But I can't talk too much I've played Bloodborne coming up on acid before
#general gaming
compact orchid
river veldt
I think a Quake reboot would be cool
craggy vine
We'll see
fresh bane
I don't even know what else id has done before
dapper cedar
I wanna be excited for id’s next thing but also Marty Stratton sucks
river veldt
If they did that they'd have to get Trent back though
fresh bane
Other than Dum
river veldt
id's main three franchises are Quake, Doom, and Wolfenstein
I highly recommend Quake 1 if you like retro shooters
It's really good
craggy vine
I really wanna try wolfenstein
river veldt
I haven't played any Wolfenstein games so I can't really comment on that
dapper cedar
Cap we still need to crossplay Quake 1
river veldt
We do!!
quiet swift
river veldt
Is this Sonic
dapper cedar
I see a dragon I am happy
river veldt
Sweep
Did you see that there's a rumour that there might be a Sonic Adventure remaster
dapper cedar
Aye, I’d love that
fresh bane
Sonic Adventure DX 2?
dapper cedar
The current release of SA1 is based on the DX version which makes some changes I’m not super into, a full remaster might be closer to what I liked in the original version
Mainly with the textures
river veldt
I like Sonic
fresh bane
I hate Sonic
river veldt
Wtf banned
river veldt
No he didn't he would never do something like that
dapper cedar
Behold, my one official Dreamcast game
river veldt
Maybe it was Shadow
dapper cedar
The rest may or may not be burned
dapper cedar
Hell yeah he did
cerulean herald
capmario, have u tried out frontiers
river veldt
Yea
I'm playing through it
I'm taking my time with it cuz big mainline Sonic games don't come out too often
dapper cedar
Does it feel different enough from BotW cause I remember there being a lot of comparisons when it was first revealed
river veldt
Yeah it's pretty different
I mean really the only similarities are that there's a big overworld with small little puzzles to solve
dapper cedar
Small and little? I’m impressed
gaunt marten
Dark Souls 1 has 28 merchants, almost all of whom have a decent amount of talking lines. 14 story and covenant NPCs, and a total of 54 in all categories combined with some overlap between categories.
It might not seem like it, but the series games have plenty of NPCs.
fresh bane
Now that I think about it I find it funny how GT, who originally asked the Dark Souls question, was completely absent for most of that conversation
river veldt
When will they add Sonic to Dark Souls
dense crypt
dank soils
gaunt marten
I haven't yet played 1
river veldt
It's a funny game
gaunt marten
I think game developers should wait for me to be done with all games before they release new ones
river veldt
I'd wait for it to go on sale though
gaunt marten
I played Escape Goat and that was great
visual hill
I think game developers should wait for me to be done with all games before they...
"wait I haven't played Mario Bros yet!!"
green fulcrum
Now that I think about it I find it funny how GT, who originally asked the Dark ...
Had to iron my dress pants for Friday, and then polish my parade boots. Bloody things never polish very well at all.
river veldt
Aw man, Goat Simulator 3 isn't coming to Switch yet
rugged flax
Farming Sim just dropped a new expansion based on the Pacific Northwest. 🚜
https://youtu.be/iKWscnaBqw0
compact orchid
Ooooh shit
fresh bane
Oh man the EULE units dorms are so cute 
dull walrus
rugged flax
You add it when you create the post with that dark square there on the right.
If nobody else has sent a message in the forum post, you can also reply to the main post with a picture and Discord will ask you if you want to add it. It has to be the first message for that to work, though.
gaunt marten
It's beginning to get really hard to expand in Europe https://i.imgur.com/Jx8kjtp.png
The coalition against me has over a million troops
hasty patio
And two million more that can be called up.
gaunt marten
My best strategy so far is to either wait for the coalition to disband or diplomatically vassalize parts of the holy Roman empire when I can.
In the past I was able to fight off the coalition by expanding elsewhere first
And then using the resources from trade to bolster my European troops
My goal for this France run is just to get the 7 morale achievements and while I wait do as much of the French mission tree as possible
France is a good nation for land morale since they have an idea that gives 20%
hasty patio
One trick that was popular was to offer land from your allies in a peace deal if things turned south.
gaunt marten
Problem is my allies are garbage. I can't keep too many allies because my relationships are all vassals
And expanding through vassals is faster but less controlled than expanding through conquest. I think doing a little bit of both is important
One trick I've been doing is to win a war and instead of asking for land I release small nations and diplomatically vassalize them later
This prevents aggressive expansion from building up as quickly
hasty patio
That is another trick. Just takes more time and burns a different mana.
mossy flume
...damn, this is a hard one.
river veldt
Zelda or RE4 for me
mossy flume
All of them except RE4 for me.
river veldt
All of them except RE4 for me.
Wtf
fickle garnet
Im not a huge fan of harry potter
mossy flume
I've never played Resident Evil
river veldt
WHAT
mossy flume
¯_(ツ)_/¯
green fulcrum
I'm rooting for FF16, even though I know it's not gonna win.
mossy flume
I really really want to vote for three of them XD
I'm pretty equally excited for Hogwarts Legacy, BotW2 and Starfield. FFXVI is a close second.
mossy flume
Sounds like a reasonable reason to pirate it, then.
river veldt
Is FFXV the one with the boy band
mossy flume
Yeah, FFXV is boyband road trip simulator.
river veldt
I'm not interested in FF games that aren't set in the FFVII universe unfortunately
mossy flume
I'm not interested in FF games that aren't set in the FFVII universe unfortunate...
You should consider 14 
river veldt
Hyped for Crisis Core coming to Switch in December :pippwiggle:
river veldt
You should consider 14 <a:pippwiggle:1019590422655406201>
Perhaps
I've never played an mmo before though
mossy flume
14 is easily the best overall MMO out there right now. (Been true for about ten years now)
The one game that consistently makes me cry and blows my mind.
river veldt
I've watched gameplay and there's so many menus and icons and the UI is overwhelming and ajsjdjfjxksjd
mossy flume
On the other hand I have about 1400 hours poured into it
green fulcrum
1 through 6 were all awesome. 7 was "modern", but also cyberpunk mixed with steampunk mixed with classic fantasy, and it was awesome. 8...again, not a very endearing setting. 9 was utterly amazing. 10 was amazing. 11 I never really saw that much of and you can't really see that much of it anymore, so eh, skip. 12 was awesome. 13 was...a thing. 14 IS AWESOME!!!! 15 is...meh. 16 is shaping up to be awesome once again.
mossy flume
I've watched gameplay and there's so many menus and icons and the UI is overwhel...
It actually gradually introduces all the options to you over a long period of time. You start out with next to nothing.
It's easy to pick up
river veldt
I'll be voting for Sonic Movie 2
gaunt marten
Well I'm not gonna pirate the game if I can't play it on my PC
green fulcrum
I'm not interested in FF games that aren't set in the FFVII universe unfortunate...
Trust me Cap, you would LOVE FF9. It's more medieval/fantasy than 7 was, but it's got one of the best stories and some of the best characters in the history of Final Fantasy.
river veldt
Where do I vote at 
gaunt marten
But maybe I will pirate it when I finally have a good PC
fickle garnet
I'll be voting for Sonic Movie 2
I've never even seen it
mossy flume
I went with Arcane. Arcane and Cyberpunk are close but Arcane wins out in the end for superior art direction and narrative achievement.
Sonic is a great contender, but it's overshadowed
green fulcrum
You should, it's a great movie!
mossy flume
yes, you should
The two sonic movies are actually really good
The sequel is better than the first one
river veldt
I went with Arcane. Arcane and Cyberpunk are close but Arcane wins out in the en...
Yeah I already know Arcane will win but a girl can dream
fickle garnet
I want to see it
mossy flume
Where do I vote at <:ppenk:681838745611141137>
Arcane is the best game adaptation ever.
river veldt
Thank
mossy flume
And just by itself is a great series
I know nothing of League of Legends but was still blown away by the show
green fulcrum
Cyberpunk was never going to win, as good as it was, same with Sonic. All three contenders are great on their own, but Arcane is just on a completely different level than the other two. My heart wants to pick Sonic, but my mind knows that Arcane is the winner, hands down.
river veldt
I refuse to watch Arcane because I refuse to know anything about LoL /s
fickle garnet
Arcane is *the* best game adaptation ever.
