whatchu playing now

xp yoku's isn't that long, it's like 5-6 hours to complete, maybe 10 hours to get 100% of the collectibles

Ah, then i may be closer to beating it already than i thought!

iirc there's 3 main "bosses" you can do in any order and getting to and beating those is most of the game and then theres a finale

hollow knight is a 2018 game

fuck playing a PC

damn, i'm impressed you actually took a whole year off from this place... must've been weird!

xps you know when people say a game is 6 hours long? I always have to double that. value for money I suppose... but my poor ego...

i'm the opposite, i always finish games in like 20% less than the advertised playtime. i think it's just because i read really fast and play a lot of dialogue heavy games

i usually take longer than average, but i also like to spend a lot of time doing really dumb things in games whenever possible

lol looking at my purchase history everything that I played after getting back into gaming was this year!

TLOU - GOAT

Mass Effect Trilogy - The second one was good and my favorite of the three. I enjoyed the third too (the nerds who raged out over the ending are morans), especially the individual character moments.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - Enh. Maybe I needed to play this with headphones on, but I didn't get much juice out of the story.

Uncharteds - MEH. The story for 4 was the only thing that kept me going, and I hope TLOU2 doesn't play like it.

Witcher 3 - Slightly better MEH. I put decent hours into it, but mostly with the expectation that it would finally click for me at some point. I got as far as Act 2 when I decided it wouldn't.

God of War - Fun game, but the much vaunted story didn't touch me. I beat it but still have things I could do, but I'm pretty sure I'm done with the game for the foreseeable future. Also per KM's writeup, I have a good tv (though I played on a Slim) and the visuals did not transport me (I'm not a graphics nut to begin with).

Persona 5 - YAYYY. Love the characters so much, I started my NG+ pretty soon after finishing my first playthrough.

Bloodborne - too creepy (rules out playing on the evenings) and too hard (rules out casual sessions).

What Remains of Edith Finch - Couldn't finish this because my motion sickness kicked in.

Hollow Knight - My first dip into its world was astoundingly magical: art design, music, it all created a beautiful and unadulterated experience. The characters are great, and if/when I try to revisit the game it'll be because of them.

Horizon Zero Dawn - My love for this is mostly carried by the story, the scale of which is ambitious and deeply moving. The combat is really good, too, even though I barely scratched the surface of it.

Nier: Automata - Still playing, I'm finding it to be incredibly uneven. On normal difficulty, I was able to get by pretty much mashing the light attack button (i.e. boring), and the deeper combat tactics have largely eluded me. But on the B path, I'm enjoying the hacking minigames (and I don't think it's because of any misplaced '80s nostalgia). Storywise, the stuff on the periphery has the most pathos. Such a weird game so far.

subnautica is v fun

i only have time for one completely immersive open world game rn and i've been considering horizon zero dawn over RDRII

Caveat: I have not played RDR2, and probably will never.

But as for HZD, the world isn't overwhelmingly large (cf. Witcher 3). The map might show a zillion landmarks on it, but most of them are NOT in fact quests (the number of which, as a consequence, is a lot more manageable). The character animations are wonky though, so be warned that you'll be talking to a lot of NPCs that look like Disneyland animatronics.

might grab yoku in the EU switch sale

lol isn't that sort of part of the conceit tho

RDRI i used to kind of pretend was westworld and it made the cutscenes much more believable

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lol isn't that sort of part of the conceit tho

LOL but not the humans! Anyway, they mostly fixed it in the DLC (which is excellent btw).

vertical line man, definitely get yoku. it's great fun!

I finally got RDR 1, and I bored of it quickly.

I'm still down to do c+p this yr btw but I won't open nominations til Jan (and leave em open for like a month per usual)

merry christmas ilg folks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_EMEAzAwkI

Remade spyro trilogy cos I’m an adult and it’s sooooo fun and cute omg

Bought three people Return of Obra Dinn for Xmas. I also bought myself and my brother Fallout 76 - I know it’s meant to be crap, but I think we can wring some fun out of it.

Humbug on iPhone is perfect Dec 27 hangover/exhaustion gaming. NB, the freemium version is the devil, it's definitely worth three quid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB-Pghq9JsE

ipad, i mean

Subnautica—- wow!

