general gaming

[thorny loom]

Pfff

Wrong twett

https://destinybulletin.com/news/destiny-2-content-packs-expansions/ guess we gotta save money for those new cars

[green fulcrum]

[bronze abyss]

☕

fujin in tekken and diamond in brawlhalla just like a day apart

[static bluff]

looool

[wind stump]

oh no it's an Astrologian main

[thorny loom]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/paradox-indefinitely-delays-prison-architect-2-just-like-it-did-with-life-by-you-before-it-was-scrapped/

Paradox seems like its in some trouble rn

[green fulcrum]

...Did they seriously get rid of the cute pixel art style of the first game and then plaster this AI-looking ass in our faces?

[wind stump]

was it prison architect that borrowed from Rimworld or the other way around

i know i've asked this before but i forgor

[light gate]

The other way

But the assets I think are open in general

Also, Valorant doing a heavy push for consoles now.

Might give it a shot, idk what it is or what to expect.

[dense crypt]

Counter Strike with abilities

[light gate]

oh

Thought it was more.

Well, I’ll see if I like it.

[thorny loom]

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/s/2UjDBydaoq

[rancid herald]

I think paradox has forgotten how to make games

[arctic fern]

They know how to make dlc tho

[dire gate]

And how to buy game companies/teams

[quiet swift]

They just don't give their teams time to finish the games. Might need 3-6+ months more to not get shifty releases like they've had lately

[thorny loom]

https://fixupx.com/wario64/status/1819399916357046671?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

[green fulcrum]

Oh shit, that's big news in the gaming community.

Game Informer has been one of the biggest gaming sites for ages.

[slim thorn]

it was the magazine I read back when people got their gaming reviews via magazine

[gaunt marten]

I used to read PC Gamer

Back then they had a little less clickbait

[little badger]

Anyone here ever read PlayStation magazine back in the day?

[quartz pawn]

The PS magazine's demo disks were GOATed

[little badger]

[slim thorn]

I never trusted the company-specific magazines

the demo disc thing might've ended by the time I was following games, the discs I always hear people get nostalgic about are PS_1_ demos, and I showed up at the PS2

[random steppe]

I did read the italian edition a lot for sure

Man, I should check if I can find one, I bet the reviews were really bad

[thorny loom]

I hope your editon comes with many pasta puns

[rotund forge]

Replaying A Hat in Time yaayyy

[thorny loom]

https://youtu.be/WHuefHUAX3g

[dense crypt]

Dorksiders

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/pTrAKR0BAg8?si=yvaWZ8-YpW5X480m
This is the most bizarre but oddly coolest obscure old horror game I've seen

Real sad that you don't really see games like this anymore, kind of can't make a game like this nowadays considering how long and expensive games are to make now, you kinda have to go for the safest way to ensure it sells and even then you can't be sure, so you don't get these really weird super experimental type of games like this

[slim thorn]

so about indies

[green fulcrum]

...Is that supposed to be Sonic.EXE?

It looks like it

[fresh bane]

Yeah that's a blatant e v i l Sonic

|| he even does a spin dash and drops rings ||

[thorny loom]

I saw a streamer play that

[fresh bane]

Well you know what I mean at the time this was probably the equivalent of a AAA game or something I'm guessing

[proud warren]

looks more like the sonic.EXE version of chip

[slim thorn]

yeah, it's definitely different now that the top tier of game project sizes and budgets is so much bigger and thus so much safer

[thorny loom]

Long story short. It was from a dreamcast horror game where the chapter parodied toy story

[slim thorn]

but since many of these "indies" are only slightly smaller than what was once an old-school "AAA" project I don't think we've lost anything

[fresh bane]

I guess I mean more that you can't really make a game like this anymore unless you're an indie, so you're not gonna see any games like this from bigger or even more medium sized companies, and even a small company like Illbleed's dev had like 20 people on staff so even a smaller company at the time was bigger than most indie teams now

although there are indie games that get really close to feeling like a polished game from a small company and then you find out it was actually made by like 1-2 people like Signalis and Crow Country

[slim thorn]

or Hollow Knight or Tunic

some people are just stupidly multitalented

[gaunt marten]

Some people are just

Send tweet

[bronze abyss]

only in oau

now thats what im talking about

[toxic seal]

Hehe pp

[minor plover]

Hehe pp said Hehe pp

[chilly mural]

https://vxtwitter.com/miIkpal/status/1819439450788974747 @fresh bane

[fresh bane]

https://tenor.com/view/crow-country-mara-spin-spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin-spiiin-gif-13600137420642344566

there she is

[thorny loom]

Its the gurl

[slim thorn]

so far Rusted Moss is another top-tier metroidvania for me, I had to tear myself away from it to eat something

[gaunt marten]

Hell yeah

[quiet swift]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle/this-dollar10-gunpla-building-game-has-saved-me-from-spending-all-my-money-and-filling-my-house-with-plastic-models-that-take-hours-to-build/

[slim thorn]

eventually we'll be able to plug a few dozen of these tiny games together into a facsimile of what our actual free time would be like with infinite money

[steep flax]

i kinda want a knitting game

yarn is expensive when you try to make big pieces ;_;

[quiet swift]

https://worldofgoo2.com/ oh hey this is out now

[gaunt marten]

And it's DRM-Free

World of Goo 2 would not exist if Epic had not helped us fund the game! We were able to hire artists and engineers for multiple years to help us build the biggest game we've ever made. We're grateful for this! You've likely seen similar arrangements with other games, and I imagine ours is comparable.

If you don't use Epic, that's ok. You can always get World of Goo 2 right here on this page, DRM-free, for Win / Mac / Linux. Just scroll up there. And if you have a Nintendo Switch, you can get it on the eShop directly on your device.``` (They're going to release it on Steam a year later as usual is what they're implying)

[dire gate]

Very weird type of semi-exclusive

[gaunt marten]

The majority of a game's sales tend to be in the first year

(assuming it releases on the same platform)

[slim thorn]

yeah, timed exclusivity has been the norm for a while

I think the opening months/year only become more important as the market got more crowded in seemingly every popular genre

[dire gate]

Yeah but it's not really epic exclusive at all

It's more like "steam denied for a year"

[slim thorn]

oh you mean the free download bit

I guess it's odd, but less odd than when they call a game a "console exclusive" because it's on all PCs but only one console

I'm just used to everyone trying to spin everything as "exclusive"

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, the idea is Epic wants to compete with steam and they know they don't care about competing with other platforms, so they offer specific restrictions to make the deal more palatable

All they care about is Valve gets less money

[slim thorn]

especially in Epic's position where the standard consumer still goes "why would I use EGS?" and then spends all day in Steam without a second thought

[gaunt marten]

One of those platforms gives me reason to use it

[dire gate]

What they forgot is that Valve making less money doesn't mean they make more money

[slim thorn]

I'm sure they're aware of that possibility, these things are all tactical gambles

[gaunt marten]

Whether or not Epic makes more money is not that relevant

When the biggest fish in a market declines, the gap between it and the second biggest becomes smaller

[dire gate]

Ah yes, the strategy of increasing the market share percentage by making the market smaller

[slim thorn]

"if I can't have the sales, nobody can"

[gaunt marten]

You might be able to visit for a while.```

[arctic fern]

Good answer

[gaunt marten]

No!

I was like twenty when I got World of Goo

I got it from Humble Indie Bundle for one cent in 2010

[slim thorn]

I only got around to WoG a few years ago and didn't like it much lol

[minor plover]

finally got to level 10 in fishing in Stardew Valley so I can quit fishing and build my epic skills

[arctic fern]

i never liked fishing in stardew

[minor plover]

my wife loves it, but she's playing on a steam deck and I think it just works better to press and hold the button than to click and hold on a mouse for that kind of timing game

[bronze abyss]

I love fishing i literally only fish and mine in stardew

Dont even have a farm,only time i had farmable plot was to complete one quest to get more money for fishing

[minor plover]

my wife and I are playing coop

[arctic fern]

ah yeah i can see that working better on controller

[minor plover]

I generally handle the animals, she handles the garden (when we have one), she does most of the aggressive skull cavern runs but sometimes we go together, she does fishing, and I do lots of general harvesting/questing.

one of the cool things in coop is we get a cabin that upgrades the same as a house. So we've set up the cabin as basically like a mega-shed. 100 kegs in the kitchen running ancient fruit wine for both cellars (greenhouse is almost all ancient fruit + 18 fruit trees.) Preserves jars filling most of the main floor. Dehydrators in a corner room. And then we have mushroom logs galore. It's actually a really easy farm to run for huge money.

[pliant bramble]

https://vxtwitter.com/savoirszelda/status/1819324054639136951?

[bold sonnet]

I don't think I've ever ever seen more selfish behavior in game online

He had three teammates running

[little badger]

@thorny loom I think BO6’s theme is my second favourite https://youtu.be/xmv4Hd3FOxc?

[dapper cedar]

to start with I think it sounds one Matt Bellamy short of a Muse song
pretty dang good though, certainly the uniquest menu theme I’ve heard in a CoD

[little badger]

It’s made by jack wall again. I love his scores.

