general gaming

[light gate]

PSN is down.

And my controller is now drifting.

(8 months btw)

[little badger]

https://x.com/thegameawards/status/1841070564926243137?

The Game Awards (@thegameawards) on X

11 years ago today, GRAND THEFT AUTO ONLINE was first made live by @RockstarGames as the online mode of GTAV.

Twitter · Oct 1, 2024, 11:00 AM

[arctic fern]

11 years ago rockstar stopped making games and started making microtransactions

[little badger]

I just hope they aren’t as bad in 6 like if they start a pass system which RDR2 had

[bitter stream]

this is rockstar

the folks who have litteral "shark cards"

they'll do everything they can cram in

[little badger]

Next game is in development https://x.com/eurogamer/status/1841117153958756560?

Eurogamer (@eurogamer) on X

Hi-Fi Rush 2 already in development six months when Krafton acquired Tango Gameworks

https://t.co/wtq7S0iIHB

Twitter · Oct 1, 2024, 2:05 PM

[sour hill]

I can't even be mad about that joke

[wind stump]

SO LONG GAY BOWSER

[wind stump]

"your strat is fucking mid"

[bold sonnet]

In USA you get ad for example McDonald's, in Europe you get ad but of a game

[wind stump]

[dire gate]

Holy

[little badger]

New King Kong game. https://fixupx.com/ign/status/1841148706621395002?

[quiet swift]

Can't be worse than kong island

[bold sonnet]

Oo, Sifu is coming to gamepass tomorrow I've heard it's cool

[icy crescent]

That aint profit lmfao

[wind stump]

i like gambling...

[quiet swift]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/cyberpunk-2077-engine-lead-says-some-of-its-legendary-launch-bugs-happened-because-the-alternative-was-even-worse-either-you-show-a-t-pose-or-you-hard-crash-we-prefer-not-to-hard-crash/

[arctic fern]

you know what? thats completely fair

[hasty patio]

Instead, they crashed and bricked PS4s. /s

[wind stump]

and lets be real

tposing is objectively funny

[random steppe]

I mean in no case when a game launches broken the fault is of the development team

Development takes the time it takes, it's up to the adminstrative team to delay the game until it's ready

[wind stump]

[random steppe]

The fault was never of the engine lead or whoever else, the fault was and is of the guys that decided to put out a broken unfinished game, and lie about it in the process

Even if they fixed it later, never forget it, they lied to you

And the will lie again later if it makes them a bunch of money

[wind stump]

MY BROTHER IN CHRIST, THE STORE IS C L O S E D

[minor plover]

my brother in Celestia, your store appears to lack a door

[wind stump]

for some reason i cannot close the store

but it is there

[minor plover]

my brother in Celestia, your store lacks a closeable door

[wind stump]

early access, i guess, lmao

[quiet swift]

The C suite is the root of all evil

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/Wario64/status/1841189316472795522

Oh fuck

[slim thorn]

I wonder if they're worried these emulation projects would provide a jump start on piracy for the Switch successor

[wind stump]

good thing i downloaded it for Echoes of Wisdom (no shame)

[fresh bane]

Yeah I'm in the middle of a playthrough here myself

I better not hit that update button

I still have my Citra too

[hasty patio]

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/10/nintendo-is-now-going-after-youtube-accounts-which-show-its-games-being-emulated

[wind stump]

oh jeez i wonder why people have trust issues with nintendo

is it anything to do with their garbage attempts at preservation?

[fresh bane]

I could understand anything to do with whichever current console Nintendo is supporting, although every single emulation project will always encourage and only provide instructions and help for people to dump their own purchased copies of a game into the emulator, but doing this kind of stuff for anything that's from a console you're no longer supporting and even shut down the shop for just feels like it's for nothing

There's really nothing they gain from doing it

[wind stump]

yeah it's almost like they're delibrately trying to be invasive of preservation just so they can resell that contant later or something

[fresh bane]

If they did do that then it wouldn't nearly be much of an issue lol but they don't really resell a majority of that content, which is the problem, and if/when they do, it's significantly downgraded or pretty much equal in terms of quality to the original release, especially for any of their emulated games which I've always heard have pretty outdated performance

[wind stump]

Exaaaactly

[slim thorn]

in general, yes, but let's not forget that Yuzu heavily encouraged TotK piracy and monetized TotK-specific updates, which is why they got smacked down as hard as they did

[fresh bane]

Yeah but that was a huuuge mess up on their part there, especially with how anticipated TOTK was at the time

Any other emulation project especially any old school ones still active will be very careful about that stuff, they know emulators are probably being used for piracy, but none of them condone it or offer any support for it at all, any emulators that require certain stuff like system bios and all that jazz won't ever directly give them to you other than tell you how you can extract that type of information from your legit purchased console

To my knowledge Ryujinx wasn't doing any of that type of stuff Yuzu was doing so I wonder if Nintendo is doing this just for the sake of doing it even if they weren't doing anything wrong

[slim thorn]

or if they're just that worried about Switch and Switch 2 games getting pirated for Ryujinx even if the Ryujinx project isn't doing any of the incriminating things Yuzu did

[fresh bane]

If that was the case then I wonder if that just further reinforces the idea that ''Switch 2'' is just gonna be Switch but slightly more powerful, to the point that emulating it would be pretty much identical to current Switch, I would assume that the opposite would happen and with the release of Switch 2 Nintendo would've been just a little bit more uncaring towards Switch emulation

[slim thorn]

exactly

[bronze abyss]

havent played pseudoregalia in a couple weeks,hoping i can pick it back up where i left off cuz exactly that made me restart a ori and the will of the wisps playthrough before

[fresh bane]

In a way, I'm glad because Switch is a pretty solid console I think and its only biggest flaw was the lack of power, on the other hand I'm a bit bummed that Nintendo isn't doing a weird new experimental and innovative new thing for the new generation like how they did two screens with the DS systems, even though I never was a super big fan of that (the 3DS I think did it better by keeping the second screen usage in a much more minimalist way compared to the DS, but at that point it makes you wonder why even have it there to begin with)

[bronze abyss]

also another thing im curious of about the game,theres some more open ended areas in the game and im a dumbass,will anything go real bad if i happen to get somewhere im not supposed to just with platforming bullshittery?

[fresh bane]

Let's just hope Nintendo knows how to name this new system and doesn't do a stupid thing like ''SwitchU'' or ''New Nintendo Switch''

[slim thorn]

nope, and it's completely normal for half of someone's first Pseudoregalia playthrough to be sequence breaking without realizing it, or thinking you're sequence breaking when you're not

(I hope the Pseudoregalia randomizer gets finished someday, even in its current state it's a blast)

[bronze abyss]

was worried about that since with metroidvanias/open ended games i tend to get stuck where im not supposed to a lot

[cerulean herald]

Super Nintendo Switch

[slim thorn]

one of the reasons a lot of these games have a checkpoint system is so no matter how weirdly stuck you get there's a known working point to reset you to without loss of progress

[fresh bane]

I was tempted to replay Pseudoregalia again after the map update but I haven't gotten around to it

[slim thorn]

I mostly did but it's not a big change tbf, I probably won't do another full playthrough until I hear more from the rando

too many games to play dang it

[fresh bane]

Yeah... I've been pretty busy and haven't been able to even play games I regularly play like SF6
and i've been pretty slow with my work so I gotta catch up which means even less time to play I still haven't even installed Tunic or Casette Beasts!

I did make time for Zelda though, because you can always make time for Zelda

[bronze abyss]

are there any progress indicators to show that i am going somewhere not just wandering around? or are you intended to just fuck aroudn and hope you find out

[slim thorn]

mostly the latter

it'll be obvious every time you find an important item, and when you find where the endgame barrier is

[bronze abyss]

i did notice eventually getting to some important ability n stuff like that,but never sure if thats what i was supposed to get

[slim thorn]

I mean... you're "supposed" to get all of them I think?

as long as you're still finding new places to go then you're fine

[fresh bane]

Treat the game more like a sandbox than some sort of linear super polished game, the game is pretty bare bones from what I remember since it was basically a game jam submission turned into a full game if I remember correctly so go into it with that in mind, so basically no there are no definitive way to know you're progressing other than you getting a key item and opening a room you previously weren't able to go into, that's basically how you know you're progressing

[slim thorn]

the metroidvania/zelda mindset, yeah

[bronze abyss]

i thinik i just managed to back track by accident

i did not think i could make this jump

[slim thorn]

it does depend on what you have

[bronze abyss]

slide jump into wall jump chain

[heady bridge]

Should be called Nintendo Switch 2: The Switchening

[bronze abyss]

need to figure out how to get the stomp,thats my main issue rn

[slim thorn]

feel free to ask for clues whenever, given the structure it's pretty easy to just state an area name and no details

[bronze abyss]

yeah would appreciate that for the stomp,since i have wondered around quite a bunch since my first situation where i needed it

[slim thorn]

the stomp ability is in ||Sansa Keep, not Castle, if you haven't seen that name yet then it's "the upper area"||

[bronze abyss]

hmm i can get to there from my current area,need to find a path to it though

thanks

welp i went to the complete opposite direction,but atleast i know now where i am in the area since its absolutely huge

this path leaves to a place i havent been to before though so might try exploring that

this lil shit just killed me

[slim thorn]

oh no exploration is happening

[bronze abyss]

this looks suspicious on a suspiciously placed platform but i cant seem to interact with it in any way

noooo i just went back to an area i've been to before and i dont have the ability to take the same route back

should ahve just went to search for the stomp instead

actually killing myself might solve this problem,think i hit a save point back there

it was indeed the solution

[bold sonnet]

I I forgot what I was holding

[bronze abyss]

you could just quiit without saving to negate that day entirely

you did it early so it will be fine

[hasty patio]

Just restart the day, especially since it was only 30 minutes.

