lol yeah saga games are definitely only for the most broke-brained jrpg fans. octopath is much much more accessible than this
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/3eQVbse.png59 - Samurai Shodown - 5 points / 1 VotePlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Stadia, Microsoft Windows, Arcade
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
good iteration/revival of samsho, like all modern jp fighting games though its strictly a multiplayer game with some minimum effort single player modes tacked on. i never play single player in fighting games even when it exists so that doesn't bother me but i know its a dealbreaker for most
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
ciderpress I started playing SGSGA and man it's kinda hard! and I don't know if I'm advancing my equipment enough for the stage of the game I'm in.
― silby, Friday, 3 April 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
yeah i'm not sure either, i haven't beaten my first character's campaign still. i think most enemies in saga games scale to your current power level but it's very obfuscated and there's stuff you can do to make the game harder without realizing it
the "hard" combat encounters definitely take me multiple tries a lot. you usually have to focus on trying to get a United Attack or whatever its called since thats the only way you can get ahead momentum-wise
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
yeah it might not be a good thoughtless bedtime game in that regard. I also am not sure if it's a good idea or not to try to train characters on nondefault weapons.
― silby, Friday, 3 April 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/L3lUlWe.png59 - Wattam - 5 points / 1 VotePlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
(sorry for the delay, lunch break)
are those katamari princes? (I am v bad at following gaming news)
― rob, Friday, 3 April 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
catching up. card of darkness was fun! enjoyed animations and progression of complexity. oddly i hit a wall the first time i played this and then completed it fairly easily when i went back to it. not really a stayer but it did the job v well as an iphone filler game. probably the place to bemoan the lack of a serious michael brough contender this year. pretty much any of his games would have been GotY any year they got released.
― Fizzles, Friday, 3 April 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
wattam is the katamari guy's new game yes
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
it is not a katamari game though
https://i.imgur.com/8XtvkKR.png59 - Sugarlawn - 5 points / 1 VoteInteractive Fiction readers
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
emil.y, tell us of the IF!
― silby, Friday, 3 April 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
I finished Pilgrims last weekend. Pretty solid. It's about two hours from start to finish. If you liked other Amanita games like Machinarium it's in that same vein.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
Lonely Mountains Downhill >>>>> Trials 6
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/KU8XAHo.png59 - Feather - 5 points / 1 VoteNintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Macintosh operating systems
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
i think that was my vote for trials rising. i found it incredibly addictive, but it was my first trials game so i had nothing to compare it to re: the complaints upthread. if lonely mountains downhill has the satisfying tactile physics of trials with a better aesthetic and no loot boxes i'd be all about that
xp
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 3 April 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/OnqAHYf.png59 - Horace - 5 points / 1 VoteMicrosoft Windows
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
this one looked insufferable to me, maybe that's the joke but i'm not gonna find out
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/xUsl0J3.png59 - Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - 5 points / 1 VoteWindows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
Oh, I voted for Wattam and Sugarlawn! I might have given Wattam a few more points if I'd played it for longer, but only did a few hours immersing myself in the weird weird world. It's very twee, but then you can hold hands and dance with toilets and turn things into poop and... I don't know, it's strange. Definitely worth playing, but as I say, I'm not yet sure if there's more to it than just its odd charm.
Sugarlawn is a good IF treasure hunt. I play a lot of IF and almost never map or write physical notes, but with this one I actually did those things. It's a timed scavenger hunt framed as a TV show in an old mansion, and you have to try to maximise your winnings. I usually like a really deep immersive world in my IF and this is relatively shallow, but it's fun and there's loads of replay value.
― emil.y, Friday, 3 April 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
every few years I try to get into IF for a little while, play something recommended by someone, usually peter out pretty quickly because it's just not in my nature to really stick to these things. As much as I'd like to! Similar experience as I have w/ (genuine) roguelikes (i.e. nethack, brogue, DCSS)
― silby, Friday, 3 April 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uYZUud1.png59 - The Stillness of the Wind - 5 points / 1 VoteNintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, iOS
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
if lonely mountains downhill has the satisfying tactile physics of trials with a better aesthetic and no loot boxes i'd be all about that
The physics aren't as tight but you can still use the terrain in lots of fun ways. It has none of the aesthetic issues that Trials has. It's a little more homemade than Trials though.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
finally we have reached the lofty heights of... the games ppl gave 6 points
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/gAxkx8e.png57 - A Plague Tale: Innocence - 6 points / 1 VotePlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
lonely mountains downhill is good and possibly better than trials overall but its not the same thing as trials, i love the setpieceyness of the newer trials levels which is the total opposite of what that game offers
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
hm, i was expecting another 5 pointer. but maybe i gave it 10
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 3 April 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link
Plague Tale is the first to place that I actually played, and I pretty much hated it. Unfun mechanics, derpy dialogue, boring story.
