whatchu playing now

i really want to play Yakuza 0 - but i assume it'll be ~$30 soon enough

i'm having a kinda mixed experience with horizon zero dawn - the gameplay basics are solid and it is frequently breathtakingly good-looking but i wish it had something like shadow of mordor's nemesis system to distinguish it a bit more from other open-world action survival games

I've somehow landed back playing Test Drive U2, which is a bit of a flop as a game (races too easy and online play has been halted) but I've become obsessed with completing the discovery section collecting scrap pieces and photographs.

Also decided to finish Delta Force Land Warrior

oh and of course Farming

Zelda will have to wait...

i played a bunch of battlefield one over the weekend. i'm so bad at mp fps's (not the worst but always in the bottom 50% except for one game). the whole operations thing is fantastic tho - i love how the sectors move along the front as the attacking army succeeds in acquiring particular locations.

i'm also really bad at shooters, especially on consoles, but i have to admit i was intrigued by battlefield 1. especially after listening to the hardcore history series on ww1 a few weeks ago. i'm guessing the game's presentation of ww1 fighting is pretty different from how it actually was. although there is connection between the endless multiplayer battles on the same map vs the months long trench warfare battles, so many people lost for no particular reason.

is shell shock/ptsd in battlefield 1?

no. but it has a cool mechanic where when you die you respawn as another soldier - and when the attacking side has lost enough soldiers they lose the battle (afaict). it's very easy to die too, so it does a great job simulating an extremely high casualty war.

My wife and I have been playing Disc Jam doubles. Lots of fun especially as most people are obviously still getting to grips with it so we haven't been trounced yet. Just needs some form of ladder or league, hopefully that's coming soon.

nier automata is a minor masterpiece i think. hearkens back to the weird old days of ps2 jrpg experimentation, except the combat is platinum games.

finally taking some time off from Online Gaming to play some of the 1p games i've accumulated in my steam library over the past couple years

first up are Clustertruck, which is surprisingly fun for such a half-baked punchline of a game, and Ori and the Blind Forest which is lovely thus far

streets of rogue is already really fun, even in early release state.

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my quest for the purest Idle RPG continues
Bit City might actually be just as dumb as Realm Grinder

On a related note, I'm "playing" Bit City and I hate myself

lol xpost

I like bit city. Playing it for the 8 bit art which I find very pleasurable

I wish you could change the viewing angle during regular play, the way you can in camera mode. other than that my main beef is the limited number of non-premium buildings

I just started playing Torment: Tides of Numenera

Dialogue-wise, this game is 100% pandering to me and what I want in an RPG even though I'm only about 25 minutes into it. However, based on my reaction to the tutorial fight I have the sneaking suspicion that the combat system is an undercooked pan full of dick.

Xpost

I think they might introduce more variety as time goes on, like they did with tiny tower? At this point point I'm just playing to get to the larger squares, which will be a new set of buildings. Also to unlock the planes and boats (only on level 4).

I'll say this for Realm Grinder, the ramp is so stupid that you wind up earning 10^36 coins per tap in less than a week of play. I can't tell that much is different about the static medieval cityscape. It doesn't pan or zoom, either. You literally just stare at a shitty pixelated fantasy town, where everything is the same every time (ok you can change alliances on each play which means some redecorating almost as good as playing different armies in Warlords II) and tap and cast and upgrade and then tap some more.

The most fucked up thing about this meter data simulator is that there are no less than three different companies claiming credit on the loading screen

For those who don't recall Warlords II, it was a 16 color fantasy wargame for DOS and MAC released in 1993, with a 256 color deluxe edition two years later. I would love to have an ipad version of that game, frankly. Or Escape Velocity! where the fuck is Escape Velocity for my fucking iPad? Huh? Capitalism is bullshit!

I think I might be ready to make the jump to never ever playing anything free again

there's so many amazing things that cost $1-5, why play anything "free"

warlorrds 2 was the shit btw

Because it's free and tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap something has to happen eventually tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap

Oh hey I can buy a thing that makes tapping worth 100% more tapping. That'll help the eventual thing that has to happen eventually happen sooner! This is pretty cool for a free game

Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap

http://i.imgur.com/7w8wUZj.jpg

I'm not sure what it means anymore

tap

That's totally my soda dungeon on this actual phone btw just sayin

bit city is perfect, pure evil. you have to hand it to them for that, at least. maybe i'm overstating it because i haven't played a clicker game in a while. probably something like cookie clicker. those games were already infamously addictive and made everyone feel bad about themselves and the world. the most satisfying moment of playing any clicker game, without exaggeration, is the moment you delete it. a rush goes through your body. there. it's gone now. the number is zero.

