i gave 'convoy' about an hour
it's ok i guess
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Sunday, 3 December 2017 07:15 (six years ago) link
I went back and played it compulsively until I'd completed it
Still wouldn't go any better than okay
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Monday, 4 December 2017 00:02 (six years ago) link
fought off temptation to play again
installed bioshock infinite
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Jr7gVTPbMSk/maxresdefault.jpg
don't know if i can solve this puzzle tho
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Monday, 4 December 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
a whole game set in a floating city and it won't let you jump off things
real games fucking let you jump off things
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Monday, 4 December 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
god i fucking hate that game with a passion
― Dic Space has been contacted for comment. (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 December 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
i liked it a lot more when it started letting me jump off things
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
Get Tilt Brush! https://www.tiltbrush.com/
― reggae mike love (polyphonic),
Yeah, tiltbrush is so good. Getting high, putting tunes on and drawing pretty pictures in cyberspace isn't going to get old for a while.
Having lots of fun with Superhot, Serious Sam and Robo Recall. Even with VRs resolution limitation its still a level of immersiveness I haven't encountered elsewhere. Enen just hanging out in VR is cool - playing paintball with randomers in VR was great fun, and watching the man u game in a virtual imax cinema with like 10 other people was a blast. Oh yeah, and wandering around London in Google Earth like I'm Godzilla.
No idea if VR is the future of gaming or a fancy eyeToy but for now I'm a complete convert.
― barbarian radge (NotEnough), Friday, 8 December 2017 10:29 (six years ago) link
bioshock keeps revoking my ability to jump off things
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Friday, 8 December 2017 12:09 (six years ago) link
I got pretty far in bio shock ultimate but then encountered a glitch on the overhanging rail thing and gave up
― calstars, Friday, 8 December 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link
thomp cmon just wiki the plot twist.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 8 December 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
since this is basically the ILG borad thread I'll ask here, is anyone planning on running Coint + Plick this year? I think it's a good year for it. If someone wants to team up, I'd be willing to run the ballot collection and tabulation if someone else can commit to the rollout. I haven't followed C+P for a couple years but I'm…back into video games this year, because Switch
― .oO (silby), Friday, 8 December 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
okay
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 8 December 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
so i started playing that new assassin’s creed game and it appears to be... legit great?
― straightedge is just volcel for vegans (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 9 December 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
I'm NOT playing _Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy_ because apparently my computer isn't powerful enough to run it smoothly at lowest res and worst image quality. Yay Unity!
It seems like an, uh, interesting game. I guess it could easily be called a "meme" game — it's by the guy who made QWOP, and shows a similar interest in building a game around a frustrating control scheme. In this you are a man who's stock in a large kettle, who moves around by dragging and pulling and launching himself up a mountain with a hammer. You essentially control the tip of the hammer, within the range of your arms' reach.
Will hang on to it, just in case the Mac version gets an optimization fix in the next couple of weeks. (That happened to Enter the Gungeon, for instance, which was unplayable for me when it launched.)Also, I've been planning to buy a PC for over a year now, so ANNNNY DAYYY NOWWW!
― Øystein, Saturday, 9 December 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
i don't plan on playing Getting Over It but i'm glad it exists. it's crazy to me that it's a performance intensive-game, though! it seems like one that could work just as well as a DOS-booted game on a floppy disk in 1990.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 9 December 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
Yeah, it's also a 500 MB download!
― Øystein, Saturday, 9 December 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
But I think Enter the Gungeon was a Unity game as well, and that got its Mac performance problems fixed pretty fast, so with luck it might just be some configuration issues with the engine or w/e.
― Øystein, Saturday, 9 December 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
In this you are a man who's stock in a large kettle, who moves around by dragging and pulling and launching himself up a mountain with a hammer
finally, a game about my life
― straightedge is just volcel for vegans (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 9 December 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
it's sexy hiking, u squares
getting over it is like a Chris Marker film, but as a game
― bamcquern, Saturday, 9 December 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
In this you are a man who's stock in a large kettle, who moves around by dragging and pulling and launching himself up a mountain with a hammer. You essentially control the tip of the hammer, within the range of your arms' reach.
This sounds torturous. Like getting out of Plato's cave. I think I'll bite.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 9 December 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link
I am playing Kingdom New Lands ON IPAD and it rules
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 9 December 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
Finally playing No no Kuni again. The Studio Ghibli pair-up seems to have made them want to aim at a much younger audience than all the PS2 Level-5 games
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Sunday, 10 December 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
Played through What Remains of Edith Finch on Friday and I've been thinking about it all weekend. I paid 13 bucks for 2.5 hours of game time and am completely satisfied. Hell, it'll probably wind up my GOTY and is definitely my favorite of the so-called "walking simulators." If it sounds like something you'd like, you should probably just go ahead and give it a try.
― methanietanner, Sunday, 10 December 2017 22:52 (six years ago) link
I'll also recommend Superflight, which is a perfect 3 dollar game and now my go-to "put some music on and chill for 20 minutes in between doing other shit" game.
― methanietanner, Sunday, 10 December 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link
Shadowhand is great btw. will likely start a thread.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 10 December 2017 23:45 (six years ago) link
trying out Northgard. Warcraft with bells on type stuff. It's okay so far, but a little over priced if you ask me.
