general gaming

[wind stump]

Also got ||Kaine's sword|| and holy shit I thought the Fool's weapons were absurd

a 999 damage one handed weapon with a unique weight
because I wasn't already a genocidal maniac already

[sage raptor]

Nice. Yeah I love that game. Probably my favorite soundtrack of anything ever

[visual hill]

regarding MGS Ground Zeroes, I find it surprising how good casually moving around in that game feels. It's very weighty but still responsive enough, I don't think I've quite played another game like it

even GTA V (which I thought was a good benchmark for a game of similar era) feels much more artificial in comparison. I assume RDR2 has improved on that front, I haven't played it yet

you can tell it's made by the same studio as Death Stranding, I guess

it holds up nicely visually too, the wet effects are pretty well-done for a 8 year old game

[white phoenix]

mgsv is 8 years old

It still looks like it could be released today

To think mgr revengeance only released 2 years prior

[fresh bane]

Oh yeah the engine is gorgeous and a work of art

And yeah! Snake definitely feels like he has more weight to him, which is why I mentioned how moving around in GZ feels more deliberate than TPP where Snake is much faster and more agile so you usually don't have issues with movement

Snake is a fucking unit of a man so he should feel like he's got some weight behind him (literally )

[white phoenix]

the man can full out sprint insert map size here without stopping

what a legend

[fresh bane]

That's not even the most impressive feat

he literally lifted up a metal gear with his own hands in Peace Walker

That right there is why you're the best Boss, the one and only!

[wind stump]

raiden yeeted a Metal Gear Ray

[fresh bane]

Yeah but Raiden was a cyborg by that time and it was no big deal, he even took on multiple RAYS even as a human before

which was impressive by itself

this is pure human Snake turning an oversized AI controlled battle tank into his PB on overhead press

[white phoenix]

you can tell he means business, I mean just look at this man

[fresh bane]

Kaz: Snake, this is a sneaking mission

Snake: Blow up the base, leave no survivors, got it.

I like that this game is when the whole franchise went from Tactical Espionage Action to Tactical Espionage Operations

[minor plover]

hi ean just look at this man, I mdad

[visual hill]

when you don't care about inventory size limits

[white phoenix]

at that point it just becomes impractical

[fresh bane]

The funny part is, that's the battle armor which gives you more inventory slots for ammo and stuff

[visual hill]

oh also, in MGS Ground Zeroes, you have

you can't escape , the does not escape you

[fresh bane]

i feel like this is going over my head

[visual hill]

Tara Strong voices a character

[fresh bane]

Oh! Yeyeyeye Paz

Paz....

[visual hill]

I like how I recognized all the memes I saw online over the years one by one

[fresh bane]

they played us like a DAMN fiddle!!!

[visual hill]

[fresh bane]

💢

C'mon, start talking bitch!!

that was the start of Punished Kaz

a man denied his hamburger empire

[white phoenix]

robin's acting was great in both games

[thorny loom]

https://www.pcgamer.com/explosively-popular-indie-battlefield-alike-battlebit-remastered-draws-a-line-in-the-sand-against-boomsticks-no-shotguns/

no shotguns will be added

[visual hill]

heh, following the Counter-Strike meta I guess

[unreal idol]

Gonna experiment with some N64 emulation again. What's the current gold standard?

[visual hill]

the article writing though…

or just kind of annoying enemies with what might as well be blasts of hot air⁠—I was never a fan of TF2's take on the weapon, for example

if you think TF2 shotguns are bad, it's often because you don't use them as intended

they can be very, very useful if used correctly, even if an alternative weapon like the pyro's flare gun is more meta

(plus, the tilt factor :))

[white phoenix]

if that guy thinks shotguns aren't good, then he's not very good at tf2

[visual hill]

it's a bit like the spy's revolver, I regularly get more kills with it than the knife in a game

[white phoenix]

always fun surprising people with it as engineer for finishing off what my sentry started, it gets so many kills

[mossy flume]

Project 64 still

[unreal idol]

Alrighty

[visual hill]

it's the "good enough" option, but do not fray into the emulation scene with that opinion 🙂

[minor plover]

yeah, the engineer's shotgun isn't great but it's sufficient

[mossy flume]

Is there a better one?

[visual hill]

there are options that I find situationally better, but overall worse

ares is more accurate but this limits your options in enhancements and modding, and it requires a beefy PC

[mossy flume]

Well I don't take modding into account

[visual hill]

simple64 is also more accurate, less demanding but has limited modding (no overclocking for instance)

[fresh bane]

TF2's default shotgun is the goat

[unreal idol]

I value accuracy over mods

[mossy flume]

^

[white phoenix]

if you know how to do jukes (after learning how to trickstab) and have decent aim, you can go hard with it

[visual hill]

ares recently reached 90% of playable N64 games, including an accurate way to defeat copy protection methods from OoT, Rare games, etc

[white phoenix]

I have a few clips just going absolutely ham with the widowmaker

[unreal idol]

Barring some exceptions like getting Pokémon Stadium to talk with GB save files

[unreal idol]

Does it have transfer pak support?

[visual hill]

timing is also pretty accurate, the attract demos of games like GoldenEye play at their intended speed

[unreal idol]

This sounds promising, do you have a link handy?

[visual hill]

I don't know

the emulator is at https://ares-emu.net/

it does a lot more than N64

[unreal idol]

That's what I meant, thanks

[mossy flume]

My only criteria for emulation are accuracy, the ability to upscale native renderer and run at a solid framerate. I'm just wholly disinterested in mods and such.

[visual hill]

personally, I use Project64 "by default" and 1964GEPD for GoldenEye and Perfect Dark (a modified version of 1964 with special tweaks for mouselook)

[mossy flume]

Never heard of Ares before

[minor plover]

as a general rule, if I'm playing a retro game, I want as accurate as possible internal game mechanics (like, weapons do the right amount of damage, enemy AI behavior is correct, character movement speed and acceleration is correct) -- and then anything that I'd consider interface, UI, QoL stuff I absolutely want improvements. (One spot people might find controversial is I consider vertical freelook in original DooM to be a QoL improvement rather than a fundamental internal game mechanic, but I wouldn't want it if I was doing competitive multi.)

[visual hill]

1964GEPD is based on a version from… 2002, and it runs beautifully in 2023. However, its game compatibility is very low and it's full of inaccuracies – but it has been tweaked to give a great experience in those 2 games

(the graphics plugin is much newer than 2002, don't worry)

[visual hill]

heh, I know people who have the exact opposite opinion

[unreal idol]

I'm honestly not very satisfied with P64

It always felt janky and prone to inaccuracies

[visual hill]

my issue with Project 64 is the shady official download (fine for me, not for beginners) and the lack of native Linux support (runs well in WINE though)

there's also the nag screen but it's a minor issue

[mossy flume]

I've been detached from the emulation scene for a decade, so I'm not well privy to the bleeding edge. Back in 2013 PJ64 was the state of the art for N64 emulation and I've simply never heard of anyhting else coming close. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[visual hill]

ares, simple64, etc are pretty new

new options have also appeared for GB/GBC and GBA emulation last year, such as NanoBoyAdvance (which is cycle-accurate IIRC)

[unreal idol]

For GB I use the Super Gameboy ROM on BSNES

[visual hill]

heck, a new 3DS emulator is being developed as we speak (Panda3DS – and it's actually available for download, unlike Mikage)

[unreal idol]

[mossy flume]

Well I just have an Analogue Pocket, so accuracy is perfectly solved for me.

[unreal idol]

I always value accuracy over anything else which is why I love BSNES

[mossy flume]

Let me know when it hits emuDeck.

[visual hill]

interest in Citra has also increased lately, a huge progress report landed this week. It can run the 3DS home now

[unreal idol]

Even its composite filter looks convincing and not shit

[visual hill]

since I started doing emulation in 2019 for the humble PS1, it's shocking how much things have progressed in exactly 4 years. (I'm not even using the same PS1 emulator as I did initially, thanks to DuckStation)

[mossy flume]

I do appreciate that EmuDeck has at least given me access to the current state of the art without making me do any work setting them up

I just don't know offhand what N64 emulator it uses, just assumed it was PJ64 but it could be Mupen or whatever it's called

[visual hill]

probably Mupen

Mupen has a nice standalone GUI on Linux called RMG

[mossy flume]

Except the WiiU emulator, which still requires manually fiddling with settings in desktop mode before it'll work correctly. You'd think they would've fixed that.

[unreal idol]

https://ares-emu.net/about they have an interesting history and are related to BSNES and higan

Definitely gonna check them out later

[mossy flume]

Hm, are they? Interesting

Will give them a go, then.

[visual hill]

all roads lead to Near (😢)

[mossy flume]

A deeply unfortunate loss.

Will be felt by the community for ages.

[visual hill]

the aformentioned Citra progress report, by the way: https://citra-emu.org/entry/citra-progress-report-2023-q2/

Vulkan backend is progressing and is now usable on macOS via MoltenVK

[fresh bane]

I've used Citra to play Metroid 2 and it worked great in my experience with it I'll probably use it again when I play Link Between Worlds

[light gate]

Ares is a brutally accurate emulator, get your best cpu ready.

[mossy flume]

Time to put my i9-13900K to the test

[mossy flume]

IGN has a nice hadline banner today haha

[fresh bane]

''The Pikmin told me to do it, I swear''

[white phoenix]

"something has gone terribly wrong"

[fresh bane]

''what have we done''

[rancid herald]

I have become Pikmin girl, destroyer of pikmin worlds

[wintry canopy]

I found this Yu-Gi-Oh card, while on using a pack opening sim and it's super cute.

