apparently yes because it popped up telling me all my saves were moved to steam cloud when I first started the full release version. 

 

ARPG with a slightly different theme to normal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irjS5It7alo

As far as I can tell it is rendered completely unplayable by continuous screen shaking, unless you are both stoned and have a year's supply of anti-nausea tablets. 

You aren't kidding ... the screen shake doesn't even seem to be related to anything. It just ... wobbles constantly. 

Maybe it's supposed to feel like handheld camera.
I didn't think it's too much though. Actually it looks like a nice game. 

Not sure how a handheld camera would be in that position within that universe but ... maybe. 

God is holding the camera, please don't question Him. 

God needs a stabilizer. 

Are you saying someone is focusing their camera on the player character's butt? 

she's a sexy soldier who blows stuff up, and her name is Bombshell

game writing BAFTA material here 

That camera should be much closer in, wobbling all over her T&A, surely? 

I was looking forward to this game since it was from The Farm 51, who impressed me with Necrovision. But then they fucked up the sequel, and then did a shit remake of Painkiller.

Anyway it's a part shooter, part adventure/puzzle game. The puzzles are all pretty dumbed down, nothing like the complexity of Tomb Raider. The shooting is kind of poor. Great graphics though, it's funny how even the shit studios manage to create fucking sweet looking games. UE3 of course.

6/10 

These guys have a good game in them yet - 2016's The Technomancer might be it. Of Orcs and Men was decent, great story but just a bit extreme-linear and lacked polish ie. not tiple A.

Mars: War Logs is a light action rpg, about 10 hours long, a bit of red faction: guerrilla meets deus ex: hr in design. But there's far too much back-and-forth over the same areas tight, cramped areas. The combat starts out okay, gets difficult in the middle, but the last chapter (of 3) gets easy again as you finally get the upgrades to make the game more enjoyable (mage type upgrades). But yeah just a poor mans RPG, graphics aren't that good. Nice to see a unique franchise, but combat needs work and the entire sandbox world needed to be far bigger.

6/10 

 

Wtf is with the name, I thought it was going to be one of those lame console story-based adventure games that critics spooge over.

But no it's an third person action. Clearly inspired by Assassin's Creed with lots of climbing gameplay and melee fighting, and just the overall presentation and style. The dream sequences are a total copy of AC's animus sequences, but that's not necessarily bad. That, plus meets Mirror's Edge (design not freeflow running).

The combat was fun for a while, but about the halfway point became a complete cuntfuck. I've got it on "easy", which is referred to as "Script Kiddies" who just want to enjoy the story. Clearly, these developers have no fucking clue how to implement a skill setting, because I got fed up with so many enemies being thrown at me, all punch-sponges, all interrupting my combos and requiring very specific and time-consuming ways to kill. It's main feature is building your own combo combinations, but combo's are usually impossible to pull off completely because you're constantly interrupted. But with god mode on I was able to just enjoy the game again. The combat needed work, just like Mars: War Logs. Hmmm, when's the last time I played a game that got melee combat right? It's been a while.

The story is great, and really unique. I could see this being a movie actually, something similar to Minority Report or Inception. Except you're going into people's memories and changing them. That was a cool part of the game, you have to rewind their memory and figure out what items to modify in order to change the outcome.

In fact this game really has some cool ideas, and unique! Critics seem to have completely overlooked all of it though, which is odd since they're always wanting something "different", which is a hard thing to do these days. This game did it, and no one gave a shit.

This game shines in the design and graphics as well. UE3 again, and again looks fucking awesome. It's a sci-fi futuristic neo-france, with equal mix of old slums mixed with futurisic buildings, mixed with cathedrals. It's a wee bit linear but otherwise really nice to look at. At this point I'm playing it just for story and visuals (still got about 1 hour left).

Shame they fucked up the combat, but I guess if you don't mind hard melee combat, you'll like it.

7/10 

Finished it about a month ago. It started up making me hate its combat system and ended up making me say that the game was a very good experience and worth playing.

The elements that stand out are visuals and story. Both are extremely well done and even made me think of re-playing the game to enjoy them one more time.

The gameplay is the weak point though. Both climbing and combat are boring and uninspiring. Climbing sections don't evolve throughout the game - you always have an arrow that shows you where to jump, that imho ruins all the experience. Exploration elements that reward you with power-ups don't help much to overall poor climbing sections. The combat is frustrating for the first time but becomes easy closer to the end when you get used to combos. I ended up using only the longest possible combo (played on normal). But using the same combo all over againg is pretty boring.

Overall I can say that it's a good game and worth playing to see the beauty of neo-paris and enjoy the awesome story of Remember Me. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnKog-0hkOg&ed2f26df2d9c416fbddddd2330a778c6=vttgftbk-vtgvgfgf

The vibe of this looks kinda cool. 

Nice that it's not yet another sandbox survival game. 

Well, I was all set to buy the new Tomb Raider at release for full price, even though it's only on Steam. Then I read that it may have a new type of DRM, or anti-tamper protection, called Denuvo. On top of Steam. And what I really don't like about it is

�CERTAIN FILES OF THE ANTI-TAMPER TECHNOLOGY MAY REMAIN EVEN AFTER THE PRODUCT IS UNINSTALLED FROM YOUR COMPUTER. �

So now I'm not so sure I want it. I mean really, what a pain in the ass to have to re-install the OS after finishing the game, just to get rid of slimeware. 

Uh HUH.

Will wait to see what those files actually are, maybe? 

I have heard that those "certain files" can secretly activate chips in your monitor and turn it into a sort of webcam that watches you and sends images of you to particular...connoisseurs of such things. 

 

They're likely just covering their asses because they aren't 100% sure that their uninstaller gets everything on the way out the door.

It's basically covering up laziness rather than something malicious. 

I'll wait until it's actually released to be sure, but I don't think inclusion of the denuvo thing will turn out to be a rumor. I certainly won't buy the game new at full price if denuvo is included. 

Current collection:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NsrKthZqsws/Vqie99pws-I/AAAAAAAAAgA/Ulr3SavOd34/s1600/nagel.jpg

1 with boon for neph rifts, one with lightning for grifts, 1 each for the 3 followers, and 3 spare for, errr, fun.