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Author: | myp [ Mon Jun 19, 2017 18:54 ] |
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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 (not)Very Good. Choose Your Own Adventure-style text adventure, but written by someone whom I don't think English is their first language. You're put in prison for a crime you didn't commit, then you have to run errands for gangs with a ludicrous 'Respect Meter' telling you how well you're doing. You then go to trial and try to figure out who really killed Christine. I managed this all on my first go and didn't fail once. Took about 40 mins. Glad I only paid 99p for it. |
Author: | myp [ Mon Jun 19, 2017 20:01 ] |
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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) Yes, it's too easy, especially if you've played the first one. Yes, it's probably a tad overpriced for its length. And yes, it's a triumph of style over substance. But what a triumph it is. It looks and sounds amazing, and I loved every minute of it. |
Author: | Mr Russell [ Fri Jun 23, 2017 11:08 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 51. Escape Game Car Garage (iOS) 52. Challenging Night House Escape (iOS) 53. Escape Game Lost in Desert (iOS) 54. Can You Escape Tree House (iOS) 55. Escape Game Lost Car Key (iOS) 56. Escape Game Diamond Mask (iOS) 57. Who Can Escape Locked House 7 (iOS) 58. Escape Game Treasure Map (iOS) 59. Abandoned House Girl Escape (iOS) |
Author: | Satsuma [ Sun Jun 25, 2017 12:44 ] |
Post subject: | Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017 |
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) I couldn't put it down. The best game I've played all year. Especially that battlefield level, wow that was awesomesauce. |
Author: | Satsuma [ Sun Jun 25, 2017 21:53 ] |
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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) I feel like it should be saying something about climate change, the destruction of our sea life or the pollution of the seas or just something. But it ain't saying shit. The graphics are nice, the game is boring to play and goes nowhere and the music is horrible. Abzulutely pointless and doesn't hold a candle to Journey. |
Author: | Mr Dave [ Sun Jun 25, 2017 23:15 ] |
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Yup. Verr disappointing, t'were. Although I do wonder how fondly I'd remember journey if I weren't paired up with the person I was. That human element worked wonders. |
Author: | Mr Russell [ Mon Jun 26, 2017 8:24 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 51. Escape Game Car Garage (iOS) 52. Challenging Night House Escape (iOS) 53. Escape Game Lost in Desert (iOS) 54. Can You Escape Tree House (iOS) 55. Escape Game Lost Car Key (iOS) 56. Escape Game Diamond Mask (iOS) 57. Who Can Escape Locked House 7 (iOS) 58. Escape Game Treasure Map (iOS) 59. Abandoned House Girl Escape (iOS) 60. Escape Game Robot Escape (iOS) 61. Escape Game Hunter Escape (iOS) |
Author: | Grim... [ Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:01 ] |
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If Russ ever gets sent to jail he'll have vanished before nightfall. |
Author: | Mr Russell [ Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:06 ] |
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Grim... wrote: If Russ ever gets sent to jail he'll have vanished before nightfall. As long as there's a series of related clues It always annoys me in the LEGO games that this impenetrable fortress I'm breaking into (or whatever) has for example a Captain America shield lock as one of the defenses. Like, what are the bad guys doing, using this as a point of entry? |
Author: | Bamba [ Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:08 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 31. The Ghost Town 32. Vulture Island 33. Until Dawn 34. Small Radio Big Televisions 35. Devious Dungeons 2 36. Submerged 37. Firewatch: Really good stuff, as noted by pretty much everyone else in the world. It looks lovely--albeit maybe not quite as nice in motion as screenshots would suggest--and is just generally really fun and compelling stuff. The dialogue and voice-acting is the highlight and really brings the two main characters alive; it's genuinely right up there in quality and wouldn't be out of place in any proper TV show of film. Like Henry I think I'd fallen a little bit in love with Delilah by the end of it which is a mark of the quality we're talking about here. If I had a complaint it would be that that the game is actually too short. Like they build this decent sized map and lead you through a few section of it then BAM, it accelerates towards the ending before you know it. I'd really have liked more reasons to explore and even more 'busy work' type missions just to pace things out better and give me more of a reason to exist in the world. I realise you can explore in a free roam mode once you've finished but without any actual gameplay objectives--and with no Delilah to talk to--it would be a hollow experience. It could also be argued that the ending doesn't stand up to the rest of the story but I dunno, I'm a bit on the fence there. 