Ohgod, smoosh!
#other-games
dry copper
My Corona? wot!?
I've been drinking tea like it's a thing now.
Really digging the tea bags.
dry copper
I don't use milk at all.
I just drop in a nice sac of orange pekoe in piping hot water and steep it
full pivot
dry copper
👖
austere lance
I'm dead, Borderlands 3's shitty DLC comes out on the 10th 🤣
austere lance
New skill trees for each character and a knockoff CoD Gun Game mode
winter yew
idk man i remember the old skill trees being kind of shit
dry copper
thorn dawn
so, star trek discovery s3. ||🙁||
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@dry copper not to quibble, but tea has been a thing for a while
shadow tartan
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Answer: not much
crimson kelp
If it’s St Mary’s, then yes
Also, TIL this is where the Netflix launching sound comes from https://youtu.be/rb5dEtNIKZk
austere lance
I do not appreciate the size of this robot in Nier Automata rn, it just ate an entire battleship that was a friggin Dorito compared to it
bold crag
cronch
austere lance
Tfw you have 15 things in your install queue and it's only from two games plus their DLC's and add-ons
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Feels like just cause or Sega collection @austere lance
austere lance
Fable III and Fallout 3, lol
austere lance
It hath been brought to my attention that Sony requires you to have a PS+ membership to store saves in the cloud and I'm thoroughly confused on why
bold crag
well don't you also need ps+ for multiplayer?
austere lance
Yeah, but what about people who don't care about multiplayer and just wanna take care of their saves for single-player games?
bold crag
well I could imagine that PS just collects all of these features under "online" and just locks them all
which would spare them some extra paperwork I guess
but I agree with your statement for that kind of person that agreement certainly is bad
silver sparrow
Y tho
thorn dawn
you'll have to be more specific
silver sparrow
Wasn’t the first ending sufficient
silver sparrow
I think waifu stopped after three seasons
zinc rose
daring spear
Also about the PS+ thing
If your membership ends, you have 6 months to renew it and if you don't do it in time your save data is gone forever
wet warren
That's...dumb
daring spear
Yep
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Best part is that you can't download your saves even
cinder vessel
hasn't Nintendo started similar crap to that with their online sub?
daring spear
I don't pay attention to Nintendo lol
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Anything nintendo does would be an improvement over "Save is locked to your handheld and will not work on anything else."
cinder vessel
how about, "but not every game has cloud save support, so is still locked to the device" 
cinder vessel
i dunno, that doesn't seem like an improvement to me, lol
at least if i'm remembering whatever baffling nintendo logic is going on with the switch
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I live in terror of my 3ds breaking and losing all my saves
cinder vessel
couldn't you toss on homebrew & back up saves that way?
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I keep it updated, so probably not?
cinder vessel
i think at this point you should be more or less set tbh
given they're phasing the 3DS out at this point
cinder vessel
All I know is I have homebrew on my New 3DS and haven't had any issues on that front
Instead I've had hardware issues 
wet warren
Meanwhile my 3ds 😞
tiny otter
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winter yew
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stray fractal
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wide kestrel
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ashen needle
winter yew
gotta watch these console restoration vids
see how it works and fix it, order new screen replace it
good shit
wet warren
Realized I haven't shown this one yet
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@wet warren that's a weird looking 3ds
keen dome
I tell ya, haven't had a series of games make me rage quite like the Assassin's Creed series. Between the mind numbing tracking for the character when you try to scale walls or get caught on a pebble. And some of the fighting bs, blocking doesn't count as blocking at times and they completely changed control layout for Odyssey and it is a pain to get used to.
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Also the story is on life support
cinder vessel
there's a story?
glass plinth
As a writer once said, The best stories are those implied, untold and fantastic beyond imagination. Only those with the keen mind see them. For those without, we who can only have sorrow for them
Lol
Frankly feels like NMS storyline for me. Love it because so much is implied, yet, nothing is concrete
Best kind of story there is
😄
cinder vessel
I like stories that influence the game world
So yeah, Bastion & Transistor are right up there
winter yew
I just played through three campaigns in Distance and I'm still confused lol.
cinder vessel
A story that doesn't affect its world is just lore, isn't it? Set dressing, worldbuilding, but ultimately inconsequential
winter yew
I coulda sworn my friend said there was at least 4 or 5 total campaigns
willow crypt
Control's jukebox challenge mode gives me Destiny vibes and I'm not sure that's a good thing
winter yew
maybe there's this hidden one, i need to find the crabs :V
dry copper
@willow crypt After I finished the campaign in control, I didn't feel compelled to play it anymore (at all). Game was fantastic though.
I love me a solid single player experience...and kinda hate being asked to subscribe to it.
