Happy Holidays all you people.

It's too hot.

SupremeAC said:

robio said:

Gentleman and the thousands of lady lurkers we have, I hope you all have a Merry Christmas. I'm about to embark on a week long cruise with my entire family. Internet is limited so this will probably be the last of me you hear from me for a while. Or possibly forever since I'll be stuck on a boat with a dozen family members.

Anyone else think it's a bit rude he only adressed one gentleman?  I wonder who of us he was talking to...

Well obviously it was me. Duh.

aspro said:

Who is making it?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-12-20-retro-bits-sega-deal-has-us-fantasising-about-a-dreamcast-mini

Merry Christmas and God Bless Us, Everyone!  

gamingeek said:

Going to see my brother for the first time in a couple of years now. Don't know if I'll be able to stand it without an argument. Fingers crossed. Merry Christmas to you guys.

Hope all went well, GG.

aspro said:

Happy Holidays all you people.

It's too hot.

We need to swap places.

There's a good article on Eurogamer on playing multiplayer games in 2017. There are lots of games discussed - but I personally liked reading the Splatoon 2 and Arms bits.

Splatoon 2:

Splatoon 2 was another game that helped define the year on online play. Splatoon 2 is allegedly a shooter, but it is not really a game about shooting people. It is a game about transforming the environment, and that slightly tilting of the rules, of the objectives, created sufficient space in which someone like me - tentative and clumsy and prone to wandering around looking at my feet - could find something useful to do.

Crucially, Splatoon does not look like other online shooters, either, and I think it is part of a mini-trend in online games in this respect. Splatoon is a place, a single coherent urban wonderland, and it feels like a place from the first moment you land in Inkopolis Square and see fellow players milling around you, see the doodled scrawls that bring their inner thoughts to life, and see the outfits they have chosen to wear - for the bonuses they deliver, sure, but also for the sheer love of self-expression.

Man, more games should be like this. They should think about how to turn menus and lobbies into shoe stores and food trucks. They should think about how the potential to build the right kind of community does not begin on the battlefield but with everything you go through before you reach the battlefield. Splatoon's kept me playing for so long not just because it is a brilliant game - and it is of course - but because it's a little world, and to stop playing would be to leave that world behind. There are rules to this world and, like Animal Crossing, another of Nintendo's bottle universes, it has its own sense of time. If I want to play in a Splatfest, I have to wait for a Splatfest to come along, and so I find myself waiting, and getting excited, and putting in much more effort than I usually would. If I want to play a little PvE, I need to wait for the terrible, gruelling, low-paying PvE job that is Salmon Run to become available again. I need to fight through the muck and slime with a weapon that I have not chosen and would not choose, and wearing clothes that protect my normal clothes and leave me feeling even more oppressed than I would in the presence of the horrible beasties I am meant to be dispatching. Salmon Run isn't merely a brilliant take on Horde mode, it's a repositioning of Horde mode, a reframing of it, a restaging of it, and one that's so successful it's only now as I write this that I finally realise: oh yeah, Salmon Run is Horde mode. I put up with indignities I never normally would in Splatoon because they are so gloriously contextualised.

Arms:

Thankfully, here comes Arms, the last of my enlightening multiplayer delights in a year of enlightening multiplayer delights, and there is absolutely no danger of taking Arms seriously at all.

Or is there? In fact, my big takeaway from Nintendo's stretchy, elasticated fighting game, is that the presence of other players in a game sometimes makes it easier for you to think about that game in mechanical terms, to think of the stuff that makes it work and the things it is really trying to do. I am currently convinced that Arms works because of the length of your arms. It's a game about committing to a move, and then hoping - as your fists race away from your body and towards their target - that the move you have committed to has not been anticipated. Arms is Poker, basically. Maybe many fighting games are Poker? This is the kind of connection I would never have made if I hadn't started playing games with other people.

I probably would’ve bought Skyrim but after putting nearly two hundred hours into the 360 version, I figured that it would be a waste.

travo said:

It sounds like cutting him off was for the best.

Yeah I don't think we will ever get back to where we were before.

He doesn't even ask my dad for help properly, he just walks up to him in an intimidating way and says "You're going to need to be there" to do all this moving stuff. Dad actually gave him a huge sum of cash so he could buy his new house too.