October Report
Not really enough games here to qualify as one of my batches, but I did meet my October challenge with them.
I thought I might play a lot more games than I did. (I had planned to play Darkwood.) But in the later half of October we had a turn of events in our housing search and then last week we signed a rental lease on a new place in Portland, OR.
So it’s bye-bye to the Bay Area and we are trekking north. My other half is leaving tomorrow to square everything with the leasing company and driving the first load of household items. I have to work this week so am staying behind to do more packing.
I might be a little while before I jump into my backlog again. We’ve got a lot other stuff to keep us busy. But when I do I’ll be in the new place, and I’ll hopefully have my Vive set up again. We both love doing the VR games, but haven’t had the space the Vive requires for about two years now.
Hope everyone had a great October. Be safe and be good!
This game gets high reviews on Steam. I think this is largely based on the story rather than any game play elements. And the story is fine, but in my opinion nothing amazing. It's definitely a children's story for adults. But the adult audience is almost completely on account of the use of gore and frightening imagery instead of the plot and use of language -- which would make it a USA movie "PG" rating otherwise.
Anyway I got bored with it quickly but was curious to see how it turned out, so I got a guide and worked my way through in a few hours. I think others will find it more entertaining than I did.
Outlast
13.7 hours, 8.5/10
12 of 14 achievements
Finishing this game on Halloween I have to say it's worked its dark magic on me and deserves a lot of the praise it gets. The overall sense of terror throughout the game is nicely paced and expertly done. I'm not sure what else I can say except that its imitators -- cough, Lethe: Episode One, cough, cough -- are really poor by comparison.