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#other-games
steel sigil
cinder vessel
Yeah, last I saw Subnautica's set to get an Arctic/icy expansion somewhen later (thought I'd read this year at first, think I mixed that up with the PlayStation release)
hazy idol
Who wants codes for the mtg arena beta? I've got a few of them that are just sitting in my inbox
Anywho for anyone that wants them here you go. Just go to MTGArena.com and download the client, then enter the access code.
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qhc-kdr9-8br
5ud-kmfd-5ud
arx-aupa-kgn
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cinder vessel
guys the perfect game is now a $1 can you let yourself miss out on this perfection? @brisk merlin @tough heron @primal inlet
https://store.steampowered.com/app/362930/Garfield_Kart/
cinder vessel
they're adding online multiplayer they're making their own NEXT patch
wait wat lmao
primal inlet
"Popular User-Defined Tags"
I mean, Garfield is God so it makes sense
but that announcement post...I get the feeling they know how ridiculous their game is
cinder vessel
it's great
i just added the tag, "Masterpiece" to it
fuck this is why you don't crowdsource this stuff, lol
WAIT
does Bad Rats have Cult Classic & Masterpiece in its popular tags
yesss it has cult classic tag
cinder vessel
I don't think I did either 🤔
teal mason
just shows how little attention it's getting
vestal saffron
rigid haven
Epic Death FUCK!
empty sequoia
kind of in the market for a cheap hotas for Elite Dangerous and hopefully eventually NMS, you guys have any suggestions?
ember wren
I have the T-Flight Hotas X and it works great for Elite
sick phoenix
What was the green one from gen 3
I think with a feather on his head and a poison type
sick phoenix
YEah that one
reef storm
Gulpin
sick phoenix
Gulpin these nuts
sick phoenix
Tybg
Anyways, in all seriousness
Which one does Ryhorn evolve into? Original 151 are beginning to escape me
reef storm
Oh god....uh...
sick phoenix
I know in gen 4 he got another one with boxing gloves and drills
But there's the middle one
Rhy something
reef storm
Yeah, I know it. And I expect you'll say something that ends in "these nuts".
sick phoenix
Listen, I'm good but I'm not that good
reef storm
Giggity.
sick phoenix
Rhydon these nuts gotem
reef storm
Yep...there it is.
reef storm
Check out bot spam. I think he'll answer you there
reef storm
I think it was created just for here.
sick phoenix
Sad
sick phoenix
I do what I can for the people that can't
Also! what was the one with the flowers
Looks like a hedgehog
sick phoenix
Ain't no Shaymin' loving these nuts
ember wren
god dammit
winter yew
What r the differences between elite dangerous and no man's sky
eternal kettle
@winter yew one is more survival, exploration, other is more space trucking and dogfighting
Both a grind, but there are more things to grind for and do outside of the grind in NMS than Elite
bright pine
What's a good legit site I can buy xbox game codes from? Just missed out on that 50% off Assasins Creed Origins
eternal kettle
Humble bundle
teal mason
Indeed, get on humble and play on PC instead 👌 👌 👌
reef storm
Oooh. That's right - the humble monthly unlock comes up in a few hours.
green ocean
Not helpful @hardy radish
Also that belongs in #401847751249362945 cause definitely a meme
rancid sentinel
anyone play star trek online?
eternal kettle
Used to, I go back to it sometimes
strong rock
lets play E.T atari
turbid gale
what
winter yew
@spiral furnace It's fake and fortnite sucks ass.
ember wren
That's a more direct approach
winter yew
The best approach
ember wren
@green ocean Sorry for the ping but that link should be deleted, there are probably people in here who will fall for it
green ocean
Thanks
@spiral furnace Please don't post scammy links anywhere on the server. No further warning will be given
winter yew
Yes, can't let people fall victim to ligma
ember wren
Epic should probably be a bit more direct in their warnings about that stuff, maybe make a popup in-game or something
compact tangle
Anyone playing hyper universe tuesday?
I played a few betas, it was actually a lot of fun
somber blade
Anybody want to play watch dogs
spring bolt
aa
I need to ask people about starbound and terraria
Why is it that I find starbound more unfun than terraria
anyone?
light cairn
Terraria always had more of a hook for me too for some reason
maybe cause it feels more focused?
spring bolt
same
But it's like
I just want to play SB over Terraria
probably because of the character customization
and mods
rigid haven
SB has so much to do but, well
It just isn't as fun as terraria
I'd totally tell you why if I knew myself
rigid haven
This might sound super weird but Terraria and Starbound are like tea and coffee
Commonly compared but nothing alike
Well, somewhat alike but you get my meaning
And there isn't any way to make it "more fun"
There are mods
So I guess you could try those
spring bolt
yeah
I usually play SB for character customization
and how graphically amazing it is
If that was thrown into terraria
I'd play more terraria
jade lake
new smash bros direct soon hell yeah
light cairn
!?!?
jade lake
wednesday
light cairn
?
cinder vessel
wait what. how is Terraria more focused feeling than Starbound? it doesn't even really have a campaign...? 🤔
light cairn
the smash direct
cinder vessel
like a falcon punch of info
jade lake
if mike from startropics gets in i'll pee my pants
fluid tendon
Does anyone play Dark and Light? I'm an Ark player and one of my friends on the server has recommended it to me. Looks good, but I see a lot of reviews saying that it doesn't really do anything that Ark doesn't do better... Thoughts?
