8 - outdo

Happy Birthday brother in heaven

What I will write below is very much not set in stone. I often veer away from it depending on the game, developer, or just if I’m antsy to buy a game.

My pricing structure is something like this:

Point and Click Adventures with voice acting and regular graphics (not pixels) - $15.00 or less is what I try to go for.
Point and Click Adventures with Pixel graphics and no voices (where there is a lot of conversation) - $10.00 and under depending on the game.
Games that are probably going to make me sea sick - $10.00 and under – maybe closer to $5.00 these days but depends on the game.

Length only depends if every review I look at says the game is only an hour long and the cost is more than $3.00 let’s say. I take longer than most people to play games. My gaming time is usually about double what flotsam’s is.
A good length game used to be around 15+ hours I guess, but these days I’ll settle for as low as 8-10.

I don’t worry about “replayability” as I believe all games can be replayed. I don’t care about making different choices or reaching different endings. I prefer not to do either of those things actually. However, no matter how much I like a game, I usually don’t want to replay it for close to 10 years anyway it seems.

To answer Grefuss’s question, I want to say that I once paid around $60.00 for a used game, possibly Grim Fandango, but I honestly can’t be sure of this memory at all. I do know that I used to pay a lot more for games in the past than I care to pay now.

I'll agree with Mikael regarding "open-ended" games. I prefer to have an ending of some sort and if there is no ending and I'm aware of that, I will usually wait. I may end up getting the game anyway after a while but do it with that knowledge in my mind.

There was also a time when I bought a rack that holds 28 single CD cases and 2 double CD cases and I thought that I would NEVER have enough games to fill it. HA! What a joke that turned out to be!

Now you done did it! I don't have that game! I will be waiting to hear how you like it!

I will be starting Episode 5 of Artifact Seekers later. Episode 4 was hard, hard, hard!

I have been playing Tower of God and it's not bad but when you get up around level 30 there is this fog? or something that makes it very hard to see. It looks more like light than fog. I've been playing in timed expert mode. It was going well up until around this same time. I had repeated a couple of levels when I ran out of time but level 31 or 32 had to be repeated at least 10 times before I got it.

Oh that smile makes me want to do a swamp dance

Way to close

Thanks, Koala!

Thanks Marian!

Thanks, Ana. I've played most of the Animation Arts games and enjoyed all of them...the latest one was Monolith. It will be fun to replay Tunguska again.

Way to slay Lady Kestrel!

Thank you, BET 🙂

I am wondering if anyone else watched the live playthrough of the Demo with the development team on the Conversations with Curtis YouTube channel and if you did, what did you think about it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ge8O7lgiWY&t=11s

Nicely finished off, manxie!

Yes. I thought it was well paced !! 😱