other-games

[serene basin]

don't both ryijinx and cemu both have multiplayer

[wispy loom]

cemu is WiiU so that's only for 3U. apparently it connects to real Nintendo servers. didn't know that

ryujinx does have local multiplayer emulation like yuzu, so that's good

[delicate gazelle]

wait how did citra team slip up?

mother fucker

fuck nintendo if those pieces of shit will do things like this they should atleast archive their games

[misty walrus]

Nintendo hates fun

[tidal raven]

Didnt this happen because they set up a patreon for yuzu?
Making money off emulators is a no no

Yeah
Im not gonna defend le company
But they really should've seen this coming

[spare oak]

https://twitter.com/golden_aion/status/1764720852807925785?t=V-EtgIMlHmpbDdvPC1dV7g&s=19

gold (@golden_aion) on X

WE HAD A GOOD THING YOU STUPID SON OF A BITCH, WE HAD LOCKPICKRCM, WE HAD TEGRARMCGUI, WE HAD EVERYTHING WE EVER NEEDED. YOU COULD HAVE SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND EMULATED ALL YOU EVER WANTED. BUT NO. YOU JUST HAD TO BLOW IT UP. YOU. AND YOUR PATREON PAYWALL

Twitter · Mar 4, 2024, 6:33 PM

[loud saffron]

yuzu making that patreon is like that dude that made the patreon palworld-pokemon reskins

[wispy loom]

I just saw an ad in the street for an "immersive experience" that definitely used AI art

[loud saffron]

wonka-like

[wispy loom]

there's no way right?

[loud saffron]

glasgow....

[limpid sequoia]

https://youtu.be/pauDXhPpnPM?feature=shared this is why I love the internet

[ember vortex]

I played it for a little while, but the controls didn't really click with me, and I got distracted so I haven't beat it -_-

[onyx loom]

loved solar ash

very buzzed for hyper light drifter 2

[ember vortex]

yeahhh I can't wait for HLD2! That's gonna be sick.

the controls in SA were a bit floaty for me iirc

[onyx loom]

oh it's floaty as fuck, which i usually don't like but idk after a little bit it clicked for me

[small wren]

Hyper Light Breaker may be just the thing

[wispy loom]

it's out?

[serene basin]

fuckkk, try swapping skate and dash controls and turning off camera leashing?

[serene basin]

no lol

[wispy loom]

yeah figured

[serene basin]

but yeah the floaty feeling in SA worked for me with the open map layout

being able to get so much air time and go fast mode

it's one of the only games I've actually ever replayed

[ember vortex]

i'll give it a shot again this weekend! i think I had too many other games I was playing at the time so it just got left behind

[serene basin]

W

it's not super long either

[ember vortex]

oh really? that's kinda good to know lol. like jusant length or longer/shorter?

[onyx loom]

yeah getting crazy momentum off the waves is fun as fuck

[serene basin]

I'd say 6-8 hours depending on skill and how much you explore

so around jusant length

also 6 chapters lol

[ember vortex]

sick, ill def give it another shot

[little loom]

imabotboi was banned.

[drifting kernel]

Wow i wonder what they were banned for

[atomic spear]

He probably told a mod that Bioshock Infinite was GOAT

https://media.tenor.com/uNygGB5LME8AAAAM/death-spongebob.gif

[bitter ridge]

it is good tho

[serene basin]

they added wh40k boltgun to gamepass

this game is 90% piss easy then they just have a random arena with a billion guys spawning with ranged weapons so you dont even know what you died to

[bitter ridge]

is very good even tho lack of automap be smelly

[serene basin]

theres a map?

[bitter ridge]

there isn't one

[serene basin]

oh ok yeah

i dont think it needs it

just remember

or run around

[bitter ridge]

fuckin doom has an auto map

[serene basin]

well doom sucks

[loud saffron]

boltgun was fun

but i was spoiled after playing turbo overkill, that game is too damn good

[serene basin]

yeah

the guns in boltgun feel pretty good and the visuals are great

those arena fights are just kind of annoying

[bitter ridge]

praise the omnissiah

[serene basin]

because its like a first person bullet hell so you cant see enough and you cant just go in and go ham like in nu doom since the health pickups are dookie

basically have to remember where shit is going to spawn and do a route

[loud saffron]

i do wish there was an admech game like that but it doesnt really make sense for them to be outside of an rts/tactics setting

[bitter ridge]

the new dooms were for ripping and tearing, boltgun is quake style

[serene basin]

except it has sprinting and reloading

still does the colored keys though lol

[loud saffron]

yeah boltgun feels a lot closer to something like quake

i dont feel quite as glassy as blood but you still need some level of brain function

[serene basin]

would be better if the rest of the corridor fights werent just hold w and m1 and win for free

[loud saffron]

RIP Blood franchise, killed by mergers

[serene basin]

wasnt there a remake recently

[loud saffron]

nah, just a remastered version

[serene basin]

oh yeah nightdive

[loud saffron]

it started off wack because atari wouldnt give them assets and such, but it got better

it was supposed to be even better but, again, atari

they had to stop updating it

[serene basin]

looks alright i dont understand the appeal of 2d sprites in a 3d game but whatever

[loud saffron]

game existed before quake so the engine was like

2.5d, all trickery

[bitter ridge]

Classic doom hater moment

[loud saffron]

the best usage of build engine (outside of ion fury but thats a modified/modernized version like gzdoom)

[serene basin]

yeah i know i just mean for newer boomshoots

i know its a stylistic choice i just think it looks kind of shit

[loud saffron]

ah
some do it kinda poorly ngl

[serene basin]

we have the technology

[loud saffron]

i love nightmare reaper's gameplay but it took me a lot of time to get over the style

[serene basin]

oh yeah i can see that

looks silly

i mean obviously nails what its going for

oh shit its got a kick button

[loud saffron]

it used to look worse, but the dev got better and touched stuff up
still an absurdly fun game

[serene basin]

"looter shooter and roguelike elements" i sleep

[loud saffron]

its sort of like, a level based structure, its hard to describe

[serene basin]

it especially looks weird with the modern lighting

but the animations are sick

[loud saffron]

you basically go through a level, get stuff, and you can keep a limited amount of it for the next level
its not a full roguelike in terms of having an unbroken long run, since its chapter based

[serene basin]

is there an ending

[loud saffron]

if it was a full run game it'd be like, 3 hours in one run

yeah its fully finished, p sure it has 2 endings

2 because its a binary choice but its finished atleast

i barely remember the ending i just remember shooting shit

[serene basin]

thats fine

i mean yeah thats most of these games

[loud saffron]

great soundtrack too

[serene basin]

hulshult yeah

beast mode

he does literaly every modern boomshoot basically

speaking of

[loud saffron]

hard to find a game where he doesnt have a song in

[serene basin]

prodeus urks the shit out of me

like aside from it being the epitome of a doom clone

it has so much effort put into cool stuff like coop and modding and custom levels but it feels so by the numbers

and the weird ass save system

[loud saffron]

theres cool things about it, but sometimes it feels... idk, redundant? like, its not perilous warp, it never made me feel like i could just be playing the game its inspired by

but among all the releases, i just never felt like actually finishing it

[serene basin]

where you die and respawn but all the enemies you kill stay dead? like wtfff

[loud saffron]

prodeus is cool and all but postal brain damaged is literally cheaper

[serene basin]

and stupider somehow

and aeon is finally out

[loud saffron]

fuckin love brain damaged its great fun

shooting a timestop grenade and blasting a guy with 10 dildos at the same time
just normal postal things

[loud saffron]

havent even checked that one out

[serene basin]

well it's a fantasy boomshoot

so about what you'd expect

does have contemporary weapons though

all the classics

[loud saffron]

is it like hexen/hedon where you spend half the game blindly searching for buttons or is it like any normal boomshoot

[serene basin]

idk I haven't played it

just watched some gameplay

[loud saffron]

damn

[serene basin]

I don't even own turbo overkill yet

and on steam you can't spit without hitting an indie retro shooter

[loud saffron]

spit too hard and accidentally hit zortch

(zortch is great too)

[bitter ridge]

I have hedon, it’s very mazey

[serene basin]

zortch is good as hell

I mean most of them are good as hell but just kind of samey

which is the point of a genre I guess

[loud saffron]

the hedon sequel's maps are like
hexen map designer on uppers instead of downers

[loud saffron]

heres some i can remember off the top of my head:
Citadel (and that still wip sequel), incase you like feeling icky while playing wolfenstein
Cultic, might aswell be the unofficial blood sequel)
Vomitorium (mentioned only because the name is funny)

[serene basin]

hrot

[loud saffron]

citadel is what happens when you give a guro artist an easy to use damage system and a 5 dollar budget

[serene basin]

i like amid evil a lot i wish it had more feedback when hitting stuff though

like boltgun or selaco

[loud saffron]

wish i could play amid evil vr, that sounds like fun

[serene basin]

havent tried it yet but its in my library

sounds like ill get sick

[loud saffron]

sequel is attempting to be a more real videogame, but its so wip it only exists as patreon demos

[serene basin]

oh yeah you werent kidding about that $5 budget

[loud saffron]

lol

the first game exists entirely because the guy likes wolfenstein and mangled anime women

[serene basin]

movement looks awful too lol

yeesh

has a kick button though

and yeah this is very marathon

[loud saffron]

surprisingly its made in UE

it has so little of the UE bells and whistles that you'd imagine its made in some throwback engine

[serene basin]

yeah could easily be build engine or whatever

i think wrath aeon of ruin uses some quake engine port

[loud saffron]

game would unironically be better if it was just made in eDuke, atleast the movement would be smooth (and it wouldnt look like wolfenstein)

[serene basin]

i think you can make good movement and visuals in ue

[loud saffron]

yeah it uses darkplaces, modernized quake engine

[serene basin]

yeah that one

[loud saffron]

defo, but the game lacks some
build engine games just control really nice, so the comparison is obvious

[serene basin]

still do the sprite thing though

[loud saffron]

you can make fully voxel/3d with the newer versions, its just a bit pointless

choosing a modified old engine to make a fully 3D game instead of just, using unity or unreal and copying the movement

[serene basin]

amid evil

honestly so good

[loud saffron]

amid evil even got the really good and somewhat harder expansion

[serene basin]

definitely has some of the old school design that makes me roll my eyes like the colored keys and lines of health/mana pickups that give 2 a piece

but yeah black labyrinth is sick

also looks gorgeous

[loud saffron]

one of the few boomshoot games that made me genuinely turn my graphics down to fullscreen it

thanks, widescreen monitor

[serene basin]

wtf

[loud saffron]

my tech be aging

[serene basin]

oh like it didn't force you

you just had to lower graphics to be able to run at higher reso

[loud saffron]

yea

[serene basin]

yeah

I don't have an rtx card but it's very funny that it has rtx support

[loud saffron]

was fine during levels but fights would chug
also yeah was gonna mention that

its funny to see the game being advertised for rtx support, then looking the way it does

its a pretty game obviously, but when you think "the most overblown graphics possible" you'll usually think of control or atomic heart

games where you have the option and it looks great, but barely any machine can support the damn thing without lowering other graphics

[serene basin]

does atomic heart even have rtx yet

[loud saffron]

yeah, p sure it launched with it on pc
was being used to advertise rtx before the game even launched (like 3 years later lol)

[serene basin]

also yeah for games like that or cyberpunk with the new crazy rtx stuff you gotta turn on dlss and frame gen to get 60 fps and then it's blurry and ugly anyway

I saw people whinging about it not having rtx support like last year

[wispy loom]

I'm still not sold on RTX, you get 20 less frames for reflections that aren't much better than baked in stuff

[loud saffron]

rtx makes more sense if you want to do cool things with lighting, but not every game does that

it makes sense for amid evil, where the enviroment, the lighting and the characters' weapons all emit different glows and it looks cool

[serene basin]

well it's way different from baked lighting but rasterized dynamic lighting can be just as pretty

[loud saffron]

but a game like control or atomic heart, where the lighting is all white and sometimes red, there aint much to see

[wispy loom]

I'm willing to accept it in simpler games where you're bound to run the game fast as hell regardless

[loud saffron]

willing to accept it if the game itself is optimized enough

[wispy loom]

BG3 looks great even without RTX yeah?

[serene basin]

it has rtx? lmfao

it's got an isometric view what does it need rtx for

[serene basin]

also 20 is extremely generous

[loud saffron]

why not i guess

[wispy loom]

no as in it's a statement as to how good games look without it

[serene basin]

maybe with frame generation

[loud saffron]

alan wake 2 is a very pretty game with or without rtx
unfortunately the game is about as optimized as a 1960s car is fuel efficient

[serene basin]

I haven't even looked at any modern games I know I can't run them

except immortals of aveum for the funny

[loud saffron]

yeah true bg3 is really good
art department was on point, especially with the underdark sections

[wispy loom]

oh yeah, what about the ugly ass artifacting that certain anti aliasing methods cause, mostly around glass surfaces

[loud saffron]

fungy mushroom peeple...

[serene basin]

I downloaded the free demo which was 23 gb and I couldn't run it at all lowest settings at 720p with fsr

and it looked like shit

[loud saffron]

jesus christ

[serene basin]

it is one of the worst pc ports I've seen

[loud saffron]

its funny comparing doom eternal to other games of the time, cuz that game runs smooth on so much stuff

[serene basin]

I should have screenshotted what it looked like it was a mess

and still

[loud saffron]

idk what sorcery id pulls off for their optimization job, i just wish more games were like that

[serene basin]

like unstable 40 fps

I mean IDs whole thing has been pushing graphics performance since it's inception

[wispy loom]

I'm trying to think of examples I can recrate on the spot

[loud saffron]

even at the detriment of the game, like quake 2 or doom 3

[serene basin]

teehee

doom 3 looked great for it's time

justb

fucking dark

[loud saffron]

quake 2 is fine, and thats all it really is

prey used the doom 3 engine better than doom 3 imo

[serene basin]

I thought prey was unreal?

or am I think of dishonored 2

[wispy loom]

prey 06 looks VERY 2006

[loud saffron]

the old one

i meant prey 06, not preykane

prey reboot was ue yeah

[wispy loom]

wait doom 3 is 04?

holy shit doom 3 looks so good compared to prey

[serene basin]

oh right

there was the 2006 one lmfao

[wispy loom]

preykane does have goated looks as well

[serene basin]

Bethesda is so fucking stupid for that

[loud saffron]

prey 06 just looks cooler to me due to the use of the
really weird flesh rendering that idtech caused

cuz the game is set in a bioship with weird shit so everything looks weird and gross

[wispy loom]

how many original IPs has bethesda actually made

[serene basin]

starfield

uhhyh

[wispy loom]

was TES aquired as well 😭

[serene basin]

elder scrolls?

idk nobody cares about arena

[loud saffron]

p sure TES is theirs yeah

[serene basin]

rage

[loud saffron]

thats an ID game

[serene basin]

or are we just talking their studio

[loud saffron]

thought we were?

[serene basin]

like bgs

well in that case yeah just ES and starfuck

[loud saffron]

like if its specifically bethesda inhouse, then its just TES and starfield

unless you want to count hifi rush as a bethesda game, because they published it for tango

[serene basin]

to be fair all they've done is ES fallout and starfield though

[wispy loom]

yep that's what I meant

[serene basin]

so 2/3

[wispy loom]

no not publishing

[loud saffron]

my favorite bethesda character, bj blaskowicz

[wispy loom]

games where they're the original devs, and yeah, looking through their history it is just TEs and sadfield

[serene basin]

teehee

are any of them even good

[wispy loom]

1-4 yeah

[serene basin]

well

[civic quail]

A man can hope and dream for a good Fallout 5 (not happening)

[wispy loom]

starfield can be described as worse daggerfall

[serene basin]

why would you want fallout 5

[loud saffron]

all the TES games are good, it just depends on who you ask
starfield is obviously pointless

[serene basin]

wtf else are they going to do franchisecel

[loud saffron]

you ask a morrowind player about oblivion and they'll kill you, you ask an oblivion player about skyrim and they'll kill you, etc

[wispy loom]

at this point for a good new fallout you'd need to assmble the original devteam, I don't think most of the NV devs are still at obsidian

[civic quail]

Discovering more of the wasteland and having an actually engaging Fallout story sounds nice

[civic quail]

It has a lot of potential, it's just Bethesda can't capitalize on it 😭

[loud saffron]

i think the worst part of bethesda fallout is just, the insistence on reusing factions and such

[serene basin]

can say the same for ES

[loud saffron]

they're too attached to the fuckin power armor to stop using the BOS

[wispy loom]

isn't it wild that in fallout 2 there were next to no caps or brotherhood of steel

[serene basin]

imagine Bethesda fans if they didn't have it though

[civic quail]

It's not even that, I'd be fine with BOS coming back if they actually added more

[wispy loom]

blizzard 2 (without the sexual assault and stuff)

[civic quail]

The reason we're bothered by all the old shit is cause there's nothing new

[serene basin]

they are famously levelheaded but they might take it poorly

[civic quail]

That's why the BOS works so well in NV

[loud saffron]

true too
they never do anything interesting with them

[serene basin]

remember crysis 2

remember haze

[wispy loom]

dude I tried playing through crysis 1 and got stuck at the tank lmao, haven't tried since

[loud saffron]

NV has banger factions (besides maybe the boomers who feel a bit pointless)

[serene basin]

when are we gonna get haze 2

[loud saffron]

i played crysis 2, it just makes me want to play crysis 3 instead

[bitter ridge]

Boomers acting like boomers

[serene basin]

how

[wispy loom]

real life commentary

[loud saffron]

then i play crysis 3 and remember the game has like 4 hours of story and 2 replayable missions

[serene basin]

crysis 3 bored the shit out of me

[loud saffron]

i had crysis 3 since i was a wee lad on the ps3 so i have a lot of fondness for the game

[serene basin]

yeah and the dialogue felt soooo awkward

[loud saffron]

i like what it does but it does so little

[wispy loom]

how many point and click/graphic adventures have you guys played

[serene basin]

i never got 3 until the remaster trilogy came to gamepass

but I played 2 a bunch when I was younger

[loud saffron]

i have played persona 3 portable and thats the only one that counts, technically, if you squint at it

[serene basin]

0 that I remember

[wispy loom]

I'd have to tear my eyes out donito

[loud saffron]

:c

[wispy loom]

P3P's a JRPG not monkey island

[loud saffron]

its a point and click!

[serene basin]

is monkey island the only good adventure game

[wispy loom]

no there's alot

deponia, grim fandango, mistery of the druids

[serene basin]

call of duty is a point and click because you point at the foreign people and click on them

[loud saffron]

druids is ironically good

its so unhinged you cant help but laugh

[loud saffron]

exactly

[wispy loom]

I'm gonna poison a hobo for pennies

[bitter ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/mystery-of-the-druids-brent-halligan-detective-halligan-gif-21509120

Lethal dose of alcohol my beloved

[loud saffron]

i remember grim fandango having like, a really jank modern port

[serene basin]

that looks like a slayers x cutscene

[loud saffron]

pfft

[wispy loom]

having played it to completion out of love for the original, it works perfect and looks good. maintains the original's stlye perfectly

all the uncompressed voice lines and music are so good

[loud saffron]

weird, i remember watching someone play it and having a lot of visual problems

[wispy loom]

strange, even on my old 1060 years ago it was just fine

might've been a specific driver issue?

imagine if lucasarts hadn't been shut down man...

[loud saffron]

atleast dark forces got that good remaster

[bitter ridge]

Blizzard north surviving would have been banger, a champions of norrath remake would have gone so hard

[serene basin]

they were pumping out dogshit and star wars but i needn't repeat myself

name one good lucasarts game

[loud saffron]

monkey island

[serene basin]

and don't say monk

yeah ok

[wispy loom]

what the hell happened with diablo 4 btw, on release everyone was going nuts and then it imploded like the dot com bubble

[serene basin]

fanboys released blizzard fucking sucks actually and they're playing an eye glazing clicker game

[loud saffron]

zombies ate my neighbors is also lucasarts (i forgot about that lol)

[wispy loom]

day of the tentacle, is that not them as well

[loud saffron]

yup

[wispy loom]

I could've sworn double fine was under lucasarts

that adds like 10000 bangers

[loud saffron]

full throttle too

[bitter ridge]

D3>diablo 4 ngl

[serene basin]

I was going to say I thought that was double fine

[wispy loom]

low bar to clear scronch

[loud saffron]

metal warriors too, thats an old-ass one

[wispy loom]

Brutal legend!!!!!!

[loud saffron]

double fine is a banger factory true

[serene basin]

insane aquarium>any diablo

[loud saffron]

oh yeah they made outlaws
thats like, one of the first proper wild west fps games

[bitter ridge]

Different game styles bro, comparison fails

[serene basin]

no it doesnt

[wispy loom]

I hate to say this but no matter how toxic the community is and how fucked the western release was due to amazon, jsut because it plays so good and the builds are so varied, lost ark can be described as better than diable 4

[serene basin]

low bar there

I hated lost ark

[bitter ridge]

At least that comparison makes sense, both are arpgs

[loud saffron]

only thing i know about lost ark is that it stayed glued in the news for all the fuckups

[serene basin]

epic particle effects but full to the brim with all the mmo baggage it could fit

[wispy loom]

thing is it has straight up raids with mechanics

[serene basin]

yeah well insane aquarium is a also a video game

[loud saffron]

ngl ive played "better than diablo 4" clones in both lbp and roblox

[serene basin]

no shot lbp

[wispy loom]

when's valve releasing a new VR game, alyx was too good not to get more of

[serene basin]

probably when they figure out some new major step for the technology

[wispy loom]

true

[serene basin]

tends to be their trend

artifact 2

[wispy loom]

can valve, the development studio, be considered the best in the industry right now?

[serene basin]

no

they have to make games for that

[loud saffron]

i dont remember the name of the game, but there was a game that i used to play in lbp that was inspired by diablo, and it was p good

[serene basin]

that's wild how

[loud saffron]

if you went by batting average, maybe?