#wow #whoa

I am playing Obra Dinn, it is ok so far.

i've been using the seamoth almost exclusively but i finally bit the bullet and built the cyclops. it's pretty overwhelming. it's huge for one and there's so much going on (not sure how to make it power self-sufficient, i did plant some melons in it tho so I have a mobile food supply, and i made a depth module so i can go down to 900m now). i still haven't made the prawn suit tho i have the mats for it. i'll probably make it and stash it in the cyclops before trying to descend.

mostly breath of the wild but some night in the woods, which i was pumped to play but i don't think is for me. it's pretty boring, aesthetics aside

NBA 2K Playground 2 is my jam these days, it's on fire. I liked the first one but the sequel gives you a lot more to do, with a season mode to unlock characters, and a grind to accomplish various tasks like 10 finger rolls in a single season game to up your 2 point shooting. It's weirdly missing Charles Barkley but otherwise it's got Michael and Kobe and Bird and Magic and current stars and mediocrities (no Austin Rivers RIP). Why the Admiral is only Epic but not a Legend bugs me, and no Tim Duncan, but I still won the championship with Rudy Gay and Pau Gasol.

xp it's a visual novel, more or less. not really a gameplay experience

eh I wouldn't call it a VN, it's got exploration and light platforming elements, and there's an embedded rhythm game. But if you aren't enjoying hanging out with the characters and environment yeah there's not like some in-depth gamey experience to back it up.

We played through Gris in the waning hours of 2018, it was very pretty and had more going on gameplay-wise than I was expecting. Compare to Monument Valley.

been playing the old ace attorney games, these didn't click for me last time i tried them but now I'm fully on board and tearing through them

also finishing off my year of Falcom with tokyo xanadu which is better than i was expecting, it's not as good as trails of cold steel or ys 8 overall but has a good mix of ingredients from both and i think the character movesets are more fun than ys.

I've started the Gravity Rush games. The first one definitely shows its roots as a portable game, and the cut scenes are dinky, but the dialogue is unexpectedly funny.

xp I did this too, bought the first one in 2008 & then picked it up again five years later and did the rest in a few weeks. What cases do you like best? Must replay at some stage, it’s handy that they’re all on iOS now.

the 4th case of the first one is my favorite so far i think? the one where you're defending edgeworth. just started the 3rd game though so i haven't seen too many cases yet.

If you're playing through all the ace attorney games, look up the second Miles Edgeworth game -- it wasn't released outside of Japan, but there's a good fan translation of it. It's one of the best in the series in my opinion.

yeah i'm just doing the original trilogy for now, gonna take a break after that to not burn myself out. will play ghost trick at some point in there too

DOOM 2016

it owns

I have nostalgia for the Ace Attorney games I’ve played. (1-5 by release date). I quit there because no 3DS.

all the 3ds ones are also on android/ios i think

Just re-downloaded the AA stuff.

Has anyone played the new free quake thing? (Champions). Quake 2 is my 2nd favorite of all time and I’m tempted

ciderpress, I love that one too! Have you ever seen the film (directed by Miike Takashi)? It’s based on this case and it’s as ridiculous as you’d expect but I love it. I also love the last case in this game (Rise from the Ashes) which is all about the cops being bent - shocking, I know - and is also really great especially considering it was a bonus case for when the game was ported to DS.

i remember that, it ruled

I enjoyed the later games, you do get a lot of protagonists all with their own gimmick, but it all helps add variety. The last case in the latest game has you facing - Phoenix Wright!

i just started spiderman and i gotta tell you, hard on the heels of this latest movie it feels pretty joyless

xp is that spirit of justice? I have that downloaded but never progressed much with the first case despite all the sweet sweet Edgeworth banter.

I loved Apollo Justice! The cases (besides the first and last) are fairly whatever, but the ridiculous plot and characters and Phoenix being snide and popping up being unhelpful are great.

was that the one with college student Phoenix Wright?

the first case of 3, which I'm playing now, is the college student Phoenix one, unless there's another

yup that's the one. that heart shirt lol