What are you playing?

[BoneSnapDeez]

Artwork by Satoshi Urushihara. Also did the character designs for the Langrisser games. Amazing stuff.

[strangenova]

Finished the Shadow Temple in OoT 3D, didn't get to play Wind Waker. My wife wanted to play some Yoshi Wooly World.

[dunpeal2064]

Spent the evening with the NioH Beta Demo. Seems excellent so far.

[ElkinFencer10]

Elkin if you haven't played this yet:

You oughta.

I haven't, but I'm going to start looking for a copy.

[Octopod]

I'm revisiting Dragon's Crown. I love absolutely everything about this game, it is just beautiful and really fun to play. Hell, I bought my PS3 when this game came out just so I could play it. I know Vanillaware doesn't do sequels but I keep hoping for more of the same with this game.

[Stark]

I think I'm stuck in Hotel Dusk. I think I know what I need to do next, but anything I do results in Game Over. Guess I'm gonna have to Wiki it. I didn't really want to, but I don't have time to dick around with it.

[prfsnl_gmr]

I think I'm stuck in Hotel Dusk. I think I know what I need to do next, but anything I do results in Game Over. Guess I'm gonna have to Wiki it. I didn't really want to, but I don't have time to dick around with it.

Exhuminator loves it, but I actually thought that Hotel Dusk was a pretty poor adventure game. This is especially true once I considered the game's timeline and thought about how weird it would be to have some random person in a hotel knocking on my door every few minutes, not to mention how unlikely I would be to open up to this person I had known for only a few hours regarding my deepest fears and secrets. (Basically, I put myself in the position of everyone else in the hotel, and I am pretty sure each one of them would tell the protagonist to bug off pretty early in the game's narrative.)

That said, I did like the art direction, and I do want to play the sequel someday.

[Exhuminator]

how weird it would be to have some random person in a hotel knocking on my door every few minutes,

To be fair, the premise of many an adventure game would seem suspect if applied to actual real life.

I think you'd enjoy Last Window more. It streamlines some things I remember you saying bothered you about Hotel Dusk.

[Snatch1414]

I think I'm stuck in Hotel Dusk. I think I know what I need to do next, but anything I do results in Game Over. Guess I'm gonna have to Wiki it. I didn't really want to, but I don't have time to dick around with it.

There was one part I ended up using a guide. Not to excuse my inability to figure it out, but it was definitely one of those illogical relics from point and click games of the '90s. When I figured out what to do I had no shame because it made roughly zero sense.

[prfsnl_gmr]

To be fair, the premise of many an adventure game would seem suspect if applied to actual real life.

True. The quasi-realistic presentation made it stand out more, I guess.