• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The original Painkiller was the first overwhelmingly positive review that Yahtzee Crowshaw ever made. That review caused a years old game, at that point, to spike almost 3000% in sales for the next month. It contained gems of sentence construction such as: [Painkiller] (sic) “has a gun in it that shoots shurikens and lightning. I’m not making that up. It shoots shurikens and lightning. This gun could only be cooler if it had tits and was on fire!”

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      1 day ago

      That sounds so cool! I actually have all their Steam games, but when I tried a couple of them, I realized all I was doing was run backwards, which I don’t really enjoy.

      Can you recommend one of the old Painkiller games that might be balanced differently or have level structure where this does not occur as often?

      Same for Ziggurat, which I wish I could enjoy.

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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    2 days ago

    Wow, there’s a series I haven’t thought about in like a decade. I recall really enjoying that game way back when, though.