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#videogames mini-#review: BattleTech (2018) by Harebrained Schemes is shiny and enjoyable to play, but ultimately the asymmetric goals between the player-controlled tight-budget mercenary outfit and systematically outnumbering kamikaze enemies forced me to cheese the game. 😕
#videogames #review

The Nintendo Switch is disappointingly small compared to the price I paid for it. I'm used to bulky home consoles whose volume often matched their price tag. #videogames
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Finally boughtthe first three books of Three Panel Soul, a #webcomic I heartily recommend about #cats, #videogames and unexpected magical powers.
#videogames #cats #webcomic

I think I'm getting tired again of these turn-by-turn tactical #videogames where enemies are constantly outnumbering your carefully crafted team that can suffer no losses with disposable meat shields. It's especially true with Battletech that makes retreat practically impossible.
#videogames

For anyone interested in #videogames, Venn is a new gaming lifestyle channel launched today with big names like Jimmy Wong, Chrissy Costanza and Sasha Grey. Pop culture news, guests, talk shows, it has it all.

I'm not much into TV but you might.

#videogames

For anyone interested, the first Steam "More Like This" suggestion seems to fit the bill of single player science-fiction ARPG hack'n'slash game: Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr
#videogames
#videogames

Since I've played Greed: Black Border by Headup Games, I've been wanting to play another single player science-fiction hack'n'slash #videogames, but so far all the ones I've seen are geared towards co-op.

Do you have any suggestion?

#help
#help #videogames

I'm enumerating the necessary #videogames skills my kid needs to acquire first before we can play Dota 2 together.
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#MiniReview #videogames I just finished DreamBreak by Aist Studio in just above 90 minutes and I must admit I'm conflicted. Pixel art and music are top notch, but controls are clunky, mini-games repetitive, just a tad too long and the story is shallow. And yet I leave the game with a faint smile, which is more than I can say about most games I've played.

I'd say it's worth the couple dollars you can buy it for during Steam sales with the soundtrack.

#videogames #MiniReview

Personal priority list of places to buy #videogames based on the fee part of the price:
  • Developer/studio website (credit card fees, 3-5%)
  • Itch.io (set by the author, default 10%)
  • Kickstarter (5% + credit card fees 3-5%)
  • Steam and Apple App Store (30%)
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No suggestions yet, I'm assuming it is because some of you didn't see this post yet. #videogames #help

Hypolite Petovan

2020-06-29 22:50:17


I noticed a trend in the #videogames I enjoy: whether the floor can get dirty, and optionally be cleaned. This ranges from cosmetic trampled grass in The Settlers III (1998), tank tracks in Supreme Commander (2007) and muddy footprints in Graveyard Keeper (2018) to being a mood factor in Theme Hospital (1998), Rimworld (2013) and Project Hospital (2018) to the whole point of the game in Viscera Cleanup Detail (2015). I'm starting to believe this denotes a particular attention to detail I'm apparently sensitive to.

Do you know any others games making use of that niche feature?

#help


#help #videogames @Hypolite Petovan

I noticed a trend in the #videogames I enjoy: whether the floor can get dirty, and optionally be cleaned. This ranges from cosmetic trampled grass in The Settlers III (1998), tank tracks in Supreme Commander (2007) and muddy footprints in Graveyard Keeper (2018) to being a mood factor in Theme Hospital (1998), Rimworld (2013) and Project Hospital (2018) to the whole point of the game in Viscera Cleanup Detail (2015). I'm starting to believe this denotes a particular attention to detail I'm apparently sensitive to.

Do you know any others games making use of that niche feature?

#help
#help #videogames

While I was on the subject of the Deus Ex (2000) original soundtrack, I found out that on June 23rd 2020, Alexander Brandon and Michiel van den Bos, two of the original composers, released an album inspired by the same soundtrack with known themes and new tunes.

What a delightful and timely coincidence!

#videogames #soundtrack #music

#videogames #music #soundtrack

The universe of the Mass Effect video game series features the Elcor, an alien species that prefixes their sentences with the particular intonation they intend to convey and they are my people.
#videogames #speech
#videogames #speech

I was looking for a specific track on the Deus Ex (2000) soundtrack to solve an ear worm. I've owned the game on a CD-ROM in a previous life, but I don't have it anymore, and the soundtrack album copy I had on my computer got wiped with the rest of my downloaded music somewhere between computer changes.

Thankfully I've found a personal rework of it on the SnakeByte Studios website, a personal blog like there are fewer these days. Mixing music projects and video game logs and mods, this website is a testament to an Internet era long past.