prime merlin
I dont really like Dark and Light
In my opinion Ark is better, if you have a good PC that can run it 😄
fluid tendon
2 weeks ago I replaced a stolen midrange gaming PC from 2 years ago with a 1070 system. I'm just amazed by the difference it makes.
winter yew
I have a 1070 😄
sleek shadow
Excuse?
brisk merlin
EXCUSE
rigid haven
Never mind them, you're fine
sleek shadow
Tell meeee
rigid haven
No
sleek shadow
Ok then I'll get Lucario
rigid haven
Lucario is bad against a Wooper with earthquake
sleek shadow
But Lucario is fighting bootree
rigid haven
Though it'll probably be a Quagsire by that point
Oh
That won't work too much
Wait
Oh shit
rigid haven
Actually, they don't have any good moves to use against each other
sleek shadow
.>
brisk merlin
LUCARIOWO
sleek shadow
I'm not used to these new sun and moon oneS
rigid haven
Trevenant will be stronger since his grass typing gives him STAB damage
brisk merlin
sun and moon can die
rigid haven
Gen 6 is X and Y
sleek shadow
Oh
rigid haven
Dead, Trevenant is Grass
sleek shadow
Haha
rigid haven
Grass/Ghost
brisk merlin
p.catch death
sleek shadow
I'll summon Fosh the Gyarados
brisk merlin
wow i named that
sleek shadow
Wow yes you did
rigid haven
Hmm, actually...
light cairn
Hmm, factually...
rigid haven
Mega Gyrados would be a problem
Since he's dark
I'm not used to the typings really
They've always been a weak point
Like the fish and bird names
compact tangle
Ya
Hyper universe
I dont know where the space came from
Its that side scrolling moba
I am pretty stoked
compact tangle
Wtf is shakedown Hawaii
winter yew
Sequel to Retro City Rampage
Originally started as a GTA demake but got turned into its own game over time
I have Retro City Rampage on 3ds pc ps4 psvita and iPhone lol
green ocean
I don't have time for 8-bit games in my life
green ocean
Every indie developer: Welp, we can't hire 3D artists and modelers so might as well make it 8 bit!!!
green ocean
Just feels like every other game that comes out lately is 8-bit or a retro throwback or something lol
winter yew
RCR has been around for years though 😦
And I don’t wanna hear that ‘better graphics = better game”, I’ve played some pretty awful games that have some amazing graphics and vice versa
tranquil marsh
green ocean
Oh, nah, not saying that
winter yew
Okay good
green ocean
I too have played shitty games with great graphics.... Star Citizen, etc
winter yew
I have a major nostalgic feel for games that capture the olden days of my childhood
And a good majority of those pixel art games capture that
green ocean
I can understand that
winter yew
god of war is some good shit
rigid haven
You haven't finished it yet? huh
Sonic Mania is something you can beat in a day even with little time
And yeah, I've heard real good things about God of War
cinder vessel
i've read too much about it
prime merlin
yeet
winter yew
I love the one shot thing. Also, yeah, I have yet to finish it
I just got done fighting a pretty big boss. Nothing major, but I thought it was cool. Loving the game so far
jade lake
even the zelda community hates it
rigid haven
My only complaint is that longer games on the Wii never work out
Batteries are a problem
jade lake
the dungeons are the best in the series, great soundtrack, great characters, and the pinnacle of Nintendo storytelling
cinder vessel
Skyward Sword does some stuff with equipment that I abhor
cinder vessel
And then so did A Link Between Worlds
winter yew
I really like majora's mask for some reason
jade lake
ALBW is overrated
rigid haven
I liked LBW
jade lake
MM is my personal favorite, majority of the people that dont like generally just dont understand it
cinder vessel
And I think Breath of the Wild is like the full realization of what I can't stand in equipment systems
jade lake
LBW is good, some people o overboard about it at times
jade lake
OOT is most definitely not the best game of all time, its aged pretty bad on N64
its still good
but not THAT good
same for BOTW
jade lake
BOTW has some piss poor dungeons and a total lazy crap story with annoying characters BESIDES mipha
cinder vessel
Wind Waker is such a joy
jade lake
^^^^
rigid haven
Do...
jade lake
that game felt ahead of its time IMO
jade lake
sidon is ok
rigid haven
Prince Sidon 👌 👌 👌 👌
jade lake
groose tho
rigid haven
Now we're fucking TALKING
cinder vessel
that sounds annoying
gaunt hare
Ocarina of Time has aged fantastically.
It's aged way, way better than most N64 games
The 3D doesn't feel weird like Tomb Raider, the gameplay isn't overly simple like GoldenEye. I mean, video games are just getting better and better with time, so obviously it's aged. It's not like books or even (to a lesser extent) film, but if we are comparing what games have aged well on N64, OoT would be pretty high up on my list.
