general gaming

[gaunt marten]

Only to miss it anyway because it moved slightly

[random steppe]

This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE-vak9rU28

The unintentional comedy cut is so good

[gaunt marten]

That is why I just mod it out

It was great and fun for the first thousand hours or so but nowadays I value having control of my character more

[random steppe]

From Oblivion this is probably my favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_oBqJdijxY

[arctic fern]

ill probably stream it when its done downloading

[gaunt marten]

In Skyrim NPCs practicing their archery get infinite copies of arrows in their inventory, so one exploit you can do is pickpocket them, steal the arrows in their inventory and replace them with the most expensive arrows you can get.

Then you would walk over next to the training dummy and steal the cloned expensive arrows

[slim thorn]

reminds me of when I would play Halo and give my rocket launcher to the marines to exploit their infinite ammo

[gaunt marten]

The Elder Scrolls 6 should have rocket launchers

[visual hill]

I remember having a French PC Gamer magazine talking about Oblivion when it was freshly out

same for Quake 4

[river veldt]

i love this stupid game

[gaunt marten]

https://youtu.be/ix-mptew3jM?

[arctic fern]

[random steppe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dTny-ssEiY

It's the comedic timing that slays me every time

[arctic fern]

im streaming the remaster now in my server
if anyone is interested, ping or DM me for an invite
its just a quiet server i usually use to organise helldivers or whatever im obsessed with this week

ITS SO PRETTTYYYY

[arctic fern]

oof it crashed XD

[slim thorn]

ITS SO PRETTTYYYY
oof it crashed XD

that sums up a lot doesn't it

[visual hill]

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/36

it's the beginning 🙂

I wonder how long the Time to Shrek will be

[gaunt marten]

This is my one complaint about the remaster

Thank you mod creators

[arctic fern]

nuuu i cant do scroll dupe

[gaunt marten]

No fair ||https://i.imgur.com/LSTMO6j.png||

I fucking aced the fight. How dare you make the second phase harder to parry?

Nine Sols really seems like it should have a triple parry instead of a double one

[slim thorn]

double?

[bronze abyss]

theres a limit to parries?

[slim thorn]

not that I know of

[bronze abyss]

oh good,was a bit worried cuz im expecting to start the game soon-ish

[slim thorn]

there's a few subtle mechanics to discourage spamming the parry button, but no limit to how many legit parries you can do in a row

[gaunt marten]

You stock up to two talismans at a time and must spend them before getting more

So your maximum damage from talisman explosion is two parries

[slim thorn]

oh you're talking about qi charges, not parries

[gaunt marten]

Those are qi charges? Good, I think I saw you can get more

[slim thorn]

yeah, the skill tree has a bunch of max qi increases

in fact you being at 2 means you already bought 1

[gaunt marten]

I thought I bought a charm notch

[slim thorn]

oh lol

[gaunt marten]

I love that partially missing a parry makes it so you can recover your HP as long as you don't get hit

[slim thorn]

nah the charm notches in this game are "Computing Units" for the Jade system

anyway, I'm fairly sure the parry timing is no harder on phase 2, it "just" adds some new attacks (which are crimson so can't be parried normally, but the big one is also kick-able which is honestly easier than parrying anyway)

[gaunt marten]

kicking is harder than parrying for me because I can't just time it, I have to jump too

[slim thorn]

ooooh that's interesting, it's easier for me because the timing window for the actual kick is so long

[gaunt marten]

For the parry attacks it's just:
1- Listen to the sound
2- Press the parry button immediately.

[slim thorn]

oh if you watched me play this you'd laugh at how bad I am at getting that consistent

[gaunt marten]

For the kick attack it's:
1- Look for the visual cue
2- Jump
3- aim at the boss and kick

For me it helps that the parry attacks all have the same sound

[slim thorn]

they are pretty great with the cues, I'm just fundamentally better at multiple steps than I am at precise steps

it's part of the reason I'm having so much fun with the BossChallengeMod I added to my 9S rando this month; the modifiers give me additional things to worry about, mostly without increasing precision

[gaunt marten]

And I used to play rhythm games so I'm good with timing

[slim thorn]

makes sense, proper rhythm games (and shmups) end up boring me for much the same reason

[bronze abyss]

rhythm games and timing translation to other games is weird,i find it helping a lot with finding setups for timing parries like [combo] into parry,but raw parries have pretty varied results depending on animation

similar to ghost tapping kinda

[gaunt marten]

No fair, he gets to turn around on a dime and stab me with his spear even though he's quadrupedal AND jumping

Whoever designed this animation was never a centaur

[slim thorn]

he also gets to stand on the hazard floor unharmed

[gaunt marten]

That one is fair because he has hooves

[slim thorn]

when he feels like running back and forth faster than I can keep up with him, I usually do parry into talisman (assuming he's doing a non-crimson attack) and then just wait for him to come back to me; the nice thing about him being a centaur is that his body is long so there's plenty of time post-parry to get the talisman off

[gaunt marten]

Yep

He is dead

I think that was eleven tries

[slim thorn]

that might be fewer tries than my first playthrough

[gaunt marten]

||https://i.imgur.com/wmUyIME.png|| This is not what "A blaze of glory" means

[cerulean herald]

Nine sols
I barely used parrying throughout much of the game lmao only til the last bits of the game did I utilize it more bc dodging can only get you so far

[slim thorn]

it's interesting how differently people adapt to that

the first boss is designed to make parrying way easier than dodging, and in my case it worked exactly as intended (= that's when I started defaulting to parrying stuff), but the super parry you get later on I mostly forgot to use until my second playthrough

and yet I keep hearing stories about people who insisted on beating the first boss without parrying (or without talismans) and continuing to not use that mechanic later on

[gaunt marten]

I need better nicknames than these https://i.imgur.com/E0SbREC.png

[slim thorn]

a lot of us just call him Garfield

[gaunt marten]

I bought this game primarily because I heard it's a game that makes parrying work as a central mechanic

[cerulean herald]

It took me a bit to understand how talisman worked, wasn't til I got the skill tree thing that made them explode automatically bc I struggled setting them off manually

As the game progressed I did end up using parrying more often ||last few boss battles kinda makes it mandatory || but didn't bother with the super parry much bc that's harder for me to pull off and I just end getting bodied when I try but fail

But I do have interest in replaying the game and see how better I fare turn the first run, using the mechanics I underutilized initially

[slim thorn]

oh yeah, I also jumped on Water Flow as soon as I could unlock it in my first playthrough

then for my second playthrough I made a point of a) using Full Control talismans and b) using super parry as much as possible, partly for variety, but also because with more experience I no longer found them overwhelming

[cerulean herald]

I did use super parrys a lot more often in the ||boss rush mode, specifically Ji bc that's my favorite boss battle|| I sort of have a good grasp on it and did pretty well but it's def something I need to more practice on

[slim thorn]

(although now that I've piled mods on top I'm overwhelmed and using Water Flow again lol)

oooh interesting choice

for me it's ||Eigong, with Jiequan as a close 2nd|| though that's probably a super boring take

[cerulean herald]

Wouldn't say it's a boring take, in hindsight it was a rly fun battle, I was just too busy fighting for my life lmao

[slim thorn]

totally fair

[gaunt marten]

They should not have collectible tao fruit in the game

[slim thorn]

for me ||Ji's fight|| was one of the two Sols that I beat in <5 tries, which I was pretty happy about until I learned that basically everyone had the same experience (||obv Ji is way harder than the first few Sols, but by the time you get to him he's no big deal compared to the Fengs and Eigong||)

[gaunt marten]

This ruins the concept of Tao

[slim thorn]

well then you'll love all the cutscenes where Taoists tell each other they suck at Tao

[gaunt marten]

https://www.thegamer.com/bethesda-touching-gift-skyblivion-oblivion-remastered-launch/

"We beat you to the punch so you can stop developing it now"

[dense crypt]

Ouch

[river veldt]

that's not how i read that at all

[gaunt marten]

It is not how they intended it

It is the twitter-style take on things

Immediately jump to the most evil conclusion

[river veldt]

oh lol

[smoky sonnet]

"take a break from working on that, you've been at it for a while"

[craggy vine]

That's cool

[wind stump]

my brother in christ what are you shooting at

[cunning galleon]

The shelf

Nice galil

[wind stump]

i stole it

also that's a fal

[cunning galleon]

Close enough

So used to the fal with a rail

[little badger]

Switch 2 pre orders begin in the US on the 24TH

[static bluff]

Nice

[green fulcrum]

So, Expedition 33 is receiving critical acclaim and reviewers are saying it's a masterpiece that everyone needs to play. Not a "may not be your cup of tea" in sight, they're saying that everyone needs to play it.

Turn-based RPG fans have been eating soooooo good these past few years.

[cunning galleon]

my sabre

Gave it a load out

The changeling mig shall remain black

Pegasi airplane

[green fulcrum]

TIL that Among Us has an actual lobby soundtrack now. And it's actually really good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftVXAob8poM

[gaunt marten]

Loud warning

(Youtube shorts don't make it easy to change volume)

[green fulcrum]

Odd, that wasn't a YouTube shorts video

That's just a regular video

[gaunt marten]

Youtube music, or whatever this is

It has a different UI

[proud warren]

the [artist - topic] channels kinda fit under the same umbrella of "it kinda sucks on discord"

[gaunt marten]

Topic channels are just a mechanism for youtube to present music automatically

[proud warren]

[green fulcrum]

This is what it looks like for me on PC. No YouTube Music or different UI that I can see.

[green fulcrum]

Oh for Discord

Yeah, it looks that way on Discord, but it's looked that way for years.

Again, no UI differences or changes.

