obviously he considered them expendable 💀
#other-games
cinder vessel
guy has, uh, definitely declined a TON since stuff like Firefly (though apparently he's always been something of a dick)
full pivot
The cozy style of starship
solar gull
The cozy style of starship
what game?
full pivot
Outer Wilds
solar gull
also, star wars squadrons is -50% off this weekend, imo, its more than worth the price
full pivot
Oooh too bad I already got it 😖
Outer Wilds is super chill exploration, lovely game style
Got so many weird things to find its like "I wonder what's over here"
prisma geyser
...wonder if I can run it because that aesthetic is nice
prisma geyser
I waited almost a decade for Diablo 3 and then they insult me by not including Necro in it until an update years later
Q.Q
prisma geyser
now to check if it will run on my fancy potato
full pivot
Found a new place on the starter planet yesterday by being reckless
prisma geyser
I can run it on min specs xD
full pivot
Also maybe maybe not got launched off a stellar body along with my ship and by the time I turned around it was 8km away
And as I chased after it I got pulled down into the sun
solar gull
I waited almost a decade for Diablo 3 and then they insult me by *not including ...
i do wonder what the unreleased diablo 3 was like.. cause the devs of diablo 2 did have there own diablo 3 they were working on before it was cancelled and production handed off to another team
full pivot
@cinder vessel if you're ever curious btw https://amp.reddit.com/r/outerwilds/comments/e5s520/wow_i_just_found_the_original_alpha_build_not_the/
It'll seem really dated and clunky compared to the release
But that's where it comes from
keen dome
Anyway there's my sales pitch
sold
solar gull
so
it may be because im semi addicted to this game recently, but this is a really good deal, i suggest giving it a try
winter yew
watching Raya and The Last Dragon. It's pretty good so far. They picked the perfect voice actor for the dragon.
devout nexus
@winter yew Is that show on Netflix?
devout nexus
Ok I might have to check it out
balmy plaza
@full pivot outer wilds made me cry so much lol
austere lance
I'm waiting for that Disney movie to leave Disney+ Premium so I don't have to pay $30 for it 😬
austere lance
brisk maple
And as I chased after it I got pulled down into the sun
Were you burning retrograde?
dry copper
On the one hand while it's certainly more challenging making a cross generational game for lack of technology - If you pull it off, your game, your company and the profile of your developers turn into god damn superstars.
Look at how insanely popular Notch got after Minecraft.
Minecraft became the ancestor of every voxel game since
austere lance
Just make your game so well-tuned that it can be easily modified to run at 60 FPS on basically anything including Switch, lol (DOOM Eternal)
Easily one of the most well-optimized games I've ever seen
dry copper
To be fair, Doom Eternal has an advantage not a lot of games get....
His name is John Carmack
austere lance
Lol
dry copper
The man is a fucking genius in development
thorn dawn
I hope CDPR have something up their sleeves for next week because damn that cutesy blog post they did has not been well received
austere lance
id is insanely good at optimization. They helped optimize the new Wolfenstein games too
dry copper
I don't think CDPR could possibly know how horribly they're burning their futures down, by not fixing cyberpunk quickly.
It's not like fan bois aren't paying attention to this, for when Witcher 4 comes out
Even if it only creates hesitancy for a small percentage of buyers, that's a huge hit
thorn dawn
I don't understand how they can go from releasing the witcher 3 and all it's DLC to cyberpunk
It's like two different studios
austere lance
They physically can't fix it faster. Their devs have been crunching for over a year at this point (or two, if you believe Schreier). They'd have to replace their entire team with fresh faces
dry copper
It's almost like Cyberpunk was the brain child of a child brain.
So the developers are burned out.
Not surprised, honestly.
austere lance
As far as I'm aware their devs teams haven't even gotten a holiday after release cuz of the patches they've been trying to put out
Pretty sure everyone there has been ran into the ground at this point trying to release then fix that abomination of a game two years earlier than planned
dry copper
This is what happens when your devs are great at coding but horrible at keeping notes....
I once worked on a game as a level designer and got a peek at the notes in the code left for future developers...They were cryptic af...
Expecting people to update code using cryptic notes in a mess of spaghetti code...
thorn dawn
I think calling it an issue with code quality is oversimplifying it a bit
dry copper
Yum
thorn dawn
At this point it's clearly a design/management failure
dry copper
I don't disagree.
thorn dawn
Things like the poor police AI isn't bad coding, its an affirmative decision to implement it like that
dry copper
The shit has piled up so high it's virtually going uphill now.
austere lance
I applaud Sony for telling em to fuck off and removing it from the PS Store, that was beautiful
dry copper
I think Sony took a calculated risk removing it. Something tells me they knew what the code must be like for it to have been released in this state...which takes a considerable eye for integrity
Like, yeah your window has water damage on it...but uh, that means the water damage is in the wall, which could mean the wood is rotted out or there is a hole somewhere...and oop, gotta replace the foundation here.
austere lance
I love how the hype died a month after release. The amount of people who care about it anymore is basically none, it's just a meme at this point. I personally think CDPR should fuck off and refund everyone and let their devs take a four month vacation for what they've done to them
austere lance
Play Yakuza instead
Just......trust me, lol. Yakuza does everything Shenmue does but 10x less clunkily with 10x less QTEs 😬
dry copper
I hate QTE
austere lance
Oh god, you would despise Shenmue 🤣
Just play Yakuza if you're curious about the Shenmue kung fu life sim experience
dry copper
I wish Valhalla or Odyssey were MP even if for only Co-op
Been playing so much Valheim, I've become partial to the genre
thorn dawn
I love how the hype died a month after release. The amount of people who care ab...
Honestly if they haven’t sorted it this time around I’ll be looking for a refund myself. There’s no way I expected it to take this long.
dry copper
I saw Satisfactory on sale and almost bought it until I read the MP reviews
I wanted to play it almost exclusively for MP building and allegedly, it's a rubber banding whore
austere lance
Valhalla can fuck off with its horrid sound quality
@thorn dawn Bruh in the 1.2 update the biggest thing they're fixing is cop spawning 💀
dry copper
wtf, I didn't know Baldur's Gate 3 was Early Access. I thought it was the 1.0 commercial release earlier this year
balmy plaza
My housemate is Welsh and let's say the atmosphere isn't amazing after the rugby :(
dry copper
Make your house mate wash the everything
austere lance
Divinity Original Sin 3 Baldur's Gate 3 is stupidly large
Like god damn that is a big map
balmy plaza
Will it launch on console at any point?
dry copper
Divinity Original Sin 2 is on my buy list
austere lance
Probably, Divinity did
dry copper
Game looks fun
balmy plaza
Love divinity
dry copper
I'm not a huge fan of the combat style but I also don't hate it.