The whole system being laid out the last two decades with "Games as a service" pisses me off.
raven frost
@winter yew by distance do you mean that one car game, because that doesn't really have a 'canon' story iirc
sand marsh
@cinder vessel you might love Hades, if you haven't tried it yet
dry copper
@charred badge Honestly, the Assassins Creed story was on life-support from day one. They clearly hadn't finished the franchise story when they finished the first game and struggled to extend its shelf life. The story went from science fiction, to mystery, to medieval fantasy, to science fiction again and it just keeps juggling these genres like their balls are stuck in the air. Now it's reasonable to accept the story has all three genres to varying degrees, but it never commits to anything contextually and this does not invite inspiration. What it does is create a series of plot holes that a writer never has to fill because their non-committal approach to story development means they have no vested interest in the integrity of the story. @glass plinth The best stories are those written, not just implied.
rigid haven
Hades is one of my favourite roguelites for many reasons
dry copper
Hades looks fantastic.
rigid haven
Please play it
The art is wonderful, the characters are lovely, and the fucking dialogue is amazing
dry copper
Too busy losing sleep making a ship that is such a chore to maintain, I hate myself.
rigid haven
Not just in content but in quantity
dry copper
I've been watching Hades on twitch the last two days
Love the variety of weapons
I was on there yesterday watching Yogscast playing, yellin at the screen...STOP FIRING DIRECTLY AT THE GUY, THE BONUS DAMAGE IS FROM RICOCHET!
To whit a mod responded....Dude, this video is pre-recorded.
willow crypt
yeah Mumbles, it took me some time to warm up to the game, but I ended up enjoying it a lot. finished the main campaign today, going to do the dlcs next.
probably will avoid the challenges though, they stress me out.
Fuck being timed
dry copper
One thing that bugs me and it may be the way people are playing or the controls...haven't played it...Every time you fire at an enemy, you have to face them, which means you can't be going in another direction while firing, be it strafing or backstep
glass plinth
@dry copper I really cant agree on the topic on stories. For me, the as GMleon put it, lore, the stories which are behind the stupid main story are all that matter to me.
I never was one to play a game to finish the main story though. More peek under the covers and see whats going on besides the obvious giant red dragon of doom or dark knight
I suppose thats why I love Elite Dangerous and games of the ilk
dry copper
I'm not dismissing the value of extra content, but if the content is so lax that it does not even credit the integrity of the story, it's lazy writing
glass plinth
That or delibrate
I mean one of the best books I ever read had no main story unless you were able to piece together the story
12 stories, all more or less amazing tales of simple people, no clear connection to the narrative
Yet, if you finish it, you begin to see a overarcing story which implies some very big amazing things
Then again, maybe thats just because of the types of games and stuff I played with as a kid
Shrugs
Trying to think of the best story, which was written and drew me in.
Oddly, I think it was the narnia series
winter yew
@winter yew by distance do you mean that one car game, because that doesn't really have a 'canon' story iirc
@raven frost yes that one car game
I talked to my friend, apparently I do need to find the hidden crabs
for the secret campaign
austere lance
Is it as secret as the secret cow level in Diablo II, lol
winter yew
but thats ok, they seem very frustrating to get to lol. I'm no good at using the air jet things.
I like the levels that have platforming and such but the shit that requires maneuvers with just the jets are frustrating
austere lance
A guy I know just randomly sold his PS4 Pro cuz he's "Completely on PC now" even tho I know for a fact he has every good PS exclusive and hadn't even tried the new stuff in Ghost of Tsushima yet......
People are strange
daring spear
shadow tartan
cinder vessel
I never was one to play a game to finish the main story though. More peek under the covers and see whats going on besides the obvious giant red dragon of doom or dark knight
@glass plinth to me the problem with "implied stories" is as I said, they're usually already done and dusted. You navigate the consequences but past their lending to the setting, they have minimal impact on much else & you have no part in them anyway.
The best situation imo is when that background comes to a head in the present. You not only hear or read about the consequences, but you directly encounter their ongoing repercussions.
Outer Wilds does this wonderfully, right before launch you're introduced to a few mysteries of previous lost explorers, motivating you to retrace their steps and make it back.
Metroid Prime also does a great job of this, where what you're scanning often directly relates to what led the areas to be as they are, and why you're dealing with what you're dealing with. In both instances the past or background/side info is not some wholly distant, faintly relevant set of details, but a web of mysterious events and their effects to investigate and understand.
Hell, Control does a pretty good job of this as well. Tbh many of the better written games I can think of tend to do this.
They blend both "lore" and "main story" so well, you almost don't even think to distinguish them as such, because the whole is so much better than either apart.
dry copper
shadow tartan
Yesss
glass plinth
You know @cinder vessel Wasteland did a great job with lore and present story and implications of actions too.
Elite dangerous did as well, but since the implications could be difficult to see, it could be hard to see the story
For instance, I get told to assasinate a corrupt prison leader by a small time planet leader.
Ended up, the corrupt prison leader ruled all of the local gangs, starting a city war when he died over 3 systems
which then lead to the guy I working for duying to assasination.
WHich was my friend irl.
The fact the missions interconnected was.. dumbfounding.
Long story short, I ended up reshaping a entire sector of space to the faction I backed , 3 civil wars, a famine, a outbreak of disease I assume was a bio weapon killing off half a planet and a bunch more
THAT is storyline to me
cinder vessel
aw shit am i gonna have to hire a RPG accountant to balance the character sheets?
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depends how many points you get
glass plinth
Niiiice
been awhile since i had to balance stats like that
I love customization
I mean witcher did that well
So no surprise there.
stray fractal
I feel like CP2077 is going to be a little bit of a letdown to some at launch
With all the hype going around
full pivot
i just wanna make my fantasy self
glass plinth
Hrmm
I dont suspect Ill have much of a issue with letdown. I wasnt let down by nms or many other games
I just enjoy things for what they are. The only hype I have, is the setting.
