Sale at GOG.com

GOG.com has some promising titles on sale, including Trine 3 and Shadowrun:  Hong Kong.   Shadowrun Returns and Shadowrun:  Dragonfall are both excellent, polished RPGs with tactical combat, and Shadowrun:  Hong Kong looks to improve on them in every respect.

You can check out the titles on sale here.

Walking A Mile In Another's Shoes

It is rare that I come across a game that actually encourages me to examine my own beliefs and principles, and challenges me with multiple perspectives on situations that I would probably never experience in real life.  Unrest is one such game.

From the start, I was put into the shoes of someone in a difficult situation - a peasant girl whose parents had arranged a marriage for her.  There were various ways of dealing with the expectations and attitudes of her parents, relatives and friends - violent, accepting, defiant or even sometimes light-hearted.  No single choice or approach was ever really pushed over the others, although violence carried more risks than the other approaches.

One thing that kept sticking out in certain dialogues and situations was the difficulty of deciding which approach or choice was the most appropriate.  Was it better to defiantly assert her individual rights and risk alienating her friends and/or family in the process?  Or was it wiser to simply accept her lot in life and sacrifice some of her individual freedoms and happiness?

Other characters, with equally challenging circumstances, were presented:  a priest working at a local temple in the city to feed his family, a Naga (snake-like mythical creature) diplomat sent to negotiate on behalf of their empire, a princess whose parents are murdered in a brutal coup, a mercenary working for the perpetrators of the coup.

Questions of faith, loyalty, economic status and racism/speciesism are raised.  The priest is faced with the challenge of whether to keep working at the temple even as uncomfortable questions regarding his superiors and their activities arise.  The Naga must deal with near-constant racism/speciesism and xenophobia directed at their species and empire.  The princess is forced to flee for her life and must decide how she will deal with the people who murdered her parents, as well as how to take back power.  The mercenary has to grapple with the knowledge of what he supported and what his employers have perpetrated in order to gain power.

There was no "perfect", neat, happy ending.  No triumphant fanfare or celebrations.  Only more uncertainty and unrest.

You can get Unrest from GOG.com here.

Screen Recording Suite Is Great For Recording Gameplay

Screen Recording Suite is a great program for recording PC gameplay.  It has a simple, clean interface and plenty of options for audio and video input and output, as well as things like screen resolution. http://www.screenrecord.net 

Dreamfall Chapters Book Three Playthrough

I've uploaded some snippets of Dreamfall Chapters Book Three footage.

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Part 2: