It's literally the first FF game I ever finished
#general gaming
fresh bane
random steppe
I knew it was coming but I already played this like 4 times on the PSP, I don't need to play it again
river veldt
The first and only FF game I've played is FF7
fresh bane
Also I kind of dig the old continuity better anyways
I don't know... why they decided to go for a sort of... reboot... sequel type thing for FF7R
river veldt
Idk I think it's cool
random steppe
I prefer the new continuity for the same reason I am not interested in Crisis Core Remake.
I already played FF7 a bunch, having a different story for the remake gives me something to look forward to
river veldt
Ye
fresh bane
I don't know, it's a weird choice, especially for newcomers
river veldt
Ah well, if I some money finds it's way to me I'll probably get Crisis Core for my Switch. Always need more FF7 in my life
fresh bane
There's a balance to be struck when it comes to these things where you can add or subtract new or old things to kind of spice it up for returning players but also give newcomers relatively the same story
I imagine a newcomer playing FF7 for the first time (hah, as if) and then being confused about there being no fate ghosts thingies
random steppe
I mean...that's tragic for them but I don't really care
I am not a newcomer and I want a story that I like
river veldt
How much is Crisis Core
random steppe
Besides, it's so old a story that I feel that most of the plot points are spoiled for it even if you never played it
random steppe
It's so widely referenced in other games across the last 20 years
river veldt
Besides, it's so old a story that I feel that most of the plot points are spoile...
||I somehow avoided Aertih's death before I played it 
||
random steppe
Maybe you don't, but I feel if you played you'd start noticing stuff that you knew without knowing
river veldt
God this convo just makes me wanna play FF7
fresh bane
I don't know about that, my only experience with FF7 was watching a streamer play FF7R and I wasn't familiar with any of it at all
Especially the dog
river veldt
Red?
fresh bane
The dog was red
river veldt
No his name is Red
craggy vine
I know absolutely nothing on ff7 games. So I really have nothing spoiled.
random steppe
We'll see the way it continues if they manage to strike a good balance between the new continuity and still keep it good for the new players.
To be honest, I don't necessarily trust Square with story after FF13, unless Yoshida is at the helm, so there is a good chance they'll fuck it up, but I'd still rather try for something ambitious than play it safe
fresh bane
I wish they made a true FF7R for weirdos like me who want the same experience but with nicer looking graphics
They did exactly that for FF(
FF8
random steppe
I didn't even know a FF8 remake existed
fresh bane
I don't think anyone ever did
river veldt
Tbh I mostly love FF7 for the characters and interactions between the party, and with what they've revealed of FF7R part 2 so far gives me lots of hope
random steppe
Maybe that's why they didn't do that
fresh bane
Probably because it's a mobile game and also they didn't market it well 
random steppe
Yeah Square do have brainrot a lot of times
fresh bane
I think I would have a vastly different opinion on FF7R if they also sold FF7Remastered alongside with it
That way, newcomers and old fans can get both the same experience but enhanced, or the same experience with new twists and brand new content and different mechanics and stuff
river veldt
I'm watching Vinny play Crisis Core Reunion and I don't understand why he's complaining about the anime shit when Final Fantasy is all anime shit
fresh bane
Because let's face it, the argument of ''the original game is still there'' doesn't exactly work when 90% of people especially those who AREN'T familiar with the original game will never touch it
People aren't going to buy RE3 or RE2 after playing RE3R or RE2R, it's just not gonna happen, especially if they never sell or market a brand new remastered official version
bleak lintel
It's a bit different because FF7R is more of a sequel, although they do spoil the original FF7 in it.
random steppe
The fact that it's not a safe bet it's the saving grace of the project for me.
I like when devs do crazy things that may or may not make any sense economically speaking, it makes me feel like there is still someone who gives a shit and have an artistic vision at the company
Buried somewhere
Probably they lock him in the closet whenever they have to annouce a NFT thing
You can hear the muffled banging in the background
fresh bane
<:GanyuSip:830243876446011393> It's a bit different because FF7R is more of a se...
that's kind of what I mean though, because a lot of people were slightly disappointed that the game took a pretty significant deviation from the original FF7 in every conceivable way
and it's.. fine, I guess, my personal take on this is that any true and best remake takes the best aspects of the original and enhances it, but whatever
point is it would've been nice to have a remastered FF7 option alongside the remake, especially considering how the remake isn't exactly 1:1 with the original
river veldt
Lol why do they have flip phones
river veldt
I was but a smol child
proud warren
surprised they didn't even mention it (the new DLC) alongside the mobile release during the game awards
dense crypt
I'm watching Vinny play Crisis Core Reunion and I don't understand why he's comp...
because he's a brainlet and doesn't put thought into things
slim thorn
I was mostly unspoiled when I played FF7 in the sense that whatever I'd heard was too vague or meaningless out of context to affect my playthrough
the closest was that ||I knew Aerith died||, but I had no idea where, when, why or how so when I got to that part it still came as a shock
thorny loom
quiet swift
wind stump
quiet swift
thorny loom
Nice
icy crescent
finally after many attempts, finished the Harsh Condition prophecy 
damn meg was right wo mirror im absolutely weak 
quiet swift
Which one was harsh conditions?
icy crescent
this
quiet swift
ah, right!
icy crescent
since my last was the Approval Process and Routine Inspection, I did them together so I could finish them at the same time in one attempt, it was a hell of a challenge 
rapid magnet
i just love big game rallies :>
wind stump
river veldt
Spelndid
random steppe
Oh basically the QOL and engine improvements from Below Zero are in there now
Sweet
And the big room which is neat
rough sleet
big room makes sense in the first game
quiet swift
Might interest some folk
grim stirrup
we popped off in this game, we got 1/3 of the kills of the entire match
wind stump
when vampire survivors really wants you dead
Best run ever though, 7 achievments at once 
quiet swift
That's the new levels right? Do you need to unlock them or are they immediately available?
dire gate
That isn't the new level
That's the dairy map
The new map in DLC is I think immediately available if you buy it
wind stump
I unlocked arcana
what is this, Persona
dire gate
latent flicker
okay so
oxygen not included is giving away some free building skins to show off the blueprint system
and there's this building drywall that's normally white
then there's these colors to unlocck
i got pink and blue for free, months before you can unlock specific stuff
which means i dont have to unlock late game tech to do THIS
power and refined metal? nah
3 researches and i can fill my colony with trans flags
random steppe
I didn't know where you were going at the beginning but the journey was worth it
latent flicker
ada likes the pink
quiet swift
quiet swift
dense crypt
play doom on your christmas ornament
fresh bane
Pretty fantastic video on the topic
In some aspects, I wish western videogame companies functioned in the same way as Japanese companies, where VAs are treated with the respect they deserve... relatively speaking
in the Japanese dubs it's not rare to see voice actors voice the same character for decades, in western games and media voice actors are pretty replaceable in the eyes of big companies and usually switched or replaced whenever the company wants to
And it's a shame especially for more story driven games like these where it's not just the writing that compels you but also the characters themselves, and voice actors after so much time become their character, look at Kevin Conroy as Batman
quiet swift
(and on the other side of things, the whole bayonetta shenanigans)
fresh bane
It's not a small thing, and when it's this noticeable, it's very disappointing, this change could've easily not happened, they easily could've gotten the entire cast back together, but they didn't for whatever arbitrary reason
A change such as this seems small and insignificant on paper, but it's not, it really isn't, and again, if you want a good example, look at Kevin Conroy as Batman
Batman will never be the same, nobody understood or personified Batman and Bruce Wayne as well as Kevin Conroy did, it's the same with these beloved characters, the VAs understand the character because they are the character
fresh bane
(and on the other side of things, the whole bayonetta shenanigans)
It's not really the same, because that's an issue started and caused by Helena Taylor herself
quiet swift
s'why I said on the other side of things
fresh bane
Right, though David Hayter as Snake comes to mind
quiet swift
I think it was in One Piece, there was a while where Chopper's japanese VA was replaced because of... a medical issue? Maternity leave? Jarring as hell, after like 100+ episodes with the same one
fresh bane
Although this is a special case, because Hideo Kojima has a bit of a hard on for Hollywood and Hollywood stars, so he never really.. ''respected'' David Hayter, I guess you could say, because he didn't even bother asking him to come back for MGS3 onwards, David had to recast every time until he got replaced by MGSV
dire gate
I think it was in One Piece, there was a while where Chopper's japanese VA was r...