Im still voting Cyberpunk
mossy flume
It's fine, Arcane has basically nothing to do with the game
mossy flume
Yeah
gaunt marten
Yeah and it got big so fast
green fulcrum
No, it was out in 2021.
mossy flume
Late 2021, though
green fulcrum
From wikipedia:
The series was announced at the League of Legends 10th anniversary celebration in 2019, and first released in November 2021. Following the conclusion of the first season, Riot Games and Netflix announced that a second season was in production for a post-2022 release.
mossy flume
Too late to be considered for nomination
fickle garnet
I never even finished it
green fulcrum
I still can't believe that Riot Games literally spoiled so much of Arcane with Jinx's introduction music video.
fickle garnet
I know Arcane is gonna win but I still want Cyberpunk to win
fresh bane
HUUUUUUUUUUUH????? 
(spoilers: Signalis)
fresh bane
I still can't believe that Riot Games literally spoiled *so much* of Arcane with...
is that sarcastic?
fresh bane
It's fine, Arcane has basically nothing to do with the game
to be fair neither does Cyberpunk
light gate
So the Steam Deck interface is now somewhat usable on desktop and can be enabled in the Steam Client using -newbigpicture https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/3388424091283734940
Interesting enough, the size of the new interface is smaller than the old one a tiny bit. It also calls itself 'steamui' instead of reusing 'tenfoot' (legacy big picture). I guess y'all should expect tenfoot to be removed soon, or deprecated.
Also contains new video and audio files from the deck, I guess Valve really is starting to renovate Steam after many years at least in big picture.
So yeah, fun facts to know! 
dense crypt
so! who here likes shoot-em-ups?
mossy flume
So the Steam Deck interface is now somewhat usable on desktop and can be enabled...
Can confirm. I recently built an overkill computer for this purpose. This client is still buggy, but it works quite well enough to deem it a successful gaming console.
It automatically boots to that new GUI
This Steam Deck style GUI is indeed replacing legacy Big Picture mode.
hasty patio
mossy flume
Ahh, expired license agreements. Give it a bit of time and they might renegotiate the contracts.
river veldt
river veldt
Once you see the ||puff and dots it's all over||
gaunt marten
Doesn't help that the artstyle is basic as shit
Some I Wanna Be the Guy type of art
river veldt
craggy vine
I literally got the same
rough sleet
gaunt marten
Yes everyone gets the same game every day
craggy vine
Yes everyone gets the same game every day
No like I got the same score
I just said it to not spam the chat with scores
quiet swift
#GuessTheGame #187
🎮 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛
I recognized the background art, put in my guess and got it right, then saw cap's comment, then saw the ||puff and dots|| 
craggy vine
I find it funny how obvious the last 2 images make it
random steppe
Yeah usually the last 2 you are going to get it if you are even barely familiar with the game
Unless it's a pokemon game and you don't play pokemon games
Or same thing with mario games
Every time one of those 2 shows up, I just pick random titles from the list
grim stirrup
yup its the ||puff and dots||
quartz pawn
Wow , biohazard ☣️
dire gate
I love how every single person gets the answer at the third pic
astral field
I love how every single person gets the answer at the third pic
Huh, no kidding. I also got it on the third one.
craggy vine
pft yeah
craggy vine
Oh wait whoops
rough sleet
bruh
craggy vine
spiral kraken
https://youtu.be/XI3YAeK-5oQ Didn't except this game to show up again lol ?
bleak lintel
What a strange pokemon.
thorny loom
arctic fern
wait, they're working on a sequel? why, the first game was mediocre at best
bleak lintel
The first game had the benefit of coming out at the start of the zombie craze.
wind stump
I liked it...
peak mesa
Nine years is how long TF2 had been delayed. "After nine years in development, hopefully it would have been worth the wait."
quiet swift
Starting disco elysium for the first time... Any votes? (Otherwise I was thinking of a character with 3/3/3/3 to be perfectly average but I suspect I wouldn't have any special actions that are available to maxed stats)
Fuckit, going physical
thorny loom
thorny loom
wait, they're working on a sequel? why, the first game was mediocre at best
Its been in development hell since 2014
heady bridge
https://www.pcgamer.com/saints-row-developer-is-being-shifted-to-gearbox-followi...
That’s a match made in hell.
compact orchid
It's beginning to get really hard to expand in Europe https://i.imgur.com/Jx8kjt...
You play EU4??? I love eu4 bro
Just got the holy horde achievement. Honestly not that hard
Did have a problem where Muscovy fell into a PU under big boy Austria so I had to fight him
Oh shit there's a paradox thread
thorny loom
@graceful bridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njF-9qjGw_4
graceful bridge
oooh
rough sleet
arctic fern
<@129646994053398528> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njF-9qjGw_4
oooh! im a little burned on the "surviving" series after surviving the apocalypse, but this looks very interesting
thorny loom
Ksp 2 is in early access feb 2023
Oh man. Repair main simulator 2023 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1759870/The_Repair_House/
compact orchid
What's a stormbringer
thorny loom
Steam deck comes to Asia next year
mossy flume
Well, Mass Effect Legendary Edition appears to have picked up a crash. The final battle sequence in ME1 crashes when it's switching between engine rendering and playing a pre-rendered cutscene. 
What a time to discover it.
thorny loom
Weird that didnt happen with me
mossy flume
It didn't happen the first time I played through Legendary Edition
But it's crashing 100% of the time on the new computer
I wonder if it's a driver bug or something
uneven epoch
Starting disco elysium for the first time... Any votes? (Otherwise I was thinkin...
i really hope you enjoy the game! it is so good 
i generally start with 3-4-1-4 and visual calc as my signature; it does make me squishy but i know how to make money in this game just fine (n heal items are fairly common if you know where to look)
quiet swift
It's my next game to complete, I just i guess failed very early on 
uneven epoch
so your run is probably gonna be fairly different from my usual affair. also given u got points in physical, please punch the fascist in the face for me when the time comes. u'll know when
quiet swift
I was taking it very carefuly for the most part so I might start again go psychological
||I failed at the bookstore girl's questioning so it's super early||
grave tide
What's a stormbringer
Finish Metal Gear Rising on last difficulty on maximum rank (no damage in 99% fights) 
And especially no deaths
uneven epoch
that is also fine! ill tell you a secret; i think save scumming is totally fine thing to do 
it should be noted that sometimes the failed outcome is actually the better outcome, but also like. sometimes the game will troll you n fail a 90% chance roll so
i dunno, i save n reload without shame
probably better to try n fiddle with that in second or more run, but the game is riddled with incredible moment if you succeed or fail this or that check accordingly
uneven epoch
||I failed at the bookstore girl's questioning so it's super early||
oh! nah dont worry, you'll "fail" plenty, plenty of times. you genuinely arent meant to succeed literally every roll there is, so its fine!
in the entirety of game there is like. one check thats actually vital to pass (in the sense that you'd be locked out of the ending if you dont pass it), and thats a) way later in the game and b) has so many modifiers to it that can improve your chances that you'd have to actively try to fail it and c) every time you invest a point in a skill, the checks for that skill open up again so u can give it another shot
compact orchid
Finish Metal Gear Rising on last difficulty on maximum rank (no damage in 99% fi...
