yeah I've put off playing Stardew waiting for this port, i'm excited
― ciderpress, Monday, 2 October 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
yeah i'm in there as well
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 2 October 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link
Should be a hit at our house, I suspect I'm not going to be the one playing
― El Tomboto, Monday, 2 October 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
music and art look cool, but second-job-as-game has never appealed to me
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 2 October 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
IN FRONT
― JLB Credit (Jack BS), Monday, 2 October 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
Finished Golf Story just in time for Stardew Valley. Lots of good jokes and a decent if somewhat easy golf game. The camera pullback to show the entire map at the end was a great moment and made me laugh.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 5 October 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
Today's agenda isWorkHaircutStardew Valley
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 5 October 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
I'm skipping the haircut
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 October 2017 14:54 (six years ago) link
My hairdresser is hard to book so I gotta keep that appointment D:
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 5 October 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link
the solution is to not have hair imo. more time for gaming
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
no time for IRL work until the Stardew Valley work is done, imo
― you = too slow (Karl Malone), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
I am honestly so jazzed to start breaking rocks
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
some good prognostication lols upthread re: the Switch's chances in the marketplace btw
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
ecstatic to be proven wrong tbh
― more bemused than human (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
lol yeah I just re-read the start of the thread this morning, good stuff
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
I want sold on it until I saw it in person for the first time and then it was pretty immediate
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
lmao the reveal at the end of golf story, can't believe i didn't notice that
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 October 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link
bought Stardew Valley on my laptop 7 months ago, played an hour, never played it again because laptops are heavy and hot and run windows 10.got it on Switch, can pull it out of my work draw and play 10 minutes whenever. gonna play a shit ton.
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 9 October 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
been holding off on playing axiom verge until the switch version came out, sunk a couple of hours into it over the weekend. it's real good! love a metroidvania
― ATTACK MY RUSTY TOOLBOX (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 9 October 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
stardew is surprisingly great, been fun.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 9 October 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
Bootstrapping my farm is a lot of work, worried that that first chicken coop or fruit tree sapling will be perpetually out of reach
― .oO (silby), Monday, 9 October 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
after playing through about 5-6 seasons on the PS4 version, i got a lot little burned out playing by myself. but i've been patiently waiting for the multiplayer patch, which seems to be on the way:
https://stardewvalley.net/stardew-valley-multiplayer-news/
multiplayer stardew seems like such a nobrainer
― Karl Malone, Monday, 9 October 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
is there any ilx hivemind consensus on --
axiom verge? lovers in a dangerous spacetime? golf story?oxenfree?
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 03:50 (six years ago) link
i played axiom verge on PS4 and can confirm that it scratches the metroid itch, if that's what you're looking for.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 03:52 (six years ago) link
lovers in a dangerous spacetime is v cute but somewhat shallow game that is definitely intended primarily for 2 players
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 04:23 (six years ago) link
Golf story is pleasant and very much an unofficial successor to the game boy Mario golf games, though in the end I didn't feel it was as good as those. It's twee, unpolished, and not very deep, but it doesn't overstay its welcome. I felt the courses were too gimmicky to have replay value as a pure golf game after finishing the story mode, unlike Mario golf which i replayed endlessly as a kid.
Re: Axiom Verge, is it mostly a Metroid clone or does it have it's own unique mechanics? It didn't grab me visually when I looked at it in the eShop.
