general gaming

[white phoenix]

at 1080p?

[thorny loom]

Tv mode yes

Handheld is 720

[white phoenix]

I meant on the ps2

[thorny loom]

On Original hardware its about 480p

But you can get 1080p 60fps if you use pcsx2

[fresh bane]

Of course it wasn't 1080p on the PS2 it was 480p, it's not like these remasters completely overhaul the games to such a degree that it justifies dropping down half the performance of the original hardware

[slim thorn]

so about emulators

[quiet swift]

[thorny loom]

Its relatively minor. But even the switch should be able to do it with how much upgraded hardware it has compared to a ps2

[thorny loom]

Go on

[slim thorn]

oh just being snarky

[thorny loom]

Oh lol.

[fresh bane]

It's not like I care, I'm not supporting Konami again or even have a Switch, but it's still inexcusable and it lets me know this is still the same Konami that gave us the Silent Hill "HD collection" a decade ago

[thorny loom]

Pfff

At least knomai kept the source code this time

[white phoenix]

mgs4:

[fresh bane]

I already own MGS1 and 2 on PC so if I wanted to play I'd play them there, only problem is figuring out controls

[thorny loom]

An MGS hd 2 Collection is allegedly also being made that has this

[fresh bane]

Good thing nobody sniffed glue in the offices that day and threw away the original HD collection of MGS for the PS3

This is basically just that

[white phoenix]

Yeah I know

I was just joking about how they still haven't ported it over yet

[thorny loom]

Good thing they also chose the mgs1 original

And not the broken hd gamecube port

[fresh bane]

They're gonna include Twin Snakes on the second volume I'm sure

[thorny loom]

That would be funny

[fresh bane]

And maybe MGS Peace Walker if they're feeling like it

I don't see them porting Portable Ops or the Acid games even though I would like them to

[river veldt]

Portable Ops ?

[fresh bane]

MGS3 sequel for the PSP

[harsh kestrel]

Okay, yeah, sorry Unity, but you guys already dug your grave. For one, you have one of the greediest CEOs to ever walk through the doors of a gaming company headquarters, and for two, you guys basically already killed your reputation by doing what you did. Damage control and trying to soften the blow of the fee isn't gonna do anything. The fee never should have been a thing to begin with. Even if it's not as strict, it's still there. That's the worst part. It shouldn't be there. They should have just gotten rid of it. That would have had a higher chance of them actually recovering in comparison to this

[thorny loom]

Yeah unity will become less relevant over the years as devs abandon it for others such as unreal

[mossy flume]

This was being discussed in #science-and-tech

I'm very curious about what they have to say in the fireside chat in half an hour

[rose rose]

The fee itself is now entirely reasonable

It's just a trust problem

And to be honest I suspect that the deep investment that people have made in their product makes it a recoverable one.

[mossy flume]

I concur

The bigger unknown is whether new developers can trust Unity sufficiently to marry their projects to them or not.

Honestly I'm not sure about that.

[slim thorn]

yep, the biggest impact of this is going to be the long tail of future projects not choosing Unity to begin with

[mossy flume]

Personally I would very much like to use Unity because they're the most approachable option.

I'm just not sure I can trust them to not pull the rug out from under me.

(This boldly assumes that I'll ever actually build something to the point where I actually care, but putting that aside)

[slim thorn]

I already had my phase of twiddling with game-like code in my spare time and quickly realized I have no skill or interest at the non-code parts of game development

[mossy flume]

Well at least I'm now confident that this runtime fee would never apply to any project I would ever make

[teal cliff]

Frankly, on an unrelated note

I just think Unreal's a better engine

like, trust and monetization aside

I just like using Unreal way more.

even on very basic levels like UI and controls, it just feels better

[wind stump]

unrelated: friend is going through Ace Attorney trilogy

[visual hill]

they played us like a damn fiddle!!

[quiet swift]

Said friend is 100% justified

[wind stump]

SHUT

IT'S ACE ATTORNEY

EVERYTHING IS PUNS

[mossy flume]

Unreal is a somewhat odd option for 2D games, at least.

2D tooling in UE is kinda lackluster

[thorny loom]

Anything works if you push it hard enough

Also arn’t you supposed to be making me a dinosaur model ma

[mossy flume]

It definitely works, but it’s a prettt 3D heavy engine and it may be a bit overkill for the use case

[slim thorn]

I wouldn't take that response as a serious objection lol

writing your own engine from scratch also "works"

[thorny loom]

“It just works”

[slim thorn]

eventually

[thorny loom]

[astral steeple]

I've messed around with ue4 a bit

All I know how to do is import a 3d model as a level and give it collision so you can walk around in it though lol

[mossy flume]

Making your own engine is too difficult

[astral steeple]

I gotta get a new pc at some point with much more space and better specs and stuff so I can fully jump into it

[slim thorn]

ironically I know enough of the technical aspects that I probably could write a special-purpose engine if I wanted to

but that's like saying I could read every Batman comic ever written if I wanted to

it's not about difficulty, it's about having finite time on this Earth

[mossy flume]

Mhmm. I understand the basic principles at a high level, but I don't have the patience for that sort of time and effort investment.

[slim thorn]

incidentally, for anyone who can write code but doesn't know the basic principles of game engines, I recommend https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/contents.html

[visual hill]

making your engine is a good learning exercise, but don't do it for production

[slim thorn]

yup

[visual hill]

(well, maybe do it for production if you're making a 4D game… and end up like Miegakure)

[astral steeple]

Ngl the most I know coding wise is making a simple yes or no pop up using visualbasic in notepad lol

[visual hill]

I mentioned Miegakure during an university presentation in 2019, it's still not out

[slim thorn]

ah, "fully" 4D as opposed to... I guess what most of my puzzle games do you could call "3D with discontinuities"?

[visual hill]

yeah

[graceful bridge]

@little badger Got it, and some extra achievements to boot

[astral steeple]

https://martech.org/state-farm-and-iheartmedia-to-host-ed-sheeran-experience-in-fortnite/

yooooooooo

[thorny loom]

Car insurance

[fickle garnet]

Ed Sheeran's not that good tbh

[gaunt marten]

iHeart is nice though

[astral steeple]

kinda hoping theyll give him a skin in game as well

[quiet swift]

@slim thorn Aaargh. Exploring most of upper part of ||Quarry|| in Tunic. Trying to head to what I think is the bottom but there's so god damn many mobs. Place is super frustrating.

[slim thorn]

did you find the important thingy in the upper part?

[quiet swift]

Uhhhh. ||Unless you mean a rope shortcut, no? ||

[slim thorn]

welp

you definitely don't want to do the bottom without the thingy

[quiet swift]

i don't even know what I missed

[slim thorn]

there should be a building you can enter

[quiet swift]

I did do that yes. ||And the back door leads to the rope shortcut||. Was there something inside?

[slim thorn]

did you open every chest in there?

[quiet swift]

There was only a single one to open. All others were already opened

And the one only had a ||fox figurine thing? I think?||

[slim thorn]

you're supposed to find this:

[quiet swift]

Oh, that, yes

Right, now I realize what it is

(I kinda almost forgot about that mechanic after setting up two of them)

[mossy flume]

Looks like a Volus from Mass Effect

[slim thorn]

cool, you should be fine with that

I always think the same thing

[quiet swift]

Oh my god it does

[slim thorn]

you are now required to post a screenshot of your fox wearing it

[thorny loom]

Big oof

Thats what happens when you make your game online only even for solo play

[rose rose]

It was mostly positive when I looked. Guess the review bombers hadn't noticed it yet.

[sour hill]

Lmao, I'm waiting to play this on gamepass

There's no good reason for payday to rely on a server

[sour hill]

The game was literally unplayable when I checked last night, haha

I imagine any non-negative reviews were people with early access

[fresh bane]

El Blásfemo ™️ update
Got all sörd upgrades, gave || the fourth visage both eyes of the traitor I got last time ||, and got the item and skin after giving 100k to the church

Now I think I'm all ready to finish up

[gaunt marten]

Nice work

[fresh bane]

I went back to my Souls roots and found a farm route by looking at the tears enemies drop, I pretty much did this little route for farming with the mea culpa heart for more tears and the prayer for more tears, nets you a little over 1k tears for every time you go through so it takes a bit to get to 10k and above but it literally takes like a little over 5 min it's just very repetitive but that's farming for you

Still don't have 100% completion on the map or the entire game process looking at my save file so maybe I still have to look for all the remaining bones I haven't gotten yet and I didn't buy all the items from Candelaria but I'm not super worried about either

[slim thorn]

I always get stuck at 99% map completion

there's a number of rooms where it's awkward to get the last square map tile even though nothing of interest, or literally nothing at all, is in that tile

so I just ignore that

[fresh bane]

I'm pretty sure I got every single tile in the game other than the final one...

