Snap Judgment
11 entries. 6,692 words.
2016-02
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Snap Judgment – The Division Open Beta.
2016-02-21.
The Division isn’t for me.
It’s a very beautiful-looking game. The graphics are fantastic, and the urban environments are very realistic and detailed.
Unfortunately I didn’t see anything new or innovative in the gameplay. The whole time I was playing, I kept thinking, “This plays just like Defiance, and Defiance is free.” The only thing The Division has is the cover mechanic. And the fantastic graphics, of course.
I also couldn’t help but notice that there were very few other people around in this alleged MMO game.
- Pre-Release
- Shooter
- Snap Judgment
- Videos
2016-05
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Overwatch Snap Judgments.
2016-05-17.
I finally have a chance to talk a bit about Overwatch, which I played for roughly an hour or two during the open beta.
My first impression was horrible, because I played it on a Sunday night, which is usually my least favorite time of the week, considering that it’s the time when I’m forced to face the reality of going back to work the next day. Last week was a particularly onerous week because it was my last one on the dying project, so I was anticipating a horrendous week of panic and anxiety from me and everyone else who would be left behind after I’m gone.
- Pre-Release
- Shooter
- Snap Judgment
2016-07
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Snap Judgment – Riders of Icarus.
2016-07-11.
Welcome to another installment of Snap Judgment, where I fully evaluate every nuance of a game after playing it for less than an hour.
I downloaded and installed the latest malware … I mean, Asian import MMORPG … Riders of Icarus. I kid, I kid. But it asked me to reboot to finish the installation, which makes me wonder just what kind of rootkit it put on my system. Not to mention the extremely suspicious Nexon anti-cheat monitoring software that runs in the background.
- MMORPG
- Reviews
- Snap Judgment
2016-11
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Snap Judgment – Novus Inceptio.
2016-11-18.
I should be really excited to play Rift: Starfall Prophecy but to be honest I couldn’t care less about any MMORPG right now. I’m just in one of those moods.
Instead I installed one of the many games on my Steam list that I’ve never tried so that I could bring you another (cue huge reverb and echo) … Snap Judgment! .. judgment .. ment .. nt.
Novus Inceptio is yet another Early Access survival sandbox game.
- Pre-Release
- Single-Player
- Snap Judgment
- Steam
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Devil Daggers.
2016-11-24.
I saw Devil Daggers on Steam when it first came out and thought, “What an odd-sounding game.” I saw the “Too long, didn’t play” guy on Gamers With Jobs call it “punishingly hard,” and use it as the benchmark for measuring hard games ever since. I put it on my wish list. I laugh at hard games! Ha!
Recently it went on sale and I bought it for $2.99, along with some other stuff I might play some day (including another one of the Batman games-I have them all now but haven’t played any of them yet).
- Single-Player
- Snap Judgment
- Steam
2017-01
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Daybreak Closing Landmark.
2017-01-06.
In the most shocking news heard since WildStar announced they were going free-to-play, Daybreak revealed they will be closing down Landmark in February.
I bought one of the $99 Founder’s packs. I don’t exactly remember why, but I remember seeing that video showing them digging holes in the ground and thought that was pretty dern cool. It turned out to be the most ill-advised game purchase decision of my entire life to date.
- MMORPG
- Snap Judgment
2017-05
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Snap Judgment – Quake Champions (Open Beta).
2017-05-15.
I don’t know how many people know this, but I used to play a lot of Quake CTF with Crayola Clan in the 1990s. Back then, “eSports” were community-run tournaments with no stakes and no prizes and barely any organization. We played mostly NetQuake, QuakeWorld, and Quake 2. We played a little bit of Quake 3 Arena but I personally never liked it and by then gaming started to get commercial with sponsors and cash prizes and it was more work than fun and it was all too stressful to deal with.
- Reviews
- Shooter
- Snap Judgment
2017-12
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Snap Judgment – Kritika Online.
2017-12-08.
I alluded to trying out Kritika Online in my last post, so I thought I would write a bit about it. For one thing, I want to have a post to link to later in the year for my “Game/MMORPG of the Year” post, and for another thing, Friday is looming, and I don’t have anything to post yet.
I downloaded and played Kritika on November 22nd, the day before Thanksgiving.
- MMORPG
- Reviews
- Snap Judgment
2019-07
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Steam Backlog Bonanza – TimeShift.
2019-07-29.
It doesn’t seem like a game from 2007 would be that “old,” but it sure is. I tried out a shooter called TimeShift from my Steam backlog. I bought it in 2016 for $1.80.
Installing TimeShift was painless. In fact, since it’s so old, it took almost no time at all to install. The size of the game was measured in Megabytes-3000 of them, roughly.
The mechanics of the game are pretty standard for a shooter: You point at things and shoot them, with various weapons, which generally fall into the standard categories: Pistol, Assault Rifle, Shotgun, and variations thereof.
- Shooters
- Snap Judgment
- Streaming
- Videos
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Steam Backlog Bonanza – Antichamber.
2019-07-31.
Yesterday I tried a game called Antichamber from my Steam backlog. I played for an hour and a half, an almost unprecedented marathon for me in a first look at a game. It’s an indie game that I (apparently, because of course I have no memory of this) got for $5 in 2013, and it took me six years to actually play it.
It's really, really hard to find a representative screenshot for this game.
- Snap Judgment
- Steam
- Streaming
- Videos
2019-11
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Generation Zero.
2019-11-04.
Over the weekend, I noticed Steam was giving away a free trial of this game called Generation Zero, which I’d never heard of before. So I thought I’d try it. I kind of miss those Halcyon days of the Steam Backlog Bonanza, when I got to play a brand new game every day.
I didn’t even know what this game was, to be honest. It sounded like a shooter. But it said it was “set in Sweden,” which is something I’ve certainly never seen before in a game.
- Snap Judgment
- Steam