[mossy flume]

That’s adorable

[quiet swift]

https://twitter.com/SteamGamesPC/status/1682783209904275459

Free Steam Games✨ (@SteamGamesPC)

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Twitter · Jul 22, 2023, 4:02 PM

[static bluff]

lol omg my brother would love this

[steady skiff]

https://insider-gaming.com/ubisoft-delete-account-inactivity/

Wtf

Wasn't active recently for long and now that's crap

[gaunt marten]

This is actually old news

They said this years ago

They only delete accounts with no games

Oh wait, they made a new comment changing that policy, apparently?

[steady skiff]

yeah

[bleak lintel]

I think they gave a generic answer on how to stop the account closure.
I believe a lot of companies have a somewhat similar policy but none of them see to act on it.

There's also been a lot of debate this year on how long a company should keep accounts, data and such.

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, looks like their policy is four years.

Ultimately, they should be made to delete inactive accounts and recreate them when the person comes back using receipts or accounting history

[wind stump]

Mood

[wind stump]

Gob Gob

[thorny loom]

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

ridge racer

[hidden elbow]

My Duke Nukem Forever edit
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1030448448639619142/1132185858234142750/IDriveDNF.mp4

[mossy flume]

Yep

[minor plover]

since Descent is almost 30 years old now, we've had players building skill upon skill upon skill. On occasion someone will show up who used to be out near the right end of the curve and they'll be shocked, shocked that they're not the best player in the world and that they get beat by people they used to crush, until they realize that all the things they were doing to be great in 1997 or 2001 or whatever, people built on that. Some people think that's awesome, and some people really can't handle it. And some people resort to that kind of excessive trash-talk about being slightly more skilled than others.

[thorny loom]

@wind stump https://vxtwitter.com/richterovertime/status/1683246261879570432?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

[chilly mural]

We are so back

[green fulcrum]

TF2 is one of those games that literally just cannot die. Valve hit the jackpot when they made it.

[hidden elbow]

I mean they added Seal and.....SAXTOOOOON HAAAAAAAALE fight ,of course TF2 wins

[fresh bane]

https://tenor.com/view/heavy-tf2-dance-game-stream-gif-16902657

We never left baby

The time has come and so have we

[hidden elbow]

https://youtu.be/CoUNfjOFXMI

[astral steeple]

https://twitter.com/FallGuysGame/status/1683462150243663872

Fall Guys - Creative Construction (@FallGuysGame)

When you think of video games, you think of… 🕹️

The absolutely iconic dot eating, ghost evading PAC-MAN will be joining Fall Guys in three days!

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500

Twitter · Jul 24, 2023, 1:00 PM

[thorny loom]

Of course

[hasty patio]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/249050/Dungeon_of_the_ENDLESS/ Currently free.

Steam

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™

A few hundred condemned criminals were being shipped to the Auriga system on board the prison hulk “Success”. While this was presented as a chance to earn back their place in society by working hard for the common good, they understood that in fact they would be slave labour, sent to colonize an unexplored planet. All they knew about Auriga Prim...

Price

$11.99

Recommendations

8868

▶ Play video

[quiet swift]

[visual hill]

I've been playing a fair amount of TF2 again lately and it's impressive how well the gameplay has aged

[fresh bane]

Everything about TF2 is not only timeless but very ahead of its time

Even the visuals which you may think is crazy but the models are incredibly expressive for 2007

[river veldt]

https://twitter.com/marioprime/status/1683462367626002432?s=46

Giovanni Colantonio (@MarioPrime)

Before this year’s movie, before Bob Hoskins, before the Super Show, Mario got his first true adaptation outside of games on a children’s music record. I tracked down the musicians behind it to uncover a pioneering piece of Mario’s lost history. https://t.co/f6hiu0dfQV

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Twitter · Jul 24, 2023, 1:01 PM

a really interesting read

i didn't even know this existed !

[visual hill]

I run TF2 with the "Ultra" Mastercomfig (which further increases model/texture LOD compared to the in-game high settings), it looks quite good indeed

[proud warren]

ngl, I got scared shitless when I saw that, cus I didn't realize this was fall guys and was like "why does pac-man look like that? wait did he eat someone!?"

also those ghosts are uncanny as hell to me

[wintry canopy]

I just won two more duels in the current festival event, and I've only been using a loaner deck.

[green fulcrum]

@mossy flume MIDNIGHT!

I don't know if you saw this, but the developer for that Rock Raiders remaster posted an update video a few months ago, and in it he's talking about plans to make an expansion campaign that continues the story after the original campaign is completed, with (most likely) all new levels and possibly even completely new features!

I am HYPED. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC3i7GeIObU

[light gate]

They’re on the release candidate at the moment.

[visual hill]

look at the tricks I'm doing just for the audience

[fresh bane]

i thought that was actual footage

[visual hill]

this is a 6 year old racing game (Dirt 4)

surely we've had better graphics in racing games since 🙂 Though this one holds up well, it has good way of balancing lighting in a way that makes it look realistic

overcast weather is easy to make look realistic in general

if you want proof of this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3DEM6XDDTk

this one was recorded with sunny weather, you can immediately tell that while it's good-looking, it's "videogamey": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eip0Q3vmn5w

still, the sense of speed in that game is

(though it tends to be easier to give a good sense for speed for motorbikes than cars, especially in first-person)

[robust spear]

https://youtu.be/DcDjyestr4Y?t=835

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIAS7bfZ4BA

[grim stirrup]

i havent played remnant 2 yet and prob wont for a long ass time since i dont buy games that are that expensive but remnant 1 was unironically goated

[river veldt]

https://twitter.com/amiibonews/status/1683832831221301249?s=46

Amiibo News (@AmiiboNews)

Report: A massive amiibo re-stock is coming later this year according to Greek retailer.
https://t.co/LbKYIfAbQP

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Twitter · Jul 25, 2023, 1:33 PM

this is good

i wanna get my hands on a Smash Bros Mario amiibo and they go for crazy high prices these days

[mossy flume]

[fresh bane]

massive amiibo restock

scalpers:

[mossy flume]

Scalper bots are ready and waiting

[thorny loom]

https://twitter.com/charlieintel/status/1683523688346394635?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL)

🚨 BREAKING: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III Logo Leaked

(image via @algebra_sloth)

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Twitter · Jul 24, 2023, 5:05 PM

Monster leaked mw 3 early

[green fulcrum]

Ngl, I thought Amiibos ended like...three years ago.

[mossy flume]

They’re still making new ones

On a pretty regular basis

TotK got Link on launch. Ganondorf & Zelda later this year, just an example

[thorny loom]

Wtf

https://vxtwitter.com/80level/status/1683482847330304000?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

[mossy flume]

Kitteh

[river veldt]

i really want Link and Zelda, but idk about Ganondorf he looks a little weird which is unfortunate considering it's my favourite design for him

oh well

[quiet swift]

with gameplay buff, apparently the cats have an extra life for free

[river veldt]

https://vxtwitter.com/funnyhoohooman/status/1683871349784162308?s=46

[wind stump]

holy FUCKING SHIT

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/947329319468953651/1133341096106274857/SPOILER_ss_84aaa80e3a903ed5d750d9c430f3e761d3d9f993.png

IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE?

I'm not even a Jojo fan and I want it!

[wind stump]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/249050/Dungeon_of_the_ENDLESS/ free~

Steam

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™

A few hundred condemned criminals were being shipped to the Auriga system on board the prison hulk “Success”. While this was presented as a chance to earn back their place in society by working hard for the common good, they understood that in fact they would be slave labour, sent to colonize an unexplored planet. All they knew about Auriga Prim...

Price

$11.99

Recommendations

8881

▶ Play video

[wind stump]

See that big horrendous bug behind me?
That's my fren <3

[quiet swift]

[wind stump]

fr the ability to summon defeated bosses is just
dumb fun
you know, if you ignore all the murder, violence, conspiracy and worst of all
anime girls
Death end Re;Quest is fun!

[uneven epoch]

spoken like a true summoner player

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlFpQd9WtfY the first ten second make a very compelling argument

[mossy flume]

They’re really selling this RPG quite hard. If this crazy mountain of features is true it would explain why this game took an eternity to develop.

[quiet swift]

[green fulcrum]

A shame that they couldn't get the artificer in, but maybe that'll come with an update down the road, or even a mod.

Either way, this game is looking great

I haven't seen this much hype for a CRPG in a looooong time.

[mossy flume]

Hoping it works well on Steam Deck

[thorny loom]

https://twitter.com/pokemonnewsuk/status/1683779380575608832?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Pokémon UK (@PokemonNewsUK)

Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire launched 20-years ago today in Europe! 🔴🔵

(Yeah, we feel old too…)

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Twitter · Jul 25, 2023, 10:01 AM

[visual hill]

I had Ruby when I was a kid

[rancid herald]

20 years

Banned for making me feel fucking old

[mossy flume]

[thorny loom]

The remakes for them are 9 this year

[hasty patio]

https://mw5mercs.com/dlc/the-dragons-gambit

[arctic fern]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2467840/Artemis_Cosmos/ huh, artemis spaceship simulator version 2

Steam

Artemis Cosmos

Introducing Artemis Cosmos, the ultimate spaceship bridge simulator designed for both online and LAN gamers seeking thrilling adventures with their friends. With over a decade of multiplayer space gaming excellence, we've reimagined the original game from scratch, preserving its awe-inspiring experience of serving aboard a starship while defendi...

Price

$6.99

▶ Play video

[sacred grove]

https://twitter.com/insomniacgames/status/1683953133825716224

Insomniac Games (@insomniacgames)

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is Steam Deck Verified! ✅

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Twitter · Jul 25, 2023, 9:31 PM

Kind of impressive tbh, based on what I know Rift Apart does

[robust latch]

maybe they did soem optimisation for the steamdeck verion

[dense crypt]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/955655391453282385/1133694545066995752/image.png

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is fun

Made a gun mage, his name is Gunn Calibaras

[graceful bridge]

https://youtu.be/2mX2iDI00FM

https://youtu.be/9trjxvaWP_0

[arctic fern]

Nice
H3vr is my fave vr game

[quiet swift]

https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/media/news/cd-projekt-red-organizational-update/ oof

[thorny loom]

TL:DR. Layoffs are coming for the company

[quiet swift]

100 people, bout 9%

[peak berry]

~

[thorny loom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3GR3VA8jCg

[green fulcrum]

...Neopets is still alive?

[slim thorn]

[quiet swift]

It's actually a recent thing, it was owned by some other corp for a while and managed to free itself from ownership recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=583swD11ghg&t=784s covers it at the timestamp

[slim thorn]

the IP has achieved sentience?

[rancid herald]

diablo x neopet crossover when?

[quiet swift]

https://twitter.com/baldursgate3/status/1684202250363711491

Baldur's Gate 3 re-rolled the D8 🥳 (@baldursgate3)

Hi, Larian’s legal team here. Launch day is nearly upon us.

Have YOUR Baldur’s Gate 3 adventuring plans been thwarted by the forces of obligatory labour?

You may be eligible for Special Dispensation. Give this note to your boss — they’ll understand.

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Twitter · Jul 26, 2023, 2:01 PM

[arctic fern]

[mossy flume]

[quiet swift]

My supervisor's reaction

[arctic fern]

Lol

[quiet swift]

Was worth a shot

[rugged flax]

now give me one for Starfield

[arctic fern]

I wonder how nany oeople at larian studios tried the sane thing

Spelling hard

[quiet swift]

Who knows, maybe they already received one

[arctic fern]

I meant, how many employees of larian tried to get the day off to play

[hardy sparrow]

You don't have to water your crops if you plant them under water

[mossy flume]

Damp

[arctic fern]

Pikmiiiiiiiiiiiin!!!!

[green fulcrum]

Doggo

[mossy flume]

Plänts

[arctic fern]

Olimar: my ship crashed and I called for help
Rescue corps: don't worry, we're coming to save you!
Also rescue corps: our ship crashed and were calling for help
Me, the rookie: well shit

[mossy flume]

Every time

[wind stump]

i mean knowing Hocotate, they would put you in debt for rescuing the rescue corps

[dire gate]

You made a typo and it is somehow a very convincing name

[wind stump]

guess you could save i gave Hocotate a big L

[arctic fern]

#1122665553341984808 btw
I'm probably going to vent narrate my experiences there
So far tho, the game is genuinely making me smile

[wind stump]

I was just memeing officer

[quiet swift]

[thorny loom]

Lol what

@wind stump https://www.polygon.com/23805645/dreamworks-all-star-kart-racing-shrek-puss-in-boots-trolls

[wind stump]

IT'S ALL OGRE NOW

[rancid herald]

The darkest timeline continues to deliver

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/ubisoftsupport/status/1684275940400979986?

Ubisoft Support (@UbisoftSupport)

We've seen the discussion around inactive accounts and want to clarify that players will not lose access to purchased games or DLC due to inactivity, whether on PC or console:

PC Players:
A Ubisoft account will not be closed if tied to an activated PC game, no matter where it…

Twitter · Jul 26, 2023, 6:54 PM

[sage raptor]

It hurts to give Ubisoft credit, but it seems like it was a non-issue the whole time.

[thorny loom]

Yeah. It should definitely have been clarified in that first tweet.

But still good on ubisoft for addressing it

[wind stump]

oh good, my Ubi account is safe because I own Scott Pilgrim, lmao

[bleak lintel]

They don't want to remove accounts because then said people won't buy games in the future.

[thorny loom]

Oh wow

https://youtu.be/HfYnuUmTq3g

[wind stump]

and also like, that's a massive PR nightmare

nO

[thorny loom]

Now whens family guy getting added

[wind stump]

nO

[astral steeple]

Lol

the new collab is super peak cursed

[thorny loom]

Fornite has been cursed for a while

[astral steeple]

well yeah but this makes it even more cursed lol

than it was already

as more and more collabs happen, it will get more cursed over time

especially now that this collab happened, it will lead to Simpsons, king of the hill, etc

family guy also has even more of a chance of happening now as well

[sage iris]

we need an mlp collab in fortnite

[astral steeple]

TRUE

[unreal idol]

No.

[astral steeple]

mane six as backbling pets

that sit in like a chair on your back

i would actually love to run around as goku/indiana jones/spiderman/bender/optimus prime/doctor who/etc with rainbow dash on their back

[sage iris]

I wanna play as rainbow dash

[astral steeple]

as skins, theyd have to do the equestria girls versions

[sage iris]

[astral steeple]

so theyd likely just end up as pet backblings if a collab was to happen

maybe elements of harmony gun wraps as well

[thorny loom]

It would have to be egs

Cant imagine getting a horse to use a gun wouldnt look weird in animating

[astral steeple]

could maybe do both the characters themselves as pets, and then later down the line have the EQG versions

[wind stump]

wouldn't happen anyway, g4 is dead

[astral steeple]

maybe for an anniversary thing or something

[grim stirrup]

that would not make them anywhere near enough to be worth

[astral steeple]

it would pretty much come down to whether hasbro would agree or not

which given their 5+ year deal with epic, its somewhat possible

[thorny loom]

We all know gen 5 is gonna get some equivalent to this lol

We gotta sell that money

[astral steeple]

izzy as a pet on your character's back would be pretty cool too

[wind stump]

1. Equestria Girls wasn't profitable enough
2. G4 is dead
3. Even if 1 and 2 weren't true, I don't think Hasbro would associate their super family friendly property with a fucking battle royale even in a cosmetic sense.

[astral steeple]

transformers

[grim stirrup]

ye a lot of "cute" brands dont wanna touch anything with guns

[wind stump]

transformers is a series about a LITERAL WAR
with two enemy sides KILLING EACH OTHER

[grim stirrup]

transformers and mlp are completely incomparable in this sense

[wind stump]

fucks sakes it's in World of Warships

like as much as I hate "the gendered" toy shtick unfortunately it still works and MLP is very much a "girly" property

(even aside from that it goes against the entire point of the IP to pit people to the death)

[minor plover]

yeah, MLP is a very non-violent property

[astral steeple]

it still annoys me the other transformers skins dont release until like october lol

[minor plover]

there are Hasbro IPs that they'd put into a fighting game

[unreal idol]

I think it's less the gender aspect and more the tone of the property

It would be like putting Crayon Shin-chan in Street Fighter

[astral steeple]

didnt fluttershy snap a bear's neck lol

[unreal idol]

As a gag sure

[astral steeple]

also jeez the size difference

[young creek]

Futurama..? I wanna be Homer

[astral steeple]

probably in a few months

[quiet swift]

https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3s-narrator-shares-hilarious-outtakes-reelif-you-fancy-astarion-you-might-want-to-consider-therapy/

[bleak lintel]

1 more week.

[green fulcrum]

[random steppe]

I wasn't feeling the interest for BG3 initially but as we are getting there, NGL, I might actually be pretty damn hyped

[bleak lintel]

I played a bit of early access and it's a great implementation of 5e.

[random steppe]

Yeah I trust Larian, and I especially trust that they pulled all the stops with the D&D license

It's more that for the EA time I had to suppress my interest because I didn't want to play it before it was done, so now I'm slowly waking that up

[quiet swift]

Same, didn't touch it ever since i was gifted it (early in the EA). Now it's time

[bleak lintel]

It might be fun because there's a lot of changes between EA and live so you get to compare the differences in your run. I only did a few hours instead of the full act. (which is around 30 hours I think)

[dire gate]

https://vxtwitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1684368518874013696

[sage raptor]

Underrated

[rancid herald]

Wow

[river veldt]

im playing Cuphead and for some reason it reminds me heavily of Super Mario World

[hasty patio]

Ages and Seasons made it over? Neat.

[bleak lintel]

I am guessing they didn't fix the need to input a massive code between games.

[thorny loom]

Didnt they remaster those two

[rancid herald]

The oracle games? No

[bleak lintel]

They remasted Link's Awakening which was before these two.

[white phoenix]

https://www.teamfortress.com/?tab=updates

Updated community server max playercount to 100

VALVE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

[sage raptor]

I was in a 100 person server earlier and people were mic spamming racist stuff the whole time

[fresh bane]

the true tf2 experience

and the nsfw sprays, don't forget the nsfw sprays

the friendly hoovy in the corner giving everyone sandviches and the one guy blasting music on their deep fried mic

[white phoenix]

sprays you see online are stored in your tf2 folder somewhere, so not having them on is beneficial

[glossy narwhal]

i turned it back on because there's some funny stuff I wanted saved

[visual hill]

now you can do battle royale in TF2

100 spies disguised as each other, who would win?

[fresh bane]

The Spy, obviously

[white phoenix]

100 players on dustbowl

Welcome to hell

[little badger]

Are you going to see the Gran Turismo movie next month Cali?

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWvXRM3xGlo

[dense crypt]

Baldy's Gate

[river veldt]

damn Cuphead DLC secret boss got hands

[peak mesa]

Baldi’s Gate

[thorny loom]

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/26/activision-tiktok-anthony-fantano-slices-lawsuit

[visual hill]

no, I don't really pay attention to movies

[slim thorn]

I'm mildly curious about it, but it's not something I'm dying to see

if reviews say it's good I might try it

[feral tulip]

https://youtu.be/Q2nESlbg9GU

[little badger]

Ah right.

