general gaming

[light gate]

I’m gonna be Vinny Vinesauce at this rate.

[visual hill]

speedrunners when they see this new strategy: Fnatic manager here, please delete

[light gate]

Wait holy shit you’re right.

You could in theory get to the red rails over on the top right. Probably just to skip over a lot of stuff.

[little badger]

I seen you talking about emulators earlier what one would you recommend?

[visual hill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVPot6-YbsM

[gaunt marten]

The best emulator to use depends on which game you're trying to play

[little badger]

Old PS1 games

Also thanks Cali

[fresh bane]

'old ps1 games' is a bit of a redundant phrase

Duckstation is the one I always hear as a go-to for PS1 emulation

RetroArch is another one I hear about but I don't know much about that and it sounds like it's more for people more experienced with emulation because of the amount of options

[sour hill]

retroarch is basically a wrapper for multiple emulators

[visual hill]

some indie devs are making modern games for old consoles, like Portal N64

[visual hill]

emulators in RetroArch have a tendency to be outdated or have certain features disabled, so I suggest using standalone emulators

[sour hill]

I used retroarch with mednafen to play silent hill and had good success

[little badger]

Which one do you use?

[gaunt marten]

I recommend Duckstation for the PS1

Mednafen is also good but harder to use

[sour hill]

You know mednafen is legit because their site uses times new roman

[random steppe]

It's not quite correct because the dodge timings and hitboxes are worse in this game than in a DS, so you tend to get hit more often, but the enemies tend to do less damage in the higher difficulty than they would in a soulslike normal difficulty, so it's close-ish

It's also kinda sekiro-ish given then parries and all that.

[slim thorn]

it ran great on my laptop, but mine is a relatively high end gaming laptop

people differ on what they call a "soulslike", but it is pretty common to point out that Fallen Order / Survivor have a lot of souls-y mechanics, and personally for me it's still the only game with souls-like combat mechanics that I enjoyed and those mechanics actually worked in practice the way everyone usually describes them

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, Dark Souls is a good game but there are other turn based RPGs like it which are also good

[slim thorn]

it's the other way around, if you're experienced with emulators and/or like configuring them then the standalone emulators give you more control; RetroArch's whole purpose is being a unified UI around a huge collection of emulators which for me has provided by far the most streamlined and near-idiot-proof emulation experience I've ever had (even emulators I've used before standalone work better for me inside RA, it's insane)

it's just so nice having all my emulated games in a single place despite being on a dozen different consoles/emulators

and I'm the type that's usually fine using the default settings and just learning the default keybindings; little point configuring them when my next game's probably gonna be a totally different console/emulator anyway

although some of you would probably think I'm ridiculous for holding an xbox gamepad sideways to match the wii emulator keybindings

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/thegameawards/status/1738661091360854516?

[green fulcrum]

Making the exact same face he always makes.

[little badger]

[grave tide]

As making the same game for 10+ years

[green fulcrum]

I swear, his smile gives off some truly amazing "I'm dead inside" vibes.

[grave tide]

Damn, already even 15+

[little badger]

Wonder what he was thinking about at that moment.

[minor gorge]

Is probably old hat for most of you, but I found this a neat explanation for the appeal of Skyrim (mainly because I never played it but still ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_gT1X7Tpbg

[little badger]

You haven’t played Skyrim Supermarine?

[minor gorge]

I have not. This sort of game is not exactly my cup of tea.

[little badger]

Ah right.

[green fulcrum]

I haven't played it either. I'm not a fan of first-person action RPGs.

[slim thorn]

lots of us haven't played it

I've watched video essays on all of the Elder Scrollses, but they're all very clearly not my thing

[little badger]

What would you say is your faviourite. Genre of game GT?

[sour hill]

They seem like someone who'd like Spyro

[green fulcrum]

CRPG, like Baldur's Gate 3, Divinity: Original Sin 1 & 2, Wasteland 3, Pillars of Eternity, the Pathfinder games, etc.

A veeeeeeery close second would be JRPGs like Final Fantasy, Sea of Stars, Chrono Trigger/Cross, etc.

[little badger]

Oooooh you like wasteland 3

[green fulcrum]

Well, I was using it as an example, I haven't played it yet, but I do like the setting and the combat.

[gaunt marten]

Crystal Project?

[little badger]

Ah. It’s a good game you’ll enjoy it haven’t played it in a while but it’s a good game to play but on the hardest setting it’s

[green fulcrum]

Haven't tried it yet

But I'll be getting to that one soon

[slim thorn]

hm, are you more into the modern crpg revival, or just listing those because more people would recognize the recent examples?

[green fulcrum]

The latter, mostly.

There's a lot of other CRPGs that I play that most people won't recognize, like Geneforge and Avernum.

Although I suppose those would be more akin to tactical RPGs.

[visual hill]

I haven't touched any Elder Scrolls game yet, nor Fallout

I am immune to the trend of jumping continuously to train acrobatics skill. 👀

[gaunt marten]

They don't do that anymore

[little badger]

Have you played starfield?

[visual hill]

no, I probably won't

[river veldt]

i always thought he looked happy and smug

[rotund forge]

That sounds likr Duck Life

[mossy flume]

I present a question regarding definitions of game genres.

A roguelike is a roguelike because your character will die and you lose your progress & resources and have to start over from the beginning. Agreed?

(This is just setup for the actual question)

(And yes I’m excluding roguelites where you accumulate power based on some resources like your power level being retained upon death but the remainder of your resources being thrown away)

[teal cliff]

It also has to be randomly generated in some fashion to make each run unique

[mossy flume]

Fair, yes

But aside from that?

This is mostly based on an instinctive response to the question, so no need to overthink it too much

Well, I present a question: Death of the player character is the traditional explanation for the stat & resource reset, but is death specifically a requirement for this explanation for it to be a roguelike? Mechanically, all that happens is that your stats are reset, you lose your money & items, and you have to start with a new world from the beginning.
Death is just a convenient explanation for this reset. But is it required? If it is, then does that make it a different genre like an incremental genre of some sort, such as roguelite?

My take is that the cause of the reset is arbitrary; if it’s mechanically the same then it continues to be a roguelike. Any disagreements there?

[bronze abyss]

rdr2 looking too pretty not to take photos of

loving this game so far a lot

[mossy flume]

RDR2 is pretty great.

[bronze abyss]

its tickling my photographer neurons really hard,took like 50 pics already and im afraid ill spend a lot more time doing that

[mossy flume]

Heh, yeah, RDR2 is very much screenshot bait

[bronze abyss]

im going crazy every moment feels like if i dont take a pic of ill miss out forever

the camera mode is so annoying though,like it has almost everything i want but not quite

and some that are there just confuse me cuz they arent called with the proper terms like aperture for example,its just blur strenght i think

[white phoenix]

rdr2 has the most 'alive' worlds I have ever played
it's one of the only games where I would feel bad murdering random npcs because they felt so real

[bronze abyss]

the animals deaths got me fucked up in it they feel way too real like no other game quite got them this well

[white phoenix]

Yeah, and the fact that you actually have to go through the motions of skinning animal instead of it just being a button to pick up
I love how everything in the game is done within the game world with very few menus and loading screens

[bronze abyss]

even when youre not doing it willingly like in the beginning where you have to defend from the wolves,it felt sad doing it to them even when they were the ones attacking

[mossy flume]

Skeuomorphic design, yep

Love to see it

[sage iris]

I thought that was called diegetic design

[bronze abyss]

btw,without spoilers,when is the moment when you get access to like the full open world n shit?

or chapter rather,im not sure what to call it

[mossy flume]

Ah, you may be right

[bronze abyss]

i just started chapter 2 and im surprised how long it all was and i dont feel like im yet "indended" to explore or do anything outside story

[little badger]

Mid 2-3

[sage iris]

skeuomorphic design is what apple had going on in like 2012

(or whenever ios 6 was a thing)

[white phoenix]

pre ios 7

[sage iris]

pretty much

I still remember

[mossy flume]

iOS 1-5 or so

[sage iris]

had an iPad 3 and iPhone 3GS back then

[little badger]

Noelle you can explore but if you haven’t been to an area you might get a wanted level on you

[white phoenix]

skeuomorphic design was something steve jobs really liked
after he died one of the his bigger proponents for the style was scott forstall, there's a story behind how he left due to ios 6 and how jony ive took on leadership to change how everything looked for ios 7

[sage iris]

tbh looking back it is kind of ugly

I'm glad they changed it

[mossy flume]

I concur

[white phoenix]

here's some stuff from wikipedia about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Forstall#Departure_from_Apple

[mossy flume]

Diegetic design is what I like to see.

