That's 3 days before NMS anniversary
#other-games
willow crypt
winter yew
time to start speculating? 😄
agile igloo
cinder vessel
what am I looking at
@crisp sparrow dual touchpad for double the touch
winter yew
lol wow
willow crypt
What if Sony announced a next gen handheld
I've never really been into handhelds (last one I had was Gameboy color) but I've always found them interesting
wet warren
I myself enjoy playing games on the go which is why I have my 3ds
charred badge
@cinder vessel moved the touchpad. I'm trying to find a more ergonomic spot
charred badge
Psp started the MH genre's popularity. So good
Slidepad hardware was garbage though
winter yew
Sooo. Warframe, amirite? Anyone?
dry copper
@willow crypt PSVita was the first handheld I took seriously.
never bought it, but it was on my christmas list
and nobody loved me
rigid haven
I'll love you
I won't buy you a vita but I'll love you
It's a pretty handy console from what I heard, full of weeby games which is either a positive or a negative depending on the buyer
dry copper
I would like to see a handheld that plays all those PS3 and PS4 exclusives...
willow crypt
you should buy one
dry copper
Then I'd consider buying it
winter yew
always wanted a psp myself.
And you can get it witch buncha games these days, maybe I should scrape some cash and buy a used one.
dry copper
Way I see it...I don't want a whole console for a few games, but a handheld is a whole other kettle of fish
It has the benefit of those few games and portable and maybe more
winter yew
Mean, there's plenty of potentially fun stuff for psp.
dry copper
Sure, but my objective with a handheld is to play games I can't find on PC.
Portable is a bonus
I ain't a console fan (in large part due to the exclusivity and cost of a console)
daring spear
@austere lance you have. TWO. PS2s. You can't say the PSP is the only PS device you've had
dry copper
I used to have a sony walkman
willow crypt
(Soul is playstation gamer at heart)
dry copper
Any kid today would be like.....wtf is a walkman
austere lance
I've never touched em tho, lol
willow crypt
why not
daring spear
Heathen
austere lance
We just have em in a corner
dry copper
I remember the days when you had to walk carefully as technology evolved to use CDs in walkmans and they'd skip if you bounced around too much
austere lance
Idk
willow crypt
ps2 was the coolest looking console
austere lance
I've played a PS2 like twice in my life and both times were at a friend's house in 4th grade 😆
daring spear
I've had a lot of different things to play on throughout my life. Starting with ps1 and Genesis
Might be why I'll play on anything available to me
dry copper
My first console was a coleco vision
daring spear
🧐
willow crypt
mine was a rock
daring spear
Fancy
willow crypt
the first one i really connected with was a sega genesis
dry copper
I got my first sega genesis as part of a package deal when I got the SegaCD. I'd been a Nintendo whore up till then.
SegaCD blew my mind.
willow crypt
ha
dry copper
Sewer Shark was incredibly addictive.
The first time I skipped school was for a sega genesis game
I wanted to play Blackthorne
First game I ever returned to the gamestore late (incurring late fees and the angry stares of other kids) was Final Fantasy 3.
Man were they pissed.
willow crypt
noice
dry copper
Nobody could afford to buy games. Everyone rented them...and this one prick (me) kept them for like...a week at a time
On a two day rental
Forced the gamestores to buy more copies just to keep up with rental demand
dry copper
The local shop would have tournaments for all the new hockey and basketball games coming out. NHL 95, NBA 95, etc etc....All the kids would go to the store and sit around a TV that was setup on a milk crate which had a console tucked into the crate so people couldn't steal the game or fuck with the console...Those days were awesome
Winning the local hockey tourney got you a free gum from the gum machine that if it came out as a blackberry gum, also got you a free game or movie rental
After school you could go to McDonalds and get a free baby ice cream cone from McDonalds, during the summer. They had a 1 person limit, but every god damn kid in school was going to McDonalds after school.
It was a fucking lineup for free baby ice cream cones every day
McDonalds got a shit tonne of business in small town Canada
willow crypt
lill babicones
dry copper
Pizza Hut came to town and took the place by storm with these tiny pizzas you could personalize...little child mind blown.
The only tiny pizzas anyone in my town knew about were those garbage ones you got from the frozen food section in the grocery store made by McCains
willow crypt
yep seems good pizza ain't everywhere yet
dry copper
If you didn't fail at the end of the year, you could take your report card to all the local shops and get a free item. Usually a pop, or a small bag of chips or a candy bar.
The local businesses were sweet on the kids as a community.
If you did fail, you got to spend the summer in school with the kids who failed for worse reasons than being stupid
Or you repeated a grade which was even worse because all your friends were in another class and all the kids your friends mocked were now in yours
We had one kid...In grade 4...as tall as a full grown adult. Dude failed two or three times. Didn't care, but also didn't not care. He wasn't stupid. He wasn't mean. In retrospect his life was probably shit and he saw school as an escape. Ricky could spit blood on cue. That was his talent.
winter yew
dry copper
spiral pulsar
Like these guys
dry copper
@winter yew I Blame you for my new abnormal interest in digital composers
austere lance
Spirit jumped in a spider hole
raven frost
did she die
austere lance
No, she's exploring cuz she wrecked the fuck outta an Orb Weaver
dry copper
I was exploring yesterday and found a hole in the map beyond the under construction area.
austere lance
Oof, she's stuck and found a wolf spider
dry copper
I didn't jump in the hole because not want dead
austere lance
Holes are generally full of spiders
austere lance
Ah
austere lance
Tbh once you have acorn gear and the Ant Club you can handle Orb Weavers no problem
daring spear
Tip: don't jump into the spider den in Grounded because the only way out is past a wolf spider
I have ant armor noe
Now
worn jacinth
.. waits for RTX 3080..
dry copper
spiral pulsar
daring spear
I found The berries!
winter yew
They're great.
