whatchu playing now

god i hope so. haven't started yet

sorry i meant simcity, not bg2. last i heard it was super buggy?

oh yeah, it works just fine! i'm not sure about bugs, but i think the main complaints were that people were having problems connecting to servers and being unable to play. i had no problems with that, either because they somehow addressed the issues via updates or just because not as many people are playing now as on launch day

cave story. bloody hell, this game is ten years old

timeless classic tbf

wasteland 2! they did a pretty strong job of nailing what people want from an old school rpg vibe. I sunk like 8 hours into it over the weekend.

huh, tgat came out?

cave story is like a seven out of ten experience, given the benefit of hindsight

Playing through MGS3: Subsistence on PCSX2. I've played through 1 and 2 and am a huge fan, so I'm willing to put up with slow framerate (pretty much crawling during swamp scenes) to see this thing through. I've just beaten The Pain (and that was a fun boss fight! haha bees you can't catch me I'm in the water!) and made it through some pitch-black dark caves using thermal goggles to spot snakes and craps and bats and other creepy crawlies. So far I think this might be my favorite MGS. LOVE Major Tom/Zero's accent, and all the blatant 007 references. LOVE Ocelot's ridiculous "meow" battle cry. LOVE crawling through grass, keeping an eye on distant guards when HOLYSHITAKINGCOBRAJUSTCRAWLEDEIGHTINFRONTOFMEEEEE

love that game so much. snake will wear whatever outfit and camo u put him in during cutscenes. in my case the entire like 45 minute ending sequence happened w/ homeboy in kabuki makeup, he looked great

Cracked open an old unopened copy of Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. Very very boring, and especially disappointing compared to Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. I can usually wring the fun out of games aimed at children, but this was too banal. Surprised because these games generally seem to have a good rep?

every year a lego game shows up in coint and plick and i download some demo and give it a shot. i don't get it. they're probably more fun as multiplayer games, but as a single-player experience ehhh

Yeah, exactly

picked up shadow of mordor, put a few hours into it last night. arkham combat, AC tower-scaling map-revealing, and a neat named-enemy system with randomly generated elites with particular strengths and weaknesses.

stalking and killing those dudes is probably the closest i've seen a game come to the promise of the originial assassin's creed, like following a guy and figuring out what he's up to and striking at that opportune moment.

also they remember previous interactions w/ the player so if you, say, burn one and he gets away, next time you see him he'll be bandaged or scarred and he'll bitch about it, or if you ran away earlier he'll fuck w you, etc. idk if that'll get repetitive or what but it's entertaining rn.

i think monolith are the great unsung developers of the last 15 years or so: blood, shogo mobile armor division, no one lives forever, FEAR. all excellent games, particularly shogo.

My copy's in the post - really looking forward to getting stuck in to it. The enemy system sounds really fascinating, and hopefully the combat with scratch that Arkham itch until the next game comes out.

In the meantime, Velocity 2X has been way more compelling than I expected.

yeah this SoM sounds really fun, it's going on my list for 2015.

sounds interesting... definitely will consider for when I jump to next gen

i thought while i was playing last night, "jordan would be into this game"

sounds cool except "arkham combat"

madness, arkham combat is THE BEST

+1 for "meh" on that but i am still gonna get this game at some point

huh this
http://www.polygon.com/2014/10/1/6880061/shadow-mordor-kissing-design

belongs in eukaryote thread

hahah it was Zach Gage!!

We don’t kiss our loved ones in the same way we kill our enemies, games should know that.

clearly not been to any of my dinner parties

look at the Transformers movies. No matter how you feel about those movies, it’s very clear that Michael Bay understands cinematographic technique very well. He uses every single tool he has available to him to make you feel a certain way, and it’s effective.

wut

Alien: Isolation is fucking terrifying.

I played 15 minutes at the Eurogamer show last week and yes, it was fucking terrifying. But I couldn't imagine that being sustained over a 10 hour campaign?

I'm a couple of hours in and one of those hours was mostly Alien-free, so it's hard to say how well it'll hold up over the campaign. So far, though, it's been an impressive battle of wits with the creature and I'm starting to get a better handle on how to use crafting items to direct its attention. There's also been more variety than I was expecting in the form of interactions with androids and other survivors (both fucking terrifying too in different ways).

We'll see how it goes but so far it's been my favourite gaming experience of the year. It's even caught the attention of my videogame-agnostic wife - it's the only game she's ever asked to watch me play.

Yeah I downloaded it from Steam yesterday. It captures the look of the movies perfectly. Haven't even encountered the alien yet and it's already nerve-wracking.

Ok this game is genuinely scary (especially with headphones). When I finally ran into the alien I screamed like a baby.

I want to play FFXIII but I don't have 120GB free on my HD!