There's this room now that I think about it but there's nothing there

Oh, I also got all cherubs

[slim thorn]

oh yeah, there are a few rooms related to that one you're looking at which can only be opened in NG+ mode

I never thought about whether the map% counts those on a first playthrough but I guess it must for you to be at only 96%

[river veldt]

metroid omg

[astral steeple]

https://twitter.com/charlieINTEL/status/1705313999972090157/photo/1

CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL)

The Tier 100 Spawn Skin in the Modern Warfare II and Warzone Season 06 Battle Pass.

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oh so they do have normal spawn as well

[fickle garnet]

I like both versions of the spawn skin tbh

[fresh bane]

oof I'm only missing 3 bones I guess I could go do that real quick...

[river veldt]

Spawn is voiced by Keith David i think

[mossy flume]

I also thought that was Metroid for a moment

[slim thorn]

I should get back to my Tunic and Blasphemous solo randos, but I'm still in the middle of a NieR quest

[fickle garnet]

I wanna play NeiR

[fresh bane]

ayyyy

that is so not worth it lol the skin isn't that great, luckily I came across 98% of all these collectables during regular gameplay and I only had to actually go back and find these last few

I really should've used markers...

[slim thorn]

this is the game that taught me the importance of using custom map markers when the game provides them

[fresh bane]

he is one with the bones now

I had put way too much trust in my ability to remember the stuff that I found that I couldn't get to and ''I'll get to it later when I get the necessary skill'' or something

Hmmm... I really really love this skin but I'd be down for using another skin for this last part of the game, but which one...

this one reminds me of Link's blue tunic from albw could go for this one

ooh my attacks are red now that I equipped the true heart of mea culpa

[slim thorn]

huh, I forgot about that

[fresh bane]

time to wrap up now

okay.... you look cool

[slim thorn]

her cone hat is taller than yours

this cannot stand

[fresh bane]

she must pay

how dare you have a hat taller than mine

[thorny loom]

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/publishersale2023

[fresh bane]

Oh no she's having a main character moment

Uh oh

[slim thorn]

oops, you unlocked the true ending, enjoy your third phase

[fresh bane]

well I didn't know that was gonna do that

I'm the main character that's not fair

[gaunt marten]

Remember to parry

[slim thorn]

~~why would we warn you ~~

more seriously, if you can do phases 1 and 2, the 3rd shouldn't be a problem

[fresh bane]

Wait there's a third?

I'm dying immediately at the second phase

[slim thorn]

oh THAT main character moment

well

have fun

[fresh bane]

she even gets a music swell and everything she's too cool to be left alive

I love that this is basically following the same formula of character action games where the final (?) boss is literally just you and can do the things you can do too

[slim thorn]

and also teleport

because she's cooler than us

[fresh bane]

I want a teleport....

man it's a good thing I still get the souls everytime I do phase 1

[slim thorn]

I do appreciate that even if you die multiple times, you leave multiple guilt markers; none of them get erased until you collect them (or use a confessor statue)

[fresh bane]

Yeah I appreciate that a lot, sure would've made the experience much nicer in Souls if it worked like that too

[slim thorn]

not least because in my current solo rando I've been forced to leave two guilt markers behind

I'll be back

[fresh bane]

man I wonder if I just need to git gud or if I'm somehow underpowered or have the wrong beads

she's beating the fuck out of me

[slim thorn]

Crisanta is one of those fights that's super consistent once you git gud but tears you to shreds if you just do random stuff

just staying put, parrying and countering deals with a lot of her moveset

[fresh bane]

Yeah I keep losing my cool and falling for stuff I already know very well how to defend against

and I only got 3 flasks too (mind you, nearly full heal with full max hp but still)

[slim thorn]

I tend to hang on to one or two quicksilvers personally

at least now that I'm not trying to complete that sidequest

[fresh bane]

I keep wanting to squeeze in a Debla here and there but I can't seem to find a proper opening for it without eating an attack or her flying away

[slim thorn]

yeah she never hangs around in the air long enough

some of the horizontal prayers can work when she's standing still to catch her breath but I don't know if it's worth it, last time I fought her I was so focused on nailing the parry rhythm I forgot to even try

Tiento would be interesting

[fresh bane]

I'm mostly talking about the first phase

The second phase I'm still not deep into it enough to even know what it's about and what I need to look out for or do

[slim thorn]

parry for dear life

[fresh bane]

It's what I'm thinking of but... is the entire phase just parrying?

I get zero openings at all, when I parry I go too far back to run up to her

[slim thorn]

well not literally lol

but she does have long periods of being impossible to safely hit

[river veldt]

waow DDLC is six years old today

[white phoenix]

honestly thought it was older than that

[quartz pawn]

I just bought the pokermans violent dlc

[static bluff]

Took awhile but I finally got to S rank.

[flint iron]

I get discombobulated and destroyed in that game every match

[flint iron]

Reminds me of when I took a really cool picture of ddlc and Metroid dreads game cases with the sunlight peering over the green eyes and visor

[quartz pawn]

ddlc is old enough to go to school.

[white phoenix]

ddlc had a physical release??

[flint iron]

Yeh

[white phoenix]

ddlc is one of the things I haven't looked up anything at all to avoid spoilers until I get around to finally playing it

[flint iron]

I recommend getting the physical game if you ever get around playing it because it comes with cardboard standees

[white phoenix]

goddamnit, it's only on console isn't it
that's like the one thing consoles have over pc: most of the time, there's a collectors edition you can't get if you're just getting a digital version

[flint iron]

From what I know, unfortunately yeah. Ddlc plus is on steam but it doesn't come with all of the extra stuff

[slim thorn]

good thing I don't care about physical stuff

[flint iron]

I love physical games but it can backfire once the disc evaporates into dust or it gets slashed by raiden from metal gear rising

[river veldt]

that's so cool

it's a really really good game

[white phoenix]

Yeah I've heard

I do this for any game I hear is really good

I did this for persona 5 and went in 100% completely blind and absolutely had the experience of a lifetime

definitely doing this with other games I hear are masterpieces in the future

I'm also refraining from searching anything up for certain movies too

[slim thorn]

I only look up plot stuff for games that I would never play because they're in a genre I can't enjoy, and even that is pretty rare

DDLC is definitely on my "hopefully someday" list so I'll continue to avoid spoilers

[flint iron]

Spoilers find me no matter where I hide

[white phoenix]

the thing about spoilers is that if you don't care about something and you read the plot anyway you'll forget about it within a day

but if you suddenly do care about it then you're spoiled

the trick is to make google and co think that you're not interested in it at all by not searching it up so that they don't recommend you stuff from it

like all I knew about persona 5 was the title, the song "life will change," and joker, that's it lol

[river veldt]

DDLC is definitely a game that benefits from knowing little to nothing about it

[flint iron]

Yeh

[slim thorn]

although right now I've got NieR fulfilling my "games that mess with your head" itch

||the loading screen is talking to me ||

[thorny loom]

Just Monika

[river veldt]

i watched Jacksepticeye play DDLC for the first time because i didn't have a computer back then

[fresh bane]

I...... won?

I guess I defeated her so hard I didn't even need to kill her

[slim thorn]

congrats

[fresh bane]

that was only 2 phases though

[slim thorn]

hm

well let's worry about that after you get an ending

[flint iron]

Waiting for a game that will randomly add another phase to the final boss in the middle of the credits rolling

[fresh bane]

apparently that was the third phase, the second one is when her sword changes

and apparently I'm not the only one that was kind of angry at the fight I got the hang of it but I still think it's pretty tough how little time there is to do stuff

cheevo

[slim thorn]

well, in that case you should like the next one more

[fresh bane]

and who are you old man

[thorny loom]

https://youtu.be/_uBdeXpY_38?si=FNhfm045kCQ90Et0

Damn

Muta being really harsh

[white phoenix]

well that's saying something isn't it, with how 2023 has went so far

[fresh bane]

summa blasphemia

[slim thorn]

good job, you killed the pope

[fresh bane]

Awesome

and of course the narrator guy is here too

|| ending b? ||

[slim thorn]

[fresh bane]

That's it?

