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 (ten years ago) link
infinity wars + starbound
― Mordy , Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:04 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
you livin' the life, Adam, respect
― Nhex, Saturday, 26 April 2014 04:08 (ten years ago) link
finished saints row 4tried diablo 3 again - meh so spammymaybe back to metro 2033
― bnw, Monday, 5 May 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
"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 (ten years ago) link
kotor + bg2
― Mordy, Monday, 5 May 2014 19:31 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
all that and he's beat by a girder
― Nhex, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
i love the energy meter for 'wall'.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
i guess i only played Streets of Rage 1 & 2.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 20:01 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
i'm still playing bg2.
― Mordy, Thursday, 15 May 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
eu4 always with the eu4. genovese colonial empire.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 15 May 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
wish i could get into eu. each time i load it up there are like 300 tutorials
― Mordy, Thursday, 15 May 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
is there some kind of amazing online tutorial that will teach me how to play?
― Mordy, Thursday, 15 May 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
ftl
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 16 May 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
I remember the GBA Metroid I played being awesome
― a strange man (mh), Friday, 16 May 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
any you'd recommend? esp for newbs?
― Mordy, Friday, 16 May 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
there's a youtuber by the name of shenryyr2 who i gather is some kind of god at it. he doesn't really do tutorials but a lot of the rhythm of it comes out via osmosis.
my general sense is it's just not a 'for newbs' game, you just kind of have to keep jumping in at the deep end until it clicks
― goole, Friday, 16 May 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
jeez, just had a click around that guy's YT, he is nutso. if i had infinite hours i would watch the lot. but yeah, as a learning experience you probably already need a foundation to get anything from someone like this.
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 16 May 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
― ciderpress, Friday, 16 May 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
yeah he's also endearingly/annoyingly ignorant of actual history & geography
i just wanted some cool flowing graphics of a map shifting slowly over time while i did other shit.
xp
― goole, Friday, 16 May 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
*checks england ca. 1650* "a republic? england went republic? wtf, that makes no sense"
― goole, Friday, 16 May 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
was that cromwell? idk I'm too lazy to wiki at the minute
― a strange man (mh), Friday, 16 May 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
metro: last lighthad no idea the wolfenstein remake is more then just "lol nostalgia", preview trailer got me intersted
― bnw, Friday, 16 May 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
xp yeah
― goole, Friday, 16 May 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
just finished back to the future telltale game, it was pretty fun, but if it hadn't been for walking dead s1 i dunno if i would've had the patience. now i am trying to play sam & max penal zone and it is next-level inscrutable adv game :(
― Neckbread (Will M.), Friday, 16 May 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
Did any of you happen to see this week's Steven Universe where Steven gets obssessed with this epic Pokemon/Final Fantasy-style Mini Golf RPG? Man, I would love for that to actually exist.
― Nhex, Sunday, 18 May 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link
no but that sounds great. i also love the SU where garnet becomes transfixed with the meat beat mania arcade game
― Mordy, Sunday, 18 May 2014 23:46 (ten years ago) link
hah, that was great too!
― Nhex, Sunday, 18 May 2014 23:57 (ten years ago) link
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 19 May 2014 14:06 (ten years ago) link
Played a little "Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia" yesterday and holy crap am I addicted to these Castlevania games...
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 19 May 2014 19:44 (ten years ago) link
Tactical Breach Wizards is as great as everyone's saying it is: sharp zings and nice puzzly tactical mechanics.
― Joanna Neu!some (Leee), Saturday, 24 August 2024 21:22 (one month ago) link
The “people who aren’t bored of Ubisoft open world games”/“people who aren’t bored of Star Wars” Venn diagram must be two tiny circles with a minuscule intersection at this point. But I’m in it, so I’m planning to play Outlaws this week.
― JimD, Tuesday, 27 August 2024 09:27 (one month ago) link
I forgot that was out soon! I never got deeply into Ubisoft games and as long as it’s not super Jedi heavy I could be game. I overplayed those Jedi Survivor/Fallen Order games a bit
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 27 August 2024 19:30 (one month ago) link
it does look appealing to me since i don't really play a lot of Ubisoft or Star Wars games, tbh! let us know how it is
― Nhex, Thursday, 29 August 2024 18:42 (one month ago) link
7dtd is sucking me and my bf into a complete TIME SINK HOOLLLLLEEE
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 29 August 2024 23:39 (one month ago) link
now that the DS games have a proper rerelease, it is time. i am going to play through all 7 of the "metroidvania" Castlevania games. and also Bloodstained.
i've played the first hour or two of aria of sorrow before, but otherwise i am going into this blind with no preconceptions.
