general gaming

[thorny loom]

The CDI games definitely are an experience

[dire gate]

It seems like the new game is quite affected by what they tried in botw and totk, which also makes sense

[thorny loom]

https://youtu.be/rvJpiCjVrw0?si=l44P5NM6SUKIad_e

[slim thorn]

and the same logo font, so they presumably want us to make that association

[devout vault]

finally a good zelda game

[slim thorn]

oh the EoW trailer even has that iconic BotW shot

probably should've watched this sooner

[devout vault]

Eater of Worlds?

[rancid herald]

And the rainforest

[thorny loom]

East of West

[rancid herald]

I feel like people will end up calling it echos

[heady bridge]

https://twitter.com/VGC_News/status/1803399461248356387

VGC (@VGC_News) on X

Donkey Kong Country Returns HD is being handled by Forever Entertainment SA, the Polish publisher and developer has confirmed.

It previously published remakes of The House of the Dead, Panzer Dragoon and Front Mission.

https://t.co/fh6Cr6541z

Twitter · Jun 19, 2024, 12:08 PM

[thorny loom]

Well at least its a good record

Look forward to the eventual tropical freeze remake for the switch 2 probably

[rancid herald]

when will we get a new DK cartoon?

[river veldt]

yooo new Scott interview

[astral steeple]

August 6th 👀

[thorny loom]

Oh god

Joy of creation remake

[arctic fern]

me: why is my project zomboid in-game map world map progress resetting every time i start my singleplayer world?
modpack i based my current run off: yo its probably this https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3129971832
me: yeah that would do it

[fresh bane]

haaaah, that's cool actually

for reference: at the end of Crow Country there's a Snake Eater-esque 1 minute long ladder descent, it's a very beautiful and cinematic moment with an amazing track playing but I can see how it'd be a bit annoying on repeat playthroughs, so that's actually a neat addition

[slim thorn]

yeah, I went up and down it a few times when I was scouring the map for 100%

[wind stump]

amogus

[fickle garnet]

I tried out Xdefiant yesterday. Its not bad

Its kinda like if CoD was a hero shooter

[bitter stream]

yeah, it seems alright

I ended up not playing much because I didn't really feel like a cod game atm

[wind stump]

of all the dumb things i've done in Sunshine... This is one of them

[bitter stream]

oh no, did you try to go for it early?

[wind stump]

FUCKIN NAILED IT

[bitter stream]

nice work!

[wind stump]

(I'll be real, I didn't even think it was possible)

Like, I think that's barely possible, given the literal pixels I grazed it by

[bitter stream]

yeah it looked very touch and go

[arctic fern]

That's actually very impressive
There are other ways to get up there tho, using glitches

[uneven epoch]

perfect, ur now ready for kugane tower

[hasty patio]

It's been a long time since I've played and 100% that game.

[wind stump]

[little badger]

🐴https://fxtwitter.com/germanstrands/status/1803770200946356293?

[quiet swift]

Considering how much he moves, it feels like he was designed with that in mind in the first place 😐

[thorny loom]

Oh god sunshine again

The love hate relationship

https://x.com/wario64/status/1803782494560374801?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Wario64 (@Wario64) on X

The Sony Rewards program will end on December 31, 2024, which is the last day to redeem points in the Sony Rewards catalog and access your account. The Sony Rewards website and mobile application (“mobile app”) will no longer be available after that date.

https://t.co/jStypmx6fN

Twitter · Jun 20, 2024, 1:30 PM

[thorny loom]

Train

[native bloom]

train

[quiet swift]

🚋

[thorny loom]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/bitreactor-has-a-star-wars-tactical-strategy-game-in-the-works-15-xcom-veterans-on-its-team-and-an-ambitious-vision-for-the-future-of-the-genre/

[visual hill]

haha, I recall doing this

60 FPS might make it a bit harder, I don't know

most side effects of 60 FPS in this game are not at your advantage, unlike say, Gran Turismo 1/2

[visual hill]

I did that too

[wind stump]

I didn't even realise you could do it, I was just fucking around and thought "Huh, could I?"

[visual hill]

proof that Mario Sunshine is an immersive sim

[thorny loom]

Now hc needs to beat mario galaxy

[fresh bane]

Holy shit that is actually legitimately a game changer

This fight was so infamous because having torrent would've made the fight so much better in every way but for some reason they didn't let you summon him for it, that's actually a great change

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/strayhoundstd/status/1803808761586299278?t=sz77c4S0Ws8B6ZHlZNMUiw&s=19

The collective excitement over the Capcom collection is so infectious, I remember tweets about people that PASSED OUT of excitement from the MvC stuff

I do feel bad for any newcomer or child that will buy it on the switch because it has X Men and Marvel characters on it only to immediately get hit by a Magneto infinite by a mvc veteran who has been playing for 20 years

[thorny loom]

https://vxtwitter.com/Ubisoft/status/1803865546732994827

[fresh bane]

That sequel is never coming out is it

[green fulcrum]

Lol

[random steppe]

I 100% believe it's coming

In which condition, and if it'll be any good I have no idea

But if Ubisoft managed to get over the finish line Skull and Bones, somehow, they'll fucking release this one too

[thorny loom]

Inb4 beyond good and evil 2 is out before silksong

[green fulcrum]

[white phoenix]

skull and bones had to come out no matter what due to them signing something with the singaporean government, unfortunately this doesn't have the same luxury

[fresh bane]

Yeah,Skull and Bones HAD to come out, it was non negotiable, if Ubi wasn't legally bound to release it they would've cancelled it a few years into development

I don't know how games like BG&E2 and the Sands of Time remake will fare in comparison

Luckily the last two PoP games seemed... Pretty good, actually, really good

[uneven epoch]

a quick tip, dragon age games are on major sale thanks to veilguard announcement, you can get all three full versions (as in includin dlc) for about 10 euros/dollars until 27th june

i believe @graceful bridge mentioned wanting to buy inquisition on sale

im not sayin u have to do it but i aaaam sayin i think inquisition is quite fun

[graceful bridge]

Oh damn, that's quite a discount. Thanks!

[uneven epoch]

they are quite old games, origins is downright unstable and i recommend looking up 4gb patch to fix the worst problems, so i say keep that in mind. the games' strongest points has also always been lore and companion writing over gameplay but i think thats a well known thing either way

still, definitely a steal for this price tag

[sour hill]

$3 for what you get with dragon age: origins is insane value

[uneven epoch]

i mean i do feel the need to bring up the absolute curse that is trying to play thru denerim. that place b 🅱️roken as hecc without a patch

my game kept crashin haaard the first time i played it before i looked up how to fix it

[quiet swift]

https://bsky.app/profile/glassbottommeg.bsky.social/post/3kvetkdvhum27 Orbital cannon simulator?

[thorny loom]

Lamo

https://x.com/wario64/status/1803872848022315420?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Wario64 (@Wario64) on X

"There will also be an exclusive new mission revealing a narrative link to Beyond Good & Evil 2."

Twitter · Jun 20, 2024, 7:29 PM

They remembered it exists

[light gate]

Can’t say the same with Silksong.

[fresh bane]

huge

can't believe I'm Platinum with two characters now

[chilly mural]

[dense crypt]

monster hunter rise is a great game yo

[fickle garnet]

holy shit Jouske

[quiet swift]

This week

[visual hill]

made with Godot too 🙂

[hidden elbow]

https://fxtwitter.com/i/status/1803859932569092246

Bubsy is back because there no more room in hell

https://fxtwitter.com/i/status/1803858053541814516

Gex is back because heaven sends us their best angel

[gaunt marten]

I sure hope they managed to find a way to give him funny dialogue that's not as racist as before

[river veldt]

GEX

[gaunt marten]

The games are good, but the quips are a bit much

[hidden elbow]

Gex or bubsy ?

[gaunt marten]

Gex

[hidden elbow]

Yeah ,hope they ll make a slider to regulate the amount of time he speaks

[river veldt]

quip o meter

[gaunt marten]

No it's not the amount, it's the content

[hidden elbow]

His quips......werent the greatest

[quiet swift]

Seems like GOG is doing a series of giveaways. Not sure if you need to be subbed to the newsletter or not, but here's the first

[gaunt marten]

You need to subscribe to the newsletter but you can unsubscribe after

[bold sonnet]

I appreciate for posting 💝

[static bluff]

@visual hill Godot plushie GET! So excited for it to arrive

[visual hill]

nice!!

[wind stump]

super mario suffering simulator

[thorny loom]

I think elden ring is back

[visual hill]

oh you're playing Sunburn

I saw a nice-looking romhack I wanted to play at some point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MFx1DLLWo4
it has a demo out already

[wind stump]

i want to believe that it's in the original game too

[wind stump]

oh my goodness

30th? Holy shittu

[pseudo oak]

Clean pics

[worldly summit]

happy flipnic friday!

