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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017
PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 23:31 
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I'm genuinely tempted to pick it up just to rattle through on easy. I really enjoyed the last one for its non-cliched stuff and this one sounds like it's going in even harder in that respect, but the actual gameplay of the last one just got annoying after a while and relied too much on arena style bullshit (which other people enjoy I realise, it's just not my thing). Hmmm.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017
PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 23:46 
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I think we had a similar view of TNO so maybe you’ll enjoy this one as much as I have. There’s much less arena style action although it’s still there in parts just because it’s an old school shooter. The last big fight is just a large arena where you’re swarmed with baddies and the titular Collosus but even that was manageable. I reckon you’d have a blast...

... even on easy? What a knob.

Elsewhere as I was playing it I was thinking “Hey this feels a bit like Resistance 3.” And then I was sad that there’s never going to be a sequel to Resistance 3.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017
PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 0:09 
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Yeah, I think I'll probably play it at some point for the interesting stuff it does (e.g. the whole thing about you starting out in a wheelchair really piqued my interest) but I'm just too terrible in general at games to enjoy taking it on 'properly'; hence my chat about easy mode.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017
PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2017 14:34 
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1. Fract OSC
2. Her Story
3. Pony Island
4. ABZU
5. The Old City: Leviathan
6. The Beginners Guide
7. ISLANDS: Non-Places
8. Tearaway Unfolded
9. Unravel
10. Robinson: The Journey
11. I Expect You To Die
12. Deus EX: Mankind Divided
13. Wayward Sky
14. Arkham VR
15. Rise of the Tomb Raider
16. Gravity Duck Islands
17. Whispering Willows
18. Silly Sausage: Doggy Dessert
19. Lost Lands 2: The Wanderer
20. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
21. Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise
22. Samorost 3
23. Enigma
24. The Secret of the Necromancer
25. What Remains of Edith Finch
26. Burly Men At Sea
27. Assassins Creed: Syndicate
28. Faraway
29. Psychonauts: Rhombus of Ruin
30. Traps n' Gemstones
31. The Ghost Town
32. Vulture Island
33. Until Dawn
34. Small Radio Big Televisions
35. Devious Dungeons 2
36. Submerged
37. Firewatch
38. The Forgotten Room
39. Facility 47
40. Doggins
41. That Dragon, Cancer
42. Spate
43. A Short Tale
44. Layers of Fear + Inheritance DLC
45. ICARUS.1
46. Daregon
47. The Turing Test
48. Neon Struct
49. Mimpi Dreams
50. Calendula
51. Cube Escape - The Cave
52. Oxenfree
53. Yellow
54. Escape the Lighthouse
55. Can You Escape The Lighthouse?
56. The Last Of Us: Left Behind
57. Heart Star
58. Framed 2
59. Legend of the Skyfish
60. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
61. Hatoful Boyfriend
62. SIM
63. The Pasture
64. UnWorded
65. Puzzle House: Mystery Rising
66. RiME
67. The House of Da Vinci
68. Nub's Adventure
69. Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
70. A Normal Lost Phone

71. Hob
72. ]プラトモ
73. Doki Doki Literature Club
74. Stranger Things
75. Hue
76. MSG V: Ground Zeroes
77. SOMA
78. Monument Valley 2
79. Dying Reborn: VR
80. GNOG: a beautiful puzzle game (of sorts) stuffed with the sort of charm that's Doublefine's stock in trade. Each level is essentially a puzzle box that gives you no specific guidance for unravelling it or even what your aim actually is each time. The fact that your progression through each is as smooth as butter despite that is testament to how incredibly well the visual and audio design wordlessly guides you through each scenario; and it's just flat-out really, really good fun. It could be argued that it's too easy and too short but I enjoyed my time with it so much that I didn't really care. Oh, and although the gameplay doesn't change at all by playing it in VR, it makes good use of the extra depth to throw in some lovely touches so comes even more recommended for the PSVR set.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017
PostPosted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 12:16 
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
1. Fract OSC
2. Her Story
3. Pony Island
4. ABZU
5. The Old City: Leviathan
6. The Beginners Guide
7. ISLANDS: Non-Places
8. Tearaway Unfolded
9. Unravel
10. Robinson: The Journey
11. I Expect You To Die
12. Deus EX: Mankind Divided
13. Wayward Sky
14. Arkham VR
15. Rise of the Tomb Raider
16. Gravity Duck Islands
17. Whispering Willows
18. Silly Sausage: Doggy Dessert
19. Lost Lands 2: The Wanderer
20. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
21. Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise
22. Samorost 3
23. Enigma
24. The Secret of the Necromancer
25. What Remains of Edith Finch
26. Burly Men At Sea
27. Assassins Creed: Syndicate
28. Faraway
29. Psychonauts: Rhombus of Ruin
30. Traps n' Gemstones
31. The Ghost Town
32. Vulture Island
33. Until Dawn
34. Small Radio Big Televisions
35. Devious Dungeons 2
36. Submerged
37. Firewatch
38. The Forgotten Room
39. Facility 47
40. Doggins
41. That Dragon, Cancer
42. Spate
43. A Short Tale
44. Layers of Fear + Inheritance DLC
45. ICARUS.1
46. Daregon
47. The Turing Test
48. Neon Struct
49. Mimpi Dreams
50. Calendula
51. Cube Escape - The Cave
52. Oxenfree
53. Yellow
54. Escape the Lighthouse
55. Can You Escape The Lighthouse?
56. The Last Of Us: Left Behind
57. Heart Star
58. Framed 2
59. Legend of the Skyfish
60. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
61. Hatoful Boyfriend
62. SIM
63. The Pasture
64. UnWorded
65. Puzzle House: Mystery Rising
66. RiME
67. The House of Da Vinci
68. Nub's Adventure
69. Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
70. A Normal Lost Phone
71. Hob
72. ]プラトモ
73. Doki Doki Literature Club
74. Stranger Things
75. Hue
76. MSG V: Ground Zeroes
77. SOMA
78. Monument Valley 2
79. Dying Reborn: VR
80. GNOG

