started the outer wilds, very agreeable so far though i still can't control the ship for shit after 4 hours
― ciderpress, Monday, 9 March 2020 08:39 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
i started using the autopilot p much every time, and just walking away from my pilot seat and using the information board thing. i don't even wanna look at it flying bc i'm like "oh i can do better than this" and then i crash into the wrong planet
unfortunately i actually haven't played since like friday, because my friend was visiting from out of town then my gf got super sick so she's not going to work/is on the couch/i don't wanna make her watch me play this :( really wanna jump back in tho. feel like i'm well over halfway done.
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
Hah you can't always count on the AP (it's flown me into the sun more than once), and. sometimes if you're accelerating and not buckled in you get smashed into the back of your ship.
― Feminism-Appropriating Regressive Transphobe (Leee), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
holy shit! that hasn't happened to me yet. the sun thing tho i usually just fly manually a bit to make suuuuuure i won't hit it, then i put on autopilot
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
i have for sure autopiloted into the sun at least... 2 or 3 times
It is extremely easy to get way off track and not know how to correct for it.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
i've been playing Murder By Numbers, a kind of Picross meets VN/Ace Attorney deal from the people who made Hatoful Boyfriend i think. i've got a serious Picross addiction and am partial to a VN, it's fun
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 March 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
yeah that was in one of the nintendo indie game showcases and looked pretty good
― ciderpress, Saturday, 14 March 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
New Apple Arcade game Roundguard is great. It’s a peggle roguelike
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 14 March 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
Very little that says "sold" to me as much as 'Picross meets VN/Ace Attorney'
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 14 March 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
they got the ace attorney composer to do the music too
― ciderpress, Saturday, 14 March 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
i'm getting roundguard now
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 14 March 2020 23:59 (four years ago) link
played murder by numbers *and* roundguard last night. both great!
― Mordy, Sunday, 15 March 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
got the last copy of wingspan in NYC and just looooove it
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 16 March 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
i briefly tried to play Control again the other day and quickly resigned myself to the fact that even the first boss is too hard for me and i will never progress beyond that point, which is frustrating bc it seems like a cool game. it doesn't even have difficulty settings for me to unashamedly drop to the easiest level.
― na (NA), Monday, 16 March 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link
Yeah, they have adaptive difficulty but toward the end of the game, it wasn't quite dumbing itself down enough for me
I was getting the PS4 slowdown issues and a mouse might be better at aiming, so I am still thinking of picking it up on PC if it gets super cheap. I want to finish!
― mh, Monday, 16 March 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link
holy shit Iron Wolf, submarine sim in VR, is fecking amazing.
― Ste, Monday, 16 March 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague)
Okay, this sounds very up my street, gonna have to give it a go.
― emil.y, Monday, 16 March 2020 19:38 (four years ago) link
i'm on colossus #8 on Shadow of the Colossus. i'm having a really good time! turns out this game is kind of a classic. who knew?!
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 March 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
I have been playing Murder by Numbers, I'm not sure whether it's better written than Ace Attorney, or just calmer (or entirely possibly it's just that I understand all the cultural references), but I am really enjoying it.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 10:23 (four years ago) link
Currently on the 3rd Uncharted remaster from the recent ps plus giveaway. I think I'll be hunting my first colossus next.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
I am absolutely mauling Gran Turismo Sport. The missions/challenges are TOUGH, man. Some of them remind me of the monumental VW van challenge in GT5 at the Top Gear airstrip. You get to drive such amazing cars and they really do handle totally differently. Squeezing past a Mercedes on a single-lane road through German pine trees - I love it
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 16:07 (four years ago) link
kind of tempted to get euro truck simulator + a ridiculous analog steering wheel setup. that way i can roll down my windows and get some fresh air as i travel europe
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link
Infinitode 2 on my phone. It's a tower defense game with abstract shapes. Requires some grinding.Iconoclasts on PS4. Neat maze platformer, but too much dialog that slows it down.Murder by Numbers on my computer.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 02:08 (four years ago) link
The wife and I finally got around to sharing our Steam libraries this weekend. Ran into a lot of games I hadn't thought about in a while, from back when we only had one computer for gaming. Been getting back into an old game by the name of Little Inferno.
It's a dark game. It was a dark game when I first played it, and it's a darker game now. The premise of the game is that you play as a little girl stuck alone in her house, just like everybody else is alone in their house, and it is so, so, cold. And to stay warm you burn. You burn everything you have and there is a company that will send you more things to burn. It's like magic! The more you burn, the more money you have. "That can't go on forever!" you say.