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/dsafdagreqfdvcz/status/1804161674892435621

[dense crypt]

i'd play it

[dense crypt]

yo what is THIS

[quiet swift]

@green fulcrum what would you say is the 'least complex' crpg? Still trying to get my notoriously picky fiancée to try one. She does also skip dialogue (heresy, I know) so it's probably not the genre for her in the first place

[random steppe]

Honestly, Disco Elysium

Of the ones I've played

It's all narrative, all your stats are in service of the narrative

Basically no combat except if it is in a text event

Fully voice acted

Also does conversations the best every narrative game has ever done them

Not being aware of every though, conscious or subconscious, your character has in his head at any point in time haunts me to this day when I play other games.

It's kind of arguable if it counts as CRPG given no combat but if it does that's my bet for most accessible

[gaunt marten]

True, I bounced off of Disco Elysium because it didn't have enough mechanics to play with

You might be interested in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P4xJ34dmqQ

[dawn harness]

I put up quotes at my weekend job every week and this week I decided to quote Firewatch.

[gaunt marten]

Oh it's not rendering properly because the sign has a similar wood texture to the wall

Gotta file a bug report

[arctic fern]

"Escaping isn't always something bad."
-Delilah June A. (1989)

[dire gate]

Escaping isn't always something bat

[gaunt marten]

Yeah I could read it with difficulty after moving to a less dim room

[river veldt]

i love that game so much

[slim thorn]

this is super interesting since my experience was the exact opposite; fully engaged because there was zero fluff for once

[gaunt marten]

Yeah you play games for story, and I play games in spite of story

[slim thorn]

well, Disco Elysium I played for story, but the majority of what I play I play for gameplay, like Nine Sols atm

[wind stump]

Friend is playing Paper Mario blind and this happened

dark souls music intensifies

[slim thorn]

speaking of which, I got the 3rd Sol last night

[gaunt marten]

Does that mean the writing is still clunky?

[slim thorn]

lol, no I've got no complaints with Nine Sols' story, it's just not the primary draw

[visual hill]

it is, yes

I played vanilla

[wind stump]

i mean i did try it in vanilla but it only works with the squirt nozzle

[quiet swift]

Story is the part she'd least be engaged in, I think, unless it really grabs her. Don't think this one would. I did show DE to my dad's girlfriend though and she was absolutely hooked. And this was while I was visiting with my fiancée so she got exposed to DE and wasn't interested 😅

[slim thorn]

yeah that feels like kind of a death blow to CRPGs

I forget, was one of the Original Sins supposed to be accessible? I know the Larian CRPGs are supposed to have stellar combat

[green fulcrum]

Honestly, if she doesn't really care too much about story, Divinity Original Sin 2 might be the best one to get into. It's big and expansive, but it's also very open-ended on how you go about things, and the story is rather simple, all things considered. That said, you do still have to pay attention, so it still might not be the best fit.

I wouldn't recommend BG3 if she skips the story because it's very heavily immersed in its narrative, and many of its mechanics revolve around dialogue and choices. I also wouldn't recommend either of the Pathfinder games because they're VERY number-crunchy and also have some very complicated mechanics at times, as well as also being very narrative-driven. I also wouldn't recommend either of the two Pillars of Eternity games for the same reason.

Honestly, like you said, CRPGs might not really be for her if she actively skips dialogue and doesn't like narratives.

[sacred grove]

Yeah, I mean... If you have a game with no story or narrative, how can you be playing a role in it? Isn't the point of a role-playing game to... play a role inside a narrative?

[gaunt marten]

That's not why I play RPGs

I play RPGs for the numbers

[quiet swift]

She's just rather impatient. Though she has gone for story in certain cases but generally tends to skip in other games

[gaunt marten]

Probably not her genre then, but I'd try Shadowrun 2 or Divinity Original Sin 2 just in case

[green fulcrum]

Can't speak for Shadowrun 2, but if she doesn't mind light story, D:OS 2 might just work, or it might not. It's a gamble.

[quiet swift]

Yeah, I'm just trying to convince her to try it. Would have to be streamed so I can give her tips/tutorials

[green fulcrum]

I think one of the main draws for D:OS 2 is how varied the battles can get, not so much because of the enemies and characters fighting, but because of the environments you'll be fighting in. You'll be hiding behind crates for cover, trying to find high ground for sniping positions, avoiding (or creating) liquid surfaces for explosive combat effects, putting out fires, using water to dilute cursed ground and wash away oil, creating choke points for enemies to funnel into, and much more.

[gaunt marten]

Oh wait

Do XCOM 2

[green fulcrum]

Not to mention barrelmancy, which is fun AF.

[gaunt marten]

It's got the tactical aspect of the CRPG genre

[quiet swift]

I want her to enjoy the genre, not ragequit

[gaunt marten]

I had a ton of fun with XCOM 2 (after carefully selecting settings that work for me)

[random steppe]

Xcom 2 with the expansion and in the easy mode is pretty approchable I would say

There are even second wave options to make stuff more accessible

[quiet swift]

I think the setting wouldn't work for her there

(I said picky and i mean it)

[hasty patio]

https://fixvx.com/indeimaus/status/1804409203022533022

[pseudo oak]

[sour hill]

I think my friend said it best:

[fresh bane]

From what I've seen, most of the complaints are due to performance

High end PCs and even PS5s are having trouble with this DLC

[random steppe]

Fromsoft DLCs are hard as balls, they are clearly meant to be played with endgame stuff so no doubt people rushed into it with midgame builds and are getting trounced

Like, this stuff is gated behind one of the hardest bosses in the game

For a reason

[river veldt]

this is a certified Mohg moment

[random steppe]

For performance I can't comment until I go in

But for difficulty I don't doubt it's very hard

I remembeer DS3 DLCS and those were no fucking jokes

And ER has a higher difficulty ceiling in the base game so I'm actually scared and why I'm still trying to get ready to go in for 3 days

[sour hill]

Yeah I fully expect to get stuck on multiple bosses for a hot minute

[fresh bane]

Unless you're really good, you should go into the DLC with endgame stats and gear, even still the DLC has its own leveling system too

[quiet swift]

There's two item that you have to get, a bit like golden seeds or something of the sort (you gather it in similar fashion). One of them increases your own damage/resistance, the other increases damage/resistance of spirits/Torrent

If you're trying to kill stuff without any of that, it's definitely harder

Also ||that fire dude near the start is just OW. I'll be back for him later||

[fickle garnet]

Yeah ive been having frame drops in the dlc

[visual hill]

reminds me of Crazy Frog

(shower thought: Crazy Frog is old enough to drive now)

[native bloom]

give me some fucking axel F

[slim thorn]

#NineSols: FOURTH SOL DOWN

[bitter stream]

congrats! is that like a big boss?

[slim thorn]

took like two hours of grinding that boss to the point my muscle memory could keep up with it, and that might've been the single best boss fight I've had in months

yeah, the goal is more or less to defeat these 9 characters, each of which involves one or more boss fights or other challenges

this one in particular has a key item I could've chosen to use to make the fight easier but I decided to do it "legit" (and recycle that item into cash lol)

[bitter stream]

recycle a key item? oh no

haha

glad you're really enjoying the game though

[slim thorn]

honestly it's insane how good indie soulslike metroidvanias have been these last several years

you'd think that wouldn't be a particularly lucrative genre but here we are

[bitter stream]

hmm I haven't been following as closely, though I did enjoy what I've played so far in Hollow Knight

what's come out of late?

