general gaming

[wind stump]

AH, it only works if you don't pick up any level up perks

if you do the game will go "wait a fuckin second, you're not on this wave anymore"

[river veldt]

Arkham City finished

well

i finished the main campaign at least

probably gonna do the other ones now

[strong pebble]

Ooooooo

On switch?

[river veldt]

yeah

[strong pebble]

Was it like okay or was it like really really laggy

[river veldt]

really good ! i had no frame rate drops at all unlike Asylum

i feel weird though

like hooray Joker's dead but i feel weirdly... sad ? idk

[strong pebble]

Maybe you THINK he's dead 😎😎

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/dexerto/status/1735334110036377707? @graceful bridge

[mossy flume]

https://www.meta.com/experiences/2603836099654226/

It's out
IGN gave it a 10/10

90 hour game, apparently

[fickle garnet]

Wow

[mossy flume]

IGN calls it the Tears of the Kingdom of VR

[river veldt]

holy hell 90 hour vr game ????

[mossy flume]

Yep

[graceful bridge]

I need something similar for Harley

[river veldt]

BINGY

[mossy flume]

This was supposed to be a launch title for the Quest 3, but it was delayed

[little badger]

[mossy flume]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPY9PqUHYQo

[minor belfry]

I made in tears of the kingdom.

Just use Zelda’s horse and the blue mane.

[mossy flume]

(Also if you bought a Quest 3 you got this for free, the redemption button should be in your email)

[strong pebble]

What is the best thing to try VR?

Meta thing or Playstation or different

Because there is a thing where you can go and try

[little badger]

Flute guy! https://fxtwitter.com/eustachepedro/status/1735446250357678294?

[fickle garnet]

If you dont have a ps5 then either a meta quest 2 or 3

[strong pebble]

If I have which is the best

[fickle garnet]

Idk

Meta quest 3 is cheaper than the psvr2

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/naughty_dog/status/1735447759266918878? @mossy flume

[mossy flume]

You probably want the Quest 3 as the entry point to VR

[fickle garnet]

The best starter vr headset is the quest 2 because of how cheap it is but if you have the money buy a quest 3

[bronze abyss]

best overall:oculus quest 3
best pc:prolly index
best budget option:quest 2 its ridiculously cheap now

[little badger]

Did you try the Xbox games with quest yet?

[bronze abyss]

i got my quest 2 for like 160-200$? and like its not quest 3 for sure but its a pretty decent headset for the money especialy if you dontt wanna spend the 500$ on a quest 3

[visual hill]

Quest 3 might be better than Index for PCVR in the long run, but even now it has very convincing wireless tethering

your PC still needs Ethernet and you need a Wi-Fi 6 router that's nearby, but it can make the experience much nicer since you won't have a cable keeping you in place anymore

[bronze abyss]

wireless is very yuck for vr,even if its good i wouldnt do it tbh

[mossy flume]

I haven’t yet, but Peach did. Seems to work well.

[little badger]

That’s good then

[novel pine]

love that the most hardcore computer nerds will disregard any notions of airflow for their kitties

[thorny loom]

https://www.pcgamer.com/creative-assembly-apologizes-for-missteps-and-says-total-war-warhammer-3-dlc-will-get-bigger-and-players-will-receive-partial-refunds-for-total-war-pharaoh/

[robust latch]

https://youtu.be/kPLRX0LjzWs

[quiet swift]

https://www.gamesradar.com/finally-a-shopkeeping-sim-where-i-can-live-out-my-dreams-as-a-goblin-merchant-in-an-rpg-like-baldurs-gate-3/

[bronze abyss]

king slime beaten on infernum,very close to beating the eye aswell,so far i like it a lot

[dire gate]

Hatkid

[bronze abyss]

antlers obtained less goooo

[bronze abyss]

imnotmad imnotmad imnotmad imnotmad

[bronze abyss]

bye to this asshole

infernum boss fights atleast feel like actual boss fights,vanilla and revengeance bosses are minibosses in comparison

[bronze abyss]

never seen that before

[craggy vine]

My little review of Urge: It's a very fun concept but the survival aspects are lacking a bit

[gaunt marten]

https://redd.it/18it8ve

For the new seasonal content update, rather than being banned outright, naughty players were sent a gift bag in game, only to be sent a lump of coal. They were banned immediately after accepting it.

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/ign/status/1735613440469729493?

[dense crypt]

BLECH

[dire gate]

Not even a news at this point

[little badger]

@wind stump https://fxtwitter.com/honkaistarrail/status/1735638117259047291?

[wind stump]

yeah i slready saw in the star rail thread

[little badger]

We have a star rail thread?

[wind stump]

not very active but it exists, lol

[little badger]

Ah right.

[uneven epoch]

hmmmm, nier automata is 60% off. i dont know when ill be able to get to it, but i wonder if i should get it

[wind stump]

do you like being depressed by sexy androids?

[uneven epoch]

i could do without the sexy part but otherwise sure

[dire gate]

Do you enjoy the entire human race being fucked?

[uneven epoch]

i played fallout

so yes

its moreso a question of whether the game regularly goes to 60 off or if it's an unusually good deal

its been on my wish list for a while but i forgor

[dire gate]

Well

I think it does big discounts quite often at this point

Maybe it's better to play the game before checking out what Yoko Taro did in ffxiv

[uneven epoch]

uh. kinda late for that

[dire gate]

Oh lol

[uneven epoch]

its not like im completely unfamiliar with the game, i watched a gdq speedrun

weight of the world is a banger

[dire gate]

I assume you have a controller

[uneven epoch]

no

do i need that

[dire gate]

I heard that it can be a bit of a pain to play with k/m but not sure

[uneven epoch]

ok, internet says 60 is pretty good deal, so i'll grab it for future

[wind stump]

dw you'll still be confused as hell

[uneven epoch]

its a yoko taro game

thats a given

[random steppe]

I would suggest a controller personally

[uneven epoch]

in this economy?

[gaunt marten]

A PS4 controller is pretty cheap and would work

[random steppe]

It's also nice for laid back gathering on ffxiv in my experience

Like I don't like it for playing for real, but when I am doing island stuff or gathering it's pretty nice to have

[quiet swift]

Twitch rolling back some of their recent changes

[gaunt marten]

Which changes?

[quiet swift]

artistic nudity changes - for drawings and in person. Seems like twerking is still a thing though

[green fulcrum]

Imo, nudity shouldn't be on a streaming platform, artistic or not. There could be kids watching, you never know.

[gaunt marten]

Oh they rolled them back already? That was like a day

[gaunt marten]

The sort of nudity on Twitch is usually unacceptable but some forms of nudity are kid-friendly.

[dire gate]

Also Twitch has a Mature Content option.

[rancid herald]

they really should just ban kids from twitch.

[dire gate]

A topic that is actually worth debating

[random steppe]

I honestly think it's fine on twitch, you can already stream games with nudity, the way it is, is just a stream of exceptions on exceptions that make the whole thing really dumb and make no sense.
Just mark the stream as mature, if you are a responsible parent you can enable parental controls and your kid can't see it.

if you aren't a responsible parent no amount of things that Twitch does is gonna keep your kids away from that stuff.

Parents should stop trying to offload parenting to everyone else but them

Consistent rules make everyone safer, and Twitch isn't gonna ban Cyberpunk anytime soon

[quiet swift]

Incidental nudity like in say cyberpunk or bg3 and stuff, yeah, that's generally allowed. Stuff like full on 18+ games isn't, which is the correct stance. What changed recently is how a streamer was basically full blown nude but only showing the top of their breasts to show the nudity. Which got people copycatting, then a ban for the original person, then the rule change, then people going wild with drawing full on in the art section, then the rule reversal

[random steppe]

To be clear, with the rule change, it would have been fine to draw nudity, but not porn, which I think it would have made the thing more in line with what is allowed with games

[quiet swift]

However, there also was a great deal of new content that was allowed under the updated policy. Much of the content created has been met with community concern. These are concerns we share. Upon reflection, we have decided that we went too far with this change. Digital depictions of nudity present a unique challenge–AI can be used to create realistic images, and it can be hard to distinguish between digital art and photography.

So, effective today, we are rolling back the artistic nudity changes. Moving forward, depictions of real or fictional nudity won’t be allowed on Twitch, regardless of the medium. This restriction does not apply to Mature-rated games. You can find emote-specific standards for nudity and sexual content in the Emote Guidelines. We aren’t making other changes to the updated Sexual Content Policy.```

[random steppe]

Either ban nudity from games as well, or make the rules more consistent with the rest of the site.
Having it both ways just make the thing confusing and if anything, that's what is gonna make people exposed to stuff they don't want to see.

Yeah that's inconsistent, and I don't like it

By that logic why is it allowed in photorealistic games?

[quiet swift]

https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Sexual-Content-Policy-Update the update itself

[random steppe]

This kind of nitpicking is what brings this kind of nonsense: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CHIQ8u0e0po

[thorny loom]

Good thing I downloaded it before then lmao

[random steppe]

Actually nevermind, that kind of nonsense is because people at Twitch are dumb as fuck, but I still don't like it.

