video-games

[stable kindle]

well not just that but like. why bother with that kind of game when you can make more profit with less effort with a freemium game that has microtransactions

and then a lot of paid games nowadays have ingame paid content too bc getting your money the first time wasnt enough 🥴

[winged dew]

I don't know if I necessarily agree with this. You just have to dig deeper to find the good mobile stuff. And most of the good mobile stuff is just good ports of good PC indie games

Slay the Spire, Minecraft, Forager, especially Baba is You

And once Dicey Dungeons fully releases that's a banger port as well from the Beta I've played

[rancid token]

I kinda feel like ports to mobile kinda go against the thought though

Like, generally they were good beforehand, and just weren't substantially marred by the move

[winged dew]

Definitely a good point. I'm coming up with blanks for legitimately good mobile first games that are pay once

[rancid token]

Not to say that good, non-port, single-purchase mobile games don't exist

Mini Metro, The Room series, I think Fantasian?

Yeah Fantasian has no microtransactions and I've heard great things about it, especially the aesthetic

Shame it's locked onto specifically the Apple system

[winged dew]

Bean Dreams was a swell game while it existed, and GrindStone was solid on the Apple Arcade side

Yeah, I guess you're not really getting massive budgets for mobile games, and the indie devs that want to make complex games are likely not going to lock themselves to mobile

That Humble Bundle publishing initiative seems to push its devs to make mobile versions of their games when possible. That's probably the closest we'll get to high quality indie games hitting mobile

[acoustic jacinth]

man, i remember the days of angry birds

[winter mica]

that really tok the world by storm for a while

[stable kindle]

you shouldnt have to, is the point. you didnt have t, in the earlier days of mobile gaming, before this freemium nonsense truly took over.

also the fact that most of what you named is a port of a pc game doesnt actually favour your argument bc like. those things already had an audience before going to mobile

if the "good mobile stuff" is simply ports of pc properties with already established fanbases then what is left in the mobile market besides that?

i wish, i so desperately wish the mobile game landscape was more than the freemium hellscape its become but its so incredibly hard to care enough about it to even dig through it and find worthwhile gems because everyone wants to burn you

one of my fav mobile games from early on was contre jour, for what its worth

[broken smelt]

Mini metro released on pc first btw

So it is also a port

[sleek quiver]

There are actually a lot of good mobile-first games

Monument Valley, Plague Inc, the various Rayark games, Vainglory

Florence was also mobile-first

[queen carbon]

Arcaea and Phigros

I would also add Lanota, but they began the practice of limited songs (as in, if you don't unlock them, they're gone for good)

And that made me drop them

[winged dew]

Yeah, I guess the Catch-22 is that most any game that's genuinely good enough to stand on its own isn't going to limit its success by tying down to mobile

Touch Screen gaming doesn't seem to be nearly as much of a focus as it was in the 2010s, so any game trying to make it in the mobile market is most likely fighting against the more unique features of smartphones rather than benefitting from them like in the Fruit Ninja Cut The Rope Angry Birds days

[mystic wave]

https://twitter.com/blockwonkel/status/1521547695978168320

Blick Winkel⁉️(H. Anthony Israel) (@blockwonkel)

Who called them Gacha Games and not Roll Paying Games?

Twitter · May 3, 2022, 5:50 PM

[woven breach]

I don't wanna be the guy that is very fun on parties so I won't explain

[coral hawk]

Blah blah japan term for coin toy machine

Spin wheel get dopamine

[signal kayak]

Imagine looking up mobile games and expecting those games to not be gachas or "free" games

[clear python]

a lot of artists i follow making genshin art made me start playing it 😬

[woven breach]

I play genshin for the music and exploration, cause damn the environments are great and the OSTs are too good.

[mystic wave]

ah, roll paying game connoisseur

[woven breach]

[quartz hatch]

all my friends are trying to get me to play genshin but I don't want to be pulled into a situation where I'm gonna be spending money just for characters to play as

or risk being pulled into it

[woven breach]

that's fair

my friend had to pay for me to play the game

[quartz hatch]

GOOD STRAT

"I'll play but you guys are paying"

[mystic wave]

i had my fill of these asian free games before

its fun until youre far in and the progression almost grinds to a halt unless you pay

and you don't wanna stop playing of course. so justify to yourself just a little spending wouldnt hurt

anyone who invites their friends to play this should think of what they're enabling

[clear python]

I haven‘t put any money into genshin, mainly because I feel it‘s just expensive for what you‘ll get? Like, Welking is 5€ but you‘ll have to log in every day for a month and you get not even 20 wishes; while buying 10 wishes directly costs 30€?

[coral hawk]

Man Monster Hunter GU is such a fun game if you can get a good lobby up

some of the hunts in the game are just so great

[dire warren]

it really is. like man i love the game and wish i could bring myself to play it again because sometimes it is just perfect

[coral hawk]

I got Redhelm ex done in a random lobby

and it was the most hype hunt I've had in monster hunter in a LONG time

[quartz hatch]

yeah that too. these games push you to pay and then the odds to get smth good are really low

and like ....a single roll costing like 3 euros? it's nutty

[clear python]

Yeah - getting a 4* character or constellation for 30€ (??????) seems really strange

Good thing I only need Yanfei C4 and the only char I‘m waiting for is Eula rerun so not much incentive to spend

[dire warren]

to be honest i haven't done an ex with randoms that didn't involve me panicking constantly, but some of my high-level hellblade hunts have been incredible. my one successful g4 was insane

[coral hawk]

Redhelm got a nasty windup that got two faints at the start lmao so it was stressful but that's the fun

[dire warren]

to be fair redhelm can just oneshot when it wants

but yeah that's what made the g4 so good, too. that's a one-faint fail so you need a full comptent team to stand a chance, but when you get that chance it's great fun

[stable kindle]

a lot of games in the earlier days of mobile gaming genuinely were not like that, we already explained this lmao

[ocean iris]

i realised why i was so bad at MGR parrying

i actually had to use the light attack button then quickly point the stick to the direction of the attack

i did the opposite

[woven breach]

Wait so... how did you miss the info?

Not as bad as me I guess, I didn't know you could dodge in MGR

[ocean iris]

wait...Dodging?

Is that even a thing besides doing an attack that automatically targets an enemy

[woven breach]

It's the defensive offensive skill

I didn't know/use it

Throughout the whole game and DLC

[ocean iris]

ahhhh

[rancid token]

To be fair, you have to buy the ability to dodge

[maiden ermine]

Y'all remember Temple Run? My sister and I were addicted to that. My sister more so lol

Some other good mobile games that had wide access even without paying are Plague Inc (tho it can be slow) and most of Rayark's earlier games like Cytus. In fact, it was Cytus that really got me into rhythm games.

[clear python]

we gathered around the only guy who had an iphone during school breaks, watching him play doodle jump

[ocean iris]

this and aerial parry make the first legit chapter a pain sometimes

[untold hornet]

YES OMG TEMPLE RUN

i have so many fond memories of that game

[rancid token]

The tutorial section on Revengeance is such a headache

[maiden ermine]

Temple Run supremacy

dear god how could I forget angry birds

[ocean iris]

minion rush enjoyer

[woven breach]

Minion rush is good... game

[jade moat]

"fond" well thats debatable but yeah so much nostalgia

[untold hornet]

fond for me 🙃

[maiden ermine]

Pros of nostalgia: happy memories
Cons of nostalgia: oh no I'm old

[ocean iris]

metal gear rising fans when they see a dog in real life

[rancid token]

https://tenor.com/view/jetstream-sam-jetstream-sam-metal-gear-solid-metal-gear-gif-25383782

[vale root]

who else played animal jam though

top teir game

[ocean iris]

nah only the old republic and club penguin

[fallen sky]

Started playing Dorfromantik last night

It's effectively a zen 4X match the tile game

Very simple but a great game to play when your mind is overly busy

[untold hornet]

YES

i loved animal jam

i would do warriors rps on there..

[wraith cradle]

Ok, Citizen Sleeper is legit good, it makes me relaxed and anxious at the same time lmao

[dense stratus]

mind if i slice in

[dense stratus]

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-breaking-bad-phone-no-gif-18261966

[woven breach]

I still hate konami for regionlocking the game

[dense stratus]

konami ruined metal gear

idek know how mgr came back into popularity besides the memes

but im glad

[rancid token]

The answer is that it was, like a lot of Kojima related media, surprisingly prescient

And also lacking entirely in subtlety in a way that's refreshing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVzSHVS-CT0

[sleek quiver]

Was interested at the game after I saw the trailer. How was the gameplay? Is there any combat?

[true portal]

Malenia in Hades artstyle
https://twitter.com/crit_lore/status/1522314849044377601?t=ffHoNdc--A8xLv4f1j_5qA&s=19

Lore Evans - Commissions OPEN (@crit_lore)

Sometimes you just have to mash one game style into another and make them kiss.

#ELDEN_RING #HadesGame

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Twitter · May 5, 2022, 8:38 PM

[mystic wave]

[ocean iris]

Helltaker in Hades style when

[true portal]

Hades in Helltaker style
https://twitter.com/vanripperart/status/1417088561988481027?t=yFwlkmTXoS0KXZD5AtKliQ&s=19

Łukasz Piskorz (@vanripperart)

Hades is a great game and Artemis is cute.

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Twitter · Jul 19, 2021, 11:46 AM

[woven breach]

yes... YES

Artemis supremacy

[ocean iris]

omg

I love vanripper's artstyle

(As you can tell from my pfp)

Yes it's literally Beel as Venom Snake, fan coloured from a sketch he made on a stream

[true portal]

Imagine Hades Characters wiggle in music

[ocean iris]

omg yes the chibi sprites dancing to the helltaker soundtrack

[true portal]

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1qa411v7Sk?share_source=copy_web

Chinese fan-made Eldentaker
(interactive video)

https://libredd.it/r/Eldenring/comments/u972v0/elden_ring_x_helltaker_credit_to_sly96_at_bilibili/?sort=top

[ocean iris]

idk the names to the elden ring chars but love to see it

[wraith cradle]

Nope, as much As Disco Elysium. You just roll dice and use the dice to do actions and pray for luck

[junior crown]

oh that's great! Been eyeing it for a while since the reveal, good to hear it turned out nice.

[wraith cradle]

You basically start with a set number of already rolled dice, a Hunger bar and a Stabiliser bad (If that goes to 0 you die), you use the dice to do actions, with those actions more things may be unlocked witha circular bar representing something that can be opened if you roll the dice there x time.

Time goes in cycles every time you sleep, and the circles with a 🔄 sign, fill instead by passing cycles instead instead of your actions.

if the bar of the circle (Cyclic or not) is yellow something neutral or positive will happen, if red, somthing negative, giving you a sense of urgency to try to do something related to that countdown before you run out of cycles

[sleek quiver]

How was the writing? Good?

[wraith cradle]

Still to soon to tell, as I only did 10 cycles so far but it's nice, kinda reminds to DE but less "Teathrical" so to speak, kinda like a mix between Disco Elysium and the Shadowrun Games.

[mystic wave]

Disco Elysium's prose is something else. Citizen Sleeper's dialogues are more conventional, and fits the setting of cyberpunk. The narrative does cyberpunk and it's philosophical themes well and engaging

[ocean iris]

https://i.imgur.com/32WiD77.png

Nice.

[rancid token]

Prey is on my short list

Right now I'm cracking in on Zone of the Enders 2 and Dragon's Dogma

[ocean iris]

im scared of playing Prey

[wraith cradle]

I hated those damn mimics

[meager zodiac]

My favorite youtuber lol

[rustic falcon]

prey is an amazing game, also not as scary once you get into it - i remember being scared of playing it because of the mimic jumpscares and such but its not that bad, and it being such a good and immersive game really helps

even if you get it for free you should try it out :]

[wraith cradle]

https://twitter.com/EveOnline/status/1522561334310842369?t=76GWn26L3eSKyuAJsuzPTg&s=19

April Fools joke in May

[polar dragon]

expected a do you guys not have phone moment
was pleasantly surprised

[lofty pecan]

I mean…. Eve online’s economy is pretty spreadsheet intensive

[bleak coral]

Just started playing God of War 2018

yeah, this game is unbelievably goated

[dire warren]

dark souls is a fun and fair game, why does this boss get a free pass to completely ignore my shield and oneshot me with a normal attack if he feels like it

[polar dragon]

Git gud lmao

[rancid token]

Which boss?

Some heavy strikes bust through blocks, you can do it too if your hammer is wide enough

[wraith cradle]

Game I liked but I had forgotten gets a sequel out of nowhere

Welp

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1345890/Deliver_Us_Mars/

[rustic falcon]

ohh, I’ve been wanting to play the first game

[ocean iris]

Im watching a video about Firefall and omg

I wish real time combat MMOs were more common

I only know of Destiny 2, Foxhole and that's really about all

I guess Escape from Tarkov counts

[ocean iris]

who the hell thought wiggling a stick in MGR was a good idea to break free

[woven breach]

where else would you bind it?

[dire warren]

artorias, specifically that one jump slash that has an 80% chance to be blocked fine and a 20% chance to instantly destroy all stamina and health

but i have since beaten him

[rustic falcon]

sorted out my backlog, and the situation is bad

90 games...

[clear python]

I‘d go for Bioshock, Deponia, Dreamfall Chapters and Kona first

[sleek quiver]

Don’t sleep on Sunless Sea 🌊

[rustic falcon]

ty for the recommendations :] i actually started playing the longest journey, with the goal of playing dreamfall chapters at the end. im excited for it

there is also the absurd amount of games i am "currently playing" (started and didnt finish lol) that arent here

[clear python]

I only played Chapters, still need The Longest Journey... love the adventure vibe, it's really like a classic adventure game - and it feels like a journey too. Bioshock for obvious reasons, dunno if it needs any introduction - Kona is a really stylized detective thingy and the Deponia series is imho the peak of point'n'click adventures - Daedalic does incredible things with them

[clear python]

yeah... I mostly haven't touched my 'currently playing' games since october, though I actually got back into Outer Wilds now. And Ghostrunner isn't doing itself any favors with its terrible checkpoint system 😭

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/333162407826554882/972468663334629416/unknown.png

[rustic falcon]

i see......

[clear python]

HAHAHA

[rustic falcon]

maybe currently playing and unfinished is a better distinction. there are games there i havent touched since 2016

at that point, its a brand new game

[broken smelt]

Have you played 999 and Virtue's Last Reward Alma?

If no, Zero Time Dilemma won't make any sense

[signal kayak]

Not only that, 999 and VLR are both better than ZTD quality wise

At least imo

[broken smelt]

That too, it's a common opinion I hear

[signal kayak]

Good, I didn't have to apologize to the funyarinpa 😅

[mystic wave]

yeah, ZTD goes a bit downhill compared to the previous ones. that said, i really enjoyed some of the moments in it

[rustic falcon]

Yeah, I started 999!

so the nonary games isn’t on there

[mystic wave]

not stalled i hope!

[rustic falcon]

im playing it with a friend, so it depends on his schedule i do really want to play more, ive been wanting to play it for years now

[mystic wave]

[polar dragon]

Idk why but I just like looking at game list and be like
Yeah... That's a good list. Not gonna play most of them, but that's a good list

Gradually I learned I like organizing games than playing them

There should be a game like that

Where the gameplay is you organizing and categorizing stuff

[rustic falcon]

the site is backloggd

you can do that there haha

[mystic wave]

backpack hero

[ocean iris]

a button lmao

also I went to an arcade today

I played some Sega WRC and some Outrun 2

cause here it's either Alien 3 The gun or tons of racing games

the WRC game was awesome tho

shifting gears, handbraking etc. was awesome

i love arcades. we have barely any here but it's always a good time when I find one

[wraith cradle]

Granted, the plot falls apart if you think 5 minutes about it

Like, I admit I like the game but the plot of Deliver Us The Moon makes absolutely no sense

Otoh it made me discover "The Rule of Two" in astronomy so I'm grateful of them for that

[wraith cradle]

My trick is selecting 6 games of my backlog: 1-2 long and the rest short and playing them back to back

Right Now my 6 games are:

-Tales of Arise
-Citizen Sleeper
-Tales Of The Black Forest
-Rise Of The Third Power
-ANNO Mutationem
-Voice Of Cards 2

I do exceptions if a game I really wanted to play comes out, tho

cough Elden Ring cough

[rustic falcon]

elden ring... i made a promise to myself to actually finish and not put aside that one, because i know if i will, its never getting picked back up ever again

and its my first souls game too

[signal kayak]

My first souls was Bloodborne...and that didn't last long

Eldritch things and blood everywhere? Too much for the first time

[rustic falcon]

i was promised elden ring doesnt have to be a hard game, so i caved and got it

im having fun with it, mostly because i dont get angry when i die. cant imagine how awful it would be if i did

[signal kayak]

Harder to get stuck in one boss, I think

Still tough but "fair"

[rustic falcon]

getting stuck on the first boss in the game

i did it eventually lol

[signal kayak]

About a month ago I got Nioh for 10€, thinking it was a bit faster paced, it wouldn't be too tough...silly me, the first mission is proving to be a problem because of the ki mechanics

[wraith cradle]

I think getting stuck on Margit is intentional to make you explore the rest of Limgrave

[dire warren]

i may or may not have bought smt3 because it was on sale. can someone sum up dante from devil may cry because i don't actually know anything at all about him, but he's in the game

[mystic wave]

dante runs a...private eye business. people go to him to solve demon related problems. dante goes out and shoots and slices everything. in style.

[rustic falcon]

margit was not that hard for me, i got stuck on tree sentinel after beating margit 😔

[signal kayak]

The one in SMT3 comes from DmC2, AKA the one that nobody wants to know about because that game... wasn't great

[mystic wave]

my description of him can apply to all versions of dante i hope!

also, love SMT3

[signal kayak]

Applies to all of them, even the one from the reboot

[mystic wave]

so did you get him yet?

[rustic falcon]

mhm

im gonna try to beat crucible knight next

[mystic wave]

mr crucible got me real good

[dire warren]

i see. also i have a feeling, just a hunch, that maybe he will attempt to shoot and slice me. with style

can't wait

[mystic wave]

yup, typical detective work!

[stable kindle]

super late but i feel like thats the general opinion of people who played them. 999 was fantastic, it had the appropriate sense of urgency and danger in its narrative, the puzzles could make you pause but you felt really good solving them, and for the most part the narrative across all endings wasnt too confusing. vlr.... well i bought it bc it was a sequel to 999 and i really enjoyed 999 and... i didnt enjoy vlr as much. the puzzles felt more like they were there just to be there and i didnt feel as accomplished if i figured them out, iirc i had to look up more of them bc they just werent clear to me, the narrative felt slower, less urgent. there was still a sense of danger but on a safer level. the overall story honestly lost me the more i learned.

and ztd, well. the less said about it, the better. i never even finished a single ending to it lmao i got bored and sidetracked to a different game and never came back to it

this is entirely my personal feeling but 999 hooked you in right from the very start of the game and immediately set the stakes high and the sequels never quite recaptured that feeling that drew me in in the first place

[wraith cradle]

Agreed mostly with Tatz although I ended finishing the three games. I liked the new protagonists in ZTD but the plot. Eeeeeeh

AI The Somnium Files. Tho. That's some quality right there

Excited for the sequel

[mystic wave]

i remember VLR fondly because i was quite mind blown by the sci fi twists

and Luna endings. ohhh Luna endings

Somnium Files is really fun but for me the mindblown factor i got from Zero Escape was missing from it

[leaden heart]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH8dYVPVxfM

[clear python]

Super sad that Afterparty flew under the radar (though it felt like it was kinda incomplete), super excited to get back into this

[clear python]

Finished Outer Wilds, just wow. Impressive how all those loose dots point to what you need to do, and if you try it, it just works, some super impressive polish. And the true otherworldly feel of dread and accomplishment when finally landing on ||the quantum moon|| or getting to see ||the eye of the universe||. All while being easy enough for even a big dum dum like me to not need any help. Definitely gonna give the DLC a try

[meager zodiac]

