general gaming

[slim thorn]

||...without a frame-perfect glitch they found, like, last week???||

[gaunt marten]

112. I interrupted her bomb attack with a talisman, causing her to explode the air

Also, the wind blade does NOT allow you to avoid it by going away from Eigong, but DOES allow you to avoid it by going up

(Or behind)

[slim thorn]

neat

[slim thorn]

hm, this weekend I'm gonna have to focus on some OW rando updates because I received another contribution, but hopefully the weekend after that I can do some serious level 0 practice

[gaunt marten]

Speaking of level 0

I've been looking for openings to slide in a slash or two while I parry her annoying melee attacks

My slashes don't deal a lot of damage, but I've ended too many attempts just short ten hits or so

[slim thorn]

could also go in the polar opposite direction and do the blindfolded Eigong strat: 5-charge Full Controls + steely jade

[river veldt]

Blasphemous good ?

[slim thorn]

Blasphemous is one of my favorite metroidvanias

just be aware that it's difficult and gruesome; more "not for everyone" than usual

[gaunt marten]

If you liked how slow Dark Souls 1 was, it is exactly more of that

Deliberate, brilliant and has a compelling story with masterful themes

Gameplay is okay

[slim thorn]

(I have a slightly higher opinion of the combat )

I still need to try the rando for Blasphemous 2 at some point

[gaunt marten]

I can do 5 charge full controls without steely jade. Adding steely jade would just make me run out of HP faster

[slim thorn]

(yeah, taking it that far only makes sense in blindfolded)

[gaunt marten]

I'm back

We were at 112 attempts. That's a lot.

[slim thorn]

I sort of wish I was counting my attempts, but I know if I tried it would distract me too much

[gaunt marten]

I just alt tab and type the number of deaths into the discord search bar

I wonder if the qi blade jade is any good here, given that I spend most of my time accruing wasted qi point

[slim thorn]

maaaaybe? for me it feels like the finishing slash is too rarely an option for that

[gaunt marten]

Wiki says it deals ten times the normal damage

And has over triple the range

But is it worth replacing the hedgehog jade?

I don't think I will give it a try

Oh you know what's missing from Nine Sols

Dream nail

I want an attack that acts like a talisman but instead of dealing damage gives me free charges

Specifically to use at times where the boss is not attacking me

[slim thorn]

on the other paw, Hollow Knight doesn't give you charges from parrying

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, I just don't like wasted time

[slim thorn]

and any time you could "dream nail" a boss is also time you could slash or talisman them

[river veldt]

i like the guy's hat

i dont remember the name for it

[slim thorn]

I always have to google it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capirote

[river veldt]

yeah ! it looks cool

[gaunt marten]

No, sometimes the boss is far away and I can't reach in time and also my health is full

So I'm stuck just positioning or doing nothing

[slim thorn]

I feel like the goalposts shifted since the original dream nail comment

I guess I never have that specific problem in most of these fights, the harder sols are so good at closing distance I rarely get a second or two to myself if I'm trying to run away

[gaunt marten]

No, I'm just terrible at stating my problem

115. Switching to qi blast was a good idea

A lot more openings resulting in more damage, AND I get arrows back

116. Shooting an arrow and interrupting the boss can create an opening long enough for me to qi blast and make another arrow

[gaunt marten]

123. I made it to phase 3 again, and for long enough to get a good look at the new attacks

[gaunt marten]

131. I'm not seeing much improvement. Maybe I should give it some time and come back later.

[cerulean herald]

Do you know what the furthest you've gotten was?

[gaunt marten]

A third of the way through phase 3

I'm definitely not yet consistent at phase 2, which means I can't get much practice on phase 3

[slim thorn]

do you think it would it help if I streamed a (normal) Eigong fight sometime?

[gaunt marten]

It might!

[slim thorn]

cool, I’ll ping tomorrow after work

[gaunt marten]

Hmm

I should be available starting 13 hours from now, but others may demand my attention for the first few

[quiet swift]

Warranted, honestly.

[river veldt]

velveeta is good

kraft is icky

[bitter stream]

I've just spent two hours finding the one mod that broke the specific mixture of mods I wanted to put together to play with in Minecraft haha

At least it works now, after some fixes

[river veldt]

picked up DuckTales Remastered and Kingdom Hearts

[green fulcrum]

I like to imagine that there was a human moderator who looked at this report and thought, "yeah, no, that's perfectly fair" and approved the ban.

