other-games

[tired bramble]

Besides, I want the same experience I would have gotten playing these games on launch day

(More or less)

I actually played through CE on my iPad Pro just to get closer to the 4:3 I originally played it in

[coarse swift]

I should try out Reach

[tired bramble]

I debated playing 2 this way but honestly it feels great in ultrawide

[coarse swift]

Been many years since I've played it

[tired bramble]

I mean, you can’t possibly tell me that CE’s original visuals don’t still hold up, artistically

Graphically no, but the original vision is still very strong

For comparison

Idk, I just don’t really agree with the anniversary changes, they changed too much

[austere lance]

Yeeeaaaah, the CE Anniversary devs back in 2010 took......liberties with the art style

H2 Anniversary is a whole different animal, that was done in-house by 343 themselves long after CEA was done by Saber Interactive

[tired bramble]

CE Anniversary looks… soulless

[austere lance]

H2 Anniversary is gorgeous, not weird and ultra colorful like CEA

As I said, made by different devs for different generations of consoles. CEA was done by Saber for the Xbox 360 back in 2011, H2A was made by 343 and released on Xbone in 2014

[tired bramble]

H2 Anniversary does look good but the inconsistency with the cutscenes takes me out of the experience. I wish I could just have in engine ones using the new visuals and actors

[austere lance]

The cutscenes were basically treated like small movies, Blur made them seperate from the game

Most people love em cuz the cutscenes of H2 were the best part

[tired bramble]

I like them but they’re bugged for me

Maybe if I can find a fix

[austere lance]

It's weird they're bugged, defo look up a fix. Pretty sure they have ultra wide support

[tired bramble]

But yeah I love Halo 2 so far

Incredible game

[austere lance]

Ah, 343 doesn't have an official fix for ultra wide issues so the community uses this
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1711-halo-the-master-chief-collection-ultrawide-cutscenes-fix/

[tired bramble]

Dude heck yes, THANK YOU

I might still play in the original graphics but that’s gonna be awesome for a replay

[austere lance]

Yee, it's hella fun to see the difference in graphics

[tired bramble]

Is Halo 3 redone at all in the collection?

[austere lance]

Nope. Just has higher resolution and cleaned up textures. All it needed tbh, it still holds up incredibly well

It came out 14 years ago and it's still a better shooter than 90% of the crap released since

[tired bramble]

I’m really excited

[austere lance]

https://www.polygon.com/2021/3/8/22311846/valheim-design-secret-negative-space-player-trust-pacing-boss-battles-building

[crisp sparrow]

Good article

[cinder vessel]

i wish certain games would take a note from this and trust players some more

[austere lance]

This immediately makes me not wanna play it

[cinder vessel]

yeah from what i've watched it's not challenging, just some tedious gather junk a bunch to get to next tier of equipment kinda thing

[austere lance]

Hmm

[cinder vessel]

apparently tedium = challenge though? 🤷‍♀️

Meaning JRPGs are actually the hardest games on the planet 😂

[austere lance]

I guess it doesn't really matter to me, I can't play unless it releases on console 😔

[cinder vessel]

and animal crossing...is the hardest game of all

[glass lily]

So not to dis on Day Z or anything but where the hell are all the bloody zombies also why does it assume you need to eat every 2 minutes like it’s sad in a zombie game finding a zombie is difficult also what’s with the bloody loot I find book bag after book bag but food and drinks I can’t find

[full pivot]

Tedium does equal challenge in 90% of all videogames from current to the 1980s

Repeat X screen until memorized

[glass lily]

I decided to try it out today played it for a couple hours thought maybe I just got unlucky then the servers went down and came up which should re populate the world with zombies and loot etc ...

Has anyone played Day Z?

[cinder vessel]

i think dayz was just one of those neverending in development games that didn't really go anywhere...?

[austere lance]

Is still going too, lol

With bad console ports

[glass lily]

At least 7 days to die has zombies and crafting etc

[cinder vessel]

I honestly forgot DayZ even had zombies

[glass lily]

Dude I can’t believe how much empty space Day Z has

[full pivot]

Day Z was just a mod originally I thought

Mod of Arma 2

[cinder vessel]

All I remember about DayZ was people being dicks to each other in a survival open world

It was, yeah, then they tried to make it its own game

And it's just sorta been coasting along ever since, I guess

[glass lily]

Dude the people I ran into just kept showing me their farms

[full pivot]

The gameplay would be driven by origin though

[glass lily]

Like I’m confused

[full pivot]

The vast open map is very Arma

[cinder vessel]

Yeah, it was very detail-oriented

Like crouch/prone and body part damage I think?

Plus hydration and such

[glass lily]

Also what language is this?

[cinder vessel]

At least back when it was a mod, dunno about the full game

I think it was set on some Russian/East European island?

I'm thinking Russian but honestly not sure

[glass lily]

I mean the most loot I found was bags To put loot in

[cinder vessel]

I'd save yourself some time and play something else tbh. It's one of those games where it's more about your interactions with other players, and if there aren't many other players...It's kinda just like that, I guess.

[glass lily]

I have a bunch of my body’s littering the map with 4-5 bags I keep dying to starvation finding food isn’t that bad but if you don’t have a knife you can’t eat

Well most things pumpkins etc it seems

[full pivot]

Soundtrack of the year 2021 already decided https://youtu.be/NRFE54svs6E

[cinder vessel]

Outer Wilds is gooood

[full pivot]

Unfortunate release time

So I hope you actually mean Wilds

Time reversal thing

Was originally a student project

[cinder vessel]

...Uh...Care to try that in one complete thought?

[full pivot]

Nah

I don't think there's anything confusing in what I said

Outer Wilds and Outer Worlds came out around the same time and people mix them up constantly

[glass lily]

lol you mean the fact that outer worlds and outer wilds came out at the same time

[cinder vessel]

Oh, right, one's forgettable tho

One's amazing

Wilds is the amazing one

[glass lily]

i liked both but admittedly worlds after playing through was a lil too meh fun at first but too easy to be op

[full pivot]

I played Wilds long before it existed as a released game so I had been waiting many years

[glass lily]

i play too many survival/adventure type games lol

[full pivot]

I wonder if you can still find the original project 🤔

Outer Worlds is literally Fallout 4 and and Skyrim, and Fallout 3 and Oblivion and Morrowind. They're all the same thing with different set dressing imo

[glass lily]

outer worlds is a lot less open though

it tried to claim it was open but once you start playing it quickly narrowed

[full pivot]

Size of the map doesn't really matter

[glass lily]

size of content in game does though

[full pivot]

I immediately found a stash of 90% useless items and I was like glad I'm just trying this out cuz oh boy its another TES type

I don't understand the point of making everything able to be picked up when its mostly useless shit that just encumbered you

Oh hey never use that "take all" cuz most of this is dead weight

Or like the one NG save where you cheesed some late game enemy and got a weapon or something off them that you'll never need to replace

[glass lily]

however i am really looking forward to the new StarField i am very hopeful that with the new budget and everything that we can get a godly bethesda game like bygone ages

[cinder vessel]

I think I found a lil' hidden thing in Outer Wilds...And promptly died poking around it 😂

[full pivot]

I highly doubt Starfield will be decent since Bethedsa got away with 76

[glass lily]

i mean it forces them to start from scratch

the reason 76 was poor is because they reused almost every aspect from 4

including bugs

[cinder vessel]

back when the whole open world do whatever thing wasn't as big, I thought Bethesda's stuff was pretty amazing, but that was waay back with Morrowind. Which, while solid (except the combat), their open worlds aren't that much different than others anymore, outside of a bunch of junk items to burden you

Also Morrowind was really only amazing in the basic pitch, once you played it that kinda faded out, like almost any open world sorta game

[glass lily]

i dont know ive never really "finished" a bethesda game fallout 4 and skyrim i played for hours and i cant forget building up the towns etc and creating families in skyrim or the guild questlines

[full pivot]

Those games seem cool at first until you found out they're all a 4 inch deep ocean

[glass lily]

then when i was able to mod the console versions i spent even more time on them

although triple A games have been going downhill i really cant wait for the next Mass Effect/ Dragon Age type game with actual love and effort put into it where your decisions actually change the game and pass on to the next game

i am tired of the companies that made masterful games just not putting the love into their games anymore

[full pivot]

Ez drop AAA

[glass lily]

i dont know even non AAA companies arent pushing out great games

[full pivot]

There's a lot of non AAA games that are awesome wdym?

