can't believe Mountain is any worse than yr average clicker game tbh
― Szechuan TV (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 March 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
mountain isn't a game in any way, at least a clicker game is engaging (in the same way that heroin addiction is, yes, but even so)
― ulysses, Friday, 11 March 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link
average clicker game is not proclaiming to be a deep meaningful ambient experience of life and death and meaning
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 11 March 2016 18:12 (eight years ago) link
my gosh, and they're forcing people to buy it you say? that's just heinous
― Szechuan TV (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 March 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link
nah seriously tho, it's hardly the first callow "art statement" somebody's tried to make a few quid off of, and it's not like they're charging full price and pretending it's a "real" game like most of the worst stuff on this thread
― Szechuan TV (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 March 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link
i bought mountain, can still afford to eat, no regrets
― ulysses, Friday, 11 March 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
yeah i think it's important that people still churn out experimental bullshit that ends up being hugely unsatisfying because it's part of a balanced gaming ecosysem
― Szechuan TV (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 March 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
you must have loved the early 80s in gaming then
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 11 March 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link
otoh Gog are asking for 40 of our British pounds to pre-order No Man's Sky and imo anybody who buys into that before we've had a chance to find out how little gameplay is in there...well, they've got a lot more disposable income than i have
― Szechuan TV (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 March 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link
xp
i spent the early 80s playing mainly on a ZX81 so hell yes
― Szechuan TV (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 March 2016 18:27 (eight years ago) link
doh/sorry :-p my USA bias creeping in! i forget about neat computer systems like Sinclair and Spectrum i never got to play.
seeing the Atari crash first-hand, playing those trashy games, reading about the ET landfill, looking at stacks of $1 clearance titles at Big Lots, is the earliest memory i have of any video game culture. it wasn't a wasteland in many places.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 11 March 2016 19:16 (eight years ago) link
i could see a VR headset + No Man's Sky being a really amazing investment, even if there isn't much gameplay
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 11 March 2016 19:18 (eight years ago) link
but yeah too rich for me. gotta get Dark Souls 3 first
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 11 March 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
E.T. had stealth?
― am0n, Friday, 11 March 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link
i just remember it as a kid it made absolutely no sense. and then years later finding out about the creators ambition and how it flopped. kids heads weren't ready i guess
― am0n, Friday, 11 March 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
evading the FBI agents
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 11 March 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah could you use the bushes for that, or was it just running away
― am0n, Friday, 11 March 2016 20:40 (eight years ago) link
pac man was a stealth game if you think about it
― ulysses, Friday, 11 March 2016 20:44 (eight years ago) link
pac man not a stealth game, it was the first half of an interactive explanation of Borges' "Two Kings and Two Labyrinths"
unfortunately the intended sequel, "pac man starving to death in a desert," was cancelled halfway into alpha
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Friday, 11 March 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
that was E.T.'s endinghttp://www.cnn.com/2014/04/27/tech/gaming-gadgets/atari-et-video-game/
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 11 March 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link
Funnily enough this April fools 'best game ever' preview, back from 1990, used Bullfrog and Molyneux as the development team:
https://archive.org/stream/theone-magazine-19/TheOne_19_Apr_1990#page/n7/mode/2up
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Saturday, 12 March 2016 15:26 (eight years ago) link
that april fool seems a bit shitty in retrospect. was it really impossible for a game like that to have been made in the early 90s 16 bit era? it made a few wild claims like the fps rate but there doesn't to be any major fool flags - the fps rate thing maybe? dunno, it's not a fool on the level of spaghetti trees and i can imagine being gutted by finding out, rather than thinking 'doh, silly me'
― NI, Saturday, 12 March 2016 18:56 (eight years ago) link
I remember being impressed anyway. Upgraded Amigas and PC's weren't really at an affordable price for your average home gamer.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Saturday, 12 March 2016 19:25 (eight years ago) link
bought my first (only?) Amiga with money from a housing resettlement in about 91, don't think i'd have thought of buying one otherwise
there must be 4 or 5 Molyneux games i've desperately wanted to like only to get bored and give up trying after a few hours' gameplay
― Szechuan TV (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 12 March 2016 19:45 (eight years ago) link
That Mountain game is like one dollar. Hardly a rip off. I could see it being like a neat ~ambient~ thing, put it on while cooking dinner or reading and look over every once in a while to see what's happening in your little world.
― circa1916, Saturday, 12 March 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link
i bought mountain twice, and have mainly engaged with it that way. it's really quite a good thing.
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Sunday, 13 March 2016 05:13 (eight years ago) link
it's not trying to be MEANINGFUL in ways that ppl seem to be eliding it w/? the tone is more tao lin than paolo coelho
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Sunday, 13 March 2016 05:14 (eight years ago) link
i bought mountain twice, and have mainly engaged with it that way.
haha @ how i read this
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 13 March 2016 06:08 (eight years ago) link
tbf there's a lot of games i have mainly engaged with that way, largely out of forgetting to check my GOG account before looking at steam sales /:
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Sunday, 13 March 2016 08:04 (eight years ago) link
having tried it over probably six or seven sittings, I think I'm going to have to go with Death Stranding herefor all the concerns you thought of when you realized the reason for this thread being resurrected was probably gonna be death stranding
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 8 December 2019 10:30 (four years ago) link
I’ve beaten it and am still playing it. Everything is meaningless.I bought the latest God of War because I was looking for something new to play and it was $20. It is silly and not very good so far. The father/son relationship is unintentionally pretty funny at least.
― circa1916, Sunday, 8 December 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
God of War gets better after you sacrifice your son to Leviathan in exchange for a bonus ability on your axe, and your son becomes the final boss
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Sunday, 8 December 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
Karl ruthless about spoiling the Big Twist.
― Scorsese runs afoul of the Irishman (Leee), Sunday, 8 December 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
Ancestors: The Humankind OdysseyI want to believe but...
― L'assie (Euler), Sunday, 8 December 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
Grand Theft Dinosaur
― calstars, Sunday, 8 December 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
i could see a VR headset + No Man's Sky being a really amazing investment
it's not
― Ste, Monday, 9 December 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
waiting for star citizen to come out and fulfill its promise as hot garbage... its wild that there's an army of chris roberts stans who show up in stories critical about the game.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/11/08/an-upcoming-star-citizen-mission-will-let-you-leap-from-ship-to-ship/#comments
check out the comments by 'crodemberg'.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 9 December 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link