general gaming

[slim thorn]

and even a lot of what happens after that is safe, there's a prie dieu up there

[gaunt marten]

See the elevator with the three heads? It can go up to three times. If you go up three times, go down once

[slim thorn]

anyway you don't need 100% items/health/fervour

[fresh bane]

I assumed as much but I went hunting for the last Miriam challenge and then went straight to the arcade, guess I can go take a look there now

[slim thorn]

afaik Isidora's the last major piece of content to do before you go meet the final bosses

[gaunt marten]

Have fun exploring

[slim thorn]

and, well, delivering Isidora's drop to the NPC that wants it

(in case you do finish the game tonight I should mention I'll have to go to sleep soon)

[fresh bane]

oh there's the last guy

Not sure how far away from the end I am so I don't know if I'll finish tonight especially if I'm gonna fight the optional bone lady boss

[slim thorn]

you're very close

[gaunt marten]

By the way, one of the fervor upgrades is in a super secret room. ||In the jail area, there's a right hallway with a lion-headed mace guy to the right and a door you emerge out of. Behind the mace guy is an exit you can backslide out of, but opposite the mace guy is a breakable wall.||

[fresh bane]

yuuuusss

[gaunt marten]

Very good

The final mea culpa upgrade is very helpful

[fresh bane]

I guess that's it for this area then..

I got the three dudes so I gotta do something with these items now

[slim thorn]

congratulations, you are now as guilt-wracked as it is possible for any mortal soul to be

[fresh bane]

awesome

[sage iris]

https://youtu.be/clKo8FrWJww

[fresh bane]

noooooooo dammit I was too late

[gaunt marten]

This quest is not easy to correctly do

[slim thorn]

a lot of the quests are hard to get the "good" ending for if you haven't already played the game or looked up the requirements

I don't think I got anyone's good ending my first time through

[fresh bane]

should I go with the goku prayer or the lightning prayer for this fight?

[fresh bane]

I literally did it in the worst possible order since I didn't get the required item until after I freed the lady

[gaunt marten]

Debla of lights is more damage and has invulnerability frames

[fresh bane]

I don't think I have that one

[slim thorn]

I'm pleasantly surprised that my favorite prayer is also Flitter's favorite because Flitter is actually good at optimal builds

[gaunt marten]

Talk to the guy in the confession window

Bring him all the remains he wants

You may also want the rosary bead that improves prayer damage and the one that makes prayers faster

[slim thorn]

ah the Tentudia quest?

[gaunt marten]

Yes

You need all three of her remains to get the prayer

[slim thorn]

I do remember completing that well before I finished my original run so that explains me having debla long enough to figure out I liked it

[fresh bane]

I had gotten the hair I think but I didn't seem to have given him all the other ones for some reason

I thought I'd give all of them at once

anyways, there it is

[slim thorn]

oh yeah, there are some NPC interactions where you have to talk multiple times to progress multiple steps in their quest

[fresh bane]

:ppinkiecharged:

Unnnnliimiteeed powaaaaa

[gaunt marten]

Personally, I use the lightning spell to deal with flying enemies out of frame, debla of light for bosses, lorquiana for situations where I don't want to get close, and the three sister spell for rooms with many enemies

[slim thorn]

I always forget to use prayers outside of boss fights so just debla and lorquiana when I'm thinking about it

[gaunt marten]

By the way, Ixrec, can you help me verify this translation? It's an AI generated location name
山の黄色い子姫の部屋

[slim thorn]

but yeah if you're worried about Isidora, having a debla build will make her wa easier

[gaunt marten]

The yellow mountain princess's room? Something like that?

[slim thorn]

sooooort of

one sec

[gaunt marten]

The yellow princess's mountain estate?

[slim thorn]

yama no kiiroi kohime no heya = the room of the yellow (ko???) princess of the mountain

so yes the main issue with your first guess is that the "yellow" applies to the princess, not to the mountain

the second issue is that "子姫" is... weird, I dunno why you'd put 子 in front of 姫

[gaunt marten]

Kohime is an archaic term for princess

[slim thorn]

"princess" is not the kind of word that needs a child version the way "cat" has "kitten"

[gaunt marten]

Makes sense

[slim thorn]

huh, ok, I wasn't seeing that in my dictionaries

...in fact google seems convinced that 子姫 only shows up in the proper name for a specific type of potato

but whatever it's AI-generated

[gaunt marten]

Thanks for the help. I'll mark this one as a bunk

[slim thorn]

and "room" is correct for 部屋, definitely not "estate"

I think that's everything in your guesses

[gaunt marten]

Yeah. I'm testing a product, and it appears to be good at Japanese despite little intentional training

[slim thorn]

and now I definitely need to sleep

[gaunt marten]

Good night

[fresh bane]

YEAAAAH

[gaunt marten]

Nice work

[fresh bane]

gimme yo orb lady

my playthrough really picked up in this latter half lots of fun stuff

Alright I've been playing for... 354 minutes

that's enough for now

Lots of progress, good sesh fun stuff (Miriam challenges aside)

Apparently most of these skins I got are from the very last update so that's nice

love her design though, it's like a mix of Malenia with Sister Friede, the absolute most terrifying combination

Love the Souls trope of ''the hardest bosses in the entire game are usually female''

[light gate]

"The most powerful Xbox ever, now adorably all digital".

So they just straight up removed disc backwards compatibility with the 360 disc games and xbox og disc games.

They made it look like an Apple's Mac Pro trashcan, and somehow a lookalike bootleg at that. I guess innovation can be done!

[fresh bane]

Oh somehow I missed that entire conversation

it looks like a giant speaker

[light gate]

A bad speaker since its facing upwards.

Far from you.

[gaunt marten]

Alexa, design a game console for me

[static bluff]

It'll only play Amazon games

Game*

[fresh bane]

''what's the perfect game console design? Why one that looks like me but bigger of course ''

[rose rose]

The Xbox Series S doesn't have any disc support either.

At this point I'm pretty sure disc drives are only included on consoles at all because people throw fits if they aren't there and then don't use them anyway.

[light gate]

Sure, I don't like exposed discs to be honest. But this still implies they're removing backwards compatibility, and some folks who were planning on getting an Xbox on that will now have to buy the current variant fast before the refresh.

So that's neat.

[rose rose]

For certain values of "fast" meaning "sometime in the next two years"

Assuming none of these timelines have slipped and the plans are still unchanged

Since 2020, famously a year that had no impacts on scheduling

[dire gate]

Backward compatibility is such a double-edged sword

[light gate]

It is.

Always has been.

Imagine when technology starts to deprecate current cpus in favor of RISC-V or ARM for the masses, or if you're Microsoft... Cloud computing.

[rose rose]

Consoles have gone through many random architecture changes

The 360 discs you mention cannot possibly actually run on an Xbox Series X except through emulation anyway.

[dire gate]

moving to digital downloadables kinda help in terms of compatibility

Unless you're Nintendo and do a literal reset moving on to the next console

[light gate]

Correct, but they use the discs as a way to verify that you "own it" and allows you to play said game.

While still being inside of course.

[rose rose]

I don't think a move to ARM would be terribly relevant to that.

[gaunt marten]

They could still do something like that

[light gate]

lots of things be happenin

[mossy flume]

I think it’s impossible to determine anything based on these leaks. They’re far too early into the planning stages for generation 10 to mean anything at all.

[light gate]

Knowing Microsoft, they'll probably do whatever comes out first at this point.

[rose rose]

I do not understand

[true maple]

is there a BotW thread? discord's forum search function blows chunks

[river veldt]

we have a Zelda thread

#1067547311640678480

[robust latch]

LOL why is Zelda and Hamataro combined?

[white phoenix]

Yeah I was thinking about that, seems hilariously random
I've been searching if there's actually a secret crossover or something

[mossy flume]

Someone was playing the GBA Hamtaro game and found it was pretty much a 2D Zelda ripoff in its design, so that thread combo happened during the discussion

[robust latch]

LOL

[dire gate]

Oh it was Hamtaro

I had to realize it is Hamtaro

[fresh bane]

I don't think Hamtaro is a 'rip off' of Zelda

Ixrec just happened to read about Hamtaro and played it and was talking about it there

[dire gate]

I was seriously wondering what Hamataro is, I thought it was some obscure game franchise or something

[river veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/hamster-cute-gif-23266049

[static bluff]

It's little hamsters big adventures

[dire gate]

I know Hamtaro

I thought Hamataro is something different.

[fresh bane]

I think someone else had changed the name and probably misspelled it

[river veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/nuts-hamster-cute-gif-15369202

i love this fucker

i would kill for him

[thorny loom]

Hamatro

[hushed onyx]

A really good example of this comes from...the military. It is pretty much a truism that any military worth its weight will have plans to fight basically everyone else on the planet, partially because, hey, now you have a plan just in case and partially because it gives staff officers and especially trainees at war colleges something somewhat useful to do.

[dire gate]

"Sir we need money for a new weapon"
"Why, you already have enough"
"But what if"

[fresh bane]

but what if bigger gun for bigger pew pew

[dire gate]

Yakuza 8, Jan 26, official.

[slim thorn]

I would also not say "rip off", especially since Hamtaro (shockingly) didn't have any of the Zelda combat

but it was made by Shigeru Miyamoto, and the easiest way to describe Ham-Ham Heartbreak's core gameplay loop is run around talking to NPC hamsters and picking up/using items, which feels a lot like the overworld quests you'd typically get in a Zelda game

so yes it was natural to bring up in that thread and that's why the joke name happened

I have fixed the typo

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/ign/status/1704435503905354094?

