general gaming

[fickle garnet]

😭

[gaunt marten]

It is also available on Android

The soundtrack is super good and the game is extremely well received so play it on whatever platform you can

https://freebirdgames.bandcamp.com/album/to-the-moon-ost

[bold sonnet]

That's.. Today!

[river veldt]

i like the song

https://youtu.be/nIZxh_nc64w?feature=shared

[gaunt marten]

Oh nice

[bold sonnet]

[quiet swift]

Nothing to see here, carry on citizen

[bold sonnet]

That was really sudden and unnecessary I was vibin and then

When I was walking near armors before they always did small cool things like salute or something not freaking THIS

[river veldt]

i have no idea how to get this treasure chest

[gaunt marten]

I have no idea what treasure chest you're talking about

[river veldt]

this one

[gaunt marten]

For a moment I went "Holy shit Cap is playing Klonoa!"

Maybe you'll get a double jump or a hook ability later

[river veldt]

i have a double jump but it doesn't get me far enough

i looked around but there doesn't seem to be anything to paint or thin

[bold sonnet]

Or maybe float ability like Spyro

[gaunt marten]

What if you used coyote time to get a tiny bit extra distance?

[sour hill]

you need to summon torrent and do a double jump

[river veldt]

mickey doesn't have torrent

[gaunt marten]

Mickey has a dash

Double jump dash should be more distance

[river veldt]

ooooh

there was a pressure plate on the other side of the room that lowered it

[sour hill]

The Mouse wins again...

[river veldt]

i like Mickey

[gaunt marten]

Mickey is the Mario of Disney

[river veldt]

yeah !

what animal is Pete

[gaunt marten]

Cat

He and Mickey play a game of cat and mouse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_(Disney)

[river veldt]

i like that picture

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

[river veldt]

i like how this article is written as if Pete is a real actor

[gaunt marten]

Pete joins the screen actors guild

[river veldt]

im public domain mickey

[gaunt marten]

No shirt no service

[river veldt]

mickey doesn't wear a shirt and donald doesn't wear pants

[rotund forge]

they made an episode about that

[river veldt]

did they reallt ?

[fresh bane]

Finished Echoes of Wisdom, been talking about it over at #1067547311640678480 but just throwing it over here just in case too, easy 9/10 for me, 8/10 at the lowest, beautiful game, super good

[rotund forge]

in the modern cartoon, donald and mickey try to get fast food from goofy for a double date with minnie and daisy, but neither of them have both a shirt and shoes. The episode has donald getting the clothes in a cion toss while mickey tries to hide, butt naked, from the rest of society. The end shows Donald losing his clothes and them falling on Mickey, who takes the girls on a picnic while they mock and berate donald for his lack of clothes

[river veldt]

lmao

shit is always happening to Donald

[rotund forge]

that show was wild. A lot of episodes had the characters in different places or times, and in this example, Goofy didn't know who mickey and donald were, and they didn't know him

It was a bizarre cartoon, but definitely a fun one

[wintry canopy]

New dragonmaid support.
https://ygorganization.com/yurugiohtrinitybox/

[dire gate]

watch it take 5 million years until they release it in TCG format

[wintry canopy]

I mainly play master duel, but I will pickup the new boss fusion when it comes out.

[untold vigil]

Blargle

Wanna play the new Zelda but I really don't want to deal with using my dog shit switch

[static bluff]

I mean...

there's a way

[untold vigil]

Is there a specific path you'd suggest for that one? I think I have one of them. .

[static bluff]

nah

[untold vigil]

Alas

[wind stump]

... God dammit this is the same modder who made the Gensokyo mod, isn't it?

[bleak lintel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnvc6uC6xZE

There's also support for NVIDIA DLSS 3.7 and AMD FSR 3.0 upscaling technologies, NVIDIA DLSS Frame Generation, adjustable draw distances, shadow quality settings, and more.```

[little badger]

It’s being delisted but if you own the game you can still play it. https://x.com/wario64/status/1843660012570452346?

Wario64 (@Wario64) on X

LittleBigPlanet 3 (PS4) and its DLC will be removed from PSN on Oct 31st.

Anyone that own/purchases the game/DLC before delisting will be able to access their purchased games/content after removal

LittleBigPlanet 3 is $19.99 on US PSN https://t.co/eA6lHfL6zJ

Twitter · Oct 8, 2024, 2:29 PM

[visual hill]

that sounds pretty nice, finally a definitive way to play it if it's not too buggy 🙂

[steep flax]

rip lbp :(

astrobot be the lbp killer

[river veldt]

this is epic

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/SEGA/status/1843260124804141314?t=ZXL-M8svNmo_758vGq8KAg&s=19

[proud warren]

they better leave that cat the fuck alone

[bold sonnet]

Is this Disney Epic Mickey Rebrushed?

[river veldt]

yes !

[bold sonnet]

Do you like it?

[river veldt]

yeah it's really good

i loved the original game when i was younger so it's been a treat to play the remake

[bold sonnet]

I'm going to play demo to see if I like

[dire gate]

Oh the pain and the horror of returning to a game with savepoints after playing save-anywhere-anytime games

[gaunt marten]

Crystal Project has save points that are not painful to use

[unreal idol]

i was trained on games with savepoints, so that's just how i operate in video games. i very rarely trust auto-save features unless they are somehow forced upon me

also; https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/327224500020051979/1293379094016426014/image.png?ex=670728a5&is=6705d725&hm=5155411750decd0bf56bc759f3f18d7b3aa65f9b4fa090814eb7357107b91f0a& not bad

[gaunt marten]

You could just save and quit instead of using a save point.

It's a manual save you can trust, and can be done anywhere

[unreal idol]

Depends on the game

But, with emulation, I will generally use save states if I need to break from a game and i'm not at a savepoint

Or for "quality of life"

[gaunt marten]

Yeah when I emulate I usually do a manual save followed by a savestate

[unreal idol]

that's good practice

[gaunt marten]

Then when I get back to the game I load the manual save unless it fails

[unreal idol]

I should do this. The VR bedroom that I like to use has issues with writing saves on some/(all?) emulators

You need to wait like 5-10 seconds after confirming a save

[dire gate]

It's really painful when a game has save points and yet when you die you have to start from your last save

[slim thorn]

I think save-anywhere-anytime is not referring to auto-saves

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

[slim thorn]

I generally prefer games having autosave as long as they don't replace manual saving with it

[unreal idol]

Both is good

I like how BOTW and TOTK handle it for the most part

[gaunt marten]

Paper Mario 64 does this and it's dumb because it doesn't let me save time by doing hyper glass cannon builds

[slim thorn]

and in principle I prefer the flexibility of save states / quick save, but there are lots of games that do checkpoints well enough that it's a non-issue in practice

[gaunt marten]

I have to try to survive sometimes

[slim thorn]

(along with lots of games that do checkpoints badly and tank an otherwise good experience; half my preference is based on hard-earned distrust)

[unreal idol]

I'm weird and try to play games "as intended" most of the time

But, I do make exceptions, especially if the game's save system is bullshit or non existent

[dire gate]

It's not weird, it's just that some games are pain

[unreal idol]

I was forged through the pain

I played FFXI so I tend to tolerate/not notice a lot of bullshit

[slim thorn]

oh absolutely same, I need a reason to go against design intentions (after all, why am I playing a game if I disagree with its entire design?), although the older the game is the more likely there are huge issues I need save states to work around

[dire gate]

different topic but I also hate when the "localized version" limits language choice

[unreal idol]

Heh, I'm randomly reminded of when I first played Metroid. I didn't use any walkthroughs, and I made my own map on scratch paper

[unreal idol]

Like in what?

[river veldt]

this game is awesome

[unreal idol]

yes it is

[dire gate]

(It's a Japanese game)

[slim thorn]

if I can't set it to JP voices and EN subtitles so I can judge the translation in real time what is even the point /s

[dire gate]

I'll show you the worst scenario

[unreal idol]

forcing myself to learn hiragana and katakana so i can bungle my way through mother 2 because i was peak weeaboo at 12

[dire gate]

Two exact same games with localization(region) differences

one is Asian release, one is NA release

[slim thorn]

now that's old school

...in 2021

[unreal idol]

Time for dinner and Arc-V

There is no saving this anime

[dire gate]

The one I wishlisted is the NA one

[dire gate]

[slim thorn]

my new favorite example of this was in DDLC when some untranslateable wordplay happened and Monika went "be nice, that kind of wordplay is the most frustrating for translators"

so I switched to English and found they didn't even try to localize the actual pun, instead Monika says "that joke makes no sense in translation"

[gaunt marten]

Games should never do this

[river veldt]

i love that game so much

[gaunt marten]

Is DDLC Japanese first?

[dire gate]

Holy shit I have to use the configuration to change controls of this game, damn you 2003

[cerulean herald]

the original is English since it's from an American based studio, if thats what youre asking

[gaunt marten]

American studios have made Japanese games in the past

The heuristic does not always hold

Apparently it was English first

On the day of the release of Plus, it was announced that the game would be localized and released in Japan by Playism later that year. Wikipedia

[dire gate]

I can't exactly point why but DDLC has this 'Japanese-feeling game made by Western devs' vibe

[cerulean herald]

fair enough, it is an Indie developed game so I figured it'll be a different case

https://teamsalvato.com/

[slim thorn]

to me it has that vibe mostly because it’s so well known in English circles, not because of how it’s written

[dire gate]

It's hard to tell, but it's...it's slightly different

from what I'd normally expect from a Japanese game

[bronze abyss]

got myself into a situation(for non employees:sentry that shoots at you when it spots you that spawned right at the entrance and was unavoidable,the elevator doesnt start going back up fast enough)

[dire gate]

I simply could not resist using this tweet to tell this news:
https://fxtwitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1844001600828055970

[gaunt marten]

A hundred dollars?!

