It is as the title suggest. Tell us what you're currently playing and give us some brief thoughts.
I'm currently addicted to Hearthstone. It's an easy to pick up TCG game from Blizzard based on the Warcraft universe. Most of you have probably already heard about it. Can't seem to stop playing the shit even though it's kinda bullshit at times and you pretty much have to spend money regularly if you wanna be competitive.
I got back into WoW recently too but I'm kinda burning out on it again.
What about you CC?
I'm a freeeetoplayer in Hearthstone, I mostly hang around the arena or use a priest deck so I can steal all the good cards
Also playing through Broken Age, which has art as gorgeous as its writing is lackluster
I was pretty deep into the physical Warcraft (http://kaijuturtle.tumblr.com/post/115958767531/wow-tcg-collection-pt-%C2%BD) TCG (http://kaijuturtle.tumblr.com/post/115958970061/wow-tcg-collection-pt-22) for a time, which they killed in favour or Hearthstone. I never did really bother with Hearthstone though.
Right now I've been playing a lot of Killing Floor 2 with chums. They've got a double XP weekend on right now which is unfortunate because im working all nights and my friends all work during the days. Playing with randoms is shit.
I started Rise of the Tomb Raider a month or so ago, but haven't had much time to play it since. :(
Quote from: Losperman on May 01, 2016, 06:22:49 PM
I started Rise of the Tomb Raider a month or so ago, but haven't had much time to play it since. :(
I played the 2013 Tomb Raider recently and it was great! Waiting for a (deep) sale so I can try out Rise too
Quote from: Zombie Lincoln on May 01, 2016, 06:27:46 PMI played the 2013 Tomb Raider recently and it was great! Waiting for a (deep) sale so I can try out Rise too
Yeah, I really liked the first one, and it's one of the reasons I got an Xbox One and asked for the sequel for Christmas. I'm only in the second area, but I think it's as good or better than the first (so far).
Brian Kibler helped design the Warcraft TCG! </trufax> Hey, I play a lot of Hearthstone, too! Add me ZL WE CAN COMPARE SAUSAGE LENGTH
i've been burning through a lot of games.. here's all i played in the last 2 months
zeno clash 2 - excellent.., love doing those sick punches on dudes.. wish it had more combos though..
abyss odyssey - not my kind of game
jazzpunk - made me laugh, mission accomplished
cloudbuilt - didn't grab me like i thought it would. boost management just slowed the game down to its detriment imho
analogue: a hate story - it's a game about reading message logs and i got really into it. good
hate plus - a completely 2d and text interface is laggy?? somehow?? how do you fuck that up???? otherwise the story is basically around the same level as analogue
talos principle - great. did not expect to be challenged by the puzzles but i was
fotonica - very short, very simple, mildly frustrating at moments. it's an autorunner with a vector aesthetic. not noteworthy, really
deadcore - great. obstacle course platformer. i appreciate just how open you are to completely ignore the 'intended' routes while jumping around everywhere
call of juarez gunslinger - headshot city. good. shooting duded. pew pew. i liked oneshotting everyone with the rifle
drunken robot pornography - good. i feel like i should like this more but i played an hour of it and felt like i was completely burned out on the entire idea. the menu theme is good.
roundabout - great? very inherently silly, i dont really have anything good or bad to say about it
fract osc - good. the puzzles weren't particulary noteworthy and walking around felt like a chore sometimes but i ended up making a pretty sick melody by randomly waving my mouse around the notesheet so there's that
jet set radio - ... i don't like it. the style and music and everything is awesome but i just hate the controls and speeding up does nothing but somehow everyone's faster than me anyways? and the camera angle makes lining up some of the grinds impossible and just trying to get shit done sometimes is a fucking chore son of a bitch this game can be frustrating
shadow warrior - good. the melee and magic stuff was nice and natural but i feel like making karma gained from kills affected by multiplier stuff that usually could only be fully realized with a specific single weapon really made me feel like i was intentionally limiting myself if i didn't just use that one weapon the whole time
lyne - puzzle game where you literally just connect dots. lmao................ it's good, lots of puzzles. it's 26 sets of 25 puzzles i think and ive been doing a set or two every once in a while
poker night 2 - i'm pretty sure this is going to be a preliminary sign of future troubles but i think i really like video game poker
valkyria chronicles - excellent. turn based strategy fitted as a pseudo-shooter action game with a distinct style. the gameplay is rather addicting and i haven't played fire emblem but from what i know it's sort of like that, but it feels far more involved than a top-down sort of game. i ended up binging through this entire long thing in a few days. lots of dumb anime shit goes down, some of them just downright ridiculous like showing a montage of a person who just died that includes footage of them dying that you just saw 2 minutes ago
super amazing wagon adventure - there's literally nothing noteworthy going on here
rock of ages - it's sort of competitive tower defense? simulatenous gameplay where you each control your own large rock on mirrored marble madness paths into each other's bases with the giant rock trying ot bust down their door on each turn. you set up defenses mostly to delay the enemy rather than kill them since deploying your rock is on a timer that starts after you reach the end. it's ok. i dunno, i sort of felt like i 'got it' after an hour of singleplayer
cargo! the quest for gravity - good. its uhh.. mostly banjo nuts and bolts with a compelling strangeness to it and a fairly relaxed tone to the gameplay. a lot of the time spent playing it feels... sort of easingly mindless, like one of those clicker games. the other parts are slightly annoying but nothing that'll really stop you. there's also two endings but the fact that there is is incredibly easy to miss if you don't look at the achievements or something like i did,a nd also look up how to get the other ending
the void - by ice pick lounge (who also made cargo ^^^). i'm still in the middle of this one i guess. playing this game is fucking stressful (not relaly in a bad way) but mostly because i have no idea what the fuck i'm doing, this game is weird as hell and i need to know what the fuck is going on
ziggurat - randomly generated rouguelike shooter with magic and wands and shit instead of guns. it's decent. you shoot fantasy monsters and shit in a series of rooms each fashioned as a sort of arena that you have to clear before you can go into another room in whatever direction, until you reach the exit to the next floor, repeat until you reach the end and whatever. i ended up both winning and dying on my first run by dying right after i killed the last boss but it still went to the completed the game cutscene and all that lol. it encourages multiple playthroughs
english country tune - minimalist puzzle game. puzzles are tile-based stuff.. the game starts with sort of simple 2d puzzles then quickly opens up into complex 3d puzzles and it's plenty compelling. still going through this one day by day
also been playing tf2 still.. thats definitely my constant
Just beat Love Gunstar Heroes 3D and VVVVVV, currently almost (?) done with Kero Blaster (by the Cave Story guy) and partway through Lovely Planet and Oracle of Seasons. I never did play the Oracle games, figured I might as well give them a shot since I liked enjoyed Link's Awakening so much. Plus I got all of em free off Club Nintendo. So far it's pretty bizarre, I had to enter a dance competition to get a boomerang and regularly need to get jewelry appraised. I like it. I'm itching to start Hyper Light Drifter but I want to beat what I'm playing now first cause I can tell that shit is gonna distract me from everything else. I need a new external HD so I can free up space and install the rest of of my shit too. I wanna play Soma so bad but I don't have 20 gigs to spare. Speaking of which, I just got this awesome thing (http://s.pro-gmedia.com/videogamer/media/images/pub/large/3ds_hyrule_edition.jpg) instead of a hard drive and it's beautiful. I kinda miss the purple of my regular 3ds but I was getting sick of how small it was and how the shoulder buttons wore out so quickly.
Quote from: SockpuppetClock on May 01, 2016, 07:35:21 PM
i've been burning through a lot of games.. here's all i played in the last 2 months
jazzpunk was great, the levels have so much weird shit to find. I loved the survival horror pizza world you stumble into in the first level. I've been meaning to play Zeno Clash and Talos Principle, just don't have the HD space atm.
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on May 01, 2016, 06:37:53 PM
Brian Kibler helped design the Warcraft TCG! </trufax> Hey, I play a lot of Hearthstone, too! Add me ZL WE CAN COMPARE SAUSAGE LENGTH
hearthstone id is Flopsy#1613
And sockpuppet you give really good game reviews
Clearly we need to have a Hearthstone CC tourney at some point. I'd love to play with some of you if any of you are interested.
The Old Gods expansion just came out recently. I'm kinda sick of it already. Everyone is playing C'thun decks and those that aren't are probably playing Shaman decks as Shaman got a much needed boost thanks to some of the more recent cards.
Rob I'd definitely give Hearthstone a try if you liked the physical game. It's pretty similar from what I hear and, as you've guessed, is super addicting.
Anybody cool enough to own a VR headset? If so I'm fucking jelly as fuck I hate you.
Quote from: Nintendoclock on May 02, 2016, 05:57:44 PMAnybody cool enough to own a VR headset? If so I'm fucking jelly as fuck I hate you.
I bought a cheap Google Cardboard set recently, if you count that (probably not). I also pre-ordered a PSVR set, but of course I won't be getting that until October.
I'm also curious about anyone who has one now, though.
well, i recently got ''duke nukem forever'' for the PS3, and let me tell you:
i loved it.
it has good graphics, pissing, punching, the joy of collecting items, a pretty cool ego(life) bar, huge aliens and hot babes.
i just won the first (tutorial) fight, and kicking that cyclop's eye in the rugby court was truly great.
valuable
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on May 05, 2016, 03:19:47 AM
valuable
''valuable'' or not, my post was alot better than this ^^^^^ ;)
(and my post was about what game im currently playing, which was the topic's main subject. dont you have anything better to do than to belittle my posts? use your free time creatively, we are the 'clockcrew', not the 'drama queens')
presumptuous
Can we at least ban BB10 from posting on the gaming forum? Please?
OVERWATCH BETA FUCKERS. whose playin! ?
I know my shitty computer won't be able to handle Overwatch gracefully, if at all, but I'm gonna get in on it just so I can grab sweet Beta whatsits. Don't expect to be able to play with me though, bweh. I think I'm gonna go buy a month of WoW like right now, speaking of Blizzard.
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on May 05, 2016, 08:30:37 PM
presumptuous
fair enough.
truce?
BTW, speaking of ''overwatch'', is the game worth it? whats your opinion guys?
im currently playing a deathmatch in killzone 2, antique stuff.
(killzone is very fun when you have a good team in multiplayer matches, while it has many character classes too: from assault unit to medic, to explosives expert to infiltrator (spy). it has a very good multiplayer, and in killzone 3, its even more brutal, even tho the single player campaign in killzone 3 sucks, unlike the great s.p. campaign of killzone 2.)
