Computer and Video Games, v. 5.0
Continued from v. 4.0.
Date: January 22, 2014
Categories: Things We like
Tuesday, 23 April 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
Continued from v. 4.0.
Date: January 22, 2014
Categories: Things We like
okay this is my first attempt at thread-making! apparently we used to have these, seemed like time for a new one
i’ll kick off i guess…gaming time is pretty limited since school’s started but i only worked half the day last monday so i managed to get in some bioshock (the first one, almost finished. infinite is ready and waiting, but i heard pretty near unanimous consent that 2 wasn’t worth playing so i’ll probably skip it).
most of the time was spent on EUIV though, which i’m pretty bad at (i’m much better at crusader kings 2) but is still incredibly fun. i played as lithuania but got too mixed up in alliances and ended up losing a few chunks of territory on my southern border before settling in and trying to figure out how the tech/ideas tab worked. i didn’t play III enough to notice all the differences in mechanics, but i love how they’ve done the trade routes in IV
i also have a bunch of little indie adventure games to get through but just haven’t had much time :-/ they will probably have to wait until after classes
I just started playing EUIV coming out of a year-long Civ IV/V binge. It’s ridiculously complex in comparison and I’m having a hard time picking it up.
I’ve also been playing the hell out of Banished, which is a great new little indie city-builder. No objectives beyond survival, no enemies to fight beyond starvation and cold. It’s a lot of fun and it’s really good-looking for how lightweight it is (~100mb).
I have not been playing games much lately! Partly is because hermitage means I don’t have transit rides as much lately, which was when I was playing my 3DS the most. I’ve been avoiding getting the new Zelda game for it, I don’t really need more distractions, but I started a file on my friend’s system and it seems pretty nice. In general games haven’t been holding my attention as much lately (and I’m obnoxiously picky to begin with), I think because some newish (4 months or so) medication has caused some anhedonia. That being said, I am very much looking forward to Tropico 5. I’m a sucker for being called El Presidente, I guess.
EBETH WHY ARE YOU NOT HARPING ON ABOUT BASTION? Because it is beautiful and amazing. The soundtrack THE SOUNDTRACK.
I’ve been playing more Fire Emblem because honestly what else do I ever do with my life? However, FINALLY got Jade to play one of the titles (if you’ve got a 3DS woahboy is it worth it). Finishing up my Lunatic run so I can play Lunatic+ because I am that much of a masochist. Um it is a magical tactical JRPG with characters who make you love them EXCEPT WHEN THEY DIE and you have to restart the level.
The rest of my time has been divided between replaying Twilight Princess (shut up this is probably my second fav. game in that series ok why did it get such negativity it’s gorgeous) and Dragon Age because obviously Inquisition’s impending release demands I play through the entire series again FOR THE LOAD DATA.
But I’m moving in three weeks and then I get to sit around and sob about being an adult and not playing all the video games all day.
I am almost envious of C-PM, because I have played Skyrim for such a long time that it’s not really exciting anymore. Fun, but not exciting. I miss having new stuff around every corner.
I am definitely envious of Piggy’s copy of Morrowind. Alas, I don’t even have a way to play that game at the moment.
On a brighter note, I recently acquired Myst and Riven on my computer. Those games are pretty amazing. I’ve played Myst ever since I was very small, but never made any progress whatsoever on it. I finished it off first and honestly, I was slightly disappointed, because it was pretty short. Still, it was fun, and I continued on to get the second.
…That game is beautiful. Exploring the first bit, that you can find easily, was a wonderful experience. I was severely disappointed to come to the end of the obvious parts. Still, I could catch glimpses of places I hadn’t visited yet, that I just had to solve a puzzle and then I could visit. I knew there was more to discover, and I just had to wait think and find.
I mean, I haven’t solved every puzzle alone. There’s at least two that I really got stuck on, and looked up in the hint guide, and a third I probably could have solved but didn’t much want to. I don’t feel bad. They were all pretty small, details I don’t know how long it would have taken me to notice, and they opened up new worlds for me to discover.
On another note, I’m beginning to think my ideal game would just be a strange and beautiful world to wander through, with a backstory woven through to discover and you don’t have to solve puzzles or find difficult switches, you just wander the world. An interactive movie, sort of.
