TheMightyEthan

Oh yeah, Japan Studio for sure, completely forgot about them.

Supergiant will definitely go on my list if I enjoy Pyre as much as I'm expecting. Bioware is another one like Bungie, that I would have put on the list a few years ago, but now they seem to be drifting further and further from what I want from them (although I did quite enjoy Inquisition).

New cinematic trailer for Origins: Which has made me want to repost the greatest video game trailer of all time:

Just finished Aven Colony. As I said in the What Are You Currently Playing thread, it's basically Tropico in space but with less personality. It was a lot of fun though, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who likes the Tropico or Anno style of economic management city builder.

Yeah, this is hard. I would have said Bungie, but every decision they make with Destiny seems like they're going "What would Ethan not like? We'll do that." so idk anymore.

New Jurassic Park theme park builder game from the Planet Coaster people. Hell to the yeah!

Maybe it's a UK thing, I've never seen an ad on Amazon Prime videos.

@FLD I haven't seen War yet so no spoilers, but it being ~15 years in the future would also cause problems with all the apes being completely shocked that a human could talk. I mean, if it's that soon then the older apes would remember when all humans could talk, even if none have been able to do so for the last few years.

Black Flag was pretty great except for all the dumb parts where you had to go ashore (although I did enjoy freeing all the slaves from the plantations).

Speaking of Legend of Legaia, we were cleaning out our basement a couple weekends ago and I found this: One of the few JRPGs I've ever liked.

I've been playing Aven Colony and really enjoying it. It doesn't have nearly the same personality as Tropico, but I love the alien colonization theme and mechanically it's a joy to play.

Video game themed ones would be cool. If I think about it when I have time I'll see if I can find anything. Is there a particular format/resolution that would work best?

Oh yeah, if you ignore everything but the first of the 70's movies then these could easily be prequels. So it's at least a partial reboot, but possibly not a full one.

Mass Effect Andromeda is on sale for $20 right now on Origin, which was cheap enough for me to bite.

@FLD They're a reboot. The old-timey prequels depict a way different origin for the ape rebellion.

Also I bought Rime because it was $17 on CDkeys.

I have a Steam code for Limbo if anyone wants it. I got it in the pack with Inside and didn't realize I already owned it...

Preordered Dishonored 2: Death of the Outsider on Amazon since my Prime membership gets me 20% off physical preorders, and I had a $10 promotional code that is expriring on this game's release date, so it was fate really.

I also had problems logging in on Tapatalk, although I've only tried it once.

Yeah, isthereanydeal is nice, I've linked it to my Steam account so it e-mails me any time a game I want drops to a new low price (not every time one's on sale, just every time it's a record low).

We welcome necromancers around here. I also think you deserve some kind of award for what is likely the oldest thread that's ever been resurrected.

Huh. Now I feel the opposite of what I did before: I'm far more likely to play the game, but I'm kind of disappointed that the mechanic isn't real, because it was a neat idea. It's a very odd feeling.

Yeah, my take on the permadeath thing is it seems like a neat integration of the games themes into the mechanics, but at the same time it completely puts me off wanting to play it. But that's okay, not every game has to be for me.

Finished Watch Dogs 2 last night. I liked it quite a bit, a good 4/5. I ranted a lot about the terrible checkpointing, but there were really only a few missions where it became an issue. The problem were the missions which made you actually go in with Marcus rather than using your drones, so if you got killed it reset you at the beginning of the missions. Since most missions let you accomplish them with the drones it wasn't a huge issue overall, there was just a series of several missions in a row that had that problem so I was getting frustrated. I really liked using the drones though. It definitely had more personality than the first one, but I felt like it lacked focus, even in the main missions. I know that lots of open world games are criticized for lacking focus, but usually at least the main missions stick to a clear throughline. In this one though, several missions were labelled as "main" missions that I would have called side missions. It just made the game seem meandering, since usually in these games I'll play side missions until I start to feel like I want to progress, then I'll do a main mission, and repeat. In this one though several times even doing the "main" mission didn't feel like it had anything to do with the central plot, so I couldn't reliably get that sense of progress when I wanted it. Also, somehow they managed to make the car chases less fun in this one than the first one, which is a bummer because the car chases were the best part of the first one. I think part of it was due to the more open nature of San Francisco as compared to Chicago, but even though I fully upgraded my city control I felt like I rarely had an opportunity to use the techniques during chases, for the most part it turned into GTA style "run away until you break line of site long enough" rather than WD1 style throwing up barriers and exploding streets and whatnot to get them off your tail. I had the upgrade that's supposed to pop up a prompt to let you trigger that stuff when your pursuers are in place, but for whatever reason it rarely showed itself. It almost seems like a wash in terms of improvements/problems, but overall the increase in personality really brightens my impression of it, and so I come away feeling like it was better than the first one even if on a breakdown it doesn't seem like it should have been.

I did that with the Wii U and look how that turned out...