#rain-slick

Fighting the strange and the beautiful [Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3]

Games I beat in 2015: #11 – Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 (Replay, plus bonus content)

I’ve played iOS ports of games I’ve enjoyed many times, but this may be the first time I played a console or computer release after the iOS version. Long story short, the iOS port is better.

Well, maybe just compared to the OS X port. I wondered why the fourth game didn’t have a port…

Nesh's Song of the Day

Not quite getting the end of the story, not because I'm unable to comprehend its complexity or edgyness, but because the gameplay is so TIRING, BOREDOM INFUSING, REPETITIVE AND DOWNRIGHT SOUL MASSACRING I ended up disrupting the flow of storytelling (and the way I absorb it into my attention) by dividing the gameplay into at least sixteen portions, with at least a full day of pause in between each said portion, just so that I could STRAIN MYSELF keeping myself playing that goddamn piece of shit without being bored into a gestureless pile of ASH. I LITERALLY HAD TO CRAWL MY WAY THROUGH THE WHOLE FUCKING GAME.

I loved the first two episodes. Those are my favorite games ever.

This storyline, from what I COULD get out of it, would look, play and feel marvelous with Hothead's engine. Jerry Holkins is the literature talent-god of this era, I'm sure of it, as this game's storyline shines it out. If it was taken better care by some other company -not asking much from them, either, just a GOOD, FAST PACED, UNCLUTTERED WITH OPTIONS, REAL TIME FIGHTING SYSTEM that FITS THE SUSPENSEFUL-BUT-STILL-ACTION-PACKED-MISHMASH-OF-BIZARRE-STUFF FEEL OF THE REST OF THE FUCKING GAME- this game would have been his MASTERPIECE of art.

Now it's garbage. It plays and feels like your rebellious, wifeless and jobless uncle nobody in your family likes because he holds no future for himself or others, but you developed a certain affection for the guy because he seemed edgy and interesting to you when he was over your house for that one big family reunion--because the way he doesn't give a shit when he cusses around your house and talks about porking hundreds of chicks, and the appeal of him was only amplified by the way your parents were trying to block any kind of communication between you and him. Then you grew up, rebelled against your family, decided to hang around him, he even opened the doors to his shit infested shack for you, but guess what? In reality he's a fucking sad asshole with nothing to bring onto the table except for boring chicks 'n fights stories, a grand total of which are LIES and only good for the fun factor of them being lies. And you have to put up with it now. Because it was your fucking decision in the first place. Congra-fucking-tulations.

This game fucking eats. I don't hate BAD games that much, I DON'T HATE DUKE NUKEM FOREVER THAT MUCH. This game is the largest, most massive downfall of a great potential I have ever seen.

Fuck your muddy sprites and fuck your lack of any kind of drama or suspense kind of way of serving us the dialouges that just pop up right after you press ENTER and fuck your battle system and fuck your witty oneliner explanations to every enemy to deal with

and

fuck

you

ZOMG. 

So, I wanted a dungeon crawler to play all of a sudden. Installed Nethack on my phone (not the original DOS one, the updated one on the Android Market). I realized when my battery was at 45% that there's probably a version or two for PC, since it was originally a computer game.

Then I wasn't happy with what I found (wasn't willing to figure out the DOS version just yet, and the animated one I found just sucked balls). So I hit Steam to see what I could find.

And what did I find?! I found Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3! There are not words for how much I loved the first two games, nor how sad I was when they were discontinued (albeit temporarily).