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oh of course
oh apparently theres also been a huge overhaul to the gameplay too
the extractor is part of your suit by default for example
The new dragonmaid support has finally been shown off.
https://www.masterduelmeta.com/articles/news/dec-10-2024/qctb
PS5 pro update https://x.com/focus_entmt/status/1866444779094954002?
and it's not a soulslike without a giant crustacean enemy...?
Patch notes https://cp2077.ly/Update2.2
https://www.polygon.com/news/493584/palworld-update-pokemon-nintendo-pokeball-lawsuit-patent no more pal sphere animations
thanks nintendo
utterly ridiculous that nintendo can copyright something after something else does it.
would be like if roscosmos copywrote spaceships while the moonlanding was underway
The more I wait and wait to play Cyberpunk the better it gets 
omfggg can the dumbfucks leave them alone already
That is misleading, Nintendo's original patent was submitted in 2021. What they did in 2024 was they just reclassified them and changed the details slightly, and seperated the patent into several specific patents
They did probably did that to prepare for the legal case, but it is definitely PocketPair trying to mislead people when they said "Ooh Nintendo sued us with 2024 patents"
yeah, at this point both sides are playing dirty because that's how the proverbial game works
if i were them, i would do that. its a slam dunk case in the court of public opinion
the mere fact that it's always being framed as Nintendo vs Pocketpair, not Nintendo vs Sony, is almost automatically a PR win
pocket pair is sony?
they made a deal with Sony to create a joint "Palworld Entertainment" project
good to know
It is a general consensus that Nintendo decided the legal case because of Sony starting to work with Palworld
which afaik is the only plausible theory for "why did Nintendo make a lawsuit about this now?"
this is making sense now
That, and the fact that Palworld decided to be more than just a game
thank you for informing me!
not to imply I'm "pro-Nintendo" on this or anything, just that "why is evil Nintendo curb stomping this poor little indie dev" is definitely not an accurate description of the situation any more
Nintendo is absolutely terrified of a competitor to Pokemon
See how they bungled the brand during Yokai Watch
They are trying to become a media franchise, which means now they are a direct competitor to the entire pokemon franchise now
oh, also, I technically misquoted that
"Sony Music, Aniplex, and Pocketpair Announce Joint Venture, Palworld Entertainment, Inc."
take a wild guess why Aniplex would be in there
Not only it is a competitor, since it has a pretty similar design yet a quite violent concept, there is a chance that Nintendo is worried that Palworld would harm Pokemon's brand
to make off-brand fast food?
(tried really hard to think of something that would patently not come from teaming with a big gaming company and what i assume is an anime company)
wait shit mcdonalds did that wcmonalds thing a while back
Which I find is an interesting perspective, there is a fair chance that "normal people" would actually confuse Palworld with Pokemon
yeah, and probably why they had any basis for legal action
given nintendo has like 1050 pokemon now, so many that only more dedicated fans know them all, you might be right
what's palworld and can they please win against nintendo
casual observers probably mix up digimon and yu-gi-oh and pokermans all the time
I dunno, Pokemon has co-existed with Digimon and other monster franchises for decades
the pokemon knockoff
There was likely something specific about Palworld they didn't like
D. Che tipo di gioco è?R. Puoi scegliere se vivere pacificamente insieme a creature misteriose note come Pal, o competere coi bracconieri.I Pal possono combattere, riprodursi, lavorare nei campi o nelle fabbriche.È possibile persino venderli o usarli come cibo.SopravviviLa mancanza di cibo, un ambiente ostile e le attività illecite dei bracconie...
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its pretty good so far, tho i never got very far into it
That doesn't apply to me because I can't read it
was playing with confetticakez but she had to stop playing
how did you get the... italian?
i... dont know?????
Discord embed often does that
portuguese?
hell yeah
Nobody knows why and how
regina
D. Che tipo di gioco è?R. Puoi scegliere se vivere pacificamente insieme a creature misteriose note come Pal, o competere coi bracconieri.I Pal possono combattere, riprodursi, lavorare nei campi o nelle fabbriche.È possibile persino venderli o usarli come cibo.SopravviviLa mancanza di cibo, un ambiente ostile e le attività illecite dei bracconie...
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thats just copied from the steam page
hm
the english steam page
Still showing up in the embed as not English lol