[white phoenix]

apparently "the clock app used a design based on the trademarked Swiss railway clock, which Apple had failed to license, forcing Apple to pay Swiss railways a reported $21 million in compensation."
oof lmao

[white phoenix]

That was one of my bigger criticisms of cyberpunk 2077, in the gameplay demo, particularly in the ripperdoc scene, you can see that the player chooses upgrades from a monitor in the game itself

and then when it released, it was just another old menu after that initial scene

[mossy flume]

Yeah, they removed a bunch of it from the earlier builds, which saddened me

It is hard to get it right, but I think they were too cautious or just gave up on it too easily

[sage iris]

game was incredibly rushed so it's not surprising

[mossy flume]

Yeah

Cyberpunk 2077 just didn't get the time it needed

[sage iris]

One of the best examples of diegetic design done well is Dead Space

the remake at least, dunno about the originals

game pretty much has ZERO menus or loading screens even

everything is in-game, in-context of the world

loading screen between levels? nope, it's a train ride

[mossy flume]

The original did the same

[sage iris]

shops, inventory, other typical UI elements? Nope, it's an in-game holo UI

[river veldt]

my favourite level design is in Doom Eternal where green lights in the environment show where you're supposed to go for the main path. of course it being Doom you can go out of your way to find secrets and such

[sage iris]

healthbar, ammo counter? Part of your suit and gun, respectively

like it's so fucking awesome

I love it

[mossy flume]

And yeah, Dead Space is the contemporary example of diagetic design in video games and it being done well and with purpose

It's very well done.

It's not just there to look cool, it's part of the core mechanics; time doesn't stop

[sage iris]

I played through dead space remake recently and enjoyed it thoroughly

left me wishing for dead space 2 remake

[bronze abyss]

whats diagetic design?

[sage iris]

yeah, absolutely, it's there to keep you in the world, to keep you on your toes, scared and feeling vulnerable

it's part of the overall design philosophy and it's very intentional

[mossy flume]

Where menus and interfaces are a part of the virtual world itself as opposed to being an out of world GUI

For example, in Red Dead Redemption 2, you go to shops and the item menus are physical catalogues in the game world

[bronze abyss]

oh so basically design with the goal of maximising immersion?

[mossy flume]

You flip through the books and select items in the books

Yes

[sage iris]

like in dead space you can't just open your inventory or open a shop with enemies around. And you always feel vulnerable and paranoid because of it

and that's intentional

[mossy flume]

In Dead Space, your health is represented by a light on the hero's suit.

And all the menus are in-world holograms

[sage iris]

yeah

and your ammo counter is on your gun

[mossy flume]

Yep

[river veldt]

Doom 3 did that

[sage iris]

and I love that the game doesn't have a single loading screen

switching between levels is a train ride where you still have control over your character

[white phoenix]

ok getting dead space now lol

[sage iris]

get the remake

[mossy flume]

yeah, the Dead Space remake is excellent

Get it

[white phoenix]

of course

[sage iris]

I just wish for dead space 2 and 3 remake

[white phoenix]

it's just that after playing re2 I learned that I am not good with horror lmao

[mossy flume]

I think it got a 10/10 from most reviewers

[sage iris]

tbh I suck at horror as well but dead space isn't that bad about it

[mossy flume]

It was nominated for some awards at TGA and won one, I think

[sage iris]

mainly because you can unload an entire magazine of ammo into the monster's face

and chop its limbs off

makes it a lot less scary

[fresh bane]

If we're talking strictly horror Dead Space leans into it way more than Resident Evil by far

[mossy flume]

I like that they added optional content warnings too

You can have the game warn you when there's disturbing content coming up

[sage iris]

I didn't find the game to be particularly scary and I'm absolutely terrible with horror games

I think the fact that you can fight back and every enemy is killable makes it much less scary

unlike games like, idk, amnesia

[mossy flume]

Also some of the tropes it uses for the horror are kinda worn out and predictable

[sage iris]

I couldn't get past the first monster in amnesia because I was too scared

oh yeah, true

though it was less true when the game first came out

[fresh bane]

That's entirely your opinion and that's fine, by that logic RE is the least scary game in the world too, what I'm saying is that Dead Space leans into horror a lot more than Resident Evil does

I'm not shitting my pants with either game, but if someone asked me if I recommended RE or Dead Space and they were in the mood for horror I'd say Dead Space

[mossy flume]

But yeah, I'm terrible with horror and I occasionally put Dead Space down, but DS isn't that bad. Half-Life Alyx freaks me out way more.

I generally don't like horror at all

[sage iris]

Alyx is scary?

uh oh

[mossy flume]

I'll probably never finish Alyx

Yeah, I got to one part and was just like nope

[sage iris]

never expected a half life game to be so scary

[white phoenix]

probably accentuated by the fact that its vr

[sage iris]

true

[bronze abyss]

i wanna try alyx even more now

[mossy flume]

Yeah, the VR is what does it

[sage iris]

horror games in VR are like 100x more scary

[mossy flume]

Alyx is VERY MUCH WORTH PLAYING

[fresh bane]

All Half Life games have touches of horror in them

[mossy flume]

Like holy shit you have to

[fresh bane]

Doesn't make them horror games but they're still there

[bronze abyss]

gonna see if i can yargh it without steam vr getting pissy again

[little badger]

What mission are you on?

[mossy flume]

Alyx demonstrates excellent VR design

[bronze abyss]

what? i havent played alyx at all im just saying that now i have more reasonms to play it

[sage iris]

I used to be scared of ravenholm in HL2 when I was smaller, but now it's my favorite level in the game because you can just fuck around with the physics engine

[mossy flume]

There are a few levels to play before it gets to horror

[little badger]

Oh I meant RDR2

[sage iris]

I'm pretty certain that Alyx is still the best VR game to date

correct me if I'm wrong tho

[white phoenix]

probably, not a lot of competition to begin with

[bronze abyss]

idk i just got to the camp site now taking some girls with a wagon

start of ch2

[little badger]

Remember to buy gun oil every so often.

[mossy flume]

It's probably one of the top three, yeah

[sage iris]

what are the other 2?

[river veldt]

Ravenholm in HL2 still freaks me out haha

[sage iris]

ravenholm is so fun because you get to dismember zombies in the most fun ways

it's like a physics playground

[teal cliff]

Why are most video games too hard :/

[sage iris]

it's tied for my favorite chapter along with the urban levels where you get to recruit resistance members in HL2 (it's fun when you have like an army of them and they battle it out with the combine)

[little badger]

What VR do you use Merc?

[sage iris]

None. I don't have one

I used to have a quest 1, but it disappointed me so I sold it like 2 years ago

[little badger]

Did it not perform well?

[bronze abyss]

quest 1 is ass but quest 2 onwards isreally good

[sage iris]

It was not immersive enough for me

Too heavy, low FoV, annoying screendoor, meh tracking

[little badger]

Ah right.

[bronze abyss]

quest 2 fixes all of that

[sage iris]

Also had shit displays

I might get a valve index or somethin

Or like what's the best headset currently

[bronze abyss]

prolly quest 3 tbh

[little badger]

The 512GB Goes for £620 here.

[sage iris]

Quest 3? Hell fuckin nah

It's ass

[bronze abyss]

from what ive seen its amazing,and index i heard has major reliability and durability issues and also obviously youre tied to your pc,which isnt good for a laptop

[bronze abyss]

in what world

[sage iris]

Best headset currently is the big screen beyond afaik but I can't get that here

[little badger]

What can you currently get where you are Merc?

[sage iris]

Not sure, I haven't checked

But I can probably find an index

[slim thorn]

agreed, "death" is not only not required, it's purely a question of what flavor text and graphics one puts on top of the reset mechanic

there are already roguelites/likes in which the conceit is that it's a literal death, with you bring revived by supernatural means repeatedly, or where it's a time loop, or where it's actually a different person trying it every loop, or sometimes there's no conceit at all and you're just trying it again

[mossy flume]

Yep

I concur

[river veldt]

Dark Souls

[slim thorn]

doesn't really fall into roguelite/like, but it does have an in-universe conceit for its own respawn mechanic yes

[visual hill]

I know MA has a bad experience with it, but it seems pretty good overall, as long you use an aftermarket strap like BoboVR

[sage iris]

Okay what I actually meant is that it's too overpriced for too little new features

As far as I know it only has a couple of incremental improvements over the quest 2 with a very inflated price tag and no game changing features to make up for it

Things like eye tracking which should be in a headset in this price range were simply not included

So there's no real reason to go for it over a quest 2 which can go as cheap as $300

[mossy flume]

Quest 3 is pretty good tbh

They just have durability problems and you probably shouldn’t use it for exercise because your sweat will kill it

[bronze abyss]

i think its the linking step before massive improvements,as the industry establishes itself even more in the mainstream

[mossy flume]

Index is actually really durable in my experience

I’ve angrily thrown the thing and it didn’t care

[bronze abyss]

ive heard a lot of people complain about the headstrap breaking and the controllers aswell

dont own it personally thoughy so idk,im a lowly quest 2 owner

[mossy flume]

The controllers have smacked me and other objects in the VR room at high velocity and are still working perfectly

The head strap is perfectly fine too

Index’s real problem is that it’s old now

I’d recommend waiting for an Index 2

[craggy vine]

Also probably an easier way to play older games on a handheld gaming pc

I say handheld gaming pc cause I didn't go with steam deck

[visual hill]

Quest 3 is quite a bit better for standalone use, the SoC is a lot faster

[craggy vine]

AMD Z1 Extreme gaming

Man.. The boost clock of the Z1 extreme is 5.1... Just to think, 5.1 ghz 8 core on a fucking mobile device

If only the asus rog ally had a bit more ram. 32gb would feel great.

[hasty patio]

https://youtu.be/Uhfyo4YJtR0

[green fulcrum]

Oh man, imagine a Deep Rock Galactic TV series...

[hasty patio]

I can see one-off episodes but not a series.

[strong pebble]

I'm playing Baldurs Gate 3

[green fulcrum]

How about a 6-episode miniseries then?

[hasty patio]

I kinda see that.

[gaunt marten]

That's absolutely true. Roguelikes are just games that follow a set of criteria.
The Berlin interpretation of roguelike is one attempt at deciding which criteria.
https://www.roguebasin.com/index.php/Berlin_Interpretation
Personally, I use the Berlin Interpretation loosely to figure out if a game feels like a roguelike or a roguelite to me. One surprising result of this is that the Binding of Isaac is a strong roguelike

Death is indeed not an essential part of permadeath. The game of losing your resources and using your newly acquired knowledge to get them back is the true meaning of permadeath in roguelikes

[slim thorn]

grid-based is one I hadn't thought of before

come to think of it FTL's ships are grids

[gaunt marten]

FTL is a strong roguelike

[slim thorn]

it's even arguably "turn-based" in a weak ATB-like sense

[gaunt marten]

The only strong criterion it violates is that it has a shop mode

[slim thorn]

and arguably how movement between encounters works

though that's probably the weakest of the strong criteria considering it already says "Violations to this are ADOM's overworld or Angand's and Crawl's shops."

and in FTL it's still possible to make a shop-like decision mid-combat, sometimes the enemy will offer to pay for a truce or something

[gaunt marten]

Yeah. A lot of medical checklists have a heuristic similar to this one

[slim thorn]

Hades is a much clearer violation of "turn-based"

[gaunt marten]

Where each criterion is assigned points and you add points up. If the points don't exceed a threshold, then it's not a roguelike but a roguelite

I count Hades as a roguelite because it has resource accumulation, no turns or a grid, limited complexity

Now keep in mind I don't particularly like roguelikes or roguelites more, but I am in the mood for one over the other at times

The most important part that distinguishes the two for me is "Can I finish the game starting from scratch if I know what to do?"

[slim thorn]

might as well give the troll example then

is Outer Wilds a roguelike?

[gaunt marten]

Never played

[slim thorn]

ah

[gaunt marten]

Still waiting for a good sale

[slim thorn]

||it's a 22-minute time loop, and all the barriers are knowledge based, so "winning" the game consists of doing a bunch of oddly specific things in a single time loop to get somewhere you would've never known how to reach before exploring everywhere else in the game first, but it meets none of the Berlin criteria besides "exploration" in a vague sense and "permadeath" in the weakest possible sense that of course you won't solve it on loop one but there's nothing to lose; nothing's procedural, many puzzles have only one intended solution, no grids or turns, etc||

[gaunt marten]

My impression is that it has few enemies, no grid, no taking your time unless you pause, multiple modes, a nonrandom environment

[slim thorn]

yep

it's the troll question because it meets the one criterion you just gave but arguably none of the Berlin ones

[gaunt marten]

Conclusion: Not a roguelike. Narrative puzzle adventure

[slim thorn]

though I might be adding some randomness to the environment in my mod

[gaunt marten]

That's always fun

[slim thorn]

randomizers with entrance randomization might be an interesting borderline case for "procedural generation"

[gaunt marten]

Counts for me

Ocarina of Time is a roguelike

Just as Spelunky is

[slim thorn]

for something like Minit it might as well be a roguelite at that point

for Outer Wilds I don't have nearly that much to rearrange so likely not, even if I finish every feature on the crazy ideas list

even in Hades, the sequence of rooms is random with partial player input, but you can never backtrack or anything like that

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

Being able to backtrack is kind of important but not core

[slim thorn]

it does depend somewhat on what one is hoping to get from procedural generation

since Hades is all about the fast-paced combat, it fits that what's being randomized is mostly what you fight and the shape of the arena you fight it in

and the complex decision making is all about your combat build, not about whether you can afford to backtrack to a locked door now that you have the key for it or whatever

as much as I like the idea of a procedurally generated dungeon, in a more Zelda-like sense of "dungeon", I've yet to see a game where that appears to be paired with a core gameplay loop that I'd enjoy

[gaunt marten]

Did you ever play The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth?

[slim thorn]

nope

[gaunt marten]

It's got a lot of kruft but a solid classic Zelda inspiration

It is the game that launched the modern roguelike genre

[slim thorn]

oh yeah I'm well aware of that

I never actually said this out loud but I guess now I have to

BoI's aesthetic is extremely off-putting to me, a very rare case where that alone is enough I'd rather not play it

I believe FTL is the first roguelite I actually tried back when that genre was booming

[gaunt marten]

It is kind of fucked up

If you're looking for serious recommendations on that, you could try to state your preference clearly to me

But now it's bedtime

[slim thorn]

not at this time, my backlogs are all stuffed as it is

for games, I'm most likely going to play the puzzle ones I bought last sale, then if I feel like starting something "bigger" over the holidays, depending on my mood probably either some Ace Attorneys or Alan Wake 2

[rotund forge]

I wanna play the Professor Layton Vs Phoenix Wright game one day. Say what you will with it's outta left field in world logic based ending, it's still a great game that I've watched countless people playthrough

[river veldt]

is Super Mario Bros a roguelike

is Rogue a roguelike

sorry ignore the first one i thought of a funnier one almost immediately

[fresh bane]

''man this sucks I can't progress and I already looked everywhere! ''

the game: YOU'RE TAKING TOO LONG MAN

I love how I had such a big ''aha!'' moment right here where I opened up a shortcut to go to the second floor without needin the lightbulb and I was so giddy about it that I completely wrecked everything in my past and got blocked on the door while trying to do this

also, I just realized I recorded everything muted so all the beautiful music, ambiance and polish voice acting is gone!

This is really doing it for me though I loved every second of that and I really want the full game

[slim thorn]

what game?

[fresh bane]

Holstin!

It's just a demo for now, there's one demo that shows off the exploration and puzzle solving which is that one and there's another one that shows the combat that says it's sort of like a rogue like?

They're mostly to show off the mechanics though

I like that the first note you find even tells you this lol

but yeah it's really really damn good, pure survival horror style progression and puzzles and ambiance

That's a survival horror map if I've ever seen one!

Oh wow they even have a little google forms thing to directly ask players for feedback

that's neat

[slim thorn]

that feels like it's even the same shades of red and green I'm used to from REs

[fresh bane]

Kind of, it's very clearly going for that but honestly I don't really think how else you'd do it if it isn't red and green/blue/cyan for cleared/uncleared rooms

I like the big ol' zoom in with the spinning object the game does just like Silent Hill

it also has this weird pixelated aesthetic that tricks you into thinking ''is this pixel art?'' but no this is all 3D, all the objects and the doors have physics too so you can actually close them and destroy everything in the room if you bump into it

I'm also debating whether or not to make an entire channel for survival horror so I don't swarm this channel when I eventually get to the other demo, and it's not really worth it to make an entire channel dedicated to just Holstin

[slim thorn]

well, as one quick example: in randomizer trackers, the convention is a green square for "there's stuff here you can get", a red square for "you can't get this yet" and a dark gray square for "you already got everything here"

I think part of the reason these soft red/cyan colors are a good fit for games like RE is that, per the aesthetic they want, the map itself is typically meant to be brownish paper or parchment with black lines on it, so "dark gray means clear" doesn't work

[mossy flume]

I was just reminded that the original Animal Crossing game from the N64/GameCube has a limitation in its calendar where it can’t be played past the year 2030.

We only have a handful of years left where AC can be played legitimately

The internal clock can roll into 2031, but if you save and reload the game the date will be reset to 2030.

