walking dead was top 10 last year, i believe. i'm interested in this but i'm not familiar enough with the source material to pre-pay for the whole season up front.
― reddening, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 01:49 (ten years ago) link
Fables isn't done yet, we'll have a better idea once the season is complete. Same w/Walking Dead Season 2.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
what a cool thread. I can't wait to try some of these out.
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 02:44 (ten years ago) link
Lol who the hell is AnalDoomsday
Sad I missed the first day of this on account of being dead w/ a cold, but psyched to follow it today!
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link
general complaint: is GOTY edition supposed to mean something? Game of the year according to who? seems like every mediocre major release has one of these now where they charge an extra $30 to make the case black plastic!
― bnw, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
def. prefer the more generic "Ultimate"/"Gold"/"Complete" subtitles for monetizing DLC on disc
― Nhex, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
A Game of the Year Edition is any video game that has been repackaged and advertised as having earned either one or many Game of the Year awards from any number of recognized publications or websites, often times with a discounted price and additional content.
So anything from here I guess. But anything that fails to get a GOTY seems to just use "legendary edition" or something anyway.
― JimD, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
Honorable Mention: League of Legends – PC/Mac beta – 5 pts – 1 vote
http://i.imgur.com/Wm2Jjx7.jpg
Website | Metacritic | World's Final 2013 | Trailer
League of Legends - do we do this? We should do this.
The most-played PC game in the world isn't the Sims or SimCity or even World of Warcraft. It's League of Legends, and it's a lot of fun.Part of this game's success is that players can compete in tournaments against other players from around the world. At the 2013 championships, the top two teams gathered in front of thousands at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. A team from Korea, called SK Telecom T1, took home the $1 million prize. - Business Insider
Part of this game's success is that players can compete in tournaments against other players from around the world. At the 2013 championships, the top two teams gathered in front of thousands at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. A team from Korea, called SK Telecom T1, took home the $1 million prize. - Business Insider
did anybody see the League of Legends piece on HBO real sports? They threw out the stat that "1 in 20 people play LoL" which sounds utterly false. - forks
The free 2 play esport. What's fun about it? Short learning curve, relatively level playing field. Your character evolves in a matter of minutes while playing so it satisfies that rpg itch. This was my WoW pvp substitute for awhile. The community is like any other online game, totally fucking horrible. - bnw
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
i played through the Fables one with my gf and the visuals and atmosphere are perfect, but your decisions just don't seem to matter (we tried it twice with opposite choices). maybe they will down the road, but it feels more like a semi-interactive story than a game.
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
bahaha that graphic is awesome
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
yeah it really captures LoL's deviantart character design style
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
the LOL community kind of puts to rest any superiority complex pc folk might have over console kiddies imo. i mostly stopped playing when i realized i enjoyed the bot games more then pvp because you avoided most the sewage spew. aside from that I think Riot does a great job presenting and updating their game.
― bnw, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
it's ALL garbage
― Nhex, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
a few times when someone tried to tell me that PC gamers were more civilized than console gamers, I copied a couple of sections of WoW general chat from my play session that evening and gave them to the person as a rebuttal
― Fight the Powers that Be with this Powerful Les Paul! (DJP), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
basically humans are terrible, this is what i have learned from gaming
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:40 (ten years ago) link
I learned that humans are terrible from living through childhood and adolescence ;_;
― Fight the Powers that Be with this Powerful Les Paul! (DJP), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
children are terrible, let's just admit it
― Nhex, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link
^ and childhood lasts abt 25-45 yrs
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
if you're lucky
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
Honorable Mention: Ultra Business Tycoon III – Browser – 5 pts – 1 vote
http://i.imgur.com/5m3kP2s.jpg
Game | Indiestatik | Indie Games | Rock Paper Shotgun | Hairpin
I'm hesitant to vote for a Porpentine game, given my lack of enthusiasm for most Twine games and given Porpentine's reputation for abusive behavior toward other queer women, but Ultra Business Tycoon III is hilarious and surprisingly moving....It starts off as a whimsical parody of mid-90s "edutainment" games, and winds up somewhere more emotionally urgent. - one way street
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It starts off as a whimsical parody of mid-90s "edutainment" games, and winds up somewhere more emotionally urgent. - one way street
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
In case anyone tries to play this, you'll eventually need the serial number (3497282) in the mock-readme.txt here to finish the game: http://aliendovecote.com/uploads/twine/tycoon/nfo.png
― one way street, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
Porpentine's reputation for abusive behavior toward other queer women
I didn't know about this. Sucks if so, because if nothing else she has been an instigator for a lot of people to find a voice through DIY gaming. Mostly appallingly shitty twine games I'd rather shoot myself than play, but that kind of doesn't matter - I don't need to want to play them for them to be useful to a community. Porpentine games themselves are very varied in quality, which I guess goes with the personal-gonzo style. This one I remember as being okay?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I think this is one of her stronger works, although the narrative of the player character in the 1990s takes time to unfold. Their Angelical Understanding from 2013 (http://aliendovecote.com/uploads/twine/angels/angel.html#48is also worth playing through. I won't get into the grievances people have had with Porpentine here, but I don't have a good reason to disbelieve anyone who's felt emotionally mistreated. Still, the twine community carries on, whether or not I find many of their games compelling.
