video-games

[icy bluff]

Ohh mr. Elden ring

My most anticipated game of this year
Along with Poyo 3D :D

[wraith cradle]

Funnily enough I bought TWW3 and Elden Ring with 6 months of difference and ended coming out a week apart

[lofty pecan]

ngl neon white seems pretty fun just wish they had actual gun models instead of just the cards

[junior crown]

Make that 5, but I have prepared my overall thoughts on all of the demos.

[wraith cradle]

I had only time for FAR changing tides xd

It is promising but quite short I hope they add more variety of vehicles for the full game

[wraith cradle]

Do you think the new Soul Hackers will be enjoyable without having playing the first?

[lofty pecan]

different protagonist + atlus games dont really do "sequels"

i dont think atlus expects the majority of its audience to play the first game either

[vivid mesa]

I need the Tactics Ogre/Battle series to come back

[hybrid jetty]

its confirmed you won't need to

[wraith cradle]

Nice, then

[rancid token]

Elden Ring embargo is up

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1496502101597429762

Nibel (@Nibellion)

“ELDEN RING early review scores

Eurogamer 'Essential'
Game Informer 10
PCGamesN 10
Fextralife 10
The Guardian 5/5
Kinda Funny 5/5
VG247 5/5
Easy Allies 9.5
Press Start 9.5
RPG Site 9

MC 98 (27 critics)
https://t.co/AlLyhxdD9n

OC 96 (38 critics)
https://t.co/MPbkBHQDVA https://t.co/ChON6LH5Gg“

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Twitter · Feb 23, 2022, 3:07 PM

[ocean iris]

Finally the internet will shut up about it

[rancid token]

Bold of you to assume that

Turns out "Dark Souls but bigger and the best mechanics of the whole franchise" is something people like

[celest delta]

10 on IGN too

[sleek quiver]

These 10/10 scores basically says this is the perfect game, no faults, no wrongs, all the right things done

[ocean iris]

i dont look at scores

might try it someday

cba to get a pc controller though

[dire warren]

if the game journalists think its that good it must have a pretty amazing tutorial sorry, opening cutscene

[ocean iris]

game journalists?? getting past a souls game first chapter?

😱

[wraith cradle]

My biggest fear is that we will end overloading the Online mode lmao

[quartz hatch]

ok but

how does it run on base PS4

i don't trust review scores, i'll wait for actual people to play it

[signal kayak]

Smart move

[polar dragon]

which soulslike game is good to play on PC? ideally not at premium price tag, im broke :(

[wraith cradle]

I can give you a list of soulslike I liked and I played on PC

[polar dragon]

yee

[wraith cradle]

You like them 2d or 3d?

[polar dragon]

3D

[wraith cradle]

Ok gimme a sec

[ocean iris]

outward is alright

but play with a friend

[wraith cradle]

Ashen
Shattered - Tale of the Forgotten King
The Surge (2 is better than 1)

Right now I remember this ones

[polar dragon]

thank you!

[wraith cradle]

You are welcome

[ocean iris]

Dying Light is so fun

I wish Turkey was real

Jokes aside Sector Zero is such a comfy location

[winged dew]

How much advance time did journalists get with their review copies?

Souls games already take forever to beat. I can't imagine playing a whole Open World variant then having enough to write/record/release a review

[clear python]

Games become much more enjoyable without ever looking at reviews. Maybe read the non-rated ones like the ones RPS does for example, but the whole numbers game is ehhhh

[polar dragon]

im just sitting here hoping for Bloodborne PC port

idc about Elden Ring tbh, not gonna buy it

[winged dew]

I typically skim the score just to make sure the game didn't launch a buggy mess, but yeah generally agree

I'm saving my money for the better releases in the next month

Like Kirby. And Advance Wars

No copium at all

[wraith cradle]

Ok, I'm halfway down the demos

The Bloodborne port will luckily come with either a possible sequel or the 10th anniversary

[dire warren]

all of the reviews i've read for games i actually played were heavily factually incorrect and screamed 'i didn't like something minor in the tutorial so i'm going to drag the whole game down due to a blatant lie'

shoutout to ign

[clear python]

Depending on what you're looking for in games, reviews that give some kind of overall score or pro/con table are just fundamentally useless, because they treat games like pure products. Especially back when they tried to rate different categories like gameplay/graphics/sound etc but it fell apart when the toned-down adventures came about

I played so many games that were extremely lacking in multiple aspects but they were still great and recommendable experiences, which just wouldn't reflect in an overall score. But I'm also privileged in the sense that I can dedicate enough time and money for games without having to consciously decide if I wanna make the investment every time. And I still do get kinda happy when the games I like get good scores...

[vapid juniper]

so how many floors are there on hades im at the temple of styx

[winter mica]

@vapid juniper #h1-for-new-players would be able to help you out

[vivid mesa]

Jebus those reviews

[wraith cradle]

What I fear is that this is gonna be peak From.

I hope this is not the best game they'll put out and they continue making beteer and better

[wraith cradle]

Damn, some Demos are LONG

[winged dew]

Considering a lot of people were worried that Elden Ring was going to be From's Scalebound, I'm actually happy it seems to have turned out so well

[polar dragon]

wait for sales or might not even get it because no money, simple

but it seems like a good game as long as the performance is good and little bugs

[winged dew]

No pressure. I didn't pick up Sekiro until it hit like $20, and that was literally a goty winner

There's too much other stuff to play to fuss about being the first to play every new game. I tend to like playing through From games with a guide anyways

[hybrid jetty]

only a week

which is a bit ridiculous

[winged dew]

If a journalist was given Elden Ring as their only task for the week, then I can see it being a sufficient amount of time

It does make me wonder how on earth reviewers are expected to do proper reviews for modern games, which are definitely trending upwards in play time

[sleek quiver]

You don’t need to play a game the whole way through if you know what you’re looking for

Obviously you’ll miss some finer details that way, but in the fast gaming market nowadays, journalists can’t have it any other way either, they probably just suck it up and move on

Which is the reason why I can’t fathom why game reviewers would ever give a game a perfect 10/10 score

[hybrid jetty]

one week for a sprawling open world game is pretty low

if i had to try and rush through everything i don't think i'd be able to give a fair assessment

[hybrid jetty]

https://hard-drive.net/reviewer-who-tore-through-80-hour-game-in-a-week-finds-it-a-bit-repetitive/

[ocean iris]

what's the game called

[winged dew]

Welcome to Hard Drive

[ocean iris]

I already hate it thanks

I wont click on it

[winged dew]

np, I didn't think video gaming needed their own The Onion, but some of Hard Drive's stuff is funny anyways

[ocean iris]

Oh so it's a satire website

[sleek quiver]

“It’s still stuck in AC: Valhalla era of open gaming”

AC: Valhalla came out in 2020 lmao

I did chuckle at that one

[wraith cradle]

Only 3 demos left

[wraith cradle]

All demos finished

Now to uninstall all of them

[stable kindle]

demos this demos that and no one has talked about any of the demos they played

i only tried a few but i like where core keeper is going and am interested to see what they do with early access

[signal kayak]

Wait, how many demos are there? How long can we keep them?

[stable kindle]

over 600 demos, according to steam https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest

i think they are only available for the duration of nextfest, unless otherwise specified

[signal kayak]

Six hundred!! 👀

I'll make a basement to stay in for the next morning or two...

[wraith cradle]

I actually was gonna write a more exhaustive commentary once done with my Elden Ring session xd

Imma start know

Cracks knuckles

[fallen sky]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/282070/This_War_of_Mine/

Steam

This War of Mine

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Price

$4.99

Recommendations

63889

Metacritic

83

▶ Play video

the devs for this game are donating all proceeds to help ukraine

[wraith cradle]

PART 1: Good demos (Not ordered inside the categories):

-FAR: Changing Tides (30 minutes): Same premise as FAR: Lone Sails but offering a more variety of engines to pilot, and better made puzzles. If you liked the first game you'll should definitively try this demo

-Neon White (40-70 minutes, depending if you try to tackle the extra hard challenges): Fast Paced demo with an irreverent tone and VERY short (Less than a minute) levels, feels weird your weapons are depicted as cards but if you are into platforming you'll like this one

-IXION (50-60 minutes): Fascinating colony building game, maybe it sins of having too much text with characters rambling non-stop but the gameplay loop is solid, the production values are quite high and the premise is quite intriguing

-ANNO Mutationem (30 minutes): Played again this Next Fest. Still one of my most expected videogames of the year, I have high hopes for this 2d RPG Cyberpunk game.

-Jack Move (1 hour): Turn Based RPG on a cyberpunk setting, nothing remarkable to say, but it seems solid enough.

-Sonzai (Genuinely no idea): Played it in the Next Fest before this one. Literally Persona 2d. You like Persona you should try this. The demo contains lots of dialogue and things to do so genuinely no idea how much a complete playthrough of it would last.

Souldiers (1 hour give or take): Quite solid metroidvania, the gameplay is tight

The Wandering Village (50 minutes): Quite cute Colony Builder with an unique spin, surprisingly punishing mechanics inside and easy to accidentally get your entire colony killed, still do reccomend for fans of the genre

Batora Lost Haven (1 hour): One of the biggest surprises of the Fest, Hack and Slash game plus Twin Stick shoter with quite high production values, the use of two color attacks, enemies and health bars incentivizes the player to vary their playstyle creating quite the interesting and deep gameplay, Would reccomend playing.

[fallen sky]

gotta say that albino's takes on games are always interesting

[wraith cradle]

PART 2: Promising Demos but not totally convinced

The Machine That Breaths (40 minutes): Quite interesting horror pixel game, sadly despite the intriguing plot, the graphics seems quite stale and repetitive and the horror is not that good.

Shard of Chaos (2 hours, didn't finish because I decided to buy it on release): Visual Novel with horror segments. The Visual novel segments are in fact quite good and the dialogue and the overarching plot seem to be well written sadly the horror chunk of gameplay shown is bad you can't say almost anything and you have no clues in the screen about what actually do, if they fix that cool

The Serpent Rogue (40 minutes): RPG game in afantasy apocalypse, nothing wrong per se but I feel lots of games do the same but better

Farewell North (30 minutes): Indie game where you are a dog in scotland, seems your typical emotional adventure, but I feel it is hampered by the meh graphics and the awkward animations, altough you can see the soul behind it

Crimson Tactics: The Rise of The White Banner (1 hour): Game clearly Inpired by FF Tactics, not as good tho, try it if you want to try a clone of that game, but I felt it needs a bit of better of everything

Winter Ember (1 hour): NIce isometric Stealth game, the stealth and thieving a la Dishnored is nice but the combat is lacking and Janky

symphony of war the nephilim saga (Didn't finish, did 30 minutes): Fire Emblem Clone but where each unit represents a squad, the maps feel bad designed although the gameplay itself and the options of attacking with different bonuses and penalties are well done, the desingns of the named characters are meh.

