whatchu playing now

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.

I started and finished AC Freedom Cry this week, just a handful of gameplay sessions sufficed. It's about as satisfying to murder slavers here as it was to murder Nazis in the Saboteur: very satisfying. I think I'm gonna skip Rogue though and just make the leap to ~~~ next gen ~~~ AC finally (i.e. Paris)

but not right away. I started Diablo III, doing co-op with my son. haven't played a Diablo since the first one nearly twenty years ago, wearing my first child on my chest while I hacked and slashed. it's always been a family affair.

prob gonna start a (Switch) RPG at the same time just b/c my boy won't always want to play Diablo when I do

The Game Awards is tonight, don't care about the cringey awards show but looking forward to getting some peeks at new stuff

make sure to unmute for Celeste composer Lena Raine playing with the orchestra!

dope

the Oscars would be better if they just premiered teasers for the subsequent autumn's Oscar bait imo

instead of idk having jokes

CS:Go is free to play now, and they've added a PUBG/Fortnite ripoff mode

the game awards had a ton of ads for pubg and fortnite. that must be where the money is being made now.

i'm playing System's Syzygy, https://mdsteele.games/syzygy/ -- a tribute to system's twilight and cliff johnson's games.

only things that excited me from TGA reveals were the obsidian not-fallout game and persona 5 in smash bros