The RP is what looks cool to me
How everything ties together
austere lance
It's weird. Tho you can be an undead lizard person, get drunk, start stripping, then scare townsfolk with your ugly face so they attack you
Undead aren't well-liked in the game, lol
balmy plaza
My #1 bucket list item
dry copper
Every other sunday, in Divinity
austere lance
I'm not entirely sure why you start removing clothing if you get too drunk but I'm entertained by it, lol
charred badge
I've had 1 and 2 for a while but never played it
No. Shenmue is a landmark title, but it's better left as history
austere lance
Shenmue drunkenly stumbled around and scored goals against itself so Yakuza could run, LMAO
dry copper
Valheim is quickly approaching my Skyrim level hours of play
balmy plaza
Hope that it comes to console one day
Would be excellent for gamepass
Probably won't be on it tho
Though I'd bet Microsoft will offer as soon as there's word of a port
dry copper
I hope Microsoft buys out EA
balmy plaza
One less platform for them to release on I guess
dry copper
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Holy shit gamepass is getting absurd
dry copper
?
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Just poking around the ea play freebies
Oh, fyi I had a mass effect game downloaded through origin and it wasn't showing in ea play.
Went to the store page and hit Download, and it seems to have located it
dry copper
State of Decay 2 multiplayer...Wonder if it's worth it
amber kernel
So I'm watching Us right now, and why tf has the family barely aged between 85 and present day
charred badge
They're all related to sir Patrick Stewart
amber kernel
Lul
Literally this girl was like 10 at the start of the movie and no more than 18 now
charred badge
Elves have taken over Hollywood
amber kernel
Wait nvm it's meant to be the mom in the flashback
Her character and her dad just so happen to look basically exactly like her mom and her husband
austere lance
State of Decay 2 multiplayer...Wonder if it's worth it
Damn good game
I have like 200 hours in it solo
dry copper
Solo. Impressive. What about MP?
I'm trying to find a game to play with two others.
I know SOD2 is MP but I worry about banding
rubber banding
austere lance
Haven't bothered with multiplayer cuz you're tied to being a certain distance of other players, iirc. That and I don't wanna share my loot 
solar gull
I mean, just gonna point out, most of the stuff in the first part was outsourced, EaW was petroglyph, galaxies was day break, Kotor was BioWare iirc?
so the meme is a bit misleading
dry copper
No it's not. Disney sold EA an exclusivity license. That's the point of the meme
solar gull
ahh, it looked to me more like the meme was trying to say look how much more Lucas arts made, my bad
dry copper
It's not just a shot at EA for being slow, but at Disney for being stupid
Disney doesn't exactly need the money.
solar gull
also, I'd argue empire at war is still one of the best star wars games
dry copper
Question: Can you play SCUM with MP on a private session?
Like, maybe you only want to play with a few people
charred badge
Well this is a dumb good mod
cinder vessel
blagh, i couldn't help myself and decided to try Generation Zero again
I was like, let's at least try to get through the intro missions, and apparently I was on the last one of those, so that worked, but then the next set of missions?
Operates identically to the intro missions of go from point a to b and I'm just like...
daring spear
castele from behind looks pretty neat tbh
full pivot
this was randomly on my feed
also surprising me today im shocked that bandainamco is still making shit for Xenoverse 2 xD
they added evil Toppo and Pikkon because for some reason everyone always wants Pikkon
aka bootleg Piccolo
@prisma geyser's favorite
bold crag
orks are stealing the imperiums shit again
full pivot
unfortunately this is still selective based on the person(s)' bias
they just selectively choose which 4 years because it conveniently skips Squadrons
and Fallen Order
it would be like choosing the 4 years where Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi exist as "lucas makes star wars" and then contrast it with 4 years containing The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker as "disney makes star wars" basically omitting Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones to avoid Anakin cringe
visual brook
Just going to leave this one here https://passenger.itch.io/closed-hands
FFO: interactive fiction. Also has music from Paul from 65DOS 🙂
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https://tenor.com/view/morshu-beatbox-rtx-dsdda-gif-20067920
ugh claymation dragon quest
full pivot
imagine animating something from a shitty zelda game
charred badge
Neat. I exported my 3ds games to PC and now I can run them there.
dry copper
I enjoy this discord channel.
dry copper
imagine animating something from a shitty zelda game
Didn't Dorkly do that? Animating shitty zelda game graphics for skits?
solar gull
I forgot dorkly existed..
dry copper
You poor soul
austere lance
I like how the description for Rebel Galaxy Outlaw on the Xbox store is basically the same as the one for Elite Dangerous
winter yew
lol
RGO tries to sound more ambitious than it actually is
I bought it awhile back but couldn't get into it as much as I thought I would
I enjoy the music a lot but the repetitiveness of the gameplay just bored me
the 'radio chatter' from npc's is a nice touch at least
cinder vessel
I only ever really read it as space dogfights with a ridiculous paintjob customization suite and that's basically what it is, so I'm cool with it, lol
I don't think console gets the robust customization bit tho
glass lily
does anyone play DnD ? i need help with a background for a character
austere lance
I only ever really read it as space dogfights with a ridiculous paintjob customi...
The description for it is all like "Be a pirate, miner, cargo hauler, bounty hunter, etc"
glass lily
so to start off i really wanted to do a fire genasi with a love for melee and fire so i decided to go with a desert storm herald barbarian but i cant think of a background that deals with fire
glass lily
i meant as in like hermit charlatan etc you know the ones that come with feats etc
cosmic salmon
No no, his father was a renowned smith, who one day had a psychotic break and smashed his wife’s head with a red hot hammer
And so he’s determined to scorch his father with the very same heat he once used on his mother
thorn dawn
pick one that has most of the things you want, change the name, and then change one or two of the bonuses for equivalent ones
the rulebook says the backgrounds are just examples
trading bonuses is fine, as long as you're trading like-for-like
dm has to agree ofc
glass lily
btw i started this character idea because my rogue just got one hit by a hill giant throwing a dead guards body at him and critting
so i wanted a character to embue my rage you know how painful it is to suffer through lvl 1-4 as a rogue only to have it die in one hit
winter yew
anyone playing loop hero here?
Cause I wanna do it, but I don't know if I really wanna do it.
Well good enough then.
cinder vessel
The description for it is all like "Be a pirate, miner, cargo hauler, bounty hun...
oh, yeah, i guess so. I just followed the early marketing stuff & didn't skim the store page so never really saw this bit:
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is an open-world space combat adventure game, spread across the nearly 40 systems of the Dodge Sector. Play as a mercenary, a trader, a pirate, or whatever mix of the three you feel fits you best. With an engaging storyline and a full conversation system, you can follow the narrative, or ignore it and forge your own path at any time.
I saw more of this, lol:
Strap into a variety of spacecraft, settle a score in a filthy space-bar over a game of 8-ball, rock out to over 24 hours of music, and engage in white-knuckle dogfights.
cinder vessel
i think it's worth that personally, certainly more than some bigger budget games but i also caught it on sale so i get it
caught it on its, "hey we're now on this store" sale, lol
dry copper
"In Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, The Galaxy is a Rebel Outlaw. You...well, aren't you cute"
Man, I played Astroneer tonight with some friends, got myself stranded on a planet when my rocket borked....