[quiet swift]

https://www.ign.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-developer-larian-will-definitely-make-a-divinity-original-sin-sequel-but-not-before-a-well-earned-break

[thorny loom]

Thats good

[green fulcrum]

Yesssssssss

They need and deserve that break, and when they're back, I will eagerly await what else they have in store.

I really need to replay D:OS2

[quiet swift]

[astral steeple]

Wow snoop and nicki in CoD actually look sick

[river veldt]

hooray i beat the Delicious Last Course !

[astral steeple]

https://twitter.com/charlieINTEL/status/1684631210947997696

CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL)

Breaking - Lara Croft from Tomb Raider is coming to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Warzone, per the PlayStation Blog

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HUH???????

[thorny loom]

Warzone is the new fortnite

Intstead if fictional characters its just now random celebrities

[white phoenix]

ah yes, the late cod skins

the more outlandish and contrasting with the original artstyle, the closer you are to the next cod

[rose rose]

Lara Croft is a fictional character though

[white phoenix]

they did do world cup players when that was going on a few weeks after release

at least messi dressed like an actual soldier lol

[icy crescent]

That is why im done with that game

[thorny loom]

https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-adds-100-player-support-to-team-fortress-2-immediately-tells-people-not-to-use-it/

@fresh bane

[visual hill]

Celestia's favorite course!

[fresh bane]

That implies Celestia would even have a delicious ''last'' course
those desserts just keep on comin' to her chambers 🍰

[chilly mural]

at Nire, what do you think of Celestia in a frog suit?

[fresh bane]

those are definitely words

[river veldt]

like

[fresh bane]

I couldn't say

[river veldt]

the frog suit from Mario 3 ?

[chilly mural]

sure

[river veldt]

well

i dont know

im not good at imagining things like that

[chilly mural]

I wasn't specifically thinking of the Super Mario Bros. 3 frog suit but that is a frog suit

[river veldt]

oh ok

it's the only frog suit i know

[visual hill]

I prefer the frog in a mech suit
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/7hCgGqRfKbQzVP6sYQF2D5-970-80.jpg

[white phoenix]

old gpu art

gotta be one of my favourite genres

[visual hill]

there are a few here: https://www.pcgamer.com/the-very-specific-horror-of-old-graphics-card-packaging-art/

[wintry canopy]

The final two event quests for Sunbreak just dropped, it's a bit sad to know these are the last quests that will ever be added. As a whole tho Rise and Sunbreak were a lot of fun.

[wintry canopy]

I have now completed every quest in Rise and Sunbreak, minus the arena.

[graceful bridge]

https://limitedrungames.com/collections/castlevania-advance-collection

[gaunt marten]

Oh I got excited at the prospect of a remaster or something

It's just a limited time physical rerelease. I guess that's good too

[spiral kraken]

Am I the only person who kinda want the Plumbers Don't Wear Ties remaster ?

[graceful bridge]

It does include a "save any time" feature and a "rewind" feature, plus Dracula X / Rondo of Blood for SNES. But yeah, this is just a modern release not a remaster.

If you don't want the physical edition, the digital edition is available for consoles as well.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/castlevania-advance-collection-switch/

[wind stump]

The advance collection is a very good modern release

[graceful bridge]

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxahrYWUS54od-TIBES6R9TpS_IdynQBzD

I love PotatoMcWhiskey

[wind stump]

Me when I'm bordering Mongolia in ancient times

[gaunt marten]

I see

[wind stump]

Probably not worth the physical release unless you really want that portable nostalgia of swapping cartridges

oh wait
it's four covers
not four games- that makes sense

[hidden elbow]

This is just.....so good
https://youtu.be/1eggzBAzCZg

[thorny loom]

https://www.pcgamer.com/original-modern-warfare-2-servers-yanked-offline-after-players-report-self-replicating-malware/

Big yikes. Making a self replicating worm for mw2 classic

[green fulcrum]

The whole animation was great, but that mid-credits scene was awesome.

[wind stump]

[hidden elbow]

"Remind me if I ever want to kill myself that I can scale up to the heights of your blind devotion....AND LEAP DOWN TOWARDS YOUR IQ"
This is 10 out of 10 insult

Plus ,I think its so cool that they got original cast from DKC cartoon for this

[green fulcrum]

It really is a fantastic line

[wind stump]

i love playing old games

and what i mean by that is spending an hour installing mods

[dire gate]

"You can't play vanilla skyrim on modern computers"

[wind stump]

Not Skyrim old

Thief old.

'98

oh god Thief '98 has
TANK CONTROLS

THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSE TO PLAY THIS WHEN I'M SO USED TO A AND D BEING STRAFE BUTTONS

oh ok there's actual strafe buttons they're just on Z and C

[dire gate]

Just be the tank

[wind stump]

I REFUSE

[slim thorn]

ah, I remember being a teenager when strafing wasn't the default yet

[dire gate]

Immerse into a tank

[wind stump]

Immerse yourself into a shower
YOU SMELL OF BEANS

[dire gate]

You are a fucking warrior

lol typo

[wind stump]

I ATE A WARRIOR
I WILL EAT ANOTHER

[dire gate]

[wind stump]

also like
do you not think my ffxiv controls don't have strafing

you fool

[dire gate]

You are a tank

You control a tank

[wind stump]

not in Thief I ain't

[dire gate]

I guess rogue is not a tank

[visual hill]

most old games have tank controls for keyboard-only players, but they also can do WASD + mouse

even Doom 1.0 can!

I recommend binding leaning to Q, E and Alt+W respectively

(the last one is for leaning forward)

[slim thorn]

ooooh that's a keyboard-only thing

[hidden elbow]

Same its like "Boy ,I cant wait to play this classic game.........Source port ,wide screen support patch ,bug fix patch ,better frame rate patch , uncompressed music mod ,and while we at it ,might as well pick up some hd sounds"

[slim thorn]

I just throw the rom in an emulator and take it as it comes with the safety net of save states lol

[fresh bane]

I have never went the extra mile to actually fully remaster an old game on an emulator or pc port but I can't deny that it's really cool that people care so much for the games to go through the effort of doing that
and after being exposed to it I understand why so many people from the emulation community complain companies don't go that far for their own remaster collections especially Nintendo who sometimes release versions worse than the original

the closest I got to doing anything like that is using a texture pack for HD textures in RE3 Nemesis and it definitely made me enjoy the game a hell of a lot more and it's now my favourite RE

[hidden elbow]

Me too , tbh I never really liked original RE2 ,but 3 was so good its insane

Still feel bad for the remake tho

[slim thorn]

I'm still miffed that my RE3 broke right at the end so I couldn't do the final boss

(and that Code Veronica softlocked, though apparently that's "normal" )

[hidden elbow]

Code veronica.......its like one of those uncles that you dont wanna talk about

[slim thorn]

which is sad because the bulk of the game (Claire on the island) was a high point of the series

[river veldt]

all i know is that Tale told me there's a dumb shoehorned romance

[slim thorn]

I have the unusual situation of having played RE1 remake, RE2, RE2 remake, RE3, RE0 and RECV all for the first time relatively close to each other within the last year or so

so I can at least pretend to be objectively comparing them

[hidden elbow]

Yeah ,but then comes Kris and its just......oof

[river veldt]

ive only played 4

[slim thorn]

but I'll never be able to convince Nire that RE2's just better with shoulder cam

[fresh bane]

Code Veronica is definitely an odd one, a lot of people want a remake of it and it's even rumored that it's going to be a thing but I don't understand how so many people seem to just love that game and put it as the pinnacle of classic RE, not to judge since someone else could say the same about me thinking RE3 is the best one but Code Veronica is... it exists..

[slim thorn]

4 is the only RE I played when it was new

considering how people talk about RE3 I was honestly surprised at how familiarly linear and not-open-world-at-all it was

[river veldt]

i could try playing the RE1 remake but fixed camera has always seemed clunky to me

[hidden elbow]

Code Veronica definitely has more cons than pros compare to RE3

Like steve

I hate steve

[river veldt]

but idk

i might try it one of these days

[slim thorn]

sometimes old games used fixed camera because they couldn't do anything else, but sometimes it really is the right choice

[wind stump]

Q and E were already binded and I found a workaround since there's a "slide" control option so I just swapped the controls on that and the camera

[slim thorn]

RE1 is one of the few games where I genuinely believe fixed camera angles were the right choice

[river veldt]

jill sandwich

[slim thorn]

(iirc all of the old Silent Hills do a mix of fixed and dynamic cameras, so I'm not sure if they count, although they definitely do fixed angles right when they do choose them)

[river veldt]

i just like to have control over a camera in a 3d game idk

[hidden elbow]

I also never understood what Wesker even doing in it

[slim thorn]

granted even in RE1 this leads to some shooting zombies you can't see, but the gameplay is slow and thoughtful enough that this is surprisingly just fine; the camera does become "another enemy" but it's one you always have ways to deal with

part of it is that RE1 also has an element of auto-aim

[fresh bane]

Wesker is there to spin kick Claire in the face and fly away

[slim thorn]

I do think fully manual aiming in 3D space really requires both camera and character control

[hidden elbow]

(If we ignore the theory that Wesker is just a giant tsundere towards Kris and he desperately want to get his attention) he really doesnt need to be here

[river veldt]

i cant think of Wesker without thinking of that one RLM clip

https://youtu.be/ZPUPaxgIo98

[slim thorn]

