Shroud of the Avatar - Early Access on Steam

Finally. Mr. Garriot and his team brought the virtual predecessor of Ultima to Steam Early Access.

I played it for two hours so far, and was, well, it is promising. And since I am a HUGE...HUUUUUGE Ultima fan since I was 15, loooooong ago, longer than you might think (yes), I will make it to a continous series on this ... blog.

It is all, and you get three notices of that before you actually are entering the game, it is all PRE-ALPHA, so keep that in mind, dear writer (me), before you apply your sharp observation skills to crush your precious diamond in the rough.

Thank you.

Since I want to clean my steam library, I will test Risen from Deep Silver

So, I call it "Test-A-Quick". Since nearly everyone in the Steam comment section played it approx. 40 hours, I think I can say it is a typical gamer-brand consum article. Lolz.

Since I saw today the new Saints Row Trailer, I think having a look at this game from 2009 is quite interesting.

Still cant move - E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy

Yes. And since my last test was so bad, I think I will get the taste from it out of my mouth with "E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy" - hopefully.

It's still 9.99 Euro on Steam. I do not remember where I got it from, but I certainly did not pay this much for it. I know nothing about it.

When I pressed play it open in a low resolution after installing DirectX 9. 

Besides of everything, what exactly was Valve thinking when they did their FUCKING script system ?

[ FIRST RUN - STAY TUNED ]

O.K. This game is worth a deeper look. It feels like a japanese robot firm, William Gibson and some bored to death scifi 3D artists fell together into a mixer and somebody took the resulting slurry and pressed it through a sharp biscuit form.

[ AFTER A GOOD, BUT SHORT NIGHT OF SLEEP ]

This game still interests me. I am not so sure I am up to its story, though. It is a lot of reading, strange
vocabulary. God, am I conditioned to voice overs these days. I mean, come on, I played Ultima 7 Part II and thats PRACTICALLY A BOOK. So why is this here going on my nerves. I am not sure yet.

This game is from 2011. And it looks amazing for that. They used the Source Engine. Have to look that up.

TWOT - From Wizardy Six to Legend of Grimrock

RATING FOR LEGEND OF GRIMORE

Its time for another TWOT entry ! ( TWOT = Total Waste of Time => If you think that playing oldschool games is a waste of time when there actually are modern games you can play that is )

When I was young (Song Title off) I enjoyed titles like Wizardry 6. Even if I understood only half of it. ( I mean I should but for some reasons I finished the titles without any Internet walk through or stuff so hmm. How I did that ? No CLUE)

So recently I bought it in a GOG sale, more for the "Hey I have it again and this time not on floppy disk" factor. But I installed it and got caught in the absolute postmodern mix style of it.

It was like all stuff mixed together, I mean Hobbits, Star Wars Like Monsters, and so on. And the good old "Write Once, Double Reality" idea in a abandoned castle. Me likes !!!!

I even got a decent tool to map the dungeons. I read the manual ! I was ready. Then I made my fist party with a lot of care and got killed by 1 vampire bat and 6 bats. Then I realized : This is hard work. And the graphics were so EGA that even I felt my eyes bleed out. (I grew up with Hercules/CGA so I am USED TO A LOT).

But...the "walk a step turn left walk again one step" caught me.

Seeking for a comprise, I remembered Legend of Grimore and since it had already a layer of dust on it, it was time to open my GOG chest and install it.

Amazing Ubisoft Fairy Tale - Child of Light - Damn I bought it

My impression after playing it through :

Ever wonder what happened if a water color artist makes a rpg game ?

Well, wonder no more, go and play Child of Light. At first I thought, well what is this, of course the demo version is as it seems usual far from explaining any story, this is crap, I thought at first.

But then I entered some well in a village where drunken raven where the only sign of life with a dwarf mage and I must say, the fighting and the whole atmosphere is just ... relaxing and at the same time affecting ! (and the superb music...)