Recent content by Skade

No mention of the multiplayer? I recommend you to have a look at it. It has a few problems (like needing a full set of 8 players to actually work), but it is a very enjoyable asymmetric mode. An asymmetric modes are few and far between :(.

First of all: I have fond memories of SS2 _and_ I have finished it _and_ I can tell you the two reasons I hold it very dear in my heart. 1) Its a horror game taking place in a bright location. Everything was well visible, there was no way to hide something in the shadows. And it still gave me...

I found Rage very satisfying in that respect, Doom 3 is good as well (sadly, _except_ the shotgun). Also, I love Borderlands gunplay, but that really depends on whether you find a cool weapon that fits your style.

Strangely, just like economy simulations (like Settlers, Anno, The Patrician and such), the genre is rather popular in germany. There are at least two companies that almost exclusively make their money producing a number of adventure series (Deck 13 Interactive and Daedalic) - sadly, most of...

It has. Its a surprisingly smooth shooter with Doom/Quake-like movement (no screen wobbling). The engine is underwhelming if you stand still, but in movement, the game is really nice and stable. Hit animations are great and used like in Quake I and II (stun and kill). Also, play it on hard or...

Superfly Johnson in Daikatana. He made clear that I should not waste more time on this game by reproducibly being crushed by a door in one level and thus destroying my save game. Boy, am I grateful today.

They have a life, I have a life. Both intersect when Valve releases a new game. If the game is good, they intersect a bit longer. I don't want to invest time and breath into getting angry at developers release dates, especially if they are not announced yet. This is be entertainment, not...

Yes. Once. Back then, I had long hair, a full grown (as in 2cm long) beard, was wearing heavy shoes and the person was in front of me. Still bothers me a bit...

Diablo 2 in 2-player coop. We bought the game on release day at 9 and only allowed some hours of sleep and a shower in the morning. Took us 2 days, including hitting a bug that made it impossible to finish Act 2. Strangely, I never finished any of the higher difficulties and never got beyond...

Deus Ex. God, it looked old when it came out. It also played old compared to similar games at that time. But I still dearly love it for having a compelling story, some genuinely clever ideas and a great attention to detail.

Couldn't activate Portal 2 on my PC. (and yes, its impossible without binding your PSN account to your steam account) Finished it on the PS 3. Also, it gave me the final tip of buying Brink on the PC, not on the PS3. Otherwise: well, its a gaming network, one of the most unimportant things...

Mine is the "Let Sleeping Rockstars Lie"-Achievement (Kill a developer in a ranked match) in GTA 4. I never got it (never found a developer in Multiplayer). What drives me mad is that a friend of mine who is not really into any multiplayer at all just had to try out the multiplayer...

Actually, I loved the combat in Mirrors Edge - if it was real, dynamic hand-to-gun combat. You had a lot of options to outrun enemies and had a lot of incentive of dropping weapons right after firing a shot to start moving properly again. You have that for 3 or 4 times in the game. Most of...

Hitman: Contracts is much better in that regard. You can win the whole game without ever going noticed and make (almost) everything look like an accident. In most Missions, you have many choices on how to kill your target. I especially loved the last mission, where your have to escape a...

They do have a publisher for retail (EA at the moment, Vivendi Universal before). They are not _owned_ by a publisher. Thirdly, Valve is an oddball, as they also act as a Publisher through Steam. But I would not call them an Indie developer[1] though, as the "indie group" of game developers...