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wet warren
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Well im glad they are finally making one

winter yew
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People keep trying to tell me to play Dauntless lol. @austere lance

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austere lance
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@winter yew It's pretty fun, it's basically F2P Monster Hunter with less weapons and less grind. Pretty good for just hopping on for 20 minutes or so and killing stuff, I like it

rigid haven
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Dauntless is fun but I stopped playing mainly due to a single monster

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Kharabak is NOT FUN to fight AT ALL

winter yew
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Sounds like me when I kept getting destroyed by Nergigante

rigid haven
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Nah, Nergi is nice when you learn him

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Especially AT, such a good fight 2BGasm

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But Kharabak goes invisible at one point and it just

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sucks

winter yew
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Ok I gave Warframe a chance.

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It's dope AF.

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My question now is, how much platinum do I need?

bleak field
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I tried so hard to get into warframe it just didn't grab me

winter yew
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Use your starting platinum to buy inventory slots for warframes and weapons

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Ah nice, I already did that and hoped it was a right choice.

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Yup good choice

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I'm not far at all. I'm about to unlock Mars from Venus, I just have 1 more objective to do on the list. I've got a thing on Earth telling me I need an Archwing or something like that but I've ignored it assuming I'll get to that eventually.

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Yeah you’ll get to that eventually

brisk merlin
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yea i cant get archwing

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spent too much time grinding for it and i gibe up, over 5 hours of the same thing

winter yew
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It's gunna chew through a ton of my time. I genuinely wish I had given it a real chance before.

austere lance
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Meh, too repetitive and grindy for me

winter yew
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The grind isn't too bad tbh.

meager panther
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Lol

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Warframe

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Say goodbye to a week hex

winter yew
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The excavation things are easy farming.

meager panther
austere lance
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@winter yew You try building a frame yet?

winter yew
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Dude you're not even kidding.

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I did 10 hours straight today.

meager panther
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I am.not kidding

winter yew
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6 yesterday I think.

meager panther
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You will do more

brisk merlin
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rookie numbers

meager panther
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Co its addicting

winter yew
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πŸ‘Œ

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I need to find a way to change my Username though cause it's my real name.

meager panther
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I force stopped and uninstalled .so no issues for me

winter yew
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Cause for some reason I decided that when I created this account like 5 years ago.

iron inlet
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Duck Warframe

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I can't stand that game and it makes me sad that I don't like it

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Because it seems super fun but I've tried it like 9 times and never enjoyed it

winter yew
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😦

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TBH, the "tutorial" mission is a draaaaaaaaaaaaag.

iron inlet
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Man I played all the way up to "A new Dream" or whatever it's called

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I got to like MR 13

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But man I hated it

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I think I've tried to get Into Warframe every single year since it released

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And just never really, GOT it

winter yew
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Shame =\

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I was like that before but it just clicked with me this time around.

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I've had a ton of fun.

iron inlet
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On another note, Oblivion finished installing blobfingerguns

winter yew
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Gunna be my goto for a good while.

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Nice!

austere lance
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Yeah I've tried at least 4x and the grind, combat, and dumbass enemy AI turn me away every time

iron inlet
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Heh, hardware unrecognised set to medium

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I AM TOO ADVANCED FOR YOU GAME

austere lance
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Oblivion was good af back when it released, I went wild on it πŸ˜„

iron inlet
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480p being "medium" quality is yikes

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4k Oblivion, fuck yes

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Time to play Oblivion for the first time in like, 11 years

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No controller support, big yikes

winter yew
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Huh but

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What.

austere lance
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The gameplay, graphics, and character models are heinous nowadays, lol. Story and DLC's are fantastic tho

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Shivering Isles is still one of my favorite DLC's of all time

iron inlet
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Good old Oblivion where "E" is the jump key

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And spacebar is interact

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Look how far we've come

winter yew
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Lmao

austere lance
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It had decent controls on Xbox 360, waaaaaaay better than Morrowind's 😬

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Morrowind has disgusting gameplay

iron inlet
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Tfw absolute max settings on Oblivion is about equal to skyrims worst lmao

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Not too bad

austere lance
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You can mod Oblivion tho

iron inlet
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Not without internet yeet

austere lance
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Oof

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Get yoself some interwebz, steal it from your neighbors πŸ˜‚

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Lug your computer to McDonald's

iron inlet
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It activates on the 16th

austere lance
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Lug
Computer
To
McDonald's

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When's Elon gonna be done putting his thousands of internet satellites in orbit

winter yew
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Nyx, you can say you get your internet back tomorrow, tomorrow.

austere lance
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Why do I have 41 mods installed on Skyrim

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Oh god, I still have 2 GB left of room for mods too

full pivot
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tbh Link's outfit looks weird outside of LoZ in general

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but the green is def too bright and in your face for Skyrim i think

rigid haven
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Yeah, Skyrim is always so gloomy

austere lance
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Gotta mod the gloominess out

raven frost
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time for no context tf2

cinder vessel
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tbh i feel like the Elder Scrolls games from Morrowind onward are great examples of games that aged terribly in almost every aspect

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Visually, gameplay, etc.

austere lance
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Idk, I'm still playing Skyrim almost 8 years after I first got it

austere lance
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I'll agree with you on Oblivion tho, it's aged like an old turd in a boot πŸ˜‚

cinder vessel
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Skyrim is honestly worse to me in some respects, mainly the whole color palette being bland as hell

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but it did at least make character models somewhat better, albeit still pretty bleh

austere lance
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I've never really checked out mods for Oblivion but I'm pretty sure it takes a ton of mods to make it remotely fun and not 🀒, takes me like 5 with Skyrim

cinder vessel
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probably because Skyrim is a FPS with a dash of RPG where Oblivion was still in the process of figuring out which it wanted to be more of

stark palm
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Oblivion was an attempt to streamline it for console. skyrim just continued that direction

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they've said before that there was a lot of feed back about morrowind being really clunky on console.

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personally i feel like the series in general started dumbing down after Daggerfall

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skyrim was fun, just not even remotely an rpg. it's action adventure like Redguard was

bronze wind
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I'm curious how Skyrim isn't "remotely an RPG"

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Aside from your personal definition

stark palm
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it's all twitch. your skills count for almost nothing

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your ability to hit the enemy is determined by your twitch skills

bronze wind
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I don't really base my definition of rpg on how easily I can hit an enemy

stark palm
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doesn't matter if your character is a god swordsman, if you suck and have bad twitch skills, your character sucks.

bronze wind
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I mean that's true of any game lol

stark palm
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not so.

bronze wind
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If you aren't good at the game then you can't take advantage of powerful items

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Very so

stark palm
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there used to be lots of games in which your characters abilities were not dictated by your abilities

bronze wind
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You still have to understand how to use those abilities though

stark palm
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but you don't have to have the dexterity. now it doesn't matter if your character is a god at something, if you don't have the fps twitch skills, your character is shit. that's not an rpg, that's an action adventure.

bronze wind
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If you're nitpicking you could call it whatever you want

stark palm
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it's not nitpicking, it's a fundamental change in game design

bronze wind
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It has plenty of rpg elements, just because the weapons aren't handled how you specifically determine an RPG should handle them doesn't mean it's not an rpg

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Not all RPGs need to be turn based or hotkeys

stark palm
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like i said Skyrim is fun. i didn't say it shouldn't be the way it is. no not all games need to do things that way. but by doing things the way elder scrolls does it, it's just continued to move away from roleplaying and moved toward action adventure. that's fine, it's just not roleplaying

rigid haven
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what are twitch skills

stark palm
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to be clear Elder Scrolls never really was an rpg. they've just contined to move away from the notion of it being a roleplaying game and toward action adventure. the first move in that direction was Redguard.

