whatchu playing now

oh! bummer. well, i hope this game lets me throw an axe at odin, thor, and loki, then, because that's about all that i know.

Been enjoying Trackmania Turbo, which is like ... Trials meets Wipeout? Is free this month on PS Plus

zelda - this thing is PACKED with puzzles and exploration is fantastic.
souls/bloodborne - fantastic world building, enemy design and level layouts

its really quite good.

Trials meets Wipeout

aaaaaaaaaah wtf mindblown.gif. i don't even have any kind of console anymore why am i bumming myself out by reading this thread.

It isn't as good as either of those games, to be fair. But I like it. :)

God is Far Cry 5 a dumb fuckin game

please dont buy ubisoft games in 2018 expecting them to be anything but

bought Nier: Automata last night after seeing it place so high on ILX's C&P placing. pretty excited to check it out this weekend

it's good....

the only weird thing i'll warn you about is that the intro/prologue sequence is like 45 mins long and doesn't have save points which is kind of bs, if you're a hard mode liker i would still start on normal and wait until you get to the main part of the game and save before turning the difficulty up.

bookmarking that for a theoretical future time when i get round to playing this game

only thing i have checked out from the poll so far has been northgard, which is v good

other than that just know that the game isn't over when you see the credits roll, not even close

if you're a hard mode liker i would still start on normal and wait until you get to the main part of the game and save before turning the difficulty up.

Or easy mode, if you suck like me. The tutorial is very easy to get through, but then the tutorial boss is much more difficult (when you’re new to the game). “Good” news is that the tutorial only takes about 30 minutes instead of 45, at least after you’ve had to do it several times. I’m still mad at Nier about that

thanks for the info, all! hah this is why i didn't start it last night, i knew playing through the intro would be at least an hour long

woah.... well that was... not what i expected! went in thinking it would be your standard 3rd person action game, instead it's a crazy combination SHMUP, run n gun, twin stick shooter, linear 2d platformer, cinematic 3rd person open world, etc. game. about a minute into fighting the giant robot i was like, this is so OTT it has to be a Platinum game, sure enough, yep!

gonna be a wild ride.

nier automata w0w!

yeah Nier is pretty awesome. it took a minute to configure everything the way i like (moved the buttons around to be like Dark Souls, no way i am evading with LT, circle will do just nice, thank you) and get the graphics to look sweet (turning off anti aliasing entirely made it look 10x better).

just chilling in that first area, the grass-and-animals-reclaimed crumbled city ruins, doing a few side missions before heading to the desert. the combat is fun and the story seems really cool. im looking at my copy of Final Fantasy XV and feeling sorry for it

its all about the music imo

50% off on steam huh

can i play this on my laptop without feeling like a dork

probably not unless your laptop is equivalent to a ps4 in specs

also playing a platinumgames game with a keyboard sounds miserable

i dunno it runs super smooth on my computer at 1080/high settings and i am running a Radeon RX 460. i'd imagine you could run it w low settings and it would still look nice.

Yakuza 6. Love the new engine, fighting and general interactions are so much smoother. It’s a lot easier than the earlier games - having just played 4&5 it stands out a lot. Beat Takeshi is so great in this. I really enjoyed the baseball and spear fishing minigames, but I missed things like koi koi. I have to accept that I’ll never get mahjong, every game it’s worth a ton of completion points and I can never get my head around it.

after a couple months of pretty much zero video games (life-consuming project, just finished), i'm jumping back into the fray. i considered hopping back into Dark Souls 3, Skyrim, Witcher 3, or NieR. i'm around 30-40 hours into each of them, liked them all a lot, but haven't beaten them. 30-40 hours in is like the graveyard of videogames for me. games are just too fucking long.

but instead i went with God of War (partly because it's supposed to be a ~25 hour experience). and man i suuuuuuck at action games. it's a lot of fun, though, and i'm determined to actually beat it. gotta admit that i kinda wish i would have gotten a yakuza game instead though.

i thought i read god of war is really long? maybe it's main quest vs. if you do side quests

i'm just going off of the how long to beat page for it. i usually just look at their average for "leisure pace" and assume it approximates me at my very fastest.

