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by Mischief Maker 04/17/2012, 9:34am PDT |
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Bullet Hell shmups, The Typing of the Dead, and occasional jaunts into Deadly Rooms of Death are my skill-test games du-jour right now.
Having just bought my new computer, I've found from the older games I couldn't bear to part with that for Escapism, I like games that transport me to strange worlds outside of overplayed tropes (I'm looking at YOU, Samurai Tolkien!) and I'll tolerate a large amount of gameplay weaknesses in order to get there.
Some examples of these games are:
Giants & Sacrifice: IMO the best games Shiny made. Giants is a deleriously weird Douglas Adams-esque romp of surrealism and british humor, the gameplay of MDK trading up the parachute for a jetpack, and tits (back when they were still shocking in videogames). Shiny is great fun and its Dr Seuss-esque creatures manage to turn hoary fantasy tropes on their heads like the crab-looking Ents. Sacrifice also has one of the best videogame protagonists of all time backed up by excellent voice acting all-around.
A.I.M 2: Clan Wars: An Elite-like game taking place on an automated weapons development and testing facility on an alien world built by a human military that has long ago been wiped out by a higher intelligence. You play the most advanced weapons test AI developed by the facility tasked by the destroyers of humanity with a messianic mission to free your fellow mechminds from their obsolete mission and take to the stars as a new independent sentient race.
Perimeter & Emperor's Testament: Somewhere between an RTS and a Puzzle game, you play the various pilots of the logan's run-esque floating Ark cities of the Exodus as they travel through a chain of psychic pocket-dimensions seeking a new Earth to colonize, only for a 3-way civil war to break out between the Ark-ships.
Genesis Rising: Looks like Homeworld, plays like Freedom Force. Takes place in a far distant future where humanity has conquered the universe using HR Giger-esque organic ships. The motivation of the game is a search for the "Universal Heart" so humanity can finally reach the ultimate triumph of godhood. |
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What are the types of game genres that interest you? by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/05/2012, 12:52pm PST 
Re: What are the types of game genres that interest you? by Brad Opeth 02/05/2012, 10:35pm PST
You were right to ask us this, Commander. by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/06/2012, 10:46pm PST
Re: You were right to ask us this, Commander. by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/07/2012, 3:33am PST
Re: What are the types of game genres that interest you? by Roop 02/08/2012, 6:23am PST
Yet another goddam scripting language by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/10/2012, 2:59am PST
Serious Sam 1? NT by Mischief Maker 04/17/2012, 11:54am PDT
Re: What are the types of game genres that interest you? by laudablepuss 02/08/2012, 4:18pm PST
My favourite genre is auto racing. by Jerry Whorebach 04/15/2012, 2:17pm PDT
Re: My favourite genre is auto racing. by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/15/2012, 6:55pm PDT
I haven't played Blur and there's no demo on the marketplace, HOWEVER... by Jerry Whorebach 04/15/2012, 8:56pm PDT
Speak of the devil: id Software "re-mastering" Doom 3 for Xbox 360, PC and PS3. by Jerry Whorebach 05/30/2012, 2:54pm PDT
On the improvement of games by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 06/02/2012, 2:52am PDT
Touch of Evil would've been a better comparison. by Jerry Whorebach 06/02/2012, 5:02am PDT
Of all my deleted OMM longposts, "Citizen Romero" is the most bitterly missed. NT by Mischief Maker 06/02/2012, 5:41am PDT
I could not use T. of E; I never saw it so I wouldn't have thought of it NT by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 06/02/2012, 6:00pm PDT
So you don't really care about classic films, you just want to bitch. by Jerry Whorebach 06/02/2012, 7:22pm PDT
Re: So you don't really care about classic films, you just want to bitch. by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 06/05/2012, 11:50am PDT
The XBLA port of Doom was never cutting edge, not even back in 2006. NT by Jerry Whorebach 06/05/2012, 12:19pm PDT
Looks like these might be new ports after all. My objections: mooted? by Jerry Whorebach 06/22/2012, 2:25pm PDT
PSYCH! They're the same old XBLA ports after all. by Jerry Whorebach 10/17/2012, 6:59am PDT
$30 PC, $40 360/PS3 by Siskel and Ebert 06/20/2012, 12:20am PDT
Here's my preliminary review of Rage: Anarchy Edition. by Jerry Whorebach 06/20/2012, 1:32am PDT
hi Jerry of the past, hope you are doing well and still alive by bombMexico 04/22/2013, 11:14pm PDT
My worries were for nothing, I was able to install each disc individually. by Jerry Whorebach 04/23/2013, 6:45pm PDT
You were right, Blur is good. Now listen to me complain about it for ten minutes by Jerry Whorebach 03/31/2013, 1:19pm PDT
To me, videogames serve 2 purposes: Skill test and Escapism by Mischief Maker 04/17/2012, 9:34am PDT
Re: What are the types of game genres that interest you? by Oom Shnibble 05/30/2012, 9:44pm PDT
Starcraft 2 is in fact turn-based, the turns are just really, really, really, re NT by ally short. 03/31/2013, 1:38pm PDT
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