whatchu playing now

get to the part where you are alone in the desert and then the game starts. you're about fifteen minutes away i think.

Mordy, u right, although it's enjoyable it mainly made me want to go play more Isaac (but I won't! because I've already wrung all of the enjoyment juice out of it!)

You know Isaac just got another booster pack with some new items and enemies? It's caaaalling yoou.

I'm still just rolling Stephen's sausages all over the place. I've passed 30 hours in it, but it's taken pretty much all my gaming energy these past couple of months. I suspect I'm near the end, as some of the slightly cryptic notes in the games are looking kinda meta right now: "The wise people all felt the approach of an inevitable death, not just of body, but of idea."

Loving the island I'm on now though. The game managed to shock me yet again with a fairly major new puzzle mechanic.

Paperclips

any tips on how to get enough clips to build a clip factory? My harvester drone, wire drone, solar farm, and battery tower options are not bringing me any closer to the 100 mil clips i need.

i can't exactly remember, but i think there may have been an option to dismantle something to get a bunch of clips at once?

Universal Paperclips achieved in 4 hours 43 minutes 46 seconds

Basically an exercise in identifying bottlenecks to exponential growth, not unlike an abstracted 4x. Possibly inspired by the second season of Lexx.

poly: dismantle other things, perhaps not your batteries, if you're ramping "momentum". There's otherwise no penalty to deconstruction. There's arguably an advantage to dismantling and reconstructing, depending on how the network effect perks work.

i'm watching my boyfriend play 'echo' for ps4. i love it. i'm not a gamer but it seems pretty unique. great eno-ish soundtrack. a review in the washington post compared it to borges. graphics are very vaporwave / fatima al qadiri. really unique / interesting gameplay element where the environment 'reboots' every minute or so and enemies echo your actions from the previous cycle.

I'm on "second" playthrough of nier:automata and yeah, everybody should play this game.

i'm on the first (although i got the "you died on the tutorial" ending) and i was about to update with the same message. i'm only 8 hours in or so, but it really opens up about 2-3 hours in and i've been having an absolute blast.

Cuphead's lots of fun, and not as hard as I'd heard. I had no idea that "the tutorial is the hardest part" was just a joke/"meme"! Here I was prepared to spend hours just to get past the tutorial and it turns out it's a 20-second "push this button, push that button, okay done" kinda deal.

Cuphead is great. sometimes the bosses and pretty tough at first but you do learn and your skill increases until you are beating them with a fully developed skillset juggling a bunch of simple yet strategically effective moves. like for some phases a certain weapon or dodging style will come in handy, you learn this stuff naturally, gradually, through trial and error.

i gave Super Mario Sunshine another try. the intro was charming (lol Princess staring at Dopple Mario in the distance) but the first chase tutorial was torture. ended up quitting the game lost in the middle of a nondescript 3d town with no real idea of where to go or what to do. this was the first level. come on Mario, you always had this rightward unstoppable momentum. what the fuck is this? i never want to be lost in a Mario game. i heard it gets better and tbh if i had played this at the time it probably would seem ahead of its time but as is i just don't think this game is for me.

yeah i remember sunshine's intro being way too long

it was, especially the cutscenes and the jetpack stuff. i think it's worth trying at least until you get to the first "space" level and see if you want to try those, which are kind of the best parts of the game (the general water jet pack exploring stuff was a lot more uneven)

yeah unsurprisingly the bits that got extrapolated into mario galaxy are the best parts

Cogmind gets its early access release tonight, so I'll be hopping between that, Caves of Qud and Rimworld for the foreseeable future.

caves of qud is so cool, havent really delved into it much yet but the 'storytelling engine' or whatever you want to call it is very neat

Godhand
Shadow of the Collosus
Katamari Damacy
Tokyo Jungle
GTA III
GTA Vice City

what system are you playing the gta games on? Had an absolute nightmare trying to get the controls to work right through Steam. (Eventually found something called GInput which sorted it out)

are you using keyboard & mouse or a gamepad?

gamepad.

