video-games

[wicked path]

Yeah, you can

Basically, you can wear a Waffenrock for Henry's Forge to advertise your forge as you are in the Tournament.

[elfin matrix]

then i will do so....as soon I get some money....and space, it sucks only having 456 GB of space

Sounds good

[wicked path]

Oh, you also get to dress as the Devil for one of the Brushes with Death quests

It's pretty funny

[elfin matrix]

wow.....the mixed reviews are 1000 vs 100 positives

[wicked path]

I'm going to do another playthrough of KCD2 soon, but on Hardcore this time

[elfin matrix]

question

hardcore wasn't on release?

[wicked path]

No, but it was free

[elfin matrix]

Pls tell me hardcore doesn't mean something like PERMA DEATH

[wicked path]

No, but it's funny

[elfin matrix]

survivor fallout 4 or hardcore new vegas, that I can deal with it

[wicked path]

No UI (health bar, stamina etc.)

No direction compass with direction (N,W,S,E)

No fast-travel

No Auto-Saves

Discovery radius much smaller (those pops ups such as nest discovered)

No Markers in the Compass, (Quest Markers ONLY appear when you're very near the objective)

[elfin matrix]

oh wait, oh yeah I remember the 1st game also had it, so No fast travel or any commodities

[wicked path]

Those are the basic rules

[elfin matrix]

NO UI?????

https://tenor.com/view/run-monkey-rum-run-monke-run-afraid-monke-run-banana-gif-1596379624081454607

[wicked path]

You have a compass, and that's it

And you do NOT appear on the map

You need to ask directions

[elfin matrix]

ok but not being able to see your health is going to far, the best is fine

[elfin matrix]

or I just don't use the map, like Ever XD

[wicked path]

All Negative Perks:

Bad Back

You can generally carry less, and whenever you bend to pick up a herb or mushroom, there's a small chance you'll strain your back and be left hobbling for a while.

Heavy-Footed

Your shoes wear down faster, and you generally make more noise.

Numbskull

All your experience gain is 20% slower.

Somnambulant

You lose Energy faster and every time you sleep, there's a chance your sleepwalking legs will take you somewhere else.

Hangry Henry

In addition to the usual effects of hunger, starving also reduces your Speech, Charisma, and Intimidation. Moreover, all food will fill you 20% less, and your digestion rate increases by 50%.

Sweaty

You get dirty faster, meaning you start to smell faster. And when you do, you can be smelled from twice as far away, making you easier to detect. Plus, perfume doesn't give you any positive effects. You just can't hide this stench.

Picky Eater

Your pickiness causes all food in your inventory to spoil 25% faster. When gutting animals, you're also pickier and get only half the meat and other items from animals.

Bashful

You can't ask people for directions, so it's more difficult to find your way around. Besides that, you're too shy to speak to the girls at the bathhouse, so you can't request all of their services. Since you're not much of a talker, gaining Speech skill is also slower.

Punchable Face

Coming across travellers on the road is more dangerous, as is getting into a fight. Besides that, enemies never surrender and are more confident, making fights more difficult.

Menace

Once you're branded for a crime, the effect is permanent, and getting caught for any other serious crime will lead to your execution. What's more, guards will punish you more severely and the consequences of these punishments will be more intense.

You need to pick 3 of these Negative Perks to begin it

[elfin matrix]

yep, now I remember those were in the 1st game too. the Ultra hardcore experience was turning all of them on

[wicked path]

That's what I'm doing

[elfin matrix]

"Joe Psychopath"

New Title unlock

now I have something to look forward

[wicked path]

Now I gotta wait for KCD3

[elfin matrix]

no, you won't

you will be joining me and Bim on the "we never get a 3rd part" club.

[wicked path]

But I want to see the Hussite Wars

[elfin matrix]

Bim has half life 3 and I have Megaman legends 3 (Which was cancelled) and bim still has hopes for Half Life 3

[elfin matrix]

not in your life time young man

[wicked path]

I'm still hoping for a Portal 3

[elfin matrix]

now wait 20 years like bot of us

oh no joe was already part of the club already

my sincere apology

[wicked path]

Also Elder Scrolls 6

Least we know that is being made

[elfin matrix]

yeah eh I won't have my hopes up for that one

current bethesda is a mess, I don't have hopes for Fallout 5 and I love fallout 4 despite all the many problems it has

do we?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/807143246685274122.gif?v=1

Square pulled the same crap by showing a flame logo of Dragon quest XII and we haven't gotten anything about that one either

[wicked path]

Now, weirdly

My 2 favorite games of all time are Red Dead Redemption 2 and Hades 2

And I don't want a sequel to either

[elfin matrix]

.....

sorry to break it to you but Red dead 2 is a prequel

so technically that one already has a sequel

[wicked path]

You know what I mean, Lol

I don't want there to be a RDR3 or Hades 3

[elfin matrix]

I honestly prefer Red dead one over two

Red dead redemption 3 could be a different gang in some other place of America in an earlier period

[wicked path]

RDR2 is my son, Hades 2 is my daughter. KCD2 is my nephew who also gets to hang out at my house

[elfin matrix]

did you play the 1st one?

Red dead I mean

[wicked path]

Indeed

Love RDR1, as well

[elfin matrix]

oh and KCD 1 got it for free on epic

[elfin matrix]

Then by all I mean I can tell you that red dead 2 did not manage to surpass the first game, at least on my opinion

Plus the ending is god tier

[wicked path]

RDR1 is a near perfect game.

But for me, RDR2 is better than perfect

[elfin matrix]

what annoys me the most about 2 is how REALISTIC it is

like is too much

[wicked path]

That's why I like it

[elfin matrix]

yeah, thats why I didn't like it as much

[wicked path]

I think I like games that are either extremely realistic, or so unrealistic it's fun to feel like a God

[elfin matrix]

I try not to play REALISTIC games, thats why I never played KCD 1 before epic gave it for free

99% of videogames are unrealistic, thank you very much

thats why I never liked halo

We went from at least carrying 10 different weapons from 0-9 on the keyboard to...only 2

plus master chief falls from orbit from a space station or something and survives the impact and thats how Halo 3 starts

how was that realistic?

[wicked path]

I've only played one Halo game, Lol

Halo Reach

[elfin matrix]

funny thats the only one I BEAT

and I guess Halo 2 because has coop

[wicked path]

Also, usually story matters a lot to me for games

Hence why RDR2 is so high up for me

[elfin matrix]

but halo 2 was something I was forced to play with my best friend, couch coop...good times

I am the opposite

the story matter less

gameplay first, with exceptions of course

like Megaman lore or Final Fantasy stories

[wicked path]

Hades 2 is an exception, even though I very much enjoy the story

If I went only by gameplay, Hades 2 is my favorite game.

[elfin matrix]

weird....you should have Hades 1 instead of hades 2 in your list, let me guess you didn't play 1 or u didn't like it?

[wicked path]

Oh I was an early access player for both

[elfin matrix]

I don't like rouge lites/likes, however hades is the exception

[wicked path]

But I prefer 2 to 1, for Hades

[elfin matrix]

I was only for 2 but is weird you have 2 over 1 when story matters so much for you

I mean, yeah Hades 2 is Hades 1 but better, except for the story

[wicked path]

Hades 1 does edge out Hades 2 for story, but the gameplay for Hades 2 improves on pretty much everything 1 did.

[elfin matrix]

gameplay over story

[wicked path]

Especially adding a Sprint

[elfin matrix]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1182725051427074188/1225897297062133760/image0.gif

[wicked path]

Oh lord that matters

[elfin matrix]

but in hades 1 we have dash spam.