[quiet swift]

🙂‍↕️

[little badger]

Yeah it’s 120 in MP which is odd. Not sure why it can’t be both

[wind stump]

been hearing a lot of praise for Nine Sols, it's 40% off at the moment, recommend?

[slim thorn]

I feel like literally anyone except me should answer that lol

[wind stump]

haven't you been the one talking about it the most?

[cunning galleon]

TRAIN

oop caps

[slim thorn]

that's kinda what I mean, you obviously know what I'm going to say already

[random steppe]

I played it a bunch but didn't finish it yet because I got lost and other stuff grabbed my attention, planning to go back to it at some point, it's solid but I prefere Hollow Knight or Ender Magnolia so if you are asking for my opinion, you should check out those first

But if the artstyle and themes of Nine Sols speak to you especially, go for it

It's good

[little badger]

@river veldt

[cerulean herald]

Yup, it has my recommendation

[cunning galleon]

so do you get a motorcycle

[little badger]

Trailer 2! https://youtu.be/VQRLujxTm3c?si=EvFnPO4De-lIIILM

[little badger]

Yup

[cunning galleon]

what hte fuck ford raptor

so it's set in like 2019 onwards

[little badger]

Looks like it

[orchid sundial]

captured on ps5? oh boy, now it's surely gonna get primarily promoted on ps5

[light gate]

That is... like... almost human...

holy hell

take all the time you need Rockstar, holy hell

[cunning galleon]

Yea like

Wtf? It's so cool

Don't rush it

[little badger]

https://www.rockstargames.com/VI/ you can view all the new details here. Website is also updated

[cunning galleon]

Why are people mad it got delayed

[cerulean herald]

Bc I wanna play it asap as possible /s

[cunning galleon]

They never gave us a specific release date just an guesstimate

[light gate]

By the way, I can't stress this enough.

This will not be a $70 dollar game.

[cunning galleon]

I mean I'd be mad if they said it's releasing tomorrow and moved it next year

[cerulean herald]

$99.99 lesgo

[cunning galleon]

Worth the money? Maybe

They better let us skin animals like RDR2

Or eat food

Because the last game that let us buy stuff from restaurants is GTA IV

[light gate]

PC version will come after the console launch it seems.

So expect GTA V launch cycle/deployment

[arctic fern]

well i wont be playing for a while then

[light gate]

QUITE a while

[arctic fern]

also my pc wont be able to run it

[cerulean herald]

[light gate]

I am extremely glad I got a PS5 holy shit.

[orchid sundial]

there is a very good chance it will be bundled with ps5 pro

[light gate]

Like I wouldn't mind decreasing the graphics for 60fps.

They already look too damn good.

[cunning galleon]

This is really promising

[cerulean herald]

Automatic goty

[cunning galleon]

Can't wait for SixM servers to pop up

[little badger]

Always does with rockstar

1-2 years after

[light gate]

Yeah which is not surprising.

Modders and Hackers galore, and took Rockstar years to fix their loading issue after one modder figured it out.

I wonder how GTA Online will work in VI.

I hope its not a snore fest.

[cunning galleon]

Hopefully it isn't like GTA V online

[little badger]

Wow the screenshots look
Amazing and it shows you what world will look like.

[cunning galleon]

Please no more shark cards

[little badger]

yes

[cunning galleon]

Tralalelo tralala cards instead

[light gate]

Oh those Shark Cards aint goin nowhere

[little badger]

Apparently from leaks it will have a pass system as well

[light gate]

Oh so the GTA+ thing

[orchid sundial]

im worried that the new rhythm heaven and tomodachi life might release close to or around the release of gta vi

[cunning galleon]

I wonder if gta vi never got leaked, will we be getting it

I mean the leaks do say it's coming eitherway

[little badger]

Yes that but also a battle pass like system as well

[light gate]

wtf

[orchid sundial]

i can already picture myself being the only person at my local gamestop not wanting gta 6 and getting rhythm heaven groove instead

[light gate]

they gonna look at you funny

"you survived a pandemic and still don't want gta 6?"

[little badger]

It will be worth the year wait. From what I can see it’s going to be great

[orchid sundial]

i don't even like gta to begin with

[light gate]

screw anyone who says this tho

[cunning galleon]

Yea people forget that we're getting gta 6 after decades of waiting

What's another year?

