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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.

i just want a Heretic II-inspired blade battler

can't stop watching pubg streams getting embarrassing

Ha! It's definitely a fun game to watch. First time in forever I really wished I had a PC to play a game.

I guess a console version is in the works that will come out forever down the line, probably be a better iteration of that game style out before then.

And xp to ciderpress, yeah I don't see this as The Definitive version of this game style, still pretty clunky, just fixed a lot of problems that it had. Namely rapidly shrinking the battlefield and getting you in and out of games and into the action relatively quickly while still keeping the tension level high.

And I would barf all over a Blizzardization of something like this, but I kinda hate their design ethos and that's my own bag.

Same

Their style blows imo, all of it

not sure if big studios would want to invest in a competitive style that doesn't lend itself to esports/tournament play

yeah that's true. it's one of the best stream games ever though, at least among shooters - much more fun to watch and easy to follow than any fps. not sure if that is worth anything though as the game developer.

also its not really related but thinking about this has reminded me that every time i see a gameplay clip of titanfall 2 it looks incredibly good and fun but apparently barely anyone plays it or at least it has 0 streaming presence which seems to be a death knell for multiplayer games these days

TF2 also very difficult to just pick up and play because the people that are still playing are stupid good and you just get annihilated.

But yeah, the multiplayer for that seemed really fun and different, shame how it kinda just fell by the wayside.

I will be playing this: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/wipeout-omega-collection-ps4/

uh. yeah.

I dunno, couple of years ago Sony closed the SCE liverpool studio (which was formerly psygnosis and had been around since I think 1985) and put a ton of people out of work, while they were working on a new PS4 wipeout game, presumably because they didn't think they could sell wipeout games any more. Seems thoroughly shitty of them to then bundle up the last few wipeout games and sell them again anyway.

still heavy into Injustice 2...

http://cemu.info/

1.8.0b has a public release. it is very impressive. it plays Mario Kart 8 really well. it can play Breath of the Wild at 30 fps on an overclocked i5 4690k. BOTW is really really good. best Zelda game yet. the Switch Mario game is going to be fucking insane.

best Zelda game yet.

So fucking pay for it?

I'm alternating between Gwent and Doom. When I can get anywhere near the PS4 that is, as everyone else is playing GTAV and I'm not getting a lookin.

we beat Ganon in the Zelda on our shared file; when DLC1 comes out I'm gonna start my own file on hard mode. I've been playing menacing rhythm game Thumper, which is not as visceral as I would've thought from appearances but is fun to play and still sort of suitably frustration-inducing

oh yeah im definitely buying a Switch. it will be the only way to play the new Mario that comes out later this year. i will pick up Zelda once i get a Switch. i tried buying on one release and it was sold out otherwise i would already own it.

Tried and failed (so far) to get into Cataclysm DDA. Shit's complicated! in the meantime, always always Nuclear Throne.

nuke throne so good

just played thru far cry primal and despite it being a caveman skin on a far cry game the setting was satisfying.

Okay, pass friend.

I'm playing Monument Valley 2 - it's unsurprisingly great.

Armagetron Advanced!

I just installed Nethack. I have no idea what I'm doing. After some random key presses, the game gave me a message that made me wonder at just how much characterization it was going into, as it told me that I "miss the kitten." Then I realized I probably just tried to murder a cat.

Every key does /something/ and I have no idea what half of it means. Apparently I'm just going to have to give in and read the damn manual.

it's your cat! don't kill it!

not bc it's useful (unless you're planning on painstakingly robbing shops it's not) but bc it gives you terrible karma. 9 times out of 10 i try to abandon my pet on the first floor.

Ah, so it's just like real life.
I took a look at the code on Github, because, well, why not — and goddamn does this game have a lot STUFF in it! Maybe it'll finally be something to get me to stop just playing the Binding of Isaac over and over.
But right now it does kinda feel like I'm playing Emacs: The Game.

While I was banging my head into walls, my cat killed a zombie, so that's pretty cool. She's a good kittie.

Goddamn jackals. My kitten fought hard, but the jackals wouldn't stop coming and so I am dead

You were an Evoker, a level 1 male human Wizard.
You were neutral, on a mission for Thoth
who was opposed by Ptah (lawful) and Anhur (chaotic).

This game is /so weird/

You were lucky.
You are dead.

!!!

unless you're planning on painstakingly robbing shops

just like rl :p

you should read post on the nethack thread

Old School - Nethack

i'm a very strong binding + nethack booster we may be soul gamers

Oh good, will def have to read that thread tomorrow.

If you have 100+ hrs in FTL too, then yes, probably! (I killed my own interest in that game by trying to advance from medium difficulty to hard, and boy did it become punishing.)

lol i unlocked every ftl ship before deluxe/expansion came out i don't remember in how many hours

have u tried curious expedition, nuclear throne, crusader kings 2?

p.s. Rogueism -- probably wrong to be proud of this should just be ashamed