hold on, let me get my spreadsheet out..
*intense calculating*
carry the 7, yes..yeesssss
https://i.imgur.com/iqBwLbn.gif
― I am also Harl (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 September 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
Karl I’m excited for your report
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 12 September 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
oh man
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 12 September 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
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― Evan, Thursday, 12 September 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
i am holding out for super mario bowflex
― ilxors are still exuberant (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 September 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
i kinda thought this WAS super mario bowflex
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 12 September 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
kirby's dream abs
― ilxors are still exuberant (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 September 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
So what's this Amnesia port that just launched on Switch? Horror game, I assume?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 September 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
yeah Amnesia: The Dark Descent dates from the beginning of the indie boom, no idea what those games are like though
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
The horrorest! Definitely worth a look if that’s at all your vibe. Wandering about a haunted mansion solving puzzles and trying to recover your lost memories to uncover what horrible things once went on. You’re basically defenceless. it revolves around trying to conserve your reserves of light (lamp oil, essentially) cuz the more time you spend in the dark the crazieeeeerrr things get. The sound design is freaky and awesome, lots of creaking, moaning and groaning. Best played in the dark with headphones. Xp
― Windsor Davies, Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
Sounds like Resident Evil. (I just bought Resident Evil 7 for my PS4; hard to say no to $15).
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
Speaking of RE, I’m not a huge player of the series but that 4 vs 1 assymetrical multiplayer game they recently announced looks really promising
― I am also Harl (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 September 2019 22:55 (four years ago) link
My understanding, having played only bits of the ones that were on GameCube (4? Zero? Remake?), is that as the series goes on, particularly after 4, they become more and more action-gamey, which fans of the series (who preferred scares and exploration) didn't like. Right? 7 was received as a return to form, of sorts, I thought. This multiplayer seems more action-y again, or at least like Saw, or that Friday the 13th game. I dunno, I guess it could be cool. I still don't have (or want) PS4 online, though I did get the free year of Nintendo Online, which I may or may not ever use.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 September 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link
7 is backwoods horror iirc
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 September 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
It's still wandering around in a big house/mansion/whatever, solving puzzles, managing items, figuring out the story and avoiding monsters. But yeah, I think its antagonists are very Texas Chainsaw/Rob Zombie rednecks.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 September 2019 02:52 (four years ago) link
re7 is fantastic, top tier RE
― adam, Friday, 13 September 2019 02:52 (four years ago) link
4 and 2 are S tier so like 1,3,7 are A tier
― adam, Friday, 13 September 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
This multiplayer seems more action-y again, or at least like Saw, or that Friday the 13th game.
i also thought of the friday the 13th game (which i haven't played - only watched on twitch) - it looks like that, only more fun.
― I am also Harl (Karl Malone), Friday, 13 September 2019 03:02 (four years ago) link
Playing the DQXI demo which is v meaty, a little fuzzy in handheld mode but I'm 100% on board for this
cdkeys have UK eshop credit for 20% off at the moment, £30 for £23.99 https://www.cdkeys.com/nintendo/eshop-topup-cards/nintendo-eshop-card-30
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 13 September 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
i don't think i've ever played a DQ game. they all seemed pretty generic i guess? was i wrong?
― Mordy, Friday, 13 September 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
Tim Rogers' video about it should tell you everything you would want to know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iTbUGItU0s
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 13 September 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
they're all very traditional jrpgs with good production values. they invented the genre in the 80s and haven't really deviated from that formula.
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 September 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
i mostly enjoyed my time with 11 but it wouldn't sniff my fav jrpgs of the generation list
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 September 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
i had a great time with it until i stopped playing
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 13 September 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
yeah i never finished the true ending, had had enough by then
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 September 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
ciderpress can I bribe you in some way to capsule-review all your top JRPGs of the generation
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 13 September 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
I have major blind spots so I'd only just heard about Ni No Kuni, which is apparently a remaster. So! Does it stand out? I'm not great with turn based but I think the art looks pretty neat.
― Evan, Friday, 13 September 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
i havent played NNK1 but 2 was very disappointing, you could see the exact moment when they ran out their budget and it was only halfway through the game
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 September 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
the big deal with 1 was that ghibli did the animation iirc
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 September 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
Aha, cool. Thanks!
― Evan, Friday, 13 September 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
Tim Rogers has sold me
― Mitch C. Palace (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 13 September 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
Bedtime story gaming is the only gaming I have
― Mitch C. Palace (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 13 September 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
Curious now- what exactly indicated the budget ran out? Suddenly crude character models? Suddenly light or missing necessary cut scenes and fleshed out dialogue?
― Evan, Friday, 13 September 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
talking about 2 there, not the one on switch - you get to a second continent and unlike the first there's only one town there and a ton of empty unused overworld space and then you never see another new enemy type after that for the rest of the game, just palette swapped harder versions of existing ones
i think 1 is better regarded but still has the Level 5 problem of not being quite deep enough gameplay wise for its length
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 September 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
also fun fact about ni no kuni 1: it was originally released as a DS game in japan that came with a physical spellbook you had to read in order to learn the spells you used in combat which you would draw in with the stylus
because of that it was passed over for localization and the PS3 game was basically a reboot that redesigned it without that stuff
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 September 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, September 13, 2019 12:28 PM (fifty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i'll do something like this eventually but its too early, theres still at least half a dozen more games i want to play some of which aren't out yet
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 September 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
ni no kuni 1 was ok, really pretty but the battle system was only fun during boss battlesalso was one of those where it reaches a natural ending and you think "that was fun" .. and then it keeps going on and on for no good reason
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 13 September 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
What would y'all recommend as a Switch JRPG for someone who kind of hates JRPGs? I'm very charmed by the looks & environment of DQ XI, but given that it is a "traditional" JRPG, I'm a bit skeptical. I just want a big 'ol novelistic chunk of game to sink some hours into that maybe doesn't have too much in the way of random turn-based encounters and embarrassing fanservice nonsense (the latter is what has kept me away from Xenoblade Chronicles 2, despite the praise for it).
― icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Friday, 13 September 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
from the video, you can avoid all random encounters in dq xi
― Mitch C. Palace (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 13 September 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
FE?
― prorogue mahone (||||||||), Friday, 13 September 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
DQXI has the modern style of JRPG encounters where you have to touch an enemy on the field to go into battle mode, not random encounters. it's still turn based combat though.
Fire emblem is turn-based tactics missions if that sounds more appealing to you
i'm blanking on good real-time/action JRPGs on switch other than xenoblade and ys 8 which both have some fanservicey stuff.
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 September 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
I don't know how you could really have a JRPG that someone who hates JRPGs would like. Maybe a very short one.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 13 September 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
I was interested in ys 8 cause of the action RPG angle... what exactly are we referring to in regards to fanservice in this context?
― Evan, Friday, 13 September 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
the game takes place on a desert island so some characters are uh lightly dressed. plus iirc the first party member is introduced via a dumb scene of adol walking in on her bathing in the river but i dont recall anything else like that afterwards
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 September 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
xp I'm referring to gratuitous T&A characters with dinner-plate eyes.
― icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Friday, 13 September 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
So ideal is Earthbound without random encounters or say another Breath of the Wild type game?
― Evan, Friday, 13 September 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
if you're okay with turn based combat as long as its not random encounters then DQXI is probably the pick still
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 September 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
BRING PERSONA 5 TO SWITCH U COWARDS
― prorogue mahone (||||||||), Friday, 13 September 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
theyre bringing the better smt spinoff game instead
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 September 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
I think I can deal with the turn-basedness. I think my ideal game is just BotW with a better story, really.
― icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Friday, 13 September 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link