[dapper cedar]

treyarch staple composer, think I first remember his name in BO3 but no doubt he was on it earlier

[slim thorn]

I feel like @river veldt would appreciate this:

[river veldt]

omg

[little badger]

I can’t wait to hear the zombies theme

[white phoenix]

oh hey jack wall is back, he was great in bo2

along with trent reznor

[little badger]

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/36gF6eiCsqU?si=Ng9n1PZXAgzLpRd7
this is not a drill :ppinkiecharged:

may probably not be anything in the end but it's about the closest thing half life fans have to actually speculate about the possibility that this is happening

[river veldt]

i want to believe so bad

is this guy trustworthy? ive never heard of him before afaik

[light gate]

He was the one who knew HLVR was coming, and nobody believed him.

Then it happened.

[river veldt]

i see

it's all speculation but whatever i'll inhale some hopium whatever

"White Sands" is a interesting codename. i know he said they're mostly random but it almost sounds like Black Mesa

[light gate]

For whatever reason, I don't think this is Half-Life 3, but some sort of spinoff for the Steam Deck.

Like really, ||Xen_Gorilla?||

[fresh bane]

The project names are intentionally random and not connected precisely to not draw any connections to any projects they're working on, but the project itself being hl3 is pure speculation, what isn't speculation is the stuff that did leak which are all those weird asset names in the codes and the credits of the people that worked on the project

[light gate]

But who knows, maybe it launches on Windows and Linux only, despite S2 working on macOS. Definitely not coming to consoles though.

[fresh bane]

I mean at that point it's basically the same as releasing it on pc and if it's on steam then might as well be

I personally am of the idea that I don't really think they would let all the Alyx Source 2 assets go to 'waste' so ever since Alyx came out it's all but been confirmed in my mind that Hl3 was gonna happen

That's what I think anyway

[light gate]

Alyx came out because they wanted to sell Indexes.

Literally.

They realized that not everyone has a 4090 or 1K budget, but folks are cool with buying a handheld console.

[fresh bane]

Yeah but Steam Deck has been far more successful and the capabilities aren't that far off from a standard computer that you'd do an entire game just for the deck, it's basically a portable computer so it doesn't make much sense

[light gate]

Except the extra buttons, like the Aperture tech demo... they might make it 'exclusive'. But who knows.

Valve is just like any other company at this point, trying to make their own OS and their own ecosystem and favor their own solutions. (i.e every silicon valley corp)

But yeah, don't expect immediate news yet. Maybe if the Deck 2 gets announced.

[toxic seal]

Duck Hunt 2

[light gate]

?

[toxic seal]

Oh my god I'm blind

I read Deck 2 as Duck 2

[light gate]

[robust latch]

damn it now i want to play duck hunt

[quartz pawn]

Duck Hunt 2: Duck Harder

[toxic seal]

Duck Hunt 3: The Quackening

[robust latch]

LOL

[dire gate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zw-wW20VG8
This is genuinely one of the most chaotic things I've ever seen

[rare garden]

Got my second platinum trophy: ghost of tsushima

[bitter stream]

congrats on grinding it out

[rare garden]

9 days

Oh dear god I just checked my hours and
59 fjcking hours

Help me god

[bitter stream]

oh gosh, that's quite a lot in so short a time

[rare garden]

Graaaaaaaaah and then there's fucking dlc and the ng+

And I want to do those and Im a completionist so fuck my schedule sideways

[dire gate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DolGuwvAnfg
New video of Zelda dropped

[slim thorn]

I am so curious how this combination of BotW/TotK player freedom with LttP/LBW world design is going to work out

[slim thorn]

all right, I think I've gotten as close to 100% in Rusted Moss as my lack of skill allows, which it turns out is 98.77% map completion

[gaunt marten]

Well done

[random steppe]

Rusted moss seems fun

It's interested that it seems that the combat is ranged focused from what I can se

Most of these games tend to be melee focused

[slim thorn]

yeah, the core gameplay loop is jumping, shooting, and grappling in quick succession

the grapple spell in particular is the most unique and polarizing aspect, but if it clicks for you then it makes this really stand out from all the other metroidvanias

[bitter stream]

I've successfully played through Hitman World of Assassination! It's been a fun experience and I've barely replayed any of the levels. Looking forward to trying Freelancer in the future. I can't wait for all my Ceres Fauna viewing experience to assist me in my Hitman adventures.

https://img3.gelbooru.com//samples/59/ad/sample_59adfa6a5e0df8824a34df8050545cae.jpg

[quiet swift]

@wind stump https://store.steampowered.com/app/2400510/Dungeons__Degenerate_Gamblers/ i feel like this game title is calling you out

Steam

Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers

Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers - A Blackjack Roguelike Adventure Begin your adventure in a tavern that is home to a very unique, corrupted version of blackjack you have never played before. You will need to pick up the rules and adapt to them as you progress through the tavern, challenging a colourful cast of blackjack-addicted townspeople.Pick ...

Release Date

Aug 8, 2024

▶ Play video

[wind stump]

let's GOOOO

[bitter stream]

oh no, Blackjack roguelike?

I must stay far far away from this hahah

[quiet swift]

This seems to fit the bill of "So I heard ya liked Balatro..."

[minor plover]

my son actually learned about Balatro through D&DG, and he plays them both pretty obsessively

[river veldt]

I FUCKING LOVE BLACKJACK

i'm banned from every Strip casino in New Vegas because i'm too good at blackjack

(luck 10)

[random steppe]

If you had to recommend either Nine Sols or Rusted Moss which one would you pick?

[river veldt]

why am i being doubted it's true

[sour hill]

Maybe they haven't played new vegas

[river veldt]

wait can you gamble at Lucky 38

[sour hill]

I don't remember, probably

[astral steeple]

WHY

[fickle garnet]

I love that

Gunna start playing dbd now

[thorny loom]

Wait really

They better make springtrap the killer

[fickle garnet]

I have been meaning to start playing dbd anyways

I wonder who the killer will be

Probably springtrap or freddy

[thorny loom]

Springtrap would be the cooler of the options imo

[fickle garnet]

Agreed

Im not really surprised that the mystery colab was DBD

[bold sonnet]

Is so much like Fortnite now

[slim thorn]

if you can only play one, then Nine Sols is by far the safer bet

it has the better narrative overall, and the combat difficulty should be a non-blocker at any skill level since you can always switch to Story Mode and get damage multiplier sliders (while Rusted Moss can't really make the grapple "simpler" like that), and there's more content in general

[random steppe]

I'm not an habitual metroidvania player and Nine Sols clear and obvious polish seem like would be the best one to try, but I do like how unique Rusted Moss looks.

I'll probably go for Nine Sols and maybe grab Rusted Moss in the future if I get an itch for more in the future

[slim thorn]

yeah, if we're talking metroidvanias I'd recommend to someone who hasn't played many of them already, top picks would probably be Ori and Metroid Dread

part of Nine Sols' appeal is the difficult parry-heavy combat so even with the very nice damage sliders that's still inherently less mass appealing than those two

[random steppe]

I did play Ori and Metroid is nintendo stuff so not something I'm especially interested

[slim thorn]

cool

well Metroid is less Nintendo than most Nintendo stuff but still fair

(unless that was code for "I don't own a Switch")

[random steppe]

I mean I also don't own a switch but I don't own a switch because I'm not interested in Nintendo stuff

I could buy one

[slim thorn]

fair

anyway yeah sounds like Nine Sols is a good bet

for me personally, Nine Sols and Hollow Knight are tied for best metroidvania combat & bosses

imo the most important differences to know going in are that, compared to HK, Nine Sols is much more about parrying than jumping/dodging, and Nine Sols' story is told more traditionally with actual dialogue and cutscenes rather than doing the mysterious soulslike thing

[random steppe]

Makes sense

Smells like Sekiro, given the setting too

[slim thorn]

yeah, many have made that comparison

[random steppe]

Which is good given how Sekiro is my favourite from game

[slim thorn]

still disappointed that I couldn't get into it

[random steppe]

I'm mad it's the only "soulslike" kinda from From we never got an expansion for

[sour hill]

Me too bro

[river veldt]

playing Arkham Origins and man

Batman's voice actor is not that good

maybe i'm too used to Kevin Conroy

[river veldt]

ok he's doing a passable job, not super bad

[dapper cedar]

hey that’s not just batman that’s sonic and chris redfield

[river veldt]

yeah i love him as Sonic

also it's weird playing this game in the middle of summer lol

why are there no summertime Batman Arkham games smh

[dapper cedar]

ooo I’d play the hell outta Arkham Beach

[river veldt]

omg and you have to beat Joker at surfing like that episode of the 60s show

[tawny jacinth]

For some reason YouTube bugged out and didn’t show custom thumbnails so I was treated to this gem

[bold sonnet]

This game I swear

[green fulcrum]

Funny how Rainbow is front and center in the art rather than Twilight, lol.

[bold sonnet]

Oh I never thought about it 💖

[river veldt]

i mean yeah, she's the most popular and iconic pony. i knew who Rainbow Dash was before Twilight Sparkle

[bold sonnet]

But a lot of things go over my head I first play this and then Twilight become a alicorn

And only later I think wait

[river veldt]

what game is this

[bold sonnet]

Pinball FX

[river veldt]

omg there's a Indiana Jones one

no Batman tgough

[thorny loom]

https://x.com/mh_now_en/status/1818715177551860107?s=46&t=bVzXPIZvXYyJJoEkCfgMsQ

Monster Hunter Now (@MH_Now_EN) on X

Monster Hunter Now is teaming up with the world's number one content creator -- MrBeast -- for an epic collab!

Twitter · Jul 31, 2024, 6:27 PM

Oof

[river veldt]

what's wrong

[thorny loom]

Not a great time to collab with mr beast

[random steppe]

Probably as good a time as any tbh

[thorny loom]

Then again this was probably planned months in advance so i cant really blame capcom for bad timing

[random steppe]

Even if it wasn't, whatever controversies he's got going on, channels this massive usually don't really get affected by drama like...at all

[thorny loom]

Not drama but a serious legal acusation

[random steppe]

Is it in the courts?

If it isn't, it's drama

[thorny loom]

Not yet be jimmys been sending out cease and desists to anyone talking about

Former employee accused him and his company of running illegal lotteries

[random steppe]

Yeah but like, as I said, channels this big don't really get affected that way

Like, even if it ends up going anywhere, it'll probably be some sort of fine and none will really care that much at the end of the day.
In the meantime he's probably keep putting out 200M views video

And that is IF it goes anywhere, of which I'm dubiuous about

[bold sonnet]

What if he goes to jail

[thorny loom]

The ftc would have to get invovled first

And until that does its just a bad look

[bold sonnet]

What? Why?

The same that tried to make Xbox not buy game companies?

[thorny loom]

FTC handles buisnesses and alleged violations of Business law in the usa

[random steppe]

Like, watch Logan Paul, much bigger channel, basically explicitly scammer his audience of millions of dollars, promised to give back the money, never did it, basically zero repercussions on how big the reach of the channel is.
It's just that the people that watch them don't care, or don't really stay informed about this stuff.

They are channel from young-ish people and accusations or shit it's stuff for eggheads for them.

[bold sonnet]

Oh but it's now starting no?

[thorny loom]

The ava kris tyson stuff was more damaging to his brand than this currently is anyway

[bold sonnet]

Will go to jail too

[thorny loom]

She should

[random steppe]

Will she? I didn't see anything that would actually get her convincted anywhere

[green fulcrum]

Wasn't Logan Paul the guy who went into a forest, found a dead body, and proceeded to film it and mock whoever it was?

If so, how is he still around and how are people still fans of him?

...Never mind, after typing that out, I realize how much of a stupid question that is.

[thorny loom]

She got caught sexting minors with the receipts and minors at the time confirming it

[bold sonnet]

No is not stupid I think now too

It's been long time and nothing

[thorny loom]

Got so bad mr beast actually had to come out publicly and fire her from the company

[random steppe]

A criminal convinction and someone firing you bcause you are a brand risk are very very different standards of proof

[thorny loom]

Like in Said earlier. She should be charged. She hasent yet

[random steppe]

I didn't really see any smoking guns, the victim didn't really come out against her so there isn't an actual witness to call, it's just chat messages in a public chat that might or might not have been bad in context, but I would be surprised if they raise to a criminal level to the point to be able to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.

Maybe, if there is an investigation and they learn about more nefarious shit that was going on under the hood, but if all that's there is what became public I don't see her going anywhere TBH

[bold sonnet]

Do you think courts are busy

[thorny loom]

I mean courts can be busy yes

[bold sonnet]

I think laws take time

[bold sonnet]

I thought they did I've seen on youtube

[dire gate]

Welcome to internet, you can either be cancelled from a single tweet you wrote 15 years ago, or have a fandom after commiting a crime

[random steppe]

My current bet is that we wont see anything more about her going forwards, but we'll see.

[thorny loom]

^

Yeah she’s basically done at this point from all the stuff people found about her and her past

[bold sonnet]

My bet is she go to jail but we never hear because in secret

So similar but different

[green fulcrum]

Preeeeetty sure all the courts are kinda busy with much bigger profile cases right now...

[gaunt marten]

https://x.com/MinnMaxShow/status/1820526028382752771

MinnMax (@MinnMaxShow) on X

Since GameStop has no interest in it, we're kicking off The Celebration of Game Informer here at MinnMax. We're rolling out a series of features and podcasts highlighting the beloved magazine's 33-year run. https://t.co/TVuitAcOl0

Twitter · Aug 5, 2024, 6:23 PM

MinnMax is made by former staff from Game Informer

[little badger]

@dapper cedar trailer soon! https://x.com/treyarch/status/1820837430683140569?

Treyarch Studios (@Treyarch) on X

1 hour.

#BlackOps6 #Zombies

Twitter · Aug 6, 2024, 3:00 PM

[gaunt marten]

Should have waited an hour and posted the actual trailer

[bold sonnet]

[little badger]

https://youtu.be/6Z0Ni2JIqzw?

[slim thorn]

wow, we’re on 6

I only remember 2 of these

[gaunt marten]

I need to play something

I'm playing too much archipelago and we might finish ahead of schedule

I'm kinda stuck on the Dome Keeper Guild Assignments

Need them to be easier since I'm not in the mood to strategize

[random steppe]

I did start Nine Sols and I didn't expect for it to be so...dark

Good contrast with the art style

[visual hill]

indie game rules: the prettier the game looks, the more sad its story is

[slim thorn]

it is funny that my favorite metroidvanias include genocide cats, zombie bugs, and dysmorphic rocks

[fresh bane]

I'm hearing stuff about players not vibing with Helldivers 2's last update?

[wind stump]

wouldn't be the first time

[fresh bane]

I haven't seen what the new update has yet so I don't know why people are upset but it's a bummer to see more people than usual being upset at the game since it was doing so good

[random steppe]

Innocent me playing through Nine Sols.
"Oh right, how could I forget, this is very much a furry orinted game"

[slim thorn]

that's not even the most blatant example

[visual barn]

Kinda wanna play some game of the main pokémon series, which one should I play?

[gaunt marten]

Newest ones

Or black and white 2

[untold vigil]

[bronze abyss]

gotta play the game for no particular reason

[river veldt]

LET'S GO https://fixupx.com/tylerglaiel/status/1820895434279428442?s=46

[visual hill]

that's a good question actually, I've been out of the loop on Pokémon. Please ping me if you reply

[bronze abyss]

ultra sun/ultra moon if you're fine with a longer game,its overal;l the best imo
x/y for a fun simple shorter experience
omega ruby/alpha sapphire for a refined well made experience
sword/shield for probably the most managable/fun 100% experience

[visual hill]

yeah, I've started an Ultra Sun playthrough a while ago. It's the kind of game I only play on the go, it doesn't feel all that engaging if I'm at home (compared to other games I can play)

Sun because

[bronze abyss]

ultra moon is one of 2 pokemon games i bought legit(unfortunately on eshop )

[visual hill]

maybe the open world Pokémon games make more sense to be played at home, if you can stomatch their design

[green fulcrum]

What's this for?

[river veldt]

Mewgenics

it's a roguelike where you breed and train cats to get to the end and cats can be born with disorders and diseases

made by Edmund McMillen (creator of Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy)

i'm really excited

supposed to come out next year hopefully but it's a big game

[rare garden]

Blud forgor the devs made "devotion" and "detention"

[gaunt marten]

I don't like the word blud

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1492680/The_Pathless/

Steam

The Pathless

ARCHERY AND FALCONRYBecome the Hunter, a master archer who travels to a mystical island to dispel a curse of darkness that grips the world. Soar through the air and forge a connection with your eagle companion. Perform fluid acrobatics and execute awesome trick shots with a unique archery system that allows effortless shooting while moving at hi...

Price

$9.99

Recommendations

1240

Metacritic

81

▶ Play video

The Pathless is 75% off. Someone buy it and let me know if it's fun

I know it's cute

https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1492680/extras/Steam_Element2.gif?t=1688055570

[slim thorn]

oh I loved Pathless

Ixrec — 07/22/2024 1:09 AM
for small, indie open worlds, my go-to recommendations are A Short Hike and The Pathless

a big part of it is that in both of those games, the ordinary movement is more involved than just "hold <direction> and wait"; ASH has the jumping and climbing and gliding, Pathless has the sliding and shooting speed boost targets

[gaunt marten]

Fucked up map generation

The relic was over here,

I spent like ten minutes trying to find the way to it

This guild assignment has melee enemies only. I overprepared a tad, going all defensive

After the middle half I found the gadget that lets you see further, so you can clearly see where I stopped strip mining

[toxic seal]

Just logged on to RuneScape wondering how I was gonna make some money to prep for stuff. Person needed guiding to a place, I took them, they gave me a million gold

[gaunt marten]

How much time would it take you to get a million?

[toxic seal]

A lot without very high skill levels or insane luck in various monster drops

Just the other day I spent about an hour collecting the most profitable thing I could with my current levels and came away with about 150k

[gaunt marten]

Oh okay. That's a lot but not super suspicious

I was about to suggest you might want to contact support

[toxic seal]

RuneScape is kind of unique among MMOs in that the only thing they charge actual money for is a membership which expands the game. No mtx, no pay to win. In fact, they actively search for and ban people offering insane amounts of money, ridiculously rare items, or accounts with maxed skills in exchange for real money.

So the person who gave me 1M gold is just a generous person

[gaunt marten]

Right, but what if he was just a guy who bought gold from a real money gold seller and had a lot in abundance?

[toxic seal]

Well then I'm the second degree.

[graceful bridge]

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/capcom-summer-2024

[gaunt marten]

Great bundle given Capcom doesn't do regional discounts and rarely does old game discounts

[quiet swift]

On GOG. Can unsubscribe from the newsletter right after

[little badger]

Biggest round based map they have ever made https://youtu.be/ZexnXA4mMEk?

