video-games

[hybrid jetty]

I really should finish it, was playing through game pass until it ran out
then epic gave away directors cut but I haven't started that yet

[woven breach]

well.... my friend and I have given up with the anomaly thingies

we're just gonna fight the latest monster addition

farm build that fits our rank

and call it a day

[graceful galleon]

tried Lies of P demo, got the first boss down. Really scratched that "Bloodborne in 60 fps" itch, they nailed the atmosphere

[wise cedar]

re: cyberpunk 2077, Let 👏 me 👏 romance 👏 Delmain 👏

[mystic wave]

love my wallpaper https://streamable.com/v65ht8

[dire warren]

more than fair, i'm just a completionist

[rustic falcon]

mili spotted

[mystic wave]

Yass

I hope jill isnt in the same city as limbus

[rustic falcon]

i dont have game icons on my desktop anymore for the most part

i recently deleted the ones i did have bc i always start the games from steam anyway

[mystic wave]

I should do that

[woven breach]

Me: sooo why do the enemies hit a lot?
Friend: cause we're in highest difficulty. To be fair, we didn't expect you to survive this long.
Me:

[mystic wave]

How dare you survive

[woven breach]

I still die to the bosses

but hey

for playing with basically no upgrade, surviving is still good

[stable kindle]

guys https://store.steampowered.com/app/1177980/Little_Kitty_Big_City/

Steam

Little Kitty, Big City

A peaceful catnap turns into a whimsical adventure!Will you make your way home or will you explore what the big city has to offer first? I mean, getting home is obviously your main priority. Obviously. Well, it's one of your priorities. Maybe more of a guideline... It's definitely on your To-Do list somewhere! But first? Exploration!Features:Exp...

Release Date

2024

▶ Play video

[winter mica]

that looks cute

[stable kindle]

demo is up for next fest

[woven breach]

So it's like stray but without the horror

[stable kindle]

oh the not-nintendogs game has a demo for next fest too lol https://store.steampowered.com/app/2172900/Little_Friends_Puppy_Island/

Steam

Little Friends: Puppy Island

Welcome to puppy paradise!Get ready for a pawsome puppy adventure in Little Friends: Puppy Island! Discover exciting locations, dig up hidden treasures, build and expand your holiday resort, and meet plenty of lovable little friends to care for on your very own un-paw-gettable, tropical island adventure! Meet, befriend and care for lots of adora...

Release Date

Jun 27, 2023

▶ Play video

[rustic falcon]

does anyone have some games they thought looked interesting/played and seem promising from the next fest?

[junior crown]

I will make my list once I get through what I downloaded the other night.

[rustic falcon]

i havent downloaded any demos (yet?) but heres my list of games that seemed interesting
paint over
nour: play with your food
tagline
spirit swap
saltsea chronicles
flutter away
laika: aged through blood
en garde!
the cosmic wheel sisterhood
viewfinder
in stars and time
ghostpia
corponation: the sorting process
a tiny sticker tale
make me float

[lofty pecan]

haven't played any of these yet but looking forward to trying:
eternights
pacific drive
tagline
viewfinder
robobeat
the cosmic wheel sisterhood
stray gods

[rustic falcon]

these all seem intriguing, but honestly i see eternights being... not good 😭

does not bode well

[clear python]

LOL

[stable kindle]

spirit swap plays kinda like poyo poyo and youre limited to horizontal swaps rather than freely swapping across the board so long as theres a match, so idk if i'll look into it beyond that. i have to try en garde again on the other pc but i like the presentation so far, the va clearly had fun recording :)

[rustic falcon]

Oh that’s interesting about spirit swap, seems limiting but maybe still worth it for the aesthetic and such

[stable kindle]

mayhaps! i just wanted a regular style match 3 tho so i'll prob pass

the only other things ive tried so far are uh. hammerwatch 2 and the kitty game. i'll prob dl shadow gambit before i leave for work in the morning and hit that up, sea of stars and stray gods later

[woven breach]

Me: Why do my hands always hurt?
Also me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIit5QzwWKI

Do not recommend doing this

[hybrid jetty]

everything I've seen from this game looks like what people who make fun of persona think persona is

I mean this in the worst possible way

im gonna check out some nextfest demos tomorrow

[graceful galleon]

quick browse through the list, these caught my interest:
word factori
laika
ghost trick
reverse collapse
hammerwatch II
sea of stars
the invincible

[rustic falcon]

Agree lol when the trailer dropped I was like “this is going to be bad” but nothing has prepared me for exactly how bad it looks 😣

[woven breach]

I hate Koltin's noises in TOTK

it triggered my fight or flight

[signal kayak]

"Hey! Listen!" intensifies

[woven breach]

the "NGGUNYAAAHHH!" and the table mash are so annoying

[errant onyx]

anybody played voidigo yet

[rustic falcon]

shilling submerged bc both games are 90% off right now
such relaxing and beautiful games and more than worth it at this price
https://store.steampowered.com/app/301860/Submerged/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1614270/Submerged_Hidden_Depths/

Steam

Submerged

Submerged is a third-person combat-free game in which you explore a mysterious flooded city and discover the beauty of desolation in vast outdoor environments. You take on the role of Miku, a young girl who has brought her wounded brother to the city in their small fishing boat. Navigate the flooded city streets by boat, scale the drowned buildi...

Price

$1.99

Recommendations

3972

Metacritic

47

▶ Play video

Steam

Submerged: Hidden Depths

Boat, climb, solve and explore in the beautiful ruins of a sunken world.A drowned city, crumbling tips of skyscrapers stubbornly standing above the waves. Deserted villages, now inhabited by enigmatic creatures. And beneath the surging ocean waits an anguished, angry presence.Submerged: Hidden Depths is a non-combat third-person “relaxploration”...

Price

$2.60

Recommendations

183

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[clear python]

oh nice, I think I got it from a bundle somewhere

[signal kayak]

Anybody played Soundfall?

That looter shooter rhythm game

[wise cedar]

I'll pay $5 dollars for a game I'll probably forget about

[signal kayak]

Sounds like a no go

[woven breach]

so... a miracle (?) just happened

I was bored and recharged my joycon that has already drifted

I've played it for at least 8 hours now

no drift

I'm saying this to jinx myself

[graceful galleon]

it do be like that

my switch lite joycon drifted pretty bad, didnt play it for a few days, weeks even

put it out of the shelf once totk came out, it heals itself

[woven breach]

I didn't use mine for half a year

once it drifted I jumped to few controllers

[next patio]

Found my new fav experience of totk

Just riding the dragons during all of their path

I hate that they are so slow to farm now tho

[woven breach]

light dragon often cross paths vvith others

cause its route is all over hyrule

[next patio]

Farosh has been my fav ride cuz lightning 24/7

Well except in the depths

[woven breach]

speak of the devil, I found the light dragon

novv farm it for 4 more times

this is fine

[next patio]

Speaking of the light dragon

The more I see it the more it reminds of of this
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/751198390892888294/1120902592545951865/image0.jpg

[woven breach]

I can see that

[next patio]

Yay managed to pick up dinraal fang without falling off

Time for another 10 mins for the last piece I need for now

[untold hornet]

i spent an entire irl day riding on the light dragon once

[next patio]

I love how easy is to notice when you ride a dragon with hero's path

Mostly erratic lines then a reaaaally smooth line like across a quarter of the map

[vale narwhal]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/891331843700432916/1120783012129411143/20230620_131929.jpg

[next patio]

Done with upgrades
Now I can bully lynels more efficiently

[woven breach]

did you upgrade the ||fierce deity armor|| ?

idk if that counts as spoiler but hey not gonna try

[next patio]

Yuuup

Lol
Was doing a shrine that was yhe tutorial for shields
"Be careful with the element of the attack and choose your shield accordingly"
Instead just put on the ||lightning helm|| and parried with a metal shield anyways (spoilers for yiga stuff/gerudo area)

[woven breach]

I just found out a thing

you can hang on top of a cedar tree

could you do that in previous game?

