whatchu playing now

it's all just Zelda in my house, Zelda for hours, days, weeks

Endless Legend. It's like Civ but with magic and dwarves and an active battle system. Shit's pretty dope.

Yeah endless legend is awesome and they did an amazing job making all the factions distinct sometimes super dramatically. And it looks great too. Sequel due soon or is that endless space?

I finished BoTW at 36% completion rate, but all the temples, memories and armor. To hell with finding 550 more korok seeds. Someday I will go back and farm the dragon parts necessary to upgrade the Armor of the Wild set. I'd even do it now, but the first upgrade requires me to find 30 acorns, and I have no desire to virtually hunt squirrels for hours to unlock dumb armor.

lol I'm sure it's great but everything I hear about botw makes me never want to play it

it is delightful. and playful. and immersive. and there's a distinct set of strategies that are most effective for early, mid, and late-game. and i applied all of them at the wrong time. in retrospect, i spent the better part of 125+ hours running around a gorgeous virtual world collecting shit to upgrade shit to collect more shit to (ostensibly) do something involving the liberation of zelda from a disco-colored nightmare. by the final level i was so ridiculously overpowered that i beat the game, windowed picture-in-picture, while laughing my butt off at chewing gum on netflix. note: my dumb lategame strategy was checking out websites to find out the temples i'd somehow missed. at 120 distinct locations, it got a bit tedious.

i'm with mordy here i think

no, see, you're missing out. if you hunt, twice, each of the three dragons that appear only once every day on opposite sides of the map you can upgrade your wimpy endgame lederhosen, tunic, and tyrolean hat from level one level two. you'll need to repeat the whole process for levels three and four, but how at that point couldn't you want to?

good god

That sounds like a great idle clicker. Do I also need to have exactly 777 sacred whatsits in all arcane practices before 12:57 so I can get the challenge trophy

Are folks playing City Clickers? Seems like a time-sink, but I only played a little as I still have to finish Thimbleweed Park. And I've mostly been playing roguelikes. Sigh.

which roguelikes?

and thimbleweed park is cute as heck but i only got up to unlocking the map and haven't done much since then. kinda loses a bit of its momentum?

i refuse to play anything with clickers in the name

Oh, I've been playing Caves of Qud recently, and I've been getting back into ADOM too.

Yeah, there's always a problem with graphical adventures (or whatever you call them) that when you open up a lot of places at once it can be overwhelming. The puzzle aspect gets diluted somehow? I think they work best when you have a few screens at a time. I'm enjoying TP, though; some interesting stuff in it.

thimbleweed's over use of meta humour just got on my nerves

Caves of Qud looks like the rogue game I need right now though.

xp dowd - this is a classic adventure game design problem imo. half the reason i quit early on many games. i think the last one this hit me with was Machinarium

Mordy what do you think of mgs

so far i like it a lot - story is v engaging, tackles themes that don't get a lot of exposure in video gaming, and the gameplay itself is serviceable (if not a bit repetitive and clunky esp regarding switching to 3d perspective). i'm still v early on (only a bit after the first boss) but i could see myself playing through it. i've already started wondering how well i can emulate ps2 on my macbook.

Lara Croft GO

Sorta Monument Valley lite. Nice art, puzzles not too hard, soothing nature sounds.

mordy i envy you getting to experience MGS for the first time

also just playing MGS1 for the first time, on vita. I can totally see why it was so huge for the time, its still pretty amazing in many ways. but daaamn the tank controls are unfun.... i sort of also wish the gameplay sequences between boss fights were a little longer, parts of it just feel like boss boss boss. currently just killed sniper wolf, but did actually think i was gonna give up just before i finally beat Psycho Mantis on my 15th attempt. old games were hard.

Pretty sure you had to like switch your controller to the Player 2 port to beat Psycho Mantis on PS1. Not sure how they translate that to a Vita.

He would also read details off of your memory card. Pretty neat headfuck at the time.

the controls for that game really suck. it is very much stuck between 2D and 3D. some of the boss fights are a huge pain.

it's definitely worth playing tho. at least play it to when you find the scientist! he has the best cutscenes.

oh i switched the controller port (easy to do on vita) but that fight is still a total bitch with those controls. plus the possible instafail at a certain point half way into it...

that had me completely stumped on the orginal ps. Wasn't there a similar head fuck boss fight?

check the back of the box

recommend me your five fave ios games under $5 GO!

Threes
Desert Golfing
Imbroglio
Tiny Wings

*rolls twenty-sided die…*

Downwell

lol, i own all those already! GO AGAIN!

recommend me your five fave ios games under $5 GO!

is this part of the Psycho Mantis fight?

lol

i recommend the MGS VR Virtual Missions as well. it is a very cool minimalist Matrix/Tron-style compilation of stealth challenges, hundreds of missions all focusing on different skill sets, all set in beautiful glowing laser tag arenas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e2L_Iuk1uE&t=210s

stuck at this fight

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/946346-bayonetta/53212543

what is the Wicked Weave is that the post-combo hair special attack?

WW are the giant hair fist/feet attacks, yes

Have any of you ever tried xcom as a co-op? I'm thinking that we could just each control half the squad (2 players each) and make decisions independently rather than discussing each move.

i remember playing FF6 like that, which actually gave 2P the ability to control half the team. sort of an unadvertised bonus feature

got the diablo 3 allthestuffedition on ps4 sale. This is so much better than the half game I bought on PC a few years ago. my god this thing is addictive.

How much? And it controls well on the ps?

Controls very well on PS4. I went online and was playing with some obviously hacked randos and gained a zillion levels and overpowered equipment which essentially broke my character. Would be wary of playing with anyone you aren't friends with.

i probably played more diablo 3 than any other game last year, it's great

Alienation - free on ps plus this month. tons of fun twin stick Alien Breed style shooter / Diablo loot grind. hugely enjoyable.

Hostess club manager minigame in Yazuza 0 - GOTY 2017

yakuza*

is that thing 50% off yet? also waiting for persona 5 to drop in price.

No idea, picked it up a while ago and have just been working through it a few hours a week. First one of these i've played and really enjoying the hard cuts between side activity lunacy and gritty, tense mainstory cutscenes.

Finished Persona 5 and despite some weak characters and pacing it's still a great game just doesn't hold a candle to 4 in terms of personality for me.

is that thing 50% off yet? also waiting for persona 5 to drop in price.

― Mordy, Wednesday, May 10, 2017 4:22 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No but Kiwami, the PS4 remake of Yakuza 1, comes out this summer at half-price.

Torment: Tides of Numenera has been reliably entertaining and low key so far (not very far into it, far enough to have filled my party with the three female NPCs)

also started back into Diablo III with a seasonal character