whatchu playing now

I'm NOT playing _Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy_ because apparently my computer isn't powerful enough to run it smoothly at lowest res and worst image quality. Yay Unity!

It seems like an, uh, interesting game. I guess it could easily be called a "meme" game — it's by the guy who made QWOP, and shows a similar interest in building a game around a frustrating control scheme. In this you are a man who's stock in a large kettle, who moves around by dragging and pulling and launching himself up a mountain with a hammer. You essentially control the tip of the hammer, within the range of your arms' reach.

Will hang on to it, just in case the Mac version gets an optimization fix in the next couple of weeks. (That happened to Enter the Gungeon, for instance, which was unplayable for me when it launched.)
Also, I've been planning to buy a PC for over a year now, so ANNNNY DAYYY NOWWW!

i don't plan on playing Getting Over It but i'm glad it exists. it's crazy to me that it's a performance intensive-game, though! it seems like one that could work just as well as a DOS-booted game on a floppy disk in 1990.

Yeah, it's also a 500 MB download!

But I think Enter the Gungeon was a Unity game as well, and that got its Mac performance problems fixed pretty fast, so with luck it might just be some configuration issues with the engine or w/e.

In this you are a man who's stock in a large kettle, who moves around by dragging and pulling and launching himself up a mountain with a hammer

finally, a game about my life

it's sexy hiking, u squares

getting over it is like a Chris Marker film, but as a game

In this you are a man who's stock in a large kettle, who moves around by dragging and pulling and launching himself up a mountain with a hammer. You essentially control the tip of the hammer, within the range of your arms' reach.

This sounds torturous. Like getting out of Plato's cave. I think I'll bite.

I am playing Kingdom New Lands ON IPAD and it rules

Finally playing No no Kuni again. The Studio Ghibli pair-up seems to have made them want to aim at a much younger audience than all the PS2 Level-5 games

Played through What Remains of Edith Finch on Friday and I've been thinking about it all weekend. I paid 13 bucks for 2.5 hours of game time and am completely satisfied. Hell, it'll probably wind up my GOTY and is definitely my favorite of the so-called "walking simulators." If it sounds like something you'd like, you should probably just go ahead and give it a try.

I'll also recommend Superflight, which is a perfect 3 dollar game and now my go-to "put some music on and chill for 20 minutes in between doing other shit" game.

Shadowhand is great btw. will likely start a thread.

trying out Northgard. Warcraft with bells on type stuff. It's okay so far, but a little over priced if you ask me.

Finally playing No no Kuni again. The Studio Ghibli pair-up seems to have made them want to aim at a much younger audience than all the PS2 Level-5 games

Could not finish. The combat system appeared to have a lot to it, but none of it seems to have any impact on the game? In the end you could still just fight normally with whatever monsters you had since this the begining and ignore the skill tree and upgrades altogether, it seems. Very unlikely the SMT/Persona series where you have to really pick the right monsters to fight along side you depending on enemy vulnerabilities....

COD: WW2 is just frustratingly bad. Not unplayable but after 2-3 matches at a time it's just not fun. Thought a return to "realistic" would be good after all the sci-fi CODs but matchmaking is terrible, hit detection is crap and the maps suck.

I bought What Remains of Edith Finch a couple of months ago, I need to try it out.

I'm probably the only one here rocking the xbox one, but I'm stoked about PUBG being released this week. I have a shit laptop, so this will be my first experience playing the game.

is out on ps4 around the same time? i'm with you. although, i downloaded fortnite and after getting dominated in the battle royale mode a million times straight, i'm not sure i want to fork out money for PUBG and experience the pwnage all over again

I have read that PUBG is very glitchy on xbox at the moment so you might want to wait for an update

Karl, I believe it is coming to PS4 at some point. I think Microsoft paid a premium to have early access to the game. Poly, I read the same today, but I already purchased it a few days ago. I was planning on playing this weekend. I have the vanilla xbox so my expectations are low. I remember when F13 was released it was described as a buggy mess (and it was), but I had a blast playing it.