[light gate]

The profits on that thing must be insane.

Like, its probably not expensive at all to manufacture. Maybe ten bucks at most.

[dire gate]

It's probably more than 10 bucks, it seems it has sensors that detect your movements

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/nintendo-sound-clock-alarmo-121311

It also has a built-in wifi function

$99.99 for an alarm clock is definitely super expensive but at least it does have more than just "ooh alarm clock with nintendo music"

[hushed onyx]

I was shopping for alarm clocks recently and tbh $100 is pretty average for anything that isn’t a barebones beeper.

[gaunt marten]

All the features I need from an alarm clock can be found in a phone app, so I don't shop for alarm clocks

[dire gate]

If that's the case then the price seems quite reasonable, it's for Nintendo fans anyway

[river veldt]

this is really cool i kind of want one

[green fulcrum]

Or even any basic Walmart watch.

[gaunt marten]

No, I typically want multiple alarms pre-scheduled in advance

[light gate]

Ah sorry, $25 dollars.

[sour hill]

Never trust a single alarm...

[river veldt]

when was the last nintendo direct i cant remember

[dire gate]

June was the last regular direct

August had museum direct and partner+indie

[river veldt]

oh geez

this is probably because nintendo is slowing down on switch stuff right ?

[dire gate]

maybe. It is likely that they want to do their next direct with Switch 2

[river veldt]

i think the other big games yet to be released are M&L Brothership and Super Mario Party Jamboree

[dire gate]

Metroid Prime 4

[river veldt]

oooh right

i forgot about that

[wind stump]

oh my god guys
nintendo's gone woke

insert laugh track

[hushed onyx]

I keep my phone out of my bedroom while sleeping.

[gaunt marten]

Hmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLAQ15hGXvA

I was watching this video and they took it down

Now I have video but no audio

[slim thorn]

I also end up tweaking the alarms several times a week

[bold sonnet]

Exactly I was thinking this

[little badger]

Campaign rewards for BO6

[bold sonnet]

Oh that's weird, is is usually like this? That if you finish campain you get things for multiplayer?

I think I like that

[light gate]

I mean its nothing new.

[steep flax]

i think halo3 did something like that

[light gate]

Yep

[dire gate]

https://fxtwitter.com/touhou_station/status/1844032424600342611

If anyone is interested

[quartz pawn]

@wind stump Look! Toohoos

[wind stump]

TOO HOOS?

[visual hill]

Mr. Game & Watch will be put out of business

[little badger]

[gaunt marten]

Looks pretty neat. A bit cramped

[bold sonnet]

I love this game 💖💖

[shell shore]

I added the wine for Mag

He goes over there a lot

[bold sonnet]

Is this a mod or how did you change how your house looks?

[shell shore]

Uh i cant tell if thats part of the 1.6 update or stardew expanded

[river veldt]

https://x.com/mariobrothblog/status/1844056176448897368?s=46

Supper Mario Broth (@MarioBrothBlog) on X

You may have seen images of a Wario plush being sold under the name "Terrorist Louis". I present the most likely sequence of events through which the plush could have ended up with that name.

Twitter · Oct 9, 2024, 4:43 PM

[river veldt]

omg snes cartridges

Mickeyjunk Mountain is still such a cool idea for a level

[river veldt]

https://x.com/nintendoamerica/status/1844135977327145001?s=46

Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) on X

We will be performing a test related to a new feature for #NintendoSwitchOnline on #NintendoSwitch. Starting 8:00 AM PT on Oct. 10, existing Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members will be able to apply to participate on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Learn more:

Twitter · Oct 9, 2024, 10:00 PM

[bold sonnet]

Do you have some idea what it could be?

[river veldt]

idk !

[quartz pawn]

I wonder if it will be actual voice chat and they'll finally get rid of the app?

[river veldt]

i hope it's miiverse :copium:

[fresh bane]

So, a little bit over halfway through SH2R, so far it's actually been really really good

Kind of a RE2R situation, but not really? It's an in-between between RE1R's faithfulness to the original game with completely new revamped areas (while still keeping the old ones...?) but mostly the same and even the same script, just very expanded upon, whereas in the original every area would be like a single floor now it's 2 or 3 with more rooms too

Visuals are great overall, mixing a lot of SH1's aesthetics with SH2, some scenes don't hit as hard and aren't as good unfortunately, but overall so far this is actually not bad at all, I had no faith in Bloober going into this but they actually delivered

[bitter stream]

that's good to hear

[sour hill]

My friends who are playing it have also been saying it's great, and they're big fans of the original like I am

I was gonna get it even if it was dog, but now I'm actually pretty excited

[fresh bane]

I was super skeptical and I was extremely ready to hate on this because Bloober doesn't have a good track record, but they actually pulled through

Those trailers and teasers really didn't do it justice at all

[worldly summit]

me and a friend guessed it's for dedicated servers, ideally testing them before the switch 2 rolls out

that might explain why they're testing it in some of the core regions (US, Germany, Japan) rather than little testing countries (New Zealand, Canada)

[random steppe]

Happy to hear Konami had a win for once

[dire gate]

It seems Alarmo(the new alarm clock by Nintendo) is selling too well in Japan they have to do raffle selling now

They did it with Switch before

[young creek]

makes sense its pretty revolutionary

[wind stump]

https://youtu.be/B3gdVvAu0fo

It's so Bri'ish

[astral steeple]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1844401447510868029

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) on X

First look at ‘GRAND THEFT HAMLET’, an immersive take on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet shot entirely in GTA 5.

Releasing in early 2025 in theaters & on streaming.

(Source: @MUBI)

Twitter · Oct 10, 2024, 3:35 PM

[little badger]

Anyone play the original? https://fixupx.com/playstationuk/status/1844363314979123671?

[rotund forge]

https://youtu.be/zF96tpchink?si=AxCY1Dj3pYJSCVsM
It looks so good! OMG I NEED IT NOWWWW!

[gaunt marten]

Which one is the armor one and which one is the hand one?

[fresh bane]

huuuuhhh

No way

Oh god I hope this has multiplayer

I remember that game but as a kid personally I always played the Episode 1 movie game

It was surprisingly good, from what I remember...

[little badger]

Did the original have multiplayer?

[river veldt]

https://x.com/indiegamesooc/status/1844272573611421721?s=46

IndieGames Out of Context (@IndieGamesOoC) on X

Undertale

Twitter · Oct 10, 2024, 7:03 AM

[fresh bane]

I think it had couch co-op for sure

[river veldt]

https://x.com/mariobrothblog/status/1844416090476249367?s=46

Supper Mario Broth (@MarioBrothBlog) on X

In the intro to Super Mario Galaxy, a Toad trapped in a crystal changes expressions from happy when Mario is near to sad when he isn't, creating the expression that he is still conscious inside the crystal and is rejoicing at Mario's presence and despairing at his absence.

Twitter · Oct 10, 2024, 4:33 PM

[rotund forge]

You can't save that toad, which is sad.

P.S. I think the Galaxy games are the best example of Toads actually doing their jobs. Like, they're still weaklings, but you see the guards at least trying to protect Peach. You see the toad brigade actually going out to galaxies and doing stuff, even if it's not much. It's nice to think about it.

[rancid herald]

this is interesting, but is the opening intro even rendered in real time?

[river veldt]

yeah you play it

[little badger]

Hmm well there’s always a possibility they could do it

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3062930/Unplagued/

Steam

Unplagued

With a team of up to 4 companions, purge the plague infecting the procedurally generated medieval villages. The plague has already settled in the lands and the villagers and creatures residing within have mutated into horrors beyond imagination. Discover and collect ingredients and find the right combination to create the cure as you travel from...

Price

$7.79

▶ Play video

100% off. Doesn't seem worth playing

[bold sonnet]

Oh I have stick drift! Would you look at that! I wonder if 3 years from buying passed or can I get a new one

That's weird I never dropped it or anything

[wind stump]

i love exponential scailing

that's 1048576 thorns, not strength

and you know
getting like 10 strength is pretty abnormal

[bronze abyss]

the fact its by euphoric brothers says enough,currently invites dont work nor do private lobbies,and public ones are broken as hell so cant even play multiplayer properly

[quiet swift]

Current set of prime free games

[gaunt marten]

Three are pretty good

[sour hill]

(Which three? The answer may shock you!)

[gaunt marten]

Doom eternal, spirit of the north, bioshock remastered

[sour hill]

The answer did not shock me

There's a bioshock pun in there, but I don't feel like making it today

[river veldt]

Doom Eternal for free??????

[gaunt marten]

For five dollars

It's only free for Amazon prime subscribers

[sour hill]

Are those free to keep?

[gaunt marten]

Yes!

[sour hill]

Hell yeah, that's a good deal

[hasty patio]

https://gaming.amazon.com/intro More info on that.

