video-games

[ocean iris]

anyways, been looking forward to this one but didnt wanna pay the nintendo tax

[hybrid jetty]

rise doesn't look like botw

beyond "they both have grass"

arceus was 100% absolutely trying to emulate the botw look and style to uh....results

[lofty pecan]

anyone try out this game yet? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1296830/_Warm_Snow/ looks p interesting

Steam

暖雪 Warm Snow

While the rich stinks of meat and wine, the bones of the poor litter the roadside..Great injustice often leads to strange occurrences.Snow in July can only be remedied through blood.【A Dark Tale of Sword and Snow】A strange phenomenon appeared during the 27th Year of the Longwu Era. Snow fell from the sky, which was warm rather than cold to the t...

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[wraith cradle]

https://square-enix-games.com/en_GB/news/square-enix-preview-2022

Welp, no FF XVI mention

[ocean iris]

well that gets a sad damn daniel ar ar ar ar from me

[dire condor]

tfw no dragon quest xii

[late zinc]

Has anyone played moon hunters?

[coral hawk]

Moon hunters is very fun for about 4 runs then you kinda have seen everything

I adore the game and it has a great soundtrack but I don't think it has much content lol

[vivid mesa]

Daemon x Machina is awesome

fantastic soundtrack

Also: You know your stuff. MMZ saber combat is brutal

[stark kraken]

I'm making Hawkeye Gough from Dark Souls 1 a Darkest Dungeon playable character.

[ocean iris]

https://i.imgur.com/k85UwZI.jpeg

legendaries in borderlands 2 always feel so damn good to get

[ocean iris]

today I learned rainbow six extraction released. Oh no! Anyway

[rough lodge]

Hey so i bought gungeon a few days ago and played for a few hours but the game just feels kinda lackluster🤔

Like it just doesn't feel as exciting as most other roguelikes i played

[ocean iris]

felt the same when i played it on EGS

[rough lodge]

Like nothing just feels rewarding

[woven breach]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/193414868760657920/934440240410656818/unknown.png

this guy got a booty

[late zinc]

I dont mind if it doesnt have that much content as long as there is different ways to play and win each run

I mean tabletop games show most of their content each match

[coral hawk]

Then you might like the game

[late zinc]

[ocean iris]

https://images-ext-2.discordapp.net/external/64f3J0hVTlEDpZWQxh8KwHljw-t42VEVjeKQ1XNiXe4/https/frankfurt.apollo.olxcdn.com/v1/files/8eaxlhn5vm7k2-RO/image;s=1512x1512?width=676&height=676

new memory unlocked

anyone ever had one of these?

literally thought it was official and had to insert it into my xbox 360

i had the 360 version but you get it

[weary echo]

I didn't even know something like that existed, but it looks really cool

[ocean iris]

literally just a disc of a program for pc that you put maps and stuff on an USB stick then put it in the console

it was only 6 euro or so but god damn

https://i.imgur.com/mNk1gz2.png

no way

[dire warren]

yoo stampy's lovely world?? man i'm glad that hasn't aged horribly

[ocean iris]

for real, it's sad to see some content creators some grew up with just become bleh

[dire warren]

yeah it is tbh.

in other news i load up a mildly old pokemon game and am immediately hit in the face by the amount of qols that just don't exist

I have to farm rare items to fly across the map to talk to a specific npc to get rid of the move rock smash

[ocean iris]

https://i.4cdn.org/v/1642820661308.png

i hate to say this but dying light 2 looks kinda sus

way more RPG'ey than the first game

[zinc wraith]

Tony Hawk 1+2 has semi-replaced Hades as the game that is ruining my hands as I play it for way too long on the toilet

[stark kraken]

I have fundamental issues with the loot system in BL2 tbh

Level of gear becomes ridiculously important

It was far less important in 1

On top of that there is a meta to ideal parts

But some stuff is barely designed with unique enough parts

So actually visually determining the quality of a drop is hard as hell

All for a relatively simple game mechanically. I never did big raids because I started way after those were relevant.

[ocean iris]

best way to play is UVHM, OP 10, with the gibbed save editor

[stark kraken]

Yeah

I just grinded to uvhm op10 and traded around for a bit

Plus switch had dev codes in for a bit after the Lilith dlc

[ocean iris]

Also raids are fun as hell in normal mode, I did the one in the torgue dlc, with the Pete guy, it had some mechanic of rinsing off corrosive damage off you by going into the water pipes

[stark kraken]

Doing the dlcs (besides tina's) at uvhm op10 was hell

Krieg cant do the torque blimp fight very well

Or the trex

Regular enemies were fine besides the usual few deaths. Then bosses that I had explained just took no damage.

Like the way I play Krieg, I need enemies in Chain Lightning range

I use that to heal and build stacks

It isn't huge dps unless you have a lot of enemies but it's amazing healing and stack building

Fastball collection ofc

It's also used by Zer0 melee builds for self shield stripping

I do that too with flame of the firehawk

I do a pyro/blood build. Cowboy head fire skin. Modded Jakobs grog nozzle with a hammer trigger.

Then like a perfect DPUH, Heartbreaker or one of my other shotguns, and an Ahab or something.

I love Ahab. I even got the modded one the boss uses.

Grog into Ahab does great stuff

[ocean iris]

I realised how useless finishing the Zer0 Bloodshed skill tree is

Like, it's only effective in normal mode to just cloak and dash and kill enemies in a chain reaction since that's where they die fron a single hit

Although going back to normal mode in low level areas is so fun to use that skill

Well ofc if they dont die already from my Antagonist shield

[sleek quiver]

Lately I’ve been playing BL2 as well on my Switch. What platform are you playing it on?

Tried to search for online games on my Switch for BL2 but apparently, it’s a barren wasteland ;-;

[sleek quiver]

True, it seems odd that a fundamental mechanic like that is in the game but it wasn’t highlighted as much, nor does it have a UI designed to easily check for it

In other news, YGO Master Duel has just been released. People have been praising the game by how easy it is to create your first few decks, but I have a feeling they’ll quickly turn to hate once they hit a paywall in the game.

Sure, the early gem rush really helps new players build their first few decks, but once that honeymoon period is over, it will force you to pay for the microtransactions hard, just like any other mobile-centric games out there.

People are really in denial to the true nature of the game tbh

[hybrid jetty]

true to actual collectible card games then

shame that tabletop sim is the only good way to play online mtg without exorbitant amounts of money

[sleek quiver]

True to the last bit

I’ve been so out of the MTG circle, I don’t really played it anymore, but I still follow new sets that came out just for lore and artwork

[wraith cradle]

If you had told me this tweet was from the Hard Drive I wouldn't have doubt you

https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1485054934756335616?t=EU6C5DsWXSSCWmZd0IL75g&s=19

IGN (@IGN)

Ubisoft is developing Notre-Dame on Fire, a location-based VR escape game that will give the players a chance to save the the Notre-Dame cathedral from the fire that broke out in 2019. https://t.co/E920OaBY0C

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[sleek quiver]

Seems like a nice effort for a good cause

[winter mica]

that's very funny actually

[wraith cradle]

Inb4 the Templars burned Notre Dame because there was an Apple of Eden inside or something

[ocean iris]

We need more firefighting games.

I really want a proper fast response simulator actually

Firefighters, Paramedics, SWAT etc. etc.

The logistics of such services are very interesting

[icy bluff]

Mario Sunshine

[ocean iris]

PC, that's how I can literally survive the game

I absolutely suck on controller at shooters

[sleek quiver]

Ahh

I used the motion controls on my Switch, been fine so far

[icy bluff]

I feel you honestly.
I have never been able to handle first person viewing/shopting in a game (mostly because I am bad at it)

[ocean iris]

The motion controls help yes but not when they are on all the time 😭

I got used to it ofc

These are the consenquences of having only a PC in the household

[icy bluff]

Oh yeah totally

Especially because of the possible keyboard and mouse as controllers

[ocean iris]

Well just finished TVHM in Borderlands 2

yay I guess.

i love the awkward part of looting everything you need from the last boss

[sleek quiver]

So much more loot than you even have space for, and you would still ended up selling them all lmao

[ocean iris]

Carefully picking each eridium ingot

[oak venture]

@dire condor 57

[dire condor]

oh aight i am only 25 i think))))

[oak venture]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/901889174884466698.gif?size=44

[dire condor]

lol))))

[stark kraken]

Motion controls I like for BL2 and BOTW

Especially botw mount riding

[hybrid jetty]

botw motion controls are the only way i can aim the bow in that game

controller aiming 😨

[maiden ermine]

I hate myself: if I type "lin" into my keyboard, the predictive text immediately guesses "linhardt"
I GET IT I'M GAY NO NEED TO CALL ME OUT 😭

[ocean iris]

holy crap i just realised how big of a deal the activision purchase was on an economical scale

just in comparison George Lucas sold Star Wars to disney for only 4 billion. Compare that to 70 billion

[sleek quiver]

It was the biggest acquisition in the history of gaming, ever. The second biggest? It was when Take-Two bought out Zynga, for $12.7b

Note that both of those deals happened just recently, in 2022

Third biggest was when Microsoft bought out ZeniMax

[ocean iris]

i still dont know why Lucas sold out so cheaply, because the effects of that have been devastating

[mystic wave]

lucas was paid half of it in disney stock. the value's gone up a lot since then

[ocean iris]

But was it really worth it 😔

[regal solar]

Disney make tons of money, so George Lucas has stocks in that company, he's making a lot on that.
As if he needs it though 😂

[hybrid jetty]

if someone walked up to me and offered to give me 4 billion dollars I would not hesitate

star wars was not doing much as it was lol

[vivid mesa]

Motion controls get a bad rep. It's the perfect way to fine-tune your aim in BotW, and I will die arguing on that hill 🤣

[stark kraken]

I really hate their motion control puzzles

Because I literally do not have proper spatial reasoning

So doing that stuff took hours and made my head hurt

Like trying to interpret the movement of the switch and the movement of the thing in game

And it isnt 1:1 movement

Luckily there are only a handful of those in the like 160 temples

For for aim it's pretty amazing

Botw is responsive enough to turn me around while riding a bear when I turn my switch

[last marsh]

What are your favorite roguelikes besides hades

[dire warren]

hades.