I havent played a game in a proper big city in AGES.
stray fractal
True
glass plinth
However, given the way skills and such work. Ill probably be pretty happy, Im familiar with the setting
stray fractal
I’m not very excited for the game myself tbh
bold crag
well given how much hype it is getting there might be some disappointed people
but those are always there
stray fractal
I’d imagine quite a few
glass plinth
Hrmm, I remember after witcher 1 and 2, all the hype of witcher 3
bold crag
probably
glass plinth
We remember how that turned out.
They nailed it.
Which is one thing with CD, office practices aside.
stray fractal
Hopefully that happens
glass plinth
Who knows
stray fractal
Either hype can make your game an absolute success or ruin it for a lot of people
glass plinth
Unlike NMS and many other games, I only know testers for the game, I havent met any programmers
So the info I have is skewed
bold crag
yeah but they couldn't have avoided the hype
glass plinth
I dont usually judge based off that kind of ingo
stray fractal
yeah but they couldn't have avoided the hype
@bold crag
Didn’t they release a trailer 8 years ago?
glass plinth
Well, the worry I have is the time they are making the game
stray fractal
And have done a lot of stuff for it
glass plinth
I think it was 6 I mite be off
Either way, almost as bad as elderscrolls games
LOl
bold crag
@stray fractal well they need to market it somehow, also it would have been leaked anyway let's be real here
glass plinth
One thing I can be sure of is, the character animations will rock lol
The amount of mocap going into the game is absurd
They mocapped the fricking cars for frick sake
stray fractal
@stray fractal well they need to market it somehow, also it would have been leaked anyway let's be real here
@bold crag
True, but they’ve protected from leaks for a long while now anyways
glass plinth
Have you seen the ndas?
Lol, CDP has insane nda contract
My friends who test it, wont say squat.
Which is good.
I mean a well run studio can manage that.
bold crag
yeah but usually some stuff leaks out
stray fractal
If they really wanted to protect against too much hype they could’ve waited longer, but they’re probably trying to use it to their advantage
bold crag
and if they wanted to keep the game a secret even a leak about the existence of the game would havw been enough
If they really wanted to protect against too much hype they could’ve waited longer, but they’re probably trying to use it to their advantage
yeah
glass plinth
Well you dont typically want to protect from hype
You want to sell merchandise, presales
so on so forth
glass plinth
I suppose it depends on the studio
Once you have a slew of good releases, you can stretch your neck
Some of the merch is pretty damned awesome too.
stray fractal
I don’t like that
glass plinth
THe only thing Im hoping is a better release then andromeda
hahaha
I love that movie
stray fractal
What movie is that?
stray fractal
Ah
bold crag
are you talking about mass effect Andromeda?
bold crag
yeah that game was.... "not well received"
glass plinth
Flipping amazing what mods achieved
I tried it again, with a slew of remake mods
Its amazing now
The game had a amazing community of modders bound and determined to save it
glass plinth
Yeah
coarse swift
I'm curious.
glass plinth
I was a bit surprised
coarse swift
I've got it on PS4 though, so no mods that way.
coarse swift
You wanna gag even more?
||I fucking pre-ordered it.|| 
stray fractal
Sad Console Noises
glass plinth
Sorry , thats like being stuck with a malformed puppy
coarse swift
Bad comparison
austere lance
It's at least playable now on console, it's just a shit game
glass plinth
Yeah
glass plinth
Malformed loaf of bread?
You say that until you meet a chihuaha from hell with a personality of a shark mixed with a roach named krueger
As in freddie krueger
coarse swift
Both Andromeda and Fallout 76 taught me pretty quick to never pre-order games again.
Imagine if I had bought 76 now
glass plinth
Hrmm
austere lance
Like, gameplay and graphics bugs and whatnot got mostly fixed. The story and gameplay loop and characters are still garbage though cuz Bioware can't write their way out of a paper bag anymore
glass plinth
I hear, the game is half decent now
I mite have to try it
I dont mind grind
I mean.. I play nms
Genshin
Lol
glass plinth
I guess i like grind.
austere lance
It's on Game Pass and I still want nothing to do with it, lol
coarse swift
Private servers n whatnot: sorry, buy Fallout 1st
glass plinth
Eh, I have enough friends playing it now, that it must have some redeemable qualities
Either way, Im to busy with Genshin and NMS.
austere lance
I like the part where hackers can steal your inventory
coarse swift
^ ugh
austere lance
Or you can randomly get a nuke dropped on you
coarse swift
Genshin I'm half taking a break from
Still logging in each day because of the blessing
glass plinth
hehe
coarse swift
But now that I've done with Liyue and Mondstadt story along with maxing the shrines
I dont wanna burn myself out
glass plinth
Yeah
coarse swift
Will just wait for Zhongli and the next region
glass plinth
take a break, wait tell the new map is out
Me, Im mostly just taking my time
I rerolled 3 times too
coarse swift
PS4, didnt learn about rerolling till late
glass plinth
So I am only just up to liyue
Lol
Frankly, Im glad IM were Im at
I understand the game well enough now, i have the characters I want
No way id reroll now
coarse swift
With all these rerollers I feel there might be too many cooks Dilucs
glass plinth
Yeah, I didnt reroll for that reason.
