general gaming

[river veldt]

that guy's health bar in the last image is so long wtf

[novel pine]

yea DS3 has a crazy health bar lol

DS3 defintely is the most bland looking. My personal fav is DS2 in both gameplay and visuals

[proud warren]

I love ETG sometimes

[bitter stream]

oh wow, that's wild lol

also how the hell do you have so many hearts

and cash

[proud warren]

I had a clone, made it to bullet hell, and reset the run

[bitter stream]

oh damn, fair enough

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/playstationsize/status/1792827454970581144?

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/londonstudiohq/status/1792872997167984733?

[bitter stream]

what is this about Blade? Any thoughts on it?

[wind stump]

looks like a branch of Playstation got shuttered, namely the London branch

[light gate]

Four of these are Xbox branded.

https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/senuas-saga-hellblade-2-review-hell-and-high-water/1900-6418229/

GameSpot gave it a 6

So consensus is that its aight

[heady bridge]

Seems more a technical showcase than a great game and the story seems to divide opinion.

[little badger]

The London PlayStation studio has closed

[little badger]

Yup

[bitter stream]

ah, it's a shame that it seems like more and more game studios, make profit, but not enough to survive being cut.

[little badger]

From what I’ve heard it’s mostly a walking simulator with lots of cutscenes.

[harsh kestrel]

Some people have been calling this game trash so far. No surprise there

[thorny loom]

https://x.com/stealth40k/status/1792697470532903077?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Stealth (@Stealth40k) on X

Nintendo announced the acquisition of Shiver Entertainment.

They were responsible for porting many games to Switch like Mortal Kombat 1 and Hogwarts Legacy.

Nintendo now has a studio that will help port more 3rd Party games to Switch.

Twitter · May 20, 2024, 11:22 PM

[light gate]

Smart

https://youtu.be/x6te6xHD6ZE?feature=shared

Its happenin

[thorny loom]

Paid mods?

Also elden ring

https://youtu.be/6uT8wGtB3yQ?si=fou3VtD3WEmXRivx

[light gate]

Yeep

There have always been mods in form of packs, but now there is actual standalone random mods that enhance the game.

Packs = specials with worlds and enhancements for unique events. (Like Star Wars) [total conversions]

Addons = enhancements to your game that change some but not all aspects of Minecraft. [actual random mods]

[hidden elbow]

This so cool , i also know a store where you can get add ons for a really nice price , its called curseforge

[light gate]

Yep

Their last hurdle is complete though.

Now all they need to do is create parity with the Java.

[hidden elbow]

Like the store made sense where it was world packs based on various brands like sonic one , but now its just.....deadass mods

[light gate]

That was the plan

[slim thorn]

oh, are Minecraft Add-Ons a Bedrock-only thing?

[light gate]

Yep

[hidden elbow]

Well yeah

[light gate]

I mean FTB already made one.

[hidden elbow]

If they tried to implement it in java they would be laughed at so hard

[slim thorn]

well...

[light gate]

Thy stars have aligned

[hidden elbow]

Whats even funnier is that a lot of these "add ons" could be great additions to base game ngl

[light gate]

Yeah, but now modders have a weird choice.

Continue to make free mods, or make money from addons.

[hidden elbow]

Can you like ,download mods on bedrock the ussual way ?

[light gate]

No

At least I don’t think so.

[hidden elbow]

That sucks

[light gate]

If so then cool, but all Java mods are incompatible.

(Bedrock is literally an entire different beast, redstone behaves differently)

[hidden elbow]

I remember them saying a few years back that they want to make java and bedrock to have little to difference but now a couple years later thats not the case at all

[light gate]

Yep

It was lies.

This ain’t my first rodeo with Microsoft.

[hidden elbow]

Unpopular opinion " microsoft sorta sucks "

[light gate]

We’re closing in on the ‘my beloved’ extinguish phase.

The thing is that they wanted to gain more users through bedrock, that has always been the target. Push Bedrock, give more incentives for players to use Bedrock. Bundle Java with Bedrock to make a future growth when the player is forced to switch.

But of course, folks believed Microsoft when they said “oh we no gonna replace”

Now its clear as mud, they’ve been trickling this down slowly.

[hidden elbow]

Bedrock is much easier to monetize

[light gate]

Exactly

It also has a proper ARM build, which Java can also have but they refuse to do so. Mac doesn’t have a native client for example.

Now that the AI Windows 11 ARM machines are upon us, I give it three to five years tops before announcing deprecation.

[hidden elbow]

They are no different than some mobile trash games,with coins that you need to buy things that should be for free

[thorny loom]

Aka creation club style lol

[light gate]

Also console users are forced to play Bedrock, even though the machines can play Java.

[light gate]

Yep!!

[hidden elbow]

I hope for a horse armor add ons

[thorny loom]

Yeah this is really just them trying to monetize console players if nothing else.

[light gate]

Exactly

The architecture is the same, and they can pay the Oracle fees. There is literally no reason.

Also Java can be built anywhere technically.

[hidden elbow]

Well , there is one

[light gate]

Monahy

And so the prophecy continues

[hidden elbow]

Basically yeah

[light gate]

Oh but Microsoft cares about Mon-Gamers.

[river veldt]

god Blighttown sucks

[dense crypt]

Poison swamp moment

[gaunt marten]

That's why I told you to do a lot of prep

[river veldt]

yeah but everywhere else i go i get wrecked too

[gaunt marten]

Sure but at least you'll get wrecked faster

[thorny loom]

Blightown is the first major difficulty spike

[gaunt marten]

Instead of being miserable for fifteen minutes and dying of poison in a place you can't recover your souls

[river veldt]

no i die instantly in Blighttown too

those big boy enemies fuck me up

[gaunt marten]

Don't fight them

If you must, lure one at a time with arrows. Otherwise just run to your destination

[river veldt]

i didn't i was running past them and then a bunch of lanky men ganged up on me and pushed me off a bridge

[gaunt marten]

Oh you shouldn't run into the lanky men at all

Remember when I told you to explore the valley of drakes?

[river veldt]

yeah

[gaunt marten]

There's a blighttown shortcut there

[river veldt]

oh ok

i'll go there then because i hate falling off this dumbass bridge

why are there no guard rails in this world does OSHA not exist

[gaunt marten]

I wanted you to discover it for yourself. The shortcut still has bridges but it's a lot easier to reach the swamp area from there

[river veldt]

ok cool

there's a lot of backtracking in this game huh

[gaunt marten]

Later games have less

[river veldt]

WHY IS THIS DRAGON ALIVE

i thought he was dead

[gaunt marten]

He's guarding the treasure

[river veldt]

i got the treasure

i cant use the sword

[minor plover]

oh yeah sometimes it's like "there's this great treasure over there ... ohhhh I don't meet the requirements"

and also blighttown does suck but it's also fun, and the boss is a big coop area (makes sense to drop a sig if you're farming the slugs' titanite drops)

[river veldt]

ok i found a big door but idk how to open it

i climbed a ladder and there's some sort of contraption here

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/eurogamer/status/1792950328360317428?

[slim thorn]

welp, time to get all our gaming news from random nobodies on youtube

[thorny loom]

Lmao. “Too much water” out of 10

[visual hill]

DF won't be affected

that was my main concern, so hearing they'll be fine is reassuring

[little badger]

[sour hill]

Not it doesn't it's really cool

[river veldt]

what's your favourite part of Blighttown

[random steppe]

Blighttown became synonim for places that really suck in the genre past that.

[sour hill]

The first part with all the crazy wooden architecture

[random steppe]

You get in a zone, something really bullshit happens and go "oh this is the blighttown for this game"

[river veldt]

how do i open this door

i found a big door

in Valley of Drakes

[sour hill]

Have you tried throwing your switch into the street?

[river veldt]

and there's some sort of contraption at the top of a ladder but i cant interact with it

kratta please im asking for genuine advice

[sour hill]

You can't open it until much later

[river veldt]

urgh

so i have to go through the tunnel with the big guys

[gaunt marten]

Correct

(There's another passage but it doesn't lead to blighttown)

[sour hill]

The big guys are pretty easy to backstab

[river veldt]

urgh

evrtytime i walk to them and try to backstab it doesnt work

also why is there input delay when i roll

[gaunt marten]

Switch

[sour hill]

You roll the moment when you let go of the roll button

[river veldt]

?????

[sour hill]

If you rolled the moment you pressed the button, the game wouldn't know whether you wanted to roll or you wanted to run

[sour hill]

You don't need to sneak up on them, just run behind them when they're in an animation and git em

[river veldt]

why is run bound to the roll button

[sour hill]

Idk I didn't make the game

[river veldt]

im not one to question Miyazaki's vision

[river veldt]

true ?

[gaunt marten]

Yes

[sour hill]

Kill em however you want, but that's how I do it

[river veldt]

my weapon only does like 40 damge

when i hit them normal

[sour hill]

I have no idea if that's good or bad

[river veldt]

i thought you knew everything !

