i could not figure out what was enjoyable about rotmg and i tried a bunch
― Mordy, Sunday, 15 May 2016 16:40 (eight years ago) link
yeah, it's not for everyone. it's kind of relaxing in a way, just being part of a swarm. StarBreak is a 2D contra-style platformer version of it.
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 15 May 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
also ponyisland is v. frog fractions esque and worth checking out imo
― Mordy, Sunday, 15 May 2016 17:17 (eight years ago) link
finished uncharted I started uncharted II - from the opening it's obviously a significantly better game than the first which i had to force myself to finish. picked up stellaris and looking forward to giving it a try. nuclear throne is still addictive as hell. pony island was fun as heck and i highly recommend.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 03:07 (eight years ago) link
man pony island was not fun. it was 'ok this is kinda neat'
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 13:14 (eight years ago) link
aw, i liked it.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 13:21 (eight years ago) link
heartily loving the first two episodes of the new hitman game, don't even feel stupid for giving them all the money, blew up an Italian with a golf ball last night
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link
Doom a hoot
― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Sunday, 22 May 2016 23:48 (eight years ago) link
ok, playing some ninja gaiden (NES) over at https://www.twitch.tv/weinventyou
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Monday, 23 May 2016 02:47 (eight years ago) link
hate those birds. you should play hyper light drifter if you haven't already!
― home organ, Monday, 23 May 2016 03:15 (eight years ago) link
I want Doom and overwatch and 12 hours a day I can game.
― bnw, Friday, 27 May 2016 15:02 (eight years ago) link
I am playing dark souls 2 and trying to pursuade my wife that buying a ps4 is more important than fixing the plumbing.
― thomasintrouble, Friday, 27 May 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link
nuclear throne is kinda a minor classic btw
― Mordy, Friday, 27 May 2016 20:12 (eight years ago) link
depends on what plumbing imo
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 27 May 2016 20:22 (eight years ago) link
man, i could reliably get to 6-3 in ninja gaiden, but i would always die at the spot right before the boss. if not there, then on the boss, or one of the two bosses you have to fight in a row after that. i think i got to the final one once, but never beat the game. still one of my favorites ever. that music!
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 27 May 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
uncharted 4, doom, diablo 3 for some reason.
all while i break from dark souls 3 which is probably calling me for a second character already
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Friday, 27 May 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
xp - i was so hooked on nuclear throne over the winter, had to stop cold turkey. watching youtubes of it has been the most humbling experience of the twitch era for me so far.
if you have ios, any interest in strategy games, and little interest in your life this weekend, run to the app store right now to buy imbroglio. some talk on tooch thread.
― home organ, Friday, 27 May 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
vampire the masquerade: bloodlines (modded up and w/ steam controller) -- atmosphere galore, pleasantly sleazy, elegant+robust stats system, unexpected and genuinely scary haunted house section, terrible combat.
DOOM (2016) -- at least one upgrade system too many, but has the alchemy: continues to function as ultraviolent power fantasy even as it kills me dozens of times in the same place.
DOOM II -- these maps! the formal ambition, and the taxing confidence in the audience, of someone's "late style".
the witcher 2: assassins of kings -- what happened to me is i beat the first one so now i feel invested in this stupid bullshit and can't just skip to the one everyone likes. witcher 1 was no triumph of elegant minimalism in crpg uis but this one may actually have the worst inventory interface i've ever seen? every time i open it up i'd say there's a 40% chance i accidentally take off my pants.
unreal tournament -- so conservative it could be a kickstarter project -- they even kept the biorifle, hardly a hallowed piece of fps weapon design -- but if it were a kickstarter project the aging, grumpy player base (hi) would presumably act even more entitled than they do now. neither as good as the original nor different from it in a single meaningful way, so hard to recommend to those for whom its existence isn't recommendation enough, but very pretty and not a betrayal.
subnautica -- my go-to oculus demo: a standard post-minecraft survival game of the kind that now seems to be most of steam, but in the (alien, cartoony) ocean. can't play it that often, at least not with the thing on my head, cuz it scares me -- the 360-degree vulnerability; the distant groans of vast, unseen fauna. mostly play it as an environment, not a game, but wish i had the patience to craft myself a submarine or whatever. (would be less scared if i had a submarine.)
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Monday, 30 May 2016 05:33 (eight years ago) link
never got past 6-3 in ninja gaiden either, usually died in 6-2 anyways
― am0n, Monday, 30 May 2016 06:44 (eight years ago) link
renowned explorers - my 6th rated game for last year - has new dlc out today:
This expansion pack for Renowned Explorers has one goal: giving you More To Explore! The main features are: Two complete new expeditions: the Andean Adventure & The Lost Island. The Campfire mechanic: crew relationships, back stories and game-changing upgrades. Treasure Bonus Choices, turning treasures into surprises that boost your strategy.
Two complete new expeditions: the Andean Adventure & The Lost Island. The Campfire mechanic: crew relationships, back stories and game-changing upgrades. Treasure Bonus Choices, turning treasures into surprises that boost your strategy.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 21:48 (eight years ago) link
I have downloaded total war: warhammer (which should obv have been called total warhammer) and have got back in touch with people I played actual warhammer with when I was 11 to play it with
much more fun than I was expecting tbh
― ogmor, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 09:20 (eight years ago) link
Grabbed Dangerous Golf on launch today before seeing any reviews, because how could an indoor smash-as-much-as-you-can golf game by the guys who made burnout be anything but great, right?
