lol. so it is shit?
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 08:59 (eight years ago) link
no, seriously: it's a solid walking sim!http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Walking%20Simulator/#os%5B%5D=mac&p=0&tab=NewReleases
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:07 (eight years ago) link
ah i had never heard that term before and it sounded like a pejorative!
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:09 (eight years ago) link
it kinda is but it's also an accurate description
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:15 (eight years ago) link
i'm not sure it's been done brilliantly yet, but i do like the idea of a game with no winning or losing, just wandering, maybe a story that unfolds with no real effort. especially if they can create a good atmosphere. it's where it becomes a bit more like immersive theatre or something.
gone home is p cool tho i guess. the emptiness of it really builds a sense of dread.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:19 (eight years ago) link
Journey is probably the best attempt so far at a walking simulator, it has some very minor platforming at points but 95%+ of the game is pressing the forward button and looking at the scenery.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:45 (eight years ago) link
Proteus has it licked, as it's literally just walking around. Not much of a game per se, but I find it really meditative.
― Herbie Mann's Push Push Pops (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:47 (eight years ago) link
yeah, i thought gone home was great. probably helped a little that i was the roughly the same age as the characters in the story in the time period it was set in, but it's definitely a great example of how a small team with a limited budget can create something really compelling.
i've played about an hour of welcome to the rapture so far and it's pretty cool - the sense of place and specifically British-place is really striking. jimd's wyndham reference is otm.
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 13:49 (eight years ago) link
Walking simulator is a proto-GamerGate term iirc: you can't even shoot things, this isn't really a game, and of course women like it. Though obviously it's eligible for reclamation.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 14:00 (eight years ago) link
Hohokum is similar, inasmuch as there are goals (albeit only implicitly defined) but you're mostly just a kite-like thing floating through various colorful areas and bumping into things.
― Herbie Mann's Push Push Pops (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link
Submerged is also a post apocalyptic explorer with thankfully no shooting, meant to be pretty great
― jamiesummerz, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
its pretty fantastic to see physical download cards of Rapture in Game's top 10 ps4 chart this week instore... just the fact that it has store placement amongst all the shooters reflects well on Sony i think
― jamiesummerz, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
in some ways minecraft and terraria and don't starve and the like are just walking simulators with end states.this deserves a thread i think
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
"Walking Simulators": Puzzle/Exploration games
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 20:48 (eight years ago) link
Playing a bunch of Hawken while I wait for TPP to download. Hawken is a really cool f2p fps where you are in mechs. I tried a bunch of f2p Steam games and this was the best. Tried Quake Live! and it was cool and the levels were really neat but I got my ass handed to me. Matchmaking in Hawken seems a bit better.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 06:15 (eight years ago) link
I started playing the original Splinter Cell and, ignoring the story (which I couldn't care less about) and the graphics (which are, y'know, PS2 graphics), it's basically a pretty tight little puzzle game which weirdly kinda feels like a more 'realistic' Portal (I tried to come up with an analogy but it was strained). I gather that this is part of what people like about the MGS games (and what MGS probably does better).
― Fancy Fantasies (Old Lunch), Friday, 4 September 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
i tried that a few years ago; got stuck on some early level. didn't mind the graphics either, but i was constantly getting lost on where to go and what to do. largely blame that on myself gettin' soft tbh
― Nhex, Friday, 4 September 2015 18:48 (eight years ago) link
Bio shock infinite while I wait for MGS - the phantom pain to hit the $5 price point sometime around Christmas 2019
― calstars, Friday, 4 September 2015 21:22 (eight years ago) link
i forgot what the thread i put for live events is named but:
NYU Game Center Lecture Series presents Masayuki Uemura The Genesis of Nintendo Power Thursday, October 15, 7PM 2 Metrotech Center, 8th Floor; NYU CampusJoin us to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) launch in the United States with Masayuki Uemura, the designer of the Famicon, NES, and SNES systems. Mr. Uemura will discuss his role in the development of the NES including how he conceived the Family Computer and then collaborated with chip manufactures and software developers to create the NES. Hear a first hand account of the NES coming to America amid a crisis in the video game industry and how the Famicon turned into the Nintendo Entertainment System.This lecture is free and open to the public.
Join us to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) launch in the United States with Masayuki Uemura, the designer of the Famicon, NES, and SNES systems. Mr. Uemura will discuss his role in the development of the NES including how he conceived the Family Computer and then collaborated with chip manufactures and software developers to create the NES. Hear a first hand account of the NES coming to America amid a crisis in the video game industry and how the Famicon turned into the Nintendo Entertainment System.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 September 2015 16:00 (eight years ago) link
tempting
― Nhex, Monday, 28 September 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
also: Special NYC Video Game Events
ah yes
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 September 2015 16:23 (eight years ago) link
The Beginner's Guide is $7.99, 90 minutes long, and probably the best game i've played this year. hard to explain, but it's about another guy's games. the narrator (who made the apparently acclaimed Stanley Parable, which I haven't played) walks you through his friend Coda's experimental games, in chronological order. Coda is a goddamned genius, and has some issues. so does the narrator. i thought the ending was the only time where it veered into cheesiness (and maybe i'm just an asshole for thinking that; i could see others being really into the scene i'm talking about), but in general the narrator is extremely compelling. it helps that coda's games are a joy to travel through.
― 1997 ball boy (Karl Malone), Saturday, 3 October 2015 03:07 (eight years ago) link
http://boingboing.net/2015/10/02/the-beginners-guide-is-a-gam.html
it's a hell of a gam
― 1997 ball boy (Karl Malone), Saturday, 3 October 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, i think it would be better to play it than read about it in case of spoilers
― The Once-ler, Saturday, 3 October 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
i am totally going to play that
however, today, for some reason, i decided it was a good idea to download 'heroes of the storm'
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Sunday, 4 October 2015 06:08 (eight years ago) link
Well I didn't expect this but I sort of hated The Beginner's Guide. Or at least, I loved the form but got nothing at all out of the content (although I'd say for its form alone it's still really interesting and worth playing so SPOILERS AHEAD if you haven't done).