yeah even if I go get it myself without using your link it produces the same language as you
so it's not tied to the user linking it
my guess is that the Palworld gameplay more closely resembles Pokemon gameplay than most of these other competitors, and it got explosively popular, and Sony affiliates made that deal
at least, if there is an open world Digimon game where you throw digiballs to catch the critters out in forests and mountains and stuff, I have never seen or heard of it
ark+pokemon but actually good
Nintendo probably couldn't sue digimon anyway, it came out slightly more than a year after pokemon came out 
true
the ship has long since sailed for that lawsuit, yeah
I think it's mostly that Steam's language is set by a query string
P. ¿Qué clase de juego es?R. ¿Quieres vivir tranquilamente con estas misteriosas criaturas, los Pals, o prefieres lanzarte a la aventura y luchar contra cazadores furtivos?Los Pals pueden luchar, procrear, ayudarte en las labores agrícolas y trabajar en fábricas.También puedes venderlos, despedazarlos y comértelos.SupervivenciaUn lugar hostil, s...
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Spanish!
So when someone does THIS, discord caches the portoguese page, but cuts out the last part
Oh is it portuguese
D. Che tipo di gioco è?R. Puoi scegliere se vivere pacificamente insieme a creature misteriose note come Pal, o competere coi bracconieri.I Pal possono combattere, riprodursi, lavorare nei campi o nelle fabbriche.È possibile persino venderli o usarli come cibo.SopravviviLa mancanza di cibo, un ambiente ostile e le attività illecite dei bracconie...
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lol
And then when other people call https://store.steampowered.com/app/1623730/Palworld/ discord looks for a cached link and grabs the one it already has, not realizing it's for the wrong language
love the palworld steam page being spammed 
it started as a conversation but now its a weird technical edge case and funny
A lot of Steam embeds are somehow language gachas
the comedy
Q. What kind of game is this?A. In this game, you can peacefully live alongside mysterious creatures known as Pals or risk your life to drive off a ruthless poaching syndicate.Pals can be used to fight, or they can be made to work on farms or factories.You can even sell them or eat them!SurvivalIn a harsh environment where food is scarce and vic...
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JAPANESE<<<<<

