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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 19:20 this Wednesday (GMT):
>
> "Game Quest" is not a good game. There's nothing about it that makes
> me want to play it. Visually, it looks like a run-of-the-mill
> asset-flip with little effort put into giving the world any character.
> Mechanically, it appears as fairly dull third-person shooter with poor
> enemy AI.
>
> Still, I can't help but chuckle at the game's core concept.
>
> Because the enemies in "Game Quest" (subtitled: "The Backlog Battler"
> are all the games in your Steam library that you've never played. All
> those freebies you've added to your library over the years but never
> touched after that? They're pissed and gunning for you now.
> Represented by floating floppy disks, their shots do the same amount
> of damage as how much you paid for them (so that AAA title you paid
> $60 for? It's going to cause you a lot of pain!). Meanwhile, the
> grandstands are filled with floppy-disk representatives of games you
> HAVE played, some of which may jump into the arena to help you out.
>
> All of which sounds rather clever... if not fun. It's not a game I'd
> recommend anyone play --it's a joke game, made more to poke fun at all
> of our increasingly bloated video-game libraries-- but I can admire
> the humor. Although they really should have announced it on April 1st.
>
> Heck, when it finally comes out (it's not yet released, although there
> is a demo on Steam) I may even add it to my library and not play it.
> ;-)


This makes me realize that there is so much untapped potential for using
the Steam library for in game mechanics, even in a non-impacting way.
You know how older games could sort of tell what you played through the
memory card data, and unlock stuff automatically and stuff? Or the whole
thing with Psycho Mantis being all spooky and meta and calling you out
for what games you liked? I think it'd be cool if more games did that
nowadays :P
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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  Re: Game Quest candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2026-04-30 19:30 +0000
    Re: Game Quest phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 13:37 -0600
    Re: Game Quest Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 16:11 -0400
      Re: Game Quest Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2026-04-30 15:48 -0500
        Re: Game Quest Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 19:56 -0400
          Re: Game Quest Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2026-04-30 17:22 -0700
          Re: Game Quest Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> - 2026-05-01 09:17 -0400
            Re: Game Quest Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2026-05-01 09:38 -0400
              Re: Game Quest Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> - 2026-05-02 21:01 -0400
                Re: Game Quest Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-03 11:16 -0400
            Re: Game Quest Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2026-05-01 09:58 -0400
              Re: Game Quest Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2026-05-01 07:03 -0700
                Re: Game Quest Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-01 11:10 -0400
                Re: Game Quest Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2026-05-01 17:25 -0500
          Re: Game Quest candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2026-05-04 15:10 +0000
            Re: Game Quest Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2026-05-05 09:50 -0500
      Re: Game Quest candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2026-05-04 15:00 +0000
        Re: Game Quest Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-04 15:02 -0400
    Re: Game Quest Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-08 20:57 -0400
      Re: Game Quest "rms" <rmsmoo@moomoo.net> - 2026-05-09 07:37 -0600
        Re: Game Quest Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-05-09 10:52 -0400
          Re: Game Quest candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2026-05-12 18:10 +0000

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