Well, the Myst series is close enough for now.
morrowind was $5 on steam recently, i picked up an extra copy so we didn’t have to fight over it. but yeah you can still get it pretty easily
what does such a long time mean in skyrim? i’ve played a ton of it (don’t know exactly how much because it’s split over two computers and an xbox) and i still haven’t even beaten the main quest. there’s a LOT of other distracting stuff. plus i’ve had like eight characters and i heavily roleplay with each one, so i guess that helps
ALSO LIV (i know this is nested shut up) BASTION IS THE BESSST. i bought it for my brother because i was like YOU COMPOSE, LISTEN TO THIS
No, you don’t understand. I have pursued every possible way I might get that game. I have no computer capable of running it. This house holds large numbers of Mac computers, most of them very old, a Windows machine that’s probably as old as I am, and a Windows laptop so virus-laden it can’t find the internet.
My mom’s computer is probably powerful enough to pull an emulator off, but I’m not sure if that’s the case, I’ve no idea where to look for emulators, and anyway she doesn’t really approve of video games, so I haven’t even broached the subject of trying to get this to work.
Yeah. You do not want to know how much thought I’ve put into this.
As to Skyrim, I don’t know exactly how much I’ve played either, but even with roleplaying and distraction, I’ve still finished almost all the questlines and a good few of the random quests and explored the majority of the map.
Probably helps that this is basically the only video game I play. I have Oblivion, too, but I have a harder time getting into that one.
Errata- Oh dude the Myst series brings back memories, I think I had all these bits of paper around my computer when I went through them, because I had to take so many notes @_@
FC- You have a 3DS but not FE do you not love me?
Ugh, I’m too broke for the new Zelda. But I got Tales of the Abyss on it for Christmas and it’s everything I remember and more! Also I haven’t opened Animal Crossing since I got Pokemon X and I’m really scared to see my town >_>
I’m at Ebeth’s and SOMEONE needs the computer back BYE
Oh, yes. I still have a couple post-its stuck to my door from the last time I tried to get through Myst. This time I’m mostly keeping it in my head or abusing save files, with occasional marginalia in my history notebook.
I just finished playing a little game called 140. It’s sort of an abstract platformer based on levels that change/move to the rhythm of the soundtrack, with really colorful, trippy graphics and great music. It’s five bucks (on Steam and the Humble Store) and it took me about 45 minutes to beat. I very highly recommend it–it’s really a cool experience. The controls are wonderfully precise.
I’ve also recently purchased Starbound, which I haven’t played much yet, but I think I’ll enjoy it. I never really got into Terraria but I’m gonna give this one a shot and see how it grabs me.
i am currently consoling myself about being a penurous luthier and not having the funds (yet) to upgrade my PC to something vaguely modern by re-playing Quake II. It runs SO smoothly on a Pentum 4 with 1Gb of RAM and a low-end graphics card (the high-end card I had in there blew up from overuse). I thoroughly disapprove of its “shoot everything in sight” ethos, but it’s still HUGE fun. The guys at ID Software knew how to write code.
Anyone here ever played Thomas Was Alone? It’s the most attached I have ever been to a box. Also, on a completely different note, how about Crysis 3?
OH MY GOD! I love Thomas Was Alone! I’ve never played it myself, but I have seen a friend LP it. Wow, finally, someone else has an interest of mine!
Have any of you played Botanicula? I don’t know much about gaming so I’m maybe not the best judge, I played the demo on the website, and I thought it was impossibly charming, lovely and atmospheric and very pretty. It seems like something a lot of people here would like.
In the fervor that is TwitchPlaysPokemon, I’ve learned a lot about gen I. Everything was so bizarrely wrong and twisted around. Gust was a normal-type move. Wing Attack only had 35 power. Dig had 100 power? Why?
The core gameplay of Pokemon has steadily gotten better and better over the course of six generations. Just goes to show how broken gen I was.
I mashed a lot of buttons at band camp, to keep up with my status as a proud Fake Gamer Girl. Most of my section plays Project M, which is a mod to Super Smash Bros Brawl. They’re really obsessively good at it. It’s kind of annoying, because I can’t play with them without getting brutally beaten. Every time.