Nothing to do with my point tho

[thorny loom]

Also lol opera https://fxtwitter.com/operagxofficial/status/1735614261609611330?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

[thorny loom]

Personally i think they did it because they realized advertisers would leave had they kept it on the site.

[random steppe]

Yeah but it makes no sense, wouldn't they leave if their ad gets served on a game with nudity?

if that's the problem, they didn't solve it

[dire gate]

I honestly doubt that any major game company would appreciate if people port their game without any permission

[stark meteor]

A lot of payment processers REALLY hate it when their ADs are run on anything involving real nudity

Also
When it comes to games it's significantly easier to just like
say "hey, don't run my ads on mature rated game categories or ones that contain nudity"

Because streamers are gonna label their streams correctly when it comes to playing certain games

[thorny loom]

https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-will-never-be-on-game-pass-says-larian-ceo-we-made-a-big-game-so-i-think-theres-a-fair-price-to-be-paid-for-that/ in case anyone was waiting for it

[sour hill]

They indeed made a big game

[random steppe]

When it comes to games it's significantly easier to just like
say "hey, don't run my ads on mature rated game categories or ones that contain nudity"
Yes but keep in mind, that the rules is that the stream would still have marked as mature, so the thing is essentially identical.

[stark meteor]

Well not really

Having a real person's things out isn't exactly the same as some game stuff

Plus, even then, the fact that there is a category doesn't mean you'll find all of it very agreeable

[random steppe]

I am not sure about the real person stuff, the thing I'm more concerned about is the rollback on the art stuff.

I feel like there is really no excuse to have games allowed mature content, but someone is allowed to draw it

[dire gate]

The logic : We don't want people to leave because they want to play Cyberpunk 2077!

[random steppe]

Either disallow it on both, or in neither is my 2 cents

[stark meteor]

Even then like

Advertisers are hilariously fickle and oftentimes there are just double standards that won't make sense

It's the same reason that for example an image of the statue of david would be acceptable yet someone drawing their random OC being nude in the same way will be considered completely unacceptable

Sometimes things are just
unfair and it won't make sense

[random steppe]

I think that a statue of david would be disallowed by twitch rules right?

[stark meteor]

Other than "one thing is popular and therefore gets a free pass"

[stark meteor]

It would, but I kinda made that as more of an example of

"One would be more socially acceptable than the other despite them both being the same thing"

It would be like if some random indie game had the same nudity on the level of cyberbunk

It would probably not get the same level of leniency that that game gets

[random steppe]

Yeah my point is ultimately, if you want to protect kids, and that's the argument they are ginving, it should be one or the other.

Honestly I'd be fine with not allowing nudity in games, I just don't like the weird double standard.

[stark meteor]

It's less so they want to protect kids and more so they want to protect their bank accounts unfortunately

They follow where the money goes and this flew way too close to the sun in a way that was baffling

[random steppe]

Oh yeah that's probably the case, I am still not 100% sure it's consistent even in that case because honestly, a lot of the shit they have been doing is really bad for advertisers.

Them showing like, 3 identical ads in a row will not make me wanna buy the product, in fact I swore I will never buy anything from a few companies for how annoying some of the ads have been

[stark meteor]

Twitch's ad delivery is complete other mess of a subject that is

honestly really amusing how it got that bad

But most advertisers' mindset is just "statistically even showing people ads for brand recognition and shoving it in as many people's faces as possible evens out even if it turns off the very few % who will hate us for it"

[random steppe]

Twitch is such a trash fire for a lot of things, I feel like it's forever since they delivered a decent feature for streamers

[stark meteor]

The last good update was like
channel points/predictions tbh

[random steppe]

Imo watch party was the last okay one and it kinda worked sometimes

[stark meteor]

...and good lord this launched in 2020. 3 years.

[random steppe]

I mean I like the culture most of the time, for how much I complain there are a lot of things it could be doing worse.

They are also not doing a lot of things right tho

Kinda coasting of past success, and I hope that bubble wont burst

[stark meteor]

I mena amazon owns twitch so if they ever need to bleed money for the sake of keeping it alive they could

[dire gate]

"Nope, too much bleeding, leave Korea now"

[random steppe]

That seems to have been korea's fault to be fair.

At least in part

[strong pebble]

I had Korean spicy noodles

[mossy flume]

https://www.gameinformer.com/2023/12/14/naughty-dog-ceases-development-of-the-last-of-us-online

It became such a big thing that they would have to devote too many resources to maintaining it for years on end, which would remove too much from their capacity for developing new single player games.

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/wario64/status/1735721630775775335? @graceful bridge

[thorny loom]

always seem kinda dumb for a single player focused company to try and make multiplayer game

looks at bethesda

[graceful bridge]

F76 actually turned out to be really fun. Just took them a while to get the kinks worked out of it.

[thorny loom]

i mean fair yeah ill give them that

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/klobrille/status/1735726181717074198?

[fresh bane]

It worked out with Metal Gear Online

Every single MGO is still beloved by people

[light gate]

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/15/24003080/google-stadia-controllers-bluetooth-deadline-extended

[little badger]

@sage iris https://fxtwitter.com/ign/status/1735649935700172996?

[wind stump]

based

[visual hill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBDov3yhwVg
Urban Terror represent

[wind stump]

New Nikke home screen is very cute.

They've been dabbling a lot with pixel art lately
I vibe with it!

[hasty patio]

https://fixupx.com/subnautica/status/1735707917708304723

[quiet swift]

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/playwarframe/status/1735769391956910388? @bitter stream

[bitter stream]

Blade, you don't need to ping me for every warframe tweet, as a heads up haha

I'll see it when I see it, don't worry

[little badger]

have you tried the new story?

[bitter stream]

Yeah I enjoyed what I played of it! Have you given it a shot?

we talked about it in the warframe thread too if you're interested

[little badger]

I haven’t played it yet but would like to

[bitter stream]

yeah fair enough, give it a go sometime

it's pretty fun

and the new tile set is r eally good

[little badger]

Is it long?

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/7HCE_pFmTtk?si=mOkVCSjVaAVJQ0ja

even the remake isn't safe from being ported to every device possible

[visual hill]

GTA Definitive Trilogy also came to iOS and Android, but Android version has a stuttering issue the iOS version doesn't have and it has worse graphics

the Classic Lighting option, while not perfect, is pretty good still

[fresh bane]

Which is funny considering the definitive trilogy version of the games are based off of the mobile ports

[little badger]

I seen that. It does look good do you think they will fix the console versions to bring them like the mobile version?

[light gate]

Not surprising, too many devices to target will give you a harder time to optimize.

But yeah its not a bad port from what I can see, although I do expect the usual bad stuff from the Definitive Edition to be lying around.

[light gate]

Well that's because Apple Silicon really is just the same stuff that iPhones have.

So once you make a port for Mac, technically you can port it to iPhone and iPad and tvOS...

[visual hill]

maybe, maybe not

[light gate]

I might actually finish playing GTA 3 & Vice on my iPhone.

It plays surprisingly better than the PC port.

[bronze abyss]

LCS supremacy

[light gate]

And that is also the originals included, the controls for these three titles have never felt good for PC to be honest. GTA IV at least fixed that with the exception of the driving to some folks (I actually enjoy the driving)

Its just bizarre how much easier GTA 3 / Vice / SA play in a phone now.

[visual hill]

PC controls weren't great back then, especially III/VC which feel quite stiff due to that "player always facing camera" movement

I finished both games this way

[strong pebble]

I played PS2 GTA 3 but it deleted my save so I will try again but faster

I play on Xbox

[hasty patio]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/3902995340341070246

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/playgamesmovies/status/1735797425015562246?

[fresh bane]

At least it lets you do silly stuff like this

I wonder if Vice City Stories fixes this somewhat, I remember playing it on the PSP but I can't remember if it was exactly like VC or something more like San Andreas, I only played GTA on PC ever in my entire life so I'm not the best for comparing the PC controls to something like a controller

Did people like that one? I don't even know if people remember that one that much

[dense crypt]

i found her

[visual hill]

VCS was never released on PC so it only has classic (i.e. gamepad) controls

VCS is generally considered the worst entry out of all 3D universe games, but truth is, they're all very good anyway

when I mean "worst", it means "it's a 8/10 instead of a 9/10". It's still well worth your time 🙂

[graceful bridge]

https://youtu.be/3C0l4519tkA

[teal sonnet]

steam winter sales are wild

lesgo

[fresh bane]

Weird, I could swear the usual opinion is that VCS is some sort of underrated gem or something

[green fulcrum]

Definitely gonna be checking out the sale. I may be able to get some of the games I've been waiting for.

