I see your point. And I have to admit, those voiceovers in the JW video did sound really out of place. Seems I've gotten used to those grunts by now :)

Dead Effect. It's a fun but flawed FPS. I just finished the fourth or the fifth mission, this level was a bit laggy for some reason, and full of grenade throwing enemies which was an interesting mix.

I paid 49 cents of Trading Card money for it and it feels like a bit of a steal at the moment. I was a bit hesitant with it being a mobile port, but it looks great graphically, the controls are responsive, and the gunplay is solid enough and there is plenty of zombie gore to be had. Throw in a few gimmicks like good ol' bullet time and a attack that hurts any enemy around in within 10 feet or so, and you've got pretty fun gameplay. Mindlessly mowing down zombie after zombie can be fun and don't let your parents, local gaming forum moderator or anybody else tell you otherwise.

It does have some flaws, you can't jump which is annoying for obvious reasons and because of an enemy that crawls on the floor that you can get stuck on, certain enemies can be bullet sponges, and the game's idea of difficulty seems to be completely filling rooms with zombies, occasionally in very cramped areas. Of course if you like run n' gun arena-ish FPS's then that last point might be a positive. Level design is nothing to write home about, it mostly involves getting from area A to area B (usually an elevator) while fighting roomfuls of zombies, pretty generic FPS starring zombies on a spaceship stuff.

On a mechanical level, I've experienced no crashes and only one area (part of the level I just finished) had any sort of performance issue. The music however is much too loud, to the point of overloading and becoming distorted, along drowning everything else out when active. This can be fixed by turning it 75% of the way down, but it's sort of shocking that the audio levels are just that bad in the first place and require turning it down that much.

If you want a cheap B-level FPS then Dead Effect is definitely worth picking up, though I'd recommend waiting for a sale as it IS a B-level FPS.

Mount and Blade Warband - SoD Mod.
Morrowind.
Lock 'n Load Heroes of Stalingrad.

Shadow Warrior
Hitman 3
Hotline Miami

Wasteland 2
PIllars of Eternity (waiting for The White March!)

God of War (PS2)

Started playing God of War yesterday. Good game with lots of blood and boobs. :D

But i'm already stuck at the scene where you have to rescue the oracle of athens. That time limit is a bad joke!

PC

Heroes of the Storm - It's a good moba for beginners and to relax but it really have problems of balacing and matchmaking.

Heavy Bullets - A nice offer from the resident cat Gragar, i would call this game "Check all the corners, the game", looks simple and easy but then you have stuff exploding in your face and you end up dying. My only problem is some frame drops that ruin the game.

Battle Academy - It's actually really nice for those that want turn based strategy on the go, doesn't take long to win a battle and it's enjoyable.

PS4

The Witcher 3 - Really good, if not for the crazy amount of bugs/performance it could be one of the best games ever made

Planetside 2 - Really enjoying the feel of the game, gets a bit dull in small skirmishes but it really shines when you see dozens of soldiers with tanks and spaceships.

That took me forever to complete, almost lost a controller over that one :D


Right now Thief (PS4) It is as great as all the other Thief games so far, and well any other stealth game.

Does that mean you haven't seen the Lego Movie yet? Or that you did but didn't like it? No Alec Guinness type voice, but there is Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman in it!

Brilliant film, but I don't agree with the snot nosed 'protagonist' hypocritical actions at all. I would also get righteously mad if somebody messed with my themed creations, like putting sea pirates on my spaceships :P

God damn it... I don't know why I said before that the in-game gamma settings are working for me (in the GOG version) because now that I tested it again, it clearly doesn't work and doesn't have any effect on the game graphics.

Googling for it, apparently it is a problem related to Intel graphics chipsets. This fixed it for me (mainly the step 3):

http://www.gog.com/forum/thief_series/ingame_gamma_settings_not_working/post3

Now everything is so easy to see. Damn it, I wish I had known this before I even started playing the original Thief Gold, not until the last level of Thief 2. I've been wandering around in so many Thief 1-2 levels blind as a bat... I suddenly feel I got my sight back, halleluja!

Awesome! replay! ;)

Finished Breath of Fire 1, and I thought it was fun. Although I might want to get into the habit of taking notes, since I got lost a few times playing it.

Now playing through Earthbound Beginnings (Mother 1). I'm loving the soundtrack so far.

For some reason I just can't stick to Xenonauts... I keep playing a few hours just to end up playing something completely else. Well, sort of. I finally decided to play through a complete campaign of the XCOM reboot instead. Good times.

Then gave Invisible Inc. another quick run through on a higher difficulty setting. It's actually starting to get a bit tense now. Almost didn't make it out with one lone agent left on a mission as he was cut off by five patrolling guards until I ran into a chance opening barely making the escape as he was spotted entering the teleporter. I'm pretty sure I'll try a harder setting again in the not so distant future.

Back to Xenonauts for a few hours... until I end up playing my current run with Dead State. It has its quirks, but I'm finding the game quite enjoyable. At least I think I do. It's been a good long while since I had a seven-hour straight gaming session, while bumbling along. Looks like I finally have some kind of grip on how things are run. ;)

So yeah, obviously I really like turn-based tactical gameplay. So why can't I stick to Xenonauts? It's not like I dislike its gameplay or anything. *shrug*