Tomi on 1/9/2020 at 21:42
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:thumb: I thought you might like it. Keep in mind it's a bit of a compromise in both directions between oldschool Wolf and TNO's newschool, so it only ever ends up as a decent game that doesn't climb to any real heights as such in terms of the experience. It's fun enough to finish, though!
Aw, it's such a short game, but definitely a lot of fun while it lasted! Not often I complain about short games these days, but I wouldn't have minded if The Old Blood had lasted a chapter or two longer.
I decided to start playing
Witcher 2 next - I wanted to play the older two games before jumping into Witcher 3, but this little project is taking its time... It's been two years since I finished Witcher 1 and I've forgotten pretty much everything that happened in it, so I might have just skipped it and maybe the second game too. :/ So far I'm quite enjoying Witcher 2 though so it's all good. I'm glad that they've ditched the combat system from the first game, fighting actually seems quite fun and challenging in this one, even though I find the controls a bit frustrating sometimes. I've only just finished the prologue but the story seems interesting, can't wait to see how it goes from here. :)
catbarf on 2/9/2020 at 18:58
I recently purchased Brigador on the basis of a positive review, after having initially dismissed it as a twin-stick shooter. I'm glad I did reconsider, because it's excellent. The sound, music (Makeup And Vanity Set, if you're into synthwave), art, and writing are all perfect, the gameplay has a lot of variety, and there's some interesting depth to the mechanics that I wasn't expecting. It's a blow-down-the-whole-city mech action game where you can viably play it like a stealth game or run around as just a dude in a suit of power armor, and these are legitimate approaches facilitated by the game mechanics. More than anything else, there's just a lot of care and attention put into the little details, and it nails its theme and aesthetic. Highly recommended.
henke on 3/9/2020 at 17:52
Here's a small game that's like Descent but instead of a combatship you fly a space-forklift truck: (
https://iwilliams.itch.io/polydeuces) Also there's a thing that happens halfway through that, uh... will haunt me for the rest of my days. You should play it.
Aja on 3/9/2020 at 19:18
Playing the crap out of Sekiro, on my third playthrough now, and I'll likely do at least a fourth. I want to attempt a "charmless" run, where you lose health on anything but a perfect deflect. I might not end up finishing that.
On the side I've been trying to get back into Smash Bros on Switch, but man, as someone who never really got into the series till now, the learning curve is steep. I watch the "Beginner Smash Bros Ultimate" guides on YouTube and am unable to follow along even.
Tomi on 3/9/2020 at 20:30
I've continued my adventures in Witcher 2. The gameplay is getting a bit grindy, the UI (particularly the inventory system) is terrible, but so far the story and the characters and the game world itself is keeping me hooked.
And when I get tired of adventuring, I fire up Dirt 4 for some rally driving. It might be slightly more "arcadey" than Dirt Rally but definitely realistic enough for me, plus the difficulty level is a bit more forgiving and there's a proper career mode. Seems like the online community is almost dead which is a shame.
Thirith on 3/9/2020 at 20:46
Last weekend I briefly tried out Overload, the Descent-alike... in VR! It works surprisingly well; I generally don't suffer from VR nausea much, but since there's a cockpit I expect it might work reasonably well for those who have issues with smooth movement in first-person VR. The level design might not be up to the standards of the original Descent (or is that just nostalgia talking?), but it's not bad. Definitely hoping to play some more of this before long.
Jeshibu on 3/9/2020 at 21:24
What are you using for controls? Joystick? Gamepad? Touch controllers? Mouse and keyboard?
Thirith on 4/9/2020 at 07:35
I used the gamepad and it worked well. Takes a bit of time to get used to some of the controls, since they're not all immediately intuitive, due to few games giving you this many degrees of movement, but I think it's mainly a matter of practice and habit.
Thirith on 4/9/2020 at 15:27
I just finished Control, and while I liked it well enough, it didn't grab me enough for me to be all that interested in the DLC. I'm in the mood for something shorter now, so I think I'll finally want to check out one of the Blackwell games by Wadjet.
Malf on 4/9/2020 at 21:54
With the benefit of hindsight, I feel they wasted a lot of the potential from the source material Control was based on by falling back on a very limited roster of enemies, all designed to fill a specific role. While the back story was pretty interesting and gloriously hammy, it was rarely reflected in the actual gameplay. Even the Ashtray Maze, which is a triumph of level design, was still populated by the same enemies you'd been fighting all along.
And while the combat was overall pretty good and quite compelling, I had many times where I felt it wasn't balanced properly. I'd be fighting enemies off fine, then all of a sudden get one-shotted with no clear indication as to why.