okay well that's not like star trek... still 90 years
#other-games
reef storm
Set it and forget it lol
meager panther
Lol for real?
full pivot
coming up on a historic moment 😛
gaunt hare
I wanna play Risk of Rain 2
austere lance
I signed up for the Halo Insider Program, lol. I wanna try out Reach on the MCC! I'm not a fan of H3 or Halo CE multiplayer on it so I need more multiplayer besides H2 Anniversary and H4
gaunt hare
Ive never played reach
meager panther
Oh I get the games too?
austere lance
Found my Halo 4 boi
echo hill
dude i had the sickest armor set in reach
i was running like the scout helmet with a white base color with red accents
it was dope
austere lance
@meager panther You get to test Reach
@echo hill That pic I posted is my Reach boi
echo hill
looks like Junile lol
austere lance
I used a mix of Emile and Jun's armors
meager panther
Ok so if it's released I own it?
Coz I am looking to buy ghost recon next week lol
austere lance
You're just testing alpha builds, you won't have the game when it releases unless you buy it
cinder vessel
@gaunt hare you're probably not wrong, I'm the only player of it...Left Alive
austere lance
That friggin Halo 4 helmet was a bitch to get, I had to hit Master rank with all UNSC weapons @echo hill
echo hill
oh damn dude
austere lance
I miss Halo 4, the multiplayer was fun af. Dominion is probably one of my favorite Halo modes of all time besides Invasion
echo hill
my favorite thing was having a shit ton of people over to my house and having a lan party with all of us playing reach infection
that shit was the best
gaunt hare
@cinder vessel lmao
austere lance
Oh yeah, in H4 Infection the zombies were Flood infected Spartans @echo hill
echo hill
yeah i remember
austere lance
They looked gross
echo hill
that was dope
austere lance
I'm installing H4 on the MCC rn solely for Dominion, god I loved it
gaunt hare
My friends and I used to call them lan parties but it was really five different people playing different games in one room
austere lance
LAN parties took too many cables, lol
cinder vessel
smart move by Square Enix would be to rerelease old Front Mission games with the renewed interest Left Alive brought from attentive players, but of course Square Enix wasn't smart enough to put that in the works alongside Left Alive development
gaunt hare
They have really been fuckin up lately
cinder vessel
Like they're out here remastering some PS2 games, least they could do is remaster Front Mission 4
gaunt hare
Weren't they the ones who released The Quiet Man?
cinder vessel
Square Enix is still mixed bag. Some wins, Dragon Quest XI, Nier: Automata, Octopath Traveler, but then yeah, Quiet Man
cinder vessel
I'd say they've had more good releases than bad but few that are really great
gaunt hare
But they do have some that are spectacularly bad
cinder vessel
I still don't know how Quiet Man even came about and released
gaunt hare
Same way Left Alive did, probably
The Quiet Man was really cynical
They released it with barely a whisper because they knew it was bad
but they wanted to recoup some of their losses.
Probably hoped that some of the pretentiousness would be taken as game art
cinder vessel
Left Alive actually had talented devs involved tho, Quiet Man had some mystery crew
cinder vessel
Like I think there's maybe one guy from Square Enix that was involved & I swear I think it was his involvement that kept the Quiet Man going
gaunt hare
I honestly think they thought it was so bad it's like "let's just make it weird and call it artsy"
cinder vessel
probably
gaunt hare
Which I guess when you've got a game like that, maybe for the best?
cinder vessel
Left Alive is a much better game all around, though it doesn't take much to be better than Quiet Man
gaunt hare
But thats also baffling because then why release a silent version of the game if you want the "so bad it's good" crowd to enjoy it?
cinder vessel
and also if you don't want to draw much attention to it
gaunt hare
Ya. You know what, I bet that was the "visionary" behind the game, whoever that may be.
The only possible reason would be because that's artistically what he wanted to do
cinder vessel
You know Left Alive is secretly decent based on the fact that there's not as much talk about it, tbh
If it was outrageously bad, you'd see as much talk of it as with Quiet Man
cinder vessel
is a shame the PC port was bad tho
gaunt hare
It looks awful.
idle saffron
Decently secret
gaunt hare
I mean it looks really really bad
cinder vessel
lol
gaunt hare
I've watched a few people play it.
Granted, haven't played it but I've watched about half an hour of gameplay total, probably.
cinder vessel
And here I've played about 7.5 hours so far
gaunt hare
You poor thing.
cinder vessel
Such a shame i enjoy a thing
austere lance
I just saw the trailer for some game called Project Eve, it looks like weeb-bait
cinder vessel
Sound design, music, enemy vigilance system, setting traps, some of the silly writing, and art direction
austere lance
There's no arguing with him, he dislikes 90% of big new games and loves weird indie ones 😄 @gaunt hare
gaunt hare
I'm aware haha, but I wouldn't even call left alive weird indie
cinder vessel
This is technically a "big new game" tho in a sense, lol
gaunt hare
It's actually very formulaic
cinder vessel
It fits an old niche, is for sure
gaunt hare
It's an ambitious combination of gameplay genres, I'll give it that.
But it still makes me think of watching something hit every branch on the way down
cinder vessel
Also it's not really my fault big new games these days are so often online only and/or service wannabe things
austere lance
Oof
gaunt hare
I'll be honest though you were a bit right about Red Dead 2.
austere lance
Hmm. So you won't instantly dislike any singleplayer games I can think of?
cinder vessel
Dragon Quest XI was probably one of the most recent big game breaths of fresh air, in the sense that it just shipped & was what it was
gaunt hare
A lot of things I like but je.SUS.
I want to play a GAME Rockstar
A video game with like inputs and having to pay attention
cinder vessel
no okapi u play their movie
gaunt hare
The game is one of the most "too easy" games I've ever played
Like it's one of the worst examples of difficulty hurting a game I've ever seen.
austere lance
The first Redemption was better by far
gaunt hare
I play with free aim and I'm still bored to tears by now.
