general gaming

[weak river]

I believe your theory on the matter is well-founded

[river veldt]

My eyes slide right over that

[quiet swift]

I'm just confused as to why the first half of the game went just fine and the latter half is what's chugging

[visual hill]

did you update drivers recently?

also, FF7R seems to run best if you force DirectX 11 with launch options

[quiet swift]

Just today, I think? But it's been chugging for a couple of days

[hasty patio]

Could just be more assets in the background.

[visual hill]

the DirectX 12 default was a stuttering mess last time I checked, with no real reason to use it (it looks the same)

[quiet swift]

It's not stuttering really when I play, just at some point everything on the entire computer is noticably slower

[visual hill]

does it go away if you restart the game (or the PC)?

[quiet swift]

I admittedly haven't tried! Will do so later today as I've closed the game to have dinner

Game's my biggest suspect, as I streamed cult of the lamb earlier with zero issues

[visual hill]

this seems to be your issue: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII_Remake_Intergrade#Heavy_FPS_drops

(you're on a GPU with 8 GB of VRAM, so that checks out)

forcing DirectX 11 as described below on that page might help a bit

[quiet swift]

Ah, a command line forcing. WIll give it a try when I stream again later

[white phoenix]

you're younger than me?

[fresh bane]

I'm 19

[white phoenix]

I'm 19 but I turn 20 in a month

[green fulcrum]

...Ngl, I thought you were at least mid-20s, Nire.

[quiet swift]

[minor plover]

Hi 19 , I'm dad

[quiet swift]

Damn whippersnappers

[fresh bane]

dammit

[chilly mural]

ya'll mother fuckers a bunch of zoomers

[green fulcrum]

[arctic fern]

would anyone be up for playing a game of some description?

payday, terraria, deeprock, warframe, apex, anything

may or may not be slightly very bored

[river veldt]

Aww if Terraria had crossplay I would totally play with you

[arctic fern]

what do you own it on?

[river veldt]

Switch

[arctic fern]

hecc
i own a switch and wouldnt mind buying the gam,e on it (it costs pennies and i've had hundreds of hours of fun, i dont mind buying it again) but i dont wanna buy a switch online subscription

do you own a pc and steam?

or hecc, a half decent mobile phone?

[river veldt]

I have a pc yeah

[arctic fern]

whats yer steam?

i found you its cool

[river veldt]

Uhh I currently don't have access to my computer

[arctic fern]

tries to send a friend invite
finds this:

[quiet swift]

Woops! https://nltimes.nl/2022/10/30/amsterdam-hotel-may-take-legal-action-due-unwanted-call-duty-depiction

[white phoenix]

Lol first the grand prix map and now this

Its a fun map though

Before the launch, they removed all advertising on a map called grand prix

It was because f1 and the singapore gp "told" them about it, saying it might be too similar in resemblance

Its back as "crown raceway" or something

[quiet swift]

Ooh

[visual hill]

you mean the Hitman mission? or is there a COD map themed around a grand prix?

[white phoenix]

The latter

[dapper cedar]

@river veldt Do you have Switch Quake? Just remembered that has crossplay

[river veldt]

Yeah

[dapper cedar]

Ooh nice, we gotta play some time then

[river veldt]

Yus

[quiet swift]

https://www.eurogamer.net/ikea-send-lawyers-after-this-indie-dev-for-making-a-horror-game-about-a-furniture-store-1

[river veldt]

Isn't this the scp

[slim thorn]

probably

hm

Whilst it doesn't use any of Ikea's products, names, or branding, Ikea believes the developer is infringing on its copyright [...]

[fresh bane]

There's a whole SCP that is entirely a gigantic, seemingly infinite IKEA store where people get send to and started building colonies on

[slim thorn]

"Your game uses a blue and yellow sign with a Scandinavian name on the store, a blue box-like building, yellow vertical stiped shirts identical to those worn by Ikea personnel, a gray path on the floor, furniture that looks like Ikea furniture, and product signage that looks like Ikea signage," the legal paperwork insists. "All the foregoing immediately suggest that the game takes place in an Ikea store."

The lawyers also take issue that even when gaming press haven't made direct connections to Ikea, readers have: "Further, numerous comments by readers of these stories make an association with Ikea stores," the letter says.

[fresh bane]

During the night time, IKEA staff come out and they're considered dangerous creatures

[slim thorn]

ok that's pretty reasonable lol

[arctic fern]

oh yeah, like, its a not-ikea

[weak river]

Here's the article, in case anybody wants more context:
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008

[fresh bane]

There is also already a game about this SCP

[river veldt]

One of my favourites

It's very Backrooms esque

[fresh bane]

I always think suing and sending cease and desist shit over this kind of stuff is so overkill

Especially coming from huge corporations, just like with Nintendo or Disney

It's so incredibly petty in my eyes, you'd think these giant companies would have bigger fish to fry than a simple small indie game

[river veldt]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[fresh bane]

It's so much better to simply either don't give a shit or even better, acknowledge it, because then not only does it get a boost in reach but people start seeing The Brand ™️ in a better light because hey they're being cool about it, isn't that nice?

In the infamous case of AM2R I guess I get it, they wanted to make the remake themselves so they shut that down ,just like with Resident Evil 2 Remake which had something similar happen

but even then you fall into the case of ''we're shutting it down because we're afraid that people won't buy OUR game and will play this fanmade remake that is better and has better features''

fortunately in the case of Metroid 2 Remake, the people cared, and they went on to make probably one of if not the best Metroid game to date

In the case of RE2 the devs working on the fanmade RE2R were invited to Capcom offices I believe

[river veldt]

Nah Dread is definitely the best Metroid game

[slim thorn]

heck, I got invited to the offices of a VN company once, and all I did was a fan translation

[river veldt]

:0

[fresh bane]

damn

[fresh bane]

I can't say because I don't know much about metroid, some really like Prime for example

[river veldt]

I've seen most seasoned Metroid fans say Dread is the best one so far

[fresh bane]

if something like that happened to me, I wouldn't know what to do because I probably would be so lazy that I would be like ''oh god they invited me to their offices!
....across the ocean... ah, I'll just say I'm sick or something ''

[slim thorn]

I think we're usually talking about the 2Ds when we say that though

I have no idea how to meaningfully compare Dread to Prime

[slim thorn]

well, it was after I spent multiple years on the translation, and an official localization company had gotten involved and there was a kickstarter and everything, so by the time that specific offer happened "being lazy" would've been a very odd choice

[fresh bane]

Oh I'm just lazy when going outside is involved

I don't know why I just don't feel like going outside

[slim thorn]

I rarely "feel like it"

everything I want to do involves an electronic device so there's little advantage to it

[fresh bane]

and if my dream ever comes true and I get to work as an artist, I'll probably have little need to actually move since I'll be doing all my work from home, unless I get some sort of contract with a company where I'm required to move out which I doubt I will do because I really don't feel like living on another country or anything

When I was a kid, I had a pretty nice tanned skin because of how much time I spent outside in the sun, nowadays I'm pale like a vampire

I get all toasty pretty quickly too, during the summer times when I workout outside I used to get a nice brown color on my shoulders and arms because that's where the sun would hit me the most

[visual hill]

I have it on PC

[river veldt]

Omg can we all 3 play together

[dapper cedar]

I predict many a deathmatch in the future

[river veldt]

If Doom Eternal had deathmatch I bet I could beat you both, however my Quake skills leave much to be desired

[visual hill]

I just played a bunch of competitive 4on4 but we lost all games 😦

[river veldt]

D:

[dapper cedar]

I'm not very good at Quake but it's fun

[fresh bane]

it doesn't?

[river veldt]

Nop

It's Battlemode now because people didn't like Deathmatch mode in 2016 but then everyone complained about the omission of Deathmatch in Eternal so ?????

[visual hill]

people generally tend to see Doom as a SP-focused game and Quake as a MP-focused game

[river veldt]

True

I think Battlemode is a super cool thing though

[fresh bane]

I do think Doom having online is a bit odd...

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfgrk-latpk

[fresh bane]

https://tech4gamers.com/virtuos-studio-metal-gear-solid-3-remake/?fbclid=IwAR1nYcFalqxJZhf008uxEUb2ds5UKnzHSKoGGhvG2vuFz9yEU2K_mUR0KXY

these rumors for MGS3 have been going on for a long time now, but with SH2R having been anounced they're more likely to happen

I'm just... jesus christ, work up to your remakes for fucks sake!!

You jumped straight into SH2 for a remake instead of making SH1 first which would've greatly benefited from a remake, and now you're planning (allegedly) on remaking MGS3 and not MGS1? Hell, Metal Gear 1 and 2 which fans have been dying for for decades now!

