I'm currently playing Project X Zone (3DS) and it's pretty good and extremely horrible at the same time. I can sink hour after hour into the shallow Missions, because the combos and just wiping the enemies away feels so rewarding. I just wish it would end so I can play something good but at the same time I could play another 20 hours.

Is this what MMO games feel like?

I got Far Cry Three and Tomb Raider for ten bux. Beat that.

Bustin out the old PS2.
Out of all the games I have, Spider-Man 2 and Shadow of the Colossus are the only ones I ever want to replay.
Oh and prince of persia, persona 3 fes, soul calibur, and burnout revenge. Maybe devil may cry and crazy taxi too. But mostly just Shadow of the Colossus and Spider-Man 2.

>>204
I'll replay FES soon, too!

The Legende Of Zelda: Hyrule Warrirors. New screenshots!
http://www.gamecity.ne.jp/zelda/gallery.html

>>206
Damn. These are some serious boobs for a Nintendo game.
http://www.gamecity.ne.jp/zelda/gallery/gal_23.jpg

Why is the imageboard filled with nothing but pokemon and minecraft? I think those are only nostalgic/soothing for a select group of people.

>>199
Attack of the Friday Monsters is awesome.

>>201
I started PXZ but never continued. It's really a treat of a game, but yeah the difficulty. Some day! It's great when you see a favourite obscure character.

>>207
It's more of a Tecmo-Koei game. Other M was all boobed up too. They seem to require boobs in their games.

>>208
A large group of select people. I am 27 years old (I had to pause, calculate, and pause in disbelief for a moment). For a huge number of people around my age, Pokémon was and continues to be an important part of our lives. It was a very personal thing, which also happened to be embraced and shared by the worldwide community, even to this day. How awesome it is to share this rich fictional world together.

Minecraft is also popular, but that doesn't diminish it's value at all. It's a game which allows users to be creative. It's also really grindy and pretty much an alpha game that never got finished. I haven't put the effort into learning all it's systems, so I don't play it very often. But when I do play, I enjoy my time there. Playing with people is really the way to play, to share and build things you never could have otherwise.

I understand if you dislike something because it's popular. It's illogical to the core - why should we dislike people enjoying themselves? I often make this leap. But don't make the mistake of dismissing something because of it's popularity. There are plenty of people who play these things and never even talk about them, and just enjoy them as a personal casual pastime. We just hear from the vocal ones who engage each other and find joy in community.

>>203
Also, I've been waiting for Fantasy Life for a long time. It was originally to be on DS, and was developed by Brownie Brown, aka the Mother 3 helper dudes.

Anyone here tried out bravely default?

If you have never played Elona+ and you like roguelikes and JRPGs this game is the thing for you. You can download it for free:

http://wikiwiki.jp/elonaplus/

The current version is 1.37
There is a very active thread on /jp/ you can visit too

>>209
It doesn't bother me because it's popular, I dislike it because it has nothing to do with iyashi lifestyle or taking it easy. Nostalgia is a strong connection with iyashi lifestyle, but that doesn't seem to be the angle with these posts about minecraft and pokemon. And besides that it feels out of place to have it play such a big role.

I just get the feeling that people confuse this place with textboards without a set topic. Textboards where common nerd culture is the largest binding factor.

Guys, it's Minetest, says so on the caps. Step up

>>213
this this this

>>213
I never played Minecraft, but there was an discussion a long time ago that made a good argument for it fitting in, not simply for reasons of nostalgia, but on its own merits, at least at one point in its development.
→/ykkaria/o/res/533.html

>>216
That's pretty much how Minetest is now. Which is what all those screen shots on the photoboard are from.

>>213
I'd never heard of 'iyashi' before.
http://www.iromegane.com/society/to-be-an-iyashi-kei-girl/

>>218
Iyashi is what this board is all about.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Iyashikei

I'm going to play Far Cry 3 after my exams on the 22nd. What can I expect?

>>220
SO I STARTED PLAYING EARLY
Or I tried. The text in the game is too small to read. I don't know where I'm supposed to go. I literally have to buy a bigger TV to keep playing.

I've been thinking about getting a new console but I'm not sure about what console to buy. The new Xbox and Playstation are out of the question, most stuff that comes out on those consoles will come out on PC sooner or later and good PC parts aren't that expensive anymore if you look closely or just wait a little.

So I've been thinking about getting one of the consoles mentioned in the title.

I'm currently leaning a lot to the Wii U since you can play Wii games and games like SSB and Mario Kart are exclusive. Vita doesn't let you play PSP games instead you have to buy them in the store. Not that I had a PSP to begin with but still. The 3DS is region locked and I already have a NDS that is NOT region locked. While the Wii U is still region locked at the moment the pressure will hopefully get to Nintendo.

What do you think? What console have YOU got?!

