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Game Dev Tycoon
#196

#Still can’t do a hashtag.
Dis… COURSE!!!

Stage 3-0 : Introduction
I was just reading around the gamerz magazine and then i stumbled upon this game.
Ulntimax III: Stilldunno. It’s a fantasy rpg game made by Company Name and published by CGM Interactive. This game is… well…

Stage 3-1 : Competence
And so the review begins.
This game is a Rage of Empires-esque type thing where you move around your character using a mouse. You get to fight CPUs and other players if you are interested in spending 1983 Cr. on a stable local area network connection. You get to level up your character and customize him/her. I’ll get back to that in a minute. Also, the fighting sequences is quite… bleh. Yup. I just said that in a PG-12 review magazine. No seriously the fighting system in this game is very bland. It’s not like it’s similar to Finale Fantasy or any other rpgs in that matter. You get to choose your move, then after you just clicked that M button you just go. Also the quote-on-quote “skills” is very balanced. You can’t customize it so your character has more attack or anything.
That gives this game the score of 6 in Competence.

Stage 3-2 : Autonomy
While the competence in this game is… bleh… The atmosphere is very good. The game makes you feel you have control over everything. Every now and then you get choices that you have to pick and it makes a different ending. The changes aren’t nothing much but let it be. This game was released in Y3! Gimmicks like this were pretty much nonexistent back then. This game truly does make a revolution in choose-your-own-adventure type games like Heavy Rainfall or Celcius.
This game gets a score of 9 in Autonomy

Stage 3-3 : Relatedness
I don’t know what Company Name put in this game but i love it! The mood sets in very well for a Decade 1 game. It truly feels as if you are the character you are playing right now. Also i mentioned character customization earlier and now let’s get deep. You can fight for items and armour. You can obtain those in dungeons or the betting house. You can wear all kinds of armour. There’s Zeldron’s, Nightingale Hoods, Quarian, Turian, Magic Armour, Red Suit, all kinds of things! It has very well relatedness to both the player and the character. Not the best, per se, but its quite good.
It gets an 8 score in Relatedness

Stage 3-4 : Summary
This game gets an average of 8. Go buy this game for your G64’s. It’s only 2.99 in eBeach.
And as always, thanks for reading.

Wayfarers, the company name is Wayfarers!

Sorry @Chris_Ibarra, but i made your game and GDT and… it didn’t go very well.

#197

((sorry for bumping, but i really like this thread and really want to revive it!))

#198

Me too. It seems really cool, and if it dies im totally starting my own.

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#199

then do it :stuck_out_tongue:

#200

Too bad the people who frequently post here like @Akamadoushi is GDTRP-ing.

#201

Don’t do it. It’s just copying a thing there is already. If bumping this does not help making a new one will certainly not help.

#202

I’m still interested in this, I’m just too lazy to steal mom’s laptop and fire up GDT. Hers is the only computer in the house that can run it and I’m just meh about borrowing it again.

#203

Venture Tales

Venture Tales is a Business strategy and simulation game for The Box™ and PC

The gameplay is very much what you expect from any business sim mixed in with some strategic elements to attempt a more realistic take on business management, I say attempt because it appears to be half done and this is just the beggining of the game’s mediocrity.

Some of the game’s details are quite inconsistant e.g. a few scenarios have their objectives incorrect in their descriptions such as one stating to reach a net profit of 50 mil in 3 years whereas in-game the objective says 100 mil in 3 years instead. The game sometimes gets your competitors names mixed up which can cause some confusion. Lastly, the saving and loading times are awfully long and numerous, it’s irritating.

Overall this game seriously feels unfinished, Wayfarers really should have put more time and effort into this, it could have been a great business game but they failed to do so.

Dissapointing 4.75/10

And now for video game satire

Fact: The name of this game comes from one of Japan’s nicknames for the Xbox One “Batsuichi” which means “once divorced”

#204

Once Divorced

Once Divorced is a Game Development and Casual game for the mBox One.

You play as a newly employed game developer who was just divorced by his wife, over his job selection.

