You can see each singular strand in Leon's hair
#general gaming
fresh bane
dapper cedar
A friend sent me Dead Cells with the Castlevania DLC
I am completely unfamiliar with the game, but assuming I should play the base before doing Castlevania
hasty patio
river veldt
visual hill
I finished Metro 2033, on to Last Light…
my FOV adjustment did not mesh well with some of the late stage puzzles. 
river veldt
holy hell
slim thorn
which one?
dire gate
I had to work hard to stop myself from making a your mom joke
minor plover
you appear to have not entirely stopped
river veldt
Idk its name
Kraid!
fresh bane
Hooly hell RE4R is INCREDIBLE
slim thorn
cool, I'll probably wait for the full game then since I've got too much else in progress
fresh bane
The layout of the village and the rooms is the exact same
It's literally just OG RE4 with massive improvements and additions
Everything I wanted out of RE2 and RE3
river veldt
is Leon still hot
fresh bane
He was hotter in OG RE4
mossy flume
The fat one that's chained up
That’s Kraid. He is indeed a bit tricky.
river veldt
Kraid is a fat
fresh bane
river veldt
jesus
river veldt
yeah well get out of the way because i am
fresh bane
river veldt
ok he's still hot
also goddamn i can see every hair on his head
i hope we can keep the jacket longer
the jacket is so goddamn cool and you have it for like a half hour
untold vigil
Oh hey it's my boy
slim thorn
I have no strong opinions on any of this lol
river veldt
coincidentally 4 and 8 are the only ones ive played/watched
slim thorn
RE4's just the only one I played as a teenager so it feels weird in a neutral way and otherwise it's just a game I'll definitely play eventually like Dead Space remake was
fresh bane
RE4 was my entire childhood as a kid so this is very personal to me
And so far it looks excellent, like I said it's literally all I wished they'd done with RE2-3, just enhancements and improvements from the original all around
but it's still RE4
I feel like internally all the devs were very much like ''DON'T. FUCK THIS UP.''
river veldt
did you do the knife vs chainsaw thing yet
fresh bane
I haven't seen it myself no, I'm not playing this game myself
river veldt
oh
fresh bane
My computer would catch on fire and create a nuclear blast
river veldt
lmao same
fresh bane
Maybe once I upgrade maybe I'll be able to play it on minimum? 
fickle garnet
I'll download the demo on my series x
fresh bane
I can't wait to see what else they expand upon in the full game but so far yeah it's excellent up there with RE1R and Dead Space Remake in terms of fidelity to the original while still overhauling and enhancing stuff
I've also seen people say they can't wait for Capcom to remake RE3 again so I guess I'm not the only one that was extremely disappointed with RE3 
fickle garnet
Isn't the re3 remake shorter than the original?
fresh bane
It's the shortest game so far and it's also the worst one
cuts out a lot of content and the replacements are arguably worse than the original
untold vigil
RE3RE was a big disappoint yeah
I think they just wanted it done so they could do 4
(RIP CV I guess, Claire who?)
fresh bane
They said they would do CV if there was enough interest after RE4 I think
they aren't closed to the idea but they are focusing on RE4 now
river veldt
what is CV
river veldt
o
fresh bane
It's pretty much like RE4 being a sequel to RE2 but with Claire instead
river veldt
oh cool
fresh bane
It's when she goes to search for Chris
And it's largely a pretty underrated and forgotten entry
river veldt
the remakes are cool but i feel like we're going to eventually get Resident Evil 8 Remake
fresh bane
It seems like they're planning to entirely remake all of their games
RE5R is definitely going to happen
All of the previous games are getting entirely overwritten
Which I disagree with but hey 
In the new movie for example Jill looks like she did in RE3R and not like she always looked
visual hill
RE9 will be remade before the original game is even out
slim thorn
I still want to play CV whenever Tale has time for it
then I'll have either played or watched the entire series
RE4R might be one to play by myself, depending how much else we get through
fresh bane
I don't think any of the new writing or plot lines are a vast improvement over the originals
it's an improvement but that's because writing for PS1 games really wasn't that good no matter what at the time especially for games who didn't focus on story as much
slim thorn
oh they always were and still are B-movie silliness, but the moment-to-moment dialogue/direction/etc is way better in the remakes
I guess 2 is still the only one where I've played original and remake back-to-back for a clear comparison, but I definitely found suspension of disbelief far easier and cared more about the characters in the remake
Marvin's probably the strongest example but they expanded his role so much that example's probably cheating
fresh bane
The only game that fails to be an improvement for me is RE3 where even the story changes don't make much sense to me
they swap sections with Carlos for no reason and Nemesis just seems inept in comparison to the original
He has so many chances to just crush Jill's skull and he just chooses not to and lets her run away, in the original he's a much bigger threat and the original actually makes Jill a bigger badass because you can choose to stand your ground and yeet Nemesis off buildings and bridges sometimes
slim thorn
Nemesis was interesting now that I've finally played it
fresh bane
RE2 has some improvements but I find it disappointing that they didn't put much effort into the zapping system and added it as an after thought later on
slim thorn
considering they couldn't do a true map-wide pursuit like remake Mr X, they got amazingly close to the illusion of it
one of my favorite moments was during a backtrack to downtown I was walking down an alley, heard a faint "stars" in the distance and immediately turned around and walked back without a word
fresh bane
That kind of magic is just entirely gone in RE3R, RE3R is more like its own unique game than a remake of RE3 like RE2 was
chilly mural
shes a member of S.T.A.R.S.
fresh bane
I remember my first run in with Nemesis in RE3 og after you step out of the bar and you walk down the alley and suddenly you just hear that the door opens
chilly mural
mossy flume
Yeeesssssssss
slim thorn
Tale probably remembers that bit where I had to run past him in the alley behind the bar and went "HE SPAWNS BIRDS NOW!?" (which I later realized was a misunderstanding because the birds fear me but not Nemesis)
chilly mural
any of the GBA ones decompiled?
slim thorn
it's too bad the actual boss fight was such a mess
river veldt
is Nemesis the one who looks like Bane kind of
slim thorn
uh... maybe?
river veldt
ok
so
when I said Nemesis instead of thinking of Nemesis instead i thought of the Dread Knight from Doom Eternal
https://preview.redd.it/0q5gnf1hz9t41.jpg?auto=webp&s=8a456dfbe166cff008375bedeff55ffdad295dfb
minor plover
wife, at Gwendolyn (Dark Souls), reads a message: "Chest ahead... huh, I can't find any treasure."