Also it would be the only game of it's type that's aged well for me. That 3D adventure game. All the other games that have aged well, to me at least, are racing games and 2D games
jade lake
i think MM has aged better but thats just me. OOT definitely deserves praise, BUT can we PLEASE agree that Mario 64, WITHOUT all the nostalgia shit, REEEALLY isnt that great of a game
green ocean
Marilyn Manson? 👀
eternal kettle
What they need to do is find out how to replicate Tribe's netcode
100v100, decent graphics for the time, hundreds of weapons, armors, emplacements based on server side mods, and no lag
jade lake
what
rigid haven
Mario 64 is fun
The controls and camera suck ass
But it's fun
One of my favourites, for sure
light cairn
Mario 64 DS better version fite me
jade lake
they both are the same level of mediocrity IMO
austere lance
Double Dash>
gaunt hare
I guess I'll always think highly of games like Mario 64 (which I never played) based purely because I've dabbled in watching the speedrun community
Like just watching gladjonas
And a few other YouTubers who compile speedrun info
And if you're following the speedrunning community, you very quickly see what games are most popular to speedrun
For all it's banality, Mario N64 is an excellent speedrunning game
austere lance
I grew up playing it and Goldeneye on the N64, it'll always hold a special place in my heart
gaunt hare
@austere lance I never played GoldenEye and yet I have tons of respect for it because in the speedrunning community it's still topdog
austere lance
It's fun af, same with the original DOOMs
gaunt hare
I don't even speedrun, I just notice that most modern games aren't good for speedrunning
because they are lacking the exact nature needed
Making a game that's fun but also is still very exact is really impressive
Nintendo mastered that shit
austere lance
When I was hella young I played stuff like Goldeneye on N64 and DOOM on PC, once a certain game called Halo: Combat Evolved released though I was sold 😄
gaunt hare
Goldeneye is probably the greatest speedrun game of all time since 1) it was the first game to have a community spring up around speedrunning
And 2) it was an early game to actually include an in game timer
austere lance
Oddly enough I bet the Titanfall 2 campaign is great for speed-running
gaunt hare
Ya, I haven't checked.
It might have too much cinematic unskippable scenes though
Fair warning, I think titanfall 2 is one of the most overrated games I've ever played
austere lance
It's pretty much the only PvP game I'll play xD
austere lance
The campaign was ok, fans of the first game like me where just happy to have an actual campaign in 2 😄
gaunt hare
Ya. Maybe one day I'll give the multiplayer another go
austere lance
The multiplayer is obviously where most of the effort went
gaunt hare
But the single player got so much praise!
I went into the game with people telling me it was an amazing first person shooter
Campaigns
austere lance
Going smoothly from on-foot combat to Titan combat is fun af, they balanced it nicely
Plus it has a great PvE mode
gaunt hare
And I just felt like, it was a 4 or 5 hour campaign, and just as I was starting to be like "oh there are some cool game mechanics, maybe this could be interesting in how I handle situations" it ended
Also, when they said the main characters name was "jack cooper" I was like 'go Fuck yourself'
austere lance
😂
gaunt hare
He's just the most basic dumb white guy with stubble and brown hair ever
austere lance
That and BT literally being voiced by Optimus Prime made me laugh xD
gaunt hare
And it really sucked cause I thought the robot was kind of likable
but he's just working with NOTHING
The main guy is so boring
It ruins BT, who is kind of cool
austere lance
Yeah, multiplayer is definitely where the fun is. It's rare to have a good PvE mode and good PvP in one game these days
gaunt hare
And how at the end they want you to have an emotional connection from the buddy cop story
austere lance
Then they led to a sequel in the credits
gaunt hare
and I'm like "but the game feels like they have been together for one day, and one of the characters on the relationship sucks"
Like the last of us, you really felt like the characters deserved to love each other
It was so hard earned
These two, they are practically kissing but I'm like "you just met!"
austere lance
Whenever you play multiplayer I recommend doing Frontier Defense first then switching to Attrition
gaunt hare
But these are all just criticisms towards story mode
If you recommend the multiplayer, maybe I'll give it another go
austere lance
I don't think I've ever met anyone that doesn't like the multiplayer, lol. It actually takes skill to use Titans properly
For the love of all that's holy, don't try to use Ronin first
If you do please record it and share xD @gaunt hare
gaunt hare
Why?
austere lance
Um, Ronin is fast and has a sword so new people think he's lit to play as but he has crap health, you have to try hella hard to use him successfully
I've seen terrifyingly good Ronins but I can't even imagine how much practice it took, lol
cinder vessel
Still might not be perfect, but it's nice to see that Square Enix fixed some of their shit with the Chrono Trigger PC port:
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-08-06-squares-messy-chrono-trigger-pc-port-gets-its-third-and-final-batch-of-improvements
gaunt hare
@cinder vessel what do you think of the Jessica price situation now?
