video-games

[floral warren]

I still want to play RE2R

[fathom juniper]

i had one of those
https://i.redd.it/3fwsn9jhcy341.jpg

i just think it looks way better

[mighty isle]

you ever think about resident evil gaiden

[fathom juniper]

i know of it
why?

[mighty isle]

i think it's neat

[fathom juniper]

you know

i'm one of the... really few that actually like re6 more than re5

the sheer existance of RE5 makes me produce... industrial amounts of salt

[mighty isle]

||https://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/l/372620-resident-evil-gaiden-game-boy-color-manual.jpg||

[fathom juniper]

while imho re6 is criminally underrated

[mighty isle]

also i like the Implications of the ending
"this game ain't canon we can do whatever we want"

[fathom juniper]

yup
also - wasn't this the first RE where you could play as MAH BOI Barry?

[mighty isle]

probably?

he's very good

fun fact! red from mega man x7 has the same voice actor as og 1996 barry

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/5/5e/Mmx7red.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20181218145310 this dude. hes voiced by funny jill sandwich man

[fathom juniper]

oh so let me just assume that voice acting in MM x7 isn't very good

[mighty isle]

it's not but his voice is just fine

listen, barry gjerde did his best with the script he was given for re1

yeah his name also happens to actually be barry

[fathom juniper]

i mean - don't get me wrong
i love re1 and i don't mean to crap all over it

but let's be honest - the english localisation was a bit garbaggio

BUT

[mighty isle]

one of the bosses in x7 is infamous for how terrible his voice is

[fathom juniper]

it worked in favor of the whole game imho

[mighty isle]

yeah it adds to the fun b-movie vibes

the guy who voices said boss also voices mega man x in the same game, and went on to voice spring man in arms

[eager hamlet]

So as it turns out

Playing Talos Principle after 2020 hits different

[fathom juniper]

oh yeah i still have to play that

i really like croteam's stuff ||besides serious sam 2 || and talos seems like it would be a nice little headscratcher

[wraith cradle]

Is just me or is there a callback in the RE8 trailer to the RE2 one?

A callback to the most 'oh, no' moment of the trailer

MR. X and the giantess entering a door the same way

To the horror of protagonist and player

[fathom juniper]

i doubt it's a callback, per se

RE series has had "giant spooky monsters that chase you" for over 20 years now
it's more of a staple of the series than a callback

THAT SAID

[wraith cradle]

They enter the door the same way, tho

[fathom juniper]

that Big McHugelarge spooky vampire lady is going to make some headlines

[fathom juniper]

do they?

i mean

[wraith cradle]

It's funny I didn't realize she's like 2.50 until this trailer

[fathom juniper]

i mean - a really tall person/monster/zombie/whatever doesn't really have many options in terms of entering a door

you either bow down a bit
or walk in with the entire doorway and half of the wall on you

bah - who cares

ATTACHE CASE IS BACK, FOLKS

muh baby 💼

[floral warren]

|| sheeeesh, you have doom emotes too, are you in the DOOM server too?||

[fathom juniper]

also - who's that Dutch Van Der Linde looking dude at the end of the trailer?

BOI am i

i'm teaching folks how to map
in the worst way possible but HEY - errors are just suggestions, nothing more

[wraith cradle]

She also has according to the Demo ||Wolverine-like claws||

[floral warren]

you sure have emotes for everything

[fathom juniper]

and she also has a figure that puts lady aphrodite to shame

[fathom juniper]

well hey - wanna see a cool trick?

[floral warren]

you look like the Charon but instead of places, you have servers

[fathom juniper]

it's a stackodemon

[floral warren]

that's creative, I give you that

|| can't wait for them to eat my grenades||

[fathom juniper]

a while back i actually started prototyping a stackodemon bossfight - a stack of 5 cacodemons that follow you and share the same healthbar

but i had to scrap it because of time constraints

[floral warren]

may I have a screenshot of how that looks in game?

[fathom juniper]

i don't have any - i scrapped it

[floral warren]

frick (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

it's alright ┬─┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)

[fathom juniper]

you put that table back up

yeah i thought so

[floral warren]

I did i did

jeez

[wraith cradle]

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/limbo-and-inside-studios-new-game-is-a-3rd-person-open-world-sci-fi-adventure/

oh, boy

Anyone here can give me their opinion on Skul?

[quartz latch]

I hope they can scale up accordingly, these sketches for an arthouse open world adventure are wondrous and I really really really hope they can pull this off

(so what are the odds of the story ranging from "inscrutably sad" to "soul-crushingly depressing"? 😂 )

[wraith cradle]

Sadly, weirdly incomprenhensible lays in the middle

[quartz latch]

Anything less than soul-crushingly depressing works for me! And I'll take twelve games going for the weird/incomprehensible angle of this exact kind of sci-fi aesthetic, thank you

[junior crown]

Skul is ok.

[wraith cradle]

Some of the most saddest endings are the ones where the protagonist ends badly but actually content with their fate

[junior crown]

It's nice game, but def lacks levels so you can get a bit repetitive with it easier

but core gameplay is pretty interesting enough to keep on playing

[wraith cradle]

Two interesting roguelites I played 2020 was Sundered and Foregone

It may strike your fancy mates

[junior crown]

I have been on rogulites streak this year I say been trying a lot of them. Though I do feel like I may have burned out the genre for myself a bit so trying to mix it up.

[wraith cradle]

There is this game that came out this week that is incredibly amusing

Ender lilies

Where you treat the bosses like Pokemons

Your protagonist is a small girl so she have to fight summoning warriors at her side like if she was a Stand User

The game is a 2d Souls-like btw

I'm following it and probably buy it on sale

[floral warren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udnu2LBPdRc

a cool demo

[quartz latch]

Playdead rising to the challenge with the grace of a nuclear explosion: what if you ||think it's that, and then go back to do the additional collectibles and find out that it's not even that, he's not content with anything about it||

(not saying there's a univocal reading of Inside but I can't find it in myself to find a positive spin in Inside's ||secret ending of sorts||)

[wraith cradle]

I was thinking on games Like Planescape

Where the protagonist ||Ends in the hell he sacrificed so much to avoid, but he is at finally at peace with himself, and accepts that he brought his own fate on himself||

[dim crypt]

very cool!!

[fathom juniper]

you know what?

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

im doing it!

brb gonna make the thing with the games for the thing iunno

[floral warren]

🔫 not gonna ask twice..

[fathom juniper]

oh wow it's actually really hard to come up with games right there on the spot

[floral warren]

yeah, all it took was my Epic games acct, Steam acct, and playstation acct to know that "huh, I've played these games?, yeah I did"

[polar dragon]

just open your steam library

[floral warren]

I saw your list, that was a lot of games, yet creative, and yet interesting

creative as in "how did you manage to fit these boxes nicely?"

[eager hamlet]

Apparently skul is decent but not like amazing?

[floral warren]

is there a game that is comparable to skul? is it like Celeste?

[junior crown]

Not many really I think at least top of my head

[polar dragon]

I just use canva to make things

[junior crown]

it's a platformer with base loop being about you finding more powers up to use

and use better powers up and such

[floral warren]

so it's a metroidvania?

[junior crown]

Nope, it's a roguelite

but at same sort of? It has preset levels for each area that are randomly placed

[floral warren]

Offtopic: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-01-22-vicarious-visions-merged-into-blizzard

"just shove them into blizzard and make them develop Diablo and WoW"
-probably one activision executive

[fathom juniper]

• sigh *

[twin yarrow]

Crash Bandicoot for HotS when

[floral warren]

Crash hat for WoW

nono , crash pet

[twin yarrow]

you know, sometimes you're reading news, and you can't understand, if it's a serious post, or another joke news.. or just crazy fakes..

too much of it happen recently

guy chosen by the Outsider among the Capitol attackers.. Death Note forbidden in Russia for bad influence on kids.. Crash Bandicoot publishers merged into Activision-Blizzard..

[tame veldt]

does this mean overwatch 2 moves faster.

[twin yarrow]

speaking of that.. do we really need it

[floral warren]

not really, but they seem to determined to make it

and not even doing a usual video about a single thing of it , complete opposite of what cdpr have done with their game

so when they fail doing what people did, they say "we didn't hype you, not our problem"

[twin yarrow]

Starcraft: Ghost has left the conversation

[floral warren]

2019 was the worst time to be a blizzard fan

every department was having trouble

[stable kindle]

as a fan of blizzard since warcraft: orcs and humans, i simply do not care about blizzard any more

the love and care they once had is no longer there

[twin yarrow]

^

[floral warren]

overwatch 2 is the last thing that will make me either care or not care for the franchise

[stable kindle]

dunno what people expect to change with it, its probably going to be more of the same

[floral warren]

the way that they've hyped up the game and made it was really cool, but my issue is with how they'll handle it

[floral warren]

the illusion of change is what making people like me waiting for things to change (PvE wise)

[floral warren]

yo @tame veldt, you checkin' twitter trends?

just as you said

or not

[tame veldt]

sorry what?

[floral warren]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/604967283877609482/802297889140244572/unknown.png
very beautiful

[tame veldt]

oh didn't see those, idon't have twitter account i just use twitter does that make sense

[floral warren]

cool

lurker

[tame veldt]

twitter is the only relevant social media platform so i use it but don't want to engage with that cesspit

[floral warren]

^

[tame veldt]

i like PvE stuff, i always come back to tf2 just for mann vs. machine. and there will be an updated multiplayer to make overwatch 1 irrelevant. same thing they did with starcraft, and WoW. they will stop adding heroes to overwatch 1. they are starting to lose money on the original so they have to rebrand so they can start making money again.

just realized honk was nxc

[floral warren]

hi

[tame veldt]

hello

how are you

[floral warren]

yeah im fine

|| dying inside rn||

[tame veldt]

||same tbh||

[floral warren]

I think what they'll do is that they will update the game to a 2.0 version so that it will coincide with the 2 moniker

or what ever they've said
"All Maps and heroes and new content will be pushed to overwatch as well"

"It will be a shared multiplayer environment where no one gets left behind,”
-Jeff

[wraith cradle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK6HlWbQnz8

How they keep doing it?

[tame veldt]

oh yeah forgot about that. so how will they handle new heroes like when Sojourn get's added

[fathom juniper]

ok got it

[floral warren]

now I understand
Overwatch is the same but if you buy the "Overwatch 2" version you get the PvE

[fathom juniper]

i kinda got bored with the thing halfway through

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/802299862787686410/its_all_so_tiresome.png

there might be some hot takes here i unno
nor do i care

[tame veldt]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm that makes too much sense

[floral warren]

you are passively peer pressuring me into playing soma

and also || that overwatch image is hilarious||

[fathom juniper]

[tame veldt]

it's too low rez for me to tell

[floral warren]

I agree with you that MGS V is the bad sequel

it's a good game , but not MGS levels of good

the dark souls 2 problem all over again

[fathom juniper]

i dunno - all i remember doing was wandering around the desert for hours looking for any traces of a plot

didn't find any
but i did find some diamonds!

[floral warren]

they're worth 20000000gmp dw

Konami: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/604967283877609482/802301096390295552/unknown.png

[fathom juniper]

in terms of ending
we don't have an ending

[tame veldt]

want to save image, but for storage-senpai's sake

[floral warren]

ending? wdym

Kojima literally made a whole game to close the gap from MGS PW to Metal Gear 1

[fathom juniper]

it's like...
"huh another mission, right boss?"
there's this half-assed excuse of a plot twist and then it just... fizzles out

a gap which didn't need closing?

[floral warren]

talk about a madlad

[tame veldt]

i reject my statement, i want to be clear i don't play konami games

[floral warren]

Good

very good

[fathom juniper]

i mean - heck - i'm one of those people who think that even PW was completely unnecessary

[tame veldt]

i don't like their business practices and i briefly played mgs survive but that was too much of a trainwreck to trust

[floral warren]

just to make you sad over the whole The Boss stuff

[fathom juniper]

but at least it was more fun to play

[floral warren]

this , we don't talk about it

if MGS V was dark souls 2, MGSurvive is NiOh

[tame veldt]

yessir

[fathom juniper]

oh no it was not sad - not at all
i mean - it tried, but it went waaaaaayyy too far with the goofy stuff for me to take it even remotely seriously

[floral warren]

not that it's bad

but using name and doing something else with it is bad

this is impossible but
|| I want Sony to yank that trademark from Konami and make Bluepoint boys to make yearly MGS remakes||

[fathom juniper]

it's already happening mate

[floral warren]

really?

[fathom juniper]

yeah - MGS1 remake by bluepoint is in the works

[floral warren]

saw it a while back then said "meh , rumors rumors"

[fathom juniper]

can't wait to see an overly simplistic, souless UI in my MGS1

[floral warren]

mmmmmm

[fathom juniper]

i mean
i don't mind bluepoint - far from it

[floral warren]

[fathom juniper]

i think they're generally doing a great job

but MAN - that demon's souls UI

what... happened there?

i hate that trend in general - a trend of games with a banging 10/10 art direction

[floral warren]

also, wasn't MGS 1 already simple in terms of UI

[fathom juniper]

with a souless, minimalistic, straight white lines and blurry background ui slapped on top of it

[floral warren]

If they bring back the corners UI...

[fathom juniper]

yeah - but it was fun
it had this chonky, pixelated look to everything, it was colorful, had fun sounds going bleep and bloop

and konami generally stuck to that style for most of MGS games

and i wouldn't want it to go away - that bleep is so iconic for the series

it's just as iconic for MGS as the ssg sound is for doom

[floral warren]

if i'm not wrong , you can still hear it in MGS V

but enhanced

[fathom juniper]

yup

but yeah - way too many games follow that trend nowadays
MKX (and 11), dad of war, both mordor games, basically most of AC games, tomb raider reboots || || and on and on

they have UIs that are closer in style to racing games

just give it some style, you know?
even bloodborne - for how simply laid out everything and clearly readable everything is - at least has a dark, leather texture behind most of it's windows

heck - all the souls games have some cool looking UIs and HUDs and stuff
and then the demon's souls remake comes out and it's like

[floral warren]

"Im too clean"

[fathom juniper]

heh
squares tho

[floral warren]

|| that is waaaaaay simple||

too too too simple

"frick go back"

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/lost-go-back-jack-we-have-to-go-back-gif-5469258

here's a great example - a game we were talking about just today

resident evil

just... what the heck happened there?

up to resi 6 - including all the spinoffs and such - every resi game had an interesting UI that fit the game's style (as wildly different as they were at times)

even RE6 - a game considered to be one of the worst ones in the series - had full on 3d HUDs - and 4 of them too, for different characters
leon had a slick HUD that looked like an iphone, ada had a blue sci-fi cube, jake had a... something that looked like an old nokia 3310 , and chris had a military-green looking... thing

it was cool
and then RE7 came around and it was like
heh
white squares and blurry backgrounds

[twin yarrow]

i blame microsoft for that, tbh

[fathom juniper]

i'm producing... industrial amounts of salt over here yall

[twin yarrow]

since win 8 boring minimalistic interfaces became trending

[floral warren]

^

did anybody notice that companies are making a V2 version of their "simple design"

[fathom juniper]

more like v3

[floral warren]

Google, Apple, and Microsoft

[twin yarrow]

are they thinking that their consumers are too dumb to understand what means what

so they have to go with icons without letters.. so simple even a monkey can understand

[fathom juniper]

not really
there's a lot that goes in behind this
it's just a style i grew to accept

it's gonna change again in - i'd say - around 5 years

[floral warren]

|| at least windows 10 has these hover animations that I enjoy when I'm bored||

[fathom juniper]

but in games tho?
an UI is still a part of the game - so then make it reflect it's artstyle