Konami you never learn man

[weak river]

Still waiting for a Ghost Babel remake

[fresh bane]

Like if this is true I'm happy and all but Konami come on you never do things right

Ghost Babel is a title that I doubt a lot of people even know exists unfortunately

A remake of that game is probably never gonna be a thing

Same with the Acid games

[weak river]

We can still dream

[mossy flume]

This reported MGS3 remake leak turned out to be a hoax.

[weak river]

And just like that we can no longer dream

[fresh bane]

Good because that would be downright terrible

An awful choice by Konami

[mossy flume]

Because the video associated with it was using default UE5 assets.

[fresh bane]

I mean

They're using UE5 for SH2

[mossy flume]

Yeah, but they would be very unlikely to be using freely available generic assets for it.

[fresh bane]

Was the video meant to be like a proof of concept or something or was it supposed to be an already slightly finished build?

[mossy flume]

I didn't see it, but my impression is that it was allegedly an announcement trailer

Others theorize it'll be announced at TGA

[fresh bane]

https://twitter.com/GGFTL1/status/1586660348068872194

GGFTL (@GGFTL1)

@AestheticGamer1 I've just found that the video comes from here tho'
A free UE5 assets pack.
This doesn't confirms or denies anything ofc, but it's weird they used this instead of some actual work of their own.

https://t.co/lfiUz2FWmV

▶ Play video

Twitter · Oct 30, 2022, 10:04 AM

https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1/status/1586665317195214849

AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem (@AestheticGamer1)

UNFORTUNATLY, proven false. Sorry for the false alarm, source video found HERE: https://t.co/yDQM8cme5g

But these things getting spread does alert to other things, like this spot I was unaware of: https://t.co/OlL6v8gNw7

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Twitter · Oct 30, 2022, 10:24 AM

[mossy flume]

Yep, fake.

[fresh bane]

on the topic of MGS and therefore Kojima

https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/1586501083685609472

HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN)

I heard the news. I can't believe it. I don't want to believe it. Without Ryan, without you and your music, Death Stranding would not have been born. Your music will live forever in this world and in me. Thank you. Rest in peace.

Low Roar Ryan Karazija (1982-2022)

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Twitter · Oct 29, 2022, 11:31 PM

[mossy flume]

Yeah, I saw that

Surprising and sudden

Complications from pneumonia, it seems.

[visual hill]

reminds me of Nightdive Studios, they like to announce remasters but take years to have anything show up

though in the end, the result is often very good

[hasty patio]

Damn.

[river veldt]

Yee their Doom 64 port is 👌

[quiet swift]

@visual hill https://www.twitch.tv/tchernobogg so i'm running it on dx11 and it's definitely performing better but... this just happened (the colors). Not sure what's going on here. (GPU temps are fine)

[visual hill]

I got a childhood game running
had to use an hex editor to get widescreen FOV… thanks to an obscure YouTube tutorial I found specifically for this (arguably obscure) game

it's Master Rallye

[grand cargo]

it still looks stretched from 4:3 tho

[white phoenix]

that's just the hud

don't know if the actual game is rendered in widescreen though

[gaunt marten]

The game is obviously rendered in widescreen

[craggy vine]

Monster Jam on the DS was one game from my childhood

Played it so much

[light gate]

https://youtu.be/7pEb6wSpCks

They announced that they are now working on Riven.

Still gave me goosebumps seeing this.

[slim thorn]

is this a remake?

[light gate]

Yes

They have a full FAQ

This is a full recreation from the ground up.

[slim thorn]

sweet

[light gate]

The thing is that a group of fans kickstarted this, (like they wanted Cyan to work on it) and just now Cyan has finally confirmed its development.

[quiet swift]

The old Cyan logo always kinda creeped me out with that tonal shift of the music at the end. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FUZ6V6CZtcg

[minor plover]

I got on a roll with today's sedecordle. Look at the order here -- only the top 2 are out of order:

Daily #260
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0️⃣9️⃣⬛1️⃣0️⃣
1️⃣1️⃣⬛1️⃣2️⃣
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1️⃣5️⃣⬛1️⃣6️⃣
1️⃣7️⃣⬛1️⃣8️⃣
sedecordle.com
#sedecordle

[river veldt]

#GuessTheGame #170

🎮 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛

https://GuessThe.Game/

FUCK YEAHHHH

[smoky sonnet]

AYO???

god i need to play myst, i remember watching bits and pieces ages ago and it looked super cool,

[arctic fern]

well that one was easy after the second screenshot

[smoky sonnet]

it was easy after the first imo

havent even played the game

[river veldt]

NOOOO THEY ALWAYS DO THIS

[arctic fern]

yeah i just didnt recognise the screen, but 2 was super obvious if you're even passingly aware of the game

the trouble i've been having with a lot of those is that if i've just not heard about the game or seen anything about it, i've got 0 chance

unless i just google it

[smoky sonnet]

most of the time when i dont get it, its a series with like 5 games and i havent played any of them

[light gate]

http://www.starryexpanse.com/2022/10/31/marking-rivens-25th-anniversary-an-update-from-the-starry-expanse-project/

[smoky sonnet]

more recent games have tripped me up a lot too

[wind stump]

#GuessTheGame #170

🎮 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛

i am not even shocked, lmao

[river veldt]

Feddy

[unreal idol]

We finished the first Danganrompa game over the weekend, gonna dive into the next one sometime on Wednesday

Fucking hell what a game

[river veldt]

Does it have Mario

[chilly mural]

dangit bobby

[unreal idol]

no but it has a murderous bear

[river veldt]

Omg Feddy????

[chilly mural]

close enough

[mossy flume]

Oh excellent, Danganrompa is amazing

And it just KEEPS GETTING BETTER

[unreal idol]

That's what I've heard

Question though, which game in the series do we play next? 2 or Ultra Despair Girls?

[mossy flume]

I can't really say so authoritatively since I never finished UDG

But I went to 2 and then 3 before doing UDG

[unreal idol]

I seem to recall somewhere that the chronology is 1 -> UDG -> 2 -> 3, but the relesae order is 1 -> 2 -> UDG -> 3

[mossy flume]

I think the additional context of 2 might be worth it for UDG, I don't remember exactly when that's placed in the timeline

Yeah I think the chronology is 1 UDG 2 3

But I'm not 100% on that

[unreal idol]

I generally prefer to play/watch things in their release order because that's the closest way to organically experience it like a first time fan

But sometimes putting them in the correct chrnology order may be what's intended/ideal

[mossy flume]

Alas, I need to finish UDG

Should do that before 4 happens

[unreal idol]

4

[mossy flume]

YEP

[unreal idol]

GREAT

[mossy flume]

They made job listings for it

But technically it's unannounced

[unreal idol]

Well at least we have time to get through the rest of the franchise

Have you seen the anime?

[mossy flume]

I have!

[unreal idol]

Worth watching?

[mossy flume]

The anime is basically just the first game in anime form

IIRC

[chilly mural]

do 2 then UDG

[unreal idol]

We might put the anime on the backburner and come back to it after we finish the rest of the series

Don't want to oversaturate ourselves with the events of the first game

[chilly mural]

UDG assumes you've played both 1 and 2 to get context on certain characters in 1 and 2

[unreal idol]

Good to know, 2 it is then

Also, without spoiling anything: Junko is best girl

[mossy flume]

Oh yeah, Kazutaka Kodaka has been working on a new IP

But he recently said he wants to do Dangan 4

And I can really see it happening at some point

[unreal idol]

Nice

[mossy flume]

....absolutely NO FUCKING CLUE what they could do

But he's crazy enough to have some ideas for sure haha

[unreal idol]

I still have a lot of questions after finishing the first game

[mossy flume]

The trilogy is a mindfuck

[unreal idol]

So I'm very eager to play the sequels

[mossy flume]

They're excellent

[unreal idol]

Yeah like I thought the first game was a pretty solid mindfuck too

And everyone around me says the sequels just amp it up and are way better

[mossy flume]

Yep.

They keep one-upping themselves

[slim thorn]

should we have a Danganrompa thread?

[unreal idol]

Probably not nescessary yet unless 4 gets announced and it generates a ton of hype

[mossy flume]

Mmmm I'm not sure if that's strictly needed

Yeah

[unreal idol]

i'm just riding the fumes off of finishing the first game in the series

[mossy flume]

Unless we want to start talking spoilers

[unreal idol]

we've been playing it at a friend's house when we visit, so our progress through it is inconsistent

But we literally stayed up all night Friday just to finish the very end of chapter 5 and blitzed through all of chapter 6 in one sitting, with a brief break for dinner in the middle

Very excited for more

[rough sleet]

https://youtu.be/zGaRBHkbQXQ

[visual hill]

Fortnite Sidescroller Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is free to claim on GOG: https://www.gog.com/

if you intend to try it, consider using Jazz² Resurrection to run it: http://deat.tk/jazz2/

[thorny loom]

https://www.pcgamer.com/electronic-arts-is-making-at-least-three-marvel-games/

[arctic fern]

are they going to be starwars ea games or actually good games?

