ampersandrew

Wow, I wasn't confident this game was still happening after so long, but the timing could hardly be better, since I started reading Rainbow Six.

This is a larger trend with how much these games cost and how much the console market has shrunk. I think they just realized that one line crossed the other line while the ABK purchase was in limbo.

Games have short marketing cycles these days, so it's not much of an indicator for when it's due to release. Perfect Dark wasn't there either, and I think both are allegedly slated for this year.

There are an enormous number of reasons why the video game industry could never work like Hollywood above and beyond unions.

3 is my favorite, and I get why people like 2, but it was my least favorite. (Of the original 3. I don't even count Andromeda.)

Personally, I don't even like piracy as a form of protest. It means you're spending time on their game when you could be spending time and money on a game that respects your values. Plus, if you like the game, you're still spreading positive word of mouth. I don't need to play Horizon when there's so much else out there.

The thing is, the trust is gone. I still might not buy their games again unless/until they resume releasing them on GOG.

Dead of Winter - The co-op variant of the game, without a traitor. Zombie apocalypse game.

Meeple Party - A co-op game about throwing a party and making sure personality types don't clash. Perhaps on the nose for your group, but I still recommend it.

Mental Blocks - Once again, play the variant without a traitor. This is a game about solving a 3D puzzle from different perspectives with limited abilities to communicate or touch certain blocks.

There's also a new GOG Dreamlist, where you can vote for your favorite games of yesteryear to get the same treatment. If I might nudge you to the search box and vote for some of the following, you'd have my thanks:

• 007: Agent Under Fire
• Burnout before Paradise
• Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
• SoulCalibur 1-5
• TimeSplitters 1-3

The oily skin look is just because there was a change in lighting techniques around this time. It wasn't built for a CRT. At the time I remember thinking that they were perhaps trying to mask their lack of visual fidelity with an art style that was getting closer to Pixar.

It just got into the core fight, upgrade, fight loop way faster, without any of the tedious mechanics that I didn't like from Monster Hunter, that I find boring. I played right around its launch on Epic, so who's to say if we even played the same game, with the way these games can change over time?

It's a shame, because I liked it more than Monster Hunter, but it's always online, so it's inevitable that eventually it stops making money, and the next step is that it disappears forever.