I think I'm with you that regular SA is more fun, I'll call SOSA'ing Robert a win and do the last disguise story for Sierra
#general gaming
slim thorn
ah-ha, there IS a camera recorder on the third floor
I knew there was one in the expo building itself
gaunt marten
Oh neat
slim thorn
hm, you think anyone's going to be suspicious that this medic has an assault rifle on his back?
gaunt marten
Yes
If it would make people suspicious you would see a red exclamation mark next to it in your inventory
wind stump
hm, you think anyone's going to be suspicious that this medic has an assault rif...
just say you're cosplaying Medic from TF2
slim thorn
you're right, dropping the rifle made all the dots on the other medics' heads go away
"I forgot your name, sorry?" "Doctor Rieper"
gaunt marten
His ironic choice of name is a running gag
I recommend the Paris level from Hitman 1 for another example
slim thorn
just to check, the little two pistols icon next to the minimap being green means that I'm still good for the SA rating?
gaunt marten
I believe you're right
slim thorn
someone must've got a review copy
since this is my third time exiting the level, and I happened to pick up the security disguise this time, I decided to go for the most extra exfil method they had
completely unnecessary helicopter theft
visual hill
someone must've got a review copy
that, or they got it delivered early
it happened for a few people, including people who bought a PS5 with a bundle and got the wrong bundle (i.e. getting GoW Ragnarok instead of something like HFW)
gaunt marten
That's great
slim thorn
I do appreciate that they unlock more starting locations with disguises as you play the level, so you don't have to repeat finding the isolated flamingo or whatever every single time
fresh bane
Hey Ix, just saying, if you exfiltrate with the flamingo disguise something interesting might happen
I think you'll like it
slim thorn
huh, I thought I did walk out the front gate as a flamingo in one of these runs
fresh bane
It doesn't happen if you exfiltrate on the ground floor
fresh bane
I can't remember what exfiltration points there are in like higher levels or roofs
in that one level
river veldt
Exfiltrate sounds like a euphemism for something naughty
gaunt marten
Just restart until you start with a good item room
grim stirrup
slim thorn
dang, the camera saw one of my toes, guess I have to reload
fresh bane
now you're starting to get it
as an MGS player cameras have a completely different meaning to me because it's less about ''oh watch out you were recorded!'' and more of: ''THEY SAW YOU. RUN. THEY'RE COMING, OH GOD THEY'RE HERE''
slim thorn
over here, that's what happens if you perform an "illegal action" on camera
hasn't really come up for me yet since I'm usually looking for SA ratings and that means never touching a camera cone at all
fresh bane
pretty much all actions you're doing in MGS are technically ''illegal actions'' 
yeah in an MGS game not being seen by any cameras at all is usually the strat as well
not being seen by anybody would be the best thing but sometimes it's unavoidable
If I'm not mistaken you get a ghost ranking or a ghost bonus if you've never even been noticed at all in a Hitman game right?
when I see most pro hitman players play they usually don't care too much about being seen or people being suspicious since they do everything so quickly and they are so efficient they get an ''S rank'' anyways, but when you're kind of in it and you're roleplaying a little bit it's hard to not want to do everything perfectly and meticulously 
slim thorn
I don't think there's a separate "ghost" anything
"Silent Assassin" means all five of these:
- Complete the mission.
- Only kill targets.
- No bodies found.
- Do not get spotted.
- If you are detected by cameras, erase or destroy the evidence.
fresh bane
here it is
slim thorn
ah
ok that must be in earlier hitmen, here I just get 1-4 stars with no fancy title if it's not 5 star SA
fresh bane
yeah that's in blood money
It must work differently in Hitman 1-3
I hate that they went for that naming stuff
why does every game franchise suddenly decided ''we're gonna start naming our games from 1 again'' around 2015?
I don't even think it's a reboot even unless Hitman 1-3 are reboots
Okay I started watching that God of War gameplay video and || I'm really liking how Kratos noticeably has a lot more respect and trust in Atreus and you can tell they work together very well, I'm guessing it's because he seems to be much older now, maybe a few years have passed at least ||
river veldt
Yes
slim thorn
these "make it look like an accident" scripted kills are the best
gaunt marten
dang, the camera saw one of my toes, guess I have to reload
If you go to the camera room and erase the evidence you get your Silent Assassin back
slim thorn
I know
but that requires finding the camera room
when the camera is easy to avoid, no point taking that risk
fresh bane
oh I actually didn't know that, I think that was a thing in Blood Money too but I was too lazy to do that
gaunt marten
It's smart to do that in every level anyway since it makes things a lot easier
slim thorn
once I know where it is, of course I do that
fresh bane
the accident kills are usually the best, in Blood Money those were usually the ones you were meant to take and are the best to keep you off the radar, otherwise there starts to be murders all over and people start to worry and get suspicious
Oh wow this game just started and it's already tugging at my heart strings
slim thorn
it's also just kind of hilarious being the extremely white dude in the mariachi band watching this very convenient accident play out in front of you
no one will suspect a thing 
fresh bane
I'd cut 47 some slack by saying oh well he's like a professional actor and knows a bunch of languages surely he can fake being mexican even if he looks like the whitest dude in town but even in disguise he still has that monotone vaguely threatening voice so I'm just kinda like 
everyone in the Hitman universe has zero object permanence and is stupid
gaunt marten
The Office "I am colorblind" scene
slim thorn
like every video game character, they're very smart in many ways and very silly only if you engineer a sufficiently weird situation no one could've programmed them for
I'm actually regularly impressed with what they aren't letting me get away with
fresh bane
I think the best way to program this kind of stuff, which actually happens but only with certain disguises is: if you run past, nobody will tell, but if you stay still or stick around for long enough, people are gonna be like ''hey wait, I never saw you around here before... 
''
slim thorn
oh that happens with every disguise that has "enforcers" I think they're called
consistently slipping by them through peripheral vision only is usually one of the more challenging parts
gaunt marten
Yeah
People with a white dot above their head are enforcers who know everyone wearing the disguise and will recognize you if they focus on you
fresh bane
I think Ground Zeroes really perfectly captures the feel of just how difficult it is to infiltrate an enemy military base and go entirely unnoticed
there are so many enemies and guards and they cover so much ground and their cones of vision are much larger in GZ than they are in TPP or any other MGS game
with other stealth games like Hitman I think you have to be in the same room and pretty close for people to start noticing
and running past will usually not trigger anyone they'll just trigger if their bar fills up
slim thorn
oh hey, someone other than me remembers this old game!
gaunt marten
The game said shit
visual hill
there are **so many** enemies and guards and they cover so much ground and their...
reminds me in Deus Ex when I got spotted by a sniper once, and headshot without any warning
it's happened to me more than once, in fact
and headshots are 1-hit deaths from enemies, even in Normal difficulty
since then, I tend to jigglestrafe around a bit when I first enter an open area…
slim thorn
gotta hide my whiteness or they'll all make fun of me for being a gamer /s
(if it wasn't clear, this level is in Columbia)
fresh bane
I was thinking either middle east or south america
gaunt marten
This color scheme is never seen in the middle east
fresh bane
reminds me in Deus Ex when I got spotted by a sniper once, and headshot without ...
