whatchu playing now

wondering the same about Skyrim!

I am playing AC Black Flag now, still in Havana and looking forward to things opening up soon

something i really like in ys 8 is that it acknowledges that the real world payoff for exploration is not running into a bandit camp or dungeon but just seeing cool nature shit. it does this in a really basic way where there are specific landmarks scattered around the game world (e.g. a big rock covered in seagull nests, a giant coral tower) and when you encounter one it does a little camera pan across it and names it and adds it to your map. it's extremely basic and doesn't appear to have any gameplay tie-in but something about it is really satisfying and despite it not being an open world game i immediately recognized this as a missing ingredient from a lot of the ones of those I've played. i guess zelda had some more tacit hints of this but i felt like it mostly got overshadowed by shrines and manmade ruins.

I started "Edith Finch" and :( it was giving me motion sickness.

i get that from FPP space games but not shooters or adventure games idk why. i can deal with pitch and yaw but add in roll and i'm fucked

yeah I can't play first person anything for this reason. it sucks because I'd have liked to play Far Cry 2---I want to play an open-ish world game in sub-saharan Africa (that isn't just a safari game duh) but it's an fps so no go.

finally got around to finishing valkyria chronicles 1, really excellent game. it's pretty stressful to play though so even though 4 just came out this week and seems to have good impressions i think i'm gonna have to wait a while before i'm ready for another.

Not Drop7, which doesn't work on ios12

xp to Euler... resident evil 5 was set in (a fictional country in) sub-saharan Africa I think?

no idea if it's any good btw, it's in the deep pile of downloades backlog that I will probably never play

It's not very open-world, mind.

Now I've finished Breath of the Wild, I downloaded a SNES emulator and got Link to the Past, which I've never played before. It's surprisingly sophisticated! Like it a lot so far.

i always liked the game boy ones more than lttp which i think was sacrilegious at some point. i don't like all the drab brown terrain

A Link to the Past is all time.

I played The House of Da Vinci and Cube Escape Paradox on my phone. Both OK. THoDV had too much pixel-hunting, but the hint system got me past all of those.

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whatchu not playing

this is kind of challopsy and i won't be able to follow through on it, but i kind of want to try to never again play a game with a skill tree like this, and with little exclamation marks constantly popping up over the new content that has been unlocked as a result of me walking 15 steps in any direction

I want a game that’s just the skill tree tbh

now that's an idea

start the game off in character creation mode, then allocate a handful of initial ability points, the first quest is to read the lore about the abilities you chose, which unlocks new ability points and 40 ancient shards, complete the quest to craft the shards to create your first ancient spear, get 2 more ability points, etc

whatchu just bought

Hollow Knight and TLOU, both for PS4.

Karl, is that Assassin's Creed?

the ending is walking in any direction and pressing a button, which unleashes the beast of the unknown godmother megacombo, instantly destroying the ultimate boss that was described somewhere in the lore

yep, that's the new one. it's actually probably awesome! it looks really cool, at least.

brb getting a “beast of the unknown godmother” tattoo

~achievement~

Karl I know u got a lot going on n such but I would dig the heck out of it if you streamed video games more

:) that's really nice of you

maybe i'll try one this afternoon! i guess it would have to be a ps4 game, because switch isn't stream friendly

I just got Octopath Traveller, thinking it will suit being played in handheld mode more than like super mario odyssey and arms

i played two assassins creed games, pretty sure the two that everyone loved (one of them was the pirate one), and i could not get into them

i think maybe i don't like video games any more

I thought that for a while and then I got a Switch and it turned out I just hated long boot times

what was it about the asscreed games that you didn't like? i sympathize, i've played about 10-15 hours of a few of them and always just kind of wander away out of boredom.

i think owning a switch would make me enjoy games more, i would like to get one

i don't really remember my specific problems with AC, i think i got bored with them - the gameplay gets repetitive after a while

so fuckin mad there is no Tenchu for current consoles

asscreed switched to being a witcher 3 clone with the last one and new one which is an improvement imo but still not sure if i want to play it

fun fact octopath traveler is made by the same dev as tenchu

am fully on board with yakuza 0 after the end of chapter 1 sequence

rfi: who here played the order 1886, and when did you play it (at release? within a year? recently?), and what were your impressions? to the best of yr memory. writing a thing fer jorb

I voted for Jorb! (Sorry.)

so fuckin mad there is no Tenchu for current consoles

This will be Sekiro though, right?

I'm really loving Hollow Knight. It's decent for quick bursts of exploration too, since if you quit out you just end up back at the last save point.

I didn't play The Order 1886. But I'm looking forward to The Order 1986.

sekiro does look cool but feels like it's mainly about combat? where tenchu was about avoiding combat

also.. and this is really uncharitable because so much of the design looks really cool, the way the fabric moves and the bodies flow.. there's something kinda ugly to me about it. i don't know if it's the ultra 4K shininess of everything now but there's something plasticky looking about everything. even though tenchu was 3d there was a soft, kind of painterly aspect to it that this lacks. everything is like HDRed to the max!

also i don't like how the guy moves.. he kinda drifts about like a little tank with legs. like he can seemingly move any direction at any time equally easily?

my rpg queue got derailed by forza horizon 4

My backlog of old games has reached Tomb Raider (2013) - the fact that all of the cutscenes are in-engine, and so you can pause them, is very welcome - the torture porniness, not so much. Also, the crashing.

rfi: who here played the order 1886, and when did you play it (at release? within a year? recently?), and what were your impressions? to the best of yr memory. writing a thing fer jorb

played it a couple of months after launch, mainly to ooh and ahh over the graphics, and thought it was extremely not very good - the shooting was tedious and the story was boring

it did look v nice, but damn the letterboxing was annoying

I'm playing New Vegas again, because I never got to play any of the DLC the first time through. But to get there I need to play through the main campaign, which sometimes feels boring or like a waste of time. Sprint mod and FO4-style looting mods (i.e. looting without opening a whole new menu every single time) help A LOT.

I'm playing the remastered God of war 3. never played any of the series before and my only expectations were that there would be muscles and grunting. Quite good fun so far.

finished yakuza 0 last night, fun game though it kind of settled into standard anime/jrpg writing in the final act after being a lot more idiosyncratic earlier in the game. dunno if im into it enough to play the entire series but will def play the 1 remake when it shows up on PC

i'm also closing in on the end of yakuza 0! although i am letting myself get caught up in the absurd number of side projects you can do. Yesterday I am not proud to say I spent a while doing laundry, cooking lunch and occasionally checking in long enough to get my real estate money (getting money through that feels like a real slog, vs. the cabaret club which was pretty easy to progress in, and you get SO much money each time you beat one of the other clubs).

you can do laundry and cook lunch in Yakuza?

haha no sorry i was doing those in real life and idling in the game so the real estate game would continue running & pay me over and over

those would both be believable Yakuza minigames though

both are in persona 5 tho! (i think?)