whatchu playing now

xxp

Lol I thought the same when Microsoft introduced that as a killer feature on the original Xbox. Though I did play Quake 2 and 3 with a Ministry CD popped in on occasion and it was good.

Thought I’d cop some flack. It’s game by game for me. Yakuza fits the bill (kinda mindless fun), the last of us two is the opposite. I know what I want out of my time. A beer, some jrpg nothingness, and a truck through Jason Molina’s discography atm. Perfect cocktail for my Sunday afternoon

Don’t really play arcade games so have to make do with what I have. Quality of music ties into it too. Dragon quest xi got the no music treatment for a few hours till the repitition started driving me crazy. FFVII obviously is a no outside music game. Yakuza music is just…. Eh, fine enough, but I’d rather listen to something else

I made a spreadsheet of every smt game that is playable in English (fan translations included) and I might fuck my life up with it soon

share list please

loads of the early games got fan translations in recent years, so that's going to be a long list!
I've long been intrigued by SMT If, someone else should play the fan translation and tell me if it's any good

Just found out that in Marvel Snap, you can't gain more than 1000 boosters per day... guess how

yikes. what level are you?

2,942. Been playing since late October, and I'm only 14 cards short of finishing Series 3

Yeah the addiction is pretty bad with this game. Kinda glad I don't gamble with money in real life... If I hit the 50th Season Pass level I feel like the cost has been justified enough for me to pull the trigger on that, and I usually land around lvl 100 by the end of the month

Matchmaking is still brutal after you get into Series 3 - the see-sawing and slow climbing is really painful - but I have to admit I've at least been lucky with rare card pulls, got several Series 4 and two Series 5 cards which some people never get

everytime i play someone with ultron or wong i get incensed

Bring Cosmo for Wong. If you have turn priority, you can snap before you place doggo and usually win

Ultron's weakness is that they have to play Patriot and then a Mystique or Blue Marvel before turn 6 to make it effective, so you have a chance to Enchantress/Rogue

But unless you're running a control or Sera deck who wants to include more than one tech card? It's weird but you gotta try to predict the meta

teach me senpai

i'm running a destroy deck, what can i swap around:
nova, angel, bucky, carnage, wolverine, venom, brood, killmonger, sabretooth, deathlok, shang-chi, death

I stopped doing Ultron and my optimal 4/5/6 turns are now Wong/White Tiger/Doom
If I don't get those draws, I end up with Ironheart/Odin/Blue Marvel as alternate options

Wong/Ironheart/Odin is a really funny combo if you appear to have a weak stance going into the last couple turns

do you have Wave yet? if you get her and kill 4 things before turn 5, you can drop Wave on T5, then Death + any other card on T6 (usually Aero)

Brood and Sabretooth are OK for this deck, but i feel like they are so-so options. Hood is better if you have him

I would swap Angel for Yondu, his discard ability for some reason counts of a destroy for Death. bit of a sidegrade since it can help the opponent accidentally and you were probably going to kill Angel anyway

IMO Venom is only good if you have Taskmaster or Arnim Zola to duplicate him on turn 6, or if you have a location to abuse him like Bar Sinister

Wanna go crazy high roll? Put Squirrel Girl in for more destroy targets, and Moon Girl to get that delicious double Death on turn 6, but you'd have to be able to kill at least 6 cards for that work (9 minus 6 = 3-cost). So the plan would be something like T1: Squirrel Girl, T3: Killmonger, T4: Moon Girl, and get 3 more kills before T6. Remember enemy kills count too. This strategy is hilarious with Wave because the Deaths cost zero if you can make all of this happen in order.

Death is such a great card... you can even slot her in discard decks if you have Sif/Ghost Rider, and Lockjaw/Jubilee draw decks

xp The 1/2/Ironheart/Wong/White Tiger/Odin curve combo is always ridiculous

Blue Marvel seems kinda off for an On Reveal deck but hey if it works, it works!

ok, i swapped up to try out: hood, nova, yondu, bucky, carnage, wolverine, killmonger, wave, deathlok, moon girl, Shang Chi, death. I might swap up moon girl and venom if this doesn't feel right. Let's see.

xxp I don’t have Death yet :(

Blue Marvel is just a great overall card for buffing any generator build imo. If all your positions are going to be full, might as well give them +4

I’m playing Sunless Skies again but on the switch. Much harder since I can’t simply edit the save file to give myself a load of money (I don’t mind grinding for stats but fuck doing it for cash.) Anyway here’s how my current save is going:

Things my captain has done so far this run:
- die 23 times
- Kill a huge floating fungal monster only to run into a rock on the way to port and sink the boat
- Starve to death three times
- Resort to cannibalism seven times
- Resort to cannibalism and starve to death anyway twice
- Try to feel up the huge sentient mushroom mascot (I don’t recommend this)

I keep starving to death for stupid reasons.
me: destroys a little boat
also me: ok I desperately need food and supplies, but why don’t I check out the mysterious treasure in the captain’s office?
me: gets mysterious treasure
me: starves to death five minutes later after eating all my crew

But yeah I’d forgotten the sheer amount of content in this one. It’s great despite my impatience constantly causing me to die!

is it a resource management game at heart?