Well, Blue Shift's great. Still need to get through Opossing Force.
and I guess Decay?
raven frost
man simracing do kinda have an expensive barrier to entry tho 😳
thinking about picking up a racing wheel + pedals + shifter but it easily gets into the $500 range
and these are secondhand
winter yew
I thought about getting a hotas for ED once
Seems all that stuff is expensive and unreliable as hell.
raven frost
oh yeah definitely
though that being said I've had my t16000m setup for like 4 years now and it's doing just fine
and that cost me like $100
austere lance
HOTAS for Star Wars Squadrons would be lit
charred badge
I got a hosas t-16 and assumed the throttle would keep going on Black Friday sale to grab the next year, but nooooe
dry copper
balmy plaza
dry copper
So I've heard. I gave a copy of it to my bro in law because he loves that kinda shit
winter yew
I heard about it but the price tag put me off
austere lance
Tried it on Game Pass, wasn't a fan
charred badge
Gamepass is the best demo sub
wanton plinth
raven frost
@charred badge what if you got a second one and just did a dual stick setup
config might be weird but I can see it working
charred badge
That's hosas
Hands on stick and stick
But it's nice to have a throttle to set and let go of
Especially in ED, where 75% throttle is pretty important
The micro-throttle might work if I manage to set its max to 75% and disable stick Throttle axis, but I'd prefer a single location
raven frost
oh
charred badge
Also a whole lot of cruising
I checked for an analog +-throttle, but it didn't have that, annoyingly
Because that might translate alright
Mash forward to hit full throttle asap, lightly tilt to slowly throttle up, etx
dry copper
I hope they change the recipe for axe t2 before official launch. Needing to kill one of the hardest bugs in the game for a t2 axe to chop down weeds to make stairs....kinda nuts. Or change the stair recipe or make weeds easier to chop down....
^Grounded
Those bombardier beetles spew poison that can damn near 1 shot you
...Is there a poison protection suit?
austere lance
@dry copper What armor are you wearing?
daring spear
you can make stairs with dandelion logs
I've killed like 5 bombardier beetles
acorn armor
level two club
ant club
w/e
dance around the things by jumping a lot to avoid their boiling poison. doesn't always work but that's why the acorn armor. it boosts your max health
oh and make sure you have a couple bandages if you're hunting them intentionally (or always have some idk)
next time I play I'm gonna test out my new larva blade
and a smoothie I made out of mite fuzz, sap, and weevil jerky
dry copper
Reddit broadcast is fucking weird right now....its getting weirder over time as people isolate.
daring spear
they're logs at that scale
dry copper
It went from knitting>hiking>forging>fixing cars>literally making leather shoes from scratch to now....FUCKING LOOMING
daring spear
oh and... I think I might be a little farther along than I realized because the fuckin game sent 22 larvae after me
at the same time
daring spear
I don't even pay attention to reddit really
dry copper
I used to go on to read shit, but shits gone downhill reaaaaal fast
I miss the credible hulk
I told her I miss her posting
dry copper
PoppinKream used to be all over the main page spreading highly detailed, sourced, responses and posts on everything imaginable
daring spear
I don't know what any of these things mean .-.
dry copper
People would be like...argue and poppin be like...read the sources dipshit....but a lot nicer without swears.
daring spear
ah
dry copper
But yeah...Grounded. Have you gotten into any more labs?
I've seen several closed doors strewn about
daring spear
I found one but it's locked
dry copper
dang
daring spear
the berry bush is kinda cool though
dry copper
Is there an ant colony near the lab you can get into with bergl in it? I was not pissing off ants my whole playthrough, but I went and noticed the ants under the ground near that lab are aaaaangry
They go nuts
austere lance
Ants don't like you going in their nests
dry copper
So its their nest and not just a couple weirdoes under the ground
austere lance
There's an abandoned ant hill by the oak tree, it's a new player's best chance at getting Soldier Ant parts and acid glands
dry copper
abandoned?
austere lance
Cuz it only has like 3 Soldier Ants in it
dry copper
If you kill em do the rest of the colony go batshit?
dry copper
You mean colonies are actually separated by some delineation other than species of ant?
austere lance
Also, the abandoned ant hill is the secret entrance to the lab
You know, if you wanna avoid the wolf spiders
dry copper
Is the entrance that hole in the ground just off the main path?
I saw that hole and was like....SNEK TIME, and snek away
Expected a spider to come flying out
austere lance
Big hole by oak tree more or less close to the path from the starting area device
When you get close to it your map will update and tell you its name
Do NOT, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, go near holes by the rake
EVER
daring spear
yeah no do not do that
dry copper
Which part of the rake?
austere lance
I'm in acorn gear and can 1v2 Orb Weavers all day, FUCK those holes tho
daring spear
close to the boulder
austere lance
Tbh I just avoid the rake entirely
dry copper
wolf holes?
austere lance
Fuck the dead grasslands, fuck the rake, and fuck the poison gas area. And fuck the tree
daring spear
if you aren't paying attention you might fall in it. it has an orb weaver and spiderlings on one side, a glitched web that you stay stuck in after destroying it, a puddle, and on the other side of the puddle is a wolf spider
dry copper
Fuck the weird weevils that have weird shit sticking out of them
daring spear
oh the exploding ones?
dry copper
No idea. I ran
daring spear
fuck those. they'll chase you for a stupid amount of time
daring spear
there's infected mites too
I didn't stick around long enough to see if there's infected spiders in the weed killer. nuh uh
I don't wanna know
bombardiers can go in the poison cloud
dry copper
spiders that give birth to more spiders right there and then
austere lance
Honestly all you need to get good gear are acorn shells, soldier ant mandible, and a couple acid glands. And mite fuzz
There's one Broodmother spider on the map but rn she only drops standard wolf spider parts
daring spear
I want them to add frogs
austere lance
She's just a wolf spider, she doesn't do anything special
dry copper
I want tadpoles
austere lance
Yet
daring spear
I wonder if I could take on a wolf spider yet
dry copper
You mean and survive?
