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Re: What Video Games Are You Playing?

201 by Dovira
Got a bunch of games off a sale on GOG, among others Deus Ex and the 2013 Tomb Raider, the latter of which I started playing. I tried it a bit in a store a while back, and I was somewhat bugged by the handholding. This is how you do x, this is how you do y, now you get a popup box when approaching something so you know what to do with it. I'm like cool, when will the game start? We'll see how it goes. I like loafing around in the environments.

One I didn't get because I've played it through a million times, but which I highly recommend, is The Longest Journey. Best adventure game ever.
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Re: What Video Games Are You Playing?

203 by Dovira
A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Sat Jul 16, 2022 10:18 am Deus Ex. What a fine thing it still is.
It passed me by the first time around because my computer couldn't handle it. When I got an up-to-date one later on there were so many more contemporary titles grabbing my attention. The Unreal crew worked on the music which I know rocks and obv I hear so much good about it in general so yeah looking forward to it.
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Re: What Video Games Are You Playing?

209 by Hairy Caul
I've been playing "Terminator: Resistance" after someone recommended it to me; my feelings about it are mirrored by the person who wrote this:
It does a great job of capturing the whole future war sequence from the beginning of the movie (better than Salvation ever did), everything looks and sounds right, mechanically and technically it's clearly made on a budget but still worth playing through, and outside of nitpicks that clearly resulted from this being a budget title, it's good enough that it'll make you want the team to get a second crack at it, with an actual budget. As it is, they did a hell of a lot of what they had, and it's got this overall sense of giving a shit that even huge AAA games rarely have. The people who made it were clearly huge fans of the series and you get the feeling that put everything they had into making it the best Terminator game that they possibly could. When you consider the people who did this made Rambo: The Videogame and a bunch of shovelware, it's feels like it was made by a studio with something to prove, along with just the general love of the source material. You can see where the corners were cut (there's lots of treating the same map during the day and at night like they're two maps), but got a whole lot out of what was there, and the story has all the Terminator shit you want in it, and to avoid too many spoilers, it remembers that these are time travel movies and makes some pretty good use of it, with twists that you pick up on long before the reveal but still wind up being fun when you get exactly what you expected, mostly because they didn't use it as an excuse to be clever.

One of the things it did incredibly well was while most of the smaller robot enemies are cannon fodder, the walking skull-faced endoskeletons that you think of when you think of a Terminator remain a proper threat for a good chunk of the game.

Also there's a hacking minigame where you basically play Frogger, and the path through each of them is timed in way where if you know what pattern you're looking for as the bars scroll by, you can complete them by tapping out the DUNDUN DUN DUN DUN DUNDUN DUN DUN DUN drums from the Terminator theme, which was a nice touch.

TL: DR- budget title elevated by team that clearly loves the Terminator franchise, and made up for what they lacked in time, money, personnel and other resources with a huge amount of giving a fuck.
Once I'm done I think I'll either move on to a random game I picked up called, "Voodoo Detective", or take a crack at the, non-enhanced, Blade Runner game.
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Re: What Video Games Are You Playing?

210 by Dovira
kokorodoko wrote: Sat Jul 16, 2022 3:11 amthe 2013 Tomb Raider
Crappy story with a few clumsy instances of reverse plot armor, a rather anticlimactic boss fight, otherwise fun overall. The scenery is nice and I like how the whole game takes place on one single stage, as it were. As usual, Crystal Dynamics titles excel in game mechanics and less so in capturing the mood of the early games. The trend of making dead bodies disappear thankfully seems to be over.

Been spending some time on an action game called Kane and Lynch. Being made by IO Interactive (the Hitman games) peaked my interest - unfortunately this doesn't show. The game is not terrible, but it often boils down to defeating successive waves of enemies, and the combat is pretty clunky.

A much more pleasant find is the Russian-developed adventure game The Uncertain: Light at the End. Great setting and art. You have the option to skip puzzles, which some might consider awfully untr00, I lean more toward the other side: It's not fun being stuck on one moment forever, and the choice is still up to you - although, the option simply being there undoubtedly makes you more likely to choose it. The story has potential to be both interesting and lazy, it remains to be seen. Russian voice track is optional - seriously, why doesn't every Japanese title ship with the native voice track as an option? It would be so easy. Similarly, the sequel to The Longest Journey had Norwegian voices as an option. Too bad the game sucked, but it was a nice gesture.
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