What's the point of having all of these gameplay elements if you make the game so easy it doesn't MATTER
cinder vessel
@austere lance honestly i feel like the first singleplayer games you might think of, given what you've been talking about lately, would be either Halo or Mass Effect, lol
And for what it's worth I do like Halo 1, can't comment on sequels
austere lance
Shadow of War
gaunt hare
Why make me clean my guns if I forget I'm even supposed to be cleaning them because I can just kill everyone anyway
What's the point of survival elements if survival is effortless.
cinder vessel
Haven't played it, appreciate the Nemesis system tho
Like that's easily the coolest part of those games, even without having played them
gaunt hare
Last of Us gets criticized for being a movie you play but at least last of us survival elements were rewarding because the game was challenging to play.
austere lance
Shadow is great, it's not a giant empty open world but has big regions to do stuff in so you never feel bored. Plus the Nemesis system is improved over the first game's, which I didn't think was possible
cinder vessel
Left Alive totally nicks some of Last of Us survival vibes & streamlines them by allowing crafting anywhere
gaunt hare
You can craft anywhere in the last of us
austere lance
Ohshit, did World War Z come out?
cinder vessel
did the publisher forget to market it
austere lance
Damn, 4 more days
gaunt hare
I don't think that game is going to be good but that's some amazing looking tech either way
And if it's good I'm so down.
I like shootin zombies.
I mean I better if I want to like video games
cinder vessel
because zombies are all we get
gaunt hare
Yup
cinder vessel
speaking of, they haven't really shown new zombies that might appear in Last of Us 2 yet, have they?
austere lance
500 zombies on-screen at once and adaptive level AI that'll change the levels depending on how well or how badly your doing sounds 👌
gaunt hare
You basically just described Left 4 Dead
Except 150 on screen zombies or whatever it is
Probably more actually...
cinder vessel
except no narrative stuff to speak of
gaunt hare
No, all we have seen from Last of Us 2 was that trailer and that totally fucking kick-ass gameplay trailer
I mean good
austere lance
@cinder vessel Each level has narrative
Moscow, Japan, etc all have their own characters and stories
cinder vessel
I meant in reference to like Left 4 Dead except
cinder vessel
Where narrative was largely through dialogue & environmental stuff, I think?
gaunt hare
The book was okay, the movie sucked sucked sucked
austere lance
Book was 😍
gaunt hare
I doubt the gameplay narrative is going to be anything but derivative
austere lance
Movie was generic af
gaunt hare
Ya it was a good book. Really enjoyed the format.
austere lance
Ohshit, Jerusalem will be one of the levels
Tokyo should be cool, I wonder how the area layouts will be
Crowded streets and alleys with hordes and special zombies should be fun, lol
I like how you can reinforce areas and upgrade your characters through skill tress
cinder vessel
Helldivers is good
austere lance
echo hill
god guys i love halo so fucking much
i cant waiittt for them to come to PC
any word on if 5 is coming to PC too?
austere lance
Maybe they'll add it to the MCC after they have it fully released on PC
visual snow
Halo is good
echo hill
my favorite line in the whole series: "I need a weapon"
austere lance
@echo hill You watching Halo 2 Anniversary cutscenes?
austere lance
They're 😍
visual snow
Im gonna get that collection on steam
echo hill
me too
echo hill
BRO CHIEF IS SUCH A FUCKING BADASS WHAT EVEN
austere lance
@echo hill I love torturing you with these pics, lol
visual snow
Look at the ship in the distance
echo hill
dude i just want a date i can look forward to. and i cant believe reach is coming first too
echo hill
as much as i love chief, i dont think he could take doomguy
austere lance
@visual snow I took the pics, lol. I got very well acquainted with that ship and all the morons inside that were begging for my shotgun to the face 😂
echo hill
have you read the lore behind doomguy?
visual snow
@gaunt hare dude i bought the game 2 days ago and i have 13 hours
austere lance
Or get an Xbox, lol
austere lance
Halo CE got some love too @visual snow
visual snow
And u can switch between them on the fly iirc
visual snow
Its mindblowing lol
meager panther
For some reason
I like the bottom one lol
This one
Which one is the enhanced one?
austere lance
How can you not tell which is newer, lol
@visual snow You can switch on the fly cuz it's running the old and new games at the same time
echo hill
i think it's so funny how Sesa 'Refumee was killed but it turned out he was right
austere lance
The heretic?
agile tinsel
Yeah
austere lance
I liked him
echo hill
yeah
austere lance
His people's armor was weird but oh well, lol
echo hill
i like his jetpack
austere lance
You're gonna cry when you hear the new sound designs, lol. Especially the Halo 2 Warthog's chaingun, lol
agile tinsel
Yeah their armor was weird and looks very weird in remaster
echo hill
its just recolored recon armor basically
agile tinsel
Also sound soul have you found some of the music wonky in hali 1 ce?
echo hill
wait me soul?
echo hill
ive already played the anniversary version
austere lance
That chaingun fuckin roars
echo hill
i know theyre nuts
austere lance
You played on Xbone?
meager panther
@austere lancei can't tell which one is newer is because I haven't played halo in nearly a decade and the clouds look better in the old version I the pics posted here lol
agile tinsel
And sorry, soul I was meaning in the mcc halo 1 did you ever get like the music being super loud and sometimes cutting out?