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when the reception wasn't great, they temporarily moved back

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but they've steadily moved the series in that direction. methodically

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expect 6 to be even more so. I'm expecting aspects of 6 to be flat out first person shooter

rigid haven
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Skyrim is still RPG, as most TES games are

stark palm
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in roleplaying your characters stats and skills determine his success on die rolls. that's almost entirely gone for elder Scrolls now. Oblivion paid it lip service. the last one to really do things that way was daggerfall, but lots of people hated that you could physically see the sword swinging past the monster but it would miss. well, that's because your character wasn't good enough so he missed. that's roleplaying.

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now you have the coordination or you don't, your character has nothing to do with it

rigid haven
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I'd say that's more a dice game than a roleplaying game

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Or maybe even tabletop

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The most important part is that you are, indeed, playing a role

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And you can fill that role however you like

stark palm
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that's a roleplaying game. they are table top dice roll games. crpg is computer roleplaying game, we just shortened it to call them rpg's as well

rigid haven
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Today, RPG games are where you play a role, not a roll

stark palm
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the further a computer games moves away from the way a table top rpg worked, the less it becomes an rpg. Skyrim has almost nothing left of the tabletop rpg, and thus i dont call it an rpg. it's an action adventure, which btw is what Bethesda called Redguard. that's not a term i came up with

rigid haven
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The boundaries between rpg and any other genre are already kinda vague, but I'd definitely say that using tabletop games as a guideline is probably a bad idea if you wanna judge things accurately

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RPG is broad, TTRPG and CRPG are more specific

stark palm
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you aren't really playing a role in skyrim. you are playing you. your skills is what matters, not your characters. all your characters skills do is allow you to do different things. they aren't really skills they are unlockable abilities.

rigid haven
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I do agree, though, that skyrim abilities mean, like, nothing unless you're playing at an insanely high level

austere lance
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Elder Scrolls games are classified as Sandbox RPG's

full pivot
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i mean in DnD its both anyway

austere lance
full pivot
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you play the role and then your actions are based on the roll

stark palm
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i know they are classified as that, they just aren't.

full pivot
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i am heavily anti-metagame

cinder vessel
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they're still RPGs in a very basic sense but it's meh

full pivot
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when people OOC ask me stuff when i play DnD i completely ignore them haha

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the table talk is only after playtime is over; like the post-game interview

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meta is for weaklings

cinder vessel
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for me RPG is more about like a choose your own adventure story than it is to do with stats or whatever so stuff like Skyrim still has that, but the adventures you're choosing to go on aren't that narratively interesting to me

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but i mean putting it that way a lot of other RPGs would be closer to visual novels but with grind, lol

rigid haven
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RPG is a weird genre, it's like the difference between rogue-likes and rogue-lites

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Which I still don't know

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If anyone wants to clear that up, please do

full pivot
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just imagine looking at me and trying to talk to me like im a 7 foot tall half-orc barbarian πŸ˜›

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that's skill i think

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rogue-like is a game based on the mechanics of a game called "rogue" which started the genre

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and lite is just that but more forgiving

cinder vessel
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i think someone here described rogue-like as being sorta random gen adventures where you start over & over without any progress retention, rogue-lite as that but like Aethena said, more forgiving, mostly by retaining your progress

fallen notch
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To me, rogue-like is you lose everything when you die, rogue-lite you still keep some kind of progression.

rigid haven
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Ahh

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So Streets of Rogue (out on console and steam now, pls check it out, free demo on itch.io) has a character select

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The levels are random, and you lose everything if you die, but at the start you can load into a loadout of a character

full pivot
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Rogue (also known as Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom) is a dungeon crawling video game by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman and later contributions by Ken Arnold. Rogue was originally developed around 1980 for Unix-based mainframe systems as a freely-distributed executable ...

stark palm
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to be rogue like is a dungeon hack that uses ansi graphics

full pivot
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sound familiar?

stark palm
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if it's not ansi graphics its not rogue-like

full pivot
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that entirely untrue

stark palm
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that's just my personal opinion

rigid haven
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Wait are you like

full pivot
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its the gameplay aspects that define it

rigid haven
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Being serious or

fallen notch
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Yeah, really, originally... But then it started being applied to pretty much anything with permadeath.

full pivot
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you don't define genre on the "look" of a game

stark palm
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when i think of rogue-like i think ansi graphics first and foremost.

full pivot
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like "souls-like" doesn't require a dark fantasy look

stark palm
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Dwarf Fortress is more roguelike than most of the so called "rogue-like" games out there

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then you had Telegard, Temple of Apshai, Ziggurat. i would call all those roguelike, though i think all those are older that Rogue

full pivot
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Binding of Issac

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classic rogue-like

stark palm
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not familiar with that one

full pivot
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(it won't explain the game fyi)

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just cool OST

rigid haven
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Did the newest DLC come out for that yet?

full pivot
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afterbirth+?

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or the new character one

rigid haven
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Yeah, I think

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Wait

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I think there was one after Afterbirth+ but I forget

full pivot
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"The Forgotten"

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and Apollyon

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it was Afterbirth ✝

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but that's been out for a while yeah

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Antibirth is a mod

rigid haven
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Ahh, it is

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I think I only ever got one mod

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The Binding of Undertale

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Just so I could play as sans

full pivot
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its kinda like a NMS situation right? Afterbirth+ is the dev version and Antibirth is something another batch of the community wanted

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i think both are cool

rigid haven
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Yeah

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I've heard people say that Afterbirth+ kinda dropped the ball, while Anitbirth is like

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The best ever

full pivot
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yeah because Antibirth is more community driven right

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tbh that's why im always in love with strong modding communities

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its hard to generate something as a dev to appeal to such a vast fanbase but if you allow it to be customized; it can appeal to everyone

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points to XCOM2 in that regard since they fully endorsed the modding community from day 1

rigid haven
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Yeah, it's so good 2BGasm

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Not only does it give the game more life and the fans more things they want in-game, it lets the devs work on other things

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win-win-win

full pivot
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also those remixes of the classic OST SuperNut

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i actually listen to those when im not playing the game blobmeltblush

rigid haven
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Look at that

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It looks so old

full pivot
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the only issue is this played in the OG Xcom when using an interceptor not the skyranger

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the air combat is pretty decent in Xenonauts

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you can use 1980s tech planes to fight UFOs πŸ˜›

rigid haven
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Holy fuck

full pivot
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apparently using alien tech you also invent the internet hahaha

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its a brutal rendition of XCOM 1993 though just be aware

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i completely failed at it haha

rigid haven
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I haven't played a single XCOM game ever so uh

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"completely failed" won't even begin to describe what I do

full pivot
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well it was from '93 you can imagine what that's like

austere lance
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Xcom: Enemy Within is πŸ‘Œ

full pivot
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there's a well scripted progression in new XCOM whereas in XCOM 1993 you can get anything and everything thrown at you from day 1

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XCOM2 is like on my top 10 games of all time list :3

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which is funny cuz i rarely ever hear about it 😭

rigid haven
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I've seen the new one

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XCOM 2

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Uh, well, it's the newer XCOM2, I imagine the old one was all pixely

austere lance
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I haven't played 2 yet, I played the shit outta Enemy Within tho

full pivot
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yeah XCOM UFO Defense was super pixelated

austere lance
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Oh god, I'm in the Soul Cairn in Skyrim

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I hate this shit 🀒

rigid haven
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Soul Cairn huh

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Is that part of Dawnguard?

austere lance
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Yee

stark palm
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i loved that part

austere lance
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The only good parts of Dawnguard are Auriel's Bow, the Snow Elf armor, and being a vampire lord. Fuck everything else, Dragonborn is a MUCH better DLC

stark palm
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boy i dont know about that

austere lance
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99% of Dawnguard just feels like busywork

stark palm
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i loved the whole soul cairn part

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wasn't as good as shivering isles for oblivion, but it was good

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dragonborn kept glitching for me.

