Quote from: mcbobbo;785538I'm watching the new Gauntlet for this same opportunity...

My wife is a hardcore gamer. I suck at lots of games and also don't enjoy the majority of them that much. Hence it's a great opportunity to play together if there's a fun game out there that's enjoyable for both hardcore and casual gamers.

I have recently found Dice Jockey on Android.

I am in gaming heaven! It is a clone of the Playstation game Devil Dice.

I have been waiting for something like this, Devil Dice is my absolute favourite game ever. Do I play it all the time? No. Is it work 69p (about $1.13 in funny colonial monies)? Yes.


Edit: OpenWoW list of Private WoW servers.

Quote from: 3rik;785537I'm playing Diablo III Ultimate Evil Edition on PS4 with my wife. Really fun button-mashing monster slaughtering. We haven't bothered trying to follow the "story".

One of the best things about the expansion was adventure mode, where you can go and twat stuff without Tyrael's waffling on about whatever or stupid fatso demon taunting you..

Investigating this "Molten-WoW" server.

Let's see how it goes.

Quote from: Piestrio;785525No that's basically your modern AAA game.

Last Of Us was just that with enough wankery to appeal to people that think games should be high "literary" art-forms. Which is basically anyone who writes about video games online.

You missed the third person cover based shooting, the stealth and the cliché post-apocalyptic setting with zombies. It all works fine, but it's all been done before. I never got what's so special about this game. And that's why I play a lot of indie games these days. Most games are more of the same with better graphics.

Gameplay > graphics.

A bit esoteric I know but as I've said in earlier posts, I'm hugely into text MUDs as of the last couple of years. While obviously technologically inferior to the big blockbuster graphical MMOs, this is countered by the fact text is limited literally only by the imagination and as a consequence, Avalon is one of the most detailed, rich and well designed game environments I've ever experienced.

Quote from: jan paparazzi;785617Most games are more of the same with better graphics.

This has been true for about two - maybe three - console generations now.  It used to be that new hardware enabled new types of games.  Motion control failed to do that, and now we just have iterative development.

I see a lot of similarities between the Hollywood film industry's business model and the video game industry.  Since Hollywood's in free fall, economically, I suspect that the video game industry is going to contract to mobile and indie games almost exclusively within a few years, once all the AAA stuff falls out of the pipeline.

Quote from: jan paparazzi;785617You missed the third person cover based shooting, the stealth and the cliché post-apocalyptic setting with zombies. It all works fine, but it's all been done before. I never got what's so special about this game. And that's why I play a lot of indie games these days. Most games are more of the same with better graphics.

I have played this game and was pleased to have done so. I found the 2 main characters (Joel and Ellie) endearing.

But I have not played it again since I finished it last summer in normal difficulty, so it is true that its success came also from the buzz/hype caused by the publicity campaign.

Quote from: daniel_ream;785631This has been true for about two - maybe three - console generations now.  It used to be that new hardware enabled new types of games.  Motion control failed to do that, and now we just have iterative development.

The problem is that AAA-level development is so expensive now that nobody wants to take a risk on something that isn't a 100% proven concept, because a failure is potentially company-destroying (Look back a couple of years to, say, THQ, and the failed tablet that did them in).

I mean, what was the last big AAA innovation... Skylanders? Four years ago? And that started off pretty low-key...

Quote from: jan paparazzi;785617You missed the third person cover based shooting, the stealth and the cliché post-apocalyptic setting with zombies. It all works fine, but it's all been done before. I never got what's so special about this game. And that's why I play a lot of indie games these days. Most games are more of the same with better graphics.

True.

Indie games of course have their own problems, mainly that you have to wade through piles if "Cancer-patient: the staring at rocky Atlantic coasts and pondering the meaning of art" type games. And of course everyone and their dog with a mega-phone hyping them to no end.

Basically the same problem tabletop games have in that space.

Quote from: daniel_ream;785631This has been true for about two - maybe three - console generations now.  It used to be that new hardware enabled new types of games.  Motion control failed to do that, and now we just have iterative development.

I see a lot of similarities between the Hollywood film industry's business model and the video game industry.  Since Hollywood's in free fall, economically, I suspect that the video game industry is going to contract to mobile and indie games almost exclusively within a few years, once all the AAA stuff falls out of the pipeline.

Yup basically since the PS2 we've been tredding water.

One of the reasons I have a wiiU is that at least nintendo is trying something new (not that they're doing very well at it, but still...) I also gave props to Microsoft for the kinect but gamers whined and whined and now that's in the shitter.

I'm waiting for nintendo to release a wiiU without a gamepad and royally fuck themselves.

Quote from: Piestrio;785705Yup basically since the PS2 we've been tredding water.

Driving games, shooters, puzzle games. Even Nintendo has been criticised for not "innovating" and releasing another Mario kart, but with different courses and spruced up graphics.

Quote from: jan paparazzi;785495It always cracks me up to bodyscan people for contraband. Those things only happen in dictatorships.

Or the airport.

... oh, wait?

Picked up Sonic Generations in the wake of being put off Lost World.

I'm determined to find a 3D sonic game that doesn't suck.

The first couple stages give me hope, if they are a bit "push right to win".

Quote from: Ladybird;785660The problem is that AAA-level development is so expensive now that nobody wants to take a risk on something that isn't a 100% proven concept

Look up the book "Sleepless in Hollywood" and just sub in "video games" for "film" and it's remarkably prescient.

If AAA titles don't disappear entirely, they'll survive by going purely digital delivery or on-disc unlockable content each unique owner has to pony up some cash for.  It's the only way to ensure the necessary revenue stream.

(And before the inevitable whining about ownership and used games and blah blah blah starts, everyone keep in mind that the laws of economics don't give a damn about the morality of DivX style licensing.  AAA titles simply cannot be profitable if 5/6 of their consumers aren't paying the publisher.)

EDIT: I'm playing Dragon's Crown and Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds.  Occasionally Lego Batman when the gf comes over.

Only game I'm really playing atm is Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup. I've managed one 3-Rune win but that's not enough!

Tried Angband for a while but...argh. There's such a thing as too Roguelike I guess :eek: