What is the last video game you played?

[Jay 37,287]

Cuphead DLC teaser trailer

 

 

[Jay 37,287]

For those who care about story, apparently the story of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is significantly more understandable if you've played Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon first.

[Jay 37,287]

Stop Calling Games 'Metroidvania'

 

He makes great points, but sadly offers no solution, just describes the problem. Oh well 

[King Mark 3,625]

do you guys only play 2D sidescrollers?

[Quintus 5,399]

On 7/3/2019 at 5:01 AM, Jay said:

Stop Calling Games 'Metroidvania'

 

He makes great points, 

 

Meh, I don't think he does. The guy is just trying to find a problem where there isn't one. The term is fine, in fact I've always liked how it perfectly encapsulates everything about the genre in one cleverly succinct term.

[Jay 37,287]

9 hours ago, King Mark said:

do you guys only play 2D sidescrollers?

No.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

4 hours ago, Quintus said:

Meh, I don't think he does. The guy is just trying to find a problem where there isn't one. The term is fine, in fact I've always liked how it perfectly encapsulates everything about the genre in one cleverly succinct term.

Agreed. Why would someone not familiar with video games care what we call a sub genre? May as well get rid of the term roguelike as well. Who is complaining about these terms?

[Quintus 5,399]

Bloggers struggling to find inspiration.

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

12 hours ago, King Mark said:

do you guys only play 2D sidescrollers?

Nope.  

 

[King Mark 3,625]

I finished God Eater 3...a faster paced Monster Hunter style game

 

Now I intend to play Final Fantasy XV with all the DLC's That could keep me occupied for a month or 2

[Jay 37,287]

I think it's funny how you drive around in a modern automobile in that one

[King Mark 3,625]

Delayed FFVX  to play Valkyria Chronicles 4 first

[Jay 37,287]

Dragon Quest IX staff discuss possibility of remake during 10th anniversary live stream

 

10 years old!  Hopefully they do this

[Nick Parker 3,040]

On 7/10/2019 at 10:54 PM, King Mark said:

Delayed FFVX  to play Valkyria Chronicles 4 first

 

Excellent game! I kept trying  to find excuses to play it after I beat the somewhat lengthy campaign. 

[King Mark 3,625]

Gameplay is almost identical to the first on ,which is also great

 

Last year I played Valkyria Revolution and it had a different combat system

[Holko 9,499]

OK, started Hollow Knight based on all the love here.

 

Me: All right, I'm starting to get the hang of these controls and understanding that Ori's mechanics like the "hold B to quicksave" do not work here.

Game: Mhm, spike jumping with the sword.

 

Beat first boss, deciding whether to go right into Pink Crystalia or left into Shrubbery Engineer-land.

[Jay 37,287]

Yay!  I hope you like it!

[King Mark 3,625]

On 7/12/2019 at 3:46 PM, Nick Parker said:

 

Excellent game! I kept trying  to find excuses to play it after I beat the somewhat lengthy campaign. 

 

Valkyria Chronicles 4  is pretty hard,especially after chapter 10.  I often get a Game Over after spending an hour in a mission. One tiny strategic mistake and your done for

[Nick Parker 3,040]

1 hour ago, King Mark said:

 

Valkyria Chronicles 4  is pretty hard,especially after chapter 10.  I often get a Game Over after spending an hour in a mission. One tiny strategic mistake and your done for

 

Remind me what happens in Chapter 10? I love how the tone of the game shifts from "Yeah let's whoop the bad guys!" Star Wars type feel to the feeling of being hunted and alone, and on the brink of total defeat. 

[King Mark 3,625]

The battleship gets stuck in the ice and I have to protect it from the parachute bombs while everyone attacks me

 

The "protecting" missions are the ones I struggle with because the enemies spawn reinforcements every turn and it just gets overwhelming. Also some of the special enemies can dodge your shots most of the time making you waste turns

 

 

[Nick Parker 3,040]

1 hour ago, King Mark said:

The battleship gets stuck in the ice and I have to protect it from the parachute bombs while everyone attacks me

 

The "protecting" missions are the ones I struggle with because the enemies spawn reinforcements every turn and it just gets overwhelming. Also some of the special enemies can dodge your shots most of the time making you waste turns

 

 

 

Oh that's a fun one! In any kind of shooting game I always go for the sniper role, so by that time I upgraded my snipers' guns to be pinpoint deadly. It helped, but with the special enemies in that one I kind of got lucky and manipulated them to take just one of the paths and focus on my tank (which would then be healed by an engineer), and when their attention was focused completely opposite one of my snipers I had one of them pop those enemies in the head...I also shot the hell out of 'em point blank with my tank.

 

In general though it seemed to be better to avoid as much direct confrontation with them as possible, and use bulkier characters as escorts for my snipers to reach the vantage points they needed to shoot down the bombs.

