video-games

[hybrid jetty]

i would never be proud of riot because they made league of legends

laugh track

[woven breach]

https://tenor.com/view/cue-laugh-track-late-night-with-seth-meyers-laugh-funny-haha-gif-20020432

[stable kindle]

"league bad" never heard that joke before 🙄

[lofty pecan]

i play league and i wholeheartedly agree with "league bad"

[pseudo gate]

Im not gonna say about league being good or bad because im a moba biased since dota 1 hahahaha so yea

yea i heard. about the whole gender thing right?

yea they dont have the indie vibe anymore, that's for sure

But man, it's like a decade ago when riot is just a startup company doing moba and look at them now

Such an inspiration esp towards a beginner game developer like me

You dont need a huge buck to start u off, riot starts from nothing

I need to see more indie game developer that progress greatly

[woven breach]

cough SGG cough

[pseudo gate]

oh crap! hahahaha sorry! yea SGG is up there too with Riot

SGG makes me interested in Greek Mythology too!

you know what, SGG, Atlus and Riot best indie out there

well riot not an indie anymore but.. yea

[woven breach]

excuse me

Atlus is indie????

[pseudo gate]

sorry the one that make persona games. i think it is atlus

i mean atlus is definitely not AAA hahaha i think

maybe Atlus is like riot!

[woven breach]

well I know which atlus you were talking about lol

there's only one atlus

but

are they??????

[pseudo gate]

yea the one making persona games. That game deserves more recognition!

if atlus is AAA, that game will be heard

i think!!!

I THINK.. pls dont flame me

[lofty pecan]

oh snap the persona games, those are great indie gems

[woven breach]

idk man

[lofty pecan]

oh wait nvm ur serious

sorry

[woven breach]

persona 5 is a big hit

[lofty pecan]

thought it was sarcasm or something

[pseudo gate]

ok i cant tell right now hahaha

[lofty pecan]

yah i feel like persona 5 pushed the series into mainstream

[pseudo gate]

wait is persona 5 actually popular?

[woven breach]

yea

[lofty pecan]

like if u mention the game to someone theres a good chance they'll know the game more often than not

[pseudo gate]

oh because like persona games so far, no one actually bring it up! Didnt even get a mention on E3 so i assume persona 5 isnt popular

[woven breach]

lol

mate

the game is 60 bucks

so it's like not even Indie territory

[lofty pecan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9QjlLdYK5I&ab_channel=PlayStation

[sleek quiver]

P5 is the one that got big imo

P3, P4? Barely even a soul talked about it before P5 came out. P1, P2? I think even P5 fans still don’t know these two

[pseudo gate]

https://mashable.com/article/brief-history-of-persona according to the site, it said persona games is popular back in 1996!!!! wtf u guys are right! Atlus is defnitely not indie

[pseudo gate]

you're right. I only got into persona games because of p5

[sleek quiver]

P3 was already big enough for the fans during it’s time though

[pseudo gate]

so P5 actually popularised the game

[pseudo gate]

ahh that's interesting haha

[pseudo gate]

royal?

[woven breach]

I'm only saying this with utmost respect

[sleek quiver]

P3 was… pretty dark

[pseudo gate]

plss dont flame me. i really dont know

[woven breach]

and I mean to not offend

but were you living under a rock?

[sleek quiver]

Their evoker and how to use it was… wow lol

[woven breach]

no I just find it funny lol

[pseudo gate]

=.= hahaha sorry

[woven breach]

oh yea it was lol

[pseudo gate]

p3 you mean the story was dark? i wanna give it a try. because to me, p5 is dark alrdy. That last chapter is like avengers thanos snap going on

[sleek quiver]

The themes they touched upon was dark

[pseudo gate]

are you an atlus fan too?

[sleek quiver]

It’s depression, which is very real

[woven breach]

let's just say I played P3P, P4G and P5.... but only have beaten P5

[pseudo gate]

wow. ok i think i should give p3 a shot now

[pseudo gate]

ahh i see. Do you also got intrigued by all of their myth creatures? i really like persona because of that

[sleek quiver]

If I can get a used PSP, I’ll definitely try to finish P3P lol

[pseudo gate]

Makes me got intrigued about christians

because in persona 5, there's micheal, raphael etc

then i googled them, i was like "wow this is interesting lore"

Then there's metatron...

[woven breach]

ngl, I like the designs but not to the point where I want to know more about the lore.

[sleek quiver]

SMT stuffs yeah

If you’re interested in that part of the game, definitely give SMT a try as well

[pseudo gate]

what? why??

[pseudo gate]

just googled it, it is also persona

so im confused!!!

is it linked to persona games???

[woven breach]

SMT isn't really persona

so to speak

[pseudo gate]

but their monsters

are the same

[woven breach]

well yea

[pseudo gate]

whats going on?

[woven breach]

but the plot and style is not like persona

[pseudo gate]

oh. i hope they dont tackle like persona story with all the depression things

[woven breach]

I don't think so

[woven breach]

extensive reading is not my thing

[pseudo gate]

i see. But it sucks though that they dont have cthulu

i mean that myth creature is soo well known

i hope atlus put that creature in

future persona

I wanna say jesus too but... well obviously u guys know what will happen if they put him in

[sleek quiver]

I think Cthulhu is in another region in and of itself

Lovecraftian is another beast of it’s own, so to speak

[dire warren]

good morning, what

[sleek quiver]

Morning, welcome

SMT and Persona leans on the angelic and biblical, while Lovecraftian is a fear of the unknown

At least from what I understand about Lovecraft lol

[dire warren]

we're talking about persona? ngl i've been thinking about getting p3

also for lovecraftian i heard the boss of p2 has a lovecraftian persona, but then again p2 is... quite something

[mystic wave]

||what about Futaba's persona||

[fresh crag]

https://tenor.com/view/luigi-basketball-jump-dunk-gif-11926717

[low nymph]

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-09-25-hitman-gog-release-sparks-drm-row-review-bombing-accusation

[quartz hatch]

https://twitter.com/915owen/status/1441487336651427840

Owen915 (@915owen)

this took longer to make then it should have, anyways funny chris pratt mario https://t.co/yDv25oL9sL

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[woven breach]

https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1441530830296334336?s=19

IGN (@IGN)

Super Mario (Guardians of the) Galaxy https://t.co/HS0w62PkFD

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For the first time

I like something from IGN

[ocean iris]

Interesting but they should have expected that since they market themselves as DRM free. No blunders will be tolerated

Or apparently it was some issue? Dunno

[polar dragon]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/802615525141643265/873957403266281482/received_1127112967819469.jpeg

[rancid token]

Two more days

https://tenor.com/view/outer-wilds-gif-22858957

[wraith cradle]

Two more days

https://64.media.tumblr.com/08d7e6eff243ccea0010627a466ef704/dab859b6c66c510b-1c/s1280x1920/a261161212d053ef8884ff79e41506c4cd0b910a.gifv

[rancid token]

I have the day off and no tabletop that night

Time to i m m e r s e

[woven relic]

two days until?

[rancid token]

Outer Wilds dlc

[vivid mesa]

I feel like this can be said to so many people after the last two years.... 😛

[wraith cradle]

TWEWY 2 PC

[leaden heart]

---

Faith Chapter III

Soon.

Yeah.

💦

[twin yarrow]

from the local twitter:

Have completed diablo on normal with summoner druid. Everything i did was summoning wolves and opening doors. Like an alpha.
On the other hand, it's kinda embarassing to know that wolves could've completed diablo without me, if they were able to open doors.

[woven breach]

Is that why Jacob loses in twilight?

[woven relic]

so hopefully only one year until TWEWY 2 on Steam

[coral hawk]

Did it get postponed? I thought it was out on steam in like 2 days

Oh it's egs got it

[sleek quiver]

Don’t worry guys, it will become free on EGS after 1 year

[woven relic]

lol

[wraith cradle]

And TWEWY comes tomorrow there

Along with Outer Wilds DLC and In Sound Mind which looks quite interesting (From Nightmare House 2 devs)

[quartz hatch]

tim sweeney, crying heavily while throwing all triple A games at people for free: please install my game client

[sleek quiver]

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-05-04-epic-expects-epic-games-store-to-be-profitable-by-2024

2024, that’s 2 and a half year away

2 and a half year left for free games

[wraith cradle]

They got two very profitable sources on income. They can burn money for AA decade straight

[quartz hatch]

this basically shows how competition in the pc gaming market is limited to those who already have money to burn

any smaller start ups wouldn't stand a chance and couldn't wait until 2024 to become profitable if they launched in 2019

[sleek quiver]

All jokes aside though, Wiki states EGS does still competes with Steam in terms of earnings

Can’t say much about what actually earns the money

[sleek quiver]

Anything in tech, really

Been like this since forever

[woven relic]

what about mobile devs that have a huge hit?

[sleek quiver]

More recent examples I can point out is how low the pricing of the Steam Deck goes vs other similar Windows handheld like the Ayaa Neo or GPD

$350 vs $750

Valve is witchcraft

[sleek quiver]

Needs a start-up backing at first

Companies like Netease or Tencent have huge money backing them up from the get go

Or at least Tencent does

[elder arrow]

is apex legends dead or sumn

i was sitting in matchmaking for a solid 20 mins

nothing at all

[quartz hatch]

sadly yeah 😦 guess it's just the zillionth example of it

i don't have a whole lot of knowledge on businesses and how they're ran, considering i never really had education in it (different studies and all that), so my general knowledge of it is "things are skewed a lot"

[elder arrow]

when is halo infinite launching

october something

[sleek quiver]

The tech scene nowadays can be thought of as already matured, in a sense that people already figured out what works and what doesn’t

There’s less experimenting now and more “moving on with the plan”

[quartz hatch]

true, i feel like there's less innovation the longer tech companies go on

i mean i get the whole "don't fix what isn't broken" but i feel like the whole "capitalism breeds innovation" doesn't go for when there's little to no competition for facebook/twitter/google etc., bc why would you have to innovate if there's nowhere else for your users to go?

i think it's the main reason why tumblr still has an active userbase despite all their odd design choices and updates, flimsy coding, a staff/customer service that never replies apart from automatic do not replies saying your email has been received (only to never get a reply) and numerous bugs that have plagued the website for years...there's no alternative to the type of experience they offer

[dire condor]

Hello ❤️

[wraith cradle]

Hi there

[polar dragon]

Well these are game stores. It's 2 different fields of competitions.

I generally disagree with the whole no innovation nowadays vibe tbh.
Plenty of experimenting are going around if you look.
Cross platform games are making great strides.
DLSS and other super sampling tech is making games looking a lot better with less resources.
Game streaming I think is a legitimate innovation, as long as we can solve the latency issue.
VR stuff could be great in the near future.
Under screen cameras, under screen finger print censors, automatic facial recognition for instant logins (yeah it raises some privacy issues but that's innovation nonetheless), etc.
Hell, the existence of Discord itself is an innovation.
And if you think there is no competition in the tech scene and once a company is king, they can't die, then let me introduce you to the graveyard that is MSN, Skype, SEGA, Konami, Kodak, and many, many more.

[eager hamlet]

Its less witchcraft and more that Valves device is a lot lower in power

And they're still dumping the price to compete

[wraith cradle]

Eeeeeey Unno. Excited for Outer Wilds tomorrow?

I know I am

To be able to experience again for the first time secrets on that Solar system

[sleek quiver]

What I meant by what I’m saying was, tech companies nowadays are playing it safe. They already know what will work and what won’t, so they don’t take risks anymore. Most of the stuffs we see nowadays are safe incremental improvements rather than the market changers of the 2000s. We don’t see that kind of market changer anymore, since the tech industry knows where it wants to go today, compared to how it was 20-30 years ago

And regarding tech companies and competition, yeah, I don’t see the tech’s big 3 (Google, Apple, Amazon) going down anytime soon, not in 20-30 years. Valve and Epic? Same story. These companies are giants, both in size and influence, and they’re are much bigger than every single one of the dead companies mentioned

[rancid token]

https://tenor.com/view/outer-wilds-outer-worlds-beloved-outer-wilds-gif-22398682

[wraith cradle]

There is a prompt to make the Echoes of the Eye less scary

After the Anglerfish didn't have it I fear whay they are throwing to us NOW lmao

[untold hornet]

relating to tge genetics topic

have any of you played niche? and is it good at all?

i've been sorta following it and it seems really interesting

[lofty pecan]

just started playing UNBEATABLE [white label] and wow its hard

even the tutorial

[ocean iris]

Oh god outer worlds

what a god awful port

[lofty pecan]

neo twewy is out for pc now

on epic tho 🤢

[wraith cradle]

God, Echoes went to non- creepy to creepy to non-creepy on record time

[eager hamlet]

Sorry I didn't look in this chat for a bit

You could say so, given that Im playing Echoes of the Eye right now

Not very far yet though

However, I am going to take a shot in the dark guess already

||The third people are who created the interloper||

[wraith cradle]

I think is going that way yes

I started suspecting when I saw ||Ghost Matter inside the ring when it has no business there||

Gotta say the setup for ||the Ring|| was wonderful

I was getting goosebumps when I saw the ||The Shadow over the Sun||

[eager hamlet]

Mmh

It's not just that ||ghost matter is inside||

||It's that its in only a few specific locations where the artifacts are||

Btw, there is one detail Im wondering if youve spotted

||You don't get the normal death loop animation. You instead actaully get looped back a few seconds early||

[wraith cradle]

Now you say it you are right ||Although I think is just so people can see better the explosion of the canon and is unrelated to the DLC||

[eager hamlet]

I'll have to check

Ok I checked

It's only in that area

In the normal area, you get the normal animation

And I also figured out why

||By the time the sun goes supernova, the stranger is 90 kilometers away||

[crimson fossil]

an emulator specialists here? I know there is an emulator that lets you play ssb online. thats pretty awesome. my question is, are there emulators that let you run ps1 games online? I really wanna play some soul blade against people online

[scenic wigeon]

I looked it up on Google and I got something called ePSXe

I'm not an expert though

[crimson fossil]

wuuut ive used that back in the day, but it was strictly an emulator. didnt offer any sort of netplay. but i guess that was many years ago, ill look into it

[eager hamlet]

So, I think I got to the spooky part, @wraith cradle

[wraith cradle]

Oh right

Let me guess. I guessed for contextual things

[eager hamlet]

Hmm

Well its not jumpscares

[wraith cradle]

That ||One of those things is still alive, there is a chamber with lacks a corpse||

[eager hamlet]

But it's an existential dread kinda thing

I'll avoid spoiling you

[wraith cradle]

Ok

[eager hamlet]

Unless youre stuck and need a hint

[wraith cradle]

I'm doing a last cycle and going to bed

Gotta college tomorrow

I wanna try something before I forget it

[eager hamlet]

What do you want to try?

[scenic wigeon]

good luck!

[wraith cradle]

Wanted to see if the ||Hidden Gorge|| is easier to reach after the ||Dam breaks||

[eager hamlet]

Ah

Hm

Ah, now I know what its for

There is a minor jumpscare

[wraith cradle]

Where?

In the gorge?

[eager hamlet]

Oh its unrelated to your idea

I was checking something else out

You'll see soon enough

[wraith cradle]

Well I actually managed to advance in this cycle

I reached the other side of the ||Rotted bridge and now I'm in a church with a mechanism that needs a password with 5 symbols||

[eager hamlet]

Wait, how did you get there

I haven't managed that yet

Did you cheese it, or intended path?

[wraith cradle]

I just flew over the Ghost matter lmao

You can just jetpack over it

[eager hamlet]

In the hidden gorge?

Huh

Ill try that then

[wraith cradle]

Yeah

SPOILER https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/835964305299079192/892561569924391022/unknown.png

Wait you don't even need to fly it

There is a small clean corridor

SPOILER THE DOOR https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/835964305299079192/892561859864039504/unknown.png

[eager hamlet]

Lmao I thought it was inaccessible

[wraith cradle]

Ok, now I'm stuck

[eager hamlet]

What are your rumours on your ship log?