I genuinely didn't knovv

[next patio]

Huh, no clue

Also you just reminded me to do the lurelin village qiest

[untold hornet]

ya

[woven breach]

Major TOTK spoiler for the main quest, ||I... found out who is the light dragon||

I'm not fine ||considering I basically skin her for my own gain||

[next patio]

||https://youtu.be/qZ7MVClagk4||
Relevant

[woven breach]

My heart sank

and then ||there are silent princesses at the final tear||

that hammers it home to cry-a-ville

[next patio]

That was my first main quest I did so it was also kinda funny in a sad way

||all the other quests ending in like: I wonder where princess zelda is...||

[lost igloo]

https://youtu.be/3JaYQDytelE

[worthy dome]

new 2d mario, new 2d sonic, smrpg remake(!), mgs trilogy

what a time for my switch to be busted

[next patio]

all the pikmin games on switch now too

I'll finally finish pikmin 1

[dire warren]

pikmin 1 my nostalgia
can remember the loud sound the wiimote made whenever you did anything so clearly

[lost igloo]

Here's hoping that Konami jumps on the train and FINALLY remakes the Suikoden series

[sand sleet]

Finished metro exodus I liked it a lot

[sand sleet]

the swagcopter https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/870680987208667187/1121265602032586833/Screenshot_542.png

[mystic wave]

what music does swagcopter play

[sand sleet]

man who sold the world to buy the swagcopter

[mystic wave]

i say worth it

[vale root]

New mario looks real fun tbh

[ocean iris]

Yay....another mario...lol

im done with bing bing wahoo games

[sand sleet]

it's so uncomfortable that you can't save in mgsv

[ocean iris]

Dont worry it does it for you

the checkpoint system is pretty good

[rotund umbra]

yeah usually I complain when there is no manual save in games but I can't say I ever felt like I needed it in MGSV

except when trying to do all mission tasks achiev, there it could've been useful

[sand sleet]

yeah I'm currently on the destroy armored vehicles mission and I want to capture them all but they get away and I have to restart and do all my setup with trucks all over again very frustrating I'm on like 10th attempt

[rotund umbra]

yeah that one is hard, one good cheese is to go to the northern road beyond that yakboo outpost or whatever it's called and there's like a valley right before the mission border area, every single vehicle is either going to that destination or starting beyond that border, so you can sit at that spot and block whatever comes with D horse or something like decoys or emm mines if you have them, and then just fulton them

[sand sleet]

I'm trying to do that but each time either some vehicle escapes or I get run over

[rotund umbra]

for me I had best results with emm mines as they actually disable the vehicles for a bit of time so even if they spot you they can't drive, but you can't carry many of them

also there should be like a ledge above the road near there that you can lay on and then drop from above directly behind them

[sand sleet]

I'm two r&d levels away from emm mines :(

[rotund umbra]

if you have too much trouble with it I would just wait for some better equipment as that can make it much easier and if you just want the mission task you can use equpiment that disables S rank

yeah

wait for them

[sand sleet]

and they push the d horse

so I use trucks

[sand sleet]

quitting a mission to do it later is too advanced tactics for me

[rotund umbra]

lol

I understand that

also fun fact, if you want an S rank you can literally kidnap one vehicle and immediately exit the mission area as you only need to disable one vehicle for completion and timewise you'll be so fast it will automatically give you S rank

[sand sleet]

I got S rank on two missions completely accidentally so far

[sand sleet]

I think I unlocked the zoo or something :D

[woven breach]

I have upgraded Champion Leathers to max

yay

[sand sleet]

whaaat I can't have more than 700 staff?

[mystic wave]

The cap increase when you upgrade the buildings iirc

[rotund umbra]

700 is total though

you can have more if you build FOBs but those are online components

[ocean iris]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/421176827403304982/1121381842545803314/1687405647293970.png

[rotund umbra]

that's terrible

but also hilarious

some of the comments on that are also quite dark

[ocean iris]

people be seeing it's iron lung refference but the game was about a slave, these people went out of free will

anyways gotta see how the ship works when I get home cause I still play some Barotrauma

[rotund umbra]

"Can someone teach me how to use this thing? Preferably in the next 6-7 hours? Urgent help required."

lmao

[ocean iris]

💀

well, this reminds me, always buy a wired logitech controller

i almost got one but was gifted a 360 pc adapter

[woven breach]

I have that controller

It's one of the worst controller I've used

The buttons are stiff. The shoulder buttons gave me finger cramps for playing Dust: Elysian Tale.

[compact knoll]

I havent seen one good review of that controler...

[ocean iris]

dont you love it when ecelebs get hired in game dev companies because of their status and do nothing as significant as actual game devs and still get paid more for it

[stable kindle]

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1671971456870404096

Wario64 (@Wario64)

E3 cancelled for 2024 & 2025, according to Los Angeles City Tourism Board of Commissioners

https://t.co/LnbkMnDymN

https://t.co/osyf1Q6DsN

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731

Twitter · Jun 22, 2023, 8:00 PM

[twin yarrow]

looks like E3 is gone for good

people realized that presentations can be done without audience

[fathom juniper]

ubisoft realized they can be done without games even

years ago

[hybrid jetty]

I wasn't even aware it was slated for 2024 or 2025

figured they finally called it quits already

[twin yarrow]

that's all, folks, gaming is ded

[jagged halo]

probably cheaper to not outsource your section of an E3, more control over its contents

[tribal lotus]

e3 convention had playable demos for people to play/review real actual gameplay and unreleased hardware. those kind of demos can’t be done in a presentation. now publishers don’t really do pre-release beta/alpha state demos and those that do carefully curate who gets to play/stream them. besides drm and digital distribution has largely made the meed for in person demos obsolete. steam next fest for example can provide the hands on experience a convention would provide, but isn’t as secure since the demo is being downloaded and installed to a users system instead of being restricted to a system the developers use for the in person demo.

[twin yarrow]

people realized that game demos can be shown without gamers

[lofty pecan]

the final fantasy 16 demo seems to have worked out pretty well

[jagged halo]

Can't remember a game that has gotten that much hype over a demo

[twin yarrow]

maybe only P.T.

[sand sleet]

Does anyone know any rts that are as fast and responsive as starcraft 2

[ocean iris]

;-;

[jagged halo]

does it count if the game never came out? lol

[ocean iris]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1041509187244527749/1121781067045670992/IMG_5561.jpg

[ocean iris]

anyone got to play final fantasy xvi?

how is it?

or is it even out yet

[signal kayak]

Just got Slain! and Valfaris
Time to turn my head into a blender

[polar dragon]

Lmao made me chuckle. XCOM is still a roguelite

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/shut-up-shush-shh-ok-bird-gif-17679708

[hybrid jetty]

we reject your falsehoods

[polar dragon]

In fact, any game with a "Director" spawn system and perma death is a roguelite.

Yes, that makes L4D2 a roguelite.

[compact knoll]

those DS have a director?
cuz my friend says that Dark Souls is a rogue like

[twin yarrow]

doesn't roguelite need to have procedural generated map?

[sand sleet]

and no checkpoints

[twin yarrow]

well, L4D2 doesn't have checkpoints

shelters don't count

[sand sleet]

isn't it multiplayer

also what are shelters there

I know nothing about it

[lofty pecan]

any game is a roguelike if u delete ur save file anytime u die

xcom is a roguelike confirmed

[compact knoll]

minecraft is mostly a rogue like for me

I always make a new world

[wise cedar]

Panam is voiced by Emily Woo Zeller

who also has narrated like, 12 of my favorite audiobooks

so now panam is actually kel cheris

[polar dragon]

Girl after my own heart.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1032361087905050655/1121667489332473947/Terra_KV_Jade_5-2560.png

someone tell me not to buy this thing

but it's so neat though 😭

[wise cedar]

it is neat

what are the specs?

[lofty pecan]

u should buy that thing

[polar dragon]

"only" $180

[polar dragon]

it's just the case so you can build whatever

[wise cedar]

for just the case?

[polar dragon]

yeah...

I'm tempted to shell out $1500 for a new PC setup

[wise cedar]

is it a standard form factor?

itx or something?

[polar dragon]

it is standard, but ITX yeah

so the smallest standard you have

[wise cedar]

putting your desktop on your desk is a waste of space, get a matte black box to hide under your desk

[polar dragon]

I'm so pumped to place Hades at 1000 fps

Does Hades even support 1440p?

[wise cedar]

probably

[polar dragon]

Building a semi high end PC to play indie games

[broken smelt]

ITX tax

[wise cedar]

I was just making sure they weren't buying a literal potato for 180

[broken smelt]

All g :3

[wise cedar]

$180 PCs are cheap when you buy them but they make up for that cost in food and vet bills for the hamster.

[mystic wave]

Never used itx before

Seem like it would get hot

[rustic falcon]

Literally me

playing visual novels with my 3070ti

[polar dragon]

I hope you are enjoying the butter smooth frames
though some indies nowadays can be just a little taxing

[polar dragon]

It depends on the hardware you shove in there. Though the case is practically a test bench with the amount of open holes on it so I'm more concerned about maintenance than anything else haha. BUT IT LOOKS SO DAMN COOL THOUGH 😭

[rustic falcon]

lol yeah, i think i still cant run pathologic 2 at max graphics at 60 fps even though it came out in 2019 and the recommended graphics card is a 970 among other reqs my pc exceeds

[tame veldt]

i tried to play going under but the game just did not run at all 😭

those indie game devs are learning how to add motion blur and i dun like it

[polar dragon]

that's probably a software issue rather than hardware haha

[fathom juniper]

that does look cool though

but it's kinda missing a proper air intake on the front

and i doubt there's any at the front

so there's only this cheesegrater of an air intake on the side which is gonna suck in all the dust imaginable

i know you like rogueLITES but don't turn your PC into one @polar dragon

get some proper cooling

[polar dragon]

I've posted my PC here before uwu

my CPU is idle at a cool 95C

I can make tea by putting a kettle next to it

truly marvelous the modern world

[fathom juniper]

don't you uwu at me
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1122043220319293470/523.png

[fathom juniper]

oh christ almighty

[polar dragon]

that's good right?

[fathom juniper]

LITERALLY BOILING

AT IDLE

[polar dragon]

that's 100C dummy

we have 5C buffer zone for load

[fathom juniper]

oh yeah those 5 degrees would make a world of difference

[fathom juniper]

how about you load some cooling fans in there

but yeah i get you

[polar dragon]

❤️ worry not they are chilling

[fathom juniper]

i'm looking for a prebuild right now

and most of them suck everything BUT air

[polar dragon]

no

do not

[fathom juniper]

i was going to build one myself

[hybrid jetty]

they're getting it wrong the end goal of gaming should be to remove motion blur

[polar dragon]

also my temp is fine, just in case you are worried about my computer ❤️

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/802615525141643265/1122044269516046427/image.png

[fathom juniper]

or at least get them to build me one to my specs

but i got... really, REALLY burned on that

super hard

[polar dragon]

what you putting in there fren

btw, have you seen W40k Boltgun?

[fathom juniper]

so now i decided i'm just gonna buy the least sucky prebuild i can find with an rtx 3060 or whatever and call it a day

i'm still gonna run mostly blender and doom on it so

i need a proper PC cause ihni has been sitting on a backburner for over a year now and people are thinking i might've abandoned the project for good

which i didn't - i'm still working on it
but there ain't much i can do with a windows 10 tablet with half the horsepower of a goddamn nintendo switch

[polar dragon]

oh no lmao

[polar dragon]

i never understood the appeal of that tbh, like everyone hates it

why bother 😐

[fathom juniper]

per object motion blur - gud

[polar dragon]

is that your Doom mod?

[rustic falcon]

the new pc i built a couple of months ago was very expensive but i comfort myself with the fact that its approximately the same price as my old one that had a 1070 and other not-as-good parts

[fathom juniper]

screen space motion blur - bad

[fathom juniper]

yes

[polar dragon]

Did you go from 1070 to 3070? that's like at least a 5 year upgrade gap. you deserve it friend 🙂

[rustic falcon]

old one was probably a prebuild or at least built with very little input from me but yeah its from 2018 or 2019

then it started bluescreening and not turning on and i was like ok time to shell out for a new one

get with the times

[polar dragon]

yeah, I'm tempted to do the same, or go the econ way out and get a steam deck instead

[fathom juniper]

get with the times

[polar dragon]

because i feel like I would do the same thing I am now with a more high end computer

but with steam deck i can play in my bed uwu

[fathom juniper]

folks i'm still stuck in mid-range 2012
or 1993, depending on how you look at things

[polar dragon]

let me introduce you

[fathom juniper]

OH GOD PLEASE NO

[polar dragon]

to the new era of remasters

[fathom juniper]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[polar dragon]

you can play your old game

NEW

[fathom juniper]

but worse

[polar dragon]

FOREVER MUAHAHAHAAHA

[fathom juniper]

no, thank you

[polar dragon]

they have motion blur wink wink

[rustic falcon]

i dont think a steam deck is worth it for me personally bc i dont play many games that require more than one playthrough and i dont travel much and dont like playing from my bed. also i have a switch for any exclusives

[twin yarrow]

my last upgrade was in 2016 or 17 i believe
got new 1050ti and figured that old 2011 setup can't keep up with the power

[rustic falcon]

steam deck is too expensive for the relatively small amount of games that are compatible in my library

[lost igloo]

Reciently learned about these upcoming "spiritual successor" games for the Wild Arms and Shadow Hearts series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJJ7Kbb8BQg&t=10s

[polar dragon]

oh yeah very fair. I have no Switch game with a rather large Steam library so it makes more sense for me haha

different people are different?????????????? could it be??????

[rustic falcon]

i mean i got to 500 games a couple of days ago

[twin yarrow]

now one of its coolers has clogged up with something and died
but it tries to play undead sometimes during gameplay
and roars

[polar dragon]

what

[rustic falcon]

which is deranged to me idk how i managed to accumulate so many

[fathom juniper]

yo your GPU has a goddamn vtech

[twin yarrow]

it starts to spin, detects disbalance and stops immediately

[polar dragon]

it's okay. just... don't think about it xD

[fathom juniper]

perfectly unbalanced
as no things should be

[polar dragon]

1050ti is just a little below my RX580 which is still going strong 😎

do we need more than this?

