Anyone here play video games?
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@RobeOfTheMagi I find myself playing 90% casual indy titles nowadays, puzzles game in particular! Not exactly putting the power of the PS5 to good use, but it's nice to have when a big title comes out I wanna try..
I played WoW too, and other MMOs many years back, but don't allow myself to play anything online nowadays cause I'm terrified of being recaptured in the thrall of gaming addiction once again...
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Played through Firewatch over the last couple of evenings, short and sweet at around 3/4h long, but such a beautiful experience.
You play a character that has taken a job as a fire watch-man (I think that's the correct term...) at a National Park in Wyoming to get away from some demons, and things that have happened in his personal life.
The game flashes forward through a period of three months as you build a relationship with a mysterious colleague, whilst suspicious occurrences start to happen around you...
Any more info would spoil the experience, but if anyone is looking for a casual, narrative driven game you can have wrapped in little more than the length of a movie, I couldn't recommend it more.
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@SKT they're very different games, but it reminded me a lot of Outer Wilds from a stylistic perspective. Have you played that one?
I had the OW theme as my alarm tone for a while
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@T4920 My PS5 tells me I've played 14 hours already, and it feels much shorter. I'm starting to get a feel for the game and how to create builds. Balatro is a fun little puzzle.
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@EdH won my first run after 5/6 attempts.
Had this amazing Joker in the 5th slot that gave 3x Mult with only a 1/1000 chance of being destroyed at the end of each round.
Combined with the Misprint Joker and Level 17 Flush, I felt unstoppable
Such chaotic fun. I tried to play with a podcast on in the back this morning, but found myself really missing the quirky music.
Gonna try limit myself to one run per session, because you're 100% correct in saying that it's gaming crack...
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@T4920 said in Anyone here play video games?:
Had this amazing Joker in the 5th slot that gave 3x Mult with only a 1/1000 chance of being destroyed at the end of each round.
That's Cavendish. He only shows up if you take the other banana card (the one with I think +15 Mult that has a 1/4 chance of expiring and that banana actually does expire (AFAIK, you can't sell it yourself, it has to expire naturally). Whenever I see the first banana I always take it because the chance to get that 3x Mult is very powerful and fits in pretty much any build. (As an aside, I like how repositioning Jokers has an effect on the game. Generally you want to go cards-that-add-chips/cards-that-add-Mult/cards-that-multiply-Mult to get the highest scores.)
My best run was a few days ago, found a Joker card that copied whatever was to the right of it, and stuck it next to a card that gave 3x Mult if I played a flush, so that was effectively x9 Mult right there. I also had one called The Baron which gives +15 Mult per King that is held in the hand, and then found a card that re-triggered all card-effects. With the help of Tarot cards to delete low-scoring cards and duplicate a load of Kings, I would basically discard cards until I had my flush and a nice set of Kings to leave in my hand, play the flush, and watch the score rack up. I got 10 million points with one hand at one point.
Take the dive...
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I wish I could find an online translator to translate the above post into something approximating English........
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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@EdH I'm looking forward to uncovering the intricacies of it all in time...
I assume there's a card that allows you to rearrange your Joker order? Haven't found it yet, but faced the blind that flips/shuffles them in the final round of my winning run yesterday!
“𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑏 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑡, 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡.”
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@Tago-Mago Give it a go, Balatro!
EdH posted a short video on it above.
@EdH said in Anyone here play video games?:
Do not start playing Balatro. It is pure gaming crack. You'll be sat there, playing poker hands, until the small hours of the morning, completely oblivious to the passage of time.
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Oh yeah! And now let's dive deep into Magic The Gathering =)!
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@T4920 said in Anyone here play video games?:
I assume there's a card that allows you to rearrange your Joker order?
No! You can just do it! Grab a joker (or any card) and rearrange as you please - the order they trigger in can be crucial!
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@Giles said in Anyone here play video games?:
I wish I could find an online translator to translate the above post into something approximating English........
If you can play poker you can start playing Balatro. It's making me nostalgic for learning Solitaire as a nipper on our family's first PC. I gather that the developer is working on an iOS version (at which point global productivity will take a nosedive and economists - those that aren't also distracted by Balatro - will be writing reports puzzling over where people seem to have gone).
Edit: If you've got 9 minutes, watch the below from 3:00 to about 11:30, which gives the basic rules and shows a good example of the dopamine hit you get when something goes your way.
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@EdH bahhhh that Amber Acorn blind can really mess a run up! Is it always at the end of Ante 8?
I had the Egg Joker in first slot that increases in value by two $ every round, a Joker that turns the sell value of everything to it's left into Mult, and a Joker that duplicated the previous one!
The Amber Acorn has the audacity to shuffle the Joker
...Fell short on the last hand, I gotta talk a walk...
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@T4920 Yeah, I've faced that blind. Thankfully so far without having a build which depended too much on the order of Jokers.
What you can do is slow the game speed down in the options menu and then play a test hand pay attention to see what effect is added by each of the hidden jokers. This way you can make an educated guess as to which joker is which and re-order them back to how they should be.
