other-games

[dry copper]

I've been totally bummed since Cyberpunk. I've uninstalled almost all of my games. wtf.

[cinder vessel]

you also keep looking toward AAA games for some reason

least from what i've noticed here

[dry copper]

Living in the hope of something better?

[cinder vessel]

looking toward AAA is a surefire way to be consistently disappointed in my experience

[dry copper]

Fair enough.

[coarse swift]

Could always get roped into a live service game that prevents you from playing the latest new AAA title every time it comes out due to FOMO

[austere lance]

I refuse to play any big games made after 2019 cuz they run like shit for me and most of em are meh, lol

[cinder vessel]

i find a lot of stuff better in the indie field

[sleek cloud]

heart and soul goes into indies unlike most big games nowadays

[cinder vessel]

they may not go crazy graphically but honestly, i don't find the new graphics stuff that appealing. I find the way it's used is often hard to parse since it's riddled with visual noise

[austere lance]

I have no idea what qualifies as indie, lol. I call Ori indie 😆

[cinder vessel]

Ori is indie

[sleek cloud]

small budget, small team

[dry copper]

Indie is hard to grasp with so many companies being eaten by giants

[cinder vessel]

Unless, did they get bought out by Microsoft?

Small budget, small team, not owned by a larger company, lol

[austere lance]

Yes

[dry copper]

Nordic have been very hungry for new IP

THQ

[cinder vessel]

Like Kojima may claim to have "gone indie" but that's only in the sense of company independence. He has a stupid crazy budget & probably larger team than any indie could afford (or would care to have)

[dry copper]

Being indie forces you to make compromises that favor integrity in coding over flash in graphics.

When you no longer need to compromise...you're no longer indie

[cinder vessel]

The best indies have flash in aesthetic tho~

[dry copper]

Not because they compromised though.

[cinder vessel]

And sometimes they even do more interesting things graphically as a result

[dry copper]

In any case it's a non-issue. A development studio can do everything right and still launch a complete and utter turd bowl.

Hellgate: London was a fun game. Got shit on by reviews. Tanked

[cinder vessel]

Might've fared better had it not been multiplayer-focused

[dry copper]

Tell that to their publisher....

EA 😛

[stiff dust]

heyy thats pretty good! my first lucy win was an nearly an hour, its def one of the more slower aspects
as you get better at the game your time will go down im sure of it. youre doing great 👍

[silver sparrow]

Rocket/triple ftw

[stiff dust]

i have never gotten rocket w lucy before

[silver sparrow]

Although for Lucifer it was hellfire and triple

[stiff dust]

i think rocket special is not available on lucy aspect actually

[silver sparrow]

Probably

[stiff dust]

i really dont like lucy rail

maybe ill try it again just to make sure im not just being trash

[silver sparrow]

Heh

[austere lance]

I forgot how much hidden stuff is in Psychonauts, lol

[weak thunder]

So... I think the switch port may have janky hitboxes.

[stiff dust]

dang switch port looks sharp

[weak thunder]

It does look nice and super smooth

But it's veeerrry precise and slippery

[stiff dust]

isnt that how it is in old games? jank controls lol

[weak thunder]

I hurt myself trying to grab things and fail literally all the parkours that I could do wo easily before on the original

[stiff dust]

huh so they changed some stuff, wierd

[weak thunder]

Like.
Please.
I want to grab Bowser's tail

And not lose life points?

They also changed so long gay bowser to buh-bye

Sacrilege

[stiff dust]

yeah i heard

gay bowser was the only thing i knew of this game

[weak thunder]

It's actually really fun and a pioneer to 3d platforming.

A 3d platformer with gimmicks like different ways to jump and hold onto ledges

[stiff dust]

man i have so many old games on my to play list

i have never played a zelda game in my entire life

[weak thunder]

Omg

Zelda 1 is big wtf man.

Imagine I start walking in one spot cause I start dissociating, realize It's looping, turn back around... and... oh... there's a dungeon now

[stiff dust]

bruh that sounds like something from p.t.

[weak thunder]

Rip P.T.

P.T. had big the room vibes. I miss the room but my dad messed it up

He left the sword in a level so we could never progress to the emd

[stiff dust]

wow did you restart the entire game?

[weak thunder]

We just... didn't.

Have you played the room?

Imagine things start getting more and more and more climactic...

Then the hole in the wall was cemented
Normally, you open your chest and the cement explodes.

[stiff dust]

the room is a point click escape series right? or is that another game im thinking of

[weak thunder]

But I didn't have the sword, so it basically permasoftlocked

[balmy plaza]

That puzzle game?

Quite enjoyed it

[weak thunder]

It was a silent hill game

[balmy plaza]

Oh OK haha

Never played it :(

[weak thunder]

Guy finds hole in the wall
Experiences grotesque coraline.

[stiff dust]

what the heck, theres a game called 'the room' and 'silent hill 4 the room'

[weak thunder]

Things start happening in both worlds

And he watches his next door neighbor girl seemingly get killed and then

... blocked

Cement filled it

We couldn't figure out anything and my dad looked it up, it said you needed that sword

...... and now I find the real answer.
Nice.

Catch me downloading the room on my phone now.

I miss it

[stiff dust]

well you get to replay it and see the ending for real

goodluck on your journey to ~~purgatory ~~silent hill

[weak thunder]

It's pretty much purgatory

[austere lance]

Ah Psychonauts, how I love thee 💕

[weak thunder]

Gasp

You like PSYCHONAUTS TOO?!

💖💖💖💖

[charred badge]

You may have it on twitch prime

[austere lance]

I'm playing it right now, lol

[charred badge]

Hah

[austere lance]

I want Psychonauts 2 to come out 😭

[weak thunder]

Me tooooo

It looks so goos.

What's great is even the original is still very nice today because of the style

[coarse swift]

Psychonauts 👀

[weak thunder]

Alright since we're talking about hidden gems who here likes Voodoo vince?

[sleek cloud]

Dark Messiah is my hidden gem

[coarse swift]

Never played either of those

My hidden gem to this day is still One Must Fall: Battlegrounds

[weak thunder]

Blinx too, sleep well, failed mascot.

[sleek cloud]

DM was so underrated

[austere lance]

Voodoo Vince is wild, I kinda wanna get the remaster

[austere lance]

Yeah I'm playing it rn cuz it's been a few years, lol. Plus I wanted to test out the the backwards compatible enhanced graphics and whatnot, it looks 👌

[heavy zenith]

Gasp, they remade 2097?!

[austere lance]

Blinx 2 was godly 😍

[weak thunder]

Dude I have a love hate for it.
It took me 4 years to beat it and I'm not exaggerating, mostly cause my brain needed to mature more to get past certain levels.

So for the ending to be... well... so Rare studios style as great as their endings are........ I felt empty man I spent YEARS trying to beat that game

[heavy zenith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl4rdwxzdG0

[austere lance]

Which game?

[weak thunder]

Voodoo Vince

[austere lance]

Ah

One of these days I'll grab the remaster if I can catch it on sale

[weak thunder]

My 6 year old brain couldn't get past the level with the trap doors and floating stuff

[coarse swift]

I had never played a OMF before BG, but the title music is still a banger https://youtu.be/TqeEY6yMiAg

[heavy zenith]

Thanks for making me think of OMF again 🙂

[weak thunder]

Then when it did I got stuck on that boss level with the psycho baby doll for another whole year

And the rest is very... very foggy

[austere lance]

I was 8 when Vince came out and I thought it was just weird so I didn't play much of it, lol

[heavy zenith]

It was a 2D dos street fighter with robots game a decade or two earlier

[cinder vessel]

i didn't have an xbox so i didn't even know voodoo vince existed, lol

[heavy zenith]

So the theme song is the same but .. they have a lot better music cards nowadays

[austere lance]

Apparently I got over not liking weird stuff two years later when Psychonauts came out, cuz I played the fuck outta it 😆

[weak thunder]

Xbox was supposed to be my parents game but all my nieces and nephews got games from it andddd yeab

Gun, Fable, Oogies revenge.