[little badger]

365 days

[light gate]

thermonucl-anyhoo

[orchid sundial]

as a rhythm heaven fan i can confidently say that we have suffered more

[cunning galleon]

Worst case scenario: the world ends before gta 6 releases

Best case scenario: gta 6 releases

[little badger]

Do not the world

[light gate]

Probably the weakest part of the trailer is the explosion effect of the car.

surprised it almost looks like GTA V kabooms

[cunning galleon]

Afterall, It's not the final product

[light gate]

yeah, hopefully they upgrade those

[little badger]

I’d say that build was recent but they have a year to fine tune it

[cunning galleon]

Rockstar game trailers look different from the game itself

[little badger]

Well it says it was captured on a PS5

[light gate]

So?

[cunning galleon]

Like GTA V's first reveal trailer

[cunning galleon]

Still means its not the final product

[orchid sundial]

megamix localization was cheeks, the game was only released digitally here in the u.s., the producer of the series had their vocal chords removed a year or two prior to megamix's release, and heaven studio got taken down

[light gate]

GTA V's first trailer looks like potatoes compared to this for sure.

[little badger]

I know

[cunning galleon]

That was like 2012 I think

2010?

[light gate]

And that's crazy because when I saw GTA V for the first time, I thought it was crazy.

[little badger]

2011

[cunning galleon]

I think they started development of gta 5 right after GTA IV

[orchid sundial]

i don't like m rated games anyway

[cunning galleon]

That's already well established

[orchid sundial]

so yeah, i am all for that rhythm heaven

[cunning galleon]

I wonder how long it took for Rockstar to start development of GTA VI

[light gate]

It probably began during RDR2 development.

[cunning galleon]

Yea they're like on and off

[light gate]

Like at a halfway point.

[cerulean herald]

GTA VII will use live action footage at this rate

[cunning galleon]

The gta 6 leaks were kinda shit

[astral steeple]

Pretty sure actual development of gta 6 started in 2018

[cunning galleon]

GTA 8 will be irl

[orchid sundial]

i just hope people don't make fun of me for not wanting gta 6 and instead wanting rhythm heaven groove...

[cunning galleon]

Uh why would they

[light gate]

Also crazy how they push their RAGE engine, it just keeps getting better and better.

[cunning galleon]

Play what you want

[cerulean herald]

Live action adaptation confirmed?

[cunning galleon]

Gta 9 will be 4d

[cerulean herald]

Real

[orchid sundial]

they will somehow...

[cunning galleon]

I hope there are references of their older games in GTA 6

Like a throwback to GTA VC

[cerulean herald]

GTA cinematic universe

[cunning galleon]

Tommy Vercetti's grandson or something

The cars look cool

Me in my Toyota prius 🔥

[little badger]

I hope we get to buy the mansion

[cunning galleon]

40 minutes since the trailer released, already at 900k likes, Jesus christ

[cunning galleon]

Yea

Have it be abandoned or something then we throw money at it or have it improve throughout the story

[cerulean herald]

Home management sim hell yea

[little badger]

[cunning galleon]

This car looks familiar, I've seen it in GTA sa

[slim thorn]

the many regulars of this thread who are not participating in the GTA conversation at all certainly won't do that

[random steppe]

I mean GTA6 did look good, I just don't care for GTA games no matter how good they look

[slim thorn]

same

[random steppe]

You can make the best car racing game ever too for example and I'll not play it.
Don't need to throw shade at it, happy for those that play them

[cunning galleon]

Yea it's the declasse clover

So cool that there are older cars in GTA 6! I can't WAIT for the cars

[astral steeple]

Usually whenever I do actually play gta 5 I usually just mess around on the director mode ngl

Usually with fire bullets and invincibility etc on

[cunning galleon]

I drive around in GTA 5

Driving physics suck though

I prefer GTA IV's

[slim thorn]

similarly, I'm not interested in any of the Elder Scrollses

[cunning galleon]

Same, but it looks so cool

[cerulean herald]

I played the story mode with I got hooked by surprisingly enough
Then I just messed around in the sandbox causing chaos

[cunning galleon]

Yea it's fun to do

Killing people without any repercussions

[river veldt]

i would love to play GTA VI but alas

[random steppe]

I'm mildly interested in Elder Scrolls, but especially after Starfield, which I was mixed on, they need to convince me it's gonna worth my time and not be a sea of mediocrity with a few great moments hidden

[cunning galleon]

Is destructible buildings in GTA 6 too much to ask for?

[light gate]

yes

[cunning galleon]

I mean it's not a demolition simulator but

I'm not excited for the brain rot content that will be made with gta 6

[light gate]

Destructible buildings are basically performance dents waiting to happen, and they must be taken in consideration how they're done.