[wicked path]

Oh another game I adore is fully because of gameplay

Hi-Fi Rush

https://tenor.com/view/hi-fi-hi-fi-rush-chai-808hifi-rush-808-gif-7853453101600203361

[elfin matrix]

didn't play it, mostly because I am terrible at rhythym games

oh and I wanted Evil within 3

now that will never happen

HI Fi rush does have references to Evil Within

is disgusting how this game was acclaimed and sold really well and microsoft closed the studio

[wicked path]

Now there is a game I love that I'll fully say, has a terrible story

[elfin matrix]

yep

[wicked path]

Just Cause 3

[elfin matrix]

mind you I only like Evil within 2, I dont like the 1st one

oh...just cause

[wicked path]

Love the Just Cause games

[elfin matrix]

I got to try it once

so....I got nothing

Forgot about it and something else came out, can't remember what

and Kingdom hearts?

https://tenor.com/view/kingdomhearts-gif-5092751

[wicked path]

Never played those games

In fact I've only played one Final Fantasy game

[elfin matrix]

well for story, the games arent going to do it for you, that much I can tell.

[elfin matrix]

let me guess....FF 6, 7 or 14

[wicked path]

6

[elfin matrix]

knew it

https://tenor.com/view/final-fantasy-kefka-booty-gif-15779656

[wicked path]

Hi Kefka

[elfin matrix]

hmm well

at this point I don't know if I could recommend Final fantasy to people

but Kingdom hearts 1 and 2 those are easy recommendations

[wicked path]

I'm going to play FFX, soon

[elfin matrix]

God Tier

in my "Humble opinion"

wish you luck FF X is massive and fill with content

[wicked path]

I only know two things about it

[elfin matrix]

and saldy not all of its what I would call "FUN"

[wicked path]

Main character is Tidus

https://tenor.com/view/tidus-laugh-tidus-laugh-laughing-anime-gif-16634936

And this

[elfin matrix]

Dammit...

i was typing DO NOT POST THAT GIFT!!!

and you did

I hate this SO MUCH, the context is always dismissed with this scene

and I hate it

[surreal silo]

Teedus?

[elfin matrix]

Tetanos?

[surreal silo]

Tetanus?

[elfin matrix]

I speak spanish so my way is the correct pronunciation

https://tenor.com/view/ponke-ponkesol-solana-monke-monkey-gif-4096502501750194829

[wicked path]

I think it's pronounced Zag-gree-us

[surreal silo]

Tres años?

Not to be confused with Tres Anos.

[elfin matrix]

.....bruh

guess Bot is broken

[surreal silo]

I know the difference!

[past bay]

LMAO

[elfin matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/stan-twitter-monkey-meme-monke-monki-baby-monkey-gif-2675299900266750877

oh when I WRITE I GET SILENCED, BUT WHEN TEMPEST DOES IT IS A OK

sad.

note to mods...include Spanish so tempest get silences like Alex did last week.

[surreal silo]

Fair

[elfin matrix]

just don't take FF X out of context ever again

[dense kindle]

idk maybe 40k Rogue Trader. You can get keys for it that's like, 10 bucks

[dense kindle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOzM4ClFG1o&list=RDsOzM4ClFG1o&start_radio=1&t=1s

[elfin matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/tugcekulas-monkey-tugce-ceku-gif-19479077

I ll give 100 point out 10 for sense of humor

oh but I talk badly of FF 7 remakes project and EXP 33 and everyone gets mad

[dense kindle]

Listen to my HA. This may be our last HA!

why talk badly of games at all tho

I reserve that for like, roblox slop

[elfin matrix]

....eh...I don't like warhammer

I know I know HERESSY but I just don't

[elfin matrix]

because it can be fun

or criticism or to not recommend those

we humans are complex creatures

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-star-gif-5455397

[dense kindle]

I'll usually just say "I don't like the X that much, but it does have good Y. I think you'll like it/won't like it that much but who knows."

[elfin matrix]

meanwhile I write paragraphs

[dense kindle]

I mean I could but people don't like to read

[elfin matrix]

not our problem

ok fine, play Dark cloud games from LEVEL 5 Studio

playstation 2 games

[dense kindle]

Consider Rabbit and Steel, a 1-4 player roguelike with gameplay that imitates the raiding combat of Final Fantasy 14, the MMO

[elfin matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/tugcekulas-monkey-tugce-ceku-gif-19479077

[thorny shoal]

im considering it

[elfin matrix]

vortex the contrarian to Alex

[thorny shoal]

am i

i think i like a lot of games u like

[elfin matrix]

name one

that isn't hades 2

[thorny shoal]

i dont keep records of the games, it's mostly just "oh yeah i like that game he mentioned"

[elfin matrix]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/803479484354396180/1049466196350738493/825136707095101441.gif

I mean....you should.

for Data analysis purposes

oh new Episode of AVGN!!!

[wicked path]

KCD2

[elfin matrix]

hush you

let him think

well, good night/morning/afternoon

[clear python]

Good morning

[mystic wave]

Frau Tidb

[woven breach]

That sounds like a name for a gnome...

I'm writing it down

[mystic wave]

Are you a gnome tidb

[clear python]

wtf miko

[elfin matrix]

I just woke up and Miko is throwing hands (?)

[ocean iris]

a wave of unwavering super earth patriotism has swept me under my feet

TO CYBERSTAN

[coral nacelle]

What up, fellas

What’s games y’all playing?

[clear python]

minecraft

[green scaffold]

Dredge, vibing with horrors of the deep while fishing

[echo hazel]

crash team racing nitro fueled and the end is nigh

[coral nacelle]

Always a good one

[coral nacelle]

A guy I know said that game was pretty good. I got it on my wishlist imma have to check it out

[coral nacelle]

Hell yea, I played the original crash racing games on PS2 I think they all were. I think tag team racing had one person and one shooting. Great stuff even tho I ain’t a fan of racing games haha

[green scaffold]

It's great! Enjoying it quite a lot

[signal kayak]

If not expeditioning, Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy

[coral nacelle]

That like a special version of FF or somethin? I have not heard of a Dissidia 012

[signal kayak]

012 is an expanded version of the original Dissidia Final Fantasy, which has the unique 013 cycle on top of the story of its predecessor, more characters, balance changes and more

It absolutely didn't sell well, unfortunately, else we'd have better Dissidia games

[coral nacelle]

Interesting

I’ve only played like 1 or 2 FF games. Everyone always talks about them but I wouldn’t know where to start tbh

[elfin matrix]

I know where you can start

You can skip the first 3 games, that much is fine.

If you want Pure tradional Fantasy Settings without much technology your options are

Final Fantasy IV, V, VI, VII and IX.

The High tech Stories with a bit of Fantasy are VII, VIII, X, XII, XIII, XV.

The MMOrpgs are XI and XIV.

You play any game from 4 to 10, this was the Golden Age of Final Fantasy

7 is the most overrated one follow by 6 and 7 has the insane large COMPILATION which is just bad and awful, you can see it as nothing more than cashgrab

As for Dissdia 012 Final fantasy fighting game, is awesome and hard as F.

I am super bad at it but has a lot of single player content, like way too much

oh and I am Playing Shinobi 3 the return of the master ninja

[echo hazel]

follow by 6 and 7

https://tenor.com/view/sixseven-six-seven-six-seve-67-gif-14143337669032958349

[elfin matrix]

not this crap again

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-worried-monkey-speech-bubble-monkey-discord-monkey-speech-monkey-tired-gif-583680838144087741

is that supposed to be music?

[echo hazel]

it's alpha gen humor

[elfin matrix]

sent me back to the 80s, pls

So peppe

what games have you 100% it?

Super meatboy?

[echo hazel]

yeah but not the deathless achievements

https://psnprofiles.com/PepperoniBoy_y

here's a bunch of stuff I've done on ps5 in the past 2 years

[coral nacelle]

Thank you, kind sir. I appreciate this breakdown. I gotta finish what I’m playing then I can see about these games. I do like single player, turn based RPGs whatever you wanna call them

[clear python]

who tf invented pillagers https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/333162407826554882/1469797195380162641/image.jpg?ex=6988f6ce&is=6987a54e&hm=a5f1b1d58e90bad351b687194e9dcb74a167d03d8577664f6991f9c0e22b228a&

[coral nacelle]

First step: mine
Next step: craft

[elfin matrix]

Disgusting.