[dire gate]

"AC calendar can only count up to 2030, that must mean that the world ends in 2030"

[mossy flume]

Maybe it could be modded? But that would likely require a decompilation.

[slim thorn]

can you not set the system clock back to 2000?

[mossy flume]

You can

[fresh bane]

ah, yeah I can't remember if any other survival horror games or just games that I've played do that but it does ring a bell
but yeah this is generally a pretty good way to do things, it's honestly one of the all time best features the RE remake added and RE2R also added icons for any items you already saw but didn't pick up which is amazing

[mossy flume]

So if you find the right date to start on, you can have the structure of the calendar match. But the year will be wrong.

But having the calendar match is probably the most important thing

I wonder if the game would crash after the epoch if you kept it running long enough

[mossy flume]

But more to the point: why is time passing

I’m so old

Aaaaa, so I’ve picked up playing Pokémon games again over the past couple months and they’re hitting the dopamine dispenser button just right

So happy with the BDSP remakes and the Let’s Go games

[gaunt marten]

Rogue is like Rogue in every way

[random steppe]

Oh, this makes so much sense now as to why indie devs rarely do it: https://youtube.com/shorts/qRQX9fgrI4s?si=7zutLdOSVvQijoVB

[gaunt marten]

Not only that

Now you have to make sure the game runs on both ARM and regular Macs

Sometimes Rosetta can make it run anyway, but sometimes that's not enough

[craggy vine]

Just ignore regular mac

Honestly

Just do the m series

Other macbooks can run windows

[gaunt marten]

Sure, they can, but people would like to use the operating system

[craggy vine]

It's also supporting 4 year old computers at this point, supporting intel macs

[light gate]

I feel like this is pretty misleading, because Windows and Linux are not so straight forward either. They have their own hoops as well.

[gaunt marten]

Four year old is not really old

My computer is ten years old and I'd like to see it supported until I can afford a replacement

[mossy flume]

It doesn’t take much work to target both x86 and ARM Macs.

Xcode will by default target both simultaneously

[craggy vine]

And then now there's ios tripple a gaming

Resident evil village on ios is mostly the full thing. Max out graphics at 4k on an iphone 15 pro max and watch it crash hard

[rare garden]

Tomorrow is christmas

Epic games better have an epic game for free

[quiet swift]

It will crash the servers

[uneven epoch]

celestia forgive me for i am back on my bullshit (started yet another playthrough of fire emblem three houses)

[wind stump]

goD DAMMIT BRINGI

[uneven epoch]

ill play ff14 when i can! its just holidays are too busy to sit down in front of a laptop

[wind stump]

... I'll allow it

[uneven epoch]

this way i can hang with family in living room but play on switch since im not overly interested in most of the stuff the tv has to offer

n ya know it bein turn based means i can pause at any time i need to

[visual hill]

Windows codesigning is a hellscape, but at least the entire process can be done without Windows

(though on Steam, codesigning is optional, as Steam will bypass any SmartScreen warnings)

[visual hill]

Jazz Jackrabb-- oh wait...

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/eurogamer/status/1738939382520774966?

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/iFireMonkey/status/1738939431984193777

[astral steeple]

🤨

[quiet swift]

Not the first time they've had ghostwire then, looking at my epic library

[random steppe]

Oh awesome, Ghostwire looks awesome but I heards it's a bit slim on the gameplay department

Completely unrelated, I've been made aware that this game exists, which looks like a gender bent, Indian, Scott Pilgrim game, which seems to be a fighting, skating, cooking game...

This looks like complete nonsense and I kinda have to play this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXgktRWrHaI

Bit pricey for the moment but on a deeper sale this is something I'll 100% play

[gaunt marten]

Is this just Catherine but less sexist?

[random steppe]

Nevermind it's on gamepass, I'm playing this tonight

[teal cliff]

I wonder if this is different depending on your engine

I've never made any of my own projects for mac, simply never cared to

but I do notice Unreal has options for exporting to mac

If you were making a project in UE4/5 I assume the mac porting process is easier but again I have literally never tried

[gaunt marten]

Yes that's a given

Engine is a big consideration if you even use one

[teal cliff]

well as far as I know this person used to use Unity and now uses Godot? so the video makes it seem like those engines dont have easier mac porting options?

[random steppe]

I kind of doubt it's as easy as clicking a button on Unreal personally

But maybe it's better, I have no idea

[visual hill]

support for macOS ARM and Metal is pretty decent in UE and Unity if you use their latest versions

[teal cliff]

I see.

[visual hill]

Godot has macOS ARM but no Metal yet, it uses MoltenVK to translate Vulkan to Metal which works OK but has some overhead

(Metal is being worked on as we speak)

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/eurogamer/status/1738953653929574910?

[dire gate]

@uneven epoch Happy Ace Attorney Murder day

[arctic fern]

oh THATS the joke

[quiet swift]

"Ya filthy animal"

[gaunt marten]

Today I learned that in Super Mario Bros, the mushroom kingdom citizens are turned into bricks (and other things)

[thorny loom]

Lmao

[gaunt marten]

https://i.imgur.com/5LSoh5S.png

[thorny loom]

https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/products/redfall---xbox-series-x/359869.html?

[gaunt marten]

Which Mario goes ahead and breaks ruthlessly???

[thorny loom]

$5 for redfall

[quiet swift]

Mario, the genocidal maniac

[gaunt marten]

Full english manual https://archive.org/details/NESManuals/Super Mario Bros. (World)/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater

[dire gate]

He's probably saving them, iirc the items you get from bricks are supposed to be items they give you as a gratitude and to cheer him up

[uneven epoch]

[dire gate]

Perfect

[gaunt marten]

The Japanese manual does say that he saves them by breaking the bricks

The English manual says only Princess Toadstool can undo the spell

[arctic fern]

objection! the pictured gunshot was either the second or third shot, both of which happened on the boat after midnight, making it xmas! the first shot, which happened before midnight on xmas eve, is the one Pheonix is referring to here!

[dire gate]

Hey you didn't have to spoil the game

[arctic fern]

its a 22 year old game

[gaunt marten]

You're a 22 year old game

[hasty patio]

One day I'll finish that first run. Which route this time?

[slim thorn]

welp, good to know nothing has changed in the decades since that one time I actually tried to write something cross-platform

while every platform has its headaches, Mac was the only one I couldn't "just" build for and try out in a VM; even if you care about codesigning or whatever for Windows and Linux you can still build and run untrusted binaries on them without any paywalls or toolwalls, signing and stuff is fundamentally an optional feature you can always add later after you decide you need it

Mac was and apparently still is the only one of the three that you can't even try to produce a build for without first making the financial argument that it's worth spending money on... which of course for a game it just never is

[visual hill]

Godot doesn't have official iOS simulator binaries for ARM because it's cross-compiled, and these binaries can't be cross-compiled yet

(x86 iOS simulator and iOS ARM binaries for physical devices can be cross-compiled)

[fresh bane]

damn
I was feeling myself here during this mission I even put my hood up and everything thinking I wasn't gonna get hit and the game really decided to hit me with a ''you're not that guy''

DMD doesn't play around

[static bluff]

Beat Raft

[gaunt marten]

What are you gonna play next?

[static bluff]

I dunno, need another two player game

It Takes Two didn't grab our interest for long enough because it's a puzzle platformer

[gaunt marten]

What genres?

[quiet swift]

remnant 2 is a two player game i've mostly seen going around lately

[random steppe]

Who are you playing with?

[static bluff]

MrsOnosa

[random steppe]

Hmm, is she partial to vampires?

[static bluff]

Remnant 2 looks fun but probably not what we're looking for. I might look into boulders gate 3. We never finished that other similar one though

[random steppe]

I was actually about to suggest V-Rising

Building your vampire castle is pretty fun

[static bluff]

Oh that looks kind of cool. Is it Diablo but with base building?

[random steppe]

It's more of a Minecraft but vampires and isometric

[quiet swift]

valheim with vampires, if i recall what people were describing it as

[random steppe]

The gameplay is more league of legends than diablo (even tho largely pve)

You can host a local game and multiply the amount of materials you get if you want to make it go along faster

Lots of customisations to your game

There is optional pvp mechanics to the game and it's really good for that, but the game 100% holds up as a fully pve game

[gaunt marten]

Wargroove, Streets of Rogue, Spelunky 2, Unrailed, Tricky Towers, Ultimate Chicken Horse, Overcooked 2, Full Metal Furies, Broforce, Castle Crashers are all indie local co-op games that might be fun

Oh Tricky Tower is local versus. Not sure why I included it

[visual hill]

Trine 2 has local coop IIRC?

[static bluff]

These seem promising, thanks all

[quiet swift]

I think all the trines have local

[pseudo surge]

Any particular genre?

[static bluff]

No

[gaunt marten]

You could play Stardew Valley

It's not local multiplayer but it's multiplayer

[static bluff]

Yeah we played that a lot! Very fun game

[pseudo surge]

BG3 or the Divinity: OS games. Going Terraria blind with another player is also great. Could also take turns playing some more singleplayer-oriented games since you're in the same room, such as Ratchet & Clank, Spyro, Super Mario, Zelda, etc.

[static bluff]

Yeah BG3 sounds really fun but that's a huge financial commitment, haha. That's one thing I liked about vrising. Pretty cheap

[quiet swift]

Does it have to be local coop? If you have two computers, right now Monster Hunter World is dirt cheap and it's pretty good to play with two people

[static bluff]

Oh have you not seen our setup? It's dope

[mossy flume]

Important facts!

[pseudo surge]

Path of Exile might also be an option. It's free to play, so easy to just try and see if it's of interest.

[gaunt marten]

Oh, play Screencheat

[quiet swift]

[harsh kestrel]

That's a lot of screen

[uneven epoch]

golden deer yet again. best house best house

[wind stump]

your opinion is wrong

(i have never played 3H, lmao)

[teal cliff]

There's only one route that even gets the real story and it's not GD 😔

[uneven epoch]

to be fair, you are absolutely an edelgard stan hc

[uneven epoch]

..... GD are literally the only ones that fight the actual big bad

claude n them deers off to murder CEO of racism 🎶

[teal cliff]

The entire plot of the game revolves around Edelgard's war on the church and only one route actually gets the other half of the story and the choice for which side of that war they want to be on
The fact that the BE route splits into 2 routes while Deer and Lion are linear shows that

[wind stump]

i...
i mean if i didn't main WAR i'd probably main DRK... but also FUCK YOU

ignore my RPR

[uneven epoch]

well i meant in the way of "cool anime lady off to wage war against a church (iceheart vibes much?)" but sure she also has a big fucking axe

[wind stump]

.. I shall accept this and take back my "fuck you"

also i read that as "edgelord" and not "Edelgard"

[uneven epoch]

nah thats dimitri

he and his stupid ass too brooding to do my fucking support chains until like last two chapters DIMITRI WHY-

[wind stump]

destroys your entire religious conspiracy
CAN YOU STOP BEING RACIST NOW?

since you know
Xaela were killed for being mistaken for dragonkin in Ishgard

[slim thorn]

I look forward to when I finally reach 3H and can participate in these jokes

but I've only just finished part 1 of Radiant Dawn

[chilly mural]

https://vxtwitter.com/makeupafgplayer/status/1738748405260673102

[pseudo surge]

||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwMu3AILQQc|| Light spoiler if you haven't played Baldur's Gate 3 yet, but this is amazing XD

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/hLceKocjDNw?si=rE9CIpJ9EWAs-xuq&t=26

https://youtu.be/YTCeLdOeBPQ?si=bQAANv2HOH7SioZt

Never in a million years did I think I'd find out through a random youtube comment that 'Flock Off' uses the same sample from Venom's theme

Which makes me wonder how many samples do PS1-PS2 games share?

I already found out a little while ago about all the exact same textures used throughout plenty games that were all taken from the same texture pack CD thing, I think it was mostly Nintendo games that used those, now I wonder if the same applies for soundtrack

[sage iris]

https://youtu.be/uqTiqt3GYsg

gold

[dapper cedar]

haven’t played DMC but it is using the sound of my childhood and I approve

[dapper cedar]

there’s a particular bit of music that’s in fking everything from the time, perhaps most recognisably it’s Gulp’s music in Spyro 2… but personally I remember it more from Enter Electro

https://youtu.be/gGYG_bV5q1Y

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/gtabase/status/1739063033966493953?

[fresh bane]

I don't recognize what you're referring to because I never actually played either of these two, I only played the first Spidey game, but that only reinforces my idea that there has to definitely be some shared library of music samples that these devs used for sure

Silent Hill also uses some samples from what I remember too

[fresh bane]

Oh man, the soundtrack of DMC but specifically DMC1 is fantastic, it's so varied and diverse

https://youtu.be/rnGPTR228hw?si=klksmP1p-nqgQ35n

https://youtu.be/2VpyUNARx5c?si=0PL6_ObAQjloSiNA

Even both of Dante's combat tracks alone are unique enough

https://youtu.be/uAcaUDa6BCQ?si=HajRRLl7_wf1gDq8

this is one of the best tracks in all of the franchise hands down

you got this dark gothic style to it with the organs and the choirs and then it fucking assaults you with the guitars and the super upbeat EDM style sound so unique

I'm a big shameless nerd for these games

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1739073479389954251

nintendo of america twitter posting this is super fuckin surreal lol

[teal sonnet]

Holy fuck

https://fxtwitter.com/GTAFocal/status/1739051532149039111

[white phoenix]

that's catastrophic for online

who knows the kind of hacks people can come up with

[teal sonnet]

yep

[mossy flume]

Depends on what snapshot of the source it is

I believe an ancient snapshot of the GTA5 source code leaked a few years ago

[craggy vine]

Online was already bad

[rotund forge]

Does Gamestop sell Steam game cards? Like a redeemable code kinda deal?

[white phoenix]

for steam wallet probably

I also found them in walmart

[rotund forge]

Well that would work too

[craggy vine]

gaming

Pc gaming

[river veldt]

what is this device

[craggy vine]

Asus ROG Ally

Now I'm playing Urge in bed

[thorny loom]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/920210/LEGO_Star_Wars_The_Skywalker_Saga/

Steam

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31837

Metacritic

78

▶ Play video

[dire gate]

Time to play AA 1-3 trilogy for Christmas

[craggy vine]

I got the Asus ROG Ally to reach 500 fps in L4D2

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/jnnDH3oL-LQ?si=TyBMk93XWYGLyvXo

''can you DMC players please stop doing combo mads on other games... for five minutes?!''

this actually makes me really interested in checking out shredder's revenge at some point cause this looks sick

[slim thorn]

wtf did Edgar do to deserve this

[bronze abyss]

Playing both teams and still losing #relatable

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/dbHDPuGwXqM?si=tXIE-8ggeVrk0ZiA

dear god

this game has so many cancellable moves, air juggling, wall bounces

...dammit, I'm hooked

[strong pebble]

I like this game

[feral tulip]

so out of my 60 wishlisted games on steam, only 2 arent on sale this winter sale damnn

considering buying HoI4 so i can get the pone mod :3

[sage iris]

HoI4 makes my brain melt

[visual hill]

Sound Ideas was very popular at the time, and is still in business today

(a set of sound sample CDs)

[rare garden]

EaW: the gateway to ponies

[feral tulip]

Hehe

Been subbed to this one hoi4 utuber who was pressured into playing the mod and he likes it alot

[craggy vine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3EsbCmfp2k wtf I just found out about this

I love advance wars, I literally played the GBA version yesturday

I know what to get on my new handheld device now

oh wait it isn't on pc

Of course it isn't

[feral tulip]

Nintendo property 💖

[gaunt marten]

ReBoot camp was a flop

It's an okay game but it didn't sell

I couldn't buy it because it wasn't on PC

[rare garden]

Stakuyi (Stacked cookies)?

[gaunt marten]

Wargroove tickles some of the same parts of my brain that Advance Wars does so it's an okay substitute

[strong pebble]

Wanted to steal badguys ship and fly away instead of fighting them 🤭🤭 but I can't 🚫

[static bluff]

Year in Chess - https://www.chess.com/year-in-chess/mronosa?referrer=twitter&pageType=summary&utm_campaign=2023-year-in-chess&utm_source=Android

Every service has to have their Spotify wrap up

[young creek]

the youtube music one was a massive disappointment

maybe this one will be nice

75 day streak??

Ohhh cause its chess.com

[static bluff]

lol yeah

[young creek]

wheres the non-X and FB share button

[static bluff]

I play there when I don't know if I'll have to forfeit the game due to real life time constraints or whatever

[young creek]

https://www.chess.com/year-in-chess/eiriksen?referrer=twitter&pageType=intro&utm_campaign=2023-year-in-chess&utm_source=web

[visual hill]

Lichess has correspondance too

[young creek]

I already shared it but thank you so much

[static bluff]

Very nice

[young creek]

absolutely no way did I play 36 days in a row on chess.com thats absurd

theyre trolling

[gaunt marten]

A landlord thinks it's funny to do it too

[young creek]

hes right

[gaunt marten]

Well yeah it is funny but he shouldn't do it

[static bluff]

loool

That's hilarious

[rare garden]

YOOO BATTLEFIELD ONES LIKE 13 RINGGIT RN

[strong pebble]

Like 13 dollars?

