whatchu playing now

the campaign is supposed to be good as well (i only played through the first couple steps there thus far, mp is too significant a distraction)

Realm Grinder

beat zero time dilemma today, still as dark as it was a few days ago when i said i was playing it

titanfall is intense

Watched Starcraft 2 blizzcon finals yesterday, great best of 5 between Byun (T) and Dark (Z). Really put me in the mood to play again. It's all about that micro...

Owlboy is...good?

It's like Super Mario Bros. 2 with Zelda-lite dungeons

The aesthetic reminds me of Secret of Mana though, that might be the kicker

it does look good. i've been tempted.

Based on the first 4 hours it seems like the most blockbuster SNES game imaginable

Played 3 online SC games yesterday before I hit an asshole who "rofl"ed at my 5 minute push, destroying my shit with siege tank and misspelled turret, and remarked "meh" to my "gg." Seriously, fuck these guys

Sorry I guess this should be on the mothership connection thread

nothing more frustrating than bad sports in online games

https://ianmaclarty.itch.io/catacombs-of-solaris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88DVc0Gbh-k

o_O

Imagining building & playing that in real life O_O

I appreciate what he's doing but I couldn't play that for more than a couple of minutes

Yeah, I don't think it's meant for hours of gameplay or anything. It's kinda cheesy to mention but it captures the "trippy" thing better than just about anything I've seen. Wish it had sound.

that would break me

i guess it's possible to just play a Shepard Tone youtube in the background as you play, to provide the full whoooAooooaaoaoaaahhhhh experience

Currently I am itching to play Bloodborne but my son seems to have settled in for the afternoon playing The Last Of Us. Have suggested he buy his own ps4, an idea was met only by a sarcastic grunt.

final fantasy explorers for 3ds which is basically a dumbed down monster hunter game play wise, with an extensive job system and really fun online mp. it's a little repetitive but also really nice to mindlessly kill huge monsters

INSIDE

I'm revisiting Delta Force a bit lately. This was the first game I ever played multiplayer online, through a dial up, and it was fantastic.

Only single player mode now though, but it's ticking the nostalga box I need right now.

my downstairs neighbor is a gamer in her early twenties who hasn't had a system since the last gen. i invited her up and she played through Journey over two nights. it was tremendous fun to watch her do it. She kept making "shuushhhhhh" noises as the lil' guy slalomed down hills.
Gonna have her play Limbo next. Then maybe we can play The Witness together and I can finally have a go at it for real.

INSIDE

wow

wailing on free weekend noobs in TF2. absolutely wrecking house. my k/d's like 6.0 today alone

i finished Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

i did not like Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

it was free

^ did that a couple of weekends ago and nearly posted the same thing. I was fascinated with how boring it was.

i was fascinated with the design decision to implement the slowest walking speed of all time. that single decision increased the length of the game from 45 minutes to 3-4 hours

i will say, though, if an indie-ish game like Rapture can at least feature decent voice acting, all the AAA titles that come out each year with garbage voice acting have absolutely no excuse.

this is going to be like the ouya, but even better

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/retroengine-sigma-mini-console-media-player-cool/

i went for the Early Bird Deluxe Set 32GB

How long can I play?

As long as you can stay awake. We ship the system with an AC Adaptor.

SOLD

lol

yeah. it's basically just an emulator you can play on your tv. there's probably already a way to do that. but this seems like it'll make it super easy to do, and the 32GB card can be loaded up with roms. i'm hoping this thing will become my archive for everything up to PSX-era

it actually does look pretty cool, and the idea of having a cute lil plug-and-play box is way more appealing than fucking around with a raspberry pi or whatever to do the same thing diy-style. can it reach the dazzling commercial heights of the ouya? only time will tell (unless it gets busted pre-release by Nintendo or whoever for being a straight-up piracy box)

yeah, that's definitely the biggest risk. apparently it comes with 15 games, which they'll announce during the months leading up to the release. i don't really care which 15 because i plan on just loading it up with my own roms immediately, but it will be interesting to see how the licensing works and all that.

calling it now: it'll be 15 copies of bible adventures

yyyyyyyyeah, i'm into this sadly

Watch Dogs 2

that retro machine is just a raspberry pi with retropie installed http://retropie.org.uk/

which is ok if you can't be bothered to roll your own

Almost tempted but still don't see any benefit from using my pc I already have.

i'm playing watch dogs 2 as well - somehow, even although it's an improvement on the original in every way, i'm still not enjoying it very much :(

pretty sure the 15 games won't be roms, they'll be made for the system or freeware or indie games they get ppl to release versions of on the console.

yeh there's plenty of indie developers out there making new NES/SNES etc. games who are more than happy to put their stuff on any new hardware - people like CollectorVision and Piko Interactive were up for putting their games on that super shady Coleco Chameleon ffs

stardew valley finally came out for ps4 today

"...just one more day..."

been playing steep on xbone - it's really fun, kinda like a cross between a more-chill ssx and pilotwings

i haven't played much of the actual structured game, i'm just enjoying scooting around the slopes on snowboard / wingsuit / paraglider

rocket league still lots of fun. hoops has really upped my aerial game. they have some christmas-themed snow added to some areas too so yay

arenas even

finally got around to sunless sea, is as great as expected

Overwatch. It's like I'm Jimmy Stewart in the last act of Vertigo, dreaming of the old Team Fortress 2

Watching Westworld + my high level of suggestibility = me finally starting Red Dead Redemption

(Can't connect to any online servers so I guess that ship has sailed?)