I'm insane and breaking my own rules about only playing one AC per year, but after finishing Unity I rushed straight into Syndicate. I dunno - I wanted more proper AC gameplay, but in a context I care about ( Read more... )

I generally jot down a bunch of notes to myself as I play through a game. Thought I might as well organize them properly and have a consistent explanation of the problems this game has, to link in my review. Fair warning - even though it's broken up into sections for easy comprehension, there's a LOT of text below ( Read more... )

Let's start with the obvious. The Quest for Glory series are amazing, innovative, charming adventure-RPGs. Probably the best games in the Sierra catalog. I've re-bought them and replayed them several times, wrote short guides for new players on steam, and played Heroine's Quest (good) and Quest for Infamy (garbage) due to these games taking ( Read more... )

Let's talk about Avadon. Specifically, Avadon 3: The Warborn.

Jeff Vogel, of who basically is Spiderweb games, makes retro (way retro, like pre-Baldur's Gate) RPG's, which generally have interesting-ish settings and semi-decent writing ( Read more... )

Turns out I really goddamned hate Full Throttle. Wow. Standards change as time goes by. I still love the opening, I still love Maureen, the ending still rocks, but everything in-between ( Read more... )

Do you like Earthbound? Do you like the old West? Then you'll probably like Boot Hill Heroes, right? At least, that's what I thought when I started playing. Here are my impressions so far, written out as I play:

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Comparing it to the free version, which I played some time ago.

Basic game description: Some mysterious fucker burned down your ranch and killed your family. You start out with a single clue about his (randomized) appearance, and get more details during various quests. You go out into the gameworld, and do whatever - kill bandits, herd buffalo, ( Read more... )

The original game apparently ran in a 320x200 resolution. Since this is a 2013 adaptation made to work with modern computers (without the aid of Dosbox, even!) this is of course, no longer the case. You now get a choice between a 320x200 box, or a stretched out, blurry fullscreen version. Hooray! (Thankfully, the steam thread pointed out that ( Read more... )

To start with, after a short prologue (did you know the local guards are bad? They push little girls around, so don’t feel concerned about slitting their throats all over the place) you get to climb a thing, and have the “Ubisoft presents” thing over an overview of the city. And it’s so goddamn unimpressive. Not just talking about graphics, but the ( Read more... )

First of all - every new page (and we get a LOT of text pages) slowwwwwwwwwwwly gets written out. You can click again to just get the whole text at once, but I don’t see an option to just get the text by default. Like every stupid time-wasting menu effect, it’s barely cool once (not really) and then insanely aggravating a thousand times ( Read more... )