Forsaken is better than Shadowkeep. But do you know what's better than that? Creation Club Content in Skyrim and Fallout 4, and our deluxe $5 fridge in Fallout 76, get them now!
#other-games
glass glade
brisk merlin
ehhhhhhh i think i liked shadowkeep story wise more
austere lance
@glass glade
crisp sparrow
@glass glade I pirated your games and I regretted it
you owe me money for wasted time
winter yew
Lmao
austere lance
cinder vessel
@brisk merlin nah quests are best when they're good side stories, they suck when they just amount to flavor text and a task
cinder vessel
Control photo mode tomorrow!
https://blog.us.playstation.com/2019/10/15/control-gets-photo-mode-tomorrow-new-info-on-expeditions-update/
brisk merlin
nice
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@cinder vessel that's one of the nice things about destiny 2. The adventure flags all have little side quests to play though.
I do wish the strike playlist didn't spoil quests, though
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Normally strikes are supposed to unlock once you beat the inciting event, but the playlist don't care
cinder vessel
I never got the impression Destiny's side content told much in the way of stories tho?
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They're small bits of mildly interesting background
And the rewards are usually worth the half hour anyway
cinder vessel
eh
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You're not getting tolkein level writing in a bungie game
Man
Can you imagine if tolkein was brought to the present and told to write content for an mmo
cinder vessel
Not expecting that, but just something a little more tangible than flavor text, lol
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Well, it's a lot of VA'd dialogue too
cinder vessel
oh well there's the problem
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The usual in-mission why-does-my-radio-not-have-security chatter
cinder vessel
lol
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But at least bosses don't chat with the players as they're sneaking up on them like in Warframe
cinder vessel
I always have to just stop and listen with that approach
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For space ninjas, we do a whole lot of frontal assaults
cinder vessel
In both games, that is
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The VA duration seems to match up well with travel time in Des2ny, at least
cinder vessel
That or just turn down the effects volume
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Although it would be kind of insane to try and match dialogue in warframe
Considering we have many many ways to speed through a level in seconds
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It's hard to balance the time in multiplayer action games
Especially with repeated content like boss runs
cinder vessel
Which is why I'm really surprised devs still even bother
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Proper storytelling is more engaging
Which means a game that manages to tell a story makes more money
cinder vessel
Which multiplayer games frequently struggle with though
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So they have motive
cinder vessel
for sure
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And then some devs actually care about it
cinder vessel
I've just never played a multiplayer game that really pulls off a good story where you aren't just side person to the real cast doing the things
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... paradoxically sometimes leading to a weaker experience as they try to stuff a 300 page novel into a 100 page novella
Yeah. Issue there is the blank slate main character cliche.
Sure it lets players identify with them, but it's a lot harder to make them actually be people
The fact that the player guardian in des2ny speaks like twice, for example
cinder vessel
and it just makes you follow the real protagonist(s) around as their weird helper
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We're basically playing independent wrecking machines escorting useful people
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Except when we don't even escort the useful people, and instead act as wifi nodes
While I appreciate not having to worry about an NPC falling off a cliff or walking through five missiles, it's still even more degrading
But hey
If the wrecking is fun, the game can still be fun at least
cinder vessel
eh
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Just not as fun as it could be
austere lance
In Destiny we're walking armories with an annoying drone that does everything that doesn't involve shooting, lol
The drone was much less annoying when he was Dinklebot
cinder vessel
so i was curious about what changes chapter 2 is bringing to Fortnite, and when googling, here's the brief text from the official site that google decides to surface:
HideinHaystacksandDumpsterstogetthedroponyouropponentorgoinblazingbyblowingupgastanksandexplosivebarrels
winter yew
🤔
cinder vessel
apparently that's one of the new features it introduced...But why/how that became the site description text in search results is lol
austere lance
Assassins Fortnite
fluid hare
I’m probably never going to do Calus’s stuff because of what he wants to do.
He literally wants to bring about the end of biological life for his ego’s sake.
austere lance
Technically he just wants Guardians to hop on his flying Las Vegas ship and party til the Darkness wipes out the universe, lol
austere lance
Pure art
fluid hare
||RIP Cayde.||
austere lance
Someone should send that to Bungie, lol
fluid hare
I also hope the servers aren’t down for too long.
cinder vessel
serrvveerrsss
austere lance
I was sort of expecting to have a Cayde Nightmare try to torture us in Shadowkeep, ngl
cinder vessel
that was just dealing with them in life tbh
iron inlet
Servers are back up
fluid hare
Yay!
iron inlet
Patch 2.6.0.2 has been deployed, no patch notes yet
winter yew
Hopefully RNG will give me more than boots now.
iron inlet
Should do
light cairn
only gloves now
cinder vessel
all guardians are now just Glover
light cairn
yes
fluid hare
I didn't realise Cayde and Buck share a VA.
fluid hare
Lol.
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Like 80% of dumb space rogues are played by one VA
austere lance
Nathan Fillion, lol
austere lance
He's one of my favorite actors in general, he was fantastic in Firefly and never stopped swinging as he got older 😆
echo hill
tho nolan north is a close second
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He's one of those actors that does one character really well
echo hill
nolan?