austere lance
"This is not your grave.......but you are welcome to it"
austere lance
cinder vessel
This looks pretty interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LkxoY2uyVU
winter yew
TIL there are hidden plants in GTAV’s story mode that turn you into an animal https://youtu.be/aywjZ3rmvcI
gaunt hare
A friend lent me resident evil 2 :D
iron inlet
winter yew
Nice
meager panther
laughs in senate
I Know who that single player is 
Honestly the senator makes me think of auditors and top level accountants
They are the only ones with that much power after CEOs
austere lance
11 minutes til Jedi Fallen Order trailer
willow crypt
4
meager panther
No u
willow crypt
austere lance
willow crypt
No
willow crypt
Didn't you know the worlds r connected
austere lance
No, Ian McKellan wasn't Dumbledore 😂
willow crypt
Harry Potter is offspring of hobbits
willow crypt
Looks like it'll be a winner
idle saffron
austere lance
FUCK THAT LIVE STREAM WAS GOOD
full pivot
cinder vessel
nice
winter yew
@austere lance "Child of my enemy, why have you come? I offer no forgiveness, a father's sins, passed to his son."
austere lance
The Gravemind was cool af
lavish obsidian
KOTOR writers? This will be EA's breadwinner
meager panther
What if they want pizza instead of bread
meager panther
Oh
Nice
Saw the new star wars trailer
The cinematic trailer parts look epic
The game play graphics part looks not so epic lol
Like the wall sprinting part
And the part where he sees the holocom from the dead guy
meager panther
They said it has good AI
So I hope it will be good
They even said it's not just button mashing combat
lavish obsidian
hhhhhh
meager panther
Hhhhhh?
fallen notch
3/4 of the game divided up into overpriced DLC then maybe?
meager panther
GOOD point
They didn't say no DLC
Or it's online only
And subscription based
10$ per month
winter yew
A lot of space games coming out this year that I wanna try
but this one
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw.. just.. wow
teal mason
ahh, that makes me want more House of the Dying Sun again
winter yew
ikr
dev says Outlaw will be $30 on release
buuuuuuuuuut its going to be on Epic Games Store before Steam
reef storm
Cool. Glad it's $30
austere lance
Imagine actually being paranoid enough to think Jedi Fallen Order will be online only, lol
It's a singleplayer game made by Respawn
cinder vessel
people never thought SimCity would go online only
austere lance
It's not even co-op 😄
cinder vessel
I'm genuinely confused as to how easily you can seem to bounce between cynical and seemingly naive, lol
Anyway, I'm also kinda surprised The Last of Us Remastered is still around $20, even used
lmao I thought i remembered correctly, Uncharted 4 is cheaper used despite having released more recently
bronze wind
i don't really think it's naive to think a single player game isn't going to be online
I could see it being one of those EA style "Tier" things though, where there's a base game for $60 that's missing content like equipment or DLC
echo hill
i thought i read that it wont have microtransactions or anything like that
though i dont remember where i read that
gaunt hare
Yes they did. What everyone is saying is that it's EA saying it they are like "what's your angle?"
"you trying to take over Narnia??"
It's also very rich that EA is marketing their game as not being an EA shitshow
bronze wind
I think mtx is different than bundles for buying the "Premium Gold Ultimate" edition or w/e tho
Even if that's the case, as long as it's not actual story content idc
gaunt hare
Yes, definitely is. They gonna sell nerds a statue
bronze wind
Yeah if that's all the extra money is then it doesn't bother me
I just hate when it's like "here's an entire area of the game you can't do anyhting with because you didn't pay $15 more on launch"
bronze wind
I agree, just saying I wouldn't be that surprised lol, that's usually their business model.
It seems like they're making a point to go against that in this case though.
gaunt hare
Ya it very well could be
Just because EA is saying "we ain't gonna be evil this time we swear" is not enough to make me forget years of them being evil
EA killed Visceral when they tried to make a star wars game
austere lance
I doubt they want anything to do with it, it's a singleplayer game with no online components for them to try and get money from. Plus they let Respawn do whatever nowadays, lol. EA wasn't even at the Jedi Fallen Order panel
bronze wind
Eh I don't feel that strongly about it, they just always have tiers for games so I'm wondering how they'd divide tiers for this if they decide to at all.
gaunt hare
Also by the way, Respawn is cool and all but they don't exactly have a history of being pure singeplayer no mtx bullshit anyeay
Titanfall multiplayer, Titanfall 2 single player but also multiplayer, and Apex is filled with every mtx known to man
bronze wind
Those are MP tho
gaunt hare
Ya I know
austere lance
Yeah but it's literally just singleplayer
bronze wind
They weren't marketed as SP
gaunt hare
I'm just saying, they don't have a history of sp value games
Visceral did. But visceral is dead now.
austere lance
Luckily it's not any of the Titanfall devs, lol. It's a new Respawn team headed by the old God of War director
And has a great narrative director
gaunt hare
Oh really? That makes sense I guess since they just worked on apex
Still though I don't know how people can still be excited about star wars. How long are we going to milk laser swords and space Nazis? Star Wars was cool because it was an original idea and universe and even film genre, in a way, made by some cool dudes in 1970
How long is this universe going to be beat to death.
gaunt hare
I know, and I hate that people keep paying
Let someone else do something original. I know there's people who have new ideas.