Took 30 mins to advance my technology enough to craft a new engine
Had to make a small replicator, then a generator, then a medium replicator, then a platform, then a smelter, then smelt some aluminum, get ammonium and BOOM....done
"rubble gubble wubble lacks both the energy for short term fun and the depth for long term fun. Play it for precisely a middling amount of time for a middling amount of entertainment and then go eat a bag of plain crisps while sitting on the middle part of a see-saw."
cinder vessel
😴 i stopped caring what zero punctuation said ages ago
glass lily
Name that show “That legendary place that the end of the map reveals...”
white token
In an alternate universe, Disney gave a chance for Rebel Galaxy devs to make a Star Wars pew-pew smuggler space flying action game.
winter yew
end of an era? 😦 https://www.thegamer.com/ps3-vita-psp-stores-permanently-closed/
dry copper
That is unfortunate. Maybe they're going to release a new play station portable thingamajig.
willow crypt
willow crypt
gimme
coarse swift
Man, I played Astroneer tonight with some friends, got myself stranded on a plan...
Playing Astroneer with friends. Must be nice. 
silver sparrow
Playing ||anything|| with friends. Must be nice.
winter yew
@coarse swift aw man, they could have added Astroneer on the list of play at home on PSN
If they do another round, I'm pretty confident it'll be selected.
I love social games (with you) and they're so much more fun when they're free
glass plinth
Screw playing with others. All they do is make me wait 😛
After many years of playing games with friends, I finally gave up last year. I realized half the times I disliked a game, it was due to friends borking my experiences.
Best choice ever.
Hrmm.. well with the exception being Monster Hunter World and Overwatch. THose two games Ive found people I could play with.
dry copper
I just don't go into a game with expectations. I'm not a completionist. I play with family and friends just to screw around
Not to succeed.
If I have fun, I win
Last night we just borked the physics for an hour, making ridiculous gravity defying statues of garbage, and threw each other off mountains
winter yew
I can play with @coarse swift just fine, obviously 
However, yeah, I haven't had too many solid groups of people to play with. Most ended up being problematic.
Needless drama when Arc and I are just trying to play a damn game.
We had one guy and his friends kick their feet because we left their 100% dead Destiny clan, however normally everyone was chill and just played together as friends
Personally I could careless about clans or cliques, I just want friendly people to play with 
that enjoy each others company
I guess that wasn't the case. 
Then they had tantrum and removed anyone who still talked to us too. Lovely people.
glass plinth
I just hate how poorily prepared people are.
I play a lot of survival games. Most of my time is spent with people whining how hard it is.
Seriously, how hard is it to just collect for instance air in NMS and stay alive. Sheesh.
winter yew
I don't mind if someone doesn't know what they're doing, I only care if they start getting aggressive
glass plinth
Ive been through maybe 100 people. Only one was remotely prepared.
People just hop from one game to the next, complain its to hard.
Whats even the point?
If you spend 90 percent of your time, not even experiencing the game.
Hrmm, that is except valheim. Actually its pretty damned fun with friends . Bit of a new experience.
winter yew
I've been wanting to play that one
glass plinth
Its definitely.. Man, I just enjoy taking it slow, exploring, see the sights.
Day one of my base, its a early prototype
Day 4
winter yew
I love the art style
glass plinth
winter yew
glass plinth
Like what the heck, its so pretty
winter yew
ikr
glass plinth
Your totally welcome to play on my server if you want. I know youd be chill.
winter yew
I'm stuck on console atm so I just get to look at other people playing
glass plinth
Awww
THAT is the issue. I see
Repairing pc's and building them is very expensive now
winter yew
We have a comp, but Arc gets first dibs on it and I want us to be in a better place financially before we get me a comp
glass plinth
Do you and arc live together?
winter yew
Yeah
glass plinth
Ha, I didnt know that!
ten years this year
glass plinth
Aweeessssome! I thought you were single and all alone. Turns out you have a floof of your own, plus the arc 😛
winter yew
Two floofs and an Arc
glass plinth
This is good!
Yeah, getting another pc would cost at least 850 now
For a crap one
winter yew
Yeah, prices are awful 😩
glass plinth
Your almost better off with a laptop, which I never dreamt would be a thing
winter yew
I got a Ps5, which was fine because I have a lot of games from my Ps4
I wish I could mod
I almost bought an Xbox
But I need God of War
😩
And HZD
winter yew
Your almost better off with a laptop, which I never dreamt would be a thing
Laptops are a no for me
I had a bad experience with one
It caught on fire
I can still turn it on and it smokes
Only kept it because it has all my baby pictures of my cats on it 😩
austere lance
I'd buy an Xbox if they weren't unicorns 🤬
winter yew
hehe
We manage to get Arc a Ps5
blessing
I almost had an xbox
but Gamestop decided I was a bot
and banned me
daring spear
Thats dumb
winter yew
Yeah, all because I refreshed the page too quickly. THAT was the ONLY way for the button to refresh
austere lance
LMAO
daring spear
Wow
winter yew
so now I can't check gamestop at all to this day, which sucks because I'd like to see what I could get for turning in a ps4
and sometimes they get exclusive amiibo
meh
speaking of amiibo, I got a new nerd shelf and I'm putting my nerd things on it
daring spear
Is there a way to contact their support and be like "Hey I'm a real person but you banned me cuz you thought I was a bot"
winter yew
Probably, I was gonna ask in store
daring spear
Ah
winter yew
I read about some other people having the same issue and they got ignored, so idk what will happen 
daring spear
They cant call you a bot to your face
winter yew
what if I beep boop at them
daring spear
Well damn, idk
austere lance
I like how anything besides $700 bundles with extra controllers and crap sell out within less than a second 🤬
winter yew
Bestbuy is the most solid option for buying
even if it says not in your area at a certain store it can change
daring spear
Our best buy is Pickup only and over an hour away
glass plinth
Lets be honest, the market is flooded with people with money. To much demand, to few consoles.
winter yew
ya just gotta fight for it and wait to see if locations load during checkout
austere lance
I'm annoyed by Best Buy doing pickup only
glass plinth
I actually managed to get a ps5 from a store, then sold it to my friend at cost. I knew hed want it.
i do that a lot lately it seems
Also, I totally agree about laptops Winter. I loathe them, unfortunately they are cheaper pound for pound then a pc.
The whole gpu situation is sadly not something that will go away ever.
austere lance
AMDs CEO said consoles will have shite stock til at least June 😔
glass plinth
Yup.
Hrmm, Im considering selling my 5700xt and getting a 6700xt. I know Id hsve no issue selling the 5700xt for 400 bucks.
Hell, its a good 5700xt at that, it actually runs well LOl
Although, if it was a friend, id probably sell it at cost, 320.