[slim thorn]

well Nine Sols is the big one this year

Blasphemous 1 and 2 were 2019 and 2023

(B2 was a rare case of me buying and playing a game almost the moment it came out)

Grime was 2021, though I only just discovered that this year and have been playing it alongside Nine Sols

if you drop the "soulslike" part, this year also had Animal Well

[bitter stream]

ahh nice nice

[slim thorn]

ah right Ender Lilies was 2021, with a sequel upcoming

you get the idea

[bitter stream]

oh true! Ender lilies is neat

[slim thorn]

Tunic was 2022, that's more soulslike zeldalike (???) but still worth a mention here imo

[bitter stream]

yeah fair! close enough i reckon

[slim thorn]

anyway that's a bunch of my all-time favorite games within like five years

what is even happening

[bitter stream]

Indie game boom time I guess

[slim thorn]

oh, and I guess Metroid Dread was 2021

that's technically a metroidvania

[bitter stream]

why technically? how did they fuck up the formula in Metroid lol

[slim thorn]

oh that was sarcasm lol

[bitter stream]

ahh right

[slim thorn]

since I went on about metroidvanias for 10+ minutes and forgot to mention the actual metroid

[bitter stream]

hahahahaha

[slim thorn]

granted it's neither indie nor soulslike

[bitter stream]

yeah true

[slim thorn]

they added a melee parry button, that makes it a soulslike

[bitter stream]

I've never parried in souls likes lol

I've got a shield to block

[slim thorn]

I normally don't, but parrying is extremely mandatory in Grime and Nine Sols

[bitter stream]

ah, that's a shame, I guess I'll not check those out

[slim thorn]

turns out even I can parry when it's a required mechanic

if I was good at video games I could probably tell you these two have more generous parry windows because they're mandatory

but since I'm bad at video games, I can only guess that

(well, also in Grime I got the perk to make parry timing easier, but I wasn't struggling with it even before that)

[bitter stream]

I mean, aren't you already playing fairly difficult games? I don't think you can be "bad" at video games playing soulslike metroid vanias

[slim thorn]

it's all relative

and largely tongue-in-cheek

but it's also true that most people I talk to who play these are significantly better than me at them

e.g. in Hollow Knight I simply cannot beat Pure Vessel, but it seems like everyone I talk to who finished the game at all is able to get past that

[bitter stream]

fair enough. I haven't gotten far enough into holoknight to see that boss

[slim thorn]

yeah, that's in the optional postgame DLC bonus bosses

HK went kinda overboard with the DLC

[bitter stream]

hahah incredible

[slim thorn]

in a good way

[bitter stream]

I would say though, the type of people to talk about a game are more likely to be the more invested and practiced players right?

[slim thorn]

typically yeah

hence it's relative and not entirely serious

[bitter stream]

ah sorry, it's hard to read tone at times on text alone haha

[slim thorn]

yeah that one was kinda subtle

difficulty is also a lot more complicated than a simple linear scale anyway

I think someone here once said they found Nightmare King Grimm harder than Pure Vessel, but I can beat NKG semi-reliably (and that's one of my all-time favorite boss fights)

[bitter stream]

yeah true, it's a multi faceted gem

[slim thorn]

it makes sense because NKG is a more predictable, learnable boss, so after I've practiced a few times I can do it almost hitless

while PV's attacks are just faster, in my case too fast to react to at all

[bitter stream]

makes sense

are you playing on controller?

[slim thorn]

yep

[bitter stream]

you might find reactions easier on keyboard, at least, for certain actions

[slim thorn]

not that this is a genre where it matters much

[bitter stream]

true, i just found my unfamiliarity with controllers slowing me down in hollow knight specifically

[slim thorn]

yeah, familiarity overrides most other factors

I'm the opposite where a lifetime of controller gaming means I prefer them for everything that supports them

[bitter stream]

yooo are you going to try out Path of Exile 2?

It has couch co-op

even on PC

[slim thorn]

nope

[bitter stream]

or will when it comes out

aww ok, apparently they've made pretty good schemes to play PoE 2 wiht controller

[slim thorn]

RPGs just aren't my thing, when I do play them it's strictly for the story and the gameplay is usually an obstacle

[bitter stream]

huh. that's such an interesting viewpoint

[slim thorn]

yep, Flitter's the exact inverse so we get a lot of odd contrasts there

[bitter stream]

I wonder where I sit on that line? Probably at different spots for different genres

I certainly care less for story in FPS games than I do in ARPGs

Last Epoch was fantastic, and much more relaxing than PoE 1

[slim thorn]

tbf it's pretty rare that FPSs try to have a good story

[bitter stream]

I think the only one i can think of that had one off the top of my head was Titanfall 2

[slim thorn]

the main reason I have "played RPGs for the story" so many times is that many of the games which try the hardest to tell a truly intricate story are some kind of RPG

[bitter stream]

yeah fair enough

I should play more of XC3

i grabbed it at launch, playd a ways through

then kinda forgot to play any more

story is great though

though it feels like my appreciation* changes as I do

[slim thorn]

ah, dunno anything about the Xenoblades

[bitter stream]

no worries, I can at least recommend 3 if you enjoy RPG stories, at least so far, even if somethings feel a bit tropey

oh actually

FPS story games?

PREY

[slim thorn]

2017?

[bitter stream]

that game has it in spades

err, let me check

yes

[slim thorn]

yeah it's annoying we have to distinguish between Prey 2006 and Prey 2017

[bitter stream]

aye aye, it's like with the re-hash CODs

same name, very different games

[slim thorn]

2006 was a pretty good game, but completely unrelated to 2017, and 2017's the "you're seriously missing out"-tier one

at least if immersive sims hold any appeal

[bitter stream]

mhm

[slim thorn]

anyway, personally when I do play a game "for the story" I'm looking for something unusual, which is why I have tried things like Planescape: Torment, Disco Elysium, Nier Replicant + Automata, but I haven't touched many of the "standard" JRPG franchises like Dragon Quest or Tales or Xenoblade

probably the most standard JRPG I did play was FF7 waaaay back in the day (which was how I first realized I like the story but not the gameplay in this genre)

[bitter stream]

ahh yeah

something a little more out there

I'll get to Nier Automata one day lol, it's in my l ibrary waiting for me to finish other games

[slim thorn]

(I'm aware that in full historical context FF7 was the big subversion that then became the new standard, like Evangelion or Madoka in anime, but these days FF7 does feel "standard")

[bitter stream]

what did FF7 change?

I'm not really hip with older JRPGs

[slim thorn]

so what I've heard is the typical formula from stuff like Dragon Quest is a chosen one shonen protag who always wins with the power of friendship fighting some demon lord bent on world domination

while in FF7, you start of playing as terrorists, the protag is unfriendly and brooding (in retrospect, one of those "90's antiheros"), multiple characters think they're chosen ones but are very wrong about it, a major character gets famously killed off for real halfway through, etc

[bitter stream]

ahh ok, I see.

thanks

[slim thorn]

it's one of those things that feels super weird to explain in retrospect since at the time they just assumed everyone knew the "normal" formula being played with

it's like explaining Evangelion is doing something weird and different when it turns out the untrained civilian teenagers don't want to risk their lives by getting in the giant mechs

[bitter stream]

yeah, the cultural osmosis has shifted such that the old stand outs are the new defactos

I'm honestly a bit sad about Madoka though

Feels like it killed generic magical girl shows

[slim thorn]

it does feel like it's been a very long time since we had a great normal magical girl show

I'm not sure there was much left for Madoka to "kill off" tbh

oh well, hopefully someday

[bitter stream]

aye aye, though even if it does come out

[slim thorn]

I'm pretty happy with just Cardcaptor Sakura and Ojamajo Doremi anyway

[bitter stream]

That's fair

[slim thorn]

(I tried a few others like Precure but nothing else grabbed me)

[bitter stream]

Cardcaptor Sakura is great

I should really re-watch it at some point

properly in order too

not just TV random

ok, i gtg, been lovely chatting to ya. Hope you have a ncie day Ixrec

[slim thorn]

cya

[dire gate]

Interesting talk you had there

[thorny loom]

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

[hidden elbow]

This is.....beyond unexpected

For context , this game was developed in 2010 in russia and was completed ,just out right
t a full game ,not beta or alpha , but due to internal problems in the studio the game simply never released

After years it got leaked and was available for anyone to play and now they seem to release it officially in steam and consoles

[slim thorn]

niiiice, after the 5th Sol I get ||double jump||

that opens up practically everything

[gaunt marten]

Left crystal dash next?

[slim thorn]

I'm not getting a crystal dash vibe from any of the level design so far

[quiet swift]

Ixrec: I will recommend Grim Fandango to my dying day as a fantastic story game - though being a lucasarts puzzler, it doesn't have too much gameplay wise

[slim thorn]

I know I tried Grim Fandango once and bounced off it but I can't remember where or how exactly, may have just been bad irl timing

it's been lurking in the back of my mind for a long time as something to try again if I'm ever in the mood for that kind of game again

[quiet swift]

Definitely worth another shot! I found the worldbuilding, the characters, the humor, everything just top notch

(The voice acting )

Also the first Life is Strange, but you definitely have to be in the right mood for that one

[slim thorn]

I did see an LP of LiS way back when it was new

but yes if we were to have a more complete conversation about "story games", not just RPGs, then narrative choice games would've certainly come up

[fervent oar]

I got my first infinite reroll run in the game. 70+ leftover rerolls and with a single guy that had a damage cantrip

Almost got over 100 mana but I killed him

[gaunt marten]

Well done. Show off your items

[fervent oar]

I can send them like that or do you prefer to just list them out

[gaunt marten]

This is fine

[fervent oar]

I had 5 different sides that were rerolls

[gaunt marten]

Looks like you have life bolt which damages enemies whenever you use an ability, braids plus weights to make your 4 damage side into 8 and then copy it over to your middle side

Captain's hat makes dancer's dance side into a reroll side

Typically this isn't enough rerolls for an infinite, but the last piece of the puzzle is The Hand, who adds 1 to all your pips

[fervent oar]

The Flute was a huge help for the previous fights too

[gaunt marten]

Flute is good here because you don't have any gray characters

[fervent oar]

Technically not but even on the fight before The Hand I got to like 15 or 20 rerolls before killing the enemies

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, if you get lucky you can stack up a lot of rerolls, but you need six reroll pips before an infinite is likely

[fervent oar]

Now I'm wondering if it's possible to get all 6 sides of a character's die to have reroll

[gaunt marten]

It is!