So tired of this star wars literally doing the same story over and over again.
idle saffron
Well, get ready - if the new game is even just halfway decent, there will be a sequel
austere lance
Damn, the writing team has the KotOR 2 writer on it
idle saffron
Besides, there has only ever been one good Star Wars game
austere lance
Jedi Academy, Republic Commando, Jedi Starfighter, and Battlefront II
gaunt hare
Battlefront II??
idle saffron
All crap
austere lance
Excuse
meager panther
I played kotor
Meh
I also played the force awakens..I just speed ran and completed it in a few hours
🤷
idle saffron
Yawn
gaunt hare
Anything star wars is immediately boring.
idle saffron
Rouge Squadron, only good one don't @ me
gaunt hare
And just kind of depressing.
idle saffron
Am I doing it right?
austere lance
KotOR and KotOR II 😍
gaunt hare
It was such a cool, original idea. Now it's just a factory franchise
idle saffron
Spaceships, aliens laser swords - it's perfect game stuff
meager panther
Someone needs to develop AI for games
austere lance
Yes, all crap 😂
meager panther
Most games lack good AI
cinder vessel
@bronze wind to clarify, when i said naive, i meant more towards EA not doing something to muck things up with an otherwise potentially solid game, however they might do so
gaunt hare
If everyone is going to keep being excited about this crap I'm going to be a massively negative force
idle saffron
Wait, you think because Metacritic says it was good, that it was?
gaunt hare
Ya especially since critics loved the new star wars movies
austere lance
Metacritic can eat my ass, lol
meager panther
Lol critics and your own opinion is different lol
Critics will put what they like
That's it
cinder vessel
but honestly given Respawn's recent track record & apparent ability to negotiate through some of EA's more bothersome tendencies, I'd say Fallen Order may turn out well
meager panther
Doesn't mean it is good
bronze wind
rough squadron
cinder vessel
I didn't care for the old star wars movies and didn't mind the new ones, but wasn't super hype about them, lol
idle saffron
Roughly squadroned
bronze wind
the only ones I didn't really like were the prequels, the acting was iffy from anakin
cinder vessel
i'm still more hype about z-sabers
bronze wind
other than that I liekd the peeps
cinder vessel
wait
meager panther
I honestly can't remember what star wars story is lol
gaunt hare
It's one story repeated
cinder vessel
have they made a peep x whatever those small birb things were called crossover?
meager panther
I haven't watched the old films in a while
bronze wind
porgs
idle saffron
Bad guys try and do bad stuff, magic and laser swords stop them
bronze wind
and i don't think so
cinder vessel
Yeah, peep x porg crossover seems like an easy stupid win
bronze wind
Or russian nesting porgs
meager panther
Lol
idle saffron
Also - spaceships go pew pew all over the place
cinder vessel
i'd eat peep porgs because they seem best eaten than anything else
cinder vessel
lmao
gaunt hare
Jesus...
echo hill
PORGS
cinder vessel
have any of you seen jenny nicholson's giant porg?
austere lance
I still haven't seen the movie with the porgs, lol
cinder vessel
it's ridiculous, she could hardly even get the giant porg to fit in their car
cinder vessel
no one ever dies in star wars
idle saffron
Violin
meager panther
No u @idle saffron
cinder vessel
they just become one with the force or whatever
austere lance
Force Awakens annoyed me enough that I didn't watch the last movie, I've just been watching the spin-offs
meager panther
What character does he play
idle saffron
Butch landrunner
bronze wind
Jake Seastrider
austere lance
Luke @meager panther
meager panther
Which Skywalker becomes the Vader? Luke or anakin
gaunt hare
Jack Facefucker
cinder vessel
what threw me off is i was talking to a coworker where they thought the pilot guy in awakens was supposed to be really cool & i was just like, "uh...was he?"
austere lance
Anakin is Vader
meager panther
Hmmm
gaunt hare
Steve Wonderburger
austere lance
The pilot guy is a much better actor in other movies, lol. I don't think he likes being in Star Wars that much
gaunt hare
He is a great actor.
bronze wind
Oscar Isaac 
gaunt hare
I think he's probably cool with it when he sees his paychecks
austere lance
Yee
gaunt hare
Actually, I thought all the acting of force awakens was spot on
cinder vessel
y'know what's a better space opera with a sillier set of games?
cinder vessel
Gundam
gaunt hare
Pffffffffffffffft
cinder vessel
Giant mechs > giant spaceballs over & over
gaunt hare
Again with the childish stuff Leon!
gaunt hare
Eventually you're going to just end up playing with action figures again
austere lance
"Sillier games"
idle saffron
I thought you were gonna say wing commander
cinder vessel
I genuinely always want to get Wing Commander confused with being a knockoff Star Wars
gaunt hare
I thought wing commander was a star wars game
idle saffron
Lol
cinder vessel
Didn't it come out around the same time as a Star Wars space dogfighting game?
idle saffron
It came out on MS-DOS
cinder vessel
Ah, X-Wing is what i was thinking of
gaunt hare
Anything with any of those words is garbo.
Even if I love the new star wars game, I'm just going to be pissed off the developers weren't allowed to do something new.
Or wanted to.
cinder vessel
they already did something new a few times, titanfall, apex legends 😛
gaunt hare
Ya and EA fucked titanfall
then apex gets made good in spite of EA
(according to the developer)
So basically you get EA hurting a company for putting out an original idea, then the developer brute forcing to make another original idea, then another development team makes a star wars game for EA who have used star wars to FIFA people in the face for years
The whole thing is just whack.
All because Disney who controls everything sold the game rights to EA while they keep pumping out monstrosities like Dumbo
And all this keeps going round and round because people keep paying
Then I get called a cynical bastard for not being excited and even annoyed by a trailer for a fifty year old universe that is so lazy they are bringing back a villain who was only mildly interesting
cinder vessel
lol
austere lance
I avoid the main movies, they're crap
gaunt hare
Oof, I am just in a bad mood today.
cinder vessel
and you get called pretentious if you like anything a little different
gaunt hare
I'm being edgy again Leon!!
cinder vessel
or a hipster, or whatever the derisive term is
gaunt hare
I'm being an edgy okapi
Just gonna go eat my potstickers until I can stop being an angry nerd.