[untold hornet]

i havent played hades, but cotnd is my favorite

[last marsh]

Crypt of the necrodancer?

[untold hornet]

yep

im god awful at it but it is fun

[last marsh]

Anyone played any others like binding of Isaac or spelunky

[ocean iris]

My fav roguelike is FTL

[twin yarrow]

i've played dead cells and now looking into second try of CotND

[sleek quiver]

Been playing more Dead Cells and Slay the Spire lately, as far as roguelites goes

[icy bluff]

I heard Dead cells is awesome

[sleek quiver]

It’s pretty fine

Fast-paced action, same like Hades

[icy bluff]

Ohh nice

The only other rogue likes I played are Crypt of the Necrodancer and Binding of Isaac.
Both also great titles btw

[last marsh]

How’s issac

[icy bluff]

Isaac is pretty good.
It is probably one of the better rouge likes out there.
With almost infiniste combinations of powers and a lot of endings and modes

Honestly tho I have never been a fan of the.... world the game presents xD

So I never played it a lot

[next patio]

i've been having fun with Dead Cells, isaac a bit but too much items makes my confused

[oak venture]

Oh nice

Dead cells dlc apparently pretty fun

[remote marsh]

Dead cells is very fun

[pulsar schooner]

Planning to get a ps5 this year. Sony won't release a Pro version for this right? right? 😂

[broken smelt]

Considering current shortages and the fact they're still producing the ps4
Highly unlikely but who knows

[maiden ermine]

Things I just did that I did while I channeled my inner Ferdinand von Aegir: I belted out a ton of musical theatre songs while doing the dishes.

[normal marsh]

i've never played a final fantasy game and just saw the strangers of paradise trailer, are final fantasy games always that confusing/filled with awkward dialogue?

[stark kraken]

It's worth getting into slay the spire btw

It's a very fun game. Its much more intense than it seems.

Basically half of it is racing against randomization (or breaking it entirely) before you become a god

There are points where you basically have infinite generation and its very fun

It's a scaling heavy roguelike. you need scaling or you lose

Sometimes that's just like 6 strength. Sometimes you want 150 strength though.

Higher level play is absurd.

I'm like ascension 7 at highest and I just die when I turn ascension on again lol

It's cheap and imo easy to get into

[stable kindle]

i personally couldnt get into slay the spire

[stable kindle]

not always no, but its definitely more rampant in modern games

[normal marsh]

Is there a final fantasy game that has well written characters? I just got a ps5 this month and have access to a couple final fantasy games through ps now but am unsure which one has a good plot

[sleek quiver]

Are we talking pre-FF7, FF7-ish era or post-FFX here?

[winged dew]

Well written characters is a pretty relative term. I find that most of the modern FF games suffer from tonal inconsistency issues. FFX probably comes the closest to having consistent character development, but that's probably because your party is condensed enough that every character gets their time to be fleshed out

[mystic wave]

im not a mmo person at all and i play games for the story(usually). FFXIV is the best one, no contest. and there's free trial.
the first expansion isn't that good and got memed a lot. the second expansion Heavensward is loved by most fans, and the lastest two brought it to great heights

[winged dew]

FFVII was surprisingly light on character development since you got a lot less interaction with any given character unless you specifically used them a lot in your party

Never played FFXIV. I imagine that's the one for people who are cool with extremely long form storytelling

[sleek quiver]

My suggestion is to try FF9, it’s pretty well-written by my standards, but everyone else’s opinion is still valid, of course. I mean, there are 15 of them out there, so yeah lmao

[mystic wave]

FF9 and FF Tactics(war of the lions) are my other favorites

[winter mica]

i'm in the minority but i did like the story of ffta2

it's not groundbreaking but i enjoyed it

[sleek quiver]

Was about to say FFT as well in terms of story-telling

[winged dew]

FFIX is for the people that enjoyed old school FF stuff but wanted it in a more "modern" FF game

[sleek quiver]

But it is a tactics game, not your usual JRPG as far as most main line FF games goes

[winged dew]

For people who played FFXIV, did the trailer for FFXVI actually indicate that it would be somewhat related to XIV? I remember that being a thing discussed when the trailer dropped

But again, I have no experience in XIV lore so I couldn't tell you either way

[mystic wave]

most likely not related. people are excited because the guy in charge of ff14 is in charge of 16

[winged dew]

Ah, that was probably it

Yoshi-P should just become SE's Sakurai

[mystic wave]

yep. i guess he knows how to pick team members on his project

[normal marsh]

@sleek quiver @winged dew thank you guys for sharing your thoughts, think I'll start with ff ix, xiv seems cool but the subscription model for it sounds pretty expensive and I'm not sure I'd have enough time to play monthly to make it worth it, but maybe in the future

[ocean iris]

mmos aint for everyone dw

i mean i didnt catch on with FF14

it has the same things that keep me away from the mmos

[rancid token]

I really, really liked 9

It helped that my prior exposure to FF was through friends playing 7 and 8, so 9 not being outwardly grim and brooding was a great change of pace

[stable kindle]

ff9 is genuinely my favourite video game ever, it's something that has stuck with me through the years, and every time i played through it (was a gift as a kid around like 2001-2) i understood it better and had a greater appreciation for it

[last marsh]

What game franchises have the best storylines in your opinion?

[wraith cradle]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1220010/view/3106921324356380303

Nice, Loved the EA version

For those interested is basically Darkest Dungeon if it was set in a contemporanous Civil War

[solid nimbus]

does the supergiantverse count if i find a way to fit every game's story in the same continuity

because other than that i don't have much of a gaming culture sorry-

[ocean iris]

Legacy of Kaine, Half Life, Metro/Stalker

[lusty pendant]

I wanna say the nier games but idk if that's just from the grimness

[ocean iris]

Correction Stalker doesnt have exactly the best storyline in of itself but it has great lore

[normal marsh]

haven't played many franchises but the best stories i've seen in games so far have been
tlou 1 and 2
the telltale twd series
person 4 golden
crosscode
va-11 hall-a
danganronpa 2

[wraith cradle]

Jesus, the latest Strangers of Paradise Trailer.

Inject that edginess into my veins

https://youtu.be/ZqLa5qOVsQg

[ocean iris]

Respawn is allegedly working on 3 Star Wars games

Fallen Order 2, an FPS game (Most likely Republic Commando 2/Imperial Commando) and a strategy game alongside Bitreactor.

So basically empire at war 2 lol

Cant wait for the FPS title honestly

Respawn were the good choice

[lofty pecan]

its not allegedly its confirmed https://www.ea.com/news/electronic-arts-and-lucasfilm-games-announce-new-star-wars-titles-from-respawn-entertainment

[junior crown]

@wraith cradle just got and finished my playthrough of Not For Broadcast. Was good.

[wraith cradle]

Lol, Still installing mine

Had exams this afternoon so I couldn't play it

Glad you enjoyed it tho

Let's play my saves were in the cloud

Given I changed computers 2 months ago

[junior crown]

Was kind of surprised how big the download, but guess that's given with the amount of footage in the game lol.

[wraith cradle]

42 hours apparently

[normal marsh]

I'm v late to the party but I'm just starting botw and I'm excited

[untold hornet]

YEss have fun

[maiden ermine]

GOD I STILL NEED TO GET IT

But I am a) broke and b) still trying to get other games ;-;

I will eventually get to BOTW...someday ;-;

Capitalism is a cruel mistress

[winged dew]

For as good as BotW is, I'd have to think hard about it before recommending the game to a specific person

Maybe it's just me, but I feel like BotW is the "Jack of All Trades; Master of None" argument taken to its extreme. After all the hype surrounding it when it came out, it seems like speedrunners are the only ones coming back to it repeatedly afterwards.