Gross
Also based gg
uneven epoch
@quiet swift i have three pro tips for you, if you'd like your gamin experience to be more smooth sailing:
one: get a plastic bag and equip it asap. when you leave the whirling in rags, move down-left and down the set of stairs. theres a plastic bag on the ground. when equipped, it lets you collect bottles that can be exchanged for reál later, so you can buy extra medicine if needed.
two: talk to lena (the older lady in wheelchair in whirling's base floor) until she advises you to talk to someone who would help you "get a reality lowdown". then head left-up on the map aaaaaall the way to the pier. there you'll find joyce. chat with her until you gain a thought called "jamais vu" once internalized, every single orb you click will get you one exp. it is, so overpowered, you'll be positively rolling in skill points. so later down the line you can increase your chances to get all the fun hard checks.
three: also with joyce, there is a check that can get you the required money needed to pay your debt to whirling.
can you tell i really enjoyed this game
..... i should play it for the third time
dense crypt
Meanwhile a certain swedish streamer and one of my acquaintances in another server are getting me to want to play dwarf fortress. With mods and a tile set, though.
light gate
Risk of Rain IP acquired by Gearbox Software, originals devs will finish any remaining Risk of Rain work. https://twitter.com/riskofrain/status/1593242555214241796
dense crypt
Aw crap
light gate
After this, Hopoo will move on.
dense crypt
Pitchford gets another kill
light gate
Basically yeah.
dense crypt
Oooo
thorny loom
Surprise release. Crysis 2 and 3 remastered now on steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2096600/Crysis_2_Remastered/
slim thorn
so I've been thinking about finally trying Sekiro
my main concern is whether it has any of the problems I had with Dark Souls 1, where the information you need to make any progress cannot be discovered without either seeking internet help or far more trial and error than is fun (e.g. dozens of attempts at a fight, not 3-5 attempts), especially about where in the world you can go or what gear you need to stand a fighting chance
is there anyone familiar with both games who can vouch for that?
gaunt marten
It's quite different as far as I heard
Fights especially
I never got a sale deep enough to afford Sekiro
slim thorn
part of the reason I'm thinking about it now is that it's half off (which for me is enough to risk it)
gaunt marten
I'm looking for twice that. 70% or so
slim thorn
yeah, I figured
gaunt marten
Anyway, combat is different in that parries are a lot more important or something, but puzzling scenarios can still easily happen. You'll need to learn how to play observantly
slim thorn
right, I like games that reward paying attention; that's not the fear
random steppe
If your problem was that Dark Souls didn't explain itself well enough, Sekiro is probably a good idea.
It's much less of a RPG and a bit more of an action game
As a result, it has a lot less mechanics to explain
slim thorn
cool, that's what I was hoping it was
random steppe
Or to conceal as things may be
The biggest hidden mechanics come from clever use of ninja tools, so make sure you try them out in different scenarions and against different enemies, to see if they make fights easier for you
gaunt marten
Don't forget the invisible fuckers
random steppe
Also stealth is very powerful and can sometimes be used in unexpected situations
compact orchid
so I've been thinking about finally trying Sekiro
You only have the one sword so you don't have to worry about finding or upgrading weapons or armor
Also damage and health upgrades are obtained by killing main bosses or mini bosses respectively
There were a few points where I had trouble figuring out where I was supposed to go but that's about it
random steppe
Sekiro has an elegant aspect to its encounters, given that they know which tools you have access to, they definitely deliver a more consistent experience
compact orchid
Yes
random steppe
While in other souls game, you may turn up with spells, or a whip, or a sword, or whatever else, so they need to build the encounters to work no matter what, and they can't built them specifically for the tools you have
compact orchid
Most of the best from soft bosses are in sekiro imo
slim thorn
heh, my experience with DS1 (after the first few bosses I could handle) was that the tools I turned up were never an option at all, and every single internet video of the encounter had far better gear I had no idea how to get
random steppe
It's not necessarily easier but when you are there, getting pounded to dust, you don't ask yourself "maybe I should have used a different build, this isn't supposed to be this hard"
compact orchid
I'd say sekiro is slightly more difficult starting off, but it has a higher skill ceiling? Not sure how to word it, but there's more depth to the combat that just roll spamming. It's more of a back and forth dance, like an actual sword fight, and once you figure it out it feels fucking awesome
slim thorn
yeah, personally I get way more interesting depth and subtlety out of games with a fixed equipment set simply because they can afford to make the actual fights more intricate when the "metafight" is a fixed constant
random steppe
IDK if it's more difficult, in some ways maybe, but the fact that you can make use of stealth and are much more agile mitigates that once you get used to it
The difficulty hump at the beginning for the most people I spoke to, was due to them trying to play it like a Dark Souls
slim thorn
ah, that does sound unlikely to be a problem for me
I mean when I get to a boss I'll likely slip into the "a thousand perfectly timed butt pokes" mindset, but when there are any shadows, tall grasses or grapple points you know I'll gravitate to them immediately
random steppe
Sekiro was made so we could have a dedicated jump button and a functional stealth system in Elden Ring 🙏
Bless that game
compact orchid
The problem with sekiro is that while the lack of build variety is good for enemies and combat, the replay value is pretty dogshit
slim thorn
lol, not an issue for me
compact orchid
Also no online so no invasions
slim thorn
ok that's straight-up a selling point
random steppe
It does have the multiple ending part for that, and also the game is kind of designed to go to ng+2 or something if you want to max everything on one savefile
gaunt marten
You can go offline in any of the games, you know
compact orchid
If you don't wanna play online just play offline bro
Invasions and other pvp is a great way to stay engaged after wearing out pve
slim thorn
I think I was offline in practice just because my console wasn't set up for that, but I'm not sure
compact orchid
Once I got all the achievements in sekiro I never touched it again
random steppe
In Elden Ring invasions barely ever happen, I think I had one legit nvastion in all my time in it
compact orchid
Pretty much not gonna happen unless you summon
And don't immediately start a boss fight
random steppe
I mean, same, but it was also around 100 hours to do that for me, so it's not like it's a bad time-money ratio
compact orchid
Oh yeah definitely worth getting
Just not gonna play it a million times like I did ds3
Elden ring dlc when?
random steppe
I was hoping we'd get some fun mods but we never had anything like Daughters of Ash or Cinders for sekiro
Probably because of how it's made, you can't really do mods the same way you do for other Souls games
If you want a new move, you also have to do animations for it
quiet swift
dense crypt
blizz shuts down World of Warcraft
holy clickbait.
dense crypt
thought as much but jesus thats such a clickbait title
random steppe
***until they get their license renewed
Actually shocking*
Actually not very shocking at all
Mildly surprising
quiet swift
Clickbait sells, unfortunately. And it's not completely wrong, all servers and char info and all that is sealed by jan 23 unless something gets renewed, and presently it's not known if that renewal will be with netease or someone else entirely
random steppe
Usually the clickbait from Bellular is mild, this one borders on misinformation
random steppe
Is the new expansion already out?
dense crypt
i could care less about retail WoW honestly, Ascension is WAY more fun
quiet swift
Is the new expansion already out?
11 days! There's a lot of prepatch stuff that has been added already. New class/race combo is available for example
random steppe
Nice, I 'm not interested in playing myself, I'm at capacity with live service games to sink my free time in, but some content creators I follow do play it so it's weirdly relevant for my entertainment despite me not playing it at this point
quiet swift
All signs are pointing towards this one being good, especially if they can keep to a content cadance schedule they've been talking about. In comparison, the previous two xpacs, by now (or at least 6 months before release), testers were ringing alarm bells that largely went unheeded and those two expansions were... not really great. So far, nothing of the sort for Dragonflight and there's actual excitement about it
random steppe
Better hope so, I am not sure if Blizzard can take 3 bad expacs in a row
rancid herald
but... pokemon. Pokemon has dragons too
dense crypt
battle for azeroth sucking really got me to not want to play the game anymore. as someone who only ever did PVP and sometimes raids for the sake of getting the very best gear, having the 4th war just turn into a fight to save the world was just so UUUUUGH
the war campaign was dope as fuck though
random steppe
Hopefully it does well
quiet swift
Actually this weekend there's a "free weekend" thing going, where you can play even including the current xpac, shadowlands (Dragonflight being the incoming one)
rancid herald
It might be sacrilege, but I really wish WoW would upgrade their graphics. The cinematics are so great but the actual game is like PS1 Hagrid at times
quiet swift
They do, but it's such a huge game it's so much work and a lot of that upgrading stuff would not really be seen, so to speak
random steppe
Yeah the hard part is that, if you do a really big leap in graphics, for the new stuff, the older stuff would stick out like a sore thumb
quiet swift
For example, the Barrens look like this... 2004 era zone.