PART 3: Meh Demos

The Last Oricru (Stopped 5 minutes in): Co-op centered third person action RPG, Horribly optimized it lagged on my computer so I stoppped playing it

Fragmented Memories (40 minutes): Meh Horror RPGMaker Game

CZAR Decision and Trascendence Legacy: Both also Meh RPGMaker games although not horror based.

[wraith cradle]

Thanks mate

[junior crown]

My turn

NEON WHITE - is a fast-paced card-based fps, which main focus on beating compact, short and yet interesting levels, its system and leaderboard pushes you to race against other people to shave off any second you have left. After you beat levels you are given ability to look around hub to explore the characters and give gifts you found for them. And outside of the main gameplay part, you have stylish looking game and its imagination of heaven, great soundtrack, interesting setting and amazing voice work. Awful written dialogue. So far, from what seen in demo the game tries to go for type of writing that feels like your stereotypical anime with western media references. It's bad and self-awareness is no where near to be seen. All of characters are so far just one personality archetype, that reference media and interesting choice of words, in blunt and not so clever way like: ||"anime sword"||, ||"simp"||, ||"You were like my Sasuke, man. Darkness to my light."|| and ||"JOHN CENA"||. Most of the problem comes from the two supporting characters, others are more manageable but still lack much personality so far.
Overall good demo, everything is amazing, except the dialogue writing, no sign of self-awareness, sadly.

The Wandering Village - is a cute, simple yet interesting town-management game about a village that is formed on top of big beast - whose named Onbu. You manage the villagers and make sure their production and lively hood is going well. Gather resources - Make new buildings - Research more and repeat. While making sure your village is doing well and so is Onbu. It's cute symbiotic relationship between the two. Onbu goes around the world, provides resources for the village to live on, while the village protects Onbu and feeds it. Love the mix of 3D with 2D. Fun town-building game, looking forward for more of it.

The Unliving - is a sadly for most, a rogue-lite, about playing as a Necromancer. The game is quite simple yet, fun, reminding of the usual minion/blob army style of gameplay. It as follows - kill living beings - once you killed a group of them you can raise them from the dead and add to the army - move that army to kill more people - use them to take the damage or use them to make damage by exploding them on sight. The game is simple in setting and generic at that, but it's fun none the less. To concur the game with your blob army taking on everyone, with you helping it out with spells and ranged attacks. Fun all the way to me especially since I will be lying I am not a fan of such kind of gameplay. I just love such silly design. Looking forward to full release.

Reefland - is a simple cute endless game, which focuses on you building the little villages on unpopulated islands. Each new building brings colour to the place as music soothes you in into the loop. From hex to hex, you must make a perfectly put place, using the advantage of every building as adding more buildings to another buildings that complement each other gives points, to which goes into the point pool which then gives you more building to place, up until you have gained enough points to move on to another island. Good fun, recommend checking out the demo at least.

Card Shark - Beautifully stylised game about your usual type of cards, poker cards to be precise. From jacks to queens to kings to aces, and all 4 types of houses. The whole most of the show is showcase and dialogue, the look of the game is stylised well alongside just great feeling of learning how to cheat playing cards. Since yes, this is what the game is about. Play your cards intentionally the wrong way so you get it right, to keep the ace up the sleeve. Although the gameplay itself relies on your memorisation and reflexes, still fun game to play. The dialogue is pleasantly put and enjoyable. Good demo.

[hybrid jetty]

I installed several demos but only ended up playing neon white and card shark

absolutely loved card shark, was really excited to see it had a demo and was not disappointed

neon white's fun to play and I was also looking forward to it since its announcement but yeah the dialogue is....not good and kinda took me out of it
it has Borderlands Syndrome where it tries to be goofy and is instead aggressively unfunny

which is a shame cause I like the character designs I was hoping it'd be more serious

[junior crown]

I think best way to describe the dialogue is like it's fine if it was just on the spot friends making stuff up while voicing the game with a lot of dialogue and no voice acting. It's jarring in a sense that it feels completely out of place with how everything else. Not to say such stuff can't be silly but you need to balance that stuff.

Card Shark honestly amazed me with the dialogue. I didn't expect it to be that interesting.
||The fact how well reactive the main character is with just facial expressions is amazing. And I know he talks in the undead world but whatever. The gestures, the movement. Perfect. And everyone's banter is great too. All those posh people and the pretend game is thrilling and I think this is one of the games that got me right on the hook. And I can gush quite a lot about the gameplay part. It's intense and captivating. Pulling off the tricks on the card table is something. Learning how to cheat is amazing.||

[sleek quiver]

Any tips for playing twin-stick shooters? I got Ruiner on my Switch and I look like a ballet dancer circling around my enemies hoping to luckily hit their hitboxes

[ocean iris]

Me with any shooter on console

[sleek quiver]

On an FPS on the Switch, I mostly just crank the sens up for quick turnings and just use gyro aiming for the little adjustments to aim

Works fine on Borderlands 2, I don’t really have aim problems there

Twin-stick shooters feels like a different beast altogether though

Trying to get that precise aim in Ruiner felt hard

[junior crown]

https://youtu.be/mVDFJRM6F9k

[hybrid jetty]

yooooo

sick

[ocean iris]

Not gonna lie Dying Light The Following is kind disappointing

I enjoyed the base game more because the map was easy to traverse

Now it became a generic open world game

At least the buggy is cool

[wraith cradle]

Yeah the fun of Dying Light is playing The floor is lava and going full parkour by the buildings

[ocean iris]

Does 2 keep that?

[wraith cradle]

Dunno haven't played it

[normal marsh]

Is there a more streamlined/involved story in elden ring? I'm not a huge fan of super cryptic stories that make you go to YouTube to watch a lore video in order to decipher

Also ik the game is difficult, but since I've never played a soulsborne, is it difficult for the sake of being difficult in an unfair and frustrating way or is it more skill-based/justified

[celest delta]

Have you played dark souls

[normal marsh]

No, never played one

[rancid token]

I think Elden Ring is probably going to end up easier on the player than the other games for two reasons

Open world game structure means if something is too hard, you can go do other things, and the online is so much easier to finagle

[rancid token]

Also there's a whole class of summonable creatures that adds a lot of depth and viability to a summoner playstyle

[celest delta]

That first boss tho

[sleek quiver]

Proper Steam Deck reviews are coming in, and it’s fairly up to most people’s standards bar the most wild ones. On average, most reviews are saying the Steam Deck has pretty amazing performance for the form factor, good ergonomics besides the weird look and weight, proper system settings to really dial in the graphics settings that you want out of it, and has a pretty good price point compared to it’s competitors, that comes in at the cost of mediocre battery life, a middling screen, high fan noise, and a so-so games compatibility at the moment

It’s looking good, ngl. Not as good as the craziest hype train says it to be but I am still impressed nonetheless

Not very impressed at the battery life though, 2h at most running current titles is mediocre at best

[vale root]

interesting

[broken smelt]

I haven't been able to watch them yet but Gamers Nexus have 3 videos up about the steam deck.
Their in depth initial review, their tear down and their in depth review after a month of use

Ltt also has 2 videos reviewing it and a livestream teardown. However I don't trust ltt to go anywhere near as in depth as GN tend to

[sleek quiver]

Both LTT and GN are the only reviewers who gets the chance to put their content up early iirc. Most other channels I think is stuck under embargo until today

I saw that GN does goes pretty in-depth though

[broken smelt]

I trust GN because they're incredibly rigerous with their testing methadology

You see this with their cpu, gpu and case reviews

And even their psu reviews more recently

[sleek quiver]

Yeah, they seem to uphold their rep with their content on the Steam Deck, I think they are pretty trustworthy

[broken smelt]

With ltt, I enjoy their content but not fond of some of their takes.
Most notably the 3070ti and 3080ti but in saying this it's good to have something challange my own view points of a product and self evaluate why I don't think or think a product is worth it

[polar dragon]

This totally hypes me up to ... wait for Steam Deck 2.

Not a jab toward the Steam Deck, but I enjoy the perk of not being an early adopter. Waiting usually means a smoother experience.

[lofty pecan]

I mean if u didn’t reserve in the first hour you’re def not being an early adopter lol

[polar dragon]

true lol

but ig im waiting even beyond all of this

until the second iteration

[sleek quiver]

Yeah, the most sensible reviews I’ve seen so far point towards getting the second revision of the Steam Deck as well

[lofty pecan]

Def is up to my expectations

Looks like a good budget computer for the price

Which is what I want it for since I only have a Mac atm

[broken smelt]

I think the steam deck represents incredible value especially compared to other handheld devices in it's space (aya neo and others I can't name off the top of my head)

Which tend to cost 1k USD plus

[lofty pecan]

I’m also buying a switch from a roommate but I plan to sell that lol

[sleek quiver]

If you’re keeping it plugged in for most of the time, it is definitely worth it I think

[polar dragon]

yeah, the value is quite great as a computing device

[broken smelt]

Comparing to a switch imo is quite disengenious to the steam deck and devices like the steam deck (not saying anyone here has done it, I expect many reviewers too though)

[lofty pecan]

Yah i think switch and deck have different niches

[polar dragon]

im tempted to watch the Steam Deck trailer and list all the games Valve deemed worthy to show footage on it

[lofty pecan]

Prolly big names like control hades tale of arise

[sleek quiver]

They got the OG Ni No Kuni to show how older games are supported on the system, they got Hades for that GOTY spot and they also got Control for their hardware demanding title lol

The fact that they showed Control running natively on it compared to how the Switch runs Control from the cloud is pretty crazy at the time. The Switch isn’t really suited for these demanding titles, and it was probably never meant to be, which really brings home what the Steam Deck is all about compared to the Switch, and tbh, I really do want to try Control on a handheld lol

[polar dragon]

Album: https://imgur.com/a/fYbx7oQ

Does anyone know what those games are?

