Free Steam Weekend ARK : Survival Evolved

Well, I thought its free, it looks nice AND IT HAS DINOS !

I downloaded the 6.5 GB on friday and remembered it just an hour ago.

It is early access, and it costs 30 bugs. Hmm. The first time I ran it it crashed with an OpenGL error.

The next time it worked when I joined an official server and I had fun making an absurd looking character, actually, I can not remember a game where you can misuse the body parameters like that.

Actually here I was first annoyed by the cheap looking user interface.

Then I joined the world and had a FPS of five while the resolution was 1600:900 and it looked bad.
I managed to put it on native resolution and put it on medium. Still it was unsharp, ugly and not 16:9 !

Ok, I thought and started to walk around. Some wood structures were placed by someone on a beach.
Then I saw my first dinosaurs. It was a friendly one so I punched it with my bare hands. It attacked me. Well. It tried. It rotated itself on the place and then started to walk into a tree where it got stucked.

I walked around, got some green jelly into my eyes from some small jumpy thing, yes, the one out of Jurassic Park that killed the traitor.

Then I tried to get smart of the user interface, but it looked so ugly and unstructured I lost my interest fast.

Well. It is early access. It was free. Perhaps they can fix all these things, cause it certainly is a nice idea and the graphics as far as I can say it are really nice, I at least imagine.

Couldnt resist : Humble BANDAI NAMCO Bundelö

So, Japan, ey ?

Well. I recently tried to find out more about the chinese game market, but actually, that was much more effort than I thought ! Language, structure, design...everything is different and strange than in western game university.

So I bought this Japan Bundle from BANDAI NAMCO,  mainly cause I am curious and I want that 10$ game.

So, let me play. :D

1.Platformines

This is a retro block 2D platform game. Do not get me wrong, it is well made, but at the same time looks and feels like someone just started and then went on for some time without really having a concept.

The music is ok, the graphics ok, the gameplay I HAVE NO CLUE. Perhaps some other time, but the first 15 minutes were like a big WTF that ended in boredom.




2. Dead Core

No clue what the f*ck this is. It looks like someone did a mediocre 3D jump and run platformer and was forced to watch Tron 100.000 times before that. Seriously. The UI is uninspired, the atmosphere is boring and the story non existing. I jumped around five minutes, then I quit.





3. Ace Combat Assault Horizon - Enhanced Edition

First I was thrilled, finally a good air craft shooter sim with decent looking wide open terrain.
Then I played this game from 2011. I did not even make a screenshot. The menus look ugly.
The music is boring. The graphics are 2011, but not even that bad. But the gameplay.
What the F*CK.

The intro mission is unclear, you autopilot, at least I think it was flying from itself, behind some other aircraft, I think, for no clear reason, which seem to be part of a nightmare the pilot has. Then after trying to do anything, it told me to press C. I pressed C. Then it told me to use the arrow key to turn right. I did that. Nothing really happen
d though. And then I crashed. For no real reason. On the floor.

Then I closed the game and deleted it from my harddrive. wtf.

4. Dark Souls™: Prepare To Die™ Edition

I was looking forward to this, and well. It is a console port. BUT it really looks good. The lighting is perfect, the whole feeling is glitchy and dark and wet and yikes. You start in a dungeon.

And this, yes, this is a dungeon. Then you come to a first big room and a big, big ugly daemon is blocking your way. Well. Here I actually quit, cause well, you have a freaking small knife and all the doors are looked. And a hit of my knife did actually 1/128 of damage to the enemy.

It looks really good. I think one of these days I will get one of my controllers and play this baby as it were a console, despite my dislike of direct console-2-pc games.