>>222
I think you should choose on what you think you will have the most fun with for the longest. It's with the user's affinity with the console. I've had a PS1, PS2, and a GBA, and now I have a PS3, and a psp, and I've had the most fun with a psp. It's how many years old now, and it still takes my heart with the consoles. Though I did borrow my cousin's DS and thoroughly enjoyed playing through various games such as Cooking Mama and Pokemon. My GBA somehow broke down and disappeared through the passing of time, but my PSP quickly replaced it. So far, they've all made me happy.

I'd be going down the Nintendo route for now, since they still have the same power in the market. Sony and Microsoft hasn't been doing very well in my opinion, console-wise that is. Though I really don't like region locks, which sways me away from Nintendo slightly. Apart from that, I look forward to buying a 3DS early next year and play Monster Hunter with my friends.

I know it sounds cheesy, but it's not about the console itself, it's the bond that you make with it.

>>222

3DS, Xbox 360, nearly all of the Gameboys, and two PSP-1000s. (Though the UMD drive broke in a funny story.) I love my 3DS.

I want a WiiU pretty damn badly. That Xenoblade game looks great. The Xbox One is so hilariously bad. The PS3 just does not interest me.

I saved a NES controller from the trash at a storage liquidation place yesterday! AND a Donkey Kong Game and Watch from 1982!!

Picked up an import Sega Saturn from this store at my local mall for $60! Best deal ever :D

Anyone recommend any cool import Saturn games?

>>226
Man, I've never even been close enough to one of those things to breath on it. Super jelly of you.

>>226
That's a coincedence. I just bought one a week ago! My favourite imports so far are Radiant Silvergun, Princess Crown and the D&D Collection. Played a lot of Rayman and Virtua Fighter 2 also.

>>228
Okay now this it getting to be unfair.

I played the Xbox 360 Tomb Raider gamer for nine hours straight yesterday and man is it good. There are just so many insentse 'holy shit' moments. Controls and shooting is smooth and the world is beautiful and big.

>>230
All the stuff I heard about it so far was pretty negative, but this post convinced me to play it this weekend!

I decided to play some adventure games.
I think I'm going to go though almost all of the LucasArts games because they're pretty awesome.
I played Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and I just finished The Dig.
The Dig was absolutely amazing, the story was great, the music was really good and the visuals were some of the best I've seen in a videogame.
I really want to play Riven but my toaster has some performance problems with the new port (It's probably related to scaling the image to this big monitor) and ScummVM doesn't exactly work 100% right.

Has anyone been playing Elona? I've been wanting to play the game for awhile now, but I'm afraid it may not be worth the investment.

What's the deal with that new 3DS?

>>234
The new 3DS is looking awesome. Just because of those sexy Super Famicom buttons as well as the fact that it allows us to play Xenoblade on the go :D

>>235

sexy Super Famicom buttons

The best.

>>234
I guess you could compare it to the DSi, and hopefully it will have a similarly low amount of good exclusive software so I won't end up having to buy one. The main improvement is that it can track your face, so that the 3D effect won't become blurry if you view the screen from other angles. According to the Famitsu guys who got to try it, even shaking it considerably didn't give a blurry image. The processor and memory are also upgraded, and there are extra buttons, including a "c-stick" which feels like a ThinkPad nipple mouse.

I think it would be a worthy buy for those on the fence about buying a 3DS in the first place, but I would wait at least a year after its release in your country for a price drop.

>>236
Wait, why can Xenoblade only be played on it?
>>235
That sounds pretty good. Though I am mildly annoyed since I only just bought a 3DS for Pokemon X/Y.

>>237
The new 3DS has an upgraded CPU which allows for bigger games like Xenoblade Chronicles to be run. Meaning that the new 3DS will have exclusive games with more graphical capabilities.

>>238
Oh...shit.

Super Smash Bros. 3DS demo livestream :D

http://www.twitch.tv/cobanermani456

i'm looking for games with a iyashi-kei/kind of slice of life atmosphere, any genre is good. I'd prefer retro games, but not necessarily. I know about Animal Crossing, Survival Kids, Mother/Pokémon series and Boku no Natsuyasumi/Friday Monsters, I've also played a nice Japan only DS game called Sakura Note and loved it, so I wondered if there was more stuff like that. Thanks in advance!

>>241
Hey, are you from the Umihara Kawase thread on /vr/? In any case, i'll say give it a try to Megaman Legends 2. Although it's a very action oriented game, most of the areas you go through aside of the dungeons are very chill and nice in the sense of having a calm atmosphere in it. Give it a shot, and tell me what you think! Also, it's never a bad thing to mention Umihara Kawase itself.

>>241

If you haven't already, you should give Zelda: Link's Awakening a try.
Also, the Harvest Moon series.

