whatchu playing now

I voted for Jorb! (Sorry.)

so fuckin mad there is no Tenchu for current consoles

This will be Sekiro though, right?

I'm really loving Hollow Knight. It's decent for quick bursts of exploration too, since if you quit out you just end up back at the last save point.

I didn't play The Order 1886. But I'm looking forward to The Order 1986.

sekiro does look cool but feels like it's mainly about combat? where tenchu was about avoiding combat

also.. and this is really uncharitable because so much of the design looks really cool, the way the fabric moves and the bodies flow.. there's something kinda ugly to me about it. i don't know if it's the ultra 4K shininess of everything now but there's something plasticky looking about everything. even though tenchu was 3d there was a soft, kind of painterly aspect to it that this lacks. everything is like HDRed to the max!

also i don't like how the guy moves.. he kinda drifts about like a little tank with legs. like he can seemingly move any direction at any time equally easily?

my rpg queue got derailed by forza horizon 4

My backlog of old games has reached Tomb Raider (2013) - the fact that all of the cutscenes are in-engine, and so you can pause them, is very welcome - the torture porniness, not so much. Also, the crashing.

rfi: who here played the order 1886, and when did you play it (at release? within a year? recently?), and what were your impressions? to the best of yr memory. writing a thing fer jorb

played it a couple of months after launch, mainly to ooh and ahh over the graphics, and thought it was extremely not very good - the shooting was tedious and the story was boring

it did look v nice, but damn the letterboxing was annoying

I'm playing New Vegas again, because I never got to play any of the DLC the first time through. But to get there I need to play through the main campaign, which sometimes feels boring or like a waste of time. Sprint mod and FO4-style looting mods (i.e. looting without opening a whole new menu every single time) help A LOT.

I'm playing the remastered God of war 3. never played any of the series before and my only expectations were that there would be muscles and grunting. Quite good fun so far.

finished yakuza 0 last night, fun game though it kind of settled into standard anime/jrpg writing in the final act after being a lot more idiosyncratic earlier in the game. dunno if im into it enough to play the entire series but will def play the 1 remake when it shows up on PC

i'm also closing in on the end of yakuza 0! although i am letting myself get caught up in the absurd number of side projects you can do. Yesterday I am not proud to say I spent a while doing laundry, cooking lunch and occasionally checking in long enough to get my real estate money (getting money through that feels like a real slog, vs. the cabaret club which was pretty easy to progress in, and you get SO much money each time you beat one of the other clubs).

you can do laundry and cook lunch in Yakuza?

haha no sorry i was doing those in real life and idling in the game so the real estate game would continue running & pay me over and over

those would both be believable Yakuza minigames though

both are in persona 5 tho! (i think?)

isn't Kiwami 1 already on PC?

both are in persona 5 tho! (i think?)

Yep!

xp not yet, it has a steam page but there's no release date on it yet

steamworld heist is pretty fun. sidescrolling turn-based tactics with bullet ricochet trick shots

Yeah, I enjoyed it.

xps re. God of War 3, I'm also playing this at the moment and am really enjoying it, though it is deeply, deeply silly. I've just defeated Hercules by literally punching his face off.

it's his achilles heel iirc

been having a v good time playing blood bowl 2 with friends. so much suffering. plenty of tactical intrigue. rats ftw

xps yes that's it. I thought it would be serious and gritty, but it's daft and fun.

i just picked up yakuza kiwami 2 because i am a monster gorging on yakuza games. also grabbed valkyria chronicles 4, excited for that. then i opened a bunch of tabs on my phone of things i plan on picking up soon: nier automata (recent price drop finally!), ni no kuni 2, shenmue 1/2, and yakuza 6 (lol). announcement that yakuzas 3/4/5 are supposed to get some kind of (not remastered?) re-release on ps4 means i'm gonna go from no yakuza games played to ALL yakuza games played by the end of this generation. my gf HATES these games and she's ONLY seen the violence parts :/

i like how they make a big deal out of kiryu never having killed anyone and yet pretty much all of the heat attack animations look fatal

fwiw i would say ni no kuni 2 is skippable unless you really like ni no kuni, it's like 10 hours worth of gameplay & story padded out to 30. definitely a game where you can see the seams where they ran out their budget

I did really enjoy nnk1 but shocked to hear 2 is so short! Maybe I'll wait til I can get it for like 20 bucks

it's not that short, it's a 30 hour main quest that doesn't have 30 hours worth of ideas is what I'm trying to say. and much of the side content is related to the kingdom builder mode which is an idle game which i wasn't really feeling

Will, are you talking about Nier Automata at under $40 (Amazon)? I'm waiting till BF to see if it'll go any lower.

Also, why is it so hard to wait for sales even when I have a backlog?

i an indeed! $35 canadian is def the lowest i've seen it. didn't occur to me to wait til BF tho, i guess i have plenty to play before then so maybe i'll pump the brakes on my reckless ps4 video game purchasing

lol Leee ikr

didn't Nier Automata get a DLC expansion? hoping for a complete edition by the time i actually give in and buy it

the only game i'm definitely buying for the rest of the year is Smash though, everything else is maybe

i don't think it has dlc? if it does it's not story dlc so i ignored it

oh you're right. that's the one where you fight the President of Square Enix lolz
ok. <$20 it is

Yeah I heard the DLC is just costumes and such.

wow i just looked on my steam and i bought nier automata like 3 weeks ago, who even am i

you're the spider-man

oh yeah another flippin' game i gotta buy

you do not have to buy

but i wanna PLAY it though

and you should!

ughgh I just watched 10 seconds of Nier: Automata gameplay and my resolve to wait is being sorely tested.

is there a decent iOS tetris? the official EA one suuuuuucks and changes the controls and is way too easy and barely even loads half the time. the version on my ti-86 was 10x better for gods sake

return of the obra dinn

it's really neat, recommended if you like mystery/detective games. i started it at noon today and its 9pm now and ive barely been able to put it down, gotta solve everything....

Gonna make an exception to my Switch Only Forever rule to play that ASAP; papers please one of my favorite games ever.

just finished it after playing 12 hours straight -_-

I played the Nier demo and the controls felt very closed off and distant, almost like a claw game. There was also an overwhelming amount of visual information on screen. I assume that you get used to both of these things and the game gets more fun?

automata? i don't remember either of those things being the case

the hud is basically just your health bar and enemy levels, no? maybe i turned off the other stuff