[dapper cedar]

I’ve been skeptical but nah this looks great

[little badger]

Some gameplay https://x.com/modernwarzone/status/1821562012855599550?

ModernWarzone (@ModernWarzone) on X

BREAKING: 17 Minutes of Black Ops 6 Zombies Gameplay on Terminus Island - Provided by Call of Duty / Activision during my trip to Treyarch Studios

Twitter · Aug 8, 2024, 3:00 PM

[dapper cedar]

this feels like the large scale kind of map they really wanted to do with tranzit, the technology is finally there
y’all i wonder if they’ll just straight redo tranzit

there is the other map that is sort of a tranzit-like

[uneven epoch]

oh ghost trick, my beloved

[slim thorn]

that’s the one I’m tempted by

but I have so many unplayed games as it is… (including AAC)

[uneven epoch]

oh aac my even more adored

i just think that he. i care him, like a misshapen potato

silly character of multitudes

and great pursuit is one beeg banger

[rugged flax]

Look at the game I just got an email from Steam about

[minor plover]

my son loves that game

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/Wario64/status/1821578978462699748?t=QFWPxK1GSmuNx1LkrM4V6Q&s=19

[little badger]

Apparently the other map is

[visual hill]

Nightdive does what Epicdon't

[gaunt marten]

Why does this require me to be always online? I don't want a Playfab account

Just sell me the new megawad

[minor plover]

I zero percent want achievements in DooM

[light gate]

what

What the hell is a PlayFab account?

[visual hill]

PlayFab is Microsoft's multiplayer service, it runs on Azure

[light gate]

Oh, proprietary.

[visual hill]

similar to Epic's Epic Online Services

[gaunt marten]

I love the games as a service model but I think they don't go far enough

They should take my computer and break it with a sledgehammer when they're done with the game

[light gate]

Also, Windows only.

In an age of source ports.

Fuck Microsoft I swear.

Why not make this title on all major platforms?

And let me guess, they don't have the .wads anymore and use a proprietary format.

I swear if they do that... then you know why.

[river veldt]

damn i should have waited to buy Eternal until today

on sale for 10 bucks which is a steal

oh man i might have to get 2016

only 4 bucks

[arctic fern]

i think "the game went on sale a day later" is a legit reason to refund on steams policy

[gaunt marten]

It is

But that's not the case here

[fresh bane]

This is only for any of the online stuff, I'm guessing

Probably only for the new deathmatch and co op modes

[gaunt marten]

Since they don't make it explicitly clear, there's no way to actually know until the product is out

[visual hill]

Nightdive is good about sticking to open formats

pretty sure the new episode will run in source ports within a week, if not day 1

[sacred grove]

This basically looks like an officially-sanctioned gzdoom in terms of combining everything into one unit

I know it has nothing to do with gzdoom

Kex Engine becoming the go-to commercial old-school game engine, lol

Looks like I already own the combined version 'cause I already had Doom on Steam. Nice

[visual hill]

I wish Kex was open sourced, it's quite impressive to see

although the term "engine" is a bit of a misnomer, it's more of a framework similar to RenderWare

[hidden elbow]

This new episode looks really cool ,love the flamethrower

[river veldt]

whoaaaa

[light gate]

(CW: Blood, player ded, loud noise/spook)

So uhh, guess who got pranked today?

[minor plover]

I have completed the DnDG purchase for my son

[hidden elbow]

Omg in they included metal remake of doom ost in this update

https://vxtwitter.com/Wario64/status/1821642899794358517

[river veldt]

this is so cool

[bold sonnet]

Oh it's here!!

[sacred grove]

Very cool

[bold sonnet]

You guys want to see my trick?

[quartz pawn]

"It's called a concussion!"

[quiet swift]

On epic this week

And with prime. The unclaimed is new stuff, the rest was a week or two ago

[visual hill]

ah yes, Duke Nukem Forever Duel

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/pAGA1ZJmpRY?si=L6kGfkbuoTnRCNMB

I'm real happy this game is looking like it's gonna be great because so many other fighting games right now are anime fighters or team fighters and I don't vibe with those as much as I do a nice classic 1v1 fighting game like this, never even played a garou game before but I'm looking forward to start

[tawny jacinth]

I forgot just how complex Undertale neutral endings are

[chilly mural]

I am so happy you are talking about this

I am hyped for city of the wolves, just a good hard ass 1v1 fighting game

give me that modern SNK high as the sky skill ceiling fighting game

[fresh bane]

I don't even hate other types of fighting games or anything for some reason I just feel more comfortable with this more Street Fighter ish pace and style over something like MVC, it's why I couldn't get into FighterZ even though I'm a huge DB fan

I hope people will like it because it's gonna be a bummer if it drops and not enough people stick with the game after

[quiet swift]

Hmm. Trying to explain Freeman's Mind to a friend, and I'm trying to compare that Gordon to someone else, but I can't quite think of a good comparison. Anyone think of any?

[dense crypt]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2078450/Warhammer_40000_Speed_Freeks/

Steam

Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks

In the 41st Millennium, a kult of unhinged, speed-obsessed Orks addicted to racing has gathered to engage in raucous and breakneck races during rare lulls between open warfare. They call themselves SPEED FREEKS. Intoxicated by the sound of roaring engines, blistering speed, suffocating smoke, whipping winds and scorching fire, these Speed Freeks...

▶ Play video

see dis 'ere? dis is a good game. PLAY IT, GITZ (seriously though this game needs attention, its VERY fun)

[little badger]

https://x.com/wario64/status/1821608702543327693?

Wario64 (@Wario64) on X

Cyberpunk 2077 Judy Alvarez 1/4 Scale Limited Edition Statue up for preorder at BBTS ($899.99) https://t.co/bVw3m3napn

Twitter · Aug 8, 2024, 6:05 PM

[fickle garnet]

I want it but holy fuck the price

[gaunt marten]

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/mod-pack-2-new-challenges-70050000051088-switch/

Crystal Project's developer has been contacting players and incorporating mods into the Switch version as togglable mods

[arctic fern]

wow, thats amazing! only costs one kidney, in true cyberpunk style

[visual hill]

they adjusted the price to account for the fanbase 😛

[visual hill]

I thought this was a Minecraft mod for a second

[gaunt marten]

It's a voxel based JRPG platformer

[quiet swift]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-sims/landlords-are-so-drunk-with-power-theyve-started-advertising-apartments-made-in-the-sims-4-on-real-estate-websites/

[gaunt marten]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2219787176?t=00h42m54s

A relay speedrun of all dungeon speedruns in every 3D zelda, The Wind Waker, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Skyward Sword, Twilight Princess, Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom in this order

[young creek]

thats a lot of dungeons

Why are the games out of order?

[gaunt marten]

They didn't talk about it

[young creek]

commentary kinda sucks im out

I should watch that funny linkus video you posted

[gaunt marten]

It's a great conversation

Here's a link #1032716748887179434 message

[young creek]

ah only 6 hours long

[gaunt marten]

That's the full video. The conversation is four hours long

[young creek]

Kinda like when we talked about curtain call

[gaunt marten]

That hasn't happened yet

https://old.rxddit.com/r/comics/comments/1eo40dl/super_smash_fathers/

https://preview.redd.it/zuzy44818ohd1.png?width=1500&format=png&auto=webp&s=25a680ee8e2523ca18e2fca7e987cd3d199d7ccc

[visual hill]

Pichu mains be like

[bronze abyss]

Pichu mains only playing pichu so they could say they play pichu:

[quiet swift]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/indannihilation/industrial-annihilation oh hey, this is active now

[visual hill]

I play Pichu sometimes 🤓

[rancid herald]

Interesting

[little badger]

https://x.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/1821939586194665575?

Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog) on X

We're excited to share SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS with you this October and see a new generation cherish this game as much as we do!
On 9/9, the original Sonic Generations will be removed as a standalone title. But, we've heard your feedback, and want to help preserve the game.

Twitter · Aug 9, 2024, 4:00 PM

Continued https://x.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/1821939587478171699?

Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog) on X

Therefore, Sonic Generations will still be available via bundles of other iconic Sonic titles on Steam and Xbox. Existing owners of the title will still be able to download and play, as well. Lastly, we are happy to confirm that mods on the Steam version will NOT be affected!

Twitter · Aug 9, 2024, 4:00 PM

[gaunt marten]

Haha you can only buy our game if you pay more money and buy our other products too. Aren't we generous?

[little badger]

Most games that are on older gen consoles are still full price which is surprising.

[wind stump]

I feel it's better than fully delisting the game.

Not a great solution, but at least you can still technically buy the game, even if it has to be bundled in.

[gaunt marten]

It's better than both of those to do literally nothing

[wind stump]

[little badger]

Don’t some game companies offer a discount on a version of the game if it’s going to be delisted?

[gaunt marten]

Yeah in this case they're not delisting it. They're keeping it permanently at a greater price than before and including it with other games that you must also buy

[little badger]

I seen a post earlier where the newer version of the game would give people a discount. if they owned the original can’t remember what it was called.

A remaster

[hidden elbow]

https://vxtwitter.com/poweredbyidtech/status/1821673783259717922?s=46&t=IKGXOX5WSbP3Oh7j92RdPQ

[bold sonnet]

Why did someone do this?

[gaunt marten]

I don't think this is very useful

[chilly mural]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2xoBWKEUvg @river veldt wake up babe, new liam triforce

[visual hill]

I started an Assault playthrough a few months ago, it plays quite a lot better with the cheat for 60 FPS on-foot sections

[dire gate]

Playing a based classic game

[arctic fern]

i've been playing vintage story, and looking at mods for the game
naturally theres a pony mod for it: https://mods.vintagestory.at/ponyraces

[bronze abyss]

Batpony race awooga

Need

[fervent oar]

No changelings

[dire gate]

Maybe they're all changelings

[dire gate]

I actually never cleared it when I was young

So this is huge for me

[slim thorn]

I remember playing some of the browser point-and-click back when it was new but I'm pretty sure I got stuck early and back then that just meant the game was over so I probably never saw most of it

[dire gate]

MNOG is infamous for being extremely confusing and not very good at explaining

It is too open for such a game

I had to check the guide to see where I should go next

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/CoreyLaddo/status/1822246798867468548

I see why Gordon doesn't speak in the games

[river veldt]

OMG

at the fair i saw a Lego TF2 MOC

[minor plover]

reached Perfection in the coop Stardew game with my wife.

wife and kids and a whole lotta awesome

[bold sonnet]

I love Stardew Valley 💖💖 I learned from a video that you can get a thing to always transport you to home and I try to get it

[minor plover]

yeah, my inventory slot #6 in the final screenshot. Teleporter rod ("return scepter" I think), costs 2 million.

Krobus sells it

[bold sonnet]

I know I try to grow a lot of veggies to sell, it's the only thing I want to buy

But it takes so much time I go to mines to pass time

[bold sonnet]

What does glass house do? In my game it's abandoned

[dire gate]

I've watched too many Stardew challenge videos that my brain instantly think about make-money-quick strategies at this point

I find it so funny when games make these mistakes

[gaunt marten]

Attack multiplied by .13

[dire gate]

Such a huge downgrade 😔

[visual hill]

https://old.reddit.com/r/losslessscaling/comments/1eoz9ku/official_discussion_lossless_scaling_211_beta/

I managed to capture Lossless Scaling output with OBS, so here it is on Spyro (in DuckStation), increasing framerate from 30 to 120. (Note: you'll need a 120 Hz display or higher to enjoy this to its full potential)

without frame generation, for comparison

my display is only 120 Hz so I can't get that much mileage from this, but it still comes handy for games that are hard-capped to 30 FPS - it's great on Driver, Metal Gear Solid, MDK and so on

also, wow, you can wavedash in Spyro. I approve of this game already

(@green fulcrum might like this)

[minor plover]

once you do enough at the community center (or jojamart) it turns into a greenhouse. You can grow things inside it, in any season. 18 trees around the edges, and lots of crops.

[hushed onyx]

The greenhouse...is a greenhouse Once you fix it up you can grow stuff in it year-round without worrying about the seasons, just like with greenhouses in real life.

[bold sonnet]

I need it!! Winter is SO boring I only go to mines. What do you guys do in winter?

[gaunt marten]

Plant winter seeds

You can craft them when you have foraging level 7, so you need to harvest random things regularly

You can also get 30 winter seeds as a reward from the winter foraging bundle

Fucking liar ass user

I was shocked my mod didn't work because it was so simple

[gaunt marten]

To be clear: The mod is so simple it can't break. It works. I tested it thoroughly. I test it every update. It even works for the person who said it didn't work. They just guessed it didn't work because other mods only work on the beta branch of the game.

[hidden elbow]

What mod tho ?

[gaunt marten]

It's a little mod I made that adds one NPC which has one line of dialogue

The mod itself doesn't matter. Apparently, I talked with other people who mod this game and this guy has been going on every mod he subscribed to and reporting it didn't work

He did not check

[bold sonnet]

What does this NPC say?

[gaunt marten]

Here's an item that helps you see treasure

[slim thorn]

yeah... been on both sides of this one before

[gaunt marten]

I'm in danger

[chilly mural]

this is so sick

[minor plover]

in the winter, I still pet my animals, harvest my greenhouse (and, in my previous game, my giant mushroom log farm which was insanely profitable), make friends, and sometimes do mines and skull cavern runs

[gaunt marten]

Annoyingly slow run

Timelapse

It was a guild assignment where you could not upgrade your drill, so you had to rely on gadgets to dig

Which made it way slower because the gadgets don't offer as good control over the process

[arctic fern]

you missed a spot

[gaunt marten]

I did not miss a spot

[arctic fern]

you missed this

[gaunt marten]

No, at that point I got every upgrade in the game and couldn't spend my money on anything, so I didn't mine it

[arctic fern]

ah

[river veldt]

https://x.com/lovesickteeth/status/1822698388002935235?s=46

🩸Lovesickteeth🩸 (@lovesickteeth) on X

…

Twitter · Aug 11, 2024, 6:15 PM

[gaunt marten]

I don't think the N64 could draw things that tall

It's a wide console

[quiet swift]

Nyom nyom nyom

[gaunt marten]

Trying out Axiom Verge 2

Feels and sounds nice

Different from the original Axiom Verge

I love how much effort was put into getting the copter to animate properly

Garbage writing (don't tell the developer I said that)

I guess I play the game for the gameplay though

[slim thorn]

tbf, most metroidvanias aren't going for great writing

[gaunt marten]

The problem in this situation is I would have preferred a cold open with no story

The character is talkative and more personable than the previous game's

But the dialog is clunky

[slim thorn]

makes sense

I've definitely played a few that would've been better as a cold open

[gaunt marten]

The gameplay is fun but a bit slow at the start. I wonder what speedrunners do to speed it up

Like the previous game it insists on starting you as an unarmed human before giving you abilities

But I think someone on an antarctic expedition would probably have brought a pickaxe instead of having to find one

[slim thorn]

no crashlanding or other excuse?

[gaunt marten]

Well

I skipped some of the story by accidentally finding every needle in a haystack I was meant to search for before the dialog that explains why I wanted it

Curse my secret finding instincts

[slim thorn]

apparently I've played so many metroidvanias that now I'm accidentally getting speedrun achievements in a first casual playthrough

[gaunt marten]

Well done

You should play Steamworld Dig 2

It has really nice achievements https://steamcommunity.com/stats/571310/achievements/

[slim thorn]

I know I started that once but wasn't feeling it, should probably give it a second chance eventually

[gaunt marten]

I think I'll stop here in Axiom Verge 2

I found the hook

Metaphorical hook. It's an ability that lets you remotely hack enemies and choose from options that modify them

[slim thorn]

ah, so more explicit control over what happens than AV1's glitches?

[gaunt marten]

Yep! You get a magic meter too. Each hack has a cost and a strength requirement

My favorite one is the passive bee drones which you can hack to sting other enemies

[slim thorn]

I can barely remember any details of AV1 any more but I feel like I never found an enemy glitch that was worth choosing over simply shooting them normally, outside of a few puzzle rooms that forced it

[gaunt marten]

In AV1 a bunch of enemies spit out more HP when you kill them, become easier/slower, or completely harmless when hacked

I think some are completely pointless to hack and some are pretty fun

[slim thorn]

yeah, I think the "completely harmless" case would've been the only category where it was worth doing after the initial experiment, not sure if I found any of those where I was experimenting with it

[gaunt marten]

The little uh

Big underwater plant things

They spit out health slowly and never stop

Those are nice

Tube worms

https://antifandom.com/axiom-verge/wiki/Yellow_Tube_Worm

Mutants are normally super dangerous, but hack them and they become really slow https://antifandom.com/axiom-verge/wiki/Blue_Mutant

[slim thorn]

oh that guy, not sure if I ever tried glitching it

[hidden elbow]

https://x.com/automaton_eng/status/1822785069766910151?s=46&t=IKGXOX5WSbP3Oh7j92RdPQ

AUTOMATON WEST (@AUTOMATON_ENG) on X

Tango Gameworks taken over and "revived" by PUBG publisher Krafton, with plans to expand Hi-Fi Rush IP
https://t.co/KK6qyToL8I

Twitter · Aug 12, 2024, 12:00 AM

[light gate]

How does that even work?

[quiet swift]

Studio was bought from microsoft, people and IP included, i'm guessing?

[gaunt marten]

Or just the IP

[hidden elbow]

Just the ip , evil within and ghostwire Tokyo is still microsoff s

[drifting tendon]

This is an armed air defense fighter. You have been intercepted.

[river veldt]

:((((( https://fixupx.com/hideo_kojima_en/status/1822661199655571658?s=46

[rotund forge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eY5eaJG-1s

[dense crypt]

YEAH

[bold sonnet]

Party Animals now has racing

[light gate]

MK Item System, MK Flying Ability System, Crash Team Racing Boxes, bruh what even is Party Animals.

[visual hill]

it's missing things from SEGA All-Stars Racing, ModNation Racers, and LBP Karting to be a true mashup

[little badger]

New Terminator game has been delayed https://x.com/survivethet800/status/1823011706836029701?

Terminator: Survivors (@SurviveTheT800) on X

Dear Survivors, we have an important update about Terminator: Survivors.

Twitter · Aug 12, 2024, 3:00 PM

[little badger]

https://x.com/gamespot/status/1823035222222426227?

GameSpot (@GameSpot) on X

Rachael Lillis, the voice actress known for roles including Misty and Jessie in the Pokémon anime, passed away on August 10th at the age of 46

Twitter · Aug 12, 2024, 4:34 PM

[hasty patio]

https://youtu.be/jRLJ3lV-_V8

[fresh bane]

Can't wait for next gen eurojank

[sour hill]

does cyberpunk 2077 count as eurojank?