[wraith cradle]

brb gonna kill myself

Ok, done, let me check the Logs

(Also gonna visit Gabbo for the Meditation)

Logs https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/835964305299079192/892562869613379624/unknown.png

[eager hamlet]

You have the ship log you need

You just have to check them out

[wraith cradle]

Wait, the ||Hull Breach Log||?

Or the ||Sealed Vault||

[eager hamlet]

The former

[wraith cradle]

Ok, ty

[eager hamlet]

Yw

Meanwhile I think I might get stuck soon-ish

[wraith cradle]

Gl

[eager hamlet]

Actually, I had a thought

There is a thing that could work

Yknow what i wonder?

Are we gonna get the ||translation unlocked for their language?||

[dire condor]

spirit farer is good

[scenic wigeon]

based

[wraith cradle]

If the ||Translation exists|| I have yet to find it

[eager hamlet]

Same

I have figured out a couple more things

But also disproven a hypothesis I had

||Clearly we're not looping normally, and I noticed 2 of the flames in the hidden rooms go out, so I thought the third is when you die. Turns out, the third never goes out||

[wraith cradle]

||So something in the ship is screwing over with the loop||

[eager hamlet]

||I think something is killing us||

||I just can't get a bead on what it is||

[wraith cradle]

||Define killing us||

Also did you know if you stick a drone into the ||Dam|| you can check when is gonna break?

[eager hamlet]

||Well, literally that. I think whatever happens to us is lethal. ALso, no, I didnt actually||

Anyway, I might be getting close-ish to the end?

[coral hawk]

uh bideo gem

[eager hamlet]

...

I got lost

How did I get lost?

[dire condor]

does anyone play/played DR2 (daganronpa)

i feel like that game was a waste of my money

[eager hamlet]

You mean V3?

[hallow wadi]

dr2 was my fav entry. i have to replay v3

the ending was controversial lol

[dire condor]

oh well

i feel like as a game its okay

but as a story its uhhh...not my style

[hallow wadi]

thats fair

it has its issues even for people who do like the genre

[dire condor]

yeah it does

[eager hamlet]

Ok now I got the really spooky part of Echoes of the Eye

[wraith cradle]

I tried ||the lamp thing, the fire exploded and I said screw it, I'll continue tomorrow||

[eager hamlet]

||Did you check all 3 chambers in the breached hull?||

[wraith cradle]

You mean ||the two flashback thingies||

[eager hamlet]

Aye

Plus the reel you find there

[wraith cradle]

Yeah that too and I did what they did ||Took the artifact to the tombs with the fire and napped when I woke up the fire exloded killing me||

[eager hamlet]

||You saw them test 3 designs. One didn't do anything. One was on reel with a lot of burning. The third worked||

||You snagged the wrong type of artifact||

[wraith cradle]

Ooooooooooh

Ok then

[eager hamlet]

||It has to be the one that lets you focus||

Also yeah, spooky times ahead

[wraith cradle]

I know which to take then

G'night

[eager hamlet]

If it makes it easier

When you get in there, its on the table

Anyway, night

[junior crown]

Okay so I noticed people been talking about Outer Wilds and I was thinking if I should get it alongside the DLC. But I am not exactly sure considering I know I have problems solving puzzles at times, but I know it's best recommend to go into this game blind, so would like to ask. How doable are the puzzles without outside help? Because I think this is only thing I wanna consider before jumping in.

[dire warren]

why is everyone talking in spoiler tags

[junior crown]

Outer Wilds DLC is out hence why

[pulsar schooner]

so disappointed with deathloop

running it with a pretty beefy rig and the performance isn't impressive. Also, it crashes so much.

[junior crown]

Yeah that's sadly a factor considering it runs with Denuvo which is known to lower performance.

[quartz hatch]

yeah I heard it runs pretty poorly on PC, even for people with really good specs

and that's why people streaming it who had one got it on PS5

though this isn't the first time this has happened, idk if it's a Bethesda thing or an Arkane thing, but Dishonored 2 (the studio's previous title) also had very poor PC performance

[junior crown]

It's mostly a Bethesda thing, since they ask Arkane to use Denuvo on each new release I think.

[quartz hatch]

Denuvo is anti-piracy software right? I've heard it tanks performance on a lot of titles

I'm not too knowledgeable on PC gaming and anti-piracy software, how is it possible that a single program can tank an entire game's performance? (as in, how is it possible that they haven't adjusted the anti-piracy software in such a way that Denuvo DOESN'T ruin the game's experience)

and with they I mean Denuvo themselves (considering I doubt that the devs can change anything in programs they didn't make themselves)

[junior crown]

Denuvo basically works in a way no one knows for sure, but the people behind it and when it's implemented developers of the game have to tie it in with their own code, so it's not basic installment modification to the game, but rather it getting a tie in with the code of the game. And it operates differently on each specs so you can't exactly use different specs, so people trying to crack the protection to make the game piretabls can't do it as fast as they usually do. With it also the outcome before someone does crack a code varies with each video game too that has Denuvo. It's basically to prevent first days of sale to also have pirated versions out already, but then also usually it can stay for a bit too long for sake of protection, which makes performance of legitimate copies worse, while pirated versions are unaffected by it by the time code is cracked.

I honestly never understood keeping Denuvo for a long while in games once the code is cracked. Since what it basically means is that in such case legitimate copies perform way worse while pirates don't have to bother with such.

[eager hamlet]

Outside of a small few that are a little obtuse

Very doable

For most things, you find hints giving you the basic idea of the approach, or you can figure it out yourself

The hard part is thinking outside the box

[wraith cradle]

And some clunky platforming at times

Gravity hates you in this game

[junior crown]

Alrighty! In short, I got in the end. Shall try it out soon. And noted for the platforming part!

[rancid token]

Yeah there's really on one thing in the base game that's really unclear even after being tweaked

[eager hamlet]

Its a lot better now

Also I finished it Albino

[wraith cradle]

I reached the dark parts, managed to get some clues, got lost, more clues, got lost and got bored

Didn't see the Loop retreating that much as you said tho

[eager hamlet]

Wdym?

[rancid token]

I also finished it

[wraith cradle]

||The thing you said about the loop starting earlier||

[junior crown]

Outer Wilds spoilers. ||Damn the blackhole in Brittle Hollow sure kicks my butt, i am never prepared for its gravity pull.||

[wraith cradle]

I love when I accidentally ||enter in an Stable Orbit around it and just hopelessly yeet myself around the Planet||

[eager hamlet]

||Oh that. It's most visible if you look towards the sun as it ends||

||The blue wave doesn't come close to you, but you already get looped.||

[digital fulcrum]

i haven't played outer wilds myself (though i've watched some co-commentary playthroughs of it) but i adore the ost

[wraith cradle]

That happened in the base game too

||The Loop is gonna reset with or without your death||

||It's just that when it ends the Stranger is so far from the Loop that when the sun goes Nova the Stranger is outside its danger zone, that could happen in the base game too but you had no reason to go that far back then as all planets are consumed by the Nova||

[digital fulcrum]

i must admit i literally only just found out the dlc even exists though so [scuttles off to look for info]

[wraith cradle]

It released Yesterday but it was known for months, people were wary but excited

As it felt the game was a complete experience already

Anyhow Anyone here played Kena?

It has some Pixar Level cutscenes

It's unreal

[woven relic]

it looks great (no PS5 for me yet)

[leaden heart]

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/1681480/header.jpg?t=1631897307

This game has some heavy themes.

But I like what the interactive medium is trying to comment on.

The heavy themes, were purposeful.

I know some people who are like the alligator, who are just comfortable with their lives, and stuff.

I believe that the creators did the "write what you know" technique.

and they wrote about their own experience of wanting to become a [big shot].

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WriteWhatYouKnow

I love the interactive medium, 9/10.

[eager hamlet]

Ohhh

I had no idea

[eager hamlet]

You should play it

Its really good

And yes, the OST is amazing

[fresh crag]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/488860/MADNESS_Project_Nexus/

Steam

MADNESS: Project Nexus

MADNESS: Project Nexus is a third-person Run n' Gun-slash-Beat'Em Up filled with arcade-style action and button-mashing brutality. Train your custom Madness combatant for the endless trials of Arena Mode, building weapons from your own sick imagination to get through just one more wave of deranged assailants. Or, play through the core campaign a...

