currently eyeing this thps 1&2 remake
same. i guess there's no cross-platform multiplayer, though. that sucks
― Karl Malone, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
oh yeah i definitely have strong nostalgia for the first 3 games xp
― ciderpress, Friday, 4 September 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
i wonder how the online multiplayer will be - guessing barebones score runs
might get it, but i'll probably be occupied with Avengers for a while, so it's tempting to wait for the inevitable sale
― Nhex, Friday, 4 September 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
yeah i don't know about the last line here, and i'm downloading the new one now, but most of this part from the polygon review seems right
The first two Tony Hawk games were created before the series had story modes or sections in which your character got off the board. Even now, the levels explode with an aggressive ferocity filtered through elegant, versatile design that rewards players who go straight for each objective, while also holding surprises for fans trying to think outside the box.Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 are the sorts of games you just couldn’t make anymore. The concept doesn’t really support ongoing content, as Activision found out by watering down what made the game special with sequel after sequel, year after year. That’s why the franchise was always doomed; it wasn’t an idea that did well as different teams bolted on more and more gimmicks and oddities.But that only makes this remaster feel more miraculous — an act of driving through your old neighborhood to see what’s changed, back when a few skate parks and some inventive inside jokes were enough to support a full-priced release. No one would fund such a modest endeavor anymore; there’s no good way to add a season pass to Pro Skater, or fund continual development through selling skins. It always worked better as timed runs through limited environments, not as an open-world game with various missions to find and complete.The series, when done well, is almost the opposite of a living game, which is a pretty punk-rock thing to be in 2020.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 are the sorts of games you just couldn’t make anymore. The concept doesn’t really support ongoing content, as Activision found out by watering down what made the game special with sequel after sequel, year after year. That’s why the franchise was always doomed; it wasn’t an idea that did well as different teams bolted on more and more gimmicks and oddities.
But that only makes this remaster feel more miraculous — an act of driving through your old neighborhood to see what’s changed, back when a few skate parks and some inventive inside jokes were enough to support a full-priced release. No one would fund such a modest endeavor anymore; there’s no good way to add a season pass to Pro Skater, or fund continual development through selling skins. It always worked better as timed runs through limited environments, not as an open-world game with various missions to find and complete.
The series, when done well, is almost the opposite of a living game, which is a pretty punk-rock thing to be in 2020.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 4 September 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link
i still think those first 3 thps games are closer cousins of mario 64 than any of the other 3d platformers that gen. acrobatic traversal, exploration, collectibles, that's the whole formula. everything else was missing the first part and tried to make up for it with fart jokes
― ciderpress, Friday, 4 September 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
No one would fund such a modest endeavor anymore
isn't it more like, it could be done as an upper-tier indie game but as such it would never occupy the central cultural place the original did
― lukas, Friday, 4 September 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
hmm looks like the time manipulation cheese strat that got me through the last half of Trails of Cold Steel's boss battles unscathed isn't going to work on (what I'm assuming is) the last boss
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 4 September 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
Kids are playing ABZU on PlayStation now or plus or whatver, a cool adventure underwater with a nice color palette
― calstars, Saturday, 5 September 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
i got the outer worlds on the switch and i'm having a fun nostalgic time playing it, but man it looks shitty. presumably it looks better on ps4/etc but on the switch the character design hasn't improved over the ps3 fallout games and the backgrounds are often blurry and hard to see anything in front of. i think it actually looks worse when it's docked than in handheld mode
― na (NA), Sunday, 6 September 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
last i checked, tim's production company produces quite a few shows for adult swim, so i'd imagine his low-budget passion project isn't going to get the axe any time soon
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Monday, 7 September 2020 02:47 (three years ago) link
wrong thread :X
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Monday, 7 September 2020 02:48 (three years ago) link
hades might be game of year? just got out of early access, supergiant (pyre, etc)
if you don't like roguelite action adventure (think dead cells) genre, i guess stay away, but it kind of seems like the endpoint/perfection of the idea (note: i thought the same about dead cells, but this is a little better)
― Karl Malone, Friday, 18 September 2020 06:28 (three years ago) link
still annoyed that they refuse to put pyre on switch despite it being the best fit for handheld of their games
― ciderpress, Friday, 18 September 2020 11:08 (three years ago) link
i'm only about 4 hours in, though, and probably still in the overgushing first wave of fandom.
the standard Supergiant polish makes a big difference. everything just looks and feels super good, similar to Pyre in that way. and the story, and frequent interactions with the greek olympians and inhabitants of hades, are well done. it feels cool to be on a journey to escape hell, with the olympians watching and trying to help. and, knowing a little bit about greek gods, i assume that as i get closer to the end, maybe some of those olympians will start doing dastardly things to me as well.
it also feels like i've barely scratched the surface. i was reading a First Impressions kind of thing and they mentioned that even 60 hours into the game, key things were unlocking
― Karl Malone, Friday, 18 September 2020 14:39 (three years ago) link
I am playing Chef Wars ON IPAD & loving it, because I love RPGs and I love food
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 18 September 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
microsoft bought bethesda. dunno where to put this since i couldn't find a current xbox or bethesda thread but seems like Big Gaming News
― ciderpress, Monday, 21 September 2020 13:26 (three years ago) link
hades is very good!! between that and spelunky it's a good time for being borne ceaselessly back to hub worlds
spelunky has an added wrinkle as my very small daughter really likes the ghost and asks me to break the urn and free said ghost in every level.