[wispy loom]

definitely if you went by average, yeah. shame they swing once a decade

[loud saffron]

some guy was cracked as hell and managed to make a convincing top down horde shooter thingamabob, and used it to make a diablo-inspired game with that and it was great too

[serene basin]

counter strike automatically disqualifies them for being the shittiest thing in the entire industry

[loud saffron]

oh yeah CS2 is like a big splotch in their rep rn

[wispy loom]

messy af release

[serene basin]

idek about thay

[loud saffron]

its like csgo but worse, really

[wispy loom]

MJ peek

[serene basin]

I just think that kind of game sucks ass and they got the worst loot boxes

[wispy loom]

https://tenor.com/view/mj-michael-jackson-cs2-csgo-counter-strike-gif-10148865531513521847

[loud saffron]

way slower at updating, weird changes, general jank

[serene basin]

holy shit max payne!!

remember wet

[wispy loom]

wasn't CSGO the second in the industry to get loot boxes, after TF2

[serene basin]

probably

they don't get enough shit for that

[loud saffron]

they would be getting more shit if the industry didnt move into battlepasses

p sure fortnite is at fault for that one

[serene basin]

less gambling more fomo

yeah

fortnite invented that

[wispy loom]

actually! dota has had battlepasses for years before

[serene basin]

rotating shop also

fucked up

[loud saffron]

tho it looks like fohtnaught popularized it

[wispy loom]

they were there once a year for the international and part of the profit went into the winner's earnings

[loud saffron]

oh

[serene basin]

not really the same

[tidal raven]

Is CSGO lootboxes older than Overwatch?
I know nothing about csgo history
Remember TF2 and Overwatch lootboxes being a big topic when the game was newer ((Overwatch was just better at it))

[serene basin]

definitely

[wispy loom]

the original abttlepass

[loud saffron]

yeah tf2 was way before ow

[wispy loom]

hold on I can find the exact date

[loud saffron]

tf2, then csgo, then a fuckton of other things (like cod AW), then OW

cod aw had some miserable fucking lootboxes ngl

[tidal raven]

I see

[serene basin]

it's your punishment for playing cod

[wispy loom]

mann conomy update

[tidal raven]

I wish cod was good it looks very fun

[loud saffron]

was "fine" in the beginning cuz usually the reward was a weapon variant, and those would play different but still be balanced enough to not cause suffering for everyone

[serene basin]

how

does it even look fun

[loud saffron]

(the base game's shitty balancing was already enough to make you suffer)

[serene basin]

military sim shooters are the most boring shooters that exist

[bitter ridge]

Obsidian steed in AW

[loud saffron]

then they started adding a bunch of lootbox exclusive weapons where you could only access them if you rolled a low-ass percentage

[tidal raven]

CoD is not a military sim shooter
That is the very last thing it is

[serene basin]

it's trying

[loud saffron]

i dont think anyone would consider cod a military sim shooter anymore

[serene basin]

well maybe not recently

[bitter ridge]

Arcade shooter

[serene basin]

no way

[loud saffron]

not in gameplay, artstyle was attempting that but now it sure as fuck aint

[wispy loom]

dota's 2014 battlepass is probably the original

[tidal raven]

Not really, thematically it takes place during the wars (An alternate history I belive) but gameplay wise CoD is a lightning fast arcade shooter

[wispy loom]

100 tiers of rewards

[loud saffron]

i dont think any CoD game has ever played slow enough to be anywhere close to a milsim shooter

[serene basin]

gah hardly

[tidal raven]

Its gotten mpre focused on movement and positioning

[wispy loom]

well, less than 100, but ironically the last 5 or so are loot boxes

[tidal raven]

Which looks fun to have if I want something not super commital

[serene basin]

you move at normal human speed

[loud saffron]

if you mean milsim as in artstyle, some of them do that, but the recent ones have jumped the shark so bad its comical

[bitter ridge]

Waw was the best one

[serene basin]

regularjumping and vaulting and sliding and going prone and all that shit

[tidal raven]

If everyone us Usain bolt, I guess

[wispy loom]

nah milsim is like arma and ready or not

[tidal raven]

^^

[loud saffron]

yeah what cyrell said

the closest you can get to CoD milsim is insurgency

[wispy loom]

or the campaign (sometimes)

[serene basin]

okay I shouldn't have said "SIM"

[wispy loom]

THROW THE FALSHBANG INTO THE CRADLE SOAP

[tidal raven]

Everyone in Cod is a lightning fast reflex athlete who'll kick your shit in just as hard as they'll shoot you
They are not average human

[loud saffron]

you prolly meant like, boots on the floor combat

[serene basin]

but it's your average realistic military shooter

[tidal raven]

Flashbang the baby % speedrun

[loud saffron]

cuz we're past the time where exosuits are cool

[serene basin]

with the grounded movement and gunplay

[serene basin]

no dude gears so good

[tidal raven]

You can be super fast yet grounded

[serene basin]

or do you mean like mechs

[loud saffron]

as many problems as it had, i still liked the exosuits a lot

[bitter ridge]

Infinite warfare was the nail in the coffin for exosuits

[wispy loom]

BO4 tried to be titanfall with an audience of unadaptable 40 year olds

[loud saffron]

no like, Advanced Warfare - BO3 + 4 - Infinite Warfare

[serene basin]

well anyway the premise of cod always just makes me sick

[bitter ridge]

Bo4 doesn’t hit that vibe tbh

[loud saffron]

you literally had exosuits with jumppacks n shit

bo4 is a lot slower

[wispy loom]

movement shooters are the best anyway

[tidal raven]

Infinite Warfare looked kinda fire ngl
But I havent played it and I saw it way after it bombed so I wouldnt know

[loud saffron]

all of them are slower compared to AW

AW was on some shit

[wispy loom]

didn't AW just have a double jump?

[loud saffron]

nah

side and front dashes

[serene basin]

doom ripoff

[bitter ridge]

Pretty sure it was just a double jump

Bo3 had the boosters

[tidal raven]

Didnt AW come out before DOOM?

[wispy loom]

90% sure it did

[loud saffron]

it did, plus we only got the dash in eternal

[serene basin]

no way that's the issue you took with me saying a double jump is a doom ripoff

[loud saffron]

lmao

[tidal raven]

(Lol)

[bitter ridge]

Double jump didn’t exist in og doom so nice try

[loud saffron]

but seriously, AW was a lot faster than the games after it

[serene basin]

NOWAY

[loud saffron]

i distinctly remember getting jumpscared by people side dashing into wherever i was

[wispy loom]

the 40 year olds couldn't handle it (bad game)

[loud saffron]

it was the most twitchy of the games

[wispy loom]

cod players coplain about camping
devs add counters to camping
cod players complain about movement tools
devs remove those tools, making camping stronger

[loud saffron]

people would just appear from corners and you had like 0.1 seconds to react

atleast people that knew what they were doing lol

[serene basin]

stop trying to change things or add new shit!!!! and while you're at it stop making the same game over and over it's getting stagnant!!

[loud saffron]

AW tryhards would play the game like they wanted to be playing titanfall instead

[leaden juniper]

God I hate yearly games

[wispy loom]

also!!!! SBMM is bad!!!!! I can't beat up children and my ego gets hurt!!!!!!!

[loud saffron]

ngl some cod games had horribly overtuned sbmm

[wispy loom]

wasn't titanfall 1 slower than AW technically

[serene basin]

yearly games are fucked these days because it takes like 3 huge dev teams to rotate through to crank them out

[tidal raven]

"And you should listen the community always your a bad dev if you dont."