38. The Forgotten Room: Glitch Games have a rep for turning out well put together point-clicky-escapey type games and I usually look forward to their stuff but this one was a bit weak. Unlike their usual form there were a couple of crappy puzzles involved but mostly it's because they've redesigned their interface to make it shit. Using an item means summoning this weird wheel thing then dragging stuff off it into the game world which is fussy and needless. The camera is the worst mis-step though in that to view pictures you've taken you hold the camera icon down for some amount of time then let it go. Aside from the fact that this just slows your interactions down frustratingly you get no feedback as to when you've held the button long enough, so you end up either waiting around for ages to be on the safe side or not holding it long enough and just taking a picture you don't need. Fucking stupid. |
Author: | Grim... [ Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:13 ] |
Post subject: | Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017 |
Bamba wrote: It could also be argued that the ending doesn't stand up to the rest of the story but I dunno, I'm a bit on the fence there. We discuss that in the Firewatch thread a bit, I think. |
Author: | Mr Russell [ Tue Jun 27, 2017 12:50 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 61. Escape Game Hunter Escape (iOS) 62. Can You Escape The House 3 (iOS) |
Author: | Bamba [ Tue Jun 27, 2017 14:32 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 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: very good point-clicky-escapey thing for Android set in an abandoned and well presented medical facility in the Antarctic. Nicedly designed and logical puzzles are the order of the day. |
Author: | Mr Russell [ Tue Jun 27, 2017 15:25 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 61. Escape Game Hunter Escape (iOS) 62. Can You Escape The House 3 (iOS) 63. Railway Waiting Room Escape (iOS) |
Author: | Bamba [ Tue Jun 27, 2017 15:50 ] |
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Mr Russell wrote: 63. Railway Waiting Room Escape (iOS) Walkthrough: open door, walk out? |
Author: | Mr Russell [ Tue Jun 27, 2017 15:53 ] |
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Bamba wrote: Mr Russell wrote: 63. Railway Waiting Room Escape (iOS) Walkthrough: open door, walk out? Quote: Railway waiting Room Escape is a point and click escape game. Assume that you are trapped in a waiting room at a railway station while waiting for your train. There is an emergency situation and you need get out of the station as soon as possible but you are not able to go out of the station. You must try to unlock the door of the waiting room so that you can escape from the railway situation. Emergency situation!! |
Author: | TheVision [ Tue Jun 27, 2017 15:59 ] |
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I've got to be honest, It doesn't sound the most exciting of games. I'm sure it's great but that synopsis leaves me a little wanting. |
Author: | Mr Russell [ Tue Jun 27, 2017 18:56 ] |
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TheVision wrote: I've got to be honest, It doesn't sound the most exciting of games. I'm sure it's great but that synopsis leaves me a little wanting. It's clearly written by someone who's first language is not English. The joy is not in the scenario, it is in solving the puzzles. |
Author: | Mr Russell [ Thu Jun 29, 2017 13:42 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 61. Escape Game Hunter Escape (iOS) 62. Can You Escape The House 3 (iOS) 63. Railway Waiting Room Escape (iOS) 64. Mario Run (iOS) |
Author: | Bamba [ Thu Jun 29, 2017 13:51 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 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: short and weird pointy-clicky thing for Android. Pretty meh. |
Author: | Bamba [ Fri Jun 30, 2017 14:16 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 41. That Dragon, Cancer: For those who've never heard of it, it's essentially the story of the developer's son's battle with, and eventual loss to, cancer. Well, as the kid in question was only five at the time it's actually about the adults in the family and their experience. And given all that, it's a bit of a shame to call it out for being largely a load of balls. Mechanically it's primitive and odd to control even though you're mostly just pointing a character in a direction to advance the story. There are a couple of occasions when it tries to be more of a 'game' (a bizarre kart racing section and a puzzle involving candles that just had me clicking shit randomly until I could proceed) and those parts are arguably even worse as they're not only boring but just seem completely at odds with the subject matter. There are a couple of sections that genuinely take advantage of an interactive medium (e.g. a part where you can move between occupying either of the parents or the attendant medical staff while things are being discussed and 'hear' their internal monologue as bad news is being delivered