whatchu playing now

yeah i'm just doing the original trilogy for now, gonna take a break after that to not burn myself out. will play ghost trick at some point in there too

DOOM 2016

it owns

I have nostalgia for the Ace Attorney games I’ve played. (1-5 by release date). I quit there because no 3DS.

all the 3ds ones are also on android/ios i think

Just re-downloaded the AA stuff.

Has anyone played the new free quake thing? (Champions). Quake 2 is my 2nd favorite of all time and I’m tempted

ciderpress, I love that one too! Have you ever seen the film (directed by Miike Takashi)? It’s based on this case and it’s as ridiculous as you’d expect but I love it. I also love the last case in this game (Rise from the Ashes) which is all about the cops being bent - shocking, I know - and is also really great especially considering it was a bonus case for when the game was ported to DS.

i remember that, it ruled

I enjoyed the later games, you do get a lot of protagonists all with their own gimmick, but it all helps add variety. The last case in the latest game has you facing - Phoenix Wright!

i just started spiderman and i gotta tell you, hard on the heels of this latest movie it feels pretty joyless

xp is that spirit of justice? I have that downloaded but never progressed much with the first case despite all the sweet sweet Edgeworth banter.

I loved Apollo Justice! The cases (besides the first and last) are fairly whatever, but the ridiculous plot and characters and Phoenix being snide and popping up being unhelpful are great.

was that the one with college student Phoenix Wright?

the first case of 3, which I'm playing now, is the college student Phoenix one, unless there's another

yup that's the one. that heart shirt lol

I'm still down to do c+p this yr btw but I won't open nominations til Jan (and leave em open for like a month per usual)

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Once the ILM stuff is all done and dusted for the year I will open the nominations for C&P 2018, stoked because for once i have played a grip of games from this year

woo excited to award 100 points to Celeste

im prepared to put an atelier game into c&p for possibly the first and last time

I am currently playing The Return of the Obra Dinn, made by Lucas Pope who also made Papers Please. It's basically impossible to talk about this game without spoilers, but it's really good, definitely worth the praise that's been heaped on it in the last couple of weeks. It was released in October so it got lost in the flurry of holiday releases, but it's £15 on Steam at the moment. Also holy hipsterism, Batman, I'm actually playing a recent game for once.

when is c+p noms starting

we usually start in february i think?

after ILM tracks/albums wrap up!

i still have like 5 indie games to finish and pass judgment on

quiet week in gaming

im playing tales of vesperia, it's alright

asscreed odyssey. it was surprisingly fun at first but i'm already getting bored. not sure how much longer i can last.

the ubisoft curse

Enjoyed watching Limmy play Return of Obra Dinn.

Playing LIFE IS STRANGE, and wowsers, it's manipulative as hell but I am wrapped up in it all the same.

Limmy's new subscriber gif is killin me haha

these randomizer romhacks have gotten out of control, currently watching a 5-player multiworld ocarina of time one

went to pub trivia and back and they're still going

fucking dead cells.

DEAD CELLS.

WOW, it's so good! i knew it would be, so i rushed through the cowboy game so i could get to it. i'm not even very far (just made it to the concierge) but the thrill of getting more powerful is so good in dead cells. once you have good grenades and artillery and you invest a bit in cooldowns for them both, you have this side-arsenal that you can deploy ever handful of seconds, in all sorts of situations. very fun. there's probably a shield/parry heavy character that you could build, but i prefer to do ranged + some sort of whip or ice melee. so much fun, even though i'm sure many of us have played so many games sort of in this genre recently. there are a ton of them, but it's kind of a golden age of the genre too, so might as well enjoy them.

i refuse to enjoy them

accidentally played crosscode for 6 hours today...its good

crosscode looks really good too, can't wait to try it

looks very secret of mana-y

feels closer to ys than mana to me, but with zelda puzzle heavy dungeons

the mmo framing seems rolleyes-y on paper but they execute it so well that it really makes it feel like its own thing more than a retro game

Is there a word for when you find yourself playing a game you know is not good, and shallow but it's kinda... there, enough, that you keep going? For me that game is Croixleur Sigma. It was an indie PC hack n' slash from a several years ago that got a port to consoles, the PS4/Switch version came to the US in the last year or two. It didn't expand THAT much from the original, there's like... 2 dungeons that you just keep grinding until you're good enough to beat them. I don't know why I've played it all weekend.

i am still doing all the daily tasks on Disney Crossy Road every morning despite there having been no updates for about a year and nothing to buy with all the coins / pixels / tickets i have been collecting.

I know the shame...but with Bouncy Hoops instead

...and tbh with MPQ but it's best not to talk about that

Nhex, I'm getting that at the moment with Diablo 3. I've come to it late and maybe there's have been some rebalancing updates that have retroactively broken the campaign, but I'm playing it through on the highest difficulty it'll let me use and there's still absolutely zero challenge, I haven't even come close to dying, even once. But I'm still playing, I think just because it's so frictionless.

My buddies got me into this iOS game called Golf Clash, which is easily the most right-wing game I've ever played. Half of the clans are called like Alabama Luvs Trump or some shit.

Fun though

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Yeh I gave up on Diablo 3 after about 10 hours, zero challenge or gameplay, just holding down attack and push forward with the occasional trip to the menu to upgrade equipment. Hollow and boring. Maybe I was playing it wrong? idgi.

No that’s the game I think.

yeah that sounds about right.

about 3/4 thru Wind Waker as I never got round to it earlier, and god, it is stressing me out. I hate the punitive nature of a lot of Nintendo games. Oh you misjudged a landing? OK fall 8 floors to the bottom and START ALL OVER AGAIN THEN. Grrrr.

(I think I was spoiled by the save and return in that spot nature of BOTW)

i dont even remember where wind waker gets vertical enough to do that

The wind temple has this big silo you have to move up and down in with cyclones and the hookshot and I am effing sick of running out of magic and dropping to the ground floor!

still playing through my pre-holiday backlog i posted way upthread

Timespinner is basically a castlevania pastiche circa Symphony/Aria but it's got the vibes and presentation down pat and it plays well. the story isn't really working for me though, feels like it's trying to tell a 20 hour RPG story in a 5 hour platformer via a lot of info-dump-y plaintext

CrossCode is impressing me more the more i play it, even if the pixel art makes it look like a backwards looking 90s thing in the screenshots, it's really not, it feels like its own unique & ambitious thing