whatchu playing now

SNES one i remember being eminently replayable, because it was easy and the music is great. but my last replay was probably about 15 years ago or so

i have only ever had playstations (1-3) and am finally facing up to being obsolete. i really want to get another one so i can play last of us. but i have two kids and the switch is so tempting..

The Switch rules and it’s only gonna keep ruling harder.

Yeh the DS game is a lot harder iirc, the DS FFIII was even harder. Probably best to stick to the SNES one (and burn the godawful PS1 version)
I had a busted finger for the past couple of months so haven’t been doing much gaming. I did however spend far too much time fannying around with setting up emulators on my computer with a nice front end, so I can stream them to my TV. Kinda ridiculous how deep that rabbit hole goes.
Also my PS4 has started to randomly turn itself on, have had to unplug it ffs.

Tracer, get them both. You know you want to. Get ALL the game systems, now is the time.

The Switch rules and it’s only gonna keep ruling harder.

strong truth

I bought the Mass Effect trilogy pack last week, but since then I've started another TLOU game, this time on hard. BUT, I've gotten to the hotel basement and not being in a hurry to relive that horror, I'm thinking I should start on Mass Effect?

i don't see the point of playing TLOU on hard, it's hard enough and you're playing that game more for the story/atmosphere

i decided to get back into BOTW and beat the remaining Divine Beast and check out Hyrule Castle (which i am very excited to see). i just got to the desert, and holy crap, this game just gets better and better. i may have saved the best for the last. right off the bat the sweeping desertscape was impressive and cartoonishly apocalyptic in the kind of way that reminded me of the old Bakshi LOTR film.

then i learn about the seals. omg i love the seals. what a great idea, what fun! then 10 minutes later the story about sneaking into town and seeking out the aid of a cross dressing fellow traveler. i really like how they did the story in this game, in presenting all these wide and varied scenarios. the avatar is undergoing this process of continuous transformation into a godlike & mythical being, interacting with the world and growing with it, taking on it's attributes. admittedly it's just the same old abilities-based progression Zelda games have always used to mark progress, but portrayed in the most beautiful, gracefully animated renderings. the player is constantly partaking in the creation of all sorts of experimental fantasy world and elemental-based myths (the Link-green garb desert garb helps you counteract the scorching red heat). this game is so brilliant. so loopy in that classic JRPG way. i love it.

at first i was going to complain the seals go a little too slow but then i saw a button prompt for speeding up and yeah that was a fun moment right there

installing trails of cold steel...

played the demo for detroit: becoming human ... kind of intrigued tbh

david cage......

is he a bad man

nah he's just kind of a hack compared to other auteur game designers

I liked his other games despite their obvious flaws.

There's a bit at the end of the Become Human demo that visualizes the underlying decision tree that led to the outcome I chose ... found it pretty exciting.

cold steel is an overwhelming production quality upgrade from trails in the sky even if its still a last-gen game, and they've managed to maintain the coziness of the world design into full 3d. i already love it

Beat Far Cry 5. It dumb as fuck.

Also playing Stellaris, which is great.

beat god of war. i rushed the ending and skipped out on a bunch of "content" because i was just ready to be done. the upgraded skills in god of war are fun to use, but the combat gets very monotonous after a while because the enemies don't really prompt you to come up with more than 2 or 3 general strategies, and changing weapons/eq only provides a stat boost, rather than changing how you have to use the weapons, or their effect. the puzzles are really meh as well.

10/10 Masterpiece!

Yeah, everything I’ve heard from real people who aren’t games journalists has made me know this isn’t something to rush out and buy.

https://i.imgur.com/nbYtQuA.jpg

friday the 13th: killer puzzle on my phone. liked it enough that i bought all the levels.

grow up on ps4. so far it seems too similar to the first one, but I'll continue.

trails of cold steel is really good. turns out adding persona-style school life to the trails in the sky formula was the perfect match. definitely a game for people who enjoy hanging out in towns in RPGs and talking to every NPC, even the most minor characters have new dialogue every day and there's all sorts of cute little side stories going on in the background

Started a new game of Skyrim because I never completed it and it's just a lot of fun to wander about in.

loving Curse of the Moon rn

I've started playing ME1 as an Infiltrator and am currently stuck on Therum (the first time you face geth sappers). I can't say this is exactly fun.

I managed to get past that part and finish the mission! I basically had to figure out how to use biotic abilities (I kept expecting an in-game tutorial that never arrived), also, how to take cover.

Still not entirely sold but I'm on to the next mission (Feros).

'bout to start moonlighters

I'm kinda enjoying ME1 now! I had to change my mindset from playing this as a third-person shooter to an action rpg. (Also nice treat to hear Marina Sirtis!)

Cultist Simulator is fantastic search if you loved fallen london

ooooh

'into the breach' (the 8x8 grid turn based strategy from the FTL guys)

it's ... if you understand that description you have enough information to understand if you like it or not

valkyria chronicles. this game hasn't aged a day, it still looks fantastic

yoku's island express is very good if people like the idea of a pinball metroidvania

speaking of pinball and vania, that helpless feeling when you see that the pinball falling exactly between the two flippers at the bottom is very similar to that helpless early vania feeling when you've committed to a stupid deathjump and can't change the direction of your character in midair. this feeling is known as Nunnph

Yoku’s Island Express is an absurdly good game, I beat the game at about 50% completion so I’m gonna go back and look for more stuff.

I've been playing State of Decay 2 the past month or so. Anyone else here playing it at least semi-regularly?

pinball metroidvania

sold

dammit.. i must buy that

metroidvania pinball and yr a dung beetle taking over an island post office job from pterodactyl... it's a very good game

yoku was excellent yes. hollow knight not really grabbing me in the same way as that or steamworld dig 2 did, it's more on the Castlevania side of the spectrum which is less preferable to me

Really want to play Hollow Knight on Switch and Slay the Spire but I have to clear some of my currently playing (Far Cry 5, Golf Story, maybe more Nier Automata?) before I do.

Interested in Battletech too

Mordy you 100%ed ftl, right? what do you think of their new one ?

I haven’t played it yet I’ve been waiting for the Mac release. I’m 100% in the original but not the expanded version

I'm apparently "off" gaming again. So far this year I've played 30 minutes of _Fidel Dungeon Rescue_ and that's it. It's quite good if you want a quick puzzle fix -- it's all about finding a travel pattern across a small board, picking up health, coins and smashing as many badguys as possible before leaving through the exit door. Not taking the quickest exit is incentivized because points = powerups = later levels will be easier.

So far my longest session without dying has been ~5 minutes.

I have unlocked one achivement:
https://i.imgur.com/LkwVfsK.png

i finished all the stages in friday the 13th: killer puzzle, and found the developers' previous game, slayaway camp. It's basically more stages of the same game. can't get enough of it.

good tip. killer puzzle is the only iphone game i've enjoyed lately. thanks.

fidel dungeon rescue looks like another made-for-me type videogame

that's always a fun feeling