whatchu playing now

i am trying to unlearn my steal-spamming ways, getting called for it left and right here

i am shamefully kind of addicted to the myteam mode, the stupid pokemon thing that's wholly constructed to make you spend real money on imaginary cards. obviously i don't do that part but trying different arrangements of poke-players vs the computer is a good time. giannis wildly OP.

i uploaded this simplified graphic of the most famous sculpture of my metro area to use on a livery, and some guy chimed in with his own amusing artwork related anectode

https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/notifications/decal/11767790/8368321499567751680

the middle aged anglo plur vibes of sim racing are something else

Really enjoying "nobody saves the world" so far ... snes zelda meets a boy and his blob?

Metroid Dread: I'm so happy that Nintendo still makes high quality 2D platformers. I feel like I'm around a third of the way through but it says I've found only 5% of items.

Slay the Spire: roguelite deckbuilder that I play at least once every day this month. much more variety than other roguelites i've tried. all of the characters are very different, each having their own deck of cards to work with.

finally finished Yakuza 0. i'm sure it was a masterpiece but i'd let it sit for more than a year so i was not following all the plot endings very well.

decided to jump into another game from the same stable; the first hour of Judgment is really good. less absurd but more fluid. the mystery/investigation/interrogation bits are promising

I did not enjoy my time in Yakuza 0

I love the Yakuza series unreservedly but being confused about labyrinthine plots is an integral part of it, and I would argue most yakuza media in general (good luck trying to keep track of what's happening in any of te 70's Fukusake films!).

lol true. is saw the first Battles without Honor and Humanity and loved it but also wondered how much crazier the series gets

Moncage (2020) is something like Gorogoa but with a cube that you rotate. If you like that "just roll with it" type of game, where it's hard to define exactly what's going on, it's a good one.

Vampire Survivors - finally someone made a good video game and it's $3

Cool game, but PC only :/

This is my first season doing Fantasy Critic, which is fantasy sports for video game reviews? It's a hoot so far.

link?

https://www.fantasycritic.games

cute but i dislike the review aggregator sites too much to play something based on them

sounds like it'd be very frustrating given how many games are delayed a year out (unless there are keeper leagues)

They account for that somewhat with the "counter pick"... From the FAQ:

After everyone has drafted their roster of games, the players will draft their counter picks. A counter pick is a game from someone else’s roster, but instead of getting points for it, you LOSE points for it. The goal is to choose a game from someone else’s team that you think will be bad, or one that you think won't even release.

I chose Breath of the Wild 2 for my counterpick. If it's released I'm kind of screwed.

released in 2022 you mean? it's certainly coming out in the next 2 years

Yeah, exactly. Final league scores are based on whatever the average score is on the last day of 2022.

nintendo's too hard to predict. it could be way behind schedule or it could be completely finished and sitting in a vault somewhere waiting for holiday release

I just played through Cuphead and beat the whole thing in like a week, I was OBSESSED

also having a bit of a thing for nontraditional RPGs rn and have just started Parasite Eve, which is perfect (Square RPG in a contemporary setting w/ zero fantasy elements and zero horror ones) and also started Secret of Evermore a few weeks ago

I got the Collection of Mana on Switch and I'm starting with the first one, Final Fantasy Adventure originally on the Gameboy. I had that game as a kid but I don't know if I ever beat it. It's a primitive Zelda clone with a fast pace and garbage combat.

They mapped start and select to X and Y so the game resets if I mash on the buttons. No button remapping I could find, either.

I could've sworn that Parasite Eve was horror?

Oh whoops I meant to type LOTS of horror ones!!

Stevie D! I was just talking about you with someone who met you in Philly.

omg what who???

my buddy Em? They said it had been many years

i impulse purchased TRIANGLE STRATEGY despite some of my most opinion-similar friends talking about how annoyingn the endless dialogue is. i played through the first battle and have now fallen asleep twice before even reaching the second battle. it's out of control how fucking wordy this game is.

sounds good

if you're trying to sleep maybe!!!

I've been playing Hades for a few days now, and I think I might be getting obsessed. I am and always have been terrible at combat games but it's so fun and has so much other stuff, I truly love it.

i fell asleep a lot at the beginning of the visual novel 428 Shibuya Scramble but I eventually got into it and liked it. Maybe you'll get into the groove of it.

I am mostly playing variety sudokus I see on Cracking the Cryptic right now. The puzzles have leveled up since the last time I did sudokus. Have a look at this nonsense for instance: https://app.crackingthecryptic.com/sudoku/8DfMHmLpqP

finally dragged myself away from Slay The Spire
played a few hours of Tunic. it's very well made and I'm enjoying it when I play it, but for some reason I'm not feeling much compulsion to pick it up between sessions. maybe a Slay hangover?

You all need to play Hypnospace Outlaw ASAP.

Feel like ilxors should really dig it

that was my 2019 goty

I played Hypnospace for a bit but it didn't feel like there was that much "game" to it, at least early on? Maybe that changes.

It’s not much of a game, more of a puzzle and story. The layers of parody are so well done it’s very entertaining on that front more so than anything else.

i consider that a game

I’m happy with it but I got the gist of the question

There should be a game called Hypnotoad Outlaw.

The music is incredible I might add.

coolpunk forever

the fake nu-metal song actually slaps

I legitimately like a couple of the goofy Chowder Man songs, and the Dirthaze stuff is right up my alley.

ready to shave

yup and Christmas Pain... pretty great!

just bought it and played it for a few hours. good stuff!

awesome!

i just started The Misadventures of Tron Bonne for PS1 and it’s really fun

Thanks for the Hypnospace reminder, I wanted to buy that and forgot about it, because there are too many games to remember

It's six quid on Nintendo Switch right now, so that's a done deal

My one reservation is - the last time I tried a retro experimental game with a cool visual aesthetic, Return of the Obra Dinn - I was like, "this has a cool visual aesthetic!" but kinda lost interest in the actual gameplay

I also started playing 10,000,000 for a third time. I think it might the best mobile game ever made