[teal sonnet]

Valve W

https://fxtwitter.com/JakeSucky/status/1735740758018457959

this has to be the best ban I ever fucking seen

pretty much people are finding out they are getting ban

by a gift

THIS IS AMAZING

[dire gate]

https://youtu.be/YR1r_9yiKG4 Oh my god, Summoningsalt finally dropping the long requested video of the game he just has been dominating for years

And it's over 2 hours

[mossy flume]

IGN gave their GOTY award to…. TotK

Not BG3

Kinda happy about that tbh

[random steppe]

I think that any GOTY awards that go to either BG3, TotK or Alan Wake 2 is at least understandable

[mossy flume]

I just don’t want BG3 to win literally every GOTY award

[dire gate]

Those two games are in a very weird position, I would not have be surprised if BG3 got every single GOTY awards but also it would suck for TotK if they can't win a single GOTY

[random steppe]

That said, I do think that BG3 is the right pick in an objective sense for the impact it had and will have on the industry, but the other two pick aren't wrong either

Like, TOTK impact wont really be as big as BOTW's impact

Because of how similar they are

[dire gate]

Awards are inherently flawed in some sense that the "best award" goes to only a single nominee(except very rare cases), so that it sometimes make people feel that the winner is simply miles ahead of the others

[random steppe]

This year I do feel like AW2 won as much if not more than BG3, I didn't feel like it was a one dog race.
So they did a good job on that front

[proud warren]

would I be considered "out of the loop" to not know what Alan Wake was (not just 2, but the whole thing)? cus the game awards last week was literally the first time I've heard about it

[random steppe]

Like, the big musical number in the middle of the Game Awards, wasn't BG3 music, it was Alan Wake themed.
They really paid a big homage to that game

[dire gate]

People like comparing too much and awards are unfortunately a great fuel for destructive debates and arguments

[random steppe]

AW2 released really close to the awards, like a few weeks before, might be why you didn't have time to hear about it

[proud warren]

well not just 2, but Alan Wake as a whole

[random steppe]

While BG3 had time to be in the news cycles like, 12 times between release and awards show

It's a 13 years old game

That might be why

[proud warren]

[random steppe]

It got a bit for a resurgence when Control released, since the two titles are related

[proud warren]

[random steppe]

Also I think they are kinda mixed in with Max Payne and Quantum break

I don't understand how tho

[proud warren]

I only know of Max Payne, and even then, I know nothing of it... guess I'm just a rock dweller

[random steppe]

I should definitely read up on what's happening before I play AW 2.
I did play control, I have no intention to replay all of the Max Payne games tho and I remember next to nothing about them

And sure as fuck I'm not gonna play Quantum Break, that thing was apparently terrible

[proud warren]

stark contrasts I guess

[slim thorn]

There are so many games out there it's impossible to keep up with everything. But these are at least not obscure: I've personally heard of the Max Paynes forever, saw an LP of the original Alan Wake and later of Control, heard of Quantum Break and then heard it was bad so didn't play it, have been very tempted to try Alan Wake 2 but a hundred other things grabbed my attention first.

[random steppe]

There is something beautiful about a very good and established developer, fucking up and releasing a complete stinker, and not because the game is made by commitee but because the game is just too weird and doesn't work as a premise, which is what Quantum Break is.

I love when that happens

[slim thorn]

ok so I never actually read or watched a proper explanation of this

wtf did Quantum Break do that was so awful

[random steppe]

It means that the developers didn't stop trying new things and are instead remaking the same game 40 times ubisoft

[proud warren]

I swear I'm constantly like, 5 years behind on releases; I'll be like "huh, I'll need to play 'XYZ'... holy shit that came out 2018 "

[slim thorn]

I think we all are

it's pretty unusual that I play a game when it's brand new

most of my favorite games I played at least a year or two after they came out (and not just because most of them are indies relying on word of mouth over marketing budget)

[random steppe]

Ok I don't remember precisely why it flopped, but I think that Quantum Break was meant to be kinda mixed with a sort of live action tv show.

[proud warren]

well I mean, my fav game that I still play fairly regularly originally came out 12 years ago, but there were so many updates and stuff, it's honestly kind of funny to me

[slim thorn]

I remember the show was a thing

[random steppe]

I don't remember if it released at the same time, or it was just the cutscenes between the levels, or probably both

But I seem to remember it ended up being too high concept, and the mechanics way too thin

Seemed like it was too concerned with the live action correlation than being a good game

I would have to read up on it to remember exactly what the problem was tho, it was a bit ago

[proud warren]

something something Disney's "Wish"

[random steppe]

I think it's also that it was an Xbox one exclusive, which like, didn't help

I'm starting to wonder if I should replay the Max Payne games

[proud warren]

I can't not think of that one image of the bargain bin just full of max payne 5

[random steppe]

I'm pretty sure it's at 20 years since I played the first one, I should check if 17 years old me had shit taste, and I am completely sure there are so many themes that flew over my head at the time

You probably mean Max Payne 3

It's the last one they made

[proud warren]

ah ye

my bad

...wtf am I thinking of then

I thought it was a 5th instalment of a game

...lemme find the image

nope, I'm wrong

[random steppe]

Ah, I see, yeah no thanks, let's check GOG

I mean my local language is italian

[proud warren]

zoom

[random steppe]

But I am afraid it'll be italian dub

and that's not acceptable

[proud warren]

yup that's max payne 3

[random steppe]

Oh interesting, I don't have access to the max payne complete collection, I assume because of some weird distribution rights in italy.
Well, fuck that, if I have I'll yarr it, no way I'm fucking with any of that

[river veldt]

oh my gooood there's so many Riddler trophies

[thorny loom]

You on city or knight

[river veldt]

City

[river veldt]

https://fixupx.com/bethesda_uk/status/1735676090834616597?s=46

[craggy vine]

I had max pane 3 but didn't play much of it

[quiet swift]

I think I played about half of it or less? It crashed and I think i lost a lot of gamesave then lost interest. It also didn't really have the feel of the others

[gaunt marten]

I have had it with the enemies in this game https://i.imgur.com/wivz3Qg.png

[novel pine]

Its the best 3rd perosn shooter everrr

[strong pebble]

I've heard it's very for adults

[novel pine]

Yes

[craggy vine]

I played it as a kid so

It didn't interest me back then

[visual hill]

Max Payne is a game I want to get to soon

[graceful bridge]

https://bsky.app/profile/ironspike.bsky.social/post/3kgnrawa6k42h

[gaunt marten]

What a name

[gaunt marten]

I'm reading a steam review

-Metroidvania
-Rogue<anything>
-Souls<anything>
-Open world
-Designed in any way to appeal to modern gaming sensibilities or push agendas
-Short
-Voice acted (except for a few shouts and grunts).```

I guess this game is not for me then

This person straight up listed my favorite genres

[quiet swift]

Is it for what Masque linked or something else?

[gaunt marten]

Different game

[quiet swift]

Well don't be a tease, what game?

[gaunt marten]

Astlibra revision

Some sort of action JRPG

[river veldt]

wow Arkham Knight has lots of different suits

[gaunt marten]

How many compared to City?

[river veldt]

City had like

10 ish

and then Knight has 24 for Batman

[teal cliff]

Gotham Knights has a lot of customization

[gaunt marten]

Neat

[thorny loom]

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/sea-of-stars-devs-remove-the-completionist-cameo-amid-charity-controversy-2434740/

[green fulcrum]

Oh yeah, I forgot he cameo'd in the game.

[wind stump]

i am a mature adult

look i'm getting paid fuck all for cleaning a whole damn house
I will draw my poorly drawn water penises in rebellion!

[river veldt]

you're paid with a job well done

[quiet swift]

I think drawing a 🍆 in that game is a rite of passage

You can't truly say you've finished the job without it

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/OS6UOxtZPmE?si=hcbPslGEhM0vIfge

Capcom was doing really good for too long it seems

[strong pebble]

I liked playing it a lot 😄😄

[teal cliff]

So fun fact about Cyberpunk
in the cutscene where you talk to Royce and Dum Dum
if they try to kill you and V does the thing where she jumps the couch
she'll pull out a pistol
always
even if you do not own a pistol
it will put one in your hand
not even in your inventory, it is a phantom weapon, it will disappear if you change weapons
I left my pistol at home bc I was doing a melee build and noticed this ghost weapon had been magically placed in my hand only to vanish forever when I pulled out my bat

[river veldt]

that's so cool

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/ign/status/1736114244389638236?

[river veldt]

yee

[light gate]

its literally two second footage. https://youtu.be/3cHzwNRLddI?feature=shared&t=801

[thorny loom]

yeah that was confirmed in the gigaleak in 2020

there were attempts to remake the mode but nintendo tends to C&D them

[dense crypt]

L IS REAL

[thorny loom]

bought a 49in monitor

[little badger]

Yeah I remember that.

[wind stump]

buys a 49 inch monitor
uses it to play KOTOR

[mossy flume]

Correct video game.

