general gaming

[little badger]

The 2nd game was my favourite.

[pseudo oak]

The Crew Motorfest

[wind stump]

Ravenfield is fun

[austere moss]

Holy shit I remember playing that a few years ago on my own !!!

It seems way more advance now

[wind stump]

lotta mods

[austere moss]

I see

[bronze abyss]

bullet route complete in exit the gungeon

[fickle garnet]

V Rising is having a free weekend
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1604030/V_Rising/

Steam

V Rising

Experience a Vampire Survival Action RPG adventure like no other.Awaken as a weakened Vampire after centuries of slumber. Hunt for blood to regain your strength while hiding from the scorching sun to survive. Rebuild your castle and convert humans into your loyal servants in a quest to raise your Vampire empire. Make allies or enemies online or ...

Price

$31.49

Recommendations

85432

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[river veldt]

found an abandoned town and as soon as i got off my horse he bolted

surely there's nothing alarming here !

[bronze abyss]

i didnt expect exit the gungeon to make me sad of all thigns

not even through the gameplay,just the enviroment and character interactions

[bronze abyss]

beat the glocktopus as well

its fun but im kinda dissapointed by it in some ways,like either through just rooms/bosses not being hard enough or through the sheer ridiculousness of builds they let you make the game is nowhere near as difficult as the first one,so unless it has some new version of bullet hell i dont think theres much else to do that would be more challenging

[light gate]

So apparently The Crew 2 can be bought for a whole single dollar, I’ll probably get it considering I beta tested the game before it launched… but then forgot about it lmao. Did had fun tho.

[bronze abyss]

forgot about that,just got it cuz why not

ballin

[sour hill]

Shit, that ain't a bad price

[fresh bane]

wow this character is busted

[dense crypt]

When i finally manage to get into Deadlock, ill be playing Shiv

Everything about him looks really fun

[fresh bane]

If you want an invite just ask I think I can get you in

It's still super unfinished but it's fun the core stuff is there

Had some crashes myself due to updates and drivers had to cap the frames at 60 so my pc wouldn't start burning but hey other than that the game's pretty darn fun especially for moba players

[dense crypt]

Ive had 3 other people invite me, i declined the first one cuz i was being a dumb hater

And im hoping it didnt lock me out permanently

[icy osprey]

Live Reactions to PONIES in the middle of the Monster Taming Direct 📺
https://youtu.be/d0uhX6Z6k00

[bronze abyss]

NOOOOOO

i got enter the gungeon ons team so i could re-100% it but it picked up my epic games save file

all the achievements are now flooding in

[proud warren]

massive oof

[wind stump]

You could always use Steam Achievement Manager to relock them

[austere moss]

Hey does anybody wanna play overwatch with me ?

[bronze abyss]

whats your region?rank?

[austere moss]

Oh I'm gold 3 and what do you mean by my region ? Like, where I live ?

I'm in europe

[austere moss]

So are you in ?

[bronze abyss]

yeah we could try some time,not in overwatch rn cuz playing other stuff but ill let you know if we get on

[austere moss]

Alright epic, just ping me whenever you want and I'm tell you if I'm available or not :D

[wind stump]

god the hover jump makes rocketless Pinata VIllage SO MUCH EASIER (Mario Eclipse, the same guys who made Mario Sunburn)

and it didn't record FUCK

i'm not doing it again for a recording, take my word that I can do it

[visual hill]

Eclipse sounds great, haven't started it yet

[rugged flax]

https://vxtwitter.com/Bhaal_Spawn/status/1834230844011000291

[fresh bane]

No that can't be true

[rugged flax]

1982 to 2003 = 21 years
2003 to 2024 = 21 years

[wind stump]

"hey can i copy your homework?"
"sure, just make sure it's not too obvious"

[gaunt marten]

Very stupid to copy effects like that

You should balance the numbers for the game

[wind stump]

Ehhh, a PvE roguelike deckbuilder and a PvP 1v1 card game are different enough

Plus in Lost Branch of Legend you start with 5 mana
so it's close enough

[gaunt marten]

They are different enough that the numbers shouldn't be the same

[wind stump]

i ain't a dev shrug
at least the former card is more useful since Cirno has Teammate cards that benefit from being kept in hand.
So more hand space means more Teammates without overfilling your hand

[little badger]

https://x.com/discussingfilm/status/1835054339817083186?

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) on X

‘BORDERLANDS’ ends its theatrical run with $31M.

Budget was $115M.

Read our review: https://t.co/NW2ENHDTW8

Twitter · Sep 14, 2024, 8:33 PM

[arctic fern]

[arctic fern]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/323190/Frostpunk/ btw frostpunk 1 is on a 90% sale, 84% sale for all the DLC as well. well worth if you like challenging city builders

Steam

Frostpunk

END OF THE ROADSince the premiere, Frostpunk has been enriched with a number of updates. You can enjoy the new Endless Mode (with 3 ways of playing it) that increases the replayability of the game. There is also a new scenario - The Fall of Winterhome, that further expands the game’s universe and lore. And for the dessert, we’ve added things lik...

Price

$110.00

Recommendations

91312

Metacritic

84

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[quiet swift]

31 is about enough to cover the marketing cost only

[steep flax]

i really love the look of old retro machines

its my dream to collect retro machines and make emulators for them lol

[visual hill]

Would you like a tactical riot shield with that?

[dense crypt]

enjoy the loss, bitchford!

[bronze abyss]

[arctic fern]

It's not showing sale price in the embed...

[quartz pawn]

yeah it do

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/JWonggg/status/1834795046010282075

when you're so good you make people stop playing fighting games

[light gate]

Seems like there is an exploit or something

Or terribly unbalanced

If that many people complain.

https://www.polygon.com/impressions/448593/black-white-2001-playable-game-preservation

I guess Proton was just not good enough for this title or something.

To install this on non-Windows machines, you need WINE… and then need to install the patches… and then you can use the open source engine.

Its so hacky, I hope one day they can just extract the assets and diss out the weird wine requirement.

[bitter stream]

Fighting games having a core issue that losing isn't fun?

or is it more, you could get locked out completely easier in old fighting games?

idk. It's not like Sf6 has better anti-lockout mechanics does it?

and it's super popular

[fresh bane]

I don't know if I'd say any of that, Marvel just like 3rd Strike happens to be one of if not the biggest fighting game for decades so there's a lot of people who are extremely experienced and it could easily result in you jumping into matches being basically unable to play because everyone is so much better, but it had a huge publicity surrounding it so I'm willing to bet enough new people are jumping in there that it's not that big of a problem

Justin Wong just so happened to be playing a lot since it released and apparently beating up a lot of people

[bitter stream]

yeah, but no one has the MMR setup atm. It's a chaos mix of experienced and new players till ladder sorts itself out

I still don't know if what i said is or isn't a factor.

I picked up tekken, but I never play online because the one time I tried i went 0-10 and didn't manage to do anything. Labbing is fun and all, and fighting the AI is fun enough for me, but I can't see myself going back into T7 online anytime soon

Just seems pointless at my skill level

[robust latch]

I know what I need to play again

The last time I played it it was in a win XP VMware VM. It worked ok. Not great

[fresh bane]

It's only pointless if you personally don't enjoy the experience, at that point why play a game that just isn't fun
But being bad is a part of the experience for fighting games, more so than any other genre, I put actual hundreds of hours into multiple different fighting games over the years and I kind of don't suck at them anymore

That's the biggest roadblock for a lot of players more than anything, it's a genre that takes time to get into, unless you have a local scene or friends to play with, going directly into online as a newbie is going to be rough in the beginning

[light gate]

I wish I could get into fighting games without getting so frustrated as to why my internet decided to no register my super as a hit to the enemy because haha latency. Or a funny hitbox moment that shoulda hit, or a player who clearly is doing some weird frame perfect blocks and can't seem to hit it unless you like... by miracle can read the attacks in the milliseconds.

[bronze abyss]

find a discord and matchmake there,you can find players of your skill or just ask someone to go easier

[light gate]

Like that's just overwhelming and anxious.

At that point I rather just play something else that isn't that.

[fresh bane]

There's a lot that can go into a fighting game match at higher levels, that's why it's always better to start with fighting games by playing locally and or with friends

[light gate]

well I have neither

lol

Most of my friends don't touch fighting games for the same reasons.

[fresh bane]

When you're playing with people who are at your level the games become way more fun, unless you have the drive and the motivation to actually get better because you like the game or you just want to improve, then it will just be frustrating because even as a good player once you start matching with people who know what they're doing it's going to be losses for a long time before you start getting wins

[light gate]

I guess its impossible then.

:v

Locally is just not a choice.

[fresh bane]

It's really not, even smaller fighting games have active communities, it just takes going out of your way to look for them and actively engage with them, fighting games have some of the most impressively active communities even games you wouldn't think of, the one I can think of off the top of my head is Clash of Ninja/Gekitou Ninja Taisen which still has active tournaments organized through discord servers I think, so there's definitely options even if you don't have any friends locally, it just takes organizing and looking for

Sure, jumping into a fighting game online is always gonna be way more convenient and easy and fast, but again the catch is that you're probably gonna be losing a lot unless the matchmaking is super good at finding people on your exact same level

[light gate]

Going looking where?

???

I mean if you feel comfortable crashing some randos' house idk.

All I know is that it'd be quite a few miles to find someone who'd be interested.

And even then, I rather save gas or save money from transportation.

As to online, well... that's usually the solution.

[fresh bane]

Lol not locally, Discord made it easier for these communities to have places to get together and organize tournaments or find players, you can pretty much look up any fighting game old or new and you'll definitely find a discord server for it with people actively engaging whether it's a small or big group

[light gate]

For now yeah I guess? I just don't like to waste someone's time if my skill is as good as a trashcan.

