general gaming

[sour hill]

I'm like never in that mode

[light gate]

[river veldt]

im always in trout mode

[sour hill]

That's clean honestly

[thorny loom]

https://x.com/pc_focus_/status/1754902061471158346?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

PC_Focus 🔴 (@PC_Focus_) on X

Bloodborne boots on Playstation 4 emulator, fpPS4, it can now run 144 games on PC, 98 playable.

fpPS4 can run the alpha of Bloodborne at around 1fps right now, but will be playabla at some point 👍

There are two other Playstation 4 emulators in development Kyty and GPCS4.

Twitter · Feb 6, 2024, 4:17 PM

[thorny loom]

This months humble chocie

[quiet swift]

Can't say much about the rest, but LiS:TC was good. Not quite as awesome as #1 was, but infinitely better than 2

[thorny loom]

Dh2 is good if you enjoyed the first remake

Scorn isnt great. But if you can get it at $15 its acceptable since its only 4 hours

[spiral kraken]

sees SCORN Ah yes, the Jerma game

[harsh kestrel]

Destroy All Humans 2 would be the only one I'd be interested in if I didn't already buy it around the time of it's initial Steam release lol

[minor plover]

https://steamcommunity.com/broadcast/watch/76561199386630002 is currently running a live stream of balatro full version, which releases on Feb 20. It's sort of a poker roguelike -- build crazy poker hands that are enhanced by multiplying jokers and tarot cards that change your deck and such.

[gaunt marten]

I forgot steam broadcast existed

[wintry canopy]

My other Yu-Gi-Oh card just arrived, these are the only two physical Yu-Gi-Oh cards I will ever own.

[strong pebble]

[fresh bane]

https://vxtwitter.com/Simmsyfart/status/1754757946326540307

no but shut up though
this burger will make me smarter and increase my brain

[slim thorn]

but it's speed tech /s

[harsh kestrel]

Wasn't it today when Microsoft was supposed to talk about their future or was that later this week?

[thorny loom]

Believe that’s Wednesday

https://captown.capcom.com/en/super_elections

@fresh bane if you wanna tell capcom you want a remake or reboot of something now you can lol

[fresh bane]

To be absolutely and brutally honest that's the absolute opposite of what I want

[unreal idol]

Good choice. I should revisit this deck

[fresh bane]

All I could want is ports

Give me the games Capcom, I want to give you money so give me the games, the real ones

[thorny loom]

Heres what i put

I just want a dino crisis reboot lol

Dead rising would he alright too

[dense crypt]

I want more 1942 games, shoot em ups need to return to the mainstream

[visual hill]

what if they listen to you, but they reboot old IPs as mobile games full of microtransactions

[slim thorn]

note that "shoot 'em ups" are a very different genre from the FPSs that used to be mainly WW2 shooters

[dense crypt]

Yes

[thorny loom]

1942 could work as a mobile or console port

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/playstation/status/1755016328736358764?

New borderlands being teased https://fxtwitter.com/borderlands/status/1754912842380173484?

[quiet swift]

[bronze abyss]

Please dont be a waiting simulator again 🙏

[quiet swift]

[thorny loom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isAC2LlwJEM

[visual hill]

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/armsrace
rush B level 16

[harsh kestrel]

New game plz

[visual hill]

also:

Zeus x27
In addition to getting its first weapon finish in the Kilowatt Case, the Zeus is getting a few other upgrades. It now supports name tags and stickers, and recharges in 30 seconds in all game modes.

Skins4Zeus is vindicated!

[hasty patio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClkhKHePN4U

[astral steeple]

hm

almost have all the mane six found on that infinite craft game

idk what to combine to get rarity and fluttershy

[rotund forge]

What's this??

[astral steeple]

its called infinite craft

you pretty much drag two words together to make another item

theres like 1000s of items that you can get

[river veldt]

diamonds and horse ?

[astral steeple]

dont have diamond or diamonds

id have to figure out how to get one of those first

[wise frigate]

How the hell do you make the ponies tho

Closest I can get is unicorn Pegasus and alicorn lol

[astral steeple]

i had got alicorn then was able to get celestia, which then let me get twilight, applejack, rainbow dash, etc

[minor plover]

from today's sedecordle:

[wind stump]

this is accurate to fnaf lore https://youtu.be/xtOWWLwzIL0

[quiet swift]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/02/elden-ring-is-tencents-next-target-for-mobile-loot-boxes-and-microtransactions/

[wintry canopy]

The new master duel update brought back the nightmare unicorn alt art, I must have it.

[quiet swift]

Homeworld 3 reactions on forums seem mild - it's only showing the 'wargames' mode, which is a 3 player quick style of "roguelike' gameplay, as described by someone. Play 3 levels with two other people and the goal of each level is usually done within 10 minutes or so. You can also use random buffs for the rounds.

Controls are... weird. There's a definite steeper curve to get used to it, it doesn't play as smoothly as the previous games. Though the same reddit complaints said that after giving it several mode games, they got more used to it.

Some units (interceptors) don't fly as smoothly as they feel they should either, like bricks that spin around to keep fighting. That's the main issues I see, otherwise it does feel greatly like a Homeworld

[astral steeple]

https://fxtwitter.com/NVIDIAGeForce/status/1749467589636706430

[thorny loom]

Yeee

Cant wait for new vegas rtx remix

[gaunt marten]

https://www.ign.com/articles/final-fantasy-8-director-would-change-the-combat-system-in-a-remake

Emphasising the sheer undertaking of a remake, Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi said, while laughing, “If after we’ve finished the three games in the [Final Fantasy 7] remake trilogy, Mr. Kitase then comes to me and says, ‘Right, we're going to be remaking another numbered Final Fantasy game and you are on the project,’ I'll just turn around and go, ‘No!’”

And also “I think you may remember we had the Junction system in Final Fantasy 8,” he said. “And the thing about that system was the enemies levelled up in line with what the player’s level was. And obviously you had to then use the Junction system and how you customise that to overcome the challenge there. And I think it was a very difficult system for some people to get into. Depending on player skills, sometimes they just didn't work out the best way of doing it.

“So I think I'd want to return to that and really rework the battle system on [Final Fantasy 8] and make it something where that level of difficulty and approachability for some fans was a lot better balanced. So I think that's the thing I'd look at most if I was going to look at remaking it.”

I only like FF8 for the system though

(This is everything interesting in the article.)

[wind stump]

flitter is the spirit of /r/SavedYouAClick

[gaunt marten]

Thanks!

[static bluff]

Agreed. But, I do feel that the battle system alienated a lot of players, and they didn't get to fully experience one of the best romance stories told by a video game. If changing the battle system would mean more people would experience the story, I'd take that trade.

I remember my buddy spending 4 hours leveling up, then going back to a boss fight and having no better luck and feeling let down. Looking back at it now, this is a huge problem for an RPG! One thing I like about RPGs is being able to overcome most things by grinding as a last resort. But that's a double edge gunblade I suppose.

[gaunt marten]

I am a noted hater of story in videogames

[static bluff]

Substitute setting for story in my rebuttal, then. Surely you agree that the world is ff8 is unlike anything else and something to behold. A military school that friggin flies and carries out mercenary missions in a futuristic place, but yet feels like it's in the past and oh yeah literally GODS will fight for you and be your friend or playing cards.... it's insane, and I loved it. I don't want people to miss out on that.

[gaunt marten]

Sure, I guess it's cool and all

But

I really, really, really like it when gears click and turn in my head just the right way

[static bluff]

true true

remember when the hot teacher lady got behind the big gun and shot the robot

That was so cool

[gaunt marten]

Not as cool as when I beat the robot myself

Everyone was like "Run the fuck away! You cannot take this on your own!"

And for every time he caught up to you, you would be penalized in your final score a little bit

But if you beat him by yourself, you go a whole grade up

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/insomniacgames/status/1755275417898906098?

[harsh kestrel]

They had to put out an update for this game for New Game+ when Miles Morales came out with it? Bruh lol

[slim thorn]

note: for me this is every RPG if I'm not following a walkthrough

so if FF8's greatest sin is that being more true than usual, I'd probably enjoy playing it the same way I played 7 and 9

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/charlieintel/status/1755310355356529108?

[harsh kestrel]

Ha. There you guys go. Doing something productive for once

[bronze abyss]

ballin

[thorny loom]

https://x.com/pc_focus_/status/1755321766283489449?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

PC_Focus 🔴 (@PC_Focus_) on X

It appears that Xbox is moving away from the "Xbox Game Pass" name.

Now will be called "Microsoft Game Pass"

A potential sign that Game Pass is coming to more platforms in the near-future.

Twitter · Feb 7, 2024, 8:04 PM

[light gate]

So they’re killing the Xbox brand?

Or what?

Microsoft Game Pass just sounds more about shutting the Xbox division, and instead renaming the left overs with Microsoft. So Xbox Game Studios could turn into Microsoft Game Studios?

[sour hill]

I mean, makes sense. It's a little weird that I use Xbox game pass on my pc

[light gate]

Welp, you had a good run Xbox.

It makes a whole lot of sense that they were selling Xbox Series X’s in December at astonishing low prices. And yet they weren’t selling somehow, at least in my area.

[random steppe]

I don't think they are killing the Xbox brand

They are separating the gamepass brand from the Xbox brand

Which is different

My reading is that they will still want to sell the boxes, but they want to sell the game pass on more than just their boxes ideally, so they are calling it something different

[river veldt]

ROCKET JUMPING ADDED TO MINECRAFT https://fixupx.com/minecraft/status/1755264481939075385?s=46

[gaunt marten]

https://vxtwitter.com/SethBling/status/1755287162512380315

[river veldt]

loll that's awesome

[rotund forge]

Blazes should also drop fire charges...

[thorny loom]

@wind stump

[wind stump]

[fresh bane]

So last night I watched a streamer watch through the FF7 direct thing and play the demo (if anyone is even remotely interested in FF7 for the love of god don't watch that it literally shows everything) and first of all, jesus christ we're barely in February and already there's like 3 JRPGs that look like they're all at least 100 hour long oh my god but also, after seeing even just the demo of FF7R I have to ask, is this the most expensive game ever made?

