What are you playing right now? VI

[Shade667]

Cant wait for Smite to come to consoles.
Been wanting to try it. That and Dota 2. Want to play more MOBAS after sinking 500+ hours into Awesomenauts.

[Job McYossie]

Alright well I'll give you warning now: Awesomenauts, while not a lie, it is an awesome game, feels incredibly different than any other moba I've played, so don't expect smite or DoTA 2 to feel quite the same.

[Crashpunk]

I can't imagine playing a Moba like Dota or Smite on a console. Those games work so perfectly on a Keyboard.

[Job McYossie]

I can fairly easily imagine Smite, top downs like DotA or LoL though, no.

[Manco]

You guys are trolling me, right?

This thread is just the perfect breeding ground for spin-off discussions. “Hey I’m playing [game]” “hey I like [game] what do you think of it” etc.

Discussions about games spawn much more naturally when they get mentioned here than if people go out of their way to post a separate thread about it.

The first and second Spyro games are awesome. (3rd was also great but I didn't care for the multiple characters angle) I still love the first game the most because of the dialogues from saved dragons and the gnorcs who mooned you in the second world. I think I need to replay Spyro 1 right now actually.

You’re maybe one of like two people I’ve seen who list the first game as their favorite. Personally I prefer the third – not so much because of the characters themselves, but because there feels like there’s more personality and humor in the game. #2 is probably the best from a pure gameplay perspective though.

The only PS2 spyro game I really liked was Dawn of the Dragon, the final one before Skylanders.

The Legend trilogy is awful though. Who thought a purple dragon voiced by Elijah Wood would be taken seriously?

[Nate]

Discussions about games spawn much more naturally when they get mentioned here than if people go out of their way to post a separate thread about it.

Oh, certainly. It's just that it's never happened three times in as many days before.

[Shade667]

Alright well I'll give you warning now: Awesomenauts, while not a lie, it is an awesome game, feels incredibly different than any other moba I've played, so don't expect smite or DoTA 2 to feel quite the same.

I hardly expect it to feel the same as a 2D platformer. But the strategy and teamplay is unlike anything Ive played before. And Ive watched probably a hundred hours of Dota, so It wont be a blind jump.
And GoME (Guardians of Midle Earth) was a top down moba like LOL, and that apparently worked fine on consoles. I never played it. I was one of the few who stuck with nauts on PS3 while everyone moved on to GoME, at least until the PS4 version dropped.

[Mr. Bungle]

Playing Cave Story and loving it. But goddamn did the difficultly suddenly ramp up. 3 bosses in a row with no checkpoints? Jesus Christ, I've been spoiled.

[Manco]

That’s when you fight the witch, then the doctor twice if I remember rightly? For some reason the entire rest of the game is reasonable, but right there they decide “naw man fuck the player”.

[MeechMunchie]

My favourite thing about Cave Story is that all the music is written in a MIDI-style format, so you can get sheets in twenty seconds if you have the right programs.

[Mac Sirloin]

You’re maybe one of like two people I’ve seen who list the first game as their favorite. Personally I prefer the third – not so much because of the characters themselves, but because there feels like there’s more personality and humor in the game. #2 is probably the best from a pure gameplay perspective though.

I have a lot of Nostalgia for Spyro 1 - It's one of the first games I remember playing (at my Grandmother's friend's Apartment) I also tried Tomb Raider but the wolves freaked my adorable 8 year old self out. The third game feels much bigger, and I think the story was better than average for your typical kids game. Come to think of it, the only character I didn't really like was the penguin, I thought his levels were tedious. The yeti/Monkey with a laser gun levels were great though.


I'm playing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, except not 3D because that's a waste of money. The farthest I've progressed in Ocarina before this point was getting to Goron City and then losing interest. I can appreciate why this game is so lauded, I was sure it was just a collective nostalgia but it's just so good. It strikes me as a well thought out, meticulously designed game. I'm at the dreaded water temple now.

Does anyone here own a Wii U? I've been thinking about getting one. A year ago I'd have scoffed at the idea but considering the big holiday seller for Xbone seems to be Sunset 'literally sonic the hedgehog with guns' Overdrive and Bloodborne won't be out for another four months on PS4, I think now's a good time to invest in a Wii U. So sell me whydon'tyou.

[OANST]

I'm considering getting one for Abbey for Christmas/birthday, but no, I don't have one. I played the Mario Kart for WiiU at my girlfriend's cousin's house, and it's hands down one of the best Mario Karts ever made. That's the only thing I can say about it, though.

[Mac Sirloin]

That's just it, all of those Nintendo games whose name I recognize look really good and the latest Smash Bros. game really impressed me, apart from the shitbox netcode.
I'm at a point where everything Sony or Microsoft churns out comes across as cynical or derivative. Sunset Overdrive seems to be 'Huh he ho woah there duderino! Looks like you're not used to pretty games, wooooah I'm so wacky! Anarchy in the UK WEEEEEEEE!' Like typing that right there literally made me vomit blood.
There's some kind of hubbub about this turd circus called Lords of The Fallen which seems to be chunks of Warcraft, Dark Souls and Darksiders superglued together by a bunch of fat polish guys. I watched a Livestream of the developers playing it and all they talked about was 'the amazing graphics' and the crafting system that only the mightiest of pantshitting spergs would even scrutinize. Ignoring the fact that the game was horribly dark and drab like a cobblestone diarrhea, it just looked boring. As. Shit. And it will sell millions.
Oh, and then there's this shit.

Note that there's not an inkling of self awareness or intentional humor in that trailer, if you care to watch it. I have no doubt in my mind that the people who made this got together, made a list of things they thought were extra cool, drew a picture of the protagonist and then avoided each others gaze as flashbacks of being stuffed into lockers crossed their minds simultaneously.


