whatchu playing now

Tyranny is better than Tides of Numenera anyway imo so you made the right call.

Maybe CK3 will mark the moment I finally leap into the franchise.

ck2 is an alltime great fwiw at this pt maybe you're better off holding out esp since the new one is supposed to be more accessible but if we ever repoll best games of all time ck2 will be in my top 10

Ok cool. Tbh it's one of those games I've partly avoided for fear of getting sucked into it because I'm fairly sure it would be up my alley.

I believe Tides of Numenara is available in xbox game pass if that's any use to you mordy

just got obra dinn and baba is you, yay for me

Baba is You is a motherfucker.

a ISS space station docking simulator.

actually really fun!

https://iss-sim.spacex.com/

loved "baba is you" and everyone in the house got obsessed by it for a weekend but I think we all got completely stuck pretty quickly

I should clarify. Baba is Me is brilliant and hard to put down, but it gets pretty tough and can drive you a bit crazy. It’s a logic game but the metaphysical fuzziness of some puzzles makes you question the soundness of the design and then immediately your own intelligence for not getting it.

Baba is You*

Still messing with me

It’s a logic game but the metaphysical fuzziness of some puzzles makes you question the soundness of the design and then immediately your own intelligence for not getting it.

'There is literally no answer for this room. Oh, wait, so it also works like *that*.'

really hoping they don't botch the switch port of disco elysium

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Oh man if ever there were a game that felt like A PC Game

steam released an update where it will recommend games from your library that you haven't played - it's nice of them to recognize the problem. it recommended i play epistory: typing chronicles, which was a fun game except i felt like spent most of it wandering around trying to find the next thing to actually do. and then when i did it was a ridiculously huge horde of spiders. the thing i like about rpgs is that it offers some sort of alternative to "git gud", but i'm not sure how any of the unlockables i get from leveling up would actually help me defeat this swarm.

tried "marvel super heroes 2" the other day. lego games are really frustrating to me because of the story levels. they're supposed to be "easy" and casual but i spend most of the time wandering around trying to figure out the precise random action i'm supposed to take in order to progress, and all the "clues" they throw at me never seem to quite help. ok, i'm supposed to do something with dr. strange here. wait, dr. strange isn't in my party. he used to be in my party. did a story event i ignored make him go away? do i need to go find him? or did he just get stuck somewhere because of a bug and i need to quit and replay the level all over again? i spend half an hour smashing random stuff, none of which unlocks anything, and quit. i do not restart.

the lego games are interesting to me because the games seem to be "for kids" easier copies of whatever style of gaming is popular in AAAs. maybe the mechanics they use are done better in AAAs, but i don't care about the mechanics, i just want to get the story over with so i can wander around and look for cool shit. i never get to that part with most of the games, between the unskippable cutscenes, though at least the most recent games let me turn off the voice acting, and the frustrating story levels.

PC gamers smell of onions

i am a hybrid gamer

so scallions?

was hoping for shallots

xp rush: i actually just started playing Epistory: Typing Chronicles - love it! half of that is the gorgeous origami/low-poly art style, though. the unlockables eventually do help because you get more powers and then you can upgrade those powers to do more damage and stun.

splatoon is haaaaaard

it took like 20-30 hours of games before i had the moment where it all clicked and i felt like i was In The Zone and carrying my team on a regular basis

feels so different to all other fps - I'm a fairly competent player at those and normally keep a decent k/d... this is all so much and so fast, can really get bamboozled fairly quickly and fairly often. of course still finding my feet on weapons, and play styles, and game modes, and builds etc. but at the moment it's all... a bit much.

need to work more on my game sense and stop rushing in so often. think a lot of the time the best play is to back off, ink some more, and find a better route into an engagement. can really get rushed though quite often by teams piling onto less capable teams, and in some games you never really feel like you get going and before you know it you're beat 60:40

my controller doesn't support motion controls either : /

oh that's a fairly big disadvantage in that game once you start playing against good players

are you playing turf war still or have you gotten into the ranked modes? i preferred the latter, other than clam blitz which i hate

downloading Lonely Mountains: Downhill now. i watched a 10-minute video, and it appears to be a chilled out Trials-like game, in isometric view. instead of revving engines, think bird sound, wind and rustling leaves. i heard the words "marble madness + trials" and was instantly sold.

tell us how it goes!

that game is good

I ordered a TurboGrafx-16 Mini. Impulsively. I want Splatterhouse on tap.

Playing Days Bygone and Idle Mastermind on my phone. Days Bygone is one of those idle waves games like Clicker Heroes. It's "free" but you need to pay around $15 to get to the real game, with automatic combat and fast resets. Currently at floor 2500, where it feels like there's little progress, and the next upgrade/change to the gameplay is at floor 3000. I don't know if I'll continue. Idle Mastermind is a very nice "true idle" game, where it helps to check up on a few times a day but otherwise it runs itself. The paid content isn't worth it, and the ads are optional and capped at four a day.