I played for a bit, but my (lame laptop) computer couldn't handle it I guess, just kept freezing and I had to give up

[rustic falcon]

i played it 3 times to get all the achievements, it was a nice game. didnt get me as much as oxenfree did but i enjoyed it and i loved all the different drinks, very creative

[dire condor]

Anyone here a big elden ring fan? How the hell do I get better at it lol.. First souls game so I’m kinda struggling with the combat

[wraith cradle]

Tbqh, I liked it much less than Oxenfree,

[dire condor]

Bought it on ps5 and haven’t really touched it since launch, got annoyed

[wraith cradle]

Oxenfree had a plot and mystery much more engaging

While Afterparty felt like it was kinda meandery so to speak

[rustic falcon]

It’s also my first soulslike (I play on pc though) and what I learned is not to fight every boss as I encounter it, to explore and get stronger first. Also, you don’t always have to fight - you can summon your horse and run through large groups of enemies and such. Also, use summons against bosses

[wraith cradle]

Finished Citizen Sleeper (Well, one ending) one of my favourite games of the year, do recommend, took me one route 6 hours and a half

[rancid token]

I think the biggest trick to Elden Ring and other Soulslikes is rewiring your brain to recognize that death is not a failure state

Souls/echoes/runes are ephemeral and there will always be more, and every time you die you are learning something new

[dire warren]

smt3 is hella fun but my main two moods alternate wildly between '5 has taught me well' and '5 has spoilt me'. the main gameplay and all is great but when i delve into anything to do with learning skills and managing stats then it all just becomes a confusing mess. but i want to understand it and make plans of action before i screw myself over, lmao

[mystic wave]

oh yeah iirc skill inheritance and stuff works in mysterious ways in smt3 lol. i just looked up gamefaqs for them

[dire warren]

yeah it's. weird lmao, if you want to get skills on something you have to try your best to get as many desired skills on as many parents as possible, then savescum and hope your result isn't biased towards the parents' innate moves. i think

[mystic wave]

some good tips up there. i'm gonna add that smithing up your weapons is huge. a +4 weapon may do twice as much as one not upgraded.
put lots of stats into vigor. you'll learn enemy behavior better when they don't 1-shot you! endurance good, equip better armor.
pumping those stats rather than damage stats makes learning the game easier imo

[wraith cradle]

Wait. So Coffee Talk is getting a Sequel?

That's.... Surprising

Specially given the creator sadly passed away

[winter mica]

how's okami on the switch?

[fiery onyx]

it works fine

its not as HD but it works well on the switch

havent experienced any lags or delays while playing the game itself

[fallen sky]

I didn't know this

[wraith cradle]

Yeah, Mohammed Fahmi, incredibly talented writer and dev, sadly he passed away at the end of March.

[fallen sky]

Damn, that's awful. I'll have to read up on him

[wraith cradle]

He was making also Afterlove EP, which they announced had to delay it for his passing but they still want to finish it, so a friend of his took over.

He also made What Comes After which is a nicely well written game.

[fallen sky]

I see. Thank you for the heads up on the games

[lusty pendant]

https://twitter.com/Lucky_BunTTV/status/1523951823203311617?t=xsrxaqVlZRMVZx4oMKzjDw&s=19

♥️ Lucky Bun (@Lucky_BunTTV)

The Lands Between
#ELDENRING

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Twitter · May 10, 2022, 9:03 AM

[bleak coral]

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1524055283927949312

Nibel (@Nibellion)

EA and FIFA officially end their partnership

FIFA will now be called EA SPORTS FC

"Next year, EA SPORTS FC will become the future of football from EA SPORTS."

https://t.co/8a4WT14CA1

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Twitter · May 10, 2022, 3:54 PM

Goodbye FIFA

[lusty pendant]

lol I thought this was a joke

That the actual fifa is going to call itself EA sports

[mystic wave]

is this a roguelite https://store.steampowered.com/app/1608290/GNOSIA/

Steam

GNOSIA

The Gnosia lie. Pretending to be human, they’ll get in close, trick and deceive, and then eliminate one victim at a time...

Price

$24.99

Recommendations

888

▶ Play video

[dire warren]

it's a visual novel amogus

[mystic wave]

here's another one. i've played this one. really cool writing https://store.steampowered.com/app/648100/Raging_Loop/

Steam

Raging Loop

Immerse yourself in a thrilling psychological horror story taking place in the secluded Japanese village of Yasumizu. A heavy mist surrounds the place, preventing everyone from ever leaving. Ancient gods have come back to hunt the villagers down one by one. The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?A tribute to Japanese folklore Haru...

Price

$29.99

Recommendations

2592

▶ Play video

it's very fun because the protagonist is very savvy. (compared to like ace attorney or danganronpa when you feel like you know the answer already but the protag is slow)

[rustic falcon]

i just wishlisted this one recently! it looks interesting

[wraith cradle]

I have wishlisted this VN because it looks good but expensive

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1025960/BURIED_STARS/

Steam

BURIED STARS

A murder spree inside the collapsed site of an audition show!Reveal the hidden truth through Communication x Survival x Adventure『BURIED STARS』 is a new mystery adventure game presented by Studio LARGO, the developers of the masterpiece adventure series 「Panic Room」 and 「City of Mist」 in Korea, along with LINE Games Corporation.◆ A murder spree ...

Price

$39.99

Recommendations

734

▶ Play video

I also went around a bought one that is usually expensive but now is a bargain

Enjoying it so far

Another promising one:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1565810/One_Spirit/

Special mentions:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1225820/Hermitage_Strange_Case_Files/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1394930/MAMIYA/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1047010/Synergia/

Gonna quit the embed to not clog the page

[rustic falcon]

synergia was nice, but i wasnt blown away by it. i heard its getting a free dlc

[wraith cradle]

Yeah but the artstyle was quite enjoyable, there is something ethereal yet gritty about it

[rustic falcon]

yeah the art was why it caught my eye! i thought it looked really cute

[lofty pecan]

just got a steam deck as an gaming upgrade for a Mac what non-aaa windows games should I get for it

[keen shell]

What kind of games do you like?

[normal marsh]

crosscode, va-11 hall-a, oxenfree, the danganronpa games, p4 golden, omori, the messenger, katana zero, going under, the artful escape are all great indie games

and should run on steam deck no problem

[lofty pecan]

Anything with a cool art style or emotional story tbh

[lofty pecan]

Thx for recs

[normal marsh]

kentucky route zero, norco, and tales of berseria are other good ones

[meager zodiac]

I second the Kentucky Route Zero rec

You can play it on mac too

[polar dragon]

darkest dungeon, katana zero, dont starve together, hk, limbo, inside, dicey dungeons are good options imo

[mystic wave]

Unreal_Life is both!

[lofty pecan]

ty for recs everyone will look into all

[keen shell]

Off the top of my head I highly reccomend A short Hike

I'll check for more later

[woven breach]

Jenny LeClue, Night in the woods

[rancid token]

Spiritfarer is good

[winter mica]

it's a cute game

[signal kayak]

Silksongn't

[true portal]

I'm not a ER player but I enjoy the fan-works.
Also I watch my cousin and friend livestream
https://twitter.com/neteruyo/status/1524131755002789888?t=MXcvMiG4nP3FfS7lXMeheA&s=19

ね (@neteruyo)

ラニ様！

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Twitter · May 10, 2022, 8:58 PM

One day I can afford a better pc I'll definitely play it

[rustic falcon]

this art style is so cool!

i hope i beat this game one day... i enjoy the bosses but the exploration is so scary lol

[true portal]

Miquella's different hairstyles
https://twitter.com/oi_kamenoko/status/1523956590528765952?t=9ZupUYyPAiw6c9lwnYP8DQ&s=19

たわしや束子屋 (@oi_kamenoko)

ミケラさまヘアアレンジコレクション

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Twitter · May 10, 2022, 9:22 AM

[rancid token]

There's some uh

Unfortunate implications with that last one

[gentle cloak]

Explain? I'm guessing that word is bad?

[sleek quiver]

SooOOooo… In their next update, Dead Cells is going to put a Continue Mode in their game, basically it’s a setting that allows the player to just get back to the start of a biome instead of being back at the start of the run when they die

It’s an accessibility setting

[wraith cradle]

Nice, guess all that wanted to win it normally had done it already by this point

[sleek quiver]

I don’t really mind it, but it seems there is a certain pushback from some players regarding it

Thoughts?

[wraith cradle]

Jesus, Dead Cells 5th anniversary was yesterday

Where time goes?

[signal kayak]

didn't even notice that tbh

[sleek quiver]

Uh, same

Damn, didn’t even noticed

[gentle cloak]

There's pushback on literally all accessibility options if they aren't in the game from the start regardless of any context ever

[signal kayak]

I'd take that setting as some sort of training wheels, use if I have trouble actually finishing runs until I can do it consistently, then take it off

[winter mica]

i think that's a pretty cool setting

[sleek quiver]

The biggest points that is being said the most by some people is that it’s not a roguelite anymore if we have that setting

[gentle cloak]

People genuinely complain about games having difficulty settings fun fact

[wraith cradle]

What is cool is when old games still receive updates

[winter mica]

i dunno, does it matter if it's not a roguelite? like does that change anything about the actual game or recursive if it's maybe not 100% in one specific game category?

[wraith cradle]

Gives me a excuse to replay them

One of my favourite games ever is getting a new dlc

[signal kayak]

I mean, Hades has God Mode

[wraith cradle]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1802170/Furi__Onnamusha/

Steam

Furi - Onnamusha

New fighter, new skills, new challenge!