[visual hill]

sm64ex-coop is still going strong so far

[river veldt]

holy shit the movement in Arkham Knight feels amazing

THIS IS SO FUCKING COOL

PEOPLE DONT LIKE THE BATMOBILE ??????

this is the coolest cutscene ever put into a video game https://youtu.be/vdXFRlng5bI?feature=shared

[thorny loom]

Its fun but is way overused

Youll find out when you do riddlers sidequest

[visual hill]

the Knight batmobile is way better than Gotham Knights vehicles

[fresh bane]

Not a very high bar....

[visual hill]

sidequests in general will do that

if you don't want a game to overstay its welcome, stick to the main path

(if that requires too much grinding, lower the difficulty)

[fresh bane]

Aren't there also a lot of boss fights/sections that require the batmobile in Knight? I think that's why people generally disliked it and say it gets too overused

The riddler things probably don't help

[thorny loom]

Problem with knight is

||you have to get 100% to get the true ending||

[thorny loom]

Yeah. Most of the side character villian fights are in the batmobile

Deathstrokes was probably the most offensive given he had an actual fight in origins

[fresh bane]

Maybe spoil tag that just in case but yeah that's what I heard as the reason for people ''hating'' the batmobile

Not so much hating the batmobile itself just it's a mechanic that seems to be overused and injected into sections where it probably would've been better without it

[fresh bane]

https://vxtwitter.com/LastStarfarer/status/1736124490722013204

hell yeah

[craggy vine]

Amazing character design guys

[dense crypt]

What the frick is that

[wind stump]

les do this again

[craggy vine]

Some kind of radiation affected human I assume

[gaunt marten]

Radiation sloughing is way more horrific than this

[wind stump]

Christ I forgot that on Very Hard you have to fight a fucking GECKO in the tutorial

... upon reflection, i'll just play on Hard for now

[novel pine]

the first 2 are good but the 3rd is seriously the best 3rd person shooter ever. the first 2 are being remade too

[craggy vine]

Show me some

[gaunt marten]

It's too inappropriate for Manechat but see Hisashi Ouchi before his death

He received seventeen whole sieverts (not microsoeverts) and died after three months of intense care by the world's best professionals

His DNA straight up broke down and dead cells began to slough off. He was kept alive with the help of stem cell donations and other procedures

[craggy vine]

Wow

[gaunt marten]

There's a myth that he was forcibly kept alive against his will but it turns out he did ask and fight for it

After a significant enough dose of radiation the cells fall off all the way to the bone

Oh, also keep in mind you might see a picture of a guy with all four of his limbs suspended.

This photo is wrongly labeled as Hisashi Ouchi. It's actually someone else suffering from a separate radiation poisoning incident

[craggy vine]

I see

This is really interesting

[wind stump]

Apparently you can make Raiden vomit by rolling in a barrel for too long

Completely unnecessary? Yes.
Kinda gross? Yes.
Is this exactly what I expect from Kojima? ABSOLUTELY.

god i should play MGS 5

[craggy vine]

Looking into some of the lore of Urge, perhaps there is more to the game than first seen. It is too easy to brush it off as a baseless survival game.

[wind stump]

[peak berry]

swat4

awa

[visual hill]

is that the CS:GO AK

[wind stump]

IT HER
THE FUNNY PONY WOMAN

BTW I'm going to make my PC cry, lmao

MAX WACK

[strong pebble]

LES GO 👏👏😄🌟

[white phoenix]

good thing it runs on the fox engine

that thing uses black magic, it can run on anything and look photoreal

[wind stump]

me: hears 5 seconds of It Has To Be This Way
brain: YOU SHOULD FIGHT ARMSTRONG ON REVENGENCE DIFFICULTY N O W! ⛈️

you know what, if i can get through MGR on Hard without getting bodied too hard I'll try Very Hard again

[strong pebble]

I have this game but I didn't play it yet

But i know two songs from YouTube

[thorny loom]

Get all the arm collectibles first

It unlocks an upgrade for unlimited rage which is almost necessary to perfect score boss fights

[wind stump]

I diiiid maybe cheat a little and grab a save with all unlocks

Look, the records themselves are still on the defaults, I just didn't want to grind for hours to upgrade everything

MGR is fun as a burst game, not as a grind game

[fresh bane]

ackshually ☝️ Kojima wasn't involved in Rising at all, the director is Kenji Saito!

but yes that's exactly the type of attention to detail that would be included in a Kojumbo game

I should replay Rising again just to see how I'd do now, I remember Sam's DLC was borderline impossible for me at first

[fresh bane]

I don't know if it was just my perception but MGSV is pretty damn well optimized so there shouldn't be any issues, I remember playing Phantom Pain on a super potato laptop and it actually ran and looked pretty decently

[white phoenix]

trying to do every boss in mgr s rank no damage on a keyboard was hell but worth it

[wind stump]

I know but it is absolutely a Kojima move
Plus like, if you weren't told that Kojima wasn't involved, would you even notice?

[fresh bane]

Absolutely I would this is mainly a Platinum game before it is a Kojima Productions game, Kojima was never involved in it at all but members of the team that made previous MGS games were

sort of the entire project was exciting for the devs because Kojima had no direct involvement, he was making Peace Walker at the time

It's interesting because this game was very close to being cancelled because the KojiPro devs couldn't figure out the action gameplay stuff before they handed it out to Platinum

https://youtu.be/78ciLWyqJEU?si=c8fzAtIevIym3uDL

also if I play this game again I have to do it with mods for sure

Hand to hand, the basis of all combat. Only a fool trusts his life to a weapon

Supposedly all bosses are defeatable with this mod so it shouldn't be a problem

[strong pebble]

Kojumbo 😂😂

[wind stump]

i like how stealth is simultaniously actually pretty useful and completely useless in mgr

on the one hand, you can instant kill minor goons and go past IR cameras without any fuss
on the other, you are a death blender on legs, just kill everything

[strong pebble]

Asia: Be a lily on a lake

Hclegend: Be a death blender on legs

[wind stump]

i have a way with words

[fresh bane]

Stealth in rising really felt like something they put in just as a formality because it's pretty non-viable since you're missing out on combat and points, I remember people praised Blade Wolf's stealth sections but they were pretty basic, I do kind of wish Rising had more stealth options just to have that interesting choice in approach like you have with MGSV where you can just go full rambo mode but it probably would've been much for a game that was on the brink of cancellation

I appreciate the cardboard box being in the game and being functional as always, there's even a lot of enemies that hide from you in cardboard boxes

[wind stump]

I mean, it is useful in Mistral's mission where you have all those IR sensors

Just walk through them
i think there's one that has a camera at the end, so if that spots you moving you get shot but aside from that you can just boxwalk through it

or drumcan walk if you're so inclined
just don't try to roll too much... see #1032716748887179434 message

[grave tide]

I found and watched investigation about The Day Before development, this story is really sad. Brothers Gotovtsev's hired a bunch of hypermotivated junior game devs, with cheap Russian salary, and exploited them all 5 years. Working without weekends and holidays, reworks because brothers played "GTA", "Spider-Man" and gave orders do like in GTA, Spider-Man, other AAA games, reworks of everything because something looks like too much cheap for AAA game. Suppression of creative freedom, fire for burnout for 3 months without salary and severance pay, literally middle of 19th century. And all team was ready to save The Day Before like No Man's Sky, but Fntastic was dismissed. Sad that this material on Russian, so I can't send it

I thought it was an ingenious scam, but I overrated leadership of Fntastic

[harsh kestrel]

Sounds like the same shit that the public knows about has happened behind closed doors of a lot of AAA game developers

[grave tide]

Oh, and I forgot, team had only 5 testers for MMO game, no mass tests, no iternal beta tests

Decision make The Day Before a MMO was made in 2021 after 3 years of development

Studio changed Unreal Engine 4 to 5 in the middle of development, even changed 5.1 version to 5.2 for several weeks, maybe months before release

And Fntastic restricted to ask any help from UE 5 specialists, even from publisher MyTona

Volunteers who wanted to help testing The Day Before was sent to other Fntastic game, which died because cringe update, everyone who asked were sent away from volunteering

[strong pebble]

I saw the trailer and then the game and I was thinking how they made a trailer

[grave tide]

You are too young

You don't know about WATCH DOGS 1

Damn, in next year will be 10 years after Watch Dogs release

I feel old

👴

[fresh bane]

I remember being blown away by the premise of Watch Dogs and thinking this is where games peak this right here

but in my defense I was a literal child and I thought the cool hackerman was cool

[grave tide]

I was 10 when Watch Dogs was released, but I was playing Minecraft and Dota 2. So I heard about Watch Dogs from YT, when downgrade happened

Damn, I was really playing Dota 2 when I was 10

Typical CIS childhood

[strong pebble]

Hey did you try VR

[slim thorn]

I was later told by a YTer that Watch Dogs 2 was surprisingly great, but after 1's mediocrity no one was paying attention to it

never played any of the WDs myself, I was already kinda sick of open worlds by the time those happened

[feral tulip]

https://fxtwitter.com/ThatOneBird224/status/1736185064365396369?t=JKx2aafiJ0f93nOkwXLMdQ&s=19

[dense crypt]

precious little babies

[gaunt marten]

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

Game's coming out on the switch by Jan 12th

[bronze abyss]

infernum brain of cthulu is dead,now not too far from perforators

[quiet swift]

https://www.gamesradar.com/just-when-i-think-it-cant-get-cooler-viral-nuke-parrying-soulslike-lets-you-parry-the-earth-itself-to-avoid-fall-damage/

[bronze abyss]

perf dead

[gaunt marten]

https://youtu.be/lZc-yHMx20M

In this speedrun they play Vivi only where possible, and beat Ozma, the most difficult boss in the game, before finishing the game itself.