― one way street, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
sounds interesting, will give it a shot soon
― Nhex, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
Honorable Mention: Quadropus Rampage – iOS/Android – 5 pts – 1 vote
http://i.imgur.com/BITZlLa.jpg
Website | Metacritic | Touch Arcade | Droid Horizon | Trailer
I love a good Roguelike. More than that, I enjoy a good game that makes excellent use of Roguelike design elements. Enter Quadropus Rampage: an "Endless Roguelike Brawler" starring an incredibly angry four-legged octopus and his almost equally miffed starfish companion. It's a weird concept, certainly, however Butterscotch Shenanigans knows exactly what they're doing. - Rob Rich, 148 Apps
Man, folks slept on this. Action RPG meets iphone sized gameplay length. Loot, rampage, descend, die, rinse repeat. - s.clover
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link
ok black crown (the first game listed) is def the best writing ive ever seen in storynexus, holy crap. super creepy
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
thing i am gonna check out this Quadropus Rampage
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link
looking forward to more recommendations from AnalDoomsday
― Fight the Powers that Be with this Powerful Les Paul! (DJP), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
man if i had a dollar for every time youve said that
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
Honorable Mention: flower – PS4/Vita – 5 pts – 1 vote
http://i.imgur.com/bBnTrOJ.jpg
Website | Metacritic | Gamespot | Eurogamer | Trailer
FLOWER | Concluding The Third Annual Coint and Plick Poll: ILG’s Best Video Games of 2009 - Part Four: #1 through #20
typical hipster comment "this must be amazing to X while you're high". you can tell something is overrated pseudo intellectual tripe when junkies come on a video and bore you with some anecdote about how they shoot heroin to this or whatever. if anything it shows how unengaging gameplay wise this "game" must be if its possible to "play" it will taking illegal substances. this game has no story, you play as a petal ffs, yet "oh no its too deep for you, its minimalist art you uncultured barbarian" - Gabriel Voidx, 8 months ago
This captivated a room of thirtysomethings on New Year's Eve at a friend's house. - Jordan
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:12 (ten years ago) link
(AnalDoomsday is not an ilxor fwiw, just some person in a comments section.)
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
sure he isnt
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
AnalDoomsday is every person in a comments section IMO
― Fight the Powers that Be with this Powerful Les Paul! (DJP), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link
We are all AnalDoomsday.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link
*breathes sigh of relief about not going with AaanalDddoomsday as commenter name at the last minute*
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:17 (ten years ago) link
AnalDoomsday is a feeling
― Fight the Powers that Be with this Powerful Les Paul! (DJP), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
actually if you could just work AnalDoomsday into every pullquote credit from here on out that would probably be for the best
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
Hungry4AnalDoomsday
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
really great use of the touch controls and overall a very solidly designed game - forkscloveanaldoomsday
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:19 (ten years ago) link
my mom and sister LOVED this game despite both being non-gamers. they went so far as to get 100% (or whatever equivalent this game has) on every level except the one that I had done and forced me to 100% that level like 6 months later
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:19 (ten years ago) link
lol it wasn't until I clicked on the picture that I realized I've been confusing flower with grOw
― Fight the Powers that Be with this Powerful Les Paul! (DJP), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:19 (ten years ago) link
not the best storynexus i have played, but far from the worst - emil.doomsday
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:20 (ten years ago) link
yep. slow day at work.
also I get what dude is going for but man do I want to punch the second paragraph of the Gamespot review in the neck
― Fight the Powers that Be with this Powerful Les Paul! (DJP), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link
In Flower, you ride the wind. You enter the first level to see a single hovering flower petal; you press a button to surge forward and carry the petal with you, and tilt the controller to steer, as if you're the pilot of a blissful breeze. As you rush through the grass and natural growth, you pass through clusters of flowers, each bud blooming and adding a petal to the ever-growing bouquet that sails through the air. Each time you glide through a batch of flowers, petals emit notes that complement the bucolic soundtrack. In this way, you aren't just a player but a musical collaborator, composing your own countermelody as you rush ahead. Flowers are arranged in rows, circles, and other patterns, and following those patterns enhances the musical effect by allowing each tone to flow into the next.
SHUT UP
Whoever wrote nauseating paragraph is a total f'king anal doomsday suppository.
― xelab, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
someday AnalDoomsday is going to google his screen name and then there will be a reckoning. or maybe a homecoming.
― reddening, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
*almost googles "AnalDoomsday" at work before catching himself*
― Fight the Powers that Be with this Powerful Les Paul! (DJP), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link
oh, analdoomsdaypaws
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
Honorable Mention: Poker Night 2 – PS3/X360/PC/Mac/iOS – 5 pts – 1 vote
http://i.imgur.com/WDYAqN5.gif
Website | Metacritic | Gamespot | Mac Life | Trailer
this maybe could have been my game of the year except for the minor sticking point that the game is HORRENDOUSLY BROKEN. hangs and crashes and all of that. in a poker game. and oddly because it appears that the people who made it could code animations and tons of threaded dialog and branched storyline shit but could not actually code - jjjusten
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link