Tried the demo last night, and I think I need a turn-based version or something; the first enemies killed me while I was still reaching for the ESC key. Any good, free, single-player games that I might not know about?
So, other games to play.... Good Old Games just sent me an email for one of their sales (I think they have a different sale every week), and this time it includes a couple things I've already played (for free) and liked. Avernum 1-6: I've played demos of most of these, but only finished the demo for #6. I don't like isometric graphics, the keyboard+mouse input (I always hate RPG interfaces), or some of the game mechanics (the Luck skill/stat), but there's still a lot of good stuff in here: one reason I didn't finish the demos is because they're so long. This is tempting, since I've already gotten about $3 of enjoyment just from the #6 demo, but I don't know where I'll find time to actually play them. Note that this bundle contains the original versions; they've already done a remake of the first and will likely remake the others eventually. DROD 1-3: I've been enjoying the (incomplete) free flash version of the first game, but stalled out about halfway through episode 4 (each episode is about 1/6 of the original game). These look like dungeon crawls, but they're actually challenging puzzle games (absolutely nothing is random). They're really good at what they do (which includes being frustrating), but I could just wait for them to finish releasing the free versions.
Monaco - I hear that it's great in multiplayer with friends, but I was playing it alone so it was just a sub-par stealth game. The Swapper - Excellent self-cloning puzzler, with a tad of sci-fi mystery thrown in. ~4 hours of good puzzling. Race the Sun - twitchy obstacle-dodging... it's a neat concept and execution, but ability progression proceeds way too slowly. It's worth a few hours of exploration (spread over several days - the world is algorithmically regenerated every 24 hours), after which it stalls out due to excessive repetition. Bit.Trip.Beat - A pong/music mashup, it's more of a curiosity than a fully-fledged game (only 3 levels). It's sweet when you hit a groove and all the flashes, sounds, and movement sync perfectly, but it's a little too easy to teeter off that groove and have to start all over again. In the queue: KOTOR - still need to go sort out the crashing thing and remember plot Planescape Torment Another World
Currently PC Misc- Card Hunter! Console RPG - Dragon Age: Origins and/or Dragon Age: Awakening. PC RPG - Elder Scrolls: Skyrim. MMO - LOTRO/WoW and maybe ESO.
Just finished a playthrough of State of Decay, couldn't get in to it initially - but put around 35 hours time into it this time. Was nice to see zombie bites not being the cause of the infection - even if it was pretty downplayed. Also, Steam sale coming up in a few days - lots of stuff to pick up!
Created a Battle.net account yesterday for Hearthstone, looks promising Dominion is another card game that's very comfortable to play online for free, used to play it a lot. There's a pretty nice AI as in Heartstone. Edit: Now I can tell that Dominion has got a lot better AI than Hearthstone
Please tell me if they've fixed their balance issues. It was just plain ridiculous back when I tried it during beta.
I find that an odd way to put it: "only 3 levels." It's more like "3 worlds," exploring the different challenges possible in this game style within each sublevel--and each world is plenty long enough to keep me from ever completing the darn thing. Given how successful those folks became from games like this, exploring each new playstyle, it also strikes me as odd to say it's more a "curiosity" than a "game." But then, I'm probably a weirdo for even bringing up such matters. We all know about gustibus and how it really non disputandum est.
My queue took a quick detour: To The Moon - Playing for the second time, I think I was sniffling through the whole thing... the point-and-click movement is still terrible, and the puzzles are trivial, but it's well worth a look. Gunpoint - Bought it on sale via Steam ($2.50). It's a great little puzzle/heist/stealth/shooty game. Pleasant mechanics (point-click-leap!), with good skill progression. Plenty of silly achievements to chase.
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Unfortunately I dropped to bronze at the end of last season, and I am currently unjured which prevents me from playing much. But I should be a solid silver 2 like I was last season xD
Get well! League is a fun game! Edit: Wasn't it impossible to drop leagues in last season? Edit2: Ah yes, my bad.
I dropped due to inactivity, the last part of the season I didn't get to play at all. And I'm the kind of guy who would rather play with his friends...we're usually like 3-12people on Teamspeak and nobody really gets to play ranked much. So when I'm rarely on I do get my 5 ga,mes a week down but I'll play premade normals or 5v5 vs eachother.
Right now: Card Hunter (not enough time to play anything else) Real soon: Dwarf Fortress (new version being released in early July, omg can't wait)
Of course I'm playing Card Hunter, but otherwise: Just broke my Warcraft addiction, to make time for my League of Legends addiction. Hoping to buy Minecraft on the PC, and I occasionally log in to Hearthstone.