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link
on the other side of the metroid spectrum, Steamworld Dig 2 is the most enjoyable indie game I've played on switch so far
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 04:56 (six years ago) link
others might want to weigh in, but i would say it leans toward metroid clone. it's about 80% as good as a metroid game, at <50% of the cost, so it comes out pretty well. it's the kind of game that you tell people is pretty good, and mean it, but then late at night you think "will they be disappointed? probably not. but maybe. probably not though"
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 05:01 (six years ago) link
the graphics have that NES-and-a-half look that suggests that, while aiming for a distinctive look would have been too much work, so would have been accepting the actual aesthetic constraints of 8-bit visuals. anyway while looking at pictures on gis to determine how i felt about this is found this:
http://res.cloudinary.com/lmn/image/upload/c_fill,h_169,w_300/e_sharpen:100/f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/v1/gameskinnyc/a/x/i/axiom-45cef.jpg
and yeah no, i feel dumb enough playing videogames already without them insulting me in the name of self-awareness
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 06:31 (six years ago) link
especially when whoever wrote the dialogue thinks they've earned semi-colons and can't get their adjective order right
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 06:32 (six years ago) link
Started Castlevania 4 on the snes mini and was disappointed to find that it isn't a metroidvania.
― JimD, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 07:39 (six years ago) link
i am enjoying this game so far, i think not having mario golf to compare it to helps
did you hear that the NES golf is i. built into the the Switch as an Easter egg ii. only available on the day of Satoru Iwata's death?
(this is the most uncle-who-works-at-Nintendo-sounding thing ever, but apparently true)
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 08:24 (six years ago) link
What is the date and means of access then?
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 13:52 (six years ago) link
July 11 and doing Iwata's hand gesture with the joycons. It only works on version 1.0 of the switch OS though apparently, the first time you connect to the internet and update it gets locked away permanently.
I think people determined that it was included by the devs as a sort of digital 'omamori', a good luck charm that's not supposed to be opened.
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
that's pretty wild
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
http://switchbrew.org/index.php?title=Flog
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
OK so the port of Tardew Valley is fucking atrocious and I'm not fixing that typo. I am having a hard time remembering the last time the control scheme was this frustrating and I've played a lot of ported stuff on iOS (well documented elsewhere). There's no tutorial, just mashing shit and hoping it works, and no rhyme or reason to most of it either. We basically gave up after realizing we couldn't figure out how to actually buy anything from the store. I have to assume all the glowing reviews are just based on the PC edition and people assuming the transitive property of fun would automatically flow to the Switch port. Ugh.
Mario Kart 8 on the other hand is something we can all enjoy together so that was at least $60 well spent
― El Tomboto, Monday, 16 October 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
I am really enjoying stardew, though i'm taking a break. it is not real clear what you need to do, yes. I kinda thought that was part of the appeal
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 16 October 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
xpost that's a bummer to hear about the control scheme, because i had heard it was better than the PS4 version? at least on the PS4, you were required to move around a mouse cursor using your analog stick, which was incredibly annoying in a game that involves tons of inventory management. i that that on the switch they replaced that with the normal system of just using the d-pad to navigate menus and inventory?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 October 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
It is clear you should be allowed to buy things from the store if you have enough money. overcoming completely nonintuitive control mappings should not be the most challenging aspect of any game.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 16 October 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
I've been enjoying stardew valley by listening to the soundtrack at work. feels like it must be at least 25% of the appeal.
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 16 October 2017 16:23 (six years ago) link
there's still a fucking mouse cursor on the switch edition
I might start my own stupid farm to see if I can help the rest of the fam get un-stuck. right now the girls team is coping with ptsd from looking up help online and finding answers only applicable to the PC edition.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 16 October 2017 16:23 (six years ago) link
welcome to games made by literally one person
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 October 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1yrVPSvl1sinstabuy
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
that looks awesome
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
this console is so good it has me on the verge of being interested in a freaking Xenoblade game
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
I'm getting the Xenoblade, because I want to do combos and collect Pokémon Blades
― .oO (silby), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 20:23 (six years ago) link
Are the Xenoblade plots anything like the mind blowing all-genre stone soup of Xenogears
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 22:03 (six years ago) link
I don't know any other games in this family but I do know one of the trailers for this one described something like 9 factions that play into the plot if that's any indication
― .oO (silby), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
theres not really anything in common between the xeno games iirc other than being made by the same studio and being fantasy/scifi JRPGs. its like final fantasy where each game is standalone
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link