whatchu playing now

was a bit disappointed with the ending of The Witness but was expecting that tbh, still a fun puzzler tho.
now playing Tokyo Mirage Sessions (SMT backwards, I see what you did there), which so far feels like Digital Devil Saga on industrial strength SSRIs. Funny how this the first Atlus RPG in HD, only took them a decade.

what that sounds fun. is there a good core of JRPGs on the WiiU? would like to remain neutral on xbone vs ps4 as long as possible, but seeing as wiiU is nearing end of gen, it'll be a good value system for a while.

nah just this and XCX. PS4 is the way to go if you want console JRPGs in the near future, although who knows how the next Nintendo hardware will work out. There has also been a steady increase in JRPG releases on Steam recently, whether C-Tier console stuff like Agarest/Neptunia or re-releases of classics like Grandia II. Would love to see Atlus bring their stuff to PC :/

Man, the Vita is hot shit for JRPGs on the go, if you didn't already know. They seem to comprise most of the new releases these days.

why stay agnostic on xbone v ps4? seems obv that ps4 won this gen.

boom

I won't buy xbone/ps4 until 2017 at the earliest, and I don't know what's going to change with the new buffed models

also I have only played a sony machine once, for about 30 minutes, smuggler's run on a ps2 I think; otherwise never seen a ps1/2/3/4 in person even. weird! I've had an xbox & a 360 and am building up a library of free xbone games through gold on 360 as well

but if ps4 ends up being the way to go in 2017 or so, then so be it.

dude wtf

if nothing else the original PS was pretty ubiquitous

I've never owned a Nintendo system aside from a Game Boy but I would've had to have been raised in a cage that was stuffed in a crawlspace to have never seen or played an NES.

I admittedly have a pretty weird system progression
Nintendo -> Game Gear (lol) -> SNES -> PS -> Dreamcast -> ... -> PS2 -> (large time lapse) PSP -> -> PS3 -> PS4

kind of drops off and then I just keep buying Sony crap

I feel you: Master System > Game Boy > Genesis > ...... late-period PS1 > late-period PS2 > late-period PS3 & Vita (> late-period PS4 probably sometime in like 2020).

PSX -> N64 -> Dreamcast -> PS2 -> Gamecube -> Wii -> WiiU

Lots over overlaps between contemporary systems of course.

I'm still enjoying Battleborn. It suffers in comparison to the thematically-similar Overwatch in terms of gameplay and art design, of course, but there are plenty of good ideas and fun moments.

2600->colecovision->nes->snes->n64->dreamcast->xbox->360

I was in grad school, getting married, having kids in the ps/ps2 years, kinda was in a cave

we all have our video game dark times in life

trs80 -> 2600 -> intellivision -> nes -> snes -> ps1 -> ps2 -> dreamcast -> gba -> PC ->gamecube -> ps3 -> wii -> xbox -> psp -> android -> iphone -> ipad -> ouya -> mac -> ps4 -> vita

nes + pc (90s - early 00s) -> nothing -> ps2 -> 360 -> nothing ( -> maybe ps4 in future?)

i think i missed a few on mine tbh

All I remember about my first console was that it played Buck Rogers and I think it had a keyboard. It might have been the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, or maybe the VIC-20?

After that:
NES > Gameboy > SNES ... ... ... > PS2 > XBOX360 > PS3 > PS4

can't remember if the 360 or the nds was first, whichever was first marks the first one i bought "as a professional."