[slim thorn]

for this ending

[fresh bane]

Oh oh post credits cutscene

Oh nevermind

[slim thorn]

one of my few complaints with this game is that how to get the other ending is basically "look up a walkthrough"; it's not something you could plausibly figure out naturally like Hollow Knight's or Tunic's true endings

[fresh bane]

damn, awesome, and edgy

[slim thorn]

the added-in-DLC ending is better about that

[fresh bane]

Ooooooohhhhh nooooo waaaayyyy

I just looked up the requirements for ending c and it's totally what I did

I went back to the brotherhood because Crisanta said something about going back to where I took my first steps but I didn't see her so I assumed there was nothing there and I was overthinking it

God dammit

[slim thorn]

yeah, you've already done most of the ending C requirements

probably whatever you need to unlock ending A is also what's left to unlock C

[fresh bane]

I didn't do the statue thingy

[slim thorn]

and didn't get Weight of True Guilt?

[fresh bane]

Oooh but I can continue from a last save

fuck it, I'll do it now

[slim thorn]

yeah, once you know it's not hard at all

[fresh bane]

there you are!

[slim thorn]

I simply never tried equipping that particular bead so I never had a chance to bungle into the multiple steps to open those arenas

[fresh bane]

Uuuuuh if you mean the pearly thingy I did equip that once in this brotherhood area and initially I thought if you died in this area you didn't accumulate guilt but once I looked in my menu I noticed it changed into being a little bit tainted or something so I unequipped it and never used it again now that it told me it absorbs guilt

[slim thorn]

yep, that's one of the secret ending mechanics, you want to fully tarnish that bead

still, you got closer than I did

[fresh bane]

[slim thorn]

I think I equipped it once because I suspected it had some secret purpose the flavor text was refusing to tell me, but "nothing happened" and I gave up on it

[fresh bane]

This is literally the only thing left I had to do to get ending C I'm so mad

[slim thorn]

nice

[fresh bane]

I like that Crisanta isn't mad at me anymore I like Crisanta

[slim thorn]

well to be honest I think it's good to see ending B before the others

[fresh bane]

I guess so, I'm going to assume that's the bad ending

[slim thorn]

it's difficult to judge goodness and badness of these endings

but probably yes

it's certainly the one where you change the least

[fresh bane]

I'm assuming that's what it is because Escribar said something about how I'm not the only one that died right there or something like that? So I pretty much became another anonymous penitent of the bunch

[slim thorn]

you mean Deogracias?

[fresh bane]

derp, yeah that one

I'm still thinking about the pope

So.... now I need to do the confession statues thingy...

Oh dope I have 99% completion of the map now

[slim thorn]

incidentally, if you want to understanding endings A and B better, the main chunk of lore that's spelled out more clearly outside the game is https://blasphemous.fandom.com/wiki/The_Turned_Throne_and_the_Burnt_Tree; in-game this is done Dark Souls style by hiding it all in item descriptions

[fresh bane]

Of course I assumed there was so much lore hidden in these descriptions because they're waaaay longer than a Dark Souls item and they tell a story rather than just describing an item

But my attention span isn't enough to read them so I never did

[slim thorn]

me neither

[fresh bane]

That sounds a lot like the B ending

[slim thorn]

yup

[fresh bane]

huh

alright then

[gaunt marten]

Why do you only have three bile flasks?

[fresh bane]

Because I upgraded to the max

[river veldt]

i think 2023 has been amazing for games though

[gaunt marten]

You should have four

[white phoenix]

yeah, but the lows have been... low

[fresh bane]

Uuuuuuh I may have missed one flask then

[gaunt marten]

I think the one you're missing is on the library of negated words at the bottom of a tall room with a librarian at the right and a door at the left

[fresh bane]

[gaunt marten]

Jump attack down the center for a hidden wall

[slim thorn]

that is the easiest one to miss

I think most people who find it on their own break the floor by accident

[gaunt marten]

That's what happened to me

[fresh bane]

one of these rooms?

[gaunt marten]

Yes one of the three long vertical sections that have a door to the left at the very bottom

I play the game at a very low volume so the secret wall noise relic does nothing for me

[fresh bane]

you mean this?

cause I already got this one

[gaunt marten]

Yes

[fresh bane]

I got it

[gaunt marten]

Oh

Weird you didn't get this one

[fresh bane]

It was behind a hidden wall that I never would've assumed was there

[river veldt]

sure but Tears of the Kingdom, Baldur's Gate 3, Resident Evil 4 remake ?

[white phoenix]

I mean, yeah

[gaunt marten]

But there's a breakable candleabra next to the wall

[white phoenix]

that doesn't mean the lows haven't been very low

[gaunt marten]

You have to break every candelabra because it's fun

Especially ones suspiciously close to the wall

[slim thorn]

I think I was breaking candles more consistently in my original run than in any later playthrough

[fresh bane]

I never really thought about it before even though I did notice some breakable objects near hidden stuff, I guess I was too early into the game to really be actively looking out for that and I never bothered to go back to this specific dungeon

[slim thorn]

especially with the beads that give you more tears or fervour on smashing

[gaunt marten]

It is early

[gaunt marten]

Late game those beads lose you tears because you're not killing enemies which give way more

[river veldt]

yeah you break candles to get stuff likes hearts or crosses or holy water or knives

[gaunt marten]

No that's in Curse of the Moon

[slim thorn]

and late game you have far more tears than you can spend anyway

[river veldt]

no that's in Castlevania

[fresh bane]

Yeah early game you get a bead that gives you tears and later mana for breaking stuff which I did kind of use until I got better ones

[gaunt marten]

Curse of the Moon is a Castlevania game

[river veldt]

googles

[gaunt marten]

Made by the Castlevania guy

[river veldt]

sorry i only play Castlevania games with Simon

[gaunt marten]

He broke up with the company that holds the intellectual rights to Castlevania

And then made his own games

[flint iron]

Castlevania and bloodstained has awesome ost

[river veldt]

probablt because Konami sucks

[slim thorn]

There’s also an actual Castlevania called Circle of the Moon to further confuse things

[fresh bane]

ooh!

[river veldt]

that was the ds one wans't it

[slim thorn]

pretty sure that was before the DS

[river veldt]

oh it was GBA

i was thinking of Dawn of Sorrow

the one with the worst box art ever

[flint iron]

That isn't that bad

[slim thorn]

I had no complaints back when I bought and played it

But now that I know the series better, I get people being underwhelmed by this after Aria’s art

[gaunt marten]

Favorite Blasphemous hearts: +20% damage, +damage but less defense, +100% prayer damage, healing on kills, righteous riposte window heart

(righteous riposte deals more damage than a regular one and lets you execute)

[river veldt]

no im specifically talking about the "Konami's Best" box

where it has the original box inside the other box art

[slim thorn]

oh

[gaunt marten]

I hate every character here except the two main characters

[slim thorn]

well that wasn’t there when I played it

[river veldt]

i only like Simon

he is my favourite

[flint iron]

Wait I just realized the box art is a game case in the cover

[gaunt marten]

But there's a lot of cute characters besides Simon

[river veldt]

yes 😭😭😭

[gaunt marten]

I guess I'm just mad they called him Simon when he doesn't say anything.

[river veldt]

at least it's not the Mega Man 1 american boxart

[gaunt marten]

Old Kirby Box arts were great

American Kirby is always inexplicably angry

[flint iron]

I think that megaman is his own character in a fighting game

[river veldt]

yes

[flint iron]

Happy pikachu and angry pikachu

[gaunt marten]

This Pikachu is determined but not angry

[flint iron]

Oh yeah true

[sonic dune]

Whoever's idea it was to put a mandatory race level where you have to get first place in the very start of Mafia
I don't like you

[fresh bane]

lets gooooo

crisanta assist

god damn that's a cool frame

I love that Crisanta straight up just squared up against... whatever this is

[weak river]

Every time you post a screenshot from this game, I think I understand it less.

[fresh bane]

lol well get ready for this

[sonic dune]

Fuck this game and the horse it road in on

[weak river]

...oh.

[fresh bane]

Ah, I see, so that's how it is, I understand everything now.
doesn't understand anything

[river veldt]

where are his clothes

[weak river]

Well, that clarified pretty much everything. Thanks, Nire!

[rugged flax]

you should activate Windows

[fresh bane]

I will never

Alright, only took me 35.8 hours of total playtime to get the true ending and almost 100% completion good game 10/10 recommend

I love that it seems like the animated cutscenes use the skins I chose, in the penultimate cutscene which was incredibly animated || (where me and Crisanta cut up those big ol' faces) || Penitente has the blue outfit I got on, so that's pretty awesome

[flint iron]

I will interpret this scene with the context I have.
The only way to get a taller helmet is to get higher towards the sky so that is what this person is doing. They will get in a sky cocoon to do Metamorphosis and become a beautiful long helmet person

[fresh bane]

That's pretty much exactly what's going on

[sonic dune]

I finally beat the infamous race mission from Mafia

I feel less of a sense of accomplishment

[river veldt]

is that the one Jerma did

[sonic dune]

And more a sense of "fucking finally"

[sonic dune]

Was it a bullshit race at the start of a game that's supposedly a shooter

[river veldt]

uhhh

idk but i rmeember him having to do a race in a parking gragae and just not being able to

i cant find it

[fresh bane]

les gooo

[dire gate]

https://www.reddit.com/r/tearsofthekingdom/comments/16om4zd/finished_the_game_without_ever_visiting_the/

The

what

how

Finished the game without ever visiting the surface.