I'm worried about the frame rate issues people are having. I could care less about graphics, tbh.

grrr, couldn't care less.

shadowhand was fun up to the point where the RNG elements made each level require a dozen plays per to get the right deal

https://www.polygon.com/2017-best-games/2017/12/18/16781674/best-video-games-2017-top-50-mario-pubg-zelda

that really does make this year look crazy good. haven't heard of a huge chunk of those games, tons of indie pc stuff that looks awesome

Yeah that’s a nice list. Lots on xbone ps4 too, more than I’d expected. Pretty shabby listings for iOS but that seems to be established now.

deadly premonition

i love this

a classic for sure

we have made the switch today and it is delightful

Merry Switchmas to all

All these best of 2017 lists are more intimidating than usual, keep seeing stuff that looks good that went off my radar entirely.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/12/ars-technicas-best-video-games-of-2017/

I dusted off the witcher 3 since I'm trying to finish it in two years but goddamnit it doesnt make things easy.. trying to upgrade some gear and I need one goddamn component that I cant find anywhere, and the online guides aren't very helpful. THIS IS WHY ITS TAKING ME TWO YEARS TO FINISH THIS SHIT.

i played the first 30 hours of witcher 3 earlier this year and really enjoyed it, and then went and tried to play it again recently and the magic was completely gone, it just felt really gloomy and samey and heavy handed

X-Com: Enemy Unknown (2012)

i remember the old VGA DOS one and the cool underwater sequel. never had the game but I did have the demo and it was very fun. this remake was less than $10 on Steam so i finally pulled the trigger. at first it kept crashing during the first mission, but after changing to 1280x768 i haven't seen that problem anymore. anyways the game is really rad. right now im in a railroad yard trying to stealthily move in and disarm plasma bombs while the aliens that set them up try to stop me. i like how unique the missions end up being; someone could get shot by an alien and it may drive someone into a frenzy and they start shooting (maybe killing bad guys, maybe accidental friendly fire) its always something new w this game

so following the tutorial on random missions (even ones marked "easy") and i am horrible at this lol. but it is very fun and looks great and it will be cool to figure out how to make it through w most of my people alive ;-p

i really like the story too. the leader of R&D is very Project Paperclip and i am sure this is on purpose. they talk a lot about the ethics of using the enemy's war machines and the dangers of adopting their techniques. in that way it kind of feel like classic sci fi, and it seems like a good way to tie the story and gameplay together.

This is the first year since my childhood I've been mostly familiar with what shows up on end of year lists /:

tho rn i am playing the last of us for the first time. its certainly a videogame!!

i bought pyre, little nightmares and sundered for ps4 as they were all on sale and have been recommended on best ofs
had every intention of playing through the winter break and didn't touch any of them....

also undertale, west of loathing and fidel dungeon rescue for steam.
and persona 5 for ps4
and my switch backlog
it sure is fun being an adult

Persona 5 is like 100hrs long

lol, i know. i'm buying games that i would be playing if i didn't have all these other interests and an unwieldy life to deal with.
I JUST WANNA READ COMICS AND PLAY VIDYA GAMES

Let’s hope for full communism in 2018 so we can finish all these video games.

in the future marxist paradise my asthma and social anxiety will excuse me from difficult labor of any kind. my role will be anime appraiser

— Bevis Simpson (@BevisSimpson) April 17, 2013

Once I got past the presentation, I've found Disgaea to be a complete timesuck.

Tried Disgaea so many times but just can't get into it, moving on an isometric grid a big part of my frustrations iirc.
Started Horizon Zero Dawn, beautiful environments but the characters & voice acting really offputting, creepy uncanny valley plasticine people giving me the willies!

need more large-scope games with stylized character designs

Super Mario Odyssey
Zelda BOTW (just beat Eventide for the 1st time yay)
VS. Super Mario Bros.
X-Com: Enemy Unknown
Cuphead
Stardew Valley
Shovel Knight

is there a decent logging site like letterboxd for video games?

https://www.backloggery.com/

oh yeah i totally forgot about that one. don't love the visual design but i'll give it a try

It has no global game metadata, tho, you just fill in whatever you want.