glass plinth
I did it more out of frustration with making wishes not knowing the system
Once I did, i did a final reroll
Been golden since
stray fractal
I keep hearing of genshin, but have no idea what it is
full pivot
waifu sim
coarse swift
Breath of the Wild: Waifu edition
coarse swift
Also Xenoblade elements I guess, havent played
stray fractal
BoTWW
austere lance
Breath of the Wild with waifus and Nier combat
glass plinth
Frankly, its not a bad game. All the issues of gacha aside
coarse swift
Nier pov's as well
glass plinth
I enjoy the pace frankly
coarse swift
I've not been compelled to spend a dime on it
For that reason, I felt comfortable getting the blessing
coarse swift
I just
glass plinth
Since i play everyday, its.. nice actually
glass plinth
?
coarse swift
WITH YOU
full pivot
im not complaining
coarse swift
Moon and I play everything together usually
glass plinth
But we like to explore alone
full pivot
i play with europeans a lot xD
coarse swift
So us joining eachother causing a lock in progression sucks a bit
glass plinth
Hrmm
I mean you can explore together, just not do the missions
So I get what you mean
frankly the only thing I do is bosses with my friend
lol
glass plinth
Speaking of .. oh crud
Saw the time
I need to go to bed
LOL
I forgot i need to do chores tomorrow
Night all!
coarse swift
My bedtime too
stray fractal
Goodnight
coarse swift
silver sparrow
Amnesia rebirth is in the Washington post
So weird
Also: smooshing pumpkins 😄
I caught a drumstick from one of their shows
balmy plaza
@silver sparrow I must be hungry because my mind went straight to them throwing chicken drumsticks into the audience
willow crypt
Good song
crimson kelp
I was listening to Starlight all morning. 🙂
dry copper
Considering purchasing Empyrion
dry copper
hahaha the last second of the trailer for the game "Just Die Already" is literally the game dying
I don't know if that was intended
It cut literally right after that screen popped up
crisp sparrow
Yooooooo
To think he finally managed it (whenever someone suggested this feature he used to flat out say it's not possible)
cinder vessel
@coarse swift Breath of the Waifu
Tbh split screen in a game like Stardew seems kinda awkward, but cool to see they managed it
rigid haven
For sure
austere lance
You haven't lived til you've seen split-screen Ark 😬
austere lance
I tried it once, I do NOT recommend
It actually ran fine, the UI was fuckin miniscule tho
cinder vessel
lol
I watched someone try to play that game for the first time this year, and everyone in the comments having to tell the one playing he should try it with xyz instead was hilarious
"It's a good game, as long as you don't play it with the defaults!"
||That might mean it's not good after all though!||
wet warren
I've played splitscreen Ark many times. I just give up on reading anything by that point
austere lance
Fuck playing Ark with default settings, I customize everything to remove the bullshit grind and wait-times
wet warren
Same. Playing on default is a big mistake
glass plinth
I make it much grindier
I tend to want it to take 2-3 months to reach cap
I guess everyone has different playstyles.
wet warren
I myself also like waiting a year to tame a dino
wet warren
Point being
glass plinth
Yeah you arent wrong on the taming part.
That is absurd in a solo or small group setting
Also, how they tame, what you can tame, all of it just doesnt work with my style of play
Generally I like a game where you have to collect materials, slowly process them, work your way up until your out of the stone age. All that infrastructure is a ball to put together.
Sorta why i lean towards survival plus.
Mind you I dont know the current state of the game, I havent played for a year.
wet warren
Never really played survival plus
Never really finished Ark at all
Oh it is still not very well optimized at all
glass plinth
I finished a few times, up to the point I left off.
Hrmm, I guess with my custom ini file I never much noticed
I run on mostly ultra settings, but I have a very specific set of settings
I hit around 120fps
Thats on my 970 mins you
I dont know what it would hit on my 5700xt
wet warren
Instead of actually optimizing the game they are shoveling out new islands and dinos faster than the speed of sound
wet warren
No
glass plinth
Man, back at that point it wouldnt even run on a 1080ti
Were talking 20fps
Its been going up since then of course, for awhile they hit 60, then 80, then 120
So clearly they did some work.
A lot of issues with asset management, choice of assets which draw to many resources and generally bad design though.
Which is why some of the private maps work so much better then the game release maps
A shame really
TO make matters worse, then you had circumstances where some of the mod map makers were hired and not allowed to design the way they wanted.
Atlas really drove a nail in certain parts of the design teams morale too.
Largely due to one of the lead devs having a fricking meltdown, on release day, storming out like a madman, leaving everyone wondering wtf had just happened.
austere lance
The devs made a shit pirate knockoff of Ark before finishing Ark, LMAO
wet warren
Yep lol
glass plinth
It is a good game mind you
I do enjoy it
I dont use the vanilla servers though.
