Dude, FRACT OSC is out. It's fun, but giving me a lot of flashbacks to Myst, due to heavy puzzles with occasional symbolic language hints. You're exploring this long abandoned machine world and you restoring operation to a giant synthesizer that you wander around in.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Thursday, 24 April 2014 06:32 (eleven years ago)
SMT4, the soundtrack for this game is so good, running around a post-apocalyptic Tokyo to synthy krautrock <3 http://youtu.be/SG_gB4kb2oA
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 24 April 2014 13:23 (eleven years ago)
Oh, FRACT sounds great, might have to grab that.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 April 2014 15:32 (eleven years ago)
The only thing I'm playing at the moment is Letter Quest on my ipod. It's quite good but nothing mindblowing.
portal 2 (3rd time), ni no kuni, assassins creed 4, dork souls
― am0n, Thursday, 24 April 2014 17:39 (eleven years ago)
FTL and could be on this for a while now that I feel like I finally understand how to play it
― anonanon, Thursday, 24 April 2014 17:42 (eleven years ago)
im obsessed
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:41 (eleven years ago)
so many ships still to unlock and haven't even touched advanced mode...
― anonanon, Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:45 (eleven years ago)
I've been playing Kingdom Of Amalur, a game that apparently lost the taxpayers of Rhode Island $75m, recently. I kind of hate myself as it's another massive Skyrim-style time sink, but it's quite good fun.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:45 (eleven years ago)
what IS advanced mode
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:51 (eleven years ago)
i havent even begun boarding as a tactic yet
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:53 (eleven years ago)
sorry "advanced edition"
As a reminder, FTL: Advanced Edition is a free content expansion for FTL. All current (and future) customers will receive this update regardless of where they purchased it. Prior to release, we will post detailed instructions on how to get the update from whatever digital vendor you originally purchased FTL.
http://www.ftlgame.com/?page_id=106
New systems (clone bay??), new race, new ships, just lots more stuff, and it was released as a free sort of patch. It's a toggle option when you start a game, you can choose standard or advanced.
― anonanon, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:01 (eleven years ago)
I've been playing Kingdom Of Amalur, a game that apparently lost the taxpayers of Rhode Island $75m― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Thursday, April 24, 2014 3:45 PM
ah yes the curt schilling rpg
― am0n, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:03 (eleven years ago)
oh yeah i'm playing dragon's dogma. i've given up on it twice before so i'm determined to finish it this time. the controls are lacking but it has some of the best gfx i've seen in an rpg. makes dark souls 2 look like shit by comparison anyway.
― am0n, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:10 (eleven years ago)
http://cdn.destructoid.com//ul/266639-curt-shilling.jpg
― am0n, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:14 (eleven years ago)
dragon's dogma was good fun, at its best early before everything becomes too easy, so i encourage you to not progress the story at all until you have been everywhere. one of the best and most unique things it has are the giant wandering monsters that really felt like epic fights, at least until my gang quickly got OP'd. helps if you resist the temptation of the broken pawns that are available early.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:29 (eleven years ago)
infinity wars + starbound
― Mordy , Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:04 (eleven years ago)
helps if you resist the temptation of the broken pawns that are available early.― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, April 24, 2014 4:29 PM
what are the broken pawns. i've just been using the free low level ones and trading them in every so often. groups of bandits on the roads are still kicking my butt
― am0n, Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:42 (eleven years ago)
i got one real early with an ordinary woman's name, Karen i am fairly sure, and her owner had limited her level but she had maxed-out, late game rare gear and was a total powerhouse
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)
whatever the fighter class is. i got another midway thru with a more forgettable fantasyish name, also a female fighter.
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:02 (eleven years ago)
Dammit, Fract really _is_ like myst. I can't find the symbolic to detangle the tune I'm supposed to play to solve the final puzzle in one of the areas.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Friday, 25 April 2014 02:11 (eleven years ago)
Final Fantasy - NESAssassin's Creed IV - PCPac-Man Championship Edition DX - PCCastlevania: Rond of Blood - T16Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - PSXMetal Gear Solid - PSXMetal Gear Rising Revengeance - PCMetal Gear Solid 2 - PC
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 26 April 2014 03:58 (eleven years ago)
you livin' the life, Adam, respect
― Nhex, Saturday, 26 April 2014 04:08 (eleven years ago)
finished saints row 4tried diablo 3 again - meh so spammymaybe back to metro 2033
― bnw, Monday, 5 May 2014 18:25 (eleven years ago)
"Finished" Portal and Fez, loved both. Seems like there's still aftergame stuff for me to do, which is cool.
