general gaming

[random steppe]

The biggest praise I have to give so far is that areas are really big this time, and abilities pretty much all feel really good to use.
Feels like a proper refinment of what they were doing in Lilies

[slim thorn]

if I do start playing tonight, would you be interested in watching?

[random steppe]

I will probably tab in, not sure I'll stay the whole time but sure

Feel free to leave a ping when you start

If you start

[slim thorn]

actually now I feel like starting

@random steppe in flutterchat

[wind stump]

oooh~

[astral steeple]

Wtf they actually cooked on Lola's alternate skins for multiversus

[bitter stream]

neat!

[toxic seal]

Tales of Berseria: I forgot how much Magilou reminds me of Trixie. Both magicians who insist on being stage magicians in a world with actual magic, both haughty and full of themselves. Only difference is Magilou is much more powerful than she lets on, so when she boasts, she's not just blowing smoke.

[gaunt marten]

Also Magilou is likeable

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/QiLgq9b_62s?si=1bJBkI6Xb-L4r3HD

https://youtu.be/mvgPwh_oIXg?si=R8zTOnCk95lWCwl2

https://youtu.be/Z8HuMODpFgk?si=carE6-3uqP4r_vzV

videogames are looking pretty good this year

[toxic seal]

Magilou: Comments on how Velvet's outfit is just a bunch of scraps of clothes
Also Magilou: My skirt is books

[gaunt marten]

She's right though

Velvet's outfit is stupid. Please just fix it up

You are literally in town. The tailor will do it for free

[toxic seal]

There's a mod that repairs her outfit lol

It looks nice

[static bluff]

Hot

[gaunt marten]

https://imgur.com/a/texture-edits-r8NNM

[toxic seal]

It must also be noted how awesome of a job Erica Lindbeck did with Magilou's voice. Her dialogue is downright hilarious

[gaunt marten]

Oh I only played the game with Japanese voices

[toxic seal]

I've always played Tales games with English voices given the option. My first was Vesperia that didn't have a JP voice option but the English voice acting, translation, and dialogue has been very good in every game I've played since then so I'm kind of attached now.

Like this battle line in Arise (maybe loud video). I don't know if they do the same in Japanese, but this game goes out of its way to explain how important incantations are for magic so it's extra funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uET9ANIsaYg

[plain harbor]

If you get Rinwell casting fast enough, in addition to that like she'll also just say "Blah blah blah".

Though the only way you can do that is loading her up with accessories that lower casting time.

[white phoenix]

it only took 10 hours

[river veldt]

playing GTAV and Franklin's hound is so cute

[cunning galleon]

chop

[river veldt]

i love him

he's so cute

i think he might be gay

which is fine

[cerulean herald]

it's canon tho /hj Franklin was tryna get Chop away from another male dog

[river veldt]

yeah lol

what the fuck are these comments https://www.reddit.com/r/GTA/s/GxIsRUXy1D

[visual hill]

Multiversus died right as it was about to create a new generation of furries.

Rivals 2 only gets you so far. 😶

[astral steeple]

lol

[bronze abyss]

Maypul and sylvanos>>>>>>>>everything else

[gaunt marten]

New Steam feature: If an early access game doesn't get updates in a while they'll tell you

[arctic fern]

oh thats genuinely awesome

[gaunt marten]

Ironically, the game featured in this screenshot is still getting updated, just not on the stable branch

[visual hill]

crowdfunded UE4 games from 2017 in shambles

[uneven epoch]

kingdom come deliverance II has been officially out for one (1) day, and its already got one million copies sold. thats crazy for a czech game

[random steppe]

I really need to go back to the first one and actually finish it, two seems actually insanely good

[uneven epoch]

i just finished re-playthrough today, i juuuuust missed it by day

so now its downloadin n tomorrow i shall begin II proper

hope yall are ready to only see me durin work breaks and ffxiv raid nights bc otherwise i am gone

[random steppe]

lol

[uneven epoch]

(in more serious tone you dont really need to play kcd I to my knowledge, they recap all the important story bits for ya and you do have to be somewhat forgivin to eurojank happenin in I. if textures arent randomly disappearin and your dog isnt suddenly half his polygons, is it even fun )

[random steppe]

I mean I have no rush, these big games always need a few patches to really come into their own, so I can finish Ender Magnolia, Metaphor, and then start KCD1 and work my way up to two.

[static bluff]

I avoid ff14 because I'll like it.

[uneven epoch]

thats a good assumption! it is a cult

a cult that makes you cry a lot and you enjoy it

[slim thorn]

I'm happy over in the Disco Elysium cult anyway

[random steppe]

Right now I'm still so hard in the honeymoon period for Ender Magnoglia that it's actually hard to unstick myself from it to come and raid

[slim thorn]

might play more of that later

[slim thorn]

I have so many things half-finished now every evening is a tough choice

[uneven epoch]

(deleted user is gummy dont worry about that)

i rlly need to figure out a better way to do screenshots on this new phone the "slap three fingers and press" is so annoying

[wind stump]

we like the cult of big fat tacos
-# big fat taco, big fat taco, so biiiig

[static bluff]

..okay not to turn this into tech support, but if you are using an android phone, try this (uploading video)

@uneven epoch pls let me know once you see this ^

[green fulcrum]

"You can't just ask people that!"

Idk, if I was asked that I'd be intrigued.

[uneven epoch]

see, thats what im used to, but there is no button option in my top menu, like at all. i know you can reconfigure them, but its just not there!

[static bluff]

how annoying

[sacred grove]

Power + Volume Down? That's what it is on my phone at least

[unreal idol]

onosa playing XIV

[static bluff]

Maybe after I retire

like... i got obsessed with New World. Do you really think I have a chance with a game that's actually good?

[cerulean herald]

ok but when do you retire

[static bluff]

30 years from now, god willing

I'm sure I'll still be in manechat

[gaunt marten]

I was about to guess 2050

[wind stump]

join the thread join the thread

[tawny jacinth]

I love Club Penguin Journey

[hasty patio]

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1iii706/msi_just_raised_all_5090_prices_on_their_website/

[rugged flax]

Huge Sims sale on Steam right now
along with the release of Sims 1 and Sims 2

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/sims25birthday

[fresh bane]

Careful though, I heard Sims 2 has very bad issues

[gaunt marten]

Thank you EA for not selling it in my country

[light gate]

And Sims 1 too.

[fresh bane]

Would definitely wait until more patches come out before buying any of these for sure

[gaunt marten]

I still have the originals

[fresh bane]

It's only been a few days so far but a day or two ago a lot of people were complaining about how basically any of the issues you would have with any of the older versions of these games you'd definitely still have
Whether or not they're gonna work on that and release more patches I don't know obviously but for now I'd probably just wait and see first

[rugged flax]

https://youtu.be/ZUDt4BoMg-s

Clint put out his review of 1 and 2

[fresh bane]

''Sims 1 & 2 completely expanded[...] and being sold for 40 dollars when bundled together, which is the price of a Sims 4 expansion pack'' wow

[astral steeple]

Wtf did dead by daylight do to leon s Kennedy LMAO

[fresh bane]

That's just what aging and alcoholism does to a man

[dense crypt]

didnt lose the hair though

[fresh bane]

Probably the only ~40 something year old man that can make that hairstyle work

[wind stump]

FInished Borderlands 2... Again.
(Borderlands 2) ||I didn't even let Jack finish his fucking monologue because i accidentally domed him with my shotgun mid speech thinking "Oh he's still talking, I'll just finish off this clip so I can refill afterwards"||

which honestly?

deserved.

now i'll actually try to finish the DLC at... some point.

[wind stump]

SOLD.

[little badger]

Have you played the first one?

[wind stump]

yea
i don't have it on PC and
it aged.

[little badger]

Game is still good though the bounties were fun

[wind stump]

*it deals a lot of self damage... BUT

well the but doesn't matter if i can't hit shit (god bless Anarchy Mechromancer)

[little badger]

[wind stump]

parking

[little badger]

Release date has leaked from the PlayStation store

[uneven epoch]

okay, finally time to play kcd II ...... but first-

i am not dealin with the camera swap nausea no thank you

i am fine with the "must have savior schnapps to save", thats a beloved quirk to me, but i draw the line at herb pickin that takes six million years and makes me sick

teheheheheeeee here we gooooo

[little badger]

What difficulty you playing on?

[bronze abyss]

really excited to try it when i eventually finish the first game,unfortunately didnt get to do that yet cuz of moving out

[uneven epoch]

i dont think hardcore has been inplemented yet? even if, ill have enuff trouble with normal difficulty

[little badger]

I think that will come a bit after launch

[wind stump]

meanwhile i'm gonna play the new Necrodancer

[gaunt marten]

I am not interested in the new premise

I want less dancer more roguelike

[wind stump]

Yeah, understandable, but there's plenty of roguelikes out there already, arguably too many at this point.