[bold sonnet]

[slim thorn]

fwiw, if you're worried about getting "stuck" in one-way parts of the map, The Underbelly is definitely the area best saved for last

[gaunt marten]

Oh noo

[bold sonnet]

It should have a different button or something now I think

[bronze abyss]

well thats where i stumbled to by accident and now im here

....im not going the right way am i

atleast i got an additional airkick i guess

[slim thorn]

oh nice

I never got the 4th kick in my vanilla playthrough

[slim thorn]

it's a metroidvania, if you're going anywhere at all, it's a right way

[bronze abyss]

got damage increase as well

can i view the map of other areas where im crrently not?

[slim thorn]

I don't think so

(it's not the greatest map )

[bronze abyss]

yeaah a proper map would be appreciated for this kinda game,especially when its that big with so many paths

rabi ribi having one was a life saver

[slim thorn]

RR's world is much bigger than this one's tbf, especially after you get the speedier abilities and learn the area connections

[bronze abyss]

huh? i just got some fucked up wall jump that sent me pretty damn high but not sure how to replicate it,what i was trying to do was spam space to chain walljumps instead

[bronze abyss]

true,but this one is a bit more tedious to traverse

[slim thorn]

(veeeeeery hard disagree but that's another topic )

[bronze abyss]

no fast travel

[slim thorn]

it's possible you accidentally did a "reverse wallkick" by kicking away from a wall before hitting it, I sorta accidentally discovered those in my vanilla playthrough

[bronze abyss]

lmao walljump chains are actually so bullshit i managed to get up here somehow,felt impossible to otherwise

[slim thorn]

oh yeah, there's so many ways to get up the bailey towers depending on what you have

[dense crypt]

Sibble

[bronze abyss]

actually might be able to get up the big boy tower now that i ahve more walljumps

[slim thorn]

I believe the randomizer calls it the "cheese bell" tower

now I can't call it anything else

[bronze abyss]

oh yeah was curious what species is the main character? looks kinda like a deer bunny goat thing idk

[slim thorn]

unclear

[bronze abyss]

only one thing guranteed is that the species begins with cute

[slim thorn]

there's one line of dialogue that refers to her as a "goat-bunny-cat lady" but it's not exactly an in-universe authority on the subject so

[fresh bane]

She is indeed a goat bunny cat lady

[slim thorn]

presumably that's all we're ever gonna get

(I'm happy with it )

[bronze abyss]

feels like i can get up the tower,but i need to start the walljumps from the tower itself and time them right to not lose height

probably just barely

[slim thorn]

iirc you have slide jump and 4 wall kicks... yeah I'm not sure I could do cheese bell with that

[bronze abyss]

indeed did

[slim thorn]

but I'm not surprised you can

[bronze abyss]

oooh now i see why its cheese bell tower

[bronze abyss]

im kinda surprised i was if anything,a lot of times when something feels barely doable its not

now the issue is i hit the lever and i dont know what it did

nor did i notice what orb i picked up

[slim thorn]

most of the levers move a metal grate, you should be able to see a bit of it even after it's retracted

though I think there's 3? in that area

[bronze abyss]

shit theres no wiki or anything i cant check what i picked up

[slim thorn]

I forget what that orb is in vanilla, pretty sure it's one of the minor upgrades you don't strictly need, Clear Mind maybe?

[bronze abyss]

im guessing it was this

[slim thorn]

that tracks

[bronze abyss]

airkicks are so versatile is insane,dont wanna go around the normal way? just fucking go spiderman mode on a wall

[slim thorn]

the air kick tutorial bit is where my opinion of the game jumped from "neat" to "whoa"

[bronze abyss]

not sure where that is

[slim thorn]

right after you get them and they give you those little ledges and hallways to traverse by bouncing off walls, and you're meant to figure out that the angle of impact matters

[bronze abyss]

nah this is actually insane,climbing this with just airkicks

one of the best movement abilities ive seen in any game

[slim thorn]

oh yeah doing that without [spoiler] is great fun

I think last time I rando'd I ended up doing this with almost kicks only

[bronze abyss]

im not supposed to be doing this?

[slim thorn]

see what I mean? lol

I don't remember it well enough to be sure if you can get to the end with your current gear, but keep going, "intended" routes are just suggestions

[bronze abyss]

if i dont waste health might be doable

augh i died have to do it again or go different place

[bold sonnet]

What is this game called and on what platform?

[slim thorn]

Pseudoregalia, it's on Steam

[bold sonnet]

It looks like Nintendo 64

[slim thorn]

yeah, it's one of those indies with an intentionally retro style

[bold sonnet]

I think that's cool

[slim thorn]

I think it also helps with how freeform the platforming can be, a lot of modern high-detail styles tend to make it unclear exactly what is a platform

[bronze abyss]

tight bt might actually be doable

[slim thorn]

ofc at this point I'm just waiting for noelle to accidentally discover ||ultrahops|| and break the whole map

[bronze abyss]

[slim thorn]

ftr I can't do those (consistently)

but it just feels like you're the type who'd randomly do one and go "is this intended?"

[bronze abyss]

i can execute them consistently already but thats only cuz of how reliant i was on turn hops

[slim thorn]

lol

[bronze abyss]

did this section barely,cant say it felt intended but its done now

[slim thorn]

yeah, you're meant to do this with an ability that involves those floating black orbs

[bronze abyss]

oh i have that,still felt tight even with it

[slim thorn]

o

what's your gear now

[slim thorn]

aaah that's right it also expects [spoiler], having a 4th kick really helps make up for that

[bronze abyss]

opened the big gate in sansa keep finally

theres one room left to explore in it and im missing a key for it

its a shame theres so little documentation on the game

[slim thorn]

iirc that bit of keep isn't a priority for key spending anyway, I think it's just a shortcut back down to castle?

[bronze abyss]

not sure where else can i find the stomp though

actually never mind i might

hm ||mid air back hops|| is an interesting movement tech

[slim thorn]

that's one of the things I'm worst at

I'd probably play the rando on logic_level: hard if I was better at those

[bronze abyss]

are they useful at all?

[slim thorn]

depending what items you get in what order, there are a lot of cases where that can be the make-or-break tech for a horizontal jump

you absolutely do not need it to beat the game normally though

for the average vanilla player "sunsetter = hi jump" is fine

[bronze abyss]

with how much movement shit i have already,im not too worried about beating the game even if i miss something unless its a hardstop like breakable floors

[slim thorn]

indeed, if you're good enough at ultras you could likely do the speedrun route to the endgame barrier right now

[bronze abyss]

luckily just so happen to be nearby enough to try it

or unluckily cuz om probably gonna spend ages trying to do it and failing for no reason

[slim thorn]

or failing because the start and end platforms of some of these speedrun ultras are smaller than Sybil's feet iirc

[bronze abyss]

more of meant doing it for no reason,the reason i'd be failing i already know,its cuz i suck ass still

[slim thorn]

but you're a Real Gamer ™️, you probably did it before I finished typing that

[bronze abyss]

oooh just got this

[slim thorn]

[spoiler] achieved

[bronze abyss]

got the key as well

[sly remnant]

I DID IT

[dense crypt]

Nice job pardner

[visual hill]

"Wow, incredible!"

[bronze abyss]

what is this blue jump? i only sometimes get it,i think its for perfect slide jump timing but im not sure

managed to do 6 of those in a row

[fresh bane]

That must be new because I never encountered that while playing

At a glance it seems like a boosted jump if you time the jump perfectly after landing

[bronze abyss]

its insanely high

less go i did it

aww i died trying to get back

[slim thorn]

the blue one is new to me too

I wonder if that's related to how slide ultras were supposed to be nerfed in the last big update (along with adding the map and time trials and stuff)

[bronze abyss]

got bored of trying to do it again and get back so im just gonna get the ability i need to do it properly

i think i roughly know where to expect it to be but not 100% sure

super slide jumps make it so much easier to move around in general

[static bluff]

My Godot plushie arrived cc: @visual hill

[bronze abyss]

last key left

here it goes

[gaunt marten]

Short game

You should play the randomizer with us in #1119170161518334004

[bronze abyss]

||the boss fight was so underwhelming,but the game is finally done ig,was good,main part i loved for sure was movement and how abusable it is||

5-ish hours playtime to do it,technically 8 but thats including me idling in the game while not even being home for a couple hours

[dense crypt]

Does the game even have replay value

[bronze abyss]

kinda sorta maybe depends

i dont think it has much after the game is complete,but theres some time trial challenges n shit you can complete if you wanna

the most fun thing to do after though is probs speedrunning

[slim thorn]

or in my case, randomizing it

[bronze abyss]

what does randomization change?

