Games

Post by **dng** » Sat Aug 26, 2023 10:34 am

whenever you think maybe computer games companies have run out of ways to scam their audience out of money they come up with even more abysmal ones

Post by **dng** » Sat Aug 26, 2023 10:35 am

needless to say i bought two copies

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Aug 27, 2023 1:23 am

A true gamer would've purchased 8 copies, David!!!

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Sun Aug 27, 2023 4:22 pm

Only four treasure charts and three pieces of heart to go in Wind Waker. Today I went all the way to the bottom of the Savage Labyrinth and was rewarded with a set of irremovable evil eyes.

Yesterday I finally had a go at all the reefs, and was rewarded with the infuriating discovery that the treasure charts you find there lead you to charts of all the locations of pieces of heart and fairies and octopons and so on. If I'd discovered this the first time I played it then I might actually have finished it 20 years ago. Argh.

Post by **dng** » Fri Sep 01, 2023 3:13 pm

i finally played katarami damacy this week, 20 years after it first came out. anyway its great,e ven if the controls are really bloody weird and the camera absolutely infuriating at times (as are the time limits occasionally). but also it's just really nice and charming the rest of the time so i didn't mind

Post by **dng** » Fri Sep 01, 2023 3:14 pm

also it has the best soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOs0c0JyLXc

Post by **dng** » Fri Sep 01, 2023 3:14 pm

i might play some of the sequels now, if they're also on the ps4 for cheap, like this one was

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Sep 01, 2023 3:20 pm

I've mentioned this befo', but I've always really dug Katamari on the Rocks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMH49ieL4es

An absolute banger, that!

Post by **dng** » Fri Sep 01, 2023 3:24 pm

hooray. yes i love that one too

Post by **dng** » Fri Sep 01, 2023 3:25 pm

theres also one on one of the menus thats amazingly lovely

Post by **dng** » Fri Sep 01, 2023 3:27 pm

this one, i think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJYBcA9 ... As&index=7

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Sep 01, 2023 7:20 pm

That is swoonsome goodness, Sir!

Post by **richschnauzer** » Mon Sep 11, 2023 5:32 pm

dng wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 10:34 am whenever you think maybe computer games companies have run out of ways to scam their audience out of money they come up with even more abysmal ones

https://youtu.be/-AKxEREJqgU?si=mDo_AGqru5M5tPLa

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:11 pm

Bah! The original PC Dark Forces now has a retro chunky pixel sprite charm to it, whereas the remastered version just looks supremely mediocre.

Post by **dng** » Tue Sep 12, 2023 9:42 pm

this seems pretty insane

https://www.eurogamer.net/unity-reveals ... -community

Post by **dng** » Tue Sep 12, 2023 9:42 pm

i'm going to bankrupt trig by re-installing his monkey swinging game on every device i own

every day

forever

Post by **endar** » Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:52 pm

well they can fuck off can't they

utter suicide

Post by **dng** » Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:57 pm

i can't quite get my head round how you can retroactively apply a recurring licence fee for something the developer literally has no control over (and which presumably they can't even track themselves and unity are free to make up the numbers about)

baffling

Post by **endar** » Tue Sep 12, 2023 11:56 pm

it's a share scam or something

Post by **dng** » Wed Sep 13, 2023 9:59 am

or just straight up old fashioned capitalist bastardry

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Sep 13, 2023 4:25 pm

There
Is
No
Alternative!

Post by **dng** » Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:12 am

This week I've been playing subnautica, a survival game based around scuba diving in a vast alien ocean.

Sony gave this away free a couple of years ago (along with the witness and a few others for some reason) and I played a bit of it, died repeatedly, and gave up. But this week I persevered through the opening section (which is both kind of tedious and unhelpfully unclear in explaining its systems), and discovered it's actually really good in places. Nice atmosphere, some lovely moments of wonder as you find new areas, things, monsters, etc.

It's also kind of crappy in lots of other places (lots of resource management, everything's miles away from everywhere else, and there's a necessary base building component that bafflingly frustrating, because for some reason you can never actually seem to build what you want because it's decided the rooms don't fit there, even though you're building in a vast empty ocean)

So anyway despite that it's good for like twenty hours or so of swimming around (and later driving a miniature sub around) finding new and exciting underwater environments. That all look different and are interesting, etc.