[slim thorn]

I mean... that's my impression of every GTA and ES game already. It certainly was my experience way back when I played GTA 4.

[random steppe]

I don't know if I can lump those two together

[light gate]

Imagine if Silksong gets delayed and releases one day before GTA VI.

[cunning galleon]

There will be babies younger than gta 6 soon

[slim thorn]

I can because I'm uninterested for the same reasons; I'm sure people who actually play them would object

[cunning galleon]

I mean there already are babies younger than the gta 6 leaks

[random steppe]

There are babies younger than this message if you wait 30 seconds

[cerulean herald]

B.G. - Before GTA:6

[little badger]

No one is making fun of you

[slim thorn]

I mean we can also throw the RDRs and KCDs and Fallout 3 & 4 in there as well; there's plenty of games where "go anywhere do anything" is a high priority and that just doesn't create a game I want to play

[cunning galleon]

RDR2 is interesting to me because I can hunt things

Speaking of RDR2 can you sell Hu- oh fuck, right, sorry

[random steppe]

I definitely don't see those games as "go there and do anything" since they have a lot of scripted questy and content on top of the sandbox

[slim thorn]

but I will watch that 20 minute video of a guy trying to figure out if RDR's birds ever land anywhere after taking off or just fly forever

[little badger]

yes

[random steppe]

And to some of them, the sandbox isn't even especially good

Definitely not the main attraction at least

The scripted content is

[cunning galleon]

Also you can have a horse and keep it for the entirety of the game in rdr2

I think you can bond with the horse too

[slim thorn]

tbh you're basically agreeing with me

some of these games I wish would focus on the scripted content they're good at instead of diluting it with a bad sandbox

[uneven epoch]

i cant say i view kcd I or II as sandboxy

[random steppe]

Not necesartily because I think the scripted content is really good in some of those games.
Fallout 3 for one, and the little I played of KCD

[slim thorn]

fair, I'm a lot less familiar with how those play out in practice

[river veldt]

i love you rdr2

[random steppe]

RDR2 you probably have to like the sandbox, and it's a much larger portion of the experience, same for GTA

[slim thorn]

well Fallout 3 specifically I can say totally flopped for me the one time I tried it partially because it was far too open for its own good

[little badger]

Cap did you see the picture I showed you?

[river veldt]

ye

[random steppe]

Fallout 3 is good that it's open because the main quest sucks shit

[slim thorn]

yeah so probably never retrying that one

[random steppe]

But most secondary stuff is excellent

DLC especially

[slim thorn]

(if I do try a Fallout it's gonna be New Vegas anyway)

[light gate]

Bethesda's main quests always stinks, but the DLC and secondary quest are always better somehow.

[random steppe]

Good call

At this point after Oblivion let's hope for remasters anyway

[cunning galleon]

RDR2 has both great story and sandbox

[random steppe]

I'm really happy that Bethesda figured out they don't have to keep reselling us one of their old games, and can instead keep reselling us all of their old games.
Really proud of them

[cerulean herald]

I enjoyed Fallout 3 and New Vegas for what they are

Tried Fallout 4 but that one I kinda just fell off of

[light gate]

I hope Microsoft follows suit with Gears of War 2 and 3.

[random steppe]

If there is a game that is begging for a remaster is New Vegas

[little badger]

Halo will come at some point even though Phil said not all games would come to PlayStation. And we have gears on PS5 now

[random steppe]

Quick question, is Oblivion remaster still Creation Engine?

[light gate]

yes

Creation Engine with Unreal Engine 5 renderer.

[random steppe]

Why are other software houses just better than Bethesda at using their own engine now?

[light gate]

'not all games will come to playstation'

games that probably arent coming: Starfield

[random steppe]

What is happening there

[light gate]

Epic is throwing mad money

probably

The world now runs on Unreal.

New Chrome just dropped. /s

It is kinda wild how we went from Unity bad to Unreal bad.

[random steppe]

This is the first time I hear anyone saying Unreal bad

[little badger]

If it did then Xbox will lose more fans

[light gate]

If you just merely search Unreal on YouTube, there is like five hundred clickbaiters tryin to say the death of Unreal.

its dumb but whatever.

[random steppe]

Makes sense

[light gate]

Oh and don't look at Steam Forums, that is where more people complain about the Unreal Engine microstutters.

[river veldt]

unreal bad

[light gate]

gotta move those goal posts.

Anyhow, its a miracle that TES4R functions with Unreal Engine.

Whoever did the work is a goddam wizard.

