video-games

[hollow bough]

I recently got blind forest

But im still addicted to hades lol

[grand willow]

i think ori's general story is decent but my god the presentation is 15/10

[hollow bough]

Ye

The graphics arent impressive but they're so well made that theyre absolutely beutiful

[grand willow]

i love artistic graphics

[hollow bough]

Same

Ahh hydra

[grand willow]

hollow knight's also not very impressive but really beatiful

[hollow bough]

Ye

Im really cobfused on what to do on hollow knight rn lol

Im bad at metroidvanias

But good at rougelike/lites and rpgs

[grand willow]

i have 169 hours at hollow knight

[hollow bough]

Nice

[grand willow]

the only ending I couldn't get is godhome

[hollow bough]

The rest is mediocre or others

[grand willow]

the last challenge was too much for me

[hollow bough]

I cant even progress lol

[grand willow]

i am good at metroidvanias but i check the secret stuff a little too much

the first time I finished I had over 60 hours

my big bro tried to play it but couldn't understand where tf he was on map lmao

[hollow bough]

Icould only stop using wayward compass after like 12 hours

[grand willow]

the most far I went in godhome was Vessel
that dude slapped me outta reality

[hollow bough]

Bonk

[grand willow]

COMEON

NOT 💩

[hollow bough]

Idk

Ah

That works

[grand willow]

i think they brought a bot from twitter

[hollow bough]

Ye

Probs

[grand willow]

what other rogue lites u play

or other type of games

[hollow bough]

Rouge legacy

I suck tho

[grand willow]

lul

[hollow bough]

Neon abyss

Ded cels

[grand willow]

i could have gotten neon abyss if it wasnt absurdly expensive here

i have ded cels

[hollow bough]

Pain

[rustic falcon]

just a reminder, please dont evade the swear filter!

[hollow bough]

I got it for free

[grand willow]

binding of isaac
dead cells
hades

[hollow bough]

And then epic said nu and auto deleted it

[grand willow]

lol

[hollow bough]

And i had to buy it

[hollow bough]

I have those too

[grand willow]

the DLC i was talking about was Repentance for BoI

there are over 30+ damn characters

[hollow bough]

I have most decent metroidvanias and roguelites/likes

[hollow bough]

Ik

I got the full version i already have all the dlc

[grand willow]

i got afterbirth and +

in the last discount

i have hollow knight and ori as metroidvanias

my friend gifted me war of mine in my birthday and I still haven't played it

lmao

[hollow bough]

Lol

Hades mught be my most played game

And thats alot since i have short attention span until i forget or get bored of a game

[hollow bough]

Have u played borderlands

[ocean iris]

I got a feeling Borderlands turned a lot of girls lesbian with that awesome character design

[hollow bough]

Probably lmao

[grand willow]

i have borderlands 2

played only for 26 hours tho

[hollow bough]

I have 2 and 3

[grand willow]

i really cant find the courage to continue

[hollow bough]

Ive pkayed 3 alot but without the quility of life changes of 3 its pain to play 2

[grand willow]

i am still listening to hades menu music

[hollow bough]

LMFAO

Did u just get the game?

[grand willow]

a lot of people complain about how bad the story is in BL3

[hollow bough]

Ye

[grand willow]

hades or bl2

[hollow bough]

It is

[hollow bough]

Hades

[grand willow]

i've played for 44 hours

[hollow bough]

Oh

[grand willow]

idk been like 2 weeks i guess

since I got it

[hollow bough]

Since u were listening to the menu musoc i thoight u just got it

I dum

Also i just accidentally switched my keepsake so f

[grand willow]

nah its just so damn good

hey wtf i had progress with aspect of beawulf

now i no

[winged dew]

Did the autosave forget to pop before the end of your last session?

[ocean iris]

https://loginportal.funnyjunk.com/movies/Pervasive+s_6c1d42_9330258.mp4

When a game has so many plotholes but everything else is just so good

[next patio]

The other day saw someone streaming mgr and the chat was either full of quotes or full karaoke mode as soon a boss started the lyrics

Is a great experience lol

[ocean iris]

unironically i cant believe this game's parrying system filters me so hard

i think it was designed for controller

lmao

[wraith cradle]

According to the internet MGR is a game that deals about people throwing iconic quotes to each other while Heavy Metal sounds into the background

Gotta hand it to PG tho.

Making a singleplayer game still remembered and referenced almost a decade after it came out is quite meritorious

The only game that was its contemporary that I can think of who managed to do that, even if to a lesser extent was Deus Ex: Human Revolution, whose quotes can still be referenced and acknowledged 10.5 years later

[scenic wigeon]

uh okay I can't edit that

I think the bot glitched or something

[vivid mesa]

lmao at Rules of Nature

MGR is a game, much like No More Heroes 3, where the developers don't care about anything other than pure, awesome, style; and making the player feel like a badass

and god dang it, we need video games like that

[next patio]

Raiden suplexing the metal gear that was supposed to be a tutorial boss really was cool

[woven breach]

that counts as a suplex?

[mild wren]

How do I meet Thanatos

[winged dew]

According to the wiki, Thanatos can be found ||in Elysium after fighting either Alecto or Tisiphone for the first time (does not have to be in the same run)||

After you find him the first time, he's much easier to find afterwards

[grand willow]

Yo

[hollow bough]

Yee

[mild wren]

Don’t you fight Alecto and tisiphone in Tartarus

Imo tisiphone is the hardest fury sister

Meg is the easiest

[rustic falcon]

This is the general video games channel, if you’d like to chat about hades you can do so in #h1-discussion or one of the many other hades channels

[mild wren]

Ok

[vivid mesa]

I believe any throw that uses the back/torso as the fulcrum -- rather than the hip or shoulder -- constitutes a suplex.

[woven breach]

but... raiden didn't even touch the back/torso..?

[rancid token]

The thrower's midsection

[hidden zephyr]

I'm looking for a game that makes me happy like Terraria and Stardew Valley. 🥰

[polar dragon]

Don't Starve/Don't Starve Together maybe?

[hidden zephyr]

Maybe, i played it a little. Almost forgot about it.

[lusty pendant]

https://youtu.be/s3MWnmumuX8

The vid is hilarious

[vivid mesa]

lmao I've thought about doing that to villagers in HHP 🤣

[dire warren]

best part of hhp is that if i like a request or how something looks then i can spend time on it and go back to it and go all out.
(like one of my favourite old villagers turned up early on and as i keep unlocking new features i keep adding to his house)

and if i don't feel like it i can spam an item, maybe put some wallpaper up, and leave.

[untold hornet]

weww just beat shield

im sleepy now

its 20 after 6

[coral hawk]

I do a daily question in one of my servers and today's feels appropriate for cross posting

What videogame defined your childhood

For me it was super mario world snes

[wraith cradle]

The Sly Copper Trilogy

I know there is a fourth game and is good but that came much later

[dire warren]

mario kart

[fervent gyro]

Crash Bandicoot 2 on PSX, great platformer, I still like it and play it to this day.

[signal kayak]

Pokémon, but I don't like it anymore because I don't like the way the franchise has been going as of late

[polar dragon]

Army Men: RTS
It defined the type of games I play now.

Also it was the golden age of RTS, so Army Men: RTS was the gateway drug to Red Alert, Starcraft, Warcraft, etc.

[fathom juniper]

huh
i kinda expected it to be some sort of roguelike

also
hi

[lusty pendant]

Probably warcraft 3 and Age of Empires 2

[polar dragon]

Hiii

[winter mica]

definitely the sims 1. i was absolutely obsessed with that game

the sims 1 making magic is the best video game that's ever been made fyi

[hybrid jetty]

half life 1 and 2

[untold hornet]

idk if this counts as a video game but wizard 101

i wasnt allowed to play video games as a kid

[polar dragon]

first fps for me was unreal tournament 2004 i think

[rugged quiver]

Does anyone know any 4 player local multi-player games on Xbox game pass or that's free for Xbox in general?

[winged dew]

Overcooked 2 is on game pass

[rugged quiver]

Is it multi-player local

[winged dew]

Yeah, it's a family coop thing about cooking

4 player coop with any combo of online or local participants

Tetris Effect Connected is also on there with 4 player coop

[normal marsh]

not sure about defined but i really loved sonic and the black knight on the wii

[junior crown]

Coming back and thinking about this conversation really makes me come to conclusion I don't really have a game that defines my childhood. Too many games, lot's of fond memories.

[fathom juniper]

Diablo, RE1, OpFor demo on PC at an age of 6
Contra, hunt, Mario before that

[stable kindle]

yeeaahhh im with wok i think. like sure i could name my favourite games as a kid but i can't think of any one that necessarily defined that period of life, and in fact i'm not even sure what that would even mean to me lmao. though for my pre-teen/teen years i could say ff9 without a doubt but before that.... not really sure tbh

[ocean iris]

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/896/771/747.jpg

Half Life OpFor players

At times it makes me think it's better than base Half Life but the original half life is just too memorable

[polar dragon]

Imagine this
In a few more years, Fortnite, League, MC, etc. become valid answers to this question xD.

[lusty pendant]

I didn't even think that deep and just threw out a game I liked lol

[ocean iris]

same.

it would be lego star wars the clone wars

first legit game i ever played

[untold hornet]

half life discussion 👀

[fathom juniper]

good? yes
better than the base game? eeeeeehhh
i'd argue against that

i remember it scaring the crap out of me when i was

[ocean iris]

what part exactly

[fathom juniper]

barnacles

[lofty pecan]

Debating whether to play the half life vr mod or not

Never played any game in the half life series before and I don’t handle horror well

[fathom juniper]

half life vr?
that doesn't sound janky at all

go for it

wait
hang on
does this mod run on goldSRC Half Life or Half Life Source?

[lofty pecan]

pretty sure the original engine

[fathom juniper]

oh god

[lofty pecan]

whats wrong

is it that outdated?

[fathom juniper]

i mean
i just can't even imagine how VR support would look like on an old, janky engine like that

don't get me wrong - i love all old idtech derivatives
but they weren't really designed with Loosy-goosy wibbly-wobbly vr movement in mind

also
those weird goopy alien jump pods in surface tension would make me go

OH GOD
IMAGINE PLAYING THE XEN CHAPTER IN VR

[lofty pecan]

aight ok i quit in the first 30 minutes of bioshock im def not playing half life then 💀

[fathom juniper]

why not?

[lofty pecan]

seems very scary

[ocean iris]

not at all

it's as scary as metro or doom

[fathom juniper]

naaah
it's fiiiiiine

it's... mildly spooky

[ocean iris]

by as scary as metro or doom i mean not at all

[sleek quiver]

Diablo 1-2, StarCraft, Pokémon gen1, FF7. Never owned a console in my childhood, all my gaming was on PC

[signal kayak]

Would add Ratchet and Clank to the list of games that made my childhood

[vivid mulch]

Wii Sports Resort

Well over 1500+ hours on that stuff

[coral hawk]

God that one is a mood

Also I've enjoyed reading everyone's answers

[normal marsh]

LOVED THIS GAME

my sib and i played this and mario kart wii all the time when we were younger

super mario galaxy 2 was also great but i was v bad at it lol

[maiden ermine]

Pokepark. God, my sister and I replayed that game over and over again like it was nobody's business. My sister is currently playing through Pokepark 2, and she doesn't consider herself a gamer, but she'd highly invested in this game lmao

[vale root]

fact ^^

bring back the wii.

[next patio]

This game was so fun

[maiden ermine]

Finally started playing Hyper Light Drifter and A) love it and B) I'm starting to love roguelikes in general!

[acoustic jacinth]

second the fact, wii sports resort was great

[acoustic jacinth]

neverwinter nights 2 got me interested in rpgs in middle school, so i’d say it counts as a defining game too

[ocean iris]

They got a second one???

[scenic wigeon]

Sonic Colors

[polar dragon]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeagueOfMemes/comments/sso1gt/is_sett_gay_or_noxian/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

sometimes reddits has gold

[woven breach]

that

was

glorious

[polar dragon]

its now my head canon

also lux as the first voice is 10/10 casting choice

[woven breach]

next thing we know, she's gonna explain what double rainbow is

[stable kindle]

what the

[stable kindle]

BIG day for annoying lor likers (me) https://youtu.be/VeU5OcJ5njE

[next patio]

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1493752880733503488

Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica)

As of late March 2023, it will no longer be possible to make Nintendo eShop purchases for the Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.

More info: https://t.co/uGoxCcDZ70

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Twitter · Feb 16, 2022, 1:03 AM

[winged dew]

How long did Sony give people for the theoretical PS3 shop shutdown?

It seems weird that Nintendo will have now shut down 3 consoles' worth of digital shops without backlash before Sony shuts down 1 due to backlash. All this despite the fact that 2 of thise Nintendo consoles are more recent than the PS3.

[untold hornet]

wow cant believe the my 3ds is soon to be more useless than it actually already is

[polar dragon]

Switch to Steam Deck (haha get it)

[stable kindle]

thank god one of my 3ds runs homebrew lol

[sleek quiver]

The PS3 backlash was understandable, some, if not most, of the exclusive games that came on the system is still stuck there

While the Wii U… well, idk if most people even want a Wii U

[waxen stag]

The Wii U was good

[stable kindle]

i got a wii u bc i skipped wii :/ not intentionally mind you, but for a while the wii was hard to find and after hunting around my area for ages i just stopped caring about it. with giftcards and employee discount i got like. one of those deluxe wii u bundles for a bit over 100usd so all in all it was a good deal regardless. i enjoyed what i played of it since my last nintendo console was the gamecube but i def didnt put anywhere remotely close to the time in it i did the gamecube

tbh i dont think ive really touched it since uhhh... well i think i pulled it out a year or two ago to play some wii games but besides that maybe since about 2017ish lol

[sleek quiver]

Right around when the Switch came around? Lol

[stable kindle]

it was cool while i worked somewhere with 1hr lunch breaks at any rate, just set up the console in the break room and played on the pad rofl

i dont own a switch either ¯_(ツ)_/¯

honestly i havent really been much of a console gamer at all since roughly 2016ish, i didnt really have any way with my setup at the time to play comfortably for more than a couple hours so i just preferred gaming at my desk. and if im at my desk, well, may as well use my pc...

my desk is not large enough to contain my monitors and console peripherals so like. i just didnt bother

[rancid token]

The Wii U has a ton of Virtual Console titles that haven't been ported over

But hey, if they don't want me to pay for their games, no skin off my nose

[stable kindle]

didnt like every console have different virtual console selections...

and then like some snes ones were for 3ds ambassadors only and stuff like that. stupid

[sleek quiver]

Aren’t people just resort to emulating these older Nintendo titles nowadays?

[stable kindle]

people have always emulated them

but if given the option to do it officially a lot of people like to do that

except ninty makes you jump through a dozen hoops to offer things like older titles or soundtracks (ahem) through official means

so yeah then people look elsewhere

[sleek quiver]

Well, what I meant was, the titles that were stuck on the PS3, really did stuck there, as even emulation options for the PS3, well, last time I checked, the PS3 was still very hard to emulate

Meanwhile, the older Nintendo stuffs, if all else fails, emulation would still be very viable, if not official

[stable kindle]

oh cool i just double checked and virtual console indeed never got released on switch, so next year is officially the death of virtual console rofl. gg

[sleek quiver]

Yeah, that is sad though ngl

Especially when their alternative to the Virtual Console on the Switch was the NSO, a subscription-type service that barely gets updated with new (old) titles

[stable kindle]

really cannot state enough how much i loathe that ninty switched to online subscription service

like. we're already paying for internet?? and then you make people pay extra to play games they already paid for online?? how is this acceptable. like okay i know xbox started this and its just a norm but please

[waxen stag]

Nintendo:
Makers of good games and bad business practices

[stable kindle]

you cant call nintendo out for bad practices on that when all they were doing is following the trend, albeit incredibly late

its still dumb

but at least xbox and playstation offer fairly good subscription service, and ninty has..... hm.

thats where you can call out the bad business practice for the subscription service

[vivid mesa]

yeah, Nintendo Online is inexcusable right now

and I'm a huge Nintendo fanboy

no defending that

[ocean iris]

Just pirate

Ez

[untold hornet]

^^

[woven breach]

what if I don't want peg leg?

