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that looks way too straight faced for me, pubg works because it's an improbable blend of realism and cartoonishness

I'll return to PUBG when the new, smaller Peruvian desert town map is released. Erangel (the current map) is rare case of a much too large map, which means one's worried about running/driving from the blue death too much of the game, at least if you're a coward like me. The payoff is that there's 20 minutes of buildup to the tension of trying not to reveal one's position unless absolutely necessary in in the top-20.

Yeah, I don't own the game yet but from what I've seen the whole running away from the blue zone seems to take up too much of the gameplay for me. I'm still on the fence. If it comes out at a decent discount price maybe.

How do most people play PC shooters? I've been playing console games so long, using a Logitech mouse and a keyboard feels weird to me.

Among FPS gamers, keyb/mouse is considered far superior as an input method. Console analog sticks simply aren't precise enough to turn to a particular azimuth with "muscle memory", so console games rely heavily in aim-assist. It's one reason why cross-platform games on Xbox and PC always have different servers for each platform, PC players would have an unfair advantage on mixed servers.

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this Japanese soap opera about video games, "Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light", is the most engrossing thing I've ever watched on Netflix pic.twitter.com/KXJLtfOnf8

— Emily Gaudette (@emilygmonster) September 7, 2017

i just watched the first episode. no one's going to win an award for acting, but the tweeeeeetster is right that it is strangely affecting. it may help if you too have a dad that you can't really communicate with but who you once shared a videogame bond with

the show is about a son who buys his newly retired dad a ps4 + FF XIV, then hatches a plan to anonymously help him through the game and get to know him in that way, since they don't really talk in real life

For those intrigued by Squad, humblebundle sale, $24.

picked up Red Dead Redemption for PS3, playing it for the first time. what a cool game!

kinda off topic and sorry for cross-post but honestly i think most people here would be interested in it:

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that FF show is hilarious, can't wait to see more after episode 1

has anybody tried out Tooth and Tail?

i tried it at pax earlier this year and it was cute but i'm so poorly versed in RTS games that i didn't really know what i was doing - it didn't seem like it solves the accessibility issues of the genre as much as just provides a lighter/quicker option for people who already play these games.

Danganronpa 2 on PS4. First one started out slooow but it sped up once the cast got smaller. It's Phoenix Wright style mysteries with some j-horror and short dating/"social links" sections thrown in. Second one is also starting out slow.

Steppy Pants and Make More on android.

neir automata is really good on first contact!

also hmmmm
https://kotaku.com/the-notorious-board-game-that-takes-1500-hours-to-compl-1818510912

got pro evo 2018 at the weekend - enjoying it so far. seems kinda easy when you play in one player, which is unusual. might chance an online game this evening.

Nier:Automata is really special. I strongly encourage you to play all the way through to ending E, if you stop the first time the credits roll then you miss a substantial amount of the game.

i started playing N:A on hard and had to replay act one for over an hour before i finally allowed myself to play normal and move forward... i gather there's a ton of spoilers regarding how the game plays out so i won't ask for help. but yes, it's immediately engaging and super well done so far!

yeah once you get past the first act and get some upgrades you can turn the difficulty back up without a problem. I'm awful at character action games myself so I just play on normal regardless but this one is not particularly hard.

it also has one of the best soundtracks ever

yeah, the music is killer. I may go back to hard difficulty as I've been cruising without a death since I started playing on normal. Health recharges are plentiful and autoheal makes it easy to explore.

biggest difference in hard is you lose the lock-on iirc so you have to actually aim your ranged stuff. other than that it's just the standard 'you take more damage'

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the best non-spoilery tip for N:A is to save as often as possible, there's no auto-save and you *will* lose hours of progress when you least expect it if you don't do it manually. It's just a couple of button presses so do it whenever you're in range of the save terminals

have been marathoning Danganronpa 3 this week since I want to finish it ahead of the crowd to avoid spoilers. they've still got some tricks left in their bag after the first 2 games, though so far it's been a tad easier than DR2. still best in class for theatricality and clever staging in detective games though.

I only saw the trailer, it appears to be Teenage Witch Phoenix Wright but also .. all other games ever?