It's like, if The Stanley Parable is very much a game about games (which I think it is, and it's great), this is too much a game about game criticism. It's got that awful second album feeling - "for my second project I'm going to write about the ways I disliked the reaction to my first project". Which is fine but you're not talking to me any more, you're just venting.
I've seen a few articles since playing it (Laura H's up there included) where the player started out assuming Coda was real and reacted to it on that basis before coming to the realisation that actually he probably wasn't (or even where they don't appear to have decided he wasn't real at all). I assumed he wasn't real from the start, and feel like maybe I spoiled it for myself slightly by not falling for the central conceit that way?
― JimD, Monday, 5 October 2015 17:25 (eight years ago) link
Bought it, will report back some day
― a literal scarecrow on a quaint porch (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 October 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
I really need to play the Stanley Parable
― 1998 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 5 October 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
played the demo a few weeks ago of Stanley Parable, got me jazzed to play the real thing
― Nhex, Monday, 5 October 2015 18:23 (eight years ago) link
discovered that remote play via ps vita works like a dream for mlb the show, so i'm now workshopping every surface in my apt to determine which is the most comfortable spot to grind out seasons in my franchise.
― all my friends are vampires (art), Monday, 5 October 2015 19:08 (eight years ago) link
oh shit i haven't tried that yet. that's my monday night now!
but what i have taken to doing is, when playing long marathon sessions of mgsv, when i want to have a smoke i plug headphones into the controller, and listen to tapes on it while outside. i may remote play into it so i can listen to other ones when in bed. i have so many left to listen to and i like doing it but when i am sitting on the couch i would rather be playing, you know?
also they sound so much tape-ier on headphones
― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 5 October 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
caveat to my previous post - i found pitching to be most conducive when not using the meter for remote play. i couldn't quite get the timing down and it was a little hard to see so i switched back to classic pitching (haven't attempted the other modes). given that pitching is m/l easier than hitting i was ok w/ the tradeoff
― all my friends are vampires (art), Monday, 5 October 2015 19:44 (eight years ago) link
I just got MLB the show a few weeks ago. Pretty fun
― polyphonic, Monday, 5 October 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link
welp i just played through Beginner's Guide and i did NOT like it. not to piss on anyone's take, but it seemed mawkish and didactic to the point of boredom. Like playing through a bad podcast. As a meditation on depression and how to deal with your own and others, this was simultaneously obvious and cryptic. The gameplay did not improve the story and the story was exhausting soon enough. just not for me.
― a literal scarecrow on a quaint porch (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 October 2015 01:43 (eight years ago) link
I don't disagree with any of that.
― JimD, Thursday, 8 October 2015 06:34 (eight years ago) link
― JimD, Monday, October 5, 2015 5:25 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha i was waiting the whole time for wreden to explicitly say -- 'coda and the narrator are TWO PARTS OF MYSELF, DON'T YOU SEE?' -- the game seems to beg for that kind of reading whilst also being too obscure to really say much (except for the last kind of tiresome cri de coeur -- so, yeah, like forks says "simultaneously obvious and cryptic"
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Sunday, 18 October 2015 02:28 (eight years ago) link
finished last of us this weekend - going to play the dlc soon. been playing lots of the curious expedition.
― Mordy, Sunday, 18 October 2015 02:29 (eight years ago) link
you paid for it? does it have hidden depths?
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Sunday, 18 October 2015 02:43 (eight years ago) link
it's fun - i've gotten a lot of gameplay out of it. idk if i'd call them hidden depths but it does have some interesting things going on (and it reminds me a lot of ftl)
― Mordy, Sunday, 18 October 2015 03:11 (eight years ago) link
last of us dlc was good. currently playing shadows of mordor (ps4), binding of isaac rebirth expansion afterbirth, cities: skylines (um am i wrong or is this super easy and consequently kinda boring?), king of dragon pass, mercenary kings (thx forks, this game is cool)
― Mordy, Sunday, 1 November 2015 00:39 (eight years ago) link
yr welcome
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 1 November 2015 01:07 (eight years ago) link
beat River City Ransom for NES earlier today
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Sunday, 1 November 2015 01:58 (eight years ago) link
that's what's up
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 1 November 2015 05:36 (eight years ago) link
ok so i mentioned this in the fallout 4 thread because i don't know how to stay on topic ever
but i got nba 2k16. reason: i want to understand basketball, and don't, and thought this might help
i am fucking... LOST. i do not know how to play this game, or how 5-on-5 basketball starts. how do i learn these things? aside from watching basketball with a fan, because that's hard, because i don't know any?
― nerd shit (Will M.), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
Start here:
https://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/basics/basics.html
http://videorulebook.nba.com/
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 16:56 (eight years ago) link
Playing NBA2K a few years ago for the first time taught me an enormous amount about basketball that I never understood. Keep at it, it can be very rewarding. Unfortunately I don't have any great tips either besides grinding through career mode which feels like a totally different game from 5-on-5 mode of NBA2K. Because your character is so bad at the beginning, you're kind of forced to make better percentage plays, off-ball defense, doing good teamwork plays that don't involve scoring, moving the ball, pick and rolls, and so on.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
Maybe play some NBA Jam or etc. before you dig into the deeper simulation style of 2K
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
Time of Exploration for android
just about as simple as it gets
― goole, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
i'm playing marble madness: http://www.twitch.tv/weinventyou
going for the record.sorta.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 15 November 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link