12/15/2023 0 Comments Broken age 2 player helldivers![]() ![]() Why does no one make cooperative (or competitive) games for five players? Why do they always cap out at four? There are so many titles out there which just don’t suit our player count. Trying to avoid the cheatathon that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has become, we tried out a few alternatives like Splitgate (Slipgate?!) and Rogue Company, eventually returning to Overwatch as we were often five players. ![]() ![]() In the spring we completed the surprise hit from last year, Gunfire Reborn, before heading back down the galaxy’s darkest mines in Deep Rock Galactic. On the multiplayer front there wasn’t anything particularly new this year. In comparison to the last outing in DOOM 3, this feels far more like the hi-octane classics of the 90s, and the developers and designers really put together a solid engine to drive the game forward, putting action right back at the heart of a classic shooter. ![]() Slow is a word which cannot be used to describe the DOOM reboot, which I’m still in the process of playing through, half an hour at a time. Everything just trudges along to such an extent that, only a few hours in, I still hadn’t seen more than a few words of the strange language, and haven’t been inclined to return. The premise was intriguing, but unfortunately I simply couldn’t get into the story for just how slow the game’s execution is. My worst game of the year was unfortunately also the one which should have been most up my street: Heaven’s Vault purports to offer an adventure in which the player must decipher an ancient language. As with Obra Dinn, I was likewise too stupid to unravel The Witness, and sadly didn’t see it through to the end (Edit: This changed in 2022.), but the mixture of puzzles and secrets, as well as the unique art style around the island itself definitely made the visits worthwhile. I can’t say my efforts were particularly successful, but the unique flavour of the mystery, together with the beautiful pixelated sepia aesthetic, kept me coming back for more.Ī technically more imposing puzzle game also worthy of mention is The Witness, written by the author of Braid, a game that had already battered my meagre brain into submission. Tasked with finding out what happened, you get to see and hear the final moments of every corpse you discover, slowly piecing together bits of the puzzle through deduction, elimination and, certainly in my case, a good dollop of guesswork. The basic premise for the player is that a ship has entered port in the late eighteenth century, and all the crew and passengers are either missing or dead. Return of the Obra Dinn definitely stands out as one of the more interesting games I’ve played in recent years. There were a couple of solo adventure games which provided fair diversion. Worst books: Winnetou 1, The Marshmallow Test A Year in GamingĬontinuing the theme of working from home and trying to avoid spending too much time in the office, 2021 wasn’t much of one for gaming, although I did upgrade my hardware for the first time in the better part of a decade. Worst films: Train of Life, You Were Never Really Here, The Evil Deadīest books: The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken, Kleiner Mann – was nun?, Julian, Troubles Summaryīest PC games: Return of the Obra Dinn, The Witness, Zombie Army Trilogy, DOOMīest board games: Photosynthesis, My Cityīest films: The Three/Four Musketeers, Psycho, Whiplash, One Hour Photo, Four Lions So joining the yearly roundups from 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 20, here’s looking back over the second year of the plague, 2021. The year was mostly dominated by work, with little in the way of holiday breaks, social activities or other diversions to break up the monotony. It’s hardly Marquez, but it certainly feels like life has been chugging along in neutral after so many heady years in first gear. Another year of the plague behind us, another 365 days of solitude. ![]()
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