whatchu playing now

fallout new vegas? or 3 for that matter

My fave old movie-like FPS is probably F.E.A.R. Came out in 2005 so your i5/950 will eat it up. It shares with HL2 the narrative woven into the gameplay and fun bad guy AI. Wiki says its an FPS/horror game but I remember it being more creepy than horrific, tho if you can play in a darkened room with headphones then all the better. There's def bits that gave me the creeps (tho I was smoking a lot of weed at the time, ymmv). £9 on Steam.

koogs - have you played bioshock?

koogs, make sure you play portal in the orange box

Into The Breach. From the team that made Faster Than Light. Simple and nicely made turned based fighting game that I get way too addicted to.

forza horizon 4, everyday

same tbh

yeah, the orange box got played at the time, and second portal got played (twice, back to back) a couple of years ago when i was unemployed (along with that st:voyager game (creeping around borg ship) and tron 2.0 (pretty)).

bioshock is actually in my steam library, must've been on sale one year, but i don't think i got that far into it. same is true of fez, psychonauts, a couple of others.

will look into FEAR. (and Dead Space too, i hear good things). thanks.

the problem now is the bandwidth to download the things. and time.

oh yeah, dead space is also great. more creepy creepy than shooty shooty but atmospheric as all out. make sure you install the control fix tho, I found the controls very sluggish without it. https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/840-dead-space-mouse-fix/

I've got bored of Far Cry 5 after about 10 hrs. Maybe the most amazing "graphics" I've played, and the actual moment-to-moment gameplay is ok I guess, but it's very samey and doesn't seem to go anywhere, it's like eating a bag of doritos.

I've started Dishonoured now, maybe an hour in? Cool so far! everything looks so blocky and flat after FC5 but I'm already having more fun sneaking about the city than I ever did shotgunning photorealistic bears.

FC5 is boring af. i did the first area and half of the faith area and at that point with the morphing animals and shit was so stupid i couldn't continue. i did like the stunt man challenges tho.

u know what game is actually gorgeous graphics tho? rdr2.

come anticipate RDR2 PC port with me

RDR2.xls

That PS1 Classic list.... they chose Puzzle Fighter over the PS1 SF Alpha 3? The basic platformer Rayman 1 over the 3D Rayman 2? Twisted Metal over its first sequel (both of which I'm guessing are unplayable now due to their low framerates)? No Crash, Spyro, Wipeout, Tomb Raider, PaRappa? I give them credit for including the first Persona, which wasn't popular at the time but people will probably want to play after P4 and P5.

persona 1 is a quite bad game and nothing like 4 or 5 - they didn't land on what people know as the persona formula with the VN/life-sim stuff until 3

was probably just chosen due to name recognition

they fixed the game to decent in a PSP rerelease later on but i assume this thing is just loading the original PSX isos so yeah thats not a game people are gonna be happy with i dont think

The basic platformer Rayman 1 over the 3D Rayman 2?

gotta disagree here, although part of it may be my distaste for 3D precision platformers. 2D precision i can handle, 3D precision jumping drives me insane. and regardless, 2D Rayman has better style, better animation, and aesthetically it holds up better today.

Was all set to play a lot of Red Dead this weekend and instead I played Through the Ages on my ipad. Obsessed.

it's so good

Is the single-player good?

I'm only playing the single player. I'm still learning the game.

i played single player for hours. the challenges are a lot of fun.

i re-installed RimWorld since it finally moved to version 1.0

after about an hour of tutorial mode, i turned into a zombie and cleared a bunch of storage on my ps4, bought RDR2, and initiated the epic download (93 GB)

a lot of my friends are loving the new RDR...

however I played a game called Laser League over the weekend and immediately downloaded it at home (free for the PS4). it's like BomberMan meets Tron and I can't put it down.

finished Ys 8 last night, very good game. the lost world setting is a tremendous fit for this series

I tried Don't Starve over the weekend, and the Together multiplayer mode. But man did I get tired of it already.

Otherwise Minecraft Sevtech mod is where i'm at right now

I think I tried Don't Starve years ago, probably out of a Humble Bundle. Survival games are…not my thing.

Partner picked up Into the Breach for our Switch and the whole household is kinda preoccupied with it now.

the end of year lists are starting to roll in

https://games.avclub.com/the-a-v-club-s-favorite-games-of-2018-1830750674

Celeste is my goty no question

i tried to list out my top ten and ran out at 8 :( ive played more rereleases than actual new games this year i think

playing (w/ my daughter) Waku Waku Sweets for Switch, we are cooking mamas
that may be the only console game that came out in 2018 that I've played
otherwise I've played a lot of old console games as usual and the polls will just list games maybe to play maybe another year maybe

Hollow Knight for me even though I never finished and it came out last year.

hollow knight def counts for this year via 'year of impact' imo

Have there been any great, new-to-2018 Switch games this year?

I mean, speaking as someone who's had the best gaming year of their life playing BOTW, I don't mind at all. But I want more.

I meant that to be "more." not "more."

Like, greedily, I want more games that move me as much as BOTW. I'm definitely not in a "Nintendo have lost it already" mindspace.

My computer keeps correcting and removing my exclamation points... Weird.

here's (some of?) what I think is Great in 2018 on the Switch:

Celeste
Towerfall (this game has been Great for a long time but it's new to Switch)
Octopath Traveller (ymmv, this is a JRPG)

plenty of games I have spent a lot of time on and think are good and fun but idk "great" is a tall order.

Glad they gave a nod to Bloodstained, a really nice surprise for me this year.

yeah Celeste was the only switch game i played this year that had that Important Game feel. i really liked ys 8 too but idk how appealing it is to people outside the anime rpg rabbit hole. nintendo's output was mostly rereleases and multiplayer

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2018-in-review/the-best-video-games-of-2018

hollow knight new to switch in 2018 ?

:( at the AVC list for not listing what platforms the games are on.

yeah that was annoying. the game that looks like a ps1 game isn't on a playstation console.

Pleased to see Return of the Obra Dinn made the AV's list - one of the most original games I've played in a while.

Don't know who suggested they start each review with "I liked...", though.

(I liked that bit, because it made everyone argue for "this is an enjoyable game" rather than "this is important in the industry")

here’s where I port beg for a switch version of obra dinn AGAIN

I haven't finished it yet - about 1/3 of the way through. It's a HARD game.

i did the whole game in one 12-hour session, couldn't put it down until it was solved

yep me too. i got one thing wrong initially so i got the bad ending. for a moment i thought it was going make me do the whole thing again from the start and i nearly threw my laptop out the window.