[fervent oar]

Now that'd be something fun to encounter

[gaunt marten]

1- Pike. (Replace all damage sides with my top side.)
2- Compass. (Flip the left side to the top side.)
3- Sushi. (Replace left side with reroll 2.)
4- Bag of holding. (two more item slots.)

Instead of bag of holding you can use any other item or blessing that gives you extra item slots

Put all of these items on a character with six damage sides like ludus or curator

There are other builds that give all your sides reroll, but this one's the easiest to get on classic hard

[fervent oar]

That's interesting. I should try to get it at some point

Though I still need to unlock curator before that

[gaunt marten]

I don't remember if curator is the T3 yellow who has all damage sides or if he's the one with two shield sides

[fervent oar]

Yeah it is

[gaunt marten]

The T1 and T2 version of the character will also work for this build

[fervent oar]

I'm guessing this one would also work in this case

[gaunt marten]

Yes! Though I usually don't like picking up roulette unless I have a left side replacer, an item that removes the forced death, or a character that revives

Unless I'm super desperate for damage

[fervent oar]

Oh yeah, definitely, but just in the case if we're going for the 6 side reroll

Also what's the deal with the Statue hero? Is it literally just there to tank damage?

I mean it wouldn't be the worst if it had a passive that made it so enemies target it first or something like that but as it looks right now it's just overall worse than the T1 greens

[gaunt marten]

Statue takes your side replacers

Enemies also target it with their heavy attacks since it has the most health

[fervent oar]

Oh I actually didn't even think of them. I guess it could be good with the right build but it still feels a little underpowered compared to Mimic or Sphere

[gaunt marten]

Don't underestimate what a good bag of HP can do for you

Each have their uses

Statue is amazing when you have flesh sides, for example

[wind stump]

I love my gamer sense
I got to rank 30 in Tiny Rogues and unlocked the last Gift tier
and I take one look at the Broken Hero Sword and just immediately think "This is going to be some OP shit if I take this."

I looked it up and I was vindicated immediately

[fervent oar]

I guess I'll have to experiment with it a bit. I suppose I'll find how to use it throughout the run

[gaunt marten]

In general greens are esoteric classes. Fun to play with but perform less well than the other colors from the viewpoint of trying to win every run

[wind stump]

i hate how the Broken Hero Sword is better than my starting weapon

[fresh bane]

this was the most exhilarating experience I had with an RPG and it was a random quest boss

Not having any more revives, the boss being able to one shot my party except me, having to decide between healing or taking advantage of her weakness to keep attacking, getting that satisfying final hit

[bold sonnet]

Oooo what game? It looks so pretty

[pseudo oak]

Forza Horizon 5

[bold sonnet]

Oooo we could race one day together if you want! I like Forza games

I'm not the best driver around but I enjoy it a lot 💖

[pseudo oak]

Niice
You can add me already if you're on xbx

JeeBzToast

[fresh bane]

damn, that was too cruel

4 force attacks in a row which is the only element I'm weak against
to be fair, that was my fault for not putting up a force barrier the turn before

It's really difficult but I like these fights because they always force me to reinforce Nahobino in different ways, change my affinities and even completely swap out my entire party for the fight, it's a bit less about what you do in the fight itself and more preparing all your stuff beforehand, I heard people had a lot of trouble with her in the beginning of this game a week or so ago and it seems it's because a lot of people try to just force their way through the fight or level up without paying attention to their weaknesses and who they have on their party

[quartz pawn]

https://mynintendonews.com/2024/06/10/sonic-team-open-to-bringing-back-chao-garden-in-the-future/

[gaunt marten]

Who would win

Sonic and his chao garden or the final fantasy guy and his I'm here to kill chaos

[fresh bane]

really like the attention to detail in these cutscenes, a lot of subtle well animated character gestures and expressions that really add a lot, I feel like it shows a lot in this scene in particular
(also Tao is really cute )

Also, I noticed the character lip syncing is actually really good and pretty spot on, I'm wondering if this game has 'custom' lip syncing animations for english and japanese dialogue, I might have to look up the english cutscenes to compare the lip syncing but I'm being careful about spoilers since this is my first time with this game

But if I'm right, that's another really cool detail then

[visual hill]

I think manual lipsync is pretty much dead now

language-specific changes do occur in lipsync, but it's usually the result of an algorithm

[thorny loom]

We need a sonic adventure 3 then

[fresh bane]

I remember seeing a twitter thread about how FF7 uses AI to do the lip syncing, I feel like it's a cool and appropriate use of it, it can still be done manually you just don't have to do the entire process manually but use a library of premade lip syncing animations

[fickle garnet]

Yeah i like how FF7R did it

[visual hill]

back when games did things manually (even partially), some translations got rid of some of the animations like blinking eyes, etc entirely

Starfox Assault in its Japanese version has a lot of facial animations during cutscenes that are completely gone in the US release. The characters never blink their eyes, not even once

the timing of those animations would have to be changed to fit the English dub, so it's not a simple copy-paste job

[fickle garnet]

Tbh i think more games should do what FF7R did with the lip syncing

[visual hill]

there's a lot of middleware for lipsyncing nowadays, even in real-time

remember how GoldSrc games have real-time lipsync for NPCs, that even works with voice chat from players in multiplayer?

i.e. when you use voice chat, your character opens its mouth according to what you're saying

[fresh bane]

Yeah, I always thought it was a pretty ahead of its time detail

Comparing some cutscenes really quick and being careful to avoid spoilers I can definitely see some differences between the jp and en versions in smtv, they can be minor but there's totally different lip syncing to accomodate for different timings and mouth shapes

So that's pretty cool

[fickle garnet]

Yeah that is cool

[wind stump]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLfkZkHnyDM (Content Warning: Very Bad Wario Impression)

[heady bridge]

Why do I fear the Chao Garden would come back as a mobile app with microtransactions coming out of every pore

[proud warren]

don't give them ideas

[wind stump]

GIVE THEM IDEAS

[proud warren]

NOT THOSE ONES THO, THOSE ARE BAD IDEAS

[gaunt marten]

Here's an idea: Shut up

[wind stump]

fair enough

[gaunt marten]

(You can still talk)

[wind stump]

(Maybe I don't want to)

[bitter stream]

@wind stump Did you see the news about the Nier Automata Anime coming out sometime?

[wind stump]

oh yeah i should watch that, i was going to after i beat automata then you know, i forgot

umineko and my life falling apart

[little badger]

at least we still have CEX https://fxtwitter.com/eurogamer/status/1805186243711434975?

[bitter stream]

Umineko? oof on the life falling apart thing

Hope you enjoy the anime at least?

I haven't played Nier Automata yet, but will do at some point

[little badger]

Hello Reina!

[bitter stream]

Hey Blade, how's it going?

is GAME a b ig store in europe?

[little badger]

Well it’s in the uk and a few European countries. And yeah I’m good. You?

[bitter stream]

I'm well thanks, just tired. Watched episode one of Cyberpunk Edgerunners and I'm contemplating whether it's worth watching more

Hoping to play some Helldivers 2 later tonight

[little badger]

[bitter stream]

I'd like to imagine some Helldiver somewhere with a "pipp wiggle keychain"

then everytime they drop down

it vibrates like pipp would

[little badger]

MLP themed outfits when

[bitter stream]

lol yeah

my s hip is called "Sovreign of Twilight"

[little badger]

We need one for Dashie. Princess of Clouds

[bitter stream]

that'd be fun

or like, Queen of Speed

[graceful bridge]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1dn257o/war_thunder_developers_community_manager_issues/

War Thunder developer's Community Manager issues apology for accidentally using the explosion from the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in one of the latest key images

[proud warren]

[bitter stream]

what the fuck

[proud warren]

how does one "accidentally" do that?

