The Mind Of OverlordTomala
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Valve is going back to making games

GAMERS REJOICE!!!! Valve is coming out of software hibernation to make… games!

Speaking at the press presentation for Valve’s latest, Artifact, Newell said: “Artifact is the first of several games that are going to be coming from us, so that’s sort of good news. Hurray! Valve is going to start shipping games again.”

As someone who owns just about everything made by Valve I’m not sure if I’ll be interested in this particular title (unless it’s for SFM resources), but I do look forward to seeing them get back to their roots. Any speculations on what their other projects might be? I’m kind of nervous about Half Life 2: Episode 3/Half Life 3 being made, it’s reached Duke Nukem Forever status.

Gaming

From Phantom Pain to Phantomile

I’ve been playing Klonoa for the past couple days; Made it to the moon kingdom, I can tell that level is going to take a lot of patience to get through the damn vision. I’ve attempted it a couple times today and kept dying endlessly. Best to take a break and head onto another game. I even tried playing the Wii version and my hands seem to be fatigued. Here’s a comparison of the two versions:

I’m not sure which version I like better to be honest. I like the style of the PS1 version, but at the same time I like the updated graphics on the Wii version… Then again I also like the hybrid 3D with sprites for the Playstation version. Plus the pre-rendered cutscenes… something about them seems more magical. Then again pre-rendered cutscenes from that era were fun to watch, look at the original Tomb Raiders. 😛

And oh god… If you ever play this game do NOT use the english version. Switch it to Phantomese or Japanese, you’ll be doing your ears and mind a favor.

Gaming5

From the creators of Myst and Riven yada yada yada

It seems Cyan is wanting to start another project:

The video doesn’t seem to show much other than it’s a puzzle type game (Cyan’s specialty) with some nice looking graphics and a creepy voice. Of course unlike their last games Cyan wants to make this a VR exclusive title because so many people play VR… That’s the reason, right? Obviously there are waaaaaaaay more VR gamers than those zombies that stare at their multimonitor setups with drool rolling down their faces.

The team has developed what Miller called a working “experience,” similar to a demo, that will be shown later this month at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in an attempt to garner interest and financial backing. It features the Mead-based company’s signature puzzle-solving gameplay, he said, in a world built from the ground up to be experienced through a virtual reality headset.

Well, that leaves me out. There aren’t enough games out to justify me getting into VR, plus I’m still pretty miffed about Obduction’s poor optimization for AMD GPU’s as well as overall optimization (broken LOD’s). Plus if I take into consideration how the last Kickstarter took place, and some of the more dramatic moments I’d rather not mention during their update posts, I really am reminded that I should play other games instead. Heck, I’ve been playing Quite a bit of The Phantom Pain lately, and that’s an NVidia Gumworks title.

That said I wish them no ill will. I would like for them to succeed and return to their former glory, but it seems unnecessary to leave people out if they can’t afford VR. Plus I would think they would make money if they developed a non VR version of their game. As it is Cyan’s core fanbase consists of about 7 people who still have use to run a Pentium III setup. :v:

All in an Overlord's day / Food/Drink

I’m not dead!

There’s a knife in mah buns.

Made it to my destination, first thing we did was grab some big ass burgers which are great for absorbing the amount of alcohol we planned to partake in tonight.

Darth Stoner

It was pretty cold this time around, in fact there was some snow on the drive up here. It rained for most of our wine walk, ended up back at our hotel. We’re staying at a casino, and I passed the one armed bandit machines, apparently they were made by Konami. I had a dream the other night about wanting to murder a horde of pachinko machines but was held back by a friend. Tonight I had the urge again, but remembered this was the real world after all… and things like that don’t make me break out in a metal rash.

Gaming

Late Night Open Thread

I managed to finish Wolfenstein 2 today, add that as two Wolfenstein games conquered for 2018… To celebrate I had a small livestream of me failing at MGSV:TPP. I recorded a bit of it, and if I can find anything worth saving I’ll have a video. :melon:

On another note I will be headed out on the road tomorrow, so I probably won’t have time to post anything. I’ll save it all for Saturday when I return, assuming I don’t have a hangover. :trollface:

Vacation

Vacation Time Bitches!

I’m taking some time off to relax. Will be heading out of town in a couple days to meet with some other people for a wine walk. Will bring my laptop and tablet, though if this goes anything like last year I’ll probably be too buzzed to coherently sit up at my computer and blog. I will try to take pictures, perhaps more Stoned Troopers. :trollface: And who knows? Perhaps I’ll have time to produce some video related content! Or maybe even stream! :O if I could figure out wtf to play…