[quiet swift]

Yeah, I've found prime gaming deals to generally be pretty good. A free twitch sub, buncha free games that aren't only locked on their game app, it's scattered around on gog, epic, etc

https://gaming.amazon.com/home?ingress=twch&ref_=CGTS not sure if it'll show for everyone but there's a bunch more available too. Kerbal space program, borderlands 2, loop hero was there too

[dense crypt]

been playing Madness: Project Nexus a bunch lately

[visual hill]

Heroic supports launching Amazon games now

(on top of Epic and GOG)

it's a must have for Prime Gaming owners now 🙂

[little badger]

@fresh bane it has couch co-op https://x.com/daily_swgames/status/1844439185408786478?

Daily Star Wars Games (@Daily_SWGames) on X

Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles will feature:

🤖 13 New playable characters,
⚔ All secret characters and levels unlocked,
🤝 Couch Co-op,
🔴 Lightsaber colour toggle,
🎮 Classic & modern controls,
🔡 Cheat Codes,
🏆 Achievement/Trophies,
And more!

Twitter · Oct 10, 2024, 6:05 PM

[little badger]

More tomb raider games are getting remastered https://x.com/playstation/status/1844725028245393505?

PlayStation (@PlayStation) on X

Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered launches on PS5 and PS4 Feb 14, 2025, and includes:

🔦 Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation
📖 Tomb Raider: Chronicles
🕶️ Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness

Collection details: https://t.co/AnUeCnFQUA

Twitter · Oct 11, 2024, 1:01 PM

[arctic fern]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1062090/view/4617965876718311948?l=english hecc neat, the 3d water update to timberborn is out

[static bluff]

9 days, 15 hours, 12 minutes, and 55 seconds remaining until Factorio: Space Age is released.

Anyone taking that day off? lol

[gaunt marten]

My midterms start just after so probably not

[random steppe]

https://fixupx.com/gematsu/status/1844649146914861464

Time to keep an eye on this studios for the next like, 5 years

[arctic fern]

the disco elysium story is wild man
as in, the studio and IP ownership story

[heady bridge]

Calling yourself Longdue is setting yourself up for meme headlines if the game takes forever to come out now…

[random steppe]

Very true, but at least it does stay in your head as a name

[graceful bridge]

https://x.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/1844508551659831534?t=bVHdJcK2lQC-Ws2oYQwS6Q

Brad Lynch (@SadlyItsBradley) on X

Steam Deck is at PAX AUS, and is officially launching in Australia next month

256GB LCD - $649 AUD
512GB OLED - $899 AUD
1TB OLED - $1049 AUD

Twitter · Oct 10, 2024, 10:41 PM

[wind stump]

EXTRA THICC

i like the idea of your mod list actively affecting a relic
very meta

[slim thorn]

Jacob Geller posts a new video
"Somehow, Spec Ops: The Line still has more to discuss."

[river veldt]

it was a good video

[shell shore]

Ive been lied to, cheated, disgraced

[static bluff]

I remember when Extra Credits was in it's prime. They put out a video that was, like, 40 seconds long and all it says was to go play Spec Ops:The Line right now. Go play it, we'll talk about it later, but you need to go play it now. Go.

(A short video back then was weird)

Then they came out with, like, a fantastic super long video talking all about it

[river veldt]

i dont think you can buy it on any digital storefronts anymore which sucks

[gaunt marten]

License to pirate

[slim thorn]

pretty much

[quiet swift]

checks his steam. Ah good, I have it

Last played... 2013. I should play it again.

[gaunt marten]

Spec Ops: The Line doesn't sound highly replayable

[slim thorn]

I replayed it not that long ago

[gaunt marten]

Did it surprise you again?

[quiet swift]

Oh it isn't really, I remember the ending well enough and the 🔥 scene, but it's been 11 years :X

[slim thorn]

of course, when gamers talk about "replay value", they're usually talking about how satisfying the core gameplay is and how much of that fun is retained even after you know everything already, and SO:TL is very much not about any of that

the reasons you would replay SO:TL are the same reasons you would rewatch Apocalypse Now

and you'd probably do it very infrequently if at all

[gaunt marten]

The only movie I think of rewatching is Groundhog Day (not a joke)

I generally rewatch something if I feel like there's a lot of nuance I missed the first time

[slim thorn]

exactly

for example, one thing I intentionally did on my SO:TL replay was ||look for more places where I had a "stealth choice", or try to do something different in places I knew had one||

[gaunt marten]

That's a fair way to go about it

[slim thorn]

on top of the usual stuff like noticing more foreshadowing after you know the ending it's building toward

[cerulean herald]

for me I like to rewatch/replay stuff I really enjoyed to see if there was something I missed or can better understand (esp after reading discussions after the fact)

ofc there's also games with multiple choice/endings sorta deal

[fresh bane]

The only games I've ever replayed pretty regularly are survival horror games because they can usually be completed in under 2-3 hours if you know what you're doing and I can focus completely on the gameplay

Something about the gameplay loop of uninterrupted puzzle solving and fetch questing really engages me

[slim thorn]

I do like that loop but it's gotta be new or at least randomized puzzles for me

[fresh bane]

Otherwise I rarely replay anything, I don't know why but I just don't no matter how much I like the game, the other game I did replay a bunch is DMC5 for pretty much the same reasons, just pick a higher difficulty and enjoy uninterrupted demon comboing, I can even listen to a podcast or something while doing it so I can just do it forever

[bold sonnet]

DMC5 is really super cool I think even though story is complicated it's all about fun and the fun is strong

[fresh bane]

When I see people say they're "starting a new character" in a game like Cyberpunk I just... Can't process that I love that game a lot but once I actually finish the last pending quest I'll probably uninstall it because I'll just never play it again

[slim thorn]

replaying a game you know vs trying new games you don't know is always going to be a mostly personal call, and also depends a lot on the genre and player skill and other stuff

[gaunt marten]

You can complete most games in under 2-3 hours if you know what you're doing and can focus completely on the gameplay

[fresh bane]

It's not really the same though

[gaunt marten]

It's the same to me

[slim thorn]

I highly value finding new favorites even if it takes a lot of tries to hit one, but even in my favorite games I rarely enjoy laser-focused practice or anything score-based and even back when I tried I often hit a hard skill ceiling anyway

and most of my favorite genres tend to have relatively low replay value in the conventional sense, especially as I could never find a multiplayer game I enjoyed

so when I do replay a game, it's usually one I remember fondly from several years ago but forgot all the details of, so it's kinda sorta like playing for the first time

(ignoring all the randomizer mod stuff)

[cerulean herald]

I do tend to rewatch say movies/shows/etc more than replaying video games

[river veldt]

i replay Doom Eternal all the time

comfort game

[slim thorn]

another factor is there's just so much content out there that I like that it's hard to say no to trying new stuff

there are books, movies, shows, and games that I "should've played years ago", still haven't, and might never, because there's just so much to choose from

[fresh bane]

I've still not even installed tunic ...

[slim thorn]

meanwhile just ten minutes ago I was in the Tunic randomizer channel engaging in a debate about what the default randomization options affecting combat difficulty should be

[river veldt]

ive replayed Skyrim a lot too, i think i've done like 10 playthroughs

[static bluff]

Skyrim is the best game

[river veldt]

that's true

[static bluff]

It came out on the 360, isn't that crazy

[river veldt]

that is kind of insane

[cerulean herald]

oh yeah? prove it by telling us how many versions you own

[river veldt]

i remember my babysitter's son had an Xbox 360 and he played Skyrim on it

[uneven epoch]

the game i replay most often is fire emblem three houses, but the game i played most of is absolutely ff14 now. does doin dailies count as replayability?

[gaunt marten]

You only need one version of Skyrim

[static bluff]

One

[river veldt]

i think i only have 2

i have the one on my Switch and the one on my Steam Deck

[slim thorn]

yeah FF14 is a perfect example of a "highly replayable genre" that I have zero interest in and thus "don't replay games much" as a sort of side effect

it's also a perfect example of "yes I know I should play it for the story maybe someday"

[cerulean herald]

what genre/type of games do u generally prefer

[gaunt marten]

Videogame

[river veldt]

i guess shooters ?

[static bluff]

Dad games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZGjJbw2NwE

[gaunt marten]

You play farmville?

[river veldt]

yesss i just watched this video yesterday

[slim thorn]

metroidvanias are by far my favorite genre, but I'm also attached to puzzle games, platformers, survival horror, spectacle fighters, shooters, hack-and-slashers, and mixes thereof

[river veldt]

a genre i don't like is traditional turn based rpgs

[gaunt marten]

I will fight you

[river veldt]

im sorry !

[static bluff]

Waits until it's my turn to attack

[river veldt]

they're really boring to me

[slim thorn]

Disco Elysium is the best turn-based RPG don't at me

[static bluff]

Menuing...

