whatchu playing now

yes it is! and no, don't do any internet. it's a good game to learn as you go.

this is a good game for the souls dilettante in that it only has a "hub world" and three "dungeons" and then the final boss. it's gonna take you awhile to find your sea legs but you don't have to devote months to this. Only a few weeks at most.

Subnautica is fun on PS, eh?

again, i hit a frustration wall early and it took about twenty to thirty deaths for me to figure out how to safely get around without getting regularly instakilled. i look forward to hearing how you adjust!

you DO have to try out all the items before you find out what they do and it's best to do that near a respawn point so that you can fall back if they fuck you up.

ciderpress don't play TWEWY on anything except DS, all other versions ruin it afaict

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Oh good this is a hot tip... I keep seeing it discounted for switch but have a rom of it for DS, so I'll stick with that?

have heard wildly varying opinions on how important the original 2-screen mechanics are to enjoyment of the game

i haven't played the ports but it's really hard for me to imagine NOT playing it in that crazy ass way on the DS. the fight system felt designed to crush your brain by forcing you to flicker up and down between both screens endlessly

I mean the second screen mechanic is totally disposable and none of the grindy elements really play into it ON THE OTHER HAND it’s part of the game’s EMOTIONAL METAPHORS for being an ALIENATED TEEN or whatever and why not experience it as originally intended

xp also along with Elite Beat Agents among the games that did the most damage to my touchscreen

first time using tarspore: fuck!
second time using tarspore: yes!

#mortalshell

you're in mortals hell

Dont worry about (or attack) the giant frog.
Do watch out for beartraps.

i have noticed the bear traps several hundred times already, it turns out

i am reminded of the birds, in any NES game

all respect to that, because i fucking hate those birds in ninja gaiden, and i fucking love those birds

Any luck finding the save lady yet?

yep! i also managed to find the name of the shell (through she save lady) and add a couple upgrades. no luck in any of the directions yet. or rather, moderate success in several of the directions, but kept dying. it's fun, though! like dark souls, it's fair (most of the time)

You may want o start with the miniboss behind the castle past the swamp. The game is well organized, so take the path of least resistance.

the one that's behind all the beartraps (fuck!) ?

it did seem to be right in my face, i should probably take that on

back on my slay the spire bullshit

played 80 hours of breath of the wild over the fast 3-4 weeks and wow was everyone not kidding about how incredible it is

*past

i gave Just Cause 4 a few hours because it was free and it's not great. i remember thinking the first one was a lot of fun, but something about the expansion of capability in sequels just goes to tedium right away

aww I have played 2 & 3, gonna play the freebee 4 just 'cause...I like blowing things up. I'm expecting a certain tedium but I don't know other series that allow me the same easy havoc with heavy weaponry.

I loved the second one, right up until I was something like 94% complete including finding all the items etc but one oil rig bugged out and stopped me from accomplishing my dream.

The third was trash enough to make me stop being interesting in the series.

I liked the dumb semi-Mediterranean vibe & blowing things up. I may have liked it more because I bought an edition with dlc which included a weapon that made lightning come from the sky & blow up everything even faster.

thinking about going back to MGS Ground Zeroes tbrr

Zs how is mortal shell treating you?

i need to go back! having a great time with it, but only 3-4 hours in. i think i'm at the first boss, basically. lots of fun small stuff happened, and i like the system for using items, incentivizing actually using things. it works well for me because i'm always saving up items and not having fun

i had kind of a meltdown at work/life all last week, so i'm crawling back up ((down?)) work mountain today and tomorrow, but I hope to be playing some serious videogames again soon

They will wait for you!

bumped into someone playing 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim on twitch last night and i think it's kind of perfect looking? very undiscussed but a likely winner? I may pony up the sixty bucks i was saving for cyberpunk for this instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhq-0aWa7GU

Yeah that game looks cool. Hard to believe it's from the same team that did Dragon's Crown

I haven’t found a review of it that isn’t an insane rave. Seems like the perfect “if you like these kind of games, you’ll love this game” game. I just don’t know if I like this kind of game!

read quite a few people saying that they put it on easy to quickly get through the not very good gameplay sections to get back to the very good story sections

It made Polygon's top 15 games: https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/14/22166004/best-games-2020-ps4-xbox-one-switch-pc-series-x

i bought it when it came out but i haven't played it yet because i'm lazy. everyone in my social media bubble loved it. looking forward to it

there was a Consolevania review that I wasn't sure was serious but ultimately was super gushing and got me interested. bought it during Black Friday sales for the backlog

Finally playing the copy of Astral Chain I bought one year ago in a dying suburban mall. This game is hilarious. The control scheme takes getting used to, as does controlling your pet robomonster. I kinda wish the characters weren't cops, but the fact that they're imaginary universe anime cops makes it a little easier to take.

Also, while this kind of frenetic 3rd person DMC-style action isn't usually my thing, I'm getting into it

i need to play more of that game, i loved the intermission stationhouse wandering/chatting.

Learn Chess with Dr. Wolf (iOS/Android): Really great chess tutorial

my 9-y-o's pretty into it

I'm looking for some 2D Zelda-like games with no random or procedural generation. Anything good recently? I think the last ones I played were Minit and 3D Dot Game Heroes.

I am currently playing the Spyro Reignited games on PS4. I never got into the originals because the first one gave me serious motion sickness. These ones don't, thankfully. I'm also playing some idle crap on my PC and phone (Synergism, Ordinal Markup, NGU Idle, etc.)

Oh, and there's a connection: There was an entertaining stage in Spyro 2 based on the fetch quest from Link's Awakening. Maybe that gave me the urge for more Zelda.

there's that Blossom Tales game which is straight up a 2d zelda clone if that's what youre looking for

Blossom Tales is really good! I'd recommend it as well.

Other Zeldalikes I'd recommend:

The Count Lucanor - Maybe less of a Zelda since there is no combat, but a nice short horror game that is actually a bit scarier than its cartoon-y art belies.

Anodyne - I actually haven't finished it yet, but it is very dreamlike and almost Lynchian.