Gamebryo -> Creation Engine + UE5 must have been torture.

[slim thorn]

yeah people say "engine bad" about every engine in a game they actually played, it's just the way of infrastructure code

[wind stump]

yeah i think i overlevelled a tad

[slim thorn]

@gaunt marten work done, I assume you're not available yet, but I'll be plugged in to do some egg refights whenever

[wind stump]

eggz

[worthy rose]

Expedition 33 passes 2 million copies sold

[wind stump]

huh
GTA VI second trailer dropped

[cerulean herald]

yup, trailer focuses a bit more of the protag duo

[wind stump]

wasn't there a contreversy over a female playable character?

jesus christ, 18 million views

in 4 hours

[cerulean herald]

yeah, but those crowds always do that, they dont matter tbh
yeah the hype is mad lol

[cunning galleon]

It was 1 million in 50 minutes

[wind stump]

gone up a tad since then

OH NO A PLAYABLE FEMALE

misogynistic screeching

[cerulean herald]

"theyve gone woke!" <= ignoring that this is something GTA always done

i just wanna blow up stuff man

[green fulcrum]

These same "GaMErS" are the same ones who grew up LOVING Metroid Prime and saying it was the coolest shit ever.

They're hypocrites, grifters, and scammers, each and every one of them.

[static bluff]

Yaay! A new ad from that guy I like - https://youtu.be/aTNeaKRjzkg?si=rFzhiE_6TZ_g7r7_

[gaunt marten]

Banger video. Could have ended like three minutes in

[static bluff]

Agreed. That is Joels style I've noticed. They make a joke and just kind of stick with it for too long, then they usually stick the landing

[gaunt marten]

Hi. I'm available now

[wind stump]

hi avaliable now-

[slim thorn]

ok, distractions cleared up

streaming in Flutterchat

[wind stump]

Good luck!

[river veldt]

looking at GTAVI screenshots and it's really cool how many different body types there are for the NPCs

[worthy rose]

I just saw this and feel it is relevant

[fickle garnet]

I want to get my dad to play Baldur's Gate 3, but I'm wondering how to explain the gameplay to him

I am very bad at explaining things

[worthy rose]

Might be easier to introduce him to Divinity original sin 2. Somewhat less complicated

[fickle garnet]

Maybe

I didn't get very far into D:OS2

[visual hill]

I finished Dungeon Siege yesterday

I found the meta strategy somewhere near the end... give a summon spell to each of your party's members, bind it to a hotkey, press C to cast it with all members selected at once, then switch to ranged weapons (and heal spells when needed). Let the summoned creatures act as bulletsponge to draw aggro away from your party

also, I had the game running in "just" 4K before, now it's in 8K which further improves the shadow resolution (since dgVoodoo will upscale any render target it finds)

I also found a fix for stuttering that I documented on PCGamingWiki, it's a shame I only found it in the last 20% of the game though

[fickle garnet]

I just want to play BG3 with my dad

[fickle garnet]

I might set up family sharing on steam so my sisters can play BG3

[gaunt marten]

Very good idea

[fickle garnet]

Family share us set up for my sisters, they just need to accept the invite

[gaunt marten]

Hi. Let's play Nine Sols

Last time I stopped at 131 attempts to beat the final boss.

132. Made it to phase 3 again. Spent a significant amount of time there. Did you know the unbounded counter window after the orb attack gets smaller in phase 3?

[hasty patio]

https://www.eurogamer.net/starbreeze-acquires-publishing-rights-to-troubled-payday-3-says-move-will-accelerate-development-roadmap

[gaunt marten]

I think the reason for that is she can do a judgement cut with almost no wind up

[cerulean herald]

Hopefully watching an Eigong battle to completion would help a lot
During my break I watched some gameplay of the fight to better understand what's happening, since it's of course easier to focus on someone else's fight

[gaunt marten]

I think trying the fight out in story mode would also help a lot with the timings

[cerulean herald]

For sure, personally I began viewing gameplay of the battle when I was getting frustrated at the game, which isn't ideal for me to play when in that state of mind

[gaunt marten]

133. I'm now consistently getting to phase 3 and getting practice with the way the new moves interact with the old ones.

Let that be a lesson to you. NOBODY kills me 135 times in a row.

[cerulean herald]

ooh you won?

[gaunt marten]

That's correct

[cerulean herald]

yo congrats!

[gaunt marten]

It took me 135 attempts and 134 deaths. 110 deaths to phase 3.

