The New Video Game Recommendation Thread v2.0

[gilesgoat]

Dunno where else to drop this but I see one of my gaming curation sites is having a little bit of a member problem with a game about raping women....

I wonder what your thoughts are on this ?

Can you really just stand by and say "its just a game" , or "we aren't the morality police ?" or "where do we draw the line as China has loads of banned games"

NOT really knowing what to say about this I think "despite the weird subject" it does open "an interesting question".

I mean we have ( too many ) games where you "realistically kill people" and/or even worse you "not so realistically kill" making the idea of killing "easier".

You have horror games where "too much shit happens" , gore crap but "it's ok because it's not real and is never meant to be".

You have realistic hunt simulation games where you kill animals but that's "someway ok" because killing animals is legal.

So we have things that "are fundamentally wrong" but precisely because everyone knows that they are fundamentally wrong is expected that you will NEVER do that in real life but as you say "it's ok because it's a game".

So how do you compare an horror game or a COD thing where you kill fuckload of people with a rape game ?

I suppose we could try to stretch saying "in the horror game you are a victim is the horror shit happening around you have to defend yourself" likewise in the "combat simulation game" there are the good and the baddies and you have to defend yourself/your country/etc.

And yeah killing animals is sadly legal so you can do it.

Anyway XCKD is super spot on, the fact you can say things and you can be free to do does not mean that everyone has to accept or agree in what you say and/or that there will not be any consequences at all.

Anyway to spread "weird ideas/weird behaviour" is never a too good thing.

Then why we have movies like "Hostel" and "Hostel 2" or even worse and they get published and screened in theaters ?

My personal take is that "an idea is 1/2 reality" .. if you start thinking "too much" at something it may get a point that "thinking" has to break into "action".

If you'd be someone that really enjoys fuckload playing a rape game, even if it's a game, I'd be inclined to think "I am a bit worried about you" .. WHAT ELSE is/can be in your minds/doing ? ...

[gilesgoat]

Not sure if it's ever been reccomended here but I am currently playing "The Pedestrian" .. it's quite a puzzle/mind game that so far I found pretty interesting/challenging/fun

It's a mixture of platformer/puzzle where fundamentally "you have to go from 'A' to 'B' " but you have to create your own route solving puzzles, it's quite tricky !

[gilesgoat]

Actually yesterday ( to my surprise as well ) I DID FINISH The Pedestrian !

It would appear I am in those 13.2% of people that actually finished it.

I swear I had to "look up" only 2 puzzles because in one "I had absolutely NO IDEA/CLUE you could have done a certain thing" ( which actually then same mechanism is used in a few more puzzle later ) and one thing at the very end because we did guess correctly "what you had to do" but we could not figure out the "mechanics" necessary to actually do it ( which turns out was "silly" ) .

But yeah VERY SATISFYING to finish Interesting ending

Highly reccomended but beware some puzzles may take .. "some days" to finish them

[Rhythm]

Can't say I'd heard of that, Giles, thanks for the heads-up.

Been fairly light on "real" gaming recently. I dipped into the new Powerwash levels but other than that it's almost exclusively Marvel Snap.

And to its credit, Snap is genuinely fucking awesome. Seriously good stuff. They've distilled Magic the Gathering and Hearthstone down to their pure, crystalline form and it's dangerous stuff.

Main points:

- You only manage a deck of 12 cards. This is brilliant and makes balancing a deck way, way easier
- No ads, nothing intrusive at all. I played for 3 months without spending a penny. I finally chipped in for a season pass this month.
- Excellent artwork (and artist variations)
- Matches last a max of 5 minutes

The best part, though, and the bit that keep it all fresh is that the board changes every time you play. You're playing with your known deck into a field of 3 locations that each have different effects. And those locations are randomly selected each time. So the game is equal parts balancing against players and equal parts developing a deck that can flex to take advantage of the board.

