Be Excellent To Each Other

1. Magicka 2 (PC)
2. Broforce (PC)
3. Tower od Guns PC


Suck on that, past me.

Except I believe there's a hidden ending, given I found a hidden exit. But I took the win.

I think they may have patched it a little since I played it last. Felt more rounded, which might be why past me is having to suck it.

1. Fallout 4
2. The Room 3
3. Republique Episode 4
4. Pixel Arrow
5. Pixel Sword
6. Tomb Raider Anniversary
7. Reveal the Deep: an 'exploration' game for Android that puts you in the clanking suit of a deep sea diver exploring the wreck of an old ship. The story of lurking horror plays out via found diary entries and there's the usual light platforming and puzzle solving to be getting on with. It's nice looking in a pixelly way and very atmospheric due almost entirely to the sound design, which does a good job of replicating the ominous watery creaking and clunking you'd expect from a deep sea wreck. One of the main problems though is that it commits the cardinal sin for a mobile game of having no save points aside from the start of each of the three chapters so I ended up playing each chapter a few times until I got to the point I could race through them in a single lunch time or commute. Also the gameplay itself is pretty light and the ending makes absolutely no sense at all, which is a bit of a shitter in a game that's not got a lot else going on. It was a nice enough experience and swiping your little diver through the ship is quite satisfying in it's own way but I can't agree with all the praise it seems to have gotten on Steam and whatnot.

Oh, hey, Babma - I got stuck on a game I was playing yesterday so shamelessly watched a video ad to get a hint and it was an advert for an Android game called "Secret Society" which was about finding hidden objects and I thought "huh, Bamba might like that. I should tell him".

And now I have.

This one? I've seen it around but I'm not sure if I've played it or not. Finding these games is pretty easy to be honest as there's a number of publishers that specialise almost entirely in them so it's just a case of browsing their store pages to try and find the ones that look decent. G5 Games there is one of them but there's also Big Fish, Artifex Mundi and Alawar. The problem generally is that they all publish games made by various devs and there's a fair variance in quality so finding the decent ones from the massive list that's available is the challenge. What's good though is they're almost all available as a 'free' version that lets you get so far then offers a single IAP to unlock the whole game so trying before you buy is no problem.

Sometimes wonder if Bamba is/was the type of person who can never find anything in his house.

Then I imagine he was the guy on BGT singing where's me keys where's me phone.

BGT?

Bamba's Got Tourettes.

Big Girls Tits.

Bionic Goat Testicles

Belligerent Gypsy Tadpoles

Bad guy ties.

Buttocks Growing Toadstools

Blowing Gigantic Todgers

Bodacious Gonads Tomorrow

Give My Regards To Broadway

1. Magicka 2 (PC)
2. Broforce (PC)
3. Tower od Guns (PC)
4. Broken Age (PC)
It's a short game. Potentially interesting, but as with many mysterious things the explanations don't quite add up.

Oh, and the snake puzzle was bobbins.

1. Transistor - Looks and sounds great, but it's just ok. Definitely not as good as Bastion.
2. VVVVVV - Don't know why i was leaving it rotting here on the Steam backlog. It's brilliant. What a great soundtrack.

6) Until Dawn. (PS4)

I really liked this from start to finish. It's an almost perfect premise for the Heavy Rain style with its slow laborious trekking about, QTEs and Choose Your Own Adventure styling. I don't think anyone will be bored as the story progresses and people start dying. Most gamers will know that you have to save your band of teenie scumbags so when you start losing them you might say a little "Bollocks" and make a mental note to do it again differently if you do a second playthrough. It's silly, of course, with the slasher theme giving way to Resident Evil T-Virus stuff later on but no less enjoyable throughout. I probably wouldn't recommend anyone buy it full price but if you see the price come down to a level that you might be happy with for a game that lasts, say, 8 hours at most, then I'd take the plunge and jump right in for a reet good laugh. Yes, there are jump scares and they are all really well done and, yes, I jumped a few times. It's that good.

