Mispelled team fortress 2
― H.P, Sunday, 25 February 2024 22:20 (seven months ago) link
I've been enjoying my first-ever playthrough of Castlevania SOTN (the true apex of gaming) on my retro handheld. This game looks phenomenal on a 3.5 inch 4:3 screen. Also the soundtrack, holy smokes. I'm actually sort of astonished at how diverse it is: symphonic stuff, thrash metal, jazz fusion, prog, house, baroque harpsichord shit--it's all here, and somehow it all coheres.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 15:31 (seven months ago) link
truly one of the best OSTs
― Nhex, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 15:35 (seven months ago) link
i recently bought the ROB/SOTN bundle and finished rondo of blood the other day (loved it,) so i'm looking forward to playing SOTN for the first time ever after hearing so much about it.
the main game i'm playing atm though is MGS 5, which is very absurd, feels very large, and is quite fun. i played the prologue first and thought it was extremely lame, so my expectations plummeted while i had thoughts like "maybe even only vaguely realistic military-ish games are not for me," but once i got through the long and boring expository opening sequence i started having fun. the gameplay loop of going to the field for missions and going to the mother base for upgrades and hanging out with my diamond dogs is working for me
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 27 February 2024 15:40 (seven months ago) link
damn, wait until more plot and cutscenes talk about the diamond dogs back at the basethey’re bros forever
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 04:17 (seven months ago) link
I also just remembered the nickname of Revolver "Shalashaska" Ocelot and I’m laughing
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 04:20 (seven months ago) link
balatro looks awesome
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 23:32 (seven months ago) link
i've been playing a bit of helldivers 2 and honestly....it's pretty fun. goofy, ott, but it does what it does really well
also need to return to BG3, which ate up my life for a little while right after christmas
― gbx, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 23:35 (seven months ago) link
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 29 February 2024 00:06 (seven months ago) link
I'm genuinely terrified of Balatro...if I get into that, I might not ever get out
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Thursday, 29 February 2024 14:38 (seven months ago) link
No FF7 Rebirth chat yet? Shocking.
Think I’ll be waiting for a PC release. Some of the graphical settings (as broken down on digital foundry) for PS5 look disappointing for a game of this stature.
― H.P, Thursday, 29 February 2024 22:56 (seven months ago) link
i had been delaying doing the final battle in super mario wonder while i tried to wrap up some of the extra stuff (finding secret wonder seeds, doing the badge challenges) but the badge challenges get so hard and frustrating! it's funny how much easier the boss battles are than even the 3-star badge challenges, but i guess that's how they keep the main game accessible to everyone. i haven't even tried the extra world of hard levels yet, i know they're just going to piss me off.
i'd been thinking about doing chants of sennaar next but now i'm excited about pentiment so i'll probably get that first.
― na (NA), Friday, 1 March 2024 16:29 (seven months ago) link
The final special world level is insanely hard. There's a bit where you are invisible and have to bounce across moving balloons.
― formerly abanana (dat), Friday, 1 March 2024 16:35 (seven months ago) link
also i have so many blank spaces on my badges page. how can there be so many badges i don't have?
― na (NA), Friday, 1 March 2024 16:42 (seven months ago) link
ah i see now a chunk of them aren't available until after you beat the story
― na (NA), Friday, 1 March 2024 16:44 (seven months ago) link
I've made it to the infamous inverted castle in SOTN...not sure if I'm gonna complete this, but I'm definitely gonna give it a go.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Saturday, 2 March 2024 14:18 (seven months ago) link
It's shorter that the regular castle. i wish i could play SOTN for the first time again.
― formerly abanana (dat), Saturday, 2 March 2024 19:24 (seven months ago) link
balatro is too easy i won on my second run. or first run if the tutorial one doesnt count
― ciderpress, Sunday, 3 March 2024 05:19 (seven months ago) link
it unlocked a million things at once so im excited to play again
― ciderpress, Sunday, 3 March 2024 05:26 (seven months ago) link
I'm playing Inkulinati. Stupidly clunky name. Concept is Pentiment's art (including a character cameo from that game) x Monster Train's team building and randomised journey mechanics.