and processed) and they show a glimmer of a good idea, but aside from that it's really just finding the next thing to click on to move your character through some landscapes. Coming off the back of something like Edith Finch which tells various stories of loss and heartbreak in incredible and moving ways this can't really seem like anything other than boring twaddle. Which is ironic given the very real basis here vs Edith Finch's invented story. The thing is, 'gameplay' aside, I was genuinely quite affected by the family's story in the beginning due largely to the voice work (the developer and his wife playing themselves as far as I know) doing a good job if putting you in the middle of the situation. However, not only is the wife's voice is incredibly grating after a while but about a third of the way through every conversation and line of dialogue becomes about their faith. Obviously I can understand the entire situation throwing up such questions and thoughts for a Christian couple but literally every scene after a certain point is a lengthy pondering on God and, frankly, I couldn't give a fuck so I was left cold by it all. 42. Spate: an indie PC platform game about a detective investigating a disappearance in a ruined and flooded district. Except that the platforming is so low on challenge that it's really more of a 2D walking simulator. Which sounds like a criticism but isn't meant to be; it's only about an hour and a half long and the landscapes you walkthrough are fucking lovely so the time passes very quickly. There's a slightly muddled story about alcoholism and the protagonist's daughter but really I was in it for the visuals and thoroughly enjoyed it on that basis. Probably not for everyone but I was in the right mood for just such a palette cleanser so it was all good. It's also the only game I've ever played to dedicate a controller button entirely to the function 'swig absinthe'. |
Author: | TheVision [ Fri Jun 30, 2017 14:20 ] |
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Interesting to read your take on That Dragon, Cancer. I really wanted to play it when I first heard about it but on the other hand, I didn't want to put myself through the emotional trauma because... you know, things change when you have kids of your own. I think I might give it a miss. I would probably think the same way you do about the "Christian" moments. |
Author: | Bamba [ Fri Jun 30, 2017 14:44 ] |
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I imagine it's much more affecting if you have kids of your own which might make it a more worthwhile experience in parts, but yeah, the Christian stuff will probably still put you off if you're not religious yourself. I'm not even some crazy hardcore atheist or anything and have no problem with people's faith in general, but in the game I did find myself thinking, "Oh for fuck sake just shut up about it!" pretty quickly. |
Author: | Mimi [ Fri Jun 30, 2017 15:12 ] |
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Author: | Findus Fop [ Fri Jun 30, 2017 16:54 ] |
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Mimi wrote: [map] [/map][c Has Mimi accidentally revealed the beginnings of the Escape puzzle she's been carefully constructing for Truman Mr Russell? |
Author: | Mr Russell [ Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:23 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 61. Escape Game Hunter Escape (iOS) 62. Can You Escape The House 3 (iOS) 63. Railway Waiting Room Escape (iOS) 64. Mario Run (iOS) 65. Escape Game Witchs Potion (iOS) |
Author: | Grim... [ Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:26 ] |
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You've done 31 "Escape Game"'s this year! How many of these are there?! |
Author: | Mr Russell [ Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:33 ] |
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Grim... wrote: You've done 31 "Escape Game"'s this year! How many of these are there?! I think I counted something like 160? The number was earlier in the thread, but I checked and there's been more made since, so I'm still going! |
Author: | Mr Russell [ Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:35 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 61. Escape Game Hunter Escape (iOS) 62. Can You Escape The House 3 (iOS) 63. Railway Waiting Room Escape (iOS) 64. Mario Run (iOS) 65. Escape Game Witchs Potion (iOS) 66. Escape Game Dungeon Escape (iOS) |
Author: | Mr Russell [ Mon Jul 03, 2017 13:31 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 61. Escape Game Hunter Escape (iOS) 62. Can You Escape The House 3 (iOS) 63. Railway Waiting Room Escape (iOS) 64. Mario Run (iOS) 65. Escape Game Witchs Potion (iOS) 66. Escape Game Dungeon Escape (iOS) 67. Escape Game Treasure Quest (iOS) |
Author: | Mr Russell [ Mon Jul 03, 2017 14:09 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 61. Escape Game Hunter Escape (iOS) 62. Can You Escape The House 3 (iOS) 63. Railway Waiting Room Escape (iOS) 64. Mario Run (iOS) 65. Escape Game Witchs Potion (iOS) 66. Escape Game Dungeon Escape (iOS) 67. Escape Game Treasure Quest (iOS) 68. Who Can Escape 5 Doors (iOS) |