― Ste, Monday, 11 December 2017 11:29 (six years ago) link
Could not finish. The combat system appeared to have a lot to it, but none of it seems to have any impact on the game? In the end you could still just fight normally with whatever monsters you had since this the begining and ignore the skill tree and upgrades altogether, it seems. Very unlikely the SMT/Persona series where you have to really pick the right monsters to fight along side you depending on enemy vulnerabilities....
― fields of salmon, Monday, 11 December 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
COD: WW2 is just frustratingly bad. Not unplayable but after 2-3 matches at a time it's just not fun. Thought a return to "realistic" would be good after all the sci-fi CODs but matchmaking is terrible, hit detection is crap and the maps suck.
I bought What Remains of Edith Finch a couple of months ago, I need to try it out.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 00:20 (six years ago) link
I'm probably the only one here rocking the xbox one, but I'm stoked about PUBG being released this week. I have a shit laptop, so this will be my first experience playing the game.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 00:36 (six years ago) link
is out on ps4 around the same time? i'm with you. although, i downloaded fortnite and after getting dominated in the battle royale mode a million times straight, i'm not sure i want to fork out money for PUBG and experience the pwnage all over again
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 00:38 (six years ago) link
I have read that PUBG is very glitchy on xbox at the moment so you might want to wait for an update
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 00:53 (six years ago) link
Karl, I believe it is coming to PS4 at some point. I think Microsoft paid a premium to have early access to the game. Poly, I read the same today, but I already purchased it a few days ago. I was planning on playing this weekend. I have the vanilla xbox so my expectations are low. I remember when F13 was released it was described as a buggy mess (and it was), but I had a blast playing it.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
I'm worried about the frame rate issues people are having. I could care less about graphics, tbh.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
grrr, couldn't care less.
shadowhand was fun up to the point where the RNG elements made each level require a dozen plays per to get the right deal
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
https://www.polygon.com/2017-best-games/2017/12/18/16781674/best-video-games-2017-top-50-mario-pubg-zelda
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 03:18 (six years ago) link
that really does make this year look crazy good. haven't heard of a huge chunk of those games, tons of indie pc stuff that looks awesome
― Nhex, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 07:44 (six years ago) link
Yeah that’s a nice list. Lots on xbone ps4 too, more than I’d expected. Pretty shabby listings for iOS but that seems to be established now.
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 07:45 (six years ago) link
deadly premonition
i love this
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Monday, 25 December 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
a classic for sure
― ciderpress, Monday, 25 December 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
we have made the switch today and it is delightful
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 25 December 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
Merry Switchmas to all
― .oO (silby), Monday, 25 December 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
All these best of 2017 lists are more intimidating than usual, keep seeing stuff that looks good that went off my radar entirely. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/12/ars-technicas-best-video-games-of-2017/
― Nhex, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 03:18 (six years ago) link
I dusted off the witcher 3 since I'm trying to finish it in two years but goddamnit it doesnt make things easy.. trying to upgrade some gear and I need one goddamn component that I cant find anywhere, and the online guides aren't very helpful. THIS IS WHY ITS TAKING ME TWO YEARS TO FINISH THIS SHIT.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
i played the first 30 hours of witcher 3 earlier this year and really enjoyed it, and then went and tried to play it again recently and the magic was completely gone, it just felt really gloomy and samey and heavy handed
― ciderpress, Thursday, 28 December 2017 02:02 (six years ago) link
X-Com: Enemy Unknown (2012)
i remember the old VGA DOS one and the cool underwater sequel. never had the game but I did have the demo and it was very fun. this remake was less than $10 on Steam so i finally pulled the trigger. at first it kept crashing during the first mission, but after changing to 1280x768 i haven't seen that problem anymore. anyways the game is really rad. right now im in a railroad yard trying to stealthily move in and disarm plasma bombs while the aliens that set them up try to stop me. i like how unique the missions end up being; someone could get shot by an alien and it may drive someone into a frenzy and they start shooting (maybe killing bad guys, maybe accidental friendly fire) its always something new w this game
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 1 January 2018 02:22 (six years ago) link
so following the tutorial on random missions (even ones marked "easy") and i am horrible at this lol. but it is very fun and looks great and it will be cool to figure out how to make it through w most of my people alive ;-p
i really like the story too. the leader of R&D is very Project Paperclip and i am sure this is on purpose. they talk a lot about the ethics of using the enemy's war machines and the dangers of adopting their techniques. in that way it kind of feel like classic sci fi, and it seems like a good way to tie the story and gameplay together.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 1 January 2018 03:28 (six years ago) link
This is the first year since my childhood I've been mostly familiar with what shows up on end of year lists /:
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Monday, 1 January 2018 03:41 (six years ago) link
tho rn i am playing the last of us for the first time. its certainly a videogame!!
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Monday, 1 January 2018 03:42 (six years ago) link
i bought pyre, little nightmares and sundered for ps4 as they were all on sale and have been recommended on best ofshad every intention of playing through the winter break and didn't touch any of them....
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 1 January 2018 03:43 (six years ago) link