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probably the pinnacle of that stealth/ghost style game is alien isolation. when oh when will the sequel (or even dlc) come out

i've been sucked back into CK2 send help

*murders your only CK2 heir*

it was the only way out mordy, the only way

more like murders my only 50 CK2 heirs - i'm in an elective monarchy and my family is HUGE

or maybe steal some duchies and then you can vote my family out of power.

never gonna happen tho. i've got like 19K personal demesne levy now.

just played the new DOOM for a bit. looks like everyone was right about it being an awesome game!

getting heavy Metroid Prime feels here! the combat is very acrobatic - you will be flipping around from enemy to enemy. it is easy to die in just a few hits, at least on Ultra Violence. love the lack of health auto-recharge. this game is much like Bloodborne in rewarding you in health for being pro-active. great level design too! right now i am crawling Alien-style through some airducts to get past a deadly red laser that is blocking my progress. previously i was on the windswept ("Not scientifically accurate" -Neil Degrass Buzzkll) the deep red sands of mars dotted with eerie green space station lightposts and satanic candle displays hidden in caverns amidst the ruined industrial facilities.

a very cool and arcadey HD rendition of DOOM!

Trails Of Cold Steel on my vita. Exceptionally long mix of Persona / Harry Potter / Attack On Titan / Suikoden. Only 10 hours or so in but really enjoying it, lives up to the hype.

welp, i spent way too much time with http://thefounder.biz/play/

it's sort of a mix of kairosoft games with clickers (don't worry, this would be my secondary or tertiary comparison, not primary)

i just bought a PS3 a friend found at a thrift store that came with Metal Gear Solid 4. this morning i picked up a copy of Demon's Souls and am playing that right now. it is really amazing! they have pretty much the whole Dark Souls/Bloodborne formula figured out from the start. really looking forward to playing through this!

I was clearing out PS+ games on my PS4 that I have no intention of playing, and spotted Kings Quest. I'm really enjoying it, though I've not finished the first chapter yet.

Just read a review saying resident evil 7 compares well to alien isolation, is this right? Never played any of that series before but absolute loved A:I

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i hear they've definitely been influenced a lot by it. meant to be a major return to form for the series.

another PS+ freebie that i found a lot of fun, flawed technically but with a ton of nice ideas was Stories: Path Of Destiny. horrendous name, but fun concept and well executed.

I really enjoyed "Stories..." though I paid money for it like a chump

made it past the first couple bosses of Demon's Souls. highly recommend this game! Dark Souls/Bloodborne/all of it started here, I am constantly surprised by the things popping up that i thought we later inventions. Cthulu wizards are here, the dragon on the bridge is here, the rolling skeletons are here. gameplay is really fun and the level design is fantastic. weirdly the other Soul games this feels closest to is probably DS3.

Demon's probably remains my 2nd favorite of the series after Dark Souls 1. Great game.

adam have you played slain back from hell. really punishing castlevania sidescroller w/ metal themes and sdtrk by some guy from celtic frost

Picked up Wind Waker HD off the shelf to pass some time, unsurprisingly the WiiU controller is integrated only in excellent ways.

Also started playing Grunt Man-Sword Darksiders, which I got on a Steam sale ages ago, and was amused to find out it's largely the same game.

i havent played Slain, ive seen it though, and it does look amazing. how does it play? i will have to check it out later!

Having completed The Witness I downloaded a free phone Sokoban puzzle game. Stuck on level 1.

Finished Shin Megami Tensei 4 Apocalypse. I know these games are super niche but I dread the day when some ultra conservative parent discovers that the game little Jonny plays on his Nintendo is about killing all the Christian angels, Satan and then YHVH, with a side trip to murder Krishna who is admittedly being a dick. Ban this sick filth!

resident evil! One of the monsters looks just like the old lady in the bathroom from the shining

So she's a sexy nudey lady until you kiss her?

OLD lady

But there's some transmogrification in other parts

Some Steam backlogging lately... Pirate Pop Plus, a simple score chaser done in the retro-Game Boy/Game & Watch style that showed up in a Humble Monthly a while back, and Before the Echo (fka Sequence), a scifi-themed rhythm game with goofy trendy teenspeak (circa 2011) that I never got around to finishing because I didn't realize until now that it controls much better with a dual stick controller over keyboard/mouse.

