I’ve heard “bag of hitpoints” used
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spell sponge?
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I played an hour and change of Guacamelee 2, which enjoyed thoroughly. Then played the tutorial of Detroit (which is bundled with Heavy Rain as a PS+ title this month). Just the tutorial hurt my brain, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to finish that bad boy.
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Dark puzzle platformer?
- Great graphics (I think this is a successor/sequel to Limbo?) with a wonderfully grim, post-apocalyptic theme. Your character has some gruesome deaths, too. Like when Mario dies and he does that cute animation? When this kid dies, he might get mauled by dogs. Surprisingly motivating to not die. First time I saw death by aqua-Alma? I took a long time figuring out how to solve the puzzle before committing.
- Linear gameplay despite the fore and background: forward, back, jump, and grab (hold onto things to move them) - definitely a platformer.
- Puzzles (how to get over this tall wall, how to get out of this room, how to swim with Alma and not die, etc.) I liked the difficulty level.
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Limbo is pretty much black & white, while Inside was in color, last I checked.
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Sort of color… Kids shirt is light orange, blood is red - mostly grayscale with bright colors used to draw attention to things (that yellow parasite in the pigs butt, for a grisly example).
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This looks… painful. And it’s a good job dwarves have excellent upper body strength, because the horse doesn’t come with a box:
My dwarf rogue is a Master of Disguise:
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currently downloading Detroit Became Human. now i am torn if to play Detroit or continue Borderlands 2. 
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@nat_zero_six
Just to clarify my earlier post: When I said it hurt my brain what I meant was that it was some deep material with the potential to be really dark, not that it was difficult or confusing. It’s the sort of thing that I would engage in book or film form, but I wasn’t really ready for that when I started it. I may finish some of the less intellectually engaging stuff (Guacamelee 2, Okami, and Knack are things I’m already playing) I have before i dive into that full force. But I definitely will. It’s just a question of when.
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there is some buzz when it came out last year.
I platinum already Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls (enjoyed it, although platinum-ing them means doing some scenes over and over again) so I guess i will also enjoy Detroit.
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More dwarven roguishness in DA:I, and still loving the absurd look of a dwarf riding… a hart?
And finally, this dwarf accomplishes something Thorin Oakenshield never could:
Just did the option to side with the Templars for the first time ever, and wow… That was some intense story stuff. I probably wouldn’t have chosen that option if (1) I hadn’t heard some of Vivienne’s dialogue and (2) hadn’t completed Cassandra’s Seeker quest in another play-through. Definitely worth doing though.
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Should also be downloading the soundtrack and art for Detroit, since you’re getting the deluxe edition this month.
Doom 3 - still satisfying to play it on a rig that can crush it, and with walk/run speed doubled, it’s way more fun. It was, literally, a slideshow when I first bought it. I played around with unlocking the framerate and hoped G-Sync would handle things… which it did, but the in-game “physics” and some other stuff that are tied to its normal framerate cap derped out, so I left it at cap.
Aim for the junk when enemies surprise you with a leap attack.
Player shadows, for me, add a lot to a game.
There are three Wraiths coming at me in the foreground shadow; you can just make out their eyes.
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Right now I’m alternating between braindead fun and self-declared Shakespeare with “Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled” and “Detroit: Become Human”.
I still play a Borderlands game at least 3 times a week, but sometimes it’s great to mix it up a little.
Painkiller, Portal, and Portal 2… bouncing around my library.
edit - man Portal 2 is a fantastic game.
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Should try Bridge Constructor Portal.
Torchlight 2. Tons of T2 farming, slowly amassing the arsenal I’m gonna use for all 4 classes at end-game.
yessssssss
yeeeeeeeesssssss!
Played nearly all of this on a roommate’s PS2 a few years back. I’ve been dying to pick this up on PC and I finally cracked with the recent sale. I was a little worried on how it’d handle on kb/m, but it’s been fine since I figured out the mappings. I would like to play it on controller as some functions just felt right on a pad, but I won’t complain about getting to aim with a mouse.
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I bought it, gave it a whirl, and asked my money back. It’s not a bad PC port, but KB+M breaks the gameplay pretty much. And it lost me as well when the tutorial didn’t even show the keyboard mappings.
I have to dust off my Gamecube some time for this game.
OT:
Call of Pripyat, Hedon, Borderlands 2, and a bit of Clear Sky.
I’ve been running it with:
Sky Reclamation Project, FOV switcher, Reanimation Project, Atmosfear (which is more or less an older version of what CoP has), Minimal hud, and a no intro mod.
Updated my Call of Pripyat installation too with Atmosfear 3. Which I regret playing, and finishing without this installed.
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