Tanukitsune

I actually enjoy the "Shooter" series, the whole Zombie Shooter and Alien Shooter series is made by the same people and are ridiculous fun if you're into these kind of games. ¬_¬U

Well, the new batch of Greenlight games is out, and La-Mulana is oddly absent from the list. Lost of FPS games, Minecraft-like games and adventures too, but not adventures from known publishers like Grey Matter. Shantae didn't make it either. At least Project Giana made it, I wonder if it was pushed because it's supposed to be released this month? I'm happy anyway since I backed it and should get a Steam code, at least I think I will.

I finally beat Risen 2: Dark Waters, with the DLC included. The DLC was so-so, the costume you get is practically useless a few moments after you can finally use it, the Sky Temple was kinda fun, except the quest then forced me to revisit EVERY island again! The treasure island DLC was good, expect I expected more traps and puzzles. As for the game? I really liked it! I hate the fact that the game is so stingy with money though, I never though I was rewarded enough for my effort no matter what I did... (So I used a money cheat). The game did seem a bit "dumbed down for console kiddies" and the mini games were dumb, but I felt joy every time I found a message in a bottle with a treasure map and joy when I dug it up. I chose the voodoo path, which is kinda useless in combat but does open some quests into interesting territory. It's strange that all I can say seems negative, yet I really love the game, the lush vegetation, the lighting in caverns and weather effects... It really created a great atmosphere. I'd like to see a Risen 3, but... in this world magic is outlawed, I'm not sure how it would be. Are there even any titans left?

Has anybody visited the GalaStore? They have a sale on Syberia I & II and Still Life I & II, if you have ever bought any Indie Gala bundle you'll have points to use as a discount and get them for 2.50$.

I usually play the new episode the moment it comes out, but I wanted to have something for the weekend, so I waited... DAMN! Now I can't wait until the next episode!

If there is anything you can learn from this thread is that indie bundle are lethal for your backlog.... and yet we can't resist them.

OK, I beat it, the ending part was pretty brutal, but I made it! The game had more commentary than I expected, it has a lot of commentary on issues on modern and old gaming and other things like censorship. I had completely forgotten how ludicrous the censored was up in the NES era, almost every game has you drink "milk", when it's really booze. The game has this reminder in a parody of Lefty's bar for Leisure Suit Larry. And I'll shut up now...

I don't think I have any games I haven't at least tried to play, but I like shammack, I have games from indie bundles that I've tried and will never play again. Oh wait... I just remembered the 1C complete bundle I bought at Gamersgate, I have metric ton of games I don't think I'll even bother to install. I don't even them as part of my collection since I haven't even really claimed them yet, I can even give them away if I wanted to, but I'm sure it's 30-50 games.

I think I ran over Sailor Moon with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles van.... D:

It's a retro game, the game design IS 80's references in a way, while it combines aspects from different games cleverly, it's all about the nostalgia trip. You can't really talk about much else. To be more specific, to me a game is pandering or sincere depending on how clever the writing / jokes about the references are. Do you go for the obvious easy and cheap joke or reference or do you at least try to be clever about it. So I guess you could be right about being both, since I doubt all jokes will be "comedy gold".

I just gave up on NEO Scavenger, a survival game in which it's impossible to survive! In my first game, I was attacked and killed before I could even find a weapon and even when I do, I always lose the first battle... NO MATTER WHAT! And even if I did survive the first battle, I'd probably die a few moment later due to the the bleeding. I might actually liked this game, but being this harsh is just ludicrous. I can't even survive for more than three turns, which is B.S. Even in roguelikes you stand a better chance than this game. The fact that you can only carry what you can hold would have been interesting if I survived enough to find a container.

I got the modern Alien Breed game in a "indie" bundle, it was mostly Team 17 games though. As you can guess, I just could not stomach these game, the busywork is just too ludicrous, before I gave up I swear I pushed more buttons that shot aliens. And of course, every button you push just gives you a message telling you that either you have to press some other button to get it to work or leads to another button. If there is anybody that doesn't believe they try to artificially make games longer look no further, this game would be over in five minutes if it weren't for it's bloody busywork! PS: Does anybody use a different term for this? I've always used "busywork" since it's the obvious term to give, but I might be using the wrong one.

I just beat Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit. This game was amazing, it's so crazy I'm not even sure how it was released! The psychedelic level has a six-breasted Patrick from SpongeBob and some flowers that are so obviously female genitalia I just don't know how they got away with it! And if what I heard is right, you regain health with menstrual blood! I don't if this game is going for puerile or insane, or maybe just insanely puerile? Either way, it's magical! You have to kill 100 demons that have seen some indecent photos of you with a rubber ducky and get the photos back. Most of the time you have to confront them directly, but many times you'll have to puzzle your way to kill them. And when you do, you get a Wario-ware-esque mini game you must win to unleash the finishing move. My only complaint are the side missions, they are too annoying for so little pay off. But that's not part of the main game do I can't really complain.