Go play Manifold Garden as a quick thought

[cinder vessel]

speaking of, i should also get around to finishing that...But trying to focus on Outer Wilds again atm, lol

[fervent fog]

whoever doesn't think this is delusional

[full pivot]

I need to finish both

[glass lily]

Gears new game dropped the ball, Atlas dropped the ball, Ark is just a rollercoaster, NMS while fairly entertaining now definitely dropped, Mass Effect Andromeda wasnt bad at all but they didnt keep up with it, Unfortunately Terraria is coming to a close, Dark Souls just seems to have ended completely, btw i am just stating random games that are coming to mind even games i thought were fun at first quickly lost the appeal after awhile like atomicrops, undermine, ooblets

stardew valley without mods

State of Decay 2 was great during the first year then the second year it didnt feel like they gave it the same as they did in year one

[full pivot]

Half of those are AAA

Like how did you put Andromeda in there haha

[glass lily]

i never said they werent i was just listing games

[full pivot]

Well I already named an indie game that's great

Manifold Garden, go

I mean its not a farming game 😝

[glass lily]

Andromeda was great but they gave up on it just because of a lil backlash from the outspoken few that didnt understand that the team working on the game werent the same team that worked on the rest

what is Manifold Garden?

[full pivot]

Puzzle platformer

Very stylized

[glass lily]

btw sorry i might just be ranting about games that i just wish was a lil more i like if not love the games but they just fall short

hmm PC or Console? i can play either

[full pivot]

Both

[glass lily]

what would you say its meant for then? is it more geared towards console or PC?

[cinder vessel]

i think i may have uncovered a lil' shortcut entirely on accident in Outer Wilds, lol

Gotta do more research tho!

[full pivot]

I think that game has tons of secrets

I'm not good at finding them 😔

[full pivot]

Also Bramble place triggers my thalassaphobia

[cinder vessel]

That was one of the first places I fumbled through, probably should revisit it 😅

[full pivot]

In the original it was worse

I flew in unknowingly and got eaten by the fish

And I got so scared

[winter yew]

Some madman cut GTA loading times by 70%

Rockstar is implementing it in the next update

[keen dome]

I seen that but how lol

[full pivot]

Same way modders fix Fallout 4 but Bethesda never does

[winter yew]

Basically the store items loaded so poorly it made the whole game slow

Guy made changes to one JSON file and fixed it or something like that

Lmao

[bold crag]

i saw that too

a hurray to rockstar not beign able to fix stuff

[fervent fog]

skill

sarcastic, offending Rock Star, of course.

[charred badge]

Apparently the guy got paid for it too

Rockstar confirmed better than bethesda

I forgot how nice the n3ds plates are

[winter yew]

I had one of those but it’s smol design and sharp edges were cramp city for my hands

I have the new3DSXL

[charred badge]

The XL isn't much bigger, and it's a lot heavier

[paper pasture]

Satisfactory update 4 out today on the experimental branch woooooo

[broken prairie]

oooohhh

imma wait till its on EA branch tho

imma wait till its on EA branch tho

[glass plinth]

Those comments on dropped games from Devil made me laugh. Lumping NMS into the batch was silly considering they still have plus 20 devs working on it. Its just slow bake since they cant work in studio. Unfortunately with the current work environment that hurts studio based games.

Hrmm, a lot of the small games I play seem to be doing well though. Most of those worked remotely anyways though.

Ark definitely is a roller coaster though.

Atlas really had a bad start with what was going on in the studio.

I guess at the moment, I mostly play Valheim. Its such a lovely quite survival game. Simple really. I mostly play it because of that inherent simplicity

[austere lance]

I've been playing Fallout 4, the amount of damage sponge is real

[cinder vessel]

Outer Wilds is currently my playthisplaythis game

But also, Paradise Killer is sick and you should play it too. It's like the flipside of Outer Wilds, where you explore & investigate people instead of places

[dry copper]

@glass lily The language is Russian. That's a highway sign indicating the distance to ТУЛГA(Tulga) and KAMЫШOBO (Kamyshovo)

The game is Dayz.

[silver sparrow]

i never got past 2 hours 🤷‍♂️

[dry copper]

I haven't played outer wilds. It looks like an entertaining story.

If not a bit tedious

I don't know if I'd be able to stand doing the same things over and over and over like it's groundhog day

Just navigating one change after another to try and save time

[silver sparrow]

never played hades then 😄

[dry copper]

I've been really digging multiplayer games lately

I want games to be easier for people to play together and have fun

[silver sparrow]

what u been playin

apex?

warzone?

[dry copper]

Lately, three games. Escapists 2, Green Hell and Valheim

[cinder vessel]

you have to be in the mindset for it, would recommend trying again sometime, it gets better and better

[silver sparrow]

there is another freemium...dauntless maybe

green hell is MP?

[dry copper]

yes

[silver sparrow]

whoa

did not know

i own it on switch

[dry copper]

It's fantastic mp

You get to pull leeches off your friends

[silver sparrow]

i assume pvp not co-op

ohhh

[dry copper]

Co-op

You can MP in survival mode of various difficulty levels or MP the entire story

[silver sparrow]

i might have to try that

i haven't even done mp in ghost recon break point

[cinder vessel]

you don't do the same things over & over unless you're just really determined to figure specific locations out.

I've been going here & there between different worlds/places piecing together more & more

[dry copper]

That's on my buy on discount list for sure

[silver sparrow]

i do like to revisit my orphaned games 👶

[dry copper]

Is it compelling enough to or are you a completionist?

[cinder vessel]

I'm not a completionist, so for me it's just compelling enough

[dry copper]

Does outerwilds end over time or is it triggered by events?

The cycle repeating

[cinder vessel]

I only go into completionist mode if I really like a game and it's not stupid about what it counts towards completion

So the cycle repeat is on a set time, yeah

But you keep information you gather

Literally, in your ship log

And if there's something more to find, the game tags some stuff with, "There's more to explore here" so you can get a better sense of what to revisit

[arctic sparrow]

@dry copper it cycles every 26 min no matter what you do

it's rather tilting when you're in the middle of something and the timer is up

[austere lance]

I love watching people get Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds mixed up, lol

[dry copper]

I got bored of outer worlds pretty fast.

But I didn't like the combat

Felt jank af

[austere lance]

Was just basic Fallout combat 😆

[willow crypt]

great characters though

i want something....more grand from Outer Worlds 2

[austere lance]

https://youtu.be/ShSivSvHQWI

😌

[willow crypt]

https://wicrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/katana-zero-original-soundtrack

[austere lance]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9nxg/should-you-pay-for-a-dedicated-valheim-server

💀

[brisk maple]

I can already hear a triggered hoarde of Americans

[cinder vessel]

tbh i can't imagine trying to play out capitalism in a survival adventure game, lol

it's a surefire way to piss everyone off

[austere lance]

Its potent mix of Breath of the Wild and Minecraft with a viking aesthetic is shockingly polished

Where do they find these people 🤣

[brisk maple]

Well trying to sell basic commodities like water and food will make people mad when it's digital water and food, but less people get angry when it's real water and food and the money isn't going to someone nearly as well off as you.

I apologise if I come off like I don't think little green notes should be in control of what is required to stay alive.