Other than that, here are the ones I can recognize:
Tales of Arise
Hollow Knight
Dead Cells
Psychonauts
Dark Souls 3
Control
Rogue Legacy
Streets of Rage 4
Subnautica
Death Loop
Forza Horizon V
Cuphead
Return of the Obra Dinn
Spelunky
Witcher 3
Divinity 2
Bayonetta
Castle Crasher
Sonic Mania
Portal 2
Octopath Traveler
Don’t Starve Together
Super Hot
Left 4 Dead 2
Hades

[stable kindle]

isnt the 4th image unpacking

[polar dragon]

I missed Slay the Spire somehow

[polar dragon]

yeah that's it. ty

[sleek quiver]

2nd is Eastward I think? 3rd looks like Tetris Effect. 7th is Katamari Damacy

[polar dragon]

yeah those sounds correct

[stable kindle]

didnt even realize you didnt have katamari on your list rofl

[woven breach]

below unpacking, Alien Isolation

[polar dragon]

okay got a few more, got Ace Combat 7, TABS, Stardew, Half Life 2, and Alien

12 games left unidentified

damn this is a lot lmao

[woven breach]

ni no kuni 2

[polar dragon]

where?

[woven breach]

from the imgur you sent

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/817270982191874081/946970150878470154/unknown.png

looks liek it

at least

kek

[polar dragon]

oh ty that one was driving me insane

Ghost Runner

okay four left

Album: https://imgur.com/a/fYbx7oQ
Does anyone know of the top 4 games?

[woven breach]

danganronpa

below that is ghostrunner

lol

also below that ghostrunner is tales of arise I think

[polar dragon]

that's it

we did it reddit

i mean discord

These are the games deemed worthy by Valve (sorry for the long list):
Tales of Arise
Hollow Knight
Dead Cells
Psychonauts
Dark Souls 3
Control
Rogue Legacy
Streets of Rage 4
Subnautica
Death Loop
Forza Horizon V
Cuphead
Return of the Obra Dinn
Spelunky
Witcher 3
Divinity 2
Bayonetta
Castle Crasher
Sonic Mania
Portal 2
Octopath Traveler
Don’t Starve Together
Super Hot
Left 4 Dead 2
Hades
Slay the Spire
Unpacking
Eastward
Tetris Effect
Katamari Damacy
Ace Combat 7
TABS
Stardew Valley
Half Life 2
Alien Isolation
Ni No Kuni 2
Hitman 3
Firewatch
Ghost Runner
Metal Gear Solid V
INSIDE
Danganronpa 2
Yu Gi Oh Master Duel

[woven breach]

"deemed worthy by valve" lol

[polar dragon]

xD

[woven breach]

it's funny cause TABS is in there

[polar dragon]

honestly a lot of those games are indie

which makes sense for a handheld system

and are awesome additions in general

[polar dragon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYh1MCkHjzY

who is going to say it

[woven breach]

wow

it looks like painkiller

slightly more demonic

[sleek quiver]

Just realized the list doesn’t have Disco Elysium, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, Ni No Kuni 1 and Doom Eternal, the games that was previewed in the earlier stage of the Steam Deck announcement

[woven breach]

I mean, if it can run Ni No Kuni 2, it can most definitely run Ni No Kuni 1

[ocean iris]

Jedi Fallen Order is abhorrent on PC

It stutters like crazy

I wouldnt be surprised if it cant run it.

[woven breach]

it's real funny, cause in my whole play time with it, I've only ran to few bugs and no stuttering issues.

maybe cause I pirated it

[polar dragon]

ill add those to the list and ill update later. those are from an earlier video right?

[ocean iris]

I had an RX 580 8GB and Ryzen 7 2700

Idk what was wrong

But the optimization is like really bad

Maybe they fixed it who knows

[woven breach]

Prob, maybe, could've

[sleek quiver]

Yeah, it was from the initial announcement video, the first one

[wooden storm]

When I upgrade from my Macintosh 84, I shall play Elden Ring.

[serene delta]

Gonna be honest from what I hear the pc port of elden ring is poorly optimized so I would wait. Though if you plan to get it on console from my experience on console it’s fine no stutters or fps drops

[polar dragon]

imagine elden ring on the xbox gamepass

[dire warren]

imagine elden ring

[serene delta]

You couldn’t even begin to imagine it

[wooden storm]

Wait, wasn't that a line from the traile-

[broken smelt]

Tbh, it could also be the anticheat that's tanking performance

We've seen this happen with RE: Village where a cracked copy performed better than an official copy

[serene delta]

My knowledge on computers are very limited so I wouldn’t know

[serene delta]

THAT WHICH COMMANDED THE STARS!

[polar dragon]

you know how sometimes games just have a really brilliant moment?

Back 4 Blood Bar Room Blizt is perhaps one of the most fun experience I've had yet.

The rest of the game is okay. But that stage is simple yet brilliant.

[sleek quiver]

Just wanna pop in real quick to tell that I recently got a sub 20 minutes run on Slay the Spire and I’m feeling so proud of myself. Silent Shiv spam

[signal kayak]

Really want that game but Switch physical version is at 32€...

(second hand btw)

[keen musk]

Elden Ring question for when I get the game: for weapons that scale with both str and dex if I’m high in both does it do more damage than if I was just high in one or the other?

[sleek quiver]

If my maths is correct, that’s like a $10 mark up or something

[signal kayak]

On the other hand, the same game on Xbox (which I don't have) and PS4 (which I don't play on) is at 10€

[stable kindle]

soooo the pokemon news today

[junior crown]

These were surely some news

||The bait and switch at the end was something. Folks I have watched with, we totally expected it to be Detective Pikachu 2 lol||

[ocean iris]

What happened

[wraith cradle]

God, that framerate in the windmills made me cringe

Nintendo pls

[ocean iris]

Well looks like we got a new Pokemon game...How surprising

[untold hornet]

||the titles for the new games look atrocious||

||its like they pulled in someone whos new to graphic design to do them||

[quartz hatch]

from what i've seen of that trailer it's just gonna be sword & shield 2.0 huh

[dire condor]

Just looks fanmade

[quartz hatch]

i haven't been excited for a pokemon game in years and this one doesn't change that

[untold hornet]

literally

[ocean iris]

That's like Zelda title guessing levels of bad

The Legend of Zelda: X of (the) X

I mean those are designed alright compared to that

Also by 2040 they will run out of colours or things to name their games

[dire warren]

honestly i've only seen the titles and starters and i can't help but feel like my doomsday predictions were right

[bleak coral]

I like the duck mon though :)

[stable kindle]

they did it they finally learned to texture pokemon

[ocean iris]

Bare minimum

looks like a roblox texture tbh

[signal kayak]

That looks unironically worse than the previous gens and that speaks a lot for itself

[stable kindle]

i forgot my /s tag

it genuinely is bare minimum lmao

[weary echo]

sprigatito is the best name of any pokemon ever made

[stable kindle]

i dont like being anal over graphics because ultimately i dont care about subpar graphics if the game itself is a solid product otherwise but like. this is game freak/pokemon company. pokemon is literally the highest grossing ip in the world. theres no excuse for them doing bare minimum 😭

[coral hawk]

Thats how they stay the highest grossing like jokes aside. they cut costs and get the same returns as if they put in more money

I don't blame em

[stable kindle]

yeah i mean at the end of the day they are a business and do what businesses do to make profit

still gonna call it out

[coral hawk]

Oh I don't think theres anything wrong with calling it otu

I just think the "they have so much money so why don't they spend it making better looking games" is a silly argument because they specifically have a lot of money because they dont lol

[stable kindle]

wasnt really a position from an argument perspective so much as highlighting how absurd the entire situation is

[lusty pendant]

There was even a theory that BDSP launched half done not because they didn't have time, but because they wanted to use a smaller memory switch cart to save costs

[bleak coral]

https://tenor.com/view/money-mr-krabs-gif-18326632

also nintendo switch

[stable kindle]

yes guys we get it big corporations do things because they are a corporation and are out to make profit

we established this

[polar dragon]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/802615525141643265/947544338160844820/RDT_20220227_1151234821464499337741148.jpg

also wtf is their icon logo thing

that's like learning to use WordArt on MS Word type stuff

[maiden ermine]

Fire starter is literally just :D

[winter mica]

i saw the starters on tumblr before seeing the game announcement and i just assumed they were fanmade

[lusty pendant]

I sent the starters pic and the titles to my friend groupchat and one of them asked if it was a romhack

[winter mica]

they're all just cutesy in a way that's not actually appealing

[lusty pendant]

They have this early gen vibe

[dire warren]

honestly theres fanmade games that are more like traditional pokemon than pokemon itself at this point

[next patio]

Croc just has no thoughts, head empty energy

[dire warren]

smt is really just cruel huh. i go to fight a required enemy and it decides to permanantly completely protect itself from all damage

[ocean iris]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/285880764493725696/947566318620639283/mgr_classic.mp4

[weary echo]

the FE hacking community has evolved past the need for conventional numbers
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/754175190203629598/947564542941093968/unknown-219.jpg

[unique creek]

Finally got around to getting portal

[vale root]

scarlet and violet??

is that really the best they came up with

[polar dragon]

they should name it Pokemon Vi and Pokemon Jinx

[stable kindle]

are we really going to dunk on their choice of names when theyve literally been naming games after colours since the beginning

the entire thing is cheesy lol

well colours and minerals i suppose if you want to be technical. and then theres swsh

[polar dragon]

nah i want to dunk on that title design, the name is true to tradition, but that title o.o

[stable kindle]

yeah thats genuinely bad

like they forgot they needed a logo and slapped it on 10 minutes before broadcast

[untold hornet]

oh yeah the logos suck

im tempted to make my own rendition of them tbh

[polar dragon]

To be charitable, this looks very basic, but not as bad as the English version.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/802615525141643265/947603233537425478/Screenshot_20220227-161642.jpg

[untold hornet]

yeah

[vale root]

cant they at least do different colors other then
dark red and red blue

[stable kindle]

gestures at fire red and leaf green

like sure they were remakes of red and green but. cmon.