[leaden juniper]

At least battlefield games were good

[loud saffron]

somewhat, mostly cuz of the lack of the movement tech you'd see in t/f2

[wispy loom]

iamgine of 2042 had like 6 extra months of dev time

[serene basin]

true true always listen to community they always speak with one mind and gamers are famously rational

[loud saffron]

titanfall had way more verticality, AW just had some stupidity factors to it

[wispy loom]

the devs are still hammering hard away at it, they've reworked nearly every original map to be smaller and are still balacing it with effort

clearly dedicated people

[serene basin]

remember when Titanfall 1 was released for full price with no campaign

[wispy loom]

lmao true

[loud saffron]

i feel like dice is always getting shafted by EA even when they dont deserve it

[serene basin]

and had 30 GB of uncompressed audio

[loud saffron]

if you just LET THEM MAKE GAMES, they'd be fine
but the execs always make some stupid decision

SW Battlefront 2 wouldve been great if it didnt come out with that fuckin lootbox shit

[wispy loom]

ain't that how most games fail nowdays

[loud saffron]

it was literally everything the first one shouldve been, but with horrible progression

[serene basin]

ea sucks so bad for a million reasons but #1 for me is that I can't choose where to install their app

[wispy loom]

the only game I can name recently that released rotten to the core was starfield

[loud saffron]

they only removed it because they guessed the game wouldve died anyway

[serene basin]

C/:program files (86)

and that's IT

[wispy loom]

that's outrageous

no custom install path?

[loud saffron]

honestly the multiplayer campaign thing was a cool way of doing it, since they didnt have budget
i still dont know where they got the money to make titanfall 2 later

[serene basin]

only for games

not for launcher

[wispy loom]

it's a cool concept but you can't even pick the order right? unless you stay in a lobby

exoprimal has a similar issue

[loud saffron]

yeah it had that issue

doesnt help that the game started getting bad queue times for low pop regions

[loud saffron]

i only tried the exoprimal free weekend and i can safely say ive played enough

[wispy loom]

see the game has more than 3 gamemodes alongside full on PvE boss fights, but it takes alot of repitition to get to it

and it's in a bad way

[loud saffron]

yeah it feels too repetitive for me
cool idea atleast

the main thing i dont get is the pvp elements

i know its for story purposes but like

[wispy loom]

yeah same, they take away from the experience

[loud saffron]

it feels like they noticed they didnt have enough, and added that

[serene basin]

it's not for story purposes, they wrote the story to accommodate gameplay

[loud saffron]

the actual pvp ending stuff is horrible, i only queued for pve after experiencing it once

dealing with possessed dinosaurs feels a lot more fun than the full on pvp

[loud saffron]

i wouldnt be surprised lol

[wispy loom]

imagine the match just ending as you reach the big setipiece because the enemy team wins

[serene basin]

I mean most games do that

[wispy loom]

(that happens)

[serene basin]

gameplay first story give it context

[loud saffron]

i do like exoprimals story setup, i just dont want to experience endless repetition like the ingame character

saying "i play a capcom game for the storyline" just sounds so funny

[bitter ridge]

Resident evil moment

[wispy loom]

idk man

[loud saffron]

oh right i forgot they made those

[serene basin]

Capcom writing is just so good

[loud saffron]

yeah that one is all story lol

[wispy loom]

ghost trick too

[loud saffron]

i cant even front i do like the way they write characters
i wouldnt be as invested in street fighter if i didnt like the characters themselves

even if some are absolute slot filling and havent done anything in 3 decades

i want e.honda GONE from this UNIVERSE along with ALL HIS PLAYERS, right NOW

[wispy loom]

just perfect parry

[loud saffron]

they had 3 decades to make e.honda more than John Sumo and they havent

[wispy loom]

true!

[bitter ridge]

He owns a chanko restaurant in 6

[loud saffron]

its still better than ganryu, who's one trait is John Sumo-Simp

[loud saffron]

yeah and thats legit the most development hes had since he got introduced

bro just owns a bath house and a restaurant

[wispy loom]

blanka's writing is HILARIOUS

random kid survives a plane crash, lives in the amazon forest, eats eels so he gains electric powers, his skin turns green from the mud

[loud saffron]

no wonder he became like that, bro landed in the amazon
i'd turn feral too if i had to hunt some of the powerful electric eels there is

street fighter's freakshow characters are always fun

[wispy loom]

abigail

[loud saffron]

(besides necro who is kind of just sad)

[wispy loom]

there are some wierd characters too

Elena (neolatin name) fights with capoeira (brazilian fighting style) is from kenya and has a skin tone resembling a gangoru

[loud saffron]

then she moves to japan to make friends

honestly it feels like they wanted to make a gyaru capoeira character from the start, but realized that'd be a bit too stupid

[bitter ridge]

12 exists

Meanwhile my boy Dudley still hasn’t been in a game since 4

[loud saffron]

he just a lil artificial soldier made by the illuminati, normal stuff

[wispy loom]

minus on hit fullscreen projectile

[loud saffron]

get discorded

[loud saffron]

exactly one actually good super, incredibly difficult to land (not clone, clone is a meme)

[bitter ridge]

Me when urien is bs

[loud saffron]

twelve really is baby's first character programming

[bitter ridge]

They don’t seem to be as generic as sandbert rivals of aether

[loud saffron]

minus on hit on everything
designed like a rushdown with his wings, cant rushdown
incredibly well animated moves that are all pointless or bad

[wispy loom]

necro is one step up the tier list and it's not even close

[edgy marsh]

anyone wanna play ror2

[loud saffron]

imagine being second impact hugo tho

has an infinite
still the worst character in the game

[wispy loom]

second impact sean tho

[loud saffron]

wrong chat to ask this bruv, #lfg-pc-ror2

[wispy loom]

why was this legal

[loud saffron]

new gen and second impact are so full of funny little things like that

the funniest thing about the trilogy is the fact that alex, the protagonist, has sucked since the first one

[bitter ridge]

Dudley Chad

[wispy loom]

curse of the grappler

[loud saffron]

alex just feels very gimmick reliant

[wispy loom]

what's with capcom and counters with super flash

[loud saffron]

took capcom a pretty long time to start making grapplers (that arent zangief) actually feel good

rainbow mika in alpha and alex in third strike
absolute janitor-tier characters

[bitter ridge]

Honestly sf6 gief would be better if green hand was a back

[wispy loom]

just let lariat beat crossups PLEASE

[bitter ridge]

I wish that was possible but no

[loud saffron]

atleast grappler players get to eat good with manon

[wispy loom]

true manon has some good tools+jumpscares

[loud saffron]

sf5 and 6 has some pretty good grapplers

[bitter ridge]

Manon doesn’t fuel my glue eating needs ngl

[wispy loom]

she's very DI vulnerable but her buttons are annoying as hell

[wispy loom]

lily

[bitter ridge]

Nah I’d rather gief

[loud saffron]

play lily and you'll get to claim the "oooh i play bottom tiers i'm cool" award too

[bitter ridge]

Who cares about tiers when I want to have fun

[wispy loom]

I'm based I play jamie

[loud saffron]

sf6 is actually pretty balanced all things considered, you'll just see a lot of people complaining about luke and the like

because, you know, its a fuckin shoto of course hes good

[bitter ridge]

Mad cause bad type stuff

[loud saffron]

JP got nerfed atleast, so hes not as obviously strong as before

[wispy loom]

I get more upset at motion inputs eating my throw techs over luke or ken

luke's pressure is strong but linear imo

[modern lintel]

helldivers 2

[atomic spear]

Hop on lethal company

Psychobilly clowns only

[tidal raven]

"I doubt id like melee fighters, not usually my archetype."
Give frank a shot for shiddles and giggles
Actually a super fun character

[misty walrus]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[ember vortex]

Fucking Balatro….