But when you start a second playthrough it all falls apart.

The game starts with an intro movie depicting a butterfly and showing how all actions have branching consequences. The camera follows a line across the butterfly wing giving the impression that there could be multiple stories to be had here. There ain't. There's one story and the differences aren't that great throughout with a couple of sequences always having the same outcome regardless of what you do. I suppose it does a good job of giving you the impression that there are vastly different branching story lines but the reality is that things don't change that much or as much as I'd have liked. There are some cool things that happen the second time around but the inability to skip some cut scenes (like this repeating "Previous On Until Dawn" bullshit) and the slow pace that you walk around the environments really hurt the experience on repeated runs as you know what is coming and where you want to go. I haven't completed a second playthrough and I'm not sure I want to turn it on again. Except to check out Jessica's badunkadunk though, aye lads? AMIRITE?

Still, bloody good the first time 'round. Check it oot.

7) Transformers: Devastation. (PS4)

The best Transformers game you will ever play. It's typical Platinum Games arena based fighting but dressed up in generation 1 Transformers that have come right from your childhood memories. Unfortunately there are some problems with it (a fight in a tunnel with no floor against Starscream is terrible, there's no aerial combat for some reason (weird this, as Bayonetta was capable of having a different aerial moveset and unique attacks but Transformers just get normal combat moves in the air. Very strange and a bit annoying.) and the story is trash) but this is all balanced out by being a big old fat slice of nostalgia for your senses.

8 ) Half-Life: Opposing Force. (PC)

I've never been the biggest fan of Half-Life uno since I have much more fond memories of the brilliance of HL2. Then I played Black Mesa and I rediscovered why Half-Life is fucking aces. HLOP is more of the same but I had to endure washed out textures of a begone era. It's still good though, just not as good as Black Mesa. Obviously it's shorter, it has a fucking green wash night vision display instead of a torch (Hnngh. So ugly), and I could not follow the story except to say that you play as a solider infiltrating Black Mesa which goes bad and then everyone has to pull out (...sex tape etc). Except you never quite learn why the soldiers are killing everyone in HL1 and never quite understand why the Black Ops are called in and start murdering the soldiers. I got a bit confused and I was really paying attention. Then you kill a big monster coming out a hole and it ends.

Well, I liked it regardless. I'm not interested in Blue Shift now thanks to this but I have a much deeper appreciation for the work that must have gone into Black Mesa. What a terrific game that was.

9) Lost Planet 3. (PC)

Yeah, so I went back and finished it. It wins, in my mind, as the most boring game ever created. Go here, fix this, go here, talk to him, go here, press button, go here, press another button, get in rig, go here, press button. Technically competent but so mind-numbingly boring. Lost Planet 1 and 2 are both mental so I haven't got a clue what this nonsense reboot is all about. All I know is, it killed a fun series. Thanks a lot. You cunts.

1. Fallout 4
2. The Room 3
3. Republique Episode 4
4. Pixel Arrow
5. Pixel Sword
6. Tomb Raider Anniversary
7. Reveal the Deep
8. Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride: the usual hidden object adventure game nonsense.

If I fibish fallout 4 before no man's sky comes out AND it is £20 or so I will pick it up based on your words.

Just picked it up from Amazon for £20.

Oh, I need lose the parrot and eyepatch.