[slim thorn]

where all the abilities and upgrades are

so e.g. you might be forced to go without slide for most of the game, or you might find cling gem super early, and so on

I particularly like the option to make each of the 4 wall kicks a separate item

[bronze abyss]

Maaaybe ill try it out at some point it does sound interesting,but theres so much other stuff to do like keeping up with comp games and 100%ing enter/exit the gungeon that idk when i would get to it

[slim thorn]

indeed, it’s been a while since I played it myself, mostly due to competition from other games (and, ironically, making my own randomizer)

[river veldt]

@bold sonnet are you enjoying Hogwarts Legacy

[smoky sonnet]

been a bit but speedrunning was a blast when i first played

lotsa silly schmovement tech

[bold sonnet]

Immensely 💖💖

[bold sonnet]

This is small funny clip but I can't believe how much there is to discover and unlock, and fights are more than I ever dreamed of or could think of. Spells crackling and shining, wand sparking if you are trying to cast one that's on cool down. Elegant, thoughtful and stylish. It's also very accommodating, with option to not showing s*iders, very progressive about gender, and the castle itself is unbelievable depiction of real one. I can't talk well about games, but it's just fascinating and I can't believe how much more is there to discover 💝 And waypoint trail if you chose to invoke is the prettiest I've ever seen

[wind stump]

[wind stump]

[gaunt marten]

https://x.com/SteamDB/status/1841374449318220159

SteamDB (@SteamDB) on X

German regulators have specified that all games must have a rating in order to be sold to customers in Germany.

Starting on November 15, 2024 @Steam will no longer display games to customers in Germany if the game is missing a valid age rating.

Twitter · Oct 2, 2024, 7:07 AM

[slim thorn]

interesting

[gaunt marten]

It seems like a reasonable regulation. The age rating is self-reported, rather than being a significant extra cost for small games

[astral steeple]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1841425371297685744

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) on X

Steven Spielberg is a PC gamer and loves playing ‘CALL OF DUTY’, according to his son.

“He’s like, ‘What are the new shooters?’, Which Call of Duty should I be playing?’”

(Source: https://t.co/KPkap7YAne)

Twitter · Oct 2, 2024, 10:29 AM

Imagine being fucking quick scoped by Steven Spielberg LMAO

[visual hill]

What are the new shooters
quick, everyone tell him it's Medal of Honor Above and Beyond

[wind stump]

"Welcome to The Gamblecore Card Store, where our motto is
I would wish you good luck, but I need your money!~"

[bold sonnet]

Hc what are you doing with this shop I swear

[rancid herald]

Call of duty film by Spielberg when?

[gaunt marten]

Hexia never stood a chance. I packed a dispel potion to turn off the one mechanic the final boss had

Dispel potion is a tier one item, meaning you usually find it the first time you get items

[wary kite]

Wow good job germany. Now your citizens will be gatekept from tons of games that never needed a rating prior

[white phoenix]

full circle lol, saving private ryan -> medal of honor -> call of duty -> cod film

[random steppe]

If what Flitter said is correct, namely that the devs just have to self report an age rating, it's probably fine

[gaunt marten]

The only devs that won't do it are the ones who no longer interact with Steam, or ones who don't think it's worth their time to fill the questionnaire

[hasty patio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w6MJ8FzfjM

[little badger]

https://fixupx.com/discussingfilm/status/1841522349000036529?

@green fulcrum

[river veldt]

is there a way to turn off the steam achievement progress notifications

[bitter stream]

I guess you could disable the Steam Overlay for the game while you play it?

that way it wouldn't show up as you play, but idk if there's a way to stop achivements specifically

[green fulcrum]

This was posted several days ago

But yeah, it's hype

Also, that Sunset Heights remix goes hard

Especially that key change for the opening

[steep flax]

the sonic 06 references makes me happy

thats the one i remember a lot

[gaunt marten]

Yes!

[green fulcrum]

It's weird how Sonic 06 is somehow being remembered fondly nearly 20 years (Jesus f*cking Christ...) after its release.

[little badger]

Oh it was? Have you seen the shorts they have been doing?

[steep flax]

i was 6/7 when i played it so i remember the story more than sonic adventure (which i think is my earliest sonic game)

[gaunt marten]

Go to settings, notifications, and turn off toasts while in game (or completely)

You can turn off only sound if you want

[green fulcrum]

Yeah, I have

[little badger]

It was good

[little badger]

https://t.co/q5ruYa8g8u

[wind stump]

God, look at all that junk

[rugged flax]

oh god
Supermarket Sim?

[wind stump]

TCG Card Shop Sim

[hasty patio]

Look at all of that cardboard crack.

[wind stump]

and i get high on my own supply!

[hasty patio]

And you can sell the low shit in 100-slot boxes.

[rugged flax]

oh so it's just an asset flip ripoff of
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2670630/Supermarket_Simulator/

Steam

Supermarket Simulator

"Supermarket Simulator" is a chill first-person simulation where every detail of running a supermarket comes alive.Design your store, optimizing for efficiency and aesthetics. Determine where products are displayed, manage your aisles, and ensure a smooth shopping experience for your customers.Order stock using an in-game computer. Unpack goods,...

Price

$12.99

Recommendations

48686

▶ Play video

[little badger]

Is it P2W Hc?

[hasty patio]

Both are asset flips, but at least have some gameplay people enjoy and lasted longer than Concorde and the Day After. /s

[rugged flax]

yeah i'm looking through steam and oh look, 2 more flips with the same fricken assets

[hasty patio]

At least the card one drops food for LGS stuff.

I laughed at the automated deodorant sprayer.

[fickle garnet]

I decided to play Overwatch for the first time in a while and i was looking at skins and oh my god

[bold sonnet]

I wanted to too but I was told it's bad now or something

[fickle garnet]

Tbh as long as you have fun in a game it doesn't matter if other people think its bad

[quiet swift]

Speaking of games, D4 expansion next week! D4's currently in a pretty dang good state, they've taken player feedback to heard every season and been pretty quick about fixes/changes

[bronze abyss]

depends what you want from the game
if you're just gonna play casual queue its whatever,fine-ish but matchmaking is insanely broken and you wont have many equal skill level matches
if you wanna play ranked or imrpove at the game then its fucked completely you either go by the meta and/or counterpicks or you die

[visual hill]

I'm not a furry, but…

I actually like playing Overwatch 2 casually (no ranked), I just don't buy in-game cosmetics anyway

I don't play it often due to lack of time though. I mainly played Zarya, Diva, Cassidy, Ana, Lucio and a bit of Mercy

[bronze abyss]

holy fucking shit modded lethal is something else

forgot i had a mod installed that allows masked to spawn more often,and one somehow appeared with solar's accessories when hes not in the lobby in a solo run scared the shit out of me

[sour hill]

yeah modded lethal is great

[bronze abyss]

if you dont get a million item desyncs in co op then yeah

this is one of the scariest solo moments i've had,this mod replicates actual player behaviour and looks so well that its uncanny,i didnt even bother bringing the rest of the loot from main,just left

[arctic fern]

Lethal is great

In general

Mods add that extra bit of silly, or broken, on top

[fervent oar]

Late game upgrades be like one of the most broken things overall. It can snowball to the amount that you make like 100k in 3 days later on

That and lethal progression

Had to stop multiple runs with Noelle just cuz the chance of us both dying and losing it all were miniscule and reaching a time where a quota we wouldn't be able to afford would have been with weeks of playing and with no challenge it quickly got boring

[wind stump]

snorts the cardboard crack

[wind stump]

[dire gate]

A classic

Ys II has one of the greatest game openings ever, created by none other than the Makoto Shinkai

(To be exact he created the remake version of the opening)

[wind stump]

oh my god someone made a Pokemon mod for TCG Card Shop Sim

Let's Get Fucking Sued

[slim thorn]

is it just me or did multiple people change to DDLC avatars right when I finally decided to read DDLC

[wind stump]

It's just you, Monika is my "usual" October avatar

maybe
I do pick her a lot because well
you'll see

[little badger]

What level is your shop in the card game

[wind stump]

18

11/10

[bold sonnet]

How are you leveling up with every financial report you show us being negative

[green fulcrum]

Someone has created peak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHVQyr5CAsw

[rotund forge]

https://buffy.mlpforums.com/imageproxy/medium.png.39adb3014d57832c9dcd71e5806af438.png

Art, or gaming. either fits, ig

[arctic fern]

Oh no!
Btw, who drew this?

[wind stump]

beautiful

[wind stump]

GOTCHU FAM https://www.phixiv.net/en/artworks/66827997

... which i should have realised because they literally put their name on the art, lmao

[arctic fern]

I know
But we don't accept watermarks as sources

[wind stump]

Ah, fair

[rotund forge]

https://derpibooru.org/images/1016240

[arctic fern]

?

[rotund forge]

artist....

same artist...

[arctic fern]

Ah
Thanks

[rotund forge]

(Watermarks should be proof enough but I'm not gonna argue, at least not here...)

[arctic fern]

Some are, others are just unreadable. Rather than nitpick on which ones are or are not, we just have a flat ban on them as sources

[proud warren]

I can understand why watermarks likely aren't enough, but it really depends on how the artist handles said watermark

Sometimes it's as broad as daylight: sometimes it's so unnoticeable, that people literally think it just, doesn't have one.