[sour hill]

I don't pay any attention to damage numbers when I'm playing

[river veldt]

oh

[sour hill]

But the most significant way to increase your damage is to upgrade your weapon

[river veldt]

i dont have enough souls

[sour hill]

Second to that is to level stats that scale well with your weapon

[sour hill]

You shouldn't need too much. If you've got the upgrade materials, go kill some shit

[river veldt]

when i checked it said i needed 5000 souls

[sour hill]

You have the thing that lets you upgrade at bonfires, right?

[gaunt marten]

No 40 damage is bad

[river veldt]

i can do that ,

?

[sour hill]

Yeah Andre sells it I think

[river veldt]

maybe i will start using my claymore

the drake sword is cool

[gaunt marten]

The infested barbarians have 880 HP

[sour hill]

Oh yeah that's trash

[gaunt marten]

You should be doing at least 100HP a hit

[sour hill]

You need to upgrade your weapon

[river veldt]

ok

so do i just grind then

[sour hill]

You really shouldn't need to grind much at all in these games

[river veldt]

i keep dying and losing all my souls !!!!!!!!!!

[gaunt marten]

Yeah don't do that

[sour hill]

Yeah don't do that

[gaunt marten]

You can get souls by exploring other areas carefully. If you're about to die just run back

If you die, be even more careful next time

Worst case scenario is you're back in Undead Burg looking for secrets and practicing against the basic hollows

[sour hill]

I bet if you carefully trek back to Andre while killing everything (within reason obv) you'll have enough souls to buy that item from him that lets you upgrade weapons at bonfires

[minor plover]

it's really hard to progress in Dark Souls if you're frequently losing your souls, not farming them back, and not ugprading your gear

[thorny loom]

Yeah. Theirs a few good areas to grind

[minor plover]

by blighttown your primary weapon should be like ... +5ish I think? This is secondhand from watching my wife play

[thorny loom]

I like the valley of dragons.

[minor plover]

upgrading your armor also helps you survive longer. And upgrading your estus flasks.

[slim thorn]

+5 by blighttown? I know I got to blighttown but I can't remember if I even found how to upgrade gear

[sour hill]

Should be higher than that, right? You get the large ember in the depths, which lets you upgrade to +10 if you have the materials

[minor plover]

you upgrade gear at blacksmiths. Andre is the one between undead parish and uhhh I think Sen's Fortress is the other way from him?

[sour hill]

If you don't do any backtracking than it should be +5

[slim thorn]

I did find a blacksmith or two, probably was Andre, but I don't recall having the stuff to do much with him

[sour hill]

Andre sells titanite shards for 800 souls, so when you meet him you can upgrade your weapon with those even if you somehow never found any yourself

Those upgrade your weapon to +5

Then in the depths you find the large ember, which if you give it to him lets you upgrade to +10 with large titanite, though you won't have a way to buy them yet. Ya gotta find them

[minor plover]

yeah, so if you basically derp around and kill stuff in undead parish or whatever, get a couple thousand souls, go get a couple of titanite shards from Andre and upgrade your weapon, and then repeat the process.

[unreal idol]

Oof

[rancid herald]

time to convince Jenny that the real money is in video game reviews and not disney world depression fests

[gaunt marten]

What a weird build

Chronos has a curse that makes all of his sides decay, so he uses the emerald mirror to copy the mirror mask. The mirror mask lets him copy the hero that comes before him, so I have two dabblests and two doctors.

[static bluff]

Oh hey so I tried the demo out for that game. It's fun!

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-bqba6A9o8

Total conversion mod for Homeworld 3

[static bluff]

ooo

[gaunt marten]

It is! When you're not dying in one hit from full HP

It's a victory!

MVP award goes to hissing ring, which triggered a total of one time in five hundred rolls

[thorny loom]

https://fixupx.com/ian_fisch/status/1792968163576926225?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

[dense crypt]

CP_DegrootKeep

[slim thorn]

please be careful about simply reposting marketing for a game without commentary, this sort of thing is usually exaggerated for obvious reasons

(not to mention, isn't full destructability pretty common these days?)

[young creek]

wait is that last part real

[thorny loom]

Oh right forgot the steam page lol https://store.steampowered.com/app/2109770/Kingmakers/

Steam

Kingmakers

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2109770/Kingmakers/You’re the last hope in a dying world. Travel back 500 years, to medieval England, in order to change the course of a bloody war and maybe, if you’re lucky, stave off the apocalypse. Can you tip the scales of history and create a new timeline?Each battle you engage in runs as a fully real-tim...

Release Date

2024

▶ Play video

[young creek]

[thorny loom]

It does look absurdly fun

[thorny loom]

Witcher fan remake when lol https://x.com/pirat_nation/status/1792952820305473754?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Pirat_Nation (@Pirat_Nation) on X

Maps from the first Witcher game have already been ported to The Witcher 3 thanks to REDkit

Several TW1 maps (Vizima dike, Temple quarter, Trade quarter, and Old Vizima) combined into one seamless level

This is just the beggining

https://t.co/0DDml3LF1h

Twitter · May 21, 2024, 4:17 PM

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/ELDENRING/status/1792939623305379847

|| Miquella? ||

[quiet swift]

||Yes. Listen to the words :P||

[chilly mural]

https://vxtwitter.com/StreetFighter/status/1793039068114108517 @fresh bane

[fresh bane]

I just saw it, I'm probably gonna get the Juri and Lily ones

I didn't like the previous ones but these ones are cute

[hasty patio]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/futurecatgames/margin-of-the-strange

[dense crypt]

Juri is great

Too bad shes a horrible human being

[fresh bane]

Can't really blame her considering the circumstances
Plus as long as you stay out of her way you're probably fine

[river veldt]

Blanka isn't horrible is he

i'll be devestated if he is

[fresh bane]

He's not, currently in the SF timeline he's now working as a tourist guide for his home jungle in Brasil and dresses up as 'Blanka-chan' to interact with the tourists and act like he's some cryptid to make people more excited when visiting

[river veldt]

that's fucking awesome

common Blanka W

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/2S6vs3tvbxI?si=eHk42Y6VNJi3O09l

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/culturecrave/status/1793042343488061725?

[chilly mural]

wait what

[little badger]

[chilly mural]

[green fulcrum]

I completely forgot this was a thing

[fresh bane]

I hope it's terrible just so we have another awful videogame movie to love-hate for decades after

[green fulcrum]

I mean, you'd think that would be the animated Mario movie, with the way you hear so many people talk badly about it all over the Internet.

This server is one of the few genuinely positive places I've heard people discuss the movie in.

[fresh bane]

The only negative things I've heard about the mario movie is that it's not really a super interesting movie on its own and it's more of a compilation of ''hey look at all these mario references'' and maybe people complain about the artstyle but other than that people love it and even then those people are not the majority of the audience for the movie anyways, the Street Fighter movie is a completely different beast in comparison

[green fulcrum]

I've seen a lot of people complain that the Mario movie is, and I quote, "just bad in general", "poorly-acted", "poorly-cast", "horribly written", "unfunny", "charmless", and even "outright insulting to the franchise's history".

[random steppe]

Personally my only big problem with it, was that the writing was kind of meh

it was okay

Also I'm not a big fan of nintendo peoperties so a lot of the upsides weren't there for me, it was a very by the number hero story, competently executed with a somewhat muddled message that didn't completely make sense but it still kind of works despite that

[gaunt marten]

The message is Nintendo loves money

[river veldt]

I LOVE THE MARIO MOVIE

sorry i got excited

[fresh bane]

I'm gonna be honest, don't take every comment you read on the internet from people as the norm or the standard is what I've noticed, most likely than not a lot of the people who say that are probably not even 20% of the people who saw the movie

I'm not saying people aren't saying that but, it's probably a really low number, we just see them a lot because we read what people say on the internet so it seems like people just hate the movie when actually that's not the case

[fresh bane]

That's about the most negative things I've read about the movie, at best it's a great time for Mario fans, at worst it's just a very very very basic movie which is still fine

Honestly I'm more afraid for the Zelda movie than anything

Chris Pratt better bring his A game for his role as Link

I'm glad that a common response to the tloz movie I've seen is people immediately asking ''why not animated?'' because... come on

https://tenor.com/view/oh-nah-he-dead-yall-gif-24999155

[green fulcrum]

I get that...but at the same time...imagine seeing sweeping shots of Hyrule like these:

[fresh bane]

That's good and all, but having those same shots being paintings like the backgrounds of a ghibli movie would do a lot more for me

[green fulcrum]

You know what, that's fair. Ghibli movie backgrounds are phenomenal.

