whatchu playing now

i haven't played it yet but Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and the Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist is a new 15 minute free game on steam by William Pugh who worked on Stanley Parable w/ Wreden

Xenoblade X - I think this is the first time I've played a game and thought "this is too big". For the first five or so hours it felt like drowning, too much of everything - constant on screen messages in tiny fonts, systems upon systems that are barely if at all explained, absolutely massive maps teeming with gnomic symbols. On a purely technical level it's a big achievement, it really feels like you are exploring a massive alien planet with minimal to no loading times, although I doubt I'll get anywhere close to the end before monotony sets in. Funny coming to this from Fallout 4 which now feels like it took place on the back of a postage stamp.

Watching some footage of Xenoblade was the precise moment I realized japanese RPG gaming is finished, and will largely be regarded as a historical curio that engaged in a conversation with the west for a couple of decades about stat blocks and leveling and character classes. It's done. Japan is history, and this game is deeply, deeply trashy and stupid.

To the great surprise of absolutely nobody I like Undertale a ton, although I haven't quite finished my first playthrough as of this moment. It's like Earthbound but with Wario Ware as the combat engine.

I have also been refining my Puff in Smash during train trips back and forth between SF and LA so be warned. I also finally beat the story mode on the 3ds Kirby game, which is actually quite great (forget if I mentioned this already) as well as Mii Force and Find Mii II.

I've been playing the original and first Final Fantasy. Surprised both by how long and how difficult it is. Not that it's been objectively super long or super difficult, just that I figured the earliest RPGs would be relatively breezy. I dig the stripped-down vibe and mechanics, though. Very meditative, in a way. I played a shitload of Sword of Vermilion back in the day so it nicely scratches that itch (since one is basically a carbon copy of the other). Also started playing the original and first Phantasy Star. Not as into it, but it's all right. It feels much more like a game of its era.

Got Rocket League last week. Now I am staying up until 5am every day playing it. So so so so addictive!

Still plugging away at MGSV, doing mostly FOB, but also slowly making my way to 100% Completion.

i brought my ps4 home for the holidays but i forgot to bring my little wallet of games ughhhh

Just got introduced to vs and co-op multiplayer on Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker using the PPSSPP emulator to play on PC. It's pretty cool! I already play too many video games tho...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaqOp67gALc

We had a 3-player co op battle today.

Also just learned how to add non-Steam games to Steam. Which is good cos I just started playing DOOM again.

i brought my ps4 home for the holidays but i forgot to bring my little wallet of games ughhhh

PS+ backlog!

any ps+ games i should be playing? for ps4? idk if any of them really excite me tbh.

i also have my laptop anyway, so i have vbeen playing some steam indie games, and star wars battlefront was in the tray which i hadn'tr even played yet...

The Gauntlet game they're giving away right now for free is pretty fun if you like arcade-y hack-and-slashers. Nuclear Throne is also supposed to kick much ass although I haven't had a chance to really sink my teeth into it yet (it's also cross-buy if you have a vita btw). Galak-Z is fun as fuck too if you like games like Spelunky or La Mulana.

whhooooaaaa her story is creepy and coool

I bought an Amiga 500 HA!

Bubble Bobble

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Did we talk about Life is Strange on any of these threads except the PS4 one? I watched the Giant Bomb East playthru of the entire game( which seems like the best way I could have experienced it) and man, the ending of the game is far more emotionally affecting than I've ever would have imagined from just its premise. It goes from this Twin Peaks/Veronica Mars thing (and echoes Gone Home, even), and gets far deeper than that.

The song played during the emotional climax/denouement is one of those where you find its vid on YT on the comments from the last 5 months are nothing but people commiserating over the gut punch of the ending.

I'm a pretty cynical/reserved/hyperintellectualized type, but the game got to me, even.

Otherwise, been alternating Xcom 2 with a lot of what are pejoratively called "walking simulators," and I'm enjoying the heavy narrative bent.

Oh yeah, games like Californium, Firewatch, SOMA, along with Talos Principle and Witness, the latter seeming a prettier but hollowed version of the former.

anybody playing stardew valley? worth picking up? i love harvest moon but am a very caz gamer

The press seems to be 'isn't it amazing that if one person puts their mind to it over a number of years they can almost create harvest moon' so hm

I've been playing KANE AND LYNCH 2: DOG DAYS. this is my first cover shooter experience

I started playing Life Is Strange but I gave up very, very early when I went 'well, that guy is going to be the killer, then'. I liked everything else about it, though.

whoa dog days is a weird place to start playing cover shooters. did you turn it on easy? i hope it's on easy.

that game was weird and dumpy but had some of the coolest UI/VFX/presentation of all time and still stands up IMO as ahead of its time in that respect

Yeah, the first episode of Life is Strange starts out clunky, but they get going by #2.

i've been playing dog days on medium but there are some sticking points in the back half that are making me debate easy. i feel like it doesn't benefit the game's narrative or aesthetic to respawn 5-10x each checkpoint instead of 1-2x. i like it a lot, i think, but i guess this fits in with my general trend of liking videogames that make you feel bad for playing videogames

i love the whole crappy-video schtick so, so much

playing Earthbound for the first time on my 3DS following the recent reissue. best £5 i've spent in aaaaaages and its making my bus journeys to work very pleasurable.

whoa its out on 3DS? fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck time to buy that i guess.

yeah that was my reaction too

Is there a speed-up/fast-forward button?

it says out march 24 online, how did you buy it already :O

we have to wait until the 24th here in the U.S. of States

thanks to all who voted for sunless sea in the poll here. never been engaged with a game in quite the same way.

i finally won by establishing my own colony at aestival through the very damaging irem trade, and then not allying with anyone. i really cared about that decision! in deference to the makers of r-type...

are there other games with a similar languid pace? should i play pirates?

Beat Oxenfree, Vanishing of Ethan Carter, and Dear Esther over the weekend. Got some way into Layers of Fear.

I recommend Oxenfree

Hadn't heard of Oxenfree, looks good

I noticed earthbound on the 3ds store, never played it. should I?

if you like fun, then yes.

idk if earthbound is fun

if you like the meditative distraction of a simple rpg grind and also like corny jokes then yes

like a lot of those snes era RPGs earthbound hasn't aged that well as a game but it's still got good storytelling & a unique style

mother 3 is better though...

one of my many terrible secrets of shame is that i've played earthbound like 5 different times, and i've never really made it out of the initial village area. does the game ever leave that stupid village? after about 10 hours i get bored

i'm sorry, the village isn't stupid. it's actually pretty great. i just wish i could get past it.

i haven't played it in like 10 years so i forget the details but there's definitely multiple villages/towns/cities/areas

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i have really played the shit out of risk of rain recently. when you get in the groove, it's very calming.

i got to the desert in Earthbound. the music in that game is incredible.