that's actually really cool, I like when games usually turn tropes around or let you know ''You're not that guy, trust me'' by making it realistically difficult or adding challenges you didn't expect
especially in stealth games, I find that they're the best when they're actually challenging and hard
slim thorn
I have four rat poisons
fresh bane
This color scheme is never seen in the middle east
I forget that everytime you go into a different country the color scheme changes 
slim thorn
I am unstoppable
visual hill
dying in 1 hit without any warning is kind of frustrating, it turns the tables around compared to most singleplayer games where enemies can never headshot you
(video game logic right here :P)
even in Condition-Zero Deleted Scenes, enemies never headshot you despite headshots being a staple in the CS series. The bots in singleplayer do though
fresh bane
Without any kind of warning or any kind of heads up I guess it can be frustrating, in MGSV you get a convenient slowdown mode as soon as you get noticed which is kind of like that read dead slow down mode too? You can dispose of any enemies that have seen you in that short time and the game tells you where they are too
visual hill
ah yeah, you get a "spider-sense" moment 😛
gaunt marten
This is actually a real thing where natural lighting conditions are reliant on many atmospheric phenomenons that are locations specific
fresh bane
don't ask me how that works I'd say nanomachines but, nanomachines weren't a thing during the 80s
gaunt marten
Nanomachines were less of a thing in the 80s but they were a concept
slim thorn
I've played a few games where "invisible snipers" could headshot you, but there was generally an explicit warning that they might be there and you need to be extra careful
fresh bane
God of War spoilers:
|| Oh! She's here.... I thought she'd be a bit... taller ||
slim thorn
Half-Life 1 and Splinter Cell 2 come to mind (and the SC2 ones I'm thinking of are only sometimes there, depending what choices you make earlier in the mission)
fresh bane
Nanomachines were less of a thing in the 80s but they were a concept
I think nanomachines actually were introduced with MGS1 taking place in 2005
gaunt marten
fresh bane
That was the first time nanomachines started becoming a thing and when Solid Snake was injected with them so he could survive in Shadow Moses
fresh bane
Half-Life 1 and Splinter Cell 2 come to mind (and the SC2 ones I'm thinking of a...
man Splinter Cell is that one franchise I never played, I remember playing one game in a PSP or PS2 as a kid but never again
gaunt marten
Ah you were talking about nanomachines, son rather than general nanomachines
fresh bane
yes I'm talking about nanomachines within the context of the MGS universe
in the 80s they started building and developing the Metal Gears
Oh wait, nevermind, it was the 70s
Apparently Portable Ops had the first Metal Gear prototype, Metal Gear RAXA
Peace Walker had Metal Gear ZEKE but that one got sunk into the ocean after Paz hijacked it
slim thorn
man Splinter Cell is that one franchise I never played, I remember playing **one...
there are so many franchises people constantly remind me I never played 
heck, Hitman feels like one even though I played Blood Money
fresh bane
God of War:
|| Wife is... pretty 
||
fresh bane
there are so many franchises people constantly remind me I never played <:flutte...
There are so many popular or mainstream movie/game franchises I've never touched 
like Pokemon
or hell even Mario
fresh bane
I know more about Zelda than I do PKMN or Mario
I guess certain franchises just call more to me than others
slim thorn
probably same
yeah Zelda's one of the ones that I've tried multiple times and it just never "clicks"
fresh bane
I've played Ocarina, Majora's, Twilight, Minish, BOTW
for Mario I played.... uh.... I played Mario 64.... once
Pokemon I played two games til I finished, HeartGold and Red Fire, but years ago in my phone and it was always during class but that's kind of about it
I was thinking of digging back into Pokemon with a 3ds game recently, I think Pokemon.. Y?
I don't know which Pokemon games are 'good' or not
slim thorn
SM64, SMSunshine, SMGalaxy and SMOdyssey are the Marios I've finished
Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, Wind Waker, Minish Cap, Breath of the Wild are the Zeldas I've finished
wind stump
slim thorn
Aria of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin are the Castlevanias I've finished
(that's another one I'm constantly reminded of because Metroivanias are mostly my favorite)
visual hill
I've never finished a Pokémon game, the last one I touched was on DS
fresh bane
Oh wow you know when Elden Ring released and a bunch of game journalists/game developers from other open world games started criticizing Elden Ring and they made that one meme of ''if Elden Ring was a western open world RPG'' with like a bunch of shit on the screen? Now I kind of see it it's obviously not nearly as severe but after being used to Elden Ring's and Fromsoftare's super minimalist and laid back approach seeing these quest markers for super obvious stuff is funny
visual hill
Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, Wind Waker, Minish Cap, Breath of the Wild a...
that's a lot of Zeldas you've played if it didn't click 😛
these aren't exactly short games after all
gaunt marten
They're not?
fresh bane
SM64, SMSunshine, SMGalaxy and SMOdyssey are the Marios I've finished
ahhhh those are some of the ''must play'' Mario games I see
some of the best ones from what I hear
slim thorn
that's what I was told
fresh bane
Wind Waker! I should really play that one sometime...
gaunt marten
Speaking of Zelda
fresh bane
I've never touched that one
visual hill
Wind Waker is the Doom 3 of Zeldas
slim thorn
that's a lot of Zeldas you've played if it didn't click 😛
no one can ever say I didn't try!
gaunt marten
Did you know that the blood moon in BotW is for garbage collection?
slim thorn
to be clear, parts of Zelda click
the dungeons and the boss fights are almost always great
visual hill
I've been enjoying Zelda OOT, except when I have to look up a walkthrough or do lots of traversal
slim thorn
it's all the connective tissue in between, especially overworld navigation, where I'm either getting lost or getting bored
visual hill
(come on, rolling backwards is only fun for so long, even if the animation looks badass at high FPS)
gaunt marten
When the game runs out of memory because the heap is too fragmented they run an emergency blood moon, and they run another one every three hours just in case
slim thorn
with the exception of BotW that shook up the formula so much I have a totally different set of complaints for it, but it averages out to the same result
fresh bane
Aria of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin are the Castlevanias I've finished
man, I really tried to get into Castlevania, I don't know if the 'new' games are any different but having played through the very first Castlevania and trying to get into the PSP remake so I could play Symphony of the Night.... I just can't get into it man, again I don't know if the new games change things up but the gameplay loop was so weird to me, it wasn't fun at all playing through it
gaunt marten
This means you can trigger blood moons on command by abusing memory
slim thorn
at least for me, those two Castlevanias were in the "great fun as long as it lets me mostly ignore the RPG parts" category
oh, and I will never stop complaining that the bosses need health bars
fresh bane
I wanted to play Symphony of the Night first but I heard the PSP version bundled with the remake of the first game was good, but I never got around to finishing it, apparently you only unlock Symphony of the Night after finishing the game once
by that point I was already feeling ''ahh maybe this franchise isn't for me'' so I never really gave it a try
this is the one I played once for like, 30 min
slim thorn
ah, Thief would be an example of a franchise I actually never played despite the obvious relevance
fresh bane
Mmm, I really wanna try that one sometime, at least one of the games
It's one of those ''old early PC janky games but with good gameplay'' type games that I really like
People say good things about it so it must be good right?
gaunt marten
Like Gothic?
fresh bane
I don't know what that is
slim thorn
oh right, most of the big (J)RPG franchises I've never touched, like Elder Scrolls and Dragon Quest and so on
fresh bane
Ohh I never heard of it before 
gaunt marten
Has three games or so in the series
gaunt marten
The Witcher is good though
fresh bane
I guess, people say good things about it
I wouldn't know, I dropped Witcher 1 pretty early on
quiet swift
https://store.steampowered.com/app/38440/Sacrifice/ for old interesting games, I still tell people to try this
gaunt marten
Just play 3
fresh bane
I've seen Witcher 3 for super dirt cheap on GOG
I always wondered why that is, since it's such a popular and well rated game
quiet swift
It's also 7 years old
gaunt marten
It's their game. They get 100% of the money if you buy it there
So they can afford to price it more competitively
visual hill
if you buy it with DLCs, it's a bit less cheap
quiet swift
And heavy discounts drive up sales massively
visual hill
considering how often the DLCs are recommended, a lot of people end up buying them
wind stump
holy shit i'm so good
quiet swift
I think I saw some article like 5-10 years ago where someone discounted a game by like 50% and the sale number increased by like 90%
visual hill
also, what about Dungeon Siege?
quiet swift
(I think it was valve themselves, actually)
visual hill
I remember watching my brother play the first game
slim thorn
I've gone so far off the beaten path of this columbian cartel assassination mission that I'm somehow eavesdropping on people in ancient ruins trying to cajole a hippo out of its hiding place
why is this in the level
quiet swift
Oh right, games on GOG get 100% of the revenue
Not all games, but just Witcher in this case... because CD Projekt Red runs GOG
So they get all the $$$
river veldt
Wind Waker is the Doom 3 of Zeldas
That's fucked up of you to say wtf
quiet swift
https://store.steampowered.com/app/557750/Giants_Citizen_Kabuto/ also, if you want jank but it's a hilarious game
visual hill
That's fucked up of you to say wtf
I mean, a lot of people hate it
river veldt
Really????
visual hill
Twilight Princess is probably the runner up (it's the Quake 4? :P)
river veldt
People hate Wind Waker???
fresh bane
I think a lot of people hated it before but not now
Wind Waker got a lot of hate because of its artstyle when it released
river veldt
I totally thought WW was one of the more beloved ones
gaunt marten
I still don't like Wind Waker
visual hill
lots of games are disliked on release, and it takes a decade or more for people to actually appreciate it
fresh bane
That's what made Nintendo do a full 180 and go for a gritty realistic style for Twilight Princess
river veldt
I don't like Twilight Princess
fresh bane
and a much darker story too
gaunt marten
But I'm Twilight Princess
fresh bane
people found Wind Waker to be too cartoony and childish
river veldt
That's odd considering it had a pretty dark story
slim thorn
as the weirdo who played a lot of Zelda games for someone who doesn't like Zelda very much
visual hill
early 2000s people were edgy
fresh bane
well it's less about the story and more the presentation
slim thorn
I rank them all about equally, there's nothing I recall Wind Waker doing significantly worse than the others, it's mostly personal preference
fresh bane
and the idea people had in their heads before the game even released
river veldt
My favourite Zeldas are BOTW and Zelda 1
fresh bane
that's why the game is seen in a much better light nowadays
river veldt
Oh and Link to the Past
gaunt marten
And the other Zeldas
river veldt
What
visual hill
anyway, don't take me too seriously, I'm a sucker for games that people dislike unfairly
I finished Daikatana
river veldt
I'm sorry I've given Doom 3 a chance okey
gaunt marten
anyway, don't take me too seriously, I'm a sucker for games that people dislike ...
Same but I call it having a bad taste
river veldt
I only like good games because any game I like is good
fresh bane
I mean Doom 3 is... alright
I have fond memories of it because I played it a lot as a kid but it's an alright game
wind stump
update, i found touhou
i also died
river veldt
I mean Doom 3 is... alright
I have complex emotions because on one hand, some of the demon designs are really good, but on the other, I can hardly see them half the time because it's so damn dark
gaunt marten
Just crank the gamma up
river veldt
No
gaunt marten
All the way until it's white on white
fresh bane
bright enough to flashbang yourself
river veldt
Also idk, Doom as a horror game doesn't really work for me
dapper cedar
I’m a proud member of the Doom 3 fan club and recommend the original over BFG Edition
river veldt
Large Gun
dapper cedar
Biggest difference is that in the original your flashlight was a separate weapon and you had to swap from your gun to use it
river veldt
Yeah
fresh bane
Doom 3 had a good... soundtrack?
dapper cedar
But you can also use it to bonk demons which is fun
river veldt
Doom 3 had a good... soundtrack? <:trixienervous:685079097403244556>
Kind... of..?
dapper cedar
There’s only one real song in Doom 3 but it’s a good one
river veldt
It sorta has that early aughts twang I don't like
fresh bane
river veldt
Why didn't they just get NIN to do the ost for Doom 3
fresh bane
Doom 3 is the DmC Devil May Cry of the Doom franchise.
It's a game that misses the mark, most people either don't like it or find it to be extremely inferior to the rest of the franchise, or simply a bad game, however a lot of the decisions made in Doom 3 and some elements carried over to the main franchise
river veldt
I don't think it's a bad game
visual hill
But you can also use it to bonk demons which is fun
the flashlight is better than your fist at doing so, in fact
river veldt
I just don't like it
visual hill
(it has a shorter range, but deals far more damage)
fresh bane
Well DmC DMC is a bad game, I was referring to that one
visual hill
Why didn't they just get NIN to do the ost for Doom 3
it almost happened, same for the sound design. The sound effects are in fact available as a mod
dapper cedar
My brother defends that particular DmC
river veldt
i mean Doom 3 being in a weird place in canon also makes me not like it the best
river veldt
it almost happened, same for the sound design. The sound effects are in fact ava...
Wtf
I want to be in that timeline
dapper cedar
Doom has a story?
visual hill
river veldt
Doom has a story? <:rdwut:399725074204065802>
Sweep I will break your broom
dapper cedar
Nah I like to view Doom 3 as a separate incident somewhere in the same timeline, a different Doomguy
river veldt
Yeah
fresh bane
My brother defends that particular DmC
it's a fun action game, but it doesn't even come close to how good DMC4 was, and its story literally has nothing to defend
to defend DmC is a bit stupid in my eyes
dapper cedar
There’s a specific reference near the end of the game that you could view as chronicling the original Doomguy
Leads nicely into 2016
river veldt
Iirc we haven't gotten too many Doom3 references in 2016 and Eternal, aside from the Soul Cube being in Olivia's office and the Hell Knights designs being based off Doom 3
fresh bane
I think Doom 3's protagonist is just some random marine
Doom 2016 seems to be a sequel to Doom 64?
river veldt
It is
dapper cedar
The Blood Swamps has a location called Castle Betruger
river veldt
Timeline goes 1, 2, 64, 2016, Eternal, TAG 1, TAG 2
dapper cedar
That reference excited my silly brain
river veldt
The Blood Swamps has a location called Castle Betruger
Ooh good catch
dapper cedar
Doom 3 is also awesome in VR
fresh bane
I find it funny that I played all of Doom Eternal with the classic suit because there's one scene where the classic suit shows up in a cutscene and it's meant to be this huge reveal of 'oh he's the classic doomguy!' but for me that didn't quite click because I already had the classic suit on
oops
river veldt
Lmao
dapper cedar
Wait are you saying Doomguy is Doomguy
river veldt
Really until that scene we hadn't had confirmation that Doomguy from 1, 2, and 64 and 2016 were the same person
Just hints and speculation
fresh bane
I gotta say just one slight little thing I dislike about the 'new' Doom stuff is to make Doom this sort of mythical multiversal figure that apparently joined this knight brotherhood in space or whatever?