[bitter stream]

^ yeah this

[dire gate]

Search for "rocket explosion image", choose one, put it in without thinking about it

[bronze abyss]

i managed to softlock in CoTL

[gaunt marten]

How does the game behave if you quit and reload?

[bronze abyss]

havent done that yet,bout to

actually does it have auto save? cuz i havent saved for quite a while now

[graceful bridge]

I believe it auto saves during map changes. So it would've saved right before you went into the dungeon.

[bronze abyss]

alright it did save right before the crusade so its not problematic atleast

just a couple minutes of a run lost ig

initiated the same cutscene and its fine now,so seems like it was a one off bug not any consistent issue

[little badger]

Looks like it has changed https://fxtwitter.com/doesitplay1/status/1805214525991399774?

[gaunt marten]

The original report cites anonymous sources

Anonymous sources at GAME that Gfinity talked to have expressed disappointment at the move away from video game sales. While toy stock now makes up the majority of in-store content, sources expressed frustration at the shop’s destruction of its own identity. Alongside mass layoffs, there’s little faith in the brand.```

So in the official statement they say "GAME continues to support the physical gaming market, offering a wide-range of physical games, hardware, software, accessories and digital gift cards, in stores and online."

But don't actually say whether they'll stick to preorders only

[little badger]

The post I just posted was game confirming they are still going to sell physical games. Which is good

[gaunt marten]

But they were never going to stop selling physical games

Please read what I just said carefully

[little badger]

Oh right.

Because next month the 360 store closes. So it’ll be good that psychical is staying but I’m not sure if you get a dlc code that hasn’t been used would work anymore if you tried to put it on the Microsoft website

[graceful bridge]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/in-first-person-john-romero-reflects-on-over-three-decades-as-the-doom-guy/

The man himself

[thorny loom]

Clearly they need to a meme stock push to stay afloat

@green fulcrum war thunder did a thing again

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/war-thunder-somehow-released-official-art-with-the-debris-cloud-of-the-challenger-space-shuttle-disaster-as-background/

[native bloom]

Oh boy

[dire gate]

Here's a reddit post about it

[drifting tendon]

Oh it made it here. Yeah, apparently the F-15 blew up the Challenger.

[light gate]

But has an F-15 gotten weather balloons? F-22 asks.

[rancid herald]

I'm kind of surprised they don't just random generate cloud backgorunds

[native bloom]

The Su-15 has more balloon kills than the F-22

like hundreds more

not to mention two Boeing 747s

[native bloom]

Because clouds are a lot harder to make than you think

And they’re talking about debris clouds, which are completely different from normal clouds in how they’re made

[dire gate]

https://fxtwitter.com/umamusume_eng/status/1805222758063988963
@fresh bane

[native bloom]

randomly generating one is essentially impossible as it doesn’t take into account physics or how the enemy aircraft was destroyed

You can’t use a giant explosion for a gun kill

[rugged flax]

Umamusume
ah yes, the horse girl anime

[dire gate]

The one which is originally a game but the anime came out first

[slim thorn]

I was wondering what it was doing in this channel until I read the post

[gaunt marten]

Neither does using a stock photo like they just did

Regardless, this isn't part of the game. It's just a picture

[drifting tendon]

Technically it's a loading screen in the game

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, which doesn't need to simulate any physics or game state

[static bluff]

Hey Flitter, can you think of a aesthetically pleasing 2D game where the characters are pixelated but the backgrounds aren't? The closest I could find was Octopath Traveler but that's got, like, a 2.5D thing going on.

I'm looking for inspiration for the game we're working on

[gaunt marten]

Does Fez count?

What about Shovel Knight?

[static bluff]

Fez is the best example I've found so far

[gaunt marten]

Celeste?

I'm in bed so I can't look at pictures too closely but I can find examples later

[static bluff]

I initially dismissed Celeste but looking at it again, I see that it's a pretty good example. I think i confuse the level with the background. Nice one

[bronze abyss]

kiinda starbound,its not quite it but somewhat close,the style difference between foreground and background is quite big

some terraria texture packs and mods ahve a similar style difference as well where the background is much more realistic

[gaunt marten]

Iconoclasts and Owlboy might count

[quartz pawn]

Maybe Indivisible?

[gaunt marten]

I didn't play that one but I thought the characters were all hand drawn rather than pixel art

[quartz pawn]

I mean, true. But it is a very pleasing thing to look at.

[gaunt marten]

The conditions are protagonist has to look simple and low res while backgrounds have to look detailed

[static bluff]

That's correct, Flitter. I think we're going to go a different direction after discussing it.

Thanks all

[quartz pawn]

How about a PS1 game like Lunar Silver Star Story?

[static bluff]

this is gorgious

[little badger]

Looks like it’s still in development https://fxtwitter.com/bgegame/status/1805269728262230467?

[static bluff]

I have never heard of this game. That's kidna wild to me, lol

[slim thorn]

I thought we were aware of these announcements and the issue was skepticism, not silence?

iirc that was pretty common in the PS1 era

at least, using totally different visuals (style and technical) for the static backgrounds versus the parts which move around

[gaunt marten]

You check out Crystal Project yet?

[static bluff]

Like, ff7

[slim thorn]

yeah, FF7's a perfect 3D example

[quartz pawn]

Both Lunar 1 and 2 are amazing games and I wish it would get remade or re-released.

[static bluff]

As a video game to play? Yes I'm interested in it one of these days
(Darn it, I swear I disabled the ping.)

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

[little badger]

What game would everyone like to see be remade/remastered

[quartz pawn]

Legend Of Dragoon

[static bluff]

undertale so we get 3D Toriel

[quartz pawn]

As well as any of the old Phantasy Star games

[static bluff]

My biggest complaint with remasters is they tend to include balance changes or bug fixes, which is not at all what I want, lol

[little badger]

And some contain the original bugs as well

[static bluff]

I hear they are doing a Final Fantasy Tactics remaster. If it simply looks better and loads faster with some QoL changes that make common operations easier, I'm all in.

If they change the classes or add a real time mechanic for some stupid reason, I'm out. lol

[quartz pawn]

I should play FFT again. Maybe A2. That game is so fun

[static bluff]

Here let me find the comic that explains how I feel

[little badger]

Onosa I watched gameplay of that Aerosmith game and well it’s just

[quartz pawn]

Revolution X? Where music is the weapon!

[little badger]

[static bluff]

https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1d510n0/comfort_games/ I am the fatherly figure in this comic. (Source FieldExplorers (they created this reddit post themselves))

[quartz pawn]

They should remake Revolution X that uses a guitar controller.

[static bluff]

The point is if I play a remaster, I want it to feel like the original, even if it was flawed

[little badger]

Onosa what guitar hero games did you play?

[static bluff]

I could beat every GH2 song on expert except Jordan

I'm honestly curious if I could beat Hanger 18 today

[quartz pawn]

I used to be able to play Cherry Pie on expert without looking lmao

[little badger]

Heh

[slim thorn]

balance changes I get, but you don't want bug fixes? and you're not a speedrunner?

[static bluff]

I did try, lol. I just couldnt' ever get the feel of it

[slim thorn]

I mean if you want bug-for-bug compatibility the only option is emulation anyway

[little badger]

How far did you ever get into the song?

[static bluff]

I do not recall

[little badger]

The solo can be between a pass and fail as it’s very fast

I always made sure I had enough star power to make sure if I missed a few notes I’d make it

Now that Microsoft owns Activision Hopfully a new game comes out one day

[bronze abyss]

fuuuuck i downloaded pdaft but that specific download of it is not patched i dont think

[little badger]

Pdaft?

[quiet swift]

Gesundheit

[little badger]

[bronze abyss]

project diva arcade future tone

its a pc port of the arcade game,that can be modded to be identical to the console version or even better

[little badger]

Ah

[bitter stream]

does anyone know if this is just another gacha game or if it's actually a normal title?

there's no info on the gameplay either lol

[little badger]

It probably will be

[bitter stream]

ah, I looked up the japanese version, it so is gacha T_T

ah well

[little badger]

Time to play some Warframe

[bitter stream]

haha yeah, where are you up to in it?

[little badger]

I’m not sure. I’ll probably just do some quick missions before heading out for some food shopping.

[bitter stream]

sounds good, have fun

[little badger]

What about you where are you in the game?

[quartz pawn]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.cygames.umamusume&hl=en_US&pli=1

I'm unsure if it's the same app, but it is still by CyGames, so there's a change it'll be the same game, just translated.