Play Dragon Quest builders instead

https://tenor.com/view/sis-is-onto-nothing-dragon-quest-dragon-quest-builders-is-onto-nothing-onto-nothing-gif-17340013586994308641

is minecraft but Dragon quest

[coral nacelle]

I didn’t even know they had this either

I have been missing out apparently

[elfin matrix]

Dragon quest Builders 1 and 2. both games cover the first 2 Dragon quest games but in a time line where the hero either failed or never showed up

[coral nacelle]

https://tenor.com/view/mark-cuban-shark-tank-notes-taking-notes-remember-gif-15073512

[lost igloo]

https://giphy.com/gifs/hi-wave-lalafell-cwOhVmXbV6nTo8T8wa

[fathom juniper]

The hell is going on here ?

[elfin matrix]

its 7 Am

https://tenor.com/view/sponge-bob-brick-sponge-bob-square-pants-like-a-bag-of-bricks-like-a-ton-of-bricks-gif-4475886

[signal kayak]

So lemme get this straight
There's this optional area that appears super early on
The game gives a clear warning
So I get 25 levels then come back later
And what's this warning about?
Fork over 90K croma to spawn a white nevron that gives me a picto that effectively triples my health
Thanks, I guess

[echo hazel]

yeah that was funny

[pure kernel]

||he is part of a quest that if you complete it, you get 100 lumina points||

[signal kayak]

Ok I know, I've read the missables right at the beginning of act 1 and unfortunately missed a mime :/

[fathom juniper]

oh hey
check out what just popped up in my youtube feed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0DVXR4oVs0

i quite like this series

[elfin matrix]

he still calling her "girlfriend" and not "Wife"

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/803479484354396180/1049466196350738493/825136707095101441.gif

[fathom juniper]

well hey - they have a brand to uphold

anyways

TWO DAYS LEFT!
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1470105366640591047/image.png?ex=698a15d0&is=6988c450&hm=a43d6e0e29e1d910f684bb40349be67f8adb0da355540e9284b5447a04ca9506&

i'll finally shut up about mr. glung

Ron Glung

[dense kindle]

brand appeal

girlfriend is more relatable than wife

[elfin matrix]

Rebrand

https://tenor.com/view/tugcekulas-monkey-tugce-ceku-gif-19479077

[dense kindle]

wife hopefully still friend that is girl

[mystic wave]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/512790960816783363/1470153345212612669/image0.png?ex=698a427f&is=6988f0ff&hm=b2617775cefff08d755a746978e2b30019971b85ea8668a05b6c2a519f74c9fa&

[clear python]

omg tf comics reference...

[clear python]

tried to start playing myst again... and the start of the maze deviates from the maps i've drawn............

https://tenor.com/view/green-mile-im-tired-boss-michael-clarke-duncan-gif-2375696290766999196

[mystic wave]

Oh no....

[coral nacelle]

What’s up, y’all. Anybody ever play Valkyria Chronicles?

I have VC4 I believe. Never finished the game, was gonna try and get back into it.

[elfin matrix]

"The time has come and so Have I " Chill bot, this is a DMC 4 reference

eh...me.

So what do you need...BOSS

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1182725051427074188/1225897297062133760/image0.gif

VC 1 and 4 are related. One is on the defense and the other takes place in the offense, moving to the core of the Empire to stop the invasion and end the war for good

I ll be around for a few hours

currently consuming easy digestivible videos about this thing eh....War...war...hammer....40.000? huh, seems family friendly enough...oh...my...god

[coral nacelle]

Just got off work, gotta eat. But I mean just tag me in whatever. I’m not quite sure exactly what to ask tbh haha. But I am planning on playing it again since i redownloaded it last night

I love strategy and I wanna get better at that game so I can beat it. So like tips and whatnot I suppose is what I’m looking for. It’s fun, I dig the style too, wanna utilize my troops the best I can without min/maxing and making the game not fun

[elfin matrix]

well....you playing 4, right?

4 is way more balance but a rule you should follow is that Scouts are OP. They have high movility, you can use multiple turns in a single unit and Shot to the head do lots of damage

[coral nacelle]

Yes sir, 4

[coral nacelle]

I do like their mobility and the battle rifles they used. I never used them that much when I played tho tbh. I had like 2 that were high level. I liked the long ranged units like snipers and mortars.

[elfin matrix]

then u dont need any advice

plus you can just replay old missiones in 4 and level up more

in VC 1 you couldnt replay story missions again but could farm mock battles, which had to be unlocked first and were limited

As in I think they were only 6 mock battle. Farming the 1st one over and over and over would net to none exp or money since is the lowest tier. This is not the case in 4.

[coral nacelle]

Yea I farmed a bit. Gotta strategize better. But all shall be well, if I get to a ridiculous mission I’ll let you know and then we can discuss.

[elfin matrix]

you know what....I think is time I 100% VC 4 after so many years

so, screw it, I am jumping it too, my memory is fuzzy anyway

https://tenor.com/view/marvel-vs-capcom-infinite-mega-man-zero-brofist-gif-18165526

[coral nacelle]

Hell yea sounds good!

[coral nacelle]

https://tenor.com/view/megaman-battle-network-battle-network-lan-megaman-megaman-exe-gif-25895414

[elfin matrix]

BATTLE NETWORK!!!!

https://tenor.com/view/megaman-battle-network-battle-network-megaman-megaman-exe-serenade-gif-23604335

[coral nacelle]

I love BN6

Only one I played tbh but I played the hell out of that as a kid. I still got my OG Nintendo DS, play on it sometimes at work lol

[elfin matrix]

I own the legacy collection and played every single one

even the chip battle and the gamecube one (didnt beat it) and own Double team DS

I want more MEGAMAN CAPCOM, not Classic megaman

https://tenor.com/view/tugcekulas-monkey-tugce-ceku-gif-19479077

[coral nacelle]

Hell yea

[elfin matrix]

I recommend Battle network 3 5 and well 6 but u already played 6

[past bay]

IDK if anyone else has ever played the Vampires browser game but damn is it annoying when you chase a vampire hunter across half the city, spilling blood left and right, and in the end it's like... 500 gold and at most 30% of the blood you lost to him lmao

[signal kayak]

Helldivers right now be like

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1286574469468389379/1470341375584108584/65936feb-1038-4b3b-ac6b-64b041b2294c.jpg?ex=698af19d&is=6989a01d&hm=c27f1bab6bcfc385490105ddfe7b4e3da1e12d4e8ca7d3fdccc6197770eaa89f&

Tanks weren't in the first one, iirc?

[green scaffold]

Meh, grinding out mutated fishes ain't doing it for me, just gonna discover every type of fish from previous areas before delivering final relic to collector

[fathom juniper]

folks 👏

i'm about to give the dark souls re-remastered mod a shot and i need a dumb name for my character

it's gonna be a lady this time, cause my previous character was a dood that kinda looked like microwaved shrek

[mystic wave]

Frau Tidb

[fathom juniper]

hey i already mained Adolf Tickler - let's try something a bit less

you know

i asked about it on a different server and someone gave me "Jeanne Stealer"
that's good, that's close but not quite there

[echo hazel]

you can farm them easily with atrophy though

it's guaranteed to generate an aberration

the hardest ones to get are the open sea fish that also have a time limit

[echo hazel]

hugh g. reckshen

[fathom juniper]

that's good, but i don't think it's gonna fit a lady dex build with a katana

the ol' reliable

yes, i still haven't started cause i'm waiting for this 11 gigs mod to download and free DL speed on mod nexus is abysmal

[green scaffold]

Huh, good to know

[fathom juniper]

huh

honestly?
downloading re-remastered wasn't worth it

like yes - it's pretty and the increased LOD makes one hell of an impression
but it's too much for my puny steam deck to handle and i'm getting frame drops

i did come up with a cool character though

Starting class: thief
Sex: female
Name: Kleptopatra

[signal kayak]

