other-games

[finite hazel]

@crystal gyro Bastion's OST is awesome. iirc, made by a single person.

[fleet moat]

NATE

[acoustic solar]

ETAN

That same person does all the soundtracks for their games

Darren Korb

[rigid haven]

HELL YEAH DARREN KORB

With vocals by Ashley Barrett

[acoustic solar]

Their newest game, Hades, has an amazing soundtrack too

[rigid haven]

EVERY game's soundtrack is so good but I think one of my favourites is probably among the vocal tracks in Pyre

Duet time baby

I know Bastion has a duet too but fucking Pyre man

[acoustic solar]

I didnt play pyre. Only Bastion and Hades

[rigid haven]

W

Damn dude go play Transistor at least

Pyre is one of the weakest games but still VERY good

[acoustic solar]

Too busy with other games atm

[rigid haven]

And Transistor is my favourite even with the release of Hades

[acoustic solar]

Hades is just such a complete game

[rigid haven]

It's VERY GOOD for a roguelite yeah

Not saying they're usually bad, just that the amount of content in it is outstanding

[austere lance]

Control on Game Pass? 👀
https://twitter.com/XboxGamePass/status/1333093364976128002?s=19

Xbox Game Pass (@XboxGamePass)

Honestly we have no idea what gif or sinister red light Melissa is referring to

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[loud slate]

I actually do competitive archery a lot like in that picture. that has never been a temptation of mine

jump ranges in NMS are way better than this

and that's a decently good range pictured there

[austere lance]

Lol

Your helicopter isn't zebra striped, 2/10

[austere lance]

Alright lads, time to try my first Hitman game since Absolution

Hitman 2

[winter yew]

An irish wolfhound

[cinder vessel]

taalll

[austere lance]

Hitman 2 is goofy fun, I'm surprised 😆

God damn they put a ridiculous amount of ways to kill targets in each mission too

[silver sparrow]

omg top 5 game for me @austere lance

replay value is off the chain

[austere lance]

The only Hitman games I've tried were like two hours of Absolution (fuckin snooze-fest game) and the first mission of Blood Money, which was......dated. This is damn good so far tho, I did the first beach mission then found out there's an actual tutorial so I'm doing that rn 😆

[silver sparrow]

i got the "2016" version and the expansion so i have played every level multiple times

h3 has a tokyo yakuza-type level i'm pretty sure

[cinder vessel]

seeing it on sale has tempted me from time to time but then i check and find it's still always online so just smh

[austere lance]

You can play offline, at least on console

Oof, apparently you can't unlock any equipment offline tho. Gotta unlock equipment online then you can use it offline

[daring spear]

and achievements and leaderboards and all that need internet too (I just looked to be helpful)

maybe not achievements everywhere but Idk
I only glanced at it

[austere lance]

Oof

[cinder vessel]

yeah, i get the occasional connection for leaderboards, the rest is just overkill 😔

[austere lance]

Apparently IO did this as a lazy DRM idea

[cinder vessel]

Huh...Among Us but 3D & with shapeshifter? lol
https://store.steampowered.com/app/408900/Unfortunate_Spacemen/

Steam

Unfortunate Spacemen

Unfortunate Spacemen is a multiplayer game about space-based murder in space! Spacemen work diligently to be rescued from their failing outpost, but not everyone is who they claim to be... Death is part of life in space, and you're no exception to the rule. Paranoia runs rampant.Shapeshifter Mode: Survive, hunt, or complete randomized objective...

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[stray fractal]

I just got elite

[stray fractal]

yo wtf

it says i need to buy the game

i already did

nvm

[ripe frost]

Anyone who doesn't like The Stick of Truth has the Stick up their ass 😛

[shadow tartan]

https://youtu.be/0p8oeiVDcx4

[charred badge]

@austere lance inb4modfix

I was going to make another series restart joke about hitman 2, but eh. It's been beaten to death.

[austere lance]

@charred badge There's already mods that let you do stuff offline, LMAO

[charred badge]

Lmao

Yet another case of devs putting in DRM/Control features that only hinder normal players

[austere lance]

I'm committing a sin against myself, I'm downloading Warframe and Mass Effect Andromeda 🤣

[charred badge]

Nice

Andromeda isn't that bad anymore

[austere lance]

I tried it last year and 😴

[charred badge]

I mean, it's Mass effect without the universal threat

[austere lance]

Or good characters, lol

[cinder vessel]

The Void is a captivating game...Even if I still can't figure out how to make it past the first few hours, lol

At least, not consistently

Most of the time it's sort of like a Don't Starve situation, where you die of hunger, sorta, but this last death...I'm not sure what happened.

I had enough "food" and there was none of the usual warning of almost running out...

[cinder vessel]

i should play sproggiwood

name alone demands it tbh

[proper silo]

I made my boyfriend mad at me on for honor 🥺 ...

[compact sluice]

Im not good enough to get mad in this game ^^

[shadow tartan]

https://youtu.be/Tm4Lt17hAbE

[winter yew]

Ugh it’s 23°F outside right now

[charred badge]

nice, they dropped a launch trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXCt6oXlKuI

@cinder vessel looks almost like there's an emotion need as well as food, based on the text

[sleek cloud]

10 days until Cyberpunk !! (if it's not delayed again)

[fleet moat]

Omg, Soul!!! I just came across this tweet thread by Daniel Pemberton, who did the Spider-Man (Spider-Verse) film soundtrack, where he demonstrates the work he did with the elephant sound for that track I can't get enough of (The Prowler). Seriously, that film's so f'n amazing at so many levels. https://twitter.com/danielpemberton/status/1075816351611142144?s=21

Daniel Pemberton (@DANIELPEMBERTON)

1. OK..<EPIC THREAD> on making the Prowler 'Elephant' noise for #Spiderverse and other ELECTRONIC NOISES. I did some sessions with a good friend of mine Brian Dougans who has an amazing collection of electronic gear. You might recognise this sound... https://t.co/TIcu8pXXCZ

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Twitter · Dec 20, 2018, 6:13 PM

[acoustic solar]

I'm playing Osu for the first time in almost 5 months. my stamina oof

[glass plinth]

Osu?

[raven frost]

it's a rhythm game I think? not entirely but something along those lines

very, very popular in certain circles

[hoary crescent]

yeah when i was looking for wacom tablet's there's a couple marketed specifically to Osu players

[glass plinth]

Hrmm, with this new apartment Im checking out, I wonder how my internet will be.

This place Ive been had decent wifi

Great download, horrible latency

I never appreciated latency since most of my apartment life I was on a main trunk hub for the cable, so like 10ms

Out where I live now, it was like 98ms with wifi

[fleet moat]

Heads up these Black Friday GTA sales end tonight 👀 I finally got my Stromberg

[glass plinth]

I wonder how permanent cars are in Cyberpunk

hehe

Man, from what I saw of cars, soooo nice

The interiors are some of the best ive seen in a game

[keen dome]

I can't wait, like I'm skeptical of day 1 release but I think I will

Best not get burned like on fucking Avengers

[glass plinth]

You can almost bet itll have bugs

Still, since it can be played offline on gog, I suspect some issues may no be as prevalent with online all the times of its sort

[austere lance]

They admitted they'll have to do a day one patch that adds missing dialogue, lol

[fleet moat]

Just finished watching Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse a second time. So f'n good. So f'n good.

[charred badge]

Osu? It's an open source music rythm game

[acoustic solar]

indeed

I've been playing it off and on since I think 2015

yep june 2015

[charred badge]

infinite content is tough to beat for a genre like that

[subtle spade]

sigh left Halo MCC to download overnight, since its like 116GB and it stopped after 12GB's 😤 was so looking forward to playing H2 Anni

also what in the eff did Activision do to Modern Warfare for it to not fit on a 250GB SSD when the Halo MCC consists of 6 games and is half the size

[winter yew]

Does anyone here know if the Share button on the new Series X controllers has any function with Windows 10?