And besides, they might be busy and could be rude to ask.

But idk, typically the experience is getting ignored upon a request.

I just wish TFH could return.

Like no point in learning a game that is clearly left in a busted situation.

[bold sonnet]

There is no skill rank mode?

[bitter stream]

that's a good point, I'll uninstall it.

[light gate]

Making that one dollar purchase feel worth it.

The fact that random players will see a car with this written on will be the icing on the cake.

[wind stump]

i did the thing

[steep flax]

i was helping my dad out with a boss fight in wukong black myth and i was wondering what was the purpose of perfect parry

when i figured it out i was like omg amazing

[wind stump]

Eclipse's secret levels make me want to commit crimes

[bronze abyss]

im not supposed to do platforming in complete darkness here am i?

[slim thorn]

nope

there's an upgrade later that lights up dark areas

[bold sonnet]

I'm not scared of them

[quiet swift]

That the first or second game?

[hasty patio]

1st

[bold sonnet]

Scratch what I said before

I changed my mind

[river veldt]

aw man i saved a stagecoach guy from getting robbed and he said i could have whatever's in the lockbox but it's locked

[hidden elbow]

So i was playing thief the black parade and i needed to go one rich guy s mansion to steal some precious vase with diamonds , as i was running away from guard that spotted me i jumped from the window on the gargoyle in hope of jumping to the another window when i turned around THIS THING was just starring at me

It is just a statue but man was i spooked

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/JWonggg/status/1835208487028375735

[chilly mural]

[river veldt]

where do i get a horse brushie 🤔

[visual hill]

the most fun part of Discord fighters is when you have no idea what's the skill level of a player and they can either be a newbie or a demigod

that's my Project+ netplay experience so far, but most players I've played are actually relatively close to my skill level, surprisingly

[fresh bane]

Unless it's a tournament I'm willing to bet Discord fighter players are newbies or have decent skills, if the game is available on something like fightcade then most of the sweaty players are probably there instead

[graceful bridge]

https://bsky.app/profile/crittercove.bsky.social/post/3l3stalwsqv2h

So this is apparently like Animal Crossing, except you're an animal too

[shy flare]

ignore the audio I was just listening to youtube while practicing

[bold sonnet]

[river veldt]

i love how many animals you can pet in rdr2 :3

i love petting the doggos and horsies

[gaunt marten]

There's like sixty games with that description

[light gate]

Can you list a few examples?

[gaunt marten]

Sure! Here's a list of the ones I can remember:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1458100/Cozy_Grove/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1663040/Amber_Isle/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2788520/Cozy_Caravan/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1136370/Bear_and_Breakfast/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1882500/Cattails_Wildwood_Story/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1591450/Aka/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1626350/Pekoe/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/957660/Catizens/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/840010/Garden_Paws/
Honorable Mentions:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2678990/Minami_Lane/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1055540/A_Short_Hike/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3050530/Shokudo_Underworld/
Dishonorable mentions:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2336220/Feed_the_Cups/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/824000/Hokko_Life/

There's way more games than that, but I don't maintain a list of them nor am I interested much in the genre

[chilly mural]

which wavywebsurf video is that?

[bold sonnet]

Flitter that's crazy impressive

[gaunt marten]

Thanks

[light gate]

I don’t think there was a single one that made me say “that is clearly more animal crossing” until the very last dishonorable one.

They all seem to pull and put things that don’t seem to interest me.

A Short Hike also isn’t really animal crossing, its pretty linear and while has side activities… its not animal crossing.

Maybe the first one is? But they all look more like Farming simulators.

[gaunt marten]

You're free to think what you like, but I associate all of them in my mind with Animal Crossing

For me personally, Animal Crossing is less about the specific mechanics and more about the mood it elicits

[light gate]

Honestly they look like Stardew Valley, and I don’t like Stardew Valley.

[gaunt marten]

Stardew Valley is an Animal Crossing

[light gate]

But yeah, the campy feel I get.

I don’t exactly remember being forced to prioritize crops over me talking to villagers.

[gaunt marten]

Only reason I didn't include Stardew Valley is it doesn't have enough animals

I just use a mod that removes the time limit from Stardew Valley so I can take my time

[light gate]

Fair

The time limit is ridiculous.

[gaunt marten]

In practice the time limit doesn't really matter, and even if you fuck around all day every day it'll be fine, but just having it is stressful

[light gate]

I found it stressful because I kept missing all of the ‘good stuff’ because I was focused on getting money.

And my energy level kept draining super fast.

So I never exited the farming.

Then an entire year passed and I realized that I messed up a lot that couldn’t fix anymore, and I stopped playing.

[gaunt marten]

Like what? There's nothing missable in the game

If a year passes, just do what you want next year

[light gate]

I think there is a few things when it comes to characters and events, but I don’t recall what exactly. Tbh, I need to give it another shot. I was just extremely frustrated never getting anywhere.

[gaunt marten]

This is the mod I used https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/169

This one also seems neat but less configurable https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/19027

[light gate]

Like Cult of the Lamb clicked super well because it gave you the option to grow the cult and then maybe fight other cultists whenever you feel like doing. Of course the game intentionally pushes you to keep moving forward but as long as you play it right, it won’t trash you. I guess Stardew Valley feels terrible because I never feel any satisfaction of doing anything… idk

Sorry I’m rambling now.

[gaunt marten]

That's fair

[light gate]

Like maybe its the social aspect that I don’t click.

lol

[gaunt marten]

The characters do kinda suck

[light gate]

I will give it a shot at some point again.

Yeah

Like none of the characters interest me.

They are all just… there?

[shy flare]

I don't remember the original but this was his true crime compilation from 8 months ago

his voice is great in the background

ok 1 more and good night

[bronze abyss]

im so fucking close to 100%'ing rayman legends but i really dont wanna do this part its so repetitive and that usually wouldnt be an issue but i have so many other games that i want to play instead

[gaunt marten]

Let's see if my computer can run The Pathless

Yo FPS above 20

Can't turn off anti aliasing

After cranking the settings as low as possible I'm getting 45 FPS

Masterful PS2 style graphics

[slim thorn]

A Short Hike is not an Animal Crossing because it has actual gameplay /hides

[gaunt marten]

Animal Crossing has more gameplay than A Short Hike. It's just unfortunately hidden between lots and lots of talking and slowly walking around

[river veldt]

the walking around and talking is the fun part though

[gaunt marten]

I would like it more if I can only have my favorite villagers in town

[river veldt]

yeah but it's funny if you have a villager you absolutely hate

[gaunt marten]

No uggos, no Hippaux, no Eugene

[river veldt]

aw how could you hate Eugene

[gaunt marten]

He doesn't know how to shave

The other one https://nookipedia.com/wiki/Hippeux

[river veldt]

smug personality and he looks like that

yeesh

[gaunt marten]

I can hate on villagers that look nice, like Raymond or Marshal

[river veldt]

i don't like Raymond either idk why everyone went cuckoo for him

[gaunt marten]

1- He has heterochromia and glasses
2- Looks handsome and nerdy
3- Good style
4- Cat

Certainly better than https://nookipedia.com/wiki/Elise

Fashion hobby
No fashion sense

[river veldt]

my favorite villager is Cyrano

[gaunt marten]

I suppose there's no accounting for taste

[river veldt]

wow

i miss his sunset tee

they gave him a karate uniform in New Horizons and i don't like it as much

[gaunt marten]

He is a reference to Kagoshima prefecture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagoshima_Prefecture

[river veldt]

i thought he was a reference to Cyrano de Bergerac

[gaunt marten]

That's his English name

[river veldt]

ahh

[gaunt marten]

His Japanese name is Sakurajima

Which is the volcano island in the picture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakurajima

[river veldt]

i see

[craggy vine]

I wonder if you would hate my beard

[gaunt marten]

I don't tend to hate on real people's appearances because it's hard to work on yourself

[little badger]

One of my favourites growing up https://x.com/thegameawards/status/1835640021501821096?

The Game Awards (@thegameawards) on X

The Simpsons: Hit & Run was released 21 years ago.

Twitter · Sep 16, 2024, 11:21 AM

[dire gate]

Me : watching RiJ(RTA in Japan)'s Armored Core 6 run
Commentary : "So the plot of this game, the protag is sent to faraway land and do jobs to make money... basically same with Animal Crossing"

[gaunt marten]

True

[light gate]

Oh my god I have HIM.

GET IT OUT OF MY ISLAND.

Also did not know about Elise, not that I’d want to.

[gaunt marten]

Time to activate the bug net slapping machine

[light gate]

worth it

[rotund forge]

I'm the same age as this game lol

[sour hill]

Classic

[river veldt]

hunting with a bow is so hard

[wind stump]

[hidden elbow]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1411910/announcements/detail/7125346423944918233

New fallen aces update

[fervent oar]

Yoo it's roboquest!

[wind stump]

Yep, played the tutorial, loved it, I have Game Pass, downloading the full thing

Tutorial in the demo that is.