Me: "it's a boob joke, dear"
slim thorn
lol I probably would've needed that one explained too
fresh bane
''amazing chest ahead therefore try double-handing''
I've seen that one a million times
slim thorn
that I might have gotten
untold vigil
river veldt
hold on let me google who Gwendolyn is
minor plover
ah close enough. This was verbal.
fresh bane
because Gwyndolin's model has boobs
river veldt
does it?
slim thorn
...yes
fresh bane
I wouldn't say it does if it didn't 
minor plover
in the top of uhhhh Anor Londo I think it's called, yes
slim thorn
this may be a case of "if you haven't watched/played it, it just won't make sense"
gaunt marten
thorny loom
snek
river veldt
is he a Cthulhu monster
gaunt marten
You are thinking of Gwynevere
fresh bane
No
slim thorn
the above was about the other Gwyn
fresh bane
We are not thinking of Gwynevere no
river veldt
im so confused
slim thorn
sigh
fresh bane
minor plover
oh, yes, that would be the one with the "chest ahead" message
slim thorn
the joke has now been overexplained, underexplained and mis-explained all at once
gaunt marten
Well this is Gwyn
http://i.imgur.com/VC6pAEm.jpg
fresh bane
and yes this is confusing because it's like a million messages at once
river veldt
does he have boobs
slim thorn
eveyone who got the joke already knows these people and everyone else has no context they're just random names
gaunt marten
Not prominently
river veldt
i see
fresh bane
minor plover
IDK, "chest ahead" ... "it's a boob joke" should be sufficient to understand which of the Gwyn* characters
lol ok that's funny too
fresh bane
The concept art of Gwyndolin also has boobs
river veldt
why does he have boobs
fresh bane
We don't really know
gaunt marten
He's feminine
fresh bane
But Gwyndolin's lore states that because he was born with an affinity for moon magic Gwyn raised him like a daughter
But it's never really explained why he has boobs and for a long time people didn't even know anyways
slim thorn
there's too little canon lore to get into anything like lgbt labels
fresh bane
There's very little official lore stuff to say anything certain about that, and even if we did it's not exactly the best considering Gwyndolin didn't have a choice in the matter
river veldt
i thought Dark Souls was all about lore
fresh bane
he's also extremely devoted to his father so there's that
river veldt
also trans people also don't have a choice to be trans???? or am i misreading what you said
slim thorn
Dark Souls has a lot of lore overall, but not on this specific question
you're misreading many things
fresh bane
There's not actually a whole lot of concrete information on stuff
I did... not say that?
gaunt marten
For me Dark Souls is all about slashing up dragon toenails
slim thorn
this is what happens when we dig way too far into lore that you have no context for because you haven't watched/played the game
river veldt
im trying my best
slim thorn
I keep warning against and it and y'all keep doing it anyway 
fresh bane
We can't have this discussion very well because you don't know anything about the game or the lore
So it's just going to be extremely confusing anyways
river veldt
sorry i guess ??????
fresh bane
We're not blaming you
We're just explaining that it's difficult to discuss the lore and characters of a game if you have no context at all
fickle garnet
Speaking of dark souls I got the the abyss watcher boss fight in ds3
gaunt marten
The abyss watchers is fun
minor plover
the dark souls lore that I've seen so far isn't particularly good IMO
gaunt marten
It's the first fight of that type
slim thorn
it's like... imagine someone talking about She-Ra makes some variant of the "catra needs therapy" joke, and someone else asks why she needs therapy; there is no good response to that besides "watch the show", anything else would lead to weird misunderstandings no matter how well-phrased
river veldt
but everyone hypes up Dark Souls lore like it's the best thing ever
slim thorn
but everyone hypes up Dark Souls lore like it's the best thing ever
ok now that I can "answer" without context
fresh bane
Well, it's not that people hype up Dark Souls lore
they hype up how Dark Souls tells its story and does worldbuilding
river veldt
worldbuilding and story are just other words for lore
gaunt marten
Kinda but it's not the same
fresh bane
Yes but no
slim thorn
Dark Souls was famous for many things but one of them is that it told its story by mostly not telling it at all, leaving you to piece it together from what little the NPCs say and a bunch of subtext provided by the environments and enemies you see throughout the game, and leaving much of the details intentionally open to interpretation
gaunt marten
The point is that the way the story is told rather than the story itself.
river veldt
Dark Souls was famous for many things but one of them is that it told its story ...
like FNAF????
slim thorn
Hollow Knight and Blasphemous also do this, and IMO HK does it the best
fresh bane
The actual content in Souls games is extremely little but you can piece things together with the little information you get and a lot of things are just left unexplained entirely
slim thorn
not exactly, FNAF's storytelling is more like an ARG where there are clear answers but you need a thousand people glitch-hunting and decompiling to get all the clues
fresh bane
and usually people just agree on what makes the most sense and run with that
but as a result there's lots of different theories for a lot of different stuff
river veldt
yeah like FNAF
minor plover
from what I can see, Dark Souls is really great with cool environments and enemies, but the lore seems like a bad D&D campaign
fresh bane
Eh that depends, I like DS1's world and story a lot personally, Elden Ring is great too
But Souls fans tend to overhype these games a lot
river veldt
not exactly, FNAF's storytelling is more like an ARG where there are clear answe...
you saying this just makes me remember when FNAF 3 came out and everyone was finding all the easter eggs and stuff it was magical
fresh bane
A lot of people act as if these games have incredible stories and that every game should tell their story like Souls games do
river veldt
FNAF 3 was so hyped
gaunt marten
It's more like Berserk than DnD
slim thorn
as much as Fromsoft games are infuriatingly unplayable for me, I am glad that style of storytelling got popular, not just because Hollow Knight did it even better, but because it's a style that is uniquely well-suited to a video game where you have significant agency in how much and which lore you end up seeing
astral steeple
never played dark souls tbh lol
fresh bane
I didn't know any other games much less Hollow Knight did the same type of storytelling
river veldt
one of Hollow Knight's inspirations was Dark Souls iirc
slim thorn
oh, yeah, it's kind of a thing:
gaunt marten
Update discord
river veldt
update discord
slim thorn
the "Soulslike naratives" I've played so far would be Hollow Knight, Blasphemous, Ender Lilies, and arguably Tunic
50/50 odds Flitter can name another
gaunt marten
And FNAF
gaunt marten
(not FNAF
slim thorn
*can unironically name another
fresh bane
I wonder if I'd enjoy Blasphemous...
slim thorn
it's no coincidence that 3 of the 4 I just named are also Metroidvanias
so the odds you'd like them are pretty decent
gaunt marten
You didn't play Salt and Sanctuary
river veldt
is Sekiro good
gaunt marten
Yeah
river veldt
you have a grappling hook in that one
slim thorn
I was excluding actual Fromsoft games
fresh bane
Sekiro probably tells its story in a more standard way than the other Souls games
river veldt
i think the only game whose story i adored is BOTW, Undertale, and Deltarune
gaunt marten
Fallen Order
slim thorn
that's not a Soulslike narrative
river veldt
Binding of Isaac
slim thorn
what are you listing now lol
green fulcrum
Okay, I seriously cannot get enough of Kingmaker. There is so much to do, and I'm still on the first chapter of the game! 17 hours of content already and there's sooooooo much more to go! :D
gaunt marten
Soulslike narrative games
thorny loom
oh hey
river veldt
i thought we were listing video games
thorny loom
MW 2019 got quiet released on steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2000950/Call_of_Duty_Modern_Warfare/
gaunt marten
No just ones Ixrec may have played that had Soulslike Narrative
river veldt
what does Modern Warfare have that the other 20 trillion Call of Duty's don't
slim thorn
if that wasn't sarcasm then no Fez is not that either
astral steeple
last good cod games were mw2 (the original), blops 2, and mw3 ngl
slim thorn
was Salt and Sanctuary any good?
gaunt marten
Last good Call of Duty Game was CoD4
slim thorn
I know I need to try Death's Gambit
gaunt marten
was Salt and Sanctuary any good?