daring spear
yeah
austere lance
Depends on how good your Perfect Blocks are
daring spear
I think the ladybug armor bonus will help
I don't have it yet
ant armor lets you carry 8 things btw
austere lance
Technically any noob with an axe can take out a wolf if they're insanely good at Perfect Blocks
dry copper
Git gud
daring spear
gas mask makes stinkbugs really easy to kill btw. they lunge still but that's easy to avoid or block
austere lance
The recommended technique is to get a weapon with 100% stun, hit the wolf once, Perfect Block it, hit it once again, then beat the shit outta it when you finally stun it. Repeat til ded
dry copper
Do you play together in MP?
daring spear
no
austere lance
Survival games in split-screen 🤢
dry copper
?
daring spear
if we played together then S0ul would have much better gear
austere lance
We tried that with Ark, bad idea
dry copper
I don't understand. You would have to splitscreen?
daring spear
yyyes
dry copper
Are you both playing....Ooooh
I'm surprised they don't let you use gamepass to play it on PC too
daring spear
they do
austere lance
You can
daring spear
my laptop would explode if I tried to play it
on there*
one of these days I'll have a useful gaming pc, and if there's crossplay then S0ul and I can play together
dry copper
You ever see streamers that sound like they absolutely hate each other? I'm confused when ever I see IGP and Ice play together.
They seem to hate each other. They're always at each others throats.
daring spear
I don't know who any streamers are
dry copper
They played Grounded yesterday and within 5 mins were killing each other...literally
I mean literally in the game
daring spear
wow
dry copper
I feed them
daring spear
I don't feel bad for killing the soldiers that come after me
dry copper
I figured out how
dry copper
I fed an ant and a gnat came after me and the ants went after the gnat...I don't know if the ants did it for me or just for themselves
daring spear
there's a scanner station in the hedge, and there's three granola bars on the counter in it
dry copper
gnats are kinda mental
daring spear
gnats are dumb but they're kinda cute
dry copper
Do they hurt you?
daring spear
no
they'll try to knock you off stuff because they like to fly into things
but they don't mean to
dry copper
They like to fly into things that they don't mean to
daring spear
they don't mean to hurt you by knocking you off things, is what I was trying to say
dry copper
Right here officer...the murderer is here.
dry copper
I want to ride a bug
daring spear
same
dry copper
You can stand on em, but I need a bug saddle
I also found a hilarious graphical glitch
daring spear
oh?
dry copper
I've restarted the game no fewer than five times just to try new things and take a new route
daring spear
reminds me of this
dry copper
Mostly due to my hatred of wolf spiders
wet warren
Me when I walk outside
dry copper
I can hear the music from that video on default
daring spear
hehe
wet warren
Same lol
dry copper
What it's like to Covid20
crisp sparrow
wrong channel but that's fucking based
dry copper
Now I can't tell if you're using based as a new-age term or its original definition. See the new kids are using it as a compliment, but calling something based used to be a pejorative, like calling things fundamentally simple.
dry copper
I'm curious about the use of words beyond their definition as of late. Do you know what circle you heard the term used as a compliment, earliest?
crisp sparrow
most of my lingo came from 4chan when I lurked on it from 2013-14
dry copper
That far back?
crisp sparrow
well I AM 25
dry copper
Interesting
crisp sparrow
I barely used internet before 2011 as we did not have internet at home
dry copper
No I just thought the term was newer than 2014.
At least the popular use going around today
crisp sparrow
no I definitely used to see it being used there
in fact "bruh" is also very old
not sure why it got this sudden resurgence
dry copper
I'm guessing Keanu Reeves.
crisp sparrow
my "normie" friend used to say bruh all the time
dry copper
The new Bill and Ted movie
crisp sparrow
oh yea
dry copper
I find it fascinating how language redefines communication barriers and itself changes in culture becoming fluid in-spite of its intended purpose to convey specific messages
crisp sparrow
best current example is simp
dry copper
That word abuse pisses me off honestly.
dry copper
I don't consider the redefinition of the word legitimate.
In fact, I consider anyone that uses the word simp incorrectly, a simp by definition
crisp sparrow
lmao
winter yew
Squirrels
In
My
Pants
crisp sparrow
ok doofenschmirtz
winter yew
I don't remember seeing it being used that way 2 or 3 years ago
well more like not used at all
bronze wind
idk but a lot of people basically just use it whenever someone doesn't support treating women like shit which i guess is what i'd expect from the internet
winter yew
Urban dictionary says people started using it that way during December 2019
bronze wind
yeah def felt pretty recent
also not saying I support the guys who will spend like $1k on a woman in hopes that she'll talk to him or something, that's different
I'm talking more about when a person points out sexism or something and they get labelled a simp lol
crisp sparrow
or a person who talks to woman and is labelled a simp
or a person who mentions "woman" and is called a simp
winter yew
Is this why people hate the Simpsons now?
crisp sparrow
who knows
winter yew
Probably Sean, Sean always knows, but won't answer.
PS+ free games this month include Call of Duty again
It's like they make that game free every other month
full pivot
just finished HL: Alyx aaahhhhhh 
brisk merlin
its good
raven frost
||did your mind get completely fucked like mine did|| @full pivot
unique lark
simp stands for suckas idolizing mediocre pussy
bronze wind
i feel like the more pathetic ones are the people who use it unironically
unique lark
Yeah
bronze wind
boomer feels actually applicable to a lot of behaviors though, simp is just internet babies finding a new veiled way to make women feel unimportant lol
raven frost
I don't think I've ever used boomer in a serious context
part of me thinks nobody has
bronze wind
It's an actual term to describe an entire generation so it's been used a lot in a serious context
just not in the context of "ok boomer" jokes
bronze wind
yeh they already announced it will only be news on already announced PS4/PS5 games
i said already announced twice in the same sentence somehow
willow crypt
Ha
crisp sparrow
state of play: a lot of play
willow crypt
State of Play: all work and no play
meager panther
State of play: skyrim and gta V port play
wet warren
Just what I've been looking for
bronze wind
weird cause the official PS blog says exclusively as well
wonder if that was a fuckup
oh damn I missed that update
Would be cool if they made it a more noticeable font than the main body of the article lol
Well they didn't lie, either the retailer lied or they just happened to add a really good guess by accident lol
austere lance
It's not even the Spider-Man from the standalone game, it's Crystal Dynamics' take on Spider-Man
Oh well, it's just Avengers-themed Destiny/Warframe/etc anyway 
bronze wind
yeah kind of a bummer, Sony really sucks pushing the spidey exclusivity.
Across games and films
austere lance
And they wonder why their goodwill with the community is spiraling, lol
bronze wind
I don't think they wonder or really care, because people are going to buy it because Spiderman
I think he's one of the most popular superheroes in existence lol, as long as they keep dropping content for Spiderman people will buy it regardless of how gamers feel about exclusive deals
austere lance
I really hope they get trashed enough by Xbox this gen that they pull their heads out and start being consumer friendly. Be a big win for Sony fans if the company started doing good shit
bronze wind
That's the thing, it would just be a win for people other than Sony fans
If you're a Sony fan you get all the exclusive stuff lol
The only real case where it's a win for them is with expanded crossplay which seems to be making progress
austere lance
No, I meant if Sony gets wrecked they might start doing consumer-friendly stuff which would be a win for their fans
bronze wind
If you're just talking about the online pricing model then yeah that's pretty much the only thing they could change that purely benefits their fans
willow crypt
Just gimme another Hulk game
austere lance
They could put effort in PS+ or whatever it's called so it could compete with Game Pass. They could look into backwards compatibility more too
willow crypt
Pretty sure backwards comparability will be a thing with ps5
winter yew
Ps5 is confirmed to be compatible with Ps4
austere lance
I meant further back, lol
bronze wind
I think they do support as far back as some PS2 games currently
willow crypt
Plus it has the service where you can stream old games, back to ps1
bronze wind
that's psnow, I don't think it has ps1 games though
bronze wind
It seems like it's just a service to monetize access to some older games that probably don't sell super well anymore
winter yew
Its castlevania symphony of the night there?
winter yew
ah it is a regular ps4 game
Castlevania Requiem: Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood
I wonder how easy it is to port old games to ps4 and ps5
Must be more complicated that just including an emulator, otherwise we would see a lot more games
crisp sparrow
that's a lot of guitar picks
willow crypt
Watch it happen on ps5
The further away we get from the PS1 generation the more people crave the games
meager panther
winter yew
Crash Bandicoot got remade, same Spyro and Medievil
Maybe it is more profitable that way
austere lance
#WeStanCraig
austere lance
bronze wind
Kinda makes sense if there is some unique feature set that the new controllers bring
though i'm sure they aren't strictly required features so eh
wide kestrel
@crisp sparrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxagJ8fpsv8
crisp sparrow
damn wtf I forgot about it
also nice literally the whole movie on yt
gonna rewatch tomorrow
daring spear
Bravely bold Sir Robin, rode forth from Camelot
He was not afraid to die, o, brave Sir Robin!
fluid hare
...And brave, brave Sir Robin bravely ran away!
daring spear
He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways... Brave, brave, brace, brave Sir Robiinn
cinder vessel
I really hope they get trashed enough by Xbox this gen that they pull their heads out and start being consumer friendly. Be a big win for Sony fans if the company started doing good shit
@austere lance a shame xbox getting trashed so hard this last gen didn't lead to them dropping the online multiplayer sub fee crap
austere lance
Yet
Every insider in existence has leaked XBL Gold going away, lol
It's as badly kept of a secret as Fable was 😆
daring spear
He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp... Or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken! To have his kneecaps split and his body burned away, and his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin
I had the special edition dvd with sing along special features
||his head smashed in and his heart cut out and his liver removed amd his bowels unplugged and his nostrils r*ped and his body burned off and his peni- "alright that's quite enough"||
daring spear
Yesterday in Grounded I fought five stinkbugs. Two were distracted killing a spider while I beat up their friends tho
cinder vessel
I got lost with 65dos' different approach this past year so is that the collected form of it or are they still at whatever the new approach is?
crisp sparrow
I havent heard their old work
but it is very different from their NMS OST
this is much more electronic ambient noise with no analog
cinder vessel
Sorry, wasn't super clear, but they've been doing some more gradual/frequent rollout this past year or so, was wondering if what ya linked was that stuff compiled or not
worn jacinth
lol I love the memes
cinder vessel
Hmmm, Staxel's on sale again and still not sure if I should take the dive on it or not
austere lance
wet warren
Nice
austere lance
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@crisp sparrow do they record static for a couple months and remix it for their music?
dry copper
@wide kestrel Monty Python's Life of Brian > Monty Python and the Holy Grail
cinder vessel
galaxy brain is Meaning of Life > Life of Brian > Holy Grail
austere lance
That UI is legitimately painful
charred badge
Finally found a nice use for the circle on this skin.
Framing my favorite sigil :D
...needs more contrast
spiral pulsar
pretty boy
austere lance
Sometimes I think about trying Warframe again but then I look at the 60+ GB file size and go "nah"
cinder vessel
o_o
i know that's basically standard for AAA or similar-ish games, but it never ceases to make me go wtf
austere lance
It was like 25 GB last time I tried it 🤣
cinder vessel
I feel like it might've been the same for me, but that was definitely years ago
charred badge
Yeah, it bloated hard around railjack
austere lance
Gross
coarse swift
Which skin was that @charred badge ?
charred badge
Onyx
charred badge
Yeah, I got a few steam bundles
dry copper
Steam bundles?
