TheMightyEthan

There's an especially egregious one in Knights of the Old Republic, on the water planet after you blow up the underwater mining facility, when you return to the surface the guards come to arrest you (understandably). I was playing dark side, and was all ready to fight the guards, cause fuck that, but noooo, my evil Sith lord goes along with the bastards!

The Spectrum Retreat This game was okay. It seemed really promising at first, the setting was intriguing and the puzzles were engaging. As it went on it kind of lost its lustre though. It seems to think very highly about itself, like it has a very Deep and Important story, but it's really just not all that interesting. And the puzzles go from enjoyably difficult to irritatingly obtuse, with many of the later puzzles ending up with you stuck where you cannot possibly progress due to information you can't possibly have known, so you have to just restart them. It makes it less solving a puzzle than just brute-force trial-and-erroring your way through, because you often can't get enough of a picture of the whole setup to be able to plan ahead. I liked it enough to finish it, but there was definitely a little bit of hate-playing there at the end. I wish the whole thing lived up to the start. Grade: C

... what is it?

Alien: Isolation It was the time between save points that killed it for me, combined with the occasional unavoidable death from the xenomorph. It just got too frustrating when I'd have to redo the same 5 minutes multiple times because of things that I didn't feel like were my fault. It sucks, because otherwise the game was really really good.

I already probably wasn't getting one at launch, and now I'm definitely not getting one at launch.

Hey, I also quit after the first puzzle! Crazy how that works... I actually thought the art style was really well done, but it seems like it's completely divorced from what you're actually doing. Like, it could have been replaced by a generic run-down abandoned science facility and everything else could have been exactly the same.

Yeah, I already didn't like Dead Space 2 as much cause it was too Aliens and not enough Alien, so if DS3 is even more that then I don't think it's for me (which is also in line with everything I've heard).

Nope It was described as a horror, but I don't really think it was one. Still great though. Beyond that, I don't have a whole lot to add to what Metal already said, but that last spoiler tag blew my mind. Us Also wasn't what I was expecting, but in a good way. Creepy as absolute shit too.

Do you think the execs will ever realize that they need to build up the individual franchises before they bring them all together for one big team movie?

Scary.

It could be a good game, but nuts weapons that are really fun aren't what I want Dead Space for, I want survival horror.

What's happening?

Hmmm, do you need to play Dead Space 3 before Awakened?

Hell yeah, it's the game I'm legit most excited about for the rest of the year.

$125,000.

I didn't even hear enough of him to make a judgment.

There are a few shortcuts, but more of them would definitely help, so after going through a dangerous area you could loop back around to a save station through the shortcut without having to retrace all your steps. Having save stations farther apart does lend to a sense of danger, but it also degrades the experience if you do actually get killed. The first time I go through a dangerous area is super tense and scary, but the second time and subsequent times are just irritating, especially if I feel like I didn't get killed because of anything I did wrong.

I'm still working on Terra Invicta and Alien: Isolation, though I may be giving up on Alien. It's just too annoying how much repetition there is if the Alien gets you, and too much the Alien getting you when there's nothing you could have done to prevent it, besides just hide forever (which tbf is probably what I would do for real).

Preordered the sequel to one of the best games of the last 5 years, and also God of War: Ragnarok.

It's a chonky boy.

Welcome to the forum @Grizz791! As you can see it's not the most active place in the world, but we like it, and obviously you already get along well with everyone in the Discord.

It also holds up really well graphically. Granted, I'm playing at 4k with the Alias Isolation mod, but once you do that all the assets and everything are great, it's really only the character animations (particularly faces) that look dated.

Terra Invicta This is basically Xcom by way of Paradox grand strategy games, and it's really cool. Aliens arrive on Earth, are both covertly (and later not so covertly) trying to take over the planet, and you play as one of 7 human factions reacting to that situation. The factions range from Humanity First, who are basically ethno-nationalists, but the relevant ethnicity is just "human", through your standard Resistance, to the Protectorate, who thinks we can't win and should welcome our new alien overlords, and Exodus, who thinks we can't win and should flee to another star system. It's an interesting system, because you're really only controlling your faction, not individual nations, but you can gain control of individual nations if your faction is able to come into power there. But then another faction can take it back from you. It also means that while different factions have different goals, not all of them are mutually exclusive. So like as the Resistance my goals are actually fairly well aligned with Humanity First, other than the whole fascism thing, I'm pretty directly opposed to the Protectorate, but I couldn't give less of a shit what Exodus is doing as long as they don't try to take over any of my countries in order to do it, which creates an interesting shifting web of interactions where you may or may not be in conflict with the other factions at different times. It's not all Earth politics, you do colonize the solar system and build space fleets to fight the aliens, etc, but I haven't really gotten that far yet (I have a few mines on the Moon, Mars, and Ceres, and that's about it). It's in early access on Steam, and I really recommend it if it sounds interesting. Don't be scared off by the grand strategy aspects, I've bounced off every Paradox game I've tried but I'm really liking this one. -- Alien: Isolation Had any of you guys heard about this under-the-radar gem from 2013? It's good, apparently! I wanted to play a horror game to get in the Halloween mood, and was going to continue my yearly Dead Space gaming with DS3, but I've heard that game isn't so much horror as it is action, and I had never gotten around to Alien: Isolation, so I decided to give this a go instead. That's not strictly true, I did try it several (probably close to 10... :s) years ago, and bounced off when I ran into my first non-xenomorph enemies. This time I persevered, and I'm really liking it. It is starting to bug me that it seems like the alien is following me around specifically, rather than just sometimes I'm in the area it's in, so I'll have to see how that works out long term, but as of right now it's really cool.