[polar dragon]

peg leg and blind eye are optional

loving the high seas is required thogh

come to think of it, sea is actually quite low in term of altitude

[lofty pecan]

has anyone tried r6 extraction yet?

considering getting it with a $10 epic coupon

or should i get back 4 blood instead

[ocean iris]

none

get none

[lofty pecan]

Then what’s a good pve shooter

Already played left4dead and killing floor

[junior crown]

Deep Rock Galactic

[dire warren]

so by no longer possible to make eshop purchases does that mean we can still perfectly legally and legitimately get free games or do i have to get everything i want before

[broken smelt]

I would assume the latter, but I'm not sure

[quartz hatch]

https://twitter.com/brandonevolved/status/1493722684013744137?s=21

Brandon (@BrandonEvolved)

saw japanese text and a lynel in botw, expected some ungodly 3 hour long devil may cry combo sequence, received tom and jerry episode https://t.co/w8imWvg7zL

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34416

Twitter · Feb 15, 2022, 11:03 PM

[woven breach]

sometimes I forgot

you shouldn't fight lynel fairly

[coral hawk]

https://twitter.com/monsterhunter/status/1493910543299710979?t=9tze7WR5EpvrKej-Sxp2yw&s=19

Monster Hunter (@monsterhunter)

Hello everyone! We've been working on the in-game options lately for #Sunbreak.

• Suzuki, Sunbreak Director

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495

Twitter · Feb 16, 2022, 11:30 AM

Yoooo are they getting rid of attack triggering rides

[wraith cradle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/167450137138823168/943164937734352956/IMG_20220215_161947.png

God. Why are the preload's instructions so complicated?

[dire warren]

i hope not, actually, i don't like it when everyone else also stops attacking in time and there's that awkward pause where everyone waits for someone else to do something

[polar dragon]

Im considering buying B4B bc my non PC friend can play it on his PS5

[ocean iris]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/335134129358241792/942591844703961128/video0-2-1-1.mov

[coral hawk]

Hey, I had an origin pc laptop, that my motherboard apparently fried a month outside of warranty and Origin wants me to pay them 900 to get it fixed plus work, plus shipping.

[winter mica]

oh that's brutal

[coral hawk]

also after looking online at complaints and you have to look pretty hard

this is pretty common from what I'm seeing

fair

That they either break just outside warranty or they ship broken and make you wait for months to get it replaced.

so just don't order from them would be my advice to anyone

[winter mica]

that's such a nasty business practice

im sorry you got ripped off

[ocean iris]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/853612435478151183/943589911406198864/E4A7D34A-11B1-406C-A82A-CD3CDF8370B8.png

[wraith cradle]

Ah yes, I felt kinda bad when I had to get rid of invaders by vacuuming their rooms

[dire condor]

always

until the lanuis come around then we have a problem

[fallen sky]

ngl watching people play ftl is so fun but i'd never play it myself

[ocean iris]

how so

[fallen sky]

just seeing how they go about strategizing

[stable kindle]

some games just really arent your cup of tea for whatever reason but watching other people play that thing is entertaining enough

im that way with horror games tbh. i will never play a horror game but i'll binge playthroughs of them if i'm in the mood

[dire warren]

same, actually, like i'm a huge coward but other people playing them is great.

i mean horror games tend to be fun? for me to like look at all the mechanics and how they work and how to strategise. but seeing as i'd never touch one i gotta go for watching others

[wraith cradle]

I spent dozens of hours getting all ships

Worth it

[maiden ermine]

Same! I love any horror media other than movies and games lmao

[wraith cradle]

I actually finished quite the interesting horror game yesterday

Re:Turn 2 Runaway

It was short but enjoyable

I liked the first one too

[polar dragon]

ayo what mod is this

looks great

me want

[fallen sky]

grew up a let's play youtuber kid 😗 ✌️ that's not a brag that's a sigh of defeat

[winged dew]

I have that Android Google Play Pass thing and managed to find a Slay the Spire "clone" that doesn't run like butts like the actual Android port of Slay the Spire: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.sharklab.rogueadventure&hl=en_US&gl=US

It's infinitely more optimized for mobile but has a few weird F2P shenanigans that are avoided by just having the Play Pass. Maybe check it out. I've been playing it way more than Slay the Spire on mobile

[ocean iris]

Nah it's just a meme lol

[polar dragon]

oh lol solid meme

[woven breach]

my friends and I had few rounds of L4D2 the other day. We were near safe room when we heard a witch. We chose to ignore the witch. What we didn't expect was the witch was inside the safe room.

[winter mica]

ooh i remember the witch she's very spooky

[winged dew]

I wasn't aware that was possible

[woven breach]

well

that was a first time for my friend

who plays a lot more than me

but that's what happened

man I wish I recorded it

[ocean iris]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/733638978087026698/943701461630607360/Metal_Gear_Rising_Meme__Memories_Broken.mp4

day 27 Im still being filtered by Sam

[woven breach]

Man hard eight in L4D2 is hard

Took my friends and I one and a half hour to beat hard rain on normal

[coral hawk]

ok I found a 500 dollar laptop, "HP 14 Laptop, AMD Ryzen 5 5500U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD Storage, 14-inch Full HD Display, Windows 11 Home, Thin & Portable, Micro-Edge & Anti-Glare Screen, Long Battery Life (14-fq1025nr, 2021) "

it has two ram slots, so once I get my origin pc back I can bring it up to 16gb ram

thoughts

[coral hawk]

I ended up buying it and it's getting delivered today

[polar dragon]

8 players? That possible?

[polar dragon]

AAA games would be hard to run on any $500 laptop.
But indie and older titles should be OK.
Also have you considered the Steam Deck for gaming purposes?

[winter mica]

i have a $500 acer that i truly abhor but it can play pyre so if you like that game at least you have that

[coral hawk]

my budget is like 500 total so I couln't do steam deck and a laptop for school

at least not with how I use laptops lmaoo

And honestly the most intensive game I play would be like hades

I don't typically do triple A

[lofty pecan]

cris tales for free on epic next week 👀

[polar dragon]

nice

[lofty pecan]

https://youtu.be/hFwAP83MlKs coming out in a month

cyberpunk game ive had my eye on for a while

[wraith cradle]

Oh, nice

I loved the demo

[dire condor]

What are triple-A western games that are partially inspired by or reference anime?

[lofty pecan]

doom (2016) is based off a little known anime called "demon slayer"

[fallen sky]

i finally beat the main storyline of invisible inc... i'm free...

[dire condor]

Heh.

[coral hawk]

ok the computer I brought up earlier is actually really good

[winter mica]

oh nice

[coral hawk]

I'm able to mess around in discord, have a 1080p video going and I'm playing tft

and there ain't even a stutter

which sounds normal for most computers but I've been on a laptop that can't even have 2 tabs open for the last 2 months

The only issue is its windows 11 which is markedly worse than 10

[woven breach]

no lol, Hard eight game mode makes the special infected spawn 8 at a time

[vivid mesa]

I kinda wanna start a new Yakuza series playthrough, since I lost my old PSN account and its trophies.

[woven breach]

it's co-op

[vivid mesa]

oh snap I don't have the games anymore

[normal marsh]

Thinking of getting blasphemous cause I like the art and atmosphere a lot, is it very difficult for people new to the metroidvania genre?

[rancid token]

Hmm

Sort of?

The combat is pretty tough

But it's not a particular bugbear to navigate

But for what it's worth I don't think it ever felt unfair

[normal marsh]

Oh okay, the biggest thing was whether it was difficult for the sake of being difficult (bullet sponge enemies/infrequent places to save) but if it's justified/mechanically challenging then that's fine

Ty for explaining

[untold hornet]

actually i take back what i said about pla

i dont have the game but hmgh ... one character made me change my mind

[rancid token]

It's probably the most fun I've had actually playing a Pokemon title in ages

I've got my pound of nitpicks, alongside some actual glaring problems, but it's a start

[coral hawk]

I couldn't beat PLA cause of some serious photosensitivity issues

even the grass tries to seizure you

[covert tide]

any recommendation for difficult games? idk hades high heat doesn't feel entertaining for me

[waxen stag]

This War of Mine, Hollow Knight, Sunless Sea, VVVVVV, The Binding of Isaac, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. On the highest difficulty, Thief Gold is quite challenging. Papers, Please. Pathologic 2, the list goes on...

[covert tide]

thankyou

[waxen stag]

Do any other notable indie devs have an official Discord server?

I tried looking for one of my favorite studios, and they didn't have one.