[quartz pawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt2ggcKnXQw

[minor plover]

It's a festival day. Fortune teller: great luck! Statue of blessings: +1 luck. Mining statue: bonus to finding ladders/shafts. Result: forget the festival, I'm going to Skull Cavern! High score in level (130), prismatic shards (9), and iridium (320 as of this screenshot)

[fervent oar]

Yeah I played the game on Game Pass too back on my old account and the full thing is great

[bold sonnet]

I love this game💖 I am not super good at it but my farm is growing. I'm trying to get this magic teleport rod i really would like it. Oh and glass house yeah

[fickle garnet]

I keep trying to enjoy SW: Outlaws but i just can't. Its just too bland imo

I do not enjoy the combat, and don't really care for the story

Ive played it for around 5 hours. My dad seems to like it tho

[minor plover]

teleport rod is one of the last things I'll be getting

[visual hill]

this is the moment where you start your redemption arc and play Jedi Outcast/Academy/Dark Forces. 😛

[fickle garnet]

I should've pre ordered something other than Outlaws. Maybe Space Marine 2, Astro Bot, or Gundam Breaker 4

[bold sonnet]

How come last?

[icy crescent]

https://x.com/StoneMountain64/status/1835796417035825199

StoneMountain (@StoneMountain64) on X

Next Battlfield. Modern setting, 64 player, returning to classic BF3/4 style.

They say it will be 'bigger' but not by player count, and say it differentiates from CoD.

I hope its good, we will see.

Twitter · Sep 16, 2024, 9:42 PM

Battlefield 3 and 4 was like the best battlefield

[river veldt]

i was talking to a lawman after turning in a bounty and he just randomly got mad at me and shot me

[quiet swift]

Was he related to Han Solo

[minor plover]

because it costs 2 million gp, which is more than anything else I've bought up to this point

[river veldt]

bounty is $145

[random steppe]

3 maybe, 4 had lootboxes and the progresion was pretty scuffed as a result
Battelfield V was easly when I had the most fun.

Not having to get hundreds of kills before being able to use a weapon was like, a lot better than whatever they did in 3

[hidden elbow]

https://x.com/okami13_/status/1835752019325255985?s=46&t=IKGXOX5WSbP3Oh7j92RdPQ

KAMI (@Okami13_) on X

New report on 'Marathon' from Bungie:

• $40 price tag is being considered
• Game will be class-based and not a "hero shooter"
• Two maps currently playable
• Core gameplay structure similar to Escape from Tarkov but with a “Bungie twist”
• Feedback from playtesters has been

Twitter · Sep 16, 2024, 6:46 PM

So , let me get this straight, you have one of the most story rich franchises ever , and you decide to make an extraction shooter out of it.......

[random steppe]

I mean we knew for years at this point it was gonna be an extraction shooter

[hidden elbow]

Yeah i know but it still pretty disappointing

[random steppe]

Well a year

Forgot when it was announced

[hidden elbow]

Also what is "bungie twist"

[dense crypt]

either halo or destiny type gameplay

[random steppe]

TBH I still have to click with any extraction shooter, so we'll see if this is the one that makes sense in my brain

But yeah, I have low expectations

Bungie seems to be tripping over their own feet a lot lately

[proud warren]

simple run was simple

but it was silly I got thru the run with primarily mostly clubs

[icy crescent]

V also the most one i've spent on too, only because it has most active players and servers

[dire gate]

Unfortunately the only thing I know about V is uneducated

Banger game was on sale

I can't resist 70% off

[little badger]

https://x.com/culturecrave/status/1835914625507901460?

Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) on X

'Grand Theft Auto 5' was released 11 years ago today 🐐

Twitter · Sep 17, 2024, 5:32 AM

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/43320/YAKUZA_Complete_Series/

Sale on Yakuza games. I recommend Yakuza 0

The newer Like a Dragon games are on a smaller sale too

[wind stump]

oh yeah iright i was going to buy Ishin

Oooh, I should get Judgement too

[wind stump]

update, i already had judgement and ishin is on game pass

i may be stupid

[gaunt marten]

What the fuck is this card

You catch a missile and release it at any time you want at the enemy

[graceful bridge]

https://www.pcguide.com/news/amazon-prime-members-can-get-over-40-steam-deck-compatible-games-for-free-right-now/

[little badger]

https://x.com/skate/status/1836065157027402235?

skate. (@skate) on X

we're incredibly stoked to announce that skate. will be launching in Early Access in 2025. we'll share more details on what to expect in the coming months.

Twitter · Sep 17, 2024, 3:30 PM

[little badger]

https://x.com/geoffkeighley/status/1836112993194590451?

Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) on X

Respawn is working hard on the "final chapter" in the Star Wars Jedi saga.

Over 40 million people have played a Star Wars Jedi game to date, according to EA's Laura Miele.

Twitter · Sep 17, 2024, 6:40 PM

[green fulcrum]

I unfortunately have no idea who exactly made this comic, but there is a little website address at the bottom right.

In any case, I f*cking LOVE Zelda's smug face on the right-most middle panel. She's scheming.

[wind stump]

assuming they're the original artist*

[quiet swift]

https://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/been-in-a-ganondorf-kind-of-mood-lately i see a reddit post saying Kelly Turnball as the artist

[light gate]

I thought that was ctrl + alt + del comic for a moment.

[wind stump]

really should have gone with the second one on SauceNao

[quiet swift]

I just did google lens

[bold sonnet]

I've heard it will be not like skate games now

[astral steeple]

Afaik the new skate game will be community oriented and super focused on building stuff with other people and will be a live service game that is free to play

[bold sonnet]

Faster will Frozen 3 come out I think. But I wonder. I like Skate 3 multiplayer

[arctic fern]

https://thepunchlineismachismo.com/ unfortunately the comic stopped updating in 2018 :(
its a legit amazing comic tho, well worth a read of the archives

[little badger]

Will probably have lots of mtx

[astral steeple]

Yes it's been confirmed it'll have microtransactions that are cosmetics only

Will be clothes etc

[random steppe]

Seems like to be following the Steep model and other recent sports game ubisoft relased

Which apparently did pretty well

And weren't horribly predatory, they just have their own audience

[little badger]

I heard it was going to be clothes but it could be skateboards as well.

[random steppe]

I mean I assume skateboard personalisation will be a big thing

[astral steeple]

Yeah probably boards and wheels too

Maybe griptapes as well

[bronze abyss]

Steep was great i miss it

[astral steeple]

Riders republic does it really good with its mtxs

Has a really cute pink panda costume too lol

[light gate]

I mean if its cosmetic… I can live with it.

And if its free to play, then that makes more sense.

Heck, I wouldn’t mind map packs.

For Skate that would work really good, more incentive to come back to new places.

But do let me make a few custom skating areas tho

[astral steeple]

Yes

[little badger]

I mean if they added a pass system that only contained cosmetics then it’s ok. but if they started to add Boards with special stats then people will stop playing.

[astral steeple]

By boards I mean board graphics

Which are cosmetics only

[little badger]

https://x.com/charlieintel/status/1836389616259043571?

CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) on X

A first look at the Nintendo Switch 2 design has reportedly leaked

https://t.co/GvOYlEJTaj

Twitter · Sep 18, 2024, 12:59 PM

[astral steeple]

Which they've already confirmed it's only cosmetics

[gaunt marten]

Steam Deck ass rendering

[heady bridge]

Looks like something someone whipped up in a 3D rendering program with some 3D printed components and chips that could of come from anywhere thrown in for “legitimacy”

Still lots of news outlets picking this up. If it is a fake then boy did they get people good.

[little badger]

I heard it got leaked from a Chinese factory.

[toxic seal]

I'm gonna hold off believing it until we see the design from Nintendo. Nintendo has historically been pretty good about preventing leaks.

[wind stump]

dog.

[river veldt]

wow St Denis is huge

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1836552895887818933

[bitter stream]

isn't it a bit late for that?

haha

[light gate]

They found something.

[fresh bane]

They don't really seem to have specified what exactly, I'm guessing the lawsuit is gonna be more about game mechanics rather than what most people would say which is character designs or whatnot

Probably can't really have a game where you have a pokeball style equivalent is my guess

[slim thorn]

I'll just wait for the video essays to come out

[light gate]

‘Multiple patent violations’

That’s a rip.

They had patents over monster designs?

Its also SUPER SMART for Nintendo to wait.

And then shoot them after making money and losing said money after the hype waned.

[fresh bane]

No, they have multiple game mechanics patented

They patented a bunch of game mechanics from TOTK alone

[bitter stream]

Isn't it fairly difficult to patent a game mechanic? How'd they manage that

[light gate]

Money

Loads of money

[bitter stream]

Ah, the Disney method.

[light gate]

Yeah… Palworld devs are gonna pull

This is gonna be a GIGA lawsuit

They will appeal every loss and make them go bankrupt one way or another.

Anyhoo, I guess no Mac port now. I expect Valve to remove the game.

[green fulcrum]

Nintendo once again giving players a reason to hate them, despite all their good games and amazing IPs.

[bronze abyss]

in palworld we trust

[green fulcrum]

We all knew this was coming, but Nintendo has no right to patent game mechanics, FFS.

By that logic, 90% of all shooters are copying from CoD.

It's stupid

And it's killing creativity in the game industry

And Nintendo knows they can't lose because the Palworld team is small. They know that the team is gonna get crushed and they don't give a single shit.

[fresh bane]

Don't go giving them ideas now

[green fulcrum]

Nintendo already has the idea, and if they win this, so will every other game company.

[river veldt]

i dont think any company should have a patent to game mechanics

[sour hill]

yeah I agree

[green fulcrum]

Of course they shouldn't

But apparently Nintendo thinks otherwise.

It's like patenting having music in a game.

[river veldt]

iirc Warner Bros patented the nemesis system, and then Namco patented playable minigames in loading screens for a while

dumb

[green fulcrum]

Why do so many amazing games have to be attached to an extremely anti-player, anti-modder, anti-fan, and scummy company?