[young creek]

the biggest hindrance here is no paraglider

[arctic fern]

yeah i can totally see them finishing the game without the surface
you dont need the paraglider

[bitter stream]

Yo nice work Nire!

[slim thorn]

it's been so long since I saw this cutscene I forgot just how strongly it connects to the sequel

[slim thorn]

while we're at it, have you seen ending A? I think you might have to look up a video at this point but it's worth seeing too

I'm thinking today I should be able to get ending C in NieR, and then probably play my solo randos of Hat in Time and Blasphemous

my Blasphemous rando start was a bit too mean, but after a round in each of the other games I should have enough stuff to break out of it

[wind stump]

Oh.... OH NO.
These fuckers take one damage at a time when my deck is built around massive burst damage

oh
even better

they heal 1 hp a turn
hitting one of them makes my mana colourless (since this game has coloured mana that's BAD for MY MOSTLY COLOURED DECK)

[quiet swift]

@slim thorn ...Well. Not the type of things I was expecting to see in this zone in Tunic. ||Underground, deeeep underground||

[slim thorn]

yup

that bit is a perfect example of how Tunic is sort of somewhere in between a Zelda-like and a Souls-like

[quiet swift]

Fuck those ||elemental spiders||

[slim thorn]

each "bonfire" down there is a godsend

[quiet swift]

...Holy crap that's a lot of the ||pillars||

[bitter stream]

oh gosh HC, what are you playing?

wait, i wasn't at the bottom of chat

whoops

[slim thorn]

I can't remember if this is a Touhou mod for Slay the Spire or a separate Touhou fangame or what

[wind stump]

The latter.

Do you think I have enough barrier yet?

oh ok
just a casual
maths vaguely 168 damage?

Yeah wow
That killed me, revived me with 50% health because of a relic
and then killed me again the same turn

this boss makes Heart look like a fuckin' joke

[bitter stream]

oh neat! what's the name of this Touhou game?

i have a friend who might get a kick out of it

[dire gate]

It's called Slay the Spire

[wind stump]

Touhou Lost Branch of Legend

it's in Early Access but there's some nice stuff in the game already

[dire gate]

Is it actually a different game or just a mod

[wind stump]

It's a completely different game

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1140150/Touhou_Lost_Branch_of_Legend/

Steam

Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend

The Princess of the Moon, Kaguya Houraisan, held the Moon Manifestation exhibition was ransacked by thieves. It is time to move to solve the mutation and recover the precious exhibits of the moon.Lost Branch of Legend is a turn-based deck-building game that combines Rogue-like, collecting different cards and exhibits on the adventure.During the ...

Price

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[dire gate]

Oh, it looks almost identical to the touhou mod you played before

[slim thorn]

that's why I asked lol

[dire gate]

Honestly I'm pretty sure you can just show the screenshot to a random person and convince them that it is StS

[slim thorn]

submit it to GuessTheGame and watch no one but us get it

[bitter stream]

fair en ough thanks hc

[fresh bane]

I wonder if they added this new ending and cutscene on the last update after they started making the second game and realized none of the endings connected to the sequel

[fresh bane]

I haven't, I've read what it is but I haven't seen it yet

Will say the C ending feels a lot more satisfactory than the other two

[slim thorn]

given how bizarre this all is I think it helps to see it

I agree C feels best regardless, not least because it's such a direct connection to 2

[slim thorn]

probably, though I'd guess they planned the DLC and sequel together rather than went "oops " at the last minute

[mossy flume]

Took me a moment to realize you weren't talking about the C programming language.

[quiet swift]

[peak berry]

Wheel chair installation booster experiment fails

But I was rewarded with this fantastic picture

hehehe

[mossy flume]

CCP Games is developing another EVE-connected FPS game. Same concept as DUST 514.

https://www.ign.com/articles/eve-vanguard-aims-to-be-the-eve-fps-that-dust-514-wasnt

[visual hill]

but all I wanted was Dust 2

[mossy flume]

This is Dust 2

[sage iris]

valve bring back Dust 2

[fresh bane]

Only question is why didn't they include it in the game to begin with, maybe they weren't planning or didn't fully have thought out the sequel just yet, they did consistently release dlcs every year too and they all added pretty big stuff, I would've felt so weird playing the first version of the game that I assume most people have played

Probably why I may not buy blasph 2 for the foreseeable future in case it also receives pretty significant updates like that

[slim thorn]

reasonable, plus it's probably best to leave a bit of a gap or they might feel too samey

[fresh bane]

Considering I may go for Metroid Fusion and/or Aria of Sorrow just to scratch one of them off the bucket list yes I think I'm all good on Blasphemous for now

[slim thorn]

it's not like the two NieR games where playing back to back dramatically improved my understanding of the stories

[rugged flax]

https://youtu.be/kR9xeMU2uQ4

[thorny loom]

Might as well reference this since Nintendo skipped it and went for ttyd.

https://youtu.be/B2hFZZpoYO4?si=vCoyhJe6c6Jnz7fP

[thorny loom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56xYvRpPvTg

[peak berry]

MDR

.308 and .223

[arctic fern]

Nice

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/eurogamer/status/1705910017470103925? @slim thorn

Eurogamer (@eurogamer)

Star Wars: Jedi 3 is on the way, according to Cal Kestis actor Cameron Monaghan

https://t.co/GjIOQbTpRv

Twitter · Sep 24, 2023, 11:40 AM

[slim thorn]

cool

[little badger]

[little badger]

I’ve not played the second one but I have played the first is survivor good?

[slim thorn]

yes

they're similar enough in content and quality that if you like one you'll like the other

probably the biggest difference is simply that Survivor's full moveset is a superset of Fallen Order's; it definitely assumes you've played FO and are ready to add more stuff to it

e.g. Survivor adds a grappling hook to the metroidvania movement abilities, and in FO you have single blade, double blade, at the very end split saber but Survivor adds two new "stances" and has separate skill trees for all five stances

[little badger]

Ooooh different stances. I’ve seen gameplay of it but I didn’t think I seen anyone do that.

[slim thorn]

the crossguard stance (slow but high damage) is particularly effective on certain bosses

[little badger]

I’ll be using the grapple hook a lot.

[slim thorn]

I guess for completeness, my biggest complaints with Survivor that don't apply to Fallen Order are that a) you can only "equip" two stances at a time, I wish I could've swapped freely between all five to experiment more, and b) there's kind of an overwhelming amount of collect random stuff content, best to not obsess over getting all of it (remember the 10 seeds you could get in FO? that also got expanded but maybe it shouldn't have lol)

[little badger]

I can see where you are coming from. If you’ve played Ghost of Tsushima you can change to any stance you want and they are all equipped.

[slim thorn]

ah, nope, Tsushima looked too open world-y for me

[little badger]

I would highly recommend it. You can fast travel from camps.

[slim thorn]

I'm sure, every open world game has fast travel, that's not my issue with the genre lol

[little badger]

Oh right.

What don’t you like about some open world games?

[slim thorn]

the first, biggest problem is that most of them devolve into "run toward the next map icon/waypoint for a few minutes" in between all the chunks of real content that's actually fun to play

that they all have fast travel makes it only a few minutes each time, but it's still annoying, and in an older game with traditional "levels" you just don't waste time on that

basically the only time I want a game to have a large open world in the modern sense (people sometimes confuse this with the tight interconnected non-linear labyrinths of metroidvanias) is when the movement itself is a fun part of the core gameplay loop, but that's not the case in most of these games

"small open worlds" where it's dense enough you don't waste half the runtime running to waypoints can be great though, like A Short Hike, but "open world" as it's normally used in the industry implies space for space's sake

the second problem is that when they try to make their needlessly huge worlds dense in content, they always end up with filler content or a good piece of content repeated too many times (and I have heard people specifically say Tsushima has this problem)

[little badger]

Yeah some of Tsushima’s side stuff did feel a bit repetitive at times. I love open world games but I mostly explore the world first unless you need to do a quest first or if you can’t enter that area until you are a certain level.

[slim thorn]

yeah, they've been a trend because people who aren't me seem to like them

so I mostly just play other stuff

(which is odd to say when I just finished NieR: Automata, but I was playing that for the story, and it absolutely has the standard "lots of time running to waypoints" problem even with fast travel)

[little badger]

And I love the Assassin’s creed worlds but sometimes they use the same assets for some areas.