[river veldt]

there are some exceptions like Undertale and Deltarune i guess

[fresh bane]

I would only disagree because Disco is so minimal on the turn based combat stuff and it's so much more heavy on narrative and themes than anything

[cerulean herald]

cant beleive cap hates pokemon

[slim thorn]

Undertale probably is in the "exception proving the rule" bucket here since it's not only a deconstruction, but even when you do engage in combat it tends to be a realtime minigame like bullet hell or platforming

[river veldt]

yeah

[slim thorn]

that's the joke

[uneven epoch]

visual novels and turn based strategy, but honestly as long as i can get attached to characters and/or theyre well written, i can power thru most genres

i am however bad at platformers and dont enjoy rhytm games much

[cerulean herald]

honestly I've never really thought of Undertale as turn based

[steep flax]

i like hack and slash, rhythm, and strategy games

[slim thorn]

well, yeah, the actual game often isn't, even if the kinds of RPGs that are usually turn-based are its primary target of parody and deconstration

[uneven epoch]

at this point sayin i like rpgs doesnt feel like it narrows down, anything, so i skip that

[static bluff]

it's a turn based dating sim

[minor plover]

that's a nice looking cabin

[sour hill]

Soulslikes, survival horror, and shooters are my favorite

Also whatever hotline Miami is, I guess

Indie Game!

[slim thorn]

...twin-stick shooter?

[static bluff]

Oh yeah twin-stick shooters are always a good time

[gaunt marten]

Top-down shooter

[random steppe]

Man, I was always interested n Metaphor re-Fantazio because Atlus, but I didn't expect to do so well on reviews.
I was planning to wait a bunch before playing it but this is getting me the itch

[slim thorn]

it's weird how shooters are the only genre that we subgenre by camera angle

[static bluff]

Like 1942?

[cerulean herald]

wheres my 2nd person shooters at

[gaunt marten]

No 1942 is a shmup

Wikipedia describes it as a vertically scrolling shooter

[static bluff]

Oh right

[sour hill]

Not enough first person games with melee combat, ig. Sad!

Chivalry II and Kingdom Come: Deliverance are so fun

[uneven epoch]

kingdom come deliv-

[random steppe]

Shadow Warrior

[static bluff]

I heard from toby fox today that chapter 3 is coming along well

[uneven epoch]

[sour hill]

Technically, that is a shooter [sweetie pls do the bit]

[uneven epoch]

pew pew

[static bluff]

you replied ya silly goof

[sour hill]

Fuck you're right

[river veldt]

technicallt

technically

[static bluff]

talkolly

[river veldt]

whatever

can Sweetie even see threads

[uneven epoch]

.configWittyCooldown 0

[static bluff]

Kinda it's weird

[random steppe]

It is a shooter but it has good melee combat

[static bluff]

what's a funny witty

uh

Wumpus

[random steppe]

Oh right, Vermintide

[static bluff]

i forgot every witty

[random steppe]

Speaking of first person melee combat, this just came out 2 days ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCsEUFz7KX0

[bold sonnet]

Gosh I wanted to play it too I don't know why I haven't

[sour hill]

I'll play tunic eventually

I initially wrote it off as probably being too derivative, but Ixrec has convinced me otherwise

[slim thorn]

makes sense, it does wear its inspiration on its sleeve and is more playing with tropes than doing wholly original stuff

[sour hill]

(derivations of soulslike mechanics don't count because I like them too much)

[random steppe]

More people should derive mechanics from good games.
All the games that derived from Return of the Obra Dinn I played were excellent

[uneven epoch]

i started playin baldurs gate 3 this week, was havin fun.... n then squeenix decided to do moogle treasure trove event from tuesday til new patch and i snapped back to ff14 mode back to mmo mines with meee

[slim thorn]

a lot of Tunic's appeal for me is that it nailed things which imo some of the games that inspired it fumbled at, so it probably feels much more original to me than it's really "supposed to"

[static bluff]

Oh nice, I haven't tried BG3

[sour hill]

I've had that game in my wishlist for so long now

[random steppe]

It is legit a revolutionary game

[static bluff]

I liked Joel Haver's video about BG3 a lot

[random steppe]

So unique

[slim thorn]

I probably should play an "Obra Dinn-like" but just haven't heard of... any? maybe that golden idol or whatever one, but that didn't grab me for some reason

[uneven epoch]

obra dinn is to mystery games what stardew valley is to farming sims, in this essay i will-

[random steppe]

Playing it will ruin every mistery game after it tho

Because it's so obviously the correct way of doing them

[static bluff]

This is the second time I saw a green name make an in this essay i will- joke and I'm loving it

[slim thorn]

I don't play any farming sims, what is stardew to them?

[uneven epoch]

even disco elysium?

[sour hill]

Obra dinn

[slim thorn]

I don't think DE is a "mystery game", in the genre sense

[uneven epoch]

tho i guess paradoxically the mystery itself is backseat in that one

[random steppe]

Did you play the language one, Chants of Sennar, that's an obra dinn like if you ask me

[slim thorn]

hm, I can kinda see that

inb4 one of you links a video about "metroidbranias" and how no one can agree what they are

also yes I played it and loved it and bought my mom a copy and she loved it

[random steppe]

I like it more than Obra Dinn, but like, it's close

[slim thorn]

more than once in randomizer discord I've ended up in a conversation trying to figure out how you'd shake up Chants of Sennaar enough to make it fun to replay, but we haven't cracked it yet

[random steppe]

Hm, I don't know if that one is doable

[slim thorn]

I tend to take the "sadly I don't think so" side of that question

[random steppe]

The stuff you find are so context specific

[river veldt]

i need to play Obra Dinn, i love Pope's other game Papers Please

[random steppe]

They made up several different cultures, and the way they influence each other languages, you can't reshuffle that and make it make sense

[slim thorn]

it's weird that Papers Please is the one I never finished, when somehow I played Republia Times which nobody remembers exists

[static bluff]

Papers Please was difficult

[slim thorn]

(this is your cue to come out of the woodwork, 00s flash game players)

[river veldt]

Papers Please activates something in my lizard brain

[gaunt marten]

Help

[wind stump]

Ah, oopsie. Turns out a Relic I had draws infinite cards.

[gaunt marten]

Master Quest Spirit temple is FREAKY

[river veldt]

maybe i need to get a job as a passport inspector idk

[slim thorn]

did you see #tailchat message the other day?

[river veldt]

no i'll have to watch it later

[gaunt marten]

Why did they make it like this?

The bridge is supposed to fall in my direction

This guy fell into the void and did not die

He's chasing me

This is some creepypasta level shit

[cerulean herald]

what game is this?

[gaunt marten]

Ocarina of Time Master Quest

[sour hill]

It's crazy to me that you enjoy the gameplay so much, because that game stresses me the fuck out

[fresh bane]

I've only seen the demo so far but it looks legitimately incredible, I expect it to be huge it's just not very well marketed and it's getting massively overshadowed by Sparking Zero right now

[gaunt marten]

It's the first 3D zelda

[sour hill]

Maybe you do need to get a job as a passport inspector

[fresh bane]

The main cast is super fun and hey the MC actually talks in this game finally

It feels nice to actually hear your player character for once

[slim thorn]

so I only heard of the game an hour ago and the trailer is telling me "Persona but a fantasy fantasy setting instead of urban fantasy", is that fair?

[gaunt marten]

He's trying to go back to his grave but he can't

[cerulean herald]

there's def a lot of pressure in the last levels

[random steppe]

From what I have seen it seems the story is just really really well plotted, not like Persona games don't do that, but it's good to see that they really knocked the fantasy incarnation out of the park

[sour hill]

I didn't even make it that far

[fresh bane]

Not quite Persona really, it feels like the Elden Ring equivalent of "here's a new game where we apply all the things we learned from the previous games", there's a free demo right now that I absolutely recommend trying out yourself if you're curious about it

[sour hill]

My family and I died horribly or something

[fresh bane]

Progress from the demo also transfers to the full game

[random steppe]

I might try the demo to make sure of the performance if nothing else actually

[slim thorn]

right, probably won't play it myself, just want to be clear since it sounds like this is about to be the thing suddenly everyone I know is talking about for the next month

[random steppe]

Since you know, japanese developers and pc ports

[cerulean herald]

I died but my family fled to another country, I think was my first ending

[sour hill]

Could be worse

[river veldt]

i still haven't finished it

rdr2 has been taking up all my time

[sour hill]

Good

[cerulean herald]

I keep seeing RDR2 and my brain keeps autocorrecting to R2D2

[sour hill]

Yeah that'll happen

[river veldt]

it's like, so good. it might end up on my favorite games ever list

[fresh bane]

The demo is pretty surprisingly huge to be fair there's quite a lot to see and do but hey that's pretty good to me since it's free.99

I would definitely get metaphor if I wasn't already midway through SMTV:V

Even just the world is pretty good it's all pretty interesting looking so far

[random steppe]

This year has had quite a few unexpected bangers.
I already thought it'd have been a meh year for games but if it keeps going this way...

Just have a few months to make up for the rest of the year but it seems to be a pretty stacked end of the year

[hasty patio]

https://store.steampowered.com/sub/977591/ (5USD) Missing a lot of "core" DLC, but if you're interested, it's not too bad at the price. It is a bit older in terms of engine, UI, and tech.

https://store.steampowered.com/sub/368776/ (6USD) bringi Henry has come to see us! This is missing just the OST and artbook (under a dollar a piece for those 3), but has all the other DLC. Sequel is coming out next February.

Both games can be modded (EU IV on steam; KCD via Nexus).

