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are you guys playing Lonely Mountains on PC or Switch? Is either version better?

PC here

switch version sounds kinda rough performance wise, as small budget 3D games can be on there

ps4 here

As barcode likes to say, PCs are for spreadsheets

spreadsheets of all the indie games i own on PC because of bundles

idk whether to post this here or find a podcast thread with who? weekly in it but the livery painters in GT are absolute maniacs, respect

https://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gtsport/user/profile/1056024/gallery/carLivery/livery/1056024/1/7422569986430862345

Been plowing through my Mac Steam backlog partially because... eventually i'll give in and upgrade the OS to 64-bit. Maybe for Apple Arcade...

playing Hypnospace Outlaw, this is overwhelming and amazing

just stumbled onto this, not bought or played yet, looks ace as heck. Want.

i finally got around to doki doki literature club and i was sort of underwhelmed

like i thought the narrator / protagonist was going to be implicated in the weirdness; when anime harem girl #4 SPOILERS and SPOILERS the other girls' SPOILERS and so on, her complaint doesn't ever target the weird privileged position that the player's character has by virtue of the genre. rather all of her anger is directed at the other girls. seemed a missed trick. (if it felt more deliberate i would say that's an interestingly dark decision, but it doesn't feel v deliberate at all ...)

yeah its not very good its just a dumb gimmick vn that blew up because it was free and written in english

I tried it. I didn't get very far. It seemed like 90% "bad generic vn" and 10% "genre commentary".

lol you inspired me to finally play Doki Doki. thumbs up, though i can't say i "enjoyed" it, I appreciate how meta and absurd it was, though it took maybe an hour of totally generic VN gameplay to actually GET to that point, once you get on the rollercoaster it's pretty clever.
i think the ending you speak of, thomp, is pretty deliberate. the final letter screen sorta confirms it (to me)

ha maybe i should have said ‘artless’ rather than deliberate. the implied player is left totally off the hook in a way i am not keen on, and the way the hour of generic VN plays out didn’t seem like the writer had really grappled enough with that. i dunno. all the glitchy stuff is fantastic tho, i dug that.

wish the game didn’t hit you over the head with the solution to the final puzzle. i was feeling pretty clever for having got there myself a long time previously. maybe that’s why I’m so against it.

the borderlands and bioshocks look good on switch. x com not so much

finally realized about NES/SNES via Switch Online, so I'm playing Super Metroid for the first time.

holy shit

I started Hypnospace but kinda lost interest early. Does it change or is it mostly the same after the first couple hours?

i dunno how far you got but it definitely escalates. if you're not into the whole vibe after the first few assignments though then i don't really think there's a point at which you'll suddenly like it

enjoy Super Metroid, that shit is important!

word.

It's a shockingly good game. I don't understand how they're able to play with your expectations so well, like didn't you just invent the genre five minutes ago? Stuff like the superspeed run effect doesn't even seem like it should be possible on SNES hardware. The in-game menu UX should be taught in schools. Etc etc.

really enjoying Sludge Life, which is free on the Epic Store for the next year supposedly. It's a Devolver published dirtbag Jet Set Radio graffiti open world thing with a puerile sense of humor.

https://tonightweriot.com/
https://hyperallergic.com/568275/tonight-we-riot-video-game

I started playing that on Switch a little but haven't gone very far

any good though?

I have been playing so much Valorant. Just unlocked the new character Reyna last night, she's been a blast to play. She is *extraordinarily* strong.

Also about to go back and restart Bioshock, because a friend got the collection on Switch. She's new to gaming and struck a fancy for FPS's, so I told her to pick up the collection when it came out. The control scheme on console did not age very well. The bottom-most right thumb-button is generally your context sensitive button, except when initiating hacking, in which case your reload button is your context sensitive button. Also, jumping is on the uppermost right thumb-button--which means it isn't easily available to you when in combat? Just seems a little out of date.