[untold hornet]

i come back to it repeatedly

i love botw

its not my fav game (that goes to miitopia) but idk its justa nice game

[winged dew]

This is probably my exact feelings on BotW. A good game, but I'd rather figure out a person's interests and recommend them something more suited to their tastes

[untold hornet]

yeah thats fair

id do that too lol

[ocean iris]

I wish they expanded more on the survival aspect

So I just come back to Red Dead to be an outdoorsman

Also it's so great to roleplay in that game

Like doing actual journeys and such amd booking hotels and going to the restaurant etc. etc.

[normal marsh]

There are preowned copies at gamestop going for $26.99 right now

[ocean iris]

I still dont know why it goes for 60

it's been released in 2017

I love the Nintendo ™️ Tax ™️

[maiden ermine]

I am still very broke, but I do appreciate it!

[signal kayak]

I'm planning to buy CrossCode, is it as good as they say?

[mystic wave]

seeing this list makes me think you'd probably really enjoy Zero Escape

Also, 13 Sentinels. It's on PS4 so most likely you can get on ps5

[rancid token]

13 Sentinels is probably the best game I played last year

[ocean iris]

Why did MGR become popular again?

I love it when niche games just resurge as memes

[high lintel]

Yes!

[maiden ermine]

https://twitter.com/_makeshiftwings/status/1486046065367388166?s=20

makeshift 🧵 sugar cookie ferret adopt live (@_makeshiftwings)

valentine's day sugar cookie ditto 💕

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[next patio]

idk but love the ost

[ocean iris]

yup

https://tenor.com/view/armstrong-gaming-metal-gear-rising-senator-armstrong-gif-24315306

[signal kayak]

People won't simply forget about Metal Gear despite Konami ruining the IP
Nanomachines, son!

[ocean iris]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/588979185687461908/935924470143664128/unknown.png?width=1440&height=660

this reminds me i ought to try hunter showdown

[normal marsh]

I'll look into it, ty

[normal marsh]

Np, hope you can play soon!

[normal marsh]

Crosscode is a great time, the dungeon puzzles can be a bit ridiculous but the characters, story, abilities, and overall atmosphere are all v fun/engaging

[wraith cradle]

Eastward finished. It was nice

Kinda reminded me to Crosscode in the gameplay

Even if MUCH easier

And yes Crosscode is one of my favourite games ever

[ocean iris]

Playing Metro 2033 Redux, the gas mask mechanics are so cool

[rancid token]

MGRR never stopped being popular in my circles

[wraith cradle]

Same

Although I personally haven't played it since 2016 or so

[covert tide]

how difficult is dead cells compared to hades?

[wraith cradle]

Much harder tbh

[covert tide]

hades at the beginning is very hard for me so I kinda worried I might break my keyboard when playing harder games

[next patio]

The only thing i dont like is having less healing when it gets more difficult

(so i use custom mode lol)

[stable kindle]

for me the experience was

sucking at hades - still fun and makes me want to play more
sucking at dead cells - frustrating, unfun, does not make me want to play more

[normal marsh]

Finished god of war, was really good, liked the characters and art direction a lot

Looking forward to ragnarok

[hybrid jetty]

my personal guess would be its because of devil may cry 5 releasing not super long ago, and people who got into the genre with that going back and finding more games like it (at least that's how I found the game)

or more likely its just internet things, like how half life sound effects suddenly became popular for a while lol

[plain spire]

probably some streamer played it

asmongold singlehandedly made FF14 the highest played game in the series prove me wrong

😔

[next patio]

The ost + memes with cutscenes of the game just invaded my yt feed one day lol

[hybrid jetty]

I think blizzard might have been a bigger factor lol

[plain spire]

wow refugee crisis

tbh

its really cool to see a plat game

get that much level of popularity

mgr was always popular, but in this post nier upcoming bayo 3 world

its a good boost

[ocean iris]

I just installed The Old Republic, I wanna try it after school

Maybe I'll like this MMO

Hopefully

[weary echo]

Just finished a thracia randomizer, never underestimate the guy with a 0% magic growth https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/539168104018608148/935975563980599326/unknown.png

The game really tried its hardest to fit a bunch of skills that shouldn't be there at the same time in the stat screen https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/754170457002868877/935637039687299072/unknown.png

[wraith cradle]

Now I'm playing Klang 2

Quite enjoyable rhythm game tbh

[ocean iris]

I finished Metro 2033 Redux with the canon ending

somehow I managed to get through D6 with little to no ammo which is always good

[wraith cradle]

Daemon x Machina looks dope tbh

[next patio]

The servants fight from the new dead cells dlc is fun but i suck at it lol

[ocean iris]

holy crap i unironically like SWTOR

finally an MMO that I actually enjoy

the biggest problem is....the hide helmet feature is hidden behind the subscription

pepehands

also the layout is identical to wow classic so i feel rather welcomed

also I feel like I missed out on being a Jedi character and instead went as a vanguard

[ocean iris]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/925126068447354910/936317067995529266/unknown.png?width=1202&height=676

I need to find a better looking helmet or something because I aint paying a subscription to hide this goofy thing

[polar dragon]

Is Portal an FPS?
Is League an RPG?

[woven breach]

Portal is an FPS

Like how Stanley Parable is FPS

[lofty pecan]

nah league is a multiplayer roguelike

[tame veldt]

every game is a roguelike if you try hard enough

maybe life is a roguelike

[next patio]

Well got metal gear rising cuz noticed it was on sale

[rancid token]

Sick, enjoy

[next patio]

Even with a laggy pc the rules of nature was cool

[ocean iris]

Oh damn it's on sale

I'll get it soon enough

Although I want to finish Metro Last Light first

[woven breach]

cries in Asia store

[rancid token]

https://tenor.com/view/metal-gear-rising-smile-gif-11451842

[woven breach]

I can't grasp why they would region lock a game

[next patio]

Just looked into what did you mean and just left like "bruh"

[woven breach]

ikr

why konami? why?

[signal kayak]

Couldn't find CrossCode, but I stumbled upon Blasphemous

Win win

[stable kindle]

oh stinky https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1487035376581726208

Nibel (@Nibellion)

Ubisoft's man in charge of their NFT project Quartz says that the negative reaction was expected and explains that players just don't understand it

"We know it's not an easy concept to grasp"

Ubisoft will also continue with their NFTs plans

https://t.co/8VcRclbonn

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very cool of this guy to essentially claim they expected the backlash bc people are ignorant 🙄 go step on a lego dude

[dire warren]

"the blind man claims that he is the only one that can see, while he is falling down the stairs"

-sun tzu, art of nft

[hybrid jetty]

"you guys just don't get it" is certainly a phrase that has never backfired for anyone ever

[stable kindle]

all that's gonna do is make people more mad lol, can't wait

[vivid mulch]

[ocean iris]

the only ubisoft games I have are all gotten for free

[ocean iris]

Well I sold enough junk from my Steam Inventory and got Metal Gear Rising

Im probably starting it once I finish Last Light

[fallen sky]

stereotypical vibing dudebro voice you just don't get it, maaaan

tbh I don't think the celebrities on twitter get it either 😳

[signal kayak]

One particular local influencer has turned his gaming/Minecraft channels into NFT garbage, and even his videos' comment sections are telling him to take a hike

[stable kindle]

reminder that there's like less than 500k crypto wallets and many people own multiple so they can shift around nft and currency and fake transactions to make things look like they have more worth than they really do

like. this stuff isn't even as widespread as all the crypto bros want you to believe but they're desperate to make you believe that

keep pushing back against this nonsense 🤧

hope ubi tries again with quartz and still bombs, will their excuse still be "you guys are just too dumb to get it" 🤔

[fallen sky]

off topic for video game channel but finding out about how easy it is to doxx people through their nft wallets was horrifying

[ocean iris]

out of every MMO I played SWTOR has the best progression

[signal kayak]

That's possible too!? Why is that not illegal yet...

[ocean iris]

Internet people be like

I know your address
I mean I know that too

[twin yarrow]

"good for you, internet man, cause i don't even know where i belong anymore"

[ocean iris]

off topic but my classmates found out about my address and phoned me only 10 before coming and we just had a nice time at my house lol

[fallen sky]

my thinking is that if people in government have difficulties in understanding how video games work, they'll have difficulties in understanding how nfts work (though this might change as nfts can technically speaking be very profitable.) lack of understanding = lack of legislation

(bringing it back on topic by mentioning video games)

[normal marsh]

Started playing returnal, cool so far, like a cross between the prometheus movie and a love death and robots episode

[vivid mesa]

god he was such a fun character, with an awesome weapon and an amazing theme song

[next patio]

Memories broken, truth goes unspoken-

[vivid mesa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plgx--ABInA

perfection ⬆️

[next patio]

Oh forgot about legendary items being able to be weapons i dont have unlocked in dead cells lmao

[remote marsh]

legendary weapons are pretty cool

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/659820450297282585/936740021308895232/unknown.png

[next patio]

Double serenade seems fun

[sleek quiver]

I like the way you handle me

Gotta say though, the new ending in the DLC in Dead Cells, wasn’t really doing it for me. The new boss fight was still pretty nice though, the new tower climb fight was fun

[next patio]

The lighthouse is fun but i keep dying lol

[remote marsh]

i havent played the new dlc yet 😔

[sleek quiver]

I just did the whole DLC in low BC, with aspects on lol

Not playing Dead Cells because of so much Hades made me rusty

[next patio]

Oh im on 2 bc lol

And custom mode for fountains not breaking

I dont wanna live like its lc4 Hades all the time

[sleek quiver]

I usually play on 2BC as well, loved the single health flasks recharges, still had to ration my health potions but there’s still refills out there in case I needed it

[hidden zephyr]

What game could get me a good feeling like Terraria and Stardew Valley?