Because the amount of polish the game has and the insane amounts of content it probably has makes me think this game must have a shit load of money, possibly the most money behind it

[quiet swift]

2023 was year of the RPG, 2024 is the year of JRPG

Also I think GTA 5 was the most expensive game? Possiby 6 now

[gaunt marten]

My favorite JRPG of all time was released in 2023

[slim thorn]

Octopath 2?

[gaunt marten]

Crystal Project

[slim thorn]

oh derp

[fresh bane]

Ah right, GTA
Well FF7R:R (jesus christ this acronym) has to be up there probably

[river veldt]

it is quite an acronym

[slim thorn]

at least it's obvious and unambiguous, there's still no consensus on RE2R vs RE2RE vs RE2:R (much less what RE2 defaults to)

[fresh bane]

I still hate ''REmake''
I don't know why, I just do

[slim thorn]

(I'm watching an RE2 GDQ run)

[fresh bane]

I watched one from before the remake even came out and was pleasantly surprised to see that for most RE games speedruns are mostly glitchless entirely and it really is just you going as fast and optimally as you can possibly go

No weird skips or glitches or anything you just do it but quickly

[slim thorn]

this remake one also doesn't have anything glitchier than AI manip and maybe animation cancels (or whatever you call stair skating)

[green fulcrum]

This. Is. AWESOME! So much minigame potential, and so much mobility potential too!

Oh.

So, apparently the wind charge as it is now really doesn't send you up that high if you use it on yourself.

Only about a block.

Still a cool attack, but I hope that future renditions of the item give us much higher jumps.

[gaunt marten]

TF2 Minecraft server

With rocket jumps and turrets and spies

[green fulcrum]

Oh wait! I just read that by throwing the wind charge at the ground while in mid-jump, it actually launch you anywhere from 7 to 10 blocks up, depending on your timing. That's cool!

Now we just need water and earth charges to complete the elements. :)

[little badger]

Spyro might not happen now https://fxtwitter.com/charlieintel/status/1755373948445856093?

[green fulcrum]

[river veldt]

jesus christmas

[light gate]

Christmas arrived early.

But clearly they needed to acquire Activision pfft.

[chilly mural]

[dense crypt]

rip, no chance for another star control game now

[quiet swift]

That's closing an office, not the entire studio

[dense crypt]

figured it was synonymous but still

we had too much time for another star control anyways and never heard even a breath about it since the 90s

oh and i guess star control origins

but that wasnt made by toys for bob

[rancid herald]

Rip Spyro 4

Spyro's up there in gaming heaven, playing Half Life 3

[gaunt marten]

Crash 4 and Spyro 4 should have had a demo password like with 3

That password thing was so fucking cool

[quiet swift]

Not necessarily - some studios will have multiple offices. From brief searching that i've done, it's closing the california office and the remaining workers are switching to remote work, with an office elsewhere still existing. In a financial sense, that's really good as CA is astronomically expensive place to live and work in. It absolutely sucks for the workers though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy4PB_LvdbE jeez, it's actually somehow even worse than we thought

[gaunt marten]

Why is he dressed like Dr. disillusion?

[quartz pawn]

Anyone here play Destiny 2? Need a clan to get back into Raiding with.

[quiet swift]

publisher (not dev) asked the workers if they thought the game could be salvaged. Of 300 people, 20 said yes

[quiet swift]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/07/disney-to-take-1point5-billion-stake-in-epic-games-maker-of-fortnite.html

Pushed back from March to May

[hasty patio]

That final polishing should have been done during the last push back. Folks need to admit that they can't reach the deadlines and give a true one versus the constant "a few more months".

Eventually, the EU will get tired of this game and will start charging folks, right or wrong.

[thorny loom]

https://fxtwitter.com/Toadsanime/status/1755363303432360392

[hushed onyx]

People are extremely bad at predicting schedules and almost invariably predict things will take less time than they actually do, regardless of industry. There is not actually anything special about video games in this respect.

[thorny loom]

Just look at Wildcard

There great with schedules

[hasty patio]

I get that, but delay after delay after delay does have financial repercussions, as well as failed expectations. At some point, it is either there (finished or not) or it isn't, and people will get their money back in the latter cases.

The planned time of release for HW3 was the 2nd half of 2022 (project was announced and funded in 2017). It was pushed back to 1st half 2023, with a repeat in May 2023 to Feb 2024, once again in Dec 2023 to March 2024, and now yesterday/today to May 2024.

24ish months doesn't seem like a lot of time, but this is for a video game, not a multi-national mission to the moon/space where a concern requires a lot of work to be rechecked and done again. Part of the problem is that a lot of games didn't cook enough, came out to bad launches, and either failed or took years to recover. Delaying for polish or serious issues that popped up is acceptable, but repeated delays questions if it would have been done on time and right in the first place.

[fresh bane]

Wooo I actually finally did it I actually beat BP with Dante

it only took 204 hours

I wanted to get a better look at the special taunt but unfortunately the hair is glitchy and looks black in some places, I assume maybe one of the mods is clashing with whatever texture/model the hair uses it's fine though, I can live with that, here's a (hopefully) stylish freestyle combo

[harsh kestrel]

Crash, Spyro, boys, it was good to have you back, but it looks like you're gonna go join the likes of other dead franchises in heaven once more

[peak berry]

7th seraph mod

[dire gate]

Persona sale, about time

[dire gate]

[wind stump]

what about Reload

[dire gate]

no female protag means huge L

[wind stump]

naruhodo

[slim thorn]

I experienced P3P through Tale so the FeMC is canon for me

[random steppe]

I think the world is ready for a P6 announcment

Maybe at Summer Game Fest

[dire gate]

Ixrec do you know about the story behind why the female protag is often called Ham-ko in Japan

[uneven epoch]

the real question is what color are we gettin this time

my money is on green persona

[random steppe]

I don't know what color 1 and 2 were, if any

[uneven epoch]

i feel like atlus is kinda tryin to pretend 1 n 2 dont wxist

from my understandin a lot of series staples stem from 3 anyway?

[random steppe]

Green makes sense then, if they want to go spicy maybe purple

[slim thorn]

nope

[dire gate]

It's funny

In the reveal, since you have to choose your protag name, they gave a super temporary name of "Shujinkou-ko(主人公子)"(quite literally translated into protag girl)

[random steppe]

It's so sad they didn't keep the dual protagonist, we missed out on female Joker, we live in the worst timeline.

[dire gate]

Since it is typical to have two kanji for surname and two for first name, it becomes 主人 公子

[uneven epoch]

persona 6 n its better in every way buff persona 6 verdant

[slim thorn]

oh I see it now

[dire gate]

And then fans said, well 公 looks like ハム

So they decided to call her Ham-ko(ハム子)

[slim thorn]

fair

[dire gate]

They always find a way to give characters a stupid nickname

[white phoenix]

Being a femc fan for p3r is a tiring wave between "its so over" to "we're so back"

In this case, hopium is back on the menu guys https://vxtwitter.com/ScrambledFaz/status/1755408318862881149?t=m8N3cT_M4N4n9rP0I8GoOg&s=19

[quiet swift]

https://vxtwitter.com/Dexerto/status/1755293784747688402 audio needed

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1755595040871858291?

@green fulcrum

https://fxtwitter.com/sonicmovie/status/1755592327874379855?s

[light gate]

Y’know, first sonic movie was fun but that was it. Sequel was… uhh… meh? And this just looks rough.

Also a six episode series?

Why…

[sour hill]

Most people I've talked to liked the second more

[bitter stream]

I guess it's popular enough that they want to make stuff while it's hot on peoples minds

[slim thorn]

I enjoyed both Sonic movies

[unreal idol]

Same

[bitter stream]

Well if Ixrec enjoys it, maybe I should try out the movie lol

[arctic fern]

i hear jim is the best part of those movies

which makes sense, because he's great on camera

[light gate]

Sonic 2 was pretty much all over the place, found it more irritating than anything.

But Jim obviously steals the show.

I feel like I’ll need to rewatch at some point because I do not remember anything anymore.

[sour hill]

I thought knuckles was great too

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/insidergamingig/status/1755590434372321371?

[bitter stream]

game as a service model.. for subnautica.

[hasty patio]

Pardon me?

[rotund forge]

This could have just been its own movie. I gotta watch the 2 movies because this was funny

[bitter stream]

The earnings report also mentions “enhanced replayability”. However, adding a Game-as-a-Service model might concern some longtime fans.

A GaaS model will allow Subnautica 2 to continue monetization after launch. It’s a strange new direction, and it could potentially put valuable content behind a paywall.
From the article blade linked

[hasty patio]

I suspect a PD2 thing, where folks with money will buy whatever to support and the rest either make do or find ways around it.

[bitter stream]

yeah, but it's so weird for a singleplayer typiclal title

[gaunt marten]

The only game as a service model I accept is something like Guild Wars 1, where you make one purchase and that's enough to support the servers in perpetuity.

[bitter stream]

fair enough. I tried ESO because it seemed to be that way, but it wasn't actually like that.

[little badger]

You’ll enjoy them

[gaunt marten]

Guild Wars 1 and 2 are a marvel of MMO engineering

[rugged flax]

FDev does a pretty good job with Elite Dangerous
Buy the game once and then you never have to pay again
but if you want to, you can buy Arx to buy cosmetics with, and purely only cosmetic items
you earn Arx for free just by playing the game, but buying them just gets you larger quantities of them faster, and helps support keeping the game servers alive.

[bitter stream]

fair enough Flitter, Lunar Aurora.

[hasty patio]

One caveat: If you want to play on the live version/with most of the real people, you'll need the latest expansion to do so. Not sure how Update 19 and the end of the Thargoid War will go.

[rugged flax]

I'm just glad to see new content coming out
All the "Elite is a dead game" doomers can stfu
we're even getting new ships this year

[little badger]

How often does it get new content lunar

[hasty patio]

We'll see if that happens. It wouldn't be the first time things get delayed or cut back. It is exciting to finally get new ships (variants though) for the first time since 2018.

