Henke

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  1. Oh I got a lot of these. From the past few years: Uncharted 4 - Played Uncharted 3 first, liked it a lot. Then 2, which felt kinda stale in comparison. Never played the first game. When 4 rolled around I mainly played it because of how much I'd loved The Last Of Us and wanted to see what Naughty Dog would do next. It never grabbed me. I dragged myself through the entire story, bored the whole time. In retrospect, I think one Uncharted game was enough for me, should've stopped after the first one. Horizon Zero Dawn - Yeah yeah it's pretty and competently made and all that, but it just feels like a repeat of a dozen other open world stealth-action games I've played in the past. Also the human stealth-bits aren't as good as in most other games of this style, and I'm not really into the whole monster hunter aspect of it. Dead Cells - It looks great and has been hyped to hell and back, but I'm just not feeling it, man. I don't think this kinda Spelunky-esque procedurally generated platformer thingy is my kinda thing. Speaking of which... Spelunky - Yeah I didn't like this either. God Of War - It's just that I don't like the combat and I don't like the parts inbetween the combat. I do like the characters tho, but not enough to keep playing, so after I failed the big round elevator-bit like 4 times in a row I was like fuuuuuuuck this and uninstalled.
  2. I initially just thought it was some kinda youtube-content-creating joke-game, but the more I see of it it does actually appear to have some tactical depth. I wanna play it myself now. RE:Tactics/Strategy: I really should've called the thread "looking for turn based tactics games", as that's what I'm more into.
  3. Half-Life 3

    Y'know Valve just announced a new VR headset that'll be releasing in June AND they've been talking about THREE BIG VR GAMES they're working on. It's not inconceivable that at least one of them will release alongside the new headset. We could very well be getting a new Valve game in June. I mean, probably not HL3, and it is in VR, but still. It's something.
  4. Recently completed video games

    I also finished this after picking it up in the current Humble Monthly. I like the setting and characters and mostly the gameplay as well, but the XCOM style random dice rolls usually send me into fits of rage so I made the wise decision early on to turn the difficulty down to Normal. This also makes the characters special abilities and health get reset after every encounter which meant I could use Bormin's hog rush ability to knock down enemies and thus easily silently take down lone enemies. On the other hand this turned the stealth-bits into a real chore of just endlessly repeating the same boring, safe, procedure over and over. In the end tho, yeah, I liked this game. Other recently finished games: Spider-Man - yeah, it was great. Rats, Bats, And Bones - a tower defence game that I got ridiculously engrossed in. Loved it. Thy Sword - Arcadey hack n slash platformer with some neat mechanics. What Remains Of Edith Finch - Wonderful. Sharpshooter3D - this one I gotta post the trailer for, I mean just look at this. Is it the most punk rock game you've ever laid your eyes on or what? It's so ugly and violent that it takes on a unique beauty of its own. When I saw it on Steam I knew I must play it. I couldn't quite figure out what its politics where while playing it, but after finishing I kept seeing it referred to as an ANTIFA game, and yeah, that makes sense.
  5. IT'S THE QUARTERLY HENKE'S TBS GAMING UPDATE Frozen Synapse 2 I played the singleplayer campaign for like 30 hours but got bored before the end. Didn't even get around to the MP. Eh... it was fine tho. I like a lot of what they've done with the open world structure, but it was also crazy complex and I had to look up a lot of stuff online that the game didn't tell me about. I don't know. If you haven't played Frozen Synapse, play the first one. If you've played FS1 and want more, yeah, check this out, but maybe wait for a sale. Valkyria Chronicles 4 Definitely on the easy end of the TBS games spectrum, and it's also got some quite annoying design decisions, with the menus and upgrade-trees taking way too long to do anything in. Despite that, I loved it. One of my fave games of last year. Even though it's easy, the story really manages to make you feel the struggle your squad is going through, and the characters are wonderful. Just started playing Mutant Year Zero: Road To Eden, it's heavy on XCOM-style random-dice-rolley bullshit, so I'm playing on the lowest difficulty, and mostly managing to enjoy it without screaming at my computer too much.
  6. Amazing thread title. Also I'm not gonna play this.
  7. Modest Tech: The NX Generation (Nintendo Switch)

    Not to start another Pizza Tonight debacle, but... (skip to 2:05) When Toadette clears a level she is saying "He-heee! Who cares!", right?
  8. Half-Life 3

    Having Half-Life 3 as one of your favourite games is very defiant.
  9. [Released] Palpable Dreams

    Just played with this for half an hour. It's really something.
  10. [Released] A Thousand Dormant Machines

    I built the chocolate! Yay.
  11. [Released] Palpable Dreams

    Great work as usual Nappi. Slick presentation and really mesmerizing gameplay. Now I kinda wanna try to make something like this in VR. A thing where you shape the flow of particles drifting through the air by waving your hands around could be suuuuuuuper trippy.
  12. This is freakin' sublime! I don't wanna say anything lest I spoil anything, EVERYONE JUST GO PLAY IT NOW! My highest score was 27.
  13. Netflix Originals

