Board 8 > transience's video game topic 52: rabbids just wanna have fun

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The Mana Sword posted...

I still want to play that game, but I'm worried by the time it ends up on consoles the zeitgeist will be over

the game is selling a million every 2-3 weeks. you have years until this game fades away
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Yeah the game's definitely not going anywhere, and I don't dislike it or anything, I would just like to be able to hear people talk about other games they've been playing again

Here's the new project from Derek Yu, plus his co-creators from Spelunky and Eternal Daughter, the developer of Downwell, and a fifth guy I'm unfamiliar with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wqZi1smZOg

Looks like it's right up my alley.
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Not Dave posted...

Also finally finished the last E level in N++. X levels are ridiculous, though.

Well, I dove in... Just finished X-15. There's at least one crazy level per episode, but I've been managing.
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so I watched the Slime Rancher QL. it made me restart Slime Rancher. then the kids came in, watched, and wanted to play Slime Rancher. then I redeemed an XBL card so I could download Slime Rancher for free (and they would leave me alone so I can collect all these plorts).

this is a Slime Rancher household
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iiicon posted...

so I watched the Slime Rancher QL. it made me restart Slime Rancher. then the kids came in, watched, and wanted to play Slime Rancher. then I redeemed an XBL card so I could download Slime Rancher for free (and they would leave me alone so I can collect all these plorts).

this is a Slime Rancher household

yessssss

collect all that poo

sell it on the poo market

make all the poo money
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put that bag of doritos down, boys. we've got a new challenger.


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I'll be honest, if they pack in codes for free loot boxes I'll be all over that shit. <_< Plus it gives me an easy breakfast for the kids before they go to school.
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iiicon posted...

put that bag of doritos down, boys. we've got a new challenger.

Pop-Tarts 2 incoming


I just caught up on this Hellblade hullabaloo. What a weird thing.
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The Mana Sword posted...

I just caught up on this Hellblade hullabaloo. What a weird thing

?
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People finding out about the save deleting permadeath thing and freaking out about it.
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I've been excited about Hellblade, or at least the concept of Hellblade, for a long time now. feels weird that it's actually out. shame about the name.
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mm that bug Jim Sterling ran into sounds very painful. Really hope that gets fixed ASAP.
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http://www.usgamer.net/articles/nintendo-addresses-the-metroid-samus-returns-amiibo-controversy

So... Metroid 2 will have a hard mode that isn't tied to Amiibo, it looks like?
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-08-08-tempest-4000-is-real-jeff-minter-is-developing-it-and-atari-is-publishing-it

Jeff Minter is working on Tempest again?!

I mean, officially.
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Is Atari even the same company from when they smacked down TxK? Seems like they get bought out approximately every three years
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That's a good point. When was TxK taken down, like early 2015?

Hopefully if they're on good terms he can get that game back on PSN (and other stores, it's really good!)
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iiicon posted...

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/nintendo-addresses-the-metroid-samus-returns-amiibo-controversy

So... Metroid 2 will have a hard mode that isn't tied to Amiibo, it looks like?

I mean, it's still kind of weird. Hopefully it's just one of those things where you can just borrow a friend's amiibo once and have it unlocked forever.
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oh my god developers stop making card games I can't handle it anymore
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these cards have hats
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huh, just saw that Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2 have been added to EA Access. might be a nice time to try out the PC version of Titanfall 2 now that it added co-op,

... if there wasn't an Overwatch event on right now, or a quest for chicken in PUBG
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I finished FF12 today and bought Pyre

I was pretty lukewarm on bastion and never played transistor, but what I've heard about Pyre sounds interesting enough for me to give it a shot.
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I don't think any of the Supergiant games have predictive qualities. It's a roll of the dice whether one hits with you or not.
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yeah, they're all pretty different I guess. well hopefully this one hits!
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I think it's very good. the only aspect of it I don't enjoy is playing the actual Rites. I love what they do with the Rites, how they're presented, what they mean, but once it's time to dunk on fools I check out.
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I'm currently playing Pyre. I like it, even the gameplay, but it is way longer than I expected. I just did the third liberation rite and it is still trucking along.
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I got in a really good groove with the X levels and had a whole bunch of time to play N++ over the past week. Just got the platinum!

What a game. Ended up with around 11,000 deaths and 48 hours of game time.
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Dragon's Dogma HD confirmed for release on Oct. 3rd for $29.99. Good price. I'm pretty excited for this, I never played the Dark Arisen stuff.
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do i buy dragon's dogma a fourth time....
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probably
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just over 50 hours now on nioh. the combat really is the only thing carrying it. i don't care about the story or the characters. william is a nothing protagonist. the levels all look generic af, and going through some of them again for sub missions points to uninspired design. i'm pretty sure i've seen every enemy type already 15 hours ago. the loot lust is starting to wear out too.

but man is it still just super satisfying to fight dudes and mind mapping a level the first time through a mission. it kinda sorta feels like destiny in a weird way, but with way more content to go through. probably too much, actually.

i do think i'm very close to the end of the game. should be done with the main campaign by the weekend. i also have the two dlc. hoping it has completely new environments and enemies!

but i might just take a break from it tomorrow to get through hellblade, which seems to offer a completely opposite experience with a great narrative but very rote action. perfect palate cleanser!
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The Mana Sword posted...

Dragon's Dogma HD confirmed for release on Oct. 3rd for $29.99. Good price. I'm pretty excited for this, I never played the Dark Arisen stuff.

The Dark Arisen stuff is so great!

