whatchu playing now

Finally playing No no Kuni again. The Studio Ghibli pair-up seems to have made them want to aim at a much younger audience than all the PS2 Level-5 games

Could not finish. The combat system appeared to have a lot to it, but none of it seems to have any impact on the game? In the end you could still just fight normally with whatever monsters you had since this the begining and ignore the skill tree and upgrades altogether, it seems. Very unlikely the SMT/Persona series where you have to really pick the right monsters to fight along side you depending on enemy vulnerabilities....

COD: WW2 is just frustratingly bad. Not unplayable but after 2-3 matches at a time it's just not fun. Thought a return to "realistic" would be good after all the sci-fi CODs but matchmaking is terrible, hit detection is crap and the maps suck.

I bought What Remains of Edith Finch a couple of months ago, I need to try it out.

I'm probably the only one here rocking the xbox one, but I'm stoked about PUBG being released this week. I have a shit laptop, so this will be my first experience playing the game.

is out on ps4 around the same time? i'm with you. although, i downloaded fortnite and after getting dominated in the battle royale mode a million times straight, i'm not sure i want to fork out money for PUBG and experience the pwnage all over again

I have read that PUBG is very glitchy on xbox at the moment so you might want to wait for an update

Karl, I believe it is coming to PS4 at some point. I think Microsoft paid a premium to have early access to the game. Poly, I read the same today, but I already purchased it a few days ago. I was planning on playing this weekend. I have the vanilla xbox so my expectations are low. I remember when F13 was released it was described as a buggy mess (and it was), but I had a blast playing it.

I'm worried about the frame rate issues people are having. I could care less about graphics, tbh.

grrr, couldn't care less.

shadowhand was fun up to the point where the RNG elements made each level require a dozen plays per to get the right deal

https://www.polygon.com/2017-best-games/2017/12/18/16781674/best-video-games-2017-top-50-mario-pubg-zelda

that really does make this year look crazy good. haven't heard of a huge chunk of those games, tons of indie pc stuff that looks awesome

Yeah that’s a nice list. Lots on xbone ps4 too, more than I’d expected. Pretty shabby listings for iOS but that seems to be established now.

deadly premonition

i love this

a classic for sure

we have made the switch today and it is delightful

Merry Switchmas to all

All these best of 2017 lists are more intimidating than usual, keep seeing stuff that looks good that went off my radar entirely.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/12/ars-technicas-best-video-games-of-2017/

I dusted off the witcher 3 since I'm trying to finish it in two years but goddamnit it doesnt make things easy.. trying to upgrade some gear and I need one goddamn component that I cant find anywhere, and the online guides aren't very helpful. THIS IS WHY ITS TAKING ME TWO YEARS TO FINISH THIS SHIT.

i played the first 30 hours of witcher 3 earlier this year and really enjoyed it, and then went and tried to play it again recently and the magic was completely gone, it just felt really gloomy and samey and heavy handed

X-Com: Enemy Unknown (2012)

i remember the old VGA DOS one and the cool underwater sequel. never had the game but I did have the demo and it was very fun. this remake was less than $10 on Steam so i finally pulled the trigger. at first it kept crashing during the first mission, but after changing to 1280x768 i haven't seen that problem anymore. anyways the game is really rad. right now im in a railroad yard trying to stealthily move in and disarm plasma bombs while the aliens that set them up try to stop me. i like how unique the missions end up being; someone could get shot by an alien and it may drive someone into a frenzy and they start shooting (maybe killing bad guys, maybe accidental friendly fire) its always something new w this game

so following the tutorial on random missions (even ones marked "easy") and i am horrible at this lol. but it is very fun and looks great and it will be cool to figure out how to make it through w most of my people alive ;-p

i really like the story too. the leader of R&D is very Project Paperclip and i am sure this is on purpose. they talk a lot about the ethics of using the enemy's war machines and the dangers of adopting their techniques. in that way it kind of feel like classic sci fi, and it seems like a good way to tie the story and gameplay together.