That's Ikue Otani, also known as the worldwide VA of Pikachu
She had a break around 2006, allegedly she gave birth to her daughter
Officially it was announced as a health issue
dire gate
Twitter
fresh bane
kitty
dense crypt
kitty cat
light gate
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1603931899810004994
Meta is in big trouble then. This guy is a wizard with technology and coding.
But that would be a #science-and-tech discussion.
dire gate
Yeah, I guess it would fit in that channel for deeper discussion; I uploaded it here simply because it was John Carmack
craggy vine
Fuck game updates are so annoying
'oh yeah I'll play fortnite. Oh wait I'll have to wait 40 minutes for this update.'
craggy vine
Do I have enough audio devices to choose from
rough sleet
Do I have enough audio devices to choose from
not enough
craggy vine
I don't even know if it is showing all of them
craggy vine
Ok
craggy vine
This would be like sniping on 2fort but worse
wind stump
HAHAHHAA
so i'm playing as the witch character
and i just learned that if two of her cats collide they create a giant AoE fight
no wonder her passive level ups increase projectile speed, the faster the cats go the more likely they are to collide.
god vampire survivors is so good
wind stump
wind stump
That run got all the way to 30 mins before I got nuked by damage
I had rezzes but I decided to cash it in since I was happy with that run getting to level 100 + killing the GIANT ENEMY CRAB
quiet swift
Do you already have the achievements for surviving to minute 31? I think there's some
Or unlocks, I should say
Ah, location based
wind stump
yeah that's the new stage at the bottom
wind stump
Do you already have the achievements for surviving to minute 31? I think there's...
I could have but I can just do it another time under Hurry mode (I was playing with regular clock speed)
quartz pawn
Yayyy š š¤©
wind stump
6V1D 7RKB
Idk if this will work for y'all but this seed had Dr. Fetus in the first Item Room and Pyromaniac in a nearby hidden hatch door under a rock (Isaac 
)
gaunt marten
Nice
quiet swift
@gaunt marten š¤
gaunt marten
That is a massive tail and some huge paws
visual hill
That is a massive tail and some huge paws
furry goals
thorny loom
craggy vine
craggy vine
The fuck is peep the horror
craggy vine
I feel bad for supporting microtransactions in games but... I bought the Fortnite battle pass.
craggy vine
I gave him another victory royal
spiral kraken
The fuck is peep the horror
That's a Jerma bit lol
craggy vine
Oh huh
spiral kraken
Oh huh
https://youtu.be/dvOgRFmgc_w (for context)
craggy vine
God damn
hidden elbow
Duke Nukem forever restoration project demo will realeas december 21
https://youtu.be/d3nSSCNDFds
And omg this trailer kicks ass
rough sleet
Duke Nukem forever restoration project demo will realeas december 21
https://yo...
omg I wanna play it
teal sonnet
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/zopqs3/valve_is_paying_100_opensource_developers_to_work/
naisu
visual hill
Duke Nukem forever restoration project demo will realeas december 21
https://yo...
Always bet on Dukeā¢
visual hill
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/zopqs3/valve_is_paying_100_opensource...
yeah, they have quite a lot of contractors by now, including the author of DXVK (who brought DXVK-Native to Portal, L4D2, CS:GO, ā¦). That's a translation layer that is now used in the Intel ARC drivers, by the way
wind stump
gacha games be like
grave tide
gaunt marten
dire gate
Football celebration sale!
slim thorn
started Axiom Verge
gaunt marten
Nice!
Axiom Verge can be very slow if you don't know what you're doing.
But not if you just wanna see the story
It's the secrets that are obscure at first, so one thing you can do is progress in story until you have all the mobility options before you look for secrets
After you're done, we could do randomizer races! Synchronized or asynchronous.
The randomizer has a tracker that tells you where every item is, and which ones you can technically reach with or without speedrunning tricks
dapper cedar
Axiom Verge is awesome, I foolishly stopped right before the end and have forgotten all the gameplay things tho so I might have to just replay completely
quiet swift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0A3ZTCWdjY Huh, one of those "4 people solve puzzles to escape a map while 5th person hunts them" (what is that genre even called) but with poppy playtime setting?
dire gate
Dead-by-daylight-like /j
wind stump
alternatively "Asymmetrical multiplayer"
Your Evolves, your Friday the 13ths, your Dead By Daylights, your Back 4 Bloods when the mobs are controlled by humans rather than AI, your AMONGUSes, your Vs. Saxton Hales...
river veldt
The uhhh Evil Dead video game
wind stump
Surprisingly putting people on an uneven playing field in multiplayer is not a new concept 
Fuck, you could even count 1v3 minigames in Mario Party
river veldt
BOWSER REVOLUTION
quiet swift
There's two types, there's some mafia-types like among us and co where even if it's 2d or 3d, you get some impostors. But more recently there's a definite rise in the 4vs1 type where one controls the monster. Evil Dead I think is def one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caUufKsPKRs Propnight is another one. These guys are just so hilarious to watch
quiet swift
Aye. Did it get renamed? 
wind stump
BOWSER REVOLUTION
Bowser Communism
quiet swift
Ah no there's multiple with similar names
river veldt
~~Bowser Communism~~
That is literally what it is lmao
wind stump
wind stump
ow the edge
gaunt marten
Is this Skul?
wind stump
It is Skul
And holy shit i just got the dumbest luck in this screenshot
Like it almost looks staged this does
static bluff
I'd really like to play FFIV this way
river veldt
Now I can finally see why so many people say FFVI is so good
Also interesting
Nothing super surprising tho
static bluff
Japanese fans are dumb. XII is the best one.
static bluff
They're right about VIII tho. Good job, Japan.
river veldt
The only one I've played is VII so I'm happy
Gotta play Crisis Core still
I've consumed most VII content including that terrible movie
bleak lintel
Old 7 or New 7.
river veldt
Old
gilded moth
I've also only ever played VII, but it was really good. I think it is definitely a game everyone should play at least once if they can.
river veldt
VII is so good
bleak lintel
Time for New 7 then.
river veldt
The music 
river veldt
<:AquaSalute:814683848058994708> Time for New 7 then.
If I had a machine that could run Remake I would be all over it
gilded moth
Sephiroth being in Smash Ultimate is the thing that made me finally decide to play FF7.
gilded moth
I haven't really touched it at all since I beat it and maxed out the stats of all the characters, but I liked breeding chocobos.
river veldt
I never got into chocobo breeding
Which means I never got Knights of the Round because I'm a fake fan
gilded moth
I don't remember what you have to do to get that.
river veldt
You have to breed a golden chocobo and then ride it to an island that's in the top right corner of the map
It's a materia
gilded moth
I think I remember that now. The golden chocobos can cross all kinds of terrain, right?
gaunt marten
Yes!
