JUNE UPDATE!
Weird month, started learning how to make a game with some friends of mine that work making games as i still couldnt get a job (7 months and counting) so i wanted to atleast learn something useful, and its fun, still dont know too much but i have my “game” on my phone and its pretty exiting see it work and all, also i’ve been pulishing up my thesis, i should be able to finish it before the end of the month and hopefully present it and graduate this month too, its almost ready but i want to polish it as much as possible, also been playing a lot of D&D as usual
Ah another mediocre Spiders game, a pseudo sequel to Mars:War Logs and i love it, i dont know why but i really like this average on all acounts games, the story is interesting but the writting, gameplay, graphics and characters are not that great, the music is pretty good though, i liked Mars: War Logs more but this is still a good game for me, take as a lower budget and more focused Mass Effect, if that sound apealing to you check both Mars:War Logs and The Technomancer out, you will like them.
Of Orcs And Men
So i decided to play everygame from spiders studios (and focus home interactive probably) that i own and havent played yet, as i said in the previous game in this report i think their games are mediocre but i still like them very much, so i started with this game, as far as i know their first game, and the first game that Styx makes an appearance! (i think :p) this game is no exception to the mediocrity of their games, the combat is a really clunky mix of turn based and real time (kinda like playing an mmo, you select what skills you want to use and those you select enter a queue and the characters does them on its own) but the story is pretty interesting and the music is good, so i kept on playing.
Perhaps one of the best Spiders’ games combatwise it is pretty fun but it is still clunky, the story is pretty good, i even stole the main character premise and made it a character in a dnd campaing i started a couple of days before finishing the game, the music is fine, the graphics are pretty good and the characters are hit and miss, most are pretty boring but i really enjoyed Buffalo and specially Randval and Mathras
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
Ah such a lovely gamee, so cuuuute, so beautiful, and it is just a teaser game! I love it, cant wait for life is strang 2… i seriously should get LiS:Before the Storm
Yes, good luck with your thesis.
Spiders is a weird studio. All their games feel very similar in terms of gameplay and all are mediocre, as you said, still they are somewhat fun. I’ve only played ‘Mars: War Logs’ and ‘Of Orcs and Men’ so far, but have ‘Bound by Flame’ still in my backlog. ‘Mars: War Logs’ always made me think of ‘Red Faction’ though.
yep it is pretty much red faction, the opresion of corporations and all of that, still i like rpgs and decision making in my games, so i really enjoy the set up of both mars: war logs and the technomancer, also if you enjoyed mars: war logs and of orcs and men, give bound by flame a try, the games is not great by any acount but it is enjoyable
The setup was nice, even the world building was promising, but it still somehow failed during the game. I guess the comments of Arbiter Libera and you, that they try to be Bioware with a less budget is very true.
I’ll definitely give ‘Bound by Flame’ a shot one day, at the moment I’m however still busy with cleaning up some unfinished games :)
Spiders’ biggest problem as a developer is they really want to be Bioware with fraction of the budget. Of Orcs and Men was also a Cyanide-Spiders cooperative effort, and I really like where Cyanide is going. Check out their Game of Thrones RPG if you haven’t already which leans more on RPG side that kinda got simplified for Of Orcs and Men AND is a very good original story set in Game of Thrones.
i played it a bit when i got it in a bundle i remember it being like spiders/cyanide games, i will check it out later again
also i agree, they are trying to be bioware with a lot less budget, but i like that, they are forced to be more focused and have a smaller scope,still they are lacking and still empty.. i hope that with greedfall they either get a bigger budget (which i doubt) or actually make a more focused and smaller game.
Good to know that Captain Spirit can be played before LiS:BtS (I need to get at it)!
Good luck on finishing your thesis :3
it can be played without even having played Life is strange one, it only has a couple of nods to life is strange, it is actually its own little game