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Otherwise I'm also interested in the way Ultima Ratio Regum is approaching procedural generation. Still waiting for its v0.8 release before trying it. Played it yesterday with friends. It's a really cool game. Dark and creepy, the sound and the atmosphere are very well done. It's most interesting when you are playing with 3 friends with skype or TS, though it's really hard to survive with a team of low level survivors. Playing as killer is fun too, but it looses all its creepy charm then.
I didn't see much game there. Dark micro-levels drenched in gore, a few things wandering past, and not much else....
...looks gorgeous. And scary. That monster at 4'20" seems straight out of a Clive Barker movie.
If you remember a couple of months ago, GOG inaugurated a service where you can redeem certain games from them if you already own them on Steam. They had a few games up for a while and then the thing went quiet. They just put up a few new games for a duration of a week (6 days remaining as of this writing).
They're the old versions 1 to 3 of Master of Orion, a classic 4X game series. This coincides with the release of the new MoO. This was just a little heads up in case people followed the service for a while and then gave up. It's looking like the offers are going to be pretty rare and over quickly, making it easy to miss them. But they're still keeping it alive at least. The last time it got overloaded quickly and took a long time to process some requests. With fewer games on offer this time this probably shouldn't happen. I'm not at that excited about the new MoO myself. I'll have to check it out some time, because I did love these types of games back in the day. The only thing that'd make me actually excited would be a faithful remake of the old Master of Magic, but that's a pipe dream. And, I guess Civ VI could turn out decent. https://www.gog.com/connect It's just a wild guess on my part, but they might make a similar offer for the older games in the Witcher series when this one comes out. http://www.polygon.com/2016/7/6/12106196/the-witcher-3-game-of-the-year-edition I just found out that the Bioshock series of games have been "Remastered" and will be free if you already own the originals.
Supposedly they will be automatically available on Steam next week if you have those versions. Some hoops to jump through if not. https://blog.2k.com/news/en-bioshock-the-collection-pc-upgrades Never played the original as it looked a bit grey and clunky, but then played Last Light and really enjoyed it, so got the revamped M2033 Redux when it came out and have been playing it recently.
It's pretty much like Last Light i.e. really rather good. Combat and controls are a bit clunky (trying to track the fucking mutants when they are attacking you is a bit like trying to swat a swarm of wasps with your cock whilst someone shines a strobelight in your face) and there sometimes feels like a mission/story/gameplay disparity, but other than that there's a lot of captivating stuff about this game. Graphics are good, world design is well done, the NPCs are entertaining and the atmosphere is spot on. It's some bleakly post-apocalyptically RUSSIAN, like Last Light I wonder if it is actually a real-life documentary. Good stuff. It was always fun in the Metro games to step off a very slight slope into what should have been a few inches of water only to immediately plunge into the abyss.
I always assumed it was due to the abrupt transition from walking to swimming causing the player's POV to switch almost instantly from 5 feet above to 1 foot below the water line.
Maybe that's a glitch or just the way they decided to program it. They were pretty good games regardless. A lot like the STALKER series where the good stuff was more than enough to offset the weird design choices. |
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