gaunt hare
New stuff
I honestly just wish she would shut the fuck up, or figure out a better way to take the high road
I still don't think she should have been fired
But jesus
She's just cheapening her stance
She always always came off as hypocritical and mean spirited but goddamn you are not making lives for women in game development easier, Ms. price
All these fucking creeps are coming up out of the woodwork like they always do
and making it about "the left"
And she's just giving them more and more ammo
It's like "goddamn it woman. I really don't think people should be fired for being mean"
And I still have that belief, and I still know that there's a giant population that will organize to fire a woman cause she's a woman
but she just keeps acting... horrible
cinder vessel
i have no idea what new dumbness has come up, i don't follow her so 🤷
cinder vessel
i follow gaming news too but haven't seen jack about it 🤔
gaunt hare
you probably just follow better shit than me
graceful scaffold
teal mason
fortshite
ember wren
Another scam link
winter yew
Hey guys check out this cheap package https://dto9r5vaiz7bu.cloudfront.net/vdqdddypwh56v/tavern_upload_large.png
teal mason
what the shit
spark reef
lol someone in my corp got that
@winter yew that's not really for a single person
that's for corps/guilds to throw money in on
which is why it has some very large multi-person ships
only reason my buddy got it for our corp is because he got a HUGE bonus a couple months ago
spark reef
eh, that was a good joke back in the day, but it's getting so close to a finished game it's not even funny
even with what's playable right now I'm not upset with the amount even I've spent on it
regal pulsar
I need some good game suggestions
spark reef
what kinds of games do you like?
regal pulsar
Action adventure
green ocean
Dude whats playable right now is a mess
I backed it too, back in the day, as the years as rolled by, its not come any closer to completion
spark reef
me and my wife have a private server with a couple friends, fantastic
yeah, solo is a chore
even if you boost all the rules
green ocean
ah, didn't know you could run your own server
spark reef
yeah, you can
even has a nice fan-made server manager
I run three servers xD
well, three for ARK alone
a private one with my wife, a solo one for myself and whoever wants to temporarily join, and one for my streaming community
(I run a lot of servers)
somber blade
Rust is better than ARK change my mind
green ocean
If you run your own ARK server, can't you just like play on god mode or osmething?
To not make it a chore?
spark reef
you can, but I choose not to
green ocean
Oh
spark reef
you can also buff things like XP, Harvesting, etc.
green ocean
hmm maybe i'll check it out tonight
spark reef
my solo server has 5x harvest, 3x xp, etc.
green ocean
setup my own server
green ocean
i saw their coming out with an expansion and it looks cool
spark reef
green ocean
ahh
green ocean
ahh awesome
spark reef
and has sliders and whatnot for every single config
it even installs the server itself for each instance
and checks for updates
etc.
green ocean
thats awesome
spark reef
it's an AMAZING server manager
probably one of the best fan-made ones I've seen for any game ever
oh and it doesn't need a steam login to download the server, which is nice, it uses SteamCMD and downloads via Steam's "Anonymous" account
so no account weirdness or worry
(SteamCMD allows you to download anything from Steam that's available for free with the Anonymous User)
and it uses hovers and lots of text to explain how to do EVERYTHING
so it's super easy to use
This is a paid advertisement.
(j/k)
green ocean
hahaha
sick, i appreciate the info
as a technology director by day.. the last thing i want to do is fiddle with server config files by night
glad theres a nice UI way of doing it heh
spark reef
yeah, and ARK has literally hundreds of config options
green ocean
spark reef
to the point where the ARK Server Manager dev put everything into categories
(super nice, btw)
can even collapse categories for easier view
green ocean
ahhh
so i have to buy the base game and then also the season pass?
season pass worth it?
winter yew
@winter yew
why'd u quit
if u where that good
u should've stayed
became a streamer
thats me
I'm not the best
but not the worst
RIP
What was ur DPI and Sens?
Lol
hi
@winter yew I may try htat
I'm currently trying 750 + 0.08
rigid haven
Transistor is fucking great
cinder vessel
You're goddamn right it is
deep finch
Heisenberg...
summer heath
Transistor isn't a super long game but it's a consistently great experience in all areas, from gameplay and mechanics, story, art and especially music
rigid haven
I'm just loving it
No clue how far I am but damn
It's the first game I've legitimately had fun with for a while
summer heath
It's an enjoyable experience all the way through
Just wait until you reach the ending, such good presentation
I won't spoil it
It's a game that is genuinely beautiful I feel
rigid haven
If all the SuperGiant games are like this, I'm gonna have a damn lot of fun
summer heath
It's hard for me to beat Transistor's setting, I love the style
But all of their games are good. I need to get Pyre still
rigid haven
I only got Transistor and Pyre in the recent PSN sale
summer heath
Tales from the Borderlands was another one I really liked
rigid haven
Gonna look at getting Bastion soon though
I think I still have that from when it was free with PS+
summer heath
Fit the universe really well and was a really good story
I streamed it to my group and they were just as excited as I was for the last episode
I played that at a time when I was going through some things and having a story like that to get engrossed in helped a lot
Also its development story was impressive
summer heath
The later half of the episodes were developed by a skeleton crew. TellTale wanted to stop development and cancel it, but the lead bargained to pick 1 person from each department to keep
It's amazing because if anything the quality goes up in the last episodes
A true clutch passion project
Those devs that stayed on it stuck it out to see it through and especially the last episode is mind blowing. The intro for it is so badass haha
Really cool cinematography and animation work and the story wraps up well
cinder vessel
I gave Tales from the Borderlands a go through the demo, but I still just can't get into the Borderlands setting. It feels like it's pushing to be something that even it doesn't entirely know what that something is.
