Here are a few I've bought/downloaded recently:
The Graveyard:
The Idea of a taking control of an old lady while she sloooowly walks towards a bench on the othe side of a graveyard, sit and leaves the graveyard may sound rediculous to your average gaymer. The Demo (or "trial") version includes a section where a song plays about the old lady and all her close friends and relatives (who are all dead), much like a music video. Buying the game, however, lets you witness the old lady die at any random moment in the game.
Seriously, who wouldn't want to pay money to watch an old lady die? I WOULD and so should you!
It made me qestion the whole idea about death. I don't think about death much, but this made me search deep down to realise how I really feel about death.
Merchants Of Brooklyn (M.O.B.):
I bought this for the same reasons I bought Painkiller. Its fun, funny and lots of bloody cartoon violence.
If cage fighting neadrethals (Wikipedia has the info), Italian Mobsters with hovering Cadillacs doing drive-bys, Futuristic tommy guns, a mechanical hand that shift into different energy weapons other than fists, comic book style art, modern and futuristic themes, the ability to turn any object into a grenade and half-naked chaingun wielding DJs do not sound plausible to you, I don't know what else would.
And the game is on Cryengine2. You should think about buying a new PC by the time you see those letters, because that translates to "Rape" in computing terms. Low FPSs are unavoidable.
However, Paleo Ent, being the small group of devos they are, they decided to persue an extreme sort of marketing for their first release:
1. Release game on Steam
2. Make thousands
3. "Accidently" release the alpha version
4. Promise patches on the first day
5. Get sympathy from public
6. Fire someone the next day
7. ????
8. MEGA PROFIT!!!
Yes, this is their first game.
It runs Okay on my computer, by the way...actually, I might need a now PC.
The Path:
I'm pretty much speechless. Seriously, for once, I got nothing to say.
http://www.rockpaper...th-impressions/
I never had so much extreme emotion from a game before. Praise worthy, note worthy and worth buying.
This is how horror should be like. No closets, no zombies and no monsters. Plain mind fuckery.
[sarcasm]If you don't buy this game, you're a cunt![/sarcasm]
Thats it for now. Anyone interested in indie games?
BTW: Excuze my broken engirlish.
This post has been edited by Game Over: 20 March 2009 - 11:26 PM