Nymes: So, now I am in need for a new assignment! But I wish to take a break of RPGs or overly long games for the moment. While Dragon Age was definitely a worthwhile investment - remember, I paid 5€ for it and played for around 125 hours - something shorter would be a welcome change. Consequently, I removed some games from my list, but they will reappear at a later stage ;-)
Please choose for me, fellow gentlemen! Nymes: Cheers, and thank you! :-)

yoshino: I suggest Odallus - The Dark Call or Shovel Knight. I could not decide which one is best :) so feel free to decide for your taste.
I don't have played both games but heard good reputations. and platform games would be refreshing from heavy RPGs.

As ｆｏｒ my X3 Terran Conflict.
I fought a M3 pirate. after heavy damaged, he abandoned his ship.
I took the M3 ship, and repaired it for 1 million credits(!) at shipyard, The ship became my main ship. old M4 ship was ordered to guarding my ship.
There are 2 main quests in game.One is fighting pirates/AGI (AI in the game term) and other is trading. After a bit bored to fight pirates, I choice the trading mission for delivering Ores and earned 400,000 credits. Now I have 4 millions credits. The next M2 ship requires 70 millions so upgrading ship will be far future.

Nymes: A question regarding the X series: Did you play the predecessors of X3? If so, how does it compare to the other two?

Nymes: Progress update on Shovel Knight

omega64: Once you finish it you get to go through again as Plague knight.

wolfsrain: Yeah, kind of dropped...Despite some nice gameplay elements, Xulima lacks soul. Too damn generic and linear. Seems that the devs are aware of the fact and they promise to do better in the second game. Will eventually finish it, as i do not like to leave things unfinished, but dammit, it feels more like a chore. No enjoyment in it :(

It's a shame, because a there are a lot of good gameplay elements in it, but the whole vibe is completely wrong...

Crazybear: This sale has pushed me over the edge, I need, nay, must start playing some of the 280+ games I own here. I throw my hat in the ring of the Gentleman's Backlog Club.

To that end I have take a section of my backlog and, by row, picked one at random. (Thanks random.org) Here is the list:

Fist Puncher

Good GOGers, please assign me a game to wipe clean from the never-ending backlog of doom!

PaterAlf: I suggest Fist Puncher. It has a rather bad reputation, but I had good fun when I played it last year. I'm curious to hear what you think of it.

Crazybear: Is it sad that I don't even remember buying most of those games?

PaterAlf: You have to look at it in a more positive way. If you don't remember them, there's a much greater chance for surprises.

Ghorpm: Civilization IV: Colonization
assigned by Bass47

As a huge fan of the original Colonization I was very suspicious about this title. Newer graphics means nothing to me and Colonization was great anyway so who needs a remake? But even so I wasn't prepared for such a disappointment. It's not a bad game per se, there are many interesting improvements (better mechanics of Founding Fathers, experience and promotions for units etc.) and the game is still challenging as it should be but... the whole atmosphere is lost. I think it should have been named "Preparation for War of Independence" and not "Colonization". That's right, I didn't feel that my task is to colonize a New World at all. For example: somewhere midgame I found a perfect spot for rum production and none of my colonies could make it thus far. But I didn't set up a colony there because it would be impossible to win the game if I did so. Why? Because if I had waited a bit longer with declaration of independence king's army would grow so huge that I wouldn't have enough time (please note - time not armies) to defeat it. After a few games you realize that the game is very restrictive and doesn't let you play it your way. There are very narrow and sometimes counter-intuitive time windows in which you have to accomplish some goals. If you miss any of them you'll probably run out of time. I do realize that in 4X games you usually need to play it several times before understanding its mechanics well enough but in this game they made it purely ridiculous. You can't even predict that some action will lead to your ultimate failure.

So if you want my advise forget this game and play the original instead. That's something I'm going to do right now just to remove a bad taste in my mouth that Civilization IV: Colonization left.