― salsa shark, Sunday, 3 March 2024 19:48 (seven months ago) link
yeah i was interested enough to add it to my wishlist but have a strong suspicion that the history porn is covering up a not-great game
― Morris O’Shea Salazar (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 March 2024 21:04 (seven months ago) link
Is Balatro too easy? Feel like with these rogue-likes it’s so much luck of the draw, can land on a perfect set of circumstances in a given run and clean up. I got really far in one of my early runs, but haven’t gotten close to that since.Cool game. Not sure I’m as hooked on it as most seem to be, but I see the appeal.
― circa1916, Sunday, 3 March 2024 23:33 (seven months ago) link
I just beat HUNTDOWN, which is a throwback side scrolling shoot em up with an 80s cyberpunk/outrun aesthetic and 16 bit-ish graphics. Main character makes some horribly corny Duke Nukem-esque movie quote quips occasionally that grate, but it was genuinely a really fun little game. Like to try 2 Player at some point.As an old Contra and Metal Slug head, it scratched that itch. If y’all know of anything else in that wheelhouse, let me know.
― circa1916, Sunday, 3 March 2024 23:48 (seven months ago) link
** After finishing "Far Cry 5," I tried the 3 related DLCs (one is in Vietnam, one on Mars, one is zombie-themed) for maybe 30 minutes each and wasn't motivated to finish them. Probably won't get back into the FC universe any time soon.** Played a few hours of "A Plague Tale: Requiem" over the last few weeks - voice acting and graphics are good, but the gameplay and combat were just not fun for me, so I abandoned it. ("Dishonored" and "Dishonored 2" have a similar plague vibe, but are far superior games IMHO.)** Started "Rollerdrome" yesterday - this is really really fun! Roller-skating + guns in a dystopian near-future arena competition thingie. To replenish ammo, you have to do tricks, so you are constantly doing flips and grabs and grinds and stuff. The graphics are comic-book style (like "Sable") and look fantastic.
― ernestp, Monday, 4 March 2024 00:43 (seven months ago) link
xp i was joking, theres like 10 more difficulty levels and lots of other decks besides the starting one that make some of the more obvious strategies less achievable
― ciderpress, Monday, 4 March 2024 01:16 (seven months ago) link
xpost How was Far Cry 5? I have that one and 4 to play at some point. I assume they are more or less all the same? I thought the separatist compound in "Hitman" (3?) was fun, so I kinda suspect I would enjoy 5 over 4. Maybe it all comes down to the antagonist, but everything I read made a big deal of Vaas in Far Cry 3 and he was pretty stupid, so I suspect the story/baddie doesn't matter much, either.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 March 2024 01:52 (seven months ago) link
I found the FC5 ending to be extremely disappointing, so much so that it kind of makes me regret putting 60 hours into it (I did a fair amount of side quests). The basic story idea had promise, and they blew it. The gameplay is fine - similar to FC3 and FC4. I enjoyed FC3 and FC4 more than FC5, all things considered. I'd say I liked FC3 and FC4 about equally, and there are some welcome trippy/psychedelic FC4 sequences and fun features, such as riding an elephant to trample people. Note that the outdoor settings of FC4 look pretty similar to FC3, so it might not feel like a terribly different game in that respect, if you need variety.
― ernestp, Monday, 4 March 2024 02:49 (seven months ago) link
As an old Contra and Metal Slug head, it scratched that itch. If y’all know of anything else in that wheelhouse, let me know.
Huntdown is the only EAR-like i'm aware of but in the R2RKMF side-scrolling tradition here's some i've read good things about:
GnG Resurrection <- game of the decade tierTanuki JusticeBlazing ChromeSteel AssaultShinobi Non Grata
these are all recent ones, if you're willing to dig into Arcade Archives titles or emulation there'll be much more
― chihuahuau, Monday, 4 March 2024 11:27 (seven months ago) link
Awesome, thanks!
― circa1916, Monday, 4 March 2024 19:37 (seven months ago) link
There's a new Contra game coming out this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pXSRjVS9IM
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 4 March 2024 23:38 (seven months ago) link
one more since it's on a 90% off sale right now for PS4 and PC: Assault Suit Leynos (2015 remake)
I see the publisher's also slashed the price on the remake of Assault Suits Leynos (Target Earth), the predecessor to Assault Suits Valken/Cybernator—the doujin dev that made this remake is long dead, so once it's delisted, it's probably gone for good https://t.co/4rNvMP4cia— GSK | https://cohost.org/gosokkyu (@gosokkyu) March 4, 2024
― chihuahuau, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 01:05 (seven months ago) link
Did you try Broforce? I played all the way through on coop and it was a mega blast - just a bucket load of action movie parodies.