In other news, I got a new laptop, and finally made a Steam account. My friend (who I’ve been referring to as Ren so I guess I’ll keep doing that) plays a lot of DotA (Defenders of the Ancients). I’ve never played anything like it. I played with Ren and some of her friends one night, one of whom was my moirail who no one but Ren and I had ever met before, and another of whom was this cute guy I totally don’t have a crush on, or anything,, anyway we played a game of DotA and said cute boy had to pretty much walk me through a bunch of basic game things since I apparently somehow skipped the walkthrough. It was fun, though… supposedly you have to train for like 1-3 months to be any good at it, and I don’t have that kind of time, haha.
I just finished playing Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective. It was super great! I’m not much for 2D puzzles, but I got through it all right. The story was amazing. It’s written by the same guy who wrote the first three Ace Attorney games.
On Saturday I downloaded Super Smash Bros 3DS. (I have yet to break the slide pad, luckily.) Ohhh man. Addictive is an understatement. So far I’m finding myself going back to Little Mac–his punch combo and his up-B are great. I’m also enjoying the “alternate” names there are since I have a Japanese console/game. Rockman (Mega Man), Lizardon (Charizard), Koopa (Bowser), etc., etc. The game does surprisingly well on the small screen–I think the pseudo-cel shading helps a lot. The controls are a bit frustrating, though; the slide pad isn’t the most precise thing in the world. (Of course, I think the same thing about the Wii U gamepad, especially the D-pad, but oh well.)
So Microsoft bought mojang. Thoughts, anyone?
I saw an article on Wired. Apparently, the people who created Minecraft simply didn’t want to run a company as big as Mojang had become. They’re died-in-the-wool coders, and they were becoming corporate bosses with little time for coding. They’re millionaires, and they enjoy that, but they don’t particulalry want even more money, They want to go and do more interesting stuff. Which is nice.
My husband is teaching me how to play Star Trek: Armada. It’s interesting in that you get to play all the sides, but there’s a thing in the final campaign called nanites that make your control panels fly and bounce around the screen. I’m really glad I’m not up to that part yet, because I feel like it would drive me insane. Which is probably the point.
A late-night lament: why has there never been a decent bullet hell on any console? All I want from life is to be able to play a Touhou-comparable game on my 3DS or my Vita or my Wii U or my phone or something. Granted, even a direct port would frustrate me because of the non-keyboard controls, but still. Someone should step up and make an effort.
It’s 5:30 in the morning and I’ve just finished watching a complete playthrough of 999: Nine Persons, Nine Hours, Nine Doors. I played through to the Axe ending myself and then decided the story was worth getting invested in. Since I don’t like escape-the-room that much in the first place and to get all the endings you have to play through the escape-the-room segments multiple times, I found a playthrough on youtube.
Vague spoilers ahead:
Wow, wow, wow. That story was super great. And at the end I emitted an audible “wat.” It just drops this super crazy awesome hilarious twist and ends. Perfect.
The design during the final segment was amazing. The top and bottom screens are used to their full potential as a narrative device–something I’ve never seen before. It’s crazy.
I’ve always meant to buy that, but I never have. I take it it’s worth a purchase?
I had fun playing through the first time but after I lost a bunch of progress on the ending that is required to get the true ending I gave up. A lot of time is spent fast-forwarding and doing stuff you already know if you want to get all the endings.
I’d say a walkthrough would get you around the same experience.
Now I’ve finished watching a walkthrough of Virtue’s Last Reward, which is the sequel to 999.
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I have to say I liked 999 better. It was a lot smaller and shorter, but that made me like the characters more. Plus it had the aforementioned dual screens narrative device, which was totally sweet.
There was just… way too much going on in this one. 999 resolved its time paradox issues with a little *nudge nudge wink wink* kind of silly thing, and there was only really one person doing time travel in one direction. In VLR the entire endgame is so confusing. I have to think hard to figure out whose consciousness went where.
There are a LOT of endings, and the path required to get to the true ending is super complicated, which makes sense given Sigma’s powers. VLR expands the abilities in 999.
I was actually really disappointed that Tenmyouji was Junpei; I wanted him to be Santa so bad! Plus I plain didn’t want Junpei in the game. But it was actually handled really well–Junpei moved on from Akane but didn’t realize it, and it was pretty sad.