81. Bound: 3D platformer set in an incredible and ever-moving geometric landscape that sees your beautifully animated 'dancing' character metaphorically work through her childhood trauma by way of progressing through the levels. It initially seems very linear--and certainly that's mostly how I played it--but there are hidden sections in each level that aren't easy to find and alternate paths spread throughout the game. Indeed it was apparently designed very much with speed running in mind and there are some YouTube videos showing some mind boggling routes being taken. Also, allegedly, you can actually somehow choose to play the levels through in any order you want but I saw no way at all to do that so there's obviously some stuff in there I've totally missed. All that aside though, as a VR experience it's fucking incredible and near essential. It looks flat-out beautiful and the abstract nature of the art design just makes it a joy to wander through in VR with the sense of scale that brings to the table.
82. Ministry of Time: Save The Time: a short freebie 'escape the room' sort of VR curio that I stumbled across at the weekend. The game play is basic and it's only really got two scenes, although the first of the two is pretty well rendered and the effect of the people constantly rushing past the frosted glass office windows was really well done. It's mostly worth playing though for how fucking silly it is. Between 'levels' you talk to other characters who work for the Ministry in pre-rendered video scenes; these are made amusing because (a) they're not very well acted melodrama, (b) the original dialogue was in Spanish and has been dubbed into English, with VR making the lack of lip-syncing even more hilarious and (c) to presumably add flavour there's constant background characters wandering the halls during these conversations and they're all in random period dress which is just stupid and brilliant. Not least when some rando in a 15th century French cardinal's cassock shoots you congratulatory double finger-guns right at the end. From Googling this it turns out it's a tie-in for a Spanish TV series which makes some kind of sense of it's existence.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017
PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 14:22 
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
1. Fract OSC
2. Her Story
3. Pony Island
4. ABZU
5. The Old City: Leviathan
6. The Beginners Guide
7. ISLANDS: Non-Places
8. Tearaway Unfolded
9. Unravel
10. Robinson: The Journey
11. I Expect You To Die
12. Deus EX: Mankind Divided
13. Wayward Sky
14. Arkham VR
15. Rise of the Tomb Raider
16. Gravity Duck Islands
17. Whispering Willows
18. Silly Sausage: Doggy Dessert
19. Lost Lands 2: The Wanderer
20. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
21. Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise
22. Samorost 3
23. Enigma
24. The Secret of the Necromancer
25. What Remains of Edith Finch
26. Burly Men At Sea
27. Assassins Creed: Syndicate
28. Faraway
29. Psychonauts: Rhombus of Ruin
30. Traps n' Gemstones
31. The Ghost Town
32. Vulture Island
33. Until Dawn
34. Small Radio Big Televisions
35. Devious Dungeons 2
36. Submerged
37. Firewatch
38. The Forgotten Room
39. Facility 47
40. Doggins
41. That Dragon, Cancer
42. Spate
43. A Short Tale
44. Layers of Fear + Inheritance DLC
45. ICARUS.1
46. Daregon
47. The Turing Test
48. Neon Struct
49. Mimpi Dreams
50. Calendula
51. Cube Escape - The Cave
52. Oxenfree
53. Yellow
54. Escape the Lighthouse
55. Can You Escape The Lighthouse?
56. The Last Of Us: Left Behind
57. Heart Star
58. Framed 2
59. Legend of the Skyfish
60. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
61. Hatoful Boyfriend
62. SIM
63. The Pasture
64. UnWorded
65. Puzzle House: Mystery Rising
66. RiME
67. The House of Da Vinci
68. Nub's Adventure
69. Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
70. A Normal Lost Phone
71. Hob
72. ]プラトモ
73. Doki Doki Literature Club
74. Stranger Things
75. Hue
76. MSG V: Ground Zeroes
77. SOMA
78. Monument Valley 2
79. Dying Reborn: VR
80. GNOG

81. Bound
82. Ministry of Time: Save The Time
83. The Deadly Tower of Monsters: a sort of twin-stick shooter that combines combat with exploration and platforming while ascending the titular tower and murdering loads of aliens. the aesthetic here is 'cheesy 60s sci-fi flick' and it extends that to having the director of the film commenting as you play as if he was recording director's commentary for a DVD release. The visuals are solid with all the enemies looking like guys in monkey suits or plastic alien masks and it's all very well put together. You get a multitude of different weapons, each with upgrades, and three unlockable characters to play with. They even take good advantage of the tower climbing mechanic in that sometimes you need to change your viewpoint to look down to lower levels of the tower and murders flying aliens as they approach which makes for a nice change. Sounds good right? Yeah, no so much. On paper everything's there but the execution really isn't great across the board. The in-game currency required to upgrade weapons is really hard to come by so you're not going to see much change there; which doesn't really matter because the clunky repetitive combat renders all the weapons pretty similar in use (especially the melee weapons which are almost completely interchangeable). Talking of repetitive, aside from a couple of missions set off the tower which give more room to manoeuvre, climbing the tower itself become a bit of a chore after a while. The visual design does change things up admirably and you'll very often get new enemies to fight, but nothing actually changes as you spiral your way up the tower so it doesn't help much. Boss fights are rare and boring; the 'shoot down the tower' stuff is unwieldy and annoying; the platforming sections are an arse-ache due to some quirk of the pseudo-isometric viewpoint rendering vertical distances pure guesswork; the three characters are exactly the same to play with except having unique specials which are almost never used (except in random rare cases where you need to switch to a different person for five seconds to get past an obstacle); etc. It's actually more fun to play than I'm making it sound there but there's just so much of it that's completely half-baked. Less weapons (or more upgrade currency), proper twin-stick shooter combat and a little bit more variety and it could've been something really special but I can't really recommend it as it stands.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017
PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 11:16 
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
1. Fract OSC
2. Her Story
3. Pony Island
4. ABZU
5. The Old City: Leviathan
6. The Beginners Guide
7. ISLANDS: Non-Places
8. Tearaway Unfolded
9. Unravel
10. Robinson: The Journey
11. I Expect You To Die
12. Deus EX: Mankind Divided
13. Wayward Sky
14. Arkham VR
15. Rise of the Tomb Raider
16. Gravity Duck Islands
17. Whispering Willows
18. Silly Sausage: Doggy Dessert
19. Lost Lands 2: The Wanderer
20. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
21. Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise
22. Samorost 3
23. Enigma
24. The Secret of the Necromancer
25. What Remains of Edith Finch
26. Burly Men At Sea
27. Assassins Creed: Syndicate
28. Faraway
29. Psychonauts: Rhombus of Ruin
30. Traps n' Gemstones
31. The Ghost Town
32. Vulture Island
33. Until Dawn
34. Small Radio Big Televisions
35. Devious Dungeons 2
36. Submerged
37. Firewatch
38. The Forgotten Room
39. Facility 47
40. Doggins
41. That Dragon, Cancer
42. Spate
43. A Short Tale
44. Layers of Fear + Inheritance DLC
45. ICARUS.1
46. Daregon
47. The Turing Test
48. Neon Struct
49. Mimpi Dreams
50. Calendula
51. Cube Escape - The Cave
52. Oxenfree
53. Yellow
54. Escape the Lighthouse
55. Can You Escape The Lighthouse?
56. The Last Of Us: Left Behind
57. Heart Star
58. Framed 2
59. Legend of the Skyfish
60. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
61. Hatoful Boyfriend
62. SIM
63. The Pasture
64. UnWorded
65. Puzzle House: Mystery Rising
66. RiME
67. The House of Da Vinci
68. Nub's Adventure
69. Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
70. A Normal Lost Phone
71. Hob
72. ]プラトモ
73. Doki Doki Literature Club
74. Stranger Things
75. Hue
76. MSG V: Ground Zeroes
77. SOMA
78. Monument Valley 2
79. Dying Reborn: VR
80. GNOG

