whatchu playing now

I mean I’ve never played a saints row but the impression I got was that they did all those things for lol reasons while this seems to be doing it because it actually thinks that stuff is cool? But maybe I’m assuming too much.

you're not. Cool is literally a stat in cyberpunk (or at least, it is in 2020). the cooler you are, the easier it is to pull of Cool abilities like Interrogation, Intimidate, Oratory, Resist Torture/Drugs, Streetwise, and Charismatic Leadership.

i agree that it looks bad. but it took me a couple years to be convinced that witcher 3 was worth playing so idk

i'm not sure how i feel about all this, either. i got psyched about playing 2020 earlier this year and am really having fun with the world. it helps that all 5 of us are really bad at being "cool" tough guys, but we sort of try anyway, so it ends up being really fun and funny (imo). but in the trailer, they are pretty good at being the convincing "cool tough guy" that i think i'm supposed to be roleplaying, and seeing the real thing is a little weird.

like in our game a cybernetic leg keeps interfering with radio station signals and you can get a mini-bar installed. will that kind of stuff be in the game?

honestly, maybe it will! maybe there will be enough good things and bad things for both groups of players to be happy (i'm imagining there's a large, if not larger, audience for straight-ahead cool tough guy shit, since that's the default for most other games). but if anyone can pull it off, i'd think it would cd projekt

like ciderpress said,

didn't mean to leave it hanging there but it's a dramatic effect so

when I played it the most expensive item in any cyberpunk 2020 sourcebook I had was a cellular modem that let you jack in on the go. Like way harder to get than a gun arm or implanted mirror shades and shit

I really wanna play a dope Blade Runner RPG but Cyberpunk looks corny af

Blade runner point and click adventure from the late 90s was good

8 quid on GOG

i doubt it holds up well but i love it and bought it a few weeks ago just out of principle for the work they did in bringing it back to life

finally doing Horizon Zero Dawn and slowly streaming to friends a bit

no it looks good and you're all grotesquely ugly freaks

thanks

i bought outer wilds but oh no my motion sickness. happens with a lot of first-person games with fast movement, but I thought outer wilds would be more of a slow, puzzly game.

wait which Outer Wilds

I have that on my WL, looks interesting, how's it ?

purchased Alyx, trying that later.

Got out of bed at 3am last night to try out Cloudpunk. Despite some frame rate issues I really like it, it's basically a fetch quest with some other bits added on for filler (refueling and upgrades, you're own apartment and upgrades, cringy dialogue story). Not sure whether it was my ridiculous tiredness but the game felt really immersive which I've found difficult to achieve with a of these pixel games lately.

xp the one that's not fallout

I remember you mentioning that I hope it wasn't my experience that led you down this path. :(

it's easy to remember:

Outer Wilds is the one where you explore Outer Worlds

Outer Worlds is the one where you explore the Wild World that you live on, at least at first (haven't played it)

ok, fact check:

turns out you can visit other planets in Outer Worlds, too. But you do so via instant-travel in a spaceship map. Whereas in Outer Wilds, you explore the Other Worlds by manually flying there in your spaceship.

so there you have it!!

lol Karl, you are a treasure to this board

Wilds has an I for indie game

Worlds has an O for Obsidian

not helpful guys. not helpful

xp :) thanks circa1916

as I get to the late game in Horizon Zero Dawn, I shall be exploring the Frozen Wilds, which are neither outer nor worlds

blew most of my weekend playing HZD and I want to do other things in life, but I also want to shoot more robots and collect more junk

i played Red Strings Club last night. there were things i liked about it (the setting mostly, the drink mixing + implant pottery mechanics are interesting tho a little finicky). what i don't like about it is that there's obviously a correct way to conduct the interviews/progress through the story - a way that gives you the most information and furthers the narrative correctly, but it's very easy to make a mistake. i think the game thinks it's clever that it's forcing you to make multiple playthroughs to get it right but my preference is that whatever choices you make the story is complete (even if that story changes based on those choices) rather than forcing you to play through the same content multiple times trying to brute force the correct combination, or google up a walkthrough so you aren't just wasting your time. my sense is that isn't going on tho and that there's really only one preferred path.

