Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death. It is a game about Pierce from Saints Row rescuing his girlfriend from Lo Pan from Big Trouble in Little China. I THINK it's a 360 port but it looks fine and if you have a gamepad plays fine as well.
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. Ditto Cyberstorm. I really am lucky to have been a gamer in that era. OMF2097 was also where I got started on modding. Man, why haven't modern games learned something from that game?Oh, one more for the list OP - MDK and MDK2. Impossible to describe games, but some of the funniest, best designed and most interesting action games ever made.
Cthulhu Saves the World.
Hell, I love everything that Zeboyd Games has put out, minus their interactive novels.
Hell, I love everything that Zeboyd Games has put out, minus their interactive novels.
There is also Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption but your mileage may vary on whether it's good or not. What I can say is that the friendly AI sucks for sure but also there is more of the Vampire world there. Overall, if you want to see more of the setting in video game form, then certainly give it a go, otherwise, you can safely pass.SUPA FRANKY said:
I also loved the second one. It's the only one I actually played myself but still, I really like all of Darksiders - I'm eagerly waiting for new ones.SUPA FRANKY said:
I'd second this one, too.MeatMachine said:
Other than that, let's see
Ghost Master
I picked this up at a Steam sale for a ridiculously small amount of money: £0.44. Also, it seems it's about that much at any season sale - usually discounted to -80% to -90%. At any rate, it's really awesome - sort of Dungeon Keeper-y vibe but you have to use various spooks to...well, spook people.
Second Sight
For some reason (I've looked it up a while a go but forgot it) it's been pulled from digital distribution but it's a really good game. The story starts cliche - you wake up in some medical facility, looks like they've done things to you, you have amnesia, you also have supernatural powers. You are now on the run from your captors while trying to connect the dots in your past (where you get to play in flashbacks without powers). Yeah, a dime a dozen plot. But it does its own thing and it does it really well, IMO.
Bleed
A 2D action sidescroller/platformer. The gimmick is that you can slow time down and you'd need to do that for it focuses on fast paced fluid and last but not least stylish combat.
Enclave
It's often in the Steam Weeklong Deals sale for, like 90% off so it's hard to argue to not get it. I love this game - loved it when I first played the demo, loved it when I played it afterwards and loved it when I rediscovered it earlier this year. Even though there isn't that much to it. It's an action oriented game where you're tossed on a level and have to go through it to advance the plot. All levels have secrets and gold stashed around and it's fun traversing to find them. You can also play a selection of characters each filling slightly different niche - ranger, heavy armoured melee fighter, wizard and few around them (e.g., wizard and druid are similar but have access to slightly different equipment). You also play essentially the same storyline but either as the good guys or the bad guys.
Arx Fatalis
Not gonna lie, the game is not that good from technical perspective. Also, from telling you how to actually proceed, perspective. This isn't a "L33t, no handholding, you scrub" thing, it's actually not good at explaining. It is, however, Arkane Studios' first game - the guys who would later on go and make Dark Messiah[footnote]eh, it's OK - worth a play for some ideas but overall just above average, I'd say[/footnote] and Dishonored[footnote]which is quite good[/footnote]. It's a first person[footnote]a running theme in their games[/footnote] RPG which is set underground. The backstory is that the surface of the planet became uninhabitable and now all the races have to share the caves. You play as...*sigh*, an amnesiac who has to find his place in this world. Not gonna lie again - quite generic. Also, since you don't even remember your own name, you're given one: Am Shegar. It means "nameless one" for an added genericness. But despite that the game has a lot to offer - the spell system, IMO, has only recently been surpassed by Lichdom. Which was released a month ago. Also Magicka, but that's not first person. At any rate, it's good - you draw runes which when combined produce effects: Aam (create), Yok (fire) ignites flammable stuff like torches, Aam (create), Taar (projectile) shoots a magic missle, Aam (create), Yok (fire), Taar (projectile) shoots a fireball. And so on. Actually, the game seems to prefer magic over fighting, too, so if you plan on playing, at least going for a balanced build would be preferable. Other than that it has quite an interesting world to explore and that's not just contained to the caves - the Arx Fatalis universe as a whole is a rather interesting place.