[fathom juniper]

does it run doom?

[tame veldt]

YES

TY

[polar dragon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/802615525141643265/1122048338657816627/image.png

This Doom?

[twin yarrow]

i tried to clean the thing, dismantled completely, changed thermal paste
couldn't find replacements for thermal gasket things, poured a scrapton of paste instead
wasted two whole syringes
(don't do that)

[fathom juniper]

well then we don't need any more than this

[polar dragon]

wait what I beat the game in 14 hours? really?

I beat the game once, I know that

[twin yarrow]

and it's still alive

[polar dragon]

what is it eating bro

your skin flakes?

[hybrid jetty]

my insane baseless conspiracy theory is that motion blur is on by default to force people to check the settings menu

[fathom juniper]

that's not a baseless conspiracy theory

that's just straight up based

ALWAYS check your settings first

always

[polar dragon]

true

[twin yarrow]

that's what i do since early 00s

[fathom juniper]

if for nothing else then at least do this to figure out THERE TF DID THEY HIDE SUBTITLES THIS TIME AROUND

[twin yarrow]

options - first
new game - second

[lost igloo]

✅ subtitles

[polar dragon]

I spent more time tweaking settings than playing games, especially when it comes to emulation.

oh god

[fathom juniper]

audio settings?
graphics?
screen settings?
gameplay?
general?
language?

NOBODY KNOWS

[rustic falcon]

i also always check the settings first but i dont turn off motion blur

[fathom juniper]

ew

[rustic falcon]

it doesnt make that big of a difference to me or maybe i just havent turned it off enough LOL

[twin yarrow]

tbh, all the LCDs have some motion blur by default

especially old ones

[fathom juniper]

my eyes have blur built in by default

i don't need any more

[twin yarrow]

and devs try to make it as low as possible

[polar dragon]

Audio? 50% off for my own music/podcast 50% on if it's lit enough
Graphics? 1080p at 75Hz
Screen? Borderless Window
Gameplay? Depends
General? Make the UI just a little smaller if possible
Language? English (US)
Hotel? Trivago

[polar dragon]

history is a circle

[rustic falcon]

also while you are all here, this is your daily alma reminder to buy submerged and sumberged: hidden depths because they are beautiful games and 90% off now

[fathom juniper]

gee i wonder why a game called SUBMERGED is 90% off right now

i can't thonk hard enough

[twin yarrow]

Keyboard->Controls->switch to ESDF from WASD
and mess up with all the others
and forget what is what later during gameplay
can do that

[polar dragon]

im sorry what

[fathom juniper]

mate it's not 1994 anymore
you don't have to do this to yourself

[lost igloo]

can i take this moment to whine about how much i hate the "water splashed on your screen and is dripping down" effect in games

[polar dragon]

yes, yes you can fren

[fathom juniper]

sure

[polar dragon]

or the blood/gore effect on your screen, it's just needlessly cheesy

[rustic falcon]

probably because the sequel did not do well at all even for an indie game

i dont like blood and gore on the screen but i enjoy the rain when its gentle

[polar dragon]

also, controversial opinion screen shake is stupid, especially high octane game

[fathom juniper]

i mean
there are some games that do it well

mgs2, for example

[polar dragon]

LET ME SEE THE SCREEN GOD DAMN IT

[fathom juniper]

AHA!

[twin yarrow]

to think of it, old water effects were more nice to the eye, when they were less realistic and more water-y

[lost igloo]

love that lots of games have a disable-screenshake option now

[rustic falcon]

i feel like screen shake can give something more impact but when its super intense during action scenes, nope

[polar dragon]

yeah such is the fate of many indies. I did look at the game just now, really cute but just not my type :<
I hope they do well though. If only every game is Celeste level of successful huh.

[fathom juniper]

see - now i can be a smug old boomer and gloat that even i managed to code in a simple screen shake toggle after getting a few complaints

[twin yarrow]

they say, it's for the simulation of walking, to feel more immersive
dude im not waving my eyes left and right when i walk, i know how to do stabilization as long as i remember myself

[rustic falcon]

same, it could be because the sequel was originally a stadia exclusive and arrived to steam a little bit quietly

[fathom juniper]

remember that one time the 2009 alone in the dark game had a blink button?

[mystic wave]

Can i complain lots to make you make a remake

[fathom juniper]

no

[rustic falcon]

i also dont turn headbobbing off

[polar dragon]

stadia exclusive
yeah, maybe this has something to do with it...

okay I need opinions, hot takes

HOLD TO SPRINT or TOGGLE TO SPRINT?

[rustic falcon]

hold

[fathom juniper]

hold to sprint

[polar dragon]

hold

[twin yarrow]

hold

[fathom juniper]

toggle crouch

simple as

[rustic falcon]

bc if its toggle i will probably still hold it LOL

[twin yarrow]

toggle autorun

[fathom juniper]

or better yet

[polar dragon]

then why Remanant from the ashes not include hold to sprint as an option

[fathom juniper]

go to settings -> gameplay -> always run: ON
and then hold shift to WALK

[polar dragon]

as a game coming out in 2018

AA

like

[fathom juniper]

[polar dragon]

what is this insanity

[polar dragon]

ew

[twin yarrow]

walk toggle as well

[fathom juniper]

ok now that's just disgusting

[twin yarrow]

i don't want to FORCE myself to go slowly

[polar dragon]

looking at you VALORANT

though you can change it easily

so it's actually kinda fine

[rustic falcon]

recently i realized how many games have stuff like intensely flickering lights or fast transitions to a bright screen from dark, etc etc and no photosensitivity mode

im so glad i could turn off the lightning in pentiment for example

[fathom juniper]

nah nah nah
our legal team said that it's just easier to copy-paste a legal notice at startup

[twin yarrow]

yeah, that's an issue

"if you feel sick pls stop playing"

[fathom juniper]

screw your epilepsy
we just don't want to spend money on lawyers in case something happens to you

[rustic falcon]

one of my favorite games which is extremely flashy doesnt even have a warning on startup or in the store page

like, i dont see how it could not be flashy, but a warning would indeed be nice

[fathom juniper]

the worst thing is...
dark games that fade to white

either during cutscenes or whatever

like AC7
i like it

but having a night mission fade to pure white when transitioning to cutscenes is just... pure evil

[rustic falcon]

sounds bad

[fathom juniper]

on a 55 inch qled in the middle of the night it legit feels like
https://youtu.be/K-jxQa4Qcsg

[rustic falcon]

i cant find the gif of the guy sitting in a dark room and suddenly his face is super lit up and back to dark so simply imagine it

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/flashbang-gif-22572243

[rustic falcon]

thank you

[fathom juniper]

WAIT WAIT WAIT

hold up a sec

[polar dragon]

haha

[fathom juniper]

https://youtu.be/Zp2EjsIYIhQ

[polar dragon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il7bkXSivow

[fathom juniper]

[polar dragon]

that reminds me

of this meme

[woven breach]

so... apparently the char I've been using in Gunfire Reborn is a DLC char. I told my friend who got me the game + DLC to shouldn't be bothered. He then told me, it was actually someone screwed up? It was right after a sale, they didn't put the sale off yet but people could still get game + DLC at the price of the base game.

which reminds me of that steam screwed up with IDR (indonesian rupiah) and SGD (singaporean dollars)

[polar dragon]

IDR and SGD?

