general gaming

[slim thorn]

and phase 2 down

[gaunt marten]

That's the game

[slim thorn]

I didn't optimize my build for that at all but yeah debla is a must

[gaunt marten]

The boss is so vulnerable to debla of lights

You just skip all the annoying platforming, and even kill the sword in one shot

[slim thorn]

well, I actually like the fight

I think I did half my damage there with my sword and half with deblas

granted I'm not a big fan of chasing the flying sword around, so I think B2's final boss is an improvement

[gaunt marten]

I'm looking forward to it

[slim thorn]

I guess I should clarify B2's has platforming, but imo it's a better balance anyway; iirc it has a single fixed set of platforms that appear whenever the ground becomes harmful and that's it, and it makes up for an always vulnerable weak point by essentially throwing more stuff at you

becomes ash

[gaunt marten]

B2's platforming is a lot better though

[slim thorn]

"Vuestra penitencia ha terminado"

true, though for that boss only normal single jumps are relevant so that aspect's basically the same

[gaunt marten]

No hablo Espanol

Double jumps are useful in case your first jump misses

Huge quality of life upgrade

[slim thorn]

true

I still prefer to play Blasphemous 1 without that double jump mod, but I get why it exists and why the randomizer supports it

[gaunt marten]

The game world is made with one jump in mind so it makes sense

[slim thorn]

exactly

[gaunt marten]

Kills a lot of the hazard related difficulty

[slim thorn]

now, only one game left to complete

...I forgot this boss also had a second phase

although I'm pleasantly surprised that I got through the first phase on my very first try, considering I haven't done this fight since my original Tunic playthrough

[fresh bane]

I don't know if you were present when I finished Blasph but I found the final boss to be so trippy

[slim thorn]

I can't remember if I was awake at the time or not

come to think of it all four of these games arguably have a trippy final boss

[gaunt marten]

Crosscode has an archipelago implementation now

I'm looking forward to trying it

[slim thorn]

ok I need to actually focus on this fight lol

[gaunt marten]

Crosscode is kind of a scifi 2D Zelda with an MMO theme

[slim thorn]

YES

five tries I think?

[peak berry]

kingsway

[dense crypt]

this is getting out of hand. now there are two of them!

[dense crypt]

looks neat

[slim thorn]

all right, after 15 days, I am done with my crazy solo rando

looks like my play time in all four games was a surprisingly consistent 10-12 hours, despite the different levels of completion

[sonic dune]

Ay gamers

Far Cry 5: New Dawn Deluxe Edition Bundle is on sale on Xbox

From over a hundred to just under twenty

Y'all got 3 days to get it

[dire gate]

TIL people hardcore argued over how Cait Sith should be pronounced in ffvii

[slim thorn]

it is pretty unclear tbf

[dire gate]

I thought it was more obvious than Arceus

Somehow ffvii official twitter said "lol no"

[slim thorn]

I don't even remember an Arceus so I guess that's why not that one

[peak berry]

~

[slim thorn]

though for me the bigger issue was always "Aeris"

[dense crypt]

wat

[dire gate]

Arceus is a pokemon

[slim thorn]

oh

[dire gate]

Which had an eternal debate of "how to pronounce it in English"

[dense crypt]

Ark-ee-us is how i pronounce it

[dire gate]

Because the stupid game never supports voice acting

[dense crypt]

FOR SOME REASON

[peak berry]

Feels like WIN95 to me.

[dire gate]

Anyway

[dense crypt]

it does have that style and i quite like it

[dire gate]

Cait Sith I thought would be like

Very obvious

Realized sometimes English ignores that

[dense crypt]

kate sith?

[dire gate]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat-sìth

It's closer to something like "Kett Shee" or "Caught Shee"

[fresh bane]

Since the name is Aruseusu the only correct way to say it is Ar-see-us otherwise you're wrong

[slim thorn]

ah, that is indeed way off how "cait sith" reads to me

[dire gate]

The problem here is that unlike many pronunciation debates, it straight up has the original reference

And then

https://fxtwitter.com/finalfantasyvii/status/1709259777325543892

This happened

freaking embed

Like, well, it's not like English pronunciations always respect original pronunciation

[slim thorn]

oh, so the canon pronunciation is exactly what I originally guessed from the spelling, with zero knowledge of the origin

[dire gate]

So I guess it makes sense?

But also it is a whole mess

[fresh bane]

In japanese it's Ketto Shii so who cares at this point everyone knows what you mean anyways if you say it either way

Same thing with Aeris

[dire gate]

English is pretty good at butchering original pronunciations

I am honestly surprised that they decided to go with Kate Sihth, but then from what I've learned from interacting with Americans, I guess it is also a quite reasonable decision

[fresh bane]

Your word?

Our word 🇬🇧

[dire gate]

It's not like they'll ever pronounce Ikea correctly

[minor gorge]

How do you expect a language to reproduce sounds that are not native to it?

[dire gate]

Not correctly reproducing the sound and changing the pronunciation entirely are different matters.

Japanese language do butcher pronunciations a lot but also usually it's their best effort considering how limited their language is

[fresh bane]

To be fair it's not like it's impossible to pronounce ikea in english the ''proper'' way

[river veldt]

i say Aerith idk why

[gaunt marten]

You could just make up new phonemes

Arabic has extra phonemes allowing people to spell and pronounce English words

Like ڤ for V

[mossy flume]

Yep, it's an age-old argument and Square Enix never gave a definitive answer until now.

[bleak lintel]

I need to beat FF7R on the PS5 to prepare for FF7R.

[mossy flume]

I need to do the same

I've started a new run recently but got distracted by another game, as I am wont to do.

Should get back to that now that part 2 is iminent.

[river veldt]

im guessing there's going to be a third part

[bleak lintel]

There will be, FF7 is a very long story.

[quartz pawn]

yo what if they put Dirge Of Cerberus story in the third part lmao

[mossy flume]

And they're adding more to it. They announced the title for Part 3, didn't they?

[bleak lintel]

They did.

[wind stump]

Huh, I can see it working.

Then again I'm still in The Mines™️ so I can't say for sure

[proud warren]

I love this game

[gaunt marten]

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Glitch_City

[dire gate]

Mother(Earthbound) glitching so hardcore they got sent to Pokemon

[wind stump]

Earthbound has an interesting relationship with tents. https://youtu.be/pMoxnUgmsEU

[static bluff]

yoooo earthbound

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/3dworldmag/status/1709945576815763493?

[gaunt marten]

My starting colonist's sister and mother are cannibal pirates who invaded her home?! https://i.imgur.com/H1UNixn.png

[slim thorn]

"non-cannibal food"

[arctic fern]

mood: -5, ate mum

[gaunt marten]

They're cannibals so they hate all food but human

[arctic fern]

rimworld is great lol

[slim thorn]

but also

this is another meme right here

[wind stump]

this is what we call stockholm syndrome

[gaunt marten]

It's basically their religion https://i.imgur.com/P8b9rHZ.png

[wind stump]

meanwhile in Streets of Rogue I gambled all my money away and tried to shake down people so I could get it back as a mobster

[gaunt marten]

Mobsters are pretty great. Their per-level bonus is one of the best

[wind stump]

gabbagool

[wind stump]

frees various people as a Doctor (pacifist, main goal is to NOT kill people)
said gangsters immediately engage with the opposite faction and police

Well, they made a good distraction for me to press some buttons without alerting NPCs

[little badger]

https://twitter.com/playstation/status/1709918001485517170?

https://youtu.be/bQbsFx_HK3k?

[arctic fern]

ice sheet or extreme desert? no farther context provided

[slim thorn]

in a video game? ice, because that usually implies more unique mechanics

[arctic fern]

ice it is!

[thorny loom]

https://steamdb.info/app/1294810/charts/

[random steppe]

Good thing they are keeping Arkane hostage to fix this
I'm sure all 35 players are very happy to hear that

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/ign/status/1710309215363801243?

[sacred grove]

why not both

[quiet swift]

A lot of animation they don't need to make when doing first person~

[visual hill]

on the other hand, first-person needs more polish on the environments themselves, since you see them from a closer perspective

[teal cliff]

can't wait for them to release another one and for it to be a completely dysfunctional pile on release and then for them to bugfix a few things a year later and for people to say it was always the best game of the year

[visual hill]

the xkcd Cutting edge got really vindicated with the 2.0 update 😛

[rancid herald]

they should split the difference and make the next game second person

[sacred grove]

You play as a person playing a video game

[random steppe]

Hopefully they did learn how to do it, that said, Cyberpunk 2 will be handled by a new studio under CDPR and I seem to recall under a new engine so I don't know if any lesson will actually be retained between the two games

We'll see

[young creek]

Just wanna wish everyone a happy Detective Pikachu Returns friday

[true maple]

[harsh kestrel]

It would probably be best for them to utilize the best of both worlds and do a mix of first person and third person. It could be an interesting mashup

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/hazzadorgamin/status/1710335363775098993?