It was great.
river veldt
are any of the Call of Duty's good
mossy flume
I know I need to try Death's Gambit
That somehow reminds me, have you tried Death's Door?
gaunt marten
Salt and Sanctuary 2 is being released soon. If I had to choose between the two Death's Gambit is more fun
river veldt
this is a genuine question
gaunt marten
are any of the Call of Duty's good
4
mossy flume
are any of the Call of Duty's good
Subjective question
slim thorn
the original Call of Duty was one of the best FPS games of its time, though I dunno how well it aged
river veldt
are any CoD's objectively good?
mossy flume
People often praise the original MW2
gaunt marten
Are they called The Call of Duties, or the Calls of Duty?
slim thorn
iiuc Modern Warfare is the one that defined the rest of the franchise, codifed what everyone means today when they say CoD
minor plover
codified
slim thorn
but I only ever played the original CoD and its expansion pack, none of the others seemed that interesting
gaunt marten
iiuc Modern Warfare is the one that defined the rest of the franchise, codifed w...
That's why I like 4 best
slim thorn
(remember expansion packs?)
river veldt
could Doomguy beat Call of Duty Man #34 in a fight
slim thorn
That's why I like 4 best
yes I got that joke, that's what the was for
gaunt marten
Doomguy can't even beat his eggs to bake a cake
fickle garnet
are any of the Call of Duty's good
All of the mw games are good imo
river veldt
Doomguy can't even beat his eggs to bake a cake
not true
mossy flume
Having looked into the new MW2 game on Steam I notice the new banner looks... silly.
Season 2: Modern US soldier man in US soldier armor wielding... a sword
fickle garnet
could Doomguy beat Call of Duty Man #34 in a fight
Yes
river veldt
SWORD
fickle garnet
I'm a dirty cod fan
mossy flume
It's a katana, even
fickle garnet
Ban me
mossy flume
Just why
slim thorn
coincidentally, I'm watching "Modern Warfare Critical Let's Play" right now
slim thorn
just quoting the video title
gaunt marten
Playing it like a critic
slim thorn
afaik there's no standard term for "I've played this before and want to talk about all the stuff I think is interesting about it while replaying it" or whatever
gaunt marten
Review
river veldt
retrospective
gaunt marten
Be kind, replay
mossy flume
(remember expansion packs?)
I miss expansion packs. Back when getting more content for your game actually meant something.
gaunt marten
They're still a thing if you play Indie games
sour hill
Or Fromsoft games
astral steeple
lol
thorny loom
yeah we wont see a crash but the live service model is a dying breed
dense crypt
i dont think hi-fi is a live service game
fresh bane
Why the fuck is Hi Fi in the thumbnail
astral steeple
games as a live service are good when theyre done properly lol
gaunt marten
Why the fuck is Hi Fi in the thumbnail <:rdsnrk:587780329335422977>
So you can go "What the fuck the video is wrong. I'm gonna watch it so I can get angry"
astral steeple
which only a few couple games have managed to actually achieve
fall guys almost does it right but the content for fall guys is super dry right now
thorny loom
games as a live service are good when theyre done properly lol
the problem is everyone wants to be like the successful few but not everyone can
as video talks about similar thing happened to WOW clones
dense crypt
So you can go "What the fuck the video is wrong. I'm gonna watch it so I can get...
good thing i can just sit here, be mad at it, and NOT click the link and assume the video creator is an idiot 
random steppe
I assume it's used as an example of a game that isn't a live service and is thriving
mossy flume
Watch it and find out
fresh bane
So you can go "What the fuck the video is wrong. I'm gonna watch it so I can get...
It's a good thing I don't watch videos I know I won't like
mossy flume
I assume it's used as an example of a game that isn't a live service and is thri...
Correct
gaunt marten
I wish enough people did that.
mossy flume
Hi-Fi Rush is used as a counterexample
gaunt marten
If nobody fell for clickbait it would stop being profitable.
light gate
Live service can work if you make players basically pay monthly or rely on scummy micro-transaction evilness.
random steppe
To be fair, that thumbnail is hardly clickbait
light gate
I’d take monthly any day.
astral steeple
Live service can work if you make players basically pay monthly or rely on scumm...
ehhhhh
fresh bane
It's not clickbait but it's still stupid to include Hi Fi in there
random steppe
It's just the subject of the video and some art of the games that get mentioned in it
mossy flume
It’s a key part of the discussion
It’s a 7 minute video
I’m sure you’ll agree with it
You know I’m violently against clickbait, so…
astral steeple
microtransactions arent inherently evil/bad
especially if the game itself is free
like sure its super scummy if its a full priced game
but for a free game they have to keep it running somehow and pay the employees/etc
Which then lets them push out constant new gameplay content
light gate
It really depends, but most of it has an addiction or FOMO aspect to it.
fresh bane
If the video doesn't talk about Hi Fi as a live service game then it's stupid to include it like that in the thumbnail because it gives off that feeling that Hi Fi is a live service game just like Suicide Squad when it's not
gaunt marten
Microtransactions aren't inherently bad, but I can't think of a single example where a lump sum would have been worse than a microtransaction model from the viewpoint of the players.
light gate
I don’t mind DLC, hell I think its a good idea. But making DLC as dense as helium in content is as good as taking instant antidepressants for the first day.
mossy flume
Judging a book by its cover so hard here
light gate
Sorry, I’m pretty biased I’ll admit.
I just have not had a DLC that’s made me say “wow, this is so damn good”
mossy flume
Mass Effect 3 Citadel
gaunt marten
The Dark Souls 3 DLC was great
mossy flume
But yeah, I get that. So few examples which I would actually say it was damn good
random steppe
If the video doesn't talk about Hi Fi as a live service game then it's stupid to...
I thinik it's fine to include the games you talk about in a video in the thumbnail
It'd be clickbait if it didn't talk about Hi Fi rush.
fresh bane
Including a game in the thumbnail of a video talking about live service games gives off the feeling that you're saying that game is a live service game
I never said it was clickbait
I said the thumbnail is stupid for including Hi Fi rush in there
random steppe
I disagree
gaunt marten
Blood and Wine was also great https://store.steampowered.com/app/378648/
river veldt
if only i liked Witcher 3 😔
astral steeple
never played any of the witcher games tbh
light gate
if only i liked Witcher 3 😔
💀 you and me
random steppe
I say it, but the Spiderman PS4 DLC were kinda bad IMO, but at least they were substasntial
astral steeple
i only know who geralt is and thats it
and thats because him being in fort lol
dont know a single thing about anything else in the game or any of the lore of it
light gate
I couldn’t get into the game loop, it felt clunky and got softlocked on a cave dungeon.
And because I tend to manage my save files very little, I had to restart from zero.
fickle garnet
I still need to play the witcher
random steppe
On release the game was a bit rough around the edges, definitely got better with patches, adding significant QOL features and smoothing some of the rougher parts
light gate
I have the complete edition too but I no longer have a PC so
gaunt marten
Me many years ago: https://i.imgur.com/QD4kaDA.png
Turns out that DLC later got its own game
Another great expansion was Repentance
gaunt marten
It added about as much content as the game already had
river veldt
yes
gaunt marten
AND fixed almost every problem with the game
random steppe
I respect BOI but I don't have the reflexes and motor skills to actually be good at it
gaunt marten
It's actually mostly strategy
random steppe
Yeah but like, I get hit by bullets
gaunt marten
That's fine.
gaunt marten
It takes like six hundred hours for you to get consistent at the game
dense crypt
the game is about getting carried by your items
random steppe
Yeah...I don't feel like it's enjoyable for me to get good at BOI is the problem
gaunt marten
That's fine
random steppe
If I invested a lot of time I could get decent at it for sure
gaunt marten
I wouldn't want to spend six hundred hours on a game I don't even enjoy that much
proud warren
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1426300/The_Binding_of_Isaac_Repentance/
Also was cool that McMillen hired the people who worked on the mega-mod it was based on (anti-birth) to help make the fucking monster-sized dlc
random steppe
I respect it because it spawned the resurgence of a massive genre and of course, does a lot of things right
random steppe
If I want to spend a long time in a roguelike, I feel like my poison is Hades
proud warren
understandable
proud warren
Also, Isaac has mods, which can basically make entire other games inside the og game
gaunt marten
Hades is more of a roguelite
gaunt marten
Also, Isaac has mods, which can basically make entire other games inside the og ...