You know, the Mega Man talk reminded me of how Mega Man has as a tutorial "mechanically", if you've seen Sequelitis, you probably already know what I mean, but Mega Man tends to present many obstacles and enemies in "safer" environments. Remember those disappearing platforms that make you fall to your doom? They usually have a room before that where can "practice" since it has a floor and you won't die if you fall.

Stage 3 on what? Every game?

I've beaten all of those games, most of them again recently, the only one that's "impossible" and I had to cheat on was Contra. The only old games that are hard in bad ways are the broken kind that are only good for AVGN (or similar) fodder.

THIS! We have tons of old school RPGs, when was the last time you played a game like Commander Keen? Can we at least have Dope Fish as a class? I'm not sure, but 1.000.000 is probably the highest Kickstarter goal I've seen. This means it has to be TWICE as awesome as Tim Scafer's game, if my made up made is correct.

Yeah, time is one reason I play on easy, since easy means the game is shorter by default since enemies die sooner. Your last comment just reminded me on how relative difficultly can be. Two people can have the same skills and have the same experience with a game and have the opposite opinion on how difficult it is. One might say the game is damn hard because he died a thousand times, yet the other can say the game is easy because the game let you die a thousand times.

THIS! Many games will tell you how to play them, but very few teach you to play them WELL! I always thought that difficulty settings were obsolete, oddly enough, I recently wondered what would happen if you replaced them with "overpowered" and "underpowered" settings for you and the enemies? In most games, hard mode is having the enemies overpowered and you underpowered, which seems stupid, I always thought having everybody overpowered sounded more exciting. And I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks "hard" mode is dumb in many ocassions. Frankly, when I want a challenge, I play a game without difficulty settings, they tend to feel more balanced and tense. I never have to think "This doesn't feel like easy/normal/hard mode" or if the game might be better if I made it harder or easier. I don't know if this is derailing the thread, but am I the only one to notice the "hardcore retro goggles" effect? It's when people are convinced the games they played in the "good ol' days" were harder and make modern remakes, homages or sequels that tend to be much harder than the original, but everybody claims that it feels like the real deal? You know, like a NES game that has boss shoot a few bullets at you because it's all the NES can handle, but the people remember it as it were a bullet hell game on the hardest setting and remember it having millions of bullets on screen?

I've beaten Story Mode which makes the game worth even if you don't like Survival mode. The plot is rather stupid, but all crazy Japanese game have dumb plots. And story mode is a real challenge, stealth stages (a bit unforgiving, but very doable), stages where you fight enemies much bigger than you and a ridiculously awesome final boss! I'm not sure if I'll get all the unlockable though, the requirements are getting higher and higher! You have to complete more and more challenges before you can even start the challenge that unlock the next animal, then again, you probably need those challenges anyway to have enough survival points to afford them.

I finally started to play the game, I'm concentrating on getting everything for story mode. I'm still not sure how to unlock animals, I know there are challenges, but are they all exclusive for each animal? What I mean is that if only one animal can unlock another. I played the free DLC characters and those don't seem to unlock anything. I'm enjoying it a lot though. When playing as the deer I got lost in the sewer and barely made it out of there since there is no plants to eat... only to arrive shortly later at the zoo full of lions! D:

Wow, I hate to "double post" but I REALLY want to talk about the game I just beat... Double Dragon Neon is just.... Magical? It's a love letter to 90's which you will either love or loathe, I don't remember the Double Dragon series being this crazy, the I only played a few and they seemed pretty tame. Here are a few things you will encounter in the game, I'll put a spoiler because the game is much more magical if the madness is unspoiled: It's pretty RPG-esque since you get cassettes that give you special moves and stat boost, the more of the same tape make the boost or attack stronger. There is a limit to how many upgrades you can have that is increased with the items the boss drop. Speaking of cassettes, the music is also so 90's, one level even sounds like a Madonna song! One of the things I miss from the arcade era are bat shit crazy brawlers, I never thought I would play one again.... I was wrong, oh boy, was I ever wrong! I'll put a spoiler on a very amazing secret that is so 90's, OK, TWO secrets:

It seems the next batch of Greelight games will be announced the 15th of October, according to the Mutant Mudds guy, who says he's only... 56th in the top 100? That seems a bit low, I don't even have 55 games voted for in my Greelight list. :|

I'll say what I say in the Kickstarter thread, I kinda lost confidence in them a lot, the fact that I owned all the Broken Sword games, yet I completely forgot that Broken Sword 4 which doesn't bode well for me. I wouldn't be the only person to say Revolution software game's aren't as good as they used to be.