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on May 06, 2016, 05:29:30 AM
I know my shitty computer won't be able to handle Overwatch gracefully, if at all, but I'm gonna get in on it just so I can grab sweet Beta whatsits. Don't expect to be able to play with me though, bweh. I think I'm gonna go buy a month of WoW like right now, speaking of Blizzard.
Honestly I'm surprised how well my toaster can run it. I got everything set on "High" and I'm still pulling a good 40-60FPS at any given time. I have a GTX 560 for reference. Pretty much a 6 year old card at this point.
It's not as graphically demanding as you might think.
I played Tiny & Big Grandpa's Leftovers or a game whose title I am misremembering as that sequence of words
it was in my Steam library idk why I bought it
you're a little dude looking for a pair of underpants or something, but you get a laser that can cut through like >80% of level geometry hell yea, and a grappling hook for pulling things that are far away, and a rocket that attaches itself to things and propels forward from the fixed point at which it is attached, and the idea is you tear the shit out of the level and move rocks around and knock down pillars of what have you to make your way up mountains or through temples or whatever and uh. steal back a pair of underpants from a slighter bigger and dumber dude? it's got a borderlandsy comic style and a ~quirky~ sense of humor yayyy
it's cute and has a central gameplay concept that tbh I didn't know was possible but I feel like most of my time is spent repeating a segment until the rocks happen to the fall the way I intended them to and I don't accidentally crush myself or wander off one of the many ledges. fortunately checkpoints are pretty frequent.
could've benefitted from Portal-style pacing- introducing one application of the concept at a time. as it is it just kind of lets you loose, which is fine, but blurs the line between progression and repetition.
Quote from: Slurpee on May 08, 2016, 05:36:22 PM
I played Tiny & Big Grandpa's Leftovers or a game whose title I am misremembering as that sequence of words
it was in my Steam library idk why I bought it
you're a little dude looking for a pair of underpants or something, but you get a laser that can cut through like >80% of level geometry hell yea, and a grappling hook for pulling things that are far away, and a rocket that attaches itself to things and propels forward from the fixed point at which it is attached, and the idea is you tear the shit out of the level and move rocks around and knock down pillars of what have you to make your way up mountains or through temples or whatever and uh. steal back a pair of underpants from a slighter bigger and dumber dude? it's got a borderlandsy comic style and a ~quirky~ sense of humor yayyy
it's cute and has a central gameplay concept that tbh I didn't know was possible but I feel like most of my time is spent repeating a segment until the rocks happen to the fall the way I intended them to and I don't accidentally crush myself or wander off one of the many ledges. fortunately checkpoints are pretty frequent.
could've benefitted from Portal-style pacing- introducing one application of the concept at a time. as it is it just kind of lets you loose, which is fine, but blurs the line between progression and repetition.
Your final sentence concisely sums up why I fell out of that game! Despite finding the stone-cutting to be pretty satisfying
Quote from: Nintendoclock on May 08, 2016, 10:16:17 AM
Honestly I'm surprised how well my toaster can run it. I got everything set on "High" and I'm still pulling a good 40-60FPS at any given time. I have a GTX 560 for reference. Pretty much a 6 year old card at this point.
It's not as graphically demanding as you might think.
Better try it, then!
Oh cool, no Mac version. Ever.
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on May 09, 2016, 04:52:17 AM
Quote from: Nintendoclock on May 08, 2016, 10:16:17 AM
Honestly I'm surprised how well my toaster can run it. I got everything set on "High" and I'm still pulling a good 40-60FPS at any given time. I have a GTX 560 for reference. Pretty much a 6 year old card at this point.
It's not as graphically demanding as you might think.
Better try it, then!
Oh cool, no Mac version. Ever.
:(
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on May 09, 2016, 04:52:17 AM
Quote from: Nintendoclock on May 08, 2016, 10:16:17 AM
Honestly I'm surprised how well my toaster can run it. I got everything set on "High" and I'm still pulling a good 40-60FPS at any given time. I have a GTX 560 for reference. Pretty much a 6 year old card at this point.
It's not as graphically demanding as you might think.
Better try it, then!
Oh cool, no Mac version. Ever.
have I told you to install bootcamp? install bootcamp
Slurpee I will KoS you IRL. You think I have harddrive space for a partition with a flipping Blizzard game on my six year old laptop? That shit's for Age of Empires and japanese porno games.
GTA V on PC, Enjoying the mods out there.
After hovering around rank 10 a lot in Hearthstone pre-Kraken, I finally, FINALLY found the decks that are gonna get me out of the rank ≤18 pit with the new Standard format. I can deal with new cards being added, but they took all my crutches away.
Also, made a N'Zoth, bought some packs, immediately get a golden N'Zoth. Don't get me wrong, the second I want a new legendary I'm gonna melt that fucker down (golden Jaraxxus is the only golden legendary for me) but for the time being HOOHEEHAHIHAHUE LOOK AT ALL THESE GOLDEN DEATHRATTLE FUCKERS
speaking of important personal accomplishments, I finally got to Harrison a Doomhammer. I had to wait until it was down to two durability because it was in my one deck that gets decent draw power, but still. It's the principle.
im gonna play pokemon soon
"Emerald" I think
not yet but I just got the game
excited to have pet friends
I played Doom 3 for a couple hours today because Doom 4 just dropped and looks like shit.
Quote from: Zombie Lincoln on May 13, 2016, 10:42:48 AM
im gonna play pokemon soon
"Emerald" I think
not yet but I just got the game
excited to have pet friends
They actually remade the gen 3 games, but allright
I did it. I finally fucking did it. I gave up on it for Wii some years ago, and for over a year I ignored it on 3DS. But today I finally beat Cave Story. Yesterday was the first day I ever even got to Ballos. Surprisingly after so much bullshit leading up to it, I beat Ballos's third and fourth forms on my first time seeing them. I was down to 1 health and out of missiles by the time I took him down. It was exhilarating.
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10/10. Easily one of the best platformers or games in general ever made, and most certainly the best Metroid-style game that isn't Metroid. Even the plot was engaging, I only wish I could have learned more about the world. There's so much implied and hinted at, but I guess the mystery adds to the wonderment and all. And you get all the answers you need really. I'm very satisfied with the game. I might play Curly Mode and the challenge levels some time in the future.
But for now, I wanna beat overtime mode on Kero Blaster. I like that hard mode's levels are entirely different, even aesthetically, the enemies and plot are different too. Reminds me a little of how Kirby's Dreamland 1's hard mode and how Super Mario World changes after you beat it, except the level design and aesthetic itself is different too.
Been trying to play DOOM but have been ridiculously busy lately. Hoping to get some playtime in tonight. From what I have played thus far it's pretty great.
Huge sprawling maps, fantastic music, gory gory gore gore, satanic demons from hell, fast and loud. Love it.
I am also playing DOOM, so here are some screencaps of that
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I highly recommend DOOM for all of you who are interested. Just a fantastic game, even if you have to play it on a console. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
tryna 100% diablo3 and lego marvel in between playing overwatch during all my free time. also town of salem sometimes
Quote from: PatriotClock on May 26, 2016, 09:39:17 PM
tryna 100% diablo3 and lego marvel in between playing overwatch during all my free time. also town of salem sometimes
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blankmediagames/town-of-salem-the-card-game
20 bucks for a set when it comes out this november.
i've been playing some FTL again lately, just unlocked the last zoltan cruiser. probably going to try out the stealth cruiser again, i always get really bad luck with weapons whenever I try it out.
I just played Ghost Trick, that was so good - some of the best 3d animation I've seen!
Quote from: Zombie Lincoln on May 29, 2016, 06:25:16 PM
I just played Ghost Trick, that was so good - some of the best 3d animation I've seen!
If I remember right, it's all actually 2D rotoscoped animation of 3d animation, or something. Anyway, yeah its really good.
Quote from: Sinister Clock on May 29, 2016, 07:00:20 PM
Quote from: Zombie Lincoln on May 29, 2016, 06:25:16 PM
I just played Ghost Trick, that was so good - some of the best 3d animation I've seen!
If I remember right, it's all actually 2D rotoscoped animation of 3d animation, or something. Anyway, yeah its really good.
Yup, that sounds about right.
The 2d look was great, but the 3d animation was really, really well done. The characters just have great motion that shows a lot of personality. Even little gestures were a treat!
Quote from: Zombie Lincoln on May 29, 2016, 08:32:20 PM
Quote from: Sinister Clock on May 29, 2016, 07:00:20 PM
Quote from: Zombie Lincoln on May 29, 2016, 06:25:16 PM
I just played Ghost Trick, that was so good - some of the best 3d animation I've seen!
If I remember right, it's all actually 2D rotoscoped animation of 3d animation, or something. Anyway, yeah its really good.
Yup, that sounds about right.
The 2d look was great, but the 3d animation was really, really well done. The characters just have great motion that shows a lot of personality. Even little gestures were a treat!
Haven't played since a couple years ago when I got trapped on a train station after sitting on the wrong train, but one scene sticks out in my mind. I think it's two guards, and one does a little dance or something, I just remember that being amazingly well animated.
Ghost Trick's style really draws me in, and I've been meaning to play it since it first came out. but my backlog of DS games is huge. At the top of the list I've got Front Mission, Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow, Henry Hatsworth, the second and third phoenix wright games, and Monster Tale. And then I've got at least ten other unplayed games sitting on my card, not counting the GBA ones.
Been playing Overwatch recently. It's pretty good. Very polished, lots of fun. I don't necessarily know if I agree with the vocal minority of people screaming about balance issues but I do see why some people wish there was something more to do in game. As of right now I've played for about 7 hours and I find myself starting to get a little burnt out on it already.
But then... I decide to pick it up and play it again. It's one of those games that's good in short bursts which I can appreciate. Idk if it's necessarily worth the 40 dollar entry fee but I'm sort of counting on Blizzard to give this game the support and love that it has given all its other games in the past. Maybe some new maps, modes, and characters will come down the pipeline at some point. I just hope they don't make me pay for it or some bullshit (which they probably will. :/)
Not bad. We'll see how much I sit down and play it this summer. If nothing else it's pulling me in more than TF2 ever managed to do.
Started playing Dying Light. Looking at every refrigerator for CC magnets.
Quote from: Losperman on June 01, 2016, 01:53:04 AM
Started playing Dying Light. Looking at every refrigerator for CC magnets.
Did you find them? They're in the very first location in the game, in the apartment you wake up in!
Also funny thing? My uncle did the writing for basically all the side-quests in Dying Light (but none of the main story).