If you want valheim, let me know winter. Ill grab you it
Even if you only get to play it rarely on arcs pc, that or play with arc.
winter yew
I appreciate the offer, but I'd feel weird accepting it 
I get too nervous about people spending money on me, even when its family 
glass plinth
Meh
There is a reason I got 12 games bought for me when the stim checks showed up
I do it for many.
That being said, I respect the awekward feeling.
It took me months to convince my friend in brazil to allow me to buy him some ram for his pc.
winter yew
You made me remember I own one game on steam temtem lol wow its been a while since I logged in
Anyways you're very kind
glass plinth
I try
winter yew
Woah i got 5 dollars
coarse swift
You are a very nice person @glass plinth
glass plinth
I should get it for you Arc, so she cant say no. LOL
That being said, I think a lot of the reason I get games for people is how much I percieve they appreciate something about it
ANyways, dont worry, not pressuring 😛
I think your right though, art styles like valheim are rare.
I wish more games went out on limbs like that.
cinder vessel
Seriously, how hard is it to just collect for instance air in NMS and stay alive...
i wonder this so much too. Minecraft never had to tell anyone to punch trees and yet somehow it's harder to interact with everything in NMS, smh
glass plinth
Ha, I usually make it to my ship with a full load of life support, running around and peaceful
Well save for the rare times i start a new save with a world with no oxy plants
I had one where all the oxy was locked in rocks, bizzare world.
glass plinth
I took a look at that and passed, mostly due to the fact its inspired by pokemon... isnt it?
glass plinth
Hrmm what was the one i got from epic like that..
Umm.. man I havent used epic in ages lol
cinder vessel
AMDs CEO said consoles will have shite stock til at least June 😔
on the plus side, by then maybe they'll have a few more good titles to justify the purchase
austere lance
I mean, I already have over 200 games to play on it and a bunch of them have Series X enhancements already
cinder vessel
Yeah but you know what i mean
dry copper
Ranch Simulator. For people who want to pretend to work as a poor person trying to afford games.
cinder vessel
another to tag as work sim on steam, lol
dry copper
Profit or value?
glass plinth
Profit
coarse swift
Ngl, I saw Ranch Simulator and assumed the game was about a tasty condiment.
glass plinth
A lot of the ranchers here raise cattle for japanese firms.
dry copper
I like some sim games. Had a farming sim where you got to cut down lumber
glass plinth
That feels vaguely graphically like 7 days to die lol
cinder vessel
i just like work sim as a flexible term for games across the board that feel more like work than play, lol
After all, if we have walking sim as a term, might as well have its opposite
bronze wind
@glass plinth ooblets is pretty good, I recently hopped back in and it's a really nice chill game
glass plinth
Always was fun Zoid. I justs quirky
bronze wind
def quirky lol
glass plinth
I played BDO a lot like a rts game.
Some work games are good, some arent. Depends on the person and the game.
bronze wind
i played a good amount when it launched but stopped cause there wasn't too much content
glass plinth
Im the same way zoid
bronze wind
yeah I don't think there's really anything in the cards for that atm
glass plinth
Im pleased to see my friends game is developing well. He has been working hard and steady for a year now after his kickstarter and he is 3/4ths done. Man, I admire single developers
cinder vessel
i kinda don't, must be a pain in the ass to pull everything together
like trying to sail a larger vessel in Sea of Thieves, lol
glass plinth
Man, Im hungry
Someone is burning oak nearbye, it makes my office smell like a smoker room lol
I want ribs!
Baked beans, ribs, garlic bread
Noooom
thorn dawn
One of them
dry copper
It does not look like heads are rolling. Where are you seeing that?
You think he might've been "mutually fired"?
thorn dawn
Either mutually fired, or jumping ship before 1.2 gets released and things turn really ugly
Leaving the week before a major patch is due to drop is...
dry copper
sus
thorn dawn
Weird
wet warren
Indeed
dry copper
Indubitably
willow crypt
hmmmMMMmmm
glass plinth
That or his part in the development is done aqndhe decided to cut and run
Saw that happen a few times with devs in wow
Not bad thing, people need breaks lol
Not always anyways
misty kiln
so would it be inappropriate to drop this here? ^^;
sony is giving away a bunch of free games: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/sony-giving-away-350-worth-191906608.html
horizon zero dawn is the big name, sadly i already have it ^^;
willow crypt
nothing sounds more appealing than leaving the overstressed lifestyle of working at a AAA studio to join or create an indie studio
thorn dawn
horizon zero dawn is the big name, sadly i already have it ^^;
the witness is awesome if you like puzzles
glass plinth
Honestly I dont have a console, so useless to me
I would love to try Horizons zero dawn, but im busy with other games
winter yew
I would love to try Horizons zero dawn, but im busy with other games
Oh~ Play it
It's super fun
cinder vessel
the witness is awesome if you like puzzles
unless you're colorblind or hard of hearing
glass plinth
Id play it winter, but i tend to spend 1000 hours per game, in a row
So still got awhile to go with valhiem
cinder vessel
how
i usually hit something in a game that puts me off or stumps me before even exceeding 10 hours, lol
glass plinth
Well a thousand, is the low end.
cinder vessel
Well, game by game, but you get the idea
glass plinth
I guess I dont get stumped..
The least I ever played in a game was maybe 300 hours.
cinder vessel
Like it took maybe 20-30 hours before i hit some stupid boss in DQXI that wanted me to go grind
cinder vessel
I don't understand that at all
Especially in RPGs where it's turn-based monster bash a hundred times
thorn dawn
unless you're colorblind or hard of hearing
I can't argue with that, although none of the audio or colour puzzles are required iirc
cinder vessel
I think some might be, but yeah, I honestly can't remember either
glass plinth
I think it depends on long term goals Leon. I enjoy grinds where I make incremental progress over a variety of tasks, building things. Some grinds, I loathe.
Single task grinds, I loathe
cinder vessel
When I'm talking grind I usually mean the type where you're just grindwalled/gated basically
You may have a variety of tasks available, but they're all going to the same stupid thing like leveling or getting a single piece of equipment or something
glass plinth
Im thinking grinding like in BDO, where i explore multiple regions to unlock resources to say build a ship. Then setting up NPCs, supply chains all that
Not like, kill x monster 100 times.
I love setting up networks
All those sexy designs
cinder vessel
Well, even say you have the option of kill x monster 100 times or do some side quests, but they all feed back to that same thing of leveling or getting enough money for some equipment, that's all some garbo grind imo
glass plinth
Hrmm
cinder vessel
Specifically when there's something gated behind doing those things
glass plinth
Yeah, I dont see that as garbo. I see that as fun. Feeding a system, which changes, non static, Im ok with
cinder vessel
That is, leveling/getting equipment
glass plinth
Static can fuck off
cinder vessel
It's static imo since it's just a treadmill usually
glass plinth
I enjoy say, go to region 1, kill things, gain materials, make a better set. Break into region 2
repeat forever
HOWEVER
The region has to change.