I think the worst part was the cliffhanger ending, since another game is nowhere in sight. Phi’s identity is left to the next game, as well as the identity of the mysterious “?” character at the end (though it is implied to be the player).
Super complicated with a cliffhanger ending means not a satisfying story for me.
I played a little battle spot today and had a great match.
My team was Mega Mawile, Gengar, and Lapras. The opponent had Garchomp, Tentacruel, and Dunsparce.
They led with the Garchomp and I with my Mawile. I didn’t switch Mawile out (even though that’s one of the main reasons I have Gengar–levitate to take a baited ground attack) and went straight for the Play Rough, which just barely didn’t KO it. It Earthquaked, leaving me in the red. A Sucker Punch knocked it out.
Next was the Tentacruel. Sucker Punch got it down to the yellow, then it KO’d Mawile with Scald. Tentacruel has high special defense, so Gengar was only able to KO it with two hits, then went down to life orb recoil damage.
It was Lapras vs. Dunsparce. I knew that thing would be trouble. I fortunately got a Toxic off so it was only a matter of time before it fainted. But would Lapras be able to hold out?
This Dunsparce was a paraflincher with leftovers. So annoying! I only got one hit on it with Surf, and that was what allowed Lapras to hang on long enough. With 11 HP left I won.
I replayed it through the battle video and switched out Mawile before the Earthquake and it went a lot better for me–Gengar was able to KO the Garchomp with Dazzling Gleam and then Mawile set up on the Tentacruel.
Kyra is playing pokemon instead of doing classwork! It’s fine though, I think I have a handle on it… Only been playing about an hour a day for the past week.
I battled Wally at the end of victory road and wow… That battle music was so great! I heard that he doesn’t have it in his post-game battle, though, which really stinks because that’s the one where he’s uber-difficult! I guess that makes this music all the more special, though.
I’m so glad I was able to make it through the game! I think the GBA graphics/limitations were what did me in when I was attempting to play Emerald. I’d get lost all the time on the big patch of water on the eastern half of the map and have to constantly check my map. Plus the stretches of water were so huge it was really easy to miss things! Now the map is constantly on the lower screen (yes!!), I can surf really fast on my sharpedo, and the water routes don’t feel as big because of the tilted perspective.
The cutscenes were so great, too!
I can’t wait to see what the elite four has in store for me. I hope it’s at least a little bit challenging, though. I had the exp. share turned off the entire time but still ended up with an overleveled team. I’m all at level 52 going in.
I have both my DS and my charger located at long last, so I can finally finish playing Pokemon White. I’m so far behind the curve that it still seems new and exciting to me. I really wish I had a 3DS so that I could play XY and ORAS. I did start watching an LP of Omega Ruby, and it looks incredible. I’m really glad they waited an extra generation to remake Ruby and Sapphire.
My goal for this spring break is to play Hatoful Boyfriend, an infamous dating sim about pigeons.
BREEDING FOR PERFECT IVS IS SO COMPLICATED ugh I think I’ll just settle for perfect Attack, unless I somehow miraculously find a flawless Ditto. Then I just need to breed for one with Justified and Play Rough. Then EV training, woo…but I want to be able to at least give this kid in my Chem class a challenge. So, good Mega Absol.
Also, shiny Ponyta/Rapidash for best shinies. I caught one over the weekend (after 480 encounters), named her Arsenic, and groomed her for the Beauty contest. She mostly swept through the first three contest levels thanks to her Sunny Day/Morning Sun combo, but the last one took a few tries before I got lucky. So Beauty Master Ribbon get!
No flawless Ditto (Mirage Islands were, shockingly, not cooperating), but I did get a nicely IV’d, Justified Absol. Named her Zodiac, and she’s almost level 100 now. I also got myself a lovely Lax Skarmory with Drill Peck and 31 IVs in defense. I don’t know what I should name her though; any suggestions?
Now I just need to breed a female Tirtouga with Sturdy Rock and Body Slam and a Joltik with…something good. And maybe figure out two other teammates. Again, suggestions are welcome. I want to destroy this kid
Welp, I ended up buying a copy of Lethal League. I usually stay away from fighting games on principle, but this one is actually really fun.
Okay, so, hopefully future Minecraft map developer, here. I have a basic idea for the story, 1% of 100% of the building done, and am absolutely command block clueless. Can any other Minecrafter out there give me some knowledge? Because I am seriously lacking in it.
