/arcade/ - vidya gaems and other gaems too

Found another cryptography puzzle game, a free one. Either online at https://manansingh.github.io/The-CryptoGame/thecryptogame_files/index.html or just download it zipped from https://github.com/mananSingh/The-CryptoGame for offline.
Much more hand-holdy than Cypher, longer format explanations of the current method, less to figure out (as far as I've tried it at least, on chapter 3). Tools to solve the cryptograms are included. It kinda feels like if someone had made a game out of mathbook exercise problems. Not a bad thing, just a mood.

>>1222
Besieged and Baba is You. Both very fun games

>>1254
talos principle is so good, i've somehow played through it three times. it drags a bit near the end, but the writing is so great.

oh and before i don't contribute anything again, i occasionally play a few games of this: https://gridentify.com/ fun little distraction. make 3s and 6s, never 4s or 9s EVER, is my hint.

>>1222
Here's a site full of cool short puzzle games (though not all of the are): https://increpare.com/
One game I particularly enjoyed was Make Way!: https://increpare.com/game/make-way.html

>>1291
Nice one. Would give it a go.

Best game on the genesis is puyopuyo err I mean Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine.

There's been a TON of new games coming out for it, very impressive. Among those that came out I'd say tanzer, arkagis and xeno crisis are the most appealing. Paprium came out recently and I've heard praise for it but the moment you make a game for a retro console with added hardware to the cartridge that wouldn't exist or be prohibitively expensive at the time of the console's heyday is the moment I dismiss your game.

>>1297
I thought that was a PS1 game, huh

>>1317
It was ported to the PS1 as well. It was originally an arcade game.

>>1323
The PS1 is so weird, half its catalog is like a crossbreed between old 2D consoles and the other half is 3d that didn't really look that good.
That didn't happen with the n64, most games were just 3d and the 2d ones didn't feature much spritework

>>693
>>693
got anything better to post, funny man?

>>694
no not really

Vega in Mortal Kombat please.

>>693
This site is one of the cringiest chans I've ever been on, and you're complaining about fucking Wojak? No wonder this place is dead, kill yourself.

>>1213
>>1220
sent friend requests

>>1219
if you go to the "add a friend" page there's a code you can paste instead of your user id. either way I wont laugh at your username, promise ;)

>>1221
AHHHH I woke up too late to respond and now the sale is over! I'm sorry sushi roll, I let you down

And that's it for now! I hope everyone enjoys their games and have a nice new year. I might do this again next time there's a sale.

There's a short steam sale going on now so thought I might bring this back. Same deal as before, sale ends tomorrow.

>>1305
Thanks for the Momo sushi!

>>1144
>Infra Arcana
Gonna check this out, any tips for starting out?

>>1280
It's easiest to start out as War Veteran, most straightforward playstyle (just keep in mind that other classes take a turn for switching weapons).
You get XP by learning of new enemies/items rather than kills, most enemies are only worth killing if they're an obstacle to somewhere you need to be and you can't run around and block the path behind you (doors can be jammed if you have spikes, just press to close the door an extra time after you've already closed it).
You can't spend forever at one depth, you need to budget your mental stability to last you to the stairs downwards.
Potions with negative effects aren't useless, since you can throw them at enemies.
If you don't have a numpad you can move diagonally with Right/Left arrow +Shift for up, +Ctrl for down, but it's much more comfortable to play on numpad. Check the F1 manual for other keys, you'll need most of them.
Undead corpses rise again if you don't destroy them, kick them with same key you kick down doors with.

>>1281
How the heck do you deal with the invisible guys that show "something claws you"? All my runs that lasted past the 4th or 5th floor have died to them.

Fun game though, pretty simple to pick up compared to a lot of the roguelikes I've played.

>>1282
There are scrolls of see invisible, and some invisibles are rendered visible just by turning on the lantern. Also the "vigilant" trait shows the location of nearby creatures regardless of visibility.
I usually just outrun them since you don't usually have that many identified scrolls as a non-occultist, and they don't tend to chase you that far and they just hit you if you stay/go somewhere they can reach.

>>1283
Ah, I always run out of my lantern by then, I gotta use it less. I'll try running away more often too, I really should.

>>311
I guess the forumfags did something right.

A game which makes for very interesting written reports and for which written reports are relatively common is the Dominions series. There are many written accounts of Dominions 3 and 4 multiplayer games from each player's perspective, as >>311 points out most are from SA. I also love the format and would like to read anything anyone had to link

I haven't seen any recently. You could make one. Just go nuts on that screenshot button and write it as you play so that you don't lose track of what happened in the past in the game.
Or at least write it one section at a time, so that it has some sense of narrative and you can be surprised when surprising things happen.