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$22.49

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it out

[sleek quiver]

I know the soundtrack was done by Theophany, with collaboration from Cudamani Gamelan

[sleek quiver]

This one ^

That hits close to home, my country is practically neighbors with Indonesia

[woven breach]

as an Indonesian, I can't take that name seriously

[sleek quiver]

Your name? Cudamani? Theophany?

[woven breach]

Kena

[sleek quiver]

Oh lol

Well, in Malay, kena does means something lol

Not something epic, just a usual word lol

[woven breach]

Yea that's the thing

Of all the names they could pick

[wraith cradle]

What does it mean?

[sleek quiver]

No specific meaning, it’s just a sentence builder I guess. “Kena pukul” is “got hit”, “pukul” is hit, “kena” doesn’t really mean “got” but it means that in that particular phrase

Different meanings in different contexts

[wraith cradle]

Oh lol

[woven breach]

now put it next to the full title

Kena: Bridge of Spirits

"Got hit by bride of spirits"

[twin yarrow]

vidia geims names already got pretty generic recently as they are

like there is a pool of words from whcih authors pick several and make into a name

[wraith cradle]

Here I present a game with an hilarious joke name

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/835964305299079192/893104679402217542/unknown.png

[woven breach]

And there's SGG with one word titles

Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, Hades

[wraith cradle]

Evertytime a game comes with the subtitle Retribution, take a shot

[woven breach]

no way

I'd die

[twin yarrow]

already being tried with "dark" "darkness" "shadow" "dead" "death" and stuff

thankfully the biggest SGG title is not "Death Kingdom" or something

even if it could've been

[woven breach]

Well their game titles are to the point and self explanatory.
Bastion: you're building a bastion
Transistor: you're carrying a huge transistor.

[wraith cradle]

Hades: Daddy Issues
Pyre: Escaping Quarantine

[ocean iris]

I think Im noticing a trend with new nintendo open world games

MH Rise, Kirby and forgotten land and the Pokemon Arceus game all seem to have that abandoned empty world thing they're going for

I genuinely begin to think it's going to become a trope for the Switch

Because of course empty world doesnt make the game unplayable

Well not exactly open world but open spaces

The grass textures do kinda look samey 😳

[woven breach]

okay I started Kena: Bridge of Spirits

I must say

the production quality is a lot higher than I anticipated

[wraith cradle]

Yeah right?

Those cutscenes are some hot stuff

[woven breach]

Also

After digging around in google

The dev actually made the majora's mask fan animation

So I was like ooooooh

No wonder

That explains a LOT

[wraith cradle]

Quick question: Anyone here played a game called 'Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk' to give me their opinion? It looks like Etrian Odyssey and that interests me

[junior crown]

Outer Wilds spoilers. ||Had a proper loop where I got to explore more in depth in Brittle Hollow. What a run of emotions of fearing when the loop ends while you read the contextual information.||

[junior crown]

||Had a first scare, and it was a damn meteoroid from the volcano moon hitting to close near me. ||

[junior crown]

||This game doesn't pull punches. The freaking unstable stairs on this planet are a death trap.||

[sleek quiver]

I always confused Outer Wilds with Outer Worlds

Both are games people talked a lot as well

[woven relic]

yea, same

[wraith cradle]

The trick is that Outer Wilds doesn't have a 'The' behind

It's The Outer Worlds

Fun fact: Outer Wilds original name was 'Spaceworthy'

[twin yarrow]

out there

there's a world outside of Yonkers

Way out there beyond this hick town, Barnaby

[wraith cradle]

Damn, The Eternal Cylindre just came out

That weird af game

Front of the Cylinder: Cute animals and vibrant Flora that makes it look like NMS

Behind the Cylinder: ||Eldritch abominations that looks straight out of Lovecraft or Warhammer 40k||

[rancid token]

It's easy

Outer Wilds good

The Outer Worlds bad

[woven relic]

lol

[hybrid jetty]

i can't even call the outer worlds bad its just a game that

exists

[wraith cradle]

Hopefully they learned for TOW2

[hallow wadi]

i bought outer worlds accidentally because I thought it was outer wilds

and then i couldn't return it because i didn't install or realize it until after the window closed

still haven't played it

[junior crown]

The Outer Worlds is for sure a game that exists.

[polar dragon]

anyone know a good high refresh monitor that is not outrageously expensive?

[wraith cradle]

I think that of all games that exist, Days Gone exists the most

Cause I can't say anything more that 'It exist' about it

[scenic wigeon]

I actually really liked Days Gone

but I can see how it exists to some people

[broken smelt]

what's your budget and what resolution are you targetting?

[polar dragon]

1080p and hoprefully <$250

actually the rx580 probably can't do 1440p yeah

[broken smelt]

coolio, this video has a few good recs timestamped for convenience https://youtu.be/Q_Ghei_bhLE?t=77

it can, just not well

[polar dragon]

i think most AAA can be done at high/maxed for 1080p

which ill take over the <60fps 1440p

[woven breach]

I still play at 1080p

[broken smelt]

most people still play at 1080p, 1440p is becoming more popular tho

[polar dragon]

i think my next increment upgrade would be 1440p

but for now

did i tell you i retired my 8 yo gaming laptop?

[woven breach]

yes you did

[polar dragon]

now im trying to fill that void

with a new monitor xD

hmm newegg or amazon

amazon is cheaper but im trying not to pay bezos

xD

[woven breach]

I've been thinking of getting new monitor

but my laptop's monitor is too good....

[broken smelt]

newegg, because frick bezo's

[polar dragon]

newegg it is

[lofty pecan]

has anyone played Death's Gambit: Afterlife?

if so how would u rate it

[sleek quiver]

What does “finishing a game” means to you guys? Finishing story mode? 100% everything that’s unlockable, even cosmetics? Perfect save playthrough ala FFVII every item x99 saves?

And how many of you guys finish your games, according to your answer to question above?

[woven breach]

most of the times, finishing story. If there are endgame contents, 99% of the time I don't bother. Which is why I hate games with true ending. There are only 2 games that I 100% everything, Hades and Turnip Boy.

However games like Monster Hunter are types that I will pour my heart and soul for the grind.

as for how many games I've finished

I guess the way to put it is I haven't finished every single game in my library

but generally, 80% of the games I've played, I've finished

There are 3 types of game experience for me

1. Games that I'm absolutely obsessed with for 2 weeks and beat it in that 2 weeks.
2. Games that I love playing but drop due to reasons. Then months, years later I come back and finish it. I had that experience a bunch of times.
3. Games that I play and noped out of.

Outer Wilds is on number 3 category

[sleek quiver]

Borderlands did that to me recently, all 3 titles on the Switch (1, 2, Pre-Sequel). The gunplay was nice, but the grind was just not enjoyable to me. You kinda can’t see the end of the grind, unlike in other grindy games I’ve played like Witcher 3 or Diablo 3, where you know what’s the end is going to looks like (Witcher 3, an empty map, no more ? icons, Diablo 3, all equipments on highest perfect rarity)

Vehicle controls were not nice either, which means I walked most of the time rather than using vehicles and walking all the time is pain

I don’t think I’ll be finishing all 3 Borderlands anytime soon

The need to just finish the quests and story was there, that’s a sense of accomplishment/“finished” I can get in on, but the way through it was meh

[twin yarrow]

finishing means basically "reach the end of the game", and end is when credits are shown

and there is a title "the end"

finishing a game for me means see every ending that is possible, and so it counts less than a half

there are many games i was already done with to try another walkthrough, and i was like "ok, maybe some other time", and that other time comes several years later at best

there are games that has no particular ending, like sandbox games, so you can see the "ending", unlocking everything and stuff, but you can still play, so..

and there are also games you don't want to finish bc that will mean you'll have to say farewell to the world you've been into for a while, and it will hurt, so you try to delay finishing it and eventually stop before the final chapter

to think of it, most games i've truly finished, were ran through in a day or two

and there are also games that you bought and promised yourself to play, but never started, so they don't count as well

[dire warren]

i define finishing a game as "100%". all achievements, or what would define as achievements if the game has none.
the air quotes is because some things i'm just Not Skilled Enough to get or getting them would probably legally classify you as insane (like the path of pain and land of storms in HK, or crown farming in MHGU)

with that in mind i've completed 0? games? i'm a bastard who gets distracted easily and i have a fondness for games with stupidly hard achievements

[dire condor]

finishing a game to me means completing the story, having seen everything, but not necessarily done everything. doing everything there is is 100%ing it

[twin yarrow]

there is like, a difference between finishing and completing

[coral hawk]

I played deaths gambit before afterlife and put a little bit of time into afterlife yesterday and it is a very different game the combat feels really good

But I'm not far enough to say how good it is yet

[dire condor]

there literally isn't

[twin yarrow]

finishing is like, getting from start to finish
completing is walking through every corner and every door to see everything and walk everywhere

[woven breach]

yea I don't 100% games. I have better things to do than frustratingly trying to being a boss I didn't grind before hand

[rancid token]

I used to complete games but now I just finish them

Which I consider just hitting credits and then whenever I get bored after that

[ocean iris]

https://is2.4chan.org/v/1633089064981.png

Holy crap.