To be able to play as a recent divorcee is a unique take, there are some awkward moment where your ex-wife would call you weekly and harass you for your job. To me, that’s just as annoying as Na’bi from Legend of Velda: Flute of Time,

There are also some bugs in the game itself that somehow got overlooked by the developers, it’s not game breaking but it can cause some serious graphic disarray that could distort your vision. Also, the gameplay and controls itself is abit too complicated for the Casual market as it was marketed for.

Despite the flaws, I’ll say it’s a pretty good game. It’s not perfect but good.

6.25/10

Note: I couldn’t post pic so here’s the link, http://i.imgur.com/O00Z6oI.png

#205

Grand Thief Auto

What can I say about this game. I feel like I’ve heard of a game like this before. Electronic Arts newest game Grand Thief Auto includes going around and killing people and of course stealing cars from innocent civilians. I just feel like I’ve already played this game somewhere else and that’s where it looses me. I don’t have anything else to say other than 6/10. Would recommend if you want to waste about 30 minutes.

#206

I’ll give these melons a squeeze

Melons is a pretty unusual PC game as it is a collection of physics-based challenges (250 in total) that involve squashing melons by either throwing rocks at them, making something fall on them or make them roll off a block. It very much tests your logic-thinking skills and is surprisingly addictive. Also, the physics in this game work fairly well and I wonder why other games won’t use physics like these.

Recommended for puzzle addicts 8/10

And now, a grPad game made in response to the Candy Jam


#207

Magic Candy Lala Land

This game is a great time waster! Whenever I’m bored I pull out my Ipad and play! The textures are wonderful, and it all sets a happy mood. While it is just a small, simple game, it has had much deeper thought into how to structure it.

Recommended to anyone who often needs to waste some time. 8/10

#208

Space Junk

Meteor! Meteor! It’s time for Doublecast, Ivalice’s favorite video game review radio show! Here’s your host, the ever-versatile Akamadoushi!

Today we have a very special flashback episode of Doublecast, in which I’ll be reviewing the classic Meteors. This wasn’t the most popular game when it was originally released on PC. In fact, it sold only 7,800 copies. It was later re-released as an arcade cabinet, where it did see more commercial success. Even people who haven’t played or even seen one of the cabinets in person is familiar with this game, though. It’s one of those early titles that really set the tone for the entire industry, and has become and integral and immediately recognizable part of pop culture.

As it would be unfair to compare Meteors to contemporary titles, I’ll give this review with the hardware limitations in mind.

Meteors wasn’t the first game to display vector graphics, but it certainly did a lot to popularize them in an industry where it seemed raster was the way to go. The minimalist, even for its era, display gives just enough detail to get the point across and not an ounce more. No distracting visual effects or bright colors. Just your ship, the meteors, and the occasional hostile alien. These simple graphics make Meteors stand out against its contemporaries, and later titles to come. It’s this unique visual style that helped cement Meteors as a classic.

The gameplay is very simple and intuitive. Meteors is easy to learn, for just about anyone. The only commands are move and fire. Each level gets harder than the last, with more meteors and more frequent aliens. The objective is to destroy all of the meteors on each stage. Killing aliens isn’t mandatory, but awards bonus points. There is no story to speak of, it’s all about blowing up space rocks.

Meteors is fun for short stints. However, gameplay gets repetitive fairly early. Each level is the same thing, but harder. And sure, the same can be said of other games from this era, but at least Space Conquerers had you protecting the Earth. All the most popular games of this era have something that set them apart, and in the case of Meteors, that something is graphics.

Pros:

  • Vector graphics
  • Unique, recognizable style
  • Memorable sound effects
  • Simple, intuitive gameplay

Cons:

  • Gets repetitive
  • No plot, just rocks

Final Verdict:

6.25 out of 10!

Next up, a new title by Horse-Drawn Games; a tactical RPG called Plague Symphony.

#209

http://forum.greenheartgames.com/uploads/default/2240/55890f8a83634f05.png

Plague Symphony is a Masterpeice!