[subtle spade]

i dont see why it wouldnt retain its function, press for screenshot and hold for capture

since Win10 has the xbox game bar feature which can capture etc so it might just hotlink the button

[winter yew]

I’m thinking about grabbing one

[winter yew]

yo

cyberpunk

had it's relase dleyaed 1 month

not at all like no mans ksy

it's not a buggy glitch mess

on realse

not at all like the witcher 3

everyone

DON"T BUY THE GAME UNTIL SOME REVEIWS COME OUT

[winter yew]

Hahahaha, this isn't #401847751249362945

[winter yew]

Well if nobody buys the game how are there gonna be any reviews

true

But what I'm saying

is wait until some gameplay is avaible

because it's a little sus no early acces reveiw copies

[wet warren]

Probably because the devs are making those with review copies wait until they give the ok to share footage

[crisp sparrow]

its on embargo, didnt they already say there will be a day one patch? there might be some issues with the game currently which might show up on footage and people will think this is the final product

[acoustic solar]

NMS pre release was a mess tbh

That was with a much smaller team than the one that is working on CP2077

[austere lance]

Cyberpunk is gonna be so broken that they admitted they're gonna have to add missing dialogue with a day one patch, lol

[raven frost]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO https://www.polygon.com/2020/11/30/21726495/microsoft-flight-simulator-vr-launch-date-price

[silver sparrow]

2077: when your gold release is really just nickel plating

[winter yew]

Android

Doom eternal on android

Oh I see the tiny platform tags on each game lol

[acoustic solar]

Rage 2 and Control on Android

[winter yew]

It was just kinda funny cuz it seemed like it was saying all of them were lol

[austere lance]

Ones labeled Android just mean you'll be able to stream them to your phone, lol

This a good month for Game Pass, I've been waiting to try Mind Control Delete and Greedfall

And Monster Sanctuary looks like a 2D Pokémon with platforming, so I'm defo gonna check it out

[rigid haven]

YOOOOOOOOO VA-11 HALL-A

[acoustic solar]

Game pass is really nice

[little harbor]

Indeed

On pc it's a little wonky but it's still nice

[stray fractal]

I wish i had android, apple is stingy so game pass isnt allowed

[glass plinth]

Hrmm, since my phone can run genshin, a gamepass sounds ideal

Albeit, I feel maybe Genshin will be the only game I put on this cell as good as it is

[austere lance]

Game Pass streams games to your phone, btw

[glass plinth]

Im aware

Oh, I see, no install, well besides that, I wouldnt play much else anyways

[austere lance]

Been replaying Super Hot in preparation for Mind Control Delete 😆

[lavish obsidian]

frame interpolated one of the classics

[bronze wind]

it is somehow more cursed

[wet warren]

Beautiful. The eyebrows raising and the eyes rolling was a nice touch lol

[winter yew]

oh my god

[charred badge]

@winter yew from what I've heard, it operates the m$ gamebar

[cinder vessel]

you know what's up

[rigid haven]

HELL YEAH

Also it seems as though N1RV-ANNA has been delayed indefinitely

Ono

http://sukeban.moe/index.php/2020/12/01/nirvana-delay-en/

[cinder vessel]

i should try that quantum protocol game i retweeted a century ago

looks really slick but had work

[long mural]

So, I have now completed Bioshock Infinite for the very first time, and what a ride that was.

[charred badge]

that's kinda the problem fans of previous games disliked

[cinder vessel]

wut

[austere lance]

Already hit a non-fixable bug in my newest attempt at ME Andromeda, good to see some things never change

[fleet moat]

Uh oh. Non-fixable?

[cerulean oxide]

Is that call me maybe with NMS ost mixed in

[charred badge]

@cinder vessel Bioshock Infinite shifted to a theme park shooter from the rpg shooter of previous games

[lavish obsidian]

@cerulean oxide yup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhrHEUSe2mE

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHfs98k86EA

Cyberpunk is taking all of the best features from other games with photomode and combining them

[crisp sparrow]

so many games are doing photo mode now

good trend

[silver garnet]

I love that. That is indeed a classic

[austere lance]

I think my main issue with ME Andromeda is that it has a damn good premise and decent gameplay, it's just that Bioware sacrificed literally everything else to pull that off. Plus it's buggy hell, lol

[fleet moat]

Has anyone watched this ad? 😂 Ryan Reynolds / MaximumEffort's pretty friggin awesome. https://twitter.com/vancityreynolds/status/1334134478042587137?s=21

Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds)

A match made in hell is still a @match. Latest work from @MaximumEffort #2020LoveStory https://t.co/kGL02PIqin

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Twitter · Dec 2, 2020, 1:57 PM

@austere lance You may appreciate this

[austere lance]

LMFAOOOOOO

[glass plinth]

PHOTOMOOOOODE!

I love photo modes so much as a game photographer for Kerbals

Hoping kerbals 2 is more robust

I get the feeling it will be.

Not surprised Cyberpunk will have it since its such a interesting game to take shots of.

[crisp sparrow]

Damn they got no chill

[bronze wind]

very "rebellious cyberpunk aesthetic" of them

[thorn dawn]

inb4 no streaming cause it's a steaming pile of bugs still

[bronze wind]

"we kindly ask that you wait a week for patch 1.01 or we will kindly take down the video"

[raven frost]

you know asking for it's only gonna make more people stream it

[bronze wind]

asking for what

[raven frost]

not to stream/upload videos of cp2077 before then

[bronze wind]

if you mean asking people not to stream i don't think creators that got early codes to the game are going to ruin their rep with the company by streaming it early especially if the content is just going to be taken down right away

it's obviously gonna happen to some small degree but it's not like anyone cares about being rebellious and streaming it on any platform that will gain traction lol

[raven frost]

weren't there a bunch of people that managed to get their hands on it?

[bronze wind]

early ps4 copies i believe

[raven frost]

ah

[bronze wind]

there was so footage they released i think and it got nuked

then shortly after they released the official ps4 gameplay trailer lol

[raven frost]

yikes

[bronze wind]

They're doing it under the cover of "spoiler prevention" but it's not like people couldn't just share details like people do with every significant movie release

Like I get not wanting to be spoiled but other games have at least done a rolling embargo type thing where story content coverage is blocked until release but mechanics and polish type stuff can be discussed beforehand

I think I heard the review embargo lifts Dec 7th so maybe that type of info will be embedded in those, hopefully

[charred badge]

Video of bugs is worth a thousand pictures

[bronze wind]

One could argue a video of bugs is a form of a thousand pictures

[winter yew]

Ffs.

Playing AC Wild World, right.

Finally got some foreign fruit, aka I think all foreign fruit. Pears, cherries, oranges, peaches, native was apple, even found a coconut on the beach.

Problem being, I think 2 saplings aren't too happy with their placement, they look like they're dying, and I'm just here like:

https://i.imgflip.com/1gpe52.jpg

At least coconut's nice and healthy. I think. It doesn't look like it's about to fall over.

[austere lance]

Oh shit, Dauntless got a complete rework

[charred badge]

again?

RIP progress again

[austere lance]

Now it has 18 large islands you can free-roam and explore (and hunt Behomoths, obviously)

They reworked progression completely too. They basically remade the entire game, lol

https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/2/21726881/dauntless-reforged-phoenix-labs-free-update-details

[charred badge]

In other words "Start over take 10!"

Every time I go back to the game I my progress wiped

It's a real turnoff

[austere lance]

I've never lost progress

[charred badge]

Been playing from the start?

They've reworked progression several times

[austere lance]

I played it two different times a year apart (apparently there was at least one update in that time) and lost nothing

Anywho, the rework doesn't mention restarting everyone

@charred badge
https://playdauntless.com/news/slayers-path-progression/

[austere lance]

I think it's time for me to die, I'm trying to work and this fuckin song is stuck in my head driving me mad
https://youtu.be/9szNGXja85M

@fleet moat save me 😭

[charred badge]

Trying to work
https://youtu.be/PjtwNeX5wRA

[hidden glacier]

Hey guys

Does anyone play hearts of iron IV

[charred badge]

Someone probably does!

[charred badge]

There are currently 14,849 people playing it on steam.
https://steamdb.info/app/394360/graphs/

[hidden glacier]

:/

[charred badge]

👨

[hidden glacier]

I want someone to teach me how to play it

[charred badge]

Ah, well you need to know whether someone here plays it

[hidden glacier]

Ok smartass

lol

[charred badge]

Sadly I have no idea

Dangerous, "any" is

Can I play Switzerland and use the most aggressive camping strategy in recent history?

[austere lance]

Doesn't Hearts of Iron have mechs

[charred badge]

Can I play the Australian troops and constantly stress over logistics and local relations in New Guinea?

...I'd actually be interested in a game set there

[hidden glacier]

@charred badge You can pretty much do whatever

I played USSR and turned the USA into the CSA

Communist States of America

[long mural]

And now that’s the Burial at Sea content of Bioshock Infinite completed

[charred badge]

Obviously you can play as one of the big powers

I'm just curious what the support is for the little guys in unusual places

[golden gull]

https://youtu.be/JQWRAEVPVcc You ever hate someone so much, ||you turn the moon into a laser and nuke the planet||?

