Skye

Secret of the Magic Crystals starts as normal, then detours into an... interesting direction. And then straight back to normal. I found it pretty funny. I'm also sort of infuriated because I originally drafted a script for a Secret of the Magic Crystals video review, even got the footage done and stuff. Now not only do Game Grumps beat me to pointing out how dumb the game is, but now I need to fucking do it all again because of the DLC. Curse my laziness!

New Steam UI feels more crisp to me for some reason. Might be all the corners instead of rounded-corners. I like it. Now all they have to do is improve the Steam Store front page. It's got the "Youtube" thing going on with all this blank space on the sides, with half my monitor empty. Really should stretch things out there for widescreen users.

I have the feeling that Coldplay will either be held in high regard as "ahead of their time" or "avant garde" in several years, or will be just forgotten. I doubt there's a middle road for them.

Alien Isolation is actually looking pretty good, but unfortunately, I can't play horror games. No, not even bad ones - I barely have the courage and determination to play Skyrim in first person.

It took so many deaths, because of scatterguns and rocket launchers and flamethrowers and axtinguishers and stickybomb launchers and every demoman melee unlockable ever made and miniguns and sentry guns and mini-sentries and wranglers and everything about the medic and sniper rifles and bushwackas and backstabs, but I finally did it. Spoiler I have little else left to say after my ordeal. But I suppose I can share a few words... I know 1000 is not a whole lot in the grand scheme of things but let me have this damn it ; - ;

Yep, agreed. The more I think about it, the worse it seems to get. Luckily, as a Mass Effect fan during the year of 2012, I have the superpower of Denial. Red and the sword went to the beach and lived happily ever after there done lalalalalalalala. Bravely Default or Fire Emblem: Awakening? Please show the reason for your answer, along with any working out. Please ask an invigilator for tracing paper if needed.

Sorry to show off this again because it's been like half a day so it's totally out of date and not cool anymore, but I just realized when he said "you'll see why in a minute", it actually is about a minute. Not even sure if that was intentional or not. Disco. Also this. Now you too can shoot people with guns that look like your uncle's back!

I love this guy's style. This should have been the trailer.

My personal favorite "strategy" is probably Zoroark disguised as Shedinja.

Vectorman, hell yes. No game has made shooting televisions so much fun since then. And Gunstar Heroes was a gem. Also, Gods Will Be Watching is... alright. Puzzle-adventure-whatever gameplay is pretty fun, scenarios are interesting, main characters (Sgt. Burden and Liam) are rather complex in both their relationship with each other and with their motivations, music is good and there's alternative music to unlock as well, challenges give decent replay value, and the general setting and mood for the game is a personal favorite of mine. On the downside, gameplay does boil down to just doing maths after a while, some of the chapters either rely on luck or rely on you already knowing what happens next because they like to move the goalposts halfway through some of them, side characters are far less interesting (like your crew, which can be described in a single trope and left at that), the pixel art is good but actually comes across as detrimental to the game (since the minimalist approach lessens your empathy in a game about choices - it's hard to get attached to characters that don't have faces), the story introduces a weird time-related possibly-supernatural element in the third act that is really out of place in the setting and is never explained whatsoever, and the ending is a fucking joke that comes across as pretentiously artsy, a lazy attempt to be a classic tragedy, and defeats the game's core theme in a single long-and-boring stroke. tldr; 3 stars. Wait for an offer.

What happened to that HD remake? Something about it being on Kickstarter, and something about people not funding it. I mean, let's face it, when stuff like Shovel Knight and Paradise Lost: First Contact are your competition, you need to bring more to the table than "LOL FARTS". I liked it as a child, but I also liked eating styrofoam as a kid, so that's not a glowing testimony.

I was thinking of "games I played when I was younger that barely anyone remembers" and I remembered this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf4QEvEt0iE That is some pretty 90s stuff right there. Also Boogerman was on my list. That one I am... not as proud of.

Here's a topic: in the interest of pay-to-win, do boosters count as such? Does paying real money to gain in-game currency or experience at a faster rate count as paying to win, or does the time investment balance it out?

Can you define "pretty neat" a bit more for me? I'm on the fence right now about it. I love Bungie, but it seems like "hard sci-fi version of Borderlands clone" in some previews.

Would bang, would bang, would not bang, would marry.

Mario Power Tennis was my favorite Mario cartoon. It even came with a free game! "Don't expect mouth to mouth!" gets me every fucking time.

Yeah, I really pounced too early on this and bought it on a whim. Bad decision. It's actually worse than just playing, you know, the ordinary game and its DLCs. All the points made are agreeable. Along with their alleged bad business practices, I'm pretty much adamant in not getting any more of their games. I know, not exactly a knife in the belly if one guy refuses to buy your game, but still. On a brighter note, if anyone likes driving games, The Crew is in beta and it's bloody fantastic. I just drove from New York to Miami on a whim and it was pretty damn good. Not sure how accurate the game's portrayal of the US is, but if it's accurate enough, then it's a lovely place, I must say. EDIT: While we're on the subject, I wouldn't mind some dungeon defending with anyone at early levels. You know, in the proper game, not the new one.

That cinematic was bloody amazing. I love it. Don't even know any of the characters, but damn, looks fantastic.

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Voice and Model are fine, I don't play the heroes much and I'm sure Valve can think of something interesting for them. Model, um...