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Title: last day of the cutey year
Post by: hubol on December 31, 2016, 02:17:09 PM

what are u cuteys up to :dancedog:

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: SquareWheel on December 31, 2016, 03:56:26 PM

Well I just configured some backup routines after determining total capacity allowance.  Later I might play some Dark Souls 2, which is a good gam.

What are you up to, Frenchies?!

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: hubol on December 31, 2016, 04:26:30 PM

hm wow what does that first sentence have to do with??? is that for your computer or a server or what....

right now im at work working on my game... its a game about enjoying your retirement by hanging out in a field of tulips. right now the heightmap is broken so i need to fix that

ive never played a dank soul but i always confuse that game with diablo and demon souls and probably another one too

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: SquareWheel on December 31, 2016, 04:35:55 PM

Dedicated server.  I just switched us off the legacy backup system and needed to set up some sane backup configs for the new one.

Dark Souls is the spiritual successor to Demon Souls.  It's by the same developer (FromSoftware) but they lost the rights to the original name.  I'd been meaning to play them for years but finally got around to it, and now it's one of my favorite game series.

It's the kind of game that throws you into a world knowing absolutely nothing, and you need to work out the game's mechanics and quirks on your own.  It's horrible and great and I recommend you give it a go.

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: hubol on December 31, 2016, 04:40:38 PM

interesting...... maybe i'll "chunk" em out in the new year!!!!

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: juner on December 31, 2016, 11:38:28 PM

I'm not really doing much so here's some Games I Liked, Within the Year 2016. Wanted to write this for a while and generally post more, though I have no confidence in my writing so maybe all of these words will be uninteresting to read, but I guess it's practice!!

Let's start with a relevant one!

Spoiler: Dark Souls 3 (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/v1P3sQd.png)
Image source: http://www.pcinvasion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/dark-souls-3-2.png

Other than a little bit of Demon's Souls, this was my first Souls game.

A couple of friends were getting excited about the third game and I kinda liked the idea of getting the game on release and discovering secrets and tips and tricks with them. It's certainly a series with a lot of obscurities, which promotes people to share discoveries and advice in-game and online.

Well, since my friends had played souls games a ton before, they were much better than me and rocketed ahead. I was struggling and died repeatedly at the first boss! But I pressed on and at some point, the game kinda clicked with me! I'd found a weapon I enjoyed using (dual scimitars!), I stopped rushing blindly into fights and getting greedy, took my time exploring and looking for hidden items. It was challenging but exhilarating! I had a breath of relief everytime I found a new bonfire (which are like checkpoints/warp spots), or opened new shortcuts to previously explored areas, or managed to defeat a boss.

I enjoyed the progression through the world, learning what each area had to offer. Some areas were particularly neat, with many interleaving pathways and shortcuts around. I'm kinda slow and cautious when it comes to exploring new places. Coming up to a junction and being paralysed by the decision of which pathway to go down. Seeing an area in the distance, perhaps over a chasm, wondering how on earth to get there. Wary of any enemies or traps that I don't already know about...

I ended up playing Dark Souls 3 over three months. Whenever I see an area from early on in the game I get kinda nostalgic. "Wow! I remember that place! I've come so far...".

My lasting impression of the game is that I had a really nice, long journey through its world!  :pear:

Spoiler: The Witness (click to show/hide)

(http://www.artofluis.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Areas-1024x576.jpg)
Image source: http://www.artofluis.com/3d-work/the-art-of-the-witness/ (which is actually a very cool and interesting read!)

Possibly a recurring theme here but I loved exploring this game's world! The world in The Witness is an intimate cosy island consisting of several distinct areas or biomes. Walking from one side of the island to the other takes just a few minutes. This is a world I'd like to go to, have a nice walk, there's some good picnic spots.

I ended up keeping track of my route as I lapped around the island here (http://i.imgur.com/eT8Jt1J.png). (Potential mild spoilers wrt. pathways around island, and also i came up with dumb names for places)

As you go around the island, you'll find many puzzles. If you ever get stuck, you can take a break and look around the island for some different puzzles to do. There's no urgency to anything, you can take everything at your own pace, choose your own path.

