Aja on 22/9/2019 at 05:02
Link’s Awakening *is* excellent, so if you haven’t played it before, I’d say get it, based on reviews that have said it’s basically exactly the same. I feel a bit less enthused about paying $80 for a game I’ve already played a couple times already, but we’ll see. I’ve got the goose game in the meantime, and it’s pretty much just what it’s been billed as (lol) all along. Its not the most fun to actually play, but it still cracks me up every time.
Renzatic on 22/9/2019 at 06:18
It's been at least a couple of decades since I last played through it, and it is one of my favorite games, so I figured that was enough for me to drop full price on it.
Though it's not exactly the same. There are a few tweaks and prods made to the base game to fill it out a little more, like, for instance, more secret seashells, enough heart pieces to fill out two full rows of hearts, and a redesigned Trendy Game that will piss you right slap the hell off with its ultra realistic crane physics. It's all little stuff, but enough to maybe pique your interest.
One thing I really like is how they mixed the old Gameboy soundtrack in alongside the orchestrated stuff for the dungeons. It's particularly good in the Face Shrine (it start 50 seconds in).
[video=youtube_share;0RrYJ5z-be8]https://youtu.be/0RrYJ5z-be8?list=PLwDEuPBgBi4MMgtkG59Tm4wZ5ZMX097Sb&t=50[/video]
And for reference...
[video=youtube_share;4X6UqQDmjBk]https://youtu.be/4X6UqQDmjBk?list=PLDF2556A8C45BF850[/video]
demagogue on 25/9/2019 at 04:53
Quote Posted by SubJeff
Noita is a physics driven sandbox... rougelike?
Anyway, looks cool. Will be following this. I liked the Swapper as far as I played it.
[video=youtube;ZBLoffoZLH8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBLoffoZLH8[/video]
This has now been released. I'm watching playthroughs and pretty into it ... not quite enough to pay $20 for early access. But I want to get it at some point.
Sulphur on 25/9/2019 at 05:51
I like how 90% of the game's probably about how much of a danger are you going to be to yourself. And I'm pretty fucking dangerous as is.
In other news, The Last of Us 2 is out in Feb next year.
[video=youtube;II5UsqP2JAk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II5UsqP2JAk[/video]
One of my peeves with Uncharted 4 was that it was obviously the result of strained development. Nate's brother ends up being not much of a foil (or in fact anything), and the dynamic with Elena went from her being essentially Skylar from Breaking Bad to... well, whatever that weirdness was. It's obviously a game that's too long, paced too loose, and the story and acting is unusually inert for a series that's usually full of rollercoaster Indiana Jones madness. I'm seeing some of that inertness translate to TLoU 2, where it probably fits better, but I'm hoping they've figured out the pacing this time.
Thirith on 25/9/2019 at 06:30
I hope the trailer is misleading and they're not just giving Ellie a girlfriend to kill her off or have her kidnapped. While I trust Naughty Dog to tell such a story well, it's still a tired trope, and it's not much less tired if the relationship in question is a lesbian one.
henke on 25/9/2019 at 07:10
Noita is looking very good. I'm really enjoying Environmental Station Alpha right now, it's by one of the Noita-devs. I'm not sure I'm into procedurally generated platformers tho. Neither Spelunky nor Dead Cells grabbed me. Will have to watch some let's plays of this to feel it out.
RE: TLOU 2. I am so hyped for it I don't even wanna watch the trailer.
Quote Posted by Sulphur
[Uncharted 4] is obviously a game that's too long, paced too loose, and the story and acting is unusually inert for a series that's usually full of rollercoaster Indiana Jones madness.
Agreed, but if it's any consolation, the pacing in Uncharted: The Lost Legacy was much tighter.
edit: OK YOU ALL TALKED ME INTO IT I'M BUYING NOITA
Pyrian on 25/9/2019 at 13:29
The original game should now be known as The First of the Last of Us.
Renault on 25/9/2019 at 14:09
TLOU2 - Looks like a really standard revenge story, which can be fun but yes, very cliched. I trust ND will mix it up a bit and make it interesting somehow. The only real bummer is its looking to be about 90% Ellie and only 10% Joel.
But even so, yeah, here, please take my 60 bucks.
Thirith on 25/9/2019 at 14:12
As far as I'm concerned, the stories that Naughty Dog tells have always been clichéd, but their characterisation is always solid, bolstered by great performances, and there's surprising nuance in the main characters. I buy the characters, more so than in most AAA games, and for me that largely makes up for their other flaws in storytelling. But yes, I do hope we're not just going to get a simple revenge story, and I definitely hope we're not going to get a facile fridging of Ellie's girlfriend.
demagogue on 25/9/2019 at 14:26
Ah for a second Noita reminded me when that dynamically Falling Sand browser game came out ages ago and we all played around with it and posted links to our creations and by far the craziest one was by Para?noid -- it was this black and blue contortion of collapsing twigs and sprangles that looked like a tortured & fractured mirror into his broken soul -- and I said something like that's the most fucked up thing I've seen in a long while, meaning that actually as a compliment. I was awestruck by it. But the guy is so sensitive he immediately deleted it and I didn't even take a screenshot or anything so all I have is my distant memory of it and now it's gone forever. :( Sorry, I just got all nostalgic. That's the first memory that came to me though.