[slim thorn]

I loved the first few ACs, but after effectively playing AC2 four times / finishing AC3 it was just too samey to hold my interest any more (especially since none of those games found a solution to the fundamental problem of being too easy and/or scripted to ever want to use most of your moveset/toolset)

the worlds still look cool, but when that's all the game has, watching is better than playing

[little badger]

It’s good that Mirage is going to where it started and I’ve heard it’s very short

[visual hill]

reminds me of the Unreal 2 mod that makes movement twice as fast, and almost redeems the gameplay on its own

[grave tide]

They aren't similar enough

Fallen Order has fucked up difficulties

[slim thorn]

[grave tide]

Grandmaster in Fallen Order and Grandmaster in Jedi Survivor are two different games

[slim thorn]

oh, right, you play on high difficulties

I do not

neat, Blasphemous II just got its first big post-launch bugfix patch, and the only bug I remember seeing in my playthrough is in the list

[slim thorn]

that might be the single most useless hint I've ever received

(but seriously it probably means one of the few rooms in the game that needs a key to access)

[slim thorn]

...that was definitely not the intended way to earn a speedrunning achievement

[gaunt marten]

Did you not beat the three bosses?

[slim thorn]

I did random start location, which came out as rooftops, so I've been going backwards mostly

I assume the achivement just checks when you arrive in this room, considering I entered from the east

[gaunt marten]

That's how it works

[slim thorn]

ah, the joys of enemy rando

it took me... 2:33 to reach Albero

less than I was expecting tbh

still haven't found my dash, but barely beat Ten Piedad without it on the first try

and it looks like putting all my bosses in priority_locations is having the desired effect

that's the only boss I can actually get to so perfect end to that session

[slim thorn]

wow that's mean

[gaunt marten]

It's okay, just don't dash

The ranged blood attack is actually pretty good DPS and relatively safe

Can be used for most bosses

[slim thorn]

I am pretty bad at remembering that exists

[gaunt marten]

You learn to use it when you do the blue NG+ penitance

[slim thorn]

I think when I originally enabled this I was hoping it'd force me to parry more often, which is sort of true, but I think when combined with enemy rando there's too many situations where parry is a bad idea anyway; I end up slashing and hopping away as my default loop

yeah mana regen makes that ranged attack unlimited so it can replace the melee

[gaunt marten]

Did you know about righteous ripostes?

[slim thorn]

I don't think so

[gaunt marten]

When you parry, hit the attack button the moment your sword touches the enemy

You instantly execute them

[slim thorn]

ah, ok

[gaunt marten]

If you do it five times successfully across any number of runs you get an achievement

There's a heart that makes parries harder but righteous ripostes much easier

[slim thorn]

I'm guessing you checked I don't have that achievement

[gaunt marten]

No, I didn't

But I only learned about righteous ripostes by getting it

[slim thorn]

sweet, just found my Pages 24-25 ||(Prayer)||, which means switching back to Tunic

[slim thorn]

hm, can I fight the birb without any ranged weapons or a shield

[quiet swift]

Oh, without shield? That's tougher

[slim thorn]

oh and still no health flasks

I am so glad I did start_with_sword: true lol

getting the chest was easy at least

welp

I got it below half, we're doing this again

[fresh bane]

Oh I don't like that magic/hp meter

[slim thorn]

oh that's a stamina meter

I don't get a magic bar until I have a magic weapon

anyway, nailed it

(in vanilla you'd normally have a shield and magic by the time you got here)

[fresh bane]

I feel like I'd have a hard time gauging the values in those meters since it's isometric and three dimensional like the game

[slim thorn]

they also have little notches at certain regular intervals

I believe each of these started at two ?s before the upgrades I've found so far

[flint iron]

It's an aesthetically nice hud tho

[slim thorn]

this also isn't a game where precise numerical values are all that important

[fresh bane]

what little there is of it anyway it reminds me of Ocarina of Time's or Link's Awakening's mostly minimalist huds

[mossy flume]

Everything about the game is aesthetically awesome

[slim thorn]

it's much more Zelda than it is an RPG

which is part of the reason it randomizes so well

[quiet swift]

[fresh bane]

Oh I'm not talking about numerical values precisely it would just mess me up because I wouldn't be able to fully tell when I'm topped off or how much health I'm missing because I'm stoopid and I like my flat 2D huds

[slim thorn]

also this is the shiniest chest I have ever seen but such a troll that I can't get to it right now

[fresh bane]

Hell I kinda actually liked the singular health values on the arcade minigame in Blasphemous

reminds me of hearts in Zelda rather than just the one bar

[gaunt marten]

Play NG+

[slim thorn]

oh you'll love NG+ Penitence of the Bleeding Heart then

[fresh bane]

Don't happen to glance towards that chest when the sunlight is bouncing off of it

I don't know what that is but I doubt I'll be doing NG+ on Blasphemous I think I've had my fill

[slim thorn]

totally fair

I "only" did one NG+ run, and mostly so I could see the DLC NG+ bosses

I think Flitter did all three of the NG+ Penitences?

[gaunt marten]

Yes

[slim thorn]

basically at the start of an NG+ run you can pick one of three special modes that change how health/magic/etc work in ways that are intended to make the game harder but also play very differently

like the one that makes fervour regenerate over time, but your flasks heal fervour instead of health

[gaunt marten]

That one was the hardest

[slim thorn]

Frog's Domain is probably a terrible idea without a shield but I've got 3 Attack maybe I can cheese it

[quiet swift]

No no no

[slim thorn]

well, the tracker claims I can get most of the checks in here

[fresh bane]

Bald! Bald! My eyes!!!

[gaunt marten]

NG+ in Blasphemous has four extra optional bosses

The four Amanecidas

With extra related cutscenes

[fresh bane]

well that would be useful in the base game

[slim thorn]

oh no the three NG+ penitences would all be a terrible idea for a first time player lol

[quiet swift]

[fresh bane]

DS3 has this where you can choose to swap some estus flasks for mana flasks instead and considering how little fervor I usually get from my attacks and that it doesn't regenerate that would've been useful

[fresh bane]

So I'm missing content

[slim thorn]

they're a side story, but, yes

I mean there's also the whole second game to do

up to you

[fresh bane]

I'm guessing it's the room that was empty and had nothing on it with the mirror

[slim thorn]

that room is part of it yes

[fresh bane]

Yeah but the second game may get content updates in the future

[slim thorn]

though it's not where you start

[gaunt marten]

If you beat each penitance you get a rosary bead. One makes you slowly heal HP after using a bile flask, one makes you slowly heal fervor, and one makes your bile flasks heal fervor instead of health

You can keep those for future runs, so NG+1 is the hardest

[slim thorn]

unironically using stealth here because I don't think I can fight all the frogs feels so weird

[fresh bane]

By NG+2 I'd imagine one would be decked out so much and already have sufficient skills that it'd feel like a breeze to go through

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/WpsdtJQ_2eU?si=816-UHau5_RXvo7v

[slim thorn]

this is fine, I'm completely safe

wow, now that I'm actually pushing the limits of the frogs' detection logic, it turns out they have no peripheral vision

[rose rose]

Makes sense with those hoods

[slim thorn]

good point

[fresh bane]

It would be really funny if they were actually programmed with a narrow cone of vision because of the hoods

[rose rose]

My general impression of the level of detail and care in Tunic is that that's exactly what I'd expect to happen

[slim thorn]

ok, this last room might not be worth it

in vanilla that's a super critical item, but here it's just an MP berry, so not worth fighting 10+ enemies with my current lack of gear

gah, took me several minutes to re-discover this hidden passage

I'm 90% sure in my original playthrough I found this passage in my first few hours and then couldn't figure out how to reach the rest of the region until much later in the game

and now I'm finding bonus hidden passages all over this area I don't think I ever used in vanilla

[dense crypt]

Finished Final Fantasy 5 last night

What a great fuckin game it was

Finished with a Ninja, a Summoner, a Blue Mage, and a Chemist

[slim thorn]

for "bombable walls", does anything besides firecrackers work? (I just wasted a "fire bomb")

oops wrong server

[unreal idol]

[hasty patio]

https://twitter.com/MinecraftWikiEN/status/1706004078206103965

Minecraft Wiki EN (@MinecraftWikiEN)

The Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom and we finally have the new wiki up and ready! This allows us to bring many improvements such as significantly fewer ads and faster load times. Please see the following page for more details about the move.

https://t.co/LZyJlRXrfB

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Twitter · Sep 24, 2023, 5:54 PM

[light gate]

its beautiful

[river veldt]

LETS FUCKING GOOOO

it's beautiful i agree Deviant

[dire gate]

Hideki Kamiya, most known for Bayonetta series, is leaving Platinum Games

[fresh bane]

Whaaaa

That's actually wild

[bleak lintel]

He seems to like the culture of small studios.