81. Bound
82. Ministry of Time: Save The Time
83. The Deadly Tower of Monsters
84. Kholat: a horror walking simulator type of thing based very loosely on the Dyatlov Pass incident. It looks lovely and is absolutely dripping in atmosphere but the gameplay is impacted negatively by the difficulty in navigating around the place. You're basically dropped on a mountain with a map and compass but there's no marker showing where you actually are at any given time so you have to properly map read your way around. Which is quite fun to a degree, but there are points where the map doesn't properly represent the terrain so you will absolutely spend time being frustratingly lost. Cynically I wonder if that's done on purpose because if it was easier to find your way around you could probably rattle through the game very quickly. The plot is totally bobbins--some of the dialogue poor Sean Bean is given to work with is utterly fucking nonsensical--and the enemy encounters aren't much to speak of but when you do find the points the advance the plot you get some compellingly weird and pretty scenes. I did enjoy it but I could totally understand how a lot of people would get sick of it's shit long before it ended.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017
PostPosted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 1:02 
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Satsuma wrote:
1) The Forest (PC)
2) Just Cause 3 (PS4)
3) Enter the Gungeon (PS4)
4) Mirrors Edge Catalyst (PS4)
5) Resident Evil 7 (PS4)
6) Homefront: The Revolution (PS4)
7) DOOM (PS4)
8 ) Starfox Zero (WiiU)
9) Dishonoured 2 (PS4)
10) Final Fantasy XV (PS4)
11) Dark Souls: The Ringed City DLC (PS4)
12) Hollow Knight (PC)
13) Little Nightmares (PS4)
14) Neir: Automata
15) Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (PS4)
16) Outlast 2 (PS4)
17) Nioh (PS4)
18) Abzu (PC)
19) South Park: TSOT (PC)
20) Half-Life: Blue Shift (PC)
21) Jotun (PC)
22) Zelda: Breath of the Wild (WiiU)
23) F.E.A.R. (PC)
24) Sonic CD (iOS)
25) Pony Island (PC)
26) Hue (PS4)
27) Nioh: Definant Honour DLC (PS4)
28) Nioh: Dragon of the North (PS4)
29) Nioh: Bloodshed’s End (PS4)
30) ECHO (PS4)
31) Owlboy (PC)
32) Wolfenstein: The New Collosus (PC)


33) Quantum Break (XB1X)

You make a game called Max Payne which has this one move called bullet time which is so groovy that it can bear the burden of several games on its back. Umpteen years later you make another game with several moves but none of them as interesting or well implemented as bullet time. You’ve gone backwards.

It’s a pretty game for sure but the combat isn’t that great. You fire a gun for more than a burst and your bullets spray absolutely everywhere. Enemies, even Joe Standard, is a bullet sponge. Headshots mean nothing. Combat isn’t as satisfying as that game you did years ago. You’ve gone backwards.

But what about the story? No one will care because it’s boring. And no one in their right mind will put the controller down for 30 minutes and watch a piss poor TV show between chapters. If I want to watch a TV programme I have the ability to choose what and when I want to watch it. Maybe I’m not a fan of syfy channel “action”. Because I ain’t. I watched as much as I could possibly endure. The result: I skipped every single one of the interludes.

Oh, I almost forgot, just like the developers, that there’s some ridiculously easy time travel “puzzles”. Like “stand here and press Y to rebuild a bridge by rewinding time. Then run to the next point before time goes back.” You’ll get one of these maybe a handful of times during the game. They could have been fun; they could have been interesting; they could have been challenging. Just think of all the things you could do with a time mechanic! There’s loads of games the developers could have nicked ideas from without even having to think much. Nope. The laziest design I’ve seen in a big budget game in quite some time.

Last gripe, aiming a gun is a nightmare. There’s something not right with the acceleration of the reticle. I changed the sensitivity through all the settings and could never find the right balance at all. Small movements are impossible because there seems to be a dead zone in the controller that I’m sure isn’t a problem with the Xbox controllers cause they’re supposed to be great, right. I’ve no idea that no one has pointed this out to the developers during testing.

All in all, a disappointing and entirely average game.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017
PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 17:01 
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Satsuma wrote:
1) The Forest (PC)
2) Just Cause 3 (PS4)
3) Enter the Gungeon (PS4)
4) Mirrors Edge Catalyst (PS4)
5) Resident Evil 7 (PS4)
6) Homefront: The Revolution (PS4)
7) DOOM (PS4)
8 ) Starfox Zero (WiiU)
9) Dishonoured 2 (PS4)
10) Final Fantasy XV (PS4)
11) Dark Souls: The Ringed City DLC (PS4)
12) Hollow Knight (PC)
13) Little Nightmares (PS4)
14) Neir: Automata
15) Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (PS4)
16) Outlast 2 (PS4)
17) Nioh (PS4)
18) Abzu (PC)
19) South Park: TSOT (PC)
20) Half-Life: Blue Shift (PC)
21) Jotun (PC)
22) Zelda: Breath of the Wild (WiiU)
23) F.E.A.R. (PC)
24) Sonic CD (iOS)
25) Pony Island (PC)
26) Hue (PS4)
27) Nioh: Definant Honour DLC (PS4)
28) Nioh: Dragon of the North (PS4)
29) Nioh: Bloodshed’s End (PS4)
30) ECHO (PS4)
31) Owlboy (PC)
32) Wolfenstein: The New Collosus (PC)
33) Quantum Break (XB1X)


34) Tearaway Unfolded (PS4)

More inventiveness and creativity than any AAA game can muster these days and it knows how to use all the functions of the game pad to great effect. You’ll probably finish it and wonder why no other game uses half the features as creatively as Tearaway.

It’s a game for kids, really (barring some difficult platforming towards the end) but there’s enough here for any gamer to smile along with from the Squirrels, the pumpkin head (dub step voice all the way, obv), the stickers and drawing penises on everyone and everything. And my friend, Dr Peniseyes.

It’s a game that you’ll be incapable of disliking. Apart from the kiddie voice used in the very end game bit. You’ll be wishing that little fucker was used as bait in operation yewtree.

Dr Peniseyes out of 10.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017
PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 10:25 
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Tearaway Unfolded looked brilliant and was all kinds of creative and all that jazz but, as with the various LittleBigPlanet's, I found myself getting very bored with the actual game long before it ended. Media Molecule's stuff is a masterclass in 'form over function'.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017
PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 12:06 
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I never did complete LBP’s story due to boredom, but mainly because it felt like a tutorial for the design your own game thing it had got going on. I found Tearaway to be more focused on throwing ideas at you to enjoy rather than remember for something else (there’s none of the design your game bollocks, other people, it’s a campaign and that’s it). I thought it did a good job of varying tasks to keep you playing and giving the player enough linear and open areas so you could explore if you wanted or just push through to the next thing. It’s lacking in challenge for hardened gamers and that might be why you were a bit bored. I got a bit bored too at points because the campaign has a decent length and I was binging it. It’s more suited to causal play anyway. I think the causal crowd and the Animal Crossing guys will find this adorable.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017
PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 13:39 
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LBP rather only came into its own when partaking in coop play.

