whatchu playing now

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

you can't do a plunge attack for some reason.

You can do it, I think you have to press R2 or something though.

No desire to go back to DS2 though. For me the online aspect of DS3 makes it endlessly playable, and I'm looking forward to playing through the original again because it's the best world design by far.

At this point in DS3 I've got invasion characters at level 40, ~80, and 125 just to hit different parts of the game.

About a year ago I had to uninstall Binding of Isaac, because I was playing it compulsively. The other day I gave in and reinstalled it, and within like 4 hours of play had beaten Mega Satan, which I had never even gotten close to doing before. It gave me some good closure on the game, so I could reinstall it without any itchy addictive feelings! Kinda weird that I apparently got much better at playing this game immediately after setting it down for a year.

Uh, I meant to say "re-uninstall" it...

That happens to me all the time. The clearest illustration I know of the wisdom of stepping away from a wall upon which you're continually hitting your head.

Twenty increasingly-frustrating failed attempts at beating a boss, 'okay, fuck this thing forever, I'm out', come back to it six months later, beat the boss in one go, utter a slightly astounded 'huh' under my breath.

There's probably a degree of general game-playing skill improvement involved, as well (eg fighting my way through Um Jammer Lammy levels only to find myself completely unable to beat the last one, then returning to it ten years later and pretty much seamlessly gliding through the entire game in no time flat).

I think that's part of it! In the time since I last played BoI, I've played a few somewhat similar but arguably more difficult games like Nuclear Throne and Enter the Gungeon, and I bet there was some skill transference going on.

so this new Monster Hunter game... might give it a go. outside of messing around with an iOS port for a bit (not ideal), don't have much experience with the series. apparently this one's a little more accessible.

i'm playing celeste and dark souls 3 at the moment on ps4. they're both GOTY-ish, except celeste is new

hey guys Resident Evil 4 is fun but Leon has really, really bad hair

cut like a butt

I mentioned Subnautica upthread in 2016, and it finally had its official release. Critics effusive, and I'm just getting back in.

^^^ easily the best vr experience i have had, games about sitting in chairs included. find it utterly terrifying tho tbh. it's not particularly trying to be.

just started Twilight Princess for Wii. The art in this game is TERRIBLE but 2h in it's fun enough I guess (though I'm not hooked yet).

I started replaying Demon's Souls (never got very far the first time, haven't gotten much further this time) and finally bought a copy of Dark Souls thanks to all the Souls chatter around here of late. It's tough because it doesn't exactly favor my usual 'pick it up and play for an hour or so here and there' style of gaming. I feel like I have to block out some time for this thing.

xp yeah the visual style of TP is really kinda drab. they walked it back from wind waker, which still looks gorgeous today, thanks to all the angry nerds crying about 'Celda' at the time.

I wonder if I should ditch TP and just play WW instead

TP mostly notable for having a lot of clever dungeon setpieces iirc. i liked the one that was in a big ruined mansion

i missed everything between WW and Breath, so hoping for Switch/eShop ports

It's tough because it doesn't exactly favor my usual 'pick it up and play for an hour or so here and there' style of gaming.

I know what you mean, but I think it does break down into shorter sections pretty well. Like just getting to the next bonfire, or working on a boss.

xp everything in that span is on the weak side for zelda tbh. link between worlds i haven't played, maybe that ones ok

I'm only about 10 hours into BotW. no doubt it's the best zelda

it's like they took the best bits of dark souls and zelda and melded it with an amazing childlike-sense-of-wonder engine plus an awesome physics-and-chemistry engine

I probably would not have slept on Jumping Flash! if I had ever heard any mention of it being a first-person platformer. How is that not more of a thing? Game's pretty cool, btw. Also playing Pac-Man World, which is a surprisingly-solid low-key platformer in its own right. I just hope I finish these games before the Y2K bug destroys the wrold.

It just occurred to me that probably a third of the games I play with any regularity are from that era. Load me up with some FPS and JRPG games from the mid-90s and I'm a happy boy.

when the psx first came out it came with a demo disc, and one of the games on it was a level from jumping flash. i played it over and over back in the day, and never played the real game. i'm with you in your surprise that it wasn't more of a thing. maybe the idea got stale after a few levels? or maybe the game wasn't properly distributed or marketed?

Super Mario 64

got 60 stars, right now doing the Shifting Sand Land red coin star. i love this so much. at first i played the level and was like, ugh, this is a bad level, but now i know where all the instant death pits are and all the flight power ups. this level is a really cool showcase of the 3D elements. there are so many ways to fly into the air (respawning flight cap power ups on the pyramid and in the desert), or be launched into a propeller leap (bounce on a levitating Shy Guy or jump into a quicksand vortex's dust devil) that you can use to get between all the different parts of the level. still it's tough af. like how when you land on the pyramid you have to land on a flat part or else you slide into the quicksand V(^o^)V

my sister-in-law demanded my wife buy the ace attorney rerelease. i tried it once but gave up in disgust when i found out they hadn't even bothered to implement voir dire.

just started playing hellblade: senua's sacrifice

anyone else tried it? an hour or so in the gameplay itself is unremarkable but the atmosphere and sound design is phenomenal