Hector: Badge of Carnage is one of Telltale's older games, from the era when they made classic point & click adventure games (in episodic form). This particular game seems to have been one of those that they did on the cheap, just to have something released, as it's full of bugs. Like during the fade-in when you enter a new screen, if you click, the fade-in stops and the screen remains dark, or if you re-visit a place where someone is behind a door, and you can see their feet underneath the door, the door is not there, and you just see a pair of feet + very long legs standing there.

The humor in this game is very crude. And not in a clever way. The game will for an example have you give someone a sex doll, and then you'll see the character hump the sex doll while saying the name of the main character. Or you need to fish a key out of a poo-filled toilet, so you use a condom and a string. If this sounds like your kind of humor, then you might enjoy it, but to me, it just fell flat. It just felt like things were crude for the sake of being crude, and the whole joke being "Look how crude we dare to be!". Crude humor can work, but there needs to be a bit more to it than that. So can you tell I'm not a fan? I'm probably skipping episode 2 & 3…

And going from one bad game to one good game! Last month I beat the main AoE 2 campaigns, and now I've beaten the campaigns from the first expansion, The Conquerors (the only expansion the non-HD version got).

I had some complaints about AoE 2's campaigns, like how the difficulty curve was all over the place. The expansion fixes this, and the campaigns do get progressively harder, with the first mission being the easiest, and the last generally being the hardest. That said, the AI is very passive here, and it feels like the campaigns got too easy this time around. For anyone interested in AoE 2, I would recommend playing these campaigns first, as they feel like they'll be a better introduction to the game (maybe after the tutorial campaign).

There is one level that stands out in a bad way though. You're supposed to defend a wonder that you build, and the level starts with with a bunch of villagers surrounding a wonder that's not yet completed, and the game tells you to complete the wonder. If you do this, then there's a level trigger that causes a massive invasion to happen, and there's another massive invasion that lacks suck a trigger that happens at the same time. So doing what the game tells you to do means that you'll likely automatically lose. So the trick is to ignore the wonder, focus on the massive invasion that will always come, then gather resources, and surround the wonder site with castles, and then build the wonder. This way the level becomes trivially easy. Other than this stupid level, I really enjoyed the levels on display here. The variety was good, and there was a difficulty curve!

SOL: Exodus is a relatively arcadey space combat game, similar to say Wing Commander or X-wing. Only the physics felt really bad, and that just ruined the game for me. It works, it's just not very fun.

Well this was a disappointment. Screenshots made it look like a Zelda-esque game, but as far as I got, it mostly borrows the "kill everything in the room to progress" mechanic from Zelda. Which is kind of tedious, when enemies are scattered all over the place. Move to one room, kill everything, move to another, rinse and repeat. Poor draw distance, and a bad camera angle does not make things better. Oh, and that low health beeping sound, give me the one from Zelda 1 over this any day!

Another game broken by a patch. The game stutters to the point of being unplayable, and according to the forum, this issue was introduced in a patch.

The steam version of Serious Sam 2 has a bug which can corrupt your save file. It's been there since day 1, and was never fixed. I guess I could download a save file from the internet, but eh, I can't be bothered, all these broken games are making me bitter.