whatchu playing now

Also playing the new Monster Hunter. This isn’t gonna be for everyone, but I’m really enjoying it, especially with friends. Also feel like, as I approach it, this is a game that doesn’t really “start” until the higher levels where it gets difficult enough that you have to dig into the plethora of items at your disposable (which I’ve mostly ignored so far) and tailor your gear to the monsters. Looking forward to it.

how close to open world souls is it?

have decided to make jrpgs my Gamer's Theme for 2018 after xenoblade 2 rekindled my excitement for the genre

starting off with mother 3, a game that i've started a couple times in the past but never finished

Sweet, maybe you can join me in my journey through one of these games that I started sometime in the past year or so and have not yet finished:

Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy 2
Final Fantasy 3
Final Fantasy 4
Ys
Ys 2
Phantasy Star
Phantasy Star 2
Sword of Vermilion
Chrono Trigger

My takeaway being that I enjoy playing but apparently not completing them (the first two Personas being the only ones in recent memory that I saw through to the end).

FF4 is most likely to hit my queue out of those, it's another one ive started in the past but never finished

how close to open world souls is it?

I think the big Souls/Monster Hunter connection is that the weapons (numbering in the teens here) are all really deep and when you get good with one it’s pretty damn satisfying.

Also a zillion different items and armors and upgrade paths and stats. It’s one you’ll be playing for a while if it connects.

Rly wish MonHun were on Switch, fuckin Capcom

thx for background there, may try to check that out when i have free time (which i won't)

bout to wrap up Super Mario 64. i have 75 stars and have fought Bowser a few times now, feel like i can beat the game.

kind of feel like the level design loses focus after the first two floors (once you get to the area w all the non-enter-able paintings). the wet/dry level is super obnoxious. rainbow road the kind of level you would play through once in SMB3 and be thankful you never have to do again. the clock level is awesome though.

i prefer Super Mario Odyssey but i can def see how if you grew up with this it could be your GOAT. simply incredible how many things they got right on the first attempt.

heh i loved the upper floor levels when i was a kid and hated the basement ones

tiny-huge island represent

the catapult enemies you have to use in wet-dry world are pretty awful but the sunken village was hugely romantic to young me

tall tall mountain is cool at first. having the monkey steal your hat and now your hat is just gone is great. but on your 5th time up that mountain... jeez.

Lots of Fall. Various podcasts dedicated to MES. This exact minute The Fall Live at Hacienda 1983-85. The song is Kicker Conspiracy.

Oops thought i was on ILM. Sorry bout dat.

Hah

my only serious contribution to the board btw: Best Level from Super Mario 64

TS: MES vs NES

So Monster Hunter World will take over your life.

just finished chapter 4 of mother 3. i think this game being an anti-capitalist parable went completely over my head the last time i played it, somehow.

Monster Hunter World is a joy.

is anyone thinking of playing kingdom come? i've only seen a little bit about it but it looks like it could be good?

looks fun, i think!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuFVUcLkl7U

oh, oops, here's the version of that video with narration in english

so i finished persona 5 a week ago. the game is excellent but just way too long. they could've trimmed like 40 hours off it easily and it would've still been great. by the end i was forcing myself to play just bc i had already played so much i wanted to see the ending. but it really is an absurdly long game. i played a little cuphead this afternoon. really handsome game w/ pretty tough mechanics.

how long did it end up taking you? i had heard around 100+ hours and yeah, that just seems way too long

100+ really it’s kinda embarrassing to play a game that Iong

By the end even char was sick of it

dear atlus ceo:

please make persona games half the length and release them twice as frequently.

...profit

It not only has a new game+ but by the end of your first play through it is giving you trinkets and stuff to use for that second run like wtf this is their expectation another 100 hours???

Oh yeah I played and enjoyed doki doki too this week

persona 6: special poopsock edition

Kingdom Come's director was a g4merg4ter and has given interviews to the likes of Breitbart and looks like he's picked up coverage from marginal hateblogs (which I won't click through on or link)

and seemingly spent a lot of time on Twitter insisting there were no black people in 15th century Europe

jfc

Good to know, I’ll send my money elsewhere

Speaking of which, Subnautica is an attempt to create a gun-free survival game in the aftermath of Sandy Hook, and is dedicated to the families of Newtown, CT.

is it a good game playing experience?

Yes. Especially when one turns off the music and sets graphic settings to "filmic". IMO the best of the current deluge of first person survival/crafting games (Ark, Rust, Forest, Long Dark, Empyrion etc).

holy shit @ beating qwop!

anyone playing rime, its free on ps4 right now. excellent puzzle platformer

I know nothing at all about One Piece beyond the fact that I'm having a lot of fun with Unlimited World Red.

i played rime for a half hour, really did not work for me

rime lost me when i got to the area with the bird idk why. will try again at some point maybe

it just wasn't quite puzzling enough

i'm downgrading rime from excellent to merely decent after finishing it. i liked the graphic style but could do without the tacked-on twist ending

OOT for N64. just played my first song on the Ocarina. so good!

the beta for Metal Gear Survive is out on Steam for PC. i downloaded it last night and played for about 5 minute. it's a trash cash grab. exact same level design as MGSV but with a few tweaks. somehow the controls feel worse! if i'm going to play MGSV again i would rather just play MGSV.

mgs survive feels like the videogame equivalent of the steve martin inspector clouseau to me - the animating spirit has departed, the only reason to continue is that a corporation wants to squeeze some more cash out of the intellectual property

otm. fwiw i found all the "fuck Konami" stuff during MGSV's release extremely embarrassing. imo this has always been a series driven half by creative impulses half by mercenary market forces. but the level of effort here is just the bare minimum, it feels like the polish that MGSV had (itself a lesser amount of polish afforded to Ground Zeroes) is gone, and the samey level design is especially saddening given what Fox Engine is capable of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCs0xxUS5as

seriously i would have the chance to rather buy the level editor.

finished mother 3. didn't go how i expected at all at the end but i'm satisfied. i enjoyed it quite a bit more than earthbound, it's both funnier and tells a weightier story