I am playing Viewtiful Joe and it's really hard???
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 28 February 2021 03:48 (three years ago) link
yup, it was always super difficult. I never unlocked the last bonus character, burned out on the game before that
― Nhex, Sunday, 28 February 2021 04:51 (three years ago) link
like there are so many enemies on screen doing so many different things and there are so many different ways to attach them (Slow! Fast! Zoom!) that I’m often like “wait what am I supposed to be doing rn?”
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 28 February 2021 12:35 (three years ago) link
attack, rather
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 28 February 2021 12:36 (three years ago) link
valheim is quite fun with friends. seems like it has a lot of potential
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 28 February 2021 21:08 (three years ago) link
Also cracking half a million simultaneous players on Steam!
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 1 March 2021 00:05 (three years ago) link
yeah, i'm completely hooked on valheim. it's amazing. the multiplayer skyrim/minecraft/sims/terraria we've all been waiting for. in early access, but devs say 75% of the mechanics are present (what actually makes a game good, and they're great here) along with 50% of the content, which is very exciting to see what this could grow into.
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:11 (three years ago) link
How does the server stuff work? Is it complicated to get multiplayer going?
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link
if you just want to hop on a game with friends it's really easy. multiplayer lobbies are hosted within the game, and all progress carries from session to session. the host needs to be present, however- dedicated servers require some tricks to get working
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 19:08 (three years ago) link
wish this had been more available earlier in COVID, 4:45pm valheim times feel a little like a happy hour, it's nice
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link
This is pretty neat... AI-created text adventures.
aidungeon.io
They only let you play for a little bit without paying but it gives you a good idea of how well this works.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link
oh man am i gonna do ff7 remake now
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 23:16 (three years ago) link
i bought the disc months ago but i guess i can wait... another... however long it is until I can snag a PS5
― Nhex, Thursday, 4 March 2021 02:11 (three years ago) link
it's free on ps+ is the thing
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 March 2021 02:18 (three years ago) link
not gonna wait for the Yuffie bonus content!??
― Nhex, Thursday, 4 March 2021 02:23 (three years ago) link
i thought i didn’t gaf about the ff7 remake so i read all about it and ended up like OMG THAT IS SO COOL. a cautionary tale
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 4 March 2021 02:25 (three years ago) link
it was one of the most hyped releases of the past decade and people didn't hate it. that alone warrants a look, let alone that I've heard pretty much universal praise
― Nhex, Thursday, 4 March 2021 02:29 (three years ago) link
I devoted hours on end to playing it in college and I watched this whole video so we'll seehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4H5ykBP0I
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 March 2021 03:19 (three years ago) link
don't trigger me, forks.
― Nhex, Thursday, 4 March 2021 04:23 (three years ago) link
Oh, is that Tim Rogers?
Brian David Gilbert must have been a crushing blow for him.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 4 March 2021 09:58 (three years ago) link
Nah he posted once while still at Kotaku that he really liked BDG!
― Canon in Deez (silby), Thursday, 4 March 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
I need to finish FF7 Remake but, from the portion I have played thus far, I can wholeheartedly endorse itIt’s not just a game, it’s a dissection of the FF7 phenomena, and above that, a dissection of that dissection
― mh, Thursday, 4 March 2021 18:58 (three years ago) link
*takes the 200,000 ft view of that post and considers*
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:18 (three years ago) link
It's funny that I watched a stream of Remake and despite not considering myself a fan of the original and thus thinking that I was immune to the nostalgia factor, I felt a real pang of nostalgia when Aerith first shows up in the opening cut scene.
― RZA Minnelli (Leee), Friday, 5 March 2021 00:17 (three years ago) link
same tho
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 March 2021 02:08 (three years ago) link
Loop Hero rules
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 5 March 2021 02:30 (three years ago) link
...The game opens with your hero—and nearly everyone else—waking from an amnesia-like blackout. In a daze, your hero sees a single road ahead and marches forward to jog their memory, unaware that it's a loop—but also uncovering more monsters, landmarks, and increasingly powerful weapons with every step on the path.In gameplay terms, this means you can walk away from Loop Hero after its opening plot sequence and watch your hero auto-walk and auto-battle until they die. (Upon every death, the world's amnesia haze consumes you, and you start over in another blacked-out world.) Your hero's movement tracks along a loop (not a round one, mind you, but made of chunky '80s-computing right angles), with the hero and enemies appearing as tiny icons. Whenever the hero walks into a foe, a larger "battle" window opens up with higher-res versions of each hero and monster, and everyone auto-slashes each other until one side is dead. Huh. That's it?Of course, it's not that simple. In your very first adventure, the wimpy enemies you kill will either drop items or "cards." The former are limited to equippable fare (weapons, armor, shields, rings), and like in most RPGs, these primarily tweak your battling stats. The latter play into the game's rolling-amnesia angle, because you're asked to rebuild your forgotten world one landmark at a time. Some landmarks, like meadows and mountains, add bonuses to your stats. Others, like a cemetery or a haunted mansion, will add new, deadlier monsters to your looped path.Loop Hero truly begins once you realize its gimmick: you need to place landmarks around your loop to jog your memory and reach each new threshold of world recovery, and you need to place these landmarks intentionally to help your hero survive and get stronger. Jog your memory enough, and you'll find a boss to fight on a loop. With each new loop, everything starts anew, and you'll have to accrue new gear, place new landmarks, and hunt for a new boss. (We'll get to how all of these randomly generated loops chain together in a second.)Placing all the deadliest landmarks in a single corner of a loop will go poorly, for starters. You'll do better when you realize how certain landmarks play off of each other—like a "dry grove" that generates annoying rats but also lets you plant a helpful, enemy-killing "blood grove," so long as it's adjacent to the dry one. That's a simple chain reaction, then: spread dry groves out early on so that their squares overlap with the "generate super-deadly vampires" mansions in ways that let the blood groves do some helpful damage....