And this is Shadowlands era, 2020
Although Barrens did get redesigned in Cataclysm (2010? 12?) but the textures didn't particularly get upgraded in comparison
rancid herald
I remember playing a few years ago and was completely flummoxed by the fact that my character was wearing a dress... and the dress was a cone, for example
quiet swift
rancid herald
And yeah, it's undoubtably a lot of work to upgrade it, no arguments there
quiet swift
It's such a huge undertaking and it might get a few hours of notice and some good PR, but players crave content more than anything
quiet swift
But yeah, even character customization needs upgrading still
rancid herald
but in all seriousness, this is what I mean about ps1 hagrid. I don't even remember the last game that had to take that sort of shortcut in years and years
quiet swift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEcpCSAVKjc this is for Shadowlands, and there's some races that are still visibly behind the times
dense crypt
getting to genderswap for in-game money was a blessing
quiet swift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfEOkmEYxJE and then the newest race has like a quadrillion customization configurations. A lot of that is just small details and just the sheer number of combinations but still, compared to some of the older races...
rancid herald
yeah but can't the dragons not wear any armor?
dense crypt
cant wait for alextraza to be like "nope, you're taking a back seat to the story again, player character"
rancid herald
I know there's 'character armor' based on the wowhead dressing room, but
quiet swift
I think just the shoulder is visible in dragon form
Maybe. But you are given armor options there
The armor is visible in humanoid form
random steppe
Clicked on a random point of the video
You may not like it but this what peak elf performance looks like.
rancid herald
Alextraza be like, "Oh? are you here to deliver my Amazon prime package?"
dense crypt
wait, what team are the dragon dudes on? are they like pandas and can join either side?
random steppe
Large ears to maximize the elven hearing, large eyebrows to protect the sensitive elven eyes
quiet swift
(yes, this is an option)
rancid herald
The armor _is_ visible in humanoid form
sir, I'm not paying good money to play a dragon only to play a damn human
quiet swift
sir, I'm not paying good money to play a dragon only to play a damn human
Agreed!
rancid herald
I want a tail, and I want wings and I want the boopable snout
dense crypt
you'd think they could make it work as a dragon since worgen are able to wear a full set
rancid herald
none of this flat faced monkey business >:|
quiet swift
Red: honestly I think at this point they're releasing it so people can play it. Armor will come later when they have more time to work on it
rancid herald
Worgen are their own problem. No tail. What's is this Prisoner of Azkaban nonsense, I ask you
young creek
I tried to play a dragon but its not working for me
quiet swift
Cinna: it's worse, the Dracthyr actually have a joke about worgen tails
young creek
also they have the worst running animation ive ever seen in this game
quiet swift
"I showed my tail to one of those wolf people... but they just looked sad and walked away. I wonder why!"
rancid herald
good! they should mock them. Maybe they'll die of embarrassment
rancid herald
digigrade running is kind of a pain in the ass
quiet swift
And in human form, sans pants because I wanted to show off the markings and whatnot 😛
rancid herald
sure buddy, we believe you
rancid herald
if you preorder do you get to roll one without doing the hero class nonsense?
river veldt
Where i s her shirt
quiet swift
How do you mean, hero class nonsense? If you preorder you can do their intro island, which starts you at level 58
random steppe
also they have the worst running animation ive ever seen in this game
They do have a sweet glide animation at least
quiet swift
sure buddy, we believe you
Cmon, this is a much more boring shot 😛
rancid herald
yeah but otherwise you have to level a character to 50 or whatever it is
quiet swift
Ooh
dense crypt
any new classes or just the new dragon race?
quiet swift
You can only have one per server I think, but your very first one even if you are new, can be done without that level 50 minimum
young creek
They have like 2 cool moves but im way more excited to play demon hunter and monk than evoker
quiet swift
If you want to make another elsewhere, I think you do need that
young creek
Maybe its more fun with talent points but I wasnt feeling it at all
quiet swift
I gotta admit that there's some cute options
Artiks: you were still on the starter island? Yeah, it's very simple there and becomes a fair bit more complex when you get the talents
rancid herald
we probably should have a wow thread
quiet swift
We do
young creek
its like in the top 3 most used gaming threads lol
dense crypt
young creek
LOL
young creek
thank you gamefreak
quiet swift
... au ra are still better
wind stump
i will never give up my dragon waifu
Hydaelyn bless Harqujin
wind stump
<:dracthyr_no1:1002363135912583288><:dracthyr_no2:1002363137451905054>
If Lalafel can't make me convert, you can't either!
mossy flume
https://fxtwitter.com/Cherrim/status/1593292235222978560?t=9SeLDT0R1N6xOfcSM5q5a...
Holy shit, that's on real hardware? Damn, emulator performance is many times faster than that.
I was going to switch to real hardware, but... I think I'm going to keep playing this on emulator instead.
That's just sad
dire gate
I saw that the uploader said that was "early version Switch, Handheld mode"
Apparently docked mode isn't that bad
mossy flume
I hear rumors that these are the worst rated Pokémon games since gen 3 and I could buy that performance is the reason.
I'm having a blast with it via emulation
river veldt
I think I'm finally convinced we need new hardware
mossy flume
I haven't actually read the reviews myself yet
Yeah, Nintendo has been painfully behind since 2019 and it... really has only gotten worse
dire gate
#1032733661671460937 message
fickle garnet
I was convinced nintendo needed new hardware a long time ago
dire gate
SV is currently at 77 (metacritics)
mossy flume
Eugh
dire gate
Just above BDSP(73) and Emerald(76)
mossy flume
Yeah, the Switch is literally just a glorified smartphone from 2017. Not even real console tier hardware, tbh
They desperately need to just go back to making normal home consoles.
river veldt
Ew no
mossy flume
They'll kinda crash their brand if they keep doing this.
rancid herald
I feel like an actual smartphone would be better
river veldt
I would hate for Nintendo to go back to normal consoles
mossy flume
Heck, my old iPhone was more powerful
river veldt
Clearly they're doing something right with how well the Switch has sold, I don't think that's "crashing their brand" lol
mossy flume
The Steam Deck being like ten times more powerful is just sad.
mossy flume
Clearly they're doing something right with how well the Switch has sold, I don't...
Switch system performance has been dragging on them for the past few years though.
mossy flume
Have you seen the performance and rendering differences with a lot of the recent ports?
Tunic's port isn't worth buying, for example
river veldt
Well ime I haven't experienced anything too bad
rancid herald
the concept of the switch is fine, it just needs better guts
river veldt
I'm not disagreeing there
mossy flume
Yeah, don't get me wrong, the concept is fine
rancid herald
the Switch is like... weirdly placed. It clearly hit on the right sort of thing people wanted, but even when it launched it was kind of underpowered.
river veldt
I cannot go back to having a stationary console though, and Nintendo seems to do best in the handheld market
mossy flume
The issue is that for Nintendo to have a console that is competitive long-term while also maintaining their comparably budget-friendly prices, they would get a lot more mileage out of a static home console.
That's why I say they should switch.
If they want to be competitive while also having a mobile platform, the device would be very expensive.
And that's a no-go for them.
river veldt
I'm really confused by what you mean by being "competitive" hasn't the Switch been outselling the Series X and PS5? (At least in Japan)
dire gate
Gamecube is the last time Nintendo cared much about the console spec, which failed in sales
rancid herald
They could always just make it a literal phone
mossy flume
Competitive in regards to hardware relevance. So that you don't run into this problem of Nintendo pushing for AAA experiences that are relatively comparable to what the rest of the industry and consumers expect, but the games they develop to meet those demands rapidly outgrow their own platform.
mossy flume
https://fxtwitter.com/Cherrim/status/1593292235222978560?t=9SeLDT0R1N6xOfcSM5q5a...
So that you don't run into this shit.
That's just a critical symptom of your platform being wholly inadequate to meet your goals.
Not just an optimization issue
heck, BotW's most recent patch still has some really bad framerate drops
river veldt
The only place I run into framerate drops in BOTW is Korok Forest
rancid herald
tbh I wonder how much of this is more on the switchyness of the controls
mossy flume
That's the most obvious and consistent one, but you can get drops almost anywhere.
rancid herald
like, if you didn't have detactable controllers, you could add what? an extra half inch to the guts?
dire gate
idk, I mean it would be best if they can create something like PS4 but Switch, but I'd say if they have to choose one they'll choose Switch
mossy flume
The boss flights have FPS drops too
river veldt
I haven't experienced any during boss fights
mossy flume
It's all the particle effects they use
mossy flume
Indeed, or a Switch 2 or just a new platform entirely.
rancid herald
I really worry Nintendo is holding off on it because they don't think they can secure the chip supply
mossy flume
They need a system with modern chips.
river veldt
God I hope it's not called Switch Pro or Switch 2
rancid herald
but I'm not sure that's ever going away
mossy flume
Call it the Flip
dire gate
At least I'd say they're not moving away from the Switch concept sooner or later
river veldt
I feel like if it was called one of those it would be the WiiU debacle all over again
mossy flume
Agreed
rancid herald
next generation the switch is a little robot buddy who hangs out in your pocket and goes 'pika pika'
Switch 2 would be fine
mossy flume
To this day a lot of people still don't get that the WiiU was a distinct console and not just an optional add-on.
rancid herald
it's the whole 'don't use numbers' thing that's the problem
river veldt
Playstation does that and they've been fine I guess
dire gate
I mean Switch 2 sounds more like a new console
Wii U was not only a failure of naming but more like a failure in marketing I'd say
river veldt
If they do release a beefed up Switch I hope it's backwards compatible
rancid herald
at this point it probably needs to be a whole new console, maybe with the same game cart thing
mossy flume
next generation the switch is a little robot buddy who hangs out in your pocket ...
Switchachu
dire gate
Also Wii U does kinda look like an add-on at first sight
mossy flume
Also Wii U does kinda look like an add-on at first sight
Indeed. And how they marketed it focused so much on the tablet they never actually made it clear that the console itself was different
dire gate
They had NES-SNES or DS-3DS which had zero problems
river veldt
remember how everyone licked the cartridges when the Switch came out
mossy flume
Their E3 presentation barely even acknowledged the new console itself.
river veldt
That was fun
mossy flume
They spent so much time on the tablet
dire gate
Interesting thing about Pokemon
mossy flume
remember how everyone licked the cartridges when the Switch came out
I did that. That flavor lasted for a good while. 
dire gate
is that it's originally a handheld franchise
Switch is actually it's first mainline home console
mossy flume
Yeah, the Switch is the first console to have a mainline Pokémon game on a console that has a stationary form factor.
mossy flume
It does work, they just need better internal hardware. The CPU and GPU they chose didn't age well.
I'd be concerned that they'll put out a successor and the Steam Deck will still be more powerful
Which would just be like... what even is the point.
river veldt
I'm not expecting Nintendo to put out a cutting edge console
mossy flume
If they fail to outpace the Steam Deck, which would be two or three years old by the time they release, then that would be really depressing tbh.
I don't mean by a huge margin either
Just... at all.
Steam Deck already cut some corners to save on costs, mind
river veldt
I don't know where you got the idea that Nintendo is really interested in keeping up with powerful specs when they released the Switch which was already underpowered compared to other consoles out at the time
mossy flume
It should really just serve as a handy preview of what Nintendo is likely to put out.
I've never said they should be comparable to Sony or Microsoft.
slim thorn
I thought the complaint was that they weren't interested enough in specs and now it's coming back to bite them
mossy flume
They should be relevant so that it stands up long enough to survive its own life cycle.
Yeah, they were a little too conservative in the Switch cycle is what I'm saying.
dire gate
idk, I thought Switch's spec was quite in a reasonable range when it was released
I think technology may be too fast
river veldt
I've never said they should be comparable to Sony or Microsoft.
Yes but you literally just said it should be comparable to Steam Deck
mossy flume
Nintendo doesn't need to compete directly with the bleeding edge hardware, that's not the point of them. But they need to ensure the software they develop, which follows industry and consumer trends, doesn't outgrow their own platform.
slim thorn
close, he said that by the time Switch 2 comes out, it should be at least as powerful as Steam Deck was at launch, because that'll presumably be years from now
I think you could argue that's still shooting a little high, but it sounds about right to me, if even Nintendo's first party games are hitting Switch perf limits this badly now
mossy flume
Yes but you literally just said it should be comparable to Steam Deck
You're not really listening. Steam Deck is a system from early 2022, using hardware from 2018/2019. If the console that Nintendo puts out in what is likely to be 2024 or so, and it doesn't outpace the Steam Deck, then... why even bother?
dire gate
I think the major point here is how bad Switch was back in 2017
mossy flume
Yeah, exactly
dire gate
Was it that bad thou
mossy flume
The Switch is a tablet from 2017 using smartphone class hardware that was already slightly dated at the time but it was good enough to last a few years. But by 2022 the age is painful
dire gate
We're talking about iPhone 8~iPhone X time
river veldt
I am a simple autism please forgive
slim thorn
that would be an Elon-tier move, yeah
dire gate
imo Nintendo's console tend to be underperform, but it's not that bad most of the time
To be more exact the "underperforming console" problem was mainly Wii problem I think
rancid herald
In all honesty, I kind of wish Nintendo would aim a bit higher. I love the switch, but it's not like it hasn't always struggled. The problem with modern games is they expect so much from hardware at a minimum that being on the low end at launch means you're pretty close to falling off in the few years
dire gate
Since that was almost a recolored Gamecube
mossy flume
I want Nintendo to push for hardware that is as relevant as possible in their next console so that they can avoid this issue of the games they develop in the second half of the console's lifetime being painfully constrained to the point where playing them on emulator is a vast improvement to the point of being a reasonable thing to encourage.
dire gate
So I think Nintendo isn't like super ignorant about hardware specs
mossy flume
This is what we're seeing with S/V
slim thorn
anyway, I'm going to try Sekiro now and stream it
mossy flume
Yeah, the GameCube was entirely fine. Great at the time, even.
dire gate
It's funny, I feel like I see more complaint against GF in Japan/Korea while western fans more tend to complain about Switch/TPC
river veldt
Do you get to make your own character in Sekiro
fickle garnet
I don't think so
rancid herald
(One other thing I think GF could explore specifically is alternative rendering styles. I suspect part of the reason they went with the look they did with BotW was to help with this sort of thing)
mossy flume
The Wii was an updated GameCube, but it still worked well enough to last its cycle, but the gulf between them and the competition grew. Then it grew again in subsequent consoles. Nintendo underperforming compared to the competition is fine in principle. Just don't let the gulf get too large or the brand risks suffering.
rancid herald
yeah
dire gate
Well
rancid herald
in some ways it's kind of depressing really
dire gate
We had GC, then Wii, then Wii U, then Switch
mossy flume
As we learned with things like Ouya, if the difference gets too large that fact alone can kill the entire concept regardless of interest in the principle of the thing.
dire gate
So...
mossy flume
It died almost immediately
dire gate
We actually haven't seen a lot of "modern Nintendo Consoles"
river veldt
It died almost immediately
Didn't it get like
A billion dollars on Kickstarter though
mossy flume
It had millions in funding, lots of people excited for it, then once people got their hands on the thing it was DOA.
rancid herald
I blame windwaker
mossy flume
Yeah
dire gate
Especially considering how GC failed and Wii U was a terrible failure
river veldt
What does DOA mean
dire gate
Dead on Arrival
dire gate
Dead or Alive
river veldt
Xtreme
rancid herald
I really don't think the gaming community was ready for cellshading in the early 2000s
mossy flume
All the indie devs which backed it or were otherwise hyped for it immediately abandoned the concept when the final hardware came out
It was sad
The thing... wasn't very good. 
rancid herald
realistic graphics were the name of the game, and it's what everyone craved. They even demoed a 'realistic' Zelda and then gave us Windwaker
river veldt
Smh
mossy flume
I love it now and Twilight Princess satisfied my desires down the road
But you're right that cell shading was just so out of left field at the time
rancid herald
<insert meme of Cinna not buying a GC leading to dominos topling and S/V having performance issues on unpowered Switch hardware>
river veldt
I actually prefer WW artstyle over Twilight Princess. Imo TP is kinda ugly
rancid herald
so without something like Zelda, people didn't want to buy it, so Nintendo stopped competing in that space
rancid herald
I actually prefer WW artstyle over Twilight Princess. Imo TP is kinda ugly
I don't think you're necessarily wrong, but I'm talking about a historical view at the time
I think WW has aged pretty well, all things considered
river veldt
True
rancid herald
but, like, it was a fucking wild move in 2000 or whenever the GC came out
rancid herald
because this wasn't what people wanted to expected
mossy flume
WW HD will age very nicely
river veldt
I was speaking from a now perspective since I was 0 years old when Wind Waker came out
And 5ish when TP came out
rancid herald
bbl
river veldt
WW was 2002 right
mossy flume
I still like TP better, but that's just personal taste on narrative style and the general aesthetic.
