Games

So an indie Immersive-Sim called PERIPETEIA has entered EARLY-ACCESS on steam (It even has a free demo)

If you wish to get it, then there's an Introductory-Discount till Feb-28 on steam

The story is set in a "cyberpunkified" Poland & you are a supersoldier by the name Marie.

NOTE: Had to reupload it since, my previous post was filling up with people harrassing me because they don't like "HTML-usage"

I finished up Call of Duty WWII today. On my first playthrough i never ended up finishing it, but i really enjoyed finishing it in this playthrough. I think i am happy that i waited this long to finish it though. I think younger me would have had a bit more of a harder time understanding exactly how horrible the war is, and by association understanding how horrible this game is. It's one of those things were when you're little and you hear about it, you go "oh, that's really fucked up", but when you're older and think back on it you really start to understand exactly how it's fucked up, though part of that just may have been information i wasn't told about at that age while in school.

Moving away from that though, The game features some really pretty landscapes that honestly are some of my favorites. I don't ever really associate COD with amazing graphics, but i'm more than happy to be proven wrong. I don't know if the lighting is baked either or if it's really fucking optimized, but the whole game runs so smoothly for how good lighting and shadows are. I'm pushing a solid 60 FPS (the max my monitor can do) at 120% of 4K and it's not even breaking a sweat.

There was another Stealth section i had to do like yesterday where i had to sneak into a camp to provide overwatch to the platoon while they tried to steal a truck full of explosives. The stealth sections in this game were one of my favorite parts. I wish it had more almost.

The game ended with an epilogue where you're walking through an internment camp that had been abandoned after the Nazis were pushed out looking for one of your squadmates that was captured in an earlier mission. This part i have a bit of mixed feelings on. i think it handled the subject respectfully, for example the above screenshot was one of the Barracks, and the entire time you're shown photos that highlight just how horrible this was. But it kind of felt rushed too. The section was basically a 5 minute walk through a barrack and two courtyard and then you're running through the woods after your friend (though, the walk through the camp you are locked out of running which i personally like, it makes it where you can't just speed your way through the entire thing and brush it off). I personally feel like the game should have shown more of the camp though because up until that point the game never really acknowledged anything to do with the camp besides one line and a quick cutscene, at least that i can remember.

Overall though I appreciate that the epilogue didn't try to be some grand thing of epic heroics. They very easily i feel could have made you fight your way through the camp, and to be honest I feel that would have been disrespectful, especially given the location. At least that's how personally i see it.

Trying out making some decision trailers for my indie game. Let me know what you think! Any suggestions are appreciated, really don't know what I'm doing when it comes to the marketing front.

Maybe a few years too late but sure. Looks like Among Us VR for people that don't have a VR.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows pioneer A New Storyline that will be used in future entries as a base?

My favourite Metroid game has got to be Zero Mission on the GBA.

A weird choice maybe but it was my first metroid when I played the GBA, I thought the music and atmosphere was kick ass and enjoyed the simple enough controls.

For a 3D Metroid it would be the trilogy on Wii at the time.

What about you?

Interesting that in the title, stated in absolute terms in the text, and from the designers they interviewed, they cite getting lost as crucial for the genre. Personally, I disagree. Getting lost has tended to be why I didn't care for certain games in this genre, like Axiom Verge, and it soured my otherwise higher opinion of games like Hollow Knight and Symphony of the Night. Still, I think this is a good exploration of the genre and what makes it tick.

Also comes with a huge update for people who owned the game on PC: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/603960/view/501691675000701060

I picked up Call of Duty WWII today a gave the campaign a go. Generally, i'm not a big COD fan (to this day this is the only mainline COD game i've played), but i picked this game up back when it launched to play with a friend, and i really enjoyed the game.

I think part of the reason is that WWII is an interesting war for me to learn about (to this same reason i want to pick up Wolfenstein, I've heard good things about it but don't know much). Granted, i don't want anyone to take that as me saying that Call of Duty is historically accurate. It does a good job painting the Nazis as the bad guys in my opinion (honestly though, if you needed it pointed out to you that the Nazis are the bad guys we've got bigger problems) and (at least for me) showed how horrific the war was, but i cannot vouch for it's historical accuracy.