[gaunt marten]

Today before the update there were not enough redfall players to fill a lobby

[bronze abyss]

just a tiny bit of gaming

got kill leader like 3 matches in a row either mid or late game

[gaunt marten]

The game should not randomize role names https://i.imgur.com/poJsQE9.png

(This is an undergrounder religion)

[wind stump]

hehehehehe
great shaft

[wind stump]

Gud run. Lot of mechanically interesting choices (like me spamming Intangable)

[quiet swift]

https://www.pcgamer.com/upcoming-indie-rpg-says-forget-about-looting-treasure-chestsnow-you-are-one/

[mossy flume]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/10/it-cost-120m-for-cyberpunk-2077-patches-and-dlc-to-fix-the-games-image/

Cyberpunk 2077 is a very expensive game.

[dense crypt]

Gah damn

[thorny loom]

https://www.eurogamer.net/all-dragon-age-qa-staff-who-formed-union-laid-off

[mossy flume]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/737097862864699402/1159953125042561076/Screenshot_20231006-133915.png?ex=6532e587&is=65207087&hm=77c2d9992fd56ef79581a00665ee19554f418934a8e44bf6cbf808e4b6c8f707&

[white phoenix]

never forget the war thunder pony update

[thorny loom]

Still waiting for the f35

[mossy flume]

War Thunder would get shut down if that happened.

[thorny loom]

I know

Thats what would make it hilarious

[green fulcrum]

Oh man, I shouldn't laugh this hard, my cough is bad enough.

[white phoenix]

I'd play war thunder again if they brought this back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSdPx8Nu-U

[river veldt]

https://x.com/dailypacman/status/1710302651022262332?s=46

why are none of my links embedding

[light gate]

I think that’s because of Mr. Rocket Fella.

[slim thorn]

it's not you, it's X

[light gate]

[river veldt]

:(

angery

anyway

[mossy flume]

https://fxtwitter.com/dailypacman/status/1710302651022262332?s=46

[mossy flume]

This needs to be a normal mode.

[river veldt]

im hoping it's Pac Man World 2 rerelease

[light gate]

Says “next” so I assume new game.

[river veldt]

true

[random steppe]

Somehow this video was still in my head, is it just me or most of them just look straight up worse?
Horizon especially

[gaunt marten]

It's a matter of taste

And the taste of that editor is bad

[slim thorn]

I will continue to not watch the AI face edits video since at best I won't get it and at worst it'll make me weirdly conscious of a thing that never bothered me before

[mossy flume]

Wow, those are all worse

[random steppe]

Starfield is the only one I feel its kind of an improvement, and maybe Ryu

[mossy flume]

It's like they want less detail and more anime

Also make them all look even younger

I hate it

[random steppe]

They all look just less interesting

[mossy flume]

Yeah

It's a step back from facial detail

[random steppe]

Ryu is so iconic that he keeps his character even through the filter

[mossy flume]

Looks more doll-like than anything.

Like the texturing is unfinished

[quiet swift]

Most of these are all just experiments rather than them coming out and saying they are improvements

[mossy flume]

That's a really shit mod

[quiet swift]

You get to stuff like say the Halo things and you can see the gigantic improvement

[random steppe]

It's a mod? I have no idea what that is

[mossy flume]

They explicitly state they're "fixing" them

[random steppe]

Idk halo is higher resolution but I don't know if it is an improvement

[mossy flume]

It's basically an anime filter

[random steppe]

I feel like it still tone down the face in a way that isn't necessarily better

[quiet swift]

No, it's all taken from videos on youtube and they throw it into an AI

[mossy flume]

Ah

[random steppe]

Idk, I just know that video was living rent free in my head in the past 24 hours

[quiet swift]

Ah, right. Probably for the clickbait purposes. They do comment in the video itself how there's a lot of the shadows and whatnot that are greatly improved (depending on the subject) but then there's a los of other things

[random steppe]

And I had to think about why I felt it didn't help at all

[quiet swift]

Gen: it's worth watching the actual video itself for the explanations and comments, rather than just the results. They're not all OMG THIS IS INFINITELY BETTER

[river veldt]

Alyx looks awful in that video

[quiet swift]

Like they even commented that the eyes just lose all life in the 'new' version

[river veldt]

it's almost as bad as the Cinematic Mod

[random steppe]

I mean, live by the clickbait, die by the clickbait
If you want to not be taken out of context don't clip chimp yourself

[quiet swift]

Clip chimp?

(the tweet wasn't from the corridor crew twitter, as far as i can tell)

[slim thorn]

I assume I'm not the only one who avoids reading/watching most articles/videos posted online, even on Manechat, unless they're from a source I already know

[random steppe]

It's a twitch thing, when people take clips that make a streamer look bad by purposefully clipping out the context

To make them look bad

[quiet swift]

Ahh

[river veldt]

live by the Mario die by the mario

[quiet swift]

From what I gather on the tweet, it seems to be another CG/3d artist who found it interesting, and just cut it down to the results

[random steppe]

I wanted to react with a Mario emoji but I have none

[quiet swift]

But yeah, a lot of the higher res ones don't really offer much, but this is what really struck me

[mossy flume]

That's horrendous.

Aged him 40 years and made him gain weight

[random steppe]

As a still it isn't that bad, I didn't like it animated for some reason

But yeah it's a very different face

[quiet swift]

Animated looked better imo, except for the lip motion

[river veldt]

this is what video games will look like in 2013

[slim thorn]

in all seriousness this does feel similar to a lot of the graphics comparisons people were doing when I was a teenager

in that I could either see the difference, and mostly didn't care, or I had to squint pretty hard to tell what the difference even was

[hushed prism]

who here plays microsoft flight simulator

[fresh bane]

Watching through Separate Ways DLC and I immediately noticed the remixes of the original RE4 themes like Ada's theme and the merchant's theme

and unlike the previous ones or even the safe room theme from Re3 these ones actually sound good and way closer to the original composition and sound

very nice

and also || Wesker says the complete globallocal saturation line || which was silly as shit

https://youtu.be/Y-pQCbaIp2I?si=0gzYHvzxYJ9_aA1t

Listen to that

Man that's beautiful

[river veldt]

was Separate Ways in the original RE4 ? i dont think i ever played it

[slim thorn]

pretty sure it was and I played it since I showed up late and it was out already

I remember there being this tiny Ada campaign that explained absolutely nothing

[fresh bane]

Yes there were like 2 extra Ada campaigns/gamemodes

[little badger]

The general gaming thread has now hit 100K messages!

[quiet swift]

Just finished titanfall 2 campaign. That was fun. Pilot view rather than titan view felt very fast paced

[arctic fern]

yeah titanfall 2 has an amazing campaign

what did you think of that level? the cool level?

[mossy flume]

That's a cool level indeed.

[slim thorn]

...which one?

[arctic fern]

that level

im pretty sure everyone who's played the game knows what that level is

[slim thorn]

I'm asking because I played it and I don't know lol

the ||time travel|| one?

[arctic fern]

||the level where you time travel||

yeah

[thorny loom]

https://videogamesplus.ca/products/star-wars-heritage-pack-nintendo-switch?bg_ref=xCeuEGWlcX

[quiet swift]

Yeah that was pretty neat! Though I did also like the level later on where you get the ||arc gun thing||, the super high speed wall runs on the way back

[arctic fern]

yeah

i loved how every level had a unique gimmik, and every gimmik worked so well

you could build a whole game out of that level though, it was so smooth and well done

[slim thorn]

it was a textbook example of how to pace a traditional sequence-of-levels shooter campaign to get the most fun out of the game's systems

[arctic fern]

agreed

[slim thorn]

as much as I love the Halo campaigns, they've got a few segments that are a bit too slow or too hard or whatever

[river veldt]

im going to try and play Hollow Knight again

[quiet swift]

And now, back to Cyberpunk 2077. I'd forgotten i'd installed titanfall 2 and finished it, since i saw the campaign's fairly short

[astral steeple]

https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1710328664112484472

Dexerto (@Dexerto)

“It’s not what I grew up with.”

Dr Disrespect calls out CoD for focusing on skins too much

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bro was literally 21 when the first cod came out lmao

[green fulcrum]

Pfffft

Although to be fair, you can still "grow up" as an adult

So he is still technically correct, the best kind of correct.

[astral steeple]

lol

[fresh bane]

''It's not what I grew up with''
Something that can and has been said for nearly every franchise that has been a thing for the last 10-20 years

[little badger]

Do you have all the trophies?

[mossy flume]

I don't fully understand why I liked the Titanfall 2 ||time travel|| level so much. I need to replay it a few times and maybe play similar moments in other FPS games and see what the differences are that made it stand out in such a positive light.

Usually that sort of thing isn't done that well

[arctic fern]

i think there just arent similar levels, atleast not ones done as well as that one

[slim thorn]

honestly I think it's just a perfect example of how everyone likes puzzle elements in their action games, and it was a particular type of puzzle that somehow we'd never seen done before

[little badger]

Did you ever play the multiplayer?

[slim thorn]

I suspect the trick would've gotten old if they kept doing that for a whole game

[mossy flume]

Maybe the way it smoothly transitioned between states A and B is what made it work

And how it was coherent between the two

[arctic fern]

yeah

[mossy flume]

Now that I'm thinking about it more

That part was great

And gave me a "wow" moment

Which I did not expect from an FPS game

[white phoenix]

I've seen the same concept done in platformers but not in a fps, so it was cool

the level and the whole campaign in general exemplified the game's movement very well

[mossy flume]

Only TF1, I didn't try TF2 multiplayer

I'm kinda allergic to online multiplayer, tbh

[little badger]

Apparently titanfall 3 is being teased right now.

[mossy flume]

Oooo

[arctic fern]

now THAT is hype news

i hope its atleast half as good as tf2

[little badger]

They added a new mode in Titanfall 2

https://gamerant.com/titanfall-2-new-game-mode-unexpected/

[mossy flume]

Fuck it's 7 years old now?

How

I thought it came out in 2020 or something

[white phoenix]

wow really

[mossy flume]

That can't be right

[white phoenix]

It was released right in between BF1 and Infinite Warfare

[mossy flume]

October 28, 2016

What the fuck

Was I just... not aware of it?

I didn't play it until 2021 or 2022

Wait when did TF1 come out, then? I thought that was like 2015 or 2016

2014, apparently?

What the fuck

[white phoenix]

Yeah at launch it got screwed over because respawn chose a hilariously bad release date
the community persisted though and over time by word of mouth it got popular again

[mossy flume]

Did it like... have early access?

[white phoenix]

that and apex legends

I remember titanfall 1 being marketed as an xbox one thing

[mossy flume]

I remember being furious about TF1 because it was multiplayer-only

[white phoenix]

oh yeah that

[mossy flume]

Great concept, but multiplayer-only made it DOA for me

I needed a campaign

I only play campaigns in these games

Halo's the only FPS game I will actually do multiplayer in and only a few times a year at best. I just... don't do it anymore.

[white phoenix]

it might actually have been the start of the backlash against multiplayer only games

[mossy flume]

Yeah, I think it was.

I rememebr it was a huge deal.

Battlefield was doing it too

Which also pissed me off

EA in general at the time actually said at one point that single-player experiences were dead.

But only in an earnings call, so nobody picked up on that

[arctic fern]

no, people picked that up

[mossy flume]

It wasn't until that tweet years later where people got angry

[arctic fern]

it was just after the canned a hyped star wars game

[white phoenix]

And then recently they made that tweet lmao https://vxtwitter.com/EA/status/1542652454159798272

[mossy flume]

Oh yeah, that too

YES they canned 1313 and that happened to be about when they said it

Killing 1313 drowned that out

[slim thorn]

wow I forgot about that tweet

[mossy flume]

They didn't delete it?!?!?!

WOW

[slim thorn]

the shortest possible answer to why I've shifted so heavily into indie games over the years

[white phoenix]

I thought 1313 was canned because Disney bought Star Wars and they completely destroyed Lucasarts

[mossy flume]

The fucking BALLS on these people

[green fulcrum]

Larian Studios: "Allow us to introduce ourselves."

[white phoenix]

They kinda owned up to it?
https://vxtwitter.com/EA/status/1542706383694565378

[mossy flume]

Yes, that was the primary reason. Disney kept it going until they decided to axe all past Star Wars content that wasn't the movies as non-canon. 1313 got caught up in that. They specifically wanted to do something different for a mandalorian based character and that's where The Mandalorian show came from.

[mossy flume]

Yeah, the industry really got angry at that

Because it implied that devs working on single player games were subpar

[white phoenix]

yeah they got cory barlog on it and everything

[green fulcrum]

Larian Studios: "Allow us to introd--" shot

[white phoenix]

here's a former visceral dude https://vxtwitter.com/zachulon/status/1542657615926218752

this just makes me sad

[mossy flume]

Yep

back when Visceral were working on a secret Star Wars project

EA got absolutely incinerated by customers and the industry alike

Well earned.

[white phoenix]

And this was 2022

I thought they were past that phase

guess not

[green fulcrum]

Wait, this was 2022???

This felt like it was so long ago.

[mossy flume]

Yeah

[green fulcrum]

So my joke about Larian Studios was actually more on-point than I thought, lol

[mossy flume]

Yep

Remember when BG3 came out a ton of studio execs and some devs immediately started saying "this is an unusual game, it can't be used as a new standard, etc etc"

[green fulcrum]

Microsoft called it unprofitable, iirc.

[mossy flume]

[green fulcrum]

Before it was released to UNIVERSAL critical acclaim and paid for itself a dozen times over within the first week, lol.

[dire gate]

tbf it's unlikely to have multiple BG3s in the market

[mossy flume]

Yeah

[dire gate]

So the point does stand, it's just that BG3 was that good

[mossy flume]

BG3 games take a very long time to build

[rotund forge]

I love me a good Futurama reference

[green fulcrum]

Yes, but we're not expecting BG3 to be the standard for all games, but rather the development team behind it to be the standard for developers.

Delivering high quality and actual passion to a mostly passion-less landscape.

[dire gate]

Well a lot of times when a game looks low quality and unfinished it's not really developers' fault

[green fulcrum]

Alright, then the development team plus the suits. You want more money and more buying customers? Then put out GOOD games. Less and less people will buy shitty games as time goes on, but more and more will continue to pay for good ones.

[mossy flume]

On one hand that’s kinda true. On the other, part of the problem is that it’s a lot easier said than done. Quantifying “good” is a hell of a thing.

[green fulcrum]

Game doesn't break and massively underperform at the drop of a hat is a good start.

Looking at you, Jedi Survivor.

[mossy flume]

Part of game design is capturing some inherently abstract and subjective concepts.

Ha, yeah

Jedi Survivor crashes reliably when raytracing is on

[quiet swift]

I think a lot of gamers will be happy if things run well.

[dire gate]

Meanwhile in The Pokemon Company...

[green fulcrum]

F*ck whatever the Pokemon Company thinks is "good" or even "servicable" these days...

[mossy flume]

I have a hard time with Jedi Survivor because it crashes so much

I stopped playing because of that

[green fulcrum]

So did most people

[mossy flume]

Which is unfortunate because it’s otherwise actually pretty good

[minor plover]

a bare minimum before you even talk about "good" is that the game needs to run and be stable and not be full of the kind of bugs that cause problems actually playing

[mossy flume]

Indeed

[minor plover]

then you can talk about things like balance, replayability, difficulty/challenge appropriateness, aesthetically pleasing, etc

[mossy flume]

It’s one critical cornerstone of a solid experience

[green fulcrum]

It was a bloody miracle that Starfield wasn't one of these, considering Bethesda's track record.

[mossy flume]

I have thoughts on Starfield.

[river veldt]

Nintendo games are usually pretty stable and bug free on release (disregarding Pokémon of course)

[mossy flume]

Which basically boils down to “Cyberpunk 2077 update 2.0 and Phantom Liberty simply existing made Starfield unfun”

[green fulcrum]

Yes, everyone does, lol.

But the point is it wasn't an unplayable mess like Fallout 76 or hilariously buggy like Skyrim, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, and Fallout 4.

[river veldt]

does Starfield have aliens

[mossy flume]

(I actually have a lot more thoughts on Starfield but that’s my most recent one)

[green fulcrum]

Oh yes, and Cyberpunk...before the 2.0 update, they had a lot of ground to cover in fixing the community's trust.

