Also, the idea that he's teaching a new generation of students at NYU to make games is terrifying
― Nhex, Monday, 6 January 2020 01:09 (four years ago) link
I recently found out he was the bassist on Cut Copy's first album.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 6 January 2020 02:14 (four years ago) link
ha, that's a good asterisk!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 6 January 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
I’ve only seen that game in the frustrating clips and an interview, and subsequently in a speed run videowhere someone finished the entire game inunder two minutesI feel like that is a classic of video game feelings. What was that NES zapper game where you were controlling a moving guy, but had to shoot under or at him to jump, etc? I only watched a friend play, with the gun inches from the screen, and it was still jokingly referenced as a classic of the frustration genre
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 04:05 (four years ago) link
Gumshoe! That game was great.
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 6 January 2020 09:07 (four years ago) link
been playing a lot of red dead online. well, spent a lot of time, it doesn't really feel like i've done very much.
they've added four "roles" so there's four different job paths with unlock grinds to take you away from generic unlock grind. they are fun in themselves (the moonshiner role has some tough story missions) and eventually make good money, but have the same lack of explanation and baffling design decisions as the rest of the game
someone figured out that the timers on the bounty missions, for instance, run backwards. multipliers go up the longer you take. so if you want to make your time really worthwhile, you have to stand around at the drop off as long as you can. smh.
you can find lots of commentary on the lines of "what is there to actually do in this?" the trouble is the PVP modes are not great. the RD platform might just be bad for it -- the sluggish and arbitrarily lethal combat + overly complex controls for consuming tonics is better for narrative than competition. i suspect r* was banking on everyone doing the "elimination series" battle royale mode. but literally nobody does. i've tried a few times to find the queues completely empty.
there are a separate set of PVP "free roam events" that are more interesting and varied, but you can't do those at will -- the system will invite you every 45 mins.
years ago i played a crazy amount of GTA online. the racing was great! there were some co-op wave defense modes that were good too. so it felt like grinding to buy new cars or garages or guns was worthwhile.
still though, lots of clothes. that's cool. which you need, because r* made everything winter for the holidays, and you'll freeze if you don't have a combo of warm clothes on. which is not explained. and you have to buy them.
― goole, Monday, 6 January 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
In the actual correct thread I started playing Two Point Hospital again after giving it up on it for months and I love it; strong recommend. If you haven’t played it in a while, you can now rename your doctors, which ofc has potential for endless awfulness.
― glindr jackson (gyac), Monday, 6 January 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
It turns out I'm incapable of hitting the block button at the right time to parry in the Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order game, so I did a lot of it in the easier mode.
It's got some goofy platforming bits and a lot of wandering, but the story is everything I wanted as a Star Wars dude and the gameplay once you unlock a bunch of force abilities is really fun. The progression from single lightsaber to dual bladed to *censored lightsaber spoiler* is cool.
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
the whole combat and movement in Jedi is *really* spongey - especially having come from a similar mechanic in Sekiro.
― Fizzles, Monday, 6 January 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link
TPH is in this month's Humble Choice, so I'll give it a try eventually
― Nhex, Monday, 6 January 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
xp they seem to have patched out some of the buggier things, but I did encounter at least one stormtrooper who completely failed to notice I was there, and some of the jumps when you're sliding down an incline are goofy
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
you can kite a miniboss to the edge of its scripted range (where they just stop chasing you) and then force pull it beyond that range, where it'll just sit there. it'll counterattack when you swing but won't follow up so you can dodge out of range and take another whack at your leisure. or push/pull it to a ledge and voila.
― adam, Monday, 6 January 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
score match on android, a full-team match engine upgrade on the outrageously addictive score hero
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 00:53 (four years ago) link
The Escapist 2, trying it out with a split screen buddy.
Seems fun so far, kind of like Skooldaze where you had to attend a daily schedule whilst trying to fit in working your own sneaky agenda
― Ste, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 09:10 (four years ago) link
Uncharted trilogy "free" on PSN this month, I had only played 4 before so having fun.
― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
played some control this morning. fun game but i am terrible at action/shooting games. made it to the first boss but keep getting killed
― na (NA), Friday, 10 January 2020 21:58 (four years ago) link
the shooting controls ironically aren't that great imo
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 January 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
I should go back to Control but I was too bad at timing to get past the last round of bosses on my initial runthrough
― babu frik fan account (mh), Friday, 10 January 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
Ideally, shooting only complements your launch ability in CONTROL. Launching is how you kill most enemies.
― Camina Burana Drummer (Leee), Friday, 10 January 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
Had to use some YouTube hints to beat some of the control bosses. I have old slow reflexes though and stubbornly refuse to lower difficulty. The worm boss (1st) and the plant boss prob took 20 tries each.Lately I have just been playing OOTP baseball. Very nerdy and addictive.
― bnw, Saturday, 11 January 2020 01:13 (four years ago) link
cyberpunk delayed to september
― ciderpress, Thursday, 16 January 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
delayed from when?