[quiet swift]

[gaunt marten]

I missed the ending because my cat needed help and there's no pause button

Thanks for the well made game, Red Candle Game

Ain't no way fewer people have done the easier ending ||https://i.imgur.com/mGEVeqU.png||

[cerulean herald]

the end's cutscene starts 4:25 (if you havent already looked it up)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsMhm6jYhLI

[gaunt marten]

One of the game's backers is literally called Pissboy

[gaunt marten]

Waiting for the credits to roll first. Thanks for the link

[bitter stream]

Congrats flitter!

[gaunt marten]

Thanks

[bitter stream]

Ugh, why does GTA 6 look so pretty, I know it's going to have terribly predatory MTX and a lot of GaaS stuff on it.. and the single player isn't likely to be worth the asking price either given the rumours about being 120 AUD here. I guess I should just, not think about it too much.

[cunning galleon]

Wait for pirates to Crack the anti piracy measures

[gaunt marten]

You could also spend your time on games that don't try to abuse you

[gaunt marten]

Nine Sols: ||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HVTA9VjesE||
(Spoilers)

[bitter stream]

I mean yes, it just sucks to miss out on really good looking games.

[gaunt marten]

There will be better looking games in the future so I hope things aren't so bad

Do make sure not to trust trailers

https://equestria.social/@cloudhop/114465144112537704

Erik McClure (@[email protected])

So a lot of people think the GTA 6 trailer is either fake, or believe the actual game will look that good.

The trailer isn't fake, it's just extremely clever. A 3070 can easily render 1 (one) human model at that fidelity at 40+ FPS. The problem during gameplay is that other things are on screen. If you pay attention, the trailer does an amazing job of ensuring only 2 in-focus humans are ever in a frame at the same time, and the background is either out-of-focus or made entirely of building silhouettes.

Large group of humans? Almost all of them are always far away or out of focus. Any scene with lots of detail is almost always a small room: a bedroom, an office, a bar (with extremely out of focus background). The sleight of hand is everywhere in this trailer.

The actual in-game cinematics will probably look this good. What won't look good is that one random alley behind a gas station 5 miles away from the story objective with an upside-down car clipping through th…

Equestria Social Network · May 7, 2025, 6:31 AM

[bitter stream]

sure, and if Cloud Hop is saying it's probably accurate.

[slim thorn]

oh hey, you found the memes

[gaunt marten]

It's not much of a meme

[cunning galleon]

??? Am I a unicorn

[random steppe]

Lol Expedition 33 gets kind of crazy in endgame considering you start doing like, 32 damage per attack.

[visual hill]

damage inflation

[rugged flax]

I recognize that engine and scenery
that's Railroader 👀
We have a thread for that btw #1126128946682019901

[wind stump]

Bruh, why is it after I get back into Neptunia that Yahtzee mentions it in his new review

[gaunt marten]

Making fun of it, I assume

[wind stump]

yeah, because he's saying "Well at least this is ripping off a good JRPG like Persona 5"

and you know
not taking the magical girl tropes up to 11

[sacred grove]

Kinda funny how the industry just generally accepts that GTA6 will sell a bajillion dollars regardless of how good it actually turns out to be

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, GTA V was a 250 million dollar game that made ten billion dollars

And GTA VI, by comparison, had a 300m-2B USD budget

The studio has a proven track record and development looks like it's going to plan

There's no reason to suspect a failure (though it would please me if they would make a less exploitative game)

[cerulean herald]

is the $2B estimate really accurate? I always thought it was abnormally high

[gaunt marten]

There's no way to know the exact numbers, so I'm citing the lowest and highest reasonable numbers

[sacred grove]

Some day Star Citizen will greatly exceed this budget and it still won't be released

[worldly summit]

have you ever seen a game with 99% positive reviews on Steam? with more than like 2 reviews ofc

[cerulean herald]

I think Holocure, at least last I checked

[gaunt marten]

The best reviewed games on Steam can be found here https://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Reviews_DESC

SteamDB is also good https://steamdb.info/stats/gameratings/?sort=rating_desc

(It gives more confidence to games with lots of reviews)

[worldly summit]

oh yep, awesome!