Maybe he’s off to make another one,

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/cdpred_support/status/1706247934101053493?

CD PROJEKT RED CS (@CDPRED_Support)

⚠️Important information for PlayStation 5 gamers — If you purchased the Cyberpunk 2077 + Phantom Liberty bundle, to download Phantom Liberty claim it from the PlayStation Store by pressing "download" once the game releases at midnight local time. We apologize for the lack of a…

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[quiet swift]

I think i'll start a new game of that once i finish tunic

[random steppe]

I was very much a hater and I think I'm gonna buy the expansion on release, that's how much the 2.0 got me

Well not on release, probably gonna wait a couple of days...

Just to make sure it works, once bitten..

[quiet swift]

I already got it but I'll wait a bit before starting, yeah

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/cyberpunkgame/status/1706279062463713563?

Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame)

Gear up, Agents! It’s time for the Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Launch Trailer!

Get ready to play — and try not to get played. 😏

#Cyberpunk2077 #PhantomLiberty

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Twitter · Sep 25, 2023, 12:06 PM

[gaunt marten]

https://i.imgur.com/SnmPASH.png

[wind stump]

But why

[gaunt marten]

It cost money

[thorny loom]

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/herocraft-complete-collection?

Last chance for 40k space wolf before its delisted from steam

[gaunt marten]

I wouldn't buy it because I don't want future developers to learn this can be used to get a final boost in sale before they cut down on maintenance costs

[mossy flume]

I already started a new Cyberpunk save. The game performs better now than it did at launch.

[gaunt marten]

Nice

[random steppe]

For me easly the biggest improvment was the loot system

[mossy flume]

That has definitely been improved, yep

[quiet swift]

What about the netware stuff? I heard that got overhauled too

[mossy flume]

The implants system did indeed get overhauled and seems easier to understand IMO.

[random steppe]

No idea, since this is the first time I played since watching Edgerunner, i installed a Sandevistan the first chance I got and never looked back

But that means I can't hack

The cyberware is pretty damn great, I think a good chunk of them were here on release, but they are all been rebalanced and a lot of new ones are there

Also now armor and stats have almost all been offloaded to the cyberware system

[mossy flume]

The skill tree was totally redone too

[random steppe]

Yeah, I didn't play enough to have a strong feeling about the skill system before but I really like it now

[mossy flume]

Same roots, but the perks are all different now

And yeah they rebalanced everything I think

[random steppe]

I have been enjoying myself a lot, before the writing was excellent but it was marred by the fact that you had to play Cyberpunk to experience it, now it's actually fun.

[mossy flume]

Agreed

[random steppe]

I just go and do random encounters because I can, for no reason

[mossy flume]

I can’t quite point my finger onto why, which I feel like is a failing on my part, but the experience feels so much better

[random steppe]

I think it's because it's not one thing that makes the game better now

But a vaeity of improvements that don't have you go "this shit again" every 5 minutes

[mossy flume]

The crowd density in the city appears to have been cranked up a notch too, which makes it feel a bit more natural

[random steppe]

The weapons make more sense, the gear makes more sense, the skills and vehicles feel better, the cyberware makes a LOT more sense
You aren't assalted by the "well, this isn't ideal" feeling with every system you interact with like before

[mossy flume]

Yeah, that I can agree with

[wind stump]

HMMMMMMM
y'all are tempting me into poor financial descions

[mossy flume]

I did notice that I wasn’t overwhelmed by the weapons anymore

[random steppe]

It's not perfect, traffic is still pretty dumb, there are still some bugs, some systems are a bit fiddly and some things aren't super clear, but it's FAR better

[wind stump]

I'll wait for a 50% sale

[mossy flume]

And yes, it’s not just raining loot to the point of immediately filling your inventory either. That was rebalanced.

[random steppe]

I like how they did the weapons, instead of rarity the colors is the tier of the weapons

[mossy flume]

Not nearly so much garbage.

[random steppe]

Works perfectly

Color coded for tier, and there is still some randomisation, like some mods they come with that you can't install yourself, but it's not diablo loot anymore

Which made zero sense in a cyberpunk settings, weapons are mass produced, why do they have randomised effects?

[quiet swift]

I went with a sniper/assault rifle build last time, if I recall

[wind stump]

I was just thinking "It'd be nice if this game had achievements"

Oh good, suffering. (Resolving the incident perfectly refers to beating Act 4)

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/nextgenplayer/status/1706317117346161053? @mossy flume

Hunter 🎮 (@NextGenPlayer)

A ransomware group claims to have breached ‘all Sony systems’

The group claims the ‘data is for sale’

See more: https://t.co/adRBH6xj3L

Twitter · Sep 25, 2023, 2:37 PM

[mossy flume]

[little badger]

[light gate]

The hell does it mean by 'all Sony systems'?

[mossy flume]

Unclear.

Presumably they intend to say the entirety of the internal Sony network

[gaunt marten]

https://mastodon.art/@jetbougan/111116972533822286

[light gate]

Atrus: "Did you bring the mushroom?"

[green fulcrum]

The greatest puzzle series there ever was (at least until Myst 5 f*cked it up).

I can't wait for the Riven remaster.

[quartz pawn]

I still want to buy Myst 1 on VR.

[rancid herald]

not really ransom if you"re not randoming it back to sony

[wind stump]

Hmm, Ender Lillies is half off

[gaunt marten]

Could be three quarters

[fresh bane]

That would be kind of weird considering any studio he makes will eventually get big anyways

I can't find any reasons given yet for why he's leaving, I wonder if maybe there were differences between him and other members of the team, I read a comment that said something about Kamiya lying about a 'no intervention' rule during development which caused a lot of back and forths which the director of Bayo 3 talks about in the official PG blogs, but I couldn't find it

a lot of people are acting like this is equal to Kojima and Konami parting ways but honestly I think without Kamiya Bayo may be even better lol, the dude had some crazy stuff planned for the franchise and not the genius crazy but the 'you're actually insane' crazy
I actually feel like Bayo may recover from the mess that was Bayo 3 if he's not involved

[bleak lintel]

I don't think it is that strange, when the studio is small he has greater influnce, as a studio grows in size he loses that. Platinum reached the point where he wants to do something but can't so he's moving on.

[quiet swift]

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/switch-game-cancelled-over-controversial-unity-changes/

[mossy flume]

F

Presumably cancelling isn't necessary though

Nothing says they can't stay on the 2023 LTS build and not have to deal with the fee at all.

[quiet swift]

@slim thorn Tunic: the ||scavenger boss|| was pretty annoying. Couldn't get him by being careful, he just moved too much. ||So I loaded the gun and chugged mana berries and shot him to death ||

[slim thorn]

I'm okay at that boss if I go in with enough upgrades and equipment and don't get too greedy; he kills me very quickly if I get lazy

personally it's the Siege Engine I have the most trouble with

[rose rose]

I have some minor business questions about the game that's expecting to make over a million dollars but can't afford to eat a 2.5% royalty fee.

[slim thorn]

though my current rando has yet to allow me to fight any of the bosses so we'll see how that goes

[quiet swift]

I did get him to... 30% just one time but otherwise kept making mistakes and didn't get him down fast enough. I think I'm at like level 4 upgrades at the moment. ||Beaten siege engine, librarian, scavenger and garden knight||

[mossy flume]

I think we might need a #1155938111407276173 thread

[gaunt marten]

But then I wouldn't hear about Tunic anymore

[mossy flume]

You could join the Tunic thread

[gaunt marten]

I don't like talking about it because I don't yet have it

I just like seeing it as I browse #1032716748887179434

[slim thorn]

Blasphemous and Tunic have both felt borderline lately but since not-me was doing their first playthrough I figured I'd leave it up to them whether to make a thread

[mossy flume]

I've kinda picked it up again in another attempt to actually play the darn game

Made some progress

[slim thorn]

I shall ask for more in the thread

[thorny loom]

https://www.thegamer.com/star-wars-kotor-2-switch-class-action-lawsuit-aspyr-saber-cancelled-restored-content-dlc/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

[mossy flume]

it is rather odd that it was cancelled.

[bleak lintel]

Not sure why the eye rolls, it was a major part of the advertisement.

[wind stump]

mon deiu

[green fulcrum]

Sacre bleu

[gaunt marten]

This character's French accent is charming but feels a bit hammy

Is it insensitive or just good?