Most the time it's somewhere in the middle

[arctic fern]

Given that the bare minimum we expect from folks is that you just mention the artists name, I don't think we're being that unreasonable

[proud warren]

I feel that habit is just carried over from other servers

[arctic fern]

Annoying, sure, but if you drew something, I'm sure you'd love your art being shared without any kind of source or credit

[river veldt]

noooooo

[proud warren]

We need the obligatory :yosher: reaction for this

[sour hill]

Done

[wind stump]

[minor plover]

stonksn't

[wind stump]

I'm thinking about opening the second store, but it costs 5k and i only have 6k atm

NEVER FUCKING MIND

[hasty patio]

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/warhammerday In case you needed roughly 39,999 more War Hammers than you do currently, or prefer two flavors of fantasy.

[quiet swift]

Ah man. Apparently, there were plans made for Starcraft/Warcraft/Overwatch series with Netflix. But Netflix poached ActiBlizz's CFO, ActiBlizz then sued and of course the projects got cancelled

[fickle garnet]

i got the sweater outfit in pseudoregalia

now its in the right channel

[fresh bane]

It feels funny that people started playing Pseudoregalia in late 2023 and in 2024 because when I played it none of these things were there

So everyone posts about the outfits and I'm like ''there's more than just the pants?''

[fickle garnet]

[bronze abyss]

collected a bunch still used default

[slim thorn]

I thought the sweater was there when I played it?

[fresh bane]

Definitely wasn't there when I played it and I think we played at around the same ish time, you finished before me I think

[chilly mural]

I watched OneyPlays play it, does that count?

[fresh bane]

lol I still have to watch that lp

[quiet swift]

Interesting. Among the list of Blizzard's cancelled projects, there was one that was basically a (newer) God of War type game but in the warcraft universe - likely with Thrall as the main character

"Windblown has a few similarities to its side-scrolling older sibling, like the multi-item loadouts and speedy combat, but it's less rogue-vania and more like a multiplayer Hades someone left on fast-forward.

That is, if instead of the prince of the underworld, Zagreus was an axolotl with pants."

[river veldt]

wow this is actually really cool/really creepy https://youtu.be/gA62cXeKDv8?feature=shared

[quartz pawn]

The only mystery I knew about from Cuphead is how that guy couldn't jump dash in the tutorial

[dire gate]

Not understanding that is what stops you from being a game journalist

[quartz pawn]

lmao

[forest shoal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otd9BSXsXKI

[sour hill]

Was that DSP?

[gaunt marten]

Dean Takahashi

He starts by not reading the instructions, then by following them badly

[sour hill]

That's a true combo

[gaunt marten]

He demonstrates massive amounts of inexperience, which combines very badly with a game like Cuphead designed for people who played a lot of similar videogames

[little badger]

https://x.com/charlieintel/status/1842204377949303151?

CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) on X

Tencent and Ubisoft's founding Guillemot family are considering acquiring all shares of Ubisoft and taking the company private after the Ubisoft's shares have fallen 54% this year

Note: Ubisoft owns cloud streaming rights for Activision Blizzard games

Source: Bloomberg

Twitter · Oct 4, 2024, 2:05 PM

[wind stump]

i am the sigma male

[wind stump]

[dire gate]

Definitely not a pokemon

[wind stump]

Totes.

I mean, the fact I use a Pokemon mod is not helping, lmao

[hasty patio]

https://archive.ph/yh7oZ

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-04/tencent-guillemot-family-are-said-to-consider-buyout-of-ubisoft

Article and a saved link for those that can't access it.

[wind stump]

OMEGASTONKS

[dire gate]

Great game

[little badger]

Ah I’m guessing some can’t see it due to their location?

[hasty patio]

Bloomberg generally is a paid service, so unless you sub, hand out "gift" articles or know a way around it, folks can't read it.

Given that they cited Bloomberg, but didn't link, I felt that folks might want to see it for themselves.

[little badger]

Ah.

[wind stump]

so i found this game on EGS (i know, i know, evil) called Bear and Breakfast and
i love it and you should play it

[little badger]

https://fixupx.com/charlieintel/status/1842319263585255671? this looks interesting

[visual hill]

this just in: https://vini1264.itch.io/mdk-high-quality-soundtrack-mod
people have made new discoveries on MDK's executable recently, which enabled the ability to use extended buffers and fix the GOG release's file handling (it was installed in minimal mode, causing constant unnecessary file copies that slowed down loading a lot). Now you can play with the high-quality PS1 soundtrack in the PC version

[bold sonnet]

PS1 soundtrack better than PC?

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

For videogames that old, PC games used to come with soundtrack in the MIDI format

Just awful

The PSX format sucked too but it was a lot better.

[visual hill]

MDK's PC soundtrack isn't MIDI, but low-quality WAV. PS1 is red book CD audio, i.e. quality is similar to what you find on music CDs

Red book CD audio is what allows you to put PS1 or early PC game CDs in a radio and they'll play the music 🙂

some PS1 games use a format known as XA which isn't as good as WAV, but still quite good for hardware that came out 30 years ago

if anything, playing PS1 games in emulation makes me realize how little game audio has evolved since. 👀

[wind stump]

SQUIRREL FUCKIN BALLIN

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSM7AF2Rvbc

[wind stump]

undefeatable in the background

[wind stump]

oh hey, i recgonise that from Boneraiser!

[arctic fern]

https://youtu.be/gjp1bE3FWTE fucking madlad added botes to halo

[weak river]

Dang. I knew the UNSC Navy was technologically inferior to the Covenant, but I didn't realize that the gap was this large.

[forest shoal]

https://fixvx.com/pinkie_pies_/status/1842614952097685536

[icy osprey]

The Brony Pipeline (2024)
A classic Let's Play recording I'm gonna archive for prosperity.

• Discovers Battle Gem Ponies somehow, downloads immediately with intent to make fun of "brony cringe" on stream.
• Plays blind, skipping all dialogs, only commenting on pictures and using context clues.
• Mocks bronies and elements similar to pokemon ("A game for degenerates." "What a cheap knockoff!" "I can't take this seriously.")
• Can't help but slip up saying some charming parts & mechanics are cool.
• Gets completely into it 15 mins in, starts actually reading, and stops the mocking tone and takes it seriously.
• 26 mins in "Why do I not hate this game?"
• Actually has fun for 2 hours and lowkey recommends the game.

It's like the 2010s MLP first discovery days all over again.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2267013615

[bold sonnet]

In Hogwarts Legacy the only difference in choosing dormitory (gender) is if your character while talking sometimes puts hands like this or not and I don't know what to think about it

[visual hill]

it's like gendered running animations. Remember Tanner in GTA III?

[river veldt]

people seem to be liking the Silent Hill 2 remake

[gaunt marten]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2268357173

GDQ is running a relay race where you beat hard games with as few hits taken as possible.

Winner is the team with the fewest hits taken (time breaks ties)

[wind stump]

Hmm, so you could take a hit to save time

if you were ahead, in theory

[gaunt marten]

No!

There is absolutely no situation where taking a hit would help you

[wind stump]

I mean, it's a bit of a risk, and probably goes against the spirit, but i'd do that if I was ahead on hits

Maybe not in Dark Souls, I was just musing in general

[gaunt marten]

If you were ahead on hit you would win no matter how much time you took

Lowest hits taken wins

Time is only considered if they have the same number of hits

[wind stump]

AHh, so it's the opposite
If I was ahead on hits I'd play it safe!

[gaunt marten]

Yes!

If you are behind you would also play it safe

The only time where you can't play it safe is when you're tied

[wind stump]

My brain's a bit woozy today

[slim thorn]

iiuc playing "aggressively" would only work out if the rules were that each hit had a specific time penalty, and you thought you could save at least that much time with a riskier strat

[gaunt marten]

The commentators talk about this specific topic and compare the players

[sour hill]

It doesn't look that bad

I'll probably play it, just to see

[slim thorn]

I suspect it's one of those remakes where opinions will depend heavily on whether you played the original, so I'll be skeptical until I hear it from someone I know

[sour hill]

Well yeah. You can't know what you're missing

[river veldt]

all i know is they changed the ranch font so it's not comic sans anymore

mad

[sour hill]

I thought that was just in the shitty PS3 "remaster"?

[gaunt marten]

Never play a game just to see for yourself

It's way easier to formulate an opinion that is not backed with evidence, and that opinion will be stronger if you do

[river veldt]

this shows what i know about silent hill 2

[sour hill]

Tbf a lot of people haven't played games that only were sold during the PS2 era

[slim thorn]

part of the reason Silent Hill fans are so salty about the remakes is that they became the only legal option for many

like how Star Wars Special Edition salt is partially because no one sells/streams the theatrical versions any more

[sour hill]

Yeah

[river veldt]

oh like gta

star wars fits too

[slim thorn]

now I'm the kind of person who will get a PS2 emulator to play Haunting Ground and Rule of Rose just because

but you can't ask "the average gamer" to do that

[sour hill]

I've been meaning to play those

[slim thorn]

they are fascinatingly mixed bags

[sour hill]

Sounds like PS2 games

[river veldt]

average gamer

[slim thorn]

there are plenty of non-mixed PS2 games too, lol, such as Silent Hill 2

[river veldt]

do you want to come over and smoke weed and fill our bellies with diet soda and play burnout revenge for the ps2

[gaunt marten]

My favorite mixed bag PS2 game is Chaos Legion

[sour hill]

No I don't like diet soda

[gaunt marten]

Then perish

(remember to brush your teeth after soda)

[slim thorn]

but not immediately after

[gaunt marten]

Yeah waiting an hour is ideal

[sour hill]

I promise to brush my teeth at some point in the future that succeeds soda consumption

[river veldt]

ok normal soda then

[bold sonnet]

I sometimes play SH2 but I often have zero idea where to go

[slim thorn]

it is supposed to be unclear at first, but the non-linear parts have a map that auto-marks all the impassable routes as you find them so eventually there's only one left to try

[bold sonnet]

I really like esthetics I can't pin point why

[river veldt]

THE BATTLETOADS BOSS IS ON THE PC VERSION OF SHOVEL KNIGHT ????