gaunt hare
Actually, I'm a little bit more on your side with both games these days
austere lance
I just want a Republic Commando sequel, I liked popping heads off Geonosian bug-bois 😈
gaunt hare
I'm gonna think about playing Risk of Rain 2 one day
(both games meaning rdr2 and god of war)
cinder vessel
that reminds S0ul, best destiny feature is the headsplodey animation
cinder vessel
Res Evil 2 makes me want to go pick up the original & the remake to do a back to back comparison
austere lance
I'm gonna stick with new singleplayer games, anything else is either a looter-shooter or a BR. Hence me only being excited for Rage 2 and Outer Worlds
gaunt hare
Yes, Rage 2 and outer worlds both look amazing
idle saffron
Wait, you are complaining about Star Wars and it's old universe, but playing a remake?
cinder vessel
And when it's not a looter-shooter or battle royale it's some pseudo-multiplayer thing
Res Evil is still young...Ish!
gaunt hare
I knew someone would say that, and I have my reasoning, but I don't want to be triggered right now
idle saffron
TRIGGER
gaunt hare
So I'm just gonna let it slide...
idle saffron
Triggertriggertrigger
gaunt hare
fires up into the air while screaming
cinder vessel
i still can't get over how odd the new DMC art direction feels to me, lol
gaunt hare
I kind of want to play that
austere lance
The newest game I'm playing rn is Shadow of Mordor, lol. Now THAT'S my type of game! I fuckin love the Nemesis system
cinder vessel
but then, i think even the old games were trying for a pseudo-realistic look with what they had at the time
gaunt hare
Isn't leaning into the craziness smart though?
Nobody remembers dmc for it's realism
We have no coffee
meager panther
Quick question..why can't the star wars saber have longer sword part...like it's basically a light wave ..so of it's made longers,it will give you more distance right?
cinder vessel
Oh I don't have a problem with leaning into the silliness, but the art direction's never really strayed totally away from pseudo-realism, which is why it makes sense the newest one would also do that
The only reason the older games looked as they did was because of hardware limitations
Gamer, it's because then it would look silly, probably
the sabers are all about looks, not practicality
austere lance
Has only played the DMC reboot and 15 minutes of DMC 4
idle saffron
Have a birdy then
cinder vessel
lmao
gaunt hare
Smooth... smooth... silky silky SQUAWK
bronze wind
give me smooth
austere lance
The reboot felt like knockoff Darksiders 2, lol
gaunt hare
Did anyone actually play Darksiders 3
cinder vessel
speaking of games we're currently playing, I'm still really fascinated by the vigilance system Left Alive has going on. It's nothing totally new, but it's an interesting spin on the old enemy alert system, where eventually you'll flip sections of the map to higher enemy focus/concentration
bronze wind
THey added NG+ to 3 recently right?
cinder vessel
Yeah, think so
gaunt hare
🙄
cinder vessel
Plus an alternative control scheme
bronze wind
Saw something about it this morning
idle saffron
Once was fine for me
cinder vessel
That's a little more similar to the old games
austere lance
I'm not touching Darksiders 3, it looks like Dark Souls and Darksiders made some heinous baby xD
idle saffron
Oh, it isn't bad
bronze wind
I didn't play 3, just remembered seeing that
cinder vessel
weren't you previously excited for it tho
austere lance
2 will forever be my favorite
idle saffron
And if you enjoyed the others, you should check it out
austere lance
I was excited for 3 til I saw its gameplay, lol
idle saffron
The story is on par with the others imo
And the gameplay isn't bad, just different - not as good to me, but not bad
cinder vessel
darksiders is p. cool in that each game seems to have a different approach to gameplay
idle saffron
Aye, I like that
cinder vessel
also okapi if me talking about left alive makes your eyes roll, i could talk about mucking about with Front Mission 1 or Disaster Report instead, lmao
Or, or Kingdom Hearts!
gaunt hare
austere lance
Still haven't ever played Kingdom Hearts, I've never owned a PS
cinder vessel
Didn't The Story So Far bring the others to Xbox?
austere lance
No
cinder vessel
Ah, okay, hadn't really checked
Yeah I wouldn't recommend trying to get into it without having gone through those
austere lance
Square Enix is thinking about adding it to Xbox, lol
cinder vessel
Eventually I should get back to DQXI maybe
cinder vessel
Hrm, I like the silly vibes, but not sure I'd enjoy it
bronze wind
idk why I got that mixed up
There isn't much info about it anyway, I just like the visuals
austere lance
After I finish Shadow of War I'll probably try Monster Hunter World on Game Pass
cinder vessel
I can't decide if i wanna wait out on Outlaw to come to other storefronts or not
bronze wind
when is it out on PC?
cinder vessel
They haven't announced yet
bronze wind
Ahh okay
bronze wind
I'll def pick it up, the flight looks solid
cinder vessel
Probably gonna be summer at this rate
bronze wind
Probs yeah
cinder vessel
I'm going to pick it up too, for sure, I just don't know that I want to bother going through the Epic Store for it
Esp. if I could later pick it up on GOG
austere lance
When is Dauntless hitting consoles
cinder vessel
🤷 isn't that still in beta atm?
austere lance
Dammit, it's delayed
Yeah, when it fully releases this summer it'll come out on consoles
bronze wind
i played a bit very early on, on PC
It was fun to a degree but there wasn't much to play for at the time
austere lance
Damn, it's on season 3
idle saffron
Soo - monster hunter?
cinder vessel
that reminds me, they never announced a release date for Nioh 2, did they?
austere lance
Gotta do the Praise Geraldo crossover event on MH, lol
Wasn't the Nioh chick in Soul Calibur
austere lance
Tf is Nioh then, lol
cinder vessel
A Dark Souls-like game set in a fantasy Japan
austere lance
Sekiro?
cinder vessel
But with enough slight differences to make it interesting on its own
Sekiro before Sekiro
but also: does Sekiro actually take place on Earth?
austere lance
Idk, all I know is it's fantasy Japan stuff
Okami is the best version of fantasy Japan stuff, lol
bronze wind
Onimusha
austere lance
Gotta slap people as a wolf goddess
cinder vessel
hey remember how they rereleased Onimusha recently?
