video-games

[fathom juniper]

but on the other hand it speeds up the grind

[rancid token]

That's the point it crosses from being about the gameplay to being about the grind, because someone else takes the gameplay portion away

[fathom juniper]

eh

yeah i get you

i just wish KF2 didn't... didn't waste it's potential like that

dunno if you played KF2 @rancid token

[rancid token]

I played the first one a bunch, 2 didn't really grab me and there's a bunch of Nonsense about Tripwire that makes me not want to for Reasons but I've heard good things

[fathom juniper]

yeah - about that

KF2 was god tier at launch and for about... 2 years after that

but watching this game going from being my fave online co-op game and one of the most tightly designed horde shooters ever to just...
this bloated mess full of disjointed ideas and clashing mechanics was like...

it was like watching someone really smart and talented you knew at school turning to drugs and wasting their life away
and then you meet them few years later and it's like what the hell happened to you?

and then there's this whole drama
"we're not gonna add microtransactions" then it's like "we added microtransactions but only for cosmetics" then they tried to back away from that like "ok we heard you didn't like that so we added ANOTHER system on top of that so you get other type of currency for other cosmetics in game completely free" but then went in again "yo guys we're putting DLC guns" then heard the outrage again "ok we heard you so we're gonna add reskins of current guns for free along with the DLC" and then BACK AGAIN TO "yo we've got a season pass now"

and with every update there was just more and more and more and more and more crap people didn't ask nor want which just derailed the experience (quarter-pounders and E-dars ruin the experience for me)

and with every new thing the quality kept going down and down and down...

and then there was this whole twitter drama with the CEO and like a dozen different companies get in on the project to keep it on life support and it's just...

it's a mess

THAT SAID
the main composer for KF2 - zYnthetic - is still all sorts of based

had a chance to exchange a few emails with him over a year ago
really nice dude

i hope his future career after KF2 goes well

you know what?
all this kinda... kinda makes me wanna go back to KF2
as bloated and hard to run as it is

i wanna cosplay bayonetta and dual-wield 4 guns at the same time again
cause... it's a thing in this game

and it's as dumb as it sounds

[hybrid jetty]

I'm a big Warframe fan and have played it for far longer than I probably should have, but yeah it took me several tries to get into it

people really aren't kidding when they say the tutorial is 100 hours long

[fathom juniper]

it's the "one piece gets really good 300 episodes in" attitude

[hybrid jetty]

no joke lol

the story and visuals get wayyy better after that point but until then its just ok

[fathom juniper]

this is one of the reasons why i dumped over a 1000 hours into KF1 and 2
sure - the "normal" difficulty ||(which seems "hard" at first but is actually "easy" when compared to the rest)|| is the tutorial of those games

but you're having fun from the word go
right away - the music kicks in and you're minutes away from getting all the cool guns and so on

the game plays it's best hand right away and just goes "see all this cool stuff? this is what we're gonna do from here on now - only faster and harder as you progress"

[hybrid jetty]

tbf gameplay wise Warframe stays the same, if you weren't enjoying the "kill hordes of things, craft new item" loop nothing changes there

[fathom juniper]

yeah it's the same with KF2, but...

what i'm talking about is the ratio between "kill stuff" and "get stuff"

[polar dragon]

Wait warframe is a horde shooter?

[fathom juniper]

the only overarching progression system in this game is the classic, the good ol reliable experience system
gain experience, level up abilities and gain confidence to tackle harder challenges

but all the cool stuff is always within your reach in a single match
which lasts about 30 minutes

the cool guns, upgrades, different crossperk stuff, random bosses and so on

it's just so varied it will take you hundreds of hours to experiment with it all

[hybrid jetty]

for the most part

[fathom juniper]

but you can still get to the top tier stuff in just half an hour

you know what i mean?

also
the gore

best gore system in any shooter ever, hands down
it's been 6 years and it's still the best

oh hey - apparently the christmas event just started
and apparently... it's good?
people... like it?

huh

anyways
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/739395356306964534/1049696364549914655/ec_4595.mp4

[twin yarrow]

i wouldn't call Warframe's graphic design bland, it's quite the contrary.. very very complicated

which is not too good. i'm not sure if i like designs that are impossible to draw by any normal person like you and me

somebody told once, if cartoon character looks simple enough to be drawn by a kid, than it has a good design.. i think, it fits to adults with a difficulty correction

and sometimes difficulty is too high for anybody but artists who put years of practice into their skill

[fathom juniper]

i mean - there's a reason why TF2s character design stood the test of time

i think the phrase you're looking for @twin yarrow is "visual clutter"

[twin yarrow]

probably

[fathom juniper]

i mean - don't get me wrong - those robutts look great
with lots and lots of intricate details and fancy colors and such

[twin yarrow]

like, i've tried to draw a frame once, was that Rhino? was not able to get all that squigglies right

[fathom juniper]

but few days ago i got bombarded with a big pile of screenshots of different robutts from that game it's just...
it's nice, it's got style

[twin yarrow]

comparing to.. oh god

[fathom juniper]

but sometimes i just don't know what tf am i even looking at

[twin yarrow]

may i bring that?

..to destiny's hunter.. 😖

[fathom juniper]

bring what?

[twin yarrow]

am i ok? anyway

[fathom juniper]

destiny's hunter...

hang on lemme google that

[twin yarrow]

i could get those details much easier

[fathom juniper]

this?
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/destinypedia/images/4/46/DTG_Guardian_Hunter.png/revision/latest?cb=20140423231407

[twin yarrow]

i mean.. destiny and warframe are too compared these days

[fathom juniper]

this design is nice
i like it

but yeah - this talk about character design kinda brings me back to that content bloat in KF2

[twin yarrow]

although warframe wasn't heard of deleting 80% of the game contents, so like

yeah

[fathom juniper]

cause enemies in that game had some really neat designs - they all were distinct and easy to identify even during the most blood-soaked 6 player matches on SUI

buuuuuuuuuuut then they started adding more and more variants that are distinct in behaviour but similar in looks
and it made the game harder

like the edars - that game's robutts
there's 3 of them - one of them shoots rockets, other - lasers, and the third one can lock you in place from 50 feet away with his magic bullcrap trapper beam

they all require different things from you - you either run or gun
and it's hard to make that decision in a split second cause they all look the same and i don't know if i should either run or gu-
ohwait im dead

[twin yarrow]

that makes me think about Deep rock galactic

i can't really think about some design downsides of it.. even when you dress all you dwarves in similar almost identical outfits, the main color difference still persists

and all the enemies can be easily determined just by its' size and main featuires

maybe i can think about one.. Compressed gold can be hardly found due to its faded signs, but its much more valuable counterpart is bright as new year tree

which is supposed to be vice versa?

[fathom juniper]

never played deep rock galactic and...
after watching a stream - i don't intend to just solely because of the dialogue

yeah im that petty

ah, the joy of video games
where art thou ?

no but seriously - where's...
where's the fun?
have you seen it anywhere @twin yarrow ?
i can't seem to find it

[twin yarrow]

i remember it was somewhere in early 10s

then some sparks here and there

[fathom juniper]

then mirror's edge catalyst came out

and the dark times came

and never left

[twin yarrow]

kekw

[wise cedar]

I miss playing Planetside 2 Titanfall with my online friends :<

[fathom juniper]

[twin yarrow]

there are too little real masterpieces that make you really emotional after playthrough

[fathom juniper]

i mean - yeah

[wise cedar]

Solar Ash and Sable both gave me some light feels™️ but nothing crazy

Still chasing that saving zulf high

[twin yarrow]

destiny's ghosts and titanfall2's titans are the best companions you can ever have in life, change my mind

[fathom juniper]

but sometimes you just wanna shoot a zombie in the dingdong with a quad barrel 6 gauge shotgun and watch him do cartwheels over the next three adjacent states

i miss KF2

[wise cedar]

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

[fathom juniper]

HEY I WAS WATCHING THAT!

