whatchu playing now

i don't mean unarmed obv.

crankily i think stealth game controls have declined since thief/DX (tho i do like dishonored and think from both this perspective and others that it's a better DX successor than dx's modern sequels) BUT if you do find them unmanageable or boring, it is surprisingly possible and even a kind of relief to play the game as arnold-in-commando. even more fun after you are familiar with the whole game "in stealth mode" of course. i have played thru DX a lot of times.

i'm playing link to the past rn.

Bought Witcher 3 today! I'm still 10% away from finishing Uncharted 1, but that shouldn't take long.

Christ help me, I just bought Destiny 2 on sale >_<

It'll have to wait until I a) get around to a PS4 and play through the as much of the first game as is solo-able, and b) get a second SSD because the required install is massive, so that's a few months out (by which time I'm sure it'll be a ghost town), but I really, really enjoyed the demo of the first one I played over and over on PS3 and this looked like the cheapest way to get the base game and expansions that was likely to come along in a while.

thanks again dlh, turns out most of my problems with stealth takedowns in deus ex were because I had somehow failed to take the baton off of the first corpse you encounter

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Mass Effect 3

found both for PS3 nearly new at a thrift store this weekend for a couple bucks. ACB is pretty good, tho it is a direct sequel and the opening had me constantly confused about the plot, i do love Ubisoft's attention to detail and the historical tourism aspects of chilling in 16th century Italy.

ME3 i only played for half an hour or so, i found it clunky to control, gameplay wise not really my thing, and when the cutscenes revealed "We have to travel to the citadel and present our findings to the council" i nearly passed out from how boring it sounded. really high production value all around tho, i guess this is why these games are so big.

the in-game maps in AC games make me exhausted just to look at them.

i have never understood ME love, either. i think a lot of people really put a lot of stock in AAA-production values

The part of the story where you "travel to the citadel and present findings to the council" is pretty spicy iirc

For me, the appeal with ME3 (and ME2) is how it develops the characters. There are some genuinely big-hearted moments that really affected me.

I've only played the first one, but it's like the great Star Wars/Star Trek RPG adventure that was never officially made (well, outside of KOTOR)

guess w both series i just kind jumped into middle entries, i have no idea who any of these people are.

There are some genuinely big-hearted moments that really affected me

just the intro to this was pretty incredible in that way, you are escaping some massive assault on the planet, and then at the end you see this kid who is trying to get away, and your character has already made a connection to this kid before so you are already sort of invested, and then he gets in the helicopter and is saved, then a giant robot comes out of nowhere and just lasers all of the helicopters and there is this sad piano note or something. i know it sounds pretty cliche but it was pulled off perfectly, it was really devastating, more moving than most of the comic book movies out there or whatever.

the facial animation is quite good, the face Shepherd makes after she sees the transports destroyed really sold the moment for me.

Heh that kid isn't popular among ME fans, anyway, though I actually was referring to brodown moments with your crew.

Is Tom Clancy's The DivisionTM worth playing at all? The full original game and DLC are on a super-steep discount at Humble now and I'm kind of curious...

I didn't play much of it but I thought it handled well. Supposedly much improved since it launched.

I played the first Uncharted this week. It was pretty good but I hope the second one is considerably better because I thought this was a lot annoying than AC games of the same era. The gunplay in particular was horrible.

That was my impression, too, re: Uncharted. It was mostly dumb fun until the last few levels, when it became frustrating.

Yeah the end was terrible.

I’m playing Just Cause 3 now for the relief of blowing everything up.

Uncharted 2 is a huge improvement over the first one, yeah. I remember the gunplay feeling tighter but also the encounters themselves being far, far better designed to the parameters of the actual game

Good god, "Lady Boyle's Last Party" is one of the best-designed levels in any video game I have ever played

Ha, I'm so off the deep end (in every sense) with Hollow Knight that even online help is not always helpful, since there are so many different ways to go and no definitive order to do things in! It's kind of fascinating to stumble around so much, though I admit a little frustration that I'm dozens of hours in and still unclear of the objective, which means even clear progress doesn't always feel like progress.

into the breach on mac now!!!!!!!

hell yeah, thanks for the head’s up

Nobody get mad at me but imho video game’s are good

Celeste on the Switch, but I had to stop because my thumb started to hurt!

Anybody playing La-Mulana 2? I was excited for it, but I'm also afraid of it. I gave up on the first one after (spoilers?) finding the "womb" puzzle, where you had to pause the game for a few minutes in a certain location. No way could I have figured that out.