― ciderpress, Friday, 30 August 2024 18:10 (one month ago) link
Astrobot is very good
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 10 September 2024 05:18 (three weeks ago) link
I've seen two separate posts saying holy shit has Sony realised that the path to the future is making Nintendo games?
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 08:25 (three weeks ago) link
congrats to the PS5 on finally having a game
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 13:48 (three weeks ago) link
I was pretty bored with Play Room (the demo that comes with the PS5), it's the new game still worth getting?
― Oedipal Issues, Adipose Tissues (Leee), Tuesday, 10 September 2024 13:59 (three weeks ago) link
its basically just a full game version of that so probably not
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 14:02 (three weeks ago) link
I have heard people rave about Play Room, but I don't think I'm that into 3d platformers (or maybe From games have just traumatized me, lol). It seems very close to what 3d Mario games are like these days, though?
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 September 2024 14:33 (three weeks ago) link
the levels are more linear than 3d mario from what i've seen. i guess 3d world is the mario comparison point
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 14:49 (three weeks ago) link
this has been the Sony theme for the last few years, where they realized they've hardly capitalized on any of their properties existing as standing intellectual property despite owning a film studio and other ventures. so we've had a Gran Turismo-related movie, Twisted Metal tv show, The Last of Us tv show, and a handful of others coming down the pike
their synergy is still not so hot in that there hasn't been a Twisted Metal video game for over a decade, but they're trying! the thing that I kept seeing cited was that Luigi's Mansion 3 was a b-tier spinoff in the Mario franchise and it still sold more units than nearly any Playstation game because Mario as a franchise is just massive. so we get Horizon Lego sets and a tie-in spinoff game, etc.
they half-assed so many "Playstation Universe" attempts and I think the executives just didn't believe in it. The Infamous games were well-received at the time, and they just let that die on the vine and haven't released one in a decade. Seemed like an easy pick for a spin-off, but:
In 2009, Sony had chosen screenwriter Sheldon Turner to adapt Infamous into a feature film in a seven figure deal. Brothers Ari and Avi Arad were hired to produce, and Sony executives Matt Tolmach and Jonathan Kadin as handlers for the studio. Turner told The Hollywood Reporter he was excited that the game had a "big idea and a character arc", which he believed was "the future of gaming".[18] He believed the game was essentially "a love ballad to the underachiever". As of 2024, no updates on the film adaptation have been made.
someone at the top just didn't believe video game spinoffs or platform synergy meant cash in the bank
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 10 September 2024 19:35 (three weeks ago) link
they were making a twisted metal game for PS5 and cancelled it
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 19:38 (three weeks ago) link
figures. they also recently un-launched some team shooter game that they simultaneously released on PS5 and PC after a long development cycle and will probably retool it as a freemium thing. Helldivers 2 was crazy popular with some of my coworkers for a bit and despite some hiccups in judgment, that seems to have been a cross-platform success I’d say that’d be a property to monetize, but it’s basically an extra parodic Starship Troopers
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 10 September 2024 23:25 (three weeks ago) link
Ah no I don't think they specifically meant Nintendo characters or games, more Sony (or affiliated studios) making PlayStation games which are well reviewed, use controls well, no microtransaction or live-service service - they've made the shit out of the game and you play the game the end. I've seen a few "Fuck, do I need to get a PS5 now?" comments
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 12 September 2024 09:25 (three weeks ago) link
they spent the whole ps4 gen making single player action-adventure games, the switch to live service focus is recent (and horribly ill advised as they just learned after launching (and then unlaunching) one of the biggest flops of all time)
― ciderpress, Thursday, 12 September 2024 11:19 (three weeks ago) link
they’ve had studios doing that a long time? Sony’s published games have never had any of that shit front and center
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 13 September 2024 01:32 (three weeks ago) link
their thing is that few of their franchises, proportionately, are all-ages and they’ve been heavier into action/adventure than anything else
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 13 September 2024 01:34 (three weeks ago) link
remember killzone and warhawk? me neither.
― master of the pan (abanana), Friday, 13 September 2024 03:06 (three weeks ago) link
I played the Rugrats game that's free on epic right now. This must have been someone's passion project. It's a tribute to Super Mario Bros. 2, licensed from a 90s children's TV show, with both an HD mode and a Gameboy Color mode. I am baffled and I also enjoyed it.
― master of the pan (abanana), Saturday, 14 September 2024 05:23 (three weeks ago) link
I've been deep into Caves of Qud all year, what a fantastic game
― c u (crüt), Thursday, 19 September 2024 21:03 (two weeks ago) link
utopia must fall
― z_tbd, Thursday, 26 September 2024 23:49 (one week ago) link