[astral steeple]

https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/article/45IQFVIhG56NT7qW4PTMVf/spongebob-squarepants-karate-chops-into-brawlhalla

huh???????

[rare garden]

Nah I'm malaysian

Its RM 13

dunno how much it is in dollars tho

[gaunt marten]

RM13 is 3USD

[wind stump]

LMAO
poor stormtrooper just got BOULDERED

[wind stump]

lets goooo

[visual hill]

that rent is really expensive

[wind stump]

i force pushed a vase into Jar Jar Binks and he fell over

GoTY

me abusing my space wizard powers to torment random NPCs while I run around destroying everything for Shits and Giggles https://youtu.be/F_1QuqO4dRo

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/billbil_kun/status/1739303567985390051? @sage iris

[astral steeple]

slightly gaming related but

https://vxtwitter.com/Bendy/status/1739299966571470933

[feral tulip]

Yeup

[rare garden]

Nice

[little badger]

[split birch]

The road is hungry

[little badger]

I remember that bug

[split birch]

Also this one

This game has some wack shit sometimes

[little badger]

The Netflix release fixed almost everything plus they added a feature for classic lighting.

[split birch]

The thing is,this is the netflix version

[little badger]

Wait it is?

[split birch]

Yes

I saw those were free and how much i played that game in my childhood and wanted to play again

[little badger]

Have you had any flying pedestrians yet? The console versions had it

[split birch]

Well i got the flying car occupants but not the flying pedestrian yet

I remember playing on pc and if you entered a certain gym in los santos with a jetpack you could breach the world and get under the map

[little badger]

Yup! The one in Ganton!

[quiet swift]

[split birch]

2 Number 9's, a number 9 large, number 6 with extra dip, number 7, 2 number 45's, one with cheese, and a large soda.

[little badger]

a classic

[rotund forge]

WOOO

[wind stump]

i don't need it, i don't need it, I don't need it...

[gaunt marten]

For thirty dollars?

I'd rather just eat the money

[wind stump]

damn, ships in 5-6 months...

[quiet swift]

Do eeeet

[wind stump]

TEN BUCKS SHIPPING?

... fine, i'll do it

present to myself, why not

[astral steeple]

My present to myself for Christmas was gta 4 on xbox one and some more vbucks lol

[sage iris]

I didn't really like that game

[arctic fern]

It's a game I really want to like

[quiet swift]

Played it before, was fun

[little badger]

Not your type of game?

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/charlieintel/status/1739364139330400492?

[white phoenix]

aw man, he was great in that game

sucks too with how rumors are that they're making a direct sequel to bo2 in 2025, the year the original game is set

[teal cliff]

Can anyone clear up which companions in BG3 are monogamous vs polyamorous? Googling it gives pretty scrambled answers.

[green fulcrum]

I don't think that anyone knows for certain, really. The only one I'm pretty sure is correct is that Karlach is poly.

[teal cliff]

I asked this in a few discords and got completely conflicting answers, including on Karlach

[gaunt marten]

Yooo, @grim stirrup is playing Crystal Project. If you have any questions about the game, do let me know. It's a game that's big and confusing, and very exploration driven.

You might get stuck at times. Not looking things up can be better to do for this game. I can offer spoiler-free tips.

[grim stirrup]

i will find the use for my squirrels

[gaunt marten]

Oh, how many squirrels do you have?

[grim stirrup]

3, i saw 2(?) more

i couldn't figure out how to get to them

[gaunt marten]

Here are two principles about the game:
1- You'll often get more key items than you need. This makes it so you don't have to explore everywhere to get quests done.
2- In most cases, if you see an interactable, you can reach it with your current movement abilities.

Now if you want hints on the squirrels, here they are in ascending order of spoilers:
1- ||You only need to redeem three.||
2-||You can redeem them in Spawning Meadows where you found them.||
3- Location: ||It's to the north or northeast of the point you started the game, under a tree. A purple person is standing there.||

[grim stirrup]

||i shall go and search for my deliveree then||

[grim stirrup]

4th squirrel acquired

[gaunt marten]

Remember to put the extras in the pot at Nan's house

They're delicious

[dense crypt]

Dont staple it

[grim stirrup]

big scary spider dead and blue mage scholar acquired

this feels like it shouldn't have been my second boss

[gaunt marten]

Ayy

It was ||my third|| but you're intended to fight it at around this time

[grim stirrup]

i found ||gran|| and died pretty instantly on the way but

[gaunt marten]

There's a way to beat that one long before you have the stats

[grim stirrup]

i'm guessing using || reverse polarity?||

[gaunt marten]

You're so smart

[grim stirrup]

||i have no idea where i'd be able to pick it up atm though||

wait no, those things that ran away

[gaunt marten]

This is a game where most difficult enemies have a trick to them, making every fight possible without leveling up even at hard difficulty if you know what to do

[grim stirrup]

are blue mage spells person specific or global unlocks?

[gaunt marten]

Person specific. You can spend 25 LP to make the character learn abilities they see even though they're not a scholar, but it's hardly worth it

You also get a piece of equipment that lets you do that without spending the LP

I think a scholar can teach other scholars by using the ability, so you only need one person to learn things

(I fucking grinded the 25 points to get everyone the ability and I regret it)

[grim stirrup]

i shall learn from your mistakes

[gaunt marten]

Here's how learning works:
1- Enemies give a fixed amount of LP, making it time efficient to grind enemies that are easy to kill (but you won't get much EXP or gold.)
2- When a scholar earns a point, everyone else gets 10% of a point in scholar, and so on.
3- You get a small learning boost for the first few points in each job.

Don't forget that you can reduce grinding through assist options. They don't disable any achievements or bonuses

[grim stirrup]

i'm tempted by the 3 home points and maybe max level later but i'll play more first

[gaunt marten]

The three home points thing is basically mandatory for time saving

The max level thing destroys game balance. The endgame fights are tightly tuned to be just hard enough at the level cap on hard difficulty.

What you might want is the custom difficulty thing that allows you to switch from hard to medium and back again

[grim stirrup]

wait, i was considering it so i can get all skills but they're not linked in the game

[gaunt marten]

Oh yeah, learning points are not tied to levels.

Levels give you raw stats only, and the amount of each stat is based on the class you are.

Later you will be able to respec which class gets how many levels

[grim stirrup]

ye, i prob dont care about that then

[fickle garnet]

I started playing Nier: Automata

Its fun

[visual hill]

Nire: Automata!!

[fickle garnet]

I got it for Christmas on my switch

[random steppe]

Great game

[visual hill]

I finished SIGIL II today

it's the Zelda of Doom WADs

[mossy flume]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7bW5BtsyGQ

Lateral Beat Saber level

[craggy vine]

Wow thag is awesone

[visual hill]

https://fxtwitter.com/Graslu00/status/1739262179738615856/photo/1
it's not quite perfect just yet… but it's dark dank

[green fulcrum]

Okay, all you Guilty Gear fans...why did NONE of you tell me just how hard this franchise's music goes???

This SLAPS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikQHkhL8YMM

[fresh bane]

Smell of the Game isn't even the best GG theme (imo)
https://youtu.be/J-C-9j-1HbY?si=TkRw2RZVm31sJLxh

I guess whoever other GG fans here didn't mention it because it's kind of what the franchise is known for so I guess I'd assume people already know

https://youtu.be/vK-3vF0HgGw?si=BhFcKxkkiStMBRf4
this is one of my favourite Strive themes

[chilly mural]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in6bP2KFmcE

[quartz pawn]

In Vampire Survivor, every minute after 30 minutes, a new Death appears. There are 15 on my screen right now. I keep freezing them.

A menace.

[thorny loom]

https://youtu.be/h29SVQvhY20?si=_IsPpNF0EsZOwid9

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/359510/Tangle_Tower/

Steam

Tangle Tower

Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles.Freya Fellow has been murdered. The lead suspect? A shadowy figure found looming over her body, wielding a knife. The problem? That suspect... is just a painting.Investigate the entirety of...

Price

$3.99

Recommendations

3686

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"There's blood on the knife. It's the murder weapon."

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1739533074587640065?

[strong pebble]

Yes but it makes no sense 😄😄

[visual hill]

I got spider-jumpscared by a chest in Thief: The Black Parade.