I wanna say it feels a bit like forced cartoonishness/comedy or something? 🤔 Can't pin what it is.
summer heath
I personally like how weird the setting is. It's a sci-fi apocalypse western, somewhere between Firefly and Mad Max
Yeah I could see that. The humor doesn't fit for everyone. I like the self-aware duality between the really dark writing and the entirely immature humor
cinder vessel
Yeah, I don't mind weird at all...Maybe it's the western stuff.
summer heath
It's like if Douglas Adams was Spongebob with Fallout's twisted ire
cinder vessel
But I also tend to think it's going for a very specific type of humor that totally whiffs for me
That sounds...Oof. And I like Douglas Adams' stuff.
summer heath
That's the best I can describe it haha
I like Douglas Adams too
Sads we don't get any more :( few things are written like that
I like Borderlands a lot though
Oh yeah, on the Discord channel I run for my guild we have a Transistor emoji
The sword
Which reminds me I should really get Nitro now that I've used Discord for almost 3 years...can you get it from mobile?
cinder vessel
Aah yeeah, that's the shit
austere lance
I played through Borderlands a couple times and liked it, I couldn't get through Borderlands 2 though
gaunt hare
I powered through Borderlands 2 but in my opinion, it wasn't worth it at the end.
Tales from the Borderlands is actually my favorite of the Telltale game series that I've played.
Telltale games really don't do it for me overall.
I've never actually completed a series. I'm like 4 out of 5 on Borderlands
They only seem like they can be fun if you play it with your friends while drinking.
austere lance
Yeah, I'm not a fan of point and click games like the Telltale ones
gaunt hare
I actually thought that the more comical story and zany characters is what made Telltale Borderlands bearable.
Because when they take themselves seriously, like walking dead and especially the game of thrones one
I just don't think they have the writing and visual chops to make me care about a story.
The gameplay is certainly just uninteresting and clearly just there so you have to hold a controller, so I better be enjoying the story. But when its taking itself seriously, I can't get into it because I just don't think their stories are that good.
Also, Borderlands and Wolf Among Us (especially Borderlands though) actually visually match the style their games all have.
austere lance
In my opinion they go under the same category as the interactive movies that PlayStation exclusives usually are, lol
gaunt hare
Like, Walking Dead in that cell shading art style just looks really.... toy like to me. It's not dark or scary yet its supposed to be about zombies.
Borderlands main games already have a similar visual style to Telltale.
And they are supposed to be bright and colorful and whacky. Just works better to me.
As for Playstation, you mean the David Cage games?
Beyond Two Souls, Detroit, Heavy Rain, and Indigo prophecy
They actually have the same thing for me.
I think Detroit is obviously so much visually better, great voice acting, and story being a bit more skillfully done
but I ended up liking it a lot less than Heavy Rain
Cause Heavy Rain was fucking hilarious.
jade lake
those games dont do anything for me
gaunt hare
Detroit wasn't funny. It wanted to be serious and in my opinion really fell on its face trying to make a story where you "Hold down X for equal rights!"
gaunt hare
I thought acting in Detroit was good, and I like what david cage is trying to do
but I honestly think Heavy Rain is so funny
jade lake
"SEAN, SEAN, SEEEAAAAAANNNN!!!"
gaunt hare
like that scene where after his son dies and he's living in that sad depressing apartment
jade lake
fantastic glitch
gaunt hare
and his kid like hates him
And its designed so everything you do makes you so pathetic
And how it becomes a slapstick comedy if you fail things
gaunt hare
Have you seen the one where the guy can't stop laughing because he made it so he fails every quicktime but the scene continues?
jade lake
yes
cinder vessel
Man, Detroit's gonna age so poorly, so much faster than even Heavy Rain did, lol
jade lake
heavy rain is... odd
jade lake
that video explains how i feel about heavy rain
gaunt hare
and things like when it makes you cut off your own finger and then what he needs is taped under the table
So all he had to do was check under the table and he wouldn't have had to cut off the tip of his finger
That's also really funny to me
for some reason
I also thought it was just the worst writing in the world where
they reveal that
you've been playing as one of the killers
and i guess he didn't.... know that he had spent years killing children by drowning them in rain water?
And also Ethan is having black outs
for, if I recall, no reason
besides he's... sad about his kid dying I guess
so they gave a character blackouts so that you would think he's a killer, before making another character you played as the killer but apparently HE was also blacking out the whole game
like you can hear his thoughts!
You're supposed to be playing as him.
So I guess the whole time you were literally searching for this killer, while also giving no goddamn indicators with his behavior that he was the killer
all while NEVER thinking about all those times you killed kids
It's just the laziest, most awful writing ever in a story focused video game.
cinder vessel
yeah no, the whole you're playing the killer thing is the worst. First run of the game it's like, "Hmm okay," but second run it really just hits home, "This is some bullshit"
Detroit pulls the same sort of shit
gaunt hare
I honestly could barely stay awake while my brother played it
So I just don't remember the game very well
Ya, that's the same thing.
That sort of stuff would be really bad in a movie
but in a video game its so much worse
because you're literally supposed to be playing as that person. You're supposed to be playing the role of that person
cinder vessel
this never ceases to amuse me:
https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/1026993875234086912
David Cage is very much of the, "More=better" mentality...But, really, just...Nah. Not when the quality's your quality Cage.
cinder vessel
🤔 I can't remember if I still bought Heavy Rain after playing Indigo Prophecy, or how that all came about...