I'm a good way into the first God of War, and I can't be sure but I think I might kinda hate it. The brutal waves of super tough enemies are awesome, and some of the puzzles are pretty good, but creating Indiana Jones-esque deathtraps with a shitty camera and sketchy controls was the fucking worst idea ever. I've wasted so much of my playtime on failing to kill everything onscreen within a set time before falling to my death or being crushed or sliced up by shit that I can barely see in front of me that it's kinda become a chore for me to continue. I might just be hating the PS2-ness of it, though.
I've been surprisingly digging a lot of arcade-y stuff that I've gotten cheap from PSN recently. Super Stardust and Wipeout took me a little while to get used to but they're amazing once I'm in the zone. Just got Retro/Grade, which I haven't played much but which has an awesome conceit (basically a rhythm game disguised as a shooter that runs in reverse). The Space Invaders update also seems like good value.
This weekend, I hit 50% completion and the 100 hour mark near-simultaneously on Just Cause 2. Clearing a few areas in the game has become such a reliably perfect way to decompress at the end of the day.
― Surprise, It's My Butt (Old Lunch), Monday, 5 May 2014 19:02 (eleven years ago)
kotor + bg2
― Mordy, Monday, 5 May 2014 19:31 (eleven years ago)
getting myself psyched + ready for pillars of eternity i guess
xps I played GoW 1 for the first time... a year ago? Maybe two? Felt some of the same frustrations as you, but I'm still planning to truck on through to the others at some point. I can see how it all would've been far more impressive back in 2006, but some of those levels and dungeons are awfully designed.
What build you going for in KOTOR, Mordy?
― Nhex, Monday, 5 May 2014 19:39 (eleven years ago)
i guess soldier guardian. tbh i'm kinda more interested in my bg2 half-elf cleric/ranger build (so OP apparently it's ppl's fave for soloing the game). (thought about playing a wild mage too.)
― Mordy, Monday, 5 May 2014 19:40 (eleven years ago)
Streets of Rage 3Bare Knuckle III
So BKIII is the Japanese version of SOR3 and it is WAY easier. This does not mean it is easy though, it only means it is possible to get through stage 1 without using a continue. American version of Streets of Rage 3 is one of the more difficult games I've ever played.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:32 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VWsJPJ19DA
That level with the bulldozer is all-time unfair.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:36 (eleven years ago)
all that and he's beat by a girder
― Nhex, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:30 (eleven years ago)
i love the energy meter for 'wall'.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 20:00 (eleven years ago)
i guess i only played Streets of Rage 1 & 2.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 20:01 (eleven years ago)
man why doesn't axel just jump over the damn walls
sor3 is weird. it seems like it admits to tactics then it doesn't really.
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 20:47 (eleven years ago)
I think after you get past the stage where you are fighting kangaroos and evil dominatrix clowns they just figured they could get away w that.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 21:07 (eleven years ago)
Played 2-player Hyperstone Heist for the Genesis last night. Got to Super Shredder and then we died and we were out of continues! The music in that game is incredible. Orchestrated speed metal.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 15 May 2014 17:21 (eleven years ago)
i'm still playing bg2.
― Mordy, Thursday, 15 May 2014 18:08 (eleven years ago)
eu4 always with the eu4. genovese colonial empire.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 15 May 2014 18:21 (eleven years ago)
wish i could get into eu. each time i load it up there are like 300 tutorials
― Mordy, Thursday, 15 May 2014 18:22 (eleven years ago)
if it helps you still won't know what the fuck is going on if you sit thru the tutorials
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 15 May 2014 18:29 (eleven years ago)
Sadly not as into Mirror's Edge as I'd hoped (hinges way too much on barely-disguised quick time events, which fuck that). Surprisingly way more into the first Metal Gear Solid than I expected (tough but mostly fair, cutscenes and dialogue that are reasonably well-written and not totally perfunctory, generous with the game saving, and the controls and camera, while occasionally obnoxious, are better than those on a lot of the PS2 games I've played). I still haven't been able to get past the first boss yet, though, so we'll see how long my admiration lasts.