Either that or playing my solitary published level. With explosive horses. (and a prize of a box infinitely full of explosive horses. A source of horse, some would say)


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017
PostPosted: Wed Dec 13, 2017 10:30 
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
1. Fract OSC
2. Her Story
3. Pony Island
4. ABZU
5. The Old City: Leviathan
6. The Beginners Guide
7. ISLANDS: Non-Places
8. Tearaway Unfolded
9. Unravel
10. Robinson: The Journey
11. I Expect You To Die
12. Deus EX: Mankind Divided
13. Wayward Sky
14. Arkham VR
15. Rise of the Tomb Raider
16. Gravity Duck Islands
17. Whispering Willows
18. Silly Sausage: Doggy Dessert
19. Lost Lands 2: The Wanderer
20. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
21. Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise
22. Samorost 3
23. Enigma
24. The Secret of the Necromancer
25. What Remains of Edith Finch
26. Burly Men At Sea
27. Assassins Creed: Syndicate
28. Faraway
29. Psychonauts: Rhombus of Ruin
30. Traps n' Gemstones
31. The Ghost Town
32. Vulture Island
33. Until Dawn
34. Small Radio Big Televisions
35. Devious Dungeons 2
36. Submerged
37. Firewatch
38. The Forgotten Room
39. Facility 47
40. Doggins
41. That Dragon, Cancer
42. Spate
43. A Short Tale
44. Layers of Fear + Inheritance DLC
45. ICARUS.1
46. Daregon
47. The Turing Test
48. Neon Struct
49. Mimpi Dreams
50. Calendula
51. Cube Escape - The Cave
52. Oxenfree
53. Yellow
54. Escape the Lighthouse
55. Can You Escape The Lighthouse?
56. The Last Of Us: Left Behind
57. Heart Star
58. Framed 2
59. Legend of the Skyfish
60. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
61. Hatoful Boyfriend
62. SIM
63. The Pasture
64. UnWorded
65. Puzzle House: Mystery Rising
66. RiME
67. The House of Da Vinci
68. Nub's Adventure
69. Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
70. A Normal Lost Phone
71. Hob
72. ]プラトモ
73. Doki Doki Literature Club
74. Stranger Things
75. Hue
76. MSG V: Ground Zeroes
77. SOMA
78. Monument Valley 2
79. Dying Reborn: VR
80. GNOG

81. Bound
82. Ministry of Time: Save The Time
83. The Deadly Tower of Monsters
84. Kholat
85. Trine 3: this final instalment of the Trine series got a good kicking when it first came out, but I really enjoyed it and actually appreciated a lot of the changes that everyone else seemed to hate. The short length is a boon these days; the extra challenge of finding the collectibles was a nice aside; the addition of a third dimension was genuinely well done and only rarely an annoyance; the 'nerfing' of the wizard made for a game not just filled with bullshit, fiddly building challenges that made you want to scream. The level hub was largely pointless and it's blatantly completely unfinished (after killing the final boss the characters themselves even talk about the next level they need to go to, which doesn't exist) but it's still absolutely beautiful throughout and just flat out good fun to rattle through.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017
PostPosted: Wed Dec 13, 2017 10:37 
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Yes, i also did like Trine 3 very much. I just love the graphics and overall fairytale vibe of the series, and the going 3D was nice to avoid the series from getting stale.


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Satsuma wrote:
1) The Forest (PC)
2) Just Cause 3 (PS4)
3) Enter the Gungeon (PS4)
4) Mirrors Edge Catalyst (PS4)
5) Resident Evil 7 (PS4)
6) Homefront: The Revolution (PS4)
7) DOOM (PS4)
8 ) Starfox Zero (WiiU)
9) Dishonoured 2 (PS4)
10) Final Fantasy XV (PS4)
11) Dark Souls: The Ringed City DLC (PS4)
12) Hollow Knight (PC)
13) Little Nightmares (PS4)
14) Neir: Automata
15) Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (PS4)
16) Outlast 2 (PS4)
17) Nioh (PS4)
18) Abzu (PC)
19) South Park: TSOT (PC)
20) Half-Life: Blue Shift (PC)
21) Jotun (PC)
22) Zelda: Breath of the Wild (WiiU)
23) F.E.A.R. (PC)
24) Sonic CD (iOS)
25) Pony Island (PC)
26) Hue (PS4)
27) Nioh: Definant Honour DLC (PS4)
28) Nioh: Dragon of the North (PS4)
29) Nioh: Bloodshed’s End (PS4)
30) ECHO (PS4)
31) Owlboy (PC)
32) Wolfenstein: The New Collosus (PC)
33) Quantum Break (XB1X)
34) Tearaway Unfolded (PS4)


35) Dishonoured 2: Death of the Outsider (XB1X)

More of the same but shorter and with different abilities, which is what you’ll expect from DLC. If you enjoy the Dishonoured approach to stealth combat then you’ll enjoy this. I spent about 11-12 hours on DLC that cost a tenner. Absolutely great value for money at a time when the industry wants to fuck you in the wallet for every penny you’ve got.


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1) The Forest (PC)
2) Persona 4 Golden (Vita)
3) The Last Guardian (PS4)
4) ABZU (PC)
5) Sunless Sea (PC)
6) Aragami (PC)
7) Legend of Zelda : Breath of the wild (WiiU)
8 ) Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes (PC)
9) Little Big Planet 3 (PS4)
10) SuperHot VR (PC/Vive)
11) Hollow Knight (PC)
12) Nihilumbra (PC)
13) Borderlands: The pre sequel
14) Heat Signature (PC)
15) Grannies Garden (Amiga)
16) Dead Island (PC)

Janky coop zombie killathon. Awful plot,slightly off controls. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Ooooh Champagne. Potentilly repetitive dialog.

17) Ibb& Obb(PC)

Fun cooping puzzle platformer. Somewhat reminiscent of portal in a way (Mainly momentum based puzzles)


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2017 17:59 
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1. Fract OSC
2. Her Story
3. Pony Island
4. ABZU
5. The Old City: Leviathan
6. The Beginners Guide
7. ISLANDS: Non-Places
8. Tearaway Unfolded
9. Unravel
10. Robinson: The Journey
11. I Expect You To Die
12. Deus EX: Mankind Divided
13. Wayward Sky
14. Arkham VR
15. Rise of the Tomb Raider
16. Gravity Duck Islands
17. Whispering Willows
18. Silly Sausage: Doggy Dessert
19. Lost Lands 2: The Wanderer
20. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
21. Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise
22. Samorost 3
23. Enigma
24. The Secret of the Necromancer
25. What Remains of Edith Finch
26. Burly Men At Sea
27. Assassins Creed: Syndicate
28. Faraway
29. Psychonauts: Rhombus of Ruin
30. Traps n' Gemstones
31. The Ghost Town
32. Vulture Island
33. Until Dawn
34. Small Radio Big Televisions
35. Devious Dungeons 2
36. Submerged
37. Firewatch
38. The Forgotten Room
39. Facility 47
40. Doggins
41. That Dragon, Cancer
42. Spate
43. A Short Tale
44. Layers of Fear + Inheritance DLC
45. ICARUS.1
46. Daregon
47. The Turing Test
48. Neon Struct
49. Mimpi Dreams
50. Calendula
51. Cube Escape - The Cave
52. Oxenfree
53. Yellow
54. Escape the Lighthouse
55. Can You Escape The Lighthouse?
56. The Last Of Us: Left Behind
57. Heart Star
58. Framed 2
59. Legend of the Skyfish
60. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
61. Hatoful Boyfriend
62. SIM
63. The Pasture
64. UnWorded
65. Puzzle House: Mystery Rising
66. RiME
67. The House of Da Vinci
68. Nub's Adventure
69. Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
70. A Normal Lost Phone
71. Hob
72. ]プラトモ
73. Doki Doki Literature Club
74. Stranger Things
75. Hue
76. MSG V: Ground Zeroes
77. SOMA
78. Monument Valley 2
79. Dying Reborn: VR
80. GNOG

81. Bound
82. Ministry of Time: Save The Time
83. The Deadly Tower of Monsters
84. Kholat
85. Trine 3
86. Lethe: indie horror thing in the vein of Amnesia et al i.e. lots of creeping about, monsters must be avoided as you've no offensive powers and there's some light physic-y puzzling. Looked pretty nice and was engaging enough at the time of playing but added little of note to the glut of these things on Steam and slightly over-stayed it's welcome.
87. STASIS: point and click sci-fi horror thing. It looked lovely--as these things often do--the plot was decent and the puzzles were generally logical. It's slight downfall was that I'd forgotten how tedious traditional point and click games could be when you'd managed to miss a critical item during a sweep of a given room and some reference to a walkthrough was required just to be pointed at the object I'd missed rather than to aid with any specific puzzle.


