worth noting iirc totally dialogue-less but still vivid + memorable storytelling
― Mordy, Friday, 3 April 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
Oh gosh, just looking at some images from Pilgrims and it looks very much up my alley. I see it was the same makers as Machinarium and Samorost too, so it's gotta be good. This one I might actually seek out.
― emil.y, Friday, 3 April 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
yes i actually immediately thought i'd recommend this one to you
― Mordy, Friday, 3 April 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/dSCx7lM.png59 - SaGa Scarlet Grace: Ambitions - 5 points / 1 VotePlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Vita
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
this one is slightly less obtuse than older saga games and has my favorite turn-based jrpg combat of the past while, which is good because there's not much to these games other than wandering around a world map and fighting. story stuff happens but it's never clear exactly what you did to trigger it. very unknowable.
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
also the text is microscopic on switch
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
this looks so bad to me i'm taking a hard pass
― Mordy, Friday, 3 April 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
may appeal to ppl who like octopath
lol yeah saga games are definitely only for the most broke-brained jrpg fans. octopath is much much more accessible than this
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/3eQVbse.png59 - Samurai Shodown - 5 points / 1 VotePlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Stadia, Microsoft Windows, Arcade
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
good iteration/revival of samsho, like all modern jp fighting games though its strictly a multiplayer game with some minimum effort single player modes tacked on. i never play single player in fighting games even when it exists so that doesn't bother me but i know its a dealbreaker for most
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
ciderpress I started playing SGSGA and man it's kinda hard! and I don't know if I'm advancing my equipment enough for the stage of the game I'm in.
― silby, Friday, 3 April 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
yeah i'm not sure either, i haven't beaten my first character's campaign still. i think most enemies in saga games scale to your current power level but it's very obfuscated and there's stuff you can do to make the game harder without realizing it
the "hard" combat encounters definitely take me multiple tries a lot. you usually have to focus on trying to get a United Attack or whatever its called since thats the only way you can get ahead momentum-wise
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
yeah it might not be a good thoughtless bedtime game in that regard. I also am not sure if it's a good idea or not to try to train characters on nondefault weapons.
― silby, Friday, 3 April 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/L3lUlWe.png59 - Wattam - 5 points / 1 VotePlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
(sorry for the delay, lunch break)
are those katamari princes? (I am v bad at following gaming news)
― rob, Friday, 3 April 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
catching up. card of darkness was fun! enjoyed animations and progression of complexity. oddly i hit a wall the first time i played this and then completed it fairly easily when i went back to it. not really a stayer but it did the job v well as an iphone filler game. probably the place to bemoan the lack of a serious michael brough contender this year. pretty much any of his games would have been GotY any year they got released.
― Fizzles, Friday, 3 April 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
wattam is the katamari guy's new game yes
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
it is not a katamari game though
https://i.imgur.com/8XtvkKR.png59 - Sugarlawn - 5 points / 1 VoteInteractive Fiction readers
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
emil.y, tell us of the IF!
― silby, Friday, 3 April 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
I finished Pilgrims last weekend. Pretty solid. It's about two hours from start to finish. If you liked other Amanita games like Machinarium it's in that same vein.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
Lonely Mountains Downhill >>>>> Trials 6
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/KU8XAHo.png59 - Feather - 5 points / 1 VoteNintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Macintosh operating systems
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
i think that was my vote for trials rising. i found it incredibly addictive, but it was my first trials game so i had nothing to compare it to re: the complaints upthread. if lonely mountains downhill has the satisfying tactile physics of trials with a better aesthetic and no loot boxes i'd be all about that
xp
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 3 April 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/OnqAHYf.png59 - Horace - 5 points / 1 VoteMicrosoft Windows
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
this one looked insufferable to me, maybe that's the joke but i'm not gonna find out
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/xUsl0J3.png59 - Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - 5 points / 1 VoteWindows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
Oh, I voted for Wattam and Sugarlawn! I might have given Wattam a few more points if I'd played it for longer, but only did a few hours immersing myself in the weird weird world. It's very twee, but then you can hold hands and dance with toilets and turn things into poop and... I don't know, it's strange. Definitely worth playing, but as I say, I'm not yet sure if there's more to it than just its odd charm.
Sugarlawn is a good IF treasure hunt. I play a lot of IF and almost never map or write physical notes, but with this one I actually did those things. It's a timed scavenger hunt framed as a TV show in an old mansion, and you have to try to maximise your winnings. I usually like a really deep immersive world in my IF and this is relatively shallow, but it's fun and there's loads of replay value.
