general gaming

[green fulcrum]

Oh.

That'll do it.

I don't understand why microtransactions are even in this game in the first place though. Like, the devs went out of their way to make the game as non-gamey as possible, even removing things like quest markers and compasses that are normally ARPG standards. For the devs, it was all about immersion and being able to explore and carefully pay attention to their surroundings to get everything you need.

And then suddenly there's microtransactions to completely undermine that vision? Wtf is Capcom thinking? The whole point and vision of the game is why people wanted to play it so badly. Has nobody learned anything from BG3?

[random steppe]

Capcom is just being Capcom

#1032716748887179434 message

They have always been iffy with MTX and have steadly gotten worse

[grand cargo]

oh ha another one fell into the hellhole.

[random steppe]

Maybe this wll be the one to finally shift the narrative on them, or maybe it'll be the call for them to turn it around.

[green fulcrum]

Oh, and DD2 is a single-player game. It's even MORE pointless to have microtransactions now.

[dire gate]

As someone who probably has the least negative opinion on microtransaction in this server, my opinion was "wow that looks real bad"

[green fulcrum]

Wow, the comments on Steam are cancer. Sooooooo many Capcom stans white knighting this game and defending the microtransactions and telling everyone else who are rightfully complaining about them to "get good and eat the shit you paid for".

[craggy vine]

Working towards a sustainable future

[wind stump]

and yet you still engage with it thus it works

welcome to social media, where any publicity is good publicity

[dire gate]

Even their username

Moore's law is dead

[craggy vine]

Apparently you're not allowed to make fun of people on the internet anymore

[craggy vine]

Maybe the 10th time I have seen someone say something like that to me

[wind stump]

i mean, you chose to talk about it in a way that made you look like you were angry with it

[craggy vine]

I just like to show something funny. But half the time it seems whenever I try to communicate it would have been better off saying nothing.

I do hate it

But I also like to talk about it as well. I get that I can just ignore it, and sometimes that is better. But some stuff is fun to talk about.

[wind stump]

i hate it too, i just don't choose to talk about it because frankly, it's not worth my energy

yeah the clickbait is absurd, but they know it is.

[craggy vine]

I mean I just talk about it cause I also find it funny

[wind stump]

or choose not to talk about it, i guess

english hard

[craggy vine]

It's fine if you don't like talking about it. I kinda do though.

I also regularly watch videos on some negative things like this, or things like negative reviews. They also give publicity to this stuff, but certainly not good ones.

[wind stump]

it be how it be

[dire gate]

Next year YouTube would be like
"NeW MeGa EvOlUtIoN!!!11!!!(totally real!!!)"

[craggy vine]

Sometimes people hating on something can be good in a significant way than just ignoring it. If you ignore it, it might just become worse.

[wind stump]

yeah but like
honestly, i don't have the energy for that anymore
there's already so much bad shit in the world, i'd rather focus on the positive

or at worst, something dumb and minor like a silly glitch that doesn't hurt anyone

i'm just A Guy™️, i've done my fair share of being in the Internet Drama Trenches, it's genuinely not worth getting all worked up over some clickbait

it's silly and absurd, sure, but it's like, they know that, it's how they make money, it's not really going to change

[slim thorn]

also, there's a big difference between critiquing something and hating it

a fair and balanced evaluation of the pros and cons of something is extremely valuable

but the easiest and often most profitable content to create on the internet is the kind that leans into blind memetic hatred regardless of reality or context

that kind of clickbait simply needs to be ignored; to do anything else is to encourage more of it

[wind stump]

[slim thorn]

except, of course, drawing attention to better content

[wind stump]

as i said, any publicity, good publicity thanks to Da Algorithms

[slim thorn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o3i10OuMFQ for example

[wind stump]

lemmie add that to my evergrowing backlog

[static bluff]

I really liked his series on space exploration games. This one wasn't able to hold my attention as well, but I like that it was created.

[slim thorn]

it might help that out of all the games mentioned in the video I've played a handful at most, so a lot of this was brand new information to me, and even what he says about the games I did play put them in a context I was completely unaware of when I played them

[static bluff]

Speaking of good content in YouTube, did y'all see that veritasium video on samurai swords that came out yesterday? Oh my God that was awesome...

[slim thorn]

e.g. when I played KotoR, I thought of it as "whoa, a licensed game that doesn't suck?" and had no inkling of it being a turning point in RPGs being consolidated into fewer larger studios, console-ified, and action-ified

[static bluff]

It literally helped me understand Dwarf Fortress better

[slim thorn]

haven't gotten into veritasium (yet?)

[static bluff]

Oh, I'm going to link it then.

https://youtu.be/Tt6WQYtefXA?si=VquFlr1xi1zW9xQl

[young creek]

this number pisses me off

[craggy vine]

I need to try watching less youtube

It takes up too many hours in my day

Fuuck I am so invested in Urge right now... It the first game in ages that I have actually felt excited for

I'm watching the update teaser trailers like I'm an avid football fan watching football

[hidden elbow]

pizza tower officially CONQUERED

[chilly mural]

me when the 16th letter of the alphabet

[grand cargo]

Some extreme masochism gameplay

[harsh kestrel]

The Capcom shit is what I like to call typical AAA trash considering so many companies are taken over by business dickheads that could give less of a fuck about us and what we want just so they can make any kind of money. At least the vast majority of gamers have a good mind to not fall for that disgusting garbage and will hopefully keep doing so

[wind stump]

diablos more like diablose my fucking mind

[harsh kestrel]

Diablow, as in, a new low for a company ready six feet under in terms of reputation

[thorny loom]

Whats next capcom pachinko machines

Reminds me of another company https://youtu.be/_ht4dbyPIcM?si=jzwcpo8S0fs1R4U3

[quiet swift]

You say that but the most recent dev talk thing have shown they are making absolutely gigantic changes to itemization. Practically a new game.

Unless we're talking diablo immortal then yeah, fuck that noise

[wind stump]

i mean Diablos, the monster from Monster Hunter World

[quiet swift]

Ahh. Yes, he's an asshole

[thorny loom]

insert the think mark meme here

[river veldt]

whoa i think Arkham Knight got an update on Switch

it looks a lot better and runs a bit faster too

[gaunt marten]

Me when I get new glasses

[thorny loom]

Yeah it was needed. There was performance issue reports on it

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/wario64/status/1771213817155862711?

[thorny loom]

Inb4 ign says it has too much water again

[wind stump]

too much water

laugh

[wind stump]

NO HANDLER NOT "NEXT UP DIABLOS"

i need better armor first!

[graceful bridge]

https://bsky.app/profile/oakydeer.bsky.social/post/3koatdobbst2i

[weak river]

I threw an Eagle Airstrike stratagem into a massive crowd of bugs once.

The airstrike beacon proceeded to bounce off the head of one of the bugs, fly behind friendly lines, and the ensuing bombardment wiped out 3/4 of us.

It was definitely funny.
...to me, at least.

[thorny loom]

Friendly fire is fun indeed

https://x.com/owcavalry/status/1771236170405380565?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Overwatch Cavalry (@OWCavalry) on X

#Overwatch2 PvE Content has reportedly been SCRAPPED 🚨

"Developers were informed that the company does not plan to finish any of the remaining planned PvE content and will instead double down on competitive player vs. player gameplay," sources told @jasonschreier.

Twitter · Mar 22, 2024, 6:03 PM

This things been a dumpster fire

[bronze abyss]

they should have done pvp only in the first place not waste resources on PVE when the main game is broken

its almost like another smaller dev did this with a fighting gam

[thorny loom]

The real reason was bobby

Iirc he forced reallocated resources for it to other projects which inevitably made it canned

[fresh bane]

Some clarifications, because I see people on the internet getting way too mad without actually checking any details
All of the microtransactions are stuff you can obtain in game already, the game is not like a mobile game where its designed in such a way to basically force you to get them, they just added in mtx for stuff you already get by just playing, just like they did with RE4R and DMC5 and a bunch of other games, it's the equivalent of buying rings in Sonic or coins in Mario, it's not defending it but there's a huge difference between that and what most people think when they think about mtx, and I hope people understand that this isn't a Dragon's Dogma issue just like it wasn't an RE issue or DMC issue, it's a Capcom issue so they should be blaming Capcom not the developers of this game who had nothing to do with the decision

[thorny loom]

Oh im aware of it being in the game already they did the same sort of thing with REmake 4

[quiet swift]

The plan they had pre scrapping was 3 missions every 18 months

[thorny loom]

Yikes

[fresh bane]

https://vxtwitter.com/GHBSmith/status/1771172013068951606

just to add to the Dragon's Dogma 2 thing because things are really heated right now and I don't want people to fall into the trap of believing others lying or greatly exaggerating the impact and effect these mtx have on the game just because it's criticizing something we all agree sucks

[arctic fern]

sure

[fresh bane]

https://vxtwitter.com/realMax0r/status/1771104077474091441
this post said it perfectly, this is just a Capcom thing and I really don't know what's going on with the suits at Capcom because they keep doing these for every game but these are the most inoffensive, unnoticeable and unimpactful mtx, people only found out RE4R even had these because they started making articles and tweets about it, otherwise nobody would've known

[arctic fern]

but the fact the MTX exists is a very legitimate reason to not buy or play the game

and to be mad

id argue the fact you can get these things so easilly highlights how stupid the MTX actually are

[fresh bane]

You don't have to argue because that's exactly what I'm getting at, I'm saying that a lot of people are reading microtransaction and they think something else when it's not the case, these feel like stuff that got added once the game was already finished just to meet a quota because some suit told them to put them in the game, not defending their existance at all
There are also way bigger issues to complain about, like the performance of the game, which I feel are vastly more important than microtransactions that have absolutely no impact on the game because the game wasn't designed in a way to get you to buy them

Not saying they should be there, just saying that people are blowing it out of proportion and making it something that it's not, regardless of how I feel about microtransactions I don't like seeing that so I'm just clarifying

[wind stump]

max0r

[thorny loom]

https://fxtwitter.com/linustech/status/1771258088110071986?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Linus being savage

[bitter stream]

isn't linus the asshole who sold shit he didn't own?