And Knights of the Round can be combined with the cast four times materia to give you a bathroom break in the middle of a boss fight
river veldt
Lmao
Meteor is such a cool attack of Sephiroth's the first time but then the other times it's like uggggh
5 minute attack
gaunt marten
Yeah
Modern games like FF 10 fix that by having the first time be a cool cutscene and later it plays a short version
river veldt
Oh that's cool
gilded moth
I think Sephiroth in Smash should've had a costume that looks like Jenova with blue skin and stuff.
river veldt
That would have been neat
A part of me misses Smash reveals but the other part doesn't miss all the salt lol
gilded moth
I think it'd be fun if Springtrap or some other FNAF character was in Smash with the first game's office as a stage.
It would probably never happen, but it'd be fun if it did.
mossy flume
https://fxtwitter.com/aitaikimochi/status/1604439013825183745?s=46&t=N2qtaa9w2Zg...
FFXIV being #1 is the correct answer.
river veldt
I think it'd be fun if Springtrap or some other FNAF character was in Smash with...
I don't think a full fledged character would work out but maybe a Mii fighter costume like Sans
gilded moth
That would probably work better, yeah.
dense crypt
https://fxtwitter.com/aitaikimochi/status/1604439013825183745?s=46&t=N2qtaa9w2Zg...
13 is that far down
i am not surprised lmao
but 7 does not deserve to be that high up
gilded moth
I think Metroid Dread is another must-play game just because of the story and the boss fights and designs. I'm normally not a fan of Metroidvanias and I really liked Dread.
river veldt
Yessss
gilded moth
I tried playing Fusion since I'm pretty sure Dread's a sequel to it, but I just couldn't get into it.
river veldt
Dread is a legit masterpiece
gilded moth
I can normally see plot twists coming from a mile away, but Metroid Dread's twist was super unexpected and really cool.
river veldt
Ya
gaunt marten
I like FF2 a lot
gilded moth
I wonder if FF7 could be played on a New 3DS. I'm sure there's a homebrew PlayStation emulator for the 3DS, but I can't imagine it running very well.
mossy flume
As an obsessive Metroid fan: Dread is indeed a legit masterpiece of a Metroid game.
There's not much I would've changed.
Not a particularly well-known fact: The Chozo writing and speech in the game is actually a functional language.
river veldt
Fucking badass
I fucking love it when there's full fledged fictional languages that function
mossy flume
Some parts of the Metroid fandom worked to reverse-engineer it and have since put together a guide on how to speak and read Chozo.
Previous games had only a partially functional Chozo writing system
But it was more just nonsensical/there for aesthetic purposes. Dread actually made it functional.
gilded moth
I really liked that about Dread's Chozo language. That was really cool.
mossy flume
The writing maps to the Roman alphabet and has clear syntax rules. The speech is heavily influenced by Spanish.
Yeah, I was THRILLED to see Samus speak fluent Chozo in the game
river veldt
THAT WAS SO COOL
mossy flume
She would obviously be fluent in Chozo
It was great to finally hear it
All the cutscenes with spoken Chozo can be understood if you know the language.
I expect future Metroid music tribute albums to have at least one track that uses this
And I'm hyped to see that someday
gilded moth
This is something different and more like Breath of the Wild having a readable Hylian alphabet, but I'm pretty sure PokƩmon Scarlet and Violet also have a written alphabet. I haven't been able to figure out most of the letters, though.
river veldt
Most Zelda games have a written alphabet iirc
gilded moth
Do they? I don't think I've played enough Zelda to notice an actual Hylian alphabet until Breath of the Wild.
mossy flume
Wind Waker used a functional writing system
The hylian speech by the gods you can't understand is functional writing
gilded moth
I've never played Wind Waker, so that would explain why I never knew about that.
river veldt
Anyways yeah I love fictional languages that are actually speakable
Iirc the demonic language in Doom is understandable
Goddamn my copy of Hyrule Historia is falling apart
I've read it too many times
gilded moth
I have figured out what A, E and R look like in PokƩmon Scarlet and Violet's alphabet since Area 0 is clearly written on the Scarlet and Violet Books and on a plaque in Area Zero, but I haven't figured out anything beyond that.
river veldt
Oh another PokƩmon example is the Unown!
river veldt
I just recently discovered that uhhhh
That temple in Brilliant Diamond
And there's a sign where if you interact with it it's in Unown
I should go back and try translating it
Hey which games had you translate Braille
Wasn't that something you had to do to get a Regi
gilded moth
The Hoenn games do that.
river veldt
Ooh
mossy flume
Hey which games had you translate Braille
Gold/Silver/Crystal
gilded moth
Yeah, it was for the Regis.
river veldt
Wait
mossy flume
Also gen 3, yeah
mossy flume
...I could be remembering it wrong
river veldt
Can you even catch the Regis in BDSP?
river veldt
I was gonna say I don't remember the Regis in Johto
river veldt
Gen 2 was Unown only
Yes with the creepy music!!!
river veldt
Like hey actually fuck this
https://youtu.be/iylYxStrldA
gilded moth
An interesting thing about the Unown radio theme is that there's a GB Sounds version of it in HGSS that goes completely unused in the actual games.
river veldt
Oh Unown communicate through radio signal and that's why the PokƩGear picks it up?
mossy flume
Yep
river veldt
I did not know that
gilded moth
Yeah. I always thought that was a cool detail.
river veldt
What funky little creatures
I love them
Aren't they connected to Arceus in some way
gilded moth
Yeah.
river veldt
How?
dire gate
Pokemon loves making obscure lore just to not let us know the details
gilded moth
How?
Arceus used the Unown to create the universe, and it makes a completely new universe with their power to give you a member of the creation trio in the Sinjoh Ruins in HGSS.
river veldt
I see
gilded moth
It's possible that the Unown are Arceus's 1,000 arms the PokƩdex makes a reference to, but the Arceus you see in the games is confirmed to just be an avatar of sorts that it uses to interact with people. I like the idea that each Arceus is an arm more.
quiet swift
bleak lintel
Rumor is Them's fightinā herds
river veldt
šššš
chilly mural
hope it has crossplay
river veldt
Scorn is so gross
chilly mural
https://snk.fandom.com/wiki/Isla @fresh bane you're fan of KOF, what did you think of one of the new characters, Isla?
fresh bane
I am indeed not a KOF fan so I have no opinion on this
quartz pawn
wind stump
OH THANKS GAME
river veldt
What am I missing
river veldt
Oh
wind stump
It teases meh
river veldt
Can you not teleport into it?
wind stump
I mean in theory with like
A Teleport 2.0
gaunt marten
You can but it's not easy
wind stump
The fact I need Cracked Key is so dumb
because Hush is a cunt and I'm not good enough at the game to kill it consistently to even unlock the Repentance content
gaunt marten
Cracked key is not the only way
You can also get red key or other super secret item sources
gaunt marten
I solved today's Redactle (#257) in 29 guesses with an accuracy of 62.07%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
(It took me three guesses before I figured out you have to guess one word at a time instead of trying to guess the name of the article
It's a Wikipedia wordle where most of the article is redacted, and every time you guess, you reveal that word if you guessed it
Here's an example: ||https://i.imgur.com/H4HE1Lg.png|| (Contains answer)
robust spear
For those not in the Them's Fightin' Herds channel it is FREE on Epic Game Store right now. Sale ends tomorrow.
chilly mural
minor gorge
minor gorge
Just got mine.
quiet swift
And on GOG (with the usual newsletter signup thing)
gaunt marten
You can go to https://www.gog.com/en/account/settings/subscriptions and opt out from the newsletter
gaunt marten
Where's that one person who explains why Fortnite is actually good despite the news we get about it?
visual hill
For those not in the Them's Fightin' Herds channel it is FREE on Epic Game Store...
heh, and I bought it on Steam a few months ago
quiet swift
Either way, they got money!
barren pike
heh, and I bought it on Steam a few months ago
I look forward to our battle one day
green fulcrum
Where's that one person who explains why Fortnite is actually good despite the n...
