whatchu playing now

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

lol @ ftl discussion, thomp otm the battle interface is what i've been craving since um star fleet 2: krellan commander (library sale), and depressurizing sections of my ship (let alone having reasons to do it!) scratched the deepest itch possible but idk about choose-your-own-adventure roguelike, as a genre; idk if what rogue needed was to simplify. windsor davies describes exactly what i'm pretty sure was the last time i played it. i couldn't believe they did that.

still it was a model kickstarter game iirc and so it prob spent its money right; maybe someone will pay them now to make the game thomp describes.

ftl

diplomacy online

super mario 3ds or w/e this is game called. it's awesome!

I wish the FTL developers would try their hand at a roguelike homage to Final Fantasy Tactics...

playing Trails In The Sky, pleasant enough but blah blah blah do they talk a lot in this game, having Golden Sun flashbacks

spent an hour or two playing space hulk. its sort of amusingly not a videogame

Spent a few hours playing Rogue Legacy yesterday after buying it for seven cents or something on Steam. Pretty fun game, kinda Wonder Boy + Castlevania + Dark Souls. I have made zero progress so far.

Rogue Legacy is awesome, and I keep meaning to go back to it once I get a new USB gamepad. Playing it on keyboard was kind of a bummer, because so much fun but difficult to control.

the controls are better on pad, but it's still pretty wobbly. i need to get back to that game too

has anyone played tactical rpg roguelike 'steam marines'

i want to play something that is like space hulk but is actually a videogame

i'll bite: why is space hulk not a videogame

it's kind of a sim of a tabletop rpg right? that's SORT OF a video game.

well there's ios/pc/console version galore

i would play the fuck out of a proper sim of warhammer 40k

i mean i don't think that chess against a computer is a videogame either

How about a traditional war game like battle of the bulge which could easily exist as a physical game but only exists as a video game? Is the criteria that a game must do things that can't be done on a physical board or that it can't have been a physical game first?

in other news dayum it's fun buying a million games on steam that you may or may not play but cost as much as a subway token so who cares

i've never played battle of the bulge so

how familiar are you with space hulk the board game? it's full of things that are highly elegant solutions to the problems of limited resources that come with the medium (one side has unlimited units but these are represented with cheap paper counters until they are in line of sight at which point they are replaced with models; the board is made of various sections which are re-assembled for each mission; the different kinds of attack all roll d6 but in different ways) but which in a videogame feel counterintuitive

i suspect that if given the resources to play a paper-only simulation of fire emblem: the sacred stones or ufo:enemy unknown (i picture two hardbound volumes, one being a decision tree and one a compendium of random numbers) i would feel comfortable complaining that it was 'not a board game'

xpost i just bought nidhogg and steam marines /:

i feel like a lot of avalon hill games would work better digitally than w/ 300-page rulebooks.

anyway, challops ahead but i think we should be able to vote for non-video games in coint + plick bc all games are games, man, no matter the medium let me vote for jane mcgonical ARG next to monopoly philadelphia next to hopscotch next to halo 17 plz.

Because our results aren't esoteric enough