[rugged flax]

among other things and a habit of clickbait YouTube videos

[thorny loom]

Yeah that was a major L moment

A broke clock is right twice a day though

[rugged flax]

I'm still salty about them ragging on the Linux community during that whole daily driving Linux thing back in 2021. You broke it because it did exactly what you told it to do.

[arctic fern]

i do not belive this is 0.1% of players

[dense crypt]

hoxxes manual

ROCK AND STO-

Wait is that a DRG achievement

[arctic fern]

DRG survivor

i think its a new acheivement which is why it has the low number

[dense crypt]

Ah i see

[quiet swift]

Aha, my extra copies have arrived!

[fickle garnet]

Damn three extra copies of each?

[hidden elbow]

Dogma 2 review

[quiet swift]

Yup. Worked customer service for swtor so I could get them. I offer them for cheap - basically I give the codes on EA Play/origin in exchange for something off my steam wishlist. Been doing this for years now

[fickle garnet]

Oh huh

[quiet swift]

People in the channel can vouch for it 🙂

[fresh bane]

Oh, huh, you can actually shoot someone's gun out of their hands in cyberpunk

neat

[quiet swift]

Yes, but why use that sniper when you can get a sniper that shoots large explosive bullets

[fresh bane]

I guess it's more my V's style, I've been gearing her to go for a more stealthy agile sharpshooter style character and I tend to not go guns ablazing, I only use Rebecca's shotgun when I have no choice and when my pistol doesn't cut it (also because she's my waifu)

[quiet swift]

Yes, but.

[gaunt marten]

https://youtu.be/vgvQEoRU0tg?

[quiet swift]

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

BOOM

[fresh bane]

I don't believe I've gotten that rifle...

I dig the gold V, it's always interesting seeing what other people's V looks like

this is mine

[graceful bridge]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/03/dragons-dogma-2-is-gritty-janky-goofy-tough-and-lots-of-fun/

One time, I had to reload the game because my character—the “Arisen,” savior of the continent, heralded throughout the land—got stuck between a stone hut and an angled hill behind it. Someday, he will challenge the world-conquering dragon, but today, he can’t turn sideways or climb three feet.

[fickle garnet]

This save system feels so stupid to me
https://youtu.be/qLUmHyx9fis?si=UB0XsnblTO76g-TC

[graceful bridge]

Also, please do not try to run this game natively on Steam Deck—not now and probably never in the future.

[bold sonnet]

I am generous to new releases in these times. I always give them a month or two to fix stuff, I always expect them to be broken, so I never buy them on first days (although I know they should work well when they RELEASE it)

[slim thorn]

the unfortunate reality of software development is there are also guaranteed to be bugs that only happen to paying customers after release no matter how thorough internal testing was

(on top of all the companies releasing things that clearly weren't debugged enough; I dunno if this is one of them)

[gaunt marten]

I give new releases several years to finish development

Once they're all done and ready, I wait for a good sale on the ones that remain good

[slim thorn]

speaking of which, I'm currently playing Cave Story for the first time

(might've slightly over-waited on that one)

[gaunt marten]

Original or remaster?

I recommend the remaster

Cave Story +

[slim thorn]

Steam release with the +, I left the graphics/music/etc on their default settings

[gaunt marten]

Yeah that's the one

It has more content which is what's important

Does it have a Japanese language option like the original?

[slim thorn]

of course

[gaunt marten]

Fantastic

It's one of the games that marked the transition to modern indie development

[slim thorn]

so I've heard

[quiet swift]

From one of the boxing matches!

[quartz pawn]

I did it to myself again

[green fulcrum]

Lol, I read that as "Scalper's Card Shop" at first.

[craggy vine]

God that would be terrible..

[slim thorn]

huh, both of the siblings have "number" in their names (suu and kazu), that's gotta mean something

[dire gate]

I should clear cave story, I've been procrastinating for years

[slim thorn]

"stuff I should've played years ago" seems to be the theme with me and games lately; more Castlevania, more Ratchet & Clank, Cave Story, etc

[dire gate]

For me it is quite literally that I bought it and played a bit and left it there for years

[slim thorn]

lol

for whatever reason I seem to be unusually good at finishing (or dropping) the games I start

if there are any unfinished games I "want" to finish, I don't remember them any more

[craggy vine]

I feel the same now too. Sorta why I enjoy games that don't have much story now.

[slim thorn]

oh, personally I'm still all over the spectrum with story; there are very long games I play entirely for the story and actively avoid the gameplay, and others with essentially no story at all

so today I finished Grasstown... looks like that's roughly a third of the way through, cool

[craggy vine]

I can't recall any long story games I have finished other than gta games and the original read dead redemption

[slim thorn]

last one for me was... I guess you could argue Tangle Tower either way, but Nier: Replicant & Automata are the most recent unambiguous case of me "playing for the story"

[craggy vine]

I would love to finish Amnesia one day

[river veldt]

i used to not care about story but idk

i like the Arkham games stories

i think that's it

oh Undertale duh

and Deltarune

[slim thorn]

it's weird how Cave Story keeps reminding me of Undertale despite not really having that much in common with it

Tale did talk me into playing the original Amensia and the Penumbras on stream, that was highly entertaining

likely going to play The Bunker eventually though those 2-3 games back to back was enough for a while

[river veldt]

Dark Descent is a fire game

The Bunker is good from what ive seen but i havent watched a full playthrough yet

i do not care for Machine For Pigs or Afterbirth

or is it Rebirth

[slim thorn]

Rebirth

Afterbirth is BoI

[river veldt]

don't google afterbirth btw

[slim thorn]

I knew what the word meant long before BoI lol

no other game would ever use that in a title

[static bluff]

Oh yeah. I need to keep playing this one.

[thorny loom]

You should include the full title for future reference

Shortcuts like that tend to have bad results

[thorny loom]

Yikes if true

https://fxtwitter.com/givemebanhammer/status/1771271302109610015?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

[robust latch]

the shit about that game is just getting worse and worse

its one of those cases the developers should be forced to refund everyone

[harsh kestrel]

They'll probably take the money and run. AAA gaming, ladies and gentlemen

[robust latch]

probably

[bold sonnet]

This is absolutely outrageous they will stop all new buyers if that's the case, what a disaster why would you do that to yourself

How can you make such an anticipated title such a disaster

[fresh bane]

'Take the money and run' from what exactly? This is about Denuvo messing up people's accounts and save files, as much as people were already critical of DD2 not letting you have separate save files this has more to do with Denuvo than the game

[thorny loom]

yeah this is something they will have to patch

[fresh bane]

Just like with the performance, which is the thing people should be talking about instead and is actually a more important problem (best case scenario they'd just remove Denuvo all together, but we already know Capcom of all people won't do that)

[bleak lintel]

Single save was in the first game, has to do with the Pawn system. Deleting your save is people wanting to recreate their character. Denuvo is the true problem here.

[dire gate]

People tend to be angry for sake of being angry because often people need something to pour their emotions

[fresh bane]

It's not quite like that either, not entirely, people are getting angry about game mechanics locked behind paywalls, about games being designed in such a way that they encourage microtransactions, about the insidious nature of publishers slowly introducing microtransactions for everything until we get used to it (we're already way past that), and those are all things worth getting angry and making a fuss over, it's just a shame none of those things apply for this specific case and people are believing misinformation and things getting blown out of proportion just because they see the word 'microtransaction'

it's also weird pointing that out because it sounds like defending microtransactions when it's more saying ''if you're gonna get outraged by this at least get the information right'' more than anything

[dire gate]

Yeah that was the reason why my opinion was simply "it does look very bad" instead of anything else

Visually it really looks terrible

[fresh bane]

It looks terrible, and that's why it's so bad, the microtransactions are so useless that it doesn't even work as a way to sell anything, all the things you will obtain naturally, and it's only making people upset so everyone is losing

it's baffling

[bleak lintel]

With Dragon Dogma it’s more people don’t know this stuff is in game and you don’t need the MTX. Similar to the other Capcom games.

[fresh bane]

I feel like it goes to show how quickly people will join in on outrage or discourse surrounding something they don't fully know stuff about

[dire gate]

Now as I said, Steam's way of showing microtransaction as "additional contents" like DLC makes it look way worse than it should

MMORPGs and mobile games tend to have far, far worse microtransaction systems yet they know how to make it look less threatening

It's the difference of
"If you are having trouble, you can purchase 50 potions at $0.99, or even 200 at $2.99!"
and
"Potion pack (A) $0.99 Potion pack (B) $2.99"

And the fact that you can view it while not playing the game, or even not have purchased, makes the problem far worse

On one side, it allows you to learn if the game has microtransaction in it or not before purchasing.
On the other side, you will have absolutely no idea what those microtransactions even mean.

[fresh bane]

it definitely doesn't help matters that's for sure

[harsh kestrel]

I just said this in another server about Capcom's new game or whatever it is, but I'll say it here too. Ever since Street Fighter 6 came out, Capcom has been nothing but a greedy pain in the ass taking L after L

[fresh bane]

It's been happening way before SF6

[harsh kestrel]

I know, but what I mean is, ever since the release of Street Fighter 6, Capcom have been talking nothing but Ls ever since then, because of course, capitalist greed from suits that don't know what they're doing and don't care about player satisfaction as long as they can take the money and run. Typical AAA company garbage in 2024. I always sound like a broken record with this stuff, I know, and if it's annoying, then I apologize, but at the same time, it's just straight facts

[hidden elbow]

Also some news on Overwatch , basically because the sells of the mission dlc didnt satisfy the company ,there will be no pve content ,at all ,just multiplayer

[harsh kestrel]

So they have a shocking very rare good thing happen where they mentioned that all of the future characters added will be free for everyone, but of course that doesn't have a chance to sink in for two seconds before they, as usual, piss off everyone again. Typical Blizzard

[quiet swift]

I mean, the PVE was barely there. They have what, some short PVE missions and the plan was one set of them every 18 months. Was never gonna succeed

[dire gate]

Yeah the only bad thing about them cancelling PvE is that they promised it when they released, I think deciding to focus on a content that actually work is pretty reasonable

[quiet swift]

It was a big shift after Jeff left, and everyone's the poorer for it

[static bluff]

This parody video is Did you know Gaming is really good. https://youtu.be/kvKjP1X07tg?si=h_K6pig8AZX4Xydz

[slim thorn]

"||10,000 year old Japanese magazines buried under Chicago||" got me

[static bluff]

When they ||checked the truck for Mew and then went on to check every other tile in the game|| I died

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/InsiderGamingIG/status/1771241372579717297

[graceful bridge]

Apparently the original Helldivers is on sale for dirt cheap.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/394510/HELLDIVERS_Dive_Harder_Edition/

Steam

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Price

$3.99

Recommendations

20532

Metacritic

83

▶ Play video

[dire gate]

dayum

It's for a week, I have to think a bit but should not forget to buy it if I decide to...