[quiet swift]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2690330/Vampire_Survivors_Emergency_Meeting/ it's out!

Steam

Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting

The Survivors are desperate to hunt vampires, but are running out of places to look. Only one option remains: Be the bullet hell... in space! Gather your most trusted Crewmates, prepare to eject the Impostors, and try to survive while mowing down thousands of extra-terrestrial foes in this expansion for Vampire Survivors. Turn classic Among Us t...

Price

$1.99

Metacritic

87

▶ Play video

[gaunt marten]

Two videos, 22 hours in total

https://i.imgur.com/fbZhvt4.png not sure why the estimate is six hours

[craggy vine]

[craggy vine]

you know, I used to be someone who would run with an uncapped fps. but now I kinda realize having a consistent fps and not having my hardware work needlessly is better.

[gaunt marten]

You want your FPS to be exactly your refresh rate

[craggy vine]

Yeah

No point making 500 fps when you have a 60hz display

[bronze abyss]

there is a point,responsiveness

id say like even if ur on 60hz 80fps-120fps should be a good idea to run at

[gaunt marten]

latency is not always tied to framerate

This is a game-by-game thing, and ideally games run inputs separately from graphics

[dire gate]

Great game

[craggy vine]

120 fps does feel nice. But it all depends on the game.

Some I'm still fine with being at 30

[visual hill]

enable VRR and cap framerate to 3 below your refresh rate (or enable Reflex in the game if supported)

VRR being G-Sync/FreeSync

[craggy vine]

I don't have a G-sync monitor

I have a cheap Hitachi TV

With the weird ass games I want to play though dropping to 20 fps is normal so what does it even matter

[visual hill]

VRR is arguably one of the best things to have happened in gaming in the last 10 years

(that and HDR, but HDR support is way more spotty as of 2023...)

[craggy vine]

I'm sure it's great but I won't be getting a monitor with it anytime soon

[visual hill]

susvivors

[pseudo surge]

I never actually tried Vampire Survivors

[harsh kestrel]

Well, I finally did something productive after a period of no motivation. I finally finished Mario Wonder. I didn't finish it 100%, and honestly, I'm not sure if I'll go for 100%, considering that, I don't know how potentially torturous getting the rest of the collectibles is gonna be, and even more so for just doing anything in the Special World. The couple of levels I've experienced in there feel like Mario Galaxy Perfect Run levels of brutal. I'll figure that out in due time

Overall though, it was one of the best Mario games in a long while and a definite fresh facelift that the main 2D games needed after so many New Super Mario Bros games in the last nearly 15 years. I would definitely want them to keep a lot they have going on in the gameplay department for the game. The physics, the wacky antics that change the level and keep things fresh to where it doesn't feel repetitive, the badges, all of that for sure should stay in my opinion. If they can get this wacky at the late stages of the Switch's run as the newest console, then I would hope they keep experimenting with different art styles and gameplay styles for future 2D games. Overall, for me, this was a solid and fun game that was just an overall breath of fresh air and eye candy visually through the entire thing. For those in here who haven't gotten it yet, and may do so soon, trust me, it's worth it. For those on the fence about it, I can honestly say you won't regret it

Now, for the next Mario game, it's most likely gonna be another 3D title, also most likely on whatever Nintendo's next console is gonna be. Personally, I've been predicting a 2024 announcement and a 2025 launch. We'll see what happens obviously, but realistically, that would make a lot of sense, what with them having seemingly some more big plans for Switch titles at least during the first half of the year, 2025 for the next console would make sense. If I could want anything in terms of the next games, they definitely should continue the formula inspired by Mario Odyssey. Not copy paste mind you, but let's say, maybe Mario Odyssey levels of open world feeling maps with objectives with some wacky Mario Wonder level goofy stuff to go along with it. Not to mention, of course, unique bosses like Mario Wonder has, as well as more new power ups that are funny as hell. All we can do is hope, but those are my thoughts

[gaunt marten]

I'm glad you like it.

[rough sleet]

https://youtube.com/shorts/jWYx4aWZW48

[quiet swift]

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, a game preorder is an interest-free loan you pay in exchange for a future game which you know little about because it's not even made yet

[craggy vine]

Why the fuck did pre orders even become a thing

[gaunt marten]

Well "what if we could have the money now so we can keep developing instead of cancelling the project" is a reasonable stance

[craggy vine]

That makes a bit of sense

[gaunt marten]

Problem is the industry heavily abuses it and provides few guarantees that you would expect in the case of other non-entertainment products

[craggy vine]

Yeah

You judge based off of trailers and what a company says

And then get Cyberpunk

[slim thorn]

the serious answer is because back when games were physical, it was completely legitimate to pre-order a physical good to guarantee you'd get a copy on release day

of course in that era the internet was too young to support all the DLCs and post-release patching we see today, so companies operated as if the release day version was the only version they'd ever get because it was

[gaunt marten]

They had similar risks, though less pronounced because of the incentive to release right the first time

[slim thorn]

yep, the possibility of the game not being that good was still there, but for a developer/publisher with a good tracker record it was a much more reasonable risk to take

but we now live in a world where every publisher that ever had that good will has since squandered it at least once

at least personally I don't think I heard of anyone being burned by a preorder, in the sense of it being clearly a bad decision, until things were more digital

[craggy vine]

https://youtube.com/shorts/BzwS0VziQ58?si=6bluaDV-j5BvHzqv

[slim thorn]

sometimes they just didn't like the game as much as they hoped but only to the same degree as any other game purchase since you can't be 100% sure without playing it yourself

[craggy vine]

Yeah

[slim thorn]

oh yeah, and back then demos were more common

just a completely different environment

[pseudo surge]

Yeah, even when digital copies weren't a thing, I've bought games I didn't like and then you're just kinda stuck with them. I guess the difference here is mostly that games nowadays sometimes simply feel unfinished/unpolished.

[slim thorn]

yep, the "I paid for a sandwich and got 3 pickles" experience is very much a modern trend

or at least feeling that way is

[quiet swift]

🐴

[pseudo surge]

Yeah, before it was more like, "I bought a tuna sandwich, I got a tuna sandwich, but turns out I don't like tuna sandwiches " (I love tuna sandwiches, tho XD)

[slim thorn]

yet another reason for it is that AAA dev costs and dev time spiraled out of control

so the projects people feel burned by are often more like "you got ten chicken sandwiches but all of them are either burned or raw so you can't eat any"

[pseudo surge]

Speaking of game purchases, last month I bought the Spyro reignited trilogy because I never played the Spyro games and they've been really good. I'm on the third one now

[slim thorn]

maybe No Man's Sky (on day one) was more a case of "I ordered one sandwich and I got 10 loaves of bread with nothing on them?"

this is a fun analogy to torture

I should probably try Spyro one of these days, but last time I had the cartoony platformer itch I bought A Hat in Time and then randomized it to death so that's good for a while

[random steppe]

I still have to play that ps1 looking platformer with the goat with the big butt all of you were going crazy a few weeks ago

[pseudo surge]

I picked up all 3 spyro games for like...17-18 USD, so that was a pretty good deal.

[pseudo surge]

Wut?

[slim thorn]

they're referring to Pseudoregalia

which I also randomized to death lol

[random steppe]

That one

My description was 100% correct, IDK what to tell you

[gaunt marten]

My computer fucking crashes when I try to run Pseudoregalia

There's actually a setting to put pants on her

[random steppe]

Do you think that not activating that will be an incentive in the next GDQ?

[gaunt marten]

I wonder if it'll be in GDQ at all

[slim thorn]

already was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idaCHH0Q2BQ

[random steppe]

Oh, interesting

[slim thorn]

I don't recall if it had any incentive though

[random steppe]

I mean I'm not gonna watch it before I play it, but I thought it could get there, it actually got pretty big when it released

[slim thorn]

yeah, it has enough speedrunning going on that it would've been weird if it didn't show up eventually

[random steppe]

I must say, it's a bold choice to inspire yourself to PS1 3d aesthetic

I'm from that generation of consoles myself and even I don't have much nostalgia for blocky aesthetics

[gaunt marten]

They have a few settings that make the game look a bit cleaner and more tolerable

[slim thorn]

I always think of it as N64 aesthetic but that's probably down to what games we played when

[random steppe]

I mean, the models didn't look that different between consoles

It was around what the hardware could support at the time, not really a choice

[slim thorn]

also because Zelda's probably a more useful comparison point than Resident Evil (again, just the games I've played on those two consoles, counting emulation)

[gaunt marten]

It does feel a lot like Ocarina of Time

[slim thorn]

I think I described it to Nire as one big OoT dungeon with more platforming and without a map

[pseudo surge]

I personally don't dig the PS1/N64 aesthethic too much. I have a lot of fondness the older pixel art games

[slim thorn]

(personally I have no strong attachment to or dislike of any of these art styles)

[random steppe]

I am meh on pixel art as well TBH, it's okay, better than the 3d from the time at least

[pseudo surge]

Yeah, it's all personal preference, tbh.

