Videogames: The Official Thread

[MADONNA WAYNE GACY]

[Cobra Calling]

Most of the Molyjam games are pretty neat- but this!



http://www.whatwouldmolydeux.com/display.php?GameID=295

[whatabout tim]

If you're going through the molyjam games definitely check out nebulous hero.

[Locke]

man i was stuck for like an hour just running around in circles and then i power bombed the underwater waypoint to finally reallyopen up maridia.. that was a really cool moment.

[sleepwalk]

hey are you guys gonna get pokemon+nobaganasfga:

[chairkicker]

nebulous hero is awesome

[ifear]

I'm stuck in Super Metroid.

power bomb the shit out of everything

[housesitter]

I suggest everyone go grab that Silent Hill HD collection for like $30 bucks.

i think there was a kill screen piece up recently that criticized the graphical overhaul of the game - to paraphrase, SH1 & 2 apparently have glitchy animation problems and the high-def removes a bit of the grainy-ness and mystery of the original titles. confirm/deny?

Supposedly the draw distance is significantly improved, which makes the fog less ominous, and yeah I guess there are supposed to be a bunch of glitches, including one that led people to think that a certain scene was censored

butI'm still going to end up buying this, if anything I owe it to myself since I basically wasted twice this amount on Downpour

[internethandle]

other than the branding which just looks like a g4 show or something, this forthcoming doc on japanese arcade culture ars technica linked to looks p. good:

[Locke]

I'm stuck in Super Metroid.

power bomb the shit out of everything

I beat it btw.. 9:24 I think I got the worst/most-clothed ending but man what a sweet game. now I want to play SOTN or maybe a gameboy metroid.. did anyone play fusion?

[glock mane]

fusion and zero mission are both p. good imo

[chairkicker]

this game's been in development for seven years and each time i watch one of these featurettes i can't shake the feeling the whole thing is a ponzi scheme. even when it's starting to look like an actual thing:
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/deadlock-0-3-5-interstellar-marines/728813

[miss black america]

don't think there's a bad 2d metroid

even 2 has its charms

[ifear]

don't think there's a bad 2d metroid

even 2 has its charms

other than 2, which i've barely played, i'd say fusion's the closest thing to a bad one. gameplay-wise it's excellent, but the insistence on plot really fucked it up for me.

i think super metroid and the first metroid prime would both be in my all-time top 10 games.

[MADONNA WAYNE GACY]

redownloaded the complete mame romset

i think i'm just gonna try and get real good at twinkle star sprites and battle garegga.

[MADONNA WAYNE GACY]

it's been almost like 3 months now and i still can't imagine wanting to play another game with dialogue in it again after playing through the ff13-2 demo.

[fester]

hey are you guys gonna get pokemon+nobaganasfga:

I'll probably play this if it comes out here

[fox]

super metroid is an incredibly elegant game

[Legion]

[chairkicker]

man, i was wrong about dead rising 2. it's got all the same problems as the first, but the weapon crafting system is a total blast. of course you can't just experiment with combinations, you have to find a recipe for them first and it's bullshit, but it doesn't matter. it's still way cool. i should probably give the original another try

[chairkicker]

for dead rising 3 they need to overhaul the inventory and separate weapons in breakables and non-breakables, then turn the bulk of the thing into a loose adventure game instead of the radio-fed, quest arrow-led action game it is now. the zombie population should be less random, too, with finite numbers in some areas and legitimate points of origin in other areas where they can respawn, requiring the engine to track their navigation from one location to another. do this and you have a greatly improved game.

[chairkicker]

i want a zombie game with a strange ecosystem governing the actions of this newly christened lifeform. the microcosm of society that emerges, however bizarre, in the way these beings have to interact with each other and the now unfamiliar world they've inherited is more interesting than the singular craving for flesh. i mean, that singular purpose is frightening and compelling, but it needs more context than any game has been willing to give it. think of the effects of starvation and how that could play into unique encounters. or zombies that only react to your presence. you can even accomplish those one-off moments within a semi-procedural framework, unbound from pure linear game design. if you can pull that off, you'll have something special

[umryan.]

wait how'd you guys start talking about super metroid without telling me

[umryan.]

312, clearly

(metroid ed.)

[ifear]

sorry to break the super metroid conversation up - i basically always want to be talking about super metroid, but;

last night i finally got around to playing terry cavanagh's at a distance, which was predictably genius - i've mentioned it before, but if you don't know what it's about it's a first-person co-op puzzle game where you and a friend go around two apparently-unlinked worlds and actions in one affect what happens in the other. it only really makes sense if you play it side by side so you can both see the two screens, as it would be all-but impossible to work out what's going on.



the visual/audio aesthetic is just marvellous - it feels like myst, in its abandoned mildly sinister way, and there's one major aspect of gameplay that's positively unsettling.

i don't want to say too much about the gameplay, though, since the first segment of time you spend playing it is spent working out what's going on between the two worlds, but i cannot recommend it highly enough - if anyone's into terry cavanagh's work, experimental/art games, portal 2's co-op, myst or basically just appreciates playing something mind-boggling and original, you owe it to yourself to pick it up.

http://distractionware.com/atadistance/download.html

[Cobra Calling]

This was great: http://www.lonesurvivor.co.uk/buy.html



Demo: http://www.kongregate.com/games/superfl ... vivor-demo

[MADONNA WAYNE GACY]

i really hope that gehrig hasn't actually been playing xenogears

that game is still one of the primary texts of fucktardism but

as an adult you would probably be better off
reading arthur c. clarke's novel childhoods end
and listening to pink floyd's live at pompeii

just my opinion

[tth]

senior year i read childhood's end and ishmael as part of a "sustainability expedition"

we also planted urban gardens that died

[Gehrig Industries]

i really hope that gehrig hasn't actually been playing xenogears

yeah i lasted like 11 minutes. i got past the intro then i was in some house and i went downstairs and there was more talking and i quit

[MADONNA WAYNE GACY]

sustainability isn't an issue when you live in piss world.