DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition
Short version :
One of the best RPG games EVER made, that’s coming from a gamer who’s played over a hundred RPG titles in his life.
Dark Souls - 9.5/10
_Long Version :
Darks Souls….. so much to say about this game.
The game throws the player in a very difficult world, not just by gameplay standards, but plotwise as well. The story / lore is depicted in such a way that it’s never speaking to the player directly, but rather to your character, it never breaks the 4th wall by directly telling the player what to do and how to do it, only the basic attack move buttons are given to you at the beginning, and from then on, you’re completely on your own for the rest of the 50+ hour journey. Unless you get a co-op partner that is._
– Real player with 254.2 hrs in game
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TLDR: Yes.
Dark Souls has issues.
While most entertainment experiences go out of their way to encourage your interest, it feigns indifference to your attention.
Introducing itself via bizarre and meaningless cut scenes you find your protagonist in a pretty dull dungeon. “Oh look, a man with a sword viewed from third person” you observe with a mounting sense of déjà vu. “No doubt I have a healing potion and a sense of manifest destiny somewhere in my bag too” and reach for the reset button/cyanide pill. But Dark Souls IS different - not that it is keen to show off. Like Usain Bolt winning the Dad’s race on sport day mumbling something about how he probably jumped the gun, Dark Souls’ initial coyness infuriates and astounds with equal measure.
– Real player with 242.8 hrs in game
Neverlooted Dungeon : Almost Epic Adventures™
Venture deep into the Neverlooted Dungeon and face its treacherous, deadly traps. Armed with your creativity, trusty weapon and magical items, find your own ways to outsmart the dangers in a highly immersive world. Be careful, become paranoid, be the first to loot!
“Have you ever heard of the Neverlooted Dungeon and its Legendary Treasure? It’s a perilous place filled with deadly traps that no one has ever returned from alive, but I’m sure someone as smart and skillful as you could easily succeed. Try your luck now, loot and glory await you!”
As you enter, you feel like something isn’t quite right, and there may be a good reason why no one has ever returned. Will you be the first to loot the Neverlooted Dungeon?
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Defeat Hidden Treacherous Traps
Live out an intense adventure with a unique focus on defeating treacherous, deadly traps. Be careful, pay attention to the details, sharpen your senses, watch your steps, don’t touch anything, become paranoid.
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Find Your Own Ways Through an Immersive World
Find your own ways to overcome the dangers and challenges in a deeply immersive and interactive world where your creativity is rewarded. Pile crates on stakes, block saws with chairs, throw buckets at levers - it’s up to you.
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Careful Nonlinear Exploration
Explore a great variety of non-linear levels overflowing with forgotten secrets, hidden relics, piles of treasure, countless traps, and lurking monsters.
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A Dungeon Unlike Any Other
Discover a dungeon full of flashing arrows and vending machines, in a unique satirical dark fantasy world where something really wrong is going on.
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Customize Your Abilities
Acquire powerful magical items to customize your abilities, whether you’re a careful explorer, an outstanding acrobat, or a reckless fighter.
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Survive Lurking Monsters
Avoid monsters, fight them, lure them into traps, kick them into pits, or serve them as food.
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Dying is a New Beginning
If you die, try your luck again. Loot your previous corpse and use it to your advantage to progress even further.
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DARK SOULS™ II
Everything is fair
– Real player with 236.0 hrs in game
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The souls series is one of my favorite series ever, and this game is no different. ignore the hate for this game, its a good game, its just a 9 in a series of straight 11’s, one of the games has to be at the bottom and it just so happens to be this one, but that does not make it a bad game. I would recommend this game to all, including souls vets who have never played it and anyone new trying to get into the series.
– Real player with 182.3 hrs in game
Hell’s Gate - Slide Puzzle
Hell’s Gate makes you FEEL like Jeffrey Dahmer.