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eventually had to use a cheat to get past a part at the end because the gate never unlocked

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i absolutely loved the castle in dawnguard

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dragonborn never really made any sense to me either. how could there be this big event that happened with a previous dragonborn but nobodies ever heard of it.

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would be like if they had just now introduced the idea of Tiber Septim but nobody's ever heard of him before now

austere lance
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Castle Volkihar looks πŸ‘Œ with mods

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Tfw you're in the Soul Cairn but haven't even gotten the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller for the Greybeards yet

stark palm
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trying to recall if i played either from fresh start. don't think so

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and yeah i did eventually use mods for the castle to make it even better. but it was great to begin with.

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i did like getting to return to solstheim with dragonborn, but i think i had more fun with it in Morrowind

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i would have liked an official expansion to the Dwarven underworld

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make it even bigger and go deeper. discover more history about them and go deeper into the ground and into who they were

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i thought about doing a mod like that

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would be a ton of work

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find ancient Dwemer books that you have to bring to the surface to someone to be translated and researched, then you get a translated copy with notes explaining what it could mean

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i hoped for a long time that we'd learn more about the Dwemer and what happened as the series progressed, but looks like they intend to just keep them as the great mystery that will never be answered

austere lance
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There's an interesting fan-made DLC called Forgotten City that has multiple endings, one of which might interest you if you like the Dwemer πŸ˜‰

cinder vessel
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so, this gen of consoles, what would be some of the underrated titles from the bigger publishers to you all?

fluid hare
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It’s like the Precursors in Halo.

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We don’t know what stake they have in the 2550’s, but we do know some of what they did and what happened to them.

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Some of it is sketchy, (sourced from the Primordial) but it seems to more-or-less hold up.

austere lance
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@cinder vessel For Xbox I'd say Ashen and Rare Replay

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Oh, bigger publishers. Nvm on Ashen

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Fe is good too

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Styx: Shards of Darkness is supposed to be good if you love hard stealth games

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Ruiner is hella fun

cinder vessel
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Lol, I like how ya keep listing smaller devs' stuff, or at least what I was pretty sure was smaller devs stuff

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Fe seems like it'd be pretty cool, and not gonna lie Rare Replay has tempted me to pick up a Xbox One

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I keep thinking of VR titles, but I'm not sure if they should count considering how VR is still pretty niche

wary trench
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EDF 5 for VR!

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πŸ˜„

cinder vessel
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wait, is it? πŸ€”

austere lance
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Fuck big publishers, I like lesser-known games like Ashen and Ruiner

full pivot
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they both have value to add to the market right?

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i wouldn't want either to completely disappear

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smaller lesser-known can innovate and create the amazing ideas

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bigger studios can focus on perfecting a tried and true formula

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that would be my gaming dream tbh

lavish obsidian
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@austere lance I love Annapurna- really good publisher

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Ignoring the Epic Games stuff

cinder vessel
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well when i'm asking about the underrated stuff from big publishers i'm basically asking about the stuff from their smaller studios

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or smaller teams

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@distant badge stare into the abyss of Starbase πŸ‘€

distant badge
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Eh, not so much my thing. Plus it doesnt have VR.

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I did look into it though

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It seems way too focused on the super indepth, almost minecraft "redstone" levels of crafting and stuff. But interested to see how it fares.

cinder vessel
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I gotcha, just know hey if you want some other scifi space thing to be drooling over it seems one to keep an eye on

distant badge
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Yeah, NMS VR(Beyond) seems way more compelling to me, especially if the multiplayer is decently implemented now.

austere lance
cinder vessel
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Besides that I think Outer Wilds is probably the only recent scifi exploration game to dig into

lavish obsidian
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^^^

distant badge
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Outer wilds is fire

lavish obsidian
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Outer Worlds might be nice to keep an eye on

cinder vessel
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Then a fair bit older than that but still pretty neat is The Solus Project

lavish obsidian
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Solus was more horror oriented, no?

distant badge
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Solus project is incredible. Absolutely one of the most powerful experiences I've had in VR.

cinder vessel
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Not really Whale

distant badge
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Solus is not horror at all @lavish obsidian

cinder vessel
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It's dark but not horror

distant badge
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It's tense? But it's not horror.

cinder vessel
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Yeah, a bit tense, a bit dark (both literally and figuratively) but not quite horror

lavish obsidian
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Oriented

distant badge
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Definitely not horror, I would say. At all.

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I hate horror games, and cannot play them in VR...too scary. But I beat Solus project in VR.

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Definitely puts you on edge, it's tense. It's atmospheric. But it's not horror, imo.

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There's no like...jump scares or something

cinder vessel
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Kind of surprised you dug the VR as much as ya did, I've played a bunch of it in VR and while it's decent it didn't grip me as much as I thought it might

lavish obsidian
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I'd say my first jawdropping experience would be Aircar

distant badge
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Solus project got completely inside my mind. I was totally immersed in that game in VR.

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I was getting literal chills/goosebumps on my body from the hype, at certain sections of that game.

lavish obsidian
cinder vessel
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I found it a tad too fiddly to get drawn into like that. Weirdly I felt more sucked into Statik

distant badge
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Did you play it recently, or during the initial VR support patch?

lavish obsidian
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Solus or Aircar?

cinder vessel
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Solus several months back, now

distant badge
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The intial VR support was very barebones and janky. The later huge VR update, with hand controls and improvements...made it much better./

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Oh, yeah. That was after the main VR update then

lavish obsidian
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I played it for the Touch support and it did feel janky to me

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That was in 2018

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Lone Echo was a masterpiece for what it did, honestly

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Pacing was an issue however

distant badge
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I'm not one who cares that much about....how much "vr" is implemented as far as exclusive controls or features built around VR....I just need a quality experience playing out on screen for the magic to happen (for me, personally). And Solus was so atmospheric and immersive....and it was just the kind of thing I wanted to experience in VR....so it really blew my mind.

cinder vessel
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Yeah, it definitely nails the atmosphere

lavish obsidian
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Can't disagree with that

full pivot
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the first super tornado scared the shit out of me even not in VR

cinder vessel
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The fiddly part for me was like the little computer you carry around felt hard to read at times, and trying to get the teleporter thing tossed the right way

lavish obsidian
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I'm a bit older in regards to that- my favorite experience was a DK2 private demo, not sure if it released

distant badge
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Absolutely yeah @cinder vessel Pad controller thing was janky a bit.

full pivot
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old people sean

lavish obsidian
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I'm like, we now have the extra resolution and the toys to play with so if we're at it we can improve it by a lot

distant badge
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I just used smooth locomotion for walking though...so I didnt need to teleporter much

cinder vessel
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Either way tho, I love love love that The Solus Project gives you so many options to adjust things to your comfort/liking

distant badge
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facts

lavish obsidian
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For sure

full pivot
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is the solus project really the baseline?

