general gaming

[robust latch]

yeah watched his

there was one guy i forget who he was but basicly spent his entire lets play whining about the game. dont know how that guy has soo many views on the channel when all he did was complain about pretty much every element

[green fulcrum]

Follower loyalty, I guess

Probably just played the game because it was a new thing and he threw it into a vote on his channel somewhere and didn't actually expect it to win.

Another puzzle game that's great is Quern. Very Myst/Riven-inspired, not just in the art style but also with the puzzles.

Weird that Dilandau hasn't played it yet, since it's right up his alley.

[robust latch]

hmm i own Quern but never played it yet

there's another game i got growing up which was apparently very myst like also never gotten a chance to play.

Schizm: Mysterious Journey https://www.gog.com/en/game/schizm

one of these days il get around to playing all the games i own

[green fulcrum]

Ooooooh this one. I remember this. I started to play it when I was younger but never finished it. I remember it being pretty tricky.

The acting in it is also pretty terrible, lol.

It had sequels too. Two, I think.

Maybe 3?

[slim thorn]

I know I've played Schizm but I have absolutely zero memory of what's in it, I'm guessing that means it was mid but I'm not really sure

Quern was great

[hushed onyx]

I was actually thinking of that one earlier but couldn’t remember what it was called

[green fulcrum]

I remember the gimmick of Schizm being that you played as two characters, both stranded on opposite ends of the world, and they have to work together on either end to solve puzzles for each other and meet up, as well as figure out where their other scientists went.

[river veldt]

steam fall sale starts tomorrow

[robust latch]

i dont remember the last game i bought on steam. i avoid it mostly now days due to the DRM and well just not play8ing many games. Im glad soo many indie games now days use multiple stores

[gaunt marten]

When's the steam winter sale?

[gaunt marten]

Steam DRM is optional and up to devs to implement. Most indie devs don't!

[river veldt]

i think the 19th

[gaunt marten]

Wow seasons are so short nowadays

Summer sale must be in February

[robust latch]

oh so some games can be launched without using steam and directly from the EXE?

[gaunt marten]

Yeah!

See the big list of DRM-free games on steam

[hasty patio]

You technically can even with Steam DRM, with a little tweaking IIRC.

[gaunt marten]

Well that's pirating

[hasty patio]

The idea is that you get it on Steam, but don't use their launcher to launch and play it.

[robust latch]

good to know. last time i was really using steam a lot it was just not fun to try and avoid using steam for anyhting but the download always had to be the launcher or running

[gaunt marten]

Anyway, if you launch a game without going through steam you do miss out on steam features like workshop subscriptions or achievements

[robust latch]

the tweaking is not worth the effort vs a lot of stuff i ever want to play being on other stores luckily

[gaunt marten]

So if the other platforms offer those, go for the actual version

[robust latch]

yeah its nice being able to keep a collection of installers

[slim thorn]

also important to note that Steam DRM is a very light form of DRM, only intended to deter the most casual attempts at piracy, with few (none?) of the practical problems that more infamous DRMs cause

in my case I personally value having most of my games on a single platform more than micromanaging the best versions of each game, so I generally stick to Steam

[robust latch]

steams ability to just take things off you is something im not a fan of. but that can be solved by just downloading everything and keeping it

[slim thorn]

yeah, I've never tried it but have always heard that Steam DRM is easy enough to remove I'm not worried about it for archiving purposes

heck it doesn't even stop me from locally duplicating some of my games' folders for modding purposes

[robust latch]

steams ability to have multiple install locations is useful.
For everything i have on steam i 'install' it to my NAS.
when i want to play it i use the move install folder option to move it over to my desktop. ocne done move it back to NAS

[slim thorn]

and for normies like me, "Steam is close enough to a NAS"

[robust latch]

i hate having to redownload things just seems like such a waste to me. but then again i grew up with monthly data limits and its just a habbit i have not been able to shake even though net has been unlimited downloads for years

[fresh bane]

https://fxtwitter.com/SlLENTPRINCESS/status/1861279621704036706

I wonder what the thought process behind the timeline placement is anymore, I wonder if they're just kinda spitballing it
I saw people getting confused that Echoes wasn't a Link's Awakening sequel, and I feared that might happen due to the artstyle reuse

The fact that TOTK feels so disconnected from the rest of the franchise that it contradicts and conflicts with stuff from Breath of the Wild is still wild to me as much as I love this whole timeline stuff (and admittedly at a point in time they did stick by it pretty well) they really just seem to want to do one-off stories every game and they should just do that

[cerulean herald]

https://x.com/Palworld_EN/status/1861560568756462079

Palworld (@Palworld_EN) on X

2024 isn't finished yet for Palworld and we have some exciting news about the next update coming VERY SOON...

But first, we want to tell you about something happening in 2025!

! ! ! Palworld x Terraria ! ! !

More info coming soon!
@terraria_logic

Twitter · Nov 27, 2024, 12:00 AM

[bronze abyss]

HOLY FUCK

2 OF MY FAVE GAMES COLLABING

[light gate]

[visual hill]

in Steam's defense, it's rare for the best versions to be outside Steam anyway (nonwithstanding startup speed where DRM-free will always win)

GOG has a history of outdated versions, missing DLCs and all that

some old games do have the superior version on GOG (or sometimes it's only on GOG, like Jazz Jackrabbit), but it's the exception in my experience

[green fulcrum]

Wasn't one of Nintendo's points in the lawsuit that the Palword devs could never branch out anywhere? Did the Palworld devs just say "f*ck that" and do it anyway?

[visual hill]

they are being sued for patent violation

they can still do collabs in the meantime 🙂

[green fulcrum]

Yeah, and one of Nintendo's demands in the lawsuit was to get the Palworld devs to stop branching out with their game in any direction.

[fresh bane]

Did they? I don't remember any of that... but if they did, then I can't imagine that any of Nintendo's demands would go into action until after the whole thing is done assuming it's still ongoing

[green fulcrum]

"Demands", thank you, that's the word I was looking for.

[fresh bane]

The weirdest part is that Nintendo is apparently specifically using versions of the patents from mid 2024, some say that these patents were apparently filed all the way back in 2021, but those aren't the ones being used for this lawsuit, so not only are they being super nitpicky assholes but they're also using versions of the patents they updated way after Palworld came out

[shy flare]

I fucking lost it in the touhou discord server earlier

Fucking lunatic no bomb getting to me

Shes cute right

No shes the worst and I hate her

[bitter stream]

oof, lunatic with no bombs sounds infuriating

[shy flare]

not for the faint of heart

[chilly mural]

[shy flare]

for context cirno is like not a difficult boss, the stage 2 boss. i mean obviously everything is non trivial at minimal the game is very hard but I literally will 9/10 in practice and I played runs for like 1 hour earlier and died to cirno like 6 times and started malding

Im not a big malder either this shit just got to me

U cant really afford to lose a life to her either so its reset randy hours

[cerulean herald]

what makes her a hard boss

[dire gate]

*⑨/10

[shy flare]

nothing thats why i said shes not difficult

Its just like dumbass mental block shit like im very confident in her patterns but for some reason after playing through stage 1 and 2 i get into some weird headspace and die in dumb places

I mean like if you played it youd probably find it hard, even the easiest things in the game are easy to fuck up

[dire gate]

look at this monstrosity

[hushed onyx]

[random steppe]

We got the floppy beaver, leadies, gentlemen and inbetween, we have peaked.

[dire gate]

Interesting game of tetris : https://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html

erasing 5 lines would be a good enough challenge

[gaunt marten]

Glorious https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/677120/view/4462599937284112387?l=english

Heroes of Hammerwatch, after six years, enabled achievements for people using mods

[slim thorn]

started 1000xResist, loving it so far

[bronze abyss]

finally got rabbit and steel legally,the game is great yall should play it especially if you like bullet hells

[bitter stream]

oh awesome, is it worth a pick up you think?

[quiet swift]

Free on prime

[slim thorn]

I hesitate to recommend it until I get to the end, since this is a game that's all about the story and that means how well it ties together later on is super important... but from what I played today, I have no reason to doubt it'll stick the landing

[river veldt]

some good deals going on on Steam

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/Cm9ZGgovEiQ?si=_vK-8kW342j5cl1e
sigh
reinstalls Deus Ex

Deus Ex, everytime you mention it, someone reinstalls it....
also rings true for Vampire Bloodlines

[river veldt]

i wanna try out Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines but it's apparently finnicky to get working on steam deck

[fresh bane]

It's quite pricey for a game that's 20 years old, it remained consistently 20 dollars for quite some time now, it's on sale now though, 9 bucks, it's very much worth a purchase if you're interested in it, probably one of the best RPGs I've played and I got a lot of fond memories of it and Deus Ex, there's definitely some truth to the whole meme that you never quite stop playing them, you just take long breaks, everytime someone mentions it you get that itch to play it one more time

Can't say much about the steam deck experience though, but I'm sure there's resources on that

[sage iris]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/839079054186512415/1311605233780134059/image.png?ex=67497710&is=67482590&hm=cc94adff27f47a0e439c34a092c97d4c084f5c37c48182d415b7314f8901fd3f&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=654&height=653

vote the finals

🗣️ 🔥 🔥

[river veldt]

what is the finals ?

[sage iris]

best multiplayer fps game ever 🗣️

@bronze abyss do your job

[river veldt]

i still dont my goty of the games that actually came out this year

[cerulean herald]

what

[river veldt]

like

my goty is Red Dead Redemption 2 but that came out in 2018

[sage iris]

If you have nothing else to vote then vote the finals 🗣️

[cerulean herald]

I have done my part for the cause 🗣️

[sage iris]

🗣️ 🔥 🔥

LET'S GO BRÖTHER

[bold sonnet]

I still have Mankind Divided to play, got it for $2.50 sealed so that worries me

[grave tide]

This year sucks so much, that I don't want to vote

Only for Factorio as best supported game

[gaunt marten]

You should be less negative

This year was one of the best years for videogames, if you were following the right companies

[green fulcrum]

I mean, 2023 was where all the really heavy hitters were. 2024 was the slow-down year.

[slim thorn]

eh, maybe for AAAs, but this was a huge year for games I care about

[visual hill]

it's like Windows versions: one great year, one meh year, one great year...

[random steppe]

Pretty good year I agree, Factorio Expansion,Warhammer 40k, Metaphor...

[green fulcrum]

True, the Factorio stuff was awesome.

[random steppe]

Not as insane as 2023, like, if Spiderman 2 came out this year it would would have made a bigger splash, but it's just that 2023 was absolutely insane.

