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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?

Meshi Quest ON IPAD

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SMW and LTTP on snes classic mini

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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.....

escaped jungle zoo animals

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. :(

i love yakuza 0! it called me a karaoke bozo

haven't gotten to majima yet but am looking forward to it

Tokyo Jungle is really fun. it is kind of difficult at first, at least i think there is a little learning curve irt combat and the survival mechanics. there is a story mode and a sort of open world survival mode. survival mode is cool because you have puppies (or kitties or etc etc i presume at some point baby dinosaurs) and it becomes a matter of lasting across generations. so you are going through these lineages of animal families that must 1) find food 2) mark territory 3) find a mate 4) find shelter/propagate the species. i made it three generations of Pomeranians before getting killed fighting a gang of cats in the midst of an acid rain storm. so far i only have Pomeranian and Deer unlocked. hyped for the rest.

it unlocks in nice sections and stays fun pretty much to the end.

Tokyo Jungle

fuck i didn't evne know danganronpa 3 was out! sort yrself out will

i finally got nier automata since it's on sale for $38.

man, i suuuuuuuck. the tutorial area is the same as the demo i downloaded and ran through relatively quickly a few weeks ago, but for some reason i've died THREE times now, and since you don't get your first save opportunity until after the tutorial, i'm getting really sick of going through the same 30 minute tutorial over and over. guess i should just admit i suck and put it on easy mode, but i really wanted to play through on Normal. sigh.

btw, this is a totally new idea that will blow everyone's mind but gamer culture is maybe the worst culture. just try to read through a page of these comments. these people are the biggest dicks in the universe

https://steamcommunity.com/app/524220/discussions/0/135511913383254546/

xp myself re: DGRv3 - fuck nvm. im unemployed and i just saw that $80 CAD price tag, foh with that (until i have a job again)

lol Karl i would stay away entirely from Steam forums. the first time i signed up was for MGSV and i thought oh this will be cool i can talk about this game with people. bad idea. it is overrun with trolls. entirely pointless. Steam forums are an intellectual cesspool.

Nier looks cool but damn there are too many games to play. some day for sure. Nioh is coming to PC now too. never played it but it seems rad.

Cuphead is so impressive! feel like this is a game that should have already existed. Mario has always had this silent film thing going on, the kinetic aspect of video games is very much in line with that early film style. the simplistic setups too, heroes and villains. this makes me think of Steamboat Willie or Popeye but it's definitely doing it's own thing, all the designs are cool and original and the art design is super wonderful.

Cuphead reminds me of Dragon's Lair. this is the kind of games the 80s NES would play if it successfully used Dragon's Lair laserdisc technology. if Donkey Kong spawned not Super Mario Bros. but this Silent Film Contra. it is a game out of time and it is very well done. it looks so good and it is so much fun to play! it really feels like a lost 80s arcade game made by Fleischer studios.

sometimes it makes me think of Commander Keen

i totally confused nioh for nier - thought the original was getting ported to PC or something

Zs, you can change the difficulty back when u can save, ramp it down. Game is very good!

i got a lotta bit drunk and then died on easy mode

i will try again tomorrow. dang it, i used to get really far in gradius III and super r-type without the konami code! i shouldn't suck like this! but i do. i do suck like this.

watching ppl play fortnite battle royale and it kinda looks like an improvement on PUBG in multiple ways for anyone who doesnt care about having a facade of realism in their shooters.

i'm creeped out by just how much it looks like a quirky re-skin of PUBG. i'm also still creeped out by how hard it is to tell apart every MOBA, so take that for what it's worth

well in that sense PUBG was already a non-quirky reskin of H1Z1 battle royale which was a quirky reskin of arma dayz battle royale

the difference of course being that the same guy was behind all 3 of those whereas fortnite is his first serious competitor