[floral warren]

reminder that stuff like this exist

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e9/6b/d0/e96bd09ac660f05af8180476357fca6d.jpg

[twin yarrow]

and it goes everywhere.. blue or white inclined lines, progress bars everywhere, lots of transparent plates, blurred backgrounds

[floral warren]

this is making my claustrophobia kick in
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/604967283877609482/802306814090674207/unknown.png

[twin yarrow]

even in gadget designs.. much white, many sleek

even in room designs.. people literally can slap a glass table in the middle of hospital-white room

and call it cozy

[fathom juniper]

i mean - this aint all that bad
i've seen worse

[floral warren]

I mean, what's wrong with UIs like Hades , no clutter and gives quick access to what you need

[fathom juniper]

and it's got some style too

[floral warren]

or something like overwatch where everyone can know "huh, this ability is making me faster"

or " this ability will make the enemy zenyatta suffer"

y'know what I mean

[wraith cradle]

Nioh is cool, tho

Quite corny too.

||We have to stop the Spanish Ninja.||

[floral warren]

the comparsion isn't to show how bad NiOh looks vs dark souls
it's like "this is a different game but has the same gameplay idea"

that's why MGSurvive is cool as a survival game , but it's not a metal gear game

again, Dark souls 2 problem

[twin yarrow]

even MGR is more metalgearish, than Survive

[floral warren]

wash away the anger

[fathom juniper]

• time to leave them all BEHIIIIIIIND *

[twin yarrow]

here i stand beneath.. the warm and soothing rain

[fathom juniper]

such a dumb game
i love it

[twin yarrow]

strange that it gets as easily forgotten, as remembered

music had so much impact, memes get around from time to time

[wraith cradle]

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/867367817412332125/6C8BC514747AE62556FEF6229D462BCD9A66E0BF/

Fallout2077

[twin yarrow]

but ask someone "what's your slasher pick", almost noone will remember it

[fathom juniper]

i will

it's the only one i S-ranked on the highest difficulty

[wraith cradle]

the game makes 8 years next month

How time flies

[fathom juniper]

on a broken controller that wouldn't let me do that 4 points zandatsu on those rocks armstrong throws at you at the end

thanks, i feel old now

[floral warren]

woah

[wraith cradle]

You know a game is quite good if it doesn't feel dated after all this time

Not in graphics ofc but in feel

[fathom juniper]

i know, right?
it's sooooo smooth

[floral warren]

I like replaying and playing old games

I replayed Watch_dogs, and wow
60fps does make a difference

I played it on PS4 when it was released, and replayed it couple weeks ago on my pc

I keep saying "my eyes aren't used to this"

[wraith cradle]

You know what absurd about MGSR I remember?

Back around the time that game came out a (according to reviews) quite bad ps3 animesque game came out

So it was hilarious that in the physical game shops both game were usually next to each other

But MGSR was usually cheaper as it was slighty older

I think I'm the only person in Earth that remembers that game now

I have to find it gimme a sec

[floral warren]

I've never had a ps3, my friends did
they'll always be amazed when they know I didn't experience the "golden age" of Call of duty MW, BO,MW 2, BO2, MW3

[fathom juniper]

was it made by grasshopper and suda 51?

if so, then it's KID
"killer is dead"

[wraith cradle]

No, lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_Eternity

https://youtu.be/ssJ7Lxmb_6E?t=1278

LOOK AT THIS! It's as bad as I remembered

The walking animation in the overworld is hilarious

[floral warren]

🔫 kill it

and is dubbed english
you sure have found a way to make me irritated

[wraith cradle]

Seriously this game costed 50 euros and you had Rising costing 20 next to it

[floral warren]

the running animation

[twin yarrow]

once again, as i've always said.. don't even try to hybridize 2d with 3d

[wraith cradle]

And the 2d cutscenes

God

[twin yarrow]

the created abominations are atrocious

[floral warren]

I closed the video after the fight

not willing to watch it longer

[twin yarrow]

never ever

[wraith cradle]

It's funny tho

8 years later and I remembered it because the atrociousness

[floral warren]

I want to play a hack and slash game
my friends are either playing DMC or Bayonetta

I'm thinking DMC 5, but MGR looks interesting

[wraith cradle]

That reminds me to compensate let me reccomendate a good little known Indie game I've never reccoemneded for a change

Alt-Frequencies

[floral warren]

wow, you sure know a thing or two about hidden indie games

I barely know games outside of the epic games free game

[wraith cradle]

Yeah, it's my passion lmao

[floral warren]

oooh

may I get some of that enlightment about your passion about games?

in other words, enlighten me!

[wraith cradle]

Dunno

I like them

I also like to keep a list of games that ended giving me strong emotions lmao

So I can reccomend them later

[floral warren]

mind giving it to me? ||cp77 made a void that is bigger than Transistor||

[wraith cradle]

It would bloat the server lmao

It's handwritten two full pages

[floral warren]

holy...

[wraith cradle]

Just tell me the genre you want and emotion you want to end feeling

[floral warren]

idk but you sounded like when I heard it in my head

[wraith cradle]

My goods are legit, tho

[floral warren]

hmm, let's see
something that anyone can pick and not have difficulty with
something that isn't hard or needs mastering like Celeste or Hollow knight
and something that at least make me think about games like Bioshock infintie , . and "schizophrenic person is having a convo with keanu reeves" game

More GRIS-y but not GRIS-y so it's different than GRIS-y but still can feel GRIS-y

you know what I mean , right?

[wraith cradle]

One sec

something that anyone can pick and not have difficulty with

Into the breach, Florence, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Firewatch

Something that isn't hard or needs mastering like Celeste or Hollow knight

DUST An elysian trail

something that at least make me think about games like Bioshock infintie

Singularity

"schizophrenic person is having a convo with keanu reeves" game
Shadow of War/Mordor

More GRIS-y but not GRIS-y so it's different than GRIS-y but still can feel GRIS-y
RiMe

Ups

[floral warren]

hmm
I've seen my friends play Shadow of war and mordor
but long hours rpgs is feeling meh to me these days

[twin yarrow]

i can swear, i've seen something like that, a person only protagonist can see.. somewhen during past several years

but can't even remotely remember what it is

[wraith cradle]

Edited

[twin yarrow]

also 3d 1st person

[wraith cradle]

Call of duty?

[twin yarrow]

don't think so..

i can barely tell them one of another, i've only played MW2

[floral warren]

Firewatch, noted

do you know certain games that are hand-drawn platformers?

[wraith cradle]

This one is for Volus. Spec Ops?

[twin yarrow]

seriously, i can't remember..

Dust is semi-hand-drawn, right? i mean, still digital, but..

Braid.. Braid is fully hand-drawn

[wraith cradle]

Pyre, Jotun and Mutazione

Oh and Sundered

[floral warren]

oh wait, jotun and sundered are made by the same people who made spiritfarer

Is Jotun Hades-y?