I like gritty Zeldas better than the others.
river veldt
I like BOTW the most cuz it has a good balance between cartoony and gritty
mossy flume
Also I'm furry af, I love Wolf Link and Midna.
river veldt
I actually haven't played a 3d Zelda aside from BOTW
river veldt
I was just saying I didn't like it's artstyle lol
mossy flume
You should play WW and TP
river veldt
I don't think that qualifies as shitting on it
mossy flume
They're amazing
fickle garnet
OOT is my favorite zelda game
river veldt
You should play WW and TP
I will when they get Switch ports
river veldt
I know
mossy flume
Seriously just masterpieces, all of them.
mossy flume
I will when they get Switch ports
At this point I suspect they won't.
Unless Nintendo is just super delaying all their alleged ports
Like.... for years there have been consistent, weirdly confident and specific claims that Nintendo has been sitting on completed HD remasters of WW, TP and Metroid Prime Trilogy for the Switch.
I wonder if they're put aside as like "in case of emergency break glass" sorts of things
Or maybe they've just decided to toss them onto the next console.
river veldt
Or maybe their gonna add Gamecube to NSO+
dire gate
That I doubt
mossy flume
Even Reggie has said that Nintendo really needs to do that
river veldt
But then I could play Gamecube AC and not have to play NH anymore
mossy flume
and how terrible the adaptation was
It has been fixed
But yeah, at first their port of the emulator was rough
dire gate
Yes
river veldt
O shit I should continue my Banjo Kazooie playthrough
mossy flume
Right now the Steam Deck is just the place to play Metroid Prime Trilogy thanks to Prime Hack.
Surely Nintendo sees the value in bringing updated versions of WW, TP, MPT and friends to the latest console.
MPT remaster is a no-brainer release as a lead-up to Prime 4 once they have a release date locked in.
river veldt
I keep forgetting Prime 4 is a thing that's happening lmao
mossy flume
A few former Retro Studios devs recently talked about several previously unknown stories about the development of Prime 1 ahead of its 20th anniversary
But yeah, aside from hiring a bunch of former Naughty Dog people and other interesting staffing choices, and updating their Twitter profile with MP4 concept art, Retro Studios continues to be dead silent on it.
river veldt
That must mean they're hard at work
mossy flume
Nintendo just continues to have it on their schedule on their quarterly financial reports.
Release date TBD
mossy flume
That must mean they're hard at work
Annoyingly, it also seems like they're being quite slow about it. The job listings they've posted as recently as April imply that it was still in pre-production this year. At this point I'm convinced that it's no longer a Switch game, but instead it will be on the Switch's successor.
Or at the earliest it'll just come out at the very dead end of the Switch's life like Samus Returns did for the 3DS
slim thorn
ah yes, the megagecko, a staple of sengoku period pieces
slim thorn
speaking of "powerful enough to stay relevant": my April 2018 low-end gaming laptop is playing a March 2019 AAA video game at a more-than-stable-enough 45-50 fps, even on wide environment shots like this
unlike Fallen Order, I haven't even noticed any texture pop-in or other glitchiness
fresh bane
How much do you know about Japanese mythology?
There's a specific Sekiro enemy that has an actually insane death animation lol
And it's very much tied with japanese mythology
slim thorn
I know bits and pieces but I'm far from an expert
fresh bane
Also you've probably already seen the little oni under the bridge 
At least I think it's an oni
quiet swift
slim thorn
it's certainly not a human, whatever it was
fresh bane
Oh yeah D.E is gold
Sekiro is full of those creatures though
I think there's even one specific encounter with those monkeys covering their mouth ears and eyes it's very much some mythological type stuff like that where those types of things will show up
It's awesome
slim thorn
I should probably mention Okami was a favorite of mine as a teenager
I may not have memorized any youkai encyclopedias but I've at least been exposed to a lot of it
quiet swift
Okami is wonderful
slim thorn
I don't replay many games, but that's one of them
quiet swift
(re: Disco Elysium. Can i research multiple "thought cabinet" thoughts at the same time or is it sequential?)
quiet swift
I don't replay many games, but that's one of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFf5Ac2bEMA is SO GOOD
slim thorn
of course Sekiro is about as diametrically opposite in tone as you can get from Okami
even if I didn't know this was fromsoft I think I would've guessed it by the time I saw the ruined temple
huh
well, I'm still drawing a blank on youkai that look like either giant geckos, or giant black roosters
oh hey, there is an in-game map!
...ok that one's on me for getting my hopes up when I saw "map"
fresh bane
well, I'm still drawing a blank on youkai that look like either giant geckos, or...
Those may just be regular animals with no other deep significance
They make the world feel more fantastical I guess
Or maybe they're experiments or something, don't really know
river veldt
I tried Okami but couldn't get into it
inland fulcrum
Okami's pretty good, i might replay it soon
Wtf qhy do i have over 140 hours on okami of apl games
visual hill
speaking of "powerful enough to stay relevant": my April 2018 low-end gaming lap...
Sekiro seemed quite good on a technical standpoint, at least by Japanese studio standards
hasty patio
On November 18, 2022, he was one of three people arrested on suspicion of insider trading related to non-public information about Dragon Quest Tact. Naka allegedly bought 10,000 shares of developer Aiming before the unspecified information was made public.
dire gate
mossy flume
@quiet swift You're EA tech support, right? Help.
hasty patio
Twitter
quiet swift
<@89108905883336704> You're EA tech support, right? Help. <:rdwut:39972507420406...
nani
mossy flume
Mass Effect 1 LE is crashing reliably, pls fix. 
Mostly just joking, but I did find a reliable crash
Currently trying to see if I can get EA's attention about it
dire gate
"reliable crash" is a great phrase
hasty patio
I don't recommend using Twitter. You don't know if that will remain up at this point.
quiet swift
I'm mostly SWTOR support anyway but check help.ea.com
That's probably the best bet short of creating a ticket
mossy flume
I can't finish the game, the final boss fight crashes reliably on multiple different computers.
Yeah I'm currently submitting a ticket via contact us
quiet swift
I'm seeing reinstall origin as a solution - seems it's a bug from last year at least
Also:
"People say it's a bug related to biotic powers.
However a workaround I found is hotkey all my powers and avoid using the POWERS MENU and the fight went as normal... so maybe try this?"
"Found an update!: Like the others suggest, not opening the power wheel solves the issue, but you CAN use it after the mid fight cutscene with no problem. Hope this helps some of y'all on your insanity runs!"
quiet swift
"To anyone seeing this on PC, manually deleting origin and letting it reinstall by opening the game fixed it for me"
quiet swift
mossy flume
I'll give it a go I suppose
quiet swift
"I had the same issue on PC.
- at the beginning of the fight open Shift menu and assign desired skills to quick use bar (shield overload, lift and singularity are nice)
- use powers from shortcut bar and don't open Shift menu during the fight
- no crash, profit"
Yeah Id say put your powers on the shortcut bar and try that, or reinstall. That seems to be the best thing short of putting in a ticket... which might tell you the same thing, honestly
Oho, also
"MY SOLUTION: Took Origin offline, lanuched from there. Now I can pause and use all squad powers and finished the game. Seems to have been some conflict when using powers and reporting back to the Origin server that made my screen go white and lock up. WHEEE!!!"
quiet swift
river veldt
https://twitter.com/6d6f636869/status/1593427718510505984
What the fuck I thought it was a different person with the last name Naka but no it's straight up Yuji Naka what the fuck
dire gate
Fortunately he's now nobody more than an icon
It's not like Sonic will be cancelled because of him
mossy flume
"MY SOLUTION: Took Origin offline, lanuched from there. Now I can pause and use ...