[gaunt marten]

I think very differently

I'm starved for good roguelikes

[little badger]

Ooooh flitter is now a vehicle in destiny 2

[gaunt marten]

Do you get to drive it or just look at it?

[little badger]

Drive

[gaunt marten]

Nice

[little badger]

I seen someone saying it’s based on the tron bike. I can see it in the middle

[graceful bridge]

Streaming Civ 7 for a bit, if anyone is interested

[gaunt marten]

Have fun

[wind stump]

should have called it rifft of the necrodancer
like
guitar riff

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/2RSNzhDkN-A?si=HibMv3A8EWpnndij

28/8

[quiet swift]

More stuff with prime

[wind stump]

... I'll take that risk.

[cunning galleon]

It's coming out before my birthday

[little badger]

Thanks masque @graceful bridge

[worthy rose]

https://search.app/T7HSVmBmZKETuDUZ7

[river veldt]

omg

[robust latch]

Just because you can does not mean you should

[fresh bane]

https://bsky.app/profile/othatsraspberry.bsky.social/post/3lhkeq3asrk2e

maddie ★ othatsraspberry (@othatsraspberry.bsky.social)

i’m stiiilllll in a dreaaaammm~
SNAKE PIPOOOOOO~

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We're getting this scene remastered, gaming has been saved

[river veldt]

have any of you guys played Ori and the Blind Forest ? it looks very pretty and ive heard it's good but just wanna know what you guys think

[fresh bane]

Ixrec's probably your guy for that

[gaunt marten]

It's great

It is beautiful but can be a bit slow at the start

2 is better

[river veldt]

i like the

creature

idk what it's name is

not Ori the other thing

bear guy

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

[quiet swift]

I'm not the biggest fan of platformers? Which I guess this is (or metroidvanias?). But it and #2 are pretty good, apart from one action sequence in each if I recall which were frustrating~

[rare garden]

Registered for the playtest of Anno 117, Ave!

[slim thorn]

yes, Ori 1 and 2 are some of the best metroidvanias, especially for someone less familiar with the genre

For the most part 1 and 2 share the same strengths and weaknesses (stupidly pretty, relatively easy/forgiving, simple but heartfelt story, etc). The biggest difference is that 2 has much more involved combat; part of what makes 1 a nice genre intro is that "only" the platforming and occasionally navigation get challenging.

[bronze abyss]

played both 1 and 2,1 is great absolutely no complaints about it,for 2 might wanna finish it relatively quickly cuz if you take a break its difficult to pick back up in some parts

[wind stump]

you know, at least she's honest about it.

(i don't want to kill her tho :c )
unlike CERTAIN FUCKING PEOPLE
she didn't kill my main in Borderlands 1

[uneven epoch]

oh coooool a local shop has a lil kcd II showcase. the first picture sucked ass so i wont be postin it but they also have this kickass wooden emblem/shield with the shall we call it catchphrase of the game

gonna ping @hasty patio for that

honestly after next paycheck ill check if internet shop has it cheaper or not but i feel like gettin a shirt of some kind

[random steppe]

I am almost at the end of Ender Magnolia, amazing game, I feel like I broke a couple jumping puzzles with sorta glitches at some point but apart from that it was an incredibly polished experience, Early Access really paid off

[slim thorn]

I think I'll do some more Magnolia myself after I do this last thing for the AP game

[random steppe]

I will probably replay lilies after I finish this one

Also I kinda want to do a reread of all the lore text I found to see if I have a good grasp of the story before actually doing the last bit, it's definitely a bit more complicated than lilies in that regard

[hasty patio]

FM 2025 cancelled after repeated delays and the like.

[hasty patio]

Also, Green Hell is F2P for the weekend, along with a deep sale (67%; give or take your local currency).

[slim thorn]

@random steppe streaming Magnolia

[random steppe]

I will put you in the background but I won't be able to speak as I am commuting

[bitter stream]

That's so strange to read, I wonder if they really want to fix the game or if management decided for them.

[hasty patio]

Feels like management made the call to stop, but I do feel that they were given the chances to make it happen. If it wasn't for a expected release later this year (2026), another delay or so would have probably happened.

[bitter stream]

ah right

[chilly mural]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1430190/Killing_Floor_3/

Steam

Killing Floor 3

It’s 2091. Join up with Nightfall, the last line of defense against megacorp Horzine’s inhuman army of monstrous zeds. The future is in your hands… if you can survive long enough to reach it.Killing Floor 3 is the next installment in the legendary action/horror series. This intense FPS puts you in the boots of a Nightfall specialist joining forc...

Price

$39.99

Release Date

Mar 25, 2025

▶ Play video

[sour hill]

They made a third one?

How many floors does this building have?

[arctic fern]

well they killed two of them

this is the final final form floor

[bitter stream]

yeah, I heard 3 is moving to specalists instead of chosing your own loadout

any thoughts on that ? it feels like it's just there to sell more characters/skins, but idk

[arctic fern]

its hard to tell without playing

but 2 had more MTX than im comfortable with already, tho it was restricted to skins if i recall

[bitter stream]

ah right, that's good to know

the artstyle isn't my thing, though it does remind me in a good way of Quake 4's Strogg

[arctic fern]

i loved KF1 and 2, tho its 6 player lobby size makes it hard to get a good team together
hard enough to get 4 players for helldivers

[bitter stream]

right, and relying on matchmaking is very hit or miss

[arctic fern]

indeed

[fresh bane]

Killing Floor is a funny game to me because my only memory of it and the only experience I ever had with it was sneakily booting it up to play it back when we shared a computer in my house and being traumatized by it because everything from the grimey visuals to the zombie noises freaked me out

[bitter stream]

oof, understandable

[chilly mural]

I remember on summer break from my sophmore to junior year all did was watch anime and play killing floor 1 and team fortress 2 for nearly a month

best summer

[fresh bane]

what a silly way to get caught

also damn getting high scores on these is hard

[wind stump]

🐍 ❗

[wind stump]

the bigger the circle is the more accurate, right?

any more than this and the shrapnel will start flying backwards

[little badger]

PlayStation is currently down.

[gaunt marten]

Does that mean you can't play your games or just that you can't use the social network or does it mean something else?

[random steppe]

Finished it, banger of a game, actual masterpiece, no notes

[bronze abyss]

what kinda game is it? heard it mentioned here a bunch of times but never actually seen anything about it

[little badger]

Just play online you can use games that don’t need a connection

[random steppe]

It's a 2d metroidvania with very anime aesthetic

The first one was more medieval inspired, this one goes a bit more into industrial sci-fi

[bronze abyss]

whats the first game called? sounds like an interesting experience

[random steppe]

Ender Lilies

Trailer for Ender Lilies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2O6YbhDVsQ

Trailer for Ender Magnolia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfVGfiEq8W4

Both great games

[bronze abyss]

looking at screenshots it looks very nice visually

[light gate]

ehhhhh, seems like a total failure

gonna see if I can play a single player digital game

[little badger]

You should be able to. on Xbox you can’t play games if there’s an outage

[bronze abyss]

OH SHIT IT LOOKS REAL INTERESTING really digging how the combat is done in the trailer

[bronze abyss]

theres a way to set up your library so you can play games without a connection

[random steppe]

The gimmick in both games is that you are the girl, but summon "spirits" that attack in your stead

[bronze abyss]

yeah i love that kinda shit,might have to try it out if i dont get caught up in other stuff

[light gate]

wait what

Xbox needs internet?

wow

Uhh, so my PS5 can connect to the network.

PSN is up for me.

[bronze abyss]

my main in rabbit and steel is ancient,which is p much same thing your character and the main attacking summon are different entities
same with pom in tfh and a bunch of other games

[little badger]

Or unless they changed it. Because the original Xbox one made it so you had to always have a connection.

[light gate]

Oh that never happened.

[random steppe]

The first one is an amazing game, the 2nd one is somehow ever better.
They tightened out the combat and how responsive it feels, the maps are larger and more intricate, etc...but the 1st one 100% stands the test of time

[bronze abyss]

no way thats true cuz i played throughout 2017-2020 majority of the time without internet

[light gate]

They had to halt that, unless you are using game pass.

[little badger]

PlayStation is still down for me

[light gate]

Weird

But yeah, I can access the store n everything.