But why not just play other games in a good engine instead?
dense crypt
because there's a certain skill that's needed to make a game within a game.
and it's AMAZING when it works.
gaunt marten
But just because it's impressive doesn't mean it's fun
river veldt
yeah but Isaac has the mod that replaces the Beast with that guys dad so i think it wins best game ever
proud warren
Well I'm not saying that's primarily what mods were made for in that game
dense crypt
But just because it's impressive doesn't mean it's fun
doesn't need to be, it's a show of programming skill most of all, but im sure there's good ones out there.
proud warren
It's just that the fact the capability is there gives it bonus points for me
dense crypt
like that zombie survival game built onto skyrim by someone, somewhere.
river veldt
THE CAR MOD IS SO GOOD
proud warren
Also, the Isaac modding community is fucking massive
Only dwarfed by like, Bethesda properties like skyrim (and other games I'm likely forgetting existing)
river veldt
Minecraft has a pretty massive modding community
proud warren
That's true
river veldt
OMG the Nintendo eShop is Mario themed for Mario day
gaunt marten
Happy birthday, CaptainMario
river veldt
it isn't my birthday
gaunt marten
Oh I just assumed we had the same birthday since it's Mario day
river veldt
is it your birthday tomorrow?
gaunt marten
Thanks!
random steppe
Happy birthday
gaunt marten
For my birthday I'm going to sleep all day
quiet swift
Why the fuck is Hi Fi in the thumbnail <:rdsnrk:587780329335422977>
Very late to the party, but that's an easy answer. "Here's an example of a much lower budget, non live service game that is doing fantastically well, to the point of some people saying it's their personal top contender for game of the year even this early. TL;DR Hi Fi Rush is an example of the type of game development we need more of"
fresh bane
I've already gathered that the video probably doesn't speak of Hi Fi as an example of a live service game I was just commenting how the thumbnail including Hi Fi rush next to (I assume) other live service games makes it seem like the video is putting Hi Fi in the same bag as live service games
quiet swift
It's more akin to "these are all the topics we'll cover" rather than that, yes
gaunt marten
Maybe it should just indicate that it's different rather than putting all three together
quiet swift
I think it's more a consequence of thumbnails being used as bait more often than not that that was your first thought. Not exactly a wrong reaction to have in general these days but definitely here
fresh bane
Even simply separating all three images would already make it a lot more clear that the video will be discussing these games as separate examples
quiet swift
But then where would the text go :X
fresh bane
It could go in a lot of different places
Or the thumbnail could have a completely different composition entirely
The only spot where the text couldn't go is where the timestamp would go in the thumbnail which is the lower right
quiet swift
At this point we're just arguing about specifics here. My guess is that they have a usual format for their thumbnails and wanted to stick to it and ended up with the chars like that
river veldt
this is silly
random steppe
I think that the thumbnail was pretty alright, this is a very weird argument all in all.
gaunt marten
I should have invested in more HP
I did the whole fight without taking a hit
Second try worked fine
chilly mural
https://youtu.be/q_9Jh74nEaI
damn, haven't watched an escapist video in about 7 years, good to see Yahtzee still go it
mossy flume
Finally
The VA they chose emulates Andy Serkis so well
I had to double-check to see if it was actually him
gaunt marten
It's odd to me how voice doubles aren't more of a thing
mossy flume
Same
dapper cedar
Sweep is very bad at Dead Cells oh no
quiet swift
quiet swift
thorny loom
Fish
dense crypt
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/dark-and-darker-developer-ironmace-raided-by-korea...
Well alright then.
gaunt marten
Looks like someone needs money
He doesn't usually make this sort of video
To me it looks like this video of his is tailored for discoverability rather than retaining current viewers
gaunt marten
Today I learned that the itch.io launcher starts downloads even before you log in, but does not download anything until you do
Probably because it can't download an update to something without making sure you own it
wind stump
Fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK FUCK
rugged flax
Anyone want a bunch of Train Sim stuff for cheap?
https://www.humblebundle.com/games/train-simulator-classic-on-fast-track
gaunt marten
Fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK FUCK
I can't tell what's going on
wind stump
Boulder trying to kill me Indiana Jones style
wind stump
stupid PANTS WOLF
thorny loom
Guess this is what happens when you focus on live service games and give the shaft to single player ones
mossy flume
Yep.
gaunt marten
I'm not paying two hundred riyals for their middling quality games when I could get same quality ones for just ten
mossy flume
Publishers need to stop trying to convince us that multiplayer live-service games are the only games that we want.
Because it's not.
chilly mural
the escapist video posted 16 hours ago
mossy flume
High quality single player games are the experiences that we actually want.
rose rose
I’m not sure that live service games are responsible for the commercial failure of a game that has no live service elements and had 150 people working on it for four or five years.
gaunt marten
The only reason I don't buy Square Enix games is that they don't offer them cheaply enough
quiet swift
Huh. Pretty steep discount on epic...
teal sonnet
my brother in christ, this game came out for PS3
what the fuck happened
Why the fuck 32gb
What they done
light gate
Its the PS5 version.
teal sonnet
my brother in christ, the PS5 have 16gb of ram
visual hill
it's most likely not minimum spec, pretty sure you'll be able to run it with 16 GB
light gate
Also this ^
visual hill
Steam Deck and laptops hard-capped to 16 GB are a thing, you can't kill your sales by not supporting those
I have 64 GB but I don't get the panicking over those announced specs, this is done to err on the safe side and push people to upgrading in the future more than right now
(because yes, 16 GB will eventually be not enough… but not before a few years)
light gate
I do think we need to stop at a certain point though.
32GB of ram is technically not cheap in any way.
visual hill
16 GB has been a viable amount of memory for an extremely long time, you could build a PC with 16 GB of RAM in 2008-2009 and it's still a viable amount in 2023
teal sonnet
16gb is the default now days
light gate
I think 16GB will stop being the default in 2032
visual hill
ask people if using an amount of RAM suitable for 1990 was suitable in 2004 😛
teal sonnet
8gb for sure is not the default anymore
visual hill
32GB of ram is technically not cheap in any way.
with DDR4, I find it quite cheap nowadays
teal sonnet
even phones have this amount of ram now
light gate
The biggest problem is that its not cheap for mobile laptops or anything that isn't a tower.
visual hill
yeah, too many laptops don't even offer 32 GB options (outside of MacBooks)
light gate
There are still laptops being sold with 4GBs of ram, and 8GBs is considered PREMIUM.
visual hill
I'm baffled at how many of those fancy OLED laptops (easily €1,500+) only have 16 GB options available
teal sonnet
I have 32gb, and I work with animation, so far didn’t feel the need for 64gb
visual hill
meanwhile, Apple will sell you laptops with 128 GB of RAM as long as you're ready to pay up
teal sonnet
if I upgrade I will say fuck it and go up to 128gb
visual hill
(it's super expensive, but at least it exists…)
light gate
meanwhile, Apple will sell you laptops with 128 GB of RAM as long as you're read...
