elmuerte

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  1. Recently completed video games

    The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy A graphical adventure game. It's ok. There are some annoying standard adventure game mistakes in it, like lack of quickly exiting a scene and a lot of going back and forth between scenes. Also had to do a lot of pixel hunting to find things which I needed to complete the various puzzles (only later found out there's a `show hotspot` thing with the right mouse button). So a lot of wandering around trying to figure out what do to. You could say it's like those classic adventure games from the mid 90s. (Not as overly complex as them though). The game contains a lot of references to movies/games/... from the 80s and 90s. Sadly, in only a few cases you can look at them. Generally only plot elements are interactive. This might be to save cost on voice over work, but I wouldn't have minded just a text only description for minor stuff.
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    Finished Torment: Tides of Numenera Took me about 21 hours to get through a single play-through. There was too much to read, too much narrative for me to enjoy. Also so many branching points, also unclear points where you had to make decisions. The parts where you were simply following a conversation tree and where you explicitly had to make a choice look alike. So sometimes I made a choice while I though I was just asking all the available info. I get the feeling there are really a lot of different playthroughs possible, although mostly narrative in sense and not content based. But I'm not going to find that out. The UI and controls are quite bad though. For example, you have a move and action in each turn (when you have an encounter), the action can also be another move. But how far you can move before consuming an action is a really tedious exercise. Traversing through the maps is also annoying, you have a map, but you cannot click on it to go to that place quickly. And the constant UI animations when you get into a dialogue thing... ugh. Anyway, it was an interesting experience. Being able to solve conflicts by not fighting was also nice. But I think they could have created a more interesting game for me by focusing less on the huge about of text.
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    Finished Hue It's a 2D puzzle platform game where you can high parts of the world by selecting the same color. Usually games like this end in very time sensitive actions. But in Hue this is not the case. There are a few segments where timing is important, but that mostly running through a straight hallway selecting the right color. Usually plenty of time. In overall I did not have much trouble solving the puzzles. So I could easily continue without running into any walls. There was only 1 level which took me a while to figure out, once figured out I declare myself an idiot for taking so long.
  4. IdleMC Epoch 7.5 Final Prologue GOTY Edition

    Nice, except most the area is protected, people cannot get the free stuff from the chests.
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    Rituals An artsy walking sim. It has a story somewhere, no idea where. The controls are really annoying. On the plus side, it was short. TIMEframe A short exploration game where you have limited time to visit some places before the world is destroyed and you are reset. The time limit is quite a downer, would be better if you were able to explore all in a single visit.
  6. Thumbs too idle? Enjoy this Idle Animation

    iirc the first Discworld graphical adventure game had Eric Idle and great idle animations, but I cannot find any videos of it.
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    Hidden Folks A where is waldo game. Sometimes you have to interact with the world to find the objectives. Besides finding things it's also fun to look at all the little things going on. Not ever special thing in the "levels" is something you have to find. And the sound effects... you should watch the trailer, it's hilarious.
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    Mirror's Edge Catalyst Running around a jumping. And a few fighting bits. The fighting parts were often annoying because I failed frequently in keeping my "flow". But in most cases you do not really have to encounter enemies, just try to run around them. As is common in platform heavy games you often fail a jump because the game decides you cannot really hold on to the ledge right in front of you. It was fun playing the whole story and side missions, so quite a bit of variety in the things to do. All the optional "race tracks" can easily be skipped as you do not really need the XP that much because you get plenty for doing the actual missions. Most of those optional tasks are quite challenging as there is little room for mistakes. I think it was a good remake of the original. Lara Croft GO (on pc) I like this one much more than the Hitman GO. There are more mechanics in this game unlike in the Hitman version where it is mostly just proper movement. I also thing it's much shorter, fewer levels, so you progress faster. So less tedious. However, most of the game is quite easy, the main story did not really have difficult puzzles to solve. The additional chapter was way more difficult, more of a challenge. So that was good. I think they are really nice ports of the mobile game.
  9. Thumbs too idle? Enjoy this Idle Animation

    does this quality as an idle animation?
  10. IdleMC Epoch 7.5 Final Prologue GOTY Edition

    oh man... a dot gobbler... we're going to need lots of wool
  11. IdleMC Epoch 7.5 Final Prologue GOTY Edition

    Your stupid Scandinavian cottage scared away the wolves, had to walk five hundred miles to find another wolf. But now I have a wolf pack! Now if I can only figure out why the snow golem won't create a snow trail.
  12. Plug your shit

    could use a 24 hour clock option
  13. Recently completed video games

    Is! It's still awesome, because it makes you feel awesome when you clear a level.
  14. Recently completed video games