[wise cedar]

Sorry

[fathom juniper]

just kidding

[wise cedar]

[fathom juniper]

im just having fun here, don't mind me

oh hey

you guys remember when amir and greg streamed pyre a while back?

or was it hades i don't remember

can i watch that again anywhere?

[rustic falcon]

the hades streams were on steam i believe, so nowhere to watch them... and the pyre streams were on twitch before pyres launch so i believe theyre long gone

[fathom juniper]

[rustic falcon]

ok im a liar, hades streams were also on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/@supergiantgames/streams

and it looks like the pyre stream is up too :D
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/148347336

[fathom juniper]

ayyyy

thank

[sand sleet]

Does anybody know any games like borderlands like looter shooters I mean but with fun and colorful visual design not like destiny and warframe

[fathom juniper]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/148347336?t=0h11m13s
is this how it's pronounced?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1051545492598825080/kissa.jpg
Jomeöör

[fathom juniper]

damn son

darren is a beast at hades, holy moly

[potent tide]

nier enjoyers, should i get nier replicant first, or automata?

[rustic falcon]

imo replicant, since its chronologically first in the story

[fathom juniper]

that depends

if we're talking the OG replicant... eeeeeh - you can skip the game and watch some lore videos and jump straight into autopotato

but i've heard the remake replicant fixes some of the gameplay issues and makes the game... a bit less painful to play

so if you've got that then sure - play it in chronological order

[rustic falcon]

im assuming were talking about the remakeplicant, because og replicant was only available in japan

[fathom juniper]

ye

[potent tide]

replicant it is.
also, keeb+mouse or controller?

[fathom juniper]

probably controller

[rustic falcon]

i played kbm and it was fine but its up to your preference

[fathom juniper]

god i can't even imagine playing autotomato with kmb

[rustic falcon]

automata though, definitely controller

[fathom juniper]

yeah

[rustic falcon]

even though i used kbm....

[fathom juniper]

it gets fast

[fathom juniper]

this kinda reminds me of that one time back at uni when my roommate tried to get into dark souls

he started with DS2...
mouse and keyboard...
on a laptop that CHUGGED at 720p

it was... borderline painful

[ocean iris]

https://i.imgur.com/6YNhOB6.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/M9UdPp0.jpeg

tomorrow is literally in my hands

i did the most tedious delivery ever

2 pizzas that have to stand horizontally or else they get damaged

and a champagne i can only hold in my hands

that means no vehicles

and had to use my speed skeleton on the highway

at least i got a cool handgun :3

[fathom juniper]

i have... numerous questions and things to say about this post

1 - tomorrow... is monday
i don't want it in my hands, i don't want it anywhere near me
2 - what sort of pizza has to be stacked vertically and what does it look like?
3 - what sort of dingus orders uber eats from the other end of the country?
4 - why do you have to hold that bottle in your hands?

i am... utterly confused

nice pics tho

oh wait - i misread number 2

still

[ocean iris]

3. It's a delivery for Peter Englert which is just literally Higgs

except it's an empty shelter

4. Extremely fragile

[hybrid jetty]

3. taking heavy advantage of the classic "30 minutes or its free" deal

[fathom juniper]

oh my dear lord

so, uh...
i was looking up stuff about frostpunk
i'm kinda interested and might check it out

i knew it gets... rough
but i just didn't know it gets this dark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm2iBZOaJPU

especially that part of the vid titled "subjective morality" it's like...

games rarely touch on subjects this delicate

[tame veldt]

i've heard that the game is very buggy but idk how true it is

[fathom juniper]

yeah it was at launch but apparently it's way better now

[fleet otter]

has anyone played pillars of eternity deadfire?

[acoustic jacinth]

yes, but that was long ago, soon after it launched. haven't played the dlcs

[fleet otter]

would you recommend it to an entirely new player with no previous experience and only into turn based?

[acoustic jacinth]

i haven't tried the turn based mode, tbh. only played the game before that came out. but i'd venture to say that its not the best game to start out with in that regard. it was originally only a real time with pause game: turn based mode was added later

for turn based fantasy rpgs specifically, the two divinity original sin games are pretty fun

[fleet otter]

i have played dos 2👍

[acoustic jacinth]

first one's pretty good too, though your mileage may vary if you played the 2nd one first!

[stable kindle]

dos2 is soooo good

malady's va is hecate for hades 2 btw

[fathom juniper]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1051879326179672104/IMG_0510.jpg

Yeah buoiiiiii

Let’s gooooo
Another 100 hours, starting from scratch

[ocean iris]

https://i.4cdn.org/v/1670857980014810.jpg

OF COURSE THEY DID IT

Souls fans on their way to ruin AC

and yes just like Gloomwood enjoyer's previous comment

cue the dark souls of mecha games

[signal kayak]

That's the cheapest physical version available, look at the Switch one

[fathom juniper]

I don’t have a switch so

Also

HOLY MOLY SPCIY GUACAMOLE I FORGOT HOW GOOD this game is

[stable kindle]

https://www.ign.com/articles/armored-core-6-interview

[ocean iris]

Myiazaki as based as always

Im glad they finally do something that is not souls

[fathom juniper]

[dire warren]

oh i hate smt4a. game seriously just watched me spend days creating a perfect team and then just deleted all of them and threw me straight into a horrible boss fight alone.

it's going to take so long to recreate that team

[acoustic jacinth]

i did not know that, but it's super fitting! hope Larian will work on Fallen Heroes again after they're done with BG3, would love to hear more of Malady's story

[fathom juniper]

dang it, dad

got to dad on my first day
In about 4 hours, give or take
first time playing hay-deez on a controller

im kinda proud of myself

oh, the joy of video games, where have you been?

[polar dragon]

Wait you've been using mkb for Hades?

Whot

Also someone come play Darktide with me

[fathom juniper]

yeah

all those...
pretty... pretty good heat runs i've had last year were all on keyboard and mouse

im an FPS guy
all i need is a gun and raw mouse input and im a happy boye

SGGs pls make me a boomer shooter next, pls

thanks

[wise cedar]

No, life sim

I want a pokemon stardew valley cross where you can either raise a few pokemon to help you out with stuff or ranch pokemon in particular

[stable kindle]

god please let larian resume work on fallen heroes please i ask for so little

[winged dew]

I was talking Japanese RPGs with a friend and I just realized that the only SMT game I unequivocally liked was Devil Survivor

I have no idea what it is about SMT in general that turns me off

[signal kayak]

Overwhelming amount of demons?

[woven breach]

not enough style?

[signal kayak]

Demons jumping in and out of each game, swapping races or arcana when they do appear?

[twin yarrow]

it took me 4 hours to realize SMT is not a genre, but series

brain, hello, pls respond, over

[fathom juniper]

🧠

[hybrid jetty]

one day I'll actually complete smt5

[ripe spindle]

This is where talk about games other than Hades, right?

[signal kayak]

Non Supergiant Games games, yes

[fathom juniper]

This is the place where we argue about genre names

[ripe spindle]

I can't post images. Is that just me?

[fathom juniper]

Ah
You see

There’s a super secret arcane trick to it

[ocean iris]

post the link of the said image

[fathom juniper]

Shhhh

Don’t spoil the secret !

[ripe spindle]

https://twitter.com/BakenekoS/status/1600602638210502662?t=LH4Zb_oHDFAlMY8DcyI8DA&s=19

Eldritch Ocellus (@BakenekoS)

My Precious daughter! After 4 days, we finally meet!

Twitter · Dec 7, 2022, 9:26 PM

[fathom juniper]

That’s the 40k game, right ?

[ocean iris]

Yes.

im just waiting for it to be finished

and waiting for the real gem

Space Marine 2

[fathom juniper]

Wait what do you mean ?

It’s EA?

[ocean iris]

just fatshark laziness

[polar dragon]

Yeah.
Me: This game is disgusting and raw.
Fat Shark: More, sir?
Me: Yes, please.

Seriously, it's such a fun game ruined by trashy... everything else.

It's unfinished and predatory. But man the gameplay itself is awesome. Why can't they get the easy part right ffs. Just finish your effing game before release man.

Game as live service is a heresy that will be rooted out, a cancer that must be excised in the name of the God Emperor.

[fathom juniper]

I’ve been saying it for years

YEARS!

[ocean iris]

high on life is so annoying OH MY GOD

[hybrid jetty]

color me surprised

[dire warren]

smt series is great but its main flaw is that its nOt pErsoNa!! that every time you think they have stopped with the worst of their demon designs they show you something worse and you just have to put up with it

and ig also if you're not a fan of games that do not like you being able to beat them without tearing your hair out

[heady cedar]

The witcher 3 new gen update just released as a 46gb update on steam

[fathom juniper]

Oh so it’s free for everyone who already bought the glitcher 3?

[near ocean]

Yes

[signal kayak]

The Glitcher 3

[fathom juniper]

That’s super neato

[heady cedar]

I was so looking forwards to that update im so disappointed by the issues

Can’t Even run my settings pre-patch on more than 20fps

I have a 2060 so it shouldn’t have any issues running on old settings🤷

[broken smelt]

this might not be relevent, but I'll ask anyways, what cpu do you have and what resolution are you running the game at

[rustic falcon]

just finished it takes two, absolutely loved it. its so creative and fun. however.... i had a severe minigame skill issue it seems

[fathom juniper]

“May Cody Draw?”

I dunno

He might

[heady cedar]

Intel Core i5 and 2560 x 1440

I had run the game on ultra settings playing it the past week with a solid the previous Max of 60fps and now i can’t even Get above 30fps on high settings without rt

[fathom juniper]

Yeah I’ve heard this new version is pretty borked

[broken smelt]

Can you please be more specific, intel i5 tells me nothing

[broken smelt]

I've read similar things of peoples fps getting basically cut in half with the new update

[fathom juniper]

christ almighty
https://youtu.be/9EII4JSLNcw?t=1367

poor

he got absolutely rekt

[wise cedar]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/516763813790482464/1052762351264354345/20221214150024_1.jpg

[fathom juniper]

dög

[woven breach]

"Let's try community made song charts on Project Diva" I said
"The songs are cool too" friend said
"They're well made" reviewers of the mod said

I need a nap after beating one song

[mystic wave]

Must be a good lullaby

[polar dragon]

Hahaha

[dire condor]

https://youtu.be/aeWyp2vXxqA

That's the third video released in this month alone

Quite the lovely Christmas treat

[dire warren]

my favourite video game related video for the video game channel

[dire condor]

Lol

Keep your quantum physics bs in your quantum physics servers

We discuss Vidya gaems here

Anyone play brawlhalla?

[hybrid jetty]

btd6 is free on epic today https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/bloons-td-6-bf95a0

[dire condor]

Looks like a mobile game

And not a good one like dead cells

Well dead cells isn't a mobile game it's a game on mobile

[tame veldt]

mf who's never played btd6

you can easily sink hundreds of hours into btd

[dire condor]

Like candy crush

Or subway surfers

Or clash royale

[lofty pecan]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1585220/Melatonin/ 👀

Steam

Melatonin

Melatonin is a rhythm game about dreams and reality merging together. It uses animations and sound cues to keep you on beat without any intimidating overlays or interfaces. Harmonize through a variety of dreamy levels containing surprising challenges, hand-drawn art, and vibrant music.Melatonin explores the relationship between the dreams we hav...

Price

$13.49

Metacritic

81

▶ Play video

[rustic falcon]

this game looks so good and the demo was lots of fun but my backlog is immense rn

[gentle cloak]

I stuck with 5

[hybrid jetty]

it literally is lol

its tower defense

[fathom juniper]

GODS

i almost forgot just how much straight, no bullcrap FUN Hades can be

when it's firing on all cylinders
darren's going all , jen's art is all over the screen, greg's witty writing making me laugh and so on

oh - every second is a joy

well besides the witches circle
that thing can get caught in a live telephone wire for all i care

but still - i never thought grinding a 100 hours long roguelite FROM SCRATCH could ever be so fun

[ocean iris]

I got my cheap ass racing wheel working

god it's amazing on Assetto Corsa

[fathom juniper]

[fallen sky]

Games whose visuals I want to eat

[fathom juniper]

see also: mirror's edge, viva piniata, all SGG games and doom eternal

yes - doot eternal
i like meat, i like spicy food
this game has it both

[fallen sky]

Viva Piñata. Games whose visuals I could eat irl

[clear python]

I want to eat FEZ

[ocean iris]

Literally me

Driving with one hand while anxiously holding the other on the shifter O_O

ON THE NORDSCHLEIFE

[fathom juniper]

BOMB IT!

gotta make the man in my PFP proud @ocean iris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx1ESSwNXB0&t=104s&ab_channel=incT

[ocean iris]

Simply a skill issue

[fathom juniper]

bomb it!

[ocean iris]

Now riddle me this.

The Nurburgring has a hard corner called the youtuber corner and many cars end up crashing, yet I easily clear it in Assetto

Curious!

[fathom juniper]

does it still have that one corner where someone spray-painted a giant dingong on it?

[ocean iris]

No idea but it does have lots of spray paints

[fathom juniper]

0/10 into the trash it goes

not realistic at all

immersion = ruined

[ocean iris]

Bro it was scanned 7 years ago 😭

[fathom juniper]

yeah but that thing was there like 15 years ago already

[ocean iris]

Bruh.

then I gotta check

You know I cant really look out for sus graffittis on the track while Im 200km/h losing control of an McLaren F1 GTR

[rustic falcon]

@forest osprey about perfect games, moving here to show off my rate

[forest osprey]

ah

lemme see

oh why cant I send screenshots here

is it cuz im new

[rustic falcon]

you can embed images

[forest osprey]

I have 6919 achievements (nice) 19 perfect games 33% completion rate

So way less than you lol

I mean I got more achievements

Gottem

But that's prob cuz I have more games than you

also gottem

[rustic falcon]

lol unfortunately i have a bit more games, i just havent played them all yet

but you 100% hollow knight which is super hard so you win

[forest osprey]

ah

Lol yeah

I got up to hornet on my first run

gave up rage quitted

8 months ish later

went back binged it and then binged the steel soul

[rustic falcon]

i never finished it, didnt get very far

[forest osprey]

hmm idk how i have twice the amount of achievements then you then

with half your rate

[lofty pecan]

just finished nier automata ||ending e|| and honestly have no clue what to think

also i couldnt do it properly cuz im emulating the game on a mac and ||couldn't get the online feature to work 😔 so i just watched a playthrough on youtube after finishing endings c and d||

the soundtrack has no right to slap as hard as it does tho

[forest osprey]

Nier automata is one of my favorite games of all times

[forest osprey]

||tragedy online didnt work for you, that is alot of what makes the ending so great||

[fathom juniper]

Oh no

[forest osprey]

I recommend playing replicant

[lofty pecan]

will probably play now after finishing automata

took me a while to finally get around to finishing the game because i really disliked 9s' hacking playstyle

[fathom juniper]

Also
What sort of Mac do you have to be able to EMULATE Nier far whereveryouare at a reasonable frame rate ?

