whatchu playing now

ours will be a generation of retrogaming retirees bivouacked in capsule hotels, hooked up to joysticks and ivs, poopsocking our way to the ever after.

xxp I haven't played it yet but I'd like to. I did write up a long post about which RPG combat systems are good (bc it seems like the vast majority are just terribly broken) and came up with the Souls games (which are really action-RPG games) and i guess Divinity: Original Sin. most RPGs start out challenging and then get broken by the mid-game.

xp making me use a goddamn dictionary

poopsocking?

i've no experience of the new torment but it looks sweet and i certainly would like to hear how it is

Decided to revisit Battlefield 3, since my new upgrade, after a long time absent. Urgh, kinda wish I hadn't as I slowly realise how addictive these sort of games are.

Also jumped back into Bad Company 2 for a moment, but seems too laggy everywhere and I got fed up of the utterly annoying 'getting shot around the corner' effect.

We could probably use a new iOS games thread. I have like three or four things on my new-ish iPad that I want to check out and report back on

Glad to see poopsocking is still alive and well in the future of mankind

What iOS games
Cause I can't find shit

btw, why didn't anyone TELL me about this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4sSjd9UYpM

Exactly

the menus in mlb the show 17 are the worst designed AND slowest i have ever encountered. everything you need to do is at least 3 clicks away, and each click has to go to the server and back, so around 10-15 seconds load time per click

it's like a passive counter game except without all of the satisfaction

Was looking for that short homemade vid of the horrible clipping in MLB the show where the player slides into home and sinks beneath the ground...

finally stopped playing overwatch. finished deus ex mankind divide which was meh. finished Super Hot which was impressive. just got dragon's dogma.

http://i.imgur.com/ypMPhGX.jpg

Thimbleweed Park just came out, by Monkey Island's Ron Gilbert. it looks like a Twin Peaks/X-Files style retro Graphic Adventure. sounds amazing!

yeah that's looks really cool - i'm excited to play it

yeah i've had my eye on that

i'm interested but at the same time kind of put off that it's using the "classic" (action verbs on screen) SCUMM interface

Got through the first few months of Persona 5 and the way they've blown the dungeons out is great. Struck by how politically relevant it is as well, whole thing is just raging at the last two decades of Japanese politics. Not really feeling the main friends though, feels like they've tried to write them more mature and 'real' but so far is failing to evoke teenage awkwardness/lameness the way P4 did so magically.

first few months?! did you play non-stop since yesterday morning???

I was way into Rayman Origins last summer and picked it up again last night, trying to remember why I abandoned it in the first place and...oh yeah, it was all those Dragon's Lair-ish speed run levels that I unlocked and couldn't friggin get through to save my life.

Heh, I had a similar experience with Rayman Origins. That game is still dope though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQfGfGLkg6c

first few months?! did you play non-stop since yesterday morning???

lol fortunately my copy arrived before the weekend, do completely lose track of time with it though.

bought Resogun on sale. ONE MORE GO

I'm playing the Zelda

the Zelda's good

just finished the sexy brutale, very enjoyable adventure puzzle game based around witnessing and then preventing murders over a single day in a groundhog day loop. delightfully made game, something of the spirit of the lucasarts point n click glory days. not a ton to it but highly recommended all the same.

unemployment has allowed me to finish persona 5 ahead of schedule and i must say, wow!

now i can get back to "real life" of not just playing that game all the time. including the best of 2016 c&p i've been procrastinating on!

I got Sniper Elite 4 after watching the Honest Games Trailer that featured exploding Nazi balls - it's pretty good. Frustrating because it really forces you into doing some headlong commando-rushes instead of sniping at times, but it's so much more fun than any 'real world' shooter I've played since Rainbow Six Vegas.

There was a dude from Dubai playing Sniper2 at the coffee shop last week. He got stuck in some weeds in the beginning couldn't get past the opening 5 minutes.

iOS chump post, please ignore if touchscreen-only interfaces give you the "jimmie rustles" as I've heard the kids say

I continue DESTROYING Realm Grinder on my phone - steady progress, lots of clicking, yes I've been checking the trophy & build guides on the kongregate boards, but only because I care

Love You To Bits is a much appreciated sequel to Tiny Thief. I'm about 1/3 through, but I try to reserve it for daughter-dad time so she can yell at uncooperative npcs and inquire insistently as to why the protagonist is in a particular environment

Spent my entire Sat night playing clicker games. fuck.

playing the new PC port of Bayonetta. that game is pretty cool, Platinum rocks.

resident evil 7 is very stressful!

i play it for like 20 or 30 minutes, make a little progress, quit. then i go back. same thing. i think it is a Very Good Game but i am maybe a giant baby in my old age.

also i love bayonetta and hope bayonetta 2 comes to pc b/c that is probably platinum's masterpiece.

can't stop playing town of salem, sort of hate myself

re: Res Evil - i felt the same about Alien: Isolation. i can handle maybe 20 minutes, then i put it down. I know i'll never finish it, but still rate it as one of the best ever horror games i'll ever play.

on about 80% completion on Horizon Zero Dawn - damn that game is so fantastically written, down to every collectible. combat is a total joy too. just to look at it from the outside you could easily write it off as another open world
hunting/stealthing/shooting thing, but its just soooooooo well done

i conquered my FEAR re RE7 and played a few more hours yesterday and man it is great. i am having nearly as much fun playing it as i did 1, 2 or 4. which is a lot. i loved alien: isolation but something about that resident evil craziness really gets me going.

i wandered away from horizon zero dawn for some reason, i should go back. i think i overleveled on side quests early on and most of the big fights have been fairly trivial as a result. you are right tho, the writing is very good and they really got a nice feel on the controls and combat.

definitely encouraging me to pick up RE7 when it hits the bargain bin

playing dishonored 2 and emulating MGS for ps1 on my Macbook (and it's awesome)

it's all just Zelda in my house, Zelda for hours, days, weeks

Endless Legend. It's like Civ but with magic and dwarves and an active battle system. Shit's pretty dope.

Yeah endless legend is awesome and they did an amazing job making all the factions distinct sometimes super dramatically. And it looks great too. Sequel due soon or is that endless space?

I finished BoTW at 36% completion rate, but all the temples, memories and armor. To hell with finding 550 more korok seeds. Someday I will go back and farm the dragon parts necessary to upgrade the Armor of the Wild set. I'd even do it now, but the first upgrade requires me to find 30 acorns, and I have no desire to virtually hunt squirrels for hours to unlock dumb armor.

lol I'm sure it's great but everything I hear about botw makes me never want to play it

it is delightful. and playful. and immersive. and there's a distinct set of strategies that are most effective for early, mid, and late-game. and i applied all of them at the wrong time. in retrospect, i spent the better part of 125+ hours running around a gorgeous virtual world collecting shit to upgrade shit to collect more shit to (ostensibly) do something involving the liberation of zelda from a disco-colored nightmare. by the final level i was so ridiculously overpowered that i beat the game, windowed picture-in-picture, while laughing my butt off at chewing gum on netflix. note: my dumb lategame strategy was checking out websites to find out the temples i'd somehow missed. at 120 distinct locations, it got a bit tedious.

i'm with mordy here i think

no, see, you're missing out. if you hunt, twice, each of the three dragons that appear only once every day on opposite sides of the map you can upgrade your wimpy endgame lederhosen, tunic, and tyrolean hat from level one level two. you'll need to repeat the whole process for levels three and four, but how at that point couldn't you want to?