Don't wanna get political

[thorn dawn]

ok rockster paid that dude $10,000

that's pretty fair

[austere lance]

Double Fine Twitter>Wendy's Twitter, lol
https://twitter.com/DoubleFine/status/1371853173300805634?s=09

Double Fine (@DoubleFine)

if you're wondering why I'm tweeting so much right now, I just had some mini goldfish and a monster ultra zero energy drink aka "boomer juice"

I'mma be revved up for 30 minutes and unconscious for the next thirteen hours https://t.co/qUXfUj7A2v

Likes

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Twitter · Mar 16, 2021, 3:57 PM

[shadow tartan]

Sony announces new PS5 studio
Jade Raymond is heading up the studio
RIP new studio

[winter yew]

Dauntless is pretty much 'Monster Hunter for babies', but it's plenty difficult. When you get to some of the monsters that start zipping through portals at high speeds or spamming a disco ball light show at you, you've hit some of the harder content 😛

watch this https://youtu.be/2_7La4LeO44?t=53

it's also cross-play so you can play with PC/Xbox/PS4/Switch players too.

[untold gull]

Gets plenty hard on heroic behemoths too. I still haven't checked out the new ones. Glad to see they are still adding stuff

[winter yew]

yoo i saw that, i just haven't had the time to dig back in

Realm of Ice is the latest update it would seem.

[untold gull]

It's called urska looks awesome. The high tier behemoths really make the game worthwhile but it's fun to beat up on the noob ones solo haha

[winter yew]

the Escalation quests are pretty challenging

and actually caught me off guard the first time lol

[untold gull]

Yea the game has completely changed in the past few years. Lots of good updates

The aether strikers are fun too

[winter yew]

yeaaa

im heading to bed though 😄 goodnight

[loud slate]

caption: shitshitshitshit

[winter yew]

Wonder if should I bail or not

And I'm fully aware that mountain range to the right is just pure aids, didn't realise 3x3 mountain's a thing

my 3rd run, just discovering the game :D

[winter yew]

Went for it, skeletons taught me a lesson on humility.

[empty crag]

They let the lesson sink into your very bones 😎

Gotta love Create and Immersive Portals mods~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W317Sz46U7E

[austere lance]

TIL Wolfenstein The Old Blood is WAY more badass than I expected, lol

[crisp sparrow]

this reminds me I need to make my auto crops farm with Create

[charred badge]

Oy, Dauntless talk!
I just get rubbed the wrong way by how floaty the movement is.

[austere lance]

Kill me now
https://youtu.be/5lAw1791hK4

[charred badge]

is that a balder's gate dark alliance remake?

[austere lance]

It would like to think it is, yes

It's.......something

[charred badge]

ok sure, make it into a third person action rpg

[austere lance]

I believe the phrase is "ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag"

[charred badge]

reasonable move these days

top down clicky action rpg is a bit out of favour rn

or at least, heavily monopolized by PoE

[austere lance]

The cinematic trailer back in 2019 was atrocious, not suprised to see the gameplay is too 💀

[charred badge]

heh

[austere lance]

"Warhammer Vermintide sold well, let's make a knockoff third-person one with D&D characters"

[charred badge]

?

heh, it has drizzt

because of course it does

salvatore's self insert gets into everything

he was annoying in the original

had twinkle and icingdeath, which was fine, I guess?

[keen dome]

because thats his weapons in the lore?

[charred badge]

arcane archer was so good, though

[austere lance]

The game is an......adaptation (not really, lol) of what happens in between two of the Icewind Dale books

[charred badge]

walk around in full plate as an archer, lol

[keen dome]

thats not lore though, he literally is a dual wielding fighter/rogue

[austere lance]

Sticking Drizzt in a funky PvE hero-looter (like Vermintide) is just insulting

[charred badge]

oh, is it not even set around baldur's gate? I guess that explains the name

...oh, a reboot not a remake

disappointing

we don't even have a port of BGDA 2

I never got to play it, because I had a gcn and played the first 🙄

[austere lance]

@charred badge No, it's a weird adaptation of what happens between two of the Icewind Dale books

[charred badge]

I don't remember what I disliked about drizzt in BG:DA

I think he had some locked gear?

[keen dome]

guess ranger is actually what lore states

[charred badge]

drizzt is whatever is necessary to the book

[keen dome]

I've read every book about him

[charred badge]

you are made of more patient stuff than I

[keen dome]

he is a ranger who dual wields with a onyx panther

[charred badge]

although his second sword never gets a name, iirc

[keen dome]

yes it does

[charred badge]

he just takes it from the lair of icingdeath

[austere lance]

I love Guenhwyvar 💕

[charred badge]

unless they changed that?
I just remember fans complaining about that at the time

[austere lance]

Anywho, why that game exists is beyond me. Who looks at the Drizzt books and goes "This lad needs to be stuck in a stupid Bruckheimer-worthy action-RPG", smh

[charred badge]

ah ```

The sword Icingdeath first appeared in The Crystal Shard but remained nameless until it was called "the newly named Icingdeath" as a side-note in the book The Silent Blade.```

[keen dome]

Drizzt's favorite weapon was the scimitar, and he carried two, nicknamed Twinkle and Icingdeath. He also carried a unique figurine of wondrous power that summoned his black panther companion Guenhwyvar.[33] The drow wore a pair of Bracers of the Blinding Strike (obtained from Dantrag Baenre, weapon master of the first house of Menzoberranzan who challenged and lost to Drizzt) around his ankles, which made him incredibly quick on his feet. He chose to wear them on his legs instead of his arms because when the enchantment combined with his natural speed, his sword swings became too fast for him to control (making it hard to change directions), and his feet could not keep up, resulting in extremely predictable attacks.[34]

[charred badge]

...drizzt is ridiculous

[austere lance]

I think I quit reading the books after the Crystal Shard trilogy, so idk anything about those magic bracers

[keen dome]

Cleric Quintet was my favorite with his apperance

[charred badge]

he gets into everything dnd, like I said

...rememberwhen dedicated strat sites were a thing?

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Baldur's_Gate:_Dark_Alliance/Drizzt

So yeah, he couldn't change weapons at all

kinda crummy in a top-down dungeon crawl looter

And only had two active abilities.

[cinder vessel]

Mmmm, Outer Wilds is so good, and I still have a planet I haven't even been to yet

[keen dome]

love this angle for the screenshot

[balmy plaza]

One of my favourite ever games

[willow crypt]

Gotham series is fun

in a way, i appreciate it more because of how over the top and closer to fantasy it is as opposed to the realism of other stuff like Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight

[austere lance]

Gotham 💕

[willow crypt]

i honestly really enjoy the cast

[austere lance]

Yee. It's the only Batman-related show with a good Zsaz

[willow crypt]

he’s great!

[austere lance]

There's other characters in the later seasons that don't show up much but are 👌 when they do

[willow crypt]

i’m in 4. hope Joker returns

[austere lance]

The last season is fuckin wild

[willow crypt]

oh i’m not sure i realized it came to an end

always better to end strong instead of stringing along mediocre content

[austere lance]

S5 is the last one

[full pivot]

getting that loop hero with the soundtrack haha

[willow crypt]

nature is amazing https://youtu.be/sflgUE9h2JY

[wet warren]

Indeed

[austere lance]

I figured out why people watch Netflix when flying passengers in ED, traveling 500k Ls takes 20 minutes 💀

[winter yew]

whats your favorite game coming out this year ?

[raven frost]

N/A

I haven't been truly hyped for an upcoming game since god knows how long

[austere lance]

I'm looking forward to Mass Effect Legendary Edition, Biomutant, and Halo Infinite

[raven frost]

it's funny though, most of the games I've been super passionate about as of late have been games I've just stumbled across

[austere lance]

I'm currently busy suffering in Elite Dangerous 💀

[charred badge]

it's almost like the hyped games that get pushed everywhere are generally disappointing

[raven frost]

why are you playing ED if you hate it so much

stop

[austere lance]

I'm done with passengers for life good lord

[charred badge]

ugh, I need to finish modding my sticks so I can play ED more

[austere lance]

Cuz I figured out how to make it fun, I was just stupid and took one last passenger job before transitioning to salvage/search and rescue 😭

I saw 2m Credit job for one passenger and thought it would be simple. It was a lie

[raven frost]

lmao no

expensive jobs are never simple in ED

[austere lance]

Only one destination, it said

[raven frost]

there's always a twist

[austere lance]

One passenger, it said

Then I got to the star system and had to travel 500k Ls

[raven frost]

if it's a mission where you have to jump once, be prepared to be flying in a straight line for like 30 minutes

[austere lance]

I'm in the asshole of The Bubble, I swear

Been sitting here in Supercruise forever

15 minutes, to be exact

[raven frost]

the magic of binary star systems

may as well grab a snack and put on a good youtube vid

[austere lance]

After this I'm getting rid of my stupid passenger cabin and replacing it with a smaller one and some cargo space for salvage/search and rescue

[charred badge]

goddamn cargo to colonia missions

[raven frost]

I don't hate ED but the whole "warp to a binary system and have to fly for 30 minutes meanwhile having to ALSO keep on your toes because you can get interdicted at any given moment" thing really grinds my gears

SC does this too except there's nothing in between

[austere lance]

I play solo with no cargo so no interdictions, lol

[raven frost]

npcs can still pull you out of supercruise

[austere lance]

They only do it if you have goodies, in my experience

[raven frost]

is a passenger not a goodie?

especially if they're considered an enemy of whatever group attacks you?