[arctic fern]

the DLC isnt tho

that kinda sucks

[dire gate]

Well it says the digital deluxe edition is also 80% off

for me

[arctic fern]

oh you're right

[wind stump]

i bring you a sacrifice

[quiet swift]

[wind stump]

finally took down da bitch

[quiet swift]

Ah yes, Odogaron

[wind stump]

why do i need Odogaron scales to upgrade my fucking turkey bow

unrelated, i found a Higurashi and Fireren StS mod

[quiet swift]

[wind stump]

[quiet swift]

Fiancée got horizon forbidden west (a good 20$ cheaper there), shared it via steam family sharing thing (old version, not new).... 1440p, runs like an absolute dream

60fps as my screens are only 60 hz but still

[random steppe]

Nice

I have a bunch of games I want to get to in the next few months so I will delay that one, but I will get to it

[quiet swift]

[visual hill]

Nixxes does what Nintendon't

[north grail]

Hey, that’s SEGA’s line

[green fulcrum]

Sega lost that privilege when they kept dropping the ball.

And I say this as a fan

[gaunt marten]

https://youtu.be/VC17-HV5d50?si=sAlnJfmfYRvbG6Jm

Fucking sad how the video has been out for fifteen minutes and has no views

[green fulcrum]

I forgot how utterly broken the original games were for speedrunners, lol. Every bit of the level had a hitbox you could land on. Every bit of it.

[bold sonnet]

I have spyro games but haven't played yet, the trilogy

Because I saw it and it was $2.25

[wind stump]

hey wait a minute this is just a Quest...

[arctic fern]

vitally important question: new shoes or new pants?

[bitter stream]

Shoes I guess, You've got to walk on them, whereas you can kind of make do with bad pants.

[arctic fern]

works for me

[harsh kestrel]

At least the older games could be speed ran. Most games these days honestly can't. They're broken in the annoying sense and not the speed run sense lol

[green fulcrum]

That is objectively not true.

[slim thorn]

have you... watched any speedruns of newer games?

[green fulcrum]

Almost every game can be speedrun to some extent.

[gaunt marten]

I regularly speedrun new games

[slim thorn]

some modern games have built-in timers, game modes or achievements for it, or even have a core gameplay loop inspired by speedrunning

[green fulcrum]

In Breath of the Wild you could literally just walk up to the main boss straight from the starting cave and win the game right there if you were careful.

[slim thorn]

what's true is that the kinds of exploitable glitches you usually see in speedruns are fairly different nowadays, e.g. older games are far more likely to have "wrong warps", but newer games are just as if not more likely to have exploitable imperfections in triggers/scripts/collision/etc

[harsh kestrel]

I did say some could. Some can't

[slim thorn]

there are also games with known "dev-intended shortcuts" that speedrunners use, such as Tunic and Metroid Dread

what you said, and what everyone's objecting to, is "Most games these days honestly can't [be speedran]"

which is pretty close to factually untrue, all one has to do is look at a recent GDQ schedule and see how many modern games are on it

the Dead Space remake run had tons of flying out of bounds glitches, as one quick example of a modern game whose run felt much like an older game's run

[harsh kestrel]

If they're being ran these days, I haven't seen the vast majority of them being ran. I've seen things like the Crash and Spyro remade trilogies being speed ran, Spongebob BFBB Rehydrated, stuff like that

[slim thorn]

I mean, I just named at least three specific modern games that had great runs in the most recent GDQ speedrun marathon, one of which (Tunic) was even the opening run

if all you're seeing are old runs, that probably just means old games are the ones you're regularly searching for

[bold sonnet]

Is that true??

[green fulcrum]

Yes

It was bragged about by Nintendo, even

[slim thorn]

oh yeah, famously so, nothing in BotW or TotK stops you from running straight to the final boss after you complete the tutorial, other than of course lacking the skills needed to survive it with zero equipment

that's also the main reason the any% runs for those games are so short; I'm only familiar with TotK's atm, but most of it is getting through the Great Sky Island tutorial, duplicating a few items from the GSI to use as weapons in the final fight sequence, then glitching through the ground to fall directly into the final fight sequence

my favorite is the glitch that lets you trick the game into thinking Link is holding 10-20 of the same weapon at once, so you deal insane damage to the final boss without any of the usual upgrades (and then randomly dump all 20 of them at once in a later scene)

[random steppe]

It is an interesting question tho, are modern games on average less suited to speedrunning

[slim thorn]

to be honest, I'd say it's about the same, maybe slightly better since some are made with it in mind now

my personal experience watching both old and new games being speedrun is that the biggest differences are a) certain kinds of glitches are more or less common, and b) the completely unrestricted any% category is far more likely to be a boring ACE/wrong warp bug in an old game, but an actually interesting run in a newer game

[gaunt marten]

Games that are primarily multiplayer are less suited for speedrunning and more common nowadays

[slim thorn]

oh that's a good point, though then it depends on how old "old" is since multiplayer games go back quite a ways

[gaunt marten]

But my kind of games is still plentiful and perfect for speedrunning

[random steppe]

There is also the open world trend to consider

[gaunt marten]

Open world games are great for speedrunning because of how open they are

[random steppe]

I think open world goes both ways, the format actually makes it more speedrunnable, but also maybe a bit less interesting

[slim thorn]

yeah, I think open world usually leads to a BotW/TotK situation where the speedrun is mostly the linear start bit and the linear end bit

or categories where you specifically require doing some of the other content

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, the freedom to run interesting categories is nice

[random steppe]

For the not open world ones, there are the more linear story games than they used to, and usually, unless people find glitches to skip story beats, they tend to not be great for speedrunning

[gaunt marten]

People can and do run them in a boring way

[slim thorn]

to be fair, there are also some fully linear games that still make for good speedruns if raw player skill makes that big of a difference

[random steppe]

I've been playing FF7 Remake so I have that in mind, and that for example doesn't strike me as a great speedrunning game, on like, around 5 hours of runtime for any%

[slim thorn]

GDQ had an amazing run like that of Touhou 14.3: Impossible Spell Card in the category that uses absolutely none of the helper items, which for mere mortals isn't even possible to do casually

[river veldt]

i remember watching a Doom Eternal speedrun where Hugo Martin (the director) and a few developers were watching it and they thought it was so cool how the community found all those bugs

[thorny loom]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1237950/STAR_WARS_Battlefront_II/

Steam

STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II

Be the hero in the ultimate Star Wars™ battle fantasy with Star Wars™ Battlefront™ II: Celebration Edition! Get Star Wars Battlefront II and the complete collection of customization content acquirable through in-game purchase from launch up to — and including — items inspired by Star Wars™: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER™*. The Celebration Edition contai...

Price

$4.79

Recommendations

46961

▶ Play video

[bitter stream]

I'll note that I tried playing battlefront II and the servers didn't fill for me in OCE region at prime time

so I couldn't even get into a game

just as a heads up

not sure if it's better in NA or EU

[slim thorn]

what do you mean I can't carry two dogs at the same time

[unreal idol]

9 HP

[thorny loom]

Congrats pk

[chilly mural]

Pinsir a beast

[hidden elbow]

https://youtu.be/LO1RZncqfvI?si=a8ByfIKFZuWmeF0E

This actually looks....so much better than the demo

Like the combat , the gunplay , level design ,maybe there is a chance that this game will be good

[dire gate]

Played a few games of OG helldivers with my friend as it is dirt cheap rn

It was a fun experience

[quiet swift]

So I was just listening to eurythmics - sweet dreams on youube, paused it, randomly come across a cybperunk short about someone playing with the sandevistan, click on it... then wondered why I could still hear the music https://www.youtube.com/shorts/msZ8NxGHn4w

[unreal idol]

It's actaully a modified Pinsir. The ROM hack I've been playing gave a lot of Pokemon revised movesets to make them suck less, and it has turned Pinsir into a fucking unstoppable beast. He has Megahorn, Earthquake, Rock Slide, and Cross Chop (he cannot learn any of these moves in gen 2 and he kinda sucks as a result)

[gaunt marten]

Slash is pretty good

[unreal idol]

It's decent, but less good in gen 2 because of the fixed critical hit bug

I may have cheated to beat Stadium 2, but I still feel accomplished. I havent done a full clear of the game in possibly 15 years

(Save states were necessary for the Challenge Cup because of it being literally RNG, and I was technically using a ROM hack + also save editing to expedite team creation)

As much as people laud gen 2 and put it on a nigh untouchable pedestal, critically it has a lot of things wrong with it that I find extremely hard to ignore as an adult. Thus the ROM hack

[wind stump]

spot the main character

[quiet swift]

The cat

[wind stump]

[wind stump]

this is literally the meme of "When you hit High Rank for the first time"
fucking beetlejuice

[thorny loom]

Rare blizzard W https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/against-all-odds-world-of-warcrafts-subscription-price-hasnt-changed-in-20-years-id-rather-have-a-big-healthy-happy-audience-than-risk-driving-players-away-with-a-price-hike-warcraft-boss-says/

[gaunt marten]

Not really news

The ten dollar price point is competitive with other subscription MMOs

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/saac_news/status/1771956354229383173?