1.5tb of ram, anyone?
teal sonnet
I did get ddr5 tho
light gate
But yeah, DDR4 is getting cheaper, but we are already jumping to DDR5 (and I think six as well?)
visual hill
24/48 GB sticks were recently announced, so you can now have 96 GB of RAM in a consumer PC without a performance penalty, or 192 GB with the usual 2DPC speed limitations
teal sonnet
yep
wise frigate
I can't tell whether or not to be amazed or disgusted
visual hill
I built my PC just before that happened, so I "only" have 64 GB
I doubt I've ever used more than 30 GB right now anyway… 
light gate
I had a laptop that you could upgrade the ram, got it up to 2GBs.
It even had that stinky Windows Vista capable sticker.
Good times.
thorny loom
teal sonnet
So far I can put my pc to render shit and still use it normally
so I am fine with 32gb
fresh bane
Yeah I know
there's a hidden difficulty unique to the RE4 demo
it won't be in the final game
thorny loom
Oh
light gate
Wait why?
light gate
it won't be in the final game
DLC?
thorny loom
Or a free update
fresh bane
The difficulty is literally insane
thorny loom
Gonon
fresh bane
It's just unique for this demo
light gate
The difficulty is literally insane
Nightmare difficulty exists on Doom for a reason.
It is brutal.
thorny loom
Theres also a reason theres an achievement for beating only one level with it
fresh bane
But this isn't Doom
thorny loom
And not the whole game lol
gaunt marten
Dark Souls 2 is fun and only a little bullshit
thorny loom
I did a mage run
fresh bane
The only way people managed to complete the difficulty is by literally ignoring all enemies and surviving and only using grenades on big enemy groups
a full playthrough of the game in this difficulty would be beyond insanity
gaunt marten
Most of the difficulty can be obviated by picking off grouped up enemies with a ranged attack so mages are perfect
thorny loom
Thats probably why lol
fresh bane
I disagree DS2 is big bullshit
The only fun I've managed to had on DS2 is by doing coop with a friend
thorny loom
Early game was pretty difficult
Once you got your main damage spells it got a lot easier
fresh bane
co-op DS2 is fun, solo DS2 is just frustrating and stressful and not fun at all
gaunt marten
I like it
fresh bane
I gave DS2 a lot of tries, never liked it and I never had fun with it unfortunately
light gate
The only way people managed to complete the difficulty is by literally ignoring ...
This is something you tend to do in Doom as well. Like you're not even supposed to kill all the monsters, you need to have a game plan. I guess the reason why I even compare RE4 to Doom is just because of the shooting mechanics.
thorny loom
Im probably gonna get the first game remastered next sale
fresh bane
But this isn't Doom 
light gate
Yeah.
mossy flume
Huh. Pretty steep discount on epic...
Excellent
thorny loom
And im sure if capcom doesn’t add it there will be a mod to add the difficulty
dire gate
https://i.imgur.com/sdQZfzi.png
That is a fun game
gaunt marten
Yeah
dire gate
I own it on Steam
wind stump
these dudes are on fire because of the Goddamned Bats in this cave system that shit fireballs...
what is this game
quiet swift
gaunt marten
Bat guano is known to be highly flammable
green fulcrum
@gaunt marten Just completed Chapter 1 of Kingmaker. I just defeated the Stag Lord, and now I'm about to start the kingdom management part of it all.
Let's hope I don't f*ck this up.
Overall, still highly enjoying the game
Despite some stumbles here and there in the beginning
gaunt marten
There's kingdom management? That sounds cool
green fulcrum
Yeah, once you defeat the Stag Lord, the bandit leader who has taken over the Stolen Lands, the second main gameplay element opens up: kingdom management. Politics, diplomacy, advisors, economy, keeping the treasury full, adhering to traditions and agreements, alliances, military, public support, etc.
They do give you the option to set the kingdom management feature to "auto", which does all the governing for you and ensures your barony will never fall to pieces, but you'll miss out on some achievements and may miss out on some events too (but story related quests will continue as normal).
gaunt marten
"The Stolen Lands" is laying it on a little thick
green fulcrum
Well, it was stolen by the bandits.
gaunt marten
Yeah but they could have called it its original name
mossy flume
I was interested in that until I realized it would make me incredibly nauseous
sonic dune
They have an option for people who get nauseous
Idk what it does but I saw something in there about out of body
I never clicked it or really read through it
quiet swift
Yeah, once you defeat the Stag Lord, the bandit leader who has taken over the St...
I stumbled before even getting to the stag lord, I think
green fulcrum
...You know what, I think I'm gonna set the kingdom management to auto. There is sooooooooooooooooo much stuff to keep track of, it's insane. Literally five minutes into it you're thrust into about 10 problems at once.
Only problem is, once you set it to auto, you can't set it back.
mossy flume
Idk what it does but I saw something in there about out of body
The only thing I’ve found that works for me is teleport locomotion
gaunt marten
I love kingdom management so I'm looking forward to that part of the game
green fulcrum
It's really detailed and I think if you like that kind of stuff it'll be right up your alley. It's just a lot more than I thought it would be, and a lot of the super serious problems have a very tight time limit, so if you don't deal with them soon enough, they'll obliterate your kingdom before you know it.
And frankly, I don't want to have to deal with all the diplomacy, I just want to get to fighting and questing.
visual hill
I feel called out.
gaunt marten
I don't like time limits such as these
green fulcrum
You can set the difficulty of running the kingdom to easy or even "effortless" to make it more manageable, but you still have to juggle the responsibilities of being a ruler and being an actual adventurer.
But if you do it auto, all or most of the main events (such as new merchants, new buildings, etc.) will be handled automatically.
quiet swift
It's really detailed and I think if you like that kind of stuff it'll be right u...
I think I mentioned briefly seeing a video where it mentioned the game is good if you do a lot of things exactly right and/or take on a lot of stuff to enjoy the rest of the game. I guess they were talking about this part
ah. "It's exacting in what it expects of you"
dense crypt
never touched a mass effect game in my life
what kind of games even are they
aside from a third person cover shooter
slim thorn
sci-fi RPGs with lots of narrative choices and yes third person shooting
dense crypt
okay so its more of an RPG series, emphasis on role playing
mossy flume
Mass Effect 1-3 are some of my favorite games of all time, personally.
Also emphasis on a cinematic presentation and experience.
They're almost just interactive movies.
If you're considering playing them I would highly suggest the Legendary Edition, which includes the whole trilogy with all the DLC and patches.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1328670/Mass_Effect_Legendary_Edition/
I would also suggest playing them with a gamepad if you can. They're kinda specifically built for controllers.
(Legendary Edition also remastered the games)
dense crypt
maybe at a later time, but thats a big maybe. i like video games with great stories, but i'd rather they not be like, interactive movies.
mossy flume
There's still tons of gameplay, mind
It's not like they're quick time event based games.
rose rose
it's definitely proportionally more running around shooting things than anything else 
mossy flume
Yep
Lots of shootings things
Loooots of shooting, haha
It's a phenomenal story. Doing a quick run of it when you know what you're doing will take you about 120 hours to finish the trilogy.
dense crypt
damn
visual hill
I got ME: Legendary for free from Prime Gaming a while back but didn't have time to touch it yet
(I did play an hour or two of ME2 when I had it on PS3 way back… my brother finished it there)
mossy flume
Amusingly, my home is playing Mass Effect music atm.