[small wren]

Specially true for Noita
Hell, I'd put Noita on a class of its own

[proud wren]

does this really apply to spelunky though

[leaden juniper]

Builds arnt really a thing in splunkey it's more a platformer

[wispy loom]

yeah in spelunky having all the passive items is just good, there's no downside to any of them I think

[neat sleet]

FINNISH

[small wren]

Wrong wand usage will end up with you...
Finnish'd
Or rather...
Noita'd

[small wren]

How come Ryse Son of Rome is 10€ on Steam but 42 on Xbox?
The Steam version is the complete version and so is the Xbox Series one...

And I don't see any sales nor other payments whatsoever

[wispy loom]

crytek must've forgotten to reduce the price

[delicate gazelle]

noita is actually just a 1 to 1 recreation of finnish life

[drifting kernel]

So is baba

[small wren]

Baba is you

You is win

[delicate gazelle]

me when a random drop pod gives me 73 fish

fuck

fish is bad :(

[fringe trout]

damn

[limpid sequoia]

Real sky landers btw

[bitter ridge]

I miss giants

[limpid sequoia]

I think I still have my sky landers

Unless I sold them already. Years and years ago

[modern schooner]

I had those

[limpid sequoia]

Yup I sold mine

I wish I had the donkey Kong sky lander

[bitter ridge]

I gave mine up to my cousin I think, could try playing it again by a specific means

[limpid sequoia]

I’m a donkey kong super fan. My pfp is donkey Kong

[bitter ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/melee-ssb-ssb-melee-moon-walk-dk-moonwalk-gif-25980214

[onyx loom]

every couple weeks it goes on sale for like 3 euro

[proud wren]

minor patch
-fire tornadoes and meteor showers

and flamethrower now does 50% more damage per second

maybe it is viable now

[serene basin]

hop on

[bitter ridge]

Railgun slightly nerfed and yet people on the main hd2 discord are crying about it

[serene basin]

the never nerf gamers are so dumb

[atomic spear]

oh it's not deep rock

damn

i got excited for a sec at the thought of more hazards

deep rocks palyer base would bitch too much anyway

[proud wren]

i don't even have railgun unlocked yet

[bitter ridge]

I unlocked it recently

[proud wren]

dark and darker's discord is the same way, they complain about every buff/nerf that is made and complain about wizard being underpowered

[tidal raven]

The "Why buffs are better than nerfs" video has doen irreprable damage to society as a whole

[limpid sequoia]

I’ve now 100% this game twice

[wispy loom]

get that triple 100% isaac style

[serene basin]

power creep is good actually

[spare oak]

0/10 no slug cat

[small wren]

That's good, but I still don't know why it's so expensive on Xbox for some reason
Good thing I looked at the Steam version because that saves me a lot of money

Say, is there any place where I can check if Steam is gifting any games? Is it SteamDB?

[drifting kernel]

Its in there

[bitter ridge]

Idk why piku and Niku are on there twice

[spare oak]

aww shit I didn't see, they blended in with the house from the background

slug camouflaged

[fringe trout]

kinda been forgetting to do Nighttime side quest things

[limpid sequoia]

goofball gets mad i killed him with a pistol and calls me a cheater the entire game

[serene basin]

"i woulda lit you up like a fuckin melon"

yeah man

[fringe trout]

9 times out of 10 dying light 2 is a very fun experience

[loud saffron]

SPEEN 2 WEEEN BABYYYYYY

[fringe trout]

wasn't even that i didn't have the time to use medicine in that moment, i just didn't have any at all

[orchid idol]

Bro is not happy about the teleport hard read

[serene basin]

i cant stop buying games help

[bitter ridge]

They ported the ps2 prince of Persia to pc? Nice, now do that too for castlevania Konami

[stiff ibex]

Can you buy me a game? 🥺🥺🥺

[serene basin]

no

[wispy loom]

lords of shadow? it's already ons team

[stiff ibex]

Why😭😭😭

[serene basin]

i need to stop

[stiff ibex]

😭

[delicate gazelle]

ill buy you a game

JUST KIDDING HAHA PRANKED HAHA PRANKED GET PRANKED HAHA PRANKED

[stiff ibex]

🫤

[glass marten]

buy risk of rain 2 again

[serene basin]

i wanna try new stuff i havent played

[tidal raven]

Buy Cruelty Squad

[stiff ibex]

you can buy me stuff

[serene basin]

its on my wishlist

but ive already seen a lot of it

kind of gives me a headache

[tidal raven]

No, actually
Buy the hardback Core Rules for Turnip28 and play it

[serene basin]

tabletop game

im good lol

oh even worse its a tabletop war game

[bitter ridge]

Lords of shadow was ps3, I mean lament onf innocence and curse of darkness

[tidal raven]

T28 is very small scale (unless your running fodder spam for whatever god forsaken reason)
So its not like 40k where you must dump 300$ to even get into it

[serene basin]

that's not my problem I just don't like tabletop combat

it's like playing a turn based grid videogame but more expensive and worse and all my friends hate it

[tidal raven]

Its not on a grid actually, thats battletech 🤓

But fair enough, it'll be hard to get into without others who are also into it
You can get Tabletop sim if you want to cut the price down, but nothing beats the real thing imo

[serene basin]

I have tabletop sim

[tidal raven]

Wanna get Tabletop sim to play AoF Regiments
Regiments has formations and facings which are a pain without square bases or a Formation stand

[serene basin]

a lot of my friends are also not local for college

so would need to be online anyway

[tidal raven]

Yeah, that sucks
Theres only 1 guy who plays T28 with me and hes only available on the weekends so I feel ya

[serene basin]

I don't really like turn based combat in general though

simple card games or board games are alright but military strategy just makes my eyes glaze over

[tidal raven]

Fair enough
Im kind of the same way if theres a Rules Bible
But something like One Page Rules I enjoy as it lets me be really tactical, and not have to manage seven hundred things

[serene basin]

chess

[tidal raven]

Chess is weird for me as it doesnt have many universal rules for pieces
Like on OPR all minis* move 6" (Double that if you charge, 12")
*Some have fast(x), but all that does is add inches to the range

[small wren]

Remind me not to use the Breath of the Dying point blank

[half zinc]

stop it. get some help (or dont idk im not your dad)

[serene basin]

steam need sto stop having sales

[drifting kernel]

Capitalism

Istg the funniest steam sale ever is the capitalism sale

[serene basin]

it does have all the worst games

shitty boring number go up management type games

[drifting kernel]

Damn dont hate on cookie clicker

[serene basin]

it sucks

[atomic ledge]

Whats game is that?

[serene basin]

yomi hustle

[half zinc]

fuck you too

[serene basin]

i didnt say nothing to you

[drifting kernel]

Your death is imminent

[atomic spear]

So what we playing this month?

[wispy loom]

dragon's dogma 2 in a few weeks

[serene basin]

current lineup

actually probably stop dead instead of those last 2

[wispy loom]

reminder to disable dialogue in viewfinder

[serene basin]

yeah yeah

ive seen the clip

[frosty yoke]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2215430/Ghost_of_Tsushima_DIRECTORS_CUT/?curator_clanid=40425349

Took them long enough.

Steam

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Price

$59.99

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May 16, 2024

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[wispy loom]

bloodborne is never coming to pc 😭

[frosty yoke]

Bloodborne OR Demon Souls for that matter.

[wispy loom]

true...