[young creek]

I like how the logo is just toy story

very obviously ripped off

[novel pine]

this looks terrible lol

[gaunt marten]

And the UI is just Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed

[wind stump]

Sonic Guys

[young creek]

i heard that game has the yogscast as characters

[unreal idol]

I finished Stadium 2 so I don't know what to play next

I could play more Paper Mario but the existence of Arzette has me wanting to play Shantae. On the other hand I have Mario Wonder to finish

[gaunt marten]

Play Shantae

[chilly mural]

Play Shantae

[light gate]

Logo looks bad, but the game looks kinda fun?

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/nextgenplayer/status/1771946553374015907?

[proud warren]

I cant tell if that's a serious announcement, because it's literally set for THE joke day; of all days to pick, why April 1st?

[light gate]

Because April 1st is not a global event.

[proud warren]

Tru

Still can't help the feeling of "what if they're pulling our leg?" Even if the feeling isn't warranted

[harsh kestrel]

Isn't he the same guy that said Sony is gonna double down on doing PC releases?

[quiet swift]

I believe so, which i'm all for

[wind stump]

the grind is real but my soul is not

[wind stump]

ballin

[bitter stream]

ooh is that layered armour?

[wind stump]

Nop!

It is actually better than all my other armor at the moment

well, Guardian armor aside but since that's DLC gear I'm choosing to ignore it because... Reasons

(read: there's not enough masochism)

[bitter stream]

oh cool! I clearly haven't gotten far enough into world lol

my armour is like a mix of the high rank metal and some divers I think

yeah I understand not using Guardian unless you're rushing to Icebourne

[graceful bridge]

https://bsky.app/profile/jocat.net/post/3kofjye2xrq2g

[gaunt marten]

Jocat is alive

[graceful bridge]

Mhm!

Seems he's mostly focused on art.

[wind stump]

Good, I hope he's doing well after the Girls Incident

God... What a shitshow that was.

[bitter stream]

It's true, Wh40k rules are complicated lol

[random steppe]

The way the late InControl put it, WH40k as a game is in part, about how much bullshit you can remember from the rules in order to win the match.
Like, it's impossible to remember everything, there is too much, there is almost a bit of a social element in calling your opponent on the bullshit they are doing that is actually wrong in high level matches.

[bitter stream]

yeah, there was a great video on this recently

especially as GW has been putting out individual rules for one off units and the like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XogVrWgOZ2o

Covers his experience in a Escalation league

[random steppe]

Thanks for the link, I'll happily check it out, WH40k minis is the one nerd hobby I don't think I'll ever get into so it's fun to hear recounted

[bitter stream]

yeah no worries! I haven't gotten through it all myself, it's fairly long and conversational

[rugged flax]

don't need to add another expensive hobby to the list

[bitter stream]

I remember trying Kill Team, the skirmish sized version of 40k, and like, even with the scaled down size and simpler rules it's really hard to grasp for when you are starting out

I tried one tournament with a friends spare team and it was... not the greatest.

there's so much cool stuff you can do

but like, so much to learn for what your opponents can do too

and no easy way to understand what that stuff is before it happens.

[fickle garnet]

oooh

Thats nice

[green fulcrum]

Even so, I'm happy he managed to find a platform again, and that he's still doing what he loves. Art and animation are some of his other passions besides D&D, Monster Hunter, and FF14.

[harsh kestrel]

I see an Allura profile pic. Someone's representing the villain that's only been seen like once or twice in 2024 lol

[slim thorn]

the main menu theme might be the best thing about Cave Story

[fickle garnet]

Holy shit theres JOJO poses in the Cyberpunk photo mode

[quiet swift]

[fickle garnet]

Theres also more

Thats not the only one

[north grail]

Please don’t do this to my favorite hedgehog…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKAhbldITjo&t=0s

[green fulcrum]

Oh, this is harmless. Sonic's been cameoing and crossing over in games for years, even waaaaay back in the early 2000s.

[north grail]

Yeah, but like in AB2, srsly, AB2 out of all the games SEGA could have picked…

AB2’s like the worst AB game iirc cuz it’s overloaded with ads + difficulty spiking up by a massive degree at some point in the game

The AB events in Sonic Dash & Sonic Forces Speed Battle are somewhat ok tho

Like, the only nitpick in there has to be the AB movie designs being used

But otherwise the AB events in some Sonic games are ok

I mean in AB2 Sonic event there’s literally nothing you really win outside of cheap cosmetics & some rather OP power-up.

But if there’s one thing positive about it, then it’s gotta be how hilariously goofy the hats look on everyone

Like, with Red wearing a Sonic hat, Chuck wearing a Tails hat, The Blues wearing Knuckles hats, Stella wearing an Amy hat, Silver wearing a Cream hat, etc.

[green fulcrum]

Idk, it still feels harmless to me.

[fresh bane]

Sailor Moon too, and a bunch of other animes and popular references and memes

[river veldt]

https://x.com/ollowjj/status/1771990443275731080?s=46

jollow (@OllowJj) on X

#tboi bein friends

Twitter · Mar 24, 2024, 8:00 PM

[static bluff]

Nessssu

Whoa! I played a perfect game

Not sure I've done that before. At least, not on a game that went all the way to checkmate.

[bitter stream]

whoa, that's cool

[fickle garnet]

Yeah i noticed some of those

[fresh bane]

this is just the ProZD skit about the mafia boss dad

https://youtube.com/shorts/RvwCGQykzCA?si=Zri9CTZg3N4b9sw1

[quiet swift]

I wanted more missions with him, just to hear more of his voice. It's awesome.

[north grail]

Zawg wtf is lil bro waffling about

https://discord.com/channels/98609319519453184/1207206173091299390

[slim thorn]

#CaveStory+: I don't know how I survived the final boss but that's the normal ending achieved

[fickle garnet]

I finished Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty... Wow

That was crazy good

[static bluff]

Oh geez you beat this so quick

[slim thorn]

tbf it's not a super long game

I'm just watching the true ending now since I'd have to replay the whole thing to get it and don't feel like going that far

[visual hill]

while we're at finishing games, I just finished Max Payne 2

[fickle garnet]

I guess i technically haven't finished it yet because i still need to do the ending it unlocks for the game

[fresh bane]

huh, okay...

sometimes the enviroments in this game have lots of cool small details, I gotta remember to look around a bit more

I also unfortunately have to reload a save and go back an hour to the last quest I did because I chose the 'wrong' option, I didn't realize I could || call Regina to give Rinder cyberpsychosis treatment instead of either killing him or letting him go, which if you do let him go, he will then send money to the family of the people he brutally murdered during one of his episodes and fuck it all up because I told them I dealt with him jesus christ...||

[bold sonnet]

I want to play this game

[slim thorn]

oh yeah, very glad I watched true ending; the complete lack of save points during that whole gauntlet would've sucked all the fun out of it for me

[fresh bane]

pff alright then

well good news is, I can access this stash anyways even if I do take the different route where he doesn't give me the code, so that's good

I appreciate games that let you do that

[bronze abyss]

i didnt know he chill like that

[harsh kestrel]

I'm ready for South Park Snow Day already lol

[fresh bane]

Johnny with his valuable input as always

[thorny loom]

Mood

[fresh bane]

jeeesus...

[light gate]

when the animation desyncs

[fresh bane]

also obligatory ''man fem V's VA is super good''
love how she talks completely differently with children than with... well, everyone else

also hey Johnny approves

[fresh bane]

after reading some of the messages she had in her computer || where a desperate parent reaches out because their kid is suffering and ill due to the excessive amount of implants these people put on her, and then a representative of this woman, not even her personally, sends back an email that basically says ''sucks to suck, you knew what you signed up for'', || I feel even more confident on the path I took

[fresh bane]

great so || even after I went back and did that differently and decided to let the guy live but sent him so he could get treated for cyberpsychosis it still leads to him feeling remorse for the killings and sending the families money anyway, this is my biggest problem with this game I thought the fact that you doing a bunch of cyberpsychosis quests for Regina before this giving you a whole new option was cool but for every cool new path like that most of them end up leading to the same outcome anyways, so why give me an option at all? ||

|| in-universe, I still would've went with this option just because from V's perspective I empathize with someone who's completely losing it and going crazy too, but if I knew it would be the same outcome I would've just killed the guy and save myself the whole moral dilemma ||

[bold sonnet]

Current state of Game chat

[weak river]

Give it a few years; I'm sure more information will be declassified as time goes on.

[fresh bane]

I wasn't going to spoiler tag any of it initially but Phantom Liberty isn't even a year old yet so I thought I'd rather be safe

[weak river]

Yes, I think you made a good choice on that front. Better to be safe than sorry.

Of course, I still do find it quite humorous when this chat reads like a Central Intelligence Agency document.

[green fulcrum]

Wow, the music in this scene is heavily reminiscent of some of the darker Myst tracks, for some reason.

I like it. Nice atmosphere.

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/playstation/status/1772232215092420744?

[wind stump]

Man.

[craggy vine]

Fuck Urge always finds a way to creep me the fuck out

I'm searching for batteries and while searching I come across this weird sound from the trees, kinda like some form of primitive music. So I go looking and there is a small camp of 2 people, both start attacking me, one with an smg. Just barely deal with that when I then realize my urid level is max, which is like, a thing that causes this radiation. So I go deal with that, drive back to hear the sound again, try to look for the source just to realize my urid level is rapidly increasing. And I'm just like fuck no I am out and the sound is just haunting me

[thorny loom]

https://x.com/mega64/status/1772248525155467623?s=46&t=ERHKsxgsCtn5dtPwShFOoQ

Mega64 (@mega64) on X

13 years ago we promised it. In one week, we will deliver. Get ready to play DOUG HUGGEM.