weird, when I opened that link I got Japanese, but the embed got English
so what Flitter said isn't even the whole issue
Q. What kind of game is this?A. In this game, you can peacefully live alongside mysterious creatures known as Pals or risk your life to drive off a ruthless poaching syndicate.Pals can be used to fight, or they can be made to work on farms or factories.You can even sell them or eat them!SurvivalIn a harsh environment where food is scarce and vic...
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huh
well https://store.steampowered.com/app/1623730/Palworld/?l=日本語 doesn't work so 
I am pretty sure this is not only Palworld too
Lemme test
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Ok this one works fine
WE LOVE THE COMPANY
I also realized something, Flitter's Portuguese link somehow shows a wrong price for the game
It's over 3 times expensive
inflation is crazy
Funny, it's not 66 dollars in any region
fwiw my save says I'm at 32% after 8 hours, so seems like a typical metroidvania length atm
All the good metroidvanias are ten hours long
You ever play Undertale, the best metroidvania?
my favorite genre are the megalovanias
picked up a random Itch.io game I found i had in a bundle I bought nearly 2 years ago for ten bucks.
i already like this
ah the fun of itch.io dumpster diving
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OBJECTION!
THIS JUDGE IS BIASED, THE DEFENDENT IS NOT GUILTY BY WAYS OF FUCK YOU
that's sick
lol these types of extras are so fun
It's funny to think the ''youngins'' that he's talking about in the video are probably 30-40 right now 
''this is a CD-ROM...?''
''this is a videogame, for the PS2!
''
''there's a lot of talking for a videogame...''
bless you René, RIP
video may have the CRT TV hum just as a heads up, but I was looking through my old 360 and apparently I got this at some point? No clue where it’s even from but hell it cute
What? When was that a thing???
Oh my God!! 
It was back when you could buy MLP items for your avatar and gamerpics. You can’t get the MLP stuff anymore.
The game is really fun to play now. Like actually a good time to play it if you want it
I wanna play Cyberpunk again on my pc
I don't have it on playstation anymore, and i wanna buy it on my pc
Yeah, i love the dlc
Game Awards in 2 days ☃️☃️☃️
...F*ck, already?
It feels like yesterday I was watching Baldur's Gate absolutely mop the floor.
aight place ur bets on who u think wins goty of the year
Concord
i dont remmeber what came out this year
These are the nominees:
Fun fact, Balatro was made pretty much entirely by one guy.
Less-fun fact: Elden Ring's place here isn't deserved. Nominating a DLC campaign is stupid and unfair.
And we all know that it's gonna win because it's Elden Ring.
That game's fans are rabid.
I want metaphor or balto to win
i forgor yeah i want Balatro to win
could not care less about most of the others
i'll play FFVII Rebirth after i play Remake
also isn't Shadow of Erdtree like, an entire game ?
still a DLC
like it's dlc yeah but isn't it like a trillion hours long and basically as big as the main game
I like FF7, but the remake isn't my favorite version of it. Tbh, all of these entries are very weak for me, so I don't really care who wins (I just want Elden Ring to lose this round).
It's still DLC. It requires the base game to play.
Meaning that it's just Elden Ring. Again.
My very subjective personal view is that Astro/Balatro/Metaphor are all worth winning, Wukong is a good game but not enough for a goty, ER is a dlc and ff7 is a remake obviously
Astro Bot is cute, I'll give it that.
i legit do not have a horse in this race this year
Balatro winning would be rad though
what are the other categories
you can check em here, theres quite a bit
https://thegameawards.com/nominees
what's the point of best game direction
a joke I heard is "its GOTY but for games TGA doesnt wanna give GOTY to"
so not much point that I know of
i havent played any of these games
like besides Balatro i don't care about any of these
i hope Multiversus wins best fighting game because it would be funny
mm i think i want Fallout to win best adaptation
i still need to watch the lesbian show
(Arcane)
lol GTA VI has most anticipated in the bag
what the fuck is "Mobile Legends: Bang Bang"
what a weak year for games
Monster hunter wilds and dying light the beast need them so bad 
i guess that's all of soul reavers' cheevos 
well that was pretty fun, been a while since I allowed myself an entire evening of uninterrupted gamin'
Soul Reaver 1 for sure benefits the most from this remaster I think, Soul Reaver 2 disappointingly changes very little, it's really strange because the same team (I think) worked on Tomb Raider's remasters which have very significant improvements
Hell yeah GOG
I even recorded my entire session today so I got some pretty good comparison shots
this was a highlight for sure though, for some reason in the remaster version there's this giant black box stuck to this model
fortunately it's the only 'bug' I encountered (asides from random seams in the map geometry)
Oh, and this one too, some good old fashioned early PC videogame jank
I was having trouble because the pillar only slides in one direction and Raziel has to actually turn around to move in a direction, so if you want to make slight adjustements to your position you have to rotate all the way around before you actually move in that direction
I think it may have went a bit more in the remake direction but definitely could've used some tweaks and improvements to gameplay and controls to be perfect, the camera for sure gave me a headache more than once... in some areas it gets claustrophobically close to the character
trying to find some good non spoilery shots, not terribly HD but it'll do
I guess SR2 didn't exactly need all the pretty new makeup as much as SR1 but it still would've been nice to see a little more... it's really mostly ''better'' textures and better models too but only for the characters, most of the enviroments and other things like statues for example are pretty much unchanged
There's this one dungeon that uses light a lot for the puzzles and it would've been neat to see some real time lighting used like in the Tomb Raider remasters, or any amount of new lighting for that matter, the only amount of new lighting done at all I noticed is the reaver radiates light in the remaster version, although for whatever strange reason if you swap to the original mode it disappears and if you switch back to the remastered version it stays gone until you reactivate the reaver
don't know if it's a bug too
Not bad though, again 2 probably didn't need most of the graphical overhauls as much as 1 but still would've been nice to see some more, 1 is probably the more impressive overhaul in comparison, I just feel like more could've been done, but what do I know maybe the engines are just too old and finnicky and the games would've benefitted more from a straight up remake instead
there we go I finally found my favourite comparison I captured, the only thing that changes about the elder god is the eyeballs that are colored more like his tentacles
and that's pretty much it, even the textures are basically unchanged
(also hooray for eldritch cosmic horror entity)
oh, it has a button to toggle between original and remaster, nice
GoldenEye XBLA has that and it changes the hitboxes of the environment in some places - you can shoot through certain things only in original or remastered mode
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/life-sim/factorio-but-cozy-little-rocket-lab-is-a-factory-builder-with-plenty-of-stardew-valley-vibes/ might be of interest to some folks
That's really great, I really like attention to detail like that, the fact that it changes in real time and the fact that a remaster would have changed hitboxes and map geometry, I wonder if the Tomb Raider remasters have changes so drastically like that or if the gameplay is pretty much exactly the same since they are the same team as the one that worked on these Soul Reaver remasters and these don't really have much changes asides from higher poly models and higher res textures, so no crazy gameplay overhauls like that
the TR remasters are a bit weird in that sense, original mode is locked to 30 FPS (but mods have managed to remove that lock)
also, I don't remember if you can use modern controls with the original look
I remember hearing the modern controls on those remasters aren't super great either 
yeah, they are quite divisive. Neither option feels ideal
people say tank controls are the best but it may be nostalgia talking for some of them, rather than a real sentiment that these controls are as good as they can be
I would probably give both a try once I play the remasters
it reminds me how I played Star Fox Zero recently... people complained about the controls a lot in that game, but it's essentially gyro aiming! Which makes the game a lot easier to control if you have any habit of using gyro aiming in other shooting games
it lets you do things that were previously impossible, like moving and shooting in different directions (a big pet peeve of mine in most rail shooters)
To be fair, as much as it sometimes could be nostalgia, sometimes they really could be implemented badly or straight up break a game, but I haven't actually even played the remasters myself or the original games so I have no idea how they actually feel to control
I do have a passing curiosity to check out Tomb Raider in general though
sometimes they really could be implemented badly or straight up break a game
Fade to Black: Am I a joke to you?
I gave up playing that game purely because of its control scheme
it would be pretty decent otherwise, the animations in that game are waaay ahead of its time
do people actually care about the awards? i always only watch for the trailers and then dip lmao
The reason I started playing Balatro was because of these events.
Its a fun event tbh
You get to watch world premieres, and the occasional annual screw up at TGA.
I mainly watch it for the blunders.
and i would say dlc should have its own category but barely anyone does substantial dlc anymore
i havent played elden ring but it sounds like a whole extra game lol
exactly, imo awards shows should be about introducing us to games we hadn't already played but might consider playing
though for me at least, that stopped happening with movie awards a while back, and never happened at all with game awards
If we be really serious about this, it really doesn't make the most sense to compare games from different backgrounds and genres and choose 1 for the year
Like how would you compare Balatro to Astro Bot?