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xp yeah the series is basically Phoenix wright with horny anime teens and twistier cases, plus a Lost-style overarching story of figuring out what's actually going on with the game world. First game starts pretty slow with some simpler cases iirc but ramps up nicely and is a good litmus test, 2nd and 3rd games assume you've played the previous ones and use that foundation to do more ridiculous things.

id recommend them if you like detective fiction and have a high tolerance for corny anime and the visual novel format

i do. i should give those a try. didn't have a Vita so ignored them for some time but they're on PS4 now, right?

downloading Cuphead from Steam right now. i hear it's really tough bullet hell so that plus the art design is like my dream game.

i'll get that when the Mac port hits, probably

Steamworld 2, which is very, very good! Practically played it in one sitting (11.5 hours to finish, though not even close to 100%).

The controls and physics (?) are so good, and the powerups so well designed, that by the time you've unlocked everything near the end you get in this state of perfect, intuitive platformer "flow" or whatever. Might be better than Super Mario World in that respect, which seems like it's the gold standard.

Whew, those 11.5 hours were the most fun I've had playing a video game in a long, long time!

Does it still have procedurally generated levels?

Sorry, I should have given the correct title, it's Steamworld Dig 2, not to be confused with Steamworld Heist (also very fun!)

Not procedurally generated

This is shaping up to be one of the best years for games ever. Well, at least for the type of games I liked as a 90s kid.

Cuphead: Dark Souls comparisons might be too much but it does say "You Died" every time you, well, die. And that's a lot of dying.

Total War: Warhammer II: Just taking a crack at it but enjoying this WH shit more than I thought I would.

I realized the gaming laptop I got to play TW and Paradox games is actually pretty powerful and I can hook up my PS controller (had to for Cuphead) so I picked up Shadow of Mordor in the Steam sale.

Also stupidly got Divinity: Original Sin 2.

Cuphead: really, really cool. stylish as fuck, looks like a hand drawn cartoon from Ibiwerks/Felix the Cat era and plays like a modern Contra/Metal Slug. played for an hour or so and only really made it through the first level. looking forward to living with this for a while! someone put their house up for mortgage to make this game so its nice to see it getting a good reception. sometimes the good guys win!

Tokyo Jungle: one of the main reasons i wanted a ps3 and perhaps one of the greatest premises ever for a video game. its a 2.5D platformer taking place in post-apocalyptic Tokyo overrun by plants and animals where you control everything from housepets (first mission is a Pomeranian wearing a pink sweater) to wild dogs and hyenas to escaped jungle animals like Lions and Bears. every animal has the same moveset (walk/run/claw/bite/stealth/etc) but each animal will need to complete areas in different ways. for instance your golden retriever can hunt down food in the open but your forest deer will have to use tall grass to hide from predators as you seek out edible plants.

Destiny 2: played some at a friend's on his ps4. i was pretty lousy at the first one but this was a lot of fun, seems like a much better game.

RDR: this seems like such a huge game. i played for a few hours recently and ended up running into a snake oil salesman and doing this sidequest with him where i used bullet time to shoot a hat out of the air in order to help him con a bunch of people. i really like the wide open feel of this game. it seems like everything opens up at the start and even if there are tutorial things they are pretty seamlessly integrated into the game. oh, and night time in this game looks GORGEOUS. the colors of the sky. ahhhh.....

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Went through Catherine on Xbox 360 - seven years in the backlog! - what a strange game. Design-wise a bit clunky (so much loading, so many cutscenes, alternating between dating sim-style mechanics between the 3D puzzler sections) but so interesting and ultimately fun. Really unique - definitely deserves to be ported to modern systems. (That said, not sure if i have the patience to get all the other endings, which takes ~3 playthroughs.)

first impressions of Hob: stunning game but has some sort of major performance issue on PC causing frequent frame drops so i'd recommend waiting to make sure they can patch it up. its a 3d metroidvania thats 'gimmick' is essentially being Cool Set Design: The Game and it certainly nails that part. i'm not convinced that the game even needed combat though, it's fine enough but almost detracts from the overall vibe.

it's from the Torchlight guys, right? on the list

yeah runic games

red dead and Tokyo jungle are two of all time faves, no problem

i'm really glad Cuphead exists even though I'll never play it myself since I don't enjoy that style of game

Yakuza 0. Was enjoying it a ton. And then shit gets next level when you get to first Majima part. The localisation is very very good indeed.

Cuphead seems really great, but ever since I was a kid I've found that style of art/animation viscerally off-putting. :(