Still around, apparently. Their last message was from Dec. 14th.
visual hill
the recent Fortnite tech update made me legitimately interested in the game
I still won't play it for various reasons, but it's fair to say they've achieved an "Unreal moment" so to speak
bleak lintel
Fortnite is a good demo of the features of Unreal Engine, kind of like what Half Life was to source engine when it existed.
visual hill
pretty much
slim thorn
back to Axiom Verge
finally beat the first boss; stuff came up yesterday so I stopped at the save point just before it
random steppe
Where's that one person who explains why Fortnite is actually good despite the n...
I have some base level of respect on whatever game can get a bunch of kids into gaming, just by deafult, because I lived in the era in which being interested in computer and gaming stuff was uncool
Minecraft, Five Nights at Freddy, etc...
So it has that going for it
I tried Axiom Verge when I finished Hollow Knight, because it made me think "maybe I really like metroidvania games" and I bunced off it
Turns out, I mostly like Hollow Knight 
slim thorn
any idea what it is about HK?
random steppe
The movement not feeling too Metroid or Castelvania is a big thing
Also it probably hits a lot of other things, the aeshetic, the music, none of them that singularly would sell me on a game but all that combine to give me a good time.
river veldt
I have some base level of respect on whatever game can get a bunch of kids into ...
Minecraft and FNAF my beloveds
random steppe
And I really like exploration, the combat is not very hard for most of the game either so since I'm not very good with 2d combat, it gave me time to get used to it.
slim thorn
interesting, Hollow Knight's combat does start out simple but it felt on the hard end to me; even the False Knight gave me trouble when I was brand new at it
could you say more about the movement? that's the only point that's not clicking for me; I get that it's not identical but HK movement feels more metroidvania to me than anything else, unlike e.g. Ori
random steppe
It's not super easy but also, I would say in the genre is on the easier side.
Compared to Blasphemous for example
Hard to explain, it feels good to jump around and it felt responsive, never got to that with most metroidvania I tried, maybe it was the animation style that made it click for me
slim thorn
fair, though for me Blasphemous was much harder at the start, until I made the lategame harder by seeking out optional bosses; getting all the upgrades helps a ton in that game (whereas in e.g. actual Metroids I usually quickly get to a point where I'm collecting the upgrades just for its own sake)
hm, which metroidvanias do you have in mind?
I can see HK feeling "smoother" in some hard-to-pin-down than the pre-Dread 2D Metroids because those controls are so digital in their responsiveness, especially with the only-eight-directions shooting
random steppe
Axiom Verge is an example, I tried to go back to castelvania a couple of times but old games are old and couldn't get into it.
After even Blasphemous feels much clunkier, but I persevered because fuck the artstyle was fucking awesome
slim thorn
I could see that, Blasphemous also feel like "intentional clunk" the way we might describe Souls or survival horrors; it mostly comes out of a desire to make committing to attacks a real commitment
random steppe
To be clear, it's not that the others are just worse, they just refuse to click in my brain, and that makes them less fun
And it's only in 2d combat for some reason
slim thorn
maybe I am thinking of the right thing then since Axiom Verge is also "very digital in its responsiveness"; it's so Metroid I hesitate to call it a Metroidvania because there's no "vania"
have you played Ori?
random steppe
Yeah, loved Ori
slim thorn
that might be exactly it then
random steppe
But I like HK more, mostly because Ori is more of a spectacle than a game with depth, especially the 1st one
slim thorn
of course
random steppe
Still, mad respect to both of those games
slim thorn
I was mostly trying to pin down the movement comment but I think I've got it now
dang, I think I accidentally found a secret I can't access yet because I don't have morph ball
random steppe
But yeah, I recognise that the clunkyness is on purpose in many of those games, similarly as with the souls, and for some reason that work for me in 3d but I hate it in 2d
Maybe it's because the platforming elements are usually much more there in 2d
In Souls when they make you platform they fucked up.
It just feels bad
slim thorn
could be
Blasphemous' platforming mostly worked for me, but it was too easy to fail to grab a ladder or ledge, in a frustrating rather than legitimately challenging way
the DLC also had a series of optional timed platforming challenges, which is one of the few pieces of content I did not complete because that pushed the platforming mechanics past the point where they weren't fun any more
random steppe
I spent like, a dozen hours completing the Path of Pain in Hollow Knight, which is like, 4 rooms total, and I (sorta) had fun doing it, but the idea of doing something similar in Blasphemous horrifies me
slim thorn
oh yeah, even in HK not a chance lol
like so many things, if it had more checkpoints it'd actually be fun, but that's just too much instant death
the mandatory white palace stuff was about my limit
random steppe
Path of Pain has decent checkpoints
And with the right charms you are basically immortal, so it wasn't that terrible
The only time I had to repeat a big chunk was because I just had to go and turn off the game
slim thorn
wait, how do charms help with environmental insta-kills and checkpoint spacing?
random steppe
Well you need to pass it at least once
slim thorn
even in regular white palace I was repeating tons of stuff
random steppe
But once you are past the hurdle, and reached the checkpoint, the right charms allows you to not die completely and lose progress
IIRC the trio was the one that slwoly regenerates the last HP you lost, the one that gives you more soul when you take damage, and the one that makes you heal cure double
slim thorn
I think I've forgotten how saves/checkpoints work in HK
random steppe
If you die to a saw or to a pit in HK it just puts you back on a checkpoint with one less HP
And with a checkpoint, I mean a ledge or something of the sort
slim thorn
oh right, it wasn't insta-kill so much as insta-reset to a pseudo-checkpoint with less health, like bottomless pits?
random steppe
Yeah it's not Blasphemous level that if you fall, you are fucking dead
slim thorn
ok I see what you mean now
if I'd played around with charm min-maxing enough to notice that combo maybe I'd've given PoP a shot
random steppe
It's fairly harder than the White Palace bit
slim thorn
I know lol
random steppe
Especially the last and first parts
The bit in the middle is not that bad honestly
The last bit is actually hell
They get you with the sunk cost fallacy
You did all the rest, wanna give up now?
slim thorn
I watched someone else do it on YT so I was very sure I didn't want to try it myself
random steppe
But yeah, if it was, one hit and back at the bench, I would have never even tried
slim thorn
maybe I am thinking of the right thing then since Axiom Verge is also "very digi...
lol, finally found something that feels more -vania than Metroid: an implausibly large pile of pixelated skeletons/corpses
2nd boss down
bleak lintel
I have defeated Demon's Souls.
gaunt marten
Oh good
slim thorn
this disruptor thing is pretty interesting
gaunt marten
2nd boss down
Which boss was it?