Luckily they did

[mossy flume]

2.0 actually surprised me.

[green fulcrum]

These days, it's best to promise nothing and deliver greatness, rather than promise the entire world and deliver only a tiny pebble.

[mossy flume]

Cyberpunk 2077 became very playable by the time their 1.6 patch came out, but 2.0 is much more like the game they were trying to make.

Genuine kudos to CDPR for their hard work on that.

Made the gameplay loop more fun.

[white phoenix]

Is it anything like that gameplay demo yet or

[arctic fern]

yeah i was definitly enjoying it way more than the first time i played

[mossy flume]

No, they never shipped a handful of those features and never will.

Wall running is not a thing, sadly

In-game transit system never worked right, so that never shipped

[arctic fern]

i wonder if cyberpunk 2078 will have those cancelled features

[white phoenix]

my main qualms about it were mainly due to the role playing and immersion aspects about it, like the menus, the world, and ripperdoc animations

[mossy flume]

Maybe! I sure hope so

They were fucking awesome

But I do want to say that 2077 gets by just fine without them

[white phoenix]

man 2078 doesn't roll off the tongue as well lol

[mossy flume]

It’ll be even cooler if they were there, but it still works

They’ve added some neat mobility features though

[slim thorn]

meanwhile Jedi Survivor ran perfectly fine for me only weeks after release

[green fulcrum]

It's a similar story to No Man's Sky.

Initial release was garbage. But with every subsequent update, the game just began to explode with greatness. Nowadays it's considered an excellent game to play, and even a rival to Starfield. That development team is so underrated, man.

[mossy flume]

I tried playing it again last week, still crashes regularly

[slim thorn]

at some point it's just impossible to get a complicated piece of software to run flawlessly on every PC in the world

[fresh bane]

Try saying Spiderman 2100 instead of 2099

[river veldt]

does Statfield have aliens

[green fulcrum]

"Sounds like you need better hardware." -- Todd Howard

[mossy flume]

On a pretty vanilla Windows 11, latest drivers, i9-13900K, 4090, 32GB DDR5 RAM…

[fresh bane]

it sounds too weird

[slim thorn]

it'd be nice if we understood why and how to fix it but nobody has the resources for that, not even evil megacorps, even when they want to fix it

[mossy flume]

Yep

I send the crash reports when I can but I doubt they’ll fix it

[slim thorn]

unless your computer is even weaker than my laptop I guess

[fresh bane]

I'm gonna need to snatch cyberpunk once it's on sale now that it's on a better state

[slim thorn]

and my laptop is relatively new and not cheap, but, it is a laptop still

[river veldt]

does Cyberpunk have aliens

[mossy flume]

Just megacorps as powerful as governments

[slim thorn]

still at least they fixed it for a lot of players

[mossy flume]

So, Samsung

[slim thorn]

actually, better point to emphasize: if we all stopped buying games before they're worth playing, then they wouldn't keep releasing them in unplayable states

[river veldt]

youre not the boss of me

[green fulcrum]

Your mom's the boss of you. :P

[gaunt marten]

I stopped buying games before I'm pretty sure they're good and also before they're discounted

[green fulcrum]

(Sorry, had to.)

[slim thorn]

I do have the luxury of not waiting for discounts but not everyone does

[green fulcrum]

Read that wrong

[river veldt]

HOLLOW KNIGHT IS DONE

[gaunt marten]

Now this makes no sense as a universal behavior because if nobody bought games with the pretense of waiting for a discount then games will simply go on sale immediately

But for me it works

[mossy flume]

But is Silksong?

[slim thorn]

I don't think I've ever personally had the experience of buying a game when it was too unfinished or underperforming to be worth playing and had to come back to it later; maybe I just don't play those genres or have better sources of information but I always seem to show up after those issues are resolved

[gaunt marten]

https://xkcd.com/606/

xkcd: Cutting Edge

I remember trying to log in to the original Command and Conquer servers a year or two back and feeling like I was knocking on the boarded-up gates of a ghost town.

[slim thorn]

well, that logic only holds if, roughly speaking, everyone has equal money

the main reason sales and other forms of "price discrimination" happen is that different customers are able and willing to pay different amounts

[mossy flume]

I’ve had this happen a few times. Usually I’m tolerant enough to be happy with what came out while the gamer discourse is sending death threats to devs for not being absolutely perfect.
But I raaaarely have experiences where a game is so bad I feel the need to return it for a refund. Redfall gave me that moment for the first time in a few years.

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, and that's why it doesn't work as a universal behavior

[mossy flume]

But usually I just expect it to be fixed a bit down the road if there are problems at launch

Usually within a couple weeks

[slim thorn]

the only two times I remember getting refunds was when one of my previous, weaker laptops was flat out unable to play a game

and I ended up re-buying and playing those games years later anyway

[mossy flume]

I was tempted to demand a refund for Pokémon Scarlet & Violet though.

That one’s just unfixable.

[gaunt marten]

I get refunds about once a year, because I like to give smaller indie games a try and sometimes they just suck

[slim thorn]

fair, I can't even find time for all the games I already know are good and interest me, so it's very rare I end up trying something that's risky in that sense

[visual hill]

I've never requested a refund for a game, with the exception of Rocket League that dropped Linux support

(I bought it on a Steam sale 2 years prior to that, but never played it. Normally, a refund would not be allowed but exceptional circumstances made it possible for me to get a refund)

the game went free-to-play later on, so I guess it was a good move

also, I've just played a bit of the worst Steam game ever again. It doesn't feel like much has changed compared to earlier this year

[dire gate]

You played Overwatch 2???

[visual hill]

yeah. To be fair, it is much better than the review score suggests

the game didn't become suddenly worse because it got a 11% score on SteamDB

if there was no controversy around features or progression/monetization, it would be an easy 80%

probably the biggest gap I know of on Steam 🙂

[dire gate]

Oh you actually played Overwatch 2

[slim thorn]

satire is dead and we have killed it

[mossy flume]

I’ve also tried it. My thoughts on it are “Yep; it’s Overwatch.”

[river veldt]

did the PvE mode ever release

[mossy flume]

Nope.

It’s cancelled.

The whole point of doing OW2 was cancelled.

[river veldt]

what ?,,,,????

[mossy flume]

So now it’s OW but more microtransactions.

[river veldt]

surely you jest

[mossy flume]

I do not.

[arctic fern]

Ergo the overwhelmingly negative reviews

[slim thorn]

this is the source of the aforementioned controversy that led to its review bombing

[river veldt]

wtf 😭

[arctic fern]

They forced folks to buy the exact same game again, but with the promise of features they knew they wouldn't be able to deliver on
While also upping microtransactions

[slim thorn]

<insert the don't preorder games lecture>

[astral steeple]

Never played ow2 but from what I've seen of it a lot of it is super oof lol

Never played the original either

[slim thorn]

multiplayer shooters aren't my thing so I was never gonna play either, this is all for me

[arctic fern]

The original is just an objectively worse team fortress 2
Ow2 is just ow1

[dire gate]

Uh tbf ow2 is f2p so they didn't force people to 'buy'

[arctic fern]

Right that's fair

I forgor

[slim thorn]

wow, that little factoid got buried hard under all the negativity

OW1 wasn't F2P, right?

[arctic fern]

No you had to buy it

[mossy flume]

If you bought OW1 you got OW2 for free

[arctic fern]

Oooh

[mossy flume]

Or at least I did

[white phoenix]

I still can't believe OW1 won GOTY at the 2016 game awards lol

[mossy flume]

I never paid for OW2 as far as I’m aware

Unless I was drunk one day

[river veldt]

so stick to TF2 is what im hearing

wait TF2 has all the things Overwatch 2 promised wtf

[dire gate]

OW2 is just free, regardless of if you bought OW1 or not

[mossy flume]

But yeah, OW2 reset all your unlocks and then put a bunch of previously accessible characters behind lootboxes

[astral steeple]

Never been a tf2 person tbh lol

Before fort the only shooters I would play was halo 3/reach/4

[dire gate]

I think they gave you something if you purchased OW1

[mossy flume]

I’m not a TF2 fan either

I just did Halo, Bioshock, Battlefront and Battlefield campaigns

[river veldt]

im just a big fan of the characters in TF2

they're all so charming to me

[river veldt]

YEAH DERPY !!!!!