[woven breach]

there was this one time AC: Unity was 55 IDR which is 0,0037 USD

and on Steam's Singapore region, it was 500K SGD which is 370215,43 USD

[twin yarrow]

man.

[woven breach]

all of my friends have AC;Unity now

it was very affordable for 2 days

steam rolled it back eventually, but didn't take back from the people who bought them for that price

[twin yarrow]

maybe that was the main reason to make gifts from another regions hard to give at least

[woven breach]

yep

[twin yarrow]

or prohibited at all

[woven breach]

so my friend in singapore asked me whether I could gift AC:Unity with that price

we couldn't

cause different region pricing

but you can steam wallet gift your friends across region

[twin yarrow]

that's what me and my friend do
give money with the directive what to buy with them

[twin yarrow]

from software
@
bandai namco

[fathom juniper]

AAAAAAAAAAAA

yes that's the one

i was playing ds3 recently too

and i was doing quitouts in that dark foresty swamp to get the crystal lizard and with every one iw as getting flashbanged

truly - bandai namco is the dark souls of flashbangs

also - speaking of weird videogame gifs

does anyone have that gif of that burly bearded dude getting spooked an throwing ps4 controller up and behind him?

the one where someone mirrored it and played backwards so it looks like the mirror universe him caught it and threw it back and it just looks like it's going back and forth?

ok nvm
i found it

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/638031423340806185/1122070083854934056/controller.gif

[ocean iris]

wtf does that mean

[fathom juniper]

yes

it's dark souls

it means nothing and yet still has 67 pages of lore and 3 vaati videos

[fathom juniper]

ooooooohhhh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0lJ9A4AtFo&ab_channel=THQNordic

this is a really cool looking trailer

[mystic wave]

ooh new CoH style game?

that is a cool premise

[fathom juniper]

oh crap

i didn't know STS has such a chonky modding scene
https://youtu.be/Y-8GKnqC1R4?t=809

[woven breach]

So I just found out that Solar Ash is on STEAM????

I thought it was ps5 exclusive

Welp time to save money

[wise cedar]

it was on epic for a bit

rei gives me weird gender envy

[broken smelt]

solar ash was eppic exclusive for 12 monnths yeah

[signal kayak]

Gender envy?

[wise cedar]

A casual term primarily used by transgender people to describe an individual they aspire to be like. It often refers to having envy for an individual’s expression of gender (for example, wanting the physical features, voice, mannerisms, style, etc., of a specific gender). Gender Envy is sometimes experienced by people expressing themselves outside society’s gender stereotypes.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/solarashkingdom/images/f/fc/Solar_Ash_Kingdom_character_promo_art.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190325232037

[signal kayak]

I see

[desert sedge]

Someone modded a zag sking for this game i play
Very cool
https://vxtwitter.com/BroJmiah/status/1672476473830313985?s=20

[sand sleet]

sound design is mgsv is very good

[fathom juniper]

it is

although i wish the walkman had a volume knob

it's a tad too loud
i'd like to listen to some of ocelot's audiobooks while sneaking but troy baker overpowers all the other sounds

it's a little pet peeve of mine

one fo many

[sand sleet]

except shot sounds tbh

[clear python]

i yearn for the day that gamedevs stop making puzzles of the form 'turn all lamps on using four buttons that invert random positions'

[sand sleet]

same

one of the annoying things about mgsv is a bunch of mechanics that don't seem to have a use like staff morale and staff fighting sometimes

[wise cedar]

this will literally never happen. due to the whole "have to make this dumb enough that most of our players can solve it" rule

[sand sleet]

I got the sickest emblem

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/870680987208667187/1122317483521613914/Screenshot_551.png

[wise cedar]

https://i.redd.it/jlqfyw69u2h11.png

[acoustic jacinth]

just have to make sure. it's like typing 2+2 into the calculator

you know what the answer is, but what if you're wrong

[twin yarrow]

failed intelligence check

happens

[clear python]

I think in a lot of cases it's also just laziness, the context being normal adventure games that have harder puzzles around anyway, it's just some cheap filler

At least in games like Deponia you were able to skip the minigames...

[sand sleet]

I love d-walker

[fallen sky]

i would like to thank the supergiant games server for its recommendations on indie titles

[fathom juniper]

your nickname is giving me mixed signals
are you thankful because you will play them
or because you won't and know what games to avoid?

https://tenor.com/view/we-dont-know-dont-know-bird-clueless-gif-12587825

[twin yarrow]

but does it really matter in the end

[fathom juniper]

oh god i hope that was not a reference to linkin park

or i will take decisive action

like - linkin park is up there with blizzard, rockstar and old nokia lumia phones for me

among other things

[fathom juniper]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/638031423340806185/1122457222019043360/IMG_0812.jpg

I remember his brother

The Malding Eagle

Still better than that Coping Cobra guy I got last week

Oh lord

[fathom juniper]

Aaaaaaaand here come the awkward parts

Quiet just joined the ranks

Seriously wtf was Kojima thinking with that outfit

She gets one badass introduction though
Doming that fighter jet pilot mid air from like 400 meters away

But why’s …
Why’s the camera doing all those super awkward closeups

The core idea for a really cool character is there
A mute sniper tagging along with an almost mute protag

Perfect duo for a stealth game

Imagine if you could communicate with her using sign language and what not
That would be awesome

But Kojima just had to ruin it by pointlessly putting her in the skimpiest outfit imaginable, justifying it in the most flimsy way possible

Which makes the camera man lose control cause some of the shots in her cutscenes are just…

• sigh *
  God damn it

This could’ve been so awesome

But now it’s just awkward

Guess I’m just gonna tag along with the dög

[clear python]

japan

[twin yarrow]

you know what, i'll not avoid the responsibility
it was, latter half.

[twin yarrow]

although, her relationships with the rain are very relatable for me

i love rain

sometimes i feel similar when after long heat a downfall finally starts

except my physical form would be much much less suitable for such camera shots

[fathom juniper]

Ooohhhh mission 12

Oooohhh it’s getting on me nerves

WHY IS THE DOOR LOCKED!?

[mystic wave]

did you knock!

[fathom juniper]

yes

with a dozen of 5.56 nato rounds

wait

don't tell me i actually have to just... politely knock for huey to let me in

[mystic wave]

lmao im just memeing that part in mgs3 where you just have to knock

i...dont think you can do it here

apparently door only locks when there's an alert

[fathom juniper]

even if they're on moderate alert?

[mystic wave]

perhaps

[fathom juniper]

welp

im screwed

[mystic wave]

after they go back to normal then its open, at least vaguely remember it like that

[fathom juniper]

DUDE IT TAKES HOURS

[mystic wave]

smoke!

cigar

[fathom juniper]

[mystic wave]

kek

[fathom juniper]

right

i awlways forget it's a thing in this game

[mystic wave]

after searching around it seems theres multiple doors and they say one of them doesnt lock

[fathom juniper]

Screw this game

I actually regret wasting time on it

I was right the first time around

no mgs ever pissed me off like that

[woven breach]

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

idk why it took me until now to find this

[next patio]

Love it

[ocean iris]

aint no way you messed up at mission 12

[fathom juniper]

Yeah I’m trying to clean out the whole thing

Without alerts

And I just did it

I wanna heat those two magic words

outpost captured

AND THEN I BLEW THE ENTIRE BASE UP!

[clear python]

i want to speak to the person who convinced every indie adventure gamedev to put a meaningless final choice in their game

[rustic falcon]

what would you call meaningless?