[little badger]

Oh it’s only if you are game sharing I think. And yeah store is working of course it is

[bronze abyss]

hell yeah def gonna check them out then

how about navigation since its a metroidvania? i tend to get lost and stall progression a lot in metroidvanias

[random steppe]

Now that I finished Magnolia I'm definitely gonna replay Lilies

The map is very good in both

They do the thing where the zone gets marked once you found everything

[bronze abyss]

any backup things like an objective indicator or a map in case i do get lost? ori so far seemed to be the most straight forward with that

[random steppe]

Objective indicators are pretty rare, but it's easy to notice where you didn't find everything so you know where to look at least

Like if you are stuck you basically go to the zones you didn't complete and knock them out one by one until you find the next leg of the story

[bronze abyss]

sounds managable

[random steppe]

Magnolia is a bit better since the map is more detailed and you have custom markers to remind you of zones, but lilies is still not that bad...I tend to get lost in 2d maps way more than 3d maps but I was able to find my way around

[bronze abyss]

just got the game,controls on keyboard are...quite something,had to change p much everythign

holy shit the character designs are insane,the protag,the first spirit,the first boss are all insane

the environment looks really nice too

[bronze abyss]

killed the dark witch,thats it for my session for now time to sleep

love the game so far

[random steppe]

Awesome, also yeah if you can swing a controller it makes the experience a lot less traumatic, but if you are adept to keyboard you can probably make it work

[little badger]

PlayStation is still down.

[wind stump]

sounds like me ngl

[wind stump]

One thing I do like about Borderlands 2 is that you can make a "boosted" character that starts at level 30.
The intent was definitely to let people experience the Commander Lilith DLC without having to start a fresh save or use an OP character...

But since the other DLC scales to level 30 as well, you can make a boosted character, ignore Commander Lilith and do the DLC as a "fresh" character. (One of BL2's biggest problems was how slow the start felt, given you need to get to level 5 to even get your first skill point and before then you're just running and shooting.)

Plus, starting at level 30 gives you a decent amount of stat points to play with, meaning you can go all in on one tree, or spread out to make a more all rounder type build.

This isn't even mentioning the fact the game dumps you at the last base game story mission, meaning you can do the last mission, finish the game and start over in True Vault Hunter Mode (The base game but the enemies scale from level 30 to 50ish) giving a more dynamic and fresh playthrough if you're so inclined...

Holy shit I just made a wall, didn't I?

[bitter stream]

I mean, it was interesting reading

I didn't know BL2 had a boosted start

I've tried playing a few t imes, but i always just drop it after like, a few hours. Idk why it doesn't quite grab me, maybe because I'm playing mostly in singleplayer

[wind stump]

Yeah as I said, it was part of the Commander Lilith DLC that links directly to Borderlands 3. It was free for a time when it first dropped.

[fresh bane]

woof

I wonder what happened

[little badger]

People are thinking it was a DDOS but I think it was a breach

@graceful bridge it’s coming to VR https://2kgam.es/4jQ1YzZ

[quiet swift]

[wind stump]

Hey, I don't think Tiny Tina's a bad character.
(i think i prefer her in 3 tho)

kinda forget that BL1/2 have kind of a sparse side-character cast.

I suppose having the playable characters from 2 in 3 helps (even if most of them are in DLC, I don't mind that.)

oh and Pre-Sequel too. Though I think like, all but two are dead by 3... Oh my god I totally skipped that western area Nisha is in, huh. But yeah by 3 like 4 of the characters are dead or otherwise fucked off into retirement... or are Claptrap

tho makes sense, most of them are villains in 2, given Pre-Sequel is like, a prequel to 2 and you see Jack before he becomes Handsome and all. I'm rambling, the point is that Borderlands has a lack of side characters up until 3. (Hell even Moxxi was from a DLC before becoming a regular side character in 2.)

[cerulean herald]

doesnt she have her own spin-off game too

[wind stump]

Yep. Haven't played it yet tho.

[hasty patio]

https://old.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1ikm0w2/new_guidelines_for_ads_on_steam/

[gaunt marten]

I recommend linking to the official page
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/advertising

[bitter stream]

hmm are there a lot of games using those advertisements in-game atm? I su ppose either way this should hopefully cut down on some of it.

[gaunt marten]

Usually games that are ports of mobile games

They use unity ads

[bitter stream]

right right

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1637730/view/501690406746981321

Crystal Project dev makes a short list of good mods to start with

(well, mostly good. Don't play Apotheosis)

[bronze abyss]

such a gorgeous scene

wait i didnt realise that was the end of the game what

are there alternative endings? the screen after really seemed like it was implying that

[slim thorn]

yes

[bronze abyss]

what are the unlock conditions for them? not exactly sure where to go from there

[random steppe]

You ate this game up real fast

[slim thorn]

that's the... well, you could debate whether it's a "bad" ending or not, but it's very much a "not the whole game" ending

by this point there should be some other parts of the map you haven't explored yet

I'd rather not spoil the exact conditions before you discover them organically (yes, they are properly indicated by in-game lore)

[bronze abyss]

so you're telling me i have to...read 😨

[slim thorn]

the best ending definitely requires reading

[bronze abyss]

8h playtime,tbf i played it in a couple but long sessions so thats probably what made it a lil faster

[slim thorn]

the normal ending maybe not so much

still if you actually have no idea where you can go feel free to show us the map

but it should be easy to find the endgame by exploring all the major regions, unless there's a room you thought you couldn't get through that you actually could

[bronze abyss]

ill try to look around cuz i have a general idea where i could have unlocked stuff by triggering this ending,but i have a feeling i wont be able to find what i need on my own

ah i was wrong,the thing i was thinking of was not related to the ending,ig ill just try to explore other rooms i havent been to yet

[slim thorn]

iirc the precise text you get after Ending A is also a slight hint about where to look harder

[bronze abyss]

is there some major stuff im missing(major areas/abilities)? cuz i still cant even break the red walls

[slim thorn]

oh yeah that's an important ability

though again we'd have to see how much of the map you've covered to know what to tell you in between "look around more" or <entire walkthrough>

[random steppe]

I am probably not super useful for specifics since it's been a long while since I played it

[bronze abyss]

my current progress

[random steppe]

Even tho I'm replaying it I still am not at the endings

[slim thorn]

yeah I've done the randomizer multiple times so I should know this

oh wow you really did take that route

other than Witch's Thicket that's almost an Ending A speedrun

[bronze abyss]

i just went like "oh this looks like it gets me further away from the place im at" "oh i got x technique i can check out the other place that needed it before and seems important"

[slim thorn]

so from here, there's two directions you can go in with a whole area you should be able to find and do now instead of just a few rooms: 1 is at the top of the map, between hamlet and twin spires, and 2 is east of thicket

that should be vague enough to keep it mostly feeling organic

[bronze abyss]

ty,ill check out the area im at rn and see what i find in those after

these fake looking walls keep getting me,i always try to run into them and am left dissapointed almost each time

a couple things ive learned from metroidvanias
1.always run backwards in the first room at the start of the game
2.run into walls and pray

[slim thorn]

1 yup

2 soooomewhat, though in the good/modern ones you should always be able to see there's something off about the wall

like how modern Zeldas are pretty good about putting a visible crack on every bombable wall segment

so I usually do literal running into walls only until I've figured out what this game's suspicious wall indicator is

[gaunt marten]

Crystal Project does both in an interesting way

With clever platforming and looking around, you can actually skip the majority of the game

[fresh bane]

Flashbacks to Super Metroid's solution being ''just make sure to bomb every single wall you find''

[gaunt marten]

I've been developing a route you can do to beat the game by skipping every fight, but so far at least two are mandatory

[slim thorn]

yeah, Metroid's been through the whole spectrum of obnoxious to great handling of secret walls

these days there's always something unusual about the block even if it's not as obvious as a crack, and you always have power bombs to fall back on

[river veldt]

i like how in Dread (maybe it's in previous games too) there's that one power that shows you all the breakable blocks in that screen

[slim thorn]

and in the Primes you always have the scan visor which ofc makes this a complete non-issue

[bronze abyss]

why do they have to make stuff look so climbable jsutfor it to lead nowhere

[slim thorn]

yeah Dread basically gives you a 2D scan visor so non-issue there too

[random steppe]

2: I know this, on a pragmatic level, but I still lick every wall because as a souls player, I have trust issues

[slim thorn]

I solved my trust issue by not playing those

[random steppe]

No it's fine, I want to have trust issues

[fresh bane]

Dread was such a magical experience the first time because the entire game was just a bunch of QoL features after the other and going ''oh god, yes, they added this thing into the game'' all the way up until the end of the game

To the point that the only negatives I could ever mention about it is just weak soundtrack and weak visuals/art direction and that's literally it

[river veldt]

i wanna love Prime like everybody else but i get so lost so easily in the 3d environment lol

[slim thorn]

it's interesting how some people find either 2D or 3D dramatically harder than the other

[fresh bane]

Really depends on the types of games you grow up on I think

I know because I follow a streamer who pretty much played almost exclusively fighting games so whenever he plays anything outside of that especially any FPS it's like a grandpa's first game experience

[slim thorn]

at our age maybe it does

[fresh bane]

I ''don't like'' Prime simply because I'm uninterested about turning Metroid into an FPS myself

I just don't see much appeal so I never really cared for it

[random steppe]

