whatchu playing now

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Yeah, Avian Attorney is good - I like the 19thC-style newspaper cartoon art style, and the historical reference to the French Revolution are pretty accurate.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

finally got around to finishing valkyria chronicles 1, really excellent game. it's pretty stressful to play though so even though 4 just came out this week and seems to have good impressions i think i'm gonna have to wait a while before i'm ready for another.

Not Drop7, which doesn't work on ios12

xp to Euler... resident evil 5 was set in (a fictional country in) sub-saharan Africa I think?

no idea if it's any good btw, it's in the deep pile of downloades backlog that I will probably never play

It's not very open-world, mind.

Now I've finished Breath of the Wild, I downloaded a SNES emulator and got Link to the Past, which I've never played before. It's surprisingly sophisticated! Like it a lot so far.

i always liked the game boy ones more than lttp which i think was sacrilegious at some point. i don't like all the drab brown terrain

A Link to the Past is all time.

I played The House of Da Vinci and Cube Escape Paradox on my phone. Both OK. THoDV had too much pixel-hunting, but the hint system got me past all of those.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--zI8gyL5h--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/heecjyyxavchsyozdlhz.png

whatchu not playing

this is kind of challopsy and i won't be able to follow through on it, but i kind of want to try to never again play a game with a skill tree like this, and with little exclamation marks constantly popping up over the new content that has been unlocked as a result of me walking 15 steps in any direction

I want a game that’s just the skill tree tbh

now that's an idea

start the game off in character creation mode, then allocate a handful of initial ability points, the first quest is to read the lore about the abilities you chose, which unlocks new ability points and 40 ancient shards, complete the quest to craft the shards to create your first ancient spear, get 2 more ability points, etc

whatchu just bought

Hollow Knight and TLOU, both for PS4.

Karl, is that Assassin's Creed?

the ending is walking in any direction and pressing a button, which unleashes the beast of the unknown godmother megacombo, instantly destroying the ultimate boss that was described somewhere in the lore

yep, that's the new one. it's actually probably awesome! it looks really cool, at least.

brb getting a “beast of the unknown godmother” tattoo

~achievement~

Karl I know u got a lot going on n such but I would dig the heck out of it if you streamed video games more