[mystic wave]

are there meaningful ones

[rustic falcon]

sometimes meaningless choices so to speak have a lot of impact emotionally, like in the red strings club imo

[mystic wave]

gonna have to play that sometime

[rustic falcon]

its amazing

[fathom juniper]

Well this is awkward

[clear python]

In a lot of cases, it's already meaningless because it's at the end and all that can happen is a different cutscene or voiceover, so it's already hard to make it meaningful. It can be done (see Bastion, Aperture Tag, State of Mind) because it's set up in a good way, but often it's an afterthought.

[fathom juniper]

Remind me - how did bastion end again ?

[clear python]

Nah I'm aware of that hehe

[mystic wave]

i do like the bastion one

[rustic falcon]

i love nier automatas final choice

i love nier automata in general

[fathom juniper]

Oh yeah

It’s good

Come for the sexy robots
Stay for the existential nightmare

And pretty slick looking combat too

[mystic wave]

yeah nier's is great

combat wasnt too great for me, but not bad

[fathom juniper]

SEE THIS CRAP @ocean iris ?

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/638031423340806185/1122586134493540434/IMG_0813.jpg

2,5 HOURS on just this last attempt

Not perfect though

I did kill someone
And I used the stealth camo - I didnt know it reduces my rank

But I cleared out the whole base - everything I could pick up, Fulton or destroy - I did

[mystic wave]

good job!

[fathom juniper]

No it’s not

But now I can just get on my horse and just

[clear python]

The biggest factor is usually that it's unmotivated and uses information you didn't have, and if you did have the information, it doesn't follow logically from it. See Life is Strange, Quern, Spectrum Retreat, Relicta, >observer_, Rachel Foster. The middle ground is something like The Swapper, Forgotton Anne and The Turing Test

[fathom juniper]

Cause S stands for speed and not stealth…

…apparently

[rustic falcon]

i think the final choice in dontnods tell me why is way better than life is strange's

as far as i remember

[clear python]

Yeah I just find LiS's to be terrible all around. Still got LiS 2 lyring around

[fathom juniper]

Oh god
the knee cutscene

Christ

[clear python]

Wait, I have tell me why in my library too?? good shout then haha

[rustic falcon]

it was free to keep for the last two years in pride month

[clear python]

Oooh makes sense, I only saw the old notices that episode one was free and was confused

[twin yarrow]

yep, that kind of endings, when you have to choose between bad and worse

and there's no option to not make a choice

love them (no)

[mystic wave]

tidb did you play deponia in german cuz i remember seeing someone say the english wasnt good so i put it off

[twin yarrow]

surely i've come that long way to see all the fruits of my efforts being thrown under the dozer

[clear python]

I did play it in German which is probably the best one, but I heard and saw very good things of the English version. The VO seemed generally authentic and they even translated the interlude songs, it's great

[mystic wave]

ah

iirc the complain was like "the clue dont even make sense in english" or something

[clear python]

Can't comment on that unfortunately. At least the complete journey package has the map which gives you a bit of guidance on the puzzles (for very rough definitions of 'guidance')

[mystic wave]

icic

[sand sleet]

2.5 hours??? Why tho

[mystic wave]

stealth!

[clear python]

Me doing 4h savescumming runs of hitman levels:

[sand sleet]

Ah

I don't really care about stealth in the alleged stealth game so probably I take less time to do anything

[mystic wave]

there's something unexplicably exciting about sneaking around and spooking people

[twin yarrow]

❗

(first ever emoji with sound)

[sand sleet]

I like facing enemies tet a tet and crushing them with my immense might

[fathom juniper]

Cause I was hell bent on sneaking up behind everyone and giving them wedgies

And then stealing all their crap

[mystic wave]

i miss the tenchu games

[sand sleet]

The coolest thing about d walker is that you can drift

With the golden skin and the drift together the swag is pouring out of every cog of that thing

Fast and furious afghanistan drift

[mystic wave]

can you gun while drifting

i unfortunately could never replace dog and so didnt do very much with other buddies

its very crutch and dont recommend lol

[sand sleet]

yeah

in fact, to drift you have to aim

[mystic wave]

thats cool

[fathom juniper]

Don’t care

I have a dög

Nothing can replace the dög

[mystic wave]

good point

[fathom juniper]

Anyways

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/638031423340806185/1122597929987883158/IMG_0814.jpg

New emblem time

[sand sleet]

I don't even have dog unlocked I learned dog existed when I was looking up something that didn't work

[mystic wave]

oh no. this must be rectified

[fathom juniper]

[sand sleet]

I currently have 75 mortars

[mystic wave]

But do you have 75 pestle

[sand sleet]

unfortunately no

[fathom juniper]

i...
am going to have myself a beer

i dumped over 40 hours into this game and i only just got to africa

[sand sleet]

Just found out I can futon myself out on a container

During a mission I was successfully progressing in till that moment

[fathom juniper]

so i was just thonking

you know how guards can use countermeasures in mgs5, right?

as in - you do a lot of headshots, they start wearing helmets
you do a lot of missions at night? - NVGs
you shoot a lot? kevlar vets
use gas? they get masks
and so on

you know what would be the best countermeasure?

bolts

bolts, screws, nuts and clamps
ducttape and super glue

i'm fultoning EVERYTHING that isn't bolted down to the ground
you'd think that after a while they would figure it out and fuse everything valuable to the ground

including guards

my venom snake i less of a soldier and more of a...
certified cleptomaniac

[sand sleet]

same I got them scavenger instincts

[fathom juniper]

to the point that im stealing MY OWN STUFF on my motherbase
and then i'm fultoning it from my mother base...
BACK TO MY BOTHER BASE

what GMP?

bother base

yes

shush im tired

🇧other 🇧ase

[sand sleet]

first time I got the heavy cargo futon I got mother base deeeeep in the red

[fathom juniper]

ok so here's a question

[fathom juniper]

that means you're in debt, right?

[sand sleet]

yeah I guess

[fathom juniper]

yeah

TO WHOM!?

you're in debt to... ocelot? miller?

who's going to collect that debt?

people who work FOR YOU?

you just crashed your made up monopoly economy, oh no

[sand sleet]

all mother base is in debt to like people they buy stuff from ig

[fathom juniper]

YOU'RE NOT BUYING STUFF YOU'RE STEALING STUFF BY BOATLOADS

[sand sleet]

do you steal the futons too?

[fathom juniper]

no
you make them

with resources YOU STEAL FROM SOVIETS

[sand sleet]

from what?

[fathom juniper]

[sand sleet]

anyway idk

I mean it's way more logical than walkers existing though

like they're the least practical thing ever

literally just worse motorcycle

[fathom juniper]

not true

have you ever seen a motorcycle with a goddamn minigun attached to it?

and a bunch of javelins

your honor
i rest my case

[hybrid jetty]

late but resident evil 7 might be the absolute worst offender for "sudden and meaningless final choice"

[wise cedar]

deus ex human revolution

[hybrid jetty]

i don't think that's even in the running, HR just has a kinda weak ending

re7's choice is awful because it makes no sense in the context of the story and is incredibly contrived and then gets invalidated by the dlc/sequel anyways

though I never got around to mankind divided idk if the same things apply there

[fathom juniper]

so...

i just learned that hi-fi rush features some NIN tracks

i will now buy your game

and apparently it's "the perfect drug"
DURING A BOSSFIGHT

yo i can't wait to see how they used this drum solo for gameplay
https://youtu.be/Yl4E7lfE9EA?t=159

[woven breach]

Yes

It's awesome

[fathom juniper]

oh i just looked it up

eeeeeeeehhhh im not feeling it yet

[hybrid jetty]

hi fi rush is still my game of the year

i think it's probably the best action game since dmc5

i was sold by the nin tracks too lol

[woven breach]

I was sold by the black keyes

...then I found out they only used it for the intro

[fathom juniper]

If it was up to me I’d pick tracks from reznor’s… edgier years

A little bit of pretty hate machine here, a little bit of downward spiral there

But it’s not like we can put Closer in a t-rated game, is it?