The disruptor is one of the ways Axiom Verge makes itself a unique game
slim thorn
I think the achivement said "Telal"? the bulldozer whose weak point is yellow gunk on the back, Kraid-esque fight
gaunt marten
Telal, yeah
You can take contact damage and run behind him and he won't be able to turn around
Almost completely trivializes him
It's very useful in randomizer hard mode when you may have to fight him with no equipment
slim thorn
dang, I think I accidentally found a secret I can't access yet ~~because I don't...
and this happened again
gaunt marten
Mark it down on a screenshot or something just in case
slim thorn
it is unfortunate that the AV map doesn't do the circle/dot thing Metroid usually does for items
at the moment I don't feel like it's worth the hassle of doing myself
gaunt marten
The item tracker does but it's separate software
A hotkey the game doesn't tell you the may be useful is one of the back triggers on the controller allowing you to aim diagonally without moving
slim thorn
the game did tell me, but it's LB, not LT
gaunt marten
Oh good
astral field
In Souls when they make you platform they fucked up.
It just feels bad
DS2's platforming is pretty good, since they changed how jumping worked and you could affect your fall damage with stats, but in the other titles it is very unfun.
astral field
I didn't say very good either. Maybe decent would be a good word for it.
random steppe
Like, when in DS2 I get to a bit in which I have to jump I let out a slighier less pained groan
gaunt marten
https://axiom-verge-tracker-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Spoilers. The tracker is automatic and marks every item you have access to even if you don't know it exists. There is a separate tracker that will tell you which items are which exactly
astral field
I liked that you were rewarded for exploring with platforming in DS2. The mandatory parts I hated because I am afraid of heights.
random steppe
Did you play Spiderman by any chance?
random steppe
I do get a bit of a chill in that one during dives, but if DS2 platforming gets you a bit, I'm pretty sure Spiderman might murder you
dire gate
idk why but I thought you asked "Are you Spiderman by any chance"
astral field
Falling is not a fun experience and such.
gaunt marten
DS2 has a very serious bug where dependent on your computer hardware and current situation your jumps may end short and kill you
There's a mod to fix it, and I think one of the versions of the game might as well
slim thorn
made it to "Zi"
is the next area going to have a one-letter name? they can't keep shortening them forever 
gaunt marten
They're all dumb names
visual hill
reminds me how fall damage is weird in early GTA games, if you jump across a gap, you will almost always suffer fall damage even if you haven't fallen of any height
and jumping from a 30-story building may only damage your armor by 35 points or so, losing no health points in the process š
(in III and Vice City)
gaunt marten
By the way, Ixrec
There's a secret that I think you might not notice until near the end of the game
slim thorn
I'd be surprised if I found half the secrets in any game without looking them up
gaunt marten
Yes but this one is special
It's a hot and cold game
You'll know you're near it when very subtle scanlines show on your screen
They're easier to spot when you look at your health bar
And its actual location is randomized from a set of possible ones, with more than one different secret of that type. Every game has a unique set of them
That's all you need to know
The effect is very subtle so it took me until I looked it up to figure it out
slim thorn
took two tries but now Uruku's down
weird how much health he drops mid-fight in unreachable places
gaunt marten
They're not unreachable
You just eat the damage
There's a little sweet spot where you can shoot Uruku but he cannot harm you
slim thorn
well, I was mostly referring to the health he drops onto himself
pretty sure it would not be a good idea to try and grab that
gaunt marten
Depends on what gear you have
slim thorn
can it vary much this early? so far I've always found only one direction I can make progress in
gaunt marten
It can vary a lot based on what skips you know and whether you use the randomizer
slim thorn
oh, well I'm still talking about a normal first playthrough
gaunt marten
If I recall correctly, you pick up the coat that lets you go through walls
slim thorn
yep, I got the coat and made it back to the save point and that's where I stopped
gaunt marten
You can upgrade that later and it becomes so much more useful
Including getting you all sorts of items before you might be able to
The game has a decent amount of sequence breaks
There's one that's intentional and is particularly funny
The game has so many movement options that it's actually difficult by the end to get everyone to follow the intended path
untold vigil
slim thorn
we'll see, usually I'm the type that never notices any sequence breaks (intended or otherwise) and instead finds a way to get stuck on even the intended path
gaunt marten
Well getting unstuck in this game is a big problem too
That's why they patched it so that exiting and reloading takes you back to your last saving spot
And in randomizer mode you can return to the very start of the game instead
slim thorn
oh
I was wondering why it offers to save when qutting but loading took me back to the save room save instead of my actual last save
gaunt marten
Yeah. If it saved your location you might have sequence broke into a location you can't bust out of just yet
Especially if you somehow get out of bounds
slim thorn
does the quit save still save non-location aspects of progress?
gaunt marten
Yeah
All items and bosses are saved. Health and enemies reset
By the way, there's an achievement for transforming every enemy type once with the address disruptor so don't forget to do that
slim thorn
I'm already trying it on every enemy I run across because of the variety of beneficial effects
gaunt marten
Yeah! It's really fun
Sponges are my favorite. You heal back to full
The floating squid things that turn into platforms can be used to push you into the wall and get out of bounds but it's tricky
untold vigil
dapper cedar
Batman won't kill you but he might do worse
river veldt
Wtf happened
visual hill
Batman won't kill you but he might do worse
stretching yourself too thin 
rancid herald
why is it trending?
green fulcrum
Funny enough, I think that they copied SA2 gameplay for this tech demo. The style, movement, animation, and controls look eerily similar.
It's just sped up
thorny loom
slim thorn
#AxiomVerge: I'm loving the remote drone
fresh bane
from what I've seen, this is star wars doom
I mean.... after Doom released every FPS was pretty much ''X but Doom'' down to the artstyle
But yes it's Star Wars Doom
fresh bane
and in Dark Forces 2 you get loitesaebah
take a gander at these cutting edge 1997 graphics
you could cut yourself with those polygons
white phoenix
I mean.... after Doom released *every* FPS was pretty much ''X but Doom'' down t...
yeah, so much so that every fps was called doom clones
craggy vine
Where's that one person who explains why Fortnite is actually good despite the n...
me
It's just a fun game
white phoenix
they were referring to someone else
now that we have threads I haven't seen them ever since
astral steeple
lol
also with the whole FTC thing, thats on the parents for putting their credit card onto their kid's account to begin with
not epic
plus
the game isnt even directed towards kids
its for older teens/adults
Fortnite is rated Teen and is directed at an older teen and college-aged audience. We recently rolled out Cabined Accounts, a new type of Epic account that provides a tailored experience that is safe and inclusive for younger players. Players under 13, or their countryās age of digital consent, whichever is higher, will be able to play Fortnite while they wait for parental consent, but in a tailored environment where certain features, such as chat and purchasing, are disabled.```straight from epic themselves
craggy vine
Yeah
The way my mum does it with my sister, is that she has to ask to buy anything because she doesn't link payment info. I don't even link payment info.
astral steeple
i do keep my payment info saved when i buy my 11 year old brother skins on fort and stuff, but only because he's smart enough to not spend my money without me knowing lol
craggy vine
I don't even trust companies with payment info. I would rather log into paypal and get a code each time.