yeah, the main reason this never worked for me with games is that there are a lot of genres I've tried and know I simply don't enjoy no matter how "good" such a game allegedly is, so when most of the awards go to AAAs (and most of the indie awards go to genres) that never had a chance of being fun for me anyway, it's just irrelevant
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20 inches of WHAT?!
From the fact that he's wearing green clothes, I assume 20 inches of Zelda
Pokémon × @aardman
Coming in 2027!
yeah Lost Crown lives up to the hype, apparently I'm 42% done now
What’s everyone’s predictions for the game awards for reveals
i want balatro to win
I predict that I will not watch the reveals
Minecraft 2
in a surprise upset, Shadow of the Erdtree is defeated by Minecraft 1.21 after it was reclassified as DLC
There’s meant to be a few huge reveals. Wonder what they could be
Silksong, its long overdue, weve been waiting for forever, and itll be the only thing worth sitting thru the TGA awards. I want my silksong asap (i know nothing about Hollow Night)
Half Life 3 /hj
Hollow Knight was amazing, but at this point anyone still foaming at the mouth over only Silksong has just been willfully ignoring the last seven years of other great metroidvanias 
get hyped when it's real, and no sooner
maybe they have a me thing and they only like Metroidvanias when it's Hollow Knight
my condolences
though in that case I'm sure they'd still like some other stuff, I just can't predict what since I work by mechanical genre
im so excited for Game Awards
yeah it was really good
I'm always predicting a new Spyro game, and it's never correct. One of these days it will be, lol.
ooh i wonder if we'll get a new Doom The Dark Ages trailer
Spyro... does have remakes(?) already, so that reduces the odds of anything new
thought R&C did get a new installment somehow
I wonder how these things get decided
so did Crash
what the fuck
it pinged me when Blade reacted to my message
oh you got the reaction ping update
What would you rather have a new spyro or Fluttershy.
that A/B hasn't hit me yet
Wait that’s a feature now?
so I've been told
You may have to clarify this a bit. Do you mean new MLP content that contains Fluttershy, or Fluttershy as a real Pony in the real world?
Your answer determines mine, lol.
Real Fluttershy
Okay, damn, I was gonna say "real Fluttershy" as my answer, but then I just thought of something: would this mean she would be alone? Without all her friends and family? Without Equestria?
If that's the case, then I'll pass. I'd rather her be happy than for me to be selfish.
I assume we're looking at a no-strings-attached interdimensional portal scenario like later EqG
Okay, so if it's a no-strings-attached, permanent, two-way interdimensional portal scenario, then sorry Spyro, but I'm heading to Equestria and not looking back.
And I'm bringing most of Manechat with me.
Then you could stay at her cottage 
the real asterisk is "but she doesn't like you" 
No, because it's no-strings-attached.
Am I included 
Yes
~~ah, but you see, the "no-strings-attached" was describing the portal, not the entire scenario including hypothetical pony personalities
~~
How long did twilight have again before the portal closed?
Not sure, but she made it permanent and two-way, so it didn't matter in the end.
Yeah.
I want to say "30 moons"?
Princess Luna: This is no ordinary mirror. It is a gateway to another world. A gateway that opens once every thirty moons.
nailed it
That's a lot of moons...
I just looked it up apparently 30 moons is 819 days 
Well, at least according to G5, moons = years, so she'd have to wait 30 years.
Cyberpunk is on sale
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At least, 30 years in Equestria. In the human world, probably not nearly as long.
Oh I’m guessing it was later in G5 they said how long a moon was
I wanna buy it, but i only have $5 on steam
G5 implied the length of a moon as early as the movie, though it took a few uses before it became undeniable that a moon is consistently year-like
unlike G4 where there are multiple uses that make no sense unless month and make no sense unless year so the only reasonable conclusion is that its meaning is inconsistent
i keep trying to play cyberpunk
The only G5 content I watched was the movie and a few TYT
Its one of my favorite games
oh do you own it on console ?
fortunately, because I am a nerd, we can pinpoint exactly when we learned that moon = year in G5
Ixrec — 09/26/2022
"this has been the best birthday in moons"
...Sunny, you just told us moons are at least year-like in length
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
I had it on playstation, but i don't anymore
yeah but what if birthdays are a monthly celebration in Equestria 
oh
Ah I see
The new update is making me want to play it again
what did the new update add
New character customization options, you can change the colour of your cars, and some other stuff
oh neat
Also i want it on pc so i can use mods
well I'm glad I didn't finish the game yet then
Pinkie will gladly be busy then
ough
Also, Johnny can ride in your car with you now
this post is making me wanna play it again https://www.reddit.com/r/reddeadredemption/s/sk34kPpwLm
(several images)
How about first one, it continues
yeah i suppose i could
Ooo! Good time to play after so many updates. I have it too but somehow didn't get into it, maybe got scared a bit by the show. Was told to watch before playing
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I got that song one time while dancing with Judy at one of my apartments and I just vibed to it for a while before it was too much
The real kicker of Cyberpunk ost though is this one
Soundtrack for Cyberpunk 2077 (I'm record from the game)
Composer: Marcin Przybyłowicz, P. T. Adamczyk, Paul Leonard-Morgan
Enjoys
Cool anime ass song
https://youtu.be/7_iNgUJCZXk?si=UbHwyQC5Kzx0f-ye and this one
Soundtrack for Cyberpunk 2077 (I'm record from the game)
Composer: Marcin Przybyłowicz, P. T. Adamczyk, Paul Leonard-Morgan
Enjoys
who are the romances that are locked if you went with fem V ?
As Fem V you can only romance || Judy and River Ward ||
You can see my priorities in the names of chars I remember
Excuse you
googles
That's Kerry Eurodyne for you only the world's biggest coolest rockstar who is definitely not getting too old for this shit
You will see them naturally in game
oh god both of these people are hot
Kerry's quest finale is still probably one of the highlights and one of the most powerful moments in my playthrough I think
I also probably remember it more because his quests were some of the last ones I did as I was cleaning everything up before finishing (which I still haven't done)
I'm worried i might not have gotten everything since I did still get random calls for quests and gigs even though I completed everything in the map 
All those 100+ hours kind of blend together after a while with some moments that stand out and some that I remember better if I read up really quick what some quests were about
All of Phantom Liberty though I still have clear in my mind that entire expansion is unfairly excellent
You guys are making me want to play cyberpunk even more
I want to play it one day for sure, but the patient gamer in me still wants to make sure the final update is truly out and mods are updated 😛
I thought 2.1 was the final update, but we got 2.2
maybe I'll get a GPU upgrade first to better appreciate RT Overdrive too, it might happen if I have to wait until summer of next year
I would say play it now if you're waiting for the 'definitive' update just because the game is already at its definitive state and anything else they update seems like extra neat stuff, even the metro system that got added recently was more of a cool novelty extra thing and less of a game changer, it's a little strange how they seem to keep updating this game sparsely despite saying multiple times before that they wouldn't and that it'd be the very last update 
but yes, in broad terms, the game is already there, I played it after the big update that completely overhauled entire systems and the way the game worked completely, and everything that came afterwards seems to just be small touch ups here and there, cool things like how now you can do tricks on your bike and I think use melee guns and stuff, but nothing that would completely change the experience
I'd say if you can get it bundled with or already have it bundled with PL then play it now definitely
yeah, I'm waiting for a better sale on the game bundled with PL
it happened for Witcher 3, it'll happen for Cyberpunk eventually 🙂
but probably next year still. Not that I have much time to play new games on this Christmas season, I'll probably play Crysis 2 and continue God of War
I got a new TV in the living room with a 10-meter HDMI cable and USB extender connected to my PC, so I can have a couch gaming experience on the big screen which is great for story-based AAAs
Dragon's Dogma
any game in your backlog is 100% off!
true
so Edgerunners is good yeah ?
Yeah its good
Good but also brutal
Yes, but I don't care about the characters in those other metroidvanias, I care about Hornet 
(Well, not really since I haven't played Hollow Knight itself and probably won't play either, but it is true that there can be other factors leading to interest in particular games even if they're not 'the best' in some sense)
Have you played Ori?
Steam beta now allows you to customize when to update your games, with per-game overrides
No. In truth the genre is not one that I'm particularly interested in and anyway I've been mostly focused on games I can play on my Mac and/or I already have...especially since 1) I had to replace my Intel Mac last year due to signs of progressive GPU failure and 2) Windows 10 is being sunsetted. So I don't have a Windows machine and don't foresee getting one for a while.
that sounds good for modding FLitter.
Ori CrossOvers very well: https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/Ori_and_the_Blind_Forest:_Definitive_Edition
(you can use https://github.com/Kegworks-App/Kegworks for a free option, but CrossOver is more recent and buying it supports WINE development)
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A COMICALLY LARGE AMOUNT OF BEES SHOULD FIX THE ISSUE!
you know i don't think it takes that long to beat UT
🤔 100% tho
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And on epic
when is the game awards?
go play it right now
i will play later sometime
I’m aware of Ori, I just don’t really have an interest in playing it. (TBH I’ve lost interest in playing Silksong as well)
7:30 ET

