henke on 16/4/2023 at 23:46
I played so much Subnautica that now I'm having nightmares and can't sleep :I
catbarf on 17/4/2023 at 00:11
Everspace 2 is the sequel to Freelancer that I've been wanting for twenty years. Same core gameplay loop as the first Everspace, but fit into an open world rather than a roguelike. Looks very pretty too.
A bit disappointing that it doesn't have multiplayer, but I'm having more fun with this than I ever did with Elite: Dangerous.
Komag on 17/4/2023 at 11:05
I just recently finished playing Subnautica for the third time after swearing after the second time that I would never play it again! (Currently halfway through Below Zero for the third time as well) :D
Thirith on 17/4/2023 at 14:35
I finished The Witness over the weekend - by which I mean that towards the end I felt I'd had enough of the puzzles and did the last location mostly following a walkthrough. Not a criticism of the game - I'm fine with having had enough grid puzzles once I was roughly 90% through The Witness, and while I didn't solve the last dozen puzzles or so, I liked some of the ideas behind them. (Especially the ones where you've got broken displays on two sides of a room over a chasm, and the way they're broken all follow specific rules.) I didn't get much out of the audio logs and videos, but I liked the low-key surrealist atmosphere of the island.
I also started a replay of Hyper Light Drifter, and while I was shocked at how much I sucked at the beginning, I'm getting into the groove. I've beat one boss (the frog one to the E) and am getting close to the one to the W. It's still supremely atmospheric and enjoyable, and I'm curious to see whether Hyper Light Breaker will achieve the same in spite of switching to 3D and proc-gen open worlds. (I'm wary but intrigued.)
And I feel that afterwards I'll want to play an RPG. Either I'll return to Legend of Grimrock, which I enjoyed but never finished back when it came out, or Pillars of Eternity 2 - or is it finally time to replay Ultima VII?
Renault on 17/4/2023 at 16:57
I'm playing tons of Subnautica too. It's one of the best VR experiences I've had, maybe the best. I actually woke up early this morning, before work, to get some game time in. My wife was shocked I sacrificed some sleep for a little bit of gaming. But really, Subnautica is just so incredible in VR, I can't reccomend it enough. To me this is the kind of experience I was hoping for when getting into virtual reality in the first place.
Saw some tidbits online too about Subnautica 3 being possibly announced soon.
The Witness - that's another game that I had a hard time getting into. I know a lot of people like to compare it to Myst, but to me it doesn't compare well at all. Most of Myst/Riven's puzzles at least attempt to blend into the environment, but The Witness just has these blatant, in your face things scattered all over the island that just scream out I AM A PUZZLE, SOLVE ME. Plus, there's no real serious attempt made at putting any kind of story in place, so overall the whole thing just feels a little soulless to me.
Pyrian on 17/4/2023 at 18:27
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I don't know if you did that on purpose, but either way that's funny. :cheeky:
Thirith on 18/4/2023 at 06:44
Heh. Not on purpose, but on point, seeing how I'd basically done a
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The Witness - that's another game that I had a hard time getting into. I know a lot of people like to compare it to Myst, but to me it doesn't compare well at all. Most of Myst/Riven's puzzles at least attempt to blend into the environment, but The Witness just has these blatant, in your face things scattered all over the island that just scream out I AM A PUZZLE, SOLVE ME. Plus, there's no real serious attempt made at putting any kind of story in place, so overall the whole thing just feels a little soulless to me.
For me it's exactly those things that worked quite well - the place is so obviously constructed, my mind immediately went to questions like: Who constructed it? For what purpose? Why am *I* here? What will happen if I solve these puzzles? It felt like an escape room crossed with
The Prisoner's Village: a place that has a purpose and meaning, but these are just out of reach. I'm not saying it couldn't have worked with a more explicit plot or a more natural environment, but the strange, stilted constructedness formed part of the appeal for me in this case.
Renault on 19/4/2023 at 17:06
Holy crap, I made a submarine.
henke on 20/4/2023 at 06:00
Well done! I'm trying to find the bits I need to make the Cyclops at the moment. Got 3 bases, the lowest at 900m, which was as deep as my Seamoth could go till it got BLOWN UP by a big angry fish. :I
nicked on 20/4/2023 at 06:09
When I played it, I somehow missed the Cyclops parts and didn't figure out how to make one at all until long after I had discovered the prawn suit and reached the deepest parts of the game. By that point I just never really found a use for the Cyclops.