lavish obsidian
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No, not at all

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It's his opinion though

full pivot
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which makes it arguable

distant badge
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But it is a great experience though πŸ˜ƒ Especially, mainly, referring to VR.

cinder vessel
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Less atmospheric, more rogue-lite & horror-esque, but still scifi, might like The Persistence

distant badge
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I doubt I'd care about the game much if I didnt play through it in VR.

cinder vessel
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Well, maybe not less atmospheric, but just a different vibe

lavish obsidian
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I'd say Windlands made good use of roomscale and Touch- as well as being atmospheric and delivering on the comfort options

full pivot
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i loved Solus without VR

distant badge
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Spoilers (but not really, it happens within the first like 20 mins)...when that storm kicks up and the tornado happens...? OMG fam. I had the biggest, stupid, smile on my face...my body was like tingling from the hype. I was so enraptured by that, I couldnt believe it when it happened.

cinder vessel
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Was so happy to be near-ish a tunnel when that hit, lol

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VR was very new to me then, when I played Solus, but I played it again recently and Solus still had a pretty profound effect on me. I'd say definitely a VR experience worth checking out, if you're into singleplayer stuff at all.

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It just nailed the immersion for me. I was so captivated, exploring that crazy world in VR...and unraveling things.

cinder vessel
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Yeah, any time folks are yearning for something NMS, be it news or whatever, I tend to recommend The Solus Project to kill some time

distant badge
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Outer Wilds VR is another one that would be perfect.

cinder vessel
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Because it'll definitely keep ya busy and get your mind away from NMS for a bit

distant badge
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I really hope that happens someday

lavish obsidian
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Epitasis is pretty cool, feels like NMS launch

cinder vessel
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It's not VR, but The Signal From Tolva is another solid scifi adventure

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Yeah, nowadays....if I'm going to play something like that I'd prefer it in VR. It's just so much more effective in regards to those types of games, for me.

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Competitive games I still completely prefer normal monitors.

full pivot
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being away from reality is what i want VR for

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i really don't even care about it being a game

cinder vessel
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I'm really picky about how/when I play stuff in VR, have to have a cool room, prefer to have had something to eat beforehand

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VR in a warm room is blegh

distant badge
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Oh yeah, AC is a must ofcourse lmao

cinder vessel
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I don't remember why but for some reason I found myself playing a bit of Solus and the AC wasn't kicking in and i was just like why am i doing this

full pivot
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you're picky? woah

cinder vessel
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lol

distant badge
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He's right though. VR in a hot room is terrible. It's just something that pulls you out of the experience because it's reminding you that you're actually standing in a hot room.

cinder vessel
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not everyone's around enough to know the depths of my nonsense

full pivot
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im not gonna spoil!

cinder vessel
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aw, thx

full pivot
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❀

cinder vessel
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but yeah i think the most basic things for VR are lighting and temp, not even a me thing in that regard, tho i guess some people may mind the heat/lighting less

full pivot
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this fucker wants the holodeck

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that's a little more than VR btw

cinder vessel
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Demoing VR at stores with everything lit up around you is uhhh somethin'

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Headsets do a pretty good job of keeping the outside light out but yeah

full pivot
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so they were demoing a thing to make walking a thing; it was a treadmill type deal

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with a gun thing for your hands

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demo'd on HL2

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apparently it was still incredibly disorienting

cinder vessel
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huh, i know of the different treadmill stuff, not so much the gun thing

full pivot
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virtuix omni

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this was back when the oculus was still new

cinder vessel
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aah yeah that's what i remember

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i guess i forgot about the gun, or never saw it

full pivot
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its also garbage for the gamer community cuz they'd all have a heart attack actually running places πŸ˜›

cinder vessel
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lol

full pivot
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ik that the oculus i have does track actual movement

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it def throws me off balance tho

distant badge
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@cinder vessel Lighting? I dont care what lighting I have when VRing.

full pivot
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stepping into another virtual area is too much

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considering i "know" im still in my room

distant badge
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I just need a room, a clothespin(to anchor the cord to me, and relieve cord weight, etc), AC unit on, and that's it fam

full pivot
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no one wants to face Freddy in their underwear :c

cinder vessel
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lol

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I've never really used roomscale VR, not known anyone with it

distant badge
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I do it in the bedroom, just flip my bed up (no headboard) against the wall and then have mostly the whole room (the other stuff is just around the edges of the room).

full pivot
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hence no one wants to face Freddy Fazbear in their undies

distant badge
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Roomscale adds a ton to immersion. If only because you arent constantly thinking about bumping into stuff in your play area.

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I can swing a pull bunch, or do a dancing twirl and kick my legs up, and give zero fucks

full pivot
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my room is larger than any space in FNAF

distant badge
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Truee FREEDOM

cinder vessel
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my room is probably about the size of a FNAF space tbh

full pivot
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regardless stepping across a virtual space naturally makes you disoriented

cinder vessel
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at least where I'd do any of that sort of thing

full pivot
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there's a mental disconnect

distant badge
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You move around using thumbstick still even having "roomscale". I just meant roomscale, in having a large play space.

full pivot
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you know its fake

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but stepping forward makes an invisible person move

distant badge
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Negative lol

full pivot
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in real life you're always aware of your body

distant badge
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Not any more so than any other games

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Moving with a joystick really doesnt effect my immersion much at all

full pivot
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yeah moving around as a hunking piece of male musculature is no different than me moving around irl

distant badge
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I do a little walk-in-place to simulate the motions of walking...and I hold the joystick forward, pretty simple and effective for me.

full pivot
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im always like 6' tall

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nothing is weird about any of that

distant badge
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?

full pivot
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i can sprint forever

distant badge
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You can adjust your height in VR

full pivot
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and if not i can certainly jog forever

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i can jump super high

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i have perfect aim

distant badge
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The features of the game, like being able to sprint long periods or something....dont make an experience not immersive for me.

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Just because you cant do the thing IRL, doesnt mean you cant be immersed in it the experience of doing it in VR.

full pivot
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the intense unrealism doesn't make your brain question anything?

distant badge
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Not really

austere lance
distant badge
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I have a pretty good imagination, and am usually able to get immersed in books and games pretty easily.

full pivot
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sorry but as a lucid dreamer anything unrealistic immediately breaks immersion

distant badge
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Yeah, that's a non-factor for me entirely.

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Games have you doing incredible things all the time.

full pivot
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which are unrealistic

distant badge
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It's not about being "Realistic" though, at least what I was talking about isnt.

full pivot
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disorientation comes from knowing its not real

distant badge
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It's about immersion in the experience that's playing out.

full pivot
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even the 3d is an illusion

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that's why motion sickness still exists for people using VR

distant badge
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Just because the experience doesnt fit within some narrow parameter that you define as "realistic" doesnt make it inherently not immersive. At least for myself.

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Motion sickness is just because of a disconnect between what is happening with your eyes...and your body not feeling the motion of moving.

