whatchu playing now

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"

Ugh, I feel old even posting this, but isn't that just that you've failed at the game and that's the cost? I realise that I'm not so much of a fan of total Just Cause / Saint's Row go anywhere open worlds, which is probably why GTAIII is my favourite.

disagree because these games are largely about the immersion and the feeling of playing in the sandbox, taking in the sunsets, driving your dirt bike up a stupid mountain so you can base jump off it for no good reason

those other things sucked in GTA because the action is what kinda sucks about GTA. driving slow tanks with bizarre crash physics, terrible shooting, bad map implementations, terrible mission check-pointing, inane difficulty challenges (like the RC helicopter missions) and so on. a lot of dumb design decisions going back to the 2D GTAs. the stupid bad game engine stuff is frustrating and ages terribly. even trying to replay III after the advances they made in San Andreas was tough

granted IV screwed up a ton of stuff and was a better engine but a much worse game than San Andreas. and i haven't gotten around to V yet

Well I disagree with your disagreement, but that's okay, we appreciate different things in the games.

It's not that I don't like the freedom of GTA though, one of the things that I've disliked as the season goes on is the bits where it gets closer to Driver - here's your car here's the race - fuck that I want to be able to drive recklessly and if the car blows up go get another one.

But yeah, it might be some residual masochistic old-gamer-ness, but I appreciate that if you fuck up (enough) there's a cost, you don't just keep going forever.

I'm curious about what you mean by bad map implementations - I realise I'm a mutant because I never found the shooting that bad.

I guess everyone plays for different reasons. I remember starting up in Staunton island in 3 and just having a completely new game experience - maybe it was the urban aspect that made it feel different from RPG fantasy free roam. And the humor and writing were well done and referenced western pop culture through the lens of excess and satire. I love the line in the intro of one of the beginning missions for the mafia: "Lips Forelli is stuffing his fat face in the Saint Mark's Bistro."

And then you went and planted a car bomb and blew up his car, of course

And yeah, I feel like there are diminishing returns of that initial "wow" whenever the next iteration comes around, but it's never not exciting

III is good because you had to work a little harder and hack the system a bit to pull off the dumb shit that came so easily in later games. Like aiming a tank turret at your rear so you can fire your way up a mountain.

I even love the bits where they create a modern gameplay fuckup, like having the optional 'pick up the packages' send you all over the city, but the main story line turns one of the corners of the first island permanently hostile, full of Mafia goons eager to start shooting you as soon as you turned up.

Man, I could probably draw that first island freehand by now. The way that the first road left from the bridge ends in an alley through-way with a Police Star in it... I can picture it clearly and I don't think I've played it in 10 years.

I basically love all of the GTA games as open worlds (even pre-GTA III) and basically hate all of them as games for the most part.

The way that the first road left from the bridge ends in an alley through-way with a Police Star in it

Ha, that's always a great escape route!

I've replayed V recently and found the story missions to be heavily tedious. Compared to the many times I've replayed Vice City and III and still enjoy those missions.

In all fairness, I've only played like fifteen minutes of GTA V (vs. the hundreds of hours I've spend on GTA Online).

just started the last of us, the remastered ps4 one. i thought the intro was amazing then i'm on a fairly boring and stupid warehouse mission in broad daylight. i know that's the very very start but way to kill the atmosphere/momentum.

Should I get this? Looks like underwater Journey and features some of that team on the creative staff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qopIFtn0vBo

omg quadrilateral cowboy is finally out

http://metroid2remake.blogspot.com/

Insanely good 16-bit style remake of Metroid II (for Gameboy) just dropped yesterday.

explain to a dope: is this self contained? unzip, install and play or do you need an intermediary program to play it on?

it's Windows-only but it's pretty much a standalone game, no emulator required, just unzip the file and run the EXE

aw, mac
sadface

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New wallpaper

runs on wine in linux so it probably works with wine on mac

this?
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/

i played like a full day of rimworld on saturday. thought i saved enough food for the winter, but then i got attacked by some raiders, and while tey didn't get far i thought it clever to capture them and heal them and feed them and try to convince them to join me. i almost ran out of food but then some muffalo packs showed up so i slaughtered them. so much meat! and i got two good cooks just running hella kitchen work to get me through until my potatoes came back.

xp yeah that looks like it will work.. seems like you can just double click an exe after installing that app and it should be able to run it

Great, will try!