IGN (@IGN)

Mortal Kombat 1 proves to be too much for the Switch. The load times are egregious, there are numerous bugs plaguing both graphics and gameplay, making for a poor quality port of a great game that's all around aggravating to play. Our review: https://t.co/gaJPvUPCwD

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Twitter · Sep 20, 2023, 10:01 AM

[slim thorn]

when was the last time a major game got a 3/10

[little badger]

That’s just for the switch version.

[slim thorn]

yes, I read the tweet

[little badger]

Normal got an 8

Which is good

[little badger]

I’m not sure the last time a game got a 3/10 for the switch

[static bluff]

lol a three

That's wild

[teal cliff]

I completely get it though

we kinda left shitty demakes behind back in the 7th console gen

if you can't release a game for a console at this point... just don't

If this were 2008 and we were seeing the newest COD released as a shitty downgrade on PS2 people would be kinda numb to it, but that practice has been kinda dead recently.

[slim thorn]

mm-hmm, that made sense in a time when people mostly picked a single console because of the vibe of exclusives it tended to have and simply could never play all the other platforms' games, but now that most games we care about are either cross-platform or are PC + 1 console "exclusive", the norm is either do at least some of your gaming on PC, buy a console that's powerful enough to play everything, or buy the Nintendo console and play mostly Nintendo games

[teal cliff]

Also developers tend to care about their brand and image, and if you release a shitty demake for a console it makes the console look bad

Like if you wanna play the real MK1 you need xbox or playstation, but the Switch gets a pity port thats total trash. Makes the Switch look underpowered and very cheap

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/ign/status/1704465703489642570?

IGN (@IGN)

The Nintendo Switch version of Mortal Kombat 1 is currently the butt of many internet jokes for its eye-popping visuals. Now, NetherRealm's Ed Boon said the Nintendo Switch version will "absolutely be getting an update." https://t.co/uzhi079p9J

Twitter · Sep 20, 2023, 12:01 PM

[teal cliff]

Sure Ed.

[slim thorn]

they say this every time a game is received poorly, it doesn't even count as news unless and until they actually dramatically improve it

(even Redfall's gotten better since launch, but not enough that it would make sense to start telling people to give it a fair chance, the way we do with No Man's Sky now)

[teal cliff]

No Man's Sky was only possible because it wasn't a larger company

Games like Anthem can't be rescued even if the developers are willing and capable because their executives just cut their losses.

[dire gate]

Cyberpunk2077

[little badger]

I wonder how much testing they did for the switch

[teal cliff]

CDPR is a smaller company than EA still
Cyberpunk 2077 never actually got that good it just got some bugfixes

No Man's Sky is a different video game than when it released

[untold vigil]

2077 was always decent it just got better

I will die on this hill

[slim thorn]

yeah, a lot of the famous flops were still decent games even in their poor launch state, especially if you knew where to look for the better and worse content

[gaunt marten]

The Witcher 3 did show they have a track record of significantly improving games beyond launch

[slim thorn]

the fame comes from the gap between hype/expectations and reality

[teal cliff]

The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk show CDPR can release whatever they want and get praised for it

[gaunt marten]

The Witcher 3 was great

[static bluff]

I also think the main story line of Starfield is fun.

[gaunt marten]

It wasn't idle praise

[dire gate]

Pokemon Company be like: ha hold my pokebeer

[graceful bridge]

https://youtu.be/4N89J4r_C1E?si=0nbQPUIWVTYsfK1t

[wind stump]

"This game is stressful and I am not good at it."
Yeah

I feel that

[quiet swift]

What would be games that managed a good comeback? NMS obviously, and I'd say Cyberpunk is on the list as well. I played it about 6-7 months after release and it was fine. Some minor bugs still but not the stuff that was at launch. What else is there?

cyberpunk

That started out as a lot worse

[dire gate]

ffxiv

[graceful bridge]

Fallout 76

[quiet swift]

Ah yes, that's a good one.

[untold vigil]

Hot take but we hype things, especially games, up too much these days

Is 76 actually fun now?

[teal cliff]

For Honor.

[dire gate]

https://x.com/CanYouPetTheDog/status/1704133249046397087 What a great way to motivate players

Can You Pet the Dog? (@CanYouPetTheDog)

When Lies of P begins, Spring the cat is openly hostile to the player. However, as the player gains Humanity throughout the game, Spring will gradually become more affectionate.

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Twitter · Sep 19, 2023, 2:00 PM

[graceful bridge]

Yup! It's basically a multiplayer Fallout game now, with NPCs, a storyline, and such. It's honestly one of the most polished Bethesda Fallouts now.

[untold vigil]

Huh

Multiplayer is still a turn off but i'm glad it's fun now

[wind stump]

CanYouPetTheDog
Post is clearly about a cat

I'VE BEEN MISLED

[graceful bridge]

Honestly, F76 has one of the nicest communities I've run into. Lots of folks help out newbies, giving them free stuff or help with a quest. There's some jerks, but they're not as common as most multiplayer games.

[random steppe]

Also Cyberpunk is a good game, it just was a failure of marketing setting the expectations waaaay wrong for that game (and well, releasing on last gen consoles that clearly couldn't handle the game was also a mistake)

Don't get me wrong, they deserved all the shit they got

[graceful bridge]

If anyone joins F76 on PC, let me know. I can throw some things your way to help, or craft some items for you.

#1032717462753517681

[random steppe]

But if the expectations for the game were "Eh, Deus Ex HR with a better story and some okay open world mechanics" it'd have been a whole different ballpark

[uneven epoch]

the prospect of playin two mmo games is terrifying in the sense that my free time is already heavily single minded

[random steppe]

It's probably gonna be doable once you reach the end of MSQ, it becomes a lot more seasonal as a game unless you do savage raiding

[uneven epoch]

last weekend i was chattin with my sister n she asked me "so how far are you in that game you play all the time anyway?" (meanin ff14) n when i explained that if i wanted to i can always find something to do, she in a very dramatic fashion said "but that means you're NEVER playing another game again!"

which was just a little bit funny but also, rood, i literally played like two levels of mario odyssey with her that day

and i mean im totally not obsessed with ff14 side content. definitely not. what are you talkin about

[random steppe]

There are a couple of nuggets sidecontent that you can do for a long time, or that is repeatable (eureka and Bozja, or the Island) but for the most part you do catch up and finish the stuff.

We should also try to reach level 200 of POTD, it shouldn't be that impossible in 2, I kinda stopped trying SOLO for the moment but I'll eventually get back to it

I learned way too many things about that place to give up with nothing to show for it

[uneven epoch]

deep dungeon stuff would b fun to do again, i kinda miss it

there's also one in ew, is there not?

[random steppe]

Yes

I do know only POTD relatively well tho

[uneven epoch]

coolio, ill definitely try it out when i get there

[random steppe]

For the later levels

[wind stump]

days without the FFXIV thread leaking: 0

am just having a laff

[uneven epoch]

so long as we keep the memes in that thread its fine lmao

[heady bridge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wzSw2iuk_8

[astral steeple]

missed the convo, but they should have just released the new mortal kombat game on the normal xbox one tbh lol

would have looked and ran way better

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/bethesda/status/1704495661775724929?

Bethesda (@bethesda)

The Underking bids you all a happy 27 years of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall today. 🎉

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Twitter · Sep 20, 2023, 2:00 PM

[wind stump]

Oui oui, Emily

You know it's hard to make a "Spot the main character" joke when everyone is technically a main character, this being set in an MMO and all.

Fucking backseat mods, i stg
he already looks like he needs to touch grass with that hair, that attitude just sealed it

this game has fun characters

[gaunt marten]

It's a good game

Though they should probably make more character art

They reuse too much

https://i.imgur.com/5SZkqAG.png

That's every Blasphemous achievement

(Turns out, the achievement where you need to talk to corpses requires you to talk to each one and then wait for the dialog to finish or else it won't trigger)

[fickle garnet]

I got Mortal Kombat 1. Its pretty fun

[wind stump]

hm oke
so so far in CrossCode there's the Trial of the Ancients as the presumably the Main Questline
and apparently despite the advances in AI they can't pass the Turing Test

i can imagine that will age poorly

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/ign/status/1704512029791330723?

IGN (@IGN)

Overall, Phantom Liberty has a much firmer grasp on what kinds of stories can be told in Night City. Check out our full review of the Cyberpunk 2077 expansion here: https://t.co/dJSDtcvURr

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Twitter · Sep 20, 2023, 3:05 PM

[slim thorn]

now you can play Blasphemous 2!

[gaunt marten]

I'm waiting for it to go on sale

[quiet swift]

You wait for everything to go on sale

[slim thorn]

yep

[gaunt marten]

That's right. That's how I can afford to buy a lot of games on a very limited budget

[slim thorn]

purchasing power parity is a meanie

[gaunt marten]

The game won't rot or anything, so I might as well wait until it's ripe

[thorny loom]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/rack-up-charges-playing-fortnite-you-may-be-able-to-claim-a-refund/ar-AA1gXtr4

[gaunt marten]

I got Blasphemous for 23.97 SR at the same time I got Wargroove.

The full price is 89.99 SR

So I got it for six dollars at 26% of the price. Right now if I wanted Blasphemous 2 I would have to pay four times as much https://i.imgur.com/9Ce0iAP.png

I don't think it's four times as good

[slim thorn]

B2 is pretty much exactly one Blasphemous of content, yes, lol

[white phoenix]

https://youtu.be/oSQb8AT84Co @fresh bane look it's elizabeth, with the same voice actress too!

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/insomniacgames/status/1704518277689385403?