[vale root]

i mean fair

[bleak coral]

I mean

I dont think pokemon ever had good logos

[maiden ermine]

Sun and Moon did, I think

Someone correct me if I am wrong tho

[untold hornet]

yes

sm and usum beloved

[maiden ermine]

God, I loved them so much

Blank faced protag will always be best meme lmao

[stable kindle]

the jp ones have always looked nicer

[rancid token]

Honestly I'm more excited about this one than I was about Arceus

As long as I can still bean Pokemon in the back of the head with a lead ball I'll consider us square lol

[lusty pendant]

The 才 is twisted a weird way in violet and it's unsettling me lol

[deep garnet]

The logos have no synergy within and no synergy with each other either. Like there is no part there that makes me thing „ah yes two pokemon games“ that‘s just letters with honestly some meh colors

[lusty pendant]

same with the イ

[deep garnet]

Oh I just watched the trailer and hating on the grafics is more than fair imo… like wow that‘s bad, and those are the good portions of the game since this is a trailer…

[stable kindle]

please dont evade the swear filter, thank you!

[next patio]

Didnt expect i would max out all the boxes on legebds arceus lmao

32 box fulls

[serene delta]

Depends on the scaling but regardless the damage you will deal is fine. If you meet the requirements

[sleek quiver]

I took a peek at the logo and I guess the reason it just doesn’t look great is how different it looks like compared to the “Pokémon” font and size

Scarlet and Violet looks fine to me but underneath the Pokémon logo, it looks like it doesn’t belong, yeah?

[rancid token]

It's not a great logo

[bleak coral]

I do think its funny to see pokemon fans pop off over stuff like textures though

Dont get me wrong its cool to see but its such a standard thing for almost every other studio

[hybrid jetty]

they aren't even good textures either 😭

[dire condor]

Cant get into Pokemon games anymore

[rustic falcon]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/19680/Alice_Madness_Returns/
back on steam :)

Steam

Alice: Madness Returns

Eleven years ago a horrific fire took Alice’s family from her and left her mind horrifically scarred. Afterwards she was confined to Rutledge Asylum, where she struggled to confront her demons by slipping further into her fantasy world of Wonderland. Now, after ten years, she has finally secured her release—yet she still bears the heavy psycholo...

Price

$19.99

Recommendations

7106

Metacritic

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[ocean iris]

wtf Alice reboot confirmed??

[lusty pendant]

https://twitter.com/KyleMcCarley/status/1498354982512332805?t=a-EocCmmvuLyKviHteN0FQ&s=19

𝕂𝕪𝕝𝕖 𝕄𝕔ℂ𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕖𝕪 (@KyleMcCarley)

Tonight on https://t.co/SBgw6YZHEW, @Katelyn_Gault and I are playing some Shin Megami Tensei V. We co-directed the English VO, but this will be our first time hearing/seeing any of the finished product. We'll aim to start around 4pm PT, possibly later. See you then!

Twitter · Feb 28, 2022, 5:50 PM

[normal marsh]

The bar is in hell and game freak is playing limbo with the devil when it comes to new pokémon games

[rancid token]

There has been upwards movement so I am tentatively excited

[polar dragon]

I'm hyped for Steam Deck... 2

[broken smelt]

Electric boogaloo

[mystic wave]

3houses marianne https://twitter.com/YakuzaMiko/status/1498504305850355715

Yakuza Miko (@YakuzaMiko)

#PS4share https://t.co/S77RIazbLS

Twitter · Mar 1, 2022, 3:44 AM

[junior crown]

https://youtu.be/9Dy-KWjp-m0

[sleek quiver]

Ah, this is the Alice game sequel lead by American McGee, yeah? I only heard about the old game, but never really played it

[ocean iris]

Yoo the steam deck released

It seems to run some stuff pretty well

it runs Elden Ring decently

Some games arent compatible but Im sure they are working on it

Finally a Valve hardware that didn't flop

[sleek quiver]

Yeah, all in all it’s kinda fine. Battery life is ehh but it’s expected, I’m not surprised at all

Btw, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is on early access now and some people are already uploading “first-looks” of it. Looks fun

I don’t really cared for the humor but looter shooters are inherently fun just for the loot hunting

[winter mica]

i've been play disco elysium for a few hours now and i generally like it a lot but i feel like it could do with some dialogue pruning. there's just a lot of it.

[fallen sky]

is the dialogue decent?

i've seen people make jokes about the dialogue

also, started monster prom. it's a game!

[ocean iris]

Wait what? Early access for a AAA game?

God I'm excited but I got no money for it

[sleek quiver]

Seems like an early access. The content creator that posted it said it was an “early look”. I’m… too lazy to check

[ocean iris]

Ohhh that aint early access

It's just content creators getting early keys

[sleek quiver]

I see

[rustic falcon]

its very well written imo, but there are over a million words in the game. its a lot of reading. luckily almost every bit of writing is voiced now and the voice acting is also very good

[fallen sky]

thanks for letting me know! it's sitting in my library waiting to be played

https://twitter.com/B_Velocyped/status/1498574621532119041?t=XAjDKMhda8poaEl74qCj5w&s=19

Blaszany Velocyped (@B_Velocyped)

Hey! https://t.co/wFxqANjbOY is calling for games for #Ukraine charity bundle. Submit until 4 of March. #ttrpg designers, please participate. #ttrpgsolidarity #ttrpgfamily
https://t.co/BYfWv9Kxo6

Twitter · Mar 1, 2022, 8:23 AM

[signal kayak]

CrossCode bought, Slay the Spire failed to buy :/

[winter mica]

the dialogue is great. very very funny but serious when it needs to be. but it really is you have to be ready to basically sit down and read a choose your own adventure book.

[wraith cradle]

Tbh, I feel sad not having played DE with Voice acting for the first time

The full game VA enhances the experience so much is not even funny

[winter mica]

the voice acting is super good

[ocean iris]

I plan to get it specifically for the mention of a certain set of ideals I believe in 😏

[hybrid jetty]

I loved disco elysium when I played it before the final cut added full vo and it's even better now

[woven breach]

oh? DE has vo now?

ngl, the reason why I don't get it is because of the amount of reading

my mind can wander so much

[winter mica]

that's where i'm at. so i just usually play it in small chunks

[woven breach]

that is a totally reasonable way to play

[wraith cradle]

TBH, I played the game in short bursts

When I realise that I'm getting tired of reading which makes me simply not proccess all the info that is being shown to me, I stopped

[analog spruce]

How does humble choice work? If I "rejoin" do I get ALL of these games? https://www.humblebundle.com/membership/home#choice-masseffectlegendaryedition

[fallen sky]

the last thing i heard about the VAing is that... some podcasters were involved but i always forget their name

[winged dew]

IIRC there are "tiers" of the subscription, each of which allow you to choose a certain number of games from the list to keep

Oh, they must have changed it due to that being a really stupid system. I logged in with my old account and you get all the games for the flat rate now

[ocean iris]

Not gonna lie the new choice is kinda good

Mass Effect, Desperados, Police Stories, that dead Nick smash clone, Man of Medan

[winged dew]

Maybe that dead Nick Smash clone can take advantage of Smash dropping out of Evo

[ocean iris]

There's a f2p Warner bros smash clone

with some grear character design

idk when it releases

and if it will be p2w

[quartz hatch]

Disco Elysium has definitely gotten better with the addition of voice acting

the quality of the VA's is really good

[wraith cradle]

They got all replaced iirc when the new VA drop. At least all the main roles

[ocean iris]

Grand turismo 7 is releasing on the 4th

I wish I had a PS 😔

This game literally blows Forza out of the water

[lofty pecan]

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/humble-heroines? this bundle looks pretty frickin good

scarlet nexus, bloodstained, severed steel, cloudpunk, celeste are all games ive had my eye on for a while

[clear python]

Tacoma Tacoma Tacoma Tacoma (very very very good play it) (Celeste and Cloudpunk too)

Tacoma is super heartwarming

[ocean iris]

Wtf finally a good bundle???

Not gonna lie if no one wants Gears 5 I'd love to have it

[lofty pecan]

oo ok how good is Tacoma compared to gone home

[clear python]

I haven't played Gone Home, but Tacoma is one of my favorite games, very focused on its characters and their interactions (plus your usual smol adventure stuff)

[polar dragon]

EGS stored just has an update, and the library somehow lost functionality xD
back then you can quickly tell which game you have installed and which you don't by the color (not installed games are mono chromatic), now everything looks the same

also your settings don't save between log ins

so if you want to filter some games (which is already limited), the next time you log in the filter is lost

although, is it petty to criticize them despite not paying them a single cent for the free games?

[stable kindle]

no, because you should expect some basic functionality from a storefront

being bribed with free games doesnt make them immune to interface criticism

[dire condor]

true.

[wraith cradle]

Ok, I know putting Female protagonist on Scarlet Nexus is technically true, but I have yet to do her route lmao

[polar dragon]

what kind of game is Scarlet Nexus?

action RPG?

[wraith cradle]

Yes

It's a flawed game but I enjoyed it

[lofty pecan]

why is it flawed

i really want to play it for the gameplay

[polar dragon]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/336283305907322880/948748828469768192/unknown.png?width=1246&height=701

my A team is about to kick some ass

[polar dragon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/336283305907322880/948765213329608734/unknown.png

gg :)

im about to banish this dude to the shadow realm

[lofty pecan]

just started celeste as my first platformer, finished chapter one 171 deaths 💀

[ocean iris]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/468226513351868417/948809968604282920/Screenshot_20220303-071149_Instagram.jpg

Hm yes this is a legit evolution

[hybrid jetty]

finally done with the whole dark souls trilogy

heard elden ring was pretty okay maybe I'll get it soon

[ocean iris]

Try running it first hehe

the specs are unreasonably high for a 2007 engine

I'm going to grab it when it gets patched

[hybrid jetty]

yeah that was the plan
it's a race to see whether elden ring gets patched or deathloop goes on sale first

[lofty pecan]

death loop is 50% off on humble rn

[sleek quiver]

Well, we know who won the race then

[fallen sky]

okay. playing more monster prom. love the characters, the dialogue is... well...

[junior crown]

Yeah Monster Prom got a certain dialogue type.

Vulgar and oozing with certain style.

[fallen sky]

if by "style" you mean "2015 tumblr text post-esque"

for me, it's not so much, 'why did an adult write the dialogue like this?' it's, 'how did an adult write this?'

[junior crown]

Probably! Been a while since I played it but I remember it made me cringe ever so often with certain wording. I will say at least it's no Monster Prom 2, which gets way too far for enjoyable time, for me at least.

[fallen sky]

the dialogue in the second game is worse, imo, because there's more of it. so more cringe

[junior crown]

Best way to put it I think is that it tries to chase the youthful feeling of the high school setting while being over the top and somehow also adding onto that, plus lacking ability to self limit. And just plucking with whatever trend was at the time of writing it.

