Videogames: The Official Thread

[Gehrig Industries]

ultima underworld has the be the game that has aged the worst of any game ever

[Petty]

Yeah definitely, but this Arx Fatalis game is still pretty great. Probably because it's not like UU1 or 2 really

[No Good Advice]

so the 3ds epic mickey game is actually a follow-up to castle of illusions, uses 2d sprites with parallax scrolling and includes scrooge mcduck

[Blackeyed]

sine mora is pretty fun, i'm absolutely terrible at shmups but those who like to go after high scores will find a ton of content/options to strut their stuff. Visually it's amazing but bullets get obscured often, which gets frustrating

I want to download this, Last of Us and Journey but I still have Gears of War 3 from Gamefly sitting on my coffee table. WHAT DO I DO

get journey now then play it
fuck off everything else in your life until it's done

Wow. I was expecting the game to be short. But not that short. Especially for $15.

I didn't know the other robed characters I ran into while playing were actually other players; I thought they were AI. That was pretty cool.

[iambic]

http://www.ripten.com/2012/03/27/brian- ... fun-again/

brian fargo gives good interview about how devs receive perhaps unsurprisingly awful treatment from publishers

[theoden king]

anyone play league of legends?

[housesitter]

anyone play league of legends?

I know a couple dudes on the board who play it a lot

and there's this: http://forums.hipinion.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=42517

[a-10 warthog champion]

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[xxx-xxx-xxxx]

so the 3ds epic mickey game is actually a follow-up to castle of illusions, uses 2d sprites with parallax scrolling and includes scrooge mcduck

i've read that warren spector really wants to do a ducktales game

[chairkicker]

i really hope epic mickey 2 is good, but i have no faith. i can only think about that steamboat willie level and gehrig's crack about them hiring the lead designer of home alone

[whatamaroon]

has stephen lavelle been discussed?
http://www.increpare.com/
spend all day on that web site
lots of total bullshit (that is probably worth a look anyway)
he does really intricate and well done puzzles (theatrics, english country tune and the rose garden are classics);
interesting concept one-offs that aren't really games at all (primitive pattern, dirty little slut, computer aided design);
ridiculous jokes (crush fetish trilogy, modernauts, american dream);
stupid games that are just really awful (sub/conscious, serenade, six minutes of broken promises);
slow-paced story games with minimal player input (oiche mhaith, the terrible whiteness of appalachian nights, therapy game)
and incredibly strange 3d hell-simulators (in a single breath, cities of day and night, salome)

sort of feels like the game equivalent of graham lambkin / the shadow ring
only english country tune costs money and the vast majority are browser based
there are like at least 100 games

dude is great, there was a new yorker blog piece on him a little while ago, but it seems to mostly miss the point. His best stuff is obviously the puzzle games. he's like a digitally souped up Sam Loyd, using technology to explore these interesting mathematical spaces you can't really conceive on just pen and paper.

[bucky]

has stephen lavelle been discussed?
http://www.increpare.com/
spend all day on that web site
lots of total bullshit (that is probably worth a look anyway)
he does really intricate and well done puzzles (theatrics, english country tune and the rose garden are classics);
interesting concept one-offs that aren't really games at all (primitive pattern, dirty little slut, computer aided design);
ridiculous jokes (crush fetish trilogy, modernauts, american dream);
stupid games that are just really awful (sub/conscious, serenade, six minutes of broken promises);
slow-paced story games with minimal player input (oiche mhaith, the terrible whiteness of appalachian nights, therapy game)
and incredibly strange 3d hell-simulators (in a single breath, cities of day and night, salome)

sort of feels like the game equivalent of graham lambkin / the shadow ring
only english country tune costs money and the vast majority are browser based
there are like at least 100 games

dude is great, there was a new yorker blog piece on him a little while ago, but it seems to mostly miss the point. His best stuff is obviously the puzzle games. he's like a digitally souped up Sam Loyd, using technology to explore these interesting mathematical spaces you can't really conceive on just pen and paper.

yeah, increpare is great. y'all should check out his game he did with Terry Cavanagh (of VVVVVV fame) Oiche Mhaith (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/585928), if you haven't yet.

