whatchu playing now

i played a little riven at the time but found it too hard-- years later in college i turned to it as procrastination tool and will never forget once being stuck for days until dreaming the solution

sorry-- the opposite of more contrived obv.

riven is way better than myst imo

i think i started the 3rd game at a friends house once but didn't get very far so idk if they ever hit those highs again

do not feed the monkeys feels like some kind of bizarro forgotten scummvm engine voyeur sim. it's puzzle / pseudo-narrative adventure esque w/ a quirky sense of humor.

riven is my #3 game of all time, behind super metroid and another world. stick with it, it's worth it.

riven ... super metroid

not unrelated!

those are both among my childhood favs too

Started running dead cells again, been a long time. Haven’t played it all since full release at least. Can get by the first boss but can’t live much longer past that. Game’s tough boys.

finally playing 999 for real, i did one route a couple years ago and then never finished it for some reason

it's a great experience! play vlr too. skip the third one.

i liked the 3rd too! (second was better tho i agree)

speaking of which, I just beat the zanki zero demo last night and uhhhh i ordered the game right after, so i guess i'm looking fwd to that!

I picked up Shadow of the Colossus and the Last Guardian in the last sale, started the former. The controls are not as terrible as if heard.

Also trying to finish Edith Finch, I'm going to be pretty strict about playing it in 20-30 minute intervals to try to mitigate my motion sickness.

Also started A Case of Distrust, quite enjoying the noir dialogue and the atmosphere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GadL-6wpp3U

999 and vlr were very cool

playing atelier lulua now, the first major release of 2019 afaic

ooh, what is the alchemy system in Lulua like? I hated the more recent tetris shape ones.

its not the tetris grid, its got a 4-element system. i haven't played the dusk games but i think it might be similar to one of those?

ive only plyaed the first hour though so maybe it gets more confusing

ok that sounds better at least. I'm just waiting for the original Trilogy to get an eshop sale tbh.
trying to wean myself off a dangerous Lumines addiction atm, was starting to see blocks dropping when falling asleep etc.

ive still never cleared the standard mode in lumines though i got into the 90s recently for the first time. the song that starts at level 80 kills me on a good chunk of runs

My last Lumines run was my best, I forget where I got to though. Closer.

I've only cleared standard once, countless other runs got in the 90s and fallen apart. Now I just stick to the Endless mode that unlocked.

Shake yr body down to the ground

otm

i love the 'i hear the music in my soul' track that has the extremely slow tempo/clear speed that's always the highlight of every run

oh yeh that's a cracker, v Daft Punk. think the only track I dislike is the one on the white and brown bubbles stage, has a kinda grunge riff?

i just finished yakuza 6

that was the longest 20 hour game i have ever played in my life

Is that a bad thing?

it was a struggle

yakuza 6 was a universally praised game, i don't know what is wrong with me

even the fucking ending! there were TWO different credit sequences, separated by another 20 minute movie in between. holy shit

i didn't realize it was such a story-heavy game, though, so i guess that's on me. i will say that the zaniness of the dialogue and the situations they were in made me lol irl several times, which is more than pretty much any game! sometimes it was genuinely very entertaining. in general i really enjoy that uncanny valley zone, in life and videogames. the nathan fielder awkwardness. and yakuza 6 frequently entered that zone and was all the better for it. but most of the time, it rests somewhere just outside of the uncanny valley. like if The Room had just slightly better actors and just slightly better dialogue and made slightly more sense

also a few too many instances of missions like "GO TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TOWN AND STAND ON A SPOT". then as soon as you do that, it skips you from morning turns to dusk and the new missions is "WAIT! go back all the way across town to where you just were, and stand on that spot again"

the wordsies i cannot type them

anyone thinking about picking up one of these?

Introducing Playdate, a new handheld gaming system from Panic.

It fits in your pocket. It's got a black and white screen. It includes a season of brand-new games from amazing creators. Oh and… there's a crank???? https://t.co/WiIPUkpjSq

Yes. A thread… pic.twitter.com/47BwSOtiiP

— Playdate (@playdate) May 22, 2019

i'm intrigued! includes games by the likes of bennett foddy (QWOP, getting over it...and a former bass player for cut copy, i just learned from wikipedia?)

it's also $149 for 12 games, so

no thanks

off topic, but i have this mint condition OUYA i've been trying to get rid of

you know what's better than an OUYA is TWO OUYA and i have one i could sell to you for MSRP

Speak of the devil:

OUYA & Razer Forge TV Services Shutdown
Thank you for your loyalty to OUYA Gaming and Razer Forge TV.
We're writing to let you know that these platforms will be shutdown and no longer available for usage on June 25, 2019.
Your Account:
On June 25, 2019 your OUYA / Razer Cortex account will be disabled. So, we encourage you to utilize your account funds prior to the shutdown.
Games/Gameplay:
After June 25, 2019 continued gameplay will vary depending on the individual game developers, but the games will no longer be available on the OUYA platform. Contact the developers for more information.
We thank you for your loyalty over the years and hope you've enjoyed the service. With the innovations continually happening in the gaming industry, we're looking forward to bringing more great gaming options in the future.
Best Regards,
The Razer Team

lol, I was gonna post that!

Wait, so Ouya became... Razer (sic) Forge?

$150 doesn't seem that bad imo. but i don't think i'll do it

have to admit i was never loyal to razer forge

On June 25, 2019 your OUYA / Razer Cortex account will be disabled. So, we encourage you to utilize your account funds prior to the shutdown.

Imagine having a bunch of Razer Cortez account funds

...you know what I meant

im actually writing a screenplay about a guy named razer cortez who has a bunch of account funds from drug dealing, so actually, that wasn't a typo, you just knew about my screenplay. but you're on thin ice

"Get me... Razer Cortez"

it's all coming together, will m. this is like the da vinci code, but even better

Finished Edith Finch. Should've just watched a play through on YouTube.

So, autochess ... suddenly there are like six different versions of the same game from a bunch of different manufacturers, all stemming I think from this Dota version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dota_Auto_Chess

I've played a bit of the Drodo version on iOS, which I kind of enjoyed. Anyone else dabble with this nonsense?

next week is when the flood of 2019 releases i care about starts and i'm currently halfway through 4 different rpgs already whoops