Quoting: ripperThe trailer looks fun, but why do they make the games so damn pixelated nowadays? I have troubles seeing things, it's just a mess of big pixels. It reminds me a bit on Unepic, though, which I quite enjoyed.

Yeah, it's a shame. I think the whole pixel/retro thing is being overdone hugely. I'd prefer most of these games to have a more defined look, mario-style. I guess it's a lot more work.

The worst game I played like this was Teleglitch. Great game, great concept, smooth execution but a pixellated pile of mess. Apparently there were differences in the smudges you "killed", but it's pretty much impossible to tell, since everything was made of about 6 gigantic pixels. Even the text was hard to read - like someone had zoomed in on an old calculator.

I can't bring myself to buy Crawl for the same pixelly mess reason.

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Quoting: scaineAs for the controller, I'm nearly sold, but games like Hero Siege really require twin sticks and I worry that the single-stick design will trip up a lot of the experience. I wonder if anyone has tried Geometry Wars (or Hero Siege itself) with this design?

I've never tried to play a hack'n'slash with a controller. How do you make use of twin sticks on Hero Siege?

Hero Siege is currently my new favourite game. It's a weird mix of Diablo-mechanics (looting, powerups) and twin-stick shooter. You move with the left stick and shoot (or swing) with the right stick, which means that you can be moving left, but swinging left/right/up or down.

Fantastic game, ridiculously, cheap. Well, you know me, Speedster. You know how I get hooked on stuff. If it's not Killing Floor or Tales of Maj'Eyal, then it's Hero Siege... :D

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I think the scaling issue will only get worse with HiDPI screens too. I was playing "Choice of Robots" the other day and the text is unreadable. You have to edit a CSS file in the game's directory to fix it!

As for the controller, I'm nearly sold, but games like Hero Siege really require twin sticks and I worry that the single-stick design will trip up a lot of the experience. I wonder if anyone has tried Geometry Wars (or Hero Siege itself) with this design?

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Man, that's absolutely fascinating. I take it that no-one at Bioware or who was involved in the coding is willing to share even definitions with you? Or even if they could, would you be able to accept without compromising your white-room approach?

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Really looking forward to playing this. Gutted that it appears to be in eternal EA. Have they announced a release date yet?

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Someone doesn't like Portal 2. So that's a thing? Okay.

If you didn't like the new mechanics in Portal 2, ElectricPrism, you might as well not play Mel. It's fantastic, but it's clearly not for you.

Unlike you, though, I like variety in my gameplay. Simple things are fine, but the interplay of diverse, surprising, interlocking puzzles - that's a beautiful thing. Oh - and stay away from the Talos Principle. That's also not for you.

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I'm impressed by how often they update this and how cool the updates are, even after exit from Early Access (one of the few EA titles I bought with no regrets).

It desperately needs some better DLC. I'd love to see games like Zombicide or Descent done properly. Those games have significant map set up times - imagine being able to load the mod, hit a chapter set up button and be ready to play. That would be superb, but I suspect there's a way to go before they can offer that kind of per-game customisation.

Right now, they'd have to offer multiple load-points for each chapter, which would get pretty cluttered. Although, I'm sure they're working on something like that. As I say, the developers cram loads into each new fortnightly release.

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Not just hard - nails. In fact, the only problem with the game is the slow pace, forced by frankly shockingly difficult puzzles every step of the way. I had to sleep on a puzzle last night, got it tonight, and now I'm stuck again.

I agree that it's great they've managed such difficulty, but EVERY... SINGLE... CORRIDOR... is a challenge and it's beginning to hurt the experience. I'm spending an hour or longer on a single room, which is ultimately becoming a bit frustrating.

Very high quality though and some great new content, like water, switches for emancipation grids and killer emancipation grids.

Really impressive. And free! Huge congratulations to the team.

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Quoting: liamdaweI still think it's a fad that will fade with time, I don't want to strap a bloody device to my face. I'm not bothered personally.

Much how I felt until I tried the 2nd gen Occulus on a driving game. For any kind of cockpit game, this will (easily) change the world. Apparently it's incredible with Elite 2.

I'm still to be convinced by FPS environments though. Perhaps something like the Talos Principle. I could see that being pretty impressive.

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Hard to believe it's been a year. I can't imagine we'll be seeing this now, surely. But with any luck, the next Gran PC game will keep Linux in mind.

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