The puzzles consist of interacting with a panel and drawing lines from start points to end points. Of course, as you proceed, new mechanics are thrown into the mix. Neatly, the game never explicitly tells you the rules to any of the puzzles or mechanics, but instead gives you opportunities via the puzzles themselves to learn the rules! And then when you think you understand the rules, perhaps you find another puzzle which seemingly contradicts your understanding! And these are opportunities to correct any false assumptions you may have, until it clicks! Eureka!

It's hard to be precise about anything, since the learning experience makes up a lot of the fun of the game, but I really appreciated the variety of the puzzles as I journeyed around the coast of the isle, figuring out the mechanics piece by piece. There's a couple of puzzles which kinda feel more busywork than fun brain-teaser, but whatever.

The game has a few other cool tricks up its sleeve which are very exciting!

All in all, one of my favourite experiences of the year. Really pleasant, relaxing, pretty and clever!  :dancedog:

Spoiler: Obduction (click to show/hide)

(http://www.roadtovr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/obduction-hunrath.jpg)
Image source: http://www.roadtovr.com/obduction-vr-review-oculus-rift-myst-vr/

Honestly the only reason I bought this game is because it looked pretty. It just came outta nowhere and I heard it compared to Myst (which, turns out it's by the same creators). I'd never played any Myst games but they sounded kinda intriguing, and so I picked up Obduction. I'm very glad I did!

Me and Cait ended up playing through this together and it was a pretty unique and fun experience! The world is meticulously crafted and as we explored around, we found ourselves naturally curious about the world and coming up with theories, trying to piece together what had occured in the world. Why is this strange object here? What's with this house? What's the purpose of this device? And wonderfully, on many occasions our theories were happily validated or elaborated on by the game as we went!

Strangely, the first time we did a puzzle in the game, it kinda didn't feel so much of a puzzle, but in a good way where, I guess, it kinda felt natural? Like, rather than the bright puzzle panels in The Witness indicating "Hey! This is a puzzle", instead everything feels very grounded in the reality and constraints of the world.

Towards the end of the game you can kinda tell they were running out of budget. Feels a little abrupt and there's a few puzzles for the sake of puzzles that kinda border on tedium, but yeah, this is another game where I really enjoyed exploring and understanding the world! I'm excited for whatever Cyan do next. Would recommend! :apple:

Spoiler: Dragon Quest Builders (click to show/hide)

(http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1539/15391776/2909588-2501387682-Drago.jpg)
Image Source: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/new-dragon-quest-looks-like-minecraft-in-its-first/1100-6429113/

I like Minecraft a lot! I have very fond memories of playing on hubol's server a couple of years back. I really enjoy getting invested in a building project.
I like Dragon Quest a lot! I love the tone of the games, the character and enemy designs, the episodic storytelling as you travel from village to village.
Turns out that I like Dragon Quest Builders a lot too!

Dragon Quest Builders has you rebuild villages in a fallen world to their former glory. On the way you'll be attracting villagers that'll move into your settlements and give you requests, e.g. building particular types of rooms, e.g. bedrooms, kitchens, workshops, or exploring the world, or defending your village from attack.

You follow a definite storyline and you always have concrete quests and sidequests to be getting on with. There's often a lot of flexibility with the building tasks, letting you happily add your creative flair and make your own perfect village. The worlds are hand-crafted so that as you explore you'll find definite landmarks and events scattered around.

I kinda don't know what to say, other than that the Dragon Quest formula works surprisingly well when combined with minecraft-style block building!

Instead, enjoy this video tour of my village midway through the second chapter of the game!

Spoiler: Chapter 2 village spoilers!! (click to show/hide)

It has fun writing, it's pretty well paced with every chapter feeling fairly different, good dragon quest music! Looking forward to a sequel!  :grape:

uwu i've been writing for a while. i hope you enjoy this, my 20th post of the year 2016. coming up next year, some other games i liked this year?? featuring: Xanadu Next, Pop'n Music, Trails in the Sky FC, Let It Die, Momodora 4, Tearaway Unfolded, Dragon's Dogma, Furi, Stephen's Sausage Roll, Recursed???