[fresh bane]

type stuff

the cover for ALBW also works as a good official example and also looks gorgeous

[river veldt]

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes was good and the same director is doing Zelda movie

[fresh bane]

I still can't believe the best Zelda game is the least talked about

[gaunt marten]

Ocarina of Time

[river veldt]

Four Swords Adventures is not the best Zelda game

[fresh bane]

I stand by what I said

In retrospect i'm glad I still have Citra installed with my save file of albw, I usually delete emulators and game after I'm done and i'm sure I won't go back to it but I'm glad I didn't for this one

I stil wanna beat that game again on Hero mode

[craggy vine]

https://youtu.be/o3SC1FET50o?si=qnbZYR1EoGcBPn6f
This is cool

Now you could easily play Goldeneye at 4k 120 fps

[gaunt marten]

This boss has an effect where if you take him down to nine health or lower, he kills your topmost character instantly

I had no way to avoid that, except

Prophet gives 5HP at a time, and if you have more than ten times the boss's HP, he runs away

[dire gate]

https://fxtwitter.com/gtace99/status/1792977375375831311

THEY DID IT

The dream of no a press in super mario 64 is real

[gaunt marten]

Nice

[fresh bane]

It's really interesting to me how a handful of games became popular games to speedrun or do challenges in back in the 90s and it just kind of stayed like that

Doom, OOT, Mario 1 and 64

Games that have been completely dissected over two decades now and people still find new stuff or manage to find new ways to do challenges in them

[green fulcrum]

What does the A button do again in SM64?

[fresh bane]

Jump

[green fulcrum]

..................How the f*ck.

[minor plover]

awwww yeah, 1037/1200 joker stickers in balatro

[rotund forge]

We need a LoZ show/movie in this style

[rotund forge]

Oh....lol

[rotund forge]

also nice

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/ockeroid/status/1793092727481249963

soundtrack woooo

(also hey the composer of crow country liked and shared my art )
(and the director! )

[proud warren]

not a bad run for the most chaotic character in the game

wait I didn't even see my money count

is that just a hard cap or something, or did I happen to strike comedy gold by chance?

[dire gate]

Hard cap

[proud warren]

what a funny hard cap number

[dire gate]

TH15.5 Overdrive cleared

[wind stump]

"Wow, Xbox has been around for 15 years? That can't be right, that's too many years-"

the email is for Minecraft
Xbox has been around for over 20 years

I'M GETTING OOOOOOLD

[little badger]

First teaser for next call of duty https://fxtwitter.com/charlieintel/status/1793301871429382299?

[quiet swift]

So there's a rumor going around that microsoft wants to buy valve for 16 billion

[little badger]

I seen that. If it happens I think it’ll be stopped by regulators

[quiet swift]

Oh absolutely. Owning Valve would mean owning Steam, that woudl give them a practical PC monopoly

[little badger]

[sour hill]

I'm sure they do

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/wario64/status/1793323705726050603?

[harsh kestrel]

Midnight release for that tonight

[arctic fern]

Oh yeah shit

Eh I'll pick up a physical copy later

[dreamy raptor]

Anyone played HOI4 here?

[wind stump]

Uhhhh... You doing good, archer?

[quiet swift]

Ah, just the usual twitter rumor mill necromancy then

[thorny loom]

Even if microsoft tried. Regulators across the globe would shut it down

Even harder than they tried the activison buyout

[thorny loom]

Will definitely play it at some point. Really just want to see the new QOL features and if they added a new secret boss or something

[fresh bane]

Should be illegal for microsoft to even think about proposing the idea, honestly

https://fxtwitter.com/PatStaresAt/status/1788589157381751113

[thorny loom]

Do keep in mind that that document was 4 years old

So this was even before the activison buyout

[fresh bane]

Fair fair, but they will try to do it again though

[thorny loom]

But it does remind me a lot of when MS tried buying Nintendo and they basically were laughed at for even trying

[fresh bane]

I'm just sure they're going to propose buying other things in the future

[thorny loom]

Honestly the next big buy i can see happening would be 2k games or EA

2K owning rockstar and by extension GTA is the other golden goose they would love to get their hands on

EA would happen if they keep making major flops

[quiet swift]

You say that, but their sports games continue to be money printing machines

[chilly mural]

but, Pat Stares at has never lied to me

[harsh kestrel]

I was seeing some dumb video today that Microsoft is supposedly trying to buy Valve or some shit lol

[thorny loom]

Its based of old documents but theirs basically no proof their still planning on doing anything like that

[random steppe]

Seems like they did explore buying a bunch of stuff.
Even Nintendo.

That is really not news that they would consider Valve

It's less absurd than Nintendo

[fresh bane]

It's true, he's never been incorrect on the internet before

[fresh bane]

I don't know much about the guy so correct me if I'm wrong here, but it's funny for me seeing someone like Kai Cenat, which I assume is someone pretty representative of the average mainstream audience, play a game like Elden Ring which isn't a CoD or Fifa and immediately become enlightened

It reminds me of what happened with DS3, back when it came out Dark Souls had made such a big name for itself and Fromsoft had gotten so big after DS1 and Bloodborne that DS3 became the Souls game even mainstream audiences who weren't into these games would play, and they would say it was the best shit since sliced bread

[quiet swift]

Became enlightened?

[fresh bane]

Yeah what I've seen from clips of the stream after he finished ER it was him praising the game top to bottom because of how incredible the experience was, it's just funny because with how he praises it it's like he just met god
I just remembered since 2K was brought up and I kind of associate streamers like that guy with the large audiences that play these games (again though correct me if I'm wrong, I know nothing about that guy)

[quiet swift]

He spent like 29 hours on Malenia

[fresh bane]

I heard that yeah, I heard his chat gave him shit for cheesing the fight with op weapons after struggling so much with it but honestly hey that's the souls experience

[quiet swift]

I believe he's just the most subbed/highest viewership number on twitch atm, but I dunno for sure, don't watch him

[fresh bane]

The souls community unfortunately has a lot of issues with players that will shit on you for using certain weapons or summons because "well you didn't REALLY beat it"

[quiet swift]

The whole not using the mimic as a spirit summon

[fresh bane]

Experiencing the whole Radahn patch thing was a big you had to be there moment, people would post their victories after struggling with Radahn and people would say "Well I beat him before the patch where he got nerfed "

[slim thorn]

I still can't tell if these games are supposed to be played with community help or not

[gaunt marten]

Dark Souls definitely is

If obtuse stuff that most people couldn't find alone is enough, the player message system is another hint

[river veldt]

i suddenly don't feel too bad for asking for help from you guys lol

[slim thorn]

yeah, if anyone had told me that going into DS1, it might not have been an awful experience

[gaunt marten]

Exploration is still a major part of the game, which is why when you asked for help regarding things that you could potentially find by yourself, I just gave you vague hints

Crystal Project is a pretty similar game where you're meant to explore, but not actually meant to talk about it with other players or look anything up. The difference shows in how the mechanics and exploration are designed

The obtuse things are never necessary, for one

[fresh bane]

100%, a big part of the design of these games has always been making it so forums and boards would get made to discuss the game, share tips or info and just talk about it in general

I'm unsure if the experience nowadays is the same, especially for the older games where almost all info is readily available, and forums and boards aren't as common anymore either

[slim thorn]

yep, I understand the theoretical appeal of ARGs and the like, but they're not for me

but back when DS1 was new, no one ever described it as that kind of experience, so there was no way to expect that requirement

[random steppe]

I don't think I'd describe it as "ARG"

[slim thorn]

I mean, not all of it obv

[river veldt]

it's more comparable to trading game tips on the playground with friends when you were 10

is that too specific

[slim thorn]

nah, that's the kind of experience they probably wanted

[fresh bane]

Yeah that works really well as a comparison

[slim thorn]

it's just not an experience that I would ever personally get from a video game, since I don't play that way

[random steppe]

I think we did talk about the community aspect a few times

Like, when the shortcut that to open it, you need to hit the wall 50 times

[slim thorn]

well, yes, but that's years after I played it

[random steppe]

in ER

[slim thorn]

DS1 is 13 years old after all

[random steppe]

That a single player will never find it, but it's meant to be found by the community at large

[young creek]

Elden Ring ahead

[fresh bane]

It's just "unfortunately" the type of thing where it's at its most enjoyable whenever it just came out and the community is still active, but I think it was especially enjoyable during the 2010s where people were again mostly gathered at these forums for discussions and sharing stuff whereas now it's everywhere and some of that magic is lost

[river veldt]

this is like the rock in Link CDi you have to bomb 13 times

[random steppe]

As a sidenote, that aspect is why, while I like DS1 more as a game, I had more fun in my first DS2 playthrough

I played DS1 years after the fact, and DS2 on release

And it makes a massive difference

When the community is discovering shit while you are

Stumbling on something and leaving a sign, and then see people rate it as useful is such a cool feeling

[slim thorn]

reminds me of Death Stranding having those shared structures and road resource pools

[random steppe]

Yes, that's an apt comparison

[river veldt]

have you guys seen that video where the guy is playing death stranding and he has the motorcycle or whatever and he's driving and then he suddenly goes off a cliff and loses everything

[slim thorn]

that doesn't sound like a particularly unique or interesting video

[river veldt]

no it's funny

[sour hill]

Community help is built into the game via messages. You're not supposed to need to use a walkthrough, but there's a bunch of really secret stuff that the vast majority of players will miss on their first playthrough

[slim thorn]

(ftr I did try the community messages when I played DS1, I just gave up on them after it became clear most were random noise or trolls with no actual non-obvious information)

(Sekiro's ghosts were about the same)

[sour hill]

smh I love the souls message system

[random steppe]

There are whole secret npcs that tells you shit about the state of the world, some even lie to you or twist the truth in some ways as well, it's a remarkably well thought out story for a game in which you will probably miss most of it.