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There's something to be said for practicing the same essential character for most of a career
Fillion
austere lance
Captain Tightpants never quits, lol
echo hill
ah gotcha
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Emperor Calus reminds me of this guy.
https://soulsacrifice.fandom.com/wiki/Carnatux
austere lance
Calus is a Chad
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Souls Sacrifice. The world even worse off than Dark Souls
austere lance
He hands out Big Dick Energy guns like these, lol
Calus is daddy material
Hashladumb is the weakest Strike boss in the game, fite me
echo hill
nah dude. the boss at the end of the lake of shadows
austere lance
Fuck, you right
fluid hare
Modest?!
austere lance
Hey look, Cyberdemon is in OW @echo hill
raven frost
"Calus is daddy material" is a phrase I thought I'd never hear
austere lance
Am I wrong
raven frost
I'm... I'm not sure
austere lance
Bungie how lmao https://twitter.com/BungieHelp/status/1184217834965987328?s=19
Twitter
raven frost
🤔
austere lance
How the actual fuck 😂
winter yew
This fucking android store...
google play i think?
nevermind, I fucking bought a game, used up a coupon i got, downloaded it, installed, tried to run, crashes on startup. try to google solutions, says re-install sometimes works, so I'm giving it a shot, uninstall the game, and it fucking automatically refunds it, wastes my coupon as well.
now if I want to install it again, I have to buy it, but without a coupon, hence the problem. Just for fucks sake.
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Whew
reef storm
fluid hare
I wish the D2 Companion had the ability to take items from the collection, dismantle items, and show your character as the model for the things.
iron inlet
I think it does have that last one
@fluid hare
It's the little yellow Tricorn in the bottom left
full pivot
Good god this person ordered a cheesy batter souffle with raspberry syrup on top 🤢
crisp sparrow
I have no idea how that is good or bad
hardy shoal
grizzled pine
overwatch + counter-strike
color me interested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KWkao73HuU
also, this is old but still hilarious
cinder vessel
This sounds fantastic:
https://www.vg247.com/2019/10/16/analogue-pocket-looks-like-handheld-retro-gaming-dream
austere lance
$200 for a device doing something my phone does for free?
rigid haven
It does sound a bit dumb BUT
BUTTONS
touch controls are and always will be extremely shit
austere lance
Not for Game Boy games, lol
austere lance
Hook a controller up to your phone then
rigid haven
Even if they're not so bad
See that's a solution but then you can't fit it in your pocket
austere lance
I've yet to have control issues with any of the Game Boy/GBA games I had on my phone
austere lance
Do you hate em enough to buy something that costs as much as a console, lol?
rigid haven
I do
cinder vessel
@rigid haven 8bitdo N30 controllers fit in pocket alongside phone
rigid haven
Really? Ooo
cinder vessel
But also @austere lance it's not that easy to dump Gameboy/Gameboy Color carts to play via emulator from what I've researched
rigid haven
The thingy seems like a actual Gameboy, rather than just an emu
Which is neat but I don't have many gameboy carts
cinder vessel
And I know there are other ways, but I kinda like dumping my own games personally
I still have a bunch of GBA carts
And I have fucking Godzilla for the Gameboy Color
Which if you haven't played it before, is surprisingly satisfying
But also, they're making a dock for this thing, so you can play these old games on your tv
austere lance
@cinder vessel The ROMs for the games are online, just find a good website and download em
cinder vessel
see above, I like to dump my own carts more when I can
austere lance
And good emulation apps let you do stuff like quick save and use GameShark cheats
cinder vessel
But also as Woop pointed out, this isn't emulation in the usual sense
It's done on a hardware level to work around some of the old emulation issues
austere lance
I've only played old Pokémon games and a couple random things like a Digimon game through emulation but I didn't run into any issues
cinder vessel
I've not had many issues with emulation either for older games, but I still see a huge appeal in more straightforward plug & play options like what Analogue is making
austere lance
I kinda felt bad for doing this in Emerald, lol
cinder vessel
Way more than these garbage nostalgia boxes like the PlayStation Classic or NES/SNES Classic
which typically don't even have some of the games you have nostalgia for, lol
austere lance
Just hack a Wii to play classic games
cinder vessel
I mean I already have one running Homebrew, but again: this isn't just software emulation, lol
cinder vessel
Yeah but really toss that, lol
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I would be very impressed if someone did well in MMZ using touch
winter yew
Lmao ffs
hardy oar
WHOOPS.
austere lance
Totally not stolen from Halo
austere lance
All they did was badly Photoshop the Pelicans out of this pic, lol
I guess they cropped it too 😆
winter yew
Amazing
cinder vessel
uhhh, did they just...not vet the mobile dev they paid to make the game...? lol
austere lance
Imagine being dumb enough to leave UNSC on the tanks
cinder vessel
like oooof
austere lance
It’s here we note that while Paradox—as the creators of the Stellaris IP—are publishing Stellaris: Galaxy Command, they’re not developing it inhouse. Instead, that job went to Hong Kong studio Gamebear, whose previous title Nova Empire...looks a lot like Stellaris: Galaxy Command, even down to the main menu icons.
cinder vessel
I mean I've played Halo and I honestly would've overlooked it if no one had mentioned it, lol
But I'm also not a major Halo fan or whatever
fluid hare
Nova Empire also took a bit from Halo, specifically the markings on the one guy’s face. They’re like Forthencho and his crews’.
Those are from the H4 terminals.
brisk merlin
they just,,, really like halo
fluid hare
Even that same character’s facial structure is similar! It’s probably just Forthencho’s face but literally bluer.
fluid hare
Warthog.
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It doesn't help that the unsc is very generic
fluid hare
Don’t you call Chips Dubbo “generic”!
Or Buck. He’s literally Nathan Fillon but an ODST/Spartan-4.
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It's iconic partially due to being one of the earliest extremely successful games in the... Setting, I suppose.
A buttload of supplemental material and passable writing helps.