[lofty pecan]

got a new mac with the new m1 chip last year for college

runs nier at around 25 fps during combat usually, not ideal but kinda playable

[fathom juniper]

[rustic falcon]

yeah i didnt do much hacking when i first played. more just hitting the enemies with my baby sword until they died

playing with kbm didnt help

but the game kinda forces you to get better at it eventually, and i think its okay now

[woven breach]

I kind of hated hacking at first too

but then I put a lot of upgrades to it

and just one shotting everything

even an enemy 10 levels above me

[rustic falcon]

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/best-of-stealth-encore-bundle
good bundle, bc echo is good

[fathom juniper]

Hitman 2

It’s worth playing just for the Isle Of Sgail mission at the end

And everything else, of course
It’s great, but it’s held back by its god awful DRM

[solid nimbus]

so after hades 2 and melinoe were announced i looked at my planned pokemon violet team and

https://imgur.com/3GF7SYl

[fathom juniper]

So what Pokémon is zagreus?

[dire warren]

[hybrid jetty]

cannot recommend heat signature enough

especially if you have steam friends who have also played heat signature in the past

[dire condor]

I need multiplayer game recommendations

[polar dragon]

Coop or PvP

[dire condor]

PvP

[polar dragon]

Play League bro

[dire condor]

I don't play very many multiplayer computer games

But other than chess

Defcon is one of my favourites

It's quite dated but still has significant traffic, at the very least enough for a few sessions

Defcon?

[dire condor]

Like league of legends?

@dire condor I don't know if anyone has ever told you but-

You're kind of a psychopath

[fathom juniper]

Defcon

Come for rts goodness

Stay for existential dread

The only rts you can’t win
You can only lose the least

[fathom juniper]

Speaking of multiplayer games and existential dread
Try csgo

There’s a lot of traffic - obviously
Lots of content and different modes
Some of them even aren’t sweaty

[dire condor]

Lemme see the price

Oh it's ftp

I think I'll try it

[wise cedar]

@dire condor what sort of games do you like?

[dire condor]

I'm not the best at FPS

[fathom juniper]

Rip

[dire condor]

Mostly indie games and 2d platformers and roguelites

[fathom juniper]

See - here’s the problem
All PVP games get sweaty eventually

Indie platformer PVP

Duck game?

[dire condor]

Fr, with brawlhalla I started of casual now I get really heated in ranked

[fathom juniper]

OOOORRRRR
you could hook up with the guys doing the weekly online PVP matches

They’re running a pretty cool crew

[dire condor]

I don't think I've heard of duck game

[wise cedar]

one of my favorite things about rivals of aether having a small community is you can just drop in on streamers streaming and play with them sometimes

I mean, I get bodied

but its fun

[dire condor]

What genre

[wise cedar]

platform fighter

think SSBM but more combo focused and slightly less technical

[dire condor]

If it's a platform fighter I think I'll like it, but brawlhalla is the only platform fighter I've ever played

[wise cedar]

its online is.... questionable.... the matchmaking is heavily skewed towards people who've put hundreds of hours into the game

[dire condor]

Doesn't it have like a ranked system

Or is it because it's smaller

[wise cedar]

yeah

also last I checked it had a ranking system but two pools

[dire condor]

I used to hate fighting games until I found platform fighters so I'm open to trying more out

Depending on how expensive I might have to watch a review or two

[wise cedar]

Yeah, regular flighting games are not my forte, but rivals I actually used to be half decent at

even won a set in a tournament once

[dire condor]

That's pretty cool

I'm still in the noobie category of brawlhalla

[wise cedar]

sucks that I actually have to practice at it to be good X'D

me trying to hit cancel or reverse air rush now is emarassing

[dire condor]

I'm tempted to download genshin

[clear python]

its p okay

[fallen sky]

Sifu I think is the one fighting game I'm interested in atm

[hybrid jetty]

[fallen sky]

My buddy is a competitive BlazBlue player and whenever I watch them play I'm like

I'll keep it real with you my dude. Idk wtf is going on 💖

[hybrid jetty]

i play a lot of guilty gear and the secret is that the players don't know wtf's going on either

[fallen sky]

I'll have to post their stream in promo someday because I'd imagine it's a real blast for actual BlazBlue fans

They also used to play Smash somewhat competitively but BlazBlue took over

[mystic wave]

I tried to follow the BlazBlue story and I also idk what's going on

[fathom juniper]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand done

dad gave up

roll credits

[polar dragon]

Yay

See mom

Tell dad to get good

Scene

[fathom juniper]

i already did like a year ago on PC

but this time i managed to do the main story in one, single 9 win streak

without skipping heat

[polar dragon]

Heck yeah boss

I'm going through Othercide

It's a pretty good game.

[rustic falcon]

Watched a friend play a bit of that

Not for me, but it’s very stylish

[fathom juniper]

Wow

The rail plays like garbage on a game pad

[clear python]

gamepad rail my beloved

[polar dragon]

oh for the special? yeah you just kinda pray

[fathom juniper]

Nah just in general

The aiming, reloading - the whole thing

[next patio]

Remap reload to a shoulder button asap

R3 is a crime

[fathom juniper]

yeah i got it on R1

and fire is on square

which is so ass backwards it's unreal

all scooty-shooty gaems have fire on shoulders and reload on square
but here i have to have it completely backwards and it's messing with my muscle memory

also - rail with zeus on attack is still as busted as i remembered it to be

and with reload on R1 i moved interact to L1
which screws with me too - especially in styx
every time i get poisoned i run up to a fountain and start reloading my gun by accident while taking poison DOT

and since L1 is interact
i had to move the codex to... R3
and thus the cycle is complete

[next patio]

codex on r3 is what it deserves

[mystic wave]

Can't you put attack on r1? Always found that more natural in games. Allows thumb to press dashes or jumps and stuff

[river blaze]

What video game do you think is the most overrated
For me it's witcher 3

[polar dragon]

I think Witcher 3 got the reputation it deserves.
The game was genuinely fun for me. The story got me hooked for a while. I finished it 3 times.
Overrated game for me? Minecraft.

[river blaze]

Combat is awful in witcher 3
Very basic (not in a good way), unrewarding and unfun

Boring side quests as well that are forced upon you (which goes against the term of side quests)

Pacing in general is terrible
I was bored too many times

Mediocre graphics even for the year it was released in
Clunky movement
Both for geralt/ciri and the horse

No depth in enemy mechanics
They are very limited and bland

Below average soundtracks
They even use same annoying soundtrack in all cut scenes

Doesn't deserve 800+ goty awards at all
Yet alone being called a masterpiece

Bad combat, mediocre graphics, below average soundtrack and a decent story
It's only decent in one department
7/10 at best
Personally would give it 5/10

A masterpiece is a game that excels in everything
Like Hades

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak6SXL1On9I

Lol

Going from games like Hades, ps4 Spider-Man or Arkham series to this is a massive downgrade

But anyway
That what I think about the game

[fathom juniper]

HOOOO BOYE
do i have some examples for you
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_in_video_games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_in_video_games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_video_games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_in_video_games

and so on, and so forth

im joking, of course

kinda, sorta
||just a little bit||

[woven breach]

most of the games I play aren't too overrated, they're more of.. "ye they gaem"

[signal kayak]

Never really got the appeal of the Xenoblade Chronicles games tbh, those really look overrated to me

[fossil notch]

based

[fathom juniper]

You know
I’m watching the noclip doc and it got me thonking

You know how most SGG trailers start with stuff like “from the creators of bastion and transistor” and what not?

This list is only getting longer and longer

I wonder how long till they run out of space, drop the whole thing and just start a trailer with “You know who tf we are.”