[mighty isle]

i'd say cuphead but that's the obvious answer

a cup-out, if you will

i'm pretty sure the wonder boy: the dragon's trap remake is hand-drawn? be warned though, the remake doesn't really iron out the Old Game Jank

[wraith cradle]

Yes, iirc

Quite hard let me tell you

Played it back in the day when I got it for free

[floral warren]

sheesh, Charlie
there are people who didn't finish the tutorial!

|| i'm not one of them||

[hardy onyx]

This reminds me that I bought Röki the other day on Switch, I should play that soon

[mighty isle]

apotheon prob doesnt count as hand drawn but its art style is certainly Something

[floral warren]

love me some 2d stuff

[wraith cradle]

Reminder to play Journey if you hadn't

[floral warren]

Release date 2020?
I swear I've seen it waaay before 2020

like maybe 2015 or something

[wraith cradle]

Because it used to be console exclusive

[floral warren]

oh, yes it was

[mighty isle]

OHHHH MY GOD RANKED TAIKO MAKES ME SO ANGRY BUT I PLAY IT ANYWAY TO UNLOCK THE SONGS\

[twin yarrow]

it used to be exclusive even for ps3.. and still looked great

[mighty isle]

you lose less rank if the other person's rank is higher than you but you still lose rank

so if you're rank, like, B, and you're up against someone who's rank S+ and they whoop your butt, too bad

and there's only like 4 people playing taiko at any given time so that Happens

[wraith cradle]

Oh right play Evan's remains too for an easy game with cute story

And Degrees of separation if you want a harder (Thinking based, not skill based) puzzle game

Two last puzzle reccomendations of the day are Krystopia: Nova's journey and Call of The Sea

[floral warren]

Call of The Sea is popping on xbox's app main menu

[mighty isle]

though i do pride myself on the fact that i never quit mid-match, even if i'm losing by a ton

it usually happens when i go into the extreme lobby out of necessity cuz there's no one in the other difficulties

[floral warren]

this looks visually awesome

[twin yarrow]

why do i have a feeling that the name contains spoilers..

[wraith cradle]

Lol finally I remembered a name of a game that was bugging me

Miasmata

It was a game that stayed in my mind somehow

[mighty isle]

UGH finally unlocked the song now i can stop losing to this same person over and over

[wraith cradle]

I suppose because it was one of the first survivals I played

@floral warren Almost forgot, play also A short Hike, it was free on Epic

[floral warren]

looking it up

[hardy onyx]

A Short Hike is delightful (and short, go figure)

[wraith cradle]

Well, yeah. It's quite short unlike A Long Trek

[floral warren]

I knew taking my friend's EGS would make me have any free epic game!

[wraith cradle]

That game is quite long

Gonna play a free adventure game on Steam

Plasticity

Will tell opinions later

[wraith cradle]

It was nice

[tame veldt]

so yeah a while back i asked for hero shooters, i've tried paladins, it's not good. the characters are boring and all of them are locked behind a paywall except six. half of the modes are boring and it's about 30 gigs and it's not worth that much space on your hard drive. it is free but keywords i'm leaving out. free TO PLAY. you can have an hour of fun with the base heroes but then you have to grind for 5 hours to get the next character. not that it matters but they are also owned by Tencent. but what isn't at this point.

[mighty isle]

ohhh damn that sucks

[tame veldt]

I YEARN FOR HERO SHOOTERS

[eager hamlet]

I mean idk, I reasonably enjoyed Paladins but, YMMV as always

Also for good indie games play Crosscode

Also also, finished talos principle

It was good but its weird that the best ending is the regular one

[mighty isle]

i still need to play crosscode
i loved the demo and i've been telling myself i'll get it on sale but every sale i pass on it

one game you should definitely try getting on sale is psychonauts, not because it's bad or anything just cuz almost every time it goes on sale it's for like, 2 bucks

oh yeah last week i played some of Horace and it's cool but DAMN the way the camera moves when you switch gravity does not mesh well with my motion sickness

like it doesn't make me lastingly nauseous but it's Bad To Look At

[eager hamlet]

The problem with having finished Talos

Is that now I need another game to bridge the gap until Ys IX

[mighty isle]

what kind of games do you like?

i like to think i'm good at recommending games because i play so many random obscure games that people r relatively unlikely to have played

[wraith cradle]

I'm in the middle of refrain. I'll finish it and start Atelier Ryza 2 when I finish it

[eager hamlet]

JRPGs and exploration games mostly

I got one hell of a backlog though

[wraith cradle]

I want to know if the trailers are baiting me

[eager hamlet]

Might start Syndicate or a Yakuza game

[mighty isle]

what do you mean exploration games
like open world games or like, walking simulators

[eager hamlet]

Like Outer Wilds

[mighty isle]

have not played that one

[wraith cradle]

Dew it

[mighty isle]

i constantly confuse outer wilds with the outer worlds

[wraith cradle]

I mean. It's always bait. But I want to believe

[mighty isle]

did you just reply to your own post

power move

[tame veldt]

power

[wraith cradle]

I was expanding my point

[tame veldt]

move

[mighty isle]

ohh i went on the outer wilds wikipedia page and it seems like a neat concept

got those majoras mask/minit/other games i'm not thinking of vibes

[eager hamlet]

Outer Wilds is absolutely great

My GOTY 2019

And that year had Disco Elysium

[wraith cradle]

Ok, now for the love of God stop reading

The less you know the better

[mighty isle]

oh don't worry i didn't process most of it

i always forget what year games come out in tbh

or just dont bother to register it in my head

[wraith cradle]

Meanwhile Crosscode keeps teasing with the dlc that will put the last question if the game to rest

The one question I've been asking myself for years now

[eager hamlet]

||Are Emilie and Lea an item?||

[wraith cradle]

||Is LeaxEmilie canon?||

[eager hamlet]

Hah

[wraith cradle]

I was actually dissapointed with the last twist tho

[eager hamlet]

Which one?

[wraith cradle]

||The fact your second best friend was the villain all along and the protagonist still don't know it||

[wraith cradle]

I was waiting to say it at the same time btw

[eager hamlet]

Idk, it depends on where that twist goes

We dont really know yet

Though Im a bit surprised that ||they did that, seeing how that was the original planned ending for the whole game, and they didnt plan a sequel||

[mighty isle]

i know you said you have a big backlog but return of the obra dinn is an exploration game, of sorts
it's mostly in one setting but you explore it at different moments in time

though there's a lot of Detective Work™️ involved

[eager hamlet]

The artstyle gives me a headache

[wraith cradle]

Bruh, look at this

||https://i.imgur.com/JxbYOuh_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium||

[mighty isle]

that's fair tbh
you can change the colors in the settings but there's always going to only be two of them

[eager hamlet]

I never saw that

Whats that from

[wraith cradle]

It's a comparison of ||Ctron and sidwell sprites||

[mighty isle]

smile for me is also good, though that's more of a point n click adventure except in 3d

[eager hamlet]

But I dont think ||Sidwell had most of those sprites?||

[wraith cradle]

And the last scene is ||C'tron commenting over something only Sidwell, Lea and Lukas could now||

[eager hamlet]

Either way, I partially get why they made that twist, but its weird to think this was meant to be the ending

Since it just ||comes somewhat out of nowhere and goes nowhere||

[wraith cradle]

Yeah it felt cold after 60 hours. I loved all the rest

Like all the plot threads were close

And the ending tied up all together

Why add that twist when Ctron was already quite a compelling character?

[eager hamlet]

My guess is it was there to explain ||how they found Lea, and why they seemed to know too much||

[wraith cradle]

[eager hamlet]

Thats my guess at least

Lets see what the DLC does

[wraith cradle]

Soon™️

[eager hamlet]

Ok, so

AC:Syndicate, Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami or Arkham Asylum?

[wraith cradle]

One of the yakuzas

My opinion, ofc

[graceful galleon]

anyone played Star Renegades?

[wraith cradle]

Yes

I did

[graceful galleon]

thinking of getting that, but nevermind, saw Monster Sanctuary is on sale as well

i'll get Monster Sanctuary instead lol, been eyeing the game for some time

[mortal siren]

U asking on wat game to buy or?

[north wolf]

I'll be getting OMORI, Isolomus, Dead Cells Fatal Falls and maybe Inmost

Anyone here who played Inmost?

How good is it?

