henke on 2/1/2021 at 12:21
Finished
Call of the Sea. Very good storytelling and puzzling. I had to spend half an hour with some of these puzzles but never resorted to a walkthrough, so perfect balance I'd say. The only negative to the puzzles is that there's too much walking required to some of them. In certain parts you gotta walk around big areas and flip switches, which is especially annoying when you're not even sure if you're on track to the correct solution. Overall tho, a good Lovecraftian adventure with a well-paced story.
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Barotrauma was a real surprise, quite a gem I think. If any of you are on the fence about it, pick it up.
I did play through the first training scenario a while back, but when I saw that there's like 4 more training scenarios it turned me off. Is it viable to just skip the training and jump straight into the game? Also does it play well in singleplayer?
Jason Moyer on 2/1/2021 at 18:53
In my continuing saga of revisiting "old" FPS games, I've been replaying Borderlands (or more accurately, playing BL Enhanced for the first time) and loving the shit out of it. I wish they had fixed some of the dodgy design stuff that the later games handled better (proper scaling of levels in the DLC and 2nd PT, adding the ability to do a resettable/scaled PT2.5, fast travel waypoints in the DLC) but overall I'm enjoying it way more than I remember enjoying BL2 or TPS. While I don't particularly mind the humor in the later games, the humor in the first one is so much more subtle/less cringy. Aside from the entire setting being funny because it's basically "post-apocalyptic high-tech rednecks with space magic" there are just lots of little things that are funny. The bait-and-switch final battle. General Knoxx being driven to suicidal depression by the incompetence of Atlas' leadership. Patricia Tannis slowly losing her mind. Fucking Scooter. And the gameplay is so much better. No slag (I don't know how anyone thought a weapon type that makes your other weapon types do more damage was a gameplay enhancement), more wacky random gun combinations, rare/powerful items that can be used for more than a few levels before becoming useless, class skills and mods that actually make you feel like your character is getting more powerful as you level up instead of everything being tied to getting lucky on which loot you find, etc. So damn good. And the Enhanced edition fixed a few QoL issues the original had, with proper adjustable FOV, a better inventory interface, and (presumably, haven't tried it yet) matchmaking pulled from the BL2 engine.
ZylonBane on 2/1/2021 at 22:29
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What are you playing in 2021?
Come on, no random nonsensically capitalized word? So much for tradition.
Tomi on 2/1/2021 at 23:07
Don't worry Nylonbane, we'll have one next year! :cool:
faetal on 3/1/2021 at 03:04
I'm playing Assassin's Creed Unity.
Nice overall upgrade from AC4 / Rogue - combat is much better, as is the parkour.
Game mechanisms are cool, though I am not sold on the co-op stuff much yet.
That said, I am feeling the usual AC / UbiMapIcons fatigue starting to set in, so I may need a palate cleanser soon.
henke on 3/1/2021 at 06:41
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Come on, no random nonsensically capitalized word? So much for tradition.
It's more of an homage to the original (
https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122469) What are you playing? thread. I like to consider this a soft reboot of the "what are you playing" megathread franchise.
SD on 3/1/2021 at 23:14
Somehow I have accumulated more than 2,000 games in my Steam library, so I'm on a bit of a mission to actually play some of them, which means any games I mention in this thread will mostly not be new releases.
So far, heading into the new year:
Gray Dawn (2018) - weird little religious psychological horror from Romania. It's not very horrifying, and the plot doesn't make a jot of sense, but it's nice to look at and has an unsettling atmosphere.
Beholder 2 (2018) - the sequel to 2016's decent dystopian adventure Beholder feels like a step forward from the first game in terms of setting and story, but lacks that first game's sense of dread; the protagonist here never seems to be in much peril. I like that your workplace is heavily inspired by the Ministry in Terry Gilliam's Brazil although the work itself does become quite tedious (maybe that's the point).
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! (2017) - if you enjoyed the first installment of the stress-inducing restaurant sim, then you'll probably enjoy this extra large second serving too. Having said that, I think it suffers from shifting the focus onto working for other restaurants rather than building your own place up from the ground like in the first game. But the wider variety of foods and the addition of holding stations adds some much needed variety to the gameplay.
Sniper Elite III (2014) - for now, this is still my go-to multiplayer shooter. It's nice to find one that rewards sneakiness rather than just being a manic free for all. If you can get past its slight clunkiness you can have a lot of fun here.
PigLick on 4/1/2021 at 01:47
I started Art of the Rally due to peoples enjoyment of it here. I am not a racing game kinda person, but am actually liking it so far, good to pick up for a 20-30 minute bash.
Tomi on 4/1/2021 at 14:59
Yeah, that's how I played it too. An hour at the time at the most, then it starts to get somehow boring, but you'll soon be wanting more! :D The recent update was excellent, it added a couple of cool new cars in the game, but most importantly it had some tweaks to the physics. The cars still feel a bit too floaty if you ask me, but the big jumps are much more fun now.
henke on 6/1/2021 at 13:57
Just finished Observer. The gameplay is very Frictional Games-y. Just like Amnesia/SOMA it's a first person horror adventure with stealth bits, and should be very much up TTLG's collective alley. The story is alright, but the game is mostly worth experiencing for the world it presents. It is the most cyberpunk-y cyberpunk setting I've seen in a game. The disparity between the squalor of the slums you explore and the hi-tech shit hooked into everything is sickening and jaw dropping. It's really something.
[video=youtube;pv_tX3mshy8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv_tX3mshy8[/video]
On the other hand there's good reasons not to play this right now. During the majority of the game the building you're in is in lockdown because a deadly virus has been detected outside. There were moments when playing this when I looked around and thought "geez, sure glad we aren't living in this dystopian future!" then I remembered where we're at. So, y'know, you might just wanna put this one on the "play later" list, until things brighten up. :erg: