Once I'm able, I'll be upgrading to the new Dwarf Fortress, and having a bewildering time of it.

Anyone got any starter tips for No Man's Sky?

Just finished SOMA and stumbled on this article on longtermism during the last third of it. Weird coincidence.

I would recommend it, but it’s worth the caveat that the game mechanics are almost exactly the same as Amnesia - so light platforming and Rube Goldberg door locks are as “hard” as the play gets. The story is very good, though. Be sure to stick around for the end of the credits.

I kept seeing Inscryption make people's top 3 lists but would take one look at the screenshots and think "Not for me, I'm not a card/D&D dude". I eventually said fuck it though and downloaded it just to see what it was about and man, am I surprised. It's one of the most original games I've played in ages. It's a very dark and entertaining mix of horror, puzzle, and storytelling.
Indie games really are where it's at the past few years.

Gunfire Reborn is also fun if you want to veg out to some mindless shooting.

DrAwkward wrote: Mon Dec 26, 2022 6:50 pm Anyone got any starter tips for No Man's Sky?

Start in Relaxed mode. The minutiae of constantly needing to refuel everything just t survive in the normal mode was too much for me to have fun with. I restarted in relaxed mode and it was way more enjoyable. Otherwise just follow all the primary missions, and pick up secondary missions as you go and its enjoyable enough.

I keep on buying games on sale on Steam and then I install maybe half of them.

..and currently I blame Battlefield 1 for that. I bought it on sale (along with half of the internet it seems) and I'm having a fucking blast (sometimes literally). The last fpp multiplayer I played was Warzone but I either started to suck or something got screwed in the servers i was assign to but I had several games in which first dude I saw killed me, then a guy in gulag killed me - reapet 4 times, same thing on the next day, the gameplay time vs waiting for gameplay ratio was making it not worth playing as it's a battle royal game. I asking couldn't really improve as I was getting killed instantly.

So, BF1. Looks so fucking good, the single player campaign beats the COD WW2 (which is an absolute meh fest, Jesus) without seemingly trying too hard and the multiplayer is just heaps of fun, servers with low ping and full of player are available left and right. I'm constantly in awe at the graphics, it could be the best looking game I've ever played and it's from 2016 - how is this possible? That single player mission with planes and zeppelins over London during sun set? Holy smokes. If anybody of you fine PRFers has any interest in FPP shooters and sees this on sale (it was like 5ish dollars/euro I think) I really can't recommend it enough.

So when I'm not not shooting or getting shot en masse i do it on a slower pace in RDR2 - an obviously great game but really slow, more like a 'sip tea and enjoy the film' game, if it's a thing. Not a GTA V on wild west, which for some reason I thought it is.

Oh and it sucks that the GTA V has no additional single player content like GTA IV does, the map is fantastic and is begging for it. I tried playing online but I don't feel it at all.

I've also finished Alien Isolation, with something like a 6 months break. It needlessly long could have been re-cut (there is a piece in the middle which feels like a final and it would make for a better ending then the actual one), but the game more than makes up for it in the atmosphere and presentation. It feels like first Alien film but way more intense as you're the one trying to hide, and it honestly looks like it was made on Alien sets when the crew wasn't there. Easily the most scary game I've ever played.

emmanuelle cunt wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 3:13 amI keep on buying games on sale on Steam and then I install maybe half of them.

lol me too. Or more like I install it and play for an hour or so to see what it's about, so I have a dozen games running at once.

Recently checked out The Witcher 3 after seeing it praised a lot. Promising so far. Looks like the main story carries you through a somewhat open world. You can wander around the forest and pick flowers! To use for potions I suppose. Enemies kill you pretty quickly, fighting more than one at a time is not an option at this stage.

Played a little bit of Lost Words, midway between platformer and interactive storybook. Fun and relaxing, would recommend.

Also playing an action-platformer called Dex. Nice art, but looks like the combat can become repetitive.

Lost Horizon and Sinking Island - point and click adventures are among my favourites when they're done well. The previously mentioned The Uncertain: Light at the End would be one example. These two are alright. Tried another one called Mysterious Island which really had that wander around aimlessly for hours cliche and I got bored with it rather quickly. The cheap look of its GUI didn't help.

Got the first three Tomb Raider games for less than a dollar. Never actually played the third in its entirety. My experience has probably been diminished by reading so much about it and watching other people play it so that I know almost everything that will happen, but I must pay my respects.

Then there's Mirror's Edge and Deus Ex, mostly untouched as of yet.

I must get around to Alien:Isolation sometime. I have it here but it's never been top of the list. A guy I worked with was a programmer on it and he said it's great.

Also I got the latest two Tomb Raider games on sale!! Psyched.

People tell me that owning a Steam Deck changed their relationship to Steam. I too have hundreds of unplayed Steam games, which makes me suspicious about figures saying 90% or whatever of games sales is online now. Since I seem to acquire digital games without really meaning to, and they're often bundled with other things. I generally don't touch them because computer = work. Maybe with a Steam Deck I'd feel different.

Indie games really are where it's at the past few years.

Yeah, probably for the past 20. And the mainstream was much more "indie" before then. I guess indie games was always where it was at.

One of my favourite games from the arcade era is the original Wonder Boy, which was released by Sega but was actually created by a small startup called Escape (later rebranded Westone) who at the time had a staff of just three, smaller than most bands. The arcade game Gyruss was made for Konami by the great Yoshiki Okamoto, with so little company oversight that they were angry with the finished product because they had told him to make a car racing game and he just went off and did something else (a space ship game stuffed with five goddamn sound chips to blast out Bach's toccata).