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2017 18:03 
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Stasis looks amazing from screenshots (love isometric games), but also read some reviews that it can get really frustrating. Still on my wishlist because of that.


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2017 19:57 
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I was never massively frustrated by it, though possibly because I was happy to quickly glance at a guide to get me moving if I was ever stuck. Your enjoyment will come down to how much you enjoy the classic point and click form because it adheres very rigidly to that.


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 13:05 
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1. Fract OSC
2. Her Story
3. Pony Island
4. ABZU
5. The Old City: Leviathan
6. The Beginners Guide
7. ISLANDS: Non-Places
8. Tearaway Unfolded
9. Unravel
10. Robinson: The Journey
11. I Expect You To Die
12. Deus EX: Mankind Divided
13. Wayward Sky
14. Arkham VR
15. Rise of the Tomb Raider
16. Gravity Duck Islands
17. Whispering Willows
18. Silly Sausage: Doggy Dessert
19. Lost Lands 2: The Wanderer
20. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
21. Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise
22. Samorost 3
23. Enigma
24. The Secret of the Necromancer
25. What Remains of Edith Finch
26. Burly Men At Sea
27. Assassins Creed: Syndicate
28. Faraway
29. Psychonauts: Rhombus of Ruin
30. Traps n' Gemstones
31. The Ghost Town
32. Vulture Island
33. Until Dawn
34. Small Radio Big Televisions
35. Devious Dungeons 2
36. Submerged
37. Firewatch
38. The Forgotten Room
39. Facility 47
40. Doggins
41. That Dragon, Cancer
42. Spate
43. A Short Tale
44. Layers of Fear + Inheritance DLC
45. ICARUS.1
46. Daregon
47. The Turing Test
48. Neon Struct
49. Mimpi Dreams
50. Calendula
51. Cube Escape - The Cave
52. Oxenfree
53. Yellow
54. Escape the Lighthouse
55. Can You Escape The Lighthouse?
56. The Last Of Us: Left Behind
57. Heart Star
58. Framed 2
59. Legend of the Skyfish
60. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
61. Hatoful Boyfriend
62. SIM
63. The Pasture
64. UnWorded
65. Puzzle House: Mystery Rising
66. RiME
67. The House of Da Vinci
68. Nub's Adventure
69. Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
70. A Normal Lost Phone
71. Hob
72. ]プラトモ
73. Doki Doki Literature Club
74. Stranger Things
75. Hue
76. MSG V: Ground Zeroes
77. SOMA
78. Monument Valley 2
79. Dying Reborn: VR
80. GNOG

81. Bound
82. Ministry of Time: Save The Time
83. The Deadly Tower of Monsters
84. Kholat
85. Trine 3
86. Lethe
87. STASIS
88: Lego Jurassic Park: played through on my phone so I appreciated the relatively bite size levels and the fact that it seemed more streamlined than some of the LEGO games I've played so I didn't spent ages wondering what in the fuck the game wanted me to actually do at a given point. The level hub (or hubs as it actually was because there was two nested inside each other) was as pointless and sometimes confusing as always but that seems to have become a design feature so not exactly unexpected, albeit still unwanted.
89: D4: Dark Dreams Dont Die: the most recent game by Swery65, the 'auteur' game producer responsible for the gloriously batshit Deadly Premonition. And on first blush this had exactly the same spirit as DP, though wrapped in mechanics of a Telltale/Quantic Dream bent instead of the open world RPG trappings. So you explore each level talking to the weird characters therein, doing simple side quests for them and advancing the main plot of travelling back in time to try and solve the murder of your wife. 'Action' scenes play out using the usual sort of QTEs you've seen before and while they're relatively fun it manages what all these kind of things do and takes your attention 100% from all the entertaining looking nonsense that you're 'controlling' making it probably something more fun to watch than to play. Overall it's a bit clunky and repetitive but it's engaging enough given the general weirdness of it all. And then...it ends. Like just stops dead on a cliffhanger. It was originally planned to be an episodically released games but after the intro part and first two episodes were released as an initial package nothing else was ever delivered. Swery has since left the company that developed it and has made no bones about the fact that it's dead so, that's that I suppose? I don't think I paid very much for it so I got my money's worth but if I'd realised how utterly unfinished it was I'm not sure I'd have bothered.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017
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1. Fire Emblem: Heroes (iOS) - completed Main Story on Normal
2. Overcooked (PS4) - completed campaign
3. Titanfall 2 (PS4) - completed campaign
4. Until Dawn (PS4) - completed story
5. Resident Evil HD Remaster (PS4) - completed on Easy with Jill
6. Layers of Fear + Inheritance DLC (PS4) - endless loop ending + father ending
7. ABZÛ (PC)
8. Motorsport Manager (iOS) - won the 2027 World Constructor and World Driver Championships
9. (not)Guilty (iOS) - survived Eden prison and found the real murderer
10. Monument Valley 2 (iOS)
11. Assassin's Creed (PC)
12. Gunpoint (PC)
13. Firewatch (PC)
14. Granny's Garden (Amiga)
15. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (Amiga) - completed Easy Championship
16. Rainbow Six Siege (PC) - completed all Situations on Normal

I've not played an online military FPS in a while, so this has made a refreshing change. It's very good.

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1. Fire Emblem: Heroes (iOS) - completed Main Story on Normal
2. Overcooked (PS4) - completed campaign
3. Titanfall 2 (PS4) - completed campaign
4. Until Dawn (PS4) - completed story
5. Resident Evil HD Remaster (PS4) - completed on Easy with Jill
6. Layers of Fear + Inheritance DLC (PS4) - endless loop ending + father ending
7. ABZÛ (PC)
8. Motorsport Manager (iOS) - won the 2027 World Constructor and World Driver Championships
9. (not)Guilty (iOS) - survived Eden prison and found the real murderer
10. Monument Valley 2 (iOS)
11. Assassin's Creed (PC)
12. Gunpoint (PC)
13. Firewatch (PC)
14. Granny's Garden (Amiga)
15. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (Amiga) - completed Easy Championship
16. Rainbow Six Siege (PC) - completed all Situations on Normal
17. I Get This Call Every Day (PC) - Bad Ending and Ok Ending

You play a call centre staff member trying to help a customer change his address on file. Badly acted and poor artwork, but yet still oddly compelling. Only lasts about 10 mins.

