Gaming room (It's a geeks paradise)

[Otta]

Have downloaded it on to my phone. Yet to try though.

[StraferJack]

17.10 seconds

Blind blind panic for last 4

[El Pibe]

25. I think you need to reach a zen doing without understanding type state.

Funnily enough whenever I have a good go I become convinced I'm getting the hang of it, the next go is invariably 1.2 seconds

[StraferJack]

Bravo sir. I agree with you as well on the old-school controller thing

And the woman saying "again".. she's pretty, erm "cool" right?

[Otta]

That is fucking hard!!! Managed 12 21 within about 20 goes, but then it gets silly!

[StraferJack]

yep - sounds about right Otta

I thought I didn't get it or was doing it wrong. Turns out that's how everyone feels...

[Otta]

Its just relentless, no time to celebrate. By the time she's finished saying "excellent", I've been hit by the next thing!

[StraferJack]

it's all in the turn - if you turn the right way in an apparently 50/50 decision AND don't panic you should be able to line up... but if you overthink for a millisecond it's over

I don't even want to THINK about some of the youtube videos...

[El Pibe]

It's barking mad.

It's definitely about practicing and getting into a rhythm. Also you can turn sooner than you think, you have more space to breathe than your senses (wired by claustrophobic near panic) are led to believe.

I've got to 24 about 10 times now and it's one of those slight changes of pace that cause you to fatally freeze, I've only managed 25 once so far, but I know I can crack it.

Square, here I come!!!!

[El Pibe]

weirdly I've not been taken by any of the knowingly retro high score fests, kicked off by Canabalt.

But this one just gets under your skin, I find myself thinking about it more than is healthy, and after more than 10 minutes everything in the universe is somehow compreshensible through its lens.

Nothing has done that since the gameboy tetris

[El Pibe]

brilliant review written over a week, starting at a dismissive "fun, but too small, simple and hard to provide lasting pleasure" 60%, rising to a "In moments when it has me in rapt attention on its dancefloor, it?s the greatest game in the world" 96%

http://www.pcgamer.com/review/super-hexagon-review/

I also loved "I?ve discovered I play better when I?m in conversation with someone at the same time, so I start chatting to whoever?s nearby while I play"

[El Pibe]

34.53

[Otta]

Fair play! I've not tried again since my last post, but sure I'll get in to it at some stage.

[El Pibe]

SJ saw me on the train achieving this, totally sucked in to my phone.

Got a 38 though!!!

[StraferJack]

that score is intimidating rather than inspiring me right now!

I've crept up to 23 seconds but hitting a wall (ahem)

[El Pibe]

I have a real block at 24 seconds, it's uncanny how many times I've failed there.

See also 18 seconds and 34 seconds.

Have crept up to 48 seconds now, I reckon its plain sailing from there to the magic 60 seconds though!

Remember, do hard for five minutes then go back and see how much time you suddenly have.

[david_carnell]

53 secs. Boom.

[El Pibe]

62.14, now for hypermode.

[El Pibe]

Bloody hell.

8.04

[Otta]

Fair play to both of you. I just tried having a go, but a little person trying to look at my screen was not conducive to getting in to the zone!

[david_carnell]

How are you lot doing? I got 65secs for the easiest level and up to 34 on the middle one. Have you seen te YouTube video of the creator playing the hyper version of level 3? Utterly mental!

[StraferJack]

Bioshock Infinite

beautiful game and world.

Looking forward to the end so I can take part in the discussion around "what it all means"

shooting things is getting real old for me

PS3 controller is a shocker (see what I did there?)

[El Pibe]

Ooh, have you gone all PS3 on us?

Should i get it or will i get bored of shooting things half way through like in Bioshock?

I got Slender: Arrival the other day, an indie purchase probably a little overpriced at a tenner off steam.

It's basically a souped up version of slenderman 8 pages with prettier graphics and more levels (the core original game comprising stage 2).

I have to say, performace and control issues aside, it is very effective at unnerving you, and if you do the old dark/headphones/late at night thing, quite scary.

I had a look at the Marble Hornets shorts on youtube that inspired it.

I mean they are shit lets face it, and the slenderman dotted around really does look like a mannequin in a suit and is about as scary as peppa pig, but there is something to be said for it once you've played the game to a point of nerve frazzling. Getting up in the middle of the night for a glass of water suddenly becomes an exercise in spotting things in unexpected pools of light or reflected surfaces, and I have to say even a rubbish mannequin in a suit would have made for proper ploppy pants.

If you're sick to death of shooting things then try being in peril without recourse to the left mouse button, worth a look in I reckon.

[StraferJack]

cheers for the recs Pibe

I haven't gone all PS3 no - but I don't "go to the shops" much these days and it was a game I could download immediately from PSN so in a moment of impulse, I did

No amount of me pleading with you to get to the reveal in Bioshock 1 succeded in getting you to do so - so the conclusion that the game mechanics are fundamentally not your bag probably remains as true today. The world and it's feel are very different ( and having a 1920s barber shop quartet fly by on an open top zepplin whilst singing a version of God Only Knows is a moment I won't forget) but you will find yourself doing very familiar things

But I hold with the idea that you don't play these games for the mechanics - it's all about Da Big Oidea and what it all means and the discussions thereafter

[El Pibe]

Ooh, and Metro 2033 is on sale for 4 quid on steam.

Again its far from perfect, the weapons feel insubstantial, the enemies repetitive, but it's wonderfully evocative and better than the Fallout games for giving you the feel of a post apocalyptic workld (full of flying post human mutants of course!!!)