Oh heh
I thought there was a new sale going on
Like a post summer sale
I wonder if Ooblets is any good.
charred badge
@dry copper yeah, steam used to have its own plat bundles with skins as a bonus. They went on clearance before the new set were introduced, so I usually picked them up
The sigil is a bit special though
Only given out at the physical hangouts they ran a couple years ago
Good alcohol
raven frost
noob(lets)
dry copper
One thing I really appreciate in grounded rn is the ability to dump your shit into a build project without needing to collect everything in one spot and have it on you at once
So I can add shit piece by piece
charred badge
Is there really that much dung crafting?
austere lance
@dry copper That certainly makes building fortifications easier
wanton plinth
Can I post a video I made of a really cool VR game more people should check out? I didn't make the game, its just super cool
dry copper
This would be where it goes
wanton plinth
ok cool, just want to make sure its not considered self advertising
cause I aint advertising
dry copper
Believe it or not. I didn't create Cyberpunk 2077
austere lance
YOU LIE
dry copper
wanton plinth
dry copper
Is this VR game in early access? I mean...It doesn't look like VR
wanton plinth
Tales of Glory was made by one dev, its all VR and out of early access
raven frost
oh not this is def vr
wanton plinth
the graphics don't look as good in the video because the foliage details are removed in the desktop mirror. But in VR there's trees and grass, generally better graphics all around
dry copper
Oh I see the vr now
I thought "He's swinging like a NPC"....then he started swinging like a lunatic....Yep that's VR
dry copper
I'm going to meme your video
wanton plinth
haha nice, make fun of me hard
dry copper
No it's the weird shit I see happening over and over
Like.....all their hats are flying off wtf
wanton plinth
haha I knocked their helmets off, whapped em in the face
wanton plinth
hahaha
that's a great picture
btw, I think someone did request the dehatication feature
dry copper
Honestly, as a VR gamer, I'd say the game looks like it needs work. The price point suggests the developer knows this and wanted to make it priced fairly. I don't know if he ran out of time, money or patience. I get a Bannerlord vibe with a VR compliment. The handling looks good. The graphics easily forgiven for the gameplay being fun, price is good, but it's a sandbox with no real story. If this was all made by one dude, he did an amazing job - all things considered. Kinda makes me hope the game succeeds just so he can get a decently sized team and put together something bigger.
Assuming he's interested in a career and this isn't a one off
Def a developer to watch
I'd say he succeeded based on his first post on this game's website
My idea is to create a VR version of "Mount and Blade" battles. Let's go !-Developer
wanton plinth
yes to all the above
I completely agree
If sales boom enough for him he'll hire a team to fine tune the thing
dry copper
He needs a PR team.
wanton plinth
yuup
dry copper
His company has absolutely no footprint
wanton plinth
That's because he's not really a dev.. well at least he doesn't consider himself one
he has no education, just playing around with the software for a few years lol
dry copper
Nobody considers themselves a writer until they've written it down.
wanton plinth
he actually owns and operates mall shops
dry copper
I don't know what that means.
wanton plinth
game design is just what he does in his spare time
dry copper
I own and operate mall shops. Is a mall shop something generic?
wanton plinth
huh? do you not know what a business inside of a mall is?
wanton plinth
yeah he doesn't talk about his stores
dry copper
Ah. He's afraid of hurting his primary source of income.
wanton plinth
he does live in Europe somewhere
dry copper
See an investor would look at that and go...Meh, what sneaky shit is he in on...Is this game legal...Does he sell humans in back alleys....
lol
He def needs a PR team to give himself an identity.
wanton plinth
that sounds like an extremely paranoid investor
dry copper
Depends on the type of investment.
wanton plinth
and I don't think he's looking for investors in his stores through his game
raven frost
lmao you guys need to cool it down a bit
a lot of what you're suggesting costs a lot
possibly more than what he's already making
it's a project for him and not much else
dry copper
I wonder how soaked David was after murdering a hundred people. I get sweaty shooting a bow in VR
I keep a fan blowing on me in VR just to prevent myself from getting too soaked playing Skyrim
wanton plinth
I was a little sweaty 😛
raven frost
I think the only vr game that's actually make me sweat was boneworks, before they added the save points
dry copper
My first time playing VR was Beat Saber. It was on the PSVR
wanton plinth
But that's just one of many battles that I usually play in 2 hours of game time per session
raven frost
especially during the 2nd to last level
before save points that level was a fucking trek
raven frost
you ever say a word then realize it actually isn't
you get what I mean, it wasn't easy to do in one sitting
raven frost
I had an absolute blast with boneworks
dry copper
wtf is duck season?
raven frost
it can be jank as fuck but that's kind of the fun to it
dry copper
Is that part of boneworks?
austere lance
Tfw Russell Crowe looks like he owns Valve 😆
willow crypt
Gabell
dry copper
daring spear
I keep forgetting Aethena is back then get all excited when I see her talk
full pivot
🥰
crisp sparrow
same
lavish obsidian
welcome back!
full pivot
Thanks
crisp sparrow
is the rx 570 still decent? I really dont think I can go above that budget thanks to indian imports making newer budget GPUs way too expensive
winter yew
580 is decent for 1080p
winter yew
It's only supposed to be marginally more expensive than the 570, dunno if the Indian market bloated the price difference.
crisp sparrow
well the price difference between the 570 and 580 here is about the price of a low end chinese smartphone
winter yew
Well that sucks
RX 570 will be fine then, the performance difference is not that big.
dry copper
How much is a RX 580 in India?
@winter yew The most amazing thing about that scene is that the same dude did the voice for all three characters and he did it in a single take
That is to say, they didn't splice cuts together
He fucked up enough on the take
Mel Blanc, the man of a thousand voices.
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Meanwhile anime actors have one voice.
dry copper
$230 USD?
crisp sparrow
after having binge watched 80 of them in a row, I now know the exact voice actors
and yeah USD
dry copper
Christ. That's a rip off.
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I kept expecting the tanuki in BNA to call for gatomon
crisp sparrow
import taxes rip us off yeah
dry copper
You can get an RX 580 used in Canada for $150 USD
crisp sparrow
if it werent for covid, my uncle who lives in San Francisco was going to come here and I was planning to ask him to get me a budget GPU
dry copper
Should still be able to mail
charred badge
Do they have VPNs for physical goods
dry copper
Who is they?
silver sparrow
lol pollos hermanos
winter yew
import taxes rip us off yeah
@crisp sparrow is the RX 570 exempt or something?
crisp sparrow
nope its just something that can still fit my budget at least
winter yew
Yeah, but what causes the huge price difference?
winter yew
RX 570 and RX 580
crisp sparrow
oh, hell if I know
not a tech guy anyway, and indian pricing has always been weird like that for tech stuff
pay a whole chunk more for a minor upgrade
winter yew
Meanwhile anime actors have one voice.