Static regions like world of warcraft make me puke now.
It also largely has to do with time scales and play periods.
cinder vessel
I prefer getting different functionality most of the time, and changing/varied environments
glass plinth
The longer I have to play, the less I enjoy it.
Ideally I enjoy grindy games say for a hour or two a day, spread over years.
So its like hrmm, a fun distraction which builds up
cinder vessel
There's the weird spot where the environment can be roughly the same but different functionality is attained, as in some roguelikes that I enjoy, but the ideal is differing functionalities & environments
glass plinth
Yeah, that is cool!
Doesnt matter if its grindy or not!
Having a world you can redo, with new tools, and see it again from a new way rocks!
cinder vessel
I just get so booored of grindy games where the activity is exactly the same damn thing but slightly higher numbers
glass plinth
Yeah your focus is longer term
Mine isnt
I cant really get bored if I break up a activitiyver months o
I wont remember the past moments
Its just how my brain works
cinder vessel
Yeah, if I do something in grindy games for just an hour or two it just feels like nothing is happening or going anywhere to me 'cause on a certain level, it kind of isn't
winter yew
Have you heard of this game it's one of the most innovative shooters I've played in years https://store.playstation.com/en-ie/product/EP2477-CUSA08144_00-EUSUPERHOTGAME00
cinder vessel
Superhot's wicked stuff, yeah
winter yew
😎
glass plinth
Shame I generally dont play shooters.
cinder vessel
Superhot's like more of a puzzle shooter than a standard shooter tbh
glass plinth
Yeah I guess in BDO , Id gring, slowly over years, and a lot changed, over the course of that time. A lot of systems..
That wasnt really how the game was intended to be played though.
I sorta ignored 40 percent of the content i disliked
cinder vessel
Now, Animal Crossing, Animal Crossing is exactly the sorta thing designed for what you're talking about
winter yew
Superhot's like more of a puzzle shooter than a standard shooter tbh
Yeah you got to wait for the right time so you're not filled led
cinder vessel
But it's largely due to being timegated to hell & back
glass plinth
Ive yet to ever play that
glass plinth
My friend pam is into that game
I just dont buy consoles, so not much chance to play those long term games for switch
cinder vessel
Animal Crossing is the most work sim game i've ever played and i've tried EVE, 
cinder vessel
Animal Crossing expects you to actually be awake during the day and what the fuuuuck
cinder vessel
PUT THAT IN THE DAMN GAME THEN
coarse swift
cinder vessel
glass plinth
Valheim is a odd game in that, I dont really care about the goals.
cinder vessel
Or rather, put that back in the game
glass plinth
I just build my house, farm, setup roads and little outposts.
winter yew
<:computerface:649857977334890506>
glass plinth
Hrmm
winter yew
Hmmm
glass plinth
Raft was another game I enjoyed, pointless long term exploration
OH!
Subnauticaaa!
winter yew
Large oceans freak me out
glass plinth
Literally the only survival game Ive played with a end!
coarse swift
Subnauticas a great game for those with a fear of the ocean
glass plinth
I fell in love with the fact, it had a point your done. It felt... so unique.
winter yew
Subnauticaaa!
I get that one for free soon so I'll finally play it 😩
glass plinth
Lets be honest, everyones afraid of something in subnautica
winter yew
Oh that's scary
glass plinth
Being in a mini sub escaping a larger sub, as it creaks and breaks, trying to get high enough i can abandon it and survive.
coarse swift
cinder vessel
Giant's Deep 😏
glass plinth
All of it was fantastic
The grind was interesting, you build to survive, but the worlds ending, so your survival has a timescale so to speak
that sense of urgency changed the games context
cinder vessel
is it grind tho
like do you have to get an excessive amount of crap for this or that?
glass plinth
Well, you have to collect materials, process it to make stuff
Like, a sub isnt made from thin air
Its just practical reality
Albeit, I did find much of the stuff could be salvaged.
So the route to the end sorta varied.
Like building a castle in any survival game, part of the joy is setting up the supply chain to make it.
cinder vessel
sure, but if it's not excessive like x10,000 of each resource and said resource is hard to find i wouldn't call it a grind 🤷♀️
glass plinth
Hrmm
Depends on what mode
Like my house in valheim, very hard to build. I built on a hill and backfilled with rock
That was immensely time consuming
cinder vessel
But also, in that case, largely optional
cinder vessel
Right
glass plinth
exactly
The lack of repair costs is immense in valheim
Once you build a item, you own it, you just need vicinity to a repair bench to fix it
cinder vessel
imagine them adding a hardcore mode with repair costs, can't imagine any but some masochists would play that, lol
glass plinth
The fact you wont die from not eating directly
Oh shush
I already have a mod that adds repair costs
😛
cinder vessel
you ever play The Long Dark?
cinder vessel
sounds about right, lol
glass plinth
Honestly, the repair costs arent terrible with the way I have it tweaked
It pushes me to find new metal sources
They are diminshable
So as such, you have to keep exploring
cinder vessel
yeah, i'm just so used to devs taking the "cheap" way out with harder difficulties, just making numbers stupidly high
cinder vessel
So I was thinking along those lines
glass plinth
I make tools, I collect materials
I enjoy that cycle
I suppose some people enjoy the thrill of exploration to continue the journey.
For instance, I used up my small islands supply of copper.
So I made a boat, explored maybe 20 islands, survey them
Then I build outposts
Build roads to the resources
Ship them home
Eventually I get so well setup, I dont think Ill run out ever
Maybe in real life years
I enjoy that
coarse swift
smells like the factory games i love
cinder vessel
I'm more of the explorer researcher sort than explorer exploiter sort
I like to explore & learn/gather info more than loot/gather resources
cinder vessel
I've been playing Outer Wilds lately & loving it for that
glass plinth
Hrmm
Yeah I love exploration games.
I just never found one rich enough.
They all lack .. diversity
cinder vessel
One could argue The Witness is somewhat in that vein too, but it's just raw mechanics littered with quotes
Lovely island though, that said
glass plinth
hehe
Outer wilds reminds me of kerbals , meets ground hogs day
Frankly, its a damned good game
KERBALS!
Ok, thats a exploration exploitation game
Figuring out how to fit all the bits and bobs together to make stuff to get places, to make more stuff to get more places
I could play that game foreverr, because Im learning real life principles I use in real life
I cant tell you how many times Ive ran into real life issues and come up with kerbal solutions I used in the game
When you realize how many moving parts are in a system, balancing hundreds of things together to achieve a goal, thats fun
Pure absolute creativity
Frankly, I cant think of a single game that remotely achieves the same level of creative ambition.
