whatchu playing now

ooo that looks great. any of the fallen london ppl involved?

it's these guys: http://www.greyaliengames.com/
they have a well-reviewed "regency solitaire" game that looks like a warmup to shadowhand and is basically anglophile/eyre story solitaire i may try while i'm waiting to see if i like the way they do the mechanics

oh, those guys! i really enjoyed fairway solitaire

same here, good enough for me to give them a chance

cities: skylines

about ten minutes of hard west before realising i wanted to turn the ai off

... the ironman. not the ai.

Stardew Valley

i bought this a week ago, the hype was real. already i accidentally have stayed up til 5am several times tending to crops and scavenging on the beach.

that's what it does! i detached when it got a bit clingy, should likely restart.

Did it take you guys a while to get into it? I only played it for 15 minutes, but found nothing appealing about it, so I haven't returned to give it a proper try. It sorta made me think back to the miserable hour I spent with a grinding game called Don't Starve.

has anyone played what remains of edith finch?

i really like these sort of games, usually.

w/ stardew valley it took me a few "tries" to get into. once i got my farm anything near working, that's when it started to get addictive.

I read AdBru’s post wrong and was initially indignant like wtf cheat code lets your character stay up until 5am

I also just started Stardew and was hooked by like the 5th day. still no idea what I'm doing but I like that the game doesn't seem to care how long it takes you to figure everything out

hard west is not v good, i've decided

ah you've all convinced me to get Stardew

lol my cheatcode was Pinot Noir.

i just built a coop and am trying to gather enough clay for a silo so i can start collecting hay to feed my chickens. this is awesome cos irl i have tried to have chickens several times and was always usurped by legality and city codes. now all that grass i am reaping w my scythe can go towards feeding some animals. i like it!

there is so much to do. i haven't finished my first year and already am seeing so many options and things to pursue. yet you can play this in bite-sized day-long chunks, casually. Switch is the perfect platform for this imo. fishing w the joycons is pretty cool, the hd rumble letting you know when one is on the line. fishing took me a few days to figure out but once i got started it was as addicting as any of this game's great activities.

the music in this game is so good!!! best soundtrack since Shovel Knight? it really captures the feel of those chill 16-bit village games without sounding consciously retro about it. the synths and tones are still modern, more like a chillwave version of the SNES waveset. stunning that this was made by one person. did they do the music too?

Yep!

i keep getting the audio bug where there's static. from what i understand, setting the switch to mono sound and resetting the system fixes that?

I just put up with the audio glitch. Will be fixed in the next Switch patch

btw, i caved for steamworld dig 2 and it's very good!

yooka-laylee on ps4. i like it!

kittens game on my phone.

GT Sport. Really digging it so far, bring on the new content promised for the next few weeks

Thanks, Will, I'm gonna give Stardew a few more times and see if I start "getting" it.

I bought Poly Bridge yesterday. I'm liking it well enough after nearly an hour, and can definitely see myself picking it up to play for 5-10 minute sessions for a good while to come. Look forward to getting a better feel for what sort of structures work best, etc. It's fun to get a working solution, then try to pare it down to its essentials. It has given me a few nice a-ha! moments where removing a seemingly unimportant part makes everything fall apart.

Also, it has a built-in feature that I imagine might have made it infamous in certain social circles. Replay integration to Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr/Reddit!
Here's a little jump I just made:
http://gallery.drycactus.com/image/view/485453
(I wouldn't want to be in the second car, but it still counted as a win)

finished Wolfenstein: The New Order and I'm about 2/3rds of the way through The Old Blood, with Wolfenstein II (thanks, black friday!) to follow if I'm not tired of first person shooters

biggest guilty lols so far have to be from the boss fight in TOB where he won't stop screaming about how you killed his dog. dude, you had a nightmare albino beast that you fed human flesh, I am not buying this line about her being the nicest dog in all of Germany

I'm near the end of Autumn, year 1 in Stardew Valley and just built a coop, silo, and enlarged my house in rapid succession.

I also got 1st place in the grange competition at the fair which I'm rather proud of because I'd heard it was really difficult to do in the first year!

Highly recommend becoming "close friends" with Emily 'cause that chick has some trippy cut scenes!

my friend plays stardew with his 5 year old and they both love it so hard

Highly recommend becoming "close friends" with Emily 'cause that chick has some trippy cut scenes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXwX-QD6Y60

this is the load game music for Stardew Valley. even if you never play the game you should hear this, it rules so much.

I started Horizon Zero Dawn. Even though I have issues with the post-Far Cry 3 template that this inhabits (standard mix of activities, huge map with quests of varying priorities feeling like I have way too many errands to run, etc), it's still pretty great. Mostly due to the mechanics around the robot animals that freshen things up.

Splurged on an Oculus Rift, should be here by the weekend. Hoping my 1060 6gb has enough vroom. So psyched right now! Superhot VR looks the shit. Will report back.

Get Tilt Brush! https://www.tiltbrush.com/

when will ilx vr finally happen

i gave 'convoy' about an hour

it's ok i guess

I went back and played it compulsively until I'd completed it

Still wouldn't go any better than okay

fought off temptation to play again

installed bioshock infinite

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Jr7gVTPbMSk/maxresdefault.jpg

don't know if i can solve this puzzle tho

a whole game set in a floating city and it won't let you jump off things

real games fucking let you jump off things

god i fucking hate that game with a passion

i liked it a lot more when it started letting me jump off things

Get Tilt Brush! https://www.tiltbrush.com/

― reggae mike love (polyphonic),

Yeah, tiltbrush is so good. Getting high, putting tunes on and drawing pretty pictures in cyberspace isn't going to get old for a while.

Having lots of fun with Superhot, Serious Sam and Robo Recall. Even with VRs resolution limitation its still a level of immersiveness I haven't encountered elsewhere. Enen just hanging out in VR is cool - playing paintball with randomers in VR was great fun, and watching the man u game in a virtual imax cinema with like 10 other people was a blast. Oh yeah, and wandering around London in Google Earth like I'm Godzilla.

No idea if VR is the future of gaming or a fancy eyeToy but for now I'm a complete convert.

bioshock keeps revoking my ability to jump off things

I got pretty far in bio shock ultimate but then encountered a glitch on the overhanging rail thing and gave up

thomp cmon just wiki the plot twist.

since this is basically the ILG borad thread I'll ask here, is anyone planning on running Coint + Plick this year? I think it's a good year for it. If someone wants to team up, I'd be willing to run the ballot collection and tabulation if someone else can commit to the rollout. I haven't followed C+P for a couple years but I'm…back into video games this year, because Switch

okay

so i started playing that new assassin’s creed game and it appears to be... legit great?

I'm NOT playing _Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy_ because apparently my computer isn't powerful enough to run it smoothly at lowest res and worst image quality. Yay Unity!

It seems like an, uh, interesting game. I guess it could easily be called a "meme" game — it's by the guy who made QWOP, and shows a similar interest in building a game around a frustrating control scheme. In this you are a man who's stock in a large kettle, who moves around by dragging and pulling and launching himself up a mountain with a hammer. You essentially control the tip of the hammer, within the range of your arms' reach.

Will hang on to it, just in case the Mac version gets an optimization fix in the next couple of weeks. (That happened to Enter the Gungeon, for instance, which was unplayable for me when it launched.)
Also, I've been planning to buy a PC for over a year now, so ANNNNY DAYYY NOWWW!

i don't plan on playing Getting Over It but i'm glad it exists. it's crazy to me that it's a performance intensive-game, though! it seems like one that could work just as well as a DOS-booted game on a floppy disk in 1990.

Yeah, it's also a 500 MB download!