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[AlStar]

Today's games are Breathedge and Poker Club.

My Steam review for BreathEdge:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Subnautica... IN SPACE! WITH CORPSES! (so many corpses!)

The game is roughly broken into three or four parts. First, you start off in your shuttle, with no equipment or resources - it's basically Subnautica, if you could only restore your oxygen in your escape pod. Eventually, you'll make your way to the second chapter, where you'll upgrade your equipment to drastically increase your oxygen capacity, ability to and duration of your thruster burn, and eventually get vehicles that allow you to move at 5x and 10x your initial movement speed; drastically increasing your range. It's actually rather fun going back to the initial area - things that required multiple oxygen waypoints and additional supplies are easily accomplished in just a single air tank.

Thankfully, there are multiple areas in the second section where you can recharge your oxygen, so you're not stuck constantly going back and forth from your shuttle. You'll also get oxygen candles that can entirely refill your supply, giving you the ability to stay somewhere that doesn't have a handy recharge station while you look for whatever resources / mission objectives you need.

Your inventory is your constant enemy. The game is great in that, while it is _better_ to put things into containers, you can totally just dump all your crap onto the floor and it'll stay there. The biggest problem is that both food and water inexplicably take up 2 slots each in your inventory, and the game gives you _tons_ of the stuff. You'll routinely find yourself dumping bottles of water and/or packets of food to grab two more shards of titanium.

Speaking of, it's worth noting that although you've got both food and water bars, the only time you might (_might_) end up starving or dehydrating is the very, very, very start of the game. There's just too much ice and water goblets (which are used to make food and water), and just straight up food packets and water bottles lying around for it to ever become an issue. It's not unrealistic - you're exploring the wreck of a luxury liner, of course there's going to be plenty of food and water around - but it does almost entirely eliminate that survival aspect of the game.

After you've played the survival simulation for a goodly amount of time... it ends. You enter a working ship and blast off into the walking simulator portion of the game. It's sort of funny, because the game is still technically a survival game, so the game dutifully makes sure that there's plenty of food and water scattered throughout the maps you're walking through. They also don't assume that you've kept any of your tools, so there's _so many resources_ scattered everywhere. If you're a packrat like me, you'll probably end up with multiple suitcases full of crap in your spaceship - way, way more than you'll ever need.

Finally, there's a boss battle (technically, there are several, but only one of them is actually difficult). Luckily, the game gives you about half a dozen medkits before the fight. As long as you're not like me and prioritize the medkits over the refined metal (sweet, sweet refined metal), you'll be good.

The game tries to be "funny"... I'd say that it misses the mark more often than it hits it. It also tends towards the juvenile. Still, your companion AI does manage to keep up a good stream of quips and remarks that, at very least, manage to drown out the oppressive silence of deep space.

Final tally: First part was good. Second part was great. Third part was underwhelming. Forth part was annoying until I went back, dropped all the crap I was carrying and traded it out for medkits. Worth a purchase.

[Robsoie]

It seems in line with all the reviews i read :
- seems like Subnautica in space but it's more shallow
- good game with some potential during the first half
- lose all the good and become uninteresting in the 2nd half
- unfunny jokes galore

For the poker game, i wonder where it fits :
- people that like poker but don't want to use real money have already truckload of computer poker games (that are certainly much less taxing on ressource) to play
- people that like poker and want to use real money already use one of those online poker platforms where all the people like them are and don't need anything else.

Still no poker game with the ability to tell your opponent "you're a damn cheater" and shoot them with your colt in the saloon.

[Iduno]

Today's games are Breathedge and Poker Club.

My Steam review for BreathEdge:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Subnautica... IN SPACE! WITH CORPSES! (so many corpses!)