So if it seems like the side-quests are pretty bizarre, you've got some fraction of my genetic heredity to thank
I've been pouring a majority of my time into Fallout 4. It's a pretty good game, I guess. Don't really feel as though there's as much freedom as there was in the previous games, and the new perk system really confirms the term "Like Skyrim with guns", but all in all it's still fairly enjoyable. I just like caving people's heads in with my rocket-powered sledgehammer.
Quote from: Zombie Lincoln on June 01, 2016, 07:29:37 AM
Also funny thing? My uncle did the writing for basically all the side-quests in Dying Light (but none of the main story).
So if it seems like the side-quests are pretty bizarre, you've got some fraction of my genetic heredity to thank
Oh shit, really? That's pretty fuckin' cool. I might check this game out just for that fact alone.
Quote from: Phonograph on June 01, 2016, 07:43:20 AM
I've been pouring a majority of my time into Fallout 4. It's a pretty good game, I guess. Don't really feel as though there's as much freedom as there was in the previous games, and the new perk system really confirms the term "Like Skyrim with guns", but all in all it's still fairly enjoyable. I just like caving people's heads in with my rocket-powered sledgehammer.
I've decided to give it a year and wait for the inevitable "put the rpg back in" mods
Quote from: Losperman on June 01, 2016, 01:53:04 AM
Started playing Dying Light. Looking at every refrigerator for CC magnets.
thats it. i will buy ''dying light'', just for that fact alone.
(i already knew that, but i guess it will be more fun if i buy the actual game)
i wonder who added those magnets tho... the dude must've been a former clock, im sure about this. (or, in the very least, he was familiar with the CC's mythos in general)
Quote from: Zombie Lincoln on June 01, 2016, 07:29:37 AM
Also funny thing? My uncle did the writing for basically all the side-quests in Dying Light (but none of the main story).
really? cool! you could've suggested him to add a few CC hints here and there...
oh well, its still good, i guess!
Quote from: Zombie Lincoln on June 01, 2016, 07:29:37 AM
Also funny thing? My uncle did the writing for basically all the side-quests in Dying Light (but none of the main story).
So if it seems like the side-quests are pretty bizarre, you've got some fraction of my genetic heredity to thank
No way! That's so awesome.
Quote from: Zombie Lincoln on June 01, 2016, 07:28:07 AMDid you find them? They're in the very first location in the game, in the apartment you wake up in!
Oh damn, really? I started looking at every fridge I saw, but I must have missed it. I'm sure I'll be headed back there after my current mission, so I'll definitely look more closely.
Edit: Hm. Just scoured the building and only saw one fridge with magnets, but they were just squares of color. Maybe it's in one of the rooms I don't have access to yet? I just finished the prologue so I'm not very far.
Edit 2: Nope, this looks like it's supposed to be the refrigerator (comparing it to the original screenshot of the CC magnets). Did they patch them out for some reason? Hm.
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whhaaaat!! I'll go check in my game later, that's so disappointing!
Quote from: Zombie Lincoln on June 02, 2016, 01:20:36 PM
whhaaaat!! I'll go check in my game later, that's so disappointing!
Yeah. If someone saw us or NG talking about it and got nervous we might sue or something... or if they were worried about us affecting their image... then lol.
uhhh sorry to bump, but are the clock-shaped magnets removed from ''dying light''?
if so, i will not buy the game.
(however, if the PS3 version still has the CC magnets in it, then i will get it, it will be a cool CC memorabilia)
Quote from: RadioTubeClock on June 03, 2016, 06:38:42 PM
I've gotten into the new Doom recently, it's a ton of fun. There are some games out there such as Spec Ops: The Line or Undertale where the big twist is that 'you where the real monster all along'. It's revealed in the prologue that this is one of those games, the difference being that not only does the game not chide you for it, it encourages it.
This game is the physical embodiment of the idea that first person shooters don't need sprint or any wall running gimmicky movement stuff to feel fast paced as everything runs incredibly smoothly and frantically. The best way to get health when you are low is by performing glory kills, which means that when you are in a tight spot, your best bet is to run towards the action as opposed to away from it. I like to explore the environments in the games I play and love the details they put into the locations from Hell to the facility using it as an energy source.
*starts saving up for this game*
I've been watching Vinny from Vinesauce play that and it looks like a lot of good honest fun! Though being strapped for cash myself, I'm still playing custom Doom II wads and older games I have in the meantime.
I did also get Cities Skylines for sale recently though! I had just enough in my steam wallet for something cheap. My PC isn't that great so the framerates aren't that smooth, but it's at least not as bad as how some other games have run on it recently. I used to play quite a lot of Sim City 4 and the new Sim City that had come out was pretty boring (I played that one a total of twice ever) so I'm hoping to get into it as soon as I fix some optimization stuff with my PC.
just got boxboy and majora's mask 3ds. I haven't started majora yet but boxboy is so damn charming and fun. pushmo bored me to tears but this game hasn't had a single dull moment. definitely the best puzzle platformer I've played on the system so far, even more than than Yumi's Odd Odyssey. it's the same dudes who made kirby and it really shows, though it's a completely different experience.
I'm playing through 999 and despite the cheesy writing I'm really getting into the Agatha-Christie style mystery. Enjoying speculating about who's telling the truth, what kind of betrayals/conspiracies might be going on, and it's cool that there's a mathematical system to check my theories against.
Also I've tried out the new Torment: Tides of Numenera beta. The writing sticks a little too close to the original game, but it's not as bad as, say, Star Wars VII. Overall, it's working! I loved the original Torment so it's heartening to see the sequel treated this well. I wrote up a bunch about my first couple hours here (https://www.reddit.com/r/Torment/comments/4nhdgn/a_few_thoughts_about_the_beta/).
999 is one of my favorite games ever... not really gonna add more to that just thought I'd like to say
i played a few things..
grow home - very cute, very short. i enjoyed what i played and it felt good to climb and really get real fucking high in the clouds by the end of it. it's odd that i never really felt "vertigo" from being so high up, i guess it's the way the gameplay works you're only really focusing on where you are at the moment and not your context in the world. until you take a second to look down and really see how god damn high you are
metal gear rising revengeance - for the first hour or two I really wasn't getting into it, I just didn't "get it". but at some point in the 2nd or 3rd level I finally figured out to reliably parry and how to deal with most enemies and everything sort of clicked back into place, I really enjoyed the entire middle portion of the game. by the end it got a bit dodgy with the frustrating aspects of killing enemies which I assume becomes the norm on higher difficulties but I didn't matter too much. by the end of it all i'd say i liked it
the bridge - indie puzzle platformer about rotating the world to get shit done. everything feels molasses slow and movement feels like shit and you're slipping and sliding constantly like an asshole who can't get a fucking grip. dropped it like halfway through the 2nd world cause i just couldn't give a shit about this game
door kickers - real time/pause plan top-down SWAT game. it's a real treat to spend quite a while planning out an *entire* mission at the start of it and unpause and watch all the bad guys get shot real hard. i got kind of frustrated at the mission that introduces having a bunch of locked doors and gates that take too damn long to break while having to stop the enemy from destroying evidence so i stopped, but i guess at some point i'll get back to it...
mostly i've just been playing tf2 and warframe like a dipshit despite having like 100 more games i have never even touched
Quote from: SockpuppetClock on June 21, 2016, 02:55:45 PMgrow home - very cute, very short. i enjoyed what i played and it felt good to climb and really get real fucking high in the clouds by the end of it. it's odd that i never really felt "vertigo" from being so high up, i guess it's the way the gameplay works you're only really focusing on where you are at the moment and not your context in the world. until you take a second to look down and really see how god damn high you are
Yeah, I got it as one of the free PSN games and wasn't disappointed. They've included some excellent indie games through that.
Quotemetal gear rising revengeance - for the first hour or two I really wasn't getting into it, I just didn't "get it". but at some point in the 2nd or 3rd level I finally figured out to reliably parry and how to deal with most enemies and everything sort of clicked back into place, I really enjoyed the entire middle portion of the game. by the end it got a bit dodgy with the frustrating aspects of killing enemies which I assume becomes the norm on higher difficulties but I didn't matter too much. by the end of it all i'd say i liked it
I feel the same way ("I don't 'get it'") every time I play a game like that. Devil May Cry and Bayonetta come to mind right away. I keep hearing that Bayonetta 2 is one of the best games of its year, but I got bored of the first game halfway through. I was excited about Revengeance when it was announced, but I've been too scurred to pick it up.
Grow home is one of my favorite games. Great scope, hilarious gameplay, and the sound design is soooo good!
I got the now-expired humble bundle and tried Hand of Fate, which I've heard a lot of good things about. But the batman-y combo slashing gameplay just turned me off. I bounced after the first hour :(
I also bought the original XCOM from GOG, installed the open-source OpenXCom update, then tried the total conversion mod, X-Piratez. So far I'm impressed at how realized the setting is - the aliens won a long time ago, and you play a fringe group of raiders causing trouble for the government and various mega-corporations. Much more melee combat, it feels brutal. Looking forward to playing more.
I'm replaying Longest Night (https://finji.itch.io/longest-night) and Lost Constellation (https://finji.itch.io/lost-constellation), the supplementary games from the upcoming Night in the Woods (http://www.nightinthewoods.com/), because the folks developing it did some promotion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOOW7gIGZ_k) at E3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-CDn5TjhYA) and I am SO FUCKING PUMPED.
(https://clockcrew.net/talk/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FmX7nGQzl.png&hash=73f89bc2fcbc3dcb89c12873557602a6efb9f3d1)it is a video game where you play as a cat who dropped out of college and moved back home hahaha yasssss bury me in quaint slice of life indie bullshit forever, this is the death that I choose for myself. Lost Constellation is a relaxed slightly-musical connect-the-dots game on a starry sky with a greek chorus of characters remarking on the constellations you form. Dialogue varies, slightly, depending on the order you introduce them. Longest Night is an adventure game of sorts, a story within a story about bringing snowmen to life with the spirits of the deceased. What you're really getting out of both of these is a sense of the characters and the peculiarities of the world they inhabit. It's also very pretty and peaceful.
I have also been playing a lot of Overwatch, because of course I have.
I like how this game is pretty much TF2, but with just a few things done differently. I'd say the effect of the changes overall is very positive. Everything seems naturally conducive for your team having each other's backs. Except Reaper and McCree players, who are special and cool. (And then I blow them up and my giggling trash boyfriend Junkrat says "Why so serious?" because he is my MOTHERFUCKING POWER ANIMAL and we are GONNA GET MARRIED.) Also a non-ironic exception for Tracer players: beautiful oiled gazelles, one and all.