Its just with the lead devs ... yeah, its always a uphill battle
Not quite molyneux bad maybe, but bad.
austere lance
Booooooo
glass plinth
They really arent though
Snail doesnt have much impact on the in studio release dates or design parameters
Most of that is set by Jeremy
or was
I dont know now.
Jeremy.. ugh. Id seriously have to hold my tongue if I met him irl.
After what he pulled on serveral occasions, how he impacted people I know
Im not a fan
austere lance
There are too many useful games out there for me to even think about touching that broken-ass game again, lol
glass plinth
Frankly, I left simply due to having new games to play
I enjoyed ark
Im not of the ilk that really cares about how a game releases, if i can make it better
THat being said, I dont see going back to it either.
7k hours into a game, Im done.
Very few games can draw me in much longer then ark, besides kerbals
Ugh, once kerbals 2 comes out, no one will hear from me for years.
I have awhile before that happens, sometime end of next year it seems.
dry copper
Kerbal Space Pogrom
silver sparrow
I like how ps4 has a Halloween sale and dayz refuses to discount their game
Poopyheads
glass plinth
hehe
Welp, almost time to head to work.
Gota mow those yards, blows the leaves
SOOOO many leaves
Seriously, 120 bags of leaves
dry copper
I was surprised anyone picked up a license for Dark and Light. I remember when that game first came out back in like....2008
A heaping pile of garbage on launch
I played it for three days before I said, f this...and never touched it again. It was the worst launch of a MMO I ever experienced
austere lance
DayZ is on Game Pass but I still don't think it's worth downloading, those types of games are 😬
dry copper
Back in the days when Dark and Light was being promoted, the promotional video was literally of a dude snow boarding on a shield
austere lance
DayZ looks like PUBG with zombies
dry copper
I did end up buying Dark and Light, the new one...just to see what it was about...deep discount.
Dark and Light currently is....well, Ark with magic.
glass plinth
Yeah... I got it free
played maybe 20 hours
The fact the animals could get stuck in trees which were meant to cut them down was.. NOPPPPE
At least ark had functional part
lol
winter yew
oh geez lol
dry copper
The only thing I liked about Dark and Light were the meteors
glass plinth
I like that too
dry copper
That felt intteresting
glass plinth
I mean I loved empyrion for the same reason
the streams of enemies coming to hurt you
Made base design interesting
dry copper
I've been eyeing empyrion but I hate the graphics so much
dry copper
I feel like I'm looking at the original doom 1 textures on a better engine
dry copper
I've never bought the game.
dry copper
I kinda assumed the youtube videos were what you'd expect of graqphics
glass plinth
Eh, you never know, my taste in graphics are odd.
dry copper
For my part, I'm on an RX5700XT
glass plinth
Same!
😄
Sapphire pulse
LOOOOOVE this card
so quiet, so powerful
Also, only 300 bucks on sale
dry copper
Same. Best card for the dollar
dry copper
I won't likely need to upgrade until I decide to buy a whole new system with the 3080
glass plinth
Hrmm
dry copper
Years from now
glass plinth
Im going for a amd 3600 when it goes on sale
32gb ddr4
a new mobo
im done
I have all the other parts
so max, another 320 or so dollars for a full upgrade
thatll keep me going another 4 years
WELP! Im off!
take care!
dry copper
I wonder if they added multiple assassination types based on partial damage...Like, motor damage, followed by assassination that exploits that, or vision damage followed by assassinate that exploits that, etc
Sort of like the assassinations in Shadow of Mordor
Fucking loved that game's assassinations
austere lance
I think the motor cognitive vision thing represents what kind of accessibility option it is
dry copper
Oh
I thought they were adding subsets of assassination types lol
"I made you blind, now I'm going to play with my food"
austere lance
LMAO
dry copper
"Want to maim, but not murder? Then torture your victim before killing them? Assassins Creed. Less assassin and more assassout.
Almost went and bought a whole HOTAS system for Interstellar Rift...Then realized it has no mechanism for controllers to work.
Only way I got any controller to work with the game was by hackey sacking it with steam's controller override features
austere lance
Buy it for Star Wars Squadrons 😆
dry copper
I'm not a big star wars fan.
Only thing that appeals to me in Interstellar Rift is the ship building and micromanagement
I may get Starbase just to see if it's worth playing inspite of the pvp
austere lance
Be hardcore and completely turn off the HUD in Squadrons so you're operating your starfighter only using your ship's instrument panel and looking out your viewport, and use a HOTAS. Ultimate immersion 😎
You don't even have to like Star Wars, it's just a badass starfighter sim
The coolest bros do all of the above while playing in VR 
dry copper
Oddly enough, I upgraded my GPU and have yet to play NMS in VR since...I'm waiting to get a new computer monitor with 120 refresh rate
Because the VR in NMS is for some stupid reason tied to framerate of the monitor it mirrors
My monitor has 60hz framerate, and my VR HMD has 80.
So my monitor is literally throttling my VR headset
I'd choose to play as a wookie
Named MumblesMalarky
No speaking, just mumbling
daring spear
TIL A Perfect Circle has a cover of Imagine
dry copper
Imagine all the circles.
daring spear
Hah
dry copper
@daring spear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LoiblDKBDc
daring spear
dry copper
Cursed covers by Maynard James Keenan
daring spear
Maynard intensifies
Not even he is ballsy enough to do the "any way the eind blows" line at the end
I dont think people even try that one
Impressive
Except my high school choir but that doesnt count since the song itself was changed a lot...
