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in the future marxist paradise my asthma and social anxiety will excuse me from difficult labor of any kind. my role will be anime appraiser

— Bevis Simpson (@BevisSimpson) April 17, 2013

Once I got past the presentation, I've found Disgaea to be a complete timesuck.

Tried Disgaea so many times but just can't get into it, moving on an isometric grid a big part of my frustrations iirc.
Started Horizon Zero Dawn, beautiful environments but the characters & voice acting really offputting, creepy uncanny valley plasticine people giving me the willies!

need more large-scope games with stylized character designs

Super Mario Odyssey
Zelda BOTW (just beat Eventide for the 1st time yay)
VS. Super Mario Bros.
X-Com: Enemy Unknown
Cuphead
Stardew Valley
Shovel Knight

is there a decent logging site like letterboxd for video games?

https://www.backloggery.com/

oh yeah i totally forgot about that one. don't love the visual design but i'll give it a try

It has no global game metadata, tho, you just fill in whatever you want.

There's actually a TON of these sites, but very few have gained any traction. I'm too lazy to sort through all of them.
http://chordian.net/2017/06/04/backlogchecklist-web-sites-for-video-games/

As is my tendency once I've hoarded collected a couple hundred of a given thing (books, movies, etc.), I literally just maintain a spreadsheet of games. Of particular importance with the games since the majority of them are digital.

Right now I'm using various text files (the dead app xPad on Mac OS) but I feel like it's time to step up my... methods

I bought Stardew Valley a year or so ago, but I'm just now getting to it. It's the perfect zero-stakes game for me right now. I can step in for fifteen minutes, pet some animals, water some crops, save and then go to bed.

tho rn i am playing the last of us for the first time. its certainly a videogame!!

― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Monday, January 1, 2018 3:42 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i finished it

it was certainly a videogame

I don’t think Horizon is for me, it’s well made and looks pretty but I find it a chore to play and I’m having no fun. Next.

I just started it, I fell asleep during the tutorial which maybe doesn't bode well but it was very late and I'd had some ginger wine.

Did feel like the intro was quite heavily stealth focussed though, and I've not got much patience when it comes to throwing stones to distract baddies or hiding in bushes waiting for them to pass (see also The Last of Us/Dishonoured). Is there lots of that in the game itself? Fair chance I'll bounce off it if so.

All sorts of crap I got from a humble bundle recently.

I'd forgotten how horrible the 'just one more level' effect is from tower defence games. urgh.

Doki Doki Literature Club was pretty much exactly what i thought it might be from all the hype, but done very very well. also, its free.

got thru the 'very hard' challenges on Through the Ages, which i want to record somewhere just because it nearly drove my crazy and actually feels like an accomplishment. somehow there are still 2 higher difficulty levels? i'm good thanks.

finally buckled and tried Stardew Valley because i figured it would be a good game for the plane ride across the atlantic and back. totally sucked in now.

i've been playing the last guardian, which definitely feels like ico and shadow of the colossus: a cool, different concept hampered by clumsy controls and boring world design. trico is really well-designed though, it really feels like a giant potentially dangerous but cute pet, and it acts like an animal. the best parts are riding on its back as it makes those giant leaps through the world. my mother in law has been visiting and at first she was just watching me play and now she's full-on backseat driving.

Oh that reminds me, there's a free last guardian PSVR thing, only 10 minutes long but I really liked it. Looking up at a huge looming Trico is terrifying.

lots to explore here:
http://igf.com/article/2018-independent-games-festival-announces-main-competition-finalists

I just borrowed my mom's Wii and then discovered that you can hack it to play downloaded ISOs so I now have the following games on an external HD and have been playing all of them:

Super Mario Galaxy 2
Kirby’s Epic Yarn
Donkey Kong Country Returns
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Muramasa
Okami
Super Paper Mario
Xenoblade Chronicles
Resident Evil 4
Metroid Prime Trilogy

nice

Wii is great

Wii library is so underrated

is there anything else I should add to my list?