From the wailing of lost souls condemned to endless torture in the depths of Tartarus, to the occult and bizarre imagery plastered onto the puzzle pieces; This game really lets you immerse yourself and walk in the shoes of a deranged madman that will go to any means necessary to keep playing his sick and disturbed game!
Here’s the Keyes! Knock yourself out!
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
If you like puzzle games, you must get it.
An immersive soundtrack, good graphics, and challenging puzzles.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Thief™ II: The Metal Age
This is going to be a long one! As my name entitles, this is probably one of THE best stealth game ever made! I will go in depth why it is and why you should be playing it:
Let’s start off with a list. What makes a stealth game one of the greats? In my own personal opinion it is: Have engaging, functional, and consistent stealth mechanics. Provide the player with alternate routes and methods of completing an objective. have interesting, unique levels. Have said levels progressively provide harder challenges to overcome. little to no combat, and have an engaging story and setting that makes the player want to progress. Every stealth game I have ever played usually doesn’t have all of these things checked marked on the list. MGS has forced combat and has a questionably written story. The first two Splinter Cell games were far too linear and also forced combat at times. Not to mention the sub par stories. Conviction tries way too hard to un-check every thing on this list. Dishonored’s story is cliche and is WAY too easy any way you play it (Yes, even the non lethal no powers run is too easy). The list goes on. That’s why everyone’s favorite stealth games usually are Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, the Hitman series, Death to Spies, and other games that manage to check the checklist. What about Thief 2?
– Real player with 238.7 hrs in game
Intro
Thief II The Metal Age is easily one of the best games of all time and the pinnacle of not only stealth in video games, but level design and story telling. I may be in the minority in saying that I prefer both the original and Deadly Shadows more, but goddamn if this isn’t a worthy successor in every way, continuing the series and building upon the world that you helped shape by the end of the last game.
The Great:
++The sound design in this game is phenomenal. The propergation engine, the voice acting, the ambient effects… it’s totally unique (to this day!), and hugely innovative in its connection to gameplay, etc. Everything is just at the highest standard possible, which is to say, totally unmatched.
– Real player with 237.4 hrs in game
Ghoul Castle 3D: Gold Edition
Only played a bit, but it reminds me of the original King’s Field game for the playstation that came out in 1995 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Field_II ) which I have always been nostalgic for. I really wish more games like this would come out that were a little more nuanced.
Regardless the fact this game was made by one person really impresses me. I would love to learn how he made it.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Ну, очень, очень спорно
[37/100]
Для начала начну с того, что сама игра является портом с мобильных устройств, и сделана она одним человеком. Но одновременно, её продают на ПК за деньги, которые можно потратить на интересные игры на скидках. Поэтому я долго думал насчёт негативной, или положительной оценки. И хоть игра и является “Gold Edition” оригинала, игра всё равно пустая. Очень пустая. Начнём.
Перед тем как продолжим смотреть на саму игру
Я хочу поругать описание, так как немного вранья там есть.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
Thief™ Gold
I can’t believe I played this game 20 years ago and it’s still a blast. Well, it’s my number one game, just look at my avatar.
Technology:
The way this game is meant to be played is with TFix + HDMod. I repeat !!!TFix!!! (not TGTool). I can safely say that now the game looks better than ever, even compared to its original release back in 98. The reason why is pretty simple - the hardware limitations at that time were quite significant. TFix patches the game with the unofficial New Dark Engine lifting the limitations imposed by the original Dark Engine. There are many improvements: support for higher resolution, the in-game objects have significantly more polygons, bugfixes, HD textures.
– Real player with 71.2 hrs in game
It is amazing how as computing technology improves and new tools such as VR are introduced that consumers continue to pine for ‘better’ and ‘more immersive’ games, as though immersion is some ideal we may hope to one day achieve once the graphics are good enough and the gadgets we attach to our forehead become more effective. However, one need only look back to the late 90’s, when a developer known as Looking Glass studios was already forging the path for immersive simulators decades ahead of time.
