whatchu playing now

Get used to seeing a lot of "please wait while we connect you to the ubisoft servers" in a row

ftl

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, May 16, 2014 6:46 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude will post 90 part videos that god knows only who watches the entirety of.

Ive sunk like 600 hours into eu4/ck2 and sometimes the best way to learn is to fail. They also just released a new patch with new mechanics so some of the lets plays are outdated..

that being said quill18 has some decent lets plays and he does a good job explaining stuff.

I was playing Assassin's Creed 4: You're a Pirate Now which was ok but not great in the same way Assassin's Creed 2: European Vacation was, I don't really know why I bought it when I wasn't in love with AC2, guess I just want to be a pirate. Then my sister got me The Last of Us for my bday so I've been playing that for a couple of weeks but am still not very far in bc of real life.

Speaking of quill18, have any of you guys played Banished? I've been checking it out a bit. Very cool. Apparently it was made by one person, which is insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gAXcREfjbQ&index=2&list=PLs3acGYgI1-vZpczu2p5qMXfUWFtg29py

just tried dead island epidemic, not for me but it looks nice

battleheart legacy
really really good

Dragonball Z Budokai HD Collection. I don't know wh-KAMEKAMEHAAAAAAAAA

Super Time Force. Anyone else?

PS3/PS4 player looking to zone out on a new game this weekend, any recs guys? I like violent action games with RPG elements or violent RPGs with action elements.

New Wolfenstein? Watch Dogs? something else? doesn't have to be new.

did u play tomb raider yet?

banished looks cool but from the videos I saw there doesnt seem enough narrative or story other than hard core city micromanagement

since the xbone is a total brick I never use (bf4 lol) all I play these days is dota (I am ashamed) and eu4/ck2

There is zero story. It's pure management, and pretty hardcore.

has anyone been playing the telltale fables game, wolf among us or w/e it's called?

Yeah I just need a little bit and I can fill in the background stuff in mah brain like I do with eu4 or xcom.

I love that I asked this question in the general thread and in the PS3 thread and the takeaway rec from the general thread is a game about caring for hungry villagers and the takeaway rec from the PS3 thread is a game about stabbing nazi cyborgs in the balls

Prison Architect. Very fun little game.

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin

The Egypt level is AMAZING! Rondo of Bloodlines.

That goddamn boulder.

I actually spent a week and 1000/1000'd DBZ Budokai HD Collection (yup, both games). Life is pretty dark right now, but hearing Vegeta scream "I am the PRINCE OF ALL SAIYANS... DEFEATED by a CLOWN!" still makes me laugh.

Wolfenstein is kinda of blah early on, i regret paying full price. A lot of pretty cinematics but the gameplay is pretty stale. could be b/c i played through both metro titles so i'm finally getting fps fatigue.
just started fallen enchantress: legendary heroes - which is an incredibly nerdy title but seems promising
+mario kart 8 obv

ftl

still playing bg2. also did a quick playthrough of hammerwatch.

f117a stealth fighter off GOG. playable w/ 360 controller, includes a pdf of the old-school microprose keyboard reference card, fuck your libyan sam sites

holy shit i remember that game

this game "fallen enchantress: legendary heroes" had me nostalgic over Warlords II.
http://www.myabandonware.com/media/captures/W/warlords-ii/warlords-ii_11.gif

just remembered i grabbed curt schilling's rpg for $5 during that psn flash sale but haven't installed it

this game "fallen enchantress: legendary heroes" had me nostalgic over Warlords II.

Thank you for this!!! I used to LOVE Warlords II, gotta check out this other game.

I'm still going through Portrait of Sorrow for the DS, it's still really fun but I'm at the end of the game just doing random sidequests.

Dawn of Sorrow seems promising, but it suffers from bad level design. LOTS of backtracking and often through large areas that, once you've killed the monsters in it, are just empty wastes of time. I don't think that stuff is fun, walking through a giant empty room you've been in 3 times in the last 15 minutes.

Right now I'm playing New Super Mario Bros., and it is AMAZE. This is where all the cool modern 2.5D Mario b stuff came from. It has a very SMB3/Super Mario World feel to it, which is lots of fun.

You wonder what kind of Castlevania they could have done if they followed through from the New Super Mario Bros. -> New Super Mario Bros. Wii formula. An HD 3D/2.5D big budget console NSMBW-style sequel to Order of Ecclesia would be great.

ftl

FTL is fuckin' hard. Have you finished it? I've made it to the boss on easy mode, still got my ass handed to me. On normal mode I can make it to sector 7 or something.

my secret shame is that i played FTL for a few weeks and never beat the boss. i'm terrible.

my open pride is that i'm play Dragon Quest VIII, finally! my secret shame is that i'm playing it on ipad.

i beat ftl on normal. tried to beat it on hardcore a few times when the new edition came out but it was so hard i gave up.

The great thing about the game is that the difficulty is never discouraging, probably in the way that people who play video lottery terminals or slot machines always feel like "Next time, I'll get my lucky numbers."

FTL is fuckin' hard. Have you finished it? I've made it to the boss on easy mode, still got my ass handed to me. On normal mode I can make it to sector 7 or something.

― fields of salmon, Friday, June 13, 2014 5:15 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a few times, on normal (never tried easy)

working my way through to unlock all the ships. its a great challenge

thing is beating it with one ship/race is a completely different game than any other

i found the difficulty plenty discouraging after enough time, couldn't even beat it on easy

it gets better

nearly threw my ipad out the window when I finally won a fight with the boss ship and it turned that you pretty much immediately have to do it all AGAIN, soooo frustrating. great game though

One of the things I liked most about "New Super Mario Bros." is the music. I really enjoyed the New games for Wii and Wii U but felt that the music was kinda off and in some instances really distracting and wrong. NSMB has a much smaller sonic palette to deal with, and the result is more stripped-down arrangements that usually include a lead square wave or old school chiptune sample.

metal gear solid v - ground zeroes

nearly threw my ipad out the window when I finally won a fight with the boss ship and it turned that you pretty much immediately have to do it all AGAIN, soooo frustrating. great game though

― Windsor Davies, Saturday, June 14, 2014 7:33 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the boss level could be better thought-out. sometimes you're just fucked because of the way the repair planets are randomly located.

it felt rushed, or like it needed another endgame

it's not quite the case that it requires an ascension kit but it's not far off -- certainly one finds oneself box-ticking from the first sector or two after a while. tbf that while is "after twenty hours of playtime."

i still haven't played the expansion.

it would be fun if it had an infinite mode, maybe. maybe that would be horribly anti-fun. i don't know.

like the ideal ftl style game that exists in my head, i guess, would

i. take place on a square map rather than a linear one
ii. have some things you could to which would affect the overall status of the game world directly
ii.a. like, side x or side y makes gains in the war, takes over more systems
iii. have some allegiance/reputation stats that opened up new game options, an endgame that wasn't win/lose

also (and i think kind of necessary to the above) i think it would need to have encounter options that say things like "fire on the ship? (70% success rate (lasers level 3))" rather than being an exercise in metagaming/memorization

so basically yeah i'd like a whole other game with the same interface

Was gonna try Final Fantasy X again, but could only handle literally a minute of the voice acting. I need to find the Japanese language version...

i wish i hadn't spent ten minutes thinking about those two posts because it made me start playing ftl again

ftl

for the loss

exactly

getting ready for my first go at Surgeon Simulator 2013

i expect perfect realism and precise controls