I wondered why he was actually making sense about the game! 

Actually, I'm the Rick that made Castle of Oblivion and Well of Wishes and Polygon Base for Quake (I made a few Doom 2 maps also). I'm still working (off and on) to finish a re-make of Well of Wishes.

I think Tomb Raider may end up as Game of the Year. It would be really nice if they'd patch it to fix the QTE "combat" buttons bug and the occasional issues with mouse control.

Some of the escape sequences where you have to run across floors and bridges, which are crumbling and falling away beneath you, are really hard to get past when you can't turn with the mouse.

The annoying QTE and buggy sequences probably only added up to 15 minutes or less of play time, compared to maybe 40 hours total, that's not too much of an issue considering how much I enjoyed the rest of the game.

I think I probably played through too fast. I may wait a few weeks and give it another go. Overall I had a lot of fun. The "Shipwrecked Beach" and "Mountain Village" areas are awesome levels full of tons of exploration. 

Shot from The Witness (the new game from Jonathan Blow of Braid fame)
http://the-witness.net/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Shannon_01.jpg

prettyyyy 

And a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Brd0F7rlXCI

Wow. Might be the best looking game I've ever seen. 

Looks great. Though I think the vegetation looks too different a style to the rest of the scene? Color palette is somewhat garish at times (not unlike braid). But yeah, really good looking for the most part. 

Looks great, and the music makes you want to see the video again.

It's giving me lots of ideas for mapping. 

looks cute. like the music. hope it's on pc.

but I'd rather kill shit than solve maze puzzles.

reminds me of a happier myst. 

The nice thing about puzzle games is they're easy to make. With Quake you just open radiant and fuck around with triggers and moving stuff. You don't even need player models or a hud. 

YES!

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/05/10/split-personality-hard-reset-devs-revive-shadow-warrior/#more-152530 

A decade after my second playthrough, I have beaten System Shock 2 for the third time. I'm glad to say that it is still one of my favourite PC games. I installed Kolya's SS2 Tool which includes map fixes as well as a custom engine (NewDark) that comes with D3D9, supports modern systems, adds a bunch of subtle features and most importantly, works flawlessly. On top of that, top-notch third-party graphical enhancements really made the game shine - seriously, I have never been a fan of so called hi-res textures stuck on top of low-poly maps and haven't used any for Quake to this day, but the ones available for SS2 are much better than any I have seen. The following shots, which are mostly from Deck 5, demonstrate these packages (alongside a hint of bloom):

* SHTUP (object/decal-based textures)
* FourHundred (brush-based textures)
* Vurt's Space Textures (skies -- not shown)
* Vurt's Goo (new models for organics -- not shown)
* Vurt's Water (v5.1 with EnvMap)
* Tacticool (new models for Navy weapons -- two out of five shown)
* Eldron PsiAmp (new model for PsiAmp -- not shown)

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6

Also used ADaoB, a bug-fixing pack that also rebalances the game mechanics. Didn't installed Rebirth, since I don't think it follows the style as well as the above packs. All of them are definitely recommended, they will make the game run much smoother and look much sharper while staying true to the original feel and look.

Here's a handy link: SS2 Newbie Modding Guide 

Shadow Warrior remake. Cool. Although looking back on gameplay vids now on the original, god it looks awful. Did it have any story? Pretty sure I played it, but don't remember it looking so crap. Funny how those old games look better in your head than in reality. Not sure why they're bothering with a remake, other than a recognizable IP, but how many people that played that oh... 20 years ago, when it wasn't a popular game then, will still be gamers now. Apart from func locals. 

I just noticed System Shock 2 is on Steam with a one week special price of $6.99

I seem to remember playing it a long time ago but I know I never bought it. Maybe it was a demo or something. I might have to pick it up off Steam. 

but

http://www.gamespot.com/news/wolfenstein-the-new-order-revealed-6407979

can't wait to play it 

Guess they needed something new to show at Quakecon... 

Cool robotic enemies 

I enjoyed the 2010(?) Wolfenstein. 

but that trailer was pretty stupid. and must have cost a tonne - how much does it cost to license that song? 

Kind of misses the point though: the cost of adverts should be redeemed in higher sales. 

#6591

After Braid, I'm just gonna shut up and let him take my moneys. However I would have liked to have seen a hint of what the real gameplay is all about in that trailer.

Blow has stated that there is more to the game than these mazes, in response to concerns from players; to Blow, "the point is the magic that happens in the player's mind when he understands the subtle things that the mazes are saying - because the mazes aren't just puzzles, they are lines of communication that aggregate, become more complex and eventually say surprising things".[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witness_%282013_video_game%29

There had better be some substance behind that statement and I hope it's not just a load of pretentious hot air. 

Tried a bit of this the other day. Seems kinda dull so far.

Far Cry - exploring epic island environment = cool.

Crysis 1 - same island environment BUT a Nanosuit = cool.

Far Cry 2 - exploring African environment with semi-real atmosphere and politics = cool.

Crysis 2 - same Nanosuit BUT with a ruined city environment = cool.

Far Cry 3 - exactly the same island enviroment as FC1 and C1, exactly the same atmosphere and politics as FC2 = boring??

Maybe it gets better but at the first proper fight I couldn't help thinking "I probably spent a total of 50 hours doing EXACTLY this in three previous xxxCRYxxx games".

Maybe it's also bad timing because the whole island vibe and graphics pale into insignificance compared to Tomb Raider... I do like the people's accents though and the main bad guy seems intriguingly demented. 

Just broke the wallet and splashed out on this bad boy.

Liking it in a lot of ways, and although the permadeath is starting to grate, the random levels take the edge of the annoyance just enough to keep me playing.

Could have done without the edgy "faeces and sanitary towels" theme though. 

A save current game feature. Not to break the roguelike permadeath, but just to allow you to pause a game session that can last a few hours once you've unlocked all the extra levels.

Did you get the Wrath of the Lamb expansion with it? 

not yet.

Another thing that annoys me is that it seems to be very poorly coded, with tremendous slowdown issues for what is a simple 2d sprite game. Might be something to do with the fact that it is made in Flash, but I have seen very complex Flash stuff before that doesn't have these problems. 

Haha, seems like a good idea for a mash up.
http://www.moddb.com/games/isomer/ 

it seems to be very poorly coded

There are literally moments in the game where items have opposite effects than intended because the coder can't reliably substract by a negative number.

Good on you not getting Wrath yet, its biggest strength is that initial "this is like some crazy bootleg ROM hack" reaction after getting acclimatized with the old game.