Spurred on by Waypoint’s recent “Fortnite Fortnight” (wherein they play the game for two weeks) I decided to boot up the game again and something suddenly clicked and now I adore this game? I won twice on Sunday and haven’t felt so alive in a long time, which maybe says more about my current life situation than the quality of the game… but I’m enjoying it a bunch. It’s fun and cute and not tersely military. It’s a game with loads of John Wicks running around doing the robot and I am fully in. Down to play with folks on PS4 for anyone hoping to also “become a teen” as I have.
Yeah, it’s remarkable how different my emotions are while playing Fortnite vs PUBG. Both have immense amounts of tension. Fortnite’s tension is sports overtime. PUBG’s tension is survival horror.
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an internet friend of mine got popular for illegally streaming old nudie amiga games, and now she’s partnered with gog dot com, so you’re probably on the right track. I think most of her audience were older horny dudes tho.
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I finally played some Breath of the Wild for the first time in a while and caught some lizards then got to Goron town
Nothing earth shattering but it was nice to sit down and play a pretty game for the first time in a while
I think I’d struggle to connect with such an alien demographic…
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Yakuza 6 has some pretty bad screen tearing, but otherwise I finally get to live my dream of walking around the convenience stores in first person.
Also Kiryu seems to have picked up the skill of making stools explode by walking into them
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I can also make stool explode by walking into it
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This makes me want to try Fortnite again.
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They’re both dreck imo, at least plunkbat has less other garbage distraction
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I was surprised how much you disliked PUBG, but honestly I think it’s much worse in squads. Duo or Solo is the way to go, much more tense.
But, if you don’t like it you don’t like it
the amount of time spent just fucking around at a scale that isn’t gratifying relative to the actual game objective (remember I can’t stand minecraft) and the lack of regard for level design and the relative jankiness of the actual mechanics are all … not good
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also this mostly just makes me miss MNC, the only good moba ever made
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casual reminder that Super MNC is still somehow running and has servers up for all 5 people who still play
we could jump on and have a game with just us!
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I’m into it
A recent game of Fortnite I was in ended with a tiny circle and five folks left. Most were building massive towers and trading grenades with one another while I was disguised as a bush and chipping damage off people with a surpressed pistol from the ground. This game is just really fun?
I haven’t played plunkbat but I really enjoy the building in Fortnite. Getting good at it opens up a whole vocbulary of strategic options when deciding on what play to make. Deciding between building a stairs to rush and drop down on someone with a shotgun or whether to build fortifications in front of you to facilitate getting away are really meaningful decisions, and I’ve personally really enjoyed learning this weird game.
I defo don’t love the level design from a critical game design viewpoint, but I’m pretty happy to think of the map like a big playground. This game is really obviously not counterstrike or seige, and it’s comfortably/confidently not trying to be anything like them. From an environmental design standpoint, I find exploring the map and discovering the little alcoves of character scattered throughout it pretty rewarding.
I’d really like to play plunkbat at some stage down the line, cos it seems up my alley too. But from only seeing videos of it, here’s my best analogy: plunkbat is MMA and fortnite is professional wrestling.
I’m finally playing through Mass Effect 3.
I think everyone here thinks ill of Mass Effect.
I kinda like them.
…Load times are a mess though.
I had a good time with those games. I’d rather replay Alpha Protocol though
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I played through the Mass Effects a few years back and Felix said Mass Effect 3 is the best one and I am inclined to agree. I just wish it had been more, I don’t know, systemic? Or just had more side missions specific to individual party members.
The War Room was a neat idea that kind of felt like it could have been more fully executed.
Magic The Gathering for Dreamcast (JP Only) is unplayable but delightful. Like Illbleed. I will treasure my copy.
For some reason in the basic commands is just “forfeit game”. The reason it is unplayable is you have to confirm the end of every phase and command. This is based on Sixth Edition which right when i started playing and right when the stack was introduced.
So to play a creature card you have to enter a main phase-go to hand-select creature-confirm creature-go to mana-auto select your one color mana-watch as each land is tapped slowly-confirm mana will be spent for this-confirm you are done casting-stack resolves and creature comes into the field.
On the other hand a Big 2000sCG Dragon snarls You Challenge Me??? And I scream with delight. I still got bored 15 minutes in because I was fighting a burn deck and instead of killing me it just sat there and killed each 1/1 2/2 creature I managed to out on the board and then i drew land for 12 turns straight. On turn 13 I got an enchant creature card. So maybe the starting decks aren’t great.
I played through Alpha Protocol a few years back based on how much people here vouched for it and had a really good time. No clue how ME3 will go yet but I thought it handled choice much better than either of the first two ME games did. The jerk options were also more fun in that game. There was a point near the end of the first big section of the game where I was glad that I had completed so little of it as that meant I had a lot left; that’s always a good sign.
Still the scenario was just alright and I never really cared about the larger world in that game. For me they are clearly similar games that kinda went in opposite directions in terms of focus and strengths/weaknesses, quite frankly I’d take more of either. I kinda need this flavor of crpgs to be a third person shooter (stealth optional) in order to actually play them.