1001 Games To Play Before You Die: #0074 Deus Ex Machina

Thursday, December 1, 2016

#0074 Deus Ex Machina

Jesus christ. I just played Deus Ex Machina. I haven’t played a game that weird in a long LONG time. You play as a living being growing inside a machine? I think? It is extremely hard to tell, the story is narrated, beautifully I might add, by a separate cassette tape that comes with the game. The whole experience is extremely abstract, esspecially for an 80’s video game. This is probably the first game on my list that actually felt like it was aimed at adults specifically. As an experience, it was very sureal, psychedelic, and unsettling. As a game, it’s --. I had no idea what I was doing most of the time, it feels like there’s no real fail state for the game at all. I was going around doing things that I thought needed to be done, I guess, and no matter what I did, or did not do, I passed to the next level.
I can’t recommend it as a game, but if you’re in the mood for something really psychedelic, and unsettling give it a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwJBsYJ16IE

Up Next: The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy.

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Why I'm taking this challenge

So! I’ve spent nearly my entire life as a Nintendo Fanboy. A rabid fanboy to the point where when my family got a brand new Playstation 2 back in ‘02 (One of the best consoles ever). I refused to play it. I refused to have anything to do with the company that stole my beloved Nintendo’s thunder! This fanboyism ran rampant in my gaming life through high school and even when I moved out to live with the woman who would one day become my wife. I still didn’t play anything but Nintendo consoles. In fact, it wasn’t until we were gifted an Xbox 360 did I FINALLY play a game on a different console. That was Bioshock, it was also the first shooter I had ever played.It became one of my favorite games of all time. The rest is history, I’ve been playing games on any console I want now.

That’s all well and good, but this means that there is an entire other gaming WORLD that I’ve never played. Never experienced in my life. I love shooters, but with the exception of the half-life series, and System shock 2, every shooter from Doom all the way up until Bioshock, I’ve never played. Not Quake, not CoD, not battlefield.

So, since I’ve missed out on nearly 30 years of gaming, I decided to take a challenge. My lovely wife got me a book called 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die I am going to play through every game in this book. Starting with Oregon Trail (1971) and finish with Bioshock Infinite (2013) I plan to do at least one generation per year. At least. And to help me keep track of what I've done, I started doing small reviews of every game.

At first I wrote these in the starment.net forums, but eventually they became too lengthy to only be posted there, so I created this blog to not only help keep me organized, but so others can follow along as well. It won't be easy, but I think it's worth it to play games that I may otherwise never have played.