[wind stump]

The Willow Experience

[spiral kraken]

https://fxtwitter.com/Caddicarus/status/1586863659455848453 POGS INTENSIFY

[river veldt]

Hey, Fallen Order was pretty good

[mossy flume]

Fallen Order and Squadrons

[arctic fern]

tht was after "ea singlehandedly makes governments realise lootboxes are gambling"

[mossy flume]

Yep

[arctic fern]

and also after "like 3 starwars games in 10 years"

[mossy flume]

Squadrons was a skunkworks thing though

So that doesn't really count

[river veldt]

Was Squadrons good?

[mossy flume]

It is!

I quite enjoyed it

[river veldt]

Also isn't Battlefront 1 canon

Er

Semi canon

[mossy flume]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[river veldt]

Cuz it has Battle of Jakku doesn't it

[mossy flume]

Oh, the story campaign?

Battlefront II's story campaign is canon

[sage iris]

Fallen order was genuinely such an amazing game, it very quickly earned a spot on my favorite games of all time list

[mossy flume]

Yeah, it's one of the best SW games in a long time

[sage iris]

not just one the best SW games, it's just really fun without even the SW branding. That's the best part

[mossy flume]

Indeed

[dapper cedar]

Finally, my childhood

[mossy flume]

KotOR is the same way, just one of the best RPGs out there.

[sage iris]

Respawn is one of those really good studios which don't disappoint. You know they're gonna make a good game

[river veldt]

I think they should make KOTOR canon again

[arctic fern]

wonder when EA will kill the studio

[sage iris]

I'm glad they let Respawn make fallen order

[dapper cedar]

I think bits and pieces have been brought back into canon

[river veldt]

Oh good

[mossy flume]

Yep

Andor made more KotOR canon. Just a single line, but it was an interesting drop

Star Wars media has been gradually making KotOR canon again

Bits and pieces, but regularly getting more and more

One of the many many full length film projects they're working on is said to be a KotOR film directly.

[sage iris]

I want my promised half life and portal movies

[wind stump]

well shit
did a unbox and got a Tour of Duty ticket
back to the MvM grind

[fresh bane]

I still think Jedi Academy, TFU and Battlefront 2 are some of the best Star Wars games ever made personally

Jedi Academy is super fun despite its slight jankiness (watch Jerma's playthrough to see some insane shit), TFU is an amazing power fantasy and some of the funnest gameplay ever made topped with an interesting protagonist and plot, and Battlefront 2 is just the most fun I've ever had as a kid, such a good game that I unfortunately never experienced the online for

[chilly mural]

I think theres still a community for it

but yeah, OG Battlefront 2 is still tight as fuck

the GOAT

[pseudo surge]

Omg, you slurp people to heal them XD

[quiet swift]

[pseudo surge]

[wind stump]

he is a frog

[chilly mural]

[wind stump]

welp
RNGESUS TAKE THE WHEEL!

[dense crypt]

star trek online is FAAAAABulous with its fashion

i like military themed outfits lol

[wind stump]

c:

... Now that's a lot of damage.

let's finish this.

[quartz pawn]

https://fxtwitter.com/JakeSucky/status/1587108409475620867?t=GAOL6NfbIco4C097XdeoKQ&s=19

[wind stump]

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

FUCK YOU HEART
FUCK YOU WATCHER

[quiet swift]

https://www.twitch.tv/tchernobogg back to more ff7 remake. Doing the Yuffie intermission!

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/6MP9d3aSwM8

another nerrel video let's goo

if anyone cares about the steam deck and all its tech details then I recommend

[river veldt]

Gabe

[quiet swift]

I did manage to find my steam controller again

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/CAmQ5ODJJfA

[river veldt]

Yooooo

[sonic dune]

https://youtu.be/Lz6muYy20Mg

Red DooM Redemption

[weak river]

"Cowboy vampire hunter" is a very specific and exceptionally potent motif

Game certainly looks interesting.

[sonic dune]

They had me at weird-west aesthetic

[sonic dune]

Probably because it allows the writer and audience to take the "indian hunter" motif and make it not racist, imperialist, and just all around horrible

You get all the badass moments of hunting a human like creater without hunting actual humans for their race

[gaunt marten]

Help https://i.imgur.com/8c9IJ8j.png

I picked up too many vassals

Now they're all kinda mad at me

[hasty patio]

Did you take the Noble decision that lowers their liberty desire?

In the immediate term, I'd drop Mulhouse and Utrecht unless you're trying to fuck around with the HRE.

And if you can afford it, just have more divisions/boats out in general.

If you sense that some of these vassals might try to break free, go ahead and replace their leadership with someone of your house. Saves a step later and might get you a PU that will be easier to deal with.

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

I am definitely trying to dismantle the HRE

I'm at my army and navy limits, so no new ships for me

[hasty patio]

You can go over, but it costs money to do so.

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, money is more important than vassals

I managed to get the parliament decision that helps with vassals, and I just finished annexing the Isles

[hasty patio]

What is your vassal limit?

Also, another thing you can do is try to build up trust with your vassals to at least 80. That'll make it harder for them to try to jump away.

[gaunt marten]

Building trust is so slow though

[hasty patio]

Since everyone there is technically allied, it's a little easier and should come in time. That said, it might be faster and easier to just eat them.

[gaunt marten]

I don't know what a vassal limit is, but my diplomatic relation limit is here https://i.imgur.com/63zGN4Q.png

[hasty patio]

That's my apology for the wrong terminology.

And you have strong duchies to boot.

Might want to marry a few of those leading vassals if you want to keep them longer.

[gaunt marten]

Yeah. Next Vassal to go would be Montferrat, as soon as they forget about how I annexed all the other vassals

They all refuse to marry because of their government, except Scotland which is just pissy

[hasty patio]

If you can eat the penalty, Nobility Integration Policy would solve the Dip penalty.

[gaunt marten]

I already got that but I'm waiting on relations from before it to recover

[hasty patio]

So you're on the waiting game then. Just hope none of your allies calls you in while you just maintain things.

In the meantime, keep Prestige and Power Projection up.

[gaunt marten]

Oh the situation is highly stable as long as France doesn't call on its coalition https://i.imgur.com/ol9zHDa.png

That's the reason I'm saving money up

[hasty patio]

That's going to suck when it goes away after 25 years or so.

[gaunt marten]

I'm not sure I understand

[hasty patio]

I assume you got that CB from the mission tree. If so, those only last for 20-25 years before they go away.

[gaunt marten]

Doesn't really bother me to lose the CB because I wasn't gonna use it anyway

[hasty patio]

Fair, but it makes it a one-time war and puts them in a PU, versus splitting them apart or feeding Brittany (since they are a PU already).

[gaunt marten]

I plan to eat Brittany

[hasty patio]

So it is just a matter of having enough buffer allies in the HRE to let you fight in France without hassle then.

[quiet swift]

Hmm. What are team PVE that aren't too dark? Something akin to deep rock galactic type of game. That, vermintide, back 4 blood and so on come to mind but they're all fairly dark.
Mostly thinking of games to try with my (notoriously picky) fiancée and two others. We already have gunfire and we've gotten tired of it, she doesn't really enjoy the setting of Borderlands, and I'm kinda running out of ideas of other ones that aren't grimdark or just, well, dark colored

[mossy flume]

Sea of Thieves, Destiny 2, Monster Hunter Rise, Warframe, RuneScape…

[quiet swift]

SoT is definitely not her type. I'd have to check destiny 2, we already have Rise and finished it and she was meh about it (and doesn't want to do sunbreak). Warframe is too fast... and isn't runescape an mmo?

[mossy flume]

I think you’re out of luck

FFXIV or EVE Online

For offline games for team PvE that exclude mature themes I think you’re extremely limited in your choices

Overcooked?

[wise frigate]

@gaunt marten eee use the Paradox thread

[gaunt marten]

No

[river veldt]

Why

[gaunt marten]

Why should I?

The people I want to see my posts are here and not there

Additionally I'm already tracking too many channels

[true maple]

ah, divorce simulator

[chilly mural]

is there some lore I'm missing from that statement?

