Just perfect

Hi there ? Still alive ? My congrats !

I was looking for a good top down tactical police game here and then, but now I found the perfect version.

"Door Kickers" made everything and I mean EVERYTHING right. Perfect visuals, perfect UI, perfect everything.

I will write a long post here about this soon. Until then, get it, if you are into this kind of game, you will be delighted.

Time for some not played games

1. First of is Bientôt l’été. I read about the idea of the studio behind this product, Tale of Tales, that went down in 2015 I think. They were trying to make art-games.

This game is a walking simulator, where you walk around a beach and enter a house. In this house you can play chess and drink wine and smoke cigarettes.

Actually, that's all I can say, cause I see no real sense in this product. It is made with Unity. That is kinda cool, but they did not even bother to customize the default unity game setting dialog.

2. Blades of Time", unplayed in my library, made in 2012 by Gaijin Entertainment. First, it's some kind of 3D battle sword game. You play a impressively underdressed female blade worrier. You interrupt some kind of ceremony, then use some sphere and enter some kind of "Dragon Land".



I was bored already.

I "fought" some stone creatures with wild clicking and then my character started to speak and, this is a new one, lisps !

The graphics look like 2012.

The sound in the story pre-rendered animation was three times louder than the sound in the actual game.

I don't kow. I know the publisher Gaijin Entertainment and I had, for some reason, a good impression of other games made by it, only to discover that there are no other games.

Then, I found out they made Warthunder, a very impressive, yet Free2PayALot second world war mixture of flight and land fights

3. BRAINPIPE.  No idea. Just a weired tunnel with a strange trashy design where you fly through. There are fires, and symbols. You collect the symobols. They are added on your screen. You bumb agains the fire things, a red circle shows less red than before. I am not sure what to say about this. I like the music when you quit.
Ok.

Whats up, Doc ?

Whats happening ?

1.Firewatch



Amazing artwork, amazing voiceplay, great scenario and atmosphere.

Wanna be a fire watcher in the 80ies ? Here's your chance !

This alone is worth 1/4 of the money they want for it. The problem about this game is, when
I say just one sentence about the game itself, I spoil it. So.


If you buy it, you support games of this kind and the company behind it, so do that if you like the style.




2. Men of War - Assault Squad 2

I'm still into this amazing RTS, even when
the company just has no clue how to make
their community happy.

The latest DLC adds some features that actually should be part of the game itself from the start,
but hey, if they need money, its kinda wort it if you're a fan.






3. Darkest Dungeon

I finally got to it, after it is out of Early Access, and it is a very good game.

Well, actually, the ideas are awesome, but the longtime motivation is not working for me.

For me this game is more a study and a cultural merge of Game Of Throne dramatics into
a dark world for round turned fighting areas with innovative micro management of your heroes.

A game / proof of concept well done if you are into analysing game concepts, for sure.

Besiege

I like building games. I do not like minecraft, but I like software like Medieval Engineers or their abstract base games like "Incredible Machine".



So in Medieval Engineers it is too much focused on world building and medieval buildings.

I think thats what the guys from Spiderling Games thought. And right they were.

So I bought Besiege in the steam sale for five euros. And damn, its worth more, but since it is Early Access, I actually see myself more as a beta tester, to be honest. And I found some bugs allready, which should not occur in a finished product.

The software is amazing. I give you two youtube Videos, cause its early in the morning and I actually want to go back construction machines.

Tutorial How To Construct a Helicopter

20 for 0.19 - Part 1

I bought 20 games on steam sale for 0.19 cent each, provided they were rated good or better on Steam. This is a post in progress.

1.) Well. The first one, BEEP,  I could play for 2 minutes. Some unpleasing but solid vector graphics, some robot default story, you play the robots in a frowning but surly having its fans jump and run.

Well the whole thing is not working for me, the design is unstructured. But the music is quite good !
The first time my robot dropped into an abyss, I quit the game.

2.) Defy Gravity Extended. Actually, this one has a good idea I never saw before. You can make gravity and anti-gravity balls with your gun. You combine these two to master the laser traps and big gaps in this platformer. That's, after dying a lot, actually makes fun a few minutes.

But, yes but, the graphic is minimalistic and not very nice, the music is too heavy and too much artificial orchestra synthetic, yet composed well. Just not for that game or setting, imho.
But really interesting idea.


3.) Out there somewhere

That one, also a platformer, is well done. It is pure pixelart . You start in side scroller, but eventually your ship gets shot down, and you have to find the parts on the planet you crashed to fix your ship to fight the guy who shot you down in a platformer on the ground.

The pixel art of the levels is well done and works, the teleport gun is a nice way of opening new kinds of puzzles beyond simple timing of jumps.

The music is perfectly adequate. This one I surly will play again.

4.) Then I started a game called "The Albino Hunter", and its obviously some 2D tile birds perspektive rpg-maker game. After 30 seconds I had to quit cause it was too dazzling.

This is it for today.

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.