[hasty patio]

Helldivers and STALKER 2 (when that settles down a bit).

[random steppe]

And POE 2 early access coming out in a few days

Which is looking like one the best games ever made

If you ask me

Also some surprise hits, like Konami actually being able to competently remake a game they already made

No one though it was possible

[visual hill]

I thought people forgot about Spider-Man 2 rather quickly, despite the hype

but maybe it made a bigger splash among people who plat fewer games

[quiet swift]

I am making grabby hands at metaphor, but... 💸 . It looks so good

https://www.gematsu.com/2024/11/mechanimal-open-world-survival-crafting-game-light-of-motiram-announced-for-pc

Now wait a fuckin' minute here...

[toxic seal]

[quiet swift]

Right?

[toxic seal]

Some designs are departures, but the elephant thing? Almost ripped right out of HZD concept art lmao

From the shots looks like some unholy fusion of HZD, Palworld, and Monster Hunter

The trailer I fuckin swear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IPmpZFdNP4

[slim thorn]

this is how genres evolve

[cerulean herald]

[green fulcrum]

I've seen this before.

[river veldt]

the only game i really care about that came out this year is Balatro

[cerulean herald]

is it good, idk anything bout it

[river veldt]

ye

[fickle garnet]

Balatro needs to win GOTY

It would be so fucking funny

[random steppe]

I don't care for poker and I am hit and miss on roguelikes so I decided to skip that one

Happy that it's doing great tho

[gaunt marten]

Balatro is less Poker more Slay the Spire

[fickle garnet]

I havent even played Balatro

[random steppe]

I have seen it played, I know how it works, poker is just immediatly unappealing to me even only as a theme.

No matter how mechanically competent it is, you aren't gonna play GTA if being a gangster doesn't sound like a fun time.

[slim thorn]

I did try GTA4 but just found it painfully mediocre compared to every other shooter (which I'm aware isn't the intended comparison point, but I can't get into open world-ness when the core gameplay it's made of is boring)

[green fulcrum]

insert praying kid meme here

[cerulean herald]

isnt the kid timmy turner

[green fulcrum]

I can just imagine it: the host announces that Balatro wins, and the lone Balatro dev silently walks up onto the stage, grabs the mic, holds it super close, and says in a loud and crystal clear voice: "That's how you f*cking do it, Todd." Mic drop, peace sign, grabs the trophy, leaves, and doesn't elaborate.

[cerulean herald]

wait was Balatro really a one man job

[young creek]

localthunk 💪

[gaunt marten]

Wait until you hear about Undertale

[fickle garnet]

yeah

[gaunt marten]

Or Stardew Valley, Crystal Project

[fickle garnet]

oops didnt mean to ping

[young creek]

lyras christmas

[cerulean herald]

it's good

yeah I didnt know anything about Balatro, never heard of it til it was a nominee for goty

[slim thorn]

I'd heard of it from a few places

that's just the reality of indie games, if you're not actively looking out for them it's gonna be pretty much random when you hear of them

I first heard of Nine Sols because Flitter mentioned it was on their wishlist, and now it's my 2024 GOTY and one of my all-time favorites

[gaunt marten]

Nine Sols is so good

[slim thorn]

I'm sorely tempted to try that level 0 final boss challenge people keep doing for Nine Sols, but for now I've got a few too many distractions to properly grind something like that

including modding Nine Sols

[cerulean herald]

lot of games I hear first about were from this channel as well

[slim thorn]

but for today my distraction is probably gonna be the second half(?) of 1000xResist, speaking of 2024 indies

[fickle garnet]

That game is on game pass now. I might try it

[river veldt]

got Red Dead Redemption 1 and Balatro

[gaunt marten]

Nice

I'm saving my money for the Christmas sale

[wind stump]

Brotato is free on EGS

[visual hill]

none of the GTA games were great for their gunplay, unfortunately

at least GTA IV is nice for its driving, though still inferior to Driver in my book. It's the closest the GTA series got to that personal gold standard

[visual hill]

yay for free Godot games 😛

[river veldt]

i like GTAV's gun play

[visual hill]

Vice City has decent sounds for most of its weapons (autoshotgun in particular)

San Andreas did one step forward, two steps back on that... a lot of them sound awkward or poorly edited, cutting off too early

the animations when NPCs get shot also feel a lot more amateurish

[fresh bane]

what about GTA 3?

[visual hill]

its weapon sounds are probably the least punchy of them all (except the M16), but at least it avoids the amateurish feeling that SA has

even at 30 FPS, the M16 is ridiculous, probably an example of the most overtuned gun in a GTA game to this day

GTA III/VC share the problem that the pistol is useless once you have other weapons though, since precise aiming is either impossible or discouraged (so you can't fish for headshots), and the maximum range is very limited

later games are better on this aspect

I have to give credit to GTA III for not having 150 variations of the same weapon at least. Functionality over form. 👀

[fresh bane]

Yeah but the 70s cop revolver stance on vice city though...

It may just be the different aesthetic but I did always feel like San Andreas had the size and scope but Vice City felt more polished in a way, even though it's technically worse and older, I don't know how to explain it but even as a kid I felt that way

I did always find it funny how many different weapons San Andreas had there's like three different cheats to get three different sets of guns

this reminds me that in the recent update they did for the Definitive Edition they added moving while aiming to 3 and Vice City which is pretty neat

I don't know how much it breaks those games but it did always feel awkward even for the time

[worthy rose]

Aaaand that's persona 5 finished

[quiet swift]

110+ hours

[random steppe]

That finale huh, and honestly the whole "expansion"

Masterfully executed

[quiet swift]

I did follow a guide to max out stuff, and looking up an annoying boss' weakness spoiled me on the last palace. But still, that was a great game. I think 4 Golden still edges it out somewhat for me, I think I like the story better

Definitely eyeing the p3 remake and metaphor now, though 💸

[random steppe]

Metaphor sounds exactly all I want from an Atlus game

For how much I liked p5, I must admit that a lot of the themes aren't exactly hitting home for me, the whole teen angst against the system and adults miss me, Metaphor tho, racial discrimination, political intrigue and stuff like that, sign me the fuck up

I will probably try to free up January and go to town on it

[fresh bane]

Metaphor is fucking fantastic

Probably one of Atlus' best games period

[fresh bane]

It's not even just that the themes of Metaphor are more adult, it handles things in a more adult way, it actually legitimately has really good compelling writing

[random steppe]

To be clear, I do think p5 do have some pretty mature themes to it as well, and they are pretty well tackled most of the time, it's less consistent on it but especially when it involves the main characters arcs, it's pretty good with it.
It's just a bit more of a mixed bag

And yeah the teen angst usually misses me, which is a me thing, not necessarily a fault of the game.

I'm not the main demo for this

[quiet swift]

Also, ||Makoto|| is best girl

[fickle garnet]

I should actually continue my playthrough of persona 3

[fresh bane]

It's not that Persona games don't tackle mature themes, but it's not nearly on the same level as Metaphor, things are handled very differently
I also really enjoy little gameplay improvements, you get pleeeeenty of time to finish any other side quest stuff at your leisure, social links and all those similar Persona mechanics are way better to level up, no need to do complicated guides to get as much as you can in one playthrough and answer specifically to get the most points like it's common in Persona, you just have to spend time with your squad and that's all you gotta do

a lot of those familiar systems are just done so much better it's less of a hassle overall as a game

It's just a dang good time, it's a solid ass videogame

[fickle garnet]

I might try the Metaphor demo

[fresh bane]

The demo is a great way to get a feel for the game, it's much bigger than you'd expect a demo to be

It's like a good 6 hours so you get a lot of time out of it

One of my favourite things about the game that I didn't think I needed in an RPG is that: (very light gameplay mechanic no story spoiler) || once you're high level enough in a dungeon, any enemies below your level you don't even get into an encounter with, they just die after you hit them in the overworld and you get the results screen ||

[fickle garnet]

Oh that's a nice quality of life feature

[quiet swift]

p5 kinda does that with the one hit kill mechanic

running over everything in mementos on one screen, youtube on the other

[fickle garnet]

damn its 53 giggle bites

[quiet swift]

Also, having now played P4 and P5, I recognize how often Gigguk uses its music in his videos

[slim thorn]

iiuc multiple Personas have that mechanic as an unlockable social link bonus somewhere, while Metaphor has it by default, so that's still a significant improvement

[quiet swift]

In p5 it's getting ||Ryuji to rank 7||

[slim thorn]

ok yeah the ending was great too, 1000xResist is definitely a strong recommend for anyone who likes these narrative-focused games with minimal gameplay

[bitter stream]

oh awesome, thank you

[light gate]

I’m too indecisive so I need a second opinion, thinking of buying one of three choices on my PS5. I’m looking for a unique experience but am unsure what to get from these three games.

I could get OneShot World Machine edition, seems interesting but unsure if the ps port is good.

I could get System Shock Remake, not too different but it’d be really nice to see the unique environments.

Palworld, unsure about this game… it calls me but it also doesn’t. Never have played anything like it before so idk what to expect.

What do you all think I should go for?

[bronze abyss]

im bias but palworld is amazing,one of my fave games,has a lot of content,and unmatched charm

[cerulean herald]

I've only played OneShot on PC, it's a great game, though I'm uncertain about it running on consoles tbh (idk how much you know about the game, but the game mechanics would be more ideal to experience on PC imo)

I do not know anything about System Shock sadly

Palworld is an open world survival with crafting and building (on top of the whole monster catching stuff) if you're into base building/battling/grinding/etc it's a worthy investment, could get more hours out of it, in addition to an update already announced for the near future. It's also my recommendation

[light gate]

I mean, apparently the World Machine edition makes it work better on consoles but like I've said... no clue what the game is about besides being compared to Undertale & Deltarune.

But yeah, I'm starting to side with Palworld slowly...

[sacred grove]

I've seen OneShot played on console. They went above and beyond on making it work there

[light gate]

I guess, but I only see a PS4 port.

Can't seem to find a PS5 variant.

And I just remembered that Palworld is gonna be on Mac.

Although I do want to be on the living room so idk lol.

[gentle grove]

System Shock Remake is good but it's hard to look at it

[visual hill]

uh, why

it's meant to have a modern retro aesthetic, and it does it very well in my book

it eschews the usual "pseudo-retro" problems I see in modern indie games

[sour hill]

Oh shit, didn't realize it came out already

[gaunt marten]

@quartz pawn please no clickbait

The game is free to play!

