[Morpheus Kitami]

So for a while now I've had a blog where I write about old shooter and shooter-related games, with the objective of covering most of them. Dunno how many people around here are interested in hearing someone flail around with games that sometimes make Tekwar look well-thought out, but I figure a few are.
https://almostafamine.blogspot.com/

The earlier reviews are a bit rough, but I like to think I've gotten better as I've written more. I've sometimes gone back to rewrite them, but its a slow process because new games are more interesting to play through. I'm doing this all chronologically, in two different ways. FPS titles and then the rest. For the former I'm mostly jumping around the 1980s-1993 and in the latter I'm currently playing 1982 titles. None of the well-known titles outside of Doom and Wolfenstein.

I use an unusual scoring system I kind of stole from someone else. Whereas usually any game that gets below a 50 is trash, here if a game gets above 50 its amazing. All of them are fairly early ones I covered, Doom, Doom II and Alone in the Dark, so they're not the best-written.

Really early games in familiar genres:
The Alien and Nostromo
Midi Maze
Wayout

Hidden gems:
Freaks
Pathways into Darkness (not a review like the others, LP)

Awful games:
In Extremis
https://almostafamin...ster-manor.html

Japanese obscurities:
Dimensional Fighter Epsilon3
SeeNa
The Alien Island 3D

[gibfrag]

Great effort. I've gone ahead and bookmarked your site for future reading. It all looks well done from what I've looked at so far, and the writing is great. It reminds me of old websites I used to visit that have all mostly vanished.

[Aristotle Gumball]

Yeah, site looks straight out of the 90s. You have my full support.

[jkas789]

Clicked on the link and first thing I see is you LP for Pathways into Darkness. I'm fucking sold.

[Morpheus Kitami]

Thanks for the warm words everyone. I wasn't necessarily aiming for '90s, just something I wouldn't mind browsing myself and could actually do, within Blogger's templates. Web design is not my forte.

 jkas789, on 06 February 2022 - 07:52 PM, said:

Clicked on the link and first thing I see is you LP for Pathways into Darkness. I'm fucking sold.

Another fan of Pathways then? I started off doing LPs of every game, but I stopped sometime last year. I felt like a lot of the games I was talking about didn't suit that quite so well. Only so many times you can talk about walking down a single-color hallway while shooting something vaguely shaped. Didn't really have anything to say in the reviews afterwards either. Now I only do it for titles I think I can fill its playtime with interesting observations. Pathways definitely did that.

[jkas789]

 Morpheus Kitami, on 07 February 2022 - 07:28 PM, said:

Another fan of Pathways then?

Yup. I have a special place in my heart for Pathways into Darkness and the Marathon Trilogy (which are canonically connected btw). If there is a game series that deserves to be remade it is Marathon.

[ImpieTheThird]

I love blogs on old computer games. Always find cool stuff I never heard of before. Nicely in-depth too. Will be reading more of these later.

[Jimmy]

The blogs are very nicely formatted, and informative. Nice work, keep it up.

[Morpheus Kitami]

Just in case anybody still interested doesn't regularly check my site; I've recently started the original Duke Nukem and have been mostly enjoying it.