So it seems this will be a stand alone game! Wonderful, I certainly hope it’s released to steam at launch. I’m still waiting for Alan Wake II to come to steam, that’s my platform of choice.
Tag: games
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New Control DLC?
Will it be a DLC for the existing game, or a new game entirely? Either way, this trailer is spectacularly exciting news. This is by far, one of the best game franchises in the industry today.
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My experience with Cyberpunk 2077
Check out my new cyberpunk review: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197995290532/
A Grand Theft Auto, Blade Runner, DeusEx, The Matrix, Ghost in the Shell, Shadow Warrior, mashup; that’s the feeling I have while playing Cyberpunk. It’s futuristic nature and grand scale add to the allure. With all the shiny glitz and pomp the story and music really drive the addiction for me. The arc, takes you where you’ve never been, introduces you to people who become as close to family as you can have in a game, and all that, pulls you in and won’t let go.
The skill tree is unique. It’s the way in the game to build your character meaningfully and level up. The interesting aspect of it is, you can’t balance across all skills, you have to focus on specifics. That makes all the difference. Handguns in this game are wild, but paired with your own cyber implants, it goes wild. Smart weapons are fun, hacking them is funner!
Night City is vast. It’s fun to explore. While exploring, the radio creates an ambiance that’s almost soothing. I rarely find myself fast traveling anywhere as a result.
This game has been reviewed many many times, so it’s impossible to add anything unique here. I will say however, whether this game intentionally did this or not, it instills a sense of loneliness. Everywhere you go in the game, you’re surrounded by people but usually alone. When you connect with another in the story-line, they always leave or die. Again, I don’t know if this was intentional, but it’s a feeling that follows you everywhere in the game, and it adds weight to everything you do, every decision you make, and every happy, or otherwise, event.
This game still has bugs, and they are often noticeable, but for all it’s flaws, after having played for some time, I personally feel as though this has created an entirely new genre of game-play that will be mimicked for many years to come.
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Doomed in the Doom Dark Ages!
I grabbed this game last weekend on sale, installed the 100GB install, and tried to fire it up. Well, I was met with an intro screen that was less than spectacular. The performance was horrible on my Nvidia card. So, I spent half an hour updating my drivers, then…tadaa, just like magic, the game came to life. What came to life though, felt mundane, repetitive, unrewarding, unpolished, and generally unpleasant. This, seems highly unusual, at least, so I thought. Then, I hit the Steam forums and saw, a lack of activity for this game, that was astounding. It was like standing in an empty room. This is very uncharacteristic of any Doom game I have ever played. As a matter of fact, even Doom3 which wasn’t that well received probably would have been more active than this. Buyer beware, this game may not be what the hype machine has been hyping it up to be!
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Good YouTube channel for Steam game discounts
The channel in the video below is good for keeping up with game discounts. He covers a lot of high quality resellers too. The video below from yesterday turned me on to a new reseller called Fanatical. Honestly surprised at how much more discounted the games are on the reseller sites than directly from Steam. If you haven’t checked out Fanatical, do so, they have mystery bundles and they are fun. From what I can tell, all the games so far, are compatible with Steam. Check out Fanatical here: https://www.fanatical.com .
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Trepang2 game review.
Trepang two feels like a mashup of old school FPS games, mixed with some new game-play mechanisms, finished off with overall uniqueness. The games that come to mind for me with Trepang that provide influence are games like Wolfenstein, Left4Dead, DeusX, Control, and a few others.
I’ve only played the campaign mode in Trepang. Given that I can’t speak to multiplayer capability. The campaign mode starts off with the hero, breaking out of his/her prison cell in a high security facility, that on the surface appears to be a prison. From that fairly normal start of a game, things quickly evolve and unveil some truths as to who the hero is, why the hero was in prison and what supernatural elements are associated with the main hero that makes them special.
Without giving too much detail away, the game delves into scifi, zombie, cultist, hardcore military and other elements as the hero progresses through one mission to the next.
Being fairly new to this game, there is a little confusion for me on the campaign mode, as the missions are, from what I can tell nonlinear and are picked in the mission briefing room. New missions become available as missions are completed. This is a little weird because, from mission to mission, the story and elements can vary widely, which at times, leads to a disjointed nonlinear feeling of imbalance, is the best way I can put it.
Game-play is sooo smooth in this game. It’s important to note however, the slide kick and grab (F key) are huge factors tied to health and staying alive. It’s therefore imperative to key bind these in a comfortable way, and to practice, practice, practice. During missions, enemies will spawn in “waves”, depending on the difficulty level chose, a wave can be either super intense, or insane. There are very few missions where even easy difficulty, is easy. So, plan on being constantly challenged by this game, in a most unrelenting, intense, and sometimes insane way. Mind your guns and ammo at all times. While engaging with enemies, try to keep up with getting new ammo, and armor while engaged, otherwise you run out of either of those, you die. Find a gun that works for you and stick with it, too.
Character progression, from what I have been able to tell, is quite good. You start out with very little in the way of armament, and gain more as you finish more missions. Same goes for knowledge. There are a lot of files that you will run across in the game, pick them up, they help tell the story of how you got to where you are at that moment, and where you’re going. If you skip this stuff you will miss out on a big part of the overall game.
I still have quite a way to go before I finish the campaign. I will more than likely kill a few keyboards out of frustration along the way, but it’s all good. This game is intense in a lot of really good ways, and those few moments of frustration are a small price to pay for this little gem. Overall, playing this is very enjoyable, and I’m looking forward to what comes next from this developer!
Trepang2 is on sale in the Steam store right now, so what are you waiting for?
Here’s a link to my review on Steam:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197995290532/recommended
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Steam weekend sale and bandcamp friday
Hey it’s the weekend and there’s a new Steam sale! See the video below for more info. Also, it’s bandcamp Friday: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays?from=countdownbanner .
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What a wild game!
Been playing this off and on for a few weeks now on steam, what a wild ride. It’s a FPS, with zombies, supersoldiers, monsters, etc. etc. It’s a mash up between Doom, Crysis, FarCry, Wolfenstein. Looking for a fun game, I highly recommend!!! Get it on Steam, here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1164940/Trepang2/ .