― emil.y, Friday, 3 April 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
every few years I try to get into IF for a little while, play something recommended by someone, usually peter out pretty quickly because it's just not in my nature to really stick to these things. As much as I'd like to! Similar experience as I have w/ (genuine) roguelikes (i.e. nethack, brogue, DCSS)
― silby, Friday, 3 April 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uYZUud1.png59 - The Stillness of the Wind - 5 points / 1 VoteNintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, iOS
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
if lonely mountains downhill has the satisfying tactile physics of trials with a better aesthetic and no loot boxes i'd be all about that
The physics aren't as tight but you can still use the terrain in lots of fun ways. It has none of the aesthetic issues that Trials has. It's a little more homemade than Trials though.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
finally we have reached the lofty heights of... the games ppl gave 6 points
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/gAxkx8e.png57 - A Plague Tale: Innocence - 6 points / 1 VotePlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
lonely mountains downhill is good and possibly better than trials overall but its not the same thing as trials, i love the setpieceyness of the newer trials levels which is the total opposite of what that game offers
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
hm, i was expecting another 5 pointer. but maybe i gave it 10
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 3 April 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
Plague Tale is the first to place that I actually played, and I pretty much hated it. Unfun mechanics, derpy dialogue, boring story.
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Friday, 3 April 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/QSmnWNl.png57 - Life is Strange 2 - 6 points / 1 VotePlayStation 4, Xbox One, Macintosh operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Linux
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
hm, i was expecting another 5 pointer. but maybe i gave it 10― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, April 3, 2020 3:03 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, April 3, 2020 3:03 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
or perhaps... you were not the only voter!
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
if true and it's the game i'm thinking of that must mean there's another vibe man in the house who was feeling the vibe
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 3 April 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/oAJQalV.png56 - New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - 7 points / 2 VotesNintendo Switch
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
look at both of those votes
soak in the ~consensus~
HERE'S ANOTHER ONE
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/60mfKpL.png55 - Judgment - 8 points / 2 VotesPlayStation 4
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
i think i'll eventually play judgment but i still haven't finished yakuza 0
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 3 April 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
I have barely scratched the surface of yakuza 0…need to get back to it
― silby, Friday, 3 April 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
judgment is solid, everything's a slight step down from yakuza 0 though except the story and graphics
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
HEY I VOTED FOR JUDGMENT LOL
it looks and walks and talks like a yakuza game but... it is not a yakuza game. i was kind of into it but i think i dropped it as soon as death stranding came out. i gotta get back to it. maybe my retrospective small numbero f points will go up
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
(i started typing that as soon as i posted the image and forgot to, uh, finish writing the sentence)
anyway here's the last one for today
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uJKZzGE.png54 - Gris - 9 points / 1 VotePlayStation 4 (in 2019)
Fizzles, since you will appreciate it, I want to brag for my partner: she has the 12th highest score in cinco paus (2239 em 50 jogos) and plays it all of the time. I voted for it as non-2019 game of the year just because of the degree it dominates our lives
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 11 April 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
holy mother of god. that’s a score.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 11 April 2020 15:04 (three years ago) link
yeah, it's insane. it's strange to say, but when i think back about this time of my life, cinco paus is going to be there. it's going to be hilarious if i end up on a deathbed trying to explain cinco paus to my confused family and friends of whatever year it is. "...and....there was a brough-like...cinco paus...those treasure-stealing frogs...they were the bane of her existence...auuuugh...but that's a roguelike for you....uuuugggh....that's a broughlike...aaghh" death
i really need to give outer wilds some more time. i explored only a planet or two before death stranding came along and interrupted my progress.
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 11 April 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
gratified to note im still in the top 50 on Cinco Paus. I was top ten in 868 hack back in the day and I have achieved nothing since.
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Sunday, 12 April 2020 00:13 (three years ago) link
i need to get a job again so i can buy a ps4 and play death stranding and sekiro but once i have a job again i won't have free time to play death stranding and sekiro
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Monday, 13 April 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link
the eternal adult gaming struggle
― Nhex, Monday, 13 April 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
that's why i just cracked open my copy of Asura's Wrath from 2012, no joke
same here thomp except all I want is P5 The Royal
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 April 2020 06:09 (three years ago) link
oh, that one too, shit
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Monday, 13 April 2020 08:35 (three years ago) link
i just played through a short hike and yes, i would have absolutely voted for it
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 13:55 (three years ago) link
Another one
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― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 16:30 (three years ago) link
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― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Saturday, 20 February 2021 22:55 (three years ago) link