ElTerprise: I think it happened in some other threads as well but i mostly experience that here. That might be inevitable. Ok i see ;)
Well i only the last two Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends. I definitely recommend both of them - they're great fun. The latter is unfortunately infected by Uplay though. Haven't played the old ones yet. Rayman Origins got me into the series and my avatar is from that game too :)
If it happens elsewhere then maybe it is a bug. If we spend most of our time on this thread we are bound to see it more on here.
Thank you for the advice. I have no intention of putting up with Uplay and things like that. I will look into Rayman Origins. I am looking through some platformers to add to my list as they can be quite fun to play with my partner.
AgentBirdnest: Luckily I don't pay attention to hype, good or bad. I enjoy games more when I expect nothing :-) MIND looks interesting to me, but that is because I'm a sucker for anything in the first-person perspective.
I think I may be becoming a graphics snob ô__ô ... not in the "The Witcher 3 was downgraded and now I can't see the eyelashes" way, I don't care about that... but I'm just getting so bored with "retro" graphics in new games. One of the bullet-points for Metrocide is "pixel-art style", which automatically turns me off... On the other hand, I do love Wadjet Eye's adventure games, so I guess I'm a hypocrite :-p
Screen Cheat looks like a really interesting idea, but I'm not into multiplayer... Skip...
Nothing really jumps out at me this week.
I know what you mean, I am tired of this lazy "retro" phase. I don't mind a game having low graphics, but there are limits, and most do the whole "retro" thing to be lazy, not because they are going for that style. It's even worse when these "retro" games have higher specs than modern 3D games. I am not a fan of pixel-art for the most part. Some are good, with a unique style and good game/story, but we have so many pixel platformers and top down shooters and things now that all look the same.
You might like Mind, but I just found it dull. It is a lovely looking game, with some beautiful landscape scenes. The story makes little sense, and the puzzles get to be more repetitive than hard, although some make no sense and with little hints it can take a while to figure out what to do. I got it for very cheap in a bundle some time ago.