Release Date

May 17, 2022

▶ Play video

6 year old game, btw

[sleek quiver]

Exactly why I think it doesn’t matter at all. Like, at the core of Dead Cells, is that it’s a solid action platformer, and I feel like there’s actually some people that just enjoys that and not so much on the roguelite part of the game. Continue Mode is a response to those people, a tool for them to use that tailor the game just for them

[wraith cradle]

And again, 5 year old game, most of the people who actually wanted to finish the game the Standard game already done so, this helpes the stragglers that wanted but were put off by the difficulty

[sleek quiver]

Here’s the video that sparked the discussion on YouTube btw. It’s a two-parter, so, there’s another one in their channel that started the whole thing

https://youtu.be/b3R_yC13nuU

[mystic wave]

the idea that people complain when nothing was taken away but new things got added is baffling

[dire warren]

smt3's matador is really something. i went and prepared as much as possible and then the man just pulled out dekunda and focus 😔

anyways onto the topic of dead cells. accessibility is not bad ever. thats all i have to say on the topic

[mystic wave]

still remember getting rekt by matador! been over a decade now lol

[dire warren]

yeah he is quite something. i had everything i could want for that battle except for access to dekaja and he still was an absolute pain lmao. thankfully counter knocked him down in the end

[signal kayak]

That one boss

On a game filled with those one bosses

[dire warren]

to be fair this is what i was fully expecting going in

[signal kayak]

Though I'd find Mot to be even worse, given the randomness of his AI

[dire warren]

yeah i've heard many bad things about mot

but enough of that, i'm gonna go meet up with my favourite incredibly suspicious and unnerving old man. because i probably should not do that just yet

[polar dragon]

they can just... yknow, not enable it lmao
it literally takes away nothing from their experience.
i would love to see the twitter thread of that

some DC people continue to impress me with how elitist they are. I have said before that they are by far the least fun roguelite folks that ive known of.

[rancid token]

Missed this from earlier but the relationship between Mohg and Miquella is like, Huge Bad Big Gross

[mystic wave]

typical divine pantheons!

[lusty pendant]

:O I might actually finish the game finally

[lofty pecan]

Anyone try sound fall out yet? Seems like a cool game

[true portal]

Yeah I know that but it's funny that in many artworks Mohg is the one being bullied and teased in this relationship LOL

[timber badge]

Do you think Freddy Fazbear's does Delivery? This is a time sensitive question

[hybrid jetty]

my question is does it show that you have it enabled in like
end of run stats (I assume dead cells has this I haven't beaten it)

difficulty options are cool whatever elitists are annoying
idk if I consider difficulty options 'accessibility' though

being hard is not being inaccessible

[woven breach]

So I tried Dreamscaper. I have few gripes with it yet I always come back to it

[sleek quiver]

Accessibility seems to have widen into a bigger scope these days, ranging from handling issues with disabilities to being new-player-friendly to having less and less player-quit moments

🤷‍♀️

[sleek quiver]

No, it doesn’t, Dead Cells never had end-of-run screens, it just fades to black, credits roll and you jump back to the hub

[dire warren]

yes

[fathom juniper]

henlo, frens

i...
have finally played that fabled, mythical leaked 2001 build of DNF

and i am making a lot of really sad noises

finally, some closure
it's been 20 years

[mystic wave]

sweet!

i, of course, am perfectly aware of what DNF stands for

[fathom juniper]

duke nukem forever

one of the most infamous or THE MOST infamous constantly delayed game

[ocean iris]

https://i.imgur.com/AhrAi2K.png

yo new humble bundle

i really recommend paint the town red lol

[fathom juniper]

they started working on it in 1997
delayed it a bunch of times
switched engines like 4 times
restarted the whole thing a bunch
there were lawsuits, most of the staff left
it switched hands more than once
its publisher went bankrupt
and then gearbox got the hold of it and released it in 2011
and it was utter garbage

and now...
now we got that gorgeous looking build from 2001 - the one that looked out of this world for the time
if this game were to actually release in 2001, videogames would've look completely different nowadays

[fathom juniper]

oh wait
I read that as "not aware"

i need some coffee

[mystic wave]

youre right though lmao

[fathom juniper]

i... still can't get over it
i still can't get over the fact that i have this weird piece of videogame history on my hard drive

this build is downright legendary

[ocean iris]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyAFn2jU4AEgNYr.jpg

[mystic wave]

what's a real

what is money

[rustic falcon]

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/prey
prey is free today on egs
amazing game, grab it and play if you havent already played it

[ocean iris]

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

Interesting

[fathom juniper]

kinda related to that DNF leak, in a twisted and equally just as sad way

GIVE ME MY OG PREY 2 BACK, YOU COWARDS!
release my child, please

[rustic falcon]

[fathom juniper]

nooooooOOOOOOOOO!

a mirror's-edgy first person action game set in an open, grimy cyberpunk-ish universe where you play as a bounty hunter/killer for hire?
and it's a sequel to one of the most underrated FPS games in history?

gimme that

[rustic falcon]

there are a lot of projects that got cancelled or never came to fruition and its okay to be sad about it but i hate that arkanes prey is getting the short end of the stick about it because of that. the two are definitely not related at all

[fathom juniper]

that's... exactly my problem

i'm not saying this new prey isn't a good game
it's flippin amazing, actually

but i hate that bethesta just... parades preys dead body just for brand recognition and nothing else

and i think it was even confirmed in the noclip doc
they were like "so we've got this prey loicence... and we're not doing anything with it... ah - just slap it onto arkanes new thing, whatever"

like
come on

also - the fact that this OG prey 2 was going well and it got scrapped because of a really hostile corpo takeover makes it even more painful

like - the dev process was going well
but this awesome looking game died because some suits got buttblasted

this is why we can't have nice things

[ocean iris]

Huh weird. I think I got prey before.

Ohhh it was from halloween/christmas

[mystic wave]

corpo bad

[fathom juniper]

unless it's nintendo

[wraith cradle]

I'm still salty about Prey 2

Oh God Opus now has voice acting. Perfect opportunity to replay it later

Although dunno if I should play it in Japanese or Chinese

[weary echo]

it's used as an informal synonym of money in some latinamerican countries

[mystic wave]

ohh interesting. i just knew it as money in disco elysium lol

[mystic wave]

voting japanese because i dont know chinese

[wraith cradle]

Yeah I like Japanese dubs but the Devs are Chinese so maybe that was the intended way 🤔

Guess I'll play 10 minutes each

[shy terrace]

https://twitter.com/maul_cosplay/status/1524678783952900096

Maul Cosplay (@maul_cosplay)

Hey #RDR2 people! Need your expertise. Desperately looking for places in the US that resemble (nature) locations from the game! Especially Southern/Midwest area. Happy for all your input! Planning a photoshoot tour! @RockstarGames Thank you so much!!

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Twitter · May 12, 2022, 9:12 AM

[fathom juniper]

frens
look!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zoI3Egf-IQ

not only it comes to switch ||shame it's the demaster oh well||
but it's also getting a show... from AMC?

this day is weird

this calls for a celebratory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EJufYOzp8U

i'm so happy that remedy is back on their feet
doing what they want and what they're good at

[clear python]

Damn I forgot this exists lol

Control is a really good example of how your visual design makes your game much more memorable (and frankly, better). Compare it to Quantum Break - similar gameplay, similar impressive graphics, but the locations are just so boring - some random office, a random industrial yard, a lab - the only thing memorable is the time machine

[ocean iris]

Oh my God.

[fathom juniper]

oh for sure

it also helps that control is just generally a more interesting game with more "out there" ideas
they don't all stick the landing - it's a mixed bag ||the second mold lady quest can go and take a hike ||
but i'll take a game that has higher highs and lower lows over a game that's a constant meh anyday

also - control has way better characters
writing
music
levels
combat

[clear python]

yeah tbh I don't like bossfights in general and just overleveled in the end

[fathom juniper]

it's just the tacked-on crafting and leveling up that makes me go

[fathom juniper]

yeah the bossfights are...
eeeeeh

[clear python]

the upgrade to grab and throw three things just tears through everything in the end loool

[fathom juniper]

the weird cthulhu monster was cool
that weird blob with all those clocks was meh
and the mold boss can go

oooooh that one

pure gamer rage, right there
I hated it

but then it had the ||esseJ fight||
which was awesome!

the whole setup and execution was just
pure Remedy goodness

anyways - my point is
i'm glad remedy got out of that financial mess and they're not stuck making bland games for microsoft
and i can't wait to see how a full on horror game written by Sam Lake pans out

totally gonna borrow my friends PS5 for it next year

[mystic wave]

good ol suomi janitor

[fathom juniper]

the most powerful UNIT in the whole game

i love that wrinkly old man
always brings a smile

[dire warren]

ok so i met dante and he is certainly a cool dude. even if his crit rate is absolutely ridiculous and he has dekunda

[mystic wave]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAxOn_WSz1w

[dire warren]

yeah he's cool

[wraith cradle]

This game looks both fascinating and hilarious

[wraith cradle]

Finished a game that was in my backlog since past October. It feels incredibly satisfying.

[hybrid jetty]

now if only we could get prey (2017) 2

or maybe the system shock franchise could come back to life for real this time please

[rancid token]

DMCV actually has one of the biggest pop-off endings I've ever seen

[woven breach]

ikr

[hybrid jetty]

yup

[polar dragon]

BURY THE LIGHT DEEEEPPPP WITHIIINNNNNN

[woven breach]

CAST ASIDE, THERE IS NO COMING HOMEEEEEE

oh dammit now I wanna play as vergil again

[maiden ermine]

I somehow went from trying to explain why the visual novel Arcade Spirits is so good to how the evolution of the visual novel genre has been influenced by the global expansion of the video game industry, especially the indie game market.

I am both impressed with and absolutely terrified of myself.

[woven breach]

it do be like that

[vale root]

it really do be

[ocean iris]

https://i.4cdn.org/v/1652440623774.png

Holy. Crap.

I can't believe I'm living to see this.

[rancid token]

https://mobile.twitter.com/CanipaShow/status/1525039540867461120

Canipa (@CanipaShow)

Square Enix's financial report in one image

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Twitter · May 13, 2022, 9:05 AM

[lusty pendant]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PpCxRE7xCAg

Ingrid what did they do to you

[wraith cradle]

Apparently Strangers didn't sell that well but has constant sales

Still

Square Enix's wildcard is yet to release

Forspoken, it either sells incredibly well or incredibly badly, no middle point

Plus The Diofield Chronicle, Valkyrie Elysium and maybe? FFXVI

[queen carbon]

I don't have a lot of hope.

Even less so since they recommended Balan: Wonderworld.