The game is roughly broken into three or four parts. First, you start off in your shuttle, with no equipment or resources - it's basically Subnautica, if you could only restore your oxygen in your escape pod. Eventually, you'll make your way to the second chapter, where you'll upgrade your equipment to drastically increase your oxygen capacity, ability to and duration of your thruster burn, and eventually get vehicles that allow you to move at 5x and 10x your initial movement speed; drastically increasing your range. It's actually rather fun going back to the initial area - things that required multiple oxygen waypoints and additional supplies are easily accomplished in just a single air tank.

Thankfully, there are multiple areas in the second section where you can recharge your oxygen, so you're not stuck constantly going back and forth from your shuttle. You'll also get oxygen candles that can entirely refill your supply, giving you the ability to stay somewhere that doesn't have a handy recharge station while you look for whatever resources / mission objectives you need.

Your inventory is your constant enemy. The game is great in that, while it is _better_ to put things into containers, you can totally just dump all your crap onto the floor and it'll stay there. The biggest problem is that both food and water inexplicably take up 2 slots each in your inventory, and the game gives you _tons_ of the stuff. You'll routinely find yourself dumping bottles of water and/or packets of food to grab two more shards of titanium.

Speaking of, it's worth noting that although you've got both food and water bars, the only time you might (_might_) end up starving or dehydrating is the very, very, very start of the game. There's just too much ice and water goblets (which are used to make food and water), and just straight up food packets and water bottles lying around for it to ever become an issue. It's not unrealistic - you're exploring the wreck of a luxury liner, of course there's going to be plenty of food and water around - but it does almost entirely eliminate that survival aspect of the game.

After you've played the survival simulation for a goodly amount of time... it ends. You enter a working ship and blast off into the walking simulator portion of the game. It's sort of funny, because the game is still technically a survival game, so the game dutifully makes sure that there's plenty of food and water scattered throughout the maps you're walking through. They also don't assume that you've kept any of your tools, so there's _so many resources_ scattered everywhere. If you're a packrat like me, you'll probably end up with multiple suitcases full of crap in your spaceship - way, way more than you'll ever need.

Finally, there's a boss battle (technically, there are several, but only one of them is actually difficult). Luckily, the game gives you about half a dozen medkits before the fight. As long as you're not like me and prioritize the medkits over the refined metal (sweet, sweet refined metal), you'll be good.

The game tries to be "funny"... I'd say that it misses the mark more often than it hits it. It also tends towards the juvenile. Still, your companion AI does manage to keep up a good stream of quips and remarks that, at very least, manage to drown out the oppressive silence of deep space.

Final tally: First part was good. Second part was great. Third part was underwhelming. Forth part was annoying until I went back, dropped all the crap I was carrying and traded it out for medkits. Worth a purchase.

Ah, good. I was hoping to have someone confirm the poor quality jokes. I didn't want to say it looked unfunny without trying it first.

[Iduno]

There was a Thursday this week? I got busy with life.

This week, we have 3 games, which is a sure sign the quality is high.

First is Against All Odds. It's a multiplayer platformer where you need to get through a more-deadly version of Takashi's Castle (old Japanese gameshow, it was great). There are in-game purchases for some reason, but otherwise it looks pretty entertaining.

Edit: I think I'm badly missing something about the controls. I can't do wall-climbing/jumping at all most times, which is a bad sign for me doing well in this game.


Horizon Chase Turbo. It's a racing game that is based on 1900's racing games like Out Run.


Kao the Kangaroo. It's a 3d platformer that looks like it has some camera issues (which isn't unusual for 3d platformers).

[Iduno]

This week we have a single thing: Sims 4 Daring Lifestyle bundle. It may or may not come with the base game? I does require an EA Origin account, in addition to the Epic account, so there's no way I'll find out.

Additionally, they're doing the mystery game thing again next week.

[Robsoie]

There's this short "slot machine" video on twitter supposed to give some clue to next week "mystery" game :
https://twitter.com/EpicGames/status/1656676173198524425

Lots of people are saying it's going to be Death Stranding again (that was already given away a few months ago) due to several of the symbols appearing during the slot machine rolling are linked to some Death Stranding features apparently, but no idea what the symbols that actually stopped on the slots are refering to.

