February 2024
Rhythmic violence and… economic commentary ?
Played: 12
Added: 4
Beaten: 7
Started: 7
Completion avg: 80.721% (-0.113)
Points avg: 4594 (+31)
Progress bar:
Beaten:
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BUTCHER
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GoNNER
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Shadow Warrior 2
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Wuppo - Definitive Edition
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Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
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Thumper
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OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood
Progressed:
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Anniversary Edition
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Livelock
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The Final Station
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Aragami
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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Added:
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Arise: A Simple Story
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Shadow Warrior 3: Definitive Edition
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The Solitaire Conspiracy
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Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot
Nicely productive month, and it's the shortest of the year! It's months like these that make me think killing the backlog is possible, but i try to avoid setting expectations like that. I'll just take the W and carry on as normal
For polishing this Feb, all i had was a weapon restriction achievement in Space Marine, and one to max out a character's level in Livelock. Also made two more runs in Final Station's DLC to (properly) beat that game. Aragami is practically beaten already, so that post should come soon, and i finally roped the partner in for Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. Hopefully we stick with that enough to beat it soon
For the fresh beatens, i noticed most of them had a rhythmic and/or violent element to them - Thumper being the obvious poster child, but OlliOlli plays quite rhythmically after a while; Butcher is clearly has the violence, but its encounters often felt like a bit of a (gory) musical riff; Shadow Warrior just fits the violence; and Gonner is cartoonish violence, but has a soundtrack tied to the combos, so it gets both. It's just Wuppo and Spaceport Janitor that don't really fit the theme, and they both had an economic/societal commentary thing going on so.. i guess there's that... maybe the economy is violence ??
Anyway, for added games, i managed to avoid all Humble bundles this month, so only my weekly wishlist purchases. I can't remember how i stumbled on Arise, but it seemed cool, and was really cheap bundled with something i already had, so that was grabbed. Shadow Warrior 3 suddenly appeared with a deep discount (what coincidence i was playing SW2). The Solitaire Conspiracy was ridiculously cheap (and i like Solitaire games), and so was Slime 3K - I usually try and avoid Early Access purchases, but these devs seem to make okay games - i already own two - so not such a gamble
Well, that's me for the second month of 2024, hope you all had a good one (and year so far), and keep on fighting the good fight (the backlog).
A tiny bit early on this post, but i know i won't play any more before tomorrow, so off this goes
Congratulations! I played the Butcher demo, and it was pretty fun, but I wasn’t sure it could hold up for a full game.
Great review! I totally get what you mean about defining games by comparing them to others, but as long as one is aware of its limitations, I believe it’s a great device, both for categorising to yourself, and for communicating things to others. I totally got the “2D Doom” vibe, as strongly as I got a “isometric Doom Tarkov-like” in Quasimorph, for example.
Anyway, sounds like Butcher is as good as the demo shows. Might bite into it at some point. Thanks!
Thanks so much for the kind words :)
Quasimorph sounds (and looks) like a wild game
I loved the demo! You should try it out. But once again, I am doubtful about how well it holds up over the long-haul of a full game. Afraid it might lack variety or that the power/challenge curves be well balanced to evolve nicely. In fact, last level of the demo was a bit… abrupt, and weird, and didn’t enjoy it as much.
Congratz, having Wuppo / Livelock / Aragami on my backlog.
Little curious why you have +10 hours on Butcher, since i completed it on my side on GOG in around 1.5 hours (only main campaign, no achievement and easy diffuculty)
Probably idling for cards was the first big chunk - most games i start have a bonus 3 - 5 hours already.
Judging by achievement timestamps it took me about 3 hours to beat the game on hard, and then another 2 hours finding collectibles and grinding out kill achievements
Oh, well spotted! That nudges a silly pet-peeve of mine: I’m somewhat fond of statistics, so I’m weary of inflated play times caused by idling. I try to avoid it, without taking it out of proportion. So it happens sometimes.
Congratulations on your assassinations!!!! ᓚᘏᗢ
I remember really liking Diaries of a spaceport janitor, it’s nice to see more people play it! Any games you are looking forward to playing in March?
Titanfall 2 for sure - been looking forward to that one for a while. Also Shenzhen I/O, because i always enjoy a Zachtronics game; and then i’m excited for a good narrative in Tyranny