I’ve had this game on my to play list for the longest time, having it recommended to me by multiple parties and having heard about it all the way back to its Kickstarter campaign. As usual partly due to being a bit tired of epic RPGs, I’ve kept putting it off until now. Even while playing, I’ve made liberal use of online guides because I couldn’t be too bothered about learning the whole system.
As previously promised, I went back to play Infinifactory’s Resistance Campaign or at least tried my best at them. Story-wise, this set of missions takes place after the end of the first campaign and as its title indicates, covers the efforts of the escaped engineers to create a resistance against the Overlords. It’s a fair bit shorter than the first set of puzzles but more than makes up for it with the large sizes of the puzzles and their bewildering complexity.
About a year after gushing about Dirt Rally, I’m back playing the newer Dirt 4. As its title indicates this is a more mainstream title meant as the newest entry in the franchise and is therefore more accessible. However it does allow you to opt for either simulation or gamer levels of realism. Major improvements were made with the weather system, the damage model and a more complete career mode. In addition to rallying there are the rally cross and land rush events which will also be familiar to those who played the earlier titles of the series.
Try as I might, I haven’t really paid attention to new boardgames since I’ve stopped actively playing them. Even so, I managed to hear about this boardgame adaptation of the popular Pathfinder RPG and many posters on Broken Forum had good things to say about it. So I was very pleased when a videogame version of it was released on Steam. I knew that there are multiple DLCs out for this and so I didn’t expect much content in the base game itself but was pleasantly surprised by how long and involved even the main campaign is.
I’ve played plenty of Western RPGs but never any Chinese or even Japanese ones so I took notice when this title appeared on Steam. Reading up, it seems that this is one of the newer entries in what is supposedly the longest running Chinese RPG series with the first games appearing in the 1990s and the first one that has been completely translated into English and made available on Steam. Jumping straight to this one meant I would have no idea what went on before but that’s okay as I’m mostly interested in seeing what they are like.
Yep, this is yet another Zachtronics game. This one was actually released between SpaceChem and TIS-100, but I chose to play the newer game first as it seemed more unique. This block-based game is a throwback to earlier designs and is actually very similar to SpaceChem except that it is in 3D. Due it having actual graphics and being significantly easier, it’s probably one of the company’s most accessible games.
Like everyone else sensible I use the trainwreck that is Star Citizen for popcorn-munching fun and actually bought Elite Dangerous instead. I’ve had this on the back burner for a while, as I’m not much of a fan of flight sims of any sort. I do have fond memories of playing Frontier: Elite II however so I thought I’d give this a go. Now that I have a bit more disposable income I thought I’d also give gaming with a proper joystick a go. I did try playing it with a standard gamepad for a bit but after having a lot of difficulty with just docking, I knew that this would be impossible. I bought a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, pretty much the cheapest on the stick on the market and was shocked by how much easier it is to control and how much more fun it is to fly ships with it.