EvilBit

EvilBit, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

EVERYONE PLEEEEEASE BACK THIS!

First off, it’s a sequel (by the original creators) to a game that clearly helped inspire Mass Effect as well as some of the greatest game designers ever. Second, it’s being made without any of the modern live service, microtransaction, evil tricksy EULA manipulations, and other bullshit plagues of recent gaming. THIRD, the art and music are lovingly hand-crafted and build off of one of the most charming, memorable, and musically brilliant games of all time. AND FOURTH, i want an Xbox port. We’re so close! Only $23k left!!!

EvilBit, miesiąc temu

I mean if Star Control 2 wasn’t vastly superior in every way or you could just erase it from history, the game would have had some charm to it. But comparatively, it was a pretty tragic letdown.

The one good part that I still remember though was the quest where you had to retrieve a Daktaklakpak Data Pak. That tickled me since I’m a sucker for fun wordplay.

EvilBit, miesiąc temu

Arguably it’s not detrimental to the reputation of the game, but the company.

“Great game. Never buy it.”

EvilBit, 2 miesiące temu

The game where punching Shang Tsung in the nuts hard locked the game!

EvilBit, 4 miesiące temu

Even if they do, who cares? These are the guys who created Star Control and Skylanders without the benefit of them being a remake of a sequel of a reboot of a sequel of a sequel. Give me more original TfB IP!

EvilBit, 4 miesiące temu

The Longest Journey. It’s my favorite point and click of all time. Epic, beautiful, and fun. A couple of Babel fish-level puzzles, but otherwise a steady and engaging story with a very likable lead. The much-delayed sequel, Dreamfall, tried some things and mostly failed, but was still a pretty interesting story extension. I haven’t played the last episodic entry, Dreamfall chapters, because I’m slowly working my way through the first two again first.

EvilBit, 4 miesiące temu

Oh! Can’t believe I forgot, but you should also play Under a Killing Moon, and then when you’re done and completely in love with it, move on to The Pandora Directive, Tex Murphy: Overseer, and Tesla Effect. They’re a series of hilarious retro-sci-fi gumshoe detective comedy puzzle adventures. It’s like Maltese Falcon, Blade Runner, the X-Files, and Young Frankenstein got put in a blender. They’re amazing.

EvilBit, 4 miesiące temu

Literally everyone alive should download and play this game. The music slaps harder than ya mama and it’s one of the best open world games ever made while having come out in nineteen-ninety-goddamn-two.

EvilBit, 4 miesiące temu

Ugh I miss MODs and S3Ms.

EvilBit, 5 miesięcy temu

Yeah honestly I could never figure out why people were all up in arms about aliens. Heart ripping mystics, the holy grail, and god exploding Nazis were all realistic enough for you, but aliens were a bridge too far?

Movie was bad, but not because it had aliens.

EvilBit, 5 miesięcy temu

I might disagree on that point because any force that hurls a fridge that far will turns its occupants to jelly (much like the first Iron Man suit catering in the desert with Tony inside), but it doesn’t change the fact that realism has never been the point.

EvilBit, 5 miesięcy temu

If you want more cinematic games, the Quantic Dream portfolio has a couple. Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human are both notable examples. I remember having some serious anxiety playing Heavy Rain, in the best way.

EvilBit, 5 miesięcy temu

I considered calling that one out but I never got very far in it so I couldn’t speak for the decision making depth. But thanks for the input!

EvilBit, 5 miesięcy temu

I agree! If by “enjoyable” you mean “incredibly stressful and intense”!

Few games have given me the same sense of “ohgodohgodohgod” as Heavy Rain did.

EvilBit, 5 miesięcy temu

Also, I think it’s important to note that we don’t talk about Fahrenheit/Indigo “Super Saiyan zombie fight against the internet” Prophecy.

EvilBit, 5 miesięcy temu

No it’s definitely enjoyable, I’m just kidding around. It’s that it’s the complex kind of enjoyable that is fueled by adrenaline and harmless anxiety. I’m a big horror fan, so it feels familiar to that fandom.

EvilBit, 8 miesięcy temu

As a gamer who grew up in the 80’s, lots of games that have any significant online component at all feel like this now. If you don’t pick it up in the first couple months, forget it. It’ll be full of people who play 9 hours a day and it’ll have so many layers of systems and currencies it feels like an absurdist satire. Seasons and prestige and lore and so much baggage. I get so tired of asking “wait, can I earn the blue triangles by playing, do they cost real money, do I trade orange circles for them…?”

EvilBit, 7 miesięcy temu

Gotta love dropping $100 on a free game before it’s even out, then drip-feeding it thousands more over time when the game intrinsically provides nothing more than a highly engineered dopamine drip. No story, no meaningful progression, no value or benefit to you as a human, just obsessively learning and mastering a skill that has literally only one purpose on the planet: playing that game.

EvilBit, 7 miesięcy temu

I tend to find this type of game at least a little less depressing. A fun little skill test with a social component.

EvilBit, 7 miesięcy temu

Generally agreed. But it shocks me just how many games out there are making crazy amounts of money just selling cosmetics. I still remember horse armor! It was a scandal!

EvilBit, 8 miesięcy temu

Fun tip for iPhone users: the Photos app lifts this neatly out of the background so you can turn it into a sticker. Just save the image and hold your finger on it to get the menu. For extra jazziness, you can add a glittery effect.

EvilBit, 8 miesięcy temu

Wish I could, but I don’t know that Android went nearly as bananas over stickers and other tweeny cutesy bullshit.

EvilBit, 10 miesięcy temu

Ah yet another “I don’t understand socialism at all yet it’s the thing I obsess about most” stance.

EvilBit, 10 miesięcy temu

What, socialism or your statement about it?

EvilBit, 10 miesięcy temu

For what it’s worth, Immortals: Fenyx Rising looked like a shameless Chinese Breath of the Wild ripoff in prerelease trailers and it turned out to be a phenomenal game.

That doesn’t mean this won’t be garbage though.