bronze wind
Nioh was fun tho
cinder vessel
was the remaster/rerelease of Onimusha any good? I have no idea, because I swear I think everyone overlooked it, lmao
bronze wind
I played Dawn of dreams when I was a kid
cinder vessel
Capcom practically buried that release
bronze wind
That's about all
cinder vessel
I've played through all of Onimusha 1, it's a fun little game
Very, very clear Res Evil influences in its design
austere lance
Hmm, I may have to get Okami HD next time it's on sale
I never finished it on the Wii, lol
Drawing stuff with thumbsticks might be weird tho 🤔
cinder vessel
that's what it was originally designed around & it felt alright to me 🤷
austere lance
I got to the second boss, I think. A giant spider monster?
cinder vessel
literally been years, so i can't recall, lol
gaunt hare
Nioh is too hard.
Nioh should respect it's players and put an easy mode in 😭
The hardest games ever made are Nioh and The Last of Us Left Behind DLC on crushing difficulty
cinder vessel
did Last of Us Remastered bundle the Left Behind DLC with it?
cinder vessel
lol
gaunt hare
RIP Visceral
austere lance
Halo Reach gonna be 
on the MCC, lol
oak token
p o d
cinder vessel
watdis
cinder vessel
Think I made it through this mission in Left Alive saving all the survivors 👍
idle saffron
Nice
idle saffron
Wow, very similar
reef storm
Right?
idle saffron
I actually like e looks of that one
reef storm
All three of those ships are nice
Nestor - battleship
Astero - frigate
@idle saffron But yeah, buddy of mine was mining and blowing asteroids up. I was flying around in the debris with one of his SLF ships
So much fun
idle saffron
Hell yeah
Every time I take a break from it, and come back - I have to go into the tutorial for a few minutes and remember the controls lol
meager panther
Lol
reef storm
@idle saffron Exactly. Took me a few to get the hang of it again, but when i did, it was fun
Bounced off SO many rocks.
idle saffron
Lol
reef storm
@inland grail @junior raft E:D development also started in 2012
inland grail
soo probably the same age
reef storm
Yep
inland grail
but elite team is probably bigger than hello games
its Frontier
the one who make Planet Coaster
reef storm
It definitely is
junior raft
It is the sequel to Frontier: First Encounters,released in 1995.
inland grail
and of course we are comparing the games
junior raft
november 2012 was when it started development with kickstarter
inland grail
but they are trully not really alike
idle saffron
Pfff, planet coaster? They did Jurassic evolution
reef storm
Right. E:D is more of a simulation, where NMS is arcade-y
E:D is based on real physics (for the most part), the Milky Way, etc....
inland grail
i mean one day i will go from nms
reef storm
NMS - fantasy lands.
reef storm
I play both. They both scratch that itch
reef storm
I disagree
junior raft
graphics while, mechanics wise, and control wise
inland grail
and star citizen is for the one who want a virtual life lol
reef storm
One of my good friends in E:D is in his late teens.
reef storm
where elite dangerous is more for older
junior raft
would be fun and look fun to lkike 10-11 y/o compared to how they would see E.D\
reef storm
That's what I disagree with
meager blaze
Elite Dangerous is for people who wanted a successor to that old wireframe game
reef storm
Neither did I, and I'm 36
meager blaze
or at least, thats how it began
junior raft
i just stumbbled across ED on oculus rift and then looked it up on steam
inland grail
does youtube bug for u too or is it just me
junior raft
what u mean/
inland grail
cant load videos
reef storm
Loading fine for me, Jordan
meager blaze
Star Citizen began for people who wanted another game made by the same guy as Freelancer, Wing Commander, etc
meager blaze
youtube gets weird, you can always try restarting your browser
the thousand dollar ships do worry me
SQ42 might be something though
reef storm
I fired up SC a few days ago. Finally have a good processor and can run it.
Enjoyed it. Will hook HOTAS up and try it out for real later
fallen notch
Star Citizen looks to be more like ED/old elite than Wing Commander. Squadron 42 is more like WC.
cinder vessel
@inland grail rebel galaxy outlaw when it comes out
inland grail
?
cinder vessel
for a space game to choose next
winter yew
yesss
it looks amazing https://youtu.be/BkIe4Bz9KGI
more footage from one of the devs
idle saffron
You did
hollow acorn
best game ever ohmagad will revoluaosdhfgoa the industy you know what i mean
earnest skiff
Someone just had to go and say the words, didn't they?
austere lance
This cutscene always makes me happy and I don't know why, lol
https://youtu.be/izcEbiK8B5o
fluid hare
Aaay!
austere lance
I love Delta Halo
fluid hare
I think I like The Ark better, honestly.
austere lance
Delta Halo and Regret are easily my favorite missions in H2
Though I do like the first Arbiter missions with the heretics
fluid hare
“That rattled my teeth!”
austere lance
"Their lives matter to me, yours does not"
"That makes two of us"
It's so weird to think Arbiter went from being a suicide soldier to the leader of the Covenant
fluid hare
It kind of is.
austere lance
Well, the Swords of Sanghelios. Not the Covenant. Still, he's basically the leader of all friendly aliens
fluid hare
True.
agile tinsel
I mean he was pretty badass before he got cast down as the arbiter, an unbeaten fleet commander
I mean until halo
fluid hare
Shame unto shame.
austere lance
ember spear
😮
austere lance
I've been enrolled, the Insider forums are kinda 😴 rn tho
oak token
cinder vessel
watdis
austere lance
That looks like an Elite ship
winter yew
TLDR:
Ray Tracing, backwards compatibility for PS4 games, PSVR support, 3D Audio, specialized SSD and a new CPU.