[gaunt marten]

I'm having a lot of fun with Crystal Project right now

It's a classic final fantasy style RPG with platforming and metroidvania elements. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1637730/Crystal_Project/

Steam

Crystal Project

Explore the world, find Crystals, and fulfill the prophecy to bring balance to the land of Sequoia....Or maybe you'd rather spend your time collecting neat equipment and artifacts? Or tame strange creatures and fill out all the entries in your archive? Or perhaps you'd rather hunt down every monster and conquer the world's toughest bosses. Or ma...

Price

$13.99

Recommendations

1671

▶ Play video

Supremely well made for a solo dev project

[pseudo surge]

Ohno...

That looks like a game I have to add to my list.

[gaunt marten]

You can try the demo to see if you like it. It's 5-15 hours long

[pseudo surge]

The demo?

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

[slim thorn]

wow

[gaunt marten]

Saves carry over from the demo to the base game, too

[pseudo surge]

That's pretty neat.

[gaunt marten]

Plus, you can make a dinosaur ride a dinosaur https://i.imgur.com/65FVT2Q.png

[pseudo surge]

[dire gate]

The same vibe

[strong pebble]

I like this game I played it so much

[wind stump]

sus

[median cedar]

Rook sacrifice against my classmate (he got checkmated moves later)

[gaunt marten]

Nice, you got a brilliant move

[static bluff]

So you're telling me... they sacrificed... THE ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK

Levi would be so proud

And by extension, Magnus Carlson

[strong pebble]

Ooooo I was thinking of playing chess with Mr Onosa when I woke up

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/wario64/status/1736743443484086606?

[little badger]

@random steppe new multiplayer mode https://fxtwitter.com/wario64/status/1736748645637402672?

[static bluff]

If I'm free. It's a very busy morning for me, though.

[gaunt marten]

Ah!

Patience pays off yet again

https://i.imgur.com/cvqf6Ad.png

I added this game to my wishlist almost two years ago

@slim thorn might like this game, too

Remember to go to https://www.gog.com/en/account/settings/subscriptions to opt out of ads

[wind stump]

AND THAT KIDS IS WHY YOU ALWAYS WEAR YOUR SEATBELT

you know, just in case some dude on fire is throwing firetrucks at you while a PMC helicopter is trying to remove you from existing

[teal cliff]

BG3 should have Aasimar.

[rancid herald]

it does, I think, kinda

just not as a player class

[teal cliff]

I meant as a playable race

if you've got Tieflings you should have Aasimar. it only makes sense.

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1736769229641138673

[green fulcrum]

Tieflings are a default class from the Player's Handbook though, Aasimars aren't. A more apt comparison would be if you have Githyanki than you should've had Aasimar.

In any case, I agree 100%. Also, there were apparently a LOT more races planned, including Warforged, Genasi, Tritons, Yuan-Ti Purebloods, Firbolgs, and Aasimars.

[teal cliff]

I'm not very familiar with 5e material but if this is the case then I suppose my commentary becomes "If the default player's handbook had tieflings, it should have had aasimar"

[gaunt marten]

My current party is in a githyanki stronghold and the environment is literally stellar

[green fulcrum]

In BG3, or in a campaign?

[gaunt marten]

Campaign

[green fulcrum]

Ah, cool

[wind stump]

man if i had to shit in that...

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/wario64/status/1736768204733890849?

[green fulcrum]

RIP

[peak mesa]

This can’t be real.

Rest well.

[gaunt marten]

Don't confuse James McCaffrey with John McCafe

[peak mesa]

McCafe

[gaunt marten]

Yes he made the antivirus

[peak mesa]

I’m afraid McCafe is the coffee chain of McDonalds, that’s McAfee :p (unless if you’re indeed joking)

They do sound similar though.

[gaunt marten]

Same thing, I just got the spelling wrong

[peak mesa]

Anyways, this must be so coincidential.

Because just yesterday I thrifted Max Payne, and around the time I only started my campaign today, James McCaffrey is no longer with us.

[little badger]

1 and 2 are currently being remastered.

[wind stump]

i'm so bad at stealth lmao

[peak mesa]

Hopefully he has recorded the lines for the remakes.

[random steppe]

Counterargument, the story has a ||prominent aasimar character that is basically a half God and having playable aasimar would have lessened the impact of said character to an extent||

[little badger]

Played any new games recently?

[wind stump]

caught bro napping xD xD xD

[wind stump]

No kills!

WHY ARE WE STILL HERE
JUST TO SUFFER

[random steppe]

I'm mostly just been absorbed in Warframe new stuff, but I did start Alan Wake remastered

[little badger]

Oooooh what Tenno do you use?

[random steppe]

I have all of them at this point (the new one is in the forge, should be ready in like 12 hours)
For the quest I went with protea because she's fun

[little badger]

Nice

[random steppe]

Protea and Wisp are my 2 favourite, with Gara as a close 3rd

Kullervo is also nice

[teal cliff]

The eximus update destroyed my boy Limbo

But I still quite like a lot of the frames. Octavia and Hildryn are my favs now

Which is why this art made me really happy lol

[random steppe]

That's wonderful

Hildryn prime is also gorgeous, it's probably one of my favourite prime updates

Not a fan of the helmet but you can easly swap that out, but the whole rest just screams barbarian queen and I'm all for it

[teal cliff]

Yeah I got the prime access for Hildryn because of how much I like her

Octavia's is unfortunately like 500 years away or however prime release schedules work

I had every (obtainable) prime last year but I'm behind now.

[random steppe]

Gauss prime is next and he's also looking very good

[teal cliff]

Oh shit it's Acceltra Prime time

Love my Acceltra

[random steppe]

And most importantly, after Gauss it's Protea prime

[teal cliff]

Gauss is neat but it's that rifle I'm after lol

[random steppe]

Also big agree on the acceltra

[teal cliff]

After the Kuva Bramma nerfs the Acceltra has been my go to

(I wish DE would stop nerfing all my stuff :<)

[random steppe]

I think it falls behind when you go against Steel Path level stuff, but anything that's not that it just feels very good to use

[teal cliff]

I hate steel path anyways tbh, I don't really like "hard" content in Warframe

[random steppe]

Hopefully the Prime variant gets the bump it needs to be competitive in SP as well

[teal cliff]

Eidolon Hunts and Steel Path are both kinda not my bag.

I just trade for stuff I need from them.

[random steppe]

I used to hate it, but with some frames it's pretty fun.

Like, some of them with the right build, the normal path content is just way too easy

[teal cliff]

I can't remember what frame I used for steel path
Titania Prime I think?

[random steppe]

Titania is definitely a good one

[teal cliff]

Running around in her ult with her pistols was the only way I had the dps for SP

because I also dont use rivens, they annoy me

[random steppe]

I use them very rarely

Like, if i happen to roll one for a weapon I like, might as well

But most of the time I pretty much ignore them

Right now the easy steel path stuff is with some of the new incranon weapons

Maybe with Wisp, or another very resiliant frame, like revenant

Those can pretty much sleepwalk through steelpath

Oh and Styanax

He's insane

[teal cliff]

incranon weapons?

I'm out of the loop atm

[random steppe]

Ok so, in the Zariman update, they released weapons that, if you get headshots, they can transform in a different form

And some of them are a bit insane

[teal cliff]

0_0

[random steppe]

And in the Duviri update, they released incarnorn additions to older weapons

That basically turn older stuff into incranon weapons

Right now the meta is stuff like the fucking braton, or the boar

IF you can believe it

or the goddamn ceramic dagger

[teal cliff]

huh

okay then

where's my Incarnorn Sybaris

[random steppe]

Sadly no Sybaris

Yet

There is a very good one for the miter tho which is funny

I had to craft it again because I sold that piece of junk years ago

At any rate the new team is doing a lot of great things with the game

Since Rebb became creative director and Pablo game director, the game just became better on all fronts

Like, in the recent update they released this version of intensify and I hope we see a lot more mods like this, this is such an interesting design space for the game

[pseudo surge]

Terraria has christmas buns XD

[sage iris]

it's time

what does y'all's look like?

[sage iris]

I spent soooooo much time in baldur's gate 3

[sage iris]

my BG3 time spent vs my overall time spent

august is literall ALL bg3

[sage iris]

jfc, 105 games?

👀

[sage iris]

cookie clicker

(there's a share feature at the end btw, you don't need to screenshot it)

[quiet swift]

Ah!

