I just started it, I fell asleep during the tutorial which maybe doesn't bode well but it was very late and I'd had some ginger wine.
Did feel like the intro was quite heavily stealth focussed though, and I've not got much patience when it comes to throwing stones to distract baddies or hiding in bushes waiting for them to pass (see also The Last of Us/Dishonoured). Is there lots of that in the game itself? Fair chance I'll bounce off it if so.
― JimD, Thursday, 4 January 2018 11:22 (six years ago) link
All sorts of crap I got from a humble bundle recently.
I'd forgotten how horrible the 'just one more level' effect is from tower defence games. urgh.
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Thursday, 4 January 2018 12:46 (six years ago) link
Doki Doki Literature Club was pretty much exactly what i thought it might be from all the hype, but done very very well. also, its free.
― jamiesummerz, Thursday, 4 January 2018 13:31 (six years ago) link
got thru the 'very hard' challenges on Through the Ages, which i want to record somewhere just because it nearly drove my crazy and actually feels like an accomplishment. somehow there are still 2 higher difficulty levels? i'm good thanks.
finally buckled and tried Stardew Valley because i figured it would be a good game for the plane ride across the atlantic and back. totally sucked in now.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 4 January 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
i've been playing the last guardian, which definitely feels like ico and shadow of the colossus: a cool, different concept hampered by clumsy controls and boring world design. trico is really well-designed though, it really feels like a giant potentially dangerous but cute pet, and it acts like an animal. the best parts are riding on its back as it makes those giant leaps through the world. my mother in law has been visiting and at first she was just watching me play and now she's full-on backseat driving.
― na (NA), Thursday, 4 January 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
Oh that reminds me, there's a free last guardian PSVR thing, only 10 minutes long but I really liked it. Looking up at a huge looming Trico is terrifying.
― JimD, Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
lots to explore here:http://igf.com/article/2018-independent-games-festival-announces-main-competition-finalists
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 4 January 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
I just borrowed my mom's Wii and then discovered that you can hack it to play downloaded ISOs so I now have the following games on an external HD and have been playing all of them:
Super Mario Galaxy 2Kirby’s Epic YarnDonkey Kong Country ReturnsThe Legend of Zelda: Twilight PrincessNew Super Mario Bros. WiiMuramasaOkamiSuper Paper MarioXenoblade ChroniclesResident Evil 4Metroid Prime Trilogy
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 6 January 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link
nice
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Saturday, 6 January 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
Wii is great
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 6 January 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
Wii library is so underrated
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
is there anything else I should add to my list?
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 6 January 2018 21:42 (six years ago) link
god help me, i've been playing League of Legends. i never really thought i would be a fan of a moba since i don't didn't really enjoy watching streams of it. but a few of my friends and i play together as a team using voicechat (discord) and it makes the whole thing so much more fun, even as we continually get our asses kicked by human opponents. does anyone else lol? sad lol.
i've also been playing a lot of the new brough game (cinco paus). it's sometimes frustrating to play, especially when you get screwed by the 5 weapons that you're randomly assigned to use for each playthrough. the abilities of the weapons are randomly chosen, and some of the "abilities" are negative (for example, some of them do nothing at all, while some even create enemies when you use them). but most of the time you draw a set that provides at least a possibility of making it through a full playthrough (which consists of 5 screens/levels). i find it hard to put down, despite the occasional frustrations.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 6 January 2018 21:47 (six years ago) link
I play league every weekend w/ a group of friends, it's pretty fun as a team game when you know everyone. used to play solo queue in the past and it quickly got miserable
― ciderpress, Saturday, 6 January 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link
xpostoff the top my of head try:Punchout remakeSin & Punishment Star SuccessorFire Emblem Radiant DawnArtstyle Light Trax (would kill for this on switch!)Last StoryTrauma Team (especialły the Forensic sections)Lost In Shadow/A Shadow’s TaleI loved Another Code R but no one else seemed to lol
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 6 January 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
Oh hai, finally bought and started playing Destiny because it was on sale, anything else I should check out while I'm visiting the year 2014?
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:52 (six years ago) link
alien: isolation?
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 7 January 2018 00:40 (six years ago) link
just started playing yakuza 0 and the combination of hardboiled crime story and batshit-crazy side missions is melting my mind
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 7 January 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link
a boy and his blobbatman: the brave and the boldkirby's return to dream land
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 7 January 2018 00:48 (six years ago) link
X-Com: Enemy Unknown (2012)
lol this game is utterly destroying me even on Easy. it is random what missions you will get so i often start a new game and do fine for a few and then suddenly i have to choose between DIFFICULT or VERY DIFFICULT and im helplessly under-leveled and watching all my squad get turned into zombies.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 7 January 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
I've been enjoying Blocky Farm ON IPAD but at level 28 I just got the last kind of animal (G O A T S) and it's getting boring, so I guess it's time to delete and move on. This is the first freemium farm game I've played---a review said it would be like Harvest Moon but no, it's just like Farmville.
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 7 January 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
Streets of Rogue, which I love! A lot of games attempt the sandboxy, approach-it-however-you-want thing, but this game really nails it. Lots of different characters that invite very different styles of gameplay.