I would kill to have an original xbox agaim

[cinder vessel]

it's kinda like hidden treasure ignoring consoles and then looking back at what exclusives they had then getting them nice & cheap

[weak thunder]

Yo pawn shopping ps2 games?

[austere lance]

Psychonauts is still one of my favorite games of all time, that's why I decided to get it for my Xbone finally and replay it again 😆

[weak thunder]

I found probably the best ps2 game out there called Grafiti kingdom

[cinder vessel]

I think I've seen that floating around here & there

[weak thunder]

I had a disk too scratched but omg it's so innovative

[cinder vessel]

that whole gen was full of some cool creativity

Devs still getting used to 3D, some hitting their stride with it

[weak thunder]

Like fr.

[austere lance]

I still have my original Xbox and all the games we got with it, lol. Jet Set Radio Future, Oddworld Munch's Odyssey, Project Gotham Racing. Good times 😌

[weak thunder]

That era was so fun man

Even dreamcast.
No

Especially dreamcast.

[austere lance]

Jet Set Radio Future and Project Gotham Racing were packaged together with the Xbox, I was so happy 😍

[cinder vessel]

what guts me is we still have a fair bit of that creativity now, probably even more, but ppl are way more wrapped up in AAA stuff more than ever

[balmy plaza]

Gamecube 😍😍

[weak thunder]

Ever held your breath and felt your soul ascend cause you knew one slip would make you lose and you knew you were so close to the end

[cinder vessel]

but also, that in-between AAA & indie area of games is practically non-existent anymore

[weak thunder]

Because that's Space channel 5

[austere lance]

I'm just happy I can play some of my favorite OG Xbox games through backwards compatibility tbh. With cleaned up graphics, load times, and sound 💕

[weak thunder]

You just don't know when it ends at the end.
It keeps going.

[cinder vessel]

yeah but you lose some of the goofy load time gags S0ul!

[austere lance]

Lol

[weak thunder]

My whole body went numb and I reached nirvana

And I beat the game

[cinder vessel]

cracked me up to see GiantBomb try the backwards compat with Banjoo & Kazooie Nuts N' Bolts and the load gags just whiffed by in the faster load times

[austere lance]

I still can't tell what's indie anymore, lol. Is this indie? It looks damn cool
https://youtu.be/yVNsnrPkCI8

[weak thunder]

When I saw the credits my whole body audibly deflated like a baloon

[winter yew]

oh my godddddd

[stiff dust]

hat magician looks like a mario oddessy cap oc

[winter yew]

just uhh.. finished my first raid ever on Destiny 2

[austere lance]

Lol

[winter yew]

felt good to learn and work together with people 🙂

Deep Stone Crypt :3

[cinder vessel]

what the fu
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1131190/NERTS_Online/

Steam

NERTS! Online

Nerts is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends!

▶ Play video

[weak thunder]

I heard raids used to be insane

[winter yew]

This raid was pretty simple once we got the mechanics worked out

[weak thunder]

Like no man's sky level insane. Lasting for days. Hours.

Hours/days.

[winter yew]

well this only took us hours because we were going in blind

[cinder vessel]

@austere lance big publisher? no. no publisher/small publisher, sure

[austere lance]

A really fancy point and click game existing in 2021 is bizarre to me, lol
https://youtu.be/w39ml-My7qM

[stiff dust]

multiplayer solitare?

[winter yew]

not knowing the mechanics etc

[weak thunder]

I have an old text from way back where my friend forwarded everyone that he wouldn't be available for 8 days.

Original Destiny

[cinder vessel]

lmao dude, you have a whole world of cool point & clicks awaiting then @austere lance

[winter yew]

lmao.

yeah I'm sure he was deep in the grind of figuring out the raids and then finding all the secrets

and then uhh,, breaking the barriers and figuring out how to glitch the thing

[weak thunder]

Imagine being that intent.
Hah.
Haha.
Hahaha I spent 4 days trying to escape a toxic planet

[cinder vessel]

what. old raids were terrible because some of them had you have to be actively playing for like 8+ hours, maybe more? Whatever the case, it was disgusting design

[winter yew]

apparently some people have figured out how to 2-man the current raid

[cinder vessel]

raids are super sketchy imo, especially if they don't have some sort of checkpointing or drag out for stupid amounts of time that you'd have to replay if you wipe

[weak thunder]

Yeah like I said he contacted everyone being like "hey don't message me for 8 days I'm raiding."

I wish I was exaggerating

[winter yew]

I'm still at a loss for words at how they managed to do some of the raid encounters with less than 4 people

[austere lance]

Lol, you could do Crota with one person

[balmy plaza]

Vault of glass is like 45 minutes easy

It's the first completions that took hours and hours

When people figure it all out

[winter yew]

yeah that's kinda what i figured

[austere lance]

VoG took like 12 hours for the first attempt, didn't it?

[winter yew]

oh geez

well

[balmy plaza]

Yeah I think

[austere lance]

14

Admittedly, VoG was complex af

[winter yew]

well this was my first time raiding with this group we didn't get started officially on the raid until like noon my time, and we just completed around 9pm my time lol.

[balmy plaza]

Vog is still my favourite I think

[weak thunder]

Yeah imagine being an adult with a job doing those raids

[balmy plaza]

I wish I still did them because they are so fun

[austere lance]

Last Wish in Destiny 2 took 19 hours

[winter yew]

yeah I only did it this time because it's my weekend

[balmy plaza]

But it takes way too effort and stress talking to the strangers lmao

[winter yew]

eh i'm used to these guys lol

[balmy plaza]

I only use lfg so it's new faces every time

[winter yew]

they are more compatible with me than my usual gaming group hahah

[austere lance]

It's usually adult streamers who do it, lol

[cinder vessel]

raids are literally antithetical to randos, lmao

[winter yew]

which has kinda gone way-side because none of them even like Destiny enough to do a raid

I can barely get them through the grind of Monster Hunter World

[austere lance]

I can't believe Last Wish took 19 fuckin hours

[winter yew]

I was surprised that I could even get these people through the Remnant From The Ashes campaign

with how flighty they are x3

so I'm glad I got to have a legit teamwork-building exercise with this raid with this other crew

[cinder vessel]

lol

The worst thing you can do with a coop multiplayer game, imo, is have character levels & grinds.

It makes it so awkward & rough to get others to join you because then they feel like they have to catch up and those games aren't built to let you catch up quickly, most of the time.

[balmy plaza]

Tell that to almost every mmo

[cinder vessel]

Which, I guess for some of the people trying to get them into the game, isn't a big deal 'cause they like the grind and are willing to grind a new character alongside them? But it's just ick

MMOs aren't really coop except in endgame stuff tbh

[balmy plaza]

Neither is destiny

[winter yew]

I'll be honest though I've fallen further away from Warframe.

[cinder vessel]

Most of the time you can play solo for good portions of MMOs

[winter yew]

Every time I look at Warframe nowadays, I just see the layers of grinding and get discouraged.

I'm saying that as someone who put nearly 3000 hours into it over the years

[austere lance]

I put 300 hours into D2 and most of it was solo or doing simple matchmaking stuff like Strikes

[cinder vessel]

It's the silliest aspect of MMOs to me, like I get why it's that way, to keep some sense of community to give that sense of being a MMO, but it feels like such a fakeout or something

[balmy plaza]

I rarely play destiny with people I know. When I did, I went back and did old content sometimes but it's extremely quick to level up high enough to do the relevant

But raids are the exception

Then again it's not hard to do with random

[cinder vessel]

MMO, "we're about big groups of people playing together!"
reality: big groups of people just playing the same game around each other

[balmy plaza]

I've had a few nice experiences with mmos

Trading, asking people in my clan for help etc

My clan was a genuine community in ESO

[cinder vessel]

I've not really had bad experiences with them, I just don't see the point in putting so much time into games that will at some point go offline and become unplayable

[sleek cloud]

ESO seemed to have a great community when i played it

[balmy plaza]

There's always going to be a last time you'll play a game

[cinder vessel]

But there's usually an option to revisit them

Not so with MMOs

[balmy plaza]

Why should I feed my hamster if it'll die in like 4 years anyway?

