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Just started playing Star Birds.
It’s made in collaboration with the Kurzgesagt animation studio and uses their signature art style. It’s an asteroid-mining resource-management game about a civilization of spacefaring birds. Simple, relaxing, and adorable.
 
Got Mario Kart Wii Deluxe X running. Been playing it all day. Utterly insane. And amazed at how high quality the many, many, many, many tracks are. Only a couple of fucky bullshit ones. The vast majority of the 752 could pass for Nintendo's work.
 
Gave up on The Westerner and right at the final battle too, as I couldn't figure it out. The whole game is full of stuff like this, but this one took the cake. The scenario is a shootout between the villains of the game, and the allies, and this being a point and click adventure, it's a puzzle of course, rather than an actual shootout, and you have to do things via a certain order in order to progress via having control of your allies with different weapons when you click on their icon. But the UI is terrible at communicating what's actually going on. Initially I was seeing a couple of guys moving on the screen and was starting to shoot at them with the main character, but I couldn't tell if anything I was doing was effective. Same with any of the other characters. I'm not trying to be obtuse, but I think this is a perfect example of why a bad UI can sink a game, and in this particular case, it's a lack of feedback to what's going on.

In other news, I've just started playing Secrets of Grindea. It's a fun Zelda-like Action-RPG that has quite a bit of depth to it.

 
I have both of the Tomb Raider remasters sitting in my steam wishliist but am still undecided about them.

Has anyone here played them? What were your impressions and thoughts both good and bad?

OK EDIT:

I could not relent so got them. I only wanted 4, 5, and 6 so got that set but found the experience really clunky. It really felt like all they did was take the originals, iron out a few bugs here and there, and slap a brand new coat of graphics over the top. For me it just felt like a really clunky experience for nostalgia's sake.

The good thing is that you see old school Lara again but done really nicely with a new coat of paint and she does look good. Pity these remasters were not just original new content instead.
 
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I have both of the Tomb Raider remasters sitting in my steam wishliist but am still undecided about them.

Has anyone here played them? What were your impressions and thoughts both good and bad?

OK EDIT:

I could not relent so got them. I only wanted 4, 5, and 6 so got that set but found the experience really clunky. It really felt like all they did was take the originals, iron out a few bugs here and there, and slap a brand new coat of graphics over the top. For me it just felt like a really clunky experience for nostalgia's sake.

The good thing is that you see old school Lara again but done really nicely with a new coat of paint and she does look good. Pity these remasters were not just original new content instead.

That's cause that's pretty much what they did. It's a remaster using a new render and new textures, but at its core, they're still the original clunky games, with the same clunky puzzles, so if one doesn't like the clunkiness of the original games, they're going to have a tough time with them. I think that as a new player, I would find it very difficult to get into them. I look forward to the remake of the first game instead. I think it just shows how much game design philosophy has changed. The originals had charms of their own, and while I'm sure the games were considered as having great gameplay when they originally released, I personally found the puzzles too abstract to really enjoy them. That's more or less due to the the limitations they had to work with back then.
 
That's cause that's pretty much what they did. It's a remaster using a new render and new textures, but at its core, they're still the original clunky games, with the same clunky puzzles, so if one doesn't like the clunkiness of the original games, they're going to have a tough time with them. I think that as a new player, I would find it very difficult to get into them. I look forward to the remake of the first game instead. I think it just shows how much game design philosophy has changed. The originals had charms of their own, and while I'm sure the games were considered as having great gameplay when they originally released, I personally found the puzzles too abstract to really enjoy them. That's more or less due to the the limitations they had to work with back then.


I am hanging out for the Atlantis one they mentioned as that seems like a new story isn't it?
 
^ As far as I know, Atlantis is a reimaging of the first game. Although funny enough, I don't remember Atlantis being the location of the first game. It's the second game that they announced at the same time that is supposed to be a new story.
 
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