@charred badge the worst voice acting I’ve ever heard in any anime was the Godzilla anime on Netflix
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It's not even bad ones.
They just seem to have one voice and are chosen based on the role, rather than the actor creating/adjusting voice to the role.
Like, if you hear Lara Jill Miller in a dub, you know the character is probably going to be a somewhat naive but determined young girl
austere lance
Over 2 hours into KH 2.5 Remix and still haven't done anything interesting
cinder vessel
lol
austere lance
Literally one of the most boring games I've ever played
The sad part is the most entertaining part of the game is Christopher Lee voicing someone
bronze wind
To each their own I guess lol
austere lance
I guess I'm entertained by Terry McGinnis's voice actor being in it, lol
I just saw the "ghost train"
This has been two hours of talking with like 4 crap fights that revolve around hitting one button repeatedly
cinder vessel
...So why are you continuing to play it? 
austere lance
Because at some point I'll supposedly get Donald and Goofy and be able to use magic (I think)
cinder vessel
For me the content of RPGs is less the gameplay and more the dialog (ideally dialog options but 🤷♀️ )
austere lance
Oh god, the dialogue in this game 🤣
cinder vessel
Which is why I so often say RPGs would be better as visual novels over RPGs
Mass Effect but with the political intrigue as the sole focus as you roam about cool scifi environs and investigate conspiracies, talking to a host of interesting characters and such
Instead of that and a smattering of meh combat
austere lance
Fucking hell, after 2 1/2 hours I'm finally getting some slight answers
In ME 2 and 3 there's much more combat btw
cinder vessel
yeah 'cause that's the "easy fix" for many games
austere lance
THIS BITCH TOLD ME I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO EXIST
cinder vessel
writing eh, combat bad, which do we improve, both? NOT ENOUGH TIME/MONEY, FOCUS ON COMBAT
austere lance
RUDE AF
cinder vessel
lmao
See, now you're getting to the interesting shit
KH is so much like anime where there's a stupid fuckton of filler with interesting bits between
austere lance
ME 2 has the best characters even tho it upgraded combat
bronze wind
i really dislike visual novels, much prefer RPG progression and exploration
cinder vessel
The progression just feels like gating to the interesting exploration/narrative to me, so 🤷♀️
austere lance
@cinder vessel ME 2 improved on combat and writing
cinder vessel
too bad i am dutybound to play through series in sequential order else i have betrayed my oath to the Sequence
excluding series like Final Fantasy which are self-contained stories (mostly)
austere lance
ME 2 improving on writing and combat disproves your NOT ENOUGH TIME/MONEY, FOCUS ON COMBAT thing tho
cinder vessel
yeah except opinions
so whenever the hell i get around to it, i may still feel like the writing or combat is meh
my bet is that i may enjoy the combat more but still have mixed opinions on the writing
bronze wind
all of the main stream sci fi shooter type games have basically the same story but they call the aliens somthing else
cinder vessel
lmao you're not wrong
When I started explaining the Starcraft story to one of my roommates he was like, "Wait isn't this just Halo?"
bronze wind
"alien bad, but some alien good, let me talk to some and shoot others"
austere lance
Combat is certainly better than in the first game, lol. And doing stuff with your team affects the ending and their survival
cinder vessel
And then I was like, "Uhh, you'll have to bring me up to speed on the Halo story" and as they did, I was just like, "Huh...Yeah, yeah it's pretty damn close"
austere lance
Plus it introduces the best characters
bronze wind
it's always just "alien wants to misuse ancient power, gotta stop em"
austere lance
ME 2 was definitely the trilogy's peak
cinder vessel
Ancient Aliens the expanded universe including Halo, Starcraft, Mass Effect, Destiny, and Anthem
silver sparrow
cinder vessel
ayy
austere lance
Tbh Halo has the whole religious aspect and ME has political stuff. And they have much different enemies
bronze wind
yeah just talking story
it's still basically "big group of BAD alien gonna do something BAD, gotta shoot"
mass effect just also lets you fuck things
cinder vessel
and if you get into specifics you can still find some of the same specifics, lol
silver sparrow
remember those grunts i built
well baby they're tumblin down
they didn't even put up a fight
they didn't even make a sound
cinder vessel
lmao
bronze wind
all JRPGs kinda have the same thing too. guess it's just a common thing for genres to share story elements for some reason
silver sparrow
sacrifice of the destined one
"you were chosen for a special mission...to die"
jesus
(literally)
bronze wind
there's almost always a chosen one and then an edgy best friend and a token hot girl who was clearly written by a horny guy
bronze wind
it's basically just shonen anime plotlines made into games
austere lance
I mean, y'all are generalizing enough to make this true about every piece of sci fi ever written 🤣
silver sparrow
gmr is muh bruh from anudda muh
cinder vessel
Sora x Riku don't @ me
bronze wind
I mean yeah you could generalize every story as good vs evil lol
cinder vessel
Naruto x Sasuke is the only true Naruto ship
bronze wind
it's just annoying cause all mil-fi "stories" are almost the exact same identical plotpoints and story but with different names
daring spear
Isn't Riku his brother
bronze wind
doesn't really stop me from enjoying the gameplay, but i've never played ME or Halo for story
cinder vessel
this is why i've enjoyed stuff like Outer Wilds/Heaven's Vault recently
bronze wind
and no Riku is the edgy best friend
cinder vessel
unless there's some weird curveball hidden in the KH lore which wouldn't shock me
but otherwise yeah so far as i'm aware just edgy best lover
daring spear
bronze wind
daring spear
You know what game I loved
Tales of Symphonia
Then they decided "let's male a million Tales games"
daring spear
The second Symphonia was good too. I haven't played any others
There's yet another one in the works
cinder vessel
that's like the Atelier series
bronze wind
or final fantasy lol
cinder vessel
the art always makes me curious about them and then i look them up and there's so many
bronze wind
or dragon quest
daring spear
Symphonia wasnt the first one :0
But there are 39 total tales games
cinder vessel
on one hand, great if you like them and want more, on the other, wait which one is the entry point
daring spear
First one was in '95.