[winter mica]

yoshi's crafted world could work, although it's not the most challenging game

[broken smelt]

unpacking I hear is a good feeling chill game

[ocean iris]

I have some memories of an obscure MMO called Jumpstart

Anyone know about it?

[winter mica]

like the kids' games?

[ocean iris]

yeah

Also I only knew of the MMO

Apparently it's like a whole series

To be fair it was kind of a bad game because every cool thing was locked behind the subscription but I had my fair share of fun with it

i can barely find any images online haha

it had a very comfy pier location with many minigames

[untold hornet]

Wait I remember jumpstart

OMG

I played this all the time

The dragons,,,,

[ocean iris]

Yeah that game too

Also something something Math Blaster

[quartz hatch]

has anyone here played death's door? if so, would you guys recommend it?

[broken smelt]

Yes, the game is wonderful and the soundtrack amazing
The only problem for me is I had a tendancy of getting lost but that's largely related to my terrible sense of direction

[ocean iris]

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

MGR invented Peter explains the joke memes before peter explains the joke memes

Peter Griffin here to explain the joke

You see, it's funny because Raiden said that they should throw his cyber dog a bone, the humour comes from the fact the robot resembles a dog and dogs like to chew on bones.

[ocean iris]

Also I once again received more money for the steam cards and now I can get Bayonetta. Gosh I love bots.

[wraith cradle]

https://www.gameinformer.com/2022/01/28/hidetaka-miyazaki-rediscovered-his-love-of-creating-poison-swamps-in-elden-ring

He's outright trolling us at this point

[rancid token]

I bet they're smaller but there's a bunch of them

[hidden zephyr]

Has someone played Supraland? Is it a feelgoodgame?

[next patio]

Got to 3 BC, custom mode comfy

Also disengagement is a blessed mutation

[remote marsh]

yeah disengagement is very nice

[plain spire]

tbh

what else would you do with a swamp except make it poisonous

a non poisonous swamp would be like a water damage volcano

or fire enemies in an ocean

[ocean iris]

add shrimps

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OEp2LmeQrEY/maxresdefault.jpg

[fallen sky]

muse dash base on steam is less than $2 but the dlc is more than $20?

[plain spire]

add poisonous shrimps

[ocean iris]

the shrimps in metro are freaky

[fallen sky]

https://tenor.com/view/thinking-hmm-emoji-smiley-thinking-emoji-gif-17366765

[plain spire]

yeah ive seen stuff like that

[ocean iris]

DCS World

[plain spire]

vns where the game is 20$ but the voice pack is 40$

[ocean iris]

although every dlc is more of a game on it's own

[plain spire]

the idea is that for hardcore fans that are willing to pay 60, it costs 60

but for new players that arent sure, it only costs 20

basically its price discrimination

that tries to bypass supply and demand

[ocean iris]

i want to start playing metro exodus but my sister needs my headset ugh

[plain spire]

by changing the supply dynamically based on the demand of each person

normally increasing the price decreases the number of sales

but breaking off huge chunks into huge dlc packs bypasses that, there are different price tiers for different audiences, the same logic behind collectors / deluxe editions just applied to the entire base package, via dlc

[ocean iris]

mfw the only game where sound doesnt matter is SWTOR

i would have played MGR but no such thing without the music

[fallen sky]

🤔

[plain spire]

MGQ doesnt need the music

[ocean iris]

whyyyyy

[plain spire]

for you dusa fans out there

[ocean iris]

imagine a game like MGR with today's tech

ughhhhh

konami moment

[plain spire]

is that really so different from nier and astral chain?

or the upcoming bayonetta 3

[ocean iris]

the cutting up mechanic mostly

you can use the stick or mouse to freely cut anywhere

and as much as you want

it's overkill and that's what I'm there for

[plain spire]

https://youtu.be/cL-sjNZ7Bbw

kind of crazy that no lightsaber games have ever done that

[ocean iris]

The closest that we got was Jedi Academy

but no actual cuts

more like heated trails where the lightsaber touches

also no way we're getting such things today under Disney

Jedi Fallen Order didn't have dismemberment and such

Here's hoping KOTOR remake fixes that

[signal kayak]

Unrelated but...
I found a local store selling Blasphemous for 40€ (new), but next to it was another copy of Blasphemous for 50€. I asked about the price, and it turns out...
The 50€ one is used but it was wrapped in the plastic foil it comes with

[ocean iris]

wait why is it 40 euro in the first place

[signal kayak]

There wasn't any better offer close to my place :/

[ocean iris]

Oh you want physical?

[signal kayak]

Yup

I'm that kind of person 😅

[ocean iris]

Physical games on the switch are the biggest pain in the arse

Because I wanted Bayo 2 but it's literally 60 euros physical

also nintendo charges 50 dollars for bayo 2 on the e shop

God I love the Nintendo tax ™️

[signal kayak]

I've got another one

I've got a Cex close by, they're selling Slay the Spire on XOne for 8€

However...

They're also selling it for PS4 for 16€

[ocean iris]

flashback to when ordering a case with a game code inside it was cheaper than getting the game on the eshop

[signal kayak]

But here's the best part...

They're also selling it for Switch...
...for 32

[ocean iris]

imagine if nintendo actually had accessible game pricing, or actual sales

[signal kayak]

They do have sales, but mostly for digital copies afaik

Not very frequent

[ocean iris]

how are the sales though

never catched one

[signal kayak]

Never bought digital games on their store, but I know they exist 🤷

I think they're featured on their news

[ocean iris]

i dont think i can ever embrace consoles since steam has the best sales ever

[signal kayak]

On the flip side, all I've got for PC gaming is a laptop, and I'm not exactly used to playing on a keyboard, so console is my thing

[rancid token]

Nintendo tax is more that the first party games never get huge price drops, not that they're outrageously priced in the first place

Most of the time

MGRR is also less beloved because of the gameplay, since it's pretty standard Platinum fare (as high quality as it is), but it absolutely nails the tone and themes it's aiming for

[ocean iris]

https://i.imgur.com/0TwQ0zp.png

bruh.

[stable kindle]

absolutely this. games continue to maintain full or near full price even years after release, that's usually what the "Nintendo Tax\™️" refers to, bc you cant get first party ninty games on anything other than a ninty console

[rancid token]

I've only seen a handful of MMOs that are F2P that aren't absurdly predatory about it

And two of those I bet are, I just didn't realize it

[ocean iris]

I mean SWTOR is pretty forgiving to F2P's

that's why it's like the only mmo i ever liked

but now the progressions is probably the same as every other

at least i got my mount

also it has worthwhile class stories

and I think I choose the worst

the trooper one

i might consider subscribing since the game's been good to me

[rancid token]

Honestly same hat but Final Fantasy

The paladin questline kinda sucks

Definitely wish I had started as Warrior instead

[ocean iris]

Today I learned mounts dont provide more speed

[rancid token]

Ouch

[ocean iris]

no losses though the mount was only 25k credits and I had like 137k

this is what I mean why this game is so satisfying to progress through

you can easily earn cool stuff and progress fast in the first 20 levels

[next patio]

got 60 kill streak and got hit right after that lmao. glad dead cells saves it once you get it

i learned at last second that ice armor protects from dying to curses

[rancid token]

Sounds like outside of looking like dookie people are really positive on the new Pokemon game, hopefully that means good things for the future

[next patio]

the only thing i know from the new pokemon game is a clip of a snorlax just destroying a poor lvl 9 pokemon

[signal kayak]

With the minority remaining as a minority...

[next patio]

wait i can get BC from the queen?

guess im at 4 bc now

also she felt so much easy, that hand of the king

[wraith cradle]

I swear

I always end frustrated searching the Steam Sales

[eager hamlet]

I got one game

But hey, that has more to do with the fact that I already ran out of JRPGs to play

[wraith cradle]

Which one?

I decided to simply buy the Not For Broadcast OST Opus the Echo of Starsong Artwork.

