Same as you, I liked the more grounded part better.
The atmosphere is brilliant and the world was so creative. Cyperpunk is hard to do realistically, but Norco managed to create a believable dystopia to me. Because it wasn’t that different from our own.
And I applaud the developers for the jump scare with the smartphone and the hobo. That one was really well done.
Wow, it seems I completely merged those two games in my mind. Because I can’t find anything regarding randomness now that I’m looking for it. Thanks for correcting it!
Correct on the first part, I don’t know if he did it for other companies as well.
Thanks for the review!
What I find fascinating is that there is no fixed solution, even though it is a detective game. Therefore you can’t just look up in a guide, but rather still need to do the detective work and deduce the culprit from the clues.
EDIT: seems I confused this game with the “official” Blade Runner game in my mind. So disregard the following paragraph.
It also is an interesting game in regard to Kojima himself. While it is cinematic, especially for its time, since it was one of the first visual novel games, the non linearity regarding who is an android and who isn’t is in contrast from the story/gameplay linearity of his Metal Gear series. You can play Snatcher multiple times and each time it will be different.
I still have to play this game, I didn’t manage to make the emulation work in my last attempt. So thanks for the reminder.
I think a death certificate and your will are enough. Only one of the two is probably not enough.
You know, it’s almost like politics affects everything. Strange thing that.
I don’t want to debate politics everytime myself, but the fact stays that at the end of the day, everything is political
Just one question: on which keyboard are 4 and 9 close to each other to get typoed *X-Files music starts*
I think you meant delayed?
I played only the full game and not the demo. As far as I heard about it, the demo had all elements of the full game just a smaller area to work in. If you think the demo was not fulfilling enough, I don’t think the full game will satisfy you.
It definitely is a game where you need to set goals for yourself. It is better described as a program than a game, because it is not objective driven at all, but simply gives you the possibility to build scenes.
Very well written! Your second paragraph describes so well why I like Cross and its s story.
I didn’t know that Trigger story was written by two people, but yeah, in hindsight it explains a lot.
It almost seems like you never heard of Clayton Bigsby?
Ah, yes. Thanks for the reminder, already forgot about this bullshit decision from Sony for the PC release.
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Why not?
I have to admit I’m not into the complex strategy games myself, because I dislike that the first 100 hours are just the tutorial. But I heard good things about Stellaris, although you need apparently some of the DLCs, so wait for a sale there. Endless Legends and Endless Space are different games but both in the same universe, but the latter is in space and the other based on fantasy. And I saw enough memes about Crusader Kings 2 to know that it is Crazy Story Generator in Medieval Times.
I played
Sanctum 2, a fun mix of FPS and tower defense. There still are some active players, although it might take a while to get a full 4 player game.
Tiny Glade is a really nice relaxing game to turn your imagination into reality and build small castles and medieval towns. Hopefully they expand the contents, but even now it was really fun to just experiment a bit.
Age of Mythology: Retold still is fun to me, although I don’t play it as a serious PvP game, but rather to have fun together with a friend and relive our old LAN games together.
Still wakes the Deepis freshly installed, but couldn’t yet play it, probably on the weekend.
I would say PC only games mainly consists of complex strategy games like StarCraft or Total War and small indie titles that were not ported to a console like Dwarf Fortress. I would argue in general that there aren’t really any must play titles, it all depends on what genres you like.
I would recommend Oneshot, which is in the second category and similar to Undertale. While there is a console port, it loses a lot of appeal due to a certain spoilery mechanic if you play it not on a PC.
Other games I like in the indie category:
On the strategy side there are real time strategy games like StarCraft 2, Age of Empires 4/Age of Mythology, all of the MOBA games like Dota 2 or complex 4X games like Hearts of Iron 1-4 and all of the Total War series etc. I personally like AoE4 and the new remake for AoM.
If you like those totally depends on you.
Except Half-Life, that one is PC only and must play. I suggest to play the remake Blackmesa and Half Life 2, then you don’t need to play a 20 year old game.
While I understand your feelings (I have such a friend myself), if graphics are most important to them, they are perfectly entitled to that opinion! I always interject, that my friend is missing out on great gameplay experiences but it is on them what they like and value most.
Just putting it here without comment does not give this video justice. What a strange but unique way to make a game presentation.
You can read about the context of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell on Wikipedia.
Or the article itself also explains why the other commentator wrote that ;)