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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017
PostPosted: Sun Dec 24, 2017 20:18 
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Satsuma wrote:
1) The Forest (PC)
2) Just Cause 3 (PS4)
3) Enter the Gungeon (PS4)
4) Mirrors Edge Catalyst (PS4)
5) Resident Evil 7 (PS4)
6) Homefront: The Revolution (PS4)
7) DOOM (PS4)
8 ) Starfox Zero (WiiU)
9) Dishonoured 2 (PS4)
10) Final Fantasy XV (PS4)
11) Dark Souls: The Ringed City DLC (PS4)
12) Hollow Knight (PC)
13) Little Nightmares (PS4)
14) Neir: Automata
15) Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (PS4)
16) Outlast 2 (PS4)
17) Nioh (PS4)
18) Abzu (PC)
19) South Park: TSOT (PC)
20) Half-Life: Blue Shift (PC)
21) Jotun (PC)
22) Zelda: Breath of the Wild (WiiU)
23) F.E.A.R. (PC)
24) Sonic CD (iOS)
25) Pony Island (PC)
26) Hue (PS4)
27) Nioh: Definant Honour DLC (PS4)
28) Nioh: Dragon of the North (PS4)
29) Nioh: Bloodshed’s End (PS4)
30) ECHO (PS4)
31) Owlboy (PC)
32) Wolfenstein: The New Collosus (PC)
33) Quantum Break (XB1X)
34) Tearaway Unfolded (PS4)
35) Dishonoured 2: Death of the Outsider (XB1X)


36) Halo 5 (XB1X)

Finished the main campaign on Legendary in co-op.

Does anyone really play Halo’s campaigns for the story? It’s absolute dogshit (apart from the OG which was lovely and simple before it had do the obligatory “extended universe” for the fanboys).

But the gameplay moments? Absolutely joyous.

Remember that time when we flipped out the warhog and an elite nicked it, picked up his mate and drilled us full of holes? Remember how we replayed one difficult section 20+ times and had a myriad of different outcomes every time? Like when we couldn’t kill that elite and he’d stay at the back ducking about, then he’d charge forward and slap us with his elbow or how he’d vanished and we made a bit of progress but he actually came behind us and fucked us again. And again. And again. Or what about that section where we got hammered by dogs and used the jump pads to escape until the dogs started using the jump pads too.

Time and time again the enemies surprised us with how changeable they would make each and every encounter. It’s just glorious gameplay that was overshadowed by the shit story but not a single cutscene escaped the skip button and who really cares when the game is this fun and challenging. I’ve no idea what 4 player co-op must be like but I bet it’s fabulous.

A reet brilliant blast. 8/10

Oh and I tried the multiplayer last night and whereas it’s a bit empty in some playlists the actual gameplay is still brilliant there too. What a shame a massive Bezzie session will never take place in Halo again.


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1. Fire Emblem: Heroes (iOS) - completed Main Story on Normal
2. Overcooked (PS4) - completed campaign
3. Titanfall 2 (PS4) - completed campaign
4. Until Dawn (PS4) - completed story
5. Resident Evil HD Remaster (PS4) - completed on Easy with Jill
6. Layers of Fear + Inheritance DLC (PS4) - endless loop ending + father ending
7. ABZÛ (PC)
8. Motorsport Manager (iOS) - won the 2027 World Constructor and World Driver Championships
9. (not)Guilty (iOS) - survived Eden prison and found the real murderer
10. Monument Valley 2 (iOS)
11. Assassin's Creed (PC)
12. Gunpoint (PC)
13. Firewatch (PC)
14. Granny's Garden (Amiga)
15. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (Amiga) - completed Easy Championship
16. Rainbow Six Siege (PC) - completed all Situations on Normal
17. I Get This Call Every Day (PC) - Bad Ending and Ok Ending
18. I Am Bread (PC) - completed Story Mode

This is ridiculous and hilarious, exactly how you'd expect from the makers of Surgeon Simulator. Except this is a lot more playable, and they've made certain concessions to those who aren't very good at it. After a few failures you get the option of picking up a power-up which gives you infinite grip and edibility. Even then it's still not easy to find a source of heat and toast yourself. There are still tons of modes to try out and I can see myself going back to this.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 13:00 
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1. Fract OSC
2. Her Story
3. Pony Island
4. ABZU
5. The Old City: Leviathan
6. The Beginners Guide
7. ISLANDS: Non-Places
8. Tearaway Unfolded
9. Unravel
10. Robinson: The Journey
11. I Expect You To Die
12. Deus EX: Mankind Divided
13. Wayward Sky
14. Arkham VR
15. Rise of the Tomb Raider
16. Gravity Duck Islands
17. Whispering Willows
18. Silly Sausage: Doggy Dessert
19. Lost Lands 2: The Wanderer
20. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
21. Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise
22. Samorost 3
23. Enigma
24. The Secret of the Necromancer
25. What Remains of Edith Finch
26. Burly Men At Sea
27. Assassins Creed: Syndicate
28. Faraway
29. Psychonauts: Rhombus of Ruin
30. Traps n' Gemstones
31. The Ghost Town
32. Vulture Island
33. Until Dawn
34. Small Radio Big Televisions
35. Devious Dungeons 2
36. Submerged
37. Firewatch
38. The Forgotten Room
39. Facility 47
40. Doggins
41. That Dragon, Cancer
42. Spate
43. A Short Tale
44. Layers of Fear + Inheritance DLC
45. ICARUS.1
46. Daregon
47. The Turing Test
48. Neon Struct
49. Mimpi Dreams
50. Calendula
51. Cube Escape - The Cave
52. Oxenfree
53. Yellow
54. Escape the Lighthouse
55. Can You Escape The Lighthouse?
56. The Last Of Us: Left Behind
57. Heart Star
58. Framed 2
59. Legend of the Skyfish
60. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
61. Hatoful Boyfriend
62. SIM
63. The Pasture
64. UnWorded
65. Puzzle House: Mystery Rising
66. RiME
67. The House of Da Vinci
68. Nub's Adventure
69. Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
70. A Normal Lost Phone
71. Hob
72. ]プラトモ
73. Doki Doki Literature Club
74. Stranger Things
75. Hue
76. MSG V: Ground Zeroes
77. SOMA
78. Monument Valley 2
79. Dying Reborn: VR
80. GNOG
81. Bound
82. Ministry of Time: Save The Time
83. The Deadly Tower of Monsters
84. Kholat
85. Trine 3
86. Lethe
87. STASIS
88: Lego Jurassic Park
89: D4: Dark Dreams Dont Die

90. Virginia: a narrative game that see you as a new FBI agent looking into a boy's disappearance while simultaneously investigating your supposedly troublesome partner. It's got a lovely low poly art style and the fact that it tells a character driven story without a single word of dialogue is a hell of an achievement which is worth the price of entry alone. The only criticism I have is that the ending is weird and ambigious in a way that's not entirely satisfying, but that's very possibly just me being too dumb for it.
91. Tacoma: another narrative game by the team that did Gone Home. A very different concept this time around though as you're a contractor sent to the space station of the title to retreive an AI and find out what happened to the crew. This plays out through what are essentially audio logs but the concept is beefed up be being essentially 3D video recordings which you can scrub through at will, and which you'll have to as you'll need to follow different crew members as they group and split throughout each recording so you can catch the full story. I was a little bit bored with it initially but the setup really grabbed me after a while and I was sad to see the end of it as it's a pretty short game. It looks lovely, has some nice touches (most of the achivements are amusing and interesting micros side quests) and a satisfying story so comes recommended if that sounds like your thing.