Which I had the games themselves already

[eager hamlet]

Monster Hunter Stories 2

The only JRPG left on steam that I didnt own and have any interest in at all

[wraith cradle]

Oh cool

The thing is there are half a dozen rpgs coming soon that I want to play

So I'm making time

[eager hamlet]

I dont think there is much coming out that I care about

Strangers of Paradise I guess

[wraith cradle]

Elder Ring
Horizon 2
Strangers of Paradise
Forspoken
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands

Oh and Sonzai

AKA totally not Persona

[eager hamlet]

Thats a new one to me, Sonzai

[wraith cradle]

Oh and ANNO: Mutationem. That one looks sick

[eager hamlet]

That, on the other hand, rings a bell

[wraith cradle]

Yeah in the last Steam Fest I think it was the most wishlisted new game

Have you played Eastward? You may like it, I finished it 2 days ago and was nice

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/167450137138823168/895659393696268388/unknown_5.png

But yeah don't tell me this wasn't Persona inspired

[eager hamlet]

Oh, looking at the UI, I can see it

And no, I havent played Eastward

Ill consider it

[wraith cradle]

Not only the UI, people fight using Persona-like Spirits, you have NPCs to bond using social links and all the shebang

[eager hamlet]

I mean the former is just jojos, the latter is just a common trope in general

[rancid token]

I think like the idea of punch ghosts is divorced far enough from Jojo's at this point that it feels reductive, at least how Persona handles things

[plain spire]

if it shows up in a random game sure its probably more based on jojo

but considering how the ui is already based on persona

its more likely that just the rest is too

although p5 and jojo are two of the most popular japanese things in general with tons of fan overlap anyways

[fallen sky]

hi just wanted to come into the chat and say how sad I am that sega is (going out of the console business omg im not all there) ❤️‍🔥

[broken smelt]

What happened to to sega?

[fallen sky]

okay no I misread it for some reason

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-01-28-sega-exits-the-arcade-business-after-56-years

even though ive read the article? hello brain where you at

atm arcade games are my main focus and I fully understand why they're in decline even more now but i'm still sad abt it

one of my city's barcades seems to have an affiliate podcast on arcade games and I might listen to their next episode to see what their thoughts are

[ocean iris]

Time to finally play metro exodus

Also I swear Sega is the Mitsubishi of video games right now

Aka taking legendary names and legacies and just making mediocre products out of them

Also both financially unstable

No way Sega is still as rich as it was with all those flops these years

[quartz hatch]

if you think it couldn't get worse

atari's selling nft lootboxes for their 50th anniversary

[ocean iris]

Ok nevermind Atari is now THE Mitsubishi of gaming

[ocean iris]

oh my god i cant even launch metro exodus

and i troubleshooted and apparently it's because of the windows version but mine is the latest and so are my drivers

moments like this are why i wish i didnt have a pc

[signal kayak]

You've got to hand it to them, they really have the balls to attempt an obvious scam double the obvious and double the scam

[dire condor]

ikr i dont find anything i like

[rustic falcon]

my wishlist is packed with games i want to play, but i have a ton of games in my library i should play first so i shouldnt buy anything haha. i bought a bunch of games last sale and still havent gone through all of them

[ocean iris]

https://i.imgur.com/MB6rqtb.png

well today i learned i couldnt launch metro because it was the enhanced edition i installed

so that means i have to reinstall it normally

another 2 hours wasted

https://youtu.be/HcHsXpE-soo

This is the saddest video ever

[junior crown]

I got nothing on mind to buy on the sale really, besides buying some clans for Northgard since I have been replaying that. My wishlist is full of games that are Soon™️ to come, so no way of buying those and my backlog is non existent anymore, just games that I switch around depending on the mood.

[dire warren]

got a fun pokemon question.

let's say you're doing a single pokemon playthrough and an npc you need to beat to progress demands a triple battle.
what do you do in thst scenario

[hybrid jetty]

i would win

[vivid mesa]

FACK, well there goes one thing on my "when I go to Japan" bucket list. 😦

[ocean iris]

https://i.imgur.com/FIATc5N.jpeg

THAT scene

[vivid mesa]

Monsoon is a great boss. The music, the detachable body parts, the memes

https://tenor.com/view/metal-gear-rising-raiden-monsoon-nope-nope-nope-dodge-gif-16557011

[dire warren]

fun fact: the unova region has it out for water types

source: trying to beat the entire game using one water type and all the gyms are going completely out of their way to make it harder for specifically water

[ocean iris]

Ok I shouldnt have installed Bayonetta on my SSD

Now I cant use the loading screen practicing

[wintry heart]

@jade flume me too!

[jade flume]

Doing my 3rd playthrough right now

After not playing it for 1-2 years

[wintry heart]

@celest delta it's pretty clear it's gonna have a dark tone throughout with lots of unpleasantness so idk maybe when my mentals are better plus when the ps5 edition comes out and it is less jank

cause holy crap it is jank

playing it for the first time in 2022 so im used to open worlds being a little more QoL friendly

[jade flume]

Witcher 1-2 are THE ultimate jank

[wintry heart]

which probably doesnt help and makes me sound like a brat but there's like 98245923 open world games so opportunity cost of time

[jade flume]

Imagine like everything thats wrong with witcher 3's gameplay

Its multiplied 1000x times on those older games

[wintry heart]

yeah like i didnt game much from 2010-2020, so i'm only gonna make time for things i know are excellent

or seem interesting to me lol

[jade flume]

A lot if clunk even carried onto cyberpunk 2077

[wintry heart]

yeah, i didn't touch it

[jade flume]

Like the looting, crafting,skills

[wintry heart]

the guy at gamestop said it bricked his ps5

so yeah im never buying that game lol

[jade flume]

Yikes

[wintry heart]

i just gotta finish the secret ending for returnal now

then i need a new game lol

[jade flume]

I basically played cyberpunk at launch day

It was soooo unbelievably unplayable

[celest delta]

Makes sense

[wintry heart]

i think cyberpunk came out around when i got my first playstation lol

[celest delta]

There are multiple endings

[jade flume]

And i was on pc

[wintry heart]

and it didnt catch my eye

[jade flume]

It was removed from the store for months

[wintry heart]

it's not the ending, it's the 80 stragiht hours of human misery along the way

[celest delta]

1 is very happy, some are sad lol

Yeah

[wintry heart]

like...this is just too dark for me

maybe also why i don't simp for Thanatos

since i am in the minority there

[celest delta]

I simp for Nyx

[wintry heart]

same. that whole "i did it because i love you" scene was a tearjerker

mama nyx super based

[wintry heart]

yeah i mean i heard about it, but i wasn't around for it getting all the hype and it was "just another game" from my limited scope of knwoledge about video games lol

[jade flume]

[wintry heart]

then all the articles about the game being jacked

so i played other stuff and forgot about it lol figured i'd get it for twenty bucks once it doesn't suck any more but prob just pass tbh

maybe watch the neo scenes

theres enough games out there that arent jank to wanna do jank games 😦

[jade flume]

Cyberpunk effectively went from over a million people playing it on launch day(steam numbers) to less than 10k in 2 days

[dire condor]

@wintry heart I'm struggling with depression as well
It was not a big deal for me tho

[jade flume]

Its consistently has less players than witcher 3

[wintry heart]

i mean gwent seemed fun

[celest delta]

We don't talk about Cyberpunk

[wintry heart]

summon exodia on some fools

where is that meme hang on

[celest delta]

Gwent is so fun lol

[jade flume]

Northern factions 🤝

Lmao

Gwent is a cool card game that comes with a 60$ RPG

[celest delta]

The Baron quest is definitely the darkest quest or tied with another one. That and one other quest are very dark just FYI. The rest of the game isn't constant though.

[wintry heart]

eh i got it for ten bucks in early jan lol

[celest delta]

Northern factions OP

[wintry heart]

what's the other one, just spoil it lol

or tell me what to google

i rather know going into it

so that when if the ps5 version comes out lol

[jade flume]

Theres a few that are really morally provoking

[wintry heart]

im not worried about that

i'm more worried about graphic torture and abortion ghosts and gross stuff like that

[jade flume]

Oh just grossness and stuff like that

[wintry heart]

yeah

like i made it to the find triss quest

got to whatever city

some girl lit on fire

maybe my sound system is too good (it isn't) but i shut it off

[jade flume]

Yeah thats the opening cutscence in novigrad

There are 2 quests I can think of

Cant remember their names

One with "whoreson junior" and the other is a side quest involving dandelion's lover getting assaulted

[celest delta]

It's the quest line with Whoresome Jr. You want me to spoil what it is? Or you wanna just google it?

[wintry heart]

go for it, spoil away

[jade flume]

We'd get banned

Lol

[wintry heart]

DM me it lol

that's fair

[dire condor]

The best quest is with King of beggars, Dijkstra, Tasak and Whoreson junior

Actually all quests in Novigrad

[wintry heart]

i thought you were kidding about that dude's name lmao

[dire condor]

Whoreson junior sounds better in origin

Skurwiel junior xd

[jade flume]

[celest delta]

DMd

[dire condor]

These are not spoilers lol

[celest delta]

Speaking of the Baron

Lmao

[dire condor]

I dont even know if Tasak is english name

Speaking of this dwarf thief

[wintry heart]

ill just give everyone names

this is chad the dwarf

[jade flume]

Johny!

