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Author:  Bamba [ Tue Oct 03, 2017 9:58 ]
Post subject:  Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017

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: a pretty sizeable Metroidvania platformer for Android/iOS which focuses mostly on exploration, with no small challenge in some sections, and it probably the most traditional implementation of the form I've yet played on Android. Very, very good stuff indeed and comes highly recommended as I've been totally gripped by it for the week or so it's taken me to finish it. You know it's a good mobile game when you carry on playing it as soon as you get in the door after commuting home.
69. Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China: I was really looking forward to this as it looked very much like the incredible Mark of the Ninja. And mechanically it absolutely is with a very similar setup, but it's somehow much less than the sum of it's parts and just ends up being really boring after an hour or so. You do earn ability upgrades but they don't have much of an impact so the levels just end up being very samey and uninteresting. What's almost impressive is that they've managed to faithfully translate the unpredictable controls of the full fat AC games into a 2.5D setting so you're not always 100% sure where your character's going to go when you move the analogue stick. It might actually be that factor which separates it most from MofN because it loses the laser focus of the level design by trying to introduce this extra dimension. The presentation level is high throughout and it's watercolour stylings are genuinely beautiful in places but I've now got no desire to play through the two subsequent Chronicles games which probably tells you all you need to know here.

Author:  TheVision [ Tue Oct 03, 2017 10:00 ]
Post subject:  Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017

I finished a game!

Wonderboy 3: The Dragons Trap on the Switch. It was great.

Author:  Bamba [ Tue Oct 03, 2017 13:40 ]
Post subject:  Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017

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: another Android game that tells it's story via the medium of presenting you with the fake interface of a phone you've found and has you piece things together by going through emails and the like. It's very short and not badly put together in terms of the UI but a couple of the puzzles were counter-intuitive enough to derail the experience and it's certainly not as well done as SIM.

Author:  RuySan [ Fri Oct 06, 2017 14:18 ]
Post subject:  Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017

I once played "A normal lost phone" IRL and the person did not thank me.

Never again.

Author:  RuySan [ Fri Oct 06, 2017 15:36 ]
Post subject:  Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017

Mad Max
XCOM 2
Victor Vran
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Endless Legend
Ys Origin
Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power
Shadow Complex
Technobabylon
Dust: An Elysian Tale
Ori and the Blind Forest
The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone
Odallus: The Dark Call
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Hollow Knight
Shadow Warrior 2
Inside
Firewatch
Hyper Light Drifter
Kathy Rain
Fire Emblem: Heroes of Light and Shadow
The Banner Saga 2
24. GA9: Sultans of Rema

Just a gamebook adventure that i played on commute. It's ok, nothing special.

Author:  Satsuma [ Fri Oct 06, 2017 16:26 ]
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)
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)

Natty little puzzler that almost made me shoot my gentleman’s relish. Nah, it wasn’t that good but I enjoyed a few hours nobbing around doing a few puzzles.

Author:  Bamba [ Mon Oct 09, 2017 16:03 ]
Post subject:  Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017

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: an exploration game with Metroidvania flourishes that sees you dropped into a world with no real context and left to clear it out of bad guys and some kind of creeping corruption that's fouling the place up. The action takes place both above and below ground but each part generally leads to you pulling a lever and watching massive chunks of landscape impressively spin, rise, fall, flip and generally reassemble itself into a configuration which allows you to press forward. There are collectibles which give you a number of advantages (i.e. longer health bar, new powers for your glove thing, etc) in combat but it's not a hard game at the best of times so I didn't even use some of the new powers I ended up with. The story is close to non-existent and even when I arrived without much fanfare at the ending I was none the wiser what was going on. Frankly it doesn't matter though because opening up the map and clearing out all the corruption is the main hook and it doesn't need anything else to grab you. It doesn't have the same beautifully lonely atmosphere of RIME and it's nowhere near as pretty but in some ways it's a more engaging game because it's less linear and has more stuff going on. Overall it's really good stuff and I loved the 10 or so hours it took me to finish it and open the entire map up. PSA: the performance on my PC at least was pretty ropey. It was generally fast and smooth but had blatant issues streaming in new parts of the open world as the frame rate would briefly crash through the floor with irritating regularity so maybe wait for a patch or pick up the PS4 version if it's better.