but bit city advances the scope of the addiction. it's set so that you still accrue money when the app isn't open, but a much smaller rate - 10% of the normal rate. so you have more incentive to keep the app open, or adjust the phone settings so that the screen doesn't go to sleep. but don't think you can just leave the phone with the app open while you go on with your life. for one, you'll return every 10 minutes because you can watch a 15-30 second video in exchange for doubling the rate of income. and on top of that, there are cars driving around, and soon planes and boats, that are definitely worth tapping on since they increase your income rate significantly.

but the most evil mechanic is the pension pig, just because introducing an enticing way to extort money from addicts should be illegal or at least regulated in some way. the freemium currency of the game are Bux which can be spent to improve passive rates (lowering the overall construction time of buildings, improving the odds that a plane carrying an extra large coin bonus will appear, etc). importantly, the improvements you buy with bux carries over to the next restart (the game is always enticing you to start over from the beginning by rewarding you with bonus permanent stat increases for doing so. so you want these upgrades for sure if you've decided to give your life to this game. it's 4:30am now. you can get Bux on your own, for free, by tiptapping the screen for hours as your real life shrivels around you. bit city has balanced it perfectly so that you really can, with a meaningful but limited amount of concentration, get bux. lots and lots of bux. but the rate upgrades you want to buy with the bux are generally expensive (though some of them aren't, just so you can get a taste of what is possible). 10 minute has passed, so you watch the 30-second video to get the doublerate bonus passive back again. now the evil partthere's something called the Pension Pig. the Pension Pig is a piggybank that slowly accrues Bux over time, just like everything else in this godforsaken bit city. the longer you play, the more value it builds up. at any point, for $2.99 real life bux, you can break the Pension Piggybank to get all the bit city bux. and like everything else, it's perfectly calibrated so that it really feels like a ton of bux, like the $2.99 could actually be worth it. mine is worth 23,219 bux at this point. $2.99 for 23,219 bux. compare that to the standard exchange rates offered by the non-Pension Pigs (a good softball team name) - $4.99 for 3,500 bux, $9.99 for 10,000 bux, $19.99 for $25,000 bux. so building up the pension pig to $23,219 makes it really enticing to buy right now. think of all the bux! i earned them! where is this place. how long have i lived in the bit city

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I am loving bit city too but I would

I installed Dots & co (third in the series) yesterday and played until I hated myself enough to delete it. And then for another half-hour.

killed three hours last night on realm grinder before erasing it, good job everyone.

lol so everyone is 100% on mobile games now?

the only games ive ever had on my phone are desert golfing and pixel dungeon, i don't think i 'get' mobile gaming

ime mobile gaming plays dangerously with the fun/compulsion line. the drinking bottom shelf whiskey on the bus straight from the bottle of gaming.

#not all mobile games

the go series (hitman, deus ex) is closer to drinking a fine scotch whisky out of a flask. bit city (and realm grinder, it seems) is like crawling through a dumpster and drinking the dregs of a pair of olde english 40s filtered through a muddy sock

and you know what, with that, i delete bit city. i'm about 4 hours away from finally unlocking the 8th and final city, and i have about 200 prestige points and i never did bust the pension pig (worth > 28,000 bux now) but fuck it, here we go.

aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh
ooooh yeah

ugh
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i need help

this is the only mobile game i play, and i am very serious about it:

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whenever i look at the app store for a new game, it all looks like retreads of the same 2-3 game types and the same nostalgia-influenced 8-bit graphics. i'm sure there's good stuff out there but i have trouble finding it.

I mean, I am STILL enthralled by Marvel Puzzle Quest so I am not really judging; I just thought there would be an audience to chat about the new Torment and was sort of surprised at how everyone ignored my post.

I'm interested, but I never even got around to Pillars of Eternity or any of the other Kickstarters I funded. Someday!

ours will be a generation of retrogaming retirees bivouacked in capsule hotels, hooked up to joysticks and ivs, poopsocking our way to the ever after.

xxp I haven't played it yet but I'd like to. I did write up a long post about which RPG combat systems are good (bc it seems like the vast majority are just terribly broken) and came up with the Souls games (which are really action-RPG games) and i guess Divinity: Original Sin. most RPGs start out challenging and then get broken by the mid-game.

xp making me use a goddamn dictionary

poopsocking?

i've no experience of the new torment but it looks sweet and i certainly would like to hear how it is

Decided to revisit Battlefield 3, since my new upgrade, after a long time absent. Urgh, kinda wish I hadn't as I slowly realise how addictive these sort of games are.

Also jumped back into Bad Company 2 for a moment, but seems too laggy everywhere and I got fed up of the utterly annoying 'getting shot around the corner' effect.

We could probably use a new iOS games thread. I have like three or four things on my new-ish iPad that I want to check out and report back on

Glad to see poopsocking is still alive and well in the future of mankind