― Surprise, It's My Butt (Old Lunch), Thursday, 15 May 2014 18:55 (eleven years ago)
is there some kind of amazing online tutorial that will teach me how to play?
― Mordy, Thursday, 15 May 2014 18:57 (eleven years ago)
there is a lot of user and wiki content so possibly but i'm not aware of anything myself. i think you just need to start playing it with the expectation that you won't know what you're doing for a long time. start with france: raise a big army and start some beef. you can go a long way with them without having to worry about some of the more arcane stuff for a while and you will pick up a good foundation in manpower/supply, tech advancement, diplomacy, religion. you can dip your toe into trade and colonies if you want but you'll still be able to do plenty without. and you'll have the immediate objective of unifying france to get your teeth into, which definitely helps the transition into the sandbox. you'll always have something to do with them and that is certainly not always the case elsewhere.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 15 May 2014 19:17 (eleven years ago)
have any of you played crusader kings 2 and can you take the same approach there? tried to get into it but get caught up on figuring out how levies work and what a demesne is and somehow the game had me entering into an affair with my own wife
― anonanon, Thursday, 15 May 2014 19:42 (eleven years ago)
ftl
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 16 May 2014 16:52 (eleven years ago)
Castlevania: Aria of SorrowCastlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
Aria of Sorrow is incredible. Are the GBA Metroids this good?
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 May 2014 17:55 (eleven years ago)
Harmony is cool too, if only because the lead character is dressed like anime Santa Claus.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 May 2014 17:56 (eleven years ago)
I remember the GBA Metroid I played being awesome
― a strange man (mh), Friday, 16 May 2014 18:25 (eleven years ago)
this is gonna make me sound like a crazy person but i've gotten into watching lets-plays of EU4 and i don't even own a PC. they're weirdly soothing?
― goole, Friday, 16 May 2014 18:38 (eleven years ago)
Citizen Sleeper - i like the dice management gameplay loop of this a lot more than i expected, the writing a little less than i expected but it's still solid. great vibes
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 13 May 2025 15:01 (one month ago)
I did a few runs on that one, and my endings all felt satisfying enough story wise and world building wise.
― salsa shark, Tuesday, 13 May 2025 17:58 (one month ago)
Is Citizen Sleeper ok for an 11 year old? Half thinking about giving it another go. just finished Dredge which I enjoyed way more than I thought I was going to.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 14 May 2025 07:04 (one month ago)
Citizen Sleeper doesn't have a lot of violence or sex but there's at least one outcome for a storyline that's tragic and super depressing.
You don't post like you're 11, beard.
― Baroque Obama (Leee), Wednesday, 14 May 2025 14:53 (one month ago)
Citizen Sleeper won me over more and more as it continued. definitely a favorite now approaching the end.
Taiji - removing the pretentiousness from The Witness results in something kinda lacking in character, but the puzzles are good. i think i'm almost at the end already, really blasted through it.
― ciderpress, Monday, 19 May 2025 17:34 (one month ago)
looks good, I'll be stuck with blue prince for a while though.
― constant gravy (ledge), Monday, 19 May 2025 17:48 (one month ago)
picked up Chivalry 2 on Epic on discount and been having stupid fun with a mate. One on one fights are pretty cool, but things get ridic when you just get piled on. I have seen some players fend off hoards with some neat blocking which I am failing to figure out.
― Ste, Tuesday, 20 May 2025 10:18 (one month ago)
I'm so far behind on my backlog that my backlog has backlogs. Part of the problem is of course that I don't have as much time to play games as I'd like, and when I do I am slow. The other problem is that I still haven't finished "Astro Bot," not because it is hard* but because it's so charming I don't want to finish it! But I should really get it done so I can move on.
*(though the mini levels are friggin' hard)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 May 2025 12:51 (one month ago)
hah, i feel the same about AstroBot! Those mini levels are infuriatingly difficult, but like you I love it so much I don't want to finish.