[Petty]

I don't know why I'm so interested in playing modern games that use legacy graphics, but it really hits an itch. Anyway this game is exciting to me even though I don't have anywhere near the time or attention span to get into this like I should

http://www.indiegamemag.com/demise-the- ... t-go-away/

They want like fucking 32 dollars for the whole game though, wtf

[Broncobama]

So no used games for either the new Xbox AND the new Playstation?

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in ... 15017.html

fucc da world

[chairkicker]

yeah, it's such bullshit if true. if it is, i don't see how no one on the inside is screaming that $70 digital downloads are going to hurt the industry more

[Broncobama]

u guyz wanna start a kickstarter where I build a $150 open source gaming machine

[Broncobama]

it would be ad-supported but all games would be free

so instead of cutscreens you get ads.

[chairkicker]

I don't know why I'm so interested in playing modern games that use legacy graphics, but it really hits an itch. Anyway this game is exciting to me even though I don't have anywhere near the time or attention span to get into this like I should

http://www.indiegamemag.com/demise-the- ... t-go-away/

They want like fucking 32 dollars for the whole game though, wtf

modern games that use legacy graphics are the total dream. you focus on animation and articulation while leaving some of the edges rougher and you can do so much more with the game itself

[Petty]

I don't know why I'm so interested in playing modern games that use legacy graphics, but it really hits an itch. Anyway this game is exciting to me even though I don't have anywhere near the time or attention span to get into this like I should

http://www.indiegamemag.com/demise-the- ... t-go-away/

They want like fucking 32 dollars for the whole game though, wtf

modern games that use legacy graphics are the total dream. you focus on animation and articulation while leaving some of the edges rougher and you can do so much more with the game itself

Yeah, I really like the idea of using the lesser grahics to have a deeper back end, and I also I have a huge nostalgia for old timey graphics and can't really get struck by new graphic games other than "Woah that looks great" but it feels less like a game for some reason.

Any way, $32 is way too much for this game and I don't get why it is so high. There is a Google+ group and I was looking a it wondering how they got anybody to invest 32 bucks up front on this. I'd pay like 10 probably.

[jca]

lone survivor is out for you silent hill dudes

http://superflatgames.com/wordpress/

[a-10 warthog champion]

So no used games for either the new Xbox AND the new Playstation?

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in ... 15017.html

fucc da world

if the model changed a bit so it was sale-heavy like steam i dont think i'd care

but yeah this is pretty dumb

[a-10 warthog champion]

also the main reason i wouldnt really care is that i'd LOVE to see gamestop go out of business

[a-10 warthog champion]

i mean like i loved psn on my psp but that's only cause ps1 games are cheap and they had a lot of decent sales over the six months i used it.

[Polynoggin]

trials evolution looks so good.

http://uk.gamespot.com/trials-evolution/videos/trials-evolution-now-playing-6369272/

out in a few weeks.

[ifear]

So no used games for either the new Xbox AND the new Playstation?

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in ... 15017.html

fucc da world

i read an interesting piece by some ranty developer who was saying how games would be much cheaper if it weren't for the used games market, so i'm not entirely against this as i mostly only buy new and never trade in which tends to mean i wait a year or so for shit to be affordable. but not being able to lend games to friends can fuck off.

[walt whitman]

So no used games for either the new Xbox AND the new Playstation?

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in ... 15017.html

fucc da world

i read an interesting piece by some ranty developer who was saying how games would be much cheaper if it weren't for the used games market, so i'm not entirely against this as i mostly only buy new and never trade in which tends to mean i wait a year or so for shit to be affordable. but not being able to lend games to friends can fuck off.

i thought new games are expensive because of marketing and graphics/assets... attacking used games seems like a scapegoat

[chimp_]

yeah even if used games were actually the cause of high prices (not likely imo) eliminating used games wouldn't cause prices to suddenly drop, producers would just bank the higher profits

[chairkicker]

exactly. the game industry vs gamestop is just two heads of the same snake battling for full control of the feeding tube

[chairkicker]

pretend i never wrote that

[chimp_]

i thought it was good