[proud warren]

I think it's the fact that the size of the image used makes the ui so small, they remove a few features such as volume

cus on youtube proper, it's pretty much the same size image, just a little bigger with empty space off to the side to make it fit better in theater mode

then again

I don't work at youtube

so who am I to say?

[slim thorn]

yeah I think that's just the thumbnail being non-wide for some reason

YT shorts have a very different UI, but even that UI does have a volume control (again if the window's large enough)

[gaunt marten]

Playing Nine Sols some more

Yesterday I handled Goumang. Wouldn't do it that way if I was given the option

Now I seem to be in the creepypasta chapter

[cerulean herald]

the game is pretty linear with boss orders, apart from the very first ones, but for me I did Goumang, then afterwards I fought Garfield, or rather his centaur bot

[river veldt]

creepypasta chapter ?

[gaunt marten]

To say any more would be spoilers

[river veldt]

it's ok just put it in the brackets

im probably not going to play this game

[slim thorn]

also not really meaningful to anyone not playing the game

[river veldt]

oh ok

[slim thorn]

"there's a spooky part" pretty much covers where Flitter's at right now

[slim thorn]

I did Yingzhao/Kuafu, then Goumang, then ||Yanlao||, which is probably the "most intended" order

[river veldt]

spooky spaghetti just made my ears perk up

[gaunt marten]

You might appreciate it: ||As I entered the zone I saw a large machine, usually found near the boss. But there was nothing to interact with, so I moved on. Instead of moving with me, the camera stayed still. And when I moved farther, I showed up at the entrance of the room. After investigating for a bit, blood began to rain from above, and then a few visual effects associated with this sort of thing happened||

[hushed onyx]

First time I’ve heard of it

[fickle garnet]

Interesting, I'll probably play it through game pass

[green fulcrum]

It's basically a modern turn-based Final Fantasy game but set in an alternate version of Earth, where some girl called the Paintress lives on this giant monolith out beyond a vast sea and every year paints a giant glowing number that can be seen from everywhere. Whoever on Earth has the age the same as the number vanishes off the face of the planet. Just before a new number is revealed, an expedition is launched to stop her. None of the expeditions have ever made it to her.

You're Expedition 33. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWZ-xf1dslw

Also, yes, that's Shadowheart's VA.

Holy f*ck it has an 11-minute main theme, sung in French! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kzQsLMEawg

And it's GORGEOUS

[gaunt marten]

https://i.imgur.com/1zof8TJ.png I shouldn't have to do these tutorials

Please just give me the pop-up at the end

[slim thorn]

the eternal struggle between players who get in one sentence, and players who somehow still don't get it after the forced tutorial sequence

[gaunt marten]

They already have a solution for this and it's called pwruser.cfg in the executable's folder

[slim thorn]

iirc one of these tutorial sequences has a speedrun trick where the game only checks that you staggered him, and using the bow instead of the new move counts as a stagger

[gaunt marten]

Very cleverly designed room https://i.imgur.com/gmrmnfR.png

[slim thorn]

a few weeks ago I mapped out what the randomizer's trick logic for this exact jump should be, because it's a particularly fun spot for that

[gaunt marten]

Not the jump

Starting here, you hack the door and come in. As you enter, the door shuts behind you and a tough miniboss spawns.

https://i.imgur.com/GtTHHZS.png

[slim thorn]

ah the whole arena

[gaunt marten]

At the end of the room is a little container for you to get more arrows https://i.imgur.com/p5wPciL.png

So why is it there? Because the boss is tough?

No

The door closes because the spikes from screenshot 1 kill the miniboss instantly

So what you can do is shoot the guy to lure him into the spikes without the door closing

[slim thorn]

nice

did you trick the Power Reservoir (East) miniboss into jumping into the lasers?

[gaunt marten]

I still have no idea what the areas are called yet

To me the miniboss arena above seems like an intentional piece of design that came to be after the developers discovered you can cheese the miniboss

They wanted to make it harder but not impossible to do it

So why is this a key item? ||https://i.imgur.com/k1dlJu3.png||
||https://i.imgur.com/Fagz82X.png|| Come on, let me give the child a knife

[slim thorn]

dw, you'll find a different sharp object to give him later

[gaunt marten]

I found one earlier

[slim thorn]

oh I'm probably thinking of a different one

yeah in retrospect Yi trusts him with a lot of dangerous stuff

[wind stump]

flashback

didn't think the image would embed
i don't forward things too often

[slim thorn]

oh yeah, forwards include embeds and the source channel/date, it's part of why they're a nice feature

(though they really should've included the author name too)

[gaunt marten]

It's probably time to go through the reservoir again just in case

[wind stump]

yeah but you can click on the link at the bottom to jump to the original message. And it's cleaner than directly linking the message

[slim thorn]

we've run into cases where the name would've been nice primarily because the original message was inaccessible (e.g. forwarding out of modchat, or between servers)

but sure it's a small thing

[wind stump]

makes sense.

[gaunt marten]

That doesn't work if you have no access to the original message

[wind stump]

which sucks, but alas

[gaunt marten]

Oh this guy

I just killed him the normal way since he wasn't sturdier than usual

[slim thorn]

makes sense

I didn't learn about the laser option until I saw a speedrunner doing it

and at the time it was a fun fight so I'm glad I did it legit anyway

[gaunt marten]

I definitely think the "ninja" enemies with the decoys and odd timing fuck me up more than any other type

[slim thorn]

(there's a harder version of this miniboss later, so in rando I feel no shame lasering this version lol)

[slim thorn]

fair warning: one of the hardest-for-most-players lategame minibosses is a ninja with decoys and odd timing

(in fact that's one of the "hard fights" I chose not to do in my last 9S rando session)

[gaunt marten]

I figured. I'm getting better at the timing

[proud warren]

Question for the oblivion remake players: is the "let me do that line again" person still in the game?

[wind stump]

Average LA commute

[slim thorn]

it is, it's even lip-synced this time

(I don't play it but someone posted it as a joke earlier)

[gaunt marten]

https://youtu.be/R-ES09DJe4w Remaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9REWMEOLdI Original

[wind stump]

Ammo Pickup would be great for my no death clears since I could just not care about ammo management and S P R A Y

[random steppe]

It looks so good, I can't wait.

I love that this is a JRPG but Western

It's a bit like Dark Souls is a western style RPG but Japanese

Usually when you get takes that cross boundaries that way they come out full of originality

[gaunt marten]

That's great

Hope the world design is interesting. That's something you can't review without playing the game in full

[river veldt]

"forget about Freeman" is kind of a badass line when you think about it

[gaunt marten]

I don't know what that is

[visual hill]

obligatory 🇫🇷 too 😛

[visual hill]

as someone who enjoyed Anachronox (which is also a "JRPG but Western" affair), this sounds interesting

[river veldt]

towards the end of "Surface Tension" in Half Life 1, you find a technical map for airstrikes and a radio, and over the radio a marine man is telling the dead guy at the map to forget about Freeman because he's been fucking up the military super bad

[gaunt marten]

Makes sense

[random steppe]

I'm in all likelyhood gonna play it through gamepass so it's more of a value add and I'm not committing full price for it.

[gaunt marten]

You play Crystal Project yet?

[random steppe]

Especially since I'm not 100% sure my pc would be able to run it well, and I had Game Pass active this month because Blue Prince, might as well

Not yet, I'm interested but it seems to go on sale timed with when I'm busy as fuck

[gaunt marten]

You should just play the demo

The demo save carries over to the full game. No content is removed, and it's ~15 hours long

[random steppe]

Good suggestion, Crystal Project is like a middle priority for me right now, but I should keep the demo installed so I can give it a go when the mood strikes

[gaunt marten]

The only hitpoint you need is the last one ||https://i.imgur.com/CXPx4bG.png||

[river veldt]

Half Life's incredible but i wish there were subtitles

[fresh bane]

Seems a little weird to me that they wouldn't retroactively add a subtitle option considering they've definitely touched up the game a few times since release with updates

I wonder if maybe the engine can't handle it, but that seems like a dumb thing to say, I don't suppose it's anything too demanding

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3311766147

well I guess there's an addon for it

I don't know why the embed chose the image of the wise mystical shephard tree instead of the actual addon but here's how it looks, I don't know if my mind is playing tricks on me but for some reason I totally remember half life having subtitles, but maybe I'm mixing up 1 and 2

[river veldt]

i dont know why i didn't think of checking the workshop, it's late 🤦‍♂️ thanks nire

[fresh bane]

It's one of the absolute best Steam features ever, I mostly remember it exists because I jammed L4D2 and Gmod absolutely full of addons when I played them daily back in the day

You know you're addicted to getting addons when you crash the game because there's just so much custom content loaded at once

[light gate]

I remember paid mods in Workshop.

I bought a few and liked it but boy did the community hated it. Rightly with some concerns.

Still, woulda love to donate to creators.

[hidden elbow]

So , I finished halo 2 (with uncut mod) and all in all it was great , definitely a bit more rougher around the edges compared to combat evolved but still quite good , the new guns and location variety as well as more fast gameplay definitely a nice inclusions and the story is kinda amazing i really enjoyed it , some levels and enemies were a bit.... annoying and some moments are going for a bit longer than they should, but nevertheless its a nice game , can't wait to now play halo 3 cuz it is regarded by many as the best in a series.

Also Arbiter is added to the hall of fame as one of my favourite characters, he is the goat

[peak berry]

[wind stump]

Black Ops 2 is peak

[slim thorn]

oh yeah, half the reason 3's so good is they got to redo the good but janky ideas in 2; brutes and scarabs in particular are sooooo much more polished in 3

[wind stump]

okay so don't delete all your jokers

gtk

[wind stump]

oh no my savings!

[arctic fern]

https://youtu.be/q-QPuhtgrAo I love the resurgence of videos about an 18 year old game
For some reason
Weird coincidence

Also what the fuck is this obscure mechanic lol

[wind stump]

oooh, so the Jokers go off left to right...
yeah should put the multiplier ones last

[arctic fern]

Your hand is also trigger left to right too

Which may be important for some jokers or cards

[wind stump]

S T O N K S

also i need to stop going for the Wheel of Fortune every time

[arctic fern]

LETS GO GAMBLING

[wind stump]

... Shit.

nvm ez clap

god i'm so good at poker

couldn't scale hard enuff, but a win is win

[visual hill]

Half-Life Source and Black Mesa have them, not the OG

(GoldSrc does not have any subtitle system)

adding subtitles to an existing game is a fair amount of work, so I doubt Valve will do it

[toxic seal]

Some very early details on Subnautica 2 from the devs on the official Discord:

• The Cyclops will not be returning. There will be a big sub, but they didn't want to rehash old content.
• Vehicles upgradeable, no weapons.
• Leviathans will be unkillable. Large predators can be deterred, but not killed. They don't want people bashing things to death with a knife like the last game.

[slim thorn]

Leviathans were killable in Sub 1?

[toxic seal]

With a lot of work

[slim thorn]

TIL

[toxic seal]

The best way was stasis rifle + thermo blade + about 10 minutes straight of hitting it

It took I think 300 hits of the thermo blade, 600 of the regular survival knife

[arctic fern]

I've killed leviathans before
Usually by glitching them

[toxic seal]

The ghost leviathans that spawn in the void are not killable, though

[rotund forge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDbRY8d3_e0

[wind stump]

Oh god I forgot how FAST the HAMR fires in BO2

In hindsight, I think I picked up a one with a Rapid Fire mod

couldn't tell, just gave me "Customized" when i swapped to it and it dropped from a rando enemy AI so I can't ask them, lmao

oh sick, redownloaded the Plutonium client and it saved my old loadouts!

[wind stump]

Time to get dumpstered by real people

[cunning galleon]

wah

[visual hill]

is that Maud Pie?

[cunning galleon]

Maybe

It's what I conjured up using the free customisation items Minecraft gives you

[wind stump]

Player damage cap increased to 9999 (from 999) because people like big numbers.
i like big numba

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1473350/the_Gnorp_Apologue/

Steam

(the) Gnorp Apologue

(the) Gnorp Apologue is a game where you help small beings called gnorps get rich. It is a unique incremental game with interesting upgrades, and visuals to match the numbers.

Hit the rock
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Price

$6.99

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7683

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[bitter stream]

oooh my friend like this game

very neat clicker IIRC

[gaunt marten]

It is time to fight the old man ||https://i.imgur.com/tHBSe1U.png||

[cerulean herald]

oh this is a fun one

[gaunt marten]

Being unable to parry attacks from the back keeps getting me

Oh woops I guess I'm too busy to play

[random steppe]

Played the intro to Expedition 33, can't say shit about gameplay yet but fuck the game is gorgeous

[wind stump]

"okay surely I can't make this resolution worse

thanksully i got into settings and switched to Borderless Windowed

God FUCKIN I HATE THIS ECOMONY (I have to install Chronicles)

[visual hill]

I played the BO6 campaign a bit, but my game pass ended before I could finish it

it's pretty good otherwise

[gaunt marten]

||https://i.imgur.com/uAmupDr.png|| I'm back. Boss is dead.

Okay, so he was always ugly even as a child ||https://i.imgur.com/5mIL1ac.png||

[hollow compass]

can someone well-versed in PC builds help me here? Trying to build a budget PC for game dev purposes, but I'm afraid I might do something wrong

[gaunt marten]

What sort of game do you intend to develop? I recommend you come to #science-and-tech with a completed build and we can tell you if you have anything missing

Funny how the Jiequan fight doesn't have a health bar

Is it meant to be impossible?

[wind stump]

nothing wrong here

i'll give you a hint, the giant minigun is not supposed to be there

I was going to try abuse it with Ammo Pickup but the game saw through that

[visual hill]

https://bsky.app/profile/graslu00.bsky.social/post/3lnlbhgs4ic2d
it's happening!!

Graslu00 (@graslu00.bsky.social)

Bluesky · Apr 24, 2025, 5:50 PM

(GoldenEye recompilation)

[visual hill]

texture easter eggs, my favorite

I spotted a Polycount logo while playing Sunset Overdrive last month

(you can find it in most AAA games if you look hard enough)

[slim thorn]

Yep, "Jiequan 1" is straight-up invincible for plot. People have even used that fight as the basis of an endurance/max damage competition.

[green fulcrum]

Preeeeetty much, lol

[quiet swift]

@green fulcrum

[green fulcrum]

Has anyone noticed how absolutely nobody is talking about that Wukong game anymore? It was such a huge thing, but after it got beaten by AstroBot by the Game Awards it just kinda fell off the safe of the Earth.

[gaunt marten]

Other than it being nominated for game of the year I never heard anyone talk about it

[arctic fern]

the only thing i ever heard about it was that it was popular in the east

[hushed onyx]

Yes, I heard it was very popular in China and Chinese fans were surprised and upset to learn it didn’t win Game of the Year, which came off to me as insular American-type behavior.

(And utterly unsurprising because China would be a country that would display insular American-type behavior once it was rich and strong enough to not be put upon by others)

[random steppe]

I mean it's a very good game but it wasn't especially innovative

Once you finish it, there isn't much reason to talk about it

You rarely have to reference it by comparison to another game because there are more famous examples of what it does

[unreal idol]

The opening cutscene was really cool while high as shit

[random steppe]

Speaking of openings.
I can't get over how fucking cool Expedition opening bit is.

These people are flexing so hard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmB89Ht0lgE

[green fulcrum]

Oh yeah, that reminds me.

@unreal idol @unkempt plinth Do you like fantastic music? Do you like singing in French? Do you like turn-based JRPGs? Do you like Final Fantasy-styled JRPGs? Do you like all of these and more along with excellent voice acting, an intriguing story, mature themes, and dark fantasy akin to Dark Souls/FF16?

If you said yes to all of them, take a look at Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I think you both will LOVE it.

I am looking into getting it. And it's dirt cheap too compared to most bigger games these days. The devs deliberately priced it at like $50 or $60 (depending in your region and currency), because they want people to actually play the game.

[unkempt plinth]

I remember seeing a trailer for this and thinking it was really cool, it definitely interests me

[gaunt marten]

Dirt cheap at fifty dollars

It is 45 dollars for me, which is about five times my ideal price

[green fulcrum]

I mean, it just released.

So it's as dirt cheap as a new day-1 release is gonna get.

[random steppe]

I would say it's priced fairly, at least for the western market, it has some buzz behind it and looks extremely promising with a stacked VA cast behind it, but it is from an unknown dev,

I definitely don't think 50 bucks is to the level of an act of charity

Also it's on game pass, for those than plan to binge it and don't want to commit full price

[gaunt marten]

It's by a studio formed by ~30 former Ubisoft devs

It's their first game!

[random steppe]

That is...not a plus for everyone.

I am happy they are free, they sure as fuck seem to be a lot more talented than the Ubisoft output seems to suggest

My only problem is that I am getting way too much Jennifer English in my ears lately.

I played a bit of Baldur's Gate 3 new patch, then I play this, then eventually Tides of Annihilation is gonna come out.

She really exploded in the videogame industry after BG3

[visual hill]

it looks cool but I'll wait, I have plenty to play

adds to ever-growing IsThereAnyDeal list

[quartz pawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_QyoQ2YBQ

[green fulcrum]

@fresh bane Found something you might want to see. :P

[quartz pawn]

Elena's even got her og look!

[fresh bane]

Ooooooooooh the original looks actually so good

[quartz pawn]

[fresh bane]

the new design is growing on me from the first reveal but I still just think the original is the best, luckily with pretty much all their characters they're not forcing the new design on players and including all the original designs for everyone

well except Juri

also ending the video with the healing lol

Her theme sounds really really good too actually :cocobop:

[bitter stream]

"H E A L I N G"

Let's goo

[green fulcrum]

So, I'm playing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, and there's this idiot in a town who dug around in his grandfather's old basement, and thought he found several bottles of alcohol, so he started drinking some. One of them was a potion of invisibility, for you see his grandfather was an alchemist, and he starts to freak out, and begs me to help him. So, being the kind soul that I am, I go to the town shaman and ask for her aid. She makes a cure for him, and I give it to him, and he swears off drinking forever. All's well that ends well, right?

Well, not really. Turns out if you come back later and return to that spot, his clothes and boots are there, but he is not. In his place is a small rabbit-like creature, and another empty potion bottle. Only this time you can't interact with him, so he's basically permanently stuck like that.

[quiet swift]

Any animal talking ability/potion?

[cunning galleon]

Sabre

Might make super suck soon, I mean super catfish,, I mean super Sabre

[gaunt marten]

https://www.gog.com/en/game/breath_of_fire_iv

It's Breath of Fire IV with modern compatibility

Improved support for controller hotplugging.
Added full support for Sony DualSense Edge, Amazon Luna, Google Stadia, and NVIDIA Shield controllers.
1.0 changelog:
Full compatibility with Windows 10 and Windows 11.
2 localizations of the game included (English and Japanese).
Improved DirectX game renderer.
New rendering options (Windowed Mode, Vertical Synchronization Control, Gamma Correction, Integer Scaling, Anti-Aliasing, and more).
Improved audio engine (restored missing environmental sounds and audio configuration).
Improved keyboard and mouse support.
Improved Warehouse and Crane minigames.
Improved F9 exit screen.
Issue-free battle and combo system (all crashes have been fixed).
Issue-free cutscene scripting.
Issue-free task switching.
Full support for modern controllers (Sony DualSense, Sony DualShock4, Microsoft Xbox Series, Microsoft Xbox One, Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch, Logitech F series and many more) with optimal button binding, vibration, hotplugging and wireless mode.

[visual hill]

nice to see integer scaling, but I wonder why they didn't turn off texture filtering

the previews don't look all that great due to the bilinear filtering, and the PS1 version didn't have it for obvious reasons

[wind stump]

why the fuck does single player campaign have EXP

[gaunt marten]

Lots of games do that

[wind stump]

[cerulean herald]

is that the neptune girl

[cunning galleon]

What the fuck my phone can't install something because it's too old

But, like, this is a game frkm 2009 sure but come on trainz isn't that old

[wind stump]

yes

[cunning galleon]

How do I force my phone to download this old ass game

[gaunt marten]

On Android?

You can't. The phone no longer has the tools to operate it. You will have to modify your operating system or the game

[cunning galleon]

my.. My trainz 2004

Hey atleast RCTC is still compatible

[gaunt marten]

Time to play more Nine Sols

Last time I stopped in tripping Simulator 3000

[wind stump]

[visual hill]

mobile OSes are pretty bad at back compatibility, you don't really have an alternative other than running an Android emulator with an old Android version on your PC

TouchHLE can emulate a few old iOS games (2008-2010), but Trainz isn't one of them to my knowledge

[gaunt marten]

The boss room lags the shit out of my device even with the boss dead

What's up with that?

An unbounded counter is like a regular one but you have to charge it up first. It has a less strict window

Oh it's useless against arrow volleys

[cerulean herald]

which boss is this?

[cunning galleon]

I think a windows emulator can run trainz 2009/2004

[gaunt marten]

The one that summons fleshy freaks

[river veldt]

fuzzy worm friends

[gaunt marten]

What the fuck are these? https://i.imgur.com/2oCbf3h.png

I'm missing one, I think.

[worthy rose]

500k copies sold i 24 hours apparently

[river veldt]

holy fuck the Nihilanth is so fucking hard

[wintry canopy]

The Dragon Tail archetype has had its name changed.
https://ygorganization.com/justice-hunters-announcement-revised-tcg/

[wind stump]

shamk

[visual hill]

yeah, if the game works without Steam, there's a chance it can work with Winlator. You may need Turnip drivers for your device though, which are not available outside of Snapdragon SoCs (and not all Snapdragons have drivers)

looks at Snapdragon 8 Elite

[river veldt]

i beat half life

super fun but also really hard

[visual hill]

how do you rate the Nihilanth boss fight out of 10? Wrong answers only. 😛

[river veldt]

uhhh

well i liked the idea

the crystals were cool

but teleporting me to areas with more monsters and platforming sucked

so i guess like

5/10 ?

whole game is obv 10/10 i even kind of enjoyed Xen up to the factory

i do feel bad for killing vortigaunts through the whole game

[slim thorn]

since IIRC you've finished the Yanlao fight, it should be easy to go back and find the missing one

[gaunt marten]

I found four

Hacking all of them seemed to do nothing of note

[slim thorn]

there's five

[gaunt marten]

I'll look again

[smoky sonnet]

im going to have to start actually doing fwg attempts. this is gonna suck

[gaunt marten]

Under a thousand is fine

[smoky sonnet]

oh no i mean the farewell in 4 deaths

[river veldt]

https://www.reddit.com/r/fnv/s/T1hC5Bk75d

[bronze abyss]

bravo for lies of p devs for exceeding my expectations for how dogshit level design can be in games

[worthy rose]

Original or black mesa?

[river veldt]

orig

[bronze abyss]

just started ninesols,had to get my abomination controls in place 😌

its weird not being able to dodge mid air after ender games

the game looks so pretty on the macbok display damn

hoping im not gonna struggle too much if i spam skip on dialogue

look im a bookless gen z zoomer baby with technology and phones and computers and vapes rotting my brain,leave me be

[slim thorn]

as long as you come back for the story at some point , it's also great

[bronze abyss]

maybe,i was mostly interested in the gmaeplay tbf and expected the story to be a side thing kinda like in ender lillies where if you want you can find notes for it n stuff but dont really have to pay much attention to it

[slim thorn]

ah, fair, Nine Sols' story is much more direct than the Soulslike/Hollow Knight approach of making you piece it all together from random artifacts

anyway, in general I think the info you need for gameplay is pretty clearly separated from "just story" text, though of course it's impossible to guarantee you won't ignore/skip some "gameplay text" once you get in the habit of not reading things

I guess the true ending, and the ||extra phase of the final boss|| gameplay that unlocks, would be pretty hard to find without paying any attention to story stuff, since most of the conditions amount to "do all optional story stuff"

[bronze abyss]

im a master fuck arounder find outer so even if i do it likely wont be an issue id assume

a bit weird that menu controls are not consistent with gameplay controls but not too big of a deal

[hasty patio]

https://youtu.be/ekRIa1xjNU8

[river veldt]

apparently you can see the Throat of the World in the north of the Remastered map

[visual hill]

I had to do this like 5 or 6 times in a row to progress just because there are so many enemies on the other side 😦

[bitter stream]

oh gosh, that looks tedious to do that much

[hushed onyx]

What game is that?

[visual hill]

Dungeon Siege (the first one)

I watched my brother play it when I was a kid, now I'm the one playing it ~20 years later 😛

I started this playthrough last year, I resumed it last week

it's basically Diablo but you get to control 8 characters at once, and monsters don't respawn (so you can enjoy the carnage you've done when backtracking)

[random steppe]

Ok after a few days playing Expedition 33, this keep being extremely solid.
The gameplay is very interesting, having active elements in a turn based RPG is unique, reminds me of Legend of Dragoon

It's pretty satisfying to learn the patterns and absolutely destroy enemies that give you trouble just by timing parries and dodges.

[gaunt marten]

Hell yeah

Paper Mario is a turn based series with active elements

[random steppe]

Not enough of those around, hope Exp33 kind of exploding will bring some more devs to the genre

[wind stump]

I should get back to TTYD

but chapter 6 is such a slog (it's not as bad of a slog as i remember)

[random steppe]

Especially western devs, since it seems like this whole genre seems to be dominated by eastern developers, it'd be interesting to see fresh ideas

[wind stump]

I'm just putting off GENERAL WHITE

the new hub pipe room they added should make things less tedious, tho

[young creek]

Play the randomizer, it skips him

[wind stump]

das booten

[wintry canopy]

Here's some fan art of House Dragonmaid.
https://bsky.app/profile/kingnk.bsky.social/post/3lnperqwvrs2f

きんぎんこ (@kingnk.bsky.social)

ドラゴンメイドのハスキーさん
#OCGファンアート
#yugiohfanart

Bluesky · Apr 26, 2025, 9:00 AM

[wind stump]

killed Smorg in 2 attacks

[arctic fern]

Lol

Peril strats?

[wind stump]

Power Lift into Multibonk and Power Bounce

[arctic fern]

Oh huh

[wind stump]

I also have P Up D Down and that 6 BP one that gives straight one Attack

[gaunt marten]

They should make it so Power Bounce can be infinite if you do it frame perfectly

[wind stump]

If I had Goombella max ranked I c ould have done Rally Wink into double Power Bounce

[slim thorn]

that seems like it would lead to an awful speedrun they quarantine into its own category

[gaunt marten]

Well I'd play it

[arctic fern]

It's capped for bosses

[wind stump]

drip

[arctic fern]

Walumario

[wind stump]

I dunno if I want to do chapter 7 (general white intensifies)
or do a full Pit run

[arctic fern]

I've never done a pit run

I hear there's a secret boss tho

[wind stump]

faq it
gonna go for da funny superbos

[arctic fern]

I'll tell you how to unlock it in spoiler text: ||you gotta get to floor 100 a second time||

[wind stump]

never would have thought of that

(I mean, Super Paper Mario did a similar thing but blehhh)

i don't think smashing them underneath my fat italian arse would do any more good, tbh

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/0d6ku0UIJLg?si=n50-YYuG_pTL5H-a

oooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh

a 2d fighter with the ability to sidestep is kind of nuts

[slim thorn]

incidentally, when I was commuting the other day I saw a double-decker bus with a giant Fatal Fury ad painted all over it

[fresh bane]

With this new fatal fury they really seem to want people knowing it exists and to talk about it

[wind stump]

i love the power glove bounce
it's so bad

[fresh bane]

It's a bit of a weird situation because Fatal Fury isn't even their most popular franchise that SNK has, let alone a relatively popular fighting game in general, their most popular is probably and has always been KOF instead, but they've been doing a hell of a lot of work in terms of marketing this game and just sharing word of it especially getting popular people like Speed showing up for promotional material and putting two whole real people in the base roster of the game

[wind stump]

and no, i did not beat the Glitz Pit superboss

[river veldt]

holy crap

[wind stump]

power bounce is a little good

if i had more Charge badges it'd be even more ridiculous, I'd just skip the Power Lift entirely

[slim thorn]

even I vaguely recall using power bounce a lot when I played TTYD

[river veldt]

i should play TTYD

[wind stump]

is a very good game

[slim thorn]

oh yeah, even the GDQ run I saw of TTYD kills the final boss with what feels like ||Yoshi's|| equivalent of power bounce

[wind stump]

oh wow they nerfed Danger Mario hard.

i mean, not really "nerfed" as much as "jacked up Badge prices because oh god people are destroying this game with Danger Mario strats, nerf nerf nerf nerf"

[arctic fern]

lol

[wind stump]

I haven't really played the parlor so i dunno if like, the slots are any easier

either way, not doing DM strats this time, both because i've done it before (you would to if you did pit without it) and like, having a little bit of challenge

[visual hill]

been trying out Unleashed Recompiled...

it looks really nice

(also look at the cats!!)

[proud warren]

"You forgot the POWER GLOVE!"

[glossy narwhal]

Man, I really want this DDR merch, but it's gacha-based

[gaunt marten]

Buy it secondhand

[glossy narwhal]

probably doing a 10-pull anyways because I want the guaranteed eamuse card to collect

[arctic fern]

gah
trying to mod oblivion remastered and ihve no idea what im doing
every time i try modding, it just fails to load the game and then i have to verify all files because one file gets changed and i dont know which one

[green fulcrum]

...Wait, it released already? I thought they just put out the trailer for it and maybe a demo?

[arctic fern]

what? no its been out for like 5 days

[green fulcrum]

...Huh.

[arctic fern]

its just spitting out an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION error
which is the same error as running out of vram, i think
but without doing any mods it still gives me that error some times
so its staggeringly unhelpful and giving me no real feedback, the single mods im trying to install dont do anything that would require any significant effort on the vram side

[arctic fern]

I FIGURED IT OUT

i was using vortex modloader for convenience

turns out, vortex modloader accidentally fucks up the load order of the core game files

[gaunt marten]

It's an error that happens when the program tries to access RAM in a way it's not allowed.

[arctic fern]

i think it inverted them

either way its an easy fix, i just gotta paste in the correct order of the default files into the plugin.txt

inconvenient but much less inconvenient than doing everything else myself

i dont think i need to do this every time but ill check anyway

doesnt look like i do

neat

gtk tho

https://forums.nexusmods.com/topic/13513698-instant-crash-with-any-mod/?do=findComment&comment=130505490 if anyone needs this

[arctic fern]

oh also vortex just isnt adding any filename in the plugin.txt so you gotta do that manually too
so
its not great right now

[cunning galleon]

😭 Coolest takedown I've ever done

[wind stump]

"So how did Pit of 100 Trials go?"

T H A N K F U L L Y
TTYD Remake has a retry feature

[visual hill]

is that Wreckfest?

it looks oddly low-res

[wind stump]

(And yes I abused it like a fucking bitch, I'm not doing Pit 3 fucking times because the RNG screwed me on floor goddamn 99.)

[wind stump]

Well, farming Tube Game is not that bad for Pinatas.

The main problem with that idea is... Well, look at my coin count.

Turns out Pit of 100 Trials just showers you in money, lmao

[cunning galleon]

The maps low res but overall I lowered it because this unoptimised game stutters if I max the resolution

[wind stump]

cocks shotgun
YOU.

lmao you actually flatten him in the remake
deserved

[bitter stream]

ooh are you modding Balatro Twinkie?

[forest shoal]

Yeah, I wanna do an MLP themed mod

[bitter stream]

ooh nice nice, hope you have fun doing the modding

[forest shoal]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iQX0MbDhZ2NVGggVz9NKO_qMm0DK_3MLX_Hc5WDuL5s/edit?usp=drivesdk

[gaunt marten]

#nine sols: Exploring the abandoned mines. After several deaths against the normal version of that guy in the Tiandao Research Center, I figured his movement out and took out Celestial Warden Yinyue

I don't usually do Water Flow spell style but it works great against this guy because he doesn't give you many openings

[slim thorn]

water flow my beloved

[cerulean herald]

water flow gang

[gaunt marten]

Here's my interpretation of the three styles:
1- Qi Blast: Spends all your qi at once, up to three units at a time. You must then hold the button to explode them. Default.
2- Water Flow: Spends two qi at a time (no more or less) and explodes automatically, but if you fail, it wastes both points and doesn't explode.
3- Full Control: Spends exactly how much you want, up to five units at a time. Requires careful timing.
Concerns:
A- Spending three qi at a time gives me back an arrow. That's a point against water flow.
B- Spending five at a time stuns the enemy to give me a healing opening.
C- Water Flow can be upgraded to spend one at a time for the same damage, making it the most efficient style in terms of qi point per damage.
My preferences:
I- Qi Blast is generally good because it's the most efficient in terms of damage per opening
II- Full Control is handy when I have the timing of an enemy nailed down.
III- Water Flow is good when I don't know how to handle an enemy.

[gaunt marten]

Aha! https://i.imgur.com/3Y3QNhD.png

[slim thorn]

I don't think you can "fail" a water flow? (except by missing an enemy completely, which applies to all three styles)

re: "A", the bonus ammo is from enhanced qi blast

the rest sounds right

also summarizes exactly why I mostly used Water Flow on my first playthrough and Full Control on my second

[gaunt marten]

Yes, the difference is that missing an enemy completely subtracts one qi on other styles and two on unupgraded water flow

[slim thorn]

oooh

[gaunt marten]

||https://i.imgur.com/2wCpnIY.png|| Lady, sit down. You're in the way of the boxes I break for pennies

I don't think they have a sprite for her sitting down

[wind stump]

All Crystal Stars get!

NOW THAT'S A TITLE

[gaunt marten]

Why does this cost 3? It'd better be really good https://i.imgur.com/GQz6H43.png

[slim thorn]

never used it myself

[gaunt marten]

I love using charged strikes to kill enemies in one hit, so I'll give it a try

[wind stump]

TTYD (Post chapter 7 spoilers): ||BRUH THEY HAD TO USE A SAD REMIX OF THE PEACH INTERLUDE AFTER TALKING TO TEC. I'M IN GODDAMN PIECES RN.||

[bitter stream]

Hey Ixrec, you don't play Multiplayer PvP games right? Do you happen to know any good FPS games that are less PVP and more solo/co-op?

[gaunt marten]

Gunfire Reborn

[bitter stream]

That's a good one, very much a roguelike with some cool guns and updates I've seen.

[slim thorn]

correct, but I've played very few shooters lately so I can't recommend anything you wouldn't already know

[bitter stream]

no worries!

I was trying earlier to think of any good PvP shooters I could play that aren't monetised like a GaaS style with battlepasses or lootboxes etc, but all the major games with enough playerbase for me to play with reasonable que times are that style

It was possible to cut lootboxes, but the engagement mechanic/metric farming seems ever present in any new/modern PvP fps

Hence why I'm looking to non PvP fps games as an alternative for when I feel like that sort of game haha

[wind stump]

trans ghost gonna throw hands

[bitter stream]

[fickle garnet]

Im so excited for Death Stranding 2, im absolutely loving the first game and I cant wait to play the second when it comes ouy

[gaunt marten]

You can break the factory hammers! ||https://i.imgur.com/KzDUuz0.png||

Thank fuck. They were so annoying

NOW you tell me?! ||https://i.imgur.com/Z8MY4hD.png||

[cerulean herald]

it took me a bit to figure out that the hammers were breakable

[gaunt marten]

||https://i.imgur.com/gchh4tk.png|| Hell yeah get fucked

[random steppe]

Here is a big endorsment of Nine Sols, it's so good you forgot about D&D

[gaunt marten]

Oh yeah I was like "It'll be at 1:30 AM"

No, we END then

I'll be there in ten minutes

[wind stump]

i need more damn shrooms!

there's 3 major boss fights left, i think i'm done for today, bloody hell

[wind stump]

first mission of BO3 and i've died twice. On Regular.

[bitter stream]

Is it fun to play HC?

[wind stump]

yea

[bitter stream]

nice nice, good luck with the missions

[wind stump]

I NEVER ASKED FOR THIS!

[light gate]

Here, have a fun sweating sneaking moment in KCD1.

[river veldt]

does anyone here have a Steam Deck and the new Oblivion Remaster ? if so does it run ok ?

[visual hill]

apparently it's not a good experience, like most UE5 games

"Too Big for Steam Deck" is becoming increasingly a problem

[river veldt]

ugh

i wonder why it's verified then

[arctic fern]

Well the steam deck is a. Portable and b. Quite old now
But also oblivion remastered is horribly optimised
It's huge, and while the new graphics are stunning, it's still an 18 year old game underneath

Still arguably better than skyrim

[river veldt]

hey Skyrim's great

[visual hill]

Steam Deck Verified is too generous, unfortunately

Valve should be stricter with it

[river veldt]

well, maybe i'll try it out. i'm fine with low frames, i am a nintendo fan at heart after all

[robust latch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9lMlTS1MK0 LOL

[fickle garnet]

😭

[wind stump]

TTYD Remake: Yup, Power Lift/Power Bounce combo is still broken, lmao

[wind stump]

Finished TTYD Remake.
11/10. No notes.

[gaunt marten]

Well done

[wind stump]

anyway time to Danger Mario the fuck out of this game

[arctic fern]

lol

[wind stump]

my jumps do 30 damage each

HAHAHAHA
I KO'D (TTYD Remake) ||PRINCE MUSH|| IN ONE TURN.

[gentle grove]

Does anyone know what cable the PS4 controller uses i.e. which one I need to connect it to my computer

[toxic seal]

Mini-USB

Which is different than micro-USB

[gentle grove]

Naturally lol

Thank you

[gaunt marten]

It uses a USB 2 Type A to Micro Type B

[gaunt marten]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DualShock

[bronze abyss]

havent seen that port used since psp

iirc my ds4 uses micro usb

[gaunt marten]

It's a fucking shitty cable and I moved to dualsense just because of how bad it is

[toxic seal]

Flitter is right, I am wrong

It's Micro-B

[gentle grove]

Fair enough

[wind stump]

Micro-B was my nickname in college

[random steppe]

Ok so, there is this one thing in Expedition 33 that I didn't expect
The fact that it has these active elements, like dodging and parrying enemies attack, kind of means that, you can fight enemies much stronger than you are much earlier than you'd expect.

Because theorically, even if it takes like, 30 turns, as long as you dodge or parry everything that they throw at you, you are eventually gonna kill them.

This is really cool and also it's gonna be the death of me because I can't stop throwing myself at walls along the way

(that said, when you win and they give you a weapon like, 5 levels higher than everything else you found up until now, it feels pretty worth it)

[gaunt marten]

This is also something you can do in games without an active element, if it was designed cleverly

[random steppe]

Some games, but it's rarer in most RPGs I'd say

Turn based especially

[gaunt marten]

That's why I like Crystal Project

Only one enemy exists that cannot be beaten at the starting level

[random steppe]

That's great

[gaunt marten]

The thing that helps make a game like that work is less the active element and more the predictability. Active element or not, you have to be able to predict how the game will react to a given set of actions, and whether that reaction is better or worse than another one

Turn based RPGs tend to have tons and tons of randomness to spice it up and that's what makes it hard

You can see it more clearly in a game like Dark Souls 3, where the Dancer of the Boreal Valley is less predictable and remains hard for longer than other bosses with higher stats

[cunning galleon]

Trixie wtf??

[fickle garnet]

The way you cross the tar belt in Death Stranding is so creative. Genuinely I don't think I've seen something like that in any other game

[wind stump]

[bronze abyss]

one thing catching me off guard about nine sols alot is how late the parry timings are,like i think its the latest timings ive felt in any game ive played

its not particularly a bad thing but just takes quite a bit of readjusting

[slim thorn]

I wonder if that's part of the reason it worked for me

[wind stump]

pog 3rd amazee dayzee

YO TWO IN ONE ENCOUNTER W H A T

[cerulean herald]

how is this posible

[wind stump]

oh... Oh NO I MISSED A VITAL STEP IN THE OTHER SUPERBOSS

[bronze abyss]

could be,personally i prefer earlier ones since they are a bit more comfortable to do on reaction

[gaunt marten]

Nine Sols parry times are usually when the sound effect plays

For Dark Souls it's usually when the enemy wrist crosses their side

[bronze abyss]

atleast on the first boss it felt weird,not all parries felt consistent with the sound

[gaunt marten]

First boss being the one near the elevator with the healing point just before?

That one does feel a bit weird but it's not too bad

[bronze abyss]

yep

[cerulean herald]

where are you at in nine sols rn

[bronze abyss]

just got the mystic nymph

[proud warren]

ˢᵗʸˡᶦˢʰ

[wind stump]

guess who's doing 50-100 a second time today

[cerulean herald]

its someone whos first name is H and last name is C

[bronze abyss]

love when metroidvanias add randomass holes that look like they would have something in them cuz ur conditioned into looking for stuff like that after playing a bunch of them but they dont actually have anything behind them or any reason to even be there to begin with

[slim thorn]

lol

there's a bunch of holes with actual stuff in them, I don't even know what this one is

[bronze abyss]

for sure,but also every metroidvania seems to have a fuck ton of empty ones as well

[slim thorn]

weird, that hasn't been my experience

I've often seen things I thought might be a hidden passage but turned out to just be environment detail that didn't mean anything, and that's mostly in the early hours of a new game

[wind stump]

HEY ASSHOLES GUESS WHO'S BACK WITH 30 ATTACK AND MULTIBOUNCE

nuclear bomb.mp4

[bronze abyss]

ok the timings of parries are borderline comically late,like some attacks i parried when the animation of them was already ending

[cerulean herald]

its more sound based from what I remember

[wind stump]

guess who is doing pit for the third time today

[river veldt]

ok fine Bethesda

[bronze abyss]

its joever for me i play in vc or with music 99% of the time

[gaunt marten]

You absolutely need sound to play the game, but you can turn the music off

That's why the game says at the start that they recommend controller and headphones

[bronze abyss]

yeah i dont think the game is really for me then,i motly read parries visually and that doesnt seem to work very consistently in this game

[slim thorn]

I rely more on animations than sounds personally; the main sound I listen for is the successful parry vs damage noises since I'm primarily watching the enemy

[bronze abyss]

i might just replay lillies and magnolia

maybe those 2 just spoiled me more on metroidvanias cuz they felt like the perfect metroidvanias for me

[slim thorn]

that's fair, once we're talking about the top 5-10 metroidvanias it's gonna come down to personal preference

e.g. some people like Hollow Knight over Nine Sols because HK has a lot more non-linearity, some people like Nine Sols more because they like the more direct story with more developed characters, etc

oh btw I got Magnolia ending A yesterday

finally

[bronze abyss]

the linearity of ninesols is very feelable even the very beginning,it kinda caught me off guard

[bronze abyss]

good shit i dont recomend going for B

[slim thorn]

well, even most metroidvanias have a strictly linear beginning before "it opens up", but yeah 9S opens up less than some

[bronze abyss]

even the enviroment feels more closed down than ender magnolia as an example,it especially i liked cuz it felt open since the very beginning and not in a somewhat confusing way like hollow knight

[gaunt marten]

They should not give me dialog options if the branches are literally the same

[slim thorn]

I feel like Magnolia was more open at the start and less open at the end, but it does depend a lot on what order you feel like doing things

and on whether one includes 9S's sidequests in measuring its non-linearity

[gaunt marten]

The sidequests can be linear or nonlinear themselves

[bronze abyss]

early magnolia feels like "its open go explore" end of it more feels like a multiple choice answer,you either go left or right

[gaunt marten]

Anyway, let's play Nine Sols. I have a naked guy to beat up

[slim thorn]

love that fight

tbf early Magnolia is often "go left or right" too

[wind stump]

alright i'm not doing pit again today

[slim thorn]

sometimes it's impossible to pin down exactly why some players felt more open in some games than others

[bronze abyss]

objectivelly speaking could be,but also how it makes the player feel the cases is matters alot as well imo

[slim thorn]

I guess personally I'm happy with a wide range of linearities as long as the game's relatively consistent about it, e.g. Nine Sols gives you more map detail and more directions more freely than Hollow Knight does, so I never expected to do as much aimless wandering

(it also helps that the most linear parts of Nine Sols are that way for good story reasons)

[slim thorn]

yeah I'm agreeing with that lol

part of the reason "go left or right" in Magnolia (or "go up or down" in Lilies) works is that at a super high level the progression may be that simple, but within each region, and often within individual rooms, there's a bunch of smaller branches that keep the navigation meaningful yet never overwhelming

and ofc I'm the type to 100% an area before moving on but I always had the choice to just not do that and come back later if I felt like seeing new areas first, and having that choice is part of the fun

maybe I'm just used to this sort of thing so when Nine Sols gives me a choice of 3 paths to take, and later on 2 paths to take, it feels like about the standard amount of non-linearity to me; especially since they're often not literal straight lines and you need to go down each one for a while to see where they lead or even realize what choice you made

[gaunt marten]

He is dead

[gaunt marten]

No, the map in Nine Sols is pretty nonlinear

It's just that the story is linear AND tries to make it feel that it's nonlinear

[slim thorn]

that's a good way to put it

[gaunt marten]

||https://i.imgur.com/WDl3ks0.png|| Friend, we're seeing your death cutscene. Of course it's the end

[slim thorn]

say it with me now

HEROES ARE FORGED IN AGONY

[gaunt marten]

I do not like him

Also for some reason the game runs at 15 FPS in this arena, even on low graphics

[slim thorn]

weird, I haven't had framedrops there

[gaunt marten]

The typical for this area is like 20-25

[cerulean herald]

he did for a split second made me think a third phase was possible

also I sabotaged his tank thingy too so it was an easier fight

[gaunt marten]

The achievement should be for doing the fight without it, not for doing it.

[slim thorn]

(Jiequan) ||using the Gene Eradicator has a pretty minor effect overall, I personally don't use it; I even heard one person say they find the fight easier without it since he's more consistent without the coughing fits||

||of course, for story reasons I still love that the choice is there and has unique dialogue and all||

[wind stump]

can i just talk about the method of unlocking that superboss?
(TTYD Remake) ||"Oh yeah, hit Whacka ten times and them go through the Pit of 100 Trials twice. Totes legit."||

oh hey, i watched his original Croc video not too long ago. https://youtu.be/KYVohVcNS94

[gaunt marten]

I found it https://i.imgur.com/9nNwHbp.png

[arctic fern]

????
star wars sale starting a bit early

also ubisoft added achievements to tome clancy's blacklist
a game i last played in 2018
very strange decisions today from gaming companies

[bitter stream]

huh, Breakpoint also got achivements on steam recently

maybe one employee with some spare time?

[arctic fern]

maybe!

[slim thorn]

it does seem like a good intern/onboarding project

[hasty patio]

Might be part of the War Gaming sale.

[fickle garnet]

Expedition 33 is really good

[proud warren]

Bro, someone made a mod of portal, but it follows the OSHA guidelines
https://youtu.be/ujsw_bSbD1I?si=wG7CW1r_z4IoRQJ_

[slim thorn]

TIL there’s an OSHA rule that glass separating rooms be easily and safely breakable

[fresh bane]

hand. rails. everybody

[river veldt]

Aperture and Black Mesa break every OSHA rule ever

[cerulean herald]

Do we get a pass if it looks cool as hell

[river veldt]

ofc

Black Mesa has radioactive waste just randomly spilled but the neon green looks badass

[fresh bane]

I actually remember really paying attention to the layout of the Shagohod room when I was sneaking into Groznyj Grad in MGS3 and kinda seeing if there were any glaring problems but it all looked pretty alright to me, some pretty high walkways but plenty of tall handrails everywhere

it's just sometimes really fun to pay attention to the smaller details when playing a game like that, I remember plenty of times when I was playing Cyberpunk I'd just stop at a random alleyway or corner of the city and just kinda see where some areas would lead to or if they'd just cut off randomly, just kinda looking around at the back of an apartment complex or something and stuff

[fickle garnet]

Oh my god, this is amazing

[quiet swift]

Uuuuugh. God damnit, expedition 33

Choice A) English VO because the lipsynch in cutscenes is clearly English
Choice B) French VO because the English VO uses french curse words and sorry, the english accents when trying to use them is awkward as fuck

So I just need to figure out what bothers me more

[cerulean herald]

I nominate my vote to go the route of choice A

[quiet swift]

(B is an option because I myself am 🇫🇷 so I understand it fine)

[proud warren]

bro, this game pushes the dopamine button the same way balatro used to do

[random steppe]

I can't speak about the French VO but if you don't go for the English one you don't get Shadow heart voice actor, just saying

[cunning galleon]

Love wreckfest

[cunning galleon]

Oh I just noticed, from first place to last place

[visual hill]

In French-developed games, I almost always go for French VA

[gaunt marten]

#nine sols: Cortex Center boss has three phases? That's just not fair

[quiet swift]

Same honestly, but the lipsynch thing is annoying

[little badger]

Borderlands 4 is now releasing earlier

[bitter stream]

Are you a big borderlands fan Blade?

[little badger]

[wind stump]

[bitter stream]

oh nice, have they shown any gameplay segments for Borderlands 4? I didn't much enjoy 3, but I did like 2 so maybe 4 will be interesting

[gaunt marten]

||https://i.imgur.com/fsX9K6N.png|| That boss took me more tries than the rest of the game

[slim thorn]

interesting, she was roughly in the middle for me

[worthy rose]

https://wccftech.com/nexon-not-blizzard-will-reportedly-be-making-the-next-starcraft-game/

[minor plover]

note that this isn't a Starcraft RTS. It's some other type of game using Starcraft IP (characters, names, images, etc.)

[astral steeple]

Why Is Seth Rogen in call of duty LMAO

[bitter stream]

same reason why star wars is in Fortnite, 💰 💸

[astral steeple]

lol

[fickle garnet]

I finished Death Stranding last night. Definitely one of my new favorite games

[random steppe]

Awesome to hear.
Death Stranding is just a great game with such a banger story

[fickle garnet]

It's the only walking simulator to make me cry

[random steppe]

It's weird because I think the game doesn't actually do an amazing job at delivering it, it's very inelegant with how it just says out loud the themes of the story, over and over, as if it's worried you aren't smart enough to get there by yourself.

That said, the story is so good that it still lands

[fickle garnet]

Yeah I agree with that

[random steppe]

The exaustive list of A list actors probably also help selling the story a lot

[slim thorn]

it probably is, the parts which landed the best for me were all interpersonal drama stuff

the larger state of the world felt much vaguer and more confusing by comparison

[random steppe]

Agreed

Also probably helps that I kind of fuck with the themes.
I love all the sappy stuff about humans connecting between each other, creating something bigger than themselves, building figurative and literal bridges, all that shit.

[slim thorn]

but ziplines are objectively better than bridges

[cerulean herald]

I've seen memes of ppl comparing her design to Toriel from Undertale and I can't unsee it

[slim thorn]

same

[gaunt marten]

They're way different

Toriel is a videogame character whereas Lady Ethereal is my aunt's fursona

[slim thorn]

they are, but I understand the shared vibe that leads to the comparison

[little badger]

[little badger]

They are showing some tomorrow they are having a state of play tomorrow on PlayStation

[random steppe]

Ok something I learned about Expedition 33

The soundtrack is just composed by some dude they found on Bandcamp

Like, it's his first soundtrack

If you are playing this, you know how insane this is, this might be one of the best OST in gaming and they just went and found this dude

[fickle garnet]

That's fucking crazy wtf

[arctic fern]

similar thing happened in balatro

its pretty wild tho

[random steppe]

RIP this dude inbox email business account

The OST is like 154 tracks long, and goes on for like, 3 hours.
Dude went crazy on it

[arctic fern]

woah
awesome

[random steppe]

Oh nevermind, that was act 1

It's 8 hours

This OST goes longer than most games

[arctic fern]

wow

[random steppe]

It's arguably the best part of the game, and it's incredible it's not someone established that did this

Reading more about this, this dude is working at this OST for 5 years.
Crazy talented guy, I wouldn't be surprised if in like 20 years he is up there with some of the most famous composers in the industry.

[river veldt]

oh yeah wasn't the Balatro score done by some random guy Thunk found on fiver

[arctic fern]

yeah lol

[green fulcrum]

Welp, didn't expect to walk into a Borg cube in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, complete with "resistance is futile" and everything, but here we are.

[cunning galleon]

me n da gng surviving mine raft

[hidden elbow]

Okay so far halo 3 is kinda.... amazing, ,like CE was nice , 2 was like CE but a lot rougher in some places , and 3 is probably the best one so far , like its perfected all problems that 2 had and added some more on top .
(Also this cover art goes really hard for me fsr)

[arctic fern]

P much

I think I preferred 2s campaign tho
Mostly because it was so cheesy and corny

[hidden elbow]

Arbiter literally having his entire world shattered........while chief just sorta runs around and shoots things

[arctic fern]

Ye
Plus Johnson at his finest, hamming it up like a champ

[slim thorn]

back when I replayed the Halos regularly, I typically bounced between 1 because simplest, 3 because most refined, and 5 because most unique, depending on my mood

[arctic fern]

Never played 4 or 5
Did a bit of 4 with ember while we were doing co-op campaigns, but stopped

[slim thorn]

yeah, by the time 4 and 5 came out I was apparently the only one still playing single player games; nobody ever talks about those campaigns

[cunning galleon]

wreckfest is fun #3

[toxic seal]

The devs of Subnautica 2 are in the official Subnautica Discord server, which people have begun treating as a "Demand the devs put this in the game" space. The devs are being good sports and explaining why some of the more ridiculous/ambitious stuff can't/won't happen.

[gaunt marten]

Guys can't put Sans in the game

[toxic seal]

Time for the 42069th "Can we have the Cyclops but bigger" post

[little badger]

Games for May with PlayStation plus any membership

[cunning galleon]

Ark is good

[hushed onyx]

I’m tempted to interpret “bigger” in increasingly absurd ways, for example the Cyclops being so large it has whole planets inside of it 😛

[toxic seal]

People want whole mobile bases, and devs are like "Y'all remember this is a survival game, right? You're here to make it by, not dominate the environment."

[hushed onyx]

Half the fun of a lot of survival games is progressing from “making it by, barely” to “totally dominating,” tbh.

[gaunt marten]

Minecraft is a survival game

[hushed onyx]

I remember part of the fun of the original was getting to the point of having a base and other tools that allowed you to putter around and do what you liked without constantly worrying about bare survival.

[toxic seal]

Another common thing the devs keep shutting down is people wanting like 60 hours worth of story and lore outside of all the survival and they're like "You guys are lucky getting the ~30 we've got planned"

[slim thorn]

how many "hours of story" do we count the original as having

[gaunt marten]

Very cool enemy in the background https://i.imgur.com/YaEsA0j.png

It's blind, listening intently to the movement of the grass. When it hears something, a brief sound effect plays, then it teleports behind you and attacks, giving you a small opening to parry and maybe attack back before it teleports into the background again

Only thing cooler would've been to let me cut or burn grass so it can't hear

[wind stump]

aw shit, here we Nep again...

EW WHY IS IT IN MOONRUNES

oh my god i'm OLD

[slim thorn]

steely jade is so satisfying when you run into these guys

[gaunt marten]

Oh I just use water flow on them

[wind stump]

Too soon Neptune, too soon

[gaunt marten]

I do have two new computing units I could put steely jade on with

[slim thorn]

tbf watching them die in the background is also pretty cool

[gaunt marten]

I don't see any use for steely jade on these guys

Gave it a try and it didn't change my behavior

[slim thorn]

fair

I tend to gravitate towards steely whenever I'm struggling since it gives me so much breathing room, especially when combined with water flow so I effectively get free hits

[gaunt marten]

Bearing jade is the one that gives you free hits. Steely jade allows you to trade hits without being interrupted

I need one more slot to get this really neat build working https://i.imgur.com/xJp4Ajp.png

[slim thorn]

huh, knockback's never been a limitation for me in getting hits in

always interesting to see what charms/jades other people gravitate to

[gaunt marten]

For that enemy specifically, correctly parrying all three hits of their long attack gives me an opening to apply a talisman without taking damage. Parrying their one attack chain doesn't give me an opening

[slim thorn]

oh, yeah, for that enemy it really doesn't matter what jades you bring

I just like how steely + water flow lets me smack them a few times before they can teleport away with my talisman

[wind stump]

funny, the new Neptunia game dropped today as I started replaying RB1

this is actually a coincidence

[cerulean herald]

what genre is neptunia

[wind stump]

degeneracy

i mean, RPG

at least, the main games are, the spinoffs go wild with genre

I'd recommend starting with Re;Birth 1 since it's a remake of the first game
and Re;Birth 2 and 3 are mostly the same mechanically

I'd wait for a sale, they go on BIG SALES pretty often

[cerulean herald]

[wind stump]

-# god IF is cute

[eager bane]

it's been a while since I saw her

who did she represent again?

Oh, Idea Factory! Right

[wind stump]

i think i got distracted

[fickle garnet]

I only have two more achievements for Elden Ring before the platinum trophy

I just need to beat Dragonlord Placidusax and get the Elden Lord ending

[wind stump]

[wind stump]

shika nokonoko

[graceful bridge]

https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-raises-the-price-of-all-xbox-series-consoles-xbox-games-confirmed-to-hit-80-this-holiday

It begins

[young creek]

Had a feeling Reggie and Phil Spencer were in on it together

[green fulcrum]

They aren't gonna be lowered either once this blows over. Once people start buying them at this price, the corporations will take it as a sign that people will pay anything for their games.

Prepare for $100 games to become the new norm, mark my words.

[visual hill]

hopefully Steam sales are not negatively affected by this too much 🙂

especially for > 1 year old games

[toxic seal]

Just checked Amazon and Best Buy, changes haven't hit yet

[gaunt marten]

If it costs too much I simply don't have the money to buy it

[little badger]

Apparently it’s only some first party games but we will see

[arctic fern]

Then don't buy them at that price

[eager bane]

I never bought a game for full price and I lived!

*a 50$+ game, I mean

I did buy indie games for full price occasionally to support the devs

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, pricing is one aspect of the game, and if it's not to your preference that should encourage you to buy games that are

[little badger]

If it’s a game series I like I don’t mind getting it at full price. But lately I’ve been playing some older games.

[light gate]

“Its just ten more dollars bro, also we have the ultimate edition for $140 with unreleased dlc.”

I kinda want to blame Nintendo for effectively being bullish when they showed the Mario Kart World price.

But at this point, idk.

[arctic fern]

Nintendo were dumb for doing it first
Should have waited for the other two to start it
But then you've got this massive 3 way game of chicken...

[little badger]

Wouldn’t surprise me if Sony are next

[light gate]

Probably either tomorrow or next week.

[arctic fern]

It woukd surprise me if they werent

[unreal idol]

Isn't every system an Xbox according to Phil Spencer

[light gate]

True. I guess I could turn on my smart toaster.

(I actually wonder if there is an android smart toaster)

[arctic fern]

There's an Xbox toaster

[light gate]

W-what.

[river veldt]

good emoji

[light gate]

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Xbox-18083-Series-S-Toaster-2-Slice-Toaster-with-Wide-Slot-Bagel-Function-Digitial-Countdown-Timer-with-6-Shade-Settings/5113283196 why

So… is this gonna cost $100 now? lol

[unreal idol]

Thanks

[young creek]

Anyone else in the top 14% of box whackers?

[little badger]

And a fridge

[wind stump]

SUCH HUMILIATION, THIS WAS NOT MY INTENTION!

[random steppe]

Can you even imagine the Silksong subreddit when the game comes out and they actually have to start talking about the game and not whether or not it's gonna come out and when

That's gonna be so weird

[slim thorn]

if nothing else, there's going to be a critical mass of hype backlash

[random steppe]

They have 6 years worth of memes and shitposting, a whole subreddit culture, that is wholly constructed on the wait

It's gonna be a massive shift

[wind stump]

me when discord adds disabling ping replies

[unreal idol]

It's becoming a new Duke nukem forever

[bronze abyss]

eh duke nukems problems were much different tbh

[wind stump]

my nep is the nep that shall pierce the neppens

[green fulcrum]

Tbf, they also just had really shitty timing. Announcing the Switch 2 and Mario Kart World like two hours before the tariffs hit the world.

[slim thorn]

the console generations have also been skewed for a while so that Nintendo kinda has to go separately from the other two

and with Nintendo's being the only portable "console", plus the exclusives, it has less overlap with the other two than the other two do with each other

so, at least business-wise, I don't think trying to wait for all three to announce a new console at the same time would've worked out

[arctic fern]

I meant the new prices

But the tarrifs did not help, no

[wintry canopy]

I just booted up my switch to do my master duel daily missions for gems and this was in Nintendo News.

[wind stump]

h o n s

[orchid sundial]

remember to buy your games used, folks

[arctic fern]

Or on steam sales

[orchid sundial]

can i just say how much i hate nintendo for making $80 games the new norm

what do video game prices even mean now

[arctic fern]

Nah Nintendo didn't do it alone. All three were always gonna do it. Blaming Nintendo solely for it is dumb.

[slim thorn]

since inflation is a real thing, it was always going to happen sooner or later; people have been talking for a while about how weird it is that $60 remained the magic number for so long

that Nintendo did it first is certainly an interesting choice though

[astral steeple]

This is why I only try to buy games used If possible lol

Unless it's like the new tony hawk game

That game I have to get the deluxe edition pre-ordered for

[orchid sundial]

someday i'll fully switch over to pc gaming and emulation
someday surely....

[slim thorn]

I generally try to buy indie games at whatever price they're at when I feel like playing them, but those are never(?) higher than $30 so that's easy to say

[cerulean herald]

I guess the problem is that wages remained stagnant? (for the US at least), federal minimum wage hasnt increased in ages

[orchid sundial]

the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. that's literally nothing

it should be in the double digits by now, like at least $12 to $15 dollars

[cerulean herald]

some states have the minimum wage in double digits
but yeah some states have the lowest limit

[minor plover]

I remember DooM and DooMII were $40 brand new, in 93/94. Plugging that in to an online inflation calculator gives me $86-88. So these prices are actually not super surprising.

[cunning galleon]

Minimum wage is like a mirage here

[minor plover]

as of the start of 2024, federal minimum was still $7.25 and about 20 states had no additional higher minimum (but many municipalities within those states have higher minimums). Other state minimums range from $8.25 in WV to $16.28 in WA (and $17 in DC)

[cunning galleon]

If you work retail you don't get 7$ an hour

You get 4$ a day

[orchid sundial]

this country does not treat people well money-wise dear celestia

[cunning galleon]

Around 8$ if you work for like 7eleven like I used to do

[astral steeple]

In Kentucky minimum wage is still 7.25

When I started working at my job in 2018 I was at 9 an hour

Now I'm at 16 an hour

[minor plover]

my nearest Walmart starts cashiers at $19/hour

[cunning galleon]

Yea shit sucks here

[orchid sundial]

im only hoping that the price hike doesn't affect canada as well

i want to move there so bad

and i have a good feeling it pays people very well there

[toxic seal]

Price changes have now been applied

[orchid sundial]

i hate this economy!!!

[fickle garnet]

Lowest minimum wage provincially in Canada is $15 CAD, so about $10 USD

[drifting tendon]

Just don't look too hard into housing market over there

[arctic fern]

the housing market is trash everywhere

[fickle garnet]

:yea:

[arctic fern]

always has been

my landlord kicked out my previous upstairs tennants to replace them with a fucking air B&B

[fickle garnet]

I fucking hate air B&B

[arctic fern]

[visual hill]

Always Bet on Silksong.

[visual hill]

budgets were also tiny, Doom was roughly made on a 3 million budget, Doom 2 probably even less

Serious Sam is < 1 million

that reminds me, I looked at Devolver's investor report recently, and Cult of the Lamb made more money in 3 years than Serious Sam in 23 years

[minor plover]

yeah, back then video game studios were nowhere near the size of current ones. The doomii credits have 19 professional roles + 2 thanks

compare: Baldur's Gate 3 has 2,333 professional roles and 613 thanks in their credits (both sets of numbers from moby games)

[random steppe]

As far as I understand, Silksong is extremely likely to be here within the year.
In September a copy is slated to go up on an Australian Museum dedicated to video games so like...it'd be weird if it's not out by then.

[visual hill]

GTA VI credits are going to be reckoned with

there will surely be people I've worked with in the past in the credits 🙂

[river veldt]

exciting

[hushed onyx]

Once Upon a Time in Shaolin…

Coincidentally the first exhibition of that album was in Tasmania.

[random steppe]

At this point I would be surprised if we don't get a date from Game Summer Fest

[light gate]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/bethesda-gives-full-throated-shout-out-to-skyblivion-fan-remake-after-giving-the-whole-dev-team-free-oblivion-remastered-keys-i-think-what-theyre-doing-is-very-special/

That’s actually pretty cool.

Skyblivion devs get keys for free so once they finish, they can experience Bethesda’s remaster.

[chilly mural]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEqxmXUB64U tl;dw someone discovered that in the Microsoft Store version (released in May, 2024, Steam version was Jun, 2018) release of the N.Sane Trilogy that more dev levels were discovered, rumoured to be put here because of Microsoft's acquiring of Activision and the dissolving of Vicarious Visions studio that made the N.Sane Trilogy

[quiet swift]

Games to claim on prime

[river veldt]

lego star wars for free is badass

[minor gorge]

Nice.

[fresh bane]

Galactic Battlegrounds mention holy

[little badger]

GTA 6 release date!

[cunning galleon]

Atleast it isn't late 2026

I can't believe it, GTA 6 is finally coming

No more "before gta 6" memes, now it's "gta 6 before x game"

[mint briar]

Q-Q

[little badger]

Rockstar has always liked to be perfect

[wind stump]

Rare Bethesda W.

[cunning galleon]

Yep

Arguably almost all of their releases hit hard

[little badger]

The parent company Take 2 has lost some stock value since the announcement

[austere moss]

imagine half life 3 happening

it would be epic !!!!

and like there has been some leaks recently, and freaking alyx !

and from what i've been hearing online, the people that played alyx says the ending TOTALLY hints for a 3rd opus

and i don't wanna spoil myself because i plan on buying a whole meta quest 3 just for alyx but argg i still can't stop myself from being hyped by a potential follow up to episode 2