what's so funny 
its 1:30 at night
I wait so much I waited whole year I want to see trailers and hear orchestra 
The orchestra is one of the best parts in the show, imo
And yeah, the trailers too
I mostly watch it for the reveals and the orchestra
Most everyone does these days
It's become the new E3, at least for reveals if not as an actual convention.
oh shit its here 
I only watch it cuz friends watch it
But the music is the best part
Or when the one guy gave a 10 minute speech, or the Bill Clinton kid
Do you think flute guy will be there? 
Probably
Do I understand well that it's 4 hours from now?
Yeah it is
Wait it's tonight?
Yes
Heck
You should be home by the time it starts, Poppy. It starts at 7:30 PM EST
So barring any traffic you'll be home before it starts.
Usually we watch it at Kyle and Sam's place but we visited last night
the name kyle is ruined for me thanks to CreepCast
I think on youtube will be something right before that will take 30 minutes or it will be a big timer
when you wait so long for a game, the probability it ends like Duke Nukem Forever approaches 1
(...does this mean a leaked 2019-2020 version of Silksong would be amazing?)
on the other end of the spectum, Half-Life 2 was also a long wait
http://bit.ly/tga2024yt links for watching the stream
Live from Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, join Geoff Keighley and the video game industry for a celebration of the year's best -- and a look at what's next.F...
"Stream starts soon" on Game Awards Twitch right now.
They're playing epic elevator music, lol
Scream
Cry
Cheer
Man, I really want to know what music they're playing in this right now
Faint?
Aw, they switched from epic music to something else.
What time is it for you now?
00:03
Oh wow, that's a long show
Watched it every year since it started
Hopfully some good game announcements
What time is it for you?
Oh wow 4 hours?
This looks so freaking cool ✨
7:14 PM right now
15 minutes 
Did anyone’s Discord glitch there?
That's weird that you had it too
mine too