Reached down the digestion tract of a corpse with a severed head and retrieved the blue key card

firewatch gets pretty dark, huh?

https://gfycat.com/ifr/JaggedMenacingCottontail

can't find the video game event thread
https://www.facebook.com/events/1320809694607970

jesus its really hard to get through a work day with Horizon Zero Dawn and Zelda on the go.... and then next month... Persona 5.

not to mention still not played Nier, Yakuza 0, Resident Evil 7... this year is a year of gold so far.

i really want to play Yakuza 0 - but i assume it'll be ~$30 soon enough

i'm having a kinda mixed experience with horizon zero dawn - the gameplay basics are solid and it is frequently breathtakingly good-looking but i wish it had something like shadow of mordor's nemesis system to distinguish it a bit more from other open-world action survival games

I've somehow landed back playing Test Drive U2, which is a bit of a flop as a game (races too easy and online play has been halted) but I've become obsessed with completing the discovery section collecting scrap pieces and photographs.

Also decided to finish Delta Force Land Warrior

oh and of course Farming

Zelda will have to wait...

i played a bunch of battlefield one over the weekend. i'm so bad at mp fps's (not the worst but always in the bottom 50% except for one game). the whole operations thing is fantastic tho - i love how the sectors move along the front as the attacking army succeeds in acquiring particular locations.

i'm also really bad at shooters, especially on consoles, but i have to admit i was intrigued by battlefield 1. especially after listening to the hardcore history series on ww1 a few weeks ago. i'm guessing the game's presentation of ww1 fighting is pretty different from how it actually was. although there is connection between the endless multiplayer battles on the same map vs the months long trench warfare battles, so many people lost for no particular reason.

is shell shock/ptsd in battlefield 1?

no. but it has a cool mechanic where when you die you respawn as another soldier - and when the attacking side has lost enough soldiers they lose the battle (afaict). it's very easy to die too, so it does a great job simulating an extremely high casualty war.

My wife and I have been playing Disc Jam doubles. Lots of fun especially as most people are obviously still getting to grips with it so we haven't been trounced yet. Just needs some form of ladder or league, hopefully that's coming soon.

nier automata is a minor masterpiece i think. hearkens back to the weird old days of ps2 jrpg experimentation, except the combat is platinum games.

finally taking some time off from Online Gaming to play some of the 1p games i've accumulated in my steam library over the past couple years

first up are Clustertruck, which is surprisingly fun for such a half-baked punchline of a game, and Ori and the Blind Forest which is lovely thus far

streets of rogue is already really fun, even in early release state.

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my quest for the purest Idle RPG continues
Bit City might actually be just as dumb as Realm Grinder

On a related note, I'm "playing" Bit City and I hate myself

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I like bit city. Playing it for the 8 bit art which I find very pleasurable

I wish you could change the viewing angle during regular play, the way you can in camera mode. other than that my main beef is the limited number of non-premium buildings

I just started playing Torment: Tides of Numenera

Dialogue-wise, this game is 100% pandering to me and what I want in an RPG even though I'm only about 25 minutes into it. However, based on my reaction to the tutorial fight I have the sneaking suspicion that the combat system is an undercooked pan full of dick.

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I think they might introduce more variety as time goes on, like they did with tiny tower? At this point point I'm just playing to get to the larger squares, which will be a new set of buildings. Also to unlock the planes and boats (only on level 4).

I'll say this for Realm Grinder, the ramp is so stupid that you wind up earning 10^36 coins per tap in less than a week of play. I can't tell that much is different about the static medieval cityscape. It doesn't pan or zoom, either. You literally just stare at a shitty pixelated fantasy town, where everything is the same every time (ok you can change alliances on each play which means some redecorating almost as good as playing different armies in Warlords II) and tap and cast and upgrade and then tap some more.

The most fucked up thing about this meter data simulator is that there are no less than three different companies claiming credit on the loading screen