[normal marsh]

I hope poorly, due to 0 Black writers despite the story being partially about the Black experience and using harmful Black stereotypes when they described the protagonist. (ex: she was on the verge of going to prison, she's "very angry", and one of the devs described her walking animation as a "hip-hoppy walk" 😐😐😐) no way am I gonna pay money just to see people like me be ridiculed yet again

[wraith cradle]

Oh, I admit I didn't know that

[normal marsh]

All g, even from a gameplay standpoint the game looks p wack lol

[wraith cradle]

I just try to absorb as little pre-release material as possible because now all trailers are obsessed with putting things that are basically fat spoilers on it

Specially in a game that seems to be narrative-based

[normal marsh]

Fair enough, I'm glad I found out early on so I didn't have to be hyped at least

[wraith cradle]

No worries thanks for the heads-up

[signal kayak]

With most of their recent games being flops and the president's interest in c rypto, can't be excited about their future, myself

[rancid token]

Yoshida's back can't take all this carrying

[lofty pecan]

people give me their top 3 favorite games plzz i dont care about genre

[wraith cradle]

OPUS: Echo of Starsong, Crosscode and Library of Ruina

[meager zodiac]

Portal, Celeste, and Kentucky Route Zero

[lofty pecan]

do i have to play the prequel to ruina b4 playing ruina?

[lofty pecan]

played all three, enjoyed them all

[meager zodiac]

Yeah, I figured there wouldn't be anything new for you there lol :)

Not the most underground taste

[coral hawk]

hm my top 3 Hades, Monster hunter gu, and Monster hunter rise

lmao

[lusty pendant]

Rhythm Heaven, Hollow Knight, Nier Automata

[sonic berry]

🇦🇦🇦🇦❗

I can't believe it
I'm over the moon

[wraith cradle]

They made it so you can Play LoR without LC as they explain to you everything that happened in LC, although the emotional impact is lessened.

Still recommend trying LC and if the game is too hard for you stop

[normal marsh]

crosscode, persona 4 golden, last of us part 2

[wraith cradle]

That's because LC and LoR are VERY HARD games, but while LoR is hard in the "Thinking" way, LC is hard in the "Reflex and micro-managing" game

[lofty pecan]

aight ty

[untold hornet]

miitopia, iconoclasts, and pl:a

transistor and cotnd are honorable mentions

[coral hawk]

is pla arceus? or does it have another meaning. Arceus was fun but I am surprised to see it as someones top 3

[untold hornet]

Yep

Im really enjoying it so far lol

[winter mica]

bastion/pyre (tied), the sims, ffta2

[next patio]

Pyre/transistor/terraria

[woven breach]

Dust: An Elysian Tail, Muramasa Rebirth, Odin Sphere.

I should play Dust again

[rancid token]

Pyre, Outer Wilds, Majora's Mask

[sleek quiver]

I’d say, Diablo 2 LoD, Ni no Kuni 1 and Civ6

[plush valve]

CRAB

I LOVE CRUSTACEANS

[sleek quiver]

I just watched the recent Nintendo Indie World and coincidently, there is a crab game there

Also, the Idol Manager game has some gorgeous artworks, that’s my pick for this one

[hybrid jetty]

ffxvi will absolutely sell like hotcakes

idk if final fantasy ever sells poorly especially in recent years

[sleek quiver]

SE seems to say so

I think FFXIII did sell poorly, yeah? Or FFXIII-2? Idk

[woven breach]

lightning returns?

[hybrid jetty]

wasn't that only the western games

not like they have to worry about them anymore lmao

In September 2014, Square Enix announced the Final Fantasy XIII series has been widely successful and has shipped over 11 million copies worldwide.

wow

[sleek quiver]

Well, I guess not

[mystic wave]

praise the vanillaware! 🙏

[woven breach]

praise the vanillaware! 🙏

[woven breach]

if only my psvita's memory is still readable

[mystic wave]

what about 13 sentinels

[woven breach]

haven't touched it

prob

in the future

[mystic wave]

ok fluffy i'll have a bot remind me to remind you every day

[woven breach]

please don't

I'd go insane

[rustic falcon]

sable, disco elysium, thumper

didnt include transistor because this is the supergiant server lol but it’s my most favorite of all times

[fathom juniper]

FIFA 19, fifa 20, fifa 21

[woven breach]

think they meant three different games, buddy

[ocean iris]

I cant make a top 3 i like so many games

I can do a list though
-Hotline Miami
-Red Dead 2
-GTA IV, and V
-Titanfall 2
-Half Life series (Black Mesa included)
-Dying Light
-BeamNG Drive
-Halo 2
-Borderlands 1, 2 and PS
-L4D2
-Arma 3
-Metro Trilogy
-Stalker Anomaly

Not all but these are my all time favorites I always come back to

and yes I really like shooters I'm that much of a normie.

I would have put Legacy of Kain games but I never finished any of them since I played them in my childhood

Also MGR would be there but there's some parts in that game that just absolutely put me off

And I'd say DMC but I didn't finish any game of that franchise yet

Morrowind is also cool but it's not something i can just hop in and out like those games

[sleek quiver]

No modern Doom?

Or boomer shooter variants?

[rustic falcon]

Wait, we can list more than three?

[mystic wave]

no will not tolerate this subversive behavior

[rustic falcon]

in which case, adding nier replicant to my list

[mystic wave]

replicant over automata?

[sleek quiver]

How different was Replicant from Automata?

[mystic wave]

personally, i enjoy the ideas and philosophy.
however the characters felt under-written and from gameplay standpoint, it feels dated

^ replicant

[ocean iris]

not my cup of tea

[mystic wave]

oh yeah both niers have absolutely amazing soundtrack

[ocean iris]

Modern doom is boring in comparison with the milion of adhd indie shooters

[rustic falcon]

mhm! i love automata but nowadays replicant sticks in my mind more. i would even say drakengard, but i feel like the gameplay is so bad and the characters so controversial that i dont know that i can recommend it fully to anyone... i do love it though

also, it has more interesting fishing, and i liked the little gardening minigame of it. i feel like the remake also made the gameplay more fun and fluid

some things cant be fixed ofc like tedious side quests and grinding for materials but i enjoyed most of my time of 100%ing it

[rancid token]

13 Sentinels goated

[mystic wave]

drakengard 3 is especially great with how deranged the characters are lol. but yeah i wish the gameplay was better

[mystic wave]

the only possible conclusion

[fathom juniper]

That’s …
That’s the joke

[hybrid jetty]

https://twitter.com/VGC_News/status/1525466899823448065

VGC (@VGC_News)

A week after selling many of its Western studios, Square Enix says it will establish or buy new ones.

https://t.co/U8w0JAt7r5

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Twitter · May 14, 2022, 1:23 PM

lmfaoooo

[quartz hatch]

imagine selling your western studios for nft investment cash a few days before nfts crash

[ocean iris]

if that means we are getting a new legacy of kain

i couldnt care less for other franchises

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/588979185687461908/974977127172677642/funny_karaoke.mp4

chibi jetstream sam is something i never knew i wanted in my life

[sleek quiver]

SoooOOooo… I heard that Dead Cells Assist Mode will probably also still enables you to get the achievements. Now, now, I know this is the second time I’ve brought the topic up in these few days, I am really sorry, but, obviously, the question remains, what are your stance on this, and also your reasoning? I think this one deserves more discussion since it is somewhat heavier than the previous topic

Of course, I have my opinions on the why should this be a thing vs why it shouldn’t, but, I actually do want to know your own opinions on it

[stable kindle]

i dont see why it deserves "more" discussion, why do people who for whatever reason can not or do not want to play base difficulty be locked out of achievements?

because a bunch of hardasses of the genre say so?

[sleek quiver]

Well, because it also one of the thing that presents pushback from certain players, with reasonable reasons as well

I guess I should state my stance on this topic as well; I’m ok with it, barring players from achievements when playing in Assist Mode defeats the whole purpose of the mode itself, it’s supposed to be accessible to more players but if you bar them from getting achievements, it’s like you’re saying, no, this mode is only there as practice mode instead of actually making the game more accessible

[stable kindle]

so you're scolding them for not playing the game correctly.

[sleek quiver]

Maybe the real question is, what do achievements means to you guys nowadays?

[mystic wave]

when i think of achievements it brings to mind some kind of inane grind. so i have adopted the policy to ignore all achievements

[rancid token]

Brain juices go when the cheevo dings

But it's a personal barometer more than a social one imo

"I accomplished thing and I feel good" vs "I accomplished thing don't you think I'm cool"

Like, I didn't plat Elden Ring and Bloodborne just to brag about it lol

[winter mica]

i think some people really view achiements as a lot of time/"hard work" and so people getting the same achievements is devaluing that somehow. like well i'm part of the 7% of players who got this achievement, if more people get it then it's less impressive that i have it. when it's like, people using assist mode are still doing all the same things to get the achievement and still putting in the effort, it's just a little different. i think the whole thing is silly and just a lot of elitism.

[signal kayak]

And some of those trophies can't be obtained anymore if they're only obtainable by playing online and said online has died

[mystic wave]

it was super funny when yoko taro just lets you buy all the achivements lol

[coral hawk]

All I can say about people wanting to discuss why difficulty options bad is shut up shut up shut up shut up lmao

It is a single player game and has no bearing on your own experience if you're not going to use it

[next patio]

Something i only do if i like the game enough/find it not too annoying

[lusty pendant]

Assist mode blocking badge-style achievements (ie those that completely don't affect gameplay. Cosmetics are not covered by this) is fine imo. Or they can add some asterisk on the achievement that said you did it with assist
What I have issue with is people arguing it should only be allowed on 0BC, or not allowing assist mode wins to unlock more BCs

Since that's locking lore and gameplay behind the skill wall, and defeats the purpose of assist mode

[wraith cradle]

Maybe as in maybe comes in 2022, hell will freeze if it doesn't sell a lot

[rancid token]

I'll be surprised if it's not good tbh

Yoshida knows how to run a project and the Devil May Cry person is on combat design

[sleek quiver]

I don’t think making a separate achievements for Assist-Mode players is a good decision tbh, it’s like the game is still saying they didn’t really accomplish anything because what they just accomplished is the easy mode. It kinda defeats the whole purpose of Assist Mode; making the game as accessible and open for everyone, or as much people as possible, not really as an easy, cheat-mode to get by the game easier than everyone else

[lusty pendant]

That doesn't make sense

First you say "the game is saying they didn't accomplish anything", and then follow up with "they accomplished the easy mode"

which sounds like you yourself are deeming using assist mode as an inferior way to play the game

when it's not, it's just different

it's why I also said it shouldn't apply to gameplay content (like not being able to get BCs in dead cells)

[mystic wave]

a player could work hard for their achievement. tested and researched everything, every bit by themself.
or they could have learned strats from other players.
or read the wiki
or just a boomer dad asked his kid to play for him.
at what level is it considered 'earned' ?

better question, is there a need to gatekeep?