Author:  Bamba [ Tue Oct 10, 2017 13:02 ]
Post subject:  Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017

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: possibly stretching the definition of 'game' a bit here but an app that gives you 60 different household items of varying complexities but presented in pieces like an Airfix kit and challenges you to construct them all. There's not much in the way of challenge, and it'll even give you a subtle hint whenever you snap in a piece that will prevent adding something else, but it's strangely compelling and relaxing.

Author:  Bamba [ Wed Oct 11, 2017 13:27 ]
Post subject:  Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017

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: a freebie on Steam that's ostensibly one of those visual novel things that the Japanese seem to love which sees you romancing three school girls two school girls ☼Æ1╒156Ñ↓21AN74☻18♣3µ1◘j͖̮̯̺û̳̦̜̘ͅs̟̙̖͙̥ͅt̑̃ͯͭͯ ̳͙̯̹̩ͤ̂̊m̙̣̰̫̞̮̑̎o͖̜̒̐̑͒ͭn̥͈̊ͧ̓͗͒̈́̚i̤̤̱̗ͧ̽ͩ͌ͬ͆̚k̋̓a̝͉͖͔̯͉̳ͥ͐̔̑̚ ̝j͕̮͉̺͉ͪ͐ͥ̊u̦̻̐ͨ͗ṡ̥͉̗͈̠̈͌͗̏ͦt̜͖̰̜ͣ̊̅͊ͪ ͔͈̽͒͑͗m͇͍̼͈͎͎̮ͯͨͧo͖̰͇̳̬̙͓ͤn̩̬̮̤̱̰̠ͤ̆ï̗̥͇̈̅͊͌ͩk̤̘̹̳̰̰̰̐a̾͛̿̌ͦ ̦͉͕̘̟͕̹́͂͛̾̇̚jͥ̽̿ͭ̅̀uͯ̐s͓̦̩̉ͣ̆t̓ ͕̺̺͋̃̏̔͗́ḿ͎̞̉͊őͪ̔̈n͚͉̼̗̱̑̓̍͊ͬ͊i̳͖̘̻̓͊ͥͅk̺̭̩̤̟ͣ̊ͦͅa. The exact type of game Hatoful Boyfriend is riffing on in fact. I say ostensibly because the 'psychological horror' tag on the Steam page--and the game's own warning that's it's not suitable for children or the easily disturbed--is well earned by the time the credits finally roll. I don't want to say too much about it in case anyone wants to try it, and you should, but after an (arguably almost off-putting) amount of time presenting itself as a vanilla VN game the wheels come off it pretty damn quickly and what you get is something pretty damn weird and meta as all fuck. Suicide, mental illness and manipulation of the game's files to proceed are the order of the day. So, yeah.

Author:  myp [ Sat Oct 14, 2017 12:31 ]
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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. Granny's Garden (Amiga)

Possibly the greatest game ever. Highly recommend.

Author:  TheVision [ Sat Oct 14, 2017 12:31 ]
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Granny's Garden, An exceptional puzzle game. Highly recommended to play with friends.

Author:  Grim... [ Sat Oct 14, 2017 12:32 ]
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1. Granny's Garden

An epic adventure puzzle game.

Author:  Curiosity [ Sat Oct 14, 2017 12:32 ]
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Grim... wrote:
1. Granny's Garden

An epic adventure puzzle game.


:this:

Author:  Mr Dave [ Sat Oct 14, 2017 12:33 ]
Post subject:  Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017

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)

Yes man simulator

Author:  KovacsC [ Mon Oct 16, 2017 13:28 ]
Post subject:  Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017

Grim... wrote:
1. Granny's Garden

An epic adventure puzzle game.


:this: was amazing

Author:  Kern [ Mon Oct 16, 2017 13:31 ]
Post subject:  Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017

I'm impressed by how they were really using the power of the Amiga to offer vast improvements in graphics and sounds over the original BBC Micro edition.

Author:  Cras [ Mon Oct 16, 2017 13:34 ]
Post subject:  Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017

It's an impressive dystopian satirical masterpiece on the illusion of choice.