San Andreas I prefer the mouse though for on foot combat etc.

im playing on PS3. they have the 3/VC/SA trilogy for $30 on the store.

Godhand is a lot of fun. reminds me of Final Fight or dumb old arcade games. i love the music, it is a weird mix of drum n bass and surf rock. the first level has a song that sounds very close to The Ventures "Theme from Hawaii Five-0"

godhand is wild! great game. something about the ps2 seemed to encourage a lot of experimentation.

it is def something else. i went into the combo menu and wow at the ridiculous amount of customization you can do. hand-crafted combos with like a hundred different moves to choose from.

the style humor is a treat. at times its like an anime Three Stooges.

style of humor

godhand is fuckin great

4th try, and I broke the 3 hour barrier: Universal Paperclips achieved in 2 hours 55 minutes 53 seconds.

playing Hob again, as they seem to have fixed most of the performance issues in the latest patch. it's not perfect, there's some bits where it feels like you're fighting against the fixed camera angle rather than the game, but i'm really enjoying it. the set design continues to be incredible, it's not a trick that gets old at least not over the course of what i assume is a ~10 hour game.

playing Fallout Shelter on my phone because I'm sadistic

Yakuza 0 continues to be absolutely brilliant. will definitely be in my top 5 of the year.

Nearing the end of my second playthrough of FF6. I first played it over 10 years ago and have thought of it as being my fav FF since, and this time round has really cemented that opinion. Lots of memorable characters, great music, fun battles with every character getting unique menu options, and tons upon tons of secrets and hidden stuff all over the map(s). And its not that long, I’m in the final dungeon with 25 hours on the clock and lots of time spent doing sidequests etc.

ff6 was the first jrpg i played and it set my expectations wayyyy too high for the genre

ff6 is so great. try to see the Gau sidequest, i recall there is a really poignant backstory for him. didn't see it until my nth run.

Like many, I’m currently playing Mario Odyssey, but the Steam Sale got me and I bought Thumper to play in VR. It’s certainly not the most “in your face” VR, but dang it works so well.

Gone back to Doom. Good isn't it?

rend and tear, my friend

oh sorry, rip and tear

How is Mario? (xposts)

it's real fun so far. i'm being obsessive and hunting all the moons on each stage before progressing... even at the start they give you two stages to obsess over before you get going!
metal gear levels of cinematics tho'.

FYI you can't get every moon your first time through so don't strain yourself hunting if they seem to be drying up

Mario's great! Not as amazing as Zelda, but what is, really.
It's super fun and cute, but didn't WOW! me until New Donk City.

ty ciderpress, i'm finding a few that are just out of reach and tripping me out

i zipped thru the stranger things promo game, was ok. i take it a ~new character~ was unlocked a couple days ago

destiny 2 (starting to get bored though)
everybody's golf (fun, fast-placed games / very good character creator)

just got destiny 2, how long will it take me to get bored?

I'm at 275 and trying to get my character stronger to maybe take a shot at the raid, but I'm bored of the grind.

I'm taking a 2-day break from stardew valley, because part of me wants to just go as deep as I can in the mines, part of me wants to just socialize, and another part of me wants to get really good at fishing, but really what I want, what I REALLY want, is some horror content, because if anything is a set up to the Stepford / Wicker Man / GET OUT trope, it's this fucking town.

The carpenter lost "her favorite axe" in the woods. The mayor wants me to hunt down his favorite purple shorts. The librarian has the key to the sewer, where something apparently lives, if you ask the children. The multinational discount retailer is evil, not our strange pastoral way of life where beer costs 400 whatevers and for some reason the museum has no exhibits whatsoever until yours truly comes along. My farm has a second structure on the grounds which is in utter ruins, but nobody talks about that. Sure. This is fine.

everything is perfectly normal...in stardew valley. O_O

glad you stuck with it and seem to be enjoying it. i love the harvest moon/stardew valley genre and i want someone to perfect it

haha if stardew valley was secretly a horror game and no one had broken kayfabe on it for, what, two years, that would be the most amazing thing in the world to me