owo
willow crypt
Hold on PS4 doesn't have 3D audio?
teal mason
does stereo count
austere lance
Will they still not have backwards compatibility for PS3 and PS2 games? 😂
austere lance
Hold up, "backwards compatibility for PS4 games"
Are they seriously jumping forward with games too? I doubt Xbox is gonna have "Xbox Anaconda games", lol
earnest skiff
-shrugs- All I know is that it doesn't seem likely that I'll ever be able to play my old PS2 games without having to actively repurchase new PSN versions. 😦
austere lance
Le oof
Looks at Republic Commando and Battlefront II (2005) on his Xbone
Oh yeah, forgot I had KotOR
And Jedi Academy
Alright bois, let's see how good this Arkham Asylum remaster is
austere lance
Arkham Asylum remaster looks good but fml the gameplay is so bad compared to Arkham City and Arkham Knight
winter yew
I grabbed Arkham Knight expecting the worse and was very impressed.
Launch reviews absolutely trashed it.
It's an amazing game.
austere lance
Hell yeah
I never saw any bad reviews for Arkham Knight, besides the PC port
City is still the best imo
I played a decent amount of Knight but I beat City on every difficulty up to Hard NG+
winter yew
Damn dude.
I think I actually have it.
Yes I do, PS3.
I just looked.
I don't think I've even played it tbh, either that or I started it and never went back to it.
hollow river
Inside Xbox tonight. Live chat here or no?
Not that we're expecting NMS news but still.
winter yew
Sure, go nuts in this channel.
hollow river
Be careful what you permit...
austere lance
@winter yew City is godly
hollow river
You've seen this server...
winter yew
I won't be around in 3 hours 🤷
hollow river
And is someone gonna be making a summary of it like GMR did for Nintendo Direct?
Someone should tbh
winter yew
More than likely, we're all nerds here.
hollow river
Total nerds.
austere lance
It's Inside Xbox, they rarely announce anything good. Unless they announce Master Chief Collection stuff again 🤔
Let us know when test flighting for Halo Reach is up 😍
agile tinsel
I liked Arkham knight but I thought the story was kinda weak and wasn't a fan of how much the batmobile was used
The other gameplay was great
cinder vessel
@winter yew to be fair Arkham Knight was an absolute mess on launch
like so bad they pulled the PC version to rework it to be in something approaching an acceptable standard
austere lance
Yeah I liked Knight's gameplay and background on some characters, the car was a bit OP and the "big reveal" for the bad guy was easy to guess tho
City is still best, especially the beginning 😄
Hold up, does PC have the big Arkham Collection thing with both of the remastered games and Knight and all DLC? Or is that only a console thing
agile tinsel
I dont think the remastered games came to PC
austere lance
Oof
agile tinsel
Didnt they use the PC version for the remaster?
austere lance
🤷
City remaster alone would be worth it, especially with all DLC's. I fuckin loved Harley Quinn's Revenge and these was a ton of good Batman skins to mess around with
I haven't tried all of the Knight DLC's, I heard a couple of em are good. I might grab the season pass next time it's on sale
agile tinsel
I've played the dlc for all 4 games, some of knights was pretty good
Some of the missions were short
cinder vessel
batman just reminds me i want a high-tech detective game tbh
agile tinsel
The Batgirl dlc story was pretty great
austere lance
Oh yeah, forgot Arkham Origins existed. I never bought it
@agile tinsel I heard it's the best DLC
agile tinsel
Origins actually has my favorite story
And cold cold heart is possibly the best dlc pack release
agile tinsel
The one for origins
agile tinsel
I quite like it, the combat can sometimes have some targeting issues and there are some bugs
But it has easily the best boss fights
hollow river
Ahoy mates. Inside Xbox preshow started.
Also I have Arkham Origins but haven’t had a chance to play it yet.
echo hill
anything about halo?
austere lance
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is better than I thought it was gonna be tbh, was expecting $20 a month for it instead of $15
cinder vessel
it's still whiffing on the most obvious perk imo, which would be to use the newly integrated game library access to make online multiplayer free for everyone
this is literally only a deal because of how stupid their handling of Game Pass was to begin with
austere lance
At this point there's no reason to just get Gold, why bother when you can get it+Game Pass for $5 extra
cinder vessel
And at this point there remains no reason to hold multiplayer behind a paywall
austere lance
Can't wait til I can get 12 months for $40 like I do with Gold, lol
cinder vessel
They've imbued their subscription service with sufficient value through a bunch of games and deals, absolutely no need to be bothered about multiplayer anymore
hollow acorn
[Google] Stadia will trash everything.
austere lance
Kek
hollow acorn
Stadia is trash itself, so...
reef storm
We don't know that yet, Betto.
Seems sort of presumptious to even say that when we have no idea what it entails.
austere lance
-Most of the US has <20 mbps download
-Stadia needs at least 25 mbps
Gg m8
cinder vessel
Stadia will probably only come close to effective operations in cities, and even that's questionable
hollow acorn
Consumers paying top money to have their own copy of games has been the reason to success for publishers.
"Netflix-for-games" threatens to disrupt that equation.
Plus...
"I will take 6 GPU teraflops hardwired to my 1ms refresh rate monitor over 10 GPU teraflops and a BGP-4 routed TCP-IP backbone for gaming."
- A wise mf
austere lance
Netflix for games can fuck off, Game Pass is the closest to that I'll go cuz I can actually download the games and I play em offline
hollow acorn
Exactly.
They [Google] also seem to be neglecting the part that most of the online multiplayer gaming is very latency sensitive.
The idea of playing high-end games with low-end hardware is amazing, don't get me wrong... but there are dark sides to whatever Google is trying to do with Stadia.
austere lance
Streaming a 50+ GB game AND multiplayer servers is a fuckin stupid idea 😂
hollow acorn
And they are going to thrive because of stupid consumers not realizing that.
