i hate everything you represent
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:17 (eight years ago) link
one of the year's best. takes place in the same canon as Fallen London. the writing is, as you'd expect, exquisite. the gameplay is so unusual - slow, meditative, strange. it's fun, but you definitely do have to get used to the pace. and i'm not sure i love the roguelike elements (it's brutal, easy to die in the beginning and some of the early game stuff can feel repetitive) but once you start to make progress there are so many cool niches and things to do. xxp
― Mordy, Friday, 19 February 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link
I am your enemy, Will M
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
alto's adventure is a fun little timewaster. as mordy mentioned, the controls are spot on and it just feels right.
Sunless Sea looks awesome, that's definitely going to be on my list
― Karl Malone, Friday, 19 February 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
srsly tho if you haven't played sunless sea yet i cannot recommend it strongly enough. i placed it just below curious expedition, invisible inc, f4 and binding of isaac, but in some ways it's better than all of those in terms of effortlessly conjuring up a brand new setting, afaict a totally distinctive genre - it's really groundbreaking and hard to overstate it.
― Mordy, Friday, 19 February 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
hey check this one out u guys
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:24 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/qMdJqyL.png#11 - Fallout 4 - Bethesda Game Studios47 Points5 Votes1 First-Place Vote
it's kinda like the ludic version of slow eating or whatever it's called, slow reading. it's slow gaming.
― Mordy, Friday, 19 February 2016 17:24 (eight years ago) link
bullshit xp
how is f4 not goty? guys. how.
like i get that it's reiterative but... here's what i wrote about it in my ballot:
My top two votes are both reiterations of games I have given the #1 spot to in the past. It attests to the repetitive nature of video gaming in 2016 but also to how successful these games originally were. Fallout 4 is gorgeous. The violent urban environments are immersive in a way that I’ve never before experienced in video games. Much of the game can turn into a drag (building settlements, trying to figure out why a woman in post-apocalyptic Boston has an Irish accent) but in terms of marrying the aesthetics of Fallout 4’s bright post-apoc counterfactual history to the geography of Boston the game is a gorgeous tour de force. The shooting isn’t too bad either.
― Mordy, Friday, 19 February 2016 17:25 (eight years ago) link
there are 10 reasons F4 is not GOTY (xp)
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:25 (eight years ago) link
also it gave me terrible motion sickness but even that did not stop me from pouring tens of hours into it
I bought fallout 3 a few years ago, I'm hoping to play it in 2016, then maybe I'll play new vegas, then maybe fallout 4 in 2020 or so.
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link
wow, i feel bad that i didn't put F4 higher on my list. tbh it was kind of a strategic thing because i assumed it would be an easy top 3, but i do think there were a few better games in 2015.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 19 February 2016 17:28 (eight years ago) link
the shooting is the only thing that salvages F4 imo, that game is such a fucking slog.
per my twitter feed a few months ago:
- I haven't liked a Bethesda fallout game ever because I thought these games had nothing to say. But after killing my 436th opponent I realize
- Maybe these games are a statement on the meaninglessness of literally everything ever
- Because Goddamn I play a bunch of video games & none of them make me more acutely aware of how much time I am wasting g doing virtual chores
- Funny picture I wish existed: normal-sized person lying on shaq's bed
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
8 of my 11 votes have already placed and i'm not certain the other 3 will as well - i've never felt so outside the ilg hivemind!
― Mordy, Friday, 19 February 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
and then my friend replied with this
imagine a world of infinite possibility... Now imagine you have like 3 interesting verbs and constantly need desk fans
xp it's jsut because you didn't pour 30 points into anything, only 20 ballots y'all know how it is
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
TOP TEN TIME
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/W6TST2i.png#10 - Beginner's Guide - Everything Unlimited Ltd48 Points3 Votes0.5 First-Place Votes
(i'm gonna start letting these breathe a lil bit more)
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:33 (eight years ago) link
haven't played this yet but i loved his first one so i guess i probably should
― Mordy, Friday, 19 February 2016 17:33 (eight years ago) link
oh look trash collector simulator jk Fallout 4 was ok but i have never been taken in by the Fallout series.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:33 (eight years ago) link
3 interesting verbs is otm, and it's one of the main things that makes Witcher 3 a better game (i know they're very different games with different goals, but tbh i only have time for one incredibly massive open world action RPG a year, so i lump them together). it's nearly impossible to have an interesting conversation in Fallout 4, because you have to play as the most boring, emotionally stunted person in the entire world
― Karl Malone, Friday, 19 February 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link
can we talk about the irish accent thing tho. like wtf. how could it be.