I care not one iota about Marvel stuff in the main. This game, though, is just brilliant

[Deckard]

Odd hows things happen - I was noodling around Yak's old blog -

https://stinkygoat.livejournal.com/?skip=240

I never realised and I am a massive Eugene fan there was another game from them called Blaster



Def one to play a lot of from now on and then I noticed from Yak

"I'd love to do an updated version of it one day, in a modern-yet-retro style that retains the spirit of the original. I wonder if EBJ would be interested in a collaboration? };-)"

Well you're in with Atari so I would love to see your take....

[Jonesey]

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=2 ... r#p1374597

[Deckard]

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75689&p=1374597&hilit=blaster#p1374597

Well spotted

[Jonesey]

I never owned a Sega Saturn but I do remember the disappointment of the DOOM conversion which ID insisted run in software and based on a PSX port.

The Saturn architecture never stood a chance.

However, and 30 years later...


Magical times.

[Misfit]

I never owned a Sega Saturn but I do remember the disappointment of the DOOM conversion which ID insisted run in software and based on a PSX port.

The Saturn architecture never stood a chance.

However, and 30 years later...

Magical times.

Where do people get all the time to do these things?!

That's really cool, although with so many ways to play Doom I'm not sure I'd dust off my Saturn for a blast.

It's now even running on the Apple Lightning to HDMI dongle...

[MattyP]

Ahead of Lumines Arise (which will also be PSVR2 compat yay!) later in the year picked up Lumines Remastered on the Switch which is lovely. Not played Lumines since the PSP and forgot how wonderful it is. Lovely little musical puzzler. Very simple Tetris/Puyo Puyo type concept with drops controlled by a timed sweeping horizontal band. Great game. Simple but deep.



This is Lumines Arise BTW looks incredible

[gilesgoat]

.. so .. after I played ( and finished them all ) Little Nightmares, Little Nightmares II and Little Nightmares III .. I went for RE-Animal ..



.. sooOOOOOooo ... ... SO ...

Well "If you like Little Nightmares is more of the same" .. so "if you liked those you have to like this one too" .. let's say "they pumped a bit more the weirdness but the tricks are more or less the same".

IMHO the "biggest fault" of this sort of game is that ( unless there's some mega-secret I haven't found ) is that "there's only ONE ending (*)" I think if you'd had a few paths ( 2 ? 3 ? ) leading to a bit of different endings/levels sequences this game would be 100 time better.

What to say "is super linear" even if at some point there are a few 'confusing parts' in the end "there's only one way to go" and you have to find it.

The level of "weirdness" is up a notch .. some parts are quite disgusting .. I am not sure if there's any rational way to make any sense of all that happens (**)

So is it worth ? Well YES IF you like this type of game (***) as I said "MORE of the similar/same stuff but MORE".

It's NOT "super difficult" if I manage to finish it without getting REALLY upset or I got really good in this type of game or it's not too much difficult.

But it's not a walk in the part either.

Conclusion .. well .. as I said "YES IF YOU LIKE .." .. BUT .. and to FULLY explain this I am afraid I have to give some minor spoilers so if you don't want
to see stop here and take it like that .. knowing that .. "there's a *BUT*" ..

Spoiler: show

(*) unless there's some secret real ending , I hope, that's it .. and see (***)

(**) MAYBE. MAYBE at some point made me think "maybe it's all something happening in the mind of the girl" OR MAYBE "this is the personal hell of the girl" ?

(***) .. ok the ending is an ULTRAMASSIVE *WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THIS ??!* WHAT THE HELL I'VE BEEN PLAYING ??!! WHAT DOES IT MEAN ???!*

EVEN after watching ALL the credits there's a short post-credits scence that again LEAVES YOU WITH A TON OF QUESTIONS !!

If you ever feel you been conned for investing so much time and effort and got "this" THIS IS THE GAME !!

SO BEWARE .. "good UNTIL you reach the ending!!" ..