I'm a little nervous about that "Eliminate Enemy Units 0/5" and "Destroy Reinforcements 0/4" thing. Kinda removes any element of surprise, perhaps even suggests segmentation or compartmentalization of mission design? Also, I don't like how the enemy reinforcements just spring up in the middle of the map instead of having to enter the map from the edges. Does the player even have the option of scouting those areas in advance and camp their spawn points? What would happen then?

I hope they don't bring the kind of mission design qualities they've shown here into the full game because it seems rigid and predictable. I'd prefer mission design that's more organic and free-flowing, like MechCommander 1's. 

Mission structure does not seem that exciting yet. But the core gameplay seems work very nicely.

I really liked MechCommander2, never played 1 tho. 

Right. Fucking. Now.
http://metroid2remake.blogspot.fr/2016/08/am2r-10-released.html 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/363680/

Anyone playing this?? It's okay. UI and functionality is good, graphics are good with the usual caveat that you have to play so zoomed out you can't see fuck all.

The worst thing by far is that although there is a proper plot progression going on, the actual game missions are all pure and simple 1v1 vs AI skirmishes, right down to randomly generated sections of space. Really lets it down. Gonna keep playing tho. 

Whoa, what the hell!

This looks amazing! 

That was fast...lol.


The future of AM2R
As you may know already, AM2R received DMCA notices in all the download hosts, and some parts of this blog.
 

AM2R is floating around the torrent sites and it run seamlessly under WINE. It is very well made. 

Yeah I grabbed it soon as I heard about it, I didn't think Nintendo would let that slide. They are very protective of their stuff. It's pretty great so far though, I would've definitely paid some amount of money for this as a download title. 

I think that Overwatch is basically proof that Blizzard are gods of making lowpoly stuff look ridiculously good. 

Looks really impressive... 

I wouldn't really call Overwatch lowpoly, but it's just proof that they are great designers and know how to create good looking yet well optimized games.
Maybe this will interest you :
http://polycount.com/discussion/170394/technical-study-overwatch-image-heavy 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyBVTOiMshA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HefCxo9UVtA 

I've been telling everyone ever since I first heard about the game, that No Man's Sky is just going to be another Spore. Turns out I was pretty much bang on. 

Kinn, the first thing that came to mind when I saw no man's sky was spore :P

If it is anything like spore, it should be interesting for the first couple hours at least. 

Looks like a $10 game to me. Maybe. It really doesn't look like something I'd want to play at all. 

Procedurally generated content is the biggest snake oil bullshit the games industry has ever seen.

There's a time and a place for it of course (minecraft uses it well) but 99% of the time, it just leads to crap. 

Agreed. I wish this fad would die. 

1. Isaac
2. Spelunky
3. ??? 

I found that to be a charming game and I think that follows the formula. 

The trick is to search your soul and ask yourself whether those games are good because of proc gen or good in spite of proc gen.