It's also less gunporn that they usually are
iron inlet
Anthem is still bad, right?
austere lance
Forever bad
So bad they're still fixing the game and adding tiny updates instead of continuing the story like they originally planned on doing
hollow sandal
ok, i got sad news , developers of game Hellion gave up : https://steamcommunity.com/games/588210/announcements/detail/2667745625174448409
austere lance
Somebody in another server was mentioning how videogame animators are better than lots of movie animators these days, my reply was this
https://youtu.be/8F7OgOCzph4
Especially at 12:20, lol
I'd pay to see Disney top that xD
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@iron inlet anthem is ok, but dull. Has good ideas and is getting fixed/improvements fairly regularly
The flight is pretty fun
raven frost
Finally got the entire mimetic savior set
hell ye
(the chest has a shader on it oops)
wait FUCK I DON'T HAVE THE MARK
AAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSS
austere lance
That is some 1980's robot anime looking shit, lol
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meme saver
raven frost
ikr? fucking love it
cinder vessel
I wonder if you can export the model like that to 3D print into a little figurine 🤔
austere lance
Ignoring the chocolate cake that someone edited into the pic, why does this monkey hybrid from Beyond Good and Evil 2 have fuck-me eyes???
That sad moment when you've been waiting years for BGE 2 but it's probably gonna be shit because it's an online game made by Ubisoft
austere lance
After watching Spirit play the first level of World War Z I can vouch for it being a L4D 2 clone, tho it also has classes and upgradable weapons. It's a good "turn your brain off and blow up hundreds of zombies" game
It's satisfying af to knock over a massive pyramid of zombies with explosives
This sums it up pretty well
https://youtu.be/6tnnMdjI_Go
cinder vessel
field
echo hill
raven frost
is that rifle worth getting?
echo hill
i really like it for my build
it makes it so i get a grenade every 4 kills
@austere lance I made it here solo lol
@light cairn
austere lance
Wtf
echo hill
can you only get armor from a secret chest once?
echo hill
oh wot
light cairn
everything is always once a week
echo hill
wait is it garunteed to give you gear tho?
echo hill
or do i have to beat the encounter before it in order to claim the gear from it
light cairn
i'm not sure if they're guaranteed specific things, but secret chests don't require encounter completions
echo hill
cause i just got a mod and 30 vex chasis
light cairn
have you already claimed it this week?
light cairn
they might've changed it up for shadowkeep
echo hill
🤷
echo hill
yeah you can totally skip the first encounter lol
raven frost
anything unique, that is
raven frost
like I know there's a shit ton about mars that I missed but there was just so much to do before you actually got it
light cairn
wait no that's mercury i'm dofus
light cairn
Mars is just waiting for the right ep week
raven frost
o shit
light cairn
Oop
raven frost
kys?
echo hill
im trying to get right there
raven frost
we've reached peak anime robot
nah, it's gotta be like
white/red
NOW WE'RE PEAK ANIME ROBOT
cinder vessel
lol
fluid hare
I’m wondering what the Mimetic Saviour stuff is named for.
austere lance
This looks a lot better than earlier gameplay did
https://youtu.be/LFzjIK-_nak
cinder vessel
I'm still pretty on the fence about it
raven frost
🤔
afaik I get it with game pass free so idgaf how it looks
I probably won't enjoy it much since I honestly can't stand fallout, and this looks like it takes a lot more inspiration from it that I'd hoped
the world looks very pretty though, I'll give it that
lavish obsidian
the gameplay looks exactly like mass effect 1, clunky and unintuitive with small damage numbers barely shaving off hp off bullet sponges
same goes for the npc convos, canned animations with one fixed angle for the entirety of the convo
oh wait that's actually worse than ME1
austere lance
Uh, sure. I'll tell y'all how it is on release
lavish obsidian
i'm going to pick it up anyway but wish the convos had some more cinematic flair to them
austere lance
the gameplay looks exactly like mass effect 1, clunky and unintuitive with small damage numbers barely shaving off hp off bullet sponges
That would be why the game has difficulty settings, lol. It even has a Story Mode difficulty for people that want it to be easy af
Mass Effect also had that option
lavish obsidian
difficulty does little to improve the flavor of gameplay, honestly
let's take andromeda, for instance- easier difficulties made everything a simple instakill, while harder difficulties would literally make them bullet sponges
there was no in between
an easily scalable system with brisker gameplay would be a lot more fun, but this isn't a pure action adventure so i'm letting it go
which brings me to the next point, cinematic flair
which honestly isn't that much to talk about
raven frost
The clunkiness is exactly what turns me off of games like this tbh
raven frost
character movement looks painful
But again, can't complain about it when it's free (it's really not but it at least feels like it)
full pivot
Ive never found how long it takes to beat down an enemy as difficulty and I wish fewer games did. Difficulty, especially in a boss fight should be centered around learning the enemy and formulating a strategy to defeat them, not just higher HP making the fight take longer haha
This is a general statement btw, I haven't really ever had any interest in outer worlds
cinder vessel
Outer Wilds is so good
cinder vessel
Tbh once it's on other storefronts on PC I'll probably get it again because it's as good as I'd hoped and I've only just started into it
full pivot
I keep making stupid mistakes or this day would be over... The dishes arent even that complex 😭
iron inlet
High-key I'm real good at Mario kart Tour, didn't even know this thing existed
dark vault
Just started playing Resident Evil 2 last night. Decided to try it on hardcore for my first playthrough. It...took a bit to get adjusted to things.
crisp sparrow
same
but it was still interesting
I never finished it though
played it on normal
dark vault
I probably should have picked normal. But I played all the original RE games, so I wanted to do ink ribbons and limited inventory, as thats olhow the old ones played
crisp sparrow
ya same but now I am a filthy casual
dark vault
Happens to the best of us
Of course I streamed to to, so I had to make an ass of myself in public 😑
crisp sparrow
bro nice joke we all know u had only 1 person streaming
jk its more profitable by being either really bad or insanely good at games
full pivot
Starting with the intent to make a living off of it isnt the best idea
dark vault
Hah oh I had other pop in. They just split after 5 minutes
Nah, thats not my intent. Just a fun hobby.
iron inlet
First time playing Fortnite in years and I got a victory royale on my first game
FeelsGoodMan
crisp sparrow
nice
brisk merlin
I had fun in fortnite?!?