Totally gonna sub, though, you know what I mean... 
Been using Shadow [by Blade] to play Star Citizen on my 200$ laptop and it seems good enough.
cinder vessel
lol
i have mostly zero qualms with missing out on current games due to personal hardware limitations, but then i haven't been completely sold on the games industry's implicit, and at times explicit, push to regard older games as lesser
austere lance
Trying to stream these new big-ass games in super high resolution and play their multiplayer is laughable for a very large percentage of gamers, lol
hollow acorn
Real story telling in video-games is going to die quite soon.
It's all gonna be "simulations" now.
austere lance
Nah
cinder vessel
yeah, it's all gonna be RPG-lite treadmills with microtransactions instead, duh
austere lance
I can see multiplayer games all continuing on the stupid looter/BR path but story games like God of War and stuff are gonna keep on truckin', they're not going anywhere
cinder vessel
Yeah, Nintendo & Sony seem content to keep making them
Microsoft...Is still kind of lost it seems
But with their new set of studios under their belt, it should be interesting to see where they go with them
austere lance
Hopefully one of their 7 new studios make some, lol. I'd be a bit surprised if they didn't
Obsidian especially
cinder vessel
Yeah, especially considering several of them are far more single-player oriented studios
Speaking of narrative games, just caught sight of this upcoming event:
https://www.pcgamer.com/ludonarracon-is-a-narrative-game-convention-being-held-entirely-on-steam/
May be a good time to pick up some narrative based games if you play on PC
bronze wind
"streaming a 50gb+ game" lol they don't send the entire game over the internet for you to play
cinder vessel
point remains however that streaming the kinds of things you see in many big budget games these days would still likely chew up data
oak token
^
bronze wind
It's the same as streaming video honestly, the problem is input latency, which I think would be not so great
The added problem of essentially capturing the game to stream it to someone is another issue, with compression and stuff
cinder vessel
ultimately you'll still probably end up better off saving up for local hardware to play directly off of, unless as mentioned earlier, you happen to be in some area with ridiculously good internet infrastructure, as in some cities
bronze wind
If it's a subscription based thing and you don't have to pay for the games, and the sub is pretty loose, I'd probably use it every now and then to try out a few games and see if I want any of them.
But if you also have to pay for the games, nah lol
At that point yeah I'd just buy it for myself.
But if someone has good internet, no decent PC, and wants to go in on it, good for them
cinder vessel
I still can't imagine many using it as their dedicated platform, more likely to use it as you mentioned, a sort of demoing/rental service
bronze wind
I could see some using it that way but not enough to keep it going
cinder vessel
Which, frankly, treating it as a rental service is the most reasonable approach given that's really what it boils down to being
bronze wind
Google has a lot of stuff that'll be out for a year or two then get discntinued, so this will probably be another of those
cinder vessel
Yeah, that's another part of this more experienced/observant folks point out
Anyone familiar with Google's track record just isn't likely to bank on this lasting
bronze wind
I do like the idea sorta but I'd almost prefer it as a hardware rental service. You buy the game so you own it, and you link steam with it or something and play your owned games on a powerful PC.
But at that point the market it small
If they have money for good internet, they could buy a nice pc
Unless they don't actually want to deal with the pc, which many don't, so idk
We'll just have to see how it goes
cinder vessel
There are a few(?) I think services trying to be a bit like that, Zoid, yeah
bronze wind
And actually I'll retract my statement about money for good internet
cinder vessel
Where you kinda rent a computer to stream the games from or something
bronze wind
Cause you can get plans around Boston for like 100mbps for $80/month
That's why my opinion is skewed too of course, cause it's not really that hard for me to get way above what I'd need around here
cinder vessel
My opinion's skewed the other direction because I'm in an area where internet's still spotty as hell, lol
bronze wind
(I say as my shitty Airbnb internet takes an hour to download 500MB)
cinder vessel
Go down the street a ways & your only option is satellite internet or something
bronze wind
Yeah if Google wants to toss up internet drones to increase coverage then cool lol
But again, we'll have to see how many people even care
reef storm
Yeah if Google wants to toss up internet drones to increase coverage then cool - and this is how Skynet begins 😛
bronze wind
Haha I mean Facebook already did it for third world countires
With balloons or something
reef storm
My point exactly.
bronze wind
Ugh for real though waiting for this driver update is hurting me
Why is this nice apartment on the shittiest internet plan imagineable
Cries in 3mbps
cinder vessel
apartment if nobody lives there consistently, why spend more i guess may be the thinking, lol
bronze wind
Probably, but you can pay basically whatever they're paying now for at least 10x more
I don't get why they're going with the bare minimum lol
Probably bundled with the tv
Wait no
There are like 5 channels here
cinder vessel
you have found yourself in a strange place
raven frost
reef storm
winter yew
I don't understand the donations.
France is in the EU, the EU has a literal fund for this exact scenario so nobody needs to donate a thing.
It's just bizarre to me.
Nice gesture but just wasted.
reef storm
Maybe Macron doesn't want to ask the EU, even though they're donating as well
But more importantly- AC: Unity free for a week lol
bronze wind
Ubi is based in France so they probably just want to help in some way
winter yew
Yeah I get that, even our government is donating money.
I just don't understand why when there's a literal stack of cash to cover it.
I guess this is why I'm not a politician 😛
reef storm
/shrug
bronze wind
It's enough money that they can simultaneously help and also get some PR
reef storm
True
winter yew
Oh nice it's free to keep.
bronze wind
And govt isn't always amazing with funding, although in speaking from a US perspective lol
winter yew
Unity is my favourite.
reef storm
Unity is a good one
austere lance
I own Unity but never played it
winter yew
I paid like £0.99 for it
winter yew
I've completed Black Flag a ton of times.