I like how the Carmack "endorsement" quote isn't about the game itself, but about Javascript / WebGL. 

"C# is fucking awesome!"
"I played this with an amazing graphics card!"
"Some of the operating systems that support this game are great!" 

Good stuff. 

....it's fast-paced! And retro! And there's no cover-based stuff! And weapons! And movement! And......... 

Quake gave you cover against Shamblers, truly this where the downfall of FPS games started. 

Inner Chains released apparently, but nothing on metacritic? 

I know I'll be preaching to the choir here, but the problem with this stuff is that games in 1996 weren't trying to be "1996 style" games. They were trying to look as impressive and convincing as they could under technological constraints.

Part of what made Quake and Doom so successful was that they found an art style that looked good even when it was blocky. Rather than trying to be realistic (which wasn't practical) or cartoony (which wasn't appropriate), I like to think of it as going for a "comic book" style. Doom is more of a gleefully violent comic book, while Quake is a bit more of a gloomy, gritty Vertigo comic book, but it's stylised.

Thinking that the squares are the thing which make the look of mid 90s games is missing the wood for the trees. What's worse, it's then used to excuse any amount of sloppiness or laziness in the art of these pretenders. 

The JS game was pretty neat, but ofc it was just a prototype.

Is this even from the same devs or just blatant rip-off? 

Phenomenal environment art, some of the most impressive stuff I've seen in a long time. No gameplay to speak of. Desperately needs an options menu (basic things like fov and mouse sensitivity are broken).

If you liked Dear Esther or The Vanishing of Ethan Carter but felt it needed more Beksinski, you might want to pick this up after they patch in fundamental usability. 

Yeah it was obviously made by a bunch of artists who don't have a scooby-doo about gameplay design.

Watched a video of it for a bit. Looks noice at least. 

Doom is more of a gleefully violent comic book
With huge guts!

By the way, your comic book analogy as a whole is great. 

I like the analogy that someone previously said, Doom is thrash metal and Quake is industrial. 

 

What a waste of post 10K. 

Delete it and start again?! 

 

If you delete that post, would OTP's post become 10k? 

 

2d dark souls.

- hard as fuck
- they're doing all the same mistakes that DS was doing, so sometimes stuff is really intransparent
- not sure if the DS gameplay translates to 2D well
- buttons are different from DS, which is really irritating 

Good posts. 

My let's play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXbqeVRGtzQ 

https://www.bluesnews.com/s/180982/grim-dawn-sells-1m-copies - humble store or something?? I dunno. Just get it. 

Saints Row IV - 6.5/10
Worse than the last couple, only redeeming factor is it is quite funny and story interesting in b-movie Matrix ripoff sort of way. That stealth pisstake is one of the most amusing levels in a game I can remember, real Austin Power sort of humour. Roddy Piper 'They Live' homage was great too.
As a game though (it's combat, the superpowers, the recycled city from the last game) it's a friggin mess.


Shadow Warrior 2013 - 7/10
I wasn't expecting this to be quite as average as it is as it seemed to get good comments. Maybe it's because I've played every Painkiller game/addon and even clones like Dream Killer (and Serious Sam). But all I see in this game is Painkiller. Terrible flat level design, door closes behind you and enemies spawn in. Most just 1-hit fodder as you button mash. It's 100% Painkiller but with a sword and fewer creative environments. This is no old skool FPS at all. Good graphics at times though. Sequel looks pretty good. I can play Skyrim every day for 3 weeks, I pick up this and it's killing my wrist in just a few hours.


Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - 7.5/10
Really not too bad for a 2010 ps3 game remastered in 2013 for pc. Borderlands inspired post-apoc wasteland, quite nice environments, though linear. Camera angles and constant cutscenes get annoying by the end. Picks up in the second half with a third character and you discover the developers can actually write humour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUAXvkjcJjU

Pity they couldn't make the first half as good. Missed opportunity with character building. I was expecting some relationship building slave falls for hot owner and vice versa, but beyond constant instructions they barely spoke for the whole 7-8 hours of the game. They probably spoke more to Pisgy.

DMC5 next, another high paced wrist killer I'd imagine.