I swear I think I have Quantic Dream games out of some morbid curiosity
Although I think I genuinely thought Heavy Rain might be better at the time
gaunt hare
I actually like what he's doing
even if I think his games are kind of trash, I've never like hated or totally regretted playing one of his games
and I think they work good as a social game with two or more people around a tv
Also I'll always think the opening of Indigo Prophecy was awesome.
It's the type of thing where its so easy to rip one of his games to shred, but at least they are very rarely boring, at least for me.
I usually think they are funny or enjoy seeing what nonsensical direction everything goes.
Boring games are worse than awful games that can still be fun
Boy though
I have a feeling David Cage has some issues with women
cinder vessel
Think my issues lately are:
-Quantic Dream is apparently a shit place to work
-They prioritize boring as fuck ~r e a l i s m~ in graphics, banking off the marketing brainwashing that better graphics=better generally
-Because of the better graphics stuff, they also then contribute to the notion that games need to have excessive amounts of cash poured in for them to be successful & frustratingly unsustainable garbage like that.
gaunt hare
Ya I have no doubt its a bad place to work. I read the articles that came out, but the way women and sex scenes work in his games always weirded me out.
cinder vessel
But then, those last two are more broadly applicable to AAA game dev shit
gaunt hare
By the way, that game that the IGN guy ripped off the review of
looks pretty cool.
I want to try it.
cinder vessel
It's supposed to be really good from basically everything I've read/seen about it
gaunt hare
A rogue like procedural game with a really long upgrade tree and speedrunning built into the game
Yes please.
I love games where the longer you play them, the better they are.
rigid haven
Ahhh
Transistor if amazing and good and great
I approve
I'm glad it didn't slack towards the end
winter yew
Need to finish that one
rigid haven
It's great, amazing
I haven't stopped playing since I started and I'm still not bored
gaunt hare
I'm trying mafia 3 cause free
I think it's a shame this game is apparently not very good, for the most part, according to the critical and average player reviews.
Seems like it has all the things to make a fun mafia game.
Soundtrack, good main character, a wonderful setting, open world crime game, themes of war and racism, the late 60s time period
I look forward to seeing how they fucked it up.
eternal kettle
Still not as bad as SC
gaunt hare
What's SC?
cinder vessel
many of the faults of Mafia 3 come down to technical issues and, if memory serves, flat out running out of time combined with some awful design by committee junk
eternal kettle
@gaunt hare Star Citizen, though they are currently quietly shopping for buyers
Chris Roberts is flirting with prison at this point, and they wasted their money on non development so.. Yeah
gaunt hare
@cinder vessel so far I'm really impressed with things like the voice acting, the voice acting is so good. The writing is pretty decent.
Soundtrack is great. Pretty good facial animations
but I haven't even seen the main gameplay loop yet, and I can already see problems with pacing.
The game is kind of all over the place.
Switching between past, "present", documentary style interviews in the future
Lot of exposition
eternal kettle
Well wasn't the series semi based off the books?
gaunt hare
I didn't even know there were books
But mafia 2 opened much better
It started in the war where you played through one mission,
Then you went back home
and it had like these sort of banal scenes where nothing much happened, which really nicely illustrated a guy coming back from war
and then you slowly started committing minor crimes
A fistfight
Stealing a car
In Mafia 3, it's starts with a robbery after your time in the war, then it jumps back to just when you get back from war, with a ton of characters explaining the story and events and historical context
and you get jumped
By people shooting up a... church soup kitchen
and then the boss guy is like "go kill these guys"
It's just so inferior to the beginning of Mafia 2
And now I'm on a boat in the swamps at night
I guess to kill the leader of the gang who jumped a soup kitchen with little old homeless people. Just jumping all over the place
Dude I just figured out this swamp mission is literally going to be like, you swim up to the docks and just kill tons of people
It's just weird.
There's no pacing
Plus mafia 2 explained the gameplay by gradually introducing the mechanics
This game just has a pop up message every few minutes like "THIS IS HOW YOU SNEAK"
Here's one other thing that bothers me.
The first kill of the game, you smash a dudes head into a fiery furnace. It's like "oh damn this is pretty violent"
Then it immediately has you stealth killing dudes and you like hug their neck for two seconds and they just die
So it's like "goddamn, now I know that this whole game, I'm going to be doing these really silly kill animations that would absolutely not kill a person"
Just have him snap their neck!
Like fuck. I'm going to be doing this for so much of the game, so please find a way to make killing someone believable.
If characters just die from being hugged for two seconds it just makes the NPCs even more of empty shells.
Give him a knife, slit a throat. Break a neck. Take a while to strangle someone. Do something besides just the most gentle and brief snuggle.
eternal kettle
Drinking spiked coffee tonight? We get it
gaunt hare
Nah I just talk a lot.
That's how you get the purple name.
And the game just crashed
Jesus.
cinder vessel
lol
gaunt hare
If I let Mafia 3 tell me when to go to bed
then Mafia 3 wins.