I'm asking because I noticed Monster Prom 4 had 99% and I couldn't remember ever seeing it before

[river veldt]

PORTAL 2 STILL ON TOP BABY 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥WHAT THE FUCK IS A THIRD GAME

[cunning galleon]

Hole is love, hole is life

[eager bane]

Does it make you feel hole again

[cunning galleon]

This took a while jeez

[hasty patio]

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-outer-wilds-developers-are-making-a-new-game

[bronze abyss]

more terrifying trauma inducing creatures of the depths and existencial dread yippe

[light gate]

https://www.theverge.com/news/663210/palworld-updates-feature-removed-nintendo-lawsuit

Besides the pokeball stuff, apparently you can’t glide with your Pals.

Pretty absurd if you ask me.

Anyhoo, thanks Nintendo lol.

[slim thorn]

Palworld is certainly winning the PR front atm

[arctic fern]

Fuck sake youtube
Randomly put a poll from a youtuber I used to watch onto my feed
Only the reason I stopped watching is because he died
The poll was 7 years old

[wind stump]

[hasty patio]

Sounds like the perfect time to catch back up. /s

RIP that Youtuber though.

[forest shoal]

Made the CMCs, they have synergy with their sisters

[unreal idol]

Interesting

[little badger]

Base game is only 49.99 https://youtu.be/UOIg2lFVsJE?si=f1uka4dKAL7pZ0Ps

[visual hill]

I wonder if this will nerf infinite gliding, it depends on what kinds of passive buffs they implement (and whether they can stack)

[bronze abyss]

Yeah i just read that as well today,im glad they are minor features at the very least

Still ridiculous

[cerulean herald]

fuuuuck, rip Galeclaw

[bronze abyss]

Hoping i can buy the game soon atleast,love it so much

Apparently has a competent mac port as well which is great

[arctic fern]

what the fuck youtube! why are you recommending a second 7 year old poll from a dead man

[visual hill]

most online platforms don't have a great handling of dead users in my experience

if you're lucky, the platform might have a legacy contact system, but most people never set it up

[cerulean herald]

this reminds me of the logistics of inheriting someone's steam account when they pass
which steam themselves dont seem to be on board with iirc

[visual hill]

Steam games are not transferable, so yeah

[slim thorn]

figuring out how to support posthumous transfers without it being a target of scams seems... difficult

[astral steeple]

https://youtu.be/WugsIujIhCs?si=Z0mfpfZQPTtENCTY

[wind stump]

This should not have taken nearly 30 fucking hours

[gaunt marten]

Brown?

[dense crypt]

Ate the yellow snow type shit

[hushed onyx]

You know like Coca-Cola?

[quiet swift]

Mood

so that game testing (as in, play the unreleased game in alpha/beta status, give your thoughts/opinion about it, get paid) thing i'm doing tomorrow, the client seems to be Tencent. Wonder what this'll be like... (the initial survey to sign up was talking about open world/action adventure type stuff, I think)

Not gonna say much more, was an NDA and I haven't played it yet anyway

[bitter stream]

hope it goes smoothly

[gaunt marten]

But I'm looking at it And it's blue

[chilly mural]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI_38BJuSmM holy fuck, Bam looks sober

[gaunt marten]

Holy shit https://youtu.be/MKaGSIm9juI

Europa Universalis V is coming out

That means it's only a couple of years until the EU4 expansions are cheap enough to buy

[green fulcrum]

Reminds me of a joke I once heard:

I'll just wait for Nvidia 6000 cards to release, so that the 5000 cards drop in price, so I can finally afford a 4000 card.

[eager bane]

Me, who just got a 3070 for that exact reason

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, the secondhand secondhand market goes crazy

[green fulcrum]

"We had one secondhand, yes. But what about second secondhand?"

[gaunt marten]

That's when the people who can only afford secondhand buy old GPUs and sell their even older ones

[cunning galleon]

It's like a big pass me down

[green fulcrum]

Reminds me of a Reddit post the other day that talked about how they found a perfectly good "gaming" PC just sitting out to be taken for trash.

Turns out it was a gaming PC. From like 15 years ago.

[gaunt marten]

/r/frugal_jerk

[green fulcrum]

Would still be usable for office stuff, but rather...ill-equipped to deal with current tech and games.

[gaunt marten]

I don't know

When my GPU died I've been toughing it with my CPU's integrated GPU and that runs most of the games I want to play

[visual hill]

if it runs Doom it's a gaming PC

hides

[green fulcrum]

...Electronic pregnancy testers can run Doom.

[gaunt marten]

It can run a video showing doom

[wind stump]

Wow it took me less than 3 hours to get from start to finish

[hasty patio]

Most of them are on sale now, depending on what you're missing at this stage.