So it's fast to get messy.

[fallen sky]

yeah. the anti-sjw character is very that

whenever he talks i'm instantly transported to 2014-2016

[junior crown]

Oh yeah that character. I forgot about him. He is definitely the "I am authors' critic of certain people in that time frame". Absolutely get the reasoning, but the execution is poor, even by game's own standards. I only really recall most of his dialogue being wordy with not substances. No humour alongside it. Just dry text.

[fallen sky]

yeah. I appreciate the author not spelling out how the character isn't a good person, because the character's dialogue sufficiently does that, but the dialogue is still pretty flat

[junior crown]

It's to point as if you are just talking to anti-sjw person back in the times when it was a common problem running into these type. But there is no real control over it for you. Just viewing it unfold. Game surely could have handled it better.

[ocean iris]

it has modeus from helltaker it's a 10/10 for me

[lusty pendant]

https://twitter.com/CristinaVee/status/1498904453121916930?t=Cb-7yx-PmGTHLKqZMgDI6Q&s=19

Cristina Vee Valenzuela (@CristinaVee)

oh no https://t.co/bRd05ko7Sy

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Twitter · Mar 2, 2022, 6:14 AM

[woven breach]

I want you to know I facepalmed so hard while watching this

my face hurts

[ocean iris]

this thing's next evolution is a green neco arc

[broken smelt]

I have no idea what I was expecting, but that was hillarious

[next patio]

Not despacito

[jade flume]

The red dead 2 engine is a heavily upgraded version of a rockstar table tennis game, just because its the same engine doesnt mean its gonna look crap or require low specs

[lusty turret]

[lusty turret]

While waiting for it to get patched Lol I played Shadow Warrior 3

[rancid token]

Whether you can run Elden Ring or not seems pretty all over the place

I'm handling it fine outside some stuttering in a couple areas and I'm just under recommended

But people way over can't even start it

[lusty turret]

Shadow warrior is fast paced fun like Hades

Yh stutters are slightly annoying even a few times.

Best to wait for large open world games to get their patches after launch day

[wraith cradle]

Oh the gameplay is the best part, it is fun and satisfactory. The flaws are mostly the bit repetitive environments, the style that the cutscenes are framed and the fact you need two playthroughs to get the 100% of the full picture (It's a long game).

[ocean iris]

I hope game developers will learn that open world games arent boring when you can traverse the world in a fun way

[hybrid jetty]

isn't scarlet nexus the one that makes you watch an anime to make the story make sense

[dire warren]

i have been playing a lot of smt and i have never realised how much i yearned for a difficult turn-based game until now ngl

[lofty pecan]

how do people rate haven? how does it compare to the typical turn based jrpg

[wraith cradle]

Haven is a great game. The combat simple leans into been maybe quite too simple. But the story portions are quite good and they help to set the "Slice of life" tone

[wraith cradle]

Nah, you understand the plot perfectly without the anime. There was a bizarre set of sidequests where you had to find a password in the anime to get goodies. Dunno the specifics as I didn't bother with that

Maybe that's what you are referring to

[ocean iris]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/853612435478151183/948994118644797450/IMG_6451.jpg

[lofty pecan]

o ok nice after the latest update i might get it then

[winter mica]

i love in fear for how they're gonna butcher de

[dire condor]

welp you don't have to really worry about LiS because that ship is far gone.

game jumped the shark after season 1.

so the amazon adaptation won't make it much worse. I'll still watch it but keep my expectations low as possible.

[clear python]

I still need to play LiS 2... I really liked the first one (crazy opinion!!) apart from the ending where ||it's just your usually 'deep' choice that doesn't really make sense and is just there for drama||

[queen carbon]

I fear for Disco Elysium

[hybrid jetty]

yall that doesn't mean they're actually making one

the studio mentioned disco elysium like one time

[wraith cradle]

I can't vouch for the new voice acting because I have yet to try it, tho

[hybrid jetty]

the voice acting is very good

especially the skills and narration

oh wait nvm i'm dumb

lol

[wraith cradle]

I'm talking about Haven

[queen carbon]

...Where's the article from?

[hybrid jetty]

yeah mb

[wraith cradle]

Although I agree

Specially because some of the old VA in Disco was, well bad

[hybrid jetty]

anyways i'd be very very very very surprised if anything comes of the rumor about a disco elysium show

[wraith cradle]

Kortenauer specially

[hybrid jetty]

especially from amazon

[wraith cradle]

Glad they replaced his voice

[deep garnet]

Does anyone have good recommendations for story driven psychological Horror games?

[sleek quiver]

DE will probably just get butchered, but LiS would totally make for a good tv show I think

[fallen sky]

have we discussed how bandcamp has been bought out by epic games

not sure if I should post here or in music

i'll try #music

[ocean iris]

https://i.imgur.com/Y3bdUbw.png

Im in love with DE already

[winter mica]

it has some very good lines

[ocean iris]

https://i.imgur.com/dz8NUhU.png

i dont know how to describe the writing in this

but it's really damn entertaining

the mirror part is poetic

[exotic rune]

congratulations on not dying on the first check!

[ocean iris]

wait what

[exotic rune]

🙂

[ocean iris]

ohhh that's because i didn't stick out my hand like a stupid man in the fan blades?

[ocean iris]

https://i.imgur.com/G3Tc3qj.png

[wraith cradle]

https://youtu.be/62wW2BNKw40

My fav scene

[ocean iris]

I spent 10 minutes investigating a car
and using the radio

[winter mica]

ooh the radio

i won't spoil anything but the sylvie conversation hits hard

[ocean iris]

Yes I did have it

I love how stuff is getting revealed to me

But I ended my playthrough after all the car investigation thing since I have a schedle

[quartz hatch]

when you miss the check you get a heart attack lmao and if your hp is low enough you die as a result

[next patio]

there is a demo for the new kirby if anyone wanna check it out

[wraith cradle]

Car inhaling itensiifies

[normal marsh]

Soma is p good for that

[broken smelt]

lost in vivo is pretty good from what I've seen

naturally silent hill 1-4 if you can get your hands on em

note: avoid the silent hill HD collection, it's terrible

[deep garnet]

Thanks!

[mystic wave]

https://miro.medium.com/max/1000/0*o3DmRl0P-tHaC-Ky.gif

me in elden ring

[vivid mesa]

my favorite Ghibli movie

[eager hamlet]

Oh, did I miss Disco Elysium discourse?

Great game

[mystic wave]

this is how that gif ends https://twitter.com/YakuzaMiko/status/1499597282781855745

Yakuza Miko (@YakuzaMiko)

#PS4share

https://t.co/iqcoeWaH11 https://t.co/tqBH5Nv7uY

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Twitter · Mar 4, 2022, 4:07 AM

[fallen sky]

just chatting about how much dialogue is in it

[mystic wave]

just market it as a visual novel!

[hybrid jetty]

a world where visual novels are actual novels

[woven breach]

okay so

I want you guys to watch this without looking at the comments and all

https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1499504132058660867?s=20&t=Ygmp8YcMI9clMsjthBJP_A

Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX)

Thai ads hit different https://t.co/iJnDi31ZLG

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Twitter · Mar 3, 2022, 9:56 PM

just want to hear some thoughts :>

[deep garnet]

What? Like really What?

This has like as many plot twists as Inception and as many unfinnished story lines as BBC Sherlock, i am in a way impressed

I thought the kid killed the other kid because they upset the Komodo Dragon at one point, and then why is the ring repaired at the end? What was that whole beginning for?

(Fyi I know nothing of Elden Ring, only that it‘s supposed to be good)

[sleek quiver]

r/unexpected

[woven breach]

lmao

[sleek quiver]

The Tarnished is going to be 2022 meme material

[wraith cradle]

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/on-its-release-day-babylons-fall-has-peaked-at-fewer-than-650-concurrent-players-on-steam/

Quick! Act surprised

[woven breach]

wait

it's out?

[wraith cradle]

60 year dollar game with GaaS, budget looking graphics and zero marketing BBS hard

[signal kayak]

...did they seriously think that was going to be a success?

[winter mica]

man full price game but you still have to buy premium currencies

[wraith cradle]

Literally the same situation as Anthem but with worse graphics

[sleek quiver]

Is it really necessary or just as an add-on?

Like, P2W or cosmetics?

[signal kayak]

SE president is harming the company more than he helps

[wraith cradle]

FF is basically Atlas holding Square Enix on their shoulders

[woven breach]

from what I've seen/read, the battle pass is only for cosmetics and emotes

still takes away the satisfaction of unlocking a certain head gear I want

[winter mica]

which you should get in a full price game without extra cost

[ocean iris]

That's what they get for not signing with Konami for a MGR too 😤

(Apparently Konami is returning to games)

[stable kindle]

sincerely screw any game that does this, like genuinely [redacted impassioned swearing]

no full price game should have freemium aspects like premium currencies, end of

[sleek quiver]

Well, if there is no actual way to grind it for free without spending extra for the microtransactions, then, yeah, it is sacrilege

[stable kindle]

no I don't want to see any kind of full price game with such things period

"grind it for free" lmaooo

a game with such a system in the first place is already built around enticing the player to give in to purchasing them eventually

that's always the goal

so no, i don't want to see it at all

[sleek quiver]

Well, depends on where the money goes into, I’d say they still have a place in the gaming industry today. If the money goes to make the game more expansive (not just making it better), then I say it’s good money spent

If it’s only going to the pockets of the stockholders with no intent of pouring it back into the game itself, then, yeah, I agree with you

It’s like the Hearthstone of 2015, where it has gotten so expensive to play, while the other Blizz games are somewhat tame in their business models

The money isn’t flowing back into the game itself

[winter mica]

these companies are making such massive profits just from selling a game for $60 what on earth would cause them to need more

these aren't poor indie developers struggling to get by

[signal kayak]

An incomplete game at $60 and they're asking players to pay more? That's a NOPE for me

[winter mica]

also i think dlc is a plague. when a game is sent out it should be finished. it is $60 there should not be another $40 to add another character or a whole storyline. a complete game should be a complete game.