Finally

And all it took was hundreds of games to get botched PC ports

[woven breach]

have you guys done a 1 hour long fight/gameplay on a section in games

I'll start

Adamantoise in FFXV

it took me 4 hours to beat it

cause I didn't use ring of lucis

was only level 73

didn't eat

and just hammering it away with ultima weapon

my bro went to gym, came back, cook dinner, did his work and I still wasn't done

[twin yarrow]

most of the dark souls 1 bosses fit under criteria

[woven breach]

I mean the game's supposed to be challenging so kek

however what I meant was not spending over an hour or more trying to beat the boss or whatever, but the fight took you over an hour or more

unless there's that in dark souls

idk I don't play daak sulz

[ocean iris]

I never lingered in a game that much

Literally the hardest bossfight I ever had was in Borderlands 2, BUNK3R

And I didn't know about B0RE spots

Or Saturn in the same game

Ngl most bossfights I had there were quite hard

Meanwhile in BL3 they were piss easy

[woven breach]

there's an annoying one

the uh

robot driven by penn and teller

which the game calls them Pain and Terror

[dire condor]

kazdan paratus (i think that's how it's spelled), the insane jedi on the trash planet in force unleashed

but that wasn't long either, just difficult and lots of tries

[dire warren]

pmd1 rayquaza took me a whole replay of the game to beat

[wraith cradle]

Ey the To The Moon people released a new game

[wanton tangle]

Anyone play hunt showdown

[quick olive]

The amount of hours I put into beating Sword Saint Isshin in Sekiro for the first time were something else

[rancid token]

Hm

I'm trying to think of ones that actually take an hour and not an hour including deaths and retries

One of the XCOM finale missions maybe?

[eager hamlet]

Finish the main story. 100%ing it is completing the game

[vivid mesa]

the bad boy in me wants to get a game. but I have so much work to do this weekend 😦

[ocean iris]

Brutally murdering robbers in RDR2 sure is fun

Machete and tomahawks are just chef's kiss

[vivid mesa]

I loved the early meme of everybody just destroying the KKK in that game
and then some morons online got offended or overly sensitive/defensive of the KKK, lol

kotaku comments can be hilarious

[ocean iris]

Damn I just realised how much Im missing out

||After finding out about Arthur's TB||, it incentivised me to try doing more good and doing more sidequests

Right now I am ||confronting Leopold about the debts. I feel bad for doing the debt things. It's even the damn reason Arthur got TB. It could have been avoided.||

Anyways next sidequest is probably with Penelope and Beau or trying to find the killer sidequest

Anyways Im also gonna try finding the funny ghost guys as well

[sleek quiver]

Yeah, finishing the game is just getting to credits, which is usually just mean beating the final boss and credits rolls. Completing is 100%, which usually means getting all the achievements, and for certain games/communities, all items as well, both miss-ables and literally every chests @dire condor

Usually means, nothing left to be done

[wraith cradle]

Are you telling me I can Finish New Vegas in 5 seconds?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7b/ae/11/7bae113b611d01f18148715be6ae7f46.jpg

just in case

[rustic falcon]

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest
steam next fest is live for a week! lots of demos

[dire condor]

idk about you but to me "did you finish the game?" and "did you complete the game?" mean exactly the same thing

[wraith cradle]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1397390/The_BreakIn/

This one looks incredibly cool lol

Steam

The Break-In

The Break-In is a 1-4 player, VR and non VR, co-op burglary game about sneaking in, taking everything, and then sneaking out. Infiltrate houses, bank vaults and museums to earn money and upgrade your thief gear. Take on special contracts to extract high-value items from dangerous locations and go from petty burglar to high-tech agent of stealth....

Release Date

Soon

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[ocean iris]

RDR2 gave me the lesson that you can only do good things the most only when you find out you'l die soon.

[junior crown]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/583419755608801312/893597789358010398/demos.png

this is what I picked for demos of this festival

But do recommend people to check out Inscryption too, since it has demo there too!

[sleek quiver]

Well, if hitting credits in the main menu transports you straight to final boss, then game is pretty speedrun ready!

[sleek quiver]

Well, I guess people have different opinions

[ocean iris]

Remember when the french wanted to make digital games tradeable

is that still happening

[sleek quiver]

You mean, like NFTs?

[quartz hatch]

isn't Lindsay Lohan selling her fursona as an NFT

or did i dream that up last night

[ocean iris]

Nah like tradeable just like physical discs

Steam's borrow feature is the closest we got but someone has to log on the same computer so yeah

I like doing it when someone is over

[sleek quiver]

Tatz posted about it on gen chat

[sleek quiver]

Isn’t this just family sharing?

[ocean iris]

Yea lol

[sleek quiver]

Not exactly trade-able in my mind

[ocean iris]

Well only when someone is over

Well not exactly trading

But just installing someone else's license and playing it on your own account

[sleek quiver]

Just kinda like sharing Netflix logins lol

[wraith cradle]

Not Tonight 2 has a demo too

[sleek quiver]

https://gamerant.com/steam-allow-reselling-games-french-court/

Is this what you’re talking about?

[ocean iris]

That never evolved didnt it

[sleek quiver]

Reselling digital games, wow

Didn’t even knew they filed it lol

[ocean iris]

It's the Australian consumer rights policy on steroids

[sleek quiver]

Sounds cool, it’s really is just like NFTs then

[ocean iris]

while you can refund under 2 hours of playtime, and 1 week of owning it

here you can just sell it when you dont need it anymore

[sleek quiver]

I’d imagine it’s just the Steam keys or CDkeys that’s being traded

[ocean iris]

I wish there would he an option to give it back to the dev lmao and getting your money back

That wouldnt make sense wouldnt it

[sleek quiver]

That’s essentially refunding the game

[ocean iris]

yeah but over an extended period of time

[sleek quiver]

So, GameStop? Trading it back to the store?

