whatchu playing now

yeah I agree with that also

i bought xenoblade 2 and 3 using those 2 for $100 switch vouchers. rip my spare time.

lol see you next year, those games are pretty long
finally got over the early game "hump" of Fire Emblem Engage, the bit where you have all the tutorials, story setup etc and can finally settle into the game proper. this is usually the point where I know a game is for me or not, if I've been bitten by the bug to complete it.

I started playing Pokémon Emerald bcz it’s the most recent game I can reasonably emulate on a television (I’m not trying to fuck w dual DS screens) and I have gotten sooooo hooked on it

Also took a break from it today to continue my Psychonauts replay and it’s every bit as good as I remember

fuck yeah pokemon EMERALD!:D

it's a lot of fun! Apparently it is called "generation 3", and I played gens 1 and 2 when they came out but haven't played anything since (apart from Snap for N64 a year or two ago). So little has changed btwn Silver/Gold/Crystal and Emerald that it's very nostalgic for me

i got distracted by wario land 3 on switch.

it's surprisingly great! one of the first "troll" game, in the mario maker sense. there are many places that tempt you with a huge coin, but getting it sets you back half a stage.

Not playing it YET, but maybe sometime later in the year when it gets discounted - Wanted: Dead sounds like a mess, but that kind of mess that fascinates me.
https://www.polygon.com/reviews/23598212/wanted-dead-review-steam-xbox-ps5

ok i'm gonna wishlist that, not sure i'll ever buy it

I saw the IGN video review, which almost seemed like a joke review. It takes a lot to get that site to give you a 4/10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmQxahHWlf4

having to master limited moves and things are limited gives me bushiso blade vibes

I could be down

I still remember having bought the original bushiso blade, dying two seconds after the start, and wondering if I got pranked

picked my trails to azure playthrough back up thanks to trails chat upthread and i'm now 10 hours in and have almost reached the inciting event of the story. trails!

big part of my problem is addiction to ng+. i should finish my first Persona 3 Portable playthru in the next couple of days, then i think i'm gonna do Cold Steel 1 and 2 as ng+, then finally have a first go at 3 & 4, until the next thing that distracts me from this plan

i will not be playing this because i'm not in VR world (yet? ever?), but apparently the gimmick is that it tracks your eyeballs and brings the enemies closer to you EVERY TIME YOU BLINK

https://kotaku.com/psvr2-horror-switchback-vr-eye-tracking-trailer-release-1850127438

i imagine the health and safety warning at the beginning of this game is very long and involves signing a waiver on any injuries sustained that might involve not blinking for long periods of time

damn, how did I misspell bushido blade?!

I'm still playing a little Marvel Snap here and there, ended up running through Borderlands 3 solo

i'm on marvel snap level um 1,347

1906 here

Finished "Guardians of the Galaxy," which was great, going well above and beyond what a game like this usually offers. Really well written, both dialogue and story, looked cool, fun and honestly affecting, too (at least to a softy like me). Only problems I had were, well, problems. Multiple times I had to restart the game after I killed every enemy on screen but the game didn't progress, and I ran into a good number of other glitches, too. Most of them were minor, which is why I'm surprised they were never ironed out. Still, minor is minor, and aside from those game-killer glitches, easy to overlook, given all the positives. Overall: B+.

five bags of popcorn

lmao

Well, actually (pushes up glasses), I would never eat popcorn while playing a game, because not only might it fall between the couch cushions, it could make my controller greasy and otherwise clog up the gears. Popcorn: B-.

Use chopsticks to eat popcorn IMO.

What show had people eating Cheetos with chopsticks? "She-Hulk"? Or was it something/someone else?

Yakuza like a dragon. It’s my new album listening game atm, functions very well in its roll. Love this Goku-ass main character

Yakuza like a dragon. It’s my new album listening game atm, functions very well in its roll. Love this Goku-ass main character

i am not one for judging and everybody shd do their own thing but imo listening to music over the top of a game's soundtrack is reprehensible barbarity

otm, at least for single-playthrough stuff like jrpgs or adventure games. for arcade-style games that you play over and over again, sure

yeah that's true, i play cribbage and yahtzee for something to do when i'm listening to music tbf

xxp

Lol I thought the same when Microsoft introduced that as a killer feature on the original Xbox. Though I did play Quake 2 and 3 with a Ministry CD popped in on occasion and it was good.