[stable kindle]

thats weird because i feel like just about anyone uses discord anymore

which is something i kinda have a love/hate relationship with now that use of forums has fallen off and information is locked to joining discord servers, which are just glorified chat lol

even mobile games have discord servers

[winter mica]

even a very small game that's been in the works for close to a decade and has like 3 fans has a discord server

[junior crown]

I suppose it depends. Some people like to keep interaction via forums still the most or via emails as mentioned, but I don't know personally any of such developers, but do know an associate of mine who didn't like how some information is kept to Discord servers only, which is fair enough, not everyone likes to have too many servers on their list.

[stable kindle]

i hate it.

its not just "information is kept to discord" its actively locking information from being searchable and indexed lol do you know how many times ive googled for like a problem im having with a game/hardware and found old forum posts that went unanswered for months or years before someone replied with something that finally worked

[acoustic jacinth]

the feeling of having a problem with your game and stumbling across a years old forum thread that has the exact solution to your exact problem is an unbeatable feeling

didn’t occur to me that discord servers may be replacing forums

[stable kindle]

yeah! but people are moving entire communities to discord because hosting your own forums takes money and making a discord server does not. like when i used to play primal carnage there was an old active forum, they also made a discord server, eventually kitchen bots took over the forum and the devs decided to just abandon it and move completely to discord, bc dealing with the forum took resources they couldnt really afford to allot toward it, for as little user activity as it had before the bots took over. and i get that but like... it sucks.

[acoustic jacinth]

discord seems pretty good for…interactivity, i guess? but it’s easier to search through forums for older, helpful threads…would almost make sense for game devs to maintain both a forum and a server, but i know nothing

[stable kindle]

discord is just a more organized chat room 😭 like i literally moved to discord back in 2016 from skype

[acoustic jacinth]

lol i joined discord in 2020, you witness my first real chatroom experience

[winter mica]

i remember the move from skype to discord. i cant believe it was that long ago

my experience with forums is that of disaster but it was great to google a tech problem or a gameplay thing and someone from 10 years ago had the same question and got it answered

and yeah you can search things on discord but discord's search feature is... not great, and it'll be a lot to slug through, and you might not even have the right wording to find it

[acoustic jacinth]

it’s the difference between googling a question and having that question appear in a forum thread vs. trying to find the right key words/phrases to search on discord, which sounds way more frustrating

[tribal zinc]

anyone here play super auto pets also

[sleek quiver]

Doesn’t Discord now have those discussion thread feature now? I haven’t seen it in person but that sounds like it would be solution to the problem

[hybrid jetty]

in theory but 1. they're not good and 2. they archive themselves after a certain amount of time

[stable kindle]

threads are just mini channels, theyre kinda pointless and its why we dont use them

[hybrid jetty]

discord and useless unwanted features name a more iconic duo

[tribal zinc]

beijing corn and failure

[stable kindle]

but anyway, like, steam forums still exist at least but those are a slog to get through if you're searching for anything

im pretty confident the forums will always exist so long as steam does, but so will their reputation as unholy trash heaps

[tribal zinc]

doge

[polar dragon]

Covid brought me here

and now im 53k+ messages on this server alone

wtf

[tribal zinc]

god damn

[junior crown]

5k+ messages, says a lot how much I am used to pop in and out. Been here a while.
Also yeah greatly agreed on Steam forums. It can be helpful but always has Gamers™️ in them no matter what game forum you are looking in.

And Discord overall being Discord. So many useless features still and no proper native moderation tools. Or barely functioning search option.

[fallen sky]

oh there's a bunch of indie devs that have disco servers. kitfox games is one of them

[junior crown]

Yeah a lot. From publishers, to small indies to one person project indies and very small games. It's interesting how the feel of those varies depending on what game or studio it is or number of people there are.

[fallen sky]

i found out last year, i believe, that the webcomic app that's regularly advertised on tumblr actually has an active forum. also, the mst3k forum i'm part of. i need to use the mst3k forum

they send email updates weekly on whatever discourse on the forum is popular in the moment

they also sent the kickstarter backers a christmas card 🤭

[junior crown]

Actually come to think of it I never properly used forums. There used to be one exception and few posts on Steam Forums, but I really am was like limiting myself to steam dm chats in-game chats and Discord for information related to games.

And well video essays but those took off for me quite late in 2019 or so.

[sleek quiver]

I see, kinda pointless like what tatz said

[winged dew]

At the risk of necroing (heh), I feel like Reddit's become the more natural evolution of self-hosted forums, while Discord specifically took the social aspect of forums and built up from there.

Reddit has its own massive set of issues, but the experience of searching for specific posts and comments is legitimately pretty good

[lofty pecan]

really? i feel like reddits search feature is horrible

[analog nymph]

Started playing Hades, my first 5 hours. I only use spear, all other weapons seem to be useless, am I wrong?

[winter mica]

@analog nymph this world be great for #h1-for-new-players

oops sorry that's a ping instead of a reply

[normal marsh]

Just picked up forbidden west, excited to play after work

[fervent gyro]

Playing Wandering Village demo on Steam. This game is absolutely gorgeous! Great city builder, highly recommend to try it!

[untold hornet]

does anyone here have any suggestions for a good 2ds emulator?

i really wanna play the 2ds pokemon games

[rugged quiver]

Does anyone know the best action/adventure 4 Co op game to play with friends in xbox game pass?

[tame veldt]

if by 2ds you mean 3ds, use citra, if you mean the ds from 2006 use desmume

citra is kinda convoluted to setup so just

[untold hornet]

tbf any emulator that can run the pokemon ds games or something

[tame veldt]

desmume for og ds

http://desmume.org

[untold hornet]

thanks

also while doing research i came across melonds is it any good or should i just stick to desmume?

[tame veldt]

melonds is ok

i prefer desmume

it's just more straight forward

personal preference

melonds is still in dev so it could be better than desmume at one point

[untold hornet]

ah ok well thank you again ^^

[waxen stag]

Random question: are any of the Sherlock Holmes games worth playing?

[polar dragon]

there are sherlock holmes games?

dunno about the games but i can recommend the books

the hound of the baskervillers is a great one

[waxen stag]

I like the books, which is why I'm wondering whether or not the games are worht it.

[polar dragon]

oh i see :D

[woven breach]

Frogwares have been making Sherlock Holmes games for years now.

I'd say give it a shot, but I have no idea

[stable kindle]

isnt frogwares the devs that got into some big debacle last year bc their publisher was stealing their content or whatever

[waxen stag]

Yeah. The Steam release of The Sinking City was a pirated copy or something.

[fallen sky]

yes yes yes! crimes and punishment is very fun

[waxen stag]

I guess I'll consider it, then.

[mystic wave]

the Herlock Sholmes game is fun too! (Great Ace Attorney Chronicles)

[deep garnet]

For Detective Type Games in general Ace Attorney is great or Nancy Drew! The AA Trilogy is a bit older and so are the Nancy Drew games but they are lots of fun! There‘s Aviary Attorney which is a Detective Game with birds. It has a really cool artstyle and a good story imo

[fallen sky]

herlock sholmes is hot

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_8APVyhfhpdhVSYEIdJuouoqdOd0KMXW

dodger's playthrough was what convinced me to get crimes and punishment, alongside reading the sherlock holmes short stories. very fun game

[waxen stag]

I've been sufficiently convinced. It's now on my Steam wishlist.

[lusty pendant]

Cherche is based

[polar dragon]

okay so pirate outlaws is a slay the spire "clone" that is actually pretty good

it borrows a lot of elements from spire, ftl and even darkest dungeon to some extent but delivers those elements in a well executed package

not bad for a $5 purchase on mobile (the game is listed as $1 but it's really $5 with in-app purchase to be enjoyable)

[sleek quiver]

I’ve tried it a long time ago

It’s good, but since it’s on mobile, I haven’t touched it for years now I think

Yeah, for $5 or so, it’s good value

[polar dragon]

yeah i came in with on expectation but was pleasantly surprised
it's a mobile game "done right"

[woven breach]

Man... mobile game standard is low isn't it?

[fervent gyro]

Night of the Full Moon is another example of a mobile game done right, I'd say. It's also similar to Slay the Spire. It's free, both on mobile and Steam, with small DLCs that cost around $1, and because the base game is so well done and already gives a lot of fun, you really want to buy another DLC, since it's so cheap, to try different characters and builds (each DLC is a new character).