I definitely have an harder time to commit to memory 2d landmarks than 3d landmarks

Like if I find a tree in a 2d metroidvania, I can't just file "left at the tree" in my brain the same way I do with 3d enviorments

And much of my memory as to where to go is landmark based

[river veldt]

it depends on the game for me i feel, even Dread i felt kind of overwhelmed trying to remember all the places i could go after unlocking a new ability

[slim thorn]

I do think it's worth noting that the appeal of the Primes is largely the same exploration as any 2D metroidvania, and also that while the combat technically is shooting and first-person it's unlike any other FPS I've ever seen because the combat movement is all about locking on and dodge-strafing around the locked enemy

[slim thorn]

whereas I can look at noelle's screenshots earlier and go "oh yeah she went into the underwater room below Gerrod" for a game I'm not even playing right now

[random steppe]

I literally played like 5 hours of that game this afternoon and that map is just ??? for me

[river veldt]

what game is this

(borat voice)

[slim thorn]

Gen and I are talking about Ender Lilies again

[random steppe]

Ender lilies, it's great, you should play it

The way I try to sell this, it looks like my uncle made it or something

[slim thorn]

it's worth noting a lot of modern metroidvanias will either mark obstacles for you, or let the player place markers on the map which are typically used for stuff you'll revisit later

[river veldt]

yeah i like that

[slim thorn]

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown even let you attach screenshots to the map, I loved that

[river veldt]

i was also liking how Zero Mission just told me where to go

[random steppe]

Ender Lilies is not amazing for reminding you where to come back to, Ender Magnolia however, that's a big upgrade in that regards

[river veldt]

Enderman

[slim thorn]

yeah I'd say maybe half of them will straight-up give you objective markers, it depends a lot on the game's structure

Hollow Knight and Nine Sols are interesting middle grounds where you're mostly meant to explore on your own but at one or two specific points in the narrative they will just give you a map marker

[river veldt]

i was playing Hollow Knight last night and got really mad for some reason

[bronze abyss]

ok i think i found my way? found an area that was innaccessible without the wallclimb and it seems to have a bunch of branching paths,so i think im making progress

[slim thorn]

sounds right, the area I'm thinking of requires claw or [spoiler] to get in either way

[bronze abyss]

doggy :(

[slim thorn]

now you've all got me in the mood to play more Ender Magnolia

[river veldt]

Hollow Knight is definitely clicking more for me now than it did like

7 years ago

[slim thorn]

of my favorites, HK is probably the most reliant on the player being willing to explore complex areas with minimal guidance for a large chunk of the game, which is the main reason it wouldn't be my first pick for a not-already-fan of metroidvanias

[random steppe]

Which ironically, I'm very picky with Metroidania but it's the one that clicked the most for me

[slim thorn]

(on the flip side, that's also related to why some genre fans hold it up as one of the most non-linear and are annoyed when all the others are too easy to navigate by comparison)

[river veldt]

i like the grubs

[slim thorn]

everyone likes the grubs until [spoiler]

[river veldt]

oh i know about the spoiler

sadly

[bronze abyss]

oh yeah what do levels do in ender lilies? havent really noticed much difference through levelling up

[slim thorn]

pretty sure it inches up your base attack/defense/etc stats, but I never looked up the detailed numbers

if you don't feel underleveled, then don't worry about it

ok let's magnolia

[random steppe]

I looked it up and from what I understand, it's just extra attack

[bronze abyss]

gameplay wise? no,pacing wise? yes, i was using it as a guide expecting it to represent somewhat the point of the game im at but ig i was wrong

[random steppe]

It's a nice self balancing mechanism actually, if you die a bunch you end up repeating zones and level up more

[slim thorn]

ah, I don't think levels are a good progress indicator in any game I've played with levels, because there's so much player variance in how over- or under-leveled they go through the game

in a metroidvania there's usually some notion of "map completion", which I find the most useful for guessing overall progress, but I am also the type to 100% these games if they're any good

[random steppe]

You'll be happy to know that in magnolia they don't have the max level achievment

[bronze abyss]

i dont mind grinding

legend lvl250 on 2 platforms in dying light,so more than fine with it

[random steppe]

I am supposed to be sleeping but I am not sleepy at all and tomorrow is sunday so whatever, I'll peep some magnoglia, even tho I can't turn on the mic at this hour

[bronze abyss]

5am,same situation

ive yet to find any material to enhance the 1st spirit somehow

[random steppe]

Yeah that one is tricky

[slim thorn]

those are rare and well-hidden

[random steppe]

I know for a fact that you can get some at the point of the game you are but yeah, they are often a reward for exploration

[slim thorn]

if you want to try finding a few of them soon-ish, the earliest area you can find any is ||in Catacombs||

[bronze abyss]

ill focus on progressing the endinghs probs,dont particulary feel limited by it,was just worried that i was missing some very obvious shit somewhere

[slim thorn]

then yeah you're good on that front

they definitely don't want you maxing out Umbral Knight early, I assume the idea is to push you toward trying the other spirits

[bronze abyss]

i just use it as a combo extension this is my current set,switch between them depending on how important i feel stance break is in the situation

[slim thorn]

interesting, way more range than I usually use

[random steppe]

For the replay through I pretty much recreated what my muscle memory got used to in Magnolia

[bronze abyss]

still not sure what to do with these doors

[slim thorn]

yep that's another thing you get later

[random steppe]

A horizontal long range attack/antiair attack depending on the situation on B, a counterattac on Y and a fast or slow attack on X

[slim thorn]

wooooow

that's gotta be a record for closest call in exploration so far

[random steppe]

lol

[bronze abyss]

bruuuuh i got sniped by an enemy that was on screen when i was 1 shot hp

not too big of a deal its like 1 room away from rest spot but just goofy as hell

[random steppe]

@slim thorn here is the funny part, that mine is literally the first thing I did once I was given the key...you went through all the rest of that stratum before coming back, it was very interesting to see the playthorugh from that perspective.

[slim thorn]

and I only realized that just after I warped here

I was also just thinking that Magnolia must be doing the same chapter scaling system as Lilies or this area would be a cakewalk by now

[random steppe]

Could be, not sure

Sure is useful having the counterattack here

[slim thorn]

I was literally thinking that

[bronze abyss]

julius fight was really fun,probs my fave in the game so far gameplay wise

[slim thorn]

same, he's one of the hardest bosses in the game in a good way, in randomizer I'm often choosing where to go based on whether I feel up to him yet

[bronze abyss]

he was a bit difficult yeah though felt the fairest out of the bosses

[random steppe]

Damn that was a good hit

[slim thorn]

#tooreal

[random steppe]

You literally beat ||employment into him||

[bronze abyss]

found it by accident

[random steppe]

Am I misremembering, didn't you find a totem last session?

I thought so

I noticed it because it follows you around

[rugged flax]

welp
RIP
The NoMansSky servers aren't responding
Perpetual Connecting... status
I just wanted to claim my Twitch drops

[slim thorn]

and that's what happens when someone pings me halfway through a boss fight

[random steppe]

lol

also 5 am gaming

[bitter stream]

oh no, is this because of the PSN stuff being down?

[slim thorn]

ok that was mostly 5 am gaming but I got him

[random steppe]

I definitely believe in the scaling as you mentioned

I took some time to kill him as well to be clear, but he was definitely juiced up

In your playthrough I mean

Here is your ||parry, this time it comes in a variety of different effects and a special category of equipment dedicated to it||

[bronze abyss]

i think i just found the 2nd area

thats surely not gonna be tedious at all

[slim thorn]

you should see it in entrance randomizer

oh my god they brought back ||the rat spawners||

[bronze abyss]

this area is a bitch, made me fall into a randomass hole that appeared out of nwhere and dumped a bunch of enemies on my ass from the sky

[random steppe]

The ||rats are the worst enemy in the game||

[slim thorn]

the best part is I know the exact room you're talking about

[bronze abyss]

rats rats rats and more rats

[cunning galleon]

Should finish this guy someday

I seem to have modeled my Tiger E into a strange hybrid

Anyone know what these are? They don't appear in diagrams

And are absent on later models

[toxic seal]

Additional mufflers, maybe?

[rancid herald]

sounds like a question for lazerpig

[cunning galleon]

Oh they're air filters!

[rancid herald]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_131 apparently it has an article

[toxic seal]

Yeah I was looking at that

Thought it might have been the fire suppression system added to it in 1990

[cunning galleon]

Tiger 131 is the only tiger in working condition with original parts

[cunning galleon]

Looks damaged

[toxic seal]

Ohh looks like it seems a bit off because in that 1990 restoration it literally had the engine of a Tiger II installed

[toxic seal]

Its original engine was removed and cut in half to display it at the Bovington Tank Museum

[cunning galleon]

So it no longer has the one of a kind Tiger 1 engine

[rancid herald]

ah yes, the 90s were a hotbed of cutaway things

[cunning galleon]

It's for the best, running it for more than 1 minute probably had the maintenance crew on their toes

[toxic seal]

Also why the museum was hesitant to lend the tank to the movie Fury lol

They were worried the stress on the tank would ruin the engine

[cunning galleon]

It's so delicate and old

Overengineered junk box, still beautiful regardless

It's crazy that there's only one of it

[toxic seal]

They're famous, but famous for their power rather than their numbers. Only 1357 were built. Because they are so famous people tend to think they were everywhere

[cunning galleon]

Tanks often get misidentified

[toxic seal]

They were everywhere in that they were deployed to all fronts, but commanders of Wehrmacht divisions preferred to not deploy their Tigers if it wasn't absolutely necessary

[rancid herald]

a lot of this stuff, unfortunately, tends to get scrapped because no one thinks anyone wants to keep it for historical reasons

[cunning galleon]

Among the millions of Tiger I sightings from GIs only like 90 would be real

[cunning galleon]

Unfortunate end of the E-100

[toxic seal]

Yeah that too, the fear of encountering a Tiger meant Allied soldiers thought they saw Tigers a lot more than they actually did

[slim thorn]

(I think Gen hasn't noticed I stopped playing Magnolia )

[cunning galleon]

Aren't we glad the Russians took everything as war trophies? The British probably would've scrapped the Karl Gerat

Or kubinka tank museum buys alot of tanks

[toxic seal]

Yeah the British didn't often capture German stuff (Tiger 131 was a special case because it was the equivalent of finding a Lamborghini Countach with its door open, keys in the ignition, and nothing wrong but a chip in the paint).

[cunning galleon]

Wanna see a funny? Here's a funny. A KV-2 on top of an IS-2 hull. I think it moves?

[rancid herald]

tbf I'm not really talking about tanks but in a more generalized sense

[toxic seal]

Americans captured stuff to later shoot at it

[cunning galleon]

The crew were probably new

[rancid herald]

historical buildings, ships, all that stuff

[cunning galleon]

I thought all German crews were instructed to scuttle their tanks

[rancid herald]

soon video games

"I said cuddle the tanks not scuttle the tanks"

[cunning galleon]

Games that have an option to steal the enemy tank gets an instant 10 in my book

[toxic seal]

Given the story of how it was knocked out, the inside of that tank must have been loud as hell. When they discovered they coudn't move the turret or see anything in a night battle, I think I'd bail too.

[rancid herald]

I'm pretty sure tanks are death traps in general

[cunning galleon]

Yea the British hit a lucky shot into the turret ring

I think?

[toxic seal]

Back then they were. Crew survival was "have the thickest armor and hope the enemy doesn't have a bigger gun."
Nowadays lots of tanks, mostly NATO vehicles, have a priority to keep the crew alive rather than preserve the tank, so there are a lot of safety measures to hopefully keep them alive even if the tank ends up a smoldering wreck.

[rancid herald]

Maybe, but when was the last time we actually got into a tank fight?

[toxic seal]

Ukraine

[cunning galleon]

Yesterday

Ukraine is still at war and tanks battle alot there

There's a video of an abrams ammo cook off, blowout panel saved the crew

Tanks are less of an iron coffin than the past

[toxic seal]

Leopard 2s, Challenger 2s, and M1 Abrams are getting their first taste of combat against the tanks they were actually built to fight against, rather than Cold War relics they can out-spot and out-shoot with zero danger.

[cunning galleon]

(i think the sherman is literally called the iron coffin by its crew)

[rancid herald]

I had forgotten about them getting modern tanks

[toxic seal]

The M3 Lee got the nickname "MG-6", or "Mass Grave for 6" due to how awful it was against... anything

The British were also very confused as to why Americans named a tank after the general of the losing side of their civil war and named their version of the same tank (that also had mods like a different gun) the Grant

[cunning galleon]

Last ditch effort to make a tank

Well not last ditch

Last second

[toxic seal]

The Lee was a stopgap to get something stronger than the clearly outclassed light tanks they had onto the battlefield while the Sherman was still in development

[rancid herald]

British: "why would you name it after the losing side's general?"
America: "Because they suck."

[cunning galleon]

The British was atleast better at making stopgaps

The Firefly probably wasn't but it feels like it is.
Too weak engine? Slap 5 Inline 6 engines together
Too big gun? Put it in sideways
Radio won't fit? Cut a hole in the turret and put it out back

[rugged flax]

don't know
there's a big thread on the NMS Reddit about it being down
good to know i'm not the only one

[toxic seal]

Amazing because people cannot play their single player games that require PSN connection to play for some reason

[rugged flax]

NMS can be single player offline, and it primarily is, since you only run into other players in the Anomaly or if specifically invited to your planet
but i need the servers to be online for the Quicksilver dude in the Anomaly to recognize that I have unclaimed things

and if it is related to the PSN stuff, why the frick is PC unable to connect

[light gate]

PSN is already up

[bronze abyss]

🖕

[proud warren]

||for a second I thought that was "The Great Maze map" from Smash Brawl's Subspace Emissary||

[rugged flax]

https://store.steampowered.com/sub/1242978/
20 for $20 bundle for 2K's 20th anniversary sale

[quiet swift]

Dunno who it was but I saw a screenshot here of someone playing balatro with like 17 jokers at some point. Other than skipping a blind, how are you getting so many negative jokers for the extra slots? (still trying to beat red deck here)

[proud warren]

the way I did it was, ironically, with a completely different deck over red deck, but if you're looking just to win, play the hand you were given in the shop (hehe poker pun)

you just need to know what the jokers do, and how to play to them in a strategic way to have it snowball to victory

(sorry I'm not the best at explaining things, just know my 17 joker run was because I used anaglyph deck specifically)

[river veldt]

i bought the Handsome Collection thingy with Borderlands 2 and the Pre-Sequel

lots of DLC lol

it was like 12 bucks which is neat

[random steppe]

I was watching you play a 5am while in bed and under the covers.
Losing consciousness was not only a possibility, it was the fucking plan.

[slim thorn]

well we can't end a metroidvania without some navigational challenge now can we

[gaunt marten]

Apparently PCSX2 stopped being bad and nobody told me

https://pcsx2.net/blog/2024/pcsx2-2-release

It uses QT for interface, it got rid of plugins, merging the best of them into the software itself, and cleaned up house in a big way

[slim thorn]

gtk, the retroarch PCSX2 core has been infamously out of date for a while now, so this might be the rare case where it's better to use the standalone emu next time I want to play a PS2 game

[gaunt marten]

I only looked up the dev blog to see if they had performance improvements since I last used it

I want to give
https://github.com/evilwb/APRac2 a try but my CPU was not up to snuff last time I played Ratchet and Clank

[visual hill]

PCSX2 is in a really good state now, even its macOS version on Rosetta is generally better than the native-but-defunct AetherSX2

[bronze abyss]

well then,time to go for the hundreth loop around the elevator

[slim thorn]

it's mitigated by having 4(?) respites all around it, so you should never have to do a full loop more than once

[bronze abyss]

figured it out,turns out all i needed was sleep

[slim thorn]

classic

[bronze abyss]

the boss was a bit easier than it looked,the last phase was scary as hell on the first couple attempts

yay i can open doors now

[bronze abyss]

not sure what to do now,the slopes in ||abyss|| dont seem to be climbable and i need to get around somehow

[slim thorn]

hm, did you finish Stockade?

[bronze abyss]

Not sure whats that?

[slim thorn]

oh

ok then I think you're missing a boss in an "earlier" area who has the last ability you need to finish abyss

(or if you want to play by randomizer logic, I think you can get over that specific bump by exploiting ||spirits like Guardian Silva and Verboten Champion giving you significant vertical movement, and Incompetent Sinner giving horizontal||)

[bronze abyss]

I did find another area next to spire i think do ill check that out as well after lethal company session

[light gate]

Ehhh, there are still some slow downs that aether doesn't show.

Still pissed that a bunch of android users harassed the dev.

[visual hill]

I finished Little Kitty Big City!! 🐱

[gaunt marten]

How was it compared to Stray?

[visual hill]

I haven't played Stray yet

[gaunt marten]

Oh

I figured you talk about it a lot so you must have

[fresh bane]

I did notice the new interface and the lack of plugins when I downloaded it to play Haunting Ground and MGS3 recently

I think back when I last used it it still had those plugin windows for changing your controls or any graphical options

The biggest change I noticed was the ''in-game'' menuing, which is how I ended up figuring out how to make mouse mapping aiming work for MGS3

I don't really know how to explain it so here's what it looks like

I remember PPSSPP actually had this type of menu too, though this one seems to have a lot more options for what you can do that you can tinker around with

When I was trying to get the mouse mapping to work by just clicking on the emulator windows and trying to enable mouse mapping and doing the inputs it never worked until I pressed esc to bring up that menu, load up the controller setup, and it worked
worked much faster for doing savestates too, I like being able to actually see the savestates like that rather than a list where I have to make sure I read the time correctly unless I load up/overwrite the wrong save

[gaunt marten]

Is this what PCSX2 looks like now? This looks like the Retroarch menu

[light gate]

That is the fullscreen mode.