[true maple]

you have to have a really good brainular connection to not get pissed at your teammates in overcooked

or more likely, have them pissed at you

[chilly mural]

oh yeah, I guess

[quiet swift]

No divorces, but example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qALmKaStYZc

[heady bridge]

Well it certainly explains why Gordon Ramsey swears so much

[quiet swift]

https://youtu.be/2K7T5LXQPJI

[gaunt marten]

When's the date?

[wind stump]

Well now that I'm done with Watcher forever time to see what the Other Side has for me to partake in today

[thorny loom]

Lol https://www.pcgamer.com/overwatch-2s-rewards-are-so-miserly-you-can-earn-coins-faster-by-playing-wow-instead/

A legendary skin now takes around seven months to earn without whipping out a credit card.

[dense crypt]

Sounds right

Blizzard be Blizzard

[rough sleet]

nice, outlast 2 is on sale

time to shit myself

[wind stump]

so many effects

OOH LORE

[dense crypt]

Yo is that two who

Nah probably not

[wind stump]

it is a touhou, yes

[dense crypt]

Good

[quiet swift]

Dec 6

[gaunt marten]

Neat

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1944570/view/3408688498603351423

Boneraiser Minions got a brotato update

For anyone confused, Brotato is a similar game https://store.steampowered.com/app/1942280/Brotato/

Steam

Brotato

A spaceship from Potato World crashes onto an alien planet. The sole survivor: Brotato, the only potato capable of handling 6 weapons at the same time. Waiting to be rescued by his mates, Brotato must survive in this hostile environment.FeaturesAuto-firing weapons by default with a manual aiming optionFast runs (under 30 minutes)Dozens of charac...

Price

$4.99

Recommendations

6763

▶ Play video

[grim stirrup]

the brotato demo was super fun, i should at least wishlist the full game

[gaunt marten]

Unlike most other games in the genre it's more faithful to Crimsonlands

[visual hill]

Godot game represent

[river veldt]

#GuessTheGame #171

🎮 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛

https://GuessThe.Game/

[gaunt marten]

I want this but for indie games

[river veldt]

There are indie games in this though

[gaunt marten]

Not in the correct proportion

I want it to have no AAAs because I don't really play those

[river veldt]

I haven't played most of them either but I still know of them

[gaunt marten]

Yes but I don't wanna be reminded of them

It's not that I don't know them

It's that I'm morally opposed to them

[river veldt]

?????

This is just a silly wordle clone lmao

[gaunt marten]

I'm morally opposed to AAA games, not the silly wordle clone

[river veldt]

It's not like all aaa games are bad

[gaunt marten]

Yes, some are fine

But I still want an indie only guess the game

[quiet swift]

Then make it :X

[wind stump]

rate my build

[thorny loom]

Yes

[wind stump]

[quiet swift]

I saw an elden ring one too

Also kickstarter. Feels like it just autogenerates a box with the cover art for whatever game's around

[wind stump]

THE BOI

[fresh bane]

downloaded this game to test how it runs and it runs excellently even on ultra settings!

look at how gorgeous it is

i might end up buying it after all

[river veldt]

What is it

[light gate]

||Activate Windows||

[fresh bane]

Sifu!

[fresh bane]

Never

[river veldt]

Activate Win🅱️ows

[gaunt marten]

Just use pirate tools to make the activate windows watermark go away

[white phoenix]

like this https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

[fresh bane]

I already did that once but then it seemed to deactivate again for some reason

[fresh bane]

it's safe right?

[wind stump]

Back when I used my old craptop I found some shady site with Windows Enterprise keys that worked, somehow

[white phoenix]

I used it

who knows lol

the r/piracy subreddit seems to recommend it

[fresh bane]

[visual hill]

SIFU looked pretty interesting but alas, it went largely unnoticed

it's a fairly small budget game but seems to be punching above its weight in terms of production value

(also, it's made by French people :P)

[gaunt marten]

A lot of streamers I watch played it

[fresh bane]

I watched two streamers I like playing it and they LOVED it

it was right up their alley as character action game players

it's super fun, and very well made, but yes it unfortunately went super unnoticed which is a huge shame because it's fantastic

that's why this time I want to test it and see if I wanna buy it rather than pirating it like I usually do

[slim thorn]

I didn't even hear about Sifu until maybe a month ago

[river veldt]

I haven't heard of Sifu until now

[visual hill]

"TIFU when I haven't heard of Sifu"

[fresh bane]

Sifu is pretty popular within mod communities

The game quickly received a lot of mods

https://youtu.be/ybhFYJ0Wvrw

https://youtu.be/yB4goChIM28

they're pretty cool admittedly

I personally wanna try out the Cammy or Chun Li mods

Once again the modding community doing gods work

[chilly mural]

https://vxtwitter.com/viuvasdokof/status/1579259482403930112

I like the luong one

[fresh bane]

I don't know who she is but like all mods in Sifu it looks great

OH GOD

SHE JUST KILLED THAT GUY

jesus christ

[chilly mural]

Luong is from king of fighters

[white phoenix]

this picture is hilarious

[chilly mural]

she's kinda like a toned down Juri of that series

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/LpRAK_Omzl8

so many mods for this game

https://youtu.be/nUFxdaUBePM
@river veldt would probably like this one

[river veldt]

Batman

[fresh bane]

baman

bmn

[river veldt]

b

[fresh bane]

🦇

[river veldt]

What suit is that I can't tell

[fresh bane]

Telltale

[river veldt]

Oooh

It looks like a mix of Bale and a comic suit

[unreal quest]

I love overclocked "Dawn" engines in KSP

2Mm/s

3Mm/s

[river veldt]

Sorry that was a bit memey

[unreal quest]

anyways, I'm going at 1.5% of the speed of light, which is... not bad.

[gaunt marten]

Is there a good way to ping everyone in a thread here?

Can we use it instead of game roles?

Supposedly @everyone only applies to people in a thread but I don't think there's a way to enable it in small threads but disable it in the rest of the server

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/140359933341204481/743937644001624144/image0.gif

[river veldt]

Baba no

[slim thorn]

hm… I do see a per-channel override for it, and a forum is a channel

[river veldt]

Hmm

Do it Ix

[slim thorn]

I’d like to hear a few more opinions before actually trying it

[gaunt marten]

Well it only makes sense for games where you want to ping everyone interested

Like pickup groups or for sharing DnD news

[slim thorn]

if only because it’s 1 am here so I don’t want to make controversial changes

[gaunt marten]

Maybe it should also have a tag for which threads have pings

[slim thorn]

There are no per-thread/post permissions

If we flip this, it’s for all of #1032714873009872967

[gaunt marten]

Oh hmm

[slim thorn]

so yeah, other people please chime in on whether “ping everyone in the thread for <game>” sounds like a feature worth enabling

[rugged flax]

Pretty sure doing an everyone in a forum thread would ping the entire server

[slim thorn]

maybe we need to play with this in a test server

if that would ping the whole server then it’s not worth the risk

[rugged flax]

someone go do it in Avengers

[slim thorn]

ping me tomorrow when I’m awake

[minor plover]

I would rather not have group pings enabled in game threads

[gaunt marten]

For some it makes perfect sense like when you want people to play with

[minor plover]

I'd rather have it be an explicit ping opt-in. Like I want to read about Minecraft but not get Minecraft pings, so I'm in the thread but don't have the role.

[gaunt marten]

That makes sense. If everyone pings were implemented you would have to opt out instead of opting in, and opting out also opts you out of all notifications

[gaunt marten]

https://i.imgur.com/vNCC1Wm.png

What the fuck, dude, we were allies!

Castille ate Aragon, formed Spain, broke our alliance and then declared me a rival

[hasty patio]

IIRC, forming Spain gives them a few extra things in Europe to go after.

[gaunt marten]

Yes but they broke the alliance immediately

Even before getting the claims

I did change my religion to Anglican https://i.imgur.com/vCNGG6l.png

[hasty patio]

This is salvageable in time, but it will be a bit.

[grim stirrup]

well that alone is probably reason enough to keep a seperate general gaming channel if per thread pings are wanted

[quiet swift]

https://www.pcgamer.com/embracer-shuts-down-square-enix-montreal-two-months-after-buying-it seems to be a mobile game studio. Hitman Go, Tomb Raider Go... never even heard of these

[bleak lintel]

They were acting as a support studio for the new Fable game, that is the only noteworthy thing outside of the mobile stuff.