Author:  Bamba [ Mon Oct 16, 2017 13:35 ]
Post subject:  Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017

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: as not only an advert for the next season of a TV show but also a mobile game to boot this checks all the boxes to be a fucking awful experience; which is makes it even odder that it's genuinely a brilliant little game. It's essentially a 2D Zelda-like, with some exploration in an overworld required to meet the conditions to open up a dungeon which ends with a boss fight and a new ability (in the shape of a new character found which you can switch to at any time). There are side quests to engage in and secrets to explore which earn your heart pieces and passive upgrades. All in all it's one of the better mobile games I've played in ages and certainly can't be beat for free. It's also worth noting that I've never seen any of Stranger Things and don't know a single thing about it so it's not even like my perceptions are being influenced by an enjoyment of the show.

Author:  DavPaz [ Mon Oct 16, 2017 13:40 ]
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Cras wrote:
It's an impressive dystopian satirical masterpiece on the illusion of choice.

Its's also fucking hard without a comprehensive walkthrough

Author:  Kern [ Mon Oct 16, 2017 13:49 ]
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Why was Granny so unconcerned about a child-napping witch in her back garden?

Author:  DavPaz [ Mon Oct 16, 2017 13:52 ]
Post subject:  Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017

Kern wrote:
Why was Granny so unconcerned about a child-napping witch in her back garden?

Because she had a team of 20-odd people on the case.

Author:  Bamba [ Tue Oct 17, 2017 11:13 ]
Post subject:  Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2017

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: puzzle platformer based around a pretty unique colour-manipulation conceit and current PS+ 'freebie'. This looks and sounds lovely with a low-fi aesthetic that suits the borderline garish colour palette you're given to play with throughout. The colour changing mechanic isn't something I've seen before and it follows the usual progression that a good puzzle game needs i.e. start simple and ramp up the difficulty while introducing new idea as you progress. There was the odd occasion where I wasn't sure if I'd misread a potential solution or simply wasn't changing colours quickly enough but nothing too jarring. Also I'd say the difficulty curve needs smoothing out a bit as it's almost too easy for most of the game then the last level set ramps up pretty quickly. Nothing that would put off anyone who's played a few games like this but I mention it for completeness. Generally very good fun and not too long (two 'sessions' to finish it, though I'm not sure of actual hours elapsed) and a no-brainer for commuting and stuff if you've got a Vita.

Author:  Satsuma [ Tue Oct 17, 2017 22:03 ]
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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)

The first level of this is just gorgeous; really top notch stuff. You’re attacking a castle with a giant moat. Against this backdrop of a larger battle, there’s piles of bodies burning, thick fog and flaming arrows that burst from the sky signalled by the sound of a gong. You make your way through this and through a dead village at the edge of the castle and through an underground cave into the castle keep. It’s level 200 and I’m stuck on level 160 (I lost 6 million souls like a twat and can’t be arsed farming them again) but it made it into a corking slog through rock solid enemies. It’s the best Dark Souls since the last Dark Souls.

Author:  Satsuma [ Tue Oct 17, 2017 22:15 ]
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It’s a trench not a moat, tch.

Author:  Satsuma [ Wed Oct 18, 2017 12:03 ]
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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)

I did all the levels before Defiant Honour but that Maria boss bitch was kicking my ass so I’d left her alone for a bit. Until just a minute ago when I smashed her face in.

Author:  Satsuma [ Fri Oct 20, 2017 16:00 ]
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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)

Final DLC done and it was a bitch. I was 75 levels underlevelled and had to call in summons support for the last two bosses because I couldn’t be arsed to grind seventy five fucking levels. Still, it was awesome stuff and a rock solid challenge even just plodding through each level against the biggest and hardest yokai in could throw at me.

Nioh gets my Game of the Year recommendation.

Author:  Bamba [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 11:12 ]
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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: for clarity this is the short prelude game rather than the full fat Phantom Pain; and my time with it has only underlined my feeling that I couldn't be arsed with the full game because I wasn't all that impressed. As a stealth game it just feels like it's missing something in comparison to other current stuff in the genre like Dishonoured, and even the last couple of Splinter Cell games. To do this genre well you need to give the player a decent toolkit that lets them (a) know when they're taking a risk vs when they're safe and (b) allows them some amount of control of the environment and I don't feel either of those things were very well implemented here. You've got a level that, in some places, is a big open flat plane and there's no real feedback as to when you can be seen or not so moving around can be a bit of a crapshoot. This is coupled with a level design that has you needing to get past certain guards--and groups of guards-- but with no way to influence their behaviour, so you're just left sitting around to see if they ever move. And, if not, then tough tits; you just have to give up on your planned route and try something else entirely. I found myself desperately missing something as simple as a whistle or other lure that could break up guard patterns and give me some kind of actual influence on the game world. I mean it wasn't a difficult game without the stuff I'm talking about here but it was just left feeling a bit barebones and uninteresting. I'll probably go back and try some of new missions that have unlocked since I finished the default level but I'm not convinced I'll dive too far into it.

