i investigated that and am 99% sure there will not be a switch port of it because it's written in html5/javascript which nintendo does not allow
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 23:14 (five years ago) link
or at least doesn't work natively on switch
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 23:20 (five years ago) link
so you're saying there's a chance
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 23:28 (five years ago) link
hit a bit of a rough stretch in CrossCode and starting to sour on it now heh. it starts to fall into this awkward gap between a puzzle game and an execution game that creates a lot of frustration when you figure out how to beat a room but need 10 tries to pull it off because the timers are too short or because they throw 3 enemies at you with the same puzzley weakness instead of 1 and it creates too much noise to execute cleanly. it's not like a Celeste where the satisfaction is in the execution, its more like playing a zelda game where every enemy in a dungeon doesn't take damage until you first bank an arrow off a wall or through a flaming torch or whatever, that sort of thing that's usually reserved for boss fights starts to show up in every enemy encounter. v similar to Trayce's wind waker frustrations in nature actually.
luckily there's an assist mode which lets you reduce a lot of that friction and it makes the game more fun imo if you turn down puzzle speed and enemy damage a bit.
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 03:38 (five years ago) link
the game does know how to lay out a good zelda style puzzle dungeon though, i just wish the encounters stuck with more traditional hack and slash and dodge fare than 'puzzles that can dodge your attempts at solving them and also kill you' whcih is what they're all turning into now 12 hours in.
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 03:41 (five years ago) link
Obra Dinn. I wish the last chapter was more exciting and that the game had some more thought-out deduction puzzles but all-in-all an excellent game. Fun to unwrap each new location.
Sanitarium. I dug up this old, isometric, dos adventure game and loved it. Cyclops vs. Insects in a cybernetic hive in the sky!
Elastica. Another old dos adventure game with Alone In The Dark style graphics. I enjoyed it but the story was very light. Theres was some neat ideas and varied gameplay throughout. Kind of a short game though. Gotta love all the death sequences.
― ٩༼ º෴º ༽۶ (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 05:19 (five years ago) link
*Sanitarium was a windows game*Elastica Ecstatica
― ٩༼ º෴º ༽۶ (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 11:16 (five years ago) link
ok i was wrong about crosscode on switch
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
will play
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
i still stand by my nascent criticism that the enemy encounter design gets bad, and it was even worse on controller than with mouse+kb, but the presentation/story/puzzles are great
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
Haha, I bought sanitarium back in the day. Couldn’t get past a buggy lock puzzle and returned it
― calstars, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
is this a different sanitarium than the horror adventure game? cause i loved that game.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
It was isometric and set in a ... sanitarium. Whacked out patients as NPCs...that’s about all I remember
― calstars, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link
yeah that's the one! v creepy.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
yup that one was great
― Nhex, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
It’s been ported to iOS for $4
― calstars, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
ooo good to know
― Mordy, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
Obra Dinn. About to dive into this one too. Really looking forward to it.
Pico-8, developing for and general messing about with this thing.
Just stupid amounts of indie games on steam
Tales of Greta, a free downloadable difficult single screen platformer - reminds me of Donkey Kong kinda.
still minecrafting
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
My list of games beaten over the past several months now goes something like this:
✅ Yakuza Kiwami (completed 2018-07-01)✅ Yakuza 0 (completed 2018-10-22)✅ Yakuza Kiwami 2 (completed 2019-01-21)🈺 Yakuza 6 (to begin playing shortly)
(I actually played through some other games in this time as well. I have been playing a LOT of games this year actually? mix of gf on evening shifts + me having money + me not doing normal adult shit = couch time and games for me! beat far cry 5, horizon zero dawn, super mario odyssey, almost beat valkyria 4, prey, and put in serious time on octopath). Also have God of War on tap, and more Octopath, and Rise of the Tomb Raider (the second one I think?), and Uncharted Lost Legacy, and Murdered Soul Suspect... just have to resist the temptation to play Yakuza 6 now instead of some of the other stuff.