Ngl I played when chaper 2 came out and,,, I'm,,, having fun
austere lance
I haven't played since season 1 😬
reef storm
A lot of people are saying that now, Kev. I might even give it a try.
austere lance
Wait, I think I played one match when they added a potion that restores your health and shields a bit
That was the last time
crisp sparrow
I liked fortnite before too but idk it was a little too cartoony for my taste and also I cant get into battle royales anymore
brisk merlin
lmao well if anyone wanna play hmu im lonly
raven frost
Never could stand BR of any implementation, always died super early on and had to spectate for the rest of the match because I'm shit at games
cinder vessel
tbh I do better at battle royales than other competitive games because I'm decent at avoiding people until absolutely necessary, lol
winter yew
Hahaha
bronze wind
We just need a BR where you can interfere as a ghost in minor ways after dying
cinder vessel
that would be stupidly fun
cinder vessel
make footstep & gunshot sounds near people to fool them into going the wrong way
winter yew
Holy shit.
bronze wind
Or put up invisible walls temporarily
cinder vessel
make drops briefly look like garbage
bronze wind
Lay traps and stuff
cinder vessel
mmhmm
raven frost
I think BR is almost the exact opposite of what I love in fps games now that I think about it, large open areas with limited resources and lives (well in this case, life)
austere lance
Sorts sounds like Darwin Project
cinder vessel
I don't love it, but it lets me stay on the map longer & explore so I do like that about it
raven frost
gromble gromble I miss arena shooters
brisk merlin
im doing games design owo
cinder vessel
I always just die near instantly in more standard multiplayer shooters
raven frost
I'd probably would love crucible if I got into it tbh, but I'm a bitch
austere lance
Darwin Project lets one player be the game master and do stuff like drop loot or crafting materials for players, lock down parts of the map, and set off nukes 😆
cinder vessel
yeah, it's a roughly similar idea, except with multiple "game masters" with more limited abilities after they die, to give them something to do besides spectate
fickle marsh
So I heard there was some drama happening with Day of Dragons but I’m not informed on what exactly the issue was. Can somebody explain?
raven frost
Never heard of it unfortunately 
echo hill
theyre pretty fun
austere lance
Hmm, is World War Z on sale on Steam?
winter yew
Not on Steam.
echo hill
yeah its egs
austere lance
RIP
echo hill
and idk it wasnt as fun for me
austere lance
I didn't think I'd like it this much, it's L4D on steroids 😆
Fuckin oof, Fallout 76 is finally adding private servers but you have to buy em 😬
I want The Outer Worlds to come out, I'm much more hopeful for it after the newest gameplay video 😩 💦 💦
cinder vessel
Fallout 76 is the trainwreck that keeps trying to cash in on the wreck that happened ages ago
echo hill
i kinda wanna play skyrim but not enough to actually pay for it lol
cinder vessel
i thought skyrim was like bad ratz, a game everyone just has somehow
echo hill
i mean ive got it on xbox if that counts
echo hill
yeah me too
like it sounds super appealing to me but when i actually play it i just get so bored
winter yew
Hahah yep, exactly that.
cinder vessel
the color palette is so drab and the architecture is just so...bland
austere lance
Mod it
cinder vessel
that doesn't mean the game isn't just bad tho
winter yew
X360, I can't mod. =\
raven frost
Skyrim suffers the same problem fallout does: it's exteremely clunky, and basic movement is a massive pain in the ass
austere lance
I'm kind of afraid to see how many hundreds of hours I put into it on my 360 😬
I'm going to assume it's an embarrassing amount
cinder vessel
The first Elder Scrolls games at least had pushing tech to excuse their issues, but it's really just been sorta downhill from Morrowind on
brisk merlin
isnt world war z bad
austere lance
No, it's just L4D on steroids 😆
brisk merlin
I heard it was like l4d but worse
austere lance
Wot
raven frost
whatever happened to that one zombie game
winter yew
I bought L4D2 to play with an old Steam friend but never actually got around to playing.
raven frost
The War Z or something
winter yew
Been in my library for years.
austere lance
How tho. It has a better camera view, upgradeable weapons, classes to level up, and waaaaaaay more zombies @brisk merlin
brisk merlin
people just said they dont reccomend it
austere lance
@brisk merlin I'm playing rn, it's pretty fun
I like areas you have to defend, setting up razor wire and turrets and C4 and holding off against hundreds of zombies is hella fun
iron inlet
I played Skyrim for 5000 hours across all platforms, mostly on 360 and PS3
Needless to say I do not like Skyrim anymore, super boring
Especially when somehow every build I ever did turned into a stealth archer
austere lance
LOL, I feel that
crisp sparrow
I just remembered a game I used to play when I was small
holy shit its the same studio that made FEAR
austere lance
I've only played F.E.A.R 3
Alright lads, just finished the New York campaign and now I'm starting the Jerusalem one
plucky mesa
winter yew
willow crypt
that's a pretty sick design
winter yew
ya 😄
echo hill
yeah thats a fun sword
austere lance
I found something worse than Destiny blueberries; World War Z blueberries 😬
winter yew
lol
sharp sedge
So I never thought I would get this into a mobile game, but I'm in too far now
austere lance
Game tips: "Use silenced weapons so you don't alert any hordes"
Blueberry in my game: Goes wild with a shotgun right off the bat
sharp sedge
austere lance
The adaptive AI in this game is pretty damn cool, ngl
cinder vessel
tbh the only part of that game that's kinda interested me was the artwork
Then I see it's a mobile thing and I just kinda sigh and move along
correct me if i'm wrong, but it's a free to play thing yeah?