Here's a link https://store.steampowered.com/app/2930160/Nightmare_Kart/

Steam

Nightmare Kart

You are a beast hunter, conscripted against your will to participate in a most peculiar local custom: a tournament where participants race atop mysterious vehicles comprised of copper and steam.

▶ Play video

It is also free on https://b0tster.itch.io/nmkart

[gaunt marten]

You know what, maybe 2024 wasn't a great year for new releases

[river veldt]

yeah...

[fickle garnet]

Got gold on the AMES 85 and the C9 in BO6

[young creek]

there was a new zelda game

[green fulcrum]

...Why is It Takes Two up there? Wasn't that 2021?

[blissful sand]

no that was it takes one

[cerulean herald]

im excited for It Takes Three ngl

[gaunt marten]

Steam only counts release date on steam

Oh, but it was released on steam in 2021. Weird!

[gentle grove]

I mean physically lol it looks pretty but it's literally harsh on my eyes

[river veldt]

Arthur's conversation with Sister Calderon at the train station was heartbreaking

[cinder hatch]

Is it possible for there to be a mlp g4 console/pc game like the last 2 g5 games?

[gaunt marten]

Possible? Yes

Likely? No

[fresh bane]

I will always be disappointed that Hasbro had that chance when the show was at its peak popularity and never took it, they're doing some g4 stuff now again to my knowledge but even just one new game for g4 is just too unlikely

[sacred grove]

As far as new media is concerned, Hasbro has been done with G4 for a while

Personally speaking, I've yet to see an official game that does the universe justice and tries to take it seriously. Hasbro doesn't seem to be interested in that kind of game

[wind stump]

While there's probably not going to be an official G4 game, there is a fan-made platformer called Rise of the Clockwork Stallions DX! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fYrMJ5TRVanK_alAC4_x2JoOpGeapWJP/view?usp=drive_link

[random steppe]

New Warframe fake boyband song dropped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbDG9cyE4hI

[little badger]

No more cooldowns if you fail a mastery challenge

[random steppe]

Yeah, devstream was nice, the new frame looks actually fucking amazing

Sadly they are delaying the infested liches to 2025, but the rest is coming on time

[little badger]

This? https://x.com/warframeupdates/status/1862578026577355135?

Warframe News (@WarframeUpdates) on X

Technocyte Coda has been delayed to 2025!
#Warframe

Twitter · Nov 29, 2024, 7:23 PM

[random steppe]

Ye that's the boyband themed infested liches

[little badger]

Ah.

[random steppe]

Because this game is weird af

[little badger]

I wonder when the other warframe game will come out

Soulframe

[random steppe]

If you notice, it's them, they are the liches, each of these is based on a member of the boyband

[little badger]

[random steppe]

I really hope they play one of the songs when you go fight them because it would be very very funny

Seems like they have a whole album releasing with the update, like 10 songs, I don't even know why they are doing this

Also this update has literally a romance dating sim with some npcs.
Since Reb has taken over the team is just going, there is not stopping them

List of things you don't expect to see in your space ninja looter shooter game

[random steppe]

For Soulframe they say sometimes in 2025 it will be open to everyone but still very early in development, but DE is notoriously slow with development, honestly expect it late in 2025 if at all

[little badger]

It’s good that it will be free to play like warframe but obviously there will be the Mtx

[random steppe]

As long as they keep WF philosphy with those it'll be fine

[little badger]

Maybe a beta soon but we will see.

[random steppe]

I'm legit very hyped for Soulframe, they have basically one story fight in the pre alpha, but it's all they needed to convince me that they are making something special.
if they manage to capture the moment multiple times it'll be quite something

[little badger]

I did the quest a while back with the ||horse|| which was fun

[random steppe]

You mean the stag?

[little badger]

[random steppe]

It's really good, yeah.
I really like the themes and all that, and the whole ancestors thing.
Right now just there isn't much there but with a few story quests, a bit more right of a combat system, and an actual way to make some build variety happen and it'll be off to the races

[little badger]

It gave dark souls vibes

And elden ring

[hasty patio]

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-switch-reddit-switchpirates-court-filing-1851710042

[green fulcrum]

Ah, we're at that point in Nintendo's development cycle I see.

Where they get very antsy.

[quiet swift]

Oof. I have massively enjoyed Elden ring (except last dlc boss because fuck that noise). I just tried wukong. First side boss is a known asshole, try him a few times then skip him. Later try the first boss of the first zone... even that feels so stupidly hard. Too many animation locks and they hurt too much. The combat doesn't feel smooth. Guess i'm not playing this!

(shared from my fiancée's library so it's not like I paid for it~)

[sour hill]

truly the dark souls of soulslikes

[quiet swift]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/234140/Mad_Max/ 2$!

Steam

Mad Max

Online functionality will be retired on October 31, 2020.

Price

$39.90

Recommendations

48333

Metacritic

73

▶ Play video

[random steppe]

It's actually a very good game

So few games with vehicle combat nowadays

I greatly enjoyed playing it

It has the Arkham combat for the on foot combat which isn't special but it's pretty functional

But the vehicle combat is the highlight, you can harpoon pieces of other car and pull them off, throw explosive spears, it's great

[quiet swift]

steam version does seem to have denuvo, gog doesn't but doesn't go on sale either

[random steppe]

It is a 2015 game, the denuvo extra load is unlikely to mean much for the performance of this one at least

[hasty patio]

Denuvo for a dead game. Odd

[river veldt]

heavy RDR2 spoilers ||MICAH WAS THE FUCKING RAT||

[river veldt]

:(

[young creek]

;)

[steep flax]

i found when i was fighting the bosses for my dad that its better to play aggressively, and iirc there's animation cancelling on perfect evade

in a way it kinda felt more like nier automata than dark souls

[quiet swift]

Nier was infinitely easier

[steep flax]

i found it hard lol

there were a lot of cheap one hit kos in nier, so until i learnt that perfect evasion was required i kept dying over and over

wukong feels like nier in the sense that it awards aggression while i find dark souls / elden ring awards timing (although this maybe because i use collosal weapons / slowest weapons i could find)

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPh62xSLzYQ speaking of Elden right

[slim thorn]

were you playing on a super high difficulty or something? I don't recall having any trouble in either Nier unless I went somewhere I was wildly underleveled for

[steep flax]

I played it on hard

The balancing is crazy in automata, hard and very hard isn't too different

I remembered when I played it on hard the first time (right after finishing normal) and putting it down because the difficulty spike put me off

Second time I tried it was last year and since I've forgotten what it was like on normal, I felt a lot less frustrated when it got to the harder stages (I had a lot of difficulty against ending A boss because hes filled of one hit Kos on hard)

I have to admit once I got to part 2 it got a lot easier, and part 3 unlocks a mode which essentially lets you cheese the rest of the game

[visual hill]

https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/1gqfttg/real_life_london_2024_vs_midtown_madness_2_london/

[bold sonnet]

I got an email that my headset is back from service on its way to me 💖

[bitter stream]

woo

[craggy vine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ROFpl8zlc This is a fun video

[little badger]

@river veldt beeeeg install https://t.co/ieA55hfoIk

[blissful sand]

The screen looks uncanny to me

[hidden elbow]

Why steamworld games are so underrated,like i never EVER heard of anyone talk about them , yet from the ones i have played (that being dig , dig 2 , the heist and build ) its a really charming series with a nice variety of genres and love and care put in each of them

[wind stump]

i do have Steamworld Dig 2 installed still...

[arctic fern]

i have steamworld build

i think i ahve steamworld 1 and 2

[gaunt marten]

Do you even talk in Manechat?

I talk about them all the time

[slim thorn]

I tried Dig 2 because of Flitter lol
(got bored and dropped it pretty quick, but I did try it)

[hidden elbow]

My favorite one is probably the heist

Really one of the best turn based strategies i ve played , great combat with zero random stuff , impactful shooting , a big variety in characters and just all an all a god damn great game

[gaunt marten]

Heist is pretty good. I have not gotten around to trying Heist 2

[sonic dune]

This was passed to my friends groupchat

One of my friends said "Superliminal being relaxing to you makes a lot of sense for you" and I'm not sure how to feel about that

[gaunt marten]

Don't think I can fill that up

[slim thorn]

it's a puzzle game with zero time pressure, that's honestly a totally normal answer

there are definitely spaces I would have nothing to put, especially "game you always come back to"

[gaunt marten]

For me it's that it would take way too long to decide on which game

[sonic dune]

Yeah this took me 2 hours

[slim thorn]

if the grid means what I think it means, that's effectively the same as not having one such game

[sonic dune]

Especially for favorite game, and best OST

[gaunt marten]

I'm definitely not including every game either

[sonic dune]

I'm very musically minded person, most of my favorite games have good soundtracks, the three I put there were me narrowing it down

[slim thorn]

yeah I could never pick one favorite game

and I never seem to have strong opinions about or memories of game OSTs

[gaunt marten]

I have been rating every videogame OST that I bought

[sonic dune]

It was really hard for me to pick RDR2 as the number one

Minecraft is an extremely close second, if not tied

But I think RDR2 takes it for its amazing story and characters

Honestly if there was a single player version of RDO, with some more base game activities added, I'd put a fuck load of hours into that

[river veldt]

RDR2 is so good

i should do the epilogue still

||Unshaken playing when Arthur dies gave me mad chills and i almost bawled||

[sonic dune]

That is the biggest reason I have RDR2 as best story

Shit made me cry

[river veldt]

||did you help John escape or go back for the money ?||

[gaunt marten]

My 5 Star OSTs are A Hat in Time, Arcadia Legends, Buddy & Me, Closure, Darkest Dungeon, Dust: An Elysian Tail, Escape Goat 2, Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9, 10, Tactics A2, 6, Now, More than Ever, Frostpunk, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, Golden Sun 1 and 2, Hollow Knight, Ittle Dew, Jamestown, Joe Dever's Lone Wolf, Kentucky Route Zero, Monaco, Monster Sanctuary, Offspring Fling, Owlboy, Rain World, Risk of Rain, Savant - Ascent, Shatter, Stories: The Path of Destinies, Tangle Tower, Tangledeep, Teslagrad, Timespinner, Tiny & Big, Tinykeep, To the Moon, Toki Tori 2, Tooth and Tail, Torchlight 2, Trine 2, The Incredible Adventures of Val Helsing 2.