Just today I had someone trying to login to my now dead snapchat account
astral steeple
like the whole ftc fort shit is dumb to begin with
idk if its a generational thing or what, but like
growing up even i knew not to spend my mom's money off her card cause if i did i would have got my ass whooped lol
all these kids spending excessive amounts of their parents money on the game is dumb as hell and isnt even epic's fault by any means
it literally just comes down to them not raising their kids right and directly putting their card onto the kid's account and letting them play a game thats not even directed towards them
craggy vine
And it's all over cosmetic microtransactions
I remember when people were fine with cosmetic microtransactions
astral steeple
yeah lol
also the reason i havent been talking much in this server is because im in like 100+ discords lol
plus i had covid for like a week and half to almost 2 weeks now so ive mainly just been in bed
craggy vine
Heh. Being sick makes me talk online more
astral steeple
ive pretty much just mainly been watching youtube
did play some fort earlier
happened to get a win with the deku smash mythic weapon as well which was cool
astral steeple
i usually just use the auto shotgun, assault rifle, shockwave hammer, and pistol/smg
astral field
like the whole ftc fort shit is dumb to begin with
idk if its a generational t...
It is Epic's fault if they deliberately steer people towards purchasing things without making it clear something is a purchase, which they did do, and made it deliberately difficult to reverse charges, which they also did do. Epic Games has faced lawsuits before over hiring psychologists to make their games more predatory and addicting. Parents absolutely should be more responsible with their children, but when a game has single button purchases with no confirmation or parental approval required and deliberately cultivates and preys upon irresponsible spending habits, that game's designers are not blameless.
astral steeple
????????
craggy vine
Idk. It was made pretty clear to me that I was spending real money when I bought Vbucks.
You have to buy Vbucks to buy anything in the game, unless you get the subscription
craggy vine
I got taken to an Epic games store page even. but again, I don't have my payment info linked.
astral field
You really ought to read the settlement. They violated childrens' privacy laws and were caught manipulating their players into unintentionally spending money. They settled on both charges and are, effectively under duress, implementing changes to reverse their wrongdoing. One such change is that they no longer automatically save payment information without asking.
astral steeple
and again
kids spending excessive amounts of their parent's money on the game isnt epic's fault at all
and kids literally arent the target audience for the game
that is 100% on the parents
astral field
I disagree. They very much are the target audience with regard to spending money and Epic Games was caught trying to pump them for every penny they could. Making it difficult to reverse charges shows their hand, they knew full well what they were doing and tried to make it hard to get money back.
craggy vine
I think this is mainly a thing because of how popular fortnite is. These kinds of things have existed in games for many many years before. Not saying they are a good thing entirely, but that they have existed for a long time. Since the days of 2010 facebook games really.
astral field
That other people are doing it does not excuse them of it.
astral steeple
they arent the target audience though
astral steeple
```Developers who create a teen-rated or mature-rated game can no longer assume ...
.
Fortnite is rated Teen and is directed at an older teen and college-aged audience
not kids
astral field
Teenagers are still kids.
astral steeple
not really
astral field
Yes really. Legally, too.
craggy vine
Why wouldn't the target audience be someone like me, someone with disposable income, for the shop. I actually make money. In some ways I feel it is, with them adding things like rick and morty and doom. Doom being rated 18+ and Rick and Morty rated 15+ here.
astral field
Why wouldn't the target audience be someone like me, someone with disposable inc...
Because you are harder to manipulate.
craggy vine
From 16 onwards you can get a job too
astral steeple
the target audience is literally teens/adults with disposable income
craggy vine
Why do they need to manipulate me
astral field
To addict you to the game and take your money regularly and in perpetuity.
astral steeple
the game isnt even addicting though lmfao
thats just parents not raising their kids right
craggy vine
I don't get what they are manipulating into me. It's just skins and emotes.
astral field
They literally got caught hiring psychologists to make it so.
astral field
You and I are clearly not going to see eye to eye. Suffice to say that I disagree with you and the settlement validates my existing concerns with Epic Games and their predatory practices.
astral steeple
throwback to when people liked epic lol
now its just constant hate towards epic despite being the same company they were years and years ago
astral field
I have distrusted them from the beginning, so I am not a fair weather fan.
craggy vine
I guess some things, like how they advertise battlepass to you or show a cutscene with newly added characters is, sorta getting you to want to pay. But like, of course they are going to do that. They're going to advertise and try to get you to pay. I don't think it is predatory practices. Companies advertise on TV to try and get you to pay for something that you may not even need.
astral field
Predatory advertising on TV is a thing too. McDonald's is probably the most visible case of a company having predatory ads directed at children, then being punished for it by regulators. The sizeable fines were why they changed their branding and colors to not directly advertise or appeal to kids anymore.
astral field
Probably.
craggy vine
And I just see the product for what it is instead
I guess comes with being older too
astral field
Adults are better at resisting that kind of manipulation, yeah. Kids aren't, though, which is why they are both a high value target for such things and also a group that regulators get very upset if they are targeted.
Hence the fines against McDonald's and now the massive lawsuit against Epic Games.
craggy vine
It sorta changes what I think of it now that I know mcDonalds has had it happen too
It just felt like they were targeting fortnite only before
astral field
No, they are just the most recent target. Regulators move very slowly and big companies have literally millions of dollars to throw at lawyers. It takes a ton of effort to pin them down with lawsuits and fines.
But if something gets overt enough, charges can stick, eventually.
craggy vine
I see
astral field
For example, Epic Games recently had a class action lawsuit approved against them about making Fortnite too addicting. Regardless of whether it is true or not, the courts ruled that there are grounds to proceed with the case. The initial case was filed in 2019 and it only just was approved this month. It takes a long time for things to move through the court systems. It isn't just Epic, though. Blizzard, Apple, Sony, and others are facing similar lawsuits. Really, research about and lawsuits regarding predatory practices in video games are new, only being started in the past few years. I suspect a lot more cases are going to reach trial or be settled in the upcoming couple years.
mossy flume
Hecc
visual hill
ZDOOM Dark Forces??
it's an independent engine, written from scratch as Dark Forces' source code was never released
visual hill
you could cut yourself with those polygons
the LOD models you see in the distance are even worse, they give Minecraft a run for their money š
gaunt marten
#AxiomVerge: I'm loving the remote drone
After you have the remote drone upgrade that lets you shoot it far, you can shoot the drone up, swap places with it then shoot it up again
The timing for that is pretty tough but you can use it to cross impossible gaps and get items early
With TAS timings you can fly pretty much anywhere with it but in practice you can maybe extend your jump to three or four times as far as you can normally go at best
icy crescent
man i wish that game available on PC
grave tide
man i wish that game available on PC
You can buy PS Plus super duper deluxe
Because PS Now is a part of PS Plus super deluxe
(I don't remember name, because I am playing through PS Remote Play)
icy crescent
so i can play it on my PC even thou i dont have Console?
quiet swift
Seems you can stream some PS games onto a pc, rather. Cloud gaming
icy crescent
ah yes Cloud gaming
empty copper
Hey guys thereās only a short time left to get Themās Fightinā Herds for free!! Ends at 11am est https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/thems-fightin-herds
45 minutes from now
topaz schooner
Gacha games
gaunt marten
That's good
thorny loom
I think the winter sale starts Thursday also
static bluff
It's still overpriced :sonic:
gaunt marten
I'd buy it for five
static bluff
For sure
grim stirrup
i think i'd want 15-20 pounds minimum 
random steppe
I played so many open world games that it really takes an exceptional example to make me interested now
So Sonic will likely stay there forever
slim thorn
I've just got too much else to play
topaz schooner
More Gacha
wind stump
i am in misery
river veldt
Ooooh the misery
arctic fern
git gud skrub
quiet swift
Ooooh the misery
šµ Everybody wants to be! My Enemy! šµ
wind stump
REESES PUFFS REESES PUFFS
dense crypt
REES... ES PUFFS. REESES PUFFS. REES... ES PUFFS. ES PUFFS
green fulcrum
So, Among Us has its first proper in-game(?) song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bnSKWV4t8E
And it's actually VERY good
river veldt
So, Among Us has its first proper in-game(?) song: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Banger
green fulcrum
So, I just saw a game of the new hide-n-seek mode, and it's legit horrifying. I love it.
wind stump
river veldt
So, I just saw a game of the new hide-n-seek mode, and it's legit horrifying. I ...