The game opens with your hero—and nearly everyone else—waking from an amnesia-like blackout. In a daze, your hero sees a single road ahead and marches forward to jog their memory, unaware that it's a loop—but also uncovering more monsters, landmarks, and increasingly powerful weapons with every step on the path.
In gameplay terms, this means you can walk away from Loop Hero after its opening plot sequence and watch your hero auto-walk and auto-battle until they die. (Upon every death, the world's amnesia haze consumes you, and you start over in another blacked-out world.) Your hero's movement tracks along a loop (not a round one, mind you, but made of chunky '80s-computing right angles), with the hero and enemies appearing as tiny icons. Whenever the hero walks into a foe, a larger "battle" window opens up with higher-res versions of each hero and monster, and everyone auto-slashes each other until one side is dead. Huh. That's it?
Of course, it's not that simple. In your very first adventure, the wimpy enemies you kill will either drop items or "cards." The former are limited to equippable fare (weapons, armor, shields, rings), and like in most RPGs, these primarily tweak your battling stats. The latter play into the game's rolling-amnesia angle, because you're asked to rebuild your forgotten world one landmark at a time. Some landmarks, like meadows and mountains, add bonuses to your stats. Others, like a cemetery or a haunted mansion, will add new, deadlier monsters to your looped path.
Loop Hero truly begins once you realize its gimmick: you need to place landmarks around your loop to jog your memory and reach each new threshold of world recovery, and you need to place these landmarks intentionally to help your hero survive and get stronger. Jog your memory enough, and you'll find a boss to fight on a loop. With each new loop, everything starts anew, and you'll have to accrue new gear, place new landmarks, and hunt for a new boss. (We'll get to how all of these randomly generated loops chain together in a second.)
Placing all the deadliest landmarks in a single corner of a loop will go poorly, for starters. You'll do better when you realize how certain landmarks play off of each other—like a "dry grove" that generates annoying rats but also lets you plant a helpful, enemy-killing "blood grove," so long as it's adjacent to the dry one. That's a simple chain reaction, then: spread dry groves out early on so that their squares overlap with the "generate super-deadly vampires" mansions in ways that let the blood groves do some helpful damage.
...
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/03/loop-hero-review-ive-somehow-gotten-hooked-on-an-rpg-that-plays-itself/
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 5 March 2021 02:38 (three years ago) link
the last paragraph of that review already seems true to me too, even though i've only installed it earlier today:
For a so-called "automatic" game, Loop Hero sure presents enough questions and choices to get me invested in its missions, its accumulation of city structures, and its organic lessons about how to max out a particular loop. I haven't felt this surprised and engaged by a mix of new and familiar in a game since Slay the Spire. That description should terrify anybody who is not in need of another unique gaming obsession, because if my addiction is any indication, Loop Hero could very well burrow into your brain for the next few weeks. You've been warned.
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 5 March 2021 02:44 (three years ago) link
I played through the first act. I played the SNES ones as a kid and watched my friend play through ten, but otherwise I know nothing about this series. It's very cool so far FOR AN RPG.
Quibble: When Cloud does a double-backflip in a cutscene, it makes me wonder why he couldn't mantle over those small crates a few minutes earlier.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 5 March 2021 03:10 (three years ago) link
were you at all familiar with the story?the big thing about ff7 remake is it’s not really a remake of the game ff7 per se, but a remake of the plot, with the possibility for change
― mh, Friday, 5 March 2021 03:31 (three years ago) link
I'd watched the Tim Rogers video so I understood the basic scenario but that's about it.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 5 March 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
Paper Mario (N64) is VERY funStar Fox 64 is also sort of fun but is underwhelming me a bit
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 8 March 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link
I started playing the original FF7 maybe a year ago and sunk like 20 hours into it but haven't picked it up in 6 months and I really should before I forget everything entirely
yeah i was playing it over the holidays and havent touched it since whoops
― ciderpress, Monday, 8 March 2021 14:24 (three years ago) link
the gamecube paper mario is a top 10 nintendo game
― ciderpress, Monday, 8 March 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
I'm at what i think is the final bowser in mario 3d world and got a little bored so tried bowser's fury which is lots of fun. hoping to galvanize the gamer sense and power my way through both in the next week or two and then see if I can sty focused on FF7 Remake. Gaming still not coming easy but there are some stess-killing rewards to an active fantasy life that comes with a controller.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 March 2021 15:05 (three years ago) link
Ni no Kuni on Switch. Fun! Slowly reveals itself as a Pokemon style game. Some nostalgia associated with that concept for me, as I liked Jade Cocoon way back when that came out for PS2.
