There needs to be a Spacechem 2 or some other new programming/engineering-type puzzle game
http://www.kongregate.com/games/krispykrem/the-codex-of-alchemical-engineeringZachtronics made another programming type game that was pretty fun.
http://pleasingfungus.com/Manufactoria/Our own Pleasing Fungus made a game about quality checking and programming robots that was the first programming game I played and liked.
Yeah, I'd love for another game along those lines with the same level of polish as Spacechem, though.
Lightning Returns is pretty fun, but it's a lot like Pikmin 3 where you can't really play it to relax. Being constantly under the gun is a little frustrating, especially when the levels are pretty lovely and you want to explore them and instead I'm racing around town trying to locate clocks to complete one quest while trying to get to a train station to get on with another while making mental notes on where I need to be and how I'll get there in about six hours when some flowers manage to grow. I think once I beat the game once and get into New Game + it'll move more smoothly, since it seems like the sort of game that doesn't hit its stride until you know a little about what you're doing and move from discovery to mastery.
2 (by Hubol) was lovely and weird and a little (a lot) vulgar despite being so deceptively cute. Graphically it's gorgeous considering the corrupted graphic motif and huge variety of unique art. The puzzle to find the third dragon boner was kind of obnoxious, though. Other than that the bosses were great and I love the variety of secrets. I still need to find the last few hearts and beat the extra mode I unlocked.
Professor Layton: Miracle Mask is pretty great so far, and because it's so easy to play in small bursts it keeps pulling me away from Lightning Returns. Contrary to my initial thoughts, they brought back Daily Puzzles for Azran Legacy so I bought it and played to the first save point for the singular purpose of getting the daily puzzle downloads.
I've been watching Twitch Plays Pokemon as it moves from game to game and they finally beat Pokemon X (the last in the series). That one was played on an actual 3DS so wifi was enabled and near the end it started to get really interesting because people were trading friend codes to try and wonder trade with the stream (which was often successful, and the result was the winning party eventually found its way into the hands of people watching the game on Twitch, which is neat). The streamer has also been playing around with hacking the games, most notably to insert old teams from previous runs as bosses (Pokemon Black 2 ended with a tournament where the players battled and defeated every winning team from every previous Twitch run, which was very exciting since nobody was expecting it until it happened). Now they're playing Pokemon Stadium 2, but modified so that people can bet on the matches, manipulate which moves get chosen and it has custom music to alleviate the tedium of the single background theme. They're also going to stream Pokemon Omega Ruby on release day, which will be really cool to watch and may attract a pretty big following (compared to recent counts between 1,000 and 2,000 viewers, probably not compared to the original run). It also sounds like future content may include competing streams where games like red and blue are played simultaneously so players can race.
It's not likely to get the massive attention it did back when they played the gen 1 run way back in february, but I have hopes that it'll continue to live on and experiment and remain popular for a very long time.
I am falling way behind on playing games. I need to quit my job so I have more time for playing.
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