[bitter stream]

aye aye, thanks Bennimarru

[little badger]

Where are you in the game Reina

[bitter stream]

I guess I'm through most if not all the content

I'm building up my aresenal for the current endgame stuff

I just did the new update stuff with Jade Shadows

My arsenal can do 'netracell' content atm, but I've got a ways to go and some standing to get to get to the end-endgame content that's available atm

[little badger]

Ah not powerful enough?

[bitter stream]

I need to hit rank5 with a certain syndicate in order to attempt the content. Not sure if i am strong enough or not

I might have to switch to a new frame too

like Wisp or other super strong frames

[little badger]

Do you ever use the twitch frames? Some of them are cool

[bitter stream]

Twitch frames? as in from the drops?

yeah yeah, they are great

they always give good frames for tennocon

I have most of the frames I want though, so I'm pretty content to just use those

[little badger]

Is the new content any good? It’ll be a while till I get there but just wanted to know how it is

[bitter stream]

the new content is pretty good I'd say

especially the stuff after the New War quest

the quest itself is pretty good too

[little badger]

I wonder if they would ever do a Warframe 2. But probably not because of how well each update is

[bitter stream]

hmm, well there is whatever is going on with Soulframe

that's basically a new game entirely

[little badger]

[bronze abyss]

ok luckily i didnt have much issue finding the patch AND THE BEST PART
it came with most of the songs so i dont have to search half the internet for a song pack

somehow a very decent chunk of my muscle memory transfered from controller to keyboard,idk how that works but its working so ill take it

havent played the game for months and on controller you ahve to use only your thumbs and for some stuff index finger,but on keyboard you have to use 3-4 fingers per hand

83% on two faced lovers first try,doing not too badd

[bronze abyss]

huh???????

since when does it detect it,i never had it detected before

cream it is then

hehe lil shits cant detect cream

[visual hill]

I started playing Viper Racing last week because it's one of my childhood games I finally managed to track down last week

(it's made by the same developer as NASCAR Heat, which was popular in the 2000s)

I remember when one-make racing games were all the hype. This, and Porsche Unleashed (and Ford Racing to a lesser extent)

[static bluff]

Child me would have been all OVER Viper Racing. That looks awesome

[visual hill]

back when my father did more fiddling with PCs, he set up a LAN system to play Viper Racing in multiplayer with two systems

that's how I remember how it looked

[static bluff]

Nice

[thorny loom]

@wind stump

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Na37dINcV2I

[wind stump]

neat

[green fulcrum]

Hopefully there's some good deals that I'm interested in.

[arctic fern]

oooh terra nill got an update

[gaunt marten]

They should make a reverse terra nil

Where you land on a planet and colonize it, establishing a massive factory

[arctic fern]

thats called animal crossing new horizons

wait no

[green fulcrum]

...Factorio, is that you?

[gaunt marten]

I'm playing Factorio randomizer right now

[graceful bridge]

https://x.com/umamusume_eng/status/1805222758063988963

Umamusume: Pretty Derby (@umamusume_eng) on X

Tracen Academy awaits, trainers!

Umamusume: Pretty Derby's English debut is on its way—follow us for the latest news and updates! 🥕

Teaser Site: https://t.co/u5gfyM8Tgh
YouTube: https://t.co/ZkO3BcXp0a

#Umamusume

Twitter · Jun 24, 2024, 12:53 PM

Horse
Girl
Racing

[fresh bane]

My mind is telling me no, don't play a gacha

but my body...

[slim thorn]

is Masque aware of how badly we got hooked on the anime?

[fresh bane]

To the point we were sharing videos about the real horse races that the anime was based on

[slim thorn]

to be fair, of course people on this server would get hung up on a historically famous horse injury

[thorny loom]

Lmao this is kinda funny

https://fixupx.com/dexerto/status/1805322501293326531?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

[gaunt marten]

They don't know what 8 bit means

[light gate]

Voxel mode more like

And not a good one at that.

[thorny loom]

But deviant. Didnt you want minecraft with your call of duty

[light gate]

They want that Fortnite user base.

But they keep makin terrible updates, like Fortnite works because it was never super serious to begin with. Always had that cartoony style, but Call of Duty? That hyper realistic shooter?

[fresh bane]

You wouldn't expect the silly anime about idol horse girls racing would make you cry but here we are

[light gate]

Like what’s next Call of Duty? Airplane races?

[thorny loom]

That kinda went away when we added animes skins

[thorny loom]

They had an obstacle course mode for a bit

[light gate]

Oh so they’re flat out trying to be Fortnite.

yikes

[thorny loom]

Yeah they have been for awhile

[light gate]

Not gonna lie, I have played a bit of Fortnite lately… its pretty different now but still has that FOMO factor that I dislike.

Call of Duty trying to be that is just depressing, even the MCC is better than CoD.

Its just weird.

[fresh bane]

At this point the whole 8-16-32-64 bit thing has to be one of the most misused terms in gaming because nobody ends up getting it right

[slim thorn]

you know what, I'll byte

what exactly does "8-bit" mean when used correctly

[light gate]

Four bits, two bits, half a bit, quarter bit… the wrist game watch!!

Even Windows has 16 bit apps

Well, used to.

Its super disabled and needs like fifty layers of hacks.

[slim thorn]

remember I wasn't gaming until the PS2 era so I have no idea what the difference is between 8, 16 and 32 bit when it comes to games

(in desktop application programming I'm familiar with 32 vs 64-bit issues, but since that's 100% invisible to the end user of any program unless there's a bug, I assume that's a different usage)

[gaunt marten]

Primarily, 8 bit refers to the colors

256 distinct colors in the whole palette

Secondarily, it refers to the highly pixelated graphics of that era in videogames

[slim thorn]

and that's 256 colors selected by the system, not by the individual games?

[gaunt marten]

No, they're 256 colors that can be loaded at once

Since the computer couldn't have indexes with more than 256 elements without losing performance

[slim thorn]

ooooh, so on scene transitions the game could change to a different 256-color palette?

[gaunt marten]

Yeah! Depends on the hardware. Usually the specific colors are loaded on boot

8 bits was also common as a general data width at the time, so many overflows happened at 256

16 bit is the same with more bits. There are very few games at 4 bits

[slim thorn]

NES was 8, SNES was 16, right?

[gaunt marten]

Yeah!

[green fulcrum]

...This is the dumbest shit.

[slim thorn]

2^16 is... over 65k, that's gotta be more than enough colors for any scene, right?

well, in a SNES-era game before modern open world stuff

[gaunt marten]

It's enough that you wouldn't struggle if you were drawing by hand

But it's hardly enough to say, modify the colors by adding light and shadow

[slim thorn]

ah right

[gaunt marten]

Which often caused banding

[slim thorn]

dynamic lighting comes waaaay later

I think when I got into gaming it was considered mind blowing if your game could show a lightbulb swinging back and forth with the walls and floor reflecting that accurately

[gaunt marten]

Later, developers shifted away from indexed colors and into using modern color profiles

You can read more at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_depth?wprov=sfla1

When I was a child Truecolor (24 bits) was the new hotness

[astral steeple]

theyre doing a retro vaporwave type map as well lol

[thorny loom]

Yeah thats the obstacle course one

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/kaasiand/status/1805019946646114386

oh wow lol

[gaunt marten]

Metroid Dread

[slim thorn]

yep, that got me as a teenager

I think on one playthrough I screwed up that sequence and the SA-X just killed me

[visual hill]

I remember when a lot of Quake 2-derivated games went out in 1999-2000 and their big new feature was… not having paletted textures, and that was mostly it

it was enough to keep them graphically relevant for the most part. Soldier of Fortune slapped detail textures on top, which was the next big thing at the time thanks to Unreal

[chilly mural]

https://gamebanana.com/mods/521982 @fresh bane someone released a mod for one the characters I main in KOF XV in which they have twilight sparkle or rainbow dash on their shirt

[thorny loom]

https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-bethesda-bundle-gog-edition

GOG edition of a couple of Bethesda titles if you want them DRM free

[bitter stream]

ooh GOG versions huh. neat

[thorny loom]

https://x.com/pokemontcg/status/1805430785056588279?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Pokémon TCG (@PokemonTCG) on X

Twitter · Jun 25, 2024, 2:40 AM

Context. People entered with ai generated art

[dire gate]

I heard that fans have assumed that it's not actually because of AI generated art, but because the person who submitted AI generated art submitted more than 3 arts by using alt accounts

Which is a direct violation of the rules

[thorny loom]

That also

Lmao https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/5225

[wind stump]

[astral steeple]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1805617567756660982

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) on X

Lara Croft is coming to Dead by Daylight on July 16.

Twitter · Jun 25, 2024, 3:02 PM

HUH???????

[bold sonnet]

It's becoming like Apex Legends, e-football and Fortnite

[thorny loom]

Look we had nicholas cage in dead by daylight nothing can peak

[bold sonnet]

Literal money loundering?