>>241
Contact for the DS. It has a mellow vibe. I really liked it. You might too.

>>242
yeah I posted this request there too, I discovered this nice website right there so I know about Umihara Kawase and I've seen mentions of MM2 too, looks nice!
>>243
Yeah I know both but to clarify I prefer stuff that isn't fantasy-medieval related, one thing I love about the games I mentioned before is that they have a modern day setting.
>>244
I discovered Sakura Note thanks to Contact and coincidentally I'm replaying it today!

Has anybody here played UFO: A Day in the Life?

I discovered this brilliant Japan-only game recently, and I've fallen in love with it. It's not too heavy on dialogue (as in, there's almost none) so you can definitely enjoy it without knowing the language.

It's a beautiful game with watercolor graphics, a great soundtrack, and a very unique premise: you are a crashlanded alien who must find your friends, but you do so by observing the rooms in an apartment complex for every hour of the day, just watching how people live their everyday, weird, uneventful, and surprising lives. It's created by the masters at Love De Lic, and if any of you have a chance to check it out, I can't recommend it enough.

>>246
I've just picked it up at your recommendation. So far I'm on the title screen and it's great.

>>246
Speaking of which, the Moon RPG translation is seemingly close to completion...

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=871910

R.O.B. turns 29
https://8chan.co/v/res/724470.html

>>248
That is excellent news, I've been waiting to play that game for years.

>>248
Great news! This game has been the highest on my list of things I've wanted to play for a long long time now. I was planning on just giving it a shot in a year's time when I know a little more japanese, but I would be delighted to be able to play this in my native language. Thanks for posting this!

List of games with iyashikei themes:

Animal Crossing (series; very popular life simulator with strong collecting aspect)
Boku no Natsuyasumi (series; summer holiday simulator)
Ihatovo Monogatari (RPG based on Kenji Miyazawa book)
Legend of the River King (series; fishing RPG with soothing mechanics)
Famicom Bunko Hajimari no Mori (text-based adventure game about a boy spending his summer vacation at his grandfather's home)
Nanatsu Kaze no Shima Monogatari (RPG/Adventure game set in a fantastical and soft-coloured land)
Umihara Kawase (series; platformer with rope mechanics. tough, but great visual themes)
Fuuraiki (VN where you explore japanese countrysides as a reporter and talk to nice girls)
Pilotwings (flight sim, shines because of calm gameplay and SNES aesthetics)
SimCity (city builder, shines because of calm gameplay and SNES aesthetics)
London Seirei Tanteidan (1920s London/Ghibli style JRPG)
Survival Kids (series; adventure game about castaways)
PoPoLoCrois (series; super-comfy pastel-colored fairytale JRPGs)
Katamari Damacy (series; happy and pastel)
Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale (same creator as boku no natsuyasumi, similar gameplay)
Outrun (series; ferrari driving, very different landscapes, very smooth gameplay)
Jingle Cats (cat-owning sim)
Charumera (Japanese food stand owner simu)
Yakitori Musume (yakitori restaurant ownser sim)
My Garden (cute gardening lady sim)
Suzu Monogatari (cute girl who digs up crops sim)
MOON: RPG Remix Adventure (JRPG about doing good deeds)
Atelier Elie/Marie (colorful alchemy-centric JRPGs)
Battle Konchuuden (bug-collecting RPG)
Komocchi (mascot sim)
Kuru Kuru Maru Maru (driving school sim)
Click Medic (super-cutified hospital management sim)
Happy Salvage (underwater salvage adventure)

>>244
What a coincidence. I got Contact a few days ago and I abolutely love it.

ORAS drops today! Australian netizens won't STFU about it.

>>254
Got my copy of ΩＲαＳ from Amazon earlier. I literally cried during the opening. It was so well done. Beautiful.

I recently started playing Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles on the Gamecube.
Really enjoying it, the game gives off a really comforting and relaxing feeling, the music is also very soothing.

I can keep playing this for a long while.

I'm currently replaying Persona 4 and it's just super comfy. I'm hanging out with friends, catching bugs, fish, ride my bike around town...
Can anyone recommend any other games, which have this slice-of-life feel to them?
Visual Novels are okay, too!

>>258
How much have you tried of this list? >>252

>>259
Oh, this is looking neat, thank you!
I should have read the thread more carefully, will definitely try these.

Does anyone else still play text adventures? I've been getting back into Zork recently. It's a refreshing experience to play a game without graphics and sound.

>>261

It's been a while, but I love Adventure.

>>262
>>261
Most of Infocom's games are really good, but my favorites are probably Buracracy (written by Douglas Adams!) and Trinity, a trippy time travel game.

