oh and as Jordan mentioned the random loot system in Nioh just made for a ton of inventory management busywork more than anything interesting unfortunately.
― ufo, Thursday, 5 April 2018 05:13 (six years ago) link
I voted for GT Sport, it's the first Gran Turismo I've played in about 20 years (GT3 was the last) and I'd forgotten how much I like these games. In hdr 4k it's by far the best looking game I've ever played, and after playing (and boucning off) a few of the more hardcore forzas and dirts and things in the last few years, it's nice to go back to a game which does everything it can to pretend it's a hyper realistic driving sim, but which actually still cheats just enough in the handling model to keep it fun and playable without needing months of practice. Single player content was pretty slim at launch but they're regularly adding more in their frequent free updates, and tbh limited content suits me fine given my limited gaming time these days, means I still get to feel like I'm making some kind of progress.
― JimD, Thursday, 5 April 2018 09:52 (six years ago) link
Y'ALL KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 13:21 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/rbZg33s.jpg48 - Superflight - 13 points / 1 Vote
heh I've played this for like 20 mins it's chill
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 April 2018 13:28 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Wr3CZou.jpg48 - Lone Echo - 13 points / 1 Vote
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 13:33 (six years ago) link
^ this is another one i know v little about, hope to hear more
https://i.imgur.com/vUWoPEM.jpg46 - Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy - 14 points / 1 Vote
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
(sorry the spacing on these is all wack, i am in and out of meetings and people are using my machine to make stuff haha)
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/A3YUvuB.jpg46 - Monument Valley 2 - 14 points / 1 Vote
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
(can you go back to including platform info plz?)
― JimD, Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link
oh god right oik
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:56 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/NiEUYP4.jpg42 - Sonic Mania - 15 points / 1 VoteNintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Windows
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
Not my vote but I enjoyed my time with Sonic Mania ok. Hit a wall though which is the least fun experience in gaming. Not sure if I’ll try again.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
when you say "hit a wall" do you mean sonic was going really fast but then bumped into a wall and oyu lost all that speed because if so that very specific feeling IS one of the worst in gaming (i have not played this game but i def played green hill zone a few times on my cousin's genesis)
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
More metaphorically in that I can’t beat the boss of Oil Ocean act 2 and it’s too irritating
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/lsie2AH.jpg42 - Tales of Berseria - 15 points / 1 VotePlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and Microsoft Windows
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
That’s quite a shirt.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Xj8IaC3.jpg42 - Splatoon 2 - 15 points / 1 VoteNintendo Switch
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
not surprised that I'm the only voter for Tales of Berseria, am surprised I'm the only voter for Splat2n
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/GvqxOiE.jpg42 - Through the Ages - 15 points / 1 VoteAndroid, iPad, iPhone
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:38 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/TWgnGZx.jpg40 - Wolfenstein II - 15 points / 2 VotesMicrosoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/nRViWd8.jpg40 - Doki Doki Literature Club - 15 points / 2 VotesMicrosoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Steam
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
i'm a doki voter. it's a free visual novel and it's weird af.
― Mordy, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
Berseria is a really good JRPG with fun button mashy brawler combat and the best character writing in the genre. got a bit unfairly overshadowed due to the tidal wave of good rpgs last year
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
also doki voter! shit gets way wilder than it has any right to
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
ok this one and then i am going to go get some food
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/icDp5Kv.jpg39 - Puyo Puyo Tetris - 16 points / 1 VoteNintendo 3DS, Wii U, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows
^ have not played but i would DEFFO get hooked if i did i am sure. i mean fuck it's puyo puyo and tetris
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
when you say "hit a wall" do you mean sonic was going really fast but then bumped into a wall and you lost all that speed
lol I was also staring at this wondering the same thing
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
Voted for this, amazing tetris. Imported it a few years ago when it didn't seem like it was ever get a western release and been playing it since. Lots of odd modes and when you get a tetris the game does a great job of feeling as excited as you are.
