Saturnalian wrote:
1. Killer is Dead(PS3); 2. Beyond: Two Souls (PS3); 3. Badland (iOS); 4. Another World (iOS); 5. Borderlands 2 (PS3); 6. Prince of Persia Classic (iOS); 7. Ni No Kuni (PS3); 8. Don't Look Back (iOS); 9. Metro: Last Light (PS3); 10. Contrast (PS4); 11. Last of Us DLC (PS3); 12. Outlast (PS4); 13. Killzone 4 (PS4); 14. Rayman Run (iOS); 15. Dead Space 3 (PS3); 16. Brothers: A Tale of 2 Brothers (PS3); 17. Dark Souls 2 (PS3); 18. Shelter (PC); 19. The Stanley Parable (PC); 20. David (iOS); 21. Papers, Please (PC); 22. VVVVVV (PC); 23. Cave Story+ (PC); 24. Gone Home (PC); 25. Antichamber (PC) 26. The Swapper (PC) 27. Sine Mora (Vita) 28. Pixeljunk: Shooter Ultimate (PS4)
29. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (PC) I'll be honest - I just didn't
get it. I wasn't terrified, it wasn't scared, I was barely mildly amused. I've kinda liked these horror games ever since FEAR showed me that games can actually be weird and scary and Outlast, another scary-walk about-a-thon, has been one of the more memorable games I've played in a while. This though, nope, just couldn't enjoy it. It started off alright but I didn't understand the story properly and couldn't really enjoy the setting. So when the twist was revealed 80% through I sat there thinking "meh". For all the exposition in the letters found strewn about the place, the talk of the HORRORS of creating pig men was never really on display. It was difficult to imagine the giant titleist machine or what it was doing or how it was supposed to be doing it.
It was all a bit bland, the rooms a bit samey, the environment swamped with a hazy blue or brown hue depending on whether you're inside or outside, pipe after pipe, office after office, corridor after corridor, non-menacing pigs, push four of these, get two of these, find one of these over there which'll talk you a while cause you walk so slowly. Man alive, these things have been done to death.
And the ending? Let me just say these words: Orb. Incan prophecy. Yup, they went there. I had to look up what the ending was about because I must have missed this crap along the way or didn't realise what was happening.
Nah, play Outlast, it's better and scarier. Or FEAR. You can get the entire FEAR catalogue in the steam sales for cheaps. I didn't realise that I've played absolutely every single one of them. I like FEAR.
30. 9.03m (PC) Oh, and then I played this for a while. It's an 'experience' game where you roam a beach on San Francisco looking for objects washed ashore caused from the 2011 Japanese tsunami; a child's teddy, a football, a music box and so on. It only lasts 10 minutes but it did provide a moment of quiet reflection for the people who lost their lives. Half of the money raised from 9.03m is being donated to Aid for Japan who are a charity that helps children who lost their parents that day. Despite that it's difficult to recommend and you could quietly reflect just as easily reading a book or any number of the articles on the subject online.