Welp, none of that worked
Sigh. Guess I have to wait to see if EA ever has any opinions on this or if my ticket just gets sucked into a black hole.
mossy flume
The game is just broken.
quiet swift
I played it some months ago and didn't have any issues. Though it might have crashed once? But was able to finish it
mossy flume
Yeah I didn’t run into this in my first LE run either
But that was back when it was still using Origin
bleak lintel
I beat the trilogy without issue although I do remember a crash here and there.
quiet swift
Did you try the no powers thing? I note that people are saying that it's mostly the first half of the fight
thorny loom
Did you verify game cache too
quiet swift
Power wheel or the... pause menu? I think the tab button on PC that lets you choose stuff. Just using the shortcut bar seems to be what they suggest
mossy flume
That’s the power wheel, yeah, the freeze menu that lets you choose a power to use in combat
quiet swift
Right. I think people are saying not to use either
mossy flume
Yeah I didn’t pause either
Now if using the heal button also counts then the fight is functionally impossible without an aim bot
This game was very much not this unstable several months ago
There’s a clear regression present in the game
quiet swift
Okay, an answers.hq ea help forum has players saying not to use any offensive biotic powers (shield on yourself does work though). As well as your squadmates, and if there's an autocast thing for them to cast powers, that needs to be off too
(the person also suggests high explosive ammo instead)
river veldt
astral field
astral field
Well, he is Naive.
gaunt marten
I'm the richest country on the planet and French Louisiana already pays me tribute
Why are they giving me money?
astral field
Naive Enthusiasts do that sometimes, just because.
gaunt marten
grim stirrup
i have seen that fire far to many times
thorny loom
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Mass-Effect-Legendary-Edition/ME1-LE-crash-during-sare...
Ah this explains it. Being soldier me use gun and nothing else
astral field
That is almost tame by RimWorld standards.
real panther
@quartz pawn Safe house raid on the highest difficulty AKA death sentence
wind stump
Reimu has no chill today.
quartz pawn
<@456226577798135808> Safe house raid on the highest difficulty AKA death senten...
OMG
wind stump
Oh my god Reimu, pump the brakes a little 
quartz pawn
u might be thinking : "How ??"
Exactly
real panther
Exactly
well just used spammed my grenade launcher and targeted the bulldozers since their more hard to bring down
then used medic bag to patch myself up when i got downed to 2 lives
quartz pawn
I am in shock
real panther
I am in shock
Il show ya when I find a death sentence Mission
@quartz pawn join the gaming vc il show ya how I do death sentence
quartz pawn
<@456226577798135808> join the gaming vc il show ya how I do death sentence
I am in school
real panther
I am in school
oof
real panther
Wait , you don't even play the game now
well since your in school no point streaming it il stream when you can watch it
quartz pawn
well since your in school no point streaming it il stream when you can watch it
Maybe tomorrow
real panther
Maybe tomorrow
yep
quartz pawn
When I am back from my English lessons
quiet swift
wind stump
Dank Deity
slim thorn
oh that's what that game looks like
I don't think I've ever seen a screenshot of it before
quiet swift
Considering how often you play that i would have been shocked if you didn't one shot it
wind stump
finally my time wasted came into usefulness
now if only Touheardle worked i could go 3 for 3 on -ordle-likes
visual hill
I got it on first guess!! 
wind stump
I wouldn't be surprised if everyone who checks this forum on a regular basis gets it on the first try
quiet swift
Second was an immediate tell, i wasn't sure about the first
wind stump
||That fire was an immediate tell, given how often I end up dying in Act 1||
quiet swift
It felt familiar but the artstyle threw me off. ||and then I saw the city in the background of #2 and i knew||
wind stump
eager wedge
Huh, just bought patron, it seems like a neat little colony management game
slim thorn
I wouldn't be surprised if everyone who checks this forum on a regular basis get...
nah I didn't get it at all
it's a game I've heard the name of a million times but never saw
slim thorn
in retrospect I now realize that one of your Touhou games is probably copying it or a mod of it
but I don't recall ever seeing screencaps of that game
wind stump
given how heavily i mod ||slay the spire|| that wouldn't be shocking, hahaha
dense socket
dense crypt
https://twitter.com/bromethazine/status/1589770637127688192
What? There's nothing wrong with this, it's just economics
quiet swift
spiral kraken
dire gate
spiral kraken
<:cadwhy:399725096064909322>
Spoiler: Jerma installed Sims 4 mods
and his sim farted
wind stump
you know i gotta admit for a game that i bought because "fuck transphobes lol", Vampire Survivors is really fun 
wind stump
wind stump
haha dopamine goes BBBRRRRRRT
SHIT FUCK SHIT FUCK 🔥
🔥
time to do my best imprerssion of playing a Touhou game and DODGE LIKE I DODGE MY TAXES
dense crypt
bloody tears intensifies
mossy flume
I’ve just realized a plot hole in Mass Effect. In ME1, Sovereign is left behind in the Milky Way to act as the sole sentinel to usher in the next Reaper invasion, but it fails because the Keepers don’t respond to the signal to open the Citadel Relay. But in ME2 they introduce Harbinger, who is in dark space, and he can directly control the Collectors individually.
Why couldn’t they just directly control the Keepers to open the Citadel Relay and not rely on a proxy signal which is broadcast by the Citadel systems? Why would they need to leave a sentinel in the Milky Way if that was possible?
gaunt marten
Why didn't they just take the eagles to Mordor?
slim thorn
eagles are bad at stealth
gaunt marten
What about the Boeing F-15SE Silent Eagle?
slim thorn
I think the technology to make those was lost after the sinking of Beleriand in the First Age
(I don't remember Mass Effect well enough for a serious answer)
mossy flume
I wonder if it’s something like the Keepers don’t have Reaper tech implants in order to keep the secret, avoid the risk of discovery via dissection
green fulcrum
Why didn't they just take the eagles to Mordor?
I remember someone on Reddit actually figuring out a plausible reason/theory why they couldn't take the eagles to Mordor, which included lore, scientific analysis, and character analysis, but I forget what it was exactly.
slim thorn
I mean, I wasn't kidding with "eagles are bad at stealth"
gaunt marten
I don't actually care that they didn't take the eagles to Mordor
river veldt
Well if you think about it for about 1 minute it makes sense why they didn't take the eagles lmao
slim thorn
the whole premise of destroying the ring was that Sauron had to not know that was their plan, or he'd just stick a bunch of guards on Mount Doom and they'd be screwed
gaunt marten
All the reason I need is "It would've made for a worse story if they did."
hasty patio
Basically, it was an expected route, they're not small, and they wouldn't be able to get close without being seen.
river veldt
That's why they went with a party of 9 and not a whole caravan, it was supposed to be a stealth mission
slim thorn
I usually agree, but in this case the in-universe reason is so easy to provide and so solid it'd be silly to imply it's author laziness
mossy flume
They couldn’t take the eagles because the Nazgûl had air capability too and that was a serious threat to them, the eagles would refuse
Secrecy was the only viable way
river veldt
Yes
slim thorn
oh yeah, that too
if we're throwing out bonus reasons, offhoof I'm not even sure if anyone at the Rivendell council had the eagles on speeddial
river veldt
Yea and most likely the eagles would have been like "fuck no"
hasty patio
They couldn’t take the eagles because the Nazgûl had air capability too and that...
Should have gotten some Manpads. /s
quiet swift
gaunt marten
The Biggest Update to Broforce Yet: New Bros, New Missions, New Freedoms - Coming Early 2023
mossy flume
I wonder if it’s something like the Keepers don’t have Reaper tech implants in o...
After thinking about it for a while I arrived at the theory that the Keepers have no tech implants in order to keep the secret that way, leaving no trace of reapers. And their self-destruct mechanism would then be via internal acid, dissolve them from the inside to prevent any sort of analysis.
And in Mass Effect 2 Harbinger uses the leader of the Collectors as a proxy for control using a hive mind system.
And having looked at the wiki to check this, it seems this is exactly the explanation.
That was bugging me.
green fulcrum
https://youtu.be/FPv0KXdNxao
Lol, I remember watching someone play Broforce. It's such a ridiculous, utterly unrepentantly masculine game but it looks surprisingly fun.
With an extremely kickass main theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk-87jzhVhs
graceful bridge
thorny loom
spoder man
white phoenix
they dropped this out of nowhere
unless I just didn't know about any other previous trailers for this
I was wondering when they were going to port it
craggy vine
I thought it would be much later
weak river
I’ve just realized a plot hole in Mass Effect. In ME1, Sovereign is left behind ...
Sorry for being ~4 hours late with this, but if I recall correctly, during that conversation with Vigil (that Prothean VI on Ilos near the end), it is briefly mentioned that the Keepers evolved to only respond to the Citadel.