[slim thorn]

Carrey's Eggman is definitely the best part of the first movie, for the second I could see a case for Knuckles

[hushed onyx]

Again, this is true in basically every industry. Construction has a major issue with this, for instance. I can also think of tons of examples from my own projects and tasks, some of which are proportionally much worse (~months-long projects delayed for actual years)

[rare garden]

Oh look, a fun dating sim is free now on epic games. This surely will not lead to trauma.
||It will. Play at your own risk. The warning when you start playing is not an exaggeration.||

[sacred grove]

DDLC?

[rare garden]

Yeah

[astral steeple]

oh yeah thats free on EGS now lol

completely forgot about that because the disney stuff from yesterday

[sacred grove]

Wasn't DDLC always free? Or do you mean the Plus stuff?

[astral steeple]

pretty sure its always costed

[gaunt marten]

It is free.

The plus version is paid.

[astral steeple]

oh lol

[thorny loom]

The original is free. The plus version costs money

https://x.com/pc_focus_/status/1755604972228731165?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

PC_Focus 🔴 (@PC_Focus_) on X

Helldivers 2 is not compatible with Steam Deck neither default Proton due to DRM nProtect, thanks Playstation

Twitter · Feb 8, 2024, 2:50 PM

[dire gate]

The Korean-born disaster "security" program

[thorny loom]

Im like. If you gonna use drm (not that i agree with it). Just use denuvo or something

[cloud tree]

Oh hey, I'm just talking about DRM in another server

[thorny loom]

Dont use these random third parties that will probably brick stuff

[astral steeple]

YES

got Tirek and Rarity on Infinite Craft

just need to get fluttershy and sweetie belle and big mac

[thorny loom]

Nice

[dire gate]

We do have a thread(post) for IC

[astral steeple]

oh lol

[cloud tree]

That game where you combine elements?

[astral steeple]

yeah

[dire gate]

The thing is that it is actually a quite widely used "security program" in KR/JP...except that it is extremely notorious for being bad

[cloud tree]

If there's anything I lament about the current gaming landscape, it's that many games are only available for PC on Steam

With no DRM-free option

[dire gate]

I have to see that monstrosity whenever I try to use bank

It is a horror

It is the horror

[thorny loom]

Lmao. Bank drm

[gaunt marten]

Banks are one place where you would actually want DRM

[thorny loom]

But what if i want to download all the cash in it for free

[gaunt marten]

Steam DRM is optional! Games can be both exclusive to Steam and DRM-free.

See Starbound

[wind stump]

also Steam DRM is so easy to break

[slim thorn]

in fact being hard to break is an explicit non-goal for it

The Steam DRM wrapper by itself is not an anti-piracy solution. The Steam DRM wrapper protects against extremely casual piracy (i.e. copying all game files to another computer) and has some obfuscation, but it is easily removed by a motivated attacker.

We suggest enhancing the value of legitimate copies of your game by using Steamworks features which won't work on non-legitimate copies (e.g. online multiplayer, achievements, leaderboards, trading cards, etc.).

[thorny loom]

Nerd

[wind stump]

the bare minimum for Steam to not go fucking bankrupt, lmao

[slim thorn]

well, and indie devs

I like to think Steam offering this was a net good in that it means all devs below a certain size can "just use Stream DRM" (if they feel they need any at all) instead of having to choose between the various far more obnoxious and intrusive DRMs out there or gasp roll their own

[thorny loom]

Kinda cool

https://www.reddit.com/r/GTA6/comments/1al3wv0/a_french_youtuber_went_to_miami_and_reshot_the/?

[wind stump]

[gaunt marten]

Ideally they would do like GOG and basically forbid DRM, but this still is a pretty good outcome, relatively speaking

[slim thorn]

yeah, that move would've just forced a ton of games to other platforms and not helped the ecosystem

and it is true that the online-related features kinda require some form of DRM, if your game has any of them

[rugged flax]

There has been comments from Valve employees in the past that if by some 1 in a million chance that Steam were to ever go belly up, Valve has internal tools to strip the Steam DRM wrapper from every title that has it. Whether that's true or not, we may never know.

[slim thorn]

neat

[visual hill]

it ain't true because it has no legal value 🙂

either way, we already have tools out there that can bypass Steam DRM, some of them are even open source and work with native Linux games

[slim thorn]

plus, at least personally, I haven't heard of anyone become unable to play a game they legally bought because of Steam DRM

[gaunt marten]

Unless they lose their account for any reason

[visual hill]

yeah, or extended offline periods

[slim thorn]

true, how long does the offline period have to be before that's an issue?

[thorny loom]

Im going to assume a year

That’s likely something only valve would know

[gaunt marten]

It is something you can verify by taking your computer offline

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/lnlconsulting/status/1755574675076211078?

[quiet swift]

Ooh, armored core 6 on 30% sale

[visual hill]

I recall it was 14 days

[gaunt marten]

If you go to offline mode yourself I don't think there's a limit to how long you can be offline

Some games have DRM that causes them to stop working when they haven't been online for a while, but that's specific to the games

[bronze abyss]

im XDing so hard rn,fucking DnF duel went on sale and its still 20$ idk in what world do they think that game is worth it for that much without dlc

[gaunt marten]

New Steam feature!

https://i.imgur.com/i7JfI0x.png

See the grayed out sale icon?

It indicates you can buy a bundle (in which you already own some of the games) to get the single game in your wishlist for a lower price https://i.imgur.com/cNwgZV0.png

Though the price is broken. It should display like this https://i.imgur.com/rrPtl2F.png

[sour hill]

That's cool

[weak river]

One of the achievements in the first game was a just a direct quotation from Starship Troopers, as well.

[thorny loom]

PFFF

[quiet swift]

I'd assume that's the ubi premium sub price, not on top of the sub

[harsh kestrel]

Yeah, the first price is for the full game if you don't have Premium. The $17.99 is what you'd essentially be paying for that game with the subscription per month along with a shit ton of other titles

[gaunt marten]

The price for the full game should be eighteen dollars once.

[harsh kestrel]

That's more of a joke than AAA game releases right now lol

[thorny loom]

https://x.com/culturecrave/status/1755694216662200680?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) on X

#BatmanArkhamKnight player count has increased by 51% since the release of #SuicideSquadGame 🎮

(via @TrueTrophy)

Twitter · Feb 8, 2024, 8:44 PM

[feral tulip]

https://youtu.be/kfkEMYbvx90?si=Y46EhMk0kzHYImwO

I love waiting forever!!!

[flint iron]

Day 1120 will be the day

[fresh bane]

https://vxtwitter.com/NotSoLittleC/status/1755705709667180594

Seeing so many artists having stories like these almost as soon as they start working on the industry and how they don't last that long working in whatever position they work in or at the company altogether is wild to me

[quiet swift]

Seems par for the course for AAA studios these days

Though blizz is def notorious for underpaying people fairly significantly

[gaunt marten]

https://unknownworlds.com/subnautica/an-update-about-the-next-subnautica/

...we’d like to clarify:

*    Early Access is not intended for release in 2024, but we plan to share a lot more information later this year!
*    In reference to “Games-as-a-Service,” we simply plan to continually update the game for many years to come, just like the previous two Subnautica games. Think our Early Access update model, expanded. No season passes. No battle passes. No subscription.
*    The game is not multiplayer-focused. Co-op will be an entirely optional way to play the game. You’ll be able to enjoy the game as a single-player.

[arctic fern]

[gaunt marten]

Now that makes a lot more sense and is in line with their behavior

[arctic fern]

co-op subnautica!

the rest was to be expected from these guys

they've been pretty cool about such things historically

[bronze abyss]

pay 5$ per leviathan vertebrae

[rugged flax]

Co-op subnautica?
Nobody needs to witness the noises that came out of me the first time I witnessed a leviathan and crab squids and all those other unholy creations

[arctic fern]

man i STILL bug out of things when i see some of the reaper leviathans

and i've finished the original game like 20 times

not finished the second one ever though

[slim thorn]

mental note that "Insider Gaming" also does the misleading headlines thing

co-op Subnautica does sound appealing even to me

[gaunt marten]

I think it's the Subnautica PR person making an error.

[sour hill]

Whoever made the crab squid sounds needs like 8 raises

[bronze abyss]

ive yet to see them but i love large monster designs so i wanna play subnautica just for that alone

[arctic fern]

you've not played subnautica???

[bronze abyss]

only a tiny bit,i was in the process of switching PCs at the time and just didnt get back to it after

[arctic fern]

oh you do own it

play it

its good

[gaunt marten]

:Twitation:

[bronze abyss]

i liked the little bit i played of it so im probably gonna get to it some time,probably after rdr2

[green fulcrum]

[gaunt marten]

Thanks

[thorny loom]

https://www.pcgamer.com/take-two-interactive-says-in-game-currencies-are-fictions-that-players-cant-actually-own/

[gaunt marten]

Paywall

[thorny loom]

almost as bad as when EA said loot boxes are just like Kinder eggs

[minor gorge]

This could bode well for one channel I follow that did a role-playing series on these games.

[gaunt marten]

It's actually a perfectly valid argument they're making

Before you buy any virtual currency you have to agree to the terms which clearly indicate that this virtual currency is just for game-related ephemera.

[unreal idol]

Such terms are wrong and BS though

[gaunt marten]

So don't agree to them and then give the company money

[sour hill]

It would be nice if companies weren't allowed to brick games after selling them to you

[gaunt marten]

I agree. In fact, any games with online functionalities should not be allowed to exist unless they also come with servers you can host yourself.

[sour hill]

or at least make it so you can host your own servers after the developer has decided it's done supporting the game or hosting their own

[gaunt marten]

That's what I said

[quiet swift]

I found the delivery of the story in subnautica 2 more interesting overall, but I didn't have the same fear/discovery aspect as I did with 1

[sour hill]

I'm making the distinction between a game like tf2 that ships with server hosting functionality, and a hypothetical game that does not and relies on a central server, but releases server hosting functionality after the developer has decided it's not profitable enough to continue support

[gaunt marten]

The problem is that this leaves too much room for abuse in the hands of the publishers

[sour hill]

Yeah maybe

Good thing I don't write the laws!

[gaunt marten]

They can, for example, keep a central server up forever but after a certain point make it so bad to be on that no one can stand to play

Thus they can cheaply avoid having to release a self-hosted server, and players are forced to move to their newer games

[sour hill]

It's sad that I could see that happening

[minor plover]

I appreciate that the Overload devs anticipated this and released the server software with the game release, and then also have allowed modding of the client so it auto-connects to community servers now

[river veldt]

https://x.com/zeldadungeon/status/1755796618144788494?s=46

Zelda Dungeon (@ZeldaDungeon) on X

Remember that you can watch a special The Legend of Zelda Orchestra Concert tomorrow morning on Nintendo's YouTube channel!
https://t.co/7pTkN6GbSp

Twitter · Feb 9, 2024, 3:31 AM

[light gate]

“5 AM”

[river veldt]

you can watch it later

[harsh kestrel]

I feel that annoyance with that 5 AM time slot considering that they're gonna be having a show in Australia later this month

The start time for the US EST is 5 AM

[dire gate]

Well time zone

5AM Pacific is like 10PM here

[graceful bridge]

Free on Epic this week

[dire gate]

Huh it is starting in 30 minutes

weird

[dire gate]

Zelda music so good

[visual hill]

it's always nice to see older games being given a try when the new hot thing comes out

especially since Arkham Knight on PC runs much better with today's hardware and mods than it did at launch

[dire gate]

Welp that was short...

[visual hill]

nice, a racing game offered next week

[arctic fern]

A. We have a thread for that game and B. The no politics rule still applies

[median cedar]

oopsie sorry :p

[median cedar]

its just i dont know what it can come after i craft something, its completly random

[arctic fern]

Yeah I know
If I understand it, it's ai generated

[median cedar]

correct, since its infinite

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/tcmf2/status/1755686338265804892?

[little badger]

[thorny loom]

Man look at all those steam decks/switch likes

[quiet swift]

Not until 2026.. just get a steam deck

[thorny loom]

https://x.com/pc_focus_/status/1755952828118372433?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

PC_Focus 🔴 (@PC_Focus_) on X

Microsoft Removes Xbox Series & Xbox Gamepass Logos From It's Site:

Twitter · Feb 9, 2024, 1:52 PM

[bitter stream]

ah, what are they naming it then?

[thorny loom]

Probably microsoft game pass

Rumor is their gonna start offering stuff for the ps5

https://www.techspot.com/news/101822-ubisoft-ceo-defends-70-price-live-service-focused.html

Quadruple A. Thats rich

[bitter stream]

uhuh. 70 bucks on a Live Service title. which means it's like 110 AUD or something silly

so probably MTX everywhere with battlepasses

[thorny loom]

Watch it have NFTs or something stupid

[bitter stream]

I hope they learned from their last attempt at NFTs

[quiet swift]

I think they might've cooled off on NFTs. Square Enix on the other hand....

[bitter stream]

what's Squenix up to?

[thorny loom]

They keep doubling down on nfts

And other web3 stuff

[bitter stream]

https://decrypt.co/206152/symbiogenesis-preview-everything-you-need-know-square-enix-nft-game
Having read this, it sounds like some kind of Super-Gacha hell

[random steppe]

I still don't believe this is real

I mean we'll see what they are cooking, my prediction is that it'll never come out but I might be wrong

NFTs are beneficial to square as long as they are a nebulous buzzword they can repeat at shareholder meetings, the moment this comes out and flops the ruse is up, is what my current impression of the situation is.

but that would be SE being smart enough to understand this would flop so IDK, they haven't shown to be especially smart in later years

[bitter stream]

yeah no idea, I hope it doesn't get released because you know some folks are gonna get scammed by Square enix presenting NFTs as special goodies.

[thorny loom]

Speaking of squnix

https://www.pcgamer.com/final-fantasy-7-remake-director-would-give-an-emphatic-no-if-someone-asked-him-for-an-ff8-remake-and-ff8s-original-director-isnt-keen-either/

No ff8 remake plans

[harsh kestrel]

It honestly is kind of a shame that XDefiant, something that actually seems like it could take off really well, is gonna end up on Ubisoft Connect around these greedy fucks that don't know what the hell they're doing

[bitter stream]

What do you mean? I mean r6s is on Ubisoft connect and seems to be doing alright.

[harsh kestrel]

Playstation releasing another handheld would probably make the most sense to do, it would probably sell like mad like the PSP and PS Vita did, but with Microsoft, it feels like it would make no sense and contradict what it feels like they're trying to do right now, where it seems like they're trying to get rid of the Xbox brand as a whole, like that link that shows that they removed the Xbox Series and Xbox Game Pass logos from their site, and it's like, okay, so is this brand gonna be dying or... What?

[bitter stream]

Not sure what the intent is regarding XBOX branding being removed, maybe it's a confusion thing?

I know i certainly was surprised when I learnt that XBOX gamepass was on PC. so maybe the messaging there is being changed to be easier to understand, and opens up opportunites to promote in future areas

[harsh kestrel]

I have no idea. Microsoft has just been overall confusing lately, and that's why I'm looking at that post about the Xbox handheld confused like, okay, if they actually do release something like that, and that post turns out to be true to some extent, it makes no sense if Microsoft is still actively trying to slowly get rid of the Xbox brand

[bitter stream]

yeah indeed

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/ign/status/1756011605685420447?

[harsh kestrel]

"Ubisoft's". IGN, grammar lol

[thorny loom]

Eh. Fair enough its a niche market

[light gate]

the hell were they expecting?

Blockbuster sales?

[graceful bridge]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/02/diablo-ii-streamer-finds-1-in-3-million-item-drop-instantly-sells-it-for-laughs/

Vendored it as soon as he left the dungeon.

[arctic fern]

what an ass
lol
respect tho

[sour hill]

King shit

[dire gate]

Well, to be fair, if it is just a "Diablo 2 Streamer" that is kind of an ass move but speedrunner I can kind of understand selling it

Amazing "luck" tho

[river veldt]

i bet Batman Arkham Videos could have caught the Zodiac Killer easy (spoilers for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League)
||https://youtu.be/U5vaLChABjc?feature=shared||

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/thegameawards/status/1755984575560573291?

[green fulcrum]

[hasty patio]

https://fxtwitter.com/Studio_Evil/status/1755940578183774278

[dire gate]

It is truly a dead cell now

[novel pine]

everyone hates live service... yet nobody gives the anti-live service patriot the time of day... tragic

[thorny loom]

https://x.com/freyjihad/status/1755910463538274600?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

𝕱𝕽𝕰𝖄𝕵𝕬 (@Freyjihad) on X

Worst part about playing Death Stranding now is that the licensing agreement with Monster Energy expired and now it's just a generic in-universe thing

Twitter · Feb 9, 2024, 11:04 AM

[sour hill]

It doesn't even make sense. Why would he down three energy drinks every morning if he wasn't sponsored?

[thorny loom]

ive known people irl who drink them like soda

record was 8 in one day

[river veldt]

this is fucked up

[gaunt marten]

Nooo, don't put advertising in my media
Noo, don't take advertising out of my media

[fresh bane]

This is one example of advertising in media somehow adding to it

And it's not even the first time kojima has done this

MGS3 had Calorie Mate, MGS Peace Walker had an entire advertising campaign with Mountain Dew

[flint iron]

Meet in between and rename it Creatures Energy Drink

[sour hill]

This one was just really funny

[gaunt marten]

Calorie Mate is my favorite part of Japan

It's so fucking boring and I resonate with it deep in my soul

Like

[sour hill]

That would've been better

[gaunt marten]

Holy shit I loved eating my geometric breakfast cuboids

[fresh bane]

Snake loves it

aaaand MGS4 did it too

[dense crypt]

"i want some MORE!"

[minor belfry]

Is this real or AI?

[fresh bane]

I can't believe we're at a point where people have to ask that lol

it's real

Calorie Mate is an item in the game and a food Snake can eat

https://youtu.be/AK8D_lxQH6Y?si=fE7q2y3sVDjEhvbW

[quiet swift]

Cyberpunk with mods... oi

[icy crescent]

holy

[proud warren]

decided to do something I haven't had the opportunity to do for close to a decade; I decided to play thru punch out wii in 1 sitting; I have almost 0 experience with the title defense fights, so I feel I made pretty good pace all things considered

I'mma save DK for a rainy day of boredom tho

[bitter stream]

fair enough, hope you had fun

[thorny loom]

Not realistic enough need a 9-5 job mod

[visual hill]

I thought this was a real photo at a glance

(well, it is a photo of a screen)

[quiet swift]

Right? It's jaw dropping

[gaunt marten]

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/mindbending-masterpieces

[arctic fern]

Huh

[gaunt marten]

@Puzzle Club

[arctic fern]

Superliminal is great

The others I've not played

[gaunt marten]

Ten dollar tier https://i.imgur.com/jvU0ORF.png

Talos Principle and the Witness are critically acclaimed best in genre

Fifteen dollar tier https://i.imgur.com/DCPH4Gp.png

[slim thorn]

Superliminal and Manifold Garden are some of my favorites

Talos is pretty good too

Witness is kinda all over the place and imo highly overrated

haven't played the others

[arctic fern]

The witness has a puzzle that takes a real life hour

[gaunt marten]

I'm interested in Superliminal, Manifold Garden, Patrick's Parabox.

[slim thorn]

I've never heard of Patrick's Parabox, Taiji or The Pedestrian before but they all look like my kind of thing so I'm definitely buying the bundle

might take a bit to get to them since I just bought Lightmatter and Entropy Center the other day

oh boy, it's time for double-secret multi-account re-verification

[gaunt marten]

One game that used mechanics similar to Patrick's Parabox is https://store.steampowered.com/app/330180/Pix_the_Cat/

Steam

Pix the Cat

“In Pix the Cat, you are Pix, the first cat in the world to play his own game! Progress in the Grid of Infinity, deeper and deeper through its nested levels. Hatch the eggs to stack up ducklings behind you. Drop them off at target circles to set them free. Avoid hitting walls and obstacles at all costs! Still with me?” Developed by the French st...

Price

$4.99

Recommendations

178

Metacritic

77

▶ Play video

An arcade game, not a puzzle game

[river veldt]

this sounds kinda cool lol

[gaunt marten]

It's great as long as you don't replay the game

[slim thorn]

well, it might be cool if you were doing puzzling for the whole hour; the thing Mega's referring to requires pressing a button and then waiting for a literal 40-something minutes before you can go finish the puzzle

granted I don't want to pick on that example because it's obscure post-game content that I never got anywhere close to in my playthrough

[gaunt marten]

You have to understand

I love pretentious bullshit like that

[slim thorn]

there is pretentious bullshit in that game I love, and other pretentious bullshit that is actually just plain bullshit lol

[river veldt]

it reminds me of Startropics

[gaunt marten]

I gotta show you the super secret ARG boss in Death's Gambit

[river veldt]

in the original version of Startropics on NES, included in the box was a letter which is the one that the main character gets from his uncle at the beginning of the game. towards the end, you have to soak that physical letter in water so it'll give you a code or map or whatever so you can complete the game

[gaunt marten]

I think that's just DRM

[river veldt]

yeah it was probably just intended as a way to stop piracy but i still think it's neat

[gaunt marten]

It is neat!

[slim thorn]

it's a neat idea

[wind stump]

what did they do for the Virtual Console rerelease?

[slim thorn]

(never heard of startropics so can't comment on execution; back then gamers were more likely to read manuals so it might've worked out)

[river veldt]

for VC iirc they put the letter in the actual game and you could do it digitaly

[wind stump]

throws wii into the bath

[river veldt]

nO

[gaunt marten]

Do not pee in the bath

[fresh bane]

Does it do anything different for the lighting? Because it does somehow look a lot more true to life in a way
but the extreme reflections on the car makes me think of those 'realistic' GTA mods where they just put a bunch of reflections on everything and make the streets flooded to add reflective puddles

I've seen videos of path tracing on Cyberpunk that makes it look pretty incredible, lighting is easily the most important part when it comes to establishing a mood or just making your stuff look more realistic no matter how high res your textures are or how many polygons your models have
but I'd like to see anyone actually try and play the game like that

[slim thorn]

once upon a time, realism meant brown
today, realism means lighting even more dynamic than real life

[visual hill]

RT Overdrive really is a gamechanger for Cyberpunk, it's demanding for a good reason

(also because without RT, Cyberpunk is hardly the best-looking game out there – it has lots of issues with objects seeming like they're floating)

but I'd like to see anyone actually try and play the game like that
I will for sure at some point, but only in 2077 when I have finished my Witcher 3 playthrough

[wind stump]

RTgame?

[quiet swift]

2077 is when we'll have the hardware to play it at 120fps/4k rt overdrive

[visual hill]

to play at native 4K120 FPS (without frame generation), we'd need hardware that is more than 6 times as fast as a RTX 4090

and also a CPU roughly 2× faster to handle that framerate without bottlenecks

this is the nice thing with raytraced games, they age very well as hardware keeps evolving. You bump the resolution, it bumps the total ray count per frame and leads to more accurate lighting. You bump the framerate, it throws more rays per second and therefore makes lighting converge faster

Quake 2 RTX in 1080p240 is feasible nowadays, it's quite the experience to see a raytraced game where lighting actually updates quickly

[quiet swift]

So in 2077, like I said

[fresh bane]

Honestly that kind of jank isn't really a big problem at all, but when models and textures look good but the lighting just isn't right it makes things look very uncanny, RE engine actually has a lot of the same issues going on where mid gameplay character models especially the player's can look very odd and uncanny due to the lighting outside of cutscenes and it can lead to stuff looking like this

Cyberpunk has a similar issue but instead it makes things look very weirdly lit and like they don't belong in the world, especially if we're talking anything that isn't directly in your face like npcs on the streets which tend to have lower poly models and a bit jankier animations that can look weird, the path tracing stuff really helps and it masks those weird animations and makes them feel more natural with just having the lighting be better

[wise frigate]

The hell is this doing on Disney plus

[gaunt marten]

https://www.gog.com/game/ys_viii_lacrimosa_of_dana

70% off. I'm kinda interested in the older Ys games

[feral tulip]

https://twitter.com/TheSillySnail/status/1756411553958527036?t=JhmmKKxs_24pe285dicXyw&s=19

𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 Snail :P (@TheSillySnail) on X

IT HAPPENED

Twitter · Feb 10, 2024, 8:15 PM

[arctic fern]

i dont get it

[chilly mural]

https://vxtwitter.com/Thafnine/status/1395743319486042113

[rotund forge]

Honestly he said it best himself: If tinyBuild would just, get organized with their lore, it'd be a swell mystery to unravel

I'd watch 10 videos on Hello Neighbor lore if they had even a semblance of a cohesive narrative

[fresh bane]

Random question, does anyone here play Halo Infinite or has played it recently?
Since I just remembered it exists I was wondering how the game is doing now since I remember people had.. issues with it early on, last time I played was back in 2021 but since I didn't have a good enough computer at the time I stopped playing it pretty quickly but I'd be willing to check it out again and play it casually since... well it's free.99

(I guess I should clarify the multiplayer one not the main single player campaign game)

[quiet swift]

Not a player, but it's "existing". The problems it had and them not being fixed quite fast enough means that most who would have been interested to try have migrated to other things, and you mainly have the big fans. It seems okay at the moment though, from what i hear

[flint iron]

I haven't opened the game for over a year so I don't know how much it has improved since around launch, but when I played multiplayer it put you in queue for a random gamemode you couldn't choose so you have to cross your fingers you get the one you want

[flint iron]

Dang the single player is actually pretty good

[fresh bane]

I heard it's actually really good yes, unfortunately I'm just not that much into Halo
Not that I don't like it, I just missed that entire cultural phenomenon other than playing Halo CE on cyber cafes as a kid, the only one I actually played

So Infinite's multiplayer being free was a big draw for me at the time because I wanted to experience that Halo, well, experience but unfortunately it didn't release in a great state

I guess I may just have to download it again and check for myself how it's like, pretty much just thought I'd take a peek and play it casually if I ever just wanna kill some time

[flint iron]

Yeah there was many complaints not just for the release, for quite a few months it wasn't great which had a good chunk of the playerbase to stop playing because of the lack of updates

[flint iron]

It could have changed in a positive way by now because I went past posts where people seemed happy about some recent updates

[unreal idol]

oh my god a 380

[strong pebble]

I want to play this game again but it's a bit scary but also super cool

[thorny loom]

ngl this armor is kinda cool

[fickle garnet]

Holy shit that's insane

[fickle garnet]

My dad just bought that today

[quiet swift]

If you go down the netrunner tree where you can activate overclocking, then spread a quickhack to nearby enemies... I had one 'mob boss' and her two goon bodyguards attack me. Overclocked, did one single suicide against her, it spread to her two goons immediately and they all died without me firing a shot

[fickle garnet]

Wow

Unfortunately im using a sandevistan and not a cyberdeck

[thorny loom]

i did get this one

[slim thorn]

if you ever want to give the campaigns a try, I'd say Halo 3 is the best single player experience for a newcomer since it has two sequels' worth of polish, the additional enemies/weapons/etc from two games of content, and everyone agrees it's a peak of the series overall

Infinite's single player is... fine, just kind of underwhelming compared to any of 1 to 5

[flint iron]

Halo Reach is also really good to play after playing the other games

[slim thorn]

oh yeah I keep forgetting about Reach

[arctic fern]

I personally think 2 is the best campaign

It's cheesy, corny and full of so many fun moments it's hard to beat
Plus the battle rifle is just broken

[fickle garnet]

2 is my favorite main game but reach is my favorite overall

[arctic fern]

It's also held together with string and prayers

2 that is

I think reach is better programmed

[random steppe]

I always debate if I want to go back and play the Halos

But it feels like a series that wouldn't hold up very well

[gaunt marten]

Also applies to Borderlands

[random steppe]

Given how much the FPS genre was iterated on

[arctic fern]

Honestly it really does? 1 is definitely dated but 2 onwards is great
Especially when playing co-op

[random steppe]

IDK co-op is fun for certaing games but for games I experience for the story it sounds like an hassle to go with someone else

Like I happily co-op in Warframe, but I would never co-op the Divinity games or BG3, I am happy it exists but it's not my thing I've learned

[thorny loom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBslUeaod1U

[slim thorn]

Halo 2 was maybe one of the more ambitious but I feel it overreached / underpolished in several places, it's the one I've replayed the least of the main 5

[arctic fern]

I'd argue halo is a great game to play cooperative
It's easier as you have a companion to back you up and the story doesn't really get interrupted unless you're talking over them also talking
It's far better experience than playing bg3 with a full party, which I am currently experiencing to my dislike

[slim thorn]

plus most of the things 2 did really well, or not, were either done again or fixed by 3 lol

oh yeah the Halos are excellent co-op

[green fulcrum]

The new era of John Madden begins.

[slim thorn]

I think this one heavily depends on what kinds of FPSs you personally like

at least for me, the Halos never got old, while even older shooters like the old Dooms and the Marathons never did that much for me when I tried them

[light gate]

Football.

[slim thorn]

plus, I think 3 is late enough in the series that it's largely devoid of the jank that 1 and maybe 2 could reasonably be accused of

there's definitely a few places in 1 where you can count the polygons or see the models being copy-pasted

[arctic fern]

I guess it's your expectation of an fps
It's not titanfall 2, it's not call of duty
Complex movement tech like sprinting wasn't a concept yet

There's no parkour

[slim thorn]

ironically Halo 4 and 5 have sprinting, and 5 is one of my favorites to replay because of all the movement options 1-4 don't have

[arctic fern]

I've never played 4 or 5

I heard they sucked

[slim thorn]

everyone keeps saying that and unless it's a multiplayer thing I genuinely have no idea why

[arctic fern]

I heard the story was bad

[slim thorn]

well, except for all the people who say that because they never played them and just heard bad things

[fickle garnet]

I never fully played 5 and 4 was only okay imo

[thorny loom]

halo 4 is okay but not as good as the bungie halos

[fickle garnet]

Yeah

[glossy narwhal]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/187665246402510850/1205953695729066054/Screenshot_20240210_124510_Chrome2.jpg?ex=65da3ee6&is=65c7c9e6&hm=603ab30b0456f96f91f22efe3e4b614327804a41306e2c5fefa472513c4e0b84&

these card prices hurt

[green fulcrum]

OOF

[glossy narwhal]

and I only bought at this price cause I expect it to keep creeping up

this card is 'mandatory' at 3 copies in decks that want to use it, so supply will dwindle fast

[bronze abyss]

holy fuck didnt expect a max rank finish

[minor belfry]

Nice job!