[rancid token]

Honestly Red Dead 2 is the most miserable slog I've ever played

I don't think many other games have actively pushed me away from wanting to play it just by how it handles

And I've played a lot of trash

[urban elk]

Oh, writing wtf gets the message censored fair

Should have seen it coming

[rancid token]

GTA V also doesn't control well, to be fair, but the sheer animation density in RDR2 just compounds on the issue

(Not to mention the atrocious working conditions needed to apply them)

[urban elk]

So, I'd say Witcher 3 too when it comes to overrated games, but not for the same reasons as above. I find it to be quite beautiful and the combat system is okay-ish (quen is just quite stupid). But, what the hell is up with every level 12 quests giving level 8 loot, stupidly high level foes in low level areas, and weird balance stuff like this? Like, yeah, I did spend half an hour and more on some monster because quen allowed me to do so, but it wasn't fun. And idk, if there's a big golem with a lot of HP I'm considering it's not a bad idea to kill it, I just need to never get touched, that's doable. Why does it give loot far below my current level even though I should have been twice my level to get a fair fight? I feel like the game is a really bad way to do an open world for those kinds of reasons

[dire condor]

2 : 0 folks

Messi will lift that cup

[polar dragon]

This is a bit disingenuous. The gear the character is wearing is not proportional to the difficulty of the game, which is why that sword does so little. Also the player used to spell, no potion, no sword light/heavy attack mix, no bombs, etc. It's like ignoring most of Hades combat mechanic like cast, special, dash and complain that the game is only running around spamming attack move.
Also, the cheese tactic of fighting everything hit and run can be applied to almost every game. If you want to cheese the game that way, you do you. But it's usually not representative of combat.
Since you posted someone cheezing the game with low level weapon to show how "tedious" and boring the combat is.
I can in turn show you this, which highlights the combat instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTZkDghpo94
or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih27CmFgTPc

[polar dragon]

Sidequests are mostly optional. Though they can impact your endings. But that's like every RPG, doing more sidequests generally leads to a better ending. The only thing that is tedious in my opinion is collecting all the Gwent cards in the game and beating everyone. But that is completely optional and have zero impact on any ending.

I find the pacing to be acceptable. The problem I have is actually that the game is so open you can possibly miss triggering sidequests if you go a different route. If you are bored then yeah that's fair. I won't try to convince you to feel otherwise.

Graphics is also up to personal taste. I think Toussaint is one of the most beautiful area in video in general.
Absolutely agree in the horse movement though. That thing sucks.

Enemy are varied but their attacks are relatively tame, I do agree. You fight the same swordman AI in level 50 as level 1. But the game makes up for the many different bosses you can fight I guess.

Soundtrack is phenomenon for me so idk. It's fair that you find it mediocre. I don't. My favorite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gokhBJWSjeM

[hybrid jetty]

I really need to play witcher 3 past the prologue at some point

tried 3 times but something always stops me

[dire warren]

some days i wonder how much thought the mh rise devs put into the afflicted mechanic

• forces you to target body parts that, depending on weapon and monster, sometimes are completely unreachable
• often forces you to target the body parts with the absolute worst hitzones. and ones that bounce you.
• multiple monsters have their own fight gimmicks that want you to hit certain parts. like the rakna-kadakis or garangolm
• so its either. hit the arms and fail a dps check and die. or hit the legs and fail the other dps check and die. great thanks
• at some point everything can just twoshot you even with the tankiest builds possible. and the speed and aggression buffs mean you can be twoshot in two seconds

still better than half of what world was doing at least

[ocean iris]

playing Sable :3

[fathom juniper]

17 wins streak

dad's getting rekt hard

[wise cedar]

Tell Simoon I miss him.

[fallen sky]

https://twitter.com/SatisfactoryAF/status/1604561218710245378?t=5u4bAHWk4hyJxX0tSG4vLw&s=19

[fathom juniper]

[sand sleet]

Replayed the ending of cyberpunk with the arasaka path

Honestly I like it more than the nomad one, but unfortunately judy leaves town without v

[rustic falcon]

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/holiday-encore-best-boomer-shooters-bundle
another nice bundle

[fathom juniper]

Ooooohhh
There’s some good stuff in there

Pardon me papa
Ducks
Hedon: apply directly to the forehead

A-medieval

good stuff

[ocean iris]

lol good stuff

[eternal crag]

I'd also add to the combat: the point of being a witcher is not fighting swordsmen and bandits (which obv you can do and they will attack you) but to hunt monsters and do witcher contracts. So in reality, does it matter if human enemies are diverse in their attack patterns? You'll most likely be fighting either a pack of monsters or a mini boss for a contract or side-quest (on the other topic I find side-quests in that game to be fairly interesting, sometimes even more so than the main story; compared to games today with a bunch of same quests)

[eternal crag]

Also most of these contracts aren't "go there kill monster" but have either a twist to them or a sad/gruesome backstory

[mystic wave]

I haven't finished witcher 3 either. Started a new game twice and got up finish the baron story arc, but then stalled for some reason

I was quite a fan of witcher 1 and 2 too

Witcher 1 was a game where i cant sleep thinking about how the story will go

[woven breach]

guess who reset his rhythm game progress cause he installed a mod that CLEARLY had a warning in it

it's ya boi

fluffy

I don't mind the costumes and such, but I dread the unlocking part

good news is, there's a mod for that

that doesn't brick my saves

[fathom juniper]

Güd jorb

[fringe valley]

this looks great: https://opencritic.com/game/14102/chained-echoes/reviews

@wraith cradle did you end up playing it? if so, how do you like the final product? heard it’s got some kinky bugs still

[polar dragon]

Save editor to the rescue?

[wraith cradle]

Bruh Im playing as we speak

[woven breach]

prob, but I'm too lazy

kek

[wraith cradle]

I'm personally loving it, it's hard but forgiving, has lots of content, the art is great, the combat is tight and the story is nicely done and written

[fringe valley]

appreciate the feedback, i’ma go buy it then:)

[dire condor]

Andrew Tate is the only thing in my YouTube shorts

Someone help me

[wise cedar]

I need a couple mil to hire a PMC

[ocean iris]

stop watching youtube shorts oml

[dire condor]

It's still better than tik tok

By far

[dire condor]

@dire condor

[sand sleet]

Holy crap cyberpunk nomad beginning is so much cooler than street kid

It

It has an iguana

[wise cedar]

I need a new game to play now that I've beaten Ixion

a friend suggested lil gator game but it looks a bit too kid friendly to be interesting

[mystic wave]

C-can i recommend 13 sentinels (switch/ps4)

[wise cedar]

I have neither of those

Well I do have switch emulation but I don't like it

[sand sleet]

Tfw I'm immersed into the game so much I get gender euphoria from how my character looks

[wise cedar]

I realized recently that I get a lot more gender... euphoria isn't the right word but my preferences in characters maps to my gender preferences a lot

and its interesting

[acoustic jacinth]

i would think that was the norm(?) when there’s a character creator involved i never play outside my gender

[wise cedar]

for example, in Dota my favorite character is Puck, because they're mobile and very hard to kill and tricksy. There are other characters that fill that role some who's playstyle I actually may like better than puck, but I don't want to play QoP, Storm Spirit, or Void Spirit

[lofty pecan]

oo which game?

i feel like i usually feel gender envy instead 😔

[dire warren]

nintendo news app has a list of 'challenging games' and i think i might explode laughing at half of them

• skyrim
• fortnite
• smash bros
• persona 5

[clear python]

The app store has a sad daily news article and there was an 'article' explaining you how to get out of a hole in minecraft, including the advanced techniques of ladders and jumping and placing a block under yourself

[dire warren]

somebody got paid to write that

[polar dragon]

Target audience for those articles are kids and gaming journalists. Stop making fun of them please.