sharp sedge
yeah, it's ftp, and they are pretty good at giving gifts and things
the music is amazing,
but I'm also one of those collector type gamers so I like this sort of thing where I can try to get all the characters
austere lance
Bruh my teammates are so dumb 😭
This fuckin nard deployed a turret and then wasted a bunch of its ammo BEFORE the horde showed up 😤
RNGesus hated us that time, we found like zero defenses to deploy
winter yew
lol
austere lance
And one of them was half wasted because a jackass was on my team. That sad moment when playing with bots is more useful than playing with random
Bots don't miss and they USE GOD DAMN SILENCERS
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How's space engineers?
brisk merlin
get boring
rigid haven
so like minecraft
brisk merlin
No, like you
full pivot
i can turn the AI difficulty to max in FighterZ and still win easily; meanwhile I can't even come close to beating the first rush hour section in day 5 of Sub Solutions xD
cinder vessel
Man, the boss fights in Control are simultaneously highlights of the game, and also the lower points of the game
I feel like I must be missing something when it comes to health recovery, but I'm also pretty sure it literally is just pop the enemies to recover
echo hill
950 😄
cinder vessel
I see nuthing wrong here
austere lance
I must have missed seeing that card in the show, lol
iron inlet
Ah fair, didn't know it was Striketeam Atlas bois
full pivot
Nice
winter yew
Wow
winter yew
look at this dude
its cod mobile i never thought ill play a mobile game but i did it just for my favorite franchise
crisp sparrow
nah I will never touch tencent shit even with a ten metre pole
bronze wind
@crisp sparrow tencent is an investor for discord and Reddit, and has 40% stake in epic, who develops the unreal engine
bronze wind
So your statement is false lol
crisp sparrow
I'm talking tencent games in particular which are absolutely supersaturated with mtx
or in the case of mobile games, in app purchases
bronze wind
That's like all mobile games, so I get that stance
crisp sparrow
you cant even begin a match in pubgm anymore without first having to cross out a BUNCH of pop ups all related to you spending real money
winter yew
New Modern Warfare has dropped lootboxes and replaced them with battle passes.
I feel this is a step in the correct direction, albeit still not great in a non F2P game but it's still progress.
winter yew
Cosmetic lootboxes I don't think the majority of people have issue with.
crisp sparrow
nah, I'm sure that cod mobile won't be p2w, they love their indian audience all too well
and indians are used to pressing x on things a lot so they dont mind all those pop ups
crisp sparrow
also @bronze wind realistically avoiding everything that has a chinese backing, is impossible
I can't do that without devolving into a hermit
I will just avoid stuff that can be easily avoidable like chinese video games
bronze wind
Discord is easily avoided
Reddit too
Unreal is hard of course
I'm just saying it's a weird statement to make here lol
I agree with the sentiment too, just seems silly
crisp sparrow
tbh I dont care for china datamining
I was just speaking out of the mental trauma I faced from that stupid game a long back and now avoid most of the chinese games because of how goddamn good they are at trying to get you to spend money
bronze wind
Yeah I mean Nintendo is the same
crisp sparrow
yep
bronze wind
In terms of their mobile games
crisp sparrow
I dont play any of their mobile games, by DeNA
bronze wind
No free mobile game is going to leave you alone lol
crisp sparrow
nah there are some which are decent at their mtx but they're indie games
actually I've never bought a nintendo product by myself, they're too expensive for me to justify
my uncle gifted them all to me
starting with the gameboy colour I got every handheld console and stopped at the DSi
cinder vessel
cosmetic microtransactions make me sad because one of the things i always liked in games was customizing the look of my character(s)
But I'm not about to pay for that on top of an already bought game, and I don't trust free to play games to keep my interest long enough to justify paying for that stuff
austere lance
I'm waiting for the inevitable P2W gun lootboxes to show up in MW like the last few CODs, lol
austere lance
@winter yew I made the horrid mistake of trying Iron Banner in D2 😭
brisk merlin
its fun
austere lance
SO MANY SWEATY PEOPLE
winter yew
Very nice.
austere lance
winter yew
@austere lance TEMBO is a fun game
austere lance
Apparently Jedi Fallen Order's biggest inspirations are Dark Souls (the combat and "campfires") and Metroid Prime (map layout, exploration, and coming back to previously blocked areas with upgrades so you can go through em). The dev playing is fucking awful but you at least can see what the gameplay looks like.
https://youtu.be/KqHBpes7R2k
cinder vessel
but does it have to be a star war
willow crypt
yes
cinder vessel
RIP
willow crypt
I hope the areas they talk about that can only be unlocked/found when gaining new abilities is a large part of the game
It's exciting to hear one guy say that exploration was the largest part of the demo
less action, more exploration
willow crypt
it's a star star war out there
winter yew
As soon as I can play Control, I will. The amount you have spoken about it has genuinely sold it to me.
willow crypt
i like the weapon variety
cinder vessel
I do wish the environments varied a little more, but they do a lot with what they do have
And honestly, it varies way more than I expected, so I can't say I'm really disappointed
What sucks is I don't feel like I can share some of my screenshots just yet
winter yew
😦
cinder vessel
'cause they'd be spoilers
winter yew
Eh, that's fair and cool of you.
cinder vessel
And that game is so much better to go in blind
cinder vessel
Have you checked out the photo mode yet Zug?
austere lance
Cyberpunk's doing some weird shit where conversations with NPC's won't pull you out of the game, most conversations as far as I'm aware can lead to instantly playing either during or after you talk to them. Like you can attempt to yank the gun from someone holding it to your head and start shooting, no loading screen or anything required
willow crypt
i haven't played but I think I will eventually
winter yew
Same
austere lance
The install size for the friggin game is gonna be massive at the rate they're going, smh
cinder vessel
rip hard drives
winter yew
I already pre-ordered cause I'm an idiot.
austere lance
LOL
winter yew
Dude, I very rarely pre-order games. The last game I pre-ordered was NMS.
willow crypt
that's a good thing
winter yew
I'm confident Cyberpunk will justify my pre-order, even if it doesn't meet all of my expectations.