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Very similar to car sickness.

full pivot
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i mean ok

distant badge
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Some people get over it, I did.

full pivot
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mansplain it to me

distant badge
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Some never do.

full pivot
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i concede

distant badge
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No explaining, I said "for myself at least" it was like that.

austere lance
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"Mansplain it to me"
My fuckin sides πŸ˜‚

distant badge
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I know right lol. Not sure where that came from

full pivot
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you know the definition i hope

distant badge
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Certainly πŸ˜ƒ

rigid nimbus
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@potent cairn STOP PLAYING WOW

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@potent cairn for real

rigid nimbus
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@potent cairn you here that bro? quit raiding, WoW is dead lets play some NMS

austere lance
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Downloaded a weird game called Battle Chasers: Nightwar, apparently it's based off a comic series. It's pretty damn fun if you like turn-based combat RPG's

austere lance
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It's fuckin hard, lol

charred badge
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Motion sickness mostly boils down to your body expecting sensory input from motion that eyes see

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Same reason folks can't read and ride in a car, but reversed

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Feeling motion and not seeing it

austere lance
winter yew
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not sure how i like the new enemies lol

echo hill
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Sometimes I get really fucking pissed at a game so instead of raging I just go to bed cause I don't wanna deal anything

wary trench
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@winter yew ayyyy

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Another EDF player

winter yew
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Of course

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Since EDF on the 360

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@wary trench

full pivot
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CSD2 when you realize you fucked up a sandwich order and serve them a single slice of bread xD

austere lance
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God damn, Xbox is having a massive game sale rn

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Bioshock Collection is $15, fml

austere lance
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Bruh I've died like 4x to dogs on this Inside game, it's fucked

austere lance
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FUCK THIS SHOCKWAVE PUZZLE

winter yew
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shockwave

fluid hare
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is very logical.

winter yew
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odd little game I need to get around to finishing

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that trailer doesn't explain jack shit about the game

austere lance
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I finished Inside, pretty damn interesting but has a definite head-scratcher of an ending

wet warren
brisk merlin
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i got a realms

wet warren
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Nice

stark palm
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been a while since i played Minecraft

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my main thing was always mining down into the depths. though exploring the surface can be fun too

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only played a few times since the ender dragon stuff was added.

wet warren
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Mining is also my favorite thing to do in the game. You should definitely try and get back into playing it

wary trench
crisp sparrow
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God mining was the worst thing in minecraft for me

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So much boring

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Haha geddit boring

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But no minecraft's underground is a whole lot of nothing, at the most the abandoned mineshafts are kinda cool

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Oh also you don't even have much incentive to do that when you can find everything you need, just on the surface

stark palm
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exploring the caves and mining paths around lava lakes was my favorite

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the abandoned mines didn't come till later and i didn't think they were that great

echo hill
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High-key wanna cop dayz next time it goes on sale

stark palm
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exploring underground was my favorite part of Terraria as well. i didn't get that much joy from building houses or castles

full pivot
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Omg Day 9 of Biggs Burger is absolute madness amegablobsweats

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Idk if I can do it

visual snow
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Xcuse me?

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Whats biggs burger

meager panther
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Switch pro com

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Coming*

lavish obsidian
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WOOHOO

cinder vessel
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that's not a Switch Pro

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that's a slight upgrade

rigid haven
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Yeah, a revision almost

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Unless you mean that this is a sign of the coming switch pro

austere lance
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I'm waiting for them to say "Now yours for a sweet $300" πŸ˜„

meager panther
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Better cpu,better battery..what else is there to even upgrade

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If they make it any bigger,theh would need to call it a tablet

rigid haven
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It p. much already is

meager panther
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Probably 60fps from 30fps maybe

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But thats covered in cpu upgrade

rigid haven
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The article heavily insists that it's just a few upgrades, not a switch pro or anything

meager panther
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Woop i will eat you if its labeled as switch pro

rigid haven
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It will not be a switch pro

visual snow
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Its like new nintendo 3ds

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Slightly better

winter yew
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heh

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way to confuse more people

rigid haven
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The New 3DS was a different console

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This improved switch is just a bit better

visual snow
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It was a revision of an existing console

rigid haven
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I know but like

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This seems like a tiny, tiny change

visual snow
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I get u

winter yew
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It will fix the exploit in current Switch hardware that allows jailbreaking/emulators.

visual snow
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Battery life makes a difference imo

austere lance
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Aw yeah, did a fresh start of Splinter Cell Blacklist

visual snow
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I really like that game

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Wasnt there supposed to be a new one?

austere lance
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Someday 😒

timber canopy
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Last splinter cell wasnt that same sinse Sam isnt voiced by Michael Ironside anymore 😦

cinder vessel
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it will never happen but i'd be really excited if nintendo ever just said fuck it and embraced homebrew

charred badge
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Switch Pro is the idea for a home only version, right?

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Switch+ is probably like a 3ds xl

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@rigid haven New 3ds wasn't really a new console. Just slightly upgraded hardware, second pair of triggers, and a laptop nub.

rigid haven
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Yeah, but it was different enough to warrant a new name

charred badge
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Nice not needing to lug the second stick + triggers add-on for 3ds around

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Tacking "new" onto it is a bit too literal for "a new name"

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It completely screwed up resale though, so yay?

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It had maybe 2 exclusives

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Otherwise it was essentially a Gameboy pocket deal

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It is very very nice, though. I'm happy with it as the final 3ds

brisk merlin
charred badge
rigid haven
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oh damn

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I have a kirby one

winter yew
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I had the white new3ds

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But I ended up returning it because my hands cramped BAD trying to hold that thing

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My comfort zone is the new3dsXL

winter yew
wet warren
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@winter yew Nice. I have a new3dsXL as well but I have one with the space design

winter yew
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Lovely!

austere lance
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Stealth-lethal is so fun in Splinter Cell Blacklist 😍

winter yew
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This kinda came out of nowhere... on one hand it’s cool to finally get a portable HLD (not counting the Switch version as I don’t own one) but it still sucks the vita version was canceled. https://toucharcade.com/2019/06/26/hyper-light-drifter-iphone-ipad/

Heart Machine's critically-acclaimed action RPG Hyper Light Drifter is one of those games I've always secretly held out hope would get a mobile port. Ever since its original launch back in 2016, it has been considered one of the best action games around and is very much one o...

austere lance
rigid haven
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wet and cold

austere lance
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Yee, it's pretty cool 😏

stark palm
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no Ordinator?

austere lance
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Nah, went through too many perk points to get to anything I liked

stark palm
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been a very long time since i played skyrim without ordinator

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just added become a bard, haven't done anything with it yet. probably will start a new character for it.

austere lance
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You don't need to, it just lets you do Bard stuff

stark palm
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yeah that would be weird though

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i need my characters to be narrower. i don't want a do everything character

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if it's a paladin type i'll give him restoration, but otherwise fighters don't get magic.

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most scattered character i've done was as assassin.

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had a pretty broad range of skills

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it convinced me that broad characters are bad.

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they are essentially gods

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even at low levels. get a few perks in a bunch of different skills and you're pretty unstoppable

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if it was done right then having a broad character should make it take longer to get powerful. Skyrim has it backwards

austere lance
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My assassin just has Light Armor, Lockpicking, Sneak, Archery, Speech, and One Handed

civic cloud
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so does anyone else here play perfect world?

cinder vessel
winter yew
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EGS

cinder vessel
austere lance
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Everreach
Harwood
😏

wary trench
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Lamposts of skyrim beautiful

winter yew
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I love No Man's Sky .. Yeah.

austere lance
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I got Resident Evil 7 for $5, hope it's worth it πŸ˜„

iron inlet
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Finally got to log back into D2 today, tried that mission for Bad Juju on my own not expecting to finish it and uh

austere lance
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I've never played any Resident Evil games besides like an hour of RE 4 on my Wii and 45 minutes of RE 5, lol

fluid hare
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@iron inlet have you ever heard of the Drunk and Betrayed D1/2 raid team? A few of my good friends are on it.

brisk merlin
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:V

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sparrow!

iron inlet
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Nope, and nice sparrow!

vast root
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S p a r r o w

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R a c i n g

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C o n f i r m e d

willow crypt
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Sparrow racing was a lot of fun. They should not have removed it. getting rid of content in destiny is the worst thing they could have done

brisk merlin
willow crypt
winter yew
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Honestly if the $250 price is correct, this will boost PSVR sale massively.

