Hello everyone. Hope you all had a good weekend. I am posting this thread about 90 minutes after I intended to because I was just finishing up Mass Effect 3, finishing my first replay of the trilogy. Anyway, ME3 is a pretty good game and its actually kind of funny they allow you to reach satisfying endings to many of the long running arcs in the series (RIP my good friend Mordin and my beautiful son Legion) but horribly botched the final ending. I hear there’s a new Mass Effect game in development, and since you cant really up the stakes beyond Cthulu robots killing us all I’d wager on it being a soft reboot. Interested to see how they would handle the incompatible endings in that case, and they’d probably have to introduce a new protagonist which is risky because no one liked Andromeda
Hope everybody has a good week and happy gaming
I started playing the Shroom & Gloom demo again after forgetting about it for a long time.
It’s been in development for quite a chunk of time now and, as long as the game has a decent amount of length to it and they don’t phone in the latter parts of the game, it’s going to be a contender for my GOTY when it drops.
It’s a roguelike deckbuilder (sigh…) but there’s a lot of love that has gone into the game - roguelikes and/deckbuilders are less like genres and more like signifiers of lazy gameplay mechanics these days but S&G feels very different to me, despite the structure of the gameplay being very familiar. There are a lot of nice touches to the game and the art style is fantastic. It’s immersive in the way that Cloverpit is in comparison to Luck Be A Landlord, and there is a very different but somehow reminiscent feeling of horror to S&G, although S&G is more cosmic horror with elements of body horror.
I’m gonna need to put the demo down soon so I don’t burn myself out on the game before it has even been released.