1. Fallout 4
2. The Room 3
3. Republique Episode 4
4. Pixel Arrow
5. Pixel Sword
6. Tomb Raider Anniversary
7. Reveal the Deep
8. Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride
9. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture: Graphics and sound: brilliant. Character, dialogue and voice-acting: brilliant. Story: is almost entirely set up in the first half hour and doesn't really progress until the very end; which is a bit crap. Goddamn motherfucking idiotic shit-stupid walking speed of your character: goddamn motherfucking idiotic shit-stupid. I laughed hollowly at the developer talking about how not initially highlighting the run button hurt them in reviews because their idea of run is nonsense and stupidly implemented into the bargain. Giving people a decent sized game map and expecting them to explore it for story beats then hobbling their character is just mind-bogglingly idiotic. I did it anyway but I was cursing them for great swathes of the game. I also looked at the Trophy list and there's some really cool stuff in there I'd like to go back and pick up but it all hinges on exploration and searching and the idea of suffering through the character's glacial pace for it just makes me want to hurl the PS4 out the window. Why in the name of fuck would you do this to an otherwise cool game? I honestly just can't even. Seriously, I have rarely been less able to.

1. Fallout 4
2. The Room 3
3. Republique Episode 4
4. Pixel Arrow
5. Pixel Sword
6. Tomb Raider Anniversary
7. Reveal the Deep
8. Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride
9. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
10. Super Dangerous Dungeons: really, really good Android platformer. Nice graphics, tight controls and fiendishly designed levels that are challenging but never frustrating. Good stuff all round.

10) Stealth Inc 2 (PS4)

Good this, init. I'm kinda surprised they didn't just bung out more levels but I think they did that with some DLC for Stealth 1 but instead we get a game with a much more narrative focus set in a Metroid over world. You still get your 8 levels per world, of which there are 6, but you have to find the entrance to the level in the over world and some areas are only accessible using new items you acquire after completing a world. It works quite well, with the over world being a bit of a puzzle game of itself a bit further into the game navigating enemies and traps. The story is basically escape the facility again but it's a bit better put together this time around. There's even some cut scenes. I know, right? Wow. They're a bit crude though despite how we'll the actual game has been put together.

The same old puzzles would probably be a bit boring so each world has a gadget now. They're all pretty fun but it doesn't make for as pure experience as the first game but being a sequel they had to come up with something, right? You get an inflatable mate and a teleport and stuff for mo puzzle platforming and it all works a charm. The best thing for me though was it was never that taxing on the old noggin. I never got frustrated (bar two finicky sections with throwing the teleporter), I never got bored and I never got distracted wanting to play something else.

So more of the same but this time with: over world, gadgets, an actual story and collectibles. You gotta have something to collect right. I didn't bother.

I say: vee dot good.

1. Fallout 4
2. The Room 3
3. Republique Episode 4
4. Pixel Arrow
5. Pixel Sword
6. Tomb Raider Anniversary
7. Reveal the Deep
8. Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride
9. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
10. Super Dangerous Dungeons
11. Xeodrifter: Pixelly indie Metroidvania thing. I loved the demo of this and enjoyed the full game for a while, but there's quite a high frustration level in the fact that there's only a single save point half way through each level so if you pick up any power ups but die before you get back to your ship then you're repeating the run again. Also, while it initially seemed like a nice idea to have each boss fight be the same as before but with new attacks added I found that got pretty repetitive. I dunno, I was really enjoying it for a good while then it just started to piss me off (probably not helped by the fact that on two occasions it didn't save properly and I had to repeat a boss fight I'd already done in my previous session). It felt like it should've been more fun than it actually was somehow? Meh.

1. Magicka 2 (PC)
2. Broforce (PC)
3. Tower od Guns (PC)
4. Broken Age (PC)
5. Battleblock Theatre (PC)

This is so good

Coop game which allows for fun and amusing gameplay, including ramming hat wearing, cane wielding explosive frogs up your chums arse. The... ahem... plot is highly amusing too. Well, if you find the humour in below trailer funny, anyway.

1. Magicka 2 (PC)
2. Broforce (PC)
3. Tower od Guns (PC)
4. Broken Age (PC)
5. Battleblock Theatre (PC)
6. Lego Lord of the rings (PC)

Erm yeah. Part of me is telling me this is a rather tediously easy walk through the park. But yet I keep playing it.