Not one.
cinder vessel
Not even Minecraft? 😛
Also it's hitting me that at least in some respects, a lot of visual novels/point & click adventures could be described as exploration researcher types of games, since some are puzzle games involving investigating environments and piecing together info to solve puzzles
glass plinth
Oh hell no
Mine is a bland pile of poo
Mind you, A fun pile of poo
I just never felt even remotely interested in doing some of the mega projects
Sure you can do music simulators, basic computers and such
Why would I do that when I can create a entire colony on a asteroid with farms, mines, fleets of ships, satellite networks, probes
I mean.. I make it all down the smallest detail
Some of my best gaming memories were of sending a large colony ship to Jool. The ship got struck by a meteor and sending out a rescue vessel would mean years of prep. If it were even possible. So I had to figure out a way to get the vessel to a place I could save the people, salvage what I could
It took me weeks to plan out the operation.
You should have seen the Drawing board of plans lol
Now mind you, this is maybe 100 years future tech wise of where we stand.
hearty nimbus
cinder vessel
You said this was in vanilla too, right? Well, base game + expansions?
glass plinth
Aye
cinder vessel
@hearty nimbus i think you missed memes 😛
hearty nimbus
no im just seeting a reminder for myself for 5 quantum minutes from now
glass plinth
Well, base game and one mod Leon. I did use future tech propulsion and local resource collection and construction.
Basically what kerbals 2 is aiming for
Mods really made kerbals what kerbals is. Half of the content in later parts were made by the mod artists that got hired.
Kerbals 2 is largely based off the end product of those mods and releasing with them included and ironed out.
That and a entirely new engine for lighting, materials and maps
That picture oddly sums up almost everything the mods added save for propulsion
On site construction. Being able to make parts on site from local materials.
https://youtu.be/olBOncln0Ik This is where kerbals 2 is basically at with the new rendering engine.
willow crypt
hmm i like those visuals
austere lance
Game Pass go brrrrrr
cinder vessel
oh damn yeah i considered getting that awhile ago
cinder vessel
lol, I just found...An ending for Outer Wilds...
cinder vessel
Sort of
winter yew
Well that was weird.
dry copper
It has endings???
Fallout has an ending. It's called fallout. Welcome to the ending.
austere lance
wet warren
That's pretty cool
cinder vessel
I just finished Outer Wilds, and it's so, so, so good
cinder vessel
I just went in the, uh, less obvious directions
Although one way I went was sort of on accident by exploring Timber Hearth
Well, really, both ways I ended up pursuing were from poking around Timber Hearth now that I think about it
So in a way, maybe not entirely backwards
rigid haven
Oh I see
I uh
I did a few things out of order, solved a few puzzles that I shouldn't have completely by accident
cinder vessel
Funny thing is, I coulda done similar had I just gone a little further here & there, lol
cinder vessel
yes
full pivot
Idk why I went to giants deep first this time; for obvious reasons both that and dark Bramble or hugely unsettling to me 😓
I fell off the island on giants deep and was like nononono cuz fpr some reason I thought I was getting sucked down to the center
Damn irrational fears.
prisma geyser
it's kinda ironic, I don't think I have thalassaphobia (sp?) but deep open water in NMS is kinda unnerving to me
but Sea of Thieves underwater doesn't bother me at all, which is kinda odd
full pivot
Opposite for me
pseudo crystal
full pivot
Meh
Dont understand why everyone posts updates to 2077 haha
Its highly unlikely to be a redemption arc
inland path
god forbid you put a horse in front of me though
don't look a gift Shrödinger in the mouth 
prisma geyser
prisma geyser
so does a pandemic lmao
full pivot
I don't like hugs
inland path
-_-
I'm like the opposite, I despise people who give like very loose handshakes
it's like touching a corpse
usually I ignore them for the rest of my life afterwards haha
but yeah, being on Discord so long, I've met a lot of people who are like "don't touch me" and blahblah
🤷
I don't know many people like that irl
prisma geyser
consent is important c:
inland path
hehe
looking forward to the Companions in ESO
what would be extremely lazy is that they'd do your surveys for you
I have like 400 banked and you have to do them all manually 😭
dry copper
I hate handshakes.
I don't want to touch the thing you touch everything else with.
Fucking pleb.
ugh
willow crypt
i like when someone gives me a moist handshake. this means they care about me and don’t want me to be dry and waterless and want to bless me with their moisture
inland path
sweaty palms omnom
inland path
I don't want to touch the thing you touch everything else with.
must be fun being in a relationship with you 😄
"you are my spouse, but you have to stay 3 feet from me"
full pivot
Ew marriage
full pivot
Yeah I sleep separate from my roommates usually lol
inland path
I sure hope so 😮
I never had a roommate I wasn't in a relationship with
I prolly won't miss too much
full pivot
🤨
full pivot
Ok
inland path
👍
full pivot
If this goes on moving it to #off-topic-bond-james-bond
inland path
I was just about to say it 😄
willow crypt
VR game where i get to moisten my hands and shake peoples’ hands when
raven frost
... fuck...
hla released a year ago to this day
it feels like I played it for the first time last month
austere lance
wet warren
Cool
austere lance
Time to try this Immortals demo
fresh vigil
HL:A is fun when it isn't giving me a headache
Monster Hunter Rise soon, super excited 
fleet moat
where do you find the cutest gifs, Moon? 
austere lance
Just did the Immortals demo and now I understand why ACG liked it, it's stupidly fun to play and pretty damn funny to boot 😆
austere lance
I will now kill hordes of vicious llamas in a big-ass mech
shadow tartan
Anyone played this?
https://youtu.be/rTHVY6hUn3E
raven frost
is this not out yet? I feel like I've seen so many trailers for this yet never actually seen anyone play it
cinder vessel
yeah it's out
raven frost
huh, I saw a ton of trailers and stuff for it then when it released it just kinda went poof
cinder vessel
that's about all I remember about it though
shadow tartan
Yeah same I just picked it up for £4
austere lance
The llamas shall die
crisp sparrow
Binge played through Alien Isolation in hard mode this time and it was so fun
Hell I managed to not kill a single human, and never used the revolver
It was definitely hard though
cinder vessel
So I decided to skim a wiki for Generation Zero, see if the missions get any better, and at least from the looks of their structures, the answer is no.
As to the narrative, well, it's delivered through logs and audio logs, so.
Somehow they seem to stretch out the robo-invasion thing on and on with different locations & organization's responses, which...Could be interesting, but from what I've seen so far, and what I skimmed just now...Doesn't seem like it gets much better.
Kind of a bummer, as they do nail a number of other parts of the game imo, nice looking environments & bots, good sound design, guns feel pretty nice to shoot, bots feel nice to destroy.
But the scavenging/exploration feels very...Bland. Lots of empty normal houses & cars, or nearly empty littered with ammo/medkits, sometimes a weapon or utility item.