Insomniac Games (@insomniacgames)

WE ARE GOLD! We're thrilled to share the news ahead of #SpiderMan2PS5's launch on October 20, 2023 with a few words from the game's cast! #BeGreaterTogether

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Twitter · Sep 20, 2023, 3:30 PM

[mossy flume]

Oooo nice

[little badger]

[rancid herald]

i REMEMBER WHEN THAT USED TO MEAN SOMETHING

shit

[mossy flume]

That royal canterlot voice just slips out sometimes.

[wind stump]

I was about to send this to my P3 obsessed friend but he already watched it and told me not to watch this one because spoilers abound

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/wario64/status/1704528201626821095?

Wario64 (@Wario64)

Nintendo now supports passkey authentication for Nintendo Accounts https://t.co/IZBAA9qOPH

Setup passkey: https://t.co/oyI77XaP4Z

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Twitter · Sep 20, 2023, 4:09 PM

[mossy flume]

I noticed that on 1Password’s list last night. Surprising development.

[white phoenix]

Oh yeah I can see that

[mossy flume]

Physical Tunic manual has finally shipped.

[gaunt marten]

Nice

[slim thorn]

[little badger]

Nice.

[quiet swift]

[wind stump]

https://youtu.be/t5p6GXXzCWk my childhood has been destroyed

[slim thorn]

oh no

it was so bad he couldn't even call the video "Was it any good?"

[wind stump]

that's just what the series is called
but in this case i think the title is justified

[little badger]

@sage iris https://twitter.com/epicgames/status/1704526253129175186?

Epic Games Store (@EpicGames)

Play the Ghostrunner 2 Demo now on the Epic Games Store 👀

Ghostrunner 2 launches October 26, 2023! https://t.co/d7ws4CsWkm

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Twitter · Sep 20, 2023, 4:01 PM

[sage iris]

Oooh neat

Yeah I might try it

Launching pretty soon too, nice

[random steppe]

I don't need to play the demo, after playing the 1st one I know I want to play it

[random steppe]

To clarify things, in his "worst MMO ever" he doesn't usually just bashes a game, it's just how the series is called, it's actually often pretty positive on the games he tries, within the low expectations of a budget or old MMO

[slim thorn]

ah, I was not aware of this series

[thorny loom]

Roblox doing a dumb

[gaunt marten]

Why? This seems good to me

[slim thorn]

seems reasonable as written

who knows if it'll be enforced, and it's a drop in the bucket compared to all the other issues, but this specific policy sounds desirable

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/playstationuk/status/1704544982609043704?

Codes for skins armoured core.

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/counterstrike/status/1704541038633959492? Could be releasing next Wednesday.

CS2 (@CounterStrike)

What are you doing next Wednesday?

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Twitter · Sep 20, 2023, 5:00 PM

[thorny loom]

It would make a lot of roblox games unplayable.

Since you couldn’t do thing such as sell gear or cosmetics to players due how broad the language is

It looks like they already backed down from it

[slim thorn]

I am confused how that comes out of the wording above, but I guess it bols down to a lack of familiarity with Roblox that makes it pointless for me to discuss further

[gaunt marten]

It literally says that you must sell cosmetics though

It says that if you use a marketplace item in an experience that's not yours, you gotta prompt the players to buy that item and I'd they decline you have to ask again each time. Additionally you can't bypass this system by using items that are no longer for sale

[sage iris]

Thanks for letting me know

[slim thorn]

speaking of foxes

my Tunic rando is apparently cursed to always make me do early backwards quarry

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1087964166100357130/1154105302619262996/image.png

[little badger]

No problem Merc

[fresh bane]

Oh mah gah

Can't replace perfection

I wonder if I can finish P3P before P3R comes out

[random steppe]

I think the point is, in Roblox you can kinda make games using items you have.

So let's say I have a fancy sword, and in the game I make, the player that is playing can use that sword that I put in my game to kill something.

The changes says that when they do, they have to be prompted to buy a sword equivalent from their store when they equip it, and if they can't, I can't use it that way in the making of my games.

That probably wouldn't be that bad, except that it's retroactive which means if I did 12 games that used that sword I have to go change them now.

I think Roblox is generally dumb but the change is just annoying as hell and I can sympathyse for that

[little badger]

Did the codes work for you?

[random steppe]

Not sure, I finished the game and uninstalled it a few days ago, thanks for the thought tho

[slim thorn]

yeah that makes more sense

[little badger]

No problem.

[slim thorn]

we'd probably need an actual Roblox expert to judge it, depends so much on context

[random steppe]

If they had to apologise it was probably pretty bad, Roblox users are used to be exploited like mules, if they got mad it must have been egregious

[static bluff]

Oh gosh no I disagree there. Like a lot of platforms, any time they make any change, I hear a lot about it from the ravid fanbase. It's like people you use YouTube, though, they will still use YouTube

actually now that I think about it, YouTube never apologizes so I take it back.

[slim thorn]

at youtube's scale it's kinda impossible to make them apologize lol

[random steppe]

Youtube acts more like a force of nature

They don't have a face, don't care, they just exist

[gaunt marten]

That makes sense. If it's retroactive then it's gonna screw over a lot of people

[random steppe]

You don't expect the river that flooded your basement to apologise

[gaunt marten]

If I had the river's email I will ask it to apologize

[slim thorn]

every userbase contains a range of people who inherently dislike change and inherently kinda don't care, so it takes a lot of experience with the userbase to judge what it an unusual bad reaction, as well as feedback channels that make it possible to judge that at all instead of just amplifying the low signal users

[gaunt marten]

Today I found https://store.steampowered.com/app/2276930/Chillquarium/

Steam

Chillquarium

Chillquarium is a relaxing idle game, where you buy fish and raise them in real time, then sell them to turn a profit or keep them around to earn money through ticket sales! Unlock rare fish through booster packs!Create a feeding frenzy to grow your fish!Complete your collection of 100 unique fish, and unlock rare and ultra-rare color variants f...

Price

$5.99

Recommendations

575

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It's Insaniquarium but only the real time mode

[static bluff]

oh i think i have Insaniquarium

[gaunt marten]

Have you played it?

[static bluff]

Yes!

[gaunt marten]

That's about how long the campaign is

[static bluff]

There's a decent chance you were the one to tell me about this game, lol

[gaunt marten]

True

False

#manechat message

I kinda mentioned it once while you were around, but that's it

[thorny loom]

Man thay game takes me back too onoda

I remember playing it on my computer when i was 7

[flint iron]

Pet simulator were my thing but insaniquarium was a mix of that and management because of the enemies you have to constantly deal with

[gaunt marten]

I view insaniquarium as mostly management

[thorny loom]

They made a spiritual successor to it kinda

[gaunt marten]

That's why I brought it up in the first place

See up

Yes

That's what I posted

[thorny loom]

Oh it was same game lol

I played this one alot https://store.steampowered.com/app/16120/Plant_Tycoon/

Steam

Plant Tycoon

Plant Tycoon is a gardening sim game where you nurture plants and experiment with increasingly rare and valuable species. The object is to breed and cross breed plants until you find the 6 Magic Plants of Isola and solve the genetic puzzle. You start with a couple of dollars, a handful of seeds, some soil and water. Grow plants, organize and har...

Price

$9.99

Recommendations

143

[gaunt marten]

Oh, no trailer? Weird

I remember playing their other game

https://store.steampowered.com/app/16180/Virtual_Villagers__The_Secret_City/

Steam

Virtual Villagers - The Secret City

Embark on a journey with a group of villagers in search of a new part of the island to populate. Land on the hidden shores of the northern side of Isola and explore what was once a secret city. Find new sources of food to nourish your villagers and help them rebuild the remains of this mysterious city. Who lived here before? Where have they gone...

Price

$9.99

Recommendations

104

[green fulcrum]

Holy crap, Virtual Villagers. I remember playing that when I was a kid.

[arctic fern]

oh man insane aquarium! love that series

[green fulcrum]

I remember it having a really shitty thing about it though where you had to log onto the game every day or else your villagers would die randomly. One time I didn't log in for two days and when I logged back on all the villagers were dead, and that was the day I never played it again as a kid.

[arctic fern]

game not series

whatever

[minor plover]

yeah, game mechanics that are like "you missed a day so things go very bad" are good for keeping people around short-term, but as soon as something happens (like, a vacation or illness or being out late or whatever) it can make people give up on a game. I'm glad most games have gotten away from that nowadays.

[white phoenix]

the only important parts of the new p3r trailer without the spoilers https://twitter.com/NSuperGamerGuy/status/1704435068704346316 https://twitter.com/ScrambledFaz/status/1704422714071556132

Nathan (@NSuperGamerGuy)

Shes so silly I love her so much 😭

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Twitter · Sep 20, 2023, 9:59 AM

Faz (@ScrambledFaz)

Elizabeth singing in Persona 3 Reload

full new trailer: https://t.co/tsVpbD1O9L

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Twitter · Sep 20, 2023, 9:10 AM

[wind stump]

"Velvet oh velvet"
and "My master has a long nose" are some of her victory lines in P4UU

Which on a tangentally related note
I DID ALL 3 TOWERS FOR NOTHING?