[mystic wave]

the game itself is def not edgy though!

[fathom juniper]

Well yeah but come on
You’re telling me we couldn’t at least have Head like a hole there ?

I’m not complaining though
It’s nice to see Trent in something other than quake 1 or some random ass fifa menu song playlist or whatever

[dire condor]

Steam sales when?

[rustic falcon]

3 days

[fathom juniper]

oh!

ooooooohhhhh

https://youtu.be/dj83Jkn2KiQ

this is...
this is good!

you've heard me lament a lot over how i miss the OG payday tone and how i wish payday 2 would tone it down a tad with all the wacky stuff

and lo and behold - it seems like that's what they're doing here

this vid is 40 minutes long and almost every single point he makes there is like...
this is precisely what i've been asking for!

well - maybe besides concealment
i liked that mechanic and apparently now it's gone

but other than that...
i'm... interested?

don't wanna say hyped - that would make me a bit of a hypocrite

but still

[wise cedar]

what do you mean besides concealment?

like, no casing without your mask off?

[fathom juniper]

nah - casing is improved

as in - the heisters finally mastered the forbidden art of...

...crouching while casing

and sprinting too!

there's just no concealment - at all

[wise cedar]

I really liked doing all-quiet missions

[fathom juniper]

like in payday 1

[wise cedar]

my favorite was the painting one I could do that one by myself

[fathom juniper]

my fave was the shadow raid

that bass line lives rent free in my head to this day

[wise cedar]

one thing I hope they don't change was the excellence of the sound design

[fathom juniper]

well - simon viklund is out

someone other is making music now

[wise cedar]

I don't know what that means!

i usually turn off music anyways

[fathom juniper]

THE DUD THAT MADE 90% OF THE MUSIC FOR P1 AND P2

YOU DID HWAT!?

[wise cedar]

I'm talking about the sound of the guns and stuff'

like, how you can tell the difference if someone is shooting outside vs inside

[fathom juniper]

mods
please remove this unhinged individual from this server

pls thank you

[fathom juniper]

oh don't change the subject now

[wise cedar]

I regret so many things, but not that statement

[fathom juniper]

HOW COULD YOU TURN OFF THE MUSIC IN PAYDAY!?

[wise cedar]

one thing I hope they don't change was the excellence of the sound design

it wasn't changing the subject

[fathom juniper]

nah nah nah nah nah

screw the sound design

we're talking music now

[wise cedar]

and also, because once you start soloing missions you end up listening to the quiet soundtrack on repeat and it kills me

[fathom juniper]

https://youtu.be/BjXNlIaGfrY

but yeah - in all seriousness now

the sound design seems to be as good as it always was

seriously though
you're the first person i've seen turning off the music in payday 2

i used to turn off my friends just so i could hear the OST more clearly

[wise cedar]

I turn off the music in pretty much every game unless its like, constructed as part of the story

[twin yarrow]

i remember the times when there was no music in the games at all
pirated discs couldn't fit all the data, so they shrinked games as much as possible

[fathom juniper]

not only because it's good, but the way it's mixed it game me more intel than all other 3 players combined

https://youtu.be/UxcnP3pq7Cg

[wise cedar]

My music is bettar

[fathom juniper]

no it's not

[wise cedar]

goddammit dyno

killed both links

[fathom juniper]

get rekt

[ocean iris]

imagine if it paid actually well

[fathom juniper]

buzzkill

[wise cedar]

#music message

[ocean iris]

Payday is the only game I can actually play with max volume

[fathom juniper]

oh yeah

that said
i have a really soft spod for payday 1 music

it was just more...
gritty
more raw in general

the whole game was

payday 2 is great
it's a bit of a fun power trip

payday 1 is more like this
https://youtu.be/3VBKjISjxyw

just listen how deep that bass goes

[wise cedar]

what frequency does something stop being bass?

is it then considered infrasound?

[fathom juniper]

iunno
ask mick gordon, i guess

[ocean iris]

Bro

Mick Gordon actually is an amazing producer

not just game music but he helped musical artists too

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1053806296463323146/1122845158245924955/kkkZVISWx_8.png

[clear python]

me

[hybrid jetty]

broken roads is an interesting demo - very disco elysium/wasteland inspired

[ocean iris]

the funny thing is that guy isnt even Ryan Gosling

It's Nicholas Winding Refn, the actor that played Heartman in Death Stranding

[clear python]

close enough. just like every guy wearing a scorpion jacket is literally ryan gosling

[ocean iris]

NVM

He directed Drive actually lmao

I just got it

Lmao I never knew

Yeah this is perfect then

I swear everything's connected now

[fathom juniper]

oh yeah i know

and he loves bass

bass so deep oceangate subs won't get to it without cracking

[fathom juniper]

ya know * smacks lips *

the moment my next paycheck drops...
... i might just buy high fi rush

how well does it run on the Spielstation The Fourth ?

WAIT IT'S NOT ON THE PS4?

https://youtu.be/cGgo-miAwec

[fallen sky]

Omg. Alma. It's on. I have to start working on my gaming set-up now LOL

If Alma is out there thank you so so much 🤩 I've been intrigued by Submerged for a while now

[fathom juniper]

i hope you didn't pay a quarter of a million for that

last time someone paid that to be submerged...
...it didn't go well

[fallen sky]

😳 I didn't have to.

But if anyone has any standing desk or ergonomic chair recs, have at it

[fathom juniper]

i have a standing desk at work

i hate the bloody thing

[fallen sky]

💀 I have a sit-stand accessory at work but I never bother adjusting it to stand

[clear python]

i wanted to get that kinda desk but luckily i escaped the covid permanent working and studying from home circle

[hybrid jetty]

xbox finally got their win

[ocean iris]

Xbox really was like

NUH UH

[rustic falcon]

YW I bought them for like 5 people like an hour before the sale ended bc I loved it so much

[leaden heart]

https://youtu.be/vgY9SdgJGVI

[fathom juniper]

aaaaaaa

i wanna play high fi rush aaaaa

[next patio]

Hi fi rush was fun

[fathom juniper]

shut up!

don't tease me!

i wanna play it but i'm stuck with ps4

[next patio]

I want to play it again but no money

Played it through gamepass

[dire warren]

i wanna play it but i'm stuck with the portable gaming slab

[woven breach]

I'm waiting for the new update

The turbo rhythm game mode

[signal kayak]

You know what to do

[woven breach]

just wanna share, this took me 2 weeks of 5 attempts a day to pass the song by 1.34%
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/193414868760657920/1123473200035143743/image.png

I maxed at 5 attempts because more than that I'll be too tired

[sand sleet]

Is it the type of rhythm game when you don't instantly die and have to start over when you misclick but instead your score gets lowered?

[woven breach]

it's the type that you have a health bar. You miss, it goes down. It also has minimum required notes to pass.

[sand sleet]

I see, so attempts are quite long in length usually

[woven breach]

base songs that came with the game aren't too long, it's usually around 2 mins ish

the modded songs may stretch it to 3 to 5. Actuall full length songs.