[gaunt marten]

It's made by a european country and it is jank

[fresh bane]

A little bit, kind of, it just doesn't have the whole ''we have a super low budget but we want to try and do a mechanically complex game'' thing going on, it's european and it's jank but it also has super high budget and pretty great visuals

[quiet swift]

Also the currency is the eurodollar so that counts

[arctic fern]

Is cyberpunk jank anymore? It's pretty stable these days, they actually patched things

[gaunt marten]

Jank doesn't mean buggy

It means the implementation is not done in a refined way

[quiet swift]

To me, Skyrim is jank

[gaunt marten]

Very

[fresh bane]

Well it also means buggy, but it's mostly referring to eastern european games that are noticeably low budget and badly optimized but still aim for a deep gameplay and complex mechanics, it's like when you're playing this game that's clearly low budget and held together with strings but is trying its best to be AAA

[gaunt marten]

It's buggy AND jank

[river veldt]

Skyrim is one of my favorite games i can confirm it is extremely jank lmao

[fresh bane]

Cyberpunk has some of that jank but it's not quite, it doesn't do anything too crazy with the mechanics and the presentation and budget are really polished so it's not quite the same

It was mostly just glitchy and buggy at the beginning but I started playing after the good patch so I never experienced any of that

I've been putting off ending that game for a while I really should, I only have the last quest to finish, but I don't want it to end

[quiet swift]

I tried it a few times since it's so much talked about. The fighting animations/style is unbearably jank that I just can't stand it

[quiet swift]

I played it once when they did the netrunners update for the series. Played it again with a different origin story and combat style after the xpac. I'd say finish it, wait a few years and give it another go

https://www.pcgamesn.com/worshippers-of-cthulhu/demo-launch
https://www.pcgamesn.com/last-spartan/release-date

meanwhile, lovecraft everywhere

[light gate]

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24219016/valve-deadlock-hands-on-secret-new-game

If you are interested, some gameplay footage.

Honestly it looks pretty average to me.

[gaunt marten]

Secret new shooter

Everyone I know has it

[light gate]

I don’t lmao, and I don’t expect to have it ever.

[fresh bane]

do not share anything about this game with anyone

makes an entire article about it

[gaunt marten]

Tip: This is not a legally binding agreement, but a polite request

[gaunt marten]

Letter from who?!

[hasty patio]

https://fixupx.com/wario64/status/1823224534159196470

[visual hill]

assuming this does release in the end... emulators when they see this:

RDR was a big driving force behind much of RPCS3, Xenia and yuzu/Ryujinx's development. Not many games can pretend to have boosted motivation behind four different emulators at once

[whole mural]

Me playing Endling

Me almost killing my kid

Bonus :)

[river veldt]

what's the website where you can check how long ago a sale on a game was on steam

[arctic fern]

Isthereadeal.com I think

[whole mural]

I download apk

(Gameplay) sorry no audio

[visual hill]

https://isthereanydeal.com

[whole mural]

Baby stealer

[river veldt]

thank yoy mega and cali

[arctic fern]

ah thanks for correcting me
i was out and couldnt be bothered to search up the correct answer on mobile

[river veldt]

https://fixupx.com/artistremaining/status/1823370376090456414?s=46

[dense crypt]

Foul

[green fulcrum]

Yeah, that's foul as foul can be. That's some tortoise and the hare level of taunting, only this time the hare wins.

[river veldt]

i can't decide if i want Final Fantasy VII Remake or Cyberpunk 2077

[gaunt marten]

If you wait for a sale you can have both

[river veldt]

cyberpunk is on sale

[gaunt marten]

A bigger sale

[slim thorn]

I guess Cyberpunk has the advantage of being finished mostly?

[gaunt marten]

Needs to be like ten dollars

Right now ultimate edition is like 52 dollars

[river veldt]

that's true

[gaunt marten]

That's a full price game

[river veldt]

Rebirth isn't even on pc yet

[arctic fern]

CP 2077 is pretty great now

im sure you can find it cheap somewhere tho

[fresh bane]

I would say you get way more bang for your buck with Cyberpunk but I'm biased because I think FF7R is kind of eh overall, unless you're reaaaaally into FF7 specifically

[visual hill]

I saw this for CP 2077 the other day: https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/10490

that modder also has a bunch of mods for other AAA games, they look pretty great

This is the Cyberpunk mod from the series: Hogwarts Legacy, RoboCop: Rogue City, Jedi: Survivor, and Jedi: Fallen Order.

[fresh bane]

Even on the current settings I'm on the game stutters a lot of times when I'm in any of the bigger parts of the city so I'm steering clear from that lol I haven't put any mods at all in my game and I haven't had issues, I'm sure there's a lot of mods that add cool stuff even now

[river veldt]

yeah i ended up getting Cyberpunk, cause even though i really love Final Fantasy VII i'm probably just gonna wait till all three parts are released on pc to start playing

[light gate]

Certified Heart Attack Spook Moment - CW: Spook, Meta, Blood

I alt'd F4.

[river veldt]

that's so freaky !!!!

is that uhhh

Voices of the Void ?

[light gate]

If it wasn't by the wall, I'd be dead.

I think.

I love this game goddam.

[river veldt]

ive been meaning to watch gameplay of it, i really like Signal Simulator which afaik is pretty similar ?

[light gate]

Its inspired by it.

But with actual events, consequences, things to do, fun things to do, and more.

Its like if someone said "Let the Source Engine be in Unreal Engine" and then proceeded to add some fun gmod stuff.

[river veldt]

that sounds awesome

[light gate]

But yeah, its not even a jumpscare simulator either.

It actually generates fear, slow burner type.

The best part?

There are different types of entities. What I got was a 'forbidden'.

Forbiddens are the craziest most rare ones.

This is the craziest one I've gotten, and apparently it was 'bugged'. It was supposed to spawn a few years later after the game was finished.

Regardless, apparently there is still way more things hidden in the game. So its cool as hell.

[river veldt]

this made my heart stop 😭

[light gate]

But yeah, that's so far what I've encountered.

There is still way more crazy things.

And its all RNG based, with a few scripted events of course... the game has a story after all

Oh I forgot, there was this one… I alt+f4 too because of the irrational fear I already was dealing with. (The game threw me lots of spooks that day) Ironically it seems nobody else has gotten it so it remains a mystery.

[river veldt]

can you describe it ? im not seeing anything

[light gate]

Look at the dialogue on the bottom right

||”escape”|| is not a gameplay mechanic that is common, that’s just an event.

[river veldt]

OH

ok

yeah that's scary

[quiet swift]

https://x.com/computer_gil/status/1821915862082715715

gil lawson (@computer_gil) on X

ROGUE LIGHT DECK BUILDER, the only deck-building game in the world, is coming to Steam.

It'll have:

• wooden boards
• blinky light
• husband who loves you
• leaderboards
• achievements
• endless mode
• maybe I'll rotate the joists so people stop getting on my case

Link below.

Twitter · Aug 9, 2024, 2:26 PM

[random steppe]

@gaunt marten Yo, check out this game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1232580/Knock_on_the_Coffin_Lid/

Steam

Knock on the Coffin Lid

In Knock on the Coffin Lid you wake up in a cold crypt a thousand leagues from home, devoid of memories of what has happened, and in the company of an enigmatic stranger. To return lost memories you will have to examine the dark secrets of your own death, form unexpected alliances and carefully plan your route.RETURN HOMESet off on a journey acr...

Price

$19.99

Recommendations

897

▶ Play video

It's story based Slay the Spire with a timeloop element

[gaunt marten]

I noticed someone playing it

I love the themes. Not super into the UI

[random steppe]

Unlike Slay the Spire the map doesn't change between game to game, but since you are looping and your character knows it's looping, whenever you come across elements for the 2nd time you can pick different options.
Like if you learn the password to hack a golem in a previous run, you can then do and avoid adifficult fight in subsequent runs.

[gaunt marten]

That's a very neat mechanic

I'll add it to my wishlist

[random steppe]

From what I played the gameplay part isn't as tight as StS but also...what is?

I would say it's a good part of the way there, and the unique mechanics make it at least different enough to warrant notice

[gaunt marten]

Wildfrost is

[hasty patio]

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/4201376568915048836

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/4326355263805583416

Some Steam stuff for a change, mostly how a page is used and user reviews.

[gaunt marten]

- This means that you cannot use your store page to link to any other website, including social media pages. There are specific link fields provided within your store page editor for linking to common social media platforms or your own website.
No embedded imagery that mimics Steam store UI or buttons
- You should not have images or animations that are meant to look like Steam UI such as images that look like wishlist buttons or game capsules or prices.
No images, links, or widgets pointing to other games on Steam
- This means that you cannot use your store page description to advertise other products on Steam. If you have related products, you can set up bundles, franchises, or developer homepages.```

Finally!

[hasty patio]

That last bit is going to kill a lot of social media posts on Steam because that is essentially half of what they do.