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Bundle this with PS5 and you got a cheaper alternative to PC VR.

willow crypt
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Maybe itll be a psvr 'light' version

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True

cinder vessel
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Hmm, if it uses PS5 as base to stream games to the headset that would be cool

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My only issue with wireless VR atm is that they're trying to jam everything in the headset and that results in more compromises to games/experiences to get it to work well

willow crypt
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True

winter yew
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Unfortunately so. VR has always been a weird subject for me, a category that has died many times over but keeps being revived.
I'm not complaining, it's great to see progress being made to maybe eventually one day get it to a sensible price point that is affordable for the majority of people.
PS5 streaming straight to headset to me personally is a solid step forward in real freedom of movement.

willow crypt
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Sony knows what they're doin though

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I don't mind shortcomings

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It'll get there

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That's one of the fun parts of all this, watching it get better

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Used to be fun to watch phones evolve, now I don't care

civic cloud
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so anyone play perfect world , or everquest or star trek?

winter yew
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Zug I agree with that for sure, hopefully it becomes so normal we don't get excited about it anymore.

willow crypt
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Ha I'm sure it will

winter yew
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Shiyo, neither for me, unfortunately. 🀷

willow crypt
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Same

austere lance
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I tried Star Trek Online and 😴

willow crypt
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What if we got a big AAA Star trek space and planetary exploration game

cinder vessel
winter yew
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I love Rebel Galaxy πŸ‘Œ

austere lance
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Only MMO I'm semi-intetested in is Bless Unleashed, the closed beta got me motivated to keep an eye on its progress

cinder vessel
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btw anyone know which of the space games in the Steam sale are basically exclusive to Steam?

at a glance i think mainly Astroneer & Endless Space 2?

tepid ridge
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Rodina still early access kek

winter yew
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TO be expected I guess.

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I've bought that game 3 times.

cinder vessel
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on second thought i guess Astroneer isn't really exclusive but who counts windows store as a viable option

tepid ridge
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it has been early access for almost 5 years now

winter yew
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Yes and he's still pushing updates.

cinder vessel
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isn't it basically one person, maybe two others?

winter yew
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One

tepid ridge
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one person made Ascent: The Space Game in 3 years x)

winter yew
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They probably quit their job to make it, Rodina is a dude having fun at the weekends.

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Rodina has an update today.

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Today

willow crypt
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Astroneer?

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Is he just hiring freelancers or something?

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I thought they had a nice small team

bronze wind
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Ayy thanks for posting that @cinder vessel , I was wondering when it was releasing

willow crypt
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Valve should launch another orangebox pack including HLVR and and updated TF2

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Or even TF3

timber canopy
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or they should stop slacking and make HL3

cinder vessel
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@bronze wind yo no problem, it almost slipped by me that they had even announced that

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I'm probably gonna wait out the exclusivity period, personally

willow crypt
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There might be a HL prequel in development. Codenamed Citadel

timber canopy
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i wonder how u can make a prequel to it xD

willow crypt
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Honestly I think that's the best way to go for now

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To not make HL3 when everyone expects it

timber canopy
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you cant make it with Gordon as the protagnist thou

willow crypt
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Gordon you play as baby

timber canopy
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lol

winter yew
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I think not calling it HL3 is their best option at this point.

willow crypt
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Yes

timber canopy
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Teenaged Gordon it simulates you learning about physics at physics class

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XD

willow crypt
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And you slack by doodling crowbars

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Press x to look down at desk to doodle

timber canopy
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Press E to doodle

willow crypt
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Anyway, with HLVR close, it's a bit dumb to doubt they won't continue the story

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They're getting peoples' interest back up

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Then BOOM

timber canopy
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HL3 will feature a store.. where u can buy Gordons suit skins

willow crypt
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Oh nice will buy

timber canopy
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Orange and black version will be legendary status

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and will be 21'99

willow crypt
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Just one small store in a 30x30 foot space and that's the game

timber canopy
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or they make crates with Crowbar skins

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like the CS go knife skins

willow crypt
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🀒

winter yew
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Aaaagh Epic Games Store again why

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Literally the last 6 games I was interested in are going to be EGS exclusives

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Everyone says that it's an insecure platform prone to account loss, otherwise I wouldn't care that much if I had to use it

cinder vessel
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'cause they make more money through it, obvs

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use a garbo email and generated pass? 🀷

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personally i'm just too lazy to deal with another client, lol

austere lance
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They won't bother making HL3 when they have the Project Borealis guys doing it for them, lol

winter yew
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Outer Worlds, Rebel Galaxy, Borderlands 3, Satisfactory - These in particular I really want to play

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All EGS exclusive for now

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Just a delayed wait IMO.

austere lance
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Outer Worlds will be on Microsoft's app too

winter yew
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You waited up until now, you can wait a little longer.

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Yeah but no. πŸ˜›

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I just hope there aren't dumb preorder exclusive contents/in-game unlockables you can only get on EGS

austere lance
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Not their horrid Windows store, I mean the new Xbox app for pc they're running Game Pass on

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@winter yew

winter yew
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Ahhhh!

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furthermore, with a game like BL3, if it has DLC, I worry it will be exclusive to EGS for 6 months even after the base game has been on Steam for awhile

bronze wind
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There really aren't many actual facts supporting that it's "unsafe"

winter yew
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It was just hype tbh.

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People got caught in the bullshit.

bronze wind
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As always

winter yew
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"OMG IT'S STEALING YOUR STEAM FRIENDS LIST"

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Yeah cause you enabled it.

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I just don't want my account to get hacked

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Then be sensible if you're gunna use EGS.

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Probably as likely to have your Steam account hacked as EGS.

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(I don't use EGS but I don't give a shit if others do)

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Never had a problem with Steam

austere lance
winter yew
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Modding is an essential part of gaming for me too

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it's why I barely ever use my console

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I wonder if Xbox Scarlet will have mod support

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would be awesome if it did

cinder vessel
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For what it's worth Epic did have a bunch of account security issues before they opened the store, but probably a pain in the ass to find the articles on that after all the other articles about what they've been doing since

austere lance
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🀷 Was just saying you're not screwed and having to wait for Epic exclusives to move to Steam since the Xbox app exists now

winter yew
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I'm genuinely more than happy to wait is my reason. I rarely buy games at launch.

cinder vessel
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yeah but who wants to use the Xbox app, lol

austere lance
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@cinder vessel Apparently it's light years better than the shit Windows store thing they had before

winter yew
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I've never used the Xbox app

bronze wind
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It is better

winter yew
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Does it let you run Xbox games on your computer?

bronze wind
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Not by much imo

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But it's fine

winter yew
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My current computer is probably about comparable to the current Xbox One X in terms of capabilities, but I own the original Xbox One

austere lance
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It's in beta, they're updating it constantly

cinder vessel
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Was gonna say, it's a pretty low bar to overcome the Windows Store's jankiness

silver sparrow
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any survival/building games in the NMS vein that i can run on a pc laptop?