[stable kindle]

but how will people know how awesome and good i am at this game if i dont arbitrarily gatekeep subjective measures of personal achievements 🥺

also gestures back at a story that was circulating around shortly after elden ring came about about a guy and his gf and how the gf beat the game, but she didnt beat it to his satisfaction so he considered the game not actually beaten by her because she used features within the game to assist her, and regardless if the story was fake or not there are actual people with this sort of mindset that say this nonsense all the time, because its just going to persist so long as there is gatekeeping over inane things like game completion and achievements. if you finished a game, if you got an achievement, you got it. how you did it does not matter, barring cheating in online environments that affects other players

if it doesnt affect other players then my opinion is stay in your own lane and stop caring what other people are doing and how they play a game <3

[lofty pecan]

how dare someone value something so trivial as having fun when playing a game 😓

[sleek quiver]

No, I didn’t mean that, what I meant was, having separate achievements kinda communicates that Assist Mode was different compared to the normal modes by making it looks like an easier mode, because it has separately tagged achievements that isn’t the actual same achievements you get in normal mode

Simply said, try to make Assist Mode as normal looking as possible as to not communicate to other that it is an easy mode, by making it looks the same as normal mode as much as possible

The game should try to communicate that it’s fine to play Assist Mode if that is what you wanted, without making it feel like it’s an easy mode

[lusty pendant]

but why should Assist mode be "normal" looking? There's nothing wrong with using an easier mode if that's what lets a certain player to have more fun, so long as gameplay elements aren't locked behind hard modes

FE3H has a unique menu skin you can unlock only if you clear the hardest difficulty in a fresh file. So is that also exclusionary?

like I don't want to grind for it, so I'll never get the gold backdrop. But that's fine, it doesn't mean those who can't get it are inferior

[sleek quiver]

Because you don’t want players to feel like it’s an easy mode? That they have to trudge through normal mode again after getting through on Assist Mode to finally get the real achievements?

[lusty pendant]

see again, "real" achievements.

implying that Asisst mode clears are inferior

If someone thinks assist mode clears are lesser, that's their own problem

you seem determined to stand your point, so I won't bother arguing

Also, if someone doesn't ping you in a response, take the hint and don't ping pack

[sleek quiver]

The thing is, they do, easy modes in the past is often made to feel like it isn’t even a legit mode to play a game, that you often don’t get the same achievements as someone playing with normal mode

Easy mode really do feel like an easy mode meant to be easier for players, and making it feel like they don’t play the actual real game because the rewards they get when they beat a game in easy mode, isn’t the same as the rewards a normal mode player gets

Assist Mode is meant to feel a different way than the old easy mode in past games, where Assist Mode players really do get the same rewards as normal mode players get

[vale root]

“easy mode feels like an easy mode meant to be easier”

[dire warren]

i think nero is saying that in assist mode having seperate achievements the game itself implies assist mode is lesser as you don't get the same rewards for clearing the same goal.

but, somewhat related- i looked at the achievements for a game i like and got hit with the double whammy of horrific achievements: something that makes 0 sense on what it wants and pvp wins on a game that is dead but had a very competitive meta.
so now i'm stuck

[dire condor]

The fact of the matter is that the "it doesn't affect you" argument is entirely true.

Few other arguments can disprove this

If you want a particular experience then choose such experience, any arguments against being able to alter a game is trying to force the same experience on others.

It's looking for approval and validation fundamentally speaking

Validation from other players and the developers

While I don't particularly agree with the above sentiment it is objectively* true

[floral warren]

hi , i recommend katana zero, good pixel art game with fun slicing and planning 👌

also hi epic re6 enjoyer @fathom juniper

[fathom juniper]

WHOMS'T'VE BEEN PINGING ME?

oh
hi @floral warren

[floral warren]

Hi

[fathom juniper]

so
i made a horrible, horrible mistake

i...
started playing Slay The Spire

played it for over 16 hours in under 2 days
and im gonna play more

[polar dragon]

welcome! what's your favorite class so far?

it's soo good isn't it

[fathom juniper]

The reject

First of all - I identify with that name lol

And second
It’s a class for lazy people

You just have to get a few cards that give you more orbs and then watch them play the game for you

It’s amazing

Good bye, social life
It was nice knowing you

[rustic falcon]

i just got back to playing a card battler myself and ive been having a lot of fun, but i mainly play it for the story, instead of building my deck properly i skip all the difficult battles

[dire condor]

Defect I believe is the correct name

The watcher is my personal favourite

But I'm not the most competent in her playstyle

[fathom juniper]

someone...

please send help

over 19 hours in two days

[signal kayak]

[floral warren]

[polar dragon]

The defect haha but cool

[lyric pelican]

Slay the Spire is soooo good. One of the few games I've had to force myself to uninstall because I just got way too addicted to it.

[lyric pelican]

Just curious, what other card battler are you playing? Slay the Spire also showed me that I really like that genre.

[maiden ermine]

Extremely late to the party, but bought Hollow Knight. A family friend who I haven't seen in a long time has recommended it to me. On top of that, I am now interested in streaming. Thing is, I suck at PC, and the only console I have is my Switch, which makes setting up a streaming rig ten times more painful.

[rustic falcon]

It’s called black book! I’m playing it for the story (and there is a lot of story) but it also has a roguelike dlc which I haven’t tried. It has a feature where you can skip battles if you fail them about 3 times with no punishment, so instead of building my deck in a smart way, I’ve been utilizing it a lot to just see the story…

[lyric pelican]

Oh yeah, I've heard of that one. Onto the Steam wishlist it goes. I like the idea of being able to skip battles if you keep failing them.

[rustic falcon]

i only wish the skip was there from the beginning, but i suppose then it would defeat the point of it being a card battler and not a visual novel lol

[lyric pelican]

Yeah, something like a story mode would probably be good for that game. I've started really appreciating games that let me just get on with the story if I'm not feeling the gameplay.

[winged dew]

Just got a Series S for Game Pass and golly is Tunic a good game. Not sure why I'm so much more engrossed in it than Death's Door, despite both games having a lot of similarities

[woven breach]

more engaging than death's door?

https://tenor.com/view/curiosity-curious-intrigued-interested-interesting-gif-14505707

[tribal cargo]

Do you ever wake up, get a good look at that goofy texture that is somehow perfectly replicated on every ceiling ever, and wonder what the Beyond Good and Evil 2 dev team is doing at that exact moment?

[signal kayak]

That still exists?

[hybrid jetty]

ngl I thought that game came out a billion years ago

[rancid token]

Haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ9-F5varVM

Nice

[wraith cradle]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1093910/Tales_of_the_Black_Forest/

Game worth the 98 cents

[dire condor]

It isn't worth the potential time to be spent though

[normal marsh]

I miss rpgmaker games

[wraith cradle]

Also a game with quite the engaging demo is coming in two days

I reccomend trying the demo

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1046790/Eternal_Threads/

Steam

Eternal Threads

Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.As an operative tasked with fixing corruption in the timestream, you have been sent to the North of England in May 2015, where six people died in a house fire. Prohibited from simply stopping the fire, you must instead manipulat...

Release Date

May 19, 2022

▶ Play video

Basically you have to manipulate the decisions taken by 6 people the day the died to create a perfect situation where they lived

As far as I played the game is quite throughout on how to handle the consequences

[winged dew]

Tunic has this very old school Legend of Zelda aspect where there's as much a sense of discovery by just learning the game's mechanics as there is by actually exploring the world

It does a good job of seeming very cryptic and "Nintendo Power-y" in terms of figuring things out while actually doing a really good job of guiding the player

Death's Door has the better combat but lacks a lot of that explorative sense of discovery that Tunic has. I certainly don't blame people that prefer it over Tunic, but Tunic's design and world building feel a lot better imo

[woven breach]

I see I see

[opaque gate]

Now you're playing with Nintendo Power

[winged dew]

Yeah, one of the game's main collectables are basically pages of a "Nintendo Power" style guide manual for the game, and, while most of it is in a gibberish language, there's a lot of visual aides and just enough English to make it perfectly understandable

[opaque gate]

so moonrunes

[winged dew]

Essentially, yeah

https://www.windowscentral.com/sites/wpcentral.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2022/03/tunic-uncovering-guide-pages.jpg

So you're essentially learning more about the world by finding the pages to this in universe game manual thing while you're playing. I'm honestly a little stunned by how clever it is

Plus, the feaux NES game manual look is just adorable

[opaque gate]

That really does look nice

[ocean iris]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/588979185687461908/976129200392126524/unknown.png

[mystic wave]

yes that's the one, comissar

[polar dragon]

Lmao

[wraith cradle]

Dead by daylight Dating sim announced

[queen carbon]

y

[polar dragon]

y not

[wraith cradle]

Ey Foxhope Have you downloaded the new Furi DLC?

[polar dragon]

oh dang i wasn't aware that it was out tbh

[dire warren]

smt3 story update: i have disowned all my friends. where is dante i'm joining his side now

[normal marsh]

chrono trigger is a lot of fun, i'm playing it now on the ds lite

[polar dragon]

ikr, love that game

[normal marsh]

crosscode is also one of my favorite games and it's v cool to see how much chrono trigger inspired it

[ocean iris]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIervYhiEZ8&ab_channel=ArmaPlatform

Oh my God.

I missed the livestream 😭

God I can't believe it's happening, a new functional Arma game.

