You’re a courier whose last job went bad, and you’re executed by a guy in an ugly suit. Luckily for you, a robot was in the area and he saved you.
He brings you to the town doc who brings you back easily even though you were shot in the head. He got all those nasty bits out, no problem.
The doc runs you through a few diagnostic tests which are your character appearance and stats and skills. I went heavy on Strength, as I do, also tossing in skills with both guns and melee.
I did all of the tutorial bits, because I’m a lousy shot. From there a side quest to gather flowers to make a medicine. Bah, I need to look up the lock picking mechanic, because I wasn’t able to open a safe, I just snapped a couple of lock picks.
Why’d it have to be bugs? Your initial enemies are giant gnats and some Bloat Flies.
I think I should have tried to run away from the scorpion that was next, as he damaged my health quite a bit, and seemed to poison me. The screen kept flashing out of focus.
Onward to what I’m guessing is the main quest, with some bad guys threatening the waitress at the Saloon. Enjoying the game. Need a far better weapon than a straight razor. Or my puny gun.
I’ve had the game for awhile and this is my first time playing it. As a science fiction story, we’ve got Colonization of other planets, a Mad Scientist, and a what looks like a Dystopian society, though everyone is forcibly cheerful. Except the Marauders.
You’re rescued from an abandoned Colony Ship by a Mad Scientist, Phineas Vernon Welles.
70 years is too long to have been in suspended animation in this particular story. He rescues you and gives you a special cocktail of his own making to help you stay alive. Will you help him get the materials he needs to go back and rescue the other travelers?
If that is at all possible in the game, that will be what I live and die for. All those people…just left to sleep in space. (sniff).
There’s a contact on the planet Halcyon who will help you.
Oops, smooshed.
Hmm I wonder if I was supposed to loot his body. Tsk.
Halcyon is a pretty place.
In a cave, you meet an injured young man who perkily promotes the platitudes of the company he works for between gasps of pain.
When I offer to go get help, he gives me his pistol and his saber. I took points in both ranged and melee fighting just in case. I tried the gun on the marauders down the path, but it seemed like you had to shoot them too many times to get them down. While you were doing that, his friend popped you. It also seemed that the sound of gunfire brought fire from somewhere above.
Reloading the game, I wielded the saber instead. Using sprint to run up on the two guys, I whacked them with ease. A bit grisly that their limbs went flying about the area, but, they’re not going to come crawling after me, are they? That saber must be sharp.
Speaking of having to reload, the next two NPCs I saw, I ran up on and hacked up as is my way. It turned turned out they were “friendly”. Reload! Brought em back to life, no angry factions after me now, la la la.
Apparently the Lieutenant wants to get a hold of Hawthorne’s ship (my flattened rescuer), but there are four Marauders patrolling in front of the ship, and she’d rather have a nap than deal with them. Zzzzzz.
My first plan of attack was to run up on them and whack whack. One even walked a bit away from the others. Somehow I failed to de-limb her, and she ran back towards the others, and Game Over. I haven’t seen that phrase pop up in ages.
It may take me a few tries and strategies to get these down. Maybe a combination of pistol and saber. They have some awareness of your approach, I don’t know quite what triggers that. No actual stealth skill so far.
I love the ship design and the shape of the buildings that you can see. Definitely in my rotation for August and beyond.
I love my Steam Library. I mostly just shop during the Steam Sales, but if a franchise item becomes available, I’ll snap it up. Below is the wonderful display Steam makes of a library. Look at those covers! They all hold such promise. I tend to look for Mystery/Detective games because that’s what I read. I’m also a long time science fiction and fantasy reader, with occasional horror in the mix.
There are some franchises I love, and I try to grab all of those. Here we go.
As you see I’m also a Batman fan, though from my comics reading days, Superman was my favorite. I got about halfway through Bendy and the Ink Machine before problems with saved games would have made me re-start the game. Nonetheless, I purchased Bendy and the Dark Revival, which I hope doesn’t have those problems. Bendy the first was really a great, dark, immersive cartoon world.
Big Bioshock fan. Need to get back to Call of the Sea for Blaugust.
Dear Esther, a dread “walking simulator” (the term makes me buggy), didn’t save where it was supposed to thus setting me back inside a terribly monotonous cave. There’s a reason to play MMOS. You never lose your save game spot. I finally purchased Disco Elysium because my son was sure I’d love it. Have not tried it yet.
Clearly a fan of the Elder Scrolls universe. Also Fallout. I re-started Fallout 3, which I liked more than 4. Did not care for Final Fantasy Online. I can’t understand the appeal.
Nice retro stuff in this set. All of those Half Life 2 adds were in a bundle, I wouldn’t have gotten them separately.
I finally cracked and got Heavy Rain for a low low price though I’m too scared to play it. Happens. L A Noir wasn’t playable for me, I can’t recall the problem. Too bad.
I love Mass Effect though I haven’t gotten through all of them. Pure Space Opera, as they used to call it. Why did I buy Metamorphosis about bugs??? Metro Exodus crashed my system and I had to hard reboot. A disappointment, as it sounded really good. Could not get around the error.
My son said not to get Shadow of Mordor, which I recalled seeing him play and it looked interesting. He said Shadow of War was a much better game. Got them both. I started watching the CW Nancy Drew series when it came out (it’s in it’s final season) and went from there to the original book series which were much better than I expected. Now I’m collecting the game series as they’re on sale.
I don’t know why I haven’t tried the Outer Worlds yet. Pure SF. Plants vs Zombies wasn’t any fun at all.
I’ve all these Sherlock Holmes games because…well, its Sherlock. I don’t think I like them though. Sometimes it pays to walk away and go back fresh.
I got Stray because it looked so cool and I wanted to re-unite the cat with his friends. Haven’t tried it yet. Oof I heard so much about Subnautica, and it looks in actual play to be highly claustrophobic. Team Fortress 2 snuck in with all those Half Life 2 games.
I got in trouble in the last Steam Sale trying to snap up all of the old Tomb Raider games for 99 cents each. A big throbbing notice appeared that I had made too many purchases in the last 24 hours and I was blocked from more. Meant to return to snare the rest but did not.
My son ( my game guru) said I should skip to the Witcher 3 because it was so much better. I just have to start at the beginning, though, so it’s The Witcher, which is a fun game but has excessively wonky controls.
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