11) Ryse. (PC)

Xbox One exclusive about a militaRYSEd Rome doing QTE's populaRYSEd by such games as Resi 4. That's how I'd categoRYSE this game. It's almost plaguRYSEd from other games that do endless QTEs. You can't even memoRYSE the QTE's as they vary. You won't be mesmeRYSEd either by the terrible two button combo fighting either.

There's no need to pRYSE this game out of my hands. I wouldn't even RYSE out my seat if you snatched the controller out my hands. Cause it was shit. But then again you might not be surpRYSEd when the game's notable feature was that you couldn't fail a QTE. I won't be pressuRYSEd into telling you this is any good.

So to summaRYSE: RYSE is RYSEable.

No, risible. Anyway, it's bad.

RE: Ryse

A small question: Given that this was all known ages ago, why did you buy it?

It was cheap, I'd never play it on the Xbox One and I wanted to test out my PC's strengths with a next gen game (held up pretty well on high settings). Then I sat on it for ages and thought I might as well finish it.

1. Fallout 4
2. The Room 3
3. Republique Episode 4
4. Pixel Arrow
5. Pixel Sword
6. Tomb Raider Anniversary
7. Reveal the Deep
8. Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride
9. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
10. Super Dangerous Dungeons
11. Xeodrifter
12. Ghosts of Memories: nice puzzler for Android. As always it owes a visual debt to Monument Valley but it has it's own art style and is very pretty in general, especially in any of the 'snow dimension' sections. It doesn't do the best job of explaining itself initially but it doesn't take too long to realise what each mechanic does and each of the fifteen levels is made challenging more by the size of them than their actual complexity. It does get a bit repetitive but I enjoyed it well enough for the time it took me to complete it.

I need to stop playing iRacing, Rocket League and GTA Online. I'm not going to get any games finished at this rate.

Poor show. I've already managed to finish over jalf the games I did last year.

1. Fallout 4
2. The Room 3
3. Republique Episode 4
4. Pixel Arrow
5. Pixel Sword
6. Tomb Raider Anniversary
7. Reveal the Deep
8. Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride
9. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
10. Super Dangerous Dungeons
11. Xeodrifter
12. Ghosts of Memories
13. The Expendabros: a tie-in game for one of the Expendables films using the Broforce engine, so basically just Broforce but with the unlockable character all having terrible 'bro' based pun names based on the films characters. Surprisingly strategic for a game that looks so chaotic when you see others playing it but incredibly repetitive and I was happy it finished when it did. I had considered picking up the actual Broforce game but, as much as I enjoyed Expendabros, I'm pretty sure I'd get really bored with it stretched out over a full game. Hmmm.

There's no 'but', that is Broforce.

1. Fallout 4
2. The Room 3
3. Republique Episode 4
4. Pixel Arrow
5. Pixel Sword
6. Tomb Raider Anniversary
7. Reveal the Deep
8. Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride
9. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
10. Super Dangerous Dungeons
11. Xeodrifter
12. Ghosts of Memories
13. The Expendabros
14. Interlocked: a puzzle game for Android that gives you a set of interlocked pieces and tasks with sliding them around until you can pull them all apart; a bit like those Chinese box puzzles you can get. Proper brain-fucking stuff with nice presentation and good controls. Recommended if you like that kind of thing.

1. Fallout 4
2. The Room 3
3. Republique Episode 4
4. Pixel Arrow
5. Pixel Sword
6. Tomb Raider Anniversary
7. Reveal The Deep
8. Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride
9. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
10. Super Dangerous Dungeons
11. Xeodrifter
12. Ghosts of Memories
13. The Expendabros
14. Interlocked
15. Plug & Play: I, well, um, so that's a thing then. It's not really a game and bills itself as an "unashamedly surreal" "interactive animation" which I'd agree entirely with. There are levels and things you need to do though and an actual end so it's structured like a game. The content is very pretty and satisfying to play and amusing sexual in it's way. Highly recommended, though I suspect most people would balk at the price for the ten minutes or so it takes to complete. It's available on Steam as well and I notice it's on myp's wishlist which doesn't surprise me. I'd advise picking it up on a mobile device though as there's a tactility to the interactions which would be much less satisfying without a touch screen I think.