Man did you guys know you can blow Junkrat's conc mines in mid-air? And just ruin somebody with a charged ultimate's day. OH NO BITCH YOUR SHIT IS OVER THER ENOW,. YOU BITCH. also you can run bastion's repair while he's in turret mode holy shit he's a beast. also I got the skin, where he is covered in grass, like the robot from castle in the sky? :3
update: Junkrat quotes Fury Road (https://comic.playoverwatch.com/issues/overwatch/3/en-us/pdf/comic-overwatch-junkrat-roadhog.pdf) hnnnnnnnnnnn
playing the first borderlands when im not inundated with schoolwork and despite how much i hated diablo3 im really enjoying it so far. also overwatch still. roadhog 4 life
ur mum
Oh, I almost didn't see that the SUMMER SALE STARTED
last year i played 600+ of Witcher 3.
Other than that Fallout 4, Far Cry Primal, Halo 5, Star Wars BattleFront, Fifa 17and Rise of the Tomb Raider. All of them combined still not as much as the Witcher though.
Looking really forward to Deus Ex Mankind divided, Dishonerd 2and Mass Effect Andromeda.
Downloaded REELism (http://www.thekinsie.com/reelism/) for Doom II this morning and been mostly playing it all day. I should really screenshot some of my future scores.
Kentucky Route Zero is a magical game
I played the first act a long long time ago, and felt very strongly that I needed a breather, to digest the experience, and forgot about it for a bit, until a friend saw it in my Steam library a few months later and asked about it. I was like, oh, yeah, that one's really cool, and opened it just to show him, and ended up playing through the first act again, and I barely recognized it. It was like it rearranged topographically into a different game.
Everything is so ethereal and it's so reactive to the little things you do (which never really feel like choices) it's like playing an actual dream. You get this sense of something needing to be done, but it's never more important than what's right in front of you, and progress always feels more like following a whim. When it's over you just remember an impression of the experience you had, with bits and pieces of specifics jumbled up.
Play it when you're sleepy.
I just played act II for the first time, and, yeah, I'm gonna need some time to digest it.
Currently playing VA-11 Hall-A - Cyberpunk Bartender Action, yeah that's the title, I suppose it's also a description.
Well I say playing, but it's more like reading, It's pretty good though.
I just got back to boxboy and beat it. the ending felt almost like a zombie lincoln comic. The game does not lead you to believe there's any narrative at all, and what's there is as minimalist as it gets, but I'll be damned if I wasn't emotionally effected by it by the end. I'll check out the postgame levels at some point after beating stick of truth. I got in on sale forever ago I don't know why I haven't played it yet. it's so detailed and fun. I figured my next rpg was gonna be system shock 2 or fire emblem awakening but noooooooooo it's south park time now.
speaking of system shock I'm mad my computer can't run the remake demo. The original is one of my favorite games and I was so excited about this :( ah well I can wait. Between emulators and my steam library I'll never run out of new things to play in my lifetime.
Quote from: Slurpee on June 25, 2016, 09:31:56 AM
I'm replaying Longest Night (https://finji.itch.io/longest-night) and Lost Constellation (https://finji.itch.io/lost-constellation), the supplementary games from the upcoming Night in the Woods (http://www.nightinthewoods.com/), because the folks developing it did some promotion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOOW7gIGZ_k) at E3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-CDn5TjhYA) and I am SO FUCKING PUMPED.
[.img]http://i.imgur.com/mX7nGQzl.png[/img]it is a video game where you play as a cat who dropped out of college and moved back home hahaha yasssss bury me in quaint slice of life indie bullshit forever, this is the death that I choose for myself. Lost Constellation is a relaxed slightly-musical connect-the-dots game on a starry sky with a greek chorus of characters remarking on the constellations you form. Dialogue varies, slightly, depending on the order you introduce them. Longest Night is an adventure game of sorts, a story within a story about bringing snowmen to life with the spirits of the deceased. What you're really getting out of both of these is a sense of the characters and the peculiarities of the world they inhabit. It's also very pretty and peaceful.
I usually have trouble getting into point and click adventure games but that screenshot intrigues me for a reason I can't put my finger on. or is it a controller affair? guess I'll check out those free minigame things at least.
I started playing TIS-100, did the first three or four puzzles (with the manual open at all times) then closed it out, thinking it wasn't that fun.
The next day it was all I could think about at work, so I guess I DID like it. Just did the second row of puzzles and can see myself spending embarrassing amounts of time on this getting the first grid of levels done.
It's like SpaceChem (made by the same people, in fact) but it's about programming-ish. You can pick it up pretty easily once you read the first like two chapters of the manual and look at the first puzzle's pre-written stuff. Shit either gets cray fast or I was quick to jump to conditionals that take up the whole box
Quote from: FloundermanClock on July 05, 2016, 04:32:50 PM
I usually have trouble getting into point and click adventure games but that screenshot intrigues me for a reason I can't put my finger on. or is it a controller affair? guess I'll check out those free minigame things at least.
from the e3 footage it doesn't seem to be an adventure game in the sierra/lucas arts sense, or even the walking dead sense.
maybe see what the trailer says to you?
[u2]8109dIuc-bo[/u2]
it's a pretty good trailer.
it mostly reminds me of, like, games from the early to mid 90's, where a game could just be a game and it wasn't "quirky" to find yourself playing Ataxx in The 7th Guest, or performing opera in Final Fantasy 6. so you get a mini-game where you try to play bass for a song you don't know or smash florescent light tubes with a baseball bat in the alley and that's fine because that's what is happening to the character, please to sit back and enjoy this interactive experience of "Video".
genre's bullshit anyway. what genre are killer7, pathologic, and frankie goes to hollywood for the commodore 64 and zx spectrum? I got "third person puzzle action adventure rail shooter, psychological horror survival role-playing, and abstract adventure minigame collection murder mystery role-playing," how 'bout you? hmm what genre's this:
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I tried starting Resident Evil: Revelations 2 but it kind of sucked so I stopped. Playing Saint's Row IV again, on PS4 this time. And I just got Rock Band 4 so I'ma play the hell out of that for a while.
I got the first revelations on 3DS during a sale and sorta lost interest after a while. it's not even a mechanically bad game it just didn't hold my attention.
Quote from: Slurpee on July 05, 2016, 07:55:07 PM
Quote from: FloundermanClock on July 05, 2016, 04:32:50 PM
I usually have trouble getting into point and click adventure games but that screenshot intrigues me for a reason I can't put my finger on. or is it a controller affair? guess I'll check out those free minigame things at least.
from the e3 footage it doesn't seem to be an adventure game in the sierra/lucas arts sense, or even the walking dead sense.
maybe see what the trailer says to you?
[u2]8109dIuc-bo[/u2]
it's a pretty good trailer.
it mostly reminds me of, like, games from the early to mid 90's, where a game could just be a game and it wasn't "quirky" to find yourself playing Ataxx in The 7th Guest, or performing opera in Final Fantasy 6. so you get a mini-game where you try to play bass for a song you don't know or smash florescent light tubes with a baseball bat in the alley and that's fine because that's what is happening to the character, please to sit back and enjoy this interactive experience of "Video".
genre's bullshit anyway. what genre are killer7, pathologic, and frankie goes to hollywood for the commodore 64 and zx spectrum? I got "third person puzzle action adventure rail shooter, psychological horror survival role-playing, and abstract adventure minigame collection murder mystery role-playing," how 'bout you? hmm what genre's this:
(https://clockcrew.net/talk/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FTnsW1LMm.png&hash=72bff86348457a5ae0b2fd65f241a276a7024c5f)
yeah this definitely seems like something I'd be interested in. I kinda hate the font for dialogue but other than that this looks like the sorta game I'd like to play right now. at least judging from the trailer. and I gotta play pathologic too god damn it. it looks absolutely incredible and I've put it off for years. I might as well wait for the remake at this point.
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on July 05, 2016, 07:47:06 PM
I started playing TIS-100, did the first three or four puzzles (with the manual open at all times) then closed it out, thinking it wasn't that fun.
The next day it was all I could think about at work, so I guess I DID like it. Just did the second row of puzzles and can see myself spending embarrassing amounts of time on this getting the first grid of levels done.
It's like SpaceChem (made by the same people, in fact) but it's about programming-ish. You can pick it up pretty easily once you read the first like two chapters of the manual and look at the first puzzle's pre-written stuff. Shit either gets cray fast or I was quick to jump to conditionals that take up the whole box
TIS-100 was in a RPS listicle about programming games (https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/11/09/best-programming-games/), and in the footnotes they link to this thing where the Zach of TIS-100 developer Zachtronics walks you through reverse-engineering an old Star Wars game nobody cares about. It's pretty cool and kind of gives you a view into the type of person that makes a game like TIS-100 (big nerd)
http://www.zachtronics.com/yoda-stories/
Quote from: FloundermanClock on July 05, 2016, 08:57:10 PM
I got the first revelations on 3DS during a sale and sorta lost interest after a while. it's not even a mechanically bad game it just didn't hold my attention.
I played it on console and was pleasantly surprised. It was a lot more like the old REs than the recent titles. But the sequel trades atmosphere for action once again, which is exactly what the early parts of the first Revelations successfully avoided.
Quote from: Slurpee on July 05, 2016, 09:37:20 PM
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on July 05, 2016, 07:47:06 PM
I started playing TIS-100, did the first three or four puzzles (with the manual open at all times) then closed it out, thinking it wasn't that fun.
The next day it was all I could think about at work, so I guess I DID like it. Just did the second row of puzzles and can see myself spending embarrassing amounts of time on this getting the first grid of levels done.
It's like SpaceChem (made by the same people, in fact) but it's about programming-ish. You can pick it up pretty easily once you read the first like two chapters of the manual and look at the first puzzle's pre-written stuff. Shit either gets cray fast or I was quick to jump to conditionals that take up the whole box
TIS-100 was in a RPS listicle about programming games (https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/11/09/best-programming-games/), and in the footnotes they link to this thing where the Zach of TIS-100 developer Zachtronics walks you through reverse-engineering an old Star Wars game nobody cares about. It's pretty cool and kind of gives you a view into the type of person that makes a game like TIS-100 (big nerd)
http://www.zachtronics.com/yoda-stories/
For how much nobody cared about it, I'm surprised Robot Odyssey didn't make that list just for how impressive it was
But wow, that Yoda Stories was such a fun read. I wish I had programming adventures.
im playing TF2 on steam.
im an excellent medic, and a mediocre soldier.
