Games

Post by **richschnauzer** » Mon Nov 08, 2021 7:13 pm

I never knew you were such a big fan of the Fall

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 12:56 am

I've been playing no mans sky again because there's some new updates or something. apart from seeing a gigantic sandworm one time, the rest of it is still the same old shite

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:00 am

there's a settlement thing now where your the mayor of some shithole, and its the most depressingly tedious thing ever made. literally just waiting for arbitrary real time timers to run down to zero for hours at a time, then teleporting back there to press square to confirm that yes you do want to do whatever it is its allowing you to do now.

then there is another two hour wait, and so on, forever. except for when there isn't even a timer, and it just says "everything is running smoothly, you will be alerted when you can return and press a button to start your next timer running", at which point i switched it off forever

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:01 am

i mean maybe this would make sense if it'd been there since thd start and you had loads of other stuff to do, but there is no other stuff to do really, because i have already done it, seven million times

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:04 am

Christ, that sounds tedious.

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:09 am

It is more tedious than that

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:11 am

Today I heard of summat called 'Blockchain games', via James/Stephanie Sterling's latest Y/T video.

I'm not sure I still fully understand what it's all about, but I do know that I'm bloody glad that I got to experience 80s/90s gaming, without all of this 'play to earn(?)' scheiße.

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:12 am

dng wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:09 am It is more tedious than that

I 100% believe you!

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:14 am

There is nothing you can do with a blockchain that you couldn't have just done in the first place much more easily without a blockchain instead

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:15 am

By which I mean i have never heard of blockchain games and i don't want to ever hear of blockchain games ever again i just want to hide somewhere and never see the internet again

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:18 am

The Internet 2004 stylee was decent, but it's been downhill all the way since then!

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:00 am

Cryptocurrency and blockchains are a giant scam that make no sense. But Elon fucking Musk says they're great, so they must be fine? No, Elon Musk is a cunt, and will probably be killed during one of his space jaunts because "having enough air is for pussies".

Also I read something that said despite cryptocurrency being claimed as "secure", it's actually a billion times easier for people like the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to track somehow.

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:28 pm

CandyDarling wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:00 am Cryptocurrency and blockchains are a giant scam that make no sense. But Elon fucking Musk says they're great, so they must be fine? No, Elon Musk is a cunt, and will probably be killed during one of his space jaunts because "having enough air is for pussies".

Well, I suppose that's one innovative way out of paying the appropriate amount of tax.

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:52 pm

They're secure because everyone can see you've been using them to buy drugs

Post by **richschnauzer** » Wed Nov 10, 2021 8:25 pm

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Thu Nov 11, 2021 12:12 am

Oh my god, the tiny and almost illegible "scroll?"

Post by **vom** » Sun Nov 14, 2021 10:02 pm

Figment

A pleasant action adventure set inside the mind, with singing villains and decent puzzles. Annoyingly the switch version had some quite severe slowdown in the later stages and actually crashed once, which made me a little bit less positive on the game overall. It was pretty nice though, even if the meaning of the game is inevitably The Only Thing Indie Games Are Ever About

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Nov 15, 2021 8:51 pm

I'm a bit disappoint that noone wrote: wogan is a nob, on that Speccy.

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Nov 16, 2021 11:52 pm

I know nowt about these remakes of various Grand Theft Autos, but the apparent awfulness of them, including a bug where if you wiggle your car about whilst driving, the vehicle gets wider and wider, has been amusing to read about.

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Tue Nov 16, 2021 11:58 pm

That video made me laugh and laugh. If I could play the games for free I'd be tempted to do so.

Post by **richschnauzer** » Sat Nov 20, 2021 4:52 pm

Death Stranding is £16:49 on Steam today. Yes/No?

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Nov 21, 2021 12:25 am

Did you make a decision, Richard?

Post by **richschnauzer** » Sun Nov 21, 2021 1:18 am

I have not.

