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
i'm not even a metal gear / kojima fan and i think death stranding looks cool. just not as cool as my jrpg backlog
― ciderpress, Thursday, 7 November 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
I misread "jrpg backlog" as "rpg backpack," which seems kinda like what Death Stranding is.
(I've never played any Metal Gear Solid games and long assumed that dude was just some GI Joe character I got to play as in Smash Bros.)
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 November 2019 01:28 (four years ago) link
Oh, Josh.
― Antonym Scalia (Leee), Thursday, 7 November 2019 01:30 (four years ago) link
I just restarted phantom pain and it remains great fun
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 November 2019 01:51 (four years ago) link
it's the least good of the metal gear series but it's still awesome, the balloon shit is so funny every time
― adam, Thursday, 7 November 2019 03:14 (four years ago) link
“He’s coming too?...alright....”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 November 2019 03:57 (four years ago) link
negative death stranding review: https://www.giantbomb.com/reviews/death-stranding-review/1900-795/
― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 November 2019 06:11 (four years ago) link
giant bomb was never going to like it
― ciderpress, Thursday, 7 November 2019 06:14 (four years ago) link
ah giant bomb, or as a friend called it, "that old men sighing channel"
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 7 November 2019 10:40 (four years ago) link
The red flag for me is that even the wildly positive reviews have some serious (or at least alarming) contradictions. "Is it fun? Well, no, but ..." "It takes about 20 hours before you finally ... " "It's like if Breath of the Wild were boring on purpose," and so on. Honestly, from what I've seen or read of it it doesn't even look that weird, imo, by video game standards, and all the actors/celebrity cameos seem ... distracting. Plus, it appears very long stretches of the game (most of it?) are about balancing a bunch of stuff on your back while you traverse rough terrain, soothing your upset baby and repairing your shoes.
Which is a way of saying I look forward to hearing what some of you think of it.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 November 2019 13:01 (four years ago) link
See, that Giant Bomb pan is more or less identical to even the raves.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 November 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
some day you feed on a tree frog, others you press x for norman reedus to sip on a fat monster energy can for the buffs
― adam, Thursday, 7 November 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
happy #DeathStranding Day! many reviews (including my own) mention QWOP and Getting Over It. well, i went the extra mile and invited @bfod into the @Kotaku Goblin Bunker to play Death Stranding. i will give no instructions. let's get gobblin' in the bunker https://t.co/y1ykhIJsBK pic.twitter.com/SFM8ZzmyKY— tim rogers (@108) November 8, 2019
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 8 November 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
Early returns from players seem generally positive, though with strong caveats: https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/dtl81q/so_for_those_who_have_a_few_hours_in_death/
― Antonym Scalia (Leee), Friday, 8 November 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
I watched somebody play this today at my local gaming emporium. It looked pretty weird! Your character’s legs in particular are like super-bulbous. You’re like an astronaut on earth.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 November 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
polygon likes death stranding enough to call it the 53rd best game of the decade
https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/11/4/20944265/best-games-2019-2010-ps4-switch-xbox-pc-100-51
― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Saturday, 9 November 2019 03:52 (four years ago) link
perspective!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 9 November 2019 04:13 (four years ago) link
its an Impact list so sure why not
― ciderpress, Saturday, 9 November 2019 04:30 (four years ago) link
game fun
― adam, Saturday, 9 November 2019 11:51 (four years ago) link
i played for four+ hours last night and i didn't kill anyone. it didn't even come up. how often do you see that in gazillion-dollar non-nintendo games?
esp compared to the frankly unpleasant grand guignol opening of mgs5
― adam, Saturday, 9 November 2019 11:55 (four years ago) link
sports and racing games but yeah i get what you're saying
― ciderpress, Saturday, 9 November 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
Obviously there is plenty of "killing" in Nintendo games, there's just a notable lack of blood, a la a lot of Marvel movies.
Man, somewhere I saw a recommendation of "The Evil Within," so I watched a bit of the opening, and it's literally like watching a torture porn movie, and I thought to myself, man, who wants to play this shit?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 9 November 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
based on what i've read of death stranding it's v hard to believe i'll enjoy it (so many "yes it's a walking simulator but a good one" comments) but i'm still curious. maybe it'll be $15 one day soon.
― Mordy, Saturday, 9 November 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link