[cinder vessel]

That's a terrible comparison, lol

[balmy plaza]

Or why should I bother watering my garden

Just because it isn't permenant doesn't make it pointless to enjoy

[cinder vessel]

Replace those things dying with a random jerk killing your hamster or destroying your garden because it's not doing anything for them

[balmy plaza]

If it is fun, then it going offline won't invalidate the fun you've had

[cinder vessel]

But it will make it sting more if ever I wanted to play it again

I'm not trying to dissuade anyone from playing them, just giving my reasoning for not

[balmy plaza]

I get ya. I just float from game to game so I don't mind moving on semi regularly

[cinder vessel]

I float from game to game basically constantly, so I'll forget how long it's been since I've played something, and the worst thing is going back and finding, "Oh, it's gone now"

[balmy plaza]

If destiny went offline I'd be sad but I'll have the memories. Nothing is permanent anyway. Doesn't make it less worth it

[cinder vessel]

I had that happen with some music recently and that was a big WHa

But that was only 'cause the music was on a streaming service so it's like, 🙄 of course that would happen on there

[balmy plaza]

Wait so the music in unlistenable now? Never really heard of that tbh

Might have to get some things on physical if that's the case

[cinder vessel]

Yeah, I still have it fav'd on Spotify, but when I went to listen to it again, it's nowhere on the artist's page

[balmy plaza]

Huh that's odd. You've tried other platforms/ YouTube right?

[cinder vessel]

I was reviewing some artists' I had fav'd on there to look up where I could just buy their music, since I don't trust stuff to stay on streaming services, and there was the proof right there

I haven't checked their YouTube yet, I was mainly checking bandcamp since [I thought] they [we]re more of an indie artist

(they're not on bandcamp tho so 🤷‍♀️ )

It's not on YouTube either, even tho it used to be, lmao

[prisma geyser]

random side note

https://open.spotify.com/track/4ox2odCf0XL0g6692URWwe?si=81ygP5wHTZmd4Z6BhNhJww

this song is chill as fuck

like damn

[cinder vessel]

album art immediately made me think of Morcheeba

You ever listen to them Fluffy?

[prisma geyser]

Nope, gimme your favorite two songs from them

[cinder vessel]

lmao i don't do favs that easily

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27lPAUdE1ys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rig7e6r15o

Poldoore def. has a good chill vibe goin', actually sorta fits with Morcheeba's chill/fun

[austere lance]

Bruh Psychonauts is harder than I remember

And there's some dark af secrets in it

[cinder vessel]

dude

how could you forget the Meat Circus

lmao

[prisma geyser]

is that the one with the Milk Man line?

also bruh Morcheeba vibes pretty damn well, I dig it (on the first track)

[austere lance]

Yes that's Psychonauts, lol

[prisma geyser]

I AM THE MILK MAN

MY MILK IS DELICIOUS

xD

[austere lance]

Besides that, lol. I was thinking of the secrets you can find in people's minds. Like the jolly hippy teacher whose orphanage burned down

[cinder vessel]

emotional baggage is fr

[austere lance]

I haven't even gotten to the levitation stuff yet and I've unlocked two extra powers, lol

[prisma geyser]

routing op pls nerf speedrun tech

[austere lance]

3 extra powers now

[dry copper]

@sleek cloud Last I played ESO, I found the community full of two types. A bunch of people who didn't care about doing anything and almost never did or a bunch of people who did everything and were super scheduled. There was almost no in-between of people just playing the game.

I can't MMO on a schedule

[charred badge]

The people that just do whatever in ESO don't hang out in the community, probably

[dry copper]

Its why I enjoyed FO76. You can make friends on there, grind or don't, farm or don't, start a new character, design a base, explore the map some more or as the people I tend to run into the most - Just go out and help people that are newer.

Giving supplies to others, walking them through tips and tricks, or straight up running with them to do otherwise difficult tasks

The end-game of FO76 is base design and helping others.

[charred badge]

as far as tutorials go, chopping up a ship is a decent one

[dry copper]

They pretend to make the story end-game but I killed the scorch queen at level 10 with a group of helpful players

[charred badge]

there's a story in fo76!?

[dry copper]

Is that star base?

[charred badge]

yeah

[dry copper]

Isn't that in closed beta?

[charred badge]

closed alpha

but apparently the NDA was short duration at the start, so I can share

[dry copper]

I think that Jahnri is in that but he's super hush hush

PS: That tutorial looks like it was written by a drunk toddler

[prisma geyser]

what game is that

out of curiosity

[austere lance]

https://youtu.be/iAsKehIAOng

Ok, this looks fuckin crazy
https://youtu.be/38zt4AR5wl8

All three games in VR

[charred badge]

starbase alpha

[prisma geyser]

that

looks

really complex

[keen dome]

It reminds me of a motherboard

[charred badge]

dunno. I got in, did the three job tutorials to get my starter ship, flew around the station, crashed into the station, despawned my ship and quit for the night

lol

the flight controls are horribly set up by default

inverted axis wasd for pitch/yaw

shift/ctrl for throttle

@dry copper I got my key (finally) by email after doing an application survey last year

[dry copper]

Took em long enough.

[charred badge]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

conveniently timed to the end of BlessU second beta

[dry copper]

Testing wise, Bless looked like it functioned well enough, but it's not my cup of tea.

I didn't get into everything in it.

Combat was okay. Chat was buggy as hell. Obviously there are things that need fixing, but it's testing - that's what testing is for.

Fundamentally though, I couldn't see me ever installing it to play, knowing how it feels to.

Not again at least.

I really hated how the camera kept bouncing around when talking to NPC

Pick a fricken lane.

Cinematic camera or player camera

It would be one thing if switching to cinematic camera actually benefited a conversation, but it didn't at all. No lip sync, and NPC that all look the same. It ended up making them look even more jarring.

I like the action combat

[austere lance]

I tried the Bless Unleaded beta, wasn't a fan

[coarse swift]

https://twitter.com/scully1888/status/1350921411817312257?s=19

Chris Scullion (@scully1888)

UK follower friends, I regret to inform you that the abysmal Donkey Kong Country animated series is now on Amazon Prime Video as part of your subscription and you are duty bound to go watch it and marvel at the atrocious animation and non-existent lip-syncing

Retweets

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[prisma geyser]

excuse me

what

[dry copper]

@charred badge What are the testing objectives of Starbase in this CAT?

[crisp sparrow]

mood

[fervent fog]

@crisp sparrow do you recommend the game, btw? I've wishlisted it because a friend recommended me it but I'm really forcing myself not to buy it cause I'm saving up money.

[crisp sparrow]

if you dont like chill farming games then no otherwise yes

[winter yew]

It really is chill too. You can't rush through it.

[crisp sparrow]

you can if you want to by completing the community bundles in year 1

but there's nothing in the game where you have to rush it

except timed challenges but that's obvious

[meager panther]

Someone develop 3d star dew valley pls

[keen dome]

Thats basically my time at portia

[winter yew]

Only it's post apo, about building shit, developing infrastructure, and pretty much not about farming at all.

[meager panther]

yes

[keen dome]

¯_(ツ)_/¯ still has farming

[winter yew]

Staxel is a close enough 3d Stardew.

[full pivot]

did it

[prisma geyser]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THEY GOT DUNKED ON

[charred badge]

Story of Seasons

:D

[weak thunder]

Same

[charred badge]

Neopets?