Author:  Mr Dave [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 11:24 ]
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Bamba wrote:
I found myself desperately missing something

I do indeed believe you missed something.

(although GZ does lack many things from TPP, so can't say what it is for sure. GZ does at least lack one of the most bobbins introductions to a game I've ever played )

Author:  Satsuma [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 11:27 ]
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I can't remember Ground Zeroes much but I remember that I liked the main game a whole lot more than the prequel.

Just so you know, Phantom Pain does have a very clear mechanism to tell you when you are detected (I can't remember whether it's in GZ so I'll go on to explain and you can tell me if it's the exact same thing) which is near identical to the Far Cry series in that you get a arrow pointing in the direction of the threat which grows larger as the threat of detection increases. PLUS, and I'm sure this wasn't in GZ, if you are detected you get a few sections of slowed down time so you can remove the threat with a bullet or two and remain undetected.

You've got PP on PS+ so you might as well give it a shot for nothing init? The opening section is very good (if you like linear action stuff) and should be experienced at least once (or twice! *wink wink* for people in the know). Then you get into the main game which is the open world stuff but still it's more mission based and not just a big sand box. Even though it kinda is...but isn't, because it won't let you outside the mission area.

Anyway, just play PP you dummy.

Author:  DavPaz [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 11:29 ]
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Mr Dave wrote:
most bobbins

It's amusing to imagine you saying that, Dave ;)

Author:  Mr Dave [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 11:45 ]
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Satsuma wrote:
The opening section is very good (if you like being outpaced by snails)

Feex.

But, arr, the main game is much better. Although I ran out of steam about halfway through. It also features PAUL. You should come to PAUL.

Author:  Bamba [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 13:31 ]
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Satsuma wrote:
Just so you know, Phantom Pain does have a very clear mechanism to tell you when you are detected (I can't remember whether it's in GZ so I'll go on to explain and you can tell me if it's the exact same thing) which is near identical to the Far Cry series in that you get a arrow pointing in the direction of the threat which grows larger as the threat of detection increases.


Yeah, sorry, that does exist in GZ, but in my experience it was almost always too late by the time that indicator showed up. I was more thinking that, when faced with a large space and some patrolling baddies, there was no real way to tell whether you were risking being seen until that indicator showed up. So no vision cones, no light level indicator, none of that jazz; leaving it all a bit trial and error. I'm possibly being a bit harsh on it here but the whole system just felt a bit 'meh' to me. There was even one point where I'd used a drainage tunnel to crawl undetected through a section and when I got out the other end Snake just stood right up in full view of a nearby guard and it was all fucked. The second time I did the same thing he stood up into a crouch and I was happily sheltered behind the box separating me and the guard as I'd intended the first time; I've got literally no idea what was different between the two attempts.

Satsuma wrote:
PLUS, and I'm sure this wasn't in GZ, if you are detected you get a few sections of slowed down time so you can remove the threat with a bullet or two and remain undetected.


Yeah, that does happen, but it never seemed to do anything for me. In GZ the only silenced weapon you've got fires sleep darts which seemed to take ages to kick in even when you hit a target who was completely unaware so firing a couple at someone who's already clocked you was useless; I'm assuming because they've already gone to full alert by the time they'd have been knocked out. You could presumably use one of the available non-silenced weapons but you're going to blow your stealth cover instantly if you do that of course.

Satsuma wrote:
You've got PP on PS+ so you might as well give it a shot for nothing init? The opening section is very good (if you like linear action stuff) and should be experienced at least once (or twice! *wink wink* for people in the know). Then you get into the main game which is the open world stuff but still it's more mission based and not just a big sand box. Even though it kinda is...but isn't, because it won't let you outside the mission area.

