Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: candycanearter07 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MARCH 2025? Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 21:30:02 -0000 (UTC) Organization: the-candyden-of-code Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 23:30:03 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fb83bbf962155875f76104b4e6ea3ede"; logging-data="1584621"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19GqSEWFttmpnm9bpep3GLhD4/uGFASStEuV4dkPIFSRg==" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LNK49MeLEe+UwqUS/ysXQdr8Nrw= X-Face: b{dPmN&%4|lEo,wUO\"KLEOu5N_br(N2Yuc5/qcR5i>9-!^e\.Tw9?/m0}/~:UOM:Zf]% b+ V4R8q|QiU/R8\|G\WpC`-s?=)\fbtNc&=/a3a)r7xbRI]Vl)r<%PTriJ3pGpl_/B6!8pe\btzx `~R! r3.0#lHRE+^Gro0[cjsban'vZ#j7,?I/tHk{s=TFJ:H?~=]`O*~3ZX`qik`b:.gVIc-[$t/e ZrQsWJ >|l^I_[pbsIqwoz.WGA] wrote at 15:29 this Monday (GMT): > On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 12:27:59 +0200, H1M3M wrote: >>Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > >>> What Have You Been Playing... IN MARCH 2025? > >>- The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe. >>Probably spent 2-3 days. Saw a ton of different endings and routes, but >>I forgot completely about it once the weekend was over. > > I love Stanley. It's a funny game and the forethought of the > developers was quite impressive... but it's a one-trick pony, really. > After you've gone through it once, and then maybe doubled back a few > times to see how the alternatives work, it's got nothing to keep you > coming back. > > In many ways it reminds me of "Exit 8"; a cool concept that on its own > is quite impressive, but it's not really enough to carry an entire > game. I wish more developers would learn from games like that and use > its ideas to flesh out their own creations, but in some ways it feels > more like a tech demo than a stand-alone piece. Its replay value comes from thinking about its philosophy :D -- user is generated from /dev/urandom