[austere lance]

Tbh in my 30 hours of playing I've only been interdicted like 4x and all of them were when I had dank cargo

[raven frost]

lucky

I've been interdicted even when my hull is empty

idk

again I have my complaints about ED but at least it isn't SC

SC's space travel is painfully empty last I played

may be different now but I'm really not willing to download it again until development really starts speeding up

[broken prairie]

yeah SC space travel is boring af unless u have mates on a large ship

[raven frost]

even then there's not much you can do once you're in QT

you can get up and move about, but there isn't much else to do

that is, if you don't fall out of your ship... 😒

[austere lance]

Auto launch and auto dock are lit, lol

So is Supercruise Assist

[raven frost]

heh, this is where I get to flex my boomer muscle

back in my day we didn't have no stinkin' automated systems, we did everything manually

[angry old man noises]

[austere lance]

Lol

It had auto dock when I first played but it didn't have the other stuff, that's new

[raven frost]

ye, that must be new

when I started out it was all manual

[austere lance]

The new tutorial is so much nicer, like god damn

You literally go through Commander school, LMAO

[raven frost]

where is this? never seen it myself

I know there's in game tutorials but they're completely different from what I'm hearing here

[austere lance]

You can do the tutorial whenever you want, it has its own tab when you're selecting what kind of lobby you want

[raven frost]

hm, I'll have to take a look

[silver sparrow]

i will re-DL when i have feet for free 😄

[austere lance]

Satisfactory apparently has beeg update

[cinder vessel]

Rebel Galaxy Outlaw has some of the best space travel mechanics. You can fly manually if you insist but otherwise just jump right over to your destination, no bullshit

There's a little more for sector to sector travel but not by much

[austere lance]

I'd love RGO, too bad I've literally never seen it on sale

[cinder vessel]

It's baffling to me that space sims insist on the most mindnumbing parts of simulation that are literally what makes space travel to distant locations prohibitive to us

It's in the distant future but let's make sure it still takes about the time to drive to a nearby city to get anywhere

[bronze wind]

I hate it at the scale of something like ED but I also found the implementation in RGO to be pretty boring

just instant warping to a spot feels so cheap and takes the exploration part of it out for me

granted it's hardly an exploration game so it isn't the most valid criticism

[winter yew]

Kinda afraid of whatever the hell happened in that forest.

[shadow tartan]

https://blog.playstation.com/2021/03/17/play-at-home-2021-update-10-free-games-to-download-this-spring

[willow crypt]

i recommend Moss, PaperBeast, Subnautica and The Witness

[broken prairie]

subnautica is scary

i got a mod that makes it only night

spookay

[willow crypt]

huh

I would not see the point in that because I like the contrast between day and night darkness and light

[glass plinth]

A sense of dread at the coming night for me, was fun

Especially if you had to dive deep soon

Mind you at a certain depth its dark as hell anyways

[willow crypt]

yeah

And having that less dangerous shallow waters where the sun is bright eases the mind

[glass plinth]

You know, Im on the edge witht he discussion of warp times in ED. I actually enjoy the long trip times in ED. Making those long passages to distant inter solar system bodies was.. I cant put a finger on it

Good.

However, I find the control in RGO compelling.

Sorta torn.

The longest I had to fly in a solar system was 5 hours I think. That was freakish though.

Usually solar systems arent that big.

This one though had a planet orbiting a tiny distant star in its orbit

I just wanted to go see it, didnt realize, it was sooooooooo far away

Looking back at the other star when I finally made it was amazing

PLUS there was a colony on that little world

What a fucking view.

Not many games capture that same sense of awe I had in ed.

Valheim has me exploring in a similar way. Going out into the world and finding those amazingly beautiful vistas.

[willow crypt]

I look forward to playing that on console

[wet warren]

I would also recommend Abzu from that list

[fervent fog]

I got Abzu for free on EGS, still need to play it

[austere lance]

It's like an hour long but pretty to look at

[wet warren]

Definitely something to take your time with

[willow crypt]

i wonder if Hello Games have played Subnautica or Abzu....🤷‍♂️

[glass plinth]

LOL

[cinder vessel]

yeah i was about to say...Since I take it as more about dogfights I don't mind it as much, but I also don't think exploration games have to make travel take forever, especially if they don't really have much to find

[wet warren]

Maybe some of them have

[willow crypt]

maybe like, one of them

[glass plinth]

Im fairly certain almost every programmer I know played subnautica.

[cinder vessel]

Also couple cool games out today, either for first time or first time on console:
Adios & Signs of the Sojourner

[shadow tartan]

Majority of good game designers play other games 😉

[glass plinth]

I guess it all depends on what you feel is worth finding Leon. Its all a matter of perspective and how peopel value how time passes. I can definitely see your perspective. Mine just differs lol.

[willow crypt]

@shadow tartan i’m jesting

[cinder vessel]

or Outer Wilds

[glass plinth]

Space games certainly have a lot of potential designs. Exploration ones are so damned rare.

[bronze wind]

yeah I agree when it takes a long time it's just tedious, I think NMS has a decent balance which is what draws me in most of the time @cinder vessel

[shadow tartan]

I know bruv, I've just had to deal with some that don't play enough and can't deliver

Breaks my black heart

[glass plinth]

LOL! One game Im seeing almost all my programmer and art friends play is valheim. They are taking a LOT of notes.

[willow crypt]

Game developers who don’t play games should stop making games

Same with writers

[shadow tartan]

Damn right

[willow crypt]

People who write a book and don’t read anyone else’s books should never sell their own book

[wet warren]

Probably because they want to try and replicate certain aspects that made Valheim successful

[shadow tartan]

Valheim has smacked it

[austere lance]

I feel like the travel issue in ED is most easily circumvented by not picking destinations and just hopping around looking for signals to investigate, lol. Be a salvager boi and look for abandoned ships and whatnot

That's what I'm switching to

[glass plinth]

Me, Im a deep space explorer. I go to the edges

Ive been places, Im fairly sure no one will ever be to again

[austere lance]

I use an Asp Explorer but don't actually explore with it

[glass plinth]

Which is a shame. The most beautiful world I was ever on was at the galactic edge. A beautiful ice world with deep canyons with 4 moons circling it, the cloest being a volcanic moon glowing in the night sky

Sigh, it was absolutely surreal

What was even more surreal was looking out when it faced away from the galaxy and not seeing more stars

Just open space.

[austere lance]

In my defense, Asp Explorers have a suspiciously large amount of hardpoints and internal module room for something you just yeet around space in 😆

[willow crypt]

I’m good with exploration as long as there’s plenty of waypoints and not too much empty space leaving me wandering for three hours without seeing anything new

[glass plinth]

hehe, I was out in a good old diamondback

I love the way its engine growls

I just cant justify the time sink though. Games like ED are almost a lifestyle.

[austere lance]

Does staring at stars for 15+ minutes while traveling in a solar system count, lol

[willow crypt]

I think those games and the time sink are more justified than games like destiny or outriders or borderlands that make you replay the same content over and over

[glass plinth]

Peh, 15 minutes, try hours

You definitely want some good music

[austere lance]

Blech, I'd rather watch or play or read something than turn on a glorified loading screen for three hours

[willow crypt]

yeah NMS is an exception, as it’s meant to be a chill experience

but we could use many more interesting points of interest in space and on planets

[glass plinth]

Im a technical type. I dont mind solitary emptiness

Which is why I loved kerbals

Mind you kerbals has fast forward

😛

Im curious how interstellar travel will be handled in kerbals two.