I like the Doomguy as literally just some guy that is too angry to die
not a god, not a creature, just some guy that refuses to die
dapper cedar
I went from loving the deep story stuff in Eternal to not liking it so much in the DLC
fresh bane
I think Doomguy being just some dude adds to that power fantasy of ''wow he's just like me fr fr'' because he's just a regular human and that's it
river veldt
That must mean you only like 1-64
Cuz Doomguy already had godlike powers by the time 2016 rolls around
dapper cedar
All Doom is good Doom
fresh bane
Precisely
It doesn't mean I don't like 2016 or eternal though
I love em
I just don't like that specific characterization for Doomguy
river veldt
That's my favourite part lmao
He goes from a normal dude to someone who's basically a god
fresh bane
That's alright, we don't all have to like the same things 
it doesn't ruin the games for me, it just makes me wish they did it differently
dapper cedar
64guy is awesome, that game’s ending is beyond radical
river veldt
Yeee
fresh bane
hooly fuck he's HUGE (god of war spoilers)
dapper cedar
Oooo I still need to play 2018
fresh bane
Don't say who it is!
fresh bane
It's not but still
fresh bane
river veldt
||Thor is so cool in this game and I'm sad Kratos is probably going to kill him later in the game||
slim thorn
TIL you can put rat poison in cocaine and somehow that just works
slim thorn
I'm making fun of Hitman
one of the recurring mechanics is that rat poison is the most common "emetic" poison, i.e. it makes an NPC sick so they run off somewhere else where you can quietly dispose of them
river veldt
Who would win in a fight Doomguy or Agent 47
slim thorn
47 doesn't really do "fights"
fresh bane
|| thor looks like a fucking hobo ||
fresh bane
one of the recurring mechanics is that rat poison is the most common "emetic" po...
rat poison, a classic
slim thorn
if he was sent to deal with Doomguy, he'd probably sabotage the Praetor armor so it kills the wearer
fresh bane
river veldt
|| thor looks like a fucking hobo ||
||Yeah, so he looks like Thor ||
fresh bane
why isn't he blonde and has a bodybuilder physique and wears a cool red cape marvel LIED to me
smh my head
river veldt
Thor drank so much mead in Norse mythology and people think he's going to be shredded
He drank the entire ocean one time
fresh bane
if he was sent to deal with Doomguy, he'd probably sabotage the Praetor armor so...
if 47 was to deal with doomguy he'd be smart enough to decline that job offer because he knows he'd have no chance
it's not like doomguy ever gets out of his armor
dapper cedar
Chris Hemsworth looking real different nowadays
Right I refuse to look at any more until I’ve played 4
gaunt marten
And Loki tied his balls to a goat
fresh bane
you intend to play the full thing?
gaunt marten
Making him the bigger man
fresh bane
probably gonna take a while
river veldt
Loki did tons of crazy shit
fresh bane
Most of greek or norse mythology stuff is probably too NSFL for here
dapper cedar
I had to be real careful with KotOR spoilers for years
river veldt
Loki is the one who gave birth to the snake that starts Ragnarok
fresh bane
I expected him to be different
river veldt
Idk considering how the game is portraying him, he looks weasely
gaunt marten
In a lot of Norse myths Odin is just some old guy
He shows up, points someone to a place and says to dig there
river veldt
This is also true
gaunt marten
The place had gold in it. That guy was secretly Odin and he's never seen again
fresh bane
I don't like AC: Valhalla, but I like Odin's design there
I like how in the trailer he's like a vision, doesn't directly or physically do anything other than tell the warriors he's watching or he's on their side
I like that
slim thorn
I love that Agent 47 can get away with improvising a whole shaman ritual in front of a crowd and they all buy it
ah, I got the rare Shaman stealing a getaway scooter ending
now that I'm used to this game SA's not too hard to get
river veldt
Yo I love Sonic Adventure
wind stump
Pay2Suffer
The more DLC you have the more b9sses you have to beat aß The Lose
Who has no health and a single rechargeable hit p9nt per ro9m
at least after ther buff that gave them Holy Mantle by default
Anyway glhf
quiet swift
Current midweek deals on various sites - EU website but should be similar discounts elsewhere
fresh bane
God of War:
||Oh god we're furries now||
river veldt
Oh that's farther than where I got
rough sleet
God of War:
||Oh god we're furries now||
for some reason I thought it is a modded one
fresh bane
''Yikes bro Fimbulwinter fucked this place UP fr fr''
Everyone else talks in this sophisticated almost poetic english and Atreus is over here like ''sheeeeeesh''
river veldt
Yikes has been a word for a long time
fresh bane
It's not about the word yikes but about how Atreus speaks in comparison to the others
hah, nice
''hey what's your dad doing?''
''ugh nevermind him, he's just looting''
I gotta say the plot is advancing reaaal fast
untold laurel
Heh
fresh bane
||Ohh shit Angrboda has a yak pet! ||
craggy vine
rough sleet
what the fuck
craggy vine
craggy vine
I love how her hoof is so not a circle
I hate how the graphics compares with PS2 games
I would even say some PS2 games look better
grand cargo
can't call myself a true gamer because I only know/play a very limited range of games
quiet swift
wind stump
"Wonder why Isaac is taking so long to boot?"
just installing another whole ass game into the game
fresh bane
god of war
|| look at those giant puppy eyes 
||
grim stirrup
psyfly is one of the best items in the game
oh it got nerfed at some point that it doesn't just block every shot now, nor does it send all the tears back dealing pretty good damage
it used to easily be able to block pretty much every tear barrage chucked at you, i don't know how much it does now
wind stump
wtf holy water got buffed
Repentance really changed a lot of shit
like
holy water was a meme before
now it's like
"yeet for free creep damage" 
annnnd Dingle fucking double-tapped me
Judas honey I love your damage but it's so hard to start a run with you
river veldt
grim stirrup
quiet swift
https://www.pcgamer.com/fifas-web-30-world-cup-games-make-my-lol-eclipse-the-sun...
oh boy 
#GuessTheGame #180
🎮 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛
couldn't recognize it earlier, not used to that angle of screenshot
rough sleet
plucky bison
first screenshots told me nothing, 4th made me think it, 5th confirmed it for me, and I nailed it
|| noticing that I don't recognize the UI elements I thought it's likely the newest one ||
also tried #1 and nailed it on 1st try going by a thought || this looks too smooth to be one of the first ones ||
fresh bane
finished God of War Ragnarök
it was really good
I expected something different but it was really good
sage iris
rough sleet
sus
thorny loom
dense crypt
When the sussy sus among us is sus!!!
wind stump
man it's fun when Larry Jr. fucking bugs out over a piece of shit and nearly kills your run
Oh shit, Dice Room rerolled me into a pretty damn good Monstro's Lung/Ouja Board/20/20 build
wind stump
I AM A WIND OF DESTRUCTIOOOOOOON
dense crypt
Buckle the fuck up little doggy, and get ready for an education! We're bringin' freedom here if it kills us!
wind stump
well then
ah oops
I got an item that gave me Mutant Spooder and some other goodies from a Devil Deal
thorny loom
wind stump
i will hold my judgement, given i haven't seen any controllers from Razer before
typing on a Razer keyboard
craggy vine
https://www.pcgamer.com/razers-new-ps5-controller-costs-half-as-much-as-the-cons...