I have yet to play it but I have heard it's actully quite scary
green fulcrum
I have yet to play it but I have heard it's actully quite scary
Watch at the timestamp: https://youtu.be/xOVESJiaUeM?t=788
river veldt
Ooh I like the flashlight mechanic
wind stump
i hate this fucking game lmao
river veldt
What game
chilly mural
I love l4d2
green fulcrum
OH YEAH!
You can pet your pets now in Among Us! :D
wind stump
pat them until you get killed
wind stump
i did get yeeted!
minor plover
I did all of L4D1 on expert and enjoyed it. L4D2 I thought was not really designed as much around the campaign as around giving the infected a better shot in versus mode. So large portions of L4D2 were basically "how do we invalidate careful, deliberate team movement and positioning?" and trying to turn it into requiring in-motion FPS skills
gaunt marten
I definitely don't trust Gearbox to nail what made Risk of Rain 1 fun, but I'm very eager to see how it turns out
grim stirrup
the original ror was a fine balance
gaunt marten
Yes but it has terrible multiplayer quality of life
Also I loved it enough to do all the content, so more content sounds good
quiet swift
dense crypt
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/wolfenstein-the-new-order
ah yes
and it was still not as good as The Old Blood
idk why the decision was made to make wolfenstein into a more cinematic series
when nazi-shooting was the point to begin with
chilly mural
dapper cedar
I've already expressed my love here for the old Spidey game, but I'm only now learning about the cereal box demo disc made to promote the 2002 movie, with a unique costume based on it
https://youtu.be/L8YOS14GRDA
dapper cedar
The Neversoft Spidey game then
white phoenix
oh man, I remember when cereal boxes actually had cool stuff like cds in them
quiet swift
And driver's licenses!
dense crypt
i got a CD for a ripoff of Excitebike at a taco bell years ago
quiet swift
dapper cedar
Horror survived, hell yeah
fresh bane
you beat it already?
damn
I still have yet to finish my playthrough, I'm barely at the lab
did you get Jill's RE3 outfit? 
slim thorn
the endgame stuff included a key to the costume area, haven't tried to access it
fresh bane
I really wanna get it and play through it again with it
I've been using Jill's RE5 costume for my playthrough
It looks really good
wise frigate
tonight is a good night to loop the Portal Radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj2FvGcXRKs
random steppe
Ok this is unique
A Dark Souls fansong that it's kind of bright and heartwarming, and not actually about how the Gods are dead, and everyone is dead or gonna die
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z62dRpotAIY
quartz pawn
The will of Genesis (čµ·ęŗęåæ)
dire gate
From the thumbnail, I guess it's mugen?
dense crypt
it's not just mugen
it's CHEAPIE MUGEN
THE MOST ULTIMATE KIND
... is what i would say if they weren't just programming skill contests.
cheapies have no actual fighting mechanics of any kind to them, fights between them are just determined by who has a higher priority win condition.
quartz pawn
From the thumbnail, I guess it's mugen?
Yes
quartz pawn
it's CHEAPIE MUGEN
Tell me what Cheapie means.
dense crypt
cheapies are basically super powerful custom mugen fighters who are so unbelievably powerful (no they really arent) that they dont have hitboxes, have screen-covering attacks that can insta-kill, are generally COVERED in particle effects and seizure inducing attack animations, and a lot of them even have conditions that trigger an instant win
quartz pawn
cheapies are basically super powerful custom mugen fighters who are so unbelieva...
I see! We Japanese say ē„ćć£ć© č«å¤ćć£ć©
chilly mural
kami kyara
quartz pawn
kami kyara
Yes!
chilly mural
ćÆćććććć¾ćć
dense crypt
ah, i see
ill fetch some examples
or i would if i could find some decent ones
SEIZURE WARNING
it's okay if you dont know what's going on
also mugen cheapie characters like to use ronald mcdonald as a base for whatever reason
astral field
Old, old, old memes is why.
astral field
I could probably find the original. It is a touhou and Japanese Ronald McDonald mashup.
astral field
I could probably find the original. It is a touhou and Japanese Ronald McDonald ...
Ah, here it is. https://youtu.be/Q16KpquGsIc
14 year old video.
chilly mural
š
astral field
It's actually even older than this video. Original was on nicovideo. This is a youtube re-upload.
dire gate
Ran Ran Ru
quartz pawn
also mugen cheapie characters like to use ronald mcdonald as a base for whatever...
Of all, why Ronald...
dense crypt
there was a mugen character that was just Dio's sprites from Heritage to the Future edited to look like Ronald and he's edgy as hell but he was super popular because of how funny he was when he came out.
quartz pawn
there was a mugen character that was just Dio's sprites from Heritage to the Fut...
Wow, that's great.
dense crypt
it is
quartz pawn
By the way, this guy is the strongest internal character in MUGEN at this stage.https://youtu.be/-3zZ9nGl2BQ
dense crypt
neat
though i wish there were actual fights between these kinds of characters, they're just programming battles
quartz pawn
Give me a decent fighting game...
dense crypt
Them's Fighting Herds is a good one, if you don't mind a smaller roster
quartz pawn
quartz pawn
Them's Fighting Herds is a good one, if you don't mind a smaller roster
In fact, I've already played that game.
quiet swift
wind stump
I NEED IT
thorny loom
quiet swift
wind stump
ffxiv glamour be like
wind stump
oh my god
river veldt
Did you downlod it
gaunt marten
The one Isaac mod everyone should download is https://github.com/Zamiell/racing-plus/blob/main/docs/changes.md
Removes irritations and makes the game a lot more consistent and easy to race
For example, no longer does the hush magically block all damage above the number it requires
Did you know all the enemies on the ascent have boss armor? https://breezewiki.com/bindingofisaacrebirth/wiki/Pooter#Tainted_Pooter
That's why it often seems like no matter how strong you are they take too long
wind stump
Did you downlod it
Of course
wind stump
Did you know all the enemies on the ascent have boss armor? https://breezewiki.c...
I didn't because I still need to unlock the Repentence content
gaunt marten
Well they do and it sucks
The armor system implemented in the game breaks down if you shoot too fast but not if your tears are strong and slow
wind stump
Honestly I can't even reach Hush
gaunt marten
The game is hard. Restarting until you start with a good item is a good idea
wind stump
Then again I do exclusively play Hard Mode both to practice and eventually unlock shite because MAN WHO DECIDED TO LOCK ALL THE LOST'S COOL SHIT BEHIND THAT
quiet swift
gaunt marten
You could turn off repentance until you have everything done with hard mode
Repentance makes hard mode a lot harder
proud warren
The one Isaac mod everyone should download is https://github.com/Zamiell/racing-...