It's this weird thing where they have all this big open space but from what I can tell, it sounds like nothing particularly interesting to even see/find. Here's desolate Swedish city/village #5, here's desolate Swedish military installation/bomb shelter #4, etc.
austere lance
But soon it'll have base-building, cuz that's totally its main issue 💀
cinder vessel
I don't know why I keep feeling drawn back to it
That's the only reason I've kept digging up info on it
austere lance
Ez fix, never buy it in the first place cuz you read all the reviews and watched gameplay 😌
cinder vessel
I've also played it though
So I know how it plays, and it's not bad but it's also like...There's nothing interesting going on there, nowhere interesting (it seems) to see, and yet
austere lance
More games should have demos
austere lance
I wasn't expecting Immortals to have one, I defo wasn't expecting it to have an actual hand-crafted demo seperate from the main game
cinder vessel
Oh it does?
austere lance
Yee
cinder vessel
Nice
austere lance
It's pretty entertaining, the demo is a short story being told by Zeus and Prometheus that they keep arguing over and changing. Prometheus keeps changing things that happen cuz Zeus is full of shit and making everything "historically inaccurate", lol
cinder vessel
It just hit me what Immortals reminds me of btw
Immortals reminds me a tad of the ol' game Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy
Albeit with less slapstick gameplay
austere lance
Zeus: "And then she fought Cerberus!"
Prometheus: "Cerberus was guarding Hades at the time"
Zeus: "Fine, it was a minotaur!"
Prometheus: "There weren't any minotaurs on the island"
Zeus: "Well I don't know, it was a bunch of chickens then"
The whole time they're arguing you get to watch the thing you fight transform a bunch until it finally turns into big hostile chickens, lol
I like it, I thought the humor was gonna be Borderlands-y but I actually laughed a couple times 😆
cinder vessel
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy is great as it's one of the rare games to bake the comedy into the gameplay that I can think of. When you play as the Mummy, you're playing a more puzzley side of the game, where you use the Mummy's undead nature as a means to solve the puzzles.
So that obviously means lighting them on fire, electrifying them, flattening them, etc.
austere lance
Immortals takes the BoTW approach to puzzles where you can do outside-the-box goofy shit to solve em if you're creative enough, lol
Honestly it's just trying to be fun, which I appreciate. It's an open world but not full of standard boring shit, it actually rewards you for being like "I wonder if that's climbable?". Plus it has an actual friggin art-style that's fun to look at and it isn't full of repetitive loot
You can tell that it's the game the AC Odyssey games wanted to make before being stuck with an AC contract, this feels like them actually having fun making something
cinder vessel
lol
That's sortakinda how I've felt about Starlink
I genuinely think someone at Ubisoft just wanted to have fun making something StarFox-esque and some nifty toys at the same time (but mainly they wanted an excuse to get a StarFox/Arwing toy)
Which, really, if you had the opportunity, wouldn't you also get [insert franchise here] toy made?
If it were me personally and it was related to Nintendo, I'd go more for Metroid personally, but that's just me, lol
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It's this weird thing where they have all this big open space but from what I ca...
Argh. You reminded me of a zombie survival game that's oriented like a top down strategy game where you choose a starting profession and skills and then need to survive as long as possible.
The heck was it called.
Remember Nintendo has very little confidence in metroid.
It sells poorly.
And didn't they drop star fax zero around the same time?
winter yew
cinder vessel
Remember Nintendo has very little confidence in metroid.
It sells poorly.
And di...
does nintendo even bother to market Metroid? might be some kinda correlation there, i dunno 😛
Feel like the same sorta thing has happened with other series they infrequently release new entries in, e.g. F-Zero, StarFox, etc.
@full pivot btw, since you've been enjoying Outer Wilds, I think you'd also enjoy In Other Waters (it's UI-driven, so depth isn't conveyed as in Subnautica), and Heaven's Vault.
Just started In Other Waters and am enjoying it. It's more open than I'd expected.
charred badge
Is that the weird "you're a suit AI" one?
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does nintendo even bother to *market* Metroid? might be some kinda correlation t...
Not really, no, lol
They tried at one point, though
And they give use turds like federated force
cinder vessel
Is that the weird "you're a suit AI" one?
somethin' like that, yeah
You've the dual mystery of what happened to this person the character you're guiding is seeking, and also, wait, just what AM I?
So, maybe you're a suit AI? 🤷♀️ Gotta play to find out!
charred badge
Hah
sharp forum
https://m.soundcloud.com/bakeratl met this guy on NMS I helped him out he has heat music
I enjoyed playing with him He is a G
dry copper
weird flex but okay
winter yew
That's sortakinda how I've felt about Starlink
Skimming across the surface of the planets in that game is so fun
austere lance
I'm gonna commit a sin and try to play Recore again
dry copper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erYvADMhANo
hah. I can see why that would work. Hilarious.
By building the wall then deleting it, then moving the cooking station without deleting it to where the wall was, the other players position tracks the move, but didn't track the wall deletion, resulting in a collision calculation assuming clipping, but then shitting itself...
Kevduit always finds the funnest bugs.
charred badge
https://youtu.be/N27QBw3D6Kw
Standard space fight standard space fight standard space fight
SUDDENLY MACROSS
wicked hull
Barotrauma is free to play for the next ~24 hours if anyone's interested
https://store.steampowered.com/app/602960/Barotrauma/
austere lance
wet warren
😬
cinder vessel
I'm gonna commit a sin and try to play Recore again
that reminds me, i think i have that!
austere lance
I'm sorry, LMAO
cinder vessel
i mean I think i might like it which is the only reason i got it
on sale, mind
so like waaay cheap
austere lance
Do you like empty open hub areas with godawful stunlock-fueled combat and way too many fetch quests 💀
So many damage-sponge enemies, it hurts
The Steam reviews describe it better than I ever could, LMAO
It's so close to actually being good too, it's like the devs randomly fucked with it on purpose whenever they started heading the right direction
thorn dawn
I think cdpr have missed a trick by not releasing 1.2 today while reddit is down so no one can complain about it
cinder vessel
lol
worn rock
dry copper
Famous games made with a RPG Maker...list goes on...
Only one that sticks...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMUEFZXkmDA
I just had an idea for a game
It's single player until you beat its primary story. The primary story shapes the world, the characters and how they respond to you...and the game turns into multiplayer with an extended story that explores other dimensions of the same single player extended experience in other dimensions with slight deviations that are entirely shaped by other players single player experience up to this point.
You play the single player extended story in multiplayer with upto three others, continuing the story arc in an entirely different players save game from a repository of gamesaves that are cycled regularly. How you resolve the extended story elements in multiplayer is different for each playthrough as the elements in the game differ significantly based on that initial single player setting of the world you now share.
Further, as the story arc is loosely based on the concept of finding a single point in space and time, even if your friend did the same thing as you did in their save, if they didn't do it at the same time - how that would impact the world may be significant, resulting in different consequences because of timing.
cinder vessel
whatdis
cinder vessel
aah, thought it might be
i just had a great/terrible idea...I think I can set up a master wishlist on IsThereAnyDeal that will allow me to consolidate my wishlists for PC storefronts and clear out overlap 👀
dry copper
Star Wars but directed by Joss Whedon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mXBfBmf9EE
"Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weapons and shower in their blood to regain your health. "
Sounds family friendly.