Lonely Mountains is so good! very addicting, hard to put down.

i am sure that a lot of my love for it comes from it's resemblance to marble madness in some ways -alternate paths that are harder but faster, momentum based physics, isometric view, alternate control schemes.

but it's got its own thing going on. earlier i described it a "chill "game, based upon the lovely sound design. there's no music, just nature noises, waterfalls, and an awesome spinning chain sound when you catch air. i love it. there's no announcer screaming at you, no crowd, no dumb c-grade major label guitar rock in the menus.

however, the experience of playing it can be as stressful, depending on how you play it. there are 4 mountains, with 4 trails on each mountain. so 16 trails in all (i think). each one has around 8 or so challenges, which get progressively harder. the first one is simply to get to the bottom. then 2 beginner challenges - get to bottom under a certain amount of time, and get to the bottom crashing x or less times.

the interesting thing - and this is hard to explain, my apologies - is that your total time for any trail is based only on your best times from each of the trail's sections. there are 7-8 sections on each trail. let's say you do terrible on section 2 and crash 8 times. each time you crash, you go back to the last checkpoint, and your time also resets back to what it was when you reached the checkpoint. the only penalty is your crash count.

what this means is that the "beat x time" challenges consist of you figuring out how to get a really good individual time in each segment. this usually involves some sort of crazy-ass shortcut. so the "time challenges" are deceptively more interesting than they might seem, because they will require exploration and some creativity in order to figure out the best routes and pull them off.

the earlier time challenges are pretty easy to beat, but the more advanced ones are fucking intense! that's what i mean about the stress. if you decide to do these extra challenges and try to unlock the other bikes and get all the gear and all that shit, you will be intensely paying attention to the game and regulating your breathing patterns. or not...you could just take a lovely bike stroll down a trail and look for the 4 hidden whatever stones in each level.

didn't mean to write a megapost, sorry. but last thing, just to hit the important part - it just feels good to bike around. the momentum feels really good. it's easy to get into a mesmerizing groove not unlike that of the Alto's Adventure iOS games. it's fun just to do the normal turns. when you crash, you never feel ripped off, it usually seems fair. i could go on. it's fun!

@ciderpress - yeah I've been mixing it up betw turf war and ranked, mostly because the latter has 5 minute games and more fun game modes (excepting clam blitz which I also hate.)

heard the performance of lonely mountains, void bastards, and the wonderful 101 are all ropey on switch. waiting for a patch on each before diving in

lonely mountains sounds good

just started kentucky route zero. it looks great, though it's been hard to play such a dark game on the hand-held switch while i hide from my children on the porch with sunlight glaring off the screen. feels more like an "experience" than a game.

yeah its in that blurry space between game and visual novel

heard the performance of lonely mountains, void bastards, and the wonderful 101 are all ropey on switch. waiting for a patch on each before diving in

yes, the frame rate does drop on occasion. normally i don't even notice frame rate drops, so it must be pretty significant

also want to say: a much better name for Lonely Mountains would be Trails. that's a bummer, because there's no way we can have Trials and Trails in the same era as Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds

heard the performance of lonely mountains, void bastards, and the wonderful 101 are all ropey on switch. waiting for a patch on each before diving in

jrpg fans have been dealing for years with Trails and Tales both being major series names, i think bicycle game fans could hack it

woah - tried splatoon with the joycons docked in the little handgrip thing and the game plays night and day better with motion controls. even with the sub-optimal right-stick placement and lacklustre R1/R2 buttons, I saw a marked improvement in performance. time to pick up a cheap pro controller I guess

esp good wrt verticality

yeah once you get the hang of aiming with the motion controls it's impossible to go back

dunno if there are any cheaper 3rd party controllers that have working gyro. probably not since i assume that's the expensive part to make

Started playing a little bit of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands ... I think this game is sort of underrated? I would never play it solo but it's a very fun headset game.

my kids just busted out spiderman again today and.... goddamn it is the best game. it's really just two things: swinging across manhattan and melee combat, but i have never seen either done so well.

started uncharted 4 because I want to see how this story ends. lovely so far

btw NBA 2K20 is on sale on the ps4 store for 5 € ! on switch for only 3 € but I'm guessing it's not gonna run so well on there.

Return of Obra Dinn hooked me early and, following two one-hour play sessions, I pulled up on thisMonday night around 9pm to have a focused go at it. At 5am, I was down to the last five or so names/weapons/murderers; I haven't had an OCD play session like that in a long time. Finally broke down and consulted the internet and was immediately justified with "there's no WAY i could've figured that out / brute forced that answer." There are a handful of killings that just aren't well portrayed but, in a game of this complexity, I suppose it's unavoidable to get a few clunkers. Looking up three names at the end got the job done without making me feel like either I or the developer had fucked up too bad.

In any case, it's definitely one of the best games I've played in years: mostly challenging without being too frustrating, gorgeous art style, compellingly quizzical plot, great voice acting and sound design.

If you've been curious to try it, the secret is that it's basically Clue (I think the brits call it Cluedo?) on a mass scale, but much more engaging.

on to Baba Is You now. I love the idea behind it but moving the words around gets tedious and I'm still figuring out the rule sets as to when something is corporeal or not. you feel very very clever when you get something right but the ones that you can't unlock make you feel very very dumb. let's see if i can beat it.

the MUSIC for Obra Dinn is very very good btw
https://soundcloud.com/randall-klaver/sets/the-return-of-the-obra-dinn

baba is you was extremely satisfying up to a certain point, but i hit a wall where even when i had a pretty decent idea of how the puzzles might be solved the complexity of moves required became too tedious to be worth it. it's a shame because i loved most of it and it had a great soundtrack and atmosphere to hang out in.

still looking forward to obra dinn eventually

both of those games i respect a lot but didn't really have much fun playing tbh. obra dinn in particular has a great concept, game mechanic, visual style, etc. but ended up feeling like work

i still pop into baba is you occasionally, it's a good game to play if you've only got 10-15 minutes