Ragebound
Retro games look so cool
wait what?
New Ninja Gaiden by the same team as Blasphemous
Game awards have stated ixrec
Tekken 8 wins Best Fighting Game.
I'm aware the stream is ongoing, I just wanted clarification on that comment
gtk, thanks
Ah

Don't know a thing about Ninja Gaiden but I'm gonna be all over that game when it drops
It actually looks great
One move away
This game has a lovely art style
I played 1-3 back when they were new on the Xboxes. Assuming you like games for gameplay and are happy totally ignoring plot, then all 3 were good for that fast-paced challenging hack-and-slash combat, though 1 was the best, annoyingly nowadays NG1 is one of those games where nobody can agree on the best versions to play (I've played Black but not Sigma so I can only definitively say Black beats original)
Oh, Slay the Spire 2
Slay the spire 2
Batman Arkham Shadow wins Best AR/VR Game
Boo, not Metro
Tara Strong 
oh yeah she voices Harley Quinn in the Arkham games after Asylum
She voices Harley Quinn in nearly everything*
Longleaf valley
Dave The Diver: Into The Jungle
Thick as thieves
From Deus Ex?
Oh this looks fun af
A multiplayer game where you play as a thief stealing artifacts, but everyone is trying to steal the same artifact.
Payday and Thief had a baby? 
15 minutes until main show
An alternate take to a legendary series by Bandai Namco
i am literally localization testing this game
Do you like it?
...Wtf. Metroidvania Pacman
Yeah Pac-Man did put out a tweet saying they were at the game awards.
holy shit venom
what the fuck 😭😭😭😭😭
Shadow Labyrinth. Literally horror metroidvania Pacman
Nah not really horror
The eating this looks creepy yes but not a horror metroidvania
Steel paws
Mobile game only on Netflix games
Well, spooky then.
Neva wins Games For Impact award
Fun but having to play it many times gets annoying. Also the levels feel entirely too large
aaaah, stop making new metroidvanias until I catch up! 
yeah this would be up your alley
Also I don't recognize half the zones in that trailer, wtf
How many do you have access to?

If Legend of Dragoon remake happens ping the fuck out of me
Sure thing, haha
awww this game looks cute
And has cooking!
I in theory have access to the entire game levels. Just some of these don't look like any i've been through
Ah I see
Velan are the group that did Knockout City
Midnight Murder Club. Your basic streamer game like Among Us.
Is that all the security at the front?
Oh it's tenth anniversary?
After the Bill Clinton kid, very likely.
I was thinking who are they too I was thinking line for something
Lost Crown ayyy
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown gets Innovation For Accessibility award.
oh wow, I should go look at the options menu again
I can't tell if that's a joke, lol
no seriously, I didn't notice much when I was playing, since I'm not usually the target for accessibility stuff
holy shit terraria 2????
More fantasy Terraria?
Kyora
but I did really like the feature for taking screenshots that get attached to the in-game map, for keeping track of areas you can't reach yet (on top of the usual custom map markers)
Astro bot by a LONG shot I think
Astro Bot wins Best Family Game.

Well-deserved

More frenchies!
i'd love to play astro bot but no ps5 :(
I am french, i'm cheering it 😛
Sifu 2?
someday I will play Sifu 1, someday
Football Sifu?
Sports, immediate no interest 
Oh my god it's football sifu
is that good or bad
Rematch
Colorful, inclusive, both genders on the pitch, arcade'y, fun
rocket league but with ppl instead of cars 
Solasta 2
I meant the "football sifu" part 
GT frothing at the mouth? >.>
Holy
Why?
It's a crpg 
It looks like Blizzard made this trailer
Solasta is, at least
That's what I mean, Sifu is great, so football Sifu sounds awesome
or I guess, unless you don't like football lol
Never played it

Oh my God now I remember I was going to play Solasta!
Alrighty, main show time!
Here we go!
time for desert 🍴
its time
Hi Geoff!
HI GEOFF
its jeff!
Please wrap it up
If Balatro wins, I will die laughing.


Balto winning is the correct timeline

WALDORF AND STATLER!