And yeah, i leave it running while i'm working for well, work, on the other computer

[sage iris]

baldur's gate took me 190 hours to complete

[quiet swift]

I actually beat her in 4

[quiet swift]

[sage iris]

y'all crazy playing hundreds of different games, the heck

[gaunt marten]

Oh it's out?

[sage iris]

also, there's a share feature at the end XD

[mossy flume]

This was a really quiet year for me too

[sage iris]

y'all need to stop screenshotting it

[mossy flume]

I’ve been busy doing non-gaming stuff most of the time

Much to my sadness

[quiet swift]

I mean, I'd rather be playing a bunch of new shit rather than COD modern warfare 2912810 for 091804918309120398108 hours

[gaunt marten]

Here's mine https://s.team/y23/ftqjcfm?l=english

[mossy flume]

Anyway there’s mine

[gaunt marten]

oh Steam failed to copy

[mossy flume]

Yeah it doesn’t copy correctly

[little badger]

@random steppe https://fxtwitter.com/playwarframe/status/1736812988659806639?

[gaunt marten]

2022 https://i.imgur.com/3K9doew.png

2023 https://i.imgur.com/Bzg6kZR.png

[sage iris]

the percentage of games I played vs the games I bought in 2023 must be disappointingly low

I played only 16 games and bought like 50

[gaunt marten]

Well stop it

[sage iris]

can't DX

I always feel like "ooooh I really wanna play this" and then I just forget about it and never get around to playing them

[slim thorn]

this is part of the reason I often don't buy a game until the moment I am in the mood to play it

[sage iris]

I also spent a stupid amount of time playing valorant this year

and some games off steam

[gaunt marten]

I bought 24 games in 2023 and played more than that

[uneven epoch]

i played like. 3 games total. bc 95% of my gamin time has been spent in ff14

[light gate]

Guess I’ll never know.

Good job Valve.

[gaunt marten]

Link your page and I'll view it for you

[teal cliff]

god. Who gave I Was a Teenage Exocolonist the right to be this good.

[light gate]

I’m good.

Didn’t play much.

[light gate]

Probably because 70% of games are on Windows, but have found a few ways around in playing it on macOS without crossover.

[little badger]

Posted it earlier but it was sad to see

The Max Payne series is one of my faviourite

[random steppe]

My % aren't reliable because I leave games open a lot, but this sounds correct

[gaunt marten]

X4 foundation? What's that?

[harsh kestrel]

Max Payne is a series that Rockstar has long since forgotten

[random steppe]

Basically Eve Online but not online

And more managerial

[gaunt marten]

That sounds fun

[random steppe]

Like you can have fleet of npcs while you fly a badass carriers

[sage iris]

unfortunately neither CP, Dead Space or Jedi Survivor are showing on my steam because I played them... elsewhere

[random steppe]

Or whole trade fleets that operate by themselves

[little badger]

You play X foundations?

[mossy flume]

It’s a large scale space sim, yeah

[random steppe]

I started this year and I played it a lot

[mossy flume]

It’s pretty great

[random steppe]

Even made a massive self sufficent shipyard

[gaunt marten]

Whoa discord got upset with me https://i.imgur.com/oDoSEgt.png

[random steppe]

Even tho the builder interface for stations is kind of hot trash

[little badger]

I’ve been looking to get armoured core but are there any good builds?

[sage iris]

I wonder why steam recap doesn't show just plain hours played

for some reason they decided to go with sessions and percentages

[light gate]

Probably because some people were shocked the amounts of hours played.

[random steppe]

The stuff you get changes very fast as you go through the game so it's hard to recommend builds, just know that shoulder mounter rocket launchers and shotguns are very good in general and you wont be disappointed

[sage iris]

I like seeing my hours played

like way too much

[little badger]

Ooooh thanks for letting me know

[gaunt marten]

Oh, the short links are broken

Here's the long link https://store.steampowered.com/yearinreview/76561198024974648/2023

[static bluff]

https://store.steampowered.com/yearinreview/76561198035237410/2023

Flitter kicked my ass on every number, damn

[thorny loom]

Mine

[wind stump]

https://store.steampowered.com/yearinreview/76561198100281426/2023

[thorny loom]

Nerd

[wind stump]

you know i need to touch grass

don't even ask where the 994 achievments came from

[quiet swift]

99% touhou

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/playwarframe/status/1736842350771511745?

[sage iris]

2100 sessions

[thorny loom]

Tbf. Session is just booting up a game

[wind stump]

i am very indecisive

[pseudo surge]

Terraria completed on Master Mode

[sage iris]

what class?

my one and only completed master mode playthrough was on ranger

because ranger is stupidly easy and OP

it's not my favorite class though

maybe second favorite

[pseudo surge]

Kind of swapped between classes depending on the boss. Last boss I did as melee and my friend was a mage.

[sage iris]

ohhh you were doing multiplayer?

I don't like switching classes myself because you have to pretty much regrind all your gear

I swear I'm way worse at multiplayer terraria because the boss AI throws me off when it switches targets and stuff

I'm better at singleplayer because of that

[pseudo surge]

Yeee, me and my friend were doing a semi-blind run on Master Mode. I played it once before and got to Hardmode, but not much beyond that.

Hardmode and beyond was pretty much all blind XD After we killed the last boss we did start looking up things to see what we missed.

[sage iris]

hot damn, I'm surprised you got through master mode blind

took me at least 5 expert playthroughs to finally beat master XD

AT LEAST

and also a lot of pain and struggling

[pseudo surge]

Right now we're trying to get all the OP weapons and just playing around XD

Yeah, it was a challenge!

[sage iris]

though quite a few bosses require you to completely change your strategy in master mode compared to expert mode

that's what I struggled with the most

I remember I got shitstomped by brain like 7 times before I realized I had to approach it differently

(I just spammed it to death with nades XD)

[pseudo surge]

We didn't get Brain, we got zeh wooorm

[sage iris]

oh, I don't like the corruption

oh, another example were the mecha bosses. I got bonked so many times by them until I got that hell horse mount and make a looooooooong platform

and I just... ran away from them

while blasting

whereas in expert I actually dodged and stuff

also I went for the pussy ass maximum armor build XD on a ranger

[pseudo surge]

I got the pirate ship mount fairly early and that was a game changer, tbh

[sage iris]

oh yeah, pirate mount helps a ton

but you get the hell horse mount at WoF so that's even earlier

and I pretty much couldn't beat mechas without it

[pseudo surge]

Don't think we ever got that, I don't remember a hell horse mount

[sage iris]

this one https://terraria.fandom.com/wiki/Goat_Skull

it's basically a way better version of the unicorn

and it's much easier to get

[pseudo surge]

Aah, nice.

The Worm accessory seems so...mandatory though XD Like, 17% damage reduction. That never came off.

[sage iris]

yeah, scarf/brain are pretty much one of the best accessories in the game

I do like brain more though

[pseudo surge]

Is brain accessory also 17% DR?

[sage iris]

it's 17% miss chance

[pseudo surge]

Ah, that's also pretty powerful.

[sage iris]

yeah, I like miss chance more

it's better for hard hitting attacks

whereas DR is better for lots of small ones

[pseudo surge]

Yeh, helps mitigate chip damage a lot.

[sage iris]

so brain is like better against bosses whereas scarf is better vs mobs

at least I think so

plus you can stack evasion with ninja gear and hallowed armor

pretty insane strat

works really well against deathray

[pseudo surge]

Some bosses also have a lot of smaller hits, which high defense/DR works really well against.

[sage iris]

true, especially like destroyer

plantera too

[pseudo surge]

But yeah, high evasion is very nice for the big chonky hits.

[mossy flume]

I rewatched the Paper Mario TTYD Remaster/Remake trailer and noticed that the art style has been paperified even harder than the original was.

It looks great

[green fulcrum]

It really does

It takes all the best parts of the modern Paper Mario games and uses it to their fullest to lovingly recreate everything in TTYD.

[arctic fern]

https://vxtwitter.com/TKsMantis/status/1736867767297675449 oh no...

[harsh kestrel]

https://youtube.com/shorts/r7VWeTxTRww?si=GWwCw7cFVFgUqCsG

[thorny loom]

Ironically rumor is part of the reason they gave him his new role is so they could put in his contract he cant do cameo videos.

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/OWCavalry/status/1736889368403644631

oh boy

[rotund forge]

Is...that a Scout costume???

Yes...yes it is...

[sour hill]

Lol

[arctic fern]

Stop paying attention to overwatch and actiblizzard...

[random steppe]

I would be so curious to know OW numbers now

On one hand, everyone seems to hate it, but on the other, it's free to play now so maybe more people are playing it, who knows.

I would love to be a fly on the wall in those meetings

They must be either surprisingly positive or actually harrowing, I can't see an inbetween

[river veldt]

ha a Scout skin for Tracer would be funny

[mossy flume]

https://www.ea.com/news/frostbite-rebrand-2024

[light gate]

Graphic Design is my passion.

I do hope they do something with that engine though.

Same with Ubisoft's MASSIVE engine.