[untold vigil]

. . . THere's no escaping this news

yet another fun step

[river veldt]

why is Halo 1 so hard

[fresh bane]

In other more positive news Jedi Survivor apparently has no Denuvo anymore and performs better on PC now

[untold vigil]

Oh that is positive news

[bold sonnet]

I've beat. Have you tried Crash Bandicoot 1?

I am upset a bit on it

[bronze abyss]

you know what that means

[river veldt]

that game is hard

[bold sonnet]

Why is it first then?

[river veldt]

older games are always harder

[weak river]

I recommend attempting to avoid being shot.

[river veldt]

thank you Ster 🙏

[bold sonnet]

Maybe I know wrong because I played in coop

[river veldt]

is Halo 2 the one with Master Chief's friend

the one who goes AUUUUGH

[bold sonnet]

I don't remember. I just remember I had great fun in all Halo 💖

[green fulcrum]

Denuvo is a stain on the gaming industry and I hope it's removed from every single game it's infected. It's done so much more harm than good for every game it's been put in.

[bold sonnet]

Isn't denuvo something you have to prove you own the game?

[bronze abyss]

pretty much,but it does it in a way that harms the people that also legitimetly own the game

[bold sonnet]

How does it harm?

[weak river]

If this were a Sangheili ship, your lack of reverence for Arbiter Thel 'Vadam would be tantamount to heresy.

...but yes, he does first appear in Halo 2, although he and Chief aren't exactly friends at that point.

[bronze abyss]

as far as im aware it can impact performance

[bold sonnet]

And what do you mean those who also legit own the game

[bronze abyss]

people who bought the game

[bold sonnet]

Yeah you have to buy to own, no?

[bronze abyss]

yeah but you can also have it without buying

[quiet swift]

Speaking of weird patents, warner bros patented the 'nemesis' system that features in their Shadow of War LOTR games. Which is a weird thing to patent (and it was awarded to them)

[river veldt]

i bet lots of people on earth only know Arbiter as "Master Chief's buddy" right

[weak river]

Now that you mention it, I'm... not actually sure if people on Earth know who he is at all.

[river veldt]

huh

[bronze abyss]

idec really for the performance shit,i dont even know if thats a real issue or what cuz i didnt look into it,i more of care cuz 1.some less popular games end up being uncracked(project diva mega39s+) 2.they take much longer to crack or you have to rely on questionable individuals to do it

even outside piracy reasons i do think almost every game should be available cracked cuz it can become hard to get at some point

[river veldt]

Halo has actually for once made me like a sniper rifle

[weak river]

I don't recall 'Vadam's fame ever being discussed in a piece of canon media, and up until the very tail end of the war, he was a Covenant Supreme Commander.

Even when he did turn around and start helping the UNSC, he did so pretty much simultaneously with the rest of his species. I'm not sure that the general population of Earth would be familiar with him.

[river veldt]

interesting

[fresh bane]

The proof that you own the game is the receipt of the purchase and the money you put into the publisher's bank account, Denuvo is just there to ensure the game can't be cracked and pirated, it's not a proof of ownership, it's actually the complete opposite, you can't even play a game with denuvo if you don't have internet access, you don't really own that

[green fulcrum]

It also kills pretty much all modding for that game, iirc.

[bronze abyss]

luckily only game i only ever got to experience denuvo in i think was dying light 2? but even then they removed it after a bit im p sure

[light gate]

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24248585/gta-v-steam-deck-battleye

Someone gave Rockstar a fat check to stay away from Steam Deck.

I wonder who it was…

[bronze abyss]

im sure an anti cheat that doesnt work half the time against cheaters and fucks up regular user experience cuz its buggy as shit will help

[light gate]

The thing is that the anticheat works on Steam Deck

[bronze abyss]

yeah im aware,i just dont see the point of adding it in general

[light gate]

Rockstar made sure it didn’t work on Steam Deck.

Aka, someone delivered a really juicy deal to make sure GTA is AWAY from the Deck.

Not gonna say who but… it is pretty green of them.

[bronze abyss]

🥰

[light gate]

Anyway, lets have 650 less people on the case.

[dire gate]

Likely reason they delayed the legal action was that they wasn't going to bring it to the court, but they felt it was becoming a big deal after Sony joined

The timeline matches perfectly

[light gate]

I hope Valve takes this event as the warning shot and goes into hyper mode on Steam OS.

Because Steam OS shoulda been out YESTERDAY.

Tick tock

[bold sonnet]

Why would Xbox be in blame?

[light gate]

Microsoft

They want to keep their PC dominance.

[bold sonnet]

Why would Microsoft be in blame?

[light gate]

They see SteamOS as a threat.

But obviously are playing coy and doing the long game.

[bold sonnet]

I think a little its a valid fear a bit maybe

[light gate]

Nah, its a true fear.

[bold sonnet]

They really paid for it to not be available on steam deck?

I don't think it could be true maybe. Phil Spencer said When we all play we all win. It's why they want to make everything available everywhere, no?

[light gate]

He is a PR person, do you really believe him considering how many people keep getting fired?

[bold sonnet]

Making friendship with GeForce Now, cloud gaming on phones and browsers and TV

[light gate]

That’s because they’re pawns.

[bold sonnet]

Well they did fire a lot of people

[light gate]

And they’re breaking record numbers

Like GeForce Now only benefits Windows because it only restates the dominance.

It doesn’t actually compete.

[bold sonnet]

But it can be run on anything that supports browsers, no?

[light gate]

‘Technically’

That is not a solution, its a workaround.

And I’m tired of folks pretending its a solution.

[bold sonnet]

You're right it's not native app

[light gate]

Do you really want to play with high latency?

Terrible bitrate?

[bold sonnet]

Well I'm on super good internet and there is no

But i know most people are not

[light gate]

Even with good internet you get latency

[bold sonnet]

But maybe it's for people who can't play locally?

[bold sonnet]

It's so miniscule it's like native it really is

[bronze abyss]

hell no

[bold sonnet]

It's a miracle of our times

[light gate]

Clearly you’ve never used it.

I’ve used it

Its TERRIBLE

[bronze abyss]

even just streaming from a console next to me has latency thats more than noticable,many times even impactful,let alone from cloud

[bold sonnet]

I was in GFN beta and I also use Xbox Cloud Gaming.

[light gate]

Okay then you have god tier internet

I have to deal with 100ms and cant do anything

Good luck telling your ISP to get its shit together.

[bronze abyss]

tbh vashka is from poland and warsaw is a common point for servers soooo probably living across the street from them helps

[light gate]

Regardless, this isn’t even their first rodeo into doing these scummy things.

[bold sonnet]

That's what I mean when I say I worry about most of the world. But isn't cloud used when you have no local devices?

[light gate]

Cloud is used as a last resort

[bold sonnet]

Yes so isn't it like a good thing that it exists?

[light gate]

I payed for Xbox Cloud Gaming for starfield

It was dog… manure….

God I don’t want to sound so rude but its REALLY NOT GOOD.

[bold sonnet]

You said 100 ping, it's crazy high a bit

[light gate]

That’s on good days

Bad days are like 300

But yeah I remember crashing Xbox Cloud Gaming servers constantly because Starfield hanged their virtual computers on how buggy it was

[river veldt]

if this happens to rdr2 im gonna freak it

[bronze abyss]

dw rockstar doesnt give a fuck about it

[light gate]

Regardless, Microsoft has done this before. Halo was supposed to be a Mac title only initially back years ago, and then it became Xbox and PC exclusive after a deal went through, and they ‘honored’ a port for Mac. It was a very broken port.

And I’m sure I’m forgetting other scenarios

Ah, the creation of DirectX

That’s right

[bold sonnet]

Do you think Valve will make Steam OS for any device one day?

[light gate]

Windows 95 had OpenGL support… or was it 98? Anyway, they supported an open standard and then immediately tried to shove their proprietary rendering api.

Everyone was okay with it.

Which is ironic… considering how we are supposed to be using Vulkan but only Linux users adopted it.

And I guess android users too…

PS5 uses it too… and Windows can use it but once more… it doesn’t hurt them.

[light gate]

They have announced plans for it

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/13/24219469/valve-steamos-asus-rog-ally-steady-progress-dual-boot

[bold sonnet]

I am not very super smart in tech like you, but I think it could change many things

[light gate]

I mean I’m not super smart either but what I want is for all companies to stop mocking around and do one standard. Either use Vulkan or stop pretending that you care.

Cuz right now its just a bunch of fanboyism “DX FASTER” & “LINUX MAC BAD”

etc

[bold sonnet]

When I play retro games on Xbox I can choose between Vulcan and OpenGL but I usually do what YouTube videos say to do

[light gate]

… what?

[bold sonnet]

Because I don't really get that

[light gate]

The xbox app right?

Because last time I checked, Xbox doesn’t allow Vulkan. All Xbox titles need to be DX on the console.

PC is whatever.

[light gate]

Like I can’t stress this enough, this is the only time Linux has a chance to do damage. There is momentum, and Valve is just… taking forever.

[bold sonnet]

No, there is an app on Xbox called Developer Mode. You can pay 20 dollars and then like, install Emulators using PC first. And in emulators you can change.

[light gate]

Developer mode is developer mode

Its not meant for that

And not everyone does that

[bold sonnet]

Yeah but you can and

I was about to say everyone uses it for it

[light gate]

You can but for how long? I wouldn’t be shocked if MS has been trying to lock it down.

They don’t necessarily win much.

[bold sonnet]

No, they blocked a way to do it in retail mode, and never changed in developer mode

[light gate]

That makes sense

[bold sonnet]

That's why so many people for example buy Xbox Series S, the small one, and emulate.

[light gate]

I see the appeal, but I wouldn’t ever rely on it.