[graceful bridge]

https://youtu.be/uCRU6J9ueXU?si=woChk-tTMKMYuwuI

[bold sonnet]

Will be on all platforms!!

[chilly mural]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIlL0lDz7I0 @river veldt new liam triforce

[quartz pawn]

[thorny loom]

https://x.com/wario64/status/1805649659471577409?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Wario64 (@Wario64) on X

Forza Horizon 4 will delist on December 15th https://t.co/3d4zYAbGIa

Starting today, June 25; Forza Horizon 4’s DLC will get delisted from platforms, meaning that only Forza Horizon 4 Standard, Deluxe, and Ultimate versions will be available for purchase from this day until

Twitter · Jun 25, 2024, 5:10 PM

[green fulcrum]

...But why?

[thorny loom]

Licensing

[robust latch]

Wooo Riven Remake released. https://www.gog.com/en/game/riven

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/StreetFighter/status/1805737745148788950

hell yeah

[dense crypt]

I was hoping that meant like, sound effecta during the fight too

I want my SF4 super KO sound effect back 😔

[visual hill]

I like how Riven is the game that gives the middle finger to the rule of thirds in every scene

if you look at the promo trailer or screenshots, it's super obvious

[visual hill]

Quake 3 hitsounds in fighting games when

(I actually have a prototype of this for Melee, need to finish it...)

[green fulcrum]

Rule of thirds?

[native bloom]

Dividing your scene into a 3x3 grid and positioning your subject along the lines

[green fulcrum]

Ah

[visual hill]

yeah, it's how most photos and movie shots are made

[native bloom]

Mhm

[visual hill]

not everything respects rule of thirds (sometimes, the rule of fifths is used)

[native bloom]

Ever notice how characters in trailers are never smack-dab in the middle?

[visual hill]

but when you position something dead center, it's always a bit uncanny

[native bloom]

That’s the rule of thirds

always offset your subject

this is pretty good rule of thirds right here

another example

[gaunt marten]

If god wanted me to center my pictures he'd put my eyes in a row atop my nose

[native bloom]

Centered subjects look nice in some aspects but it’s generally good to avoid them for still shots

don’t apply the rule of thirds to portraits

[robust steppe]

It's your last chance to get Forza Horizon 4 before it's delisted
you'll still be able to play and some mutiplayer features

[visual hill]

oh, I was wondering when it was going to be delisted

ultimate edition is €20, which is low by Forza standards but still pricey by Steam sale standards for a 5+ year old game

however, FH4 is notorious for its technical issues related to its DRM, especially if you've also played it on Game Pass (save data does not transfer)

[hasty patio]

I thought it was possible to do so, but requires save modification.

[bitter stream]

For the other ARPG fans here, Last Epoch is getting it's next cycle soon! they released a trailer, with a link to details in the description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3PXawGtwK4

I'm looking forward to jumping back in when it come sout, though I've not done much endgame stuff on my current character

[river veldt]

holyyy shit Epic Mickey Rebrushed got a release date

September 24

excited

[bitter stream]

What's Epic Mickey like?

[thorny loom]

Its a platformer where you use paint to build stuff or use paint thinner to destroy stuff

It was neat concept its a shame they never followed up with epic donald or goofy

[thorny loom]

https://www.gog.com/en/game/resident_evil_bundle

@fresh bane

[thorny loom]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/nearly-6-months-later-palworld-devs-confirm-nintendo-never-drew-so-much-as-an-inch-of-its-legal-sword-over-bootleg-pokemon-allegations/

[dire gate]

Obviously

[slim thorn]

I guess it should have been obvious, but a lot of people have no idea how copyright works

it certainly doesn't hurt Palworld for them to state "nothing happened"

[thorny loom]

The new update for palworld is fun btw

[little badger]

Ooooh I love dead rising https://fxtwitter.com/wario64/status/1805981440309338544?

[astral steeple]

WHAT

[dire gate]

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster Edition

DR DRE

[wind stump]

DRR DRR DRR

This hole! It was made for me!

[dire gate]

DRK

[arctic fern]

well... yeah, obviously
there was nothing to allegate on
if there was, digimon would have been sued into the ground in the 90s

oh discord didnt scroll damnit

dead rising remake sounds greattho, i hope they add QOL updates to it, always found the original so damn clunky

[wind stump]

https://youtu.be/8Y7ChSLTgXs

why would someone do this to themselves?

does this guy need like
help

[rotund forge]

Press A! ! He's insane.

[wind stump]

fun channel

[thorny loom]

Gabe is cooking

https://store.steampowered.com/gamerecording

[static bluff]

Oh I get it. Streaming fits the whole Valve/Steam thing

[bitter stream]

what do you mean? in terms of feature set or like, puns?

[static bluff]

puns

🚰

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2071500/Islands_of_Insight/ 100% off

Steam

Islands of Insight

Welcome to Islands of Insight: a sublime shared-world puzzle game set in a fantasy realm of ancient wonders and natural beauty. Brimming with mysterious puzzles to solve, secrets to uncover, and vibrant landscapes to explore, this peaceful world of floating islands is the perfect place to unwind. Embark on a puzzle adventure of your choice, all ...

Price

$29.99

Recommendations

1156

▶ Play video

It's an okay puzzle game

[wind stump]

oh no press a is releasing the fucking waterwraiths now

he's gone off the deep end

[light gate]

Vertical Integration ayo

I hope its not as busted as Steam Broadcast

[wind stump]

nothing wrong here

[bitter stream]

oh, the costumes appear in cutscenes too?

[wind stump]

Yup, fucking amazing

[astral steeple]

lmao

new cod operator

[thorny loom]

Merica

[astral steeple]

Wow this looks so dumb looking

[bitter stream]

yeah i know, it's like a fortnite skin lol.

[gaunt marten]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/4142827237888316812 This is not news but you might like the statistics.

~42% of these controller sessions are using Steam Input
During that time, the controller landscape has changed:

59% of sessions are using Xbox controllers
26% are using PlayStation controllers
10% are on Steam Decks```

[bitter stream]

oooh interesting

thanks for sharing

[gaunt marten]

15% is insanely low. I don't know anyone in the house who doesn't have any controllers

[slim thorn]

I understand it solely because I had to buy my controller separately

PCs don't normally come with one

how would I know if I'm "using Steam Input"?

[gaunt marten]

Click this button

Allows you to configure any game

[wind stump]

Hm. I suppose Xbox owners would also gravitate to PC

[gaunt marten]

(including ones that don't support it)

[wind stump]

i have issues with the Xbone controller

fucking dpad sucks, makes playing GGS super hard

[gaunt marten]

I use it to get my emulator to work

[wind stump]

and i can't just switch to a stick when it's a game bult around 8 directional control

i mean, analogue stick, not a fightstick

[gaunt marten]

I like the PS4 controller

[wind stump]

two different things, since a fightstick has that definitive clickiness to it, if that makes sense

[bitter stream]

and depending on the shape of the... err gate? i think it's called, you can get easier directional inputs

in fightsticks

though people say that the leverless controllers like Hitbox are more consistent

[slim thorn]

I'm getting setup instructions so I guess that means I am not using Steam Input

[gaunt marten]

Setup instructions?

[slim thorn]

when I click the button you pointed out

[gaunt marten]

Normally if you're not using steam input it'll tell you you're not and gives you a button to turn it on

[fresh bane]

Oooooohhhhhhh yooooooo!!

I need it naow

https://fxtwitter.com/TheSphereHunter/status/1805934519943569909

of course suzi already knew

[slim thorn]

dang, too bad I already emulated them all

[fresh bane]

I mean I did too but I won't say no to officially having them on pc (and playing them again maybe)

Too bad it's not an HD remaster sort of deal and console players won't have access to it though

[thorny loom]

Bright side is now we have mods

There already were for the original pc versions but now there far more accessible

[fresh bane]

I can't wait to see what mods will be made now

[pseudo oak]

💀

[river veldt]

is that the Delorean

[gaunt marten]

Who would win

The mandalorian in a delorean or Dr. Who on a kangaroo?

[slim thorn]

#NineSols: beat the 6th Sol in only 2 attempts

[pseudo oak]

Gta lore friendly version

[thorny loom]

Disney with the cease and desist

[astral steeple]

lol

the mando one could technically be possible in the future

the delorean itself is already in rocket league

just comes down to if the people who made bttf agree to the cross game ownership thing

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/FGAnniversaries/status/1805823315598098771

we missed out on cute girl Bison

tis a cruel world indeed

[dense crypt]

One of them is just geese howard

[light gate]

Yeah, the recording feature is bad.