[Folly]

Sims 4 Daring Lifestyle bundle. It may or may not come with the base game?

The Sims 4 base game went free last October.

[E. Albright]

Sims 4 Daring Lifestyle bundle. It may or may not come with the base game?

The Sims 4 base game went free last October.

That said, I think they may have included it in the bundle. I had previously it added to my Epic account, and had no other Sims content on said account, but when getting the bundle, Epic said that it contained something I already owned.

[Iduno]

There's this short "slot machine" video on twitter supposed to give some clue to next week "mystery" game :
https://twitter.com/EpicGames/status/1656676173198524425

Lots of people are saying it's going to be Death Stranding again (that was already given away a few months ago) due to several of the symbols appearing during the slot machine rolling are linked to some Death Stranding features apparently, but no idea what the symbols that actually stopped on the slots are refering to.

It was! Also, another game for next week that's "mystery."

[Robsoie]

So far there's no clue for the next mystery game.

From what i read, there's a "leaker" that mentionned that epic was supposed to give away 2 mystery games by week (for a total of , but then changed to only 1 for a total of 4 (probably their budget not being as good as they originally thought) and that along Death Stranding the 2nd game should have been "Super Meat Boy Forever" 

[Robsoie]

For tomorrow "mystery game" some of the slots machines clues ( link to picture ) are apparently hinting toward a Fallout game tomorrow.

There's only Fallout 3 and Fallout 1/2/Tactics on the epic store, so unless they have a very recent surprise signing with a publisher for a newer Fallout (as some pepple points that a few icons refer to some Fallout New Vegas pictures) , there's then lot of chance it may be again either Fallout 3 or Fallout 1/2/Tactics that both were already given away a few months ago.

[Iduno]

Yes, it is Fallout New Vegas, with all of the DLC.

It's a slight improvement over Fallout 3, but most of the DLC aren't ones you'd want to replay ever. Big Mountain (the brains, which you get to through the drive-in theater) is the only one I wanted to go through again.

[hector13]

What do you mean slight improvement over 3? New Vegas is excellent.

[Robsoie]

If New Vegas is an improvement over Fallout 3 it must be awesome, as i completed Fallout 3 and all the DLC back when epic gave it away and truly enjoyed it.

Probably because F3 surprised me so much after reading all the "Fallout 3 is empty" negative reviews, and noticing during playing that it was not true at all with events happening everywhere and often during my travels without mentionning so many -varied- diverse and actually interesting (nearly on Oblivion level of interesting quests) missions to do.

A pity New Vegas does not work yet with Legendary/Rare/HeroicLauncher due to some file name and character not window OS friendly (but it will be fixed soon so no worry ) and no way i'm going to install the epic launcher, but very eager to get started on this New Vegas, already collected all the essential (script extender+performance/bug fixing plugins along with unofficial patch)

edit : damn, apparently epic did again the same crap as they did with fallout 3 and took the microsoft store version (and so will force you to download all the languages version of the game that you don't need), also meaning it is not compatible with the script extender (required by nearly all mods) because the executable is different from regular New Vegas.... 
At least with fallout 3 that could be worked around by applying the community Fallout 3 Anniversary patcher, but sadly there's no such thing for New Vegas.
Damn.

[Persus13]

For me Fallout 3 didn't feel empty so much as disconnected. There's a lot of really cool and wacky encounters, creatures, and setpieces, but they're not all that connected to each other. I liked my time in Fallout 3, but it never really connected with me the same as New Vegas, which felt a bit more connected (Not that there's not weird and wacky one off things in New Vegas). It helps that civilization is a bit farther along rebuilding though, so there's a bit more to the geography because you have NCR territory and stuff like that.

I've heard a theory that whether you prefer 3 or NV is based on which one you played first, so curious what your opinion of it will be.

I do seem to be the odd one out when it comes to New Vegas DLC, because the Utah one and Dead Money were my favorites, and Dead Money is the least favorite one for most people from what I can tell.