[ocean iris]

No idea we dont have game stores here

[sleek quiver]

I doubt the money will be charged back to the dev, no dev wants to do that I think. It would be charged on the store

[ocean iris]

Oh right yes

[sleek quiver]

And I doubt you’ll be getting back 100% of the money you spent when buying the game initially

This is how GameStop is. And you don’t get real money back, you just get sort of a voucher to spend back on GameStop

[ocean iris]

Ewwwww thank lord we dont have game stores then

We just buy games at electronics store that also sell TV's and fridges and any electronics so it's all centralised basically

[sleek quiver]

GameStop has been doing this since forever, but of course, GameStop is kinda dead (while not being entirely dead), and it works easy on physical games only, since you owned physical games

Digital games is, really just a license to own the Steam keys

You know, trading Steam keys around doesn’t sound too crazy

[ocean iris]

Yeah the only problem is that those work as being traded only if they arent redeemed

aka the key reseller thing going on

ngl it helped me get Arma 3 DLC easier kekw

[sleek quiver]

Well, what the French gov wants is for these keys to be trade-able with money even after being redeemed

That doesn’t sounds too crazy

[quartz hatch]

i've personally always found video game stores more expensive than regular electronics stores

at least, in this country they're usually around 5-10 euros a pop more expensive at a gamestop-esque store than when i'd buy a copy through an online shop

[sleek quiver]

Of course, someone has to do the maths on whether it is fine to do or just makes the store lose money, which probably means Steam won’t do it ever

Brick and mortar stores here is the same as well, always 5-10 dollars more expensive than online e-shop or an online store like Amazon or something

Even when our version of Amazon here is also selling the same physical copies as the brick and mortar stores

[twin yarrow]

tbh, virtual license for games was already unusual thing, it's just something we got used to

but it can be reclaimed and taken away by right owners at any time

forbidden, erased, deleted from existence

something that won't happen with a disc

allowing people to trade something they don't really own is an.. interesting concept to say the least

i wonder how it will be developed and implemented

[scenic wigeon]

I thought it was less than 3 hours but that's just semantics

[woven breach]

I recently finished first Bayonetta

in normal mode

I like it a lot more than Bayonetta 2 in terms of gameplay

I died a lot to minions, but when it comes to bosses I don't find them hard

prob cause it's easier to target one enemy rather than juggling multiple

[mystic wave]

https://twitter.com/sumnnine/status/1443936844379533318

🍂🍁🦇🎃Kacy ⟣ 👻🖤💜🧡 (@sumnnine)

WHAT DID I JUST WATCH?????????? https://t.co/nEdAzwfD40

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Twitter · Oct 1, 2021, 1:52 PM

[woven breach]

you know

knowing nomura

he might make that happen

[mystic wave]

that clip is real lmao

[woven breach]

EVEN WHEN HE PLAYS THE SONG ON HIS PHONE?

[mystic wave]

yes!

[woven breach]

[hybrid jetty]

it gets better

he has airpods

but he chooses to blast it on the phone speaker

i need this game now

[lofty pecan]

ignoring the data privacy stuff does anyone recommend getting the oculus quest 2?

dont have a pc, so if i get into vr it looks like the only option

[tame veldt]

it's a very competent system and do recommend it if you have a lowpowered pc and want to experience vr, games are usually kinda short which is my only gripe but all and all it is good rec room is free and has lots of content due to fanmade stuff so that's a good starting point for vr imo

[lofty pecan]

thanks

[tame veldt]

ofc

[broken smelt]

based on specs alone, yes the oculus quest 2 is by far the cheapest decent standalone vr headset money can buy

I personally however cannot get passed the forced fb account in order to use the thing

[ocean iris]

https://i.4cdn.org/v/1633110451083.webm

Reminder how good Halo 3's water was

[wraith cradle]

If In the TGA Stranger Of Paradise doesn't win both Best Character and Best Writing I'm rioting

[woven breach]

Nah, mate. They're gonna award Ellie for best character again.

[ocean iris]

Wait what, new awards shows?

ah nvm The Game Awards

yeah literally just a publicity show where publishers pay to get their games called GOTY

dare I say auction

[wraith cradle]

T'was a bad joke mates

About the hilarious dialogue

[thin adder]

Dreamscaper is cool

Kinda slow

[lusty pendant]

I bought dead cells

it's... Interesting

[dire condor]

Is it good?

I have heard good things about dead cells

[lusty pendant]

I like the 2D aspect, weapon drops can feel a bit rng though I only played an hour so far and got past the first biome of sorts

[thin adder]

I can't get used to the 2d aspect at all

For dead cells

[woven breach]

I just barely passed a high diff song on a rhythm game

https://tenor.com/view/broken-finger-broken-fingers-broken-hands-sponge-bob-sponge-bob-square-pants-gif-12264054

[lusty pendant]

Congrats

[woven breach]

I've won

[lusty pendant]

yes

[woven breach]

but at what cost?

[lusty pendant]

However much time you put into trying it?

[woven breach]

once

actually

no

a lot

[lusty pendant]

there was this tablet rhythm game stage that me and my friend only passed by each taking care of half the notes

[woven breach]

I did that with a friend once

for funsies

it wasn't on hard song

the score was worse

[ocean iris]

Why are early 2010's games so comfy

Red Dead 1, Borderlands 2, Lollipop Chainsaw, Dead Rising 2, all those great Telltale games...

Funny enough I haven't played any of those besides BL2

I surely am missing a lot out

Oh yes the last of us as well but I dont have the possibility to play it

[thin adder]

BL2 was one my most played Single Player games (I never even touched Co-Op)

I loved every second of it

[ocean iris]

Yeah same. Except I was bullied into playing it with a friend

Well turns out me and that guy became best friends.

And also had a lot of fun with it

It was annoying? Yes. Was it unfunny? Yes. Did I enjoy it? Absolutely

But I do think in BL3 the unfunny and annoying aspects are too much even for me

Im still coping with the bad story choices there that I just consider it non canon

[thin adder]

I disagree that BL2 was unfunny

It had just the right amount of corny imo

BL3 was trash

[ocean iris]

Another thing I disliked was the boss invincibility phases

And how easy they were but they used this cheap trick to make it harder or something

I played on normal and they were super easy compared to normal BL2

[thin adder]

The only fight I enjoyed in BL3 was that dj guy

Cause of the music mostly

[ocean iris]

Oh ye it was creative

the problem is they hyped the game to have lots of bossfights

what a shame almost none of them were any good

also no raid bosses which breaks my heart

[thin adder]

The story was what put me off too much

The twins were breaking my annoyance limit every time they appeared

[ocean iris]

I like how it made people appreciate the pre sequel more

I always liked it but I can get why people disliked it

I do think of it as more of an expansion like in the old days

[thin adder]

People disliked pre sequel because of the story as well

It was... bland

imo

[quartz hatch]

i never played the third entry but i feel like i didn't miss much

[twin yarrow]

i got enough story spoilers to not play the game at all

not bc it became not interesting, it's bc those plot twists seem wrong to me

even some of bl2 and blps were debatable, but at least tolerable

[ocean iris]

wrong? totally

Im worried about Wonderlands but oh well it might be fun

It looks more Borderlands 2, and it has 2's Tina which is great

[twin yarrow]

it seem very similar to one of bl2 dlcs, so it actually might be ok

like, nothing is too canon and stuff

[ocean iris]

Ah yes Assault on Dragonkeep

One of the best DLC content in history

[twin yarrow]

indeed

[ocean iris]

also modding BL2 is unstable af but boy is it fun when you pull it off

the randomizers are just glorious

[junior crown]

Outer Wilds. ||I am bit stuck with what I can find on Brittle Hollow and I am bit dumb founded about it, died 10 times already with no progress what so ever so like I think I may need pointers to what I can find in The Hanging City or Old Settlement to help myself out. Or at least I am doing so since it says there is more, but I keep dying trying to random things falling or a house falling while I am in it. Should I try and focus on other things otherwise?||

[wraith cradle]

Yeah if you feel stuck just go to a different Planet

Sometimes the clues lie in different Planets

[junior crown]

||Got into observatory ||

[junior crown]

Outer Wilds ||MAN after figuring out I could just go to Tower of Quantum Knowledge such way at the end of the loop was insane.||

[wraith cradle]

||You can also ram your ship against it||

[junior crown]

||Tried to, but my ship got stuck in it lol.||

||Think I explored Brittle Hollow and the station connected to it quite a bit, time to move on to other stuff and maybe see if what I find there.||

[junior crown]

||Just experienced the sand death. The visor cracking was a painful to hear.||

[acoustic jacinth]

finally beat jevil

[elder arrow]

nice

[ocean iris]

https://i.imgur.com/lK3HH2i.png

Bruh......

only 24% beat Arthur's story

[dire condor]

well the game does get kinda tedious towards the end

the fun parts become less fun and the boring parts become more boring

getting forced into a shootout after following someone on your horse for 7 minutes does start to lose its appeal after the 50th time

[sleek quiver]

Well, it is era-accurate

[quartz hatch]

read that's a common criticism of this game, things take too long for the sake of realism?