god help me, i've been playing League of Legends. i never really thought i would be a fan of a moba since i don't didn't really enjoy watching streams of it. but a few of my friends and i play together as a team using voicechat (discord) and it makes the whole thing so much more fun, even as we continually get our asses kicked by human opponents. does anyone else lol? sad lol.

i've also been playing a lot of the new brough game (cinco paus). it's sometimes frustrating to play, especially when you get screwed by the 5 weapons that you're randomly assigned to use for each playthrough. the abilities of the weapons are randomly chosen, and some of the "abilities" are negative (for example, some of them do nothing at all, while some even create enemies when you use them). but most of the time you draw a set that provides at least a possibility of making it through a full playthrough (which consists of 5 screens/levels). i find it hard to put down, despite the occasional frustrations.

I play league every weekend w/ a group of friends, it's pretty fun as a team game when you know everyone. used to play solo queue in the past and it quickly got miserable

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off the top my of head try:
Punchout remake
Sin & Punishment Star Successor
Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn
Artstyle Light Trax (would kill for this on switch!)
Last Story
Trauma Team (especialły the Forensic sections)
Lost In Shadow/A Shadow’s Tale
I loved Another Code R but no one else seemed to lol

Oh hai, finally bought and started playing Destiny because it was on sale, anything else I should check out while I'm visiting the year 2014?

alien: isolation?

just started playing yakuza 0 and the combination of hardboiled crime story and batshit-crazy side missions is melting my mind

a boy and his blob
batman: the brave and the bold
kirby's return to dream land

X-Com: Enemy Unknown (2012)

lol this game is utterly destroying me even on Easy. it is random what missions you will get so i often start a new game and do fine for a few and then suddenly i have to choose between DIFFICULT or VERY DIFFICULT and im helplessly under-leveled and watching all my squad get turned into zombies.

I've been enjoying Blocky Farm ON IPAD but at level 28 I just got the last kind of animal (G O A T S) and it's getting boring, so I guess it's time to delete and move on. This is the first freemium farm game I've played---a review said it would be like Harvest Moon but no, it's just like Farmville.

Streets of Rogue, which I love! A lot of games attempt the sandboxy, approach-it-however-you-want thing, but this game really nails it. Lots of different characters that invite very different styles of gameplay.

It's still in alpha, but it seems pretty fully formed to me. I guess the "big main" quest isn't done yet, but I won't be skilled enough to even attempt something like that for a long time.

Graphically it's nothing special, but I was racking my brain trying to figure out what other game it reminds me of, and I think it was actually an obscure gameboy pac-man-like puzzler called Lock 'n' Chase!

Ah, I see Karl mentioned it a while back.

It's one of those games where you end up developing messy little tricks that are (probably) available emergent rather than intentionally coded. My favorite is knocking on a locked door, and then when it's answered, in the split second before the occupant slams the door in my face but after they've already turned their back, putting my "foot in the door" and sneaking in without kicking the door in, wasting a lockpick, etc.

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aw jeez

it's a good reminder to play it again though! it's been a while. it's a game i would eagerly jump back into. Maybe I'll do so when it switches to beta.

the character styles kind of reminds of the SNES classic super dodge ball.

https://i.imgur.com/FhspYow.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Nekketsu_koukou_dodgeball_bu.jpg

And aren't those volleyball ones straight out of River City Ransom?

and River City Ransom itself has many parallels to Streets of Rogue! In fact, other than the fact that RCR is sort of side scrolling rather than top down isometric (? I don't know the right terms for these views), RCR might be one of the most closely related games to streets of rogue

yeah, RCR is probably a better comparison! (or Double Dragon)

a lot of Fortnite

i'm in the mood to play some dark souls on my ps4.

i've played through about 1/3 of Dark Souls 2 on Xbox. i've never played any of Dark Souls 3.

which one do you think i should purchase? a cheaper Dark Souls 2, with 2/3 of it still new to me? or a brand new Dark Souls 3, at full price? normally i'd just go for 3, but the consensus seemed to be that 2 was a better game?

3 is far better in just about every way

yeah 3 is rad, and if you’ve played the og dark souls there’s some very cool stuff in there which calls back to it

which reminds me i need to go back and finish 3’s dlc

i'll go for 3, thanks