This is the first year since my childhood I've been mostly familiar with what shows up on end of year lists /:

tho rn i am playing the last of us for the first time. its certainly a videogame!!

i bought pyre, little nightmares and sundered for ps4 as they were all on sale and have been recommended on best ofs
had every intention of playing through the winter break and didn't touch any of them....

also undertale, west of loathing and fidel dungeon rescue for steam.
and persona 5 for ps4
and my switch backlog
it sure is fun being an adult

Persona 5 is like 100hrs long

lol, i know. i'm buying games that i would be playing if i didn't have all these other interests and an unwieldy life to deal with.
I JUST WANNA READ COMICS AND PLAY VIDYA GAMES

Let’s hope for full communism in 2018 so we can finish all these video games.

in the future marxist paradise my asthma and social anxiety will excuse me from difficult labor of any kind. my role will be anime appraiser

— Bevis Simpson (@BevisSimpson) April 17, 2013

Once I got past the presentation, I've found Disgaea to be a complete timesuck.

Tried Disgaea so many times but just can't get into it, moving on an isometric grid a big part of my frustrations iirc.
Started Horizon Zero Dawn, beautiful environments but the characters & voice acting really offputting, creepy uncanny valley plasticine people giving me the willies!

need more large-scope games with stylized character designs

Super Mario Odyssey
Zelda BOTW (just beat Eventide for the 1st time yay)
VS. Super Mario Bros.
X-Com: Enemy Unknown
Cuphead
Stardew Valley
Shovel Knight

is there a decent logging site like letterboxd for video games?

https://www.backloggery.com/

oh yeah i totally forgot about that one. don't love the visual design but i'll give it a try

It has no global game metadata, tho, you just fill in whatever you want.

There's actually a TON of these sites, but very few have gained any traction. I'm too lazy to sort through all of them.
http://chordian.net/2017/06/04/backlogchecklist-web-sites-for-video-games/

As is my tendency once I've hoarded collected a couple hundred of a given thing (books, movies, etc.), I literally just maintain a spreadsheet of games. Of particular importance with the games since the majority of them are digital.

Right now I'm using various text files (the dead app xPad on Mac OS) but I feel like it's time to step up my... methods

I bought Stardew Valley a year or so ago, but I'm just now getting to it. It's the perfect zero-stakes game for me right now. I can step in for fifteen minutes, pet some animals, water some crops, save and then go to bed.

tho rn i am playing the last of us for the first time. its certainly a videogame!!

― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Monday, January 1, 2018 3:42 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i finished it

it was certainly a videogame

I don’t think Horizon is for me, it’s well made and looks pretty but I find it a chore to play and I’m having no fun. Next.

I just started it, I fell asleep during the tutorial which maybe doesn't bode well but it was very late and I'd had some ginger wine.

Did feel like the intro was quite heavily stealth focussed though, and I've not got much patience when it comes to throwing stones to distract baddies or hiding in bushes waiting for them to pass (see also The Last of Us/Dishonoured). Is there lots of that in the game itself? Fair chance I'll bounce off it if so.

All sorts of crap I got from a humble bundle recently.

I'd forgotten how horrible the 'just one more level' effect is from tower defence games. urgh.

Doki Doki Literature Club was pretty much exactly what i thought it might be from all the hype, but done very very well. also, its free.

got thru the 'very hard' challenges on Through the Ages, which i want to record somewhere just because it nearly drove my crazy and actually feels like an accomplishment. somehow there are still 2 higher difficulty levels? i'm good thanks.

finally buckled and tried Stardew Valley because i figured it would be a good game for the plane ride across the atlantic and back. totally sucked in now.

i've been playing the last guardian, which definitely feels like ico and shadow of the colossus: a cool, different concept hampered by clumsy controls and boring world design. trico is really well-designed though, it really feels like a giant potentially dangerous but cute pet, and it acts like an animal. the best parts are riding on its back as it makes those giant leaps through the world. my mother in law has been visiting and at first she was just watching me play and now she's full-on backseat driving.

Oh that reminds me, there's a free last guardian PSVR thing, only 10 minutes long but I really liked it. Looking up at a huge looming Trico is terrifying.

lots to explore here:
http://igf.com/article/2018-independent-games-festival-announces-main-competition-finalists