― devvvine, Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/CH56721.jpg38 - Pinball FX3 - 16 points / 2 VotesMicrosoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/V3jwj9N.jpg37 - Superhot VR - 17 points / 1 VoteVR
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/sWKQbDs.jpg34 - Yooka-Laylee - 17 points / 2 VotesLinux, macOS, Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ZkNh6oA.jpg34 - West of Loathing - 17 points / 2 VotesLinux, macOS, Windows
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
damn i'm disappointed that despite my feeble attempts to boost it, no one else got on the Through the Ages train. such a fantastic strategy game and perfectly implemented for mobile, with an AI that is way better than i've come to expect from similar games. the rare mobile game where i played it on the train and kept playing it when i got home. and even tried to play it on the walk in between.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/T18JtLi.jpg34 - The Sexy Brutale - 17 points / 2 VotesPlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
i always found TTA way too long and fiddly for a tabletop game, makes sense that it would work better as an app
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/23Da0bI.jpg33 - Mario Kart 8 DX - 17 points / 3 VotesNintendo Switch
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
sexy brutale so good, surprised it hasn't been more popular round here. is the switch version still borked?
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
it got a performance patch at some point but i heard it's still iffy. it's on my to-play list but my steam queue is quite a lot longer than my switch queue
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/3aTfe59.jpg32 - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds - 20 points / 1 VoteWindows, Xbox One
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
despite never playing this one, i almost voted for it solely from enjoying wathcing others play it on youtube, which would've made it the first time i ever voted a game based on that criteria
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
it was a lot more fun to watch than to play in my experience. i think i logged like 5 hours before giving up on it as Not For Me
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/DnLM8xB.jpg30 - Northgard - 20 points / 2 VotesWindows, Mac
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
TTA is a fantastic tabletop game. i'm sure the mobile version is super good if it's anything close to that (which it seems to be)
i thought splatoon 2 would be top ten, given the number of switch owners here and the popularity of the game.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
I'm the one who voted for both Lone Echo and Superhot VR. Kinda hoping there'd be more VR representation this year.
Lone Echo is a first person adventure game set in space, with you playing a robot. As most of the action takes place inside a weightless space station, they've solved the VR locomotion problem the same way actual astronauts have solved it, by grabbing onto walls and flinging yourself wherever you want to go. It's very intuitive and very fun and doesn't get old even when the activities it makes you do are fairly straightforward. The game looks amazing; the first time I spacewalked was brainexplode.gif. And there's something about VR NPCs, especially one acted so well as there is here, that does create a weird sort of emotional bond that I haven't really felt in the same way in flat games. Brains are easily tricked.
Saying all that, VR is definitely still not ready. You need an actual gaming PC to run it (okay PSVR, but that's kinda different), it takes up a lot of room and there's faff setting it up. Most games on the platform are either ill-fitting or paper-thin; it doesn't help that VR is still a niche-within-a-niche so doesn't get as much press as it could. Not to mention you've gotta be kinda techy to set it up and my days fucking about with autoexec.bat and config.sys stand me in good stead. But oh, when VR works, it's still unlike any other gaming experience.
― Closed Beta (NotEnough), Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/JYNnKGJ.jpg30 - Universal Paperclips - 20 points / 2 VotesBrowser
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
lol nice
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 April 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
xp re: vr yes when it works it truly is a thing of beauty, and boy howdy i was a SKEPTIC going in too. i hope to build a rig that can handle it in the next year or two (it's $$$ tho!) and maybe shop around for a more comfortable headset... the oculus didn't fit over my glasses super well? maybe i could've fiddled with it a bit more. i was so sad when i tried without my glasses (after all ,the screen's right there, i should see perfectly right?) only for it to be blurry (no stupid, you're still trying to focus far away).
re: universal paperclips, y'all wild for this one, it's like... fine? not anywhere near as good as the potato one from last year.
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 5 April 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link