I'm really disappointed so far because I think there's a lot of potential.
cinder vessel
Wanna say there's a good article from Kotaku where they talked to the folks behind it...Lot of the issues were the result of clumsy production as I recall
Ah yeah, here we go, if ya wanna read it somewhen later: https://kotaku.com/how-the-makers-of-mafia-iii-lost-their-way-1825242177
gaunt hare
I actually want to buy that guys book one day, or get it from a library
His articles are so consistently good.
jade lake
distant junco
Simon belmot BB
jade lake
chrom ew
distant junco
The king is here though
hardy oar
SIMON BELMONT & DARK SAMUS HOLY CRAP!!!!
jade lake
ive never played castlevania but simons neat
i like fire emblem, but chrom is super lame
another marth character ffs
valid wave
Do not
I repeat
Do NOT question Lord Sakurai how many Marths he can put in one single videogame
brisk merlin
jade lake
no one cares kev
light cairn
i care
jade lake
my point stands
light cairn
o o f
rigid haven
Pffft
brisk merlin
who are you abitchera
jade lake
no one
green ocean
i don't care
no one is allowed to enjoy destiny, its a broken, shallow game, all those that like it are wrong /s
light cairn
that /s saved you
green ocean
😛
brisk merlin
it truly did save you
rigid haven
Wait, what happens if people say it's bad?
austere lance
I pre-ordered Destiny 2 😭
compact tangle
Destiny 2? More like... shoot myself in the foot 2.
light cairn
too bad you can only do that in the original
compact tangle
No but i shouldn't anyway, i already shot my other foot after the first one
austere lance
I liked the first one, the second one......well, we all know how that turned out
austere lance
charges $70 for Year 2 DLC
jade lake
idk man i liked D1, but the fact they are repeating mistakes, it comes to a point where bungie needs to fuck off. if this happens with D3, fuck them
distant junco
If the blurred out part isn't some sort of character unlocking story mode I will eat a sandwich
Also I see Nintendo took a page out of HG's book
winter yew
SMASH RUN
jk
Looks like I'll be playing Smash Bros on my 3ds tonight
to satisfy my urge to SMASH
jade lake
i think its supposed to say spirits
theres been some speculation about it, and Luigi turned into a spirit, likely similar to the way people turned into trophies in subspace back on brawl
jade lake
has anyone here played castlevania iv
i wanna start the series with that one and i wanna know if i should start with a different one
cinder vessel
lol, someone was asking about Ark the other day
I've only ever watched some friends play it, never looked like my kinda game
brisk merlin
n o u
lavish obsidian
this is actually the green button
lethal kindle
The Green Button?
winter yew
That's something I guess, I wonder wtf that promo video was all about then.
gaunt hare
Who cares
It's nintendo
They've never killed off a character in 30 years
Because each character is just a brand to sell. The only way you can be "killed off" in Nintendo is if you don't sell copies
cinder vessel
and even that's just being put in stasis until someone has an idea that seems like it might sell better than previous attempts
winter yew
Yeah good point.
iron inlet
Monster Hunter World releases on PC today \o/
gaunt hare
I really want to try it on ps4
gaunt hare
I also really want to enjoy warframe
I basically have tons of people telling me to play it
and I played it for a bit and was like "this game is gorgeous, it's got so much cool shit"
But I just despise free to play
And part of that might be because of the way I'm wired. Personally, I just hate entering a free to play game and trying to figure out how it's going to try and make me pay.
No matter how much I watch reviews or hear people say "this is how you do free to play right" free to play will always feel like I'm playing a game where I have to figure out how exactly they want me to pay
And I hate that.
When I play a game, I just want to buy it and then not worry about money.
I worry about money all the time in real life. I think about money and how I'm going to spend it
The last thing I want when I'm playing games is to think about money
Even trying out Warframe and playing a few hours of it and seeing the massive store, it just immediately bummed me out
People always want to say "oh it's just cosmetic" and "this game wouldn't be possible in any other model" and "you can grind to get everything in the game"
Not I just hate the tone.
I hate playing a game to figure out what the option is for me to pay
The game sounds great to me but I'd rather spend 30-60 dollars on Warframe and not have any free to play stuff
feral night
in warframe you dont have to spend money to get premium currency or to buy the cosmetics
just grind
gaunt hare
It's crazy to think this is the first current generation rockstar game
teal mason
he's right, it's a system we cannot afford to lose.
storm nebula
@wise bone on PC?
wise bone
@storm nebula Sadly Xbox
storm nebula
feelsbad
wise bone
Did you have questions about it?
wise bone
Ah. It's a really good game. Graphics and play style will blow you away.
raw iris
Yaaa Cake, judging by our convo earlier, I dunno how your laptop will fare
wise bone
You maaaybe need something that can take a graphics intensive game.
raw iris
just finished downloading it on PC
storm nebula
i can run it
i thought it was lag at first but it was actually the shitty camera
seems i need a controller
raw iris
Optimization seems funky so far, it doesnt even like my GTX 1070
wise bone
The tutorial is shitty but once you get past that, it's a fun game.
wise bone
It gets grindy tho
wise bone
There's just something great about grinding to get better gear and weapons, then going back to whoop a monster's ass that had been giving you hell.
storm nebula
heh
@raw iris did u install the monster hunter world driver
from geforce experience
reef storm
I've heard the PC version has some issues with optimization. Any word on that yet?
storm nebula
i can run it on my laptop lmao @reef storm
reef storm
Nice
raw iris
I've got the driver, im still kinda meh about the performance so far
but im only 20 minutes in
reef storm
Hmm.
storm nebula
i haven’t installed the update
reef storm
I might acquire it from a different source to check out the performance, and then get it when I get paid again.