[gaunt marten]

Both links are really good news

[quiet swift]

And in further important Steam news

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

[gaunt marten]

I am already aware of cats

[river veldt]

https://fixupx.com/4poll0gum/status/1823724307178250468?s=46

[tawny jacinth]

So someone managed to reverse engineer the Xbox One’s encryption and dumped the Xbox version of Undertale

Only to discover that the game has a string that congratulates you for making it that far

[fresh bane]

Of course

Apparently Undertale also had an exclusive reversible cover for the Xbox that NOBODY had documented until recently

https://fxtwitter.com/ToyConGarageVR/status/1813295217300349308

[river veldt]

honestly that tracks, i don't think Xbox users are really the target audience for Undertale

[gaunt marten]

Vashka is an Xbox user

[river veldt]

that's true

[gaunt marten]

She's the perfect demographic for Undertale

[fickle garnet]

Im an everything user

[river veldt]

that's true too

[fickle garnet]

Undertale is on game pass

Iirc

[gaunt marten]

Stupid game

It took me four hours to find fast travel

I should have found it by hour one

[rotund forge]

I wonder if I should go back to Clash of Clans...it's been almost 2 years since i stopped and too much has changed. (Not to mention I've most definitely been kicked from my clan lol)

[wintry canopy]

The new dredge update is out on switch.
https://youtu.be/QrWV_UNdZ9E?si=b-9k6fEoBK6GKO9G

[bold sonnet]

I played Undertale and it was AWESOME

[slim thorn]

it's pretty neat

[bold sonnet]

Super cool, simple to get how to play, many emotions, surprises, engaging, and weird and funny. And also great music

[slim thorn]

also very meta

[bold sonnet]

What does it mean

[slim thorn]

what do I mean by "meta"?

[bold sonnet]

Yeah

[slim thorn]

well, primarily all the ways Undertale is a deconstruction of traditional RPG storytelling and structure, though iirc there's also a few bits of explicit metatextuality (I think Sans distinguishes between the player and player character once or twice?)

[bold sonnet]

Is Deltarune similar to Undertale?

[wind stump]

Only the first two chapters are out, however. And while they do provide their own experiences, you might come away unsatisfied because it's unfinished.

[sour hill]

[sacred grove]

But play them anyway unless you want to wait until the heat death of the universe for all chapters to be out

It took 3 years between chapter 1 and 2, and the wait until the next batch (3&4) is probably going to be a little longer at this rate

[graceful bridge]

https://youtu.be/hQohYRzybBg?si=3pZRbXi4f1ZJKTzG

[green fulcrum]

So it's like a fanmade remake of Oblivion but done with Skyrim-style graphics and gameplay?

[steep flax]

i think its using the skyrim game engine and modding in oblivion stuff

[green fulcrum]

Still pretty cool

[quiet swift]

Huh. Seems like sins of a solar empire 2 just released. Didn't here any fanfare about it before now

(or marketing, i should say)

[uneven epoch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8DkDQhPx2A shakes the chat DID YOU SEE THIS. DONT LET ME SIT IN THE THREAD ALONE I AM UNCONTAINABLE

[visual hill]

what do you mean, it's a perfect break between Redfall and Starfield sessions

[slim thorn]

I’m aware of Veilguard but unqualified to comment

[uneven epoch]

[bold sonnet]

Is it DLC or new??

[uneven epoch]

aw man i gotta wrap up my inquisition replay stat, and also finish the books ive got (i have last flight which i havent started and tevinter nights im about halfway thru)

[quiet swift]

Oh hey, callisto protocol on the 22nd?

[visual hill]

that's nice to see but at the same time, I feel bad for the studio who developed that game

[slim thorn]

oh, what happened? I'd only heard about the game itself being meh

[visual hill]

well yeah, the game didn't sell very well and I think they had to lay off some employees as a result

I don't recall this 100% though

there's clearly a lot of effort that went into it

[random steppe]

IIRC it was impressive for atmospthere, and it looked really good

Story was meh and gameplay pretty bad

[visual hill]

it was touted as a spiritual successor to Dead Space and it's not my kind of game though

so I'm not sure if I'll play it either way

[random steppe]

Yes that was the idea, sadly it didn't deliver

I mean at least they are getting some money from the EGS

I'll grab it there, it's more money than they'd have gotten for me if it wasn't free

[slim thorn]

yeah I watched some videos on how it compares to DS and the universal consensus was not really worth it

[fresh bane]

It was unfortunately not a very good game

[rancid herald]

buh

sins of the solar empire 2 released today on steam

[hasty patio]

So it has. It's only been over a decade.

[green fulcrum]

The only thing I know from the first game (besides the fact that it's a sci-fi ship-to-ship combat game) is that the TEC theme is the sexiest f*cking military song I have ever heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNxkhKrME9c

[green fulcrum]

Okay, actually, second best. Klendathu Drop from Starship Troopers is still the best military theme.

[quiet swift]

But what about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5hCkh2AH58 ?!

[minor gorge]

That is fun.

[green fulcrum]

While catchy and an earworm, it doesn't really feel like a military theme. It sounds more like a game theme or show theme.

Speaking of which, a Helldivers show would kick so much ass.

[quiet swift]

I mean, isn't that starship troopers

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2THaIuAiuA How bout this? Supreme Commander always had a great theme, I thought

[green fulcrum]

Third best, imo

[quiet swift]

[shy flare]

why do i do this to myself

i only got it cause i got amazing rng

i got a long way to go for this lunatic no bomb

[dire gate]

One day I'll watch Miles doing a run in TWC

[river veldt]

just had a amazing Vampire Survivors run and i unlocked my favorite character

[gaunt marten]

Well done

[quiet swift]

Me, finding a trailer for a new game that pretty much looks exactly like Karl Urban's Judge Dredd movie, but as a game:

Also me, seeing "squad-based, Immersive Shooter":

[fresh bane]

The music and atmosphere of this game continues to be unreal

I'm legitimately happy that this game that I thought I wouldn't be able to get into and I'd probably never play again continues to consistently surprise me every single session I play

The track for the dungeon before this area was also fantastic, big old school EDM sort of vibes

[static bluff]

Undertale is my favorite game 💚 I'm glad you've found it and enjoyed it. deltarune is similar to undertale. I strongly recommend playing them. Some people prefer to wait until the entire series is out, but I do not.

[wind stump]

fish

[river veldt]

gonna play Terraria

[quartz pawn]

Known Terrarist

[static bluff]

https://youtu.be/NVzNYhgsecU

I didn't even know Factorio had a YouTube channel

[bitter stream]

oooh new enemy types? cool. I wonder if they work differently to biters

whoa, they look interesting.

[hasty patio]

https://fixupx.com/Wario64/status/1824134304189813082
https://fixupx.com/tomwarren/status/1824129388885250156

[bitter stream]

oh my gosh

It's real lol

finally those cod players can get back some storage space

wait, texture streaming?

that's.. weird right? why would you want to stream in textures over the internet? Am I missing something here?

[gaunt marten]

So you don't download all of them at once

Instead you only download what you use, AND you get to play earlier

(You start by downloading a basic small version of all the textures, you don't end up entirely textureless)

[bitter stream]

I suppose that makes sense in some places with better internet than mine haha

[gaunt marten]

It's a common thing in MMOs

[bitter stream]

that's neat. So if you only visit 2/10 areas regularly, the streaming cache gets used for those areas and you save on 8/10 areas higher quality texture files?

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

Mind you, this won't fix the problem for call of duty because their problem is uncompressed sound files

[bitter stream]

ah, I didn't realise sound could be so storage heavy.

[gaunt marten]

It doesn't have to be, but Call of Duty does no compression, not even lossless compression

Most games do lossless compression or low amounts of lossy compression

Lossless compression cuts the size of a sound file by half, and lossy compression cuts it by like ten or twenty

[bitter stream]

right right, and it's not like there'd be any difference in audio quality with a lossless compression

[gaunt marten]

The difference is in the time it takes the computer to decode

It's very slightly slower

Call of Duty wants to save every little bit of performance

[bitter stream]

oh, they are relasing on Ps4 and XBOX one still?

huh, then i guess they need everything they can get lol

I wonder if the game installs are different from generation to generation in consoles

[gaunt marten]

They should be

[bitter stream]

Had a brief look into it and they are different, by about 14-15 GB or so for MW III

at least, not including zombies and stuff like th at

[bronze abyss]

its kinda refreshing to play on a smurf account,dont have to wait ages for a single match atleast cuz when it gets to high ranks theres a very little amount of players and dont have to go through a million casual games of disconnects just to find a singular good player

[gaunt marten]

Smurfing comes at the expense of low-skill players so I would rather not play the game than smurf

[bronze abyss]

it doesnt take many to reach your appropriate rank in a good ranking system

im hovering slightly below my usual rank so players are not too far off my level to the point that ti would be unfair

[gaunt marten]

Yeah but in a good ranking system you wouldn't need to smurf because you'd be appropriately ranked

[bronze abyss]

theres reasons to smurf even in a good one
1.character experimentation for universal character/role rankings
2.less stress
3.much quicker match times especially usually less active times

tekken is probably my favorite ranking system since its per character not profile

but it has prowess which is universal so you get also matched against other players of your approximate skill level that may be playing secondary characters rather than main

but it has other issues....the complete opposite of smurfing

[gaunt marten]

I remain unconvinced any of these are more important than other people

[bronze abyss]

alright another main reason then is high ranks have a significantly lower amount of players than ranks below,often even slightly below,so you end up fighting same 2 players over and over again and that gets boring as shit and/or annoying after a while

my brawlhalla experience in diamond has been literally like...6 total players just getting rematched against me

especially since i mainly play 1v1 at very late night time

and i really dont like that shit cuz ive alreayd had enough of playing against same people again and again in discord fighters(games with small enough communities where you cant realistically find matches in matchmaking)

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, but fighting worse players than you is not good. The solution to a game with limited matchmaking is either to arrange matches in a community server or play a different game

[bronze abyss]

thats why i specifically mentioned only being slightly below regular rank,yeah i dont enjoy or want to play against really low rank players,but slightly below can still be a challenge and a fair fight for both

[shy flare]

those guys are so cracked

talking with super players in the server its insane

[dire gate]

Do you use keyboard or controller

[gaunt marten]

No

[bronze abyss]

no hits touhou with mind

[gaunt marten]

I was thinking less mind control and more arcade controllers

Sanwa or IL

[gaunt marten]

Dome Keeper's challenge difficulty assignments are HARD

Took me like four tries to get this one done

[gaunt marten]

An easter egg!

