Portal 1 and 2 are both phenomenal. But my feeling at the end was less “Wow that changed my life” and more like “damn it’s over, I wish there was another game like that out there”
tbh it’s better this way.
Why?
Because nobody could ruin the story on the 3rd attempt. BUT asssuming they could make the 3rd installment a prefect fit to round it up: Gimme
If you check steam, there’s 2 or 3 portal games outside the legit 2 that are super fun. One valve even approved as canon IIRC. One of them you go back and forth in time with a third portal type. One of them is even multiplayer.
I made the mistake of trying to go back and play Portal 2 during the pandemic, and the themes of isolation, neglect, abuse and gaslighting just weren’t as funny in 2019.
While I never saw the credit rolls (because the game doesn’t have it), Dwarf Fortress definitely changed something in my head.
From my initial attempts where I couldn’t even figure how to make my dorfs get food or dig, to reaching a point where most of my forts would be retired due to low FPS and, to this day, only failed attempts at taming an evil biome for more than 2 years, the game showed that procgen, by itself, is not an excuse for shitty looking worlds or terrains. Hell, the procgen can even generate interesting stories and situations, though no longer absurdly awesome ones like the story of Cacame Awemedinade. Quote:
Cacame, at the ripe old age of 12, he became a Guard. Two years later, an elven attack from the Field of Kindling’s city of Fish of Magic injured him in the lower body and killed his wife Nemo Ruyavaiyici (who was then eaten by Amoya Themarifa, the elf who killed her). Maddened with grief, Cacame set off to the nearest front as soon as he healed enough to fight.
During his first combat he took up his fallen commander’s legendary warhammer[name?] and slew many elves with it, being noted as the battle’s fiercest and deadliest warrior; for his deeds, the dwarves’ second-in-command acknowledged that Cacame would best put the warhammer to use and should keep it.
Two years after that, in 99, the Battle of Both Kings was fought. In this battle Cacame struck down King Nithe of Field of Kindling (who was finished off by another dwarf called Sibrek Handpages, though); however the other king slain was the dwarven king himself. The dwarves decided that Cacame, by now dubbed “The Immortal Onslaught”, should take over as their king.
Once made King, Cacame left in a brief quest to resurrect his wife. He returned riding a zombie wyvern, but without achieving his goal. In 111, at the age of 28, he moved his capital to the Gamildodók (Trustclasps) Fortress.
One that should get way more attention: Little King’s Story. It presents as a cutsie Pikmin-like, but is actually a dark, metaphorical tale about abuse and trauma.
Most recently, the final choice in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gutted me.
I mustbe weird, because I see people talking so good about expedition 33, but my experience with it was so terrible, that I had to force myself to finish it, but only because I feel uneasy if I don’t do things until the end.
I had a few speedbumps along the way. Gestral beaches were infuriating until I found out if you limit the frame rate to 30 FPS, they get much easier. Same with the parrying mechanics in combat to some degree, though they are easy enough in 60 FPS. Seems like they designed the game for 30 FPS and things get borked when upped to 60. It might be fixed by now, I haven’t played in some time.
My bad experience was mostly from feeling that things were too repetitive, and that the story started to feel bad written in mid game and got messier and messier as the game advanced further.
In the combat aspects, I felt like character builds and overall strategy were worthless because I could just dodge everything and be invincible.
Also, I didn’t really like the characters. They felt too shallow somehow.
I can’t really disagree with any of that, though I did feel like the plot made a comeback in the latter half of the game after struggling through the middle like you say.
And some of the combat was quite hard for me. Though very late game, there are some utterly broken character builds that can make almost any fight trivial. That’s part of the fun!
I haven’t played much (under 10 hours) but I started one of the “easy” starts and it isn’t going poorly. I always hit the point in complex games where I’m not exactly sure what to do.
Life is Strange 1 - There are just a lot about life that I wished I could change. Lots of regrets. I think about the idea of butterfly effect a lot. I know a lot of movies also show this, but they often portray in a very “high stakes” scenario which its hard to feel relatable to, since its so far detached from realism. Meanwhile, in LiS, the portrays a scenario that’s more localized, it “hits home” stronger, especially that part where…
spoilerMax was able to go all the way back to childhood. Like… that shit just triggered one of my childhood memories where I was being abused by my older brother and I ran away from home. I could’ve died that day, or worse, tortured and trafficked, or they could harvest my organs. I was supposedly a common thing the country I was from.
Life is Strange: True Colors
Some people might relate less, but for me I can relate to the Alex a lot, the emotional aspects of life. I wasn’t an orphan, but I feel practically like I’m one. I wasn’t originally supposed to be born, I kinda feel like this life, this “timeline”, is an anomoly. Everyone in my family hates me, kinda like how
spoilerIn a flashback / dream sequence, prospective adoptive parents would reject Alex, just like how my home country’s government have legally rejected (tried to, at least) my existence, and my parents, my older brother, they all hate me. And I don’t even have a “Gabe” like Alex has. Which hurts even more That family argument thing before the dad abandoned them is also relatable. My parents would frequently threaten divorce, and threaten to abandon us. There are arguments all the timex between my parents, and my mother and older brother, and then my they would turn their rage towards me, the youngest in the household. I didn’t even have headphones to tune out the yelling. It was miserable, it was agonizing. And I relate to how Alex never felt like there is a “home” And also the ending how almost nobody really believed her (choice dependent, but I fucked it up somehow) I don’t even have the ability to feel emotions, yet everytime I hear those arguments at home, I feel like as if I was Alex, like I had her abilities to sense feelings. And those feeling are explosive and contaminates the entire house.
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