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World of Warcraft Classic

2019-05-21

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https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/wowclassic

World of Warcraft 1 (Vanilla) revisited.

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Released 2019-08-27
The original game with elves and dwarves and shit.

Geneshift – (2017 game)

2017-06-27

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/308600/
https://geneshift.net/

A top-down shooter with superpowers.

An awkward and unforgiving game that’s zoomed in too far to be fun.

2020-06-30 — The forum seems to have been dead since 2017-08 or later.
- No announcement was archived, and no replacement was found on a cursory look.

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Stealth Bastard – (2011 game)

2017-05-28

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(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/209190
https://web.archive.org/web/20190907045712/https://www.stealthbastard.com/

A side-scroller puzzle game.

I played around with it a bit. It’s fair. It’s overwhelmingly unforgiving and gets complicated.

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Rodina – (2014 game)

2017-05-06

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/314230/
https://elliptic-games.com/

A space simulator fps thingy.

While it looked quite good at a glance, when actually trying it it fell flat. When a game cannot lean on cutting-edge technology, it has to have solid gameplay. It didn’t feel good at all to me. I guess No Man’s Sky – (2016 game) spoiled me.

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(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Davidebyzero/Snipes

A multiplayer, text, third-person shooter originally made for DOS, but I know it from Novell Netware.

I had a hell of a lot of fun with it. Perhaps it’s nostalgia which makes me stay so fond of it, but I think the fundamental gameplay still holds up today. I could easily imagine a great updated version of this but I have and still do see this same gameplay in all sorts of other top-down games.