[coarse swift]

https://aida-enna.github.io/etoile/

I love the preview for this

[winter yew]

So, aparently BestBuy shipped CP2077 to people and they are already downloading the day 1 patch

https://twitter.com/GameLeaksRumors/status/1334219584543608834

Gaming Leaks & Rumors (@GameLeaksRumors)

#Cyberpunk2077 Collector's Edition for the PS4 has arrived to a fan's home and says day one patch is 56GB.

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Twitter · Dec 2, 2020, 7:35 PM

[full pivot]

Might as well have it digital then

[winter yew]

Given the earlier tweet from CDPR about not streaming / spoiling the game, feels like it ain't a coincidence

[full pivot]

Its not like on steam you'll download the game and then the patch

[winter yew]

Wouldn't steam / gog repo get updated with that patch and then rolled out?

[full pivot]

Yeah it'll only matter for physical copies

All it means is that its "done" I guess

I still feel like its gonna bomb

Gamers are pissy that it got delayed so it had to ship perfect and be the most amazing game ever made; since that's impossible its doomed

I guess I get to make my cyberpunk waifu after all tho

[fleet moat]

Cyberpunk waifu? 👀

[full pivot]

Yeah my character haha

It has a photo mode! XD

[fleet moat]

You said "after all." I guess that's the part that's throwing me off.

[full pivot]

Well the game didn't vaporware

[fleet moat]

As in you didn't expect the game to come out?

[full pivot]

It was possible

[fleet moat]

Interesting.

Also, those copies weren't meant to be sent out early.

Best Buy f'ed up.

[full pivot]

Yeah but they can't ship a copy if it ain't done

Idk how much I believe they really fuck up

Because it seems to always happen

[fleet moat]

It was done before the last delay though, on PC.

The issue was consoles.

They def clarified that in an interview back when the delay happened.

[full pivot]

Well I havent paid any attention to the dev cycle outside the stuff I see here

I didn't care that it was delayed

[fleet moat]

And the issue on consoles didn't surprise me as they were needing to support the new gen consoles that were coming out.

[full pivot]

I already know it'll be impossible for it to not be spoiled like crazy by the time I play it too

[fleet moat]

Yeah. I'm actually one to not be bothered about most spoilers tbh.

[full pivot]

Every NMS update has been

I cant be there when a thing comes out and I can't download it fast enough even if i could be there

[fleet moat]

I still enjoy most games the same, regardless of how much I know about them.

[full pivot]

I also ignore all opinions on it until I play but it gets exhausting hearing a bunch of complaints

[fleet moat]

I'm sure there'll be a lot of ppl bitching about the issues in the game that imho are to be expected since it's a brand new game. Fans will always assume things and when assumptions don't meet the real world criteria, they're bound to complain.

I'll still enjoy the game. Cuz I've learned it's best to have low expectations.

[full pivot]

I just wanna make a cool looking chick and do my photomode thing

[fleet moat]

Same. Re: making an awesome character. Psyched about that.

That's one thing I most enjoy in GTA Online tbh. Character customization.

I wish Destiny allowed us to go back and edit our existing characters. So dumb they don't.

[full pivot]

I don't even remember what I look like xD

[fleet moat]

Btw, my emojo powers are gone 😭 I must now resort to describing textually my typical emojo reactions. Which means more Xp. So silver-lining. *insert side eye monkey emoji*

[full pivot]

Well that sucks I enjoyed all the reactions

They have personality

Ill just get you nitro for Xmas easy haha

[fleet moat]

100%! I agree emojos add a lot of personality to text!

[fleet moat]

Whaaaa? I'm very very grateful. But I do want you to spend your money on something wonderful for yourself. 😘♥️ *insert emoji blob*

[full pivot]

I already have haha

[fleet moat]

Omg Thena!!!!!!

You gonna make me all teary eyed! Agh!!!

[full pivot]

Hmm if I can figure this out lol

Mobile version

[fleet moat]

I can enjoy textual emojos for realzies. *insert rave dancing emojo*

Like OMG!!! Am I weird for saying this is the best Christmas present ever? @full pivot

[full pivot]

Nah you're fine but I'm sure you've gotten cooler stuff

The other cool thing about CP2077 coming out this month is I can play it on my break

I cannot focus on only one game that's for sure haha

Finding hard drive space might be an issue

[fleet moat]

Well, what's funny is. I haven't celebrated Christmas since I was a kid. So Christmas gifts have been rather rare. Which is fine by me. But yeah, this is at least one of the best Christmas gift of all time. Cuz I love emojis. And I dunno. It's NMS Discord. Hullo! I'm just gonna make the most out of my emojos this month! That's for sure!!!

[full pivot]

Installing D2 took a lot

Well I'm glad then I prefer gift giving to getting stuff; I like making people happy I guess

[fleet moat]

Thank you sooooo much for my lovely Christmas gift! You made my morning and day and week and month!

I went back and retroactively emoji'ed earlier posts!

[full pivot]

Haha nice

Ive been suddenly wanting to go back and start shadow of the tomb raider again; mostly cuz I forgot where I was

Unpopular opinion: I really enjoyed the new series

[fleet moat]

So cool you downloaded Destiny btw! You created an old character before, right? Or will you create a new one? Cuz they supposedly improved character customization with the latest DLC. But no clue what the improvements are.

[fleet moat]

Unpopular for real? 🥺 I enjoyed the new series too. Well, the little bit I got to play of two of the games?

[full pivot]

Oh yeah I had an old character

[fleet moat]

You'll have to post screenshots! Of the character you create or your old one

[full pivot]

Well people claimed Lara had no personality beyond the first one but I dont really think personal struggles fit into the others cuz the first one was about her becoming the tomb raider essentially

I can do that!

Idk all about shadow ofc

[fleet moat]

My favorite Destiny look (character-wise) is the Female Human Hunter. Awokens are my other favorite and I left that for the Warlock. And left Male for Titan, cuz Titans look very bulky, so a dude seems more fitting 🤷🏻‍♀️

[fleet moat]

Interesting, the takes on personality.

[full pivot]

I just didnt appreciate the notion that she had to be weak in order to show personality in every game

[fleet moat]

Yeah, 3rd person view would be nice. Can only do it with sword equipped

[full pivot]

But I could go on a big rant about this stuff haha

[fleet moat]

Wait. So people want Lara to show weakness?

[full pivot]

She doesn't need a soft side 🤷‍♀️

Shepard didn't have a soft side

[fleet moat]

So weird about the expectation of "showing weakness" in order to prove character. Sounds a little biased, re: expectations as a female character.

[full pivot]

Yeah that's what I was getting at

I just didnt really wanna push that conversation cuz it can get heated

Ive always wanted her to be cool first and foremost and she is cool in the new games imo

[fleet moat]

I'm watching the latest season of The Crown where Margaret Thatcher is depicted as "the iron lady." And holy fuck, that woman was tough as fuck. Like to an unhealthy extreme. But it comes to show you, not all women are created equal. And a character in a video game can be shown the same way.

[full pivot]

I'm weird ive always wanted my own Han Solo type person; not a ton there but "cool" haha

I always liked Starbuck cuz she was hardcore haha

Eh never was into starfox

I didn't grow up with consoles

I guess the thought process came up to me when someone said "if you think about it if you made The Mandalorian cast 90% female most people are just gonna think its weird and why is that"

[fleet moat]

I don't follow.

Like why would it be weird? There was a female Mandalorian, no?

[full pivot]

I mean dont you think people would complain?

[fleet moat]

I don't know. It depends on how the production is done tbh.

[full pivot]

I guess its hard to know without a parallel universe machine

I wish there was a way to test stuff like that

[fleet moat]

I guess films like Ghost Busters and Oceans 8 (where they tried the all female cast route) didn't help the cause. But I blame the specific productions sucking. Not because they were all female casts.

[full pivot]

Frankly though Nathan Drake never came across to me as having much personality but it wasn't really complained about in the same way (very similar to Tomb Raider)

[fleet moat]

True.

I think it depends on who you listen to, regarding the complaints.

[full pivot]

I guess

Just feels like I hear a lot of that I guess; my area does kinda suck for attitudes like that tho

[fleet moat]

There are always gonna be multiple groups of "fans." And some groups will always have biased views that make no sense to me. But that's why I try to listen to a variety of reviews, both positive and negative, to get a better picture.

I even do that with films.

It's easy to pick up on the writing of the reviews on who is using logic in their interpretation, vs who's just not educated / experienced enough on the matter. And I can more easily gauge where my expectations should be.

I do that with films / tv shows especially. But I think I learned the process since reading Amazon reviews about all sorts of products. You can pick up on language to tell which reviews are actually reliable. Even if they're the fewer of the bunch

[winter yew]

God fkn dammit.

