FTL is like poker. It’s a game of skill but you still spend most of the time praying and hoping for some scraping of good luck. You know you should carefully weigh the odds but fuck it, baby needs a new Ion Blaster.
The Ancient & Secret Forebears of Spelunky
StandardI finally caught the Spelunky bug after the HD version hit the Steam sale this past Christmas. Since then Steam informs me, I’ve sunk 36 hours into the game. I don’t wanna do the percentage math on that one.
I have also read up on what peope are saying about the game (in case you didn’t know, they like it) They also makes references to previous games. It feels like we’re establishing a lineage so that it becomes clear that we’re not just talking about a good game but a game that has entered a pantheon alongside The Classics. Which is fair and just. Spelunky feels classic in the same sense that Donkey Kong is. It’s fairly easy to get started but the underlying complexity means that you could spend years getting better and stil not achieving completely mastery. Note the tense of the verb could in that sentence; I’m not about to dedicate my life to a game. Just a day and a half. And whatever is required to get to the end. And then some, probably.
Go Home. Go, go, go, go, go!
AsideI guess I wasn’t the only only who, upon finishing Gone Home, mentally assembled the search query Gone Home speedrun.
(My call: One the plus side, excellent story, excellent presentation, on the minus side, tends to keep cramming clues down your throat when you’ve already gotten it several clues ago, also ending… unsatisfactory… to use a spoiler free term, SPOILER-filled ending here)
P.S. Also check out the (SPOILER alert) shortened, fanmade version of the game presented by TheTrueHaddock in just 14 seconds. Funny cause it’s true, etc.
Super Meat Boy is a drill sergeant who screams in your face while you whimper “It’s too hard”
The terrible keyboard controls of Super Meat Boy originally put me off the game. I got three levels in and quit in disgust. I say disgust rather than annoyance because the developers point out to you on every startup of the game that they didn’t care jack shit about keyboard gamers. Use a controller, they tell you, or fuck off. Which infuriated me not because I took offense but because they made their own failing at creating decent controls somehow your fault.
To The Moon is an interactive story that actually works as an interactive story
StandardWhen you’re warned that To the Moon is a ‘tearjerker’ game you become very conscious of your own reaction to the game. Which annoyingly kinda works against emotional immersion.
Evil, I tells ya! My experience with Razer Synapse 2.0 and the BlackWidow 2013
I recently bought a BlackWidow 2013 gaming keyboard from Razer. I wanted a gaming keyboard… Actually, scratch that. I wanted a decent keyboard for my primarily gaming-oriented desktop computer that would not suck as hard as the cheap piece of plastic that I bought along with the box. Did I somehow assume that the word Microsoft on it would make it everything alright?
Far Cry 2: The Rehatening
With the advent of Far Cry 3, something unpleasant happened to it’s older brother, Far Cry 2. It’s malaria-marked, bullet-ridden corpse was exhumed, strung behind a land rover and dragged through the streets to jeering crowds.
Why all the hate for FC2?