[King Mark 3,625]

I used the smoke grenade on the Hafen to blind the 2 special enemies and killed them while they couldn't dodge.If you kill both they don't respawn. 

 

Also used minerva the scout to move the 2 snipers from one side of the map to the other. The 2 specials run out of AP trying to follow her

Problem with this game if you bring the wrong weapon on a mission you can get screwed .First I had those sniper rifles that shoot 3 times but that couldn't reach the bombs.

 

I grinded an easy squirmish and levelled up all the classes to 20 now.

[Nick Parker 3,040]

2 hours ago, King Mark said:

I used the smoke grenade on the Hafen to blind the 2 special enemies and killed them while they couldn't dodge.If you kill both they don't respawn. 

 

Oh, smart, I never thought of that! 

 

2 hours ago, King Mark said:

Problem with this game if you bring the wrong weapon on a mission you can get screwed .First I had those sniper rifles that shoot 3 times but that couldn't reach the bombs.

 

Where that would screw me up big time is what I would have the grenadiers equipped with (anti-vehicle vs. anti-personnel).

 

What do you think of the plot so far?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Finished Level 2 of Sword Of Xonos.

 

Gonna be a tough nut to crack this corker of a platform game!

[Quintus 5,399]

Oh jeezus christ no

[King Mark 3,625]

10 hours ago, Nick Parker said:

 

Oh, smart, I never thought of that! 

 

 

Where that would screw me up big time is what I would have the grenadiers equipped with (anti-vehicle vs. anti-personnel).

 

What do you think of the plot so far?

 I love reading the story book and it had a few good emotional moments .Can't wait to see what happens next. I'm  on chatterer 16 now.

 

Valkyria Chronicles 1 also was great and had  one of the saddest moments in videogames ever.

 

Just beat the Winter Witch. THAT was a hard mission. I had too look up how to kill her because I was 2 hours into the mission, all my shots were missing (after destroying her staff),I lost my tank and couldn't give Orders  and didn't want a Game Over at that point. 

i was also near the turn limit

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

4 hours ago, Quintus said:

Oh jeezus christ no

 

You're being a snob!

[Holko 9,499]

Just beat Hornet after spending the whole afternoon on her on and off. Hell yeah.

[Jay 37,287]

Nice!

 

I love her theme music

[Holko 9,499]

It's lovely but by the end I completely dialed it out mentally. I spent the longest time figuring out which one of her shouts means which attack but it seems completely random!

[Jay 37,287]

Usually when I get stuck fighting a boss I just wandered elsewhere and came back after getting a bunch of upgrades . I can't recall any specifics of that fight or how long it took me

[Holko 9,499]

I like to be more systematic, wandering off will just mean I'll get lost, forget there was something I wanted to do back near the start, look for hours for something that was needed for progression... Though the map markers here are great, I use them for marking grubs or checked-but-as-of-yet-unreachable areas.

[Jay 37,287]

Eventually the game will mark all the grub spots for you, same with the dream battles.

 

I used the markers for dead ends, too, with one color for ones it looked like I needed a higher job to progress, another color for I would need immunity to the acid to progress, etc.

[Quintus 5,399]

58 minutes ago, Stefancos said:

 

You're being a snob!

 

This is like that time when Drax was at such a loss he started posting in the Game of Thrones thread!

[King Mark 3,625]

Well I beat the big tank(final boss) at the end of Valkyria Chronicles. Took me 6 hours .I failed multiple time and the actual mission where I won took 3 hours. I took the long route without consulting any guides online that tell me how to finish it in 10 minutes.

 

now I'll re- try it the semi cheating way

[Nick Parker 3,040]

2 minutes ago, King Mark said:

Well I beat the big tank(final boss) at the end of Valkyria Chronicles. Took me 6 hours .I failed multiple time and the actual mission where I won took 3 hours. I took the long route without consulting any guides online that tell me how to finish it in 10 minutes.

 

now I'll re- try it the semi cheating way

 

I forgot about that one, yeah that was rough. Don't get too worn out by replaying that level just yet, it you're interested in the post game content. 

[King Mark 3,625]

The mission in the Imperial Capital was also hard (chapter 17). I barely won the 2 times I completed it. Can go from feeling your doing ok into disastrous very rapidly if Chiara one shots your tanks

 

PS the musical scores for this and all the other Valkyria Chronicles are amazing

[Nick Parker 3,040]

Same! I think when I beat it I got lucky with the AI. If I remember, I had Minerva and a shock trooper dash off to the left of the starting point to start a clockwise flanking/search  and destroy pattern, and after they passed through the arches I would collapse them, where I accidentally crushed the girl special unit (were there two? I can't remember.) 

 

Cool plot, yeah? I was super invested by the end, ridiculously unsubtle World War II allegories not withstanding. 

[King Mark 3,625]

Yes, this story is a good example of why I play a lot of JRPG's.

