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clearly not been to any of my dinner parties

look at the Transformers movies. No matter how you feel about those movies, it’s very clear that Michael Bay understands cinematographic technique very well. He uses every single tool he has available to him to make you feel a certain way, and it’s effective.

wut

Alien: Isolation is fucking terrifying.

I played 15 minutes at the Eurogamer show last week and yes, it was fucking terrifying. But I couldn't imagine that being sustained over a 10 hour campaign?

I'm a couple of hours in and one of those hours was mostly Alien-free, so it's hard to say how well it'll hold up over the campaign. So far, though, it's been an impressive battle of wits with the creature and I'm starting to get a better handle on how to use crafting items to direct its attention. There's also been more variety than I was expecting in the form of interactions with androids and other survivors (both fucking terrifying too in different ways).

We'll see how it goes but so far it's been my favourite gaming experience of the year. It's even caught the attention of my videogame-agnostic wife - it's the only game she's ever asked to watch me play.

Yeah I downloaded it from Steam yesterday. It captures the look of the movies perfectly. Haven't even encountered the alien yet and it's already nerve-wracking.

Ok this game is genuinely scary (especially with headphones). When I finally ran into the alien I screamed like a baby.

I want to play FFXIII but I don't have 120GB free on my HD!

60 for the install package and 60 more for unpacking? LOL. How many hours/days of pre-rendered cutscenes are there on it?

alien keep eating me :/

ftl

j/k im playing shadow of mordor

how is it?

i don't know what to make of it. it looks rly good, controls/mechanics have some familiarity w/ assassins creed and combat is arkham style as mentioned. i still feel that kind of combat is way too button-mashing to ever really give a full sense of control over whats going on (dark souls or gtfo). i don't like the batman games but this is pretty fun, i haven't done any missions just wandered around killing uruks and getting killed a lot. the nemesis system is next-level but i don't quite get some aspects of it. one captain came back like 10 times after being killed so i guess they regenerate like the player does???

i think they are alive until you decapitate them. i dunno what prompts the decapitation vs whatever else. the orc politics are the best part of that game, the story missions are fuckin trash, i think there is dope stuff later on but every time i do a story mission i end up quitting out and playing alien instead.

i really enjoy shadow of mordor i just wish they had been ballsy enough to jettison all the tedious AC-style shit and let us just go populous 2 on orc military society

ps play alien it owns so far

so much forza. i need to quit really :/

i thought while i was playing last night, "jordan would be into this game"

hahaha. i watched a friend play it on a projector the other night, good clean fun.

i really wanna play Alien and Evil Within. wonder if i should wait until i spring for a PS4 next year sometime. also the same friend lent me his PS3 + Demon's Souls, so i can finally play that before Bloodborne.

i'm back on pacman championship dx and getting deeeeeep in it

reminds me a lot of the time i put in with gran turismo back in the day, finding the right line, shaving off seconds, unlocking new areas

A new 3DS XL and the most recent Zelda are in the mail, so I'll be tackling that soon. Also I got back into Card Hunter for some reason.

Pacman Championship DX is amazing!

i really enjoy shadow of mordor i just wish they had been ballsy enough to jettison all the tedious AC-style shit and let us just go populous 2 on orc military society
― adam, Monday, October 13, 2014 8:50 PM

its funny how much of the mechanics are shamelessly ripped from AC - the scaling heights, cover system, distract/stealth-kill, hidden symbols you can only see in special vision mode (collect 'em all to find out about...zzzzz). i guess the artifacts w/ hidden memories are tomb raider reboot-style. it is a fun game, the a.i. stuff is hilarious. i freed some slaves and they all ran off except one kept hammering a wall. i decided to test if you can hit npcs and slashed at him. he almost fell over, then shook it off turned around and said "thank you" before running off

dx is like distilled crack

it's so frantic that i feel like i'm just blowing by subtle details in design, like you might never actually study the underside of the eaves of an outbuilding in an immaculately rendered 3-d world, except in this case it's the intricately realized Line Of Best Fit, the shortest path to solving a Rubik's cube, the elegance of which you're too frazzled to fully grok but which your diligent practice allows you to stumble upon with less serendipity and more determination, but regardless, it's thrilling when you brush against it or even, for a short time, fully inhabit it

dragon quest/warrior 2, howdy ho. iOS port, absolutely no frills. perfect for playing in the bathroom at work, i mean, old school jRPG fix. level up

man, i'm really tempted by that, DW2 & i have some unfinished business from 1991.

