Sleeping Lesson
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That sucks. Working retail is something I will be happy to never, ever do again. Stay strong!
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Giant Bomb #25 | A Fun Time with Friends
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That sucks. Working retail is something I will be happy to never, ever do again. Stay strong!
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Alright, 85% done with the GOTY thread. Now gotta write the foreward, steal credit daydream and ren by using their buttons and introductory banner, and this is a thread..
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Minesweeper, Solitair, Space Cadet, Ski Free, Spider Solitair, the pipes screensaver, Snake, Uno and Settlers of Catan
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Thank you for your work with that Breezy!
What are our rules going to be? Open winner talk in that thread, one day grace period in here? I'm not really concerned about GOTY "spoilers", but we'll have two threads.
What are our rules going to be? Open winner talk in that thread, one day grace period in here? I'm not really concerned about GOTY "spoilers", but we'll have two threads.
nckillthegrimace
Member
I got used to the controls, but, yeah, they totally break down when the game gets fast. I have had the game read a swipe down to drop as a drop and a rotate way too many times, which is extremely annoying.
ratcliffja
Member
Brothers is an awesome game. So is Inside. I can't really defend Undertale or The Last Of Us though.
But it's ART!
Yeah, Brad can be just as weird as Jeff but at least he's kinda consistent. I really don't get his love for Inside, Brothers and Grow Home. His arguments for the latter on the list were super hyperbolic to me. This game has two mechanics and he calls it the savior of platformer games or something. Like what? GO AND PLAY MARIO GALAXY 1&2 BRADLEY.
Undertale is amazing imho, both as a standard-ass video game story WITH A TWIST and (the bit I like more) as a deconstruction of the 100% mentality. Last of Us I can take or leave.
Brothers seriously did jack all for me. It felt cloyingly manipulative.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Hey, I like Grow Home!
Brothers was good enough to keep me entertained the
OMG your brother DIED!
Inside is just....nothing. It's like I played nothing. They should have called it Nothing - The Game.
ratcliffja
Member
Undertale is incredibly difficult though. I don't think I'll ever finish it.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
In the GOTY thread I've put a notice to spoiler tag anything till atleast Next monday, in this thread tho...idk. I suppose we can talk spoilers in here without tags?
I like Grow Home too. It's cute and sure, it's refreshing, but it's like a comic in a newspaper. It might make you smile but one of the best games of the year? I bet he rallied behind the game because he got all the achievements thanks to mindlessly collecting stuff. He loves that for some reason.
broncobuster
Banned
Brothers did some interesting things mechanically. I liked it. Same with Limbo. Inside just felt very shallow as a game. Every puzzle felt like, I immediately know the solution, now there's busy work to solve it.
ratcliffja
Member
Inside has incredible level design and an amazing art style. The puzzles are really fun and imaginitive. It's probably not for those who need a ton of action.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Hmm, I dunno! I'm really not particular about it, but some folks might be.
Human Trashcan
Banned
Yeah same, it doesn't do any work at all to make you give a shit about the brothers. I only made it about halfway through, didn't care enough to finish it, but I read about what happens.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Yeah, hopefully we'll be able to relegate GOTY talk to the GOTY thread and not...talk about it in here.
ratcliffja
Member
OK Jeff.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I'm probably gonna skip the thread during the GOTY podcasts. I can't listen to them on Day 1 and not knowing who wins is half the fun.
I don't need a ton of action tho. Abzü is among my favourite games this year and I generally love P'n'C games. Inside looks great, I agree, but everything else is just...meh. And despite being short it still feels like they artifically lengthened the game. Everything after the
until you
felt like it was just thrown together.
I don't need a ton of action tho. Abzü is among my favourite games this year and I generally love P'n'C games. Inside looks great, I agree, but everything else is just...meh. And despite being short it still feels like they artifically lengthened the game. Everything after the
submarine
got back into the labs
Human Trashcan
Banned
Fuck, I need to reevaluate everything
But in all seriousness, I wasn't enjoying the game much up to that point, I stopped playing it well before I heard about what happens in it, I didn't go looking for that information.
ratcliffja
Member
Funny that the part you put spoilers for wasn't a spoiler for me but the latter was. Oh well.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Brothers is a game that has SOMETHING TERRIBLE AND TRAGIC WILL HAPPEN written all over it. It was really hard to get invested in it because of this.
Well, if it makes you feel better I was actually wrong and what I wrote isn't actually in the game. And this isn't me saying "Uhm, actually Darth Vader ISN'T Luk's father haha", this is actually true
Well, if it makes you feel better I was actually wrong and what I wrote isn't actually in the game. And this isn't me saying "Uhm, actually Darth Vader ISN'T Luk's father haha", this is actually true
Cause it's offices and not labs
Pretty much how I feel about most modern mainstream games. Just busywork to get you from showpiece to showpiece, and/or to fill bars.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
aren't all games busywork
whether it's doom having to kill everything
hitman having to plan a hit
or mario maker, making the level
it's all busywork. everythign.
whether it's doom having to kill everything
hitman having to plan a hit
or mario maker, making the level
it's all busywork. everythign.
throwawayname
Member
Depends if it's fun to do or not. Consensus on Inside's puzzle seems to be that they're not, whereas Doom's combat is.
i actually started it ages ago but stopped playing because of a horrific bug where every car had its brakes permanently on and would just keep screeching
Mario Galaxy is pure joy at every moment.
That's a feature not a bug.
ratcliffja
Member
I love the puzzles. I'm not sure how they're anything but fun.
Edit: it feels like a modern take on Oddworld: Abe's Exodus.
bearythebear
Member
So, I'm guessing HItman for GOTY?
ratcliffja
Member
Oh yeah I forgot that my wife got me that too. And Spec Ops: The Line. I think that's everything though.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Incandenza
Banned
As expected, I won't be playing any new games today because PSN's download times are so ungodly slow. Really the worst part of the current generation.
ratcliffja
Member
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
I feel like this is true for some Indie games if you think about it.
Hot Coldman
Banned
ThanksVision
Member
Limbo has stronger puzzles than Inside but Inside is clearly the better game from art direction to pacing to its entire concept. I didn't like Limbo all that much and didn't understand the love, but I'm behind Inside this time around.
The third act's abrasiveness coupled with the slow realization of what might actually be going on (or at least, my own take on the game) was a solid punch that has stuck with me over the last week or so since I've finished. Calling it 'nothing' is pretty short-sighted in my mind, especially if you stop and think about the various messages contained within the world and of course the secret ending. I'm being purposefully vague because I believe this is stuff that should be discovered or pondered on your own. And that's okay if you have spent time considering all of the game's offerings and it still isn't enough for you to enjoy or appreciate it, it's certainly not for everyone. Limbo definitely wasn't for me.
The Dear Leader
Banned
All the kiddies gotta download them COD updates brah!
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I can't be bothered to stop and think about something I found utterly mediocre.
Here is my interpretation of the story without sitting down and thinking about it, spoilers and all
In some dystopian future and evil government has developed mind control technology, possibly after an alien attack (hence the ruined and destroyed landscapes and weird collectibles). You play a boy who is drawn to what is either the end result of those experiments or what started them, probably having some psychic abilities yourself (that's why all the smaller animals are drawn to you). I guess one could argue that just like the fish are drawn to you, you are drawn to the flesh thing. At some point you gain the ability to breathe under water for some unexplained reason (or maybe I missed that). In the end you get absorbed by the thing and escape in what might be a stagged event (yes, I noticed the diorama).
Death Metalist
Member
Seems possible that they'll do another Fiasco or similar, Vinny said they weren't doing emails next week.
I'll skip it because I don't really care for it.
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