What Video Games have you been playing II: Have you finished that backlog?

[Snerk]

There are certainly plenty of remote, dangerous locations around the world you could set such a game. The American Southwest, Death Valley. A tropical island, like in that Tom Hanks movie. Those tv shows with Les Stroud and the British SAS guy seem to have endless material to work with.

Indeed. Though it must be real tricky to allow a kind of creativity you'd need in a real survival situation, in a game. If it's just press x to combine rope with wood to make raft then I think it's missing the mark for me. It'd be interesting to see how a survival game would approach this.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Indeed. Though it must be real tricky to allow a kind of creativity you'd need in a real survival situation, in a game. If it's just press x to combine rope with wood to make raft then I think it's missing the mark for me. It'd be interesting to see how a survival game would approach this.

I know what you mean. I've played a ton of FPS, RPGs & MMOs over the years, and not one of them has had a "crafting" system that didn't make me want to kick a puppy. And they're all the same*. I don't even bother to try them anymore.

The Long Dark does have crafting - you can make fur-lined boots or an ice-fishing kit, for instance - but it's just the same old crafting system, just as you describe. As far as I'm concerned, they should just drop the whole idea and focus their resources elsewhere. As nice as the game is right now, I'm cutting it a lot of slack because it's still technically in alpha. There's miles of stuff they need to add and improve before it's ready for prime-time.




* I think Star Trek Online may have been the straw that broke this camel's back. I mean, for God's sake, it's Star Trek! Reversing the polarity of the plasma coil and running a level-1 diagnostic on the transporter matrix is such an integral part of the shows that even people who don't watch Star Trek know what I'm talking about right now. And Star Trek Online has the same old, tired, busted, saggy, "crafting" system of every other game made in the last 20 years.

 

[EgonSpengler]

In other news, I've taken up World of Tanks again, after a 6-month break.

 

[Antilogic]

Avalon Hill was glorious.

 

[SouthernKing]

Dust: An Elysian Tail.

I'm absolutely blown away by Dust. It's the prettiest-looking game I've ever played (I much prefer nice art to photorealistic graphics, and Dust is absolutely fantastic in this regard), the gameplay is quite fun (if admittedly a bit repetitive, but that's a genre-wide problem with action RPGs and didn't stop Kingdom Hearts from being god tier), and the story is pretty good too. Absolutely would recommend to anyone.

 

[Takhisis]

Hey, post in the new thread! This one's getting closed down!