When I get the chance, ive been enjoying Souls 3, Enter the Gungeon, Fallout 4, Ghost in the Shell : first assault (some free to play cod clone that has my wifu in it), some modded minecraft, and dont starve together.
playing the new Doom, it's pretty neat. No story whatsoever, but i like that they included so many secrets. Gameplay is fast paced and i like the simplicity of the leveling system. Enemy AI is non existing, they just all want you dead with no regard of their own life, NEAT. Like one demon can fly, but only seems to use it to get into your shotgun range as fast as possible.
Anyway, after playing Fallout and The Witcher this is a welcome no brainer shooter, specially cause i've got the new Deus EX and Mass Effect on my wishlist.
AM2R
Metroid 2 remake. Fantastic work by a fan. Definitely worth checking out if you're a metroid fan. Can be pretty difficult if you want it to be.
Quote from: Nintendoclock on August 15, 2016, 02:19:02 PM
AM2R
Metroid 2 remake. Fantastic work by a fan. Definitely worth checking out if you're a metroid fan. Can be pretty difficult if you want it to be.
I was lucky enough to download it before it got shut down, same goes for PKMN Uranium.
Quote from: PirateClock on July 18, 2016, 02:45:33 AM
playing the new Doom, it's pretty neat. No story whatsoever, but i like that they included so many secrets. Gameplay is fast paced and i like the simplicity of the leveling system. Enemy AI is non existing, they just all want you dead with no regard of their own life, NEAT. Like one demon can fly, but only seems to use it to get into your shotgun range as fast as possible.
Anyway, after playing Fallout and The Witcher this is a welcome no brainer shooter, specially cause i've got the new Deus EX and Mass Effect on my wishlist.
The imps track you like a god though. Only ones who missed me did so because I blew their heads off with a charged pistol shot.
I tried I Am Bread
I feel like they really could have done a lot more with the premise
I was pretty scandalized to learn I Am Bread was not affiliated with videogamebread (http://videogamebread.tumblr.com)
Quote from: Zombie Lincoln on August 24, 2016, 12:56:49 PM
I tried I Am Bread, and I feel like they really could have done a lot more with the premise
i saw the ''i am bread'' trailer on youtube a while ago.
this game seems awesome, but should i buy it?*
is it worth it?
*same question applies to all people who have played ''i am bread''.
Been playing a lot of Goldeneye Source, really filling the void Fistful of Frags used to fill for me. Here, let me also brag about how good I am at video games:
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I just completed Deus Ex Mankind Devided for the first time.
The story ends on a cliffhanger but ultimately I felt like it at least was going somewhere. The greatest thing about this game was the atmosphere and world building. It's every bit as immersive and engrossing as its predecessors. The gameplay was super tight (on PS4 at least) and felt pretty intuitive for the most part. Honestly it's just a more polished HR which is fine. Graphics were pretty nice though some of the NPC's seemed kind of robotic and stiff. Fantastic soundtrack.
Those of you looking for a nice cyper-punk stealth RPG, here you go. Check it out
Most Honorable and Most Dishonorable went to the same person? Jesus, it really IS a faithful port
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on September 21, 2016, 11:48:04 PM
Most Honorable and Most Dishonorable went to the same person? Jesus, it really IS a faithful port
It's actually based on how many kills you get from the front (Most Honorable) and from the back (Most Dishonorable) so they can't actually counter each other. In fact this mod has an achievement for getting the both of them in one round or match five times!
Quote from: Captain Sheepy on September 22, 2016, 08:14:19 AM
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on September 21, 2016, 11:48:04 PM
Most Honorable and Most Dishonorable went to the same person? Jesus, it really IS a faithful port
It's actually based on how many kills you get from the front (Most Honorable) and from the back (Most Dishonorable) so they can't actually counter each other. In fact this mod has an achievement for getting the both of them in one round or match five times!
What is the name of that game again?
Goldfinger for the Nintendo 32X (https://www.geshl2.com/)
The mod is kind of dying already though as most servers now are 32 player gun game servers, which is torture to play.
I'm playing Overwatch quite a bit these days. No expert by any means but lemme know if you want to play : >
Quote from: EnglishClock on September 26, 2016, 05:06:04 AM
I'm playing Overwatch quite a bit these days. No expert by any means but lemme know if you want to play : >
I just picked up Overwatch, too. I jump between a lot of different games, but I'm sure we can arrange something at some point. Colossus#1695
I'm somewhere between 60 and 80 percent done with Shin Megami Tensei IV apocalypse. I gotta say, this is probably the most disappointing game I've ever played. I kept trudging through it hoping it would get better and wanting to see it through to the end but it just never gets good. First off, the story is hot garbage. Which is bad, because that's all it has outside of the battle system and demon fusion, which is virtually unchanged from SMTIV (still great though I'll give em that). There's literally no new locations or visual assets whatsoever outside of a couple cutscenes and boss demons. so adventuring is completely pointless and there's no sense of discovery. It's like a really uninspired romhack. but the story though. god. if you wanted something like nocturne or strange journey, or even SMTIV, you wont get that here. It's dumbed down significantly and plays out like a shitty anime with uninteresting characters. the dialogue is especially bad. There's a few brief moments of quality but it's quickly drowned out by boring or outright bad crap to drudge through. and it doesn't help when inbetween is just going through the entire smtiv game again but in a different order with different demon placements. did I already mention that? Cause god damn that is stupid. not one new area. I hate just not finishing a game but god damn does this game suck. it abandoned everything that made smtiv interesting in favor of making a shitty fanfiction.net level romhack.
also there's all this weird japanese nationalism shit that wasn't really present in smtiv even though this is a direct sequel.
I have recently bought Persona 5 and it is fantastic :D
I've been playing Fallout: New Vegas, Blackwake, and a spell of Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DZo9ac_vvA)
anyone else here have Blackwake?
Words with Friends
Mayro and Rabbids Electric Boogaloo
I'm playing Kerbal Space Program like a fiend, thinking about life in terms of delta Vs
Crash bandicrap.
Why?
I dunno.
Playing lots of Pokémon Moon shiny hunting and bunny hopping as D.Va in Overwatch.
I dunno why but I'm playing the STALKER series again
Quote from: Slash on July 03, 2016, 04:35:09 AM
Currently playing VA-11 Hall-A - Cyberpunk Bartender Action, yeah that's the title, I suppose it's also a description.
Well I say playing, but it's more like reading, It's pretty good though.
i... fucken... palyed... this... shit...
now... time... to... get... started... on... games... made... in... 2017
So, I'm bumping this
Now, I've been gone for some years...and most of that time I've been playing The Binding of Isaac. That's it, that's the post
Quote from: DiscoBallClock on September 10, 2020, 04:05:53 PM
So, I'm bumping this
Now, I've been gone for some years...and most of that time I've been playing The Binding of Isaac. That's it, that's the post
I went on a crazy BOI kick lately to 100% the game and I did it. Like 800 hours in. I never really understood how unlocking stuff worked in the beginning and I never took it seriously so I would just play like the same character every time and just enjoy playing the game.
Now I join Thor and Pannacotta in the Isaac 100% club!
Isaac is a silly game for stupid baby men because I haven't played it
I'm playin MGS2 rn it's rlly good
as much as I stand by my banner of Ed McMillen is an asshole, I really should 100% Isaac. Fucking love that game. Probably the only "HRRRRRRRRR DRRRRRRR NYEH NYEH IT'S BETTER WITH A CONTROLLER WAAAAAAAAAGH" game that is actually better with a controller and not something fucking controller nerds senselessly try to convert us keyboard master racists for
Quote from: Clocktopus on September 10, 2020, 05:06:06 PM
Quote from: DiscoBallClock on September 10, 2020, 04:05:53 PM
So, I'm bumping this
Now, I've been gone for some years...and most of that time I've been playing The Binding of Isaac. That's it, that's the post
I went on a crazy BOI kick lately to 100% the game and I did it. Like 800 hours in. I never really understood how unlocking stuff worked in the beginning and I never took it seriously so I would just play like the same character every time and just enjoy playing the game.
Now I join Thor and Pannacotta in the Isaac 100% club!
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on September 10, 2020, 05:55:03 PM
as much as I stand by my banner of Ed McMillen is an asshole, I really should 100% Isaac. Fucking love that game. Probably the only "HRRRRRRRRR DRRRRRRR NYEH NYEH IT'S BETTER WITH A CONTROLLER WAAAAAAAAAGH" game that is actually better with a controller and not something fucking controller nerds senselessly try to convert us keyboard master racists for
I've got like 400 hours logged into the game, it's really addictive. There was a semester during college in which I played it for hours daily.
But I never got to 100%! I started playing less at a certain point, and playing as The Lost is just really goddamn hard, as well as some of the challenges. Aaaand I kinda suck at Greed mode. But it's a fantastic game, and I still get BOI surges from time to time. Never tried playing it with a controller though, I always did it on my keyboard. Maybe I should try it out sometime...
(I'm still mad they nerfed Azazel so badly, even if they did kinda revert it in Afterbirth Plus)
I actually 100%'d that game exclusively on keyboard and I think Thor and PCotta did too, lmao.
I love playing as The Lost. Once you unlock the ability to start with Holy Mantle you get a pretty damn strong character who can get free devil deals.
I never had a hard time playing the keyboard, tbh. Once you're able to coordinate the tears and the player character it's doable.
Yeah, starting with the Holy Mantle is a huge boon, but I never managed to get 900 coins in the Greed mode donation box. Even more so when I lost my OG save file
It's not that keyboard is hard (you perform better in every game with a keyboard and mouse and I will die on this hill) it's that you can lean back like a lazy asshole and a controller doesn't make you worse and mm mm being comfy sure does turn an adventure in your mom's fleshy tract into a relaxing evening
Damn, that's a shame, Disco.
The keyboard is perfect IMO cause you can't shoot diagonally anyway (aside from the Analog Stick item.)
Nah, PCat, I'd like you to play games like Crash, Spyro or Fall Guys and tell me it's better on a keyboard. It's so awkward.
As for FPS games, it's necessary if you actually want to be able to aim and get head shots consistently.
Quote from: Clocktopus on September 10, 2020, 06:36:54 PM
Damn, that's a shame, Disco.
The keyboard is perfect IMO cause you can't shoot diagonally anyway (aside from the Analog Stick item.)
Nah, PCat, I'd like you to play games like Crash, Spyro or Fall Guys and tell me it's better on a keyboard. It's so awkward.
As for FPS games, it's necessary if you actually want to be able to aim and get head shots consistently.
Yeah, it was, but in true BOI fashion, I just shrugged and continued playing.