Chubby
teal sonnet
looks so horrible to hold on
hasty patio
https://i.imgur.com/DUGxvjo.png
League War, League War.
craggy vine
It's like the original Xbox controller
river veldt
Ecks bahx
visual hill
It's like the original Xbox controller
always bet on Duke
craggy vine
Can I just mention that I wish the xbox controller had gyro
quiet swift
https://www.pcgamer.com/razers-new-ps5-controller-costs-half-as-much-as-the-cons...
That's not a gamepad that's a brick
craggy vine
I have always felt weird about other conpanies like Razor making controllers. I never feel like they offer anything over the main console controllers.
Only exception was the steam controller
visual hill
Can I just mention that I wish the xbox controller had gyro
same, I went for a DualSense because of this (even though I only have a PC)
craggy vine
same, I went for a DualSense because of this (even though I only have a PC)
I have a steam controller for gyro. But I feel bad using it since it ia discontinued, and I don't want it to break
wind stump
Ayaya, that's a nice outfit 
quiet swift
Hellooooo, nurse!
wind stump
I am looking respectfully! 
quiet swift
slim thorn
wind stump
Hey I'm not cheating on my Moon Bitch Wife
river veldt
grim stirrup
gaunt marten
#GuessTheGame #181
🎮 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛
static bluff
lol I haven't gotten a single one of these correct so far.
gaunt marten
Only way to fix that is to play more games
Also, the second picture onward all give you details like platform, genre, release date
You can make a list of applicable games and shrink it by criteria
slim thorn
never played or watched anyone play anything in this series, so I had no idea until the very last image and then still no idea which instalment
gaunt marten
They weren't fun
grim stirrup
i think i've played every single mainline one, barring the one pictured
visual hill
spoilers pls
gaunt marten
No
dull walrus
I think it would be funny if we whent into a trade minecraft tf2 server and did a funny where we had our own point generator
cerulean herald
Ay got the game guessed for a change 
dense crypt
Saw the first image and knew it instantly, the graphics style was recognizable withhos long I played this one.
quiet swift
#GuessTheGame #181
🎮 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛
https://GuessThe.Game/ I knew instantly the game but wasn't sure if it was the previous one or recent
quiet swift
never played or watched anyone play anything in this series, so I had no idea un...
It's worth it, especially if you can play with others. Great great fun
quiet swift
sage iris
I cannot express how excited I am for BG3
Larian imo are like the best studio that could have possibly worked on BG3
quiet swift
A coworker gifted it to me for my birthday like two years ago. I've not touched the early access because I wanna enjoy the full thing
sage iris
yeah I've been staying away from everything BG3 related
like everything
after D:OS2 I'm 100% confident that BG3 is in the best hands
gaunt marten
Time for conveniently justified wars https://i.imgur.com/4MOswHA.png
green fulcrum
I love Larian Studios and their RPGs, but I'm not a fan of BG3. The actual gameplay looks fun, but the fact that there's almost no "good" option in the story, that all your companions are almost all villains or morally dark grey, that it's extremely dark and depressing (which, given the D&D setting it takes place in it's to be expected), and that the story cutscenes don't look appealing to me (there's just something...off about having the screen zoom in on your character to provide a semi-realistic 3rd person perspective in the cutscenes, especially for a CRPG, which normally doesn't do that), I just can't see myself playing it.
That being said, the music is glorious.
Luckily Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader promises to scratch that RPG itch I have, as well as Octopath Traveler 2 and Sea of Stars.
hasty patio
Time for conveniently justified wars https://i.imgur.com/4MOswHA.png
I've found that only works after you have conquered something and need to handle internal issues, mostly if you want the land for cheap (since different religious status discounts depending if heathen or heretic). Still useful for getting prestige and cash.
gaunt marten
Honestly I got the idea group for the missionary improvements since I had a fucking ton of land I took back from colonial powers
So I don't actually intend to fight any holy wars
hasty patio
So you unlocked Deus Vult then? Have fun with abusing it whenever, but be careful to choose your targets.
wind stump
omae wa mou...
river veldt
NANI
gaunt marten
Corruption is literally destroying the country
I spend as much as possible to reduce it and it still grows
gaunt marten
Aztecs
I just Swallowed 70% of South America in one war https://i.imgur.com/HQX6pcl.png
As a result I have 200% extension
hasty patio
You might want to break it down and free a few states for vassal purposes. They can core it for you while you maintain some control.
Another thing you can do is concentrate development on all the new territory, so there is less penalties to pay for. Capital gets a nice boost, but time it for a new institution if possible.
Congrats on the victory though. That is an impressive feat.
gaunt marten
Yeah
It was easy considering the war was made of multiple small colonial Portuguese countries instead of one united country with more resources
hasty patio
And I'm guessing Portugal didn't show up and Spain isn't there to fuck with you either.
gaunt marten
Yep! All because I focused on colonizing the Caribbean first so Spain doesn't have anywhere to go
Spain ended up going all the way north to Canada, once their colonial range allowed it
hasty patio
So you took my suggestion then. That also fucks over France and the UK, since they have missions there. Spain and Portugal can't do missions where you're at either.
gaunt marten
That'll be the end of this run because I don't wanna manage all the rebels.
This run I got https://i.imgur.com/NvzdQLk.png
hasty patio
You're set to play ball in the Pacific, pirate off Africa to take European boat money (or colonize yourself), and maybe get the Sunset Invasion.
gaunt marten
Sunset Invasion will have to wait until I have a better grasp of intercontinental trade and conquest
My goal was the ten gold provinces and control of central America
hasty patio
Conquest will be harder, since tech levels and Europeans get better units. Trade is a little easier with merchants and trading ships/pirates in the right locations.
gaunt marten
Right. In this run I grabbed the Cape of Good Hope and Zanzibar, which were really helpful for trade, and since I assigned trade companies to them they also gave me extra merchants
hasty patio
I'd hold on to that game for the future. You have a wonderful start and when you finally handle the corruption/rebel issue, you have the board when it comes to where you want to start.
gaunt marten
The trade node options the Aztecs have are terrible.
Mexico has two incoming trade routes, and not much potential, so I basically have to move my trade capital to the caribbean
hasty patio
You can move your trade capital elsewhere. Caribbean might be the best, since it links up Mexico
You already got that figured out.
gaunt marten
Next up I wanna give the achievement where you get eight max level centers of trade https://i.imgur.com/ZMchpQb.png
That also means I have to get eight total merchants.
hasty patio
Yep. That should be doable now honestly, but that requires either eco/trade or trade companies to fill that gap.
Check monuments too while you're at it. That should be doable now, but maybe after paying your corruption tax.
Wonderful
Own 8 different monuments on tier 3.
gaunt marten
Oh my endless gold mines already allowed me to upgrade five or six
But the most interesting ones were the Mayan one that gave faster manpower recovery, and the city of gold one
gaunt marten
I swapped those a couple of time
I think I went for quality, economic, religious, and two others
Quality was especially helpful early on while I was struggling to catch up with military power before I could reform the Nahuatl faith
Oh yeah, I went for exploration and the other colonization one so I can colonize every gold province on the map
hasty patio
You can probably drop exploration in the near future, since you can spy/prestige maps. Expansion has some use still.
gaunt marten
Right, but I got exploration for the extra colonist, not for the explorers
hasty patio
Colonial range is nice too.
gaunt marten
It's essential if you actually have any ambitions of colonizing beyond the Americas, but I didn't
hasty patio
Only thing left would be the 25% free boating cap.
