whatchu playing now

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

I am playing Chef Wars ON IPAD & loving it, because I love RPGs and I love food

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

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.

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)

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?

i hear Hades (from Supergiant, maker of Pyre, Bastion, Transistor) is good

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.

how bout the tony hawk 1&2 remake

i downloaded yesterday but not played it. can't wait.

prepare 4 mallpunk

yeah tony hawk sounds the right choice there

Mindless fun = Fall Guys

Sorry, just scrolled upthread, pls ignore me

Anyone playing Avengers on PS4? Looking for weekend co-op partners.

report from the kid front line:

among us is absolutely huge right now with uk schoolchildren

Twitch is the New World Order. Hopefully the Nazis don't figure it out

luckily twitch chat is not designed for the possibility of communicating with other humans

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.

I've also been loving Red Dead Online with same friend. Damn this game looks fine on the pc.

when the game actually runs properly, yes

Vermintide 2 is fun

Got a very bad ending and saw credits in Obra Dinn. lolol that shit was very funny

Tell me about Genshin Impact.

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

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

i don't think the ps4 version is crossplay unless they changed that. or do you mean for your account and not for multiplayer

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.

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?

watch out for Gandhi. he is a nuclear war hawk

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.

and i'm still getting my ass handed to me in GT Sport online; driver rating C, sportsmanship S :)

i've gotten tricked into playing assassin's creed games like three times and i'm always disappointed

asscreed - the list of checkboxes that is also a game

I liked the first one but never got around to the others. Will give the Ezio saga a shot someday i guess

yeah that one's impressive - climbing around on recreated italian cathedrals is a hoot

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.

Although tbf I haven't really played minecraft

i got hypnospace outlaw but i have barely played it because i also got tony hawk 1+2 and have been soaking in full-octane nostalgia all weekend

hypnospace outlaw is great and wonderfully creative- will scratch a different nostalgia itch

cyberpunk got delayed again lol

the death march continues

the crunch talk coming out about it (and they've been in crunch since January!) is disheartening honestly

are we even surprised ?

i was dumb enough to think a couple years ago that maybe RDR2 would finally be the reckoning for game reviewers taking a stand against crunch-fueled AAA open world excess and not giving perfect reviews across the board, this time i'll know better

RDR2 is an epic, cinematic masterpiece without comparison, a triumph of storytelling and unforgettable characters. get to know john marston all over again, but this time through the lens of one Arthur Morgan, a renegade with a heart of gold. 10.0

*two weeks later* the fundamental gameplay underlying the whole thing is kinda rough though
*two months later* also the online mode that they didn't have ready at review time but was a big selling point sucks ass

all of the grinds have been fine-tuned so that it will take you up to 20 hours of action-packed hunting and trapping to earn your first trophy headpiece, just one of hundreds of ornamental clothing items you can earn. 10.0

all the same, i did put it on my coint and plick the year it came out, and there's no denying the fun of some of the horse chases and shoot-out scenes, beautiful scenes at dusk, all that

at least cdpr don't do microtransactions