realMyst

Of course, that’s not the most recent remake of Myst. The current one is called, er, ‘Myst’.

Sigh. Looking forward to Riven. Again.

My suspicion is that the game would have been delayed had the new Harebrained Schemes game not just flopped.

Quality, no. Reception, yes. These two things aren’t necessarily the same.

I’d make a joke about the pistol having repeatedly fired blanks over the last couple of years, but I think that’s the point of a starting gun isn’t it?

Bloody ChatGPT

It’s also a holdover from arcade games, which would have an ‘attract mode’ when there was nobody playing.

I replayed through Hypnospace Outlaw. And hoo boy does that game hit harder when you’re playing it whilst the major social networks are crumbling.

Still waiting for more Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment genre games, personally.

The gameplay loop uses getting to interact with the characters and to advance the various subplots as part of your reward/consolation at the end of each run. I’d call that story-heavy.

Vampire Survivors has more story than vampires. Which is a low bar to clear but it just about does.

I’m not enjoying just how often it wrenches control away from you to either show you a barely animated cutscene or a flyover.

Well that’s certainly a shitpost and a half there.

Can confirm, Bastion is a fun little hack and slash that does a couple of very clever things narratively.

Jesus Christ I cried my eyes out at Spiritfarer. (Also I was on the final beta test, so I’m in the credits for that one!)

Meanwhile, Minecraft trundles on as a multiplatform title 9 years after its acquisition. 🤷

Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, and Overwatch to name their most active IPs. But they’ve got also a massive back catalogue that’s not even vaguely being utilised right now.

Hades. I don’t think I’ve come across a game so carefully paced as Hades, both plot-wise and in the gradual introduction of game mechanics. Which is bloody impressive considering that it’s a roguelite.

I’m looking forward to seeing people who haven’t played it before react to two things; Missile the Pomeranian, …and I’m just going to keep schtum about the other one.

Galaxy brain: “hehe boomstick go boom”

Galaxy Brain: hehehe, boomstick go boom.