My backlog:
NOW PLAYINGClair Obscur Expedition 33 (I won't be putting this down for a while)
UP NEXTAtomfall
WANT TO PLAYDark Souls IIIKhazan The First Berserker
ANTICIPATINGDeath Stranding II
I TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAR...Dark Souls II (got stuck on the Fume Knight in the DLC and then Clair Obscur happened)Bloodborne (similar to DS2, I got to Micolash and then Elden Ring came out - I will finish it one day)Sekiro - Shadows Die Twice (there is a theme here)
ONGOING / PUT DOWN AND PICK UPChained EchoesBalatroBlue PrinceAstrobotDark Souls (replaying on Switch)Tetris Connect
SUNK COST FALLACYKingdom Come Deliverance IIArmored Core VIAlan Wake IIThe Last Of Us Part I
GAMES I SECRETLY WANT TO REPLAY DESPITE HAVING PLAYED THEM TO DEATHElden RingDeath StrandingDisco ElysiumDemon's Souls RemakeBaldur's Gate 3
― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 May 2025 10:35 (one month ago)
Man, I wish I could play more than one game at once, my muscle (and regular) memory just isn't sharp enough to juggle that many details and strategies and buttons and maps and whatnot.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 May 2025 13:21 (one month ago)
No, that's the thing - I can only play one game at a time. It's like books though - I can only read one at a time and as I read slowly and carefully, I have a big reading pile. So right now the only thing I'm playing is Clair Obscur, along with the random Pick Up/Put Down stuff like Balatro which I play on train journeys on my Switch
― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 May 2025 13:41 (one month ago)
UP NEXTWANT TO PLAYANTICIPATINGFor me these all fall under my Wishlist category, which consists mostly of unreleased titles probably never to see the light of day ever ever.
I TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAR...Death Stranding (although didn't get very far)
― Ste, Wednesday, 21 May 2025 13:46 (one month ago)
It's the Sunk Cost Fallacy games that stand out to me. Returnal too. I paid full price for most of these and have given them all about 10-25 hours of my time, never quite clicking, but still keen to one day follow through with them mostly because I feel I gave up too early to really see them through
― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 May 2025 13:50 (one month ago)
Loco Motive - as a pastiche of 90s lucasarts adventure games it's got the style down perfect. feel like i'm even hearing the same voice actors as monkey island though it could be good mimickry, i didn't check. not far enough yet to judge how good it is at the puzzles
Animal Well - bounced off of this back when it came out for reasons i don't remember but i'm giving it another shot. it's fine. i'll finish it this time. probably not the ARG stuff though. i always say i want combat-less metroid games but i think what i really want is a more pure exploration experience like Knytt and that's way harder to pull off compellingly than cramming your game with puzzles and obstacles
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 21 May 2025 13:57 (one month ago)
not going to post my backlog.txt but it's real and has like 60 games in it. yikes
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 21 May 2025 13:58 (one month ago)
I've definitely hit the point where I know (not that) deep down that I have more games than I can/will play, just as there are more books that I want to read than I will, or movies to see, etc. It's sad, but I'm at peace with it.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 May 2025 14:12 (one month ago)
i've been on a real run of point-and-click adventure games, both old and new but retro, so thanks for the loco motive heads up
only having a switch and a ps4 and having niche gaming tastes limits my backlog, which is probably a good thing. i do wish i could play blue prince. i did just get a new laptop so i could look into steam, i suppose, but i'm trying to keep it as a music-making tool exclusively.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 21 May 2025 14:27 (one month ago)
mostly playing golf (irl dlc pack). stupid game really
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 21 May 2025 14:54 (one month ago)
cool. I get this urge from time to time too, there's some interesting ones on the horizon I've seen. I enjoy the no rush policy of these games
― Ste, Wednesday, 21 May 2025 14:58 (one month ago)
Bought it years ago and tried and failed to get into it a few times, but Rimworld finally hooked me. I guess I just wasn't in the right frame of mind for it before. Playing it with my daughter and we laugh a lot. Might finally get around to playing Oxygen Not Included eventually, too.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 21 May 2025 16:23 (one month ago)
OK, finished (the main bulk of) AstroBot, so as a palette cleanser tried out a bit of "RoboCop: Rogue City." Played a little janky, but seems like it will be fun for a FPS.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 May 2025 12:25 (one month ago)
AI the somnium files, because i'm a game behind on Uchikoshi's catalog.
i'm also wasting time on Revolution Idle and Party House.
