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So I just read this book on history of games called "Blood, Sweat and Pixels" and was fascinated by the chapter on The Witcher 3 and mostly how the team put in so much thought and care in every single side quest. And seems that there are a lot of moral decision to be made on each adventure. So I finally decided to give it a try. Got any advice for me?
I got back to the Grindstone today with Alan Wake and started Episode 5. The screenshot is of the Diner.
I wanted to get an achievement where you complete the entire segment without dying, but I was cursed to fail by walking backwards and somehow through an invisible wall and dying (not before getting Alan stuck on some scaffolding though and trying to break him free).
I have too say this episode is my third favorite (First being Episode 4 with the Lodge and Farm and then Episode 1 just for being an Amazing introduction), the whole fight through the town and then the ending is amazing. Tomorrow I’m going to take it easy so I probably won’t be playing Alan Wake, but after that I will go back to part 2 of Episode 5, and then get to work on Episode 6 and the DLC levels.
The real Halloween scare this year.
Chud site source: https://x.com/LittleBigPlanet/status/1843652568389480651
Kids can be mean, huh? But adults can be just as awful sometimes. Here's the conversation at the first house you go trick-or-treating at:
I decided to change things up a bit for my Halloween screenshot postings. I've been posting too much horror and gore lately; it's time for some childish Halloween fun! And what better way than a video game that's all about trick-or-treating?
Costume Quest is about two new kids on the block - twin siblings - who are going out trick-or-treating for the first time in their new neighborhood.
At the beginning, you get to choose which of the two siblings to play as: the boy Reynold or the girl Wren. Of course, with my affinity for playing strong feminine characters, I went with Wren.
Your first trick-or-treat door went poorly, as seen above. Afraid to be seen with your embarrassment of a sibling, you let your twin go alone to the next door, where they encounter a monster hunting for candy! And it just so happens, your sibling is wearing a candy corn costume!
Your sibling is abducted and thrown over a gate into an ominous land and you find yourself forced to collect Halloween candy in order to open the gates and pursue your sibling.
Along the way, you find an ally in another new kid who's being bullied. With your combined costumes, you collect candy and fight more monsters you encounter in houses. You can exchange costumes for various abilities, and you can find resources in the neighborhood that let you build new and unique costumes, for more unique abilities that will help you on your quest.
The fights against monsters transform into giant kaiju-like battles, where your costumes provide you with special attacks. The fights are turn-based with quick time events to successfully land a blow.
This was a fun game about trying to rescue your sibling so they don't ruin Halloween for you. This game is a Halloween tradition for me; I always like to re-play this game every October. I personally enjoy it because it feels nostalgic to me. It takes me back to my childhood days of trick-or-treating in suburban neighborhoods. I lived out in the forested countryside, so I had to be driven into town by my parents to go trick-or-treating.
I always looked way older than I actually was, so the last 3 years I went out, people always asked if I was too old to be trick-or-treating. Halloween was my favorite holiday, so it was sad that I had to give up trick-or-treating a little early, just because I looked much older. We need to normalize trick-or-treating for adults!
Ahem.
There is also a sequel to this game called Costume Quest 2, where trick-or-treating is outlawed in the near future by dentists. You and your sibling go on time-traveling adventures to stop this horrible dark future from happening.
Today’s Game is Old School RuneScape. I felt like shit after pulling an All Nighter last night for an Assignment so I didn’t want to start Nightmare mode of Episode 5 of Alan Wake. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Challenge. But I wasn’t in the mood for it today. On top of that my Usual Friends I play multiplayer were gone, so I decided to dick around in OSR by myself.
I don’t play very often (as you can see by my amateur armor and equipment) but I like the vibe of the game, and the Soundtrack is one of my favorites. I love how it sounds, specifically Newbie Melody, Yesteryear, and Sea Shanty 2. And the graphics have a charm to them I love with their rudimentary polygons.
I took the screenshot in a little village market I spawned in, before teleporting back to the usual spawn, and did a quest where I had to help this chef guy gather some things. Then I ran around the castle stealing boots. I then took a walk over to a big city and fought some bandits. Overall I think I got my relaxed day.
I’m hoping to get back to Alan Wake tomorrow, but the day after I think I’ll probably take it easy again because I’m going to a concert that’s running late.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20627621
Some of the in-game text strongly suggests this is not a simple oil industry tycoon game focused on Iran.
Fair framing, but rather political for a tycoon game:
This definitely has some propaganda elements to it:
This looks to have been published by UIG Entertainment GmbH, a (defunct?) German publisher that seems to be focused on shovelware type games. However, Mobygames does not have an entry for "Oil Tycoon Simulator" under UIG or any other studio/publisher.
The content creator does go into his attempt to find the source of this game at the end of the video.