What in the 
They even said to wrap it up, lol
"We heard you always sell out!"
Already the best Game Awards opener
LMAO
TODD

Oh wow, he's short.
TODD
Statler and Waldorf appearance makes anything better 
You mean handsome

No matter what else happens, they're probably gonna be the best part of the show 
i seen him in so many memes he looks weird, being alive there
HARRISON FORD!
YES!
NoWAY
Cap in hysterics right now
HARRISON
YO WHAT
Nevermind, Ford is here 
Todd why are you so short
Forgot his lines, oops
He's blasted off his mind /s
Senua will win
cut him some slack
the dude is ancient 
See 
lmao of course he is
Melina Jerguens (missed the spelling) wins Best Performance.
what game she from? didnt catch that
Senua 2
there's this clip from a magician who did a magic trick at Harrison Ford's house and Ford is absolutely high out of his mind lmao
Poor girl, she looked so nervous. Congrats!
til he's 90
he's almost close to retirement age
I love Geoff
Ah, I knew this lady sounded German!
Witcher?
No it can't be
Witcher i think
Goosebumps oh my God
Anything CDPR is always good
!
Jezus
CIRI!
ooh a lady Witcher ?
Isn't that Ciri from Witcher 3?
It is
Are we playing as Ciri?
This looks pretty badass ngl
The Witcher IV
Sweet mother of God
Holy shit
I am stunned
Wow, not much applause there
Bandai Namco again
Fromsoft???
FromSoft
And Fromsoftware
Elden Ring 2?
This looks like more elden ring 
Is...Is this Dark Souls 4?
Like, the design of the zone and some buildings
WE FLIYING NOW
Geoff said standalone, so not a sequel
It's not MMO is it
WHAT IS GOING ON
Multiplayer?
Elden Ring Nightreign
Elden Ring Nightreign
yoooo what is this
Band together
Looks good
ELDEN RING 2
What the fuck was that
co-op

Next year!
Kojima <3
I'm not even mad that they reused so many assets from Elden Ring cause this shit looks tight
FF7 Rebirth coming to PC in 2025
Indy
Indy!
It just came out
Oh man, that orchestral remix of the Indiana Jones theme is BLISS
Oh
Cat!
We got 2 Elden Rings before Silksong
Magical cat game!
Oh I don't know what it is I want it now
Stray 2
Catly
Catly
Paths of Exile 2?
Is it out yet?
Such pretty background 💖
Black Myth Wukong wins Best Action Game.
Wukong for best action game
Wish it was Helldivers 2
There's a weird buzzing screech in the stream
Yeah I hear it
Air conditioning maybe?
Yeah there's a weird hissing

Weird audio issues
"Lastly, our game isn't hard at all." 
lies!
"just trust me bro"
Gosh I love when Geoff talks 
O.D?
Epic Games

fbk
oh my goodness it's shadow of the mecha
No name?
That might be SO cool
untitled next project
Untitled right now, but it did say "Project: Robot" in the blurb at the bottom.
hellow 
game awards talk 
Civ 7 Theme!


I look forward to Rom's Civ 7 games
Civ is always a nice game to watch

🎵
modern baba yetu
I recently got back into Civ V a little...Civ VI didn't really do it for me tbh
Wonder what VII will be like
Over 1.1 million watching on YouTube.
February 11, 2025 for Civ 7
Oh I AM looking forward to medley Geoff I am 💖
Oh!!!
I loved the first one 

Obsidian Entertainment!
''Fallout 3... part 2'' 
The outer worlds 2
I am so gonna play this, and I won't say that often this evening
More graphics 
Hot damn, Obsidian
Well this is getting wishlisted
Please have space flight
Outer Worlds 2
So you dunk on bethesda again
Outer Worlds 2! :D
2025
Stupendium's gonna have a field day with that one
It's coming to Gamepass!!
yup!
Though Gamepass has gotten a little expensive too 
This guy, lol
a way out dude
demonitzed
He swears like a sailor
demonetized
I can never tell you if this guy is drunk but I kinda hope he is
Oh wow
Really liked A way out, didn't like their second game so much
I loved It Takes Two SO much

Split Fiction
Split fiction
Split Fiction
Oh wow
uuuh interesting
is something happening that yall are so active all of a sudden?
game awards! 
Geoff 
oh shit didnt know they are today
I see. 
It Takes Two 2 is finally real
That's pretty creative
This looks good
Live from Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, join Geoff Keighley and the video game industry for a celebration of the year's best -- and a look at what's next.F...
0% that I'm not gonna play that
GT Spyro 
Have you played a way out btw @bold sonnet ?
Close, but not yet. :P
tl'dr this is it takes two in a new setting/new characters. Same idea, two characters work together 
No I was planning to but friend changed his mind

sausages 
go do that when you can 
That looks so fun
"you have unpaid parking tickets. time to die."
I love hazelight

