https://i.imgur.com/NVHXHRuh.jpg
this was taken by one of the characters. its from the middle of a battle. i tried to figure out what was going on lol. its like a Hans Bellmer photo montage or something.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 March 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link
I have finally, sadly, accepted that I don't have the time to learn how to play strategy/builder games like Surviving Mars - as great as it looks. It might just go on my list of "games I watch other people play on Twitch"
― CraigG, Friday, 9 March 2018 14:07 (six years ago) link
otm, i love board games in that genre but 4x video games are an order of magnitude more involved to learn and play
― ciderpress, Friday, 9 March 2018 14:23 (six years ago) link
Yeah - but what I've watched of Surviving Mars seems oddly joyless. But maybe it's great if you get engaged.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 9 March 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
finished Tales of Berseria last night, really good JRPG overall. some of the best & most fun character writing I've seen in the genre, and the combat system was enjoyable the whole way through. it doesn't have the visual or environmental wow factor of some of its peers e.g. xenoblade but it does everything else well.
next up in my JRPG queue is the first Trails in the Sky game, i think
― ciderpress, Friday, 9 March 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
xp in my experience every mars themed game, both videogame and tabletop, comes out joyless, i call this the Curse of Mars
― ciderpress, Friday, 9 March 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
lol
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 9 March 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/5vxrKexl.jpg
i just got to the 2nd map in Metal Gear Survive and am still am having fun. bow & arrow/battle axe is my current go-to loadout. this game may reuse a lot of MGSV assets but so far the world maps are entirely new. looking forward to see what they do with the jungle, not being tied to having the larger bases/outputs formula.
mission 14 was pretty incredible! one of the few legit reuses of an old map and it's for such a cool sequence. there are a bunch of cutscenes from this mission and the final one is a doozy.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:22 (six years ago) link
― ciderpress, Friday, March 9, 2018 10:08 AM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not true! Red Faction: Guerrilla is a delight! But that's almost entirely due to destructible environments. Few game mechanics can compare to smashing buildings apart with a sledgehammer.
― Another helping of mouthwatering cobbler? (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
trails in the sky is charming but v slow paced, i'm 12 hours in and not much has happened yet. love the corny jazzy battle music, it's so far off of the final fantasy template that 90% of these games use.
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link
Wasn't Doom set on Mars? I won't stand by and let you slander Doom!
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:55 (six years ago) link
i meant strategy / survival games set on mars, doom is fine
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Ultima_Worlds_of_Adventure_2_cover.jpghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima:_Worlds_of_Adventure_2:_Martian_Dreams
never played but this always looked sick
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:45 (six years ago) link
whoa ciderpress you're playing trails in the sky? i am trying to play it too! less than an hour in and i almost always immediately fall asleep as soon as i try to play tho.
― flippy bard (Will M.), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
yeah i just started it last weekend it's very cozy
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
i'm a bit more excited about trails of cold steel tbh but i want to do things proper and play the older series first. it honestly hasn't aged that badly compared to other early 00s RPGs thanks to using sprites instead of 3d models for the characters
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
well i blasted through trails in the sky 1 thanks to liberal use of the turbo button - really glad they added that feature in the steam version, there's a ton of lengthy magic animations in combat that you don't need to watch 1000 times, and cutscenes of airships slowly taking off and landing in a game that's already really slow paced. combat was reasonably fun, it's got a pretty basic but enjoyable turn-based system that was engaging enough to have me constantly tinkering with my characters' builds. it ends on quite the cliffhanger and having started the 2nd game now it's become clear that 1 was really just something of a long introduction to the world and characters, whereas 2 is much meatier from the start since that stuff is all out of the way.
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
d00dz my students are obsessed with fortnite and won’t shut up about it
is it any good??
― the late great, Thursday, 22 March 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link
it's okay, it's the best of the trendy battle royale games so far just by virtue of running smoothly. unclear how long the trend will last
― ciderpress, Thursday, 22 March 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link
I tried pubg last night and Holy holy does trying to find a tiny enemy on a tiny screen suck
― big C (calstars), Thursday, 22 March 2018 01:55 (six years ago) link
Just sneak to the final circle, hide, and lob grenades liberally when down to 2. It's how I won my only chicken dinner, whilst being a lousy shot. I love(d) the aesthetic of PUBG, and hate that of Fortnite.
I've played Subnautica to death. Dozens of hours past the end of the game to collect seeds and plant decorative undersea gardens. Probably going to buy Surviving Mars next.