[wintry heart]

oh i think i met him

the kid you have to find his voice

?

[jade flume]

Yeah

Wont spoil it but theres more to his story later on 👁️

[wintry heart]

https://c.tenor.com/961T8vO9hToAAAAC/deadpool-dark.gif basically me playing the witcher

at least with Returnal, the plot makes no sense

so like i think it's super dark but

pew pew

[analog copper]

@covert adder hello, i pmed you, please respond

[ocean iris]

Geralt made me bi fyi

So yes it's a good game.

[wintry heart]

i don't doubt that, my issues were above and all pretty me-specific

i imagine if it was 2015 and it just came out i'd be blown away too

[dire condor]

Try with original dubbing

[ocean iris]

Like, polish dubs?

[dire condor]

Way better than eng

Yes

[ocean iris]

I'll see on youtube since I dont have it installed

[dire condor]

Almost every character is perfectly played

/dubbed , I dont know how is correct

Is there such a word "dubbed" at all?

[ocean iris]

Damn it's pretty good

I gotta replay it in polish

Same as I replayed Metro in russian

[dire condor]

Check this out

https://youtu.be/892-sSVLs_Y

[fallen sky]

very sad. it makes me want to treasure the arcades we have here even more lmao

mostly I wish the purikura machines were still here, but those aren't sega

[vivid mesa]

daw I missed The Witcher discussion hehe

[sleek quiver]

I saw a discussion online about how Microsoft is going to “leave Sony in the dust” with the recent acquisitions they had, and I’m just wondering, how big is Xbox actually?

I guess they’re big in the west, but, honestly, I don’t think I ever seen an Xbox here in my place (I live in SEA, btw). Even Game Pass isn’t officially available here yet, only Singapore has Game Pass availability here. How would they leave Sony in the dust when they haven’t even covered the grounds that Sony has?

[rancid token]

That sounds like some console war posturing to me tbh

Which, real talk, why are we even still doing the whole console war thing

[sleek quiver]

Obviously it is lmao

But it does begs the question though, how big is Xbox compared to the PlayStation?

[ocean iris]

Well they have Rare, Obsidian, InXile, Sledgehammer Games, Raven Software, Treyarch, Infinity Ward, Blizzard, King, Bethesda Softworks, Id Software, Machine Games, Arkane Studios, GSC Game World, etc.

That's what I remember

Also 343 but that's irrelevant

[quartz hatch]

there's been rumors they intend on acquiring a major japanese studio like square enix to be able to compete with sony on their home turf

[signal kayak]

Those rumors always pop up after the competition makes a move, I always say rumors are fake until they are confirmed

[ocean iris]

metro exodus is filtering me hard on normal difficulty

but i love it. it's like tarkov in the way that it's scary af even with humans

[dire condor]

And the question is really, how big is Windows + Xbox compared to PlayStation. The answer is obviously way, way bigger

[sleek quiver]

Good point

[stable kindle]

japanese companies aren't really prone to being bought out by american companies, it would be quite significant if microsoft manages this but it's frankly unlikely. the corporate environment there is completely different and microsoft isn't going to be able to just roll up with a ton of money and go, hey can we buy you

[dire condor]

is binding of isaac worth it?

[stable kindle]

depends, it's probably still worth the fun for a bit but it's quite content bloated at this point, kinda to its detriment

a lot of people still speak highly of it

[dire condor]

what games do you recommend for 10 euros? any type

[coral hawk]

is stardew valley 10 bucks?

if so that lol

[signal kayak]

Apparently Slay the Spire is a very good one, but I dunno the price (on PC)

[untold hornet]

no. .. its around 14 euros i looked it up

[tame veldt]

the master chief collection is 16 rn and you get a lot of value so

[fervent gyro]

Considering some Steam sales right now:
Frostpunk, great, atmospheric survival city builder with some tough choices to make along the way. Worth playing at least once, I'd say.
Steam World Dig 1&2 - great metroidvania-like platformers.
1st Tomb Raider reboot is on big sale now, along with the 2nd one (Rise of the Tomb Raider), which would make them under 10 euros together (and those 2 are worth playing imo).
Ori and the Will of the Wisps - beautiful metroidvania platformer.
Hollow Knight if you haven't played it.

[winter mica]

@dire condor pyre is 4.99 rn if you don't already have it

bastion is 2.99 and transistor is 3.99

[fallen sky]

https://twitter.com/eurogamer/status/1488118947329331203?s=20&t=XIvrACQ10zr4nWdMKBJE0g

Eurogamer (@eurogamer)

Team17 is getting into Worms NFTs https://t.co/pYo6OiMFM7

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team17 is getting into even more parasites

[dire condor]

Bayonetta ($5!), The Witcher 3, Undertale

[quartz hatch]

https://kotaku.com/sony-ps5-destiny-2-bungie-playstation-microsoft-xbox-ex-1848453326

LOL

3.6b for destiny???

[ocean iris]

Meh

It aint the good bungie they're buying that's for sure

[signal kayak]

WHAT? Not Team17!

[dire condor]

I wouldn’t spend $60 on Destiny

[quartz hatch]

https://neofooturism.tumblr.com/post/674802410436296704

@bleak coral i feel so bad for tagging you in this one man but see it was a warning TO BE CAREFUL WITH SNORLAX

[bleak coral]

Thats a scary snorlax

idk why i got pinged for this one but cool

@quartz hatch

[quartz hatch]

i remembered you saying you liked oshawott

and considering who the poor victim of this snorlax was

[bleak coral]

oh right

oh no

I didnt see

[bleak coral]

:(

thank you for the warning friend

[quartz hatch]

i had no idea they followed you around in this game

https://tenor.com/view/triggered-cat-angry-gif-14828546

me watching this video

[bleak coral]

Oshawott walking around though

now thats awesome

[quartz hatch]

it's very cute, can all pokemon follow behind you?

or just the three starters

[rancid token]

https://twitter.com/b0tster/status/1488195375248805889?t=OgSFXruPhq5PnzrTvzcK_A&s=19

🪄💫 Lilith Walther🏳️‍⚧️ (ps1 goth girl) BLM ACAB (@b0tster)

BloodbornePSX: NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD

➡️Get it here: https://t.co/40oWAplt4y

Thank you for the support over the 13 month dev period. It means so much to me💜

➡️Discord: https://t.co/kzxCUCCn44
➡️Extended Launch Trailer: https://t.co/qUn6qLdkhi

#BloodbornePSX #Demake https://t.co/FTxl8YlFVC

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Twitter · Jan 31, 2022, 5:00 PM

Hell yeah

[bleak coral]

I’m not sure

I dont own the game

[fallen sky]

overcooked is not safe from worms 😭

[signal kayak]

This starts to follow a pattern, though

Looks like very few people actually agree with the scam, and those are some higher ups, who take the decision without telling most of the staff or most of it disagreeing...

[fallen sky]

I know aggro crab released a statement that I can't post here because there's swearing in it lol

i'd be mad too tbh. lack of communication. nfts

[maiden ermine]

I'm so angry: I preordered Legends of Arceus from Gamestop, and the game itself hasn't arrived yet, but you know what is here? THE ART CARDS

Don't get me wrong: they are beautiful. But I want my game ;-;

[bleak coral]

https://tenor.com/view/avatar-the-last-airbender-zuko-thats-rough-buddy-thats-rough-gif-4264932

Gamestop Moment

[maiden ermine]

Gamestop, pls: Twitter will run me over with spoilers if you don't hurry up

...and I want my Cyndaquil ;-;

[bleak coral]

just use filters

mute hashtags and words

[maiden ermine]

But I will miss the funny Pokemon tweets

[bleak coral]

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-infinity-war-avengers-marvel-small-price-gif-14188934

[maiden ermine]

LOOK I NEED TO SEE THE DISCOURSE OVER THE POKEMON CRIES

[bleak coral]

The cries?

oh

i thought you meant their actual cries

[maiden ermine]

Wait, lemme get the tweet for you, and then I'll share something I tweeted in response

https://twitter.com/YouTake_TheSun/status/1488122974049865730?s=20&t=SmYGrRhViKOf85JuMniq8A

chowdrey (@YouTake_TheSun)

"delelelelele WOOOOOP" has gotten me through the darkest parts of my life and you want to replace that with "kricketune" https://t.co/wmQZwDlc0h

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Twitter · Jan 31, 2022, 12:12 PM

[bleak coral]

oh you LITERALLY meant the cries

so I had it right the first time LMAO

[bleak coral]

banger tweet

[maiden ermine]

And here is my response lmao
https://twitter.com/rebel_optimist/status/1488288461194936320?s=20&t=SmYGrRhViKOf85JuMniq8A

Charlie Evangelista (he/they) (@rebel_optimist)

People that as if they didn't hear early Pokemon anime Electabuzz https://t.co/QonfqamThl

Twitter · Jan 31, 2022, 11:09 PM

delelelelele WOOOOOP

[wraith cradle]