[visual hill]

I never bought OW1, I started playing a bit of OW2 because it was F2P. Probably wouldn't have bought it for a lot of money if it was paid

I only play it occasionally, like 1 hour per month if you average it

I still prefer TF2 overall, but OW has its merits

[gaunt marten]

More cute girls

[thorny loom]

Oh fuck off ubisoft

https://hothardware.com/news/ac-mirage-day1-denuvo

[mossy flume]

Pfffft haha

That's one way to deal with the Denuvo problem, I've never seen that done before

[random steppe]

I disagree that TF2 is an objectively better version than OW for one.
I think OW is a much more interesting world and lore, and also, I bounced off hard the TF gameplay while I took quite well to OW.

That said, OW2 is kind of bullshit, even tho i must admit, it doesn't have lootboxes and is objectively less predatory than TF

The main problem is that it's just not rewarding to play

And it's still predatory, just less than TF, battlepass bullshit is still bad, just less bad

[river veldt]

i find TF2's wacky and bizarre version of the world more interesting/funny but to each their own i guess

[random steppe]

Oh yeah, it's definitely subjective

[river veldt]

just like, the lore tidbit about how before Abraham Lincoln invented stairs everyone just rocket jumped everywhere is so fucking funny to me

[fresh bane]

Honestly even after Valve retroactively added crates into TF2 I still never found them to be as much of an issue as with other games at all

I never felt compelled to actually start buying them and the actual items that matter which is mostly weapons you can acquire normally you just kinda get them, and if you get duplicates you can turn them to scraps and BUILD your own cosmetics 4 free

I've actually done that once or twice and got some alright cosmetics

[random steppe]

I mean, it's still objectively more predatory, you can even gamble those items in 3rd party markets.
subjectively they can affect your experiences less, and I fully agree that TF2 is probably a more rewarding experience than OW2, it's not hard, OW2 sucks, but that's besides the point

[random steppe]

My problem was specifically on the "objectively" part of this statement.
TF2 is definitely not a bad game, but there are plenty of reasons to like it less than OW2

Even tho I defintiely think OW2 deserves to die as a game, blizzard mismanagement of it is legendary

Really snatched defeat from the jaws of victory with that one

You know I realised, everything becoming a live service was actually the worst thing that could have happened to a company like blizzrd.
They put out pretty good games when they have to, but are terrible at supporting them long term, and this new industry focuses on their shortcomings so hard.

[fresh bane]

Thanks Konami, I hate it

https://www.reddit.com/r/silenthill/comments/171m1ac/silent_hill_ascension_season_pass_covers_6_months/

Just what Silent Hill needed

[white phoenix]

Why does silent hill of all things need a season pass lmao

[fresh bane]

The worst part is seeing people who actually defend this and think SH fans are just whiny bullies for shitting on this

[white phoenix]

Konami through all their business decisions and how their social media is run just feels so out of touch as if it was still 10 years ago

[dire gate]

As if they were good 10 years ago

[fresh bane]

They weren't, that's the point

[devout pagoda]

All Silent Hill fans can t wait for the Silent Hill 2 Remake, I am sure 👀 🤩

[fresh bane]

They were never good

[white phoenix]

Yeah lol

They just went away for a little and then came back

[devout pagoda]

Forgot the release date

[fresh bane]

With Silent Hill in specific I can't believe anyone could ever in good faith defend Konami after they've made it so unbelievably clear they not only never cared about SH but actively tried to mess with it multiple times and straight up ruined multiple projects

SH3 was originally gonna be an arcade shooter because Konami wanted that, Shattered Memories was originally going to be a much more involved survival horror game rather than the pseudo remake/reimagining of SH1 that it ended up being, Homecoming was actually going to go much more into the aspects of SH2 but Konami actively asked the team to change everything which is why we ended up getting what we got in that game

There's even quotes of an artist from that game who said if you want to blame anyone for Homecoming blame Konami because the game ended up being completely different from what it was going to be originally

[random steppe]

It's silent hill because it's the one franchise they haven't completely burned to the ground yet, not because the model makes sense with the game

[heady bridge]

When the only good thing Konami does nowadays is share space for Nihon Falcom to show off their games and have performances for the Falcom idk Band at their stand at the Tokyo Game Show…

[white phoenix]

Their e3 conference, never forget

[quiet swift]

Not that it wouldn't have gotten negative reviews anyway, but some folks analyzed the reviews and well over half of them seem to be chinese reviews who are complaining about how they can no longer access blizzard stuff legitimately (WOW and diablo mostly) due to the licensing thing ending

[gaunt marten]

"I can't buy this game." Is not a legitimate review of the game, but a review of the seller.
"I bought this game and no longer can play it" is a legitimate review of the game even though it says nothing about the game itself

[wind stump]

Mmm, tastes like lawsuit

[quiet swift]

Flitter: yes, but as I said, this applies to Diablo and WoW. These chinese reviews are abusing the fact that OW2 is F2P and can be reviewed with little trouble. They're mass downvoting because they can't play the games they bought, yes, but it's not the game being reviewed. It's a seller review and so aren't really legitimate, but there's admittedly no other recourse since it was the only Blizz game on steam

Not saying they're wrong to make the reviews but, I really have to wonder what % score it would have just based on actual players' reviews rather than a carpet bombing of downvotes for a different issue caused by seller

[slim thorn]

in the end it's just another example of how publicly crowdsourced reviews will quickly be dominated by selection bias effects

[quiet swift]

I checked, it's a real reply

[mossy flume]

Excellent

[bleak lintel]

It was 50/50 on OW2, or at some point it was, there's away to sort from location I believe.

There's so many reasons to be upset at OW2, more than Diablo and WoW.

[hasty patio]

I suspect D4 will at least get a better steam rating.

[quiet swift]

Mostly because of the need to buy it first

[quiet swift]

Oh absolutely. Not denying it deserves a poor seller score, at the very least, for the OW2 decisions themselves. But reviewing it poorly because of other games is just not legitimate reviews

[grand cargo]

holy shit is that a motherfu*king MLP reference?

[quiet swift]

Obviously?

[grand cargo]

Source found

[wind stump]

Average Streets of Rogue moment
they interrupted my gambling

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/cyberpunkgame/status/1710656225950527821? @mossy flume

[gaunt marten]

Gambling with a lucky clover and the no limits modifier is basically an infinite money generator

[rotund forge]

Only real gamers know to put the Konami code in for free v-bucks

[gaunt marten]

Considering this bundle https://www.humblebundle.com/games/awesome-indies-from-humble-games?

I'm not interested in void bastards, ring of pain, archvale, or the entire top tier

[slim thorn]

other than Signalis, I know nothing about any of these

[gaunt marten]

Fae Tactics is a Final Fantasy Tactics Advance style game I've been keeping an eye on. Ikenfell is a cute and interesting RPG. Flynn is a platformer I saw that seemed interesting, but I have some concerns.

Unsighted just looks fun

So I'm weighing whether I want to spend five dollars on just the two games, or spend another five and try the other two

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/eurogamer/status/1710704568424604030?

[wind stump]

Say, that picture looks familiar...

[river veldt]

https://fixupx.com/_sleepysalami_/status/1710642147454558456?s=46

[dense crypt]

"Tom Nook's gonna pay for messing up my ride"

[river veldt]

rhino fits Duke perfectly lol

[quartz pawn]

"It's time to plant flowers and chew bubblegum. But I'm all out of gum!"

[visual hill]

that image always felt very detached from what's actually in the level to me

but yeah, it's iconic. A good 50% of players have played that level first in SM64

(do we have any statistics? You can choose from 2 levels initially, but I'd wager one of them is more popular because of human intuition or speedrunning habits)

[wind stump]

God it has been a WHILE since I touched 64, but I'm decently sure Bob omb is the only one accessable initially

[slim thorn]

I think it's just the foyer camera angle making everyone see the left doors first

but I do not remember how the castle progression worked

[wind stump]

Yeah, the camera probably helped with that association

[rose rose]

If it's possible to go anywhere other than Bob-Omb Battlefield first I bet that would be news to almost everyone who played SM64

[wind stump]

and given how throughrly raked over the coals that game has been over the years...

You know, in a loving way, of course.

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/wario64/status/1710764144516043071?

[visual hill]

can't you also choose Whomp Fortress first?