[quiet swift]

[thorny loom]

https://www.pcgamer.com/ea-plans-to-release-a-major-game-before-april-but-wont-say-what-it-is/

[rough sleet]

https://youtu.be/F3Iee7ZHHZE

[random steppe]

It looks so good, it's like Bioshock if it kept being good after the 1st one

[grave tide]

Poggers

[river veldt]

Wtf

[random steppe]

That may have been a bit harsh, but I broadly stand by it, Bioshock 1 was the best one by far

[quiet swift]

oof, february

[slim thorn]

I enjoyed all three Bioshocks though I don't think any of them were a best-of-all-time candidate; I think most of the critical reception drop was the novelty wearing off after the first

(especially with Bioshock 2 since that was a textbook "more of the same" sequel; lots of people disliked it because they expected a much bigger difference than X new levels)

[rancid herald]

I noticed my fallen order has an update queued, so it's possible

[random steppe]

I think that Andrew Ryan and the exploration of his worldview and why it led Rapture to ruin (or rather, why it was a doomed idea from the start) was what made Bioshock great, and the subsequent games at most rethread the same ground already explored in the 1st one (Bioshock 2) or are nowhere near as proficent at exploring a similar subject (Bioshock Infinite)

Bioshock infinite is also a worse game because 2 weapons COD style is a dumb way to do FPSs IMO

Or at least, a dumb way to do Bioshock

[graceful bridge]

https://blog.playstation.com/2022/11/02/playstation-vr2-launches-in-february-at-549-99/

During this initial launch phase for our next-gen headset, players in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg will initially be able to pre-order PlayStation VR2 solely through PlayStation’s online store at direct.playstation.com. Pre-orders will begin on November 15, and players may begin to register for pre-orders starting today. Orders from direct.playstation.com for PlayStation VR2 headsets and bundles will ship throughout the week of launch.

In other markets, PlayStation VR2 will be sold at participating retailers, with pre-orders beginning on November 15. Information will be provided through participating local retailers in these regions.

[river veldt]

https://twitter.com/harddrivemag/status/1587550174343208963?s=46&t=KQgZ0LdDpXKOlHbkPOf9oA

Hard Drive (@HardDriveMag)

Gamer Needs to Gamify Playing Video Games In Order to Get Through Gaming

https://t.co/ENHA4G17Fm

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Twitter · Nov 1, 2022, 9:00 PM

This one is a bit too real

[thorny loom]

https://www.pcgamer.com/frontier-acquires-the-studio-behind-warhammer-40k-daemonhunters-with-an-eye-to-more-ambitious-future-titles/

[hasty patio]

That might be worrying.

[rough sleet]

I mean, it is

but soviet one

[quiet swift]

Anyone here play octopath traveler? Was just watching my fiancée play it a bit and I had a question about the battle mechanics

[chilly mural]

I played it

[uneven epoch]

oh?

the game is really fun, ask ahoy

[uneven epoch]

very excited for 2

[quiet swift]

Yeah i'll play it later myself

[chilly mural]

yeah, sixteenth traveler

[quiet swift]

Well, I'm guessing the symbols underneath are weaknesses? Or at least, the best things to attack the mob with. However, I saw one such symbol be blue, another red. What's the significance of the colors?

[chilly mural]

those are magic elements

[uneven epoch]

blue for ice, red for fire n such

[chilly mural]

yellow is lighting/thunder

[uneven epoch]

green is wind, purple is darkness n light yellow is light

[quiet swift]

So if she hits with that, the color doesn't actually mean anything other than being that magic type

[uneven epoch]

no, that means weakness

[quiet swift]

The two on the left for example

[uneven epoch]

so if theres a symbol for say, axe, use axe attacks to break the enemy faster

once the enemy´s shield is broken you deal much more damage

[quiet swift]

Right, that much I got from the start. But the fact the fire is red, does that mean anything in particular?

[uneven epoch]

fire magic

you get magic attacks as you level up

[chilly mural]

or items imbedded with fire magic

[uneven epoch]

that also, yes

[quiet swift]

I think I'm explaining my question wrong. I understand that it's fire magic, just based on the symbol alone (the flying thing on the left has that blue cross which seems ice). But the color is just there to help you identify what magic it is, yes? Not like "red means even more crit" and blue is just "a bit more crit"

[uneven epoch]

oh, no

its just color codin the elements in the way they usually are in rpgs

now i get what ya were askin

[quiet swift]

Okay that was my question I just saw it happen in the fight and wondered why all other symbols were gray and that one not

But it's just coding so that's all good

[uneven epoch]

right, grey are for weapon types

or well, white

[quiet swift]

[uneven epoch]

whenever i play octopath im legally obligated to sit on the main menu screen n loop the music for at least two minutes, the game has such a good ost

[quiet swift]

That's me with D:OS 2 menu music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WegQy3aUo-Y

[thorny loom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCSSBlqv2K8

[quiet swift]

Chrome (or google) what are you doing. There's now a glow around videos? (the left side)

Ah, found it

[uneven epoch]

pll durin last direct b like "holy shit pikmin 4 n bayonetta on switch n botw 2 title reveal" n i was over there like "HOLY SHIT OCTOPATH TRAVELER II AND THE MUSIC IS REMAKE OF MAIN MENU AND IS THAT A C H O R U S ????"

it was great

[wind stump]

you love to see it (100 KS with Medic)

[chilly mural]

people's names on TF2 will never change

[river veldt]

Oh no
Doctor Sex is unstoppable

[sage iris]

god I love this game so much

and its OST is illegally fire especially for a fantasy game. It literally has no business being this bangin

[quiet swift]

Someone gifted me Baldur's Gate 3 like a year or two ago. I'm looking forward to seeing what Larian are doing with it, I haven't touched it yet

[sage iris]

I have intentionally remained completely blind regarding BG3

I'm waiting for the game to get finished up so I can experience it as a whole experience at once

[quiet swift]

Yeah that's what I'm doing. It's just taunting me in my library

[river veldt]

@wind stump HAVE YOU SEEN THIS I'M SOBBING RIGHT NOW
https://vxtwitter.com/nintendoamerica/status/1587792137646653440?s=46&t=nXNwDwhzVVD50U7TprR65g

[thorny loom]

https://t.co/5S687G0CdG

[wind stump]

cha-ching, baybee

[dense crypt]

crusaders crossbow, too

that ones gotta be worth a fortune

[wind stump]

translates to about £7.49 in money collected once it sells

[chilly mural]

[wind stump]

Yoooo Dr. F*tus as The Lost! What could possibly go wrong?

[river veldt]

Those who know Those who don't know

There

Wait no

Flip those

I fucked it up

#GuessTheGame #172

🎮 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛

https://GuessThe.Game/

[wind stump]

YAAAAAAS

fucking Brimstone from Mystery Gifting in the Devil Room
GOD I'M SO GOOD

[river veldt]

Yoo

[wind stump]

i still died tho because Lost lmao

[visual hill]

I got it on second guess too, definitely a lucky roll for me

I got yesterday's game on 1st guess, also a lucky roll

[slim thorn]

since I've never played it, I needed the Original Platform hint to guess it

#GuessTheGame #172

🎮 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛

https://GuessThe.Game/

[visual hill]

I've never played it either

[arctic fern]

i needed one shot on it lol
i wasnt sure which one it was, but i guessed

[slim thorn]

well, I also had no idea which franchise it was on the first screenshot

[arctic fern]

yeah it kind of sucks if you dont know the franchise

just in general

there are so many games out there

[slim thorn]

I've only played ||Aria and Portrait|| myself, so the aesthetic of this era isn't familiar to me

[arctic fern]

i havent played this franchise at all

but i've seen vids

[slim thorn]

I have not seen vids

[quiet swift]

The ||moon|| is what gave me the hint, also never played any of them though. #GuessTheGame #172

🎮 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛

https://GuessThe.Game/

[slim thorn]

same, that's what made me sure about which franchise

[arctic fern]

oh i havent checked the other pictures lol, yeah that moon is super obvious, but that last screenshot is just giving it away

[quiet swift]

I initially was thinking perhaps ||metroid|| but the second screen made me rethink

[slim thorn]

I was pretty sure it wasn't that just because ||I've played every game, I'd've known immediately ||

[cerulean herald]

I guessed it was ||probably castlevania, I just didn't know the specific game smh||

[arctic fern]

||same, i just guessed the first option that popped up as an option lol||

[dapper cedar]

I have wanted this for years
https://youtu.be/fZSv084R9Vc

[quiet swift]

I haven't played any of either franchise so I wasn't sure

[quiet swift]

I think they tend to go for the most well known of a series first, unless they do a repeat of another game in the series. WHich i think I've seen one or two happen

[grim stirrup]

you should play at least that one, ||symphony of the night|| is probably the best ||metroidvania|| to exist even now

[quiet swift]

Wasn't it put on phones at some point?

