Sega Genesis Classics on Nintendo Switch
Though I do have a portable Genesis collection available to me on PSP, the digital sales price for this was too tempting to pass on, even if I’m told the emulation isn’t that great. #gamer#gaming#videogames#vidyagames#retrogaming#mastodongaming
Made it to 72% completion tonight in Dust: An Elysian Tail! Finished a boss fight, freed a soul and collected a bunch of keys and hot dogs, and maybe one blue print.
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The Whisperer is free on GOG for the next 48 hrs. If using direct link you may need to be logged in to claim. 2.9 out of 5 stars rating. Wario64’s original post in the comments below. Get it before the end of this Wednesday! #gamer#gaming#videogames#vidyagames#mastodongaming
After all these years I'm finally checking out Alice: Madness Returns! It has a few bugs but it runs well enough for an older game. The graphics have aged pretty well! It also runs nicely on Steam Deck! The only downside is the lack of cloud save support.
Return of the Obra Dinn half off for the next day or two on Steam and Switch - genuinely one of my favorite games of all time. An intricate ghost ship puzzle, perfect for spooky season. Stellar soundtrack as well, dukope@mastodon.social is a genius. https://store.steampowered.com/app/653530/Return_of_the_Obra_Dinn/
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
November 14, 2023 - Day 317 - RePlay Review
Total RePlays: 10
Game: Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Platform: Steam
Release Date: May 26, 2022
Library Date: Jun 20, 2021
Playtime: 59h20m
Hardspace: Shipbreaker is the first game in this month's Humble Choice bundle, and on the short list of games that I've completed - on July 24, 2022.
Also, you may note that the "Library Date" predates the "Release Date", and this is not a typo.
It was released in Early Access in 2022, and I did not once regret buying it.
Hardspace: Shipbreaker is a 6DOF first-person action-adventure sim, in which you play a blue collar space worker, who has signed up to work with Lynx Corporation as a ship breaker.
Living in space, it's your job to dismantle, sort, and destroy, recycle, or recover, all the parts of junked spaceships.
There's just a small catch. While you can make good money ship breaking, Lynx Corporation uses cloning technology, and when you sign up with them, they own you and your DNA until your pay out the billion credit debt you incurred in training.
Ship breaking is a dangerous job, with a lot of risks; for instance, one of the big ones is death.
But that's OK; if you die, Lynx will just reconstitute you, and you get to keep on working. The cost of the reconstitution is added to your debt, so no biggie, right?
The actual mechanics of breaking up the ship involve a ruggedised spacesuit, a tether tool, and a laser cutter.
The procedurally generated ships become increasingly complex, with new dangers involved as you level up.
Each ship floats in an orbiting salvage yard with a furnace & salvage bay on both the left and right hand sides of the yard, and a recovery barge below.
You use the laser cutter to break up the ship, and the tether tool to either send recoverable whole objects to the barge, recyclable materials to the salvage bay, and junk to the furnace.
You're paid on the basis of how much usable material you recover from each ship, as well as earning "Lynx Credits" that you can use to upgrade your tools and skills.
It's a surprising amount of fun cutting up a ship, and tethering all the recyclable parts together and firing them off to the salvage bay.
As long as you don't get too close, and get recovered too, because... yeah, I died that way. A few times.
The whole thing is set to a soundtrack that wouldn't be out of place in an episode of Firefly; in some ways, the whole game has a bit of that vibe.
Hardspace: Shipbreaker isn't just a game, it's a game with an excellent narrative that has lot to say about capitalism, corporate exploitation labour abuses, and unionism.
I genuinely love this game, and it's up there with Firewatch as one of my favourite games.
It's worth buying this month's bundle JUST for this game, because Hardspace: Shipbreaker is:
November 14, 2023 - Day 317 - RePlay Review
Total RePlays: 10
Game: Unpacking
Platform: Steam
Release Date: Nov 2, 2021
Library Date: Nov 23, 2022
Playtime: 7h17m*
Unpacking is the third game in this month's Humble Choice bundle, and another one on the short list of games that I've completed; this one on December 30th, 2021
My time played in Steam, however, is 0h 0m.
Unpacking is also available on Xbox Game Pass for PC, which is where I played it, and completed it.
Twice.
Unpacking is an utterly lovely, and very chill isometric pixel art puzzle game, that involves unpacking a series of moving boxes, and learning about your life. It's a game about what makes somewhere home.
Each set of puzzles is based around a time in your life, and as you unpack the boxes, you begin to tease out the narrative of your life.
The thing about Unpacking is that to explain it beyond this, risks giving away part of the narrative, and I don't want to do that.
There is so much I love about this game, both for the puzzle, but also for the narrative; those of you who've played it know exactly what I mean.
It's a game that sat with me for a long time after I'd finished it, and I ultimately decided that I want to own a copy, and put some money into the pocket of the (Australian!) devs (Witch Beam, based in Brisbane), so I bought it.
Writing about it like this has just reminded me how much I love it, and I might just need to play it through again. It's another one on my list of favourites, along with Firewatch, Dredge, and Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Unpacking is the other game it's worth buying this month's bundle for; it too is: