general gaming

[light gate]

yep

wait is it?

[bitter stream]

is htis like a resident evil or something akin to it?

[bold sonnet]

What's this

[random steppe]

What is happening

[bold sonnet]

It was voice of Adam Jensen

[light gate]

Why is Mark Zuckerberg in this game?

[random steppe]

How many chins has that guy

[rancid herald]

it's ape escape

[bold sonnet]

From Deus Ex

[rancid herald]

guys!!!

[bold sonnet]

Huh

[random steppe]

Very Kojima of them

[bitter stream]

Wait what

Lies of P?

[bold sonnet]

O

[random steppe]

Nice

DLC?

[river veldt]

ktiy

[little badger]

Cat

[rancid herald]

hey it's what's his name

asterion

but the human

[bold sonnet]

[bitter stream]

Overture huh? so it is DLC.

[light gate]

Expansion it seems

[random steppe]

This feels like a different game altogether

Almost

We'll see I guess

[light gate]

Dreams

wait

[rancid herald]

what is this, america the game?

[bold sonnet]

[eager bane]

I'm interested

[light gate]

Isn't that Metal Gear?

[random steppe]

Yeah I was about to say

[light gate]

Wait is this Hitman?

[random steppe]

Average American dream simulator

[eager bane]

seems like the kind of game I'd play

[light gate]

bruh

[rancid herald]

so close to being Dreams of America

[random steppe]

Oh my god yeah

When they started with Dream of A I almost screamed

[bold sonnet]

[rancid herald]

point cloud rendering eh

[random steppe]

This is so silly

[rancid herald]

interesting

[light gate]

someone wanted this?

[eager bane]

Days Gone again but 4k

[bitter stream]

lol I guess so? Must have been popular enough to get the remaster?

[random steppe]

The game was reportedly pretty good

[bold sonnet]

Well it was a bit yeah

[rancid herald]

is... nikke an anime?

[light gate]

idk

[random steppe]

gacha IIRC

[bitter stream]

Nikke is a Gacha game

With a focus on ass and fanservice

[rancid herald]

oh

[eager bane]

friendship mentioned!

[rancid herald]

wow spoilers

Myst?

[light gate]

looks Myst

[little badger]

I wonder what the final game reveal will be

[bold sonnet]

[bronze abyss]

alright finally unlocked the ||central stratum||

[river veldt]

that's what i was thinking too !

[rancid herald]

probably ape escape

[little badger]

Last one I played was on the PSP

[light gate]

I get the feeling it'll be Bungie but maybe its just bloodborne.

[river veldt]

super mario 39

[rancid herald]

I think that's the last one that released

[bitter stream]

Abiotic factor is apprently ok, but like, only heard it second hand

[little badger]

They were making an untitled project

Also marathon

[random steppe]

Hello Shadowheart

I am almost positive that's the same VA

[rancid herald]

I know I heard asterion earlier

[random steppe]

Shadow of the Colossus like?

[bitter stream]

oooh action fighting

[random steppe]

Ok no just that section

Still looks pretty great

[bold sonnet]

So much style games here

[little badger]

Horse

[bold sonnet]

I vibe with this

[random steppe]

This is so far the most interesting one I've seen

[light gate]

so many souls like

we need more

[random steppe]

This isn't a soulslike

[rancid herald]

tides
barely any water

[random steppe]

it's more a DMC like

[bitter stream]

Is this the bungie game?

[light gate]

Marathon?

[bitter stream]

yeah that one

[eager bane]

woah Marathon

[light gate]

I don't think its Marathon.

[bold sonnet]

[little badger]

Marathon is PVP

[light gate]

Yeah this ain't it.

[random steppe]

Looks pretty good NGL

[bitter stream]

Metal Eden huh, looks cool

Like a mix of Doom and Ghostrunner

[light gate]

this is uncanny

[little badger]

ooooh from the guy that made gta

This is his new game

[light gate]

what is even going on lmao

[eager bane]

I'm a little interested

[river veldt]

gta xxiv

[bold sonnet]

O Wow

[eager bane]

would play, maybe

[random steppe]

GTA but with an interesting story?

[river veldt]

oh my very scottish

[bold sonnet]

[light gate]

"where ai" oh no

[bronze abyss]

[bitter stream]

I wonder how this works as a GTA game...

[eager bane]

San Andreas was fun

[bold sonnet]

This looks really cool I think

[little badger]

This does look cool

[eager bane]

Yeah, looks fun! I like more urban modern settings, that's a plus for me

[random steppe]

The gameplay looks kinda mid IMO, but the story seems intriguing

[little badger]

[river veldt]

that's a hell of a mustache

[bold sonnet]

[river veldt]

oh it's a beard

[bitter stream]

is this the order?

[light gate]

Helldivers

[eager bane]

t h e b a l l

[light gate]

maybe?

[bold sonnet]

I was wondering this

Very good idea to add to this game

[bitter stream]

roguelike?

[bold sonnet]

If it's this

[light gate]

what

[random steppe]

I am interested

[bold sonnet]

Hm

[random steppe]

No gameplay tho

[rancid herald]

HouseMasque?

[light gate]

never heard

[rancid herald]

WELL WELL WELL

[random steppe]

We'll see

[bold sonnet]

I was thinking that hahaha

[little badger]

They made returnal

[random steppe]

Oh it seemed very Returnal-like

[light gate]

oh its returnal but something else

[bold sonnet]

I had a question for Masque when I see them around

[river veldt]

Returnal is cool

[light gate]

alright thats it

[little badger]

I think that’s it

[bold sonnet]

[rancid herald]

no ape escape?

[light gate]

no bloodborne

[river veldt]

oh that was the end

[eager bane]

welp

[little badger]

Maybe in the summer

[green fulcrum]

FFS, I keep trying to scroll up and Discord keeps sending me all the way to the bottom. F*ck Discord mobile, man...

[little badger]

Did you see the sonic trailer GT

[light gate]

That was a very short.

[bold sonnet]

Is any of you MyLilPoptart on Xbox and sent me a request?

[little badger]

Nope

[light gate]

Yeah, Sony has nothing to offer this year. They're doing a massive restructuring probably.

[rancid herald]

coming this summer to the ps5 and enhanced for the ps5 pro: disappointment

[random steppe]

Ok my hope is that Tides of Annihilation makes it to PC, that one looked very good, apart from that eh, fun stuff

[light gate]

Meanwhile MS is just putting their games on the PS5.

[bold sonnet]

I enjoyed it, a lot of games with style, and a new look at the It takes two one, and some like Devil May Cry and one like Life is Strange and Octopus game 💖

[eager bane]

I liked the dreamy cloudy one

[bold sonnet]

This too!

[little badger]

Any games that caught your eyes ponies?

[eager bane]

I'm really just here for the indies

[light gate]

Digimon, that was it.

[bitter stream]

Metal Eden looks neat

[light gate]

Literally one game.

[fickle garnet]

I didn't watch. Forgot about it tbh

[little badger]

You’ll be able to watch it again

[river veldt]

maybe i am too cynical but most of those games looked exactly the same to me

new Sonic racing game looks neat at least

[green fulcrum]

Alright, I saw the Sonic stuff thanks to the Sonic thread, but what else did I miss in this?

[light gate]

Everything else was either dark souls, too much action based, so much ninja, and I guess that one Sonic game.

[random steppe]

Eurogamer delivers, very well, looking forward to that one

[little badger]

Few rogue-lite games

[green fulcrum]

Ah, sounds about right for Sony then.

[light gate]

Yep

[eager bane]

I'm completely with you on this. Especially many of these dramatized fantasy sword fighting thingies all look and feel the same to me, and the voiceovers seem extremely interchangable.

[light gate]

Currently waiting for Age of Empires 2 on PS5.

[random steppe]

There was one soulslike total

[eager bane]

doesn't mean the games are bad, not by a long shot! But the marketing is so samy

[random steppe]

IDK why you say there was a bunch

[light gate]

They all look like souls games to me.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[random steppe]

It was just action games

Devil May Cry stuff

[light gate]

dodge, hit, dodge, hit, dodge, hit, super enemy attack, dodge, hit.

[random steppe]

Well maybe 2 depending how Onimusha turns out

[eager bane]

I wonder how many games are left if you pull out all that contain weapons

[random steppe]

That I can see it being kinda more soulslike

[cunning galleon]

Depends on what you consider a weapon

[fickle garnet]

That doesn't make a game a souls like

[light gate]

I really need to investigate the Digimon title though.

[cunning galleon]

Cars are a definitely a deadly weapon

[light gate]

well idk, they just look the same...

[unreal idol]

Digimon game?

[eager bane]

Foremost swords and guns

[light gate]

yeah, one sec

https://blog.playstation.com/2025/02/12/digimon-story-time-stranger-launches-2025-on-ps5/

[random steppe]

I always thought that games rely on physical conflict too much as a storytelling device...it's why I like when one game goes out of its way to have very deep mechanics for exploration or traversal

You never see that

[visual hill]

new generation of furries let's go!!

[random steppe]

It was IMO the best thing about Death Stranding

[cunning galleon]

A ton of games, then

[unreal idol]

Oh It's PS5

[visual hill]

after Multiversus fumbling just after introducing Lola Bunny, we needed it

[eager bane]

Indeed.

Also morning I should probably get to bed if you're already awake

[eager bane]

Good thing is, there are so many games that don't rely on physical conflict at all!
...just not usually the high budget titles

[bronze abyss]

play outer wilds

[random steppe]

Probably on other platforms too, it was presented on PS state of play so they say that one

Outer Wild is indeed exceptional

[bronze abyss]

that shit is life changing

travelers encore will not leave my brain,especially the prisoners melody

[random steppe]

The shit that will never leave me as far as innovative mechanics is The Return of the Obra Dinn and other tha use similar mechanics

Chants of Sennaar and The Case of the Golden Idol to cite two, Chants of Sennaar especially

[smoky sonnet]

chants of sennaar <3333

[bold sonnet]

Golden Idol, I seen it, is it good?

[random steppe]

Very good yeah

[arctic fern]

I watched a let's play of it, it's not my kind of game but it's a very good one

I might recommend watching an episode of one to see the basic gameplay but it's a puzzle game so doing too much would ruin the fun

[bronze abyss]

||gilroy|| is finally done,being one shot to him 99% of the fight is a bit annoying but i managed

[random steppe]

His entrance is very funny to me.

||"Who could have done this?" Camera pans to this brooding Lysanderoth looking dude||

[bronze abyss]

||hes the administrator,but did you know that hes also the administrator? And idk if i mentioned this yet but hes actually the administrator ||

[random steppe]

Yeah, ||Discord admin tends to get big heads about it, not a surprise||

[fresh bane]

Oh my god Peace Walker outfits....

AND full croc suit

[bronze abyss]

||combat puppet 14|| is genuinely the worst boss fight ive fucking seen,the challenge is that the normal dodge is useless and its just tedious and annoying not enjoyable a single bit

NVM THE NEXT ONE IS WORSE

FULL KIT OF CROSS SCREEEN ATTACKS WHAT THE FUCK

im losing my fucking mind

[gaunt marten]

Dome keeper updated their mod creator license agreement: https://github.com/DomeKeeperMods/Docs/wiki/Legal/_compare/d3f1227c4054e26e5d464702f222c2b9d83c6c65...ee7f3f4f3c75082668c9544caf213ae75c66878a?diff=split&w=
With the following announcement Heyo, we've taken another stab at the EULA. It's more open and friendly now, at the cost of having some legal risk for us, but i think at this point it's the right move. We want to support you modders as much as possible, and a fair EULA that doesn't read like someone wants to exploit your works is a good thing.

I went ahead and read both versions for changes:

2- They allow modders to reverse engineer the game code and assets but not include substantial portions of it in the mods.
3- They grant themselves the right to showcase mods without compensation but with credit if possible.
4- They added a clause that says they're allowed to independently have good ideas that happen to be in existing mods.
5- They ban obfuscation of mods.
6- They now ban mods that allow you to pirate the game, remove DRM, or cheat in competitive game modes.
7- They no longer claim the right to modify, create derivative works from, commercialize or exploit the mod.```

[random steppe]

6 and 7 seem okay at least

[gaunt marten]

They all seem good

In the link you can see the old version on the left with the new version on the right

Changes highlighted in red and green

[random steppe]

makes sense

[robust latch]

5 is an interesting one but yeah over all they seem good

i dont think ive ever seen a case where they specificly ban obfusaction of mods

[gaunt marten]

They say they want mods to be easy to read and audit by users and themselves

[robust latch]

yeah i do like the rule thats for sure

[light gate]

I agree with that, don't want a nasty surprise.

[robust latch]

i just cant think of anywhere else ive seen it in writing like that

[wind stump]

🔥

[quiet swift]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3238240/Scaravan_66/ oho, there's a demo. Road rash roguelike, if I recall correctly

Steam

Scaravan 66

Take the wheel as Lucky, an arrogant greaser, as she battles the Devil and her legion of darkness.  Sentenced to an eternity of reaping souls with no final exit in sight, she’ll take down every Devil-sent demon and undead summoned to torment her, and leave them hitchhiking for eternity. Leather jackets, pompadours, grease, and gasoline. A world ...

Release Date

To be announced

▶ Play video

[little badger]

TMNT are coming to cod 🐢

[gaunt marten]

https://youtu.be/t-PRW8r5W7E?

I played Croc 2 as a child. It was not great then and it certainly aged poorly

[little badger]

Speaking of that. The remaster is meant to be coming out soon

[gaunt marten]

They talk about it in the video

[little badger]

I’m sure I still have my copy somewhere.

[gaunt marten]

Everyone is excited to have a less bad game and they think it would be hard to make a worse one

I never got to the level where you have to collect 30 babies

Are they out of their mind? Even five babies is too much

[uneven epoch]

funny kcd ii trivia, for @hasty patio but also anyone interested: im playing on czech language and at start of one sidequest the characters go (paraphrasing here):

"so, whats your name?"
"jindřich"
"ah, well met henry!"
"no, my name isn't henry, its j-i-n-"
"any common farmer or shepherd is jindřich, henry is so much more noble sounding. so, henry, here's the thing..."

and i aint gonna lie its absolutely hilarious to me that theyre pokin fun at english translation (bc henry is the english version of jindřich, so its not like its wrong, but there's another layer given the main character's heritage of double dads (its complicated dont worry about it)). he tries spelling his name like three separate times before giving up. im incredibly curious if this joke is somehow preserved in english setting (maybe in latin?), or if its a tiny treat for the native audience

[wind stump]

exactly 1,600.
Mmm.

[minor plover]

exact scores are fun

[astral steeple]

Neat

[uneven epoch]

nevermind, i thought the beggining was funny, but the conclusion where they sing an ode to your name (badly), while you stand there facepalming and contemplating your choices is pure gold

and here i thought drunkenly halucinating a talkin dog was gonna be the top of my evening tonight

[hasty patio]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3061810/view/542223437984170050

[fickle garnet]

I need to continue playing Yakuza 0

[quiet swift]

Moar stuff with prime

[quartz pawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks_Uxuhz6nc

There's going to be AIRGEAR

[green fulcrum]

*Extreme Gear, but yes

We've already talked a bit about the announcement in #1032775170521313330

[quartz pawn]

oh wait, airgear was from an anime lmao

[green fulcrum]

Suffice it to say that I'm hyped as hell, lol

All-Stars Racing Transformed was my favorite racing game for the longest time, even beating Mario Kart 8.

[quartz pawn]

It looks like it'll be less Team Sonic Racing and closer to Transformed

[green fulcrum]

I'm soooooo glad to see the transformation gimmick return. It opened up soooo many new avenues to race in.

[fickle garnet]

Looks fun

I want Sonic x Shadow Generations

[green fulcrum]

Shadow Generations is criminally short, but extremely good.

It's the natural evolution of the Frontiers gameplay.

And if Sega can output that level of quality with the next mainline game, we're in for a new golden age of Sonic.

[fickle garnet]

Is Frontiers good?

[quartz pawn]

Yes.

[fickle garnet]

The last Sonic game I played was Forces

[quartz pawn]

Personally, I liked Forces, but I understand why most people didn't.

[green fulcrum]

Imo, yes. But it does have some issues still. It was their first attempt at open world gameplay, and some of the controls are a little wonky, to say nothing of the pop-in issues.

But overall, it is a really good game. Easily the best story in any Sonic game, voice acting is incredible, the gameplay is fun, the visuals are stunning, and the music is GORGEOUS.

[fickle garnet]

Frontiers is $80

[green fulcrum]

Yeah...only real downside.

Wait for a sale if you can't spend that much. Sonic games go on sales pretty often.

[fickle garnet]

I have $3 on steam

Cant even get Sonic Adventure 2😔

[fresh bane]

I really feel like Shadow Gens specifically should be the blueprint for the next Sonic games, then again Sega could have the entire next 10 years of Sonic layed out in front of them and still mess it up somehow
I never really thought Frontiers was as big of a deal as a lot of people made it seem, even when I was first getting through it, so many things with that game are so strange, the visuals are so bizarre and kind of all over the place in terms of having any artstyle or direction at all, the open world style gameplay was very weird and felt very out of place for the franchise especially considering all the things an open world game carries with it, they really seemed to want to just copy BOTW, the ''level design'' of all the platforming that was thrown around the map was not really anything special, they kinda threw in some combat for some reason? Which was all very half-baked and I feel like didn't really need to be there, and the story ever since I first got through it I found to be very basic, but everybody seemed to think it was groundbreaking, probably only because it treated the characters like actual characters and not mascots but everyting else was... fine, I'd probably still put SA2 as the best story for a Sonic game easy, really most of my enjoyment came from those very short cyber space levels
I dunno, everybody seemed to get too hyped and think it was the next big step for Sonic I guess because Forces was that bad that Frontiers just seemed like the holy grail in comparison, to me it just seemed like a very strange experiment with little clear direction on what it wanted to be, Shadow Gens though, that's probably one of the best Sonic experiences I've had since I was a kid, everything about that game is just A+ on absolutely every single level, it's day and night compared to Frontiers, I 100% it and I still wish it had a little bit more

[quiet swift]

[plain harbor]

Speaking of surprises, I found that Dynasty Warriors Origins is very good. Surprisingly good, actually.

[chilly mural]

I like freedom planet 2

that's like a sonic game

[green fulcrum]

So was the first one

Tbh, I forgot Freedom Planet 2 was even a thing. It was being hyped up when it was first announced and then it just dropped off entirely, and then it just released to silence and nobody has even mentioned it since.

[chilly mural]

it's fun, you should play it

[gaunt marten]

I'm waiting for it to go on sale

[cunning galleon]

Overkill?

[green fulcrum]

Is that a German WW2 bomber?

Because if it is, there is no such thing as overkill for those things. F*ck those guys. Fill 'em as full of lead as they can get.

[cunning galleon]

Heinkel He-111, yes

A whale and a dolphin

[visual hill]

Smurfs 2 logo really looks like the Sims 2 at a distance

[astral steeple]

https://youtu.be/lDVFaaIQKcc

BRO

[wind stump]

so StS 2 is going to have modifiers to cards called "Enchantments."

That is Pretty Neat™️

[cunning galleon]

White white cliffs of dover

[dense crypt]

If you wanna be my glover, first you gotta be my friend...

[graceful bridge]

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/497187349280587904

[wind stump]

you know in retrospect this menu is a tad weird.

personally i'd go for the instant⭐death

[slim thorn]

vertical text is so hard to localize

wait, "cubic kedama volcanic tofu"?

(kedama means hairball)

[wind stump]

yup
tasty hairball

(i think it's meant to be more of a lava slime from Minecraft)

[slim thorn]

see I was wondering if one of the cat youkai was involved in this shop since you didn't give much context

[wind stump]

I hired Kyouko and Aunn, but no cats

[bronze abyss]

ender magnolia: finally beat the ||combat puppets|| this shit was so annoying but atleast the cutscene is insane

[bronze abyss]

i finally got the parry,would have been nice to have a whole area ago

[random steppe]

You can buy a carapace that does it if you find a certain grimoire at some point before you go up to the middle stratum, you probably missed it unfortunately

I really like the system.
They have carapaces with different effects for the parry, stronger ones with a smaller parrying window, and those that are just stats, for those that don't want to parry, it's just a smart way of explanding that mechanic.

[bronze abyss]

even worse,apparently i did unlock it at some point but i never bought it cuz 1.bracelets were kinda useless so i didnt pay any attention to them and 2.i didnt know wtf a carapace was t

[random steppe]

Bracelets are insanely strong, they add a ton of stats

[bronze abyss]

never really felt it that much,was relying on relics mostly like the first game

[random steppe]

They are passives tho, so like, yeah, not as exciting as a new button to press

Don't sleep on totems either

[bronze abyss]

yeah i have a good totem equiped rn

||fighting the witch rn and holy fuck the little healing shits are a menace ||

[random steppe]

strong agree

[bronze abyss]

||shit one spawned i must kill or stun it-||
||FIREBALL FIREBALL ICE TELEPORT LIGHTING PILLAR||

[random steppe]

My solution was to use ||the kid third ability, the one that shoots in the air to stun it everytime it tried to heal without having to commit closing in and potentially getting distracted from the main threat||

[bronze abyss]

i relied on ||nola's scythe for first phase,for 2nd it was just hold yolvan and parry the fuck out of anything that comes near me||

p much just brute forced it cuz strategy was not working

feel like ||sorcerers academy was supposed to be the first place i go before the fucking battle puppet shit|| it was miles easier

but tbf the other shit was mostly harder cuz of frost bombs being a thing

really beautiful arena for ||the witch|| though

im not entirely sure what to do now

this is my map rn if that says anything

[random steppe]

If you are looking for places to go, ||I think you should be able to explore east from here, also still some cool stuff to find in some academy zones but it's probably easier to access later||

[bronze abyss]

ah i didnt notice that was a area change indicator

was way too fucking mad at the game to focus when i got to it lmao

[slim thorn]

yeah, no surprise noelle's ahead of me since my last two days got deleted by illness (and I spent today on modding)

[bronze abyss]

yeah ive been playing quite a bit

theres probably also the fact that i just dash through rooms instead of clearing them a lot of the time

metroidvania or not im still impatient

this might be the first game part from outerwilds where i actually read the lore material though,usually i just insta skip that shit

[random steppe]

I usually don't play randomisers but I could definitely see myself try a magnolia one

[bronze abyss]

cheese <3

[slim thorn]

I definitely will. The EL rando devs said they’re waiting for the dust to settle on EM / logic-relevant patches to stop coming out before working on it.

[bronze abyss]

am i missing something? i still cant break these barriers

ig this would be the better screenshot

[random steppe]

Eventually

[bronze abyss]

so i didnt miss anything up to this point p much

i keep getting items from levy that i dont know what to do with theres like 3 of them now

[random steppe]

Each needs to be ||brought to a different npc, the good thing is if you approach the NPC and you have the item it automatically does the cutscene so you don't actually need to go an manually talk to everyone||

I thinks it's with all of them but I am not positive with that

[bronze abyss]

i have a feeling i asked about them right as im bout to get the ability to break them

[bronze abyss]

yup

[river veldt]

#GTAV - for a hardened criminal Michael has very kind eyes

[bronze abyss]

nice

every attack full one shots me

and a second phase as well very nice

[gaunt marten]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr7HbGclJMM

It's a two hour video essay talking about Radiata Stories in retrospective

(Story spoilers start at ten minutes in)

[bronze abyss]

oh yeah just remembered this,its abslutely great,love abusing the shit out of it like parrying attacks that have long active frames just by timing it while standing in it

fighting the ||aggressor rn,and one of the most satisfying things is just parrying the whole spinning attack wihtout moving out of place||

[river veldt]

man

i really wanna love Half Life 1 like everyone else but the gameplay does nothing for me

[gaunt marten]

Don't worry about it

I don't like Half Life 2 for the same reason

It's just not fun or interesting

[light gate]

Speaking of Half-Life 1, Delta Particles is a really damn good mod.

[cunning galleon]

An actual ghost

The pilot was dead, it circled around and around, slowly descending

[green fulcrum]

Why are people still playing Half Life 1 when Black Mesa is the "unofficial" official remake that is quite literally better in every single way?

[light gate]

I didn’t like Black Mesa as much tbh.

Xen segment in HL1 was bad but short, Black Mesa Xen segment is crazy huge but overstays its welcome.

I spent more time in Xen than on Earth, which is an odd thing to complain but Black Mesa’s Xen puzzles were annoying.

What broke me was the Xen Elevator, I lost count on how many times I died. Elevator segment is convoluted and long. I was playing on Normal and had to lower it, still took me a few more tries on easy.

The final boss was also… uhh… interesting. Was dying repeatedly because of the scripted events, every new event just made me start over again. After memorizing them, it was easy.

[bronze abyss]

found what i assume is a bug? sometimes you can literally die while being inside the successful parry animation on 1 tick attacks

[smoky sonnet]

because i find it quite literally worse in most ways? they're quite literally different games? something about the aesthetic of bm is super uncanny to me and i can't stand it

[dense crypt]

cool-ateral

[peak berry]

nice mod

[cunning galleon]

Reminds me of Mystery dungeon

[shell shore]

Does anyone play cookie run kingdom

And can you friend me for a mission

[visual hill]

less demanding, more mods, more speedrunners, more active multiplayer (deathmatch)

[visual hill]

did you try MMod for HL1? It's more or less Quake 1.5 but for Half-Life

[quiet swift]

[arctic fern]

blergh
playing the sims 2 and hit with a random bug where my sim wont cook or eat food
like, she will start preparing a meal, put it in the oven, take it out of the oven then the meal disappears
if another sim cooks a meal, she refuses to eat it. gets half way through the sitting down animation then glitches back to standing upright

this is for oven and microwave means

instant food is fine, chef salad (which doesnt require an oven) is fine

oh and that sim got fired from their well-paying job

[rancid herald]

Okami is a very odd game

[visual hill]

it's probably why people love it 😛

[slim thorn]

it's definitely a factor

referring earlier chatter, games the Half-Lifes don't age as well because they had the kind of success that means today they have a million copycats, and almost everything they did well you've now seen in other games already

[visual hill]

I remember how much Half-Life shaped Turok 3

it's so unlike Turok 1 and 2 because of that game alone

[quiet swift]

How so?

[slim thorn]

:prepares_to_judge:

[quiet swift]

[random steppe]

That's the same phenomemnon that kept Ultima Online and Runescape alive for so long as well

World of Warcraft won the MMO war, meaning that every MMO from that point onwards was a Theme Park MMO, and almost nobody made Sandbox MMOs for decades

The few that were popular at the time survived really well exactly because no one was trying to even compete with them

[rancid herald]

you're playing as a wolf, who's also actually the goddess Amaterasu. Literally the goddess, not like some fictional one. The currency is, for some reason, yen

it'd be like playing a game as jesus whose fursuiting as a lion and the currency is american dollars or something

[random steppe]

That sounds like an incredible parody game

[rancid herald]

Your navi could be a snake who lives in your mane and insists on calling you jessy

[slim thorn]

and that's before you get into all the stuff about ||time-travelling to help Susano slay the hydra Orochi||, much less anything from after act 1

[rancid herald]

oh no

[slim thorn]

and I guess ||having to get Orochi drunk in order to kill him|| but I think that one was in the original myth?

it's a very consistent kind of weird that fits being all about a foreign country's mythology so that makes it easy to love

[stark meteor]

I don't want to be that guy who's like "games I've stopped playing are dead games" but like

Is it just me that kinda feels like mmos are a "dead" (as in, no reason to make one anymore) genre because of this as well as other games replicating the same experience you'd get from mmos in different ways

(I used to play runescape and only runescape)

[random steppe]

Well, it's not like there is no reason to make them, it's that MMOs are a high risk and high reward investment for game companies

[slim thorn]

it's definitely more true in live service/MMO games than any other genre because those are the only genre that try to be more of a lifestyle than "just a video game", so almost by definition you can't (fully) play more than one of them

at least the way I hear literally everyone talk about these things

[random steppe]

And that role moved to other kind of games

Largely as Ix said, live services

They used to be the "throw your billions here" investment that companies focused on hoping to win it big

[slim thorn]

yeah, now it's MMOs competing with every other kind of live service to be the this-is-my-entire-life-and-personality game, and that is seemingly not a fight they can win with modern audiences

speaking of which, the fact that "Fortnite OG" exists now is so funny

[stark meteor]

So basically in a way most live service games kinda are the """new""" mmos

[random steppe]

That migrated to Battle Royale for a while, and now it's just anything live service

Worth mentioning that this is specifically about what companies invest in, which does have only a tangential correlation to what people play

[slim thorn]

not to mention what people spend money on

a lot of people put a lot of hours into games without any money going to a corporation anywhere

[stark meteor]

OG is funny in a validating way now that I consistently see its playerbase under the main mode (I'm a spiteful 2017 STW founder)

[random steppe]

Well it does have a stronger correlation to total amount of money spent in the genre/type of game.

But whales do throw a wrench in the works

[slim thorn]

yeah, I just mean there's a whole other layer of factors with things like the tiny playerbases of supposedly "dead" MMOs, or MMOs that officially died but live on through private servers, and other weirdness

[random steppe]

Ultima Online is still alive and still requires a paid subscription btw

[stark meteor]

I guess the tldr is it's complicated but I guess for now I don't see another "big" mmo coming out on the scene

Rather just other games that try to have mmo aspects because uh
live service moment

[random steppe]

Speaking of nichè things that no one really ever think about

[slim thorn]

I do think MMORPGs also got hit by the general dilution of "RPG", and that's part of the reason we ended up on this term "live service"

a lot of what made MMOs special is no longer restricted to the kinds of core gameplay mechanics that (C)RPGs were known for

[quiet swift]

[random steppe]

Riot is supposedly making one, and to be fair, for all its fault, New World is pretty big and relatively recent

[stark meteor]

I thought new world didn't do too hot
hm

But it could be the mmorpg players hating their own mmo which I'm used to

[quiet swift]

I mean, fair. It's a very silly take on the whole mythos. ||Pissing on stuff is even an attack....||

The only MMO competition is FF14, really

[slim thorn]

New World also had an infamous series of serious launch problems

[stark meteor]

I remember hearing about those

[slim thorn]

and FF14 is kind of the exception that proves the rule considering how much of the hype is around how much of the MMO-ness you can avoid or skip

[stark meteor]

But I would not be surprised if it had a very loyal audience despite the problems
...given I was a runescape player

[random steppe]

I am very curious abouyt Riot's, in like, a decade

[stark meteor]

My instincts feel like it'll just
explode

[quiet swift]

Going by Pcgames site, these are MMOs. Though I think there's a name or two that I'd question in that list....

[stark meteor]

I've heard some very
interesting takes from current people hooked on riot's games which makes me very concerned

[random steppe]

Destiny is a good one to bring up for sure

[slim thorn]

Josh Strife Hayes had a really funny video about what the "best MMOs list" looks like if you combine all the MMO lists people have put on the internet, and how much of the result is just games that obviously are not MMOs

[stark meteor]

Also where the line between "mmo" and "live service" is drawn is
a weird thing

Like if you have destiny 2 on there
why not warframe too

[quiet swift]

But by sheer population, WoW still dominates with FF14 following. After that, it's probably some other one that is gacha filled, but I couldn't say which

[random steppe]

Well, Warframe doesn't really have a shared world, it has some shared hubs

[slim thorn]

to me an MMO(RPG) is essentially a specific kind of live service game

[stark meteor]

I could at least see an argument for it if someone is a lot more loose on their definition for it

[slim thorn]

though in theory you could make an MMORPG and then never publish a single update for it, just charge a tiny subscription to cover server hosting costs... but I doubt anyone's ever done that lol

[random steppe]

I feel like the shared open world where you could be doing something, and someone come up to you without you having to have partied with them, and like, interact with you, is an important part of the definition

[slim thorn]

yeah, that's definitely a big part of what makes "massively multiplayer" mean anything

[random steppe]

Specifically the massive part

[slim thorn]

otherwise every popular multiplayer game is "massive" just pointing at total playerbase size

[stark meteor]

Honestly I've known a lot of mmorpg players who forget about the multiplayer part

[random steppe]

If I'm in a mission with someone in Warframe, I know who I am in a mission with, and we all have the same objective, that mission (and make it to the exit faster than the other guys)

[stark meteor]

Many people will be doing bossing and so on and then just you'll have "Cool Fisherman89" with 200 mil fishing XP still fishing for some reason pretending like nobody else exists

[slim thorn]

if this was an anime, they'd show up to a raid one-day and solo the boss by yanking them off a cliff with the fishing rod Minecraft-style, then walk away with no explanation

[quiet swift]

There's an anime right now with almost the perfect title, let me look

[stark meteor]

In fairness, yeah, I have known a lot of solo players who basically never show themselves and then do multiplayer content (simply because they get more rewards) and then wipe the floor with everything

[random steppe]

In Burning Crusade there was a raid boss for a 25 men raid that had to be fished out in order to fight it

[slim thorn]

I think yet another big, often unspoken factor in all of this is that for a long time, players were enamored with the idea of bigger, better, more detailed video game worlds, and I'm pretty sure that trend has reversed and now "open worlds" need a reason to be that open (even for general audiences, not just weirdos like me who said that all along)

[quiet swift]

The Lurker Below! 🎣

[slim thorn]

so you get arrangements more like what Gen's describing in warframe that are arguably just a better use of gamedev resources and player time

[random steppe]

Maybe, I am skeptical that trend has reversed

[slim thorn]

it has at the very least plateaued

[random steppe]

Warframe is that way because it was born as a 4 players running a mission because the devs were fucking broke when they made it

[slim thorn]

we've finally seen some games "go open world" and then flop because it was a bad idea, rather than succeed in spite of it

[bitter stream]

Warframe was a last ditch effort to make a hit, and then they kept hitting the button as it kept working haha

[random steppe]

In fact, the Open World maps of Warframe are exactly the wrong kind of Open World

[stark meteor]

Games are complicated

But as someone who did return to warframe recently

I will say one of the things that people don't do enough is have at least a decent enough variety of games to play

If you don't like the current state of a game, you can vanish and them come back and one of two things happen:

1. The good ending: for some reason everything you wanted happen to the game and you become addicted again (Warframe)
2. The bad ending: Everything's worse, but at least you're not attached so you can move on to greener pastures (RuneScape

[slim thorn]

should've called it Final Frame

[stark meteor]

Both my biggest complaint and biggest compliment to Warframe is
They do what sounds and looks cool

This makes the best things happen
and the worst things happen

[bitter stream]

For example, wtf is up with Plains of Duviri

[stark meteor]

I hated duviri when I first returned
now I love it

[random steppe]

Listen, Duviri is kind of bad, but I love it like it is my child

[rancid herald]

I think a big thing that killed MMOs was all the failures around 2010

[random steppe]

I wish they did made the animations less jank tho

[bitter stream]

I understand it growing on you, but folks, DE has a bad habbit of making other games and stapling them onto warframe

[random steppe]

Maybe they'll bring some of the soulframe melee combat to Duviri eventually

I kind of agree but it's kind of working for me

[rancid herald]

finally I can play civilization in warframe

[stark meteor]

This is the bad part of Warframe doing what's cool
They sometimes just add something that just isn't Warframe

but sometimes that's really fun
Sometimes it's Railjack
But most of the time it varies depending on who you ask, some people will love archwing, some will hate it, some will love Duviri, others will hate it and so on

[bitter stream]

yeah fair enough Genryu, Mako.

[random steppe]

Listen, Railjack is really good now

I just wish they made content for it

It just took like, years

[bitter stream]

Railjack is pretty fun, but there's not a ton of reaons to dip into it, and so much competing for your time in warframe alone

[stark meteor]

No no like I don't hate railjack

When it was first added it was kinda something that just made me
not want to play because I was like "If this is what "endgame" is, I don't wanna always play with 3 guys, so I think I'll just stay away for a bit"

Now with NPCs and so on I'm fine with it tbh
Especially as someone who's invested a lot in their archwing

[random steppe]

It's probably one of the best farm for a lot of things if you are a new players so there are reasons to play Railjack, there is also a lot of reasons to play a lot of other mods tho, that's true

Railjack on release was the worst situation the game was ever

And it lasted like, a year

[stark meteor]

Railjack though I just have the problem of "I'm gonna cast eclipse before leaving my railjack and then just kill everything with my archwing, oh no, why did my railjack explode 5 times"

[slim thorn]

it took me way too many seconds to realize you didn't say Rarijack

[random steppe]

Yeah I know

[stark meteor]

LOL
Picturing the two yelling and arguing over an rj mission now

[stark meteor]

But yeah I kinda clocked out from Warframe at that point so I had no idea what the general consensus was

All I know is my opinion, which was like
"this isn't what I want out of this game. Maybe I'll be back."

[bitter stream]

I thought you were piloting the Railjack?
Oh I left to go use the side guns!

[stark meteor]

And I was the player who hit the highest MR at around that point in time, or maybe close to it (believe it was 25)

It's certainly something to come back to the game and see legendary 4 being a thing

[random steppe]

To explain for the non WF degenerates, it's this mode https://youtu.be/uWVBnWZCuH0?t=82

They basically added a space sim missions to the game, on release it was a mess, unrewarding, took longer than playing other missions, played badly, and was buggy as fuck

[slim thorn]

oh yeah, I think I saw this in some unrelated youtube video once

[random steppe]

The last update they made to it, they actually fixed all of the problems

And then never made another peice of content for it

Which to be fair, there is a lot to do if you are new, but I played it a bunch and maxed it when it was bad, and now that I want to play it there is no reason to do it

[stark meteor]

I think what I overheard when it was released early on in its early stages were that archwings could literally nuke everything before the rj could do anything

which got me interested

...then they nerfed that damage to hell so you actually used the rj

So my interest just dissipated instantly

[bitter stream]

i mean, there are archwing only missions if you're interested in archwing

[stark meteor]

Oh
believe me I know

I did all of them and got basically every mod reward you could for them

I just wanted a good excuse to use all of the stuff I got on something new

And rj seemed like a fun target for it

[random steppe]

I do smile every time a quest has to use it some of these systems, but those are few and far between

"Ah you thught I was weak with this system, jokes on you, I maxed everything" proceeds to murder

[stark meteor]

But like everything was kind of against me at that point

1. I got kicked from my old clan due to inactivity and influx of players so I literally couldn't even make a rj (I hate so much being clan locked in wf like why)
2. The archwing nerfs
3. Not wanting to make a full squad every time

Because of that I fell really far behind for a long time

[random steppe]

To bring it back to more of a general discussion, games like WF definitely do occupy as similar space as MMOs

[stark meteor]

But then I came back

And kinda had this experience
They did nerf the new war railjack section but I had gotten crew members and everything so just
nothing was an issue

[random steppe]

Also they don't cost 300 millions to put out a minimum viable product

[stark meteor]

Yep
Mmos just seem like a nightmare to create tbh

[random steppe]

Also people more easly accept microtransactions in these games than they do in MMOs

[slim thorn]

being punished for playing other games definitely puts it in the "live service/MMO" bubble for me

[stark meteor]

Honestly with someone who's played a lot of live service games, I've kinda gotten progressively immune to fomo simply because

in 12 months if you come back, all the content you missed will (likely) be powercrept anyway and they'll have ways to make new and returning players progress faster

If the game is well designed that is

You could leave, come back, and then the game is dead in those 12 months

But at least in that scenario you also "win" because your time wasn't invested in that

[slim thorn]

yeah, FOMO as a marketing tactic cannot survive widespread competition

[stark meteor]

Yeah like the more time I spend the more I realize that fomo (ironically, unless it involves cosmetics) typically is an empty threat

You miss out on an event? It can come back later, or an even better event happens
You couldn't get this overpowered weapon because your gear sucks without 100 hours of grinding or paying? Well, come back 6 months later, you'll be able to get something easier and more powerful in 10% of the time
Part of the game sucks and you don't wanna play it? Well, it'll probably get less necessary or improved later, so who cares if there's time-locked content there

It is so amusingly consistent how much this has happened

To the point where fomo makes me feel nothing because I know how it ends up

[river veldt]

#GTAV - Trevor and Michael bicker like an old married couple lol

[shell shore]

Ugghh why does 99% of games on mobile have controller support

[cerulean herald]

where in the game are you at rn

[visual hill]

I read Rarijack instead of Railjack

[visual hill]

it's what makes mobile gaming far more viable, touch controls only get you so far (and they are useless for a docked experience)

[river veldt]

just chose Option C (so very near the end)

[river veldt]

GTA V finished

pretty good game, nowhere near as good as RDR2 for me though as far as Rockstar games go

[bold sonnet]

Do you ever play Red Dead Online?

Or GTA Online while we're at it

[river veldt]

no not really

my internet connection is too bad for online games haha

but is ok because i prefer single player games anyway

[toxic seal]

Tales of Berseria queer headcanons
Velvet - Bi. Actually talks about the kind of guy she'd like but has absolute chemistry with her female party members.
Laphicet - Bit too young for me to mull on so I'll stick with how the game is coding him and say straight.
Rokurou - Massive pan energy. Dude is so lasseiz-faire about so many things I can't imagine it doesn't extend to how he feels about people.
Magilou - I've mentioned before how she's basically Trixie. This includes the inability for me to imagine she's anything other than a lesbian. She teases guys, but then, she teases everyone.
Eleanor - Straight. Or so she thinks. She's the type of girl that assumes heteronormativity is all that exists but through the course of the game her worldview is shattered and, at least I think, so is her sexuality.
Eizen - Ace. Dude's way too into infodumping about geography to be into anyone.

[minor plover]

Two of today's sedecordle words seem like something Mane would enjoy

[green fulcrum]

[quiet swift]

[bronze abyss]

ender magnolia:are you fucking serious it took me hours just to find ||milius half of the key|| just fucking mindlessly running around

even got to ||land of origin and cleared it fully|| before that

[rough sleet]

there is no thread for kcd so I thought I'll share it here

this is a battlecry lmao

@uneven epoch might be interested

[obsidian salmon]

I hated today's semantle. i ended up giving up

[gaunt marten]

You should use hints when you get stuck

[obsidian salmon]

I did, since i'd guessed 999 by myself it said "no hints found"

[gaunt marten]

Also maybe spoiler it

[obsidian salmon]

Im trying, i dont think you can do that retroactively

[gaunt marten]

That's fair

[obsidian salmon]

can remove it I suppose

[gaunt marten]

Starting from your 999 hint, I figured it out

The secret word was ||often||

[obsidian salmon]

gotta say, the ||-ly|| words threw me way off

[gaunt marten]

Yeah. Different forms of each word even if it's just adding an s can seriously change the semantics

[random steppe]

People will hate me for saying this, but Tides of Annhililation seems to be an Ender-like: https://youtu.be/_hU-lpWlaEs?t=84

(I'm only half joking)

[gaunt marten]

Zone of Enders

[wind stump]

i may have missed the checkpoint

[slim thorn]

even funnier: it's part Ender-like but with more Souls-like than a typical Ender

[random steppe]

As far as gameplay IDK if I see any souls in there, there is some aesthetic tho

This is taking a lot from Devil May Cry 5 tho

[slim thorn]

it's more a vibe I get from what appear to be block/parry timings going on there but it is just a trailer

certainly the scripted events later are way more DMC, but I dunno that franchise as much

[random steppe]

The summoning kinda reminds me a bit of V gameplay in DMC

[cunning galleon]

Train at the airport

train

[shell shore]

MY WIFE

[quiet swift]

A youtuber I follow has a video series he started where he plays mobile games like these, and he has to say yes if a purchase popup appears. Plays for 30 minutes but 5ish or so minutes get added if he has to buy something

And that Cookie game from that screenshot broke his soul

[wind stump]

so it's Gacha Hell

Terraria is fun

on our first session we found 2 Eye of Cthulu drops... In seperate chests. Miles apart.

[wind stump]

[gaunt marten]

I do not like this emote

[river veldt]

it's just Sans

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, Sans is fine but that face is not my favorite

[wind stump]

having played both songs
yup, sounds exactly like ZUN's take on Megalovania and Toby Fox's take on Necrofantasia

[visual hill]

I finished Spyro 3 and Crash Bandicoot 1. This comment I wrote on a short came to haunt me... (if you know, you know)

[tropic kindle]

Patroling with the mounties

[rancid herald]

Now there’s a random French guy

What a game

[hasty patio]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/s/MPUOAtt6H7

[visual hill]

Dopefish lives!! Anachronox edition
cc @river veldt

(the lead designer of Anachronox is Tom Hall, the same person who made the Dopefish for Commander Keen)

[proud warren]

ough

[minor plover]

wee joker with 5oak 2's is really fun

[proud warren]

i was doing something like that, but then the run turned into... something else

[chilly mural]

negative egg

[bronze abyss]

got ending A in ender magnolia

[minor plover]

oh that is a lot of retriggered kings

with red seals and steel that's like an ante 13 build. Without maybe ante 10 or 11.

might be better if I'm underestimating the blueprints etc

[forest shoal]

(Steel + 3 Baron)*(Red Seal + 3 Mime) = (1.5x)²⁰

[bronze abyss]

ender magnolia: ||absolute gilroy fight is so annoying,the lack of consistency and very late dodge timings make the parry seem near useless and i have to use attuner arts or shackled beast to parry instead,not a fan,feel like the first game handled that way better||

||the fucking phase 3 insta kill is so stupid as well||

[forest shoal]

Now I'm thinking about Balatro jokers based on pony characters

[gaunt marten]

Perkeo could be Pinkie Pie.

They all could be Pinkie Pie

[forest shoal]

• Pinkie Pie: X3 Mult if played hand contains 5 Face cards
• Rainbow Dash: This Joker gains +75 Chips and +5 Mult when a Blind is skipped

[gaunt marten]

Oh the other way around

[forest shoal]

• Rarity: Played cards with Diamond suit become Glass cards when scored
• Applejack: Retrigger the last two played cards

[graceful bridge]

https://www.thegamer.com/days-gone-playstation-ps-plus-not-eligible-remaster-upgrade-path/

Basically, if you bought a PS5 and grabbed the PS Plus Collection they were offering (because there weren't many PS5 games at launch), that copy does NOT qualify for the $10 upgrade for the remaster. You'd have to pay full price.

[arctic fern]

Pinkatro

[graceful bridge]

https://fxbsky.app/profile/foxes-in-love.bsky.social/post/3lieskspyec2s

[arctic fern]

The lovers
Omg

[cunning galleon]

🥹

[quiet swift]

Yeah

[arctic fern]

Tho empress/emprah idve put as cadence and shining, but the cakes also work

[quiet swift]

Probably because Flurry's a single child~

[chilly mural]

this is sick

[tropic kindle]

Night Patrol

[wind stump]

"Wait, didn't the creator di- Oh. Yeah... Yeah he did."

Still, nice of them to actually finish his final project

[tropic kindle]

French Canadian Domination

[rancid herald]

what game?

what is the difference between CK3, V3, HOI4 and EU4?

[gaunt marten]

I played CK 2 and EU4

The summary is that Crusader Kings is about roleplaying a dynasty of rulers, whereas EU4 is playing a country. CK2 is people focused, and EU4 is nation focused.

EU4 is focused on the era of renaissance to the end of colonialism

CK2 is early medieval to renaissance

[rancid herald]

I guess what I'm wondering is that each game seems to cover a different time period but generally seems to have the same direction of game play (although I could be wrong)

[random steppe]

CK2 is very interesting since you play a dinasty not a nation as Flitter mentioned.
What you guys is, how land is divided up between his heirs, who they have authority over are all things really well simulated.

[gaunt marten]

Well

[random steppe]

CK2 I would say is definitely the most different betwen all of them because of that reason.

[gaunt marten]

CK2 focuses a lot on the relationships between rulers, and self growth as a ruler, and making an interesting or goofy story for your dynasty

[rancid herald]

CK2? not 3?

Or is 3 just 2 with better graphics

[gaunt marten]

I'm waiting for CK3 to be cheap before I buy it

[random steppe]

Also to close the circle HOI specifically covers the lead up to WW2
Escalation, mobilisation, the build up of alliances, internal nation managment and the build up to an essentially unavoidable conflict.

[gaunt marten]

EU4 is good because it's pure grand strategy. Systems interact very intricately to allow you to simulate how a country might do politically speaking

[random steppe]

It's a lot less open as a result, but focus has its upsides

[gaunt marten]

It barely has any story

[random steppe]

EU4 in comparison is much more of a sandbox

[rancid herald]

wait. why do I have CK2?

[gaunt marten]

I hear Victoria 3 is more of an economical governance simulation

[rancid herald]

I never bought this

[gaunt marten]

CK2's base game is free

[rancid herald]

[random steppe]

Never played a VIctoria so I wouldn't know

[gaunt marten]

DLC is where the money is (there was a humble bundle with every DLC which is why I bought it)

[random steppe]

Nowdays I think you can also pay a subscription

[gaunt marten]

Yeah. If you want to try out all the expansions you can either pay a subscription or play with someone who has them (me)

I'm waiting for CK3 to have a similarly good deal before I buy it. I hear it has more complexity but less silliness

[random steppe]

Nowdays I think I might go the subscription route if I start playing any PDX game from scratch.

[rancid herald]

maybe I'll install it and give it a go

[random steppe]

I have like, maybe 2 or 3 months a year I obsess with a Grand Strategy and then it wanes off, sounds like a good idea to pay the 20 bucks for those times

[gaunt marten]

Which one?

[rancid herald]

I can't wait to have my own Eadric Streona

CK2, since it's free

[gaunt marten]

If you're installing CK2 here's what I recommend:
1- The game is super overwhelming to learn. Start simple. Pick Ireland in 1066. It's called Noob Island because there are relatively few factors to contend with.
2- Don't skip the flavor text. Events are most of the game.

[rancid herald]

Ireland? in 1066? time to norse I guess

[gaunt marten]

If you need any advice feel free to ask questions. The wiki is really good.

[random steppe]

I bounced off CK2 2 times before it finally clicked with me

[gaunt marten]

Norse are more like 769

[random steppe]

It's really good

But yeah, hard to learn at first

[gaunt marten]

https://ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Beginner's_guide

[rancid herald]

looks good

I guess the only time period paradox is missing is the pre-crusades time

[gaunt marten]

Other games try to make any starting option good. This is not the case for paradox grand strategy games. Some starts are way better than others

[rancid herald]

come on paradoxy make us a Collapse of Rome game /s

[gaunt marten]

CK2 can start hundreds of years before the crusades with the right expansions

[rancid herald]

...how many expansions are there

oh no

[random steppe]

It is kind of funny that some people try to start with tiny 3 provinces nations thinking it'll be an easier start because less to keep track, only to realise that's actually hardcore mode in PDX

[gaunt marten]

Though it is focused on the crusades, it's more of a medieval sim

[rancid herald]

oh noooooooooo

jesus christ

[gaunt marten]

Don't buy all of them

[random steppe]

What does it cost to buy CK2 with all the gameplay relevant expansions now when it's on sale? 30 bucks?

[gaunt marten]

The expansions come in four flavors:
1- Core mechanics. There's like five of them. Get all of them or at least the ones you're interested in.
2 through 4- don't worry about it

[random steppe]

I mean first I'd try it out to see if you like it

[gaunt marten]

https://steamdb.info/bundle/3096/ this is the big bundle

[random steppe]

That has all the cosmetic too tho

Which admittedly is a nice to have for some of them

[gaunt marten]

This one has none of the cosmetics
https://steamdb.info/bundle/6208/

55 dollars for me at the deepest discount

[rancid herald]

probably better if I play the base and see if I like it at all first

[gaunt marten]

Yup! And even if you like it, I would only buy like one or two DLC at a time anyway

[rancid herald]

yeah

[gaunt marten]

This post summarizes what each expansion has
https://old.reddit.com/r/paradoxplaza/comments/bv9tni/which_ck2_dlcs_are_essential_or_best/epn6dpz/

[tropic kindle]

Roblox Rise of Nations

[wind stump]

These fuckers have no imagination.
Just break the door down!

[robust latch]

why break it down when you can have explosions

[wind stump]

Sure i guess... it's a bitch of a recipe to brew tho

USE FROST TO TREAT BURN.
THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS WRONG.

[shell shore]

OMG WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THEY MADE ANOTHER BATIM GANE

AND ITS BORIS THEMED

does that mean we might get an Alice game

[bold sonnet]

[green fulcrum]

[hasty patio]

I've got at least 100 hours in all of these (plus Imperator: Rome, since you were looking for a game from that era [but that is only getting once a year beta patches because it didn't sell well]).

CK Series: Play as a member of a dynasty in Medieval Times the Middle Ages. While the game focuses on Europe and the Near East in and around the Crusading Period, later games have expanded the scope of time (769/867 to 1400s), play area, government styles, events in-between everything, and ends roughly with the fall of Constantinople. Just remember that you need land or it is game over (CK3 is finally an exception with the latest DLC).

EU Series: Play as a nation-state during the Exploration and Colonialization Ages (and some of the bigger events during it, like the Religious Wars in Europe, and the start of Revoluntary France/other RNG'd nation). Build trade/war fleets, command armies, follow a focus tree (because it gives you free shit), pick different tech focuses (with combos), see that every nation has a different national focus and do better at certain things, experience AI bullshit at timing/movement (to keep up with you), and learn while conquering the world isn't worth it. Also, all of the current series was built on older tech and engines (minus Project Caesar).

Victoria: Play as a nation-state (its leader, but not as strong as CK or EU) in a select 100-year period that happens to be around the life of Queen Victoria of England. See the effects of new technology on the world, scramble for the last uncivilized bits of the world, deal with the rise of different political ideologies (kinda forced with the tech), build up your economy and people, and fight limited wars (now with more flavor text). 1-2 are on older tech, while 3 is on the same engine as CK3 and EU V (with better UI). Combat is different between 2 and 3 and that is a legit point of issue.

HOI: Welcome to yet another WW2 sim game. Each game moving forward has focused less on the actual organization of forces and forced pathing to WW2 and given the player/AI more freedom to kinda do whatever (tech/focus trees still give you things to do/aim for). Since 4 was mentioned, you get a choice of any nation to play (about half do not have anything special and don't really play a role at all if kept historical), start (1936 or 1939; former gives you the ability to shape a nation better and the AI can do weird things), and then let lose to pick and choose which techs, national focuses, and fights you want to start (all with limits of course). DLCs add a lot more features and alt-history stuff that people really, really enjoy. All forces you build up yourself, but put leaders in charge to manage them (you get to pick where/how they operate though). Some economics too, but everything is designed to go to war(s). Also, ignore that there are only 3 sides (fascist, communist, democratic; indies are mostly monarchies and don't really get any benefits outside specific nations getting an overhaul at some point). Also, a lot of mods.

Imperator:Rome: Welcome to a deadish game, which takes place before the rise of Caesar, but 20ish years after the death of Alexander the Great. Pick a nation, research tech that will help you to 4x the game, realize that it is super easy to grow a navy, half the world pop are slaves (or will be), culture and religion are big factors, appeasing the 2-4 "ruling families" in your nation will take up some time (and budget), a tactics system that can be gamed with the right setup, resources that determine if certain units/benefits are available at all (trading helps), standing Legions are a game changer (needs leaders and has a history attached to it), an interesting diplo system that limits/benefits you in weird ways, and finding out a lot of limitations in game design and history (see tribes in Europe and a lot of comparisons to EU/CK that end up in other games in better forms).

[bitter stream]

This is some serious information, thanks Lunar

[rancid herald]

yes, thank you

[hasty patio]

There is a little bit of satire in there for each, but all of it is true. There is a lot of in-depth guides (and the game-sanctioned wikis for help), but the best teacher will be playing the games.

Also for CK2, the tutorial sections in-game break at three different points, but they do explain/show where things here.

Good news is that PDX tends to put these on sale/free weekends fairly regularly, so you just have to keep an eye out for that. And remember, unless the game is dead (say Rome, CK2, Vic2), newer DLCs will be discounted less (and the newest rarely gets anything).

[hushed onyx]

Also, importantly for this server, Hearts of Iron 4 has one of the best My Little Pony games in existence, in the form of the Equestria at War mod.

Very well done, frankly more fun than the base game IMHO.

[rancid herald]

what is this, the crusades for ants?

oh it's just the thinger screen

"carefully check the traits of your wife"
Oh no.

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zTRBhEr3Rp8

[hasty patio]

From CK3, but it is one of many events that can happen.

Kid got his horse though (although the +1 to econ and a possible warhorse 10 years from now would have been good too).

[hasty patio]

Sadly, since this was a specific achievement run, he will forever dream of future travel and riding a pony instead.

[slim thorn]

oh god, he'll just stand there for 180 days begging for that pony

[hasty patio]

He got the horse the day it popped. The war I was called in to fight took my more immediate attention and that went for another 1.5 years.

As you can see, it will default to the last answer if I don't pick one (which nothing happens, outside a rep loss that will swing back to the baseline within a few years).

But yes, they can and will stand there to beg for 180 days (but time is frozen in the court screens).

First answer was 50 years of faster and safer travel, and a positive rep between my character and Turstin (and a +1 to their personal fighting stat).

Anyway, achievement was to start as Robert 'the Fox', ruler of the Kingdom of Sicily (or the duke of most of it), take and control that specific title, grab a Greek Kingdom from the Byzantines, and then convert everything I am in charge of to Catholic. Sicily was easy and the game gave me a crazy monk with a fake claim to go after the Byzantines in exchange for the Kingdom of Epirus (all of that territory).

[bold sonnet]

Today Avowed from Obsidian Entertainment is released I can't wait to try after work

[light gate]

https://www.polygon.com/nintendo/524774/nintendo-game-vouchers-switch-2

Rip gold points and vouchers

[gaunt marten]

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/67660/kw/gold points discontinued

They still have platinum points which are gold points but goldier

[fickle garnet]

I'm currently downloading it! I hope it's good

[random steppe]

I currently went back to Metaphor after my Ender Magnolia detour, I really need to try and finish that one before I start anything else that's ambitious

[gaunt marten]

Unicorn Overlord

[forest shoal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH_NAHHjN9s

[visual hill]

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/counter-strike-source-and-day-of-defeat-source-get-major-updates-with-64bit-support/

(TF2 also got a similar update, but with the SDK and more fixes)

also in HL2:DM's changelog:

• Increased the hardcoded maxplayers to 100 to allow for more chaotic times

[river veldt]

is HL2:DM fun ? ive never played it before but i love HL2's gunplay

[visual hill]

it's a lot of fun, you throw toilets at your enemies to kill them

[bitter stream]

I had fun with it playing occasionally, lots of bouncy items

[visual hill]

you can also play as the Skibidi Toilet man, without having to pay for it

[rugged flax]

https://www.ign.com/articles/where-to-buy-magic-the-gathering-final-fantasy-cards

[bitter stream]

huh, i forgot this was set to happen

I'm not much of a Final Fantasy person myself, but it'll be interesting to see other people get all the references

[rugged flax]

they pulled from Final Fantasy 6, 7, 10, and 14 to make the cards
Set comes out on June 13th

[bitter stream]

fair enough, weirdly it might be more "magic like" than the current set for magic, which is a deathrace with magical motorcylces set

[fresh bane]

added a borderless window option to video settings (TF2)

https://steamcommunity.com/games/TF2/announcements/detail/511824321138655315

huge

[visual hill]

I wish there was more adjustable FOV and windowed 21:9 support though

TF2 is still the only game I have to play with a nauseating FOV 😦

(21:9 support works in fullscreen only, it will turn itself off if playing in a window. So I can't work around it this way like I can with Counter-Strike in general)

I could make a custom resolution using CRU but the UX with those is kind of ass

[gaunt marten]

https://bskye.app/profile/marlee-goat.neocities.org/post/3liif6dktf22u

[wind stump]

spot the main character

[gaunt marten]

They're all main characters except one is dressed like a clown

[wind stump]

least unhinged God Eater 3 weapon:

[obsidian salmon]

Only in Puyo Pop Fever can you have an effeminate gay skeleton tell you, upon losing a blob-matching battle to him, to lick his boots (not that we actually ever see him in possession of any)

[proud warren]

I finally got that one famous pvz mod to work

I just needed to use the newest version of it

[cerulean herald]

what pvz mod is that

[proud warren]

pvz rh, aka, pvz fusion

you fuse plants together

and have to deal with wacky as shit zombies at the same time

here's just a handful of funky stuff you can make

here's the funky thing

it's a mod that's still getting updates

after like, 3 years or so of updates

[river veldt]

what's goin on with the wallnuts

[cerulean herald]

fused with hypno-shroom, it looks like

[proud warren]

ye

i checked some of the challenges the game has to offer and oh... my god

[wind stump]

i'm calling the police

[proud warren]

oh god the game even has zombotany fusions

"look out he's got a gun!!!"

[river veldt]

this is a crime against nature

[proud warren]

there's cool things here too

[wind stump]

this is like Pokefusions... but with plants.

Plantefusion!

[green fulcrum]

Reminds me of this dude from Skylanders:

Fun fact, this is one of my favorite character designs from Skylanders ever. Say what you will about the games themselves, but when they went all out with the character designs, they really nailed them.

Except Spyro. His design sucked ass.

[river veldt]

yeah why did spyro look like that

[wind stump]

drugs or something

[dense crypt]

That looks badass

[fresh bane]

I just did something I probably should've done a long time ago but never had the chance to
actually buy a goddamn controller for gaming
Now granted because I've done PC all my life I've never actually needed one, but lately especially if I'm trying to emulate a PS2 game or play anything that isn't a fighter or a shooter, controllers sure are very comfortable, I specifically got one on the cheaper side because I didn't want to spend like 90 bucks on a DualSense if I'm not even gonna use it that much, the one I got I just kind of heard good things about purely by chance and the only downside people everywhere brought up was that it's wired which is absolutely no issue to me, so I got it
And of course I gave it a little test run doing a quick Virtuous Mission run on MGS3, I also played a little bit of the tanker in MGS2 and it works great there too so this is gonna come in handy if I ever wanna play any more PS2 games or really even any games in general that I wouldn't otherwise play comfortably with mouse and keyboard

(also, since it's technically an xbox controller, it seems I got a little card with a 1 month free game pass ultimate membership, I don't use xbox so if anyone wants it, let me know)

[visual hill]

DM me the code if you don't mind 🙂

[fresh bane]

Sure thing

Darn, apparently it's only for new members only, so it's still up for grabs if anyone uses Xbox and wants to try out Game Pass on Xbox or PC or something for the first time, it's 1 month free

[cerulean herald]

If it hasnt been taken, could I use it, if it works since I never used Game Pass

[fresh bane]

Yeah, sure, I'll dm it to you

Oh yeah, I forgot, just in case anyone knows about these things and is curious what controller I got, I just so happened to come across some stuff about the Gamesir G7 SE, I saw some videos about it, everybody seemed pretty damn positive about the controller and how well it worked and how cheap and affordable it was, but apparently people hate wires because every video said the same thing ''this controller is almost perfect and awesome but I'll never use it because it's wired only''

Not a problem for me at all, and since I don't use controllers much but I still wanted one and this one was much cheaper than a Dualsense or an actual Xbox controller I ended up getting it

[visual hill]

I almost only use a wired controller for latency reasons, and also because of Bluetooth problems that occur rather often

plus, I don't have to worry about the battery running out

dedicated wired-only controllers are also lighter, but I'm using an Xbox/PS5 controller

[fresh bane]

Yep, wired is just so much better I feel, don't gotta charge nothing and don't have to worry about weird connectivity stuff and the input latency, but I guess ever since controllers went wireless people got used to that really quickly but I never cared that much, back when I was a kid we had to sit in front of the PS2 to play because the wires didn't reach that far

and to be fair the wire for this controller specifically is 3 meters so it's pretty damn long

[visual hill]

I have a 10-meter USB extender cable, hopefully it's long enough. 😛

(it goes from my office to the living room, with a 10-meter HDMI cable alongside)

it's how I can have the couch experience from the same PC, no console needed

I have tried streaming in the past, but latency and quality are far worse than this solution and you need a "target" device to stream to, which brings its own problems

it's not a bad option, but getting 120 Hz output from an Android device's USB-C port is nearly impossible, for instance

my TV can also be a Moonlight client thanks to LG developer mode but again, it's limited to 60 Hz for some reason

I do use a wireless keyboard + mouse now, because good 2.4 GHz low-latency options do exist. I tried the Xbox controller dongle and it was terrible (constant disconnections even 50 cm away), I returned it ASAP

[fresh bane]

Yeah as much as wires can be a hassle to manage honestly I'd much rather have stable connections and little to no input lag vs dealing with connectivity issues and all that, hell I had some old earbuds that I had to get replaced but the ones I replaced them with not only have given me way more connectivity issues with the bluetooth than the others, they also don't even have a button to manually turn them on or off, they have touch controls, and I have long hair so if my hair brushes up against the earbuds or if I'm trying to get them out and press it with a finger then that's either a video skipping, pausing, or hell sometimes it even brings up the AI tool for me to speak into? I hate it

I've never done streaming for games but I doubt I ever will, just seems more of a hassle than it's worth for me anyways, some people think it's gonna be the way to play games but we saw how Stadia ended up

[visual hill]

I mean local streaming, where I stream games from another PC on the local network. (You can also do this over the Internet with port forwarding in place.) I don't mean using GeForce Now or the Xbox cloud gaming service

this way, you can stream any game, without being limited by what a platform provides

(I remember people buying GeForce Now during the GPU shortage as the 6-month plan was far cheaper than buying a RTX 3080, even if you renewed it for 2 years...)

streaming local games is a nice way to play demanding games at high settings on your Steam Deck or similar

[balmy ermine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fP-QLtWQZs

[dense crypt]

turns out rewards programs arent profitable, huh?

[fresh bane]

https://bsky.app/profile/wario64.bsky.social/post/3lik5wzvmn22d

Wario64 (@wario64.bsky.social)

Xbox: Introducing Muse: Our first generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation www.youtube.com/watch?v=c15v...

www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Bluesky · Feb 19, 2025, 4:09 PM

I just don't know anymore

[proud warren]

I'm really curious who keeps greenlighting generative AI, considering the amount of backlash that usually follows each individual announcement

[fresh bane]

The same people who kept green-lighting DLCs back in the 2010s, then microtransactions, then lootboxes and battle passes, etc, even though all those things were also met with enormous backlash and hate at the time

Really the only other thing that didn't take off was NFTs and I think it's because that entire technology was so ridiculously useless even the people trying to pedal it didn't think it was worth it in the end

[fresh bane]

Generative AI on the other hand, unfortunately, is already powerful enough that it can feasibly start replacing labor from artists, and it already started to, and investors are convinced that this is absolutely the future of technology and gaming, so they're going to go forward with it regardless of what people have to say and regardless of backlash, even in a case like this where the technology is absolutely useless. This particular AI in question generated a concept for gameplay based on the already existing gameplay footage it was fed, from a game that already exists, and it looks worse than the version of the game that already exists, it's almost actually useless, but you show this to an out of touch investor and he'll be convinced this is the future
Even with this example there's already people defending it, like people saying it's going to streamline the process of conceptualizing a game, something that people already figured out before with vertical slices and conceptual pre-rendered animations to visualize what a game would look like and test mechanics, but because tech people see art as a problem to be solved, the fact that it can be done faster inherently means it's better, and it's hard to convince them otherwise, because why wait for a guy to draw you concept art if you can just ask the machine to give you concept art and it can do 10 different ones in a couple minutes right?

[quiet swift]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2742830/Monster_Train_2/

Steam

Monster Train 2

Powerful beings known as Titans have seized control of Heaven. A makeshift alliance is formed between former angels and demons, who must learn to work together against their common foe. Now, you must command these clans aboard newly forged trains, and embark on your journey through Hell, Heaven, and the Abyss, to defeat the Titans before they de...

Release Date

Coming soon

▶ Play video

Well this came outta nowhere

[fresh bane]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2492040/FATAL_FURY_City_of_the_Wolves/

But forget about all that dreadful AI nonsense, City of the Wolves open beta is out NOW
Gaming has been saved!

Steam

FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves

SNK’s beloved Fatal Fury series first hit the market in 1991, spearheading the fighting game boom of the 1990s that swept the industry thereafter. GAROU: MARK OF THE WOLVES (released in 1999) has, for some time, served as the franchise’s most recent installment. But that is all about to change: 26 years on, a brand-new entry—FATAL FURY: City of ...

Price

$59.99

Release Date

Apr 24, 2025

▶ Play video

[slim thorn]

lol, wow, my airpods have an actual pause button so I never have this issue

I also strongly prefer cables for controllers even though I don’t care about input lag. Having to recharge it all the time is no less annoying than cable management, but way more likely to interrupt you mid-session.

The only wireless devices I personally use are
a) these airpods, partly because Apple forced the issue, but also I never pair them with anything else, and the phone itself already has to be part of a recharging habit so adding the airpod case to that is no big difference
b) my trackball mouse, because that is a fixed connection to the USB dongle with no Bluetooth headaches, and the batteries in this thing feel like they last longer than the average smartphone

[gaunt marten]

Twitch is implementing a 100-hour permanent storage limit for highlights

Tweet:

Less than 0.5% of streamers exceed 100hrs & this content accounts for <0.1% of hours watched. Users will be notified.```

"Less than 0.5% of streamers" includes people who don't stream regularly.

For people who do...

For people who are unfamiliar:
1- In the past, Twitch changed so it saves all your broadcasts for 14 days, then makes them unavailable to users.
2- If you're partnered, this limit is extended to 60 days.
3- In the past, Highlights were introduced as a way for streamers to have permanent storage despite the change to broadcasts. With Highlights, you select a portion of time from a past broadcast and save it forever like a youtube video.
4- Now Highlights are capped to 100 hours, so people who want to keep an archive of all past broadcast cannot do so on Twitch.

After April 19th, you will not be allowed to make any highlights past 100 hours total:

[slim thorn]

makes sense, literally archiving all past broadcasts was always gonna be a tall order

probably should've been more exceptions for preexisting usage though

[astral steeple]

Thats one way to screw over like every speedrunner lol

The 100 hour thing

[slim thorn]

I wonder what storage cap would work for speedrunners

[gaunt marten]

If they had to have storage limits, they would likely want one run's length for every gold split, one for personal best, and one run for each trick

So without infinite storage for free, the next best system is one that intelligently determines good content to keep

[slim thorn]

and that's definitely not feasible at scale

maaaaaaybe if storage was adjusted based on view counts on the highlights? probably still bad for runners, a lot of those videos are only aimed at other runners

[hasty patio]

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

[light gate]

PhysX implementation has been broken in older titles for years, even a 1060 the performance shits itself.

[gaunt marten]

PhysX implementation has been broken when it was released

I never played a game with it working

[little badger]

TMNT are now in cod

[fickle garnet]

Nice. Gonna try this later today maybe

[graceful bridge]

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

[river veldt]

aw mega man cats

[river veldt]

oooh that's pretty funny

[gaunt marten]

Oh okay.

I saw it like once before

[obsidian salmon]

Looks like a spinoff from sonic, somehow

[cerulean herald]

Sonic x Megaman went too far

[fresh bane]

''leading to a lot of insane comedy, fourth wall breaks and cultural references'' is a little misleading though because the original show in Japan also consisted of fourth wall breaks and cultural references

But I guess it was even more in the american version

I played a little bit of City of the Wolves just now and it feels just great to play though I couldn't find many people right now I'm guessing later on tonight there's gonna be more people to fight

Kinda bummed that it doesn't have a training mode but I guess pressing buttons in the middle of a match and figuring it out is good enough

I hope I don't get any crashes again, while I was doing the tutorial I got a blue screen out of nowhere but it didn't happen again after I played some matches

[fresh bane]

Oh wow that's actually the most convincing 1980s anime editing and animation work I've seen in a project like this ever
A lot of people who try to emulate the 1980s look end up overdoing it a lot or the style clearly looks too modern, but this has everything nailed down, the muffled audio, the slight blurry visuals, the noise, the camera shake, the painted backgrounds, the actual style itself, even in-game the visuals are like that it looks sick

[wind stump]

Non-copyright infringing Vallhalla

[static bluff]

Sup gamers, have y'all checked out this instant classic?

[random steppe]

It looks really good, if only I wasn't absolutely awful at bullet hell games I'd consider it.

it's one of those genres I accepted I'll always be bad at, I tried really hard at becoming proficent in them but my ceiling is too low to actually have fun in them.

[static bluff]

I hear ya

I know I'll never beat this game, that's for sure

But I beat Hades after grinding at it for a long time, so I think I'm decent at games like this. I like the roguelike element of it a lot.

Like, i've already learned a lot in the first 3 or 4 runs

[random steppe]

Still, I'm really happy that the genre is alive and well, this looks pretty polished

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrpGYTlCjNQ on the topic of Hades 2, new content patch is out!

(the last topside boss... holy shit. )

[tropic kindle]

The French Canadians are back (Formed Bas-Canada in Rise of Nations) Bas = Lower

[quiet swift]

On epic this week

[rugged flax]

has anyone ever wanted Mud/Snowrunner, but more to do
well Focus has the answer for that now
Behold, RoadCraft!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ldax1af5Wk
Forge your own path and rebuild in the aftermath of disaster.

[arctic fern]

Huh

[rugged flax]

The early media preview embargo just lifted earlier this week with a 3 scenario demo of the game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MEdp0CNSNY

Full release is May 20th

The demo looks promising
but as with Mud/Snowrunner, it's definitely one of those "better with multiplayer" games

The demo comes out on Steam on the 24th

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2104890/RoadCraft/

Steam

RoadCraft

As the leader of a company specialized in restoring sites devastated by natural disasters, use your construction machinery to restart the local industry. Clear debris and faulty equipment, rebuild roads and bridges damaged by weather, and much more! You run a disaster recovery company, specialized in restoring sites devastated by natural disaste...

Price

$39.99

Release Date

May 20, 2025

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[fresh bane]

these furies sure are fatal

I got my ass beat for 2 hours straight

and it was some of the most fun I had with a fighting game lol this game is gonna rock once I can actually go into training mode when it comes out

I actually stopped matching that guy because I accidentally pressed a bunch of buttons trying to skip the win quote and I ended up clicking on the exit match button otherwise I would've kept going
time flies when you're getting destroyed

To be completely fair to me, I was totally figuring out what the hell Rock's arsenal was meanwhile this guy seemed to have some experience with his character already, he was very comfortably pulling off the same combos everytime and seemed to know exactly what was optimal and what wasn't, I was just pressing buttons
It was cool when I did manage to learn what moves work and managed to pull off some cool stuff, but it didn't happen that often

Most of my problems is precisely not knowing what Rock's moves are so I don't know how to pull off big damage combos, so even though my basics are solid enough it doesn't translate to any wins if I don't manage to do any damage, most of those 50 matches I lost is because he had like 20% health left because I simply didn't capitalize on any openings I managed to have

If only there was a training mode

[hasty patio]

Thanks for showing/letting me know.

[gaunt marten]

I swear this game had another name in the past. Or maybe I'm thinking of a very similar game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/603960/Star_of_Providence/

Steam

Star of Providence

Descending in the darkness of a long-abandoned facility, a lone ship searches for wealth, power and the scattered pieces of the past.______________________________________________________________________________Star of Providence is a top down action shooter with procedurally generated elements. Explore a progression of floors as you make your w...

Price

$13.49

Recommendations

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Also, I want developers to please have simple logos I can read

[young creek]

Why did dunkey tweet it released today when it says it came out in 2017

(hes the publisher)

[gaunt marten]

Oh okay

https://old.rxddit.com/r/videogamedunkey/comments/1djwb2c/someone_explain_star_of_providence_to_me/l9dpeim/

It was republished under a different name

The music and box art is way better than the old one

[young creek]

Well, if its 8 years old it must be really old and bad

[gaunt marten]

https://youtu.be/Y9-JxFkzCR0 It's a video about RCT2's scenario and difficulty progression in comparison to 1, and what having an external team manage the sequel with limited resources does even when they are skilled

Sonic 3
OpenRCT2
SimCity 3000
Theme Park World / Sim Theme Park
OpenTTD
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
The 7th Guest
RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic
RollerCoaster Tycoon
Minecraft (Bedrock)
Super Mario Bros.
Factorio
Planet Coaster
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
Grand Prix Unlimited

Yeah okay, so I started writing a script and forgot to... well, stop.

I like this guy's meandering even toned voice

[cunning galleon]

An unorthodox way of a British train with their company's logo

Might even change N.E.R.

Northern Equestrian Institute of Goods and Hubs, or N.E.I.G.H., it doesn't make sense but it sounds cool!

[wind stump]

huh

[cerulean herald]

10/10 expression
What game is dis

[wind stump]

Ys X: Nordics

[chilly mural]

same, I'm kinda refusing to play it because there is no training mode

[little badger]

Launches on PC may 20th you can create a character just now. and it will be there at launch. https://bit.ly/DuneAwakeningSteam

[rancid herald]

can I play as a sandworm?

[little badger]

Probably not

[toxic seal]

0/10 game

[little badger]

But you do get a rabbit for pre ordering

[wind stump]

🪱

[fresh bane]

There's a pseudo training mode in the tutorials where you're allowed infinite time so you can just step back and try shit out but it's only with Rock
Your best bet is to look up online on the SNK site the movelist of whatever character you wanna play as and just go with that and learn during a match, it sucks but it is what it is and it's only gonna be open for a few days so why not try to play as much as you can

[little badger]

New Tony hawk game being teased https://www.tonyhawkthegame.com could be pro skater 3-4

[chilly mural]

I love 3 and 4 individually so much

the level designs in them are so cathartic and fill me with a specific dopamine rush I have never been able to recreate

[little badger]

Underground remaster when

[quiet swift]

We all know and love Tony Hawk, but have you heard of Tinyhawk?

https://emax-usa.com/products/tinyhawk2 (I just found these today)

[little badger]

[fresh bane]

For me personally my childhood was Underground 2, American Wasteland and Downhill Jam, then Project 8 when I was a little bit older too

Racing and skating games really broadened your music tastes back then because of all the amazing music they had in them

At least when they used licensed music and not an original soundtrack

[wind stump]

Now this is gaming!

[rugged flax]

THERE ONCE WAS A SHIP THAT PUT TO SEA

[river veldt]

which Pro Skater had Doomguy

[quiet swift]

SOON MAY THE WELLERMAN COME TO GIVE US SUGAR AND TEA AND RUM

[river veldt]

thank you Talc

[wind stump]

one thing i wish Ys X had was sea shanties

[hasty patio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5ke4Ka4_mg

[robust latch]

amusingly the 1st version of this song i ever heard was this one, it was then amusing to hear the orgional
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32ukvCrowr4

the higher pitch voices always gave me a laugh

[green fulcrum]

Okay, it's supposed to be silly, but I actually like this a lot.

[wind stump]

Hahahhahaaaaaa

what a little shit

[fresh bane]

Actually pulling off some cool stuff and getting some wins over here, wow

First fighting game I ever played where I didn't immediately go to play a female character too lol since there's no training mode I thought let's just stick to the basics and go with the shoto equivalent here and just figure out what's even going on

[slim thorn]

one of the attack voice lines is just "fuck you"?

[fresh bane]

No no he says ''Rock you''

It's not as noticeable with the english dub but Terry's always had random engrish phrases as his attacks and for his quotes even in Japanese

[slim thorn]

now that you mention it he does look like the type who'd play "Engrish is cool" totally straight

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/a5QAVBhLvLw?si=UbfIEv-OLskghFPW

https://youtube.com/shorts/a0Y0kbylhh0?si=N0dhTuKK2LUYSXPy

[slim thorn]

incidentally, maybe dumb question since I've never seriously played any fighting game, but since you mentioned "immediately play a female character", is that normally just because they're hot or is there some gendered gameplay thing going on that makes them more fun to play?

[fresh bane]

It's even ''worse'' in SF6

[chilly mural]

both

[fresh bane]

So, that's an interesting question actually because the answer for me really is just because I like girls and female characters in videogames and media in general because... I like girls, but for fighting games it's actually a legit way to pick a starting character to just straight up go with whoever you like the most even if it's just design wise
Players who may be a little bit more familiar with fighting games will probably go through the roster, find a character they like to play or feel comfortable with their playstyle and then go for that, but for complete beginners it's not uncommon for people (at least beginner-friendly fighting game enthusiasts) to just tell you to just straight up pick whoever you like the most and go from there, just because it can be so daunting to have to learn all these things and know how all these different characters work and all that, it's just better to start from a comfortable position and work from there

So for example I played a little bit of Preecha who's a new female character in this game, but her playstyle is a little unorthodox and since this open beta doesn't have access to training mode I don't feel comfortable just trying to figure out what her playstyle is, which is why I went with Rock who has a more shoto style playstyle (shoto is basically a jack-of-all-trades character in fighting games, basically a character who's good at everything which is perfect for beginners to learn)

[visual hill]

I keep hearing "Hi Nintendo!" when Terry uses one of his moves in Smash

[visual hill]

it would be interesting to see how female characters rank on tier lists overall (across all fighting games), but I expect it to be lower on average

Smash has only ever had one female character be considered top 1, Bayonetta, although you can choose Steve to be Alex instead depending on costume (she plays the same)

[slim thorn]

was Hungrybox playing a male or female jigglypuff

[visual hill]

Jigglypuff is always female in Smash IIRC

[slim thorn]

I was not expecting a serious answer

[visual hill]

for Pikachu and Pichu, it depends (some costumes are definitely female because of their "spiked" tails)

[river veldt]

Jigglypuff is always female period i believe

nvm i was wrong

25% male 75% female

[slim thorn]

bulbapedia says "25% male, 75% female"

[river veldt]

jinx

[chilly mural]

you'd be surprised, a joke amongst the competitive fighting game community is "dlc and female, they're going to be top tier."

[fresh bane]

For SF6 characters like Cammy, Juri and Chunners are consistently pretty high up there in terms of a tier list
For Dragonball Fighterz there's characters like Lab Coat 21, Android 18, regular A21 that are also consistently pretty good
For Guilty Gear Strive there's Ramlethal (my beloved and my main), May and Giovanna that are also consistently pretty up there

[slim thorn]

TIL "Chunners"

[fresh bane]

If there are less female characters at the top of tier lists I think it's just because on a majority there's just more male characters overall but that's for most stuff unless you have a game like Skullgirls where most of the roster is female characters for obvious reasons

[visual hill]

Android 18, I can't wait to upgrade to it in 3 years from now.

[worthy rose]

I immediately veered towards Talim in soul calibur that introduced her. Cute design and interesting fighting style

[fresh bane]

One of my mains in SF6 (Lily) is one of the lowest tier characters if not bottom of the tier list but I play her anyways because I just think she's pretty and cute and I like her

She has a very straightforward and simple gameplay style which is fine with me because the other character I main (Juri) sometimes has very complicated combo routes especially with her Lvl 2 that can be very complicated to pull off

[visual hill]

funny how Anachronox has a frozen village level, just like Daikatana which was made by another Ion Storm studio. You can tell the same people worked on both games, even though they were technically different studios

you're looking a little... wobbly, sir. A shame you didn't get the upgraded model format.

[minor plover]

Frick

Gg

Lawd reekris

[slim thorn]

are you playing Welsh Scrabble

[gaunt marten]

Crwth is unfortunately an English word