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.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 02:08 (four years ago) link
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.
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
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!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
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...
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
the missing is good, its hard to talk about though since the ending recontextualizes the whole game
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
i bought a nintendo switch along with breath of the wild and mario maker 2. stayed up too late monday night making levels.
― rusted (crüt), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
would play yr levels
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
Little Inferno is great.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
don't know where else to put thishttps://hyperallergic.com/546798/the-golden-age-of-arcade-game-typography
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
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
― na (NA), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
i think those mostly got posted early on in the switch thread if you're looking for other folks' ones
― ciderpress, Friday, 20 March 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
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!
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 21 March 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
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.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 21 March 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
Do I want to spend the time (but not the money, cos it's free this weekend) downloading AC: Odyssey?
― Archaeopteryx Morgan M.D. (Leee), Saturday, 21 March 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
creatively rich newish very chill AnCro
― gday curd nerds (||||||||), Saturday, 21 March 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
recettear, now thats a name i havent heard in a long time
― ciderpress, Saturday, 21 March 2020 20:46 (four years ago) link
Yeah it’s cool go chat with socrates
― Mordy, Saturday, 21 March 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
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
― flopson, Sunday, 22 March 2020 01:39 (four years ago) link
WELCOME BACK
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 March 2020 01:42 (four years ago) link
thats a classic, welcome back
― ciderpress, Sunday, 22 March 2020 02:04 (four years ago) link
thx yall, feels good :)
― flopson, Sunday, 22 March 2020 04:01 (four years ago) link
you're like the legendary ancient gamer who returns
you don't just casually "return" and then immediately choose suikoden II
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 22 March 2020 04:29 (four years ago) link
i haven't even played suikoden II and i know it rules
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 22 March 2020 04:30 (four years ago) link
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
― flopson, Sunday, 22 March 2020 06:43 (four years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 22 March 2020 06:48 (four years ago) link
take it from me, someone who has talked to literally hundreds of people about this
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 22 March 2020 06:49 (four years ago) link
new coronavirus goal: try to point out every instance of total bullshit whenever it spews from my fingers
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 22 March 2020 06:50 (four years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 22 March 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
that reminds me i've never played the grandia games and i think they're on switch. should get around to that sometime
― ciderpress, Sunday, 22 March 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link
ill add the 3 friend codes i see above, and also heres me 4459-4028-5502
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Monday, 23 March 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
i am sw-1126-4943-0808
― ciderpress, Monday, 23 March 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
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?
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
I gotta add you! Completing a life goal to befriend someone with the same initials (Zadie Smith won’t return my faxes)
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
my initials are ZA...sorry to disappoint :(
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
Are you...Zack Snyder??
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 19:38 (four years ago) link
mine is sw-2991-6325-1220, my user name is karl, preemptive apologies for any confusion with the preeminent karl, malone
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 25 March 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
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 :)
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
no worries karl, i think I'm "Zach" on the switch anyway
adding you in a second!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 20:01 (four years ago) link
is everyone playing this game named zach/zack or karl?!
― absolute idiot liar uneducated person (mh), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
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.
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
one of us, one of us, one of us
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
your initials mean something else on ilx tho
― silby, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 20:57 (four years ago) link
and online in general, but i think my use of them predates that
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
added a bunch of zachs, my island is not ready for visitors yet though
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
Stop it you all are making me kind of want to get a Switch or something.
― Archaeopteryx Morgan M.D. (Leee), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
change your legal name, buy a switch and get over here imo
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:15 (four years ago) link
I’d buy a switch if i could get one! But instead I’m on a stock watcher mailing list.
― consultant haste (gyac), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link