reef storm
Good to know
raw iris
Im not talking about the cutscenes, they're usually limited
raw iris
outside the cutscenes I was getting like 45-50fps in the intro, now walking around Astera im up around 90
makestotalsense
storm nebula
@raw iris i just noticed your dp
raw iris
Will Farrel's face used to make people rage on another channel I used to frequent 😛
vestal raptor
Path of Exile: Delve Official Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-YabwBiPxk
regal pulsar
so does anyone know any fucking good games now
like there are 0
im so pissed
cause im so bored
cinder vessel
lmao you gotta be kidding, there are so many good games, just browse about
rigid haven
Transistor
Just that
Go play that
Where is he
@regal pulsar Play Transistor now
regal pulsar
what is it about lol?
rigid haven
I suppose you could call it cyberpunk? It's one of those 2.5D fighter things but there's also a strategy element to it
It's based around this girl, Red, and the Transistor
Any more than that would be spoilers, in a way
The gameplay is fun, the soundtrack is to die for and the visuals are great
cinder vessel
Transistor is probably one of my top games this generation of consoles, so fuckin' good
austere lance
I want RDR 2 😭
cinder vessel
go to rockstar & work as tester
what will you do when they make RDO and never make any expansions to it
because look, you can't do RDRO, it has to be RDO for the puns
cinder vessel
Hmm, We Happy Few comes out tomorrow I think
light cairn
that soon? really? huh
cinder vessel
I mean it's been in dev for a few years now
light cairn
i mean i didn't know it was launching now, i thought it was still at least a couple weeks out
i'm really curious to how it'll be, because it looks quite interesting
but i've avoided looking deeply into it since i'd want to experience it firsthand
cinder vessel
Yeah, same here
Eurogamer's review was pretty good about covering high level details without revealing too much, I think
It sounds like it's still a bit divisive, but also still sounds really interesting to me. The narrative in particular seems like it may be worth a run through the game
light cairn
i can get past some jank if it's got good concepts, and yeah i'm really curious where the story goes
cinder vessel
From the Eurogamer review the author mostly seemed to think they just didn't play into some of the ideas as much as they could have, which if that's the worst of it, still sounds good to me
light cairn
hmm 🤔
cinder vessel
part of it's just like, "you don't have to use Joy as much as I thought you might"
light cairn
i thought that's the point though
cinder vessel
And I'm just like, eh 🤷
light cairn
i was always under the impression that Joy was a super last resort measure
cinder vessel
I think part of the author's thinking was that they could've played with that a bit more
light cairn
ah
cinder vessel
Like having Joy play into specific sequences more maybe, but yeah, my impression was the same as yours
There's also the suggestion that it isn't as incisive as it could have been in its satire of the UK, which I can follow
But that it's picking at the UK at all is still appealing to me, lol
light cairn
yeah the setting still seems fairly unique to me
teal mason
I'm supposed to play it with my friends tonight but I still haven't bought it yet lmao
Thank fuck for 1gps internet
advertised
cinder vessel
🤔 I'm still not sure what to make of this game: https://youtu.be/wF6mmWQLmCE?t=39m41s
storm nebula
@teal mason yeah my potato laptop can run it lol
storm nebula
however the controller analog camera is emulated in the pc version
but can be easily fixed
teal mason
o o f
storm nebula
but it’s really good
teal mason
how
storm nebula
all you have to do is change camera speed up by 1
all the camera speeds
vertical horizontal
etc
teal mason
will keep that in mind, thanks
storm nebula
aye
also the recent nvidia drivers suck
rolling back drivers will give 15+ more fps
meager blaze
Its usually been the first in Top Selling in the steam store
Huh? It has mixed reviews.
ornate dune
@winter yew Think of Pokemon when talking about Monster Hunter, it's been one of the trump cards of Nintendo's handhelds for years
meager blaze
It should be, unless they messed up on the port bad
ornate dune
@meager blaze Denuvo
was anyone there complaining about of blatlant lies, unfinished systems and unsatisfactory gameplay and endings ?
ornate dune
pretty much.
meager blaze
but you can play offline, and its still a great game alone
ornate dune
I was half expecting shit would happen, afaik capcom rarely do well with PC ports.
meager blaze
yeah the port probably could've been done better
cobalt moss
Anyone on Xbox playing any of the splintercell games?
cinder vessel
wtf is with these companies still using Denuvo, it literally just pisses everyone off, souring what might otherwise be a pleasant release
limber harness
Because profits
Denuvo is quite literally one of the worst systems for antipiracy ever made, but it can take months to crack, sooo
cinder vessel
why won't people just not buy the shit that has it; also how do they even have money to keep buying this shit
limber harness
because same reason linux has no games
nobody honestly cares enough, they just want to buy the game
gaunt hare
Everyone here is getting MHW
brisk merlin
I dont have money to ;-;
austere lance
I'm hyped for Rage 2 more than DOOM Eternal, lol
winter yew
same
winter yew
MH:W has issues.
I think I'll be staying away from it.
Also I'm kind of sick of grindy games..
Destiny 2 now sucks.
No matter how much they've added to it's still the same boring game...
half stirrup
Anyone want to play black ops 4 beta on pc?
jade lake
ew
storm nebula
ew
vague trench
@half stirrup Nah, to busy hyping up actualy good games
@winter yew TF is wrong with you
rare coral
