whatchu playing now

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

i hope one day to pwn you among the desolate ruins of lothric

hey buddy, get in line. i effortlessly supply pwnage thrills for half the goddamn underworld and overworld

2 is comfortably the worst of the series

i think maybe my brain completely switched around the critical consensus of DS2 vs the rest of the series. 2 is the only one i've played! downloading 3 now

yeah, it lacks the tightness of the first and third entries but it's still a lot of fun

karl if you haven't played it already bloodborne is also incredible

yeah if i had a PS4 that's what i would get.

DS2 is still fun but it breaks a lot of series rules and suffers for it. enemies stop respawning after x kills, meaning the world will eventually be empty. you can't do a plunge attack for some reason. the level/world design is absurd and nonsensical. the "well that was bullshit" factor is cranked up in a lot of random places.

i think DS3 got some flak for being "more of the same" but imo it's kind of a tightly made and well-deserved HD victory lap. also if you ever played Demon's Souls you will be in for a lot of surprises as they make just as many (if not more) references to the very first game in the series.

the level/world design is absurd and nonsensical.

i think this was part of the problem for me, the first time around. i enjoyed not having a world map, and was able to gradually learn my way around for the most part. but i reached a point where i just had absolutely no idea where to go next and was completely lost, dying over and over again as i tried to figure it out. and as i usually do when the going gets tough, i just quit. hopefully 3 will be a little easier to navigate (9 minutes left on the download), but even if it isn't, i'm going to try to persevere this time.

ds3 def learns important lessons from the preceding soulsborne games and i think knowing where to go next is one of them - iirc it’s usually pretty clear what’s up next

having said that about its relative friendliness it does throw a big bastard boss at you within the first 15 minutes or so, so it’s not entirely afraid to troll you in classic dark souls YOU DIED style

DS1 is getting a remastered reissue for the XboxOne and PS4

I managed to beat the first asshole boss, as well as the nearby “master” (who I just kicked off the mountain on accident). But I have to wait until the rest of the game downloads before I can use the bonfire in the fire link shrine to travel to the next portion of the game. Weird. It’s got a long way to go and the download is crawling, too.

who I just kicked off the mountain on accident

DS3 is definitely the best of the batch and i love them all

https://www.stereogum.com/1979566/grimes-purity-rings-megan-james-livestreamed-playing-bloodborne/video/

Grimes playing Bloodborne