[sour hill]

Hell yeah

SH2 has the vibe on lock

[river veldt]

do you like battletoads kratta

[steep flax]

battletoads scary

iirc its like the "can your os run doom" test but for cycle accurate nes emulators

[gaunt marten]

Battletoads are the Luigi of TMNT

[river veldt]

i wonder if Shovel Knight DX will have Kratos and Battletoads or not because of rights issues

[bold sonnet]

I think a little that Im in a mood to try again. But to play it I need to make sure all my games are saved. On Xbox you dont have to save, you have up to like 9 games suspended like Switch or Alt + tab. But retro games are like in developer mode which erases whats suspended when you go into it

Which is bit of a hassle

[sour hill]

Haven't played it

[sour hill]

Are you playing the original PS2 version, or the PS3/xbox360 "HD" remaster?

[bold sonnet]

Original but higher resolution. Ive heard the remasters have some problems

[sour hill]

The remaster is the original but in higher resolution and lots of weird bugs/small changes that make it worse

There is also the new remake, which isn't out yet I believe

[visual hill]

the reremake

[bold sonnet]

Ive heard people like it, but Ive only seen trailer one time. Sometimes through fingers

[visual hill]

like Doom's rererelease this year

[sour hill]

It also has worse voice acting, but for SH2 it gives you an option to use the original voices. For sh3 you're stuck with worse voices

[bold sonnet]

I think in mine voices are bit weird but I dont mind

[sour hill]

The new remake seems competent, but I wouldn't recommend playing anything other than the original ps2 one if it's your first time

[bold sonnet]

Oh yeah I was thinking the same. And there are many more to finish too so by the time I get to the new one I will forget moslty what happened so it's good plan

You know what you make me wanna play it. Ill go see if suspended games are ok to be closed

[sour hill]

It's just so sad because sh2's biggest strengths are its visuals, story, sound, vibe, etc

[gaunt marten]

Sound lmao

It's silent

[sour hill]

So when you got Troy Baker and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn messing up the parts, it just hurts my soul

It just sucks that there's no way to play the original version without jumping through hoops

[fresh bane]

I happen to have the perfect clip as an example of that problem (because of course I do)

[bold sonnet]

Possible spoiler

[sour hill]

Definite spoiler lmao

[bold sonnet]

I wish I could in SH2 draw my own things on the map in the game. Maybe if I really want to i can print it and draw myself

[sour hill]

That'd be neat

[bold sonnet]

Have you ever drawn or make notes on paper when playing something?

[river veldt]

yes

when i was playing Zelda I i drew a map

[fresh bane]

That entire scene is used in teasers and trailers so I don't know if it's definitively a spoiler

[bold sonnet]

Guys when there was no internet, was game trailers on TV like an ad?

[river veldt]

yeah i think so

[slim thorn]

I've seen trailers use those images but not that audio

[river veldt]

and in magazines and stuff

[gaunt marten]

Not in TV

But we did get videogame ads for some very big games

Usually the ads are for consoles, not specific games

[river veldt]

https://youtu.be/sauTF3Apn5A?feature=shared

classic commercial

[bold sonnet]

Oh WOW 💕

[river veldt]

they parodied it a few years ago for Sonic Mania Plus https://youtu.be/oiFgaatXuRc?feature=shared

[proud warren]

The commercial that always comes to mind for me are all the Crash Bandicoot ones (you know the ones)

[bold sonnet]

I freaking LOVE those shows I'm so excited for the new music medley before they say who wins like

[river veldt]

what big games have come out this year

new Zelda

[bold sonnet]

Oh my god it's Dad Bot

[slim thorn]

in AAA I honestly can't remember what there was besides Zelda

[white phoenix]

Shoe ins are probably going to be ff7 rebirth and black myth wukong

[proud warren]

Wasn't HellDivers 2 from this year?

[white phoenix]

Add astrobot too

[proud warren]

Also Black Myth: Wukong

[white phoenix]

I actually can't wait to hear the orchestra play a song from black myth wukong, been waiting since before it released lol

[bold sonnet]

Very good picks

[proud warren]

Also do we count the Elden Ring dlc in this list?

[slim thorn]

hm, yep, I did not play a single non-indie game in 2024 that was also originally released in 2024

[proud warren]

Oh right, I forgor Palworld

[slim thorn]

if I'm doing Steam right

[rancid herald]

sins 2 came out, as did age of mythology retold

it feels like it was a big year for games but I can't remember any so perhaps it wasn't

[wind stump]

[fervent oar]

What game is this?

[wind stump]

Brotato

[slim thorn]

these days "a big year for games" is just too relative to what we're into

for me it's huge because of Nine Sols (Crow Country and Animal Well didn't hurt either)

but none of the AAA stuff interests me except maybe Zelda, and this feels like the kind I might try years later when I've run out of other stuff to play

[fervent oar]

Thanks I might try it out

[light gate]

Silent Hill 2 remake actually looks pretty good, I'm surprised.

[bold sonnet]

Do you know if rumors that it's too focused on fights when trailer released are real or not?

[slim thorn]

I wouldn't put much stock in the trailer, that's gonna be engineered to appeal to the larger crowd of people who aren't already SH2 fans

[light gate]

Is that a bad thing?

[bold sonnet]

Not necessarily no but I've heard people would be afraid it will take different direction than normal SH2

[slim thorn]

well, yeah, that's a reasonable concern about any remake

I'm not aware of anything concrete that made it more likely than usual

[light gate]

All I've seen is corridor walker simulator.

You avoid a few enemies, you have some means to defend yourself.

It honestly looks exactly the same to the original, but maybe it just has a bit more combat? idk

I've never played the original so I have no idea how different it is.

[river veldt]

my favorite horror games are the ones where you can barely defend yourself like fnaf or amnesia

[gaunt marten]

https://www.eurogamer.net/silent-hill-2-remake-wikipedia-page-locked-after-salty-fans-try-to-rewrite-its-critically-acclaimed-reception

[slim thorn]

it was sooooo interesting when I finally played Dark Descent for myself

I think I agree with Tale that because of the limited options and information in the Amnesia formula, it has to be heavily scripted to really work properly (even The Bunker gets kinda broken if you roll a bad seed like I did)

[river veldt]

i should clarify that i very rarely play horror games by myself, usually i watch playthroughs or something

omg i love The Bunker

[slim thorn]

Dark Descent being mostly linear, scripted and short is part of why it worked perfectly for me right up until maybe the last bit

[river veldt]

the bit where you find a way onto the surface is so good

Jacob Geller talked about it in a video i dont rmemeber which one

[light gate]

ah yeah, the endings

probably the weakest part

[gaunt marten]

Is Jacob Geller Uri Geller's brother?

[slim thorn]

meanwhile Haunting Ground was a fascinating contrast because it's clearly trying to do a lot of the same things as Dark Descent, but ends up being frequently infuriating and immersion breaking because (to make a very long story short) it provides both too many options in some ways and too few in others, leading to encounters where you always do the same thing but it takes freaking forever

oh if Geller talked about Bunker I haven't seen that one yet, and should probably wait until I finish it

[light gate]

Regardless, I do still think scary games with combat still can work.

Just don't make it a gauntlet.

[gaunt marten]

Resident Evil 4 was fun

(original 4)

[river veldt]

the only parts of 4 that really scared me was the regenerators and shooting the lake and the big fish jumpscareing me

[gaunt marten]

Yeah it's more action than horror

That's why it's fun

[river veldt]

trying to remember other horror games i really like

[gaunt marten]

Crow Country

I know you loved Iron Lung

[river veldt]

oh yeah Iron Lung is really good

im excited for the movie

Squirrel Stapler is really good too

FAITH i like a lot

[gaunt marten]

I don't like the name

[river veldt]

it is the most descriptive name for that game

[slim thorn]

for me the big ones are Silent Hill 1-3, several Resident Evils, Signalis and Crow Country

[gaunt marten]

Then let's never talk about it again

[slim thorn]

the FAITHs were good, that's true

[river veldt]

Squirrel Stapler was by the same guy who did Iron Lung

[river veldt]

the rotoscoping freaks me out so much lmao

[slim thorn]

that was rotoscoped?

...that explains a lot actually

[bold sonnet]

Oh my god I'm playing PS2 SH2 in emulator on Xbox and my controller vibrated? They had vibrations in PS2 times?

[light gate]

They had vibrations since PS1/X with Dualshock controller.

[bold sonnet]

Oh my god

[slim thorn]

yes they did!

[bold sonnet]

I thought it was made in 360/PS3 era

[slim thorn]

I think the earliest version of that was the N64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_Pak

[light gate]

You either bought one with the enhanced controllers or got the og one with the basic non-analog/non-vibrating ones.

n64 one was honestly silly

[river veldt]

https://fixupx.com/airdorf/status/1256283964249198594?s=46

[light gate]

You had to sacrifice saving data just to have rumble.

