Those exact same games were key parts of phases 2 and 3 for my own comeback to games— phase 1 was the Orange Box, which introduced the general concept of Steam, and more importantly Portal, and less importantly (bizarre though that may sound) Half Life 2 which I have never finished. But as someone who had mainly…

SLURP

And yet, still ultimately falls short of true understanding— an understandable failing, since no person can truly understand another from their isolated island of consciousness.

I hope this won’t be considered as spoilers, but as far as what my progress was, I had discovered a sun temple and made my way mostly through it (there was a watery puzzle in the basement that I couldn’t figure out), plus one old-timey BBC video in an underground conference room, plus an unexpected fast-travel-ish…

God, that must be a tiring place to be, emotionally.

I saw Keenan in that documentary a few years back (Blood Into Wine), and although it was either a wash or a net loss in terms of my overall perception of him, he wasn’t nearly as pretentious as what I learn of Blow from this article alone.

Would you say that at Tom Petty’s gravestone?

“Yes, that’s more or less what ‘proud’ means. It’s a legitimate emotion and part of the human experience. So do you feel it towards this game or not?”

Played this a couple of years after it came out, fairly early in my grand return to gaming after 15+ years, and while I enjoyed the gameplay and found it fascinating and unique, I wasn’t especially struck by the story. (I would probably be among those who had issues with Blow’s “prose”, as mentioned in the article.)

Oh yeah, very happy to have gotten away with 3 living members (two of them were “Afflicted” but that’s easily fixed). I have experienced all the other scenarios you mentioned, including one where repeated retreat attempts all failed and everybody just flipped out and got killed. I believe that was the one where I lost…

Thanks for the recommendation! I went in expecting XCOM-ish but it is so much more stealthy. That is going to take some getting used to, since I am not that great at stealth (key exception: Invisible Inc.). That, and I still don’t feel like I completely know what each click or button press is going to actually do— the…

Glad to be of service! I was hoping that this post would help to spread the word, since it’s a pretty cool side effect of the Amazon Prime membership that a lot of people probably have already. And in the case of Shadow Tactics, it’s a big money-saver too— the lowest I have ever seen it on Steam (in the past 3-4…

I think I’m glad that we didn’t pick InnerSpace for the Revue Club. Is it... “discussably” bad, or just awful? (sounds like the latter)

Jeez, what a week. My kids are off of school AND the relentless flood of work continues unabated (money good! stress bad!), so I haven’t done nearly as much gaming as I’d like. Instead, my gaming week has been filled with unfulfilled temptations and disappointments:

At the time I was a “real” full-time employee of the company, so yes, I worked in the giant Peck building at Saint-Laurent and Saint-Viateur in the Mile-End neighborhood of Montreal.

I’m self-employed, but the way things work is that there are agencies that put individual translators like me in contact with the “end clients” that actually need translations. So, I had some leftover agency connections from 5-10 years ago when I worked in the localization department at Ubisoft Montreal, and…

Heh, yeah the professional aura in a work environment definitely has that hyper-polite aspect. In more casual environments, a fair number of “Québécois de souche” (= OG French stock) that I know do have a rather powerful anti-political correctness and/or I-don’t-give-a-fuck attitude about social niceties kind of vibe,…

I can understand your “meh”. Personally, I am liking Act II marginally better than the first, for what it’s worth. As Kyle said elsewhere in this thread, some of the puzzles are a bit more interesting in the second part. But I’ve been feeling burnt out on point-and-click for a little while now (Deponia was just a…

Yeah, the (first?) Hex Robot one is what I’m on right now, and he keeps saying “if only I was inside my ship, I could figure this out!” so I switched to Vella and have been enjoying that segment a lot. I am definitely enjoying the puzzles better in Act II, and the story aspect is working fine for me too. Sorry to hear…

You guys are not exactly filling me with enthusiasm for my long-delayed playthrough of Red Dead Redemption (still on my backlog, right next to “get farther in Skyrim than just getting smoked by the first dragon and giving up”). I don’t seem to click much with Rockstar in general, though.