Symphonia did make it more popular tho
bronze wind
do they tie together or is it like a FF or DQ thing where all the games have common enemy types but different main characters?
daring spear
Thay
They have different stories and characters
The only ones directly related as far as I can tell are the two Symphonia ones. (Obviously). And even then most of the characters are different. most
dry copper
Final Fantasy and Dairy Queen?
bronze wind
Close, Dairy Quest
winter yew
Dairy Quest is amazing
austere lance
I made a KH fan mad and they sent me this 🤣
https://youtu.be/CXArovLJ60A
dry copper
I wonder if the Suikoden game ever improved. I loved how you could basically fit out your ENTIRE base, finding new team mates to add to it
You get this castle and just recruit dozens of people
Doing missions for them, exploring their backstory
I don't recall if it was difficult...I just remember the final fight, having spent so much time recruiting people, having it pretty easy
Because I had a fricken army
dry copper
Sounds like a day in the life of computerman
plucky mesa
Sticker door getting crowded...
silver sparrow
i made the broderbund reference last time
austere lance
They might as well just cancel the xbox and pc versions of Avengers lol
winter yew
just wat
daring spear
you know what sounds great? Punishing players who aren't on PS
-Sony probably
arctic thistle
spiral pulsar
I'm 99% sure the first one is from satisfactory
But
Why would they create so magnificent maps where the goal is to destroy and build industries?
silver sparrow
inb4 shipbreaker 😛
winter yew
oh my gosh.. just got to the center of the starting planet in Astroneer. amazing.
winter yew
robust thunder
so i am looking at getting in starfinder but have never played and other RPG system outside of 5E is there any on here would will to run a game or of it to see if it is something i want to pick up after i am out to Basic ant AIT.
dry copper
@austere lance wtf is embiggening?
@winter yew I misss the original center where you'd just float in place
austere lance
🤣 @dry copper
cinder vessel
@arctic thistle those shots, watdis?
bronze wind
definitely satisfactory
cinder vessel
Was what I thought but always good to get confirmation
That reminds me, I should see if they have a creative mode yet
bronze wind
I tried it a bit ago and refunded it pretty fast. Nothing against the game I just really don't enjoy heavy resource/process based gameplay
willow crypt
i'd play that if it had a creative mode
and i could just explore
it's impressive what people can do with the building, but not for me. no thank you
cinder vessel
that's pretty much why i was wondering about it zug
willow crypt
gorgeous game
bronze wind
yeah I just peek at what other people do sometimes and realize I'm never going to want to put int he amount of time and effort required to do it lol
cinder vessel
I don't have whatever neural net others have in play that gets dopamine hits from virtual crafting & assembly line stuff
bronze wind
me either
bronze wind
the moment it's like "okay now construct literal conveyor belts to feed from the output of this machine into another machine" i glaze over
cinder vessel
I do sometimes like building stuff, but the micro-crafting for building parts just nah
bronze wind
yeah it was too much for me
winter yew
a friend of mine tried to get me to play Factorio with them
my brain literally broke lol
bronze wind
i feel the same about the 4X space sim games
Liek wow that looks cool but it's basically a homework problem
cinder vessel
Like honestly the most fun I had in Minecraft was building stuff outta dirt and to a lesser degree cobblestone (just because it takes longer to gather)
willow crypt
i don't wanna do homework in a game
bronze wind
I had more cobblestone than dirt just cause I explored underground a lot
cinder vessel
i don't wanna feel like I'm working in a game
willow crypt
same
cinder vessel
Yeah, most cobblestone i got was from going for coal for torches so i could see at all times of day, lol
I have more than enough games, but they all take time to sink into & work has had me ded lately
bronze wind
that's where I'm at
Like I have so many options but none of them are particularly exciting to me rn
bronze wind
It's mostly cause HZD comes to PC in a few days so I'm comparing all games I could play to that mentally
cinder vessel
I keep meaning to sort mine by like quick dives vs. deep dives so I can play some casually but I'm pretty sure I just don't have many like that, lol
willow crypt
Ghost of Tsushima is beautiful and can be fun, but the open world quest design has become repetitive and i don't have the urge to jump in much.
oh nice
cinder vessel
like i do have games like everspace & FTL & such that on paper should be kinda decent quick dive games, but the frequent dying just kinda wears on ya
bronze wind
I have access to the alpha of Everspace 2 and it's fun, but limited
willow crypt
that's where shorter, more playful indies come into play
im interested in Everspace 2.
willow crypt
yep
cinder vessel
also everspace 1's console ports could use some more love, lol
I saw someone trying it on PS4 and the interface besides the HUD is super tiny
HUD has decent size options, the rest not so much
willow crypt
i wish devs would....play the ports on other consoles before...you know...releasing them on those consoles
bronze wind
The RPG stuff in it is nice imo, so far doesn't feel grindy.
cinder vessel
i give everspace devs some slack tho, being indie
bronze wind
Funny part is they don't have VA yet so the dialogue in the Alpha is all text to speech
bronze wind
it's pretty funny most of the time, i'm not expecting a finished product so it was just a nice touch
also the first person view in the cockpit was unfinished so they modeled a bunch of yellow tape saying "under development" covering the consoles lol
cinder vessel
nice
also i just meant i'd read dialog sooner than i'd listen to text to speech, past the initial watdis checks, lol
glass plinth
Which game you guys talking about
bronze wind
everspace 2
glass plinth
the new more sandbox everspace?