At the same time, I don't really know what to expect.
willow crypt
I have the most fun when I don't know what to expect
cinder vessel
I've only preordered two games, Guild Wars 2 & Tetris Effect, and tbh I only really feel good about Tetris Effect because it's stupid good
austere lance
The bastards keep adding stuff like this and saying that there won't be loading screens when you're exploring, the friggin game is gonna have a bigger file size than RDR2 😆
https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2019/10/15/cyberpunk-2077-cutscenes-player-control/
willow crypt
It's a great thing when, after playing games that do the same things/use the same mechanics over and over again, you stumble upon an experience that changes everything up, is non-formulaic and refreshing.
austere lance
The little shits added "verticality" to maps when you're exploring too, just quit while you're ahead!
cinder vessel
Cyberpunk 2077 specs leaked, you need minimum 32 gb RAM, recommended 64 gb RAM
winter yew
willow crypt
verticality was something devs touted about 10 years ago
cinder vessel
Install size is 500gb
rigid haven
Wasn't the playable cutsxene thing in half life 2
willow crypt
but yeah, i think the verticality will be even MORE VERTICALITICLAYAL
cinder vessel
That's true Zug, I remember that being a big thing with the old Minerva mod for HL2
winter yew
Someone explain verticallityty to me like I'm a child.
austere lance
RDR 2 is what, 150 GB on pc? If Cyberpunk breaks 200 GB I'm gonna feel sorry for y'all
winter yew
I'm not quite understanding.
rigid haven
Yeah is it just up??
willow crypt
more ways to explore vertically
cinder vessel
it's also down
austere lance
@winter yew Maps are built to be explored normally on foot but also vertically, lol. I'm 90% sure the cyber whip thing is gonna act like a grappling hook 😆
willow crypt
and arOUnd
bronze wind
Anyone tried little town hero yet? I picked it up yesterday
willow crypt
zoid
bronze wind
zogg
winter yew
Ah, so instead of a flat plane, we've got a flat plane but thicker.
willow crypt
haven't tried that
rigid haven
Apparently LTH is good but mediocre good not super good
bronze wind
So far yeah that's about right. Worth $25 tho
willow crypt
much thicker
rigid haven
But I wanna play it be cause megalovania boy did the music
cinder vessel
I've seen light chatter about LTH but not much other than it's another Game Freak title?
austere lance
Game Freak made Tembo the Badass Elephant
bronze wind
It's nothing like pokemon aside from sorta turn based battles and the option to "struggle" when you're out of moves lol
But the mechanics are way different
austere lance
Tembo is basically Donkey Kong Country with an elephant, wasn't expecting that from them
bronze wind
It is good, but yeah not something I'm amazed at. Just a fun game. Battles can take a while though.
Even if you die you get some rewards and the option to retry though, with time to use your rewards to upgrade before retrying
austere lance
Some of these names are gold xD
brisk merlin
all i see is SirDingle
austere lance
Nothing for "Killer Queen has touched Mountaintop", lol?
Gotta lead the team like a true edgelord
Also, WWZ has the best hardest difficulty description 😆
raven frost
man I hate to sound disrespectful to HG but I'm lowkey wanting an "NMS 2", if you get what I mean
at least something that's similar in function to NMS but expands on just about everything NMS does
light cairn
ok New Light
cinder vessel
NMS has a gameplay loop, it just isn't very deep or terribly interesting
And I'm pretty sure they thought they had nailed something in all the crafting stuff for moneyz or whatever, but just...Nah...
raven frost
cinder vessel
that's a thicc B u got there
austere lance
RNGesus hates me in WWZ, lol
cinder vessel
RNGesus is just Lucifer with a worse name
austere lance
Tru
Bruh I can't beat the first Tokyo mission, I've tried it with bots and with other people and no matter what i can't survive the first damn gate 😤
I've beat every other damn mission in the game, smh
echo hill
guys which one is better? skyrim special edition or normal skyrim
austere lance
On pc? Special Edition is basically the best version that everyone mods
echo hill
okay cool
austere lance
On consoles its just the new remastered version that we can download mods for 😆
echo hill
tiss installing
raven frost
butts
austere lance
What race/class are you playing?
crisp sparrow
god I cant wait
goddamn I had no idea how much detail the game has, no wonder its taking them literal years even with their huge staff
winter yew
End of 2020 but they got 75 "sections" from the roadmap thing to complete and they complete an average of 5 "sections" per year.