Just from a random shuffle.
I recently replayed the whole trilogy yet again. Still excellent fun.
rose rose
Except that bit where opening the abilities menu in the final boss fight of Mass Effect 2(?) reliably crashes the game.
mossy flume
Mass Effect 1
But yeah, there is that bug.
Doubt they fixed it
Ideally, play as soldier and you'll be less likely to cause the crash
fresh bane
More than one controller will be utterly destroyed when Budokai Tenkaichi drops
also for more than a week I haven't been able to find a single Titanfall 2 match
I waited for actual 30 min one day and nothing
quiet swift
maybe at a later time, but thats a big maybe. i like video games with great stor...
That more recent series "dark pictures anthology", those are interactive movies. Mass Effect is more a bunch of gameplay with numerous interactions with NPCs/story characters where you can choose certain answers or lines which actually affect the game and how your companions react to you
young creek
I wonder if it will be able to compete with Attack on Titan G-Fuel
wind stump
g-fuel is kinda shit though
hushed onyx
Mass Effect Andromeda wasn't great. <:rdwut:399725074204065802>
I thought it was fine. Not brilliant, not terrible, decent enough.
I’ve only played a little, 6-7 hours though.
I was playing it, then started missing ME1 so I started playing that, then wanted to play Stellaris so…
(Story of my life, that hopping around)
fathom forum
playing higurashi after having completed umineko (same creators)
fathom forum
I’ve watched most of the first season of the higurashi anime but when it comes to the when they cry series the visual novels and anime are two entirely different experiences
And I’ve modded my higurashi version to be fully voiced like the console version
river veldt
fresh bane
https://youtu.be/LqdL8eFFcVs
oh wow square went full insane huh
like actually full insane
bleak lintel
NFTs are totally where the cash is and the market did not crash.
random steppe
I am actually not the least worried about this move
I was worried about the games as a service direction
Because that can actually be insanely profitable
This is just a very obvious flop
bleak lintel
That kind of goes hand and hand with NFT.
fresh bane
I can't wait to play Kingdom Hearts 3.5/3 Birth by Blockchain
young creek
Whats the story behind this Forspoken game? All I know is that in Dunkeys video he showed one second of it and then said "alright thats enough of that game"
fresh bane
There's not really much of a story it's just a very mid/bad game and people didn't like it at all
That's literally all there is to it
slim thorn
that's all I know about it, I've never looked into it more
bleak lintel
It's a decent game but priced at 70$ and has the common problems plaguing the recent PC ports.
random steppe
I mean individual NFT project can make money when the market is in the right situation in which suckers are getting brought in the ponzi scheme with the assumptions they will make money, but so far every videogame company that tried to do anything more than making a few collectables was burned hard by it
fresh bane
It probably got so much attention because a lot of big content creators covered it, as they always do
but other than that it was just a bad game and it flopped because of course it did
random steppe
The consensus seems to be that it's a mid game, with relatively meh writing
slim thorn
yeah, it was very transparent and clueless trend chasing; anyone familiar with NFTs could tell that even from a cynical business perspective, the pyramid scheme was unlikely to stay around long enough for anything like a multi-year video game project to capitalize on it
fresh bane
At this point I feel like Square wants to go out of business
slim thorn
IIRC Forspoken also got a AAA marketing budget, which is why so many content creators "needed" to cover it
at least it's why people like me who couldn't care less about the premise were aware of it long before it released
fresh bane
Ah yeah they hyped up the visuals a lot and how it's a super next gen AAA game
bleak lintel
Yoshida is pretty much holding that company afloat.
bleak lintel
You take FF14 out of SE it's probably going bankrupt.
random steppe
It's also one of those situation in which, it's a bad game, but it's trending so people feel the need to blow it up and cover every minor thing related to it
fresh bane
People do that anyways as it is
slim thorn
sure, but they can only do it for a handful of mid games
bleak lintel
To be fair they did market and priced it as a major AAA game.
random steppe
Every bellular video for 6 months had to talk about Fallout 76 after it came out
bleak lintel
I have no problem being super critical of games sold at 70$
slim thorn
most of the unremarkable or bad stuff that gets released every week flies under everyone's radar because there's just too much of it
random steppe
It's how youtubers make their money
slim thorn
(and probably also some of the good)
fresh bane
It really didn't help that Hi-Fi Rush shadow-released like, immediately after Forspoken and it was the bomb, now everytime Forspoken is mentioned you pretty much have to mention how Hi-Fi Rush is a million times a better game and for more than half the price at 30 dollars
and Forspoken is 60 or 70
random steppe
Yeah I'm just saying that looking at the coverage, you'd assume it's the worst game released in the last 10 years
While it's just mediocre
gaunt marten
It's ridiculous how Square Enix prices games compared to the market and the quality of the games
bleak lintel
SE makes a lot of good AA games but they don't really market them.
And they end up bombing because of it.
fresh bane
I mean I don't get the feeling people say it's the worst thing in the world people are just saying it's bad and they don't like it
this type of response has happened with other games before
random steppe
Yeah, gaming coverage is very momentum based
fresh bane
It's just the hot new topic is all
slim thorn
the internet is very bad about making one of those things look like the other
random steppe
if something is going bad, people want to read negative stories about it, it's a positive feedback loop
fresh bane
Once a new bad game releases (Probably Suicide Squad) people will be reacting the same way and talking about it
visual hill
Forspoken is also the game that introduced DirectStorage (which is supposed to bring PC loading times on par with current-gen consoles), but it ended up being "meh"
it does help improve loading times but not that much, and it also lowers general game performance a little when enabled
hopefully we'll see better implementations in the future, I'm confident it can be done
slim thorn
huh, I'd never heard of that
gaunt marten
Directstorage is not as much of a bottleneck on PC
slim thorn
you know the real irony of all this is that, right now, instead of playing a video game, I'm watching an anime about people playing a fictional video game
gaunt marten
random steppe
I have never felt much hindered with loading times in games on PC, as long as I install demanding games on my SSD
slim thorn
same, and I'm far more concerned about time to get back to whatever killed me
random steppe
I mean, every new tech I'm not against it, but it was definitely a bigger problem on console for a while
fresh bane
Yeah this really doesn't seem like an issue for pc, optimization for the game matters more I feel
Elden Ring ran like garbage even on high end pcs at release I remember
slim thorn
people were telling me SSDs are must-haves for gaming for years but in my case they just became a standard thing before I felt the need to upgrade
gaunt marten
Directstorage is specifically for loading rather than general framerate improvements
random steppe
ER isn't definitely the worst offender but it is one of them
gaunt marten
Not any kind of loading either
fresh bane
What does an SSD even do? I kinda get the gist of it but I don't know for sure, my brother recommended me get one so I got one when I bought my new cpu and memory
gaunt marten
In Directstorage, you store stuff on the GPU directly instead of putting it on RAM first
gaunt marten
What does an SSD even do? I kinda get the gist of it but I don't know for sure, ...
It's where your files live!