― Evan, Monday, 8 March 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
Alright, I have a massive pile of PHYSICAL MEDIA, remember that? I'm tired of keeping it in a box over my closet. Any NYC ILXor gamers have any use for a 360, PS2, Wii and PS with something like 80 games? And does anyone need a gamecube?
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 March 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
sorry: does anyone need gamecube GAMES. I lost my cube some days back.
Have you noticed any cube-shaped holes that suddenly disappeared? Seems like it has to be around there somewhere
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 March 2021 23:52 (three years ago) link
Forks as a collector of retro games I will pay you money to ship them to me in maryland
But also I have to point out that gamecube games in general can fetch a good sum on ebay, especially post-covid inflation. Many ps1 games too of course
― ✖, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 00:11 (three years ago) link
Like even the gamecube games you would not assume have any value at all could go for 20+
Throw your collection up on clist for a reasonable price and it'll be sold in minutes
― ✖, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link
the day forks turned the cube-shaped hole in his wall into 1 ETH
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 00:16 (three years ago) link
X, you seem to know a lot about this so if you wanna help I would greatly appreciate that help!
Here's the pile as typed up by my gf as i shouted it from across the house:
Harmonix wireless keyboard for Rock Band 3 PlaystationCollapsible Guitar Hero Guitar for WiiWii Fit PadPlaystation 2Playstation 3WiiXbox 360 Ouya
Playstation 2 GamesESPN BasketballMGS3 Snake EaterGuitar HeroKaraoke Revolution 3Gran Turismo 3 A-SPECFrequencyVirtua Fighter 4MGS2 Dynasty Warriors 3GTA San AndreasRogue GalaxyDDR Max2Katamari DamacyXenosagaFinal Fantasy 10Final Fantasy 12 Collector's EditionPersona 3Madden 2003We Love KatamariDragon Quest 8Street Fighter AnniversaryHitman ContractsHitman Blood MoneyHitman 2
GameCube GamesPikminSuper Monkey BallAnimal CrossingSuper Smash Brothers MeleeF Zero GXMetroid PrimeStarfox AdventuresSoul Calibur 2Legend of Zelda Ocarina of TimeLegend of Zelda Windwaker
XBox 360 GamesMass Effect 2Dragon Age OriginsFar Cry 2Red Dead RedemptionBioshock 2Just Cause 2Fifa Soccer 2009Brutal LegendGenesis CollectionMadden 2016Culdcept SagaArkham AsylumCondemned MLB2K8Fifa Soccer 10Mass EffectPopcap ArcadeXBox Live ArcadeNBA2K16Arkham CityGears of WarMass Effect 3Guitar Hero AerosmithSSXThe Orange BoxGhost ReconForza Motorsports 2Resident Evil 5Unreal TournamentFable 2Fall out 3XcomEnemy UnknownWitcher 2 EnhancedElder Scrolls OblivionSaints Row 3Dead RisingLeft For DeadRed Faction GuerillaMarvel Ultimate AllianceForza Motorsport 2Civilization RevolutionAssassin's CreedWay of the Samurai 3
WiiZelda Twilight PrincessLittle King StorySam and MaxMadden 08Guitar Hero 3Endless OceanFire Emblem Radiant Dawn Super Mario Galaxy 2Super Smash Brothers BrawlWii Fit
Xbox OneMBS2K15Star Wars BattleFront
Playstation 3Demon SoulsDark Souls 2NBA2K11Uncharted 1LA NoireMortal KombatDeus ExIco and Shadow of ColossusFallout New VegasPortal 2BorderlandsKatamari ForeverMGS4The Last of UsRockband 3Madden 11Nino Kuni Collector's Metal BoxValkyria ChroniclesElder Scrolls Skyrim3D Dot Game HeroesUncharted 2DishonoredDark Souls Collector's Edition Metal Box
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 00:24 (three years ago) link
I am wary about mail because our local post office is among the worst post offices in the country but i'm open to suggestions.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 00:25 (three years ago) link
and estimates as to what a "reasonable price" for that pile is? It probably represents like 3k lost cash to me; would be overjoyed to get back 500 tbh.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 00:28 (three years ago) link
I'm interested. I will webmail you when I figure out what I want out of that. Also, some of the stuff you have listed is worth crazy money. As much as I'd love to steal it from you, go look up what Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn is worth.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 00:34 (three years ago) link
things that immediately stand out as valuable:Fire Emblem Radiant DawnXenosaga, but mainly Part III if you have itGamecube has been rocketing in price, check against this site https://www.pricecharting.com/console/gamecube
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 00:35 (three years ago) link
Yikes, who knew! I mostly just need to clear this stuff out!
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 00:36 (three years ago) link
i will trade you a 0.078 ETH gif I made from 2009 (my rookie card) for radiant dawn
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 00:38 (three years ago) link