Regarding FPS, I actually suck at playing them on a controller. Mouse + keyboard all the way
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on September 10, 2020, 06:26:28 PM
It's not that keyboard is hard (you perform better in every game with a keyboard and mouse and I will die on this hill) it's that you can lean back like a lazy asshole and a controller doesn't make you worse and mm mm being comfy sure does turn an adventure in your mom's fleshy tract into a relaxing evening
That...does sound amazing? I sometimes play it on my bed, but having the option of not having the PC heat on you sounds great
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on September 10, 2020, 06:26:28 PM
you perform better in every game with a keyboard and mouse and I will die on this hill
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(https://i.imgur.com/TGRyzrO.jpg)
Quote from: DiscoBallClock on September 10, 2020, 06:51:36 PM
Regarding FPS, I actually suck at playing them on a controller. Mouse + keyboard all the way
That's what I meant. If I play FPS with a controller I just end up wildly aiming around where I want to shoot, its awful.
I'm good at fall guys on a keyboard but i mean, you just happened to only list games with extremely bad camera controls and that's kind of the cutoff
Also I couldn't imagine playing a Mario platformer with a keyboard that would be wilddddd.
Quote from: Clocktopus on September 10, 2020, 09:24:27 PM
Also I couldn't imagine playing a Mario platformer with a keyboard that would be wilddddd.
alas what could have been
[u2]1YWD6Y9FUuw[/u2]
That looks like it handles poorly, like the gameboy one. People've been emulating Mario games since the 90's COME ON SON
Everything I can test on my new casual scrub prebuilt pc. F Zero GX looks great in 4k god damn. The side of the case is glass so I put an octopus in there.
(https://i.imgur.com/FNSfg7Q_d.webp?maxwidth=728&fidelity=grand)
Do not open the case, no matter how many times the octopus asks for a hug. you must NEVER hug an octopus.
it's true Binding Of Isaac is way better on a keyboard
I'm playing that and Gungeon now that I'm bored with new games again and they're perfect for listening to podcasts in the background so I'm currently listening to 99% Invisible but this isn't the what are you all currently listening thread
I've been meaning to give Gungeon a try, the friend that put me on to BOI plays that sometimes
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on September 10, 2020, 09:31:43 PM
That looks like it handles poorly, like the gameboy one. People've been emulating Mario games since the 90's COME ON SON
That demo predates Commander Keen so it's probably 1990 and the first time anyone ever achieved smooth side scrolling on a PC cut them a break
Quote from: DiscoBallClock on September 11, 2020, 03:18:27 AM
I've been meaning to give Gungeon a try, the friend that put me on to BOI plays that sometimes
It's much much much harder from my experience.
I can't make any fucking progress.
I haven't played gungeon or even issac. That's weird right? Especially at this point? My favorite roguelike(?) action game, one of only two* I've ever even put any time into, is Heart & Slash
(https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/326840/ss_ff47d5288324cfc3ffc23335db11717e69cd3966.600x338.jpg?t=1590046042)
(https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/326840/ss_f676dedea4e7a6c6a77b941e7d531f01c919200a.600x338.jpg?t=1590046042)
Nobody plays this. Nobody ever WILL play this but god damn are there a lot of fun weapons and robots to unlock in this game. And the visual aesthetic is the sort of blocky Mega Man Legends era robotics I love. It's the sort of thing that specifically reaches out to me and demands I play it. But there's also little reason to re-beat the game so you probably won't even see all the weapons since there's so damn many. And they don't even bother giving the other Robot's proper story modes, some of them just repeat the cut scenes from the main character even though it makes no sense. Others none at all. I wish it had a higher budget or they would go back and expand the game with a "deluxe" version, but it's a memorable experience as is. Great if you can pick it up on sale.
(https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/326840/header.jpg?t=1590046042)
*The other one is Dead Cells but people actually know what that is.
ive been enjoying risk of rain 2
it has the randomized loot and unlocking loot methods i love so much in isaac
I am playing Crusader Kings 3, it's missing a lot of things I liked about CK2, but it is better in many aspects.
rob, not everything should use commander keen as an epoch
but I meant that for boohooclock who was saying he couldn't imagine playing a mario platformer on a keyboard
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on September 11, 2020, 08:22:04 PM
rob, not everything should use commander keen as an epoch
but I meant that for boohooclock who was saying he couldn't imagine playing a mario platformer on a keyboard
If you aren't playing Super Mario Bros 3 on a data hand you aren't really playing it
(https://i.imgur.com/Izw8oGy.png)
well you see the NES had eight buttons on its controller but really you only need to press start once so let's say six. recently I've taken to hooking up the power lines outside to the GPIO pins in a raspberry pi and playing it like that, manually touching the power lines to select a level then just letting birds land on the wires and play the game for me.
when I want to play with a controller
[u2]g20_8-TPyTQ[/u2]
Quote from: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on September 11, 2020, 01:24:35 PM
I haven't played gungeon or even issac. That's weird right? Especially at this point? My favorite roguelike(?) action game, one of only two* I've ever even put any time into, is Heart & Slash
(https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/326840/ss_ff47d5288324cfc3ffc23335db11717e69cd3966.600x338.jpg?t=1590046042)
(https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/326840/ss_f676dedea4e7a6c6a77b941e7d531f01c919200a.600x338.jpg?t=1590046042)
Nobody plays this. Nobody ever WILL play this but god damn are there a lot of fun weapons and robots to unlock in this game. And the visual aesthetic is the sort of blocky Mega Man Legends era robotics I love. It's the sort of thing that specifically reaches out to me and demands I play it. But there's also little reason to re-beat the game so you probably won't even see all the weapons since there's so damn many. And they don't even bother giving the other Robot's proper story modes, some of them just repeat the cut scenes from the main character even though it makes no sense. Others none at all. I wish it had a higher budget or they would go back and expand the game with a "deluxe" version, but it's a memorable experience as is. Great if you can pick it up on sale.
(https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/326840/header.jpg?t=1590046042)
*The other one is Dead Cells but people actually know what that is.
The visuals look great!
(For what it's worth, not a lot of people know Isaac over here, for some reason)
Quote from: Clocktopus on September 11, 2020, 12:23:41 PM
Quote from: DiscoBallClock on September 11, 2020, 03:18:27 AM
I've been meaning to give Gungeon a try, the friend that put me on to BOI plays that sometimes
It's much much much harder from my experience.
I can't make any fucking progress.
I've played with said friend in co-op mode and yeah, it struck me as being way harder, especially the boss fights
that aesthetic is beautiful
im playin MGS2 rn and godammit this game feels really ahead of its time with the whole twist, which I won't spoil, but most of you probably know anyway. Considering how TLOU2 tried to do the same thing this year and people lost their shit over it, I wonder how people must of felt about it all the way back in 2001.
Just got back into XCOM 2: War of the Chosen. I started save scrumming, and i feel a little bad about it but I'm 100% sure I'd have lost in like four missions if I didn't. I forgot how much of a bitch late game XCOM was.
Quote from: K-9_CLOCK on September 12, 2020, 12:06:12 PM
I wonder how people must of felt about it all the way back in 2001.
We fucking hated it. (most of us anyway) Nobody wanted it and while the story has a 1984 vibe going for it, it ultimately came off as pretentious and wasn't anywhere near as compelling or engaging as the original. I respect what Kojima was trying to do with it, but MGS1's story overall was just better imo. The characters, villains, setting, music, voice acting, etc where all more engaging. 2's story, I feel, is where Kojima probably had the most regret going forward with the series. While he definitely did something unique here, continuing the narrative and expanding on what 2 brought to the story, imo, ultimately made MGS4 that much worse. You can tell they really wrote themselves into a corner, especially being that 4's key narrative mcguffin is "nanomachines lol", a plot device that didn't have as much significance in the first game but ultimately became the "get out of jail free" card for the rest of the story.
I'd also add that the stylistic hand drawn portraits for the codec were more aesthetically pleasing than the polygonal faces we saw in 2, and you could almost make the argument that the gameplay was superior. MGS2 ran at 60fps and was smooth as butter in terms of overall feel and tightness of control, so I can't outright say MGS2 had worse gameplay but everything else was just disappointing and left a bad taste in my mouth. I LOVED MGS1 and 2 just didn't have anything of what made 1 so great.
MGS3, however, was probably peak metal gear. The camo system wasn't the best but its story (especially), characters, music, and gameplay (subsistence) were all superior to 2 and ultimately it had the most satisfying ending in the series.
I wasn't going to say anything because I have been disagreeing with k-9 a lot lately and don't want to look like a BULLIAM, and I didn't play 2, but that's what I remembered friends saying. Like, other than the story, it was great and the story did end up aging well
I might be weird in that I loved MGS2 when it came out and still enjoy it. Working with Snake for the rest of the game was neat, I like the idea of palling around with the previous game's protagonist in a game. I never actually knew anyone who hated it. It must have varied by where you were. I have a feeling it was exaggerated but what do I know. Kojima was at least affected by it but that would be the japanese response. Funfact: that's the response that made Pokemon linear from black/white onwards. diamond and pearl were too labyrinthine I guess. Which is true but I loved that shit. And there was another literal labyrinth UNDER the world map. I hope breath of the wild 2 is like that, above ground is the original map but the towns have been redeveloped, and underground is all interconnected dungeons and shit.
Oh and this definitely makes me weird, when I finally got around to MGS3 I was kinda underwhelmed. Excellent level design, well crafted weapons tools and gameplay systems, Listening to snake eater while climbing a ladder was 10/10 and I don't know why, I enjoyed the hell out of it overall. Yet the story didn't really get me like the first two. And it goes on foreeeeeever. MGS2 didn't feel pretentious to me but this one seems like it's insisting on it's own brilliance when all it's telling me is "war bad" and "being a soldier is hard". Well no shit. MGS2 just felt like it "was", though there were some bits that felt preachy at worst. Your codec buddies aren't as great either, they're mostly there for raw information when needed (Except the girl you talk to about eating random animals those convos are all hilarious). I didn't even like the Boss. Everybody loves the Boss. But when I think about her I see here complaining about how bad the world is while actively helping it be that way. She treats Snake like he's naive but she's herself could be summed up with "hey I was just following orders lol". So for me the ending felt kinda cloying. I still haven't played MGS4 outside of watching a friend play through some of the important bits, but I heard a lot of criticism for it and a lot of it felt like it could be for MGS3.
I might play the game again to see if my opinions change. Even if they don't the gameplay is so good and varied that you could go through it three times and play each section completely differently every playthrough. MGS2 didn't feel like I was getting enough time or opportunity to use my full arsenal, maybe I was playing it wrong. But then in MGS3 even the fucking frogs are useful. How many games let you throw snakes at people or abuse their fear of frogs? Not many I can tell you that much.