how far did you get?

it's my first time playing it, although i played through the first Dragon Warrior a million times when I was a kid. i just finished picking up my first party member (who i have named after my dog Bird), and it was a hilarious 1990 style painful fetch quest. "Bird is headed to castle X! go find him!" (45 random encounters on the way to castle X!) - "Bird just left, but he said he was going going to the cave of heroes! go find him!" (82 random encounters on the way to cave) - "you just missed Bird! now he's on his way to castle Y! go find him!" (54 random encounters on the way to castle Y!) - "what? i haven't seen Bird. he is my son and i will cry if he has perished! i have no advice for where to look for him. guess you'll just have to recheck everywhere you have ever traveled" (1000s of random encounters occur). then i found him in an inn in a town that was otherwise useless.

now i'm ready to get my third party member! *pumps fist*

for some reason i decided to watch the ending to Dragon Quest 1 just now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=judJaM1Vviw

there is some weird shit that casually goes down at the end. the princess begs the hero to let her "join" him, and then they proceed to walk away from the king...with him always 1 step in front of his new companion. is he just laying down the misogynistic law early on, about 5 seconds, into their new relationship?

I think I'm about a third of the way through Alien Isolation now and I'm really, really loving it. Occasionally the spell is broken by witnessing the alien wandering aimlessly around like a drunk searching for his lost spectacles but mostly it's been utterly riveting and very, very scary. I rescreened Alien again the other night and it's incredible how perfectly Creative Assembly have captured the look and atmosphere of the movie.

Also, lobbing a noisemaker into the midst of a group of hostile survivors then hiding in a locker to watch them get eviscerated is a lot of fun.

true almost all of the time

how far did you get?

i don't remember any specifics but i feel like it was pretty far, because i had three or four tiny people following me around? i loved they were all visible in their little conga line.

gimme another ipad game to burn through

no platformers or runners or anything like that

something like FTL or tower defense or a good board game port like carcassonne or star realms

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besides that (i have it and mostly like it)

If you haven't played Little Inferno yet it's worth a fling.

i have

it was cool i guess

i like really replayable strategy-ish games

iOS XCom?

played it to death on ps3 :)

sunless sea

or shadowrun

was that a suggestion or a response to the OP

i was replying to op - i like sunless so far. but i keep dying and having to start over.

mine was a suggestion

steam's free weekend of "don't starve" hooked me, i ended up paying for it. it scratches the same itch that the "glitch" mmo did a few years back.

aw, i shoulda bought it and woulda if you had said GLITCH

it goes on sale a lot. i'm kinda pushing that one off to PS4 future queue

don't starve is definitely worth playing and the less you know about how to play it correctly beforehand the better

I just got an Xbox One this weekend. Ramen noodles for me for a couple of weeks. Luckily Minecraft is only 5 bucks, and Outlast was on sale for $15 so I picked up that as well. I reaaally want play Alien Isolation and Evil Within, but need a few more paychecks.

transistor ... super fun!

just played through transistor. so great. resisting doing another full playthrough on new game+

sleeping dogs. this game is not good

fighting borrowed from arkham, but not as fluid or fun

freerunning borrowed from ass. creed but bad, totally unclear from the textures which heights/surfaces are climbable or jumpable

driving is terrible, all the cars are both twitchy and understeery. totally unfun to drive around. there's a "ram" mechanic which is like sub-mariokart. you can buy cars but there's zero indication which are better.

basic stuff like street directions and the camera just plain don't work.

a whole lot of awkwardly placed cutscenes with the video game average writing and v/o (ie barely listenable)

a gta-alike in a HK action mode (complete with gang-cop duality bs) should have been a slam dunk.

about the only thing they did better than GTA was make it more easy and fun to shoot while driving.

MGSVGZ for PC. SO GOOD