Twitter · Mar 25, 2024, 1:05 PM

[craggy vine]

i shall look forward to that

[random steppe]

Really, in one week?
They mean on April 1st?
Sure they are

[minor plover]

presumably that's a Duke Nukem Forever joke

[craggy vine]

its not often a game makes me this scared

[quiet swift]

Saw a gaming news article about #2 of this coming out, and it was saying that it's reminiscent of Half-life 2, especialy in the city 17 sections. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172650/INDUSTRIA/ first game's currently 5 bucks and pretty short. Played it for about 20-30 min, interesting so far

Steam

INDUSTRIA

On the evening of the fall of the Berlin wall, a young woman plunges headlong into a parallel dimension to find her missing work colleague who has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. While the checkpoints in East Berlin are still being overrun by crowds of people, Nora escapes from this world, into unknown layers of time and into an unkn...

Price

$5.99

Recommendations

1505

Metacritic

67

▶ Play video

HL2 with a smidgen of Control (some areas, not so much powers though. At least not that i've seen)

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/okami13_/status/1772267086171037846?

https://fxtwitter.com/ign/status/1772292644070171073?

[young creek]

i didnt know game reviewers gave out anything lower than 6

[thorny loom]

You must have not seen the king kong game last year

Oh wow. It must be bad if they gave it the same score as kong skull island

[hidden elbow]

I knew this will be a big mistake with a return to fantasy and unnecessary 3D

[little badger]

I did

[harsh kestrel]

Yeah, don't believe IGN on their shit. The South Park games have been good since The Stick Of Truth

[young creek]

yeah but if you actually watch the video this one looks ass

[harsh kestrel]

You're judging a book by it's cover there

[young creek]

Judging a game by its gameplay is judging a book by its writing

[unreal idol]

I just look at metacritic or steam reviews. If they are really bad then it's pretty easy to figure out if the game itself sucks, if it's the target of review bombing, or if there's something else at play

[harsh kestrel]

Plus, it's IGN. Everyone knows how out of touch they are lol

[wind stump]

seems to be mid as fuuuuuuuck

at least, compared to the prior two games (personally i liked But Whole more but ehhh)

[hidden elbow]

Oof

[thorny loom]

Has it really been 7 years since fractured but whole

[hidden elbow]

Wait what?!

[thorny loom]

Stick of truth is 10 too

[harsh kestrel]

The general public haven't really had the chance to get their hands on it yet

[sour hill]

It actually does feel like it's been a decade since that came out, for me

[wind stump]

looking at the user ratings, they about align with the critic scores soooo

bodes not well

(as in the scores for SoT/FbW)

[harsh kestrel]

I'm waiting to see what the Steam reviews end up being

[wind stump]

"ubisoft bad"

[hidden elbow]

Well ,I mean,they kinda are

[harsh kestrel]

I'm gonna be my own judge on this one

[hidden elbow]

The progress on fan restoration of a lost duke nukem s 2003 model

For recap the only screenshot of this model is from the 2003 3dr site

[green fulcrum]

Ngl, whatever horror or scary elements in this clip were kinda undermined by that dumb "huhheh-huhheh" sound every three seconds. I get it, it's supposed to simulate hyperventilation, but it does a poor job of it.

[hasty patio]

https://store.steampowered.com/category/deckbuilders

[gaunt marten]

Good genre

[visual hill]

New hardware!

[gaunt marten]

No good sales though

[visual hill]

deckbuilders are the game genre you make to make money, so that's why /s

(on average, deckbuilders are statistically the most profitable genre for indies)

[wind stump]

laughs in Sepiroth

i don't have any wings but these four hands are really to throw down

[river veldt]

https://x.com/alicezakat/status/1766823857195975097?s=46

AliceZaKat 🇻🇳 (@AliceZaKat) on X

Whoops

Twitter · Mar 10, 2024, 1:50 PM

@random steppe

[visual hill]

every skyblock player's dreaded moment

[green fulcrum]

At that point, it's better to just restart entirely, since you're still in the very early game.

[random steppe]

[quiet swift]

oof

[gaunt marten]

https://i.imgur.com/tTLhIRV.png NG+12

Barely made it

[static bluff]

Sweet! One Step From Eden is on sale because of this..

[gaunt marten]

https://i.imgur.com/BvLRRHb.png I like the surfer weapon

It's a crit fishing weapon where you deal ten times as much damage with a skill crit than with a normal attack

[wind stump]

i still don't understand how you can beat that game

[gaunt marten]

You have to beat the bosses in order

[rancid herald]

Rip paradox

[wind stump]

NOPE. I have no faith in any sort of God who has that style of headwear for their disciples!

immediately tries to kill me
I WAS RIIIIIIIIIIGHT

[untold vigil]

sounds like you're a heretic. Sun crowns are dope af

[wind stump]

that is clearly a moon

I think

[untold vigil]

i meant the statue in the back

but moon crowns also dope af

[wind stump]

ohhhh. oke, didn't see that, too busy being underlevelled and dying horribly

[untold vigil]

it do be like that

[wind stump]

Good LORD

Good GOD I can't believe these stack, I'm nearly getting 800% damage

if I get Predator or an equally high-powered Physical skull this is basically GG

...

Well FUCK.
i didn't even mean to call it!

[wind stump]

update: skill issued my way into a death at the 4th boss

[bronze abyss]

holy shit osu reference

[wind stump]

howso?

[fickle garnet]

Okay now ive actually finished Phantom Liberty

That ending made me feel things

[quiet swift]

[fickle garnet]

I think Cyberpunk is my new favorite game tbh

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/thegameawards/status/1772397953669333485?

[fresh bane]

oh boy

[arctic fern]

oh great scene

have fun

[fresh bane]

this is from earlier in this mission but this entire section was pretty fun, there wasn't a whole lot of it but I appreciated the alternate paths especially the option to distract the guard being something you can do rather than being highlighted as an option, feels very natural
only problem was Reed kept getting caught over and over and I had to redo this entire thing like 6 times I think it's because I didn't aim and look at the guards coming down the elevator (because whenever you do V will warn Reed and he'll actually hide), pretty stressful but otherwise really fun section, I like that the walls are missing so it makes it feel like you're playing a 2.5D stealth game

[quiet swift]

Pixie cut, redhead, smoldering eyes... ow, my weaknesses

[fresh bane]

she had me at redhead

she's doing it on purpose, and it's working

[quiet swift]

[fickle garnet]

i lost so much money here😭

i literally walked out with half of the 80 grand

i am never gambling irl

[fresh bane]

My V has a million edis at this point so eh I got 100k worth of chips and kept betting on red

[fickle garnet]

i have like 200k

[thorny loom]

https://youtu.be/KdKurIZA78c?si=9pwWkyjmewxSRTB_

[bitter stream]

Hey folks, if I wanted to play a good looter shooter that isn't Destiny, what would y'all recommend?

I've got Borderlands 2 and 3, but i've not gotten far in them and I was wondering if there are other good options out there.
I'm not sure if a rougelike would just be a better idea since those have random all kinds of items, but I'm hoping there's some PvE game that's not a rougelike so I can actually keep the items lol

For example, RoboQuest is great, but you swap in and out of guns so fast as you upgrade and when the run is over you're back to square one.

[quiet swift]

Suicide squad

[minor plover]

I now hold a pair of Balatro world records. Highest Constellation (base game 8.0, endless 20.7).

[fresh bane]

oh boy 💦

[quiet swift]

Choose.

[fresh bane]

|| I'm still choosing, but I'm leaning towards Songbird. I think both are 'wrong' here, I don't like how Songbird is clearly desperate and is making super rash decisions and overall seems super unstable (and okay with killing as long as it gets her out of here), but then again, she is about to die, just like me, I like Reed, but I don't like how stuck up he is with his position, I feel like at any point he could've said 'fuck it we're gonna go save my friend', but to this point he still just wants to do whatever he's ordered to do and that doesn't sit right with me ||

[quiet swift]

[weak river]

I don't play a large amount of looter shooters, but I did quite enjoy Tom Clancy's The Division 2.

• It isn't a roguelike, so you can keep your equipment (although you will have to replace them rather frequently in the early game to keep up with your character levelling up).
• The combat feels very smooth. While some enemies can feel like bullet sponges (particularly in the Warlords of New York DLC), this generally isn't a massive problem in my experience.
• I'm actually rather impressed with how the grind is set up. It's slow enough to keep you engaged for quite a while, but it is fast enough that you always feel like you're making progress. It never feels like it takes too long to level up, and there's a constant sense of progression from the beginning onward. I've invested over 100 hours into it at this juncture, and that sense of progression is still there.
• There is a diverse selection of weapons to choose from, so the game supports a wide variety of playstyles; a close-quarters assault rifle build is as valid as a long-range marksman build. The only real exceptions to this rule are shotguns, which seem to be almost entirely useless.
• It supports both team play and solo play. I can personally attest to the quality of the latter (I went through the entire game that way), but I've had enough experience with the former to say that it's pretty fun that way as well.

I would recommend looking into it if this sounds like something you may be searching for. Review videos and gameplay footage were what originally sold me on it, so I would absolutely see some of those if you're at all interested.