>>312
When you look into it there's actually a lot of interesting stuff that's happened on there. Sadly most of it is gone now.

>>310
> high quality written reports of their video game playthoughts
Yes.
http://www.sirlin.net/sf-hdr/street-fighter-hd-remix-design-overview
https://mikezsez.blogspot.com/2015/12/what-id-change-for-third-strike-upper-3s.html

>>1025
It was cool. There's a link to stream archives at the end of the 8moe thread, mega a shit though so you might have to fuck around with download tools a bit.

I tuned for a bit too, watched 3 games, then came a dry spell with no games whatsoever and a lot of dolphin talk, something about other stream then came a mirror match and I left.
At the very least in my time there I could confirm there was 2hu talk and games there every once in a while, good for you lads.

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Organizing with PMs is easier here.

I've been entertaining the thought of getting involved in the age of empires 2 online community.

>>1057
Age of Empires II DE is pretty decent for beginners, although there's recently been some kind of influx of rude tryhards on the ladder, the types of blowhards who don't say glhf or gg.

>>1058
NOOOOOO being the silent ownage machine was supposed to be MY GIMMICK!!!

>>1060
idk man it makes me really pissed off when people don't say glhf back or at least u2

I don't mind quality of life changes but there's something about the grime of StarCraft

>>298
Yea, see, college is nothing like real life. I work with computers quite a lot, and a lot of the computers I work on are never Macs. They tend to be old Compaqs/HPs or Toshibas aka the shit you get from Walmart. And in this group, these people get Windows because it isn't that much harder to use and it comes with the computers. Plus a lot of their software is often Windows only anyhow. Again, people don't buy Macs just like these people aren't getting Alienware or the Surface Book. Too expensive.

The use of consoles especially among older people is likely from the massive PC vs Console difference in terms of games of the past. When people bring up great 90s games, a lot of people mention Quake or Serious Sam along with all those cartoony adventure games OR they mention games like Mario Bros or Final Fantasy. I mean, how many people were playing Quake on their tv back in the 90s like people play CoD on a tv now? Kids nowadays are playing Minecraft which while on consoles, I think the rise of Let's Players has resulted in younger generations of kids getting into PC gaming, kids are also playing more games on a smartphone or tablet. The next generation of gamers seem to favor more multi-function devices like smartphones and PCs over consoles.

Also;
>Apple
>fashionable

Good one, but my iPad is the least fashionable piece of tech I own. No crazy colors, overly minimalistic, the newer iPad Pro looks tacky as shit when you charge that overpriced "Apple Pencil" in the lighting port. Apple is the grandma of tech if you want to talk about nice looking devices. Now something like Asus looks pretty nice despite going for the minimal look.

>>300
>and a lot of the computers I work on are never Macs.
Don't apple have their own "genius" pseudo monopoly on maintenance?

With pc gaming having the better controls, hardware and options it's easily taking the more dedicated gamers, and mobile shit is eating up the casual players. Consoles are being ripped in half, their only real future is probably portable consoles. I dare say there's not going to be enough room in the marketplace for sony, microsoft and nintendo soon.

Apple is still fashionable in the same way a corpse sits up by it's own rigor mortis. But it is still sitting.
I'm pretty certain the apple vogue will be replaced within the next half decade. Not sure what will replace it though since there's no dominant force of such magnitude in computing, it's pretty fractured.

>>301
True, and a lot of there stuff is soldered and being based on BSD, macOS doesn't have the same issues that Windows often does. But again, the bulk of people I help often cannot afford a Mac in the first place, my main point is that Macs are pretty uncommon, only people who are students, got plenty of money or really scraped and saved have a Mac, everyone else just buys a computer with Windows or builds it and then puts Windows on it.

I agree with your second point but I feel that it's more that people want more functionality from their devices more than "casual vs dedicated". A popular casual game, Just Dance is on the PC and emulators as well as companies trying to push mobile gaming to more hardcore heights with special hardware like controllers and more serious titles makes me feel that devices that only serve one purpose, much like the MP3 Player or iPod before it are getting further pushed out.

I hope that we get tech in awesome/cute colors again. When I had a Lumia it was a pretty nice cyan color, otherwise I'm going to have to spraypaint my next phone or something. Everything is just grey/black/gold and sometimes white.

>>233
Get thee to PSV.

Playstation Five wil be henceforth known as PSV.

Buelbe argot ;_;
How come this thread was necrobumped with no replies? A Mystery!

>>1091
Whoa I didn't even notice the post date, scary stuff!