[river veldt]

no you need one star to go through the Whomp's Fortress door

[astral steeple]

Yeah only bob omb battlefield is accessible when you first start the game

[random steppe]

Was playing Cyberpunk earlier, I'm sure it's old news since the game has been out for years at this point, but it's kind of amusing how you can hear the Witcher-like music buried in some of the songs
https://youtu.be/GPOoPf9Ciz0?t=71

[thorny loom]

it has been for a while

mostly because the game is technically illegal to exist

https://kotaku.com/silicon-knights-must-destroy-unsold-games-453100395

[quiet swift]

Speaking of Cyberpunk, i found a quest I missed the first time around. A pantsless man in pain

[random steppe]

Jesse Cox surely did a wonderful job as a guest voice actor in that quest

Extremely ironic name too

If you want to see the man talk about it while he does the quest himself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bna4hRhkvxo

[visual hill]

trying out The Talos Principle 2 demo

[light gate]

Back to Egypt.

[visual hill]

it looks really nice maxed out

(Lumen + I think Nanite is in effect)

[light gate]

It's always Egypt, always where it all began. And those headless kamikaze fellas.

[thorny loom]

serious sam

https://tenor.com/view/serious-sam-monster-horde-grassy-field-running-gif-17677992

[river veldt]

https://fixupx.com/combotronrobot/status/1710512042212253950?s=46

[visual hill]

Alone on the road…

[quiet swift]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[craggy vine]

I broke it

[fresh bane]

(RE4 Separate Ways spoilers)
I don't mind the silly flair because this was what RE4 actually had but we're dangerously reaching RE6 levels of sillyness here this is borderline DMC now

also, funnily enough now that I'm looking at it, I love how this outfit for Ada somehow makes even less sense than the og dress

[untold vigil]

I have to make time to play it @_@

[dire gate]

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

New RGME video

[static bluff]

Oh hell yeah

[fresh bane]

It's pretty funny how it has way more content and hours put into it than RE3R entirely lol

It's basically RE4 B scenario it's actually pretty decent length for a DLC of its price

also way better than OG Separate Ways and it adds a bunch of the '''''cut'''' content from base RE4R that Leon originally had

Which I think was pretty obvious that Ada was gonna get that stuff

[untold laurel]

https://youtu.be/_IaidMAOKBo?si=wjzgMjKV7QyQjQfr

[craggy vine]

Story of the blanks is cool

[craggy vine]

I'm wanting to get into gaming again, but I'm really unsure on what games to play. I go to play a game, and I sorta just sit at my computer like

I don't know any modern games that I feel like trying, and maybe I need some suggestions. My favourite kind of games are co-op shooters like Payday 2 and L4D2, but generally love shooters in general.

I think the weirdest thing, is that even though while I've been saying 'I have quit gaming', I've still watched some gaming videos on youtube and wanted to play games a little

[little badger]

Yeah I remember seeing that.

https://fxtwitter.com/vgc_news/status/1710971304277430554?

[quiet swift]

[little badger]

[random steppe]

I don't understand why Xbox client has "followers"

and why is someone following me?

What the hell is this stalker shit

[uneven epoch]

no no, followers like a cult

much better than stalking

[random steppe]

I do two things on the xbox client, I pay for gamepass, and play largely offline games on gamepass.

How do people find me?

[light gate]

Microsoft has a lot of… partnerships

[thorny loom]

https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-expected-to-finally-buy-activision-blizzard-next-week?

[light gate]

"Friday, 13th October"

Good fucking day and appropriate.

[peak berry]

CZ75

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/Sora_Sakurai/status/1710941047080259820

[gloomy heart]

hi guys

i'll play vrchat now

[teal cliff]

My grandmother's birthday, lol

[graceful bridge]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/10/lamplighters-league-is-light-stealth-heavy-pulp-style-and-xcom-gun-battles/

[gaunt marten]

I was watching someone play that

Seemed okay

[teal cliff]

yeah I've got it wishlisted to keep an eye on it.

man I wanna play Phantom Doctrine. wish it worked on my pc.

[thorny loom]

https://www.pcgamer.com/following-layoffs-at-cd-projekt-red-staff-have-formed-a-union-for-polish-game-developers/

[gaunt marten]

This guy is digging at a wall trying to get to me

https://i.imgur.com/S1fAp49.png

There's literally a path https://i.imgur.com/6VN2JJD.png

He got all the way here and then left https://i.imgur.com/22tpZg0.png

[green fulcrum]

It's akin to that meme about the guy digging for diamonds and then stopping literally inches away from them.

[visual hill]

@bronze abyss I'm here, sorry for the delay

[bronze abyss]

ye we can hop on

[river veldt]

https://fixupx.com/getgianni/status/1711105166093492309?s=46

[wind stump]

Thank you Gianni

[fresh bane]

https://gamerant.com/lord-of-the-rings-gollum-apology-chatgpt-report/

oh boy

[random steppe]

I kind of doubt it

Like, I'd need very strong proof to believe that

It's possible but like, it'd be a weird thing to do for next to no reason

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/vszf1mwyAfw?si=PjyXfmUnCRRYCRBt

does direct statements from daedelic staff count?

[random steppe]

Yeah but they also claim they had no idea of its content and it'd have been posted, I would like to know why they believe it was written in Chat GPT

It's anonymous sources apparently, digging a lil bit, and yeah, I understand why they'd want to be anonyumous but it's not quite enough to believe it blind.

Maybe

It's too funny to be true

[quiet swift]

I know I'm patting myself on the back here but I love knowing that my mastery of the german language (my 3rd) is where I don't have to pause and translate in my head, I can understand it all fine

[gaunt marten]

They probably just ran it into one of those AI detector tools and it said ChatGPT made it

[quiet swift]

https://www.pcgamer.com/upcoming-rts-rpg-fusion-dares-to-ask-big-questions-like-what-if-the-vikings-were-riding-dinosaurs/

[mossy flume]

Implying the vikings weren't riding dinosaurs.

[green fulcrum]

I mean, Dragons were fire-breathing dinosaurs, and we have documented proof that they were ridden by Vikings.

[thorny loom]

Dragons wouldnt be dinosaurs. They would be flying reptiles

Which would technically mean pterosaurs are dragons

[green fulcrum]

I was making a HTTYD joke

[thorny loom]

I havent watched that movie

[green fulcrum]

You really should, it's amazing

[hasty patio]

https://www.hardwaretimes.com/forza-motorsport-averages-just-39-fps-on-an-nvidia-rtx-4090-with-dlss-performance-mode/

[thorny loom]

Wtf

[mossy flume]

Not disclosed: The performance drops are from driver issues and possibly bugs on Forza's side as well.

[thorny loom]

You think they would’ve gotten the whole “make a game about driving cars” down by now

[mossy flume]

Nvidia and Turn 10 have stated that those values are not expected and are investigating.

[thorny loom]

Probably 90% of the fees are licensing

[light gate]

https://youtu.be/zkWqolSbGUk?

And its really buggy

Yike

Feel bad for the devs now

[untold laurel]

Hardcore server of WoW

[teal sonnet]

with the legal bs that has to be done

I really doubt it

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1637320/Dome_Keeper/

Steam

Dome Keeper

Defend your dome from wave after wave of monsters in this innovative roguelike survival miner, Dome Keeper. Use the time between each attack to dig beneath the surface in search of valuable resources and artifacts – use them carefully to choose powerful upgrades and bonuses. Set on beautifully crafted pixel art alien planets, Dome Keeper offers ...

Price

$7.19

Recommendations

7274

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Finally a decent price for the game

[river veldt]

done

dome

[gaunt marten]

I've been waiting for that game to hit a price point around this since it released

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1637320/view/3731852209660535302?l=english

[wind stump]

Dome Depot~

... I just realised that it's a Home Depot bit

In my defense
We don't have Home Depot here

[random steppe]

If it's true, the way I could see it happening is if someone told an intern to write the statement and they just opened chat GPT because they didn't give a fuck.
That I could believe.

[quiet swift]

https://www.eurogamer.net/no-its-not-your-imagination-assassins-creed-mirage-includes-a-cat-with-the-assassins-emblem-on-his-nose GOTY, it's over folks

[random steppe]

Very good, apparently it's based on a real cat and the idea came from Twitter

https://fxtwitter.com/CreedScholars/status/1710479816917422437

[quiet swift]

Aww

[gaunt marten]

I have no alt text

So much for alt text providing accessibility

Oh, the alt text isn't even that helpful. It's just basic labeling

[arctic fern]

im thinking about setting up another project zomboid server. anyone interested can join #1125173747758944346

[untold vigil]

Okay, I have found time to start Seprate Ways finally

It's exactly what I wanted out of it back in the ps2 era

Now finally delivered to a much older Tale

[arctic fern]

huzzah!

