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So this is a pretty sweet list of games scheduled to be released this year. Every year I find a thread like this and go "holy shit, this is going to be the best year ever!" I wonder how many of these will be 2012 games.

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I was just saying the other day that I wanted to play this, and assumed – incorrectly – that it would be readily available for download from Gog or some such service. Turns out that assuming this is now correct.

Hopefully this won't be one of those games where they've clumsily added some actiony bits to their adventure game engine. I mean, I hope they won't do it clumsily.

What the... it's out?

Fuck piss shit cunt...

What's a sandle?

For the bundled shit, there's the PC Decrapifier. I haven't tried it myself, but I hear great things.

Just finished this, and what a weird game it was. I played the CD-ROM version, and I don't know what the differences are exactly, but Jesus Christ is this one beautiful game – the environment art is just fantastic. The game itself, though, was pretty bad. I quickly turned to just following a walkthrough when I discovered that the game is mostly tons of walking back and forth through the world, picking up randomly distributed objects and using them in some order at an altar/shrine/crystal. It's very much failure-based, in that if you're not playing with a walkthrough, I imagine you'd have to play most of the game probably three or four times over to do the right thing so as to not get stuck right at the end. It's almost like a puzzle game wrapped in an adventure game GUI. I seem to remember they toned that stuff down for the sequels, and got more proper adventurey, but we'll see. But holy mother of god, beautiful pixel art is beautiful.

Wadjet Eye is publishing this, and it's available for pre-order.

This is such a great example of how so many games were broken in the 90s. Let me demonstrate: This is the opening screen of Kyrandia 1, from 1992: Look at how beautiful it is! One year later, in 1993, this is the opening screen of Kyrandia 2: Look at the colors and the detail! Everyone wants to go to this magical place! One year later, in 1994, this is what they come up with: Look at how fucking ugly this shit is! Look at how the low-poly model with its clearly visible polygons and terrible rendering artifacts is only made more fucking shitty by the terrible, low-resolution texture! What the shit is that yellow line supposed to be? A road? A road that twists and turns for no apparent reason and then plunges into the flat sea and comes back up again because nobody involved even cared about what they were doing? In what other medium would this rape of aesthetics constitute progress? blegfeahaelghaelhgaehgae

Oh Jesus Christ I had forgotten that the third game uses horrible 3D graphics!

Completed Hand of Fate, a much better game in every respect. I kind of like the... non-adventurey aspect it has, with the limited inventory and various stuff lying around, especially in the more improved form where you're not getting stuck over some minor detail. You'll always find what you need, and every so often, the game clears your inventory to avoid confusion. It's also funny how there are so many sweet art assets in this game, and sometimes it seems like the game hurries to get past them. Maybe they cut a lot of stuff towards the end?

I totally get this, and I expect I'll react in much the same way.

There are ropes? Sweet!

I bought it a while back but never got around to playing it. If there's a league for people who know nothing, I'm in!

Sounds pretty terrible. I've played GoW 3 for a couple of hours, but stopped for some reason. I'll probably pick it up again, and it'll be interesting to see what it's like.

Isn't Kratos supposed to be a huge dick, though? I mean, it's one thing if you're playing the good guy, and evil stuff is portrayed as justified by the end, but if you're playing a ruthless guy without morals, isn't that the sort of stuff you should be doing?

I'm a couple of episodes into season 2 of Fringe now, and while I haven't been blown away yet, I found that there is a bit of entertainment to be had if I try to avoid all the lame stuff like doing something incredible in one episode, and then being totally amazed by something less incredible in the next, or that a lot of the dialogue is painful TV FBI agent douchebaggery, or that a lot of it isn't science or "fringe science", it's just stupid retarded shit that would never work, or the constant focus on the professor being SO TOTALLY FUCKING WEIRD HOLY SHIT. In a way, it feels like The X-Files for a dumber audience, but I guess that's just me being dumb, not realizing that Fringe is probably a better series overall.

Just shut the fuck up and buy it.

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to the quicksave. It's not so bad, though. They're not placed that far apart, it's just the modern gamer in me that starts complaining the instant I have to wait for just a bit because of my failure. So far I can't say I've had had a single legitimate complaint about checkpoint placement. I should also mention I've completed both Abe's Oddysee, Abe's Exoddos and Munch's Oddysee, so it's sort of a warm-up for Stranger's Wrath, though it seems to me that will be the game I'll enjoy the least.

Hello, my name is toblix and I suck. For some reason I gave up on this a while back, but now I'm back to playing this game and it's still awesome. I really like when someone manage to represent puzzles in a real, physical way, rather than just have an abstract grid or whatever. Unlike adventure games, in which you're always presented with unique objects, contexts and environments, this is a more "strict" puzzle game in that there's a limited number of entities which all behave deterministically, and the challenge is analyzing the puzzle and then manipulate everything in the right way. Each puzzle is just made harder by increasing the complexity, or introducing a new mechanic. It's really simple, but the presentation really adds so much.

Will this spam both my Facebook friends with messages about stupid shit, or is it good? I have a horrible aversion to anything connected to Facebook, but that might be unreasonable?

Did you play The Last Express?