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Friday, 3 April 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/QSmnWNl.png57 - Life is Strange 2 - 6 points / 1 VotePlayStation 4, Xbox One, Macintosh operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Linux
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
hm, i was expecting another 5 pointer. but maybe i gave it 10― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, April 3, 2020 3:03 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, April 3, 2020 3:03 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
or perhaps... you were not the only voter!
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
if true and it's the game i'm thinking of that must mean there's another vibe man in the house who was feeling the vibe
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 3 April 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/oAJQalV.png56 - New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - 7 points / 2 VotesNintendo Switch
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
look at both of those votes
soak in the ~consensus~
HERE'S ANOTHER ONE
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/60mfKpL.png55 - Judgment - 8 points / 2 VotesPlayStation 4
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
i think i'll eventually play judgment but i still haven't finished yakuza 0
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 3 April 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
I have barely scratched the surface of yakuza 0…need to get back to it
― silby, Friday, 3 April 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
judgment is solid, everything's a slight step down from yakuza 0 though except the story and graphics
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
HEY I VOTED FOR JUDGMENT LOL
it looks and walks and talks like a yakuza game but... it is not a yakuza game. i was kind of into it but i think i dropped it as soon as death stranding came out. i gotta get back to it. maybe my retrospective small numbero f points will go up
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link
(i started typing that as soon as i posted the image and forgot to, uh, finish writing the sentence)
anyway here's the last one for today
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uJKZzGE.png54 - Gris - 9 points / 1 VotePlayStation 4 (in 2019)
I bought Judgment but didn't play it yet
can say that for some other games on this list too :(
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
54 - Gris - 9 points / 1 Vote55 - Judgment - 8 points / 2 Votes56 - New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - 7 points / 2 Votes57 - A Plague Tale: Innocence - 6 points / 1 Vote57 - Life is Strange 2 - 6 points / 1 Vote59 - Trials Rising - 5 points / 1 Vote59 - Pilgrims - 5 points / 1 Vote59 - SaGa Scarlet Grace: Ambitions - 5 points / 1 Vote59 - Samurai Shodown - 5 points / 1 Vote59 - Wattam - 5 points / 1 Vote59 - Sugarlawn - 5 points / 1 Vote59 - Feather - 5 points / 1 Vote59 - Horace - 5 points / 1 Vote59 - Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - 5 points / 1 Vote59 - The Stillness of the Wind - 5 points / 1 Vote69 - Card of Darkness - 4 points / 1 Vote69 - Cat Quest 2 - 4 points / 1 Vote71 - Katana Zero - 3 points / 1 Vote71 - Wilmot's Warehouse - 3 points / 1 Vote
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
i just wanna say to pump you all up, the final placements especially at the top are fucking WILD, i do not remember them ever being this, uhh, THIS
i won't say anymore i just wanna pump you all up
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
fuck i said pump up twice GET PUMPED
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
well call me antonio cause i'm pumped now
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 3 April 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
i didn't vote in this, sorrygris is very pretty
― na (NA), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
The thing I like about A Plague Tale ... the world that Asobo Studios (Bordeaux) has created is so French! It has all these medieval details that are very specific and cool ... it's not like Assassin's Creed where (especially in the early games) you're getting some guy from San Francisco or Montreal's version of what medieval Italy might have been like. And instead of making a medieval world with no game, what's there is pretty good. I can imagine not being that jazzed by it but it's so much more fun than the pure walking sims that have placed higher.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 3 April 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
i dont really know what to expect at the top, i didnt play any of the higher profile games last year that i would normally be showering points on like fire emblem or astral chain or dmc5 and the really big one was a fromsoft game which i don't like
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
oh, that one too, shit
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Monday, 13 April 2020 08:35 (four years ago) link
i just played through a short hike and yes, i would have absolutely voted for it
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
Another one
Coint & Plick 2020 - ILX's best games of the year - NOMINATIONS (Deadline: February 26, noon Eastern)
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 16:30 (three years ago) link
VOTE NOW
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― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Saturday, 20 February 2021 22:55 (three years ago) link