I was playing on default difficulty. BEATEN: Scanner Sombre - Walking simulator from Introversion (darwinia) where you use a sonic scanner to illuminate the darkness around you. It ends up looking very festive so maybe play this at yuletime!! Also it has a silly dumb plot twist at the end of the game that you can easily guess. BEATEN: Blaster Master Zero - Faithful, well-made remake of the original game that adds an extra pinch of anime and tries to marry the plots of both JP/US versions. I played as the main character, not Shantae/Shovel Knight. It's weird how you lose guns when you get damaged.. to be honest the overhead sections are pretty awful outside of facing all the neat bosses. I wished for a dash. BEATEN: Alien Splatter Redux - One of Sinclair Strange's many unremarkable but competent retro action games. BEATEN: Planet RIX-13 - Thoroughly UNremarkable adventure game. Neither good or bad, just... there. BEATEN: Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight - Dark Souls "inspired" (ie knocked off) Metroidvania. I've played 3 before, so I'm familiar with the series' knockoffery (Cave Story visuals, certainly), but it plays really well. Somewhat on the short side as far as Metroidvanias go, and even in not trying to 100% the game, I finished with 94% map completion with a 3 hour playtime. BEATEN: Murder in Tehran's Alleys 1933 - A pretty bad adventure game that I played all the way through because of its amazingly bad English translation. BEATEN: Shadows in the Vatican - Act 2 - A pretty decent adventure game that that doesn't do anything spectacular, the only issue is that act 3 is nowhere to be seen. BEATEN: Fault Milestone One - A bad visual novel. It looked like it would be decent based on the production value. But the story is weaker than most Saturday morning anime, despite its attempt to have really stupid jargon like "manakravting". BEATEN: Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice - A wild fever dream of a point n click game from the 90s with weird, fluid CG sprites, and a bizarre story involving weaponized cthulhu monsters, Nazis, time travel, and a fuckin Future Wars map puzzle reference.
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PLAYING I grabbed the Stellaris megapack on sale ($35; base game is $15.99) and holy poo poo I have never felt dumber playing a game.
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The last time I posted here was after I beat Murdered: Soul Suspect, I wonder how much I've played since then.... List of Completed Games:
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BEATEN: Bloodborne & Old Hunters DLC Lived up the hype a thousand times over. Took everything I liked about Dark Souls and cranked it to 11. Much more aggressive playstyle and enemies, fantastically responsive controls and a difficulty that's tough but never unfair. The city of Yharnam and its outskirts is one of the single best videogame locales ever, and working out why it's in such a desperate state is rewarding as gently caress. Everything in the game is a piece of this huge puzzle and the entire game is about being smart and attentive, whether its to the mysteriously chained up coffins, blindfolded statues or the moans of the enemies. Then you have to learn the enemies, their parry windows, how the bosses behave and so on. Getting gud is rewarding as gently caress, eventually having the skills to duck, weave and parry your way through enemies that turned you to mincemeat earlier in the playthrough. Also loved the still busy online community. It's nice to see the ghosts, deaths and messages from other players and having someone help you out or hunt you down is exciting as hell. I had some really epic PvP battles in the final parts of the game, and got my rear end pulled out of the fire on bosses once or twice. When people say a PS4 is worth it for Bloodborne alone they're not kidding. BEATEN: Borderlands  I can kinda get why this is so popular. Shoot enemies to make yourself stronger and find more effective guns. Unfortunately, it's all bit samey. The vast majority of your opponents are various types of bandits and the experience of fighting them is much the same at Lv. 5 as it is at Lv. 30. Plot and characterisation is barebones, as are the skill trees. Finished the main campaign and got stuck into the DLC: beat The Zombie Island of Dr Ned but felt extremely burnt out by the first mission of The Armory of General Knoxx so stopped. I think I've played this enough. BEATEN: Bound  As pretty as it is shallow. You basically play a (beautifully mocapped) sci-fi ballerina dancing her way through a modern art painting. It's short and very easy, but never has a real emotional connection, despite a pretty indie family turmoil story. However it's short, has an excellent photography mode and I got it for free, so not a bad couple of hours. BEATEN: Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter  My first Frogware Sherlock Holmes game and, as I understand it, a bit of a downturn in quality. It's really frustrating to play as the meat and potatoes of the detective gameplay is excellent: observing people's clothes and body language, piecing together clues, paying attention to discrepancies in alibis and so on. Also, it really looks the part graphically. So it sucks that every five minutes you're sucked into a half-baked minigame. Does a detective game really benefit from rhythm action blacksmith sequences or beam balancing 'keep the icons in the circle' bits. No, it does not. On top of that, at least half the mysteries don't make a goddamn lick of sense - especially the second one. BEATEN: The Lion's Song  Charming four episode narrative game following characters in 1910s Vienna. It's clearly made with passion and smarts, but there's not really much game here: there's