(The Black Parade allows you to carry spider bodies like human bodies, and this chest happens to contain a spider body… so right-clicking it will suddenly show you a massive spider on screen)

[pseudo surge]

Scary Spoooders

[wind stump]

MERRY CHRMS TONY

[quiet swift]

Did that get an update recently? I saw the last one in... september or so

oh so there was 😮

[wind stump]

ye, a big update at that

you can replace your melee and grenade, there's a new biome, a new wave arena where you get better rewards for clearing waves without taking a hit

[quiet swift]

I got into it a few months ago with my fiancée, she eventually got bored of the lack of island variety, and now she doesn't want to play the update

[dire gate]

Interesting how Ixrec is playing AA for a while

I've been also playing it recently

Although I am fond of AA3 so I am currently playing AA3 (in the trilogy)

[gaunt marten]

Ace Attorney is a scam. Phoenix's sexuality is hardly ever discussed in the series

[wind stump]

LASER CANNONS LETS GOOOOOOOOO

[dire gate]

Curse the localization team

[teal cliff]

does the jp version address it?

[gaunt marten]

Eat your hamburgers, Apollo

[slim thorn]

speaking of which, I just finished ep 3, so I'm gonna try switching it to Japanese and see if my law vocab (or rather, the subset fiction uses) is up to snuff

[dire gate]

No the title is not Ace

[dire gate]

I'm playing in Japanese, it tends to use not-too-hard vocabs in general

It is a series for casuals anyway.

[slim thorn]

yeah, that's what I would've guessed

[dire gate]

Basically if a word is too hard to understand, they either explain it to you or they don't even expect you to know it

[slim thorn]

it is going to take a while to get used to the guy's name not being Phoenix Wright

[dire gate]

I do respect the English localization team for how they tried so hard to convey all the stupidity that is AA names

[slim thorn]

"Mr. Sahwit" was great

man, all the names are completely different

I didn't realize how much was localized

[dire gate]

They chose to change every single name so that they can make the wordplays work

[wind stump]

managed to find a hidey hole for the Horde wave 🧀

[slim thorn]

right now the weirdest one for me is Mitsurugi, because for whatever reason I most often encounter that name and similar names for heroines, but it's Edgeworth

[gaunt marten]

Edgeworth makes for a cute girl

[gaunt marten]

https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/culture-schlock

[slim thorn]

which AA game was that again

[gaunt marten]

Pretty much all of them

[slim thorn]

oh, I haven't noticed it yet

[gaunt marten]

It's less pronounced in the first game, since they just call it the city

[wind stump]

i got the black hole ability
can't wait to see how that changes loot

also gonna see if the RPG pairs well with it
suck and blow, I call it!

[slim thorn]

"Your name was... Yappari-kun, right?"
"No, I'm Naruhodo!"

this is so hard to take seriously

[quiet swift]

doing about 6-7 of the Cyberpunk 2077 carjacking missions, getting a discount as a reward each time.... feels good to buy the 300k $ car for 12000

[craggy vine]

Playing games really made for keyboard and mouse on this thing is weird

[slim thorn]

oh that's the word for "autopsy"

[gaunt marten]

What is it?

[slim thorn]

kaibou

[gaunt marten]

Oh!

[teal cliff]

I am not surprised.

that dpad also looks sus to be honest

[craggy vine]

dpad is fine

Easy to do diagonal on it if you need

[dire gate]

There are "bouken" and "kaibou", both are used as essentially the same meaning in Japanese; in Korea we use the former for autopsy and latter for anatomy

I think in Japanese bouken is rarely used and only means autopsy, while kaibou is more generally used, meaning both autopsy and anatomy

[thorny loom]

Ooof

[bitter stream]

was there a recent reason for the lower reviews? or is it people bandwagoning for the meme or something?

[thorny loom]

Going by recent reviews seems a lot dissatisfied christmas sale buyers.

[strong pebble]

I'm going to play Siege for the first time today

[thorny loom]

But as for context. Seems about the same as the other reveiws

[bitter stream]

ah, that's a shame. there's plenty of footage of the game out there already, i guess p eople don't check it when it's on sale

[strong pebble]

I think it's because sometimes when youre in a town you really don't know where shops are

[thorny loom]

Yeah. Personally i think its just mediocre

When the creation kit is out for it and more mods are made it will probably become better

[bitter stream]

shrug I haven't played enough to really have much of an opinion on it. The discourse surrounding the game kinda killed my motivation to play it.

[strong pebble]

I played yesterday and I wasn't sure where to go but shooting was cool

[thorny loom]

BG3 made people alot more critical of rpgs i noticed

[strong pebble]

I played it yesterday and was difficult but very cool

I very recommend it makes you feel like you can do whatever you want

And something else but I can't tell you

[gaunt marten]

You are a bit too young to meet the age rating for Baldur's Gate 3

[strong pebble]

But you don't have to do some stuff it's a normal game

[gaunt marten]

Correct

[strong pebble]

Intro is bad a little but you can watch bits

[static bluff]

I very much enjoyed Starfield but I understand the negative reception. It makes me sad, though, because it means there may not be another game like it.

[strong pebble]

I think there will be more because of this game and No Man's Sky

[static bluff]

You picked two negatively reviewed games, though

[strong pebble]

It's difficult in Starfield to see what weapon is better I used pen and paper yesterday

Siege is negative reviews too?

[bitter stream]

No Man's sky flopped hard on release remember?

it promised the universed and delivered a puddle.

[strong pebble]

I know this but now it's good

[bitter stream]

it's better now, but it took years

[strong pebble]

Okay I'm starting Siege

I will do my review Im good at games

[bitter stream]

er... it takes time to see all R6S has to offer, please don't rush to review it.

[strong pebble]

I don't review I don't read a lot hahaha

But i will say if it's cool😎😎😎🐈🐈

[static bluff]

When looking at any weapon, it compares it to your currently equipped weapon. So, when deciding between the two, it should be simple so long as they are of similar builds. It would be hard to compare a laser weapon to one that shoots projectiles, though.

[random steppe]

Starfield is not a bad game, but the few things it does badly are really noticeable and in your face, and it's a long game so it's easy to sour on it throught the game as a result.

[strong pebble]

Yes this is good and they have powers too

[static bluff]

True, true

[strong pebble]

I like Starfield but I am very easily distracted I'm sure there is some kind of story

[static bluff]

weapon modding is very fun for me so I spent a lot of time comparing weapons

[random steppe]

I played other games with bad inventory and annoying carrying capacity systems, but when you have to wrangle those for 80 hours it gets to be a bit...much

[strong pebble]

I don't get what someone is saying to me my mom says and games sometimes show that too but not all games but Hifi Rush had a super super cool story

[random steppe]

Weapon modding I liked a lot

[strong pebble]

Rainbow Operation Staff training

[random steppe]

Especially the fact that you could turn semi automatic weapons into full auto and vice versa, it really allowed a lot of customisation

[strong pebble]

I sometimes think I should do it

[random steppe]

I kind of hate that so much stuff is locked behind perks tho

They should 100% made it so your crew perks counted as if you had them

[strong pebble]

You walk with someone?

[random steppe]

You generally have a comparion that follows you around, but you can also crew a ship

[bitter stream]

yeah, the perks locking some seemingly basic stuff behind it was a bit weird.

[strong pebble]

I walk alone if I can

Because they keep talking and sometimes upset at me

[static bluff]

They can be a little annoying but I quite like the companions

[random steppe]

Like, in my head my character isn't a pilot, but I had to take the pilot perk to use more advanced ships
It would have been great if the game gave me an option to hire a pilot instead and rationalise that, the reason I could fly more advanced ship, was that the pilot in my crew was doing the flying. or acting as a co-pilot to help me through it

[static bluff]

except that one chick I professed my love to

[strong pebble]

Can't use mouse and keyboard in Siege on console

[static bluff]

she suuucks

[strong pebble]

I chose a chef and then it turned out food heals you tiny tiny tiny bit

[static bluff]

SAME

I was pissed when I found out the chef perk sucks

[random steppe]

I modded for consumables to last longer pretty fast

They were way too short

[strong pebble]

I can't mod for a one more year 🤭🤭

[random steppe]

Didn't feel worth it to open the inventory to use them

I was RPing a character I played in my last Traveller campaign

[gaunt marten]

All done with achievements https://i.imgur.com/MrYKE2m.png

[strong pebble]

A chef?

[strong pebble]

Looks like Stardew Valley 💖💖

[gaunt marten]

Hardly

[random steppe]

Nah, A combat medic that kinda hated being in space, but had to join a crew for circumstances

In the Traveler story at least

[gaunt marten]

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

$10.49

Recommendations

1681

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It's more like Final Fantasy 1

[bitter stream]

oh nice Flitter, have fun?