― Mordy, Friday, 19 February 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link
my wife's theory was that she was just cosplaying being irish
― Mordy, Friday, 19 February 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link
theory: anyone that has posted on this thread is capable of writing better conversations in Fallout 4 than what they came up with, and is probably also capable of hiring an amateur voice actor through Craigslist that would have done a better job
― Karl Malone, Friday, 19 February 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link
feel like the junk collecting mechanic was both the best thing and the worst thing. first time i trashed that opening neighborhood felt amazing and i ran around picking up every single thing i could. that was fun for a few hours.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
*entire world explodes in background*your fallout 4 character walks up to a military officer supervising dozens of people scrambling toward the vault: "Hi, how's it going? Hey there. Hi. Hi, how's it going? Hi. Hey there."
― Karl Malone, Friday, 19 February 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
i can see what Fallout is doing but it seems like it requires some effort on the player to complete the immersion and ignore the bugs/jank, and the world/setting is not appealing to me enough to make me want to do that.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link
the irish accent somehow bothers me less than the one doctor having a... chinese? accent? iirc?
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/5WaXhqv.png#9 - Downwell - Moppin50 Points3 Votes0.5 First-Place Votes
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
i'm just done with games where conversation is an important game mechanic. it's always...bad. or if it's good, it's usually the primary mechanic, which is not particularly interesting to me.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:53 (eight years ago) link
Oh, cool, I didn't know they made a Baby Jessica game.
― maybe my clam is just more toxic (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
what's the best dialogue game ever? galatea maybe?
― Mordy, Friday, 19 February 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
^ feels like a worthy ILG thread
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I really don't care about dialogue or story in most games (at least where they aren't central elements, like in the Telltale games). Probably because those elements often suck. That might be why I find myself drawn to games where the characters are ridiculously ott parodies or complete cyphers.
― maybe my clam is just more toxic (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
I love the story/"dialogue" in the Portal games.
― maybe my clam is just more toxic (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 February 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link
monkey island 2 comes to mind immediately but that might be nostalgiawitcher 3 is better than most but still regularly garbage
― ulysses, Friday, 19 February 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
marvel puzzle quest, of course
― ulysses, Friday, 19 February 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
sure but that doesn't give you (the illusion of) choices. same with the Souls games.
i remember KOTOR being a pretty good talky game, but i never got very far (it was actually too overwhelming with all the people you could talk to and possible paths).
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 19 February 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
(was talking about Portal)
best dialog game imo The Secret of Monkey Island. insult sword fighting is still maybe the best use of dialog as game mechanic.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 February 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
fyi, it is a graphic adventure and one of your quests is to fight The Sword Master. while training you learn that the real key to swordfighting is having a clever quip ready at all times. so you must travel around the island bumping into random pirates and learning new insults and their appropriate comebacks. the brilliant thing is once you get to The Sword Master, all of her dialog is different from what you have learned, so you are re-contextualizing the comebacks, often to hilarious and unforeseen results.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 February 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
i think we all know secret of monkey island :p
― Mordy, Friday, 19 February 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link
I loved Downwell, and that was with the difficult iPhone 4S controls. I'd love to give it another shot with a gamepad and see how much farther I could go
― Karl Malone, Friday, 19 February 2016 18:14 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/vbhhyv4.png#8 - Super Mario Maker - Nintendo68 Points4 Votes0.5 First-Place Votes
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Friday, 19 February 2016 18:16 (eight years ago) link
I've never played a Fallout game but always wanted to, though mainly because I know there are nuclear-war themed radio stations. I'm kind of alright with grind/collecting/chores type gameplay but the hate is making me think maybe I should just stick with my own nuclear song playlist.
<3 insult sword fighting. Have used "how appropriate, you fight like a cow" many many times irl.
― emil.y, Friday, 19 February 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link
loooved watching Super Mario Maker videos this year. it's the first thing to make me want a Wii (U or whatever).
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 19 February 2016 18:20 (eight years ago) link
Kind of tempted to c&p my post on Beginner's Guide but Karl linked it upthread, it's not hard to find.
― emil.y, Friday, 19 February 2016 18:20 (eight years ago) link