There goes orange and cherry I think. Fucking bullshit rng, MY FAVOURITE.

Seriously, had all orchard planned out, but what do you know.

[full pivot]

Yeah I know I was just mostly thinking out loud; I think there's a lot more positive change lately in games and shows

[winter yew]

I've spent some time on google and apparently I hit fucking so called "dead spot" meaning trees will die in that spot no matter if it's perfect for them or not.

And what this stupid ass me decided to plant in that dead spot? His only copy of so called foreign fruit.

AC: Wild World, animal crossing that is.

[dry copper]

Assassins Creed: Animal Crossing
...That's dark.

[silver sparrow]

ME:A is on sale for ps4 but i couldn't pull the trigger

[full pivot]

I'm gonna go through it this time if I make it back thru 2 and 3 at some point

[winter yew]

Had fun with Andromeda personally.

In fact I really liked it, but I like these types of games so.

[silver sparrow]

i should watch some gameplay, the trailer was not useful

[charred badge]

I liked the scan visor

[fleet moat]

Remember the Match ad created by Ryan Reynolds' Maximum Effort? There's a continuation he just posted 😂 @austere lance https://twitter.com/vancityreynolds/status/1334497160168046592?s=21

Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds)

Love is blind. Love is patient. @maximumeffort @match https://t.co/Ruy4wouFoM

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[charred badge]

And tbh I like the "colonization effort" storyline better than "tHe rEaPERs"

[willow crypt]

i enjoyed a lot of Mass Effect Andromeda but the gameplay and mission structure started to become repetitive

haven’t finished it

[silver sparrow]

hm hm thanks for the infos

[charred badge]

@fleet moat reminds me of https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-life-is-a-journey-time-is-a-river-the-door-is-ajar-jim-butcher-37-13-25.jpg

Jim's such a good author

You know how GRRM likes to torture readers by making bad things happen to characters?

Jim makes you like them too

[fleet moat]

That's pretty funny tbh.

Especially if it's a pattern.

[wet warren]

Oh boy I’m really becoming attached to this character. I sure do hope nothing bad happens to them...

[full pivot]

XCOM in a nutshell

[balmy plaza]

Xcom still gives me flashbacks lol

Still one of my favourite games though

[full pivot]

I should honestly do another modded XCOM2 run

[balmy plaza]

The mod support is amazing

[full pivot]

The game was developed with modding support in mind yeah

They let the Long War folks from XCOM:EW work early on stuff for it too haha

Its one of 2 recent games that was specifically developed for PC that I know of

The other being ARMA 3

[balmy plaza]

Maybe kerbal space program too

But that's not really recent anymore

[full pivot]

Oh good point

Its about the same time frame

[austere lance]

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2020/12/no_cyberpunk_2077_does_not_have_a_56gb_day_one_patch_on_ps4_ps5

Damn, I wanted a good laugh 😆

[winter yew]

It'll arrive on day two.

[full pivot]

At least the ps5 will have another game lol

[austere lance]

It's a good game about humanity and allied alien species discovering a new frontier, it's a shit Mass Effect game though. Barely has anything to do with the others, it's basically a spin-off

[silver sparrow]

hm

[bronze wind]

I played it for a bit and it was very nice, hadn't played any other ME games for a while so wasn't really looking at it thru that lens

combat is probably the best thing about it honestly, the combat is so smooth and satisfying

[silver sparrow]

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/2/22057936/supergiant-games-10th-anniversary-vinyl-hades-bastion-pyre-transistor

i don't know these people, just posting

@bronze wind i heard combat was good from another review as well

[austere lance]

I found the fish-monkey people in Andromeda, lol

[austere lance]

Bruh this game already gave me a dialogue option for trying to get into the fish-monkey's pants, at least that part of Mass Effect didn't change

[silver sparrow]

Prompt: Would you like to further diversify the inter-species diversity on this planet? Y/N

[fleet moat]

Starting Warframe really quick to confirm a promo thing I got. And I love the music in this game so much.

I'd forgotten how much I enjoy the music in it. Sigh. And it's just the loading screen.

[austere lance]

Cyberpunk is cursed

[wide kestrel]

wtf

is it gonna be M rated or X rated?

[austere lance]

LOL

[keen dome]

https://tenor.com/view/thriller-michael-jackson-eating-popcorn-watching-gif-5577709

[raven frost]

I FUCKING CALLED IT

HANG ON

[keen dome]

Ed--Edward?

[bronze wind]

imagine working 100 hours a week to model several penis models of various lengths and pubic hair arrangements

[keen dome]

Sounds like fun XD

[bronze wind]

yes definitely better than personal life

[raven frost]

"look all I'm saying is cock implants are probably normal in the cp2077 universe"

Computerman, August 23, 2020

CALLED

IT

[bronze wind]

hadn't they already announced genital customization by then

[raven frost]

idk

[bronze wind]

it was a big thing for a bit along with the non binary stuff

i dont understand why there are customization options this deep for a first person game at all

maybe some cutscenes or something but just seems like a lot lol

[winter yew]

Even intercourse cutscenes are supposed to be in first person. I think it's one of those things that people caught from E3 that they couldn't really back down from, so it stayed.

Unlike third person, parkour, normal cutscenes...

[keen dome]

game is gunna be good

[bronze wind]

it'll be something

can't say it'll be improved by cock customization though

i doubt toph would be pleased by it either considering she's like 12

[balmy plaza]

You can turn nudity off

But 12 is way too young for the game

[full pivot]

i just want the cyberpunk style like the hair and stuff :\

[bronze wind]

i dont mind nudity i'm just talking about penis customization lol

[full pivot]

it is a bit odd and i can't wait for the first spoiler screenshot with it right in my face and then 'bUt ItS iN tHe GAmE'

[bronze wind]

Id love to see statistics among people who opt in to genital customization who also tend to make characters resemble themselves

In terms of how honest they are about the size

[thorn dawn]

I'm betting its gonna launch like arkham asylum. I do not have high hopes any more.

[full pivot]

i'll just gloss it over myself and focus on what i wanna do

[bronze wind]

I think it'll launch with a shitload of minor bugs and some breaking ones that not everyone encounters and won't be enough to stop everyone on the internet from absolutely loving it as the greatest thing mankind has ever created

[daring spear]

They're patching it like right after it launches to add missing dialogue. That's the extent of my knowledge

A week or something like that

[bronze wind]

yeah i saw something about that briefly

unfortunately i have literally zero self control and quarantine + depression will probably drive me to impulse buy the game for serotonin

[full pivot]

i already bought it cuz if nothing else it'll be fun for a while and i wanna make a cool looking chick lol

after 1000 games there's not really any "should I get this"

[bronze wind]

it's a battle between like "the company sucks" and "they're going to make millions no matter what so why not"

but at the end of the day it'll just be me sitting alone in a dark room like "it's better than starting at my screen overthinking"

[winter yew]

I'm mostly waiting for real-world reviews from real people that I know

not some blogger who is paid to say negative or positive things

[bronze wind]

I'm just gonna watch some gameplay of the product from streamers or something

I like that because they can't really control what happens or edit out

Don't really care about spoilers much at all

[winter yew]

I watched some streams of Godfall

glad I dodged that bullet lol

[bronze wind]

I actually got it because on stream it looked pretty fun

EGS has insanely good return procedures so I returned it just under 2 hours played

[winter yew]

good

at least they are willing to work with the customer

[bronze wind]

It had nice combat but just no compelling reasons to get new stuff

[austere lance]

Anthem be like

The Witcher server I'm in after I posted that Cyberpunk pic 🤣

[bronze wind]

It was worse than Anthem imo

Anthem at least had satisfying gameplay all over minus the loot system

[austere lance]

My sides are in orbit 🤣

[daring spear]

Lol

[winter yew]

I feel this on a spiritual level

[bronze wind]

👻 spirits

[daring spear]

You called

[charred badge]

Anthem also had zero reason to get loot, although nobody knew it for a while

Damage scaling was screwed up so the default gun murdered everything at high levels. Hard.

