whatchu playing now

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

i'm in the 'nethack sucks and dungeon crawl stone soup is the good oldschool-style roguelike' camp

i've been playing a bunch of DCSS on http://crawl.berotato.org:8080/ for the past week since the new version just came out and there's a tournament on. i am pretty terrible at it again though after not playing for years.

I wonder when Battlegrounds will make its way to consoles. The last time I owned a computer that could handle new PC games was like 1994. I was initially intrigued with playing DayZ on consoles but who the fuck knows when that's coming out.

Anyone playing the Friday the 13th game? It's pretty bare bones as far as the game's initial content, but I have a blast whenever playing it.

battlegrounds is in early access until the fall, console release is planned but will be sometime after that so maybe not until next year

(xp)
I've only played a couple of hours of Curious Expedition. It seemed pretty cool, but it's sitting in my library as one of those games that I expect to suddenly one day decide to get into. Same with Darker Dungeons, Mini Metro and Invisible, Inc. The latter really hooked me on first play; I sat down to just try it out for an hour or so and kinda staggered out of it six hours later. But then Isaac Afterbirth came out ...

Nuclear Throne and Gungeon require some speed and mouse-precision that I don't get playing on a laptop with a trackpad. I tried with an external mouse, but quickly found I also needed either an external keyboard or monitor, which was apparently enough friction for me to skip the games entirely. I guess they could be played with a controller, but not having grown up with a console, I'm not used to those.

People make Crusader Kings 2 sound awfully hard — I bought it on a Steam sale a couple of years ago, but haven't even booted it up yet.
I think the only other game I've spent significant time in in recent years is nu-X-COM. I wanted to play more of it than I did, but the expansion pack fsr made it run like molasses on my computer. I highly recommend its ironman mode, which gives you a single save slot and autosaves after every turn, so you really get to suffer for your mistakes.

Isaac unlocks are def a thing to be proud of! So I tell myself, at least. I have two unlocks left in Afterbirth. Two! One of them is taking down Delirium with the Keeper, which is going to require a hell of a synergistic run, and I haven't even made the attempt. The other is Greedier mode with Blue baby, which shouldn't be too big a deal. It's pretty much been my go-to game for two years though, so aside from a few of the most obscure or difficult challenges, most of unlocks have come naturally. I'm kinda amazed that some people have done full unlocks on all three saves. There are a few things I simply don't see myself ever doing again (e.g. donate 1000 coins in greed mode)

I've been playing Fire Emblem Awakening on casual mode because I don't care what anyone thinks of me

i play a lot of games on easy these days. being challenged/building mastery is just not something i value that highly in most single player games

most modern realtime games have awful combat mechanics anyway. the assassins creed style contextual animation-based combat has never ever worked for me and it's crept into everything.

for me it's a judgement call on whether i think the difficulty level is going to impact the gameplay. usually the more tactical something is the more i'll want it on a higher difficulty. also, specific genres like survival horror rely on getting the difficulty level right. conversely, if it's a giant open world game, i won't necessarily want to make it into more of a slog.

yeah that sounds right though i tend to go to multiplayer games or turn-based games for tactical gameplay. single player games i just want something stylish and/or immersive that i can therapeutically hack & slash my way through.