The company is the cause of the problem. The more you burn, the worse it makes things, but what else is there to do, really?
Eventually there's some sort of implausible series of things to burn that opens up a very long, dark, narratively focused endgame, just because I feel like the writers needed to make one, but in reality there's no end in sight for this or for any of us.
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
Little Inferno II: the Fire Spreads
Compete with your home-bound neighbors to procure flammable public goods from the shared courtyard using a fishing pole, shower curtain rods duct-taped together, and your imagination! Then burn everything and keep the profit!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
i hadn't actually seen "the missing" before, even though i know that developer is acclaimed, but i'm watching a run of it and the main character running in heels is a pet peeve of mine...
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
the missing is good, its hard to talk about though since the ending recontextualizes the whole game
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
i've decided to give in to animal crossing hype but forbidding myself from buying another non-indie game after that until i'm finished with everything on my shelf
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
i bought a nintendo switch along with breath of the wild and mario maker 2. stayed up too late monday night making levels.
― rusted (crüt), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
would play yr levels
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
Little Inferno is great.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
don't know where else to put thishttps://hyperallergic.com/546798/the-golden-age-of-arcade-game-typography
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
is there somewhere we share friend codes on here? i've had a switch for a couple of years now and don't think i've ever shared my friend code, which is SW-7004-9522-5626
― na (NA), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
i think those mostly got posted early on in the switch thread if you're looking for other folks' ones
― ciderpress, Friday, 20 March 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
just sent a friend request NA!
if anyone wants to be my nintendo friend, mine is: SW-0167-1960-5516
downloading animal crossing now, so it would be fun to invite someone over to my island and not show them the bodies i've got buried in my backyard!
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 21 March 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
Playing an old game by the name of Recettear where you play a shopkeeper. The game really is capitalist propaganda, because it turns out that if you stock goods at a variety of price points and sell them at fair prices you will absolutely rake in the cash, to the point where the game becomes honestly kind of boring and tedious. Turns out both buyer and seller get pretty extreme bonuses for _not_ haggling, so by selling at a lower price the amount of money your customers, even the poorest ones, have available to spend ramps up exponentially - and they'll never try to buy something they can't afford as long as you have at least one item that's within their budget. And that's even without the bug that allows you to sell vending machines from your vending machines.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 21 March 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
Do I want to spend the time (but not the money, cos it's free this weekend) downloading AC: Odyssey?
― Archaeopteryx Morgan M.D. (Leee), Saturday, 21 March 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
creatively rich newish very chill AnCro
― gday curd nerds (||||||||), Saturday, 21 March 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
recettear, now thats a name i havent heard in a long time
― ciderpress, Saturday, 21 March 2020 20:46 (four years ago) link
Yeah it’s cool go chat with socrates
― Mordy, Saturday, 21 March 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
sup gamerz
i haven't played video games in just about 15 years
yesterday i downloaded Suikoden II on my roommates' ps3, and i'm now a few hours into it
really beautiful game, super dynamic for an rpg. fantastic music
― flopson, Sunday, 22 March 2020 01:39 (four years ago) link
WELCOME BACK
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 March 2020 01:42 (four years ago) link
thats a classic, welcome back
― ciderpress, Sunday, 22 March 2020 02:04 (four years ago) link
thx yall, feels good :)
― flopson, Sunday, 22 March 2020 04:01 (four years ago) link
you're like the legendary ancient gamer who returns
you don't just casually "return" and then immediately choose suikoden II
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 22 March 2020 04:29 (four years ago) link
i haven't even played suikoden II and i know it rules
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 22 March 2020 04:30 (four years ago) link
haha it was totally spontaneous that i happend on suikoden. my roommate downloaded bushido blade and i googled 'best ps1 games' and it was like #25 on the list but was written by a die-hard stan and captured my imagination
― flopson, Sunday, 22 March 2020 06:43 (four years ago) link
i understand, but at the same time most people coming back to videogames after an extended absence are like "did super mario world 2 ever come out?" and get really confused when you mention that yes, it did come out in the form of yoshi's island. suikoden II is on a different level
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 22 March 2020 06:48 (four years ago) link
take it from me, someone who has talked to literally hundreds of people about this
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 22 March 2020 06:49 (four years ago) link
new coronavirus goal: try to point out every instance of total bullshit whenever it spews from my fingers
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 22 March 2020 06:50 (four years ago) link