Thought I’d cop some flack. It’s game by game for me. Yakuza fits the bill (kinda mindless fun), the last of us two is the opposite. I know what I want out of my time. A beer, some jrpg nothingness, and a truck through Jason Molina’s discography atm. Perfect cocktail for my Sunday afternoon

Don’t really play arcade games so have to make do with what I have. Quality of music ties into it too. Dragon quest xi got the no music treatment for a few hours till the repitition started driving me crazy. FFVII obviously is a no outside music game. Yakuza music is just…. Eh, fine enough, but I’d rather listen to something else

I made a spreadsheet of every smt game that is playable in English (fan translations included) and I might fuck my life up with it soon

share list please

loads of the early games got fan translations in recent years, so that's going to be a long list!
I've long been intrigued by SMT If, someone else should play the fan translation and tell me if it's any good

Just found out that in Marvel Snap, you can't gain more than 1000 boosters per day... guess how

yikes. what level are you?

2,942. Been playing since late October, and I'm only 14 cards short of finishing Series 3

Yeah the addiction is pretty bad with this game. Kinda glad I don't gamble with money in real life... If I hit the 50th Season Pass level I feel like the cost has been justified enough for me to pull the trigger on that, and I usually land around lvl 100 by the end of the month

Matchmaking is still brutal after you get into Series 3 - the see-sawing and slow climbing is really painful - but I have to admit I've at least been lucky with rare card pulls, got several Series 4 and two Series 5 cards which some people never get

everytime i play someone with ultron or wong i get incensed

Bring Cosmo for Wong. If you have turn priority, you can snap before you place doggo and usually win

Ultron's weakness is that they have to play Patriot and then a Mystique or Blue Marvel before turn 6 to make it effective, so you have a chance to Enchantress/Rogue

But unless you're running a control or Sera deck who wants to include more than one tech card? It's weird but you gotta try to predict the meta

teach me senpai

i'm running a destroy deck, what can i swap around:
nova, angel, bucky, carnage, wolverine, venom, brood, killmonger, sabretooth, deathlok, shang-chi, death

I stopped doing Ultron and my optimal 4/5/6 turns are now Wong/White Tiger/Doom
If I don't get those draws, I end up with Ironheart/Odin/Blue Marvel as alternate options

Wong/Ironheart/Odin is a really funny combo if you appear to have a weak stance going into the last couple turns

do you have Wave yet? if you get her and kill 4 things before turn 5, you can drop Wave on T5, then Death + any other card on T6 (usually Aero)

Brood and Sabretooth are OK for this deck, but i feel like they are so-so options. Hood is better if you have him

I would swap Angel for Yondu, his discard ability for some reason counts of a destroy for Death. bit of a sidegrade since it can help the opponent accidentally and you were probably going to kill Angel anyway

IMO Venom is only good if you have Taskmaster or Arnim Zola to duplicate him on turn 6, or if you have a location to abuse him like Bar Sinister

Wanna go crazy high roll? Put Squirrel Girl in for more destroy targets, and Moon Girl to get that delicious double Death on turn 6, but you'd have to be able to kill at least 6 cards for that work (9 minus 6 = 3-cost). So the plan would be something like T1: Squirrel Girl, T3: Killmonger, T4: Moon Girl, and get 3 more kills before T6. Remember enemy kills count too. This strategy is hilarious with Wave because the Deaths cost zero if you can make all of this happen in order.

Death is such a great card... you can even slot her in discard decks if you have Sif/Ghost Rider, and Lockjaw/Jubilee draw decks

xp The 1/2/Ironheart/Wong/White Tiger/Odin curve combo is always ridiculous

Blue Marvel seems kinda off for an On Reveal deck but hey if it works, it works!

ok, i swapped up to try out: hood, nova, yondu, bucky, carnage, wolverine, killmonger, wave, deathlok, moon girl, Shang Chi, death. I might swap up moon girl and venom if this doesn't feel right. Let's see.

xxp I don’t have Death yet :(

Blue Marvel is just a great overall card for buffing any generator build imo. If all your positions are going to be full, might as well give them +4

I’m playing Sunless Skies again but on the switch. Much harder since I can’t simply edit the save file to give myself a load of money (I don’t mind grinding for stats but fuck doing it for cash.) Anyway here’s how my current save is going:

Things my captain has done so far this run:
- die 23 times
- Kill a huge floating fungal monster only to run into a rock on the way to port and sink the boat
- Starve to death three times
- Resort to cannibalism seven times
- Resort to cannibalism and starve to death anyway twice
- Try to feel up the huge sentient mushroom mascot (I don’t recommend this)

I keep starving to death for stupid reasons.
me: destroys a little boat
also me: ok I desperately need food and supplies, but why don’t I check out the mysterious treasure in the captain’s office?
me: gets mysterious treasure
me: starves to death five minutes later after eating all my crew

But yeah I’d forgotten the sheer amount of content in this one. It’s great despite my impatience constantly causing me to die!