whatchu playing now

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.

Halfway thru Obra Dinn on the Switch now. It is my GOTY, I don't care that it came out last year, I am hereby invoking the Hollow Knight precedent

i've barely played any 2019 games this year, dunno if i'll have a goty

Still on Witcher 3. My it's a long game. Have to say, while it's a really compelling game, the actual gameplay can become a bit formulaic, especially since I'm trying to complete as many sidequests as the story unfolds. This means I'm suitably grinded-up to complete most battles fairly easy.

Little Nightmares is a weird one. Weirdly scary, but also frustrating for its well documented checkpoint choices.

i think i've bailed on obra dinn, it's cool and original but not fun. maybe i'll jump back into it someday.

Yeah, I guess it isn't for everyone, but it's definitely for me. It feels so satisfying every time I figure out another 3 fates.

i loved it but yeah you have to like solving things from context clues in that specific way

oh now that i'm thinking about that, i actually do have a goty, it's Hypnospace Outlaw

Baba Is You is my goty

still playing dicey dungeons even though it has kind of got less fun i just want the grim satisfaction of winning it

this is the most general interest thread, so posting here

I ended up following a link to the Game Awards livestream and it’s weird. Is this the future of award shows, where sponcon is most of the content? It looks huge!

i also watched it for 20 minutes or so

it started to seem extremely dystopian so i closed it, but i also think twitch is dystopian so obv take that with a grain of salt (also note that i still visit twitch multiple times a week)

a 5 minute segment with the live carson daly guy interacting with the apex legends character, followed by a 2-minute video of apex legends characters wearing christmas skins, was the first thing i saw

last year it was all fortnite and pubg ads.

I think I’m watching on YouTube? idk

The promo for this new Sony game is soundtracked by a full onstage orchestra, yikes

The scale of this thing is nuts

I am confused by Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker of the Muppets appearing as presenters, but the “untitled Beaker game” joke that ended with a Muppet goose was cute, although... why, Muppets?!

in the midst of that, they cut to Norman Reedus smiling and clapping, it was so intense

the game awards is ass but they procure a bunch of new game announcements so everyone watches it

+ green day and grimesz

and chvrches yeah

but i dont think most people watching this care about the celebs they just want to see who the next smash bros char is

regret watching that all the way through tbh but at least it took my mind off the UK election results for a while :/

pretty much everyone on my twitter feed just said the same

never heard of this, will catch up with it today at some point as boss is off today and everyone was out last night for xmas office do - so should be quiet

One of the winners at that awards show is Disco Elysium, one on my wishlist. Anyone playing it? Looks fantastic, but even at 20% discount still slightly out of my price comfort zone right now.

I've heard great things about it. I'm waiting for the console version because my PC sucks.

i plan to play it for sure but haven't gotten to it yet

going to buy disco elysium when i finish my grad school apps

i just finished the 36 regular episodes of dicey dungeons and the next mode unlocked looks to be quite ridiculous

hadn’t seen this before - Finnish freeware classic Liero has been given the .io multiplayer treatment https://t.co/PwZZnIHGEQ

— Bennett (@bfod) December 14, 2019

the bennett who is recommending this is bennett foddy of Getting Over it and QWOP fame

for real, we should create an ilxor room and play sometime. it's a free browser game, supporting at least a dozen players at a time. seems to be like worms but faster and live-action instead of turn-based, sorta

So many great games are on sale right now on PS4. Picked up a few things yesterday:

A Plague Tale: Innocence: I downloaded the demo for this and recommend it. It gives you a good taste of the world and some of the mechanics of the gameplay. It feels like a walking simulator but there's a stealth game under there. I love the feel of the world ... a very French perspective on medieval life.

Life Is Strange 2 Part 1: Finished the first two hours of this. I think this is the first game I've ever played where the LOADING ANIMATIONS made me cry? Pretty corny at times but I think I may keep going.

Next up: Outer Worlds