whatchu playing now

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.

been brushing up on some new-to-me snes titles for the poll. UN Squadron, Space Megaforce, Super Turrican, Hagane... all fun

UN Squadron is going to be super high on my list. LOVE that game.

dwarf fortress + usability = you just sold me a copy of that, also

you might want to check out a youtube of it first, just to make sure. there are definitely aspects of it that weren't exactly intuitive*, but still, seems a lot easier to work with than dwarf fortress. i've been able to answer all of my questions within a minute or so by just alt-tabbing over to google and searching

if you (or anyone else) does start up a game, i'd recommend re-rolling for characters until you get a good mix (one for farming, one for building, one for mining is a good combo) and avoid characters that have terrible game-altering traits.

2 of my 3 characters (i just went with the initial 3 that were randomly generated for me) have zero social skills, which initially made for a very quiet, joyless squad, but then became amusing when the two anti-social people fell in love and decided to sleep with each other all the time, avoiding everyone else. one of my guys has some sort of "hates dumb labor" trait, which is really annoying because he refuses to help haul things around (which is crucial).

the two anti-social people fell in love and decided to sleep with each other all the time, avoiding everyone else

hahahahahaha this is great. i'll probably avoid this in my first play but this sounds like awesome shit for subsequent games?

yeah, i guess the counter-point is just that crazy situations and dying in unique catastrophic ways is all part of what makes the game fun, so it could make sense to just start with what's generated for you.

even if you start with a solid team, there's a good chance that fairly soon the game will introduce some chaos, so it probably doesn't matter much either way

one of my guys has some sort of "hates dumb labor" trait, which is really annoying because he refuses to help haul things around (which is crucial).

give him some sort of "starving" trait

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

― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, July 11, 2016 1:13 AM (2 weeks ago)

This still exists??? I was deep in KoL for a few years, but probably approaching a decade ago...

Also I have been throwing a hissy fit for a week or so b/c I desperately want to play Inside but it's not available for mac yet.

^ cosign 100% but did u see that stardew valley is mac compatible as of this friday?

No, I hadn't. Do you know if it's actually good? I like sim games but feel like I can get bored with them so easily it's not often worth paying money for them.

did RimWorld get an update recently or something? It's apparently been out for 3 years and now all of a sudden I'm hearing about it multiple places and it's even on Twitch.

lots of cursing on the Twitch channels playing it btw

life is strange ep 1. okay. not sure i feel compelled to play the other chapters. good character work. plot a little meh.

starbound (just came out of early access)- ok, some scaling issue: some parts ridiculously easy and boring and then suddenly a boss that's just insane. seems huge but after a few planets you start seeing the exact same dungeons + rooms. i even found planets with the exact same starter dungeon as the planet you start on. building is fun - collecting furniture that you like and furnishing yr base. gave it a few more hours - appreciate the work they've put into it (quests now - one overarching one and a bunch of terrible 'dynamically' generated ones)

nethack - truly the only game that matters

I just replayed and completed all the Pizza delivery missions in Vice City because I'm a sadistic twat

For some reason I just started up Candy Box 2 again. Whyyyyyy?

don't do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There's a new app from the makers of One Dot / Two Dots, which I am not playing because I like my life.

those Pizza delivery missions were great, I actually just restarted Vice City a few days ago

yeah they're totally worth doing for the extra health.

I just started it for a laugh, now I feel I have to complete

PC version, on Steam anyway, has some issues though. I have to run it through compatibility mode to work, unfortunately means I have to limit my frames. Otherwise cut scenes take five minutes to load and cars don't reverse!

Also it doesn't recognise the two shoulder triggers on my gamepad, which annoys.

The PC ports had horrible pad support (DirectInput vs. PS2 adapter days), I remember having to use a third party app that would fix this

Yeah I use one for San Andreas, I recall setup being something of an 'adventure'

Not sure I'm ready to go through that again.

Can't get enough of the stunt races in gta online. Played about 115 of them in the past couple of weeks.

The hold up with vice city for me is the mission where you have to control an mini RC copter and kill the workers on the construction site. Just so frustrating

a little disturbing i can recall that from over a decade ago. good job, brain.

Oh, god, me too. Those RC copters are where I got offboard with the Vice City missions.

That was the fucking worst. No way should that have made it in as a required story mission.
And yet I still fond memories of this game...

At least it gifted us with the otherwise unattainable dream of dicking around with a shitty and unresponsive RC copter.

The mission after the RC copters is worth the struggle

Oh wait I was thinking about San Andreas.

I can still remember details of the street design of Vice City (and III!) better than I can my hometown. Though I suppose Vice City hasn't changed as much as my hometown (rushes to Medium).

oh god the pizza minigame was so good! all those minigames were great. putting out fires with your firetruck! catching fugutives in a high speed chase! why did they take them out of IV/V?

Vice City and San Andreas are still my favorite in the series. Vice City is the closest ANY media has gotten to really doing the retro 80s thing right imo.

played them both on PC with keyboard/mouse. impossible to get it working with a controller.

GTA 3 4 lyfe, ba3ica11y

It's really hard to go back to any GTA where you can't like hop fences or swim imo

None of my favourite GTA memories involve swimming in any way.

yeah but hitting those invisible "walls" that your guy should be able to gingerly hop over feels idiotic now

the swimming thing it's just one of those annoying things where "ugh, can't swim, back to the hospital"