The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[CiG]

Are they on Youtube or anything?

 

[no country for old wainds]

they're on steam and ps4 and whatnot if you have any of those. they're usually cheap af when there's a sale on. you could prob watch a playthrough on youtube but they're a lot more engrossing if you're making the decisions yourself. it's fucking intense trying to make the right calls when you're in impossible situations with kids' lives at stake 'n shit.

the art style and mood etc are really cool and evocative imo.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

they're basically interactive C-grade films. @CiG they had a deal last week where if you per-ordered the new season on PS4 you also get all the previous seasons for free. It might still be active.

I'm not a fan of the telltale stuff, but TWD is probably the best one. The Game of Thrones one is fucking horrible.

 

[CiG]

Oh okay so I should play them, I'll keep an eye out!

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

yeah give the first one a shot, you might like it. I personally wouldn't play another telltale "game" if they payed me to

 

[CiG]

I personally wouldn't play another telltale "game" if they payed me to

I'd do many things if a payment is involved.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I'd do many things if a payment is involved.

what a slut

 

[no country for old wainds]

lol ive heard the GoT one is horrible tbf. i like the wolf among us a lot though. melancholy noirs about struggling outcasts and dead whores are pretty up my street, especially when the lore is rich.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

i like the wolf among us a lot though. melancholy noirs about struggling outcasts and dead whores are pretty up my street, especially when the lore is rich.

Sounds interesting. I think i might have purchased it on the PS3 a while back during one of those huge PSN flash sales.

Tales From the Borderlands was ok i guess and i have the Batman one in my PS+ instant game collection but haven't fucked with it.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

First two Telltale games > comics >>>>>>>>>>>> TV series > third Telltale game

I used to defend the TV series but it's gotten so bad even I can't do that anymore. I maintain that it was pretty excellent around seasons 4-5 at least. The games are amazing though. Even if you remove the interactive element the quality of writing is roughly on par with the comics (which I love) but the addition of choice (or more often, the illusion of choice - but it's a very convincing illusion, on the first playthrough) does a lot to heighten immersion.

lol ive heard the GoT one is horrible tbf. i like the wolf among us a lot though. melancholy noirs about struggling outcasts and dead whores are pretty up my street, especially when the lore is rich.

I played through the GoT game. It has some positive qualities. The original cast is likeable, the story gels well with the preexisting setting and whatnot. But it pushes the "anything can go wrong"-ethos of the source material way too far. By the end there were so many likeable characters killed off and so many cathartic comeuppances (something the show has plenty of, tbf) denied that I ask myself why you'd ever immerse yourself in a story like that except as an exercise in masochism. There's actually a "bad ending" obtainable midway through the game that is far preferable to the way the game actually ends.

I'll play The Wolf Among Us sometime. It's been sitting in my steam library forever.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

First two Telltale games > comics

 

[PrincessHades]

Thinking about how great it would be if they played Electric Eye in public bathrooms

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I'm just learning that a Swedish 17th century scientist wrote a 3000-page treatise "proving" that Atlantis is in fact Sweden and that Sweden is the origin of European culture. How have I not learned of this before?? I love this theory and would like to subscribe to it ironically but if I did that people would probably associate me with nazis who actually take this shit seriously.

 

[CiG]

Become an ironic nazi bro.

 

[rms]

anyone got some solid recommendations for rock live albums? I got a little list ranging from Rush, CCR, Deep Purple, Ted Nugent and Pearl Jam and wondering if i'm missing some solid albums, thanks

 

[CiG]

The Allman Brothers' At Fillmore East comes immediately to mind.

 

[PrincessHades]

Worrying...ever since school stared I've had a really bad case of the shits and a stomach ache. I'm afraid of vomiting and I really hope I don't have some kind of illness. Its probably stress and it better not continue all year.

 

[The Ozzman]

anyone got some solid recommendations for rock live albums? I got a little list ranging from Rush, CCR, Deep Purple, Ted Nugent and Pearl Jam and wondering if i'm missing some solid albums, thanks

King's-X - Live All Over the Place
King's-X - Live Love in London
Rush - A Show of Hands
Rush - Different Stages
Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged
Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Live at Carnegie Hall
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
Grateful Dead - Dead Set

 

[CiG]

Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys

<3

 

[The Ozzman]

<3

Amazing performance. Probably the best thing Jimi did.