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candycanearter07 wrote:
> 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
> 
The only thing remotely like that I've experienced was Might & Magic 4 
linking up with Might & Magic 5 making an elaborate connected game that 
was greater than either component. You could shift between them at any 
time. I fucking solved the Might & Magic 5 part but never thought to 
rampage over the Might & Magic 4 like I should have!

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Game Quest Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-29 15:20 -0400
  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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