[weak thunder]

Yeah I remembered flash died

Had a panic attack

Went to see if my animals were still able to be found

And they actually adapted neopets for mobile

I'm so fucking happy

[crisp sparrow]

harvest moon, farming simulator 19, staxel

[charred badge]

Story of Seasons > Harvest Moon

[crisp sparrow]

oh yeah they changed name

bokujo monogatari

[meager panther]

story of seasons looks good

[charred badge]

It's a bit more complicated than that.
The western publisher split from the Japanese developer.
The publisher continued with Harvest Moon, while the developer reverted to the Japanese title of the series, Story of Seasons

Hah, my account is still there

[crisp sparrow]

oh friends of mineral town is kinda cheap

[silver sparrow]

your pet looks angry

[crisp sparrow]

I was expecting a lot more seeing how dragon quest builders is fuck all expensive

[charred badge]

Hasn't been fed in years

[crisp sparrow]

lol this blessed DLC

[silver sparrow]

no wonder he's mad

[crisp sparrow]

I dont think I'd be mad if I wasn't fed in years

cuz you know

I'd be dead

[charred badge]

Heh, subeta pets lives as well

[crisp sparrow]

job: unemployed is so funny to me idk why

like yeah my pet [REDACTED] is struggling in the current economy

[charred badge]

Heh, yeah

It's a daily click for a bit of money

I there's a species/color randomizer, so I liked to adopt pets with nice names from the shelter and zap them into something nice

[dry copper]

I'd argue staxel is more 3d stardew than My Time At Portia, if for no other reason than the horrible combat in My Time At Portia. I've also not had as much fun in My Time At Portia getting started as I did in Staxel....

Ontop of everything, Staxel has bug capturing so...

Staxel wins

[charred badge]

Portia is a 3rd party 3d Rune Factory, straight up

Janky combat and all

[dry copper]

What I liked the most about staxel and it might be weird....It was made by one dude and he's SUPER into making games for fun. He's a family guy and is just making stuff for his kids, basically

[meager panther]

well thats how star dew was made

[dry copper]

I asked the developer if there was going to be a Staxel VR or staxel 2. Apparently they didn't profit a ton on the game and the license is owned by Humble, but he said for 100k, they could probably afford to focus the time required on something that big.

[charred badge]

The 3d RF games are... clumsy at best

[dry copper]

and thinking about the cost of making a game, 100k is cheap

[charred badge]

Basically paying a dude an acceptable wage to put a year or two into a game

[dry copper]

Pretty much.

The math he was giving me was basically saying, "I'm not in this for the money"

Hell. If I had the money, I'd have done it myself.

That is, paid him....Not made a game.

[fervent fog]

geez

I remember Neopets

such a dumb game but if you like it, so be it.

[charred badge]

It's just a daily click thing

Which phones and video games have done better

But it has a lot of nostalgia value

Like, that pet there was a flip phone app exclusive for a long time, until they decided it should get a yearly day to distribute more

[dry copper]

hah, I didn't know this before, but apparently the death messages you get in permadeath mode may be significantly different from others

I've never seen this message before that guy in reddit posted from NMS

[silver sparrow]

tamagucci

[dry copper]

Permadeath: Sometimes I think I must have a guardian idiot

[charred badge]

A new quote?

I would love a modern vpet

[dry copper]

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

[loud slate]

so, I have an idea for a D&D (or otherwise RPG) plant
a semi-sentient plant that is beautifully bright green, with delicious looking yellow fruit. However, it also is incredibly poisonous (think like machineel trees), just touching the roots or branches or leaves deals a good amount of poison damage, and eating the fruit does a likely fatal amount as well as paralyzing you. When coming in the vicinity of its sprawling network of roots, identifiable by their bright green color, it attempts to charm you, and if it succeeds, you have an overwhelming urge to eat the fruit. You climb up the roots, which have all sorts of bones sticking out of them, eat the fruit (possibly you can re-do the saving throw before eating the fruit), then probably die. It then secretes digestive enzymes from its roots and slowly absorbs your corpse, except the bones.

feel free to use the idea, just like, credit me for the idea if you were to put it in anything published, unless this actually isn't that original and I'm getting it from somewhere else and not realizing it

[glass plinth]

So basically a enchanted corpse flower?

Well due opposite in some ways.

Not a terrible idea.

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o77MzDQT1cg

Love the amount of controls these devs give to players interested in catering play to different audiences

[silver sparrow]

aka LegoLink

[fervent fog]

why is it just some minecraft sphax pureBDcraft textures.

[loud slate]

can I just take a moment to say how f***ing creepy crabsquids from Subnautica are

also just the noises they make

[dry copper]

also subnautica is creepy

[loud slate]

https://youtu.be/EpEQWefFa2w
I found this with their noises

[wet warren]

Subnautica creepy? Pfft. Never

I completely love swimming deep down in the dark and hearing noises that sound like my sleep paralysis demon

[cinder vessel]

there are already 3D Rune Factory games tho, lol

[dry copper]

ffs, Riot games bought Hypixel studios....

So who knows if this shit will ever be finished.

[cinder vessel]

They bought the Stonehearth devs and cut its development short 😔

[austere lance]

I stg you people have been talking about Hytale since I joined and I still don't even know if it has a beta date yet 🤣

[cinder vessel]

lmao right?

I keep almost thinking it's some vaporware myth

But then I see some video or screenshot

[dry copper]

and it still looks like vaporware....

Conceptually great. Nothing finished.

https://hypixelstudios.com/downloads/press-release-hypixel-riot.pdf

So this indie team started in 2018 with an idea and inside of two years sold their entire project to a giant and then went radio silent

Sounds like they sold out.

[fervent fog]

I love the sound of crabsquids

they're like rusty pieces of metal creaking in some cases

[charred badge]

Yes, and they are really similar to Portia

Janky combat and all

Also that stupid mech rock thing

[cinder vessel]

you mean cool mech rock thing

[glass plinth]

Hypixel has been doing regular news releases for almost a year after the purchase. What ended up happening is, the lead devs brought in some more talent and they are peer reviewing a large portion of the content and work flow with the help of someone I actually know from Riot games.

Restructuring shouldnt take more then 3 months if things go as planned.

[wet warren]

Hopefully the game turns out well

[glass plinth]

As for nothing finished. Most of what you see in the videos is already running. A few people have already tried out the game I know and its basically already up to par with Minecraft. Should take maybe until 2022 when beta hits

I mean they were working on the engine quite awhile before riot came into the picture.

Either way, since the product is running, Im not worried. Itll come out quite awhile, at least 5 years to develop and release a game of that sort. We should have our hands on it in a year or two. Nothing really outa the norm there. lol

The other thing is, they went into Hytale with quite a lot of money to support the development. Hypixel is a pretty profitable venture on minecraft.

Anyways

Yeah, its one of the few games Im currently following in development

Also, I found a subway enterance in cyberpunk lol

When I go up to it, it has a dialoug to enter, just no where to enter to, since they cut it, so i went digging, man they had dozens of them all over.

Seems like traveling underworld was going to be viable.

[austere lance]

Inb4 it's added in the free "DLC"

Along with safehouses

[glass plinth]

Well safehouses are in the game, just not functioning

I imagine it will be added in dlcs

Just curious which of the cut cotent is readded first

We have content relating to nonlethal take downs, new apartments, underground areas, BD usage

Most of that you can find blips of where they didnt quite cut the content corrently

lol

You also have the issue of what kinds of content to add to the singleplayer content and what fits more into a live service game like the online mode would have

Obviously long term game progression wouldnt really fit into the thematics of the current game.

Thats why I was fairly certain the Online version would either be a post, prequel or completely seperate arc

[silver sparrow]

tlou2, first hour playing as ||abby: fuck you i am not upgrading any of your shit||
15 hours into playing as ||abby and running into my first stalker horde: oh shit oh shit upgrade everything eat all the pills motherfucker you win||

[charred badge]

Taking ingame days to move the golem into position so I can fish out an island and float it on the ocean is annoying

[cinder vessel]

yeah the implementation of everything in those games is...bleh, but giant golem is super cool conceptually

You can farm, in A GOLEM

[charred badge]

I'd rather farm in an evil empire's base or a knockoff yggdrasil

[loud slate]

I'm pretty sure they made it with creaky doors at least partially

[charred badge]

Inb4 modders pull a Bethesda and fix their shit for them

[glass plinth]

Hell, Bethesda makes a art of that

[charred badge]

It still baffles me that they decided to block modders and expect a good result

[glass plinth]

A lot of it boils down to narrative

Modders will often change the direction of a games development

and devs still are scared of that often

[heavy zenith]

The rock and a hard place of being shown up by modders doing better than you did and being blown up in the press for something outrageous that modders did

[charred badge]

Everspace 2 hit EA

[heavy zenith]

EA counter-struck (what’s Everspace?)