― Ste, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 12:33 (seven months ago) link
been playing a lot of In The Hunt, an Irem arcade game from 1993a scrolling submarine shooter, really beautiful pixel graphics which remind me a lot of Metal Slugalso it is HARD, boy was this was designed to munch coins!
https://i.imgur.com/JmplXzq.jpeg
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 13:23 (seven months ago) link
just looked up the wiki and
In the Hunt was designed by a group of Irem employees that would later go on to found Nazca Corporation, the creators of the Metal Slug series.
welp that explains that then
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 13:27 (seven months ago) link
Good recs all, thx. Obv no shortage of this thing, been around forever, was just curious about new spins on it. Was wondering if there were any Streets of Rage 4’s of the genre that passed me by.Down with remakes and out-of-the-ordinary old stuff too. Assault Suit Leynos is completely new to me, playing it now and it’s wild. I dig it.Broforce is on Gamepass, grabbed it. I have played Into the Hunt and I remember it just kicking my ass.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 02:27 (six months ago) link
choice recent beat'em ups are Ninja Warriors Once Again, Fight n' Rage and Final Vendetta.
like everything else Tengo Project have been doing, NWOA is an improved remake of the SNES game; the other 2 are original indie games
― chihuahuau, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 12:07 (six months ago) link
fight n’ rage is a goat contender imo. the full package
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Thursday, 7 March 2024 16:00 (six months ago) link
trying to replace my full fat msg (apex) addiction with diet msg (balatro) instead. it has such a pleasing look - that was always one of my issues with slay the spire. amazing game but so ugly
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Saturday, 9 March 2024 09:41 (six months ago) link
Fight n Rage is dope. Picked that up a while back, highly satisfying beat em up.I think I’m gonna pick up the Konami Contra and Castlevania collections today.
― circa1916, Saturday, 9 March 2024 18:41 (six months ago) link
minor PSA for the Contra collection: despite being by M2, the emulation of arcade Contra is slowdown-ridden and Super Contra is missing the intro voice acting; both issues are corrected in the Hamster releases
other than that caveat, the rest of m2's contra collection is superb as expected
― chihuahuau, Saturday, 9 March 2024 19:25 (six months ago) link
New game from Moon Studios (who did Ori) is imminent, looks awesome. No Rest for the Wicked.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 10 March 2024 18:26 (six months ago) link
Yeah that game looks extremely up my alley. It's technically early access, so IDK if I'm going to grab it now or wait (I'm probably gonna wait).
I beat SOTN finally! I almost gave up until I found a rare weapon drop that made the rest of the game trivial. It was a fun time! My hunger for old Metroidvanias persists, so now I'm hip-deep in Aria of Sorrow, which I'm not enjoying quite as much; mainly cuz it feels *way* too hard.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:39 (six months ago) link
Been many years, but I remember Aria of Sorrow being a top tier Castlevania game.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:09 (six months ago) link
is that the first gba one? that was the best one iirc
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 16:14 (six months ago) link
I believe so. I used to have a combo cart with it and Harmony of Dissonance that I would play on my OG DS during train rides...20 years ago :'(
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:25 (six months ago) link
I never completed either of the og ones and never played the SNES one or Symphony, so playing Aria of Sorrow & Harmony of Dissonance on GBA felt like finally getting Castlevania.
I would rent C2 multiple times as a kid and it felt very mysterious and deep, proto-Dark Souls vibes, has there ever been a good remake/reissue?
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 22:20 (six months ago) link
Man I'm at the end of ffx and just hit a major "go out and grind" roadblock. Brutal.
Picked up Lisa in the most recent humble bundle. Lotta fun earthbound/undertale like rpg, but sad. high recommend
― H.P, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 22:22 (six months ago) link
When I see clips of games or series I've never played, like Final Fantasy or Yakuza or Metal Gear Solid, I have no idea what the f is going on.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 22:56 (six months ago) link
I'm like that with clips of mobile gacha games, it's a foreign country to me
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 22:58 (six months ago) link
you've never played a ff yakuza or mgs!!!!!
― H.P, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:04 (six months ago) link