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I want to try something different for a change and ask for recommendations for at least one game that you think I should play. Preferrably cheap. If you really enjoyed a game and you would like me to cover it in a blog I will do it. Dont know if I'll finish, but I will play it. Can be GOG, Steam, PS3, 3d, vita, retro games, whatever.

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I got nothing. This has been somewhat of a slow week for gaming news in general. I guess I'm still waiting on the release for Revelation 2 this month. I don't know what platform I'm playing on and I don't know if I'm going to wait for the entire game to release and buy it all at once? I'm not excited for Monster Hunter 4 anymore. I guess I could put 300 hours into a portable game, much better than sitting in front of the TV for that long. I played Majoras Mask when it released, and I would have preferred an HD update on WiiU honestly. 

I guess the only interesting thing that came up in gaming this week was the inclusion of Episode VII levels in the new Battlfront coming out this year.

As for currently playing, I fired up my Kindle Fire and noticed some great games had gone free.
I'm playing through a couple of interactive story games which are actually two of the best story games I've played in a long time.

One is called 80 Days, in which you travel around the world in a steam punk type world and meet lots of interesting characters along the way. Very text heavy, but very good. Highly recommend, everybody run out and try it.

 
 

I miss Game of Thrones on TV. I'm glad The Walking Dead is back, although I was a bit disappointed with the latest episode. I would have liked more closure after then ending of the last season, but as the show goes, death doesn't really matter and it's just shuffling along without a care. Back to Game of Thrones, the gap between seasons is way too long. I missed out on the Telltale games mostly because I prefer to play them all at once when they all come out together in a bundle. I might have to jump in early to get some Game of Thrones in my veins. 

Have you played the Game of Thrones TellTale games and if not why not? If you have, how are they? Good, Bad? Meh? Let us know.

-Asreal

So whatsacow recently put up a blog about what you prefer in a game, mechanics v story etc. It's a good blog. Go read it! Someone also made a comment about how some interactive experiences don't qualify as games and the term 'game' is too broad of an umbrella and some things really shouldn't qualify. It might be the same blog, I can't remember. Food for thought. 

This is more about 'do you ever try new types of games that you otherwise stayed away from for some reason (no interest, too complicated, etc.) and if you made the jump into a new game type what was it, did you enjoy/regret or were your initial pereceptions correct and it just wasn't for you?

I'll go first...
Last few years I've been playing MMOs, mostly because of blogs that I read that inspired me and they were right. I really enjoyed Star Trek Online, Lord of the Rings Online, Rift and Secret World. Mostly because of Free to Play models and because of the 'themepark' design that focuses on single player.



I also played a bit of Warframe, a co-op shooter like Destiny that is free on PC and PS4. I mostly tried it out because of the Sci-Fi theme (read my Sci-Fi blog for more) and thought it was great. However, I played Nosgoth, a very similar Counterstrike type game with Vampires and hated it immediately because of the shitty community/chat/harassment.


Lastly, Strategy RPGs.
I don't normally play SRPGs because they seem complicated and slow, but I played through Blackguards 2 on PC recently and it was accessible enough for me to get into due to it's linear and directed nature, although it was way to fucking slow and I wouldn't recommend it despite it's beautiful presentation and depressing story. I want to try out more strategy games now.

-AG

 

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This was the oddest part of the trailer for me.  I'm not sure if this is some kind of stealth story mission or a standard dungeon? And why is the character acting like a vampire? Is it the main character with an alter ego when going into the dungeon? Interesting. Looks like a dungeon to me