bronze wind
yeah
glass plinth
Hrmm, yeah its on my radar
bronze wind
I got a key for the alpha and had played a bit a few weeks ago
bronze wind
combat is sorta iffy just because it has the normal everspace shield/hull separation and it can be annoying to remember to switch between weapons, but overall it's fun
bronze wind
it is definitely one of the better ones in terms of flight and other things
cinder vessel
i know it's technically already out but I'm still waiting on rebel galaxy outlaw on other stores
bronze wind
not space sim, more arcadey
glass plinth
Thats all good, sorta like freelancer was then
bronze wind
I have mixed feelings with RGO
bronze wind
I owned it, it has a decent amount to do but the travelling/exploring is not as satisfying as I wanted it to be
Like you just point in a direction then press a key to go there, there's no real flight traversal
glass plinth
When you have games like Kenshi, Kerbals, SWTOR, games with depth, i just cant justify games without exploration depth
cinder vessel
I kinda just expected fun dogfights more than exploration from it
glass plinth
At least not often
hrmm
Im surprised Empyrion has been so fun to explore
Frankly wasnt expecting so much
bronze wind
the dogfights are okay, kinda suffers from "what the fuck is going on and where is everything" though lol
glass plinth
hehe
cinder vessel
weird, their control stuff didn't help as much as they hoped I guess?
glass plinth
meanwhile, I have to please my new lord on swtor and hope he doesnt trade me in for a better model. Being a sith is brutal.
bronze wind
Like it has my absolute least favorite system that multiple sci fi games use for ships, which is having to divert energy to shields/engine/weapons on a whim
just never been fun for me
cinder vessel
Ooh yeah the classic style
bronze wind
I'm def just turned off by the more sim-y ones in general
glass plinth
becomes a bit of a dance after awhile you can enjoy if your patient enough
Eh, thats ok
cinder vessel
Somehow I haven't run into that a ton in the space games I've played, more the physical ammo for hull damage, lasers for shields stuff
glass plinth
Its not for everyone
I mean i fly planes irl
So.. yeah
Simy is fun to me
LOL!
bronze wind
yeah that makes sense lol
and leon that's weird cause I haven't run into that too much aside from everspace lol
and I think maybe one other that I haven't played in a while
forget the name
oh, beyond the stars
glass plinth
Hrmm, that reminds me, I need to get my ship upgraded in swtor
cinder vessel
wait...i may be confusing mech games with space games...
glass plinth
You know whats odd is when you play a mmo or some game which is generally there for rp, but you spend most of the night out trading with folks
Well i guess thats rp too
Just not the mission related kind
I seriously have more fun flexing my social skills then i used to
austere lance
I like building in games to a degree, I think Grounded is the furthest I'll go tho
bronze wind
Grounded kinda only has building so far though
cinder vessel
i like building but not crafting so i have a conundrum
glass plinth
Is grounded fun?
austere lance
Lol
bronze wind
Like it basically exists as a tiny person building sim in its current state lol
austere lance
Yes @glass plinth
bronze wind
it's fun but the only content is the survival aspects, no missions
aside from tasks you can do for a robot but those are generic
austere lance
There's a reason it hit a million players in 3 days+the top of Steam and Twitch @glass plinth
bronze wind
that's just a result of it being early access though, they'll add story later which is what I'd like to wait for
glass plinth
I dont know, it just seemed to be a bit small in scale. After empyrion with a vast diversity of planets and such, going to a sandbox with such small scale seems small to me
I mite like it, but eh
bronze wind
It's on PC gamepass so cheap point of entry to try out if you ever feel like it
glass plinth
Honestly the best sandbox ive played recently i got free, Humankind, playing apes
lol
bronze wind
If you don't have gamepass already the first month is $1
glass plinth
I mite
austere lance
I don't build that much, I just hunt things to craft better weapons 👺
bronze wind
I'd definitely recommend to try it, but don't expect sprawling gameplay with different objectives lol
glass plinth
Take care!
bronze wind
later 👋
cinder vessel
Later!
I keep thinking about Kenshi & Empyrion but am just like hmmm
bronze wind
Tbh same
I don't think I'd really like Kenshi in the end
I think I checked out Empyrion a couple times and got turned off by some of the UI
cinder vessel
Kenshi has a demo so I'd try that first
austere lance
I have a little one-story house with some spike fortifications on it, I don't care about base building that much. I'll slap the shit outta bugs to make better armor and weapons tho
cinder vessel
lol
austere lance
My goal is to be stronk enough to fuck up Wolf Spiders. I can dunk on those little Orb Weaver bastards any day
cinder vessel
I have the Kenshi demo downloaded but haven't gotten around to much besides character creation
bronze wind
I don't wanna get too far with it just cause when more story stuff comes out I want it to feel like a natural progression
austere lance
Oh god, Kenshi is hell
bronze wind
also I didn't know Kenshi had a demo. Still don't know if I want to try but I am exceedingly bored so maybe
austere lance
Kenshi doesn't fuck around, lol
cinder vessel
yeah, i only suggested it since it's better than buying and being bummed
bronze wind
i've watched some people play and it looks both hilarious and frustrating depending on your mood
cinder vessel
mmhmm
austere lance
There's like three people in the Bethesda Discord who don't stfu about it and apparently it's brutal af
cinder vessel
lmao
bronze wind
oof steam store down rn though
cinder vessel
rip
bronze wind
I think it's normal tuesday maintenance though
austere lance
"Half my people got kidnapped and brutalized today and I have one dude left wandering around starving"
bronze wind
I watched a video where a dude used mods to start with a completely limbless character and worked his way up to buy prosthetics
he hired some guy to carry him around constantly and they just lived in a town and mined ore to make money until he could get legs
by the time he got legs his athleticism was so high from crawling and he basically zoomed everywhere after that
austere lance
Kenshi in a nutshell, lol
bronze wind
it sounds so fun in theory but I feel like I'll get burnt out by mechanics or something pretty fast
always happens to me with these types of games
austere lance
cinder vessel
it sounds so fun in theory but I feel like I'll get burnt out by mechanics or something pretty fast
@bronze wind same tbh
That's what happened with me with X3: Terran Conflict
cinder vessel
left-hand looks like my setup with my 8bitdo controller
raven frost
I kinda like the one on the left
cinder vessel
it's a good form factor for portability
raven frost
it looks portable and non-intrusive
austere lance
I like the fake joycon setup, lol
fluid hare
JoyXon?
cinder vessel
BoxJoy
bronze wind
XCon