whatchu playing now

recommend me your five fave ios games under $5 GO!

is this part of the Psycho Mantis fight?

lol

i recommend the MGS VR Virtual Missions as well. it is a very cool minimalist Matrix/Tron-style compilation of stealth challenges, hundreds of missions all focusing on different skill sets, all set in beautiful glowing laser tag arenas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e2L_Iuk1uE&t=210s

stuck at this fight

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/946346-bayonetta/53212543

what is the Wicked Weave is that the post-combo hair special attack?

WW are the giant hair fist/feet attacks, yes

Have any of you ever tried xcom as a co-op? I'm thinking that we could just each control half the squad (2 players each) and make decisions independently rather than discussing each move.

i remember playing FF6 like that, which actually gave 2P the ability to control half the team. sort of an unadvertised bonus feature

got the diablo 3 allthestuffedition on ps4 sale. This is so much better than the half game I bought on PC a few years ago. my god this thing is addictive.

How much? And it controls well on the ps?

Controls very well on PS4. I went online and was playing with some obviously hacked randos and gained a zillion levels and overpowered equipment which essentially broke my character. Would be wary of playing with anyone you aren't friends with.

i probably played more diablo 3 than any other game last year, it's great

Alienation - free on ps plus this month. tons of fun twin stick Alien Breed style shooter / Diablo loot grind. hugely enjoyable.

Hostess club manager minigame in Yazuza 0 - GOTY 2017

yakuza*

is that thing 50% off yet? also waiting for persona 5 to drop in price.

No idea, picked it up a while ago and have just been working through it a few hours a week. First one of these i've played and really enjoying the hard cuts between side activity lunacy and gritty, tense mainstory cutscenes.

Finished Persona 5 and despite some weak characters and pacing it's still a great game just doesn't hold a candle to 4 in terms of personality for me.

is that thing 50% off yet? also waiting for persona 5 to drop in price.

― Mordy, Wednesday, May 10, 2017 4:22 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No but Kiwami, the PS4 remake of Yakuza 1, comes out this summer at half-price.

Torment: Tides of Numenera has been reliably entertaining and low key so far (not very far into it, far enough to have filled my party with the three female NPCs)

also started back into Diablo III with a seasonal character

oh! i've been playing d3 a bunch. i'm at like torment VIII w/ my witch doctor. putting together the final pieces on a helltooth gargantuan build (just got my short man's finger last night -- still really need a ring of royal grandeur to cube).

Just want to remind everyone, that I'm not addicted

hours played ;
Farming Sim 2011 : 326 hours
Farming Sim 2013 : 600 hours
Farming Sim 2015 : 1122 hours
Farming Sim 2017 : 399 hours ...

I have actually jumped back into Skyrim, and surprised at how quickly I remember where I am with the outstanding quests.

My strange video game addiction would make a good thread

there's already a thread for MPQ

Turns out Super Metroid is pretty dope. I'm playing on an SNES emulator with a not-SNES gamepad (https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Electronics-Photo/Buffalo-BSGP801GY-Classic-USB-Gamepad-PC/B002B9XB0E) and graphics/controls/baddies/sound are blowing me away. And oh, the music!

it is GOAT status no doubt

Scott's 1,2, and 3 and these weird but quite good Fall comps called Creative Distortion.

Oops thought this was ILM. Just ignore that.

Super Walker Bros.

Scott 2 has average graphics but the sound is off the charts good and it definitely rewards repeated playthroughs

tricked out my WD in d3 and beat GR 67ish and XIII tormented all over the place. it's fun but feel like i'm done unless i start up a new char. maybe i'll take a break and then try a different class.

played ep1 of borderlands telltale tnite and it was as advertised v funny

also finished dishonored 2 tnite - emily playthru, low chaos (zero kills) - also fun but not sure if i feel like doing a corvo high chaos playthru. which is a shame bc he has the best toys and u barely use 90% of yr abilities if u shun violence

It was only a couple of weeks ago that I was recommending D3 and you're already at XIII??? How many hours a day have you been playing the damn thing?

2-3 maybe? I play in the evening while watching tv. TBH progression is v quick. Campaign was maybe 6 hours and then another 2-3 to get to lvl 70. And then just rifts, GR's and a couple bounties

close to done with horizon zero dawn. would echo the previous comment about how well done it is. really the defining feature of the game, all craft no inspiration, but exceptionally well crafted. gameplay, world design, visuals, sound, interface. what is fresh about it, tho, is the implementation of well-worn things like elemental damage and enemy weakpoints that are so often half assed and here actually done justice. the world design and progression toe the border of linear and open world and get the best of each, and the combat is fun and feels strategic. definitely a game where you can wander about and do some side shit and not feel like you wasted your time, about as high of a recommendation as an open world game can get.

interesting. might give it a chance later

i def want to try it (when it's discounted)

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight. Only about an hour in, but it's pretty great. Good controls, art, enemies. Challenging but not too frustrating (so far). I'm a sucker for Metroidvania games.

that game has great art

It does, but now that I've played a few more hours I think its charms are pretty fleeting. It's really very, very similar to lots of other games in the genre, and now that I've spent so much time playing Rogue Legacy, I don't think I can go back to traditional Castlevania-alikes.

I mean, I'm still going to finish it. For one, because it's way shorter than I expected. Unless it has some surprise "upside down castle" mode, I'm pretty sure I'm almost through with it, after about 7 hours.

Getting addicted to the early access *Playerunknown's Battlegrounds* (PC only, for now). Its a Battle Royale shooter where I end most games without firing a shot. This video captures the appeal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVWyHl6YOGE

Watched a friend playing Battlegrounds with some of his buddies the other day and it got super tense. Would play if I had a PC.

same

interesting video. i can't imagine that game being fun for me, but cool piece

thumper on the switch is a lot of super-trippy rhythm-action fun - i'm terrible at it tho :(

battlegrounds is really fun and tense even if you're bad at shooters, and watching the actual good players play it is unreal, the way they can instantly locate enemies from the directional audio or a couple pixels of movement half a mile away

i'm not yet convinced that it's going to be the be-all end-all game of the battle royale genre though, its stuck in bland military sim world just enough that it feels like there's room for someone else to swoop in and blizzard-ize the genre with fun sci-fi weapons and more polish. i get the sense that half the playerbase doesn't actually care about the difference between different models of assault rifle and are just playing this because it's the best execution of the genre so far.

Is 'Thumper' the one from one of the Lightning Bolt guys? (x-post)

xp: I don't disagree. Someday there will be some melee combat system that's immersive, tactical, and still easy to get into. When that happens, I envision a crazy night-time Battle Royale, with enough players, across a swath of Chiba city (for the neon), or Davao city (for the developing world corrugated roofs), will be possible. Chef's knife, machete, street signage, or endlessly rooting around bedrooms for a revolver with only 6 bullets.

What's good about PUBG's is that it combines roots from milsims (like Arma), where hiding, making use of cover/camouflage, and anticipating an adversaries actions are more important than FPS twitch skills, with the convenience and game round length of a hop-in FPS or MOBA. Arma requires hours just to learn the controls, and far more to join a good crew. With PUBG, you're 3 minutes from being on Murder Island, and at most 32 minutes from the end of a match.