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the weirdness! the Kubrickian interiors! the throwing photocopiers across rooms at people!

I already have this job

lol

i think i will check it out!

i was waiting to hear what you guys thought about it; i think i will buy in next week

its on sale on amazon already, tempting

oh nvm i guess it sold out at the lower price

this seems to be the new business strategy, selling new releases for $10-20 off the standard price and just always being sold out. i dont really know how or why its a thing but both amazon and walmart have been doing it all summer for new games

Control is a fun game and my new gpu makes the shiny surfaces extra shiny.

http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2019/08/control_to_get_a_photo_mode_map_fix_and_general_improvements_in_future_patches

Apparently it's got some performance issues. No idea how it'll run on my PS4 Slim.

I have been playing NBA 2k19, enough to have gotten my career player (a Saudi shooting guard) to 90.

90 years old and still in the league?

lol

nah he's rated 90, out of 100. played a full season and a half but I'm running out of interest now that he's actually good. it was one of the better rpgs I've played though! I wish the story line had continued after the prologue though; I want to rub my finals MVP in the faces of Marcus Young and Corey Harris. and I want Kareem & Shaq to keep showing up at my apartment, and for AD to keep making gumbo for me.

played Goosebumps: the Game and Donut County on PS4, both short games. I like how Goosebumps includes a very useful smart phone, but the game's puzzles are designed without it in mind. and coincidentally DC is all about using an app.

playing antimatter dimensions on my phone. I never got past the linear initial portion when I played it on PC a few years ago. turns out it's one of the best idle games.

I took the plunge on GRIS (playing on PC with a keyboard, go me) and it's astonishingly pretty with nice controls, but the gameplay is pretty shallow. Probably best to sip it slowly than trying to chug it at once.

Dicey Dungeons Is good. Not as good as Slay the Spire, which seems to be the model.

I haven't seen many people talking about Horizon Chase Turbo but it's a fun 80s arcade racer throwback that was free on PS Plus a few months ago. No idea about its longevity but I had a blast with it during my first session.

This Control gameplay is on a base PS4, and people are complaining vociferously about the frame rate drops, but I don't see anything that egregious?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvG0CVa4IvE

oof. that doesn't look good - every time an explosion goes off with the sparks the action jutters, very bad for this sorta game.
i'm still curious, but good to know how bad it will be on a stock ps4

as low as 10fps if i remember the digitalfoundry article correctly - supposed to be a lot better on the pro and the xbox one x

oh shit, that's not even a base ps4, that's a pro. yikes. still, it looks like the kind of stuff they could fix in patches.

like by turning down the fx / shader quality or something, just to stop those hitches from being so noticible

I guess I don't notice anything awful because I'm still mentally stuck in the Goldeneye 64 era.

wait, that IS the pro? ouch

some chuggy points on the xbox one version when you're really tearing up a room with heaps of desks or whatever, I thought it was fine for the most part. I've done everything, tremendous game all up, the last couple of missions in the main storyline I did find to be tough but I ended up working out a strategy around one of the weapons I'd not used much to that point.

could stroll around and throw things at other things forever though, god what a satisfying mechanic.

Looking for something else in my son's bedroom - which is slowly turning into my study the more time he spends away - I found his old PSP with Symphony of the Night. I have played it as far as the bad ending a long time ago, but had forgotten that is such a spectacularly well-crafted game.

control is one of my favorite games maybe ever? love the vibe and also chucking forklifts at dudes

I finished GRIS, and the ending is kind of beautiful.

golf peaks is a good puzzle game that i'm playing on my phone. one-screen golf courses where you have cards that determine which drives you can do. feels similar to slayaway camp/friday the 13th but without the humor.

Split Enz’ message to my girl.

Whoops wrong thread. 😂

been playing outer worlds quite a bit this weekend. its not great but its kept my interest. I do think I'm at the point where its starting to get a little too easy.

it's like medium fun? it is not quite the biting satire it imagines itself to be

most people in my sphere seem mildly disappointed with it so i'll probably just pass

Giant Bomb gushed over it for 45 minutes last week

i think jason is the only remaining giant bomber whose taste overlaps with mine. maybe ben?

