Emily is away - done! \0/

Well, I'm not even sure you can call this a game, but it's on steam, and free, and, well, that's probably the reason it appeared in my library... It's like magic, I swear :p

'Emily is away' it's an early 2000s chat simulator. Remember all those hours you've spent, as a teenager, on msn/icq/etc? Well, this is basically the same thing.

You're experiencing some kind of interactive story that develops based on the choices you make... ...Al while having a chatconversation with Emily, a friend from highschool.

At the start of the game you're almost done with highschool and talking about the colleges you'll go to; at the end of the game you're about to graduate.

During those 4 years you keep in touch with Emily, through the good old instant messaging program, but it's not as natural/easy as it sounds.

The game is relatively short, but because there are always a bunch of choices to make (And because it's free) you can replay it a few times before deleting, just to see if you can make it end differently.

1 playthrough took me about 30 minutes, including breaks, slacking, doing other stuff, etc. etc.

So, ye, definately give it a try :)

Time to pick this stuff up again.

Right, so, ye, seems like even this backlog blog managed to get into, well, my backlog....

I've moved places a few months ago, it took me a while to get done settling in, unpack, etc. etc. So, ye, of course that naturally meant my backlog is even bigger now (damned steam sales...)

Anyway, not that I even have the slightest illusion anyone cares, but if I don't keep it up, I'll never get myself to actually try most of my games...

So, of course, it made perfect sense to start playing Diablo 3, right?

It's not like I've got around 500 other games I actually have to finish instead of running rifts...

Squishy the Suicidal Pig - Cute, fun, and frustrating.

It sounds SO easy: Get yourself killed while platforming.
And it is easy; if you figure out how to do it....

Story
Squishy and his parents are living piggily happy on a farm. Suddenly, his parents get taken away to the slaughterhouse...

Squishy feels very sad and alone, and decides to commit suicide in order to  be reuinited with his parents in heaven.

However: Suicide is a sin, and therefore Squishy ends up in hell instead...

Luckily for him, the devil is bored and makes him a deal: If Squishy loses all his lifes and manages to find the Devil, too, he will be send to his parents in Heaven.

Okay, granted: This story does sound quite dark/grim, but the game itself is quite fun, bright, happy music: For some reason it keeps on reminding me of, for example, Mario 3 on the ancient Snes. The same platforming vibe is going on!

Gameplay/etc.
Because the games looks so overly happy, it looks deceivingly easy: It\s not as easy to get yourself killed as you may think, and in other levels the solution is so easy/obvious you simply don't see it at first, because you start thinking about the other places/stuff the developer placed in that area first.

So, ye: I suppose this might be seen as yet another frustrating. rage invoking, game. And for some reason I just seem to enjoy those games!

I am bread - Not so to-asy as it looks/sounds.

I am bread:

It sounds so easy; you're a slice of bread, and your only dream in the whole wide world is to become toast! You can do it! I mean, it only takes like what, 3? minutes or less to toast a slice of bread?

How on earth can they make a game about THAT?! Well....

...They can, if they remove the toaster.
...Nor tell you what the heating sources are.
...Nor how to turn them on
...And hide them out of sight/out of reach, so your toasy friend can flap along the walls, shelves, and whatever looking for something to toast him.

And, oh, if they place stuff everywhere that reduces edibility (5 seconds rule), and, oh, because you're a yummy piece of bread, your grip ain't exactly infinite, either!

So, here, that are the ingredients of "I am bread".


The game looks deceivingly easy, the controls are impossible, it is just infuriating whenever your piece of bread becomes unedible, again.

And, somehow, I just can't stop playing it; I keep trying to beat the story mode, epic fail after epic fail.

So I can finally follow my dream, and.... Become Toast.


Besides the infuriating story modes, there's also an option with a baquette where you get destroy everything. Which, well, kinda helps with blowing off the steam.

There's a donut race where you are, well, a donut and you need to roll to the plate as fast as you can.

There's also some Star Wars mini game I haven't looked into because, well. I'm a bit to obsessed with becoming toast.

Maybe, just maybe, Twitch will help me conquer my ever-growing backlog...

So, ye, my backlog has been slowly building up, again, whereas I've been slightly obsessed with playing Heroes of the Storm.

So, the result: My lovely backlog is still growing with games I'm in love with and intend to play "soon".

Anyways, I figured: Maybe, just maybe, if I start streaming for whatever reason, myself, mainly, it might give me some incentive to actually start/finish some more games.

So, ye, not that anyone is ever going to read this, but...

http://www.twitch.tv/asayinda

Games with gold; playstation plus, humble bundles... Steam, uplay, Origin...

ALL THESE THINGS ARE SO DAMNED EVIL!

PSplus/games with gold.
I let my PSPlus subscription run out a while ago: Even though I miss the thrill of "free" games, and the acces to some of them, it give me quite a lot of rest because it also meant I won't necessarily have to finish/try these games, just to realise I've got a whole list of games I actually bought, and blablabla ;) (That said, I do consider buying Puppeteer, though... And DMC: Devil may cry was awesome! And,and, and...)

Accidentally renewed my games with gold, though, because I realised to late you actually need to manually cancel it... Oh well; At least you can actually keep these games once the subscription runs out!

Humble Bundle, Steam sales...
Humble bundles... Damn you, for those, it always feels like such a good deal/must have/etc. you just buy them; wether you like them or not... ...And, this, flood the library with even more games.

Steam, uplay, Origins, Bnet app...
Uurgh, this keeps annoying me: At the moment I've got 4 different active clients in order to be able to even reach my games, with their own friend list, and, to make it easier, I somehow got some Steam games on Origin, too. etc.

I mean, I do understand it's nice from a developers point of view... I just wish it'd be possible to just stick with 1 damned client, or like import origin/uplay into Steam, or something similar.

Ah well, guess thats it for ranting today.

Shadow of Mordor - main story done :)

So, after breaking my leg in august and therefore getting stranded on my grandparens couch for a while I got drawn back into my old love, mmo's, and especially World of Warcraft, which ate up a LOT of my time.

Anyways, last week I started, and finished, Shadow of Mordor.


PS3: The game itself was awesome, but the freaking loading screens simply drove me insane,

So, I decided to resell the ps3 disc and buy it on the pc, through one of those ubercheap gamecode resellers.

The pc version was AWESOME: Barely/no loading screens, flawless gameplay...

And, of course, the ORCS and nemesis system:

Everything you do influences the power struggle of the orcs around you, and the way they react to you in recurring matches:

If you die, or they win a battle with another orc, or whatever they level up/gain more power. If you injure them, for example burn them, they kind of hate you and the next time you see them they'll be covered in burns.

I probably don't do it justice, but I just LOVED fighting all the orcs! I probably had more fun hunting down warchiefs/captain than actually following the story.

The story:
The storyline is interesting, but then again, I just love the Lord of the Ring universe, so all the background stuff actually meant something to me.

The end:

I don't want to spoil it to much, but I was so disappointed... I also bought the Season Pass, but I'm still so bumped out by the ending I can't bring myself to play through the season pass things..

Guess I'll give the game a rest, while I'm playing batman, and pick it up again later to slay some more orcs <3