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/VPyoy3-e8Zw

oh my god imagine a Batman game with this type of in depth combat system

[quiet swift]

Man, is february the new christmas?

[wind stump]

(Epic exclusive for a year)
Oh so 100% discount?

[fresh bane]

I don't understand what's wrong in the pic?

[quiet swift]

Usually publishers published games around Xmas since that's gift giving time, but I think too many are focusing around that, or it's too much of a timecrunch to make that schedule, so a lot of games are being pushed back

And it ends up being february that gets the brunt of a lot of big releases these days

[fresh bane]

Ahhh, well I guess it makes sense for non AAA game devs

Personally I'm of the opinion of: release it when it's ready, not for any specific date
so games being pushed back, if it means more dev time, is fine by me no matter when they release

[quiet swift]

Agreed, though it seems february is around the time they're focusing on. Chances are it's because that's possibly the start/end of a financial quarter or something, so big releases are at that time to make the new year/quarter look good

[river veldt]

I've never played it, but was still able to get it in 2

[fresh bane]

also unrelated but I downloaded the Cammy mod for Sifu and it works excellently it looks so good

believe it or not this makes the game more fun

the takedowns in the game are great

also don't judge my activate windows thingy

[river veldt]

A c t i v a t e w i n d o w s

[green fulcrum]

Daaaaaamn.

[fresh bane]

damn is right

somehow they made her model fit with the aesthetic of the game really well

probably tinkered around with the shaders or something

it has that painterly cel shaded effect

[minor plover]

🔺

[visual hill]

activate kirin!

or else…

[fresh bane]

I didn't know she was a kirin

[gaunt marten]

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

I like this game, but a quick tutorial would've made figuring proximity sensors a lot easier

The game doesn't tell you at all that you have to stand still to avoid triggering them.

https://youtu.be/qhDITEJ7pi0 GDQ did a run on it recently, which is how I finally figured out how they worked

[robust spear]

https://fxtwitter.com/Undlark/status/1587612159911002112

[gaunt marten]

https://www.gog.com/en/game/destroy_all_humans_clone_carnage

100% off

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/78086/

It's a mod that makes the blind bandit near Whiterun spot you if you don't sound like one of the bandits

[heady bridge]

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

ooof

[quiet swift]

https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/cyberpunk-2077-gets-4k-8k-textures-for-walls-roads-vegetation-more/

[wind stump]

sick now i can noclip through a wall in 8k

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11u7z2tgEqI

[thorny loom]

Lol

https://www.pcgamer.com/parasite-eve-rumour-is-actually-just-a-terrible-square-enix-nft-thing-and-fans-are-pissed/

[graceful bridge]

https://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/nintendo-switch-bundle-and-game-deals-light-up-a-festive-range-of-black-friday-offers-from-nintendo/

[bleak lintel]

Skyward Sword is also 30$ right now at Target.

[wind stump]

with or without the amiibo

[visual hill]

it's strange to see HD texture packs for new games so early

[river veldt]

Cyberpunk came out 2 years ago

[visual hill]

when I look at most games released after 2015, I rarely think they need HD textures since the stock textures are already so high-resolution

[river veldt]

Oh I see

[slim thorn]

I'm used to "HD texture" being applied to games that predate HD in general

so that usage does feel odd

[river veldt]

Damn God of War Ragnarok is getting 10/10s across the board

https://twitter.com/shinobi602/status/1588201487280525313?s=46&t=XpdebKccV_PKVQOcHl22lQ

Shinobi602 (@shinobi602)

#GodofWarRagnarok | Reviews

IGN - 10
GamingBolt - 10
Gaming Nexus - 10
NextGenBase - 10
Push Square - 10
Press Start - 10
VGC -5/5
Twinfinite - 5/5
EGM - 5/5
Game Informer - 9.5
Gamespot - 9
Easy Allies - 9

MC: 94
https://t.co/tD51wCyRvf

OC: 94
https://t.co/BCkLtDj5us

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Twitter · Nov 3, 2022, 4:08 PM

Crazy

Must be pretty good

If only I had a PS5 to play it

[thorny loom]

Give it a year or two and itll be on pc

[young creek]

I thought god of war had a pretty recent game

[thorny loom]

Yeah this is it lol

[river veldt]

The last one came out in 2018

[thorny loom]

^

[river veldt]

If only I had a PC that could run it

[thorny loom]

You have time to save up!

[river veldt]

True!

[gaunt marten]

If only I had the income to save up

[river veldt]

But

There's also a slight chance the next Nintendo console will come out in 1 to 2 years, which takes priority for me

[gaunt marten]

https://xkcd.com/606/

xkcd: Cutting Edge

I remember trying to log in to the original Command and Conquer servers a year or two back and feeling like I was knocking on the boarded-up gates of a ghost town.

[river veldt]

Lol

[gaunt marten]

It's a genuine strategy for people who don't need to play online multiplayer with strangers

[river veldt]

I mean I only played Half Life 2 this April so I understand this

[gaunt marten]

Only counts if you delay all games for monetary reasons

[grim stirrup]

i just play so few triple A games that it doesn't matter as much

[gaunt marten]

Yes but then you get the occasional teardown and it still matters

[mossy flume]

Amazing, making the game even more impossible to render in real-time

[quiet swift]

Right?

[thorny loom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sopC6r_qC2E

[gaunt marten]

Heroes of Might and Magic series is 75% off https://www.gog.com/en/games?query=heroes of might and magic&order=desc:score

I recommend 3 for anyone, and 4 and 5 if you liked 3.

You can also apply https://sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/

Or you could just buy the remaster https://store.steampowered.com/app/297000/Heroes_of_Might__Magic_III__HD_Edition/ but I haven't tried that

Steam

Heroes® of Might & Magic® III - HD Edition

Important note: Heroes III – HD Edition content is based on the original 1999 game: The Restoration of Erathia. Do you remember all those sleepless nights spent fighting Black Dragons and Archangels, Demons and Necromancers? Were you a true fan of Heroes® of Might & Magic® III? We have great news for you!The most popular Heroes® title of all tim...

Price

$14.99

Recommendations

13332

Metacritic

65

▶ Play video

The downside is the official HD edition doesn't have any of the expansions

[river veldt]

#GuessTheGame #173

🎮 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥

https://GuessThe.Game/

[slim thorn]

ah, not my genre at all

[river veldt]

Yep lmao

[slim thorn]

although I did guess the correct series at least

[river veldt]

The only reason I recognised the name is because there's a reference to it in Minecraft lmao

[gaunt marten]

Minecraft has an Undertale reference?!

[grim stirrup]

#GuessTheGame #173

🎮 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛

https://GuessThe.Game/ its a good game

[river veldt]

Damn good job Chip

[gaunt marten]

#GuessTheGame #173

🎮 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛

For some reason it ate my input and gave me an empty submission on the second one

I played that one a lot, but ||I played the first game way more||

[arctic fern]

the first image made me think of a very different game

[gaunt marten]

Yep. I was like "Noita? Scorched Earth? What the fuck is this?"

[graceful bridge]

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/vermintide2giveaway

[quiet swift]

#GuessTheGame #173

🎮 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛

https://GuessThe.Game/ I knew at the first screen, but wasn't sure which entry it was

[arctic fern]

honestly guess the game makes me feel bad, because sometimes is super easy to guess it on the first screenshot and sometimes you've just got no idea because you've just not heard of the game before

[quiet swift]

https://imgur.com/gallery/fqmFdBV "Geothermal plant by Stevefamine for Kill Team / Warhammer 40k" about 20-30 pics and gifs!

