shame I have pretty much retired from anything except quake until I get a new machine next year :( 

so that's what you've been working on, DaZ! Gonna check it out when i get home from vacation. 

Well, in case anyone was interested in knowing if Cryostasis (6/10) or Star Wars The Force Unleashed (7.5/10) are any good, I reviewed them...

http://www.etherealhell.com/etherealhell/index.php

They were alright. 

Just keeps on getting better.

Playing with a gamepad and hacking away at the skinner box grind of levelling up.

Two things that bug me - reusing enemy sprites and the pathetic downward attack. 

speaking of rogueish things, I kinda like killing time with Pixel Dungeon (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.watabou.pixeldungeon

It is in steady development so you get new features all the time. It is very luck/random dependent in terms of drops which kinda sucks. It is very rewarding when you get good items though so that is fun. 

Will give it a try, sometime...

RL is more like ghouls and ghosts than anything else. 

has been in development for a while, cannot wait for it though.

http://owlboygame.com/ 

I know there are some Isaac fans here, have you guys seen this? Competitive Binding of Isaac League Racing, 2 players racing to reach Mom's Heart first, best of three.
Pretty nice to watch, players obviously need to know the subtleties of the game quite well.
http://boilr.org/
http://www.youtube.com/mrcrumps2


FifthElephant, yeah owlboy looks gorgeous, lets hope the gameplay lives up to the visuals. 

Nice, if intense viewing. Thanks for the link! 

Got an early access code for reviewing purposes, but let me sum it up with a moment from this morning:

I rocket jumped into a secret area to gather bonus items and health pickups. The entire time I was running about as fast as your average car, in the default FOV of 90. 

Sounds hot. 

Is a pretty rad game, and at $1.99 (�1.32) it's a blinking steal.

http://savantgame.com/ 

Since Steam is being a piece of shit I have been playing some System Shock 2 today. The user interface is so awkward and melee fighting reminds me of melee in Thief (in a bad way). Apart from that it is fantastic so far.

I guess for the HUD scaling I need to use SS2Tool? I could not find an actual description of it, what else does it do? 

Finally played the original Dead Space and reviewed here http://www.etherealhell.com/etherealhell/reviews/2013/dead_space.php
8.5/10

And also Terminator Salvation, pretty shit game 5.5/10. http://www.etherealhell.com/etherealhell/reviews/2013/terminator_salvation.php 

Anyone tried Shadowrun yet ? 

System Shock 2 supports quicksaving after death.

Awesome game so far. 

I know this is wanky and annoying and I'm sorry but http://www.angryflower.com/itsits.gif 

my teacher nearly had that face all the time... 

Left 4 Dead 3 under development 

If that had said hl3 I'd be running around with my hands on my head, but meh, l4d3. Guess it'll be alright :P 

So... gaben CAN count to three then!? 

do you know what's the source of that pic? 

There was a Valve office tour for some dota2 cunts. 

Haha did I do the its/it's typo? It's just too much effort proofreading back and fixing all the its and whats typos :D 

I never played the SNES game nor the pen and paper RPG of Shadowrun, but I'm having great fun with this so far. I backed the Kickstarter campaign last year on a whim, and it came out last week. The game world, being quintessential cyberpunk + magic, feels accessible and familiar, yet vast. The battle system reminds me somewhat of Final Fantasy Tactics, although perhaps there are better examples. The graphics are colorful, and tile based, so I think you can mashup the tiles used in the game levels to make new levels.

Which leads to the really cool part, the level editor is included with the game, and apparently does everything; graphics layout, scripting, conversations, etc. There's already people recreating pen n' paper Shadowrun campaigns in the game (released through Steam Workshop). Just like ye olde Quake, what we do with the game will likely outlast what the developers built.

Right now on my first playthrough, I chose an Ogre Street Samurai, a rather straightforward character that runs up to his enemies and whacks them with a machete and always tries to choose the most hardbitten noir-ish responses in conversation trees. Although being nice to people seems to grant extra karma points to spend on skills, so there is that. Next run I imagine I'll play as an Elf Mage or somesuch and just hire the muscle.