And the envoy travel time is probably a godsend with Europe.
gaunt marten
Gotta wait six months for every diplomat even with it active
hasty patio
Tech will cut that down some, but yeah.
gaunt marten
At some point I considered switching to Catholicism for the extra diplomat you get from being Curia controller
hasty patio
Probably a bit too late for that now.
gaunt marten
But the Aztec bonuses were really important considering how many wars I was declaring on native Americans
Less unrest, less war exhaustion more discipline, and more colonists
The excess gold I got helped me hire expensive advisors to make up for not having -20% coring cost like Maya and Inca reforms do
I really want to try Mali out since they also have a similar relationship with gold, but I'm waiting for a good sale on the Origins DLC
Since that one has Malinese missions and disasters
hasty patio
It'll be Black Friday soon enough, so I suspect there will be a sale around that time.
gaunt marten
Right, but I'm not looking for a regular 50%
A 75% at 3-4 dollars is as much as I can afford
If the discount from the ultimate bundle stacks with individual discounts that would be fine for me
Since it's the only item I'm missing
hasty patio
$393.87
That's 10% off of everything. My wallet from the past felt that.
Also, Origins is exactly 1 year old (11/11).
gaunt marten
I got the game and the rest of achievements for like fifteen dollars at humble bundle
Which is a much more fair price than four hundred for me.
hasty patio
I would agree. I'd say about 200 for all of it would be a good deal, but they are charging more now for everything and that was before Steam sent out a list of suggested % changes for currencies.
slim thorn
that is one impressive security camera; I can't even see myself in its footage but somehow it spotted me
hasty patio
It's the headpiece. Camera has gaydar. /s
gaunt marten
If you can't see someone through a camera, forensic analysis of the camera data may still extract enough information for that person to be seen
That being said it's probably just the game not taking the bush into account
slim thorn
yeah, in the end I decided this is as good an excuse as any to actually try breaking into a camera room this time
gaunt marten
Always easy and fun to do that
The hard part is to find it and remember where it is
slim thorn
they also tend to be tricky rooms
I did just manage it, since the smuggler hippie route I used to hit Franco this time basically put me right under the mansion and last time I had a pretty strong hunch this room in the middle of the basement was a security room
gaunt marten
If you stay outside of the room for long enough there will come a time where the room only contains one security guard who is not looking at the door
slim thorn
but I ended up making a silly little circle around that room and briefly into a cabinet to avoid getting spotted by the enforcer as he milled around before I could actually wipe the footage
good times
strangely I still haven't found out where you get the keycard to get through all the doors to the underground tunnels, none of the guards I knocked out had one
slim thorn
you've only played the first two missions of Hitman 2?
gaunt marten
And all the Hitman 1 missions
Each takes me like twenty hours
Since I like to finish a lot of missions in them
slim thorn
makes sense
I'm feeling like 2-3 runs a level is enough, but then this is only my 2nd "real" level
gaunt marten
Today I learned YouTube modified the share function on Android so every time you share it sends data
river veldt
What does this mean
gaunt marten
It means they're tracking every share you make in the app
river veldt
No not that
gaunt marten
They literally took the default share functionality and replaced it with a custom one that looks the same
river veldt
"Doom 2 in Spain only"
gaunt marten
That's a modpack
It's a series of levels pretending they're Chinese Bootlegs of Spanish Doom
gaunt marten
I like the Let's plays better because they make for perfect background audio
river veldt
True!
I like to put on really long Game Grumps compilations when I play games
Damn you can tell he's good at Doom when 8 Hell Knights appear and he's like "oh okey"
minor plover
8 hell knights isn't bad if you have a little space and at least a super shotgun
river veldt
Oh it's a mix of Barons and Hell Knights
minor plover
it's booty if it's really tight and you lack firepower
gaunt marten
It was really tight and he had only ten super shotgun shells
Ended up running away to a more favorable position
gaunt marten
Yes
At 13:06 he avoids a damaging floor. Did you know that damaging floor ticks only happen when your weapon sways all the way to the right or left?
It's synchronized to the same timing cycle as weapon sway
slim thorn
who the hay makes a solid gold hippo head door knocker twice the size of my head
gaunt marten
Someone who loves huge knockers
river veldt
This video convinced me to finally sub to Decino
gaunt marten
That video is a barrel of fun
river veldt
Is Doomguy raiding Hell's wine cellar
slim thorn
oh btw, whenever your GPU recovers: Three-Headed Serpent is just as good as The Finish Line, but there's three targets, and noticeably more enforcers so a nice smidge up in difficulty
gaunt marten
I did watch someone play that one
slim thorn
lol, finally found a keycard for the caves, and it's sitting right in front of a TV with two guards on the couch watching it, in a room with a third guard
annoyingly, not worth the hassle of distracting all three to get it
gaunt marten
Any generator around you can turn off to distract all three at once?
slim thorn
I didn't see one in that room
the other thing is that at this point, I've been to every single room in the cave system without the keycard, either via mission story disguises or the jungle back entrance from my first roundabout exploration of th elevel
gaunt marten
Typically you need a tool to fiddle with electricity and it can be elsewhere but usually nearby
slim thorn
I think I might actually go for discovering all locations for once since I'm so close already
yeah I've gotten in the habit of yoinking every tool I see just in case I need it later
though more than once I've had to just look up where a certain item is
weird that the only (practical) way to get glue is to knock out the poor auto repair guy in town
gaunt marten
"Upon capturing the killer, we found that he carried with him a fireman's axe, a silenced pistol, a lockpicking kit, piano wire, rat poison, three cans of soup, a coin, a small statue, a screwdriver, a ball-peen hammer, a suitcase, and a rubber duck."
slim thorn
my current inventory is 4 soda cans, 4 coins, 2 cocaine bricks, a lethal poison pill jar, a pool ball, 3 emetic rat poisons, scissors, a lockpick, a coconut, a screwdriver, and a crowbar
(had to dump all the guns to avoid weirding people out )
gaunt marten
They don't mind you carrying four soda cans though
slim thorn
"non-lethal" soda cans
gaunt marten
When I was little I put one or two soda cans in each of my pockets after attending weddings because I didn't normally get to drink it
slim thorn
"Guess the accident wasn't that serious after all."
"I've caused worse."