Is Into the Breach anything like Advanced Wars? I've played FTL and while enjoyable it's been really hard and I feel like a chump when I changed the difficulty to Easy.

Hard no there, more of a puzzle game ime

into the breach is like an advanced wars where every unit you have has four-to-six points of uniqueness and you only have three units and the maps are like eight by eight and you can see everything that's going to happen next turn so like ... not really

following this post on the ps4 thread --

ilg is good but really isn't large enough to really be sufficient. lots of new interesting games we don't get around to at all or not until much later. i found dice dungeons through steam by accident (i was like a new terry cavvanaugh game??? how did i not hear about this?) it was great but no one here had mentioned it. curious about like disco elysium but i don't think anyone here has played it. i don't think anyone has played frostpunk. idk it seems like there's a lot of probably worthwhile games that we just don't have the numbers + dedication to cover just in the course of talking. has anyone played the new age of wonders (planetfall)? i do have to thank ilg for clueing me into Control an okay fun game <thumbsup>

― Mordy, Monday, 4 November 2019 22:11 (one week ago) link

i was like 'dice dungeons oh what is that' -- it turned out it is exactly in my wheelhouse -- also it's dicey dungeons. unless mordy was referring to another dungeon themed dice rolling game by terry c.

i have also been curious about disco elysium for a minute but i am waiting until a couple of important personal deadlines pass before i get that one, it doesn't seem so twenty-minute-session-friendly and i don't trust myself

i've been trying to play 428 shibuya scramble for a few months now but i keep falling asleep. one of those famitsu 40/40 games that doesn't live up to that score.

famitsu scores are rng

have heard nothing but praise for that game though from other friends

dicey dungeons is my favorite game of this sort since the beta of desktop dungeons. though that might be the only other game in this exact genre so i don't know.

i recently tried to play the retail version of desktop dungeons again. no surprise, it's still not fun.

why is the retail version worse? I played both, and it's true that I ended up letting the retail version drift away, but I figured that was just me.

endless tutorials; grinding for money for starting items and unlocks; eztra features that make the game more confusing without improving it

yeah I feel all that, but I got past it I think, still never came close to finishing it (whereas I played the beta a lot)

it was nice to have a small game like it on desktop that I could play when I need a five-ten minute pause from work rather than like reading the news or playing something on my phone. I dunno there are probably tons of things that could work, but desktop dungeons caught my fancy at the time and nothing else has since

why is the retail version worse?

‘do the same thing until player skill improves’ is a better fundamental design model than ‘do the same thing until you unlock the upgrade that obviates player skill’

also the art was fugly

I'm playing Wargroove right now, and it's fun but pretty damned hard!

Okay here goes:

Rimworld - after a long and rocky journey for my colony I' down to one person left alive and I'm sticking with it until it's all over. I love this game.

Another Brick in the Mall - looks like Prison Architect but you're building a shopping mall, not quick as polished but has been fun so far.

Stardew Valley - was forced into starting a new coop game with a friend, such a chore of a game tho imo. I think we may have given up on it already (again)

Raft - Released a rather interesting looking update that we're going to try tonight with coop.

Kingdom: New Lands - Got this from a bundle and it's pretty neat. 2D retro pixel type kingdom management/building whilst riding around on a horse.

PUBG - spend ages looting and just to get killed cheaply. I still return to it hoping things will be different.

Brick Rigs - car building with fake lego that has a bitch of an interface. Fun for two though.

Garry's Mod - more two player stuff but with all the workshop mods it's damn fine fun.

My Summer Car - so damn glitchy, can be frustrating as hell trying to place car parts accurately but there's something about these ultra-sims that I can't resist. Anyway try and build a Datsun from the ground up, in Finland, whilst juggling other tasks.

Skyrim VR - I got an Oculus and this game was on offer for Autumn, it's not bad. Fighting giant spiders was intense. Fighting anything makes me dizzy. Spent an entire Saturday modding the shit out of it as advised by various reviews. Result? not that much different. Better than the Fallout4 vr which I refunded almost immediately.