I saw Cyberpower selling these nucs
Not this specific one...just nucs in general. Looked interesting
keen dome
Wargaming is hosting an intel nuc tournment and I guess some games are gunna be played on nucs
dry copper
I've decided I want a new computer but my requirements are stupid high, considering just to get an improvement on my high end last gen system is looking at an i7-10th gen or a Ryzen 7 5800
Everywhere I look these CPUs are stuffed into stupid expensive setups
I did do my own build (with Computerman's advice as well), but even then....The idea of building my own kinda scares me.
fallen notch
A TRULY unexpected W…
dry copper
I think the W stands for Whine.
Because he can't find decent GPU at a reasonable price anymore.
Mind you not a lot of gamers can afford an 80 inch experimental 4k resolution TV to play their games on.
balmy plaza
I'm so excited for tomorrow
Royal blood are releasing a new single
And I put as much time, if not more, into listening to music as I do video games
austere lance
Octopath Traveler is on Game Pass
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Mind you not a lot of gamers can afford an 80 inch experimental 4k resolution TV...
The tv would be cheaper than the gpu
coarse swift
The tv would be cheaper than the gpu
I have a monitor that's the cost of a gpu
~$500
broken prairie
austere lance
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Genshin is on mobile?
cinder vessel
I think that's sorta where the devs began tbh
Wanna say Genshin is either their first, or their first hit at least, multiplatform title
charred badge
No honkai?
cinder vessel
Oh, huh. Didn't realize it was multiplatform
So then I guess Genshin is just one of their first major hits, or breakthrough ones in terms of getting damn near everyone talking about it
austere lance
cinder vessel
RON Announced
austere lance
SWAT 4 successor 😭
cinder vessel
oh, i was thinking Rainbow Six: Siege, but keeping to the trailer pitch
not my sorta game personally
austere lance
I've waited 15 years for a SWAT 4 successor 😭
cinder vessel
This is what I'm looking forward to, coming out this week, been in dev for several years now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ekGW_EU_6Y
austere lance
@cinder vessel It came out on Game Pass today, lol
cinder vessel
yeah but i don't do game pass, so
cinder vessel
And then at about the end of the month, Evil Genius 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X7lTaYU1g8
cinder vessel
I'm so stoked Evil Genius 2 is coming out. Talkin' about 15 years for a SWAT 4 successor, how about 17 years for an Evil Genius sequel? lol
Thankfully the original game holds up surprisingly well, give or take some rough edges
rigid haven
I'm curious, why don't you do gamepass Leon?
austere lance
Imma die waiting til May for this 😭
cinder vessel
@rigid haven it's basically just a rental service
rigid haven
Ah I figured it was something like that
cinder vessel
nothin' against folks that use it, just not how i like to handle my games
daring spear
I like it cuz I don't wanna have to buy all the games I wanna try. not arguing, just my reason for liking it
rigid haven
Yeah I'm against it because I feel iffy on how it works, not a fan of rental thingies even if I'd only play a game on it for a day or so regardless
Oh yeah no
It's good to try out games for sure
Good to play the games fully if you want, too
cinder vessel
Mmhmm, especially if there's no demo available
I just don't like the idea of renting games perpetually or paying for a pseudo-demo service. Plus frankly I already have a stupid backlog to sift through
Been digging through that lately and finding that damn, I've been sittin' on some gems
daring spear
I have that feeling but with books more than games
raven frost
Imma die waiting til May for this 😭
oh relax, it's only two months
coarse swift
I'm doing something I haven't done in quite some time
Playing NMS for a change
Rng loves me too
Tertiary star system right away, and robot right away
But that's a convo for #no-mans-sky
glass lily
@rigid haven it’s free if you just play games and collect the points and do the Microsoft rewards
rigid haven
Play games to play games huh
glass lily
Trust me as long as you play you’ll get more than enough points
Yea essentially I haven’t paid for Xbox for over a year and a half now
glass lily
You do get some weird ones like the quizzes or 50 searches on Bing but those go by quickly enough
And if you don’t mind playing new games you’ll get the 3 achievements one done fairly quickly most games have achievements you can get without doing much
rigid haven
That's fair yeah
Though before I even so much as consider that I gotta clear my own backlog
blazing torrent
game@pass is decent
you can find for as cheap as £4.99 a month and some of those games are banging
keen dome
I agree
balmy plaza
Plus with the Bethesda acquisition it could get even better
bronze wind
haven't really followed the game much so don't know how significant but are they really locking an entire class behind a preorder?
willow crypt
i have no idea, but that would be dumb
although it’s a bigger reason to preorder compared to what other devs offer
bronze wind
They replied to some comments saying it'll be available after launch as well
I don't know why they'd lock it behind a pre-order then, unless it's just like a late-game unlock or something? Seems like poor messaging when no one knows enough about the game yet lol
willow crypt
could be. doesn’t really seem like something they’d wanna do for their first big title
i’ve never cared for preorder perks honestly
bronze wind
idc when they're just like, dumb skins or starter gear that's marginally better than the first thing you get in the game. but limiting it to digital + more expensive physical editions is kinda lame no matter what. they haven't replied to any comments that ask if it's a purchase after release either which makes me feel like it'll be paid content
dry copper
...
Cyberpunk burned my pre-order hopes
Even though I tend to like THQ Nordic, I liked CDPR, too
full pivot
i pre-order when i know i won't care
dry copper
I wanna see Beyond Good and Evil 2 ever finish
Jeeze. That ship is still blocking the Suez
full pivot
psychonauts 2
balmy plaza
2 and a half hours to the song!
dry copper
I think I might have a storage problem
silver sparrow
👋
glass plinth
Damnit, trying to get a link to properly load, its not playing lol
Also, man, I know that feeling with storage. I ended up making a giant underground warehouse for my stuff
willow crypt
ugh it seems Serj kinda...tries too hard with his lyrics in his solo work
can be obnoxious
he was better with SOAD
bronze wind
how so?
austere lance
willow crypt
zoid, i feel he kinda jumbles too many words in and it sometimes just feels out of rhythm
but i'm one to not pay too much attention to lyrics
i prefer to listen to music for the 'feeling' and the melody, etc.
wet warren
Yes. Pretty cool 👍
arctic sparrow
rise of rohan
glass plinth
Its also not allowed in my country, well done
Hrmm, reminds me of a lot of the 2008 stuff i listened too
austere lance
Octopath Traveler is so good 😍
bronze wind
yeah i played a bit of it on switch, it's very fun
austere lance
Oop, wrong server 🤣
balmy plaza
Hrmm, reminds me of a lot of the 2008 stuff i listened too
I'm definitely hearing a lot of Justice in there