Friend of wallets, especially yours

[ocean iris]

oh there were, and motorcycles too

https://youtu.be/leM2NjGmCbY?si=Wo4sxv-ZRmZRRlsi

god this is so awesome

welcome back quake stroggs

[signal kayak]

Oho

[thorny shoal]

died in my free solo Cairn run right at the end

[fathom juniper]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/226831135802392577/1470447617833046047/video0-37.mp4?ex=698b548f&is=698a030f&hm=92878f4f8fccad1a400621a73c3f3b4ddc90a3dc8f4ab13f19f465e510896855&

[quartz haven]

Free play’s for first 2 people to ts, me Yoo

[elfin matrix]

good

[elfin matrix]

"Nothing personal, kid"

[mystic wave]

the I GOT BACK UP AND PWNED HIM is real

[thorny shoal]

thats messed up

[elfin matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/coffee-morning-monkey-drinking-coffee-shot-gif-20859464

[fathom juniper]

DS1 pvp is a magical thing

[elfin matrix]

never do pvp in any fromsoft game

[fathom juniper]

i actually like pvp in ds1 because of how goofy it is

from 2 onwards it started becoming more nad more sweaty and less and less goofy fun

[elfin matrix]

Dear mods. Ban Bim...because he likes to play Pvp dark souls 1 and that scares me.

Now I wait.

[fathom juniper]

say

have you ever been invaded in blighttown?

[elfin matrix]

yes

[fathom juniper]

that was probably me

blighttown and sen's
my two favorite places

it's because people rarely pvp in there
and those places are full of traps

[elfin matrix]

you didnt play Demon souls back on the ps3, right?

[fathom juniper]

so with most of my characters i try to get there as early as possible and with as a low level as possible
and just invade people

most of them just fall down and die

[fathom juniper]

nope
i only played the remake, sadly

[elfin matrix]

I was invaded by a high level player

I think it was in 2017 when I still had my ps3

"Someone is still playing this game"? yes.

[fathom juniper]

anyways

mewgenics tomorrow!

[thorny shoal]

Same, the scuffed nature of early souls pvp was pretty charming

[elfin matrix]

Shinobi 3 the return of the master ninja completed...darn....Stage 7 was designed by castlevania dev or something?

[austere wadi]

Gueeess who just finished E33 and has some incredibly inflammatory opinions to share?

I promise I'll be respectful, but I feel art very strongly and it's been a very long time since I've partaken in any that moved me this much.

[dense kindle]

uh

sure?

just don't be annoyingly negative or else I'll feel bad lol

[austere wadi]

There is no "good" ending. The game is a tragedy from start to finish.

But A Life To ||Paint|| is unequivocally the worse ending.

You don't ||let a 16-year-old girl (and she is, Alicia was effectively reset when she entered the Canvas and became Maelle, she's not like Renoir and Aline who spent 67 years fully cognizant of their time) commit suicide.||

[elfin matrix]

I was expecting hot takes because of the gameplay

[silk abyss]

https://tenor.com/view/automaton-helldivers-2-marching-robot-robots-gif-14090133636459797134

[dense kindle]

cold as hell take imo

I completely agree

||Sorry but I go by simulation rules here, the Painters like Maelle and Renoir and Aline are more "real" and are thus, higher priority than the painted people||

||So while it is sad that the painting seems to have to die for the sake of Maelle to live on, it's worth it. Escapism like that is not an appropriate end for anyone imo.||

[austere wadi]

My actual inflammatory opinion is what I think of people who think that's the good ending, but I realized it wouldn't be productive to pursue that line of thinking in this channel.

[dense kindle]

yeah I really do not understand people who argue "both sides are equally bad" or "no the bad ending is the best one"

Now if you JUST play the bad ending, I get it. It's not completely out of left field and feels appropriate

[manic isle]

Yeah that ending has always read as worse to me

[elfin matrix]

you really don't know this channel

[manic isle]

||It hurts to have to let go of everything, but the painted world was a coping mechanism for her. It’s not healthy to stay in it forever.||

[elfin matrix]

not this again......new vegas tried that exact same lesson and it failed

The lesson is FIREBALL!!

[manic isle]

the ending is basically the fantasy equivalent of AI psychosis today

[elfin matrix]

Star ocean Till the end of time did something very similar

it affected the franchise to this day

that was 23 years or so ago.

[manic isle]

Well luckily for that e33 was a one-off game and I don’t think they can really make a sequel

[elfin matrix]

of course not

but they could

all star oceans games since have been nothing but prequels to Star ocean till the end of time

[dense kindle]

of course they can

expedition 34

duh

it's wild that they started themselves off with so much of a buffer just to stay ahead of final fantasy

[green scaffold]

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/remedys-new-ceo-is-a-former-sports-betting-guy-and-ea-executive-who-aims-to-scale-remedy-in-a-way-that-builds-lasting-value/

Welp, that's Remedy done

[echo hazel]

wait what happened to sam lake

[pure kernel]

guess he's the remedy to remedy's existence

[green scaffold]

He is still at Remedy, he never was a CEO, he is part of the board if I recall

He was one of the people who selected new CEO

[hearty yarrow]

I will trust sam lake

Gonna depend on board/ceo power dynamics ig

[lost igloo]

@fathom juniper
https://vxtwitter.com/i/status/2020120275354784178

𝘃𝗻𝗺𝘀‏ ᪥ (@vnms_v)

https://t.co/rhZiVJYtto

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vxTwitter / fixvx · Feb 7, 2026, 12:59 PM

[fathom juniper]

Good thing you can turn that off

Though why would you do that is beyond me

Anyways
Three hours till mewgenics

[novel axle]

if you didnt see its out rn

[lost igloo]

https://youtu.be/FK8JdmLTMGA

[ocean iris]

https://youtu.be/gj5JS68ny14?si=B45hDGviCJQVtfT2

Those swedes are dropping updates only when people have to go to super work

[lusty pendant]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1450717801777070152/1470797773702955070/HAxc0t6aAAMAD02.png?ex=698c9aab&is=698b492b&hm=9160efac0413ee50b5713b1bacea5d31a19fe302f1a943ee272ca228cd11a0da&

this is the first time I hear someone say that optional easy modes are bad because of the temptation lmao

[clear python]

me when i have absolutely no self control:

when any game allows you to change the difficulty during gameplay:

One thing I found annoying in Furi is that you can lower the difficulty during the campaign but cannot raise it again afterwards

Which is realllllyyyy dumb (I guess it's prolly related to achievements but that's an easy fix lmao)

[hearty yarrow]

I dont get this

If you wanna click the button click the button

[echo hazel]

@fathom juniper so how's mewgenics

cause that 10% launch discount is looking mighty delicious

[novel axle]

it is a lot of fun

[elfin matrix]

Its terrible, not a single pepperoni looking cat so far

https://tenor.com/view/tugcekulas-monkey-tugce-ceku-gif-19479077

[fathom juniper]

Im still at work

[echo hazel]

alex this is really hard for me to admit but... I'm a fraud

I'm actually a burger guy 😭

[elfin matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-stare-glare-judge-okay-gif-26860641

[thorny shoal]

i usually dont like songs with lyrics in games but they kinda cooked with the ones in Mewgenics

[elfin matrix]

fine...I ll look for a Burguer cat instead

[elfin matrix]

So u don't like Metalgear rising revengence OST?

on the other hand you should like Megaman music then, no lyrics

[thorny shoal]

i like armstrong's theme

[elfin matrix]

only liking 1 of an entire god tier soundtrack is heressy

be thankful we aren't in Warhammer 40k

[thorny shoal]

i dont remember the rest honestly

[elfin matrix]

Red sun, Rules of Nature, Sam theme, Mistral theme, the MEMES guy theme?

Sam theme is the one that goes like "Memories broken, the true goes unspoken, I even forgotten MY NAME!!!!...."

