new paper mario out in a couple of months. looks good
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Thursday, 14 May 2020 13:14 (three years ago) link
yeahhh
hopefully they found a new combat system thats more fun than the last couple, it looks different at least
― ciderpress, Thursday, 14 May 2020 13:26 (three years ago) link
just finished up unwravel 2 with my 5 year old, which was great. because of the sale, we've moved on to kirby. kirby is perhaps the greatest play-along-with-a-5-year-old game ever made. got dragon quest (also in the summer sale) and plan to follow tim rogers' recommended bedtime dragon quest routine.
― voltmeter said i had potential (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 12 June 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
it's a good routine! I did it for like two months before i burnt out.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 12 June 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
i did too, getting approximately 11.4% through the game in the process
― our god is a wee lil god (Karl Malone), Friday, 12 June 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
my new theory that anyone who says they finish games is lying
― our god is a wee lil god (Karl Malone), Friday, 12 June 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
depends on the game surely
― Mordy, Friday, 12 June 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
Finish, or 100%
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 June 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
Because I "finish" lots of games, which is to say, I make it to the end of the story. But there's a ton of stuff I haven't done in Zelda, Hollow Knight, and so on.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 June 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
finish = you have asked the grinning bobcat why he grins. Until then you haven't truly "finished" anything.
― voltmeter said i had potential (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 12 June 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
longer paper mario preview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB7KBIgn2m0
looks appealing to me
― ciderpress, Friday, 12 June 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
looks incredibly rich
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Friday, 12 June 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
This looks the Switch game I’ve been waiting for since I finished Zelda. Excited
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 12 June 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
I wish I was hyped. I did, however, as a glutton for punishment, buy Dead Cells on sale for Switch today. People seem to love that one.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 June 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
Dead Cells is awesome, you're going to love it
i'm trying to remember, have you played a roguelike before? you've played dark souls, which is similar in some ways (start over at a certain point when you die; die over and over again in general). but roguelikes add some randomization in there as well. with dead cells, you'll start each run with a different set of equipment, for example
― our god is a wee lil god (Karl Malone), Friday, 12 June 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
you can also sing it to the tune of Red Sails
― voltmeter said i had potential (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 12 June 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
I played a few kind of remedial rogue likes, like some game called Goner, iirc. But not, like, Enter the Gungeon or The Binding of Isaac, the latter mostly because it looked so gross and unpleasant. But Dead Cells I've heard described as a rogue-like that gets everything right that a lot of them get wrong. With an additional element of Metroidvania to it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 June 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
it's SO HARD
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 12 June 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
Binding of Isaac has a gross theme to it but it's cartoony enough that it's pretty easy to get over / get used to. I still maintain that it's the most rewarding roguelike ever made.
― Evan, Friday, 12 June 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
I just can't get with a game whose central conceit seems to be a child locked in a basement by their abusive parent who must fight evil poop monsters or whatever.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 June 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
it's pretty tongue-in-cheek. but there are many other great roguelites you can try with other themes, like Spelunky, Rogue Legacy, Crypt of the Necrodancer...
― Nhex, Friday, 12 June 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
and dead cells!
― our god is a wee lil god (Karl Malone), Friday, 12 June 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
spelunky and rogue legacy also rule though (haven't played crypt yet)
FTL still classic if you haven't played yet. Last year's Void Bastards was highly rated (by me) and is a pseudo-roguelike fps (more like Rogue Legacy in that progress carries over between runs).
― Mordy, Friday, 12 June 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link
Which kirby is that Sufjan Grafton? My Switch arrived yesterday and I've got a six-year-old jonesing to play
― stet, Friday, 12 June 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
Kirby Star Allies. Digital is on sale rn for $42 in the US. It's perfect because you can play as kirby and move things along while your kid can join in or leave at any time as one of your allies.
― voltmeter said i had potential (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 12 June 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
i think the major complaint people have is that it's too easy, so it is perfect for young kids. it is easy but fun.
― voltmeter said i had potential (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 12 June 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
all kirby games are super easy and then have harder postgame challenge modes
― ciderpress, Friday, 12 June 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
stet, I'd also recommend unwravel 2 if you haven't played it already. It has melancholy indie vibes, but the overall message is very positive. It's a fairly easy platformer where your kid can usually ride on your back through harder parts.
― voltmeter said i had potential (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 12 June 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
mad it's been impossible to get a switch for 3 months
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Friday, 12 June 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
Switch Lites have been fairly available, but why hobble yourself
― Nhex, Friday, 12 June 2020 23:33 (three years ago) link
Still trying to get Ring Fit Adventure in vain
This sounds perfect, thanks!Yeah I decided to buy one when lockdown started - I set up alerts on a stock checking site and only just managed to get one this week. It was up on Amazon for about 30 minutes. Craziness.
― stet, Saturday, 13 June 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
OK, played a bit of "Dead Cells." It's fun, but is the point just to see how far/long you can go? There's a lot it throws at you from the start, too. How important is it to figure out what everything does?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
you can complete a run
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
and not important to figure out what everything does, because you'll figure that out naturally through dying and trying again and running across new items that you'll be forced to use
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
By complete a run, you mean ... just get past each level, right? But when you die, you go all the way back to the beginning, no matter what stage you're on? That's how it seems so far. Is the stopwatch timing it just there for entertainment purposes?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
No there is an actual end. (I haven't ever gotten there myself, but I haven't put in the time.)
― Evan, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
new pokemon snap
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 13:16 (three years ago) link
while brushing your teeth & jumping rope
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 13:21 (three years ago) link
OK, I'm getting into the rhythm of Dead Cells. It helps that it's different enough each time around that it's not totally annoying/boring. The music is great, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
Conduct Together! is $0.01 again. It's a fun local multiplayer game with kids.
― voltmeter said i had potential (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 June 2020 03:54 (three years ago) link
89p in the UK but I'm not churlish enough to object to that.
― JimD, Thursday, 18 June 2020 11:34 (three years ago) link
"Dead Cells" seems to be about going as far as you can go and getting as many upgrades and stuff as you can get before dying and getting sent back to the start again, which makes it sot of "Suicide Run: The Game." But I did seem to pass some sort of threshold today where it got a hair easier, or I got stronger ... right before some boss just kicked my ass because I apparently was armed with less than effective weapons.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 June 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
it sorta sounds like this is yr first rogue style game but yeah it's really only a roguelike first bc it's a different genre but more importantly bc you do gain upgrades iirc that carry over between runs whereas in a true rogue game you start from scratch every time.
― Mordy, Friday, 19 June 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I've never played a game like this before, but it's nice that at least a bit of the progress you've made generates back with you, even if it's all the way at the beginning again.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 June 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link
what if the real progress you make, was the *looks back at the path already traveled* progress you made
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 June 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
I’ve been playing Dead Cells again too! Enjoying it, I seem to be doing a lot better than the last time I picked it up.
― circa1916, Friday, 19 June 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
i haven't played it in a while, but they rebalanced things quite a bit through patching for months after the release, so it's probably a bit different now than it was last time too
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 June 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I've never played a game like this before
I mean I know what you mean, but "trying to get as far as you can before dying and having to start all over" is kinda how every game worked for a while - Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., etc etc...
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 20 June 2020 00:09 (three years ago) link