Like. Completely cutting the first verse pretty much because. Public school
naive glen
dry copper
4 days before Outer Worlds releases on steam
austere lance
It's fun, hope y'all like it!
willow crypt
i hope the sequel has a much wider scope
great game, fun. good story, but felt very restricted
austere lance
I might re-download it and do another playthrough, tho I think Nier is gonna take up all my time for the foreseeable future 😆
Why must Nier be such a massive game 😭
austere lance
I've noticed, I'm 8 hours in and I just smacked a ||giant ancient robot that ate a fuckin battleship||
I feel like I'm not even close to finishing my first playthrough, lol
I've read that Ending E is the "final" ending for most people and that the rest of the endings are for completionists
willow crypt
Only played into the second playthrough, or maybe third? I don't remember
winter yew
@austere lance I love your description of that fight
austere lance
Second playthrough is apparently the worst, it pays off tho cuz your third playthrough isn't actually a new playthrough, it's something else 👀
Then the fourth one is COMPLETELY NEW
I saw the one ending that is literally the ballsiest move I've ever seen a studio make
Like god damn
winter yew
😄
winter yew
NieR:Automata
silver sparrow
Oh
coarse swift
Bit of a normal thing to a souls vet
winter yew
i s'pose
austere lance
@silver sparrow Nier Automata has 26 endings
We were talking about the main ones 😆
silver sparrow
Whaaaat
I was disinterested because of the whole skimpy outfit thing but I will reevaluate
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@winter yew bad hammerer. Hammers are for heads.
austere lance
@silver sparrow I was in the same boat as you and thought it looked pretty dumb, then I tried it with Game Pass and now I'm hella hooked. Absolutely insane game with like 6 different genres of gameplay in it
winter yew
@charred badge Need hammer to break horns, that's all lol
I’m still ‘early game’ on my pc account. Getting ready to fight Kushala and Teostra for the first time
austere lance
Acey is obviously gonna watch the Monster Hunter movie day one
glass plinth
Ugh, that is one movie i will not be seeing
I loathe game to movie conversions
Hrmm, well, almost all of them
the witcher tv show wasnt horrid
Hrmm and the defiance tv show was surprisingly good
austere lance
I liked The Witcher, even though I'm the demographic who by all rights should have hated it (put a few hundred hours into Witcher 3, read all 8 books, etc) 😆
glass plinth
yeah that storyline was legit good
austere lance
Speaking of, did you see that the author has a new book series?
glass plinth
No! Ill have to check it out
Frankly, after seeing the novel for cyberpunk Im starting to get excited about the storyline for the game.
winter yew
mmmk so I forgot how insane the Kushala fight is in the last phase 😦
glass plinth
They sure have good writers
winter yew
I just got carted 3 times in a row lmao
austere lance
@glass plinth The Tower of Fools
glass plinth
ill check it out!
austere lance
It's translated by the guy who did the English translations for most of the Witcher books
winter yew
this part, with the bombs and then all that wind.
also why didnt that load a thumbnail 😦
oh there it goes
20 minutes in to that vid it REALLY picks up
looks like I need to stock up on flash pods for that part
austere lance
@glass plinth English translation version of the book releases on the 27th. I'm pretty interested in it cuz it's historical-fiction instead of just Fantasy
winter yew
im so mad cuz I managed to cut off Kushala's tail too 😭 first time
charred badge
@winter yew no no, KO and exhaust are amazing and hammer is best at provoking them
winter yew
KO?
charred badge
When you bash their head enough and they lie down and flop like a fish
winter yew
oh right
austere lance
That works on ur enemies irl too 👀
winter yew
sure lol
daring spear
historical fiction is 👍
charred badge
More like historical fantasy
daring spear
fantasy is a type of fiction
charred badge
Yes, Harry potter is a wonderful youth fiction
daring spear
well it sure as hell isn't nonfiction
charred badge
I like how the default is fiction, now that I think about it
cinder vessel
Castlevania is still the best game to tv adaptation out there tbh (i know convo was earlier, just sayin')
charred badge
I'm weak
also yeah, castlevania is nice.
because the writers obviously cared
that's the big distinction
Is it a product to sell something
Is it a vehicle for a director's preferences
Is it an attempt to actually convey the tone and world of a piece of media
crisp sparrow
damn I really need to watch the rest of Castlevania
I had dropped it long ago because something else came up
austere lance
God fucking dammit, TODD WINS AGAIN
https://youtu.be/V85sjumXnOs
full pivot
cinder vessel
Man, y'know a series I nearly forgot all about? American Horror Story. Gotta be among the worst names for a series out there.
austere lance
cinder vessel
I was trying to remember it and literally all I could remember was horror, as if that's gonna help search for it
Even the first couple seasons are terrible to try to search for. Murder House, Asylum, lmao
"ah yes, what was it called, uhhh, horror...asylum?"