[dire condor]

yeah, and the long horse rides are also often for exposition

my main problem isn't even how long things are, it's how the realism and immersion is immediately thrown out the window in story missions because the game forces you down a specific path, gameplay wise you make almost no decisions in any mission. it's always shooting and sometimes sneaking, but you can never decide between the two

[woven breach]

RDR2 is not a game for when you have 2 hours to spare. It's a game for when it's saturday afternoon and you have 10 hours to sink.

[ocean iris]

https://i.imgur.com/n09WDWA.png

I agree lmao

I mean I was used to GTA V and IV because you do the same thing, riding for exposition, but in cars

That's kinda the Rockstar trademark, they have been doing it for years

Dunno what people expected from this as well

I do agree the horse rides and such make the most playtime but I did enjoy it

I cant wait to see how GTA VI would be like if RDR2 was this good

[twin yarrow]

indeed. both games are nice even without storyline, you're just chilling in the world that lives on its own

[ocean iris]

The problem with GTAV was how short the story was

I mean it was great but it's clear they planned for expansions but never made it out

Also the world was kind of stale and the same random encounters kept happening

Wish there would have been more robberies and such, that was a welcomed aspect in RDR2

But I cant ask too much from a 2013 game. Funnily enough it still holds up

[twin yarrow]

most people i know, when they were done with story in both titles, switched to online

[ocean iris]

Yeah I did the same

[twin yarrow]

as rockstars themselves

[ocean iris]

I just farm cayo perico now

With my friends

I basically play it and treat it as an uhhhh

Car collection simulator

You'd be surprised how great the car collecting aspect is, I play just for that

https://i.imgur.com/8VycLpq.png

[twin yarrow]

indeed. and you can get different collections of different themes

[ocean iris]

Lmao Uncle really did roast every man of few words western protagonists

Yeah so basically for me it's a tuners wet dream, I cant wait to get back into GTAO once Im finished with RDR2

Since RDO doesnt sound that good

[twin yarrow]

we with my friend on the contrary, didn't do much in GTAO, since there is not much to do in the world itself, if you don't want to do missions

at least you can collect something, but still you need money for that

so we come back to the game each new free million

[ocean iris]

well yeah that's why cayo perico exists lmao

I just go with a maxxed out friend and he gives me all of the heist's cut

[twin yarrow]

while in RDO we just can travel from one place to another, collecting things, hunting making pics of animals, and just.. screenshooting

nature is something in the game

also horses are not less interesting than cars, each are different

[ocean iris]

fair enough

also i hope the cars in GTA VI will have those infotainment systems and such

also customization options like for those cars in the LS Tuners update

I loved that update

[twin yarrow]

yep, there were a lot

ability to make a total conversion of a vehicle to something completely new is very much welcomed

also, you know what sometimes we miss in GTAO? ability to whistle and make your car drive up to you

after RDO a habit hard to get rid of

even though quite possible in a modern world of GTA, where cars fly and stuff

[ocean iris]

yeah true

Also I doubt GTA VI will be as whacky as GTAO

Story modes are always grounded in Rockstar games

but yes pressing H to call your car would be great even if that doesnt exist in real life

just QOL changes

And imagine the stuff you could do in the game with today's tech

I assure you drones will be totally in there

[dire condor]

imo tho, driving a car in gta 5 is more fun than riding a horse in rdr2. at least when you're forced to do it a lot

"forced" is a word that comes up a lot with rockstar games actually

there's just this glaring discrepancy between the freedom you have outside of missions and the narrow pathway you have to follow during missions

and i feel like it got worse in rdr2

[wraith cradle]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1330470/FIST_Forged_In_Shadow_Torch/

This new Metroidvania looks nice

Steam

F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch

Six years ago, the Machine Legion invaded and colonized the Torch City, which was originally inhabited by animals. Rayton, the former soldier in the resistance war, has been living in seclusion since then. After his friend is forcibly arrested, Rayton reclaims his mechanical fist and steps to his journey fighting back. And he never expects that ...

Price

$26.99

▶ Play video

[junior crown]

Outer Wilds spoilers. ||Exploring Ember Twin, wish I could wait out the sand to fill out the pit in that one part. Waiting for it can sure be a bit too much lol.||

[wraith cradle]

@junior crown Rest in a campfire to let time pass quickly

[junior crown]

wait there is a campfire nearby that place?

[wraith cradle]

The closest campfire is Chett's

[ocean iris]

Lmao steam next fest is wild

[wraith cradle]

almost 700 demos

So Shovelware ahoy there

[lusty pendant]

me first-trying the 1st boss of dead cells: hmm this game seems too easy..
*proceeds to get bodied by generics in the very next area
welp there we go

[stable kindle]

dead cells will generally body you the moment you get too comfortable and humble you real quick, yeah

[junior crown]

Outer Wilds, not really a spoiler just to be safe. I know how to park (yes it stayed liked that and didn't budge from the place). ||https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/583419755608801312/894277885697880114/park.jpg||

[leaden heart]

https://youtu.be/y1PUtCyJ-es

only a few of the western games reached us here in the east.

so much fun.

I hope they do not make a Max Payne 4 game.

If they plan on doing so, I hope its a good one.

They really are quite reminiscent of the Matrix and some movies we have here.

[junior crown]

Outer Wilds ||Read about the rock. "wow rock teleports!", turn around. Rock gone. I for some reason panicky gasp, lost for words of gone rock.||

[junior crown]

||Got into Giant's Deep shipless on my first visit. Was stressful knowing there are possibly fish. ||

[wraith cradle]

||Giant's deep is ironically probably the safest and most chill planet ||

[junior crown]

||Gabbo is now my favourite Space Explorer. Talked to them and got to see them play their funny tunes while we were sent into space. funniest thing ever. ||

[wraith cradle]

||Remember to visit Gabbo several cycles to get new dialogue that can benefit you||

[sleek quiver]

I’m guessing the Golems in Slumbering Sanctuary?

[junior crown]

||GABBO. Meditation isn't the answer here. ||

[subtle sable]

anyone heard of noita

epic game

[wraith cradle]

Believe it is

[subtle sable]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/836826243483172874/893987984037253150/noita-20211003-002415-277049140-00098505.gif

[wraith cradle]

That mechanic is super useful

[junior crown]

ooh wait did I just learn it then? oh neat.

[subtle sable]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/251116850132287490/894312923550343198/Aten_The_Sun_disk.gif

[wraith cradle]

Yes now you don't need to kill yourself to end a loop

[junior crown]

nice!

Outer Wilds. ||Got into Statue's Island workshop area the intended way. By making the island get caught in the typhoon and then flying into the hole mid space, breaking every part of my ship, yet still getting in. ||

[wraith cradle]

You can get diving just fine tho

[junior crown]

Yeah, but it's not as fun such way. What low gravity taught me on other planets is that I must boost to my objective no matter the speed I will crash at it.

[lusty pendant]

something in the Stilt Village, can't remember except they all mobbed me at once

[clear pier]

As much as I like Metroidvanias, I'm not going to get F.I.S.T. since it's made by a Chinese company, which means the CCP gets money from their sales, as well as possible information they collect.

[winter mica]

american companies also collect an awful lot of information

[clear pier]

My reasoning was more towards not wanting to fund active crimes against humanity.

[wraith cradle]

https://youtu.be/4jOvGjxM1xg

What if Thomas the Tank engine wasn't as scary?

[woven breach]

*wasn't scary enough

[lusty pendant]

that's just Emil from Nier with some blood makeup

[sleek quiver]

Hope you’re not using a smartphone

[coral hawk]

I was gonna say any tax money you spend on literally any purchase goes towards active crimes against humanity lmao

[sleek quiver]

Yeah, one way or another, we can always connect the dots to something

[rancid token]

Something something ethical consumption

[coral hawk]

I just say play something if it looks like you'd enjoy it lmao cause if you try to justify not wanting to buy something people will always say that no matter what you're still doing that thing cause people online are phallic in nature

[lusty pendant]

but also something something do what you can so long as it's not hurtful

[coral hawk]

but also something something most games are owned by tencent in some way

[sleek quiver]

When I saw how people not wanting to have anything to do with the CCP, I always question whether it’s really is for a noble cause, or just blind, habitual racism

[coral hawk]

though real though tencent has their fingers in a lot of pies

That too

[sleek quiver]

Because you really don’t want to have anything to do with the Chinese, hoo boy, how the money runs deep. And also, crimes against humanity isn’t just happening in China alone, look at the mines in Africa and South Africa, or really just Amazon

[coral hawk]

One I saw was people complaining that china used slave labor (which is bad) by saying that america would never

but uh

video games

I'm enjoying the deaths gambit overhaul

its pretty fun but all my knowledge of the game is null and void which is actually kinda fun

[twin yarrow]

if i'd like to stop funding active crimes against humanity, i should stop pay taxes first

[sleek quiver]

The latest is in the Blizzard Activision news that popped up recently

[coral hawk]

what news is that?

