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Eurovision Song Contest night for 2018 is drawing to a close. I don't know what's gonna win, and I don't think I can be bothered staying awake to see what takes the grand prize, but I can tell you what should win. France has my vote for sure.

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Yeah I was also a bit surprised by how barebones the Switch "OS" is. Not that I need it to play youtube and Netflix and have a browser, since I already have plenty of other devices filling those functions.

Good stuff! I played Bridge Crew with 3 friends, and while it's fun to coordinate and try to work as a team in tense situations, the actual gameplay was fairly shallow, and the campaign was pitifully short. The Engineer position was also definitely the most boring one, so I'm glad to see they're beefing that up.

Aww yeah, now you're getting to the good stuff! The remaining games on your list are - with the exception of Rise to the Triad - all 5-star games in my book.

Just personally speaking (and I'm sure plenty of other non-native-English speakers on this forum will say the same thing) I learned most of my English from games and other media. By the time we started learning English in grade 3 or 4, Inspector Gadget and Transformers had already set me up with a pretty good foundation.

BEAT SABER IS AMAZING! Picked it up yesterday, of course I'm nowhere near the skill displayed in the video, but I'm having a lot of fun anyways. Unlike Audioshield, it doesn't support auto-generated tracks from your own music library, instead it's more finely-tuned tracks made for a fixed soundtrack. Also unlike Audioshield, you can actually fail in this, a Guitar Hero-style energy-meter needs to stay filled or the track stops. It's good shit. Get in on this!

What happened to this helicopter game? You better still be working on it, cause I wanna play it!

A quick googling seems to suggest it is not region locked, unlike earlier Nintendo consoles. https://www.polygon.com/2017/1/12/14260646/nintendo-switch-region-free-no-region-locking http://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22283/~/regional-compatibility-faq

Played through this over the last week. Loved it! I certainly didn't see the end coming, but then again it's such an out-there ending that I have a hard time imagining anyone figuring out who the killer was. I was expecting the big twist to be that I thought all the characters were well-written and acted. I like how new facets of their personalities were revealed when they were alone with different people, or alone by themselves.

I also recently finished Golf Story. It's a good one! As for on-the-go go-to time-waster mobile gaming, I also like to do some mobile golfing when I have a couple minutes to kill, tho my golfing is more of the DESERT variety. Desert Golfing, on Android, is what I'm saying, that I'm playing.

Human Fall Flat is a good time in singleplayer if you like physicsy platformers and puzzle solving. But where it really shines is in co-op. On Switch you'll probably want two controllers to play co-op tho. Apparently it's a bit too complex to be played comfortably with a single joycon.

Yeeeeeeeees! Good.

Remaining unguessed images that you just GOTTA GET. I don't know about the other ones, but these are the ones that someone really should be able to guess. 62. This one has been mentioned on Idle Thumbs I think. Some people say that it's not as bad as the reviews said it was. I'd say it was kinda ok I guess? 64. I think this game was also one of the vending machine images from earlier. 71. BIG FRANCHISE. 76. UNDERWHELMING PS4 SCLUSIE 77. This game was THE TALK OF THE TOWN when it came out about a year and a half ago. A lot of people hated it. A few weirdos liked it. I picked it up in a sale about a year ago and had a few good days with it, before never touching it again. It's a weird one, for sure. It's got a lot of issues, but it also has its charms.

Yeah I saw that title before I got to the end, and it made me very curious of just how bad it would be. Honestly, it's not the worst ever. Storywise it's garbage, but gameplaywise it's pretty good actually. It could have ended with a QTE bossfight or something, like FC3 and Dying Light did, but instead it's a pretty novel shootout segment followed by a set-piece-heavy driving bit. I actually enjoyed the finale up until the very last bit. It looked for a moment like it was going to go out on a gloriously over-the-top stupid note, befitting of all the ridiculousness that led up to it, but then the game decided that "NOPE, we're gonna go DEEP, maaaaaaaan." and I just rolled my eyes and went ugh. UGH!