[fresh bane]

https://vxtwitter.com/justinboldaji/status/1756469700866003354

George Lucas is a gift

[bronze abyss]

pregnant pause

[green fulcrum]

It's a real phrase

[minor plover]

it's basically a pause that's a little bigger than expected, which ... makes sense from the phrase itself

[bronze abyss]

probably one of the weirdest phrases i heard tbh

[slim thorn]

it's weird how metaphorical uses of "pregnant" have fallen out of fashion, normally it's the metaphorical meanings that get added over time

pregnant pause is the most persistent of those uses, but once upon a time you could say "pregnant with X" for all sorts of abstract Xs like meanings and feelings and ideas, and that was just normal usage

[rancid herald]

imagine being pregnant with X

carrying around the whole website

awful.

[fresh bane]

https://vxtwitter.com/OppaiJunkie/status/1756151006184816749

Godammit I was hoping this would've been an insane overhaul mod but the end kinda confirmed it's just a mock up

still insane though

I can't believe more Jojo games aren't being made at least that I'm aware of
The last good one was HFTF

[unreal idol]

I cant decide what to play. Either Darktide to try and finish some more weekly missions before the reset Sunday evening, more Pokemon Crystal Clear (about to face Sabrina, gym 15/18), or doing my YGO dailies that I really should not be ignoring

[hidden elbow]

This city has a vibe

[spiral kraken]

On sale

[quiet swift]

There's a city builder coming out later this year that's essentially just "make your own cyberpunk city", vibes and all

[arctic fern]

Oh? Which one

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2CqUuszLzk

[arctic fern]

Neat!

[quiet swift]

That's fine. When DUNE comes out your shit game will be losing a majority of subscribers. Electronic Arts and BioWare can suck my ass. You woke joke degenerates won't last long. You pricks banned me because somebody called me a [REDACTED] and then reported me for responding. Fuck all of you. Last game of EA's I was supporting. Shit company full of woke joke liberal [REDACTED] and [EXTRA REDACTED].

And he wonders why he got banned

[harsh kestrel]

I think the only thing I can agree with in terms of what this dude is saying in this rant is that EA is a shit company still. BioWare on the other hand, I'm not exactly sure what things are like over there, so I can't really comment on that one. Besides that, yeah, this dude is a child lol

[thorny loom]

Dune has a game

?

[static bluff]

Dune does indeed have an MMORPG coming out, allegedly

The trailer looked dope.

[quiet swift]

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

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Kz6x0OhAmSM

[gaunt marten]

No memes please

(It is a cool video though)

[quiet swift]

(it's more a machinima than a meme)

[visual hill]

trying out Lossless Scaling's frame generation that works on any game, LSFG1. This is a 120 FPS video, so make sure to watch it on a 120 Hz display or greater if possible

(it's off-screen recording because it can't be recorded directly, not with good framepacing at least)

it's pretty good at converting 60 FPS to 120 FPS as shown here, not so much at 30 FPS to 60

I also toyed with AMD's Fluid Motion Frames but it's more restrictive in the games it can run on, and only runs on AMD GPUs. It also likes to turn itself off temporarily if too many things change on screen, something LSFG1 avoids

[minor belfry]

It feels odd watching it at 120 fps, like it feels too fast for that game. But good job!

[river veldt]

https://fixupx.com/oldinternetfeel/status/1756806624197357722?s=46

[gaunt marten]

My wrist can't lift that much

[random steppe]

I'm kind of obsessed with this Ace Combat 7 video
Some context and also spoilers because this is basically the climax mission of the story.

||Basically like in every AC there is a big flying fortress to defeat and the war hinges on it happening, in this case it's Arsenal Bird which is unmanned and make use of unmanned drones to fight.||
||Another feature is this shield that makes it so it's impossible to attack it when it's active and it relies on being externally power by this facility that the lady in the comms is desperatily trying to sabotage to allow you to finally attack it.||

The way they timed the music and how damn good this dude playing is to time that ||post-stall manouver|| makes it such a perfect damn moment, that I watched this dozens of times and i got chills every time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_c7rNuehwg

[gaunt marten]

Have you played uh

Luftrausers?

[random steppe]

I did I'm pretty sure

[gaunt marten]

Sweet

Because I'm getting luftrausers vibes out of this

[random steppe]

Only a couple of hours, also I was never very good at it

[gaunt marten]

It's an insanely hard game but it has like three hours of content

I made a mod that makes it easier if you want to see the harder content but can't put in the effort

[random steppe]

Thanks for the offer, I actually am not even sure how far I got, last I played was 2015

If I ever get back into it I'll make sure to let you know

[gaunt marten]

Turns out the difficulty is super customizable

I can tune many numbers from how much health things have, how much damage they deal, how fast they shoot

[rare garden]

just finished building the world's fair

Only took me 3 days of my life

[harsh kestrel]

Hot Wheels Unleashed 2's main story was completely fine to me, fully chill, car collecting and upgrading and whatnot, just plowing through the races, but I can confidently say that the end game of it can go fuck itself. It sticks expert level challenges in the way of 100% finishing the game, and some of the shit you're expected to do is just borderline nearly impossible. The elimination races at easy difficulty is fine still, but the ridiculous crap comes from the time trial times to beat and insane drift challenge goals (where one of them was 1.5 million for crying out loud). So yeah. Probably not gonna finish that as nice as that was considering I grew up with plenty of Hot Wheels and other toy cars like them as a kid, but I'm not losing my sanity over a damn game about these things just for 100% lol

[thorny loom]

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/controllerd-chaos?

[hidden elbow]

I want to play a game where you play as dude with yellow paint and you have to guide player with it

Like paint the boxes with necessary resources or paint stair case to the next location

[uneven epoch]

so. splatoon?

[hidden elbow]

No like a joke game about how devs to paint every single thing with yellow to show the player that it's interactable or important

[quiet swift]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/246900/Viscera_Cleanup_Detail/ not exactly the same, but there's a game where you're the cleaning crew after some guy has come in and killed everything in a location and you have to clean up all the blood

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[dire gate]

Ooh, Planet Crafter finally getting its official release

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/insidergamingig/status/1756945905545036036?

[heady bridge]

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum?

[craggy vine]

pff I remember this game. Fun.

[arctic fern]

Viscera is great, haven't played it in ages

[grave tide]

Buyanov needs more money. Selling 100$ edition to make game playable and sell Tarkov Arena as independent game isn't enough

[little badger]

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/thegameawards/status/1757075949814960287?

[sour hill]

That tagline is spittin

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/charlieintel/status/1757102579157254644?

[bitter stream]

huh, interesting, will be neat to see

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay_together?snr=1_4_4__118

[quiet swift]

I still have a steam controller

[arctic fern]

same, and a steam link

[gaunt marten]

No, sorry

This

It's a general sale on Remote Play games

[arctic fern]

huh

[gaunt marten]

Any recommendations? I'm grabbing Plateup

[harsh kestrel]

Well, that game is probably about to head to greed hell

[arctic fern]

plate up is good, i'd play it with you if you wanted

[thorny loom]

Why

https://x.com/pc_focus_/status/1757116182954451308?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

PC_Focus 🔴 (@PC_Focus_) on X

Blizzard is charging $30 for portal colors in Diablo 4

the bundle actually costs $29.99, making it "almost half the price of [Diablo 4]

https://t.co/UUXdZnl2Uh

Twitter · Feb 12, 2024, 6:55 PM

[light gate]

Makes money

[thorny loom]

Oh i know

And its sad

[random steppe]

That's an absurd price for what you are getting

Compared to POE cosmetics even, and that game is F2P

[gaunt marten]

They should be selling you a new slider that has color customization for every model so I can finally make my neon genesis evangelion barbarian

[green fulcrum]

To think, this all started because Bethesda wanted money for a horse armor skin.

[bitter stream]

Was tf2 hats before or after horse armour I wonder.

[sour hill]

Before

Tf2 hats was 2009

[bitter stream]

ahh yeah, makes sense

Though I suppose mobile gaming was always ahead of the grimy monetisation curve

[white phoenix]

Too young to understand this so I looked it up and... wow
To think a $2.50 horse armor dlc got mocked relentlessly back then and nowadays no one would bat an eye

Interesting piece of gaming history

[slim thorn]

I was never into the Elder Scrollses so the horse armor was just something I heard about from EVERYONE ELSE OH MY GOD

[gaunt marten]

That's why I don't like it when people say "It's just cosmetics" or "The game is free to play so it's all right."

[slim thorn]

in retrospect it's pretty funny though

[arctic fern]

no
no its not

the funny bit is that we didnt fight harder

[slim thorn]

I mean, specifically that the big historical focal point was horse armor

the larger trend sucks obviously

[thorny loom]

Csgo skins were the original NFTs

[bitter stream]

Is this because of pricing of GaaS stuff or more the idea of MTX in general?

[thorny loom]

Yep. Really was the start of cosmetic microtransactions

Crazy how nowadays cod skin bundles can be anywhere from 10-20 $

Weapon skins being $5-$8 usually

[bitter stream]

Meanwhile, VALORANT out there selling 100$ for 1 skin for 1 gun.

[thorny loom]

Pfff

Theres a $2 million skin for an ak for cs2 right now

[fresh bane]

it starts getting concerning to me when I start noticing that gamers will actually over time come around and start 'accepting' microtransactions in a way
Back when lootboxes and microtransactions were getting way out of control and it was all people talked about because of how predatory they were getting around like 2019ish, whenever Battlefront 2 had come out and people were talking about it, I remember some people would actually defend previous forms of microtransactions while getting outraged at the current more predatory ones, and it just made me realize that the whole plan these companies have of pretty much being like ''ah don't worry what they say now, they'll come around'' actually does work

[thorny loom]

Aka. The toad in boiling water analogy

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, the analogy is not correct so I don't like to use it.