2600 - game boy - snes - ps1 - gba - ps2 - (nds/360?) - psp - vita - ps3 - ps4

always been mostly a pc gamer and consolewise was a nintendo loyalist until buying a used ps2 in college, so my progression is lame:

nes - snes - n64 - wii - ps2 - ps3 (mostly as a blu-ray player)

i think it's way more important to have a used ps2 in college than it is to have a laptop

Ingersoll XK-410C >
Dragon 32 >
Acorn Archimedes >
PC only from about 1991 to 1997 >
N64 >
(shared a house with a PSX owner so never bought one) >
Dreamcast >
Gamecube >
(shared a house with a PS2 owner so never bought one) >
(swung back towards PC for a couple of years) >
Xbox 360 >
PS3 >
Wii U >
Ouya lol >
PS4

Handhelds um I've had one of everything Nintendo have made since the Gameboy Colour but I'm not sure where the purchases slot into that timeline. Plus a Vita. Oh and I paid £10 for a virtual boy in 1999.

Shit, I don't know how I left 2600 > Commodore 64 off the beginning of my timeline. Essential, those.

(I know it isn't a console but I probably played more C64 games than I did on all of my previous gen consoles combined.)

Did no one else have a Master System? We still have that thing hooked up at my grandma's house (along with the 2600 iirc).

I think mine is something like
BBC micro
Acorn Electron
Atari ST
SNES x2
N64
PS1
Dreamcast
PS2
Wii
360
Also a bunch of desktop and laptop PCs over the years.

Oh yeah and a Gamecube in there somewhere too!

I've never touched a Microsoft console, and aside from minimal time spent with a friend's SNES and playing some Just Dance on my sister's Wii, I've had hardly any Nintendo interaction since the NES/Game Boy days.

Oh yeah I was taking the PC as read (do we take the PC as read here)? PC from about the time of the PS2, Mobile from about the time of the Wii. Also a Mac before that (lol, except for Marathon and its sequel)

this is reminding me that sometime soon i need to kick off the 4th gen ILX poll

Then our work is done.

I picked up Cities: Skylines via Steam's current sale and am pretty into it so far.

C64 > ZX Speccy > Amiga > Megadrive > PC > Saturn > PS1 > Dreamcast > PS2 > Xbox > PS3 > Xbox360 > PC

Found a sci-fi pointy clickie thing on Dosbox called "Frederik Pohl's Gateway", and really enjoying it.

Wander around a space station, chat with people at the bar, go on artifact hunting missions in the day. My kind of pace.

Picked up MGS phantom pain second hand. Enjoyed the opening movie, have now remembered how useless I am at stealth games. Fun though!

Am about to embark on a Kingdom of Loathing adventure, anyone else know of this rather quirky thing?

yes, lots of fun. i did a bunch of ascensions a few years ago (including a bad moon one) and then got bored but played for a while

Xcom: Enemy Unknown on Vita. Yikes. Looks like another timesuck.

still playing Overwatch. at least its open-ended and stops me from buying other games.

Fired up the ps2 last night, and this morning.

San Andreas. Still amazing

2600 - ti-99 - Apple II clone - PC - NES - gameboy(barely) - Genesis - Ps1(both my brothers) - n64 - ps2 - GameCube - sold both to move to Portland - Nintendo DSlite - ps2 again - PSP - PS3 - 3ds XL - dsi XL.

But mainly PC for 30-odd years, occasionally with years-long inadequate equipment

I really want to get hold of Prison Architect at some point, it's had some nice updates over the months.

Love the way the workers build everything and move all the boxes around, putting things in storage when you don't need them.

has anyone played RimWorld? considering giving it a go.

left a bad taste in my mouth tbh

developers deserve a tongue lashing for going with that title

gross.

i'm about 2 hours in. so far it's fun! there's a bit of a learning curve at the beginning, just trying to figure out how to do basic things and how to assign tasks to certain people, but not too bad. i think i was extremely unlucky with one of my starting 3 people, whose skills/traits are randomized. one of my people hates doing pretty much anything except killing things, so he tends to just idle around and vomit all over the place (he's sickly by nature i think) while the other 2 busily construct buildings and tend to the garden.

gah, it's very addicting. it's been described as a kind of modernized, user-friendly version of dwarf fortress, but i only briefly dabbled in dwarf fortress so i can't say how accurate it is. regardless, it is very difficult to stop once you're settlement is up and running.