/arcade/ - vidya gaems and other gaems too

>>2590
I was really liking it up to the point where you get separated from all your teammates. I loved the feeling of just playing the in-game game with the npc friends. I want to revisit it but I totally forgot what was going on and what I was supposed to do next.

Epistory - Typing Chronicles

This game was quite touching at times. This is an indie game where you control a woman that rides a large fox and you explore a world that represents the woman's internal world. There's a University-themed level for instance with challenging puzzles that exposes you to the woman's conflict with self-doubt during this era of her life.
The gameplay is predominantly executed through typing. You use the WASD keys (Steam allows a remapping to the ESDF keys, you'll see why in a moment) to navigate, but alternatively, you can also use RFJI for diagonal movement. Going clockwise, I moves you diagonally up-right, I moves you diagonally down-right, etc. I've never seen this movement system before so I thought I should mention it.
Interacting with the world is also done through typing.
You press either the Space bar or Enter key to enter into a special state from which you can interact with the world by firing energy balls at objects and enemies, however you must type the word associated with the object/enemy.
Have you played or heard of typing games? When I checked out the comment section on YouTube for trailers of the game, some people seemed unimpressed, calling the game's design dated. I never knew typing games used to be a thing supposedly, so perhaps I'm being unnecessarily detailed about an old, dead genre.
So yeah, if you see an object of interest or an enemy approaching, the procedure I would take is to hit the space bar and type out the word that's fixed above the object or enemy. Very simple concept. I did enjoy the typing challenges, but what I really enjoyed was the environment and story.
It was like a glimpse into another person's life, the highs and the lows, and it was all presented very cleanly. I noticed as well, the word choices could be selective, depending on the environment. A monster with the word "fat" above its head might appear.
The art direction was 3D origami. It's very pretty. The colour choice was typically quite bright and vivid. I really liked it. There was one level that really reminded me of the "Card Castles in the Sky" level from Alice: Madness Returns that I thought was particularly beautiful.
The game also has a Gallery. If you try to open all of the chests in each level (you select levels by entering into them from the Overworld), you collect all of the "fragments" and that reveals a picture that embodies what the level is about - what memory of the woman's lPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Freedom Planet

A heavily Sonic-inspired game with great graphics and gameplay. The story is okay, the dialogues are subpar, but I enjoyed it all the way through.

>>2596
Nice! I wanted to give this game a go, but I saw one reviewer say that he something along the lines of how he just can't shake the feeling that it's just a Sonic romhack and that really put me off from trying it. What if I like something that's not approved?! What does that say about me?! These sorts of thoughts have gone through my head for so long, they've become so subtle and ingrained, it's hard to notice.
I'm happy to see other people just living their lives and playing what they want to play! Nice! I might try this some day.

>>2597
The final boss was really good. I had to use all the moves I learned while playing the game and he still threw me across the room.

>>2535
based on what?

based and troughpilled

>>2577
based tony

Any of you guys play hldm? What's your opinion on wallgauss? Personally, I think it's an element of skill, like learning smoke lineups in counter strike. But I know it's very controversial in the community. Either way, I think hldm is pretty fun.

i know many hate using discord but if you're interested in the multiplayer of these old games, i've been on this /vm/ offshoot server for over an year now and they've been playing a variety of vidya somewhat consistently. free from troons, pedos, bad mods
as is always the case, the vast majority of sushi rolls are lazy but there's still something to play most weekends. they've played many of the games mentioned in this thread.
games are usually provided, using vc is optional

https://discord.gg/eYTuqxJGzk

worth a try. it might take you a little time but you'll make it

>>321
if you're asking me personally, no

in my experience (last 1-3 years), there's maybe a few people on the goldsrc ver, you can find a populated server but no promises, from my recollection, much as HL1 servers are 99% running crossfire, 99% of DOD servers are running that one map which might be set in italy, the one with a giant pile of rubble in the middle, and maybe a church to the right of that

on source, stay away from fastpath.fr since their servers are populated by fake players, I actually think it's easier to find a lobby on goldsrc slightly, but if you want to play gun game, there's a good number around

p.s. just realised I was 90% through writing and realised I'm replying to an 8 year old post but alas

Sometimes I like to dig up old Half-Life mods. They are almost all broken and not very fun but its cool to see the creativity. It makes me sad players don't get to extend their games in creative ways like this anymore.

>>2572
>It makes me sad players don't get to extend their games in creative ways like this anymore.
Lots of games still have mod support and active modding communities!

>>2480
Slay the Spire is one of the best games I played in a while. I got to ascension 20 with Ironclad and it was so fun, the game is just so good and I generally don't like card games but this one if magnificent.

>>1923
> Any sushi rolls know this feeling
Me. This was the only true roguelike I ever played, didn't get it at all and kinda hated it, I love roguelites though.