[untold vigil]

I love how extra Ada is, I love how much it plays silly without lampshading everything

More Luis

11/10

[arctic fern]

nice

[fresh bane]

The only bad thing is it also means more of Ada's god awful voice acting and delivery

and also the one thing I didn't like at all is how || Wesker is also there in Spain and he just doesn't do the job himself instead? Why even have Ada run around and get this thing for you when you don't trust her at all when YOU'RE ALREADY THERE? ||
but everything else it does virtually better than the original Separate Ways

[arctic fern]

||probably enjoying the spanish countryside
or its a test||

[thorny loom]

@fresh bane and i called it. Someone did it

https://www.nexusmods.com/residentevil42023/mods/1365

https://youtu.be/Ug4h-3qTd1E?si=EzZFODh3SdSb2gtO

[fresh bane]

That is so much better it's fucking crazy

and it's not even about ai doing a better job than a human it's just that the human who happened to be the replacement is absolutely horrible at her job

[thorny loom]

For that i blame the director more than anything

[fresh bane]

Not me lol everyone else sounds just fine it's only Ada who sounds like garbage, sometimes it's not the director's fault it's just the va is straight up bad

the original remake Ada VA was just fine don't know why they had to change it

[novel pine]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1073395284660453406/1160993075695456286/2023-10-09_12-30-22_-_Trim.mp4?ex=6536ae0f&is=6524390f&hm=394bedf749fb6f6173b9bdf6743ac695627d466165fa7cb5657ece974feee6dc&

hellish quart is awesome

[wind stump]

I present Umineko without context

[green fulcrum]

Me to about half of my ship's company and most of our command staff:

[wind stump]

finished the second episode earlier and
wew

wew
This game gets R O U G H

[thorny loom]

https://fxtwitter.com/wario64/status/1711467934436987018?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/atvi_ab/status/1711464921077006751?

[quiet swift]

Anyone expecting it to be immediately on there was delusional

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/playxdefiant/status/1711472235095925059? Game has been Delayed

[novel pine]

Better late than never or released early with bugs

[visual hill]

XDelayed

[mossy flume]

https://fxtwitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1711479684200841554

[little badger]

I wonder why.

[light gate]

Wow, that's really good news.

[thorny loom]

https://youtu.be/Q6zBMUYhLgk?si=gjpFCYF3_lgmw2_1

[mossy flume]

I’m actually shocked

I did NOT expect that

So like… this should satisfy the skeptics. Because it’s literally what everyone demanded.

[grave tide]

Finally finished Dying Light 2

Now I can delete 80 gb of trash from my PC

Only 60, damn

[light gate]

He's the big reason EA won worst company in America twice.

Replacement is James M. Whitehurst allegedly.

[little badger]

Have you played the DLC?

[grave tide]

Yeah

Finish of the first DLC is unimpressive, like no even slides what happened after your decisions

Bruh

[little badger]

I think the next DLC is coming out soon

[grave tide]

I don't believe that Techland will make next DLC intresting

It became intresting on part of Jack Matt and Peacekeepers

But after all cringe happens and you don't even get an ending in RPG

[mossy flume]

Yep, I know.

I actually didn't know that he was at Unity until this whole thing started

[grave tide]

Spez leaving Reddit CEO when

[light gate]

I knew he was for a while, he didn't do much until..... well...

Now.

[light gate]

Not happening anytime soon, Reddit pretty much lost and is business as usual.

IPO lookin really good for Reddit.

[grave tide]

We need IPO only for r/WallStreetBets to fire Spez

[graceful bridge]

We're to the "find out" phase, I see.

[graceful bridge]

He won't leave until he can cash out.

[light gate]

He already did.

Got that nice golden parachute, but whatever... good riddance.

[gaunt marten]

https://i.imgur.com/C0KC540.png

How do you fuck things up so badly that two factions are after you as a three year old child?

[quiet swift]

ha ha ha ha ha ha

[random steppe]

Good ending

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/ocGJoVx00ro?si=P7wEs_H331KI9Cxl

Fuuck I didn't know Womble had played this, that was a fun watch, I remember actually going through this game before once and it's probably still one of the most beautiful games I've experienced

So damn good and I get to experience it all over again because I had forgotten about virtually everything because it was so long ago

[arctic fern]

pity the ending ||kinda sucks||

[fresh bane]

Womble has a great eye for details and for immersion in games so it was really fun to go through it with his perspective, such a good game

[arctic fern]

agreed tho, that was a good watch

[fresh bane]

It does and that's why it's so good

It's just so real

[river veldt]

i love that game

[quiet swift]

Shweet. So my 6 year old gaming laptop uses a 200w power brick for charging (with max power settings). However, for my upcoming looooong distance flight, I know for a fact that the power sockets only give 75w. If you try to draw more, you get 0. I managed to find a 75w power brick to use on the plane (it won't really charge, but at lowest power settings it won't drain either so i should have a constant power level). Been exploring some games to play on it during the flight. Vampirue survivors for example, and other similarly pixel-level graphics stuff. However I just tried persona 5 Royal... and it seems to work just fine and not drain the battery. I'm guessing those hours of flying will, well, fly by real quick

[robust steppe]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
https://VXtwitter.com/pcgamer/status/1711492949802893560

[green fulcrum]

Deserved. What an absolute hack.

[mossy flume]

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/9/23910441/unity-ceo-president-john-riccitiello-out-retire

Full article

James Whitehurst is interim CEO for now, permanent replacement not yet found (edited for clarity)

[green fulcrum]

Shouldn't they, you know, find someone BEFORE they announce that he's stepping down?

Because it's not "effective immediately" if he's still in charge temporarily.

[mossy flume]

Oh no, he's not the interim CEO

James Whitehurst is.

My bad

John is out

[green fulcrum]

Ah, that makes more sense then

[astral steeple]

https://www.backtothefuture.com/news/2023/10/9/subway-surfers-partners-with-universal-games-and-digital-platforms-for-back-to-the-future-in-game-activation

neat

[teal cliff]

So I played a bit of Payday 3! mostly feels like payday 2 in the early heists, we'll see how it goes from here.

[mossy flume]

Whoops, accidentally ordered a Quest 3

[robust latch]

lol how accidently

[mossy flume]

Well, you see, it was in my basket, then before I knew it an order for in-store pickup tomorrow had been placed.

Things got out of control.

[rose rose]

It can hang out with the Vive, Vive Pro, Index, Rift, PSVR, PSVR2, and Quest 2.

[mossy flume]

Soon to be joined by two Apple Vision Pros

[rose rose]

Mayhap

[mossy flume]

We have a HUD infestation

[untold vigil]

Eh, Ada is fine. it's whatever.

oh hey my nitro is dead apparently

[teal sonnet]

My collection is the original oculus rift, quest 1, index

Soon bigscreen beyond and vision pro

my beyond should arrive in early november

so hype

[robust steppe]

Never say "Heal me" say "Heal <name>"

[dire gate]

[proud warren]

Never say "never" say "never, <name>"

[mossy flume]

I have determined that the aforementioned reports of Forza Motorsport’s performance issues on PC to be greatly exaggerated. Or possibly caused by the AMD based CPUs that they were reported with.

Reports claimed peaks of 40FPS with these settings

[grave tide]

Opened game news, Redfall online reached 2 users playing the game in Steam

[astral steeple]

MICHAEL MEYERS, JACK SKELLINGTON, AND ALAN WAKE ARE COMING TO FORTNITE OH MY GOD

[light gate]

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/10/valve-confirms-counter-strike-2-no-macos/

32-bit Windows also affected, but I doubt anyone here has a 32bit processor in 2023... but if you do you can get a refund, same with Mac users, or just play the old version without matchmakin. thanks volvo....

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/hazzadorgamin/status/1711720865736577312?

[quiet swift]

[slim thorn]

ooooh, new NeverKnowsBest video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhbHWESV5FQ

(and for me it's the best kind: a bunch of games I don't play, but regularly hear others talk about)

[gaunt marten]

Oh that's the guy who did the final fantasy retrospective

[slim thorn]

wow, I had no idea Elite: Dangerous was a 1.5mil kickstarter in the wake of Star Citizen's early kickstarter hype

that makes way too much sense

[static bluff]

I wanna know if they discuss Dyson Sphere Program since it has my favorite space navigation.

[slim thorn]

doesn't look like it, the modern games it devotes large time blocks to are Starfield, No Man's Sky and Elite: Dangerous; DSP would probably fall in the "indie explosion of space-themed games in a million genres" segment he goes through fairly quickly and "only" lists a few dozen examples

[static bluff]

That's fine. There isn't much to explore in DSP, so it doesn't really fit the thesis.