So, do the math. 😛
full pivot
I can't do math pls hlp
full pivot
Please simplify that for me
meager panther
75/5 = 2035 obviously
full pivot
Beyond me
winter yew
winter yew
@crisp sparrow I’m still curious how Redout Space Assault will be in comparison to Everspace 2.
crisp sparrow
Haven't heard of that
idle saffron
idle saffron
Ghost Recon Breakpoint
idle saffron
We never took any pics on ops
meager panther
Yeah the usual answer
idle saffron
This game has a photo mode though
I was surprised
Very basic, time of day - weather and dof - but still a photo mode
Guess what the binding is for it
L3 and R3
Like I've suggested a million times for nms
winter yew
Every game should be that.
idle saffron
Aye
winter yew
@crisp sparrow https://youtu.be/kTca9fM95vU
They made a smaller arcade version for Apple Arcade that goes by the same name but it seems more like it’s on-rails like Starfox
iron inlet
The Lineage of Saint-14
a continuation of "The Lineage" that I posted a couple weeks back
updoot me in all the places so I can get a sweet emblem
iron inlet
They never specified. Set the bar high 
crisp sparrow
@winter yew Redout Space Assault doesn't look like an RPG, but just an arcade roguelike shooter similar to Classic Everspace
winter yew
Yea
I need games to shift away from the whole rogue aspect
Just give me a solid story/adventure mode
cinder vessel
Also shift away from tacked on progression systems pls
crisp sparrow
@cinder vessel example of a game that does this?
cinder vessel
literally just about any AAA game released this generation
Spider-Man, God of War, Gears of War 5, Ghost Recon Wildlands/Breakpoint, Assassin's Creed Origins/Odyssey, Horizon: Zero Dawn, uhh...
Heck even Control has it kinda going on, and it's just like...Really?
crisp sparrow
@cinder vessel ohh ok got it now thanks
cinder vessel
I feel like a junk filterer in Control half the time, lol
crisp sparrow
I only know of spider man and God of war from that list lol
cinder vessel
They each vary in how they approach the systems but it basically boils down to stat BS that has you mucking about in menus more than playing the game and treating that like it's deep content
viral token
Finally, now to head around the edge....
fathom hare
All glory to NMS, which inspired my buddy and I to make a lowpoly open world galaxy with freaky worlds. We're adding our own takes, inspired by Oregon Trail strategy.
https://twitter.com/LilithOdyssey/status/1185578066732634118
winter yew
o.o
I am very torn on this. It clearly breaks self promotion rule but it's too good for me to remove.
It looks so fun, is there anyway I can follow progress that isn't Twitter?
Yes it does but I'll hop over.
cinder vessel
hop over me @winter yew
hardy oar
If there's one thing I wish No Man's Sky had that Elite Dangerous has it's the physical damage done to the ship, including the canopy breach. I'd even be willing to take it a step further & add your visor cracking as you take damage on foot.
austere lance
Twitter
LMAO
Apparently you could empty the whole magazine into the ground, throw your grenade at the projectiles before they exploded, then get most of your Super energy when your grenade detonated them. Had to have the Ashes to Assets mod equipped on two pieces of equipment tho
full pivot
🧀
idk what game to play next
its frightening to think i played like 6 hours of FighterZ earlier xD
austere lance
full pivot
soul i can't play halo yet
austere lance
Some day, lol
full pivot
would you trust this tho
austere lance
I mean, Resident Evil 2 remake sold well. Makes sense for them to eyeball other old stuff
full pivot
that's not what i asked though haha
austere lance
?
cinder vessel
I haven't heard too much bad about the collections, but I don't know that I'd trust sequels in the franchises to not fuck up in some way...Then again, Mega Man 11 wasn't terrible...But DMC5 did have microtransactions, sooo...
austere lance
Yeah but DMC 5 is also insanely fun to play and sold well
full pivot
cinder vessel
I'd trust them to fuck stuff up but that's about it
Then again their recent collections of old titles have reportedly not been the worst soooo
But they also totally fucked up the Silent Hill collection, so they're just as likely to fuck things up
full pivot
well they also just straight up killed it now
cinder vessel
Yeah
austere lance
RIP PT
cinder vessel
And they also let some random company make a completely shit new Contra
full pivot
imagine thinking Death Stranding was actually just rebranded PT 
look at this idiot
points at self
austere lance
😆
cinder vessel
Tbh if you don't pay much attention to that side of things that's not the weirdest thing to think
winter yew
😂
austere lance
Death Stranding is Amazon Delivery Apocalypse Sim tho, lol
winter yew
Lots of stuff that wasn't shown, that was just a tiny part of it.
cinder vessel
Death Stranding is the Apocalypse as Delivered by Amazon
austere lance
Look at this t h i c c pack
winter yew
Aid: Sperm and Eggs
cinder vessel
How much of the game do you think will be spent mucking about those menus
austere lance
cinder vessel
I'm inclined to say: too much
austere lance
A lot, especially since stacking stuff on your pack and delivering it to weird tubes seems to be a large part of the game
winter yew
Small part of the game*
austere lance
Combat looks terrible, when he fought this thing he literally just hopped around throwing grenades at it
He also had to make sure he took the box off his back before fighting, lol
winter yew
lol
cinder vessel
can't wait to see folks forget and clamber about trying to fight with a fuckton of junk on their back
"why am i so sloooow?!"
fucker you have 100 pounds of sperm on ur back
winter yew
Casual/Easy mode doesn't even have any combat.
austere lance
The other combat part involved horrid melee animations and a bolo gun 😆
And looked suspiciously like a worse version of MGSV
full pivot
that's what i really don't like
even if it wasn't worse
i don't want Death Stranding to be anything like MGSV
clearly you get what i was looking for
MSGV can't be further from that
austere lance
It looks like MGSV made by someone on acid
Even has the same UI
Obviously there's a difference, but still
full pivot
its not like acid
crisp sparrow
cute
winter yew
I accidentally ended up enjoying TABS.