Plagues Plagues Everywhere!
It Seems That ** Horse-Drawn Games** Knows What There Doing When it Comes To
Medieval RPG-Strategys! In This Game You Try To Prevent Plagues From Overtaking a Village, You Do This
By Simply Grabing Items And Giving Them To The Alchemist. On The Way You Have To Fight Bandits,Thieves,
And Soldiers From Enemy Towns!

Pros

  • Stunning Graphics!
  • Amazing Combat!
  • Hours Of Gameplay!
  • Good Logical Mini-games!

Cons

  • Silent Protaganist
  • Boring Travel

OverAll I Give This Game a 9/10
COMING UP IS A RECENT TITLE REALEASED BY THE DOCTER STUDIOS.

#210

Big In Japan attempts to emulate the popular “kaiji” (Great Beast) genre of movies such as Godzilla, MechaGodzilla and MechaGodzilla Hearthcatch. Unfortunatelty it does so with the grace of a man in a rubber suit waddling around a cardboard city.

Controls are unresponsive and gameplay is quickly frustrated because you can’t walk more than a few steps in any direction without nudging a car and causing it to explode off your foot. The best way to progress in this game seems to be to throw trees at the city until “Sugoi-Tron” (Ugh) shows up for the boss battle.

Also several lines of dialogue for the game are rendered in Anglicised Japanese and presumably reference some obscure scene in some movie but I can’t say for sure because there’s no translation.

I’ll be using my copy to hold up the corner of my desk.

3.5 - Maybe worth picking up if your a monster nerd but otherwise avoid like the plague.

Next up: Fabulous Maximum for TES

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#211

When I was handed this title to review, I was admittedly dubious. The box art depicts a trio of models One dressed as a goth chick, a roman chick and a… clown with a hat taller than she was.

To those who only take one glance at this, it would seem like a very pedestrian aimed at little girls fashion game. However…take a 2nd glance under the hood and you begin to see the genius of this game.

You start out as a budding fashion designer with one store to your name. Your goal is dominance of the worldwide fashion market. You browse and buy fabric types, spend time developing new outfits with said fabric, scout and hire models to wear your new outfits at shows and also stock and maintain your store so you have enough product to sell and make money with.

Here is the kicker: Underneath this frou frou little girl’s game beats the heart of a roguelike. Yes, a Roguelike. Every play through the prices and qualities of the various fabrics are randomized. You may have dominated the markets with your demaske and purple lace Victorian classical dresses in one game only to have them labeled as ‘A small step up from a dirty dish towel’ in the next.

You have 6 AI competitors in each game. and they must play by the same rules you do. In every playthrough, 5 of them will pretty much stick to the same type of clothing no matter what, and thus tend to do only modest business unless a trend shifts in their favor. The 6th opponent is portrayed as your ‘rival’ and plays dangerously genre savy. They seem to be perfectly aware of the values given to each trend and fabric each playthrough and adopt their play to account for that.

If you are just a little kid, the beauty of the details may be lost to you, but that doesn’t mean you’ll fail at every game. If you just want to do your own thing and make pretty dresses, you’ll still survive. You’ll be about as competitive as one of the static AI opponents. This teaches you that if you just do what you like, you’ll do OK, but you really have to step it up if you want to be #1.

All in all, I had a blast with this title and recommend it highly. This is the rare fashion game that is NOT just some tacky cash grab. 9.75: Outstanding!

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#212

Time Chasers

Time Chasers tells the story of a group of renegade historians, moving through time trying to record the events that have been lost to known history. You see dinosaurs roaming the Earth, Romans attacking Carthage, Knights ransacking the town of Puddlemere and more.

Released for the Gameling, the graphics and level of detail of things game are astonishing. Even with the limitation of the grayscale screen, the developers have managed to create a real and detailed world for every time period. The soundtrack doesn’t quite match the graphical achievement, but that can mostly be attributed to the lacking hardware of the platform. The gameplay is great, the logic puzzles are fun to play and the action scenes with for example the Knights of the Star table are very well done. The story however, could be better.