[thorny loom]

Oh

[slim thorn]

getting customers gradually used to things is a very powerful strategy for both good and evil

[gaunt marten]

But the planned erosion of standards in what consumers will accept is real

[slim thorn]

sometimes the new thing is genuinely useful but people are confused or wary of it at first

[white phoenix]

...and then you think of what else in the world this strategy applies to

[slim thorn]

sometimes the new thing is shoving microtransactions in their face every five seconds

of course, that only keeps working because people are buying them

[bitter stream]

yeah like, why is CS2 so popular and so successful, even with all the years of anti-lootbox work by various parties, people just love crackign cases, and selling/buying skins on the steam marketplace

I suppose it's just like a casino business right?

Everyone know the house always wins, but people go there anyway

[slim thorn]

in a lot of cases they're just digital casinos slipping through loopholes in current legislation

[unreal idol]

It's sad to see gaming brought this low

[slim thorn]

some aspects of that should simply be made illegal, like the obfuscation of how much things really cost and a lot of the pressure tactics and predatory models and so on

the fundamental concept of a free to play game relying on cosmetic microtransactions can be a healthy one, especially for those genres where a single upfront payment doesn't make much sense, but it badly needs more limits

[thorny loom]

In fairness cd alot of skin casino stuff got cracked down by valve

[bitter stream]

lol are you joking?

The sites that were outside Valves control got cracked down on sure. but the base business of valve is a lottery system

The casino is CS2

not the s ites outside of it

[thorny loom]

Ah you meant it like that

Yeah that hasn’t changed much.

[bitter stream]

mhm! And like, all the meta media around it supports it too. People make "cracking 1000 cs2 cases" videos and get 10 billion views.

Whereas a video on like, "hey these cases suck" gets like 10 lol

[fresh bane]

It also doesn't help that usually the audience for those videos is either kids/teenagers and or adults with a crippling addiction to gambling

An example of one particular model I hate when it comes to these microtransactions is how Capcom decided to do things in SF6 where you purchase in game currency with money instead of just directly paying for any DLC (here's where most people defend the prior form of microtransaction because the current one is worse), but it's not just that you have to purchase another currency with your money, the amounts you get are inconvenient to put it lightly, and it's made in a way that the lowest amount you can get is just too low but the next amount is probably too high, so you're probably gonna need to purchase the lowest one two times if you want to just get the one thing, but now you have this useless leftover currency that will go away in a set amount of days, so it's not even permanent currency

[bitter stream]

yikes.

yeah, no wonder I saw people complaining about sf6's monetization a while back

Tekkens "earn your clothing" system is so much cooler.

Though I've not looked in detail at T8 because I'm still learning T7

so it might have some insidious stuff somewhere, who knows

[fresh bane]

You don't even get colors in SF6 either, you have to purchase the basic character colors with another currency this one is not purchasable but you also can't really farm it in any way because you can only get this currency whenever the game will activate events to even allow you to get it at all

[bitter stream]

oh yeah that's so silly. Basic colours shouldn't be locked at all.

Hey nire, how do you go about learning a BnB combo? Just lab it out untill it's muscle memory?

[fresh bane]

Kinda, I'm still learning that stuff myself but ideally I like to teach myself at least one or two combinations that I know I can reliably perform and then the rest is just improvising and adjusting mid match
I only really lab stuff shortly because if I lab something too much I'm gonna be too focused on trying to nail down the combo during a match instead of actually paying attention to all the other things and play the game

[bitter stream]

ah yeah, that makes sense, thanks!

[fresh bane]

It's different for everybody so just find what works for you, a lot of people just love to spend 100 hours on the lab to perfect their stuff and other people just like to brute force it and learn during matches instead, I just happen to be in between those two

[bitter stream]

yeah, I'm just so unused to the controller and while it's better than KB+M for tekken in particular I don't have enough practice with it and the game to sort of lock in the button combinations/sequences yet

Just gonna have to put time in if I want to be able to pull them off

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/Duckable_/status/1757036029490737341

bruh

[gaunt marten]

They don't need to pay anyone to do this.

[fresh bane]

That's actually scummy as shit, devs patching speedrunning skips is already pretty scummy because only speedrunners are exploiting those things but hosting this entire thing knowing what you're gonna do is just next level

Man it sucks that this game looks like it's actually good but it's tied to... this

[chilly mural]

atleast there is a monetary incentive to do it?

[gaunt marten]

Patching speedrunning skips is not scummy. It's desirable

[chilly mural]

wait no, it was something else

my b

[gaunt marten]

(With the exception of speedrunning tricks that normal people won't run into)

[young creek]

having the contest is cool

they could have done this without the contest by just watching a WR run?

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

[young creek]

Nothing scummy about doing it this way

[astral steeple]

that is kinda scummy yeah

[wind stump]

I don't like the idea of using speedrunners as QA testers, especially without informing them beforehand

[gaunt marten]

Why do you think it's scummy?

[gaunt marten]

They're not being used as QA testers. QA testers use specific testing methodologies.

[wind stump]

it's kinda shooting the whole idea of speedrunning the game in the foot if you remove all the fun tricks you can do

[astral steeple]

literally intentionally having the contest to trick speedrunners into discovering skips, just so they can patch them just to completely kill off speedrunning the game completely

that is extremely scummy

[gaunt marten]

Why do you think that's their intent?

[astral steeple]

because its ubisoft

[wind stump]

They were still used to point out bugs they needed to fix.

Well, "needed"

[gaunt marten]

Observing public player videos and fixing bugs they run into is something every game developer does because it makes the game better.

[astral steeple]

in this case it wasnt just public videos

it was them intentionally holding the contest just to patch them

essentially tricking the speedrunners

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, but imagine they did not hold the contest

What would happen?
1- Speedrunners would find the tricks anyway.
2- Videos would be posted.
3- The tricks that cause problems for normal players will be patched.

[wind stump]

I dunno, there's something about hosting a contest and then patching out all the bugs shown in that contest sits a little wrong with me

[gaunt marten]

Would you rather they don't host the contest, or would you rather they patch the game then host the contest?

[wind stump]

It's like
"Hey speedrunners! We like you!

Just kidding, we removed all the cool shit, thanks!"

[wind stump]

I don't want this to set a precident, even if it means speedrunners get paid, because it feels a little ingenuine.

[gaunt marten]

It does not set a precedent because this is already the norm!

[astral steeple]

they should have just left the skips in the game to begin with

so people could still have fun doing the skips that they liked doing

[wind stump]

You mean, hosting contests and then patching out bugs?

[astral steeple]

that helped them with speedrunning

[gaunt marten]

No, patching out bugs.

[wind stump]

No I understand the bug thing, but hosting a contest first seems a bit counterproductive to community relations.
Like, if they were game breakingly bad, sure (and probably should have been picked up in QA but eh) but stuff that makes a full game speedrun more entertaining should be fine. imo.

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, did they patch every bug the speedrunners found, or only ones that were detrimental to the experience of normal players?

[astral steeple]

pretty sure it was all of them

[slim thorn]

is anyone in this conversation actually playing the new PoP and is familiar with the severity of the specific bugs that were patched?

[gaunt marten]

Why are you sure it's all of them?

[wind stump]

I'm not sure, I'm just going off of "Hosting a speedrun, and then locking out those tricks used in that contest."

Like I guess you could find a workaround by downpatching your version of your game but I dunno how you'd do that with Ubi's launcher requirements.

[gaunt marten]

No developer EVER patches every bug

[wind stump]

... You have a point, lmao.

[static bluff]

I thought this said "Shark if you don't think"

[gaunt marten]

I don't like Ubisoft, and I'm boycotting them

But I don't think they did anything wrong here.

[wind stump]

Just different perspectives, I guess.
I feel it's a little underhanded to host a speedrun competition and then patch out the tricks used in said speedruns, but I'm not going to make a fuss about it.

[gaunt marten]

Did they do that with intention to deceive people?

[wind stump]

Speedrunners got paid, bugs got patched, everyone wins, basically.

[wind stump]

Probably not, I think I am just a tad defensive of preserving speedrun techniques if they don't break the game for casual players

See the BLJ in Mario 64 for instance

[gaunt marten]

The BLJ is fine to preserve because it does not impact regular players negatively.

Some developers go above and beyond and implement speedrunning tricks as features, but make them tricky enough so that the speedrun has a high skill ceiling and casual people don't accidentally stray off the intended path

(See Crystal Project)

[wind stump]

[slim thorn]

or Tunic

[gaunt marten]

Tunic is amazing

I'm waiting for a good sale on it

[slim thorn]

my experience is when there is a developer around to ask why something was patched out, the answer is inevitably that it either affected casual play or it was completely unintentional

[gaunt marten]

Speaking of sales, the Steam beta has a new feature where you can buy a game and mark it private at the same time, https://i.imgur.com/1uLL8aw.png

[slim thorn]

Ubisoft does a lot of bad things, but for financial reasons, and "paying speedrunners to QA test" doesn't make any financial sense (especially if these glitches were well-known long before the tournament, which I think they were based on the phrasing in the screenshots above)

[wind stump]

Ah so I can buy my weird anime games in peace now, fantastic

[slim thorn]

heck, for all we know, they were delaying the patch to after the tournament was over

[gaunt marten]

And you can mark games as private from the library https://i.imgur.com/HYViwWR.png

This is perfect for idle games, so your library is not cluttered with twenty "6000 hours" games

[rugged flax]

we all know the real reason for this
to hide the 42 dozen NSFW furry VNs in your Steam list from everyone else

[slim thorn]

this joke is being told often enough that now I feel weird for not having any of those furry VNs in my library

[gaunt marten]

You're supposed to just pirate those

[harsh kestrel]

Most of the stuff I just scrolled past, a lot call it pitiful, disgusting, annoying, but I just call it typical from the same companies that pull this crap, and then on top of it, at points, the consumers still buy into it and end up as part of the problem, making these already greedy companies push it even further

[thorny loom]

I just laugh at the obvious meme ones

Like one where the girls are ww2 era tanks

[dire gate]

Well BLJ was instantly fixed in the next version anyway

[gaunt marten]

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[green fulcrum]

Man, the memories this brings back...does anybody remember the old Aveyond RPGMaker series? Those were my childhood, and what got me into the RPG/JRPG genre.