[signal kayak]

Already fell for it with FFXV, not gonna happen again

[hybrid jetty]

i think dlc done right can be good

xcom: enemy within and xcom 2's dlc (and war of the chosen) are the peak examples imo

bad dlc is whatever atlus is doing

[ocean iris]

peak dlc is tiny tina's assault on dragonkeep for borderlands 2

[dire warren]

yeah dlc that like. acts on issues within the base game the playerbase has while also adding new things is good. expansion dlcs tend to be more high quality than additional things.

i mean the main issue with dlcs is they all cost at least twice what they should for what they are. i'd be far more forgiving of dlc if it wasn't always so expensive for a handful of good things.

[ocean iris]

dying light the following is an ok dlc in theory even though it was pure crap on a game design standpoint

like it offered lots of content

[hybrid jetty]

that's also a good one
the only good non-tales borderlands content

[ocean iris]

im hoping wonderlands delivers on that

since it looks closer to borderlands 2

and it has melee weapons

and magic

and we know how creative these guys can get

[stable kindle]

genuinely where do you think money from premium currencies go to, why do you think company shareholders want to see increased profits year after year. that extra money from premium currency goes to people investing in the company, not people making the games

microtransactions have been a plague to gaming ever since people at the top figured out you could make more money for less effort. even people working for top triple a companies in the industry have reported still having to live from paycheck to paycheck

if those people are getting any of that money funneled back to their teams in any meaningful capacity they shouldn't be living like that, for where they work

because that money doesn't go to them or their team, it goes to executives and shareholders

i think you want to give the benefit of the doubt for these systems but like. it's not how they work.

idk babs said it best. these aren't poor indie devs struggling to get by. i feel like defending these practices on any level, esp when done by triple a publishers, only further normalizes them, further makes it acceptable to expect unnecessary monetization in a full price game published by some of the most profitable companies in the industry, just in case a single cent of it makes it back to the devs that actually worked on the game

[signal kayak]

Spoken like a true gamer of culture and a customer with rights

Respect 100

[sleek quiver]

Yeah, like, trying to blanket all of these companies under one umbrella and casting them all off as one and the same is pretty unfair to the ones that did things differently. When we only see the bad sides of one thing, then we’ll only see the bad side of it and we’ll lose sight of the good sides of it

I really refuse to just look at the industry and just think it’s all bad and nothing is salvageable out of it

[stable kindle]

the ones that "did things differently" are often not the triple a companies at the top, which i specifically pointed out in my derision 🤷

the companies that are most profitable are oft the ones that seek to profit off every avenue they can, because that is why they are the most profitable

[lusty pendant]

imo a 60 dollar game shouldn't have any additional paid stuff, at all

[stable kindle]

also an important thing to consider here is the industry treats game devs like garbage as it is, that's why they still have to fight for benefits even today

[solid nimbus]

glances at animal crossing

[last marsh]

anyone played fire emblem on visual boy advance and can help me with something?

[last marsh]

especially when that wasnt normally in the series to begin with and they did a bunch of updates that was content that was already in the base game in older entries

[ocean iris]

60 dollars o_o

and to thnk that is pocket money to some

[last marsh]

bruh new leaf was a lower price and it had more content than new horizons did at the start. new horizons was such a waste of money.

[ocean iris]

ye i agree

at least my sister likes it

[last marsh]

i burnt out of new horizons fast while I played new leaf for 639 hours

but in general I don't think the series is my thing anymore, the appeal was more towards the villagers and stuff then "having the prettiest island and posting it on social media" like it seems to be nowadays

like at first I thought I was going to get into the customization aspect but I ended up feeling uninspired and not doing anything related to that because I didn't think I could make it look good or follow a theme and the game doesn't really have much to offer besides that, so I got bored of my villagers in a few months

[ocean iris]

anyone remember that dead island is still in development

[lusty pendant]

I played some but forgot most of the process

[last marsh]

do you remember the controls, like choosing stuff in the inventory so I can give Seth a vulnerary at least?

[lusty pendant]

you might not get a prep screen until a few chapters in

but anything basic should be doable with A, B and the arrows

[last marsh]

when I click the down or up arrow it sends me to erikas inventory screen rather than selecting stuff in the inventory with seth

yeah the up arrow sends me to erikas screen

the down arrow sends me back to seths

[lusty pendant]

Press A?

[last marsh]

does nothing.

[lusty pendant]

hmm I can't remember much beyond that

Eirika should have convoy access so I guess you can use her to get stuff and then trade to Seth on the field

[last marsh]

hmm ok I'll try that instead

so just press a to do that instead then

[lusty pendant]

yeah after you move her there should be a convoy option

unless you haven't gotten the convoy (Hayden gives it to you iirc)

[last marsh]

oh im on the first chapter 💀

im trying to heal him on the very first turn bc he took damage in that cutscene

dont want him to die this early thats just bad

[lusty pendant]

oh yeah you won't get the inventory management menu after a while

then the only way is to trade on the field

move them next to each other and select trade or something

[last marsh]

ok i'll try that

alright how do I exit the inventory

[lusty pendant]

B

the beauty of GBA and before is that there are so few buttons you just try pressing them all

[last marsh]

k

[last marsh]

would it give it to him to heal on the first turn then? because he already has 3 vulneries in his inventory

trading here doesnt really make a difference so idk what to do since I still can't really select which inventory items I want to select

like the vulnerarys selected but its pointless if I can't select it while in the inventory

thanks anyway

[ocean iris]

damn dying light 2 hasn't been cracked yet

i'm very curious about it but im trying to save for wonderlands so rip

[karmic minnow]

Regarding Dying Light 2; I know a lot of people have been experiencing issues but that has not been the case for me. The only issues I have had have been a few minor graphical glitches that have had no impact on the game at all.

It also performs extremely well for me. I get 130+ FPS at 1440p.

The parkour and combat are very fun and I find the story entertaining.

[ocean iris]

how does it compare to the first game?

did they make it too rpg-ey?

what about map layout

[karmic minnow]

I really enjoyed DL1. I completed it about five times. It's one of my top 5 games. Considering it has had six years of continued development with lots of events and also some free content and some paid content.

I think DL2 is about just as good as the first. Of course it doesn't quite have the amount of polish that the first game has but Techland has promised at least 5 years of continued support so it should turn out better than the DL1.

The world layout is great for parkour and I think the combat is better than the first game. There are also parkour and combat challenges that you can compete for medals. Bronze, silver, gold depending on how quickly you finish the challenge.

There are areas to explore only at night. Some are inside building that require stealth.

The paraglider is just ok but the grappling hook is fun to use. You can use it sort of like how Spiderman slings his web.

There are too many things to list about DL2. I have a lot of fun playing it.

[ocean iris]

"Areas to explore only at night"

Uh oh...

[maiden ermine]

Bruh, if I see that message, I bolt immediately

[woven breach]

"Some are inside building that require stealth."
is it the insta fail stealth or "uh oh you found me" loads gun stealth?

[wraith cradle]

Is it true DL2 has almost no guns?

[clear python]

Also: scripted stealth and what I call 'random' stealth

[maiden ermine]

God, I can never do stealth games, and definitely not stealth horror games

[woven breach]

Same

Horror games in general

My mind just makes it worse

[maiden ermine]

I prefer other forms of horror media, and even then, I'm super picky of just what kind of horror I want to see

[sleek quiver]

I don’t like horror movies, and translates to horror games as well

I remembered playing Doom 3 last year, wasn’t really a hardcore horror game I guess but I still feel tense every step of the way, it was nerve wrecking

[dire condor]

I like both. I even consider to marathon stephen king movies.

[broken smelt]

I tend to enjoy psychological horror more than any other subgenre of horror
So things like fatal frame, silent hill (1 - 4) etc. I love watching and would love to play if I can get my hands on them

[lofty pecan]

I quit in the first half hour of bioshock because it was too scary

[woven breach]

I almost quit bioshock cause the autosave was a bit wonky

[polar dragon]

I'm about to dive into Gears Tactics

hmm the story makes little sense without knowing much about the franchise

they just throw random plot points and characters at you

the gameplay is solid so far though

[wooden storm]

I do remember BioShock's first few levels being a lot better crafted with horror elements in mind. That said..

[wooden storm]

You should have stayed till Fort Frolic

[leaden heart]

https://youtu.be/AJLOAyxAMRU

[ocean iris]

what's this?

[woven breach]

visual novel horror type thing

all I know is I kinda like the song

[dire condor]

elden ring is not very good game.

[ocean iris]

what's wrong?

[dire condor]

bad lock on system and also key binding (or lack thereof).

[ashen bluff]

Yeah, I'm waiting for stable mods to come out

Inb4 someone recreates skyrim 1:1 in elden ring

[polar dragon]

Not defending the bad lock on system but I think that has been an issue for most of the franchise.
Hell it might be considered a feature at this point.

[ocean iris]

i played the witcher 3 without lock on so is it really that bad?

[polar dragon]

That's impressive lol

Though W3 combat roll/dodge makes the lock on less of a necessity.

[ocean iris]

yup

also i played on like medium or whatever but i just used the shield spell and roll and dodge

it's really not that hard

[polar dragon]

From my Bloodborne experience, I kinda need lock on to parry, and switching target can be a pain.

[ocean iris]

oh right this reminds me

i played metal gear rising without lock on too

💀

i literally realised lock on exists in that game when i played the jetstream sam dlc

[rustic falcon]

im super excited for it!! although it will probably take a like a year from release to come to steam and get translated to english :( so sad

if anyone was interested by that trailer btw (or just likes horror visual novels) the first two games in the series, death mark and NG, are going for just 6 dollars rn on fanatical's anime bundle, theyre usually much more expensive and theyre really cool games
https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-anime-bundle-4

[vivid mesa]

Ditto. VIsual horror/torture porn is not my deal.
Oddly enough, I do enjoy ultraviolence, but only over-the-top and when done stylishly
see: No More Heroes, Metal Gear Rising

[wraith cradle]

I can recommend Four games of that bundle

Cosmic Star Heroine, Ara Fell, Synergia and Spirit Hunter: NG

The rest I haven't play them so no opinion

Thanks for the link btw

[woven breach]

You mean stylised ultraviolence

[vivid mesa]

[polar dragon]

Gears Tactics doesn't scratch the XCOM itch for me :(

I guess it's time to replay XCOM 2 again

[wraith cradle]

Have you played or heard of Troubleshooter, Othercide, Phoenix Point or Mutant Year Zero?

