The nice thing about puzzle games is they're easy to make. With Quake you just open radiant and fuck around with triggers and moving stuff. You don't even need player models or a hud. 

YES!

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/05/10/split-personality-hard-reset-devs-revive-shadow-warrior/#more-152530 

A decade after my second playthrough, I have beaten System Shock 2 for the third time. I'm glad to say that it is still one of my favourite PC games. I installed Kolya's SS2 Tool which includes map fixes as well as a custom engine (NewDark) that comes with D3D9, supports modern systems, adds a bunch of subtle features and most importantly, works flawlessly. On top of that, top-notch third-party graphical enhancements really made the game shine - seriously, I have never been a fan of so called hi-res textures stuck on top of low-poly maps and haven't used any for Quake to this day, but the ones available for SS2 are much better than any I have seen. The following shots, which are mostly from Deck 5, demonstrate these packages (alongside a hint of bloom):

* SHTUP (object/decal-based textures)
* FourHundred (brush-based textures)
* Vurt's Space Textures (skies -- not shown)
* Vurt's Goo (new models for organics -- not shown)
* Vurt's Water (v5.1 with EnvMap)
* Tacticool (new models for Navy weapons -- two out of five shown)
* Eldron PsiAmp (new model for PsiAmp -- not shown)

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6

Also used ADaoB, a bug-fixing pack that also rebalances the game mechanics. Didn't installed Rebirth, since I don't think it follows the style as well as the above packs. All of them are definitely recommended, they will make the game run much smoother and look much sharper while staying true to the original feel and look.

Here's a handy link: SS2 Newbie Modding Guide 

Shadow Warrior remake. Cool. Although looking back on gameplay vids now on the original, god it looks awful. Did it have any story? Pretty sure I played it, but don't remember it looking so crap. Funny how those old games look better in your head than in reality. Not sure why they're bothering with a remake, other than a recognizable IP, but how many people that played that oh... 20 years ago, when it wasn't a popular game then, will still be gamers now. Apart from func locals. 

I just noticed System Shock 2 is on Steam with a one week special price of $6.99

I seem to remember playing it a long time ago but I know I never bought it. Maybe it was a demo or something. I might have to pick it up off Steam. 

but

http://www.gamespot.com/news/wolfenstein-the-new-order-revealed-6407979

can't wait to play it 

Guess they needed something new to show at Quakecon... 

Cool robotic enemies 

I enjoyed the 2010(?) Wolfenstein. 

but that trailer was pretty stupid. and must have cost a tonne - how much does it cost to license that song? 

Kind of misses the point though: the cost of adverts should be redeemed in higher sales. 

#6591

After Braid, I'm just gonna shut up and let him take my moneys. However I would have liked to have seen a hint of what the real gameplay is all about in that trailer.

Blow has stated that there is more to the game than these mazes, in response to concerns from players; to Blow, "the point is the magic that happens in the player's mind when he understands the subtle things that the mazes are saying - because the mazes aren't just puzzles, they are lines of communication that aggregate, become more complex and eventually say surprising things".[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witness_%282013_video_game%29

There had better be some substance behind that statement and I hope it's not just a load of pretentious hot air. 

Tried a bit of this the other day. Seems kinda dull so far.

Far Cry - exploring epic island environment = cool.

Crysis 1 - same island environment BUT a Nanosuit = cool.

Far Cry 2 - exploring African environment with semi-real atmosphere and politics = cool.

Crysis 2 - same Nanosuit BUT with a ruined city environment = cool.

Far Cry 3 - exactly the same island enviroment as FC1 and C1, exactly the same atmosphere and politics as FC2 = boring??

Maybe it gets better but at the first proper fight I couldn't help thinking "I probably spent a total of 50 hours doing EXACTLY this in three previous xxxCRYxxx games".

Maybe it's also bad timing because the whole island vibe and graphics pale into insignificance compared to Tomb Raider... I do like the people's accents though and the main bad guy seems intriguingly demented. 

Just broke the wallet and splashed out on this bad boy.

Liking it in a lot of ways, and although the permadeath is starting to grate, the random levels take the edge of the annoyance just enough to keep me playing.

Could have done without the edgy "faeces and sanitary towels" theme though. 

A save current game feature. Not to break the roguelike permadeath, but just to allow you to pause a game session that can last a few hours once you've unlocked all the extra levels.

Did you get the Wrath of the Lamb expansion with it? 

not yet.

Another thing that annoys me is that it seems to be very poorly coded, with tremendous slowdown issues for what is a simple 2d sprite game. Might be something to do with the fact that it is made in Flash, but I have seen very complex Flash stuff before that doesn't have these problems. 

Haha, seems like a good idea for a mash up.
http://www.moddb.com/games/isomer/ 

it seems to be very poorly coded

There are literally moments in the game where items have opposite effects than intended because the coder can't reliably substract by a negative number.

Good on you not getting Wrath yet, its biggest strength is that initial "this is like some crazy bootleg ROM hack" reaction after getting acclimatized with the old game. 

Yeah never really got into Isaac because of the slowdowns. And the theme too, actually (although I would have loved it in 1994). 

Definitely.

And yeah, the slowdown is flash... but could have been avoided - other flash games have much more efficient flow.

Roll on HTML5. 

Finally got around to playing this.

(Note - I'm playing it on the Xbox, but if I posted in the "console games" thread, no-one would read it, so I'm posting here.)

Thoughts. Not sure how far through I am (just killed a huge plant monster boss), but I do like the skillshot mechanics and being rewarded for using your environment and whatnot to kill enemies. That stuff's really really great. Spending your points to buy basic ammo is pretty naff though.

Environments look very nice and Unreal Enginey - if I was to nitpick I could say that I think everything is maybe a bit too homogeneously busy and noisy - making it sometimes difficult to figure out what's important and what's not.

I pretty much don't like everything else though.

The worst is the character dialogue - every single line spoken is just about the most obnoxious shit that has ever assaulted my eardrums, and the 14-year old that wrote it needs to stand in the corner for a good long while (for like, say, forever).

It honestly makes Gears of Wars' dialogue sound like Shakespeare.

Environments and encounters are super linear, which incidently is a hilarious "fuck you" to the paying customers that were suckered in by that CoD piss-take video the developers produced before this game was released, as it has exactly the same over-reliance on linearity, invisible walls, on-rails shit, QTEs, and scripted events that CoD does. Most of the time you will find yourself in an insanely detailed and huge environment but one where you are constrained to a ludicrously narrow and linear navigable space.

In short, People Can Fly: Fuck you and the cock you rode in on. (I'm pretty sure that's actually a piece of authentic Bulletstorm dialogue, if not, it's close enough). 

100% factually correct. 

A flawless victory.

I must say actually that being about 2-3 years behind the times when it comes to playing the latest releases is wonderful because it means I get absolutely fantastic deals on everything.

I just picked up, on Amazon, brand new xbox copies of Bulletstorm, Rage and Deus Ex Human Revolution for �5, �6.60, and �6.75 respectively, which helps because I'm one of those wierd sperglords who feels all icky and crap buying a "used" videogame. 

Bought this on my wife's ipad for the nostalgia. I'd forgotten that the original game came with a notebook and that you need to use it :-) I'm surprised how much I remember given that I first played it over 18 years ago now (aaaaaaaaa) and haven't replayed it for ... at least 15, I'd think.

I don't like the controls on the ipad much and I couldn't recommend it for any other reason than the nostalgia...