Casual achievement hunter’s progress log #71

"I am back to reclaim what's mine" - That's pretty much the entire game summed up.

If you don't know what Dishonored is, then odds are you're not into this type of game anyways. Though, if that's not the case, then Dishonored is a first person stealth-action game with insanely good level design and very good environmental storytelling. The gameplay's smooth and the visuals are nice. Well, that's the first game.

As for the second game, this one's not as good as the first one. The visuals are less stylized, it doesn't even look better in any way, other than some textures. While it looks as good or worse, it also runs pretty badly, with small hitches and low framerates.
The new infection is formulaic, uninspired (since it's just like the first game, just a different creature) and the bloodflies are so boring.
The gameplay's not an improvement, but it's not worse either. Though this time the abilities are so boring that it unreasonably bothers me.

If you're desperate to play more Dishonored, then this will do.

Eh, it's another 12LoH game.

Dear Esther has a bad reputation for being the first and also worst walking sim. The game that started the trend.

Personally, for me, it was engaging thanks to its short length and good visuals. Though, the story was purposefully vague and felt quite pretentious, so I didn't enjoy that aspect. It was worth my time.

Definitely the best of the three visual novel/walking sim styled games I played this month. (I got all three of them from a single trade)

While The Novelist focused on the story and Dear Esther focused on the visuals, Subsurface Circular hits a great balance between the two. It's a great visual novel that feels more dynamic than that. You're on a subway train as a robot and you question the robots who come on the train. They all have interesting writing behind them and it's fun to be a detective in such a setting. The game revolves around a single case you're given by another robot.

It's not some deep story like Dear Esther and it doesn't have consequences like in The Novelist, but damn is this game a good time. Highly recommend it!

It's a mediocre racing game that I played through solely to play Dirt Rally. Ironic that I haven't actually started playing Dirt Rally yet.

Skip Showdown unless you're like me and feel the need to play through games linearly in the franchise.

The game croaked. It's dead.

Kinda sucks since I won it back when I didn't care what I won and only cared about the fact that I did, indeed, win. I gave it a shot, I guess.

So I won it on SG when it still cost money. Now it's F2P. It's a bit buggy and like half the achievements don't seem to work. I had some fun, but I'll be honest, this game's not very good. The combat's quite bad and the visuals are crisp, but pretty dated overall. It was fun to play it for that 40-50 minutes, but since it's an endless game, I called it quits after the shine wore off.

Such a good game! Definitely my favourite Max Payne game. It would be Max Payne 2 if it didn't have any of the Mona gameplay sections, since those involved escort sections and losing your entire arsenal multiple times.

That happens in Max Payne 3 as well (Losing weapons, not escorting), but it makes sense here. People say Max was too bleak, but I think it was the perfect amount. He was so over the top that it made sense. Max is a broken man by this point. Depression and superhuman abilities will present this result. Not sure what people expected.
The soundtrack was good as well (Especially TEARS by HEALTH) and the visuals are top notch. I would totally love to play a game that looks like the past Max sections (a.k.a. the snow and the gritty visuals). It's still gorgeous. It feels insane that a 256MB GPU could produce that quality. Currently we need 6GB for Kingdom Come: Deliverance (beautiful game, but definitely not 24x more beautiful).

This game's a fucking marvel.

It's quite interesting overall. You're some ghost/spirit thing and you spend a summer with a small family, with the emphasis being on "The Novelist". You basically walk around the house, gather clues about the current situation and tell the Novelist who he should focus on (himself, his wife or his son) and once you decide, you skip some time, you find out what happened, see the reactions of those people, see some slight changes to the house and do it all again 3-4 times. It was an interesting experience. Luckily it was short as well. Had it been longer, I would've been more critical.