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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

I’m probably ten hours into Death Stranding on PC and I can’t stop thinking about it. I’m not tired of making deliveries and I can see myself spending time leaving helpful items around and completing online orders.

I will be the most legendary delivery man.

^ gets it

sounds like my sort of game, pretty sure 80% of the games I play are basically job-sims

Okay I checked it out it really does look like my kind of game. But I just looked at the price !?!?!?!?!?!

and now I can't stop thinking about it too

just download the deliveroo app and they will pay YOU instead

Oh, also, I just discovered Opus Magnum and introduced my dad to it. We’ve each been playing and getting a lot out of it. For people who want a puzzle game that scratches their itch for programming and building little machines, it’s a great pick up. Once you’ve completed a level, you can continue to edit your solution to optimize for cost, space, or time efficiency—and you can save each solution separately. You can see how your solution compares to the population on all those metrics as well.

It has been really nice to be able to share a game with my dad. You can save gifs of your machines working straight to your pc and send them to others, so we’ve been coming up with solutions and sharing them back and forth.

love all of zachitronics games, highly recommended (though a few of them are for PROGRAMMERS ONLY)

uh, NOVA DRIFT RULES

on sale for $10 right now, in early access, i played it on a mac with a PS4 gamepad (it might actually be better/easier with keyboard and mouse).

it's basically a roguelite bullet hell game. it was a little confusing, the first time through. it is definitely a game where you want to have a "build" in mind. the first couple times, if you're as clueless/impulsive as me, you'll end up with a weird build and things won't work quite right. but if you have even a basic idea in mind - "i want to be kind of like a spaceship shotgun" - then you can tailor your ship build and modded system upgrades accordingly and things become muuuuuuuuch more fun.

it's hard to explain, but the upgrade system is extremely flexible but logical. in my last game i was kind of a drone based carrier build, relatively slow but with a buffed up shield and a set of 6 drones that i could order to wander around and attack or stay near my ship for protection, along with a weapon that sent pulses in 360 degrees around me. effectively, i became kind of a backline strategic presence, letting my drones do most of the work while clearing out the riff-raft with my pulses. but next time around, i might go with a long-range laser weapon (basically equivalent of a sniper) instead.

it's neat. there's still a lot of stuff missing, but it will rule when it's "done"

wishlist'd for when it's done

i did a very poor job of explaining the actual gameplay. "bullet hell" may not be technically accurate, sorry (or maybe it is?). it's one screen, with waves of enemies. many, many waves of enemies. you are basically, at this point of the game, and probably as the tetrist-like main mode of the game, seeing how long you can survive.

Just watched some vids and I thing bullet hell seems apt. Asteroids version. Meets roguelike. Looks cool but I’m at the point where I wanna be like “hey, indie devs, enough with this roguelike shit already.”

intriguing list from bennett foddy. anyone played any of these?

Here’s a list of all these games, their platforms, and their creators: https://t.co/OIVSgASKAs https://t.co/ZjpqrEjkbk

— Adrian Hon (@adrianhon) August 12, 2020

I started Two Point Hospital last night because I need a break from Fall Guys.

McPixel was sooooo dumb but very amusing to me at the time

Then again, no one should ever listen to Bennett Foddy, so...

this is v true

Dr.Robotkin's Mean Bean Machine still slaps.

Helix rules obv

Bought and finished Hue (Switch sale). It’s a gorgeous colour-themed puzzle game and some of the puzzles are hard. I love the design, it’s as beautiful as it’s frustrating.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfeD66yU4AYKZXR?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfeD66lU8AIKsre?format=jpg&name=large

Townscaper is gently ruling my life. I revived my Steam account just to buy it. 6 bucks!

Did I mention Steam sucking by the way?? It sucks. If this is the alternative to App Store lockdown then..... long live Apple's monopoly

I got Two Point Hospital because I saw someone streaming it and it looked fun, and I figured I needed a way to calm down from Fall Guys induced rage, but dammit if TPH hasn't supplanted Fall Guys as my "just another 15 minutes going on 3 hours" game instead.

I returned to 428 and I got halfway through it. The slow text speed is still sleep-enducing, but I understand the gameplay loop now, which helps.

i've been having a wonderful time playing disco elysium. holy crap! i'm sure a bunch of people have mentioned the lynchian stuff (down to naming a prominent skill tree Inland Empire), but i had no idea and it's been a wonderful surprise. right up my alley. very good writing too. clever and occasionally lol, even, and i find myself actually taking my time and reading/listening through all the dialogues.

played thru The Touryst over the last couple of days on gamepass. about 6 hours long maybe? have some small gripes with the button mapping and the sections with 3D platforming can be a bit frustrating as there are not enough visual clues to know where you are landing imo (although you don't really get punished fot it). still, it's a fun little game if you want some laidback puzzly adventuring in a Fez/3D Dot Heroes type blocky world. oh and you can go raving in Ibiza.

(showing my age by not saying Minecrafty world lol)

playing through (and really enjoying) resident evil 2 HD remake

ghost of tsushima is extremely solid

i'm about 15 hrs into Trails of Cold Steel and it's just starting to pick up... not sure if i'll be able to make it through

kinda have a soft spot for everything Falcom though

love cold steel 1. the story gets very messy by the 2nd game but it makes hanging out in town between story chapters and checking in on all the side characters more rewarding than any other jrpg imo. it's a very specific niche but it fills it so well

i'm playing ace attorney 5 (dual destinies) and ace attorney is still good. i think i'll be able to make it through this and 6 before getting tired of the formula

my kids are playing tsushima and they keep saying it's great but it just looks like horizon zero dawn with a weak-ass melee mechanic? what am i missing here

perhaps my 26" tv is to blame

i never played HZD but the combat is actually quite deep if you want it to be. and yeah, it's quite pretty too

okay. from a distracted distance it just looks like some kinda stiff baddies whose weapons light up red whenever they’re about to hit you and you learn their patterns. different stances are kinda cool i guess.