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: SquareWheel on January 01, 2017, 12:14:05 AM

I've yet to play Obduction but I recently played Myst: Masterpiece: Remade: Director's Cut for the first time.  That was pretty cool.  Mapping out the tunnel underneath the volcano age was beyond brutal.

I played The Witness as well.  I liked it, but not all parts.  Some of it felt like busywork like you said.  I think it could have done with about 20% fewer puzzles; especially up in the tree tops.

The tetris puzzles were really cool because it was less about trial and error and more about working it out.  I started taking screenshots and drawing on them to work out solutions.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The environmental puzzles were my favorite part.  I totally missed them on my first go through.  Once you see them though, you start noticing them everywhere.  Anything remotely resembling a circle and line is probably a puzzle that you can draw on from somewhere.

The lead up to the end was pretty good too.  Lots of difficult puzzles that test all you'd learnt.  Except the sound puzzles, those never really come back.  I didn't really get them anyway though.

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: aimaina on January 01, 2017, 02:07:32 AM

oh shit ppl are making effort posts.... sorry im sleepy but ill read these at some point :honeydew:

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: aimaina on January 01, 2017, 02:14:35 AM

i didnt play a lot of videogames this yr i think..... except ive played pokemon moon for like 150 hours and counting.... its the first pokemon game since blue where i tried completing the dex (& i did it!! just the "regional" dex with like 300 pkmn tho i didnt catch all 7000 ones that exist or whatever) and also the first one ever where i got into all that iv breeding/ev training stuff, which is incredibly tedious but i kinda like it for some reason

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: aimaina on January 01, 2017, 02:16:30 AM

i wanna play dark souls id probably like it a lot i think....... i wonder if the new laptop i just got can run it or if its got a bad graphics card that cant do anything.....

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: aimaina on January 01, 2017, 02:23:03 AM

juner that was a realy cute post it makes me want to video game again..... im in grad school & it drains all my energy so i dont do very much stuff anymore..... i only played pokemon bc my friends got it too & i thought it would be fun to play with them then i ended up getting addicted to it & like staying up late playing it and stuff. i think i still like video games a lot but i just dont feel motivated to start them most of the time. i bought style savvy trendsetters from a used game's store recently & i havent touched it yet. i wanna play momo4 (i still need to play momo3 too....) and also stephens sausage roll and also the trails games

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: aimaina on January 01, 2017, 02:26:05 AM

Quote from: SquareWheel on January 01, 2017, 12:14:05 AM

I've yet to play Obduction but I recently played Myst: Masterpiece: Remade: Director's Cut for the first time.  That was pretty cool.  Mapping out the tunnel underneath the volcano age was beyond brutal.

lol i never finished myst but is that the part where u are in like a submarine thing in a maze and u cant see anything but [sp]there are sound cues telling you which direction to go[/sp]? i mapped out the whole damn thing and then i read the actual way to do it in a review of myst or something like that it was cool

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: Tinister on January 01, 2017, 02:28:15 AM

Quote from: SquareWheel on January 01, 2017, 12:14:05 AM

Mapping out the tunnel underneath the volcano age was beyond brutal.

What? Why?

At every intersection the ship plays a sound identical to the sounds that the map in the "gear age" makes.

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: aimaina on January 01, 2017, 02:31:23 AM

some times, people dont notice stuff

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: Tinister on January 01, 2017, 02:32:20 AM

Quote from: aimaina on January 01, 2017, 02:23:03 AM

grad school

I thought one of the things for agreeing to go to grad school was you'd give up any and all hobbies, free time, and sleep.

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: aimaina on January 01, 2017, 02:34:37 AM

u dont have to but if u dont then u will begin a slow descent into failure & death like myself

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: Tinister on January 01, 2017, 02:36:29 AM

Don't feel too bad.  The deck was stacked against you the day you were born.