"Hahaha, I like your style!"
wow, every single line of dialogue Agent 47 says while in disguise has a double meaning
gaunt marten
I love it, yeah
dense crypt
he seems like the kind of guy who enjoys the shenanigans of his work
so much so that he makes humor out of it in plain sight
slim thorn
argh, another enforcer showed up during the cutscene
can't let your guard down for a second
river veldt
This is genuinely so cool (mild God of War Ragnarok spoilers)
||https://twitter.com/ign/status/1591190306749571074?s=46&t=NHhhTMlBuUu6pmCqaaV32Q||
4 images
One more
slim thorn
I like the exits where you steal one of the target's fancy vehicles after you kill them
river veldt
Does Agent 47 feel any want
slim thorn
anyway, that about wraps up the cartel assassination thing
river veldt
Does Agent 47 have friends
river veldt
No
gaunt marten
They're good
slim thorn
I like how a bunch of NPCs will comment on how bald he is, but never on the barcode on the back of his head
dapper cedar
I don't wanna hit the man
gaunt marten
I don't wanna hit the man
You can play Hitman without hitting any mans
slim thorn
I wonder if that's why they're so fussy about him getting caught on camera
dapper cedar
If you scan his barcode at a grocery store what price comes up
He shares a barcode with a banned soft drink from the 60s
river veldt
Real?
dapper cedar
I totally know the lore of the hitdude
hasty patio
river veldt
Yayyyy
dapper cedar
My first CoD, it's been 10 years
Though I played the Wii U version first which released on Nov 18 but shhh
river veldt
WHAT
gaunt marten
It's ridiculous. It's not even funny
river veldt
THERE WAS A WIIU VERSION?????
dapper cedar
Yep, it had some unique gamepad functions too
river veldt
Holy shit
dapper cedar
Nothing for Zombies I don't think but in MP you could tap on the Gamepad to use your scorestreaks
gaunt marten
It's ridiculous. It's not even funny
I wonder if anyone will ever get what I mean when I say that.
river veldt
Amazing
dapper cedar
Clearly left an impression if now I'm so obsessed with Zombies that map making is what I do daily
Trent Reznor did the brilliant main theme for the game
https://youtu.be/K1d7yLaAfO8
dapper cedar
BO2 campaign is so awesome too, lots of player decisions that can influence what happens throughout
river veldt
What do you mean
mossy flume
Living legend
river veldt
He did the entire soundtrack for Quake
mossy flume
I mean that was ages ago
river veldt
Oh I see
mossy flume
I mean today
dapper cedar
Oh god I've aged
mossy flume
Ah yeah, I guess BOII was a while ago?
river veldt
Ye
mossy flume
I don’t play COD 
river veldt
Trent did the music for Soul too
graceful bridge
He's done a ton of soundtracks. It's been his main focus the last couple decades.
mossy flume
Yes he did and it was wonderful
river veldt
Which is weird cuz it's like an entirely different style to NIN
dapper cedar
Trent did the music for Soul too
Ooh I didn't know this, still haven't watched it
river veldt
It's real good
dapper cedar
I need to do a Pixar marathon and feel every emotion at once
river veldt
Yeah
dapper cedar
Of course, you're doing a run in your icon
river veldt
It's a Pixar movie and I feel like every single one of their movies is amazing except Cars 2
dapper cedar
It's a Pixar movie and I feel like every single one of their movies is amazing e...
Meaning I have permission to skip this one?
river veldt
Cars 3 was awesome what are you talking about
minor plover
Cars 3 was great, yeah
mossy flume
You can skip the Cars sequels if you want, but you may as well do it properly
minor plover
it was what made Cars 1 good, but kinda ramped up another level
river veldt
Yeah!
mossy flume
Eh I just don’t like Cars that much.
dapper cedar
The concept of Cars has always weirded me out
mossy flume
I get the story though, it’s good
minor plover
"you're a racer!" big damn hero moment
mossy flume
Concept is eh
minor plover
Cars 2 is dumb
river veldt
It is strange I agree
dapper cedar
I’ll do all of them but the Carses
river veldt
Like there's a car pope which implies car jesus
dapper cedar
And Monsters Inc for more personal reasons
minor plover
the concept is eh, but it was executed so well
mossy flume
I can agree with that
dapper cedar
Finding Nemo I’m uncertain cause it’s great but also personal reasons
river veldt
Oh I love Finding Nemo
dapper cedar
Wow there are a lot of Pixar movies I just can’t watch huh
minor plover
Doc Hudson was a fantastic character, and the historical racers in Cars 3 were a great throwback
dapper cedar
Never gave it much thought but now I’m a bit sad
minor plover
the moment in Finding Dory where she goes through the drain ... I'm like "if you don't know neurodivergence, that right there, that's it"
river veldt
Lmao
dapper cedar
Ooh I need to play the Toy Story 3 game too
minor plover
I just realized we're in gaming, not the Disney+ general channel
dapper cedar
This is a fair point
white phoenix
BO2 campaign is so awesome too, lots of player decisions that can influence what...
I love the cod campaigns
bo2 was so great
soundtrack was on point too
chilly mural
Damn, I feel ancient, I started with cod of dooty 2 big red one
chilly mural
My favourite time in multiplayer was when the pre care package speed nerf was around
You were so fast with it
craggy vine
Wow
craggy vine
craggy vine
Xbox wireless adapter and Microsoft's help is amazing
'The drivers will automatically install through the internet'
they never automatically install
no drivers from microsoft themselves are available to download
I literally can't use a product of microsoft I bought because of their own shitty ways of how things must work
I found something online but I think it is for Xbox 360
And great, it downloads in a .cab file
How do I install a cab file
I fucking love how Microsoft's 'plug and play' turns into a big brain tech nerd time
So I found the exact driver online, and still it refuses to install
The drivers that are apparently supposed to be for this exact device do not work with it
What the fuck is microsoft doing
I bet this would be easier if I was using Linux even. Because now I have just hit a dead end with nothing to do.
I tried all these different versions and they all don't work
Notifications tells me that 'XBOX ACC' is set up and ready to go. But then I go to look at the device and it says drivers unavailable
So what, is it set up or not
Holly fucking shit, I just want to try playing need for speed with an xbox controller
Everything is against me playing games
Welp. I can't play Need for Speed. or any origin game it seems. No matter what I do I get that error code.
Why is everything so anti consumer with this
Take me back to the windows 7 era when i just downloaded or plugged in something and it worked instantly for me
Also EA changed my Origin name to f1ede6025cffd119
peak mesa
I can see why there wasn't Halo 3: Anniversary. This cutscene is already perfect even today.
craggy vine
Now the game I want to play is broken and just sits on a black screen
I want to give up gaming
I just want to sit down and have fun after spending weeks working, not spend hours of troubleshooting for probably just half an hour of actually playing the game.
Or maybe get a switch or PS5/Xbox. Since those seem 1000x more reliable than PC.
Maybe replace my desktop with a Mac even, since I only use windows for gaming.
Dear god NFS Heat finally worked
quiet swift
prisma path
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2887659653
For those who own "Rusted Warfare" on Steam, this mod is finally out to try!
Rusted Warfare is a Real TIme Strategy game available on Steam, having a fairly cheap price, and very positive reviews.
slim thorn
I just don't know what happened officer, one moment I was painting and the next he was dead somehow 
slim thorn
oh right, I have "one friend" who plays this, I keep forgetting to check that
lol Mega
gaunt marten
Probably played it once and had fun
gaunt marten
If only he spent thirty more minutes
slim thorn
this feels like another level where two playthroughs should do it
I'm only missing 3 mission stories and I'm pretty sure I can do both of Rangan's in a single playthrough (since they don't require you to use the story to kill the target to consider the story completed)
slim thorn
I just don't know what happened officer, one moment I was painting and the next ...
oh, turns out I don't even have to disguise myself as the painter; if I find and return the missing tube of paint, the real painter fetches Rangan all by himself
I think that'd be a good SOSA strategy
grim stirrup
its clearly pronounced "sew-sa" and you have to wear every available outfit on the stage before killing
slim thorn
oh SASO, gotcha
arctic fern
I just don't know what happened officer, one moment I was painting and the next ...
i love how 47 is skilled in a bazillion different skills
slim thorn
the most extreme case for me was the barbershop where half the regular customers said that was the best shave they ever had
arctic fern
yeah lol
gaunt marten
To be fair he is good at giving very close shaves
fresh bane
ughhh I died twice to the final boss of the second level but at least this time I finished it under 30 years
I had a near perfect run all the way up to the boss even against enemies that gave me a lot of trouble before
still upset that I messed up against the boss though, should've only died like once or twice on the level but two times in a single fight... 