Post by **richschnauzer** » Sun Nov 21, 2021 2:47 pm

richschnauzer wrote: Sun Nov 21, 2021 1:18 amI have not.

reading the plot on wikipaedo has put me off as it sounds like absolute arsepump

Post by **dng** » Sun Nov 21, 2021 6:59 pm

Hideo Kojima's magic power

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Nov 21, 2021 7:55 pm

Kojima is no William 'Horace Goes Skiing' Tang, that's for sure.

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Nov 22, 2021 1:42 am

Anyone watched GamesMaster yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQEDt5Goe_8

I rather enjoyed it, and that enjoyment is almost entirely down to Rab Florence - he's great!

Post by **dng** » Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:59 pm

tetris effect - tetris by the man that made rez. it's just tetris really, but good tetris

Post by **dng** » Mon Nov 29, 2021 1:55 pm

Oh god I've bought skyrim again

Post by **dng** » Mon Nov 29, 2021 1:55 pm

And david was never seen again

Post by **dng** » Mon Nov 29, 2021 9:03 pm

Hooray. The very first quest is bugged. Good old skyrim

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Dec 01, 2021 1:46 am

dng wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:59 pm tetris effect - tetris by the man that made rez. it's just tetris really, but good tetris

I've just had a gander on YT, and it's a no from me, I'm afraid. I have trouble concentrating as it is, and the swooshy bits just throw me totally!

Post by **richschnauzer** » Thu Dec 02, 2021 9:38 pm

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 2:36 am

We didn't get Designer Pencil in our pack, but it was £149 rather than £199. And Commodore bundled it with one of those black Commodore C16 tape units with a C64 adapter, as the company desperately tried to claw some money back from that woeful computing misstep.

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 2:39 am

And we replaced 'Amadeus' with 'Scarabaeus' in the chorus of 'Rock Me Amadeus' by Falco, which was cutting edge satire.

Post by **richschnauzer** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 12:30 pm

I think that's from Eggmas 1989, so that works out to £500 today.

Post by **endar** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 12:49 pm

i would guess around 1985, due to Spectrum +, not +2.

A near letter perfect printer sounds nearly useful

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Sat Dec 04, 2021 7:35 pm

Also the Sinclair QL is being advertised, with its "cartridges" (i.e. absurd endlessly looping tape spool things)

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Dec 04, 2021 8:16 pm

Mircodrives are the future!

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Dec 04, 2021 8:19 pm

The bets C64 Compendium pack includes a C90 tape full of games done for you by a mate of your brothers.

Post by **The Robotic Anomaly** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:34 am

I finally finished the original Gears Of War

It was just like Gears Of War 5, in every way

Progress

Post by **The Robotic Anomaly** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:35 am

This is all that Xbox streaming thing's fault

It's just so bloody convenient

Post by **Pual** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 9:27 am

I don’t think I ever finished the first gears of war, that final battle on the train was just stupid.

Post by **dng** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 12:31 pm

I gave up at the start, after about an hour

Post by **endar** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 1:34 pm

That was the only one i played and completed

I started the second, realised it was more of the same, and stopped forever

Post by **endar** » Sat Dec 11, 2021 1:40 pm

https://boingboing.net/features/psy/

Psygnosis game name generator

Post by **dng** » Sat Dec 11, 2021 3:25 pm

hooray

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Dec 11, 2021 4:13 pm

endar wrote: Sat Dec 11, 2021 1:40 pm https://boingboing.net/features/psy/

Psygnosis game name generator

I digs that!

I was nodding happily through the first ten that were generated, then this happan:

: Psygnosis.jpg (151.84 KiB) Viewed 18613 times

Which tickled me more than it should've!

Post by **dng** » Sun Dec 12, 2021 10:34 pm

dng wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 9:03 pm Hooray. The very first quest is bugged. Good old skyrim

ten years ago i played skyrim for a hundred hours and could never complete it because the second to last quest was bugged and made it impossible to do. now once again i have played skyrim for a hundred hours and can't complete it because the very same quest is bugged and is now impossible to do.

Post by **dng** » Sun Dec 12, 2021 10:34 pm

there is no life wasted like a life playing computer games