Although this is more of a tech demo as Arma 4 is still in development.

[wraith cradle]

Is anybody here playing V Rising? Why is the most sold game rn on Steam? Never heard of it

[rustic falcon]

apparently its from the same developers as battlerite, which i vaguely remember hearing about

[lofty pecan]

i saw some good reviews of it on YouTube last week

I think it’s a vampire arpg with good combat so ig that’s why people like it

[stable kindle]

isn't that the same one people were in the forums like, hey remember when they abandoned this other game

[lofty pecan]

Do I have to play the previous dmc games to enjoy dmc 5?

Should i buy dmc 5, mgr, or bayonetta first

[normal marsh]

You don't really, there's some refs but if you watch a summary on YouTube that'll tell you everything you need to know, also I'm pretty sure there's a recap at the very beginning of the game

And I'd recommend playing the special edition version if you can

[mint steppe]

Bayonetta real https://twitter.com/aidancoreart/status/1526708742460301313?t=i2DCTBTM2UrIqMkoYM6dZw&s=19

⚠️AidanCore⚠️ (@aidancoreart)

GUYS LOOK YOU GOTTA SEE THIS

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Twitter · May 17, 2022, 11:38 PM

[rustic falcon]

i finished black book btw, i really liked the story and reading the folklore in it. i did 2 playthroughs, one good and one bad, and it was really neat to see the changes in dialogue between them. i didnt try the english voiceover for too long but it seemed to me that the russian vo was much better

[winged dew]

Semi regular Tunic appreciation thread: Game still good. Please play good game if you have Game Pass

[normal marsh]

Oh cool I just picked it up the other day, glad it's a good time

[ocean iris]

Borderlands 3 is free on EGS

Finally, a fair price for that disappointment

laughs in 38 euros for ultimate deluxe on steam

[wraith cradle]

Ok. Ngl I was not expecting that one

[fathom juniper]

please...
help me...

this game...
just won't let me go

i've sunk as many hours into STS as i did into DS2
and you know what?
DS2 left me drained - it felt like i played it for at least a 100 hours
while STS after 40 feels more like... 10

got to zone 4
and got rekt

died to a heart
poor draw's to blame
i ain't even mad
cause it's still a good game

[queen carbon]

Welcome to a candidate to one of your favorite games

[signal kayak]

I still can't beat act 3 reliably

[untold hornet]

games i have over 100 hours in

except it gets progressively worse

botw

acnh

sims 4

miitopia.

that's it

also if we are counting online mmos

animal jam

which i prolly have like well over 500 hours since ive been playing since 2010

[vale root]

DUDE ANIMAL JAM SLAPS

brings me back to 2nd grade

[wraith cradle]

Finished Eternal Threads after binging

It was nice, although nothing spectacular

[lusty pendant]

adding FE3H

[winged dew]

Finally finished Dicey Dungeons. I am so happy that it allows for save scumming, because I don't think I would have beat some of the later episodes without it.

[coral hawk]

Monster hunter tweeted the new bow switch skills and I am so on board with this, I am so ready for sunbreak to come out

just one more month

[woven breach]

IKR

the charge blade tho...

very underwhelming

[coral hawk]

man I play 3 weapons and all three have looked so good so far, I'm so excited for the insect glaive stuff, let me yeet myself into a monster attack until I get used to the timing lmao

[bleak coral]

https://twitter.com/Maffewgregg/status/1527181910643974144?t=wZ923A4fgBEUOslp1N7Wtw&s=19

forever botchamania (@Maffewgregg)

XENOBLADE IS A WAY BETTER GAME SERIES THAN EARTHBOUND

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Twitter · May 19, 2022, 6:58 AM

[winged dew]

As trite as it sounds, I always felt like the Mother series was one of the original "Undertale" style niche classics that the gaming industry got

They're very much not the best RPGs mechanics wise, but they're carried so hard by their great, offbeat writing and atmosphere that they can punch way up anyways

[weary echo]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/562377967339044913/977217810793127966/mb14.jpg?width=1191&height=670

gaming

now I need to find another game to fill my life

[cyan rover]

try Elden Ring

[weary echo]

I would if I could

[mystic wave]

have you played yggdra union? its been long time now that my memory of it is hazy, but i remember liking it quite a bit

[weary echo]

I've heard about it, but I haven't played it

[mystic wave]

i just remember its was unique, and pretty hard

unit dont recover between missions so you start to really feel it the further you go

i like the tenseness you feel from that though

[lyric pelican]

Yeah, that game got really difficult later on. I never have been able to finish it. Too bad because it's really fun.

[lyric pelican]

That sounds really cool. I like games that are different on the second playthrough. Definitely going to pick that game up when I catch it on a good sale.

[wraith cradle]

Black book is on my backlog

[fathom juniper]

I ASCEND!

ascension 3 unlocked in STS

[lusty pendant]

so I sort of took a wrong turn in legends arceus and ended up at a place with L40+ Machokes when my team is all mid 20s

the twist is I have a Drifloon that they all can't hit

so I'm overleveled now lol

[polar dragon]

17 more to go brother

also have you ever played StS together with someone and discuss/backseat the choices?

more fun that it sounds

[woven breach]

Me with friends on L4D2: "yea let's do advanced hard eight. What could go wrong?"
2 days and 15 retries later
Me: "I'm so sorry for suggesting it."

[polar dragon]

try B4B maybe?

[woven breach]

My friends understandably don't want to spend money on that game

I mean we did try on the beta? I think

They weren't very impressed

[broken smelt]

B4B afaik got worst post release especially with the devs nerfing stuff because it wasn't "the way the game is meant to be played"

as well as explicitly nerfing things speedrunners used

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3hUFt2g4Os

Fox, I'd suggest watching the video ^-^

(I saw the deleted message)

[woven breach]

oh cool, I need something to watch

[polar dragon]

okay but he doesn't address the fact that speedrunners can and have ruin games in public lobbies using speedrunning techniques, i put the video in 2x so i might have missed something but still

21:25 ig he does mention it
but his response is that the speedrun community "discourages" people to do that in public lobby

[broken smelt]

those rushing public lobbies in the vast majority of cases aren't speedrunners

[polar dragon]

okay fair

[broken smelt]

anyone who speedran B4B did it offline

[polar dragon]

okay agreed

[broken smelt]

there's also better ways to discourage people from rushing than completely nerfing the cards that speedrunners use

[polar dragon]

i honestly don't see how

[broken smelt]

L4D2 spawning in enemies like hunters, chargers etc.

you go too far ahead alone you get punished for it

[polar dragon]

they already have that implemented

the zombies AI and director spawn enemies closer and directed at the person closest to the saferoom aka the person using the speedrun deck

also a quick google search on "speedrun B4B" yields mostly negative results on forums

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/802615525141643265/977825588914032710/unknown.png

i love speedrunning, don't get me wrong, but the video seems a bit one-sided to me
if i was Turtle Rock, nerfing cards would definitely be on my radar, not because i want to screw over speedrunners, but because it is a possible way to stop non-speedrunners from abusing the system

[broken smelt]

it's coming from someone who speedruns for a living, it's always gonna be biased towards speedrunning

whether maxylobes is conscious of it or not

[polar dragon]

fair enough. and as a casual player who play solo in public lobbies, i have had a fair share of people abusing speed decks, either trivialize the game for everyone or suck hard and make other clean up their mess

[broken smelt]

the nerfs went beyond nerfing specifically speedrun strats tbf

idr everything they nerfed because it's been a while

but a lot of the justification boiled down to "the game isn't being played as we intended"

[polar dragon]

they do nerf many things beyond speed yeah
for example, melee durability has been scaled down a bit

[polar dragon]

yeah i can agree with this.
it's more of a poor execution than a malicious intent, but Maxylobes made it out as if Turtle Rock is out for blood (no pun intended) which rubs me the wrong way i suppose

[broken smelt]

yeah, I get that, part of it could be salt from a speedrun he enjoyed being effectively killed with the changes

absolutely poor execution on turtle rocks part, the obfuscated patch notes don't help in one potentially reading that turtle rock did it on purpose

[polar dragon]

truth is i think B4B pales in comparison to L4D2, the only thing that keeps me hooked on the game is the different characters/classes and the deck system

the best thing they have done yet to the game

though this seems to be the consensus haha

[broken smelt]

ye, I always go back to L4D2 at one point or another and I never picked up B4B because having watched people play it (outside of speedrunning) something about it didn't feel right to me

[polar dragon]

it's the extreme coordination required and the bullet sponge specials for me

who needs league when you can play B4B lobbies

[broken smelt]

lol

[polar dragon]

i am a sucker for a pain huh

[broken smelt]

yeah, that might be it
I definitely noticed the specials being incredibly bullet spongey

that was never the case with L4D2 (outside of the tank)

[polar dragon]

yeah, one person can take out specials in L4D2, not quite the case in B4B

imagine a L4D2 Episode 2, where L4D2 is upgraded with some class/build system

we don't talk L4D3 because Valve can't count to 3

[opaque gate]

Lel

[woven breach]

tbh I like L4D2 cause it doesn't have class/build system, though it may help on some harder runs.

[queen carbon]

I just remembered that World War Z is a thing

[woven breach]

oh that was pretty fun

[ocean iris]

sprint....and ADS

[fathom juniper]

That’s how I got introduced to STS in the first place
A friend dropped by, showed me this game and boom - suddenly it’s 8 hours later and we’re arguing who’s a bigger dumbass for not being able to count our block points

Spoiler alert
No one was right - we were both pretty

[hybrid jetty]

b4b is so funny because they advertised it as being by the same people as l4d and it turns out its actually like...3 people

everyone forgot its the same team that made such classics as Evolve

[ocean iris]

https://youtu.be/MOrMizZJHh4

Good lord.

I want this although I suck at rythm games

[fathom juniper]

Wasn’t there like a…
A second game like that in the works ?