[sour hill]

If you care about medieval shit and open world games, ya gotta play kingdom come deliverance

[uneven epoch]

since we're on kcd, here's a list of mods i recommend for it #1032716748887179434 message

[random steppe]

I did try it but I bounced off of it after a while.
I need a better headspace to get into it properly eventually

[river veldt]

i like how the tomorrowland in Epic Mickey is Tron themed

[gaunt marten]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=u0if1eIeqN0

It's a speedrun of the game we talked about earlier.

Event:
https://www.ausspeedruns.com/ASAP2024

Unfortunately audio is atrocious

[slim thorn]

oh neat, I played that one a while back

[bronze abyss]

remidned me to continue playing through KCD

[quiet swift]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/a-disco-elysium-successor-studio-has-been-announced-for-the-second-time-today-meaning-there-are-now-4-companies-battling-for-the-title-of-za-ums-true-inheritor/

It wasn't just one

[slim thorn]

...yeah, that tracks

[fresh bane]

If we're lucky, this just means way more incredible games being made

[bronze abyss]

gameplay ☕

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/-QlFNp2WtgE?si=7yzpy65THH7glt5J

Hardcore to the mega

[bronze abyss]

the walk was worth it

[dense crypt]

oh deer...

[quiet swift]

You deer

[bronze abyss]

lets fucking gooo

this game also somehow nailed the characters,its so easy to get attached to/actually care about them

[river veldt]

what game is this

[bronze abyss]

kingdom come deliverance

[river veldt]

i like your hounds

[bronze abyss]

hm?

[river veldt]

your pooches

[bronze abyss]

oh those arent mine,i donmt have my own yet

[bronze abyss]

look at my cutie 🥹

[quiet swift]

Where is your dlc horse armor

[gaunt marten]

Why is everyone level 99

[dire gate]

I leveled them

That's the max level in this game

[bold sonnet]

Or else

[wind stump]

why is one of your party members cheese

[dire gate]

Ricotta is cute

[wind stump]

WHY IS SHE NAMED AFTER CHEESE

[dire gate]

🙂

ask falcom

[wind stump]

based Loogie

[slim thorn]

from another server:

Ixrec
they say if you impress <boss> enough he'll reveal Aerith never really died
User 1
Who is Aerith?
User 2
reading this question and then realizing it wasn't a bit aged me like 10 years i think

[dire gate]

I mean yes, FFVII is 27 years old game, but also its remake is still releasing rn and she's in it

[slim thorn]

the allusion to folk legends about ways to prevent her death probably counts as still being 27 years old

[light gate]

Its not on phones, well… it is but… not free. (And not up to date)

[rotund forge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_oU0PVgr0E

......morbid curiosity awaits me

[light gate]

Didn’t he retire?

[worldly summit]

the channel passed on to the kid he had with william afton

[sour hill]

I see

[bitter stream]

Sometimes I wish I was more disciplined in how I play games lol. I've got 5 titles on my shelf waiting to be played, but I'm installing a different game from them to play today instead because i heard it's soundtrack (40k Mechanicus) and was like, yeah I want to play this.
Speaking of, this is the track I listened to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFC7y6Ao3Ug

[slim thorn]

if I actively looked for games I own but haven't played yet, I would never get around to starting any of them

[bitter stream]

ah, I don't think my library is that big haha

[gaunt marten]

Every once in a while I look through my library and play an older game I never got around to

[bitter stream]

nice nice

[slim thorn]

that's probably an exaggeration, but I mean I think it's inevitable that we end up with some stuff we just never got around to playing

[gaunt marten]

My goal is to stay around 33% played

[slim thorn]

at least for me fully enjoying a game has a lot to do with being in the right mood for it, so sometimes I get a thing on sale and the mood never hits when I'm in between games

(sorry Citizen Sleeper, someday, I promise)

[bitter stream]

yeah that's fair enough. Having a matching mood makes an experience much better.

[gaunt marten]

I always confuse citizen sleeper with resident sleeper

[slim thorn]

a lot of that is me strongly preferring games with some mechanical challenge or complex story to them, where not being fully focused on the game means I'm missing out on whatever the game was trying to do for me

games where the appeal is more about spending time within the game world than any specific activity aren't my thing, and make more sense as "impulse plays"

[bitter stream]

I guess I fall more into the latter than the former, even though i like the former.

Like with elden ring, what i've played so far of it anyway. I enjoy the combat system, but i enjoy just traveling and talking to NPCs just as much.

[slim thorn]

yeah, big AAA open world games tend to be perfect examples of this

I've seen a lot of Elden Ring, but if I was playing it myself (assuming I hit none of the usual fromsoft problems) I'd just beeline to all the major map markers and skip half the catacombs and so on

the way people talk about RDR2 also tells me I'd prefer to watch it than to play it (hi cap)

[river veldt]

i love open world games but Elden Ring has failed to really grab me, i'm not sure why

[bitter stream]

I guess it's just the fights you'd be after Ixrec? not the exploration?

[river veldt]

i'm almost wondering if DS1 was a huge fluke for me

[slim thorn]

oh boy, "exploration"

[sour hill]

[slim thorn]

so I've mentioned probably too many times that metroidvanias are my favorite genre

exploration is kind of a thing in that genre

[bitter stream]

aww, that's a shame Captain Mario.

[slim thorn]

but "exploration" means different things to different people

[sour hill]

DS1 also failed to grab you tho

[slim thorn]

there's the "getting lost in a fictional world" kind where you don't have an objective per se, it's more about vibes and moods and spending time, the part of Elden Ring's appeal that's more like Animal Crossing than anything else

[river veldt]

yeah but then when it got me it really got me and it was all i thought about for like a month

[slim thorn]

the metroidvania kind of "exploration" that I'm into is more about filling out all the empty spots on the in-game map, marking every item I can't reach and door I can't open yet, and deciding what route to take when I want to revisit an area with abilities I found later, eventually working towards getting 100% of the collectable items, etc

[gaunt marten]

Play Crystal Project

[sour hill]

Could be the same for elden ring. Just give it another shot after you're done with RDR2

[river veldt]

yeah perhaps

[bitter stream]

See that's interesting, because I play Elden Ring's exploration very much in this manner, just with a different context.

There's map pin icons for example

and less abilities i need, and more skill/runes

[slim thorn]

so, this gets to the ways in which "metroidvania" implies being at least part platformer

[bitter stream]

Some enemies are too spooky to fight now, but maybe later i'll be able to fight em

[slim thorn]

in that AAA style of big open world, there generally is little platforming/movement tech, or not very good platforming, and walking to each map marker isn't nearly as interesting as what you do there

[bitter stream]

huh, so it's that travel is boring?

[slim thorn]

often a literal "hold W simulator" in most of these games going for photorealism

[sour hill]

In Elden Ring you usually find interesting stuff along the way to where you're headed

[river veldt]

that's true

rdr2 is like that too

[sour hill]

It's fairly dense

[river veldt]

i still haven't found the kkk

[slim thorn]

I'm not denying that it's a good big AAA open world

it's just not my kind of thing

[sour hill]

Lol you get good cowboy points for killing them

[river veldt]

YEAH lol

i read that somewhere and giggled a lot

[slim thorn]

this is also why I've been a big fan of "small open worlds" that had some non-trivial movement mechanics so I was almost never simply holding a direction and waiting for my character to get somewhere

A Short Hike has the jumping, gliding and climbing

The Pathless has this flow of shooting targets to build sprint and dash chains

[bitter stream]

Did you see the release of Echo Point Nova?

[gaunt marten]

I got lost in the pathless so I stopped playing

[slim thorn]

and nearly all of my favorite metroidvanias either have a dash button, or have few enough long straight hallways that "waiting" rarely comes up

[sour hill]

Y'know it also helps that Elden Ring and RDR2 are visually beautiful

[gaunt marten]

Maybe I'll get back to it

[slim thorn]

yeah, part of why I'm watching someone else play ER is that it's pretty

[river veldt]

people have speculated that Doom: The Dark Ages might be semi open world. idk how true that is or how it'll work but it's an interesting idea

[sour hill]

Do you just mean having a hub area, or...?

[bitter stream]

I don't know how much of a Titanfall 2 fan you might be, but this game is something I'm watching for a sale : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1836730/Echo_Point_Nova/

Steam

Echo Point Nova

From the team that brought you Severed Steel, dive into a vast open-world FPS designed for both solo and 4-player cooperative play!You play as an explorer with exceptional combat skills who crash-lands on a mysterious planet. This planet is dominated by a ruthless mercenary force exploiting ancient technology to craft devastating weapons. Pursue...

Price

$24.99

Recommendations

1709

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The movement mechanics look amazing

[river veldt]

no like the levels will be more open i think

[slim thorn]

I was just watching the trailer since I've never heard of this

[sour hill]

Pony Life reference

[bitter stream]

what?

[sour hill]

Point Nova looks a little bit like the words Potion Nova

[bitter stream]

Potion seller, i need one of your more pony potions.

[river veldt]

the pony life brain worms have gotten into your head kratta

[slim thorn]

yeah I didn't get that at all

ok that's an easy wishlist, thanks

[bitter stream]

I'm glad it looks cool to you as well haha

[sour hill]

The horrible truth is that I actually read it as echo potion nova - twice

[gaunt marten]

https://youtu.be/PAPQ4TGTh3E?