[bold sonnet]

There is a LOT of videos on youtube. I think because series S is super cheap

[light gate]

I saw it on sale for like 100 bucks

They had like twelve boxes

Nobody wanted them

[bold sonnet]

That's absolutely crazy

[light gate]

This was on Best Buy

i think

Well people don’t know what an Xbox Series S is

Anyway, far from the topic. I just want this nonsense to end, but seeing this latest move doesn’t surprise me.

https://www.eurogamer.net/phil-spencer-all-but-confirms-plans-for-xbox-portable-console

Better article

[bold sonnet]

Do you think they will make it?

Sony did, but cloud only and everyone was a bit sad

[light gate]

Not exactly make it

They gonna just make a unique os maybe for everyone to use

A locked down handheld that runs Windows but with less Windows if that makes sense

[bold sonnet]

Yeah, like Xbox

I think if it's possible to make a handheld that has power of Series S many people would buy

But I think it's maybe not possible yet

[light gate]

Also, normally PR people skip questions like these. But seems like something is cookin

[light gate]

Who knows. But I don’t want it to happen, its not gonna be good in the long run. Xbox users will enjoy sure, but everyone will suffer if MS retakes the crown again in the PC market.

Well, unless you are somehow still happy about Windows 11.

[bold sonnet]

So if I understand right you want Valve to be the leader?

[light gate]

Not the leader

I just want them to open Pandora’s box

If Linux gains the marketshare and gaming momentum, then software companies will start to reconsider Microsoft.

If that occurs, then we will get ACTUAL competition.

[bold sonnet]

Is Steam OS Linux?

[light gate]

Arch, yeah.

[bold sonnet]

Wouldn't Android already be a bit open like Linux?

[light gate]

Yeah, but Android is mostly controlled by Google.

Its open… but… you are bound to use the Google GPlay API

[bold sonnet]

This is so interesting

[light gate]

When I mean ‘bound’ I mean it becomes inevitable.

[bold sonnet]

You really really know a lot and I'm super curious

[light gate]

You can obviously not use it… but… you will be like… the weird sheep that refused to join the flock.

I mean… I am generalizing a lot, do not assume that I know everything though.

And this was a theory I made, conspiracy or not. The only evidence I am providing is based on prior events and coincidences.

You should still make up your own opinion whenever possible.

If you really want to know why I hated the Epic sideloading stuff with iPhone, its because MS was involved in it.

[bold sonnet]

What? What do you mean? How does it connect?

[light gate]

Also I… I can’t find the document…

Hang on

[bold sonnet]

I mean it's okay if you can't find. I don't think I can really read through one. Most important is what it said in short

I always thought it's just Epic and Apple, no?

[light gate]

Epic v Apple & Google

I can’t find anything now… what is actually going on

This feels like a joke

[bold sonnet]

It's okay

Do you prefer single player games for story or multiplayer games for competition?

[light gate]

Okay

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/epic-pushed-for-subscription-free-multiplayer-on-xbox-ahead-of-apple-battle

Oddly enough this is not the exact thing I wanted but its close enough to prove some malice at play.

Effectively they demanded MS to ‘do something good’ as a ‘good opportunity’ was arriving.

"Epic has certain plans for August that will provide an extraordinary opportunity to highlight the value proposition of consoles and PCs, in contrast to mobile platforms, and to onboard new console users," Sweeney wrote. "While I can't share details with any third party at this point, I give you Epic's assurance that our efforts will be positive and supportive of Microsoft, Xbox and Windows." The email concludes with Sweeney saying that the Xbox boss should "expect events throughout August to draw the specific opportunity into focus."

Like this is coy as hell.

https://x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1745544491388248134

Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) on X

Congratulations to Microsoft on a well-deserved honor. From Bill Gates to Steve Ballmer to Satya Nadella, they have a 50-year track record of supporting and empowering developers to do great work, while respecting developer and user freedom. A sharp contrast to Apple and Google.

Twitter · Jan 11, 2024, 8:33 PM

Like really Timmy?

I guess nothing says ‘user freedom’ as Microsoft.

I need to move on from this… its not healthy

[light gate]

I don’t know, I want anything that is at least fun.

So I guess games for fun.

Honestly as much as I hate Epic, I do like Fortnite and Lego Fortnite… as hypocritical all this discussion sounds.

God I wished my brain didn’t have a bajillion levers lmao.

[gaunt marten]

It is never late. You wait until you have a strong case then sue.

[gaunt marten]

Game mechanics are the only thing you can patent about games. For a patent to be accepted the mechanic has to do something in a novel and interesting way.

[gaunt marten]

You can't patent stuff everyone was already doing before you. There are specific avenues for patents. I will give you a list of existing patents you might recognize in a bit.

Call of Duty has the following patents:
1- https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160005270A1/en
A system where you can match expert or well known players with junior players, to drive microtransactions by making the junior players more likely to see fancy gear.
2- https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190091581A1/en
A system for matching players with other players based on how likeable they are and more fun to play with. This one was abandoned and my guess is because you can't define likeability very well.

Other videogame patents you might recognize are the Nintendo d-pad patent which is now expired. For ten years it made it so other companies had to either get Nintendo to license them or use a different style of d-pad.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4687200A/en

There's also the crazy taxi arrow, bioware's dialog wheel, Namco's loading screen minigames, the nemesis system from Shadow of Mordor games.

[gaunt marten]

In other words, patents do not protect generic mechanics. They protect novel techniques that are not already in the market, that you have filed for patent to get and successfully gotten, and the protection lasts ten years.

You can't patent the concept of Pokemon, but you could patent the concept of the Pokemon box system, if nobody else did it before you.

[bitter stream]

huh, that's interesting. Thanks for the info flitter. I was unaware of this method.

[river veldt]

whoa i didn't know the Crazy Taxi arrow was patented

[gaunt marten]

The crazy taxi arrow patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US6200138B1/en

Figures 12 to 14 are crazy taxi

Sega Sued EA for The Simpsons: Road Rage because they violated the patent

Ultimately they settled in private

[dire gate]

Honestly I won't be surprised if this ends with a settlement, I doubt Nintendo's true goal is to end Pocket Pair

They probably just want to stop Palworld from becoming a media franchise, and especially want to stop Sony being part of it

[cerulean herald]

but why would they want to stop them from doing that

[gaunt marten]

They're competitors

[cerulean herald]

Fair enough, not sure what else I expected

[dire gate]

Sony's involvement was probably the major factor

[cerulean herald]

Wonder what the higher ups at Sony are thinking, this could've not been more poorly timed

[dire gate]

Bad news for Pocket Pair is that Sony has nothing to lose

Worst case scenario they drop a future project, it's not like, yaknow, they've invested some million dollars and developed for like 8 years

https://fxtwitter.com/insomniacgames/status/1836643865941676365

[steep flax]

insomniac games make really great renders

i cant ever get into their gameplay tho

[little badger]

Statement from the developers https://www.pocketpair.jp/news/news16

Palworld

[random steppe]

I wonder what's going to be, the only thing I can think of in which the two games are similar mechanically is the pokeball capture thing

[dire gate]

They do own the pokeball capture patent.

[random steppe]

They do say multiple patents, and I can't fathom anything else tho

[dire gate]

Well they have shitload of patents so it's hard to even guess tbh

[random steppe]

Like, it obvious can't be fighting the tower bosses because they are too similar to gym bosses, because there is no way they can patent bosses in a videogame

[dire gate]

Well the patents usually go like "the mechanics of how the game counts the procedure of the game by boss count"

[random steppe]

Also to be fair, you can file a patent of whatever, if it's gonna stand in court or not it's a whole another matter

[dire gate]

So it's not impossible

It is highly likely that Nintendo have the high ground for this case.

[random steppe]

Yeah no, that wouldn't survive.
If it's broad enough to encompass Palworld tower bosses, I'd encompass maybe 40% of all games

[dire gate]

Well Nintendo does actually have a lot of patents that can considered as "infringed" by many other games

They usually don't make a legal case about it because they know it looks very bad

[random steppe]

Or because they wouldn't survive in court

[dire gate]

Remember, they had patents for stuff like cross-shaped d-pad or 3d lock-on mechanics

Eh, not really, Konami makes a lot of those cases and they win a lot

Nintendo v. Pocket Pair case is entirely held in Japanese court

Since they are both Japanese companies

[random steppe]

Yes that is correct

[dire gate]

I'd say it is likely that Nintendo is going to win if they push the case, but I also think that there is a high chance that it will end up with a settlement

[random steppe]

We'll see, my guess is that they maybe will win on the pokeball thing, I'd be surprised if they got anything else substantial

Given that they aren't suing on the monster designs but on game mechanics

[little badger]

Could they not call it pallball but they could change the look of it?

[random steppe]

It's what they did

[dire gate]

The capturing mechanics would be the problem there.

[random steppe]

Like it doesn't look like a pokeball, but the mechanic of caputring monsters in a round object it's still there

Like, they could probably change it in caputring monster in something else that you don't throw

[dire gate]

It's very likely that Nintendo doesn't really care about Palworld's service or the infringed patent itself

[random steppe]

And it would probably be different enough

[little badger]

Is there anything they can do to change the capture mechanic?

[random steppe]

I'm sure there is, but we don't know what the patent is and we don't actually even know if that's one of the patents nintendo is alleging was infringed upon

So far it's pretty much speculation

[gaunt marten]

Where'd message go?

Is there a PokeBall patent? I can't find one

[random steppe]

I just assumed there was one because it's like, the most obvious thing to patent for Pokemon

[little badger]

#1032716748887179434 message

[dire gate]

The link I have seems to be region-locked

[gaunt marten]

In Japan patents last twenty years so my first thought would be that the patent is expired if it exists.

