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Bio shock infinite while I wait for MGS - the phantom pain to hit the $5 price point sometime around Christmas 2019

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 Campus

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.

tempting

also: Special NYC Video Game Events

ah yes

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.

http://boingboing.net/2015/10/02/the-beginners-guide-is-a-gam.html

it's a hell of a gam

Yeah, i think it would be better to play it than read about it in case of spoilers

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'

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?

Bought it, will report back some day

I really need to play the Stanley Parable

played the demo a few weeks ago of Stanley Parable, got me jazzed to play the real thing

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.

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

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

I just got MLB the show a few weeks ago. Pretty fun

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.

I don't disagree with any of that.

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, 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"

finished last of us this weekend - going to play the dlc soon. been playing lots of the curious expedition.

you paid for it? does it have hidden depths?

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)

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)

yr welcome

beat River City Ransom for NES earlier today

that's what's up

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?

Start here:

https://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/basics/basics.html

http://videorulebook.nba.com/

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.

Maybe play some NBA Jam or etc. before you dig into the deeper simulation style of 2K

Time of Exploration for android

just about as simple as it gets

i'm playing marble madness: http://www.twitch.tv/weinventyou

going for the record.sorta.

fuck it, doing SMB3 again, world 6

Gta3 on iPad. Controls not as bad as I thought but I can't get past bomb da base. Sniper rifle pretty essential and the controls while using the scope horribly unresponsive.

Ninja gaiden now because why not

i just got witcher 3, is my life over y/n

Worms 2 Armageddon this evening. L is kicking my backside.

JUST ONE MORE ROUND OF GWENT BEFORE SLEEP

*ten hours later trying to lead a goat back to its master using a small bell with work alarm fast approaching*

Witcher 3 is awesome and sucked in two months of my time that I deliberately held out to fininsh til FO4 hit. It's interesting to compare CD Projeckt Red's version of an open-world game with, say, Warner Bros Games. Compare & contrast it with Shadow of Morder or Mad Max.

Right now, playing FO4 all the time, but varied up just a little with Mad Max(a great purchase if you get it for like $25 USD or less for PC). Will try Rocket League again just to play with the new additions.

Will probably burn-out of FO4 before the DLCs hit, and will probably switch over to MGSV come holiday season, assuming Amazon has it on sale for Black Friday.

Oh wait, there's a 2D free game on Steam called Endless Sky which I was fiddling with. It's a modern update to Escape Velocity.

Is that like Transcendence? (Which up until now I had no idea was even on Steam)

sw battlefront. it is a very pretty game, a little shallow content wise but a definite used-copy buy imo.

the ship combat is especially enjoyable

crypt of the necrodancer. what a frustratingly almost-good game!

I also played though link to the past and ffiv for the first time ever. Kinda wish I hadn't.

ffiv not compelling if you've never played it? had it on my list

xp whoa u weren't into lttp? that's in my top 3 probably

probably gone through that game 15-20 times in my life

LTTP is great but i tried to replay it about a decade ago, the endgame is kind of a slog
actually, i quit FFV for similar reasons (my party was under-leveled for the final boss, never beat it)

lttp i found less enjoyable in the overworld reveal and dungeon design than i did links awakening. or than i did my memory of links awakening, anyway, which i guess makes it harder to compete with. the hitting things with your sword aspects probably have a little more depth to them but i don't really play zelda for that i guess. also of the five times i got stuck one was an actual puzzle and the rest were variations on 'hit the wall with the sword'.

ffiv i had much much lower expectations of and i guess enjoyed more as a result. it helped that i was playing the gba version, which is i. prettier ii. faster iii. really broken.

I don't feel that grindy RPGs have aged well. My recent attempts at playing Final Fantasys I loved in my youth have all been underwhelming.