When I made this account, I was starting to get into SCP, which is funny for me, because I'm a big scaredy-cat.
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/document-recovered-from-the-marianas-trench

He said something had happened, and that a bunch of these things had gotten loose at the same time, and caused this foundation place to lose control. He said it became a “GH-0 'Dead Greenhouse' scenario”.

I thought that was cool, so I kept using it for a while. No one ever got the reference.

Hi, y'all. It's probably been years since the last time I posted here, good to see you again.
Right now I'm working my way through Valkyria Chronicles, and when I get tired of that I'm putting a little time into Cultist Simulator. I've tried for many years to get all the way through VC, but I've always wound up stopping probably halfway through for one reason or another. Eventually, when I come back to it, I forgot what had happened in the story, or how to play, or both, and then I have to start all over again. This happens to me a lot with JRPGs, I think mostly because they just tend to be so very long. I'm aiming to fix that this time though. Right now I'm setting about an hour or two aside for gaming a day, so it looks like I'm going to be with these games for a couple of months. I have a couple of short games I want to beat in the meantime though, and I might swap those in for a weekend or two.

I havent seen a topic on this subject so if there is one then please let me know.

Is there a game genre that you dread starting?. I don't mean scared of starting but the feeling of oh god I have to start this because it's in my game collection feeling.

Mine is RPG's because they take up.so much of your time of stat fillimg and grinding to level up.

For me, it's arcade-style games. I rarely feel compelled to 100%, but I know that if I really enjoy a racer or shmup, it won't sit right with me if I don't clear every last challenge on the highest difficulty. 1CC or bust! I end up in a weird spot where I hope I don't like a game 'too much'.

I know this is probably outside what you'd call a normal use case, but could support for text-based browsers be improved? I can't login when I try and use the site through w3m. Obviously I can use other browsers or I couldn't post this, but it's not ideal.

Hey all! Been a minute since I posted here. Chronoja still at the top of the backlog list I see :D.

Anyways, I've been thinking about how since I want to be able to do most anything possible with my consoles (and because I enjoy appearing less than sane), I will eventually come to own no less than 16 OG Xboxes to be able to host LAN parties (in spite of the fact I don't even know 16 people that would want to play Halo with me).
But this got me thinking; are there any other games for other systems that can use such a large quantity of consoles? I can't think of any games for the PS2, GameCube, or Dreamcast that can take advantage of more than 2 consoles in a local setting.

I care more about a game's 'density' than length - if you have 5h of decent content, I would much prefer you give me that, rather than make it in to a 10h experience that has been padded out with fetch-quests, needless backtracking, and other such busywork. I can enjoy the longest and shortest of games, so long as that playtime consists of meaningful gameplay and content.

Pretty much this, but this is actually why I prefer shorter games. There's no way to really create a game that goes on for longer than 50 hours that's primarily composed of "meaningful" content, unless someone's making their magnum opus.

This guy. This guy gets it.

What's your favorite Pokémon? Bayonetta.
How do we solve world hunger? Bayonetta.
Who was phone? Bayonetta.

But seriously, the problem with "story-driven" as a qualifier is that the implication is it ignores the fact that most games do have stories, and the progression from beginning to end is dependent on said story. You might as well say "what's your favorite game with a story?" Somehow you're supposed to ignore that story and gameplay are two parts of the same whole; even visual novels still technically have gameplay. Then you have something like Limbo that says nothing yet speaks volumes. Should we disqualify that because there's technically no spoken dialogue?

I don't know, I could probably speak more on the subject if I felt better.

I think you're underestimating the number of projects that had narrative set on the metaphorical back-burner.

I've seen trailers for the Gravity Rush so I been wondering is it worth it or trash it.

I certainly had some fun with it on the Vita. It wasn't the greatest game of all time, and I would be hesitant to recommend paying full price for the remaster, but it had its moments.

For me, the award for most over-rated game I've yet played goes to the original Metal Gear Solid. While it does a number of interesting things for the time and the stealth is executed well, the second half of the game downplays these aspects with gimmicky boss-fights and boring/frustrating grunt battles that require you to interact with the games limpest mechanic- the combat.

I can't speak for Dragon Age, but for KotOR: I'd still recommend playing through the game. Most of the time the combat sections don't last too long/ can be completely avoided. The strength of the game was always in the dialogue choices anyway. However, if you really can't stand the combat, a Let's Play wouldn't replace actually playing it, but it would suffice. I should note that if you can find an LP where they make either all evil or all good choices that would be best. Bioware's titles always shine when you fully lean into the morality system.

... and it's amazing. My hands are still jittering as I type. Everything about it just oozes slick cyberpunk perfection, down to the last detail. The only thing that could possibly be described as lacking is the gameplay, and even then that's because the rest of the game is so brilliant it outshines the competent simplicity of the "combat". It is perplexing to me, given that I would recommend the game almost without hesitation to anyone that asked, that I hear so little about it.