[bitter stream]

Thanks Stersurprise! I had looked into it a little, but I'll definitely look closer

Really appreciate the indepth response

[river veldt]

what is a looter shooter

[bitter stream]

Think Borderlands 2. A game where you shoot things to get loot to shoot other things

It can be done well, or really really badly

usually in some sort of upgrading loop

where getting better loot unlocks harder missions which unlocks better loot and so on

sometimes tied with character progression (Borderlands) or sometimes tied to only items ( Zero Sievert)

[river veldt]

hmm

i dont think ive ever played one

[bitter stream]

fair enough! they can be quite fun, in a mindless sort of way

RoboQuest is a fantastic version of it in Roguelike form, but like, that's not everyones cup of tea

[fresh bane]

|| I saved right before I followed Songbird down the stairs, for the moment I'm siding with Reed, after thinking it through a bit he's at least honest and upfront about all his stuff but with Songbird I feel like I can't 100% trust her, plus I didn't really like all the emotional manipulation from before with all her texts and her dialogue, even knowing that she's basically a cornered animal willing to do anything at this point to survive. Just like Johnny said it's gonna be a fucking mess anyways and even he didn't know who to trust (because, he's me), I guess I'm just gonna see where this leads for now, I can always just load up the save if I ever regret it ||

[quiet swift]

[fresh bane]

I'm stopping here for now and thinking it through a bit more, I still got time to go back and choose since I didn't get very far anyways, I know it's supposed to be a complicated choice where neither is the 'good' choice but still I'm pretty torn

|| also not going to lie I'm leaning towards going with Songbird because Reed offed the cute redhead from earlier I can't forgive that ||

the more I think about all the stuff leading up to this the more complicated the choice gets, I guess I can replay that whole section after taking the other path and see which one felt better and go from there since I have the save file, not knowing how long they take though I don't really know if I'm gonna fully complete both paths, especially since I kind of want to just go to the endgame already after I'm done here (I'm getting near 90 hours already)

[river veldt]

https://x.com/itsratnest/status/1772124142956941616?s=46

RATNEST - Music, Games, More 🐀 (@itsratnest) on X

welcome to the collection.

Twitter · Mar 25, 2024, 4:51 AM

[dire gate]

[bronze abyss]

bit late but atomic heart is pretty good,it has linear puzzle/combat sections and also a beautiful open world you can explore,also is intended to play through multiple times since you can find and unlock new weapons by exploring n stuff im p sure,banger soundtrack,good visuals,bunch of different abilities,and pretty fun fast paced combat.though im not sure how similar is it to your either listed examples but id def recomend checking it out

it runs pretty well too after the early-patch season and now has some more movement based dlc aswell

[rotund forge]

Just 100% Princess Peach: Showtime. That final boss fight tho. How can I phrase this without spoiling it...?

It felt like a good Kirby Boss.

[bitter stream]

Thanks, will check out

[craggy vine]

It's a very janky single developer indie game. It's meant to be the sound of those infected people crying, because they're in pain from the effects of urid consumption. I'm pretty sure it is literally just voiced by Endrew who made the game.

I feel like I am the only one who really likes Urge. And I'm ok with that.

Lots of positive reviews on steam though

But it's games like this, made by a small group of people oe one person, that can be janky as fuck, that I love the most. I don't like tripple A games and the amount of polish they have, it can be much less fun to me.

[harsh kestrel]

Oh God, I see that pic above and I see the Tails Doll. It doesn't help the Tails Doll was in Sonic Superstars lol

[dense crypt]

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is a spinoff but it has a lengthy, but grindy endgame, if you're into that. also lets you make your own character instead of use a premade character.

[bronze abyss]

does it have jakobs guns and does it keep the same "setting"/aesthetic as borderlands or is it more fantasy leaning?

bl3 really dissapointed me by not having as many jakobs weapons anymore

[dense crypt]

It does have jakobs guns but its more fantasy leaning. You still have things like guns, but grenades are replaced with magic spells and theres fantasy gun barrels that shoot crossbow bolts or energy waves. Also you can collect melee weapons and build for melee damage.

The level cap is kind of low and you only have 2 skill trees but the traits give a lot of stats and class abilities are pretty substantial.

[hidden elbow]

Try pre sequel maybe, fans like crapping on it, but at least imo it's pretty good, more gimmicks, different aesthetic and it's not overly long as BL 2 and especially BL 3

[bronze abyss]

played it and i didnt really enjoy it

bl2 just set too high of a standard other games couldnt keep up with in the series

[hidden elbow]

Especially in villain department, after Jack we had Zarpidon and she was, fine I guess, and then the Troy and tyreen which are down right insufferable

[quiet swift]

Like, Subscribe, and Obey!

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/dexerto/status/1772398305693032470?

[wintry canopy]

The next Grounded update adds cross platform play so I decided to finally pick it up, fortunately it is also free on Xbox game pass.

[craggy vine]

I finally played lethal company today

[sage iris]

[quiet swift]

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/tomwarren/status/1772603021647626434

Interesting

[craggy vine]

Good example of 'ultra settings are stupid'. One is on the highest setting called 'ultra' and one is on one lower called 'epic'

And I honestly can't see any difference

Just casually gain almost 50 fps by not being on ultra

Then low settings just does 430 fps with a cpu bottlenneck

[bronze abyss]

in newer games there often are pretty significant differences tbh

ofc its preferences if ur willing to sacrifice the performance for it,but i wouldnt say that its just a one sided "not worth it"

[craggy vine]

I mean if you have the gpu power then sure

Like if you run the game at over 60 fps on ultra then why not

[bronze abyss]

in rdr i was willing to go as low as 40fps maxed out settings just cuz of the sheer beauty of the game

and i usually dont tolerate at all under like 80

[craggy vine]

I did that on my 2070 super but honestly even on low settings with ultra textures that game looks great

[bronze abyss]

it does look decent on lower settings aswell,but its a completely new level on ultra,like i never seen a game as beautiful as it is,closest it got was maybe atomic heart

[craggy vine]

A lot of games now will look amazing even on low.

I do agree with that. I played at 4k max including all the advanced and it felt almost like I was playing a live action movie. But I don't need that. I just like to experience the game.

[bronze abyss]

i love in game photography a lot so i often try to max out the settings cuz shit is just so beautiful and needs to be pictured

[craggy vine]

That makes sense

I'm just someone who doesn't care much for graphics now. I guess part of that is playing on an amd 780m. But I don't feel like I need more.

[bronze abyss]

dying light 2 on max settings allowed me to get these beauties

and i have a lot of rdr 2 pics aswell,but i need to launch the game to get those

[craggy vine]

To me I'm just like, why should I pay for so such an expencive PC, when i can get basically the same gaming experience for way less

Less then $1000 USD

And then I get it portably

But anyway my main point was just how in lot of games now, if not most, max settings tends to tank your fps in return for very little or almost no noticable image improvment

[bronze abyss]

id say best to compromise

shadows,textures,post processing on max and everything else can fuck off to lower settings

depending on game anti aliasing can maybe stay

[wind stump]

HE SAID THE THIIIING

[bronze abyss]

HOLY SHIT?????

monster hunting??? in my monster hunter world???? TRHATS ILLEGAL

[craggy vine]

Yeah those are important. I would say post processing not so much, I sometimes like to play games without any post processing.

[bronze abyss]

i learned to appreciate good post processing with time tbh,used to not care about it at all but now i actually like it

[craggy vine]

I also generally like a bit of TAA since I play games at 720p a lot now

[bronze abyss]

oh yea on 720p its absolutely necessary

on 1440p though its useless unless a game handles hair in a goofy way where it makes it look bad without AA

[craggy vine]

As long as I'm not loosing much performance. If I am I might as well just go up to 1080p.

And maybe it is just me not caring much for graphics, but I find games do look really good even on a larger 1080p display when using RSR to upscale from 720 to 1080

It'd be fun to have a 4090 and play games at 8k ultra I'm sure, but I don't need that, nor do I feel like I would ever personally benefit from that.

Probably quite evident by the fact that I have essentially downgraded what GPU I use at my desktop

[bronze abyss]

personally i really wanna move up to 4k but 3080 is just not a 4k card

[craggy vine]

Funy that... I played a lot of games in 4k on my 2070 super

Even without a 4k monitor, I just used super resolution or whatever Nvidia's version is called.

Made games look really sharp

No issues with aliasing

[bronze abyss]

DLSS,im really picky with upscalers but i think at res as high as 4k it ciould maybe work

[craggy vine]

No not upscaling

Downscaling

Not DLSS

[bronze abyss]

oh

[craggy vine]

I am playing the game at 4k, as set in settings, then downscaling to 1080p to fit onto my display

or I did

I could also try that on my 780m in some older games

[bronze abyss]

yea ik what it is my dumbass just didnt process the message correctly

[craggy vine]

pff its fine

[bronze abyss]

brain aint braining today

[craggy vine]

So yeah I guess I have a bit of both in me.. Part of me loves going badshit insane with graphics. I've even played Minecraft with path tracing shaders. But then another part of me doesn't care.

[bronze abyss]

but yea if not for gaming at the very least for daily use i really wanna get 4k,but displays for it are expensive since i would need something above 60hz

[craggy vine]

Like it is awesome to look at but it is still the same game

[bronze abyss]

i love rtx in bedrock but in java so far it looked kinda ass,maybe i jut didnt find the right shaders though

[craggy vine]

Oh yeah true. I'd like to get a 4k display even though a 780m couldn't play any newer game at that. 120hz would be good as well.

[craggy vine]

Apparently the java version can't make use of the ray tracing cores

[bronze abyss]

ill probably look into how much it would be to get one cuz i still need a 3rd display anyways,maybe i could ball out for a really good HDR and colour accurate display even with lower refresh rate as a 3rd one for like videos n shit

[craggy vine]

And also things like frame generation and upscaling being a thing, I feel more content with just using a lower end GPU.

[bronze abyss]

ye that makes sense

[craggy vine]

But that's enough talking about me though. My main point was just how much fps increase you can get from lowering a settings preset by one

Granted a game called escape the backrooms certainly isn't the best example

But the newest tripple A game I have otherwise is Doom Eternal

Or maybe RDR2, not sure which came first

[bronze abyss]

rdr came first iirc

[craggy vine]

Ok yeah then doom eternal is the newest tripple A game I have

I am just more interested in indie games

Seriously though for a second I gotta say, escape the backrooms looks fucking awesome graphically

I gotta try Dead Island Definitive Edition on the 780m, that game played at a consistent 300 fps on the 2070 super

[bronze abyss]

1st game is amazing

[craggy vine]

Yeah I love it so much

[bronze abyss]

2nd was kinda dissapointing in comparison

[craggy vine]

Not often I buy a game twice, but I have it on PS3 and PC

Yeah I heard the 2nd one wasn't as good. And it just sorta came out and then everyone forgot about it. Or maybe I just forgot, idk.

