whatchu playing now

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

finally dipped my toes into MGS4 long enough to make it take hold. it's pretty good! definitely in the vein of cross-a-room-watch-a-5-minute-cutscene but that's not bad. this is the only Metal Gear Solid game i never played all the way through, it's a treat.

just made it to chapter 3, in the young snake disguise, tracking spies across a foggy European city. loving this atmosphere

MGS4 I think is the only MG game I actively disliked. Liked they pushed the cutscene length and frequency to the point of absurdity and the gameplay itself just felt tired at that point. MGS5 was a perfect rebound.

yeah the game is in the guiness book of world records twice or videogame cutscene length.

it is funny sometimes i will be watching the cutscenes in MGS4 and think "Wow this looks like it would make a fun video game" and yeah they really pulled that off with MGSV (except it looks 10x better than the cutscenes ever did).

btw i know it's a cheap joke but the one soldier guy who constantly has diarrhea is hilarious

3030 Deathwar Redux.

Not bad, but a bit too much needless swear words.

Just set up my first new PC in ten years and oh my sweet baby moses the new DOOM is so wonderful

I know, welcome to 2016, but guys, it's swell

I still haven’t played the doom but I know I’ll check it out at some point. Never really heard anyone say they didn’t like it

It got some love around here but I don’t think anyone was as enthusiastic about it as I was. So bored with the FPS genre and this was just a totally glorious Fuck Off to the current template. The best you could ever hope for in a revival, spirit of the old transported into the current gen in the smartest way. Masterpiece.

probs my favourite fps ever just so smart, so much fun and designed basically perfectly

Everyone likes different stuff but if you’re into white knuckle reflexy adrenaline pumping gamez it’s the pinnacle. Recommended to play at a harder difficulty level. Ultraviolence and up or bust.

And now I’m starting a new game.

"25 items on your wishlist are on sale!"

*groan*

your wishlist needs to be MUCH BIGGER BRO

1 more DOOM tip: In video setting set Field of View to max. 110. Seems faster.