I got some damn good screenshots though
the fact that so many games are including photo modes nowadays is great
slim thorn
"No, we didn't get the final shot... but we did get the accident on camera. In fact, I think it would be an even better ending."
my god that is cold
(they're absolutely right, but still)
nooo not a haggling minigame
I'm American, I don't know how to haggle
gaunt marten
Haggling is easy
Pretend you have no money, except the amount you're willing to haggle to
slim thorn
yep, I'm good with that
thorny loom
quiet swift
rough sleet
quiet swift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4vLUXSAraQ This is accurate
grave tide
Spent 3 hours trying kill Monsoon without damage on very hard
And i failed on 10%, because SMOKE GRENADE deals damage
And i didn't react with offensive defence
dapper cedar
I'M SORRY WHAT?
https://youtu.be/R3DWkqFyqhw
I haven't thought about Little Inferno in a long time
I had it on Wii U
quiet swift
👀
quiet swift
I'M SORRY WHAT?
https://youtu.be/R3DWkqFyqhw
I absolutely adore the game. This is an instant buy for me
quiet swift
I'M SORRY WHAT?
https://youtu.be/R3DWkqFyqhw
Also, uh. "This winter" translates to "in five days"
weak river
who tf voted for a garden gnome over giraffe
Hey, garden gnomes are great
gaunt marten
Miyu your avatar is a garden gnome
visual hill
Trent Reznor did the brilliant main theme for the game
https://youtu.be/K1d7yLaA...
TIL
fresh bane
''wow this track is the best thing I've ever heard, I don't think anything can top this''
Bear McCreary: hold my mead
https://youtu.be/V5Ar0dKnl6Y
green fulcrum
Ooooh, Bear McCreary. That guy does fantastic work.
Literally everything he composes is God-tier music.
fresh bane
all of his stuff is God of War Ragnarök ™️ -tier music
he really just perfected an already perfect track though
I love the new one
I found the plot of Ragnarök to be too ''safe'' but overall I can't complain I loved it and it was a great step forward for Kratos as a character
really really good
river veldt
Are there more boss fights with ||Thor and are they as good as the first one is||
fresh bane
Disappointed he doesn't just kind of
does a Gragas move and throws his belly at you and you just bounce away at mach speeds
green fulcrum
Seriously though, this guy's musical resume is STACKED. He did the music for Battlestar Galactica (and Caprica), The Walking Dead, Snowpiercer, Black Sails, Agents of SHIELD, Eureka, Defiance, Outlander, Rings of Power, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, God of War, and Call of Duty: Vanguard.
river veldt
That would be cool lol
fresh bane
like Po or something
river veldt
I do like how they didn't make him like, MCU design where he's ripped. This one feels a bit more true to actual Norse mythology
fresh bane
I feel like they went a bit too overboard with it
to the point where he doesn't look strong fat, he just looks fat, I wish they buffed him up a bit more, make his pecs more muscular and all that
river veldt
Perhaps
fresh bane
some small tweaks to make him look overweight but strong
to be fair he has more armor and clothes on than Kratos so it's a bit hard to judge his body
I find it funny how he towers over Kratos and makes Kratos look like a slim small guy in comparison, it's so jarring
river veldt
I love that so much
fresh bane
it's like the perfect contrast against Baldr in the first game where Baldr is like some skinny little stoner dude
river veldt
Yee
fresh bane
river veldt
I've only gotten to the part where they free that giant creature that Mimir captured
fresh bane
Oof yeah you're suuuper early into the game
like 2-3 hours into it
it's fine though, no rush
I'm just a weirdo freak who swallowed a 20 hour playthrough in one sitting
river veldt
Lmao
green fulcrum
Nah, Pony supremacy.
vernal needle
where thing
peak mesa
I wonder how games would look like in the MLP universe. Mainstream PC/console games especially.
First person shooter with the weapon held/levitated by the horn?
gaunt marten
Ponies wouldn't hold guns
sonic dune
Oh you found time to visit me?
grave tide
The most sad screenshot in my live
Okay, at least i am not playing it for Stormbringer right now
quartz pawn
First person shooter with the weapon held/levitated by the horn?
next year i really want to learn blender and unity and/or gdot just to do a mlp fan game with that idea
slim thorn
speaking of "Agent 47 can get away with anything"
today he is a real estate agent showing off a house for sale, and when he comes to the room with conspicuous bloodstains... he just rolls with it and describes how whoever it was probably died
"I dabble in forensic investigation"
green fulcrum
slim thorn
weak river
today he is a real estate agent showing off a house for sale, and when he comes ...
...did they purchase it?
slim thorn
he made an offer, but I killed him before the paperwork could be finalized
weak river
Dang.
And he was this close to getting a new house, too.
That's just cruel.
visual hill
it's happening… we've had to wait over 26 years, but you can finally look straight up and down in a Build engine game 🙂
This is being added in the Raze source port as an experimental, opt-in option
weak river
it's happening… we've had to wait over 26 years, but you can finally look straig...
Looking vertically? In a Build Engine game?
This is probably heretical or something.
light gate
it's happening… we've had to wait over 26 years, but you can finally look straig...
YES
YES
YEEEEAAAASSS!
white phoenix
The most sad screenshot in my live
I got the same thing before, no damage but still only a rank
I thought all I needed for s rank is no damage
slim thorn
ok, that's enough house cleaning for now
let's see if I can manage another Hitman story mission tonight
(again, if anyone wants to watch, just ask and I'll flip the stream on)
fresh bane
|| https://youtu.be/yQdPFzep7Fo?t=3897||
god of war spoilers
||I never thought I'd ever see Kratos sobbing/almost crying like that, holy shit ||
I don't know if they plan on doing another god of war in the future but damn seems like the journey isn't quite over yet
grave tide
I got the same thing before, no damage but still only a rank <:twicry:8334172369...
Soon i will finish my Very Hard run and after this i will start Revengeance run
grave tide
https://youtu.be/CxEFx9tykPs
Sam is best MGR boss
Everything is working, everything is balanced
fresh bane
grave tide
IT ISN'T BROKEN CAMERA IN ARMSTRONG BATTLE
fresh bane
gotta say while Platinum's games are great coming from Devil May Cry you do feel a certain stifness and limitation when it comes to the combat system
It doesn't feel nearly as free flowing or as smooth as DMC's combos
Platinum excels at making these games super flashy and centered around spectacle fighting but DMC has always had more in depth systems and mechanics that really let you take it to the next level
slim thorn
yeah, which is probably part of the reason I completely failed to get into DMC
fresh bane
Mind you DMC having more in depth systems doesn't mean it should be harder for people to pick it up, it just means it has a much higher skill ceiling and options for players