I should probably clarify that my praise for the bulk of Code Veronica is referring to game / level / puzzle design stuff

[hidden elbow]

The dude just realised how much OP he is ,and decided to leave

[fresh bane]

Ever since Chris mocked Wesker's tyrant and called him pitiful Wesker hasn't been the same

[slim thorn]

story-wise, well, the old REs were never that great anyway, but yes Steve is a new low

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/Js7_wsrLmdQ

''Chris...? ....s-stop it... ''

[fresh bane]

To be fair the REs do have a satisfying enough level of 'connectiveness' to each game, it definitely feels like this one large story rather than separate games doing their own thing, but yeah it's not a game you're going to be playing because you wanna know the story, unless you're like me and you enjoy the characters so you are curious and wanna know

I think with RE5 it started to kinda go into this new era where it does feel a bit more disconnected or like it loses its way a bit

[hidden elbow]

"I thought.......between us was something special.....Chris "

[hidden elbow]

And then RE6 came along ,I dont hate it,I think its is really fan game but it definitely went full nuts on action

[slim thorn]

RE1-3 got to be fairly connected by the shared Raccoon City outbreak setting

that can only go on so many games

3 wisely put a hard cutoff by literally nuking the setting

[hidden elbow]

Kinda reminds me of half life 1 and its addons

[slim thorn]

of course Zero gets around it by being a prequel but still

[fresh bane]

All the way until 5 feels pretty connected to me, Code Veronica is obviously connected to 2 and it leads into 4 at least knowing Wesker is not only still around but working on something big
and then 5 reveals that

I remember liking the Revelations games but they are from this era of RE that I don't seem to have that much attachment towards I guess, pretty much the current era and present day at least inside the franchise, Ethan's adventures were cool but it definitely felt like a de-tour a bit

I did enjoy Rev 2 a lot especially with Moira and Barry

[slim thorn]

4 feels separate to me since Leon's kinda the only major shared element (I know Ada and technically Wesker are around but they're so minor, especailly in the original)

not that any of this really matters to why most of us played RE

[fresh bane]

Ehhh I dunno, I know what you mean but you do see a hell of a lot more of Wesker in Ada's campaign

[hidden elbow]

Tbh I loved how disconnected re7 was ,aside from "obligatory Chris" it feels like a such stand out story

[fresh bane]

Leon's adventures in the game are definitely more contained to him but the entire thing overall does come from RE2 and leads into 5

RE7 was good although unfortunately it never felt like it was going anywhere, it really maintained a really good quality all the way throughout but it got pretty samey by the end, RE8 was fucking insane

[slim thorn]

I'm not saying there's no connection there, just that it doesn't matter to me when playing the games and doesn't affect which ones I enjoy more

[fresh bane]

Oh yeah I'm just talking about how the games connect overall nothing about that, when you're playing the games you're probably not actively thinking about much of it anyways

well depending on how into the story you are, there are some RE fans that are super into it

[slim thorn]

yep, it's a standard example of why gamers always distinguish between "story" and "lore"

[fresh bane]

I guess so, there is quite a bit of lore in the games to be fair, even RE1 had enough in there despite the main campaign focusing more on the events as they unfold rather than tell a story

I guess it's kind of like Dark Souls in a way???

[slim thorn]

pffff

[hidden elbow]

I love this comment section

[fresh bane]

I'm gettin real... MMMMMM... angry!

https://youtu.be/Vzdl4QhIh0M

[visual hill]

I modded MGS Ground Zeroes for high framerate, so much better this way

it may screw up with physics but haven't noticed anything too bad so far

[hidden elbow]

This is basically Wesker after RE1 ,every time Chris is around his general location

[fresh bane]

''Haven't noticed anything too bad so far''

big boss shoots a guard and the guard starts flying away

yep, working as intended

[visual hill]

yeah, I have that issue in BOTW in Cemu with the FPS unlocked

funny ragdolls are funny, still

[hidden elbow]

Kaz "uhhhh ,yep ,I suppose you took him out ,boss......great job"

[fresh bane]

looking good boss

[hidden elbow]

Tbn optimization of GZ and PP is really outstanding

[fresh bane]

it really is, I was able to play through all of TPP on a potato laptop computer

Kojumbo and his team did an incredible job with their engine

[visual hill]

there's a small visual issue I can notice with the FPS unlock, Snake's attached weapon on his backpack constantly vibrates a bit

[hidden elbow]

Same , its remarkable how stable it is , even when there are explosions and a lot of guards around

[fresh bane]

Oh that's just the latest R&D tech, Snake's back gets sore so he needs the vibration massage /s

[hidden elbow]

BB "Why my backpack vibrates constantly ?"
Kaz "...............for tactical advantage"

[fresh bane]

Ground Zeroes was definitely masterfully staged and prepared for that iconic midnight rainy setting but the base in the game during the daytime looks really gorgeous

[fresh bane]

echo location of course

[visual hill]

I like how you can yeet enemies off cliffs. Great level design

[fresh bane]

Of course, you can even yeet enemies into other enemies and then beat all of them up

the possibilities are endless when you're the boss

[hidden elbow]

The last frame is just priceless
Imagine you just doing average guard duty going around a base ,and then you see a big boss ,the legend itself just laying in the middle of the road.

[fresh bane]

Majestically and tactically rolling away

[hidden elbow]

You can throw a rock in them for a funny sound ,now that is a tactical espionage

[hidden elbow]

Big boss doing his best pretending to be a car

[river veldt]

i love how crazy RE8 was lol, and Ethan is like my fave protag

[hidden elbow]

I always wanted to try Shantae series ,I wonder is it any good ?

[visual hill]

it is, from what I've heard

[sage raptor]

Pirate's Curse is good. The rest of them are not that good.

[gaunt marten]

I like the later ones

[sage raptor]

Seven Sirens is godawful and they got rid of their composer so the music is straight trash

1/2 Genie hero was a big disappointment but the music is fantastic

[thorny loom]

https://twitter.com/fortnitegame/status/1684987194899869716?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Fortnite (@FortniteGame)

The unknown future rolls towards us…

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Terminator skins

[river veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/exterminador-do-futuro-gif-20118743

#modabuse

[astral steeple]

oh yeah they were finally able to get arnold's likeness

since the original t800 skin was just the robot version

super hype

ok actually pretty good

has a damaged version edit style, and a edit style to have the glasses on or off

[quiet swift]

Some good eatin' there

[young creek]

bloons the greatest game ever made

[river veldt]

nuh uh

[young creek]

its good

[thorny loom]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2259210/Mega_City_Police/

Steam

Mega City Police

Hello, Officer. Mega City needs your services. Are you ready to uphold the law? The crime is out of control, the streets are not clean. There are criminals and psychopaths everywhere, ready to cut anyone’s throat. A corrupt megacorporation squeezes the life out of the citizens, seeking to establish control all over the city.Only the incorruptibl...

Price

$12.74

▶ Play video

Robocop

[sage raptor]

Loop Hero was pretty fun

[river veldt]

https://vxtwitter.com/lowbudgetghost/status/1684990196712910856?s=46

[astral steeple]

https://www.dexerto.com/overwatch/is-john-cena-coming-to-overwatch-2-2229926/

[bleak lintel]

I only support this if he comes out and hits the best player on the winning team with a steel chair.

[wintry canopy]

This archetype is super cute.

[visual hill]

Serious Dopefish

[river veldt]

Dopefish !

[robust latch]

Swim Swim Hungry!

[quiet swift]

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-esrb-wants-to-start-using-facial-recognition-to-check-peoples-ages/

[arctic fern]

I finished pikmin 4
Or finished the initial story I suppose

I'm sure there's another area post credits

[fresh bane]

surely this isn't a bad idea and won't have gigantic ramifications

[green fulcrum]

Ngl, it's literally stuff like this that makes all the conspiracy theorists and doomsayers just become more fervent and zealous in their crusades.

For the love of God, wait a little bit until the boomers are gone and THEN start doing this, lol.

[mossy flume]

This is… not acceptable. The ESRB is a guideline system, not an enforcement mechanism.

Further, scanning for people’s ages is a borderline unsolvable problem, especially for younger people

You can estimate wide ranges but that’s it

[fresh bane]

the funniest part is that the mere suggestion of this idea tells me they don't care about people's feedback
It happened before, they try to push this revolutionary new technology and idea! people say no, that's a terrible idea stop it, they do it anyways and say we just don't understand or don't even say anything and just do it, and we have to reluctantly take it

[mossy flume]

This one is just wildly misguided

The existing system where stores are meant to just check age if someone is purchasing an M rated game is sufficient

[fresh bane]

It's such a wild borderline dystopian idea that I can't even wrap my head around how anyone would even think of proposing it, and the insane invasion of privacy aside, it would be so easy to ''fake'' a system like this if all you needed was a webcam of sorts and any face at all

like seriously, on all fronts this is a completely terrible idea

[rose rose]

That is not what the article is actually proposing

It's COPPA again

They are verifying that people are over thirteen

I am not convinced this is a lot more practical, but it's not about game ratings

[green fulcrum]

The thing is, a 12 year old could easily pass as a thirteen year old.

Hell, my nephew is six and still looks like he was four.

[mossy flume]

And fourteen year olds can often pass as younger

[rose rose]

I guess the article actually says 25, which is a pretty weird one

Oh, I see

[mossy flume]

I’m sure machine learning magic can do a good job of it

But I’m not convinced it’s practically accurate

[rose rose]

They're making sure that users under thirteen have someone much older than thirteen provide consent

[mossy flume]

That is indeed what they’re proposing

[rose rose]

This seems pretty workable really

Aside from "you need webcams now"

13 and 25 are pretty easily distinguishable ages

[mossy flume]

At the same time saying it doesn’t retain identity information

Which is doable but would not be verifiable

[heady bridge]

Plus what is stopping anyone from just printing out a high quality picture of someone older and using that?