They're impressive engines to each their own.

[teal cliff]

Just beat Cyberpunk :D

[fickle garnet]

...this cant be true i loved his videos

[teal cliff]

Oh my god really?

Fuck that's rough

[mossy flume]

What sort of videos did they make?

[chilly mural]

fallout videos

a lot of challenge videos in particular

https://www.youtube.com/@MittenSquad/videos

[arctic fern]

Mitten squad jumpstarted the YouTube trend of random dumb challenge game videos, mostly focused on Bethesda games
His were very fun to watch and well made

He was very good and its sad to see his alcohol addiction take his life...

[harsh kestrel]

Yep, this is definitely where the industry is headed next in terms of a profitable trend considering it worked wonders for Fortnite. COD and Fall Guys followed suit, and now we can add Overwatch 2 to the list

[white phoenix]

Huge insomniac leak dropped - as in gta 6 leak scale huge

Pre release footage of wolverine, employee info (smh), and plans for future games (spider man 3, wolverine, new ips, x men)

You could probably search it up on reddit and twitter, don't want to post anything here

Yeah... story, cast info, apparently a demo build is out there somewhere
Insomniac's entire release schedule for the next decade got leaked too

[harsh kestrel]

So it just said new IPs. Jesus, if this is true, man, videogame companies should just shadow drop stuff from now on, because clearly the Internet is way faster than them at revealing their information than them these days. The internet gets so dedicated that they don't stop until they have the information they want

[mossy flume]

Yeah, a ransomware group hacked them about a week ago

And demanded payment

Damn, that's gotta be fucking depressing

[harsh kestrel]

Oh God, yeah, I forgot about that shit. Like, man, these are the kind of people that fuck things up for everyone. I mean, to be fair, I'm not surprised about Spiderman 3 at all. Insomniac has once again turned something they've been tasked with into a kickass juggernaut of a series worth playing, but the other ones, yeah, it's depressing to find out about those in such an anti climatic and overall malicious way that they never intended. I do hope Insomniac knocks all of those games out of the park like they have with Spiderman though. I mean, clearly Marvel sees a good studio in them if those leaks are right and they trust them with their other IPs like Wolverine and X-Men

[mossy flume]

About 1.6TB of data was put out

That's just gut wrenching =/

Also a ton of personal info, so many employees have just been doxxed

[harsh kestrel]

Aw motherfucker...

I hope those fuckers are found, sued into the ground for that, and also thrown in prison on top of it

Of course fuckers like that go after one of the few more well known studios left in today's gaming industry that are actually good with their games quality wise and treat every game and every IP with respect, probably being true fans of Marvel themselves

[white phoenix]

Yeah the employee personal info including passports is crossing a line

Right before the holidays too

[harsh kestrel]

There's different types of games. The types that are stable, not completely broken, and one hell of a good story and love letter to the people that play the games, like Insomniac makes, the games that start off broken but then get soon fixed, so rough start and then smooth sailing, and then there's the typical overly broken microtransaction simulator yearly release games or general completely broken and unplayable AAA games not worth sinking time and money into

[white phoenix]

Oh well... on the other hand, from what I've seen they were absolutely cooking
Hopefully this doesn't severely impact development that much

Also, venom game in 2025 👀

[icy crescent]

https://s.team/y23/cdqrkrff?l=english didn't play much this year but here's my review

[gaunt marten]

Didn't play much

You played more than most people

[icy crescent]

really? i thought mine's just a rookie number

september was my 1st attempt and i lost that save file cause DS3 has no cloud save somehow, then october was my 2nd run and achievement hunt

[gaunt marten]

The median on Steam is 16 achievements, 4 games, and 5 days in a row

That means half of all users have numbers smaller than that

[icy crescent]

ah i see

[gaunt marten]

I think the median includes a ton of people who don't play anymore, so it might be skewed

[feral tulip]

Steam highlights and yeaa that's not suprising

[gaunt marten]

Oh wow

[feral tulip]

def been a hyperfixation for awhile

and also did a save everyone run with every playable character to prove it was possible

each run was like 3-8 hours each so :3

the authentic transgender exprience of casting blood magic and defiling corpses

[bronze abyss]

tiny bit of gaming

[feral tulip]

only 1.3 sessions

also lmao tmodloader

[bronze abyss]

what about it?

[feral tulip]

i just see it pop up all the time whenever a friend is playing terraria

it being included in the games section is funni

[bronze abyss]

i mean its a completely seperate game so it makes sense

[feral tulip]

also me hours bc steam doenst show it on the wrapped

somehow i snipped the snipping tool?

yea sure why not

[quiet swift]

Saw some youtubers play that. Game's fucked

[feral tulip]

very much so hehe

still an absolutely incredible game

[craggy vine]

My most played game

[gaunt marten]

Never even heard of it

What is it?

Oh, it's VR and indie train sim

[craggy vine]

Best train sim I have ever played honestly

I have lost faith in all AAA games today. Indie is the way to go to have fun.

[dire gate]

I swear to god this new amongus collab weapon evolution in VS is singlehandedly the most broken item in the entire game

[sage iris]

there's still a couple of good AAA but honestly you shouldn't be holding your breath for new AAA game releases. Don't fall for the hype and marketing

[craggy vine]

I'm more hyped for the updates of Urge than any AAA game

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/insidergamingig/status/1736988281663885723?

[astral steeple]

i mean fall guys didnt exactly jump on a trend of doing collabs, they had been doing it from the start for the most part

fort as well did it like really early on as well

which had been like their whole plan since 2017

every other game had pretty much started jumping on the collab thing after they had done it to begin with

[quiet swift]

https://vxtwitter.com/GhostOfSparta1_/status/1737002192115237095

[craggy vine]

Yep... I'm not getting into any new AAA games

That would be like $130 AUD per game

[astral steeple]

ill probably stick with the games i already play lol

[grave tide]

Best ad of PC and piracy

[craggy vine]

Pf yes

[quiet swift]

I feel you, random citizen

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/ign/status/1737099484654416212?

[steady skiff]

https://s.team/y23/ckjkkcfw?l=english

Let's gooo

Almost nothing has changed compared to last year for me

[wind stump]

me, looking at the new Vampire Survivors DLC: "I don't need it."
amogus
ME: I NEEEEEED IIIIIT

[bronze abyss]

Creaminstaller:

[wind stump]

hey, official amogus collab is cool too y'know

[bronze abyss]

Creaminstaller:

[unreal idol]

my steam review was laughable lol

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/620743838641946636/1186462153159483512/steam-2023.png?ex=659355fc&is=6580e0fc&hm=2961ab53a0dbce4f3057c4ca5cc7da219dec84373787098b552484b0244af7d8& It's clear I primarily play console games

Oh huh, Discord shortens image links now, neat

[gaunt marten]

Creaminstaller is the consequence of devs putting the DLC data in the base game and charging people to play the stuff already on their computer

[wind stump]

wait so you can just pirate the DLC?

... my brother in christ, it's two dollars

well, if they did an oops, it's on them, but you know

two bucks

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, I would not pirate the among us DLC for Vampire Survivors

But I might for the Crusader Kings DLC

[wind stump]

i'm not saying i'd judge if you did but
i totally would for a game like Vamp Survivors

[gaunt marten]

It is an indie game and a very cheap DLC

[wind stump]

[hasty patio]

Didn't know you had Darktide.

[light gate]

Makes sense for triple a games.

They’re only getting more and more expensive to produce big titles.

[teal cliff]

Frankly, games have been over 60$ for a while now

even if the "base game" was 60$

they'd just lock all the content behind some stupid season pass or ultimate edition or whatever other bullshit that'd cost you an extra 10 to 40 dollars anyways

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/thicc_stick_boi/status/1737019487436902501/photo/1

[light gate]

Smart.

[unreal idol]

A friend got it for me for Christmas so four of us could play together. It's pretty fun!

[gaunt marten]

Not for me. I don't buy games over thirty dollars.

[little badger]

What game has Everypony been playing recently?

[sour hill]

Lethal Company

[gaunt marten]

Crystal Project

Also Ocarina of Time, Doom 2

[teal cliff]

Cyberpunk, Rainbow 6 Siege

[unreal idol]

A mix of things

Finishing up SMRPG, started up LttP, and sprinkled in with Master Duel and Darktide

[little badger]

[unreal idol]

I need to play more pokemon

[quiet swift]

WoW, D4, cyberpunk

[harsh kestrel]

Man, Sony better hope they don't do that with their game prices if they wanna stay afloat. People will not approve of that literally ever. Sure, that's still three years away, but still. Fuck that whole heartedly. People can barely afford new games right now as it is. If that does happen, I would hope to see one of the biggest bouts of backlash I've ever seen honestly, because that would be nothing short of bullshit and clear signs of bullshit greed

[unreal idol]

Waiting for another industry collapse any year now

[static bluff]

Once I'm done with Secret Santa, I'll be playing Dyson Sphere Program.

[strong pebble]

I'm playing my dad's favorite game Golden eye