@Tulpa i get enough of that with counter-strike, trying not to fuck up my arm/shoulder swinging around a mouse when im playing a game 
Do to Ancient Genetics my Perfect Killing Jaw Has Become Two Hands?
Wow Parasite Eve is strange.
teach the controversy
gunpoint is a solid-feeling little 2d stealth game that runs in a window and has snarky writing. i really dig the physics of the slidey jump and the rewiring mechanic is well done as well. was looking for something small to occupy enough of my brain without being all-encompassing and allowing me to check twitter/irc/etc, and this fits the bill just great.
I honestly think my favorite part of Gunpoint was being a wise-ass to people in between missions. Honestly I think all I want out of vidcons these days is to talk to mildly interesting characters. I guess my friends are boring. Or maybe I’m boring?
I’m probably boring, I just spent like 3 hours playing Tap Titans before I realized what I was doing and deleted that shit off my tablet.
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I started up Arkham Knight as I enjoyed the previous two Arkham games for what they were and they weren’t lying about them really forcing the Batmobile down your throat. It seems more all over the place than the previous games so far but it still lets me Batman so it’s working out.
Her Story was neat for a couple of hours. I realized you get most of the pieces by using “her story” as your query. I would play more games with the same framing device and similar mechanics. I think Cibele is a different kind of story in a similar framing.
It also makes the bog standard terminals in shooters feel very perfunctory and limited. I’m also looking forward to checking out Hacknet which has its own fake OS.
machinarium is cute and charming for the first half, aka everything before you get into the city proper. the second half is ruined by ‘find the object’ type puzzles, where you know what you need but overlooked it earlier. also way too much backtracking. game ties up with a bead puzzle and a mouse-controlled-for-no-reason dungeon crawl which really soured the whole experience. (the plunger gun was a major issue for me – looked at hints, went to the room where the plunger was, didn’t see it, googled frantically, no help, finally saw on a website that the [black] plunger was stuck on the ceiling of a dark room. stupid.)
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Looks/sounds nice, tho
I’m maybe the only entity on the sphere that’s extra bothered that the OST-published collection has crummy percussion all over it
i’ve been playing Majesty 2 lately coz it’s hands-off enough that i can keep up and idly stimulating enough to distract me from stuff
seems like the hardest part of any given level is getting established against whatever unfair opposition you’re immediately greeted with, and once you fend that off it’s just a matter of building up your perfect city/heroes to beat the big baddie. i’m up to a dragon level now and it’s really unfair though
And apparently getting access to the game audio tracks is as easy and renaming a bunch of file extensions
It’s the small victories that matter, folks
After 18 hours of game time, I finally managed to get to the end of Alice Madness Returns. Seriously, the padding is a bit much… I think cutting the game in half would have been fine. I’ve no wish to start New Game + after all that.
After having obtained a copy of The Hybrid Front and finding out how obnoxious the soundtest code is, I went out and bought a third party 6-button MD/Genesis pad and took it apart. After several attempts I did manage to input the code. Now I just have to track down an OG JP Mega Drive console in order to get the best audio quality. Tried playing 2 rounds of the game and got wiped out by the computer each time in the initial scenario.
Grabbed Pretty Girl Mahjong on Steam because I had a couple of bucks sitting in my account and figured that a $1.50 was about what I was willing to pay in order to try it out. I really don’t know why they couldn’t implement multiplayer… but it makes for an OK single player game. It’s definitely no Suchie Pai.
finally beat nuclear throne. it wasn’t this hard when I first cleared it in early access.
tempted to go back and try to finish teleglitch now … the farthest I’ve made it is level 7…
yeah! wish the game was longer and stuck to the “one self-contained puzzle per screen” rule it establishes for itself in the first half. that way i would be better able to appreciate the artstyle which is great.
I jumped back on Nuclear Throne and it’s way neater than it was the last time I played it.
I also played a bit of Teleglitch, but it didn’t grab me as much. I do love how that game looks, though.
Care not to go too old, as you might get one of the first runs that clips through the headphone jack. Like me. :<
I’m playing Dead Rising 2 finally - just getting to the meat of the plot in the second case, but mostly having fun picking up money from slot machines and making Chuck wear little flowers in his hair while carrying wounded construction workers.
The only downside is that Chuck is incredibly boring. I liked that Frank from the first game was an ugly, dopey, jerk. It’s sort of a rarity to have what I consider to be an unlikable main character. Paired with the (underused) photography mechanic, it struck an interesting balance between saving people and working for your own benefit as Frank.
I’m glad they kept most of the other strange mechanics though, like the fact that you can level up then restart the game stronger, or that you return constantly to the safe room as a home base of sorts. I’m glad there are more save points though.
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Playing Alundra… Oooh goodness this is a pseudo sequel to Land Stalker, why did no one tell me this?
The puzzles are ramping up slowly but look promising. so is the environment is detailed and layerd in a way that feel overgrown and entertwined, the enemies are simple, its not a serious fighting person’s game. It has solid hangout-a-tude and soul so far.
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I got a PS4 for Christmas so I’ve been playing a bunch of PS+ stuff that I accrued
Grow Home is oddly satisfying. I thought the manual arm movement was going to be annoying when I was first presented with it, but it really makes you feel connected to your janky little avatar. It’s nice to just chill out and climb some plants.
Mercenary Kings is a fun co-op Metal Slug-with-a-hub-level. Played for a few hours with a friend. I always enjoy building guns in games (I was very sad when the later Parasite Eve games dropped that) so that was appreciated.
Lots of Ground Zeroes in preparation of getting The Phantom Pain. Playing the extra ops brought back a lot of memories of the goofy side of Metal Gear, but made me miss David Hayter even more.
Hmm, what else…
Guess I played some Entwined, which was pretty but nothing to write home about.
Resogun was not super engrossing either.
Oh! Towerfall! That one felt nice to play. Liked having to pick up arrows.
Battlefront came with the console but I can’t muster a ton of enthusiasm for it. It’s just… too much EA.
Super Star Wars is very hard.
Jedi Starfighter is no Factor 5 game, and it shows.
Road Not Taken is a puzzle game I’m not prepared for.
Rocket League makes it clear that I suck at video games.