Author: | Mr Russell [ Mon Jul 03, 2017 14:18 ] |
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Changing format of the way I list these now for everyone's benefit. "Escape" Games: ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! "Normal" Games ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
Author: | Bamba [ Mon Jul 03, 2017 14:44 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 41. That Dragon, Cancer 42. Spate 43. A Short Tale: another Glitch Games pointy-clicker for Android. While the puzzles were all pretty clever it suffered from cramming the entire game into a handful of similar scenes so remembering where everything was in order to progress was pretty horrible and I got frustrated with this one pretty quickly. |
Author: | Satsuma [ Mon Jul 03, 2017 22:38 ] |
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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) I didn't think I was going to like this but then I played it and I loved it. Crawling up a gay's arsehole; Kim Kardashian's foetus, anal probing, oh and fighting as a dwarf on a bed while your parents are doing it and then avoiding tactical ball swings, and Randy, just Randy and so on. The only weakness was the repetitive nature of the combat and some of the longer special moves. It didn't seem quite nuanced enough. It was good and absolutely functional but it never really challenged me much. I died in combat probably twice and that was only early on. Edit: apparently the European console versions were edited but not the PC. Yippie. |
Author: | Bamba [ Mon Jul 03, 2017 22:54 ] |
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I think I might've played a demo of it or something. I dunno. I was put off with the idea of turn based combat but if it's not actually that hard I'd be happy to get into it for the sake of the comedy. Hmm... |
Author: | Satsuma [ Mon Jul 03, 2017 23:20 ] |
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Bamba wrote: I think I might've played a demo of it or something. I dunno. I was put off with the idea of turn based combat but if it's not actually that hard I'd be happy to get into it for the sake of the comedy. Hmm... I'm not a hardcore RPG player, but even I found it to be a piece of piss. I've just had a look at a couple of reviews on it and they all say it's too easy so you might want to give it a punt while it's cheap. Plus, you never know, it could be an entry to trying out some other RPG games which you might otherwise have avoided. Xenoblade Chronicles was my gateway game and I've got no difficulties picking up an RPG now that might interest me (I haven't played many but I've played some of the best ones that were on my radar and never regretted it). |
Author: | Mr Russell [ Wed Jul 05, 2017 15:14 ] |
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"Escape" Games: ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! "Normal" Games ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 69. Locked Kennel Dog Escape (iOS) |
Author: | Bamba [ Thu Jul 06, 2017 10:14 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 41. That Dragon, Cancer 42. Spate 43. A Short Tale 44. Layers of Fear + Inheritance DLC: I've played the main game before but enjoyed it at the time and just fancied playing through it again for some reason. Sadly it didn't hold up anywhere near as well the second time round and while certain sections still held my attention a lot of it felt pretty repetitive and trudgey now. Unsurprisingly the DLC was more enjoyable given it's novelty, and there was also more sense of actual branching paths going on. Indeed I looked parts of it up afterwards and there were whole sections and puzzles I never came across which speaks to a certain amount of depth. Taken together this gives it a faintly positive meh/10. |
Author: | Satsuma [ Sun Jul 09, 2017 18:15 ] |
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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) It's Half-Life but barely controllable with the steam controller (thanks to some weird glitch that meant the Xbox One pad would cause me to look at the ceiling and I couldn't shift it). I enjoy the SC but, fuck me, I couldn't find a sweet spot with the movement. It was either too fast or too slow and, of course, this Half-Life introduces "puzzles" that were turned into trials of patience as I pushed boxes too far or off to the side or fluffed another jump or fell off a ladder. It might have been alright had I got my controller to work but it was massively frustrating on the SC. And it's not actually that interesting either. And it has a Xen level. Overall: meh. |
Author: | Mr Dave [ Sun Jul 09, 2017 20:55 ] |
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Clearly you need to KBAM it up. |
Author: | Mr Russell [ Thu Jul 13, 2017 10:59 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 70. Dreamcage: Two Towers Creek (iOS) 71. Faraway (iOS) |
