Games with “bad” controls and what made them so good for that game. You know you’ve thought about it too.

If you need help with examples, Resident Evil and its tank controls (before the games got the 180 quick turn). The somewhat awkward controls of Shadow of the Colossus. You probably have your own examples that speak to you more.

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I imagine a founders emblem looking like a figure of someone planting a flag on a rock or beach. Or standing next to a flag with his foot on a rock (like the Captain Morgan pose).

Alternatively, it could simply be the image of a classic-style joystick (like Atari ones) in gold, possibly embossed like if it were on a coin.

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Most are long gone, but Looking Glass Studios made such wonderful work. Probably my favorite.

Cyan changed my gaming life with Myst and Riven. Sid Meier… Insomniac… I’m trying to think what I would say for contemporary devs. I guess I might go with CDPR for TW3. TW1 and TW2 were both deeply flawed, IMO, but something I loved nonetheless…[Read more]

Yeah, I’d like that, I haven’t found anything specific that fits yet. So far I’ve got the cumulative posts Emblem which will be based on our favicon/twitter & facebook avatar(the pixelated heart), and the cumulative likes Emblem which will be based on the Fallout icon of the thumbs up.

Maybe the founder icon could just be a Spartan Helmet? Front…[Read more]

Cool idea. I wonder if the founder emblem should be something “classical” – just riffing here, but some symbolism or imagery with Greco-Roman or Egyptian type flare that isn’t necessarily a gaming symbol but has that “it begins here” story to it

I had ideas for our gamelust channel a while back but I couldn’t find anyone local to do them with. They were all based around my obnoxiously huge gaming collection and I envisioned the concept being at least 3 to 4 people total on screen. Stuff like ‘show off your gaming room’. Or one called ‘throwback thursdays’ where me and a couple of friends…[Read more]

Yeah I watched a few streams on YouTube and saw a lot struggle with the various health issues. I put an effort on gathering items to reduce that problem early on. I think it would feel more like a survival game if the people running away from me actually tried to find some type of police, and maybe added a stealth element to avoid the police that…[Read more]

I’ve been looking at it and I feel like playthroughs should be longer based on what Ive seen. IGN said the developers goal was to make each playthrough different but because of that playthroughs are rather short.

It didn’t feel like a survival game when I was watching people on twitch play it despite all the crafting, dehydration/hunger, etc.

So I tried out the free trial for We Happy Few tonight. The E3 trailer definitely had a BioShock vibe to it, but playing the game that vibe is barely there. That said, I do think I will be buying this from the early preview, my first early access type of game ever. It felt more like a dystopian Elder Scrolls than BioShock, mostly because I spent…[Read more]

[quote quote=6036]I bought a bunch of discounted games on Steam recently, and I also bought Gang Beasts at regular price (a game that’s been on my wishlist for a long time). I just couldn’t wait any longer. I liked it so much, I bought an extra controller for my PC so I could play multiplayer and then downloaded a program to let me use my PS4 con…[Read more]

Blizzard because when you buy the games it doesn’t end there, you also get major updates.

Yeah, I guess in my case it was also a matter of already grinding in ESO and FFXIV for a long time, after a long break from FFXI.

I think its pretty good so far. I don’t mind grinding, to be honest.