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Cool little game that deserves more attention for sure. The game about stealing loot and solving the mystery in a medieval-ish fantasy world somewhat similar to the world of Thief games. And this game is full of levels that are basically puzzles, and I finished it on the lowest difficulty and it was generally pretty forgiving...higher levels probably punish mistakes more. I can not add more here, but links to gog and steam will probably show you everything. This is a game about stealth, but you have a ton of instruments to finish the levels in different ways https://www.gog.com/en/game/spirited_thief https://store.steampowered.com/app/1709870/Spirited_Thief

Just finished the game and I did not even know it was on the list. This game is the most deserving attention source game in my opinion. It has tons of puzzles and conspiracy. Though...ending kinda sucks, which is kind of how it is with source games in gener. And I've tried a lot recently, mods too

So I've just finished Black Mesa (and 4/5 chapters of Blue Shift mod based on it, as far as I understand Chapter 5 is not out yet). And... Even if the game(s) itself is generally fine, though weapon reload speed, enemies that see you through objects, weapon damage and too many enemies...but all of it was mostly fixed in the Blue Shift mod, so I am not going to complain about it. What I am going to complain about is how they made Xen. Both of them. By the way, if you have not finished those, there are many spoilers below! In Black Mesa Xen is...blown out of proportions, basically. Gonarch's Lair is turned into playing cat and mouse with Gonarch, I get very tired of not knowing if I can do damage to her or not, of running away, of her running away...and of the last fight with her that is basically her last phase from original game, but after too much exhausting running. And then they have a very long conveyor ride in the Interloper, with tons of repeated fights and puzzles, ending in the elevator ride with tons of repeated fights and puzzles. And then you finally fight Nihilant and it does not teleport you (which was fun in the original game), just summons objects and constantly attacks you with lights of different colours. I was really annoyed by it, so I just turned on God mode. And there are spoilers for the Blue Shift mod, you have been warned! In Blue Shift mod Xen is also blown out of proportions, but it has a lot less annoying stuff, I almost finished it without turning God mode again. Cause they have repetitive fights and puzzles...again. And near the end everything around attacks you with lights of different colours...again, but this time it blinds you. And if you miss a lot and do not conserve your ammo...you lose. Big time. I was out of almost everything near the end of Chapter 4 and was barely able (after several tries) to kill all of the annoying enemies (those be Controllers) to finally finish it in time. Yeah, you are attacked by annoying enemies with almost no ammo with a time limit at the end. God mode did not help me with that, but I decided not to cheat anyway (not to give myself more weapons). I like both games, I like how they made Xen for the most part, but what they did to Xen also makes me hate both games. Is it just me who get annoyed but how it was done? Anyone else had problems? I can not be alone at that, I am sure of it, but actually knowing it will make things...well, it will make me more at peace I guess. Still gonna recommend trying Blue Shift mod, everything before Chapter 4 is perfect, they basically turned Blue Shift into an actual Half-Life game, not just short addon.

I gave this game another chance and tried to play it with all the DLCs. Near the middle of the original story I realized that it is just an unending chore. So I cheated. And game become just a bit less time consuming, but it still ended up being a chore. But I made it to the end of the first DLC. The end of the main story. And...there are 3 colors in this game: green, red and black. And you are staring at the screen on those three colors changing. That's about it, the whole game, nothing else

And another update. Now (probably) without mistakes Ross's Big Game List 10.23.2024.xls

Oh, I found the way to count them all, I think. Now the list should be full. The issue was - forum sends the digest only up to 40 positions, so I had to check the rest by using "last updated" function. At least now I know. Also it is kind of interesting how when you look at the list - some games are actually parts of the series Ross's Big Game List 07.14.2024.xls

Can you explain it to me like if I was a 10 years old?

I'm a bit late and still missing one of the previous digests, but hey, I'm just doing it for the sake of it Ross's Big Game List 05.13.2024.xls

Well, none of them exist anymore. Sad, but understandable. Still, I remember those with gratitude and not with anger. Those were wild and fun times of Youtube

So, all I can remember is that Freeman ran down one of Black Mesa's corridors, shooting some grunts and some vorts and then he was saying some deep dialogue, something about never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you, never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. Yeah, something like that, do you remember it?

Hey, haven't been able to do that for a while. And (probably) somehow missed one of the digests, so there are only 1161 games out of 1196. Oops, but can not do much about it (unless someone have a digest from between 11.30.23 and today, that I probably missed somehow) Ross's Big Game List 02.16.2024.xls

And another update. Well, I have no time to fix game release dates, but everything else is up to date. Ross's Big Game List UPD 7.5.23.xls

Another update Ross's Big Game List UPD 12.5.22.7z

Eh...this screenshot look like a scene from Cyberpunk 2077... Interesting...

Good one. I completely forgot of this game. Maybe it's time to play it... I think I even have a disc somewhere...