[gaunt marten]

Poor dragon doesn't know what's coming for it

[river veldt]

i cant find the video im so mad

i sent it to kratta once

whatever

[random steppe]

I always have a lot of respect for a game that is willing to let you miss stuff

[sour hill]

Missing entire secret areas on your first playthrough is a fromsoft tradition

[slim thorn]

I've always been iffy on that one personally (though that's not specific to DS), but I guess it's a matter of degree

[sour hill]

Pretty much every time I replay a souls game I learn something new about it

[random steppe]

Exploration is the aspect in gaming I like the most all in all, and hiding real big secrets is the way to keep exploration interesting for me at least.
Even tho it happens that I miss stuff and it sucks, the feeling when you actually find something well hidden makes up for it.

[slim thorn]

I often like exploration, but IME it's really hard for games to strike that balance of it being rewarding and difficult, without making you feel like you have to choose between spending fifty hours bombing every wall tile or just looking up a walkthrough

[quiet swift]

I did find places I hadn't been to before when I replayed ER with my fiancée in that seamless coop mode

[gaunt marten]

Crystal Project

[slim thorn]

at least for me the games where it works most consistently are where the difficulty comes more from combat or platforming mechanics than the exploration itself

[gaunt marten]

Yeah!

[astral steeple]

this being a real multiversus image is insane lol

[slim thorn]

or from puzzles, like in Tunic

[thorny loom]

https://x.com/wario64/status/1793341999916949559?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Wario64 (@Wario64) on X

Humble Games Bundle: Nightdive FPS Remasters https://t.co/4JjjMlUMfG #ad

$20 Bundle includes:

-Turok 3 + 2 + 1
-Rise of the Triad Ludicrous Edition
-Powerslave Exhumed
-Doom 64
-Forsaken Remastered
-Blood: Fresh Supply
-Sin: Gold

$15/10/$5 tiers also available

Twitter · May 22, 2024, 6:03 PM

Valves upcoming game had gameplay leaked

https://fixupx.com/jakesucky/status/1793281010727338443?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

[bronze abyss]

isnt smite just that but with years of development and devs that actually care about the game behind them?

[thorny loom]

Looks like a mix of fortnite and smite

[astral steeple]

lol

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/-kAYF-qxzn0?si=I0wF6_oz2sZNUHY3

damn already speedruns

and former WR's

Oh my god you can || shoot the clock in the crypt puzzle to skip it completely?! ||

AND || kill the crypt ''boss'' by dropping the gate on it?! ||

Oh wow you can skip || having to do the whole acid puzzle thing by just using the flamethrower on the fairy's head, wow ||

[river veldt]

do i get anything for giving the ember thingy to Andre ? i gave it to him a while ago

[gaunt marten]

The privilege of upgrading your gear more

[river veldt]

oh !

well i have 2 titanite shards, so right now im grinding souls

[fresh bane]

Andre is the blacksmith in the game that lets you upgrade your weapons further with the special embers, later on there's other types of embers that only other blacksmiths can work with that let you upgrade weapons with different properties

[gaunt marten]

Each ember unlocks a new upgrade type, except large embers and very large embers, which unlock higher upgrade numbers

[river veldt]

oh i only have 1 shard

why is the number i have on the right instead of the left

what is the large titanite shard for

[gaunt marten]

Upgrades higher than 5

[river veldt]

oh !

ok

does Andre have unlimited Titanite shards to sell or does he only have a set amount

[gaunt marten]

Unlimited

[fresh bane]

As long as you got the souls he's got the shards

[river veldt]

ok cool

and i should have +5 at this point right ?

[gaunt marten]

What's the last boss you fought?

[fresh bane]

It's a bit hard to say but, there's never any point in the game where it's not good to have a weapon that's over +5, I'd recommend upgrading weapons past that and maxing them out with the chunk and slab later for any weapon you feel like you really will stick with for the rest of the game

Shards and large shards are farmeable but the first time around I recommend giving it some thought so you don't have to spend more time farming and getting more souls and shards

[gaunt marten]

Chunks and slabs are farmable too, but it's harder

[river veldt]

Gaping Dragon i think ?

why cant i sell these shitty swords

[gaunt marten]

Given your level of expertise and your progress in the game and the fact you're using a claymore, I'd go for +3 to +8

Whatever is achievable

You can get to +5 by just farming souls

[river veldt]

with grinding anything is possible

[thorny loom]

Your playing ds1 right

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

[thorny loom]

Okay

Ive only played 2

Hmmm

https://x.com/nintyprime/status/1793396980174946584?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Nintendo Prime (@NintyPrime) on X

The Thousand Year Door's codebase has support for 4K resolution. Nintendo Switch does not support 4K resolution. You can do the math, I am sure!

Via Necro Felipe, Mastodon

Twitter · May 22, 2024, 9:42 PM

[slim thorn]

you heard it here first: Switch 2 supports 4K resolution /s

[thorny loom]

If the specs from shipment details were anything to go by. It can support it yes

It would be about the equivalent of a ps4 pro*

[river veldt]

ascend claymore ?

[fresh bane]

Ascending is a different process than upgrading

[river veldt]

i assume it uses large titanite shards ?

[gaunt marten]

Yes

[river veldt]

cool

[gaunt marten]

Ascending changes the weapon's type or raises the upgrade level past the normal cap

[river veldt]

ok i have a +6 claymore now

[gaunt marten]

Sounds great. If you have a few spare souls upgrading your armor doesn't hurt but it's not important

[river veldt]

I KILLED THE ONE GUY

FROM BEFORE THE FOREST

i used 7 estus' but i still did it !

[gaunt marten]

Oh hell yeah

[bitter stream]

woo

well done

[gaunt marten]

The headless guy

Did he drop anything?

[river veldt]

yeah he dropped a demon titanite

[gaunt marten]

Ah fuck he didn't drop his weapon

Titanite Catch Pole is a rare drop from these guys. Only one spawns per game

It's really strong if you get it from the guy next to Andre

(There's a secret area where titanite demons respawn)

[river veldt]

o

there's no guy next to Andre

[fresh bane]

The titanite demon from the entrance to darkroot

it's right in front of andre

[gaunt marten]

He's in the room after Andre

[river veldt]

oh

i thought there was a secret extra guy that would hng out with Andre

ok

now to Valley of Drakes

why does this guy at the bonfire at Firelink suck

i hate him

[gaunt marten]

The one who's always sad or the one in gold armor?

Or the judgemental cleric guy?

[river veldt]

the

the silvery one

who tells you about the bells

[gaunt marten]

Yeah the one next to the fire

He's just given up

You can kill him if you want

[river veldt]

no

i got a dung pile

hooray ....?

[gaunt marten]

Ooh, dung piles are good

Throw them at enemies to inflict toxic, but don't throw so many you get toxic

[river veldt]

noted

is there a way to upgrade my fireball

what thr fuvk is that

[gaunt marten]

No, but you can learn stronger pyromancies

[river veldt]

there's like a slug

[gaunt marten]

Where?

[river veldt]

blighttown

[gaunt marten]

You mean the slime enemies?

Didn't one try to eat you before?

[river veldt]

this fucker

[gaunt marten]

Oh

It's glowing!

This is a parasitic wall hugger. Just kill it with ranged attacks and get its drop

[river veldt]

fuck these poison dart guys

dumb hats

[gaunt marten]

True

You skip most of them if you go in through the backdoor

[river veldt]

i thought i did go through the back door

[gaunt marten]

You might have

There's like eight of them total

[river veldt]

fuck i died

[river veldt]

the backdoor is through Valley isnt it?

[random steppe]

The good thing about the dart guys is that they don't respawn if you kill them

[gaunt marten]

Yes

[river veldt]

fuck yeah

are thesr firebreathing doggos

[random steppe]

Yeah the backdoor still has a couple of them

of the dart guys I mean

Most of them are in the main route

[river veldt]

why do the big guys have a special death animation if they respawn

[gaunt marten]

If you're encountering the fire breathing dogs you went the wrong way

Go down

There's a hidden bonfire in a nook in the poison swamp area

[river veldt]

uhhh

is it by this water wheel

[gaunt marten]

No, it's not near any manmade structures.

It's near the center

[river veldt]

the center of what

wait this is a elevator not a water wherl

[gaunt marten]

The center of the big open swamp

[river veldt]

if i walk in the water i get poison

[gaunt marten]

Yeah that's why Blighttown sucks

Bring poison cures

(If you know where to walk, you can avoid getting poisoned.)

[river veldt]

ok i have seven

i wish there was a map

idk how to gauge how close to the center i am

[gaunt marten]

Don't worry about it too much

[river veldt]

well i'd like to find the bonfire

I FOUND IT 😎😎😎😎

how far in the game even am i

[gaunt marten]

I'd say close to halfway

[river veldt]

neat

THERE ARE SO MANY BUGS

[random steppe]

If you have a bow you can snipe the mosquitos

Fuck those bugs BTW

Also welcome to the poison swamp for this game

Get used to it

[river veldt]

why does Miyazaki like these places

it's horrifying

[fresh bane]

he's already gotten asked about it on interviews and he just says he can't help it

[visual hill]

https://fxtwitter.com/Graslu00/status/1793311278909296977
Perfect Dark officially takes place in the past now. 👀

[sour hill]

that guy's so cool

[gaunt marten]

Minecraft ass screenshots

[sour hill]

he just like me
he just like me fr

[gaunt marten]

perfect dark
screenshots don't look even a little dark

[sour hill]

I hate this fucking world

[visual hill]

fun fact: in the Perfect Dark beta, the Chicago level had a "Pink pony" billboard instead of "Punk pond" as in the final release

https://tcrf.net/images/5/54/PerfectDark-ChicagoPinkPony.jpg

[gaunt marten]

Neat

[craggy vine]

@river veldt were you gonna be getting a steam deck?

[river veldt]

hopefully for my bday yeah

[craggy vine]

Awesome

When is your bday

[river veldt]

July 4

which is perfect cause the steam summer sale is also happening then

why do you ask

[craggy vine]

Ooh nice

I was just curious if you perhaps had it, I saw you talking about buying fallout on steam

[river veldt]

oh yeah

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/WayForward/status/1793356459629072559

[arctic fern]

https://fxtwitter.com/Pirat_Nation/status/1793193291204170099

[gaunt marten]

Kill

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/hollywoodhandle/status/1793438915455578506?

[quiet swift]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2102450/Enotria_The_Last_Song/ one of the soulslike games who announced around the time of Elden Ring's xpac announcement (and got overshadowed) put out a demo on pc/ps5

Steam

Enotria: The Last Song

"Enotria: The Last Song" is a thrilling Soulsike set in a sun-lit land inspired by Italian folklore and filled with danger.The world has been gripped by the Canovaccio - a twisted eternal play that keeps everything in an unnatural stasis. You, Maskless One, are the only one without a given role and master of your destiny. Defeat the fearsome Aut...

Release Date

Sep 18, 2024

▶ Play video

[random steppe]

Italian dev right there

A rare occurrence

[quiet swift]

And italian setting, like a play. It looks super interesting

[wind stump]

average gacha game lore

[slim thorn]

is there a Yinyin too

[wind stump]

Not sure. But Wuthering Waves is fun so far

genshin meets pokemon

[wind stump]

OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU

[little badger]

Official logo https://fxtwitter.com/callofduty/status/1793635518648836544?

[wind stump]

fucking redditor ass

[bronze abyss]

Greetings M’lady,have you heard of crypto?

[quiet swift]

[wind stump]

oh my god this game referenced "I do not know who I am. I do not know why I am here. All I know is I must kill!" meme

[thorny loom]

https://x.com/wario64/status/1793552548911309005?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Wario64 (@Wario64) on X

DAVE THE DIVER - Godzilla Content Pack DLC is out and free:
Steam https://t.co/kz7FH3M5sh
US PSN https://t.co/bWQMvCZ6g2
US eShop https://t.co/4kWbJpyEON

Must be claimed before it delists on November 23rd

Twitter · May 23, 2024, 8:00 AM

Lmao https://x.com/zingus5/status/1793411055848452454?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Zingus (@Zingus5) on X

For those unaware, there's an ongoing Silent Hill interactive TV show right now where viewers can create their own characters and submit them to eventually get used as minor parts of the show. This has, of course, led to the entire town being filled with an army of Hideo Kojimas

Twitter · May 22, 2024, 10:38 PM

[wind stump]

[thorny loom]

https://x.com/rpcs3/status/1793647408301138082?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

RPCS3 (@rpcs3) on X

Today, RPCS3 turns 13 years old.

With Playable at 70% and continuing active development, PlayStation 3 preservation is stronger than ever!

Some statistics since the last anniversary:

• 1 481 new commits by 15 contributors
• 89 503 lines of code were added and 40 393 deleted

Twitter · May 23, 2024, 2:17 PM

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/epicgames/status/1793659819691536696?

[thorny loom]

Interesting

[river veldt]

waow i got a plank shield

[robust steppe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOnBsxypST0

[thorny loom]

https://youtu.be/G2NDDhUp8kI?si=Gn7tcYd33Sc25WlE

[wintry canopy]

The physical copy of the thousand year door I pre-ordered has arrived.

[thorny loom]

Yeee

[river veldt]

why cant i light the firelink bonfire anymore

[thorny loom]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mnvlCVDb7PY

Lmao https://x.com/syacvg/status/1793249453043806469?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Saved You A Click Video Games (@SYACVG) on X

"Finally making its way to PC".
It was on the Epic Games Store since 30/03/2021, and I know that doesn't count, but come on, it kinda counts.

Twitter · May 22, 2024, 11:56 AM

[green fulcrum]

[fresh bane]

Still can't believe Alan Wake 2 didn't even release on PC

[astral steeple]

lol

[rancid herald]

For real?

Is it good? I never played it

[static bluff]

It's Goofy

[rancid herald]

Banned

Straight to the moon

[static bluff]

gorsh!

[rancid herald]

Wait!

I just remembered that that Star Trek game was supposed to release on pc soon

[fresh bane]

Alan Wake 2? Absolutely

Should've been game of the year but unfortunately Baldur's Gate also came out that year

[slim thorn]

AW2 is excellent yes

gameplay's similar to a modern RE and just as good, story is more of a cosmic horror multilayered metanarrative with a Twin Peaks-y vibe

all will be revealed at Deerfest

[river veldt]

i really wanna play Control and Alan Wake 2

[quiet swift]

Control is great

[random steppe]

I feel like you would have a blast with Control cap

It's the kind of game that can get you really invested in the world

[river veldt]

yeah and it's partially inspired by House of Leaves one of my favourite books

onto my wishlist it goes

[thorny loom]

https://x.com/callofduty/status/1793702125207449837?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) on X

A story you can’t cover up #BlackOps6

Twitter · May 23, 2024, 5:54 PM

That must have been a lot to get a game promo as the front of a newspaper

[light gate]

https://www.polygon.com/24163569/steam-games-when-you-die-will-estate-planning

[novel pine]

ugh its gonna be so bad but im gonna get it

[hidden elbow]

I mean cold war was pretty good

[novel pine]

Yep

But CoD is one of the most repulsive game franchises on the market right now

so soulless and full of microtransactions

[hidden elbow]

Yeah

But new MW 3 was a peak in scamminess

[thorny loom]

This one apparently had a 4 year dev time so at least theres that

[hidden elbow]

It was originally supposed to be dlc for mw 2 but was later extended for a whole game

[gaunt marten]

They stay on your computer if you buy DRM-free games.

(Games that aren't DRM-free were never yours.)

[harsh kestrel]

They're marketing the game big time. They have four years of development behind this game. With advertising going as far as this already, they just can't fuck this up... Right?

[hidden elbow]

[novel pine]

Well you already know the story's gonna try and be super apolitical or just try and meaninglessly shock people like Modern Warfare 2019 did, so the advertising is already really silly

[thorny loom]

Depends. If rumors of what their including about it are true

[fresh bane]

aaaaaaahhh come on

I was almost there....

[slim thorn]

so what are the rating criteria?

[fresh bane]

Heals used, secrets found, hints and lives used take away rank, no time or save restrictions (under 10 heals for S rank)

Pretty good requirements

Oh well, that took me... around 2 and a half hours to beat, pretty good time saves there after a first playthrough

Guess I'll just have to do a third one and just not suck at the game and never get hit once

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/Archive_Of_Alex/status/1793570223989137629

damn

Totally Spies Solid: VR Missions

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/eco_mmunity/status/1793668102997319977

Oh wow as if I didn't already have enough reasons to loathe this guy

what a hack

[green fulcrum]

The Drunk-mann has struck again

[fresh bane]

It's so funny how clearly Druckmann's idea of ''enhancing storytelling'' and ''pushing boundaries of storytelling'' in videogames is just ways to make videogames look like movies or tv shows from the stuff he says, I've never seen a director so seemingly just ashamed of being a videogame director, just make a tv show already and get it over with man

[bleak lintel]

There is a genre of games that are interactive movies or shows. I feel they were more common in the 80s/90s.