[sand sleet]

cyberpunk 2077

[clear python]

Not the gaming journalists 😭

[sand sleet]

what historians in 2022 A.C.(After Coronavirus) will research:

[clear python]

Huh, maybe they have discontinued those articles, can't find the section anymore. Too understandable, finding topics every day for this sounds rough

[river blaze]

Is hades the best game of all time for you or you have another game in mind

[clear python]

transistor (biased because transistor)

[mystic wave]

World and atmosphere in transistor is just so amazing

[signal kayak]

Risk of Rain is getting another entry

[tame veldt]

wah

link pls

oh it's that ror1 remake they were teasing

unless it's smth different

[signal kayak]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/632360/view/3501014738163460155

It's apparently the remake

[tame veldt]

yeha i'm wtaching that rn

[twin yarrow]

i've asked many ppl "have you finished skyrim?" and the answer was "no" 95% of the time

i believe with fortnite and sb the number will be even higher than that

something tells me

[steady kelp]

although the answer depends on how you define finishing skyrim

[wise cedar]

I spent like, half an hour finding this perfect looking horse in breath of the wild and taming it

and like, 10 minutes after I finally get it saddled and stuff it gets blown up by two guardians at the same time ;n;

[mystic wave]

Its okay... Dont dwell on it
Remember to appreciate the beauty still around you.
Such as the heartwarming camaraderie and teammwork displayed by the two guardians, and see the world is not so bad

[hybrid jetty]

||or find the horse god||

[urban elk]

"Appreciate the ephemeral and the beautiful or ||find god||" is painfuly accurate

[vivid crown]

has anyone played furi

such a good game

[clear python]

I wanted to, but I really dislike boss fights (which this kinda is all the way through I guess) and didn‘t even finish the tutorial fight :(

v good music though!!

[vivid crown]

how boss fights are awesome

[clear python]

I like more of the normal enemies in bigger quantities more haha

[vivid crown]

yeah but furi is epic

[clear python]

true! to be fair, I tried playing it around 4 years ago and didn't know how to use a controller either so maybe it's better now...

I just remember playing Eternal Redneck and Desync having fun playing and dodging around the small enemies and then a boss fight appears that you can't circumvent and it's 'oh no'. I like the Hades ones though. Maybe because I'm surprisingly okay at it 🥴

[vivid crown]

Furis controls are a thing to get used to the gun being on the joystick scares me

[twin yarrow]

I'd like to play Furi someday just for the soundtrack. By what i've saw on streams, it's not the same to listen to it outside of the gameplay

when it changes dynamically, it makes all the compositions at least 70% cooler

[wise cedar]

Why play furi when you could play crypt of the necrodancer

[clear python]

yo what the hell

why did nobody tell me Judas is by Ghost Story

let's gooooooo

[fathom juniper]

i am...
https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-is-delisting-almost-every-unreal-game-but-making-unreal-tournament-3-free/

well - not angry

i'm beyond that

i'm just... tired of it all

i am getting so utterly and completely DONE with videogames and all it's bullcrap i might seriously drop all of them altogether and pick up a completely different hobby just to separate myself from this stench

[clear python]

Hard Reset loves its cutscenes so much that it has a 'press any key to continue' prompt that also gets triggered if you use a volume wheel :)

[wise cedar]

help, I'm in love with an accordion playing bird person

[fathom juniper]

me when someone starts praising mirrors edge catalyst

https://youtu.be/VQJy6VYGQqI

eeaaaaAAAAAAAAA!

[ocean iris]

midnight fight express has no reason to go so hard

https://i.redd.it/0o20zkp1137a1.png

innovative gameplay is when you play as cat

[fathom juniper]

There’s baaaaarely any gameplay in stray

I’m not bashing the game, but it’s got gameplay innovations on the level of Soma

If anything - this award should either go to neon white

Or teardown

My votes on teardown

[ocean iris]

same

I love teardown

they got ray tracing without the need of RTX cards

https://i.imgur.com/ycePPCE.png

????

4 games that look insanely unique then this generic ass lookin game

spiderman seems really great, but i dont find it that visually impressive

it looks just like any other video game really

https://i.imgur.com/Snxmsjm.png

Also I was scratching my head when I saw Death Stranding there

But then I realised you can play it on the deck

Why's Death Stranding so popular on the steam deck?

[ocean iris]

unironically there's more gameplay in walking in death stranding than stray and they both get called a walking sim

[fathom juniper]

I thought they put death stranding there as a joke

“On the go”

Cause you’re just walking there

[polar dragon]

Hahaha

[wise cedar]

stray isn't a walking sim, stray is a platformer >:|

[urban elk]

I'd call it a cinematic platformer, like Inside

[polar dragon]

Man I really want to go vote now but I'm at work

[urban elk]

• the suffragettes

[fathom juniper]

Great news!

Oh

Ok nvm mods would get angy

[wise cedar]

......

now I'm dreadfully curious

[hybrid jetty]

innovative gameplay

stray and m&b2

stray was so overhyped lol

[ocean iris]

Dont ask me on MB2

[ocean iris]

some games were just made to be great on the go

rpg's, borderlands, sandbox games like DS too

usually the ones that are rlly addictive

[hybrid jetty]

i like mount and blade 2 but its not innovative its mount and blade

[hybrid jetty]

its a fairly chill game when its not being a movie

probably perfect for playing in bed or on the couch or whatever

[ocean iris]

My urge to finish all the highways

[ocean iris]

https://i.imgur.com/J6ADRyJ.jpeg

Yes.

The Half Life missions and the Cyberpunk ones are worth it but the last rewards are always just holograms :(

[fathom juniper]

So @ocean iris
What’s in the half life missions ?

What do you even do there ?

[ocean iris]

So when the game came on PC, Steam, they did a half life collah that includes some missions of you finding portal companion cubes

for delivering each one you get cool half life themed gear

I got the gordon glasses, gravity gloves (which are functional and lets you grab objects from far away), then a valve that you wear on the back of your head (lol), a lambda truck and a headcrab hat that restores stamina in exchange for blood

[mystic wave]

Replace baby with companion cube

[ocean iris]

Ah yes....BB Cube.

The collab is PC exclusive iirc

They also got a Cyberpunk one

[wise cedar]

All the Gerudo are wearing heels but crossdressing link isn't

I am disappointed

[buoyant widget]

since im 2 euros short to buy isaac repentance should i buy cult of the lamb or do u guys have any other ideas

[river blaze]

is ffvii remake worth it

[hybrid jetty]

on sale definitely i loved it

never buy games for $70

[fathom juniper]

the FF7 remake is barely worth any price

it's a 1/3rd of a remake of a 25 years old game that not only will require around a decade of waiting for you to get the whole thing

in three separate purchases, may i add

but also will require at least 2 separate consoles to play

or a chonky PC upgrade

by the time it's done

it borders on being a scam

a 25 years old game that - for at least 20 of those years - has been sorely overrated too

[rancid token]

I mean 7R not being a complete game is just flat wrong, that's pretty common knowledge at this point

Whether you want to buy into a planned trilogy is a different matter, but that's like saying Fellowship of the Ring is a scam because it's not the whole story

[river blaze]

Story is 33 hours and full game is 86 hours
I'd say it's plenty

[fathom juniper]

ok then

so it's a remake then., right?
i mean - it says it right in the title - final fantasy 7 remake

did they remake the whole story of FF7?

simple question - yes or no

[rancid token]

It's not the same story, so

That's kind of irrelevant

[fathom juniper]

THEN IT'S NOT A GODDAMN REMAKE

oh im getting angy again

god i hate AAA so much

[rancid token]

Shrug emoji

It plays good and I like the story changes but understand why people don't

And I also super wouldn't pay 70 bucks for it

[fathom juniper]

like - imagine if RE1 remake came out and it ended at spencer's mansion

no lab - no nothing

or RE2 remake ended right after first birkin fight

people would torch capcoms offices

so wait - let me get this straight
they cut out, polished and padded 1/3rd of an over 20 years old game and sold it for the price of a full one

and people say it's fine because... they changed a buncha stuff?

i sure as hell can't wait for a Breaking Bad remake
i'd love to see it end right after season 3

wtf

if you like this remake - that's fine

you do you

but let's be honest here - this reeks of corporate greed and you know it

[river blaze]

The og ff7 is a pixelated old game

The remake is basically a new game from scratch
And 33 hours for story is huge
Most AAA games don't have so much

So as standalone game it's up there with the good ones

"Remake" doesn't really fit though

[fathom juniper]

so it's not a remake

also - ff7 being old isn't it's fault

[river blaze]

Who cares

[fathom juniper]

i do

[rancid token]

I mean nothing I'm going to tell you is going to change you mind so I'm not really going to bother?

