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What are you currently playing?; What video game are you playing right now?
Topic Started: Dec 11 2013, 10:14 AM (143,479 Views)
Moo
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Pony Island is like Undertale meets The Stanley Parable but with a unique twist: it sucks ass.
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An indie game sucking ass hardly seems unique.
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I probebly prefer smaller indie titles nowadays. They tend to be alot more focused on gameplay instead of trying their damnest in the presentation/production value department that AAA games tend to rely on. They're also alot less susceptible into falling into trends and toy around with genres alot more than the usual Action game or poor excuse of 'RPG'.

Rocket League is still the best playing videogame this gen.
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Kicking myself for ignoring Rocket League and Assault Android Cactus when they were PS Plus games. I've definitely been ignoring indie games too much.

@Curt, you're right, but I fell for the game media kool aid saying it's excellent. It seems they have a reactionary thing where if an indie game shows some promise it gets lavished as a work of art when it's just pretty good (Undertale). Pony Island though, I don't get it. The puzzles are non-intuitive, the purposely bad on-rail platforming is too prominent, the meta-narrative isn't funny and too similar to Undertale's sense of humour but not nearly as good.

Edit: I just realised it completely stole The Talos Principle's text-based dynamic where you and a fellow prisoner conspire against a god/satan figure.
Edited by Moo, Dec 30 2016, 10:32 AM.
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I don't even know what the fuck an indie game is anymore, mainly because there seems to be "indie" publishers (I would assume they distribute ONLY and don't fund / influence the game development??) and that it's used as a descriptor of the game itself or even an outright genre, rather than an indication of its development and creation. Well, what kind of genre is that? May as well rename it to the cheap n nasties to save time.

My favourite game that I believe is indie would have to be Hotline Miami, followed by Super Meat Boy. It's great when you play something like that because it reminds me what I like games for in the first place, and makes it evident how thoroughly diluted that has become in the AAA scene. I haven't played that many indie games but I think I've disliked more than I've enjoyed.

I think the ultimate source of cheap, high quality games is just to play old heavily discounted classics, or emulate old console games you never played. It's less convenient than indie stuff and can often be harder to initially adjust to but I've certainly had more rewarding finds that way than these new meme, hipster titles.
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I assume indie means independent of long-established multi-million dollar companies, but people also seem to use it to describe niche genres like roguelikes and artsy stuff.

I just checked and the publishers of Hotline Miami also published Enter the Gungeon and Talos Principle. Good company. Also according to Wikipedia Talos Principle 2 is in the works! Perhaps the company itself isn't "indie" but funds external projects it's interested in?
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So like, Im hopelessly stuck between ps3 and ps4, with the net result being that I'm not playing either. If I hook up my new (preowned, no less) ps4, that'll be it for ps3, and it seems such a shame to just waste the 7 or 8 ps3 games I've bought since I came back. Then again, I bought Until Dawn and Bloodborne yesterday and would like to try them, so I don't know what to do.
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Whatever you do play either The Last of Us or Bloodborne next. Did you get Bloodborne with The Old Hunters DLC (it's part of the Game of the Year edition)? I recommend you download it if not - it's five or so hours of brilliant self-contained content added to the main game. It will definitely be on sale on the PS Shop right now.
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Why will that be it for the PS3? If you're itching to play some PS4 stuff you've just bought, do so, and then go back to finish off the PS3 stuff you have before buying anything more on the 4?

That's kinda what I'm doing right now, I'm just not buying any newer releases and am playing older stuff until I run out and feel the itch to play Far Cry 4 or Dark Souls 3 or something.
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Ah whatever, Pony Island was cool. The main gameplay loop is simple, but the story was fun. I think you're expecting too much of it by comparing it to Undertale. It was a cheap little indie game that came out of nowhere.

I've played a lot of Overwatch lately. It's a great game to play competitively, but then also great to play for fun with what stats it chooses to surface. If you're having a bad game, other players are unlikely to notice and harass you for it.

Also Astroneer is cool. It just came out in early access so there isn't a huge amount to it yet, but it's got a solid foundation. Could turn into something great by the time it gets a full release.
Edited by Twisted, Dec 30 2016, 08:19 PM.
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I think he meant once he hooks up the PS4 he could never be bothered to return to the PS3, like it's his old phone or something. It's dumb.
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Dec 30 2016, 08:19 PM
Ah whatever, Pony Island was cool. The main gameplay loop is simple, but the story was fun. I think you're expecting too much of it by comparing it to Undertale. It was a cheap little indie game that came out of nowhere.
I was expecting too much because it's landing on reviewers' best of the year lists and being called genius. Undertale is a cheap indie game too, it's not like I'm comparing it to Dark Souls.
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I'm still playing Gungeon as obsessively as I did Isaac but here's a few gripes:

-The floors start to repeat themselves pretty quick. Not enough variety or left-field weirdness. I do like breezing through the first floor though.
-Powering up doesn't have enough potential for beefiness, you can't just annihilate bosses sometimes like you can in Isaac. Though admittedly, Isaac goes too far in the other direction.
-I wish it showed specific gun stats so I don't have to use them to gauge how powerful they are. It also stinks when you're juggling through 5 guns at a critical point. I know you can drop them, but still.
-I hate worrying about ammo!

All that said, I'm still pouring hours into it and haven't even beaten the 4th floor yet. The combat is fucking beautiful. The controls are so perfect it makes me wonder how much work went into it to get them so good.
Edited by Moo, Dec 31 2016, 07:02 PM.
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Moo
Dec 30 2016, 11:29 AM
I assume indie means independent of long-established multi-million dollar companies, but people also seem to use it to describe niche genres like roguelikes and artsy stuff.

I just checked and the publishers of Hotline Miami also published Enter the Gungeon and Talos Principle. Good company. Also according to Wikipedia Talos Principle 2 is in the works! Perhaps the company itself isn't "indie" but funds external projects it's interested in?
That's how I'd describe them. It's just the opposite of AAA games, Ideally a smaller project size that allows for something to be independently published. The lines are certainly being blurred as publishers start up funding programs and are hands off from development. Not that I care much: A good game is a good game. It's just the ones within the smaller space are just a whole lot more reliable in delivering enjoyment. It helps that they arent backloaded in certain times of the year when it comes to their release schedule.

As for some people trying to pin the term to a kind of game, all those random artsy games are more or less just adventure games.
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The game I really want to play is Hitman. About everyone I know that played it had nothing but high praise for it. "Better than Blood Money", "Dishonored 2 and Deus Ex:MD are nowhere near as good as Hitman".

Shame that it seems to be buried behind people bitching that it's episodic.
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