[green fulcrum]

Voiced, or just text? Because if it's text, it's not that bad, at least from this one screenshot.

[gaunt marten]

Just text

[wind stump]

He says a lot of French though
It's charming, it's just very apparent he's French.

[gaunt marten]

She

[wind stump]

... THAT'S A GIRL?

[gaunt marten]

She's called Emilie

She has boobs

[fresh bane]

[gaunt marten]

To be fair you could easily read Emilie as Emile.

[fresh bane]

I've never heard of the name Emile before but I definitely have heard Emilie and recognize it as mostly french because the english version would probably be Emily

...not that I even know what's being discussed or who the characters are but still

[fresh bane]

I'm guessing Emilie is the flat one

[slim thorn]

meanwhile I've been playing games with an "Emil" lately so both of them look like they have extra letters to me

[gaunt marten]

Yes she's the orange character and she likes to beat things up

[river veldt]

guys can have boobs

[fresh bane]

I like her already

[wind stump]

cow talk

[fresh bane]

[wind stump]

YES
GIVE ME THE FISHING
RIGHT NOW

[gaunt marten]

Yes, that's why you aggregate all the evidence you have before you make a guess

[fresh bane]

cute redhead with freckles that enjoys beating things up and likes cows sounds like a character I'd like

[wind stump]

Emile really likes cows.

given the artstyle I'm getting VA-11 HALL-A esque flashbacks and i wonder if Emile has cow related PTSD somehow or if NieR has fucking ruined everything for me because i'm secondguessing something THIS BENIGN

[fresh bane]

[gaunt marten]

ie

[fresh bane]

I think she just really likes cows

[quiet swift]

🐮

[fresh bane]

moo

probably a country girl or something

[slim thorn]

yeah this just gives me the same vibes as how I grew up with cats

[fresh bane]

I did think of valhalla too with the pixel art

[wind stump]

SO I AM THE CRAZY ONE

[fresh bane]

[gaunt marten]

The pixel art is great

The purple silhouettes they do of "Generic" characters and the designs they give to them suck

Every single generic character is trash

[wind stump]

i overcomplicated a jumping puzzle, thought i had to do a multi screen thing when it was on the same screen

[mossy flume]

Indeed. There’s a decent case to be had about a bait and switch, which is illegal.

[gaunt marten]

Something tells me this mod's items are a bit overpowered https://i.imgur.com/d5QQm49.png

(She killed a megasloth in one hit, shattering its spine and destroying a leg instantly)

[wind stump]

Seems balanced

[fresh bane]

not a great time for kotor fans, the remake was also shelved when Aspyr/Saber Interactive was working on it and could've been lost completely but was picked up again recently by Embracer but still absolutely 0 news or updates about it at all

on the other hand....

https://youtu.be/-AKxEREJqgU?si=0rZyFZBlLoF6M8ZZ

dark forces remastered

[river veldt]

yeha being done by Nightdive which means it will be good

[fresh bane]

Hoping we get to see the day Jedi Knight gets remastered :sunsetbounce:

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-kyle-katarn-kyle-katarn-gif-25861990

game is literally as old as I am and it shows but dammit it's fun

[river veldt]

i tried playing Jedi Knight 2 and did not like it

[mossy flume]

The closest we get to the Jedi Knight games these days are the Jedi Fallen Order/Jedi Survivor games.

Really miss the feel of Jedi Knight though.

[fresh bane]

Fallen Order inevitably feels a lot more cinematic because that's what games go for nowadays but I really love the slightly janky videogamey feeling of Jedi Knight

Definitely would love a remaster of Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy, I've dumped an insane amount of hours into Jedi Academy as a kid and I'd do it again if they remastered that game

https://youtu.be/PT2rEgeCJCE?si=QZ5EnHet0JRSP91r

I like how this project manages to keep the feel of Jedi Knight intact and it just makes it a bit prettier visually

[mossy flume]

Indeed!

And then shortly after it was released it kinda erased from the internet

[thorny loom]

Tbf. We are getting a remaster of the original

My guess is disney may have asked nicely to stop

[mossy flume]

Are we getting a remaster?

[thorny loom]

Of the first game yes

https://youtu.be/-AKxEREJqgU?si=PxuC2WwBOt18K8SY

[mossy flume]

Huh, TIL

[fresh bane]

I mean...

It's what I was talking about immediately before this convo

[fresh bane]

if we're lucky it may mean there's a Jedi Knight remaster coming along which may potentially mean Jedi Outcast and Academy, if we're lucky :twibounce:

[thorny loom]

I just want my empire at war offical remaster

[fresh bane]

oh that's the RTS right? that would be cool

I don't know how many people are interested in RTS now though

[slim thorn]

maybe it's because I was never into it, but RTS has always felt to me like a modestly successful but not dominant genre; is it more complicated than that?

[quiet swift]

always

C&C and starcraft felt pretty dominant

[slim thorn]

dominant within RTS, yeah, I mean over other genres, like there was a time when seemingly all of the biggest games were cartoony platformers, and a time when seemingly all of them were WW2 shooters, then sci-fi shooters, but I don't recall RTS as a genre ever being like that

[river veldt]

is Civilisation a rts

[slim thorn]

Civ is turn based

[river veldt]

right woops

[visual hill]

RTS was dominant in the early 2000s but floundered with the rise of consoles versus PCs, skill floor being high, watchability in esports being low, etc

[quiet swift]

will reply after this wow dungfeon

[slim thorn]

ah that makes sense

also I was half-expecting one of you to say "mostly but then Civilization 6 3/4 introduced Active Time Battle which was controversial to say the least-"

[visual hill]

there are decent console RTS options nowadays, but they don't really attract that many players

[slim thorn]

I suppose someday I should give Pikmin a chance

[visual hill]

me too, I need to try it

[quiet swift]

I'd say the 90s as a whole were the RTS era, earlier had stuff like Dune and Warcrafts and C&Cs, age of empires as well I think? And late 90s had starcraft, total annihilation

But late 90s is when FPS I think became a much bigger and eventually dominating genre

Plus what Calinou said with consoles

Heck, Homeworld 1 was 1999

[slim thorn]

makes sense, early 00s is when I really started paying attention

[bleak lintel]

Dota and League did a lot of damage to RTS genre as well.

[slim thorn]

oh?

[quiet swift]

[bleak lintel]

Pretty much killed the competative scenes.

[quiet swift]

League literally came from a warcraft 3 mod

Defense of the ancients?

And it was built as a whole own game from that onwards

[visual hill]

some people bought Warcraft 3 only to play DOTA

like some people download DOTA2 only to play custom games nowadays

[quiet swift]

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/435727/history-of-real-time-strategy-the-rise-1992-1998/

[bleak lintel]

Plus the big IPs bowed out. Warcraft became a MMO.
Red Alert disappeared.

[quiet swift]

shakesfist at EA

[bleak lintel]

Starcraft 2 was pretty good but came out during the downslope.

[quiet swift]

Wasn't that 10 years later? 2010?

[slim thorn]

yeah, by the time I was paying attention I got the strong impression that Starcraft 2 was "the only RTS"

[bleak lintel]

Yeah, I had a leaflet from some Blizzard game that had SC2 coming out soon... 6 years later from the date that was printed.

There's still great RTS coming out here and there, they're not mainstream anymore.

[robust steppe]

Should I try Black & White 2?

[quiet swift]

Ehhh

B&W are interesting to explore for maybe a few hours but it wears off quick

Lol, KKND in that article

[wintry canopy]

Like Pokemon, black 2 and white 2?