Also Twin Snakes is my favorite overall. The series could end there and I wouldn't even mind.
Quote from: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on September 13, 2020, 04:46:03 PM
Funfact: that's the response that made Pokemon linear from black/white onwards. diamond and pearl were too labyrinthine I guess. Which is true but I loved that shit. And there was another literal labyrinth UNDER the world map. I hope breath of the wild 2 is like that, above ground is the original map but the towns have been redeveloped, and underground is all interconnected dungeons and shit.
I didn't think that D/P were too much of a Labyrinth, Pokemon games are kinda linear in general because they set artificial walls to stop you from straying too much. But I did like the post-game content in B/W
If you didn't cry at the end of MGS3, you didn't get it.
the first one I played was snake eater, earlier this year. what a fucking game, brilliant shit. Only complaint was the camera, because I was playing the original PS2 version. I went to V:GZ then which I think I beat in like hour one morning lmao. I tried peacewalker but that shit was a mess. V:TPP is rlly good tho. I'm not very far in it because I keep getting stuck but it's a game I turn on every now and then when i have nothing else goin on.
gud series gud shit
Quote from: NintendrCkolc on September 13, 2020, 04:51:49 PM
If you didn't cry at the end of MGS3, you didn't get it.
lol the
eva twist actually got me and the ending did make me a lil emotional, which I don't think a game has ever done before for me
Peace walker is hot garbage and not necessary. Some people swear by it but I found it super underwhelming. TPP, like 2, plays amazingly and feels awesome, but the gameplay loop gets repetitive after a while and its story is underwhelming.
3>1>twin snakes>2>4>5>GZ>PW
Quote from: NintendrCkolc on September 13, 2020, 05:02:45 PM
Peace walker is hot garbage and not necessary. Some people swear by it but I found it super underwhelming. TPP, like 2, plays amazingly and feels awesome, but the gameplay loop gets repetitive after a while and its story is underwhelming.
3>1>twin snakes>2>4>5>GZ>PW
Thanks for telling me I can skip Peace Walker. It sounded like a slog to get through, and I mainly just wanted to play Rising and V without too much confusion. I know it's an unfinished story but looks so fun I think I can get over it getting repetitive by the end.
and one of these days I need to play the original ps1 version. It seems like a different experience. Ghost Babel too, I know it isn't canon but I don't care.
Quote from: K-9_CLOCK on September 13, 2020, 04:52:34 PM
the first one I played was snake eater, earlier this year. what a fucking game, brilliant shit. Only complaint was the camera, because I was playing the original PS2 version. I went to V:GZ then which I think I beat in like hour one morning lmao. I tried peacewalker but that shit was a mess. V:TPP is rlly good tho. I'm not very far in it because I keep getting stuck but it's a game I turn on every now and then when i have nothing else goin on.
gud series gud shit
I played the 360 version, you can switch between the old and new camera with a button press and I found myself doing that a lot. You can tell the game is designed with the old camera in mind but you still play 90% of in third person because it's just clearly better. I never had this issue with the first two, even though they seem similar at first. I don't even know what they did wrong.
and yeah
Eva was easily the most interesting character. Knowing she's in MGS4 makes me real excited to play it in ten years when the emulation is accurate and not crashy.
Quote from: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on September 13, 2020, 05:41:59 PM
Quote from: NintendrCkolc on September 13, 2020, 05:02:45 PM
Peace walker is hot garbage and not necessary. Some people swear by it but I found it super underwhelming. TPP, like 2, plays amazingly and feels awesome, but the gameplay loop gets repetitive after a while and its story is underwhelming.
3>1>twin snakes>2>4>5>GZ>PW
Thanks for telling me I can skip Peace Walker. It sounded like a slog to get through, and I mainly just wanted to play Rising and V without too much confusion. I know it's an unfinished story but looks so fun I think I can get over it getting repetitive by the end.
and one of these days I need to play the original ps1 version. It seems like a different experience. Ghost Babel too, I know it isn't canon but I don't care.
Quote from: K-9_CLOCK on September 13, 2020, 04:52:34 PM
the first one I played was snake eater, earlier this year. what a fucking game, brilliant shit. Only complaint was the camera, because I was playing the original PS2 version. I went to V:GZ then which I think I beat in like hour one morning lmao. I tried peacewalker but that shit was a mess. V:TPP is rlly good tho. I'm not very far in it because I keep getting stuck but it's a game I turn on every now and then when i have nothing else goin on.
gud series gud shit
I played the 360 version, you can switch between the old and new camera with a button press and I found myself doing that a lot. You can tell the game is designed with the old camera in mind but you still play 90% of in third person because it's just clearly better. I never had this issue with the first two, even though they seem similar at first. I don't even know what they did wrong.
and yeah Eva was easily the most interesting character. Knowing she's in MGS4 makes me real excited to play it in ten years when the emulation is accurate and not crashy.
idk if ill play 4 when i get to it because my brother got me into the MGS games but he says MGS4 is a legitmately terrible game and he hates it. Everytime he runs through them again he skips it, which worries me lol
4 felt more like a cinematic closure than it did an actual game
metal gear rising was hilarious and i highly suggest you play it
I got Jak 1 again and it's really good. I played through it originally in 2017 but I lost my copy. It's still really easy and short, but godammit is it satisfying to play. My only complaint is that the controls can feel a bit sluggish sometimes.
Anyone here play Fall Guys?
Me, Marsh (he's a fuckin god,) Pannacotta, Topcatyo, Action, Thor all play. Its super fun in groups and even better now with anti cheat and randomized levels but I'm definitely slowing down now until there's more content.
I actually just bought an xbox controller to play that with because I'm sick of resetting my switch's pro controller. Should be here in a couple days
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on September 17, 2020, 08:47:51 PM
I actually just bought an xbox controller to play that with because I'm sick of resetting my switch's pro controller. Should be here in a couple days
You mean either having to go through the bluetooth pairing process again or use the charger cable to connect it to your PC if you use it for your Switch between games?
Yeah, it's frustrating but I just love this controller so much. I got special Splatoon 2 green and pink colors. B)
It'll just pair if I activate it while my computer's discoverable, but then I have to run evtest to see which input device it is and then run a little script and plug that number into it, to get the sticks set just right. It sounds like a pain but it takes a couple of seconds. It's pairing it to the Switch again that I am just too lazy for. Gotta push the little reset button on the top—again, it's not much, but two years of it made me finally break down and get a dedicated computer controller
that doesn't start with the word Steam
to be clear, I am one of the few people who truly enjoys the Steam controller. Just gotta have that second stick for some games, you know
ie games actually meant for a controller
Quote from: Clocktopus on September 17, 2020, 06:47:56 PM
Anyone here play Fall Guys?
Me, Marsh (he's a fuckin god,) Pannacotta, Topcatyo, Action, Thor all play. Its super fun in groups and even better now with anti cheat and randomized levels but I'm definitely slowing down now until there's more content.
I'm assuming you guys play on PC, right? If so, I'll buy it soon
Quote from: DiscoBallClock on September 18, 2020, 08:16:53 AM
I'm assuming you guys play on PC, right? If so, I'll buy it soon
Yup!
They'll be cross play eventually though, so its not a loss in the long run if you get it on Playstation.
I bought Super Mario 3D All Stars.
Man, I'm such a fucking Nintendo shill.
Quote from: Clocktopus on September 18, 2020, 01:42:31 PM
Quote from: DiscoBallClock on September 18, 2020, 08:16:53 AM
I'm assuming you guys play on PC, right? If so, I'll buy it soon
Yup!
They'll be cross play eventually though, so its not a loss in the long run if you get it on Playstation.
Well, I'm planning on getting the PS5, so I guess I'll just get it on PC
I want a PS5 so bad but £450 is like, money
ill hopefully get one sooner rather than later, some of those games look sick
Quote from: Clocktopus on September 18, 2020, 01:59:49 PM
I bought Super Mario 3D All Stars.
Man, I'm such a fucking Nintendo shill.
yes
yes you are
how is it? I've heard alot of things about emulation issues and like debug shit in Sunshine? which is weird idk how that happened
Quote from: K-9_CLOCK on September 18, 2020, 04:09:00 PM
Quote from: Clocktopus on September 18, 2020, 01:59:49 PM
I bought Super Mario 3D All Stars.
Man, I'm such a fucking Nintendo shill.
yes
yes you are
how is it? I've heard alot of things about emulation issues and like debug shit in Sunshine? which is weird idk how that happened
Haven't played yet. I'm waiting for it to ship.
I heard it plays pretty well, 64 in particular performs a lot better and doesn't lag in certain spots it used to lag in, although I won't forgive them for removing Gay Bowser. The little UI and texture changes across the board are also very nice. Galaxy will be a little more odd to play, especially in Handheld mode because you have to tilt the whole controller for certain parts and touch the screen to collect the star bits.
But I just like having these games on Switch.
yeah personally I think it's probably one of the scummiest released nintendo's ever done, but if you think it's worth it then go for it
it seems to be mainly sunshine thats a little unstable
mario is still commenting on bowser's sexuality when he says "bye bi"
I just assumed Bowser was a bear until the cat costume reveal. Really fixed my face, judging based on looks.
Kirby Return to Dreamland, one of only two main series Kirby games I haven't seen through to the end. I got spoiled on the twist already though. Somehow Kirby a franchise where you have to avoid spoilers. Only just started and now I'm taking a break from games for eye strain but it's bright cheery and fun so far.
It's funny, DKC Returns benefits from mapping the motion inputs to button presses but then you get some games like this or No More Heroes where shaking your controller like an idiot actually adds to the experience. With Kirby you don't need to worry about reaction time whenever you do the super inhale, but in DKC you need to shake just for basic movements. Then you've got NMH where shaking to recharge is just funny, holding the wiimote a certain way to change forms doesn't require much thought or movement but adds immersion, and the finishers of course make sense to slap a swiping motion on.
Quote from: K-9_CLOCK on September 18, 2020, 04:35:09 PM
it seems to be mainly sunshine thats a little unstable
I'm enjoying Sunshine more because they thankfully reversed the camera controls so its no longer inverted (although RIP old speedrunners.) Widescreen is a nice addition although I'm disappointment they didn't make 64 widescreen. Would have loved the option for a non restricted camera in 64 too.