I have no idea of any of the higher functions of minecraft, but if you’re doing any seriously large building, you should look into world edit. Makes building a lot quicker.
So has anyone else played Splatoon? The noble squid is finally getting its well-deserved time in the spotlight. Also, it’s probably the first multiplayer shooter I’ve enjoyed–it’s fantastic. Most fun I’ve had in a video game in a long time.
One of my college friends has been repeatedly posting about it on social media. Looks fun.
Update: Splatoon is the best video game of all time. It is so, so good. And they keep adding stuff! The new Rainmaker mode is fantastic–probably my favorite ranked mode so far. In the big update they bumped the level cap from 20 to 50, so my points mean something again. Level 26, rank B at the moment–I haven’t had as much time to play as I’d like.
Portal is fun! played it for the first time this week and thought “wow, I’ve been missing out!” Might buy it on steam.
So I caved and bought everything Civilization V when it was on sale a couple weeks ago…
The problem with Civ is that it’s a scary timesuck — you start playing it and oh, hey, five hours just passed. I have to watch the clock carefully when I play.
Been playing Team Fortress 2 for like a week straight. Super fun and silly multiplayer shooter, free on Steam, with a lot of character options you can play as. Medic is my favorite!
Also on Steam, I recently played The Beginner’s Guide by the creators of the Stanley Parable. It’s like $10 but is almost like an interactive movie, with pretty level designs and a really sad and relatable story about the deteriorating friendship between two game designers, told through their games.
For the past few nights I’ve been playing VA-11 Hall-A, “a booze em’ up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.” It’s a visual novel sort of thing, although there are no dialogue options. You play as a bartender in 207X, mixing drinks for people who come into the bar you work at. The music and the atmosphere of the game are fantastic, and the writing is really exceptional. Playing the game while drinking self-invented cocktails definitely ups the experience. Very low-stress gameplay, which I personally enjoy. From what I’ve played so far, it also seems like the major “plot points” about the in-game universe (the dystopia) are treated as more of a setting than a subject, which isn’t done often in sci-fi/cyberpunk things. The focus is more on the lives and personalities of your customers.
Granted, I may be biased. I’ve been really into cyberpunk and vaporwave type stuff lately, and this fits the bill. The way it fits the bill, however, is outstanding. Highly recommended, although maybe not for younger folk. Your customers don’t censor their word choice or topics of conversation.
Has anyone else here played Zero Time Dilemma? This ended up a lot longer than I thought it would be, whoops. SPOILERY DISCUSSION BELOW FOR 999, VLR, AND ZTD; TURN BACK WHILE YOU STILL CAN!! SPOILERY DISCUSSION BELOW FOR 999, VLR, AND ZTD; TURN BACK WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!
I liked it, but not as much as the other two games. 999 is my favorite of the series, but since I only watched VLR through a youtube playlist and didn’t play it for myself, that might tilt my opinion a bit.
Team C’s storyline is straight up unsatisfactory. I was itching to see how Junpei would react to Akane, seeing as she kidnapped him and engineered the murder of at least one person. But nope, he’s all edgy and mopey not because of that, but because of vague detective work?? What? It would be so easy to just have him be angry at her, but he’s not, like, at all. And they never explain to Carlos what happened, even though Diana gets a full explanation of the events of VLR. I really wish Uchikoshi wrote all three teams. The fact that he only worked on D team really shows. The proposal itself is really, really cute, though. I just wish it could have made sense.
That being said, D team was excellent. The events leading up to the VLR timeline and “the hope of two” ending were soooo good. It helps that I adore the sad, “bad end” type timelines, where people get left behind. Diana and Sigma’s relationship was handled so much better than Junpei and Akane’s, again probably because Uchikoshi wrote it. I could really believe that they had fallen in love. This was the first Zero Escape game where I cared about the characters more than the plot, which is a huge accomplishment.
The ultimate ending was just… confusing and meh. In both 999 and VLR, it seemed like there was one “true” timeline that the other bad ends contributed to. But in ZTD the “true” timeline was there all along? Like, VLR had to happen to get Sigma and Diana back to 2028, but they ended up both going to the VLR timeline and succeeding and getting the “good” timeline. I guess that ties into the split consciousness thing touched upon by the transporter and in one of Sean’s endings. I just thought that some kind of unprecedented outside force would shove the VLR timeline out of existence to make way for the “good” timeline. Like, you know, what was implied by the “another time” end in VLR.