Maybe those scratch your XCOM need

[ocean iris]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/801043374702067752/949619837360046100/the_entire_mgr_r_soundtrack.mp4

[polar dragon]

im trying Phoenix Point and Mutant Year Zero next

my problem with with Gears Tactics is that it's not a rougelite, as in, the stages follows a story so it's predictable

[dire warren]

the new switch online feature makes me laugh so much i'm just imagining nintendo going 'please give us more money.... you can set your pfp to be this ugly rabbid-lookin dude... please'

[ocean iris]

oh?

[polar dragon]

Steam Deck has a unique profile for their users

[signal kayak]

I'm a bit concerned about Steam Deck's possible temperature issues

[polar dragon]

how so? the reviews suggest the temp is ok?

[signal kayak]

I mean, they've already advised against tearing up the console because of the battery

[lofty pecan]

wdym?

[fallen sky]

not video games but still games: TTRPG bundle for trans rights in texas https://itch.io/b/1308/ttrpgs-for-trans-rights-in-texas

[bleak coral]

Kingdom Hearts will get an anime adaptation

it’ll be on Disney+

i just feel like its inevitable

[wraith cradle]

To be a fly on the wall when they have to pitch the plot to the producers

[bleak coral]

just base it on kh1 for a while

which is the easiest to follow

[polar dragon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXK1CXUyzXQ

y'know

i really like this

they should make a desktop version

[woven breach]

usually I don't share game trailers with no gameplay, but the game is already out soooooooo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMcjF-S6_cg

the choreography is good

[ocean iris]

I won't say if it's good until an expert reviews it

😤

[lusty pendant]

my copy of Romance of the Three Angles triangle strategy came in the mail, maybe this would get me to stop playing hades 25/8

[ocean iris]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/853612435478151183/950528338559115275/unknown.png

Awwww hell nah

This reminds me of the fact that in my opinion internet and modding projects have to be preserved somehow

There's always people who can just go insane and take it down with them fully and there's been too many cases of that

[scenic wigeon]

hey did you all hear about Glover on Steam? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1257880/Glover/

Steam

Glover

Save the World...Single-handed!The Kingdom's peaceful world has been shattered! The wizard, while mixing potions with his magical gloves has caused a huge explosion, turning him instantly to stone and dislodging the seven crystals that give the Kingdom its energy. Without the crystals, the castle and its world will fall apart and the wizard will...

Release Date

Apr 20, 2022

▶ Play video

[lofty pecan]

am so far 3 chapters celeste, so far spent 3 hours, have 800 deaths 💀, and an injury to show for it

[polar dragon]

yeah lul

love celeste

i think i have a few thousand deaths in the whole game

[lofty pecan]

i think this may be my first and last platformer played

im only doing it for the story

[cedar silo]

https://itch.io/b/1316/bundle-for-ukraine

For anyone who wants to donate to a good cause and get some great games as well.

[lofty pecan]

Oh wow crosscode is in that

Superhot, jotunn, Celeste

[coral hawk]

I did it for skatebird and crosscode

[polar dragon]

Baba is You is on it

[woven breach]

So I tried Sifu

dang it's fun

[coral hawk]

https://twitter.com/monsterhunter/status/1501107082099138560

Monster Hunter (@monsterhunter)

Tune in to the Monster Hunter Digital Event - March 2022 for approximately 20 minutes of programming, including exciting reveals of new monsters, gameplay info, and more! #Sunbreak

📅 March 15
🕑 14:00 GMT / 7:00 PDT
📺 https://t.co/8IzgK7w1Wf https://t.co/imVwF1Qdae

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Twitter · Mar 8, 2022, 8:06 AM

Yooooooooo

Hopefully we get release date

[woven breach]

YOOOOOOOOO

[woven breach]

so

I got to stage 2's boss on Sifu

I couldn't read his moves at all

so I thought "you know what? let's do stage 1. Practice there."

alongside making a good run

....and I proceeded to no death stage 1

[signal kayak]

[wraith cradle]

Jesus this bundle has some pure quality on it

[lofty pecan]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1740720/Have_a_Nice_Death/ released on early access

Steam

Have a Nice Death

Discover and explore the darkly-charming, procedurally-generated departments of Death Inc., where you’ll meet a diverse cast of memorable characters—like your affable pumpkin-headed assistant, Pump Quinn—who are always willing to share the latest office gossipSharpen your skills (and scythe) through fast-paced hack n’ slash combat, utilizing ove...

Price

$14.99

▶ Play video

[fervent gyro]

Played 90 minutes of it and it's VERY good! Feels like a mix of Dead Cells (but easier) and Ori/Rayman Origins (flow of fighting, animations and graphic style).

Oh, and cool sense of humour 😄

[lusty pendant]

Triangle strategy has canonically heriditary pink hair and I'm not sure how to feel about that

[polar dragon]

[full kettle]

I mostly keep sale posts to channels that are explicitly designated for such things, but this demands immediate attention:

https://itch.io/b/1316/bundle-for-ukraine

[lofty pecan]

.

[full kettle]

Ah, I didn't scroll up enough. Cheers.

[normal marsh]

Is control worth it for $11

[clear python]

Yes

[sleek quiver]

At that price, yes

[woven breach]

https://twitter.com/capcomusa_/status/1501702346820100097

Capcom USA (@CapcomUSA_)

Introducing @Exoprimal, a new co-op action game with a competitive edge! Two teams of five players in powered armor battle hordes of dinosaurs, but only one team will survive. #Exoprimal

More Info: https://t.co/YcZU3zyXXz https://t.co/DZ22BYBKsU

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Twitter · Mar 9, 2022, 11:31 PM

sometimes, it sounds so dumb it might actually work

[sleek quiver]

You have to wonder, what kind of dino-pocalypse is going to happen in the 2040s?

[dire warren]

competitive pve co-op. now there's a sensible and smart idea

[woven breach]

it is pretty much Monster Hunter IN SPAAAAAAACEEEE

[dire warren]

competitive monster hunter in space

because everything's better when you're ranking yourself against someone else

[rustic falcon]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1614270/Submerged_Hidden_Depths/
yay this game is out! :D i loved submerged so much im excited to play it

Steam

Submerged: Hidden Depths

Boat, climb, solve and explore in the beautiful ruins of a sunken world.A drowned city, crumbling tips of skyscrapers stubbornly standing above the waves. Deserted villages, now inhabited by enigmatic creatures. And beneath the surging ocean waits an anguished, angry presence.Submerged: Hidden Depths is a non-combat third-person “relaxploration”...

Price

$29.99

▶ Play video

i have a lot of games on my plate now though so maybe i shouldnt buy it immediately but... i want to play it so bad D:

[hybrid jetty]

i was sold when they said the words "dinosaur forecast"

[stable kindle]

how did they make a new dino crisis that's not dino crisis with a character that literally looks like regina dino crisis

unbelievable

[ocean iris]

not complaining!

I still want a new Dino Crisis or Remke though

[junior crown]

So I just looked at the next upcoming free game on EGS and it's "In Sound Mind" which release about 5 months ago. That's interesting, another game that seems to be released so recent yet going for free not even a half year after.

[polar dragon]

jesus chirst how many DLCs does City Skyline have?

at this point I think they are selling DLCs instead of games

[rancid token]

Elden Ring good

[ocean iris]

Paradox moment.

These guys make more money from the DLC than the actual games

[wraith cradle]

Train Simulator: Hold my beer

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/835964305299079192/951616841061654528/Screenshot_20220311_000525.jpg

[wraith cradle]

Oh I remember the og game although never played it. I'll likely gonna pick it up on sale

[polar dragon]

my duo partner hasn't been online for a few days

im sad, what do?

[lofty pecan]

find a new one

block the old one

[polar dragon]

but i have fun playing with them

can't break up with them bc they aren't online for a few days

T.T

[lusty pendant]

I'm done with deemo 2 until they update the story.
Left feedback in their official discord that it'd be nice if we could fulfill dailies by playing event charts
Rayark's "solution"? Add a line to said dailies saying "Events don't count"

[severe wigeon]

fr? I really liked dead cells, but this game's trailer reminded me more of hollow knight over the other two you pointed out. Interesting aesthetic, will probably buy it day 1

[winter mica]

playing the demo for triangle story and the voice acting is baaaad

[woven breach]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOmbzUE6UAY

as bad?

[winter mica]

not quite that bad

also the amount of cut scenes + tutorial in the beginning of the game is so unpleasant

you get to the first battle after many cut scenes and it's just bloated with tutorial and bad repartee

[stable kindle]

not the dynasty warriors drag 😭

[maiden ermine]

Me: I want to play Mortal Kombat
My wallet: laughs evilly

[mystic wave]

ahh how i miss "cow cow"

[dire condor]

Has anyone here played Undertale

I was promised a masterclass in the art of great games

Seems like a more of a revelation in the science of overrated media

Then again I only have about 2hrs played

A quick Google search suggests that's about a third of the game

But it doesn't seem like much would change

[mystic wave]

i enjoyed undertale for the characters, personality and humor. it would probably be a lesser experience if i was led to believe that it's some masterpiece. but just stumbling into it without expectations turned out really nice

[sleek quiver]

Undertale isn’t really a polished perfection, rather it’s a JRPG-esque with interesting designs

Also, life stories

[dire condor]

It feels like it doesn't benefit from being a game

Such that I might get the same experience from watching a playthrough rather than playing the game

[quartz hatch]

i loved undertale honestly

it was such a genuine heartfelt game

but i tried to go into it not expecting much at all tbh

and i think that made the experience better

[winter mica]

it's been quite awhile since I've played it but i really enjoyed it when i did

[wraith cradle]

The game is already 6 years and a half old

How time flies

[hybrid jetty]

this is probably the single weirdest thing someone could say about undertale lol

[coral hawk]

https://twitter.com/monsterhunter/status/1502343606241267712?t=vvo_ggCxkj3BESH6c4i8eg&s=19

Monster Hunter (@monsterhunter)

Play #MHRise for free with the #NintendoSwitch Online Game Trial from now until March 17!

Wield the Black Belt and Defender gear and dive into epic monster hunts solo or with friends!

The best bit? Your save data carries over! 💾 https://t.co/5WZzAGiCoy

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Twitter · Mar 11, 2022, 6:00 PM

Rise on switch Is free for a week if you have nso

[dire warren]

yeah i found that out the hard way lmao

[wraith cradle]

One week for my Username to finally come true

I'm quite excited

[junior crown]

Chaos, I am here to kill it.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/929618465327824906/951957269568954448/chaos.png

[wraith cradle]

The game is so close I can almost taste it

[quartz hatch]

i completely forgot about that game omg

[junior crown]

there is demo of it out to play, although apparently it costs a bit to play? But yeah out to wait full game's release. It will be a ride.

