Starker on 13/3/2025 at 18:12
I had the opposite reaction to Grimrock 2. I basically felt 1 was a bit too simple and basic and that 2 was more like what 1 should have been. I think I especially appreciated the maps being more sprawling and the puzzles being a bit more complex and varied.
Malf on 13/3/2025 at 19:44
I wanted to like both Grimrock games, but they were both pale imitations of Dungeon Master for me.
Apart from graphics and save system, DM did
everything else better.
But that's true of any game treading the same path; unfortunately for them, DM is one of my favourite games of all time, and still plays incredibly well today thanks to the free versions hosted over on (
http://dmweb.free.fr/)
Pyrian on 13/3/2025 at 23:04
Legend of Grimrock II is easily my favorite of the form. Great game, IMO.
henke on 15/3/2025 at 11:27
Star Wars Bounty Hunter - it's a good looking remaster but the gameplay is lacklustre. Exploring the levels via jetpack is kinda fun, but the shooting and bounty hunting is boring. Never played the original, but I think the remaster might've modernized the controls a bit. They could've taken the modernizing further imo. One annoying bit of clunkiness is constantly switching between items using the D-pad. Ya gotta switch to the visor to identify bounties, then to the cord to capture then, then to blasters when a shootout happens. This would've played much better if enabling the visor was a dedicated button. Clicking in the left thumbstick, for instance. Anyway, played 2.1 hours of it, so too late to refund, but I dunno if I wanna keep playing it either. Does it pick up later on?
Exo Cross - racing game by iRacing devs. Lots of negative Steam reviews due to little content and lag issues on certain systems. It's on a steep sale so little content doesn't bother me, but this thing sure does lag like hell on my computer. Tried turning down all the graphics settings and resolution but that made it lag even more! It ran fine on the office Steam Deck tho, so I'll play it on that. It's ok.
Corpus Edax - yeah this indie immsim sure is janky! Stealth barely works. Looks like an uglier version of Invisible War. Amateurish storytelling and writing. Hand to hand combat is kinda fun tho. I'm 2.8 hours in, and think I'll keep going. Despite EVERYTHING it's kinda fun.
Tomi on 16/3/2025 at 16:57
Balatro was added to Game Pass so I wanted to see what the fuss is all about.
Well, I can certainly see why some people seem to love it so much. There's a lot of depth in it and you keep discovering new things all the time as you play. But, it's still just a card game, so I find it hard to get really excited about it. I can imagine myself playing one session of this every now and then, but I think I'll much rather play Slay the Spire or something when the deckbuilder mood hits me.
Thirith on 16/3/2025 at 17:59
After getting to the third act of Far Cry 4 a couple of days ago, I pretty much ran through the rest of the game, mainly because it seemed to me that the developers didn't really add anything interesting in the second part of the map - and I was right: northern Kyrat is very much like southern Kyrat, and the only thing that the new enemies have over their southern brethren is more hit points, which is one of the things I've come to hate about Ubisoft game design in the last ten years or so. The game gives you weapons to counter the hardier enemies, but there's nothing interesting in design where the only thing that changes is your enemies get more health and you get weapons that do more damage. The story also pretty much did what I expected it to do, so yeah, I'm okay with leaving it at that as far as Far Cry is concerned, unless they find more interesting things to do with the template. I can imagine that the game is much more fun in coop, but other than that I'd say I'm all Far Cried out for now.
Anyway, I just got started on Sifu, but I already suspect that this won't be the game for me. My head's already aching at the sheer range of button presses and combos. I liked what I heard and read about the game, but I suck at what the game expects me to do, and I should've known this. I'll stick with it for now, but there's a good chance I'll move on to something that's more in my wheelhouse.
Renault on 17/3/2025 at 14:41
I started out the year playing the entire recent Hitman Trilogy back to back to back on PC. Pretty much consider these games a classic now - the levels are just so big and open and there's so much to do and so many possibilities. I had played some of the levels on PS4 in strange/random order previously, but it was fun to play it all straight thru and treat it as one complete game. I guess that's the way they want it, after branding it the "World of Assassination."
I moved on to Gloomwood, which is (still) looking really good. They added a section called The Hive which is a scary and confusing sewer area. There's already so much content, this game is going to be huge (in size) when released years from now. In short, there's 5 "things" to collect during the length of the game, and they're only up to 2. It'll probably take you 15-20 hours just to get that far.
That led me to a game called Butcher's Creek, by David Szymanski, (the Dusk guy and one of the Gloomwood guys), which is a short Condemned inspired thing. Being a big Condemned fan, I jumped on it. It's OK. I feel like there could have been a lot more done with it though. I went back afterward and played through the original Condemned, and it's still great and has incredible atmosphere, and Butcher's Creek truthfully just pales huge by comparison. I then went back and hooked up my PS3 and fired up Condemned 2, which I think I haven't played since release. It's not the same game either, but has some interesting features, so I'll probably go back and finish it at some point.
Picked up a copy of Cyberpunk 2077, and put some time in. I kind of see it as a thing I go to here and there, completing a few missions at a time, but overall it didn't really sink it's hooks into me. The open world they created though is amazing, and it's a joy to explore and navigate. But I don't feel that huge draw to get back to it every night.
Then came Death Stranding. I had started this game 2 other times on PS4, but didn't get far. Now playing on PC (and the "Director's Cut"), I'm completely engrossed and can't put it down. The tough part is, there's so many aspects to the game that I dislike - all the stats screens, the constant cutscenes, the likes, the meaningless backtracking, the constant dialogue, etc. But the good parts of the game are great and kind of overpower everything else. Traversing terrain, discovering new places in a giant (and gorgeous) wasteland, maneuvering vehicles, stealing from bandits, avoiding BTs, all great stuff. I'm tempted to turn off all the online connection nonsense, but every once in a while, there will be a really convenient bridge placed by someone else in their game but showing up in mine. Hard to knock that. I can really see how divisive this game could be to most people, but I don't see putting it down anytime soon.
Jason Moyer on 23/3/2025 at 22:48
I gave the remaster of Dark Forces a go. Made it through almost all of the imperial prison level, and couldn't get further without a walkthrough. If I need a walkthrough to beat a game, I'm done playing it. I will say it looks good and plays well and it's always fun to run around shooting stormtroopers. While I'm in the mood it's probably time for a replay of Jedi Outcast since it's been awhile.
Neb on 24/3/2025 at 00:24
I played Dark Forces 2 for the first time last year, and it was a good time. Hopefully we get a remake of that too.
I have amazing memories of Jedi Outcast though. I spent an entire 3 days doing nothing but playing it when it first came out. :sweat:
Starker on 24/3/2025 at 06:01
A short and sweet game about stabbing Nazis (just walk into or jump into enemies once you get a weapon):
(
https://adamatomic.itch.io/prince)
In the end I missed one of the bastids somewhere, but I reckon 60 ain't none too bad.