― suggest boban (Will M.), Thursday, 24 January 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link
kiwami 1 finally coming out on pc next month, maybe i'll clear enough of my backlog by then to justify buying another game
― ciderpress, Thursday, 24 January 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
we should have run a clear your backlog challenge on ILG or one of those 'one-out-one-in five slot challenges'
― ||||||||, Thursday, 24 January 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
basic rules tend to be:
- you have 5 slots- getting a game consumes a slot- ‘get’ includes: new purchases, rentals, loans, double-dips, gifts, DLC, freebies, F2P, and anything installed from backlog after a certain date- when you ‘finish’ the game - which might mean different things for different games - you get a slot back - the game remains in the slot until 'finished'- if you exceed your 5 slots in the calendar year of our lord 2019 then you lose and don't get into heaven and have to go hang out on the botw thread with josh who is not actually playing botw but is weighing cauliflowers instead
― ||||||||, Thursday, 24 January 2019 22:07 (five years ago) link
good way of backlog/spending management
Re finishing games I am radically committed to only playing games until the moment they stop being fun
― Mordy, Thursday, 24 January 2019 22:15 (five years ago) link
Sometimes that’s the length of the game but not very often
― Mordy, Thursday, 24 January 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
Yeah, same here
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 24 January 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
valid valid. guess I've seen this done on other forums where ppl have had issues with compulsively buying either (i) that new new or (ii) swathes of very cheap games (that will never get played) from steam sales
― ||||||||, Thursday, 24 January 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
100% nobody should feel forced to play something beyond when it's fun!
i feel like i already have this five-games-max thing and it's called "the playstation 4's 500gb hard drive combined with my shitty 6mbps internet connection"
(but yes i am in)
― suggest boban (Will M.), Thursday, 24 January 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
What happens when you give up on a game without beating it?
― Oleeever St. John Yogurty (Leee), Thursday, 24 January 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link
one ball/ovary shrinks temporarily until you forge ahead and complete the game
― ||||||||, Thursday, 24 January 2019 23:04 (five years ago) link
i have more than 5 games in progress let alone in my backlog
― ciderpress, Thursday, 24 January 2019 23:24 (five years ago) link
intervention
― ||||||||, Thursday, 24 January 2019 23:25 (five years ago) link
im not gonna start anything new until i get back down to my usual rule of 1 PC slot 1 handheld slot 1 wild card slot that i flagrantly broke
― ciderpress, Thursday, 24 January 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
i like this idea
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 25 January 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
I'm ok with my gametes atrophying but I'm unsure about not getting a slot back if I've given up on playing a game.
― Oleeever St. John Yogurty (Leee), Friday, 25 January 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
i'll do the 5 slot challenge thing if its just 2019 purchases/touches and games i bought last year but havent touched get grandfathered out until i do
― ciderpress, Saturday, 26 January 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link
Trying to complete far cry 2 for the past 6 years
― calstars, Saturday, 26 January 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
I kind of regret not finishing a bazillion games. Particularly one where I think I defeated the final boss.
― ٩༼ º෴º ༽۶ (FlopsyDuck), Sunday, 27 January 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
the night before i left home for college for the first time i made it to the final save block of paper mario: the thousand year door just before the final boss and then fell asleep and never finished the game since i didn't own a tv for the next several years and forgot about it when i was at my parents place
someday i'll replay the game and finish it for real, it's one of my favorite games of all time
― ciderpress, Sunday, 27 January 2019 00:12 (five years ago) link
- working my way through the cups in MK8- tidying up some of the end game in hollow knight- still early into dead cells- might pick up botw again to mill about clearing stuff in the end-game- got into the breach sat waiting, digital edition still in its shrink-wrap
― ||||||||, Sunday, 27 January 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
that's my nintendo switch collection right there (plus super mario odyssey, less into the breach (which i have on mac))
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 27 January 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
The Missing, that indie puzzle-platformer from Swery65 of Deadly Premonition fame. it's like Limbo/Inside but a lot more uncomfortable to play because of the self-dismemberment mechanic
Heartbeat, a cutesy rpgmaker game with a kinda similar vibe to the old game boy pokemon games
― ciderpress, Sunday, 27 January 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
just finishing spidey and going to go THE FUCK IN on life is strange pt II
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 27 January 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
Played Dead Cells into the wee hours, yes this is very compulsive game.
― Oleeever St. John Yogurty (Leee), Sunday, 27 January 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
I was one misthrown freeze bomb away from beating the first boss on my third time facing him, and then I spent the next 2 hours dying stupidly trying to reach him quickly.
― Oleeever St. John Yogurty (Leee), Sunday, 27 January 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link
I've gone back to playing Darkest Dungeon, and I got the DLC cheap.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 27 January 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
crosscode got really intense suddenly and I'm into it again. i guess the second dungeon was just a big speedbump
― ciderpress, Monday, 28 January 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link
Obra Dinn rules so far.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 28 January 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
bouncing back and forth between dead cells and banner saga pt 2. celeste's b-sides defeated me rather quickly
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 28 January 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
Just got a Bittboy https://youtu.be/F5JMjsZR-WY so I'm replaying Earthbound.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:21 (five years ago) link