I've got it yesterday, and played all the way to the middle of the game.

The post-processed blurring effects are heavily overdone, sometimes making the image look like a 144p YouTube video.

The environments at the very beginning of the game are beautiful, but the game quickly goes down to boring architecture that resembles Half-Life 1 maps, only more detailed. They really focused all the way on making the visuals realistic, and ended up not focusing enough on making interesting & inspiring architecture.

The gameplay is almost entirely about being chased. The puzzles are too simple and doesn't require inventory management. Environment interaction is minimal.

Overall, it feels like a "if Hollywood made a movie adaptation of the Amnesia: The Dark Descent game". Simpler puzzles, simpler history, simpler art style, more chases, more acting, more realism.

The history is really good, though. the only truly annoying character is the priest. 

Watching cohh play this. https://go.twitch.tv/cohhcarnage looks cute and a nice style for that sort of game. 

Yes please play Hob!! It contains things this community should love, like:

- backtracking / retracing levels
- monster in-fighting
- lots of cool abstract / pseudo-brutalist architecture 

They released a big update for Strafe. You know, the game you didn't play because "procgen blahblah pseudo-retro" bollocks, or you played it expecting a classic FPS but then got butthurt as you had your ass kicked by the roguelike-ish elements...

It's actually good fun once one actually tries it and gets the hang of it. Plus they fixed a lot of bugs, rebalanced things and added some new stuff. There's also a daily challenge mode with leaderboards, and the game is currently 50% off. Was nice to compete in Spelunky, maybe try here as well? 

...fucking challenge mode and leaderboards, how about Dark Souls meets Shadow Warrior on PC:

https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/02/nioh-complete-edition-pc-port/ 

 

Got thoroughly addicted to this as per previous posts.

Got to the end game temple, got a locked door which told me some cryptic BS about "making sure I have all my memories" or something. Right. Okay. Cool. WTF.

So I google. Apparently you need a certain number of Bloodstones, which I have collected a few of. Also apparently you probably need to use them, rendering them into Inert Stones, which I have done a few times and then sold them on. Also apparently you don't need to keep them, just have owned them. Except the game doesn't tell you anywhere how many you have / have had. Occasional posts helpfully list locations of the Bloodstones which of course are scattered all over the world, half of them in obscure quests half of them in hidden chests.

So at the point, after a game which generally prides itself on multiple solutions to most problems (negotiations, sneaking, fighting, tactical use of surroundings, etc). I'm now faced by an impassable barrier which requires me - but doesn't actually tell me in the first place - to revisit unknown locations all over the whole game world, making sure I have enough stones, which again, it won't tell me how many I have nor how many I need.

Strangely enough, after being addicted to it for a couple of weeks, I haven't touched the game ever since I read that........... 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/219990/Grim_Dawn/

70% off to celebrate the two Act DLC, but if you like ARPGs you should have got this at full price anyway. All the classic ARPG tropes, a good balance between the grittiness of Path Of Exile and the cartooniess of Diablo 3, but better than both, and looks great throughout. 

https://www.gog.com/game/grim_dawn

I'll start playing as soon as I finish up a few games already started. Looking forward to it. 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/552500/Warhammer_Vermintide_2/

https://go.twitch.tv/fatsharkgames also a livestream going on soon 

https://go.twitch.tv/cohhcarnage - cohh streaming elex 

get with the proggie:

http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=61514 

ignore #10207

Not Quake. 

Get your face with my buttcheex. 

Spermintide 2 - just more of the same, but looks good for all that. Better GFX and locations maybe.

Elex - looks like....graphics looks nice, seems to be a comprehensive PB RPG, but, ummm, after an hour of watching I was struggling to be engaged. 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/337000/Deus_Ex_Mankind_Divided/

I really liked it. Some weaknesses but a generally very stylish, very detailed, engaging explore/loot-athon. 

(Wofl1, RTCW, Wofl, Wofl TNO, Wofl TOB - so this is 6, right?)

Watched a bit of Cohh playing it. Gameplay looks same same, but the whole set-up to it looks pretty damn cool. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_(series)
10 if you count the mobile game Wolfenstein RPG. 

Spear of Destiny 

I recently finished it and the three single player DLC addons and I agree with Shambler - it is the exploration and looting that makes the game great and if you're going to dig through all sewers, apartments, storage bays, maintenance passages etc., it turns out to be a very deep and long game (or short if you chose to just push on with the main story.)

I did not like the hacking but I did max out my hacking skills because, despite the tedium and slave to chance nature of it, hacking to read emails and open locks gets you valuable XP and a lot more of the parallel stories and mini dramas scattered throughout the game, not to mention big loot.

Good game for nosey petty thieves with enough conscience that they don't want to kill anyone (which also gets you more XP over kills.) I did like this game despite some bugs and visual booboos like hair sticking through bodies and clothes. 

Good game for nosey petty thieves with enough conscience that they don't want to kill anyone (which also gets you more XP over kills.)

Well said.