Still doesn't necessarily means your attempt will be 2 to 5 mins long. Some songs have difficulty spike to them in say... 1:30 mark or 2:40 mark.

most of the ones that I like have consistent difficulty. Easier to remember, muscle memory wise.

[sand sleet]

in geometry dash any mistake is death so attempts are usually short on harder levels

[woven breach]

in some community made chart, a mistake can be death

cause they are rapid

you won't have time to recover

[rustic falcon]

got the polish physical edition of the path thanks to a friend :] it’s so cool I’m happy

[ocean iris]

man im 11 euros short from getting battlebit

[leaden heart]

https://youtu.be/iEmnw_8kuFU

[rustic falcon]

steam summer sale starts today! does anyone has a specific game they’re have in mind to buy?

[untold hornet]

HELP HOW DO I DEAL WITH ELECTRIC WIZZROBES IM BEING LITERALLY HUNTED DOWN BY ONE

[next patio]

unequip metal stuff/look for any place to enter bullet time and headshot them
if you have puffshrooms (I think that's what are they called) can throw one quick to have a smoke screen too

[untold hornet]

it knocked my bow out of my hands it was a wooden bow 😭

but thank uou

[next patio]

for the other 2 elemental wizzrobes you can one shot them (hit them with the inverse element) btw

for electrics tho you either have the elemental inmunity or get the drop on them

[untold hornet]

yea

i got me out of no where i was just climbing trying to reach a tower and i got electrocuted lol

[next patio]

ouch

[ocean iris]

lmao marvel's avengers is 6 euros

[ocean iris]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/421176827403304982/1123831327549038693/1687988698451773.jpg

I forgot how good MGS1 looked

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/421176827403304982/1123831471912800336/1687987569491375.jpg

I CAN HEAR THE MUSIC

[lofty pecan]

currently looking into hifi rush, great war western front, melatonin, solar ash, forgotten anne, remember me, alan wake

[rustic falcon]

i love remember me but it has a few cringy moments so to speak

[lofty pecan]

is the gameplay good or mediocre?

[rustic falcon]

forgotton anne is nice and its getting a sequel now :) and i enjoyed what i played of hi-fi rush... need to finish it

hmm i played it ages ago and wasnt very good at video games in general. its a very pretty game and combat is combo-based with a few special abilities iirc

could be repetitive

also i should probably look into melatonin as well i loved the demo, i played a lot of it. its awesome

[stable kindle]

checks wishlist, dont think anything im potentially interested in will dip low enough for me to snag it. that and i just bought sun haven a week ago so i will prob just continue playing that lol

[ocean iris]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/421176827403304982/1123864393030053929/Polish_20230629_093215290.png

someone made this flag lmao i love scorch !!

[rotund umbra]

currently pretty much waiting just for Jedi Survivor, but A) from what I hear it still has significant performance issues even after few patches and B) it's still fairly new game so I doubt there's gonna be any significant discount

[woven breach]

guess who's replaying Hifi Rush... again... from scratch? It's me

[sand sleet]

Transistor and brood war soundtracks invoke similar feelings in me

Anyone else feel the same?

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/yugioh-should-been-gif-23901254

damn you, console exclusivity

anyways
https://youtu.be/QqRFquymSRI

oh so THAT'S what this game is called

i remember seeing clips of it ages ago but couldn't figure out its name

oh this looks like some 😗👌
premium-quality jank

top shelf

[stable kindle]

pog https://twitter.com/simoncarless/status/1674285134374404096

Simon Carless (@simoncarless)

PSA: Valve has been quietly banning newly submitted Steam games using AI-created art assets - if submitters can't prove they have rights for the assets used to train the algorithms: https://t.co/WhWpJpaFjl

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[fathom juniper]

oh this is...
interesting

on one hand - this is pretty based

on the other, however...
this makes me

let's say some small indie studio is working on a game, right?
or even like - a single person

the scope of the game got out of hands and they obviously can't do everything themselves so they... go for some AI generated assets
some textures here and there, maybe some paintings they could put in their levels and so on

where do we draw the line for stuff like that?

i mean - they're new assets, and using AI to generate stuff isn't illegal
but on the other hand - those AI models were trained on loads of stuff, some of which might have copyrights

[stable kindle]

i think the most likely thing going on here is valve is probably making sure to cover their asses so that if anyone gets busted for some copyright whatever, its not coming back down on them for allowing it on the platform

its a valve w but like clearly in the interest of protecting themselves from legal shenanigans more than anything

i assume anyway

the summer sale header is cute :3

https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/clusters/sale_autumn2019_assets/54b5034d397baccb93181cc6/home_header_bg_day_english.gif?t=1687217633

[fathom juniper]

oh yeah that could be the case

my question still stands though

just throw it on the pile of all the other AI-related dillemas

like - soon i'm gonna go back to doom modding
and i'm totally gonna help myself with some AI

let's say i'm gonna prompt it to generate me some cool looking, spooky murals and it goes "yo - Beksiński is pretty cool - imma do that"
and then it does do that

and a minute later it poops out a pixelated 256x256 texture for me
how much of that texture is an asset and how much of it is just someone else's art?

i mean - in this scenario i obviously can use it in a free mod for a game older than most people on this server, but...
can i use it in a free indie game on itch.io?
how about steam?

can i charge 2.99 freedom eagles for it?

[ocean iris]

beksinski ♡

[fathom juniper]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OTVLFxa6mqg

[hybrid jetty]

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

!!!!

[mystic wave]

talking about Warhammer with my friend

friend: bretonnia is french
me: do they let them eat cakes
friend: no. their horses eat cakes though
me:
friend: actual lore

[next patio]

playing pikmin 2 and lol

purple pikmins are broken

[ocean iris]

bruh wtf are they doing to skullgirls now

they removed a russian announcer for no explicit reason

[dire condor]

ookraine

like when they renamed sauerkraut to freedom cabbage or german shepherd to alsatian

great to see we havent advanced at all between 1940 and now

[ocean iris]

or french fries to freedom fries

But I digress

[wise cedar]

mornin' nerds

[sand sleet]

Grade a+ time in super meat boy is actually not that fast I realized

I get even 50% faster times sometimes

and I'm not even doing like hundreds of attempts

btw does anyone have very fluid gameplay platformer recommendations

[sand sleet]

ouch my fingers

[clear python]

2D only?

2D Celeste & Splasher, 3D DeadCore

[sand sleet]

3d too i guess

[clear python]

Cyberhook was cool for a while but didn‘t keep me engaged afterwards

[sand sleet]

aight thx

[untold hornet]

iconoclasts

Its abt a mechanic going up against the theocratic government that rules over where she lives kinda

Its been a bit

[ocean iris]

I like to play while I listen to videos

Same as GTTOD and Roblox games sometimes

[jagged halo]

Any FFXIV gamers?

[past gulch]

Any game recommendations that play like Hades? I have Cult of the Lamb and The Binding of Isaac

[hybrid jetty]

the voice actor for that pack was mike zaimont

who sexually harassed the other developers to the point that they ended up having to make a new company to continue developing the game

[ocean iris]

oop

[ocean iris]

well damn my bad

What kinda controversies were behind that game

[untold hornet]

necrodancer

rhythm roguelike

or even

cadence of hyrule

[toxic cosmos]

Enter the Gungeon might be to your liking

If you like the top down style
If you wanna try a 2D perspective, Dead Cells is solid