[slim thorn]

guessing games in general are only fun when you don't come at them with any expectation of performance

I treat it more like discovering fun facts about my own game memory

like how even though I've played next to nothing in this genre, I was 100% sure what the genre was by screenshot 2

[quiet swift]

And a lot of them I haven't played. Just some that are a genre I don't play at all or don't know which one it is in an entry that screw me up

[slim thorn]

and it always feels like an achievement if I can guess the game despite having never played it (which has happened a few times)

then there's the days where you instantly go "I KNOW THAT ROCK " and get it in one lol

[quiet swift]

That was me today with that ||fog||

I just hesitated as to which one it was

[slim thorn]

you know I never went back and tried older ones before now

but GTG#2 literally was an "I know that rock" I got in one try

[quiet swift]

I went through the whole thing lol

[slim thorn]

(although I don't remember where that rock is, I just recognize the textures/style)

[grim stirrup]

just took a peek at it, #2 is hella recognisable by style if you know it

[quiet swift]

I think one of the first entries the channel did was League, and I didn't know the exact rock but I knew the artstyle

[grim stirrup]

at least early on, they're pretty well known games

[quiet swift]

Yeah my best scores were early

then I got annihilated by some

[grim stirrup]

the first one ||i just didn't know which mass effect it was, but it was obviously a mass effect|| and 10 ||i thought was ape escape untill i got it||

[quiet swift]

Let's see, the ones I got in one are: 1, 4, 5, 6, 13, 22, 24, 40, 118, 142, 156, 164, 165, 166

[quiet swift]

I knew which one that was from that first screen, since that particular area is a pretty important scene for one specific character

[grim stirrup]

i've never actually played that series

[quiet swift]

It's very, very worth it. Especially with the Legendary Edition release bring it it all up to spec

[slim thorn]

I've played that series but also had no idea what that particular area was in the first screen

I'm sorry it's just a bunch of brown rocks lol

[quiet swift]

I can name it in spoilers if ya want

[slim thorn]

sure

[quiet swift]

|| It's Tali's homeworld. At that point you've taken it back from the Geth and fought a reaper, but I think you have to make a choice to support Tali or Legion and she reacts very negatively if you support Legion||

[slim thorn]

huh

[quiet swift]

Oh, it's more ||supporting geth vs quarians as for who will help against the reapers in the final battles||

And yeaaaah she doesn't take one option well

[mossy flume]

There is ||one way to make both parties happy, but it requires the most effort and you need to make several correct choices beforehand||

[quiet swift]

I think I managed that. I think I was at or near 100% for the game

[mossy flume]

I think that's actually the hardest outcome in the game to get

[quiet swift]

I was dedicated

[mossy flume]

It's the one I got in my playthrough as well

[quiet swift]

I think i did insanity level for 1 and 2, but I think I did normal or hard for 3. Need to go through it again for Steam

What class did you play? I know my first playthrough made #2 on insanity fucking insane

[mossy flume]

I've done insanity NG+ for all three

[grim stirrup]

15 i didn't know ||because i dont like driving games|| other than that this has been pretty easy so far

[mossy flume]

Soldier

[quiet swift]

Vanguard

[mossy flume]

I'm currently replaying it with a fresh new save with the Vanguard class.

Going to NG+ all of it

[quiet swift]

Biotic charge +shotgun is so much fun

Until stuff starts one shotting you

[slim thorn]

I think for me ||Mass Effect 3|| is one of those stories where consuming each installment as it came out merely caused me to forget all the details by the time I got to the ending, and so nothing about it really made much of an impact on me other than the internet freaking out about it lol

[mossy flume]

On Legendary Edition.
It's pretty striking how much better the ME1 remaster looks

Better textures make a big difference

[quiet swift]

yus

As much as people like shitting on EA, their remasters have been doing great

C&C, ME...

[mossy flume]

ME:LE also fixed a bunch of ME1 bugs, finally

Like the texture pop-in

And Garrus' face!

Finally in HD!

[quiet swift]

His handsomness has extra reach!

[mossy flume]

I've replayed Mass Effects 1 and 2 so much I just kinda have all the events memorized, so I didn't have that problem of forgetting what was what in ME3 haha

[quiet swift]

That's me and half life 1

[mossy flume]

I spent waaaaaay too much tine in my teenage years replaying games many times.

[gaunt marten]

This is perfect. I always wanted to give Vermintide a try but not for any amount of money

[slim thorn]

there's only maybe two games that I ever got stuck in a replay loop of, everything else I play once, maaaaaaybe again on a high difficulty, and then there's no desire to revisit it until I forget all the details years later

[gaunt marten]

Apparently it's only Vermintide 2

[grim stirrup]

[mossy flume]

There were... a lot for me. I'm both glad and sad that I don't have a total play counter like I do in Steam.

[quiet swift]

deep rock galactic is like 70% off too

[slim thorn]

one of those two was Metroid: Fusion, incidentally

[quiet swift]

This artist has several of these

[slim thorn]

GBA was my first handheld so that became a whole thing

[quiet swift]

last one

[mossy flume]

Like Pokémon gens 1-4, Mass Effects 1 - 3, Metroid Prime 1-3, Metroid Fusion & ZM, Pokémon Mystery Dungeons 1 & 2, Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2, Golden Sun 1 & 2... I've lost count of how many times I've 100%'d each of them.

I just know I did ME1 somewhere around 25 times, Metroid Prime 1 north of 50 times...

I could've learned useful skills

[slim thorn]

I think I 100%'d most of the Metroids when they were new to me, but I'm not bothering with that on my Prime replays this week

[quiet swift]

Those are overrated

[mossy flume]

but instead I memorized video games beat for beat haha....

[slim thorn]

ok sure I also taught myself Japanese and programming somewhere in those teenager years but we're talking about games right now

[quiet swift]

Also I lied, found one more

[mossy flume]

I like this artist.

[quiet swift]

Their twitter hasn't been active in a while. They also seem to have done some Dragon Age (Inquisition I think?) stuff but the ME stuff is better

[gaunt marten]

Ixrec: How do you feel about platformers?

I tried to look up what you said about them but

https://i.imgur.com/tXErAk7.png

[slim thorn]

lol

[gaunt marten]

I'm not talking about precision platformers, just regular old ones

[quiet swift]

https://www.instagram.com/nis.sinsuelo/

[slim thorn]

generally positive, I've spent a lot of time in "regular" platformers and especially in the last decade in indie puzzle platformers (huge overlap with Metroidvanias there)

[gaunt marten]

Understood

[slim thorn]

I did recently let myself get talked into playing and 100%ing SMGalaxy and Odyssey after all

[mossy flume]

Ugh, I can't navigate this.

Fucking Facebook.

[quiet swift]

[gaunt marten]

It's hard for me to list any actual platformers because every game that's a platformer and also worth playing has to fit into another genre too

[mossy flume]

Facebook and Instagram links are useless to me because Facebook requires you to log in to see anything.

And I just won't.

[quiet swift]

Right, i did look at twitter first but they haven't posted in a year

Just looked like Insta was the most active... though they haven't posted any new ME stuff

[slim thorn]

when I try to think of "just platformers" my go-tos are Mario and Sly Cooper

Ratchet & Clank was also a huge one for me but I have that mentally categorized as "action platformer"

[mossy flume]

Alas

[gaunt marten]

I recently played https://store.steampowered.com/app/331190/Master_Spy/ which calls itself a precision platformer, but I think it's a vanilla , and it's my first example

Steam

Master Spy

Throw on your invisibility cloak and put your reflexes to the test in this brutal precision platformer brimming with espionage, intrigue, and betrayal!You are Master Spy.In a world of corruption and decay, you're not just good at what you do - you're the best. And with the aid of your prototype cloaking suit and quick wit, you'll sneak your way ...

Price

$9.99

Recommendations

231

Metacritic

68

Ratchet and Clank are definitely very actiony

Sly Cooper I've always wanted to play but never got around to

Master Spy gets away with being a vanilla platformer by being Shovel Knight

A game that emulates a retro generation focusing on the good parts of it

[mossy flume]

Well, this is a first. UPS has completely lost a package of mine. Usually it's FedEx that loses stuff. (Sorry, wrong channel)

[gaunt marten]

It's not as good as Shovel Knight, but it's a good stealth game

[gaunt marten]

Did they lose your 4090?

[mossy flume]

Nah, but they lost the keyboard that would go to that computer.

[gaunt marten]

That makes sense

[river veldt]

[wind stump]

ok i thin i'm going to like this new Brotato character, I love equipping as many things as possible so I could probably bullshit a really fun ranged build

nutty for wave 5 ngl

[iron crown]

i wish there was a game that we could rp on mlp then become characters using their magic

[wintry canopy]

I've finally gotten around to finding a place to fix my switch charger port. It'll feel good being able to use my dock again.

[river veldt]

https://twitter.com/horribleimp/status/1587923079652462592?s=46&t=m2nP7L12kRbC-dDWjR22Zw

🌱mimi 🔞 (@horribleimp)

public lobbies are insane

Likes

2069

Retweets

289

Twitter · Nov 2, 2022, 9:42 PM

[quiet swift]

[wind stump]

me: "multitasker is going to be so good for a range build"
also me:

after all, why deal less damage when you can just build shit that kills for you?

