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I am absolutely mauling Gran Turismo Sport. The missions/challenges are TOUGH, man. Some of them remind me of the monumental VW van challenge in GT5 at the Top Gear airstrip. You get to drive such amazing cars and they really do handle totally differently. Squeezing past a Mercedes on a single-lane road through German pine trees - I love it

kind of tempted to get euro truck simulator + a ridiculous analog steering wheel setup. that way i can roll down my windows and get some fresh air as i travel europe

Infinitode 2 on my phone. It's a tower defense game with abstract shapes. Requires some grinding.
Iconoclasts on PS4. Neat maze platformer, but too much dialog that slows it down.
Murder by Numbers on my computer.

The wife and I finally got around to sharing our Steam libraries this weekend. Ran into a lot of games I hadn't thought about in a while, from back when we only had one computer for gaming. Been getting back into an old game by the name of Little Inferno.

It's a dark game. It was a dark game when I first played it, and it's a darker game now. The premise of the game is that you play as a little girl stuck alone in her house, just like everybody else is alone in their house, and it is so, so, cold. And to stay warm you burn. You burn everything you have and there is a company that will send you more things to burn. It's like magic! The more you burn, the more money you have. "That can't go on forever!" you say.

The company is the cause of the problem. The more you burn, the worse it makes things, but what else is there to do, really?

Eventually there's some sort of implausible series of things to burn that opens up a very long, dark, narratively focused endgame, just because I feel like the writers needed to make one, but in reality there's no end in sight for this or for any of us.

Little Inferno II: the Fire Spreads

Compete with your home-bound neighbors to procure flammable public goods from the shared courtyard using a fishing pole, shower curtain rods duct-taped together, and your imagination! Then burn everything and keep the profit!

i hadn't actually seen "the missing" before, even though i know that developer is acclaimed, but i'm watching a run of it and the main character running in heels is a pet peeve of mine...

the missing is good, its hard to talk about though since the ending recontextualizes the whole game

i've decided to give in to animal crossing hype but forbidding myself from buying another non-indie game after that until i'm finished with everything on my shelf

i bought a nintendo switch along with breath of the wild and mario maker 2. stayed up too late monday night making levels.

would play yr levels

Little Inferno is great.

don't know where else to put this
https://hyperallergic.com/546798/the-golden-age-of-arcade-game-typography

is there somewhere we share friend codes on here? i've had a switch for a couple of years now and don't think i've ever shared my friend code, which is SW-7004-9522-5626

i think those mostly got posted early on in the switch thread if you're looking for other folks' ones

just sent a friend request NA!

if anyone wants to be my nintendo friend, mine is: SW-0167-1960-5516

downloading animal crossing now, so it would be fun to invite someone over to my island and not show them the bodies i've got buried in my backyard!

Playing an old game by the name of Recettear where you play a shopkeeper. The game really is capitalist propaganda, because it turns out that if you stock goods at a variety of price points and sell them at fair prices you will absolutely rake in the cash, to the point where the game becomes honestly kind of boring and tedious. Turns out both buyer and seller get pretty extreme bonuses for _not_ haggling, so by selling at a lower price the amount of money your customers, even the poorest ones, have available to spend ramps up exponentially - and they'll never try to buy something they can't afford as long as you have at least one item that's within their budget. And that's even without the bug that allows you to sell vending machines from your vending machines.

Do I want to spend the time (but not the money, cos it's free this weekend) downloading AC: Odyssey?

creatively rich newish very chill AnCro

recettear, now thats a name i havent heard in a long time

Yeah it’s cool go chat with socrates

sup gamerz

i haven't played video games in just about 15 years

yesterday i downloaded Suikoden II on my roommates' ps3, and i'm now a few hours into it

really beautiful game, super dynamic for an rpg. fantastic music

WELCOME BACK

thats a classic, welcome back

thx yall, feels good :)

you're like the legendary ancient gamer who returns

you don't just casually "return" and then immediately choose suikoden II

i haven't even played suikoden II and i know it rules

haha it was totally spontaneous that i happend on suikoden. my roommate downloaded bushido blade and i googled 'best ps1 games' and it was like #25 on the list but was written by a die-hard stan and captured my imagination

i understand, but at the same time most people coming back to videogames after an extended absence are like "did super mario world 2 ever come out?" and get really confused when you mention that yes, it did come out in the form of yoshi's island. suikoden II is on a different level

take it from me, someone who has talked to literally hundreds of people about this

new coronavirus goal: try to point out every instance of total bullshit whenever it spews from my fingers

My friend code is SW-3365-8800-1422 tho I mostly only use the Switch for Overcooked / Untitled Goose Game with Jen, or lately Murder By Numbers

Suikoden II does indeed rule, though.

that reminds me i've never played the grandia games and i think they're on switch. should get around to that sometime

ill add the 3 friend codes i see above, and also heres me 4459-4028-5502

i am sw-1126-4943-0808

I'm finally playing Hyper Light Drifter and I like it a lot, but oboy I didn't realize how hard it was going to be. For some reason I thought it was more of a chilled-out arty Zeldalike.

Why the heck not: SW-4901-5645-7893. I have basically no online multi games, tho I'm thinking about maybe getting Risk of Rain 2 while it's on sale?

I gotta add you! Completing a life goal to befriend someone with the same initials (Zadie Smith won’t return my faxes)

my initials are ZA...sorry to disappoint :(

Are you...Zack Snyder??

mine is sw-2991-6325-1220, my user name is karl, preemptive apologies for any confusion with the preeminent karl, malone

Zack Snyder is also on my shit list after failing to return several letters.

do you write for rolling stone? what do the letters mean?!!?

(you don't have to reveal, but i am curious :)

no worries karl, i think I'm "Zach" on the switch anyway

adding you in a second!

is everyone playing this game named zach/zack or karl?!

The letters are my first and last name minus all vowels except for Y. It's not that interesting. I first used it as a tumblr handle years back and it's become my default go-to because I hate trying to think of a clever handle.

is everyone playing this game named zach/zack or karl?!

one of us, one of us, one of us

yeah i've uncreatively been using my initials as a handle since the early 00s, don't remember how i ended up with this name instead on ilx

your initials mean something else on ilx tho

and online in general, but i think my use of them predates that

added a bunch of zachs, my island is not ready for visitors yet though

same. underconstruction.gif

i read about a partial solution to the iron nugget scarcity problem - i can just buy a ticket to another island and exploit other resources

Stop it you all are making me kind of want to get a Switch or something.