whatchu playing now

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!

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

fyi, I found a simple fix for the Vice City controller problem. Something called GInput is what you need. Hassle free set up.

star trek: the next generation: a final unity

i read reviews of this when it came out in like 1995 but never played it til this weekend. this is an excellent star trek game and a pretty good adventure game. it's only been unbearably irritating once and mildly irritating a couple times. mostly the TNG atmosphere and vibe is spot on--good voice work from the og cast, sound effects are right, the writing is convoluted and trekkish.

it's OOP but easily obtained--the version i got has a dosbox wrapper and works perfectly. highly recommended.

ugh i remember playing A Final Unity back in the 90s, gave up after about an hour. interface and slowness drove me nuts

interface is so good! it's in star trek font what more do you want

sorry okuda

i played through Kentucky Route Zero (acts 1-4, the final one's not out yet) the other weekend and it was really great in the sort of way where i still can't stop thinking about it a week later. it's abnormally good at making you feel like your decisions matter, even though they're generally not tied to in-game outcomes

you may just have sold me on it; been on the fence.
think a non-gamer would enjoy watching as i play? is it one of those?

yeah probably. the actual gameplay is fairly light even for a point+click, it's much more focused on atmosphere and storytelling than being a Game

Super Bomberman 2, and other BM games.

My 7yo godson has recently fell in love with this game and keeps kicking my ass on it. lol

As I was saying goodbye to him the other day I could just hear him yelling from the lounge "..Get some practice in!"

I took a week off of gta races, but back on track now. Approaching 200 in the last 3 weeks

Amazing how much better graphics are on a PC laptop from any given year vs a double-priced Mac in boot camp mode

bomberman > tetris

challopy but true!

i love me some Bomberman.

highly recommend Saturn Bomberman for not only great gameplay but one of the coolest soundtracks ever.

ha cool thanks. Just tried it on Yabause emulator, very nice!

As I was saying goodbye to him the other day I could just hear him yelling from the lounge "..Get some practice in!"