[dire gate]

https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/c1801/PU/JP-7545191/15/en
This one should work

This one is a patent they got while developing PLA

Makes sense, that was the first time they added non-battle catching method in the mainline games

It's interesting how some of the references are ARK documents

[gaunt marten]

I see. Thanks

[dire gate]

It's interesting how Pocket Pair is clearly trying to frame it as "Indie game company vs. Huge game corpo"

[little badger]

Ah

[dire gate]

It is working very well with its western audiences, while Japanese people seems to be saying "what makes you think you are representing the whole indie developers for this case"

[gaunt marten]

They're representing themselves as one indie developer. It makes sense to me

[dire gate]

Yeah but their statement says:

However, we will do our utmost for our fans, and to ensure that indie game developers are not hindered or discouraged from pursuing their creative ideas.

[random steppe]

Besides big devs locking down game mechanics is bad for all indies, and the industry as a whole if you ask me.

[dire gate]

They are very clearly trying to frame this as "Nintendo bullying indie company"

[random steppe]

Like, none except Warner Bros benefit from patenting the nemesis system

[gaunt marten]

I see

[dire gate]

Interestingly the reaction to this seems to be very different between Japan/Korea and Western

[gaunt marten]

Patents intend to drive creativity exactly through this mechanism. They guarantee you won't have competition for a while so you know you can safely allocate resources to research

Of course, for videogames a more reasonable time limit is three to five years

[random steppe]

I think it's good if they protect your specific way of doing something, but a concept shouldn't be possible to patent.

[dire gate]

Well patents are pretty specific

[random steppe]

it's the difference between patenting a Samsung washing machine or washing machines as a whole

[gaunt marten]

You can definitely make a nemesis system that works in a different way if you like

[random steppe]

Depends how vague the patent is.

The reporting from when that happened made it look like pretty broad

[dire gate]

The patent I uploaded explains its mechanics with a super long sentence, which goes like "A computer mechanics that give you a choice between 1) capturing item and 2) in game creatures so that user can make a specific manuveur to choose between them, and then interact with a virtual creature on the virtual field (...)"

It specifies what it does with almost a paragraph long sentence

[random steppe]

And Namco up until a big ago still held the patent for mingames during loading screens which is absrudly broad, probably due to the fact that patent offices at the time didn't really understand video games and how broad that patent would have been
I'm not sure they do now is the problem

[dire gate]

I feel like there is a slight chance some of the patents they claimed are not Pokemon but Nintendo

For example they probably have loads of 3d openworld action related patents with Zelda

[random steppe]

It wouldn't be good if you had a company that held patents that allowed them to shut down any game competition they don't like.

Would Nintend othe one that has 3d open world patents or Rockstar?
Like the moden open world concept I'm pretty sure was born with GTA3

[dire gate]

Not 3d open world patent

Some specific mechanics

Obviously "3d open world" is not specific enough for patenting

But things like "structures on the field that reveals map and act as a quick travel point" could be patentable

(Just an example)

[quartz pawn]

This game looks absolutely adorable!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyBwPP_f9yQ

[toxic seal]

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

TL;DW

• Special edition PS5 (Digital), PS5 Pro, and Dualsense controllers with original PS1 colors and logo and unique stand for the console.
• USB-C charging cable styled to look like the original PS1 controller's connector cable with special cable ties.
• Special edition PlayStation Portal, if you remembered that exists.
• Only 12,300 units of the PS5 Pro special edition will be made, indicated by a specially printed serial number on the console.

No pricing given, pre-orders from retailers begin Oct 10 for the console bundles, Sep 26 for the controllers.

[dire gate]

Imagine selling even more expensive version of PS5 Pro

[toxic seal]

Yeah given the extremely limited quantities I can't imagine that it'll be cheaper than the regular PS5 Pro lol

I'm guessing $1000 USD

[rancid herald]

What games?

[steep flax]

new astro bot game looks pretty good

very short tho

[hasty patio]

Ah, the MSFT question for the last two gens. /s

[dire gate]

I cannot even dare imagine what the price in Japan/Korea will be if that becomes true, the normal PS5 Pro is already over 800usd here (about 840~850)

[snow tartan]

oh dear celestia if those controllers end up being 90 dollars…im going to have to talk to someone

they’re already so expensive

[light gate]

They look great but honestly I’d prefer just buying ceremony plates.

[graceful bridge]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/gta-online-is-broken-on-steam-deck-following-anti-cheat-update/

[hasty patio]

https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1836887720213299583

Del Walker 🇵🇸 (@TheCartelDel) on X

Just got the alert that Activision Blizzard will lay off a total of 393 employees across multiple locations in California, as indicated in a WARN:

• 143 employees in Los Angeles, CA
• 110 employees in Santa Monica, CA
• 140 employees in Irvine, CA

Twitter · Sep 19, 2024, 9:58 PM

[quiet swift]

That tweet seems to have been deleted

[rancid herald]

my god

the lay offs are so strong it's laid off the tweeter!!!

[proud warren]

at this point, who's left working there?

[toxic seal]

Worse, the tweet itself has been laid off

[quiet swift]

Actiblizz is still huge. It's still probably around 15000 people working there, and I'm counting actiblizz only, not the whole xbox/microsoft gaming section

Now, if those 400ish are all on the same division, then yeah that's worrisome. If it's more spread out, that'll affect projects less (though it still shouldn't be happening as often as it is )

[dire gate]

But it has been long since the tweet™️ has been laid off by Eeeelon

[little badger]

https://fixupx.com/netflix/status/1836935308186693871?

[fresh bane]

Please be a new show and not some Edgerunners sequel, please

[dire gate]

||Cyberpunk : David on the Moon||

[quiet swift]

||Considering the body count (a sturdy thirty!) of the show's cast, that's probably a given...||

[fresh bane]

You'd think but with all the people who were begging for a season 2 I just don't know anymore

[quiet swift]

I mean, ||they can't bring back the dead since this is earlier than the game and the tech isn't ready, not to mention they weren't copied sooo... it has to be a new cast||

It would be interesting to have V and Jackie be the cast in their pre-game time period

[slim thorn]

tbf a season 2 with a new cast and plot would be fine

some shows do that

[fickle garnet]

Iirc they already said that there wouldn't be a season 2 of Edgerunners

[dire gate]

Well the real question would be who's making it

[fresh bane]

Hmmmm I dunno, I dunno if I'd like a conclusive ''canon'' depiction of V, which is funny considering what I often say about the game

But then they'd have to choose an ending if they do make any reference to 2077...
and I still haven't finished it

I guess now is a pretty good time to go back into it, I'm not currently playing anything and the new Zelda isn't out yet, I think I got time still I've been putting it off for too long

[random steppe]

I would be happy with a new Edgerunner if it was a full new cast, agreed.

I feel like that worked really well as a "let's tell this story with this specific cast of characters and their journey through Night City."
I want that again but with new characters

[dire gate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD_K05bgjSg

[wind stump]

YAR

assassin's weeb

purple flag

[static bluff]

Crystal Project is a really great game. It's a non-linear JRPG. Flitter has been talking about it for a long time so I decided to give it a shot. I came across a scenario that I found really fun. By being very through with exploration, I ended up getting to a cave earlier than expected. Going into dungeons slightly underlevel has always been fun for me in games in general, be it Skyrim or Starfield or whatever. In this case, it was a huge learning experience. The types of enemies in this dungeon were unlike others. I had to figure out the right combination of Jobs my party should have and which skills to unlock. It took me several TPKs to get one wing of the dungeon figured out, but it felt good when I did. Eventually, you get to an enemy that's super annoying to fight, but I figured out techniques to simply skip those fights. At the end of the dungeon is a ridiculous hard boss fight. Or so I thought. After walking away from the game for awhile, I was thinking about how I could get past that boss. It nagged at me all day because I knew there had to be a trick. Long story short, I figured out a strategy that worked really well. It took a couple of attempts, but I was able to clear the final boss by the skin of my teeth. I jumped out of my chair I was so excited. It really came down to the wire. What made the fight fascinating is Crystal Project's biggest strength; practically all the information about the battle is revealed. The turn order, what move the enemy will do next, how much damage you'll be able to do. Which, seems like too much information and I ignore it most of the time, but I needed it in this boss fight. It's kind of hard to explain why I had so much fun but I actually felt like I was playing a jrpg instead of just rolling dice. I mean, I figured out how to get past a boss. I didn't need to reach for a strategy guide or simply get overleveled, I figured out the solution and executed on it.(Tagging @slim thorn since I know they're a jrpg fan)

[hidden elbow]

Oh i loved toem ,really cute and comfy game

[sage iris]

letsgoooooo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxtnoNshZEo

the finals trailers are always so hype

[wind stump]

I love games that let me do Dumb Shit™️ (Rusted Moss)

to explain further, the main mechanic is the weird bungee rope thing I'm swinging off of and I believe the general strategy is to swing around, but earlier today I got a shotgun that pushes me back when I fire it.
Including in mid-air.
This is a more extreme example since I have no way to normally swing up there (i can only attach my "rope" to mossy parts of the terrain and the angle is kinda difficult to work with if i was just swinging)
so using the shotgun to boost myself makes the physics way easier to handle

also you can fucking bhop with shotgun knockback

i mean you can also bhop with the rope, yo uswing youself forward and hop before you lose momentum, but the shotgun knockback is more consistent to me, since it doesn't require a mossy surface and you can also use it midswing for... Dumb Shit™️

Though I do recommend this game, it does come with the caveat of "Fuck, this game is Hard" with a capital H.
There's a lot of both platforming and combat challenges and this game does tend to get a tad much sometimes.