[thorny shoal]

i still think the entire world is on a joke together by pretending the Guilty Gear soundtrack is good

[elfin matrix]

meh, Guilty gear has good songs here and there

Street Fighter and tekken have my favorite OST... from fighting games, and don't have lyrics...for the most part

[thorny shoal]

yeah I vaguely remember them

but only armstrong's theme stuck with me

[elfin matrix]

why? how?

I mean...IS GOOD but really?

Sam theme is THE MEME

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/803479484354396180/1049466196350738493/825136707095101441.gif

[thorny shoal]

i thought the meme was rules of nature

[elfin matrix]

ok fine vortex. 2 MEMES!!

rules of nature gets tiresome

[elfin matrix]

megaman 2 has the best soundtrack ever

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/718071523403104286.gif?v=1

I am not bias, Is just facts

[thorny shoal]

the NES one?

[elfin matrix]

yes

[thorny shoal]

i only played megaman x's and zero

[elfin matrix]

X1 and X4 have super OST too

Zero 3 and 4 Same deal

[thorny shoal]

I was 10 when I did it but I think i liked the OST

[elfin matrix]

did what?

what did you do vortex?

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-gif-7314821

[thorny shoal]

sorry, when i played megaman x 4 5 6

[elfin matrix]

hello? Police?

nvm

People really dislike X5 and X6

[thorny shoal]

dont care about these people they have no taste

[elfin matrix]

X5 I love the story but not the gameplay, just replayed last month...had like 90 deaths or so

X6 is hard as F because level design, yet I like it a lot

better than X2 and X3

[thorny shoal]

they were very hard, 10 year old me had no chance

[elfin matrix]

X4 is the easiest

X5 Ready!!! bike level and there is a hole at the start of the stage, dies

X7 is hot garbage and Yet I beat it 4 times

X8 only once....I have to try the Demake of X8

[thorny shoal]

hated the bike levels

i just loved all the bosses, it was so depressing when you had to replay them and the bosses werent there anymore...

whats the point!

[elfin matrix]

to get the collectables you missed

heart tanks, E tanks, lives, Armor Capsules like the Hadouken in X1 or Shoryuken in X2

Golden armor in X3

[thorny shoal]

exactly, no point

[elfin matrix]

....eh?

[thorny shoal]

kid me was obssessed with video game bosses for some reason

[elfin matrix]

You can farm health to fill your energy tanks

[thorny shoal]

loved me a good villain

[elfin matrix]

is not a "no point" plus makes you better at the levels but thats only if you speedrunner

Megaman has great Villains if you pay attention to the Lore

if you don't then..."Oh wow, evil doctor bleh, oh wow a bald evil robot guy"

[thorny shoal]

i didnt speak english so I just made up my own lore

[elfin matrix]

same

Megaman begins with 2 Doctor friends not being able to patch up things between then

and Ends with the evil Dr greatest creation becoming the savior of mankind at the cost of his own life

oh and like 3 or 400 years of wars.

and Megaman legends is an Epilogue to the whole franchise

[fathom juniper]

I BOUGHT MEWGENICS! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

let's goooo

oh this is gonna be a fun evening

[echo hazel]

I'm buying the game but probably won't be playing it for a long ass time due to my backlog still being screwed 😂

[fathom juniper]

there's a meow button in the main menu!
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1470839217155211346/image.png?ex=698cc144&is=698b6fc4&hm=322f59cd643a64278112467127a2b0f80084f5f35ab9a7d476c29c53f35b670f&

10/10
game of the year 2026

step aside, ace combat 8

[clear python]

meow for me

[fathom juniper]

see - it's because of stuff like this discord is gonna want to see our IDs

[clear python]

https://tenor.com/view/the-unmatched-power-of-the-sun-sun-power-cop-gif-22776276

[fathom juniper]

oh my god
they're doing the starter pokemon thing
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1470840151574974587/image.png?ex=698cc223&is=698b70a3&hm=686635cb5bba1f4338015940840faa7ec0feec74ade219614d35151dbd762951&

[clear python]

sven

[fathom juniper]

but they want me to pick 2

[echo hazel]

sven and atomsk

[fathom juniper]

okay so - bunny buns sounds like a squeeky hinge
atomsk meows like a drowning turkey
and sven goes MEOW

like - a really deep, low meow

[clear python]

cute!

[fathom juniper]

okay - sven and buns

[echo hazel]

well I'm glad to see we all agreed on sven

[fathom juniper]

ooookay

atomsk just got companion cube'd

[clear python]

hell yeah, cat incinerator

[fathom juniper]

okay
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1470841510072156335/image.png?ex=698cc366&is=698b71e6&hm=31a7ad16091963f8342ff2e55758be546ece9d57a87d7bb5ce1ef1f2562e451a&

i like this game already

[fathom juniper]

oh my god cats have physics here

okay so - between runs you're in this base building / cat managing stage, right?

and you can put stuff in your house and grab cats and arrange then however you want - kinda like in RCT or whatever
but when you grab one... it's got physics

so don't move your mouse cursor too fast

[fathom juniper]

oh yeah this is totally edmund's game
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1470851807382208584/image.png?ex=698cccfd&is=698b7b7d&hm=4fc43c24b53a32d31d4f1fcf13ad07ffe8b7409015ffc5834fa493030a807209&

and i have three options here - destroy, examine or...
eat...

[clear python]

bin...

[fathom juniper]

and "eat" has the highest chance of working

oh this is going places

oh my god - even the map menu bops to the music

oh this is so good

WHAT JUST HAPPENED

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1470857245884682290/Mewgenics_-_2026-02-10_8-00-51_PM.mp4?ex=698cd20e&is=698b808e&hm=2a86078ed87c9f681a6f31087a6017b55ffebf38df77e8f06e305d2cf3ed581b&

so i used "lick" to heal my main DPS and he just turned into an ice cube

oh my god what is happening

i can already see the depth of this combat system just spiraling out of control

[fathom juniper]

wow this... actually has some pretty good music

[elfin matrix]

make a cat that looks like pepperoni....but he said that he is more of a burguer guy instead of pizza so make adjustments

[fathom juniper]

i can't really "make" a cat here

i can, however, make a mood and give it's parents some privacy and hope for the best

[elfin matrix]

Thats how we all were created

make a squad named after your favorite and hated members of the discord here

[fathom juniper]

can't name them either

game just picks random names from a big pool

[elfin matrix]

I am sure is a feature that u have to unlock or something....otherwise...that would take some points

[fathom juniper]

nah - most names are made by the community anyways

they had this thing where anyone could submit any name to be featured in the game
and they just ran it through some scripts to filter out profanities and such

and just dumped the rest into the game

[elfin matrix]

Skip. If I cant name my cats Bim 1, Bim 2, Bim 3, Blink 182 then is not a game worth playing.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/759573188073226240.gif?v=1

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/mewgenics-tink-mewgenics-tink-mewgenics-kitten-kitten-gif-165317872092193928

anyways - first run done

well... kinda
it's just the first zone for now

the red one suddenly turned into hulk hogan
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1470875481732681912/2026021.JPG?ex=698ce30a&is=698b918a&hm=a3fddb886916c3e84fe7219ce93b8ea2cb28505b1236e9cea33fd76941282a58&

that's conan btw
dunno why the game picked him as a leader since he was the most useless of them all

[fathom juniper]

lmao

apparently markplier is voicing one of the cats

step aside, iron lung
this is the award-winning performance right there

[signal kayak]

Damn

[fathom juniper]

ricky berwick is in this too? and cliffy b? vsauce? michaels reeves? MIKE STOKLASA!?

what the

https://tenor.com/view/mike-stoklasa-alcoholic-redlettermedia-gif-27016319

[signal kayak]

WAT

VSauce too?