[fresh bane]

I have a revolutionary amazing idea to ensure that a minor below thirteen doesn't see content he's not supposed to, if you're a parent, monitor the fuck out of whatever your child is doing on consoles, computers, smartphones, etc, that way we don't have to invade people's privacy and scan their faces so they can play a game

[mossy flume]

It would need cameras that include depth information, like iPhones with FaceID for example

[rose rose]

They don't accept still images and holding up a printout would be trivially detected

You don't need depth information, you just need to detect "is there a rectangle around this person"

[mossy flume]

Fair

[rose rose]

Children under thirteen have pretty limited resources

[mossy flume]

Paper mache

[heady bridge]

I'm more talking about teens trying to play M rated stuff

[mossy flume]

[rose rose]

That doesn't help companies with their legal obligation to not collect data from children at all though.

[mossy flume]

“Jimmy why did you make an unnervingly detailed paper mache model of my head?”
“No reason”

[heady bridge]

They'd find a way I'm sure. I know I did so I could play Conker's Bad Fur Day back in the day

[rose rose]

That is not the problem they are trying to solve

Also they aren't scanning the kids' faces; they're scanning the parents' faces

[heady bridge]

Even if they find a foolproof way of doing this for younger kids wouldn't there be the issue of the ESRB holding data of people's faces though using this method?

[fresh bane]

I don't really care about the specifics of it myself, I don't want them getting too comfy with the idea they can do stuff like this especially for something as dumb as making sure someone under thirteen isn't playing a game, trust me, kids younger than that have played games they weren't supposed to, and now that kids have access to literally endless information kids will always find a way if they wanted to, and the ones that don't are already getting stopped by either the rating on games that is already there and works great or parent supervision which is probably the best way to go about it

[rose rose]

No, because they don't hold the data.

[fresh bane]

This is literally what Tencent was doing in China that everyone was pointing and laughing about like a year ago

[rose rose]

They aren't identifying people, just doing age recognition.

[heady bridge]

They are using it though against a database, probably would need some kind of user agreement for that use

[rose rose]

No, they aren't

[mossy flume]

Supposedly it doesn’t collect information

[fresh bane]

Like I said, I don't really care about that or any of the specifics, I still don't like it one bit

[mossy flume]

As per the proposal

[rose rose]

ML age analysis doesn't need a database

[mossy flume]

You can do this sort of thing locally on the device in principle

[heady bridge]

So where is this ML data then? Can't be magic, it's a highly complex set of data, like a database

[mossy flume]

The ML data would be an age identification model

But unrelated to the users

[rose rose]

It's in the weights of the model. Which I guess you could call a database if you want but it doesn't actually add faces to it or contain any user's face so I don't see how it's relevant

Distinguishing between "under thirteen" and "over twenty-five" probably doesn't need terribly advanced technology either

[heady bridge]

I feel there would be a lot of pushback from this method of age verification though, even if from misinformation and the like

[rose rose]

(how you stop someone from claiming to be over thirteen in the first place is less clear to me, I must say)

[mossy flume]

Definitely would involve a lot of misinformation and conspiracy theories

[rose rose]

For sure.

[mossy flume]

Because this sort of thing is fundamentally difficult to trust

[heady bridge]

That or physical sales would start to skyrocket again

[mossy flume]

Even though you can do it in a safe manner in principle

[rose rose]

Physical sales would make no difference

COPPA is a privacy law; this would only apply to games that could reasonably lead to children illegally providing information to the game developer

Which puts it pretty exclusively in online game territory

[heady bridge]

Which makes games that can already feel pretty sketchy seem worse if they did implement this

[rose rose]

Which is entertaining given they do so entirely to be more compliant.

[mossy flume]

These are very hard problems and if companies get pushed to be more complaint like this we’ll get unnerving tech like this. I’m not sure they’re problems we need to have in the first place, but here we are.

[rose rose]

Like, children under thirteen need parental consent to chat in online games.

The point of this process so the children actually need to get that parental consent instead of lying.

(Again, not sure how you stop them lying about being over thirteen in the first place. This seems to assume they will be honest about that and then lie about consent. Which only seems likely to work the first time they encounter it.)

[slim thorn]

yeah, nearly every system I've ever seen for age restriction is fundamentally ill-conceived in that way

it's either trivially easy to lie, or it makes it so hard for adults to use that everyone ends up not using it at all, or bypassing the restriction system whether or not they qualify

[mossy flume]

Clearly time to get everyone a government issued ID from birth and just check that

[minor plover]

adults frequently lie about their age, or at least birthday, on that kind of thing anyway

[slim thorn]

or you get a youtube situation where random videos are just deleted or half-deleted or shadow-whatever at the whims of what might as well be solar flares

[rose rose]

I often lie about my age because selecting the right three numbers from drop downs is more effort than selecting just the year.

[minor plover]

when youtube made us connect my son's account to the family account, it also auto-deleted comments he'd made before he turned 13. So my take is, I'll lie about my son's age, too.

[slim thorn]

protecting children from adult content is important, but we've proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that all software can reliably do is support a separate account with a parental lock; the rest has to be on humans

[mossy flume]

Also the year list keeps getting longer and I’m offended by this

[minor plover]

yeah, it has to be on parents/guardians to have the right level of supervision in place for the child

(which, of course, itself requires balance -- overbearing parents can make things worse by freaking out their children and making them hide things)

[rose rose]

If you want that you have to remove the substantial corporate liability for COPPA violations or this and YouTube and whatnot is what you get

[slim thorn]

yep

[mossy flume]

Traumatizing parenting styles are great

Lifelong scarring yay

[slim thorn]

interestingly, most of the complaints I heard growing up about "helicopter parenting" were my parents talking about other parents, not directly from any of my peers

[rose rose]

Why is there so much scrolling these days

[minor plover]

that sort of parenting also appears to make people vulnerable to getting in to terrible relationships as adults, like, not recognizing that their spouse is controlling and abusive because that level of control seems normal to kids who grow up under it

[mossy flume]

The year list involves scrolling now. This is illegal.

Please desist.

[slim thorn]

in retrospect, considering how many of my high school peers burned out and crashed in college, I don't think any of them understood the problem until it was too late

[mossy flume]

I’ve heard complaints from some of my peers, never from adults.

[fresh bane]

Parental supervision is, to me and my uneducated opinion, the ultimate and best way to ensure a child is not seeing content they're not supposed to
Children will always find a way to do things behind their parents' back if they can, no amount of any security measures will ever avoid that, and the internet, no matter how many guidelines you try to add to websites, will always be an unsafe place for children, it's already sometimes a very unsafe place for adults even
I never liked restricting most people's experience on the internet just to make it safe for children because children shouldn't even be there at all in my opinion, not without parent supervision anyways (a quick but perhaps 'dumb' example is youtube kids and how we've seen so many videos especially about any cartoon or animated media at all getting all the comments completely removed and videos marked as kids even when they're not for kids)

and yeah of course there has to be a balance between being a parent that's present and careful vs a complete control freak helicopter parent but that's always gonna be something parents need to balance regardless
don't wanna go into a full rant about it though

[wintry canopy]

Here's another melffy card.

[rancid herald]

the weirdest part of the ps5 controller's adaptive triggers not working is that doing the steam test seems to indicate that STEAM detects the adaptive triggers being pulled in degrees, rather than an all or nothing

so what's going on

[chilly mural]

Pog of Greed

[robust latch]

LOL

[random steppe]

Yo, decided to try severed steel, one of the free Epic games this week, it's pretty great.
Basically superhot but with destructible walls, parkour, and an hand cannon.

Nothing high concept, but if you want a few hours of bullet time jumping through the air shooting a bunch of enemies and feeling like a badass to high BPM music, it's a good time

[sage iris]

I've been waiting for this game to finally come out

[uneven epoch]

i plan to play it someday but i know i cant yet bc if i dare jump from ff14 to another banjillion hour long game i will not be able to control myself and i refuse to ping pong between the two

[sage iris]

If I'm remembering right, you tried Divinity Original Sin 2 and didn't really like it? This game is by the same studio so I dunno if you'll like it

[sage iris]

Normally I don't buy AAA games, at least not on release, but this is the one time I did for multiple reasons. I'm 100% confident in Larian to deliver an excellent game, but also they chose an actually reasonable regional price unlike most other AAA games

[uneven epoch]

ive also heard it compared to dragon age games a lot and i really really enjoyed that series, so... i dont know

[quiet swift]

Ehh. I'd say that DA is a similar style in the sense it's RPG but they do feel quite different

[uneven epoch]

with divinity 2 i just couldn't get off of tutorial island. five to eight or so hours later n i was still so, directionless. i mean, i liked the gameplay. i just like when games give me more to hang onto story wise when tryin to hook me than "here's an island. try to escape" i tend to prefer more tightly written storylines than a sandbox approach (though i very much realize that the point of dnd esque games is to let you loose in a world to fuck around n find out) but its not like thats a 100%. disco elysium was a blast after all. so maybe i just gave up on divinity 2 too quickly. bg3 bein a newer game gives me slightly more hope for the onboarding process so to speak?

and its gonna have monk. i like punching

either way im (gonna try to) not touch giant rpgs until im caught up with ff14

[robust spear]

The only thing I didn't like about Divinity Original Sin 2 was the constant elemental effects you had to deal with in every fight. Everything was either on fire, or on evil fire. Magic exploding barrels were everywhere too.

