What VIDEO GAME(s) have you been playing?

hotseatgames wrote: Counter-Strike players are some of the worst of the worst.

guise... if you want to feel better about the world, watch Dunkey trolling CS:GO players. It's goddamn heaven. Giving wrong call-outs.. .running into total jerks and trolling them. I love this man.

Uh oh, ARMS looks like it's punishingly difficult and has tons of grindy unlocks. Paging Dr. Simmons, Dr Simmons, you are wanted in the Switch lobby...

arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/strong-ar...endo-i-used-to-know/

My son loved the testpunches he took part in, but he's Splatoon crazy so that's where his summer funbux went.

Seems the Arms reviews are pretty good.

arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/arms-review-nintendo-switch/

EDIT: regarding the difficulty, F-Zero GX is brutally hard. I was never able to finish the story mode, yet it's still my favorite race.

The 3v3 Lockout Elimination mode in Overwatch is a nifty piece of game design. Each player has one life, and after a really long time (long enough for ultimates to charge, typically) a control point will appear to break stalemates. It's played best of 5. Since everyone only has one life, healers and self healers are really good. A common strong team I saw before was Mercy/Soldier/Roadhog. But the Lockout wrinkle is that once your team wins a round with a hero, no one on your team can take that hero anymore that match. So if you blow Soldier and Roadhog on your first round, you're going to have to find a way to get your other two wins.

I've largely been solo-queuing, and I like to wait for at least one of my teammates to pick before I do. I take Mercy a lot, because she's good with any tank or a Pharah, but I've been burned by attaching myself to bad Pharahs. Mercy is also really good with Bastion, the robot who makes himself into a turret. When I don't wait or we get down a round or two, I'll just snap pick Roadhog or Soldier because they're so good in this mode.

Jexik wrote: The 3v3 Lockout Elimination mode in Overwatch is a nifty piece of game design. Each player has one life, and after a really long time (long enough for ultimates to charge, typically) a control point will appear to break stalemates. It's played best of 5. Since everyone only has one life, healers and self healers are really good. A common strong team I saw before was Mercy/Soldier/Roadhog. But the Lockout wrinkle is that once your team wins a round with a hero, no one on your team can take that hero anymore that match. So if you blow Soldier and Roadhog on your first round, you're going to have to find a way to get your other two wins.

I've largely been solo-queuing, and I like to wait for at least one of my teammates to pick before I do. I take Mercy a lot, because she's good with any tank or a Pharah, but I've been burned by attaching myself to bad Pharahs. Mercy is also really good with Bastion, the robot who makes himself into a turret. When I don't wait or we get down a round or two, I'll just snap pick Roadhog or Soldier because they're so good in this mode.

I like 3v3 Lockout as well. I really like the swapping out idea in general. I play more Mystery Heroes than Quickplay, probably, so this is in my wheelhouse. I think it's important to manage your offensive picks. I played against a team that was probably better than we were, but by round 3 they had NO Offense characters left and just couldn't kill anyone between our heals and ganks.

Remember: Roadhog mirror, hook LAST. Try to get some damage on them and bounce around a lot, if they hook you and bring you in, take your lump, then shoot, hook, shoot, melee. This is worth practicing, it comes up.

hotseatgames wrote: Counter-Strike players are some of the worst of the worst.

<<I>> was a CS player back in the 2000's

As was I, but I wasn't trolling people and making them look at goatsce

lol

I bought Project Highrise, which is basically an updated version of SimTower. I enjoyed that one back in the day, and I am so far enjoying this one as well. I find it less stressful to worry about a single building than an entire city. Not that I'm worried. I build out a space, rent the space, run electricity to it, a phone line, etc. It's neat to watch the whole thing buzz along.

I played some Diablo 3 with both spawnlings in 3 player local co-op on ps3.

Here is a good educational example on the importance of cooperation. If all you do is run around collecting as much loot as you can without sharing, you will lose as a group.

The female spawnling understands this, but the male spawnling has little sense of working as a group and is more interested in his own avarice. This is highly concerning to me. I hope I can use this game as one means to help guide him away from that.

Local co-op is a bit janky to play. Its all played on the same screen, which is good. But the constant interruption of checking your inventory and skills makes it more of an accounting game and really destroys the sense of exploration. Especially when male spawn checks every single time he gets a gold coin. He definitely suffers from ADHD, and I suspect is high on the aspergers spectrum as well.