[fathom juniper]

good morning

got something cool to share here
https://youtu.be/YMm20JR4PdI

recently i've been in a mood for some wild west games and stuff

[fathom juniper]

||LENNYYYYYY!!!||

such a great story tho
weird to think that it was written by mostly the same crew as... ugh... gta5

[floral warren]

guys , do you remember when Blizzard made the hotnostlagiagarbo that is W3Reforged
Apparently it was too hot of a hot garbo that they actually disbanded the team that made W3R (Classic games team) and just put them into other teams

and now that VV is with them (which the studio that made Crash and Tony hawk's 1+2 remakes)

[fathom juniper]

• sighs *
  eeehhhh

[floral warren]

they'll make.... Diablo 2 Resurrected

[fathom juniper]

on one hand - that whole kerfuffle with w3r was a garbage fire

on the other - this decission reeks of some corpo bullcrap

[floral warren]

https://www.ign.com/articles/vicarious-visions-reportedly-brought-into-blizzard-to-work-on-diablo-2-remake

[fathom juniper]

i dunno

[floral warren]

yep

[fathom juniper]

as much as i like older blizz games (mostly d1 and d2)
i can't really support their practices no more

[woven breach]

I'm replaying witcher 3 from the beginning. The first time I played, I wasn't as good in english as I am now. I understand some of the nuances now... and also I realized some of the people I saved are not deserving at all and they should burn in asphodel

[floral warren]

hmmmm
like who?

Radovid?

[woven breach]

No i killed radovid the first time around

Was thinking side quests stuff

Like peasants

You know the werewolf mission

Early werewolf mission

[floral warren]

|| I've sank in 40 hours and didn't complete any side quests apart from the normal early quests||

I've played the dlcs dw

[woven breach]

Nah, I haven't gotten that far yet. 10 hours in and still in white orchard

||in one of the sidequest, you have to search a wife after she went to the woods. Turns out her sister killed her and chain of events, the husband is a werewolf. The sister wants her husband.||

||first time around I killed the husband cause he wanted to kill the sister||

[floral warren]

huh, I really need to continue my witcher 3 save

I've New game+'d it
but i'll use my normal save

[woven breach]

I like side quests. It's like my main dish, while the main quest is a snack on the side between side quests

[floral warren]

well , cp77 is like that too
Minus the grass and medieval era

[woven breach]

Well I finished cp77 along side the side quests

Well

Except for the racing side quests

Cause I don't like racing

[floral warren]

that was something else ngl
20 hours and I still feel I need to play more

I regert that I've finished the game without the other endings

|| got the arasaka and didn't sign the contract||

[woven breach]

||got the aldecaldos||

Mainly cause panam

[floral warren]

||and when V gets the bag, and starts singing never fade away.... I just went "oh well, this is going to be a sobbing session huh"||

I have a whole new perspective on the launch trailer

[woven breach]

I.. didn't watch cbp trailers. Didn't like hyping myself on cbp at the time.

[floral warren]

me neither

Before, I saw chippin' in as the cool song, and my friend was saying "never fade away is cool" and I was "meh, it's fine"
I look back and I...

regardless, fun game in nearly all aspects (except the bugs ofc)

[woven breach]

I considered getting ||arasaka ending|| but was like "where's the fun in ||signing a contract||?"

[floral warren]

didn't think it as the new game changer or something
just another fun wrpg game

[woven breach]

Yep

It's fun

[floral warren]

hella fun since I liked stealth and hacking

Rebel path cello ver. is the best, don't @ me

[woven breach]

So my build is pretty much shoot first ask questions later. Got a biz to save someone, thinking stealth was a good call. So my char glitched out and constantly jumping

And pretty much ruined my stealth

Oh well

Wait wat

[floral warren]

triggered the bot

[woven breach]

I guess

reloads gun

[floral warren]

Detroit: become human

[fathom juniper]

detroit: become android

honestly - i'm kinda curious what's next in store from our good ol David Cage

cause BOI - as much as everyone at quantic dream brings their A game all the way through - in every part of the game

i find david's stories to be...

how shall i put this...

[floral warren]

story driven games as in Story driven

[fathom juniper]

"entertaining"

[floral warren]

story driven as in "you have played a eurobeat/nightcore and now you're drift master"

[fathom juniper]

yeah but... those stories are just bad - i just find them funny

[floral warren]

I can't finish heavy rain , doesn't appeal to me

[fathom juniper]

no matter

spoilers: ||the game is lying to you all the time||

[mighty isle]

he talks about the unique ways video games can tell stories and instead of actually using those (gameplay, environmental storytelling, etc) he just makes glorified interactive movies

[fathom juniper]

oh totally

but i'm the kind of guy that doesn't mind this sort of "direct" way of storytelling if the story is actually good and hooks me in

see - TWD, TWAU

[floral warren]

glorified interactive movies
then what naughty dogs are doing? " real games?"

sheesh, he's making Miyazaki games look like real life struggles

[junior crown]

Quantum Dreams games are the showcase of how one person in command can make something so strangely bad. Like all the games pose question, if David Cage has an editor or if he is even questioned by the actors he is working with at moments.

they are work of art with the script of the madman that pulls ideas from other media he watches and then tries to understand how humans work but not really understanding it.

[fathom juniper]

that's... actually on point imho

[woven breach]

On side note, TWD made me cry and TWAU is underrated

Also yea

That happened similarly in star wars the prequel

[fathom juniper]

speaking of slow, linear, story-heavy games

there's one that's criminally underrated imho that i'd like to recommend

Republique

it's a bit of a... weird one
it's like a point and click... survival-horror-ish stealth... metroidvania?

where you don't even control the main character directly

[graceful galleon]

just finished Gris

...

wow

[fathom juniper]

yeah i should give it a shot
I've heard some good things about it, and bought it... for a friend

and forgot to get one for myself

[woven breach]

not a fan of gris

I bought it

played it till the end

I don't like it

I guess the art is nice

[graceful galleon]

story wise it hits.. different

I teared up at the end

but gameplay wise, it's borderline walking simulator

[woven breach]

though I have to commend it, even though I hate it I still finish it till the end. I don't bother with finishing games I hate. it rarely happens

the soundtrack is pretty good

[graceful galleon]

yep

the soundtrack and art are top notch

[woven breach]

story wise though... idk, to me it relies heavily on interpretation. It hits differently with everyone and doesn't really go to a direction it's trying to tell. To me at least, it's either "everything makes sense but I don't understand why" or "this does not make any sense at all"

and all this is coming from someone that had to google how to spell interpretation

[graceful galleon]

lol

indeed it is very open for interpretation, since there's no dialogue and what not

but I think the theming is pretty clear though, ||grief and depression||

[woven breach]

that one is pretty clear

[north wolf]

Congrats

[north wolf]

I cried

that was the only time that I've cried because of a game

[north wolf]

yes. ||5 stages of grief to be exact||

i heard that Inmost has good story

anyone here who played it?

[fathom juniper]

Inmost?
yeah i played it a bunch of times

good map - nice layout, a healthy challenge for first timers

those chaingunners might be a bit of a problem tho

[graceful galleon]

I never heard of it

[fathom juniper]

doom 2 map14

ok that was a bad joke
the joke is that there's a level in doom 2 called "the inmost dens"
anyway - carry on

[wraith cradle]

Yeah, and an incredible soundtrack

The story is quite straightforward although allegorical

[dim crypt]

very cool

[wraith cradle]

God, Hitman 3 is all I wanted

[dire condor]

Let's be friends in Pokémon GO! My Trainer Code is 0996 3958 1182!

Add me on Pokémon go! 😄

[floral warren]

Do I need to start playing from Hitman '16 so I can enjoy both 2 and 3?

[junior crown]

you don't but also you can get previous ones to play them in hitman 3 upgraded version

[fathom juniper]

is... the upgrade process just as convoluted as it was in previous Baldman simulators?

i remember it being quite a hassle - mostly because of all the different versions and what not

[junior crown]

It's pretty easy if it's on the same store i.e egs or steam but if not well then just gotta wait for 3 weeks or so before they cook up something to make sure, so don't know past that.

