np. i usually spoilertag stuff but i thought this was common knowledge since i'm really bad at remember this shit and i knew it from the second the game started so i dunno...
also i think that the database is starting to become like my favorite thing of the ass creed series. i like how it's an outlet for history exposition even if it's mostly shallow stuff. like i wish the ass creed games took the historical aspect of them even further to more aggressively dictate how cities look and how npcs act cos it always ends up looking a bit like a theme park
hmm a lot of good gamesHey everyone
So I finally finished AC4... it's the definition of a mixed bag. (I can elaborate if people are interested.)
Now, what should I play? I made a selcetion among my Steam games...
7 Grand Steps, Analogue AHS, And Yet It Moves, Bioshock 2, Brütal Legend, Deadly Premonition, Dear Esther, Deus Ex, DmC, Dota 2, Gone Home, Gunpoint, Home, Kairo, Lone Survivor, The Longest Journey, MGR:R, Miasmata, Psychonauts, Redshirt, Shelter, Spec Ops TL, S&S, To The Moon, Trauma, The Void, Year Walk?
(I realised I don't actually have Thieaf 2 ans System Shock 2, I'll buy them when they're discounted – happens often I think?)
selection of that list of games that are short:
* analogue a hate story: one of my favorites in recent memory, with its expansion hate plus which was my goty for 2013. very unique game and i really enjoy its themes and its writing. really my #1 recommendation of that list (short games only!)
* gone home: similar deal, this one isn't too different from dear esther in terms of what you do, but the story it tells is far more interesting and the way it tells it makes it so that you're actually exploring rather than receiving exposition.
* gunpoint: neat little game, i enjoyed it but never felt like digging deeper in its systems.
* lone survivor: heavily inspired by silent hill and twin peaks, and as a fan of both i loved it tremendously. it's got a goty edition or something now that might or might not fixed the only frustrating part of the game, so that might be good. it's also devved by jasper byrne, the dude that made the mission complete them from hotline miami, so basically a god
* spec ops: i really liked this game and actually i think beat it three times. i'm a big fan of what it tries to tell and how it tells it, even if it's a bit too heavy handed. but you know, people are thick, gamers specially, so it works. i hope it's a precursor for more mainstream games trying to tell deeper stories and introspect on genre tropes and the like
* to the moon: it'll prolly make you cry cos this game is fuckign sweet and sad. some people diss the writing or the characters but i found both pretty lovable. the rpg maker shit is kind of annoying but it's more than bearable
* the void: another one of my faves, this game is beautifully strange. there's no other game like it, it's something of a weird dating sim from hell in that you do weird afterlife gardening and kill grotesque horror games men so you can save your waifus from starvation. and you're given so very little information on how to do any of it. it's a game about stumbling to understand its systems and cherishing every drop of info on its story and its mechanics. i love it!
other than that deus ex is obviously one of the best games of all times and should be played by all capable humans, and deadly premonition is awesome but tedious as hell. psychonauts and brutal legend are both your usual double fine deal of charm and wit and half-baked gameplay. bio 2 is pretty good, and so is home
i didn't care much for mgrr, dear esther, and yet it moves, the longest journey, trauma or swords and sorcery
don't have a full opinion on miasmata yet, although it was initially very interesting but oh so clunky, and haven't played the rest
well and doto's doto
whoosh