[sonic dune]

||escape, obviously||

[river veldt]

hell yeah

[gaunt marten]

@wind stump I noticed you're playing Steamworld Dig 2. Try double jumps: Press jump twice in two consecutive frames to get enough extra momentum to reach where you shouldn't be

I recommend binding jump to A and RB, and pressing both at around the same time to do it

[wind stump]

[hushed onyx]

I started a game of Myst III today because of the conversation here recently, but after getting to J'nanin, the hub Age, and solving the puzzles there to unlock the three main Ages of Voltaic, Edanna, and Amateria I...went to save my game but a dialogue asking for permissions popped up and I couldn't use my mouse. I ended up fixing it by force-quitting the game, which lost me all of my progress 🫠

[minor plover]

imma get some hate for this one

[quiet swift]

Aaay, Descent

[green fulcrum]

You...hate Mario? And Minecraft is your guilty pleasure?

I'm more confused than anything.

[cerulean herald]

RIP cap

[quiet swift]

Can't tell what boss fight/art style are

[minor plover]

boss fight: Kerrigan vs Amon (Starcraft 2 Legacy of the Void), art style Overload (from the makers of Descent)

[green fulcrum]

I thought that the boss fight one was something from Starcraft. The eldritch face felt familiar.

How exactly do you fill one of these things in? I'm not good at photoshop or image-creation.

[quiet swift]

screenshot, then copy paste into ms paint?

[minor plover]

I just opened up the template in MS paint, expanded it to like 3x width, and then kept copy-pasting images into the void space to the right. Then I'd cut/drag fragments into the spots they belonged in.

[quiet swift]

[green fulcrum]

Alrighty, let's see if I can do this then

[fickle garnet]

How do you guys edit all the photos together?

I wanna do one but idk how

[minor plover]

I explained it 3 comments before you asked the question

[quiet swift]

Some of these I just can't think of any examples

[fickle garnet]

oh i should pay more attention

[tawny jacinth]

Meanwhile in counter strike

[bitter stream]

did they jump off the map, and hit a Headshot?

[green fulcrum]

I've faced a lot of tough and awesome boss fights but I can't figure out the best one so far.

[river veldt]

this took so long lol

[river veldt]

Zag is a really good choice for fave protag

[fickle garnet]

finished mine except fave villain and boss cus I couldn't think of any

[visual hill]

GTA IV as a "you hate everyone loves" is interesting, considering a lot of people see it as the franchise's worst game

it quickly got a cult classic following since 2020 or so though

people probably realized GTA V went too arcade on many aspects

[fickle garnet]

maybe i shouldve put san andreas there instead

[river veldt]

i was gonna say i feel like everyone loves IV

im not a big GTA guy

[fickle garnet]

thats what i thought too

[visual hill]

yeah, San Andreas is the "universally liked" one by a wide margin

I know a good amount of people who consider it meh (or at least not as good as it's often hyped to be)

[fickle garnet]

was gonna put RDR2 on that one, but i don't hate it, i just couldn't get into it

[river veldt]

that's me with Stardew

i just can't get into it for some reason

RDR2 made me cry

[slim thorn]

that might be a case of where the "everyone" is coming from

when GTA 4 came out, it was back when I paid attention to reviews, and all the review scores were wildly high

[fickle garnet]

i might try RDR2 on pc. Part of the reason i couldn't get into it was because it was on the ps4 which was in my parents bedroom

[fickle garnet]

i thought people liked Dying Light 2

[slim thorn]

I feel like relaxing/stressful are more genres than single games for me

and I don't think I have a guilty pleasure game

[fickle garnet]

i chose Amnesia bc it genuinely stressed me out when i tried playing it

[slim thorn]

right, for me it'd just be the whole survival horror genre

I wouldn't say any one of my favorite horror games was dramatically more stressful than all my other favorites

[bronze abyss]

not really no,has a bad reputation for being more similar to ubi games and also a rough launch,the dlc people wertent happy with either

[green fulcrum]

Damn it, now I have a favorite boss fight, but I decided to change out my favorite villain because I feel there's muuuuch better than Eggman (even though I love that guy).

[fickle garnet]

huh i didnt know that

[bronze abyss]

despite that though,i do believe that techland made up for it plenty and have high hopes for the next game

[slim thorn]

Fortnite in "everyone loves" is a funny one since, I get it, the numbers it pulls in are absurd, but nobody I talk to likes it that much, even the people I know who've played it are lukewarm on the actual game

[bronze abyss]

its a weird case,depending which community you are in its either highly hated or highly loved,most im in so far seem to love it

used to as well,but just dont like the new direction of it

[slim thorn]

I feel like a lot of AAA stuff has those strong fractal community polarization effects where often the game is pretty solid but in a subgenre that's new to some groups but played to death for others

[river veldt]

oooh life is strange is a good one

[slim thorn]

like, not everyone has played enough Ubisoft-style open worlds to be sick of them yet

[bronze abyss]

life is strange is too good for its own good,shit left me as an emotional wreck for ages

[river veldt]

this is not true, i saw people complaining about Ubisoft open worlds back in 2016

[slim thorn]

meanwhile Life is Strange is polarizing because not everyone finds high school teenagers relatable lol

[slim thorn]

that doesn't contradict what I said?

[river veldt]

idk what other way i could read that

[visual hill]

I relate to not finding high school teenagers relatable

[slim thorn]

not everyone plays every game

[visual hill]

even when I was in highschool, since I was homeschooled

[river veldt]

OH i see now

[slim thorn]

some people played enough open worlds to be sick of them when the term had barely been invented, some still haven't played any

like how I've never played any farming sims

[river veldt]

well yeah, "everyone" isn't literal

[slim thorn]

that also sounds like objecting to a thing I didn't say so probably we're too deep in missed context to recover that one

[river veldt]

does the misunderstanding dance

[visual hill]

I 100%'d Spider-Man Remastered, but that's because I barely play any Ubisoft-style open world games, so I'm not too jaded when I play one

it's kind of like BotW, you are not meant to play it back-to-back with ToTK 🙂

(let alone 100% either of them...)

[slim thorn]

tbf that was also an unusually good one, I 100%'d it because nearly all the content was actually fun

[river veldt]

Spider-Man 2 in January ☃️

[bronze abyss]

is it? cant say i've been in many LiS discussions but i also ahvent really heard of anything but love for the game((atleast the first one) before the storm doesnt exist)

[slim thorn]

BotW and TotK I did not 100% but those are very clearly not meant to be 100%'d in any strong sense by a sane human lol

[visual hill]

I have yet to play Miles Morales, will do once it gets on sale

[river veldt]

oh right i have to play that one too

[slim thorn]

I've seen a lot of strong opinions both ways

I've only watched an LP of the first game and its prequel myself, but I immensely enjoyed those

[visual hill]

I think I'm roughly halfway through in BotW, I play it in small doses here and there

[fickle garnet]

i sometimes enjoy Ubisoft-style open world games

[slim thorn]

I think the "all the characters are just insufferable" take I've seen is one that just doesn't lead to discussions, so it makes sense that it wouldn't show up in a lot of LiS-related places

[bronze abyss]

im still in the middle of true colours,need to get back to it at some point but just a lot of other shit to do

[fickle garnet]

not all of them tho

[slim thorn]

my usual issue with "open world" games is that in practice they're often "a good game that keeps turning into Hold W Simulator for 10 minutes between pieces of actual content"

[visual hill]

good traversal is soo important

we need an open world game with bunnyhopping 😛

[river veldt]

rdr2 horseys my beloved

[slim thorn]

the most egregious example would probably be Halo Infinite, compared to Halos 1-5 it just feels like they took half a dozen of the good levels and copy-pasted them 100 times to make a new game; what's there is fine but doesn't hold a candle to any of the previous entries

[river veldt]

Torrent Eldenring my beloved

[bronze abyss]

thats one of the reasons why i think the ubi-like criticism isnt too applicable for dying light 2,cuz it makes that part of the game engaging and fun most of the time

[cerulean herald]

lol Papers Please be like that

[slim thorn]

yep, the DL2 praise makes sense to me even if I haven't played it

[bronze abyss]

if you hyper optimise everything it can be just W sim,but in a regular playthrough its unlikely to get to that point naturally

[river veldt]

i reach some sort of level of zen in that game

[slim thorn]

the open worlds that I like are usually smaller indie ones with some traversal mechanics more interesting than Hold W Simulator

A Short Hike and The Pathless being my go-to examples

[river veldt]

HOW DID HALF LIFE NOT MAKE MY CHART

[slim thorn]

I did have a lot of fun with BotW, TotK and Witcher 3, but in those I still often felt like I was "putting up" with the open world rather than enjoying the open-ness, it wasn't an asset so much as it didn't hurt enough to bring down the good parts

[river veldt]

ok imagine Half Life Alyx where Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines is

[visual hill]

BotW positively surprised me with its immsim-lite aspects

[slim thorn]

yeah, that definitely helped

[visual hill]

I'm pretty sure I solved a puzzle or two in unintended ways

[river veldt]

i don't think ive ever played an immersive sim

[bronze abyss]

i do like how echo point nova was with its open world,just wish the movement mechanics had a lil more depth and ability to exchange skill for flow

[slim thorn]

immersive sims are a weird one, it's hard to figure out what even counts sometimes

like I played System Shock 2 once and I did have fun with it, but not immersive sim fun, "just" sci-fi FPS fun

so for me (original) Deus Ex and Prey (2017) are the only two clear-cut cases of immersive sims I've personally played (and would recommend)

[fickle garnet]

what the fuck does immersive sim mean?

[slim thorn]

excellent question!

Calinou help

[visual hill]

it's a game genre that is about systems behaving predictably, letting you approach problems in various ways

stealth is often a core component of these games, so games like Thief are stealth games, but also immersive sims

[fickle garnet]

oh ok

[visual hill]

System Shock is a good example too (made by the same studio as Thief)

[slim thorn]

to me the hallmark of a good immersive sim is that every problem the game throws at you has multiple solutions, typically you'd have a talk-y solution, a sneak-y solution, a shoot everyone solution, and several in-between options like laying traps before shooting

[visual hill]

immersive sims generally avoid special cases as much as possible, such as invincible NPCs and so on, to give you an experience that feels realistic and grounded in reality. You can do silly things, but you'll pay for the consequences

[river veldt]

oh wait i played a bit of Prey 2017 that's sort of an immersive sim right ?