[polar dragon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llrebUD0pk0

HADESSSSSZZZZZZZ is on the list

[cosmic vine]

Yes

Hades is the most fun game I ever played

That and roboquest

But it still in early access

[polar dragon]

I'm redownloading NFS Most Wanted

[fresh crag]

https://twitter.com/Candyman4Smash/status/1353074085958356992?s=20

Candyman For Smash - Lethal League X Smash Bros (@Candyman4Smash)

Haha I love playing Undertale
Hopefully the game doesn't turn into Lethal League or something hahah- https://t.co/DSOn9sc65T

▶ Play video

Twitter · Jan 23, 2021, 8:16 PM

[north wolf]

My turtle just climbed on top of my Halo 3 case

[tranquil kelp]

do you have a pic

[north wolf]

I do

[fathom juniper]

howdy folks

[floral warren]

howdy, buckaroo 🤠

[pale phoenix]

i am so mad that i can't have a resident evil 8 demo

[fathom juniper]

i'm looking for my friend - a fairly tall feller

name's LEEEEENNNYYYYEEEEHHH!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fROnKQlXDf8&ab_channel=InsomniasKid06

[floral warren]

that's hilarious

[fathom juniper]

that whole scene was a real kneeslapper

it's absolutely hilarious

look up the "RDR2 bar scene" on youtube if you don't know what i'm talking about

[fathom juniper]

there's going to be a second demo in a few months

on all platforms

[pale phoenix]

OOO

HEll YEAH

[fathom juniper]

this time with some actual gameplay, maybe

[pale phoenix]

i only want this game for a vamp mommy

[fathom juniper]

yeah i can tell

[pale phoenix]

:)

hyperfixation goes brrrr

[fathom juniper]

[mighty isle]

whoa i just finished reading the mega man x novel and it's actually super good

[wraith cradle]

So rewatching The Celeste Speedruns you know what's amazing?

The current WR is 2 minutes faster than the TAS showed 2 years ago

[fathom juniper]

welp - folks
wish me luck

i'm about to give FEAR another shot
after like... 10 years

[polar dragon]

Actually? That's hilarious. New skip I assume?

[polar dragon]

https://www.ign.com/articles/gabe-newell-says-valve-has-more-games-in-development-waiting-to-be-announced

HL2 EP2 Chap2 confirmed

[sour cipher]

Electric boogaloo

That waiting to be announced sounds ominous af though

[wraith cradle]

I'll believe it when I see it

[wraith cradle]

There are some wild strats. for example in Chapter five is actually faster to collect the B-side. Go to the menu and complete the B-Side

[twin yarrow]

idk why, but i like low-glitch runs more, even TAS

and in 100% category

i mean, it's crazy to see Prey completed in minutes with foamgun glitching, but what's the fun in that

[wraith cradle]

TAS is because it is satisfying seeing a perfect play

For me

I personally like short speedruns

At this point I got memorized the SMB speedrun of watching all WR

[twin yarrow]

i used to watch them before sleep.. it was easier to log out of the consciousness that way for some reason

especially with little damage boosting

i believe, SMB was one of the first games people decided to speedrun?

and still from time to time somebody manage to find new frames to save

[wraith cradle]

In any% absolutely not lmao

From 2010 they managed to make the TAS faster by one frame

Although the WR got broken three times these last 2 years

[polar dragon]

Yeah, I wish there is like a perfect play category

or like "cinematic runs," make the game as "cinematic" as possible

Something like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKyT19o-Nl8

[eager hamlet]

If those games are VR games, good for those who have VR

If not, well, theyll probably suck given Valves recent non-VR track record

Either way Ill be mad that theyre ignoring TF2

[polar dragon]

did Valve even publish anything but Alyx?

[wraith cradle]

Artifact and DoTA underlords

[twin yarrow]

Something portal-related

[wraith cradle]

God remember when everyone seemed obsessed with The AutoChess?

[polar dragon]

I mean it's still pretty popular

and spawn a new "genre"

[tame veldt]

i think portal 3 was being developed for Steam VR but it was cancelled due to motion sickness.

[junior crown]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/684410/Bridge_Constructor_Portal/ Wasn't published by them but they did land the rights for Portal I think?

Steam

Bridge Constructor Portal

Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal™ and Bridge Constructor™ games.As a new employee in the Aperture Science test lab, it's your job to build bridges, ramps, slides, and other constructions in 60 test chambers and get the Bendies safely across the finish...

Price

$9.99

Recommendations

2731

Metacritic

77

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[tame veldt]

is it just a portal level editor.

[twin yarrow]

there has been something for VR, don't quite remember.. some kind of short demo

[wraith cradle]

I'm sure half of Valve games are Game Mods that became real games after each Dev team was hired by Valve

[analog copper]

https://images-ext-2.discordapp.net/external/1plcnZNCW4HqhPIHV-7DWF2yPvFCfeSaQBkgkimnXww/https/images-ext-2.discordapp.net/external/f6-3BcWkDCQCRdLwYNyREQDOFEHKwv0gv54NiAjUQP0/%253Fwidth%253D661%2526height%253D551/https/media.discordapp.net/attachments/639584656685269023/790611178816536616/Ept9fJUVQAAT_7f.png?width=641&height=534

[wraith cradle]

I can see Thor, Sansa Stark, Grand Moff Tarkin, Keanu Reeves, Wednesday Addams, Kamala Harris, Mark Hamill, and Ellen Degeneres with her hair dyed .

Oh and Dog The Bounty Hunter

||Yes, I know they are creepy IRL Overwatch characters||

[polar dragon]

Mercy is still ❤️

[wraith cradle]

Who the heck is the guy in the second row fourth column?

Oh

Junkrat

[polar dragon]

who is that jesus looking guy on the last col 2nd row?

[tame veldt]

That is MoistCr1tikal

[eager hamlet]

Not just half

Its basically every game Valve has "made" except the Half-life series

And Underlords I guess

Artifact is borderline

And even Underlords is based on a mod, and they did try to buy the mod creators, they just said no

[wraith cradle]

Well, half if you count the remakes and sequels to the mods tho

[eager hamlet]

Eh, Id argue that since those are still done by the hired dev team

[wraith cradle]

CSGO is a sequel to a mod

[eager hamlet]

Id still count them for that

[wraith cradle]

Portal is a weird case

As is L4D, they weren't mods, but devs hired to create an og project

You know? It's a shame they stopped doing that for a while

Bunch of cool games we could have got from some talented modders

[eager hamlet]

Well, L4D wasnt a mod but

It was an original game that Valve just bought mid-development

[wraith cradle]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreleased_Half-Life_games I love how this has a wikipedia page

[eager hamlet]

Idk, Id rather have those companies and mod teams stay standalone

[wraith cradle]

And it's 100% incomplete with projects Valve didn't disclose

[eager hamlet]

Rather than be hired by valve, make 2 games, then just scatter to the wind

Or be used for a bunch of internal projects that never pan out

[wraith cradle]

Dunno

If you see the indie game pages on Steam the most of them only have released a game ever

The one who surprised me the most is the Miasmata devs

Those guys released a quite good game in 2012 just to dissapear

[junior crown]

I seen a bit of Back 4 Blood, is it me or I feel like it lacks character? Since we are on that topic

[fathom juniper]

welp - i'm back from my first proper session with FEAR
and... wow

i kinda regret putting it off for so long

i mean - sure - i tried it before a few times and i never could get into it
and even today - the game didn't really hook me in until like... hour two

the combat always felt stiff and clunky, movement speed was really slow, controls felt cluttered and sometimes unresponsive and it felt like it was lacking polish in some places - like there's no damage indicators of any sort or how some melee attacks can be performed only at a certain angle

until i realized it was all by design, and the combat finally clicked for me
and once it did...
oooooh baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlgsmZHVXt4

@polar dragon mentioned something about perfect runs

well - here you go - here's a perfect montage

so yeah - so far
good game
8/10, needs more Stephan Weyte

[wraith cradle]

When I heard about it I thought it was gonna be a 19th century Wild West L4D. Imagine my dissapointed when I saw gameplay and looked like reskinned L4D2 with better graphics

[junior crown]

Oof can imagine. But yeah. It feels weird looking at back 4 blood and feeling it's a bit more generic than l4d? Because I thought they would come up with something interesting looking.