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i have factorio, might be able to run civ4

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logging into steam now

cinder vessel
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maybe Starbound?

lavish obsidian
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My recommendation as well

silver sparrow
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hmm thx will investigate

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i play nms on ps4 pro

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but looking for lappytop games

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loving the synthwave, i was just listening to a yt mix

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wow it's nms valley...can i date people lol jk

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i forgot that stardew valley was chucklefish, i only remembered the concerned ape part

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starmancer also looks kind of cool

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no release date tho

cinder vessel
austere lance
bronze wind
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Neato

hollow acorn
wet warren
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So I finished the storage room design, now I just need to put in the rest of the chests

austere lance
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β–Ά Play video
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Prey and its DLC are on sale

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Absolutely worth it

tepid ridge
winter yew
vast root
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Blyfe is bludal

full beacon
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hope its not those cheap movie games they used to make

stark palm
#

life is feudal mmo is one of the biggest disappointments for me. i bought into it back before Wurm Unlimited released for the promise that when the mmo came out i'd have a free slot. it is so friggin laggy it's just unplayable. the controls are super glitchy, and when it's not crashing it's busy rubberbanding and just making life miserable.

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save yourself the trouble and play something else

opal lagoon
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I've gone down the path of exile rabbit hole.....think it goes all the way to hades... Impressively deep...

crisp sparrow
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has anyone tried Empyrion Galactic Survival

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I saw a little bit on youtube and it looked very boring

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or well what all games besides Prey do you guys recommend from the current steam sale

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@silver sparrow Stardew Valley is fully just ConcernedApe, Chucklefish was his distributer and label but has parted ways with them now and distributing by himself

willow crypt
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Dauntless buggy as shit

winter yew
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yes

austere lance
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Am I just insanely lucky, cuz I never get as many bugs as other people do in games

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Wait, are you playing on PS4

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Cuz Dauntless on PS4 is a shit-show, lol

willow crypt
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Yes

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Got a no sound bug twice within about a 2 hour period which seems to only fix by closing the game. Good thing it's basically freetoplay early access. Besides the bugs, I'm surprised I've put the amount of time that I have into it

austere lance
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It's hella good on every other platform, lol

willow crypt
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Peculiar

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Maybe cross-play is creating issues

vast root
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Shouldn't be

iron inlet
brisk merlin
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nahh

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but cool!

iron inlet
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It's like a 1% chance

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and the explosion does roughly 10x the damage of a precision shot

brisk merlin
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its cool

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reminds me of necrochasm

iron inlet
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Yeah it's pretty awesome, part of me thinks it's a hint at Necrochasm coming back in Shadowkeep

austere lance
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BRING BACK NECRO

iron inlet
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Honestly it seems likely.

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This happened before Outbreak came back, Skip grenades and swarm grenades started hitting critical damage, which isn't supposed to happen, and it turned out to be because they'd use the same programming for Outbreak nanites which can hit crits

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So if the Necro effect is in game, they're most likely bringing Necro back

brisk merlin
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makes sense actually

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next dlc

austere lance
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BRING BACK MY GOD DAMN NECRO

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Words can't describe how much I love that gun, lol

brisk merlin
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GIMME ME HAWKMOON

bronze wind
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give me rimjob

brisk merlin
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ok

winter yew
willow crypt
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Holy crap Beat Saber

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Freaking insanity

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Mission 11 H A R D

echo hill
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?

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What level?

willow crypt
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11 in the campaign

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I'm newb

cinder vessel
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Any of you heard of Geom Cube before?

willow crypt
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Never played it

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Ps1?

cinder vessel
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Yeah

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I'd never seen it around before while browsing a used stuff shop and decided to pick it up

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It's basically 3D Tetris and that's a cool premise to me, soo hope it plays well

willow crypt
cinder vessel
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honestly i love how compact they are

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make them out of a better material and i'd be happy to see them more

willow crypt
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Oh actually, that'd be a good idea

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Return to that for ps5

cinder vessel
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What's weird is they still make these for music cds, like same crappy brittle material & everything

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I don't really know why...

willow crypt
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Same

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Who even buys CDs anymore

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Vynils are cooler

cinder vessel
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I would say go to the cardboard/paper sleeve approach but I hate how awkward it is to take discs out of those, especially if poorly sized, and also they just don't hold up worth a damn (which i guess is kind of the point)

willow crypt
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Yep. Wonder when it's gonna change. Maybe we won't even see physical releases for future gen games

cinder vessel
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πŸ˜”

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if it was GOG approach i don't think i'd mind

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but they're an exception to the rule with that sort of stuff

cinder vessel
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So Geom Cube is fun!

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It's also pretty forward-thinking. Customizable controls for the controller, and a cube display option that puts the face/level number on the cubes so you don't have to depend on colors to sort out how close you are to losing

cinder vessel
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Digging around, I think Geom Cube may have basically been a rip of Blockout, updated for newer hardware, considering the company that developed Geom Cube had begun work on a port of Blockout to the NES that was simply never released. πŸ€”

bronze wind
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@cinder vessel there'sa game on sale on steam rn called Between the Stars. It's sorta like a mix of Rebel Galaxy and DnD lol. I picked it up and it's pretty fun.

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It's in early access however.

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Controls are a bit odd as well (i.e. mouse doesn't steer the ship, it's camera/aiming, while WASD is used for most of the control), but you get used to them a bit

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They try to copy Elite for some things like power distribution, but it's simplified down enough to not be annoying

cinder vessel
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Hmm, also has a demo, so may have to check it out

bronze wind
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Yeah lemme know what you think. Voice acting is pretty dull/cheesy, but you might just be able to disable it

winter yew
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Guys

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Rebel Galaxy Outlaw release date was announced

cinder vessel
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reminds me, i checked the FAQ on their site and other PC storefronts won't see a release for about a year, so for those that prefer other storefronts it's release date + a year

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Can't remember the ETA for console versions, but it's awhile after the PC release, which is to be expected

austere lance
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Started Resident Evil 7, so far I've screamed once and swore a helluva lot more πŸ˜‚

winter yew
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Yea

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I’ll probably wait until console and steam release to play it, otherwise I might pirate it :p

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CONTROVERSIAL OPINION WARNING : I hate exclusivity deals, and Epic’s version of that is bullshit.

bronze wind
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Extremely less bs than console exclusivity, but sure

winter yew
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Well mostly in regard to pc games

bronze wind
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Can still play on PC, buy on PC, own on PC

winter yew
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Yes but in the case of stuff where some games have multiple in the series

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Like Borderlands

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And now Rebel Galaxy has two games

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Having to require two different launchers for two games in a series is dumb to me

bronze wind
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I guess, although I doubt you're switching betweenthem

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Wanting to keep your library consolidated in one place makes sense though, I can see that part of it. But a lot of game you buy on Steam already require third party launchers anyway

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Like any Ubisoft game

winter yew
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Ehhh

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I don’t own many games that have third party launchers

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Closest I have that I can think of is maybe Warframe

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If I'm being honest, it's not at all affected me personally. I wait + 12 months for games anyway and very rarely buy games at launch.

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Yeah I’ll wait for sure

bronze wind
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I won't argue with personal preference, everyone has that. Just people getting up in arms about "exclusivity" doens't make much sense to me, cause it's still open and available to buy on the same platform lol

winter yew
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I just want to know if the game will run decent on my system

bronze wind
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What's your build?