Strangely I got the achievement for clearing 3 towers before the one for clearing 2

i think this game didn't intend for me to beat Normal/Hard with two stars (one for getting halfway up and the other for doing the full thing, since the enemies scale up massively after the halfway point)

[fresh bane]

I was surprised that so many clips of the trailer were just the date with Elizabeth

She is best girl though

https://tenor.com/view/persona-persona3p3elizabeth-persona3elizabeth-gif-26118772

[wind stump]

P3 fans want one thing and it's DISGUSTING

the sweet release of death Elizabeth

[fresh bane]

a toaster a date with an interdimensional socially awkward silly magical lady

[wind stump]

well i suppose she does use Thanatos so you could have both

[fresh bane]

I wonder if I could finish P3P before P3R releases....

the only bad part about P3P is no animated cutscenes or fully 3D overworld

[white phoenix]

about to commit even more poor financial decisions https://twitter.com/ScrambledFaz/status/1704358158850793739

Faz (@ScrambledFaz)

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Aigis Orgia Mode EX figure announced

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Twitter · Sep 20, 2023, 4:53 AM

THE BLUE THING ON HER CHEST GLOWS

[wind stump]

i believe that's her Origa mode she uses in game

and FUCK I hate fighting that FUCKING TOASTER

the ai is relentless with her Bullshit™️

[fresh bane]

https://tenor.com/view/aegis-aigis-persona3-persona-gif-22312730

be nice to her now

[thorny loom]

Meanwhile i was the kid who would lock the sims in a house and make the oven catch fire

[white phoenix]

least psychopathic sims player

[white phoenix]

tara platt confirmed to be returning
everyone's VA changed except elizabeth

[fresh bane]

Can't change what's already perfect

[white phoenix]

saw a theory wondering if this was a small hint at this actually being an alternate universe but with the same elizabeth, which could lead to ff7 remake style shenanigans...

[fresh bane]

I hope not

I don't like the FF7R

[river veldt]

FFVIIR kicks ass though

[uneven epoch]

meanwhile, in the ff14 thread....

(the game is really really good but wow was today a rollercoaster)

[arctic fern]

is that ff14 or rimworld?

[uneven epoch]

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/playstation/status/1704576934682771853?

PlayStation (@PlayStation)

You’re invited to Bath Vegas 🫧

Foamstars’ Open Beta Party kicks off Sep 29 on PS5. Full schedule & what to expect: https://t.co/fRn1HDyTO5

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Twitter · Sep 20, 2023, 7:23 PM

[mossy flume]

Me: Huh, weird, I can't find Assassin's Creed Mirage on Steam. When is it coming out?

it's not coming to Steam, only Ubisoft's store
Me: ....okay, so when is it coming to Steam?

[wind stump]

You mean, "when is it coming to your local piracy site"

[mossy flume]

Well it'll have denuvo, so probably not for a while.

[fresh bane]

It'll probably come out on Steam whenever their store fails again like when they released all other AC games on steam

Why anyone would actually want to buy another AC game is beyond me but I don't judge

[mossy flume]

Yeah, they said not too long ago that they'll just put all their stuff on Steam going forward. I guess they gave up on that very quickly.

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/crystaldynamics/status/1704583569002348962?

Crystal Dynamics (@CrystalDynamics)

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Twitter · Sep 20, 2023, 7:49 PM

[fresh bane]

I guess they wanna see if they can actually convince people to use their store one last time

[mossy flume]

Well now I don't know when I'm going to get to play Mirage, then

Actually using the Ubi launcher on my computer upstairs sounds annoying.

[wind stump]

I'm pretty sure denuvo no longer works effectively

[mossy flume]

There are still over a hundred denuvo games that haven't been cracked despite being out for some years.

[wind stump]

Hmm.

[mossy flume]

Only one or two denuvo games were cracked in 2022 from what I'm reading

Denuvo is very hard.

The only reasons Denuvo games actually get cracked are because of...

1. implementation errors which break it
2. Dev or publisher releases a version without it

When properly implemented, it just... isn't.

Empress seems to be the only person who has been able to successfully break Denuvo (or at least some specific versions of it) outright but they don't do very many games.

It also takes them like three weeks of solid work.

Publishers have a habit of taking Denuvo out a few months after release anyway.

[slim thorn]

I wonder exactly what reasoning they use for that

[mossy flume]

I think it's for performance reasons

[slim thorn]

I get that the main purpose of DRM is to inhibit piracy during the hype peak of launch day where you can convert many of those potential pirates into customers through mere inconvenience

but why go to the trouble of removing it afterward

performance? hm, maybe

[mossy flume]

And only the first month of release is the most critical time for revenue once a game comes out. Afterwards the effect of piracy isn't the most meaningful impact on revenue in the world.

[slim thorn]

I've actually never seen numbers on Denuvo perf impact

[mossy flume]

I've seen a lot of mixed claims about its impact, but I think something like 10% hit is roughly what I typically see

[slim thorn]

damn, okay, that makes sense on that metric alone then

[mossy flume]

(Incidentally this overhead is why there's concern about Denuvo for Switch...)

[slim thorn]

I also wonder if there's an element of, after the hype peak you spent all that marketing budget on, maybe allowing piracy is more effective for long tail sales from word of mouth?

[mossy flume]

I could believe that.

[slim thorn]

likely depends a lot on audience size and genre and so on

[mossy flume]

Piracy does have a moderately positive impact on sales sometimes.

[minor plover]

I really loved the shareware era for that

[fresh bane]

As someone who grew up on a place where piracy is the norm I've come to realize a lot of people had the same experience of pirating either because they're kids and don't have money or just don't have money to buy games anyways, or they're just testing the game to see if it runs

Honestly the only people that still pirate regardless I've noticed are just assholes and always have this "lol who cares I'll pirate anyway" attitude

[minor plover]

like, everyone played DooM's Knee Deep In The Dead. A lot of people pirated the rest and DooMII. But a lot of people decided it was worth buying. And people still buy it years later for $5 or whatever.

[mossy flume]

I was struggling financially and that's how I got into piracy, given that demos weren't available or I just wouldn't be able to afford to buy the game for months or years. I did eventually buy all the games I could down the road.

[fresh bane]

As kids our schools gave us these little laptops that they were implementing into every school and one of the default apps it had was Doom lol

So as kids we played Doom all the time

[mossy flume]

I've never played the original Doom XD

[minor plover]

a few weeks ago my wife actually bought some piano music that she'd photocopied when she was a kid

[mossy flume]

Maxis games, Star Wars, Lego, and Nintendo games were my thing.

[minor plover]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm8y6kzXwEU is one of her showcase pieces and she was trying to get back into piano and was like "I don't seem to have my music, well, I should probably pay the 5 bucks and have a legit copy anyway"

[fresh bane]

I couldn't say if piracy has any positive impact on sales but then again I come from a region where piracy is and has always been extremely common and also probably is not the main demographic for sales for most companies anyways

[slim thorn]

I... don't even know what that is

unless it's just one of the base game's level names

[thorny loom]

Yeah. They did that for a while generally after a year itll be on steam on a sale

I just buy it on there store because it makes you use it regardless of steam purchase or not

[gaunt marten]

Episode one of three

Has like nine or eight levels

[thorny loom]

Steam sales for early 2024

[gaunt marten]

When Doom was originally released, you were free to share the game as long as you didn't share episodes two and three

(later, an unofficial episode 4 was made by one of the creators)

[minor plover]

episodes 1-4 were packaged together in an official release at some point

[slim thorn]

it is very interesting that demos are so rare now

[fresh bane]

Ultimate Doom in 95

[gaunt marten]

You've missed out the demo renaissance

[slim thorn]

I can only assume it means that the number of people who will buy a full-priced AAA release on launch based on advertisements and preview footage vastly outnumbers those of us who would only be won over by playable gameplay

oh did they come back?

[gaunt marten]

Steam Next Fests offer developers increased visibility if their games have demos

[slim thorn]

I don't even know what that is

[fresh bane]

Remember when games had demos bundled into other games

And sometimes the full version of the game was in the demo so people speedrun it

[gaunt marten]

It's an irregular valve organized event that showcases unreleased games so you can play the demo and wishlist it

[rose rose]

Does games having a demo available three weeks per year qualify for a renaissance?

[fresh bane]

#1032716748887179434 message

[gaunt marten]

Well it's resulted in a lot more games having demos even out of the organized time

[rose rose]

Especially since I'm pretty sure they have a tendency to disappear the demos after the week is over

[fresh bane]

RE4 and SF6 had demos and that was sick

[rose rose]

"there was a demo but it's gone now" is a thing I've run in to several times

[slim thorn]

case in point, that's a list of 7-8 sales/festivals/events/etc in the span of maybe 3 months

[gaunt marten]

All I know is I see demos a lot more often when I look at game pages nowadays

[slim thorn]

there are just too dang many for anyone to keep track of it all while also actually playing the games

[rose rose]

Also "there is a demo but it's only on Windows despite the game being available on various other platforms"

[arctic fern]

lol steam fix your shit

[mossy flume]

People makie demos and then take them down? Why? I thought only Nintendo did that and that always came across as extremely weird

[fresh bane]

Not weird at all, pretty in line with Nintendo

[rose rose]

Taking down demos for unreleased games does seem understandable

They are not necessarily representative later on

[mossy flume]

Well, yeah, but it is nonetheless a very weird decision to make

Nintendo also does this for games that are released

Or puts a timer or limit on number of times they can be launched

[rose rose]

Lots of companies do time-limited demos but they instead call them Open Betas.

[rose rose]

Well this one is a pretty standard variety of demo

[gaunt marten]

Don't want players to have so much fun that they lose interest in the game

[harsh kestrel]

Foam Stars does sound like an interesting combination

[mossy flume]

Is there anything that Not Splatoon™️ offers over Splatoon aside from "It's on PlayStation"?

