Ciaphas posted:

Played Ori and loved it

Nate RFB posted:

I'd call 1/2 Genie Hero's controls "responsive to almost a fault", it's all very sharp and snappy moving around but I definitely have to be careful to not be too twitchy. I've had a couple of spots of trouble trying to time some very specific jumps because even the slightest bit of movement was causing me to drop when I didn't want to. In general though it feels very good! I do wish Shantae jumped a bit higher, there's been a few sections where I've had to transform into the monkey for literally one random platform and that's kind of a drag for the 1-2 seconds it takes to do the transformation when you're only in that form for the jump alone. In terms of speed it's probably somewhere in the middle between Ori and Shovel Knight, though I'm not sure I'd be able to notice much of a difference.

I've been revisiting levels a lot to see if any new powers are unlocking new sections and surprisingly that has been rather slow going, it seems like I'll take a step forward and two steps back. Like you get the crab transformation to go underwater, but then every underwater section in the first world also requires one or two other upgrades.

chumbler posted:

This is pretty accurate to my experience with the game. Very snappy is a good way to describe it, and led to my only real complaint with the game control-wise, which was that jumping between moving rings was trickier than it maybe should have been because a slight twitch would mean missing. Until getting basically the space jump I'd often just run around in monkey form for the better jumping, and I think it was slightly faster as well.

The exploration I didn't really have a problem with once I got a better feel for the one or two big maps per world. I think I still couldn't find one of the heart containers at the end, though.

Edit: I still wish Shantae had a Mega Man X dash, but I wish that of literally every platformer.

Adam Bowen posted:

It's extremely good but it makes me really sad to see the huge backlash against it because they dared to charge loving $10 for it, as if that's unreasonable because the app store is full of garbage that only costs $1

Guy Mann posted:

There's nothing in the description on iTunes that says that you have to pay $10 to unlock everything past the intro aside from a single * off towards the bottom that you have to go out of your way to expand to read, I think getting upset that a game lists itself as free and then once you've gone to the trouble of downloading and installing it goes "PSYCHE! Pay up, sucker." is perfectly reasonable.

Real hurthling! posted:

what xmas movies is everybody planning on watching? i'm a scrooged guy

bloodychill posted:

Elf, Scrooged, and Christmas Vacation. Maybe some Home Alone. Christmas Story used to be my favorite but I've seen it too many times since TNT did the 24 hours of Christmas Story thing.

Lobok posted:

In this update on a Twilight Zone classic, a man relishes his newly post-apocalyptic wasteland of a town to be able to catch up on playing videogames, but just before he sits down to start playing them he realizes his generator is has run out of diesel.

Jay Rust posted:

What are some 2017 releases to look forward to?

WickedHate posted:

I have a PS4. I am thrilled with it. It is a wonderful machine and there are several games I'm excited to play on it, eventually. However, what I really, really want right now is to play Vanquish. Can I get it from the Playstation Store? Will it work? If not, I'll cry, probably.

WickedHate posted:

Maybe. Why?

Lurdiak posted:

I'm playing the new world of warcraft expansion and I'm sad that you can't get demon hunter weapons that don't look like gigantic cosplay props. There's all these demon hunter npcs in Burning Crusade that have sensible sized weapons but all you get to use is



Like c'mon now.

Snak posted:

The problem with lowering the difficulty is that is would just make the game lovely. If the game were "easier", you could get through it just by spamming R1. Everyone would do this. 90% of players. People would be like "this game is a repetitive bore-fest. The gameplay of forcing you to learn different tactics and how to use them effectively IS the game. Turn-based souls would be the worst turn-based RPG ever. It's okay if souls games aren't for you. People like different things. The solution is not to make those things try to appeal to everyone.

Snak posted:

It would be bad for the game. People would think the game was shittier. It would get worse reviews, and it would sell less. It would take developement time away from making the good part of the game good to make a shittier version of the game so that people who aren't interested in the challenge, the core element of the game can experience... what, the graphics?

The challenge is the game. A less challenging version is literally a different game.

edit: basically I disagree that options are always good.

Gio posted:

hope this is a decent thread to post this!

My fiance and I are looking to buy either a PS4 or an Xbox One and could use some advice on which to buy. I lean toward the latter, my fiance the former. Given that I haven’t purchased a system since 2001 when I bought a PS2, I could use some help.

I’ll try to be as brief as possible…

• I do not give a poo poo about most of the exclusive games either system has. Shooters are dumb and are for manchildren. VR is dumb, too, I have no interest. Not really interested in Kinect and whatever the Sony equivalent to it is.
  
• Right now we play games on Steam, which is why I lean toward Xbox One. Can we play Steam games directly on the Xbox One, or is the only advantage that we can use the controller to play steam games (and emulated games)?
  
• We play games on steam on her computer but it has difficulty playing most games. (She is getting a new laptop soon.) She likes to watch me play horror games like Amnesia, Outlast, and Layers of Fear. Though I haven’t played much of anything recently, I like a lot of dumb retro indie games on Steam like Braid, Rochard, Ori and the Blind Forest, Trine etc. I also like Zelda-esque adventure games; those are cool. I’m a big Portal fan as well. Are a lot of steam games like the ones above available for download on Xbox and PS4’s marketplaces?
  
• We don’t have a blu-ray player, but we definitely would play blu-ray movies if we had the chance.
  
• We have a (new) Apple TV for our multimedia needs.

Not sure it would make a difference if we got either one. I almost think just getting a better computer is the best option, but I really loving hate the effort of hooking up my laptop, booting up everything etc. I want a console. My fiance is getting a new laptop so we’ll probably end up doing both.

FirstAidKite posted:

Ostentatious posted:

did everyone hear that tracer (from the video game overwatch by blizzard entertainment) is a lesbian??

Cardboard Box A posted:

Preorder Bonus: man squatting to poop figurine