[slim thorn]

now to be fair, in the early era of rumble pak controllers the rumbling tended to get overused, like so much new tech

so if you think of it was a 360/PS3 era thing, you've probably been exposed mostly to reasonably moderate use of it

[river veldt]

now we have hd rumbles

[bold sonnet]

Did original Xbox controller also vibrated?

[light gate]

The Dualsense has some damn good rumble, probably better than the joycons.

[light gate]

Dunno, never had the OG xbox.

[river veldt]

my steam deck has rumblys

[bold sonnet]

Oh I didn't expect that either!

Holy ship guys

[light gate]

I do know that the 'Duke' controller variant had to be redesigned.

It was too big for many people's hands, so they made a slim variant.

[slim thorn]

pretty sure OG Xbox did yeah

by that time it would've been weird if it didn't

honestly I don't think I've ever used a non-rumbling controller, the PS2 era was my entry point

[bold sonnet]

Are there vibrating mouse and keyboards?

[light gate]

I think so, but they are never supported.

You typically have to do custom mods or diy with some sort of scripts.

In the PC world, accessories are an afterthought. VERY RARELY something becomes supported.

[gaunt marten]

PC games use controllers too

[slim thorn]

I'm not aware of any vibrating mice or keyboards, nor would I want that in a device that's supposed to lie flat on the table

rumbling works for controllers because they're in my hands the whole time

and yes I play all my games with a USB Xbox controller plugged into my laptop, PCs having controllers is super normal now

[bold sonnet]

I think that's super good point and reason

[slim thorn]

if I put my controller down on the table during a cutscene I typically get rewarded with what sounds like a jackhammer being used indoors

[bold sonnet]

It's like when you play a game and put controller on the table and do something else and game keeps going and suddenly rumbles you're startled to sudden loud sound

Exactly hahaha

[slim thorn]

jinx

[light gate]

I mean, a few months ago keyboard manufactures tried to improve the technology by introducing some sort of 'snap tap' solution.

It was novel, but then hundreds of gamers got angry because it lowered the skill ceiling & stated that it was now p2w.

But hey, whatever.

[slim thorn]

I only dare put it down if I'm on a couch/sofa/bed/etc

[light gate]

I just pause the game so nothing happens lol.

[bold sonnet]

🎮

[slim thorn]

ah yes

you're from the era where all games are pauseable at all times

thank god the industry figured out that's a good idea

[light gate]

What games were you playing that didn't pause?

[slim thorn]

I couldn't give you a list now, it was just common back then

[light gate]

Unless its Arcade, pause was everywhere.

[bold sonnet]

Yes I wonder that too

[wind stump]

laughs in FromSoft

[slim thorn]

like how buying physical discs or having only a single language on the disc or having zero accessibility features was just common back then

[light gate]

oh, well that sucks

[slim thorn]

~~also people still cared about single player games back then ~~

[bold sonnet]

I think you are super lucky to be from English speaking country. But I also speak English now not bad

[light gate]

It was interesting learning a different language while playing video games.

It certainly made it easier.

[slim thorn]

look I'm still salty about the mistranslation in FF7's tutorial

[gaunt marten]

For certain consoles, having a pause option was mandatory for certification

But for PC, you could release whatever you want

[bold sonnet]

Oooo that's interesting

[light gate]

what did it say?

[slim thorn]

it's the scorpion(?) boss during that cold open mako plant raid, they tell you to attack when its tail is up but the Japanese actually says to not attack when its tail is up

[gaunt marten]

Oh yeah

[light gate]

OH MY GOD YOU ARE RIGHT

[bold sonnet]

I played it too!! And had problems there!

[light gate]

Somehow, I beated it! Hahahaha!

[slim thorn]

[bold sonnet]

On handheld

But can't continue without looking up a guide and that seems unfair

[slim thorn]

ofc I eventually got past it but only by randomly flailing until I got lucky or figured out I was being lied to maybe

[gaunt marten]

Shoestring translation budget

[bold sonnet]

But I remember the music, it was giving me good chills

[light gate]

Yeah... this was something I didn't remembered.

[slim thorn]

Me: "I don't really play RPGs."
Also Me: "Okay can I rant about the worst RPG mistranslation of all time real quick."

[light gate]

I do remember having a demo disc from Playstation Underground and it had some sort of import game?

And uhhh...

I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but I remember that the game had to restart the machine.

Because it started on a specific mode?

[toxic seal]

Wrong its 0/10 game

[light gate]

I need to grab the demo disc and figure out what it was about.

[bold sonnet]

I've heard some game, maybe Morrowind or something was like going without players knowledge to console like CPU and everything and doing stuff while loading that no other game did to perform better

[light gate]

Oh, Morrorwind effectively rebooted the Xbox whenever it ran out of memory while loading a new area.

[bold sonnet]

Oh my god yes!

[light gate]

But they did it in such a way that the console didn't seem to be rebooting.

Honestly I'm shocked it bloody worked.

Reminds me of how cursed programming really is in gaming.

[slim thorn]

I've been pleasantly surprised by how un-cursed the Outer Wilds code has been

[light gate]

Doesn't that use Unity?

[slim thorn]

yeah

[light gate]

Unity can be a good engine, its just most of the negativity comes from absolute beginners.

[gaunt marten]

Ixrec is using static decompilation to mod it, IIRC

[slim thorn]

mm-hmm, classic beginner-friendly / wide appeal tool problem

[light gate]

And I say this knowing there is an Unreal Engine game that is ENTIRELY BUILT WITH BLUEPRINTS.

[slim thorn]

Electron gets a similarly undeserved rap

[river veldt]

it is kind of annoying that FromSoft SoulsLikes don't have pause buttons

but whatever

[gaunt marten]

It's called quit to menu sweetie

[bold sonnet]

Maybe it's part of challenge?

[gaunt marten]

(I agree it sucks)

[river veldt]

maybe

[light gate]

Every time I think to myself of getting into FromSoft games... I immediately get reminded why I don't do it.

Its not my kind of game.

[bold sonnet]

I want to try but i have bilion zilion games on my list

[river veldt]

i love Dark Souls 1 so much

i haven't been able to get into Elden Ring very much though

[bold sonnet]

Completing Silent Hills is on the list

[young creek]

im playing through elden ring with the co op mod rn

[slim thorn]

the Fromsoft problem is inescapable for me becaues they are my kind of games, and many of my all-time favorites are partially inspired by their work, it's just a few devs like Fromsoft that do a few things which utterly ruin for me what should've been amazing games

[young creek]

so peak...

[river veldt]

im getting DS3 tomorrow

[bold sonnet]

I am scared, a lot, yes, but when I take things slowly and I'm in my room it's okay and interesting

And if I can pause and save always on emulator

[slim thorn]

yeah, Sekiro I would try again if it somehow gained save states

the only problem with that was horrifyingly awful checkpoint placement

[light gate]

At least its not a game that prevents you from pausing the game.

Like, literally in your face.

"Okay, let me just s-... I can't pause... WHY CANT I PAUSE?!"

[river veldt]

i hated the runbacks to the bosses in the moment when i was first playing but looking back i kind of appreciate them

[slim thorn]

most of the "hard" games I play have this compromise where there's a real pause button with only resume, options/settings and quit, and then a menu/map/inventory button with all of the "still playing the game" stuff that doesn't pause so you can still get attacked exactly when it's fair for the game to be punishing you for carelessness

[gaunt marten]

If you don't die there are no runbacks

Just take things super slow and observe the boss from afar and learn their patterns

[slim thorn]

unsure if serious

[gaunt marten]

Half serious. Obviously you can't expect to never die

But a lot of people play way too aggressively

[bold sonnet]

I think most difficult game I played was where you had to think really hard and not jump or fight game was The Myst.

[slim thorn]

yeah aggressiveness isn't my issue, by most players' standards I'm on the passive/risk averse side of things, and ofc I've beaten games like Blasphemous, Hollow Knight, Fallen Order, Grime, Nine Sols, etc that have varying degrees of souls-like-ness and can also get that hard but didn't make any critical mistakes

[light gate]

I need to finish Signalis and Fallen Order

aaaa

[slim thorn]

true, though this is a completely different kind of peak difficulty

[river veldt]

Hollow Knight is weird because i feel like i should love it and i've tried to like 10 times but every time i play it i get bored

[slim thorn]

which is fine

[light gate]

I enjoyed Hollow Knight until I reached one boss fight.

[river veldt]

i like the grubs at least

[slim thorn]

it'd be nice if we understood why so that can inform future choices but sometimes it's just too hard to pin down

[light gate]

I forget which Boss Fight it was, but it was very hard for me to read the movement.

[slim thorn]

I guess I did "stop HK at a certain boss" but it was late into the extremely optional post-game boss rush DLC content

[light gate]

(I was also approaching the last quarter of the game, I think?)

[light gate]

Ironically enough, I beaten many of the optional ones. But one of the mainline ones was extremely tough.

[river veldt]

i can never pin down why i like or dislike games it's very frustrating

[slim thorn]

it's also often a combination of things, so you may need to play lots of similar games to tell what the issue is

[quiet swift]

Ah, found the screenshot of the article. This is... quite the list

[light gate]

I disliked the fight because every death meant me having to redo all three phases. Which demoralized me and I kept trying not to give up, but after a few attempts… I went from the last phase of dying to the first phase.