[sage iris]

oh god the exploding barrels

I think that elemental effects were fun, but I do agree that there were too many of them

I think everyone likes to bring up the blackpits fight as the worst example of this

[robust spear]

Yeah, you had to have a character or two who could cast rain to deal with it

[sage iris]

where literally everything is on fire, your party is on fire, the enemies are on fire, the whole level is on fire

and the worst thing is that it was cursed fire too so you couldn't put it out

I hate cursed fire so much

[robust spear]

Yeah. I think I quit the game during a cursed fire fight. I was sick of it.

[sage iris]

but if not overdone, I think the elemental effects can be really fun and clever

[robust spear]

The rest of the game was great though

[sage iris]

moments like "oh, there's a water barrel next to this group of enemies. If I smash that and then cast an electric spell on the puddle, that'll stun all of them and give me an extra turn" are very rewarding

[uneven epoch]

can you play divinity without resorting to magic?

[sage iris]

absolutely

there's definitely viable warrior/rogue/whatever builds

though when you control a party of 4 characters, I dunno if you'd really wanna go no magic at all

it's just more fun when you have different kinds of characters

[quiet swift]

You say that, but having the entire place be a sea of fire and killing the enemies with it was at the same time overwhelming yet also hilarious

[quiet swift]

When I was still at the office, a coworker and I played a 2 man D:OS2 game, using the 'lone wolf' trait for each of us I think it was, so we only needed 2 instead of 4. A good ranger character is stupefyingly strong. I think my coworker was using the polymorphing magic character, I think?

But yeah the ranger character is so good

(class, rather than character I should say)

[sage iris]

yeah, you absolutely don't have to play mage or have a mage

non-magic builds can be extremely strong

[uneven epoch]

im not into bows

i think i tried rogue last time

i like daggers

[quiet swift]

I think daggers were okay too

But I honestly think the ranger build is the strongest in the game

[sage iris]

yeah rogue is quite strong too

[quiet swift]

@uneven epoch clearly you need to go bows

[wind stump]

I am comitting several crimes

[dire gate]

pdp?

[wind stump]

yes

[green fulcrum]

Are you kidding me? I LOVED that fight! It felt like an actual siege, and you were the outnumbered and outgunned defenders. That was the first fight in the game that really made me think like a tactician and made me calculate every possible scenario, and even though I died a lot, I loved every bit of it. Finishing that fight was the most satisfying thing ever.

And it only kept getting better after that.

[green fulcrum]

My main character was a ranger/fighter hybrid (about 1-2 levels in fighter, iirc), and holy shit, that dude was doing soooooooooo much damage.

I really hope Larian Studios can make 5e Rangers just as good as they were in D:OS2, because I really want that long-distance one-shot-one-kill sniping again.

[quiet swift]

[random steppe]

What are you guys playing for your first campaign?

[gaunt marten]

Gun

[random steppe]

You going for that Dark Urge thingy?

[quiet swift]

Monk. I must punch things

[quiet swift]

I don't think there's a cat race in D&D though is there?

[fickle garnet]

What type of game is D:OS 2 and Baldurs Gate

[young creek]

Baldurs Gate 3 is coming out now? Heard a lot of hype around that

[fickle garnet]

Next month i think

[rose rose]

Thursday, specifically

[quiet swift]

Turn based RPG. Ever play the first dragon age, for example?

[fickle garnet]

No i havent played the first dragon age

Ive only played the second one

[quiet swift]

Ahh. DA2 is still kinda similar to DA1 though, so it's of a similar vein

[fickle garnet]

I played very little of da2

Maybe ill download and play da2 on my xbox

[feral tulip]

https://fxtwitter.com/mother__squared/status/1684700339835170816?s=20

[fickle garnet]

FFXVI looks amazing

[dense crypt]

Are you completely solo in that game or do you have a party with you?

[fickle garnet]

You have a party

But the characters in your party automatically change depending on what part of the story you're at

[dense crypt]

Might become more flexible as you get further

[fickle garnet]

Maybe

Im not that far in

And the combat is very fun

[rose rose]

I do not think you ever get much of a say in who is with you, and you never get to control them directly (though you can give orders to your dog)

[visual hill]

it is, it's one of the games that has a great potential on PC in terms of visuals

[visual hill]

can you pet the dog?

[fickle garnet]

Yes

You can pet the dog

[feral tulip]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MammcQ3XkpY

[mossy flume]

Pffft hahaha

Ten bucks says Nintendo approached him recently to make a new Smash Bros title for Switch 2

[rose rose]

My favourite moment was when MA pet the dog a few times and was disappointed there was no achievement for it. Then he did so again and the achievement ding went off for "You Can Pet The Dog"

[mossy flume]

I think I see Sakurai's career with Smash ending in one of two ways. He declines to make another one and that's the end of the series. Or he literally dies while making another one, like how he apparently nearly died while making Ultimate.

The man doesn't know how to sleep.

[feral tulip]

i think sakurai isnt making another one, how he talks about ult really seems like hes done with it

bascially confirming it awhile back

[thorny loom]

Yeah a lot of the older guard will probably be retiring or being replaced over the next decade

Heck. Miyamoto is 70 this year

[mossy flume]

He’s not dismissing the idea of doing another one

I read this as a not so subtle “I want a raise. Also here’s a reminder that I’m the only person who can make this game happen, with citations.”

But yeah, I sorta expect Ultimate to be the last one, more likely than not

[mossy flume]

No, lies.

Miyamoto is immortal.

He is ageless and always will be.

[river veldt]

good

i like him

[bleak lintel]

I think Smash is Sakurai's passion, every time he takes a break from the series he starts wanting to make the next one.

[visual hill]

Ultimate feels like it was designed as a platform

no other Smash game even comes close in terms of character count or DLC

I could see it sticking around for a loong time, not unlike Mario Kart 8 (which also has a lot more tracks than any other MK game with the Booster Course Pack)

[gaunt marten]

https://preview.redd.it/bzrcpf4f64fb1.png?width=468&auto=webp&s=23e66fc3c283398e98f03b6174ebda860b06487c

#1091169976217509918

[thorny loom]

https://www.pcgamesn.com/minecraft/rce-hack

Stay off minecraft for a bit

[sage iris]

Another day another RCE exploit

[green fulcrum]

Luckily none of the affected mods are ones that I use.

[graceful bridge]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/report-nintendos-next-console-ships-late-2024-still-supports-cartridges/

[mossy flume]

Yep, that tracks

Also sounds like a Switch-like device, so no real new info here

[river veldt]

neato

[slim thorn]

are we thinking it's going to be essentailly a higher spec Switch, no compat break or new gimmicks?

[river veldt]

i think that's most likely

i don't know tech jargon but the article said it'll have a higher CPU, idk if that means anything

[thorny loom]

Better specs so yes

The switch needs it

[slim thorn]

I mean, it does, but the CPU is one of several core components one would expect to be upgraded

[sage raptor]

Really hoping the new GPU is capable of DLSS

[thorny loom]

The switch is very underpowered conpared to other consoles

[sage raptor]

It's underpowered compared to 5 year old phones

[mossy flume]

That would be the most logical business move and given the chips available on the market/projected to be on the market in 2024, that’s again a rational bet to make.

[slim thorn]

since I don't game on my phone I have no frame of reference for that

[river veldt]

phone gaming

[mossy flume]

The only reason it may not be fully backwards compatible would be due to software design choices on Nintendo’s part, essentially

[fresh bane]

I don't generally like reading these articles that pretty much boil down to conjecture and ''the next console may be this or it may not be this!'' but they do mention that they're trying to keep costs down and so I'm not expecting a significant upgrade from the already existing switch which would be incredibly disappointing but again, I'd advice to keep whatever is said in these types of articles with a very small microscopic grain of salt

[river veldt]

i hope that if it is backwards compatible i can transfer over my very large digital games collection 🙃

[mossy flume]

I wouldn’t bet on it

[sage raptor]

I just hope it's emulatable as quickly as possible

[mossy flume]

Expect it to basically be a PS4 shoved into a portable form factor

But also ARM

[sage raptor]

That seems realistic

[mossy flume]

That’s basically what’s available in terms of hardware, after all.

[river veldt]

ARM stands for A Rare Mario

[sage raptor]

Yep. I expect Prime 4 to be a cross gen game, so hopefully it's a good showcase of the new hardware

[river veldt]

the ware is too hard

[sage raptor]

[river veldt]

warioware

[slim thorn]

the way people talk about the Switch specs feels deeply at odds with how well BotW/TotK performed for me

[river veldt]

we should only refer to Nintendo hardware and software as WarioWare

[mossy flume]

The first party games on Switch perform a lot better than the vast majority of second and third party titles, it’s weird

[sage raptor]

Botw/TotK run like dogfood on original hardware

[mossy flume]

I have to disagree with you there, they perform quite well

[sage raptor]

No they don't

If it doesn't bother you that's great. But let's not make stuff up

[slim thorn]

I remember frame drops when I played those games, but mostly for their novelty because they were so rare; most of the time I had great draw distance and smooth gameplay no matter what nonsense I was up to

[sage raptor]

Horrid frame drops whenever anything happens. Especially combat

[slim thorn]

weird, that is absolutely not my experience

[sage raptor]

Okay.

[slim thorn]

and my Switch was one of the old bundled-with-BotW ones so I assume it's the weakest of whatever spectrum of Switch submodels exist now

[rose rose]

Have there been any changes?

[slim thorn]

I feel like I've heard of a "switch lite"?