I'm buying it for a third time.
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playing Fire Emblem Echoes has gotten me back into Heroes, which I dropped around launch. I've been doing a lot of catch-up. Between all the promotions over the last month and catching up on content, I've racked up enough for 8 5-pulls. 8 5-pulls later, I'm still without a 5*

love too mobile game
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yep nioh is too long without anything compelling happening. just gonna push through it since i know i'm close to the end.

hellblade though!

shit is intense. headphones are a must. i'm also finding the combat weirdly satisfying after fumbling through it in the beginning. this game has zero tutorials and button prompts so i was discovering different combos and abilities on the fly.
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Played a bunch of Pyre this morning. I think I'm just before the first Liberation Rite?

Game is decent, I like the characters and world a lot. I'm so-so on the actual sport right now. Right now the strategy just seems to be use fast units to rush the goal. Slow units like Jodi seems wholly useless, but maybe things change farther in.
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The Mana Sword posted...

Slow units like Jodi seems wholly useless, but maybe things change farther in.

there's a trophy for using three titans in a game
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I think I'm at the final liberation rite now... are there more rite battles after this?
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TVontheRadio posted...

yep nioh is too long without anything compelling happening. just gonna push through it since i know i'm close to the end.

i cant come close to agreeing to this. nioh is my game of the year and i loved every second of it
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Finished Pyre. Overall, very cool game. Might be my favorite Supergiant game, actually. Longer than I thought it would be, not in a bad way but I don't see myself replaying this soon if ever unlike with Bastion. My favorite characters were probably Volfred, Jodariel and Oralech.
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And this might be a weird thing to say, but I was impressed with the credits.
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digiiiiiiiii posted...

i cant come close to agreeing to this. nioh is my game of the year and i loved every second of it

don't get me wrong, i actually love a decent amount of it! it's just too long without any intrigue in the narrative or surprises in the mechanics. i kinda wish the cutscenes were just wilder so that i'd be more interested in what's going on because it's all just so very dry without even a sense of humor. and the levels don't really have much character to them. the soulsborne games, while not having many cinematics, still kept me wanting to dive into the world because of the mood and atmosphere and mystery. nioh does control better though, so it has that going for it!

i beat hellblade. is is harrowing and uplifting. i think it's easy for me to empathize that even if i don't really deal with major mental health issues, i found myself almost welling up near the end.

now it's actually a three-way race for my goty between that, nier, and pyre!
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yeah see, i love the characters, story and personality of nier sooo
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digiiiiiiiii posted...

yeah see, i love the characters, story and personality of nier sooo

hey me too
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and nioh

sorry got nier on the brain
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i'd be interested to actually read what it is about nioh's narrative that you love! you can get into spoilers if it'll help. i'm at that point where i don't mind being told plot points in advance. hell, maybe that'll help me appreciate the story.

because right now, comparing the strength of nier's writing to nioh's just sounds ludicrous!
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Hellblade is a game I'm less interested in the more I hear about or watch it.

Pillars of the Earth as a German adventure game though? That's my jam. Saw some reviews and assumed it was out today; it's tomorrow! Oh well. Maybe I'll read a plot summary of the book to remind myself what happens. It's been like 12 years since I read it.
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Hellblade is great.
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iiicon posted...

Hellblade is a game I'm less interested in the more I hear about or watch it

what about the buzz around hellblade is turning you off? the subject? the presentation? the tone? the mechanics? the people hyping it up?

digiiiiiiiii posted...

Hellblade is great.

it really is!
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TVontheRadio posted...

what about the buzz around hellblade is turning you off? the subject? the presentation? the tone? the mechanics? the people hyping it up?

the game looks genuinely not fun from a gameplay perspective. the puzzles, the combat, the simple act of walking forward. which, fine, whatever, I've liked games more for less, and have even found meaning in lethargy. but what that leaves the game with is its presentation of mental illness, and it looks uneven.

I feel like games people, particularly games people with AAA background who now find themselves with a little bit of freedom thanks to past success or current indie direction, have it in their mind that video games are Important, and in order to prove that games are Important they need to be able to present Big Ideas. and that's okay. I'm not arguing that games shouldn't tackle big societal problems. it's just that sometimes it's a poor fit; sometimes the structure of the game interrupts the presentation of an idea, and things go wrong. sometimes the history of racism and power dynamics gets hand-waved away because a shooter needs another fetch quest. sometimes suicide gets reduced to whether a third party said the right thing. sometimes physical disability is portrayed as a punishment. in the case of Hellblade, it looks like a story about "mental illness" is gamified in such a way that it only really portrays schizophrenia, paranoid type. Hellblade might be a very accurate portrayal of schizophrenia, paranoid type, but if it's only about that one specific DSM (with its own history of negative portrayals in literature), does it really add much to the conversation? what's the intent? is it even helpful?

the problem with Big Ideas is that often the people most excited about portraying them aren't interested in the mundanity. and boy, does mental illness live in the mundanity; the day-to-day; the small interactions with the world at large.
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i think it's an important thing for people to understand, and it is conveyed well, and it creates an interesting narrative, same as any good story. the point isn't to be helpful, the point is to create an enjoyable narrative around such a thing, and they happened to do the legwork and treat this thing with respect. i have more than my share of mental illness and am happy with the way it is presented. just like i enjoy the few recent games that deal with anxiety, as that's my primary issue.

the game doesn't exist to be a vehicle for their Big Idea, it exists to be a good game with a narrative tool that is also very sensitive and not often portrayed. i think ascribing the "Big Idea" thing to it is giving pundits too much power without making your own decisions imo. it sounds like you're less concerned with what the game actually delivers and more on what people are saying, and whether or not they are saying the right -- or interesting or important -- things
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it just comes down to how much the idea appeals. I haven't played yet but I think it looks pretty interesting despite the paper thin gameplay. there's been a lot of those over the years that appeal, be it Limbo or Brothers or whatever.
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