[fathom juniper]

yeah

vinny and mr. vsauce here

https://tenor.com/view/vsauce-vsauce-no-beard-percnt-gif-17252306072414946799

can't wait for the logan patch

it's like - you click a cat to plan a turn and it just goes meeeeooooowwww in the deepest, lowest voice possible

and it all just comes out of the subwoofer

[clear python]

should be called a submeower then

[fathom juniper]

fair point

[elfin matrix]

you arent allowed to post here until you have 100% mewgenetics. Have fun.

[high hound]

video games

[past bay]

How bout some computer games that aint video games :)

https://iplayif.com/?story=https%3A%2F%2Fifarchive.org%2Fif-archive%2Fgames%2Fzcode%2Fgostak.z5

[ocean iris]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfm8ov24-mE

bro why did the squatting minigame have to have such a banger

hm yes let's do a DnB remix of the main battle theme for just a squatting mini game

[ocean iris]

yo i found a key for risk of rain 2 with survivors of the void

how's it?

i tried it on switch but I find it ass with a controller

I just cant play shooters on a controller

[echo hazel]

it's one of the better roguelikes

it's great on kbm

[ocean iris]

yep was thinking that

sounds like the type of game i'd sink a lot of hours into

[clear python]

https://tenor.com/view/risk-of-rain-risk-of-rain-2-tater-brigade-rain-flying-gif-8263622248996575525

[lost igloo]

https://youtu.be/Nn9trJXUrp0
2:08 is when it happens finally

[lost igloo]

I've got 187 hours on it. maybe like 5 of those were having the game open when i was away. It's good.
get a lizard army and break the game 🙂
https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/9447472400982821698/67B9EA92FF15304DB3D5ACABE51646DCB0D89F7F/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

[pure kernel]

what in the screen chaos is that XD

[lost igloo]

in risk of rain 2's expansion, you can get an artifact that replaces all turrets on the maps with eggs. you give the egg one of your items and it becomes a lizard. the lizards all have all the items you give the lizards (but also THAT lizard has THAT item so if it dies that item is removed). Beating a boss makes your lizards level up, up to 6?ish times.
So this is 2 hours into that, 17 stages deep, with about 30 lizards all being silly 🙂

[lost igloo]

TRUCKS IN SPACE!
https://youtu.be/IXWYo58yiz4

[ocean iris]

oh yeah that looks like my type of game

[ocean iris]

nevermind Im getting NMS now

i played it on gamepass

and loved it

i wanna get it on steam

[ocean iris]

IS THAT A GRAVITY GUN???

[lost igloo]

https://giphy.com/gifs/EXy7qcyQH87a6LDJzr

[fathom juniper]

Man
I wanna go hoooooooome

And play with my caaaaaaats

https://tenor.com/view/mewgenics-dance-cat-game-2d-gif-16601550782189179488

[thorny shoal]

bro mewgenics better win some OST awards

this thing is PEAK (not the video game)

[elfin matrix]

Videogame OST Peaked in 1987

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-sad-frown-gif-7424667

[thorny shoal]

🤨 nah man nah

[elfin matrix]

yes man yes

nothing will beat 8 bits tunes

[echo hazel]

i bought mewgenics and doom the dark ages today

if only my hades 2 addiction let me actually go through these games

I'm juggling crash nitro fueled and the end is nigh while also grinding hades 2 🥀 💔

[fathom juniper]

that leaves you with one limb left to play mewgenics with

[echo hazel]

but i have final fantasy xvi in the queue too 😂

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/mocking-gif-8797833356824765188

anyways - let's go back to my cats
see what's on the agenda today

[fathom juniper]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1471204542912659599/image.png?ex=698e1580&is=698cc400&hm=cc004838420a3dfb9f9534eeb249883f05e2b850536c4bae6f04531e4544652f&

why does it always have to be "eat"?

what's wrong with my cats?

[fathom juniper]

man - this game has no business having a soundtrack this good

[elfin matrix]

its a cat

[fathom juniper]

you better answer this question right, coconut jack
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1471216124283846677/image.png?ex=698e2049&is=698ccec9&hm=0b98c38fefee8156e0eb5d777a23beff82bf58a485ff4a15e19a54ca0d7fa901&

yes, that is this cat's name

which one should i pick?
this whole run relies on me getting this right

[elfin matrix]

.....

Mono

[fathom juniper]

boogers it is then

aaaand... i got 10 coins

rip run

[elfin matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/fallout-gif-21766626

uninstall and reinstall it again

[green scaffold]

OH Crap I forgot today demo for Replaced released on Steam

https://youtu.be/-yHZA10PAl0?si=eaeWkgi2X-wsRpkG

Console doesn't exist apparently

[elfin matrix]

meh, steam

[green scaffold]

Still whole whooping month to release, sigh. Will wait

[elfin matrix]

state of play soon, Wolverine game...maybe

this is your chance Logan

[echo hazel]

oh wait when is it

in like three hours?

or was it tomorrow

[elfin matrix]

no idea

just found out this morning

[echo hazel]

"live in 26 hours"

yeah it's tomorrow, got the day wrong

[elfin matrix]

Thanks Peppe

[fathom juniper]

wtf my cat just got vietnam flashbacks

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1471222893823135930/image.png?ex=698e2697&is=698cd517&hm=3d2b995928d77cdbf0132ebc82eaf7278d883e81177d7de34eae5863d2565af0&

[fathom juniper]

wooooooo!
sewers done, first try!

oh i'm feeling it

yesterday i was kinda into it - i just thought it was funny and interesting
but now in zone 2 when the gameplay got to spread it's wings? it rocked

the lyrics kicked in, i had a lot of stuff to strategise and improvise with

i barely made it
yeah i'm hooked - now i'm seeing this game's potential

aaaaaand now the cats are fighting...

wtf guys i thought you were getting along

oh my god there's so many cats
i take that back - stop humping and get back to fighting, i can't feed you all

-# help

this game is what peta thinks pokemon games are

[signal kayak]

Minus the roguelike and difficulty parts

[fathom juniper]

OH HELL YEAH
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1471234551811539151/image.png?ex=698e3173&is=698cdff3&hm=3aadf988ec7b4d62c1c969213f767c348e267ac4ec0ca9071666d8c4d0aca704&

oh come on, bot

https://tenor.com/view/mewgenics-gif-1086986179758742100

[elfin matrix]

teach me how to make gifts

I ll fill discord with megaman X, legends, Zero, Starforce and battle network gifs

This game is looking more and more like Disgaea X Ren and Stimpy

[fathom juniper]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1471238106161348700/image.png?ex=698e34c2&is=698ce342&hm=a3777882f1890a6610569af8586be1f70d91a04ff97195bb25382db5a3967099&

beautiful

[elfin matrix]

get in the hole...but with Intelligence

[fathom juniper]

i still effed it up

[elfin matrix]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/837143879815135234.webp?size=128&animated=true

So I am going to guess the stats without looking

STR, Dex, End, INT, Speed.....I don't know....Luck

charisma?

[fathom juniper]

yeah charisma

[elfin matrix]

and what the Cents 9 means?

[fathom juniper]

it's just money

[elfin matrix]

your poor as f

[fathom juniper]

hey it's the start of a new run

[elfin matrix]

so money doesn't carries over?

[fathom juniper]

also i've spent all my money on a Silence Of The Mice poster

[fathom juniper]

it kinda does and kinda doesn't

[green scaffold]

Honestly I'm...kiiiinda "eh" about it

Not really interested

[elfin matrix]

teach me how you make gifs and post them here

[fathom juniper]

i didn't make them

[elfin matrix]

oh...

[elfin matrix]

You have to be a fan of issac, rogue likes, cats and strategy games to appreciate this master piece

all at the same time... I am joking

[fathom juniper]

or just... have a really messed up sense of humor

[elfin matrix]

darn....I grew up with Nickelodeon

I really should give this game a shot

anyway time to continue my 40th playthrough of new vegas

[green scaffold]

I thought you talked about Wolverine game

[elfin matrix]

since I dont have peppe emotes here my sarcasm and joke comments don't land

Wolverine will be tomorrow.....if State of play doesn't dissapoint...again.