Duckstation has something similar too I think.

[fresh bane]

That's the 'in-game' menu you bring up by pressing ESC, I think it's basically all the options the regular emulator window has, maybe even more
The regular window looks actually pretty similar to a lot of other emulators right now

Reminds me a lot of Dolphin

[visual hill]

omg omg omg
https://reddit.com/comments/1hsnop0

finally free from its 15 FPS jail 🙂

[gaunt marten]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/opensourcegames/comments/1hsnop0/i_modified_the_abuse_1996_source_code_to_unlock/

(Video has audio in the source)

[visual hill]

thanks

[wind stump]

Castlevania has... enemy design.

[uneven epoch]

"why the heck am i struggling to pull off a combo in kcd II on the trainer, im not THAT bad at the game. oh. oooooh my mouse deteriorated and is not registerin some inputs. oh okay thatll do it"

so i guess im goin shoppin tomorrow it did last like, four years so i guessss that isnt too horrible given i lug it around in my bag twice a week

[gaunt marten]

That's why I buy a mouse with spare keys

If one breaks I remap it

[uneven epoch]

spare keys as in, those funky side ones?

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

Mine has twelve side keys

[uneven epoch]

oh wow thats a lot

[gaunt marten]

I have them set up to page up, page down, home and end, middle click

A fast autoclick macro

[uneven epoch]

you could have a whole full row of ffxiv hotbar there

i havent used a mouse with side buttons yet. i think at most id try out one of those two side button ones

but honestly my criteria lies elsewhere so thats not somethin im all that set on

[gaunt marten]

That's reasonable

[uneven epoch]

we´ll see what ill find in town. i know i want wireless powered by AA battery because thats my preferred mouse kind, otherwise ill probably just pick by price

[gaunt marten]

I do love the idea of a wireless rechargable mouse, but my bluetooth dongle sucks so I'd have to pick up a good one if I'm to ever use one of those

[random steppe]

One of my first mice was a logitech with two batteries and a charinging port, which ejected the battery with a spring, so you felt like you were reloading an energy weapon or somethingh while you were doing the swap

It was an odd system for sure, I don't think I've seen it in any other mouse

I should amend, one my first gaming mice, before I just used the classic 10 bucks mouse

[wind stump]

g u n

[bronze abyss]

Highly recommend razer viper mini,its small and pretty nice for the price(40€ a few years back,may be cheaperr now)

[slim thorn]

[visual hill]

how did you get more than 15000 gems?

I played a bunch this afternoon but I'm not quite there yet

[green fulcrum]

There's actually 20000 gems in the base game, since there's a bonus level with an extra 5000 gems. However, the 2 gems here was because of a bug, so Ix is gonna have 20002 gems at the end.

[slim thorn]

anyway, I'm officially done with the Spyro trilogy now

[light gate]

97%?

[slim thorn]

wasn't feeling the speedway bonuses

[light gate]

I don't blame you.

Just thinkin bout it makes my wrist hurt.

[bronze abyss]

just got the hook cuz i cant fall asleep...it never even hit me until now that there were hookable points anywhere in the game

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SffcQ26ats God, this track is so damn good

[bronze abyss]

i read the fucking controls tab multiple times even and just didnt fucking process that somehow

[quiet swift]

If only the zone it was from wasn't a pain in the ass

[gaunt marten]

Hook autoaim sucks

[bronze abyss]

seems fine so far

im either fucking stupid or i dont have enough health to get past this

NAH IM ACTUALLY BLIND

i did not see the fucking hook points in the main ||abyss|| entrance

i thought it was like a triple jump requirement or maybe an upgrade to the wall climb that allows to go up slopes

hooooly shit

[bronze abyss]

this boss really lets the claws shine finally

[bronze abyss]

....theres not even a 2nd phase?

got ending B 16h playtime total

[bronze abyss]

managed to get through,just had to optimise the relics

[uneven epoch]

ah, thank you for the recommendation but also absolutely not im not tryin to get a gamin mouse at this time, more so the, how did gen put it, "classic" cheapass mouse or at least, cheap one that meets that battery requirement

we'll see what the store has

[bronze abyss]

ah fair enough,thats outside of my specialty then,but if you do ever want a smaller decent mouse in general would def recomend it

[river veldt]

the mouse i have is the one that came with my laptop

[bronze abyss]

maxed out umbral knight

aaand got all the stone tablet fragments,now time to see what happens with that

[bronze abyss]

oh..

done

im assuming i fully completed the game considering i have the ng+ option now

it was great,def playing the 2nd game immediately

i did not realise the 2nd game released this recently,im surprised there was a crack for it

[bronze abyss]

jfc remapping controls is a pain in this one

[random steppe]

Whoo, grats with the Lilies completion

[wind stump]

me playing Sleeping Dogs:
"... This is fun. But now I want to play Yakuza."

I'm not even saying that to be insensitive, having done the combat tutorial, it's like Squenix wanted to make a Yakuza game.

[little badger]

Ooooh. You’ll love it HC it also has karaoke

[wind stump]

also no the fact it's Lunar New Year has nothing to do with it, I promise

[little badger]

Did you get it for a good price?

[wind stump]

i've had it since 2020 and never played it

[little badger]

Ah. The dlc is good as well

[slim thorn]

damn you really did blitz through Ender Lilies

[random steppe]

Can we talk about the real problem with the games tho?

These two cards are too different, why is the title so high in lilies, it hurts me

[wind stump]

all above board, i'm sure

[bronze abyss]

Im surprised myself that i managed to,usually i get lost so much and stuck at some singular part that i may not even end up completing a game,this was a pretty smooth experience though

[random steppe]

Magnolia is definitely the more streamlined of the two so it should go similarly

[slim thorn]

enjoy Crimson Forest

[worthy rose]

https://www.eurogamer.net/valve-bans-all-steam-games-that-force-players-to-watch-advertisements

[random steppe]

I love this one

[hasty patio]

Small wins.

[green fulcrum]

TIL that this was even a thing

[slim thorn]

iiuc it was mostly an issue with mobile ports, so not many of the games we play

[worthy rose]

Indeed

[light gate]

Tim Sweeny gonna be like “we dont do that here!”

[random steppe]

It's slowly getting there tho, plenty of games advertise their DLC in the title page nowdays

It's a small leap to advertising other stuff

[slim thorn]

#EnderLilies/Magnolia: the more things change, the more they stay the same

[bronze abyss]

playing magnolia rn and one thing that keeps catching me off guard a bit is that characters feel like they actually have character,since in ender lilies it made sense for them not to cuz of them being just blighted undead n all that,protagonist being silent as well it had a much different mood to it

not a bad thing,just one that im not used to yet

is magnolia part of the same world lore wise?

or just connected in any way

[fresh bane]

https://bsky.app/profile/culturecrave.co/post/3lhukxmhi7k2q

Culture Crave 🍿 (@culturecrave.co)

Hideki Kamiya says that Bayonetta, Devil May Cry, Okami, Viewtiful Joe, and The Wonderful 101 are all part of the same universe 🎮

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lol yeah sure, why not

it's kind of insane to think about the fact that there's currently a non zero percent chance of Kamiya getting to direct a new DMC game

the thought of it both excites and deeply terrifies me

[toxic seal]

DMC, Okami, and Bayonetta I can see tying together with an incredibly thin thread. I don't know enough about Viewtiful Joe and Wonderful 101 to add them to the mix

[green fulcrum]

...This feels weird, but I'll allow it.

[random steppe]

Same world as far as we can tell

Also yeah I liked the characters having a bit more of a personality

The small vignette they do at respites are real cute

[bronze abyss]

i kinda dig the lack of it in the first game,but can def appreciate this as well

[random steppe]

I think it works better because the story in general is more complex

So you kinda want more than two characters driving the plot

[bronze abyss]

the soundtrack fucking SLAPS so far though

[random steppe]

100% agree

[bronze abyss]

first game had a really nice ambience but this shit is actually amazing

[quartz pawn]

I now want Bayonetta to do the Henshin A-Go Go lmao

[random steppe]

I like Ender Lilies, I think Ender Magnolia is one of the best games I've played tho

[quartz pawn]

She already does all the poses

[bronze abyss]

dont wanna judge too much yet since im still early on,but im kinda underwhelmed by the difficulty of magnolia compared to lilies,even with it on hard

[random steppe]

Doesn't quite get to HK on the mechanical level IMO but it's exceptional on every aspect

[bronze abyss]

might just be me being used to how the game works though

[random steppe]

I think it's easier, but I think it's because the combat is more responsive

They should definitely add a "very hard" preset IMO

[bronze abyss]

i love this fucker already hes so cute

the horse was pretty as well in the first game

[bronze abyss]

would be nice if very hard added extra attacks to bosses/enemies n such

FAST TRAVEL WITHOUT GOING TO RESPITES HELL YEAH

[random steppe]

Pretty much every QOL addition is exceptional

The map has such a massive glow up

[bronze abyss]

really like seeing actual stat changes as well now instead of "slightly increases aerial damage"

[random steppe]

Agreed

[bronze abyss]

jfc why is yolvan's stance break so strong

shield fuckers are like a million times more annoying though,having to wait for them to attack instead of dash behind and kill them

[random steppe]

What did you think of the fact that they ||give you double jump and dash|| pretty much immediatly?

