whatchu playing now

I played that for ten hours or so and got dispirited at yet another open world game with massive numbers of chores to do. It looked nice and played well though! And I'm playing the new God of War and enjoying that, but it definitely seems a bit more on-rails.

More it was the sheer number of enemies and their bubble projectiles that was sensory overload.

The best thing about Horizon is hunting enormous robot dinosaurs - I especially loved shooting them with explosive arrows and knocking their weapons off and then using their own heavy weapons back on them.

I’ve been playing Two Point Hospital (spiritual successor to Theme Hospital) and it’s fantastic - a bigger more updated version of the original game.

the game list for the PSX classic thing is ???

other than mgs1 and ff7 there's like nothing on there from the games i immediately associate with that console

imagining people trying to play gta 1 or persona 1 in 2018 is funny, obviously they went with name recognition over quality there

yeh it's a weird list, have no idea how much licensing difficulties played in the selection but they surely could have done better?
this tweet otm

Like goddamn the Pizza Hut Demo Discs had a better lineup than the PlayStation Classic pic.twitter.com/zwkpAGVPEp

— Satomii🌈 (@KantoPancakes) October 29, 2018

not having crash or spyro feels like if Nintendo released one without a mario game

i guess getting more eyes on wild arms is good though, that feels like a revivable series

Battle Arena Toshinden
Cool Boarders 2
Destruction Derby
Final Fantasy VII
Grand Theft Auto
Intelligent Qube
Jumping Flash!
Metal Gear Solid
Mr. Driller
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
Rayman
Resident Evil (Director's Cut)
Revelations: Persona
Ridge Racer Type 4
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
Syphon Filter
Tekken 3
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Twisted Metal
Wild Arms

I’ve played most of these and at one time or another considered most of them to be amazing (when I was a kid). But yeah, weird list.

Battle Arena Toshinden is straight up NOT FUN these days. It feels incredibly slow, and I can’t imagine anyone playing it when Tekken 3 is an option.

Speaking of demo disk, both Intelligence Qube and Jumping Flash were on the demo disk that came with the original production run of the PlayStation (lol iPhone auto-capitalize). IQ seemed to be a fun puzzle game, but Jumping Flash seemed like a novelty un-fun game, even back then.

Twisted metal 1 instead of 2?

It’s embarrassing but I might have played cool boarders 2 more than any over game on there! (And at the same time was sad that I wasn’t playing SSX)

still waiting for someone to give snowboarding games a proper revival

ciderpress did you ever play Snowboard Kids for N64

yeah both of them, they were pretty fun

just looked them up and apparently they made a 3rd one on DS many years later, who knew

Maybe this is a UK-centric view but a playstation without a wipeout or a tomb raider is barely a playstation at all.

That's a pretty representative lineup, maybe that's what they were going for.

all these new messages i thought a conversation had broken out about how amazing two point hospital is but alas just talking about ps1 games

Haha
I’m planning on checking out Two Point soon, especially because I read they recently added a sandbox mode?

do i have to play one point hospital first to understand what's going on

"have you played five point hospital?" sounds like something the schoolyard bully says just before he beats you up for looking at his fist

I played that for ten hours or so and got dispirited at yet another open world game with massive numbers of chores to do. It looked nice and played well though! And I'm playing the new God of War and enjoying that, but it definitely seems a bit more on-rails.

I'm only 4-5 hours in, so potentially my enthusiasm could still get ground into dust (and I totally get the impatience with open world games, I thought I was done with it), but I think its lore is carrying me along so far.

GOW is fun, though the "game of the generation" talk is unduly IMO hyperbolic.

Two Point Hospital definitely on my bundle waitlist

ON IPAD ?

man that would be sweet but afaik it's just on pc/mac

ghost in the shell is amazing and apparently used the jumping flash "engine" lol

agreed that wipeout and tomb raider are the canonical classic games

Only just realised Gran Turismo is missing! And Symphony of the Night. And Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. I mean these aren’t obscure personal favourites (like Ape Escape or Incredible Crisis), they’re core mass appeal titles.

I guess it’s probably down to things like music licensing but pff.