The Remaster of Life Is Strange is making me upset

The fact that games I bought in release with my own money are getting remasters reminds me I'm getting old :/

[maiden ermine]

Meanwhile, anime electabuzz was literally someone who is being electrocuted in the middle of a blizzard

[bleak coral]

i hope legends is good

[maiden ermine]

Gamestop pls hurry ;-;

[bleak coral]

im probably not gonna buy it

i might idk

Been going back and forth

[lofty pecan]

It was only released 7 years ago

They just want to make more money

The original art style was pretty good already

[wraith cradle]

Still

[maiden ermine]

Good news! Apparently my game did arrive! My roommates placed it in front of my room lmao. I'm going to have to finish this lecture first and then I'm playing lmao

[dire warren]

tbh my view on legends is if i find it preowned and cheap, then i'll get it

from what i've been told, it's basically the game to get if you like swsh and if you like monhun rise and don't already have both of them

[ocean iris]

I just wanna go back home and play more Exodus hnnngh

[wraith cradle]

I just realized I never played Mirror's Edge 2

So I bought it

[ocean iris]

Tfw never ever ME3

EA was at one point releasing bangers after bangers

Hopefully they return to that since we got a new mass effect coming, new dragon age, new skate game, possible titanfall game in the forseeable future, 3 new star wars games

[ocean iris]

https://i.4cdn.org/v/1643718119347.png

Wordle my beloved

[dire warren]

this channel is now basically where i go to get all my gaming news

[ocean iris]

What did you hear about from here?

The bungie aquisition was talked before sure but not the Wordle aquisition 😎

[dire warren]

literally everything that isn't available on the switch news because i don't. keep up with news

[ocean iris]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/421176827403304982/938140508801355816/20220201203500_1.jpg?width=1202&height=676

This game literally went from metro to tarkov to borderlands to mad max so far

[lusty pendant]

https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/1488557569677352970?t=xgSwDEAHJkEJTQH4BznEQw&s=19

Commander Stephanie Sterling (@JimSterling)

Remember when drinks companies in America started advertising themselves as not containing corn syrup?

NFTs are corn syrup. Nobody actually wants them, they're poison, and it's good PR to denounce them.

And yet the shit's being forced on us regardless. https://t.co/Gaol6PyAOT

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Twitter · Feb 1, 2022, 4:59 PM

[ocean iris]

The corn syrup reminds me of the UN Antichrist memes

what a good time

[quartz hatch]

NFTs are basically forced upon us by those at the top who are the ones who intend to benefit from them

can't make bank off of NFTs if no one's participating in your pyramid scheme

[rancid token]

https://twitter.com/Team17/status/1488618187109408780

Team17 (@Team17)

Team17 is today announcing an end to the MetaWorms NFT project.

We have listened to our Teamsters, development partners, and our games’ communities, and the concerns they’ve expressed, and have therefore taken the decision to step back from the NFT space.

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Twitter · Feb 1, 2022, 9:00 PM

Speaking of

[ocean iris]

That was fast

Is this the karma of not publishing Ready or Not 🤔

[signal kayak]

Thank goodness

[stable kindle]

re: the monetization topic from #supergiant-games, remember that we literally started with cosmetic monetization, the infamous oblivion horse armour. and people made fun of that when it came out, why would i pay this much for horse armour which of course is a great question. but yet we still ended up here because publishers beat us over the head with monetization until we accepted it bit by bit, "well its just cosmetic and doesnt affect the game" to "well you dont have to spend money to play this, free players still get a lot" sort of thing, and now every aspect of gaming is monetized in some fashion. we were forced to accept it until it became the norm because it started off innocent. thats why mindsets like "well if you dont like this then dont buy it" dont really work in regard to unnecessary monetization because someone will always be there to buy it and show publishers that it works

[fallow thorn]

i do get that

[stable kindle]

indeed, if you dont like it, dont make the purchase but like. there needs to be more pushback than that

[fallow thorn]

Monetization does bring one major upside to me, the ability for free games with a cosmetic shop. One of the games that I personally love (path of exile) is 100% free for absolutly all content (which is a lot because its ARPG, you can spend literally 1000s of hours in the game without them seeing a penny) and thats because (most) of its cash shop items are cosmetic. The only that arent will at most run you about 30$, which is the cost of a normal game. I don't defend that this is right locking a near mandatory system of item storage behind a paywall, and would much prefer that they make them free, but i do prefer more the game being free as without it i would have never played. I don't like microtransactions, especially when they are mandatory, and do agree that a lot more games need a lot less of them with a lot more force behind the push for less, but I also do enjoy games having lower or free prices then they normally would, especially as cosmetic stores do provide a easy and official path for supporting the game and its company

Cosmetics are definitly a problem, one that is unfortunatly growing, and is unfortunatly heavily linked to mobile games. I do feel that only few games should have cosmetic shops, and no game ever should have a shop that locks any core content behind a paywall that allows others to have it at the same time (for example lvl 100 characters from a level up cap being purchased in the same area as one who hasn't) and allows a benefit (cant remeber the word) over others

[ornate rain]

Hey whats up

[stable kindle]

i have a lot of conflicted feelings about mtx anymore bc like. yes these games, esp the free ones, need to make their money somewhere. but there was a time the monetization used to be more fair and now its. just blatant greed everywhere you look. of course i dabble in these sort of games from time to time but a lot of them fail to keep my interest because they're done in such a way that the player is not so subtly encouraged to spend money to keep doing anything. if i really like a game and feel the pricing model is fair and not super scummy then i dont mind tossing in a few bucks here and there but also like. a full price game with mtx in it will never be game of the year material for me ever lmao

[fallow thorn]

100%

Just in case it came off this way i'm in no way trying to be mean or anything, and are probably pretty biased spending some on PoE myself, this is a very interesting debate to me

[stable kindle]

i dont think you were coming off mean anywhere :T

i just disagreed about the cosmetics point because cosmetics are literally how we got into this situation in the first place

[fallow thorn]

Ah yeah, i totally get that

I feel like cosmetics are a 2 way thing

1. make a cheap / free entry point and use PURELY cosmetic items, or items that only affect solo mode in a way that is not mandatory
2. make a game priced however you want, and dont have a cosmetic shop

[vagrant epoch]

mtx are an interesting topic within game dev at my school--there's an entire class dedicated to ethics of monetization. Haven't taken it yet, thinking about it as one of my senior electives

[fallow thorn]

mtx ethics is a deep topic imo

its hard to balance on the point of not making money because you have no advertisement, making enough but not being scummy, and being super scummy

[rancid token]

https://youtu.be/_Fx0aJCRRpE

[lusty pendant]

just going by twitter comments, some genshin players were Really angry that it got beaten by Among Us in some category because they were promised some currency if genshin won, or something
which *waves hands says something about the whole premium currency trend

[stable kindle]

they what 😭

[lusty pendant]

all I know is that a genshin fan account said that Among Us released before 2020 and so it shouldn't have been eligible for the 2020 TGA, and some replies said something about not being able to get gems

[fallow thorn]

why, nooooooo 😭

[stable kindle]

genshin is, for a TON of people, baby's first gambling addiction so im really not surprised

[maiden ermine]

sweats in FEH

[stable kindle]

yeah that ones pretty egregious too

[maiden ermine]

I'm too broke to pay for gacha stuff lmao. I'd rather spend money on irl gacha machines

[stable kindle]

things like feh are why i wasnt sure why everyone was so harsh on unite for scummy monetization bc p much all of ninty's mobile games have them

feh, mario kart, animal crossing, they all have scummy mtx

[maiden ermine]

Yep

And, like, how else are these games supposed to get their money? Is it sus? Absolutely. But you can't deny games, including mobile games, still require a lot of resources to produce

[stable kindle]

you can monetize your game without deliberately designing your game around that monetization

is the point

[maiden ermine]

True, true

[stable kindle]

remember uh, which was it, shadow of war? had to literally be entirely rebalanced when they removed mtx because the game was quite literally designed around having it

[maiden ermine]

I never heard of that incident. I suppose I just don't play a lot of mobile games lmao

[stable kindle]

that was a console game

[maiden ermine]

...oopsies lmao

Now y'all know how much I do not understand monetization ;-;

The only monetized game I play now is Game of Dice on my phone lmao

[lusty pendant]

FEH started out not getting so much backlash because spending a ton of money is "just" +2 to all stats on a certain unit, and stats on average are in the 30s-40s ish range, and a score boost in certain pseudo PVP modes (ie you fight teams made by others but they're AI controlled), and there you only lose out on a little bit of currency per week if you're F2P or low spending

[maiden ermine]

And now they have FEH pass...

Fortunately, I stopped playing after Book 3

[lusty pendant]

But there's a consensus that it's gotten worse and worse because some pseudo PVP modes only get a score boost on a handful of units, who aren't in the regular gacha pull

So you basically got to save for a monthly banner that only lasts a week to get those score boosting units

And now there's real time PVP that if you don't have like, one of 5 select cancer units your life will be hell

[lusty pendant]

If you haven't heard, seasonal and legendary/mythic banner sparking is feh pass only

[maiden ermine]

WHAT?!