Anyway, just play PP you dummy.


Yeah, I'm totally not sold on it at all so I think I'm going to skip it; not least because I certainly don't care enough to plough the minimum 45 hours into it that completing it would apparently take. If it was a normal length game I might dip my toe but that's just too daunting a completion time.

Author:  Satsuma [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 13:50 ]
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Bamba wrote:
Satsuma wrote:
PLUS, and I'm sure this wasn't in GZ, if you are detected you get a few sections of slowed down time so you can remove the threat with a bullet or two and remain undetected.


Yeah, that does happen, but it never seemed to do anything for me. In GZ the only silenced weapon you've got fires sleep darts which seemed to take ages to kick in even when you hit a target who was completely unaware so firing a couple at someone who's already clocked you was useless; I'm assuming because they've already gone to full alert by the time they'd have been knocked out. You could presumably use one of the available non-silenced weapons but you're going to blow your stealth cover instantly if you do that of course.


I’m 100% positive that a headshot with the tranq gun is an instant put down. Shoot them in the melon you dummy!

Author:  myp [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 15:29 ]
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I loved GZ. Another wrong opinion from Bamba Bamberson

Author:  Bamba [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 16:52 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Bamba Bamberson


Been checking Facebook on a desktop browser recently?

Author:  myp [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 17:21 ]
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Bamba wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Bamba Bamberson


Been checking Facebook on a desktop browser recently?

Sorry for doxing you!

Author:  Findus Fop [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 17:28 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Bamba wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Bamba Bamberson


Been checking Facebook on a desktop browser recently?

Sorry for spacedoxing you!

Author:  Bamba [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 19:45 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Bamba wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Bamba Bamberson


Been checking Facebook on a desktop browser recently?

Sorry for doxing you!


Heh. I was a Facebook objector for a really long time and originally only signed up because a stag weekend years ago was being arranged through it hence the stupid fake name.

Author:  myp [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 20:17 ]
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Oh I didn't have Facebook for a while. Then Curio forgot to invite me to Bobby's stag do and I joined a baseball team where everything was organised through FB so had to come back.

Author:  myp [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 20:21 ]
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"Forgot"

Author:  Cras [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 20:39 ]
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Curio didn't organise it!

Author:  myp [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 20:41 ]
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Cras wrote:
Curio didn't organise it!

Did he not? :S

Author:  Cras [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 21:20 ]
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Dave B did. And we paid him not to invite you.

Author:  myp [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 21:25 ]
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Cras wrote:
Dave B did. And we paid him not to invite you.

That makes more sense!

Author:  Satsuma [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 22:26 ]
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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)

Here’s a game you’ve probably not heard of gang. It’s from ex-Hitman devs and it’s pretty good. You play a woman in the future called En and she’s come to The Cube to resurrect her...yawn, no one give a fuck about the bollocks sci-fi rubbish. Here’s what you need to know in a nutshell:

It’s a stealth game. You’re in a machine. The machine creates clones of you. The clones wander about walking predetermined routes like any good stealth game. You’ve got to get past them and reach the exit or, on occasion, get a number of shinies to open a door.

Here’s the clever:

1) The game has a short cycle - when the machine is ON all the lights are on and the machine “learns” from your actions. After a few minutes the machine shuts OFF and the lights go off and you can do what you please with impunity. After each cycle the game goes back to square one. Anyone you’ve killed is reanimated but with the new learned actions.

2) So what is the machine learning? Well, what you do during the ON stage is copied by the clones when the machine powers up again after the OFF stage. The clones start off thick - they walk their routes - but if you run then during the next cycle the clones run. You shoot the clones dead then the next cycle the clones will shoot at you. You stealth crouch about then next time the clones do the same. They can’t run through water but if you escape through water to avoid them in one cycle then next time they’ll run straight through the stuff to squeeze your melon until it pops.

It sounds reet clever, and it is, but it’s still not as clever as it wants to be which is probably for the best as it’s a pretty difficult game. The clones have long sight lines but a very short vision cone. You can stand right beside them or run right next to them and they don’t hear you but they can hear shouts, gunfire or dropped objects. You learn these oddities as you progress and use them to your advantage.

It’s also a tiny bit janky on PS4. There’s the odd annoying freeze or stutter but usually outside the main gameplay. You also need to turn the gamma right up or it’s far too dark.