I love love love Sunshine but god the Pachinko level and the two blooper racing levels are some of the worst levels in Mario history. The blooper ones wouldn't be
that bad if crashing into a wall didn't cause you to leave the entire level. Thankfully I think the extremely frustrating levels are done with.... *remembers the lily pad level*
Also, props to Amazon for getting me the 3D collection 8 days earlier than they said they would. Benefited from free shipping with barely an increase in wait time.
I don't usually do the whole survival randomly generated game thing but Darkwood has an atmosphere I really appreciate. How do I afford shit though it's all so expensive!
Hades and Ori on Switch
Doom Eternal on X1
I was actually just playing Warhammer but I beat both of these last month and I'm gonna talk about em
Demon's Souls (PS3)
I thought this game might feel a little archaic after playing through Dark Souls 1-3 and Bloodborne, but no it holds up great. The gameplay is excellent and stuff that wasn't viable in later games is viable here. I don't mind the levels not being one big world when the individual levels are well designed and open enough to satisfy my exploration itch. The visuals hold up nice for a ten year old game too, though I wish my computer could handle it above 720p, I can run pc games and gamecube games 4k 60fps easy but damn is PS3 emulation CPU intensive. Strangely the framerate doesn't tank first when I up the resolution and I go somewhere complicated, the sound starts clipping really bad. But it's pretty even at 720p. I definitely prefer the visual aesthetic and monster/character designs in this game over the remake, I don't know why they had to change every little thing to look like a generic fantasy art portfolio.
Overall it's a damn fine game and I loved that I finally got to play it, I might do a second playthrough as a mage. I did have a few gripes though though. After being really impressed by that dragon in the opening I was kinda disappointed that it's not even really a boss and it's tied up under the earth not rampaging through the city. You stealth your way around the cavern and fire off two ballistas then stab it that's it. There's a similar boss in Dark Souls but that still felt like a boss not a prop for a a glorified Hyrule castle Ocarina of Time stealth section. The swamp level is complete bullshit btw. The first section is fine but then it's just a slog trying to get everything in the second area. I outright looked up a guide to do the fastest way to the boss and locations of all the worthwhile items just to be done with it. The swamps in Dark Souls and Bloodborne were never this much of a chore. Cool bosses though. Still a great game as a whole. Maybe next I'll play some of the ps1 and ps2 Fromsoft rpgs.
Warhammer 40K Space Marine
Finally got around to plaything through the rest of this. The final level devolves into bullet sponge hell before you get your hands on the final boss and the whole thing ends on a cliffhanger but it's a damn fine giant hulking murder marine simulator and captures the setting well for the small chunk of it you see. Fun online play too. Furthermore (https://youtu.be/O_Nox4gwLBo?t=183)
Playing Gears Tactics on Series X at te moment, included in gamepass. It's XCOM meets GEARS. loved both franchises so i'm having a blast.
I have Cyberpunk laying arround on disc, got it at work, but i'm waiting till the first big patches are live. Though apperntly it runs okayisch on Series X.
Am currently playing Cities: Skylines, and I gotta say, I think I've found a new full-time job. Thanks, Epic Games!
(Although soon it became clear why they gave the game away for free: there's a fuckton of DLC)
I'm eating lunch. Then I have to wrap presents and shit. I hate that part
Quote from: Yarn on December 23, 2020, 05:13:31 PM
I'm eating lunch. Then I have to wrap presents and shit. I hate that part
Wow cool video games
Cyberpunk 2077. I'm having a pretty good amount of fun with it. It isn't the second coming of christ we all hoped for but it runs well for the most part on my PC. Tons of bugs though. Serious potential if CDPR gets its shit together and fixes it. DLC down the road should be interesting. If you're on the fence I'd wait for the inevitable sale. Avoid PS4 + XB1 versions at all cost if you've been living under a rock and don't know by now..
Beyond that I've been messing with a retro build PC. Been playing Doom 1 + 2, Quake, and Descent 2 on it. I might make my own thread on it at some point. It's been a really fun project.
Pentium 133mhz
32MB of Ram
10gb HDD (overkill but whatever)
4X CD-ROM
3.5'' floppy
Diamond Monster 3D 4MB (Voodoo 1 3dfx card)
SoundBlaster AWE64 sound card
If you have disposable income and are interested in some classic DOS gaming, it's worth investing in a retro build.
beat Doom Eternal in 12 hours a few days ago, would recommend. Cyberpunk was fun but a buggy mess which i just chalked all bugs as being relic malfunctions for head cannon. Playing a bit of Valorant but it takes fuckin forever to finish a match and I suck at it, despite years and years of playing CS-Series. Grabbed Assassins Creed Odyssey for like $17 so hopefully thatll be fun.
Other than that I've been on Overwatch and CODBOCW while playing through RDR2 yet again. Also some L4D2 for nostalgia lately.
Quote from: NintendrCkolc on December 25, 2020, 01:46:27 AM
Quote from: Yarn on December 23, 2020, 05:13:31 PM
I'm eating lunch. Then I have to wrap presents and shit. I hate that part
Wow cool video games
Yup, I see i misread the title. Little late to change that now
I've barely played games since started making the dolls, but id be playing wow classic otherwise
Better?
I played Shadowlands for a month after I got my new PC, but it was just too frustrating and I quit again. Some of it was fun, everything looked great, but it's just too restrictive in a lot of ways.
Now I'm back to Sudoku and recently online jigsaws? Because apparently I'm sixty years old.
an accurate review but I still play it
Quote from: GreyClock on January 09, 2021, 05:37:07 AM
I played Shadowlands for a month after I got my new PC, but it was just too frustrating and I quit again. Some of it was fun, everything looked great, but it's just too restrictive in a lot of ways.
Now I'm back to Sudoku and recently online jigsaws? Because apparently I'm sixty years old.
I keep intending to try shadowlands, but my free time is so little that I tend to look at it as I can either crochet or play games, and crochet is helping me lately so this what I do
I keep hearing how great shadowlands is but just logging in looked confusing and I got overwhelmed and logged off to play classic haha
greet greet antagonize
Adam Driver in a wizard hat
but mostly New Vegas
I finishend Control, awesome game. Made by the guys who made the OG Max Payne, Alan Wake & Quantum Break
I wanted to play te DLC, noticed the Ultimate edition (which has raytracing ammong other improvements) was only 4 or 5 euros more than the season pass for the 2 DLC's. So i bought it.
BUT THE FUCKING SAVE GAME WON'T TRANSFER FROM REGULAR TO ULTIMATE. Meaning i have to play the entire fucking base game again before moving on to the postgame DLC. Ah wel, it's a fun game.
Looking really forward to the Mass Effect remake comming next month.
Quote from: GreyClock on January 09, 2021, 05:37:07 AM
I played Shadowlands for a month after I got my new PC, but it was just too frustrating and I quit again. Some of it was fun, everything looked great, but it's just too restrictive in a lot of ways.
Now I'm back to Sudoku and recently online jigsaws? Because apparently I'm sixty years old.
I saw this and immediately thought about you: https://nl.ign.com/diablo-2-remastered/129749/video/diablo-2-resurrected-de-eerste-16-minuten-gameplay-in-4k-60fps
Hi man, what's up? Hadn't heard about that, looks pretty cool, maybe a little underwhelming. I played the original enough not to bother with this one though.
Quote from: GreyClock on April 14, 2021, 12:51:52 AM
Hi man, what's up? Hadn't heard about that, looks pretty cool, maybe a little underwhelming. I played the original enough not to bother with this one though.
Going well, although i had quite a bit of crypto that i sold for almost zero profit back in the fall because i was kinda done with it. I missed out on about 20k on that one lol. OH WELL.
Other than that job's still fun, kid is doing great and we have another one on the way.
Though not being able to go to and/or organize events is becoming a bit of a drag. That was my main thing, last year I've done allot of online-marketing stuff but organizing big launches and events is more my thing. So hopefully that will be back on the table during the summer or something.
You?
So I'm playing Shadow Tower Abyss and the eyeball monsters seem pretty depressed
(https://i.imgur.com/RVCdb6T.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/fDtbcU3.png)
These guys aren't too happy either but they're at least resigned. I guess if you're in the tower you either climb it and die or you're stuck in the lower levels forever. Seems like a lot of them are remnants of people who previously climbed the tower and got the magic spear everybody is looking for.
(https://i.imgur.com/1Bo1FDK.png)
So now I gotta climb up the tower and become a god or something. Sounds fun. And it is! Except the poison level fuck that shit I looked up a map for that garbage. I think this was the last dungeon crawler From Software made before Demon's Souls and later Dark Souls, you can definitely see some of their DNA here. Hell the lifted parts of the first area for Dark Souls 2. And it's got a more annoying version of that metal grinding sound when you select stuff in those games. I'm really starting to hate that noise. It's a little closer to survival horror than their other RPGs too which is neat. Resource management seems tough at first but quickly becomes manageable when you think things out. Overall it's kind of janky and archaic but it's so charming and atmospheric I don't mind.
psychonauts 2
eh. ... i don't know i thought the sequel was fucking great but i vastly prefer the vibe of the original
there was no "welp, i'm gonna go kill myself"
it's not handholdy it's just almost completely linear
it's still super worth it
a few levels are my favorites from the series
the psychedelics level looked gorgeous, the alcoholism level was.. . also gorgeous and i loved the theming
i also had fun with the library one
Last game I played was called 7 billion humans. Just had my once a decade remembrance that this website exists. if anyone remembers me, I'm a doctor now. Hope all is well.
Whoa, cool
Quote from: SensuClock on October 22, 2021, 07:26:59 PM
Last game I played was called 7 billion humans. Just had my once a decade remembrance that this website exists. if anyone remembers me, I'm a doctor now. Hope all is well.
(https://i.imgur.com/hhKdMqx.jpg)
congratulations on becoming a doctor, Sensu
I hope that doesn't suck too much, what with all the rigmarole and sassafras and how do you do
Metroid Prime!
I've already played like half of it before, but I gotta say I rlly like this game. The atmosphere is just impeccable and I wish Nintendo would still experiment like this, putting Metroid into a first person perspective was a gamble.
I don't like the controls much though. It's totally fine most of the time but then you get into areas like Magmoor Caverns, which being totally honest are just a fucking nightmare. Its like they sat around and asked "right how do we make the stilted and janky platforming of Super Metroid even worse? I know, put it in first person with no camera controls." lmao
But I just adore how this game is put together, it's completely in a league of its own when it comes to first person games. The lack of hand holding, the comfy HUD and graphics, and while generally I think the OST is just ok, the Tallon Overworld theme is GODLY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mziw3FQkZYg&t=66s
when that synth comes in I know it's gonna get comfy