They basically added that as a long term goal. Building a immense ship will take ages!

[austere lance]

ED is literally just empty space, sadly. Which makes sense seeing as it's our entire galaxy, but still. Lots of empty travel time

[glass plinth]

Hrmm

well besides all the stuff you find.

Ive found abandoned probes, old crashed ships, abandoned colonies, old battles amidst asteroid belts

Mind you thats spread out over weeks of travels

its sparse

[austere lance]

How to go somewhere distant in a solar system:
-Hit button
-Watch your ship travel however many lightseconds for 10+ minutes depending on how far away your target is

[glass plinth]

The coolest i found was a ship that crashed, with a line of tread tracks, half way around the world, to a abandoned colony, there on a launch pad are the blast marks of a ship that lifted off.

Three words on the launch pad

We Made It

hehe

Now that was cool.

[willow crypt]

that’s neat

[glass plinth]

Its all over, easter eggs, stories

[austere lance]

My friends who used to be really into the game would just turn on Netflix while their ship traveled, lol

[willow crypt]

One thing is for sure, games with less points of interest but unique ones end up being more meaningful and memorable

[glass plinth]

hey, I did that too !

I loved Netflix

One monitor had netflix, the other had my maps, the other then game

My little ship cockpit so to speak

[cinder vessel]

thing is, at least imo, you don't need to make travel take forever to make those fewer points of interest "more meaningful"

[glass plinth]

I wont disagree

You have hundreds of millions of star systems

[willow crypt]

Yeah there needs to be a balance

[glass plinth]

Even if they speed it up, it change the time

but in a good way

I dunno, I respect the fact with the way the background generation works, they probably balance it well with faster times

A lot of technical reasons

Such is game design I suppose

[austere lance]

Any jobs in the game with destinations to go to are awful, just endless 20 minute travel segments between stations or whatever while you dick around on your phone or watch Netflix

[glass plinth]

Some people love that though

I suppose the game just caters to those people.

*shrugs *

The elite series always catered to those peopl.e

[cinder vessel]

in my experience, both IRL and for game stuff, finding/getting stuff taking a long time is rarely justified. There's a difference when it comes to awaiting the creation of something, mind, but when something is already done and all you're doing is delaying something without much of worth in-between?

All you're doing is teaching patience in practically the silliest way imaginable, lol

[glass plinth]

Thats where, you can just suck it if you like it if a dev simply says, this is our crowd, we service them, dont like it find another game

Unfortunately there arent many other games with that scale

I wish there was

[cinder vessel]

i'm glad there aren't personally, lol

it's not the scale that matters, it's what's populating the space

[glass plinth]

Well, thankfully the people who do like ED have the game to play. There arent more games of the style for specifically the reasons your listing.

The cloests I came to ED was maybe

X series

[austere lance]

Traveling to places blows, therefore I'm just gonna fly randomly and scan for stuff to salvage/escape pods to rescue. I already named my ship Serenity, I shall next reenact Firefly 😆

[glass plinth]

hehe

I think if I started ED again, after the next update, I mite stay on planets

be a foot explorer

[cinder vessel]

i should just gift you RGO instead S0ul, lmao

[austere lance]

[glass plinth]

Never enjoyed RGO

To arcadey

Im more a space sim gy

Mind you it was pretty!

Fucking goregous

There is another space game, whats it called...

Just coming out

[cinder vessel]

the closest i've come to space sim is probably X3, which i've tried several times over the years and just bounce off of like every time

[glass plinth]

Still ea?

[cinder vessel]

Starbase?

Forget what it's called, but there's one Ghostcart's been playing

[glass plinth]

Hows everspace 2?

Havent even looked

[austere lance]

I feel like I'd spend more time in RGO playing pool than doing ship things 🤣

[cinder vessel]

apparently a bunch of folks are digging Everspace 2

[austere lance]

Is it out yet

[cinder vessel]

I'm just waiting for it to leave Early Access

[austere lance]

Ah

[cinder vessel]

ngl that is definitely how i spent the first few hours, lmao

[austere lance]

Can I beat people with a pool cue in RGO if they cheat

[cinder vessel]

no, sadly

[austere lance]

Smh

[cinder vessel]

but they also don't cheat

well, anymore than any AI does

[austere lance]

Outlaw, it's even in the name 😤

[glass plinth]

Hrmm, I heard similar about ever space leon.

I dunno, its pretty

Ill give it that

plus it has a tactile collection system

I like that

[cinder vessel]

it's not a spacesim, but it is more of like a space action RPG sortakinda? so it may balance out for you there

[austere lance]

Everspace was annoying. Everspace 2 looks good tho, a full-fledged ship RPG sounds fun 😆

[glass plinth]

Meanwhile, Im knee deep in valheim, building a beautifl colony. I just see myself going to a new game anytime soon.

[willow crypt]

and story driven right?

[cinder vessel]

That I dunno about tbh

[austere lance]

Everspace 2? Pretty sure it has a story of some kind

[cinder vessel]

The story in Everspace 1 was pretty sparse, so not sure how much focus it may have in 2

[austere lance]

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

Apparently it does have one, lol

Makes sense they'd focus on that this time, the first game had diddly squat for a story

[willow crypt]

on planets??

[austere lance]

You don't walk around on em but yeah

[cinder vessel]

huh, while trying to find the name of the other starship building game Ghostcart was playing awhile back I stumbled across this:
https://cosmoteer.net/

[willow crypt]

puzzles. neat

[austere lance]

Hardspace should hurry up and fully release, lol

Lemme turn brain off and chop chop ships like my boi in Titan AE

[cinder vessel]

blagh, wtf was that game called, i think it started with an E, it was very early access, was supposed to have shipbuilding and had you able to go on-foot on planets to a degree, and flying around your constructed ship

stop naming space games random E words, ffs

[glass plinth]

Dual Universe or Empyrion?

[cinder vessel]

nope

[glass plinth]

Hrmm

As for everspace 2, man, very feature dense systems

But only 2 now

4 planned this year

So at that rate, in a few years maybe 20

Sorta a inverse ED

Dense but small

Not a bad thing

[cinder vessel]

Starship Evo! There we go!

[glass plinth]

Haha

I forgot that one

[cinder vessel]

Jeez, that is NOT a memorable name

[glass plinth]

No its not

[willow crypt]

Dense but small is good for me because I get to enjoy it right off the bat and then drop it once I run out of content

[cinder vessel]

had to look through ghostcart's posts in here to find it

[glass plinth]

I guess HG is taking that to heart with its next project

Small but dense

Thats probably why they have so many damned artists on the new team.

Though with COVID, how many of those 30 plus are still working?

Artists I guess do work from home mostly

Frankly after Covid, my expectations for releases are diminished

[willow crypt]

I would love to see something that only focuses on maybe a few planets from hello games

[glass plinth]

Imagine a solar system, with the level of detail, each planet type, but hand made, beside proc gen

Phew

thats a neat concept

[willow crypt]

We get all these games from AAA game studios that take place on multiple planets but focus on one small map but there aren’t many games out there that allow full world exploration but only give you a limited amount of planets to explore

[glass plinth]

Scale is a bit issue.

[cinder vessel]

lol zug i dunno what you're adding to messages lately but i keep seeing [OBJ] here & there

[glass plinth]

In valheim, you have a limited amount of content, exploring the world losing its purpose after a point, because you only have so many possible variations of islands.

So even with the huge world, I only ever explore maybe 10 percent.

[willow crypt]

I’m using voice to text this whole time and then editing like every message

[cinder vessel]

aahh

[glass plinth]

AHHH, been there, done tha

Still beats typing a entire message on a cell

Lol

[willow crypt]

Yeah but all the more frustrating when you have to edit it

[glass plinth]

Im sitting here, looking at my bank account, wondering what the heck to fix first

I havent had options for so long.