>>2532
As mentioned earlier in the thread, it's not really a typical roguelike and you'd be doing yourself a disservice if you disregard roguelikes altogether based on that experience.

My recommendation would be Infra Arcana, quite simple to get into but still has lots of tactical depth.

To add to >>2533
If you give Infra Arcana a go the classes go from easiest to harder to get into first (IMO): War Veteran, Rogue, Ghoul, Occultist, Flagellant, Exorcist

>>2532
>>2533
Along with Infra Arcana I recommend Rogue Fable IV, I got minorly addicted to it last month and played about 30 hours. It's fast paced and very easy to learn with a focus on combat and simple character building with a neat system where you mix abilities from other classes in with yours as you find skill tomes. Finding out a new way that a rogue ability can benefit a wizard for example is a lot of fun. I also like how they scattered oldschool health and mana pickups to incentivize moving around during combat. That said it's maybe obviously not the deepest game out there and I don't have a ton of motivation to keep playing after getting a handful of wins.

got S-Rank and defeated my big frog brother
https://alarts.itch.io/die-in-the-dungeon

Since the (allegedly) last Nekopara has a release date (May 22) and I haven't finished all of them guess I know what I'm reading now.

>>2413
What a great VN. You can really see the author had a lot of fun with it.

watering a drunken Lancelot hehe

RUDE

>>2569
狂気より愛を込めて/From Madness with Love

be warned the official English version uses a lot of "normie" net slang

Retroid has such cool color variations for their consoles, I dig the transparent ones the most

in memoriam

>>2557 I used to have that DSi as a child but I traded it in ;_;

>>2564
Love how crunchy the soundcards on these were. They were perfectly complex enough that it wasn't beep boop type noise like from eras prior but still compressed enough to sound like tires on gravel. I miss mine.

>>2312
I love it. Me, my bf and friends spend time there just fishing and chatting in a code-lobby. we stopped for a bit because of the pool staffs kindly advising us that the pond is closed because the pond has aids and they were so thoughtful to take control of host commands and kick us <3 /s
Just has the usual early chatting platform hiccups atm. Nothing serious. I do find it amusing that they are bringing back the pool's closed meme.

>>2321
The only thing the two have in common, really, is the chatting and social aspect of the game. You have an avatar you can customize and the chat is txt based. The game is alot closer to Animal crossing's multiplayer than VR chat.

You'll be fishing or treasure hunting, playing guitar or drawing on the map while chatting with other folks in the lobby along the way. While interacting and playing with the few grief tools the game has like the boxing glove to push folks around (You can toggle the grief option off if that is not your style.)
It's silly fun.

Pic rel this was our first "big" catches :)

My #1 comfy game is chivalry medieval warfare. Real nice atmosphere, you never get finished growing in skill cause of the high skill roof, and it's just real nice. Since it's an old game you can play on sucky hardware, I play without a discrete GPU even.

A bit sad about that it seems to be drying out, I guess people left for either chivarly 2 or mordhau, which I can't really get into both because of hardware constraints and I don't really like the way they play. Some people around on fridays at least. Never played any other game with as much depth as it has, there is always more to learn and improve even after yearas playing, I am sad that people can't have the same experience anymore that I had going in when it was more active.

If you wanna give it a try I really recommend it though, and it might be your last chance to with the last remnants of the community still keeping around.

Blue Reflection Tie

The most comfy games I've ever played has to be the atelier series. Admittedly I haven't really touched the new ones that much yet but the older 3d ones (rorona and such) are just peak CGDCT. They are very good to just pick up once in awhile, and the themes can range from extremely dumb and lighthearted to having a bit of tension but still feeling grounded. The rpg aspect is an enjoyable gameplay loop too as well in the games. If you're worried about difficulty, usually while the main games themselves are very easy, the DLCs can be very hard and require you to minmax your crafted alchemy items. Lastly the girls are just very cute!! Though in recent times KT Gust has been pivoting to a different style in the series.

Style Savvy Trendsetters, it always helps me relax

>>473
To be honest, it has been a lot easier to figure out monster patterns. I wouldn't say it makes the game easier. As far as streamlining, whether or not it makes or breaks the game is dependent on your preferences. If anything, the first real problem I ran into was the amount of monsters at launch being so small,thankfully, combat is fun enough for me to not care about what i'm fighting, as long as i'm fighting.

>>458
Monster Hunter co-op on pc? What a sweet dream.

I've been playing World on PC a lot as of late, after beating Alatreon in 3U.
Got to Nergi but he one shot me. If there is anyone that wants to go huntan' my steam account is this one
https://s.team/p/kcd-rqdv/qgjdrnvn
(mind me, I wanna go huntan', not just get carried).
Also, I main HBG so I hope that isn't a deal breaker
My timezone is UTC-3

>>1538
It's more likely than you think

Monster Hunter Wilds is lit!