Minit is just okay, it reminds me of old ZZT/Megazeux games i used to play as a kid in how rudimentary a zelda-like it is. it doesn't do as many things with the 1 minute gimmick as i was expecting, which is a big letdown

just installed Into the Breach and i am fucking pumped

also, i realize that hearing about other people's coincidences is as interesting as hearing about their dreams, but this killed me:

https://i.imgur.com/d20vfNo.png?1

I named my profile name "Birdie" after my dog, because I name all of my primary characters after my dog.
the generated character name for the first pilot is Ralph Karlsson. Ralph is my cat's name. The second character name is always Ralph when i play games. and i'm karl, here at least.

i've never thought of my pets as having last names, but i'm considering appending the last name karlsson to their official documents

it's really good. maybe not as good as ftl imo but it's extremely compelling.

i think some ppl might like it more than ftl. its puzzleness is much crisper and crunchy than ftl which, despite its infinite pausing, plays more like an rts

I gave FTL some reasonable number of hours way back when and I don’t think I ever beat a run :(

i've only played an hour, but it is challenging! in a very fair and balanced fox news way, though. i managed to get within one turn of beating the first island's boss on my first try, while also simultaneously feeling like i baaaaaarely scraped through to that point. and what's really encouraging is that the game's basic mechanics are fun to think about and take advantage of. blocking a new enemy deployment by pushing another unit onto its space is so satisfying!

Hey so does ILG have like a Hall of Fame/canon of games that are must-plays? The main reason I ask is that I'm pretty far behind the current gen and am not generally a Day 1 purchase or terribly on top of gaming news, and a list of games to get, regardless of release year, would be great.

If not, would there be any interest in doing a poll on like an annual basis? (This is ILX so I pretty much know the answer to that.) And to carry the HOF-style thing further, we could have a Veteran's Committee kind of thing where we could vote on a pool of 8- and 16-bit era games.

Oh hell yeah!

I don't want to take away from the P+C poll, though!

i would definitely contribute to such a list. would there be a starting date or particular systems bc video games have been around for a while now and no matter how far behind you are you probably don't need me to recommend sim city to you iykwim

i could contribute, i just got back on the single player game train last year with Switch though so i missed like a decade worth of probably good stuff myself

am still trying to recalibrate my tastes which have changed a fair amount since my last go-around

Mordy, that's a good point (as much fun as it would be to vote for the OG Mario Kart or GoldenEye), and that should be something that everyone who participates should decide. And also the console vs. mobile vs. PC question!

(TBH I want to be a one of those voters that keep throwing votes to no-hopers like Vagrant Story or Fear Effect.)

we polled the greatest games ever a while back and a) it was a lot of fun & b) would almost certainly look much different today. it's amazing how many classic games have come out since that poll.

I love p&c but my ever growing backlog means I'm playing more and more stuff years after release these days. So yep, this would be a good opportunity to rep for things I came to late.

i'd likely come back for this btw

:D

you should do that but also just come back anyway

Forks do u have a switch

Whatchu playing

time to create an ILG wiki lol

i play games on switch/PS4/iOS

currently playing Zelda (restarting again again), Captain Toad (fun with friends), Hollow Knight (stalled out), Undertale (cute but less overwhelming than i was led to believe), Dungeon Maker (total time waster), Guild of Dungeoneering (i think i hit the wall here)

If i had a buncha extra time, I would focus on zelda and go back to Persona 5 and Doom for ps4 (which i think i played a total of an hour apiece before getting distracted) and restart Metal Gear: Awesome

So what does everyone think about the following rules?

- To try to ensure that games have withstood the test of time, qualified nominees need to have been released 1 (too low?) calendar year prior to voting. Is one year too little?
- Sixth generation and after? Limiting to 7th+ would narrow the field too much I think. Though is the 6th gen canon already in place?
- Mobile games OK! (AKA the MPQ rule.)
- Because of its P2W shenanigans and timesink shamefulness, MPQ has been banned for life. (Nb this ban will be lifted if/when we start this thing, I just figured having a Pete Rose in all this would be fun.)
- I want to avoid too much overlap with P+C (which the waiting period also addresses), but also kind of think that having a list in place by Black Friday and/or Xmas would be useful -- so maybe an October voting/rollout period?

Oh and

- Induction requires that a game be present on some percent (75%?) of total ballots received in a given year.

I think this poll would benefit from some limitations. Getting rid of mobile games might help with that.

oh hi! if the "6th gen canon" question is related to these things i did, we never hit gen6... only 3 and 4:

Console Game Poll vol. 1 - Third Generation console games (NES, Sega MS, Atari 7800, etc.)
Console Game Poll vol. 2 - Fourth generation console games (SNES, Genesis, NeoGeo, etc.)

I guess I skipped last year -- did 3rd-gen in 2015, 4th-gen in 2016, intended to do 5th-gen in 2017 but it ended up being a pretty wack year for me in general. would anybody be into it if I kept the series alive? Maybe 5th this year (PS1, N64, Saturn, etc), 6th in 2019 (PS2, Cube, Xbox, etc), 7th in 2020 (PS3, 360, etc), and maybe the 8th will be done by 2021 lol. Could also throw in a "pre-3rd-gen" one in there or something.

(that said, I would beg someone--ANYONE--else to run P&C this year if I did it)

i would probably sit out the 5th and 6th gen ones as i don't feel like i have played a meaningful number of games from those, especially non Nintendo ones