[bitter stream]

Spyro Gran Prix? sounds fun

[gaunt marten]

Starts by collecting gems for thirty minutes, then swapping games and trying to match the first phase's opponent gem count first

Right side is Spyro 1. Left is Spyro 2

[bitter stream]

ahh interesting, so they have an hour total in both games?

[gaunt marten]

No, phase 2 ends whenever one player reaches the gem number the other player got in phase 1

The winner is the one that reaches it first

[bitter stream]

ok!

[quiet swift]

checks steamDB

Says I've played 47% of my library, but I know there's a fair number that have 0 hours on my steam despite me having beat the game... on steam. So dunno what's going on there

[visual hill]

heh, stopwatch mode for speedrunning

stopwatch was a popular way to play Wolf: ET competitively, teams switched sides and tried to beat each other's objective completion times

[gaunt marten]

Yeah it's now considered novel

[visual hill]

UT99 also did it with the Assault mode 🙂

[fresh bane]

Pfffffff

If you lose enough times the game basically goes ''easy mode now available''

[cerulean herald]

[fresh bane]

got 'em

[river veldt]

was gonna try to play Fortnite on my Steam Deck but apparently it doesn't run on Linux so there goes that idea

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, online multiplayegames tend to have invasive anticheat that just can't run on Linux

(Indie games don't suffer from this often)

[river veldt]

i am vaguely disappointed, was just feeling a little nostalgic for back when i played fortnite religiously in like 2018-2019

[gaunt marten]

You could run it on your phone

[river veldt]

i guess

and my switch too

[astral steeple]

I'm surprised the switch version is even still supported given how poorly it runs lol

[fresh bane]

So yeah uh

Silent Hill 2 Remake is actually great

I dare say, it's a better remake than the RE remakes

Extremely unexpected because I had no faith in Bloober but damn they actually did it, they did pretty good

[bitter stream]

I'm having a feeling of deja vu

have you said this before somewhere else?

[fresh bane]

I did, but I'm saying it again because now I finished it

There was still a chance that the game would fall off when I said it before, but now that I saw it all the way through to the end, yeah it's actually just great all the way through

[bitter stream]

That's good to hear

A lot of people like/have nostalgia for SH2 original

so if the remake is good, that's good

[astral steeple]

https://x.com/KingJames/status/1845203810479653334

LeBron James (@KingJames) on X

Bronny just said he want his own “Skin”. @Activision @CallofDuty talk to me

Twitter · Oct 12, 2024, 8:44 PM

https://x.com/CallofDuty/status/1845229254528860512

Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) on X

@KingJames @Activision We know Bronny is a shooter, let’s talk.

First father son duo in NBA history. Could be a #CallOfDuty first too 👀

Twitter · Oct 12, 2024, 10:25 PM

[minor plover]

Bron is putting such a target on Jr's back

tweeted out last year that his kid was better than some of the guys he was watching play in NBA games. So now that kid is one of the worst players in summer league, he's getting a ton of hate.

which is like, on the one hand really unfair to a rookie fresh out of college who was drafted with one of the last picks in the draft, and on the other hand his dad is basically making him a target

[quiet swift]

[river veldt]

seems like there was a big boy Game Freak leak today

[cerulean herald]

the gigaleak returns once again

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/9qLmQRUBd3Y?si=XStzDAcnoG0jYMfF

New Liam Triforce video

[chilly mural]

just finished watching

I didn't even know that catalyst was a soft reboot

[visual hill]

Max Payne dynamic difficulty be like

[visual hill]

it can only be played using GeForce Now cloud streaming

[wind stump]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/485451778545156111/1295035465761558538/image.png?ex=670d2f43&is=670bddc3&hm=98550904488e6d3173e8beac1b73877d9fd88c29ac155f98202101fce623290c&

Game of the Year

[wind stump]

toad jumpscare

That legit made me jump, lmao

[dire gate]

Outlet ass face

[river veldt]

plugs my phone in

[wind stump]

i like this game

[wind stump]

me when chopping onyons

[fresh bane]

lol my first rage quit wow

[unreal idol]

Gonna resume TotK

But man

It's hard to figure out what to do

[slim thorn]

like, what the main quest is, or deciding which of the thousand activities you want to do?

[hasty patio]

Just do what I do: Have a general idea of what you want to do and get sidetracked to shit. Easy. /s

[unreal idol]

The latter

Haven't played in months

[fresh bane]

When I was playing it the way I did things was doing any quests I particularly liked more than others (mostly Gerudo or Zora related quests) or just try to ''clear'' a region of the map and focus on quests on that region first

[unreal idol]

The last time I played, I took time to find all of the geoglyphs

[fresh bane]

I spent 7 hours straight getting all the roots and towers lol

[slim thorn]

enabling every warp point was always my primary objective, because once I had those it was easy to revisit areas whenever I stumbled into a quest later that asked me to run all over the world, and that gave me a decent framework for "going everywhere" at least once

[fresh bane]

Which is definitely not the intended way of doing that

[unreal idol]

I get decision paralysis way too easily

[slim thorn]

so... open world games are good practice?

[fresh bane]

These things are why I find it so nice to play a game like Link Between Worlds or Echoes because they have the same general idea of BOTW and TOTK but so much more compact and small that I don't get all that stress from all the stuff there is to do and all the places there are to go

I feel like my best advice would be to just not worry about it that much and if a certain quest catches your attention just don't think about it too hard and do it, because the way I play these games which is ''I HAVE to finish all these things before I think about progressing and I have to make sure I cleared every area'' is a sure fire way to suck all the fun out of it

[unreal idol]

It's just awkward to hop in with a scattered inventory and quest log

[slim thorn]

true, it's awkward to resume any game after a long break

[unreal idol]

Restarting is likely a mistake

[slim thorn]

this sort of thing is why I usually try to fully finish or fully drop a game before moving on, to extent that's feasible

and, you know, still fun

https://twitter.com/foxes_in_love/status/1335856893013733377

Foxes in Love (@foxes_in_love) on X

Twitter · Dec 7, 2020, 8:01 AM

[unreal idol]

Yeah

Maybe I should anyway

Otherwise I'll be too aimless

[slim thorn]

focus on what will be actually fun

avoid any pressure to be any kind of completionist, especially from yourself, especially in a game as large as TotK

[unreal idol]

That's good advice

[fresh bane]

I really hope the next next Zelda will be more like Echoes because I don't think I can handle another 100+ hour BOTW-TOTK style endeavour any more

I can definitely see some players being upset and thinking that not doing a game as big as TOTK or even bigger would be a 'step down' but man it's just too large

[slim thorn]

Ixrec — 11/28/2023 9:36 PM
I do think "make the next game TotK but EVEN BIGGER" would be a very bad move
but I also think there are more interesting things they can do with the format than just MOAR STUFF

Nintendo: What if we made it SMALLER?

touche

[gaunt marten]

The biggest trick I have for handling choice paralysis is to lower your threshold for discarding options

If you can find any reason to not pick one of the options, remove it from the list

Even if the reason is arbitrary

[fresh bane]

They really kind of did! It feels like ALBW but bigger obviously, and honestly the size and scale of the game in every sense feels just right

But of course, Echoes is not only a 2D Zelda game but also it has a lot of reused assets so it's not ''the true sequel'' (I've already seen people say that), so we'll see if they still go for this for the next ''true'' Zelda

[unreal idol]

That's tough

[gaunt marten]

It gets easier once you do it a few times

[bold sonnet]

It was my first Xbox 360 game and I love it

I always wanted to do parkour but I've learned it requires you to have good upper body strength

[bronze abyss]

bandai should just give up and bring back support to tekken 7,8 is so dogshit and they are completely clueless bout what they are doing with the game

fundamentals of the series that used to be required for high level play for decades are suddenly being punished,instead of playing defensive you have to go on mega offense and if you dont have a character thats capable of that you're either fucked or have to put in SIGNIFICANTLY much more effort just to survive let alone win,and even then its sometimes not possible cuz of the amount of 50-50s

movement is completely useless now as well in a series that was defined by its movement

the gmae was fucked since the start but i had some hope they would bring it back to the proper path but nah,its still nearly just as fucked as before despite being out for almost a year

[bitter stream]

did they do a new change to the game or do you mean the system changes going into 8?

[bronze abyss]

1.heat system being added,heavily rewards aggressive play and punishes defense
2.movement has been nerfed to the point its near useless,encourages aggressive play punishes defense cuz you cant option select as well anymore
3.new additions and changes to characters made a lot of them much more focused on aggression,some of them dumbing down characters to just a barrage of safe or heavily evasive moves or 50-50s or other dumb properties
4.entire concept of installs being added,fuck that,even 2d meter wasnt as bad in t7
5.new characters that have been added all focus on both heat and installs and are also designed as heavily aggressive characters giving even less chance for defense

and defense focused characters being also being pulled to the more offensive side,which just ruins them cuz they were designed to be focused on defense but now they are bad at both isntead

[bronze abyss]

both

oh yeah forgot to mention regenerable heath and chip damage,2 of the most dogshit concepts in the case of tekken

[bitter stream]

I know in the leadup to the release they were pretty keen on making the game as a whole more aggressive, though looking at the steam charts, it seems to be working?