[bronze abyss]

its fine but its boring,piss easy,0 personallity just "haha silly pop culture reference"

combat has 0 depth aswell

[craggy vine]

ah damn

For a game that was first announced way back that is kinda sad

[bronze abyss]

its not a bad game on its own but its nowhere near good either,just average

[craggy vine]

I love the first game so much. I really feel nostalgic for the first area.

[bronze abyss]

i played it back in like 2017 and i was really in love with it,though didnt get to finish it cuz it got locked out of my library on xbox

cuz i had games from a bug not legally owned

[craggy vine]

Jesus, how did that happen?

oh I see

[bronze abyss]

basically i bought an xbox,fully factory reset n shit,logged in,redeemed gamepass coe and i had a library of gamepass games+ even more even after it ended

then one day it was just fucking gone

[craggy vine]

One of the issues with digital games

[bronze abyss]

oh its not an issue it was a blessing if anything

[craggy vine]

At least with steam for now I feel safe in feeling like all my games will stay

[bronze abyss]

had like 300 games for over a year,got to try out so much shit

[craggy vine]

Damn

That is cool though. I'm always so selective on what games I buy

[bronze abyss]

same,i bought cs source and titan fall 2 recently cuz insane sales and both great games

though cs source really only for surfing

[craggy vine]

I'm just looking at the acheivments in escape the backrooms since I am planning on getting them all, and of the ones I do have, I am surprised just how little a lot of people have.

Only 9.8% of people have seemed to have finished the game. Though I suppose it is a long game for what some people consider a meme

3.3% of playres have beat level 5 in singleplayer... Which only takes like 2 hours of play time

[little badger]

https://youtu.be/APYIfiOCe2c?

[thorny loom]

Rumor is tomorrow their showing off a new marvel game in the style of overwatch

[thorny loom]

That was a fun map

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/charlieintel/status/1772648919190643120?

[wind stump]

I ENCOUNTERED DA DANGER PICKEL

aka the Deviljho

and my friend, in the VC was like "sure, you try to take him down"

in my tier 4 fucking armor

[river veldt]

[wind stump]

I'm in HELL

[little badger]

How is it?

[bold sonnet]

Looking classy 🤭 even in hell

[quartz pawn]

Dapper as hell

[bold sonnet]

(Witcher 3)

It's been three days since I try to defeat them, the game was easy and now I just struggle so much

[quiet swift]

Ah, I see you've encountered the angry pickle

[wind stump]

and BEETLEJUICE

[thorny loom]

The console part is understandable even sony is releasing pc ports are becoming a major form of revenue

Plus microsoft has windows. They dont even really need the xbox at this point other than for branding.

[wind stump]

i spent an hour in that fucking area

i killed ONE (one) singular monster

[quiet swift]

[rancid herald]

I think the console shortages of 2020ish did a lot of damage to the idea of a console tbh

[harsh kestrel]

Glad to see that Phil Spencer still gets it. He's a dude that I actually feel like feels bad for having to lay off so many people

[rancid herald]

idk if nintendo will start releasing stuff on PC. Probably not but who knows

[harsh kestrel]

Yeah, no, probably not lol

[unreal idol]

It took Nintendo ages to dip into mobile and besides Pokémon Go they don't seem too entrenched in it

PC gaming is generally seen as a weird creepy nerd hobby which is why consoles generally do better in Japan

But this trend could have changed in the last decade or so

[dire gate]

Nintendo tried some stuff and then quickly (almost) gave up with mobile games

[little badger]

And scalpers

[harsh kestrel]

Tiny Tina's was my shit. Not only did I 100% that game and delved into the DLCs, but Tina is also one of my favorite Borderlands characters as a whole. It made me a fan of Borderlands, and I went on to 100% complete Borderlands 3, get annoyed at the older games, and well, I still will say, Tiny Tina's post game was still trash with the seemingly endless annoying arenas lol

[little badger]

They always bring the PC versions 1-2 years after the console release.

[dire gate]

They still love consoles, but they now play PC a decent amount after PUBG and Apex

Apex Legends is pretty huge in Japan

I think they started to move to Valorant

[unreal idol]

Oh yeah I forgot about apex legends

I'm not as plugged into this stuff as I used to be

[rancid herald]

Always? since when?

[dire gate]

At least after Bloodborne

[little badger]

Past few years

God of war will probably be next

[dire gate]

For some reason I feel like adding u in Bloodborne and write Bloodbourne, I'm somehow making it sound British

idk why you yay'd at that

It's more like a grim joke about Bloodborne never getting a PC port

[bold sonnet]

I use it as haha coz I'm dum

[little badger]

Bloodborne innit

[bold sonnet]

Yes I know

They really do be porting games but it seems like it only applies to games AFTER the decision

So no Bloodborne.. nor Red Dead Redemption

It went everywhere just not to PC. Even Switch.

[craggy vine]

Only way to have rdr on pc to emulate a console still

[craggy vine]

That part surprised me a lot. They just do not want it on pc for some reason but will put in switch. Even though no other rockstar game is on switch.

[dire gate]

Well GTA is on Switch

[craggy vine]

Actually yeah I forgot the gta trillogy

'Would be cool if one day they made a version of this game with updated graphics. No wait, I am playing that..'

Ironically the easiest way to play rdr1 on pc is to pirate and emulate the switch version

[dire gate]

What they advertised: GTA Definitive Edition
What they delivered: GTA Dogshit Edition

[craggy vine]

They delivered the mobile versions of the games with poorly made graphical effects

I still would rather play the original disc version with mods

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/playtlgame/status/1772655900286673391? @random steppe I think you wanted to play this?

Or something like it

[river veldt]

i wish tbey ported GTA V

[thorny loom]

Mario. Theres like 3-4 ports of gta 5 already

Though i am surprised they didn’t prot the xbox one version to the switch

[river veldt]

to the switch i meant woops

missed a few words lmao

[bold sonnet]

That would be pretty fire

They did Witcher why not that

[little badger]

I think the switch would be on fire if GTA V was on it.

[river veldt]

it's a game from 2013 it can run it fine

[bold sonnet]

If Switch 2 will be compatible with the first one I'm gonna buy it day 1

No questions

[little badger]

Rumours are the switch 2 will be as powerful as a PS4 and a Xbox one

[thorny loom]

Thats about in line with nintendo

Its better than the current hardware but still behind. At least most modern games will be able to actually run on it

[bold sonnet]

Nevermind Steam Deck, ROG Ally, I want a switch that will play previous switch games better. I'll be cozied up in a blanket playing Princess Peach, Mario and Zelda

[thorny loom]

Though not really rumors. But nintendo will be including denuvo in some of their games going forward likely with the new system

That should be a fun time to see if it actually breaks anything

[bold sonnet]

Isnt denuvo only a fear when you try to pirate them?

[river veldt]

i really really hope it's backwards compatible

[thorny loom]

It can sometimes cause bugs or issues in games if implemented incorrectly

[bold sonnet]

Oh that's interesting

[random steppe]

I think it does to a smaller extent even when it's correctly implemented

[wind stump]

i keep dying to 6^ quests i fucking hate it here~

DIE LIZARDO

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/tomwarren/status/1772666364731224164

Good decision

[north grail]

FUCK THEM AI RACERS

[wind stump]

they barely have one functioning storefront

[thorny loom]

Besides what would be added thats not already on the xbox

[north grail]

This is the new age sadly

[astral steeple]

Spiderman would become playable

They also mention steam being added in the article

Which would be huge

[bold sonnet]

That can't be true

[astral steeple]

I mean it's straight from Phil spencer

[bold sonnet]

I mean it could but it would be kinda too crazy

I already have too many games to play i mean

With every Thursday giving free games?

[north grail]

At least we got a very promising DLC

https://www.themobileindian.com/gaming/asphalt-9-legends-evolves-into-asphalt-legends-unite-a-full-scale-upgrade

Apparently the DLC is gonna release on all platforms, including Xbox iirc

Hopefully it won’t shove microtransactions down our throats as Asphalt 9 does

[north grail]

Still this shit CAN’T BE REAL…

[bold sonnet]

Well it's.. kinda free to play right?

[bold sonnet]

I think so too!!

[north grail]

Idk, Asphalt Legends Unite is supposed to be a DLC for Asphalt 9, so the price could be literally anything

[bold sonnet]

I think Phil Spencer (very handsome BTW) is just sugaring our lips

With the whole IDEA of Xbox being so eager to work with anyone

[north grail]

Fr

[astral steeple]

I mean it makes sense

[bold sonnet]

It doessss

That's the weirdest part

If it happens I'm gonna go out of myself and stand next to me

[north grail]

I’ll legit crush my Xbox in a hydraulic press is that occurs

[thorny loom]

https://youtu.be/J5wjyC1P1Jc?si=PzCN650mLn1CTfkw

Very bioshock 1 vibes looks great

[sour hill]

I think the phrase you're looking for is "I'll be beside myself"

[bold sonnet]

Thank you sorry ill remember

[gaunt marten]

https://i.imgur.com/b0FNuMJ.png In this run I started as a pacifist bard and found a double barrel shotgun

Since I was a pacifist and had a build that maximizes gold gain, I got 895% as much gold as normal

Or around three times the NG+12 level I'm used to

[quiet swift]

Yus, wishlisted that since it first appeared at.. last year game awards? Bioshock meets system shock

[bold sonnet]

Oh it's out??