Sony: Look at all the games I showed last state of play

Most of those games are 3rd party

[echo hazel]

we will learn more about horizon hunters gathering concord 4 tomorrow

[fathom juniper]

what?
they're closing shop already?

[echo hazel]

guerilla has been working on live service slop for so long instead of just MAKING HORIZON 3

forbidden west was already a downgrade from zero dawn

[fathom juniper]

am i the only one who thinks that horizon is the weakest of sony's "mascot" series?

[echo hazel]

at this point I probably won't even buy the third one

[echo hazel]

yes

[fathom juniper]

horizon: zero interest

[echo hazel]

because they really screwed up with the second game and just keep milking the franchise now instead of finishing the story

[fathom juniper]

i dunno - i played a little bit of the first one and it feels like one of the most "designed by comittee" games ever

[echo hazel]

most sony sequels make excellent gameplay improvements while turning the story into a dumpster fire
forbidden west went above and beyond, making the gameplay worse than the first game too

[fathom juniper]

zero charisma, zero challenge
just piles and piles of played out ideas and tired mechanics

[echo hazel]

first game was just open world slop, but it was good slop

i had fun with it

[fathom juniper]

i wish i could say the same

[echo hazel]

so guerilla and naughty dog are preparing the next big failures, I'm not very positive about wolverine rn due to spider man 2, but hopefully sucker punch is cooking with the ghost of yotei online mode 🙏

[fathom juniper]

so guerilla and naughty dog are preparing the next big failures

this feels... so weird to read

but i kinda agree

especially anughty dog

NAUGHTY DOG
the studio that made console-defining banger after banger on every sonly console

crash, jack, uncharted, tlou
every sony generation had one poster game from them

but ever since they made the depression simulator known as tlou2 it's been just... radio silence
a single trailer for that space thingy they have going on

and it feels like there's absolutely no hype behind that

tlou2 itself was so divisive it's still a bit of a lolcow of a game to this day
and then there's the scrapped multiplayer

and some other stuff

like - come on, guys

[thorny shoal]

whats naughty dog cookin

[fathom juniper]

nothing
it's just chasing it's own tail

[thorny shoal]

[echo hazel]

heretic the last something something

[fathom juniper]

see?

[echo hazel]

INTERGALACTIC the last heretic

[fathom juniper]

WE CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER IT'S NAME

that's my point

[echo hazel]

something like that idk

the protagonist just looks, repulsive

like, furiosa from mad max was a bald woman but she looked good

idk how they cooked this one??

[thorny shoal]

huh

looks normal to me

[echo hazel]

i hated every second of her presence in the trailer

[fathom juniper]

i'm not bugged about that
i'm more about that vapid, empty eighties nostalgia oozing from that trailer

[echo hazel]

which was... 99% of it...

[fathom juniper]

like - can we get over this already?
synths and some neons here and there don't make eighties

[echo hazel]

also she has a physical media player
in a trailer made right after sony announced ps5 pro will not have a disk slot

[fathom juniper]

it felt so, so souless

[fathom juniper]

ah, right
so i guess they watched stranger things AND guardians of the galaxy

wowzers

what about the gameplay though?
or do we still avoid using the word "fun"?

[thorny shoal]

it does look a bit uninteresting, but I also was never really a fan of sci-fi settings in video games

[echo hazel]

I'm betting on soulslike slop

[fathom juniper]

yeah...
you may be right

man
i miss amy hennig

what happened to fun, pulpy action with charismatic characters?

[thorny shoal]

i still like naughty dog, I think I like everything they made, i didnt play TLOU2 though so that opinion may change

[fathom juniper]

good

don't...
don't do it

[echo hazel]

i think you should play it if you manage to grab it with a big discount

the story is abysmal dumpster fire crap but the gameplay is REALLY good

[thorny shoal]

i wanna play it because i don't trust the discourse surrounding it, the worst kind of hateful people despise that game (im not talking about you two)

[fathom juniper]

or - if you hate yourself that much - do what i did
and jump straight into the highest difficulty the game gives you

and enjoy all the weird little quirks of their animation system that will get you one-hit killed

[echo hazel]

DO NOT start the game on grounded difficulty

[fathom juniper]

DO IT

https://tenor.com/view/dew-it-galactic-republic-palpatine-gif-21847982

[thorny shoal]

nah grounded difficulty on tlou1 was cancer

im fine on hard or normal

i saw some clips though the gameplay looks sick

[fathom juniper]

story and... everything else aside

the thing that pisses me off about tlou2 the most is the way it insists on pretty animations taking priority over gameplay

there's this one section where you have to sneak a bunch of guys and then get in the car and trigger a setpiece chase

you remember the one, right?
it's in this suburban neighbourhood

[echo hazel]

yeah, when ||jesse|| finds you?

the ||asian guy||

[fathom juniper]

the guy that ||gets domed like 30 minutes later|| and the story just shrugs it off like nothing happened?

yeah that bit

[echo hazel]

yeah...

[fathom juniper]

so i was playing on this super duper hard difficulty and i was crawling around and that's when i noticed that ellie will MOVE on her own just to get in a position where her animations could look better and not clip - even if doing so will get you killed

[echo hazel]

how did that get you killed 😂

[fathom juniper]

it's like - you want to stay still in grass and just move your camera two degrees to the side to line up your shot
and she will just scoot to the side because oh no - we can't let player's choice have the priority, we have to focus on making our game look pretty

also - another thing
resources don't matter

AT ALL

[echo hazel]

oh the cover interactions, yeah

[echo hazel]

if you ever run low it just gives you more lol

[fathom juniper]

and if you have enough then a box of ammo will give you 1 bullet

[echo hazel]

i only ever had resource problems in like 2 or 3 spots in grounded mode

[fathom juniper]

and yeah - other games did this sort of dynamic scaling too - RE4 for example
but here it's so, so aggressive it's like

it doesn't matter if you do one section well or barely scrape by - the next one will get you back up to square one

and then there's the last boss - which i won't spoil here

the last boss which killed me... BY T-POSING ME TO DEATH

i am not making this up

all this crunch, all this money and time spent on it
all the restraints put on the player, all this song and dance about this story being such a serious tearjerker
all of it to build up to a "bossfight" that kills you with this

https://tenor.com/view/caleb-city-meme-t-pose-gif-25296551

not to mention the story itself which is just...
painful to experience

and not in a meaningful way

[thorny shoal]

now I gotta play it

[fathom juniper]

the thing is - there are brief flashes of "pretty good" in there

that one chapter where you're playing abby and hanging out with lev and making way down a skyscraper?

and then you end up in a hospital and have this cool bossfight with the rat king?
that's good! great, even

that's the only bit where i could feel some of that old naughty dog spirit shining through

[fathom juniper]

try it, just don't marathon this thing

it's twice as long as tlou1 and half as interesting

[echo hazel]

the marathon issue is more because of the 10 minute cutscenes of all the characters just being depressed and traumatized

[fathom juniper]

if "this meeting could've been an e-mail" was a game, it would be this

it's been 6 years and i still feel the bile building up in me when i talk about this game

[echo hazel]

i don't feel the bile building up in me because on my second playthrough i skipped every cutscene

which actually gave me some nice memories with the game

[fathom juniper]

that must've been a fun two hours

[echo hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/fentcord-true-coyote-gif-2599436844608872721

[fathom juniper]

for a single frame this gif does this:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1471252480997196044/image.png?ex=698e4226&is=698cf0a6&hm=0ad8dd650b14219b2183a864152e9e7633e01ff861dfe89a8dc88b5754637c15&

[fathom juniper]

anyways
jams
https://youtu.be/zmTtHcm7z3Y?si=EAnQVHnrt1CF1cJT

[echo hazel]

sorry bim but i will not be listening to this

i want to experience the whole game by myself in like 2 months

[fathom juniper]

well one song won't hurt

it's really good one too

[echo hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/i-think-the-f-not-gif-11568471637988597807

fine

huh

is the whole ost like this

[fathom juniper]

kinda, yeah

[echo hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/john-cena-dance-music-happy-listening-gif-17019750582504384160

[fathom juniper]

it's a bit jazz-y, a bit swing-y

but it has quite a lot of variety

and when you're in your hub between runs it does this gta radio thing where a DJ chimes in between songs and says something silly

[echo hazel]

love me both of those genres

[elfin matrix]

funny

to me Naughty Dog die after crash trilogy

as for Uncharted, no issues. Good series but not my thing.

