whatchu playing now

red dead and Tokyo jungle are two of all time faves, no problem

i'm really glad Cuphead exists even though I'll never play it myself since I don't enjoy that style of game

Yakuza 0. Was enjoying it a ton. And then shit gets next level when you get to first Majima part. The localisation is very very good indeed.

Cuphead seems really great, but ever since I was a kid I've found that style of art/animation viscerally off-putting. :(

i love yakuza 0! it called me a karaoke bozo

haven't gotten to majima yet but am looking forward to it

Tokyo Jungle is really fun. it is kind of difficult at first, at least i think there is a little learning curve irt combat and the survival mechanics. there is a story mode and a sort of open world survival mode. survival mode is cool because you have puppies (or kitties or etc etc i presume at some point baby dinosaurs) and it becomes a matter of lasting across generations. so you are going through these lineages of animal families that must 1) find food 2) mark territory 3) find a mate 4) find shelter/propagate the species. i made it three generations of Pomeranians before getting killed fighting a gang of cats in the midst of an acid rain storm. so far i only have Pomeranian and Deer unlocked. hyped for the rest.

it unlocks in nice sections and stays fun pretty much to the end.

Tokyo Jungle

fuck i didn't evne know danganronpa 3 was out! sort yrself out will

i finally got nier automata since it's on sale for $38.

man, i suuuuuuuck. the tutorial area is the same as the demo i downloaded and ran through relatively quickly a few weeks ago, but for some reason i've died THREE times now, and since you don't get your first save opportunity until after the tutorial, i'm getting really sick of going through the same 30 minute tutorial over and over. guess i should just admit i suck and put it on easy mode, but i really wanted to play through on Normal. sigh.

btw, this is a totally new idea that will blow everyone's mind but gamer culture is maybe the worst culture. just try to read through a page of these comments. these people are the biggest dicks in the universe

https://steamcommunity.com/app/524220/discussions/0/135511913383254546/

xp myself re: DGRv3 - fuck nvm. im unemployed and i just saw that $80 CAD price tag, foh with that (until i have a job again)

lol Karl i would stay away entirely from Steam forums. the first time i signed up was for MGSV and i thought oh this will be cool i can talk about this game with people. bad idea. it is overrun with trolls. entirely pointless. Steam forums are an intellectual cesspool.

Nier looks cool but damn there are too many games to play. some day for sure. Nioh is coming to PC now too. never played it but it seems rad.

Cuphead is so impressive! feel like this is a game that should have already existed. Mario has always had this silent film thing going on, the kinetic aspect of video games is very much in line with that early film style. the simplistic setups too, heroes and villains. this makes me think of Steamboat Willie or Popeye but it's definitely doing it's own thing, all the designs are cool and original and the art design is super wonderful.

Cuphead reminds me of Dragon's Lair. this is the kind of games the 80s NES would play if it successfully used Dragon's Lair laserdisc technology. if Donkey Kong spawned not Super Mario Bros. but this Silent Film Contra. it is a game out of time and it is very well done. it looks so good and it is so much fun to play! it really feels like a lost 80s arcade game made by Fleischer studios.

sometimes it makes me think of Commander Keen

i totally confused nioh for nier - thought the original was getting ported to PC or something

Zs, you can change the difficulty back when u can save, ramp it down. Game is very good!

i got a lotta bit drunk and then died on easy mode

i will try again tomorrow. dang it, i used to get really far in gradius III and super r-type without the konami code! i shouldn't suck like this! but i do. i do suck like this.

watching ppl play fortnite battle royale and it kinda looks like an improvement on PUBG in multiple ways for anyone who doesnt care about having a facade of realism in their shooters.

i'm creeped out by just how much it looks like a quirky re-skin of PUBG. i'm also still creeped out by how hard it is to tell apart every MOBA, so take that for what it's worth

well in that sense PUBG was already a non-quirky reskin of H1Z1 battle royale which was a quirky reskin of arma dayz battle royale

the difference of course being that the same guy was behind all 3 of those whereas fortnite is his first serious competitor

yeah i guess the party got started earlier than that. it's still weird to me. you'd think they'd at least try to change up the UI a bit more. even the healing timer looks the same. idk i can see how this would piss off mr unknown

i made it past nier's tutorial! god that was pathetic! and yes, it's much easier and slow paced now, with plenty of save points and opportunities to reconfigure my weapons and defense. so far so good!