Aarklash Legacy
It's a tactical RPG where the story sucks but the combat is quite good, though. However the story sucks. I did want to emphasize on that fact, as it's quite curious - it wasn't going to be as noticeable if it wasn't for the fact that everything else is above average at least with many of the other areas of the game going to good and beyond. The visuals are astonishing, the levels are breathtaking, the enemies are varied, the combat requires thought and a misstep can cost you a victory, the backstory is engaging and the biographies of the characters are also something I'd recommend reading, too. Overall, the world seems interesting and I really wanted to see more of it. But again, the story is just bad. It's not even cringeworthy as much as not-as-good-as-the-rest. At any rate, you can safely ignore it (it drew a few laughs from me from how cheesy it was in several places) and everything else can safely carry the game on its own.
Crimsonland
It's a topdown shooter. I've spent weeks playing it and it's really quite awesome. You've got a variety of weapons with which to kill endless enemies. You also get perks when you "level up" (read: when you get a certain amount of points) and the perks tend to be quite interesting and I really like the humorous descriptions they have.
I loved the shooting mainly because of the health system. Minor injuries caused bleeding, minor injuries could grow into larger ones if left unhealed, larger injuries required sutures or splints to heal compared to bandages, healing took several seconds to apply and couldn't be popped whenever you wanted. Absolutely loved it, even if I never knew what morphine did.Dalisclock said:
Shooting wasn't spectacular, but it was pretty tense and ammo wasn't easy, so I loved it. Half the game you're meant to get by without shooting, so if you didn't like it the game isn't a lost cause.
I won't disagree with you the game has its bugs that can't be fixed because the company went under. I was stuck on that part in the game where you have to shell the blue lights on a boat in the middle of a maelstrom, but a bug made it so the lights didn't show up, and I had to look the coordinates up online to progress.
And I won't disagree the Innsmouth Raid was disappointing, even though it was pretty satisfying after being constantly abused by the residents for about four hours before.
Dunno if this counts but the PC port of Devil May Cry 4 is GLORIOUS.
Runs at stupid high frame rates and legendary dark knight mode is utterly mind bendingly incredible.
Runs at stupid high frame rates and legendary dark knight mode is utterly mind bendingly incredible.
Gunpoint.
Forever and always Gunpoint. Tom Francis is a glorious golden god of game concepts, except he's actually managed to realize them too.
What's that, you want to know what it actually is?
Well, okay, if you can get past the 2D pixel graphics (I know, I know), then basically imagine Watch Dogs except as what the gaming community wanted it to be, rather than what Ubisoft ended up putting out that was all watered down with elements of Assassin's Creed and Grand Theft Auto.
Forever and always Gunpoint. Tom Francis is a glorious golden god of game concepts, except he's actually managed to realize them too.
What's that, you want to know what it actually is?
Well, okay, if you can get past the 2D pixel graphics (I know, I know), then basically imagine Watch Dogs except as what the gaming community wanted it to be, rather than what Ubisoft ended up putting out that was all watered down with elements of Assassin's Creed and Grand Theft Auto.
I prefer the sequel, to be honest. It holds up much better in modern times. (Though I've heard the expansions to that one which aren't included in the Gold Edition are pretty trash because they were bought out and given off to an entirely different developer, so I've avoided them.)oddball250 said:
It is a bit of a shame that that game has received hardly any coverage. The only reason I knew about it is because I saw it on Steam Greenlight and upvoted it like, a year ago?gsilver said:
The plot may be dime a dozen but the ending certainly isnt.DoPo said:
It did caught me by suprise.
Oh god, that game was so good. I got hooked as soon as I played the demo some time last year. My first day one buy in a long, long time.gsilver said: