I just finished the Shadows of Cronos for Hexen. About 1.5-2 hours worth of gameplay in there. I rather enjoyed it, and honestly felt that it was better than the original Hexen while still feeling complete with the game world. The puzzles are a little less oblique, and usually had me going "Oh, right. I'm dumb." if they took me any noteworthy amount of time. I did wander for a while because I didn't realize I had a gem in my inventory which would unlock a door.

I played on the second highest difficulty as a Warrior and found it largely easy, though not slow. Just... well stocked. Come the final fight I had 3 Dark Servants and didn't even use them.

If you enjoyed any aspect of Hexen, try this out, it is pretty much just a consolidated and better version of the original game.

http://www.doomworld.com/vb/wads-mods/68969-hexen-shadows-of-cronos/

Going with the pig icon in recognition of the Porkulator. 

Will try later. I love hexen and heretic 

Hexen was awesome. Heretic was alright. Hexen 2 was blurgh :( 

I enjoyed Heretic more than Hexen to be honest. Hexen 2 was a bit crap but Heretic 2 was great.

Just played the WAD and I got stuck and lost... classic 1994 problems. Seriously no idea how to do this pack. 

Looks pretty cool -

http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2015/02/warhammer-end-times-vermintide.html 

I think the opinion on the whole series is pretty similar, with a few people who prefer Heretic over Hexen. I've never played Heretic 2, and not spent much time in Hexen 2, as even when it was new, it just didn't feel... quality.

Where are you? I only got stuck in the first level, before the hub, and near the end of the hub (because I neglected to look through my inventory for a while, as I was playing it like Quake). 

One thing that has been in my mind recently is the idea of "compressed" games. Basically mod/map packs that scale down the scope of the game, going for a 1-4 hour experience instead of an 8-16 hour one. Quake2 was my initial idea for it, since that game has a lot of content, but also a lot of padding, and the quality drops sporadically without having much to hold your attention. Hexen2 seems like another good subject for the notion.

The notion that had matured the most in my mind was a "Doom in Doom2", basically a 12 map wad that went through the same arc as the original 3 episodes of Doom, but using the Doom2 items and monsters, expanding the gameplay in general. Inferno feels pretty hellish, but it had just a whole lot of cacodemons... Arch Viles, Mancubi, and Pain Elementals seem more fitting inhabitants of Mt Erebus and Limbo. 

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/styx_masterofshadows_storefront

Interesting looking game.. 

I love the big hat and long cloak sorcerer look (like orco or the black mage from FF)... this game looks neato -

http://bn05.tumblr.com/ 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/strafegame/strafe/posts/1136891

Free playable demo of Strafe. Fixed level, meant for speed running. Gives a taste of the gameplay. The owl head is very strong when dealing with acid, but the mechanic of spilling blood over acid to neutralize it is fun. 

https://drawception.com/pub/panels/2012/4-8/fb5pApSMMD-6.png 

That's a true work of art Shamb, the resemblance is uncanny 

Trailers look great, but I have read a lot of complaints about the game... I am just wondering whether those are fair, and whether the game is worth its price

Any insights ? 

Saw a gameplay video, looked 100% like a UTx mod, wouldn't even waste time watching another video since then, hth. 

Looked like they took L4D, stripped it down to Players vs Tank, and tried to make a game around it. I'm all for asymmetric gameplay, but I don't think it looks like it has legs to keep me interested for any length of time.

People seemed to mostly complain about how the game is designed to be a paid DLC catalyst, which publisher/developers both denied. 

Haven't played it, but my hearsay accretion is that it seems fun for a day, and as soon as you run out of things to unlock you find yourself with nothing to care about.

Makes sense with all the above. 

Is an awesome word. 

hairy secretion 

Do we have a word thread? I love me some words. 

http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2015/02/20/keeping-the-peace/ 

ChainsawSlut 

Perfectly cromulent use of the words there IMO. 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/253510/

Anyone tried this demo?

I just played it. It seems very true to the Warmachine world, the Warjacks are cool as is the Warcaster control. But it's a bit previous-gen, the camera is quite buggy, the selection is fiddly, and Warmachine vs. Warmachine combat seems very grindy... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m83WSfDlDFk

Imagine if there was a similar thing with Quake where 3 other players play as the monsters, that'd be fun :) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5ctdjfUbLDE