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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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ90LtcWOJc

I finally found evidence that the best game of all time really did exist rather than just a fever dream of my youth

https://kotaku.com/the-most-underrated-games-of-the-decade-1840365171

What do you all think? I've picked up Binary Domain in the strength of classic ILG comments and Echo is on my wishlist.

Sleeping Dogs was excellent and Freedom Cry good.

weird take on an 'underrated' list, bunch of games from massively popular franchises that weren't even particularly panned at release, and both The Missing and Pathologic 2 have gotten lots of praise in the past year

binary domain is the right sort of stuff though

Yeah, it's kind of clear that it's kind of a tossed off list, but I hadn't heard of e.g. Pathologic before so it's serving its purpose to at least one reader!

I hadn't heard of Echo, myself, and it's only three years old

remember me and binary domain were both excellent.

i've finally started red dead redemption II. RDR was one of my all-time favorites and this one looks amazing so far but man people weren't kidding about all the random shit you have to micromanage. also the controls aren't great. even when walking the main dude moves like the ford escort station wagon i learned to drive in

I guess it's a good time to play Bayonetta for the first time now that the remaster is out?

It'll always be a good time to play Bayonetta

finally playing two point hospital! it came out on the switch today ($39, including 2 DLC)

gonna be at pax tomorrow, any upcoming indies i should look out for? i will not stand in line for hours to demo animal crossing

Watching trailers just now: Floppy Knights has the same artist as Dicey Dungeons, I'm interested. Yestermorrow might be a standard puzzle platform or might be something more due to a time travel element.

ff7 remake did not look that fun based on watching people play it. though xenoblade doesn't particularly look great spectating it either and thats got the same sort of hybrid command-based/real-time system so who knows. it definitely did not pop as much as ff15

started the outer wilds, very agreeable so far though i still can't control the ship for shit after 4 hours

I was unexpectedly all in on the ff7 demo and now I can't wait for the uh "full game" to drop

Biggest risk is of course that it's ten hours long for full price and they have no way of redoing the whole original game to that level of detail before we all die

i assume it will be much longer than 10 hours even if that section of the original game was only 10

ff7 demo was great, impressed with the update to the combat system, felt modern and punchy but still had some of the flavor of the original. first boss battle was surprisingly intense

yeah im glad to be wrong about my impression from spectating

someone described the character designs as being like they modeled cosplayers and i can only think of the game as a bunch of nerds reenacting ff7 now

cloud's hair is definitely even more absurd rendered more 'realistically'

Anticipating the cross-dressing bit and Cait Sith with varying degrees of trepidatiousness

started the outer wilds, very agreeable so far though i still can't control the ship for shit after 4 hours

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i started using the autopilot p much every time, and just walking away from my pilot seat and using the information board thing. i don't even wanna look at it flying bc i'm like "oh i can do better than this" and then i crash into the wrong planet

unfortunately i actually haven't played since like friday, because my friend was visiting from out of town then my gf got super sick so she's not going to work/is on the couch/i don't wanna make her watch me play this :( really wanna jump back in tho. feel like i'm well over halfway done.

Hah you can't always count on the AP (it's flown me into the sun more than once), and. sometimes if you're accelerating and not buckled in you get smashed into the back of your ship.

holy shit! that hasn't happened to me yet. the sun thing tho i usually just fly manually a bit to make suuuuuure i won't hit it, then i put on autopilot

i have for sure autopiloted into the sun at least... 2 or 3 times

It is extremely easy to get way off track and not know how to correct for it.

i've been playing Murder By Numbers, a kind of Picross meets VN/Ace Attorney deal from the people who made Hatoful Boyfriend i think. i've got a serious Picross addiction and am partial to a VN, it's fun

yeah that was in one of the nintendo indie game showcases and looked pretty good

New Apple Arcade game Roundguard is great. It’s a peggle roguelike

Very little that says "sold" to me as much as 'Picross meets VN/Ace Attorney'

they got the ace attorney composer to do the music too