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.
― koogs, Thursday, 1 November 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Thursday, 1 November 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Thursday, 1 November 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
fallout new vegas? or 3 for that matter
― thomasintrouble, Thursday, 1 November 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
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.
― closed beta (NotEnough), Thursday, 1 November 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
koogs - have you played bioshock?
― thomasintrouble, Thursday, 1 November 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
koogs, make sure you play portal in the orange box
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 1 November 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Thursday, 1 November 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
forza horizon 4, everyday
― Steve Reich, 'Ass-Clapping Music' (haitch), Thursday, 1 November 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
same tbh
― ciderpress, Thursday, 1 November 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Friday, 2 November 2018 12:41 (five years ago) link
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.
― closed beta (NotEnough), Friday, 2 November 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
FC5 is boring af. i did the first area and half of the faith area and at that point with the morphing animals and shit was so stupid i couldn't continue. i did like the stunt man challenges tho.
u know what game is actually gorgeous graphics tho? rdr2.
― Mordy, Friday, 2 November 2018 14:26 (five years ago) link
come anticipate RDR2 PC port with me
― closed beta (NotEnough), Friday, 2 November 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
RDR2.xls
― ||||||||, Friday, 2 November 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
That PS1 Classic list.... they chose Puzzle Fighter over the PS1 SF Alpha 3? The basic platformer Rayman 1 over the 3D Rayman 2? Twisted Metal over its first sequel (both of which I'm guessing are unplayable now due to their low framerates)? No Crash, Spyro, Wipeout, Tomb Raider, PaRappa? I give them credit for including the first Persona, which wasn't popular at the time but people will probably want to play after P4 and P5.
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 3 November 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
persona 1 is a quite bad game and nothing like 4 or 5 - they didn't land on what people know as the persona formula with the VN/life-sim stuff until 3
― ciderpress, Saturday, 3 November 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link
was probably just chosen due to name recognition
― ciderpress, Saturday, 3 November 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
they fixed the game to decent in a PSP rerelease later on but i assume this thing is just loading the original PSX isos so yeah thats not a game people are gonna be happy with i dont think
― ciderpress, Saturday, 3 November 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
The basic platformer Rayman 1 over the 3D Rayman 2?
gotta disagree here, although part of it may be my distaste for 3D precision platformers. 2D precision i can handle, 3D precision jumping drives me insane. and regardless, 2D Rayman has better style, better animation, and aesthetically it holds up better today.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 3 November 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
Was all set to play a lot of Red Dead this weekend and instead I played Through the Ages on my ipad. Obsessed.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 5 November 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
it's so good
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 5 November 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
Is the single-player good?
― Captain Hardchord (Leee), Monday, 5 November 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
I'm only playing the single player. I'm still learning the game.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 5 November 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
i played single player for hours. the challenges are a lot of fun.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 5 November 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
i re-installed RimWorld since it finally moved to version 1.0
after about an hour of tutorial mode, i turned into a zombie and cleared a bunch of storage on my ps4, bought RDR2, and initiated the epic download (93 GB)
― Karl Malone, Monday, 5 November 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
a lot of my friends are loving the new RDR...
however I played a game called Laser League over the weekend and immediately downloaded it at home (free for the PS4). it's like BomberMan meets Tron and I can't put it down.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 5 November 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
finished Ys 8 last night, very good game. the lost world setting is a tremendous fit for this series
― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 November 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
I tried Don't Starve over the weekend, and the Together multiplayer mode. But man did I get tired of it already.
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
Otherwise Minecraft Sevtech mod is where i'm at right now
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
I think I tried Don't Starve years ago, probably out of a Humble Bundle. Survival games are…not my thing.
Partner picked up Into the Breach for our Switch and the whole household is kinda preoccupied with it now.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
the end of year lists are starting to roll in
https://games.avclub.com/the-a-v-club-s-favorite-games-of-2018-1830750674
― Karl Malone, Monday, 3 December 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
Celeste is my goty no question
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 3 December 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
i tried to list out my top ten and ran out at 8 :( ive played more rereleases than actual new games this year i think
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 December 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
playing (w/ my daughter) Waku Waku Sweets for Switch, we are cooking mamasthat may be the only console game that came out in 2018 that I've played otherwise I've played a lot of old console games as usual and the polls will just list games maybe to play maybe another year maybe
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 3 December 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
Hollow Knight for me even though I never finished and it came out last year.
― From Damage Inc. to Metallica Inc. (Leee), Monday, 3 December 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
hollow knight def counts for this year via 'year of impact' imo
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 December 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
Have there been any great, new-to-2018 Switch games this year?
I mean, speaking as someone who's had the best gaming year of their life playing BOTW, I don't mind at all. But I want more.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 3 December 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
I meant that to be "more." not "more."
Like, greedily, I want more games that move me as much as BOTW. I'm definitely not in a "Nintendo have lost it already" mindspace.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 3 December 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
My computer keeps correcting and removing my exclamation points... Weird.
here's (some of?) what I think is Great in 2018 on the Switch:
CelesteTowerfall (this game has been Great for a long time but it's new to Switch)Octopath Traveller (ymmv, this is a JRPG)
plenty of games I have spent a lot of time on and think are good and fun but idk "great" is a tall order.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 3 December 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
Glad they gave a nod to Bloodstained, a really nice surprise for me this year.
― Nhex, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
yeah Celeste was the only switch game i played this year that had that Important Game feel. i really liked ys 8 too but idk how appealing it is to people outside the anime rpg rabbit hole. nintendo's output was mostly rereleases and multiplayer
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2018-in-review/the-best-video-games-of-2018
― na (NA), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
hollow knight new to switch in 2018 ?
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
:( at the AVC list for not listing what platforms the games are on.
― From Damage Inc. to Metallica Inc. (Leee), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
yeah that was annoying. the game that looks like a ps1 game isn't on a playstation console.
― adam the (abanana), Monday, 3 December 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
Pleased to see Return of the Obra Dinn made the AV's list - one of the most original games I've played in a while.
Don't know who suggested they start each review with "I liked...", though.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 10:19 (five years ago) link
(I liked that bit, because it made everyone argue for "this is an enjoyable game" rather than "this is important in the industry")
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 10:41 (five years ago) link