I threatened to do it, and now the time has come! Welcome to May’s off-topic video game thread! For months, there was a single thread about video games, and I think it’s gotten too large for people to readily post or join discussions. Is May a big month for video games? You bet it is (list courtesy of gamesradar)!
Forspoken: In Tanta We Trust DLC [PC, PS5] – May 26
Home Sheep Home: Farmageddon Party Edition [PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO] – May 26
Company of Heroes 3 [PS5, XSX] – May 30
System Shock Remake [PC] – May 30
Decarnation [PC, Switch] – May TBC
Solasta: Crown of the Magister: Palace of Ice DLC [PC] – May TBC
WrestleQuest [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch] – May TBC
After many years, I, long-suffering backer, will receive my copy of the System Shock remake! New Zelda! A probably disappointing Suicide Squad game! Jedi Survivor is still kind of new, I think.
Is Terri Brosius returning to voice Shodan one more time? You better believe it!
Share your Gamertag/PSN ID/Nintendo ID for co op, or just because you like having contacts in your gaming ecosystem!
Tell people about sales!
Has Resident Evil 4’s Separate Ways been announced yet? Sadly, no.
I’ve already used my PSNProfiles image ironically, but it’s time to repost it in earnest. Looking for friends on PSN? Look no further. Note that this is not a PSN-centered thread. Please discuss the platform of your choice!
For my post: I talked about playing P3P in the old thread. Well, I just kept going. This time, as the male MC, I completed all social links with only three days to go! Yikes. I’m embarrassed to admit that I spent maybe six hours grinding out a very niche-y persona just for a fight with optional megaboss Elizabeth. He can’t even do crowd control! Then, I learned that I needed a bunch of rare items requiring several more hours of grinding and rng. I’m done for now. I think the most recent Horizon is up next.
Non-IF: Return to Monkey Island, Magic Arena, Ultima I.
proprietary IF: Enchanter.
Games I play:
Non-IF:
Chess.
Mahjongg.
several Solitaire/Patience.
Sudoku as a computer game.
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IF:
Tass times in Tone Town (because the IF club chose it.)
Spider and Web (because I somehow suddenly remembered playing it but not finishing it.)
Only perhaps: Overrun, a Shadowrun fan RPG.
My Steam name: stromoffire. But be warned: I rarely log into Steam and if you send a friend request it might go unnoticed by me! Simply because I might not see it.
Some very clever things going on here. I liked it, wasn’t so thrilled by the ending. Apparently I was supposed to notice something I hadn’t noticed. Be alert.
Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099: Do Not Feed the Monkeys was a really interesting concept, but I struggled to get through it. It is one of those “try to juggle a dozen things at once” style puzzle games that greatly benefit from multiple playthroughs. Fans of Papers, Please might want to give it a try.
Mia and the Dragon Princess: I am a big fan of FMV games, but Mia doesn’t look like something I would really be interested in. But if you are a fan of action movies, it will probably be a lot of fun.
My dad was an English teacher, and he disliked technology in general. We never owned a microwave. Fortunately, mom had her own money and didn’t feel the same way.
Has anyone played Redfall? Sounds like a pretty big flop from Arkane Austin, who made one of my favorite games of the past decade or so, Prey. It’s led to a lot of gloom and doom-type talk about Microsoft’s game division. The metacritic is 58 at the moment.
I’d personally like to own an XBox one of these days for GamePass, so this isn’t a console wars post. I mostly feel bad for Arkane, since there are obviously a lot of talented people working there.
Somewhat similar situation for me, too. My dad was an early adopter of computers and tinkers with them as a hobby.
I grew up with PC games, and my family never owned a game console.
So I played a lot of MechWarrior 3, StarCraft: Brood War, and Doom, while all my friends had Majora’s Mask, GoldenEye, and Mortal Kombat.
Neither of us has any idea what the other was talking about, because the friends who had a gaming console only used their home computer for office work. I didn’t have the coordination to play on console with them, and they didn’t have the coordination to play on PC with me.
Nope, but I’ve suddenly been seeing a lot of advertising for it lately.
So good
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See, stuff like this makes me realize I actually grew up with a techno-enthusiast family.
If I didn’t have a microwave and toaster, then bouts of depression (and difficulties with eating in general) might be enough to cause my bloodsugar crashes to finally end me.
Was it because there was a stigma around using microwave radiation on food? Or was the microwave simply one step too far…?
My father disliked the idea of “time saving devices” as a general rule. He still doesn’t have a microwave, though he probably would find one intimidating at this point.
The VCR was different. He ultimately did relent, since he enjoys movies. It was years after all of my friends had them though.
I did however get lots of computer toys: Vic 20, C64, DEC MicroPDPs of various sorts, Apple IIc, Amiga 1000… never had a PC since my dad viewed IBM as DEC’s biggest threat. Turned out Microsoft was instead.
I’m from year 1970 and I had never a console except of a Nintendo DS roughly 12 years ago. So I never played Zelda, Super Mario Brothers or Final Fantasy. I guess I would have loved all of them, but who knows?
My father came home on day with a video game to be connected to the TV. It was Pong and in fact (even back then) it was a little bit boring for me.
Later I got a VIC 20 and that changed my life because I learned programming with it.
I sometimes envy the people who had a console, for example because of many JRPGs.
I think I would like to build a Zelda-like game. But right now I am building a piece of IF and that’s definitely satisfying because you don’t have to paint and don’t need to write a parser but can concentrate on IF mechanisms (like rooms, items etc. you know).
I’m a product of 1982 and grew up with the early Nintendo consoles, only coming to PC gaming and IF properly in the 90s.
In the last year, I’ve been playing through all the Final Fantasy XIV expansions, but lately my wife and I have been playing a fair bit of Sid Meier’s Civilization VI together. I will be dusting off my Switch for Tears of the Kingdom this weekend, though.
(Incidentally, my code is SW-5837-9374-6589, if you’re interested.)