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If it's somewhat similar to mine I can let you know, I'll probably be picking it up.

winter yew
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One sec

bronze wind
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ok mines a bit beefier but if it runs badly on mine that'll be a good indication hah

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what settings do you normally shoot for?

winter yew
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1080p

bronze wind
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Alright

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I might not remember but if I do I'll test it out and see

winter yew
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Ok

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Got less than a month to go

bronze wind
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Yeah a few weeks

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Not bad

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I have a similar rig but my GPU is a 2070 and my CPU is a 9700k

winter yew
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Oh wow

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I might jump up to that next year lol

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I tend to do upgrades every couple years

austere lance
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RIP THIS COP, HOLY SHIT

winter yew
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who waht

willow crypt
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Don't hurt cops

stark palm
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feel like i've missed something

willow crypt
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Same

cinder vessel
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they're playing RE7, presumably cop gets wrecked

austere lance
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Yeah I'm playing RE 7, this game's fucking stressful πŸ˜„

cinder grail
raven frost
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I feel like I've seen this before but I don't know where

stark palm
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never heard of it

fickle burrow
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GTAO anyone?

winter yew
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@fickle burrow just saying the GTA playerbase here is very minimal

fickle burrow
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Yeah I can imagine. I’m sure more people would play if there were more crews like mine though.

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What do people mainly talk about here? I don’t know what the colors in people’s names mean, I know mine is new.

winter yew
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You get these colors by talking here

fickle burrow
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Oh like frequency

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How active.

winter yew
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We mainly talk about the nms update that is coming soon, Well lets say. My level needs like 17k exp. And you get only a bit exp per minute/message

fickle burrow
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The discord I use for my game has less colors then I see here, is there like a list of them?

winter yew
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So yeah fairly active, i've been here since 2017 i think

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What do you mean your game?

fickle burrow
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I just didn’t want to go off topic is all

winter yew
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This server is dedicated to No Man's Sky

fickle burrow
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Yeah I know that this is like the second time I’ve been here and the first time someone has responded I think

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I haven’t looked at all the tabs yet

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Initially when I first came here I wanted to give someone ten stasis devices lol

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I’d use it more but a lot of people don’t tag. Or don’t know how to.

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@winter yew is there anywhere you could tell me where I could find a really good s class fighter with more then 19 slots? Or at least how to find one.

winter yew
cinder vessel
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Dragon Quest Builders 2 is a nice chill game

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also you get a dog, so it's obviously good, still waiting on cats et. al

austere lance
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Dauntless lets you pet the dog in the city hub, lol

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Wasn't expecting that when I first played it

willow crypt
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The dog animation is cute

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I like to jump on the goats

echo hill
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Anyone here a zombies fan? (COD zombies that is)

winter yew
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@austere lance you can pet a pig (and carry it around?) in MHW πŸ˜›

rigid haven
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Poogie best boy

winter yew
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yes

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I just spent the last few hours trying to farm the Profit-Taker missions 3 and 4 in Warframe... I HAAAAAAAAATE dealing with mission 4. I know people brag about being able to solo that thing but I just can not grasp how in the hell they manage to do so without using some crazy OP methods.

civic cloud
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are there any good free to play games that are free to download as well?

cinder vessel
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if you like tetris and wanted it in 3D there's blockout 2

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if you wanted a space strategy-esque game there's The Ur-Quan Masters, open source version of Star Control 2

austere lance
brisk merlin
echo hill
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do people still play overwatch?

brisk merlin
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idk

rigid haven
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yeah

winter yew
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Overwatch is a gameplay loop I could never get into

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bottlenecking the other team YAY WOO

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not fun to me

vast root
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Sigma vag

austere lance
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Why must the servers for Spies vs Mercs in Splinter Cell Blacklist be empty af, smh

winter yew
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@austere lance The avengers gameplay is getting released a week after comic con, it says on their twitter. Just so happens it got leaked anyway. That's not the full demo either :p

spice jolt
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Got an outta the blue question...I've got horrible internet...anyone on ps plus know if it's the full game of Detroit become human this month (hopefully right spot to ask)

cinder vessel
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Er, how do you mean? Typically it's always the full game with PS Plus when it's one of their monthly games

rugged gyro
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Yes full game @spice jolt

spice jolt
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Thank You ..and I'm still new to ps plus. I've seen the free games had a demo of detroit so I was curious. HighFive

crisp sparrow
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minecraft 2 bros

charred badge
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I miss raycasting

crisp sparrow
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who was he

winter yew
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LMAO

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Oh FFS, you win.

lavish obsidian
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He's a Persson, with a few Notches in his brain

charred badge
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?

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Just in case of serious question: raycasting was the original 3d system

lavish obsidian
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Yeah, I know

stark palm
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not the original 3d system, that's not true. it IS a very old method of creating photo realistic reflections and lighting though.

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the first 3d was done with vector graphics, even before flat filled polygons.

lavish obsidian
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huh- isn't TRON an example of that?

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My memory is rusty

stark palm
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TRON was a mix of techniques, but it did involve some computer graphics.

charred badge
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@stark palm uh, what

stark palm
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first 3d game i played on a home computer was a game called Mercenary. it was all 3d vector graphics, no filled polygons

lavish obsidian
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My first game was Starflight for Commodore- loved it

charred badge
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Ray casting is the use of ray–surface intersection tests to solve a variety of problems in computer graphics and computational geometry. The term was first used in computer graphics in a 1982 paper by Scott Roth to describe a method for rendering constructive solid geometry...

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Hmm, vector. Oh right battletanks

stark palm
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yeah that's a good example

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there was a star wars game too

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where you flew a xwing and shot fighters and then flew down to the deathstar

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same kind of graphics

charred badge
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I've gotten so tired of the trench run over the years, lol

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That and the battle of hoth

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Why do they have to include the tow cable BS in every game ever

stark palm
winter yew
tepid ridge
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@native ferry you should get stardew if your friends have it too, it has co-op in these days πŸ˜„

native ferry
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What are friends

tepid ridge
austere lance
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Fml, why does the Alien in Alien Isolation have to be so smart

tepid ridge
tepid ridge
rigid haven
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Ahh

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See the thing with this, it's not directly money > chips

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It's money > GTA$ > chips

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While I don't think it's definition gambling, the blocking of the tables in some countries is surprising

vast root
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Yep

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Just heist it

austere lance
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Hmm, Watch Dogs 2 or Bioshock Collection

austere lance
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Got Bioshock Collection, lol

winter yew
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@austere lance alien isolation. The one game I could never beat...

austere lance
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I thought about how shitty Ubisoft's been lately and figured Bioshock Collection is a better bet

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And I remembered I swore never to touch any new Ubi games until they make a new Splinter Cell πŸ˜„

cinder grail
willow crypt
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That looks cool

austere lance
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Ooooo, ABZU was fun

cinder vessel
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They made a couple unique titles in the form of Hand of Fate 1 & 2

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Which if you want some unusual games I'd highly recommend

reef cypress
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Anyone here play elite dangerous? Was thinking of getting back into it but I can't remember basically anything about making money or gaining faction rep and last time I played I was tryna get a federation corvette

fathom storm
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just started in elite, don't know a thing about it. Is there any discord channel for elite?

winter yew
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Yep DM'd.

vast root
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Remember imps bad feds good

reef cypress
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my anaconda dont, my anaconda dont, my anaconda dont discriminate when it comes to who's paying me

winter yew
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Don't start the school bus boom box song lol

prime void
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is the gta 5 casino thing real or fake