Challenge was good in some places, fun was good in many places, overall game was great.

Yeah some of the art in Quake Cuntpions looks cool, all that gothic shit. Completely wasted in a fast MP game though. 

Really good overall despite underwhelming first appearances. More of the same but I liked it a lot. Lots of small scale exploring and some nice details and styles in it, and the world had a fairly convincing feel as these things go (AI aside). I got used to the clunky interface and moronic hole-where-a-protagonist-should-have-been.

I would have liked to have more....in-depth exploration in the Swiss Alps and London areas, to balance out the vast amount of time you spent in relatively small Prague areas. Those two sections felt a bit detached but had a lot of promise (like the end scene of the Alps, wanted more of that!). Golem City did the non-Prague stuff best as it felt a pretty rich environment you saw lots of. 

Brace yourself for 7.5/10s! 

A break from Jan 2016 to March 2017 not playing a single video game is torture, although this thread probably doesn't miss my 7.5/10s.

I'm finally catching up on all the q1sps from the last 2+ years. Surprisingly, my gameplay skills don't completely suck after that break, I'm just as average as I always was, as I consistently screw up double-sg Shambler fights every friggin time. 

Played a couple of good games recently that were released for free to PSN folks. Luckily they're on Steam too.

Disc Jam -

Kind of like tennis mixed with Frisbee. Super addictive and it's got that easy to get into but hard to master vibe. 5/5

Letter Quest: Grims Journey Remastered -

Spent loads of hours playing this simple spelling game. It's got RPG elements and interesting gameplay mechanics. Definitely worth checking out! 4/5 

Disc Jam = Windjammers ?
Check it out, Neo Geo emulator needed, online games to be found. 

And it's just as fun :) 

Wassup next??

ME4?? Seen a lot of Cohh playing it, looks pretty cool, he acknowledges the animation issues, but the rest of it looks good - the exploration and planets especially. Not sure about lots of dialogue tho.

Styx2?? Looks very much more of the same, but some cooler designs. The first one was good but a bit dry, not sure how hyped I am.

Vikings Of Midgard?? More utterly generic ARPG stuff, but looks okay.

Hmmmmm mmmmmm.....what do you guysh think? 

Loved Styx even if they re-used levels to extend gameplay. Haven't seen anything of Styx 2 except for a few screenshots but if it's in any way improved itself over the original then definite purchase for me. 

LLELELEEL 

Strafe was delayed to the 9th May. It was going to come on March 26. It was a kickstarter project. Coincidence?
Not in my book 

 

didn't get it...

Played the early version of the game and it had some weird scale issue on the maps and I think some of the gameplay does need tweaking.

I'm more excited for Dusk and GibHard tbh at this point. 

 

no need to spread your hate here. 

https://youtu.be/5ypU9j4w3_w

This could be excellent. Fingers crossed. 

I guess you really want to mean it when you shoot? Or is there some kind of keyboard out there that lets you type # without a modifier key? 

God damnit it happened again. I was referring to #8967 which was linked.

I think people are waging a covert war to try and convince me that message deletion should be a thing... 

British and German keyboards do. The # key is where \ is on a US keyboard. 

has the # but doesn't have a \.

You don't realise how important the \ is until it's missing. Thankfully the later version of the same keyboard has it now (das keyboard). 

Decided to make some time to game again this year after a dry 2016. So far this fortnight digging into my 2013 crates

The Stanley Parable - metatric: 88% , my score: 6/10
I give it a 6 for trying something different and very amusing/entertaining narration, well written. But let's be honest, this is an interactive movie with little point, dated Valve graphics and a bunch of corridors.

Slender: The Arrival - 65% no score because I quit after 2 of 5 levels
Piece of crap. Slender Man scared the fuck out of me a couple times, that's the only good thing about this game.
Having to start that second level over and over again with randomly generated locations and almost random deaths was enough for me. I watched the rest on youtube and am glad I didn't continue.

Resident Evil 6 - 69% - 7/10
Really not too bad. Good story the way it has 4 campaigns telling the story from each perspective. Unfortunately, replaying the same levels up to 3 times is not so good. Good graphics though. 20-25 hours is long for linear game like this, though.

Far Cry 3 - 88% - 9/10
If this was the first sandbox RPG FPS I played, I'd love it. But it's not, we've seen the island setting before in FPSs Crysis and Far Cry 1. We've seen Ubisoft bring RPG into it with Far Cry 2. So now we're just going back to island. Which we've seen before with Dead Island and White Gold. But is that such a bad thing? There's not many themes that haven't been done already in some game. Far Cry 2 gameplay in Far Cry 1 setting, why not? Also some of the FC2 issues have been fixed (respawning enemies every five minutes which ruined the game for me). Plus a little easier. Would have been great with more side quests that are even remotely interesting and worth doing, but even so I spent about 20 hours on it so that's full value, when you compare a COD campaign is about 5 hours.

I might play Blood Dragon next. Looks like they should have made this a full game. Then I don't know, maybe force myself through another Batman game (Arkham Origins). 

 

Well Blood Dragon is one of the good ones afaik. Didn't you try it? Arkham 3 I can't really miss because Batman. Those Arkham games are worth playing for the design, they all look great. Usually good stories too, and you get to battle just about every villain DC ever created, they cram them all in there. It's just a shame the gameplay sucks ass. 

Trying to think what was around in 2013. Can't even remember.

Looking at my steam list, between 2013 and 2016: Dark Souls 3, SOMA, Dishonoured / 2, DX:MD, Titanfall 2, Doom 4, TR2013, ROTR, Bioshock Infinite, Metros Reduxes, Styx, Alien Isolation, WOFL TNO / TOB, would all be worth checking out in the action-ish genres.