nier isn't a 30+ hour game unless you make it one...

i feel you though, i stalled out at 30 hours of Witcher 3 and 40 hours of Zelda. Whereas i had no issue finishing Xenoblade 2 which is like a 60+ hour game, i guess it's all in how attached you are to seeing out the story

nier isn't a 30+ hour game unless you make it one...

ha, well yeah i've "beaten" the game a couple times, but i don't think i've gotten anywhere close to any of the "real" endings. also keep in mind that i literally spent 3 hours on the tutorial because i died 6 times and had to go back to the beginning (30 minutes before) each time

I logged another hour or two in Xenoblade earlier this week, I kind of love how much of the actual story of this anime game is loaded into the final chapter. It's literally fights in a straight-line dungeon alternating with really serious business cutscenes.

the last act of xenogears was like that too iirc

Metro 2033 Redux. This is my kind of game! Scratches the same itch that Half Life 2 did, and I like the story and "lore" more than I expected to. I don't have a gaming rig, so I can't play modern single player story-driven FPS like the last couple of Wolfensteins, but this'll do instead!

Hyper Light Drifter! I loved it! The controls are so good, the gameplay is much tighter than I expected. And it hits just the perfect level of difficulty--I had to attempt a few of the bosses 20+ times, but it was so much fun that it never got frustrating. I ended up playing this compulsively, finishing it in two sittings.

That damn multiple dash move is impossible to pull off consistently, though.

I backed it on Kickstarter but never d/l’d my copy, so now I’m just going to rebuy it on Switch later this year

Biggest complaint was that giant robots figured prominently in the cut scenes but you never get to fight one!

has anyone played wizard of legend? pls help, i am dying. i can't remember ever being so bad at a game.

yeah it's one of the like 2 roguelites i like. am really bad at it though

i've been playing the new god of war for a couple of hours now, waiting patiently for it to get good, and... it hasn't :(

lol i played GoW for about half an hour and had a visceral "i don't want to spend my time doing this" reaction, which is how i ended up on wizard of legend coincidentally. it looks so good, i don't know why i just immediately hated it! hoping i go back to it and get over myself.

cider if you have literally any tips, or have seen anything useful on line, would appreciate

ha, i was thinking about getting God of War but was a bit suspicious when these gushing 10/10 reviews spent most of their time praising The Story. which is in my experience NEVER a good sign for a video game.

i remember the original gow being a non-stop pulse-pounding visceral action experience and so far the new one involves a lot of trudging from a to b, listening to dialogue and then punching some low-level scrubs to death before doing it all over again, occasionally broken up by fucking around in the upgrade menus

maybe i've got the blood-coloured glasses on in remembering the original but the new one is def not grabbing me

yeah, the original GoW was total arcade-y mayhem. remember having a lot of fun w/ it at the time.

the new one is a reboot of the series from character action to cinematic adventure game, it plays much different from what I can tell. you're not misremembering anything

this is what gets you the big metacritic scores in 2018, make every game as close to Uncharted as possible

cider if you have literally any tips, or have seen anything useful on line, would appreciate

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i got nothing, its mostly just about abusing your dash to reposition. try doing an ice build at the start, being able to freeze enemies makes things more manageable

its a roguelite so over time you can grind out better starting kits and thus lower the difficulty a bit

yeah, it's kinda bullshit. i have other mediums to deliver good stories. and the best video game story is still almost always some C level pulp. ~cinematic~. barf.

the new DOOM won me over almost immediately by pointedly, flippantly tossing (literally) narrative to the side.

xp

i thought the story in breath of the wild was really well executed but the like #1 complaint about that game from the gaming community was 'it has no story' so thats kind of where we're at with narrative in video games. it has to all happen on-screen in the course of the gameplay, or it doesn't exist.

Gamers don’t know what they want

yr average gamer is not one to appreciate subtlety.

haven't plated BotW yet but i liked the way the Dark Souls games did it. build it into the environments and item descriptions and such. i don't know how coherent it ultimately all was, but it was actually interesting and intriguing.