whatchu playing now

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

More it was the sheer number of enemies and their bubble projectiles that was sensory overload. But I was also really tired when I played, so maybe that was it.

I started Horizon Zero Dawn, and it's great so far! It is definitely influenced by Witcher 3, but plays a lot faster. That may be why I'm enjoying it more, and also because it has more color and a more interesting setting. Josh you should definitely play it!

I played that for ten hours or so and got dispirited at yet another open world game with massive numbers of chores to do. It looked nice and played well though! And I'm playing the new God of War and enjoying that, but it definitely seems a bit more on-rails.

More it was the sheer number of enemies and their bubble projectiles that was sensory overload.

The best thing about Horizon is hunting enormous robot dinosaurs - I especially loved shooting them with explosive arrows and knocking their weapons off and then using their own heavy weapons back on them.

I’ve been playing Two Point Hospital (spiritual successor to Theme Hospital) and it’s fantastic - a bigger more updated version of the original game.

the game list for the PSX classic thing is ???

other than mgs1 and ff7 there's like nothing on there from the games i immediately associate with that console

imagining people trying to play gta 1 or persona 1 in 2018 is funny, obviously they went with name recognition over quality there

yeh it's a weird list, have no idea how much licensing difficulties played in the selection but they surely could have done better?
this tweet otm

Like goddamn the Pizza Hut Demo Discs had a better lineup than the PlayStation Classic pic.twitter.com/zwkpAGVPEp

— Satomii🌈 (@KantoPancakes) October 29, 2018

not having crash or spyro feels like if Nintendo released one without a mario game

i guess getting more eyes on wild arms is good though, that feels like a revivable series

Battle Arena Toshinden
Cool Boarders 2
Destruction Derby
Final Fantasy VII
Grand Theft Auto
Intelligent Qube
Jumping Flash!
Metal Gear Solid
Mr. Driller
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
Rayman
Resident Evil (Director's Cut)
Revelations: Persona
Ridge Racer Type 4
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
Syphon Filter
Tekken 3
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Twisted Metal
Wild Arms

I’ve played most of these and at one time or another considered most of them to be amazing (when I was a kid). But yeah, weird list.

Battle Arena Toshinden is straight up NOT FUN these days. It feels incredibly slow, and I can’t imagine anyone playing it when Tekken 3 is an option.

Speaking of demo disk, both Intelligence Qube and Jumping Flash were on the demo disk that came with the original production run of the PlayStation (lol iPhone auto-capitalize). IQ seemed to be a fun puzzle game, but Jumping Flash seemed like a novelty un-fun game, even back then.

Twisted metal 1 instead of 2?

It’s embarrassing but I might have played cool boarders 2 more than any over game on there! (And at the same time was sad that I wasn’t playing SSX)