whatchu playing now

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

Part II of Life Is Strange I found...... tough going.

It's making me want to go back and finish 1 for sure. There's no good reason why I didn't keep going.

1 is all-time yoga flame

disco elysium is a hard yes so far

planescape: torment but also it's m john harrison

Disco Elysium could be my xmas present from myself

Ughhh Slay the Spire is too addictive

if you live in an area with redbox, they're shutting down video game rentals and are selling the games from the boxes for cheap. i saw you can get death stranding for $25. i assume just the disc with no cover etc.

huh, I thought they only sold their secondhand ones online but apparently you can buy them at the box

hmm!

there's some glitch where it's giving a "Card not approved for games" message when I try to check out online

I'll hit up the actual box over lunch and see what gives

didn't have any problem buying, haven't picked up yet though. pumped to play death stranding!

disco elysium is 20% off in the winter sale and i'm not even mad about it

gonna start either that or saga scarlet grace tomorrow. flip a coin i guess

i'll move over to the death stranding thread once i make some real progress into the game but for now it's crazy playing a big-budget PS4 game after having pretty much played switch games for the last year+. i forgot what modern game graphics are.

disco elysium looks gret

i'm going in heavy on path of exile right now.

i leave on christmas day to see family, and I don't know what I'm supposed to do about my POE fix.

Disco Elysium: Early thoughts... Inherent Vice as told by the creators of Baldur's Gate, basically? I love the art and the writing. I get a little bored in a point-and-click scenario so I'll see how far the writing carries me.

Made it to Monarch in Outer Worlds. The combat feels a little creaky so far? Love everything else about it.

just bought Yoku's Island Adventure on sale which was great but far too short. on the plus side it was my first platinum trophy on the PS4 which I was uncharacteristically giddy about.

Playing the hell out of Baba Is You. It can be fiendishly difficult but not so much that you can't progress. The music in the Fall level is also haunting drone goodness.

Sadly, it’s so difficult I can’t progress.

What level are you on? This seems like a decent guide that doesn't give away the solutions: https://www.keyofw.com/baba-is-hint/deep-forest

I don’t know, it’s been a while. I just got a few puzzles that stumped me, and looking up solutions just made me pessimistic about my ability to progress. I do think it’s a wonderful game! Just for people smarter than me.

Hell, I've been finishing up Link's Awakening - there are puzzles in that I never would've solved on my own (or without an extra dozen hours of time to randomly search everything)

I had the same problem Dowd