Like - the exact same concept and all

Huh

[ocean iris]

ye BPM

except that one was released

[fallen sky]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTZ0IIgVEAA2nvr?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

it tasted good! but way too much caffeine and even now i haven't settled down

[vale root]

people who drink energy drinks have my respect because i could never

[fallen sky]

i know some of my irl friends are playing tetris on and off and i miss playing it myself

[vale root]

makes my heart go funny

[fallen sky]

i predominantly drink energy drinks for work or for when i exercise. otherwise it doesn't make sense for me to drink them because i'm often sedentary

[vale root]

coffee is my to go drink for that

[fallen sky]

gfuel advertises its drinks for gamers and i'm just wondering what gamer out there needs 300mg of caffeine for tetris or sonic. 140mg? okay. 300mg? unreasonable

coffee is the superior drink but it stains my teeth u_u

[vale root]

just enough caffeine without wrecking my body like the one monster i had

[vale root]

speedrun tetris obviously

[fallen sky]

i have another gamer caffeinated drink that has 75mg of non-synthetic caffeine and that amount makes a lot of sense. plus it has coconut water powder, which makes it hydrating (but buying actual coconut water is cheaper)

[vale root]

also monster tastes gross

[fallen sky]

https://www.ghostlifestyle.com/pages/ghost-gamer

[vale root]

i don’t know about the other energy drinks but

[fallen sky]

i've never had monster and never will

[vale root]

what does tetris gfuel taste like

[fallen sky]

like fizzy tropical juice. the best tasting energy drink i've had so far. the faze clan sour berry powder tastes awful

[vale root]

ooh that doesnt sound bad

[fallen sky]

it's bitter, only slightly sour, berry taste? what berry taste

tetris doesn't taste artificial. faze clan does

[vale root]

yesterday i learned strawberry flavoring in a macchiato is underrated
its sounds terrible but its very subtle and delicious

[fallen sky]

if you want to continue the conversation, we can move to #off-topic-discussion

up to you though!

[vale root]

oh sure

[polar dragon]

wait are this and BPM related at all?

[lofty pecan]

No I don’t think so

Prolly just a game inspired by bpm

[fathom juniper]

Nah mate
There was another one

[woven breach]

so I just saw the new weapon showcase (LS and Lance) of MHR Sunbreak

wow

why, capcom? why?

[bleak coral]

Finally started getting into Persona 4 Golden

yeah this game is good

port 3 to steam already atlus

[dire condor]

and 5 pls

[sand sleet]

I have installed skyrim yet again

[lofty pecan]

can anyone recommend any good semi-arcadey games from the steam racing fest?

[serene delta]

I found out my new elden ring build tree sentinel armor, Heavy Zweihander, and Lion’s Claw

[lusty pendant]

my hades switch cart now lives in my hollow knight box and my hollow knight cart lives in the hades box, and I have no clue how they ended up that way

[mystic wave]

I have a deduction about that. Are you ready?

[woven breach]

https://tenor.com/view/ready-im-ready-running-spongebob-squarepants-gif-4184916

[mystic wave]

HK features, and centers around a sprawling, massive location beneath ground. Hades does as well. These two works, shares this theme. But one is about starting from the bottom, the other starting from above. They tackle it from opposite angles. And now they are in opposite boxes. Coincidence? I think not.

[lusty pendant]

https://media.tenor.com/images/490b00ab6d26e4c1d998cf0f25830efb/tenor.gif

[dire warren]

man energy drinks are a thing. i forget they exist

in other news i am now this close to getting every achivement in mhr but exams are literally just around the corner and it's just. not fun

[ocean iris]

All I can think of are NFS and Forza

I play racing games that lean more to realism

[icy bluff]

Realism is good but F-zero tho

https://tenor.com/view/f-zero-spin-spinning-blue-falcon-gif-21216703

[fathom juniper]

You know what?
Racing games - as a genre - make me sad

It has such a huge potential
And yet it’s the most stagnant genre out there

All we get nowadays are 4 different flavors of “arcade-y open world racing but with real cars” and maybe a cart racer once in a blue moon

Where’s stuff like carmageddon?
Destruction derby?
I wanna crash cars in cool ways

Where’s burnout ?
Where’s stuff like split second where you get to cut a whole track in half by dropping a whole 747 in the middle of it?

Like - come on
There’s so much cool stuff you can do with racing games

You guys remember Fuel?
Playing that stuff back in the 360 days felt like seeing a glimpse of the future

And no one since really expanded on that concept.

How about a car roguelite for @polar dragon ?
Where you get a single car - that’s your run.
If you crash it - it’s back to the start.

But nah
Let’s just slap some real cars we’ve all seen a hundred times into a sunny open world and ubisoft some events all over the place and call it a day.
Let’s make car paint slightly shinier and call it a sequel.

• sigh *
  SuperGiant Kart when ?
  

[ocean iris]

Forza is very mid for me

I only like the real cars

it's the FIFA of racing

or smash bros of racing depends how you call it

but the driving physics are amazingly disappointing and unsatisfactory

I like Assetto but I cba to properly set up my cheap wheel

so I just play BeamNG

but yeah racing genre is insanely stagnant

GT7 could have been the game to revive it but ended up being bad

[fathom juniper]

how about a new driver?

now there's a really good racing game - san francisco was amazing

buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut... then the sequel got turned into...
...watch dogs, believe it or not

and now reflections studio is doing...
...actually - what tf are they even up to nowadays anyway?

damn it
https://gamerant.com/ubisoft-reflections-new-open-world-ip/

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

[queen carbon]

[signal kayak]

I'll proceed to not give a damn about Ubisoft as usual
Other than to laugh at them

[polar dragon]

i would love a good arcade racing game
something like redout or a mix between rythm and racing would be great

[vale root]

id play this

[rancid token]

Redout 2 did get announced

[opal pumice]

Too bad you cant play it anymore

[fathom juniper]

I can

[gentle cloak]

It's worrying that Mario Kart seem to be the most innovative games in the racing genre these days. They don't do very much innovating at all, but last I looked into it they innovate, which makes them the leader

[icy bluff]

Crash team racing is also really good

[rancid token]

Well, except that new one kinda shot itself in the foot with MTX

[polar dragon]

Rocket League is a racing game.

[gentle cloak]

I thought it was a sports game

[polar dragon]

Square is a rectangle.

[ocean iris]

motorsports 😎

[dire warren]

is rocket league the one that is basically football but in cars

[fathom juniper]

It’s basically that one top gear episode: the game

[signal kayak]

Oh no!
Anyway...

(that one?)

[maiden ermine]

Yeah, I think so

[fathom juniper]

oh no no no no...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6xZE9F6FuY&ab_channel=YongYea

• wheeze *

what a good news to wake up to

[polar dragon]

Isn't the point of the apes is that no one can take em unless sold?

Ig nothing is nidiot proof

[fathom juniper]

NFTs are genius tbh

it's a gold rush, a pyramid scheme AND an idiot tax all in one

brilliant!

Non Fungible Token?
more like - Non Refundable Token
no refunds, my fren

[alpine vine]

Non functioning testicles

[fathom juniper]

man - cryptobros just can't catch a break
this makes me want ubisoft to actually go along with their NFTs plan and see them fail

and i don't mean "sales were below expectations" fail
i mean "literally only three people bought our NFTs and two of them got hacked" kind of fail

[signal kayak]

NFTs
More like
Ninety Five Tacos

Profanity filter won't let me put exactly what I wanted :/

[signal kayak]

I'm stealing borrowing this one

[fathom juniper]

NoooOOOooOoo!
You can't steal my NFT like that!
i own it!

don't screencap it, nooooo!

[signal kayak]

I'd right click save that but the picture is uglier than sin so not even that

[signal kayak]

Got my eyes set on two games that are similar to Pokémon but are not Pokémon...
Nexomon and temtem
Would you recommend either of those two?

[stable kindle]

isn't temtem still being developed, haven't heard anything about it from people after the initial disgruntled swsh rush

like they haven't gotten to full release yet, i mean. from what i heard

[lusty pendant]

what's this disgruntled swsh rush you speak of

[polar dragon]

Nexomon extinction is kinda fun. More exciting/challenging than some part of the Pokemon franchise.
The humor is there but it could be hit or miss. I personally enjoy it.

[signal kayak]

I've just read that temtem plays online only and may or may not require an online sub so that may be a no for me 😅
Nexomon on the other hand...that looks right up my alley, and the two games are going to be released together again, so...win win

[mint steppe]

tf2 !!!???

https://twitter.com/TeamFortress/status/1529970640224018433?t=OuTYjQ4veYRcdA5vdeskww&s=19

Team Fortress 2 (@TeamFortress)

TF2 community, we hear you! We love this game and know you do, too. We see how large this issue has become and are working to improve things.

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Twitter · May 26, 2022, 11:40 PM

[mint steppe]

also bioshock trilogy is free on epic games store rn https://www.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/uy9jop/epic_games_bioshock_the_collection_free100_off/ia2vinr/

[stable kindle]

when swsh came out

a lot of people looking for an alternative to pokemon around that time to due to how critically swsh was received, and temtem happened to come out around the right time for people to migrate over and try it, either genuinely looking for another game in the genre or looking to tear it down as an inferior product

that was the bulk of temtem's exposure back then

[stable kindle]

and yeah temtem is kinda being developed as this like.. sort of mmo-esque sort of thing

[lusty pendant]

ah

[dire warren]

which one was the one which had the trailer where you used this dumb little sheep man as a meat shield against poachers with guns. that was about swsh time and it uh. certainly was a trailer

[junior crown]

Palworld. And apparently it was in 2021.

[signal kayak]

Sonic 06 of all games has been relisted again...based or stoopid?

[hybrid jetty]

the more people who have access to that game the more we run the risk of people trying to rewrite history as it "not being that bad" and a "misunderstood masterpiece"

jokes aside no games should be delisted unless there's a very very obvious reason

[signal kayak]

Manhunt, for example

[ocean iris]

aw man but i love violence!

[fathom juniper]

oh BOI
was that post topical (at least for me)

i borrowed TLOU2 from a friend - just to give it another fair shot and look at it with a clear mind and some hindsight

and hoooo baby - i can already see myself talking a lot about violence in video games in the near future

[fathom juniper]

ya know what?
on a topic of a... good game, for once

Slay The Spire could really use a good multiplayer mode