[slim thorn]

and that basically requires the game to have multiple genres of mechanics available to give you a wide range of options with

I feel like I've heard people call Dishonored an immersive sim? again it's really hard to tell where the line is

[visual hill]

(it's also why immsimms can struggle with avoiding dead ends and softlocks too, Strife has a lot of that)

[slim thorn]

yeah Prey 2017 is one of the few clear-cut cases, if that doesn't count nothing does

[green fulcrum]

Finally done:

[visual hill]

in Strife, if you pick the wrong dialogue option in the first 5 minutes of the game, you are permanently softlocked and nothing in the game tells you about it (other than the guards having aggro on you indefinitely)

[bitter stream]

minecraft stress is so real

[bronze abyss]

REALLY recomend finding the opportunity to play hades eventually,its insanely good

[visual hill]

I like how CoD is the ultimate scapegoat 😛

[quartz pawn]

Based FF9 story enjoyer

[green fulcrum]

The Bioshock one is the entire collection. The whole series has an absolutely brilliant story.

[cerulean herald]

whos the villain :o

[visual hill]

(I unironically want to try out its various campaigns eventually)

[river veldt]

Minecraft being here 5 times is so based

[green fulcrum]

Arthas from Warcraft. Brilliantly-written, tragic hero-turned-villain.

[slim thorn]

CoD is a funny one because I'm a huge fan of the first game (and its expansion pack), but especially after 4 it became a typical "'everyone' loves, I don't care" game like so much of AAA

[fickle garnet]

oh i know what i shouldve put for everyone loves and i hate. i shouldve put Hades

[green fulcrum]

I just looked, and it's apparently only $14 CAD right now thanks tot he sale. Looks like I'm getting it. :P

[river veldt]

Bioshock is really excellent too, if "favorite setting" was a category Bioshock would win

[visual hill]

Infinite Warfare's campaign is quite good IIRC, it was really divisive at launch but many people grew to like it

[river veldt]

i build my own rapture back in 2016 on Minecraft WiiU edition

[slim thorn]

I don't think I'm gonna get one of these filled out because I can't think of anything to put for over half the spaces

[visual hill]

(every time CoD tries something new, it's very divisive :P)

[slim thorn]

yeah it's well past the popularity level where it can't do anything remotely interesting without upsetting a large number of people

[river veldt]

ive never been a multiplayer person so CoD has never really appealed to me (and now that ive put so many hours in Doom and Half Life they feel dreadfully slow )

[slim thorn]

hence the best CoD is Spec Ops: The Line

[green fulcrum]

I hope someone noticed what I did for best art style. :P

[cerulean herald]

I dont get it :(

[slim thorn]

I should probably mention that the first CoD was a single player WW2 shooter, multiplayer was barely a thing at the time

of course everything that was interesting and innovative in the original CoD has since been beaten to death, but that's what happens to good games

(see: everyone who plays Half-Life 1 or 2 and says "meh")

[visual hill]

BF had more popular multiplayer back then, with BF1942, BF1943 then BF2

[green fulcrum]

I cut the Octopath Traveler cover in half, and used a poster from Octopath Traveler 2 to complete it, indicating that both games have the best art style. Unfortunately I couldn't line them up properly and after about 10 tries I just gave up and left it as it is now.

[river veldt]

people who say meh to Half Life 1 or 2 are genuinely insane to me. i only first played those games in 2022 and they absolutely blew me away

[slim thorn]

yeah, I can only rationalize it as not everyone is blown away by quality of execution, some things necessarily become less interesting when you've seen other games copy them, even if the copies were inferior

admittedly I have not played HL1 or 2 in a very long time, so it's hard to know how it'd apply to me personally

[sonic dune]

Solidarity ok like 5 of them

[slim thorn]

but I expect I'd still mostly like them as much as I did the first time, with only minor losses to the ravishes of time, e.g. some of HL2's physics puzzles were at the time and are today

[sonic dune]

Why'd I think of Zag from Angel Hare first-

[river veldt]

RDR2 being in best artstyle is simply because there were a few times where seeing distant vistas made me misty eyed

utterly gorgeous game

[slim thorn]

(I'll probably never play RDR2 or most other Rockstar games because points at everything I said about open worlds above)

[river veldt]

if you've played a Rockstar game in the past and didn't like it yeah i wouldn't recommend it

[slim thorn]

yeah GTA4 for me was a textbook case of "I guess people really like the open world-ness of this because for me it's just mediocre gunplay with a lot of Hold W in between content"

[sonic dune]

I just like my cowboy skrimbly

Arthur Morgan my beloved

[river veldt]

Arthur Morgan my beloved

||i love him so much, it's gonna be hard moving onto the epilogue and RDR1||

[sonic dune]

||It's also gonna be hard because you know you just have a bunch of farm work and like 2 actual fights ahead||

[river veldt]

oh no

||well i guess that makes sense since John wants to lay low||

||will i actually be able to kill Micah as John in the epilogue or do i have to wait for RDR1 to do that||

[bronze abyss]

i need to finish rdr2 so damn bad,keep getting spoiled on it a lot but luckily gold fish memory saves the day and i just forget it

[sonic dune]

Do you want spoilers?

||you can kill him, and shooting him isn't a cut scene, so you can shoot him wherever you want with whatever you want, including a dynamite arrow to the crotch||

[river veldt]

fuck yeah

[dire gate]

https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule/52

[quartz pawn]

Took me a minute.

[cerulean herald]

holocure mentioned 🗣️

[dire gate]

[quiet swift]

starcraft 2 is free, at least the first one

[quartz pawn]

I knew ST1 was, I didn't know ST2 went f2p as well!

[minor plover]

there are pieces of SC2 that are F2P from what I understand. Not every campaign and not every coop commander, but some of them.

[green fulcrum]

Oh man, I need to play Sea of Stars

[quiet swift]

Actually i'm pretty sure starcraft 1 is not free at all. Starcraft 2's first release is, the two xpacs after are not, I think?

[dire gate]

[quartz pawn]

It's REALLY good.

[dire gate]

SC1 became entirely free after remastered was released

[quiet swift]

Ah, remastered is the not free

[dire gate]

Unfortunately they didn't do the same thing with WC3

[minor plover]

looks like SC2's F2P setup:

• Wings Of Liberty campaign is free; the other campaigns are $15 each or $40 for all 3
• ranked multiplayer ladder is free but requires some unranked play
• All coop commanders are free up to level 5. Raynor, Kerrigan, and Artanis are free to max level.

[quartz pawn]

Although. if you DO get a Starcraft 1 disk, just use the admin CD code 121212121212121

[dire gate]

And released one of the worst remasters ever

[quiet swift]

Though I believe remaster of SC is pretty good and is 10$?

(and there's also the Carbot skin)

[dire gate]

The best part of SC2's F2P setup is that Arcade is free

[green fulcrum]

Aren't there only 3 campaigns? Why would you spend $40 when you can get WoL free?

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCcg8XUh3tY

[green fulcrum]

Oh yeah, forgot that was a thing

I am still impressed that this guy was able to just wiggle his entire art style into an official AAA game studio.

[minor plover]

4 total campaigns, though Nova Covert Ops is from what I understand a little shorter than the other 3

[green fulcrum]

Ooooooh right, forgot about that one too

[minor plover]

(I don't have N:CO because I don't really care for Nova and hadn't gotten back into SC2 much until after I ran out of money. No work for a year really sucks.)

[cerulean herald]

hopefully the quality is fine enough

[quartz pawn]

I have also not played B/W 1/2

Maybe if they re-release them as a single game?

[bronze abyss]

PALWORLD MENTIONED

[cerulean herald]

hopefully, Ive been meaning to find a good emulator, preferably with console commands (or whatever the term is)

[dire gate]

I don't think that's possible unfortunately

The way how they are designed makes it very hard to combine together

[river veldt]

a Pokémon Gray would have been cool af

alas

[quartz pawn]

Make a pokemon 'It Takes Two' where there are two protagonists that you have to switch between so each of you can smack N like he deserves.

[craggy vine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NRvIHCrOOQ A surprisingly good scam somehow

It's not a 4090 but.. It's still very cheap, for a card that can play older games on high settings, and max graphics on crysis with 60 fps

[fresh bane]

Metaphor finished, that's probably my goty

[fickle garnet]

these fucking options

[green fulcrum]

At least the money one is realistic.

[fickle garnet]

Yeah

[static bluff]

Man, Dome Keeper is a really good game

I just lost but I'm already ready to try again

[river veldt]

man the more i think about it i feel like Rdr2 could fit in favorite game of all time

[quiet swift]

[proud warren]

here's my take on that "favorite ___" thing

[river veldt]

yoooo To The Moon

no Binding of Isaac is a little surprising

[proud warren]

to the moon holds a special place in my heart

isaac is my favorite game I can come back to replay, but to the moon holds that title by far

if there was a "favorite all rounder" game thing, isaac would take that title

[green fulcrum]

Haven't seen a To The Moon reference in the wild in a long time.

[quiet swift]

Yanno what. I wanna see flitter's

[river veldt]

||ah fuck Arthur's last journal entry wrecked me all over again||

rdr2 spoilers

[rotund forge]

Ahhhhhh! How did I miss this!?!?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuy2XXuAvyY

[proud warren]

here's one made by a friend of mine

[craggy vine]

I'm thinking of doing it, but I would have the same game for a lot of them

Even my relaxing and stressful games would be the same

I think a lot of these would have l4d2

Also I don't have an image editor and idk how to fill it in

[uneven epoch]

pretty much. i did this one some time ago in gummy's server n a good chunk of them were final fantasy xiv

[river veldt]

my relaxing and stressful game was Papers, Please

[cerulean herald]

I just used MS Paint, copied pics from google images and just resized them, didnt rly try hard to make it look perfect

[river veldt]

i used gimp

[craggy vine]

I don't have ms paint, I'm on macOS

[cerulean herald]

is there like a MacOS Paint

[craggy vine]

No

All I have is an image viewer

[cerulean herald]

damn

[craggy vine]

I could try gimp though

It's kinda funny, I have software to make music by default but nothing to edit images

[uneven epoch]

paint.net has my pic edit stuff covered, but i do (or at least did) use it frequently

[quartz pawn]

It's out

[craggy vine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0IFXVbXz0E

[craggy vine]

https://youtu.be/wU4yPEFXzo0?si=gElp7i_rCunpYHQ0

TV! Free TV!