THEY ALWAYS COOK
Awww
I love this guy
that dude has too much energy
this dude is such a happy vibe
i liked his energy
My fiancée loathed it takes two 
lenovo legion
The game awards in general have a corporate vibe to me though 
Had two Lenovo Legions, loved em
can recommend
Let me guess ||the boat section||
Not en par with a Zephyrus G14 though if you want something moer portable
bathroom break time
||elephant|| I would guess. I still think about it sometimes 
||most of the game honestly, but she didn't tell me and we got pretty far before she asked to stop. It's that stupid little maze with the music/horn that immediately kills you if you don't shield and time the walk correctly||
Ah yeah that part 
I'm curious to play a Way Out, I need to find someone on Xbox
She doesn't deal too well with frustration in games
but then, has beaten wukong...
It’s a good game though 
maybe you can bring a friend over for some couch coop! 
Killing floor 3
https://fxtwitter.com/DarkSoulsGame/status/1867384137361043506
why.... did the dark souls account retweet this? 
In the Night, ancestral foes await - remnants of a fire that once burned bright.
#ELDENRING #NIGHTREIGN launches on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC Digital in 2025.
Quoting ELDEN RING (@ELDENRING)
As Night Falls, We Rise.
#ELDENRING #NIGHTREIGN launches on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC Digital in 2025.
I didn't even get through the first boss
the combat annoyed me too much
oh my god this is gonna be the Fromsoft Shared universe game isn't it
People already saw that the nameless king showed up in the trailer for that
New mass effect when.
12 minutes
mass effect 
case in point 
till what ?

It's bit like a joke that they will announce tonight with such big things they announced so far
Till new Mass Effect
and I bought an Ally X literally 5 days ago...
I'll say it now
if Persona 6 is announced, I don't know what state I'll be in
hopefully it doesn't make it look redundant
it's kind of weird they announced Elden Ring Nightreign so early
You'll be okay, I regained composure after Witcher 4 
uuuuuh what do you think about it?
I've had an Ally before and loved it
just didn't use it enough
If GTA 6 is shown the internet will break.
hmmm...wonder where a title like GTA 6 would be placed best
Probably at the beginning or end, right?
it's pretty cool so far, this is my first handheld since I slept on the handheld hype until now
probably beginning
my brother had a Deck and now has the OLED version
One last thing
the display on the Ally is not OLED, but it's 120 Hz, 1080p and VRR
I've had an ally and two steam decks, and I love all of them so much. I'm glad these x86 handhelds became a thing
yeah it's a really sweet story
Ally X solves most of the issues with the original Ally, namely the battery life
I'm very sorry I'm not sure I understand who he is I didn't focus
you also get more RAM which makes sense to exploit the APU's increased power compared to the Deck
yeah battery life wasn't great
But the ally x is....expensive. And the old one is so cheap, especially on the used market
now, the only thing is that at home, I have a really good gaming setup... so for some games, streaming them from my PC will be better
game studios/publishers have laid off 34000 people in the last 3 years, and this guy built a resource to help those get hired again in the same industry
I got my Ally X on a good sale, I wouldn't have bought it for MSRP
it was very close to Deck OLED price

This man has a good heart
That was a great speech
I could've used this a few months ago
though i'm pivoting to acting so... maybe not 
damn
i didnt expect feels like this

....now please wrap it up /s
This looks fucking awesome
the Ally X also comes with 3 months of game pass, maybe I'll use that to play Indy
Probably gonna be pvp, still looks awesome tho
No joke we eating tonight 
Steel hunters
Nah, I'm glad they didn't do that to him. That was a good speech, and they were respectful.
Oh shit they have a beta ready to go, that's impressive
Yeah some games launch during game awards. I think Hades 1 did that, actually
LONG DARK 2
2026
This reminds me of a social deduction game I've seen a youtuber play
Borderlands 4!
Oh boy, Randy 
lmao i said "ugh randy pitchford"

Mother fluffin four 

First Borderlands without Bobby Kotick
best wishes to the team <3
There’s 1
FF16?
FF16!
Now if we can cap the amount of claptrap to that in the actual game too I might actually buy it
Chotto matte
TEKKEN
Hahaha
Annoying robot from the game, worst character in the series and there is a distrssing amount of dialogue with him in each Borderlands entry
Ah, a FF16 crossover with Tekken 8.
I wonder what will win 
GTA 6 no problem

GTA6 wins Most Anticipated Game.
Civvie11 represent
who would have thought 
Wouldve been MH wilds if not for gta, imo
Hellldivers or BO6
what a surprise 
Helldivers 2 wins Best Multiplayer Game.
good pick
Helldivers!
come on NMS
NMS or bg3
ROCK AND STONE!
wait, wrong franchise
Baldur's Gate 3 wins Best Community Support.
boo
BG3 winning even a year later, lol
Makes sense, they are putting out like 12 new subclasses
Yeaaaaaaaah Metaphor!!!
Metaphor wins Best Art Direction.

Metaphor was that Persona-esque game right?
Splitgate 2
Didn't splitgate 1 die a slow death? 

its hype is over, but you can still find games online today
yyyup
The development history behind it is quite interesting, to say the least 
Quake Champions is more played than Splitgate right now (and Quake Live is more played than Quake Champions - its Steam version turned 10 this year)
Gundam?
Oh, that's that multiplayer "not gundam" game?
Gund- damnit bashka
Oh is not 
no idea about Gundam
except the soundtrack
the soundtrack is awesome
Is this new Star Wars game really good as ads say or
Fortnite
No

Fortnite OG. They're going the WoW Classic route.
Oh shit, which one are they playing
Ack, buffering!
Oh shit, they picked good tracks
Orchestra time
21 Pilots
Apologies while I go cry a bit
it's ok but there's been better Star Wars games by a long shot
Aaaaand I had to refresh. And I get a 30 second ad. Shit.




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