[quiet swift]

(sourced from jason schrier's books and other places)

[slim thorn]

yeah, part of playing hard games is learning when taking a break would be more productive than further grinding

[gaunt marten]

Which hollow knight fights have three phases

[slim thorn]

part of the reason this difficulty level works for me in metroidvanias is that there's often something else I can do in the same game instead

[light gate]

I forget which, but they’re like guardians?

[gaunt marten]

The final boss

[slim thorn]

was it the Watcher Knights?

[light gate]

I had to ‘prove myself’

[light gate]

I think so?

[slim thorn]

prove yourself sounds more like Mantis Lords I guess

though all of this is too vague to pin down any boss

[gaunt marten]

Oh yeah, Mantis Lords have three phases

[slim thorn]

I believe Flitter's right that only the final boss truly has 3 phases in the main game

[gaunt marten]

Kinda

[slim thorn]

Mantis Lords have 3 of them but 2 phases, since phase 2 is two at once

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

Practically the third phase is when you kill one of the two and return to phase 1

[slim thorn]

I guess

[gaunt marten]

Watcher Knights are so hard that there's an official trick to make them easier

[slim thorn]

without on-screen health bars "phases" are up to the player

still, when a game does hard fights correctly, they are insanely satisfying to learn and you tend to stay good-ish at them even years after you learned them

[gaunt marten]

Hell yeah

[river veldt]

what's your guys favorite boss fight of all time

[slim thorn]

so, Nine Sols had a boss that made me think "wow, that might be the best boss fight I've had in a literal decade"

then I played the 2nd half of the game and the final boss was even better

[light gate]

How punishing is Nine Sols?

[gaunt marten]

Darkeater Midir

[visual hill]

when you think about it, it wasn't even that good for playing Duke Nukem

[slim thorn]

it has a Story Mode that gives you damage multiplier sliders, so if it's too hard for you that option is always there and please do use it instead of getting angry

but personally I played it on Standard Mode all the way through

and spent a literal 3 days on the final boss

loving every second of it

[river veldt]

i like the Cyberdemon fight from Doom 2016 a lot

[rancid herald]

the monk dude from the botw DLC

[light gate]

You reminded me of ||Tunic’s Gauntlet||

[river veldt]

ooh that's a good one

[slim thorn]

but soulslike metroidvanias are probably my favorite subgenre of all time, so I wouldn't expect anyone else to go into a game, find a boss that hard and go "YES"

[river veldt]

the Ganondorf fight from TotK was really cool

[rancid herald]

I like fights that have you use a multitude of skills that you've learned over the course of the dungeon/game

[slim thorn]

yeah, part of the reason the NS bosses are so good is how they build on each other

[light gate]

Might get it then.

[slim thorn]

for a lot of people Nine Sols' very first boss feels like a difficulty spike, but in retrospect it's little more than a tutorial that "yes the parry button is mandatory"; on my second playthrough I beat it almost hitless without even trying

so then by the time you reach the final boss there are multiple types of parry and dodge and counter and the boss' combos mix up attacks requiring all of the above from different angles

[light gate]

You know, I’m unsure if I have a ‘favorite boss fight’.

[slim thorn]

(speaking of aggressive playstyles: I should have used the in-your-face super parry move way more often than I did, multiple bosses are weak to that)

anyway, my favorite Hollow Knight boss is Nightmare King Grimm

[slim thorn]

I think the litmus test here is: have you ever opened up a game long after you finished it just to replay one specific boss fight?

(I have done this for Nightmare King Grimm, for Nine Sols' final boss, and multiple Furi bosses)

[gaunt marten]

NKG is fun but I prefer the Pantheon revamped Sisters of Battle fight

[visual hill]

same

[river veldt]

when i was 10 my favorite boss fight was Mario Galaxy's final boss

[visual hill]

a lot of memorable boss fights for me are because of the game, not the boss fight

I mean, Quake...

[slim thorn]

yeah, "memorable" is an importantly different metric

[visual hill]

Quake's two boss fights are basically memes at this point 😛

[river veldt]

i like Mario 64's final boss too with Ultra Rainbow Bowser (name i just came up with)

[gaunt marten]

A lot of my favorite games are just a boss gauntlet

Like Chippy

[visual hill]

the Mario 64 bosses are pretty decent, I think

[slim thorn]

as far as story/character impact, Nightmare King Grimm ends up ranking fairly low because he is ultimately a side character that only exists within one small DLC sidequest

[visual hill]

the Bowser boss stage became a stage in Smash Remix too

same for GoldenEye's Cradle

[river veldt]

Eye Rock is a cool boss

[slim thorn]

Nine Sols fares better here since its final boss is the culmination of the entire story/themes/several characters arcs

[river veldt]

just getting to him was cool

[light gate]

Oh I remember now

[gaunt marten]

Uumuu is the worst Hollow Knight fight

[river veldt]

oddly enough none of the Batman Arkham games have very good bosses imo

[light gate]

||Dust:AET General Gaius.|| he acts like a sponge at times but if you let your guard down, you get your hp knocked the hecked up.

[gaunt marten]

I liked the Freeze fight

[slim thorn]

there are a lot of combat systems that work better for bosses or better for groups of regular enemies

and imo the Arkham combat is very much the latter

[river veldt]

ok yeah that one stands out

[slim thorn]

part of the reason the Freeze fight is so uniquely great is that, paradoxically, it's not using the combat system at all

[river veldt]

yeah lol

[gaunt marten]

Puzzle combat is my favorite form of combat

[river veldt]

omg i just remembered new episode of The Penguin tonight

[slim thorn]

oh now there's a game I haven't thought about in a long time

[gaunt marten]

(Darkeater Midir is not a puzzle fight)

[light gate]

Its not the best boss tbh, but it certainly was a good finale.

And I remember replaying against him a few times.

[slim thorn]

yeah, that was a good game, just not "top 5-10 best games I've ever played" good

[gaunt marten]

It's in my top ten Disney games

[light gate]

[river veldt]

oh yeah i liked the Shadow Blot fight in Epic Mickey

[slim thorn]

I feel like in Dust:AET even the harder fights I ended up doing quite a bit of "button mashing"

I never did play Epic Mickey

[light gate]

Yeah there is a bit of that…

I wished it had more of the finer mechanics that hollow knight or even tunic provides.

[river veldt]

Rebrushed just came out i might get it

[slim thorn]

the part of "soulslikes" that fundamentally appeals to me is the idea that every button press matters, any mistake could be punished, every enemy can kill you; there's no part of the game where you can just turn off your brain and autopilot through it

and yeah, by that metric Tunic absolutely counts

[visual hill]

is Trackmania a soulslike then

[slim thorn]

if I can call Myst the Dark Souls of point-and-click puzzlers you can call Trackmania whatever you want

[light gate]

But if you want another boss fight that is more souls like… ||The Heir | Tunic||

[wind stump]

i should get back to Tunic

[slim thorn]

indeed, Tunic's bosses are some of the most soulslike-y parts

[light gate]

I’ve never felt such fear when seeing the second phase activate.

[wind stump]

been in a bit of a old school zelda mood lately since Echoes of Wisdom.

[slim thorn]

at least relative to the zelda-like aspect of it all

[wind stump]

which i should also get back to

[wind stump]

Me playing Hades and (Hades) ||God of the Dead kicks into overdrive as papa stops holding back ||

[river veldt]

HADES FINAL BOSS IS AWESOME

[slim thorn]

true

[wind stump]

yes but hearing the music wind down and lull you into that false sense of security and THEN IT GETS INTENSE AS FUK

[light gate]

Ahh, Hades…

[slim thorn]

I guess I've never felt like just replaying Hades' final boss in isolation from the rest of the run, so it fails the letter of my litmus test earlier, though it is a roguelike so that's hardly surprising

[light gate]

Shoulda finished it but the damn joycon drift…

[wind stump]

i like fighting Yorihime in Touhou New World

i think i just hate myself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70I706DH56A

[slim thorn]

also honorable mention for Jaguar Javier from Guacamelee

[river veldt]

cant wait to play Hades 2 when it's finished

[wind stump]

simultaniously the best and worst boss in that game
it's fucking HARD but GOD THAT THEME

i respect the fuck out of Yorihime now

[slim thorn]

I guess what's interesting about this is, if "puzzle fights" are a simple puzzle gimmick on top of some real-time combat system, then that's usually good fun (like whenever you have to find time between attacks to fiddle with devices in the boss arena to make the boss vulnerable again), but if the puzzle is the entirety of the fight, it usually makes me wish this was "an actual puzzle game" instead

[gaunt marten]

I don't differentiate between these scenarios much

[rancid herald]

the puzzle fights I hate are the fights where nothing is explained so you have no idea what to do

I ran into this with the latest zelda game, to my annoyance

[slim thorn]

fair, Zelda games are definitely not targeting the "Here's a room with some stuff. Figure it out." style of hardcore puzzling that the Myst-likes cater to

[quiet swift]

Fiancée and I got that pretty much once EA got released. We've 'beaten' the bosses multiple times, very much looking foward to when they add the new content

[slim thorn]

considering how much I played Hades I'd probably love the sequel but there's just too much else to do

likely will end up waiting at least until it's "released"

[quiet swift]

Fair, we've gotten bored of the current content so yeah 🤣

Meanwhile, I'm still struggling to find something for my fiancée, so picky

[rancid herald]

what sort of game do they like?