no puzzles and no matter what choices you make things are going to proceed in largely the same way. But it's nice to play a chilled out game about the nature of inspiration. I particularly liked giving the best drat lecture about abstract mathematics that Vienna has ever seen. Also the art and sound is very nice. BEATEN: Back to the Future: The Game  I'd heard mixed things about this going in, but though the animation is a bit dated I had a great time with it. Their faux-Marty McFly is spot on and Christopher Lloyd absolutely nails it as Doc Brown, especially in the 'Chairman Brown' timeline. This is pre-Walking Dead Telltale so there's no choices to make, which is a bit annoying as the time travel plot would be perfect to allow players a bit of agency, as well as seeing the consequences of their actions in the future. BEATEN: Tomb Raider II & Golden Mask Level Pack  There's a lot that makes playing classic Tomb Raider games miserable: the controls, the combat, trying to get it to run properly... But if you've got patience and maybe pace it out at a level a day they're enjoyable enough. I like how they don't hold your hand with markers and objectives and just leave you to wind your way through the enormous, labyrinthine levels. This instalment in particular has very neat, intricate level design, with the Temple of Xian a particularly winding, devilishly designed challenge. NULLED: Star Wars: X-Wing  I really, really enjoyed this. Though I don't have a flightstick I managed to get something going with an Xbox controller and keyboard in combo that worked. It just feels very grounded to have to multitask fighting and objectives with shifting power around the craft to your various systems. Also, despite being a 25 year old 3D game it's an absolutely joy to control and flat-shaded polygons more than suffice to recreate the ships. But it is loving HARD. And not in a fair way. I spent two weeks on one mission (after watching YouTube guides and reading tips). When I finally beat that (mostly by luck) the next mission put me in the middle of a minefield that blasts lasers at you. gently caress that. I can only imagine the game gets harder. Figure I'll have more fun with TIE Fighter in the future. NULLED: Insurgency  Dull milporn Counterstrike ripoff. Played a couple of rounds and worked out pretty quickly that there wasn't going to be much for me here.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:NULLED: Star Wars: X-Wing You probably will. Two bits of advice on that though: First, if you're playing these through GOG, there are three versions of TIE Fighter. You want the 1995 version (the "collector's CD"). The 1998 version is built on the multiplayer-balanced X-Wing vs TIE Fighter engine and this makes a number of missions basically impossible, in addition to feeling "wrong" to a veteran of the earlier games in terms of flight controls and such. Second, having semi-recently replayed it: It's so worth it, but the actual main game is the first 7 "Battles". There are something like 12, but Battle Eight on are the ludicrously unfair expansion packs. Also, there's in-game cheats, so the fact that fields full of laser-shooting mines show up in the training missions shouldn't be as fatal to your enjoyment. At least you can probably move faster, this time. As for me... BEATEN: Bleed 2. It's basically More Bleed, with sillier bonus material. Maybe an hour or two of fun if you aren't planning to master it, and I'm not, really. Bonus points for having the Clawed Girl from They Bleed Pixels showing up as an unlockable character. BEATEN: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Well. I can see why this was a super-polarizing game. Overall, though, I liked it, and the flagrantly structured "outer dungeon/inner dungeon" layout of the world seems to have worked a lot better for me than the gated-but-open overworld of Link's Awakening or Oracle of Ages. I treated the combat as if it were Dark Souls, moving deliberately and trying to make every cut count, and relying on shield-counters whenever feasible. This doesn't seem, overall, to be the most effective or fastest way to play the game, but I enjoyed that. Speaking of Dark Souls, I also spent much more time studying the dungeons for clues on how to proceed, and I genuinely cannot remember the last time I had to do that in a Zelda game rather than simply charging off towards The Next Place I Haven't Gone To Yet. And I went into the final dungeon with no real expectations and still had my expectations shattered. So overall, this one worked real, real well. UP NEXT: NieR Automata. I've poked at this a bit, and so far all I'll say is "I see why nobody would give me a straight answer as to what genre this game is." I should probably also pick a B-side game for when NieR doesn't appeal; looking at my Virtual Console library, Super Mario RPG seems like it might be worth a shot. Or I could go back and try to play more Ace Attorney, Dual Destinies, which I've let lie fallow for far, far too long. Other than that, though, I am totally open to suggestions from my hundred-strong backlog.
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ManxomeBromide posted:UP NEXT: NieR Automata. I've poked at this a bit, and so far all I'll say is "I see why nobody would give me a straight answer as to what genre this game is." It's a character action game, with shooter segments and RPG elements. If you don't know 'character action game' as a term, 'action game' will suffice. Easy. I really don't get why people struggle with that. I mean it's a fantastic game, and probably one of the most emotionally charged I've ever played, but it is not some impossible-to-classify art piece of game design. I have more difficulty describing Zelda games.
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