60 for the install package and 60 more for unpacking? LOL. How many hours/days of pre-rendered cutscenes are there on it?

alien keep eating me :/

ftl

j/k im playing shadow of mordor

how is it?

i don't know what to make of it. it looks rly good, controls/mechanics have some familiarity w/ assassins creed and combat is arkham style as mentioned. i still feel that kind of combat is way too button-mashing to ever really give a full sense of control over whats going on (dark souls or gtfo). i don't like the batman games but this is pretty fun, i haven't done any missions just wandered around killing uruks and getting killed a lot. the nemesis system is next-level but i don't quite get some aspects of it. one captain came back like 10 times after being killed so i guess they regenerate like the player does???

i think they are alive until you decapitate them. i dunno what prompts the decapitation vs whatever else. the orc politics are the best part of that game, the story missions are fuckin trash, i think there is dope stuff later on but every time i do a story mission i end up quitting out and playing alien instead.

i really enjoy shadow of mordor i just wish they had been ballsy enough to jettison all the tedious AC-style shit and let us just go populous 2 on orc military society

ps play alien it owns so far

so much forza. i need to quit really :/

i thought while i was playing last night, "jordan would be into this game"

hahaha. i watched a friend play it on a projector the other night, good clean fun.

i really wanna play Alien and Evil Within. wonder if i should wait until i spring for a PS4 next year sometime. also the same friend lent me his PS3 + Demon's Souls, so i can finally play that before Bloodborne.

i'm back on pacman championship dx and getting deeeeeep in it

reminds me a lot of the time i put in with gran turismo back in the day, finding the right line, shaving off seconds, unlocking new areas

A new 3DS XL and the most recent Zelda are in the mail, so I'll be tackling that soon. Also I got back into Card Hunter for some reason.

Pacman Championship DX is amazing!

i really enjoy shadow of mordor i just wish they had been ballsy enough to jettison all the tedious AC-style shit and let us just go populous 2 on orc military society
― adam, Monday, October 13, 2014 8:50 PM

its funny how much of the mechanics are shamelessly ripped from AC - the scaling heights, cover system, distract/stealth-kill, hidden symbols you can only see in special vision mode (collect 'em all to find out about...zzzzz). i guess the artifacts w/ hidden memories are tomb raider reboot-style. it is a fun game, the a.i. stuff is hilarious. i freed some slaves and they all ran off except one kept hammering a wall. i decided to test if you can hit npcs and slashed at him. he almost fell over, then shook it off turned around and said "thank you" before running off

dx is like distilled crack

it's so frantic that i feel like i'm just blowing by subtle details in design, like you might never actually study the underside of the eaves of an outbuilding in an immaculately rendered 3-d world, except in this case it's the intricately realized Line Of Best Fit, the shortest path to solving a Rubik's cube, the elegance of which you're too frazzled to fully grok but which your diligent practice allows you to stumble upon with less serendipity and more determination, but regardless, it's thrilling when you brush against it or even, for a short time, fully inhabit it

dragon quest/warrior 2, howdy ho. iOS port, absolutely no frills. perfect for playing in the bathroom at work, i mean, old school jRPG fix. level up

man, i'm really tempted by that, DW2 & i have some unfinished business from 1991.

how far did you get?

it's my first time playing it, although i played through the first Dragon Warrior a million times when I was a kid. i just finished picking up my first party member (who i have named after my dog Bird), and it was a hilarious 1990 style painful fetch quest. "Bird is headed to castle X! go find him!" (45 random encounters on the way to castle X!) - "Bird just left, but he said he was going going to the cave of heroes! go find him!" (82 random encounters on the way to cave) - "you just missed Bird! now he's on his way to castle Y! go find him!" (54 random encounters on the way to castle Y!) - "what? i haven't seen Bird. he is my son and i will cry if he has perished! i have no advice for where to look for him. guess you'll just have to recheck everywhere you have ever traveled" (1000s of random encounters occur). then i found him in an inn in a town that was otherwise useless.

now i'm ready to get my third party member! *pumps fist*

for some reason i decided to watch the ending to Dragon Quest 1 just now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=judJaM1Vviw

there is some weird shit that casually goes down at the end. the princess begs the hero to let her "join" him, and then they proceed to walk away from the king...with him always 1 step in front of his new companion. is he just laying down the misogynistic law early on, about 5 seconds, into their new relationship?

I think I'm about a third of the way through Alien Isolation now and I'm really, really loving it. Occasionally the spell is broken by witnessing the alien wandering aimlessly around like a drunk searching for his lost spectacles but mostly it's been utterly riveting and very, very scary. I rescreened Alien again the other night and it's incredible how perfectly Creative Assembly have captured the look and atmosphere of the movie.

Also, lobbing a noisemaker into the midst of a group of hostile survivors then hiding in a locker to watch them get eviscerated is a lot of fun.