[bronze wind]

would be even better if they got a real switch but set up the light switch to connect to the outlet it was plugged into

[austere lance]

https://blog.bioware.com/2020/12/03/a-message-from-laura-miele-chief-studios-officer-electronic-arts/

Casey Hudson left Bioware 😬

[winter yew]

what the

oh damn

[glass plinth]

That seems very bad

that or they want to found their own studio

[charred badge]

I'm game for indie game Ballad

[austere lance]

You guys should see the meltdown the Anthem server is having after seeing that Casey Hudson and Mark Darrah (Dragon Age) left, lol

[glass plinth]

Never associated with that game

I can imagine if they thought they were important to the game

It would be like sean murray saying hes done with nms and leaving the studio

[raven frost]

@austere lance on a scale of 1 to 10 how bad is it for bioware that those two people left

[austere lance]

You mean the two people who have literally kept Bioware alive for the last 15 years? Gee, I wonder 😬 @raven frost

[raven frost]

ah, that bad

[austere lance]

Casey is the reason Mass Effect became one of the biggest trilogies of all time, not to mention his work on Knights of the Old Republic. Mark Darrah is why Dragon Age friggin exists.

[raven frost]

hm.

[thorn dawn]

both? together?

sounds like there's more to it

[daring spear]

Isn't there always more to it

[charred badge]

Keep an eye out for a new indie, robothere

[silver sparrow]

warner brothers is moving its 2021 slate to hbo

including dune

dooooooooon

fear is the marm killer

[dry copper]

This short film has been nominated for an Oscar after it's release at the Toronto Film Festival

https://vimeo.com/482032869

[austere lance]

Now they're answering the important questions

[daring spear]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqGke_9lmk today's repeat song

[cinder vessel]

wait they left again?

[austere lance]

They left for good, lol

[cinder vessel]

rip

[austere lance]

Casey and Mark both leaving is 😬

Also, I've established that Andromeda is decent. When it works, lol

[charred badge]

Yup

[austere lance]

Honestly from what you said earlier I think you'd like it more than the original trilogy. I've spent way more talking talking to people and exploring than I have shooting stuff

[charred badge]

Which it does a lot better than at launch

[cinder vessel]

90% of games when reviewed: "they're decent, when they work"

[charred badge]

I do. The original trilogy is just .. "Rah I'm roidman beware the reapers. We gotta fight the reapers. If I do this quest, will you fight the reapers?"

[austere lance]

It technically works, it's just that enemies are a bit brain-dead and kinda just stand there while you shoot them sometimes 😆

@cinder vessel Seriously though, there's a lot more character-building in it. I've spent hours just talking to people and doing diplomatic stuff. Or acting like a private investigator and solving things, lol

[cinder vessel]

@charred badge Roidman Reaper Rampage

[charred badge]

I hated that with all the "choice" the game pushes, the main character's personality is pretty set

He's either angry/reckless action hero man, or reasonable angry action hero man

[austere lance]

They also made relationships more believable than they were in the original trilogy, which I wasn't expecting

[charred badge]

I think that's why everyone preferred female? I think the VA was more nuanced

Or booty, idk

[austere lance]

Pretty sure we've all seen the memes of Shepard banging literally everything in sight, lol. That's not really a thing in Andromeda

[charred badge]

I much prefer "hey I'm the colony fixer. What do you need?" Storylines

[cinder vessel]

both probably

[charred badge]

I'm not terribly far in. I just finished my first colony quest and decided what it should be iirc

[austere lance]

Honestly in the 15 hours or so I've gotten into my current playthrough I've spent waaaaay more time exploring and actually talking to characters instead of shooting stuff

[charred badge]

The mako is nice

[cinder vessel]

although in my case, it felt impossible to make an even mildly appealing looking male character in ME

[charred badge]

I tried to make my andromeda character look like Rick Hunter

[austere lance]

Fun fact: In Andromeda if you fuck up character creation you can remake yourself in your ship

[charred badge]

Lol

[austere lance]

@charred badge I made my guy look like a young Agent 47 🤣

[charred badge]

Pft

[austere lance]

The irony is I'm very friendly in the game, lol

Got a Hitman body but a pacifist soul

I keep wandering around the Nexus helping people with random stuff and finding more people to help

[austere lance]

I'm 15+ hours in and don't have a second colony, keep getting distracted and doing side stuff 😆

[charred badge]

Rick https://giantbomb1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_small/0/1870/376967-rickhunter2.jpg

[lavish obsidian]

boy sean really is expanding the nms merch store

[charred badge]

Oh god why. I had successfully forgotten that stupid thing

[austere lance]

I'm downloading this tonight, lol
https://youtu.be/8s26rpR3nWg

[winter yew]

if I install a game on the xbox app on pc and i pause the download and put my pc to sleep will i have to worry about restarting the download when i wake it up or can i just finish from where i left off

[keen dome]

It should finish where you leave off but I cannot guarantee it

[full pivot]

Lovely cover https://youtu.be/xYnX_xgHUYk

[daring spear]

Man... I keep forgetting to play Bugsnax and just playing Minecraft lately

[wet warren]

Also a great choice

[winter yew]

My brain when I’m trying to sleep https://youtu.be/bIIFmhtceDA

[dry copper]

That's my brain studying for exams

[charred badge]

@winter yew yes, as long as it doesn't bug out

[balmy plaza]

This week's mando got spoked for me

AARGH

[thin mirage]

best rhythm game I've ever played

[winter yew]

It’s intense as hell

My favorite rhythm based games are Rez and Aaero though

[tiny otter]

That snake monster thing in the top left looks like what happens when you go out of map in a source game

[winter yew]

https://youtu.be/iMKNzcI4mg4

I’ll admit I giggled like an idiot the first time I played this level and realized they timed the spider jump to the meow sound effect

Oh man, Aaero is stupid fun.

I'm gunna check out Thumper.

[fleet moat]

I read Trumper and was confused

[fleet moat]

Hex, your new pfp, got vitiligo on its chin it looks like? 🧐

[winter yew]

Spray on beard.

[fleet moat]

Sorry for not doing mention but reply

It can be shaving cream too

Or whipped cream.

[thorn dawn]

or er

something i'm not allowed to mention on a pg-13 server

[full pivot]

[winter yew]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1251460/

Steam

Tanuki Sunset

OverviewTanuki Sunset is a third-person longboarding game where players follow Tanuki, a rad raccoon with a longboard and a dream to land on the cover of the #1 magazine in Sunset Island: FISH!Players must master longboard drifting to make their way from mountains ranges, through the city and down to the beach of Sunset Island. Throughout the jo...

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Gotta get this

[austere lance]

After 17 hours I finally have two settlements in Andromeda, LMAO 😆

This game gonna take me a while, lol

[silver sparrow]

it's on sale until the 23rd @austere lance ima see if the 2077 siren song is too strong to resist (plus real world reviews) and if so then will pick up ME:A for $9usd

[raven frost]

https://twitter.com/getgianni/status/1333911371252191232

Gianni Matragrano (@GetGianni)

Some folks requested me to dub this video. I think perhaps some of them thought this was Master Chief (I did too at first) - turns out it's actually Jorge-052. But it was such a sweet video that I wanted to try anyway.

https://t.co/ofj2ysWa6f https://t.co/0BizGMiq0R

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[rigid haven]

DUDE THIS IS REALLY GOOD IVE SEEEN IT BEFORE

GIANNI MATRAGRANO IS GEEAT

[austere lance]

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1334909174673670147

Wario64 (@Wario64)

Oscar Isaac To Star As Solid Snake In Sony’s ‘Metal Gear Solid’ Movie https://t.co/LEt48ZPl5C

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[winter yew]

anybody doing the new csgo operation

[fleet moat]

Saw the news earlier. So badass. I love that actor! Since Ex Machina

[glass plinth]

Perfect facial feature match

[austere lance]

https://youtu.be/QpxA_ZxGX_M

[charred badge]

I'm having fun with aero lately

But riding the line when it moves a bunch is ow

[winter yew]

Oh yeah that part takes some getting used to

Now follow the line when you have enemies too 😉

[balmy plaza]

Loved mando this week

[austere lance]

https://gamingbolt.com/halo-infinite-is-ready-to-go-for-spring-2021-says-master-chief-mocap-actor

https://youtu.be/Waoo7BgzYJs

Prequel to Remnant: From the Ashes

[cinder vessel]

still a coop thing?

[austere lance]

It's a port of a VR game, so no 😆

Remnant doesn't require co-op btw, it's just hard af to solo

[cinder vessel]

coercive coop gotcha

[austere lance]

Solo mode is for Souls fans, lol

Fuckin what?