[astral steeple]

https://vxtwitter.com/CallofDuty/status/1863599034759295124

LMAO

[blissful sand]

tf

[minor plover]

today's Wordle is very pleasing to me. IYKYK

[visual hill]

HL2 was almost a looter shooter

[wind stump]

made me feel somewhat smart

out of ten

[little badger]

You can now change the sound and Menu appearance of your PS5 for a limited time

[craggy vine]

That would have been cool, but I am also glad it is the way it is

[light gate]

https://www.polygon.com/news/488807/warcraft-2-gog-pulled-preservation-program-battle-net

Be aware that if you bought the games, you still will have access to them and receive further updates from GOG.

It just wont be sold anymore through GOG.

[static bluff]

Jobs done 😔

[little badger]

Tomorrow https://fixupx.com/treyarch/status/1863636750012387343? @bold sonnet @fickle garnet

[fickle garnet]

im downloading Stalker 2 on my pc

[little badger]

https://x.com/treyarch/status/1863647756998348957?

Treyarch (@Treyarch) on X

Confirmed on the #CODPOD, gameplay changes coming to Zombies on Dec. 5:

• Mangler spawns reduced at mid-to-high rounds
• Cap on active Manglers up to Round 100
• Mangler's arm cannon easier to shoot off

Aaaaaand we're making Special Rounds way shorter. More to come in the

Twitter · Dec 2, 2024, 6:13 PM

[quartz pawn]

Bruh

[fickle garnet]

Nice

[fickle garnet]

It is done downloading

[little badger]

[bold sonnet]

Manglers always for me seem to appear from nowhere and I just run the furthers I can I might finally check out the Terminus today

[river veldt]

i wish i liked Halo as much as i like Master Chief

[bitter stream]

do you dislike the pace of combat? what's sort of the thing that makes it not as fun?

[river veldt]

it just feels super slow to me

[bitter stream]

yeah, fair enough

[fickle garnet]

Goddamn my computer fans are working overtime compiling the Stalker 2 shaders

[little badger]

After round 31 the spawns are crazy like 5 can spawn within a second of the round starting

[bold sonnet]

I'm curious to hear what you think about it after some time. Have you played Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky or Call of Prypiat?

[fickle garnet]

I have not played any of those

Also the shaders are finally done being compiled

[gaunt marten]

Favorite game of all time: https://store.steampowered.com/app/248820/Risk_of_Rain_2013/ (Also see the remaster, which I'm still waiting on a discount for)
Favorite series: Final Fantasy
Best soundtrack: https://store.steampowered.com/app/359510/Tangle_Tower/
Favorite protagonist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/368340/CrossCode/
Favorite villain: The black widow superboss near the start of Final Fantasy 8 https://breezewiki.com/finalfantasy/wiki/X-ATM092
Best story: Crosscode
Have not played but want to: Elden Ring
You love, everyone hates/you hate, everyone loves/guilty pleasure: no.
Best art style: Don't really care.
Favorite ending: https://store.steampowered.com/app/367520/Hollow_Knight/
Favorite boss fight: https://store.steampowered.com/app/374320/DARK_SOULS_III/ Darkeater Midir
Childhood game: Digimon World 1
Relaxing game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1055540/A_Short_Hike/
Stressful game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/413150/Stardew_Valley/
Game you always come back to: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1637730/Crystal_Project/ (favorite JRPG of all time)
Tons of hours played: https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/

Honorable mentions go to Chippy, Heroes of Hammerwatch, Streets of Rogue, Assault Android Cactus, Boneraiser Minions.

[fickle garnet]

so far i have enjoyed Stalker 2

[fresh bane]

I want to get Stalker 2 just because I never got to be part of the whole stalker craze, but god damn 160 gb is just too much

[blissful sand]

I tried stalker one

Got lost

[fickle garnet]

it took like 3 hours to download on my pc

[blissful sand]

2 hours in no idea what tf I gotta do

[fresh bane]

Lore accurate Stalker experience

[fickle garnet]

i never played the first one

[fresh bane]

It's jank but it's fun, I never finished it though

[fickle garnet]

in the first 20 minutes of the game i got jumpscared by different enemies twice

[fresh bane]

Yeah that's gonna happen

[bold sonnet]

The zone does not forgive or care

[bold sonnet]

They released trilogy on Xbox and promised to make remasters I think which you'll get when you buy the trilogy (it will change into new). Which is weird a bit. I always thought of those games as being very PC games and it was a big surprise on one of the games events on youtube

[static bluff]

What a good list!

[gaunt marten]

Thanks

[bold sonnet]

I agree with Stardew Valley being stressful, and it shouldn't be!

[minor plover]

Stardew is more stressful in MP because it doesn't pause while in menus. Less stressful in SP, or with a time-stretch mod.

[bold sonnet]

I presume many problems can be fixed with mods, unfortunately not on consoles

[gaunt marten]

There's a lot of games in contention for best soundtrack, favorite boss fight, game you always come back to, and other good games that don't fit in any category

I do use a mod that fixes Stardew Valley so it's less stressful

I'd never play it without

[static bluff]

Favorite villain caught me by surprise

[gaunt marten]

It's an amazing enemy

Not a very good boss fight, but it more than makes up for it with the context

[static bluff]

I wanna hear all about it, either from you or from a good video essay

[cerulean herald]

Crystal Project, CrossCode, and Risk of Rain look interesting

[gaunt marten]

They are great

[gaunt marten]

It's far too late at night to give this topic justice, but here's the summary (for everyone to read):

In Final Fantasy 8, you play as a teenage mercenary about to take their practical final exam. You are sent to free the independent duchy of Dollet under occupation by the army of Galbadia. In there, you learn that the purpose of the occupation is to control the last radio tower in the world.

Your squad leader defies order and climbs up the mountain path to the radio tower, barely failing to stop the tower from going active. At that point in time, you receive orders to retreat at once, but your retreat is impeded by a black widow, an invincible, self-repairing machine of war capable of outrunning and outgunning anyone. You only have thirty minutes to make it all the way down the mountain, through town and to the beach before they leave you to die in occupied Dollet.

The robot, X-ATM092 ambushes you at the radio tower exit and forces you to fight. If you deal 20% of its HP in damage, it temporarily falls down and enters repair mode, at which point you have about twenty seconds to escape or else it'll come back at full health. It's quickly obvious that you cannot win this fight, and so you must flee.

The boss gives chase as you run all the way to the beach, often jumping to cut you off. Whenever it catches up to you, you are forced to put it back into repair mode before you can run again. If you make it to the end, your superiors cover for you using the superior power of the troop lander's machine guns as you enter the lander and leave Dollet.

After you return, you learn that Dollet has struck a deal with Galbadia. Galbadia will withdraw its troops in exchange for permanent control of the radio tower. More importantly, you pass your exam! You're graded by how fast you retreated after being given the order, how many battles you've had, whether you've escaped from any fights, whether you've defied orders or behaved inappropriately, and other factors.

If that was all there is to it, it would be a pretty cool part of the game, but there's more! In reality, the boss can be defeated! The game never tells you this, but with careful preparation and experimentation, you can learn that the boss may only activate its self-repair mechanism five times in a fight. For each time you trigger the boss's self-repair and escape, you are awarded 50AP, a normal boss's worth of AP. This allows you to teach your guardian forces every ability they have at the beginning of the game. Additionally, beating the boss will award you with 100 bonus points on your final exam, which determines your starting wage as a mercenary. The game never tells you that!

Oh also, @static bluff ping

[blissful sand]

Hell yeah that makes me feel better actually lol

[static bluff]

Reading

Oh nice!

I remember hearing from my friend who tends to lie that he beat that boss and I didn't believe him. Maybe he was telling the truth, haha

That same friend borrowed my copy of Legend of Dragoon and broke the third disk, but tried to hide it when he gave it back.

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, that's exactly why I like this boss

The game makes it obvious that you cannot fucking kill it

It lies!

[hasty patio]

Shame. Dragoon was a fun game.

That said, I had a memory card delete itself twice while I was playing it years ago and the game itself crashed during the end credits.

[river veldt]

have any of you guys played Baldur's Gate 3 and if so do you recommend it ? i think GT has

[arctic fern]

Yes and yes

I'm... not sure if you would? It's very story heavy

[bold sonnet]

Oh my god the amount of times I launched it and tried to understand

[light gate]

Me with the Witcher games

[green fulcrum]

I highly recommend it. Fantastic soundtrack, fantastic writing, fantastic dialogue, fantastic voice acting, fantastic gameplay (if you like turn-based RPGs, that is), tons of detail, tons of options and play styles, tooooooooooooooons of replayability, and, above all else, it's gay as hell .

But like Mega said though, it's very story-heavy and story-driven, requiring you to pay attention and make choices that can either send you to the endgame or give you a violent and bloody end, so if you don't vibe with that, then it might not be a good choice for you.

[bold sonnet]

I think it's for very smart people

[arctic fern]

That I disagree with

It's D&D 5E

If you're vaguely familiar with that, and like it, then you're fine

You can kill your way through the game if you want lol

[river veldt]

i just finished a story heavy game but idk if BG3 is heavier, but i will take this into consideration. apparently it works pretty good on the deck except for act 3 but apparently that doesn't run well for anybody

[bold sonnet]

Maybe my problem is I don't get what they're talking and are on about. I have problems following and focusing

[arctic fern]

Act 3 is in a city
It's very busy

[green fulcrum]

Nah, anyone can play it. It's very numbers-heavy, but it's not hard to get the hang of it.

I'm dumb, and I figured it out, although I suppose I had help seeing as I was already playing D&D 5e at the time.

[arctic fern]

There's no shame asking for help either

[river veldt]

ive listened to an actual play podcast and played like 3 sessions of DnD is that enough context

[arctic fern]

Lol

[bold sonnet]

Well if what Cap is talking is RDR2 I understood all. In BG3 I lost all understanding. And I played dnd before

[green fulcrum]

Yesh, the beginning is very confusing, but things start to fall into place as the game goes on. But like I said, the story requires you to pay attention, so if you aren't a fan of that, that's okay, the game might not be a good fit for you.

I know lots of people who couldn't get into it, and that's okay!

[bold sonnet]

But every now and then I try to play it again. Because I know it's super important and good game

And I will

[green fulcrum]

Don't feel obligated to play something you don't enjoy just because people say it's a good game.

People say that Elden Ring is a masterpiece, but I have no interest in it.

[river veldt]

ive tried so many times getting into ER and i just can't :(

and i love Dark Souls

[bold sonnet]

I will surprise and I will understand and play

[green fulcrum]

It might be enough for the basics, but it should be noted that Baldur's Gate 3 plays slightly differently from the tabletop game because of how it needed to be translated into a video game. Still mostly the same though, just slight tweaks.