– Real player with 61.2 hrs in game
HORROR TALES: The Wine
⚖️ Grade = B. Worth a buy, if you enjoy path unlocking adventure. However, if you’re looking for exciting scenario, it doesn’t have
EXPECTATION CHECKLIST:
✔️ Proceed without any guide or map
✔️ Run away from Hostile
✔️ Simple horror (no head man)
✔️ Physic Puzzle
✔️ Short reading
❌ Stay alive with limited equipment
❌ New pickups location for replay value
❌ Horror art & creepy music
❌ Horror death
❌ Cinematic Cutscene
❌ Sneak Pass Enemies
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– Real player with 7.6 hrs in game
Visually stunning! I wasn’t expecting many spooks from this and was honestly low-key hoping for more of a walking simulator experience where you get to peacefully walk around an abandoned plague-ridden ghost town and admire the sights and scenery without having to worry about spooks, unexpected chase sequences, or regular threats to my life, but The Wine did a good job of delivering a healthy mixture of both! I’m especially thankful for the addition of what I affectionately call “baby mode” which will automatically vanish homicidal maniacs after a solid minute of running around so that you can solve your puzzles in peace. I kept baby mode on for the whole game but only noticed it twice on particularly awkward puzzles, and it definitely didn’t diminish the experience of the game or make it any less scary!
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
Waltz of the Wizard: Natural Magic
This is, by far, my favorite VR game- and I have a LOT of VR games- so this review is going to be long, but I feel like, even though this game is popular, it still isn’t getting the praise it deserves.
The VR market is, in my opinion, oversaturated with zombie shooters and fighting games. There are a few RPGs, but they don’t really let you do anything off the path they set out for you. They’re like rail shooters in an RPG format. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed games like Mage’s Tale and Asgard’s Wrath, but they lacked the thing I look forward to most in VR, free will. It blows my mind how lacking the VR market is in games where you can just do whatever the hell you want, it’s the perfect platform for experiencing life in fantastic ways. For this reason, I see Waltz of the Wizard as VR’s golden child. It may be “short” as far as having a to-do list, but no other game I’ve played has been so immersive. I get to be me, but me as a wizard, doing whatever I want to do, exploring and discovering without worrying about anyone trying to keep me tied to a story line where I’m only allowed to discover things when they say I can.
– Real player with 19.4 hrs in game
This game is mostly just a tech demo, and there is a free version out there you can play with instead. This one is very cheap, and it is the tech demo that sold my family on VR. My dad said “Its fun, 400$ Well spent son.”
We named the skull Bob, I don’t know his real name nor do I care, my first thought was of the Dresden Files talking skull, so that’s what we called him.
The games concept is pretty simple, you are a wizard, likely one that has lived for a long time, with a fully stocked pile of ingredients and a cauldron bubbling away on the desk, if you show Bob an item he will explain what it is, in a dark and spooky reverb voice.
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
Thief: Deadly Shadows
I’m an unabashed long-time fan of the Thief series. I was excited to hear my favorite video games were getting a third installment. Then I played this…
The first time I played through this game, at every turn I sighed and thought bitterly about how such and such was different from this or that in the first two games. And almost every instance was different for the worse, not better. I finished the game with an unpleasant taste in my mouth. I’ve played it again before writing this review, this time deliberately putting the high expectation bar out of mind. The result has been a more enjoyable experience. It’s a shame but I suppose what I’m saying is that I enjoyed this game more when I lowered my expectations for it, ahaha. NOT RECOMMENDED.
– Real player with 91.2 hrs in game
I write this on the basis of not having played previous Thief games in the series. However, Thief: Deadly Shadows proved itself a firm favourite and true classic on my list (I owned the game on disc when it was first released but had to re-purchase on Steam so it was compatible with my current PC). It’s true that the graphics are now very obsolete compared to more modern titles - but it has been around for over ten years! - and I still have fond memories of exploring, stealing, sneaking, and eavesdropping.
– Real player with 79.1 hrs in game