[bronze abyss]

mixed,i do very much like it qol wise and it feels like it was made exactly for what im doing,playing both games one after another,but at the same time it just doesnt feel right?

[random steppe]

That was a bold move IMO but like, it really helps the gameplay to feel fast and mobile right away

[bronze abyss]

i got used to the regular dodge in the first game so ti didnt bother me too much,i probably would have prefered to get parry early though

[random steppe]

I think you'll love what they did with the parry

[bronze abyss]

no more bullshit knockback on hit?

[random steppe]

That too but more that it's a whole thing now...no spoilers tho, I'll wait until you find it

[bronze abyss]

do i atleast get it soon or is it a later-on thing

[random steppe]

It's not late, but it depends in which direction you go after the game opens up a bit

[bronze abyss]

oh is it open ended?

[random steppe]

Not super open, but you have a couple of choices as to the order you tackle things in

Ix in his playthrough went to the first place I went to basically as the very last thing in he could do in the lower stratum which was amusing

Like if you have ||Yolvan|| it already happened

I would say that's the end of the tutorial IMO

[bronze abyss]

i didnt even know theres any other way i can go

right i need to not forget that this game released only a couple weeks ago and spoilers are actually relevant this time

ofc mimics still have to be a thing

if box a lil too 2d its bad

[bronze abyss]

areas feel so much less claustrophobic in this game,its nice but also weird at the same time,reminds me more of ori and the will of the wisps

[random steppe]

As Ix observed, it makes sense with them giving you much more mobility right away

They need to give you more space to jump around if you can jump higher

[bronze abyss]

||shackled beast's|| soundtrack was...certainly a choice

[bronze abyss]

wait is ||shackled beast|| the thing youre referring to?

[random steppe]

Not exactly

Even tho he is pretty cool too

[bronze abyss]

ok i was scared for a second parry was locked on cooldown

[bronze abyss]

🖕 v2

holy this mf looks so pretty

[random steppe]

Lol

[bronze abyss]

[visual hill]

it's like id Software or Valve games

[little badger]

State of play tomorrow

Will feature some updates and new announcements

[graceful bridge]

https://youtu.be/MGOdJMNN2b0?si=TqVeIgC7z3FDEChL

[obsidian salmon]

The most raw exchange from FE10 (Radiant Dawn).

||Talking to the literal goddess and creator of life as he knows it, promising to atone for mankind’s misdeeds, and she refuses him…so he tells her to pray to whatever divinity prays to. ||Holy SHIT that goes hard. Especially in context, since this is the culmination of two games’ storyline.

You either hate RD or love it, and boy do I love it

[green fulcrum]

Oh yeah, that line does indeed go hard. I don't think I've seen anyone else tell off gods in that particular way before.

[obsidian salmon]

Tellius games were so peak. PoR for gameplay, RD for story. Apparently there was a threequel planned, since there’s characters marked as “wounded” in battle who don’t die after certain points (like sothe)

But it never came to be

[slim thorn]

oh yeah I remember highlighting that line when I got there too

what I heard was the threequel got sorta smooshed into RD and that's part of why it often feels like it has a bit too much in it

[visual hill]

I read RD as Rainbow Dash at first

[wind stump]

the more souls i get in DoS the more i love this game

For every repeat of Aria (Tho I would not forgive them if the Student Witch wasn't in, GLORIOUS ATTACK KITTY) you get something glorious like THE BONE THRONE

[fresh bane]

After doing so many of those sneaking VR missions in MGS2 I wanted to see if I could do a full ghost run of the Virtuous Mission really quick
I almost got caught a few times but it's doable

[visual hill]

reminds me, I have yet to play MGS3

[fickle garnet]

I am now installing Kingdom Come Deliverance

[visual hill]

enjoy! I claimed the first one on Epic Games Store last year, still need to get around to it

[fickle garnet]

Yeah I got it free on Epic Games too. I just havent ever played it

I also need to eventually play the Shadowrun games, cuz I got those free too

[visual hill]

KCD1 is still quite demanding when maxed out today, but it looks very good

in fact, I heard its executable is the same as KCD2

so the engine hasn't changed all that much (it's still CryEngine), but KCD2 looks better thanks to improved assets/lighting

CryEngine sees very little third-party use nowadays, but Warhorse seems to be doing a great job at it

...I remember when CryEngine powered games on the Wii U, like Sonic Boom. It ran quite poorly and didn't look all that great

[random steppe]

I played a bit of it but the I got distracted, now I have like two other big games I want to knock out before I get back to it

[static bluff]

I was a little confused but I got there in the end

[bitter stream]

yo nice! cornering into a kiss of death

[static bluff]

I'm looking up how I'm supposed to do this. It never sticks in my head for some reason, haha

[bitter stream]

yeah fair enough, it's pretty rare to run into right?

[static bluff]

noo not really

[bitter stream]

ahh ok

[static bluff]

Many games are decided by having a 1 pawn advantage, which eventually turns into a queen. so, queen and king end games aren't rare for that reason.

[static bluff]

I posted this on Reddit and they gave me really good and easy to execute patterns to force checkmate while avoiding stalemate

[hasty patio]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/americantrucksimulator/announcements/detail/502816848990961677

[river veldt]

yoooo

[gaunt marten]

That's sick

[river veldt]

they should make Iowa

OMG they are i didnt read the paragraph

[minor plover]

is this something where you can piece multiple states together from different expansions and drive from, say, Utah through Wyoming and Nebraska into Iowa even if they're not all in the same pack?

[hasty patio]

Yes IIRC. Most of the older DLC are now in packs that made some geographical sense. You can buy the states separately if you want.

[cunning galleon]

preparing for WT air rb

[astral steeple]

Wow loot boxes are returning to overwatch

[river veldt]

Portal 2 is like the best game ever but i wish it was a little longer

[bronze abyss]

ender magnolia: i hate rats i hate rats i hate rats

[arctic fern]

CO-OP mode! and the perpetual testing initiative

[river veldt]

true

[visual hill]

play Portal: Revolution

and Portal: Community Edition when it's out

[arctic fern]

oh yeah theres modded campaigns too

[visual hill]

and Portal Stories: Mel too

[unreal idol]

One day I'll play portal

[arctic fern]

never finished that one

[river veldt]

is this the one with the third portal

[arctic fern]

(im always down to do portal co-op btw, been ages since i did it)

[quartz pawn]

I liked Portal 1. and I think I beat portal 2? but it was forgettable.

[arctic fern]

PORTAL 2? FORGETTABLE?????

we can no-longer be friends.

[quartz pawn]

[unreal idol]

I need to play portal 2 too

(After portal of course)

[arctic fern]

(you're allowed to have you're opinion but damn thats a hot take)

[quartz pawn]

I still think that take is cold next to my take of just outright not liking the humor of Borderlands.

[arctic fern]

you've never played it!

[astral steeple]

If you want more portal 2 content get the motion pack dlc thing and a razer hydra motion controller set lol

[quartz pawn]

I've played it. but I played a yarr'd version and later was gifted it on steam.

[astral steeple]

One of these

They're like super rare

[arctic fern]

aaah

[astral steeple]

Deff worth it to own

If you can find one

A working set generally goes for 150 usd+ iirc

[river veldt]

explodes you with my mind for having a different opinion than me

[visual hill]

I read Postal 2 instead

[eager bane]

POSTAL 2? FORGETTABLE?????

Actually only played about an hour of Postal 2 and had multiple runs of Portal 2, both singleplayer and coop, so...eh...

[wind stump]

Postal 2 is... A game.

[bitter stream]

State of Play, (Play station broadcast thing) is in 30 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQtPbTOhLEc

[bold sonnet]

Oh!!

[bitter stream]

hope there's some cool news coming

though it doesn't impact me so much, given I don't have a playstation lol

[bold sonnet]

I look at events like these for gaming world as a whole 💖 and also they may come to other platforms one day or be emulated or played in cloud! Thanks for letting us know!

