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
Although tbf I haven't really played minecraft
― Dan I., Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
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
― na (NA), Monday, 26 October 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
hypnospace outlaw is great and wonderfully creative- will scratch a different nostalgia itch
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 26 October 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
cyberpunk got delayed again lol
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
the death march continues
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
the crunch talk coming out about it (and they've been in crunch since January!) is disheartening honestly
― Nhex, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link
are we even surprised ?
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 09:24 (three years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
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
― just another 3-pinnochio post by (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
*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
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
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
― just another 3-pinnochio post by (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
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
― just another 3-pinnochio post by (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
at least cdpr don't do microtransactions
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
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
― adam, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
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.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 5 November 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
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 want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Thursday, 5 November 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Thursday, 5 November 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
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.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 6 November 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
sounds right, i remember some really steep drops for the mold quest
― Nhex, Friday, 6 November 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
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
― mh, Friday, 6 November 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
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.
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Friday, 6 November 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
Started GTA San Andreas on my phone after losing a save towards the end of vice city
― calstars, Friday, 6 November 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
ouch, which part?
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Friday, 6 November 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
the last mission where you have kill everyone in your own Scarface house
― calstars, Friday, 6 November 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link