stop being taking the abuse by that charlatan
― Nhex, Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
jesus, this review is towering and makes me want to both preorder it and start an online letter writing campaign against it at the same time
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
deliberately anti-fun seems accurate; it's amazing how much money kojima gets to make these things he's a glitch in the machine and no wonder that's what he makes.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
similar situation to twin peaks s3 but for games and probably not as good
― ciderpress, Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
tim's complaint that, while the game gives you the option to take a shit for full character immersion, when he makes the character eat nonstop for a month but never take a shit yet there's never any repercussions or in game results is at the heart of why i don't like RDR2. You can do anything but nothing matters. It's astonishingly complex but then a horse appears in midair for no reason. Kojima takes his shit less seriously, less macho focused and more gonzo than rockstar and that somehow works better for me. Anyway, i'm sure i will pay for this and will probably hate it but so fascinating that it exists.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
i mean he's calling it a Seamless delivery person RPG set in the Stalker universe and fuck i guess that's what i'll be doing for the christmas holiday
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
"Death Stranding is basically 'Andrei Tarkovsky's Super Mario Brothers the Movie: the Videogame'"i mean are you in my head right now
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
love Tim Rogers but you'd have to pay me to play that game lol, like it's Journey's 90 minutes stretched out over 50 monotonous hours
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
so you're saying you ARE in my head right now
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
msotly i want to support the monster energy brand family
― adam, Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
Good post forks
― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
Ha, in the Tim Rogers review he estimates it took him about 20 *hours* to get into the swing of things, then quotes Kojima saying it only gets fun at about the *halfway point.* If Rogers says the game took him about 80 hours, that puts it around *40 hours* until it gets "fun." Or, you know, somewhere between 20 and 40 hours. Which is a heck of a curve!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 November 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
i wouldn't assume the game is 80 hours, tim is a slowgamer. he said DQXI was 100 hours and i finished that in 50-60
― ciderpress, Monday, 4 November 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
60 hours is a number I've seen a lot of, so that is probably more accurate at a good pace. But then we're still talking a couple of dozen hours to get into the swing of things, and/or "fun."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 November 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link
Which lol is probably my usually pace for all games!
Why does Tim Rogers sound like a permanently-sarcastic Nolan-Batman?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 4 November 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
that's the "american explaining art/culture" voice imo
― mh, Monday, 4 November 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
Close cousin of the 'American podcast' voice, eh? It's quite annoying. Even when he's being sincere it's hard to take him seriously
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 4 November 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
I'm likely never playing this game but I also watched that entire video review.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 4 November 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
good combination imo
― ciderpress, Monday, 4 November 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
Tim Rogers is the worst version of whatever you think he is
― Nhex, Monday, 4 November 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
who's the best version of american game critic with experience in the japanese game industry
― ciderpress, Monday, 4 November 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
it's all a coooonnnnnnnnnn
― Nhex, Monday, 4 November 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
hm
― adam, Monday, 4 November 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
http://gph.is/17Dpg5E
― Antonym Scalia (Leee), Monday, 4 November 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
what are the good video game websites? i'm allergic to places like kotaku. i check out rockpapershotgun sometimes tho it's uneven, eurogamer (but also uneven)...
― Mordy, Monday, 4 November 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
imo, there are zero good game websites left
― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Monday, 4 November 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
I like some stuff on Polygon
― mh, Monday, 4 November 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
Polygon and kotaku are basically the same site
― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Monday, 4 November 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
https://www.gamasutra.com/https://toucharcade.com/https://statelyplay.com/http://www.youtube.com/user/Chrontendohttps://gamehistory.org/blog/https://gameandgraphics.com/http://shmuplations.com/games/https://www.thewikigame.com/https://www.criticalpathproject.com/basically zs otm
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 November 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
i like polygon more than kotaku but yeah they often feel the same now. bored kids with word counts to fill
― Nhex, Monday, 4 November 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
i look at some jrpg-centric sites for news and reviews but there's nowhere with particularly good articles atm
― ciderpress, Monday, 4 November 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
https://gamehistory.org/every-english-language-video-game-magazine/
Thanks to subscriptions being included with the GameStop rewards card, the magazine’s circulation is over 7 million – the fourth largest overall circulation in the country
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 November 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
fwiw i go to eurogamer to find out what's newly released and what's the rumpus and for reviews occasionallytbh ILG is my primary game website and has sold me on buying more things than anywhere else maybe ever
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 November 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
I think the best way to do it these days is to just follow a lot of indie game devs on twitter
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
the best way is just to follow/know a bunch of gamers e.g. this board
― ciderpress, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
I just copy josh
― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
eurogamer reviews are uneven but the writers there at least attempt to situate the games into some kind of genre context, explain how it fits into the culture, etc - most other reviews just feel like recaps
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
nb even if i knew disco elysium was amazing sadly it's pc-only atm. but frostpunk is now on the ps4!
― Mordy, Monday, 4 November 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
I'm so far behind that there's no way one of you wouldn't have mentioned a game if it were any good.
― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
eurogamer's the only consistently decent games site imo
― Titanic was cliched Marxist crap. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 13:30 (four years ago) link
forums full of melts but
― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
melts are absolutely the best you can hope for if you take it upon yourself to visit an online forum devoted to gaming tbh
― Titanic was cliched Marxist crap. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
Control under $40 with the coupon! Just picked it up because I doubt it's going to get much cheaper on Black Friday.
Whoops! $25 at Target for BF.
― Antonym Scalia (Leee), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
I'm hoping this means a deep discount on the Playstation store, too.
LOL, I thought that Death Stranding came out already, I guess not? I have seen literally zero about that game that seems appealing.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
suspect it'll be $40 or less by Christmas
― Nhex, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
if i give in and buy it this weekend it's purely to support its weirdness (and probable awfulness)
Nioh is on the PS+ freebie menu this month which i'm actually looking forward to playing
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
nioh is good
probably 5 of my "top ten gaming moments" are from metal gear solid games so yalls death stranding doomsaying is just fueling my anticipation. watch this space as i liveblog my unfolding disappointment
― adam, Thursday, 7 November 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link