[cinder vessel]

space shooty rpg

[heavy zenith]

Oh neat

[willow crypt]

it's sad when i hear Everspace 2 releases then realize they're planning a console launch in 2022

[heavy zenith]

Was that the roguelike one with an abnormally cheerful cockpit AI

[cinder vessel]

lol yeah, this one isn't a roguelike tho

[heavy zenith]

Aw

[charred badge]

The first was. Second is aiming for more persistence

[heavy zenith]

Persistence of .. what?

[cinder vessel]

it's kinda funny, Hammerwatch went the opposite direction. Released as a little Gauntlet-like with crafted maps, then sequel comes out as a roguelike

[austere lance]

Only spaceship game I want is Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, too bad I've never seen it on sale 😤

[glass plinth]

Everspace 2 feels more like a normal open world rpg to me

Nice graphics, ill give it that

[willow crypt]

fuggin have to wait another year and a half YAAY!

[glass plinth]

Sorta how I felt about Horizon

[willow crypt]

zero dawn?

[glass plinth]

yeah

Not many games release on console I care about, so I dont feel horrid whent hey come out on console before pc

[willow crypt]

MoonMen games changed their space game's name to "Worlds of the Future" https://twitter.com/MoonmenGames/status/1351185865708593152

Moonmen Games | Worlds Of The Future (@MoonmenGames)

We've updated our website with lots of new unreleased images of Worlds Of The Future! 🪐

We're also sending out our first newsletter mail in the coming days, detailing the name change and our plans for our next dev video (new info and images!)

Sign up!: https://t.co/1KyL4eByO9

Twitter · Jan 18, 2021, 3:13 PM

[heavy zenith]

What was it called before?

[glass plinth]

Never even heard of this game

[willow crypt]

was called Welcome to the Future

[winter yew]

Ok that game looks great.

[willow crypt]

yeah

[glass plinth]

It does

Space delivery man

Hrmm, though for the setting 2500 mite be a bit.. to far in the future

LOL

[willow crypt]

i love being a delivery person in games tbh

Death Stranding, Cloudpunk...

[sleek cloud]

same but irl it would probably be really shitty 😄

[willow crypt]

idk

[winter yew]

I'd be happy as a space courier irl tbh.

[willow crypt]

i feel like if life was like it is in DS, I'd feel very fulfilled being a delivery guy

[winter yew]

DS really caught me off guard. It's fantastic.

[willow crypt]

noice!

[sleek cloud]

saying that my Dad was a delivery driver for a car company and said he really enjoyed it

[willow crypt]

what was the other game you didn't like much, Hex?

oh wait i know

was Exodus

[winter yew]

Hey my name's Sam.

[willow crypt]

hi sam i'm sam

[winter yew]

I should go back to it tbh.

[sleek cloud]

he big

[winter yew]

big boi

[willow crypt]

badass scene right there

i thought that was the end of the game

[winter yew]

I did too.

There was 3 different points I thought was end of the game.

[willow crypt]

same, though i'm glad it kept going

[winter yew]

Visiting Conan O’Brien caught me off guard though.

[willow crypt]

haha so strange

[glass plinth]

Never played death stranding

i should

[winter yew]

10/10 game

[glass plinth]

I LOVE hiking and endless wandering

[willow crypt]

either you'll love it or hate it

then you'd love it

[glass plinth]

So a game about it will rock and I LOVE grinding.

Im the sort of guy that heads into empty space, all alone in ed, mapping out systems for people to mine, for months

A quite practice in solitude

I love all kinds of hikes into emptiness

hehe

[willow crypt]

hmm an interesting way to play

[sleek cloud]

i especially love games that encourage exploration

like The Witcher for example

[willow crypt]

yes

i do think i appreciate large hand crafted open worlds more-so than NMS a lot of the time, even if i won't get as much playtime in them

Subnautica is in my top 10

[winter yew]

Subnautica is just slightly over the line of scare for me to be able to enjoy it.
The atmosphere they created is superb, just a little too much for me.

[willow crypt]

Other times, it's nice to open up a game like NMS and go find a planet i've probably never seen before, though the longevity of my exploration is cut way down.

yes it's very immersive and terrifying at times

[austere lance]

Tbh you can spend tons of time only building in the not-scary areas

[sleek cloud]

i was thinking of playing Subnautica in VR on my first playthrough if i ever get it

[willow crypt]

playing Subnautica just to build would bore the hell out of me

[austere lance]

You're literally gonna shit yourself if a Reaper gets you in VR, lol

[winter yew]

😩

[willow crypt]

not sure if i could handle it in vr

[sleek cloud]

now if NMS water type planets could have depths like that

[willow crypt]

a common topic here

i hope HG have it in their sights

[winter yew]

Yeah, the submarine engine for extreme depths fueled the fire more but nothing ever came from it.

[austere lance]

Go to the Abyss in Subnautica in VR

[sleek cloud]

i think from a gameplay point of view there's kinda no point having super deep oceans atm

in subnautica it makes sense

[willow crypt]

there's not much underwater in the first place currently

[austere lance]

I just want Subnautica Below Zero to release 😔

[winter yew]

I thought it did tbh

[daring spear]

On pc

[willow crypt]

early access?

[daring spear]

Yep

[winter yew]

Ahh ok

[willow crypt]

avoiding it completely until it's out

[daring spear]

It isnt on console yet but It'll I be released on console as soon as it's v1.0

[austere lance]

I'm hyped, Subnautica was basically the test demo for Below Zero. It has an actual story with human interaction, massive new creatures, and more stuff on land. Plus a bunch of stuff that had to be cut from the original game is being added to it

[daring spear]

[willow crypt]

Anyway, hoping HG are aware of how great Subnautica's underwater exploration is and pulls some inspiration from it

[sleek cloud]

should i just wait for Below Zero instead ?

[daring spear]

First game has an actual story too tho

[willow crypt]

i wouldn't wait stef

the base game is quite long

[daring spear]

They're similar but also very different

[willow crypt]

and a solid story from beginning to ending

[sleek cloud]

ok

[willow crypt]

what VR headset do you use?

[daring spear]

(Subnautica by itself I've heard runs terribly on VR but there's mods specifically to improve vr performance)

[willow crypt]

the main thing that deters me from playing certain games in VR is resolution. sucks when a game is blurry

Framerate is probably the most important of course, but still

[charred badge]

Subnautica is a secret horror ga.e

[austere lance]

Lol

[willow crypt]

it's one i can handle, because it's not all horror

[silver sparrow]

SubnauticaVR: Ships with free adult diapers!

[daring spear]

Lol

[glass plinth]

Subnatutica may have made me crap my pants

Im sadly not kidding, to much gumbo, messed up stomach, screamed and bad things happened

LOL!

Still worth it, fricking LOVE subnatuica

I loved the building, I loved the gathering, the vehicles, the environments

Fricking cant get over how stunning the reefs are

Subzero mite end up as good, but you never know

[sleek cloud]

i've watched streamers play it and it's quite hilarious

[willow crypt]

i'm not sure if it'll be as good, because Subnautica was such a huge surprise to me. i didn't expect it to be that good

and by that i mean, once i get too used to the formula and structure of a game, that element of surprise is sort of dissipated

[glass plinth]

Hrmm

Meanwhile... Grounded

I LOVE THE GAME!

❤️

Literally the first game I can say I love because of the bugs 😛

SO many goddamned bugs

Fuck you spiders...

I must admit, I loved the movie Honey I Shrunk the kid, so the game just has so many nostalgic flash backs to being a kid watching that.

[wet warren]

Subnautica is great yes

[willow crypt]

loved honey i shrunk the kids and honey i blew up the kid

[dry copper]

Always nice to know the company was double dipping their own consumer base

Honey I honeyed the kids. They were delicious.

[austere lance]

I found the game 3090s are supposed to be used for, lol
https://twitter.com/redx53/status/1351211322709581827?s=21

RedX_#IndyHatGang (@RedX53)

#Projectmara from ninja theory
New shots 👀

Likes

186

Twitter · Jan 18, 2021, 4:54 PM

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM6anebkV70

Same actor in Mara as Senua's sacrifice

They used the same technology that VR systems use to track your location IRL for VR, in just making the apartment dimensions proper.