[fresh bane]

Can't give people enough time to actually think and force them into the purchase with an artificial arbitrary limit

[rose rose]

Isn't the point of a demo to have an artificial arbitrary limit

In order to get people to buy the entire game

[mossy flume]

Well ideally the demo is just a small slice of a game

[rose rose]

The foam is three dimensional! I don't know whether the game does anything interesting with this but it feels like it could

[mossy flume]

Adding a timer and other limits on top of that slice seems unnecessary

I don't care, I just find it weird

[rose rose]

Sony has an entire section of time-limited playstation demos.

[mossy flume]

TIL

[slim thorn]

I could understand time limits being the ideal definition of a demo for certain genres, like maybe roguelites?

a time limit on top of regular slicing does sound like overkill though

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/gamespot/status/1704603364389241033?

GameSpot (@GameSpot)

Dead Space Co-Creator Glen Schofield Leaves Callisto Protocol Studio https://t.co/2xEt9eGVdZ

Twitter · Sep 20, 2023, 9:08 PM

[rose rose]

It's worth noting that these are all "here is the entire game, you can play it for four hours" or similar.

[slim thorn]

yeah, that makes sense

[rose rose]

I used the Cyberpunk 2077 demo to extract the save game from the PS5 after they launched cross saves

[slim thorn]

"the save game"?

[rose rose]

(I originally refunded it but then played through the entire game before Sony actually took back the licenses a month later, so I had a state where I had a saved game but no license to play it)

The demo, being the full game but with a time limit, picked up the old save and uploaded it into the CDPR cloud

Where I later picked it up from a PC copy

[slim thorn]

oh your save

[rose rose]

Yes, sorry

[fresh bane]

I'm not talking about demos

Even if I was, getting rid of a demo is dumb, pretty sure the chainsaw demo is still up

[rose rose]

But the topic is demos

[fresh bane]

and I was replying to something Midnight said about nintendo games that are released

[rose rose]

Which was also about demos.

[river veldt]

good song
https://youtu.be/BtdvQkLGmGQ?feature=shared

[visual hill]

Denuvo generally impacts performance in CPU-bound situations, but not GPU-bound situations. A lot of recent AAA releases are CPU-bound though, even without Denuvo

[visual hill]

were these OLPC laptops by any chance?

[thorny loom]

Most games nowadays remove it after 6 months to a year after launch now

[visual hill]

I remember the "hype" around giving laptops to children in schools

and OLPC was one of the most notable ones

[thorny loom]

I remember that too cali

And it was just chromebooks here

[fresh bane]

lol spot on, we call them ''XO'' or ''Ceibalita'' in here

[thorny loom]

https://x.com/aitaikimochi/status/1704522680001826881?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

☆オードリーAudrey☆ (@aitaikimochi)

OMG FF16 IFRIT BRING ARTS FIGURINE OUT OCTOBER 2024 😱😱

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Twitter · Sep 20, 2023, 3:47 PM

https://www.aitaikuji.com/series/final-fantasy/final-fantasy-xvi-square-enix-bring-arts-kai-figurine-ifrit?

[white phoenix]

holy crap

[mossy flume]

Sick.

[quiet swift]

Speaking of Tunic, I'm lost and don't know what to dooooooo

[mossy flume]

Same

[quiet swift]

I feel like I need to go to the ||Quarry but keep taking damage no matter which side I approach it|| D:

[thorny loom]

Another loose end cut off

https://www.gamesradar.com/months-after-declaring-tomb-raider-unaffected-by-layoffs-tomb-raider-dev-hit-with-wave-of-layoffs/?

[slim thorn]

do you want actual help?

[gaunt marten]

Reverse quarry time

[quiet swift]

I do D: I clearly need some ||jump ability from somewhere but I suspect that's in the quarry itself. I have the red and green crystal thingies and beat the siege engine and librarian||

[slim thorn]

because of the nature of Tunic I'm going to go an obnoxious length to avoid potentially spoiling anything I don't strictly need to spoil

so first off, how far into the quarry have you gotten exactly?

[quiet swift]

I''ve approached it from both sides ||upper snowy door path and the forbidden path|| so I have the fast travel option

[slim thorn]

so you already know what the yellow squares do?

[quiet swift]

[slim thorn]

now what precisely happens where you can't progress further

[thorny loom]

Tcher

[quiet swift]

||My HP starts draining, max hp total as well so I hesitate to go any further than that. The path near the fast travel/save option has three quarry mobs and one of those stones you pray at that usually go into the ground, but this one is corrupted||

[slim thorn]

ok so it is the thing I thought it was

hm

do you know what the small tuning forks do?

[quiet swift]

Yep, I have the ||grapple||

[slim thorn]

ok, here goes then

||You have to tank the HP / max HP draining. That effect has limits and will not kill you outright, although of course it makes it easier for anything else to kill you.||

||If you've already explored the other areas for upgrades, and activated the (reachable) bonfire in the quarry, then you've pretty much done what there is to do to make this area easier. It's not as scary as it seems, you just have to be careful and patient.||

[quiet swift]

[slim thorn]

don't worry, I did this on my first playthrough without ever even finding the main entrance or figuring out how to activate the local bonfire

boy did I feel stupid after that

[quiet swift]

[slim thorn]

also my Tunic randomizer is seemingly cursed to keep making me do backwards quarry

I swear I will use the goddamn front door this time if it kills me

[quiet swift]

Well, having taken that in and done one exploration until I got ||shot||, I decided I'll investigate more of the quarry tomorrow

[slim thorn]

the paradoxically "nice" thing about the HP debuff is that it kinda doesn't matter since many of the enemies there mostly one- or two-shot you anyway

[quiet swift]

[slim thorn]

it's a late game area for a reason

[quiet swift]

Am I wrong in thinking there's an area west past the ||West Garden map?|| I could swear there's an arrow there

[slim thorn]

oh that arrow

I believe ||that's just a hint about the path you can walk along despite being just slightly underwater||

[quiet swift]

[thorny loom]

@quiet swift tcher the memes get even better

https://www.pcgamer.com/trailer-for-disastrous-mortal-kombat-1-switch-release-contains-a-steam-achievement-popup/

They used the pc version with switch graphics to show the trailer and left in a steam achievement pop up

[fresh bane]

Ooohhh noooooo

how does that get past the editors

I wonder if this potentially opens them up for legal issues, unless they issue refunds for every single switch copy...

[green fulcrum]

Christ, that hand in the picture is gonna give me nightmares.

[slim thorn]

I don't think there are any laws about exactly what kinds of "not quite the game being advertised but very close to it" footage you're allowed to use

[fresh bane]

I also don't know, but the footage they show is very clearly not representative at all of the product, especially if the footage is actually just the PC version with lower settings

[slim thorn]

I'm not arguing it's ethical

[fresh bane]

which probably still looks better than the switch...

[slim thorn]

only that you have to argue a hell of a lot more than "it's misleading" to make a court case

it's very normal for advertisements to contain visuals that have nothing at all to do with the product being advertised, or show a misleading subset of completely real gameplay

I think the trailer would need to have explicitly claimed the footage was of the Switch version for there to be a potential legal problem

[fresh bane]

I know, unfortunately
which is why I was wondering, that one Pokemon game was so bad that they actually offered refunds so I wonder if this will be a similar situation or if they're going to try and patch this up as quickly as possible and hope everyone moves on

[visual hill]

trailers are usually recorded in a non-realtime manner, so that they never exhibit frame drops and can use Ultra+ settings at no visible cost

(indies don't always do this though, due to lack of time or knowledge)

[fresh bane]

MK1 is not exactly a game I expect people to go to the switch version to play anyways, I wonder if they even planned how the game was going to be like in the switch or if they didn't really think much about it

[visual hill]

trailers also tend to feature spatial/temporal supersampling, or generated motion blur that is not available during gameplay

[slim thorn]

yeah, at some point even "we recorded this on a very high end machine" is arguably misleading, or they could just edit out the frame drops... ultimately this is why reviews are different from advertisements

MK1 Switch does feel like a situation where surely someone knew it'd be this bad but someone else was making the executive decision

[fresh bane]

Oh my god someone pointed out in the comments of the video you can totally see the steam logo on the username profile right after the achievement pops up

As always, I feel bad for the devs

[teal sonnet]

https://twitter.com/insomniacgames/status/1704518277689385403

Insomniac Games (@insomniacgames)

WE ARE GOLD! We're thrilled to share the news ahead of #SpiderMan2PS5's launch on October 20, 2023 with a few words from the game's cast! #BeGreaterTogether

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Twitter · Sep 20, 2023, 3:30 PM

God this game will be awesome

Can’t wait

[teal sonnet]

They confirmed that if you are one of the spiders you can see the other combating crime or join you randomly

[dire gate]

*PlayStation 4 game footage

Going gold means it can be delayed anytime in modern standards

[mossy flume]

https://youtu.be/KMLAIGoCavw?si=xGcNWiLgpxyfwomL

Huh…

I suspect this is a remake rather than a remaster

Or really, it just looks like they took the base game and then aggressively modified it. Definitely more than just a texture upres and some spiffy lighting, they redid a lot of the assets outright.