No Bishi Bashi!

no vib ribbon no credibility

And theyve just rereleased SOTN on the PS4 so letting it go as part of this package would be eating into more lucrative sales

yeah same with crash and spyro i assume

the original GTA is awesome, btw

also, seeing Twisted Metal on that list reminds me that someone needs to make a good modern car battle game. i spent many a hour with TM and Vigilante 8 - doing it online on a modern console would be a blast

I've been mentioning Subnautica here since early access in 2016, its lodged between Dark Souls Remastered and XCOM 2 in the top 10 of PC Gamer's greatest PC games you can play in 2018.

I'm on my fourth playthrough. Just smelling the seaweed, building a nice observation dome, murdering bonesharks with tiger plant beds.

you're eventually going to sell me on it lol

atm i have to finish rdr2 + two point hospital tho so it might be some time till i can get to it. it is on my wishlist.

can i ask a question here, seeing as this is the only lively thread on ILG (maybe it's not)?

i've been re-playing Half Life Episode 2 and am looking for something else in a similar vein (FPS, dark). would i enjoy the STALKER games? and do they work on Win10 (it's 2007 vintage game, only lists supported OS up to Vista)

Supported OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP(Service Pack 2) / Microsoft® Windows® 2000 SP4
Supported OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP/Vista (SP1)

thanks in advance

(i think yes, with some noodling: https://steamcommunity.com/app/4500/discussions/0/530649887206982398/ )

it also means booting into windows to play it...

Metro 2033 games are closer, I think. Stalker was a little more open ended it seemed to me, like Fallout or Far Cry in miniature. It kind of reminded me of a multiplayer online game without any other players. Maybe that feeling changes after the first few hours, but I stopped playing because I couldn’t get into it. Definitely not that same cinematic feel that half-life 2 has

they were giving out metro 2033 for free on steam the other day idk if thats still going

the first stalker was only 3 quid when i looked so i figured i'd risk it.

> Stalker was a little more open ended it seemed to me, like Fallout or Far Cry

like what what? 8) i don't play a lot of games, too much of a time sink, but i was off ill for 3 weeks following an operation and remembered i had the orange box. currently finding the end of episode 2 impossible...

will look into metro 2033 as well, thanks.

metro 2033 video looks good. the 2013-ness means it'll be harder on the laptop though. but linux support = good.

yeah if youve got an old / non gaming pc it might not be what yr looking for

the laptop's pretty recent (2017, i5, nvidia 950), but it is a laptop. 2010 games look lovely with everything turned up high, you can almost smell the putrefaction.

fallout new vegas? or 3 for that matter

My fave old movie-like FPS is probably F.E.A.R. Came out in 2005 so your i5/950 will eat it up. It shares with HL2 the narrative woven into the gameplay and fun bad guy AI. Wiki says its an FPS/horror game but I remember it being more creepy than horrific, tho if you can play in a darkened room with headphones then all the better. There's def bits that gave me the creeps (tho I was smoking a lot of weed at the time, ymmv). £9 on Steam.

koogs - have you played bioshock?

koogs, make sure you play portal in the orange box

Into The Breach. From the team that made Faster Than Light. Simple and nicely made turned based fighting game that I get way too addicted to.

forza horizon 4, everyday

same tbh

yeah, the orange box got played at the time, and second portal got played (twice, back to back) a couple of years ago when i was unemployed (along with that st:voyager game (creeping around borg ship) and tron 2.0 (pretty)).

bioshock is actually in my steam library, must've been on sale one year, but i don't think i got that far into it. same is true of fez, psychonauts, a couple of others.

will look into FEAR. (and Dead Space too, i hear good things). thanks.

the problem now is the bandwidth to download the things. and time.

oh yeah, dead space is also great. more creepy creepy than shooty shooty but atmospheric as all out. make sure you install the control fix tho, I found the controls very sluggish without it. https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/840-dead-space-mouse-fix/

I've got bored of Far Cry 5 after about 10 hrs. Maybe the most amazing "graphics" I've played, and the actual moment-to-moment gameplay is ok I guess, but it's very samey and doesn't seem to go anywhere, it's like eating a bag of doritos.

I've started Dishonoured now, maybe an hour in? Cool so far! everything looks so blocky and flat after FC5 but I'm already having more fun sneaking about the city than I ever did shotgunning photorealistic bears.