[cinder vessel]

lol

[austere lance]

@cinder vessel It's pure singleplayer, apparently

[cinder vessel]

bummer about the VR version remaining exclusive to oculus bricks

[charred badge]

I love how "Will Chronos have guns like Remnant did." was answered in a roundabout way that sounds like a positive answer

[cinder vessel]

I don't believe Remnant has guns

that's a myth

like Destiny having melee

[charred badge]

As a titan player, I resemble that remark

[austere lance]

Remnant is all about guns and it's annoying, lol

Chronos is medieval tho, from the gameplay I've seen

[cinder vessel]

medieval mass eff-ohai dragon age

[austere lance]

It's just a Souls-like 😴

[charred badge]

A month before, but medieval. Time travel ahoy

[austere lance]

Remnant was "easier Dark Souls with guns", Chronos is "Dark Souls with less moodiness"

[austere lance]

https://youtu.be/_7vPNcnYWQ4

[charred badge]

Calling lawyer

[austere lance]

@charred badge He's contacted him and is gonna make an even better version before handing it over, lol

[charred badge]

Haha

[fleet moat]

Does anyone know if there are any in-game perks you get from pre-ordering a standard digital copy of Cyberpunk?

[austere lance]

Not that I've seen

[full pivot]

I don't recall anything but I could check on steam since I did pre-order

[dry copper]

Developers showed off a couple of different items from The Witcher that players will be able to get if they connect their GOG accounts to the game.

Not really a pre-order perk, but still nice

[fleet moat]

Nice! That's a nice perk for Gog players.

[dry copper]

Anyone can get it, I believe. There's some sort of link system if you want the cosmetics on the gog store.

[full pivot]

@fleet moat here's my D2 character since you asked

[fleet moat]

Omg I LOVE her, Thena!!!! She gorgeous!!

[full pivot]

thanks!

im partial to that type of hairstyle tbh

not quite brave enough to do it myself tho xD

[fleet moat]

Whaaaa? Oooh c'mon! Lol I LOVE doing drastic things with my hair.

[full pivot]

i get overly comfortable with a certain look 😭

[fleet moat]

I've had various undercuts for a while. And everytime I'd let them grow out, I'd miss it.

[full pivot]

theres a reason i stayed plain lookin for so long 😛

[fleet moat]

Now I have it all undercut around my head and chopped off a lot at the top cuz Covid has just made hair salon situation impossible. So it's much easier to maintain.

[full pivot]

that's actually good thinking tbh haha

[fleet moat]

Soooo much easier to wash, dry and style. Hardly have to do anything. I wonder how I didn't do it years ago lol But back in the day I used to be spoiled and goto a hair salon too. So I'd have a professional do the work. Now it's just easier to do it myself. And thankfully it's free. I just haven't had the guts to bleach the top myself so I can color it purple the way I want it.

[full pivot]

well I can't talk it took courage to bleach mine and go blonde and then even longer to decide to add the red to it

i do like having longer hair tho 😭

[fleet moat]

I used to like having it longer too. Cuz I twirl and braid my hair a lot. But...priorities I guess

[full pivot]

you can guess how my hairs gonna be in CP2077 now tho hahaha

[fleet moat]

Yesss! I'm so friggin excited to customize mine too! Ahhhh!!!!!!!!!

[full pivot]

i'll be sure to share my photo mode stuff 😄

[fleet moat]

This is my Hunter. Although I may have shared her before. I love her so much

[full pivot]

ayyy our hair colour matches 😄

im also a human hunter

[fleet moat]

That's what Erik said when I showed him yours. He's like, aww your Hunters are related!

[full pivot]

im gonna be lost when i try playing again haha

[fleet moat]

I should make screenshots of my Warlock. I created her back in 2014. She was my very first character in D1. And I remember making her before I got my first undercut, which I loved so much back then.

[full pivot]

you should 😛

[fleet moat]

Omg please don't hesitate to ask me ANY question! At all! Also, lmk if at first you don't have a clan, so you can get free weekly rewards just by being in the one I'm in. You can always switch to another clan later if you'd like.

[full pivot]

i'll let you know ofc! i might try playing a bit this weekend; i have a lot of games planned but there's always the chance I get lame and just lay around all day too lmao

[fleet moat]

Cool! If you dm me your Destiny username (or even Steam username), I can send you a clan invite. Or I can send you the link to the clan where you can submit a request for an invite. No pressure though, just a thought. And how the Clan rewards work is the clan completes certain weekly challenges (which mine always does), and when you visit Hawthorne (an NPC in the Tower), she gives you up to 4 engrams for various weekly challenges.

[full pivot]

well both are prolly MsAethena because im super creative (not sure on D2 username) but its for sure my Steam

at least its never taken! 😛

[fleet moat]

Ok. I see you're already part of a clan. Which seems not very active If still you play with them, no pressure to join mine. Since ours is mostly Xbox. But I sent you an invite either way, if you wanna get freebies from Hawthorne.

[full pivot]

oh! yeah someone else added me i think...? but i dont even communicate with them anymore so i'll just join yours

[thorn dawn]

The crack dealer always tempts you with freebies... 🙂

[full pivot]

its easier to tempt me with munchies

[fleet moat]

Also, sorta-sorry for our silly Clan name and abbreviation. It's an old clan. With silly boys. A couple of girls tho. Everyone in it is nice. Zero toxicity, if you were to across any of them on PC. @full pivot

[full pivot]

uh oh hahaha

its fine dude i used to play CoD

[fleet moat]

I find the name is pretty funny tbh lol The founder once asked me if I thought we should change it cuz so much has changed. But I was like, nah, it's still funny imho. Especially if you play PvP.

[full pivot]

making me wanna log on to see it xD

[winter yew]

I'm mad x( I did this weeks' ascendant challenge before grabbing the bounty but it didn't register after I did it again

[fleet moat]

That's rough!

[fleet moat]

ItBurnsWhenIPvP

[winter yew]

ah well

[full pivot]

its not that bad lmao

[fleet moat]

I wish I can help, but I'm on Xbox

[winter yew]

lol its fine

ascendant challenges are ez

its the dungeons I would need a little help on

[fleet moat]

True. Did the one in the Moon last night with a friend cuz they needed to get Xeno. And holy cow, I hadn't done that in forever. I was barely helpful lmao The rewards are all sunset, BUT what's nice about boss reward is since it's masterworked, you can dismantle it and get 6 enhancement prisms and also enhancement cores from it

[winter yew]

oh wow

i cant do stage 3 of the moon one alone

just overwhelming

[fleet moat]

I have a couple of friends who solo'ed it. But yeah, I've never even attempted solo'ing it. I always do it in a fireteam of 3.

I so wish Destiny was cross-platform, not just cross-save. So I can play with you guys

[full pivot]

yeah that would be nice

my internet is acting up atm tho

[fleet moat]

Speaking of Dungeons, I'm excited about this one coming back, since I never got around doing it when it came out. Aethena, you would prob love it cuz of the colors

The Prophecy Dungeon will be returning December 8, 2020.

• Free to all players.
• Powerful rewards may be earned from each checkpoint once per week.
• Players may complete the dungeon once per week to obtain a pinnacle-powered reward.
• Previously featured weapon and armor rewards are available once more.

[full pivot]

keep in mind im still a newbie

[fleet moat]

True. No clue what power level it'll require this season. And it does take some time leveling up.

If you do any activity at first, you can level up to what they call "soft level cap" of 1200. As a general rule, it's best to get to that level before trying to do Powerful and Pinnacle Engram rewards. You can get to 1200 even just doing lost sectors.

[charred badge]

Hmm, dauntless update seems fun

[winter yew]

I love getting honeydew error code 😦

@fleet moat I'm 1250+ whatever the season item makes me

so like 1263?

[fleet moat]

The season's max inventory power level (not based on artifact) is 1260 (which you get to from Pinnacles). For most activities I'm seeing Legend difficulty being 1250 and Master being 1280. So I assume the Dungeon could be somewhere between 1220 and 1250. Ideally, they should have a Master mode at 1280

My Hunter and Titan are at 1269 with artifact, Warlock goes up to 1268. Ooh which reminds me! I need to take screenshots for Thena!

[full pivot]

since my internet is being grumpy imma just play singleplayer stuff for now

[winter yew]

aww

my power went out yesterday for 4 hours

so i wasnt able to do anything :9

[full pivot]

gonna see how tomb raider likes kbm

[fleet moat]

Ooh funnn!

[full pivot]

i like this game type the 3rd person action stuff but i still kinda suck with a controller >_>

[fleet moat]

One major downside of a game like Destiny, is that you must have a stable internet connection

[fleet moat]

But are you required to use a controller?