― adam, Monday, 21 September 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
if anyone wants to talk about hades with me (including stuff about builds that you like, etc) i made this thread:
Hades (from Supergiant, maker of Pyre, Bastion, Transistor)
― Karl Malone, Monday, 21 September 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
I'm kind of looking for something that I can easily dip into and have mindless fun with -- preferably console (Switch/PS4) and single-player?
― Pleeenk Floyd (Leee), Monday, 21 September 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
i hear Hades (from Supergiant, maker of Pyre, Bastion, Transistor) is good
― ciderpress, Monday, 21 September 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
Hah forgot to add: I don't want anything where I am at risk of breaking a controller in a fit of GIT GUD rage.
― Pleeenk Floyd (Leee), Monday, 21 September 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
how bout the tony hawk 1&2 remake
― ciderpress, Monday, 21 September 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
i downloaded yesterday but not played it. can't wait.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 September 2020 21:32 (three years ago) link
prepare 4 mallpunk
― ciderpress, Monday, 21 September 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
yeah tony hawk sounds the right choice there
― adam, Monday, 21 September 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
Mindless fun = Fall Guys
― nate woolls, Monday, 21 September 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
Sorry, just scrolled upthread, pls ignore me
― nate woolls, Monday, 21 September 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
Anyone playing Avengers on PS4? Looking for weekend co-op partners.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
report from the kid front line:among us is absolutely huge right now with uk schoolchildren
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 2 October 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
Twitch is the New World Order. Hopefully the Nazis don't figure it out
― Nhex, Friday, 2 October 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
luckily twitch chat is not designed for the possibility of communicating with other humans
― ciderpress, Friday, 2 October 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
Human Fall Flat is on sale on steam, so I picked it up tonight. It has a split screen for Remote play and had a pretty fun night playing on this with a friend.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Friday, 2 October 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
I've also been loving Red Dead Online with same friend. Damn this game looks fine on the pc.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Friday, 2 October 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
when the game actually runs properly, yes
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 4 October 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
Vermintide 2 is fun
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 4 October 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
Got a very bad ending and saw credits in Obra Dinn. lolol that shit was very funny
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 5 October 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
Tell me about Genshin Impact.
― Fisherman's Worf (Leee), Friday, 9 October 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
it's an anime gacha rpg but the gameplay is a full 3d open world action game aping breath of the wild instead of a dinky sprite based mobile game
― ciderpress, Friday, 9 October 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
looks and sounds fun but there's only so many games i can dump 100 hours into at a time. if it sticks around for a while maybe i'l give it a shot, i like that it's crossplay PS4/iOS
― Nhex, Saturday, 10 October 2020 04:19 (three years ago) link
i don't think the ps4 version is crossplay unless they changed that. or do you mean for your account and not for multiplayer
― ciderpress, Saturday, 10 October 2020 12:19 (three years ago) link
Stuck in an Airbnb with only my laptop, so I played through Astrologaster on Game Pass. The writing was a mixed bag but sometimes pretty funny. I like the pop-up book conceit. I like how each patient is introduced with a brief choral verse (though some are corny af). If you're an expert in 16th century English history then it's probably pretty easy, but if you're a little foggy on it at this point like me, it's fun to be like "OH WAIT I KNOW WHO THIS IS" and adapt your decision-making based on the clues they've offered. An amusing bauble to mess around with.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
Civilization 5 for an hour this morning. First time playing. I’m in rural america playing a Native American tribe. Just discovered a settlement named Dublin. Then Gandhi greeted me as a neighboring kingdom or something. Wtf?
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
watch out for Gandhi. he is a nuclear war hawk
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:09 (three years ago) link
i have played the ever living hell out of witcher 3 finally. i have Many Thoughts, but i guess to sum it up, aside from the ridiculous "let's get sexy at the renaissance fair" vibe and tedious follow-your-nose game mechanics, it's very good. i think the secret weapon is the care taken with the writing -- all of your dialogue choices are clear and well-spoken; i was never left thinking "i didn't want to say it THAT way"
after that i was amped up enough for a sprawling rpg that i gave assassin's creed odyssey a shot, and it's horrible. why did expect otherwise.
― goole, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link
and i'm still getting my ass handed to me in GT Sport online; driver rating C, sportsmanship S :)
― goole, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
i've gotten tricked into playing assassin's creed games like three times and i'm always disappointed
― na (NA), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
asscreed - the list of checkboxes that is also a game
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
I liked the first one but never got around to the others. Will give the Ezio saga a shot someday i guess
― Nhex, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
yeah that one's impressive - climbing around on recreated italian cathedrals is a hoot
― goole, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
I've been playing Noita, and I love it. The "every pixel is simulated" concept combined with the open-ended wand creation mechanics makes the game breakable and cheese-able in a way that really appeals to me. Everything in the environment can be destroyed, and it's possible to make wands that turn the entire screen into a maelstrom of explosions, acid, saw blades, etc, destroying everything in sight, including your own player character. It's also super hard, so you almost HAVE to find cheesy ways of playing in order to succeed. The only game I've played that has a similar amount of genuinely emergent gameplay is Nethack.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link