whatchu playing now

Voting for Crusader Kings should probably count as a vote for Excel

we can vote for roguelites but not roguelikes

anyway here's my hall of fame noms

Paper Mario
Super Smash Bros Melee
Tiny Wings
Golden Sun

golden sun was ahead of its time in having way more text than the average jrpg player wanted to read

I mean, the fucking idea of a hall of fame without Minesweeper

actual 0% chance that there wasn't a minesweeper clone on DS i don't even have to look

game poll that's just consoles is like a film poll that's just viewmaster

lots of GOAT/HOF PC games that technically got console ports, but the console versions just suck (every FPS, for example).

FPSes are fine with gyro aim but they don't put it in the console versions even though the hardware is there because gamers get mad if they have to use the learning part of their brain

Splatoon controls were as revolutionary as Halo introducing twin stick but this time everyone laughed it off because Nintendo had just spent the previous 5 years training everyone to think motion controls were a gimmick

someone run something, anything, and just let me vote in it and not add it up and post it this time

I will volunteer for that, if no one else wants to.

Qualifications: I am unemployed

Crusader Kings 2 is a way of life

btw is anyone playing dead cells? debating whether to get it on mac or ps4

frostpunk is a pretty fun city-builder. like age of empires without the combat, instead struggling against the elements

might check that out

spent hours on Stardew last night, seems I like it more now that a decent aount of gold is being earned. Although Summer destroyed my cabbage farm, such a noob error on my part.

has anyone played AVIARY ATTORNEY?? i stumbled across a review by accident and it sounds absolutely amazing.

Is that an it's always funny reference to Charlie Kelly and bird law?

Sunny*

i don't know! never seen that show

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-01-21-aviary-attorney-review

It was part of a wave of goofy animal visual novel PC indie games that came out after Hatoful Boyfriend lit the world on fire

Yeah, Avian Attorney is good - I like the 19thC-style newspaper cartoon art style, and the historical reference to the French Revolution are pretty accurate.

Playing Shenmue on the PS4. Boy, Ryo's neighbours all seem pretty chill about a dude getting murdered in their neighbourhood! That girl that tells Ryo to cheer up four days after his dad's been murdered, wtf.

Also playing Okami on the Switch and between those two, I gotta say: camera movements have really improved over the past few generations.

Shenmue's camera (and a lot of other things) was abysmal back when it came out too

this morning i woke up and remembered i volunteered to run some sort of poll here. in reviewing the last few weeks of posts, i remembered that leee was the one that proposed the whole hall of fame idea - sorry about getting confused upthread and thinking it needed a volunteer to run it. i have a 4K memory which used to be impressive in the early 90s, but now it fails me frequently.

anyway, leee if you need any assistance with things just let me know, and otherwise i'm happy to just vote, however you decide to handle it!

KM pretty sure the HOF was yer idea.

j/ks

I've been rethinking having it? Maybe continuing Will M's generational polls for the sake of continuity? IDK!

it was all just a dream...*wayne's world dream sequence arm waving*

I modded my GBA to have a backlit screen and surprisingly didn't fuck it up!
so I've been playing Warioware Inc for the first time in years and having a great time
plan to play Golden Sun next so I can play the sequel Lost Age after, as I never got around to it
RPG recs welcome (e.g. anyone played Riviera?)

Have fun entering like 2k of base64 encoded data to transfer your Golden Sun save ;)

there's some decent snes rpg ports on there. final fantasy 5 if you never played that one. ff6 obv if you somehow never played it. tales of phantasia. breath of fire 1 & 2

fire emblem 7 (just called "fire emblem" in the English version) and 8 ("the sacred stones" i think?)

mario & luigi superstar saga

I can’t recommend any GBA rpgs but if you haven’t played kuru kuru kururin on that machine, you should.

ooh Breath Of Fire, that's a series I've never played before. I've tried 3 different Tales games before and never got far with any of them. Kururin looks awesome, and reminded me that the original Rhythm Heaven game came out on the GBA in Japan and carts seem to be cheapish on amazon.jp.

don't sleep on Mario & Luigi if you like the first couple Paper Mario games, it's one of those

Riviera was fine. Very much a linear path dungeon crawler with some notably awkward anime fan service

M&L rules

GBA had so much good stuff, though it's been so long I don't remember most of it... FF Tactics Advance was really good

I never got around to it but Minish Cap has a good rep

minish cap is solid but a little handholdy you can start to see the trajectory that led to the lesser Zelda games of the late 00s

went back to doom. it's really fun.

i have been playing cultist simulator this week and i have also been playing dominion with other human beings and, cultist simulator is kind of an un-fun experience

i thought i was about done with super mario odyssey, but after beating bowser a whole bunch of other fun stuff opened up. right now i'm on the dark side of the moon, which is not nearly as pink floyd.

not nearly as fun as pink floyd

i just finished dragon quest 3 on my phone. it's one of the better games in the series. i've now beaten DQ1 through DQ9.

i'd rank them best to worst something like this:
5
8
some ordering of 3, 4, 6
9
2
1
7, the only bad one

all were remade mobile versions except 8 and 9.

omg! that's impressive. you're onto XI now, or are you going to play X first?

thought i was done w persona 5 but SHOOP right back in

I'm not touching DQX, the MMO. I'll get DQXI when it goes on sale.

Ys 8 is fun so far, can't really figure out where it's going yet but getting some links awakening vibes which are a quite rare and coveted type of vibe

Playing through Skyrim again at a leisurely pace. Despite all the stupid repeated dialogue and sparse population it's probably still my favourite game world just to hang about in. Is fallout 4 worth playing after this?

wondering the same about Skyrim!

I am playing AC Black Flag now, still in Havana and looking forward to things opening up soon

something i really like in ys 8 is that it acknowledges that the real world payoff for exploration is not running into a bandit camp or dungeon but just seeing cool nature shit. it does this in a really basic way where there are specific landmarks scattered around the game world (e.g. a big rock covered in seagull nests, a giant coral tower) and when you encounter one it does a little camera pan across it and names it and adds it to your map. it's extremely basic and doesn't appear to have any gameplay tie-in but something about it is really satisfying and despite it not being an open world game i immediately recognized this as a missing ingredient from a lot of the ones of those I've played. i guess zelda had some more tacit hints of this but i felt like it mostly got overshadowed by shrines and manmade ruins.

I started "Edith Finch" and :( it was giving me motion sickness.

i get that from FPP space games but not shooters or adventure games idk why. i can deal with pitch and yaw but add in roll and i'm fucked

yeah I can't play first person anything for this reason. it sucks because I'd have liked to play Far Cry 2---I want to play an open-ish world game in sub-saharan Africa (that isn't just a safari game duh) but it's an fps so no go.