So I’d say it’s a mix of remaster and remake

[dire gate]

You can see that the background graffiti is simply different

People assume it got a similar treatment to metroid prime

[fresh bane]

Doesn't look like a remaster to me, looks like a full on remake just like Link's Awakening

[mossy flume]

That’s my assumption as well

Underlying system is the original game with probably updated code here and there, but all the assets and scripts were redone to varying degrees, sometimes even redone from scratch while using the original as a reference

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/rsYD4QZQ3tU?si=TThnyIIYYwRcqh54

day 1 release Dark Souls sounds like absolute hell jesus christ

curse stacks, no purging stones from the undead merchant, super bare bones merchants with less items to buy, significantly less souls per enemy and boss, bosses give no homeward bones, no guaranteed drops from bosses, the menu doesn't even tell you how many souls you need for next upgrade

[gaunt marten]

It was the dark souls of dark souls

[quiet swift]

https://www.gamesradar.com/this-nier-inspired-seamless-open-world-action-game-hooked-me-with-6-words-f-it-you-can-parry-nukes/

https://vxtwitter.com/LithPyro/status/1699497883064500712 specifically (other fun tweets in article)

[robust steppe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KK-1j_brg0

[random steppe]

Ok that's pretty badass

[quiet swift]

Apparently you can only do that once you max out Katana levels

Study the blade...

[robust steppe]

Persona 3 with persona 5 gameplay?

now talking about, oh it's fallout 76, nevermind

right when family want dinner

[astral steeple]

https://twitter.com/MyHeroUR/status/1704707145822867871

MY HERO ULTRA RUMBLE (@MyHeroUR)

Join a group of 3 to face off in an 8-way battle royale as your favorite heroes and villains from the MY HERO series in MY HERO ULTRA RUMBLE!

Available on Xbox, PlayStation, Steam, and Nintendo Switch on 9/28!
#MHUR

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Twitter · Sep 21, 2023, 4:00 AM

yoooooo this looks sick

is free as well

[static bluff]

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

[gaunt marten]

No

Stop putting fighting in my pure fun games

[robust latch]

Oh that looks fun

[sour hill]

Curse stacks?!

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

[sour hill]

Why?????

[gaunt marten]

So you learn to stop running into basilisks

[sour hill]

Lmao I guess you would

I mean I've never gotten cursed twice anyways, but that's so hilariously mean 😭

[gaunt marten]

You had to go all the way through ghost town to see Oswald, too

No easy sources of purging stones

[sour hill]

Right, that's so fucked

That could soft lock the game for a lot of people lmao

Man, I'd have been kinda annoyed day one coming from demon's souls. Unless that game's day one was similarly rough

[gaunt marten]

Pretty sure it was more annoying

[sour hill]

In what way?

[gaunt marten]

The stupid world tendency mechanics, general world design, even clunkier controls

[sour hill]

Imagine hating on demon's souls, smh

I do actually really like how curse works in the final build.

It's no big deal if you've played before, but if it's your first time getting cursed, this random goofy ass enemy can pretty much derail your playthrough and send you on a mission to figure out wtf you need to do to fix it.

I definitely had a moment of panic like "Oh my god, is this permanent?!"

[gaunt marten]

Death's Gambit Afterlife has a similar mechanic

Called Contagion

[random steppe]

That's pretty much what happened to me

[gaunt marten]

If you get sick enough, you instantly die, your HP gets halved, and you have to find a cure for it

BUT

The only sources of the cure that refresh are NPCs, and if you stick to an NPC for too long, they get sick and die too

And THEY don't come back

[static bluff]

The game in its current form is extremely fun. Expanding it like they are doing here seems fine since it's building on top of an already awesome system. We'll see if it's fun or just frustrating, though.

[gaunt marten]

Yeah but I like puzzles where I can take my time and think

[sour hill]

I love it when games let you really screw yourself up. Keeps you on your toes and feels more immersive

[gaunt marten]

I like it as long as it doesn't take too long to get back to where you were from a fresh reset (It's fine here)

[sour hill]

Yeah

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/everywheregame/status/1704844575955734789?

EVERYWHERE (@everywheregame)

This is EVERYWHERE! 💜

#EVERYWHEREgame #TFANW

Likes

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▶ Play video

Twitter · Sep 21, 2023, 1:06 PM

[sour hill]

Or at least if the game's still playable

Stacking 4 curses in day one DS is not gonna be playable for a lot of people

[gaunt marten]

Yeah just don't take damage (or find one of the rare non-NPC copies of that item, which you will need for another unrelated quest)

[slim thorn]

I can get behind "the freedom to fuck up" in principle, IF it doesn't block off content or make the game less fun, which in practice is a very big if

as evidenced by all those "N things I wish I knew before playing X" lists

[sour hill]

I have a strong feeling you would dislike the DS1 curse mechanic
But that's fine, they changed it in the other games anyways. It's also a trick that only really works once, because it's just a non issue once you know how it works

[slim thorn]

Death's Gambit's contagion was a fun thing to be freaked out and confused by for a bit but once I figured out the cure item it was a non-issue

granted I had a hint from Flitter

I think at the time I was half-stuck on a bunch of other stuff so my "actually try to solve stuff" energy was low

[gaunt marten]

I instantly recognized the enemies that gave contagion because they moved like fucking 2D basilisks

So I never got contagion until I was ready to experiment

[sour hill]

Glad to hear that the DS1 basilisks live on in other worlds lmao

[sour hill]

I feel like a huge thing too is letting the player know that they fucked up

There are a lot of old games that will let you completely screw yourself but you won't know until it's way too late

[slim thorn]

or to paraphrase a Dishonored video I watched yesterday: "How do I know that this particular group of rats is High Chaos Rats and therefore my fault?"

[slim thorn]

every time I play anything "RPG"-adjacent, old or modern, I fear being softlocked and not finding out until 10+ hours later

[teal cliff]

Stuff like this is why I spoil parts of games for myself ahead of time

I wanna romance [x], so I google how to do so and what would lock me out of it, and so I do it right ^^

[random steppe]

I mean, to each their own.
I never watch those videos unless I'm pretty close to the end of my playthroughs

[slim thorn]

in practice I don't watch them because a) actually calling your video that is clickbait and not something the creators I like would do , b) most of those videos are made for games I don't play anyway

[random steppe]

There are also people that literally read the plot of a movie before watching them.

[slim thorn]

but I do end up hearing a lot of advice like that through word of mouth here or a walkthrough I look up on purpose or whatever

[random steppe]

If not knowing the mechanics, or the process of learning them, turns me off from your game well that's life, there are a lot of games I want to play

[slim thorn]

still, there are a lot of games that become great as soon as one weird source of anxiety like that is removed

like how now I've played through two whole Fire Emblem games because Tale could just tell me who to not waste time leveling

[random steppe]

One thing I like the most in games is starting, being bad, and then seeing how better I am by the end of it.
If I learn all the mechanics before playing I lose that

[slim thorn]

for most games I play, a lot of that skill is muscle memory that I can't get without playing anyway

[random steppe]

For Armored Core it was both for example

By the end of it I learned a lot about how every type of weapon worked, so I could make more effective builds, and I had a lot more muscle memory in playing the game

I don't think I would have liked the game more by looking the best build online

Personally

[teal cliff]

Yeah that's me

[slim thorn]

mm-hmm, the games I play barely have "builds" per se, at least not the kind you'd need to look up to figure out

[teal cliff]

Doing this has saved me from a lot of bad movie experiences, it is a strategy I recommend

[random steppe]

I don't mind spoilers but also no thanks

Honestly, 99% of the times my opinion aligns with rotten tomatoes, I don't need to personally read the plot

[teal cliff]

Spoiling myself on the plot of the media assures me I'll like it before I experience it.

[random steppe]

Yeah for some people knowing everything in advance doesn't diminish the enjoyment of a piece of media

That said, it's definitely not everyone's experience

In fact I'd say it's the slim minority

[sour hill]

I'm very glad that I did not look up the plot of chainsaw man

[teal cliff]

I wish I'd looked up the plot of chainsaw man :/
would have saved me some time lol.

but that was something I was watching on a recc from my roommates.

rather than something I picked out for myself.

[random steppe]

Besides if I got out to see something in theaters, it's because I already know I'll either like it, or it'll be the center of conversation for some of my friends so in both cases I'll get my money's worth.

I'll watch something I know I wont like if everyone of my friends is watching it, the conversational value outweighs the entertainment value.

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/cyberpunkgame/status/1704874826807099794?

Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame)

❤️‍🔥Update 2.0 for #Cyberpunk2077 is being rolled out on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S! ❤️‍🔥

It brings vast changes to the game, so before you jump in, check out the patch notes: https://t.co/Y3Fc2HdDyz

Likes

1518

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314

Twitter · Sep 21, 2023, 3:06 PM

[random steppe]

Oh, they are releasing this 5 days before the expansion release?

Good to know

[mossy flume]

Seems so

Also, Paradox just announced a new game series which is essentially a Civ game

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1268590/Millennia/

Steam

Millennia

Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures. Set the course of history and experience different timelines in every playthrough as you write an epic story through your actions. Lead your people throug...

Release Date

Coming soon

▶ Play video

[teal cliff]

Neat.

i'll probably play it.

[random steppe]

Publisher not developers it seems

[teal cliff]

I hope the military aspects are more intuitive than their other games.

[random steppe]

Still, we'll see if they'll be able to dethrone Civ

[gaunt marten]

I definitely think their historical grand strategy games are more fun than Civilization

[random steppe]

From the screenshots this seems to be very very similar to Civ

And them being publishers and not developers of the game, I wouldn't expect the same level of complexity of a Paradox game

[teal cliff]

I think Stellaris is Paradox's best game so I hope that this plays more similarly to that than to CK or EU

[random steppe]

But who knows

It's definitely the most accessible

Because you start with one planet, a small fleet, one type of military ship with not much customisation, no need to do diplomacy, just exploration and expansion, and you unlock tecknologies as you go.

While in EU4 you start as France.

With all the shit that France has, and the relationships with all the other nations France knows

And the need to manage all of it

It's a much more sink or swim type of scenario

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/epicgames/status/1704884905451438101?