[fathom juniper]

or maybe you just ran out of counterpoints?

listen

im not here to argue

i don't want to be this mean old a-hole or whatever

but this game is not a remake at all
it's one of the most cynical examples of milking i've seen in video games... ever
and there's a lot of milking here

and i get why people enjoy it
they enjoy those characters, and want to spend more time with them (among other stuff)
which is fine

i suppose

but this remake is a remake in name only
at best it's a fanfic tier retelling of an old story that completely switches tracks at the end for... reasons i don't even want to speculate about

[rancid token]

If you say so bud, I'm not interested in going rounds with you on this

[fathom juniper]

i mean
let's talk broadly about remakes, not just FF7R

what is the point of a remake anyway?

it's to... well - re-make an old game with new tech and design standards
to make an old story more palatable for newer audiences, right?

[hybrid jetty]

of all the dumb debates in supergiant games discord video games channel, "is final fantasy 7 remake a complete game" is certainly one of them

[wise cedar]

also accessibiliy for newer audiences. Some of the folks playing games now weren't super conscious for the playstation

[fathom juniper]

exactly

but as far as im concerned derailing an original story and steering it in a completely different direction is not a point of a remake

that's not what a remake does
that's what fan fiction does

[hybrid jetty]

no but its 100x more interesting since they did it

after all how can it be fan fiction if its the creators writing it

[fathom juniper]

who made it is not my point

it's how they handled it

[wise cedar]

Would you be happier if they called it an FF7 adaptation?

[fathom juniper]

like - ok
imagine if the upcoming MGS remake got to the psycho mantis scene and then veered off in a different direction, story wise

and then ended and asked you to wait god knows how long for the other part of the story
which will cost 60 or 70 bucks again

you see what i mean?

[hybrid jetty]

that would be hilarious

they should do that it would be the most metal gear thing ever

[fathom juniper]

actually...

yeah you're kinda right on that one

but i digress

[fathom juniper]

yeah it's more like...
alt-universe ff7, you know what i mean?

like

am i crazy here for thinking that?

[rancid token]

You didn't look up what's different, did you

[hybrid jetty]

i think ff7r and its weird attempt at deconstructing video game remakes, whether you personally think it does it well, is so much more interesting and exciting than if they just made "ff7 again"

(which btw would still be three parts because the sheer scale of making these games is much more than the original)

[wise cedar]

Every time you tell a story its a little different or a lot different.

[hybrid jetty]

like its one of the few remakes that manages to not completely replace the original game as the way to play it

[wise cedar]

I went through this with the Expanse, everyone complaining that the shows didn't follow the books, who cares. They're different adaptations.

[hybrid jetty]

yeah

the original thing is still there

[fathom juniper]

yeyeye

exactly

that is my point

you folks used this word a few times now
"adaptation"

so it is not a remake

[wise cedar]

Take your prescriptavism to the prescriptavist store and get me a fixed understanding of language

[fathom juniper]

even if adaptation doesn't entirely fit here either because...
well - it's not adapting a story from a different medium

[hybrid jetty]

is it really a #video-games conversation if we don't descend into absurd semantics

[fathom juniper]

it's the same medium, but whatever

[rancid token]

Wouldn't it be wild if something intentionally titled itself Remake in order to play with the expectations of what a remake is in the story itself

[hybrid jetty]

how crazy would that be

[fathom juniper]

yeah, sure
ff7r does that, especially at the end

but here's the thing
a really, really big thing

how long people have been hyped for the final fantasy 7 remake?

[hybrid jetty]

long enough to get put into the game as a direct example of "people who never want anything about the story to change ever"

like ||who do you think the ghosts are supposed to be|| lol

[fathom juniper]

im sorry, but people have been hyped for the FF7 remake since the early PS3 days

that's a long ass time

and then suddenly the game comes out - with a REMAKE in it's title - and it goes like "lol your opinion doesn't matter here's a different thing lmao"

that's kinda...
dissapointing? insulting?

i don't even know what's the right word for that

[hybrid jetty]

thats awesome

i hate gamers

[ocean iris]

Mfw Death Stranding is getting a movie

[fathom juniper]

isn't it already a movie?

ok now i'm just being mean

[ocean iris]

i wonder who will play Sam

Ah! Tom Holland!

[fathom juniper]

[hybrid jetty]

kojima finally living out his dream

[fathom juniper]

kojima finally dropping the pretenses

[ocean iris]

Yes but I enjoy ludo more

[hybrid jetty]

iirc they said its set in the world of death stranding, not just an adaptation of the game itself

which makes a bit more sense

[wise cedar]

Daniel Radcliffe

[fathom juniper]

hope they don't call it a remake

[ocean iris]

We are not homo spectare man, we are homo ludens

[fathom juniper]

not with that attitude
cause it won't be a remake

[ocean iris]

I mean to be fair it's probably just something for the more sane people to get into the universe

Cause the game is not for everyone

But Im hopeful Kojima 100% will stay by his homo ludens philosophy, since after all it's GAMING but fancy

[wise cedar]

just running through hyrule looking for one goddam flint and I keep dying

cuz stuff won't leave me a lone

[fathom juniper]

which zelda?

[wise cedar]

botw

[fathom juniper]

oh you mean the windwaker remake

[wise cedar]

-_-

[dire condor]

English is kinda broken

[fathom juniper]

i am kinda broken

with pleasure

[dire condor]

Rip

[fathom juniper]

well that was fun

[ocean iris]

LOL

I laughed my ass off

[fathom juniper]

it was a good burn, i'll admit

[dire condor]

Me personally-

I would never take that kind of disrespect

But that's just me

[lofty pecan]

what are people getting in the steam sale?

[tame veldt]

got isaac

currently trying to convince all my friends to buy ror2

[wise cedar]

RoR2 is good

my partner keeps on wanting to play Gunfire Reborn and I'm like, "OK, but when we're done can we play RoR2?"

[tame veldt]

i play for gup

https://tenor.com/view/guppy-gif-24290807

[wise cedar]

I play for Plamt Rex

[tame veldt]

i think i've played rex like

twice

it scare me

i dun like being under 50% hp at all times

[wise cedar]

sounds like you're playing rex wrong

[tame veldt]

i will just never use any of my abilities

i will never lose health again

[polar dragon]

5 head strategy

[sand sleet]

High on life finished downloading gonna be first time I'm playing a game right after release

If it's gonna run on my pc anyway

[polar dragon]

Wanna play fren

[vivid crown]

Im thinking on playing gungrave core

[mystic wave]

I miss gungrave on ps2
It was very metal

Still remember it makes my hand numb

Every gunshot makes the controller shake like crazy

[vivid crown]

Yeah theyre gonna release a New one on the ps4 and ps5

[mystic wave]

Hope it'll be good

[lofty pecan]

i’m deciding between a few games - unreal life, unpacking, i am dead, exo one

has anyone played any of these b4?

[fallen sky]

I've heard many good things about Unpacking

[wise cedar]

It turns out

all I need to do to beat videgames that have a longer than 17 hour play time

is to go off my ADHD meds

[woven breach]

[wise cedar]

omg I can make my horse do dressage by holding reset camera 😄

[tame veldt]

i'm so sorry i got busy with some fmaily stuff if it's not too late i would love to :3

[sand sleet]

Johnny Silverhand is literally Egor Letov

Black glasses? Check

Shoulder length hair? Check

Anarchist? Check

Punk rock? Check

Government/corpo messing with his brain? Check

[graceful galleon]

what are you guys getting this steam sale?

im thinking of astlibra revision and supraland

[mystic wave]

I urge everyone to get Lobotomy Corporation while there's a sale

[graceful galleon]

whats that

[mystic wave]

You be a manager, and ask your employees to extract energy at the workplace!

