I've decided that watching "Let's Play" videos is one of the absolute best things YouTube is good for. 15-20 minutes of watching someone else play a game is usually all it takes to know if I'd like it or not. It has saved me money and lot of wasted time. It has also introduced me to games that I otherwise wouldn't have given a second look which actually turned out to be very enjoyable. 

I didn't really notice that. It was pretty rudimentary and was vastly outweighed by the exploration, scenery-gawping, and story-telling. I agree though that the latter aspects are the very good highlights of the game, although I didn't mind the gameplay at all and the tension / scare value was pretty good in places. 

both Metro Redux games on sale on GoG... yay no DRM! 

When I said the game gets insane... it does get insane...
I can barely make it past the first few waves -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSoRbNs9bDk 

The weapons seem really unsatisfying from the video ... weak sounds, weak impacts, etc. Needs some bass. 

Loud booming weapons in games are horrible, I want to hear the rest of the game, not my weapons

/imho 

My point being that the weapons have to sound cool to get me to want to use them.

I never said take over the sound system and drown everything else out. 

Talking about SOMA, and also about sound design: SOMA had bloody great sound design. HTH. 

can somebody explain to me why it uses the "aggroing mobs" concept so evangelically? It makes sense in a game like dark souls, but... from watching let's plays, in xcom2 this totally destroys the immersion and also a lot of the fun -- enemies are basically cannon fodder, because you basically just try to aggro them in a way so you can clear up the situation in the first turn.

Imho this almost makes the game a puzzle game. Reveal puzzle, carefully figure out moves to solve puzzle, repeat. No "world", ai, aliens or anything. 

https://youtu.be/3EaUA_8VHTg?t=1295 

In many cases you won't be able to aggro them at the right time, for instance you weren't able to scout right and your last character will reveal a group, that will then have a full turn to shoot at you.
Also the missions with a turn limit won't aglow you to scout so carefully, you'll often be in situations where you can't wipe out a group in one turn. 

"Reveal puzzle, carefully figure out moves to solve puzzle, repeat."

I mean, yeah, that's the game :) 

http://www.twitch.tv/gogcom will have a release stream for Superhot in 3 hours. It's not officially announced on GOG yet, but they've been hinting about the stream enough to make me almost certain that this will be the game.

You can check from this link when the stream will be in your local time. It's the only release stream on Thursday.

http://j.mp/streaming_schedule

They often have dev guests on release streams, so they could get one (or two) for this stream too.

Superhot is a single-player FPS where time only moves when you do. It looks like it could be good fun. It's being released today on Steam, GOG and maybe a couple of other places.

http://www.superhotgame.com 

Yeah, I want to grab it and I wishlisted it on Steam but there's no price listed yet ... wtf? And why can't I buy it now and unlock it in 4 hours? Fuck everything ... 

From their site:

"NO PREORDERS"

Fuck off. 

The release stream is postponed until tomorrow. Probably. It's not happening today at least.

Sorry for the false alarm. 

Permanent bullet time and no textures?? 

Sort of. Times doesn't move unless you do. It's interesting ... 

I thought that hype was last year already? Wasn't it released? 

Total Biscuit video:

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

It was supposed to be released today. There's still some today left in Poland, so I dunno if it's delayed or not. 

There was a Quake version released for April's Fools by the way. 

It's out. In America at least. I haven't had a chance to try it yet tho... 

On their website.

Nice idea, don't really need to play the rest though. 

Ok, watching the biscuit video makes it seem much more appealing... 

I'm weak.