    Among the Sleep It is a short "survival" game. The first part of the game there isn't really any survival element, and later on it's more an annoyance than actual surviving. It's quite well made and interesting to play (if you ignore the tedious survival halfway through the game). The absolute worst part of the game is lack of a proper save mechanic. The chapters are quite long, and when you quit the game a chapter is completely reset even though through those chapters there are various checkpoints. So I had to redo a huge part because it was late and I needed to get some sleep :/ Bulb Boy A short adventure game which is meant to be sort of scary I guess. The last part of the game contains some annoying parts where timing becomes really important. The fact that the boy has a light bulb as head isn't really used a lot, maybe once or twice. One Finger Death Punch This took me quite a while to finish the "student" mode. It's not a game I can play for a really long time. It really requires fast reflexes. It says one finger, but I used the mouse and two fingers to play this game. It's really great and worked out quite well for such a simple game. Please, Don't Touch Anything 3D The 3D version of Please, Don't Touch Anything. It's basically the same game, except in 3D. They do use the fact that it's 3D quite a few times. Chronology A short platform game with a few simple mechanics. It was fun to play. It takes about one and a half hour to play through. It is not really remarkable in anyway.
  15. General Video Game Deals Thread

    Amazon Prime in .nl is just a very limited version of their online streaming thing.
  16. I Had A Random Thought...

    I love The Sting
  17. Recently completed video games

    Small Radios Big Televisions A short puzzle-like game. I can only describe this as some kind of experimental game made by somebody who wanted to mess around with shaders. I have no idea what the story is about. At some point clinking around required turning valves in some direction, never figured out if there was any logic, but I managed to solve the puzzles anyway. The ending was quite nice though.
  18. Recently completed video games

    Ratchet & Clank (PS4) It's very ratchet and clack. Note sure what else to say. I never played the original and this is supposed to be a remake. It feels pretty much like all the ratchet and clank games I played on the PS3. Unlike the bigger PS3 games this one didn't have one of those stupid arena segments, so that was nice.
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    Minecraft: Story Mode It actually made be revisit the normal game. This game comes in two parts, sort of like two seasons. The first one is a continuous story of 4 episodes. After that are 4 episodes which are more stand-alone. The first part is more like the survival part of minecraft where second part is more creative (or maybe modded), even though you still have to survive. In the second part you visit four different locations which have constructions and contraptions not really possible in minecraft. The first part was more true to the standard game. It's packaged a bit weird though. If you buy the game you get 5 episodes, and the last 3 you must purchase separately. So you get sort of a teaser for the second part. Anyway. The game is like any modern Telltale Game where you make choices, some which really affect the game and a lot which only affect the dialogue. There is one part I didn't like, at the end of episode 1 you make a choice on what the first chapter of episode 2 will be. It's a choice between going to place A or B. The only way to visit they other place is to replace whole episode 1. They included some actual crafting in the game, but in most cases there is little choice in what you can make given your limited inventory. But it was nice anyway.
  20. The fake Duke Nukem game they talked about is Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. I played it, it was sort of fun, but the gameplay was quite bad. It was simply not fun to play. So much not fun to play that I never finished it.
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    The Silent Age Originally an adventure game for mobile devices, they also released it for the PC. It's quite a simple adventure game, where you have to mess around with your inventory a bit. It's a nice short game which could be finished in one sitting. You don't really have to do any pixel hunting, or combining items in your inventory. So it's just sit back, and enjoy the story.
  22. You can now race friends. You won't earn anything, except personal experience. To race just open your friends list.
  23. GOTY.cx 2016

    I don't think I can clearly name a GOTY for 2016. I've played a lot of games from 2016 which I enjoyed. DooM, Dishonored 2, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, The Witness, iNSiDE, Rise of the Tombraider, Grim Dawn, Firewatch, etc. But I cannot really decide on a top 3. I think I've enjoyed the 2 big Fallout 4 DLCs, Far Harbor and Nuka World, the most. I can name the biggest disappointment of 2016: Maffia 3
  24. 5474-7907-4417 is a-me Yep, you cannot even view your friend' kingdom. Just the tour stats. I do not like the rally much. The way to win isn't really clear to me. You have to pay a ticket to race, and there's a chance to lose toads. The ticket's aren't free either. Sure you can hope the shitty bonus game rewards you. But once you maxed out the special coins in the tour I do not see a way to get rally tickets.