[river veldt]

i see

[proud warren]

I wish I could feel attachments to games like people get attached to games like ER or BG3

[river veldt]

im really bad at making my own character in games

[proud warren]

I'm the same

[bold sonnet]

Only problem in BG3 is and I don't want to sound silly, they talk complicated so much

[proud warren]

I feel that

[bold sonnet]

I have a feeling like I want to choose whatever I feel at a moment, but then I am afraid I will make wrong choices

Like all companions will think I am dumb and they will think damn that's our leader okay

[cerulean herald]

was there a game where you just re-created Mario

[green fulcrum]

I mean, it literally took me an hour to design my character in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. Just because it takes a long time doesn't mean you're bad at it.

[river veldt]

i tried to in Skyrim but couldn't figure out what armor to wear (two handed build focused on hammers, with fire magic)

[green fulcrum]

The good thing about BG3 is that all the companions are different. Some love chaos and odd decisions, some love taking an aggressive and more malicious stance, some love being good guys, and some literally don't care as long as they get paid.

Knowing you, you're likely to choose the good choices and be a good person, or try to, which will get you pretty much all the companions on your side save for the truly irredeemable ones (who are locked behind evil playthroughs anyway).

[arctic fern]

If you're thinking what's the "best" option, you're playing wrong
I have the sane issue tho lol

[bold sonnet]

That gives me hope to play 💖

[dire gate]

That's exactly why I didn't buy BG3

[bold sonnet]

So talking what you think at the moment is okay?

[arctic fern]

I think it's more interesting to play co-op tho maybe?

[arctic fern]

There's no "wrong" option

[bold sonnet]

What if you and player differ in options of what to say?

[arctic fern]

Then you're humans

[green fulcrum]

Honestly, when it comes to making decisions in BG3, the "best" thing to do is to insert yourself into your character. What would you do? What does your gut say you should do?

Don't be like me and save-scum every decision to make sure it's the best one, lol. Just (literally) roll with it.

[proud warren]

I often disagree with my gut feeling 80% of the time; I have a hard time doing games like that

[dire gate]

I don't want to regret while playing a game, and I am also a min-max player, so I'm instantly not a BG3 player

[bold sonnet]

You also said there is tons of replayability, that makes me even less worried about talking what I think when I have to

I'm happy I jumped into talk about BG3

[green fulcrum]

Disagreeing with your gut is an option too. Larian put a looooot of detail into this game, and they've thought of everything.

People are still discovering easter eggs, hidden content, hidden dialogue trees, secret characters, and more.

[proud warren]

[green fulcrum]

Like, there's several points where you can kill a brigand only to find a note in his jacket saying that he's on his last thieving job before he retires with his wife and son, or that he's actually a former paladin who was theown out of his order, or that he's a failed cultist trying to regain his prestige.

And like, shit, you were defending yourself, but you also kinda feel bad.

And then you loot his corpse for that sweet sweet gooooooold.

That's the kind of detail Larian put into the game. They thought of everything.

[river veldt]

it's turn based like the board game right ?

[proud warren]

I really want to try getting into BG3 as well, but I tried like, on 5 different occasions and none of the attempted play-thrus feel good to me

[green fulcrum]

Turn-based, yes. But not exactly like the table top game. Try looking at a gameplay video.

[dire gate]

One of the sad parts is that people hyping BG3 so much actually damaged my view on the game

[bold sonnet]

That really wants to make me try for once and for good without worrying

If I get bad ending or something I don't care, I want to try my way at least once

[arctic fern]

I hate bg3
It's shit
Never play it

[proud warren]

oh

giga-brain reverse-psychology

[river veldt]

ok i'll report back in like 2 minutes

[proud warren]

have fun

[river veldt]

i like the pretty red lady with the horns

[arctic fern]

Honestly tho I think if folks (like me) struggle with the game, agonising over every choice, it might be best to play co-op. You have someone to talk to about your choices, less likely to reload, someone to help keep you on track and and division of labour in combat

[arctic fern]

Karlach is the best

[green fulcrum]

Karlach, the Tiefling barbarian muscle mommy who loves chaos, having fun, beating the shit out of baddies, and being an all-round adorable little goofball who wants to be held. I love her, she's amazing.

[bold sonnet]

What character did you play, GT and Mega?

[green fulcrum]

I played as a custom character.

[bold sonnet]

Yes but what

[green fulcrum]

You don't have to choose any of the default characters.

[bold sonnet]

Yes no why would one in dnd

[green fulcrum]

Oh, as in class and race and all that?

[bold sonnet]

Yes

[quiet swift]

Githyanki monk, and I romanced ||Lae'zel||

[bold sonnet]

Oh there's non binary

[green fulcrum]

My first playthrough was a red male Dragonborn rogue. I had started a second playthrough but didn't get far due to me having to uninstall the game because I needed the disk space for my computer (it takes like 150 GB of space). I'm not sure who I had for my second playthrough, but she was a Paladin.

[arctic fern]

Shadowheart

[bold sonnet]

Okay both of you why? If you want to say

[arctic fern]

I started a single player game as karlach but didn't finish it

[arctic fern]

Was playing in a group of 3 and decided to be support

[green fulcrum]

No reason why for me, just wanted to play a red Dragonborn and was curious to see how a rogue played.

[arctic fern]

This group ended prematurely too actually
One of the players was kind of an asshole

I haven't left area 1, ever

[quiet swift]

was he playing Astarion~

[green fulcrum]

Oof, sorry to hear that

[arctic fern]

No
The human was just an ass

[quiet swift]

Off with his head!

[bold sonnet]

I think druid because magic of nature. And nature is biggest magic of all 💖 and maybe elf because they're fragile and like bows and I like distant weapon if I have to use weapon and so it's best as me I think

[quiet swift]

This week's prime games

[gaunt marten]

I recommend Shogun Showdown

[river veldt]

ive heard good things abour Dredge

[bold sonnet]

I reccomened Overcooked 2

[green fulcrum]

If you like bows and nature, I would suggest Ranger. You can even get an animal companion! But Druid has magic and can turn into animals (and talk with them), so that'd be cool too.

But choose what you like! :)

[gaunt marten]

Overcooked 2 is good with friends and fine alone

[bold sonnet]

I was thinking ranger let me look

[arctic fern]

There's a point in the game where you can choose two options
One of my friends said "let mega make the choice"
The other, without even asking or letting anyone know what they were doing, ran ahead and chose instead
Note, both had completed area one before and knew what the choice was

[gaunt marten]

Dredge overstays its welcome

[quiet swift]

I suggest monk because monk has the best chapter 3 interaction

[arctic fern]

Lol

[bold sonnet]

Monk no you have to be jacked

[quiet swift]

[gaunt marten]

Many monks are thin and frail

They have spiritual energy instead of physical strength

[bold sonnet]

How if they fight with body

[quiet swift]

I mean. My monk was punching for massive damage.

[bold sonnet]

Oh okay

[green fulcrum]

Granny would kick your ass for saying that, lol

(In-joke, for anybody curious.)

[gaunt marten]

Granny can't even punch my ass with how short she is

[bold sonnet]

Has +2 to slipper throws you mind your mouth

[green fulcrum]

She can jump-kick

Actually, that'd be kinda funny. You should give Granny proficiency with throwing weapons but only for her cookies, and like a magic missile it bypasses armor class to deal...1 point of damage, and only 1 (it disregards all other bonuses).

Completely useless, but perfect for flavor text and for her character.

[bold sonnet]

Like in Fallout she randomly appears like Mysterious Stranger and throws a cookie to deal this one more point of damage and knock unconscious

And disappears like Trixie

I'm sorry I'm making a ranger and is it important to what my character has down there or not

[arctic fern]

Adding "improvised weapon food fighting chef" to my list of D&D chars

[bold sonnet]

Why give me a choice?

[green fulcrum]

The choice is there for anyone who wants it. For you, it might not matter. But for non-binary or transgender people, it's a well-deserved piece of validity for them.

[bold sonnet]

Does it change things in game or is about character?

[green fulcrum]

It changes...certain romance scenes (there is on-screen sex and nudity in this game, just FYI), but it changes nothing about gameplay.

[bold sonnet]

Okay thank you

[arctic fern]

https://youtu.be/dQKFeLA6Rrs oooh new creeperworld game releasing soon

[cerulean herald]

Poor Monika

[little badger]

https://fixupx.com/callofduty/status/1863968986771107954? @fickle garnet @bold sonnet trailer!

[craggy vine]

Since I am switching to linux for gaming, I am curious to see how many games won't work due to anti cheat or any other issues.

It feels bad potentially leaving behind games and to never play them, especially if a friend asks me to play something that I can't. But I don't want windows anymore.

[little badger]

https://fixupx.com/rockstargames/status/1863975476651323669? GTA Christmas update

[gaunt marten]

If you're not technically minded, basically anything in ProtonDB will work as described, and anything else might or might not.

[craggy vine]

Looking on protondb makes me worried

Some people seem to have issue running derail valley

[gaunt marten]

It has a gold rating

[craggy vine]

oh huh

What tweaks though?

[gaunt marten]

Look at the page to see what people ran into, and their setup to see if yours is similar

https://www.protondb.com/app/588030?device=pc

[craggy vine]

I literally am

[gaunt marten]

Sounds good! You have a complete picture of it then

You can ctrl+F for "Tinker steps" to see which tweaks people used.

[craggy vine]

I'm not mobile right now

And idk, some people say you need to use some launch option and then some say low fps

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, it depends on the operating system and the hardware they use

[craggy vine]

I'll try it. I'm installing bazzite tomorrow. If it has issues I can just go back to windows.

[gaunt marten]

Linux varies a LOT more than Windows, which varies a LOT more than consoles

[craggy vine]

Ah I see

[gaunt marten]

So some setups will work perfectly out of the box, and some won't run anything

It depends on the software and hardware you have

But the Steamdeck should be most compatible

[craggy vine]

I assume bazzite would be good because the purpose of it is games

[gaunt marten]

Bazzite won't change your hardware

[craggy vine]

I guess but the hardware is the same as every other rog ally owner

And I mean everyone says great things about bazzite. Some peoole say it is just games with invasive anti cheat that don't work.

[gaunt marten]

I think you're fundamentally misunderstanding the issue

[craggy vine]

Am I?

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, the issue here is that the software and hardware are not designed directly for each other

Bazzite is designed in such a way that it'll work fine for a large variety of hardware setups, not for just one

That means compatibility will have to be slightly lower as a tradeoff

[craggy vine]

Interesting.. But then how does windows get compatability so good?