At least on macOS, its completely broken.

Gonna check the gaming laptop now.

I shouldn't be surprised, but yet here I am.

[bitter stream]

ah, is it working on windows only atm?

[light gate]

It might work on Linux also, but the Mac version is trashed obviously.

But yeah, Windows works fine. Some linux distros do have issues apparently.

[wind stump]

R A T

[little badger]

https://fxtwitter.com/eurogamer/status/1806297228916478278?

[rancid herald]

now I know we're in the darkest timeline

[wind stump]

KONG DONG

[visual hill]

I spot Whisker Squadron

[dire gate]

Giving game to people free only to get negative reviews

[wind stump]

which game?

[dire gate]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2071500/Islands_of_Insight/

Steam

Islands of Insight

Welcome to Islands of Insight: a sublime shared-world puzzle game set in a fantasy realm of ancient wonders and natural beauty. Brimming with mysterious puzzles to solve, secrets to uncover, and vibrant landscapes to explore, this peaceful world of floating islands is the perfect place to unwind. Embark on a puzzle adventure of your choice, all ...

Price

$29.99

Recommendations

1167

▶ Play video

[gaunt marten]

To be fair I watched someone play Islands of Insight and it kinda sucks

I also like this review

Because why does the game needs to sell/share my information like age, gender, location, etc to advertisers (point 4.3 and 15.4 in their privacy policy)?```

Other concerns: The game is online only and if you can't connect you can't play.
The game is 3D with a character model that seems to primarily exist to sell skins. Most puzzles can be done without

[pseudo oak]

Carz

[gaunt marten]

Lots of stuff in my wishlist I'd like to see a sale on. I wonder if we'll see anything good this year

[bitter stream]

oh it's today? huh

looking forward to see what goes on sale.

[river veldt]

whoa these sales are insane

[bitter stream]

anything particularly cool Cap?

[wind stump]

I know, right?

[gaunt marten]

This happens every year

[wind stump]

waiting for capitalism simulator

[gaunt marten]

Instead of looking at your wishlist, which has to be dynamically calculated, try viewing a page that's prepared in advance

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/special_deals

[wind stump]

Steam seems to be experiencing downtime

[gaunt marten]

(Or wait half an hour)

[river veldt]

yeah the two im most interested in are GTAV which is only around 15 bucks and Spider-Man which is 35.99

[wind stump]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOzW3Qwfd_A

[gaunt marten]

These deals seem particularly good

(two dollars and three dollars)

[visual hill]

€2 for Arkham Knight, wow

it was €6 on sale not so long ago

[river veldt]

damn !

Doom Eternal is only 10 dollars

[gaunt marten]

Dragon Age 2 is cheap too

[visual hill]

Assetto Corsa for €2 as well but you need DLC to install most mods, so it'll be more in practice

[gaunt marten]

However, as usual, the "popular new releases" section is full of porn

[visual hill]

I'll get Arkham Knight I guess

I got enough wallet from selling CS2 drops that it's effectively free 👀

[rancid herald]

holy moley

humankind is 90% off for 6 dollars

[river veldt]

steam seems to be struggling

[gaunt marten]

90% off on the witcher 3, celeste, disco elysium

[bitter stream]

I opened the Humankind stoe page EDIT: Lost internet for a second, one moment

[visual hill]

actually, Arkham Knight's premium edition isn't the cheapest it's ever been

[river veldt]

does the premium edition come with the extra suits

[visual hill]

wait an hour or so, everyone's trying to empty their wallet

[visual hill]

Season Pass has all DLCs apparently

(according to reviews)

[river veldt]

epic

[thorny loom]

Time to wait for steam to calm down before Shopping

[gaunt marten]

Before making any sales, remember to use SteamDB to see if it's a good sale or not. It can tell you if this is the lowest price in two years, the lowest price ever, and give you the price history

[visual hill]

looks like Green Man Gaming has the premium edition for €4.68, even... so it's better to get it there

[visual hill]

yeah I always do that

I just bought it on GMG. It's not the cheapest it's ever been (that was €4.31) but close enough

[gaunt marten]

lmao SteamDB has a queue

[wind stump]

Reminds me of Character.AIs queue

[gaunt marten]

It's just Cloudflare's automatic queue system

[river veldt]

good thing im not shopping till next week hopefully everyone will have calmed down by then

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/946030/Axiom_Verge_2/ Axiom Verge 2 is cheap enough for me to consider.

[visual hill]

BeamNG is also on sale, but it's not much as usual. It got a permanent price increase recently

I didn't get it back when it was €15 on sale

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1062110/UNSIGHTED/ another candidate for this sale

Steam

UNSIGHTED

Traverse Arcadia your way. Save your friends. Time is ticking.Alma is an Automaton that awakens to a world in ruin after the war with the humans. Anima, the resource that gives Automatons sentience, is running out and turning Alma’s friends into mindless killing machines, the UNSIGHTED.UNSIGHTED invites you to master it over multiple playthrough...

Price

$7.99

Recommendations

1341

Metacritic

84

▶ Play video

[wind stump]

i already own Celeste on EGS but
I could like
own it on a good platform

[thorny loom]

Oh god

These guys again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiBmgse9GTc

[wind stump]

might grab a few more but the servers are dying

precursour to Dawntrail, lmao

[gaunt marten]

I might grab Wildfrost even though the sale is not the biggest ever https://store.steampowered.com/app/1811990/Wildfrost/

Steam

Wildfrost

The sun has frozen over... The world has succumbed to the Wildfrost. Now only Snowdwell and its survivors stand as the last bastion against an eternal winter... Build up a deck of powerful card companions and elemental items, as you battle to banish the frost once and for all!Perfect your card battling and deck-building skills, and set out on a ...

Price

$15.99

Recommendations

6698

Metacritic

80

▶ Play video

Or I could wait since they had a bigger sale just a month ago

[wind stump]

ROGUELIKE DECKBUILDER SPOTTED

[bitter stream]

Wild frost looked interesting

[wind stump]

thank god i got paid today

[bitter stream]

hope you enjoy HC and Flitter, if y'all pick it up

[wind stump]

who needs to pay rent

[gaunt marten]

On the other hand, Wargroove 2 is the lowest price it's ever been and I could grab that instead https://store.steampowered.com/app/1346020/Wargroove_2/

Steam

Wargroove 2

Wargroove is back! Embark on an all-new adventure, filled with unlikely friendships, unknown adversaries, and ugly revenge plots. Wage war against your foes with a cast of new Commanders and utilise their new tiered ‘groove’ ability system to sway the fight in your favour. Design and share maps, cutscenes, and campaigns with easy-to-use editors ...

Price

$15.99

Recommendations

292

Metacritic

82

▶ Play video

[bitter stream]

wargroove is similar to Advance Wars right? but fantasy?

[wind stump]

Ye

[bitter stream]

neat neat

I'll check it out

[wind stump]

can't wait for FFXIV servers to die

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, I liked the first one

[wind stump]

steam servers dying is a precursor

[quiet swift]

persona 3 reloaded 30% off...

[gaunt marten]

Oh yeah, Crypt of the Necrodancer

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/42616/NecroDancer_Essentials/

[wind stump]

hell ye

[white phoenix]

this sale is crazy, about to spend a ton of money today

[gaunt marten]

Please don't

There will be future sales. Only buy things you intend to buy in the short term

[white phoenix]

yeah i know, i was kidding around
I'm not really interested in the 20% sales, I was looking in the deep discounts

[wind stump]

BULLSHIT.

And the two (not collab) Mystia songs are also DLC
BULLSHIT. AGAIN.

[proud warren]

BS²

[wind stump]

at least the collab songs are free

[thorny loom]

Yikes what happened

[proud warren]

I don't recognize that game

[wind stump]

and the songpacks themselves have 25 songs each

[static bluff]

The one game I might get that I don't plan on playing soon is Triangle Strategy. I know I'll play it eventually, so the question is do I buy it now that it's half off or roll the dice later, lol

[wind stump]

she's so precious

[gaunt marten]

Oh yeah, every time I try to recall Triangle Strategy's game I get "Crystal Project"

It's definitely not looking like a thirty dollar game to me

[quiet swift]

Looking at reviews, nothing in particular new happening, just I think more people finding and trying it and not liking the story, which is one negative aspect. Second part seems to be like what happened to some other games. "Good game on its own, but terrible as a sequel to [INSERT BELOVED ORIGINAL GAME]

Well, not good game but 'okay' game

(supreme commander 2 - okay game on its own, but is nothing like supcom 1)

[wind stump]

Still wild to see these two together. Officially.

of fucking course the first non-tutorial song is Bad Apple