(Thankfully there's a toggable assist mode, but I'm trying to play with the intended expereince in mind)

i really like this game but i also have a lot to say about it in the not so good ways, lmao

[slim thorn]

oooh someone else playing RM

I wish I was good enough at it to play the DLC

the randomizer often expects that kind of weapon boosting btw

it can get very hard and parts of it target a skill level I don't have, but like Celeste I found it relatively easy to just not do the stuff that was too hard for me to enjoy grinding, as the critical path never got that crazy

[graceful bridge]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/4570/view/4690025373163919797

the Anniversary Editions will be a free upgrade for all existing owners of Dawn of War 1, and Dawn of War 2!

[bold sonnet]

@arctic fern your Frostpunk song was stuck in my head for like two days now or something ❄️

[arctic fern]

It's a banger

It just hits so damn hard

[green fulcrum]

The Stupendium one?

[bold sonnet]

Yes!

[green fulcrum]

You should listen to their other songs too! They make some reeeeeeally good stuff, even a few other Frostpunk songs.

[cerulean herald]

where do i listen

[bold sonnet]

YouTube ♥️

[green fulcrum]

This one is one of my favorites from them (especially since I'm a writer, lol), but really almost all of their songs are spectacular. You could even say they're stupendous. :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVF2WIzZqGo

[cerulean herald]

oh i know them for the Doki Doki Literature Club song, dang

[bold sonnet]

Holy lord

I know many things went over my head with difficult English. But I caught a lot of it. But this was just hypnotizing. Grappling. The way it kept changing. The music video, atmosphere, even the ending. This guy is so talented it's just stunning

[green fulcrum]

Yeah, their songs The Ribbon and Ad Infinitum are a little harder to follow for some people, the first because it uses a lot of wordplay and larger vocabulary, which is thematically appropriate because the song is about a writer (Alan Wake from...Alan Wake, lol), and the second one is hard to follow because it's so blazing fast and hard to follow in general, which is also thematically appropriate because the song is about a 4th wall breaking, glitchy, spammy, walking ad known as Spamton G. Spamton (from Deltarune).

That said, if you're interested in it, I HIGHLY recommend listening to it. It has quite possibly the absolute fastest and craziest lyrics I've ever heard in a song (I daresay it even beats Weird Al's Hardware Store): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RkcUiCxuE

[proud warren]

You wanna know something funny about this song specifically? Someone actually did the math in the comments, and the "fast part" (the whole song is fast but you know what I mean) actually has more words per minute than the song "Rap God" does during it's fast part

[green fulcrum]

Yup, Stupendium officially beat Eminem as the fastest rapper.

Just slightly, but still

[proud warren]

well not anymore, godzilla (also eminem) is faster

[green fulcrum]

Damn

Oh well

[proud warren]

but still going faster (and more impresively twice as long) than rap god is certainly an achievement

[green fulcrum]

Did you know that Stupendium also sang an SCP song? They didn't make it themselves, rather it was a song written by a guy called Musiclide (who has a unique way of doing music: he writes the lyrics and performs the music, but lets others sing the songs). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9oWKWN46c

Stupes also sang in the Iron Lung song by Musiclide too, and while I count that one as a "Stupendium song", others won't since they only sing the chorus.

[quiet swift]

https://x.com/longislandviper/status/1837157796137030141

Colin Moriarty (@longislandviper) on X

I spoke extensively with someone who worked on Concord, and it's so much worse than you think.

It was internally referred to as "The Future of PlayStation" with Star Wars-like potential, and a dev culture of "toxic positivity" halted any negative feedback.

Making it cost $400m.

Twitter · Sep 20, 2024, 3:52 PM

[rancid herald]

insane

but yeah the whole 'future of the playstation' thing was obvious from the whole 'show up in an amazon show' thing

[quiet swift]

Netflix, but yes~

[hasty patio]

Amazon Prime Video

[quiet swift]

Oh huh, I was thinking love death and robots

[hasty patio]

Same folks that did that to be fair.

[green fulcrum]

Yeah, I don't think it was the animators and producers who decided on the Concord episode, lol. They had a deal with Sony to get their support to help make the show a reality, but Sony required them to have a mandatory Concord episode.

So yeah, aged like milk right out of the gate. Now the show's gonna have a completely wasted episode that would've been better-suited for something like Doom, Horizon Zero Dawn, Ratchet & Clank, Warcraft, Starcraft, Spyro, Sonic, or literally ANY other franchise.

[hasty patio]

At least that episode will live longer than the game it is for/from.

[green fulcrum]

Yeah, and it'll be a glimpse into a future that could've been.

[teal sonnet]

Jesus fucking christ

This is a flop that will be studied for generations

This is truly one of the biggest failures fucking ever

Like, I cant even comprehend how much of a fuckup this is

To put in perspective, Avengers Endgame costed $356 million

What in the fuck sony people were doing? Was this a money laundry for the cartel or what

[quiet swift]

It is a "I heard from a source" so it's not 100% confirmed yet, but. I also wouldn't be surprised

[teal sonnet]

The credits of the game is over an hour long, so really does not surprise me

Even if in the range of 200m-400m, this is a flop big enough that I can see CEO’s resigning and lot of shit changing

Who was in charge of this whole thing need to resign out of respect of the whole company

One does not burn unholy amount of money like that for a game that stays up for 12 days

Indie sexual asset flip games on steam sold more than that thing

[fresh bane]

lol lmao

Best they can do is fire every developer involved and whoever else they need to fire to make up for the cost

[light gate]

uhhh, no.

This video essentially breaks it down properly. https://youtu.be/-beBcC_QTxw?

Essentially, many veterans worked on this and had no criticism due to all of them being so experienced. Nobody questioned any decision, and Sony was willing to throw whatever resources they could use to make it a 'guaranteed hit'.

What resulted was essentially a 'nobody critics nobody' type of situation which made a game that was essentially doomed from the very inception. Ironically enough, Sony wasn't the one who put the foot and messed things up. It was everyone and Sony for not checking themselves and allowing proper constructive criticism to flow, just because you have industry veterans working doesn't mean success.

Which is ironic because this is A POLAR OPPOSITE of what ET was about.

ET was a rushed game, the fault entirely lying on Atari. Concord was essentially everyone hecked up.

[cerulean herald]

the opposite of corporate meddling then? too much freedom

[light gate]

Essentially.

If you've played the game, or anyone here played the game... most came out saying it was aight.

[fresh bane]

Not really too much freedom since you essentially can't criticize the game or say anything negative about it

[light gate]

Most of the drama was just the looks and... how 'generic' it looked.

[light gate]

Well nobody wanted to make comments because everyone assumed everyone knew what they were doing.

So... effectively... you get this weird paradox.

Nobody asks because everyone has a high rank and nobody wants to piss off anyone, and then at the end you start to assume maybe this is actually gonna work because everyone is 'the best of the best'.

Reminds me of this movie scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnxtJ4468fM

They needed someone who was willing to question decisions, someone to ask and actually determine if it was worth it or not. But when you have everyone as 'yes' and 'expert', why bother? Everyone seems happy.

[You could argue the leads did not do a good job at arguing/questioning decisions and therefore are at fault]

[fresh bane]

Ideally that 'someone' would be multiple people during development, it's not like having the one person who everyone has to go through would be a better solution

[light gate]

Not saying one person, but someone should have created the friction.

Nobody bothered

Because the money kept flowing.

No one at Sony said no.

That's the entire thing, nobody wanted to question anything.

And even if there was a soul who wanted to, they probably just thought to themselves... "ehh... we are veterans... we know what we are doing maybe..." ego.

[fresh bane]

The more likely thing is that anyone who did criticize anything was shut down immediately

[light gate]

You could assume that.

We don't know what exactly happened inside.

But it could go both ways.

whatever 'dev toxicity' thing occured, it was probably ego.

and therefore nobody wanted to question anything, therefore the leads hecked.

[rotund forge]

Hey! I loved this dude's video on bad puzzle designs

[quiet swift]

Wasn't this the same thing as Redfall then? Microsoft acquired the company, didn't really supervise Redfall after acquiring Arkane from Zenimax (who commissioned the game, basically), and them poof, it released in a failed state

[fresh bane]

To be fair, whatever happened with Concord probably wasn't that much different from any other usual failure in the gaming industry, the thing is all the bad aspects were amplified by a million because so much money was poured into this thing and the expectations for it were so big

It's more common than you'd think for a project to fail because whoever is leading it just cannot take no for an answer and cannot take any criticism so they just remove anyone who dares make changes or criticize anything

[dire gate]

Jim Ryan already left

[dire gate]

I was like "Is that even a valid question, isn't it obvious" until I realized that shimmer was added a while ago

(The obvious answer is NO as it's probably just straight up impossible, but the shimmer makes it kinda possible)

[rotund forge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaHWaqJwYQ0

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdHi_r-FYD0
🦖

[sage iris]

This game literally just came out and it looks freaking awesome https://store.steampowered.com/app/1417930/Lorns_Lure/

Steam

Lorn's Lure

Lorn's Lure is an atmospheric narrative first-person platformer with novel climb-anything mechanics and modernized retro 3D graphics.Leaving his home colony while tracking a mysterious glitch, an android finds himself in the midst of a vast and dangerous structure, completely hidden from his people's knowledge. Unable to go back, you must keep g...