[willow crypt]

Buy some really good hotdogs

Or a pet hamster

[glass plinth]

HA< already did

The sausage part

I bought a pile of awesome hand made sausage from the local butcher

and a keg of good beer.

[willow crypt]

mmmmmm

[glass plinth]

That shall be dinner tonight.

I would have in the past updated my pc, I have a gpu, but... I just dont have a reason to yet

[willow crypt]

i want a draft lager

[glass plinth]

YESSSS!

Lageerrrrr

thats what i got my friend!

Wish I could share with you

[willow crypt]

noice

[glass plinth]

I love this lager, it has a great head to it.

Goes amazing with sausages

[willow crypt]

i bet

[glass plinth]

still deciding whether to get a new cpu, ram and mobo

I have a 5700xt, so no need for a gpu

my old 4690k still going as good as ever

Seriously funny, I played cyberpunk at high fps on a old cpu

I never expected this cpu to be this good, this long

[willow crypt]

wonder how they’re doing with Cyberpunk’s updates

[austere lance]

They're not

[willow crypt]

really?

i don’t want it to end up like Anthem

[glass plinth]

Well, they had the hacking incident

Its really came to a crawl

[austere lance]

Issa joke, I just haven't seen any news on it since the hacking

[willow crypt]

i think that was fixed

[glass plinth]

Yeah, they said it added months to the dev cycle

[willow crypt]

months...that sucks

fuck whoever did that

[glass plinth]

I did play the game a lot, at least I enjoyed it 😄

[willow crypt]

what if it was a dev and it was their plan all along so it would give them some slack

[glass plinth]

ha

[willow crypt]

i’m sure there are many things to enjoy

[glass plinth]

That thought crossed a lot of minds.

Sadly, I cant firmly say its impossible.

[willow crypt]

that’s one way of doing it

[austere lance]

Interesting article on it, I can't believe it's been three months since it got removed from the PS store 😬
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/03/17/is-cyberpunk-2077-in-no-mans-sky-mode-or-getting-abandoned/

[willow crypt]

wow

They should leave last gen behind and focus on current gen

[austere lance]

Allegedly the next "big" update is at the end of the month

While no, Cyberpunk 2077 is not a live service game, at this point they need a more coherent roadmap. They sort of released one a few weeks ago, but it was essentially just “we’re delaying free DLC until maybe spring. We’re delaying next gen release until the second half of the year.”

[glass plinth]

Im sure they cant really abandon the older gen. Liabilty contracts would stop them

Unfortunately they really did themselves in

[cinder vessel]

in more positive news, this lovely game is now on consoles, and I very much recommend it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JzDIVHfLDE

[glass plinth]

They never ever should have released on the older xboxes

Hrmm whats this leon?

What the literall hell is this...

Ha, you find some quirky games Leon

So they had a interview with one of the devs from Irongate

The first thing they said, they expected 1 million sales over a year. Plenty to thrive on and keep going with development

the fact they are at 6 million basically at 4 weeks..

Sheesh

The response was, they feel a mixture of joy and terror

Lol

[cinder vessel]

And this curious looking game, for those more into narrative games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is4dqQTP86I

[willow crypt]

nice

been too long since my last first person narrative walking sim

which i think was Edith Finch

there’s another one i can’t think of the name of right now

also, whoa this looks fun https://youtu.be/m8ogIEQGvH0

[cinder vessel]

I can definitely see folks streaming shenanigans with it, lol

[austere lance]

You can't tell me this isn't the canceled Prey 2 project set in the Warhammer universe, lol
https://www.polygon.com/22335758/warhammer-40k-necromunda-hired-gun-leak-xbox-one-series-x-first-person-shooter

[cinder vessel]

lol

[austere lance]

You're a bounty hunter doing parkour stuff and hunting aliens

[willow crypt]

only warhammer game i played was Space Marines on ps3. fun

[cinder vessel]

All these Warhammer 40k games and i'm like, "okay how many books do i need to read to wrap my head around any of the story"

[austere lance]

Developed by the same team behind Space Hulk: Deathwing, the game puts players in the role of a mercenary hunting criminals and mutants on the mean streets of the Imperium’s most famous hive world

[cinder vessel]

what if you want to be the criminal hunting mercenaries, huh? HUH?

[austere lance]

I fully expect them to say they were inspired by Prey 2, lol

[willow crypt]

i want to be a rat

why are there so many heart emojis

you are

thank you

[cinder vessel]

Oh, btw, before I forget, Anodyne's developers announced their next game today, Sephonie:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1248840/Sephonie/

Steam

Sephonie

Coming this year. Wishlist today!Memories linger across time, deep beneath the island’s surface...In this story-driven 3D platformer, explore Sephonie Island's massive cave network, and link with unidentified species using the novel Puzzle Grid system. Explore the island's depths as shipwrecked biologists Amy, Ing-wen, and Riyou, unravelling mys...

Release Date

2021

▶ Play video

omg this day just keeps dishing out the good stuff, a Super Monkey Ball-like game is coming soon:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/873270/Rolled_Out/

[austere lance]

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/valheim-players-built-a-rollercoaster-and-i-would-like-a-go-please

[cinder vessel]

lol

[austere lance]

Why is Valheim the new Minecraft, lol

I've seen people build massive bee farms, LMAO

[cinder vessel]

probably because it's more interesting to build nonsense than fight gobblegorks

[austere lance]

People are treating it like a second life and building huge farms and communities and whatnot, lol

[broken prairie]

i cant seem to get into it

shrugs

[dry copper]

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is great if you enjoyed Edith Finch

I love building in valheim

Their design tools give you a lot of leverage to design freely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTFbGcnl0po

[willow crypt]

@dry copper Vanishing of Ethan Carter was actually one of the first first person narrative games i ever played, and probably my favorite. really great experience

[willow crypt]

HOLY crap

Finally.

Disco Elysium on ps4/5 this month

same day as Outriders though...

[coarse swift]

I aint concerned about Outriders

[willow crypt]

Disco Elysium is a bigger deal tbh

been waiting for a date for over a year

maybe a couple

[winter yew]

Dilemma.

Do I bail, cause it's been a rather aids run, or do I try to take down the boss.

I'm solid 60% sure I can't take him on.

[austere lance]

https://wccftech.com/persona-5-xbox-game-pass-rumor/
https://wccftech.com/sekiro-shadows-die-twice-xbox-game-pass-ps-plus/

[winter yew]

About that ost tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvnxWqYzF1E

Damn this one's amazing.

[cinder vessel]

well, again, it's because at a certain point there's not all that much else to do, I'd imagine

What I'd hope is that Valheim sticks to whatever initial design visions they might have had and goes with those, and doesn't let the community influence them too much

[raven frost]

I wish they wouldn't compare us to cyberpunk

nms doesn't deserve this

[wet warren]

That would be interesting if Persona 5 came to Xbox

[cinder vessel]

but it was totally a AAA title with a massive success prior to NMS to ensure it would be great! 😂

[rigid haven]

Is cyberpunk still not on the ps store? I thought it was re-added or something

[full pivot]

"CDPR isn't like other game companies"

[broken prairie]

https://ncase.me/trust/

cool little thing about trust

[crisp sparrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq4VveB7QcM

the more analytical videos I find about J Dilla the harder my mind blows thinking about how goddamn genius he was

[shadow tartan]

RIP Dilla, I only found out recently that MF Doom died.
No more Trinity :cry:
https://youtu.be/x8Ru8d0l_fU

[crisp sparrow]

yeah I was pretty late in finding that out myself, RIP :(

[shadow tartan]

Dude, Madlib found out when everybody else did. So sad.