[sleek quiver]

^ tried this as well. It’s ok for the most part, but if you’re coming from Slay the Spire, the lack of build variety may throw you off. But the quality is there though, the art is gorgeous, and dev support has been fine during the time I played it, the DLCs are good value

I played a lot of games on mobile before I got my Switch lmao

[sleek quiver]

The race to the bottom; maximum accessibility for entry, and maximum profitability

[signal kayak]

Really gotta get Slay the Spire ngl, heard only good things about it

[ocean iris]

I just fell for a bait and switch meme that was about Jetstream Sam

never felt so honored to be trolled

[signal kayak]

Rick Roll'd?

[ocean iris]

I'd say....High Frequency Murasama'd

[signal kayak]

Sounds better than Together Forever'd

[ocean iris]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/421176827403304982/944558516444758046/I_like_Girls_1.mp4

I aint the only one who gets Murasama'd today

[signal kayak]

But ye spoiled me, now it doesn't work :/

[ocean iris]

It's still absolutely cool I love Jetstream Sam please hit me up my discord username is Skaraotzky#2739 I love you Jetstream Sam

Anyways I just finished installing Dying Light, time to get scared at night

[fervent gyro]

Have you played Alto's Odyssey and Adventure? Was on mobile, is on Switch now, loved it. Very chilled variation on one-button endless runner.

[sudden solar]

She is

[sleek quiver]

Played Alto’s Odyssey, not my cup of tea, so I haven’t played the second one. I can see the appeal though, but it’s not for me

[woven breach]

It was free on EGS so I tried it

Now maybe using the mouse is harder or something

Cause I keep breaking Alto's neck

[dire warren]

my brain crashed reading the first paragraph

[vivid mesa]

Lmao I just woke up, what is up with that essay

[winter mica]

@mystic wave sorry have to delete this because of the swear

[mystic wave]

oh sorry

[junior crown]

So hey, don't remember exactly everyone who talked about Cris Tales here but

turns out it's going to be free soon on EGS??

Hasn't been even a year since game's release and it's going there for free already.

Which I guess I found surprising. Makes me wonder if sales didn't go as planned hence why it also went with such free deal so soon.

[normal marsh]

i heard it didn't get very good reviews, so it makes sense that it's going free

[stable kindle]

its had mixed rating on steam since it released

seems reviews are fairly unanimous that it was a game with a lot of potential that just couldnt deliver for one reason or another

i had it on my wishlist originally bc art style but removed it after checking into gameplay after it released, wasnt something i felt interested in playing

[fathom juniper]

henlo

[polar dragon]

hottest take of the year
Fromsoft games are the same one reskinned every half decade.

[fathom juniper]

they also play a lot like roguelites

[polar dragon]

XCOM is a soulslike?

[fathom juniper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gQOYAp1-oU

[polar dragon]

what is XCOM but a miserable pile of missed shots

[fathom juniper]

oh i missed this

[polar dragon]

recently i replayed XCOM Chimera Squad

it's good

another hot take is that the combat in Chimera Squad is better (though admittedly easier) than XCOM 2

[fathom juniper]

i recently bought a ps4 from a fren
it's got xcom 2 installed
i kinda want to try it, but...

[polar dragon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/803180676664131604/942719889561497600/unknown.png

[fathom juniper]

eh - playing a turn-based strategy on a gamepad feels a bit

[polar dragon]

true lmao

dont torture yourself

[fathom juniper]

dunno - maybe it's fine
haven't really had the time to try it

[polar dragon]

play it on PC or something

[fathom juniper]

but... that's exactly what xcom is for tho

especially modded xcom

oh god...

[polar dragon]

yeah

they made a XCOM alternative launcher to handle all the mods

bc there are so many of them

the dedication though

[fathom juniper]

well
that's normal where i come from

[polar dragon]

you come from XCOM?

[fathom juniper]

we have like... 10 different launchers designed for organising mods and such

[polar dragon]

Doom is a fortnite clone for adults

😎

[fathom juniper]

I MEAN

building stuff is just as easy

[polar dragon]

if you have to pick the four horsemen of FPS

what would those be

[fathom juniper]

COD 4 as Death
cause it killed the genre for over a decade
Halo as Conquest
cause it stormed the console FPS market and won it
Half Life 2 as War
(between gameplay and story, tech and art)
and basically any other 7th and 8th gen modern military shooter as Famine
for obvious reasons

[fathom juniper]

wait
you mean in a good way or a bad way?

[polar dragon]

in a good way

but yeah that's solid

i thought DOOM would be War tbh

Halo as Conquest is actually apt af

[fathom juniper]

oh
classic doom 1 and 2 for their absurd mod support (you basically buy 1 game and get an access to a platform full of amazing free stuff)
half life 1 for its influence, blood for being... well - blood
and quake for shaping the multiplayer side of scootin' and shootin' and other stuff

but then again - all of those are super obvious choices
there's a whole scene of other amazing FPS games out there

[ocean iris]

hard to fit these games in these categories

I'd say Fury Strife War and Death

teehee

[polar dragon]

isnt that the Darksider adaptation?

[ocean iris]

yup

[polar dragon]

ngl my first game ever on the PS3 was the OG Darksider

i liked it

[ocean iris]

i played darksiders 2 deathinitive edition for free when i had free nitro when the discord game store was a thing

[polar dragon]

oh nice lol

[fathom juniper]

speaking of cool games
and runnin' and gunnin'

you guys remember Snatcher?
that point and click game kojima made between MG and MGS?

anyways - don't worry if you don't remember
snatcher was this sort of detective point and click game set in cyberpunk dystopia heavily inspired by bladerunner
but filtered through eastern influences and colorful (what we call today) pixelart aesthetic
and it sounded just

anyways - going back to FPS games
recently i played a doom mappack called "Auger;Zenith" that aims to replicate that aesthetic - right down to the OST - but in, - you know - 3d
with demons and stuff

and it's just
i highly recommend it - it runs on anything and basically anyone can play it for free
if you find an idea of exploring this:
https://youtu.be/ZuyUShtcn94?t=217
in 3d appealing - go for it
it's good times

[polar dragon]

first time hearing about it

[fathom juniper]

JUST LISTEN TO THAT OST, HOLY CRAP

it sounds saxxy as hell

[polar dragon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxv6E1AKkL0

that is brilliant but i love this

[fathom juniper]

who's doing the OST here?
is it still michael mccann?

doesn't really sound like him tbh

also
look at bradford on that pic

he doesn't look angry
he looks... mildly displeased with the situation at hand

[polar dragon]

lol true

[fathom juniper]

CLOSE RANGE!?

[polar dragon]

he is upset that the guy behind him is equipped with beam weapon and max armor while he is stuck with the starting AR

[fathom juniper]

no trigger discipline too

[polar dragon]

nah thats fine

they are all aliens anyway

[fathom juniper]

i guess

[polar dragon]

but its gonna be a while for the next XCOM
Chimera Squad was 2020
and now Firaxis is doing whatever tf Midnight Sons is

[fathom juniper]

it's not like he's gonna hit anything anyway

[polar dragon]

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRieHP1b7Gs

Seriously, this doesnt look good to me

its too gimmicky

[fathom juniper]

oh no

they got firaxis too

first eidos montreal, now firaxis

[polar dragon]

like i hate the artstyle, the story (the parts revealed)

the gameplay also seems questionable, no longer gridbase
but now with a card based system

like

please no

[fathom juniper]

bah
don't worry about it

play auger;zenith instead

https://youtu.be/VbyEMFb5xPE?t=108
it's soooooo good

and pwetty

also - that OST

[polar dragon]

no z-axis gameplay looks so strange to me

the artwork is sick af thoguh

[fathom juniper]

just play it in gzdoom
get all the fancy stuff you want

[mystic wave]

you liked snatcher and just got a ps4? @fathom juniper
then you gotta check out 13 sentinels. i'd describe it's story as "a love letter to the sci-fi genre"

[fathom juniper]

i'll... write that down

although i don't know when i'll get to play it
my backlog looks more like a CVS receipt

[polar dragon]

most of my backlogs are free games

so like i dont feel as bad

the rest is the Batman, Bioshock series that im not too itnerested in

[fathom juniper]

You haven’t played bioshock yet ?

