whatchu playing now

yeah that's been on my wishlist for a bit

Enjoyed ‘The Letter’, a big horror visual novel. Must have got one of the worst lines through it, though will go back to it.

I bought Yakuza 0 last night! Still going to be some time before I play it.

I’m playing the Talos Principle which I got from that PS4 humble bundle, it’s well-written but the world feels uncomfortably arid.

talos principle was a dud for me, played it because a bunch of people compared it to the witness but that turned out to be super misleading

I didn't like it either. I only played it for a couple of hours, but it kind of felt like portal without the portals! Just logic puzzles mapped onto gates and buttons in an English garden

felt like a 2d puzzle game that was arbitrarily built in 3d instead, it didn't do anything with the perspective like the witness at least in the first however many hours i played.

the talos principle is like a fun version of the witness

drama!

talos principle was a dud for me, played it because a bunch of people compared it to the witness but that turned out to be super misleading

otm

it's not like the witness at all, and it was not fun

however just to rekindle an old argument, i also don't think nier automata is a jrpg so what do i know

Was it here that someone recommended Slay the Spire? It's got its hooks in me. I wish the art was a little less, I dunno, first edition monster manual? But whatever it's a good time.

the rerelease of the first Valkyria Chronicles for the Switch

not hard enough imo

tempted to pick that up in the sale

was smooth sailing in wargroove until i hit act 3 side 1, yeesh

Yeah, I hit that wall too.

xxxp I'ce been enjoying Slay the Spire a lot, but the artwork sure looks shitty after staring at the same monsters for 30hrs.

I like the art! But if you're interested in a placeholder while you wait for it to be released on iOS, Night of Full Moon is pretty great, and nicer art.

ok i shelled out for 3 mo of ps4+, enough to pick up Hitman and try Red Dead Online.

RDO first impressions are... not good. the early reactions of really miserable grind+paid currency economy seem right to me. a stranger mission pays out $7 and using the fast travel can cost $10. people have already figured out that *hunting* is the most lucrative thing you can do. there's nothing to rob on trains, even.

it's too bad, i got a huge amount of enjoyment out of GTA online, but the draw there, for me, was how fun and varied the racing was. racing horses (ie buttonmashing) is less of a draw. and as a pure shooter, rockstar games are kind of sub-par so i'm not psyched about the deathmatch or battle royale clone gametypes either.

i have not experienced rampant griefing yet, except why trying to complete a job delivering something to a place, only to find a crew killing every NPC in the destination town. why? farming their honor down maybe? who knows. anyway, it bugged the mission out for a while until clearing.

i'd like to at least complete the story stuff in RDO, because hey more content. but literally every time I try, either it hangs on the matchmaking screen, or i get loaded in with a posse who immediately kick me. or maybe they don't like my female avatar! again, who knows.

at least you can't hear people talking on headset unless they're close to you on the landscape. small mercies.

but, HITMAN looks cool as hell (thanks Karl!). it may drive my OCD completionism up a wall, we'll see.

Plus the community blows.

there's a great youtube channel with someone who does walkthrough vids levels in hitman with the best troll assassinations

new Trials is good, i love how visually distinct all the tracks are and the bullshit ubisoft progression/lootbox layer is easy enough to ignore i guess

trials is straight crack right down to 'fuck this! fuck this shit! i'm never doing this again!' & twenty seconds later i'm trying the same stupid jump another 400 times. dangerous imo.

HITMAN is indeed cool as hell (thanks Karl!). there is an alarming amount of content stuffed into these half dozen areas

I’m playing the Mad Max game which I got as a PS4 freebie ages ago and it’s…not terrible? It’s a standard ubisoft-ish open world thing with too many repetitive little chores to do, and it’s definitely no Fury Road, but I love that the whole point of the game is to take a beater and turn it into a tricked out deathmobile. It’s very satisfying giving my car new shocks or the latest anti-warboy spike technology. Someday I hope to install flamethrowers on the doors.

Been goofin' around with some shooters ... The Division, Rainbow Six Siege, Apex Legends... Division is the standout for me so far.

I've solved 30 fates in Obra Dinn -- is there any reason to not try for all 60 at this point?

thats the goal of the game, if you're up to it...i think there's like 2 people you can't get before leaving the boat (it'll be obvious which, they don't have a prompt next to their name) bc they died in the scene that unlocks after you get everything else

lol duh! Thanks!

oh i gotta get that thing i forgot it was out

i have been playing wargroove. if advance wars was the hard bop of videogames then this is the conservatory trained jazz of videogames

this looks good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFKpfpwgTDs

i remember seeing that and thinking it looked too tech demo-y

is it actually coming out anytime soon?

Is destructible environments the most in-theory-cool idea that has never produced a good game?

i dunno about good but it's produced the 2 most popular games of the decade

xps something about that reminds me of the old BBC micro classic Exile

Andrew: there are many stans still playing Red Faction: Guerilla, a decade after release.

bomberman

finished playing life is strange: before the storm today. Definitely worth playing if you liked the original. The relationship between Chloe & Rachel is so great and heartbreaking. Don’t get the criticism that they get close fast though? That felt real to me.

A remastered version titled Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered with improved graphics was released worldwide on July 3, 2018, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

because of course it was

i remember reading that title and immediately logging off

super fun game imo

As a preliminary impression, ‘We. The Revolution’ seems good, especially if you’ve ever dreamed of being on a revolutionary tribunal (and who hasn’t?).

RFG rules and if you don't like it.. you are clearly not a space asshole

i got "baba is you" and i like it. does the difficulty ramp up really quickly or am i just dum

first 7-8 levels were pretty easy and then all of a sudden it got HARD

Yeah it’s pretty hard

yep it gets hard fast. it's one of those games where there's a lot of emergent secret tricks to the ruleset and the levels that teach them can feel impossible until you figure out what they are

Stephens sausage roll was like that too i think but i didn't get very far in that

anyone here played Hypnospace Outlaw?

at pax today, any upcoming indie games i should get impressions of?

Christine Love's Get in the car, loser!