Now Last of us....ufffff where do I even begin, I am the biggest hater of that IP

anyway Sony has killed every single one of their IPs

in particular God of war is probably the saddest one

because is the only Master one they had besides Bloodborne

[dense kindle]

you forgot jak and daxter somehow

[elfin matrix]

nah

While I did play Jak and daxter, Jak 2 and Jak 3

my memorie is all fussy

I still believe they peaked with Crash 3 Warped

https://tenor.com/view/crash-bandicoot-3-crash-bandicoot-warped-3d-platformer-gladiator-tiny-gif-2374876678248531394

[elfin matrix]

then you can take my word as the biggest last of us hater of all time

I can tell you, without a doubt

Kingdom hearts...IS LIGHT!!

woops, wrong speech. I meant to say...yeah Last of us part 2 is really good XD I 100%

enjoyed the heck out of it, a Bit SPITE had a bit to do with it but the gameplay improvements are just way too good, which makes me wonder...why the heck this game didnt had an Online Multiplayer mode like the OG last of us on ps3, btw thats the definitive vers of last of us 1 had a friend that only bought it for the pvp, had at least 1000 hours

Meh.....I beat it once and hated it

yes yes last of us story and narrative is good, no complaints there, but everything else was mediocre

So trust me Vortex, if you want to play Part 2, by all means, go ahead at the very least you will find a game with good mechanics and gameplay

as for the story......

https://tenor.com/view/shrek-reaction-really-gif-27425089

lets not.

the best way to play last of us 2 is playing like is doom

[thorny shoal]

got it, gameplay good story bad

in other news, bunch of Highguard devs apparently got laid off

sheesh that was fast 😓

[elfin matrix]

Other jobs have laid off too

[green scaffold]

https://xcancel.com/i/status/2021721669392531796 Well that was fast

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/diablo-2-is-coming-back-with-its-first-expansion-in-25-years-featuring-a-new-class-and-finally-decent-inventory-management/

[ivory horizon]

It was already clear that people are better off with Overwatch, even if it's not in the best state right now

The layoffs cant be great though. Lot of work gone to waste

[signal kayak]

Great
Now drop the dumb DRM for offline play and I'll think of purchasing the game

[ocean iris]

question

final fantasy 7 or remake had this cool lower piano keys riff

but for the life of me I cant find the song

[hearty yarrow]

What

I am hesitant to be excited

Diablo 2 works as well as it does almost as a sort of miracle adding a new class might break stuff more than be fun

Lol

[elfin matrix]

WHAT?????

[elfin matrix]

FF 7 og has piano, Rebirth has an insane controller destroyer piano mini game.

On Our Way
Tifa's Theme:
Barret's Theme:
Cinco de Chocobo:
Two Legs? Nothin' To It:
Aerith's Theme:
Let the Battles Begin!:
??????: Bonus song for 100% FF 7 rebirth

[ocean iris]

there was also a piano fight track in the remake too

[elfin matrix]

let me chec

[ocean iris]

when a battle was about to start or something

[elfin matrix]

tell me the chapter pls.

[ocean iris]

i cant remember

anyway just beat the ghoul in chapter 11

[elfin matrix]

So you have Cloud Aerith and Tifa?

[ocean iris]

yep

actually no

i genuinely cant remember

when that theme played

maybe it's in the og soundtrack, idk

forget about it

[ocean iris]

but yes rn im here, music finding aside

ever since wall market began, these chapters felt like a damn filler

[elfin matrix]

....70% of the game is filler

remake covers the first 3 hours of the OG FF 7.

6 hours the first time playing and not knowing anything.

[hearty yarrow]

This d2 class

I wanna play d2 now

[ocean iris]

i was like

wow wall market surely feels like a sewer level

guess what chapter was next

SEWERS

[elfin matrix]

The sewer was just 2 screens

same with the train graveyard

[hearty yarrow]

I already played too many hours of diablo 2 ever since 2000

A new class might pull me back in

But im afraid it's gonna be too polished for this game that's somehow held together by duct tape and strings

[ocean iris]

real arpg hardasses play TORCHLIGHT 2

[hearty yarrow]

Torchlight is a far more recent title lol

Also real arpg hardasses play path of exile

[ocean iris]

https://tenor.com/view/ratatouille-barf-remy-rat-gif-14460089

[elfin matrix]

meh, no thanks...took me ages to solo Uber Tristan

[ocean iris]

also today i learned there's a 4th torchlight game that's free to play and it looks like ass and nothing like torchlight

[elfin matrix]

plus Modern Blizzard can't be trusted

[hearty yarrow]

Ye but diablo 2 is kinda not modern blizzard

Even the remaster barely is

[ocean iris]

apparently nexon has a team led by a korean starcraft modder to make a starcraft shooter

boy im curious about that

on one hand

nexon
blizzard

[elfin matrix]

but like you said, This new "Expansion" might just break the game

[ocean iris]

on the other hand, new starcraft content with a community veteran in lead? HMM

[hearty yarrow]

Neither are by blizzard itself either, d2 itself is by blizzard north which is now defunct, and the ressurected is by vicarious visions

[elfin matrix]

They have to prove themselves first

[hearty yarrow]

Which is now blizzard albany I suppose

[elfin matrix]

less typing, more FF 7 remake

[hearty yarrow]

Vicarious is pretty well established

[ocean iris]

someone stop me from getting another month of wow

[elfin matrix]

no

[ocean iris]

i have a level 88 worgen warrior tank on mists of pandaria, and it CRAVES BEING LEVEL 90

i wanna use my flying mounts in pandaria already ARGHHHH

[hearty yarrow]

Tony hawk 1+2 remake, crash bandicoot nsane trilogy, lots of skylanders and guitar hero work, has been a studio since the 90s

Like vicarious itself has little to prove

I wont buy the expansion blindly tho

Im fine with what ressurected is atm

[ocean iris]

https://i.redd.it/pmd07e3ar7dg1.png

[hearty yarrow]

Been playing it a bit with friends who never played diablo

Been fun

Oh

Ye

I have to like build kinda crap (darned filter) to not take over their game and let them have the spotlight but that's also been a fun time theorycrafting

[elfin matrix]

I was a fool for trying to 100% Diablo2 resurrected, I was way over my head....that's the correct expression, right?

reach every class to Max level....

this alone makes it impossible

reach max level on a hardcore character.....no.

[hearty yarrow]

I've

Never done Ubers

And I've played it since 2000/2001

Lol

Max level is just tired grinding

Cause it's exponential like any game of its kind

Altho d2 is old game exponential where the xp number you need doesn't grow too large but you just get less and less

Which saves integer space lol

[elfin matrix]

is almost impossible, I had to cheat

[hearty yarrow]

My way of playing has always been to just

Beat Hell

And make a new char

[elfin matrix]

as in Save scumming to get the runes.

[hearty yarrow]

All solo self found chars

[elfin matrix]

same

I got scammed trading online

[hearty yarrow]

And not optimized cookie cutting builds

Just do whatever I feel is fun

[elfin matrix]

ok wait a minute

[hearty yarrow]

And work with whatever choices I made

[elfin matrix]

you beat hell with cookie cutter builds? ok thats impressive I can't...but what class?

[hearty yarrow]

I beat Hell with every class lol

[elfin matrix]

my favorite class is the Barbarian