Just completed - The Bear and Badger

regmcfly

Anyway,I'm onto cibele now because I'm a rampant sjw

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regmcfly wrote:

Just been broken by Emily Is Away. It's a free game on steam that will take you 20 minutes to play, but it nailed a lot of personal shit. The years ar uni in the game completely line up with mine and the situation in it is very similar to mine. The way the game gets more and more manipulative is great. Worth it, but I guarantee a lot of you will hate it.

We do actually have a thread for that game. But it's slipped down the pages. Chuck your thoughts here, mate.

regmcfly

That's Cibele popped. Some real nasty stuff, felt incredibly invasive popping around the desktop, but dealt with love and relationships and shitty people in a real interesting way. Is only £2.99 on Steam atm

Bollockoff

Hentaiphd wears tacky Sailor Moon/Card Captor Sakura fashion so I don't have to so it's only fair I show support.

regmcfly

That's the spirit

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Life Is Strange --

Played over the course of about 2 months -- I really enjoyed it overall, a few iffy sections and flat spots in the story but I really enjoyed the setting - the campus sections in the early chapters reminded me of Bully, which I loved.

JRPC

TheDJR wrote:

Journey The closest thing I've ever played to a Studio Ghibli film. Beautiful, joyous little game. 9 magical feels out of 10 non-games. Walking Dead was still GOTY though.

Never played No Ni Kuni then?

Couldn't finish Journey.

Yawney, more like.

hylian_elf

Never trust someone who has a Gamgertag.

TheDJR

JRPC wrote:

TheDJR wrote:

Journey The closest thing I've ever played to a Studio Ghibli film. Beautiful, joyous little game. 9 magical feels out of 10 non-games. Walking Dead was still GOTY though.

Never played No Ni Kuni then?

Couldn't finish Journey.

Yawney, more like.

I own Ni No Kuni and no, of course I haven't played it.

Blue Swirl

Yoshi's Woolly World

Absolutely fantastic stuff. If you've been a bit disappointed with Nintendo platformers recently being far too easy, this one'll challenge you nicely. While you can use badges to take the edge off levels, they cost in-game currency, so there's an incentive not to rely on them too much. Additionally, there's no life system and just the right number of check points to stop this feeling frustrating...

... mostly. It does come unraveled (ah ha ha) towards the end, with some teeth grindingly hard insta-death situations. There's also a few sections that confuse "obscure" with "challenging". I spent quite a while on many a level running around trying everything I could think of to move forward in a maze. Finding the random wall that's actually not a wall after 20 minutes of going around in circles feels like artificial padding.

Still, stonking over all, and if you're planning on 100%ing this, be prepared for a long haul. Some of the later levels are not generous with their secrets.

[9] balls of yarn towards [10] needed to knit a new Yoshi.

Gamermike

I generally liked my time with Yoshi, but it became very frustrating towards the end.

I quickly realised I wouldn't have the patience to 100% everything beyond World 2. Its a solid platformer though.

Blue Swirl

Gamermike wrote:

I quickly realised I wouldn't have the patience to 100% everything beyond World 2.

Yeah, some of the balls of yarn in the later levels, hoo boy. Split second stuff, and if you stuff it up you'll be dead and back to the last checkpoint.

Aaroncupboard

So I finished the main missions in Assassin's Creed Syndicate. I have also finished the majority of the open world activities and I will intend to 100% the gane. As for the story missions, absolutely fantastic. The characters were excellent (with Evie Frye being an outstanding character) and the story worked really well. The missions were the most enjoyable set of missions in any Assassin's Creed. The stealth worked a treat and the combat was surprisingly fun. The locations were also fantastic, with some iconic landmarks used particularly well.

Match the great missions with the Victorian London setting and I would argue that this is the best Assassin's Creed yet. Absolutely loved it.

TheDJR

Aaroncupboard wrote:

this is the best Assassin's Creed yet

An indie developer dies whenever someone says that.

Blue Swirl

I can only assume 'best Assassin's Creed' means 'not total dog poo'. The original and III were both utter shite, IMHO.

Facewon

TheDJR wrote:

Aaroncupboard wrote:

this is the best Assassin's Creed yet

An indie developer dies whenever someone says that.

Lol. And kittens.

They'd want to get the fucking thing right eventually.

Let's all take a moment to remember that ubi made 2.5 amazing prince of persias 2 gens ago. With little flab either.

Bob

1 Amazing one.

Facewon

First = great.

Second = average and a bit broken. And with bad music.

Third = really fucking great. All told.

Blue Swirl

Facewon wrote:

First = great. Second = average and a bit broken. And with bad music. Third = really fucking great. All told.

I hope you're talking about Prince of Persia rather than Assassin's Creed. Cos if not I'm asking that you be banned. For blasphemy.

Aaroncupboard

Assassin's Creed has been pretty good for a while now! After the awful Number 3, Blag Flag, Unity and Syndicate have been really, really good.

And just like that, a thousand indie developers cried out in terrible pain...

Facewon

I got black flag free with bone. It's HUD kills baby seals with hacksaws.

Facewon

And yes, Swirl, pop.

Although I quite enjoyed the first ass creed. Flawed tho it was.

b0r1s

Never fully played with Ass. Got the latest one for free so will probably play it by the end of the year. I think I could never get into them as they always felt a bit too on rails at the beginning with hand holding tutorial mission.

Blue Swirl

Aaroncupboard wrote:

Assassin's Creed has been pretty good for a while now! After the awful Number 3, Blag Flag, Unity and Syndicate have been really, really good.

Hmm. OK, if I see Black Flag for cheap I'll grab that. But if it's as poo as 1 and 3, I'm sending you a cat turd in the post.

Facewon wrote:

And yes, Swirl, pop. Although I quite enjoyed the first ass creed. Flawed tho it was.

Thank feck. The first AC showed real potential, they've just yet to deliver on it. (IMHO, YMMV.)

TheDJR

Black Flag is horrendous until you get a ship a few hours in, so bad that I was furiously angry by that point and didn't play it again.

Bollockoff

Imagine if they'd had the confidence to drop the shitty branding and make a game just about being a Welsh pirate.

Bollockoff

And you're on a quest to collect all the sea shanties of the seven seas.

Bollockoff

Your frequent rivals sometimes allies are the Cornish Covers. Extra mature seadogs.

Bollockoff

Certain shanties are "magical" and change the direction of the wind if you fucking must.

Bob

The sailing was vastly over rated.

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