As people thought, it was a firmware issue. nothing to be done but get it replaced.

Update 2: finished initializing, issue still persists with Nier. Downloaded games and applications now have the issue as well.
The games and apps I have tested that dont work are: nier automata, Let it die, and Netflix.
The ones that DO work are: Blacklight Retribution, Amazon Video, and Plex.
Does anyone know if these software have anything in common?

Update: Tried reinstalling the game, same issue. I don't think there's anything wrong with the system, as other games I have downloaded work fine, although because they are downloaded and Nier is a disc, it is possible there's something wrong with the disc drive. I've looked up the error code, and the instructions for it say that if all else fails I need to initialize the system. I'm gonna go ahead and do that now. Wish me luck.

I just got my new copy of the game today, put it in my new PS4, and get this:

The framerate is also very slow, and I can barely make it past the opening logos. Anyone have an idea of what's going on here?

I genuinely do not have any friends that enjoy gaming and various other things the way I do. So I turn to the internet.

That sounds really familiar. Given how big gaming has got in the last ten years, it's surprising how seldom I hear video games come up in casual conversation. Nothing compared to TV shows, books, movies -- or even Youtube videos. It might be that I'm so old that I belong to a generation where the prejudices and stigma related to the medium still hold sway to such a degree that people are reticent to out themselves as gamers, however casual. So, like you, I turn to the internet.

I was born in the early eighties, live in Norway, played video games religiously up to the age of 15 or so, before it becoming more of an on-again, off again pastime in my twenties and thirties. I started out glomming onto friends and acquaintances with C64s and Ataris, before getting my own NES and SNES, kindling a love for Nintendo games that persists to this day -- though I like to think that I left most of my partisanship on the playground (where it belongs). I've recently decided to start putting more time into gaming, and HLTB seems like an invaluable resource in that regard. And full of lovely people to boot!

I currently game on PS2 (just bought an old CRT and a new dance mat to get back into Dance Dance Revolution type things), PS3, 360, 3DS, Vita, PC, Wii U and PS4. It's quite a wide array of tat to keep on hand, but if you want access to all eras of video gaming without relying overly on (unofficial) emulation, a line-up like that is a bare minimum. Which, to be frank, is all kinds of silly.

When I'm not gaming, I'm working on my first degree (at way too advanced of an age), reading books on my Kindle app, trying to exercise regularly, and... that's just about it. My favourite band is Rocket From The Crypt, my favourite movie is The Apartment, my favourite TV show is Treme, my favourite comic is basically all of John Allison's Scary Go Round-related stuff, my favourite author is Iris Murdoch, my favourite comedy thing is John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, and my favourite game is... probably Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

Welcome to our little piece, Karlos. It's nice to meet you.

I left most of my partisanship on the playground (where it belongs).

Oh, bah. Nothing like a good flame war to start some banter.

EA was a real snoozer for me. Battlefront was unimpressive, same for NFS Payback. And Galaxy of Heroes? Who cares? Shareholders, probably, but when have they ever mattered? /s
Really, what was more disappointing was what they didn't show. I wanted to see more of Bioware's new thing, Anthem. We also saw nothing of Visceral's Star Wars project. I should really stop expecting anything from EA.

It's that time of the year again! The E3 conferences are right around the corner. What are you looking forward to or expecting this year? I've got bets on some CoD WWII footage, but beyond thay I've got nothing but some pie in the sky hopes for some Metroid, F-Zero and 2077 news.

Playing 3rd Strike on pad is always a good way to build up thumb callouses.

I'm new here, so I never saw the old thread. just downloaded an episode now, will listen tomorrow :)

I'm betting it's either an old Mechwarrior or Earth/Starsiege game

I nominate Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.

On God of War as part of the HD collection right now. Just a couple hours in, and I think I'm already starting to get what the hubbub was all about. I've never really played character action before, and trying to chain attacks together and keep the counter up is exhilarating (even if I'm failing at it and nearly dying half the time). The level design constantly wrapping around itself is awe-inspiring- I keep having to readjust my mental image of the levels to get a grip with it. However, The music falls a bit flat so far- nothing bad, just generic orchestral stuff. It also suits the Ancient Greek Myth theme well enough. The other thing I don't get is Kratos. He's a jerk for seemingly no reason. I assume I'll learn why later on, but still, it's a little off-putting to play as someone whose actions (in-cutscene at any rate) I can't relate to and am even somewhat repulsed by.

This may be too obscure, even for my taste (although this is actually a game I own), but here goes:

It's not a Touhou fan-game is it?

Looks like I'm not going to be able to put up a picture for a while. If someone else wants to post one instead, I'm down.