Heaven help me, I’ve gotten into Temple Run 2 on my Kindle Fire. It’s one of those free-to-play-but-if-you-want-to-get-anywhere-fast-then-spend-money-on-upgrades games, but that’s fine. I’ll play it until I hit a wall, then drop it instead of spending money. And speaking of hitting walls… it’s an infinite-runner game, so you go and collect coins and avoid obstacles until you goof up, and then you die. And I die a lot. Which is frustrating, unless there’s vodka involved, and then it’s kinda hilarious.
One thing I do enjoy about the game is, it uses the gyroscope in the Kindle, so to move certain ways, you tilt the whole Kindle to one side or the other. (You know, the way we used to try body English on the controllers back in Ye Olden Days of gaming… except it actually works here. Well… it works more or less, since I still die a lot. Oh well.)
I had a friend over for dinner last night, and she brought along 5 Minute Dungeon to try out. It’s a board game which also needs (well, you could play without it if you had a timer) a phone app. The phone app is voiced by the same guy who does Honest Trailers, and the game has some in-jokes from there and other corners of geekdom in it.
We found it fun but frustrating. We played several 5 minute sessions, and never did make it to the big boss, though we got close a few times. A lot of the challenge cards are hilarious, but there’s no time to read them during the game – it’s just turn over challenge card, frantically put down cards to defeat it.
It is fun with the app, because there’s Honest Trailers-style commentary when you start, stop, or pause the trailer, we’re not convinced the mechanics are totally worked out.
I figure if enough people are interested in board games (and would rather not wade through a deep pile of videogame comments to discuss them), someone could start a board game thread. As it is, I like many videogames and have next to no interest in board games, but I don’t mind board-game-related comments popping up here and there.
But as always, to keep topics organized and easily spotted for those with more granular than general interests, specialized and somewhat more specific threads can be encouraged. But I ain’t gonna tell anyone what to do. We all go to hell in our own way.
I have two ONE Steam code for Windward if any one wants them (First come first served)
I thought the first few hours was fun, but then it slogs down with a lot of grinding to get your skill up. Not sure I’ve played in a couple months and just noticed I had two installs from when I bought the 4 pack during the Summer sale.
pfft… Valve learned that hats are where the money is with TF2. I know a lot of people hate it but I enjoy the game enough to toss them some $ every year to get random things to decorate my in game avatars with. It keeps the servers running and amuses me to have ‘costume options’ for playing.
For Temple Run 2, you collect chests during gameplay, and they may have Artifacts (or cash, or gems) inside. Collect each one of the Artifacts in a collection, earn that collection’s hat. (This is my second hat, but the Relics Hat is a sedate little serpentine crown, hardly flashy enough to show off. )
The only other costume I can get right now is a mountaineering outfit, for 60 gems, but I don’t like it, and I’m saving my gems to buy another game level. (If I keep playing long enough to earn that many gems --it takes 500. There’s a ton of grinding to do, and it gets very frustrating sometimes.)
Oh you can get hats in TF2 by crafting/recycling drops as well. Just takes longer and I find it nice to have a token reward for what is essentially chipping in to keep the lights on for game play.
I don’t really have an opinion on this game yet, but being on an intersection of XKCD and games, I figured it should be here.
very clear that there are two things one should note when taking pictures of buns. The first is its size, and the second is its rank, which is a function of its size. The tiniest bun is a de facto “King Bun.”
I just got my 46th of 46 achievements for Heat Signature, today. As a lapsed completionist, this tickles me more than it probably should. I even made some new Steam “friends” so I could get the last few achievements.
In Heat Signature, you’re a sort of lone super-agent that boards spacecraft in transit and more-or-less fucks shit up, depending on the nature of your mission. It’s ostensibly a rouge-like, but I think of it more as a puzzle game, since it basically comes down to figuring out the proper kit and strategy to take down a particular procedurally generated space ship.
It’s distinguishing game mechanic is an almost infinitely granular pause that lets you switch weapons and string together various moves and attacks that would be impossible in any sort of real-time play.
I bought it mostly because I’d heard others describe it as the sort of thing you could play for 20-30 minutes at a time and still have fun. That’s definitely true, but I still ended up with a few multi-hour gaming sessions that I hadn’t planned on. It’s definitely engaging, but the mid-to-late-game stretch felt a bit grindy. That being said, there’s a fairly recent patch that seems to have addressed that aspect of game play; I didn’t know that’s what it was at the time, but I definitely noticed the difference in how the game played.
I don’t have PS+ currently so MP isn’t going to draw me in at this point.
I tend to like a good story in my single player games (or at least good characters) so I’m now leaning away from it - not too bad, I picked up Horizon Zero Dawn a few weeks back so I won’t be lacking for open world games. GTA SA did suck up a lot of my time back in the day, so I probably won’t lose anything by not going back to the old crack pipe there
Oh, and just finished Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. Chloe Fraser > Lara Croft by a factor of about 100
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