I started playing Bioshock Infinite on the Switch. I've completed it on other platforms before but I wanted to play it handheld. It's fine with the pro controller and on a TV but unfortunately the joycons are horrible for aiming. Also with certain weapons the target reticule is tiny on the switch screen making it hard to see when there's lots of action.

probably gonna play one of these....724 games

https://itch.io/b/520/bundle-for-racial-justice-and-equality

a short hike is very good. don't see anything else in there that i can vouch for, so good luck

I mean night in the woods is in there but I've played it already

Oxenfree, Minit, and Tonight We Riot are all also worth playing.

Celeste and Nuclear Throne are really good, but I suppose everyone knows that.
Minit and Gutwhale are the two I'm most looking forward to playing from the bundle.

Oh, I played through Snakebird Primer a while back, felt super clever.
Then I bought the original Snakebird. I no longer feel clever. It's a great puzzle game, however. The Primer was a really gentle introduction to the game, but puzzle enthusiasts might want to just skip directly to the original game.

Other than that I'm just playing endless rounds of Binding of Isaac. It's such a comfort game for me now, when I just need to unwind and have an enjoyable, not too difficult experience. It's got enough variety that I never really get tired of it. Mind, I play a couple of hours a week at most.
I've decided to go achievement hunting and get the last few I don't have, before the new expansion pack comes out.

I got the itch.io bundle. Any tips on what's good? I think there are literally more than 1000 games on there now.

yeah it's a bit overwhelming. 2064 Read Only Memories is an interesting point and click pixely cyberpunk thing. And I just noticed its on 75% discount at Steam right now too.

Super Win the Game is an interesting retro platformer, but not as good as it's predessor You Have To Win The Game (which is free on Steam)

I plan to dig in at the weekend so I'll post about any good ones I come across.

I started off by getting the stuff on Terry Cavanaugh's list.

Itch's 100% charity bundle is phenomenal, maybe the best indie game bundle ever put together. There's so much cool stuff in here that it's kind of too much to take in all at once. Don't miss out on it: https://t.co/sYjdMxRsrm

— Terry Cavanagh (@terrycavanagh) June 6, 2020

He's made another list after they added more titles

Here's my recommendations from the original set before all these additions: https://t.co/Fct82kGScq

— Terry Cavanagh (@terrycavanagh) June 10, 2020

Eck, that didn't work out like I'd hoped. Clicking through sorta-kinda gets you there. Here's the titles, minus his descriptions:
A Short Hike, Vignettes, Quadrilateral Cowboy, Astrologaster, Art Sqool, Loot Rascals, Minit, Fortune 499, Beglitched, Interstellaria, Glittermitten Grove (often talked about as Frog Fractions 2),
Celeste, PICO-8, KIDS, Dujanah, Cinco Paus, Lenna's Inception, Metamorphabet, Nuclear Throne,

holy shit Celeste is now on there

Pico-8, if you don't know, is a great little virtual console that uses an inbuilt lua editor, sprite and map creater, to create programs. It's real easy to learn and itself connects to lists of free games that people have made (some corkers too). If you can handle it's low-res quality.

Oh I missed the fact Cinco Paus was in there too!

But yeah Celeste, A Short Hike and Minit were the three that stood out to me initially as games I'd planned to play anyway but hadn't picked up yet. Sure there are dozens more I've not spotted yet.

can I play these on mac

looks like there are mac games

Buy 1,427 items for $5 Regularly ~$7,875 Save 99%!

holy moly

yes lots on mac, and noticed some on linux

Maybe I should buy this even though my laptop can't run a lot of them?

All proceeds will be donated to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Community Bail Fund split 50/50.

dang, they're at 4 mill now.

bunch tabletop RPG fun in there too, like this one: https://tabletop.itch.io/for-the-dungeon

forgot how utterly pish gaming on pc is

a short hike - can't recognise controller
celeste - loads to titles but can't get past that screen
nuclear throne - not compatible w/catalina?
overland - frame rate grinds
minit - file corrupted move to bin

0/5 here lads

Something I didn't know - itch.io has its own desktop client you can download from the homepage. Worth it to make all that installation stuff easier.