I purchased Synthetik and put a few hours into it today. What a fun game! Well worth the $10. I hope it has sold well enough that they can keep adding to it. My only knock is that there doesn’t seem to be a large variety of level design and enemies. Hope there are plans to add more.
Wow, that looks awesome! Reminds me of AaAaAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, which I loved. Thanks for sharing that!
Yeah, I thought of AAAAaaaaAAAaaaaAAAaaaAAA! as well.
Synthetik appears to be getting a wave based Area mode!
Also surprised QT3 doesn’t have a thread just for this game. :)
Actually it appears to be a stand alone expansion?!?!?!
kind of weird for this to be a standalone expansion, but im gladly jumping on board for more synthetik. for me this easily one of the most enjoyable co-op experiences of 2018!
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Looks interesting.
So, Distance has a level editor:
This sort of thing really brings out the creative-obsessive in me.
I’ve played a few user levels in Distance, they’re insane, in the best way.
Hopefully my debut track “Head Like A Hole” goes over well (once complete), and I don’t end up getting sued by Trent Reznor.
Just came across this tweet, and it looks super cool to me:
If you didn’t play any Xbox 360 games last gen, they had a little sub-group of super indie games called XBLIG, these gams were self published and often cost as little as a dollar. They were amateur as hell but some of them were really fun, and I thought they were lost to time when MS shut down the XBLIG platform, but looks like a few at least will be released, and on multiple platforms too.
That’s awesome. XBLIG was really important for the rise of indie gaming, and I missed all of that and only played the stuff that came to PC.
There were some great games in the XBLIG program. The two I miss the most are Flotilla and One Finger Death Punch. I’m thinking they aren’t part of this bundle (I clicked the link but there was no list of what games are in it?), but bringing some games from that program forward into the new era cannot be anything but a Good Thing.
This is something I think about from time to time. Every time we switch media (both physical and software), we lose some of the previous generation- not just games but movies, tv, books, etc. There are film movies that never made it to VHS, VHS movie that never made it to DVD, etc, etc., and this is even more pronounced in the video game era. You may think that the ‘important’ stuff gets transferred, but really all that argument speaks to is your personal biases.
Yeah, I can’t find a list of games that are part of this collection, I guess that’s yet to be announced. It is a drag to think that a lot of these games are just lost - I think MS is doing a pretty good job of trying to maintain a history of their consoles and curate their older collections through backward compatability, but the XBLIG games are an oversight in that effort. Maybe this is a first step in reclaiming some of those games which were absolutely minor classics.
For a moment there I thought @tomchick was moonlighting or donning an alter ego. Oh that the logo was an anime Sarah Palin.
I don’t play games on PC, really- I’m console-only, for a long time. My only PC is Surface 5 (lowest model, intentionally bought for battery life over power). It might run either of them, but I really don’t care to check. They were both amazing in the 360.
Would love to see I Made a Game with Zombies in It get released again, just for the song (which later made it into the Rock Band lineup). That was fun to play for the first time.
Pikuniku was just released for free on Twitch Prime as a promotion (and just went on sale on Steam and Switch, or is about to) is freaking wonderful. It’s got a very unique move set and style of interaction, and is just chock full of surprises and funny shit. Don’t sleep on it if you have Prime!
I picked up Ticket to Earth on sale a couple of weeks ago and have been enjoying it quite a bit. It’s a series of tactical puzzles linked by an OK story and character upgrades…
The battles are a little XCOM-ish in that you can either move and attack/use an ability or move twice. The catch is that the floor is made up of tiles of 5 different colors, and when moving it has to be along adjacent tiles of the same color. Every tile you move along adds 1 to your basic attack, which resets after attacking or being hit yourself. Some maps have fixed structures that offer cover, but you have to move pretty aggressively to stay alive.
To further complicate things, each character has five abilities linked to one of the tile colors, so every purple tile you pass through adds a charge to the purple ability you have readied.
It’s very puzzly in that the missions all seem to be fixed, as do the starting color pattern on the floor and position of enemies. Floor colors change after every turn, but I haven’t looked at it closely enough to determine if that’s randomized. I think so, but wouldn’t swear to it.
Not a great game, but good enough to grab on sale.