I finished Doom 3, main campaign. It's good! I like it. A strong game that is too long and yet, personally, I find it less repetitive than the more recent Doom outing. The hell bits are somewhat disappointing but mercifully short and then the game really picks up from there as it builds towards the end. Having the torch available at all times is a big change from the original and now I can't even imagine what it's like going back to the mechanic of it being either the torch or weapon. That was such a weird choice back in the day. Anyway, a strong game. I'll leave it sit for a while before starting the DLC stuff.
So now I have started something very different. I just finished rereading an old scifi short story by Harlan Ellison who passed away last year. Called 'I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream' it tells the story of one of only five people left alive, kept as almost toys by the AI who now rules over the planet and torments the final survivors in horrible ways. A really great short story that can be read in probably around 20 minutes or so. Back in 1995, a point and click game was released based on this short story, expanding on it and giving a story to each of the five characters. As far as I know it was also written by Ellison and instead of just retelling the short story, it gives context to it and fleshes out how the characters got there and builds on it so it apparently was a really good companion to the story, even if the point and click stuff was reportedly not always brilliant.
I had never played it and finally went looking for it and it turns out it got an iOS rerelease a few years ago and still works so I got it and I'm now playing it. I'm still very early on and the dialogue feels overwritten and yet also repetitive but it already feels very unique and interesting. So I'm going to play through this and see what I missed all those years ago.
So now I have started something very different. I just finished rereading an old scifi short story by Harlan Ellison who passed away last year. Called 'I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream' it tells the story of one of only five people left alive, kept as almost toys by the AI who now rules over the planet and torments the final survivors in horrible ways. A really great short story that can be read in probably around 20 minutes or so. Back in 1995, a point and click game was released based on this short story, expanding on it and giving a story to each of the five characters. As far as I know it was also written by Ellison and instead of just retelling the short story, it gives context to it and fleshes out how the characters got there and builds on it so it apparently was a really good companion to the story, even if the point and click stuff was reportedly not always brilliant.
I had never played it and finally went looking for it and it turns out it got an iOS rerelease a few years ago and still works so I got it and I'm now playing it. I'm still very early on and the dialogue feels overwritten and yet also repetitive but it already feels very unique and interesting. So I'm going to play through this and see what I missed all those years ago.
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