Maybe since it's early in development. But I don't know. I don't like the special infected design much.

[broken smelt]

ahh FEAR such a ridiculous speedrun, so much fun to watch

[wraith cradle]

FEAR. Either one of the best feeling shooters or one of the scariest horror games

[broken smelt]

it does so well because of the level design, giving the AI many options :3

[wraith cradle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B39S3vUmalA

[broken smelt]

the AI gets overpraised imo, when it's truely the level design the helps make FEAR shine so much

[wraith cradle]

Well, it was good for a 2005 game

[junior crown]

The open areas in DLCs show that for sure

[broken smelt]

https://youtu.be/O-cvErWjl8k - if you want to see FEAR broken wide open :3

same person ran FEAR at AGDQ online this year

I'm not saying FEAR's AI isn't good, it's just overpraised for making FEAR what it was and the level design tends to get under recognised

[wraith cradle]

Honestly I enjoyed FEAR for the feel-good sensation of the Slow-mo

[fathom juniper]

i mean - i'm gonna be unreal engine 4 with yall

it's not that scary so far

it's moody - sure
but i'm not getting spooked

[wraith cradle]

To be honest I played it back when I was 13

Back then Flash Games could put me in my nerves

[fathom juniper]

well... then again - there's only so many times one can see spooky flickering lights at the end on a long corridor before it loses it's impact

and the fact that i've been using some of those spooky scawwy tricks in my doom crap might lessen the impact here even more

[broken smelt]

at the time, I could see it being scary but today I don't think it's all that scary
horror games that age particularly well in their 'scare' department are games like silent hill (1-4, the western deved games don't exist imo)

[fathom juniper]

but - you know - other than that, im actually enjoying it
i mean - it's monolith - the blood guys
they know how to make combat exciting

aggy
play cry of fear

it's ugly, it's janky as heck, has a really poor script and laughable voiceacting

and it's still - hands down - the scariest game i've ever played

it's also free on steam

[broken smelt]

interesting, I'll definitely have a look at it

[fathom juniper]

it's... a weird one
it's a half life mod ||so you know what that means - lots of crouch-jumping and weird hitboxes|| that tries to adapt oldschool survival horror mechanics into a first person shooter

and in that regard - it does a way better job AND is way more faithful than even RE7

and i do mean - it's faithful - it even brings back things that... didn't need bringing back
like loading screens between ever room ||(even when the game doesn't need them cause it loads a whole map at once)|| or intentionally clunky inventory system and stuff like that

but yeah - i'm gonna stop now before i start ranting about this game for another three hours straight
in short - it's good

[fiery quiver]

So I'm late to the party and I haven't posted here in a while. But did anyone here watch Giant Bomb's GOTY deliberations last week?

Hades was talked about quite a lot in those deliberations.

[sharp raft]

looks at low achievement rate of people solving every main puzzle in Shenzhen I/O

More people have played/won the solitaire game compared to the main game

[wraith cradle]

Did any of you played Nightmare House 2? Also a nice horror mod. @broken smelt @fathom juniper

[broken smelt]

I haven't

[wraith cradle]

they actually are also making a 'real' game too

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1119980/In_Sound_Mind/

Steam

In Sound Mind

As you awake in the corridors of an inexplicable building, you find the environment takes on a life of its own and leads you to discover a series of victims, all exposed to the same experimental chemical. In your search for answers, bizarre visions emerge and introduce a host of imposing horrors…and a cat named Tonia.From the creators of the cul...

Release Date

2021

▶ Play video

I played the demo as is promising

[stable kindle]

nightmare house fight or flight activated

[polar dragon]

Hard pass on horror games

[tame veldt]

minecraft is the only and best horror game

[sharp raft]

Armed & Delirious takes the cake for surrealism in a videogame

It was made by an Israeli company that mainly did translation work, apparently some of the more out there puzzle solutions are based on obscure puns

[vagrant epoch]

okay real talk, Duck Life 4 is a game that has stood the test of time

I'm playing it a bit so I can use it as a design reference for one of the games I'm making for school, and it's legit really fun

[tame veldt]

evolution is peak duck life

[floral warren]

yo where's snail bob?

[mighty isle]

https://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/l/115591-armed-delirious-windows-inside-cover.jpg IM GONNA SCREAM WHAT IS THIS

[crisp prism]

Ross Scott has a really good video on Armed & Delirious XD

[sharp raft]

Yes, that’s exactly how I heard of it

[wraith cradle]

The Medium comes out tomorrow

I'm genuinely curious about how well the game will do

[tame veldt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3kAnaIosRQ

[rustic falcon]

the steam page says it comes out on the 28th?

[wraith cradle]

Ops

I genuinely thought today was 27th

[rustic falcon]

haha no worries

[wraith cradle]

Tomorrow comes Atelier tho

That one I want

I loved the first one

[rustic falcon]

im currently playing bloober teams previous game, observer, but im having a bit of trouble with it and im not sure how i feel about it. im also playing the original version and not the system redux because they didnt give it away to owners of the original or even a discount

[mighty isle]

the one with rutger hauer?

[wraith cradle]

Oh right that game is screwed up

I also always end mistaking it with observation

Which is another good game

[rustic falcon]

yep, charlie

[wraith cradle]

Ok, something very funny just happened I was randomly looking to a game I was following in EA and turned out it just got an update today lmao

After having forgotten the game for months

[junior crown]

mood, had that happen to me thrice now imao

[mighty isle]

https://twitter.com/colorfairie/status/1352387016433008642?s=21 AMAZING

Alexander (COMMS OPEN) (@ColorFairie)

Kid Icarus Demake (not too happy with it)

Twitter · Jan 21, 2021, 10:46 PM

i love this they really captured the Energy

magnus on that pantsless marth type beat

[lusty turret]

Zagreus reminds me of Dante

[floral warren]

@polar dragon so tell me , what's your setup look like?

[polar dragon]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/793657875691733044/800650969733267486/IMG_20200104_180234.jpg?width=1440&height=660

[floral warren]

pc specs?

[polar dragon]

literally 6 years of accumulation

[high bridge]

looks great imo

[polar dragon]

The laptop is an old one.
Asus ROG G55VW with an GTX 660M (lol)
The desktop is
Ryzen 3 something
AMD RX580
16GB Ram
etc etc

that's the gist

[woven breach]

damn that's pretty clean 👀

[floral warren]

that's one wide desk

[polar dragon]

👀 may or may not be cleaned for the pic specifically

[high bridge]

my dawg be flexin

[woven breach]

all i got is like a gaming laptop, keyboard, mouse and a fruit hanger

[polar dragon]

Literally $60 from IKEA

[floral warren]

I have the chair

best chair ngl

(millbergert)

[high bridge]

can i peek at ur setup?

[polar dragon]

yeah it's p comfy

[floral warren]

im in online school rn

[high bridge]

haahahhaah, ok

[floral warren]

but yeah I'll happen to send a pic

[high bridge]

great

[polar dragon]

clean up the cable, get some desk plants, mood lighting for $10 from Amazon
biggest investment is probably a large mousepad imo

and any set up will look half decent tbh

[rancid token]

I was literally just going over lighting options for my setup and cursing how much Nanoleaf panels cost

[polar dragon]

oh yeah those are expensive.

