Games

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:52 pm

Also on the recommendation of Daren about three years ago, I have been play hellblade: senuas sacrifice, which I don't know i f Daren played or just thought might be the sort of thing I'd like, and it was the sort of thing I'd like, hooray

This was basically that Viking god of war game, but instead of playing some macho twat whose in a huff because he has to look after his son for the weekend, you're a grief stricken woman who wants to kill herself.

The actual gameplay of this is in general rubbish (the combats increasingly tedious - possibly for thematic reasons - and 90% of the puzzles are identical - which I'm sure wasn't for thematic reasons at all) but it has an absolutely incredible atmosphere, and the bits of the game that are basically a high budget dear Esther are wonderful. Also it's only maybe six or so hours long, so the wearying combat wasn't enough to put me off

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:56 pm

Also hyper light drifter says it was made in game maker or something, so once again I want to make a game now too. But then I remembered I spent most of January trying to make something in unity,ever got anywhere because everything's bloody video tutorials now, and then spent the next three months making cartoons instead because it was easier and I felt like I was achieving something with my time at least

Post by **vom** » Fri Jun 18, 2021 4:26 pm

The bosses were my favourite part!

Post by **vom** » Fri Jun 18, 2021 4:27 pm

Every time I reached one and thought ARGH THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE but then figured out how to win after a few goes and it felt really satisfying

Post by **vom** » Fri Jun 18, 2021 4:29 pm

I'm currently playing Horace*, which is an odd retro platform adventure in which you're effectively Bicentennial Man and it seems to be heavily influenced by Jet Set Willy except not in a bad way (ie it's not absolutely impossible)

* no relation

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 18, 2021 4:32 pm

vom wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 4:27 pm Every time I reached one and thought ARGH THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE but then figured out how to win after a few goes and it felt really satisfying

Hooray. Maybe that means I'm just rubbish and need to improve

Post by **vom** » Fri Jun 18, 2021 4:36 pm

Also I think you can reach the first three bosses in any order so it's possible our experiences may be different!

But after finishing it I went back to Dead Cells and won on the difficulty level I'd been struggling on for ages, I think it genuinely made me a bit better at boss fights

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 18, 2021 4:53 pm

This was the top section boss, some sort of bird man who has a very annoying series of explosive patterns that I keep getting caught by even when it feels like I shouldn't have been

But now I've gone off elsewhere in the hope maybe I can afford some new attacks/moves

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 18, 2021 6:44 pm

Inevitably the very next time I tried it I killed him without getting hit in about thirty seconds

And then I killed a frog monster too and now I've got loads of guns and some new moves

Post by **vom** » Sat Jun 19, 2021 5:52 am

hooray

Post by **Pual** » Sat Jun 19, 2021 1:03 pm

dng wrote: Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:56 pm Also hyper light drifter says it was made in game maker or something, so once again I want to make a game now too. But then I remembered I spent most of January trying to make something in unity,ever got anywhere because everything's bloody video tutorials now, and then spent the next three months making cartoons instead because it was easier and I felt like I was achieving something with my time at least

I made half of a choose your own adventure game in unity earlier this year. Obviously I didn’t finish because it was a choose your own adventure game and nobody ever finishes them.

Post by **Pual** » Sat Jun 19, 2021 1:04 pm

In accordance with n3ta tradition the choose your own adventure was about crabs.

Post by **dng** » Sat Jun 19, 2021 2:01 pm

Hooray. I'd play it

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Jun 20, 2021 12:39 am

And me! Whilst eating crab paste, to aid my immersion in the game.

Post by **dng** » Sun Jun 20, 2021 3:34 pm

i finished hyper light drifter. it was good, and i liked it, but now its over i have absolutely no desire to try finding all the extra things there are to find

Post by **vom** » Sun Jun 20, 2021 3:53 pm

ves

I always think "maybe I'll keep playing for a bit and find the extra things" but then I don't

Although with that in mind, I did search for SOME of the extra things before I took on the final boss

Post by **vom** » Sun Jun 20, 2021 3:57 pm

I guess I did quite a bit of the extra stuff in Breath of the Wild. But not all of it, because fucking hell

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:20 pm

Yes why is it so strangely depressing playing more of a game once you're 'completed' it? I played Red Dead Redemption for about an hour after finishing the main story, because there was some great big desert you could explore and a desert town that the main game never made you visit for some reason, but the whole experience was just utterly dispiriting and I wish I hadn't bothered.