Controller use does take some getting used to. At least it did for me. Hence why I very much welcomed the paddles on the Elite when it came out. Although there was a learning curve, they made FPS gameplay a lot smoother for me, without needing to try the claw method for holding the controller...which gives me carpal tunnel syndrome just imagining it 😆

[full pivot]

its not required no

obviously most of these are designed around it tho

Death Stranding gives me pause the most because the balance mechanic makes sense with the shoulder buttons and triggers

idk how they'd translate it to PC

er kmb

so acrobatics and movement im good at with a controller its aiming and shooting that im the worst at haha

and yeah im absolutely thinking about how my hands feel after controller use

and finally... here's where i also tend to shoot myself in the foot i always pick "hard mode" lmao

[fleet moat]

Young lady! Maybe that's the main "problem" 😂 You can try the easier modes as you adjust with FPS on controller I mean. It would make it easier for increasing consistency in muscle memory.

Oh and another thing to look out for, as you adjust, with controller, is changing sensitivity. It may feel slower at the beginning, but it would help build up more consistency with precision shots as you progress. And for the record, in Destiny specifically, hand cannons are def the most ideal weapons for precision shots, to get more consistency I mean. @full pivot

The benefit you have with the hand cannon mechanic, which makes it even easier on PC vs console, is that Destiny hand cannons have less of a "bloom" mechanic that make the weapon's precision a little more consistent on PC.

[full pivot]

well i mostly picked hard cuz i don't like hints

i think i was ok at D2 with kbm

[fleet moat]

Got ya. I def prefer a gradual transition when I'm learning a new mechanic (irl using a controller or in-game, etc). But everyone's different.

[full pivot]

😅 i like learning through failing a lot

like i just spent 15 minutes trying to get off a rope >_>

[fleet moat]

Sounds like @deep idol

[full pivot]

if im super unfamiliar with something i usually turn on some of the tutorial stuff; i mean i didn't with Deux Ex Human Revolution and I couldn't get aaaanywhere

but im pretty familiar with how tomb raider works

[fleet moat]

I wish I loved failing a lot. Intellectually speaking, I get that's the smarter and more effective thought process tbh. But my childish animalistic brain gets VERY angry / annoyed.

https://tenor.com/view/tantrum-sulk-cry-gif-5217477

that's my reaction failing 😆

[full pivot]

i do that sometimes too and then i find it out and i feel dumb

[fleet moat]

Yeah, I get that. It's like with AC. Being acquainted with the mechanics of prior games makes it an easier transition.

[full pivot]

IVE TRIED EVERY K... oh

[fleet moat]

Same. So funny.

[full pivot]

the main thing i wanted to turn off in this was the white markings on the pathways; the hints to complete puzzles and stuff

but with that i had to turn a bunch of other stuff off too :\

[deep idol]

Psshhhhhhhhhhh @fleet moat

[full pivot]

pffft attempted rat jumpscare and im like RATS 😄 😄

[deep idol]

I am like that though haha. I like overcoming significant challenges.

[fleet moat]

Re: failing, best example for me and @deep idol witnessing my frustration was Warframe, doing the jumps tutorial 🤣

[deep idol]

Hehe

[fleet moat]

The game said "press B" was it? When it should've said "hold B"?

[deep idol]

Hmmm something like that

[fleet moat]

I was taking it literally. And was so annoyed it was giving me the wrong instruction, which made the "learning process" frustrating af.

[deep idol]

Yeahhh

[full pivot]

i hate that the most when the tutorial is like "just stop hitting yourself" essentially

[fleet moat]

I'm preparing Warlock screenshots

[winter yew]

owo cool

this is my most recent one :p

really wish this game had some kinda photo mode like Warframe's Captura with closed off scenes where you could pose your dude

[fleet moat]

I concur! There needs to be some form of photo mode! Maybe it'd be a nice suggestion to add to the DestinyTheGame subreddit

[winter yew]

trust me im sure its been discussed a thousand times over :p

[fleet moat]

I'm gonna try taking a screenshot yielding a sword, but then I miss out on the off-helmet setting so Thena can see my character's hair. Will test it in Europa in a sec.

[winter yew]

i turned off the UI and did this once

[fleet moat]

Love it. Yeah, I normally turn off the HUD completely for most show-off screenshots. The scenic shots in Destiny are so beautiful.

[winter yew]

this is one i did in warframe

[fleet moat]

I miss my Warframes. Some of them are so beautiful. I ofc make them all black and redddd 😆

I do the same with all my Destiny armor for all my characters.

[winter yew]

I'm usually red/white/black

[charred badge]

Dauntless update seems fun

Was running around in an adhoc bash mob

[winter yew]

Dauntless is a good romp

[austere lance]

The rework looks

[fleet moat]

@full pivot This is my Warlock Having difficulty with screencapture uploads on Xbox. So it took a while.

This is crap resolution but you can see my lovely bear sparrow lol

[full pivot]

love the colours!

[winter yew]

Bear sparrow lol

122 wow

[austere lance]

https://twitter.com/tylertreese/status/1335016041995513857

Tyler Treese (@tylertreese)

Nothing sums up the PS5 launch titles better than this pic @andino1152 sent me.

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Twitter · Dec 5, 2020, 12:20 AM

[raven frost]

sooo... there's only godfall or are there a bunch and godfall sucks

[austere lance]

Nobody's buying Godfall, lol

Farm Sim 19 sold out on that shelf before Godfall sold any 🤣

[winter yew]

LMAO

Oh nooo

That’s a Walmart shelf btw

I recognize those labels

[keen dome]

Ya for sure

[austere lance]

Yee

[raven frost]

sad

shows how little I know about the next gen of consoles though

or care

mr nintendo pls give switch 2

[daring spear]

I'm trying to remember the name of a thing

Mobile website won't let me look at demos so I'll find the thing later. Point being the person who made it got approved for their game to be on Switch. That's what reminded me. But it. I dont remember the name

[rigid haven]

I'd like godfall

[austere lance]

https://twitter.com/eugenecam/status/1335303465699078150

eugene cam (@eugenecam)

making a faith build

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Twitter · Dec 5, 2020, 7:22 PM

[austere lance]

https://youtu.be/fa3_Mfqu8KA

[willow crypt]

Godfall is PS5’s Knack

[austere lance]

HOW DARE YOU INSULT KNACK

[willow crypt]

NOU

[austere lance]

Downloading too much random stuff off Game Pass is legitimately an addiction, I need an intervention 😭

I only actually care about like two of those games, LMAO

[willow crypt]

Sea of Solitude seems interesting

[bronze wind]

Dqxi is good

[charred badge]

I was annoyed when dqxi transitioned to Tales mode

[daring spear]

game I was trying to remember earlier is called Crumble. it's on Steam but the developer got approved by Nintendo for it to be released on Switch

[winter yew]

that looks wild

[balmy plaza]

Been playing control off game pass

Loving the major SCP vibes

[fleet moat]

Ooh yeah! I gotta take advantage of that! I just noticed it yesterday. Way cool.

[austere lance]

It's damn good

[fleet moat]

Downloading tonight!

[austere lance]

Explore everything, lol

Do not trust the fridge

[fleet moat]

What's in the fridge??? 😆

[austere lance]

You'll see

[glass plinth]

Man, best buy totally messed up there shipments

Orders just keep coming in of cyberpunk for people

One of their worst shipments methinks

[fleet moat]

So painful. Sigh. For CD Projekt I mean. Not cool.

Listening to Jolene cover by The White Stripes and again, can't thank you enough for sharing it 🎶

[balmy plaza]

It's really good

I'd only just found it when I shared it too haha

[keen dome]

I couldn't resist x.x

if you wanna ad me on steam go ahead lol

[fleet moat]

Wheeeee!!!

[keen dome]

I wonder if there is a way to circumvent the steam lock lol

[fleet moat]

I'm on Xbox

[keen dome]

Oh I have xbox too, but my wife uses it more than I do

Mainly because it's setup at her pc desk lol

Actually the username is the same for xbox live too

[fleet moat]

Added

[austere lance]

@fleet moat I found a bad that sounds fresh outta the 80's but they're new, lol

[fleet moat]

Oooh are they good? Got a link?

[austere lance]

https://youtu.be/KnQoa5_rRWo

Tfw you learn Joe Satriani has a new album

[keen dome]

Sounds good! I'll confirm it when I jump on the site lol

[fleet moat]

Omg yesss! Totally 80's rock band sound! Reminds me of Mötley Crüe That's awesome

[austere lance]

It's like a weird new genre, young people sounding like they time traveled from the 80's 😆

I listen to a few of em on Spotify, lol

[glass plinth]

Welp, thats officially it, all my friends own cyberpunk now

Id say 30 of them playing it at the moment

Seems from what I glean, its a solid game, same as witcher, bout what everyone had expected.