Then I checked out what's hot on the Wii U. All of it is vibrant, tons of color, no cynicism and a lot of titles seem to be designed for local multiplayer (remember that?). So yeah, I'mma getta Wii U. Seeing what people are hyped up for on PS4 and Xbone was just depressing.

[OANST]

Oh, and then there's this shit.

Note that there's not an inkling of self awareness or intentional humor in that trailer, if you care to watch it. I have no doubt in my mind that the people who made this got together, made a list of things they thought were extra cool, drew a picture of the protagonist and then avoided each others gaze as flashbacks of being stuffed into lockers crossed their minds simultaneously.

Yeah, I've seen that. It feels to me like it's just a very cynical attempt to turn what most people do in Grand Theft Auto into a full game. It looks disgusting.

[Crashpunk]

I use my Wii U quite a lot. It's a great little console which is really fun to use. I mainly use it for Mario Kart and Hyrule Warriors. Both fantastic games.

[Varrok]

Pointing out Hatred game as bad without pointing out every other (more) popular game that literally does the same but maybe a 5% more subtle or with just a bit more humor is nonsensical. The problem does not lie within that particular game, its been done and done and done before, it's a major part of the industry. The game does not do anything worse than these other games. As if a joke or two justified mass murder.

[OANST]

Killing civilians is usually not the object of a game. You can do it in a lot of games, but there are typically consequences. This just feels more like an actual murder simulator than what's out there.

[Varrok]

Sometimes there are consequences, so what? There's Assassin's Creed where you lose after killing three innocent people. That means you can kill two who particularly annoyed you. There are games like PAYDAY: The Heist (Ontopic: Which is a good L4D-based game. It's about heists, and paydays, and it's pretty neat) which give you time penalty for killing innocent people which doesn't have any bad consequences for me so far whatsoever.

By the way, you can mass murder "guilty" people in those games. It's good, it makes you progress. Of course it's the game that tells you who to kill. Why is that any better? It's not.

However. I like it. I like killing people in games. It's fun. That's the point. So, as long as Hatred is fun... who gives a shit whether I kill 'innocent' polygons or not?

[OANST]

Caaaaaalllllmmmmm dooooooowwwwwwwnnnnnnn,

I'm not carrying a pitchfork, and I'm not screaming about it. I find making a game where the object is to kill as many innocent people as possible, with no irony, with no subtext, to be kind of gross, and callous, and overly cynical. I don't, however, think it should be banned, or that you shouldn't play it if you want to. I prefer games that mix atmosphere, mechanics, and story together in a way that is fun for me. This is clearly not the game for me.

[Varrok]

To be honest my comments are aimed more at Mac rather than you, as he posted the link. It feels wrong and hypocritical to use this game as an example, for the reasons I stated. Also, the developers wanted to stir a controversy, by doing that you (Mac) can only do what they expected you to do.

I don't really find it visually or thematically gross. Just stupid. But many fun games are stupid

[OANST]

Yeah.... but doing something to create controversy is boring, and stupid. Who knows. Maybe the gameplay is fun. But I would have a hard time looking past the distaste that I feel for the people who made it. But we all remember that about me from the Armikrog conversation, I would think.

[Varrok]

I forgot about that. You've just made me remember it again.

[OANST]

At gun point. With my cock in your mouth.

[Varrok]

You're lucky you're no prostitute.

[OANST]

pew pew skeet skeet

This whole gun and sex thing needs to spill over into everything.

[Job McYossie]

This is clearly not the game for me.

That's how I looked at it. I don't think it's particularly bad or that people who enjoy should be looked down upon, I just don't think it looks like fun.

[Shade667]

I got a Wii-U day one. To have it when Monster hunter Tri Ultimate came out 4 months later.
Ill probably get smash bros. Not straigth away though. Got too much to play on PS4.

[MeechMunchie]

That's how I looked at it. I don't think it's particularly bad or that people who enjoy should be looked down upon, I just don't think it looks like fun.

In its defense, it does have guns in it.

[Mac Sirloin]

Going by what you've said: The developers wanted to make a product that is controversial for no other purpose than being controversial. You see nothing wrong with this?
I'm not faulting it for letting you kill civilians. Personally, I've been bored of open world games like that for a few years now and desensitized to that kind of havoc for a solid ten years.
I'm faulting it because it looks derivative, cynical and limited. I think the developers thought 'hey let's make a dark game about mass murder' and did not develop the idea beyond that point. They engineered something that people would want to talk about, but absolutely nothing else.
Plenty of stupid games are fun. Jesus, I think cookie clicker is fun, and that is literally just clicking for cookies. I don't think Hatred looks fun, I think it looks boring and whatever glee or rush or boner a person will get from playing it will rapidly dissipate when it dawns on them that there is nothing to the game except appearing controversial.

If I thought an ounce of originality or clever design existed in Hatred, I would not be writing this post. If Hatred looked good visually, or had some neat mechanic or hook I'd give it a pass. It does none of these things for me. I think it's a creative void and you shouldn't encourage nothing-products made by fat cynical bastards.

Also, the developers wanted to stir a controversy, by doing that you (Mac) can only do what they expected you to do.

Dang, they really checkmated me by convincing me not to buy their dumb fucking game! DARN!

If you like the look of Hatred I'm not going to question that. Different strokes for different folks, Varrok, and again I play cookie clicker. It's beyond inane and I am playing it constantly. I don't think I'm taking the moral high ground by not playing Hatred, rather (and this is what I was getting at in the post I linked the trailer in) I'm at a point where games that are dark and violent, regardless of intellectual or credible quality, don't stimulate or interest me. I'm just looking for something different than what the majority of the industry seems to be selling titles on, that's all.

[Crashpunk]

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