(should have been july 7)
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 January 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
it had an april release date previously
― ciderpress, Thursday, 16 January 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
follows the FF VII delay, makes sense
― Nhex, Thursday, 16 January 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
Just 100%'d schlockware title Mr. President! where you rag doll your way into stopping Trump assassination attempts. Not sure why I did this. Spoiler: after the 10th chapter when you've saved Trump from being murdered in the post-apocalyptic wasteland he's caused, you go back in time and kill him, erasing the timeline.Probably took years off my life getting the hardest achievement where you play as Trump himself throwing endlessly respawning immigrants out of a wrestling ring.
― Nhex, Sunday, 19 January 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
dang
― juntos pedemos (Euler), Sunday, 19 January 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link
Kojima does it again.
― circa1916, Sunday, 19 January 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link
I played Wargroove after a long break because I sort of got stuck on one level in the campaign. I had the AI boxed in but that just concentrated their defenses into a smaller space, and I didn't like the idea of using my troops as cannon fodder. Those sprites are too cute to blithely send to their deaths!
― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Monday, 27 January 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link
I just started Outer Wilds. The bad news is I don't know wtf I am supposed to do. The good news is I didn't get motion sick from it.
― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Saturday, 1 February 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
Finished God of War. I warmed up to it as it went on but then it just kinda ended. When the credits started rolling it was very “that’s it?”. Some optional areas to explore afterwards, but this was on the whole kinda underwhelming. Peak example of the trend of AAA games getting 90+ Metacritic scores even though they’re at heart totally just OK-to-pretty-good.Arkham Knight was sitting in my library as an old, free PS+ download. Liked the first two games, but this starts off immediately worse than those. Hitching your ride to this clunky ass Batmobile stuff was maybe not a good move. I’m only a few hours in and it’s still mostly fun, but it does seem sloppier and less considered than the other Arkham games.
― circa1916, Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
my boy played some Arkham Knight and yeah it just seemed like he was driving around a lot, which is boring. does it get better? I loved the first one and haven't played the second one yet.
― juntos pedemos (Euler), Saturday, 1 February 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
No such thing as a boring video game because boring is a fake idea.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 1 February 2020 21:40 (four years ago) link
the Batmobile stuff is most definitely not great. everything else is the same Arkham-y goodness that makes it worth getting through those few parts
― Nhex, Saturday, 1 February 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
cool thanks
― juntos pedemos (Euler), Saturday, 1 February 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
― circa1916, Sunday, 2 February 2020 04:27 (four years ago) link
the batmobile stuff was a huge mistake in tone and gameplaythere were a lot of cool parts, including the puzzles where catwoman is imprisoned. but the batmobile stuff was... meh
― babu frik fan account (mh), Sunday, 2 February 2020 04:40 (four years ago) link
I have to give them props on the look/feel of the city. Just a great twisted knot of neon and noir. Blade Runner-y.
― circa1916, Sunday, 2 February 2020 06:30 (four years ago) link
Meets the Burton Batman stuff. It’s cool.
― circa1916, Sunday, 2 February 2020 06:31 (four years ago) link
bear in mind that i feel like there was something of a gameplay shift from Asylum to City - definitely less of a focus of clearing room-to-room as they added in the greater overworld puzzling and exploration. And I suspect they assume players have played both of the others. but you can always go back and play City later if you're still hungry for more (and Origins yet still).
― Nhex, Sunday, 2 February 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
I thought the batmobile parts with the neon seemed more like Schumacher batman
― babu frik fan account (mh), Sunday, 2 February 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
Hmmm
― circa1916, Sunday, 2 February 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
Could have sworn we had a PUBG thread but I'll say this here instead.
I am unbelievably shit at this game. Anyone else still play?
― Ste, Monday, 3 February 2020 12:34 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ90LtcWOJc
I finally found evidence that the best game of all time really did exist rather than just a fever dream of my youth
― juntos pedemos (Euler), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/the-most-underrated-games-of-the-decade-1840365171
What do you all think? I've picked up Binary Domain in the strength of classic ILG comments and Echo is on my wishlist.
― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Saturday, 22 February 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
Sleeping Dogs was excellent and Freedom Cry good.
― pet friendly (Euler), Saturday, 22 February 2020 17:51 (four years ago) link
weird take on an 'underrated' list, bunch of games from massively popular franchises that weren't even particularly panned at release, and both The Missing and Pathologic 2 have gotten lots of praise in the past year
― ciderpress, Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
binary domain is the right sort of stuff though
― ciderpress, Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it's kind of clear that it's kind of a tossed off list, but I hadn't heard of e.g. Pathologic before so it's serving its purpose to at least one reader!
― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link
I hadn't heard of Echo, myself, and it's only three years old
― Nhex, Saturday, 22 February 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
remember me and binary domain were both excellent.
― adam, Monday, 24 February 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link