By Adam Smith on October 8th, 2012 at 12:00 pm.
How many people reading this are waiting for Dishonored? How many for XCOM? Both? Maybe it’d be easier to ask how many people aren’t waiting for either. Let us not forget that other games have not ceased to exist and that one way to make the waiting period less agonising might well be to sample some of those games, especially if they can be sampled for free. Nathan had quite a bit to say about the demo for first-person puzzler Vitrum but we failed to point out that the full game has been released. Currently selling at a ‘pay what you want’ and support the Child’s Play charity price point (minimum $4.99), if you don’t have time for the demo the trailer might help you to decide if you want to pay anything at all.
When I played QUBE, about half way through I worried that maybe my brain isn’t tuned properly for these first-person puzzlers. The initial stages tend to be fine and I enjoy looking at a level and working out how everything fits together, but I usually find there’s a point at which I just don’t want to solve each room. Well, I want to solve it without actually doing the legwork. I think it’s the problem of understanding the puzzle, which is often satisfying, but then being obliged to move around in a 3D space when both the place and the sensation of movement are less than compelling.
08/10/2012 at 12:07 golem09 says:
Not waiting for Dishonered or XCOM.
Still waiting for Path of Exile, playing Torchlight 2 in the meantime.
08/10/2012 at 12:50 Ian says:
I know you’re a professional gameswordist and should know but I’m not convinced about this “games other than Dishonored and XCOM” exist stuff.
08/10/2012 at 13:14 chabuhi says:
Waiting for Farming-Simulator 2013, baby! Oh, and XCOM … Aaaaaaaaand Dishonored ….. andassassinscreediii
08/10/2012 at 21:02 Stellar Duck says:
Man, that pre order DLC tractor in Farming Simulator really has my mouse hovering over the buy button.
08/10/2012 at 13:15 emertonom says:
Is the end of this story missing? It seemed like the discussion of Qube was leading up to
08/10/2012 at 13:42 The First Door says:
I’m quite interested in this as I love first person puzzle games, but I was massive disappointed in Q.U.B.E. which makes me cautious. Anyone played through it and able to offer opinions on it?
08/10/2012 at 14:50 fman says:
I enjoyed it! Kept me playing for maybe 15 hours to find all the crystal shards spread across the stages.
It’s very challenging. Totally worth the price.
08/10/2012 at 14:49 fman says:
I enjoyed it! Kept me playing for maybe 15 hours to find all the crystal shards spread across the stages.
It’s very challenging. Totally worth the price.
08/10/2012 at 15:07 DickSocrates says:
I’m not waiting for either. I’m waiting for Hotline Miami.
08/10/2012 at 16:05 AlexClockwork says:
Hum… Seems like a nice game, but I’d like to pay through PayPal, as I don’t like giving my card details in too many places.
08/10/2012 at 19:06 aymar.fisherman says:
We’re selling at Desura too, they accept PayPal…
09/10/2012 at 21:33 Wok says:
It would be more convenient to provide Paypal or Google Wallet on your website.
08/10/2012 at 17:15 waaaaaaaals says:
Aesthetically, it looks like they decided on “Lets make Q.U.B.E but with crystals!”.
Doesn’t quite work for me with the same few copy-pasted crystal models everywhere.
08/10/2012 at 19:14 Glowing Potato says:
Pretty awesome!!
Amazing Musics and fluid GamePlay. Very challenging though…
08/10/2012 at 21:38 ZIGS says:
This reminds me of Twin Sector (which is a pretty good game and really underrated)
08/10/2012 at 22:01 ShrikeMalakim says:
Not a fan from the demo, myself. I also detest first-person games, particularly ones that require precision aiming or precision movement, that have no “invert mouse” option.