[rancid token]

Turns out, I have a light fixture above my desk that I forgot about, so I just grabbed smart bulbs for that instead

From 200 bucks to uhhhhhhhh

16

[woven breach]

I'm using dinner table cause the wifi can't reach my room. So that scratch off mood lighting and desk plants. I can get ethernet, but I might need to get a switch for that cause no room for more ethernet

[polar dragon]

J

[rancid token]

I do need some plants and maybe monitor backlights though

[high bridge]

imma change my profile to ares

[stable kindle]

lol fox my mouse is from the same brand

i recognize that icon

[floral warren]

my mousepad too!

[polar dragon]

Steelseries :D

[high bridge]

steelserie?

yeah

[stable kindle]

thank u im in bed and wasn't gonna get up and turn on a light and look

[polar dragon]

sleeping already?

it's like 12 where you are at

[stable kindle]

nah takes me an hr or two to settle in

[floral warren]

tatz drank a cup of coffee

[polar dragon]

true true lol

[stable kindle]

i am not capable of sleeping right away unless im bone tired so im just gonna lurk here and find smth to read for a bit 👁️

[polar dragon]

basically it's a roasting article on a famous economist Thomas Friedman

[high bridge]

imma do my schoolwork now

ttyl dudes

[stable kindle]

fox what does that have to do with vidya

[polar dragon]

well because you was looking for stuff to read. so a mild deviation. but i can delete

[woven breach]

you know how Tom Clancy's name is on some of the ubisoft games? maybe some of them influence games too?

:D

[polar dragon]

rainbow six siege is a tom clancy game lol

[woven breach]

welllll

you get my point

lol

[polar dragon]

is it bad that I spoiled Undertale for myself and now have no desire to finish it?

[woven breach]

I mean

that's fair

[high bridge]

kinda

[polar dragon]

dew your hw bra

[high bridge]

lmao what?

oh

forgot

ttyl then

i get easily distracted and crap\

[polar dragon]

lul gl. no vidya till you done

[high bridge]

because im overwhemed at how hard it is

[high bridge]

yes baws

[twin yarrow]

that depends
sometime plot itself is more important, sometimes the way it is presented

on one hand, the sudden twists can make true emotions only when they are really sudden and unexpected

on the other hand, that doesn't worth much, if you're not involved already in the narration

living the moment with the others, and all that

sometimes you can feel enough even when you know what's coming

[polar dragon]

I kinda want to tackle my backlog

and Undertale is like 30% through but I also kinda know what will happen

[twin yarrow]

i can understand though, that the initial interest is created by the curiosity, the will to know "and what happened next?"

[polar dragon]

yee

[twin yarrow]

my friend is like this, she often wants to know how it all ended, and most times loses interest in the game after that

but mostly bc the ending is disappointing, not bc it's known

well.. if someone can find another reason to play, like, "i want to know all the details, to be able to discuss the game"

or "i want to understand the memes"

[floral warren]

"Why are we still here?, just to suffer?"

[twin yarrow]

that can be enough to be able to want to play, and then get involved in the narration, and eventually get enough impression

[floral warren]

^||that made me watch breaking bad ngl||

[twin yarrow]

for me and my friend the conclusion is not really important.. maybe i don't even want to know, how it all ended.. and i often leave games unfinished, but not bc there is no interest..

more like, to submerge in the world, its atmosphere

hang around with main characters, see local sights

that's why people replay games, right?

[polar dragon]

I would replay a game if
a) the gameplay loop is fun
b) there is something new in the second playthrough ie new ending
c) nostalgia sake

[twin yarrow]

so what, we all know Dovahkiin will eventually kill/purge Alduin, but still

we install the game once in a couple of years

[polar dragon]

I mean that falls under the nostalgia category

[twin yarrow]

for Undertale, i would say, a) and b) works

there are enough endings, and not even endings.. tons of little details

[polar dragon]

😳 yeah I kinda read about the easter eggs, different endings and stuff, too

it's bad bruh xD

[twin yarrow]

usually they get overlooked by that video makers, who do "ALL THE ENDINGS EXPLAINED"

easter eggs, well, is another thing

you have to know, what it is, to enjoy it

especially if it's some kind of pop culture reference you happened to be not familiar with

[polar dragon]

fair enough

[twin yarrow]

there has been an opinion.. "if the plot twist is the only thing that keeps you interested in the story, then it's not a good game or movie"

in a way i can agree with that

like, Columbo would've been a terrible detective story in traditional sense, since the murderer is almost always introduced in the very beginning, and we all know the lieutenant will close the case successfully

but the mindgames between him and the murderer is what makes it interesting to watch

and now.. most of the time "X gonna die" is enough for most stories to be ruined

not MegaMan X

||but it's also true||

[floral warren]

I want to play Just Cause 3 in PC
I want to experience that 60fps

I've also replayed Watch_dogs, and omw to Watch_dogs 2

[polar dragon]

MegaMan Zero Series is hard, though I really like the games.

If only the combat was more approachable.

[twin yarrow]

it is.. well, the whole series is known for its hardcoreness

good thing that today the button layout can be adjusted.. idk how would i play that with gamepad, not even seems possible

[rancid token]

The checkpoints they added for the Zero/ZX collection make them bearable

[woven breach]

playing witcher 3 again makes it hard to fall asleep

cause soundtracks can stuck in my head

just last night I can't sleep cause there's a lady in my head that goes HE HE HEAY LE HAY LEA LEA HEY HAHAHEY HEAH HAEY

[floral warren]

my day can't be completed without some banana tiger

|| don't push me into reinstalling it||

[woven breach]

well ain't my fault if you have the impulse to play it again

[heavy mauve]

don't know if anyone is into fire emblem but look at my sephiran

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/667106865410474010/803581814235987999/IMG_20210125_005330.jpg

[floral warren]

restarted cp77 with nomad story
it's even better than streetkid

[woven breach]

all I know is street kid start is a way better start than corpo

you know at first I was hopeful, ||think 3 origins mean 3 diff story||

[high bridge]

yo

[mortal siren]

its really misleading yeah

[wraith cradle]

Yeah, I already posted it into s comment but according internal sources the reason the origins are so short is because:

1. It's the most expendable content as most people won't enjoy it 100% as they just play one playthrough. Ergo 1/3 of the section.

2. Cutting them means reaching Keanu (The main draw of the game) sooner

https://mattmakesgames.itch.io/celeste-classic-2

They made a sequel

[eager hamlet]

Yeah thats more or less what I expected. Probably the first is also the reason the game is a lot more linear than promised

[twin yarrow]

i believe, they made that statement a year ago, maybe more.. they found out that most of the gamers play the story only once, or even less..

so they figured out, that there's no reason to make something, that almost half of the players will not even see

i don't think i can agree with that

[eager hamlet]

I kinda can?

Its a lot of increased cost

Like, a lot

For not that much reward

[twin yarrow]

but statistics sometimes doesn't depict the truth.. like, there are around 4% of people who never died playing Dark Souls..

you can study any game with achievements, in Steam or PSStore, or whereever, and it's a fact.. people don't play games they buy

[wraith cradle]

Just to be clear the choice was made because they had to cut material for lack of time

I actually loved how Bioware did in Dragon Age

Where the Origins are very fleshed out and are a mini-Campaign on their own

[eager hamlet]

I mean sure, but

The problem is still that its just a lot of extra cost

Exponential amounts, even

And if the reward is miniscule

Why go for it?

[wraith cradle]

Yeah, in Mass Effect in the Origins those changes are minimal and the game doesn't suffer from it

[twin yarrow]

problem is, you can't know what will be the reward for sure, you can only make predictions and extrapolate others' experience

[eager hamlet]

Thats cost-benefit analysis for ya

[twin yarrow]

guess, they just handled the risks as a trading company would do, not as game makers

i mean, they have rights, but still

sad kinda

[wraith cradle]

They have The Witchers as data sets tho

[eager hamlet]

Even for a game creator

You cant do something that would likely make the game sell at a loss

Its a careful balance but

There is a reason you rarely get super-intricate choices and resulting storylines

And if you do, either theyre the point (Zero Escape and Ai: The Somnium Files)