Price

$13.49

Recommendations

172

▶ Play video

If you love the whole 'unfathomably large megastructure' vibe then this might be the game

[dire gate]

Japanese tweet

"There is no way you can use it like this "
https://fxtwitter.com/HT_BLACKOWL/status/1837321814894362658

[random steppe]

Historically swords were carried on the back for transportation more than for fighting, at least for western swords.

It's a much more comfortable place where to place the weigh rather than in the waist where it could catch on things, if you didn't plan on fighting

I guess it could be pratical for shorter swords

[steep flax]

very impractical

what if sword slips when unsheathing

[gaunt marten]

I was itchy anyway

[random steppe]

For short swords that probably wouldn't be more likely than on the waist my guess is

The annoying bit would definitely be storing it back for sure

On the waist you see what you are doing at least

[gaunt marten]

What the fuck is today's daily

So all enemies deal more damage, two drones spawn in each fight that copy you

And you're playing on Harder

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/Cristiano/status/1837556864315187418

[wind stump]

holy SHIT is that ADAM JENSEN from DEUS EX HUMAN REVOLUTION

[dense crypt]

He never asked for this...

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/Cristiano/status/1837556864315187418?t=b0q_6dkNf5kGDVoeClZILw&s=19

Huuuhhh???

[bitter stream]

what on earth is this teaser lmao?

[worldly summit]

surely they add lebron to street fighter

[wind stump]

aw shit
here we go again.

[river veldt]

happy 7th anniversary to Doki Doki Literature Club

[wind stump]

DOKI DOKI!

[bronze abyss]

🎶 every day,i imagine a future where i can be with you 🎶

[slim thorn]

one of these days I will finally read that

[sacred grove]

Read? DDLC is a game

Well, a visual novel, so I guess there's a lot of reading involved

[random steppe]

For visual novels most people say "read"

Because they are novels

Not that "play" is wrong

They are also videogames

[slim thorn]

either verb is fine, but it is mostly reading text

[visual hill]

I would say "play" personally

[wind stump]

feeling cute

[quartz pawn]

Yagami looks lost.

[wind stump]

and who are you to judge that?

[worthy rose]

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/top_august_2024

Quite a few indies

[bronze abyss]

lmaooo its so funny seeing tryhards in brawlhalla that show off mechanically crumble when you make them respect you instead of letting them press random buttons hoping it hits

watched a mf go from confident as hell to a lost lamb to rage quit just cuz he kept trying to do shit in situations he wasnt supposed to,i dont think people understand that above average mechanics wont save them from low rank game sense and habits

[visual hill]

cuz he kept trying to do shit in situations he wasnt supposed to
I'll be honest, I usually try against new opponents to see if it works

because if it does, it can have really good payout

[bronze abyss]

experimenting is one thing,doing it over and over again is another

the thing specifically he tried to do was baiting me with empty attacks cuz he thought i wasn't in a position to punish,but what he kept failing to realise is that i literally do that myself and know how to get around it

[fickle garnet]

Don't make fun of people cuz they're not as good at the game as you

[visual hill]

I sometimes bait with empty attacks too, it's kind of like suppressive fire in a FPS

you fire bullets but you don't expect to hit... more power if you do 🙂

as long as you use safe attacks with not much lag, it's fine

[bronze abyss]

im making fun of them because they try to show off mechanically and by trying to clip farm when they clearly arent capable of doing any of that,if they didnt rage quit i wouldnt even be making fun of them

i dont make fun of people just for not being as good at a game,but if they try to show off they better back it up

[fickle garnet]

I still don't think its alright

[bronze abyss]

eh,if they are being an ass about it so can i,just is equal

if someone plugs/ragequits,is toxic,or tries to show off when they shouldn't i consider all of those free game p much,they are in no place to be properly respected if they can't do the same to other's, especially if they can't back it up

[bronze abyss]

it is a powerful skill to know,but def only should be learned after having already learned fundamental stuff first

[visual hill]

I switch to lower-tier characters/characters I'm less familiar with if I start consistently winning against someone

it adds variety to gameplay and all 🙂

I promise this is skill-based mechanic.

[bronze abyss]

if im custom matchmaking then same,not in rando queue though

[visual hill]

if I'm playing against another low tier in matchmaking, I'm more prone to switching

(not for ranked of course... I win rarely enough there already)

[river veldt]

judge is so fucking funny

i love how getting a 1 damages you

[visual hill]

fun fact: in Melee, hitting a 9 is harder than any other number because its hitbox is smaller

[rugged flax]

https://youtu.be/GcJwHe3dHoo

[dapper cedar]

fox got a new (old) CRT TV, takes me back to early childhood looking at stuff on a screen like this

[austere moss]

Omg castlevania

It's the beginning intro of castlevania 1 and the stairs to dracula in that game

[shy flare]

lmao the 1 on the get up

seething

[hasty patio]

https://x.com/IGN/status/1838190599712718896

https://youtu.be/jNGH8o3LDBo?feature=shared

IGN (@IGN) on X

Beloved YouTuber Shirley Curry, colloquially known as the Skyrim Grandma, has announced her retirement from making gameplay videos after doing so for nine years. https://t.co/lMgonklvD6

Twitter · Sep 23, 2024, 12:16 PM

[toxic seal]

[river veldt]

OUGH i got scared

[quiet swift]

The WoW grandma is still going strong though!

[quartz pawn]

https://vxtwitter.com/MaliceDaFirenze/status/1838150670324506867

🐴 🐴 🐴

[gaunt marten]

Playing Grandia 1

[fickle garnet]

I bought Ultrakill yesterday

[gaunt marten]

This pose is mega cute

Also, Grandpa's house is apparently "House 5"

Couldn't be bothered to give it a name?

This guy needs to go to alcoholics anonymous

[static bluff]

lol good grief dude

Five 40s just on the floor, geez

Growlers, even

[gaunt marten]

I had low expectations for how the game would look, but this is actually pretty nice

[wind stump]

gives me PS1 vibes

[quartz pawn]

That's where it launched on

[wind stump]

huh well you know, if I see a game i don't recgonise, I presume it's a new indie game, LMAO

I barely keep up with AAA stuff now

[static bluff]

Yeah, it kind of reminds me of running the game on Duckstation with their fancy texture upscaling technology

[gaunt marten]

Grandia 1 HD

[static bluff]

That unique combination of low poly objects with 4k resolution textures is kinda funny but also good

[wind stump]

Yeah especially with the HD graphics, gives me faux retro game vibes

but it is legit!

[little badger]

State of play soon https://x.com/charlieintel/status/1838256504387838191?

[light gate]

Waiting for the joke.

[little badger]

What joke?

[snow tartan]

PS5 HAS GAMES?????

[light gate]

There it is.

[river veldt]

it's a good bit

[light gate]

I honestly feel its been overused a lot. Like we get it already type of levels.

[gaunt marten]

I wonder if there are actual statistics on how many games are released on the PS5, with and without the number of games exclusive to it

VGChartz suggests 898 games are out in total

[light gate]

I mean there is a wiki page with all the PS5 exclusives, which is super small.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:PlayStation_5-only_games

[gaunt marten]

21!

That's both numbers I was curious about

(It's more than Xbox's exclusives)

[little badger]

Ah that one

https://x.com/eurogamer/status/1838288801514348938?

Eurogamer (@eurogamer) on X

Skyrim Grandma Shirley Curry is retiring from making gaming videos: "It isn't fun anymore" https://t.co/WqJddbtbiK

Twitter · Sep 23, 2024, 6:46 PM

[steep flax]

i didnt realise rise of the ronin realeased

[gaunt marten]

Guess she finally outgrew videogames

[visual hill]

Let's fight somewhere empty

it was that, or the second page of Google search results

[bleak lintel]

Sony is pushing their games to PC so the exclusive list is going to be small.

[visual hill]

I wonder if GT7 and Astro Bot will be on PC at some point

GT7 is always-online (mostly to push for microtransactions as you can't cheat items this way…), but so is Helldivers 2

[wind stump]

isn't Astro Bot like, a big show off of PS5 dualsense stuff

[bleak lintel]

Astro Bot for sure, I'm not sure how long Sony likes it wait, it seems to vary.

[visual hill]

it's a Nintendo game on PS5, more or less. Basically what people wanted for years 🙂 and it showed in reviews

[bleak lintel]

That' Astro Playroom.

Last of Us 2 will probably show up the same time the show comes back.

FF7 Rebirth will only come to PC after SE figures out how maximize their loss of money on it.

[random steppe]

Yeah I was wondering, PS doesn't really have that many actual exclusives at this point.
It's mostly timed ones

And no Xbox

[river veldt]

when is the state of play

[random steppe]

Demon's Souls I feel like it's the only one that is old enough that it should have gotten a PC release if they wanted to make one

[gaunt marten]

Tomorrow

[river veldt]

oh

[bleak lintel]

Demon's Souls and Bloodborne are in an odd situation given the popularity of Elden Ring.
Guess Sony is too busy with Concord.

Bloodborne is rapidly becoming playable via emulation as well, guess we'll see if that sparks any demand.

[quiet swift]

"Hmmm... Hmmm. Expelled!"

[bold sonnet]

No thoughts

Head empty

[gaunt marten]

Someone swapped the sorting hat with the lobotomy hat!

[quiet swift]

That dog is savage

[dire gate]

One thing I find interesting is the time it starts;

Nintendo directs typically start 7am pst, which is 11pm jst.

On the other hand, state of play tend to start at 3pm pst, which is 7am jst.

Maybe it shows the difference in who they focus on

[chilly mural]

I CAN'T EVEN

[astral steeple]

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Riot Games announced that if a cheater is detected in your Valorant match they will return your ranked rating

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[slim thorn]

huh, is that not how these things normally work?