[quartz hatch]

oH yeah i remember that demo

apparently they released it but it didn't work for like...several days jslkdfj

[normal marsh]

Should I continue playing:

-Ghost of tsushima
-Persona 5 royal
-final fantasy xv

[winged dew]

The Android port of Dicey Dungeons is finally showing signs of life: https://www.droidgamers.com/2022/02/11/terry-cavanaghs-dicey-dungeons-in-open-beta-on-android/

[winged dew]

At the risk of showing my bias, it seems like you might have had a...less than optimistic outlook on the game before you started playing it.

As someone who thinks Undertale is a very good game and a very, very important one in the history of indie development, it does seem like a game that's impossible to get the full effect of now that the internet has hyped it up so much

imo Undertale's appeal can be better understood by describing the game as a walking simulator with RPG elements more than as a typical RPG. At the risk of spoiling, it's a genre deconstruction with good writing and a lot to say hidden behind a cutesy cartoon RPG.

[winged dew]

Also, the bulk of what people are gushing about when they hype Undertale on the internet is in the last act of the game, but luckily the structure of Undertale does make its short length make more sense once you get to the end of the game.

[dire condor]

Very insightful

I suppose if I had no knowledge of it's grand position imposed by fanatics the outcome of my experience might have differed

I'll finish the game and hope for the best at least for its scholastic benefits (ludologically speaking) if nothing else

[woven breach]

P5R, yes. Ghost is a great turn off your brain game. FFXV is another turn off your brain game but I don't really recommend.

[normal marsh]

I was playing ff xv for the story but it's hard to play consistently since so many plot points are in the movie, TV show, and dlcs

[polar dragon]

yeah of all games that one should really have a mobile port

[woven breach]

honestly I couldn't make sense of the movie's plot

at all

yes, I watched it in theatre

almost fell asleep

[normal marsh]

You watched in theaters 😭😭that must've been rough to sit through

[woven breach]

rough is an understatement

[normal marsh]

Think I might switch to ff vii remake for now then

[wraith cradle]

FFXV I enjoyed it more as a bromance game than as a FF plot

[acoustic jacinth]

this is actually true to some extent, i think. but what made me a fan of undertale was its story and the characters, which i grew to be invested in: as such, the story twists had more impact for me because i was the one experiencing them firsthand

playing it without any expectations or prior knowledge of it does get you the best experience…it’s something i didn’t get to do since i played it back in 2015 when the hype was high

[winter mica]

i don't think you need no experience/prior knowledge in order to enjoy it. i went in when it first came out, when tumblr was exploding with it, when you couldn't look at any corner of the internet without seeing it. i actually only ended up playing because one of my friends would just not leave me alone about it and she was sang its praises to the stars, and i'm like fiiiiine i'll play this super good game whatever.

and then i did really enjoy it. i think it's delightful. it has its problems, yeah, in that it kind of has an idea of how you should play and if you don't play it that way that game is like hey, that's the wrong way to play. if you're not used to bullet hell it's a pretty steep learning curve.

but i think saying "it'd only be good if other people hadn't said was good" is a disservice to the game

[acoustic jacinth]

that’s how i got to playing it too! loved it, even though it was new gameplay experience

it’s why deltarune got me so excited

[mystic wave]

https://twitter.com/YakuzaMiko/status/1502507946260905984/photo/1

Yakuza Miko (@YakuzaMiko)

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Twitter · Mar 12, 2022, 4:53 AM

tis but a scratch

[lusty pendant]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/779411666063982612/952067050430406706/20220311_235351.jpg

[rancid token]

Just hit the Platinum in Elden Ring

[lusty pendant]

ol faithful archer trap never fails me

[rancid token]

I can have my life back now

[lusty pendant]

owo

[mystic wave]

what are the grindiest parts of this?

[rancid token]

Honestly no real grind to it

It's all stuff you'd be doing normally

Unlike DS2

Which asks you to beat the game without dying or resting at a bonfire

Some of the optional bosses are real tough though

[mystic wave]

ahh nice

[dire condor]

It's not that it would only be good without any prior knowledge of the "hype". The issue is that a possibly decent game has been enveloped by a facade of grandeur and brilliance that few games could live up to. So going in expectations untempered and eager to experience a masterpiece, you could say I was disappointed by the apparent lack thereof. An experience as such would certainly hamper my enjoyment of the game

You can't really attribute fault to the game for that but nothing exists in a vacuum especially when pertaining to the humanities. Everything has to be considered such is the natural consequence for existing

It's is as it is

[dire warren]

hype as a thing is nothing but terrible tbh, all it does is cause disappointment. it's why everything huge, movie or game or whatever, always seems to fall short, because often the expectations are legitimately impossible to reach. even if something by itself is good, people will feel it's bad because they expected better, even if they can't even picture how it could be better while still being. itself.

the worst part is that neither the game or the person is at fault, so they both lose while the ones who created the hype aren't even affected. it sucks.

[signal kayak]

Unless the game actually meets the expectations, I guess

[stable kindle]

depends on the game and the level of hype. for instance, i dont think half-life 3 could ever live up to the expectations people have put onto it over the years. it is something of a near mythical status, and while i personally dont believe it'll ever release to begin with, if it did there would inevitably be people disappointed it didnt give them the experience they imagined it would. theres others like kh3 i guess? that are more of a middling ground, a lot of people were satisfied with the product they got, and a lot of people felt it didnt meet the high expectations they had for it

[lethal kiln]

Ok who in here remembers the game Skylanders?? Specifically the Skylanders Giants? Anyone in here? It was literally my childhood oh my god.

[untold hornet]

i didnt have giants iirc i had trap team but i did play giants

at my friends house a while back

[waxen stag]

Sky landers: Giants is one of the best games I have ever played. The entire series was core to my childhood.

[lethal kiln]

I only had the series up to Swap Force. I didn’t find swap force that enjoyable and stopped playing after that. I loved Giants though. I’d rock pretty much oh man everyone on that game, we had them all basically

[lethal kiln]

Agreed! It was the same thing for me too.

My brother would always be crusher kicking ass, and I’d be just a support unit like Trigger Happy or something.

I loved Chop Chop/Erupter. Those are my favorite characters.

[waxen stag]

I mained Eyebrawl and Chop-Chop.

[lethal kiln]

Was Eyebrawl the undead giant? I liked him.

I also liked Shroom Boom. He was fun to play with.

[waxen stag]

Eyebrawl was the Undead giant. I’ve mained Undead and Tech for most of the series.

[lethal kiln]

I bounced around all the elements tbh.

I played with whoever.

We had all the Giants except the magic one.

God who else was good in the giants one. Oh Prism Break was cool if you uograded his abilities, so was Gill Grunt, Hot Dog, etc.

The only bad Skylander I can think of is Double Trouble.

Sonic boom wasn’t great, I think

[waxen stag]

I liked Double Trouble. He wasn’t great in close quarters, but he still had good attacks. I don’t even remember Sonic Boom. Jet-Vac and all of the dragons (except for Spyro) were also pretty great.

[lethal kiln]

The Wind was the worst element in Skylanders Giants. The best was probably oh man Tech/Life/Fire.

Jet Vac was the only good one in the Wind element

Terrafin was goated

[waxen stag]

Personally Tech, Magic, Undead, and Fire were my favorite elements.

[lethal kiln]

I agree with everyone but magic, like it was ok not great.

As far as the Giants specific game goes you had Pop Fizz and Spiral as the best ones in that element

Wrecking Ball was fine

[waxen stag]

Voodoos, though

[lethal kiln]

Who’s that?

What game was he in?

Omg I just looked it up and I do remember him

He was good, although I didn’t use him that much.

Camo was godly

So was Igniter

[waxen stag]

The first game, Spyro’s Adventure.

[lethal kiln]

I lowkey didn’t mind Bash

[lethal kiln]

Yeah I just had to look it up, but we had him.

Remember Ghost Roaster.

He wasn’t good

I think

[waxen stag]

He was… fine. Not as good as Hex.

[lethal kiln]

I also didn’t like Sunburn too much.

No not all.

Hex was good.

Remember the specific elemental gates??

Or dungeons even.

Whatever you call em.

The portal sound was iconic.

Or Eion saying “use the tech element in this zone.”

[waxen stag]

Yes. Yes. And yes. Also Giants had great multiplayer.

[lethal kiln]

Ya know I didn’t play that much multiplayer

I just did the story mode, lol.

I didn’t even you could until now.

[waxen stag]

Giants has, if I remember correctly, local multiplayer only. I don’t think the next two games had multiplayer and Superchargers was online only.

[lethal kiln]

Ohh ok. I do remember doing the battle mode in Skylanders Giants tho

Never had Superchargers.

[waxen stag]

Superchargers was, in my opinion, bad. It was fun, but also incredibly shallow and it didn’t feel to me like anything more than a rehash of past games.

[lethal kiln]

Ohh ok.

I just loved Giants the most.

[polar dragon]

hmm that game isn't on steam

[lethal kiln]

Let’s see I also liked Tree Rex a lot.

[waxen stag]

No. All the releases were physical because characters were collectible figures.

[polar dragon]

oh

interesting

[lethal kiln]

It was a fun game tho

[polar dragon]

can't say i have heard of it

but it sounds cool

[waxen stag]

If you’ve heard of toys-to-life games, the Skylanders series was the first.

[lethal kiln]

Idk what it is but Skylanders reminds because of the fact just like in Hades boons give the character different abilities and in Skylanders was basically you get abilities for your character you choose, and also these 2 games are similar cuz certain elements work together with certain ones, and boons work with different boons, etc. It’s just similar but also different and Hades reminds me of Skylanders.

I feel like the best elemental pairing in Skylanders is definitely Fire and Earth.

[waxen stag]

My dad called Skylanders “Diablo for kids”.

[lethal kiln]

Hahaha!

That’s true tho

I also think the first Skylanders was the hardest one. Cuz you had to create that like thing in the middle with all of the elements

And some keys were hard to find (tech)

It also took a long time to build it.

[waxen stag]

The first game’s final boss was so difficult.

[lethal kiln]

It was.

Giants was a lot easier.

That story mode wasn’t too difficult

[dire warren]

my god skylanders, that brings back some memories

i still have my collection, and i still have several figures i still want to get, lmao

my favourite part will forever be learning how to cheese trap team's golden queen fight