whatchu playing now

My last Lumines run was my best, I forget where I got to though. Closer.

I've only cleared standard once, countless other runs got in the 90s and fallen apart. Now I just stick to the Endless mode that unlocked.

Shake yr body down to the ground

otm

i love the 'i hear the music in my soul' track that has the extremely slow tempo/clear speed that's always the highlight of every run

oh yeh that's a cracker, v Daft Punk. think the only track I dislike is the one on the white and brown bubbles stage, has a kinda grunge riff?

i just finished yakuza 6

that was the longest 20 hour game i have ever played in my life

Is that a bad thing?

it was a struggle

yakuza 6 was a universally praised game, i don't know what is wrong with me

even the fucking ending! there were TWO different credit sequences, separated by another 20 minute movie in between. holy shit

i didn't realize it was such a story-heavy game, though, so i guess that's on me. i will say that the zaniness of the dialogue and the situations they were in made me lol irl several times, which is more than pretty much any game! sometimes it was genuinely very entertaining. in general i really enjoy that uncanny valley zone, in life and videogames. the nathan fielder awkwardness. and yakuza 6 frequently entered that zone and was all the better for it. but most of the time, it rests somewhere just outside of the uncanny valley. like if The Room had just slightly better actors and just slightly better dialogue and made slightly more sense

also a few too many instances of missions like "GO TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TOWN AND STAND ON A SPOT". then as soon as you do that, it skips you from morning turns to dusk and the new missions is "WAIT! go back all the way across town to where you just were, and stand on that spot again"

the wordsies i cannot type them

anyone thinking about picking up one of these?

Introducing Playdate, a new handheld gaming system from Panic.

It fits in your pocket. It's got a black and white screen. It includes a season of brand-new games from amazing creators. Oh and… there's a crank???? https://t.co/WiIPUkpjSq

Yes. A thread… pic.twitter.com/47BwSOtiiP

— Playdate (@playdate) May 22, 2019

i'm intrigued! includes games by the likes of bennett foddy (QWOP, getting over it...and a former bass player for cut copy, i just learned from wikipedia?)

it's also $149 for 12 games, so

no thanks

off topic, but i have this mint condition OUYA i've been trying to get rid of

you know what's better than an OUYA is TWO OUYA and i have one i could sell to you for MSRP

Speak of the devil:

OUYA & Razer Forge TV Services Shutdown
Thank you for your loyalty to OUYA Gaming and Razer Forge TV.
We're writing to let you know that these platforms will be shutdown and no longer available for usage on June 25, 2019.
Your Account:
On June 25, 2019 your OUYA / Razer Cortex account will be disabled. So, we encourage you to utilize your account funds prior to the shutdown.
Games/Gameplay:
After June 25, 2019 continued gameplay will vary depending on the individual game developers, but the games will no longer be available on the OUYA platform. Contact the developers for more information.
We thank you for your loyalty over the years and hope you've enjoyed the service. With the innovations continually happening in the gaming industry, we're looking forward to bringing more great gaming options in the future.
Best Regards,
The Razer Team

lol, I was gonna post that!

Wait, so Ouya became... Razer (sic) Forge?

$150 doesn't seem that bad imo. but i don't think i'll do it

have to admit i was never loyal to razer forge

On June 25, 2019 your OUYA / Razer Cortex account will be disabled. So, we encourage you to utilize your account funds prior to the shutdown.

Imagine having a bunch of Razer Cortez account funds

...you know what I meant

im actually writing a screenplay about a guy named razer cortez who has a bunch of account funds from drug dealing, so actually, that wasn't a typo, you just knew about my screenplay. but you're on thin ice

"Get me... Razer Cortez"

it's all coming together, will m. this is like the da vinci code, but even better

Finished Edith Finch. Should've just watched a play through on YouTube.

So, autochess ... suddenly there are like six different versions of the same game from a bunch of different manufacturers, all stemming I think from this Dota version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dota_Auto_Chess

I've played a bit of the Drodo version on iOS, which I kind of enjoyed. Anyone else dabble with this nonsense?

next week is when the flood of 2019 releases i care about starts and i'm currently halfway through 4 different rpgs already whoops

I started FFXII on Switch on Friday. I just got access to gambits and that + the fast-forward functionality are a blast

I am really getting into NecroDancer now, but this game WILL give me carpal tunnel playing on a d-pad :(

what releases you eyeing CP?

for this month it's bloodstained, judgment, and the new samurai shodown. next month is fire emblem and the new umihara kawase game. theres also mario maker but i'll almost certainly end up just watching streams of that and not playing it myself

Gaming has totally fallen off my radar. I played some Yakuza yesterday and gave up after maybe 15 minutes. At least my wallet is happy about that.

i like Karl's posts on Yakuza 6.

i've been playing Yakuza 0 and... welp. i really do like the loopy sensibility, the tonal shifts between deadly serious gangster stuff, weirdo side characters, treacly sentimental stuff helping neighborhood kids (finding out every single female character is a working porn performer is a little idk, something)

yakuza 0 was a masterpiece because it allowed you to live your life in devotion to the four divine arts: karaoke, fighting, disco, and pocket racing

— ▀▀▀▀▀▀ (@immolations) June 6, 2019

but it's not that fun? the translation is great but the fighting isn't. coming off god of war (fuck yeah) it's just not that great. and you spend so much time in menus. i get a kick out of the fact that there's immense detail put into things that barely matter, all the food, my god! but then there's something like that item builder/resource hoarding/agent request system that's like ????? it's a very player-unfriendly game i think.

i only play stardew valley now

i'm a "gamer"

i have been playing through yoku island express with my roommate for life - it's a great sorta co-op game because it's easy to trade the controller every once in a while and you can't die. we're currently going through all the post-credits stuff trying to 100% it

what's a roommate for life?

i'm also at the dreaded 30-40 hour mark in Persona 5. i was having a great time but now i haven't touched it in 2 weeks and i'm a little concerned i won't get back. 100+ hours is just a real long ass game. i can't do it. (note that i did it without thinking for breath of the wild)

my roommate for life is my wife. i just feel weird saying wife. "My wife"..."spouse"..."partner"..it all seems wrong. whereas "roommate for life" is very natural and not weird, of course

how do you feel about "significant other"

I feel ok about it. it’s good to have a few options

I want everyone including straight married people to feel perfectly entitled and comfortable saying "partner"

yeah, i moved to partner a few years ago and then doubled down when we became legal partners!

but it's not that fun?

I’m replaying Borderlands 2 at the moment, co-op with some friends who didn’t play it the first time round and I’m having the exact opposite experience. Story, world, art style, dialogue, I pretty much hate them all, but the actual gameplay is still just great.

I'm giving that another go as well, I think that after Doom it seems pretty slow, though your character does speed up over time I guess. Agree on the Poochie the Hound-ness of it all, though I sort of like the art style

the borderlands aesthetic is so unappealing to me and there's so many games with it now

Since my last post re windwaker I havent touched it since that, haha. I might have another crack at the wind temple this weekend, its cold and raining so Ive nowt else to do.