    So this POLAR thing, eh? I'm kinda surprised by the huge divide between critics and user-scores on this one. It has a 18% on metacritic, but 7.0 from users, and a 6.4 on imdb. It's a film where Mads Mikkelsen plays a retired hitman who gets pulled back in for oooone laaaast jooooob. Based on a comic book. Directed by Jonas Åkerlund who is best known as a musicvideo director(Madonna's "Ray Of Light", and Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" are among his more well-known videos). I watched it when it came out on Friday, and... it's kinda all over the place. It has all these weird characters, like it's trying to be funny, but without actually having any jokes. Kinda feels like it's trying to be a bizarro-John Wick. The actionscenes aren't Wick-level or anything, but they were still pretty entertaining. The tone is all over the place, from goofy to grim, but Åkerlund is no Tarantino, so it just feels weird. Mads was good, and had some nice little character-moments here and there. Overall, I didn't hate it.
  14. R U Talkin' RE2 Remake RE: ME?

    Thumbs up for the thread title. Only RE game I've played all the way through is RE4, only ever played the demo of RE2 back in the day. This new version does look neat tho.
  15. [Dev Log] In The Shade of the Puffin

    That's a damn fine gecko!
  16. Modest Tech: The NX Generation (Nintendo Switch)

    Ah, didn't realize they were different games. The last 2D Mario I played was SMB3 circa 2002 and before that the GameBoy Marios in the early 90's. I'm also at the Soda Jungle now and I totally agree with you about the inertia. I replayed Celeste not long before starting up NSMB and the contrast is stark. I feel much more in control when playing Celeste. I'm still enjoying this though. Also this Tim Rogers video is good stuff.
  17. [Released] A Thousand Dormant Machines

    Two of my favourite Wizard Jammers making a game? Consider me HYPED!
  18. [Dev Log] In The Shade of the Puffin

    Good Puffin content and welcome to the forums! I'm having kind of a hard time envisioning how this'll play. Mainly about staying in the shade of Puffins running back and forth, might it not make more sense to have the Puffins' flying overhead? So you'd see their wings-spread silhouette on the ground and have to stay within it? Anyway, I look forward to seeing how it turns out.
  19. Modest Tech: The NX Generation (Nintendo Switch)

    When New Super Mario Bros came out for the DS in 2006 I said "boy, that name is sure to age poorly! It won't be so "New" in 10 years, EH?". Welp, seem Nintendo has gotten around that by re-releasing it every few years, first for the Wii, then Wii U, and today New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe is coming out on the Switch. This game will always be NEW! IT WILL NEVER AGE!!! CIVILIZATIONS WILL CRUMBLE INTO DUST BUT NEW SUPER MARIO BROS WILL NEVER DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also I haven't played any of the previous versions so I picked it up for the Switch, looking forward to getting into it over the weekend.
  20. Netflix Originals

    Vulture has ranked all of Netflix's original movies. I've watched quite a few of these, even on the crap-end of the scale. I'd say around #120 they get to the stuff I'd call "watchable", like Ibiza and The Incredible Jessica James. In the top 10 I loved Shrikers, The Meyerowitz Stories and Buster Scruggs. Okja and Roma I liked well enough, but The Other Side of the Wind I turned off 30 minutes in. Gotta check out the rest of the top 10. Also I totally forgot that The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter, a dramedy starring Josh Brolin and Danny McBride, came out this year, gotta add that to my top 10 list. My top 10 Netflix movies of 2018 (final list): 1. Annihilation (not on Vulture's list since I guess it was only primarly distributed by Netflix in Europe? I'm still counting it tho!) 2. The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs 3. Shirkers 4. Us And Them 5. Roma 6. A Futile And Stupid Gesture 7. Apostle 8. Ibiza 9. Manhunt 10. The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter
  21. Modest Tech: The NX Generation (Nintendo Switch)

    Yeah the internet is great, but sometimes it steers us wrong. I bought Dead Cells after the entire internet assured me it was great, but guess what, I did NOT care for it. :|
  22. CHRISTMAS 2018

    Merry Christmas! I watched the video but wish I hadn't.
  23. Modest Tech: The NX Generation (Nintendo Switch)

    Probably, yeah. I’ve stubbornly held off on getting a Pro controller as I feel the default one should work. Also I’m drowning in controllers for various devices here, don’t wanna add more to the pile.
  24. Modest Tech: The NX Generation (Nintendo Switch)

    I can definitely recommend Celeste, one of the year’s best games! I played it on Switch tho I’m not sure it’s the optimal platform. During some of the more challenging sections I found myself wishing I’d gotten it on PS4 instead as the default Switch controller was making my hands hurt and it’d probably be more comfortable with a Dualshock or XBox gamepad.
  25. Netflix Originals

    Roma came to Netflix today. It's a beautiful movie, but also very slow. It's only in the 3rd act when stuff starts happening. Also holy shit