[polar dragon]

only infinite

[fathom juniper]

Oh

I have this weird love hate relationship with infinite

Before it came out I was like “please don’t make the same mistakes bio1 did”
And… it didn’t

[polar dragon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/802615525141643265/944733383299321906/unknown.png

here is my backlog (unfinished)

[fathom juniper]

It made a whole bunch of new ones instead

[polar dragon]

lmao

what are those

havent played bio1, 2 so i have no idea

im not interested for now bc the game is so dark, like literally

ik that's the atmosphere they want

but i hate dark games (literally)

[fathom juniper]

On one hand - infinites story goes so far up it’s own butt it’s like watching a snake eating it’s tail but in reverse

But on the other hand - it actually has a really satisfying ending now that neatly ties everything together

On one hand - levels are super simplified now
But on the other - traversing those levels with the yeethook is super fun

On one hand - plasm… I mean - vigors feel super same-y and there’s less tactics there
On the other - the core combat feels way better now

It’s all a really mixed bag
Kinda lost its classic bioshock charm, but at least gave us some major improvements in return

Also - the clothes system is so dumb I can’t help but love it

“Oh hey - I found a new pair of khakis that give me +300% fire damage when punching people”
Like… hwat?

[waxen stag]

What are the abandoned games?

[polar dragon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/802615525141643265/944741838949085285/unknown.png

[coral hawk]

Fair tbh

[normal marsh]

i've only played borderlands from there but i fully get it, that game did nothing for me

[polar dragon]

yeah i gave up on it bc i played BL2, so BL1 just seems like a lesser version of it

[normal marsh]

i stopped after two hours, the comedy and gameplay were def not my style

[waxen stag]

I've never played any of those. Never even heard of Offworld Training Company.

[polar dragon]

im sure its a good game, just that my play sequence made it something lesser

[normal marsh]

oh wait my b i only played two hours of bl2, i have no experience with the first

[polar dragon]

yeah

also it gives me motion sickness, that and firewatch xD

[normal marsh]

yeah what was up with the motion sickness in that game 😭

same with turing test, i played it through egs cause it was free last year and it made me so disoriented

[polar dragon]

i think it has something to do with the POV and the floatiness of the jump

[normal marsh]

wait how were you able to post an image in this channel, i don't see it as an option for me

but that's prob it, concerning the motion sickness

[polar dragon]

i post image links

not the image itself

[normal marsh]

ah okay

[sleek quiver]

So, I got $10 to spend on the Switch eShop, and there are 3 games on sale right now that I’ve been eyeing for a while now; Burnout Paradise, Dicey Dungeons and Darkest Dungeon. Which one should I get?

And are the DLCs for Darkest Dungeon a must-buy?

[polar dragon]

Nope

In fact it's advisable not to play with DLCs at all until you beat the main game.

Then if you want you can enable DLC using the same save file.

Dicey Dungeon is also fun.
It gets a tiny bit repetitive in the end for me, but it's good in short burst.

[sleek quiver]

So I’m guessing it would take me a while to beat the main game, yeah?

[polar dragon]

maybe :D

despite its reputation, the game gives you as long as you need to complete it on Darkest difficulty, also it is almost nearly impossible to "lose" a campaign
my first campaign i lollygagged my way through like 250+ weeks (each week is like a Hades "run") and a bunch of dead people before finishing the final boss

the two subsequent playthroughs on Stygian/Bloodmoon (advanced difficulty) took me like 70 weeks each
so take your time (or dont)

[sleek quiver]

I guess I’ll buy Darkest Dungeon then

Maybe pick up the DLCs next month

[polar dragon]

can you refund stuff on the eshop?

[woven breach]

I don't think you can

yea no you can't

just looked it up

[polar dragon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/802615525141643265/944804850334580736/unknown.png

ruin has come to other servers

@fathom juniper

[lofty pecan]

They hated him because he spoke the truth

[lusty pendant]

25 something hours for a 25 buck game is good value hello??

[maiden ermine]

sweats in over 200 something hours logged on Hades even though I already completed the main story and epilogue

[lusty pendant]

25 something hours is how long it took for me to get bored by Metroid Dread, a 60 dollars game at full price

[polar dragon]

i mean yeah but they dont think XCOM 2 is a roguelike

how dare they

[polar dragon]

https://youtu.be/sKbJ0WFW6PM

This dude gives me a headache with his ratings.
And the comment section is hilarious with a bunch of DC elitists trying to claim their game is the hardest while StS fans hopelessly explaining that StS actually requires a lot of skills (which I totally agree with).

[woven breach]

oh yea I've watched that some time ago

[polar dragon]

Also is it me or DC players are such an unlikable bunch?
Most people who are super into DC I've met on Discord, this and other servers, really like to gatekeep their games.

[broken smelt]

honestly I'm not sure, I never really interact with people super into DC

[woven breach]

haven't met people that like DC on other servers I'm in

my friend plays DC

okay maybe not plays

he owns DC

idk whether or not he's still playing it

[polar dragon]

Yee

[broken smelt]

watching the video
I take soooo much issue with "slay the spire takes no mechanical skill"

[polar dragon]

Though technically Hades is the hardest game in that list because winrate on 64 heat is precisely zero.

But yeah that StS rating must be hate bait

[broken smelt]

yeah must be

"losing to time eater after discovering an infinite combo"

bruh you know what boss you're fighting at the start of the act

[polar dragon]

"no reason to go beyond 20 heat on Hades"

[junior crown]

I think the skill scale is a dead giveaway this is the sort of videos which view these difficult games as flawlessly designed games.

[broken smelt]

I genuinely hate that this youtuber claims that roguelites like sts have no mechanical gameplay (it comes up again in one step from eden)

[polar dragon]

You see, in StS you only need to click cards

But in DC you need to learn to parry, dodge roll, attack, etc.

Therefore StS is a skilless game. Smiley face

[broken smelt]

🙃

[polar dragon]

Australian smiley

Nice

[broken smelt]

yep, the rare Australian smiley ^-^

don't right click 'save as' /s

[sleek quiver]

I saw that vid as well, I think almost every rating he gave is purely for clickbait

Saying that StS isn’t a skill base game is like saying roguelites shouldn’t have RNG

[broken smelt]

a lot of what constitutes 'luck' is incredibly subjective too

[sleek quiver]

Yeah, Timekeeper sucks, and you can’t go back down from strats you build from act 1, but I think people keep forgetting that roguelites runs aren’t meant to be winnable all the time

[polar dragon]

I mean he is succeeding
1.6k comments on a month old video is definitely a lot of engagement

[broken smelt]

also, you can very much play around timekeeper's mechanics a lot of time with careful planning

(during the fight)

you know exactly how many cards you can play before timekeeper ends your turn

[sleek quiver]

Yeah, needs a lot more future projecting

[broken smelt]

doesn't make the boss any less of a butt though

[polar dragon]

When I beat A20 on Ironclad I was so proud

[junior crown]

And a thing I have noticed is that in StS space, there are some people who have the game figured out quite a lot to point ascension is very much doable no matter the randomness.

So to say it's luck based more than planning mechanically is to ignore some important information that is given through out the game and values of each card.

[polar dragon]

Also the guy said Corruption = free win

I was like oh boy

[fathom juniper]

WHOMS'T'VE BEEN PINGI-

oh

[woven breach]

lol

[ocean iris]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/853612435911082015/944903848542216253/1363821A-59B2-4288-8065-A133173C7E25.png

[ocean iris]

the dying light school quest gave me big hotline miami vibes

the soundtrack and also brutal melee kills in closed spaces

[fathom juniper]

kinda reminds me of that absolute mad lad that used this giant circular saw to make the worlds biggest bayblade

and then used a lawnmower to let it rip and just...
ravenholm'd a whole room with it

[ocean iris]

👀

[signal kayak]

I'm so watching that

[fathom juniper]

look up "i did a thing" on youtube
he even references ravenholm a few times there

[signal kayak]

Wait...there are two videos about it

[fathom juniper]

yup

[signal kayak]

Which one? 😅

[fathom juniper]

both of them

it's a two parter

[signal kayak]

Then I've seen part 1 first, yasss

[ocean iris]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/588979185687461908/944966786791641168/273741284_4859587100786359_9131259347198376771_n.png?width=597&height=675

Standing heeeere I realizeeee

[fathom juniper]

i'd vote for him

[mystic wave]

here i am thinking about how good it feels to just sprint and dive into cover in MGS5. or just grappling enemies and slamming them to the ground. the weight, the impact. man, that attention to details

[ocean iris]

I need to get it

Since I literally can't play anything else on PC and PS3 emulation is disgustingly complicated

there's 1 and 2 on gog actually

but Im just binge playing Dying Light rn

anyone got to play Dying Light 2?