It's still in alpha, but it seems pretty fully formed to me. I guess the "big main" quest isn't done yet, but I won't be skilled enough to even attempt something like that for a long time.
Graphically it's nothing special, but I was racking my brain trying to figure out what other game it reminds me of, and I think it was actually an obscure gameboy pac-man-like puzzler called Lock 'n' Chase!
― Dan I., Monday, 8 January 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
Ah, I see Karl mentioned it a while back.
― Dan I., Monday, 8 January 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
It's one of those games where you end up developing messy little tricks that are (probably) available emergent rather than intentionally coded. My favorite is knocking on a locked door, and then when it's answered, in the split second before the occupant slams the door in my face but after they've already turned their back, putting my "foot in the door" and sneaking in without kicking the door in, wasting a lockpick, etc.
― Dan I., Monday, 8 January 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
<s>available<s>
― Dan I., Monday, 8 January 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
aw jeez
it's a good reminder to play it again though! it's been a while. it's a game i would eagerly jump back into. Maybe I'll do so when it switches to beta.
the character styles kind of reminds of the SNES classic super dodge ball.
https://i.imgur.com/FhspYow.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Nekketsu_koukou_dodgeball_bu.jpg
― Karl Malone, Monday, 8 January 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
And aren't those volleyball ones straight out of River City Ransom?
― Dan I., Monday, 8 January 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
and River City Ransom itself has many parallels to Streets of Rogue! In fact, other than the fact that RCR is sort of side scrolling rather than top down isometric (? I don't know the right terms for these views), RCR might be one of the most closely related games to streets of rogue
― Dan I., Monday, 8 January 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
yeah, RCR is probably a better comparison! (or Double Dragon)
― Karl Malone, Monday, 8 January 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
a lot of Fortnite
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 18 January 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
i'm in the mood to play some dark souls on my ps4.
i've played through about 1/3 of Dark Souls 2 on Xbox. i've never played any of Dark Souls 3.
which one do you think i should purchase? a cheaper Dark Souls 2, with 2/3 of it still new to me? or a brand new Dark Souls 3, at full price? normally i'd just go for 3, but the consensus seemed to be that 2 was a better game?
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 21 January 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
3 is far better in just about every way
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
yeah 3 is rad, and if you’ve played the og dark souls there’s some very cool stuff in there which calls back to itwhich reminds me i need to go back and finish 3’s dlc
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
i'll go for 3, thanks
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
i hope one day to pwn you among the desolate ruins of lothric
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
hey buddy, get in line. i effortlessly supply pwnage thrills for half the goddamn underworld and overworld
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
2 is comfortably the worst of the series
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:29 (six years ago) link
i think maybe my brain completely switched around the critical consensus of DS2 vs the rest of the series. 2 is the only one i've played! downloading 3 now
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:33 (six years ago) link
yeah, it lacks the tightness of the first and third entries but it's still a lot of fun
karl if you haven't played it already bloodborne is also incredible
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:34 (six years ago) link
yeah if i had a PS4 that's what i would get.
DS2 is still fun but it breaks a lot of series rules and suffers for it. enemies stop respawning after x kills, meaning the world will eventually be empty. you can't do a plunge attack for some reason. the level/world design is absurd and nonsensical. the "well that was bullshit" factor is cranked up in a lot of random places.
i think DS3 got some flak for being "more of the same" but imo it's kind of a tightly made and well-deserved HD victory lap. also if you ever played Demon's Souls you will be in for a lot of surprises as they make just as many (if not more) references to the very first game in the series.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
the level/world design is absurd and nonsensical.
i think this was part of the problem for me, the first time around. i enjoyed not having a world map, and was able to gradually learn my way around for the most part. but i reached a point where i just had absolutely no idea where to go next and was completely lost, dying over and over again as i tried to figure it out. and as i usually do when the going gets tough, i just quit. hopefully 3 will be a little easier to navigate (9 minutes left on the download), but even if it isn't, i'm going to try to persevere this time.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
ds3 def learns important lessons from the preceding soulsborne games and i think knowing where to go next is one of them - iirc it’s usually pretty clear what’s up next
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 21 January 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
having said that about its relative friendliness it does throw a big bastard boss at you within the first 15 minutes or so, so it’s not entirely afraid to troll you in classic dark souls YOU DIED style
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 21 January 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
DS1 is getting a remastered reissue for the XboxOne and PS4
― Gukbe, Sunday, 21 January 2018 22:05 (six years ago) link
I managed to beat the first asshole boss, as well as the nearby “master” (who I just kicked off the mountain on accident). But I have to wait until the rest of the game downloads before I can use the bonfire in the fire link shrine to travel to the next portion of the game. Weird. It’s got a long way to go and the download is crawling, too.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 21 January 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link
who I just kicked off the mountain on accident
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 21 January 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
DS3 is definitely the best of the batch and i love them all
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 22 January 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/1979566/grimes-purity-rings-megan-james-livestreamed-playing-bloodborne/video/
Grimes playing Bloodborne
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
you can't do a plunge attack for some reason.
You can do it, I think you have to press R2 or something though.
No desire to go back to DS2 though. For me the online aspect of DS3 makes it endlessly playable, and I'm looking forward to playing through the original again because it's the best world design by far.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link