Disgusting

I know resplendent heroes were feh pass

[fallow thorn]

i remeber, absolutly egregious

[maiden ermine]

But now legendary and mythic?!?! Ugh

[stable kindle]

game passes have been such a blight on the industry lmao

[fallow thorn]

trueeeeee

[lusty pendant]

https://twitter.com/Pheonixmaster1/status/1473853188482555904?t=ADhtollSLQZK2LxnQr1X6A&s=19

Pheonixmaster1 (@Pheonixmaster1)

Didn't think this is how sparks on the remaining banners would happen😶 https://t.co/rNZ9ibRLPA

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Twitter · Dec 23, 2021, 3:09 AM

(for non FEH people, basically they added sparking to limited time banners,which was what a lot of players wanted, but only if you pay the monthly sub)

[maiden ermine]

absolutely disgusting

[lusty pendant]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/779411666063982612/869080270861660240/2021072600523500-C7D8C4153CC9802713604F54C53304E0.jpg

[maiden ermine]

Note to self: Make that as my new desktop wallpaper

Oh god, Hades being a new addition to the FE "disgusting" meme

[lusty pendant]

I capped it for this very reason

[stable kindle]

https://twitter.com/GilvaSunner/status/1488555355865075722 oh good ninty going after music channels thats nice its not like they make their soundtracks easily available online anywhere, cool cool

GilvaSunner (@GilvaSunner)

After thinking about this a lot over the past few days, I’ve decided that at this point it’s really not worth it to keep the channel up any longer, and will therefore delete the GilvaSunner YouTube channel (or what’s left of it) this coming Friday.

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Twitter · Feb 1, 2022, 4:50 PM

https://twitter.com/GilvaSunner/status/1488555303918616581

GilvaSunner (@GilvaSunner)

Hi everyone, after the 1300 copyright blocks from Nintendo a few days ago, the YT channel received another 2200 blocks today (with likely many more to follow).

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Twitter · Feb 1, 2022, 4:50 PM

deranged behaviour, damn ninty is behind the times

guess everyone better start hoarding their favourite tunes before more channels get nuked 🙄

[tame veldt]

they're just encouraging

i don't understand corpos

[stable kindle]

guess they expect people to only listen to their music while they play a game

[tame veldt]

ssbu music player

[woven breach]

...or a subscription for Nintendo's music player on your very own nintendo switch. For only 40 bucks a month.

"Do you guys not have Switch?"

[stable kindle]

https://twitter.com/Akfamilyhome/status/1488691400413626368

Akfamilyhome (@Akfamilyhome)

What a great day! I can't wait to legally enjoy some of my favorite Nintendo music

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Twitter · Feb 2, 2022, 1:51 AM

[tame veldt]

eh

15$ max

if it's a streaming service with ads or smth

if it's just a glorified mp3 player let us buy albums individually for like 5 bucks

[maiden ermine]

For the wallpaper or the new addition to the Fire Emblem meme?

[lusty pendant]

Fire emblem meme

[maiden ermine]

Amazing

[signal kayak]

Sounds like it

[weary echo]

Another reason to never touch feh again

Probably the wisest decision in my life

[signal kayak]

Dodged a bullet there

[quartz hatch]

is feh that fire emblem gacha game

[weary echo]

Yes

[wise bough]

[lusty pendant]

[untold hornet]

oh my sibling plays feh ,, i wonder if they know yet

[winter mica]

i used to play feh and yeah it really went downhill when they introduced the pass

[ocean iris]

i got no hope in mobile games

[lusty pendant]

man tbt when touchscreen devices were just starting to take off and game companies were trying to have fun ways of using multi-touch and gyroscope

before they realized they can remove features and charge money

[ocean iris]

that dead space mobile game tho

[rancid token]

Lol sliding and wall-running are locked behind skill tree in Dying Light 2

[ocean iris]

they are in the skill tree in the first game too

it doesnt have wall running though, only wall jumping

[rancid token]

But why aren't they just available by default

[ocean iris]

crane is supossed to be weak and only a newcomer to parkour

Plus it would make the game too easy

[fervent gyro]

Quite interesting: https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-reveals-2022-sale-dates-and-discount-policy-changes/

[ocean iris]

This reminds me

why are console online store sales so...barebones

are there stricter rules?

[ocean iris]

Ok I just finished Metro Exodus and of course I got the bad ending

the problem with Last Light and Exodus is that you will never get the good ending on your first playthrough

So if you dont plan on replaying the game soon I'd say either check out the good ending on youtube or replay the whole game in the future so you dont get fatigued of it

[wraith cradle]

So a game I donated to kickstarter 4 years ago is getting released next week

That's nice

[junior crown]

What's the game?

[wraith cradle]

Rise of the Third Power

I liked Ara Fell so I backed them

Liked the demo so I think I'll be happy with the result

[junior crown]

oh this looks neat!

[wraith cradle]

Yeah that just leaves me Eiyuden as the last unreleased KS project I've backed

Eiyuden I'm 100% sure will release tho

https://store.steampowered.com/app/556740/LEGRAND_LEGACY_Tale_of_the_Fatebounds/

Personal reccomendation

Specially at this price if you like Turn Based rpgs

Steam

LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds

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Price

$1.99

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[weary echo]

I'm gonna take a look at it

[winged dew]

Idk if anyone else has gotten this sense but reading through the discourse surrounding that new Pokemon Legends Arceus game is...weird

Like, I have no intention of playing it for a while, but I never thought a Pokemon game would be the one that gets so many Discord servers tied up in knots.

[lusty pendant]

what kind of discourse

(also twitter has ruined the word discourse, most of the time people aren't even discussing they just want others to affirm they're right)

[fallen sky]

for me, it was tumblr that ruined that word 😔

[lusty pendant]

I've managed to stay on the sane side of tumbler

[wraith cradle]

I swear if I see Legends Arceus getting compared to Dark Souls one more time.....

[lusty pendant]

w. why is it dark souls

[fallen sky]

top ten messages I have witnessed in this server

[next patio]

We have the dark souls roll™

[rancid token]

I've been exhausted by the Pokemon discourse for half a decade or more at this point

[winged dew]

Mainly people getting irrationally angry over people who don't hold their opinion on whether it sucks or is really good

[rancid token]

I'm just going with my gut and what people who like what I like have told me, in that the gameplay changes and framework are really good, but the writing is tepid and it looks like butts

[winged dew]

But has Pokemon been polarizing for that long?

[rancid token]

I mean, yeah

[winged dew]

I don't recall it being that bad until Gen 8

[rancid token]

Pokemon has been polarizing since gen 5

Ice Cream Bad

It's gotten worse since gen 6 and 7

[winged dew]

Huh, for some reason I thought people were pretty on board with the Sun and Moon era. Maybe I just had other focuses than the Pokemon franchise up until Gen 8

Prior to that I hadn't touched Pokemon since Gen 3 really, with like 5 hours of Gen 4 to realize it wasn't my thing anymore

[rancid token]

People are both too quick to vilify the entire title while also being too stubborn to realize it could be a whole hell of a lot better

[winged dew]

Yeah, like the analysis you gave seems reasonable. Maybe it's just people trying to justify their $60 purchase (or their lack thereof)

[rancid token]

But yeah Arceus specifically I've actually heard pretty universally that it improves the gameplay a lot

It's whether it looks bad and if that's enough to make it not worth the money is the hangup, I feel

[winged dew]

Yeah, that just seems like such a weird stone to throw at a major Nintendo property

Like, I get it, but I was under the impression Nintendo fans were the least likely to care about graphics as long as the game is good

[quartz hatch]

i actually quite liked sun and moon, but fell off afterwards

[rancid token]

It's not just graphically unimpressive, it's like

[quartz hatch]

ultra sun and moon were marketed as "an entire new adventure" only for it to release as the exact same game as sun and moon with a slightly different endgame

[rancid token]

Flat up ugly

Or at the very least it looks unfinished

[winged dew]

Like, framerate wise or just based on art style?

[rancid token]

I've actually heard it runs well, which is surprising

[quartz hatch]

sword & shield i never bought up and never regretted it lol. BDSP just felt like a cheap cash grab and Arceus looks kinda....really ugly. also heard it has some frame issues

[rancid token]

Bad texture work, environmental stuff, lighting

[quartz hatch]

i mean idc that much about the graphics if the core game is fun

[next patio]

Framerate wise is been nice for me

[rancid token]

The models are actually improved which is great

[quartz hatch]

but i expect more from a billion dollar franchise like pokemon, like come ON

[winged dew]

Yeah, like if it's fps stuff then I get it. BotW is difficult for me to enjoy for fps issues

[rancid token]

Pokemon needs to not be a 1 or 2 year franchise

[next patio]

Huh, never got much issues u less the korok forest

[quartz hatch]

same, as with most yearly franchises, how can you really improve or innovate if you have to release something EVERY year

[next patio]

And it drops a lot there