whatchu playing now

ya sold me on Ouendan

RIVER CITY GIRLS now on sale for PS4 for $21... Kind of uninterested in games at the moment so might wait for it to drop further.

Dunkey's best of 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzfmtGESBxw
Anyone else as great as this dude on YouTube? I feel like he's the first video reviewer I've really liked since Consolevania ended, and I don't want to watch unedited three-hour streams

dunkey's got super basic taste but good comedy chops

Dunkey’s shtick strikes me as a bit…minstrel-y.

For anyone that didn't know Consolevania has been back up and running for a couple of years now. It's Patreon backed but you get episodes on Youtube on time delay - http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb5dkmeyjJ9kHbDoWGUATVg/featured

I did not know! Thank you!

Got around to playing Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. Funny for 15 minutes, but I kept playing for an hour. Now I want to punch this man in the face if I ever meet him

Also, the idea that he's teaching a new generation of students at NYU to make games is terrifying

I recently found out he was the bassist on Cut Copy's first album.

ha, that's a good asterisk!

I’ve only seen that game in the frustrating clips and an interview, and subsequently in a speed run video
where someone finished the entire game in
under two minutes

I feel like that is a classic of video game feelings. What was that NES zapper game where you were controlling a moving guy, but had to shoot under or at him to jump, etc? I only watched a friend play, with the gun inches from the screen, and it was still jokingly referenced as a classic of the frustration genre

Gumshoe! That game was great.

been playing a lot of red dead online. well, spent a lot of time, it doesn't really feel like i've done very much.

they've added four "roles" so there's four different job paths with unlock grinds to take you away from generic unlock grind. they are fun in themselves (the moonshiner role has some tough story missions) and eventually make good money, but have the same lack of explanation and baffling design decisions as the rest of the game

someone figured out that the timers on the bounty missions, for instance, run backwards. multipliers go up the longer you take. so if you want to make your time really worthwhile, you have to stand around at the drop off as long as you can. smh.

you can find lots of commentary on the lines of "what is there to actually do in this?" the trouble is the PVP modes are not great. the RD platform might just be bad for it -- the sluggish and arbitrarily lethal combat + overly complex controls for consuming tonics is better for narrative than competition. i suspect r* was banking on everyone doing the "elimination series" battle royale mode. but literally nobody does. i've tried a few times to find the queues completely empty.

there are a separate set of PVP "free roam events" that are more interesting and varied, but you can't do those at will -- the system will invite you every 45 mins.

years ago i played a crazy amount of GTA online. the racing was great! there were some co-op wave defense modes that were good too. so it felt like grinding to buy new cars or garages or guns was worthwhile.

still though, lots of clothes. that's cool. which you need, because r* made everything winter for the holidays, and you'll freeze if you don't have a combo of warm clothes on. which is not explained. and you have to buy them.

In the actual correct thread

I started playing Two Point Hospital again after giving it up on it for months and I love it; strong recommend. If you haven’t played it in a while, you can now rename your doctors, which ofc has potential for endless awfulness.

It turns out I'm incapable of hitting the block button at the right time to parry in the Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order game, so I did a lot of it in the easier mode.

It's got some goofy platforming bits and a lot of wandering, but the story is everything I wanted as a Star Wars dude and the gameplay once you unlock a bunch of force abilities is really fun. The progression from single lightsaber to dual bladed to *censored lightsaber spoiler* is cool.

the whole combat and movement in Jedi is *really* spongey - especially having come from a similar mechanic in Sekiro.

TPH is in this month's Humble Choice, so I'll give it a try eventually

xp they seem to have patched out some of the buggier things, but I did encounter at least one stormtrooper who completely failed to notice I was there, and some of the jumps when you're sliding down an incline are goofy

you can kite a miniboss to the edge of its scripted range (where they just stop chasing you) and then force pull it beyond that range, where it'll just sit there. it'll counterattack when you swing but won't follow up so you can dodge out of range and take another whack at your leisure. or push/pull it to a ledge and voila.

score match on android, a full-team match engine upgrade on the outrageously addictive score hero

The Escapist 2, trying it out with a split screen buddy.

Seems fun so far, kind of like Skooldaze where you had to attend a daily schedule whilst trying to fit in working your own sneaky agenda

Uncharted trilogy "free" on PSN this month, I had only played 4 before so having fun.

played some control this morning. fun game but i am terrible at action/shooting games. made it to the first boss but keep getting killed

the shooting controls ironically aren't that great imo

I should go back to Control but I was too bad at timing to get past the last round of bosses on my initial runthrough

Ideally, shooting only complements your launch ability in CONTROL. Launching is how you kill most enemies.

Had to use some YouTube hints to beat some of the control bosses. I have old slow reflexes though and stubbornly refuse to lower difficulty. The worm boss (1st) and the plant boss prob took 20 tries each.

Lately I have just been playing OOTP baseball. Very nerdy and addictive.

cyberpunk delayed to september

delayed from when?

(should have been july 7)

it had an april release date previously

follows the FF VII delay, makes sense

Just 100%'d schlockware title Mr. President! where you rag doll your way into stopping Trump assassination attempts. Not sure why I did this.
Spoiler: after the 10th chapter when you've saved Trump from being murdered in the post-apocalyptic wasteland he's caused, you go back in time and kill him, erasing the timeline.
Probably took years off my life getting the hardest achievement where you play as Trump himself throwing endlessly respawning immigrants out of a wrestling ring.

dang

Kojima does it again.

I played Wargroove after a long break because I sort of got stuck on one level in the campaign. I had the AI boxed in but that just concentrated their defenses into a smaller space, and I didn't like the idea of using my troops as cannon fodder. Those sprites are too cute to blithely send to their deaths!

I just started Outer Wilds. The bad news is I don't know wtf I am supposed to do. The good news is I didn't get motion sick from it.

Finished God of War. I warmed up to it as it went on but then it just kinda ended. When the credits started rolling it was very “that’s it?”. Some optional areas to explore afterwards, but this was on the whole kinda underwhelming. Peak example of the trend of AAA games getting 90+ Metacritic scores even though they’re at heart totally just OK-to-pretty-good.

Arkham Knight was sitting in my library as an old, free PS+ download. Liked the first two games, but this starts off immediately worse than those. Hitching your ride to this clunky ass Batmobile stuff was maybe not a good move. I’m only a few hours in and it’s still mostly fun, but it does seem sloppier and less considered than the other Arkham games.

my boy played some Arkham Knight and yeah it just seemed like he was driving around a lot, which is boring. does it get better? I loved the first one and haven't played the second one yet.

No such thing as a boring video game because boring is a fake idea.

the Batmobile stuff is most definitely not great. everything else is the same Arkham-y goodness that makes it worth getting through those few parts

cool thanks

the Batmobile stuff is most definitely not great. everything else is the same Arkham-y goodness that makes it worth getting through those few parts

the batmobile stuff was a huge mistake in tone and gameplay
there were a lot of cool parts, including the puzzles where catwoman is imprisoned. but the batmobile stuff was... meh

I have to give them props on the look/feel of the city. Just a great twisted knot of neon and noir. Blade Runner-y.

Meets the Burton Batman stuff. It’s cool.

bear in mind that i feel like there was something of a gameplay shift from Asylum to City - definitely less of a focus of clearing room-to-room as they added in the greater overworld puzzling and exploration. And I suspect they assume players have played both of the others. but you can always go back and play City later if you're still hungry for more (and Origins yet still).

I thought the batmobile parts with the neon seemed more like Schumacher batman

Hmmm

Could have sworn we had a PUBG thread but I'll say this here instead.

I am unbelievably shit at this game. Anyone else still play?