Surprised by the young.

[littlejediowen]

I'm 13, and this was my first "Dungeony" game, aside from trying to get people at my school to play Dungeons and Dragons, and I'm enjoying this pretty well. Aside from the somewhat clunky controls in my hands, I like the aspect of fear it puts into me. The sounds of growling, and screaming, coming deeper in the dungeon, the torches slowly burning out, the drawn-out conflict, the staring contest secret on floor 2 (those skeletons scared me), and stuff like that

[rakenan]

To be honest I would believe anyone that is into strategy or turn based combat (yes grim is not turn based but its is fairly close)

Oh yes, realtime combat is fairly close to turnbased combat.

Yes, real time combat as implemented in LoG is in fact fairly close to turn based combat. Enemy moves, enemy waits, enemy moves again when his turn comes along. Just put enforced passes if you don't take your turn fast enough and you have turned almost any other turn based game into LoG. Compared to the action feel of games like Skyrim or Mass Effect, LoG is almost identical to turn based combat.

[Mr.Monopoly]

I don't play Call of duty, Battlefield, Mass effect and i still play Skyrim from time to time simply to mess around with mods.

I saw this game and it looked fun, it looked hard and it looked like it would be worth-while. I'm not a big Puzzle fan, Because I'm bad at them, but games like Legend of Grimrock and Q.U.B.E always make me play that genre! I'm normally good at telling when a game is good or not, and this looked good to me, i started to think about it and what i could do in this game to do better, and when that happens it's normally a good sign that i will like or even love the game.

What you (Oldies <3) have to understand is that not all of us are Call of duty, Battlefield and Mass effect Fan boys that say "Pwned scrub learn to play you noob i own you at quickscopez" and not all of us think names like "XxXLEgItzSNipErzXxX" are cool, hard to believe there are teenagers/children that aren't like this isn't it? haha! but it's true, us small minority enjoy the "real" good games and aren't mindless and stupid as most of us out there are. (so cynical) but so true.

I'm 15, from Britain, and i play games such as....Legend of Grimrock, Tribes 2, Team fortress 2 (not so much anymore since Free to play), Inmomentum, Orcs must die!, Demon souls/Dark souls, (Will be playing the Up-coming MMORPG, Guild wars 2), Tetris, and quite a few more.

Sorry to disappoint! but I'm not a mindless fan boy!

[Badsync]

Im 15, and what caught my eye on this game was the atmosphere and i've always liked puzzle games, and i also wanted something fresh and new (its fresh and new for me) and also, i like it being difficult which alot of recent singe player games doesn't provide. i hoped that was the answer you wanted.

[King Semos]

I'm 25, I've played tons of different genres of games over the years.

Growing up on video games like Diablo (1996), Thief the dark project (1998), Morrowind (2002), and their proceeding series. Then also enjoying games like Magic the Gathering and Warhammer as a kid, it's not hard to see that I would also be interested in a game like LoG.

Games are definitely much more Player Vs Player oriented these days, but everyone likes a good single player game every once in a while.

If anything I have an easier time seeing the younger gamers adapting to older style games much easier than I see older gamers adapting to new style games. Especially since they are kids, considering you were a kid when you got into dungeon crawlers, today's kids are just as open minded.

Whatever the reason, I'm glad for it. I want this company to do really well so they can release more, much more.

[kyoodle]

This is the first dungeon crawler I've played, I bought it mainly out of curiosity and the look of the atmosphere. So far I'm really impressed, it's nice to play something a bit different (although at the risk of being lynched here I don't think it's anywhere near as good as Skyrim ). My main complaint is that the puzzles are far too easy, the only times I've been stuck for more than a few moments are when there is a switch hidden away in the corner somewhere leading to a lot of staring at the walls. A smaller criticism is that whilst fighting several enemies requires some tactics in your position (especially against a mix of ranged & melee foes) fighting single enemies can feel a bit repetitive (side-step > stab > side step > fire-burst > rinse > repeat).

[Hotcakes]

What you (Oldies <3) have to understand is...

A bit of open mindedness all around wouldn't go astray methinks The 'oldies' mentality comes from the 20 years of conditioning we've received from media/publishers dictating that this genre of game we used to love is now obsolete and nobody would buy it. This is no different to social influences over multiple decades leading to the populaces' determinations on how to treat politics, sexuality, race, religion etc etc. When an entire industry is telling you for half your life that what you used to like is bad, you might be inclined to start believing them. It's brainwashing and it works.

That said, a lot of detractors have of course bashed the game based on these enforced beliefs, which obviously doesn't help. All that 'oldies' need to understand here is that proportionally speaking, young gamers are just as likely to carry the mindset required to enjoy these games as we did back in the day - after all, the unique blend of cartography, problem solving and strategy that drew so many people in in the first place hasn't become outdated, only the graphics have. As such, these gameplay mechanics will never go out of style; at worst, they'll only stay as popular as they were back in their heyday, while other genres' popularity will grow and eclipse us. (This realisation has been adopted from Ron Gilberts' thoughts on point-n-click adventures.)

And now after an age, Almost Human have come along and created a faithful modern rendition of what made these games so great in the first place. They've brought the genre into the modern era and the world has woken up and realised that great gaming and great enjoyment never actually goes out of style. For fans of the genre new and old, the future looks brighter than ever...

Games are definitely much more Player Vs Player oriented these days, but everyone likes a good single player game every once in a while.

That does it. Almost Human need to implement multiplayer coop/versus in LoG2 :p

[Dandy]

From what I can gather LOG has drawn in a particular type of young person. The type of young person that has always wanted to play a game like LOG but never has had the chance, also they may possess a greater imagination and sense of wonderment than most. Either way it has to be a good thing. Let's hope that LOG has started a whirlwind of games with game-play, that will be coming to your computer quite soon.

[osashta]

Some of us younger people have still played older dungeon crawlers. I played eye of the beholder when I was 8 even though it was already an old game in those days. So grimrock still does bring back nostalgia for me even though I'm not quite the age range for its primary lifespan.

[TheBigMick]

I'm 49 and have been playing computer games since Zork. I am so pleased with the progression of computer games in general, I can't wait for newer graphics, or whatever they are going to come out with next.
Then I saw this and I never realized how much I missed the old dungeon crawler games. One of my all time favorite games was Dungeon master on my Atari ST, and it all came on 1 floppy disk. spent hours, days, hell months playing that game. Stacks of graph paper at my side, mouse in one hand, pencil in the other.

I hope the devs continue this game with a sequel, I am definitely a fan again