whatchu playing now

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.

xp ha, I'm very particular. Or I like to think I am, because honestly looking at my list not sure what I was thinking with some.

Like when tf did I put 3 Need For Speed games on there?

could really do with some vast sci fi adventure game to keep me involved for some time though.

yeah i would love some kind of space-based adventure game! like last of us or tomb raider but set in space! basically i want the expanse for ps4

i loved the new DOOM. and i grew up making mods for the og DOOM/DOOM II.

I just started Mass Effect 2, I'm going out on a limb here to say that that is probably a vast sci-fi adventure game (apologies if you already know it!).

A little annoyed that the controls aren't *exactly* the same as the first, I'm also still getting used to the combat so I'm yet to be hooked.

Martin Sheen though!

i got to the retro chapter in MGS4. it's funny as much as MGS2 purposefully turned the tables MGS4 feels like a conscious attempt to fulfill every power fantasy it denied.

it's far and away the easiest MGS, as i'm i haven't died yet and am 4/5 of the way through the game. more than any other entry it is like a linear cinematic action game, little of the backtracking or side fooling around of the other games.

it is funny to sit through a cutscene, get a prompt to save my game, save, then another cutscene starts. that happens several times in a row! i think during one of these cutscenes i saved my game 2 or 3 times.

Started Quake Champions as well, which is really scratching my arena shooter itch. It’s kind of interesting that the things that kept me from playing these games back in the day except against bots or directly against the one friend who also had, say, UT99- the unreasonable skill level required for eg Quake 3’s railgun aim and movement and the constant torrent of omnidirectional verbal abuse- haven’t been a thing at all yet, maybe because the people drawn to the game are fellow Olds and the intervening decade+ of other shooter styles and the current dominance of Battle Royale type games have fundamentally changed what the basi FPS skillset even *is*.

Two things about it have stood out so far- one, that I really want to get some of the epic weapon skins not for prestige or whatever but for basic readability- I *cannot* tell what so many of the guns are supposed to even be and have to memorize the color coding instead- and that the character Visor’s ability seems ridiculously overpowered (hit F on a 40 second cooldown to see the position of every enemy player through the walls).

I am about halfway through Doom on Switch but am thinking about buying the PS4 version to finish. The downside is that I have come to love the gyro controls and, given my limited experience in Fortnite, I assume I won't be able to shoot shit in Doom on PS4 without them!

Anyone tried Objects in Space?

My intentionality seems to have petered out altogether wrt gaming. I pretty much only either fart around in GTA Online or endlessly level up weapons in Disgaea these days (the roguelike strategy boardgame nature of the Item World in Disgaea is some kind of platonic gaming ideal that never gets old).

Cultist Simulator is fantastic search if you loved fallen london

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first time i have ever got a switch refund. it's like a text based browser game with better flavour and a (slightly) better interface. i understand why someone might really get into it and i'm sure it becomes much more rewarding as it develops, but i could not imagine giving it the required time personally

Yeah fwiw fallen London is basically that as well if not more so

i LOVED sunless sea tho!

sunless sea had [marginally] more ludic content. fallen london + cultist simulator are imo v innovative interactive fictions.

also wondering if it's pleasant to play on the switch i'm thinking to how it plays on the PC and there's a lot of clicking and dragging that i feel like would feel awkward on a touch screen...

slay the spire is a legit great game if u love the idea of mashing card builder w/ roguelike in early access w/ v satisfying strategy layer

It's awesome - and I would think it's underrated, except in the daily challenges I come about 100,000th.

slay the spire seems like the kind of thing to avoid if i want to maintain any personal productivity

just can't go on with No Mans Sky anymore, bumbling my way through the fucking dreadful inventory system just leaves me with thoughts of dread.

i just play it in the free play mode or whatever it's called

Rise of the Tomb Raider is pretty cool so far, tho im not very far. it opens w a cool cinematic snowy peaks scaling setpiece. then it goes to Syria with a really cool temple tomb carved into the desert mountains.

she is such a horrible archeologist tho compared to the old Lara. every place she goes is bound to explode, the ground caving in under her feet, as she makes a daring escape, entire civilizations lost (i admit it does look cool).

im also playing Arkham Knight. i almost like this more than the modern Batman movies. you have the cartoon series Batman and Joker doing the voice acting, and the other characters and villains are pretty good as well. i got this cos i heard the way they do the Joker is really cool, even tho he is dead, he will turn up periodically as a hallucination. plus it is always fun to swoop swoop through the sky above Gotham City.

MGS3. going through this again (i played it on emulator this is on PS3 w the HD collection) and it is incredible. the atmosphere is so thick. the humor is great. the mystical bullshit is off the charts. the game is cinematic as fuck. to me it is clearly the stand out of the series. the amount of humor vs. amazing tactical gameplay, the sixties spy/James Bond/Rambo stylism, the level design and immersion via survival mechanics (and first person grass crawling). the story is great, i love the static-y shots of international spies, the focus on Cold War era espionage.

comparing them all, 1 is great but the back tracking & control are showing their age. 2 and 4 are hurt by too much focus on story over gameplay, and the actual playing suffers. V is incredible but is basically a redo of 3. it does't have the bosses of 3, it lacks scripted moments like the walk through the river of everything you have killed during the game. seriously, that may be the most brilliant thing Kojima has ever put into these games.

top 5 MGS:

MGS3
MGSV
MGS2
MGS
MGS4

I haven’t played MGS3 since PS2 and I have that MGS collection. That’s like the “fixed up” version, right? Know they re-released it with some gameplay tweaks. I really need to dig that out and give it a go.

i have the PS3 collection but yeah it has the nice camera, it has up-rezed graphics, it has Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake for MSX.

just fought The End in an epic 30 minute battle. <3 what a boss fight.