[mystic wave]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hRMDWLNG0k

[jaunty lodge]

Omg

[ocean iris]

I forgot this game had supernatural stuff in it 💀

[mystic wave]

kojima has this talent for cinematography

[ocean iris]

Hoping he makes something that doesn't play out like Death Stranding

that was a meme of a game if you ask me

[mystic wave]

i quite like death stranding, maybe like how people enjoy flight sims and such. maybe its just the trailers hyped up the action too much

but yeah, kojima should do more action

[grand willow]

uh wtf

[stable kindle]

where's the sett likers come get your boy https://youtu.be/9fQkPpp94uY

[ocean iris]

They already modding the game

[stable kindle]

i personally love that i have avoided any coverage of this game (not intentionally, its just not in my circle of interests) and thus basically my only knowledge of what this game is is that sett is already modded into it

very funny, love that for me

[polar dragon]

Is Sett gay or Noxian?

[stable kindle]

not again

[fathom juniper]

so 👏
i've got a question

has anyone here played receiver 2 yet?

[polar dragon]

aye not me

apparently there is this new relatively unknown game called Elden Ring coming out

anyone heard of it?

[fathom juniper]

everyone and their dog is hyped for elden ring
but i wanna give a little shoutout to some lesser known games
hence - receiver
the "you shot yourself by accident" game

the gun safety simulator where you can shoot your delicates off by holstering your gun too quickly

i just bought receiver 2 and i'm waiting for it to download
so i was wondering if anyone here played it

[stable kindle]

is not hyped for elden ring

i have defeated your generalization

[junior crown]

same!

I don't look forward to Elden Ring, since while it be fun to hear friend's insight on how this new souls game is different I don't really have big interest for the series.

[polar dragon]

so sad such a small game is not getting the recognition it deserves :(

[stable kindle]

hopefully some people notice it 😔🙏

but yeah im not into souls type stuff either, i get why people like them but the gameplay is not for me

im not sure if theres anything im looking forward to currently :/a

cant think of anything lol i know some of my koei friends are playing dw9 empires rn but i cant even be interested in that bc koei treats its own mainline games like garbage

9 just looks so ugly....

[fathom juniper]

FOX!
i know how to sell you on Receiver

it's... actually a roguelite

and i mean seriously now

[lusty pendant]

The dead cells devs put out a tweet asking for ideas to make the game more accessible, and for any comment about how there should be an easier mode there are a bunch of replies like "that's missing the point of the rouglite" "it's not meant to be easy" and that kind of blah

[fathom juniper]

but yeah - i'm not really hyped for elden ring either
dunno why
i like ds1, love BB, sekiro is on my bucket list

i just feel like...
there's a lot of soulslike coming out, you know?
i guess this is how people felt about "doom clones" in mid nineties

[junior crown]

I have about 26 games on wishlist, but none of them are coming soon or have concrete release date. 😔

[fathom juniper]

gloomwood when?

[junior crown]

SOON™️

[fathom juniper]

graven when?

[stable kindle]

so yall remember that guy the internet clowned on over that cuphead tutorial debacle, he tweets about crypto junk

somehow not remotely surprised

[polar dragon]

Keep talking

[polar dragon]

Also is it me or DC players are such an unlikable bunch?
Most people who are super into DC I've met on Discord, this and other servers, really like to gatekeep their games.

I literally typed that no too far up.

[fathom juniper]

you get a random starting point, a random weapon, move through randomly generated "dungeon" (that's more like a set of rooftops and apartaments), random bunch of items and have to find 11 tapes in one go to finish the game

[polar dragon]

i might get ultrakill when i have more free time

[fathom juniper]

i actually got ultrakill from a fren

haven't played it yet
was too busy tinkering with my shooty shooty bang bang mod

[polar dragon]

do you know when its coming out of EA?

[fathom juniper]

flippin'
everything is

gloomwood, ultrakill, fallen aces, graven, wrath, selaco

[polar dragon]

ig there are a few things im looking forward to
RoR2 Survivors of the Void
Darkest Dungeon 2
and now Ultrakill
in that order

[fathom juniper]

i'm tired of waiting

[queen carbon]

I highly recommend it

As someone who had played it, I had a blast with it

Though it is tough as nails

[polar dragon]

is it faster than doom?

(2016)

[fathom juniper]

yes

[queen carbon]

Yes

[polar dragon]

perfect

[fathom juniper]

eternal though?
that depends of your platrofm of choice

faster than eternal on consoles
pc though? i dunno - i've seen people going super fast on pc so

[polar dragon]

i dont own eternal

[fathom juniper]

you should

[polar dragon]

well there are a of games

and not enough time and money

[fathom juniper]

yes, indeed
there are games

[queen carbon]

I know your pain

SO MANY GAMES TO PLAY

[polar dragon]

shut

[fathom juniper]

[polar dragon]

and they keep coming out

can we like regulate vidya gaems so that only a certain number of games are allowed?

[fathom juniper]

not all of them

gloomwood!

[polar dragon]

command economy the gaming industry

[polar dragon]

soon

maybe

idk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRTh2aMgPY4

[fathom juniper]

speaking of scootin' and shootin'
can i flex a bit?

[polar dragon]

yeah?

[fathom juniper]

so - during my absence from this server i finally released episode 1 of my dinky little doom mod and won a runner up in 2021 cacowards for it

and recently one of my fave YT channels made a little review/whatever of it
https://youtu.be/72dGhdfQC5s

which is just

[polar dragon]

nice nice

[fathom juniper]

thank

[polar dragon]

how many eps are you planning?

[fathom juniper]

4

1 is done, most of the assets for remaining episodes are done too
and 1/3rd of episode 2 is done already too

[polar dragon]

i watched the review

good stuff my guy

[lusty pendant]

yeah i was replying to that

[ocean iris]

Im not hyped for elden ring becauze I was hyped for Dying Light 2 when they showcased stuff and turned out so meh

Like the ending is god damn white text on a black screen

Also the UI looks like some souls games and they made it fully into an rpg

I like the first game for it's light rpg mechanics

[fathom juniper]

NO HYPE!

hpye bad!

[ocean iris]

I can agree

😔

[fathom juniper]

yeah

it's a weird thing, isn't it?
it's something we can't really help

[ocean iris]

They literally pulled off a far cry new dawn on dying light 2

[fathom juniper]

it's really hard to stop yourself from letting your imagination wonder and get all excited about some ideas a game may or may not have

but then again - it's really easy for publishers to exploit that
and that just makes me

angy

[ocean iris]

Also for some reason the world doesnt look as comfy as sector 0 in 1

I love this location

Drop kicking zombies from 4 stories down

[fathom juniper]

how about
and hear me out here

how about we take the mirror's edge loicence from dice
(they've got their hands full with that garbage fire of a battlefield game now anyway)
and give it to techland?

let them make the first AND ONLY proper sequel to mirror's edge

[ocean iris]

I mean I'm sure they might get onto something new

[hybrid jetty]

the easiest way for me to not be hyped about elden ring has been to play the souls games for the first time and get to dark souls 2 last week lmao

[fathom juniper]

catalyst don't count

[fathom juniper]

oof

[ocean iris]

Respawn Entertainment is onto 3 star wars games

[fathom juniper]

[ocean iris]

Dice is still busy with 2042 but maybe they will make a BF3 or a new Mirror's Edge

then there's Bioware

These guys are on that grind for the new ME and DA games

[fathom juniper]

oh dear god no

please no

none of the OG crew is there anyway
and we've all seen what happened with catalyst

[polar dragon]

Games that made me feel hype in recent memory: Hades.

That's about it though

[quartz hatch]

BF2042 apparently was such a bust EA said they don't expect to get much from it financially for the next year or so

which probably means they're not going to do any major fixes to the game as it is and it'll be another Anthem

[dire warren]

it's not even hype but the only release i care about is mhr: sunbreak. and i'm fully expecting them to just bring back all of my least favourite monsters

like they could turn around and say 'no zamtrios or magala, but here's uragaan, nergigante and brachydios' and i'd just. still get it

[coral hawk]

I like ura and brachy

I need zam tho his armor is clean

[queen carbon]

I tend not to get hyped for any upcoming game nowadays, even ones from a trusted development team

Overhype can lead to disappointment, because one had high expectations

And the game, even if it was good, was unable to meet them

That's why I try to remain skeptical until the game is actually out, or at the very least playable

[waxen stag]

I do my best to limit my excitement for upcoming games. But the Steam release of FAITH looks so cool!

