whatchu playing now

deaths door is SO GOOD. I want more of the same but not Dark Souls and not Tunic, other recs welcome, obv zelda but I've played all those

just wondering... why not Tunic? I've had my eye on it for a while.

Tried it and just didn't click with it, but don't let my ambivalence stop you! I think I'm in a minority, loads of people seem to enjoy it.

Dropping in to rep for SIGNALIS. Very nice and atmospheric nugget of sci-fi survival horror. Definitely wears it's influences on it's bloodied sleeve (Res Evil, Silent Hill, Evangelion, Blade Runner) but combines these in a way I don't think I've really seen before. Existential robo body-horror? Kinda?

also rep for signalis here (can't remember if i posted about it before). really enjoyed it, and not a long game either which is nice sometimes!!

for those who are worried it'll be too scary i can confirm as a fellow scaredy cat that it only really scared me once and it was early and it was gameplay

i am going to play Pentiment

I would do that but I don’t have Xbox or Windows :(

only the sheer power of Xbox and/or Windows can run this game

U should stream it

On Stadia.

sorry i don't have any of that stuff installed rn also don't have my 2nd monitor set up, too arduous for today

also this game is like entirely dialogue/reading and i like to read fast and without interruption, not a good stream game

this game is very good though i regret choosing the bookworm class since every dialogue option it unlocks is the corniest shit i would never say

hedonist i assume would have been way more fun

Played the first 90 minutes of Persona 4 Golden and fell asleep.

now repeat that 50 more times and you might finish the game and also get a lot of sleep

I tried Signalis and the first hour was great. Clearly inspired by early Resident Evil games but not afraid to diverge from the formula when it serves a purpose.

I beat Tinykin. Pictures make it look like Pikmin but it's more of a 3D platformer collectathon in the style of Mario 64 -- the tiny helpers can't be lost and the game always selects the right one for your task. The main character zips across the screen really fast which is quite satisfying. Lots of stages are based around getting as high up as possible, and I love that games don't need to restrict viewing angles any more, letting you see everything.

i've failed every single dialogue check in pentiment in act 2 and 3 so far, even the ones i had a favorable roll on, feel like i'm missing like half the game's content. really testing my 'no backsies' stance on playing this type of game but i'm still enjoying it

everyone hates me! i was trying to be nice..

on one of them i misclicked and accidentally talked a character into giving up on life and becoming a nun

damn

I give you permission to mildly savescrum

given the game creators, though, you might be meant to fail most of those

i will not. apologies to the nun

i'm sure i was meant to fail a lot of them but there were 2 in particular that i felt like i had navigated well and still didn't get there

I really want to play Pentiment but I have the same issue as silby: no windows or xbox for me.

definitely looking forward to looking up just how broad the outcomes tree of this game is, after i finish it. some of the consequences to my choices have been much bigger than i expected and it didn't really feel like i was railroaded into them but that might have just been some clever sleight of hand

i'm a big skeptic of 'Choices Matter!' as a selling point for games but it's cool when a game gives you the feeling that the story could have played out completely differently in someone else's playthrough even if that's not actually the case

vampire survivors is ridiculously stupid fun

i think it's that vs elden ring for game of the year

The fonts are really doing the heavy lifting in terms of historicity in Pentiment. Characters sound very bloggy to me... people say like "hehe" and shit (but don't worry, it's in an old typeface).

pentiment is goty

i finished it, good game but does not beat out vampire survivors for goty

next up is Norco

Finished Xenoblade Chronicles 3, the conclusion was kinda just fine for me but it hit some real heights along the way

I think I'm in the final stretches of "Uncharted 4" (relatively speaking). So, I don't know what the original PS4 version looked like, but this PS5 version looks absolutely great. In fact, having just seen the trailer for Avatar 2 again, there are aspects of this game that look just about as good as that, which is kind of amazing for a six year old game.

has anyone here played Cult of the Lamb? It sounds a bit like Hades crossed with Dungeon Keeper, is that about right?

Gameplay wise, I guess? I haven't heard if Dungeon Keeper, so maybe the other half is Animal Crossing set in Jonestown. In any event, it's really fun!

sounds good, thanks! Dungeon Keeper is a Peter Molyneux game that was really good fun c. 25 years ago...

"Uncharted 4" was a great game, perhaps ironically hurt a little by being such a great game. It of course looks spectacular, and is well-written and acted. At the same time, the fundamentals are largely the same kinda silly, b-movie scenarios that comprised the previous games, and while I'm not sure what the solution might have been, it's a weird balance to offer solid drama and emotional beats when your protagonist is a giddy mass murderer with superhuman upper body strength. Anyway, still enjoyed the heck out of it and might play it again some day. Now I'm going to move on to "Lost Legacy," which at least should be shorter.

i think you’d appreciate this fan film at this point Josh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5CZQpqF_74

I think I saw that when it first came out! Fillion of course was perfect casting. Tom Holland ... was not.

Marvel Snap is pretty great btw

been playing various things since I was last checking in on ILG but the very recentest things are Inscryption and Tactics Ogre Reborn, both on Switch, The Only Console™

should i get tactics ogre y/n?

i mean, i played it on SNES and PSP if that gives you a frame of reference

I didn't, so idk

I'm having a good time.

forks, do you want to know my pain
i've been hopelessly addicted to Snap, playing it day and night
grinded ranked mode this month all the way from level 10 to level 99 and 1/10 cubes!!!!! when the season rolled over. so close. i don't know what do with life anymore

lol i was at 39 and 8/10 and lost and then it rolled
Snap is the new MPQ, try and convince me

Presentation-wise it's light years ahead, which makes sense because it's 8 years newer

But in most respects I think it's actually far more evil and bad, as a thing that exists in our world. I still play MPQ but it feels sooo much more chill, and I can play it once a day, a little or a lot, Snap demands more of your time IMO, though it seems like they use the same behavioral tricks

MPQ you can play completely at your own pace because it's turn-based vs. AI, at least - because this is real-time multiplayer it's much more compelling and also interrupting of real life :(

The psychological hooks and predatory model are sooooo much worse in Snap. But goddamn it, it's addictive. At least I know I won't try to get EVERY card in the game which is basically impossible. Haven't hit CL 1000 yet, will be in Series/Pool 3 probably another few months, but the new cards get slower and slower once you pass 600-ish?

Also it becomes impossible to predict games and decks with the wide variety of cards, but I suppose all CCGs probably end up like this?

The Kazoo deck (Kazar, Blue Marvel, 1-cards etc) got me most of the way though painfully slowly. Thank God you 'only' get dropped 30 ranks at the new season, so I don't have to grind nearly as much this time