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1) The Binding Of Isaac - Rebirth+
2) Hell Girls
3) HuniePop
4) Mirror

Had a match-three itch that needed scratching again, so on Steam, the highest rated game with that tag (after HuniePop) was Mirror - another adult game, but with lots of positive ratings, so I thought I'd give it a go as it's early access and only cost £1.01. Only four of the storylines are available until the game is properly released next year, but I won't be going back to it. There's nothing wrong with the match-three mechanics of it - it's quite a fun game to play in that sense (if a little easy), but it's the storylines that just left me feeling grubby. In summary, the four storylines end -

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1. Punish a thief by raping her
2. Rape a woman to prepare her for some demon lords arrival, whereby it rapes her with its tentacles - depending on the ending, she either dies or gives birth
3. Bring a zombie back to life. By shagging her
4. Prevent a dragon woman from accidentally destroying the world. By shagging her.


After playing it, I thought I'd have a closer look at the reviews and the only real complaints as about the censorship of the rude bits.


I'm going back to bloody Bejeweled 3.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 28, 2017 12:23 
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devilman wrote:
1) The Binding Of Isaac - Rebirth+
2) Hell Girls
3) HuniePop
4) Mirror

Had a match-three itch that needed scratching again, so on Steam, the highest rated game with that tag (after HuniePop) was Mirror - another adult game, but with lots of positive ratings, so I thought I'd give it a go as it's early access and only cost £1.01. Only four of the storylines are available until the game is properly released next year, but I won't be going back to it. There's nothing wrong with the match-three mechanics of it - it's quite a fun game to play in that sense (if a little easy), but it's the storylines that just left me feeling grubby. In summary, the four storylines end -

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
1. Punish a thief by raping her
2. Rape a woman to prepare her for some demon lords arrival, whereby it rapes her with its tentacles - depending on the ending, she either dies or gives birth
3. Bring a zombie back to life. By shagging her
4. Prevent a dragon woman from accidentally destroying the world. By shagging her.


After playing it, I thought I'd have a closer look at the reviews and the only real complaints as about the censorship of the rude bits.


I'm going back to bloody Bejeweled 3.


all that in a match 3 game????

What's wrong with Zookeeper?


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 28, 2017 13:43 
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Satsuma wrote:
1) The Forest (PC)
2) Just Cause 3 (PS4)
3) Enter the Gungeon (PS4)
4) Mirrors Edge Catalyst (PS4)
5) Resident Evil 7 (PS4)
6) Homefront: The Revolution (PS4)
7) DOOM (PS4)
8 ) Starfox Zero (WiiU)
9) Dishonoured 2 (PS4)
10) Final Fantasy XV (PS4)
11) Dark Souls: The Ringed City DLC (PS4)
12) Hollow Knight (PC)
13) Little Nightmares (PS4)
14) Neir: Automata
15) Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (PS4)
16) Outlast 2 (PS4)
17) Nioh (PS4)
18) Abzu (PC)
19) South Park: TSOT (PC)
20) Half-Life: Blue Shift (PC)
21) Jotun (PC)
22) Zelda: Breath of the Wild (WiiU)
23) F.E.A.R. (PC)
24) Sonic CD (iOS)
25) Pony Island (PC)
26) Hue (PS4)
27) Nioh: Definant Honour DLC (PS4)
28) Nioh: Dragon of the North (PS4)
29) Nioh: Bloodshed’s End (PS4)
30) ECHO (PS4)
31) Owlboy (PC)
32) Wolfenstein: The New Collosus (PC)
33) Quantum Break (XB1X)
34) Tearaway Unfolded (PS4)
35) Dishonoured 2: Death of the Outsider (XB1X)
36) Halo 5 (XB1X)


37) Battlefield 1 (PS4)

Hang on, was that it? It lasted 3 sodding hours - up to 4 hours tops. That’s the shortest AAA campaign I’ve played in quite some time and I’m annoyed by it.

Let’s be fair though, it looks absolutely beautiful. Seriously good looking. The maps, the lighting and the environments and geometry look absolutely fucking brilliant and a couple of tanks levels have a mind boggling amount of destruction. And not just blowing stuff up destruction, like, ram a fucking tank into a house and flatten it kind of destruction. The frostbite engine has created some great stuff.

But it’s entirely lacking any kind of atmosphere whatsoever. Even the fog level. Just good looking but vacuous environments to piss around in.

The gameplay is uninspired as well. Early PS1 markers are the order of the day here with “Destroy 3 gun emplacements” or protect the convoy and all that jazz. There’s nothing you haven’t seen a billion times over in better FPS games. The WW1 setting adds absolutely nothing to this generic by the book shooter. There’s a bunch of weapons you’ll have trouble distinguishing from any WW2 game and laugh at the nonsense that is different. There’s an SMG with two barrels and two magazines that cleans house and a level which a Predator-style chain gun to chew up enemies. At one point you’re given a sword but you don’t need it. There’s bayonet charging but it’s not needed since ammo is in abundance. There’s nothing to distinguish the WW1 setting from any WW2 shooter which is utter nonsense.

But is it fun to play? It’s piss easy on normal, I’ll tell you that. I died a handful of times throughout the campaign until the final boss of the game killed me multiple times with a one hit kill move. You’ll probably clock it in one sitting it you’re that way inclined. There’s even one level where you’re wearing bullet proof armour and just wade into enemies for ten minutes spitting out death from a chain gun. I think the best way to describe this is: There’s no challenge. At all.

The only thing keeping it from getting a reet kicking is that it’s mildly interesting. There’s a level with an unreliable narrator, there’s a level where you die, there’s a level where... actually those are the two interesting ones. There’s a bit of info about WW1 too and some of the campaigns that were launched and who was involved. I liked it because I don’t know much about WW1 and wanted to learn something but ... there’s not much to be gathered here. The stories are separate and disjointed about the individual plight of, erm, individuals set against a backdrop of this Great War. The Great War is obviously super interesting so it’s a real misfire to just concentrate on individual solider stories because we’ve seen that all before. I’d have preferred a larger story about the war on all fronts so I came away disappointed. Plus it’s so hamfisted with its tales of glory. The unreliable narrator level? They think you’re so thick, rather than dropping hints about the narrator, they just S.P.E.L.L. I.T. O.U.T. at the end. Hnnngh. I can’t abide poor story telling. You even get a saccarine “message from the developers” about how we should remember the people who died in the Great War. That’s lovely an’ all but haven’t we had those messages about WW2? I don’t know why they felt the entire concept “telling individual solider stories” was this brilliant idea like it’s never been done before. It has. And better.

To conclude: I don’t care how pretty a game is when it’s this short and boring. 30% must try harder.