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:21 pm

Joke about how the whole of Red Dead Redemption 2 was utterly dispiriting and I wish I hadn't bothered.

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:22 pm

It's true of all games though. Or at least all role playing/exploration type games.

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:22 pm

Actually maybe that's the reason - you suddenly go from being needed by and central to the world, to being utterly irrelevant.

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:23 pm

Maybe this is what old age will be like.

Post by **dng** » Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:23 pm

Post by **dng** » Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:24 pm

Also its because all games are actually terrible but you're trying to pretend they aren't and so let the story distract you from the utter futility of all existence

Post by **dng** » Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:24 pm

(see also life etc etc)

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:26 am

I always like how everyone here has the correct opinions on games. If you said this round Reddit's gaff you'd be buried under an avalanche of screeching

Also David, I feel your pain on video tutorials. Half the time I decide to not do the thing I want to do rather than watch them.

Then some time later I decide to steel myself and push through an extremely loud and pointless intro, an equally pointless preamble which goes through a problem you are already well aware of in excruciating detail, a lot of rewinding and pausing because they rush through something too fast, some confusion because they leave a minor yet vitally important detail out, and once you've got past all that they have the audacity to ask you to "like, comment, and subscribe" as if anyone subscribes to video tutorial channels and are not just glad it's over and done with.

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 11:15 am

yes. they are the very worst of all things and I don't understand why they exist

Post by **vom** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 11:23 am

apparently they pad them out to a certain length to get more ad revenue

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:11 pm

Hooray.

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:12 pm

Adverts are the genuine worst thing ever I suppose

Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:52 pm

I'm playing Tomb Raider 3 for reasons, and it's really awful wow. I mean the original one.

This is no surprise to anyone but wow it's bad

Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:53 pm

But I hear you get to drive a quad bike on the next level so I'm not stopping

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:23 pm

Is that the last ps1 one? Because yes it’s abysmal

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:24 pm

All I remember about it really is that I kept getting stuck in the scenery

Post by **The Robotic Anomaly** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:31 pm

It's not the last but it's sort of close because the others all have stupid subtitles

I got stuck a few times too so it probably is this one you're thinking of

Post by **vom** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:33 pm

I've never played a Tomb Raider game, and yet for some reason I've seen all three Tomb Raider films

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 2:51 pm

I've only ever played a Tomb Raider coverdisk demo, and watched one Tomb Raider film.

I preferred the film.

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 2:53 pm

i've never seen a tomb raider film and presumably never will

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 2:54 pm

unless any of them have a t-rex in it

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 2:59 pm

I seem to recall that the first film is disgustingly T-rex-less.

Post by **vom** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:01 pm

the second film is enjoyably odd, I liked that one the best of the three

but none of them are particularly good

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:16 pm

I spent a long time running around her mansion getting the butler to follow me about, in either Tomb Raider 2 or 3, whichever the one is where you get to run around her mansion and there's a butler.

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:16 pm

I certainly enjoyed it at the time.

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:18 pm

I think I probably also went to see Tomb Raider at the cinema. I would have been 14 so I guess that's a reasonable excuse.

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Jun 25, 2021 1:17 am

At one point, CGI Lara Croft appeared on the cover of all PC games magazines, near simultaneously, or so it seemed.

Post by **endar** » Fri Jun 25, 2021 1:35 am

https://www.zosya.net/2021/06/24/travel ... rn-lights/

This is so good it makes me want a speccy again

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 25, 2021 11:18 am

excellent

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Jun 25, 2021 3:21 pm

It has oodles of character and charm.

And a rather decent scrolly road game engine, too.

Post by **richschnauzer** » Sat Jul 10, 2021 12:38 pm

https://youtu.be/DMdR2rtKbDM

the early 90s are back, man

Post by **endar** » Sat Jul 10, 2021 6:07 pm

but with a better framerate