[quiet swift]

Nah, god game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv8xkwj7RE0 KKND was... well, borderlands level of humor meets post apocalypse meets RTS

[fresh bane]

I'd say yes considering Starcraft was a huge thing and Age of the Empires too, maybe not for a long time but it was definitely one of the biggest genres played online and in tournaments with maybe fighting games in there too

[fresh bane]

More than that, Steve 'Guinsoo' Feak and Steve 'Pendragon' Mescon were involved in the original development of League

the RTS I played the most as a kid myself was Age of Mythology and WC3 I still love both so much

[slim thorn]

I played Age of Mythology once

I feel like I might've finished the campaign but the actual, you know, RTS part never really clicked for me

[fickle garnet]

I found a steam deck on marketplace for $500 that is a 64gb and they say they modded in a 1tb ssd

[thorny loom]

Have them boot it up and log in to verify the claim

[quiet swift]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTimeStrategy/comments/39txxr/complete_list_of_all_rts_on_wikipedia/

[gaunt marten]

Wikipedia's standards of notability for videogame are quite poor

[fickle garnet]

I might ask my parents first

[gaunt marten]

Be careful with any hardware you can't get a refund on

Lots of SSDs are fake — they report having one terabytes by altering the hardware to make it say that

When in reality they have like 128GB

[fickle garnet]

That is true

They say it has a corsair mp600 1tb

[gaunt marten]

I trust that one to have as much data as it reports

But it's only worth like fifty dollars used

[fickle garnet]

Im not gonna buy it

[slim thorn]

hm, Heart of Cerulean Incense... double fervour but half blood attacks, that feels like something I might want to use very situationally since I really want the blood attacks until my sword is stronger

[fickle garnet]

Im getting a computer next year anyways

[slim thorn]

I didn't know there was an achievement for that

[mossy flume]

Pretty sure that was the very first achievement I got haha

[slim thorn]

I walked into it pretty quickly but stopped there

I was also surprised to discover rando has a check for "Spaceship - Rumbi Abuse"

that's right, ^this was my first achievement

after this solo multirando I should play some of the other platformers that were in the same bundle I got hat in time from

[quiet swift]

oh hey, there's some cyberpunk 2077 twitch drops

[robust steppe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpb3srVyFaA

[quiet swift]

Screw that, make movies with Stunt Island instead!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr5pE_7am5M

[gaunt marten]

This you?

I don't think I can make a top 25 list

[mossy flume]

No Metroidvaniyas smh

[fickle garnet]

I don't even know my top 5

[gaunt marten]

Zelda is a metroidvania

[mossy flume]

Me neither, there's absolutely no hope of me compiling a top 25 list

[gaunt marten]

Also Shovel Knight

[river veldt]

these are in order btw

[fickle garnet]

Besides TLOU, and Elden Ring

[gaunt marten]

I can't believe your least favorite videogame ever is Super Mario 3D world

[river veldt]

no it's not it's in the top 25

i have played more than 25 video games lol

[gaunt marten]

The joke is you only—

Yes

[river veldt]

Half Life 2 might be a bit higher actually

[mossy flume]

I can probably make lists constrained to specific subcategories within a specific franchise, but expanding it beyond that would make the task rather impossible. Played far too many games that I've quite enjoyed for various different reasons.

[river veldt]

now to do top 25 movies

[gaunt marten]

Do top 25 videogames of each five year period

[teal sonnet]

https://reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/s/vWfNS1X7SR

omg I was not the only one

this piece of shit sign me out every single time

[thorny loom]

I was wondering if it was just me or a bug

Luckly i dont use jt for anything so

[river veldt]

Nintendo turned 134 last weekedn

[hasty patio]

https://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-bans-250000-overwatch-2-cheaters-says-its-ai-that-analyses-voice-chat-is-warning-naughty-players-and-can-often-correct-negative-behaviour-immediately/ Good on them for removing cheaters, but it feels like they removed half their player base with that. /s

[dire gate]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1706485007177355410

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

SAG-AFTRA members have approved a strike against the video game industry with 98.32% voting YES.

This does not mean that they will go on strike, it is dependent on if a deal can be reached between SAG and the major video game companies.

(Source: https://t.co/nwVq6GdgGs)

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Twitter · Sep 26, 2023, 1:45 AM

[river veldt]

whaos

[river veldt]

wrong chat

[white phoenix]

aw man I was about to post this https://derpibooru.org/images/2790967

[river veldt]

lolll

[peak mesa]

Will voice actors be involved too? GTA VAs, for example.

Michael Hollick, the voice of Niko Bellic, wasn’t paid much despite GTA IV being a multi-million success.

[quiet swift]

Most of the video game actor related stuff is voice acting so yes. Some more modern games are also using motion capture stuff so they're doing more outright acting than voice acting, but it should include both

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/vgc_news/status/1706639212802363597? @mossy flume

VGC (@VGC_News)

The iPhone 15 Pro version of the Resident Evil 4 remake will cost $60 / £58.

https://t.co/H5Zrxf7ZVz

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Twitter · Sep 26, 2023, 11:57 AM

[light gate]

Makes sense.

Its literally the full game.

And you get a free demo to try and see if you like it before shooting to buy it.

That's really smart.

[slim thorn]

...I had no idea they were putting RE4RE on phones

considering how well it performed on my laptop that could work

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/eurogamer/status/1706658868166603148?

Eurogamer (@eurogamer)

Game prices are too low, says Capcom exec https://t.co/ZIQMtuQTTa

Twitter · Sep 26, 2023, 1:15 PM

[fickle garnet]

No they're priced too high (in Canada)

[light gate]

Considering its been $60 dollars for many years, I think it has to go up unfortunately.

But I doubt it'll go to employees.

[fickle garnet]

Mfw most games in Canada are$90

[little badger]

For standard editions?

[fickle garnet]

Yes

At least on console they are

They're a bit cheaper on steam

Some of them not all of them tho

[teal sonnet]

honestly, fair

it is not a mobile game

it is a full AAA game that now can run on a phone

[little badger]

[harsh kestrel]

Okay, please be wrong and please tell me some overly greedy corporate fuckhead didn't actually say that. If so, bro, get them out of here

[gaunt marten]

Didn't say what?

[thorny loom]

https://www.pcgamer.com/payday-3s-launch-has-gone-so-badly-that-starbreeze-says-its-now-looking-at-the-possibility-of-some-sort-of-offline-mode/

Should have had one to begin with but some lessons have to be learned the hard way

[gaunt marten]

Maybe Hitman devs should learn the same lesson

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/focus_entmt/status/1706708370852339826?

Focus Entertainment (@Focus_entmt)

A message from the #Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden teams

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Twitter · Sep 26, 2023, 4:32 PM

[mossy flume]

[little badger]

How many games have we had delayed this year? It’s like a lot.

[slim thorn]

I thought we finished the marathon of mega releases already; what are the big games this month?

[river veldt]

October has Super Mario Bros Wonder 🥳

[mossy flume]

C2077 Phantom Liberty
Spider Man 2
Cities Skylines 2 next month
Super Mario Wonder next month

Uhhh

I think there’s one or two more as well

[dire gate]

Sonic Superstars

Sonic Frontiers' last DLC...although that one is free

[mossy flume]

Alan Wake 2

Like a Dragon Gaiden
Assassin’s Creed Mirage

[river veldt]

Arkham Trilogy on Switch

[mossy flume]

This holiday season’s itinerary is insane

[dire gate]

Ys X Nordics will release in a day, but only in Asia for now

[river veldt]

Baldur's Gate 4

Baldur's Gate 78

[mossy flume]

Payday 3 happened, of course

Oh shit, the new Forza Motorsport too

Next month

MGS Collection Vol. 1

It just keeps going

Mario RPG, Persona 5 Tactica, Call of Duty MW3… I think you get the point

[little badger]

Did you get the cyberpunk DLC?

[mossy flume]

All of that is this year

Yep

I started a new save file so it’ll be a bit before I get to it

[little badger]

Be carful because there’s an Easter egg you can do that won’t let you progress through the DLC and you will have to load up a previous save.

[dire gate]

...That doesn't sound like an easter egg

[mossy flume]

That sounds like a bug

[mossy flume]

This was originally scheduled to come out 3 days before CoD:MW3 did.
Probably wise to get out of the way.

[little badger]

No it’s an actual Easter egg if you leave the area on the first mission a cutscene plays.

https://twitter.com/gamesradar/status/1706703903276802119?

GamesRadar+ (@GamesRadar)

Cyberpunk 2077 players have discovered a fun Easter egg in the new expansion https://t.co/vsmUloRQX5

Twitter · Sep 26, 2023, 4:14 PM

How much?! https://twitter.com/wario64/status/1706707257902444776?

Wario64 (@Wario64)

Joel and Ellie - The Last of Us Statue DX Bonus Version up for preorder at Prime 1 Studio ($1,999) https://t.co/RFHcRlfjOV

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Twitter · Sep 26, 2023, 4:28 PM

[slim thorn]

wow, that is a long list of games I won't play

but fair enough that'll keep a lot of people busy

[heady bridge]

I do wonder if we get that next year in the fall after Trails through Daybreak (aka Kuro no Kiseki).

[river veldt]

you aren't going to play Super Mario Bros Wonder ?????

[heady bridge]

I don’t like 2D Mario so I probably won’t.

3D Mario is a different story

[river veldt]

waow

[heady bridge]

Sonic is the opposite for me, love 2D Sonic, pretty indifferent to 3D Sonic.

[rotund forge]

I've only ever played 1 Sonic game and it was only for like, 30 minutes. Take your guesses lol

[mossy flume]

I’m only interested in a few of them, but yeah, the release schedule is really dense for the rest of this year

There are a bunch more I didn’t list but those are the big ones, I believe