thorn dawn
no, gamepass doesn't interest me all that much
thorn dawn
but you dont, as soon as you stop paying it goes away
bold crag
well you get it for 1 month
thorn dawn
I doubt i'll complete this inside a month
bold crag
hmm well then buying it is of course worth it
silver sparrow
oh @cinder vessel i might get into lovecraft country
also castle rock s1 was p good, s2 eh
winter yew
I doubt i'll complete this inside a month
@thorn dawn its got a decent amount of content to keep you busy lol. Its like a 40-50 hour game
willow crypt
Control should add a costume that covers Jesse's entire body in documents, and when she runs and flies, papers should fly off
Seriously. This dlc. One small office room and like, 15 document collectibles
Otherwise, fun
brisk merlin
willow crypt
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willow crypt
Yes
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Paper cut: The Series
https://i.makeagif.com/media/8-13-2016/hQ_7Yy.gif
raven frost
telekinesis but you can only pick up paper
willow crypt
Ultimate superpower
cinder vessel
remember Paper Beasts
winter yew
Ok, will do.
austere lance
Cyberpunk has multiple discs
dry copper
@austere lance Mother fucking Skyrim AGAIN!!!!!!!?
They should be giving the god damn game AWAY at this point.
They keep reselling it over and over and OVER
daring spear
I'm pretty sure that's a mod that was posted
Yeah that.
austere lance
Bunch of people completely remade the campaign and added a third act to it
dry copper
....Seriously...I have every single iteration of skyrim ever released.
winter yew
lmao I just ||fought the golden bunny machine|| in NieR.. Was NOT expecting him to say some of the things he said lol.
austere lance
Skyrim with a useful story will be weird 
dry copper
omgerd, Cyberpunk has a physical option?
daring spear
The text on the link even says it's a mod, but I understand the upset. Skyrim is fuckin... Everywhere
dry copper
I'd much rather a physical cyberpunk to a digital...I wonder if they'll charge more for physical
Is this a fking joke?
There's your physical copy.
Read the top of the box
So...@austere lance Where do I get the physical ones? (clearly not from CDPR)...I was ready to pre-order it, just for the physical stuff
austere lance
That screenshot is from Amazon
dry copper
Yeah that's where CDPR forwards you.
I found CDPR's explanation
The CDs are for the xbox and ps
Otherwise, the only digital discs are for music
I thought there was going to be PC discs 😦
Save me waiting hours to download from servers already inundated by millions of downloads...
austere lance
Most pc gamers don't even have disc drives anymore, lol
dry copper
I keep a spare disc drive around. It's a plug and play drive.
cinder vessel
I think I have a spare floppy drive around, lmao
send me dat game on like 50 floppies
sand marsh
whoa, the new amnesia looks good
cinder vessel
kinda bummed they went back to that tbh
Soma was really refreshing, woulda been cool to see them do another new thing
sand marsh
from what it looks
they went very different with this one too
it's not your typical scary mansion/castle type
cinder vessel
ngl i haven't looked at anything to do with it thanks to the Amnesia name
the double-edged sword of trying to market with a seemingly reliable brand or whatever
silver sparrow
Probably not
willow crypt
the color scheme on the box art is at least unique
seems most covers utilize reds, blues and black to catch peoples' eye
austere lance
This the only color I care about rn, be arsed with Cyberpunk's funky bs
coarse swift
silver's a better color
fite me
there's nothing your ass creed gold axes can do to change my mind
austere lance
Ur not wrong, lol
raven frost
@austere lance gold axes suck, minecraft taught all of us this
balmy plaza
Loved soma
Wish more games got you questioning stuff like that game did
Anyone know any games that have a similar effect?
silver sparrow
i never got more than ~5 hours into soma, mebbe i will give it another swing
raven frost
outer wilds? not a horror game but apparently it can fuck with your head a bit
silver sparrow
(i also didn't finish outer wilds 🙃 )
raven frost
dhdnjx
charred badge
I liked soma, but mostly because it touches the existential ramifications of ||digital conciousness|| in ways I never see
balmy plaza
Yeah I like games that tackle thought provoking stuff
elder heart
can anyone suggest me some games under 30$
austere lance
What platform
elder heart
pc
austere lance
balmy plaza
Pretty cool
elder heart
anything els
austere lance
Check and see if there's any sales rn
elder heart
played all the assassins creed series
austere lance
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is $30 @elder heart
elder heart
it shows 10$ on steam
anyway ill try this one
and another question
i just pre-purchased cyberpunk 2077
is it more cheaper after release
austere lance
Depending on where you pre-ordered it's actually cheaper rn. Amazon has pre-orders for $50
It'll be $60 on release
elder heart
on steam
austere lance
It'll be $60 everywhere, that's kinda how new AAA games work
elder heart
so i should keep it
crimson kelp
Not exactly Iron Butterfly :p
austere lance
New mobile app for Xbox is out, I can tell my Xbox to install games I don't own 👀
Basically pre-loading without buying the game, lol
Then after the game comes out if I like reviews I can buy it then immediately start playing cuz I already have it downloaded, lol
crimson kelp
@thorn dawn https://youtu.be/6drfp_3823I
Pretty sure you still won’t be able to tell, but there ya have it
silver sparrow
🦻
wide kestrel
that's an emoji???
silver sparrow
what?
