whatchu playing now

Like many, I’m currently playing Mario Odyssey, but the Steam Sale got me and I bought Thumper to play in VR. It’s certainly not the most “in your face” VR, but dang it works so well.

Gone back to Doom. Good isn't it?

rend and tear, my friend

oh sorry, rip and tear

How is Mario? (xposts)

it's real fun so far. i'm being obsessive and hunting all the moons on each stage before progressing... even at the start they give you two stages to obsess over before you get going!
metal gear levels of cinematics tho'.

FYI you can't get every moon your first time through so don't strain yourself hunting if they seem to be drying up

Mario's great! Not as amazing as Zelda, but what is, really.
It's super fun and cute, but didn't WOW! me until New Donk City.

ty ciderpress, i'm finding a few that are just out of reach and tripping me out

i zipped thru the stranger things promo game, was ok. i take it a ~new character~ was unlocked a couple days ago

destiny 2 (starting to get bored though)
everybody's golf (fun, fast-placed games / very good character creator)

just got destiny 2, how long will it take me to get bored?

I'm at 275 and trying to get my character stronger to maybe take a shot at the raid, but I'm bored of the grind.

I'm taking a 2-day break from stardew valley, because part of me wants to just go as deep as I can in the mines, part of me wants to just socialize, and another part of me wants to get really good at fishing, but really what I want, what I REALLY want, is some horror content, because if anything is a set up to the Stepford / Wicker Man / GET OUT trope, it's this fucking town.

The carpenter lost "her favorite axe" in the woods. The mayor wants me to hunt down his favorite purple shorts. The librarian has the key to the sewer, where something apparently lives, if you ask the children. The multinational discount retailer is evil, not our strange pastoral way of life where beer costs 400 whatevers and for some reason the museum has no exhibits whatsoever until yours truly comes along. My farm has a second structure on the grounds which is in utter ruins, but nobody talks about that. Sure. This is fine.

everything is perfectly normal...in stardew valley. O_O

glad you stuck with it and seem to be enjoying it. i love the harvest moon/stardew valley genre and i want someone to perfect it

haha if stardew valley was secretly a horror game and no one had broken kayfabe on it for, what, two years, that would be the most amazing thing in the world to me

go try this
http://soup.gua-le-ni.com/

playing earthbound on the snes classic. previously i had tried it multiple times, starting with a cartridge rental close to its release and afterwards on emulators, but never got past threed. now i have 6/8 of the songs and i just got through a cave full of starmen. it is grindy, but not as bad as i had thought. hint to future players: don't bother with slingshots or yo-yos, they miss too often.

Darraghmac - have you been playing Caves of Qud? I saw someone with that name had played the daily challenge...

can't say I'm not loving the EA battlefront 2 backlash . I had originally planned on getting it .

i’ll probably buy and play it for the single player anyway :/

finally picked up the first of the recent wolfenstein games, though, and it’s fun!

will finish it and maybe check out the new one over the winter

i was going to do the same but i'll wait till it's on sale or buy used

Loot boxes/pay-to-win is the scourge of video gaming. I have almost no interest in triple-A console games anymore, and my computer is too old/shitty to run Steam games. This will be the first time in probably fifteen or so years where I don't buy at least one of the big fall triple-a games.

if lootboxes ruin games to the extent that I am forced to get a life I will be fuckin furious

psssst... get a switch

Seconded

switch is gonna have so much more support next year now that all the publishers that were tentative about it have seen it's the real deal and not another wii u bust

esp from japanese studios, its selling even better over there than in the states

well this year has had Mario / Zelda / Mario + Rabbids / Persona 5 / Yakuza 0 + Kiwami / Nier / Horizon / Senua's Sacrifice / Wolfenstein 2 amongst others.

none of them asked me for more money. its pretty easy to avoid the games that do and still play a ton of amazing and 'big' games.

items of future interest here:
https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/11/14/16646500/best-indie-games-day-of-the-devs-2017

thought this was good

Let's talk lootboxes, and how annoying it is to watch AAA publishers fuck them up from the perspective of someone who has to design to them. (1)

— Damion Schubert, Dark Warlord of Game Design (@ZenOfDesign) November 15, 2017

rayman 2

it's hard as shit

The original Katamari Damacy for PS2. Damn, that's a good soundtrack. "I wanna roll you up in into my life..."

Is that the one with the snowball level? man I fucking love that game.

this is probably the nerdiest thing i'm excited about right now
http://www.positech.co.uk/shadowhand/

like i may start a thread

wowsers

ooo that looks great. any of the fallen london ppl involved?

it's these guys: http://www.greyaliengames.com/
they have a well-reviewed "regency solitaire" game that looks like a warmup to shadowhand and is basically anglophile/eyre story solitaire i may try while i'm waiting to see if i like the way they do the mechanics

oh, those guys! i really enjoyed fairway solitaire

same here, good enough for me to give them a chance

cities: skylines

about ten minutes of hard west before realising i wanted to turn the ai off

... the ironman. not the ai.

Stardew Valley

i bought this a week ago, the hype was real. already i accidentally have stayed up til 5am several times tending to crops and scavenging on the beach.

that's what it does! i detached when it got a bit clingy, should likely restart.

Did it take you guys a while to get into it? I only played it for 15 minutes, but found nothing appealing about it, so I haven't returned to give it a proper try. It sorta made me think back to the miserable hour I spent with a grinding game called Don't Starve.

has anyone played what remains of edith finch?

i really like these sort of games, usually.