It's really fast. Faster than an HDD, so your files will load a lot faster
random steppe
It's just a much faster drive, also it fails much less because it doesn't have any mechanical parts
fresh bane
oh neat
random steppe
It's basically the same technology that you would use for a USB storage stick, but applied for a whole drive
Extrmely simplifiying it
gaunt marten
Switching from an HDD to an SSD is by far the biggest improvement you can make to a computer in regards to value for money
slim thorn
turns out moving mechanical parts are Just Bad(tm) when tech gets good enough
gaunt marten
Waiting for solid state organs
fresh bane
I mean are SSD's big enough to be a permanent replacement though?
gaunt marten
Yes
fresh bane
I got a pretty cheap one that's like 200 something GB so I don't know if there are bigger ones
gaunt marten
I will never buy a traditional HDD again except for my NAS.
slim thorn
I look forward to the future when the kids speak of "those old mainframes with vaccuum tubes and CD-ROM drives" as if those were all the same era
fresh bane
random steppe
They cost more per GB, so if finance is a problem getting a smaller SSD for games and your OS and a larger HDD can be an option
fresh bane
I can't believe I lived to see the fall of floppy disks and then regular discs/CDs
gaunt marten
slim thorn
"of course Apollo 11 had a Blu-Ray player, even the chip in my finger can read some fossilized blu-ray"
fresh bane
When I started noticing that computers didn't have the disc slot anymore I almost lost my mind
random steppe
That said the SSD cost came down so much in the past few years
slim thorn
the weirdest part for me was when I bought a laptop with no disc drive and didn't notice for months
gaunt marten
If you're really short on money, I recommend an SSD for your operating system and videogames, and an HDD for almost everything else
slim thorn
it's just that useless now (for me)
fresh bane
They cost more per GB, so if finance is a problem getting a smaller SSD for game...
Yeah that's what I was planning to do, however I just looked up on the same store I bought it from and there's a 950 GB SSD for like 80 bucks which seems good to me 
random steppe
It's like the one piece of tech that just plummeted in price so damn fast
fresh bane
But for now I'm keeping the one I bought for gaming and other stuff like my painting software
250 gigs should be enough I think
random steppe
One thing for sure, I would never go back to having my OS on a HDD unless I was absolutely foreced to now
it's a game changer
random steppe
I'd rather give up my 2nd monitor than my SSD
fresh bane
I guess I'll see once I put the SSD on my computer and feel if there's any significant change
slim thorn
to be fair this is more about OS startup times being kinda bad
slim thorn
part of the reality of tech is all the software adapts to "current" hardware, often in ways that penalize older hardware; you just can't support everything equally
gaunt marten
When I switched to an SSD my computer went from taking two minutes to start up to taking twenty seconds
slim thorn
my two laptops are also minutes vs seconds on startup time
gaunt marten
That's 83% less time
slim thorn
I haven't timed it but it's night and day even without measuring
gaunt marten
Just check through eventviewer
fresh bane
well I guess next time I go shopping for a new graphics card once I get the money I'll also look to invest on a bigger SSD then
gaunt marten
Here are instructions on how to use eventviewer for boot and shutdown times
#manechat message
It gives detailed breakdowns including kernel time and the time it takes for your startup apps to boot and time until you see the desktop
For my most recent boot, February 25th, it took 17.8 seconds for me to get to desktop
quiet swift
Aa tad late to the convo but, uh, yeah. Square's plans are... dubious. https://game-news24.com/2023/03/10/square-enix-plans-on-opening-the-blockchain-games-in-2023-2024-and-beyond/
white phoenix
square what is you doing
slim thorn
there's chasing a trend, and then there's having once briefly glimpsed a trend many years ago but somehow missing the many deaths of said trend and still pretending it's out there to be chased
young creek
my only guess is its still relevant somehow in japan or china
fresh bane
Somehow I doubt it
quiet swift
Old farts and stockholders convinced of this being the future. In some other industries maybe, for gaming... very doubtful
green fulcrum
Old farts and stockholders convinced of this being the future. In some other ind...
It stopped being the future the minute people said it was going to be the future.
NFTs and the blockchain are dead, Jim.
The only people still insisting that it's gonna be YUGE are Elon fanboys.
bleak lintel
Ubisoft already did all this and dropped it because it didn't work.
fresh bane
You know it's bad when even Ubisoft and EA tried this and failed but you keep insisting that it will work if you try hard enough
They seem to be under the impression that if they just push hard enough we might crack and start accepting this or liking it
quiet swift
I think EA didn't go huge into it. I think they wanted to ride the wave but saw the writing on the wall. Ubisoft was the massive loser though, I think. And... one other? https://techthelead.com/ubisoft-says-their-failed-nft-project-is-because-gamers-dont-get-it/
ANyway they were trying to get this market going and I think it made 700 dollars total or something of the sort, reselling some cosmetic thing. Trying to advertise that it's usable in other games even if you bought it from one, but that wasn't really teh case (or at least it wasn't implemented yet) and was just sales within that same game's market
fresh bane
I think gamers don’t get what a digital secondary market can bring to them. For now, because of the current situation and context of NFTs, gamers really believe it’s first destroying the planet, and second just a tool for speculation. But what we [at Ubisoft] are seeing first is the end game. The end game is about giving players the opportunity to resell their items once they’re finished with them or they’re finished playing the game itself.
So, it’s really, for them. It’s really beneficial. But they don’t get it for now.
god, fuck off
quiet swift
TL;DR: [insert 'and now, we throw our heads back and laugh' meme here]
fresh bane
These people really acting like TF2 and CSGO haven't been doing this shit for DECADES
the rare hat and item market in TF2 is insane
Are you actually kidding me?
quiet swift
They desperately want people to get into the Play to Earn system so they can get a cut
fresh bane
You really think I need some shitty nft to sell my in game items once 'I'm done with them'?
river veldt
i want the Mario hat for Engineer in TF2
fresh bane
This isn't 'for them', jesus christ they think we're morons or something?
slim thorn
this is why no one engages with press release wording any more
even when one does take a close look at it, it's so transparently vapid or manufactured that there's nothing of substance to engage with
light gate
MKTV got a good showcase wrap up reel, even the music is synchronized to the beat.
Simply awesome.
quiet swift
Speaking of her, I came across this. https://twitter.com/FtK_Artist/status/1634497964482912257
fresh bane
''Isabowser''
Issa Bowser?
light gate
Only makes her stronger
dense crypt
Turtle dog
visual hill
MKTV got a good showcase wrap up reel, even the music is synchronized to the bea...
ah yes, playing Mario Kart as the competitor to Doom Eternal
white phoenix
🤮
fresh bane
who let him cook 🗣️ ‼️
green fulcrum
RPG/dungeon-crawler, but for furries. :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ_Hf9F6uOk
green fulcrum
I know, I was kidding.
I love how the soundtrack reminds me of classic Shining Force.
gaunt marten
I never played that one
green fulcrum
It's a very old Sega Genesis tactical turned-based RPG, a liiiiittle bit like classic Fire Emblem in that you have a set amount of troops that you must deploy in battle against a large amount of enemies on an enclosed battlefield. In-between battles are exploration moments where you can explore cities and the world map, buy stuff, talk to people, etc.
The story is fairly linear, and the first two aren't very complex in either their gameplay or their plot (but they've got lovely sprite work and the gameplay is addicting). The first two are also more light-hearted than the third.