[heavy zenith]

https://kotaku.com/massive-fallout-new-vegas-mod-the-frontier-is-finally-1846080814

[keen dome]

Interesting bit someone made. Map of NJ all roads

[dry copper]

looks like google maps minus google

[dry copper]

I love the work that went into this character project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avI7__oVSHs

[sleek cloud]

https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1351333823406088193 sounds interesting

IGN (@IGN)

Rockstar has filed a new patent for smart NPC tech that might be for GTA 6. https://t.co/lFJPMJivSX

Twitter · Jan 19, 2021, 1:01 AM

[dry copper]

Those motherfuckers

Leave it to these corporate slobs to patent PATHFINDING for video game development

What are they going to patent next, lip movement?

[winter yew]

lol

[dry copper]

They didn't even spell manner correctly in their patent application

"These NPCs can be programmed in an artificial intelligence manor such that their actions in the game are driven, at least in part, by real-time decisions made by the NPC algorithm regarding the current state of the game and the environment."

Unless they have an artificial intelligence building.

@raven frost I need your brain.

[0022] Turning to FIG. 1, the node network system 100 is implemented between a network 110 (e.g., cloud) comprising a server 115 (e.g., a single server machine, multiple server machines, and/or a content delivery network) communicating with a plurality of player consoles 101 (shown as any number of player consoles 101A-101N). A player console 101 can be any system with a processor, memory, capability to connect to the network, and capability of executing gaming software in accordance with the disclosed embodiments. A hardware and network implementation suitable for the disclosed system is described in greater detail in commonly assigned application Ser. No. 13/894,099, entitled "System and Method for Network Gaming Architecture," incorporated herein by reference.
From https://uspto.report/patent/app/20200338450

Does this say what I think it says? Maybe I'm misinterpreting the information, but are they planning on using players computers to daisy chain their server load?

[glass plinth]

It's a art interpreting patents

[winter yew]

ok so I had this idea for a new game

Subnautica x INSIDE

basically Subnautica but set in the world of INSIDE

[willow crypt]

:0

[willow crypt]

that type of game with playdead's artstyle would be nice

[winter yew]

like that is just awe and fear in that moment

[willow crypt]

love inside

[winter yew]

when you break through those planks and just see the endless abyss of water below

I fucking love that game 😍

but imagine that kind of world explorable like Subnautica

it'd be so scary but so cool

[willow crypt]

wonder what they'll do for their 3rd game

[dry copper]

Isn't that game a side scroller?

[winter yew]

it is

[willow crypt]

Limbo was much more greyscale/2D then they went 3D

[dry copper]

So a side scroller ocean survival game

[winter yew]

but what I'm saying is a game functioning like subnautic but set in INSIDE's world

so not sidescrolling

[dry copper]

I don't know what insides world is like

[winter yew]

but Subnautica game mechanics in INSIDE's world

all the pics above

[willow crypt]

play it

[dry copper]

I have the game...just never played it

[willow crypt]

do it

[winter yew]

you should tbh

try it

[willow crypt]

only will take you about 5 hours

[winter yew]

it's a short but beautiful game

I'm glad it doesn't go too far with the little puzzles too

they are somewhat challenging but they don't go overboard with it so you get to focus on the environment and exploration

[willow crypt]

oh shit

i didn't realize they teased their next game

https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2020/03/26/playdead-next-game-teaser/

looks sci-fi

love that dreary color palette

[winter yew]

yeah, I was just looking at that :O

[willow crypt]

they keep evolving their art style

[winter yew]

Subnautica is beautiful, but there is still some kind of eerie beauty in a dark, de-saturated world like INSIDE

I'm glad they kept the simple, yet beautiful design concept too

[willow crypt]

same

games get too busy these days

[winter yew]

they don't need super high-res textures, just great shaders and coloring

exactly

INSIDE is one of those games that showed me that IRL-resolution isn't necessary for a beautiful game world

it's probably one of the best game environments I've played in

that and GTFO

[willow crypt]

btw, if you're into this stuff you might like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIV-6kwEBL8

[winter yew]

holy shit how have I not seen this yet

[willow crypt]

whoops thats a gameplay walkthrough do not watch whole thing

[winter yew]

yeah, I'm not gonna spoil it for myself

all I needed was to see the first minute and I'm sold x3

[keen dome]

does the perspective look off to you?

[winter yew]

took me a second to realize what was off about it lol

it looks really good otherwise

I was just like "totally normal painting oh wait-"

[keen dome]

Yeah but like I assume its Vegeta up there, it looks off

[willow crypt]

i think it’s the distance between vegeta and the spherical energy ball, there’s too much distance

[winter yew]

yeah, maybe it'd look better without him over the purple energy

[willow crypt]

especially if the energy is coming off the hands

[full pivot]

alternatively

[keen dome]

See that perspective looks better to me

Kinda

Still looks a bit angled

[full pivot]

it might be the only way to do it

i guess for vegeta and goku i'd have to look at how the original scene was drawn too

cuz i feel like it used that same type of perspective

[coarse swift]

I appreciate these Starry Night alternatives

[dry copper]

Listened to about 2 mins of that video and I wanted to punch the guy in the face. I hate when people record themselves drinking and eating...

[willow crypt]

yeah i thought i shared a trailer

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fow61Zsn2s

[heavy zenith]

http://dailygrindhouse.com/thewire/johnny-mnemonic-1995-25th-anniversary/ seems appropriate, given that NAS was cured last night

i've never seen the pinball machine but i hope i do someday

[charred badge]

4 Starry Night Dragon Ball

[keen dome]

https://youtu.be/qrra18TChxY

[dry copper]

@heavy zenith Pathetic. He only has 80 gigs of memory

[heavy zenith]

160 with a doubler!!

[dry copper]

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-memory-capacity/

[static trellis]

Another stupid Skyrim moment lol: https://youtu.be/c_ycjUjWBww

[dry copper]

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

[wet warren]

That's pretty neat

[fleet moat]

I forget who plays GTA Online here. If you do, make sure to get The Toreador for free this week. It's the Podium vehicle. And I just found out you can store it in the Kotsaka submarine like the other moon pool vehicles So badass.

[heavy zenith]

blinks

"What's happening?" [system command shell] "Podium. Submarine. Someone talk to me. Moon pool?!"

today i have learned about objection.lol

whoever trained this AI did well

[fleet moat]

I need an emoji for depicting when stuff goes over my head

https://tenor.com/view/drax-the-destroyer-dave-bautista-metaphor-guardians-of-the-galaxy-over-my-head-gif-3613490

[wicked patrol]

Anyone want to play gat5?

Gta5

[heavy zenith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmz67ErIRa4

[winter yew]

Really actually a great thing to listen to :3

I always love songs like this

[dry copper]

@winter yew Trust me. I'm shantying hard rn...I have to make these shanties worth the grade I lost for late submission of my assignments. Fortunately they aren't worth a whole lot.

[heavy zenith]

for extra credit, sneak in a youtube link to an unlisted clip of you singing sea shanties

and/or don't in case they get upset

[fleet moat]

Wow. I haven't seen that movie in forever. Still don't get the references. 😆 My brain's too slow.

[dry copper]

https://tenor.com/view/small-small-center-zoolander-ben-stiller-ants-gif-5494197

[heavy zenith]

all of those GTA terms are incomprehensible, and in that scene, she lists off a bunch of incomprehensible names, so it clicked in my head somewhere

[cinder vessel]

I got a set of dominoes and my brain's already going into game design mode to come up with new games to play with them, lol

[cinder vessel]

@raven frost https://twitter.com/NexusSites/status/1351454585844543489

Nexus Mods (@NexusSites)

Play as "Mater from Cars" in #Teardown

https://t.co/5SfXdk9AXN

Twitter · Jan 19, 2021, 9:00 AM

[stiff dust]

hades, lucier aspect, i tried to go as fast as possible but i got 5 sack in the temple. feels bad

[crisp sparrow]

I really take my achievements for granted, I assumed most people who play Stardew valley would have at least completed the mines to level 120 but apparently a lot of them never do

[stiff dust]

good god is that the lowest level?

i only made it to 50

[keen dome]

You guy got that far past the one lady boss?