As a long-time Stardew Valley fan, I never thought I'd find a game that could capture my heart quite the same way. Fields of Mistria has done just that. I'm honestly blown away by how good this game is
note: just a random fan, have nothing to do with this game at all. It kinda saddens me that it hasn't gotten as much attention though, there are so many mediocre games with soooo many reviews.. this game is legit insane. it's gorgeous!!
Edit: Concerned Ape must've seen my post, and now Stardew Valley has a midweek deal for -50% off LMFAO you cannot make this up
White Day is a South Korean horror game about surviving in a haunted high school at night. It's a very dark game (literally), so I apologize in advance for the dim screenshots.
For my American audience, "White Day" is originally a Japanese holiday that has spread across many East Asian countries. It mirrors Valentine's Day. Unlike in America, where Valentine's Day is just about confessing love and sharing romantic experiences and gifts, in some Asian cultures, the Asian Valentine's Day is a day for women to confess their love with homemade chocolates (or store-bought if you prefer, but homemade are more special and meaningful).
Then a whole month later, on March 14th, the guys celebrate White Day, where they will reciprocate with their own homemade (or store-bought) chocolates if their feelings are mutual. Imagine confessing your love and having to wait a whole month to find out if the guy actually likes you back!
I lived in Japan for 3 years and South Korea for 2 years, so I got plenty of experience with this holiday. It's kind of a big deal, in both countries.
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School is a game based on the premise of a guy confessing his love for a girl in his school. She lost her diary on the school grounds and he decided to return it, along with a box of chocolates. He does this by sneaking into the school late at night to put it in her locker.
But there's an excessively violent janitor who patrols the school halls, so you have to avoid being caught. You literally watch him take a baseball bat to a kid until he's unconscious, then drag the kid's body to his office! Dang, South Korea!
My screenshot above is your first encounter with the janitor; you outrun him and hide in a classroom until he passes. Throughout the game, you hear his keys jingle in the hallway and that's your cue to run and hide. Here's me taking refuge in the girls' bathroom while he's on patrol:
This is more than just a "hide-and-seek from an angry janitor" game, though. As you roam the school and explore classrooms, you can find ghost stories about the school, and I haven't gotten that far in the game yet, but I believe you actually run into some of the ghosts while roaming the school grounds. Here's a bloody textbook I found in the corner of a room, with two bloody hand prints on the wall nearby it:
This is a puzzle game, where you collect clues and solve puzzles to eventually reach your goal of returning the diary and leaving your chocolate gift. You only know the girls' name and what homeroom she's in, but the classroom is locked, so you need to find your way around the school and gain access to other rooms and resources until you can eventually gain access to the girl's locker.
You also run into some other students sneaking around the school and help each other achieve your goals.
One of the girls is sweet and kind and saves you from the janitor:
While the other is only interested in how you can help her gain access to a classroom. She's a bit more of a tease.
There are also some strange images hanging between classrooms on the wall that are wildly different from one another, both in art style and theme. I feel like they're going to be important for a puzzle later on.
This game wouldn't be too bad if not for the scary music and sound effects. If it was just hiding from a janitor and solving puzzles, I would hardly consider it horror. But there's a storm raging outside, with rattling of doors and windows at inopportune times to give you a fright. Plus, creepy music will play randomly that makes you think something's sneaking up on you. There was one area where I heard voices whispering unintelligibly and they wouldn't stop until I left the area.
I played this at night with all the lights out and it definitely got my heart rate up! If I was this boy in real life, I would've just gone home and given the girls' diary to her directly during the day. As soon as I saw the janitor beat some kid unconscious with a bat, I would've noped right out of there. That's a situation for the police to deal with, not some young student.
There's a sequel to this game called White Day 2: The Flower That Tells Lies. It's a direct sequel, returning to the same high school. It looks like it might be an investigation story, trying to solve what really happened at the end of the first game. It looks interesting; once I finish this first game, I'll definitely jump into the sequel.
I finished up Nightmare Mode Episode 4 of Alan Wake Today. For the screenshot I picked the Old Gods of Asgards Rock concert (I was going to take a screenshot during the concert but couldn’t get a good one because the flares and a 800p resolution made it blurry). Without diving too much into story spoilers for those who haven’t played the game, this whole moment is one of the most memorable to me.
The excitement of fighting off taken during a rock concert is euphoric and exhilarating, and it gives me the same feeling as Left 4 Dead 2’s Dark Carnival Campaign with it’s rock concert. Then there’s the battle with the combine right after which is almost as fun as the concert.
Furthermore I almost got the “Child of the Elder God” achievement on Nightmare Mode, which requires you to “Have a rock'n'roll moment without dropping to a low health state”. But sadly Alan took a Flying hatchet to the face at the literal last second and dropped to low a health state, which was disappointing. I’ll probably go back on Normal mode and try again, because as fun as it would be to do it on Nightmare, I just want the achievement right now.
