TheMightyEthan

SWOLED!

The Suicide of Rachel Foster This is another one that's hard to rate. It's a walking sim, which tells you basically all you need to know about the gameplay. I was quite enjoying it up to the very end, but at that point the main character does a thing I thought came completely out of left field and was entirely unearned. Since it was the very end it soured my whole experience. 3/5, would have been 4 if not for that thing at the end.

I really liked that book. It didn't immediately hook me either though, mainly because even though the whole jury-rig-a-science-thing is the author's whole schtick, I felt like a bunch right at the beginning were unnecessary and forced. After that though it was great.

Oh yeah, you're right, I'd forgotten about Frozen Synapse, but it's exactly like that.

I thought the story was still great when I replayed it last year, it was only the gameplay I didn't think held up. I'm glad you didn't have that problem.

Previous save transfers, so I only had the new stuff to do.

Oh man, I can't believe I forgot to post in here when I got Deathloop, that was my 100th plat. Death Stranding was #99. God I love that game. The Director's Cut wasn't just a whole lot of new content, but it gave some new context on one of the existing characters and I think might have been setting up a sequel. Definitely worth the $10 for the upgrade. Battlestar Galactica I already gushed about in the What Are You Currently Playing thread, but I loved it. Seasons After Fall I have complicated feelings about, those are in the Games You've Beat thread.

A horror game you say...? ?

Seasons After Fall This one's tough, because it's charming as all hell, but the actual game parts range from boring to tedious to aggravating. There's not a whole lot to do, besides just run from A to B and do very very minor puzzle solving, but it's not immersive in the way a walking sim can be, and you end up running back and forth through the same areas multiple times. There's also some very simple platforming, but even that can be irritating because the controls are too clunky to do it well. The game is gorgeous though, and the music is great. They need to take the art team from this game and put them on something better. I don't really know how to rate it, because I feel pretty positive about it, but also wouldn't really feel comfortable recommending it to anyone... 3/5... I guess?

I have no words.

Honestly, the roster is small but it hits the highlights. The only ones that seem conspicuously absent are the other two Turtles (Leo and Mikey is a weird choice), and the rest of Team Avatar (or at least Katara and Zuko... sorry Sokka...) *Edit - Oh, and the Angry Beavers.

Let us know how it is.

I understand curved screens for monitors, like yours, where you can make sure you're at the focal point of the curve, what I don't get is for TVs. Sure it's a little better right in the exact focal point, but literally anywhere else is going to have even more visual distortion than a flat one would.

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock I already sung this game's praises in the What Are You Playing thread. Now I've finished it, and everything I said there held true through the full thing. It was exactly what I wanted, and I don't know how it could have been done better. 5/5

Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock This game is freaking awesome. I'd tried it once before but bounced off for some reason, and I don't know what's different this time but now I'm loving it. It's a TBS/grand strategy hybrid, kind of similar to things like Total War, though less complicated on the grand strategy map. Basically it's set during the original Cylon uprising, you have a map of four star systems which comprise the 12 colonies, and you construct fleets and jump around between planets battling the Cylons. You've got two kinds of resources at this level, a mineral called tyrium (or something like that), and another that basically amounts to "support" from the colonies. You use tyrium to build stuff and support to recruit officers and research new technologies. You can fight without officers but they make your fleets more effective if you have them. You get both resources from colonies. This is set when the colonial accords are new, so each colony isn't necessarily super convinced the colonial fleet is really going to help them, and if you don't do a good enough job protecting them than they can defect. Short of defecting, they can be more or less stable, and the more stable they are the more of the support resource you get from them. If they defect you lose both their support and their tyrium. Once you actually engage in battle, you can either auto-resolve (which I haven't tried yet but I hear is actually fair, unlike most games like this), or control the battle yourself. There's the various classes of ships you would expect: fighters, corvettes, frigates, and of course battlestars (I haven't gotten any of those yet), but the real star is the battle system itself. This has what is probably my favorite battle from any strategy game ever. It's somewhere between turn-based and realtime-with-pause. Basically you give orders for what you want all your ships to do over the next "turn", and then once you're done you hit go, and everything plays out all at the same time, in realtime, for about 10 seconds before pausing again to let you issue more orders. It's the perfect balance between having time to think and strategize that you get with TBS, without the silliness and frustration of truly alternating turns and your enemy being able to take a bunch of actions without you being able to respond. It also makes the combat feel much more dynamic than your typical TBS. So basically it's a really good strategy game, with the fact that it's in space (and Battlestar!) as icing on top. I would say this game is criminally underrated, but there are about 7 expansions so they apparently think it's successful enough.

Seasons After Fall I've had my eye on this for a while, and it went on sale on PSN for $2, so I bit.

Console way is best way.

This game looks really neat.

Yeah, I always had good luck with Destiny PvE, other than the occasional AFK person in a strike.

I imported my save this morning trying to pop the plat before work, but it turns out there are three trophies that don't auto-pop... But it's okay, cause I get more Death Stranding!

Nintendo was first as far as ABXY buttons go, and yeah it wouldn't surprise me if Xbox flipped the order just to avoid something like that.

I find it amusing that all three major consoles have an X button, and all three are in a different spot.

I've got my eye on a 120Hz VRR TV, but I probably won't bite until Sony enables VRR support on PS5, because so few games support 120 on console and even fewer actually manage to lock to that rate.

Does Dani get in on the action too or just leave you to enjoy yourself without her?