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: Tinister on January 01, 2017, 02:46:27 AM

I kind of want to make a "edgy" post on reddit reminding everyone that a whole slew of celebrities will undoubtedly die in 2017 and they should do something about it now instead of complaining about it at the end of the year.

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: SquareWheel on January 01, 2017, 03:00:32 AM

Quote from: aimaina on January 01, 2017, 02:26:05 AM

lol i never finished myst but is that the part where u are in like a submarine thing in a maze and u cant see anything but [sp]there are sound cues telling you which direction to go[/sp]?

That's the one.  Took bloody ages.

Quote from: Tinister on January 01, 2017, 02:28:15 AM

What? Why?

At every intersection the ship plays a sound identical to the sounds that the map in the "gear age" makes.

I partially figured it out.  From enough trial and error I figured out that [sp]mute branches always led to dead ends[/sp], and that helped.  But I only used the audio cue as a [sp]marker for which section I was actually in, and not as a hint of where to go next[/sp].  Having them layer 2 sounds in some instances made it even more confusing.

The connection with the gear age was pretty silly.  There was no hint that linked them, and once you were in the age there was no way to go back and check it.

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: Tinister on January 01, 2017, 03:05:41 AM

You needed to use the same cues to know when to stop spinning the island.  Seared in your brain.

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: SquareWheel on January 01, 2017, 03:09:12 AM

The fortress island?  I did it pretty quick as I'd practiced on the simulator, so I guess I didn't think much of it.

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: SquareWheel on January 01, 2017, 03:10:04 AM

As in I did a turn, got the thing, did a turn, got the thing, did a double turn and went home.  I completely ignored the sounds because I already knew the timings.

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: Tinister on January 01, 2017, 03:25:36 AM

The funny part is reading the guy's diaries about his time spent in each of these worlds.  Apparently there (used to?) be whole populations of people native to these places.

Like at the fortress island?  Really?

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: SquareWheel on January 01, 2017, 03:36:16 AM

Well the fortress was created to protect them after some pirates came by, or something like that.  Some pretty odd stuff inside though.

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: hubol on January 01, 2017, 05:36:11 AM

im on mobey and its hard to trim quotes so i just thought id say that i liked ur cute reviews juner... i liked all the exclamation points!!!! i remember the minecraft server!!! i liked nomaddin a lot.... it was a fun way to play 'craft!!!

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: Tinister on January 01, 2017, 06:44:42 AM

What's e'erybody's resolution?

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: hubol on January 01, 2017, 04:36:00 PM

• call my grandmother more often
• finish sbw2
• (nsfw) [sp]stop masturbating with a sense of urgency & do it for fun, without guilt[/sp]

im not really one to set resolutions and these are kind of just personal goals i happened to set a week or so ago......

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: hubol on January 01, 2017, 07:04:50 PM

sorry to sex up this thread gamers

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: SquareWheel on January 01, 2017, 07:16:13 PM

Sex on, friend.

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: Tinister on January 01, 2017, 09:28:24 PM

I sometimes wish I could kill off my libido.  But in such a way that I could resurrect it if life situations ever changed on me.

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: hubol on January 01, 2017, 10:27:14 PM

same but i think maybe that line of thinking is kind of what makes me feel guilty about sex stuff too?

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: dcco on January 13, 2017, 05:36:32 AM

i casually make lots of new years resolutions (as well as just regular resolutions periodically) cuz occasionally im able to succeed at one and it feels good. this year i think a notable one is i want to diet b/c i make really unhealthy eating decisions.

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: 🐰 goodies 🐰 on February 19, 2017, 01:49:15 AM

Sex is good and not something you should be ashamed of but nor should you feel bad if you don't much care for it either  :dancedog:

Also hi errybody

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: Tinister on February 19, 2017, 05:34:09 AM

I've never had a good experience with it.

Title: last day of the cutey year
Post by: AnitaWER on March 02, 2017, 11:26:05 AM

I stayed home and slept last night trying to get this stupid bug out of my system I should be good to go for this  anything I can bring?

Title: Re: last day of the cutey year
Post by: hubol on March 02, 2017, 05:03:15 PM

what are you talking about