You play as John. John is a history student at the Buckor Academy of Science. Your Indian history professor, Rashid, has ties to a relatively unknown high society club known as the Time Chasers. During one of your classes, Rashid has to leave quickly due to reasons he isn’t willing to say. John needs one of the books that he lent the professor back though, and John follows him.

The first part of the story follows John while he tries to keep up with Rashid, this continues until he descends down a staircase John has never seen in the building before. Now at the basement of the Academy, John finds the equipment of the elusive Time Chasers.

This is where the main story starts. Unfortunately, this is also where the story starts to fail. Time travel is a notorious difficult thing to write about. Paradoxes in the storytelling spring up everywhere, the writers seemingly unable to tie it all together without creating something that mostly resembles a disastrous spaghetti dish of plot threads.

Pros:
• Excellent graphics
• Great gameplay

Cons
• Game plot and background story are a mess.

Score: 7.5 out of 10

My own game:
MMORE
Mining/RPG/MMORPG

Virtual reality mining for young players, on my custom console: the Rad Box 2

(New member… damn rules.)
Game image

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#213

MMORE

MMORE is a game about a single man, alone in the world, who has taken to mining and building objects and structures. As flimsy of a premise as this is, it makes for quite a fun game.

The game randomly generates structures and worlds, which can amount to endless exploration in the single-player mode, but the multiplayer is even better. The player-interaction works perfectly, with the best voice and text chat I’ve ever seen on a console release, and there are many features specifically tailored to multiplayer:the enemies become stronger and more numerous, and each player can follow their own path in the storyline.

While the single-player game is mostly about exploration, the multiplayer is dedicated to finding notes, books, diaries, and other clues as to the origin of the world and how you arrived there. There are multiple paths you can take to solve the mystery, and each player can choose which path to follow, though you are locked into a certain pathway if you make certain choices on that path. You can destroy a crystal orb to escape, fashion a new orb to create your own world, or even join up with a villain and rule over the world.

The controls worked perfectly, the items you could make with the crafting system were numerous and diverse, the writing was top-notch, the voice acting was professional, the graphics and sound were excellent, and the random world generation was extremely impressive, with a vast number of possible structures and areas that all fit in with each other.

OVERALL:10/10

The next game:

Ronald is a prison-simulation that focuses on the escape attempts of the main character, Ronald. After being caught and imprisoned in a foreign country, he learns that the prison isn’t as easy on criminals as the USA’s prisons.

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#214

Ronald - Prison Escape with a bit of Sumo Cops

At first I thought Ronald would just be another point of view on prison simulation, but it turns out to be a game with randomly-generating Japanese prisons, trying to escape not only the cops, but the very many men who want to murder you. The game contains guns, gore, blood, vulgar scenes (not to mention what happens when the nasty people get a hold of ya). Really, you can get a sense why this game was rated M. However, you can’t really escape unless you somehow get the floor plans to the prison, as well as the ventilation map, and pinpoint a path to freedom. Just watch out. The cops have guns, tasers, and sumo bellies.

Enjoyment Rating: 7.75/10
Content Rating: Red

The game to be rated next:

Magiz is a game about a man in medieval times using magic to try and destroy a corrupted force, controlled by a single, red-eyed man, to save the world. The game features a spell system whereas you create the spells yourself, gathering different pages that contain the words to different spell components that you can put in your spellbook.

#215

#Magiz Review

Another review from IGM! Well, start-up SnappGamez has released a great debut called Magiz!

##Specs

Well, running on the old Widows 80 you might say it has a bit of a limitation, but Magiz smashes through that boundary! To do this, they had to actually contact Realbigsoft and ask for their own custom hard/soft/firmware to make Magiz possible. It paid off greatly. Even with some out-dated sounds and fuzzy, glitched graphics, it was an over-the-top game with over-the-top visuals.

##Overall

Magiz is a great game with a lot of features. SnappGamez’s future looks promising! I hope they make a sequel.

#8.25/10