[full pivot]

i still need to try out Hades :S

[keen dome]

It's a fun dungeon crawl but damn it gets hard

[crisp sparrow]

Wow yes lol and you pretty much have to do it to progress in the game, it does take me time but I assumed that most old players would have been done with this but the subreddit proved me otherwise

[winter yew]

Could you maybe not, randy?

[stiff dust]

do seals agro when hunted?

[winter yew]

When they're manhunting, very.

[stiff dust]

oh those are crazed seals

well

are you gonna do something or let then get bored and leave?

[winter yew]

I've yet to see zombie animals "get bored and leave" tbh.

They always find a way to the gates, and when there's none, they chew one.

Here fortunately, mechs helped me out

[stiff dust]

lmao how was i supposed to know they were zombie seals. well rip now you have a bigger more robotic problem

[dry copper]

just greeeeeaaat....Printer jams like a mofo.

I'm really starting to hate my long hair

But if I cut it, I'll have to cut it again anyway because time

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1128920/EVERSPACE_2/

Steam

EVERSPACE™ 2

EVERSPACE™ 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with deep exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience a thoughtful story, set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils. In the campaign, you will make some friends with their own story to tell. They wi...

Price

$39.99

Recommendations

208

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Early Access open now

[full pivot]

ty!

ffs 42gb

[dry copper]

lol. in Everspace 2, you better save....because you don't respawn if you die

It's game over. Back to last save

[full pivot]

yeah X4 is the same way

X-Universe used to be even worse cuz you couldn't save in space unless you bought insurance at only specific places in the game xD

[silver sparrow]

@stiff dust so what arm/aspect do you usually rock with?

[stiff dust]

my most favored is the fist/demeter and spear/achilles. least favored is shields and king arthur

[crisp sparrow]

oh they kept the roguelike mechanic? interesting

[charred badge]

Sounds like it just doesn't have checkpoints

[winter yew]

I’ve been peeking at streams of the game, seems fun but I think I’ll wait until it goes out of Early Access

[charred badge]

I liked the beta demo

[silver sparrow]

so the claws? don't you have to pick an aspect though?

[still meteor]

Have anyone seen that Everspace 2 game that is on sale in steam?

UI is just NMS

Even the font is like NMSish

[keen dome]

Yeah I noticed that

[sleek cloud]

looks quite good, keeping an eye on it

[still meteor]

unreal always looks good

just, lol, it's like nms 2 or something

the design is the same

[crisp sparrow]

I cant see anything in it that resembles nms

if anything its design is closer to ED

unless you mean this lol

which is just coincidental as NMS' new UI came at the same time Everspace 2 was in early access

[balmy plaza]

Tbh that looks close to destiny 2 if anything

[fervent fog]

it looks like a game for me.

[stiff dust]

demeter is my fav aspect for the claws <3. achilles is my fav aspect for the spear :)

[silver sparrow]

ah ok...i thought they had different names

[winter yew]

It’s in Early Access right now so in all honesty I would wait

[sleek cloud]

ye that's what i'm doing

does look very good already though judging by the comments/reviews

but i'm focusing more on ED for the time being

[stiff dust]

what about you smoosh? what are the aspects that you enjoy escaping with? or if you arent sure yet, how about fav boons? ||athena dash is not a valid answer because everyone loves athena's dash||

[crisp sparrow]

I loved Everspace and will probably play the heck out of the 2nd once its final

[bronze wind]

it's a different type of game, i bought into the early alpha and i like it more than the first one

but it's more RPG/looter ish now, instead of roguelite

[dry copper]

I think everyone should fight over similarities in basic concepts until they lose sight of whether or not the game is any good, in favor of attributing all that's good in it to something else entirely. That sounds like a good idea.

Also, space ships go brrrrrrr

[full pivot]

I’m going all in on Everspace 2 fuck it!!!

[bronze wind]

the flight/combat is really satisfying

just like the first one but better imo

[crisp sparrow]

but better

[silver sparrow]

i need a ranged weapon and then for keepsakes i do artemis/criticals, distant foes dmg buff, patroclus damage shield, then lucky tooth ;)...chasing all the hammers and hermes boons for speed/range/multiple

[crisp sparrow]

man I'm more hyped now

[full pivot]

Bet butter

[crisp sparrow]

anyway uh stardew valley, the new endgame stuff is HARD

[full pivot]

It’ll take a minute for it to download for me so I prolly won’t see until this weekend

[crisp sparrow]

but so worth it

spoilers ||one reward you can get is a key that lets you go in anyone's home at any time of the day or night||

[stiff dust]

lol that reward sounds bad out of context

[crisp sparrow]

ikr

but man

I already maxed out friendship with almost everyone already but if I hadnt this would be so good

[bronze wind]

yeah sohail imagine everspace 1 but you have more freedom in customization and with a few more types of ships

[charred badge]

Ahaha, I forgot you could mess with shield boomerang like this
https://youtu.be/puZYwiIdVzw

[bronze wind]

also it's open world but not insanely too large

[austere lance]

I started Final Fantasy XV, this combat is weird

[winter yew]

Arc is a fan of that game

Combat is a bit like KH if I remember right

[austere lance]

I've never gotten very far in a FF game, ngl. The last one I got more than an hour into was VI 😆

Holy fuck these cutscenes are insanely good looking

[winter yew]

Yeah, it's a pretty game, decent characters n story. Didn't care for the setting.

[austere lance]

Jesus, they made the lips sync with English too?

[winter yew]

I believe so

[austere lance]

I figured it would just be dubbed

I'm playing the Royal Edition so it keeps popping up random DLC items 🤣

[winter yew]

You're gonna fish a lot

I used you as an excuse to use these emotes

[austere lance]

I'm uh, starting to see why people make jokes about this being a massive interactive gay movie 🤣

What in the hell is this mechanic lady wearing, LMFAOOOOOO

[coarse swift]

@austere lance My spoiler free ending pic

[austere lance]

Is that........102 hours

[coarse swift]

Technically longer

There's post-game content

[austere lance]

Jesus fuck

I was like "I haven't seen any standard Japanese fan-service in the game yet, I'm surprised!".......then the mechanic lady showed up, lol

[winter yew]

The game is all about them boys.

But yeah

Cindy needs clothes hehe

I think she's the only one like that.

[charred badge]

I'm not sure how I feel about collegehumor coming up with the same joke that I did.
https://youtu.be/LTydy0lH33k?t=3m35s

[winter yew]

Oh S0ul! There's a prequel movie and a four episode animated special for FFXV. @austere lance

They were made to go with the game, not just silly extra stuff.

[austere lance]

Good lord

Tfw you set up camp and pull a tent and a bunch of chairs and whatnot outta your ass

[coarse swift]

I mean

You already pull swords outta there

[austere lance]

LOL

This food looks good, ngl

[coarse swift]

That's a famous aspect of FFXV

[austere lance]

IT PLAYED THE OG FINAL FANTASY LEVEL UP TUNE

[coarse swift]

Had some damn good looking food.

[austere lance]

Ngl this is pretty fun, lol

I HAVE THE CAR BACK

[acoustic solar]

Old ass multiplayer game from late 90's on PC called Acrophobia

Get a series of letters, make phrases out of them, vote for your favorite. Fun points game

What is it

[sleek cloud]

1 sec

[acoustic solar]

np

[sleek cloud]

classic!

