What Game Are You Playing Right Now?

Oriphiel · 04-30-2015, 06:43 AM

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This game is ****ing amazing. I didn't really understand the concept of it when I saw it on Steam, but it was cheap and I decided to give it a shot. Upon playing it, I realized that it was of a funny / over the top violent game with lots of awesome dialogue in between. I honestly play this game when I just feel like ****ing around and setting **** on fire and peeing on dead corpses. It's not meant to be taken seriously, and this game does that aspect very well. Definitely happy I picked this up.

Key · 04-30-2015, 09:57 AM

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I love this.

LoathsomePete · 05-01-2015, 11:54 AM

DreamWeb

Play as Neil Gaimen in a cyberpunk dystopia as you're tasked by your dreams to kill various individuals. This is kind of rare among adventure games because it's a top down view and you can pick up everything in the game, even things that have no correlation to your objectives. The game is also kind of famous as being one of a earlier games to be refused classification in some areas of the world because of violence and pixelated nudity.

Unknown Soldier · 05-01-2015, 12:01 PM

Does it have a similar feel like the original Shadowrun game?

LoathsomePete · 05-01-2015, 12:05 PM

I guess in some sense but it's really just superficial and stuck in the trappings of the cyberpunk genre. Grey dull colours, rain all the time, no sanctity for human life, etc. While the story does play as if it has some sort of mystical element going on, there's just as much reason to believe that cyberpunk Neil Gaimen is just crazy.

If you mean a similar feel in terms of gameplay mechanics then no, this is a point and click adventure game.

Unknown Soldier · 05-01-2015, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

I guess in some sense but it's really just superficial and stuck in the trappings of the cyberpunk genre. Grey dull colours, rain all the time, no sanctity for human life, etc. While the story does play as if it has some sort of mystical element going on, there's just as much reason to believe that cyberpunk Neil Gaimen is just crazy.

If you mean a similar feel in terms of gameplay mechanics then no, this is a point and click adventure game.

I'm a big fan of point and click and plan to play quite a lot over the next year or so and have added this to the list.

Playing the Secret of Monkey Island again, love those games but they're quite demanding on the puzzle solving element.

Any other point and click you'd recommend, as I know you know a hell of a lot about games?

The Batlord · 05-01-2015, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

DreamWeb

Play as Neil Gaimen in a cyberpunk dystopia as you're tasked by your dreams to kill various individuals. This is kind of rare among adventure games because it's a top down view and you can pick up everything in the game, even things that have no correlation to your objectives. The game is also kind of famous as being one of a earlier games to be refused classification in some areas of the world because of violence and pixelated nudity.

That looks like the most evil game ever created. I'm kind of jealous.

LoathsomePete · 05-01-2015, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

I'm a big fan of point and click and plan to play quite a lot over the next year or so and have added this to the list.

Playing the Secret of Monkey Island again, love those games but they're quite demanding on the puzzle solving element.

Any other point and click you'd recommend, as I know you know a hell of a lot about games?

I dunno, I can get by on playing older games because I played them before and can kind of stay in that nostalgic safe zone where newer players might have a harder time. I didn't even play the full version of DreamWeb just a demo, but I remember playing it quite a lot, but 23 years have not really improved the game, especially as it can devolve into just hunting down items 1 pixel big.

If you do want some recommendations of games though, I'd say give Phatasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh a try. It's pretty cheap on GOG right now. The FMV Tex Murphy games like Under A Killing Moon, The Pandora Directive, and Tex Murphy: Overseer are all pretty good, with a very likeable bumbling protagonist in an interesting post-WWIII setting. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream still holds up remarkably well, at least in terms of being genuinely disturbing in ways games like The Evil Within or the Resident Evil series wish they could be.

There are some newer games that I've heard good things about but haven't played yet like:

The Cat Lady
The Book of Unwritten Tales
Gemini Rue
Primordia
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

That looks like the most evil game ever created. I'm kind of jealous.

Well a lot of adventure games were pretty evil, "oh what's that, you missed that 1 pixel all important item at the beginning of the game? Well too bad 'cause you're dead now and there's no way of proceeding"

Unknown Soldier · 05-01-2015, 12:51 PM

Have made a list of all those games and the Tex Murphy ones particularly interest me as I'm really into apocalyptic scenario games. Currently playing Fallout 1 as well which I'm playing before going onto Fallout 2 which I've never played before.

The only issue I have with some of the really old games, is the graphics factor and if they look too old I have problems playing them. I spent ages some time ago playing some of the King's Quest games which suffered from this and were well let's be honest bloody hard as well, so very old graphics and a punishing difficulty make it hard for me to get into the game.

I have remastered (I think) most of the Monkey Island and Broken Sword games and they look and play great.

Also series like Indiana Jones which I played years ago in the 90s interest me, as do the Leisure Suit Larry games which I've never played.

The Batlord · 05-01-2015, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream still holds up remarkably well, at least in terms of being genuinely disturbing in ways games like The Evil Within or the Resident Evil series wish they could be.

As in an adaptation of the short story? That's awesome.

05-01-2015, 11:54 AM	#7513 (permalink)
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LoathsomePete Cardboard Box Realtor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hobb's End Posts: 7,648	I guess in some sense but it's really just superficial and stuck in the trappings of the cyberpunk genre. Grey dull colours, rain all the time, no sanctity for human life, etc. While the story does play as if it has some sort of mystical element going on, there's just as much reason to believe that cyberpunk Neil Gaimen is just crazy. If you mean a similar feel in terms of gameplay mechanics then no, this is a point and click adventure game. __________________ Last.FM 101 Albums That May Not Change Your Life, But I Really Like And You Might Too