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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?

good god

That sounds like a great idle clicker. Do I also need to have exactly 777 sacred whatsits in all arcane practices before 12:57 so I can get the challenge trophy

Are folks playing City Clickers? Seems like a time-sink, but I only played a little as I still have to finish Thimbleweed Park. And I've mostly been playing roguelikes. Sigh.

which roguelikes?

and thimbleweed park is cute as heck but i only got up to unlocking the map and haven't done much since then. kinda loses a bit of its momentum?

i refuse to play anything with clickers in the name

Oh, I've been playing Caves of Qud recently, and I've been getting back into ADOM too.

Yeah, there's always a problem with graphical adventures (or whatever you call them) that when you open up a lot of places at once it can be overwhelming. The puzzle aspect gets diluted somehow? I think they work best when you have a few screens at a time. I'm enjoying TP, though; some interesting stuff in it.

thimbleweed's over use of meta humour just got on my nerves

Caves of Qud looks like the rogue game I need right now though.

xp dowd - this is a classic adventure game design problem imo. half the reason i quit early on many games. i think the last one this hit me with was Machinarium

Mordy what do you think of mgs

so far i like it a lot - story is v engaging, tackles themes that don't get a lot of exposure in video gaming, and the gameplay itself is serviceable (if not a bit repetitive and clunky esp regarding switching to 3d perspective). i'm still v early on (only a bit after the first boss) but i could see myself playing through it. i've already started wondering how well i can emulate ps2 on my macbook.

Lara Croft GO

Sorta Monument Valley lite. Nice art, puzzles not too hard, soothing nature sounds.

mordy i envy you getting to experience MGS for the first time

also just playing MGS1 for the first time, on vita. I can totally see why it was so huge for the time, its still pretty amazing in many ways. but daaamn the tank controls are unfun.... i sort of also wish the gameplay sequences between boss fights were a little longer, parts of it just feel like boss boss boss. currently just killed sniper wolf, but did actually think i was gonna give up just before i finally beat Psycho Mantis on my 15th attempt. old games were hard.

Pretty sure you had to like switch your controller to the Player 2 port to beat Psycho Mantis on PS1. Not sure how they translate that to a Vita.

He would also read details off of your memory card. Pretty neat headfuck at the time.

the controls for that game really suck. it is very much stuck between 2D and 3D. some of the boss fights are a huge pain.

it's definitely worth playing tho. at least play it to when you find the scientist! he has the best cutscenes.

oh i switched the controller port (easy to do on vita) but that fight is still a total bitch with those controls. plus the possible instafail at a certain point half way into it...

that had me completely stumped on the orginal ps. Wasn't there a similar head fuck boss fight?

check the back of the box

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