[gaunt marten]

I liked the Final Fantasy retrospective but unlike what the title says it was pretty shallow

[peak berry]

50X50 Near-perfect import adaptation

[thorny loom]

NBC i could understand in fortnite.

Michael meyers im surpised cod didnt do it first

[astral steeple]

Jack Skellington I didn't expect at all since it's just straight up disney

This opens up so many possibilities now

Jack sparrow, sora, mickey, goofy and Donald, elsa, Moana, etc

Woody and buzz

[thorny loom]

Eh we had disney before didnt we

[astral steeple]

Nope

[thorny loom]

with marvel

[astral steeple]

That's not full on disney tho

This is the first time it's been actual disney disney

[random steppe]

I have never seen a game asking for a M&M mod more than this one

[little badger]

There have been films as well.

[rancid herald]

Implying Thor isn’t a Disney princess. SMH

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/playstation/status/1711773977129923048? @mossy flume @graceful bridge

[graceful bridge]

Huh

Oh, the Blu-Ray drive is now something you can add on later.

If you purchase the PS5 Digital Edition, you can add the Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc Drive for PS5 later, as it will also be sold separately for 79.99 USD | 119.99 EURO | 99.99 GBP | 11,980 JPY.

That's smart.

[peak berry]

artist:ailynd

[wind stump]

So you can go digital and upgrade later

smart indeed

[slim thorn]

nice

[thorny loom]

Yus

[slim thorn]

especially for people like me that don't collect blu-rays for TV/movies

[gaunt marten]

I love perfect digital redundant backups

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/eastarwars/status/1711743503812747550? @slim thorn

[thorny loom]

Nice to see it still being updated

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/rl_status/status/1711789725646802965?

[river veldt]

https://fixupx.com/officialpacman/status/1711728294373020134?s=46

[mossy flume]

Oh very cool

[light gate]

I wonder if this re-release is a response to DBrand's plates, like if they made the most basic plates and then copyright it.

I do like the modularity though.

[thorny loom]

Mythic Dawn armor
Credit: @Borx25 3D

[rose rose]

There is absolutely no way they would do the huge amount of engineering work required for this over some dbrand side plates.

(Also not really how copyright works.)

[static bluff]

Didn't this happen tho

[thorny loom]

Yeah that sent cease and desists when it first came out to plate companies

[static bluff]

Classic dbrand moment

[thorny loom]

Sony Probably saves alot of money not including the blue ray drive by default

[light gate]

You don't need to agree or disagree every time I write a 'bad' theory, but yes it might not be that. Also sorry for not using 'patent violation' I guess?

I think most can understand what I meant by 'copyright' but yeah, patent violation because for some reason that's a thing with a bunch of plastic plates.

[rose rose]

I think it's actually trademark.

[light gate]

which I find silly honestly, Sony getting mad for a bunch of plastic plates but hey gotta protect intellectual rights or trademarks whatever.

[light gate]

Trademark or not, its a bunch of plastic plates lol.

[static bluff]

We're a MLP server. It should be known that TM matter to plastics

[light gate]

Trademark this silicon valley plastic plate.

Apple™️ Cloth Pro

100% more plastic.

"But somehow its still cloth"

[rose rose]

I mean I don't disagree that it's a pretty silly thing to have made a fuss over in the first place. Though dbrand was not helping by liberally spraying things it knew were trademarks everywhere.

[light gate]

I mean I guess, but I also don't think Dbrand would have thought that Sony would get outright pissed but there was a prior example of it with a small player.

[rose rose]

They literally said "we dare you to sue us"

[light gate]

Yes, after that player got shot down.

Like Darkplates was still in development when that occured I think.

[rose rose]

In any case, I would be willing to bet that the cost of re-designing the PS5 like this exceeds the lifetime revenue from the darkplates.

[light gate]

Honestly I don't even know why a redesign considering PS5's life is almost over.

[rose rose]

???

It's not even three years old

[light gate]

Its rumored to only last six years.

[rose rose]

Even if true that would make it less than half-over.

[light gate]

I guess, still woulda like a steeper price drop lmao.

But they're already losing a lot I suppose.

Digital Edition being modular is super nice though.

[mossy flume]

A mid-cycle refresh at this time makes sense

It's about in line with the timing of the PS4 Pro and such

[light gate]

Yeah but if you wanted a PS5 so bad during the pandemic, and then just now the stock is somewhat better now... its been almost three years and somewhat unwise to pay full price.

You're better off buying used.

But I guess some folks really love the freshness of new.

But hey whatever, I am cheap.

Unless it demands expense.

[quiet swift]

[mossy flume]

Heh yep

I love that it’s optional

[quiet swift]

Time to run around town buck naked!

Though would be funnier if the npcs actually reacted to it

[arctic fern]

I suppose people running around naked is normal for them

Fun fact: I tried to stream this game here in manechat when i bought it
Didn't realise char creation was going to be... fully rendered

[mossy flume]

Yep

Same with BG3

But at least you get a toggle for that

[light gate]

Saw a Twitch streamer do this recently.

[gaunt marten]

For some reason my little freezer in Rimworld is -52C

https://i.imgur.com/0RPBwYC.png

It's -16C outside, and my coolers are set to -10C

Where is it getting this cold from?

[river veldt]

the cold store

[gaunt marten]

The cold store is -16C

This is colder

[arctic fern]

can you send a screenshot closer to the freezer?
do you have any mods enabled?

[gaunt marten]

Yeah I have a ton of mods and a screenshot is not gonna help

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

[arctic fern]

possibly an item in storage is causeing the heat

a modded creature corpse perhapse? not that im aware of any modded creatures that do that

[light gate]

They look like Hollow Knight npcs.

The skulls.

[gaunt marten]

There's a couple but they don't cause cold for long after their death

And also they're not in the freezer

[arctic fern]

also:
looks like meat's back on the menu boys

only thing i can think of is that one of your coolers isnt set to -10

[harsh kestrel]

Rocket League removing one of the core features it's had since launch. Looks like this is the start of the game's downfall

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, they're staggered at -9 and -10

This helps save a bit of power

It's been at like -50c for years, and I have no clue why.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/after-over-80-weeks-the-steam-deck-leaves-the-top-10-global-sellers-on-steam/

[arctic fern]

you heard it here first folks: steam deck is dead

[mossy flume]

Time to throw it out, it's ancient tech

[thorny loom]

[rose rose]

It's always been sort of weird that top sellers is by revenue and includes hardware that sells for an order of magnitude more than any game.

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, there should be a more granular and filterable list

[arctic fern]

yes and no
steam sells the product and they want to push it on their storefront
the steam storefront sells more than just games, so that selection includes everything they sell
and seeing as its just one thing, i dont really see much issue there. if steam started selling 100 different physical things, i'd take issue and ask for a new place to display them

[gaunt marten]

Yeah but the top seller list is explicitly marked for games: https://i.imgur.com/rFEk3kC.png

[arctic fern]

i guess, but for the, what, 4? physical things steam sells, its fine for them to go there too. otherwise there would be a hardware category for the steam link, steam controller, index and steam deck

and that seems silly

[rose rose]

They could also just not put hardware in the top sellers at all. Or sort by actual number of sales, which is sort of what one might expect "top sellers" to be.

The other big marketplaces split out "top selling" and "top grossing"; steam only has top grossing but labels it as top selling.

[arctic fern]

top sellers is by revenue
right i walked past how weird that is
you're right about that

i dont like that at all

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1796220/Laika_Aged_Through_Blood/

Steam

Laika: Aged Through Blood

Laika: Aged Through Blood is a western-inspired motorvania set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It is the story about a tribe oppressed by occupant forces, and the personal story of a mother coyote warrior who descends on an endless path of vengeance to take back what her people lost.Drive, jump and fight your way through the huge hand-drawn wor...

Release Date

Oct 19, 2023

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Neat looking metroidvania where you drive a bike

Has a demo up for Steam Next Fest

[novel pine]

Finally a bike type metroidvania

[harsh kestrel]

MW 3 as the top seller? Yeah, that comes as no surprise lol

[white phoenix]

cod is the best selling game every year

the only other thing that can surpass it is rockstar

gta 6 is going to be massive in terms of sales

[little badger]

Weekend 1 of the beta just finished so most of the pre orders will be from that.

[mossy flume]

Ohhh, excitebike, but violent =D