Ah yeah, Sunless Skies is brilliant. I think there was a lot I preferred about Sunless Seas but the content became too repetitive too quickly, whereas Skies is massive, iirc.

Seas was pretty good post-Unterzee expansion but Skies definitely takes a lot of the common complaints about Seas - namely the fact that all those big stretches of the sea are so empty - so there’s much more to do between ports. Man I cannot wait to get a better boat& engine though.

share list please

― hrep (H.P), Sunday, February 19, 2023 6:47 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

loads of the early games got fan translations in recent years, so that's going to be a long list!
I've long been intrigued by SMT If, someone else should play the fan translation and tell me if it's any good

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, February 19, 2023 7:31 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

rly subjecting myself to this - one more god rejected

godspeed, thats one of the last jrpg franchises i would choose for a full playthrough

lol good luck! have played 15 on that list, but nothing earlier than Soul Hackers and that was on 3DS
v fond of Digital Devil Saga 1&2, just love the depressing atmosphere of those games, would love to see them remade

the game everyone has been talking about is finally out, or at least the prologue is, on steam full game coming Q2 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3XY1R7ydTA

fucking lmao and sickos.jpg

you know that at least once, the developers have told themselves that someone might be saved because of this game

Press F to resurrect.

the real Hogwarts game

Lots of good stuff added to PS Plus Extra/Premium today so weighing up starting either Scarlet Nexus or Outriders. Anyone played either?

Scarlet Nexus isn't v good, I'd skip unless you want mindless repetitive hack and slash gameplay and have a high tolerance for anime bullshit stories

TY, appreciate you saving time/HD space!

I mean I don't mind anime bullshit and even I thought it was A Bit Much

ha i just got 3/4 thru the trailer and thought "nah maybe not"

lol good luck! have played 15 on that list, but nothing earlier than Soul Hackers and that was on 3DS
v fond of Digital Devil Saga 1&2, just love the depressing atmosphere of those games, would love to see them remade

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, February 20, 2023 3:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i'm not planning on competely dedicating my free time to this project or anything, but i wanna at least have one on the go in addition to whatever else i'm playing for the foreseeable future. also 100% giving myself an out to just quit if i don't care, esp the old games. that said i will probably go back to nocturne and finish it at some point, i was so close, i got to that dungeon with the four guardians of the N/E/S/W with different elemental weaknesses and i kept preparing the wrong weaknesses for the wrong guys and just said "i don't have the mental energy for this maze + these bosses rn"

god thats a lot of commas and zero periods

godspeed, thats one of the last jrpg franchises i would choose for a full playthrough

― ciderpress, Monday, February 20, 2023 3:36 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

what would you put ahead of it? not that ill change my mind but i am curious! having the library of cycle-accurate hardware alexandria at my fingertips has had me feeling like i could play or do anything

i figured it was just because there are soooooooooo many in that franchise! isn't it like 50+ games? assuming, very conservatively, that they're 20 hours each, that's like 1000 hours right there, and probably more like several thousand since

its partly the raw number of games but more that its a very iterative dungeon-crawler-y series so you dont get much variation in gameplay or setting like you would playing through all the final fantasy games or whatever. (and also i just dont like the dungeon crawler approach to the genre as much as i like the adventure approach)

tl;dr too many Dungeons, not enough Towns. the best part of jrpgs is Towns imo

or maybe not the best part but they are crucial to the experience

jrpg series with 10+ games that i would consider doing a full franchise playthrough of: final fantasy, dragon quest, atelier, ys
ones that i wouldn't consider it for: smt, fire emblem, pokemon, tales of (but only because the duds are really bad)

what other series am i missing. if theres 10 neptunia games now then that goes in the no pile

Legend of Heroes (or even just the Trails series) must be 10+

One day I might play all the Atelier games

But probably not

trails has 9 games out in english so i didnt count it but yeah i'll play all of those + the new ones when they get them out here

something about the LoH/trails series is just so much more intimidating for me. i think i made it an hour into one of them a couple of times. trails in the sky 1? idk, maybe that's a smarter play.

i used to be 100% on team town vs team dungeon but idk something in my brain broke in the past few years.

My pathological need to see every line of NPC dialogue sours me on towns sometimes I must admit

i only have that pathology for games that do it well. cold steel hits the sweet spot where you have a small hub town that updates all the npc dialogue/routines constantly and then all the other towns are one and done

persona and atelier are sadly both subpar on this for series where you spend half your time in town. at the very least give the main party members their own routines rather than have them stand in the same place every day waiting for you to show up

i can live with the dialogue updating irregularly but there really ought to be a clear visual cue when an NPC has something new to say, otherwise it's bad design