That conversation also mentions this being part of the reason that Sovereign chose to use Geth during the events of ME1; synthetics don't have the inherent instability that organics do, because they don't evolve in the same way.
mossy flume
Yes, correct
The Reapers intentionally designed them that way and it worked well for millions of years. When the Prothean researchers on Ilos discovered this mechanism, built the Conduit and changed the signal so that the Keepers wouldn’t recognize it (and thus fail to activate the Citadel Relay when Sovereign signaled the Citadel to broadcast the signal) the Keepers were effectively released from Reaper control. That vulnerability led Sovereign to use the Geth, as mentioned.
Then it does indeed stand to reason that all of the Collectors are simply implanted with Reaper tech to allow them to guarantee that they maintain control of them. Or, simply, the Keepers lack the organic hive mind of the Collectors that allows their control to be reliable.
Given that they continue to be used as tools for the Reapers.
weak river
That just goes against the natural order of things
cerulean herald
gaunt marten
river veldt
gaunt marten
You can narrow your search by looking up the detail they give you with each image
astral field
I mean yeah, but if you are just gonna Google the clues, where's the fun in that?
grim stirrup
gaunt marten
I mean yeah, but if you are just gonna Google the clues, where's the fun in that...
Why else would the game give you specific numbers if not to look them up?
spiral kraken
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1919470/Atari_50_The_Anniversary_Celebration/
It is weird that it's always Digital Eclipse for a lot of game compilations
slim thorn
gonna play some more Sekiro today
that first session made a pretty good impression, let's see how it holds up after the tutorial area
quiet swift
quiet swift
that first session made a pretty good impression, let's see how it holds up afte...
I think i have similar levels of patience and skill level for soulslike. Keep me posted if it stays good, I might try it (though i think i watched a youtuber finish it so i know the story, ish...)
6 minutes into a vampire survivors run, legendary chest! 
...and another at 10 minutes? 
And an epic at 12? What's going on with this run
quiet swift
A massacre, that's what
slim thorn
I think i have similar levels of patience and skill level for soulslike. Keep me...
unfortunately I have to say it's a pretty mixed bag
I've yet to have any trouble figuring out where to go or what to do, or any sign that I was lacking the necessary gear, so it's far better than DS1 on that point
but the difficulty is still set to what you'd want a 2nd or 3rd playthrough to be, not a 1st, so while it's often great it also just as often feels like I'm being punished for not having the game memorized yet (because daring to experiment and figure things out myself consistently wastes more time with deaths)
I think I exhausted my patience for it just getting through the first two real bosses today
slim thorn
I assume they're designed for people with far higher raw gaming skill than I have, such that these encounters really would take only 1-3 tries
quiet swift
Or godlike patience
slim thorn
I'll probably try to do this in small sittings where I feel sufficiently in the zone I can actually make progress
quiet swift
Fair 'nuff. Don't think i've found one i truly like myself
slim thorn
The time window to deflect enemy attacks is actually a generous 30 frames by default (a full half second before the attack hits),
wow, really?
shows how bad my reflexes are
quiet swift
Same issue for me, I think. The only reason I think I've managed to beat hades is because of pattern recognition
Which doesn't work in soulslike a lot of the time since they adapt based on your own attacks a lot of the time, or is just incomparably faster compared to hades
slim thorn
I think a lot of it is simply being 3D
HK and Blasphemous were hard for me but the fair kind, i.e. the way Soulslike fans always describe Soulslikes even though Souls itself is not merely unfair but gratuitously so
and other games like Bayonetta, although I'm still awful at dodge timing, it's fundamentally an invincibility frames model (...right? at least it felt like it) so "pattern recognition" as you called it is enough for me to play it
Sekiro is one of those games where whether you actually pull off a dodge or parry seems to be based on your location in the 3D space, which sounds completely reasonable on paper but in practice if you're not good at games it leads to "10-20% of the time parrying 'randomly' doesn't work" 
also the 2-3 times I "dodged" off a cliff, because of course boss fights happen in places like that
at least I can confidently say Sekiro is fair, I know what I'm supposed to be doing to win these fights, it's just lacking a "1st playthrough" difficulty so I have to repeat fights more often than is fun to do so
quiet swift
It's an older game and not really the same style but have you ever played Bloodrayne?
slim thorn
the name sounds familiar but no
quiet swift
Bayonetta minus the hair, plus vampires, and fighting against nazis
slim thorn
lol
slim thorn
probably won't just because there's so much else to try
quiet swift
True 'nuff
slim thorn
I still haven't decided if I want Bayonetta 3 or not
quiet swift
I do have I think #1 somewhere, i believe i got it free or super cheap. I should give it a whirl
But i'd just finished FF7 remake and i wanted a different genre entirely
green fulcrum
Picture if you will...
Electro Swing.
Big band.
Nerdcore rap.
Video games.
An absolute BOP of a chorus.
All in one? Yes.
slim thorn
ok, anime break over, let's try boss #3 again
quiet swift
Ixrec: so there's us, and then there's bastards like these https://www.ign.com/videos/how-i-beat-elden-rings-malenia-using-a-dance-pad
random steppe
at least I can confidently say Sekiro is _fair_, I know what I'm supposed to be ...
One other thing that I though about the other day, and the reason I got much better at Sekiro than I ever did at any of the other souls games, is that Sekiro is also much better at telling you what you are doing wrong.
It communicates which attacks are parriable, which ones are counterable, which ones you have to dodge and how to dodge them to get an advantage
While finding the holes to be aggressive in a more characteristic souls games, requires a lot more work
When you are good at Sekiro, you really get the feeling that you are absolutely destroying the boss in a way that is much harder to get in souls, and often is possible only in certain situations
slim thorn
that's a lot of what I mean when I say Sekiro is fair
at least theoretically, it's definitely still far too hard for a player of my skill level to consistently enjoy
random steppe
The holes to playing aggressively are there also in souls games, they are just less obvious.
slim thorn
if it had quick saves or save states then I'd probably be having a blast
astral field
You mostly have to learn the attack patterns by trial and error in the Souls games.
It is a frustrating process.
random steppe
I think Sekiro is also better than other souls on that aspect, you can ress a few times each boss (at least once) and the harder bosses don't usually have huge runs to get to them
slim thorn
unfortunately I'm on mini-boss #3 and already the run to get to him is 5? enemies which is incredibly tedious after the 2nd or 3rd attempt
so if these count as "not huge runs" then I can't really see myself ever finishing this game
slim thorn
oh, well it's still linear where I am
astral field
If Sekiro is anything like the Souls series, running past the enemies to get to the boss is a reasonable strategy.
random steppe
Is it the ||big ogre that can grapple you? It's usually the 1st real obstacle||
bleak lintel
Once you kind of get used to souls games they kind of get a bit easier. It's kind of a process to advance in them.
slim thorn
yeah I'm not even making it to the boss any more
this is clearly my limit for this game
nah, the ogre was annoying because dodging him was just unreliable enough that I effectively got punished for doing anything but the most simplistic cowardly strategy
but once I gave up on being clever he wasn't too bad
it's the guy right after him that I'm giving up on
random steppe
Horse guy?
slim thorn
haven't seen any horses yet
random steppe
Ok nevermind then
slim thorn
this is "just" some dude in fancy armor
random steppe
Is this doing doing a lot of unparriable attacks?
slim thorn
some, I dunno if I'd say a "lot"
really it's having to repeatedly kill all the normal enemies before retrying it that's getting me, if I could just retry this boss I'd probably start getting better at him instead of always getting hit by the first few attacks, but I can't build up any muscle memory/pattern recognition when the gap between boss attempts is several times longer than the failed attempt
random steppe
I think I know which guy you are referring to, I think you can cheese one healthbar if you manage to open with a stealth attack, but it's definitely not an easy one, the zone is annoying and has one of the dudes that sounds the alarm.
slim thorn
yeah I'm aware I can stealth cheese one hit, but that's a speedrun/2nd playthrough strat; I'll never learn how to fight him if I go straight to last phase
random steppe
There is zero honor in how I played sekiro, especially the 1st playthrough
All the cheese all the time
slim thorn
lol
random steppe
1st time I could really stealth in a from software game wasn't about learning the game, was about vengeance
slim thorn
yeah doesn't look like anyone's made a mod for true save states, only for managing regular saves