i want someone else to be playing them then i can make a thread and play every single one!
(ive only beat 1 2 3 and 4 ive never played the untolds or 5)
im glad theyre not on switch because the controllers suck, i still like the 3ds more to hold
also it doesnt break three times a year
Now I have Bloodstainās crisseagrim and am unstoppable. Neat thing I learned is if you totally max out a yellow shard, it becomes a permanent ability. And they stack!
My Plus expires soon and I doubt I will renew it. Maybe I will. Last multiplayer thing I played was Apex and that doesnāt even require Plus.
So I looked at my vast library of Plus games and decided on Duke Nukem 3D. Iāve never played it that much and fits with my visits to DooM, Doom2, Quake. Itās hardlocked on me twice but that is also because this PS3 is old.
Finished up Episode 3 tonight and well. Duke is the thinking manās Doom-like. There is a lot more Myst in this than i would have thought. Looking at the environment trying to see how everything relates to everything else through trickery going up and down floors.
The References to Star Trek, Car 54, Evil Dead confirms this was by a bunch of nerds when nerds could not be cool or hip. So someone write a thesis on how the developers height of Masculinity is a guy that can go into a strip club.
All the Bet on Duke stuff is forgetable or eye-rolly. I have been trying to figure out how I would have felt about it in 1997. I guess I wasnāt interested because I didnāt play it then.
The sound design is fucking terrible and you really canāt hear anything outside of fart explosions noises and this one tentacle monster that I hate the sound of. I would have to turn my TV up to uncomfortable volumes to actually hear about who I should bet on.
But the level design is great thru out. I already like E4M1 even if it froze and that means Iām going to start that episode empty handed. Iām playing on normal which gives me just enough trouble to improvise. I like that the miniboss enemy can be made trivial but it isnāt a sure thing. The San Andreas level is real special. I like how often I am going thatās there and thatās there so I need to go there in a way I donāt with a lot of other games.
Also the levels being realistic where I kill everyone make me uncomfortable and I start thinking about America and Columbine.
I immediately heard the noise in my head when I read this, thanks.
And yeah, Duke 3D is pretty great, embarrassing sexism stuff aside
Rondo may be my favorite game, but having played and disliked Dawn of Sorrow I thought I didnāt like IGAvanias. And being very burnt out on Metroidvanias in general. But after trying Bloodstained on everyoneās recommendation and enjoying it, I decided to finally play Symphony of the Night. My hot take is that everyoneās right, itās super fun.
(Though I just watched a minute of a speedrun and the runner had so many high-speed movement abilities that I havenāt found as of reaching the inverted castle that now Iām bummed that Iāve been sludging through the game like a chump.)
Whatever its quality as a stand alone piece, SotN is kind of astounding as a sequel to Rondo. Madly in love with and faithful to Rondo, while completely changing so much stuff, especially/obviously the approach to level and world design. Another old talking point from 20 odd years ago Iām bringing up now.
I watched āGreaseā for the first time 6 months ago too, if anyone wants to hear what I have to say about that.
I emailed him a long ass essay and Iām sure heās gonna ignore it.
Dawn is the second-worst Igavania (the worst is Portrait) so if you liked Bloodstained youāll probably enjoy some of the others.
use the goo daphny
use the goo
the goos used man, the goo is used!
did you use the goo or did the goo use you
Which one is this? When I have tried Shadowruns in the past I am so immediately lost and confused and tired.
SNES one
The best one
Jake Armitage is the Drizzt of Shadowrun. He breaks all the rules of what youāre allowed to do with a character in the setting, and is just super good at everything and basically some kind of godman
Heās the equivalent of sitting down at a d&d table and saying āmy character is a 20 Fighter/20 Sorcerer/20 Rangerā and somehow getting away with it. In a tier 1 campaign.
ooh, Iād love to hear a defense of whatās good about it
its the SNES one which admittedly is a confusing game a lot of the time but is still very good!
Okay this time From Beyond Prologue is an actual legit random game I stumbled upon on Steam that I knew of only from perusing the new release list daily and have yet to see mentioned anywhere else, so what is the quality of one of these unknown games quickly lost in the neverending flood of new releases?
In this caseā¦ average-ish but not bad?
The game caught my attention not due to the utterly generic name but because it is clearly heavily inspired by ye olde MacVenture games, in particular Shadowgate. Said game was a personal favorite of mine as a boy and it is not like there are a ton of games like it out there, so when a big Steam sale says you can try it out for $1.49 I figure I donāt really need those six quarters anyways.
The initial question is how does it compare to the game that inspired it, and the answer is that it is not nearly as good or memorable. To be fair the other MacVenture games also had trouble reaching that level again, but there is an energy or creativity that was present there that is not here. Part of it may be to make things easier to figure out as Shadowgate did have a bit of the whole āwhat random item must I use now?ā deal going while here it is generally easy enough to figure out, but it turns out that a lot of the personality of the game is tied up in that.
It does build one of its biggest puzzles around a forge though, that counts for something.
The story is also handicapped a bit as this is a prologue for a bigger later game that may come out at some point, but it is still fine. I think there was a miscalculation in terms of writing resources as there is a journal you can check that receives a ton of attention and I guess would be useful if one were to walk away from the game for a whileā¦ but the game is less than 3 hours long and would benefit from a bit more flavor text.
Still this all comes off as a bit harsh as I still had a good time with it. I think a lot of that was tied up with my nostalgia for the games that inspired it, and I would definitely recommend anyone who hasnāt played them to play them over this, but it did have a few puzzles that broke the mold and a couple story bits that I appreciated.
(And yes, a few of the nightmarish deaths that are of course necessary.)
The other things is that I always played these games with my younger sis back on the NES, and because these games are so passive I was able to use the Steam broadcast deal and its 15 second delay to play alongside her again via the chat function. Technology is nice sometimes.
So, verdict! If you have no good memories of the game that inspired it, you donāt have to spend another second even thinking about it. If you do and would like to dip your toes into a game very much like them albeit of middling quality, it is fine for that.
(There was one other random game name game I picked up for similar reasons that was on first blush an utter disaster, maybe Iāll write about that one at a later time. Or maybe Iāll just try to forget it exists. Probably that one.)