[gaunt marten]

I have not heard of it

[green fulcrum]

They're relatively unknown and rather small these days compared to other games in the genre (and also very old, and it shows). Frankly, they're nowhere near as good as I once thought they were as a kid, but I still love listening to their soundtracks. Unlike other RPG Maker games, the creators of the Aveyond series actually hired proper composers to do their music, and while the first game's music was a little rough, from the second game onwards it was actually really good.

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/AxfKMpXIW7k?si=2SvrA7OH5CRflxwG

asking the real fucking questions here

(also the timing of this is EXTREMELY funny given the current gaming discourse surrounding yellow paint/tape to guide players on what to interact with)

[random steppe]

I still think shit like that is insanely cool

It's so jank but at the same time it adds to the experience for me.

It feels like following one of the fake guides to ||save aeirth|| in ff7 that were going around back in the day, but it's actually true and it works

[gaunt marten]

You should try the super secret boss in Death's Gambit

[random steppe]

I didn't vibe much with death gambit when I played it for a bit

[gaunt marten]

It's not for everyone. The super secret boss is something super unique, though

It has some of the most creative game design of all time

[random steppe]

I seem to be pretty picky with 2d soulslikes, I couldn't even tell you what didn't click exactly

I think it's a good game

[gaunt marten]

Well it's okay

It's this part that shines the most

[random steppe]

I might give it another shot when I am in the mood, once the schedule opens up

[gaunt marten]

If you like, you can watch me play that part

But if you're going to ever play the game I'd rather you experience it for yourself.

Here's some history about it that you won't learn about in the game:

[random steppe]

I actually don't mind being spoiled, maybe if I find the idea interesting it would be a good motivational factor to go through the game, why is it so unique?

[gaunt marten]

Initially, the only hint to the super secret boss was introduced as a little code inside the IGN trailer

[random steppe]

Feel free to spoiler tag the stuff which you consider spoilers, I will click on them

[gaunt marten]

You would take the code ||and put it into a locked machine in the game, taking out the dark magic tome... The only weapon that can hit five invisible fragments of the boss scattered across the world with hints for each one||

||After you have all five, you unlock a whole new region of the game that goes into a mindscrew ARG direction, with unique mechanics and design that doesn't bother trying to stick to realism.||

[random steppe]

That sounds pretty cool, good way to ||make you feel like you are doing something you are not supposed to, reminds me of inscription ||

[gaunt marten]

If you finish all of the different puzzles there, ||you get to finally fight the boss, who disappears after you hurt him by traveling through time. In order to continue the fight, you have to wait for him to show up in the new time he traveled to...||

||Or you can change your clock.||

[random steppe]

Lol

[gaunt marten]

The latter is the intended mechanic with hints in the game that tell you about it

[random steppe]

They were definitely cooking

[river veldt]

i love games that reproduce the feeling that playground rumours and creepypastas made me feel

like the ||Snowgrave Route|| in Deltarune is a good example

[gaunt marten]

Some parts of the ||extra level include a chromatic aberration chamber filled with hanged versions of you, some of which chase you and fucking murder you|| as well as ||a completely invisible room with a creepypasta style background||

Fun fact

The developers of this game worked on Deltarune too

[random steppe]

That is in general why I don't mind From Soft games being not as forthcoming with information.
When you don't have all the information, or at least harbor a kernel of uncertainty about what's out there, then everything is technically possible.

At least to a certain extent, it sometimes can be too much

Also depends on the genre

From games that I expect it from I like it, but hide mechanics in IDK, a strategy game and I am gonna be mad

[gaunt marten]

Crystal Project is one game that does both exploration and perfect information well

The JRPG part hides zero information from you, while the world is tailored to lead you to have as many surprises as possible

[random steppe]

I will play it at some point

[gaunt marten]

I've seen people play it in a super interesting way

Where there was one player who played the game, but the other players get to make decisions for one of the four characters

[random steppe]

It is a trip to see a JRpg with straight up Minecraft aesthetic, it completely breaks my brain for no reason

[gaunt marten]

What class they are, what equipment they use, and so on

[gaunt marten]

Yes! Crystal Project basically rewired my brain and I think about the same parts of the game world very differently from before

It's wild how different it is

[bronze abyss]

hold bird gently like a burger

[rotund forge]

birdger

birber

[bronze abyss]

bullying kids into disconnect may be the most satisfying thing in gaming history

no words even needed,just pure dogpilling in game

just a couple more wins and im set

[bronze abyss]

probably one of the most stressful comebacks

[dense crypt]

nice job

[bronze abyss]

jfc theres so many macro users in this rank,mfs are throwing out frame perfect electrics UNTELEGRAPHED like its nothing then drop basic as shit other inputs

their ass is not doing that legit online with shit internet especialy when the rest of their gameplay is garbage

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/gMvx9edsaKQ?si=FUpxF8K3WdHUqtdS

looks clean

[chilly mural]

[light gate]

idk but something looks off with these textures

[thorny loom]

https://www.gamesradar.com/ea-flop-immortals-of-aveum-reportedly-cost-around-dollar125-million-former-dev-says-a-aaa-single-player-shooter-in-todays-market-was-a-truly-awful-idea/

looks at doom eternal
Sure EA sure

[dire gate]

4 years ago is definitely not today /j

[quiet swift]

oh right. I get a free yearly membership to that EA subscription thingie. Might as well try that game...

Weren't you mildly interested in a code for that game, @thorny loom

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/insidergamingig/status/1757394223089762676?

[strong pebble]

This is bad

[worldly summit]

RPGMaker XP (2005) is currently free to keep on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/235900/RPG_Maker_XP

Steam

RPG Maker XP

RPG MAKER lets you create an original role-playing game without any prior specialized knowledge or training. RPG MAKER XP is full of the functions you've been asking for, including game data encryption and a scripting feature that lets you change the very heart of the RPG MAKER engine.

Price

$2.49

Recommendations

910

▶ Play video

[gaunt marten]

Yep, see my earlier message about the same topic

[gaunt marten]

Here

[worldly summit]

sweet

I did do a search for the title before I posted but ig that link didn't hit

also, this seems cool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokémon_Essentials

[wind stump]

tiny rogues is hard

[gaunt marten]

Correct. That's what makes it good

[wind stump]

but it makes me feel bad, lol

[gaunt marten]

You can use the cheat console to make the game a little easier

[minor plover]

Balatro price announcement was made today: $14.99 on steam, releases on Feb 20. Will also release on PlayStation/Nintendo Switch/Xbox and there's plans for a Mac release but that one will be delayed.

[gaunt marten]

The best way to improve is to play at a difficulty that's just a little above your comfort zone

[wind stump]

[thorny loom]

At some point rn i have too much on my plate lmao

Make bioware release a dragon age hd collection already

[quiet swift]

i wish

Or some more C&C remasters

[thorny loom]

Lmao opera https://vxtwitter.com/operagxofficial/status/1757102336428650948?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

[rugged flax]

https://youtu.be/AFvfjWvqCrU

[thorny loom]

Oooh

[rugged flax]

so Microsoft just added Dune to MSFS

🪱

[thorny loom]

Dragonfly

[arctic fern]

wow opra is late to this joke

[thorny loom]

Helldivers 2 looks pretty fun ngl

[rugged flax]

never thought I'd see the day that there'd be an Ornithopter in MSFS

[river veldt]

Opera is late to every joke

[strong pebble]

This is awesome I like how it dives and folds wings

[light gate]

Opera is the browser that tries to be so cool and yet feels sussy to use.

[bronze abyss]

non-gx opera browser is surprisngly good

still no comparison for firefox

[hidden elbow]

firefox is the best

[light gate]

I just use

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/383180/

Steam

Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition

Continue the story of the outbreak and see another paradise gone to hell - fully remastered.Paradise gone to Hell!Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – and now more beautiful than ever. Caught in the midst of an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!The Dead Island ExperienceSma...

Price

$2.99

Recommendations

4753

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lmao why even buy games if they're gonna be 100% off in ten years anyway?

[wind stump]

ooh, nice

[haughty ferry]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/586140/BlazBlue_Centralfiction/

Steam

BlazBlue Centralfiction

Re-live Arc System Works' trademark beautiful visuals and deep expressive combat, with improved netplay! Now is the perfect time for veterans and new challengers alike to return to the Azure! Choose from 35 unique anime-inspired characters utilizing various new and refined system mechanics. The Wheel of Fate turns again!A high-speed 2D fighting ...

Price

$9.99

Recommendations

7646

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BB is on sale for any fighting gamers interested uwu

[little badger]

Free https://store.steampowered.com/app/383180/Dead_Island_Riptide_Definitive_Edition/

Steam

Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition

Continue the story of the outbreak and see another paradise gone to hell - fully remastered.Paradise gone to Hell!Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – and now more beautiful than ever. Caught in the midst of an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!The Dead Island ExperienceSma...

Price

$14.85

Recommendations

4760

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[gaunt marten]

Yep I just said that

[graceful bridge]

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/destiny-2-the-story-so-far

[wind stump]

Someone at Humble was like.
"WAIT.
I CAN MAKE A WITTY TITLE FROM THIS, SOMEONE CALL UP BUNGIE"

[graceful bridge]

Not this bundle is only for the Steam version of Destiny 2.

[fresh bane]

Oh wow lol

Never gonna be able to pull this off ever again, the guy got so mad he didn't even do anything the next round and just ran forward and then immediately quit during the win screen

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLJkg_B3gyY Quite interesting

[gaunt marten]

Great thumbnail

[quiet swift]

I mean, it sets the story up :X

[gaunt marten]

I'm not being sarcastic

It's great because it's informative and not obnoxious. It shows the story details (steam and kinguin) and tells you what happened

[wind stump]

[thorny loom]

Nerd

[thorny loom]

@random steppe

https://vxtwitter.com/teamcherrygames/status/1094873855464599552

[quiet swift]

[bitter stream]

is this legit?

[thorny loom]

There were rumors of something tomorrow or on the the 15th being shown

[light gate]

Feb 11, 2019

[thorny loom]

But it remains to be seen

[light gate]

Japed

[thorny loom]

Mostly from the rumored nintendo direct

[thorny loom]

Has it really been 5 years already

[light gate]

The tweet

Yes

[thorny loom]

Man

On that note the subreddit is going well

[quiet swift]

[light gate]

I hope the game didn’t get canned.