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Recordkeeping: Watching Paint Dry - The Game COMPLETE
No, seriously.
So, in this Source-engine mod game thingie, you watch paint dry, in real time. Takes round about four hours. You do this in a little apartment with physics objects in it. Have fun!
Yes, there are other things you can do.
No, I am not talking about them.
Yes, I had a good time.
And saw credits.
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Recordkeeping: Escape Lala 2 COMPLETE
A while back I played the first one of these, and called it "twenty minutes of puzzles, not bad".
This one was two and a half hours of puzzles and still not bad. Some are rather obtuse, and the game tracks achievements as completion, so you can finish the game but still have 85% complete marked on the in-game map. That's a little awkward!
Also the ( Read more... ) -
Recordkeeping: Ayre and the Crystal Comet COMPLETE
One of those large, open-world sort of things, from an indie developer. I -think- I've finished this out as far as I'm likely to, so: Watching the trailer for this, reading the ad copy, you probably already know if this is for you. Dragon. Ring races. Collectables to collect. Big open world. No particular plot pressure.
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Recordkeeping: Minit COMPLETE
Xyzzy 'stop beating games for next year before it's actually next year' challenge FAILED I guess.
So the thing about Minit is that it's advertised as a game where you only have a minute to finish, which is a lie because A: it's a time loop, B: stuff you finish in one iteration carries over to the next, and C: you can unlock new bases to revive in ( Read more... ) -
2021 wrap-up
And that was 2021, our year in stasis. A year where it felt like nothing happened, no progress, no movement, just a steady awkward "shouldn't something be doing something about the everything out there?" feeling, followed by the dawning realization that no, no one was going to do anything. At all, ever. Last year I called on us to shoot 2021 dead ( Read more... ) -
Recordkeeping: Titan Quest Anniversary Edition + Ragnarok + Atlantis COMPLETE
Titan Quest came back on my radar when I saw the newest expansion, "Eternal Embers", show up as just released. That's a surprising thing to see for a game that came out in 2006, but Titan Quest has always been surprisingly resistant to death, updated every handful of years with a new set of levels or a remastered edition. The new expansion played ( Read more... ) -
Recordkeeping: The Henry Stickmin Collection COMPLETE
Way back in the days of Newgrounds, stick figures roamed the landscape. There was this problem, see: A lot of people wanted to be popular Flash animators but had either limited talent or simply no talent for human figures. Thus stickman animations were born, freeing up the animator from working on complex designs or backgrounds so they could focus ( Read more... ) -
Recordkeeping: Superliminal COMPLETE
Well this is a gem.
A puzzle game in the post-Portal style of "walk around in first-person 3D, solve puzzles that rely as much on you being clever as mechanical solutions". I got through it reasonably quickly (not enough so to trigger any speedrun achievements, mind) and enjoyed every moment.
The premise is that you're having some dream therapy and ( Read more... ) -
Recordkeeping: Tales from the Borderlands REcomplete
Speaking of Telltale Games.
I did this one once before, but a friend reminded me of it so I streamed it at them. It was a good time!
Still my favorite Telltale, still not really an adventure game, but a fun interactive movie.
Still the best story told in the Borderlands universe, even. Man I hear Borderlands 3 screwed this particular pooch. Not even ( Read more... ) -
Recordkeeping: Assassin's Creed Valhalla Discovery Tour COMPLETE
So...
I've marked DLC as 'complete' for game tally purposes before.
I've even marked AC DLC as completes for tally purposes!
The question is: is edutainment software DLC a 'game'?
Well, this had a narrative aspect. I spent a few hours on it. It's as much a game as half the Telltale crap I play. So, sure? Why not.
I had fun with it, anyway. Gave me some ( Read more... )