[crisp sparrow]

wow

[shadow tartan]

Yeah that post from his wife on Instagram

King Geedorah take me to your leader ❤️

[crisp sparrow]

the biggest takeaway for me is that these people not only heavily influenced later rappers and artists but even others of totally different genres

[shadow tartan]

Kool Keith too man

Imagine going from Ultramagnetic MCs to rapping on Prodigy albums

https://youtu.be/Hy3CHycwasA

https://youtu.be/u2rsKZVvo_g

[austere lance]

https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1372521681168781314?s=19

IGN (@IGN)

Sony has revealed the new controllers that will be part of the PlayStation VR 2 package. https://t.co/YL8QmlvUHv

Retweets

226

Likes

2663

Twitter · Mar 18, 2021, 12:14 PM

[willow crypt]

oh shit

OH SHIT

[glacial ridge]

they look like those toddler swings

the swings where toddlers sit

on the playground

[willow crypt]

i’m so glad we won’t have to deal with these anymore

[maiden glen]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seanweech/holomento

help another indie out

[glacial ridge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX9MOVIMYkg why am i watching this

[austere lance]

What if I said I like the new Wolfenstein games more than the new DOOMs 👀

[maiden glen]

i like the original dooms more then the new ones

[wet warren]

The graphics of original Doom hold up well

[dry copper]

Yay

[willow crypt]

@cinder vessel this was the other narrative game i was trying to think of https://youtu.be/r688icDZLsg

[crisp sparrow]

either the trailer was cut badly or this game looks awfully generic

[thorn dawn]

Slenderman: the last of portal stranding?

[willow crypt]

as long as it has a unique story to tell, i'm all for it

it kinda looks like it's gonna be just another first person horror game, but i'm pretty sure it's less about survival and more about just exploring to reveal the story similar to games like The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Gone Home, etc

which we need more of.

the horror game market is oversaturated

[austere lance]

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/03/18/idxbox-twitch-indie-showcase-march-26/amp/#click=https://t.co/aRYmO3OCp3

Indie game showcase

[dry copper]

I've been playing the trial for The Tenants. It's a fun little game

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1009560/The_Tenants/

Free Trial
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1546540/The_Tenants__Free_Trial/

Steam

The Tenants - Free Trial

The Tenants - Free Trial is a standalone prologue to the game "The Tenants". It is a free game that includes some features available in the full version. It includes:- Storyline Prologue that explains all the main features- The first district - Slums- The first four archetypes of tenants- Jobs system- Babysitting system- Renting apartments and...

▶ Play video

[full pivot]

time to start playing bloodborne ost during 40k
https://youtu.be/kA614N3IHD4

[echo hill]

So I recently have rekindled my love for Halo and holy fuck it's some of the most fun I've had playing videogames in a very long time

[coarse swift]

I currently have a goal to play all of the Halo campaigns back to back with two friends of mine

Moon has first dibs

[full pivot]

moon halos are cool

[dry copper]

Never played Halo. Never got attached.

I had an xbox one(I think it was called) with the red ring of death issue back when it first came out, but I was not into it at all...the machine

[echo hill]

Have you played them before?

[full pivot]

i played Halo 3 with friends I used to chase them in that motorcycle thing in the desert map

[echo hill]

Hahaha yess

Sandtrap

H3 Multiplayer will always be fun

[full pivot]

and then i drove a mongoose through a blocked door into another map and my friend was like WHAT THE FUCK when I ran him over cuz he wasn't expecting it to be able to get in there 😛

jumpscare achieved

[dry copper]

Geese....They can go anywhere

[willow crypt]

one day, i will have a pc

and one day, i will play halo games

[wet warren]

one day, i will have those same things

Modded Halo looked interesting

[echo hill]

Modded Halo is unbelievablely fun

I played a campaign overhaul for Reach and holy fuck it was incredible

And I think they're adding a custom server browser soon

[austere lance]

That was the 360, lol

[echo hill]

Ah yes

Red ring of death

I remember trying to fix thag

That

I remember there was a temporary fix where you could literally wrap the Xbox in towels and let it overheat for like an hour and for whatever reason once it cooled down it would work again for like another 2 weeks

[wet warren]

Honestly though this mod just seems hilarious to mess with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsBuOf5JFSg

[willow crypt]

wow

[raven frost]

I have extremely fond memories of halo despite never really getting attached to the series

played through most of the campaigns with my brother and much more

he was a lot more into it than I was, but I still remember watching him play online more than anything

[echo hill]

@austere lance have you read Fall of Reach?

[austere lance]

I read everything up to Glasslands

[echo hill]

Oh word

I'm listening to FoR rn and it's incredible

||Keyes just took out the 4 covy ships with his crazy maneuver and holy fuck it was awesome||

[austere lance]

Keyes Loop 😌

[echo hill]

Yessir

So fucking cool

[austere lance]

Keyes good

Then you cry after reading The Flood

Honestly the first trilogy (Fall of Reach, The Flood, and First Strike) is amazing

[willow crypt]

Some of my best memories were just watching my brother play video games

[echo hill]

I'm gonna read through the first trilogy then reach Shadows of Reach

Do the first 3 books coorespond with the first 3 games?

[austere lance]

Fall of Reach takes place before CE, The Flood is a retelling of CE but also shows what was happening everywhere else on the ring while John was kicking ass, and First Strike takes place between CE and H2

[echo hill]

Ooh sick okay

[willow crypt]

is the writer well known or just known for writing Halo books?

[wet warren]

Tbh my favorite Halo was 3

[willow crypt]

i'm cautious to read books based on games

[austere lance]

Contact Harvest is also a great one, it's basically Sgt Johnson's origin story and shows first contact between humans and the Covenant

[austere lance]

There's like 10+ different authors cuz there's a bunch of books in various timelines, lol

[echo hill]

Oh so it elaborates when harvest got fucked

[willow crypt]

ah

[austere lance]

The first trilogy was written by a well-known (back then at least) sci fi author tho, it's pretty good

[willow crypt]

i'd be more interested in that

[austere lance]

He wrote that trilogy and a few other Halo books following it that continue the story

[echo hill]

I'm reading it rn and its 👌🏻👌🏻

[austere lance]

Then a bunch of other authors started writing books at different points in the timeline, lol

[willow crypt]

ha

[echo hill]

Also hearing the order for the Cole protocol was so fucking cool

[austere lance]

Contact Harvest, Cole Protocol, Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike, and Ghosts of Onyx are the ones I recommend (in that order)

[echo hill]

Imma try to read Shadows of Reach before infinite comes out because it's supposed to explain a ton about the Banished

[austere lance]

Everything after those kinda became all Avengers feeling, lol @willow crypt

[echo hill]

I'm also playing through HW2 rn which is a ton of fun

[austere lance]

The books I listed are good military sci fi books in general, not just good Halo books. Afterwards they kinda become basic videogame books 😆

[coarse swift]

All but 5

[echo hill]

Gotcha

Eh 5 doesn't count haha

[coarse swift]

I played the ones that matter

3 would have to be my comfy spot

But I do like being able to sprint

So Reach contends with it

[full pivot]

ive played 1 and 3

in my defense never owned an xbox

[austere lance]

But they're all on PC now, lol

Besides the non-existant one

[full pivot]

now

and also now i have 1000+ other games

[raven frost]

I'm curious

[austere lance]

H5 🤢

[raven frost]

O

and H4 wasn't bad? I remember H4 bring pretty mediocre

[austere lance]

H4 level design was awful, story was good tho. H5 can just not. Ground pound and shoulder charge and ADS makes it feel like CoD and the campaign was a joke that completely negated everything H4 did 🤢

[coarse swift]

Ground pound and shoulder charge?

You're kidding

[austere lance]

I wish

[full pivot]

summary of star citizen 100% https://youtu.be/Vf6SMpxEGhA

[sleek cloud]

Haha that was good and I like Bruce, great streamer. Found him through No Mans Sky on Twitch.

