Останні рецензії користувача sir_deadlock

Imagine a 2-player shoot'em up game that requires precise coordinated moves, but it's just you. That's this.
You control each side of wide-cat here to navigate the missions, make it to the end and shoot up the boss.
The difficulty ramps up fast. The controls are simple, but were a challenge for me to get used to.
Seemingly unlimited lives, which is very forgiving, and the game auto-saves your progress after you reach a boss.
You can play with keyboard or game pad.
If you want an arcade bullet hell/shoot'em up, it's worth a try. It'll only cost you your time and energy.

Elite Dangerous is a nice 6DoF flight sim, with a literal universe of instanced solar system nodes to explore.
There is story content, but it doesn't really matter to gameplay. It's just flavor text. GALNET makes for good radio noise during long trips on auto-pilot though.
There are player interactions that can influence regional faction control, but it's so insanely grindy to make any kind of difference that it doesn't matter.
There is dog fighting between ships, but I don't care about that. I would actually prefer less and a way to opt-out of that, if only for single-player mode. Oh yeah, you don't have to risk playing with other people. You can play on your own or with friends exclusively.
What really matters to me and is the most important feature of the game, is the ability to become a space cartographer, or a space trucker delivering cargo, or a space transport driver delivering passengers, or a space miner busting apart asteroids and drilling for minerals with lasers, or being a rover pilot on the surface of an alien world collecting scattered resources, or a space garbage man cleaning up bits of wreckage. The game does a great job for offering these job simulators, generally speaking. It likes to throw in a bit of danger with hostile units trying to steal/defend resources or make a player explode out of spite, which is super annoying, but apart from that downside the game is pretty relaxing and beautiful. The devs even created a daily login kind of model to help earn premium currency to buy cosmetics with, so at least they're trying to get people interested in playing regularly.

The devs released Odyssey as an expansion for people who, unlike me, want more combat options.
I wish they'd make more updates for people like me who enjoy job simulators, exploration and other meditative activities.

Just a heads up, you will frequently be frustrated by the game if you don't use third party guides for directions. The in-game information resources are kind of useless IMO, so don't bother. Find yourself a nice guide. EDDB is gone, but the INARA website seems to have taken its place.
Oh, and if you can wait a couple months, it will eventually go on sale. If you've got $40 to blow on a nice space flight sim, be my guest. The hours to investment ratio certainly has this game being worth the cost, but it has a habit of being discounted for closer to $10 three to four times a year.

This game has that Stardew feel, but with its own unique story.
It's a side-scrolling resource management game with tool upgrades.
It's rather short, but in my opinion it's super cute and enjoyable to play.
It includes two fishing mechanics: one is almost identical to Stardew's, and the other it a red-light green-light style mechanic. This mechanic can be played with even after the story is played through.

The graphics remind me of the game ASCENT, which is like a pixel gothic steam punk theme.
I had to go into options and turn a bunch of lights, sounds and shaking off, but then it still looked nice and was easy enough to follow the ball.
It's a pretty fun table! The nudge system seems vital and has a cool down, so if you're like me and don't normally use nudging, it's something to get used to.
The end of play score total can be rushed by holding both flippers, which I appreciate.
The rounds go at a decent pace. The physics are pretty good. I like it.

The game starts by installing Unreal Engine 4, then asking the player to read the privacy policy and EULA which mostly regards the website for the game.
The user interface has a lot of options, buttons and slider bars, which doesn't feel great. Controller force feedback is active by default, but there is an option to deactivate. A few of the UI buttons can only be used with the DLC.
The game defaults for a 5-ball first game. Maybe it was just my camera angle, but the flipper action seemed weightless.
There are a bunch of features and animations, but they only confused me as to whether I'm supposed to shoot the lit targets or the animation. I suspect more familiarity with the game would answer this confusion for me.
At the end of a play, it asks for initials which are for the local score board, and then it automatically puts the player's Steam name on the global leaderboard.

Some games feel right and I want to spend time on them for a while. This one felt clunky, like if ARK had a pinball mini game. I'm not really interested in opening it again.

Portal is a right of passage. It's a mold breaking platformer with iconic characters and a unique mechanic in the form of a portal gun which enables immediate egress from one designated location to another.

That said, it's just a gritty 3D puzzle platformer. There's not mechanically much more to it than that.
After the stages have been completed, it opens up a challenge mode for speed and efficiency runs. Personally, I think the base game play and those kind of challenges are not fun.
It's a great example of the kind of genre it's meant to be, so if somebody likes 3D puzzle platformers they'll probably enjoy Portal.
I'd been resisting getting the game for years because I knew I probably wouldn't like it, but I saw somebody playing it, which made me wonder how I'd do; Portal was only $0.99 at the time, so why not?

I like this game's mechanics and progression. I wish there were alternate cosmetic stories that didn't involves killing monsters, but I understand that's the name of the game.
Definitely worth a try. Can lose a lot of hours to this game.

It's basically a stationary hero defended tower defense. Though instead of upgrading the heroes, the player makes new ones out of better parts.

I haven't noticed any kind of deep story or character building. It's just a dude and his cat, fending out hoards of monsters.

It's a platformer. Not really much else to say. There's some attack functions and destructible environment too, and a level editor.
There's some pretty art related to the story cut scenes.
I appreciated having the ability to skip lengthy dialog by pressing the Start button.
Personally, I think platformers are boring. I got this game as part of a bundle last October and hadn't claimed it.
If you like platformers, go ahead and get this. It's definitely a platformer. If you like story driven games, this game does have a story (something about a potential future, two rivals being interrupted by an alien threat, and the protagonist being augmented after a fatal injury).
I'm rating this as a no, because it's just another platformer, and I don't care about story driven games.

Got my copy from Fanatical in a pick-your-own bundle. So I guess retroactively it cost something like $2?
I liked the game once I figured things out. It's not great at explaining itself (especially regarding enchantment), but is very forgiving with trying things.
I recommend looking at this game with all the complexity and story of a coloring book. It's a simple game, where an NPC asks for something, and then you'll give it to them in an amount of time. It doesn't need to get more complicated than that.

There's a lot of negative marks that could be given for what this game cold have been, because there's a lot of unrealized potential and room for user end modding, but when giving it a fair chance, it's an okay game. There's a flow to the work of the thing which can be enjoyable. The end game is completely grind, but at least they let the player pick and choose their favorite work station elements from.

An alright game. The artwork is okay; about what one would expect from CGI hentai. Some of it is really nice.
My usual trick for solving these is to cross my eyes until the two images meld into one, sort of like the old Magic Eye stereoscopic optical illusions, but even with that, a lot of these images were difficult. I had to use up clues on multiple occasions (doesn't hurt achievement progress, so don't worry about it).
I was going to skip over this one at first, but that big shiny "free" label and the draw of achievements convinced me to give it a try. I had a good time. Boy are my eyes sore from all that crossing and uncrossing. I managed to reach the end of the bonus levels though, and got 13/13 achievements. Good feeling of accomplishment.
There's also a DLC available if anybody's wanting easy access to the art pack.