Woohoo! I'm getting good enough at #Shooter to deal with missile storms. Still can't manage the swinging blades though, I usually get sliced so I turned those off. It's such a great game.
If you're not sure which release to get, get this one. This release contains all of the data needed to play LibreQuake as well as any mods or other community content....
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
December 14, 2023 - Day 347 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 368
Game: From Space
Platform: Steam
Release Date: Nov 4, 2022
Installation Date: Dec 14, 2023
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 16m
From Space is a post-apocalyptic (alien invasion!) isometric action twin-stick shooter; it's the eighth game in the December Humble Choice bundle.
The game opens with a short exposition to set the game world, then gives you the option to pick a "specialist" from an extensive range of options.
The characters look like Fortnite avatars run though a chibi filter, but they work well enough with the games stylised graphics.
You load into a training area, then you're off on your first mission. You start with a weapon slot (plus melee weapon via right-click), with more slots unlocking as you progress.
There's also a cache for your weapons at each destination location.
The game (at least as far as I played) seems to be set entirely at night, and makes excellent use of lighting and sound effects.
It's a perfectly serviceable twin-stick shooter. Whether it will draw me back, I don't know.
OTXO is a noir-themed pixel-art top-down shooter with roguelite gameplay, and is the fourth game in the January Humble Choice bundle.
The game opened with low-res top-down pixel-art of a train carriage, and as someone gets off the train, they drop a mask that you pick up and are immediately compelled to put on; at which point everything fades to black, and you wake up on a beach like Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception.
You start walking and find a mansion, where a groundskeeper explains to that your loved one who was next to you on the train is now trapped at the heart of the mansion and all you have to do is kill everyone inside.
A tutorial walks you through the gameplay, but the keyboard and mouse controls left a lot to be desired, and I just couldn't get it right with a controller, and I wasn't enjoying myself anyway.
March 3, 2024 - Day 428 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 463
Game: Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts
Platform: Steam
Released: Nov 23, 2019
Installed: Dec 1, 2022
Unplayed: 458d (1y3m2d)
Playtime: 15m
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts is, by definition, a first-person shooter.
However, describing something as an FPS generally involves a particular set of expectations, whereas this game is about being a long way from the target, setting up the perfect shot, and then executing.
Truth be told, in FPS PvP games, I like playing the sniper role. I like playing the Sniper Elite games, in which putting bullets in the heads of Nazis feels a little bit too good.
Just randomly killing people for the sake of killing people with the perfect shot? It doesn't do much for me.
March 10, 2024 - Day 435 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 470
Game: Black Skylands
Platform: Steam
Released: Aug 16, 2023
Installed: Mar 10, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 19m
Black Skylands is game number five in the March Humble Choice Bundle; it's a top-down pixel-art steampunk-themed... game. It's a category mash-up that's part-twin-stick shooter, part-open-world-action-adventure, part crafting-sandbox.
Within that mix of genres, I had trouble situating myself within the gameplay that I connected with it.
It's another game that I'm going to give another shot and see how I feel about it once I get a bit further into the game.
PhantomOverload Test release 0.3 (codeberg.org)
A WIP atmospheric first person shooter game...
Release Freedoom 0.13.0 (github.com)
General...
LibreQuake Release v0.04-beta (github.com)
If you're not sure which release to get, get this one. This release contains all of the data needed to play LibreQuake as well as any mods or other community content....