[slim thorn]

anyway this conversation has made me want to replay a Nine Sols boss, so I'll be in quiet VC if anyone's curious

[gaunt marten]

Good luck. I gotta be awake in thirteen hours for class

[visual hill]

I played a game of CS2 yesterday, the playerbase in premier is still rather toxic even when the team is winning

(I don't play CS often anymore, I drop in from time to time)

[slim thorn]

yep, still a GOAT, "only" took me ~30 minutes of attempts to beat Jiequan again

[astral steeple]

https://x.com/charlieINTEL/status/1843071264686215645

CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) on X

Xbox announces that future Halo games will be developed on Unreal Engine 5

Some new concept art of how Halo could like in Unreal Engine 5

Twitter · Oct 6, 2024, 11:30 PM

https://x.com/charlieINTEL/status/1843071524976439589

CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) on X

Halo developer 343 Industries has been renamed to Halo Studios

Twitter · Oct 6, 2024, 11:31 PM

[quiet swift]

Hades, Knockout City, Horizon Zero dawn/forbidden west, Stardew Valley, Coral Island, wukong, Monster Hunter World, AC: Odyssey has also played Civ 6

Yet when I suggest things that would be of similar genres/close, she won't like em too old graphics, too dark (story and/or color tone), not smooth enough fighting, etc. She's incredibly picky with games

[green fulcrum]

End of an era

But the Bungie era was still the best

[fresh bane]

So, after 8 hours of it, I gotta say, Silent Hill 2 remake is... actually good

It's different, though, but it's good at least

This remake is a situation where wether you enjoy the remake of SH2 or the original is less of a ''better vs worse'' and more of a ''up to your personal tastes'' because so much stuff isn't really done better or worse it's just... different

also, spoilers but || this MIGHT just be a secret sequel just like FF7R was instead of a 1:1 remake || which is insane

Like I said over at #1032836636490346576 it feels like they realized how unbeatable the original experience of og SH2 was so instead of trying to do it better they just did their own spin and their own version of it and tried to make that version the best it could be

[bold sonnet]

I think a little that is very very good news for a remake

[fresh bane]

It's the best case scenario for sure

...is what I WOULD say, if they actually put out a modern port of Silent Hill 2

at the moment this is the ONLY way to play the game

[bold sonnet]

You can emulate no?

[fresh bane]

That doesn't take away from the fact that they still need to do a modern port of the game

[bold sonnet]

They did and failed

[fresh bane]

They did, but the HD collection was underfunded and didn't get enough time to cook, they also outsourced it to a really weird, super small team

The MGS Master Collection has been pretty good and it received fixes, they can do another Silent Hill collection now, and they should

[bold sonnet]

Why did they treat game like this this way?

[fresh bane]

because they don't care

[bold sonnet]

Someone else should do it then I think a bit

And show how it should be done

[fresh bane]

Supposedly there has been a change in leadership at Konami in recent years, so maybe now there's someone in charge who cares

Either way, there should be a push towards modern ports of the SH trilogy

[bold sonnet]

Do you think with now success of SH2R they will make other?

[fresh bane]

I can't say, but since they already did a new one for MGS and they're working on more all I can say is they should

[river veldt]

https://x.com/gmanlives/status/1843114248958066831?s=46

GmanLives (@GmanLives) on X

So if you clip through the ranch at the start of the Silent Hill 2 remake you can find the comic sans font sign hidden away inside. GOTY.

Twitter · Oct 7, 2024, 2:20 AM

[fresh bane]

lol that's awesome

But yeah overall pleasantly surprised about this actually being... good

[fresh bane]

also of note about SH2R: Jacob Geller was a consultant
https://fxtwitter.com/yacobg42/status/1843079797536354679

[wind stump]

who

[proud warren]

youtube video essay guy (if I'm looking at the right one)

[slim thorn]

yeah the video essayist is who we're fans of

[wind stump]

[bronze abyss]

it feels so weird hearing music from games that im into,dying light and atomic heart especially stand out so much whenever i hear their OST used

[dapper cedar]

holy st
https://fxtwitter.com/Wario64/status/1843306427529699681

[graceful bridge]

https://youtu.be/_sgv4sZ7kNY?si=Xdr6HZf7uy7qiYDR

[little badger]

Launch trailer https://fixupx.com/charlieintel/status/1843320890190184600?

[bold sonnet]

What do you mean launch, it's today?

[gaunt marten]

October 25th

[bold sonnet]

Yes I just saw but why is it called that

[gaunt marten]

Please do not use this channel as a place to spam links. It is intended for conversation.

[bold sonnet]

I thought we can share screenshots and videos too here about games

[graceful bridge]

Companies sometimes put out "launch trailers" a couple weeks before the game comes out to hype up the release and show off the final working version.

[gaunt marten]

You can if you don't make it a habit. When someone engages with the posts you make, you should converse with them.

[little badger]

It’s the launch trailer to the game. That’s why I posted it

[gaunt marten]

This is not twitter

Only post links if you want to talk about them

This channel is not for sharing trailers. It's for talking

[bold sonnet]

So I can share a clip from my game but when it's not busy and I have to be willing to answer when someone asks questions yes?

[gaunt marten]

Sure! If you made the clip that's already a lot better than sharing a news link

[little badger]

I was going to talk about it. There are a few that do play call of duty. But I’ll try and not send as many links

[bold sonnet]

Ive heard that players say that this call of duty has to be super good or otherwise theyll be upset at whole cod franchise or something. I'm not sure, I've heard there is a big reason for this to be everything or nothing

[little badger]

It’s basically If the movement isn’t good or the maps are just too big people won’t play.

[bold sonnet]

I've heard turn based zombies come back I think that's something people liked

[little badger]

Yup. People have wanted round based zombies back for years. Treyach always listen to feedback

[gaunt marten]

There are people who say this for every game

Consider who says something, not only what they say

[slim thorn]

and if you don't know the specific person who said it, it could easily be different people saying it every time, without any single person being irrational

aggregating anonymous opinions produces a lot of weird data, not merely biased but often hallicinatory

[sour hill]

I just listen to what my friends say because they are so smart and cool 😎

[fickle garnet]

This game looks interesting
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1272320/Diplomacy_is_Not_an_Option/

Steam

Diplomacy is Not an Option

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a base-building survival RTS with an active pause, taking place in a medieval fantasy setting, where your choices can decide the destiny of the world.You step into the well-worn shoes of the minor Lord. Circumstances force you to fight. Like all the time. Always outnumbered. Build your walls, raise your armies, and ...

Price

$19.49

Recommendations

5438

▶ Play video

[river veldt]

https://x.com/mariobrothblog/status/1843322245151957236?s=46

Supper Mario Broth (@MarioBrothBlog) on X

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time starts and ends with a connection to Mario.

Twitter · Oct 7, 2024, 4:07 PM

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, I heard a lot of people talk about Diplomacy is Not an Option

[fickle garnet]

I can't decide what to buy with my $27 on steam

[bronze abyss]

enter the gungeon

[gaunt marten]

Save it until the next big sale

Buy twice as many games

The next big sale is November 27th

https://steamdb.info/sales/history/

[fickle garnet]

I have it on the epic games store

[bronze abyss]

kingdom come deliverance

monster hunter world/rise

[sour hill]

Those are good games

[river veldt]

Read Dead Redemption 2

[fickle garnet]

I only have $27 not $80

[river veldt]

save it and then get it on sale

[fickle garnet]

Ive tried both but couldn't really get into them

[bronze abyss]

ori and the blind forest/will of the wisps

metro game series as well

[gaunt marten]

Ori and the Will of the Wisps fucking killed my GPU

I still don't have a GPU

[bronze abyss]

how did it kill it

[gaunt marten]

Worked it too hard

It was an eight year old 290x that was on the verge of death

[bold sonnet]

When the Past Was Around

Very beautiful everything and curious puzzles

[gaunt marten]

When I launched the game I got graphical glitches like corrupted textures

[bold sonnet]

Beautiful like in heart not ultra graphics that kill GPU

[bronze abyss]

i mean at that point it was probably time to change,anything else or even nothing could have killed it

[gaunt marten]

Soon after the computer wouldn't launch until I removed the GPU

I can't afford to change

[bronze abyss]

are there no budget used options? like 1000 series gpus should be pretty affordable by now

[fickle garnet]

I think ill just save it for the next big steam sale

[bold sonnet]

Demo available

I don't joke it's one of most touching games I played

If you like style like that

And only game in world that I 100% when it comes to achievements

[gaunt marten]

I would rather not make suboptimal purchases

Most games run fine on my integrated GPU

If I buy a new GPU I want it to run all games that I have but couldn't run

[gaunt marten]

Did you play To the Moon?

[bronze abyss]

1600 series could maybe do that,they tend to go cheap as well

[bold sonnet]

No is it on Xbox too?

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/206440/To_the_Moon/

Steam

To the Moon

Dr. Rosalene and Dr. Watts have peculiar jobs: They give people another chance to live, all the way from the very beginning... but only in their patients' heads.Due to the severity of the operation, the new life becomes the last thing the patients remember before drawing their last breath. Thus, the operation is only done to people on their deat...

Price

$9.99

Recommendations

60694

Metacritic

81

▶ Play video

It is on xbox

[bold sonnet]

"Not currently available. Continue shopping"

Gosh why does it sometimes do that like why is it in store then

[quiet swift]

Hades

[fickle garnet]

I have it

[quiet swift]

Hades 2

[fickle garnet]

Oh i still need to beat it

I forgot about it

[quiet swift]