I also ordered my friend a copy so we could play Zombies together. The Zombies had David Tennant in it, so instant love from me. Honestly it was fun though, i've never really touched COD Zombies mode, but it was a fun experience, that honestly even scared the shit out of me a few times with the jumpscares.

It ended up being on sale for $19, which is a price i'm far more willing to pay then the $60 base price on steam. Also, for the game being released in 2017 on the PS4 and Xbox One, it looks fucking gorgeous.

There's this section which comes after you help the French resistance liberate Paris, where there's fireworks firing off. I tried (and failed) to capture it, but the fireworks would light up the ground, it looked so good.

Preceding this part was also a section where you were playing as this one lady sneaking around undercover. You had to memorize fake papers and lie your way through the building, and then after that you had too sneak around a courtyard too plant explosives and let the troops in. It was fun, honestly i wish they had done more of a dual story system instead of having you play as the main U.S. soldier guy for the most part.

During the middle of the invasion there was this guy just carrying a open box of wine in the middle of gunfire. I'm not really sure why. I guess he was just preparing to celebrate ahead of time.

There's another section where you're trying to stop a Nazi train, it's another stealth segment, and after that it's a driving and on rails segment. I enjoyed it more than i expected, and there's a segment afterwards where you have to climb out of the wreckage. It proved a challenge for me, because First aid Kits were rare so i had to be careful not to get hit.

There's also this screenshot from the very beginning of the game too that looks really good. The way the light reflects off the helmets almost made it look realistic too me (at least when looking at it before, i had headphones on and cranked up so i was a bit caught up feeling like i was actually in a battlefield and trying to find cover.

Overall, i really like this game though. It's call of duty, so it is about as basic of a shooter as it gets in my opinion, but if you think if you can find it for a price you think it's worth i'd say it's worth picking up.

But, if you have a weak stomach or just can't stand blood, I'd say maybe avoid it. None of my screenshots showed it but the game can be really gory at times, and dark too (though that comes with the subject matter)

I’ve played Avowed for 15 hours, and this is the most fun I’ve had in an RPG since Skyrim released. It might not be as good as Skyrim, but it has a very similar feel for me, and I’ve encountered zero bugs so far. I’m having an absolute blast!

If you like RPGs, I highly recommend giving it a try. It’s included in Game Pass, so there’s no reason not to check it out!

Unfortunate... I liked their games but I have heard the last two bombed.

Me and My friend finally got a chance to sit down and play Some Assassin's Creed Unity together. For some reason my internet has been slow today, like, painfully slow. So it was a bit laggy since i think it's peer to peer, but i'm not sure on that. The slow internet probably wasn't helping it though. We ran through a few of the Multiplayer missions together. The one above is from a mission where you have to stop Snipers from taking out Napoleon and a bomb from blowing up, and then tracking down letters to figure out who did it.

This one was taken on our way to the place where we found the intel on who was behind the plot. We ended up struggling quite a bit on this area because there were so many snipers we couldn't get too. After a bit though we managed to get it.

Another one we did was about the execution of Danton. We had to protect his friends from assassin's trying to kill them. When we first got there we had to sneak into a restricted area to talk to him. I ended up crowd blending and using a disguise to walk up to him and then sneak out again. The Mission took us to the crowded plaza you see above and me and my friend had a pretty lengthy brawl there.

Overall the Multiplayer is pretty fine. It's a lot more cut and dry then the Story though. The multiplayer boils down to the Basics for the most part. They're still a lot of fun, though they can be tedious to run by yourself.

(Bloomberg) -- Niantic Inc., the company behind the 2016 hit Pokémon Go, is in talks to sell its video-game business to Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely Inc., according to several people familiar with the discussions.

Representatives of Niantic and Scopely declined to comment. Scopely is owned by Savvy Games Group, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.