I thought you were refering to this mod
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2788006730
Just car
One shots everything, no items, no breaks, don't hit a wall... go
wind stump
Repentance makes hard mode a lot harder
But I like the Repentance content!
gaunt marten
Yeah, that's why once you do the pre-repentance content you take the training wheels off and do the rest
The way you're doing it you're having a harder time than people who played the game on hard mode before repentance
Which can be frustrating
rapid magnet
the scene, art, and music just made it to perfection 
gaunt marten
What the fuck is a lagrange network supposed to be. Lagrange points are points
wind stump
Bwood for the bwood god!
visual hill
nice! This is a game I was planning to buy at some point
will be good when I get my new PC, Lego Builder's Journey is a nice RTX showcase
also, heh, look what landed on EGS
chilly mural
yooooo peppa pig
river veldt
I haven't even unlocked horse pills yet
wind stump
Oh wait that's a real thing?
river veldt
Yes
I apologise for linking Fandom
https://bindingofisaacrebirth.fandom.com/wiki/Pills
wind stump
zamn
river veldt
Also Hc we have a BoI thread
gaunt marten
I apologise for linking Fandom
https://bindingofisaacrebirth.fandom.com/wiki/Pil...
Link Breezewiki!
river veldt
Breezewiki?
river veldt
Oh cool
mossy flume
Huh, first I've heard of it
gaunt marten
It's relatively new and really due
river veldt
You're relatively new
gaunt marten
Fluttershy: I'm a year older than you...
slim thorn
damn that is much cleaner
I didn't even know there was a dark mode toggle on any of these wikis but now it's unmissable
gilded moth
Doesn't BreezeWiki have a browser extension too? I think I remember hearing about that before.
gaunt marten
Maybe
slim thorn
the instructions on the page Flitter just linked to and I just spent a few minutes following provide a small config file for a more generic redirection extension
and it is auto-redirecting as intended now
static bluff
It's relatively new and really due
This is amazing.
river veldt
You're amazing
slim thorn
even in the short time since I installed the redirection it's already kicked in for me again
hasty patio
http://Breezewiki.com
Fan-fucking-tastic. Thank you!
mossy flume
random steppe
I do feel like that if Pinkie was in a MMO, she'd voluntarily want to be a weird as fuck creature, so it fits.
chilly mural
b for bshark
slim thorn
excuse me 
gaunt marten
excuse me <:starlightstare:399725090645737472>
You will need it
slim thorn
I'm currently enjoying the "voranj" weapon I found a few minutes ago
gaunt marten
There's a list of passcodes that do things. Some allow you access to areas. Some alter the game. You can find the ones you need by reading the story files the game gives you
slim thorn
Axiom Verge
river veldt
Does it have Mario
slim thorn
one of those metroidvanias I never got around to
gaunt marten
Is Voranj the green ball of lightning weapon?
slim thorn
more like fractal tree but it is green lightning
gaunt marten
Oh that one's neat
slim thorn
oh Kilver might be what you're thinking of, the "lightning shotgun" that was the game's third weapon
gaunt marten
Correct
Kilver is the second highest DPS weapon in the game if you know how to use it
slim thorn
ok, I had picked up that it does more damage per shot, so I do try to use it in the rare cases it makes sense to get that close (usually because there's a wall between me and the enemy)
gaunt marten
Just don't get hit
slim thorn
There's a list of passcodes that do things. Some allow you access to areas. Some...
I've found a grand total of 2 "notes" so far, no explicit passcodes in them (if it's hidden somehow I'm not playing a decoding game )
gaunt marten
It's not hidden, but the notes might be
slim thorn
oh and I found the secret area in the top right of Kur
after dying half a dozen rooms in I decided to listen to the game and save it for later
slim thorn
gaunt marten
Anyway, here's a list of for-fun passwords so you won't need to look up the spoiler passwords:
SEETHE-MATRIX
CALLIN-TRACEY
SECRET-JACKET
TRACK0-000000 (to 18)```There are more passwords but some are cheats and some disable achievements
Regarding the regular passwords you'll need in the game: Some can be revealed by doing a special activity in certain rooms and it might be obtuse, but you'll be able to get all the ones you need to finish the game without much difficulty
slim thorn
gaunt marten
You'll find a way to auto translate those
slim thorn
well at least their language has spaces, that's a start
yes I figured that was coming
gaunt marten
It's a normal substitution cipher if you wanna give it a try anyway
slim thorn
(the first note I found even said there was a translator somewhere)
gaunt marten
If I recall correctly, the translation works if you know the code even before you find the appropriate note
slim thorn
oh that's cool, there's more than one non-English script involved
gaunt marten
There's exactly two
slim thorn
though this one feels like it could just be English with the disruptor fired at it
gaunt marten
Each with a decoder
river veldt
Anyway, here's a list of for-fun passwords so you won't need to look up the spoi...
JUSTIN-BAILEY
Heh I understand that reference
gaunt marten
Wiki says about that one This is a nod to the original NES Metroid game. Entering JUSTIN-BAILEY in Metroid's password system would start the game with a number of items, and Samus wearing a pink leotard.
river veldt
Yeah
gaunt marten
This one gives you a yellow speedo
slim thorn
there are a lot of places I can only get to via drone
I can't quite tell if I'm progressing as intended or I missed the route half an hour ago and am just doing an early cleanup pass now 
gaunt marten
You will have to come find both top right areas in Kur
What drone improvements do you have so far?
slim thorn
I don't think there've been any drone upgrades so far
gaunt marten
That means you're much too early for that
slim thorn
for which thing?
gaunt marten
The very top right of Kur has a pyramid thing which you need specific drone upgrades to access
slim thorn
doesn't ring a bell
gaunt marten
You can see it much earlier but there's no way to get in
slim thorn
I think the last upgrades I got were disruptor 2, the drone itself, grapple, then voranj
gaunt marten
The grapple is so unintuitive
slim thorn
other than miscellaneous nodes and notes I've been finding
gaunt marten
Took me like five playthroughs to figure out
slim thorn
anyway, my current status is that Indi and Edin I can only peek my head into from the known entrances, Kur I ran out of rooms to double-check, so I've been backtracking left through Zi and Absu
gaunt marten
You definitely want to check out the area in Kur with a lot of hard enemies
slim thorn
I believe I've re-checked just about everything on the map except for the starting area of Eribu
gaunt marten
You know the one, right?
slim thorn
uh, the big gas-spewing ones only the drones can destroy?
that are all over the 2-3 big "aboveground" rooms near the top?
gaunt marten
No that one's really easy
slim thorn
are you talking about the secret area?
gaunt marten
The one I'm talking about has a really high enemy density, more than anywhere else in the game, and a lot of them are big and small fuzzy white enemies
It's not a secret area
slim thorn
that could be a lot of places in Kur and the Kur secret area lol
gaunt marten
Well you probably haven't seen it because most people will know that one
slim thorn
anyway, now to sweep Eribu
if I find no real progress then I'll ask for a proper hint or just wiki it
gaunt marten
This guide has a rough list of which areas you need to revisit in order:
https://www.neoseeker.com/axiom-verge/walkthrough
slim thorn
lol, I found another way into Endi that only my drone can get to
I bet half of these "drone-only" parts are intended for after I get an even higher jump
gaunt marten
There's a higher jump and also a way to swap places with your drone
Indi is useful because it's a fast travel zone
slim thorn
I bet it will be someday
gaunt marten
But there's another secret in Indi: The slow worm enemies
If you can address disrupt one of them before they commit suicide, you'll get a permanent health upgrade
slim thorn
maybe save this for after I'm actually there
gaunt marten
Limit one per customer
slim thorn
wtf is "Ukkin-Na"