Author: | Bamba [ Thu Jul 13, 2017 13:45 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 41. That Dragon, Cancer 42. Spate 43. A Short Tale 44. Layers of Fear + Inheritance DLC 45. ICARUS.1: an exploration type game that sees you as an investigator raking through an empty mining ship to try and work out what happened to the crew. It looks pretty nice and the atmosphere of the abandoned ship is palpable but that's about all the game gets right sadly. The puzzles are barely worthy of the name (find keycard in one room and put it in the keycard slot elsewhere) and are only made at all difficult by the darkness of certain sections of the game making pickups hard to find. It would still be, and sort of was, a pleasant way to spend a couple of hours if not for a load of amateur mistakes increasing the general frustration of the experience. To wit:
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Author: | Grim... [ Thu Jul 13, 2017 13:59 ] |
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Bamba wrote: [...]you end up genuinely scared of dying Isn't that a good thing? |
Author: | Bamba [ Thu Jul 13, 2017 14:05 ] |
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Grim... wrote: Bamba wrote: [...]you end up genuinely scared of dying Isn't that a good thing? Yeah, but for the wrong reasons. You don't fear death due to any inherent tension but because the punishment is to get up off the couch and walk over to the PC keyboard so you can redo your lost 'invert Y' settings then sit back down on the couch and redo a load of stuff you've already done. It's not teaching you any lessons or improving your skills, it's just a pain in the arse. |
Author: | Bamba [ Fri Jul 14, 2017 13:56 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 41. That Dragon, Cancer 42. Spate 43. A Short Tale 44. Layers of Fear + Inheritance DLC 45. ICARUS.1 46. Daregon: Utterly shameless Monument Valley rip-off but with worse level design. Not bad for something to fiddle with for half an hour but near the end it trades in actual geometric puzzling for bullshit memory games which is fucking stupid. |
Author: | myp [ Fri Jul 14, 2017 21:12 ] |
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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) Graphics still hold up despite being a ten-year-old game. The free running aspect is a lot of fun and I liked the story. The combat was a bit iffy, the NPC chatter was repetitive to the point of distraction and it was really frustrating having to effectively face three end of game bosses consecutively, but I hear that AC2 managed to fix a lot of the annoying things about the original game. Not sure how it compares to Unity though, sorry Bamba |
Author: | Bamba [ Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:36 ] |
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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! 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: a sci-fi puzzle game that gives you a pseudo-gun with which to work through a load of puzzle rooms while the over-arching story about an AI gone wrong plays out. So, yeah, it's basically Portal. The story is presented straight rather than with any kind of comedy and the central mechanics contain nothing as mind-bending as a portal gun but still, it's clear where it's inspiration came from. That said, it's definitely A Good Game. It looks lovely, doesn't outstay it's welcome and smoothly accomplishes the trick of introducing simple mechanics then ramping up the complexity. It even manages a mid-game reveal that's not only a pretty sweet plot twist but suddenly changes how you look at and interact with the test chambers. The plot itself starts off strong but kind of falls apart at the end--and is mostly told through fucking audio logs because of course it is--but it does the job of framing everything. My only real criticism is that if you've played the Portal games you might find it a bit too easy. It's got a few mechanics in common (light bridges, buttons, etc) but more so because playing Portal just trains your brain so well to parse these kind of challenges. If you just fancy some engaging puzzling, or are usually put off by the difficulty of stuff like Portal, this comes highly recommended. It's also out on all the major platforms so accessible by all. |
Author: | TheVision [ Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:38 ] |
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I bought that in the Xbox One sale the other week. I haven't completed yet but I'm told it's not that long. Is that right? |
Author: | Bamba [ Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:39 ] |
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TheVision wrote: I bought that in the Xbox One sale the other week. I haven't completed yet but I'm told it's not that long. Is that right? Yeah, I rattled through it in just a couple of sessions. |
Author: | Bamba [ Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:42 ] |
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7.2 hours according to Steam; though it will massively depend on how good you are at these types of games of course. There's an optional and slightly more difficult level available per stage (of which there are seven) and that completion time includes knocking all those off as well. |
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