All in all, it was a bit of a disappointment, especially given the answers Uchikoshi gave in previous Q&As; a lot of the stuff he promised would be included in ZTD ended up missing. I’m grateful there was a conclusion to the trilogy, considering this game barely got made at all, and I did have a lot of fun with it and enjoyed some parts.
I’ve been playing Overwatch for the past few days, maining the character D. Va. The story is that she was a world champion Starcraft player in Korea who was “drafted” to pilot a mech to fight some sort of robot apocalypse thing. Anyway, her mech is pink…and has fins on the top reminiscent of leporid ears…and she has whisker-like lines painted on her face…and one of her emotes is a “Bunny Hop”…and several of her sprays feature a rose-colored rabbit….
Maybe she let herself get partially bunnified in order to fight the robots, like in stories when people let demons possess them or vampires bite them when they otherwise wouldn’t in order to fight against an enemy they expect to kill them anyway?
Over the weekend I somehow got both of my parents to try Mario Kart. I think the most recent video game either of them have played is the original Duke Nukem, so it was a pretty big deal. Once my mom switched to the tilt controls, she really enjoyed it. I promised her that I’d hook my Atari 2600 up to the TV as well so she could play her old favorite, Q*bert.
One of the other seminarians is going to stay at my house over Easter break, since my house is an hour away while his is across the country, and staying at the seminary during breaks is awful; and both of us have really been wanting to play the new Zelda game, which all of the reviews are calling one of the best games ever made. We could get the Wii U version, since I already have a Wii U, but there’s other games coming out for the Switch which I also want to get (like Splatoon 2). Now, the Wii U option has two advantages over the Switch option: the Switch option would be an extra 300 bucks, and the Switch is still sold out everywhere.
To make a long story short, I’m very stubborn, and after driving all over town, he and I miraculously managed to find a Switch at the seventh store we went to this afternoon. I’m still in disbelief–the only place that had any was the busiest Walmart in town, on a Sunday afternoon. And they had four of them in stock! I was fully expecting a several-week odyssey of Switch hunting that would eventually end in defeat. We went to a Shopko where the person at the customer service desk was kind enough to check the stock of all the other Shopkos in town, and she said that in the initial (and only) delivery of Switches, most of their stores got a three consoles, and that was it. The GameStop we went to said they’ve only gotten one shipment so far and weren’t expecting a second one for weeks. I still don’t understand how that Walmart had four of them today.
So now I have this Switch sitting on my bed, and I’m having to resist the temptation to try it out. The way I’ve kept my hands off of it so far is telling myself I want to get a screen protector for it, and I can’t get fingerprints on it before I put one on. Luckily, the other guy bought the actual game, so he has that in his room. If I had the console and the game both, I don’t think any number of fingerprints could keep me from booting it up.
You are such a strong person. I’d have the curtains closed and at least a week cleared in the schedule.
Update: Breath of the Wild is incredible. I’ve never been so overwhelmed by the size and depth and mystery of a video game before. I really envy the kids who will be growing up playing this game. BOTW is like everything that Ocarina ever dreamed of being but couldn’t because of the limited technology. It’s like Skyrim but huger and filled with childish wonder and curiosity. (It really is bigger than Skyrim–the Skyrim map is about 6.8 by 5.4 km, while BOTW is 9 by 6.8. For reference, Ocarina was 1.4 by 1.) I’ve been scrupulous about avoiding spoilers–I never even watched any of the trailers. All of the puzzles I’ve figured out on my own, no walkthroughs, no hints. I’ve been running and climbing and paragliding around the map, running away from the giant monsters I’m way too weak yet to approach, finding Korok seeds and shrines and climbing towers and taming horses and inventing recipes. The artwork is breathtaking, the music is phenomenal. Play it. All the hype for this game made me get my hopes up pretty high, but the game exceeded them. I haven’t had much time with it yet–maybe ten or fifteen hours–so I can’t really rank it yet, but I’m not sure how this game could fail to become my favorite game of all time.