Well, it's not great. It's the most unpolished game I've seen in YEARS, and 5 or 6 stages in I've hit a point of "wait I'm not even sure what the game wants me to do here" - just smashing stuff isn't it, apparently, they've hidden the hole and it's really unclear what I need to do to find it again (but it won't let me progress until I do).
So that's a big disappointment.
― JimD, Friday, 3 June 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link
Am flagging on Doom. Might have to tick down the difficulty by one. Don't feel comfortable with that.
― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Friday, 10 June 2016 16:01 (eight years ago) link
lol guess what game I'm playing
http://i.imgur.com/9eRt0Vv.jpg
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 14:00 (seven years ago) link
Fifa 97!
― JimD, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
tried the doom demo. the controls seem really basic but i guess thats a good thing. looks nice n smooth but i'll probably wait for price drop. also doing the latest witcher 3 dlc
― am0n, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link
OG Doom and Doom II and Duke Nukem 3D and Star Wars: Dark Forces. God damn ID for never porting Quake to PS3 or Vita. God damn them to hell.
― Manspread Mann (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 16:36 (seven years ago) link
assassin's creed: black flag
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
the controls seem really basic
what are you looking for, the crafting interface
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
(wise to wait for a price drop i think; it's a complete blast but the multiplayer's kind of a feint so it's a single-player game you almost certainly won't play through more than twice and i doubt that's a $60 value.)
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
didnt mean it as a complaint, its more just being used to destiny since i don't do fps much
― am0n, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
it's bethesda so i expect to be able to grab it for $15 by the end of the year
― Nhex, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Yahoo/ept_sports_fantasy_experts-378688165-1224777141.jpg
― am0n, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
this looks goodhttp://waifubartending.com/http://store.steampowered.com/app/447530/?snr=1_5_1100__1100&mc_cid=d28860c812&mc_eid=338521f8a3
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:34 (seven years ago) link
wishlisted for inevitable bundle inclusion
― Nhex, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
whatever zappi's playing, i want to play it
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Friday, 24 June 2016 01:11 (seven years ago) link
The Witness??
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 24 June 2016 01:24 (seven years ago) link
oh ok i don't want to play that
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Friday, 24 June 2016 01:29 (seven years ago) link
yes The Witness! Some really clever puzzle design, or at least it makes you feel really clever when you solve it.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 24 June 2016 10:54 (seven years ago) link
Just added the Witness based on that screenshot:)
Because I am nothing if cutting edge, I've just finished the Beginner's Guide - I liked it a lot more than JimD and forks, though partly _because_ like Jim I didn't buy into the autobio nature at all. It's def. on the "games are art" spectrum though - like it costs as much, and lasts about as long, as a good thinky movie.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 10:32 (seven years ago) link
was a bit disappointed with the ending of The Witness but was expecting that tbh, still a fun puzzler tho.now playing Tokyo Mirage Sessions (SMT backwards, I see what you did there), which so far feels like Digital Devil Saga on industrial strength SSRIs. Funny how this the first Atlus RPG in HD, only took them a decade.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 10:51 (seven years ago) link
what that sounds fun. is there a good core of JRPGs on the WiiU? would like to remain neutral on xbone vs ps4 as long as possible, but seeing as wiiU is nearing end of gen, it'll be a good value system for a while.
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 14:03 (seven years ago) link
nah just this and XCX. PS4 is the way to go if you want console JRPGs in the near future, although who knows how the next Nintendo hardware will work out. There has also been a steady increase in JRPG releases on Steam recently, whether C-Tier console stuff like Agarest/Neptunia or re-releases of classics like Grandia II. Would love to see Atlus bring their stuff to PC :/
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
Man, the Vita is hot shit for JRPGs on the go, if you didn't already know. They seem to comprise most of the new releases these days.
― There must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 14:56 (seven years ago) link
why stay agnostic on xbone v ps4? seems obv that ps4 won this gen.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 14:56 (seven years ago) link
boom
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 15:35 (seven years ago) link
I won't buy xbone/ps4 until 2017 at the earliest, and I don't know what's going to change with the new buffed models
also I have only played a sony machine once, for about 30 minutes, smuggler's run on a ps2 I think; otherwise never seen a ps1/2/3/4 in person even. weird! I've had an xbox & a 360 and am building up a library of free xbone games through gold on 360 as well
but if ps4 ends up being the way to go in 2017 or so, then so be it.
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 15:38 (seven years ago) link
dude wtf
if nothing else the original PS was pretty ubiquitous
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 16:09 (seven years ago) link
I've never owned a Nintendo system aside from a Game Boy but I would've had to have been raised in a cage that was stuffed in a crawlspace to have never seen or played an NES.
― There must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 16:17 (seven years ago) link
I admittedly have a pretty weird system progressionNintendo -> Game Gear (lol) -> SNES -> PS -> Dreamcast -> ... -> PS2 -> (large time lapse) PSP -> -> PS3 -> PS4
kind of drops off and then I just keep buying Sony crap
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link