Video games have vastly richer subtleties than the very best movies.
Movies you watch. Games you are.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/258970/Gauntlet_Slayer_Edition/
A top-down hack-and-slash game based on the Gauntlet franchise but with different controls, abilities and general gameplay.
This seemed like a good idea at the time, but turned out to be a pretty shitty experience. Not recommended.
TODO – make a proper page
Entertainment > Games >
https://steamcommunity.com/app/274310
Oh hell, it opens with an unskippable playable cutscene. Intolerable.
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Entertainment > Games >
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https://steamcommunity.com/app/221180
https://www.omni-labs.com/games/eufloria [ 1 ] was http://www.eufloria-game.com/index.html
I’ve played this exact same thing as a free flash game. Except the controls were a hell of a lot better with that one.
Footnotes
TODO – make a proper page
Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://steamcommunity.com/app/7670
https://www.bioshockgame.com/site/agegate.html
Well. I had heard good things about this game, and since it was on sale I thought I’d pick it up.
I regret it.
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Entertainment > Games >
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https://www.dcuniverseonline.com/home
https://store.steampowered.com/app/24200/
All the Earth is in peril, but everyday people have been given super powers.. except half of them become villains, for some reason.
The interface and controls weren’t pleasant for me. Probably the biggest nuisance was not having set a colour scheme on my chest because I made myself bare-chested.
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Entertainment > Games >
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https://us.diablo3.blizzard.com/en-us/
https://us.diablo3.blizzard.com/en-us/
A fixed-angle-view roguelike.
My general conclusion is that it’s a good game, but doesn’t have enough variety of abilities.
Path of Exile – (2013 game) is better in terms of difficulty, complexity and player-immersion. In fact, Diablo 3 has been copying features straight from Path of Exile. Doing things badly, but, still, obviously copying.
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Properly titled Diablo III
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/
A down-and-out traveler discovers a pair of sunglasses which let him see through the illusions aliens have been using to control mankind.
With overtones of the manipulation of the everyman, I would easily put this movie in the same class as Nineteen Eighty-Four. However, the otherwise weighty impact is cushioned by comedy, great characters and a great story. Though old, this movie stands the test of time. Easily considered satirical-horror, there’s much more to it.
This is, in a sense, a bubblegum movie that delivers a subtler message. It tickles the viewer’s cognitive dissonance. Some viewers will easily “get it”, and some will merely find it entertaining. I hope those between those two groups will be particularly intrigued.
Mandatory viewing.
- Based on Eight O’Clock in the Morning – (1963 short story) by Ray Nelson (archived)
- See also fnord
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They Live has concepts found in Buckaroo Banzai – (1984 movie).
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Entertainment > Games >
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www.landmarkthegame.com
The Minecraft for EverQuest Next.
I was invited to the closed beta in 2014-06-15. I tried it for maybe 45 minutes before throwing my hands up in complete disgust.
I have no interest in this now that EverQuest Next has been aborted.
- Abandoned
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Formerly EverQuest Landmark
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https://www.deviantart.com/
I will forever think of this website as Devian Tart
