Tharsis

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 11:11 pm

As of 11:11 PM, January 25th 2016, Tharsis must be considered one of the 100 greatest games of all-time.

That's because the last time I died, it wasn't bullshit.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 6:09 am

Nor was it bullshit the last time I died...

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 3:07 pm

This is incredible. I didn't know it was possible to love a Twitch without tits.

RealNC · Post by **RealNC** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 5:55 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:This is incredible. I didn't know it was possible to love a Twitch without tits.

Twitch banning tits from streams some time ago is the reason I stopped watching anything there.

Pinback is quite close to tits though.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 10:21 am

Pinback is THE tits, yes.

Tharsis truly pissed me off last night, but then I realized that assists are like food.

I will still say that having an injury of three ones is total horseshit. Why not make it a dozen? Why not make it 400?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 11:48 pm

Yeah, lacking the knowledge about assists was what stopped me from progressing. I got to week 9 when I got home tonight, and was able to get to week 10.

This is, let's agree, the greatest casual game of all-time. I was fucking spent when I got home, just a mindless blob. Okay, Tharsis, probably isn't a casual game, necessarily. I don't feel casual. The greatest non-action game? It's up there.

My brother and I believe the best sports game ever made is Front Page Sports Football. I actually threw the CD across the room because it frustrated me so much. I couldn't believe that you couldn't chuck the ball deep and let one wideout take over the game.

Tharsis also made me cry "bullshit!" Numerous times, but that was because I also didn't understand the game.

It does not surprise me that it's getting negative reviews on Steam because it is brutal, it overwhelms you with choice at first and requires an attempt at understanding the ruleset that most games don't. I got through half of Max Payne before knowing that I could slow time down -- in a way, Tharsis is specifically attuned to make manual-skippers like myself struggle with it.

I can confirm that what Ben said is correct - everything is important, but dice is most important. Except for the ship. And assists. (And so forth.)

(I found it a LOT easier when I took a lineup of Captain, Doctor, Commander and whatever the Assist Gal is, by the way.)

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Jan 30, 2016 8:47 pm

I demand Pinback acknowledge this, because he thought I was too stupid to ever land on Mars.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Jan 31, 2016 8:58 pm

You were too stupid NOT to. OoOHHHHHhhh plot twist.

ICJ · Post by **ICJ** » Fri Mar 11, 2016 2:36 pm

I will say this about Tharsis: great game, top 100 of all-time. Having won it a few times, my desire to subject myself to it is low because I was feeling like I couldn't go to bed unless I left the game with a victory. And I am having time management problems at the moment.

I can't recall another game that made me go, "FUCK everything else, we're not leaving this room till I win."

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 9:48 am

RPS did a "Have You Played" on Tharsis.

The article, and subsequent comments, are predictably terrible:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/0 ... d-tharsis/

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 9:51 am

I commented under the moniker "Festus McGee".

I'm sure it'll be received well.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 3:41 pm

Hahaha:

Jalan says:

So much cannibalism. Even unlocking the cannibal character requires eating 200 “human meals”. The game seems awfully comfortable with that aspect, despite what its character models (and bloodied dice) suggest.

Back in the 90s, I feel there was a sentiment going around along the lines of, yes, the violence in Grant Theft Auto 2 and Duke Nukem 3D is a bit much, but videogames is where such violence ought to be. What a world if all the violence was just in video games.

I'm pretty sure we've mostly eliminated fucking cannibalism from the world. You don't hear a lot about roving platoons of cannibals eating a neighborhood in Shaker Heights.

Yet, these days, there are people out there who think that having something like cannibalism in your video game, without the game doing ENOUGH to remind you that it's "bad" means that the Tharsis developers somehow support cannibalism.

What a thing to be outraged about. The stupidity in the comments over there is incredible.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 10:55 am

I am now arguing with a guy who says he knows the ONLY way to win consistently. I told him he was very, very wrong, and he told me, no, I don't have any idea what I'm talking about.

He... he is going to lose this argument.