*i have no idea if the turrets and landmines do less damage doe

[visual hill]

my stats 😛

I have a lot more first guesses than I thought I'd have

[dense crypt]

sentry goin' up

[wind stump]

[river veldt]

Here are mine

After doing the 3 that I missed

[quiet swift]

There's a bunch where I just have no idea or know but can't guess the right one

[visual hill]

I don't think this is a fair fight… I wouldn't trust an ice cream van with its lettering using Comic Sans MS

[visual hill]

free game (claim it before November 7th): https://store.steampowered.com/app/552500/Warhammer_Vermintide_2/

Steam

Warhammer: Vermintide 2

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is a 4-player co-op action game set in the Warhammer Fantasy Battles world. Sequel to the critically acclaimed Vermintide, Vermintide 2 is the latest installment in a franchise best known for its intense and bloody first-person melee combat.Our five heroes have returned to take on an even greater threat than before – the ...

Price

$29.99

Recommendations

67276

Metacritic

82

▶ Play video

[quiet swift]

(that's my birthday!)

[quartz pawn]

Damn, ya boi has been doing decent at apex lately

[oblique stone]

I play too much Apex.

[quiet swift]

Play 3 more hours then never touch it again

[oblique stone]

I can't do that lol

[dense crypt]

dude i LOVE twisted metal

[mossy flume]

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/3/23439678/kitty-litter-brand-digitizes-three-dozen-cats-in-hopes-youll-adopt-them

Video game based IRL cat adoption drive event

[green fulcrum]

So wait, if you adopt one of the cats, you'll get that cat as a skin for the cat in Stray?

[glossy axle]

ayo 1k gang

[oblique stone]

Nice

I bet their is several others here that also has over 1k.

[glossy axle]

yea probably

[quartz pawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VXu2A63xr4

[chilly mural]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEoPFpXyo1s

[quartz pawn]

dem mods

[chilly mural]

I can't wait for jak 2 and 3

[mossy flume]

Dwarf Fortress: GUI Edition is finally coming out December 6th.

I’m almost shocked.

How long has that game been in the works?

Well north of ten years, I think?

[graceful bridge]

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/surviving-the-aftermath-dev-diary-24-shattered-hope-dlc.1554293/

[graceful bridge]

#1037129077506723881

[graceful bridge]

2006, so 16 years now.

[quiet swift]

Woof. Fiancée tried Deep Rock Galactic, and Vermintide 2. First one felt too dark to enjoy, second gave her motion sickness.

Now I'm trying to think of something more coop-y like that, but is third person. I already know of Monster Hunter, obviously

[graceful bridge]

https://blog.playstation.com/2022/11/04/celebrating-20-years-of-ratchet-clank/

[gaunt marten]

Give me PC Ratchets

[arctic fern]

blergh, surviving the aftermath is such a meh game

compared to surviving mars

[river veldt]

#GuessTheGame #174

🎮 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥

https://GuessThe.Game/

[thorny loom]

#GuessTheGame #174

🎮 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛

https://GuessThe.Game/

[random steppe]

#GuessTheGame #174

🎮 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩

https://GuessThe.Game/
Close

[dense crypt]

Yeah that one was too vague

[hasty patio]

Ran out of guesses.

[grim stirrup]

#GuessTheGame #174

🎮 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛

https://GuessThe.Game/ ||that is not a game i've thought about for a decade ||

[hasty patio]

One of the few Paradox games I skipped on purpose. Sad that I was correct.

[slim thorn]

#GuessTheGame #174

🎮 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛

https://GuessThe.Game/

[arctic fern]

i got it on image 5, but its a very generic game in terms of setting and style
image 5 had something unique to the game in it

[slim thorn]

I don't play this franchise, but yeah the visuals are so generic there's just no way to tell until ||you see the plane HUD, so you know there's both walking and flying||, but I still had to guess an installment at random

[arctic fern]

it probably would have ben better if it wasnt literally in the same series as surviving mars

[grim stirrup]

||i geussed a shooter that looked like the right era, after the first geuss||

[random steppe]

I did ||guess the franchise from the 4th picture, IDK why that slope feels so characteristic of that franchise, but from there to guess which one that was it took a few guesses, especially since I never played that specific entry||

[river veldt]

My first guess was ||Half Life 2. The visuals looked kinda similar though on reexamination they're far from Source engine||

I don't play a ton of ||shooters so this one was pretty hard||

[quiet swift]

#GuessTheGame #174

🎮 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩

https://GuessThe.Game/

[quiet swift]

For some reason pic 2 or 3 reminded me of ||pubg even though i've never played it|| but by the 5th, the studio basically provided me the answer

[graceful bridge]

Huh. I've never played that game so I whiffed.

[visual hill]

I got it on 5th guess

[rough sleet]

last for me

||last hint made it very obvious||

[graceful bridge]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2154320/Unicorn_Tack_Set__Horse_Tales_Emerald_Valley_Ranch/

Steam

Unicorn Tack Set - Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch

Add a touch of fantasy to your stable!

Release Date

Coming soon

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2164520/Limited_Digital_Bonus__Horse_Tales_Emerald_Valley_Ranch/

Steam

Limited Digital Bonus - Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch

In this pack, you'll find:

Price

$2.99

Both DLCs are free right now

[quiet swift]

[dire gate]

This

This is not good

This is a blasphemy

[minor plover]

is there a list of solutions for guessthe.game yet? I don't want to play it, but I want to know if Descent has made it in yet

[quiet swift]

Having played descent a million years ago, i can confidently say it's not appeared yet

[river veldt]

Doom and Sonic haven't appeared yet either I think

[quiet swift]

🤔 I thought 2016 or eternal had

[river veldt]

Hmm perhaps

Hold on a moment

[mossy flume]

Speaking of Sonic, Sonic Frontiers for the Switch has already leaked onto torrent sites and is playable in the Switch emulator.

[river veldt]

nO

[mossy flume]

yeS

[visual hill]

ah nice, Fallout New Vegas

I have Fallout 1 from Steam, Fallout 3 from Epic Games Store, both claimed for free

I only need Fallout 2 and 4 for free now

[visual hill]

I saw posts on /r/emulationonandroid, Skyline is very impressive honestly

it'll be interesting to see high-end phones doing Switch gaming better than a Switch eventually 😛 (assuming you don't need online)

[light gate]

Factorio Experimental now supports Apple Silicon with up to 20% UPS improvements. [1.1.71]

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=104009

[river veldt]

I installed FNV

[river veldt]

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
??????

[minor gorge]

Nice.

[light gate]

Every app or game that gets Apple Silicon support just makes me smile, not just because of the "yes more performance" but by how it starts to run way better and allows me to run even more apps in the background.

[minor gorge]

Being able to play Factorio and a few other games was what kept me from going for a macOS device this time around. Each one that gains support reduces that barrier for me.

[wind stump]

what the fuck is this run

ftr this is what my active does

snowballing? what's that?

[river veldt]

Are these modded items? I've never heard of Wild Fury

[gaunt marten]

Yes

https://youtu.be/fCPMZG8J0Mg

[river veldt]

Omg new Decino analysis video

[wind stump]

Yeah I believe Wild Fury is from the Touhou mod I have installed.

[river veldt]

Christmas has come early

[wind stump]

(I died, btw)

that item is a definitive T1 run carrier tho

[dapper cedar]

Always love to see those yellow thumbnails in my recommended

[visual hill]

that's surprisingly on-topic for the Doom 64 conversation we had today

[dapper cedar]

64 is great

[visual hill]

I wonder if there's a GZDoom mod that removes forced input lag from weapons, it's always a thing I disliked… that and the RNG damage

every time I learn a game has forced input lag on weapons, I cry

(Enemy Territory also has that :P)

[dense crypt]

when i was in high school i knew some guys who said doom 64 was dogshit

its really not, but it feels too quake-like

at least in terms of aesthetic design

[river veldt]

It is quite Quake like ye

[craggy vine]

https://youtu.be/pa9mLCWMmoM
I love how they compared the game to real life footage

[visual hill]

adds to list of CoD campaigns he should play "one day"™

[river veldt]

Why is Steve banned from competitive he's hilarious
https://vxtwitter.com/tjphatty/status/1588435394743668742?s=46&t=zDLpBnEcBNd__dt_iYka5w

[chilly mural]

because competitive smash players are cowards

[green fulcrum]

For some reason the word "coward" has lost any and all seriousness that it once held. Now I can only hear or read that word and giggle endlessly at it.

[dense crypt]

why so COWARD?

also banning steve? really?

[visual hill]

according to most tier lists out there, Steve is the most meta character in Ultimate

like Meta Knight was in Brawl

[dense crypt]

brawl meta knight barely required brain cells, relatively speaking

steve looks WAY harder to play

[toxic seal]

Finished Kena: Bridge of Spirits earlier. Decent enough, but definitely a showcase game made at least in part to show off what the PS5 can do. It's visually stunning and sounds incredible, but the game is short and the story is lacking in depth and scope.

[heady bridge]

Kena is a case of style over substance. It is very very VERY pretty though…