1. The Swapper (PC)
2. Her Story (PC)
3. Metro 2033 Redux (PC)
4. Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360)
5. Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence (PlayStation 2)
6. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (PC)

Really not as good as the original game and its expansion. The story is not as good, and there are just too many kinds of units, too many research paths, too much stuff going on, that I never really felt I had a chance to work out any better tactic than just hiring loads of mercenaries and hurling them at the enemy, with a couple of exceptions where using air units was obviously called for.

I knew this was not going to be as good as the original game and expansion, which is why I waited until it was cheap. Still, it was good to be back in the StarCraft universe.

12) Bloodborne: The Old Hunters DLC (PS4)

Thanks to a Mr Dave I've done it. And now I've got the Rukyo I can finally cross it off my list and killed everyone I wanted to kill.

But was it any good? Yes. Very. To be fair though, the difficulty of the bosses was putting me off for a little while but a short blow on the BeeX horn for a call to arms called forth a mighty warrior with the patience needed to crack this nut. There's two bosses who are terrible and one who is brilliant, in my eyes. Mind you, terrible isn't the right word because I felt jubilation when they were both dead after countless battles; the sort of joy of accomplishment that only the Souls Series seems to reward you with.

In between the bosses however are some of great environments that only From Software seem to be constructing these days. The amount of effort that must have gone into the fishing village is staggering. The winding layouts are great too with secrets and shortcuts peppered about. Probably not Dark Souls amount of perfection but jolly awesome there's no doubt about that.

What a shame that's it for Bloodborne. It's been emotional. And fucking brilliant.

Name of your sex etc.

I've finished a game!

1. Pneuma breath of life. Completed with 100% of the achievements.

This game is trying to be like Portal but isn't. Its rubbish and annoying.

1. Pneuma breath of life.
2. Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor

This is like the new Batman games but set in the Lord of the Rings universe while you play as a ranger. It's brilliant.

1. Pneuma breath of life.
2. Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
3. Gone home - console edition

Wow, check me out. 3 games now! Gone home is a weird one. I enjoyed it... I think, but is it a game or an experience? I'm not sure.

Anyway, onwards and upwards. I've got more games to complete.

13. The Escapists: The Walking Dead (PC)

There's a good game here wanting to get out but it's suffocated by baffling terrible design.

1. Fallout 4
2. The Room 3
3. Republique Episode 4
4. Pixel Arrow
5. Pixel Sword
6. Tomb Raider Anniversary
7. Reveal The Deep
8. Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride
9. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
10. Super Dangerous Dungeons
11. Xeodrifter
12. Ghosts of Memories
13. The Expendabros
14. Interlocked
15. Plug & Play
16. Year Walk: a beautiful little thing presented as a puzzle game set in a small and snowy landscape which has you wandering around pieces together clues in order to trigger haunting and sometimes macabre progression. There's not a massive amount to it but it's very satisfying with generally logical puzzles and a level of presentation that's worth the entry price alone. The 'final' puzzle is perhaps a little bit too straightforward you get the start of it but that's my only real criticism. It's available on iOS and Steam so pretty much anyone can, and should, give it a go.

1) Adventure Escape: Murder Manor (iOS)
2) Adventure Escape: Scottish Castle (iOS)
3) Adventure Escape: Asylum (iOS) - All puzzle games by the same indie developer (Haiku games). Very good for a half hour diversion. A bit like Professor Layton or Escape the Room in terms of solving a mystery/escaping a room by solving puzzles. Right level of difficulty on the puzzles - enough to bug you but not so easy you sail through. Has ads before each chapter, which you just dismiss, and a hint system of collecting stars which you'll never need unless you're really, really stumped (or can't use walkthroughs on the internet), so no need to purchase extras.

*adds to Google Play wishlist*