Tag: video games
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Review of Gunpoint
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Gunpoint Rating: 👍 So much fun. A quick, silly, stealth-and-hacking romp through a ludicrous world of jumping, falling, leaping, climbing.
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Review of BioShock Infinite
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. BioShock Infinite Rating: 👍 Fun, beautiful first-person-shooter. I disliked Bioshock and I hated Bioshock 2, so I was glad to discover that Bioshock Infinite is not terribly like either of them, but is something else - something more fun - entirely. Playtime was a …
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Review of Little Inferno
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Little Inferno Rating: 👍 This game was so much better than I anticipated. I was given it as a gift by my sister, who raved about it. "It's okay," I thought, as I stuffed things into a fire and watched them burn, "But is …
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I'm sure it doesn't mean much to you, but finally making my first Mün landing means the world(s) to me.
AltMun landing
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Review of Dear Esther
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Dear Esther Rating: 👍 Not so much a game as a semi-interactive ghost story in a beautiful, Source-powered landscape, Dear Esther is worth playing... so long as it's on sale. The gameplay's not long enough to justify a £6.99 price tag, and there's almost …
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My first thoughts on Outside.
I've been playing for a little while now, and here's my thoughts so far:
I love the open world aspects of the game; I've never played anything where there's been quite so much freedom (especially when you're just starting out). It's taken a while to get used to the areas which are only … -
Review of FTL: Faster Than Light
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. FTL: Faster Than Light Rating: 👍 This game is just pure fun. It's not easy, and there's a lot of learning to be done, but it sort-of reminds me of playing NetHack for the first time, if NetHack were set in the Battlestar Galactica …
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I'll never be good enough.
I've got chests full of diamonds and a huge fortress of solitude in my singleplayer world. I've found the End Portal and I've got enough eyes to activate it. But why bother? Alone, I don't stand a chance against the Ender Dragon anyway: I'm just not that good a player. And it doesn't matter … -
Fetch Quest
Dan muses on the nature of the "fetch quest" in video game RPGs, and how we as a culture may be shaped by them to such a point that they will one day become acceptable in the real world, not just on computer screens. And he plans to take advantage of that fact, when the day comes.
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Video Games I Have Been Playing - Part Two
Following up on his previous video games post, Dan finishes reviewing a handful of the games he's been playing this month.
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Review of Sid Meier's Civilization V
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Sid Meier's Civilization V Rating: 👍 Needless to say, I can't recommend this highly enough. The pinnacle of the series of Civilization games still keeps me coming back time and time again.
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Review of Super Meat Boy
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Super Meat Boy Rating: 👍 In an age where platform games are few and far between, and don't "feel" like platform games ever used to, one game tries to make an exception. And it's beautiful and fast and stylish.
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Review of Flight Control HD
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Flight Control HD Rating: 👍 Good clean fun. Warning: addictive!
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Review of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Rating: 👍 Spectacular, deep, enormous, living world. And I just wanted to explore it, take on epic quests, carve out a legacy as an adventurer.
But then I took an arrow in the knee.
Seriously though: an awesome game. I spent … -
Video Games I Have Been Playing - Part One
Having finally found some free time in his life, Dan plays Skrim (completing it in about 85 hours) and Modern Warfare 3 (completing it in just 6). Don't try to do a value-for-money comparison on that.