whatchu playing now

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

I started FFXII on Switch on Friday. I just got access to gambits and that + the fast-forward functionality are a blast

I am really getting into NecroDancer now, but this game WILL give me carpal tunnel playing on a d-pad :(

what releases you eyeing CP?

for this month it's bloodstained, judgment, and the new samurai shodown. next month is fire emblem and the new umihara kawase game. theres also mario maker but i'll almost certainly end up just watching streams of that and not playing it myself

Gaming has totally fallen off my radar. I played some Yakuza yesterday and gave up after maybe 15 minutes. At least my wallet is happy about that.

i like Karl's posts on Yakuza 6.

i've been playing Yakuza 0 and... welp. i really do like the loopy sensibility, the tonal shifts between deadly serious gangster stuff, weirdo side characters, treacly sentimental stuff helping neighborhood kids (finding out every single female character is a working porn performer is a little idk, something)

yakuza 0 was a masterpiece because it allowed you to live your life in devotion to the four divine arts: karaoke, fighting, disco, and pocket racing

— ▀▀▀▀▀▀ (@immolations) June 6, 2019

but it's not that fun? the translation is great but the fighting isn't. coming off god of war (fuck yeah) it's just not that great. and you spend so much time in menus. i get a kick out of the fact that there's immense detail put into things that barely matter, all the food, my god! but then there's something like that item builder/resource hoarding/agent request system that's like ????? it's a very player-unfriendly game i think.

i only play stardew valley now

i'm a "gamer"

i have been playing through yoku island express with my roommate for life - it's a great sorta co-op game because it's easy to trade the controller every once in a while and you can't die. we're currently going through all the post-credits stuff trying to 100% it

what's a roommate for life?

i'm also at the dreaded 30-40 hour mark in Persona 5. i was having a great time but now i haven't touched it in 2 weeks and i'm a little concerned i won't get back. 100+ hours is just a real long ass game. i can't do it. (note that i did it without thinking for breath of the wild)

my roommate for life is my wife. i just feel weird saying wife. "My wife"..."spouse"..."partner"..it all seems wrong. whereas "roommate for life" is very natural and not weird, of course

how do you feel about "significant other"

I feel ok about it. it’s good to have a few options

I want everyone including straight married people to feel perfectly entitled and comfortable saying "partner"

yeah, i moved to partner a few years ago and then doubled down when we became legal partners!

but it's not that fun?

I’m replaying Borderlands 2 at the moment, co-op with some friends who didn’t play it the first time round and I’m having the exact opposite experience. Story, world, art style, dialogue, I pretty much hate them all, but the actual gameplay is still just great.

I'm giving that another go as well, I think that after Doom it seems pretty slow, though your character does speed up over time I guess. Agree on the Poochie the Hound-ness of it all, though I sort of like the art style

the borderlands aesthetic is so unappealing to me and there's so many games with it now

Since my last post re windwaker I havent touched it since that, haha. I might have another crack at the wind temple this weekend, its cold and raining so Ive nowt else to do.

https://flappyroyale.io/demo/ is really hitting the spot right now

i'm playing it over and over while listening to Brunchusevenmx and VLetrmx (autechre 4evermx)

well for fuck's sake

i love that it still uses the flying bus concept.

Gran Turismo Sport. The game is so professional. I love it. You use a mouse pointer to select the many beautiful menus. Your ai rivals are named but never betray any personality aside from their national flag placed next to their lap times. Sometimes one will honk at you as long as you are within earshot, but if you ever become intrigued and tilt the right joystick to peer sideways, fast and the furious style, into the cabin of their car, you will briefly glimpse their impenetrable helmeted figure before your attention must return to the track in front of you, and the meticulous plastic and leather textures of your car's interior, and sound of both cars engines muffled through the windows. When you enter the livery editor to change the helmet design of your similarly unknowable driver avatar, the soundtrack shifts from jazz to a soaring operatic vocal, some light strings in the background. There is one particular loading screen (playing when heading into a race) with a noticeably playful jazz tune, and has you tapping your toes and probably humming and tongue clicking. The whole experience feels like being in a classy and modern car showroom you actually would want to be in. Everything is understated yet functional and gently encouraging (graceful). The xp progression meter's animation is polite. At first you won't be able to find where you can purchase new cars you need to advance in the career mode (the correct menu is called "Brands" and its presentation is also exquisite). Sometimes when you read the scroll of text that accompanies each potential purchase, you might pick up on hints of personality or affection in the writers voice for this particular car. When you buy that car, you are asked if you would like to "get in it now" (yes I would) which surely has a real application that I haven't found yet. The colour you purchase it in is the colour you keep it in, which promotes consideration and then attachment. This is a car you own now. The racing is great too (haven't tried online yet). When several races into your new car experience you notice its braking characteristics are different than your other car, you will smile. And when you leave the game and return to real life you will appreciate the tire walls of the parked cars along your street. Cars are suddenly elegant.

nah cars are shit

Baba

sensational post, Young

Just picked up FTL in the Steam summer sale, and spent about 90 minutes dying a lot but can tell this is an instant addiction.

Untitled Goose Game will have to exceed my expectations to knock Baba Is You out of my Game of the Year slot

Adapting to Total War: Rome II (75% off Steam sale). Visually gorgeous compared to Rome I, but the economy, city and agent management is less intuitive. I'd avoided this on release in 2013 (?) due to all the kvetching about AI glitches. The Emperor Edn reportedly fixes most, but battle AI still doesn't take much initiative, and one can routinely roll up enemy lines while at a numerical disadvantage.