[bitter stream]

True that, you're welcome

[visual hill]

these days, most PlayStation games end up on PC sooner or later

unless you're GT7 or Astrobot. Something tells me these games won't be on PC for a long time; the former because it's a service game, the latter because it's a big part of the PlayStation brand (basically "fanservice: the game")

[random steppe]

Yeah basically all playstations exclusives that aren't called Bloodborne get to PC sooner or later

(i'm not salty, you are salty)

[bitter stream]

yeah, idk why bloodborne didn't get a remaster or something. I've not heard anything about it for years now

[visual hill]

ShadPS4 keeps making progress, hopefully it will be more optimized so more people can play at 60 FPS in the future

but right now, you can already finish the game on it

[little badger]

5 Minutes

[light gate]

In one hand I prefer Bloodborne not to get announced so that PS4 emulation progress continues, on the other hand... I want it out so that people can stop asking for it lmao.

[little badger]

Apparently a god of war remastered collection might be getting announced.

[random steppe]

It's just bad when people don't have access to good games

[bold sonnet]

That reminds me Avowed from Obsidian releases tomorrow and is on game pass

[light gate]

Yeah...

stares at Mac users

[river veldt]

that would be neat

[little badger]

Here we go!

[river veldt]

that twilight emoji is super cute lol

[little badger]

Monster hunter

[eager bane]

hey I'm here too

[little badger]

[eager bane]

might just have it on mute on the side though I don't expect many things for me

[bold sonnet]

Lesgo

[eager bane]

[bold sonnet]

[eager bane]

I felt like monster hunter earlier

I had ants in my kitchen

[fresh bane]

Shinobi Art of Vengeance... goddamn that looks good

[eager bane]

Hey, that game looks pretty sweet!

[bold sonnet]

[little badger]

Sonic!

[fresh bane]

Similar style to the Ninja Gaiden by Blasphemous' devs, I'll take a note for that one for later

[light gate]

Sonic is once again too lazy to get out of the car.

[bold sonnet]

[light gate]

Sonic Transformed but for the new age I guess

[little badger]

Also a beta

[light gate]

DIGIMON?

welp

my wallet is dead

[little badger]

The sonic website has crashed already

[light gate]

god its been years since I've seen digimon.

[bold sonnet]

That looks cool

[random steppe]

This feels familiar

[bold sonnet]

Like final fantasy or something

[light gate]

looks cool tho

[bold sonnet]

Oh wow stylish

[random steppe]

Looks like Last Remnant

Actually no I didn't expect a character action game

[bold sonnet]

Imagine what would happen if like they announced Devil May Cry games remakes

[random steppe]

Now I am interested

[rancid herald]

I put the time at 2x speed so I can visit the future

[bold sonnet]

I like this

[light gate]

yo is this dark souls-gun shot

[random steppe]

A bit too clichè but if the gameplay is good I might be persuaded

[rancid herald]

it's weird to have a sonic racing game when sonic probably should just run real fast

[bold sonnet]

I like cliché sometimes when it's in style

[bitter stream]

Splitgate!! Let's gooo

I hope it's on PC too

[river veldt]

i think it's to give the others a chance

[light gate]

uh oh

[bold sonnet]

[rancid herald]

it's kind of funny that digimon is digimon but they don't seem to have very popular games

[arctic fern]

it would be pretty funny to have a racing game where everyone is in cars but soic and shadow

[random steppe]

So, this is going to be microtansation hell right?

[little badger]

Yup

[bitter stream]

oh yeah, 100% Genryu

[river veldt]

randy....

[rancid herald]

"I made a universe where you're inside the digital world"
"Oh it's a video game?"
"No."

[little badger]

Borderlands time

[light gate]

get him out

[fresh bane]

I don't know anything about Digimon, but I kinda hope this new game ends up being really cool and makes the franchise more popular, I always felt bad that Pokemon completely overshadows Digimon to the point that nowadays kids probably actually don't know what Digimon even is

[bold sonnet]

[rancid herald]

digimon's big problem, I suspect, is that they have too many critters and no consistent relationship between them

[river veldt]

borderlands the IV

[light gate]

get him out

[bold sonnet]

What he did

[rancid herald]

I can't believe they're making a wrestlin mmo

[random steppe]

I am over Borderlands but happy for those that celebrate

[bold sonnet]

The movie?

[light gate]

get randy out

[bold sonnet]

What did Randy do

[bronze abyss]

dw renamon makes sure they do

[little badger]

Ooooooh can’t wait for this game

[bold sonnet]

OOOO

YES me too!

Lesgo

[rancid herald]

who is this voice actor?

[bold sonnet]

It takes two was SO good

[river veldt]

looks neat

[bold sonnet]

Goosebumps

[random steppe]

This definitely sounds like the perfect conceit for a It Takes Two type game and them being able to cook up cray scenarios for it

[eager bane]

you still need to play A Way Out sometime

[random steppe]

I am so fucking ready for a good sci-fi story Expanse style

[rancid herald]

"it doesn't look too bad"
<literally a big fucking hole in the ship>

[bold sonnet]

Thank you for reminding me!!

[river veldt]

so they did some teen slasher games and now they're doing a Thing/Alien game

pretty neat

[light gate]

The Thing: In Space

[random steppe]

Oh it's The Thing but not The Thing

[bold sonnet]

Wow

[little badger]

Directive 8020

[random steppe]

Sign me up

[river veldt]

fnaf

feddy

[rancid herald]

from the name I assume they were transporting nvidia cards

[light gate]

oh dear

[bold sonnet]

Onono

I don't look just listen

[eager bane]

[fresh bane]

Oh actually a new FNAF game

I thought they were done with those

[rancid herald]

oh they're programming in clay now?

[eager bane]

I don't think they will ever be, given how much of a fanbase it still has after all these games

[bold sonnet]

Owow

[river veldt]

last fnaf game was the Into The Pit game in August

[bitter stream]

lots of horror games huh

hard to watch

[bold sonnet]

Nightmare Before Christmas style

[rancid herald]

I do admire the style

[river veldt]

konami

[rancid herald]

it's interesting when games branch out to other styles

[river veldt]

squid

amoeba

[rancid herald]

that's an octopus

[eager bane]

Octodad 2

[bold sonnet]

Awww

[eager bane]

Okay, not quite

That game looks pretty sweet!

[river veldt]

🦑

[random steppe]

I'm surprised Konami still does whimsy, that's a good sign

[rancid herald]

"roguelike franchise"?

[light gate]

looks mobile

[eager bane]

Wait, the octopus game was Konami?

[rancid herald]

oh no

[bold sonnet]

Gosh I love games

[random steppe]

Someone still human works at the company

[river veldt]

no whimsy allowed

today

[random steppe]

They said Konami I'm pretty sure

[fresh bane]

It's not really that surprising at all, they specialize in these types of games for mobile

[bronze abyss]

fuck the ||king of the garbage heap|| 🖕 (ender magnolia spoiler)

[rancid herald]

fun fact, today is Darwin day

[random steppe]

Oh shiot, I loved this game, I will 100% play this

[bold sonnet]

Ooh

[eager bane]

huh. weird. Not what I would have expected from them at all, given the last titles they had

[fresh bane]

one of their more popular franchises they kept focusing on was a very cutesy cartoony baseball game that seems to be exclusive to japan

so this is not out of normality for Konami

[little badger]

[bold sonnet]

Nire, you played Onimusha?

[little badger]

captured on pc

[fresh bane]

I want to but not yet

[bold sonnet]

[river veldt]

is that what it said

[rancid herald]

oh zombies

it's always zombies

[bold sonnet]

I think I will try Ninja Gaiden first since they're on game pass and stuff

[river veldt]

it's the early 2010s again

[rancid herald]

look in the mirror the zombie is you

[eager bane]

oh right! Haven't checked new games on game pass in a while
looks

[random steppe]

This looks satisfying to play

Oh yeah the new onimusha

[bold sonnet]

Avowed tomorrow, from Obsidian

[rancid herald]

OH GOD NOT ANOTHER TALKING BRACELET

[river veldt]

ive never heard of this series

colonel

[little badger]

🐍

[fresh bane]

do you hear me SNAKE

[bitter stream]

I'm watching Mint Fantome watch this, it's so fun, she's going nuts over Snake

[light gate]

this looks weird

[eager bane]

I usually wouldn't care about yet another fantasy rpg....but it's from Obsidian!!
Outer Worlds was amazing!

i should give Avowed a try

[bold sonnet]

I want to properly start with Metal Gear

Like all of them

Gosh I love games just

[rancid herald]

never played

holy shit

[river veldt]

what the fuck is that

[rancid herald]

ape escape?

aw

[little badger]

[little badger]

Yup

[rancid herald]

a new one?

[little badger]

Must be

[light gate]

Death Stranding 2?

[little badger]

Or a collaboration

[bold sonnet]

Wait

This voice

[eager bane]

I love indie games
I've gotten too cynical over the AAA industry over time