Been playing 'The Longing', a melancholy and slow game which takes 400 days to complete (or does it?). Very lovely, though I want to get to one particular ending and I'm not sure how, so I might have to settle for a more standard ending when I finally get there.

http://www.cubed3.com/media/2020/January/THELONGINGb.jpg

unexpectedly, i am now a lizard wizard at the beginning of a divinity original sin 2 4-player co-op game

i played DOS (1 and 2), mostly by myself, and only maybe 5-10 hours each. in long rpgs like that, i get a little lonely. i'm learning about all these stories and stuff but there's no one to discuss it with in real time. but having played just a bit of the co-op campaign, it is soooooo much better to have other people figuring things out at the same time

Trackmania's still fun.

i got mario kart so we'd have a game that family members could play against each other (we have overcooked but no one ever plays it). but my kids won't play against me because i destroy them every time. so instead i've been mostly losing against strangers online

i downloaded the free jump rope challenge game and that distracted my kids for a morning

i love overcooked but it is literally the most stressful game in the world

true

try playing it on handheld while watching Uncut Gems at the same time. you will shit your pants

like, Last Of Us not even in the same league of high-boil intensity. the shouting in my house still reverberating afaik

i think i played it once for five minutes when we first bought it and then never touched it again. i should try and get my 10-year-old to play it with me, my wife has no interest and it's too challenging for the five-year-old

i love overcooked but it is literally the most stressful game in the world

haha so otm, and why we stopped. Although revisited last week and we did okay. It's the levels that cut you off from the stove that get yer.

It's a shame because the fetching/chopping/prep/cooking/washing and general whole mechanic of the cooking part of the game I really like. But why torture us?

Random tip that helped me a lot: "The floor is your friend. You can throw food, pots, plates on the floor with no consequence. This is a fast way to collect ingredients or create room when your work space is limited."

Ah, just like my kitchen irl

the five-year-old saw an ad for the new paper mario game about a week ago and has been nagging non-stop since then to get the game. i've never played a paper mario game but i suspect it's going to be too hard for her, especially to try and play alone. she plays super mario odyssey and other mario games on her own.

anyways i meant to ask if it's going to be too hard for her

Apparently there's a point at which they allow you to opt out of harder gameplay elements.

paper mario games are usually piss easy

they are puzzley though so i guess 5 might be too young to not get stuck

Had a crappy week and wanted to buy Paper Mario, but I’ve never played one before and not really sure what to expect. Are they basically like point and click adventures with lite-RPG mechanics on top? That doesn’t sound that interesting to me, but I loved watching the preview video of it, so I’m pretty tempted.

It’s that or Luigi’s Mansion I guess, although I heard that’s also only kind of ok?

Or I could just keep playing DkCountry, which just turned up on the SNES emulator.

i've enjoyed some of the other paper marios i've played. RPG lite is a good description. they're generally not challenging games but often inventive + colorful + fun. the reviews for the latest one seem a bit middling tho so i'm not in a rush to buy it. DKC otoh is a stone cold classic that you should 100% play.

yeah adventure game with a light-RPG layer sounds about right. a lot of the appeal is in the funny irreverent writing, in kind of a similar way to earthbound or whatever

Paper Mario's likely to be text heavy in a way other marios aren't, and it's not likely to be pitched at very young readers either, so that's worth bearing in mind depending on where she's up to with that side of things. It's not quite the same, but my son was five when I started playing Ni No Kuni. He was fascinated by it and wanted to join in, but playing it together meant me having to read out most of the text for him and that made it super slow to chug through, we ended up burning out pretty quickly.

I really loved Luigi's Mansion - but I never finished the final boss battle, which was a little hard. It's linear (which isn't bad) and richly detailed, and its environments are lush and fun to visit. It's got some light puzzling, and some surprisingly finicky boss battles, but it's never frustrating. There are (I think?) fourteen themed floors in a haunted hotel, and you work through each of them trying to find elevator buttons to unlock subsequent floors. Its absolutely chock full of secrets (hidden trap doors, walls you can break away by doing X or Y, ghosts you discover with the rumble function on the controller) and concealed sub-areas that are not essential to finishing the main story. I enjoyed 100%ing the early floors, and raced through the last few floors just to get to the end. Both were really fun.

I get that it will feel easy, on-the-the-rails, and stodgy to ~ gamer types ~ but it was a grand lark for me. In the best possible way, it played like a SNES game the had been updated to the newest hardware.

very high compliment