[strong pebble]

I like how it looks

[gaunt marten]

It was a lot of fun

The demo is pretty big, too

[bitter stream]

sweet ^_^

[strong pebble]

Siege feels very big and important

[thorny loom]

https://fxtwitter.com/pc_clown/status/1739628774587605076?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Someone managed to compile the leaked gta 5 source code and get it playable on pc

Also via source code. Because of gta online they canned Agent, Bully 2, and around 8 or so story dlcs

https://fxtwitter.com/gtavi_countdown/status/1739291620145532967?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Some of these dlcs were converted to gta online stuff but it still sucks

[strong pebble]

But if you can play it online you can right?

[thorny loom]

If you dont count the pay 2 win aspect and hackers loitering the lobbies technically

But now that the source code is out. Hackers are gonna have a field day making new hacks and even malware for it

[strong pebble]

I've heard that if you play GTA on PC online hackers can hack your IP

[quiet swift]

https://medium.com/@geles73648/gta-5s-story-dlcs-bully-2-and-midnight-club-5-weren-t-cancelled-in-favour-of-gta-online-according-e34dde93d99d and here I saw an article from an anon dev saying that it didn't happen

[thorny loom]

Im suprised rockstar hasent said anything about the leaks

[strong pebble]

Maybe it's not true

[thorny loom]

No it definitely is https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/gta-5-source-code-reportedly-leaked-online-a-year-after-rockstar-hack/

This was from the hack where they just sentenced the hacker to life in hospital or whatever until hes deemed he wont likely hack again

[thorny loom]

If true it at least is a better reason why it didn’t happen then just “gta online profits”

Still mad about RD2 though

[raw totem]

why are you still mad about rd2?

[raw totem]

yeah i've played gta online a lot(i also play story mode) and indeed they can hack your ip and crash your game

rockstar seems to be taking a lot of l's these days.

[strong pebble]

Is GTA 6 going to be good?

[quiet swift]

It was just announced. That's impossible to know.

[wind stump]

Now THIS IS POD RACING

[gaunt marten]

Good game

[sour hill]

I know

[strong pebble]

Czernobóg means Black god in polish

[quiet swift]

I'm aware~

[chilly mural]

This pfp is my favorite in the entire server

[raw totem]

given that much of the original members left, i think it won't be as good as previous games. but how good it will be is up in the air rn.

[raw totem]

really? thanks.

i also hate what they did to rdr2 online

[raw totem]

hmm that's really cool. i did not know that.

[chilly mural]

I imagine every time you have typed a sentence here, you are actually the irl heavy and have your minigun revved up for everything you have posted

[raw totem]

haha that'd be funny af.

i just really like heavy, he's funny and has so much charm.

also, rdr2 is a fantastic game. story is great and its the game that made me no longer hate bill williamson and feel bad for him.

and its gameplay is decent.

hell, a cool fact, in the game, i named my horse, twilight sparkle.

i named my horse in the epilogue rainbow dash and i missed my twilight horse very much since by that point it likely was dead.

[strong pebble]

I think it's somewhere and has adventures

[raw totem]

perhaps yeah.

[strong pebble]

I think I want Xbox Wireless Headset

[thorny loom]

Oh it happened again

https://www.thegamer.com/rockstar-employee-information-details-leaked-hack-gta/

[strong pebble]

Do you think people who work there are angry

[thorny loom]

If it turns out there is actual employee info in it? Yeah probably

[static bluff]

Whoa

[harsh kestrel]

Okay, this is getting out of hand now. Something needs to be done for better protection. These people's whole lives are literally being put at risk because some assholes wanted it that way

[random steppe]

I mean, whatever can be done is really just better security from the gaming companies

It is already illegal to hack stuff

Pretty much everywhere

[visual hill]

I feel large-scale hacks were a lot more common back in the day, and the fallout was felt for much longer

remember the PSN hack in March 2011? Online play and the PS store were unavailable for an entire week

this would not fly today, for various reasons

so I would say overall security has improved a lot

[white phoenix]

man that week felt a lot longer than a week to my kid brain

[visual hill]

I largely didn't bother at the time, I didn't play online on a console much and only bought physical games

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/pslifestyle/status/1739647198915436884?

[fresh bane]

I would assume so

[thorny loom]

Backwards compatibility is main thing keeping that alive

[fresh bane]

I don't think people would just throw away their old consoles

I'm sure a lot of games from that time still have somewhat active playerbases if the servers aren't down

[thorny loom]

If small yeah

Currently i just use the ps3 emulator since finding a console in good shape is a pain

[fresh bane]

Pcsx3 is used a lot for Metal Gear Online 2

Though people also still play MGO3

[thorny loom]

My series x is essentially just a retrostation at this point

[little badger]

I still play mine sometimes.

[fresh bane]

I know older COD/BF games definitely still have dedicated playerbases still

So I'm not surprised to hear people still play on their ps3s

[little badger]

They do Especially battlefield 3

[fresh bane]

I don't know how xbox is like with their older consoles and playerbases there but I seem to remember xbox does have generally more retro compatibility but I could be wrong

I'm not a console person

[little badger]

They are shutting down the 360 store next year

[fresh bane]

Ah well

[wind stump]

great dialogue

[river veldt]

https://fixupx.com/gonintendotweet/status/1739740524939026573?s=46

[wind stump]

also got x8 studs on Lego Star Wars lets GO

[visual hill]

I recall seeing this with another Mario game with PTSD

[mossy flume]

Yeah, that was Super Mario World I believe

It’s a general phenomenon that video games help with psychological distress

[strong pebble]

I'm playing Sims

[strong pebble]

My Sim is now maximum in cooking career🌟🌟

[uneven epoch]

which one?

[strong pebble]

Cooking

[uneven epoch]

sims game i mean

[strong pebble]

4

Now I should do the life goal in cooking like the difficult things

Where you have to invite people

[uneven epoch]

ah. bigger fan of 3 personally, but do have fun

[strong pebble]

3 was very cool you could buy places

But in 4 they can do many things at once it's super cool

[static bluff]

Four is free these days so we tried it out. Pretty addicting!

[uneven epoch]

i just like the open worldness of 3

[static bluff]

Yeah, me too

[uneven epoch]

n the ability to control pets without cheats

[static bluff]

3 was a technical marvel

[uneven epoch]

you just need a few mods easily available today n it runs fairly smootly

so even the at the time fair complaint of the game struggling to run is ironed over

[static bluff]

I enjoyed the simulation in 2 the most

And one was funny because you can kick flamingos 🦩

[astral steeple]

im not too big of a fan of the sims games, but had gotten 4 a while ago purely to make a character in it lol

[sour hill]

Is that your humansona?

[static bluff]

Cute

[astral steeple]

lol

also ooh

[fresh bane]

alright, it was cheap enough since there's a sale going on right now
let's see what this is all about

[astral steeple]

oh yeah thats a thing lol

[visual hill]

it is one of the finest modern pixel art brawlers out there, would play it if I had people to play it in coop

[river veldt]

time for tonight's question

if Master Chief was real would you be friends with him

[young creek]

no

[river veldt]

why

[young creek]

Because hes out in space killing demons?

When and how are we meant to form a friendship?

[visual hill]

no, I only befriend heroes of good FPSes

hides

[river veldt]

i dont think Master Chief kills demons

that's Doomguy

[river veldt]

ok would you be friends with Doomguy then

[visual hill]

yes

[astral steeple]

would you be friends with this guy lol

[visual hill]

no

[astral steeple]

lol

hes cool

[fresh bane]

''hmmmm, I dunno, it looks cool but I wonder how much stuff I can actually do''

game: say less

the fact that I'm not familiar or really good at beat-em-ups makes me wish this had a training mode

it does have this little ''here's how the game works'' thing but I really just want that controlled enviroment to let me lab and figure out how all these mechanics come together and work

but maybe that's my DMC/fighting games brain speaking, I don't really think training modes are a thing in these games

[chilly mural]

It is in Fight N’ Rage

https://store.steampowered.com/app/674520/FightN_Rage/

Steam

Fight'N Rage

DescriptionFight’N Rage is a brand new old-school side-scroller beat’em up. Inspired by the classics from the “golden age”, and with an art style that mimics the aesthetic from the 90's arcade gems, this game pays homage to all classic gameplay features that makes this genre one of the best from its time!DetailsGenre: Classic 2D side-scroller be...

Price

$6.99

Recommendations

2028

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[fresh bane]

I keep getting hit all the time but I'm kinda getting the hang of it now

April stop! He's already dead!

[visual hill]

I can't see anything about it, nor a mod that would add a training area

[fresh bane]

Oh yo, the guy who made this is from my country

[river veldt]

beat em ups don't really have training thingies

at least ime

[visual hill]

don't let your fellow game developers use capsules for character collision detection

[astral steeple]

random gaming thing i just remembered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzLIUgnKY40

this super iconic video from like 2008

was made by this guy

absolute legend

[strong pebble]

Very cool game 🌟🌟⚡