[limpid sequoia]

You can take a picture of literally any object and it looks like it can be an item in a rougelike

[limpid sequoia]

That’s what I’m workin on. All 3 files 100% is what I’m workin on

[loud saffron]

the spikester

[tidal raven]

Any time I see this meme I just picture Gingerbread's Interrigation

[frosty yoke]

Mind immediately ran to the Morning Star from HoT

[frosty yoke]

https://youtu.be/srPTwYFwdhs

Not a fan of the game, but cool crossover.

[fringe trout]

just climbed up a hospital in dl2 to unlock a Nightrunner safe zone, giant fucking world

hardest part of the climb for me wasn't too bad when i remembered i had wall running unlocked

[orchid idol]

oops

[zinc nacelle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC0oKSpOXeE what the fuck is that lmao

[loud saffron]

impossible skillcheck doctor WISHES he could force that

[digital hamlet]

monk in bg3 is a little overpowered
there's an item in act 1 that lets you do thousands upon thousands of damage by just spamming jump and buffing movespeed constantly

[zinc nacelle]

POP

[limpid sequoia]

I love donkey king so much

[limpid sequoia]

Donkey Kong**, bruh

[zinc nacelle]

same

i had a super nintendo when i was younger it was my favorite platform game there

[zinc nacelle]

and now i downloaded an emulator to play the new ones with my friends

[bitter ridge]

kd, konkey dong

[limpid sequoia]

gongley dong

[bitter ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/donkey-kong-mine-cart-ride-dispair-diddy-kong-gif-22844465

[limpid sequoia]

Btw I just finished 300%ing this game. All 3 save slots are 100%. Took me about a week or so. This is my current favorite donkey Kong game.

[modern schooner]

👍

[atomic spear]

Family drive home from eris in warframe

Family drive home from Glacial Strata in deep rock

https://youtu.be/dInsGVBYn2w?si=EWwzQZMPfCwRT9AU

[orchid idol]

Here we see an actual honest to god wizard no life

You have to no life this game to know how to orb tether and lock that much
Literally the only human being on the planet I've ever met to do that

[frosty yoke]

Well shit

[wispy loom]

yep

three years back we lost kentaro miura as well

[bitter ridge]

I wonder who’s next considering this happened

[frosty yoke]

Togashi has been on and off. Seriously wondering if he gets to finish HxH.

[half zinc]

pretty stacked tbh

[serene basin]

yeah they're sick but deathloop keeps crashing on me lol

and I beat en garde but it's so fun I need to play the arena mode and shit

[loud saffron]

deathloop pc port is Not Good

[serene basin]

yeah it's weird bc I didn't have an issue when I played last year

might be driver issues or whatever

[loud saffron]

very possible

[serene basin]

will mess with video settings more

[loud saffron]

mess around with vsync too, i remember that causing issues for people

[serene basin]

i always have that off

[loud saffron]

should be good then

[serene basin]

I have a gsync monitor

I'll try turning it on maybe

and I'll try other antialiasing

Ive crashed with both fsr 1 and 2

I just want good framerateee

and a high fov

[loud saffron]

sorry bruv gotta play the game at 1600x900 with 50 fov and settings to make the game look like a late ps3 title

[serene basin]

i don't mind all low settings but resolution framerate and fov I won't budge on

also bugs

you cant be flickering shadows and shit

[loud saffron]

i love it when shadows turn into strobelights, very good for the eyes

[delicate gazelle]

holy shit they are finnaly adding wolf varients to minecraft

litreally noone cares anymore but they finnaly did it

[serene basin]

btw have you played atomic heart

[loud saffron]

nah, wasnt interested with how the game turned out

was hyped for the trailers but those came out years before the launch

[serene basin]

it's not bad

little slow gameplay wise

[loud saffron]

was hoping it wouldve just been structured like bioshock instead of the semi-open-world thing it does, plus ive seen the combat and it doesnt look all that exciting

(plus-plus it has denuvo and i cant really afford a retail priced game)

[serene basin]

yeah I tried it through gamepass and added a mod to reduce some dialogue and waypoint markers

[loud saffron]

a Shut Up mod is funny lol

[serene basin]

but yeah the open world kind of sucks, the crafting/weapon stuff is lame,

[loud saffron]

i do agree that like, most dialogue in that game is just cringeworthy

[serene basin]

yeah it's literally called shut up p3

[loud saffron]

i understand not wanting to make your protagonist "boring", especially with how the story turns out

but if it was just the glove talking, or neither, it'd probably be easier to swallow

[serene basin]

im a little sick of silent of silent protags

and I think the cringinese grew on me

but it's too often

[loud saffron]

holy breadsticks... merry mother of wow.... crispy critters..........

[serene basin]

but yeah the main thing that killed it for me is the AAA jiminy cockthroat shit like crafting, open world, quest marker following, and overproduced cutscenes

[serene basin]

honestly....... I like it

[loud saffron]

its certainly done better than forspoken, but thats a bar so low its not even visible

[serene basin]

well yeah lol

[onyx loom]

i tried it for a while expecting to like it

[loud saffron]

its a cool game to look at and listen to, atleast

[onyx loom]

dropped it i think half an hour after the fridge tried to fuck me

[loud saffron]

feels like the story writer, the setting writer, and the dialogue writer were on completely different drugs while making the game

[serene basin]

I was just about to mention how horny it is sometimes

[onyx loom]

yeah it's a little gross

i also wanted the melee to be like ever so slightly cooler but the axe charge attack where you stand dead still and spin around was quite morbid

[serene basin]

doesn't bother me much you see this kind of thing all the time when you have like one guy with an artistic vision instead of committee designed mush

[loud saffron]

i do think the twins is enough sexuality for the game, the fridge is overkill and just stupid

[serene basin]

always gets a little sexual

[loud saffron]

i could certainly see some russian science-loving big wig type making sexy robots for himself, just not the horny personality fridge

[onyx loom]

it wasn't the reason I put the game down really, I think I just wasn't into it already and the Fridge Incident was where I stopped bothering

[loud saffron]

the incident lmao

the fridge that broke the camels back

[loud saffron]

true too

[serene basin]

I think the game would have worked for me with smaller scope

[loud saffron]

yeah the game is definetely scope crept
to the point they made that vr game just to have something to do while the game was being made

[serene basin]

more linear level design less RPG elements

[loud saffron]

it feels like they were very unsure if they could carry the game with whatever they intended to do

so they added or changed stuff to be more "contemporary"

[serene basin]

yeah unfortunate

they should have catered to me

[loud saffron]

get the guy that made the doom ost, hes popular right? (not to diss mick, hes been cooking masterpieces since killer instinct)
crafting, sure, thats something people like yeah?

