Screenshot thread

[sser]

What is this?

 

[Strange Fellow]

What's this?

 

[Robespierre]

What is this?

I'm pretty sure this is Alien Shooter 2.

 

[Sukhāvatī]

What's this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valhalla_(video_game)

 

[Nifft Batuff]

What's this?

Right, it is "Valhalla" for the ZX Spectrum.

 

[Strange Fellow]

What's this?

Right, it is "Valhalla" for the ZX Spectrum.

Is it any good? I like the sound of it.

 

[octavius]

It wasn't so good that I completed it. I did complete The Hobbit, for example.
But if you can't get enough of Adventure games, and if you like Norse mythology, it's worth a try.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Both Valhalla and The Hobbit are a pain to play by today standards, but they were visionary at the time. Some aspects are still visionary today, e.g. they dynamically simulate their worlds, each npc has a sort of rudimentary AI and acts independently, sometimes you can find characters fighting each other or talking/exchanging items with each others. Sometimes you can find the corpse of a key npc, killed by someone in the past, meaning that the game went by itself into an unwinnable state. This seems to be more a problem for The Hobbit rather than for Valhalla, but often you can exploit the system to creatively find other solutions.
The setting of Valhalla is interesting being literally the Norse mythology, places and deities. Valhalla also features rudimentary animated graphics, probably predating the approach of the later Sierra adventure games (king's quest etc.)

 

[Astral Rag]

What is this?

It's Alien Shooter 2 Reloaded. Very fun game but according to some the remaster is worse than the original game in some ways. I haven't played it myself but I know that it has online co-op which is missing in Reloaded. Sadly the original is no longer being sold on Steam. Reloaded has some extra missions and it seems to work fine on Win 10.

 

[Mikeal]

*sip* Yep, Blood was a good game. (Even though I play it for the first time in this year.)

Look at this poor stuck boy.

To be honest I just felt through the window.

I love good infighting.

Who's laughing now?

Good, bad final boss is one of the weakest around.

 

[Kabas]

Getting my ass handed to me in Lands of Lore

It's hard to level-up the rogue on Kieran in comparison to how easy it is to level-up the fighter on my new 4-armed friend.

 

[warpig]

 

[Mikeal]

Et tu warpig?

 

[warpig]

Huh? What? Dark Souls is cool as fuck.

 

[catfood]

Huh? What? Dark Souls is cool as fuck.

COPE

 

[Puukko]

Purse Owner 5, including some spoilers.

 

[Sukhāvatī]

Oxenfree (thanks to the generosity of mck

)

Simplistic walking simulator with some nice naturalistic dialogue at times and some great understated atmosphere music, (although I doubt many Codexers would like the characters personalities).

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Ending Slide Spoilers

aww chyea bwoiii

 

[Darth Roxor]

sup bro you look familiar

 

[Dayyālu]

I'm sure that the level design would drive me insane nowadays. I remember my national reviewers going ballistic that Jedi Outcast was "completely inferior" and " a travesty". And they were right, methinks, JO has some shitty level design and the rest of the game is simply unimaginative (even compared to JA).

Still, some levels would drive me mad today.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Eh, I think the level design of JK is somewhat overrated. It's nowhere near as labyrinthine or whatever as people seem to think, in fact I'd say it's not all that different from Dark Forces - and that thing had neither swimming nor force jump.

I will however protect Jedi Outcast to the death and beyond. Even with the overall worse level design, it's by far my favourite entry in the whole series.

 

[lightbane]

*weird mecha action*

What's this? DS' sequel?

 

[Endemic]

 

[Nifft Batuff]

For me Dark Forces is still the best SW fps. At least it is clean from all that Jedi soap-opera bullshit that ruined the franchise in the following years (both movies and games).

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

*weird mecha action*

What's this? DS' sequel?

Hamlet for PC-98, has a PS1 remake known as Space Griffon VF-9 (and a later version for Dreamcast and PC with improved graphics, but only the PS1 version is in English).

Funny, but it has a few ideas that I had for DG2, but never thought I'd find their implementation here. Very interesting game, btw, but the control scheme on PS1 sucks balls and DC/PC versions apparently cut away the RPG elements.

 

[Astral Rag]

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