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/ywWwUuWRgsM?si=ij4j-uO2U6KtZ9Mp

On a more positive note, I finally got around to watching Nerrel's latest video and it's actually super impressive stuff for me
Emulation has always been tricky and finnicky, but N64 emulation especially has always been arguably the worst, riddled with issues everywhere sometimes requiring multiple plugins to even function, so seeing something like this that not only fully streamlines the entire process of playing these games and gets rid of arguably all the n64 emulation drawbacks while also at the same time adding a bunch of new enhancements and upgrades is crazy to me

[slim thorn]

I suspect that was around where game technology allowed them to start meaningfully competing with the visual spectacle of movies, so it makes sense

[river veldt]

FMV ?

like Night Trap

[harsh kestrel]

So I'm assuming that's a dude that had something to do with the creation of Jak and Daxter, and if so, that would explain why they haven't fully returned in the gaming industry

[bleak lintel]

He's the Last of Us lead.

[fresh bane]

man it looks good

[harsh kestrel]

Jak and Daxter is still missing nowadays, and it honestly kinda sucks. After Crash got brought back with the N Sane Trilogy, the classic characters just kept coming back to form in droves

[bleak lintel]

Jak was written by Amy and she's no longer with the company.

I think she's doing a Star Wars game? Or was.

Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra is what she's working on.

[harsh kestrel]

Then it should hopefully be good considering everyone remembers how well Jak and Daxter was written back in the day. I won't lie though. I forgot that game was going to exist at some point lol

With all the Marvel games that multiple developers and publishers are gonna be releasing though, yeah, it's not hard to forget one or multiple that are gonna be coming out until you look them up lol

[gaunt marten]

70, 7, 7

[minor plover]

I have reached 1053 stickers in balatro

made a handwritten list of everything I'm missing so I can check without having to dig through the collection screen during a game, and have been crossing them off as I get them

[hidden elbow]

Still that one convention where he just stood alone waiting for some one to ask his autograph or photo yet no one came to him

[fresh bane]

You mean the Golden Globes? The time where he stood in the red carpet and posed for pictures and not a single picture was taken and he was completely ignored?

[hidden elbow]

Yeah ,dude really thinks he deserves a reward for making fucking tlou 2

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/493340/Planet_Coaster/ Base edition 95% off

Steam

Planet Coaster

Surprise, delight and thrill crowds as you build the theme park of your dreams. Build and design incredible coaster parks with unparalleled attention to detail and manage your park in a truly living world.Piece-by-Piece Construction: Planet Coaster makes a designer out of everyone. Lay paths, build scenery, customize rides and make everything in...

Price

$2.24

Recommendations

52267

Metacritic

84

▶ Play video

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1337010/Alba_A_Wildlife_Adventure/ 75% off. @slim thorn wanted this one if I recall

Steam

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure

From the BAFTA-Award winning studio behind Monument Valley and Assemble with Care comes something entirely new.Join Alba as she visits her grandparents on a Mediterranean island. She is ready for a peaceful summer of wildlife exploration with her friend Ines, but when she sees an animal in danger, she realises she needs to do something about it....

Price

$4.24

Recommendations

4467

Metacritic

79

▶ Play video

[wintry canopy]

I forgot how spooky paratroopa fights are early game, I'm enjoying the game so far.

[slim thorn]

I forget who recommended Alba to me but yeah it's been sitting on my wishlist a while

[gaunt marten]

Me

I didn't outright recommend it but I mentioned it a few times

It's been in my wishlist for three years

[hidden elbow]

https://github.com/fgsfds/BuildLauncher/releases/tag/0.7.0

Launcher for build engine games (duke hukem , shadow warrior,blood ,ion fury) their mods and various source ports

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/489630/Warhammer_40000_Gladius__Relics_of_War/

Steam

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War

Gladius Prime was known to Imperial scholars as a planet of archeological interest. During its colonization ancient relics were found, revealing hints of a shrouded past. But it was more than relics. Something awakened, an unspeakable horror from an ancient past, and the citizens of Gladius found themselves trapped in a terrible war for survival...

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[robust steppe]

Thanks

[gaunt marten]

You're welcome

[visual hill]

this is why Microids is our national pride.

[visual hill]

what if I told you someone is working on a Goemon recompilation... 🙂
(someone reported an issue about it on GitHub)

[dire gate]

Huh

I was trying to get the game but apparently I already own it, which means that it was 100% off before

[worldly summit]

RPCS3 is a god software for letting me play Persona 5 on the school computers before anyone could get it on their PC or Switch

[thorny loom]

@fresh bane https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1996010/view/4187863234168955172?l=english

[gaunt marten]

Wasn't the game only out for like two days?

[thorny loom]

Its been about 2 weeks flitter lol

Nire just finished it last night and wanted to replay it

[slim thorn]

relatively speaking, I was late to the party

lol

so 13 days

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/focus_entmt/status/1794020543798427832?

[wind stump]

Aw, they look nice fishing together.

annnd i brutally murdered them

https://youtu.be/Au4O9n85qmU oh hey, Yahtzee finally dropped this

I somewhat followed the development of this
Somewhat.

[thorny loom]

Genshin?

[wind stump]

Wuthering Waves

though yes it looks very similar to Genshin

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1794035631880073219?

[river veldt]

oh shit i love Jeffery Wright

[harsh kestrel]

I'm honestly ready to see Multiversus come back and hopefully keep their audience around this time around. From what I've read, we'll be seeing a completely overhauled game compared to the one we knew last year

[light gate]

https://youtu.be/Kb2nYMhVjeo?

[craggy vine]

Oh I thought this was a pre rendered scene from an old game at first

Or is it?

I'm confused

[quiet swift]

Riven?

[light gate]

Riven

[sacred grove]

It's real time. They've been giving teasers of the remake

[light gate]

Top is the original, bottom is the remake.

[slim thorn]

"old game" was mostly correct at least

[quiet swift]

Top was easy to identify. Myst/Riven have a very distinctive look

[light gate]

https://youtu.be/vPuhlYDBW7U?

And of course, the cyan logo even got remade https://youtu.be/lu1MdffCy5k?

[craggy vine]

oooh I see yeah

Cool!

[light gate]

iamexcite

[green fulcrum]

HYPE!! I've been waiting for when they would tease the village! This remake is gonna blow people's minds!

[outer haven]

Which is more convoluted? FNAF lore or Kingdom Hearts lore?

[thorny loom]

KH

It’s pretty easy to figure out the timeline of the original fnaf games. Compared to all the prequels and spin offs of KH

[slim thorn]

FNAF is more convoluted in how it delivers the lore

[wind stump]

🌩️

[slim thorn]

but the lore itself is not that bad

[wind stump]

i got an achievement called "POWER!" for sitting in this chair so it's a very clear reference

[slim thorn]

KH will tell you exactly what's going on, and you'll still be confused lol

[thorny loom]

How are you enjoying not genshin

@wind stump ?

[wind stump]

it goes

would recommend purely for the fucking wallrun

[thorny loom]

Wheres the gatcha

[wind stump]

also there's a monster catching part like Pokeymans

[river veldt]

is Scrooge McDuck in KH yet

[slim thorn]

I don't remember

[shy flare]

any highly intensive graphics mods for skyrim SE people recommend? Im trying to see how crazy it can get with my new hardware

Perhaps we could make a thread too

[thorny loom]

There’s already an elder scrolls thread

I would use wabbajack and just use one of those lists

[shy flare]

Oh ok i was searching for skyrim

[shy flare]

wym by this?

[thorny loom]

Its a mod list installer

[shy flare]

Oh ok. Does it replace nexus mod manager or can I use both

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/therealcineor/status/1794035575319593192?

https://t.co/DDqqA0k6hW @river veldt

[shy flare]

not really a lot of options in here. Like 50 total and most of them arent graphics focused

[thorny loom]

I would like doom with a twist where we fighting the good guys and were actually helping the demons

[river veldt]

HOMY SHIT

EVERYONE STAY CALM

Last year, I heard of early details of the next entry into the DOOM franchise, which was described to me as a ‘medieval inspired doom world’.