silver sparrow
gootem
willow crypt
🌽
silver sparrow
🟤
coarse swift
I figure you'd probably find it a shit game after the first hour
Yet you stayed in there for longer than 8
full pivot
almost like they say things just for a reaction
coarse swift
If the reaction they were looking for was "is this an edgy statement", they succeeded.
raven frost
daring spear
willow crypt
A night in the woods is a great game
dry copper
@elder heart A Short Hike, HADES, Kind Words, Hotline Miami, The Wolf Among Us, GunPoint, This War of Mine, West of Loathing, Rakuen, Risk of Rain 2, To The Moon, Papers Please, GRIS, Finding Paradise, Last Day of June
charred badge
That is... an interesting download system. I can see benefits.
dry copper
There are literally dozens of good games under $30 on steam
Maybe tens of dozens even!
charred badge
Btw ASH and A Night In The woods are both in the huge itch.io bundle
Might already have them
dry copper
Is that the same bundle from like...last year?
charred badge
The racial equality one?
charred badge
I figure a lot of people bought the thing, realized they couldn't search through it, and forgot about the thing
charred badge
It hit something like 1,700+ by the end
dry copper
Yikes
dry copper
I thought I'd get back into FO76 and see if I could get my money's worth for having purchased it some time ago....Difficult game to enjoy with so much god damn micromanagement of idiotic things like...HUNGER and THIRST....It's like a survival game, but you're homeless and fighting mutants.
daring spear
I am one of those who forgot about that bundle
dry copper
So...Surviving Utah
😛
I honestly don't know where they get off making you so hungry and thirsty all the damn time
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@daring spear there's a site someone made to make it easier.
Randombundlegame or something like that
daring spear
Ah, alright
austere lance
I'm trying out Drake Hollow
winter yew
@coarse swift i finished the game
coarse swift
finished a night in the woods
@winter yew Oh, didn't catch that from your initial statement.
winter yew
didn't seem like it
game really doesn't take 8 hours
spent most of it spamming the a button so i could get through the dialogue
coarse swift
Yet you stayed in there for longer than 8
6 hours or so if you speedrun it.
If you only bought the game to speedrun it and bypass dialogue, then I'm really not surprised you thought it was shit.
winter yew
bypass dialogue?
not sure if you remember the game greatly
but the text is stupidly slow
coarse swift
spent most of it spamming the a button so i could get through the dialogue
Is this not bypassing dialogue
winter yew
easily readable when spamming the a button
i read all of the dialogue
so no, not really
winter yew
dreams were the worst part
biggest waste of time ever
did they really have to make me walk around to see the same thing three times
coarse swift
Starting to sound less and less like you were just being edgy at first.
winter yew
i wasn't being edgy i genuinely don't like the game
daring spear
that's fair
I liked it, but I've always enjoyed games like it. I can see how it wouldn't appeal to some
winter yew
maybe if it didn't become a chore to read dialogue after a couple hours it would be enjoyable for me
daring spear
so was the main issue with it the dialogue for you then? was it at least semi-enjoyable otherwise?
daring spear
I didn't like the dreams much either
winter yew
i understand the dreams are important for the story but god they're annoying
daring spear
I spent an unnecessary amount of time going back and forth in at least one of them
winter yew
the dialogue near the end is what bugged me really
i don't really care about it beforehand
mae just started talking like an incoherent baby
I made a fighting arena in fallout 4
and i couldn't do anything about it
besides sit through boring and generic dialogue
daring spear
yeah...
oh that's cool Smil
winter yew
Sorry I interrupted
do you have the fallout 4 creation club mod
where you get to do waves of enemies
Unfortunately no
But if I wanna do that I can use the cages to some degree
i mean i guess you can only do that at the fort
i think
i don't own the mod and i haven't played f4 in years so i wouldn't know
But yeah, I've been making Starlight Drive In into a small city
It has housing, plenty of food, entertainment, and a fucking colloseum
starlight drive is a good build location after you clear it out
i bought fo4 for my pc and spent hours getting mods for it
then i just never played it
Yeah, I've been planning on reworking some of the buildings
So that they are larger
And, yeah, ik the mod feeling
i finished the game on my xbox
way before i got it for my pc
I'm probably going to finish it on this playthrough
But I spend tons of time on settlements
Except that first one that Preston makes you help
That settlement is shit
sanctuary?
or
one of the side quests
ah wait
nevermind
Yeah
Sanctuary I've mostly ignored
I just occasionally harvest recourses from it
you can make sanctuary into something pretty cool
Yeah, but i just don't like the place
fair i guess
I've been thinking of moving its settlers into Starlight
Would be pretty useful
And would give me an actual reason to start building tall ass buildings
I have a bunch of cabins and a two story barracks
i don't remember vanilla building being too amazing
mods is what really made it great
coarse swift
Yea thats a good place
winter yew
is there a build limit on pc?
charred badge
teehee animal crossing references
winter yew
Make larger buildings, make a market area, maybe rework the colloseum
coarse swift
Mods can remove build limit on PC
winter yew
is there a build limit on pc?
Yeah but I modded it out
money rock sounds like something illegal
charred badge
Hey it's better than milk
winter yew
Yeah I plan on making steel towers and shit
coarse swift
Oh also