― #DeleteFacebook (Sanpaku), Thursday, 22 March 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
would be interested to hear how surviving mars is. i watched a stream and wasn't totally convinced.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 22 March 2018 02:35 (six years ago) link
i think i just can't stomach Gun Games unless they're stylized rather than going for realism re: fortnite vs pubg
― ciderpress, Thursday, 22 March 2018 03:00 (six years ago) link
the last big fad was overwatch
― the late great, Thursday, 22 March 2018 03:36 (six years ago) link
battle royale is a fad of greater magnitude than overwatch, by a fair amount
― ciderpress, Thursday, 22 March 2018 03:46 (six years ago) link
i thought the same of mobas, but they stuck around
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 22 March 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
and actually overwatch has generally stuck around too. not sure they're fads so much as just new genres
moba and battle royale more new genre-y than overwatch, which is more of a refinement
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 22 March 2018 03:52 (six years ago) link
yeah blizzard is in full-on pc genre refinement business, cf hearthstone, herostorm and overwatch.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 22 March 2018 03:57 (six years ago) link
yeah i don't necessarily mean flash in the pan, MMOs and MOBAs both went through fad periods where there were tons being made and then eventually people gave up on competing with the successful ones. we haven't gotten that bandwagon wave of battle royale games yet but you can be sure as hell they're coming
― ciderpress, Thursday, 22 March 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
i just meant in terms of what my students - obv a very small subset - were into
― the late great, Thursday, 22 March 2018 04:04 (six years ago) link
hearthstone is interesting because it's not an original game concept but blizzard were the first big studio to gamble on there being an audience for it among video gamers and not just tabletop gamers. i wouldn't call it a refinement of anything, it was the first major game in its space. MTG online was just never designed for accessibility or new players so it doesn't even count here imo
― ciderpress, Thursday, 22 March 2018 04:05 (six years ago) link
I thought a decent chunk of gamers have been into online "CCG" deck-building games for ages?
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 22 March 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link
do people still play DayZ? that was the hotness at one point. did it even make out of early access yet?
Played I Am Setsuna over the last week as it was half price on the eshop. Its got a bad rep and I can see why most might not like it (linear, downbeat etc.) but I really enjoyed my time with it. Harkens back to FF4 and Chrono Trigger and other 16 bit JRPGs, but streamlines a lot of stuff. Only major complaint is the soundtrack which is all solo piano, which conceptually I think is good to fit with the wintery theme of the game, but the composer sadly just isn’t up to the task. I switched it off after a couple of hours :/
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 22 March 2018 04:23 (six years ago) link
yeah i was thinking about picking that up on sale
― ciderpress, Thursday, 22 March 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
wasn't the guy who made DayZ the one who made PUBG? or one of them
― Nhex, Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
Playerunknown made a BR mod for DayZ, then participated in some way in H1Z1, before working with the Koreans.
― #DeleteFacebook (Sanpaku), Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link
ni no kuni 2 is out tomorrow, planning to play it once i get confirmation that the PC version is functional
― ciderpress, Friday, 23 March 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link
You’re a machine, I’m still not done with Xenoblade Chronicles 2
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 23 March 2018 00:27 (six years ago) link
i spend a lot of time playing games...also i'm not a completionist, i tend to just do the main story + a small sampling of side content in RPGs
― ciderpress, Friday, 23 March 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
Quake 3 isn't really related to the previous games in any meaningful way, but I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying it. It's like a proto-Alien: Isolation, super stressful and unnerving. I can only handle random gibbering from the shadows and waiting for a thing to jump at me from a hole in the roof for, like, half an hour at a time before I get all noped out.
― Toilet Paper Tube Bracelets -- Super Hero Themed? (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 March 2018 01:17 (six years ago) link
Oh goddammit, I meant Doom 3, not Quake 3. Look, it's been a long day.
― Toilet Paper Tube Bracelets -- Super Hero Themed? (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 March 2018 03:16 (six years ago) link
started ni no kuni 2, so far my party consists of a catboy and the president of the united states
― ciderpress, Saturday, 24 March 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link
That’s a big get
― valorous wokelord (silby), Saturday, 24 March 2018 00:12 (six years ago) link
Northgard is pretty great
― Mordy, Thursday, 29 March 2018 01:57 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/49LuAeYh.jpg
― ciderpress, Sunday, 1 April 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
Yeah. I don't know why I have such an issue with the latter. That whole 'dialogue over a static image' thing feels so lazy to me. Y'all remember this is a game, right?
― Arthur Pizzarelli AKA The Peetz (Old Lunch), Sunday, 1 April 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
I just finished playing Hungry Hearts Diner ON IOS & it was a very nice Japanese food game / visual novel where you play a grandmother tending a provincial japanese food shop & customers come in & tell their stories more and more as you develop the dishes they crave, like salisbury steak and curry. it's simply and quick but the stories were surprisingly touching.
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
is it like diner dash mechanics?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:37 (six years ago) link
I don’t know diner dash but it’s not really a speed game, ludically it’s very simple but the stories were very nice, I’m glad to have played
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link