What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

  On 12/8/2016 at 3:35 PM, jaderpansen said:

 

  On 7/16/2016 at 8:09 AM, jaderpansen said:

 

  On 7/16/2016 at 6:11 AM, sweepstakes said:

The world would be a better place if every man, woman, and child beat at least the first challenge of TIS-100.

 

oooh you remind me i'm stuck at 9 programs after about 11 hours of gameplay since half a year XP... should really try to get back into it, does a really great job at making you feel like a genius when you finally see those numbers flow, especially when you're actually borderline dyscalculiac like me XP... absolutely beautiful game (including demure visual aesthetics)!

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wasn't the first segment like literally just mov-ing numbers straight to outlets, tho?

 

planning to gift my humble self its spiritual successor for christmas:

 

http://www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io/

 

Damn, I heard about this but didn't bother to check it out because I wanted to finish TIS-100 first. This looks awesome, though! I put TIS-100 down for a few months and solved one more puzzle a couple weeks ago. I'm most of the way through the main set of puzzles but the graphics stuff is making my head hurt. Plus I keep giving into the temptation to optimize my old stuff, heh.

I think the first exercise was literally just a MOV. A lot of these are not going to appeal to people who aren't coders or aspiring coders, and I'm sure even a majority of coders would think they were a waste of time. But it's a great little minimal environment for developing a mental model of what computers are doing under the hood, and building complexity up from very simple atomic components like you do in TIS-100 is something I think everyone should experience. 

completely agree!

like i said i'm a total noob but that makes it all the more satisfying when things finally get goin, specially cos these aren't puzzles you can just trial n error your way through, it has to be within you first and that's a most beautiful feeling indeed!

i made my intentions true and managed to solve "signal edge detector" in actually quite a short time recently, funny what an off-time and a fresh mind suddenly can do. it didnt even seem very hard this time although a year ago or so i just couldn't get behind it for the life of me and instead skipped right to "sequence reverser" and "signal multiplyer" which i did manage, so now i finally unlocked those graphic puzzles! the first was rather simple but now i'm stuck again lol... optimizing is out of the question atm, totally happy if i get stuff done at all XP...

shenzhen is supposed to be easier, a reason for critique from some hardcore zachtronic-heads apparently... but i guess that'll make it even more up my messy little ally :P

  On 12/8/2016 at 9:35 AM, Friendly Foil said:

The Switch All Nintendo consoles sure will have a lot of old games on it.

Fixed that for ya

switch appeared live on jimmy fallon (ugh) and demonstrated wee bit of new zelda. hard to say cos the event was very orchestrated and maybe it was just a nice tucked in little corner of the map where not much was happening .. but .. the frame rate seemed FINE ??? *hype intensifies again*

i just want to play skyrim with full VR intergration

Anyone try that Let It Die that's free with PS+ this month? It's pretty weird, like Dark Souls on crack but it's kinda intriguing once you figure out the quirks.

  On 12/9/2016 at 6:13 AM, ghOsty said:

Anyone try that Let It Die that's free with PS+ this month? It's pretty weird, like Dark Souls on crack but it's kinda intriguing once you figure out the quirks.

it's free to play, you don't need PS+ - you'll realise how brutal the monetisation system is the further up the tower you get

I do like it, some stuff needs polishing (like TDM) but it's good fun. Up to 12th floor at the moment. My main concern is what happens once a player reaches the 40th floor, there needs to be some end-game to convince me to bother climbing to the top.

Combat is a bit drab too

  On 12/9/2016 at 5:23 AM, bitroast said:

switch appeared live on jimmy fallon (ugh) and demonstrated wee bit of new zelda. hard to say cos the event was very orchestrated and maybe it was just a nice tucked in little corner of the map where not much was happening .. but .. the frame rate seemed FINE ??? *hype intensifies again*

 

7:19 - running down off that plateau thing. choppy as fuck. 

Owlboy is so nice 

It sounds like Super Mario Run needs a constant internet connection to function, wtf is the point of a single player mobile game you can't play while flying and traveling? I'm hoping there's a slim chance it will still work.

  On 12/10/2016 at 2:03 AM, Rubin Farr said:

It sounds like Super Mario Run needs a constant internet connection to function, wtf is the point of a single player mobile game you can't play while flying and traveling? I'm hoping there's a slim chance it will still work.

I don't see the problem? Aren't most phones on 4G/3G pretty much constantly?

  On 12/10/2016 at 11:34 AM, Squee said:

 

  On 12/10/2016 at 2:03 AM, Rubin Farr said:

It sounds like Super Mario Run needs a constant internet connection to function, wtf is the point of a single player mobile game you can't play while flying and traveling? I'm hoping there's a slim chance it will still work.

I don't see the problem? Aren't most phones on 4G/3G pretty much constantly?

Living in a remote area or traveling overseas where there is no roaming partner

The majority of the time I play mobile games is on the underground - So if no offline play then it's not an option for me ...

  On 12/11/2016 at 12:44 AM, mcbpete said:

The majority of the time I play mobile games is on the underground - So if no offline play then it's not an option for me ...

it sounds like it eats up a lot of data as well:

http://gonintendo.com/stories/270089-rumor-super-mario-run-will-require-75-megabytes-of-data-per-ho

umm. wtf. *psyduck* 

that's garbage if true :^( 

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Nintendo.

  On 12/11/2016 at 10:37 AM, Friendly Foil said:

Nintendo.

Super Nintendo World theme park opening at Universal Studios Japan, hopefully the US parks get a version someday

http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/12/13917478/super-nintendo-world-theme-park-date-location

Elder scrolls legends is an extremely addicting guilty pleasure. It fills that magic-the-gathering-sized hole in the secluded regions of my being

  On 12/10/2016 at 2:03 AM, Rubin Farr said:

It sounds like Super Mario Run needs a constant internet connection to function, wtf is the point of a single player mobile game you can't play while flying and traveling? I'm hoping there's a slim chance it will still work.

That was their typical backwards Nintendo way to combat piracy.... smh

  On 12/13/2016 at 4:59 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 12/10/2016 at 2:03 AM, Rubin Farr said:

It sounds like Super Mario Run needs a constant internet connection to function, wtf is the point of a single player mobile game you can't play while flying and traveling? I'm hoping there's a slim chance it will still work.

That was their typical backwards Nintendo way to combat piracy.... smh

 

But, isn't piracy bad?

I swear Hyrule has the most unstable political system in all of gaming, their kingdom collapses in every damn game!

So the last guardian came out and didnt even realise? Anyone played it?

  On 12/14/2016 at 2:01 PM, messiaen said:

So the last guardian came out and didnt even realise? Anyone played it?

been on the fence, apparently it's quite the time capsule - dodgy graphics and awful controls (much like Ico and SotC) mar it. I'll probably wait for a sale or summit.

i'm just kind of disenfranchised at the whole situation .. being a big fan of the ps2 games when they came out .. of the third game being in development for however many years, during the entire ps3 generation it seems ?? buying a ps4 when it came out and being a good little sony faithful :^) and having last guardian come out and run at ~10-30 unstable FPS apparently ??? but run at stable 30 FPS on the newly released PS4 Pro ???

it's like ??? faark. ??? wtf. that's so crazy and wild to me ???

i'm definitely waiting for the price to drop. i wanna get behind the game and check it out .. support it :^) ... but man. that shit's holding me back for now. hopefully it'll get patched and improved or something in the mean time.