[coral hawk]

I stand by what I've said before I go into everything expecting a 5/10 average experience

And I'm never disappointed

[cobalt condor]

Me and my buddy have released our new trailer (and pretty big update) for the game we've been workin' on, please check it out if you think it's pretty neat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgDudvBu3Ww

(it's also completely free in demo form currently)

[wraith cradle]

Man, TWW3 is addicting

Anyhow. Only 4 days left for ER so I'm gonna try finishing a random game from my backlog before that

[weary echo]

I think this guy is a bit too strong
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/760850554242465824/945067463454908486/unknown.png

[signal kayak]

Stronk

[bleak coral]

https://youtu.be/SeBH4h7f5CQ

https://youtu.be/SwPzuBj01AM

pretty big announcement night

[dire warren]

does anyone else, when starting up a new game for the first time, just like going to the options and seeing how much you can customise and change? like it's great how many lil qols can be nestled away there sometimes

[bleak coral]

Depends on the game

If its an fps or something where settings changes are critical, then absolutely

otherwise i just play until something looks or feels wrong

[woven breach]

I started as console players, I almost never touch options except to get rid of motion blur

[vivid mesa]

Street Fighter 6, wow

as someone who was there on launch day for SF 5, I hope Capcom has learned from their mistakes. They had a ton of stumbles with SF5.

[rancid token]

People liked Luke, so hopefully that design ethos is one going forward

[bleak coral]

https://youtu.be/FOry5LudQb8

this video is still amazing

[polar dragon]

Me. Sometimes I have more fun customizing than playing.
Tbh that's how I "play" emulators.

Making them work to custom specs is somehow more time and often more enjoyable than playing old games lol

[ocean iris]

I can be sold on a game if it has a ton of options

[last marsh]

@icy bluff I played kid icarus uprising for 200 hours which is the same amount of time I have in hades. I liked the characters/dialogue in kid icarus uprising more, while I prefer the gameplay in hades. How about you? I'm definitely going to continue with hades at least until I complete my goal of beating all weapon aspects on 32 heat, but I've long since given up on completing every chapter on intensity 9.0 in Kid Icarus uprising. The difficulty seems way more unfair in that way due to the fact that dying a single time lowers the difficulty

also my 3ds' circle pad is broken so I don't even want to try that anymore

[next patio]

uprising was a fun game

[icy bluff]

I can honestly write a thesis on how much I like uprising and how this game still has a place in my heart to this day xD
I am not sure how many hourse I soent into it, but yeah not only it offers a freat level ofndifficulty (with some flaws as you mentioned, of course), but also some of my favourite story, dialogues and characters ever.
In a way, Hades is sort of the closest thing I got to a sequel of that game xD

[bleak coral]

Put it on Switch

I will play it

[icy bluff]

YES PLEASE

I will give away my kidney for a switch port

Also Zagreus and Pit will be friends for sure :)

[last marsh]

hades kid icarus crossover

[bleak coral]

https://youtu.be/-Iv4Ia6B07k

[last marsh]

hades but with the kid icarus characters

[bleak coral]

the character interactions in that game were extremely charming from what i remember seeing

[last marsh]

the highest difficulties I cleared all levels on intensity 5.0 except chapter 24 and 25. the weapon fusion system is really confusing and I hate how its basically required to stand a chance in the highest difficulty 9.0. I only cleared chapter 1 on the highest intensity, and even then I was on very low heath when clearing it. almost did chapter 2 but I died to the boss of the level, so it dropped to 8.0

also I think I might've did several levels on 6.0

or 7.0

its such wasted potential that they're not doing a sequel. there's so many god characters in mythology they could use for different games

and they aren't yet they still hint at it in smash for no reason. ok so dark pits working with viridi for some reason. too bad we'll never get to see it

[icy bluff]

Speaking on Kid Icarus X Hades, it is the time to share this post I made a while ago, comparing the two series
(Sorry for the possible low quality xD )
https://www.reddit.com/r/KiDIcaruS/comments/nqrllq/i_made_this_a_while_ago_but_i_guess_it_is_fitting/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

[last marsh]

nice

[icy bluff]

Thanks 😅

[autumn valley]

Yoyoyo, I'm here with many questions

Those of you who like the top down rpgs of the early video game era, how do you recreate that feeling, while keeping quality of life tools the modern gaming era has created

Looking for ideas for me and my team

also heres some art

lol i just got pranked

dm me for art

[polar dragon]

for me, keep the gameplay the same with deep customization but make menuing easier
more specifically, shorter menu transition time
better organization
if it's turn based, increase the speed of play (for example the new pokemon increased the speed of play by less menuing and no "battle transition" which makes it so much better)

[autumn valley]

Alright alright, i can see that

Sounds good!

[bleak coral]

https://youtu.be/t-iNpDKuYb8

Still so excited for this

i need to see more

https://tenor.com/view/more-kylo-ren-adam-driver-screaming-star-wars-gif-17734637

[eager hamlet]

@wraith cradle did we ever get the last chapter of long gone days?

[wraith cradle]

Sadly not that I know o

[eager hamlet]

Damn

[wraith cradle]

Also, I'm glad I didn't buy Cris Tales xd

Now that is free next week

[eager hamlet]

Same

[wraith cradle]

Now I'm salty I may never now how LGD ends

[stable kindle]

sooooo whats interesting in nextfest

grabbing serpent rogue demo bc it was smth already on my wishlist

[wraith cradle]

FAR Changing Tides demo

I'll see more tomorrow

Today I was busy

[winged dew]

Is Changing Tides actually a big deal in the indie space?

I remember its announcement being treated like a big thing when I have never ever heard of the original

[rancid token]

Neon White demo is out

[lofty pecan]

I honestly don’t think it’ll come out this winter

[junior crown]

Got about 6 demos today from the Gamefest. Will list them today and give my overall thoughts on them.

[sleek quiver]

Sorry for late message, but to add to what FoxHope said, try to prioritize accessibility above all. Tooltips for everything (with backtracking enabled if it’s turn-based). Crisp, read-able text on modern resolution screen (I think 1440p is standard for today, or maybe it was 1080p?), less transparency on menu texts and contrasting colors of texts and menu background. Options for color blindness and ability to lessen or disable screen shake

[coral hawk]

To add one more to that lessen or disable screen flashes as well

[wraith cradle]

I'm starting slowly but surely to see all games featured and downloading all interesting demos

I'll post results in several days

[wraith cradle]

Yesn't.

Was popular but not "Limbo" or "Inside" Level

Also, ANNO Mutationem is up again

Quite good and 100% reccomended

[wraith cradle]

20 demos downloaded. Will post opinions in a few days

NGL, this fest has been a lifesaver to pass time before Elden Ring drops

[polar dragon]

Elden Ring the small indie game

[wraith cradle]

If it's a good souls game it will be everything I wanted about the game

[winged dew]

To be fair, probably one of the few...AA studios left

Although writing that out it's still a bit of a stretch. Would we classify the devs of things like Ori and the Will of the Wisps as AA?

Because obviously those 2 squads are nowhere near the same size

[polar dragon]

Ori is indie to me
I think it's just personal classification

[polar dragon]

new indie turn based FPS roguelite cardbuilding game trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jentG1Cyp9s

it looks k

[civic birch]

never heard of it

[wraith cradle]

Can we appreciate the fact this is gonna be in a week the most wishlisted game on Steam?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1260320/Party_Animals/

Steam

Party Animals

Make Painfully Great Memories with Your Friends in Party Animals. Mess With Your Friend in 100 Different WaysOr Together You Could Eliminate OthersTeamwork Is Also Highly Appreciated HereEspecially When Fighting For Gummy Bear

Release Date

TBA

▶ Play video

[polar dragon]

im not buying it bc no money

it's easy to not have hype being poor 😎

[lofty pecan]

😶 just wait for a few months till winter sales its gonna be 50% off anyways

[wraith cradle]

I personally saved for ER. Only game I bought at release this year

[queen carbon]

I hope Elden Ring is good, even though I'm not playing it

[wraith cradle]

Unlike CP77 people have played ~10% and has been shown to mostly hold up to the hype

It won't be bad that's for sure

[signal kayak]

Shouldn't be

[quartz hatch]

i hope elden ring is good too

still worried about the open world design ngl

level design and environmental story telling have always been staples for fromsoftware, kinda scared this huge open world is gonna damage the areas they're best at