[fresh bane]

I've definitely heard complaints about TOTK over performance for sure

[rose rose]

Those exist but are not more performant

They just don't dock and the controllers aren't removable

Nintendo games tend to perform fine; it's everything else that is a disaster

[mossy flume]

Cheaper Switch, yeah, but same internal hardware

[slim thorn]

perhaps I just never did any of the things that hurt TotK's performance

[rose rose]

Even Switch exclusive games

(looking at you, Pokémon)

[mossy flume]

It’s not hard to force frame drops in any of the games if you arrange for a lot of physics related things to happen all at once, but the worst you’ll come across would be dropping to about 25FPS for a second.
BotW’s worst offender was the excessive fog effects in the Kokiri Forest where the Master Sword pedestal is located and that went down to about 20-ish at worst. But that’s the one thing that stands out in that game.

The rest of it is kinda impressive in how it manages to be quite performant for what amounts to 2014 mobile hardware.

But third parties, like Pokémon, are atrocious

Nintendo’s first party engineers know how to optimize for the hardware very well and it shows

[rose rose]

Looking forward to Call of Duty, Switch Edition

[mossy flume]

Yeah that’s gotta be cloud, there’s just no way

On the other hand, Metroid Dread, which is technically developed by a third party, has locked 60 FPS

[rose rose]

They aren't all terrible

Just very often.

[mossy flume]

Only some of the cutscenes in Dread will drop to the 50s very briefly (less than a second)

[river veldt]

da only times i have fps drops in TotK on my Switch Lite is when using Ultrahanf

[slim thorn]

I wonder how much of this is Nintendo having truly special insider knowledge of Switch hardware, and how much is them (presumably?) investing more in optimization than most third party devs

[mossy flume]

As I understand it, Nintendo doesn’t hide any special engineering knowledge from devs. I can only assume it’s just familiarity and taking the time to make the optimizations.

[rose rose]

I doubt they have any special knowledge, it's Generic Nvidia Mobile GPU

[mossy flume]

The most recent Pokémon games may have done better had Game Freak been given more time to work on it, who knows.

[rose rose]

I think they just actually care

[slim thorn]

my personal experience maintaining software with the occasional performance problem is that, at the level of complexity our apps have these days, client device performance tends to be either "faster than anyone would ever notice" or "so slow it's bad no matter how much hardware we throw at it" with very rarely anything in between

so if some of these games are just not getting optimized properly in the first place, I dunno how much better hardware helps

but I also have never tried emulating a Switch game

[rose rose]

I imagine most switch ports are just there to check the "there is a switch port" box, and there is not much interest in somehow making something that actually runs on ancient hardware

[slim thorn]

who has?

[rose rose]

I have, it is vastly better.

4K, 30 FPS, generally solid (60 sometimes if games have hacks to make that work)

[rose rose]

This is also far away from my experience

[mossy flume]

I have

[rose rose]

Which involves running the same software on phones and on watches (that have a quarter of the memory and processing speed).

Phones are easy, watches are a constant battle

[mossy flume]

And yes it is vastly better. Pokémon was vastly more playable on emulator than the actual games on actual hardware even before the damn games released

This has held for most Switch games, incidentally

[slim thorn]

I wonder if anyone's done a technical analysis on why the performance was so bad

[mossy flume]

Good question

TotK performed quite well on an emulator, even with visual glitches, in the ten days before TotK came out

[rose rose]

I originally thought a lot of the graphical weirdness in the emulator was emulator bugs.

I was wrong, the real hardware did them too

[mossy flume]

Only one of the visual glitches was!

The rest were just the game

It’s kinda sad

[slim thorn]

must've been fun being emu devs that week

[rose rose]

Yes sure drop everyone more than three metres away from me down to 3 FPS, nobody will notice.

Three metres is not, it turns out, very far away

[mossy flume]

The games are just not finished, I’m pretty convinced of that

[rose rose]

The other thing about this when it comes to emulation is that my computer has about three orders of magnitude more GPU compute than the Switch does.

A lot is forgiven at three orders of magnitude

[slim thorn]

oh

ok yeah I might be weird because the app I maintain doesn't do 3D graphics or other high-GPU usage stuff

[rose rose]

(CPU compute is much closer, at a mere forty times faster, or much less if single threaded)

[mossy flume]

A lot is also forgiven at 40x faster

Basically rendered any inefficiencies irrelevant

[rose rose]

Though the emulation part eats into some of that

[mossy flume]

Prime Remastered took a while to get done though

Yeah

Emulators were struggling with Prime Remastered for a while

JIT shader compilation required all over the place

[rose rose]

Of course my Switch draws seven watts and my computer draws about a hundred times that, too

Not just getting a thousand times faster for free here

[quiet swift]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1893810/Solium_Infernum/ Civ meets Doom?

Steam

Solium Infernum

Prepare yourself for Solium Infernum, the grand strategy game of politics, intrigue and betrayal, set in the ultimate arena of Hell. As a powerful fallen Archfiend, sinister overlords of the Infernal Kingdom of Hell, you are a contender for the Infernal Throne - the Great Dark Majesty is missing and the feverish Conclave demands a replacement de...

Release Date

Coming soon

▶ Play video

[graceful bridge]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/nes-nostalgia-at-your-fingertips-100-mechanical-keyboard-honors-80s-console/

[river veldt]

oh that's cool

[quiet apex]

that's really cool

i have like four of their controllers lol

[rancid herald]

https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/07/28/sdcc-2023-hasbro-show-floor-qa-legacy-studio-series-video-games-more-488215 this is... so dumb

I died inside

A: Sadly, apparently Activision’s not sure what hard drives they’re on in their building.```

[fickle garnet]

I just wanna play those games again

[fickle garnet]

Celeste is now on gamepass

[green fulcrum]

That's...actually a new one, lol.

Hats off to them

[visual hill]

that's not unexpected, most large game companies (especially those focused on publishing rather than developing) don't have dedicated people to categorize and manage legacy data

some companies clearly put in more effort than others, like Nintendo

[hushed onyx]

Yeah, this isn't actually new. For instance, Homeworld: Cataclysm (or whatever they're calling it these days, pace Blizzard...) wasn't included in the remastered version of the Homeworld games because it turned out that whatever records had existed of the source code and other raw data had been lost in the intervening time period (so GoG ended up rereleasing it with a WINE wrapper and not much else). Presumably they could have redone it more or less from scratch (but with significant elements already apparent from the finished game, particularly the campaign design), but felt that this wasn't worth the time and money it would have taken.

[thorny loom]

Similar thing happened to the original silent hill 2 and 3 for konami

They had to use unfinished beta builds for the silent hill hd collection

[quiet swift]

So, gamers: Best game to play while working? As in, likely a turn based game that you can do for 1-2 minutes per round (or more rounds in that time frame). Working from home, so no need to worry about alt tabbing

First thing that came to mind was civ games and slay the spire

[thorny loom]

Probably civ

[gaunt marten]

Idling to Rule the Gods, Slay the Spire, Wildfrost, Peglin, Factorio (peaceful mode), Rimworld, Dungeons of Dredmor, Monster Sanctuary

Into the Breach, XCOM 2, One Step From Eden, Europa Universalis.

[quiet swift]

[arctic fern]

https://vxtwitter.com/Faucillien/status/1686065707417559040

[wind stump]

lmao

[little badger]

@green fulcrum @mossy flume https://twitter.com/eurogamer/status/1686317025797296128?

Eurogamer (@eurogamer)

PSA: Baldur's Gate 3 weighs in at 122GB and there's no preload https://t.co/K8c3jOLlP0

Twitter · Aug 1, 2023, 10:04 AM

[bleak lintel]

And no midnight release.

[visual hill]

thicc

[quiet swift]

I went to my library a day or two ago and thought "ha ha, i'ma preload it!". Realized 10 seconds in "wait, this is just the EA stuff..."

[little badger]

[grim stirrup]

Rift wizard, pretty much all of the steamworld franchise, roguebook, loop hero, a million different vampire survivor likes (RICE, bio prototype, halls of torment etc), revita, a shit tonne of incremental games (trimps, evolve, theory of magic, incremental epic hero (1 or 2)), tiny rogues, the last spell, stacklands

i prob should have left the ping on for that list

[quiet swift]

Well loop hero's gonna be free this week on epic, so that's convenient

[quiet swift]

https://vxtwitter.com/matttwood/status/1685494621902917632

[grim stirrup]

all the ones in "incremental" section are free but require you to like incrementals and most of them are below like 5-10 anyway

[quiet swift]

I have a few vamp survivor style ones as well but that ain't exactly turn based

[grim stirrup]

true, but they're low enough complexity/short enough "sections" that you can either pause or and pickup extremely easily and/or essentialy have a minute or two long turns

the only one on the list i'd question for that would be halls of torment which is pretty long and bitey

[quiet swift]

I actually have been playing that one just not during work

[grim stirrup]

ye, its a very good game

just not for the thing request

[mossy flume]

Huh, not as hefty as I feared.

No preloading sucks though

[thorny loom]

Anime fortntie

https://vxtwitter.com/fortnitegame/status/1686377180174196737?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

[young creek]

LETS GOOOOOO

Im a Gojo main

I'm just saying....

[little badger]

It could’ve been bigger.

[random steppe]

No preloading sucks, I wonder if it's because of the Early Access build that makes it harder to organise

Like, with a preload they would have had to upload an unplayable version over a playable one, which would have been weird

[mossy flume]

It could also be a procedural issue on Valve’s side where if they have early access, doing preload is difficult or just not an option

[thorny loom]

My guess is since they have to update it and the update breaks saves they dont want peoples saves being overwritten before launch

[sage iris]

122GB? jeez

kinda wish it carried over the early access saves too so I could start playing already