So I guess we're going to see more publishers like the guys who were making "Active Shooter", specializing in buggy, asset-flipped shovelware with names and basic concepts designed to attract outrage (for instance, one game was nominally about Tesla and had the name changed to include "White Power"). Steam kicked them off the service, but I guess it's a viable business model there now.

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Quoting: Duke TakeshiI also came to the conclusion that it should be Hellblade. It seems a bit too obvious, though, but I can't find another way to connect the word "pandemonium" to a certain game. In Hellblade, Senua atually travels to the nordic hell (Helheim) to defeat Hela, which is kind of the nordic equivalent of Satan/Lucifer.

The nordic Hel doesn't really have much in common with Satan/Lucifer at all, much less the one that appears in Paradise Lost.

Also "Hela" is the Marvel Comics name for her. Traditionally her name is the same as the realm she's associated with, which isn't on fire and isn't meant for punishing people (she was appointed to her position, to provide lodging and accommodation for people who died in mundane circumstances like old age or sickness, as opposed to Glorious Battle™).

Mind you, how she's portrayed in video games does tend to fit the more familiar Christian pattern of someone evil who mistreats the dead and meddles in the world of the living.

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Just to throw a new element into the mix, don't you think we're all being a bit literal when we're talking about games like DOOM, Agony, and Dark Souls?

Remember that the more common definition of "Pandemonium" in English is "wild and noisy disorder or confusion". So maybe the clue is pointing us at something noisy and chaotic, maybe neon-themed given that Lucifer himself was "The Light-Bringer".

Might be nothing, but food for thought.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Cr1ogenDark Souls remastered

*snipped the large pic*

Now that's a find!

Edit: Wait, how does the picture match to it :S

To be fair, there actually is a level in Dark Souls that looks an awful lot like the pic, the Demon Ruins.

Not sure that there's any more connection than just that, though.

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Psst...look up Paradise Lost...might be something there.

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Skyrim, obviously. I mean what else could it be?

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Ugh. Right away, in fullscreen it shuts down my other monitor and disabled alt-tab.

That's not a good sign.

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I should give TDM another try. Last time I tried to play, it was having serious issues with fullscreen on my system. And at one point I was getting no graphics at all, just a black screen. The new engine probably won't have the same issues.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: TheSHEEEPAnd naive and uninformed actions rarely to never lead to a positive result.

You base this guesstimate on what?

Logic. Common sense.
If you don't know what you are doing, how likely are you to achieve what you want to achieve?

"Common sense", in my experience, largely means "matches with the things I was taught as a child and assume are universal laws". It leads to a lot of problems when presented with ideas and people that refuse to fit into simple little boxes.

And I see from the previous comment that we've started to attract the edgelords. Hello, hello. Welcome to GoL.

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Maybe after I've had my fill of Stardew Valley, I might give ToME another go and see if I can finally get off the first continent.

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