Quick View : Antichamber

I played it for half an hour. I was not flashed. It was more like. OK.
Thats like a flash game in deluxe abstract style.

I was searching for a twist or some deeper wisdom.
Found none.

Seven Years ago : Eidos Interactive took on Midway

So while I dream of my new computer, I was curious about this title in a humble bundle.

Battlestations Midway. So let us have a look.

[few minutes later]

Yes. I played through the first two missions.

Unimaginative graphics. Lame controlls. Awful voice acting. Boring tasks. Strange lighting.

The boat level was actually something perhaps play worth. The air combat NOT.

I wanna be a powerful trade company when I grow up, Mother.

 BUGS, UGLY DESIGNS. NO CLUE ABOUT THE GAMPLAY AND I DONT CARE

So. Humble Bundle offered 90% discount on Paradox Interactive. Well fought, Humble Pack.

I bought several of the strategy games. I tested the newer ones like "Europa Universalis IV" and they were too ahm, painful detail full, but impressive accurate, so I thought, yeah well : Let us test the older ones.

So the first in this new series is "East India Company" and its DLC's. It has a low score on meta critics and it is not obviously not from the people who did Europa Universalis IV or Crusaders & Kings III, but as I said, let us (oh lord) test the older ones with an open mind. Yea ha.

*disgusted sound*. First, if you select the first tutorial, the text says that you have chosen the second tutorial. Same with the second tutorial. That alone is enough for me to delete a game AT ONCE.

Well. The menus look UGLY. Just plain UGLY. It is mandatory for a game where menus are important that they look good. How did that happen ?

Well, since I do not get these games for free, I can push them in the dirt when they are not worth my money. So lets go on.

No. I will not go on. The voice in the tutorials is so quiet that you cant hear it cause the wave sound is too loud. And the speaker speaks as if he had an stroke.

Thank you. But that's enough. *delete local content*

Halo : Spartan Assault ... Microsoft...OK. But what is it ?

SPARTANIC MOBILE-APP ACTION ISOMETRIC TRASH

2013 ??? Hello ???

I love that moment when you press PLAY in Steam for a game you got somewhere and then totally and absolutely forgot what it is.

Well. There is some sci-fi style short intro. Lets have a look.

This is a strange 3D Isometric From Above game with no zoom in and no rotation. You play somekind of SciFi Soldier and fight against enemies who look like bananas.

Build-In Irony

The graphic looks like 2005 ?, but I think this game is actually from 2013 ?. The maps are incredibly linear and small. You only have a very small amount of ammunition for your weapons. And the sniper rifle I upgraded to only hits 1 in 3.

Well I am braindead right now, so it's perfect. But Microsoft ? WTF is this ?

Besides one thing that is really ugly is the neon-blue borders around everything. Why people still use these colors in menus ?

Something cool is that you can actually board the enemy ships and drive around with them and kill the then ridicolous easy enemies. And this does not require any skills at all. Hmm. I am really confused from this game.

Fun Fact : You can not access the settings while ingame in a mission. That is new.

So I was playing along cause I am still not sure that this wasnt the real game. There is this "simulator" you are playing, so I am confused. Is this perhaps even a mobile game ported
to PC ? Well nevertheless. It is boring, stupid, badly designed and has nothing at all what would
keep me playing. 

Indie - What am I playing now ? Ah, Cinders from MoaCube.

IF YOU LIKE INTERACTIVE FAIRY TALE BOOKS, THIS IS FOR YOU

Time for another Indie. It is called Cinders. On Steam. It is 15,99 Euro. I got it in an Indie Humble Bundle. So the least I can do is to give it some attention.

The main menu music and the design is promising.

It is a multiple choice game, as far as I can tell after 10 minutes. No voice acting, just a lot of text which makes ping noises.

I really like the graphics and the music a lot !

I really like the...drawings.

You play Cinders, a young woman who has two stepdaughters and reads obviously too many books about strong, independent women. I didn't say that. She did ! Really.

But if all you do is read and do multiple choice, then this is not a game but an interactive novel.
Lets have a look.

Yes. It is a interactive book. I am not a fan of interactive books and I am a bit annoyed by the self-talks this beautiful but naive rich girl is doing all the time. I will keep it on my harddisc, perhaps there is a time when I will be in the mood for it. But again, the graphics and the overall-design are very nice !!!

Too hot to play but what the **** . Time for some Indie - Signs of Life !

WORK IN PROGRESS, BUT ENTERTAINING AND WELL DONE

Independent Game ( Sweet Dog Studios )
Early Access (yikes)
"We are a tiny team with no budget, so Early Access will allow us to think longer-term, and ultimately deliver a better game." - Sweet Dog Studios

They actually call themselves Studios. Well. Tiny Team, no Budget, buuuut Studios. Good. Seems like that's part of the underdog, or should I say, sweet dog, imaginative lunacy you need to survive in this business.

Clearly, this game belongs in the trendy Mesh'N'Run. You jump, you run, you mine, you craft, you build, you explore, you learn, you fight, you die.

Signs of Life is imo more computer gaming art (not art) than a computer game, it's animations are stiff, it's gameplay unorthodox, it's game menus refreshingly uncoordinated. It's inventory graphics are clean but ridiculously minuscule, its key mapping strangely random and the sarcastic computer helper wristband is funny unsympathetic but not really helpful.
But nevertheless, there is A LOT to explore and it is refreshingly different from other games like
Terraria etc.

Vanished Post or How I started to enjoy Saints Row IV.

GET LOST FOR A BIT IN THIS "SIMULATION" IF THERE IS NOTHING ELSE

Dude. This game is still over 20 bugs everywhere.

I can not remember where, but I bought it for 5 bugs *somewhere*.

Well. I even did a small post here (I Could swear) and said how disappointed I was.

But I played it again. And I must say. It more fun than expected. It helps to be stoned I guess,
but that's no option for me. So. Here's my stone-cold sober report of a game obviously made
for stoned GTA fans who also like space-invader parodies and a very funny implementation of a suppressive regime propaganda.