[little badger]

[astral bolt]

https://www.fxtwitter.com/ProZD/status/1793916724200546404

[river veldt]

this is literally me rn

[little badger]

same

[green fulcrum]

Bardcore Doom, here we come! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc9HinDy5qI

[river veldt]

ive heard this before it's so good

im so excited

my favourite parts of Doom Eternal was when they leaned into that science fantasy aesthetic

[quiet swift]

This reminds me of Hades music, actually

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

(and then the second half at the 4 minute mark )

[green fulcrum]

Oooo, what if this new Doom game is a prequel, and it talks about some very distant ancestor of Doomguy who stopped an initial incursion of Demonkind onto Earth?

Imagine this balding friar who decides to take up a sword and start slaying Demons left and right, and even learns how to use their weapons and then combine them with human ingenuity to create the first ever BFG and shotgun?

That'd be badass

[river veldt]

maybe, i was thinking it would take place during the Unholy Crusades, which is when Doomguy was with the Night Sentinels, so it would take place between Doom 64 and Doom 2016

[green fulcrum]

Or that

[river veldt]

sorry my autism went into overdrive

[wind stump]

you have activated the 'Tism Mode

[thorny loom]

Jfc

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-sims/as-the-sims-4-continues-to-buckle-under-the-weight-over-dollar1200-worth-of-dlc-ea-has-assembled-a-team-to-focus-on-bug-fixes/

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/hypex/status/1793669047370031548?

[thorny loom]

@wind stump congrats

[wind stump]

[thorny loom]

Your now cursed with fortnite on your iphone

[quiet swift]

Don't think HC plays it

[wind stump]

nor do i have an iphone

borderlands looking ass

[uneven epoch]

i think you mean "my current WAR glam"

"the corporate wants you to find a difference in these two pictures"

[wind stump]

well asctually i changed it last night

... hilariously, i'm now playing as a white-haired cat monk

catboi, not catenby tho

[uneven epoch]

well obviously, the only thing that can beat white haired furry cat monk is white haired furry-er cat monk

[wind stump]

just
the timing of it
god dammit bringi

[uneven epoch]

:3

[bold sonnet]

[fickle garnet]

Holy shit i cant wait

[little badger]

https://t.co/wOxmCTlySu

[river veldt]

what about pc

[green fulcrum]

It'll likely come to PC too.

Especially if it's already multi-platform.

[fickle garnet]

i cannot wait for it. i hope its good

[river veldt]

same

i would like if since it's more medieval inspired there's a focus on melee combat

[fickle garnet]

yeah

that would be cool

[river veldt]

cause IMO Doom Eternal is basically a perfect game but i would have liked more melee weapons. the Crucible and hammer were neat but the Crucible was a one hit kill and the hammer was mostly used for ammo and shit

[bronze abyss]

im actually insane at this game

[little badger]

But will Mick Gordon return to compose? I hope he does

[random steppe]

Almost certainly not

[bronze abyss]

after the entire situation,for his own good hopefully not

[little badger]

Oh yeah it was to with the money situation wasn’t it?

[fickle garnet]

Iirc bethesda edited his music for the game without permission

[little badger]

Ah yeah

[novel pine]

i DONT really like the new doom ost's so i hope its someone new

[hasty patio]

There's two sides to it and I suspect both are correct in some form, but it hasn't been hashed out or settled yet.

TLDR: id promised something that Mick hadn't expected or planned for. Mick and id came to an agreement to make it happen, wrote up a contract, and let the process work. Mick took too long, id delayed the product for the EU max-allowed time. Mick wasn't going to make it, so id's sound director took what they had and remixed it. That gets pushed out and fans notice it. Mick pushes his side first, id's director pushes his shortly after, and Mick responds two years later with more details (a lot of it is during the initial production and back and forth between himself, designers, and the studio heads).

[river veldt]

i really hope Andrew Hulshult comes back, he did a great job with TAG 1 and 2

[fickle garnet]

DOOM 2016 and Eternal are some of my favorite game soundtracks ever

[little badger]

Do we think the release will be 2025?

[novel pine]

theyre just generic dubsteppy metal for me and the only track i even remember is the one that was EVERYWHERE because of memes (but again i didnt play much of either game)

[hasty patio]

But to answer, Mick has stated that he won't work with id again and the studio directors have said the same thing.

[novel pine]

They should just go full electroindustrial if its gonna be set in the medieval times....

[hasty patio]

Personally, I wish this was dropped at the show and not in a news thing. A surprise beats this, but they want folks to watch.

[little badger]

Do you have a favourite doom game?

[hasty patio]

Wolf 3D does not count sadly, I haven't played more than a demo of 2016 way back when.

[novel pine]

i wasnt a fan of 2016 or eternal but ill give them another try someday

i loved Doom 1 but Doom 2's maps were really bad

[little badger]

Oh did you not get the full game of 2016 lunar?

[fickle garnet]

Doom Eternal is my favorite doom game

Imo its the perfect doom

[hasty patio]

I have 2016 and 2020, along with 64 and three versions of 3.

[little badger]

I just hope the new game is good

[novel pine]

it just feels generic and meaningless to me im afraid

[fresh bane]

back when the game was new I thought the same but eventually the heavyness of the soundtrack grew on me, I think I like it more than Eternal's ost

https://youtu.be/b2YG8DX0ees?si=SYSKDyI5SHdiqgdC

[novel pine]

its just... meh.. to me. it does nothing to me. it doesnt evoke any emotions

[fresh bane]

also the situation with Mick Gordon is still the most insane shit to me especially after he sat on a bunch of information for 2 years just so he could make sure he gathered as much info as possible, during those two years his reputation was trashed and some people probably still haven't changed their minds about him

[random steppe]

I still don't think he comes off as immaculate after his info release BTW.

[novel pine]

of all the id games, I think quake 2 has the best ost...

wouldnt mind if the next doom just copies it. would be retro

[random steppe]

He does sound like someone very annoying to work with, I suspect the reason he waited for releasing it is that even by his own side, it can easly make developers less willing to hire him for projects

[fickle garnet]

Im staying out of this convo cuz i get way too pissed when people criticize my favorite things

[little badger]

Who would you bring to make the music for the game?

[random steppe]

I have no idea.

[novel pine]

I think there's dozens of other musicians who could perfectly replicate MIck Gordon's stuff (no offense to him) so if I DID want more of the same soundtrack for the next game I wouldn't be worried

[random steppe]

He did an incredible job for Doom, not disputing his talent.

[fickle garnet]

The guy who did the dlc for eternal

[fresh bane]

A lot of creative people are annoying and difficult to work with, it happens an awful lot of times, I don't think he deserved the treatment he got just because he may have been kind of annoying

[novel pine]

I concur

[random steppe]

Yeah I didn't say he deserved the threatment he got, but also, if I was a dev I wouldn't hire his ass if he doesn't fulfill his contract obligation and then throw me under the bus when I have to cope with it later

[fickle garnet]

I feel like anything other than some form of metal for a doom game is just wrong

[novel pine]

i like the original retro doom soundtracks the most so i wouldnt mind a departur

[random steppe]

The Bethesda is gonna bethesda and treat people like garbage because publishers are evil

(half joking there)

[fickle garnet]

I like the original OST. But imo metal just suits Doom

[novel pine]

but yea modern doom has sadly solidified itself as being an over-the-top gorefest shooter so it will probbaly be stuck with the super metally osts forever

[fickle garnet]

Cuz the original wasn't over the top and gorey at all

[novel pine]

Yea but the og had charm

and also was creepy

[fickle garnet]

So do the new ones

[novel pine]

and it was barely gorey at all. you couldnt really BE gorey at the time... not enough graphic powers

[novel pine]

Im glad you can find it charming but the new dooms are just so bland and basic and soulless to me

just trying too hard to wow you with the next super gorey kill and samey-sounding metal soundtrack

[little badger]

I wonder if there will be a collectors edition

[novel pine]

of course there will be

[fickle garnet]

I shouldve just done what i was going to do

Im fucking done

[novel pine]

Lol its just a game dont be erratic

[fickle garnet]

I cant help it

[novel pine]

Welp so be it

[fickle garnet]

I have problems ok?

[novel pine]

Awkward

Anyways I would love for Id to reboot Quake as well... loved the atmosphere in those games (even if both Quake 1 and 2 really scare me for some reason xD) and itd be awesome to see new renditions of them

as long as they dont flanderize it like they did doom...

[fresh bane]

It's perfectly fine to not like the new Dooms but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's flanderized at all, not even close, it's a bit exaggerating to say that
I don't like some of the aesthetics of the new Dooms, nor do I like the new lore/story, but I feel it's a bit disingenous to act as if the new Doom games aren't doing what Doom has always been doing and aren't incredible games regardless

[novel pine]

Ditto

[hasty patio]

While that is true, this was an id studio decision, not a Beth one.

[river veldt]

god im excited

[random steppe]

Thanks for the clarification

[hasty patio]

No problem. To clarify though, Beth (and I guess now MSFT) will be taking up the legal thing since id reports to them and they have more resources to pull.