Lol, one of the challenges I see my friends doing is making courses and trying to race through dangerous areas in weak mini cars lol

[austere lance]

My inner geek is shitting itself rn, there's a third-person action-RPG being made where you play as Drizzt and his friends after The Crystal Shard books and R. A Salvatore himself has been helping with it 😍 😍 😍

[austere lance]

God damn, there's officially a new top contender for "worst development hell"
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-12-05-paradox-boss-doesnt-expect-troubled-vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-to-come-out-during-the-first-half-of-2021

In June 2020, Paradox confirmed any content designer Chris Avellone had contributed to the game would be removed following allegations of sexual assault.

It gets worse

To reiterate:
-At one point they removed everything a designer did cuz of sexual assault allegations
-They fired their lead narrative designer and creative director after delaying the game
-Their senior narrative designer left after that.

[keen dome]

Damn

[cinder vessel]

so it's kinda like the original game's development hell or somesuch

clearly the IP is just cursed

[winter yew]

I know none of ya care about Animal Crossing but I thought this was cute.

[coarse swift]

https://tenor.com/view/muffin-asdfmovie-im-so-full-do-you-have-room-for-muffin-why-wont-you-let-me-die-gif-16214777

@winter yew

[winter yew]

[winter yew]

boy have I got some bands to show you lol

[thorn dawn]

https://youtu.be/1OJ7aW3Df5U

[silver sparrow]

i checked oled tv prices on a lark

and then i larfed

they are barking mad

the cheapest was like 1800usd

[winter yew]

yikes

[silver sparrow]

i can get a 50inch samsung 4k for like 375

[winter yew]

50 is alright

i have a 43 inch LG 4k tv but I forget how much I paid for it

was under $300

[silver sparrow]

idk if 60hz is sufficient for the ps5 when i get it 3 months from now

oh nice

i'm like 36inches away from the screen

[winter yew]

I believe its this one https://www.walmart.com/ip/LG-43-Class-4K-UHD-2160P-Smart-TV-43UN6950ZUA-2020-Model/869782571

[silver sparrow]

hm hm

60hz

would i miss not having more hurtz?

[winter yew]

nah

most content nowadays is made with 60hz in mind

movies will look weird as fuck

do you have either of the new consoles?

[willow crypt]

i like movies at 30 fps

[winter yew]

same

I saw that one Hobbit movie that was at 48fps. that was a trip

[willow crypt]

wonder how noticeable that would be, being between 30 and 60

[winter yew]

this does a good job of demonstrating the difference in a way

https://youtu.be/rNcNOgMwH_4

Make sure youtube is playing in 1080p60, 1440p60 or 2160p60 quality.

[willow crypt]

will check it out

[silver sparrow]

https://www.amazon.com/LG-32UL500-W-Display-FreeSync-Compatibility/dp/B088G1PKKN/ref=psdc_1292115011_t1_B08FPLLX6Y

i will likely get the ps5 after the hub-bub dies down

i just want to make sure i am not wasting its power

i just ready this summary on monitor vs. tv: https://www.gamingscan.com/tv-vs-monitor-for-gaming/

for gaming

[full pivot]

imma post my fav xmas song!

https://youtu.be/3OC_PHu_pqI

[silver sparrow]

can't listen atm

is that george michael?

[full pivot]

its U2

if you're UK then that's why

"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

[silver sparrow]

ah ah ok

did you ever listen to red hot and blue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgRD676EIVI

[full pivot]

i dont think so

[silver sparrow]

it was an aids benefit album honoring the works of cole porter

that u2 song was on it

here is the full album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bPmfaVpo5o

annie lennox, k d lang, etc

fine young cannibals 🙂

[full pivot]

sounds familiar now

i just wanted to share my fav xmas song is all

i grew up with U2

[silver sparrow]

i am sure i have heard it, will listen when i get back home

[full pivot]

https://youtu.be/YNWSDvDqm9g

not xmas music

https://youtu.be/Yx1PCWkOb3Y

[willow crypt]

yay The Game Awards is on Thursday

[charred badge]

Which game awards?

I like steam's

[austere lance]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Jordan_Mallory/status/1277483756245442566

jord on the board (like elf on the shelf but me) (@Jordan_Mallory)

i want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and i'm not kidding

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Twitter · Jun 29, 2020, 6:07 AM

The tweet blew up so he linked his SoundCloud in it 🤣

[willow crypt]

Geoff Keighleys

i believe they do game announcements as well

ok maybe i do like this reply feature

[austere lance]

RIP people who like physical copies
https://www.gamesradar.com/cyberpunk-2077-is-getting-a-43gb-patch-before-launch/

[willow crypt]

that’s life now

[full pivot]

they literally came up with 52 earlier

how real is this one?

i mean its the hyped up game

no one could possibly make shit up rn

why do people believe leaks of any kind?

if you bought a prerelease physical copy and have to download the game like literally everyone else?

fuck you for being ignorant

[austere lance]

https://twitter.com/fabiandoehla/status/1334562994748002308?s=19

Fabian Mario Döhla (@fabiandoehla)

@DreamcastGuy It’s an update but - fun twist - not the update we’ll have for launch. 😅

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Twitter · Dec 3, 2020, 6:19 PM

[full pivot]

im sorry if that aint sugar coated

[austere lance]

Cyberpunk CM, btw

Fabian is a PR manager for CDPR

[thorn dawn]

a 43gb patch is still hard to swallow

could be a couple of days for some people

[willow crypt]

meh

it’s normal now

[raven frost]

star citizen flashbacks

[full pivot]

but digitally it'll just drop with the initial download

[cinder vessel]

rip ppl who like not waiting hours/days for a game to update

[austere lance]

It's a trick to make people pre-order and download the updates early

[cinder vessel]

it's a trick to make people less inclined to buy the game right away 😂

[austere lance]

Joke's on them, you can download games early on Xbox now even if you don't own them

[cinder vessel]

ngl the best part of many indie games has to be the quicker download times

plus you can have so many more of them installed to jump between

big budget games you're lucky to even have 3 installed at once 💀

[austere lance]

I've been downloading lots of indie games on GP cuz why not, lol. I downloaded Unravel 2, Sea of Solitude, Phogs, Haven, and Slime Rancher a couple days ago 😆

[cinder vessel]

and probably had them like day of download given no disruptions

[austere lance]

Big budget games ain't that big (at least on last gen), Valhalla is only 40+ GB

[rigid haven]

DUDE

43 GB INITISL UPDATE

Is terrible

[cinder vessel]

CoD has had worse

[rigid haven]

Please just let physical games be physical games

[austere lance]

@rigid haven Plus the day one patch they've confirmed is coming

[rigid haven]

Hh

[cinder vessel]

didn't they have like a 90+gb update

[rigid haven]

Back when my internet was shit, physical was usually the only option

[austere lance]

See? (this is from CDPR's PR manager) @rigid haven
https://twitter.com/fabiandoehla/status/1334562994748002308?s=19

Fabian Mario Döhla (@fabiandoehla)

@DreamcastGuy It’s an update but - fun twist - not the update we’ll have for launch. 😅

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Twitter · Dec 3, 2020, 6:19 PM

[cinder vessel]

clearly larger devs are telling ppl with shit internet that they're not their audience

[austere lance]

So add whatever the launch update is to the 43 GB one

[rigid haven]

A BIG "fuck you" was when FO76's 50gb initial update

Fair, 76 is an online only game

BUT THIS

Hoping the day one isnt too big

[cinder vessel]

So basically, stop getting larger devs' games, they don't care about your internet situation, lol

[rigid haven]

Yeah...

[cinder vessel]

Not that indies do either, but they can't afford to make extravagantly bloated games

where every pore needs to be visible

[rigid haven]

Mhmm

[cinder vessel]

where each audio line is an uncompressed .flac file or something

[rigid haven]

Some AAA games recently are too fucking big

I mean fair enough, they're supposed to be these massive releases

But really? CoD needs to be that big?

(That's an extreme example but still a decent one)

[cinder vessel]

every metal scuff visible

[rigid haven]

Every grain of sand defined

[cinder vessel]

that bike you barely notice crumpled off to the side, highly detailed

every spoke a few polygons

[austere lance]

More devs should learn from DOOM Eternal, that game looks 👌, is unbelievabley optimized, and is <40 GB

[cinder vessel]

wheels spin if you brush by it

[rigid haven]

I fucking remember when 40gig for a game was pretty decent

Not small but not big

And nowadays IT'S TINY

ABSOLITELY MINISCULE

[cinder vessel]

it's still too much space taken for my tastes, lol

[austere lance]

Oddly enough CDPR isn't known for having giant games, the entirety of Witcher 3 Complete Edition is like 37 GB. Idk why they went wild with Cyberpunk