thanks for getting me hooked on meshi quest euler
goddammit

finally beat the frog brothers riverboat boss in Cuphead. i had the patterns down but the slot machine kept fucking me up.

only got a quick few disastrous fights in w the next boss, who looks like a parody of a Dragon's Quest-style blue slime and has all these cartoonish morphing attacks. the art is stunning, and it is so wonderful to see hand drawn animation again. everything these days had that South Park cut-out look to it, like paper dolls. it robs the animation of the chance to do more abstract suggestions of motion. this is what old animation has, it has that spirit, that is missing in modern (budget-oriented) animation. imo hand drawn animation feels alive, it feels organic. more real yet more magical.

extra rad that is it built on top of rock solid Gunstar Heroes-ish controls. and that announcer is so rad. it sounds like an 90s arcade fighting game but reverbing out a shooting gallery style Penny Arcade bullhorn.

i only got 15 minutes of cuphead in so far (and i will probably never beat it) but it has a good gesamtkunstwerk vibe

http://statelyplay.com/

PSA - this is a really great site covering things like strategy games, puzzlers, ccgs, board game ports. have found a number of very good games through this in the month or so since i came across it.

Thanks!

Reminds me a lot of pocket tactics back before it was bought out and immediately became terrible. Which is a great thing!

this was started by a couple of the PT folks

deep sigh

http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

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try this, it's fun and i am playing right now: https://thewikigame.com/speed-race

Universal Paperclips achieved in 5 hours 48 minutes 38 seconds

xp haha yeah that's pretty fun and addictive actually.

Gungeon, which is almost exactly halfway between Binding of Isaac and Nuclear Throne, both of which I adore.

this fuckin paperclips things damn it mailman

me2 but gungeon just didn't have enough in it to keep me engaged. it didn't control as fluidly as bol or nt and the game itself was kinda eh. tell me what u think tho - i only made it {iirc} 2 bosses in?

xpost i am truly sorry. :(

metal gear solid V just because it was the playstation plus free game this month. i think i know the answer to this but does it continue to be 80% cut scenes?

i assume so. i couldn't bear playing it long enough to find out.

no it's rough up front but when it opens up it is a joy

great game. extremely light on the cutscenes for the series, just gotta get through that prologue.

OK i'll stick with it for a bit. i think (hope) i'm getting near the end of the prologue? i'm on horseback shooting at the flaming guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYMD_W_r3Fg

get to the part where you are alone in the desert and then the game starts. you're about fifteen minutes away i think.

Mordy, u right, although it's enjoyable it mainly made me want to go play more Isaac (but I won't! because I've already wrung all of the enjoyment juice out of it!)

You know Isaac just got another booster pack with some new items and enemies? It's caaaalling yoou.

I'm still just rolling Stephen's sausages all over the place. I've passed 30 hours in it, but it's taken pretty much all my gaming energy these past couple of months. I suspect I'm near the end, as some of the slightly cryptic notes in the games are looking kinda meta right now: "The wise people all felt the approach of an inevitable death, not just of body, but of idea."

Loving the island I'm on now though. The game managed to shock me yet again with a fairly major new puzzle mechanic.

Paperclips

any tips on how to get enough clips to build a clip factory? My harvester drone, wire drone, solar farm, and battery tower options are not bringing me any closer to the 100 mil clips i need.

i can't exactly remember, but i think there may have been an option to dismantle something to get a bunch of clips at once?

Universal Paperclips achieved in 4 hours 43 minutes 46 seconds

Basically an exercise in identifying bottlenecks to exponential growth, not unlike an abstracted 4x. Possibly inspired by the second season of Lexx.

poly: dismantle other things, perhaps not your batteries, if you're ramping "momentum". There's otherwise no penalty to deconstruction. There's arguably an advantage to dismantling and reconstructing, depending on how the network effect perks work.