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1) The Forest (PC)
2) Persona 4 Golden (Vita)
3) The Last Guardian (PS4)
4) ABZU (PC)
5) Sunless Sea (PC)
6) Aragami (PC)
7) Legend of Zelda : Breath of the wild (WiiU)
8 ) Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes (PC)
9) Little Big Planet 3 (PS4)
10) SuperHot VR (PC/Vive)
11) Hollow Knight (PC)
12) Nihilumbra (PC)
13) Borderlands: The pre sequel
14) Heat Signature (PC)
15) Grannies Garden (Amiga)
16) Dead Island (PC)
17) Ibb& Obb(PC)
18) Danganronpa V3 (PC)

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. Fire Emblem: Heroes (iOS) - completed Main Story on Normal
2. Overcooked (PS4) - completed campaign
3. Titanfall 2 (PS4) - completed campaign
4. Until Dawn (PS4) - completed story
5. Resident Evil HD Remaster (PS4) - completed on Easy with Jill
6. Layers of Fear + Inheritance DLC (PS4) - endless loop ending + father ending
7. ABZÛ (PC)
8. Motorsport Manager (iOS) - won the 2027 World Constructor and World Driver Championships
9. (not)Guilty (iOS) - survived Eden prison and found the real murderer
10. Monument Valley 2 (iOS)
11. Assassin's Creed (PC)
12. Gunpoint (PC)
13. Firewatch (PC)
14. Granny's Garden (Amiga)
15. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (Amiga) - completed Easy Championship
16. Rainbow Six Siege (PC) - completed all Situations on Normal
17. I Get This Call Every Day (PC) - Bad Ending and Ok Ending
18. I Am Bread (PC) - completed Story Mode
19. ibb and obb (PC) - completed game

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Well, if you're going to be like that...

1) The Forest (PC)
2) Persona 4 Golden (Vita)
3) The Last Guardian (PS4)
4) ABZU (PC)
5) Sunless Sea (PC)
6) Aragami (PC)
7) Legend of Zelda : Breath of the wild (WiiU)
8 ) Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes (PC)
9) Little Big Planet 3 (PS4)
10) SuperHot VR (PC/Vive)
11) Hollow Knight (PC)
12) Nihilumbra (PC)
13) Borderlands: The pre sequel
14) Heat Signature (PC)
15) Grannies Garden (Amiga)
16) Dead Island (PC)
17) Ibb& Obb(PC)
18) Danganronpa V3 (PC)
19) Dying Light (PC)

Actually finished this back in July. Fun coop parkour zombie killing game. Paper thin plot at best, but mechanically solid.


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You played it without us. :(

And I look forward to playing it with you, if you ever get past the single player tutorial. (To be accurate, I played it in the gap after someone failed to buy it)


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But it's not really a game that's affected by knowing what's coming up. But is affected by daft forced single player sections at beginning and end.


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I got it the same time as you and, IIRC, the problem was a certain Dave grossly misrepresented how long it took to get to the co-op portion of the game.


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8. Tearaway Unfolded
9. Unravel
10. Robinson: The Journey
11. I Expect You To Die
12. Deus EX: Mankind Divided
13. Wayward Sky
14. Arkham VR
15. Rise of the Tomb Raider
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17. Whispering Willows
18. Silly Sausage: Doggy Dessert
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20. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
21. Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise
22. Samorost 3
23. Enigma
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25. What Remains of Edith Finch
26. Burly Men At Sea
27. Assassins Creed: Syndicate
28. Faraway
29. Psychonauts: Rhombus of Ruin
30. Traps n' Gemstones
31. The Ghost Town
32. Vulture Island
33. Until Dawn
34. Small Radio Big Televisions
35. Devious Dungeons 2
36. Submerged
37. Firewatch
38. The Forgotten Room
39. Facility 47
40. Doggins
41. That Dragon, Cancer
42. Spate
43. A Short Tale
44. Layers of Fear + Inheritance DLC
45. ICARUS.1
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47. The Turing Test
48. Neon Struct
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50. Calendula
51. Cube Escape - The Cave
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53. Yellow
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55. Can You Escape The Lighthouse?
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57. Heart Star
58. Framed 2
59. Legend of the Skyfish
60. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
61. Hatoful Boyfriend
62. SIM
63. The Pasture
64. UnWorded
65. Puzzle House: Mystery Rising
66. RiME
67. The House of Da Vinci
68. Nub's Adventure
69. Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
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71. Hob
72. ]プラトモ
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74. Stranger Things
75. Hue
76. MSG V: Ground Zeroes
77. SOMA
78. Monument Valley 2
79. Dying Reborn: VR
80. GNOG
81. Bound
82. Ministry of Time: Save The Time
83. The Deadly Tower of Monsters
84. Kholat
85. Trine 3
86. Lethe
87. STASIS
88: Lego Jurassic Park
89: D4: Dark Dreams Dont Die

90. Virginia
91. Tacoma
92. Typoman: an interesting platformer who's main USP is it's word-based world. Bits of the landscape, the hero, the monsters and the puzzles are all made up of, and involve manipulating, words. So, say, you've got a gate blocking the way; you make the word RAISE to work past it. That's a very trivial example and there's much more going on but you get the gist. There are some sections made more frustrating than they need to be due to finicky controls (both in terms of controlling your character and in manipulating the letters) but nothing that takes away the overall fun of the thing. The end does bring an overall feeling that more could've been done with the concept and it slightly outstays it's welcome but it's still recommended.
93. The Uncertain: Episode 1: a point-and-click game which sees you controlling a robot living in a world where humans have driven themselves extinct and mechanical life is building a civilisation from the ashes. It's not a very difficult game--providing you don't miss any items when sweeping a room--and it doesn't do anything new with the format but it seems like an interesting story and graphically there's some obvious talent going on. The downsides are clunky dialogue and a story that ends just as it's getting going; though apparently they've made very big changes to the actual gameplay stylings due to user feedback so I'm curious to see what the upcoming second episode willl bring.
94. Monchroma: yet another indie platformer cribbing almost entirely from LIMBO's playbook. The only thing it brings to the table is that the entire game sees you ferrying your little brother around on your back, so it's not just your own character you need to get through each level. When you're carrying him your walk speed and jump height are limited and you can only put him down in certain designated places so, much like in ICO, you end up feeling frustrated and held back by the NPC almost instantly. Graphically it looks alright but not as good as the screenshots suggest and the animation is noticeable wonky which you never entirely get used to. All of this would be fine as the general gameplay is engaging enough and there are some clever puzzles in there but it goes on for far too long and by the time you get to the crappy final boss fight you're wishing for it to be over.
95. N.E.R.O. (Nothing Ever Remains Obscure): if it's not already obvious from the title this is a walking simulator with light puzzles and a massive superiority complex. It start off seemingly trying to tell three stories at once (that of the player character's journey; something about fucking pirates on a secret island plus a conversation between two parents about their sick child) via the ever-so subtle mechanism of 'having chunks of dialogue just fucking floating there right in front of you at random as you move around the level'. It very quickly gets pared down without explanation to the main story of the parents at which point it becomes exactly the kind of thing you've see loads of times before and done much better. The graphics are nice enough in places but the whole thing has a general low quality feel to it and the levels aren't coherent interesting places to explore, just random stuff thrown in to lead you from one bit of floating text to the next. Oh, and there's a 'run' button which increases your walking pace and there's never any reason not to use it so you just end up pissed off at having to hold it down for literally the entire game.

Note: I haven't gone mad and forgotten what year it currently is; I genuinely finished all these before today and just hadn't logged them.


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much like in ICO, you end up feeling frustrated and held back by the NPC almost instantly.


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much like in ICO, you end up feeling frustrated and held back by the NPC almost instantly.


Said no one ever.


Said loads of people. Fuck escort quests, especially when they make up an entire game.


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much like in ICO, you end up feeling frustrated and held back by the NPC almost instantly.


Said no one ever.


Said loads of wrong people.


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