I've been trying to beat final fantasy III on the DS, and I didn't understand why my party kept getting defeated. I didn't want to refer to an FAQ, so I just kept on trying. I soon realized I had to fight all of the dark crystals. And then I finally won. To top that off, my black belt and my summoner have job levels of 99, so, while it's a very minor achievement, I'm very proud of my self.

>>264
I've been debating buying that. How good/fun is it? How is the story? I've been wanting to figure out which final fantasy for the 3DS is the best one, and then play the shit out of it.

This is a trailer for a horror game called OMORI coming for PC/Mac/3DS in 2016. It has a Earthbound on bad acid vibe to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erzgjfU271g

collector's value

>>265
That would be Curtain Call, haha.

Lovely planet is cute and fun. Have any of you played it?

>>268
Nigga I don't want no music game.

>>269

http://store.steampowered.com/app/298600/

Damn, that looks fun.

You have to play this:
http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/

As a slow gamer, is it worth picking up a PSP now? They're coming up cheap on ebay, but the only games on the platform I can really think of to play are the Wipeout series and Disgaea.

>>273
Oh hell yeah dude.
Also Star Wars Battle Front.
Medal Of Honor.
FF Crisis Core.
http://vsrecommendedgames.wikia.com/wiki/PSP

>>274
Thanks for that, I hadn't realised there was that much on the platform! To be honest, Wipeout and Disgaea had me sold on it but I've always wanted to play Ace Combat & Armored Core too.

>>275
You're welcome man.

So I only just now realized that in the newest Smash Bros you can make Samus and Shulk both...fight in swimsuits. Why has this fact not been all over the net? Why has no one told me? How have I owned this game for months and not noticed this? More importantly, can my 4 gigabyte SD card hold all these screenshots I'm taking? Because I'd fuck them both and 4 gigabytes might not be enough.

Jesus christ Cave Story is amazing.

Nintendo World Championships made me all giddy. Smash, Mario Kart and especially Super mario maker were intense!

>>278
It really is. Probably my favourite platformer. When you are exploring the zones between two hard fights, nothing comes quite close to it. And there are so many secrets to find!

The Last Guardian looking beautiful reminded me that I should really get around to play both Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.
Are there any other other games with this calm, lonely atmosphere?

>>280
Try Journey, and Flower for the PS3

Minecraft (ymmv)

>>281
Seems they also came out for ps4.

>>281
ymmv?

"Your Mileage May Vary", probably.

>>284
*oh.*

Anyone interested in building cozy things in Minecraft or one of the free clones?

>>286
I've wanted to set up a Mineest server for all the textboards since forever but I've never had the hardware.

>>287
*Minetest.

>>287,279
You could team up with this VIPPER: http://secretvipquality.website/img/res/213.html#324

I think you can purchase dedicated hosting for Minecraft, I've seen shit go as low as 5 smackaroonies a month.
Maybe when I get around to it I'll get a credit card to pay for a few months since my debit card seems to dislike the internet. Or maybe you guys could pony up. Gathering 5 or 10 bucks a month doesn't seem that hard, does it? We are more than 5 people here, right?

>>290
I'd pitch in for it. I haven't played Minecraft in years, but if there was a Post Office server I'd be willing to hop back on.

>>290
I'd be down for Minetest but I don't feel like buying proprietary software.

>>292
A free solution sounds like a better idea, too. The price of a license for Minecraft has gone up a lot since I bought it all those years ago!

>>293
Setting up a Minecraft server to accept non-registered users (read: people who didn't purchase Minecraft) is trivially easy. I opt for Minecraft because to my understanding, it has way more third party content available. If you guys have moral qualms about acquiring closed-source software through alternative means though, then Minetest it is, although you won't find readily available pre-configured servers for Minetest.

>>294
It's not like it's hard to set one up. I just don't have the hardware for it.

Who would have thought – Breath of the Wild is pretty iyashikei. I'm spending most of the time just relaxing and exploring on my own pace. Most fights can be entirely sidestepped. Climbing cliffs and finding nice, scenic spots is an reward in itself.
This is great!

>>296
Most Zelda games are pretty comfy. The fishing is my favorite thing about Ocarina. Twilight Princess has a really great fishing hole too.
I really wanna play Breath of the Wild, but I'm unfortunately broke. How does it compare to the Elder Scrolls games in terms of world size and exploration?

Someone ported Spelunky Classic to Android, so I've been rediscovering my addiction.

>>297
It's really good. Really, really good. The exploring is the best part. I hate to gush about it, so I'll keep it short but a game like Breath of the Wild is one that I've been waiting for all my life. It's everything I wanted in the exploration aspect of Wind Waker.

>>299
Exploration's always been my favorite thing about Zelda games, so that sounds awesome. I've been thinking about getting a Switch. I think I'll wait for a price drop and more games, though.
It's funny. As much shit as Nintendo gets for being "kiddy," the older I get, the more they're the only current console maker whose stuff appeals to me.