Epic Games Store (@EpicGames)

We are aware that some players may be getting stuck at "Cloud Syncing" and may not be able to open some games from the Epic Games Launcher.

We'll provide an update on a fix when we have one.

Twitter · Sep 21, 2023, 3:46 PM

[thorny loom]

Speaking of epic

Some of these refund amounts damn

[wind stump]

https://youtu.be/_7oiooBtD0Q

[thorny loom]

Heres the link if you want to submit the form for the fortnite skin refunds https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/refunds/fortnite-refunds

[little badger]

The division 3 has been announced https://twitter.com/wario64/status/1704890566180561369?

Wario64 (@Wario64)

Tom Clancy’s The Division 3 announced

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334

Twitter · Sep 21, 2023, 4:09 PM

[rancid herald]

We’ll see, humankind didn’t do it

[dense crypt]

Was Tom Clancy's The Division 3 announced?

[mossy flume]

It appears that Tom Clancy’s The Division 3 has been announced.

Cyberpunk 2077 update 2.0 is now out.

[slim thorn]

“Stellaris is more accessible because you aren’t France”

A+ backlog

[grave tide]

France in Europa Universalis 4 is the most alcohol country in the game...

[gaunt marten]

It's fucked up how strong France is

The game recommends you start as France because the only way to run the country to the ground is to try to overextend

No one will declare war on you because you're too strong (for a while, at least) and you're rich enough to survive losing a few wars

[grave tide]

And your France doesn't die from cringe like Ottomans...

[sage iris]

@slim thorn you might like this seeing how you enjoy all the diegetic puzzle style games https://youtu.be/PeDNuITuJPA

[little badger]

Yup

https://twitter.com/rockstargames/status/1704898521726398969? @bronze abyss

Rockstar Games (@RockstarGames)

GTA+ Members now get access to download and play a rotating assortment of classic Rockstar Games titles, starting with Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition.

Check out details and links to download at the GTA+ site: https://t.co/rvoVGoCl3a

Likes

735

Twitter · Sep 21, 2023, 4:40 PM

[bronze abyss]

🤮

👎

[gaunt marten]

Rotating assortment

You don't play the game you want, you play the game we want

[bronze abyss]

thats not even the worst part the worst parts are
gta+ existing
definitive trilogy existing

[little badger]

Yeah GTA + isn’t good but you know in 6 it’ll be heavily advertised.

[bronze abyss]

doubt

[grave tide]

Only GTA could make the worst steam game after Overwatch 2 release

[teal cliff]

wth is GTA+

[bronze abyss]

a subscription service that gives you a couple cars in gta 5 SPECIFICALLY ON CURRENT GEN CONSOLE

🤮

[little badger]

It’s a subscription service to GTA V

Jinx

[teal cliff]

lmao what

[little badger]

It’s £5 here

A month

What about you Abby

[bronze abyss]

then it should be 5eur idk i dont hvae that service nor can i even have it cuz its not on pc

[thorny loom]

https://youtu.be/M9vjplUdfJA?si=SDzlcUrpT_J25UKo

[slim thorn]

wishlists

[slim thorn]

feels weird when something can have a cool english title just by using the foreign word for a thing

[quiet swift]

Is that a game?

[random steppe]

That's a very weird Stray sequel

[thorny loom]

Im not really sure. Its made in unreal though

[heady bridge]

https://youtu.be/aL7E_fCLJ4w

Kuro no Kiseki now has an official English localized title

[fresh bane]

reading this phrase with no context is hilarious

[quiet swift]

🗡️ 🇫🇷

[astral steeple]

https://twitter.com/charlieINTEL/status/1704903396627476670/photo/1

CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL)

Modern Warfare II & Warzone x DOOM Bundle

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2223

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Twitter · Sep 21, 2023, 5:00 PM

huh???????

[thorny loom]

Yeah thats not surprising

That crossover was found in a datamine

[visual hill]

interesting use of the classic Doom logo

[thorny loom]

Now if doom guy skin is in it. Im all in

[astral steeple]

wow the skeletor cod skin actually looks pretty sick

[thorny loom]

Yeah that was also confirmed in a leak

Spawn was also listed

[astral steeple]

the spawn skin is kinda ehhhh

not even fully spawn

[thorny loom]

Eh.

If hes got the voice ill forgive that

[astral steeple]

they did get Ash pretty spot on though

[teal cliff]

What game is this?

Warzone?

[thorny loom]

Yes

[astral steeple]

yes

[teal cliff]

I see.

[thorny loom]

These skins were datamined earlier but its nice seeing them

[teal cliff]

I like them. I don't play warzone but its neat seeing the crossovers.

[astral steeple]

the skins themselves work on mw2 and mw3 as well

also

alucard skin looks pretty sick too

[thorny loom]

Nice

I wouod play warzone if i had friends

[astral steeple]

my only gripe with the warzone/mw collabs is that the game is first person anyways

so you dont even see your skin at all

its really just wasted potential on these characters lol

like with fort at least, alucard, skeletor, and spawn would fit in much better

since you can actually see your skin

plus them doing the emotes would be super cursed

[thorny loom]

I assume they have voice lines

[white phoenix]

I see we're on the "screw the original artstyle, let's just put the most batshit insane cosmetics in the game" phase of the cod cycle

[astral steeple]

yeah lol

[white phoenix]

especially with the modern warfares, they at least tried to keep it grounded in reality with tacticool stuff at the start

[thorny loom]

Aka the fortnite phase

[astral steeple]

lol

[white phoenix]

even the footballer cosmetics during the world cup looked like they were still somewhat in the military

[thorny loom]

Maintain relevance by putting in cameos

[white phoenix]

but now... lmao

[astral steeple]

ive always found the more random/unexpected collabs in games to be the best

like when you put a character in a situation that they would never normally be in, it makes for some of the most cursed stuff

like remember when isaac clarke was in skate 3, and a golf game lol

[wind stump]

i'm just thinking all this money spent acquiring the rights to use these IPs could be used to develop the game, or something

[thorny loom]

Thats what modern warfare 3 is for

Since warzone is technically free to play

[wind stump]

or maybe pay the developers better

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/cyberpunkgame/status/1704929156771832074? @mossy flume

Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame)

Planning to play #PhantomLiberty and want to do it in style? 🔥

Starting September 25, 1pm CEST, watch your favorite @Twitch creators to earn unique NUS Infiltrator outfit pieces for your V!

Find out all the deets here: https://t.co/CzkWHKN5J5

Likes

330

Twitter · Sep 21, 2023, 6:42 PM

[mossy flume]

Eugh, I 100000% hate the whole concept of twitch drops.

[thorny loom]

their mot that bad

Just have one on mute in background until the notification pops

[little badger]

Do you use prime gaming to claim the free games?

[thorny loom]

Sometimes

Most of the games on there I already have so i just get the free league drops

[mossy flume]

I have it but I forget that I have that

I only grab the free stuff if something reminds me it's there

[little badger]

Some of the games you get can be good.

[river veldt]

omg Ash hiiiii

his right hand is very conspicuously shadowed

[mossy flume]

You said Ash and I followed the reply, only to be disappointed it wasn’t Ash Ketchum

[thorny loom]

Imagine a Mario bros skin in warzone

[astral steeple]

lol

[thorny loom]

It wont happen but it would be funny

[green fulcrum]

Sorry mods, I have to.

[astral steeple]

cod has even less of a chance of getting nintendo characters into their game than fort does

epic tried to get samus

nintendo wanted it so she could only be used/seen/bought/etc on switch

so epic said nope

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/assassinscreed/status/1704933525248430428?

[fresh bane]

Luigi's looking more like a Carlos than a Luigi

war really changed him

[white phoenix]

those kinda look like the snes blasters

[thorny loom]

It came out around that time so makes sense

Also Nintendo refuses to acknowledge this thing exists

[hidden cypress]

Finally get to play as my man Ratonhnhaké:ton again

I would be more excited if I got to choose between Alexios and kassandra tbh

I know kassandra is the Canon option but I just love alexios va

[fresh bane]

Is that supposed to be Connor and Ezio? Because they look nothing like either of the two...

I assume they're using new models

[hidden cypress]

Ezios brotherhood outfit looks weird but connor looks about the same

[fresh bane]

Ezio's blades look super short and stubby too it looks really odd

[little badger]

[fresh bane]

something about Connor's face doesn't sit right

[little badger]

Maybe an early cover?

[hidden cypress]

I think its the lighting for me

Makes him look whiter

[fresh bane]

I doubt it, I'm guessing those are new ''remake'' models of the characters but they look really odd, Connor looks alright but something about his face doesn't seem right and Ezio' doesn't look right either

[little badger]

Are you going to play it Nire

[hidden cypress]

Imma play tf out of it

[arctic fern]

Is this unique to quest?

[fresh bane]

I don't even know what it is but I don't plan to play any AC related content for the foreseeable future, I also don't have any VR of any kind either so even if I wanted to I couldn't

[hidden cypress]

If it didn't have connor in it I wouldn't have cared tbh

[little badger]

Ah

[hidden cypress]

But when they showed connor in the trailer it was on sight

[mossy flume]

Apparently it is.

Isn't there supposed to be a way to fetch these Meta-exclusive games and run them with an Index instead?

[rose rose]

You have a Quest though

[mossy flume]

Indeed

[rose rose]

I think the answer is essentially no, since Quest apps are basically fancy android apps running in ARM land

[static bluff]

What is your quest

[mossy flume]

It's a Quest 2 I think?