[slim thorn]

he said the thing!

I had no idea this game had voice acting, wow it is not good by modern standards

[dapper cedar]

yaaaay SotN

[slim thorn]

wait, Death just took all my stuff

no one told me Alucard was as bad as Samus at hanging onto stuff

you know what the weirdest thing is so far

ten minutes in and this feels more like the Metroids I grew up on than most of the modern Metroidvanias I've played in the last few years, it's even got the same colored squares style of map

[fresh bane]

The PSP version re-dubs and changes the dialogue to fit more with the original script and it's really good
https://youtu.be/b4-aFrKoL-I?si=IEVPVoLIBGlR_Kwy&t=160

But I can't say that out loud because most people prefer the original version and they'll get you if you say otherwise

[slim thorn]

I see what you mean, this is also cheesy AF but it feels like properly produced cheese I guess

[fresh bane]

It feels like proper japanese-text-translated-to-english type of cheese I'd get from an anime or a tokusatsu show, meanwhile the original is more like... ''Die, monster!''

Unfortunately I never was able to get into Castlevania so that's about as far as my knowledge of this game goes

I tried multiple games and the gameplay just never really stuck with me for some reason

[river veldt]

i like Castlevania 1 2 and 4

[slim thorn]

I know what you mean, my teenage exposure to Castlevania was Dawn of Sorrow and while I enjoyed it it just wasn't on the same level as Metroid ZM/Fusion/Prime for me

[river veldt]

ive never actually played Symphony of the Night

perhaps i should give it a shot

[slim thorn]

oh boy, it's time for emulator debugging

[fresh bane]

I played Aria of Sorrow and Order of Ecclesia to try out the more 'modern' ones, I did it pretty recently I even talked about it here
I got pretty further into Order of Ecclesia than I thought I would buuuut it just didn't quite stick with me, but it's fine, it's a different strain of this genre that's just not for me

I like my Blasphemous and Metroids

[slim thorn]

interesting that not having a bios file broke only reading the save file, not creating it

[slim thorn]

should we talk recommendations based on what parts you liked or are you metroidvania-ed out for a few years?

[fresh bane]

I'd probably be down to play a new one if it caught my attention enough, I'm just currently trying to get through all the other games on the backlog and I still haven't even installed Tunic at all, but I don't think there was any other metroidvania that caught my attention after the last one I played

[slim thorn]

fair

[slim thorn]

now I'm remembering why; that first boss fight was so jank omg

you just have to know to stay on the side with a platform or it becomes impossible to avoid the attacks later

[wind stump]

i mean, 99% of the reason why it's a meme is because of the vaing, tbf

[slim thorn]

well I didn't know that

[wind stump]

well, now you do

man i should get back to the GBA trilogy...

[dapper cedar]

any fans of metroidvanias in general but also Castlevania, I wanna recommend Castlevania Revamped (though I may have done already but it is that good imo)
original CV1 layout turned into metroidvania that feels maybe the littlest bit more metroid than vania in its metroidvanianess

that is a mouthful, remember when peeps were calling it search action

[slim thorn]

tbf at least that's descriptive

I've seen multiple people express that we need a term for "soulslikes" which is not like "<game name>-like", but I don't think anyone's come up with a decent alternative yet

"dying-a-lot action" isn't very catchy

whoa, I have to unequip my sword to use a potion

[rancid herald]

Sin2's orbital thing seems like it'd radically change how the game is played

[sour hill]

Idk I like the "<game name>likes" genre names because they aren't misleading. You either recognize the game and go "oh, so like that game," or you don't.

"search action" is one of the better game genre names I've heard though

[bold sonnet]

Why is there giant mushroom

I asked in Stardew Valley server and there is no reason

[sour hill]

I don't know

[quiet swift]

https://fixupx.com/iamExpel/status/1824498467781173705 when you get so annoyed at being called a hacker, you offer a lesson

[slim thorn]

it can be like that, but then people use "soulslike" in so many different ways that it often is misleading in practice

I think both kinds of terms are valuable, smaller subgenres in particular benefit more from direct comparisons between single games

[rancid herald]

I hope one day they bring back the whole 'play music with wacky controller' genre, and one of the games is based on souls music and someone describes it as souls like

[bold sonnet]

This is so weird and cool

[gaunt marten]

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Mushroom_Tree

You got really lucky

You can leave it and it'll spread seeds

[bold sonnet]

[gaunt marten]

Remember to put a tapper on it before winter to get free shrooms

During the winter it will revert to a stump and won't produce anything

[hasty patio]

https://x.com/geoffkeighley/status/1824923122929119364

Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) on X

Just to get this out of the way, no Silksong on Tuesday at ONL. @TeamCherryGames is still cooking.

Twitter · Aug 17, 2024, 9:35 PM

[fresh bane]

As someone who is completely foreign to Hollow Knight, it's been quite the show these past few years seeing all the Hollow Knight fans slowly slip further and further into insanity because of the lack of updates

[slim thorn]

meanwhile the sensible ones like us either play mods or play other metroidvanias

have we mentioned Nine Sols is GOTY

come to think of it I still haven't played the Pale Court mod

I think I've randomized HK enough times I just wasn't feeling it

[fresh bane]

I understand the frustration of this cool game you look forward to not releasing or getting any updates, but some people are losing their minds over it even just in that thread you can read comments from people who are genuinely distraught over this

[slim thorn]

something something Half-Life 3

[fresh bane]

I feel like people lost this much enthusiasm for HL3 back when Gaben said they were ''actively working on it'' for like, the second time after a few years

[slim thorn]

I guess I don't hear much about either except the occasional "would be nice if that finally came out"

everyone I know has made themselves busy playing something else

[sacred grove]

Hope for HL3 was restored a bit after Alyx was released

However, whatever Half-Life we're getting next is likely going to be very different from the original concept (epistle 3)

[slim thorn]

given the series' past, I'm half expecting them to wait on HL3 until we're all wearing VR haptic suits like in Ready Player 1

[fresh bane]

HL3 at the very least being considered after Alyx is unquestionable to me, but you still don't see the amount of hype as with Silksong, people now are in this state of ''oh great, if it drops that's cool, if it doesn't, nothing changes anyway'' rather than ''I've been waiting for this game for so long I now hate the developers''

[slim thorn]

I dunno why though

it's not like either game is in a desperation genre with nothing else to play

[sacred grove]

Hype is going to be low until it isn't (i.e. a new announcement or trailer comes out)

The new material itself can ignite the hype machine. It doesn't necessarily need to exist beforehand

Personally I'm pretty confident that whatever new thing Valve does with Half-Life is going to be great on its own merits. They've proven that they still have the juice

[fresh bane]

I'm gonna guess the reason for it is just because indie games usually don't take this long for a sequel, it has been like 6-7 years since Hollow Knight so I want to say that that's the main reason

Other than that, as someone who is outside of this, I guess Hollow Knight was just that good?

[slim thorn]

well, yes it was, but lots of games were that good

[river veldt]

beast

[river veldt]

zeldagood.gif

[light gate]

Its kinda weird how Valve hasn't bothered porting HL1 & its expansion packs to consoles now that I think about it.

You got Quake, Doom, but no Half-Life.

Literally free money for Valve there.

Like I'd actually buy it.

[river veldt]

https://x.com/fireyocean92/status/1824900094639964291?s=46

Firey Ocean (@FireyOcean92) on X

“What if Pac-Man was real” except instead of trying to be nightmare fuel, he’s just a weird but cute little creature.

Twitter · Aug 17, 2024, 8:04 PM

[visual hill]

Half-Life parasprites

[visual hill]

Valve stopped most of their console endeavors a long time ago, though they made an exception for Portal 1/2 recently

they stopped before consoles could run their games really well 👀

it's ironic how the Portal Switch ports are the best-performing console Valve ports by a landslide. Console CS:GO or X360 Portal were never anywhere close

[light gate]

Ehh, it takes forever to load.

For whatever reason, my Switch doesn’t enjoy it.

[light gate]

It’s disappointing because clearly they can do something great but refuse to do it.

[river veldt]

i love them so much. the animation where Gordon tries to boop it and then it tries to bite him is really good too

[slim thorn]

this feels way too early to be finding this particular staircase... (IGT is 2:44:53)

[river veldt]

ive been playing lots of Vampire Survivors lately which is vaguely inspired by Castlevania

aesthetic wise i mean

[slim thorn]

ok this game is really, really bad at making it feasible to discover where to go next without revisting every tile of the map, this is I think the 3rd time I had to check a walkthrough

[dire gate]

It was inspired so much that it actually copied the sprites from Castlevania

(They patched them later)

[little badger]

What game is everypony playing?

[river veldt]

played some Vampire Survivors earlier, i might play some Half Life now

[little badger]

Nice.