― adamt (abanana), Friday, 23 May 2025 13:59 (one month ago)
thinking i might have to go for Promise Mascot Agency while it's on sale
― i got bao-yu babe (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 May 2025 14:29 (one month ago)
I'm enjoying RoboCop: Rogue City. A lot of the reviews were pretty otm, in that it's just a solid, not terribly ambitious AA game that's reasonably well done. They got Peter Weller to come back and do the voice, a lot of the game looks great, and the gameplay, at least early on, is fun and maybe a step up from simple and not entirely devoid of challenge. For sure the first time you encounter ED-209 - and I assume there will be more - you are so insanely unmatched that you more or less have to cheese it. Maybe that is the point? The only big down is that the weak link of the game is of course the human animations in the cut scenes, and there are a lot of cut scenes.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 May 2025 16:47 (one month ago)
Prototype. On Steam, with a mod or two for 60fps+ and 4K resolution. Game goddamn rips. Insomniac’s Spider-Man but the total M rated carnage version.
― circa1916, Monday, 26 May 2025 20:09 (one month ago)
nice! I never played that series and kept confusing it for a while with the Infamous games, which I played at least one of, probably after it was free on Playstation for a while
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 26 May 2025 20:15 (one month ago)
Really enjoyed Prototype back when it was new but have never played the second one and have never replayed. But it's very different than Infamous... never really understood the very common confusion between the two.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 26 May 2025 20:28 (one month ago)
I heard they added dick auto targeting to robocop via dlc
― ||||||||, Monday, 26 May 2025 20:42 (one month ago)
Ha. I know from the start you could get some bonus XP from shooting baddies in the junk.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 May 2025 20:49 (one month ago)
I think because both came out reasonably the same time(?), and featured a character with super powers going about the city sorting shit out. I can see the similarity myself, but having played both yeah they're not really the same game at all.
Wish Infamous would come out on PC, I loved that game.
― Ste, Tuesday, 27 May 2025 08:56 (one month ago)
"Robocop: Rogue City" was pretty straight forward, simple and fun, albeit a bit mindless. Def. far better than it could have been, though. The biggest problem was its relative ease. When you face the first boss (or the closest thing to one) you are massively underpowered and it's hard to make progress without cheesing. But by the time you face it again you are so overpowered it's pretty trivial. That's kind of par for the course for games with leveling skills, but the same held true for the final boss, which was so easy it barely registered. Still, liked it, and look forward to the DLC. Not every game has to be 80 hours of AAA ambition.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 June 2025 21:40 (one month ago)
Shogun Showdown - a deck-builder without the deck. hand-builder? i love the rhythm of this and how it starts to resemble a cool action game as you get locked in and play faster despite being fully turn-based. i'm not good enough yet to reach that flow state beyond the first couple levels though, it's tough. really good.
― ciderpress, Monday, 9 June 2025 20:45 (four weeks ago)
is anyone playing Rematch? it is very, very addictive, very fun when you get a group of teammates who enjoy playing good football, and almost unbelievably annoying when you get dumbasses, which is a lot of of the time
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 22 June 2025 17:43 (two weeks ago)
Ooh this sounds good, might have to pick it up.
― LocalGarda, Sunday, 22 June 2025 17:47 (two weeks ago)
I initially decided not to buy it based on reviews indicating how simplified the football ruleset is, but Brendan's review on RPS convinced me to take the plunge and I'm glad I did, even if my whole weekend has now somehow evaporated
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/rematch-review
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 22 June 2025 17:53 (two weeks ago)
I'm 8.5 hours into Citizen Sleeper 2 and it's taken nearly that long to feel a engrossing as the first game. It adds some new mechanics that you get access to pretty early on that are interesting but the UI isn't always the clearest (I incurred a permanent disadvantage because of it). But I'm hopeful that it's finally hitting its stride where I'm at.
― Leeeonora Carrleeengton (Leee), Tuesday, 1 July 2025 02:06 (one week ago)
Decided to restart Vice City, ps2 version, all over again. for full 1oo percent.
threw my dummy out over some of the very early mission already, so fuck knows how bad it's going to be later on.
but had to laugh at my remembering how chaotic it can get with simple missions if you just accidentally run over one cop and it all just goes batshit and hilarious.
i've opened up the full islands so now i'm going to focus on finding all 100 hidden packages before any more missions.
― Ste, Sunday, 6 July 2025 21:30 (two days ago)
continuing my trend of not playing AAA games until they're at least five years old, i've been playing god of war (2018). very fun game, the continuous action/story with no breaks makes it addictive.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 8 July 2025 17:46 (five hours ago)
I really liked that one, good execution. This morning I finished 2016 Doom, that was fun.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 July 2025 18:39 (four hours ago)