What are you playing now?

[-HP-]

I played a few hours of DOTA2 over the weekend. I came to the realization that I must be the worst MOBA player in recorded history of mankind. Ever.

 

After me, of course.

[dkm]

Been playing some Völgarr the Viking. Man, this game's a bitch! Super old school (including the difficulty) and no BS.

 

Makes me relive my childhood spending afternoons trying to remember enemies' placement and levels in Ghouls 'n Ghosts.

You know, those games where you actually needed skills (and to know the levels by heart...) 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zE7qM8T0I8

[AlexM]

 

I played a few hours of DOTA2 over the weekend. I came to the realization that I must be the worst MOBA player in recorded history of mankind. Ever.

 

After me, of course.

 

 

You should play with us so we can have someone to soak up all the blame and anger 

[Sentura]

I'd actually be ok with a few mapcore sessions vs bots or some such.

[Minos]

Got Pokemon Y last week, haven't played much yet but enjoying the changes so far. Anyone else playing too?

[Pampers]

Been playing some Völgarr the Viking. Man, this game's a bitch! Super old school (including the difficulty) and no BS.

Makes me relive my childhood spending afternoons trying to remember enemies' placement and levels in Ghouls 'n Ghosts.

You know, those games where you actually needed skills (and to know the levels by heart...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zE7qM8T0I8

I think I got a discount code for that game randomly on steam

Edited October 22, 2013 by Pampers

[Vilham]

same, had no idea what it was.

[AlexM]

Reminds me of Magic Sword

 

 

[-HP-]

Reminds me of Magic Sword

 

 

 

So good!

[syver]

 

I had split feelings when I started playing this. My political stance leans towards anarcho-capitalism, so the thought of being a politician forcing tax and laws on people was a bit uncomfortable. Still, these kind of games are kind of cool because it explores design similar to Ian Bogost's games. The designer(s) has said he's trying to make it as politically neutral as possible, but of course that's not very viable. To his credit he has included a spreadsheet where you can modify the political logic. I started initially by cheekily decriminalizing prostitution, gambling, pot and hard drugs. Apparently my decriminalization of drugs led to a pandemic where lots of teenager citizens became addicted, although that result is rather unlikely. I tried to remove tax alltogether, but I could only reduce it to 2%. After some googling it seems that it might be possible to disable it somehow. 

 

Despite claiming to be a "politically neutral" game I still think the design exhibits some core political statements (perhaps unintentionally). The game effectively demonstrates why powerful centralized governments are ineffective and immoral. You constantly have to make sure you are appeasing all the different groups (liberals, capitalists, conservatives, parents etc.) when making decisions, which severely handicaps your efficiency. Minorities will be discriminated and the gravity of this is underlined every time you get some ridiculous policy suggestion like "banning tobacco" in favor of some asshole's megalomaniac opinion. The game constantly prompts you to take decisions that impedes freedom and generally encourages you to take decisions that obviously negatively affects several groups, all in the spirit of the greater good of course...

 

It's interesting because the game is essentially asking you to play with a system that is broken by nature. I also think that the feeling of the (apparent) "power" you have in the game reflects the psychological issue by having such amount of power assigned to just a few people. 

 

...anyway, stuff like this is what makes games so much more stimulating and enjoying than movies imo

 

caveats: i've only played it for a few hours, so I might have some stuff wrong. also the post might be too preachy, but I don't really see how I can discuss this game without bringing this up. 

Edited October 30, 2013 by csyver

[Taylor]

Got Pokemon Y last week, haven't played much yet but enjoying the changes so far. Anyone else playing too?

 

Yeah, I've been playing Pokemon Y. I'm right near the end of the "main game" although looking at my Pokedex that's still a while away from anything approaching 100%. I've not played a Pokemon game since Red/Blue except for some brief messing around in Gold so I'm not really sure how the game has been, err, evolving. It certainly feels like a polished version of the older games although perhaps on the easy side (although I'll take that over having to make specific squads for each Gym).

 

 

You should play with us so we can have someone to soak up all the blame and anger 

 

If there's some kind of mapcore DotA going on let me know! I actually ended up booting League of Legends last night because it's what people play. Queuing solo in ARTS/MOBA is just a frustrating experience. I used the client as an e-sports TV while I was working so I've racked up some impressive "hours played" but I've only really had about 32 games ((

Edit: PRO FORMATTING.

Edited October 30, 2013 by Taylor

[AlexM]

I have this thing where when I'm in school I play LoL and when I'm working I play dota2. 

 

So if you are playing LoL hit me up. My username is ShinobiNFC 
 

 

 

EDIT: Is Europe and NA on the same server?

Edited October 30, 2013 by AlexM

[Taylor]

Nope , League segregates.

[Sentura]

Fo serious let's do a DOTA2 thing. I enjoyed it back when e-freak was playing.

[Erratic]

I'd be down for some games