By going into containment cells containing eldritch monsters and 'interacting' with them

[graceful galleon]

i'll check it out

[mystic wave]

I just really love the characters and the writing it has

[graceful galleon]

playing it looks stressful though

[mystic wave]

Yes ngl

[fathom juniper]

oh christ almighty

good morning

i've got a question
a viddy question

has anyone here tried emulating the first armored core game?

on ps1

[ocean iris]

BRO

fallout 1 2 and tactics free on epic

Looks like I have no excuse to not play them

tactics seems epic

[fathom juniper]

it's actually the weakest of the classic "trilogy"
it's still a good game, don't get me wrong

but i would recommend starting with FO1

[ocean iris]

but timer :(

[fathom juniper]

[ocean iris]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/938533208671264790/1055832785341927537/ffd63f997db0c1760b40c3c1e5ee2e10.mp4

[dire warren]

[fathom juniper]

[ocean iris]

https://www.hartcrompton.com/writing/death-stranding-truck

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/510045175947591692/1055855271563513916/Screenshot_20221223_143142_Chrome.jpg?width=475&height=676

Bro.

[wise cedar]

Revali's gale is nice and all but its invalidating of so many puzzles in the overworld....

[mystic wave]

I felt something similar after building ziplines everywhere in death stranding kek

[dire warren]

you can keep climbing up cliffs in the rain if you want

[hybrid jetty]

I swiped signalis and someone gifted me pentiment

enjoying both so far

[river blaze]

what game do u think is better
ffvii remake or witcher 3

[wise cedar]

Sad to discover signalis wasn't a sequel to the signal state https://store.steampowered.com/app/1577620/The_Signal_State/

Steam

The Signal State

Keep the signal aliveManipulate inputs by using unique modules and patching cables via a simple drag-and-drop system.Make your markProve yourself as the best machine whisperer by completing more than 40 puzzles and competing in our leaderboards.Control the interfaceCustomize it to your preference with color palettes for cables and 3 different ca...

Price

$11.99

Recommendations

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[hybrid jetty]

i don't think you can properly compare the two but ff7r is the only one I've finished yet so I'll go with that

[woven breach]

It doesn't invalidate if you forgot you had it

[wise cedar]

I have captured the giant horse and named him Taranoke

I feed him many apples

[graceful galleon]

I played pentiment through gamepass, finished it, it was pretty good

[wise cedar]

Anyone played Citizen Sleeper? Is it worth $14?

[mystic wave]

@wise cedar Oceloctopus won't you try Lobotomy Corporation

[mystic wave]

As for citizen sleeper, well the setting and the themes I find very familiar. Nothing groundbreaking. It depends on how immersed you are in the role of a fugitive. Personally I think it ends a bit too quickly and doesn't delve deep enough into the setting, but disco elysium indulged me too much in leading to that perception. It was a nice experience. Feels were had. Felt too short

[graceful galleon]

Potion Craft looks interesting

[hybrid jetty]

i tried citizen sleeper on game pass when i had a free month but never got very far, it was sorta interesting but didn't keep my attention

[sand sleet]

Playing high on life rn love the voice actors

[ocean iris]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/800526161813438466/1056184250405232701/1671826780861948.png?width=564&height=676

Signalis moment

[buoyant widget]

refund cult of the lamb to get subnautica below zero or nah?

if i refund cotl i might get it in the summer sale again

[rancid token]

Below Zero is pretty mid tbh

The story stuff is neat but the environments are boring, the resource spread is frustrating, and the seatruck is pretty lame compared to the Seamoth and the Cyclops

[ocean iris]

Death Stranding will be the next free epic games game

100%

If true, Im gonna be so happy cause I wanted to get director's cut on steam but I can go on epic and transfer my normal saves from xbox gamepass

And how do I know? The symbol on the mystery game is a Q-Pid from the game

[hybrid jetty]

oh nice

nearly bought it on the winter sale since i didn't get to finish it when i had a free game pass month

[lofty pecan]

nice, i’ve always wanted to get the game but was afraid i wouldn’t like gameplay

[ocean iris]

Same but I tried it and couldnt get my hands off it

I want director's cut because the extra content is awesome

It just clicked my buttons

[woven breach]

I downgraded my controller from DS4 to DS3 I have lying around

Cause if I continue playing rhythm games with the DS4, I think I'll break it

Surprisingly, lose few scores but gain more accuracy

[mystic wave]

I'll take your ds4 into protective custody

[ocean iris]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/853612435478151183/1056498058822684692/ed1be8c594fed8332a976a409cc9b7b5.mp4

Best thing I ever saw

[twin yarrow]

lost it on ||R2-D2|| moment

[sand sleet]

High on life is very extremely super awesome

Everybody should play it

[ocean iris]

eric cartman taking a crap on the teacher's desk will always be funnier than anything justin roiland ever did

[lofty pecan]

nice death stranding directors cut is free on epic

[ocean iris]

I KNEW.

BAHAHA

the servers are down tho

[buoyant widget]

guys should i refund cult of the lamb to get something else or not because it only has 14 hrs of playtime and not alot of post game content

[shadow glen]

Witcher+DLCs is 10$, RDR2 is 19$

ac odyssey is 15$

Depends on what you played. My first playthrough of these three games were each 100+ hours long

[ocean iris]

I got Hidden Deep for 8 euros, great indie game but it's early access and it's not really for everyone

[buoyant widget]

wanted to get rdr2 but decided to get fallout 4 and cotl since it runs terribly on my 6 year old laptop with a gtx 1050

@shadow glen

should i get it anyways?

[dire condor]

get dwarf fortress you can play that game forever

[river blaze]

Do u think hades is the best game of all time

[fringe valley]

why settle on one 🐐 if you can have multiple 🐐 instead?

[atomic hound]

Have a herd

[rustic falcon]

https://store.steampowered.com/replay/
this is cool

[tame veldt]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/851146500233887775/1057012437183897610/image.png

[ocean iris]

https://shared.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/social_sharing/replay2022/2c7bf182a732729ddb49289d2e98b970d57f1a47.png

This is on my main account

Lemme do it on the other too

[ebon tapir]

Anyone here use steam

I got a question

Can gta 4 and their dlcs run on a MacBook Pro

[ocean iris]

Now that's an interesting question

lemme see

[ocean iris]

Yup you can

[ebon tapir]

How

Because when I go to steam

It says I need windows

[ocean iris]

Ohhhh

[ebon tapir]

You get what I mean @ocean iris

[ocean iris]

Well there's a tutorial

https://www.reddit.com/r/macbook/comments/9jtb2d/can_i_play_gta4_on_a_macbook_pro_2018_13_with/

Check out this thread.

[ebon tapir]

I have a 2020 MacBook Pro

[ocean iris]

Well it should be easier then

[ebon tapir]

So idk if it works for that version

[ocean iris]

It probably would to be fair

[ebon tapir]

So I’m frickin worried

[ocean iris]

Check out the top comment

[ebon tapir]

So I can’t use steam?

[ocean iris]

Well you gotta use a virtual machine to emulate windows

sooooo it's going to be lots of work

Yeah idk if it's worth the hassle

[ebon tapir]

That’s why I don’t know if using parallel or other methods is gonna break my laptop

I never used it before

[ocean iris]

It wont, it's just really complicated

[ebon tapir]

Oh

Because I love gta 4

I played it on the 360

[ocean iris]

https://shared.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/social_sharing/replay2022/8ea1ff1257784615e4619862dc3e45804ac366a1.png