Vs was the first version of the game finished, and the version the dev team played to balance the gameplay.

Which is why its the best version of the game to play...

Apparently anyway. 

 

"Re Bailey, yeah the final comparison just seems to be an overkill of effects, I can't shit except sparks/light/smoke."

Well, it's a demo designed to show off the power of the graphics engine. So the fact that the effects are heavy handed shouldn't surprise. 

Is this scampie's map for Race The Sun in this total biscuit video? Starts at 8.56

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4hb3XRuSUM 

I used to work with Aaron San Flippo (1/2 the dev team of that game, the other half being his brother) at Raven, and made that 'map' for the game just after it was released (before the Steam release).

The game has a pretty simple editor where you take basic geometic shapes and put them together into objects which can have some basic scripting, and then you arrange the objects into several large 'patterns' that the game can then string together into it's levels. You can define how early or late a pattern can be spawned too (so you can many simpler patterns for early in the game, or more difficult patterns for later), and also global lighting and sky colors.

As far as the game goes, it's a pretty straight forward deal, you move left or right to avoid objects and collect score and powerups. The random seed for generating the levels changes each day, so there are daily highscores to compete with. It's fun, but nothing that's going to set the world on fire. 

Fun game - on sale on Steam today, I picked it up a couple of weeks ago, I would recommend it :) The gameplay is good in the sense that you can move fast (like in Quake), and there are lots of character upgrades, weapon upgrades, and different combos that you can do with the sword.
There are some good boss-fights too. 

Started the game, in the first 30 minutes of game spent about 20 minutes in cut-scenes (with skipping 3/4) and wandering about with no fight, fuck it, really does not inspire for more effort into it but maybe that changes ? 

Actually I have not played Farcry Red Dragon due to that inane intro/tutorial, that is seriously bad. Seriously after the load times, helicopter gunning I dont have the patience to complete it and its fucking checkpoint shit... Need to find console command to skip it or something 

It gets better! You have to explore quite a lot - there are lots of hidden areas and easter eggs.

And yeah - it picks up pace as you get through it. 

is aces, the annoying as shit tutorial is a piss take of annoying tutorials. It would be nice if it was skippable though. ;) 

Its not even a funny, or fun, or good, or serve any purpose. I think my kindergarten schoolmates had better humor. Fucking pisses me off I dont want to have to sit through these idiots idea of "funny" 30 minutes before I get to fucking play the game....

If they had maybe the narrator standing nearby and you could blow his brains out within 1 minute of the tutorial as a way to skip it then it might of been slighhhhtly funny.... 

I've been wanking around for 6 months about rebuilding my website, always putting it off because it's a few days work. But I finally did it: http://www.electricescape.com/etherealhell/

Same old content, but more focused on game reviews now. It's even responsive now (most of it). 

 

http://store.steampowered.com/news/12151/

It will be free as in, grab it now, pay no money, and it is yours to keep forever � FOR FREE! 

on sale today only $4.99.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut 

That was cool, closed down another game for the night and saw that. :) 

Got this on sale since I heard some good stuff about it on here.

I like it. It's semi stealth/action shooter but you can play either way for the most part. I'm not sure how far you can take the action part as combat is somewhat hard and stealth is pretty easy.

Beautiful looking game, reminds me of Thief 3 but I see touches of Dark Messiah which Arkane made before which was also a pretty good game.

Haven't finished it yet, so can't say much more, but yeah, it's half price and I think worth it if you are interested in this kind of game. 

U got Blink yet? Best gameplay feature ever, and yes makes action very feasible.

HL2-level graphics, but the art and style is nice. Very cool game really. 

Yeah Blink is a lot of fun and very easy to use. Personally love blinking up just behind an enemy, taking them down, grabbing their body and blinking back. Really stealth ninja feeling ability!

I also really like how the mana system works in this game. Your abilities consume mana, but it recharges quickly (2-3 seconds) but if you use another ability before it recharges, wherever your mana was at that point becomes the new maximum. This happens until your maximum is so low you can't use an ability and you need to drink a potion which restores your maximum mana to it's true maximum.
This lets you use your abilities as much as you want if you have time to wait but also puts a cap on overuse/spamming abilities.

I also like that you can mantle up on surfaces, even while jumping/falling. Finally an FPS that makes the character not feel like a useless slob who can't climb over a fence. 

This is easily one of my top ten games ever. One of the very few that I've actually played through more than once (just so I could get the "Clean Hands" and "Ghost" achievements). I also liked the fact that there were no Boss fights, just "get in and get it done" missions with lots of freedom in how you do it. 

Agree with all of the above. Definitely an FPS gameplay highlight of the last decade, and a clear and cutting riposte to the tedious on-rails hand-held "interactive" movie "games" around. 

Damn xmas is good for catching up on games. So far since the start of December I've played L4D, Alone in the Dark, Chronicles of Riddick, Fear 2, Zeno Clash, Dragon Age: Origins + all the DLC's, Prototype, Red Faction: Guerilla and Resident Evil 5, + a bunch of adventure games. And all reviewed on my site.

Dragon Age was definitely the best of the bunch, Fear2 a distant second. 

it seems you have a lot of free time 

This actually looks pretty damn funky for you Portal fanatics etc:

http://www.bluesnews.com/s/148038/first-person-puzzle-game-concept-trailer