whatchu playing now

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

can't wait to see a near future urban setting handled with the grace and progressivism expected from the people that brought you Sword Man With Sex Cards

After 30-40 tries, finally beat Control's "A Good Defense" timed test to gain the Shield ability. Not very good at timed actions or platforming (jumping, tend to give an extra nudge that drops me off the side), so feel some vindication. Mostly luck, though, having the scatter gun active at the start of this attempt, which allows for bigger spread to hit the targets. Had been failing using the single shot setting and just not quick/accurate enough to pass. Enjoying the game as a whole, particularly the telekinesis and the leveling up.

Shield was not really useful when the game came up but it got buffed in later patches and probably would've been useful in a DLC boss fight that itself got nerfed.

I found it useful in a handful of boss fights, particularly when you had to fight a bunch of soldiers while some variant of Clayface throws rocks at you

I have an early Xbox One, and Control reaches a certain point where the Xbox freezes with a "video memory overload" error. Happens about three hours into play, so I'll start limiting my time not to go down mid-mission.

I missed an explanation in the game for why the mold sub-mission pauses for the doctor to work the antidote. Using Eurogamer's fine walkthrough, figure it's to gain the Levitate ability via finding Dylan, which will be needed to complete the mold side-mission.

sounds right, i remember some really steep drops for the mold quest

there are ledges you can hop down on either side to get down there, iirc

not that I played through 80% of Control on PS4 before buying the PC version and turning on the aim-snapping to play it again while having more fun, and then did all the expansions.. or anything

beat pikmin 3 deluxe on normal in about 7 hours of play. this was my first pikmin game.

Really, really enjoyed it, but was really upset about how short it was. I thought I had a lot more game to go. I ended with 40+ bottles of juice and 150+ pikmin of each type in bank--I started an ultra-spicy run which I think will make the game more satisfying to complete. The ultra spicy difficulty gives these changes:

* Maximum of 60 pikmin in the field at a time (down from 100 pikmin on normal)
* Day length reduced from 18 minutes to 13 minutes
* Enemies have higher HP
* Fruit yields less juice

In sum: fewer workers to use, fewer resources to collect, resources deplete more quickly, and fights with enemies are more consequential. The added pressure will be a nice change.

I also did a few of the side story missions, which were a nice change of pace. Each side story mission is siloed off from the others, so it is an individual scenario with a fixed time limit. The missions remind me of Eventide Island from Breath of the Wild (in a good way!). You start out with only your wits and whatever you can harvest from the land around you--the rest is up to you to figure out.

All in all, it was a good purchase. It has piqued my interest in the earlier Pikmin games. As with any franchise, I'm hesitant to move backwards for fear of clunkier controls and worse game mechanics.

Started GTA San Andreas on my phone after losing a save towards the end of vice city

ouch, which part?

the last mission where you have kill everyone in your own Scarface house