[thorny loom]

No someone just got to play a gameplay demo of it

[wind stump]

i killed Thanos

[bronze abyss]

oh youre a hammer player?

thats an interesting choice to start with,p good though

[wind stump]

I also dabble in Heavy Bowgun

But mostly Hammer because WAR MAIN BRAIN GO BRRRRRRRT

[thorny loom]

Bought

[harsh kestrel]

Reminds me of Jimmy Neutron for some reason lol

[robust latch]

Evil Genius is a fun game i loved the orgional soo much. the 2nd one was ok but some of the changes in gameplay i was not a fan of. Still fun but in a different way

[harsh kestrel]

I've never heard of it lol

I'm not fully sure what it's about

[robust latch]

its a sort of base builder strategy game where you have various types of minions. the base building componant is sort of like dungeon keeper style. various rooms that do certain things. various minion types with differnt skill sets.

part of the base is also keeping it disguised from the world at large. so it also operates as a hotel of sorts to distract the forces of 'good' that operate aaround the world. The world map is split into i think its 6 factions. and you can anger them each separately and they send agents at you to try and take down your player character.

you use the world map to steal items and money to gain well resources and notoriety to the point you eventually launch your doomsday weapon against the world

[harsh kestrel]

Ah. Yeah, those have never really been my kind of thing lol

[robust latch]

its certainly not a gameplay type of everyone

[quiet swift]

It was also very slapstick humor silly

[river veldt]

https://x.com/jamisonrivv/status/1772468410208694515?s=46

jam ⭑ (@jamisonrivv) on X

ko-fi request #TF2

Twitter · Mar 26, 2024, 3:39 AM

[green fulcrum]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JOv3gxmwbA

[wind stump]

ah it's hitting me in the nostalgia bones

THEY KEPT THE NOOOOOOOSE

[fresh bane]

https://vxtwitter.com/jamisonrivv/status/1749484719610167640

[river veldt]

this is so real

[harsh kestrel]

We may not have the same game genre interests, but I can at least admire the Zipp representation lol

[visual hill]

he used the same animation to throw the ball as he does when using Shortstop secondary fire

that's why he fumbled it

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/The_Streamr/status/1772232069315170566

huh

[hasty patio]

https://twitter.com/CyberpunkGame/status/1772277377113985424

Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) on X

Try out #Cyberpunk2077 for free!

Get a taste of Night City in a free trial coming soon to @PlayStation 5 and @Xbox Series X|S. Deets below 👇

Twitter · Mar 25, 2024, 3:00 PM

[thorny loom]

Here me out. This could work

Playing a superheros and villians beating the crap out of each other and doing objectives can be done right

[north grail]

Game is ass, but music is somehow fire

[grave tide]

MEME????

In Manechat???

[minor gorge]

[grave tide]

Opened Millennia reviews

Somehow devs had insane skill issue

Imagine Civ genre game without MP

[graceful bridge]

For the Helldivers fans:
https://askfirestarterspitfire.tumblr.com/post/745963157542092800/march-stream-sketches-a-pleasant-walk-in-the

[quiet swift]

[craggy vine]

I can't get over escape the backrooms... For what sounds like a meme game is so amazing

I'm going through it getting all the singleplayer achievments but man it is scary

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1773002035639541962?

[astral steeple]

is that tara strong in the trailer? lol

[young creek]

doesn't sound quite like her

[dapper cedar]

been playing Metroid Prime 2 again, last time it was GC version and I got stuck on a very difficult boss, am now playing Trilogy (using PrimeHack in both cases) and this time I got the boss on my first try… but now I’m stuck on a puzzle

[icy crescent]

overwatch killer?

[quiet swift]

Considering the higher ups of OW are mismanaging it to hell.. possibly, yes

[icy crescent]

it's gonna be 6v6 tho which just like the previous OW had

[harsh kestrel]

Now this, this. Has potential. God, I hope they don't somehow squander things again lol

Also, I think I did hear a good amount of Tara in that trailer lol

If the closed alpha doesn't even start until May, it'll probably be around the fall when we see the game come out in full if anything. If they do like the XDefiant devs have been doing, maybe early 2025 lol

[quiet swift]

...I'm pretty sure I just heard Illidan's VA as Strange's VA

[sour hill]

6v6 looks like the face of a strange bird

[icy crescent]

high hopes for that game, since i kinda enjoyed OW2 (if playing with friends)

[thorny loom]

I mean lets be fair

Overwatch 2 is just overwatch one at this point with better textures

[young creek]

ye thats matt mercer for sure

no surprise hes in everything

[harsh kestrel]

If you manage to forget all the BS microtransactions being shoved down your throat every two seconds. They practically did a 180 within the same week recently. Saying that all future characters added would be free, but then turning around and cancelling any future PVE content lol

[light gate]

Its NetEase, expect the worst micro-transactions yet.

[quartz pawn]

true

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/playstation/status/1773024757660667927? @graceful bridge

[harsh kestrel]

https://youtu.be/_iqAXYfktTw?si=Dy_M-qXELmPyVdKn

[quartz pawn]

Oooooh Skul!

[graceful bridge]

Oh no, Minecraft

[harsh kestrel]

The purple boi will returneth

[light gate]

I’ll wait for a better source.

[gaunt marten]

But Canadian Guy Eh

[harsh kestrel]

I don't think he'd be messing around about hearing that stuff over at Pax East from multiple devs. Especially knowing how much of a Crash and Spyro fan he is. I know I'm one that likes waiting for official sources, but I can at least trust this guy

[wind stump]

swag

[harsh kestrel]

Not to mention that he said a very credible dude mentioned that Toys For Bob and Microsoft reached an agreement about Spyro 4

[light gate]

Its not much about messing around, its about accuracy and ‘raising expectations’.

If the new game is in development, who is making it? It might not be Toys For Bob, but could be a weird partnership perhaps. Will it have micro-transactions? Will it be multi-platform?

[light gate]

My dad works for Nintendo, he said Mother 4 is in development. /s

I’ll just ground my expectations rather than getting excited.

[harsh kestrel]

I think Microsoft knows how well the Reignited Trilogy did. Spyro 4 wasn't a matter of if. Rather when

[thorny loom]

Your dad needs to talk to his mother more

[light gate]

He already does lmao.

I wished the rights would go back to Insomniac ffs.

[thorny loom]

Insomniac has to make spoder man

[light gate]

They can multitask with how many people work on multiple projects.

I’m sure they have a Ratchet game in development somewhere.

[harsh kestrel]

I would hope so lol

[hasty patio]

https://www.nomanssky.com/orbital-update/

[rugged flax]

@true maple ^^ since you've been back into NMS lately

looks like a nice update

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/nypost/status/1772988612348408049

fuck, man

[river veldt]

jesus

that sucks

[thorny loom]

😦

[sour hill]

Replies are predictably unhinged

[wind stump]

[river veldt]

wish i hadn't read them jesus christmas

[static bluff]

yeah there's no way I'll be reading those.

[wind stump]

a shame i couldn't use them, had a very dex-heavy build with insane scailing and double projectiles

[young creek]

Power pays for twitter blue

dont be like Power

[thorny loom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3svmrkl3_M

[true maple]

Oooh neat!

[thorny loom]

Ship customization lets gooo

[thorny loom]

Yikes its melanoma

[harsh kestrel]

I know comments about Ninja are mixed, but he didn't deserve that

[true maple]

Hell yeah, I'm excited

Is there a NMS forum?

[random steppe]

This actually seem like an update I'd enjoy

[wind stump]

[rugged flax]

(there is now: https://discord.com/channels/98609319519453184/1222615311748960346)

[gaunt marten]

We need a thread called no access

[graceful bridge]

https://www.ea.com/games/battlefield/battlefield-2042/news/eaac-and-battlefield

[rugged flax]

Nice to know that Valve is doing totally productive things, like making orbs
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/4118051100641390122

[true maple]

I shall ponder this

[rugged flax]

this is their plan to put off Half Life 3 forever
just keep building more and more elaborate orbs

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/wario64/status/1772791131186565274?

[sour hill]

Based

[wind stump]

it's been 3000 years...

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/hazzadorgamin/status/1773057599564370063? @green fulcrum

[fresh bane]

That tweet leaves out some important information
https://vxtwitter.com/Ninja/status/1772741501568569397

[green fulcrum]

Oh wow, I thought I was pinged from somewhere, but for some reason Discord wouldn't show me where.

Ultimately, while this does raise my eyebrow a bit, I'll believe it when I actually see a trailer for it. Spyro rumors are pretty notorious for almost never being right.

[gaunt marten]

I would like it if we can avoid sharing unsubstantiated rumors in this channel

[little badger]

Well they know it will make a lot of money when it does get announced.

[young creek]

I heard they are making a sequel to Hollow Knight

[gaunt marten]

That one's not a rumor. It's been announced

[young creek]

unless...?

[gaunt marten]

Unless they die I guess

[quiet swift]

Reminder: Diablo 4 on game pass starting tomorrow, if you wanted to take a look. It's in a much better state than launch, but I'd still wait until season 4 (A month+ from now) for the massive itemization changes

[little badger]

[quiet swift]

The game itself is plenty fun - the systems (endgame stuff) was not, but that's what's been and is still being improved

[gaunt marten]

I have the game modded so the world is bigger. Normally, you only have five levels of scale https://i.imgur.com/4cnL54b.png

[light gate]

https://www.ea.com/news/the-ea-app-for-mac

EA is gonna do this before Valve can make their app silicon, dear god Valve wtf.

T-thanks EA?

[bronze abyss]

hopefully valve worshipping days will be over soon 🙏

[light gate]

I'm not sure who I rather support.

Valve or EA...

EA is bad but at least they're big, Origin was bad but this app seems to remove a lot of the fat Origin introduced. Uplay is okay but its... Uplay. (Oh sorry, UBISOFT Connect now)

Epic can go fall a ditch for all I care.

Well, EA also has been making/publishing okay games so far... haven't seen much trainwrecks unlike the 2013's.

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/charlieINTEL/status/1773034089546740141

bro wtf

[green fulcrum]

...............Who?

[astral steeple]

comedy duo

from a long time ago

had a whole bunch of movies

[green fulcrum]

Great, so nobody from Gen Z, 2/3rds of the players for CoD, will likely not know who they are either. These guys are from the 70s.

[wind stump]

probably had to look up who they were before posting this

[astral steeple]

what

i was born 1999 and know who they are lol

[unreal idol]

I'm 34 and only recognize the names extremely vaguely