[random steppe]

I remember the situation but didn't remember it wasn't Bethesda in charge fo that thing because it's been a while now.
But yeah regardless of where the fault lies, I doubt either party has any interest in working with the other for the foreseeable future

Understandably so

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/okidokidev/status/1794106842781528104

was not expecting Clock Tower to make a return but I'm not complaining

[fresh bane]

so many Akumas....

[chilly mural]

also, the PatStaresAt fight

did you fight him on his stream?

[fresh bane]

I missed the last stream but I did get to fight him twice on the first sf6 stream that day, a lot of other peeps were hogging the queue so I didn't get to fight him with my Lily as often as I wished I could and he kept changing cabinets so everytime my turn would be up he'd change and I'd go back to being 10th or something

[chilly mural]

[fresh bane]

I fought him at 38 min on the vod he just uploaded to his yt channel
I ended up fighting him again at 2:39:37, two whole hours after the first match I just kept queueing and queueing the whole time but I never got in there

and both times I showed up people were like ''what the hell, people actually play Lily?''

[dense crypt]

i got akuma too and i like him, im probably gonna be one of the dime a dozen akuma mains

[quiet swift]

https://www.ign.com/articles/playstation-exec-says-ai-is-important-to-gen-z-and-gen-alpha-gamers-who-want-personalization-across-everything

[gaunt marten]

Sure, people would like a personalized game, but also he's full of shit

[forest shoal]

Didn't Nintendo do that with the N64?

[gaunt marten]

True

[thorny loom]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/after-you-die-your-steam-games-will-be-stuck-in-legal-limbo/

This is why i wrote down all my login info and two factor back up codes on a text document (plus password manager logins) and put them on a thumb drive in a safe

[gaunt marten]

You should be getting DRM-free games instead so they survive steam itself

[thorny loom]

I mean i also have my gog account

Whatever is on their is also fine

[craggy vine]

I sorta want to get DRM Free games on GOG, but I also much more enjoy using them through steam, and most of my games are already on steam

[gaunt marten]

You can get DRM-free games on steam

A lot of Steam games just have no DRM

Steam doesn't tell you which games have DRM and which don't

[craggy vine]

Actually yeah, that is true... I remember back with FNAF games, the game was just an exe file with no DRM at all. I used to give some friends the exe file on a USB so they could play, and a friend did the same to me so I could play FNAF2.

Reminds me of back when I would play games off of a USB stick from friends

[graceful bridge]

My password manager (1Password) has an option that lets me print out a sheet with a unique unlock code, which I put into a safe so my husband can get into it & access all my accounts if something were to happen to me.

[graceful bridge]

Which is incredibly frustrating. They really should be required to indicate what DRM, if any, a game is using on the store page.

[visual hill]

the Augmented Steam extension does that

I don't think it distinguishes between DRM-free and Steam DRM though (PCGW does)

[light gate]

Game companies would feel forced to enact free-drm though, since gamers see it as a good thing to not have drm. Can’t have that in 2024, or ever.

[slim thorn]

tbh I think most "gamers" don't care about the issue until they get hit with DRM not letting them play a game they own, which for a lot of us just never happens in practice

(it hasn't happened to me, unless you count region locking when I moved countries, but I think that's far less of a concern with modern games?)

not to mention all the gamers playing multiplayer/live service stuff where "DRM" per se isn't even the issue, the game fundamentally can't exist once the company stops supporting it (unless they release a self-hostable version)

[quiet swift]

https://www.polygon.com/deals/24163208/secretlab-warhammer-40k-gaming-chair-ultramarine

[bitter stream]

oh no no no

that's, that's console priced

you could buy a console instead

[bronze abyss]

a secret labs chair is honestly a better investment than a console in many cases

like mine literaly saved my back its the only chair i can sit in comfortably without much pain

[bitter stream]

There are many other good chairs, you can get them for half as much.

If that style works, there are many equivalents in the market, that aren't made by secret lab

[bronze abyss]

their soft weave fabric is really nice

[bitter stream]

that's good to hear.

[bronze abyss]

oh yea also the warranty is insanely good with secret labs,so thats anther advantage over alternatives

you just send tyhem a pic,tell whats wrong,they send you the individual part,you replace it

meanwhile in other cases i had to send the entire chair wait for them to check it then wait for days for them to respond and then even more for a refund or fix

[bitter stream]

aye, that is a good warranty, but I don't think it's equivalent to a whole console. You need a console/PC equivalent to game at all, a chair is an accessory to it, and not one that typically demands this kind of pricing

[bronze abyss]

well id assume if youre getting an expensive chair you already have the other basics of the setup

[bitter stream]

one only hopes. I've seen a friend just not think about it and buy a cool ass chair, but cheap out on the monitor

[bronze abyss]

honestly,considering you can get piss cheap monitors that are decent its not too bad

theres decent options even for like 120-150$ like aoc c24/27g2

[thorny loom]

Ngl this got a chuckle form me https://x.com/lookatmymeat1/status/1794244367567442188?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Johann (@LookAtMyMeat1) on X

EA apparently deems it ban worthy to boot up Apex Legends

Twitter · May 25, 2024, 5:49 AM

[quartz pawn]

Apex

how DARE??

[bronze abyss]

fair arugment honestly

EA has a point with this one

[gaunt marten]

What is this item

No one in my team except stoic has more than 12 HP

[bitter stream]

wow, that looks wild

[wind stump]

Give it to someone with less than 12 hp

[gaunt marten]

It will make them have 1 HP, but then they'd die to any amount of poison

[wind stump]

Then just don't get poisoned

[gaunt marten]

But my whole build is poison

[wind stump]

Self-poisoning?

[gaunt marten]

I have cantrip poison sides, which trigger immediately upon being rolled rather than requiring you to use them, and I have wanderer, whose two shield sides copy all keywords on the previously rolled die, including cantrip and poison

Which means I get poisoned at random with no way to stop it, and I have to end every fight before anyone dies

[arctic fern]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/unification-mod-dawn-of-war-soulstorm/news/the-aftermath-of-the-journey-71-has-arrived#articlesform huge fuckoff original dawn of war mod just got updated, like yesterday
im excited to try it

[unreal idol]

Vimms lair has been fixed

It may have been some AI nonsense that reported the screenshots

https://vimm.net/bbs/?p=viewPost&Post=33470 what a clownshow

[wind stump]

Okay so they mentioned Garry's Mod, does that mean it's the same dumbass thing for Gmod or nah?

[gaunt marten]

That's good

[unreal idol]

I have thoughts about the situation but I'm glad it's resolved

[wind stump]

mine is "why the fuck would someone employ AI to damage prevesvation attempts"

actually wait
copyright trolls, those exist
along with debt collection agencies, the scum of the earth

who the fuck enjoys harassing people like that
what do you get out of it

[unreal idol]

Money

[wind stump]

the root of all evil indeed

[wind stump]

[wind stump]

God I love nature.

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/hazzadorgamin/status/1794439126793470222?

[gaunt marten]

From what?

[quiet swift]

A bit of googling doesn't really say much but if I had to guess based on that googling, probably UE 4? Or some other engine they used in previous project. Not sure.

[gaunt marten]

Unity maybe?

[quiet swift]

Seems like the news of it being on UE 5 is already older news - might be there's a significant difference between 5 and 5.3?

[bitter stream]

haha I finally was forced into full lethal in hitman. By which I mean, killing NPCs that aren't the target.

I was smooth sailing, nearly completely done, when a mission event throws the whole level into lockdown, and on my attempt to escape sneakily I get caught at the stairs because I didn't notice someone coming down when I was going up.

I started BLAM-ing guards until I could safely leave the level and thankfully it wasn't too complicated by grenades or other throwables.

I got my worst score I've ever gotten for a mission, but on the other hand, at least I got to use the cool weapons for a change.

I have no idea how you do that last bit stealthily haha.

[fresh bane]

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/the-legend-of-zelda/zelda-dev-says-the-true-menace-of-tears-of-the-kingdom-wasnt-ganondorf-but-the-programming-that-would-have-let-players-destroy-the-world/

I think we discussed this back when some of us were going through the game
I would regularly complain about a lot of things on TOTK that felt pretty lackluster, but man did the insane work they put into making that game into just a playground for you to experiment and fuck around with shine through at every moment

[bitter stream]

(no spoilers if you'd please, I haven't finished yet)

[fresh bane]

No wonder they patented a lot of the systems they used for this game, the fact that the Switch can handle it is also crazy

[fresh bane]

No worries, just talking about mechanics no lore talk or anything

[bitter stream]

yeah, given BotW's technical limitations

they must have optimised the heck out of TotK?

[fresh bane]

Just barely, people still are hoping for it to come to the next Nintendo console so it can play better since the Switch just barely handles the game

[bitter stream]

ahh ok, that's a shame. I've only just gotten past what I think is the tutorial area so I haven't seen anything hugely busy yet