[willow crypt]

he comes here sometimes

[cinder vessel]

he always zooms the camera in weirdly close to his face and i feel like I need to scoot back a bit, lol

btw Adios is pretty good

[willow crypt]

haha

[cinder vessel]

the game that quietly just keeps going: https://twitter.com/PCGamesN/status/1372649956989935622

PCGamesN (@PCGamesN)

It's @GenZeroGame's second birthday, and to celebrate the start of Year 3, it's announced its next major content update. Resistance launches next month - welcome to the '90s. https://t.co/ma7LID0QjY

Twitter · Mar 18, 2021, 8:43 PM

[austere lance]

And fixes nothing, lol

OK maybe not nothing, but it's still crap

They're adding base building? Weird

[cinder vessel]

Not surprising though, given how the game was going

It's been gradually adding in a number of these little survival crafting elements

It seems like the only place that any dev can imagine that going is basebuilding these days

[austere lance]

Maybe they shoulda used the resources they're spending on this to make the base game better

[cinder vessel]

i mean they have been reworking the base game alongside all this

[austere lance]

Weird, I thought it was basically dead

OK this is kinda cool
Along with rare weapon drops, the team added a new feature, Rivals. Sometimes when players die to a robot, or when a player kills enough machines in an area, a robot will be given a unique designator and some extra strength, lending the game more variety and a greater sense that it’s responding to player action.

[balmy plaza]

New Royal blood single next Friday!

Not officially announced yet tho

[tardy burrow]

Finally got it

[austere lance]

?

[balmy plaza]

Anaconda

[tardy burrow]

Ye

[balmy plaza]

Really want one haha

[loud slate]

It think he means an anaconda, that ship

Oops I was typing that while you clarified

[tardy burrow]

Got it after mining platinum for a few hours

[loud slate]

Nice though

[tardy burrow]

Thanks

[austere lance]

Lol. How did you get a screenshot of the inside?

[loud slate]

Free-cam

[austere lance]

I had no idea they put that much detail into the insides when you can't even walk around, lol

I hope we can walk around our ships in Odyssey 😭

[tardy burrow]

I think they are going to add fully fleshed out interiors later

But not at release tho

[austere lance]

Fml

I just wanna walk around my Asp X 😔

[tardy burrow]

Have a aspx but Haven't really used it tho

[austere lance]

It's my only ship, am a poor boi with only 9m credits

[balmy plaza]

Mining in my asp atm

[tardy burrow]

Mine platinum in omicron capricorni b

[austere lance]

I'll burn before I mine in that game lol

[tardy burrow]

Don't worry you'll grow to love it

I was like you once

Only wanted to explore

But realised i couldn't make any money

So i turned to mining

And it grew on me

[austere lance]

Exploring is gross, I've been flying passengers and trading 😆

[tardy burrow]

Mine a little bit then buy a beluga

[austere lance]

I just outfitted my ship for salvage tho cuz I got bored

[tardy burrow]

So you can flex on the peasants

[brisk maple]

Step 1. Install NMS

Step 2. Purchase freighter

[austere lance]

https://www.techradar.com/news/warhammer-40k-shooter-necromunda-hired-gun-looks-like-the-prey-2-we-never-got

[charred badge]

Nice looking freighter!

[full pivot]

"Telempathic psychokinetic transceiver" is the most star trek sounding device ive heard of in a long time haha

Aka "Dream Couch"

[bold crag]

i like the word psychokinetic

i am imagining a person with telepathy but he just uses it to punch people in the face with it from large distances

[full pivot]

It does do something along those lines

Very devastating when improperly used

[bold crag]

"Gark Mindfist" the most ferocious Weird boi

[tardy burrow]

It's a ship mate , not a freighter

Freighters cost 1 billion

[sleek cloud]

Then several million just to keep it going each week

[tardy burrow]

Yes

[silver sparrow]

prey 2 when

[fervent fog]

I feel like Prey doesn't need a sequel, as good as the game was.

I mean they could make the second game a prequel, like they did with Little Nightmares...

[charred badge]

What server are you in?

[balmy plaza]

Prey with the fps boost is a game changer for console tbh

So much smoother

[charred badge]

Killer coffee cups have never been smoother

[balmy plaza]

The mimics are genuinely scary sometimes too

[white token]

but Prey ended in a cliffhanger, I want to know what happened to Domasi

[full pivot]

i dont

[winter yew]

Ohh new Beartooth! https://open.spotify.com/track/7JlMigJUTnVlmXODusrtdF?si=JQtlXnhIQLuMntbckC1XMw

[austere lance]

Next gen upgrade incoming 👀 https://www.gematsu.com/2021/03/star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-rated-for-ps5-xbox-series-in-germany

[bright knot]

Falcon and the Winter Soldier time

[austere lance]

https://twitter.com/GothamKnights/status/1372940963270643712?s=19

Gotham Knights (@GothamKnights)

https://t.co/O1U4T0gK3u

Likes

106

Twitter · Mar 19, 2021, 4:00 PM

[sleek cloud]

https://v.redd.it/033fyj52xyn61

[dry copper]

Damn you Batmaaaaaans

[austere lance]

Lol

[austere lance]

Apparently patch 1.2 for Cyberpunk is gonna fix a bunch of bugs and this

[raven frost]

The option to turn off double-tapping the movement key to dodge

fucking thank you

that was such a pain

at least let me bind it to a key + a direction

[glass plinth]

ha, nothing like a dodge off the fricking edge of a skyscrapper

SO many deaths

[dry copper]

What is the name of the patch that's going to make the game not shit anymore?

[austere lance]

Well the game was supposed to release in 2022 at the earliest, so have fun waiting 💀

[glass plinth]

Im not really worried. I enjoyed the game. Moved on o Valheim. Perfectly happy to come back in a few years. Not that unusual for me

[austere lance]

ID@Xbox, Microsoft's indie games wing, is teaming up with Twitch to host its first Indie Showcase on March 26. Xbox is promising over 100 games at the event including new debut trailers and gameplay for titles like STALKER 2, Second Extinction, and more.
That oughtta be fun

[dry copper]

Second Extinction? "When your first extinction fails"

[austere lance]

It's the weird co-op FPS where humanity lives on space stations and earth has been taken over by mutant dinos

It's fuckin bizarre to me that Necromunda: Hired Gun got announced three months before release

[sleek cloud]

does anyone else blast out Nordic music ?

[austere lance]

https://youtu.be/H87tozS9DKs

[charred badge]

Too used to neverending dev delay?

[austere lance]

Yeah, lol

That and it's not exactly a small game. Fully customizable main character (male or female), upgradeable weapons and cybernetic enhancements for you and your dog, gory af combat, and parkour + a grappling hook so you can go through levels your own way. And it looks damn good too.

[charred badge]

Dev tools are getting more and more plug'n'play

[austere lance]

Jesus
https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/zack-snyder-s-justice-league-shows-just-how-dirty-the-t-1846513408

😬

[cinder vessel]

...wow

also fuck now maybe i should watch the Snyder cut. Cyborg's one of my fav. characters from Teen Titans, so it was a bummer to see him given such bleh screentime in JL.

[austere lance]

TIL: Joss Whedon's godawful version of JL a couple years ago literally removed everything important. It also removed 99% of the cast who weren't white 😬

And it shat on the entirety of Cyborg's character even though he was basically the protagonist of the original version

[cinder vessel]

ngl i didn't even realize Whedon had a hand in JL

[austere lance]

He's the one that made the theatrical "edit"

[cinder vessel]

aka the bleh version

I feel like I watched Suicide Squad shortly before Justice League, so I just chalked it up to DC messiness

[austere lance]

Actually, iirc Zack Snyder left the project most of the way through cuz his son died then the studio replaced him with Whedon, who "edited" the movie to make it more theater-friendly and stupid

[cinder vessel]

also sounds like the studio may not have been willing to give more to reshoot some scenes in a better way so even after edit it wouldn't be so bleh

'cause given a budget Whedon can do some decent stuff, but sounds like he was given a crap budget and pressed to work with what was there, plus probably some bullshit deadlines

[austere lance]

What about removing all the non-white people

Also, he was apparently an insane dick-bag during filming

[coarse swift]

Yea I've been thinking about seeing the Snyder cut

Already heard from someone else about the difference being night and day

[austere lance]

Well yeah, the theater version was edited by a psycho who would apparently randomly rant about how people disliked his last movie (Age of Ultron) and call the actors of JL......Avengers characters??? He would call Gal Gadot "Natasha" during filming 💀

And uh, somehow during editing a massive amount of racism happened with most of the non-white characters just being completely removed from the movie and the main black character getting rewritten to be a useless nutter