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[Donkeymog]

I'm not sure about you guys but I'm particularly guilty of moaning that no good new games are coming out. And nearly always it's becaus I've forgotten about two or three games I'm actually really excited about. So post games you're excited about here so that you don't forget and get bitter about the state of the so called "games industry".

Firstly I have to mention Dishonored because it's a project I've been following in one way or another for a couple of years now ever since Harvey Smith was rumoured to be in some sort of negotiations with Betheseda. Think this video says enough to get people excited:



Looks very much like the game I wanted Deus Ex 3 to be.

EDIT: Wowzers, I even managed to forget that there's already a thread about Dishonored.

[Vicious Parker]

I haven't been following that. I am now following that.

Harvey sure is looking tired, though.

Honestly after the awful that was the ending of Mass Effect 3, my interest in new games has waned a bit. There's still Hitman 5 and Borderlands 2, and I'm still excited to see what Bethesda does with new content for Skyrim, but... I dunno. The video you posted has probably made me more excited for a game than I have been in a while.

[Hyperlisk]

The ones I'm waiting for are unlikely to be forgotten: Pokemon B/W 2, Diablo III, StarCraft II: HotS, Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy.

[Donkeymog]

/>Harvey sure is looking tired, though.

Crunch-time is a cruel mistress.

I'd also like to mention Antichamber which is billed as a non-euclidean first-person puzzler. I've always been interested in the extent to which 3D games could render worlds that adhere to alien geometric laws and this seems to be pressing all the right buttons in that direction with many critics comparing it to the works of Escher.



My one complaint is that the sound is pretty flat and boring, which seems like a missed opportunity. I'd love to hear spatial effects on the audio that reflect the warped properties of the game world. I'd also complain that the trailer doesn't actually show off much non-euclidean-ness, or warp in the ways I'd like. I'm hoping that there's more mind-bending illusions in the game than what's been seen.

[Donkeymog]

Another game: Botanicula!



I have to admit, I have no idea if this will actually chew bubble gum or not, but it's out in two days. And the trailer has me intrigued. Made by the same people who made Machinarium, which was a charming game I never puzzled to the end.

[Stars]

That spider looks like a cute, fluffy version of the one from Limbo. xp

I like the style of the game. Looks interesting.

[Donkeymog]

Botanicula is up at Humble Bundle with a pay what you want price for the next two weeks.

Just downloading it now.

Turns out the Linux version requires adobe AIR, which is not actually supported on Linux any more. I might try running the windows version through wine instead.

[Monkeydog]

I'll buy it once I get paid next week, but I can't wait since I loved Machinarium.

[Donkeymog]

/>I'll buy it once I get paid next week, but I can't wait since I loved Machinarium.

Yeah, I had a bit of a moral dilemma about it. I get paid next week too, but I could afford to pay a couple of dollars now. So I did that and now I feel cheap.

I've played about 20 minutes of the game and it's positively charming, but the level of interaction is so weak that I'm not sure I'll finish it. Very similar to Machinarium in some ways.

[Monkeydog]

I never finished Machinarium. I agree with you, I think that's what took me out of the game. Once I got too stumped by the game and felt like there wasn't much keeping me there to solve it. (which is also a bit of my problem with FEZ right now, but at the very least that has more open exploration than Machinarium did.)

[Stars]

I keep forgetting to post this, so it may be bordering on "old," but Yahtzee reviewed FEZ this week.

[Donkeymog]

I stopped watching Zero Punctuation when they made you have to sit through an advert before every single review.

[Stars]

Sometimes there are no ads, but it seems to vary at random. I'd suggest watching them on youtube, but I suppose they have the same issue. xp

[kspr]

i hear GTA5 is going to be pretty epic.

[lazlo falconi]

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Harvey sure is looking tired, though.

Crunch-time is a cruel mistress.

I'd also like to mention Antichamber which is billed as a non-euclidean first-person puzzler. I've always been interested in the extent to which 3D games could render worlds that adhere to alien geometric laws and this seems to be pressing all the right buttons in that direction with many critics comparing it to the works of Escher.

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My one complaint is that the sound is pretty flat and boring, which seems like a missed opportunity. I'd love to hear spatial effects on the audio that reflect the warped properties of the game world. I'd also complain that the trailer doesn't actually show off much non-euclidean-ness, or warp in the ways I'd like. I'm hoping that there's more mind-bending illusions in the game than what's been seen.

THIS. OH GOD THIS. PLEEEAAASE!

[Donkeymog]

/>i hear GTA5 is going to be pretty epic.

Yeah, good shout with GTA5, seems like a pretty safe bet. Personally I've never gotten properly into any of the 3D GTA's but I think that's more down to me being irredeemably stuck in the past than anything else.

[Donkeymog]

If you want to be cool like me and spend 45 minutes of your life listening to socially awkward British indie game developers explain why they're not going to be making the best game in the world after all there is a lovely video below:



Prison Architect is looking quite fun. I've been playing a lot of Theme Hospital lately. But as is the case with all big sim/strategy games it gets to a point of complexity where I either have to ignore everything and focus on one small task at a time neglecting what's actually happening around me or just become completely overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuffs happening that I have no idea what the consequences of which will be. What what!

[Donkeymog]

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! This game certainly looks like it's all out of bubble gum...



My only concern is that despite three different techniques being displayed they all followed the exact same path. I hope maps are big and open and aren't linear corridor affairs. That's the one thing that would absolutely ruin this game.

Also the slogan "revenge solves everything" is one of the best computer game slogans evar.

[BottomGuy]

The only problem is that it comes out the first week of school. This might end badly for me...

[Vicious Parker]

Why is it that every game coming out soon that I want is about being an assassin? ....What does that say about me?