Then the final section of the game the new environments are: a volcano, another volcano, more volcano, a base in a volcano, then finally... another volcano, with a base in it. And these areas are too deep for your sub, and the waters too hot to swim in, so you have to walk around in a giant mech suit and you might as well not be underwater at all. Shite

Post by **dng** » Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:12 am

I'm not sure why I wrote all that down but I just needed to complain

Post by **dng** » Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:36 am

actually it reminds me of xenoblade chronicles x on the wii u, which also had a plot about crash landing on a mysterious alien world, also had a midgame change to needing to use a stupid bloody mech suit all the time, and also decided that after four big exciting increasingly weird and wonderful alien environments to explore, the final area was just a big boring volcano level for hours and hours on end

Post by **dng** » Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:36 am

i hate volcanos

Post by **dng** » Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:37 am

is mairo to blame for final world volcano tedium? i do not know but i might blame him and bowser anyway

Post by **vom** » Thu Sep 14, 2023 1:10 pm

subnautica? more like sub-par haha

Post by **vom** » Thu Sep 14, 2023 1:11 pm

I played Gato Roboto as my post-Zelda palate cleanser game and it was a great choice. approximately three hours of "what if Super Metroid, except you're a cat?" A+++ would recommend

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Sep 14, 2023 1:15 pm

dng wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:36 ami hate volcanos

Don't be racist, David!

Post by **dng** » Thu Sep 14, 2023 1:46 pm

I want to be a cat

Post by **dng** » Thu Sep 14, 2023 9:29 pm

So I slogged through all th ebloody volcanos again and back through them and so on for hours to get all the necessary bits for the final castle, and the final castle involves scanning things for an hour, and then after that hour i went to get back in my mech suit which you need to get back out of the facility really and it had fallen through the floor somehow and disappeared into the void.

Post by **dng** » Thu Sep 14, 2023 9:29 pm

brilliant

Post by **dng** » Thu Sep 14, 2023 9:30 pm

i'm not sure i can be bothered to do all that scanning again (although at least i saved after all the volcanos)

Post by **dng** » Sat Sep 16, 2023 8:32 pm

is there a simple online app thing for making asteroids style vector line graphics with. there's billions of pixel art things, but i can't find any vector graphics ones (and obviously if you seearch for vector graphics it just brings up hundreds of things based around modern vector graphics stuff which i don't want obviously)

Post by **dng** » Sat Sep 16, 2023 8:32 pm

i've tried using photoshop but it's fucking shite for line drawing for some reason (for many reasons)

Post by **endar** » Sat Sep 16, 2023 9:10 pm

Gimp, maybe?

or og Paint?

Post by **dng** » Sat Sep 16, 2023 9:18 pm

i need to find that absolutely shit drawing app i made once and use that (sketcher?)

Post by **dng** » Sat Sep 16, 2023 9:21 pm

anyway paints actually a really good suggestion hooray

https://jspaint.app/#local:fa5bdec1416d9

https://canvaspaint.org/#local:cc014c7ed44438

lovely ms paint

Post by **dng** » Sat Sep 16, 2023 9:24 pm

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Post by **endar** » Sat Sep 16, 2023 9:42 pm

hoorray

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Sep 17, 2023 1:20 am

Agreement

Post by **dng** » Sun Sep 17, 2023 6:08 pm

i bought a fist of the north star game today (it was £4, and also its basically just a yakuza game in the yakuza engine, but set in some sort of shit mad max world). anyway, i've never seen or read the original manga/anime/whatever, so i have no idea if it's true to the style of those, but it has by far the absolutely ugliest and proably worst character design i've ever seen in anything

that doesn't even show the full horror (he also has really long legs for some reason, that make up like 75% of his height)

it's kind of amazing really how utterly knacked it is

Post by **endar** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 6:42 pm

Yeah i wouldn't have a clue either tbh

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Post by **endar** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 6:43 pm

how many mans have you exploded?

How annoying is the kid?

Have you found the arcade yet?

Post by **dng** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 6:47 pm

lots of mans; very; i haven't

Post by **dng** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 6:47 pm

i just rebuilt a car but i haven't yet driven the car

Post by **dng** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 6:47 pm

also hooray

Post by **dng** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 6:48 pm

anyway he definitely looks better as a comics man than as a computer mans

Post by **endar** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:19 pm

i only ever played the demo and have procrastinated over getting the full game for 5 years or whatever it is

Yakuza like a Dragon is £10.99 on Steam at the moment which is very tempting

Post by **dng** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:35 pm

I liked that a lot but it's very long and kind of grindy in places (although not too bad until you each the end, when the post game stuff is so grindy even i couldn't be bothered)

also this fist of the north star game is only £4 something on the PS4 shop at the moment