Saturday Morning Gaming: Ape Out
In Ape Out, you are an ape. An ape in captivity. The apes in the cages near you appear to have been shot.
You are an ape with nothing to lose. Might as well go for it.
It’s a twin stick fighter. Run around with the left stick. Change your orientation with the right stick. Punch with the right trigger. Grab with the left trigger.
The guards are armed. You can grab one and use him as a human shield while you’re running. You’d better, his buddies are shooting at you.
While all this action is happening, the soundtrack reacts to your play. Like, when you get 3 or 4 guards in a row, the drumming speeds up. When you hide around a corner and just sit there (like, if you’re writing a post in another window or something), the drumming slows down.
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The game is exceptionally violent. You leave the guards you’re fighting in smears of red (and as the guards shoot you, you leave trails of orange behind you and the trails grow larger as you take more damage). The fact that the art style is minimalist allows for all kinds of mental imagery as the game paints the monitor red as you go running around. If you’re vaguely wondering at the morality of your actions, hey. You’re an ape.
Right now, the game is on sale at Steam for 67% off which means that the game is $5. I balked at the $15 price tag but $5 is *PERFECT*.
So… what are you playing?
(Featured image is a screen shot of the main menu. All screenshots taken by the author.)
Slightly off topic but game related. Our son plays story games for us and we are looking for another good game to play. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Games hes played that we like
Fire watch
Detroit Become Human
TWD
Last of Us 1 & 2
Ghost of Tsushima
God of War 2018
Red Dead Redemption 2
Horizon zero day
Jedi Fallen OrderReport
If he liked God of War and Horizon, I would recommend the Batman Arkham games (Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight) and the Lord of the Rings: Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War games.
They’ve all been out long enough that they’re cheap. You can buy the bundle of all three Batman games (with all DLC!) for $60 now without it being on sale and if you don’t want it on steam but on console instead, it’s even cheaper because you can get them used.
The Lord of the Rings games are a hair pricier on steam ($20 for Shadow of Mordor, $60 for Shadow of War) but they’re EXCEPTIONALLY cheap for console ($11 for Shadow of War for PS4… which is nuts!) and the stories are *AMAZING*.
Like, you’ll argue over some of the choices the characters make (Shadow of War has a couple of jaw-on-the-floor moments) and if you’ve watched the Lord of the Rings movies recently, you’ll enjoy them even more.Report
Thanks Jaybitd! Thata a good list dear husband is a HUGE LOTR fan so I know he’ll love itReport
The fallout series. New Vegas is a very compelling story, but FO3 and FO4 are plenty good too. The older games (Fallout 1 and 2 are top-down and turn-based combat from many years ago, but the stories are also good.Report
He has played a lot of the Fallout he hates 76 but thanks for the recommendationReport
I’m playing Hand of Fate 2 thanks to the Epic freebie. It’s VERY worth the $0, and actually a pretty solid game.
Before that it was Battletech, which in my opinion had some good elements but was hurt by bad difficulty scaling and a campaign that made many of the open-world mechanics a waste of time.Report
Thanks I’ll look into this as wellReport
Depending on how much story he wants, his tolerance for magical realism and melancholy, and how old he is, I cannot recommend What Remains of Edith Finch enough. It is astoundingly good but mostly story compared to “game” in the traditional sense.Report
My main game lately has been Subnautica. It’s similar to No Man’s Sky in some ways, but completely different in others. Similarity: You are marooned on an alien world with very little equipment. As you explore, you find blueprints for technology you can build, which enables you to explore farther and gather different types of resources. You will also need to build a base of operations (or more than one).
Differences: No Man’s Sky has an entire universe to explore, where Subnautica takes place in a single body of water on the alien planet. No Man’s Sky has procedurally generated planets, fauna and flora. Things don’t always make sense, and there can be a lot of repetition. In Subnautica, everything is hand crafted. Different biomes have different types of life. Sea creatures look very alien, yet familiar (just like deep sea creatures on earth). Subnautica is quality over quantity. Subnautica also tells more of a story than NMS, though you have to take time to read through short datalogs to get all of it. It’s not heavy reading, though.
I really enjoyed Subnautica, and swimming in VR is really fun, but it can also cause anxiety when confronted by a carnivorous leviathan or running low on air and trying to find your vehicle or being lost in a cave.
I haven’t finished the first game, and I already bought the sequel, set in a different location on the same planet in freezing temperatures.Report