[gaunt marten]

The games are built expecting Windows

[craggy vine]

Aah yeah

[gaunt marten]

They hook up directly into Windows functions and so on.

[craggy vine]

I'll try bazzite anyway. If I have any issues with it I can go back to windows.

Though I already take issue with windows a lot

[gaunt marten]

The closest thing on ProtonDB to Bazzite compatibility is Fedora 41

(Or Bazzite itself if mentioned)

[craggy vine]

I see

[gaunt marten]

Oh also

Sometimes if you run into issues with a Linux-native game, it might actually work better if you play the windows version via Proton

This sometimes happens because the game's developers messed up a bit

[craggy vine]

Eheh I see. That is interesting

I'm sure I'll be happy with it. Will be much better then windows for what I do.

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, good luck! It runs pretty fine!

[craggy vine]

https://youtu.be/bB_WhSFJsdA?si=MKUOlB5CUnVv6bBI hmm

https://youtu.be/Zt_BxpWCv7M?si=gjdU02CoKiZS9Qhr

[bold sonnet]

This is nuts, the place looks awesome, the zombies look maybe even a bit too frightening but I'm looking forward to test myself in scary situations in a safe environment

[little badger]

Well the map will be very dense so not much room

[slim thorn]

which is a good demonstration of why it’s so hard to justify the porting effort as an independent dev

[quartz pawn]

Looks like PSO2 is collabing with Melty Blood. Neco-Arc approaches. You are not safe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfgxNMkW9as

They turned her into a MAG. Perfect.

[river veldt]

jesus christmas Baldur's Gate 3 is 143 gb

[green fulcrum]

Yup. It's a B E E G game

[visual hill]

relatable 😛

[visual hill]

free Bounty Hunter, omg!! thanks for posting 🙂

I bought Forza Horizon 4 since its delisting is imminent. I don't think it'll get any cheaper, but there's still 12 days to go (so I could always refund if that happens)

[bold sonnet]

FH4 is super super cool, especially with how the weather changes 💖 We could race sometimes if you want. I'm not the best but I got the spirit

[visual hill]

sure

[cerulean herald]

i tried looking up the biggest games, maybe not the largest but wtf

[little badger]

Did you not get it for free? They gave everyone that owned it a free copy

[little badger]

Did you play 5?

[bold sonnet]

Yes, also super fun and you don't have to remember to be on the left side of the road For me basically the same games, but 4 has seasons and 5 has right side driving both are great fun and look pretty

[little badger]

I just use both sides going the opposite way

[little badger]

https://t.co/H7an5pxu9t

[little badger]

Official statement https://x.com/pixelsofmark/status/1864090964748321266?

Mark Rubin (@PixelsofMark) on X

Hello XDefiant Fans,

I am unfortunately here today to announce that XDefiant will be shutting down.

Starting today (December 3, 2024), new downloads and player registrations will no longer be available. We will still release our Season 3 content in the near future (exact date

Twitter · Dec 3, 2024, 11:34 PM

[hasty patio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3d8w6FAte0

[visual hill]

I've never bought a Forza game before, so no

and I didn't have friends/family with the game

(something about racing games not being that mainstream. :P)

[cinder hatch]

He’s so cool

[little badger]

Ah right. But it is a good game I highly recommend it

[hasty patio]

@random steppe In case you missed it.

[random steppe]

Oh I heard they were doing it, I will check it... Honestly I think their flight mod is already pretty decent but I won't say no to improvements

[hasty patio]

Also finally adds DLSS and FR3, so more frames.

[random steppe]

I don't know if it'll work that way for me sadly

That game tended to be more CPU bottlenecked than GPU

Given its galaxy sim nature

[hasty patio]

Fair, but maybe it will actually give you a chance to visit that uber station you've built but can't visit because of frame issues. /s

[random steppe]

I love everything they are saying, less manouverability for large ships rewards turning off flight assist, which is easly the most fun way to fly in the game

Seems like it'll be a banger update

[bronze abyss]

less go getting RNG unlock requirements in a regular run

[bitter stream]

yoo Enter the Gungeon! hell yes

did you unlock junkan or something?

[bronze abyss]

i unlocked him on like my first run,rn it was the low drop rate for him

currently 100% the game for like the third time,did it on xbox,epic games,and now fresh on steam

AND DOUBLE CHEST ROOM WHAT IS THIS LUCK

unfortunately though no good boss killers or room clearers yet but by this point the entire game is clearable with default gun

[bitter stream]

fair enough

[bronze abyss]

killed hunter's past,unlocked paradox,ox's arm,and a shortcut elevator in a single run so doing pretty good progress already

[quiet swift]

Puzzle and casino for boomers, I can see/have seen. Arcade though?

[cerulean herald]

was gonna say maybe it takes them playing arcade machines way back when into account but then I see the "past 6 months"
whered you find this

[quiet swift]

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-most-popular-gaming-genres-by-generation/

[river veldt]

i guess i do love adventure games the most

[gaunt marten]

A lot of games I play are not arcade games but retain the arcade feel

[river veldt]

i dont like fighting games though so that was inaccurate to me

[visual hill]

heh, racing only made it to the top 3 thanks to gen alpha

I'm quite surprised, I expected racing to be more popular among gen X and Y

[uneven epoch]

i never know how to apply myself to this kind of "here's a thing generations do differently". because that is like. so culturally dependent? like "millennials" and "gen x" and so on terms are really usa-centric and i have more in common childhood-staples-wise with americans that are like, 40 than i do with people my age, simply because technology traveled so much slower back in the day "do you remember ds" no, we had polish bootleg nes with only duck hunt on it. "do you remember playin pokemon platinum as a kid" no. my brother emulated gold on computer. and such

[bronze abyss]

polish bootleg NES is a certified EU classic,carried me through so many early years

[uneven epoch]

we love you pegasus

[bronze abyss]

1000 in 1 cartridges too

[uneven epoch]

no :c only duck hunt

i think it was supposed to be able to do more, but it could only run duck hunt

[bronze abyss]

aww,i've had one with duck hunt only too but the gun was never working

[uneven epoch]

not that i know exacts i was like 5

[bronze abyss]

one of the best early gaming memories i have is taking a bootleg NES handheld to hospital and playing it after surgery at like 5yrs old

[slim thorn]

meanwhile the millenial column seems about right for me

I've mostly fallen off shooters since my teenage years but they were a big chunk of it for a long time

[uneven epoch]

is adventure even really a genre anymore? doesnt that encompass like, anything with a story attached

[slim thorn]

yeah I have no idea what the scope of that would be

[random steppe]

Yeah I was about to say, adventure is so broad that IDK how to feel about it

Like would both Elden ring and Methapor would arguably fit in that

[visual hill]

GTA is an adventure game

[wind stump]

Adventures in crime!

[slim thorn]

most of my metroidvanias fit "adventure" better than any of the other genres in that image

I'm curious if puzzle platformers fall into "puzzle" or "adventure"

[bold sonnet]

Makes me think the most of Tomb Raider, Uncharted, God of War, Spiderman, The Last of Us

[dire gate]

Funny how the background in the image implies adventure = soulslike

[slim thorn]

probably reasonable, whatever "adventure" means, soulslike is probably a subgenre of it

[gaunt marten]

Adventure is when I have fun

Dishonored: not adventure. Overcooked: adventure

[slim thorn]

soulslike is when I die a lot because timing parries is hard

[gaunt marten]

Parries are optional in all of them but Sekiro

[slim thorn]

and if we're including 2D metroidvanias, also Grime and Nine Sols

[unreal idol]

I should play Dark Souls sometime

[steep flax]

parry only build?

[arctic fern]

Parry this you filthy casual (is playing Mario oddesey)

[gaunt marten]

There are bosses with no parriable attacks

[unreal idol]

I feel like I'd either love it or absolutely hate it

[steep flax]

ig lxrec would have to cheat and parry whenever possible, and play normally whenever there's an enemy who cannot be parried

[gaunt marten]

I was lukewarm on Dark Souls 1 at first. After a few years I came back to it and loved it

[fickle garnet]

I prefer Dark Souls 3 to DS1

[river veldt]

parrying black and silver knights is so fun

[gaunt marten]

Yeah but I played Dark Souls 1 first

[steep flax]

i remembered i used the black knights at the kiln to practice parries lol

[random steppe]

A thing to keep in mind for souls, is that they have an adjustable difficulty level and that is the build you decide to use. If you ever play one never let the Internet tell you what you have to use in order for it to count as a proper playthrough, and you have a better chance of having a good time.

[gaunt marten]

Bad idea. Silver knights have the same moveset and much lower damage. They're the ideal practice dummies for parrying

[steep flax]

i also played ds1 first and it felt more memorable compared to ds3

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, use every tool the game gives you!

[steep flax]

ohh i didnt know, i was like "today i want to learn to parry" and had a lot of time lol

[fickle garnet]

In DS1 i got stuck at the bell gargoyles

[gaunt marten]

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/action-rpg/hidetaka-miyazaki-says-i-absolutely-suck-at-video-games-but-still-got-through-elden-ring-by-using-every-scrap-of-aid-that-the-game-offers/

[steep flax]

honestly i had to resort to mimic tear and spamming lions claw on my giant crusher build because i was getting tired of the play length of elden ring

[unreal idol]

I don't know if I would have the patience tbh

[random steppe]

It is extremely valid to challenge yourself to a melee only no summon playthrough, the illusion of that being the proper way to play tho is just weird. It is a very rewarding way to play and it's fine to encourage people to try it but that's as far as that should go.

[gaunt marten]

It does need both patience and willingness to experiment

If you don't have both, you might need a guide to play the game in a way you enjoy

[steep flax]

i remembered godskin duo and me and my clone would do back to back lions claw... it was glorious

[sour hill]

Lol I never got to experience the horror of pre-nerf godskin duo

[unreal idol]

The closest I've played to one is maybe Ocarina of Time

[steep flax]

i cant remember if i fought them pre nerf, i think it was a week after launch when i fought them

[gaunt marten]

It's a lot of fun if you play with a friend next to you who can tell you what not to do and guide you when you're frustrated

[steep flax]

i started the game off with int build and the magic katana thing but then i missed ooga booga mode and made a strength character afterwards

[sour hill]

Yeah that'd be pre nerf

I couldn't play the game at launch because my computer wasn't good enough

Sad!

[gaunt marten]

Ocarina of Time is similar to Dark Souls in certain aspects, but I wouldn't call them close