Well, it’s been a while since I last posted about games, and in that time I’ve played quite a lot of them. I’m not going to mention all of them (I’m sure I’ve forgotten quite a few), but I will say a few words about some of the more notable ones. In no particular order:
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 Tags: Alice, Batman, Dragon Age, Minecraft, Portal, Saints Row, Skyrim, Terraria |  Category: Games |  Leave a comment Fable 3 (Amazon I’d seen fairly mixed reviews of the Xbox version beforehand, but I was going in with fairly light expectations — I’d played Fable: TLC (on PC too, of course) previously and found it to be a fairly light-hearted and silly RPG, but still pretty fun. I haven’t played Fable 2 (since it never made it to PC), but I was expecting something similar from Fable 3. I’ve mentioned it before, but Psychonauts is a really really good game, and absolutely everyone in the universe should get it. (And Yahtzee agrees.) Oh, and it’s now on sale via Steam’s Midweek Madness for US$2. So anyone who doesn’t get it is crazy. (Or already has it, or didn’t see it in time.) [...] I’ve been meaning to post something about the Sam & Max games for quite a while now, but never seemed to quite get around to it. But I’ve recently been reminded of it, as I just received word of some great deals available briefly. So let’s get the advertising spiel out of the way first: In celebration of Telltale Games’ fifth anniversary, Sam & Max seasons 1 & 2 (and incidentally also the new Strong Bad season) are available at 50% discount from Steam — but only until May 18th (US time) — which suggests that I probably ought to have posted this earlier, since that’s later today 
Another offer comes from Telltale themselves: if you use the coupon code EPK-9VX-3ZN-WRH at their store then you can get any individual episodes for US$5 instead of the regular US$9ish. (Note that this doesn’t apply to the full-season packs though, sadly — though it does work on more than just Sam & Max.) This one lasts until June 17th (US time). Ok, now that that‘s out of the way, let’s move on to a discussion of the games themselves. I’m not going to make a habit of announcing these, but this one is just too big to pass up a comment on. As you may or may not know, for a while now Steam have been running weekend deals, wherein each weekend they will offer a game (or sometimes a game bundle) at [...] One of the games that I played over the holiday period was Prince of Persia (PC, Amazon Let me get the obvious stuff out of the way first: yes, it was dumb to re-use the name; yes, it’s a “reset” of the franchise (and an attempt to start a new trilogy) — which means that yes, it has new characters. I didn’t actually pre-order it, but I bought it sufficiently close to the NZ release date that the pre-order packs were still available (one of the benefits of staggered release dates, I guess — since the game had already been out in the US for quite a while at that point, I had a fair idea of what to expect going into it). The pre-order pack was fairly weak, though. There was a mini-comic (admittedly a very nice one, though no doubt someone has scanned and uploaded it by now), a bonus content DVD (which contained a bunch of useless fluff and about six minutes worth of video — the rest of which you had to go download off the website like everyone else), and a code card to unlock some character skins for the old Sands of Time characters (which have definitely been broadcast far and wide). What’s more, the code cards were misprinted — they have a nine-digit code, but the game only accepts eight digits. (Fortunately, the first eight digits work.) The skins are a mildly interesting touch; they’re basically just a wardrobe change (they don’t affect the facial model), but they do have a certain amusement value. Having said that, given the choice between the standard characters and the SoT-garbed characters, my preference was definitely for the standard ones. But anyway, enough about the fluff and on to the gameplay itself. The Experiment (Amazon The game itself is essentially an adventure game; it’s inherently story-driven, shown from a third-person perspective, and is predominantly about solving environmental puzzles and exploring your surroundings. But there’s an interesting twist: you are not in direct control of the main character. Things start out simply enough, with a nice opening cinematic setting up the basic environment (a seemingly abandoned and overgrown tanker on the shore, out in the middle of nowhere) and introducing the main character, Lea Nichols, lying asleep on a small bunk-style bed. As you watch, she wakes and expresses confusion about how she got there. She reads a letter left beside the bed and then stands. At this point you might normally expect to “gain control” and have her waiting for instructions of some kind. But no, she turns and addresses the camera, then wanders out of frame. So, it’s been a couple of months since my last games-related post, and while I know that most likely nobody really cares what I think, I somehow still feel the need to waffle on aimlessly about the games I’ve been playing recently. I knew getting a blog was a bad idea. First up, once [...] 2008-01-11 01:11 |
Tags: Alice, Half-Life, Lord of the Rings Online, Portal, Psychonauts, Sam & Max, Sanitarium, SimCity Societies, Spore, Telltale, Valve, Witcher | Category: Games |  2 comments (This is all spoiler-free, so don’t worry if you haven’t played these yet.) First off, to follow up on my first Games post: Overlord was lots of fun, and definitely worth playing. I did end up playing through both evil and But anyway, enough of that, and back on to the main topic of this post. If you’ve been living under a rock, you may not have noticed that Valve’s Orange Box (Amazon 2007-10-26 10:26 |
Tags: Half-Life, Orange Box, Overlord, Portal, Valve, Zero Punctuation | Category: Games | 2 comments |
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