I'm glad I found the track again, but I'm even happier to have found this website for the shot of nostalgia. I'm still hosting my own blog, but I only write there the sparse long articles I can't resolve to publish on social media directly.

Rock on, Snake, your blog is amazing, at least for still standing tall in 2020.

#internet #web #videogames #soundtrack
#videogames #internet #web #soundtrack

I'm fond of optimizing management #videogames, and this had led to the production of several spreadsheets for various games I played where I record game data and perform ratios and averages calculations and sorting to find out the critical path.

So it was a bittersweet discovery that Kabam produced an official data spreadsheet for their game Shop Titans I'm playing. On one hand, this is beautifully done, and close to players' interests. On the other hand, they strip people like me from the joy adding new data as game advances and discovering patterns and combinations.

I'll still salute the effort, it shows how much thought and confidence the game designers have put into this game's numbers and the attention they're giving to their target audience.

Shop Titans is available on iOS, Android and Steam and I wasn't paid to promote it.

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Grim thread about what it feels to be passionate about making #videogames for marginalized people. I assume it is the same for being passionate about playing video games. Damned if you do it, damned if you don't, for reasons unrelated to games themselves.

ludum tsundare 🗡️

2020-06-24 02:37:33


the last time a bunch of video games men were outed as creeps i wrote a blog post that i never published about how if you are unwilling to subject yourself to psychological torture it is impossible to carve out a space for yourself as a marginalized person in the games industry
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I still don't believe in the #videogames to movie pipeline. My 5-year old kid was watching the Angry Birds cartoon show, and while in the game I don't feel like it has to make sense, I had this conversation with him:
Me: Why do birds attack pigs?
Him: Because they are their enemies.
Me: Why are they their enemies?
Him: Because they are different.

😬😬😬

I kept pressing on with real world analogies until he admitted that it was just in this cartoon, but man, what a terrible model. And again, in the video game it's entirely fine.
#videogames

This is ridiculous and admirable. I bought the bundle for $20 knowing full well I'll never be able to play all of them. #VideoGames #BLM #BlackLivesMatter

itch.io

2020-06-09 17:54:11


There are now over 1,000 projects included in the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. All buyers have access to the new content added.

We're working on updating the UI to make it easier to browse, in the meantime reply with your recommendations
#videogames #blacklivesmatter #BLM

Also filed to #videogames confusion, among the few Dungeon Keeper successors, War for the Overworld is only about underground dungeons while Dungeons II and Dungeons III are mostly about invading the Overworld.

🤷‍♂️
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The latest Steam genius move for me has been to visually highlight rare achievements. Not because the developers deemed them so, but based on the global completion rate among players owning the game. It looks so shiny! 🤩

The only caveat so far have been DLC-dependent achievements since not all players own all the DLCs, but overall it's a nice motivation to replay games I'd left aside like War for the Overworld (2014) by Brightrock Games.

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#videogames

The latest confusing acronym for me has been EA in the context of #videogames and can either mean Early Access or Electronic Arts. Example of confusing usage: "EA launch trailer"
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I enjoy the concept of the Iron Man mode forbidding to load a previous save in #videogames to prevent save-scumming, but I also know I've never come back to any title I've ever lost to during an Iron Man game, so maybe it isn't for me.
#videogames

I remember sharing a spreadsheet of the most spectacular ways Artificial Intelligence respected the letter of their goals but not their spirit. I can't find it anymore, but I found this:

The World Cup 2018 was the top sporting event of year, and AI researchers at Goldman Sachs, German Technische University of Dortmund, Electronic Arts, Perm State National Research University and other institutions ran machine learning models to predict outcomes for the multi-stage competition. Most however were totally wrong, with only EA — which ran its simulations using new ratings for its video game FIFA 18 — correctly favouring winner France.


#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #VideoGames #Fail

#videogames #FAIL #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

20 years later, my search for a worthy successor to Bullfrog Productions' Theme Hospital has finally reached an end. Oxymoron Games' Project Hospital isn't wacky nor cartoony, and yet it is damn good.

#videogames #review

#videogames #review

I used to be sad I didn’t take full advantage of #videogames with multiple choices because I didn’t feel like starting over. Then I realized I was less interested in the game as a whole with all of its choices than the unique way I was able to play it to match my expectations.
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After careful self-examination, it seems like I have a special fondness for #videogames whose floor can get dirty and someone has to clean it up.
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These days I'm playing Need for Speed Payback, and I'm still enjoying this video game franchise, even though I still have absolutely no use for online features (global leaderboards, multiplayer, social) ever since they were introduced in 2004.
#videogames #NeedForSpeed
#videogames #NeedForSpeed

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