It’s not going to be to everyone’s tastes as it is a stealth game after all - a dangerously boring genre - but it tries something new and succeeds. It’s a great game of cat and mouse for those willing to put some time in. The art style is really nice although it gets a bit samey after a while but the game isn’t that long though, thankfully. Oh and the main character is voiced by YOU KNOW NOTHIN JON SNUUUUUR, Rose Leslie (not that anyone would notice). It’s also on PEEEECEEEE. £18.

Here’s a YouTube for a looky:


Author:  Findus Fop [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 6:33 ]
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Satsuma wrote:
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)

Here’s a game you’ve probably not heard of gang. It’s from ex-Hitman devs and it’s pretty good. You play a woman in the future called En and she’s come to The Cube to resurrect her...yawn, no one give a fuck about the bollocks sci-fi rubbish. Here’s what you need to know in a nutshell:

It’s a stealth game. You’re in a machine. The machine creates clones of you. The clones wander about walking predetermined routes like any good stealth game. You’ve got to get past them and reach the exit or, on occasion, get a number of shinies to open a door.

Here’s the clever:

1) The game has a short cycle - when the machine is ON all the lights are on and the machine “learns” from your actions. After a few minutes the machine shuts OFF and the lights go off and you can do what you please with impunity. After each cycle the game goes back to square one. Anyone you’ve killed is reanimated but with the new learned actions.

2) So what is the machine learning? Well, what you do during the ON stage is copied by the clones when the machine powers up again after the OFF stage. The clones start off thick - they walk their routes - but if you run then during the next cycle the clones run. You shoot the clones dead then the next cycle the clones will shoot at you. You stealth crouch about then next time the clones do the same. They can’t run through water but if you escape through water to avoid them in one cycle then next time they’ll run straight through the stuff to squeeze your melon until it pops.

It sounds reet clever, and it is, but it’s still not as clever as it wants to be which is probably for the best as it’s a pretty difficult game. The clones have long sight lines but a very short vision cone. You can stand right beside them or run right next to them and they don’t hear you but they can hear shouts, gunfire or dropped objects. You learn these oddities as you progress and use them to your advantage.

It’s also a tiny bit janky on PS4. There’s the odd annoying freeze or stutter but usually outside the main gameplay. You also need to turn the gamma right up or it’s far too dark.

It’s not going to be to everyone’s tastes as it is a stealth game after all - a dangerously boring genre - but it tries something new and succeeds. It’s a great game of cat and mouse for those willing to put some time in. The art style is really nice although it gets a bit samey after a while but the game isn’t that long though, thankfully. Oh and the main character is voiced by YOU KNOW NOTHIN JON SNUUUUUR, Rose Leslie (not that anyone would notice). It’s also on PEEEECEEEE. £18.

Here’s a YouTube for a looky:



That sounds very clever indeed and, as someone who flailed helplessly across many levels of Braid, far too clever for my blood. Does sound good, though.

Author:  Bamba [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 10:05 ]
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Satsuma wrote:
Here’s a game you’ve probably not heard of gang.


Is it that obscure? I read reviews of it from multiple sites when it was released. It certainly has an interesting central conceit, but the general flavour I got from reading about it was that it ended up being a bit repetitive--partly due to the environment design being pretty but kind of soulless--and just not as fun as it could've been. I swithered over it and ended up not sticking it on The List.

Author:  Bamba [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 10:07 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Oh I didn't have Facebook for a while. Then Curio forgot to invite me to Bobby's stag do and I joined a baseball team where everything was organised through FB so had to come back.


When I wasn't on Facebook this kind of shit used to totally enrage me. There were a few occasions where I only found out about stuff by accident weeks after it'd been arranged because no one thought to separately email me or whatever. Now I use it as ubiquitously as everyone else because I'm an obedient slave to convenience.

Author:  Grim... [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 10:42 ]
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I read reviews on it, certainly.

Author:  myp [ Sat Oct 28, 2017 17:52 ]
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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. Granny's Garden (Amiga)
14. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (Amiga) - completed Easy Championship

Still a classic. The sense of speed is awesome ajd the music is amazing. Maddening AI cars that just drift left and right though, and they don't need to refuel even though you do.

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