On paper, Disco Elysium's a real tough sell. A murder mystery that looks like classic Fallout but lacks combat, only has four areas, and requires you to read a ton of dialogue and narration? Who green-lighted this?
Summary Over 50+ games announced at PC Gamer's PC Gaming Show - Lots of "more of the same" titles - Survival/crafting, farming/life simulators, retro shooters Want to play: Persona 4 Golden (out now!), Carto, Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy, Potionomics, Paradise Killer, Haven, Weird West, Twin Mirror Interesting: In Sound Mind, Icarus, Rogue Lords, Blightbound Especially bad: Amazon's New World (see cover image) Day 2 of E3's online shindig was the "PC Gaming Show". After watching God-knows-how-many-trailers during this two-hour show, I'm here...but not all here. My theme for this show, and PC gaming in general, was "more of the same". I'm not sure if I'm just an old, jaded gamer but it felt like the majority of games announced here were - kind of like the movie industry - "safe" bets that were essentially clones of existing games with a new mechanic or different art style. The survival/crafting clones. The farming/life simulator clones. The retro shooter clones. Also: EPIC GAME STORE EPIC GAME STORE EPIC GAME STORE... To start with, I appreciated host Day[9] and co-host Frankie Ward's heroic efforts on the stream to keep things upbeat, interesting and professional. I would've mentally checked out twenty minutes in. Day[9]'s interview questions at least weren't the typical talking head stuff. Since the scale of today's event is way bigger than the E3 Day 1 PS5 game announcements (we're talking 50+ games here, which was repeatedly emphasized), I won't be posting a bunch of trailers, but instead just writing my impressions on what I saw, good or bad. Want to Play PERSONA 4 GOLDEN - Not a huge surprise given the leaks, but anything Persona for me now is a guaranteed buy. I just hope that Persona 5 Royal's PC release doesn't come at the start of the NEXT console generation.…
SummaryIn BattleTech, you're a student living on campus in an elite school and go about your day-to-day businessYou go through progressively more difficult mechwarrior training missions until you get surprise attacked by an enemy house during a (random) training mission, and you can lose your mech or die during this encounterIt's shocking, it's organic and it works as an intro to the gameCompare this to Deus Ex: Invisible War, where the scene is almost the same (student at an elite academy and academy gets attacked) but a whole bunch of things just happen to you all at once, and you're just like "oh"I like to think that old games brought a lot more imagination to game design, since resources were so limited back then. Developers made do with what they had, whether that was 16 colors, "PC Honker" sound, or 2 MB of memory.There was a game I played back in the late '80s called BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks Inception. I've got a pretty hazy memory of most of the game, but the beginning and the end were memorable in quite opposite ways. The endgame was awful (sorry, spoilers) because instead of a boss fight/climax, there was this huge, idiotic puzzle where you had to grab keycards that could only open a specific door, and you could only carry three at one time. So you had to spend hours going back and forth between doors and figure out which cards opened which doors. Trial and error. That's not fun for anyone.As for the beginning, we'll get to that in a sec. For now...Some short historyBattleTech is (was?) a large franchise that started back in the 1980s and revolved around big robots (mechs) fighting each other amid a bunch of political houses backstabbing each other throughout the galaxy.In BattleTech: The Crescent…
I recently picked up Deus Ex: Invisible War on Steam for the Walmart-bargain-bin-special price of 97 cents. Just how bad is it, anyway?
I’ve spent the last four hours wrangling through System Shock Remake demo’s empty blue corridors, feeling as clueless as The Tourist (2010) when it comes to figuring out what I’m supposed to be doing or how half the mechanics in this game even work.