T8 is doing really well on steam at least

[bronze abyss]

stat wise it will do well,but its hurting dedicated players a lot

[bitter stream]

aye aye

it's more like a street fighter update than a tekken update

I guess

[bronze abyss]

if a person isnt invested heavily in the games ofc just pressing buttons and seeing shit happen will be more fun than getting every one of your attacks blocked and punished,but that hurts competitive integrity and its showing

comp wise theres like 2 meta characters and if you dont pick them you're literally throwing cuz of how much better they are

[bitter stream]

That does seem solveable with some balance patches, but like you said, it's been a year, and there was that patch with the floor break changes.

[bronze abyss]

only a part of it is solvable with them,another part needs them to change the game fundamentally

[bitter stream]

the competitve scene is a huge advertisement for the game, so one would hope they'd want to keep it diverse in terms of roster

[bronze abyss]

unfortunately that isnt the case,tekken 7 had fucked up metas as well but they werent anywhere near fucked still,not counting early leroy days all other metas had at the very least top 5-10 characters that were still very viable,and the rest of the cast wasnt far enough behind that it would be impossible to win,but now its worse,2 top characters everyone else suffers or has to bullshit their way through it and hope it works

[bitter stream]

i don't know if they can 'walk back' the changes from 7 to 8 so easily, since they have a larger audience already bought in to those new changes. They could do it and just lose all the new playerbase and someones probably made the calculation at the top that they'd rather do less work and keep the new playerbase rather than older dedicated players.

[bronze abyss]

i mean they definitely cant,thats p much why im saying the game is fucked,what scares me even more is that each new game went towards this direction bt none of them this hard,so fuck knows what they will do in t9/tag 3

[bitter stream]

I mean, if the games direction has fundementally shifted away from what you like, why would you even play t9?

[bronze abyss]

and its not as simple as just "playing the old games" cuz playerbases for those are shrinking if not entirely extinct since its a multiplayer only game

[bitter stream]

hmm, I guess it depends on who you know and where you are right?

[bronze abyss]

its still the only fighting game that fits me and i have invested hundreds of hours into it

[bitter stream]

are you still having fun with t8 though?

[bronze abyss]

kinda but not really,even if you matchmake on third party platforms its still gonna be visible,at most you'll have a couple players to play with and thats it

[bronze abyss]

depends really what character im going against

[bitter stream]

yeah I guess that makes sense

Though in some cases, small fighting game communities can make games worth playing fairly easily

Melty Blood as an example i guess.

it's not huge, but it held players pretty well

MvC2 has somehow held out as a competive game even with the failures of MVCI

It's honestly kinda sad seeing how Justin Wong managed to convince people to refund the remakes because he happend to thrash like, half the servers for those games on release

or maybe all the servers for those games, dude is a beast.

[bronze abyss]

but then it gets more about knowing who you are against not actually getting good at the game

how you approach a game changes completely when its same few people you go against,you look for ways to exploit their specific quirks instead of relying on just being fundamentally better

[bitter stream]

Sure, but idk how many players you need then to reliable get fresh faces.

Not many games are SF or Tekken

they can't rely on pulling millions of sales

hell, even the "popular" Gran blue Fantasy versus Rising only gets like, 700-1000 max daily players

[bronze abyss]

yeah and thats the point,theres not really many options to switch to so im stuck with tekken,ive playued enough discord fighters and im more than confident in the fact that a small community is not who i wanna play with

so if i wanna play any fighting game at all its tekken,and that shit is degrading fast

[bitter stream]

fair enough, that sucks

[robust latch]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/399173615771451404/1295360839175634944/image0.jpg?ex=670e5e4a&is=670d0cca&hm=98428d02c5406bcf98873f8da2bd8233991050427e97912ae55ad866ef28c8b5&

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/BobWulff/status/1845640849859678580

LMAO

[gaunt marten]

If it's cycle accurate it's the same thing as on a console

[wind stump]

[worthy rose]

Erm, Target? Ya good?

[random steppe]

lol, that's likely a mistake

Maybe that store didn't recieve the notice from the main company to pull those down

[worthy rose]

I was thinking about mentioning it

[little badger]

Will be P2W since it’s Netease https://x.com/geoffkeighley/status/1845864701130928590?

Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) on X

DESTINY RISING has been announced, a new free-to-play mobile game from NetEase, licensed from Bungle

- First and third person.
- Set in alternate timeline, post Dark Age era.
- Closed alpha in November.
- 6 player co-op strikes, PVE/PVP modes and campaign.

Twitter · Oct 14, 2024, 4:30 PM

[rancid herald]

it's actually an interesting question; it's one thing for a story to have stock of an mmo that failed years later, but what about these stores who bought all these copies and then it failed?

[slim thorn]

hm... ideally, laws would be updated to classify a multiplayer-only game whose servers were taken down with no private hosting alternative to be a defective product you simply can't sell any more, and then the conflict would shift to retailer vs producer where it arguably belongs?

[smoky sonnet]

probably more fun and coherent than the actual game

[little badger]

I haven’t played Destiny in ages but the new mode looks fun.

[smoky sonnet]

onslaught?

sure, but new maps for it being sold as seasonal content has soured me on it

and the story taking less than 2 hours, busywork included

[little badger]

Oh the onslaught isn’t free?

[smoky sonnet]

the two new maps aren't? i think?

but either way they're the only content for 6 weeks of a $12 season

[little badger]

Ah

[smoky sonnet]

i would recommend against touching the game again personally -someone with 3.9k hours in it

[little badger]

I would need to check the last time I played it

[dire gate]

https://touhou-gamejam.netlify.app/en/
@wind stump

[wind stump]

touhow

[worthy rose]

https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/city-builder-timberborn-received-colossal-patch-update-6-heralds/z073e1 woof, a big increase

[worldly summit]

aw shweet the chinese gaming industry

[astral steeple]

https://x.com/OWCavalry/status/1845914989632340392

Overwatch Cavalry (@OWCavalry) on X

Earn the "Kitten of Discord" Title in #Overwatch2 🐈‍⬛

This exclusive prestige title will only be available at Tier 175 of the Season 13 Battle Pass!

Twitter · Oct 14, 2024, 7:50 PM

They did not think this through lmao

[quartz pawn]

oh no

[fickle garnet]

They knew exactly what they were doing

[river veldt]

i found the KKK in RDR2 and killed them all

[gaunt marten]

Forwarded from Crystal Project creator

[rotund forge]

The next Nintendo console's codename is officially: Ounce

.....why?

[gaunt marten]

Probably because it's small

[river veldt]

why was the Gamecube called Dolphin ?

[gaunt marten]

Because it would leap over the competition

[bold sonnet]

Xbox consoles had wierd names too

One of them Lockhart like that professor Gilderoy Lockhart

[green fulcrum]

It's just a codename. The Switch's codename was Project NX or something like that.

[gaunt marten]

Because it was the next step

[toxic seal]

The PS5 was Project Scarlet IIRC

Or wait was that the Xbox Series X

Something was Project Scarlet

[light gate]

I think PS5 was Tempest

nvm, that is the sound engine

[gaunt marten]

Because red kills the green

[weak river]

I do like the implication that Flitter was personally responsible for the creation of all of these codenames.

[gaunt marten]

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/4678768276768588864

Looks like Steam is handling the new German age rating requirement okay

[graceful bridge]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/cult-of-the-lamb-built-a-replica-of-the-lambs-temple-and-officiated-two-genuine-weddings-at-pax-australia/

[bronze abyss]

i saw pics from it and its absolute peak,only ceremony id want is this 🙏

[wind stump]

That's a great first impression!

[gaunt marten]

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

Japanese any% run Speedrun of the FF7 2015 PC release

[young creek]

how does Overwatch keep getting better..

[bronze abyss]

mhm,i loooved the latest balance patch, juno really needed nerfs 😌
buff ana plz

[fervent oar]

Also another Mauga buff would be very nice to see

[wind stump]

REINHARDT ALL MIGHT

I'm not even a Hero Aca guy, but I am a Rein main

[bronze abyss]

YOURE NOT A DEGEN DVA MAIN???

[wind stump]

nop, but i do have her black cat and police outfits from when iplayed OW1

[bronze abyss]

i have the black cat skin from ow1 as well

rn i just play juno ana kiriko primarily

from time to time hop on tank for orisa or dmg for widow sojurn or mei

[wind stump]

meanwhile my friend who plays OW2 mains Juno and he's hyped to see Juno fiinally get a skin

and he recently binged MHA

[bronze abyss]

i want a normal skin for her

and for her to be un-nerfed she didnt need them

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/ThorgisArcade/status/1846150429614207474

god dammit

Capcom's insistence on not doing a new Darkstalkers is really frustrating, it's up there with their most popular franchises, still remains as popular as it was before, people clearly want a new one, they continue to acknowledge Darkstalkers is still in their minds by adding characters to other fighting games like MVC and adding cosmetic Darkstalker stuff in SF6, and they just keep refusing to do it, ever since 1997

[quiet swift]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/cult-of-the-lamb-built-a-replica-of-the-lambs-temple-and-officiated-two-genuine-weddings-at-pax-australia/

love the cultist attendees

[visual hill]

the other one was even done in fursuits 🙂

[green fulcrum]

This honestly feels like something Stupendium would do, lol.

[bronze abyss]

i was so fucking close....