[serene basin]

could have saved some money

I think Micks tracks are a great fit

[loud saffron]

he is the goat fohsho

just wish more games tapped into his other genres

[serene basin]

also the looting mechanic is really satisfying but it doesn't make crafting interesting or fun

yeah

prey was good for him

the 2017 I mean

[loud saffron]

mick going back in time to write "dont fear the reaper", just to add it to the original prey

[serene basin]

I still haven't played the original prey smhh

[loud saffron]

great game, just a bit aged
really fun setpieces and setting, if you consider exploding ghost children "fun"

[serene basin]

not on steam

[loud saffron]

you can blame 2k's pisspoor conservations of old games

plus human head kicking the bucket

[atomic spear]

we need to go back to silent protagonists

millennial writing has ruined all dialogue

[serene basin]

or just write good

also me when I watch a video essay called millennial writing

[atomic spear]

i hate that he calls it millenial writing, but it's gonna stick

[serene basin]

well I'm not going to call it that because that's silly

can call it quippy or quirky or buffy the vampire wedon type thing

anyway I said earlier I'm sick of silent protags

works fine if you have no story

or a shitty one

[loud saffron]

make silent protagonist C:
make protagonist buddy who talks way too much and is always there :C

[serene basin]

or have a silent protagonist in a game with lots of interaction with other characters :C

it works for doom and half life because they spent all game alone basically

[loud saffron]

reminds me that chell was supposed to have exactly one line of dialogue at the end of portal 1, but testers couldnt tell who was saying it and got confused

or this, which is just really funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxie7U0vgw

[bitter ridge]

Too many silent protags? Consider jc Denton deus ex or postal guy from postal

[serene basin]

or garrett thief from thief

[loud saffron]

shoutout to stephen russel for his VA work with garrett

[serene basin]

and like a billion other characters

[loud saffron]

jon st john too

throw a stone and you're bound to hit a game where he VAd

[serene basin]

who that again

[loud saffron]

duke nukem

[serene basin]

oh right

[loud saffron]

plus a billion others

[serene basin]

never played those

[loud saffron]

hes also big the cat

[serene basin]

no way

legend

[loud saffron]

hes been in like, a good 50% of boomshoot revival games

hes the lawful to gianni's chaotic

[loud saffron]

(hedon's sequel, ion fury, turbo overkill, painkiller)

[serene basin]

does painkiller even count as part of the boomshoot revival lol

that was like 2006 right

either way yeah he's like the hulshult of VA

[loud saffron]

meant the 2012 one specifically (hell n damnation)

[serene basin]

https://youtu.be/KBjBOR1uKQ0 btw watch this

[serene basin]

that's a remake

[loud saffron]

i'd somewhat count it, its at the very least an inspiration for a lot of stuff that came out during the big revival swing

[serene basin]

fair enough

[loud saffron]

ive got no fuckin clue what the game is but ive seen a lot of games reference it

[serene basin]

though I'd say the doom remake was the main catalyst

also 20 years passing

painkiller is a angels vs demons type game

where you shoot through hell to save your wife or something

[loud saffron]

i would say dusk's popularity is a big factor, but its really just a bunch of shit happening at the exact opportune moment

all the people who grew up playing doom or duke learning to make a game and trying to do somethin like that

[serene basin]

sure

it's also that retro inspiration sort of runs in periods of 20 years

it's a little reactionary but it's a generational thing

[loud saffron]

just like all the cool indie platformers
people growing up with titles making something based on em, then people getting inspired by those and making their own efforts

pls make more faux-retro games my pc cannot run UE4's Hyperpoop Dimensional Subscattering Lighting

[serene basin]

real

lighting is out of fucking control

[loud saffron]

gfx tech will finally ve affordable once we plateau and cant get any better

until some fucker makes the quantum nvidia card

[serene basin]

once someone figures out quantum computing we might as well all just give up and die

[lime current]

lol

[limpid sequoia]

Fantastic ost 🥺🥺🥺

[bitter ridge]

Check out the DKC2 ost

[limpid sequoia]

yeah

[runic summit]

would you say he voiced MANY characters?

[atomic spear]

very well, Whedonesque it is

[limpid sequoia]

Just clowned on this random Nintendo employee from 2007

[spare oak]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1208923056492388434/1215694956572835951/vlc-record-2024-03-09-03h16m42s-Desktop_2024.03.09_-_03.16.14.14.DVR.mp4-.mp4?ex=65fdaf28&is=65eb3a28&hm=0a27ce44024ac48d4befb5b999e3bcd9c61d6fcd5b8971b4276ae9dfffa256c0&

[wispy loom]

pfft

[oblique radish]

rule number 26: do not use ammo with the "🚀" point blank
played enough warframe to get that one glued to me

[atomic spear]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/270272381401038858/1215744431882240011/GIIFUTYbkAAIG8V.png?ex=65fddd3c&is=65eb683c&hm=0bae1c52433db308d28562eb86bcf0da4284499065b4507f81c65d69709b2b66&

[loud saffron]

probably so he doesnt get enslaved by some random person with a ball

[small wren]

Nor Breath of the Dying
Totally didn't happen to me a few days ago

[spare oak]

lack of fingers or something

[tidal raven]

No aposable thumbs is crippling

[small wren]

Not even pawstetic fingers, smh

[ember vortex]

balatro is so fucking rude

[wispy loom]

as every rouge like/lite

[obtuse copper]

https://tenor.com/view/what-da-tuna-gif-7414278627555691403

pretty sky

[shut vapor]

So is kingdom two crowns good and is slay the sprite good

[bitter ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/sprite-caffeine-free-gif-12865938

[serene basin]

yes to both if you like those kinds of games

personally I think kingdom is a little barebones as a tower defense for me

[shut vapor]

ok thanks

[atomic spear]

god i wish i was playing helldivers 2 instead of doing my coursework

[serene basin]

i gotta give up on deathloop the crashing is crazy

fuckin sad because it really like it otherwise

[ember vortex]

fucking balatro!!!

[obtuse copper]

cool brick wall

[cold bridge]

🤷‍♂️ guess I'm not using that car anymore

[serene basin]

woah..... nothing gets past this guy

[ember vortex]

thank you jesus, i am very blessed

[balmy mason]

the inablity to ever fit in with any group ever again

[atomic spear]

https://tenor.com/view/smile-gif-25512686

[zinc nacelle]

POP

[fringe trout]

rdr2 gameplay is kinda boring but the photo mode is at least kinda interesting

[fringe trout]

this one was actually pretty hard goddamn, nearly drowned like 5 times trying to unlock all the doors and loot locked crates

[analog crypt]

@frosty yokeWhy does swordsman on Halls of Torment suck

[frosty yoke]

I couldn't say. I personally found him to be a good starting point, but I would think in the newer levels he probably struggles. Granted there are better picks, I wouldn't necessarily say he's bad.

[limpid sequoia]

best insult

You pokey little flab-biscuit!

[drifting kernel]

I must laugh at you!

[limpid sequoia]

Ha!

[serene basin]

▶️

[sand laurel]

dark messiah of might and magic lookin spike placement

[bitter ridge]

I loved drop kicking the zombies in dying light one

[loud saffron]

grappling and kicking is so much funnier in 2 cuz of the force

in 1 you'd like, shove them aside and they'd fall

with the force upgrade in 2 they just fly off

[ember vortex]

balatro....

[drifting kernel]

john oaker

[wispy loom]

that's a lot of face value

[crisp hound]

i overcame my inner owl skill issue

[frosty yoke]

https://youtu.be/DeNmS8hgNEc

[frosty yoke]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2446550/STAR_WARS_Battlefront_Classic_Collection/

The superior Battlefront.

Steam

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Release Date

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[slate stirrup]

https://citizen-grim.itch.io/chroma-cycle it a small game but if you can check this game out

[serene basin]

DOG IT WAS STEAM OVERLAY im maldinggggg

fixed itt at least but fuck life

[clear temple]

holy shit

[limpid sequoia]

anyone get tips for helldivers 2?

[drifting kernel]

put the railgun on unsafe

and aim it at your teammates

[limpid sequoia]

bet

[spare oak]

and keep holding the charge down as long as possible

[drifting kernel]

uhhh game post too

lucilius gbfr

bow mommy

[bitter ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/cagliostro-gif-18856813

[drifting kernel]

https://tenor.com/view/cagliostro-granblue-relink-cagliostro-granblue-granblue-fantasy-gbf-gif-6529667493214507252