The third one, however, is Shining Force's masterpiece. It had three games to it, but only the first was released in America (there are fan translations for the other two online). Shining Force 3 is where the story gets very complex and the gameplay starts getting a lot more in-depth and detailed, and it was widely regarded as one of Sega's finest games of its time. Unfortunately it was released on the doomed Sega Saturn, so it never got the recognition it so rightly deserved.
gaunt marten
Yeah, I did hear about Shining Force but I never got to play it. I'm definitely interested in the genre as well as the specific game.
slim thorn
watching LPs of games that came out in my lifetime but I never played myself is super weird
I remember my sibling playing at least one or two of the Modern Warfare campaigns (and then a lot of the multiplayer)
but somehow it never struck me before just how hilarious it is that when Russia invades the US, you spend an entire level defending fast food restaurants from them
"tangos converging on Burger Town!"
river veldt
this is really cool
he's playing normal Minecraft but with a datapack that replicates Herobrine sightings and haunts your game
slim thorn
how does a "datapack" do that 
river veldt
idk!!! i'll have to find out
i just started the video haha
maybe he misspoke and meant mod
dense crypt
i remember this pair of mod reviewers named Gamechap and Bertie, they had a lot of running gags involving herobrine from when they did herobrine mods a few times.
Gamechap has since become one of the most openly bigoted people i have ever been aware of on the internet but Bertie just kinda vanished, didn't follow that trend.
river veldt
o h
dense crypt
otherwise herobrine mods would be cool to have :))))
river veldt
how does a "datapack" do that <:cocothink:908027043776724992>
ok following the link in the description it looks like there's both a datapack and a mod options so idk
minor gorge
Gamechap has since become one of the most openly bigoted people i have ever been...
Is unfortunate. I remember watching them a lot way back when.
gaunt marten
It's not a Minecraft or YouTube problem
Don't get attached to anyone whom you don't know
river veldt
? i know? i was just saying the true statement that a lot of older Minecraft YouTubers turned out to be nasty behind the scenes, most of whom ive never even watched
gaunt marten
It's true but too specific
slim thorn
I think the claim is that celebrities/entertainers/influencers who turn out to be terrible people are in every subgenre of entertainment, and Minecraft Youtubers are no worse than the norm on this, but that some of the phrasing above misleadingly implies they are
slim thorn
I've yet to hear anything wrong with Etho or the Hermitcrafters I don't watch so hopefully I'm good 
slim thorn
I just realized my pop culture exposure to Canadian stuff is basically Wolverine, Etho, and sometimes Deadpool
river veldt
uhhhh
there's this lady on YouTube im subbed to who is Canadian
and uh
RUSH
Rush is Canadian
gaunt marten
NL is a lady
river veldt
oh good for her
river veldt
I just realized my pop culture exposure to Canadian stuff is basically Wolverine...
uhhh My Little Pony Friendship is Magic????? how could we forget
slim thorn
made in/filmed in Canada isn't quite the same thing
slim thorn
as TVTropes puts it: "Toronto has doubled for cities such as New York City and Chicago more times than it has actually represented itself"
river veldt
no it was in Turning Red
slim thorn
ooooh you're right that's a good one
river veldt
do you guys remmeber when that one YouTuber was upset that the tweens in Turning Red never mentioned 9/11
slim thorn
I guess nothing noticeably Canadian happened but it counts
river veldt
Justin Bieber is Canadian
gaunt marten
It's okay, just live in Canada
They have a rule about broadcasting that 55% of TV and 40% of radio must be of Canadian origin regardless of quality or actual demand
river veldt
im trying to think of other Canadian things
slim thorn
neat
mossy flume
do you guys remmeber when that one YouTuber was upset that the tweens in Turning...
No, but also... not a weird thing. They're tweens, what do they care about complicated world affairs? They're busy having fun.
river veldt
yeah it was a weird complaint and he got clowned on publicly
gaunt marten
It's kind of necessary to avoid Canadian culture being overwhelmed by its neighbor to the south
mossy flume
How many tweens were discussing the finer points of geopolitical events in 2003?
rancid herald
um, excuse me, all tweens care about is world affairs
river veldt
Turning Red was so good
rancid herald
How many tweens were discussing the finer points of geopolitical events in 2003?...
THE GOOD ONES
sour hill
im trying to think of other Canadian things
Trailer Park Boys
slim thorn
I think at that age I was just sick of people asking "where were you when you saw the news"
river veldt
it deserved better than being relegated to Disney+
rancid herald
the answer is always 'right behind you'
mossy flume
I partly understood the event, but also I was 10. I was more concerned about Pokémon.
river veldt
pokeymanz
gaunt marten
People near me stopped talking about world news so often when TV stopped being so big around the 2010s
It's done wonders for the local culture
mossy flume
dapper cedar
The only way to really do it is play all the Metroids at the same time using one controller for all the games
mossy flume
I'd love to see a TAS do that.
dapper cedar
Include Prime and end up doing lots of looking upwards in the 2D games
mossy flume
Clearly I need to teach a neural net to play Metroid.
light gate
i still don’t have prime remastered
dapper cedar
Clearly I need to teach a neural net to play Metroid.
Call it Mother Brain
light gate
come on Nintendo… restock!
mossy flume
I'm actually kinda surprised that it's this hard to get a physical edition
It's not special or limited
It's just Metroid Prime
Those scalpers are nuts
light gate
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if the Switch 2 drops all physical capability.
Considering the cost of manufacturing these cartridges.
But yeah I am getting ready for a Switch game hunting spree, plus the hall sensors.
dapper cedar
I’m preparing myself for the possibility of a new Switch and more than ready to sell my PS4 to get it
light gate
Yeah
dapper cedar
Just bring back the Nintendo ON rumours from before Wii
river veldt
I’m preparing myself for the possibility of a new Switch and more than ready to ...
im expecting an announcement either late this year/early next year, and then release late next year
dapper cedar
Aye that sounds reasonable
river veldt
cuz i think they wanna get TotK out and then move on to planning for the successor
dapper cedar
I never bothered that much about performance but I think it would be awesome if the games ran a bit better
There were a few points in Metroid Dread where the framerate lowered a bunch
river veldt
mhm that's true
i would like something with a more consistent framerate
sadly it is noticeable in BOTW especially while in Korok Forest
i dont really care about any graphical upgrades though
BOTW and Odyssey are really nice looking games
what im saying is that i dont need gaming pc specs lol
dapper cedar
Aye I’d really just like nicer framerates
river veldt
im soooooooooooooo excited for TotK
i wonder
since BotW feels like mainly a combination of Zelda 1 and OoT to me, I wonder if TotK will feel like a combination of Zelda 2 and MM
dapper cedar
I’ll be disappointed if there’s no I am error
river veldt
haha
well
but TotK looks a lot darker tonally compared to BotW
like
the backwards voices and Ganondorf's mummified corpse are creepy af
i love the Divine Beasts and shrines, but i am sort of hoping for proper dungeons, like how Hyrule Castle was in BotW or the labyrinths
im rambling now sorry
i just like BotW a whole lot so im excited to see what's in store for the sequel
gaunt marten
I like how the game shows you how close you were to winning after you lose https://i.imgur.com/gOSt9bD.png
river veldt
like in Cuphead!
gaunt marten
Yeah
random steppe
What is that game?
random steppe
Oh, I heard good things about it
gaunt marten
If you watched LobosJr play it, it's been reworked since he played it
Now it's called Death's Gambit Afterlife, with a lot of changes
random steppe
Next steam sale is in 4 days, I'll consider it if it goes on sale
gaunt marten
It's great. One mechanic I have to warn you about though
The game counts your death, and how many deaths you take can affect which ending you get.
It's not a big deal because it's quite forgiving, but it can become difficult to get the best ending if you die ~150 times
random steppe
Thanks for the heads up
sour hill
If you watched LobosJr play it, it's been reworked since he played it
lol I remember lobosjr because he beat Bloodborne without a weapon
wind stump
Oh my GOD