.....i just fucking fullcombod this

[robust latch]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2941360/Pie_in_the_Sky/ LOL

Steam

Pie in the Sky

Pie in the Sky is an old-school, action arcade game where you play as an Australian Magpie. Steal food, swoop people and complete objectives to rack up a high score and cause as much chaos as possible. In order to find a new home for your chicks, you'll need to visit iconic Australian locations, meet the locals and show no mercy to the humans ar...

Release Date

2025

▶ Play video

[river veldt]

https://x.com/golbangbb/status/1846361719880536110?s=46

ㄱㅂ (@golbangbb) on X

Gordon Ratman....
#halflife #gordonfreeman

Twitter · Oct 16, 2024, 1:25 AM

[bitter stream]

that's so cute

[weak river]

"Gordon Ratman, in the fur."
-The G-Mouse

[river veldt]

ikr

look at his little HEV suit 🥺

[rancid herald]

this feels like a game someone should make

half life 2

but everyone is mice

(except the mice, who are tiny humans)

[river veldt]

https://fixupx.com/dingitydingus/status/1846438635744514114?s=46

i love mario's face in the second image

[cerulean herald]

[gaunt marten]

Is this the toad in SM64?

[river veldt]

ye

in SM64DS the toads are really mean to Luigi

[gaunt marten]

https://preview.redd.it/ugadt2vwij901.jpg?width=346&auto=webp&s=6e3c132d1924bb78953858251f477ab922d18d89

https://old.rxddit.com/r/Mario/comments/1b4rn4s/the_toads_hilarious_luigi_roasts_in_sm64ds/

[proud warren]

giving king boo a run for his money on being the world's biggerst luigi hater

[craggy vine]

G5 ponies are gonna make the G4 helicopter

[dire gate]

"Speedrun ends as soon as the game is saved"
"Yeah but the game failed to save last time"
"I'm actually scared"

Save...
Save failed

"...stop the timer please"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Nwb7L_EUA
(Japanese)

[gaunt marten]

Does failing to save disqualify the run?

[dire gate]

They aren't sure actually, they talk about exactly that near the end

Also the game actually saved, it just displayed "save failed"

[river veldt]

https://fixupx.com/_danon/status/1846339683103412252?s=46

[dire gate]

Minecraft on a dream...

it would be very...lucky...

[quiet swift]

steam next fest... seems there's a demo of the game where you can parry a nuclear blast, or gravity

Or rather parry the ground as you fall to it because of gravity

[gaunt marten]

Not sure if actual effort or AI

[hidden elbow]

Pretty sure its not an ai , smaller details like mario head and starts are not mushed ,all letters in hp /exp and "black messa research facility" are correct

[gaunt marten]

There are AI models that specifically recreate video game images

They don't run into the errors you describe

[hidden elbow]

Hm

[dire gate]

I went into the uploader's media section to get hints
I regret
It was beyond my ability to comprehend stuff

[gaunt marten]

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/new-ai-model-learns-how-to-simulate-super-mario-bros-from-video-footage/

Example of an early model of that variety

And an early tool that generates gameplay videos that are not specific to one game
https://sites.google.com/view/genie-2024/home

[hidden elbow]

.....ok its most likely not an ai they are just really weird

(tbh that the boys parody was hilarious)

[gaunt marten]

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/new-ai-model-can-hallucinate-a-game-of-1993s-doom-in-real-time/
A more advanced version specific to doom

[arctic fern]

https://youtu.be/_3fkGHIXEcM

[quiet swift]

ooh, new hades 2 major patch!

[sacred grove]

Cool tech, but replacing game engines? lol, no

why yes, I'd love to run a version of Super Mario Bros that takes orders of magnitude more resources to run than the original

[gaunt marten]

Yeah the claims are absurd and stupid

[arctic fern]

also you cant copyright anything made by an AI, so good luck not having your game pirated and even legally re-sold day one
you could sue but it wouldnt stand up in court

[sacred grove]

Well I mean, the whole point of a game engine is that you can make a game with it, with specific choices and design and everything. A demonstration of Mario or Doom re-created with image AI is.... not that at all

[gaunt marten]

This is irrelevant. People could not pirate the game because it's not a game, it's an interactive video

[worldly summit]

I feel like generative AI isn't being utilized very well in applications like these

Infinite Craft is the only good AI game I've seen so far. You couldn't make it without AI (mostly) and it still has exact rules of play

[sacred grove]

For Infinite Craft, the main thing that AI does there is provide a vast pool of knowledge from which to generate items. If you took enough time to collect data for the game, you could feasibly do it without AI, it's just that it's quicker to do it with a language model

[worldly summit]

carykh created Elemental 3 years prior which worked based on user-submitted (and user-approved) combinations, and couldn't keep it up forever

[fickle garnet]

I bought Teardown

Was gonna buy Abiotic Factor, but decided to buy Teardown instead

[gaunt marten]

Have fun

I'm still waiting for a big sale on it

It should be a tenth the current price

[fresh bane]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1996010/view/4511009823935259465?l=english

ayyy crow country update

and merch?

[fickle garnet]

i didnt really like teardown that much

im just gonna refund it

[gaunt marten]

That's unfortunate. Good luck with whatever you play instead

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH3jT53hIYM

[green fulcrum]

Was scrolling through Reddit's front page because I'm bored at work (1-ply rolls today, which means I'm not needed), and I see this...

Literally never heard of this game before, yet somehow it has won 3 GOTY awards. I call shenanigans.

[bronze abyss]

what did they do to dionysus

[rugged flax]

ew the cards are NFT based and it uses the Ethereum blockchain
and it's still a Beta
and 3 Game of the Year Awards is a damn stretch
they won 3 awards in the second annual Gam3 Awards
Best Strategy Game, Best Card Game, and Game of the Year
I can't find any mention of any other "awards"

it's crypto bullshittery, don't touch it

[green fulcrum]

Obviously it's crypto bullshit and I won't touch it, half the ads on Reddit are like that, I just found the awards claim to be stupid beyond belief.

Also, apparently NFTs are like 96% dead in all the markets, sooooooo...yeah, good luck selling an NFT game, lol.

[bronze abyss]

theres still money to be milked in the few that believe

[green fulcrum]

I'm convinced that Square Enix is that last 4% still standing.

They just will not admit that they screwed up with NFTs and are dedicated to sticking with it.

[quiet swift]

He has large... grapes. 🍇

[bronze abyss]

despite being bi,not a fan of this sprite

[green fulcrum]

...Huh. So he does.

[fickle garnet]

Oh my god i was not expecting that😭

[bronze abyss]

he was cuter in the first game

him though 😳

[quiet swift]

[green fulcrum]

All of them though

[bronze abyss]

HIM THOUGH
just look how goddamn cute he is

[green fulcrum]

I know, haha

[bronze abyss]

i love cow-boys with big horns

AND cow-girls

[green fulcrum]

Love the pink highlights, they stand out so well.

[river veldt]

i hope Hades 2 is complete soon i wanna play it so bad

[quiet swift]

I'd say first quarter of 2025 at the earliest

[dire gate]

Clearly before Silksong

[quiet swift]

We'll see the heat death of the universe before silksong

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/Ben_Rosado/status/1846273378899964119?t=M3bvwQB1BYOH-deQbSstCA&s=19

Oof yeah people over twitter are losing their minds at some of the latest layoffs including some pretty big senior artists, this one was the one responsible for that huge Ahri skin, I guess still not good enough for Riot

[gaunt marten]

I hereby officially organize a hundred game of the year awards and award them all to this game

[bold sonnet]

Sending headset on warranty but with a little surprise so that it maybe can make someone's day better

[quiet swift]

Man, there's a heckuva lot going on in here

[rare garden]

Found waldo

[river veldt]

surprised there's no TARDIS anywhere

[quartz pawn]

Tardis right there.

[river veldt]

oops

[wind stump]

overwatch is like an uneven floor

it fucking tilts

[dire gate]

https://fxtwitter.com/GoodSmile_US/status/1846919127350305241 @river veldt

[river veldt]

oooh

[little badger]

About To start it lasts 25 minutes https://www.youtube.com/live/mF6rXas66ns?

[river veldt]

oguh i might have to watch to see if there's any Doom Dark Ages news

[bold sonnet]

Oooo thank you 💖

The show didn't start but they're showing some trailers

[little badger]

That’s what the show is

[river veldt]

let me know about any Doom stuff

[bold sonnet]

Ooo

Means I have to make sandwiches faster I read wrong and thought it starts in 25 min hahaha

[little badger]

[bold sonnet]

O, Submautica 2 I think some people here like

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I heard of this one, this looks fun and creative

Eternal Strands might be really good, we'll see

Big woofer

This looks clunky but good dog

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Very colorful

505? I heard this name

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You know they are gonna kill the dog before it ends for cheap emotional manipulation tho

Or at least fake it

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Is this Sekiro 2?

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This looks fun

Lot more supernatural stuff than Sekiro

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I like Asian vibes

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This looks surprsngly competent

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does Sekiro have the umbrella guys

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505 Games is big studio I think

But can't remember what they made

O, control?

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the published Control i think

and the Minecraft console editions before Bedrock

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I didn't see if they were a publsher or a developer for the other one

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That was nice

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sorry i was thinking of terraria

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Publushers, so the devs are Leenzee

I think this is their first game, this is one of the best looking tralers for a soulslike I've ever seen gameplay wise, very impressed

Oh actually nevermind it's not the first one