Pyrian on 24/10/2019 at 19:42
My biggest complaint about Into the Breach is one of the level abilities. There's four possible abilities a pilot gets from making a level, three of which are very nice and roughly even, and one of which is 97% useless and more than a little annoying when you get it. "YAY I leveled up and got - oh frick nevermind."
PigLick on 24/10/2019 at 23:29
Into the Breach was an odd one for me, I really wanted to like it, and did play a fair few hours, but it just didnt have the "one more go" feeling that FTL had.
Thirith on 28/10/2019 at 07:36
I finished Disco Elysium over the weekend, and while the very end was a bit underwhelming, there was a moment in the overall ending that was absolutely beautiful and pretty much unlike anything I've experienced in games (though I understand better now why some compared this to Kentucky Route Zero - there's some of the same kind of magic). All in all, this is probably my favourite RPG since Fallout New Vegas, and I wish there were more games in its vein that left out the RPG combat, turned it into something more narrative or at least reduced it so it's 95% about the characters and the storytelling.
froghawk on 1/11/2019 at 22:01
Biased how? It's a top 5 game for me.
Tomi on 2/11/2019 at 17:37
That's got to be the most tedious gameplay video that I've ever seen though... I mean, come on, the guy spends almost two hours trying to solve that spider puzzle!
Oh hang on, that's your youtube channel isn't it? Oops! You really like those old school FMV games, don't you? :D
Tomi on 3/11/2019 at 21:57
Played a bit of
Synthetik from the latest Humble Monthly. Judging by the screenshots I was expecting it to be like
Crusader: No Remorse, but while there are some similarities, this is just hectic non-stop action and not much else. I often found it hard to tell which objects worked as a cover and which ones didn't (the screenshot below isn't a very good example of this). I think that there might be a lot of depth to this game, with all the different objects and things that you can upgrade, but it's still not my cup of tea.
Inline Image:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/779613613820248317/0D2E8C1388D1F365D2D450A827EA0C35B4D49A60/
Harvester on 4/11/2019 at 10:59
I'm playing New 'n Tasty: Oddworld Abe's Oddysee remastered. My girlfriend said she watched a previous boyfriend play the original version years ago and she liked watching him play, so I bought the remastered version during the Halloween sale and I'm playing it now while she's watching and providing free commentary ;). We're really enjoying doing this together, and after this game I'll try playing Limbo and Inside with her, I've shown her gameplay footage of Limbo and she liked the atmosphere and creepiness. She also happens to know the ancient Bitmap Brothers game Gods, so I think I'll grab that off an abandonware site and fire it up in DosBox to give her a nostalgic experience.
As for the game, it looks gorgeous, runs great on my machine and plays well with my Xbox One controller. It's a lot easier than the original version, because of a quicksave/load function, where the original only had checkpoints. I'm playing it on normal, of course hard would be more difficult, but still, with the quicksave function it's still probably easier than the original game (which didn't have difficulty settings IIRC). There's also a co-op mode and I've suggested this to her, I'd buy a second controller for her in a heartbeat, but she said she likes to watch me play rather than play herself, because she says she's not that good and just gets frustrated with her own lack of skills.
Doing this kind of stuff together is a lot of fun!
Marecki on 4/11/2019 at 11:08
Good idea if you ask me. I have been using trackballs for almost 25 years now and even so, when a few years ago I tried a finger-operated one (mostly so that I could try and switch hands from time to time) I pretty much bounced off it.
Thirith on 4/11/2019 at 14:39
I've been wanting to replay Dishonored 2 for a while now, not least because of my still reasonably newish ultrawide screen. I started over the weekend and for me it's still the closest I've come to recapturing that old Thief feeling. IMO Arkane is one of the top studios when it comes to designing interesting, believable environments, and Dishonored's options for traversal make it very enjoyable to inhabit these spaces.