I checked out Lawnmower Simulator because it’s on Game Pass, but I think I’ve found my limit when it comes to mundanity sims. The moment to moment is just too repetitive and I can’t imagine the management side of it is particularly interesting.
spiritual successor?
back story - this was an April Fools joke from the 80s in Your Sinclair magazine. They did at some point give this “game” away free on the cover tape. You will note towards the end of the review that Duncan MacDonald (RIP) predicted the current wave of janky ‘job’ simulators.
Playability is definitely not 9/10 for the new one.
Woo :) Aliens is out while I still have to mop up Halo.
I’ve been slowly making my way through this since release (very slowly). It’s a cool game and I sometimes feel drawn back to it. I think @krayzkrok is also playing it these days.
What amazes me is how on earth this game was conceived in a way that sounded like a good idea.
“So I’m going to make a game about exploration, with no combat”
“Oh cool, so there’s going to be a big beautiful world to explore then? How will you get the art to create that?”
“I’ll create a world without any textures. That will really reduce the art budget”
“You’re going to create a world with no textures, and the main gameplay verb is exploration?”
“Yes”
“You crazy”
Omno is decent little game that put me to sleep every 20 minutes. I finished it, but it took some doing.
Yeah, I can only play it in short bursts. It came out in July, and I’m on the 4th major area in December. But that’s okay. I enjoy it for what it is, and don’t count that against it. Not every game has to grab my attention and keep it for long periods.
GOOD LORD. Just checked my Game Pass app to see if there’s anything new and the entire row of Just Added game tiles are new since I last checked two days ago. 10 games! 5 of which look interesting to me. I cannot keep up with this nonsense.
I have no idea what The Gunk and Lake are but I’ll play 'em tonight!
The Gunk is out already? What Day Is It? D:
IT’S GAME DAY, BITCH! Lace up.
(Love the santa hat, btw.)
I haven’t even had time to try Serious Sam 4, Aliens Fireteam Elite, or Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator from last week’s game-dump. Because I’ve been playing Halo Infinite and Archvale.
Archvale is fantastic, by the way. The fun factor and difficulty balance is just right, along with its simple, grid-based exploration and inventory management. It’s a perfect post-Halo digestif.
LMN8R
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The Gunk looks fun! It’s not getting the best reviews, with most places coming in around 7/10, but I’ll play anything from the Steamworld folks.
stusser
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… da fuck you call me? You want a piece of me?
Timex
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I don’t know if it can deal with this character not knowing how to pronounce “solder”.
Until I got to the U.S., it was pronounced “soul der” (approximately) by my British school teachers. But the U.S. it’s pronounced “Soder” for some reason. The “L” became silent because of the Atlantic ocean or something.
I’m up to where you place your first recall beacon. Really enjoying it so far, though it is quite linear up to this point. I would not be surprised to see it open up more.
Yeah I finished it a couple of days ago, I really enjoyed the game, played one area a night basically. It settles into a comfortable formula and never really gets hard, but a handful of later puzzles and platforming required a bit more mental and manual dexterity than earlier. But what got me the most was the feeling of joy this game exudes. The first time I got to snow surf, the music swelling, the sun rays filtering spectacularly through the clouds, I had a moment. And it keeps doing that. It’s the gaming equivalent of a genuinely warm hug.
That’s bizarre. I mean, I’ve heard this in YouTube videos before and I thought I’d misheard or the guy had some kind of weird accent. Raised in UK, always “sol der”. Here in Australia, also “sol der”. Aussies have imported a lot of weird American pronunciation, but sanity has prevailed this time!
Timex
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The character in this game had an American accent, but is saying “sol-der”, which is not right.
Matt_W
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It’s “sawder” in US English. Apparently the whole thing has to do with trading back and forth between middle English and Old French. The US pronunciation is closer to the French root, while the British pronunciation is closer to Middle English. The “l” was lost in English pronunciation at one point and then added back in in modern British usage.
Papageno
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Yeah, that sort of thing stands out like a sore thumb. I was reading a sci-fi novel set in WW2 by an Australian author, and his dialogue is pretty good, but at some point he has an American guy asking his also-American-but-from-our-time girlfriend “Is that a new frock?” I’ve heard the word “frock” used for “dress” almost exclusively come of the mouths of Brits/Aussies/Kiwis.
Is it possible that Americans used to say “frock” back in the 30s/40s?