I haven't been following it tbh

[sleek quiver]

Workplace sexual harassment. Suicide reports

[coral hawk]

oh then I knew that

I thought you were saying a new thing in it

[winter mica]

the i spy games slap

[scenic wigeon]

I need to read some I Spy or something sometime

[winter mica]

it's really so much fun

spooky mansion my beloved

[dire condor]

oh boy, wait till you find out about the cia

[rancid token]

Outer Wilds DLC is everything I wanted it to be and more

[junior crown]

Outer Wilds. ||Genuinely confused how i must get into that one quantum arc on Giant's Deep. Can anybody give a clue? tried putting a scout on it, but seem to not work since when I approach it disappears. ||

nvm

[wicked zenith]

i'm dying for outer wilds for the switch

[rancid token]

Oh huh, I thought that was already out

Probably trying to figure out how to make it not roast the Switch alive tbh

[wicked zenith]

that's my worry. i have a ps4, mac… but the switch is just my ideal gaming console cuz i can sleep/pause in the middle of anything and bring it with me around the house

it was supposed to be released earlier this year but got bumped to late 2021… probably a combination of DLC+replatforming issues

anyone playing eastward?

[junior crown]

quick question. Was Dark Bramble added in for the DLC?

honestly currently only my only clue is to check it out and I am unsure if I will head straight to separate thing.

[junior crown]

Outer Wilds. ||I GOT ONTO THE MOON.||

[ocean iris]

Just finished RDR2 Epilogue

Finally some damn closure

And 22k dollars

Time for mods

[rancid token]

It was not

[ocean cypress]

saw zagreus trending on twitter and a lot of them are about him being in smash 👹 i can only hope right 💔💔

[heavy heart]

Don't know if this is the forum for it, but does anyone know of online games with a decent playerbase?

[sleek quiver]

What will we do if it’s really him though

[woven breach]

I will do nothing.... cause I don't have smash

[sleek quiver]

My gut feeling right now is “people who like Zag in Smash:people who doesn’t” ratio is going to be 2:1

What other character is high on the prediction list right now?

[fervent gyro]

I'm currently playing Forza Horizon 4 and when it comes to amount of players it is quite decent, I'd say (that could change when FH5 comes out, as most of the players might migrate there). I'm in the UK timezone (GMT+1) and usually don't have a problem with finding someone to play (the matchmaking is mostly random though anyway). The loading times are veeeery long at times, unfortunately (my internet is fast, but I suspect it sometimes slows down without apparent reason, so it might be that?). Now, if by "decent" you meant behaviour, then there's some ramming and you can sometimes be pushed and miss your checkpoint, but you still get some cash and influence even if you finish last, so you can progress further, so I don't see that as that big of a deal. Not sure how it looks in ranked and if you could loose points by being last, as I just started playing there. But overall - if you like racing games and want to play online, you should have a decent amount of fun.

[heavy heart]

Decent in size was what I meant, but thanks for the recommendation, though I'm not into racing games

[sleek quiver]

Apex Legends still have a nice community last time I checked

Warframe is always a big time sink as well

[coral hawk]

5 minutes til the internet explodes in joy or anger

I personally want the smash last character to be someone literally no one wants

cause it'd be funny

darn people are gonna be happy lmao

[wraith cradle]

It looked like they were gonna present the Ashen One lmao

With the flame and all that

[coral hawk]

same

I was like Dark souls?

[wraith cradle]

That face is cursed

[ocean cypress]

no zaggy for smash💔

i’m kidding but it’s cool tho about sora

[coral hawk]

I am happy about them but I also really wanted it to be a reaaaally stupid pick to make people mad cause I live off the salt

[wraith cradle]

Let's be honest: Zag is both Non-Japanese and Recent.

Separated you can still have a chance, but together is basically nil

[distant aurora]

glad i wasn't the only one who thought it'd be zag for smash

[ocean cypress]

i saw one of my friends tweet it and it got me thinking fr

his moveset would be fire

[wraith cradle]

If Zag had come to smash all the Mods would have to work overtime

I just imagine thousands coming here to just blast their salt

[distant aurora]

ah,, the forced overtime condition

[wraith cradle]

https://twitter.com/HardDriveMag/status/1445390148783443973?s=19

Hard Drive (@HardDriveMag)

wow another anime sword fighter

Twitter · Oct 5, 2021, 2:07 PM

Lmao

[ocean cypress]

SCREAMS

no cause i screamed “what the hell” when i saw the doomguy fighter costume lol

but in a good way. i think it’s a neat little addition

[wraith cradle]

Sakurai, man, show us the Ult

You tease

[coral hawk]

just cause I know sakurai I won't be surprised if theres a special special character released after this lmao

imagine the Wah man

sora does look really fun though

[ocean iris]

Lmaooooo the last smash is just a sword guy

Oh it's been said before

but god damn it I cant imagine what it's like to actually be a fan of this game and get spit in your face like that

[wraith cradle]

Waluigi, but he is using a sword

[ocean iris]

tfw no Raiden

[coral hawk]

Only thing I'm disappointed in is the song list tbh

[ocean iris]

Hm yes Running with Rifles is on sale you people gotta get it

I will get the Pacific DLC for it because I like hard stuff

[woven breach]

well some people want Dante.... a campy swordsman

some also wanted Travis.... a nerd swordsman

[coral hawk]

rewatching the reveal trailer and yeah that def was setting up for ashen one

[wraith cradle]

This is Hard Drive. The Onion of Videogames

They are joking

[woven breach]

kek

[ocean iris]

Well I guess we are finally done with the Smash craze

[wraith cradle]

for now

[ocean iris]

about time I hate seeing it pop up everytime in my feeds

[coral hawk]

I love the smash reveals cause they are fun

I don't even play I just like the hype around it

[bleak coral]

https://tenor.com/view/cr1tikal-penguinz0-meme-woo-yeah-baby-gif-19316511

https://youtu.be/0-zuFjI-YnU

[wraith cradle]

Foreshadowing

[bleak coral]

https://tenor.com/view/final-fantasy-chaos-square-enix-gif-21948103

@wraith cradle

[wraith cradle]

Indeed, that is from I got the username

I'm unironically excited for the game

I want that cringe Injected into my veins

[bleak coral]

SAME

i hope its good and funny

[junior crown]

The phone scene sold me it will very funny

[bleak coral]

https://twitter.com/doom/status/1445410655385931777?s=21

DOOM (@DOOM)

finally https://t.co/77gwMClPoc

Likes

148

Twitter · Oct 5, 2021, 3:28 PM

[wraith cradle]

I'm for discovering in 2037 that Sephiroth full name is Henry Sephiroth

[glossy coral]

H e n r y

[coral hawk]

ok so I actually went back and looked at the song list again for sora

and I honestly can't believe we didn't get simple and clean since it played in the reveal trailer?

[wraith cradle]

If Sora appears in the next smash I hope they add Riku and/or Aqua as Echoes

[fathom juniper]

oh boi

[bleak coral]

https://tenor.com/view/sora-kingdom-of-hearts-sword-gif-13443882

What an amazing end to the roster

[dire saffron]

Lol somehow people are upset with it

[bleak coral]

a moment thats gonna go down in history

People would complain regardless of who got added

Thats the problem with Smash

[dire saffron]

I think its because when people hear kh they think Disney but theres literally no Disney with sora

[digital fulcrum]

genuinely had a moment of "wait. dark souls???" when watching the trailer

[bleak coral]

theres no way to please everyone