04.03.17

Okay, no, there's no way there's so many "passable" games being released as of late. I must just be getting more lenient with picking them.

But even now I'm feeling a sense of "Maybe it would have been fun." on some games I left out. Like a Guns of Icarus with actual ships at sea, or some physics-based ragdoll climber, or a side-view PvP shooter.

Okay, so, people probably heard about 911 Operator. It's kind of a management game where you send different emergency vehicles to places that need help, or something. Seems there are some other events that you might have to respond to as well. Eh, will see.

Then there's Hollow Knight - another metroidvania. I like how it looks. As for the gameplay side, seems pretty standard, but well polished? Again, will see once I hopefully ever get around to it.

And oh, hey, more knights. Hyper Knights seems like a much shorter game about using various combinations to execute attacks on little tiny knights or having your own army of little tiny knights fight the other ones. Seems fun for a short while, which seems to be kind of a trend with well received games these days.

Actually, about that last part. I did just realize that there are comparatively few (good) full-length or well-replayable games coming out. It's definitely harder to have a game be engaging for a longer period of time, but if I can't even pull double digits out of a game, I can't honestly recommend it as good. It's a semi-sad state of affairs where we're drifting towards this "lots of cheap games that will keep you entertained for a short while" mentality. I mean, if they continue being fun, then these short experiments, I dare say, are fine. But I'm afraid we might be leaning towards the mobile market where people might not want to pay large amounts of money for games, or expect to get a new game every couple of days. Here's me giving my vote to quality over quantity, always.

And, finally, I'd mention that that Codingame thing I was linked to was pretty fun. Got out of wood tier and into bronze at least. I have some more ideas for improvements, but considering it ends in a day and I still have other things to do, I'll leave it as it is. They supposedly have more competitions happening, so perhaps I can try again at some other time.