It's the usual follow the leader thing ... Remember how for about 5 years, everyone was working on an MMO? 

players would one day have to do a Zerstoerer with one of Tronyn's maps and sacrifice themselves. 

Yeah. Which is kinda understandable with games that people might buy more than one of, i.e. SP games that you'll play for 20 hours and then move on, or simple DM games that you'll dick around in for 20 hours and then move on. But for timesink / skill-developing games, it seems a weird thing to saturate the market with. It happened with MMOs, were any of them at all successful apart from WOW and Guild Wars?? It happened with semi-real war shooters, did anyone play anything apart from Battlefield and COD??

People will play Overwatch because it's been the most spammed, maybe dabble in one more of the others as well, and the rest will sink without trace. Probably. 

Every developer believes that THEIR timesink skill developing game is gonna be the one that develops an unshakeable following that they can turn into a hat store six years down the road. 

Someone made the great point once that Blizzard has never been an innovator, just a great executor. Warcraft didn't invent RTS games, Everquest had been out long before WoW, and Diablo wasn't the first dungeon crawler. They just polished the shit out of their versions of existing genres. Something great can still emerge from all these "follow the leader" games. 

Unfortunately, in this case, it would be the emergence of a great MOBA / Team DM game :( 

Now that it's getting closer to xmas hopefully I can play some more games. Starting with Assassin's Creed 3. Yay another Ass Creed game, more of the same. The story is probably the best yet though. It had more direction... you have your 5 bad guys from the beginning. More emotion. Despite Connor being an ugly tool. Whereas previous games you sort of just went aimlessly from one bad dude to the next, with the plot going it random directions with random characters, till shit wraps up.

Well the last game involving both Altair and Ezio was pretty good, I suppose.

Gameplay was more of the same. Not enough combat, too many cutscenes. I feel like the series gets easier with each game (which is good because the first game was far too hard). This one is a bit dumbed down. Not much to do other than the main linear storyline. I didn't do any levelling, no assassin training, no purchasing zones or take overs. No rooftop climbing at all, there's no point since you get raped straight away whereas walking the streets is fine. It was just the main plot really. So probably weaker gameplay and less to do, but I didn't mind because I'm really only playing it for the story and visuals, certainly not it's crappy gameplay.

Speaking of visuals, they're starting to look a bit dated in this game. Not the best for 2012, but not bad either. Kind of cool setting, although I really don't give a flying fuck about American civil wars watching dickheads all standing in a line getting shot.

Right so that's 5 Ass Creed games down... 5 to go. I don't see how they can possibly drag this story out for another 5 games+. Juno's out... time to save the world... why would we return to the animus? More pointless random artifacts to find I suppose. 

System Shock 3 has been revealed as well as a System Shock remake by a separate developer.

There are people from the long defunct Looking Glass Studios working on SS3. That would be amazing if Ken Levine was working on it too. After the surprisingly disappointing Bioshock Infinite, I would love to see Ken return to his roots and revisit the System Shock universe.

Please, PLEASE don't suck. You can have Doom 4, just give me System Shock! 

Ken already said on Facebook that he's not involved in any way. So ... there's that. 

Kind of a bummer, but maybe it's a good thing he's not involved... who knows. 

Well that's cool. I hope it is done in a modern engine, with as much true-to-SS atmosphere they can cram in. I never actually played SS but I like the idea of it.

They should mention in that reveal article that the piece of turd screenshit is from the SS remake... 

i enjoyed it more than portal 2. story was more engaging, lasted longer, level design was usually pretty good, but a few levels definitely felt phoned in. overall, well worth the sale price (15 CAD) i paid for it. 

Yeah, I thought it was one of the best games of last year... likely will grab the expansion after christmas. 

new XCOM 2 trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0qHZG1-rEg 

 

RPS Preview : http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/12/10/xcom-2-preview/
60 Mins of xcom2 gameplay on youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwHPhQXavPA
Xcom 2 hands on with Beaglerush : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9vG-N0ILB0
part 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT_0gsOmsQE 

OMG the ending graphic with the alien face :0 :o 

The game named "Giants: Citizen Kabuto" is free for grab today at "http://www.gog.com/game/giants_citizen_kabuto"!

So, before the offer expires, get it while you can!

Video intro to the game:"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvxDF83apCQ"

It's DRM free, though you do need a GOG account (registration is free) to do the claiming.


Also, these days, at "https://www.origin.com/en-nl/store/free-games/on-the-house", you can get a free copy of "Jade Empire". Same story with regard to account registration, Origin in this case. 

I liked Giants a lot. Good fun game with a fresh style. 

Thanks for the heads up.

I went to GoG to get the freebie and saw they also had the STALKER series on special (at a pretty low price for once), so I got that while I was there. And then added TIE Fighter for $5. Plenty more good stuff on sale there, but those should keep me busy until next year. 

Inspired by classic arcade games and 1990s First Person Shooters. Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that pits you against hordes of demons as you struggle to survive as long as you can. Compete for precious seconds with friends or global leaderboards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50-OT83O9qY

Art and sound are absolutely incredible! However, at the end of the day it's a score attack game with no level design :( 

Kind of like geometry wars, but demonic hellspawn FPS style... 

Ah yes.

"Just like playing* those oldskool** 90s FPS games*** that you loved!"

*disclaimer: gameplay may not necessarily take place in actual environments.

**disclaimer: "oldskool" is taken in this instance to just mean pixellated textures and low-resolution display.

***disclaimer: "game" may actually be mostly procedurally generated. 

Come back when you've got some levels.