I played it expecting nothing at all, it's actually really fun.
reef storm
Still waiting on the pirate faction
austere lance
So uh, Modern Warfare is 175 GB on pc
echo hill
ITS WHAT
austere lance
Apparently the initial download won't be that big but I think you need that much room for it, lol. That'll be the size after they've added everything
echo hill
fucking hell thats insane
austere lance
“In each of the Specs, the HDD references HD space of 175GB,” Activision’s post about the system requirements said. “175GB is the storage space we recommend players keep available in order to download the post-launch content we’ll be bringing to Modern Warfare. At launch, the initial download will be smaller.”
austere lance
I love the sky in this game 💕
echo hill
i do enjoy this sight...
dreamy sleet
i will shit if it's monte carlo
i still do not have monte carlo
and i play too much
dreamy sleet
i will shit
echo hill
@dreamy sleet
crisp sparrow
that's it?
austere lance
Yep. It's surprisingly small on Xbox, only 17+ GB
crisp sparrow
maybe the content is only 17 gb worth 🙃
austere lance
It's not a massive game, just a couple planets
That you don't get to fully explore
After seeing that Modern Warfare has a recommended storage space of 175 GB I've established that size doesn't matter
cinder vessel
tbh some older games that were definitely smaller tend to feel vaster & more involved than many several gig games these days
meager panther
When is outer worlds releasing
winter yew
Friday
iron inlet
Oh man I moderate that discord, guess it's gonna get more active soon
winter yew
I'm looking forward to playing.
I might even get it on XB1 so I don't need to wait for Steam.
winter yew
PC is ESG and Microsoft.
idle saffron
Damnit, hitman 2 added another level
Still haven't done the moon stuff on destiny 2
Ghost recon breakpoint is fun also
winter yew
I've asked Father Christmas for Breakpoint for Christmas.
As much negativity it is getting, I still think I can put a good amount of hours into it.
reef storm
I'm enjoying Breakpoint more than Wildlands so far.
idle saffron
👆
reef storm
Biggest thing I see - vehicles are more responsive.
reef storm
I don't think I had that much, but I did 100% Wildlands
winter yew
I did 3 or 4 playthroughs and each time I was noticing something new.
reef storm
Breakpoint is an interesting mashup between Wildlands and Division gameplay
idle saffron
I like the customizing - as you get gear it becomes available for you to switch to that look without giving up your current gear level
winter yew
I didn't start The Divison 2 yet cause I still regularly play The Division 1.
reef storm
oh wow
winter yew
Still got a super active playerbase.
winter yew
My MiL buys a new game every Christmas.
Breakpoint is the one I said she'd be funding this year.
idle saffron
Oh hell, modern warfare comes out soon too
reef storm
Meh.
winter yew
You got it on PC Joe?
reef storm
Ye
idle saffron
Gonna play it, gonna beat it, gonna play the hardest difficulty and beat without dying
It's what I do to the cod games
winter yew
😏
idle saffron
Hasn't hurt yet
reef storm
😉
winter yew
Hahaha
reef storm
I've just never been a fan of CoD
winter yew
Last one I played was BO2.
idle saffron
It does shooting well
idle saffron
Yep
winter yew
Friday.
idle saffron
Isn't the new Star Wars like a month away also?
reef storm
Fucking hate the end of the year. So many new games.
idle saffron
This is the time of year I love GameFly
winter yew
I wasn't gunna take this winter off cause of how badly I fucked this year up work wise but I think I may actually just go ahead and do it just to play games.
reef storm
Outer Worlds, SW, Breakpoint, etc....
winter yew
I'm not a Star Wars fan at all but the game really does look a ton of fun.
I'll be picking it up.
reef storm
Yeah, it looks great.
winter yew
And we all know we'll get another update to NMS that'll have us hooked again for a quick minute.
winter yew
November 15th
meager panther
Afaik i remember,one of the game reviews said it had so much worlds to explore that they have so far refused to show to keep it a surprise
winter yew
Which ironically would boost sales more if they just came out and confirmed it.
meager panther
Naj
winter yew
Great surprise yes
idle saffron
Blacksad comes out in November also
winter yew
5th November.
I'm pretty sure I have this wishlisted on Steam.
It kinda reminded me of Grim Fandango.
idle saffron
It looks slick, and hopefully you actually solve some mysteries and don't just progress in a linear fashion
Oh! That's another thing I like about Breakpoint - you can turn off the guided exploration
Use clues for the locations you need to get to
winter yew
That's the word
winter yew
iron inlet
I saw a car yesterday in town that said "SEND NUDES" on the windscreen
idle saffron
Did you?
willow crypt
Yes
iron inlet
I did, and I wish I took a photo
idle saffron
austere lance
Nothing will ever beat Republic Commando
fluid hare
The blue visors make me think of the Gas Mine in Halo 2 for some reason.
austere lance
Republic Commando is basically Star Wars+Halo 😆
fluid hare
Specifically Reach, I suppose, seeing as you’re in a squad.
austere lance
Commando looks damn good backwards compatible too
gray mountain
@winter yew Here is Thomas for Skyrim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBegv7kbxLo Though there it doesn´t replace combat music.
winter yew
There's something great yet disturbing about that.
austere lance
Speaking of Skyrim, I got a mod that brings music from Morrowind and Oblivion to Skyrim. Now I have the ambient and combat music from all 3 games in one
gray mountain
Nice.
austere lance
There's finally a Skyland all-in-one mod too, now I can uninstall all 12 or whatever Skyland mods I have and just go with the all-in-one
gray mountain
Nice. That reminds me one mod for Morrowind, Doors of Oblivion, which had 1 update=1 part of mod you needed to download.
Now you still need on Nexusmods download 1.0 version, then 1.4 version, then maybe .esp fix and then missing files (meshes).
And there is no readme in which order to install it.
full pivot
i prolly posted this before at some point but its free and its qute https://happysnakegames.itch.io/qt
echo hill
bruh masterworking armor is fucking expensive
iron inlet
@echo hill it takes 144 masterwork cores for one legendary armor piece
344 for an Exotic
echo hill
hoyl fuck
idle saffron
iron inlet
Enhancement prisms are 10 cores, shards are 10 prisms