[rose rose]

There used to be hackery for Rift games but that's not where the industry is today

[static bluff]

What is your favorite color

[rose rose]

Blue. No, yellow

[thorny loom]

Lmao

https://www.razer.com/pc/gamer-room?

[astral steeple]

wow skeletor with a gun is so much more cursed than originally thought lol

[quiet swift]

[bronze abyss]

lies of P is such a great game my favorite moment was when it the

it was such a emotional moment in the story,the character development is immaculate and the payoff after all the struggles is unmatched

fuck that shit gonna play call of the wild:the angler instead atleast that game doesnt crash on launch and i can get fishe

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/gamespot/status/1704986269934383140?

GameSpot (@GameSpot)

A Cozy, Hobbit-Centric Lord Of The Rings Game Is On The Way https://t.co/OGXxElgZ8e

Twitter · Sep 21, 2023, 10:29 PM

[river veldt]

oooooooo

[little badger]

How Long did that take.

[mossy flume]

Wow

Nice work

[gaunt marten]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNVL-ygqw3w

[graceful bridge]

I lucked out on this playthrough. There were apparently only 3 sources of Truffles, and I managed to claim the land around all of them.

(Sorry, went to make / eat dinner.)

[river veldt]

looks so good

im very excited

[little badger]

Oooooh nice one! And it’s ok

[dire gate]

Lies of P is one of the few Korean games that successfully appealed to global audiences, and one of the very few Korean singleplayer games that successfully exist appealed to global audiences

[slim thorn]

TIL it's Korean

[dire gate]

Another rare example would be Dave the Diver

[tender ferry]

famitsu sales estimates

switch sales are getting really close to game boy and ds there in japan

and somehow

they're still finding 2 dozen 3ds' per week

[dire gate]

new Nintendo 2DS XL(LL) to be exact

https://x.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1705039444439425526

Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica)

One for all and all four #Kirby!

Call in Red, Yellow, and Green Kirby to help you solve puzzles and take out baddies in Kirby & the Amazing Mirror, coming to #NintendoSwitch for #NintendoSwitchOnline + Expansion Pack members on 9/29! #GameBoyAdvance

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126

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Twitter · Sep 22, 2023, 2:00 AM

Amazing Mirror next week

[river veldt]

really good run :3

[mossy flume]

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/21/23884863/valve-steam-deck-2-refresh-upgrade-cpu-2025

[white phoenix]

but what about an index 2 valve

[mossy flume]

I expect that’ll happen before too long.

[river veldt]

y'know for as memed as it is the Skyrim intro is really good and immersive

[mossy flume]

Yeah

It's pretty good

[hasty patio]

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-microsoft-activision-deal-addresses-previous-cma-concerns-in-cloud-gaming

[chilly mural]

pony bros, I acquired a steam deck

now which Micro to get?

[gaunt marten]

Is none an option?

Every micro SD card I ever bought was too unreliable to use

[rose rose]

Technically. It's a terrible option though.

I've never had an issue with any micro SD cards

I use this one in mine, I think: https://a.co/d/eXYFpGP

Though ultimately I ended up also replacing the internal SSD with a 2 TB one, which is a generally much better experience.

The Steam Deck SD card reader is slow.

[gaunt marten]

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-377

#1032767535805902888

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/eurogamer/status/1705233489287585830?

Eurogamer (@eurogamer)

Nintendo Switch Online adds Kirby and the Amazing Mirror next week https://t.co/JEm0a01QNR

Twitter · Sep 22, 2023, 2:52 PM

[quartz pawn]

Oh! Nice!

[mossy flume]

[wind stump]

poyo

[thorny loom]

@wind stump congratulations nerd

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/microsoft-purchase-of-activision-blizzard-provisionally-approved-by-uk-cma

[green fulcrum]

As much as I really don't like huge corporate mergers, let's be honest, Microsoft owning Activision-Blizzard is probably for the best. Microsoft's got a zero-tolerance policy for a lot of the shit that Activision pulls, and they also tend to be slightly more reasonable. Not always, but on average a fair bit more than Activision.

[fickle garnet]

Why is the pic for this trophy so funny to me

[thorny loom]

Its the meme

[quiet swift]

This one, yeah

[fickle garnet]

https://vxtwitter.com/SynthPotato/status/1704967085795791254?s=20

https://vxtwitter.com/DiannaFranziska/status/1705123303525155143?s=20

[little badger]

@graceful bridge what era did you choose for the game you are playing?

[visual hill]

run it above 60 FPS for comedic effect

[thorny loom]

You there. Your finally awake

[thorny loom]

https://youtu.be/85QnhahijuY?si=nYi1ItCf8xemdQU_

[random steppe]

2.0 for Cyberpunk is kind of great NGL, and I say this as someone extremely letdown by the game systems at launch

[graceful bridge]

Huh?

[little badger]

Or am I thinking of a different game? Don’t you have to choose what era you want to start in then build your empire?

[graceful bridge]

Are you referring to Civilization or something else?

[little badger]

Civ

[visual hill]

I'll definitely play it at some point

[graceful bridge]

Civ by default starts you in the Ancient era, but you can pick a more recent one if you want.

[little badger]

Ah right. What did you choose?

[gaunt marten]

Everyone starts at Ancient

Why even play if you're not gonna see the whole game through?

[graceful bridge]

Yeah, Ancient. The only reason to do a more modern era start is for a few achievements that are in the game.

[little badger]

So you didn’t choose another you stayed with ancient?

[gaunt marten]

Yeah it's just more fun and gives you more control

[graceful bridge]

Correct

[little badger]

I see it’s on gamepass I might download it

[little badger]

Oh it’s not this is what’s on gamepass

[graceful bridge]

yeah, that's a different game. Similar idea though.

[little badger]

Oooooh it’s only £5

[graceful bridge]

Worth it if you want to try it out. Though fans are expecting Civ 7 to be announced sometime this Fall/Winter, probably relasing late next year or so.

[grave tide]

Base game*

Check addons and DLCs

[little badger]

Have you played all the Civ games

[little badger]

Yes I know

[graceful bridge]

The complete game was on sale for like $30 USD recently

[graceful bridge]

Not all. I've played Civ, Civ 2, Civ 5 and Civ 6.

[white phoenix]

damn it's already time for civ 7?

I still think of civ 6 as brand new

[thorny loom]

https://x.com/wario64/status/1705274385962238058?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Wario64 (@Wario64)

Unity updated runtime fee:

-Unity Personal plan remains free with no runtime fee. Cap increases from $100k to $200k

-No game with less than $1 million in trailing 12-month revenue will be subject to the fee.

More info: https://t.co/w5AuN4Ohkm

Twitter · Sep 22, 2023, 5:34 PM

[gaunt marten]

Too late

[slim thorn]

expands the image to read the other conditions

huh, this actually sounds like the sensible version of the policy

[graceful bridge]

6 has unofficially gone into maintenance mode, there's no announced plans for any more DLC, they're just putting out small things like new leaders to keep people interested.

[slim thorn]

of course it's still too late to repair the damaged trust

but I wasn't expecting it to get backed down this far, because the initial version was so obviously terrible

[gaunt marten]

They walked back the per-install fee, allowing you to take the lesser of that fee or 2.5% revenue share as long as your game makes 200k or more in the last twelve months (or 1m USD for the Pro License)

This is still pretty bad, but they also walked back the retroactive license change

[slim thorn]

what was the old revenue share?

[gaunt marten]

As long as you never update your game to future Unity versions

[graceful bridge]

yeah, I think this was a "slammed door" attempt that backfired. They wanted to make a horrible policy they knew people would dislike, and then propose a less onerous (but still more profitable) version people would be willing to accept, because it wasn't as bad.

But this backfired harder than they thought, so they're walking it back further.

[gaunt marten]

The old revenue share was you pay nothing

[graceful bridge]

But the damage is done, I think a ton of devs are just going to abandon Unity entirely.

[gaunt marten]

You just pay a monthly fee for the license

[slim thorn]

oh it wasn't even a revenue share before

[gaunt marten]

(or use the free license for small games)

[visual hill]

I answered a question from DUSKdev on a Godot Discord the other day. 🙂

[slim thorn]

duskdev?

[visual hill]

the developer of DUSK, a popular retro FPS made with Unity

[gaunt marten]

That game's fun, I hear.

@river veldt Dusk mentioned 🗣️🗣️

[river veldt]

yippee

[teal cliff]

oh Dusk is a unity game? neat.

didnt know that.

[mossy flume]

https://youtu.be/G4kgExKzt4Q?si=kxVLFh9preatl98L

Huh

Avatar TLA original story in game form

[teal cliff]

interesting

[green fulcrum]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljx3QQ4uApg

I f*cking love this face

[static bluff]

lmao

[thorny loom]

Ironically this is basically a repeat of the WOTC situation that happened in beginning of year

[teal cliff]

WOTC did not get damaged as badly I think

[graceful bridge]

Not as badly, no.

[thorny loom]

Yeah

[teal cliff]

Unity has real competition, a lot of devs straight up left, whereas I think 5E kept most of its players, it just served as an advertising boon for other systems.

[graceful bridge]

A lot of companies decided to stop using OGL, but that really doesn't hurt WotC's bottom line the way this Unity change does.

[teal cliff]

Funnily enough in both cases I was already on the "other competitor" team anyways

I use Unreal to make games and my ttrpg of choice is Pathfinder

[thorny loom]

Switch will have all three games stuck at 30 fps.

[fresh bane]

Wow

And they said they were going to fix it

[thorny loom]

Even the tv mode is 30 fps which is bad

[fresh bane]

Literally not even same performance as the original hardware MGS2 ran at 60 fps on the PS2 lol