[acoustic solar]

Nice. just looking at screenshots gives that old school vibe

[sleek cloud]

i loved it, me and the dad would spend hours on it

[acoustic solar]

He's not a dad, he's THE dad

sorry lol I meant that as compliment

[sleek cloud]

no need, i know 🙂

now he likes building settlements in Fallout 4

i think delta force might have been THE first multiplayer game i played

online

[acoustic solar]

It was one of the first to be online

[sleek cloud]

especially with the amount of people on a server at a time

[acoustic solar]

yeah 32 player

[fleet moat]

Omg This guy is so fun. I wanna wear weights on my daily walks now 😆 https://youtu.be/crKohKpVoAM

[acoustic solar]

did he get faster?

a little bit

[austere lance]

Oh look, another yearly video
https://youtu.be/FndjDVw72sg

I'm not salty I swear

[fleet moat]

Yeah, just a little bit. Lol So funny. I love his experiments. Especially the one where he plays Death Stranding on a treadmill. https://youtu.be/xmABK2Chwe0

[austere lance]

Oh god, the water level in Psychonauts follows the videogame rule of water levels

[charred badge]

omg they have zero-gravity features.
Mag boots align to whatever, so they can make vertical hallways and ceiling stores

going up the wall, 😄

[cinder vessel]

😔 bring back the solo options~

[austere lance]

Nier Automata GOTY Edition is $20 on humblebundle rn

[winter yew]

Oh wtf.

Aight, I'll keep my promise of grabbing it when it's on nice sale to whoever I made promise to.

You and Woop I think actually. 😛

[austere lance]

Gud

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUOF0LMYkdk

[austere lance]

Oh shit, I just realized The Medium is the first actual Series exclusive. There isn't a last gen version

https://youtu.be/ve5QM0d9fP4

[cinder vessel]

Lol Troy

[austere lance]

Jesus, nothing runs it at 60 FPS???

[winter yew]

O_O

I almost skipped over them being PC specs.

[cinder vessel]

they're going for cinematic 30 fps /s

[winter yew]

Your eyes can't see above 30fps anyway.

[sleek cloud]

gonna turn out to be some tech demo

[prisma geyser]

the human eye can't perceive past 24FPS /s

[winter yew]

Ayyyy

[prisma geyser]

FUCKING A HEX GET OUT OF MY HEAD

❤️

[winter yew]

😌

[cinder vessel]

lol

[austere lance]

To be fair, it's basically two games running on the same screen at once and interacting with each other

[cinder vessel]

isn't this just the silent hill ripoff/wannabe

[austere lance]

The only similarity it has with Silent Hill is a weird "other place", but in this you play in both places at once

[cinder vessel]

the ambiguity of silent hill is that you were doing that too tbh

big part of what made it so fucked up

[austere lance]

No, I mean at the same time 😆

[cinder vessel]

So did I

[austere lance]

You're looking at both worlds on screen at once through the whole game, one on the left side of your screen and one on the right. What you do in one affects the other, so if the one on the left encounters a wall or door the one on the right can't move

[cinder vessel]

But also Soul Reaver was cool with this

Soul Reaver is probably the better point of comparison

Man, such a bummer that series was left to rot

👀
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1319420/Chasing_Static/

Steam

Chasing Static

In the dead of night a fierce storm rages across North Wales. Miles from any town, Chris Selwood seeks refuge in a remote roadside cafe. After a brief moment of respite, Chris finds himself venturing into the woods blindly following the distressed screams of the Cafe waitress.Explore the untouched wilderness of rural Wales as you uncover the for...

Release Date

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[winter yew]

Oh God.

Reminds me. I need to go back to Generation Zero.

[cinder vessel]

How's that been btw?

[charred badge]

The crime mystery/drama show that's popular on Ion?

[winter yew]

Slow at the minute.
I'm finding the lack of NPC's discouraging but I was working through it. I enjoy the gun fights, they are weirdly satisfying.
Crafting is the usual BS that we've been forced to love.

I do have issue with how OP the robots seem for early game. They seem to spot you so far away, so far in fact I can't even see them.

[cinder vessel]

Y'know what's weird? From the looks of things, the game didn't have crafting originally, at least if what I read was right

Or if it did, it was different from what's in there now, not sure

[winter yew]

Ah, that could easily explain why it's the normal basic merge a couple things together to magically create something new.

[austere lance]

Lol

[cinder vessel]

Did you try adjusting the difficulty to deal with the bots? I know that's something they've been tuning a fair bit over the updates

[winter yew]

I don't think I did but I definitely will do.

[austere lance]

Ah Generation Zero, idk wtf happened during development but that game was a LOT more fun looking in early trailers

I made the mistake of looking at recent reviews for it on the store and whew lad 😬

[winter yew]

I feel like I'm a step behind all the in game characters right now which I guess makes sense considering the town evacuated.
I don't know if it'll change and I will eventually meet someone else but it's a literal ghost town right now that's over run with robots.

[austere lance]

Why do new survival games have to add useful options (like difficulty, resource rarity, etc) after release, smh. Drake Hollow did it too, tho the Play Your Way update is 👌

[cinder vessel]

Yeah, Generation Zero basically released in a really barebones/rough state, which explains the overall review trends.

Recent reviews are probably because it's still in an awkward state

[austere lance]

I wonder if Atomic Heart is gonna have a good release

[cinder vessel]

Also I suspect many folks are still trying to solo it (because who else is playing?) and the game really leans towards coop

[winter yew]

Ohhhh, actually I can see that now you say it.

[cinder vessel]

Albeit personally I find it kinda hard to imagine playing it coop

[austere lance]

Yeah Generation Zero was heavily marketed towards multiplayer

[winter yew]

I guess I should have researched some more in that case.

[cinder vessel]

I dunno how the looting would work with others, given how small some of the spaces are

[winter yew]

I have no intention on multiplayer in the game.

[cinder vessel]

It sorta bums me out because there's something about its atmosphere that I kind of dig

[winter yew]

Atmosphere is great.

[austere lance]

Everything has to be multiplayer nowadays, dontcha know

[prisma geyser]

I don't think Cyberpunk is multiplayer tho

[winter yew]

It's coming.

[prisma geyser]

oh god

[winter yew]

Next year.

I will go back to Generation Zero. I really hope it changes up some and I lose the feeling of just aimlessly running between locations just because.

[cinder vessel]

If you'd like another weird game of roaming empty-ish environments facing bots, might I recommend, Sir, You Are Being Hunted?

Or their followup several years later, The Light Keeps Us Safe?

Both of which made with single-player in mind

[winter yew]

I'll check them out.
I always take a look at games you recommend cause you're one of the few here that step outside of the usual day to day game.
Stuff I would usually overlook I guess.

[austere lance]

https://youtu.be/kxdWSyoBcH0

This game is weird as fuck and I live for it, lol

Russian Prey 2017 with creepy as fuck robots and associated organic/inorganic hybrids

Ffs, who makes a trailer like this 🤣
https://youtu.be/FJ7cCN-DmFY

[cinder vessel]

It's worth noting that both those games I mentioned are like the definition of indie, so have their limits/quirks to them in terms of rough edges, but I give them more of a pass because they are indie.

Not like, y'know, Ubisoft or Bethesda, who have way less of an excuse

[silver sparrow]

@austere lance between vigor, dayz and gen zero, i found myself playing dayz the most

[dry copper]

@austere lance Been following Atomic heart for what feels like years. Weird as fuck.

Why do Russian game devs make such weird shit?

Breathedge is another Russian made game...It's fantastic

Also weird af

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ7GrwFvdic

[willow crypt]

oh yes i remember you sharing that one

[dry copper]

Game review

CLUCK-CLUCK-CLUCK! CLUCK! - The Chicken

[cinder vessel]

@austere lance btw, I'd recommend checking this out, re: The Medium:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_uD7gxIF2s

[austere lance]

I played 15 minutes of Layers of Fear and almost fell asleep 🤣

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46C-0VjLxPE

[sleek cloud]

https://open.spotify.com/track/1UWGkn34CD31VQfdi4D8Zp?si=RaQk15SlQqayzXUY4Bk2Qw

[austere lance]

Eh, I dropped FFDP after their.....interesting music video

[sleek cloud]

what was that? i haven't seen their music videos?

[austere lance]

They decided to get political
https://youtu.be/eOkkWIOkWl8

[prisma geyser]

Eww

Five flavor fruit punch

[winter yew]

as if they weren't political from their very first album

sorry, i mean, patriotic.

[cinder vessel]

that vid is full of mixed messages tbh

can't land'em all i guess

[charred badge]

Oh, are we doing interesting music videos? https://youtu.be/hES9IBTPbcw