I uh… actually don’t have any more Infinity jokes. I used what little of them I had during the Let’s Play. So instead, I will just call it Marathon 3: The Really Really Big Number!
Marathon Infinity (Completed)
by Chezni Category: First Impression
by Chezni Desert Golfing
by LepcisMagna 
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Is Desert Golfing a good game? I’m not sure. It’s certainly a frustrating game. From the physics which make the golf ball bounce just a little too far to the holes designed to infuriate you by making the ball roll just off the screen, the game seems determined to annoy you. On the other hand, it’s not cruel about it – there’s really no pressure to continue, and any goals are really ones you set yourself. This separates it from games like Getting Over It or The Impossible Game, where either the game taunts you (in the former case) or requires such precision that memorizing a sequence of inputs is the only path forward (in the latter case).
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by LepcisMagna 
Fall has begun and the temperature outside is now low enough that I can start using my computer as a heater for my room while playing graphically intense games. But wait, what’s this? A timely review? Has the world gone mad, or have I just backed too many Kickstarter games? Hm. Probably that second one.
Continue reading “Infinity: Battlescape”Stellaris
by LepcisMagna 
I don’t really like Civilization. While the idea of controlling an empire through the ages sounds good in theory, the amount of time you have to spend doing it mostly outweighs the amount of fun to be had. While this may be an inherent flaw of 4X games, I had high hopes for Stellaris anyway since I’m a bit of a sci-fi nerd (actually, that’s a lie: I’m a lot of a sci-fi nerd).
Stellaris has been sitting in my queue for ages, and when I first took a look at it I put it into Tier 1 after playing for an hour; admittedly, this was not a fair shake. But with a lazy Sunday afternoon ahead of me and having been reminded that I still hadn’t played Stellaris by a board game I played with Chezni, I sat down determined to play a game. I got up 8 hours later, having played about half a game and realizing I just didn’t care anymore.
Continue reading “Stellaris”Lands of Lore II: Guardians of Destiny (Completed)
by Chezni “Are we not all prisoners of our own destiny?”
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Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon (Completed)
by Chezni “Heroes get remembered… but legends never die.”
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Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku (Completed)
by Chezni I guess a strong enough franchise can carry a game’s sales regardless of quality or gameplay…
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Quick Tiering Update v.1
by Chezni Just a quick and dirty Tiering update on some old titles based on the passage of time.
CTHON (First Impression)
by Chezni You just ordered a bacon cheeseburger. You get a bun. Yyyep.
Zach-Likes
by LepcisMagna Or: Opus Magnum, TIS-100, and Shenzen I/O
I’m putting the Zachtronics studio and all their games into Tier 1, alongside Obsidian Entertainment (makers of Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny, and the only good Fallout). I can confidently say that any game made by those studios will be at least entertaining, if not extremely good. Zach-likes tend to be puzzle games with very similar concepts, but with just enough theming and execution differences to make each one feel unique. Perhaps the best part of these games is the moment when you discover a unique solution that gives you the same feeling as if you’d just solved an interesting math problem or figured out a clever programming solution at work. If neither of those sound fun, I would highly recommend running away from these games.
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