I can't speak for #57, but the rest are correct. Well done, YOU CHEATER!

ALL DONE. At 42 hours it dragged on a bit longer than I would've prefered, but I still enjoyed my time with FC5. The ending was crap tho. The ending will have you saying "WHAT? What is this, game? What do you think you're DOING? You did not EARN this! Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck you."

I just recently finished the last season of Love. Loved it the whole way through. Didn't realize it was such a polarizing show until the last couple pages of this thread. Come on man. I didn't come to choc a little I didn't come to choc a little I didn't come to choc a little I came to CHOCOLAT! Genius! Ok ok. It's a weird brand of hipster anti-comedy where you gotta be in on the joke that it's a TERRIBLE JOKE to get the joke. Also helps if you're familiar with and perhaps even slightly enjoyed Paul Rust's real-life ex-band Don't Stop Or We'll Die.

Ok, AFAIK these are the still un-answered ones. Get these right and you are a VIDEO GAME GENIUS. 5. 19. 20. 32. 35. (Laco has played this one. I saw it in his Steam profile. He probably doesn't remember it tho. I didn't remember what it was either when I found the screenshot. It was pretty mediocre.) 40. 42. (this is a good one. it's still in Early Access tho) 43. 51. 57. 60. (I don't actually expect anyone to get this one. "Mixed" Steam reviews, and it doesn't really deserve any better.) 62. 63. (c'mon, you've all played this one, I'm sure) 64. 70. 71. 76. 77.

Yeah the co-op is good stuff. Definitely looking forward to teaming up again. And congrats on the win, Roderick! What PS4 exclusives are you gonna be picking up? Bloodborne and TLOU (unless you've already played it on PS3) are the must-plays, in my book.

Picked this thing up since it was discounted to a tenner this weekend. With the whole thing sounding like a very hands-off narrative thingy, it's not the kinda thing I'd normally seek out, but it's getting such good reviews and word-of-mouth that I had to buy it. Haven't played it yet but I'll try to get to it later in the week.

I dug into the Map Editor this weekend and revived a classic! Search for "Interstate 77" in the Arcade mode if you wanna play it. Map Editor impressions I wasn't too hyped about the editor from the pre-release footage. Map editors for big budget games usually try to walk the fine line between being both accessible and powerful and often end up being a bit bleh, like DOOM's Snapmap editor. The FC5 editor is very easy and pleasant to use, and features tons of objects, and switching between editor and playtesting is almost instantanous. The terrain-sculpting tools are great, perhaps even better than Unity's! But there's also clear drawbacks. The maximum play area isn't terribly big, I use pretty much all of it in this level, there's a budget on how many objects you can place(I maxed out the number of vehicles), and you can only choose from a certain selection of pre-defined objectives. Most problematically for me was that you can't explicitly tell the AI to patrol or use vehicles, you can only tell them to go to a specific area at the start, and if there's a vehicle near their spawn point they'll use it to drive over there. Overall tho, I really enjoyed using the editor, and I might make a few more maps with it.

I figure many here might be interested in this Verge article: Toxic Management Cost An Award-Winning Game Studio Its Best Developers It's about conflicts between the creatives and the higher-ups at Telltale, but it also takes the time to heap some praise on Vanaman and Rodkin for their success with TWD. And how that success set the template for every subsequent Telltale game:

Oooooh yes. I had a hard time thinking of anything, but Ravenholm did put a stop to my first HL2 playthrough as well. I don't like creepy crawly things that wanna get close to my face, so when HL2 started introducing headcrabs and barnacles I had to get myself nicely liquoured up to have the courage to keep playing. Eventually I got used to them, but when I got to Ravenholm a long-legged thing came skittering around the corner and I NOPE'D out of there and didn't return for a year or two. Eventually worked up the courage to play through the game, and even went back and played HL1 later on, which I'd given a miss for the same reasons.

Controller or M+KB is definitely the way to go. While you can hook up a wheel you'll likely have to use it in combination with a mouse for several functions, so it's quite unwieldy.