[Nick Parker 3,040]

5 hours ago, King Mark said:

PS the musical scores for this and all the other Valkyria Chronicles are amazing

 

Just saw this; Sakimoto did a _hell_ of a job on this one. He's one of the few composers who can really make orchestral libraries speak...I've only ever heard one score from him where I think he was miscast (Dragon Quarter). Otherwise he's incredibly consistent for how prolific he's been. 

 

This is probably my favorite tune of the game:

 

 

 

 

 

[Oomoog the Ecstatic 314]

Any good vidya games out? All the ones I've seen expect me to kill things or people everywhere...not much fun in that, until I can decipher what they're about as individuals or their story; maybe they need help, maybe they're hiding something? Piece a story together, try something outside the box, progress a good gameplay. I played BotW but it was pretty bad, like I said you just go kill everything, and the NPCs were boring, didn't have much interesting to talk about. The puzzles weren't too deep or character-based because they're just mechanical rooms. MM was a lot better, but the best gameplay I had was with Grim Fandango, and I like story-detective games and exploring and psychological thinking.

[Nick Parker 3,040]

Putting aside some of what you say, have you heard of the Broken Sword series? It goes back to the 90's, it's one of those point n click games where things start with a bang, and you have to unravel this mystery as it gets deeper into an Indiana Jones style adventure. 

[Oomoog the Ecstatic 314]

I'm familiar, Broken Sword has got a new game?

 

Know if there are any good AAA games out? 

 

Until Dawn was the only good AAA sorta fitting my description in the past few years... I also played Contradiction, that was also very cool. The standard for me are those Adventure or point and click types of games (although man, nowadays they can make the npc puzzles a lot better, really improve today's gaming.)

[Nick Parker 3,040]

Mmm, it's hard to imagine a AAA studio going that route. And pretty much nowadays, you're either AAA or indie, so the companies that would stay float and produce that kind of thing haven't really existed in that capacity for some time. 

 

I mean Death Stranding, whether good or bad, will definitely be an experience, but beyond that I don't know of any big name titles on the radar to fit your description. I've kind of been on the hunt for something similar as of late, too. Are you looking for something that's come out in the last year?

[Oomoog the Ecstatic 314]

37 minutes ago, Nick Parker said:

Mmm, it's hard to imagine a AAA studio going that route. And pretty much nowadays, you're either AAA or indie, so the companies that would stay float and produce that kind of thing haven't really existed in that capacity for some time. 

 

Ah that's definitely too too bad. I know a lot of work goes into making adventure games because you have to think up rich story puzzles for every minute, and every area is filled with a lot of qualitative content. I guess nowadays companies take the easier route and market combat/cutscenes, it's more casual for the average player to fire a gun and watch a story, very sad and much easier to make too. Like I mentioned they could really find ways to make story puzzles in Adventure games much more logical and easy nowadays with the knowledge of their cryptic difficulty in the past, it's the best gaming style there is, it's just too much work to think-up for these companies, I guess too much risk.

 

I know Until Dawn is only half of what I think a good game is, but as an AAA title it was a total surprise to me, talk about out of nowhere for 2015. Great times! Heavy Rain equally fits that bill, but the truth is I guess you can never go back to '98 and make another Grim Fandango. That game had ca$h behind it and spent every penny perfectly. Or a Broken Sword or Monkey Island.

 

Where's everyone hogging all the money? I guess I'll look into more point and clicks from this decade and the last, enjoyed those a lot.

[Quintus 5,399]

Detroit: Become Human is currently free with PlayStation Plus and is probably right up your street.

[Oomoog the Ecstatic 314]

"The fifth game made by French studio Quantic Dream, it quickly became their most successful, although it didn’t quite exceed the review scores of Heavy Rain."

 

Thanks mate, great recommendation. I played DBH, it was good and had more investigation/exploration than UD, which I'd think would be the selling point right, but I notice the character and atmospheric aspects of games like UD, MI, Grim Fandango, are nailed so much better.

 

Androids probably don't translate as well to story-telling as do, for example, dramatic teenagers and dead Hispanics

[Quintus 5,399]

I'm almost near the end of Detroit and it's sort of drifted off for me. Started out utterly compelling actually, but the multiple cast POV made the whole thing lose focus. Good "game" (it's really an interactive movie) but I'm struggling to find the motivation to finish it.

[King Mark 3,625]

ahhh, I didn't realize you could save mid battle in Valkyria Chronicles 4 .Would have made the game a LOT easier .But I'm happy I beat the game without that option

[Oomoog the Ecstatic 314]

1 hour ago, Quintus said:

Started out utterly compelling actually, but the multiple cast POV made the whole thing lose focus.

 

I do love the multiple cast POV ie. Until Dawn and Heavy Rain. For me the loss of focus is due to these characters being "boring androids" most of the time, and the plot slowly and patiently 'unfolding' with them.