[gaunt marten]

Low quality sale

Takes me about thirty dollars to get all the remaining DLC. I want it to be less than half of that

[little badger]

Launch trailer https://youtu.be/S7IEg0_qNXs?si=YLKks0kYskhvQosy @river veldt

[wind stump]

being meguca is suffering

[worthy rose]

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/jrpg/amid-clair-obscur-expedition-33s-turn-based-hype-square-enix-asks-jrpg-fans-whats-the-best-combat-system-in-its-catalog-and-shares-some-games-with-brilliant-battles/ I think they're feeling threatened

[sacred grove]

E33 (that's how I'm abbreviating it) feels like it came out of nowhere, more or less

I hadn't even heard of it until a handful of days ago

[random steppe]

They announced a while ago at Summer Game Fest 2024 and we saw trailers or showcases at various game shows

But yeah, lots of games get announced, and get lost in the shuffle until they release

[river veldt]

yoooo

[slim thorn]

lots of less interesting games also get quickly forgotten after release

sometimes my next favorite game is one I was already on the lookout for because it's by a dev or in a genre I actively follow, but sometimes it's completely out of the blue

e.g. Nine Sols was an odd in between case for me, because I did have it on my wishlist as an upcoming metroidvania, but the developer had only made point-and-click horror before so it being as great as it is still came out of nowhere even for people who knew their past work

[random steppe]

In my head I was mixing up E33 and Tides of Annhilihation because Jennifer English stars in both so yeah, while I knew it existed, I wasn't looking at it very closely...that said looking back at the promotional material the devs were super confident in their product

Rightly so

[river veldt]

☹️

[visual hill]

I thought that poster was Tiago Sousa for a second due to the username, and I was like why an id employee is writing like they're a player

(Tiago Sousa is [or was?] basically the tech lead for everything id Tech with Doom 2016 and Eternal)

[river veldt]

it's funny that both Gordon and Barney own a copy of "The Truth About Aliens" when they work at Black Mesa

omg Indiana Jones is verified on deck now

might have to get it next week

[little badger]

You can now use Apple Pay to buy games on PlayStation

[rugged flax]

so this is apparently a thing now

[slim thorn]

makes more sense than some crossovers

although that packaging makes it look like an ice cream sandwich

[rugged flax]

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/collecting-final-fantasy

[chilly mural]

don't see anyone talking about this here, but Guilty Gear Strive's entire source code is leaked

they got Unika as a playable character and Lucy out there, you can also launch the game through the unreal engine editor

[green fulcrum]

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/nintendo-of-america-might-turn-your-switch-into-an-expensive-paperweight-if-you-mod-your-console-or-install-any-unauthorized-games-new-policy-warns/

[fresh bane]

That's not really a new thing though, isn't it? I know incorrectly trying to mod Nintendo consoles even the super easy ones like Wii and 3DS can get them completely bricked if you don't do it properly

[slim thorn]

I thought that was any console in general

[fresh bane]

I don't really know how Switch modding/jailbreaking was coming along, whether or not it was getting easier and what not, I never really followed that but it wouldn't surprise me at all if more people started trying to mod their Switches more now especially now that they're moving on to the next console

[hasty patio]

There is a difference between warnings to not do so (for product safety) to "doing anything we don't want you to will result in a killed account and a bricked machine[s]".

[slim thorn]

and not in a "we will send a remote self-destruct code to your switch if you do naughty things with it" way, but more of a "well if you change the hardware than obviously all our support guarantees go out the window, but we have to state the obvious because lawyers" way?

[fresh bane]

Well of course modding a machine that is still receiving support, when you're connected to a network, and it detects you're installing custom software/etc will get the account banned, that just makes sense, it's why it's way easier to mod a ''dead'' console that has long stopped receiving any support or updates at all

[slim thorn]

unless there's some reason to believe it now will be the former, and that isn't just yellow journalism

[fresh bane]

I'd imagine in the near ish future whenever the Switch stops receiving any updates and its online functions start going away like the 3DS it's probably gonna be way easier to mod

but maybe they plan to keep it going for longer this time, since even though it's an old console it's still the console for most people especially Nintendo fans so who knows maybe that's why they said it just in case

[slim thorn]

tbh I think this is only a news headline because hating on Nintendo is popular atm

(not that they haven't done a lot to deserve it)

[fresh bane]

That's my secret, I'm always hating on Nintendo

[slim thorn]

since I started one of the Bloodstaineds the other day, I'm currently more conscious of the downfall of Konami

but I think Konami actually lost so much relevance that only millenials are still mad about them?

[fresh bane]

I'm also seeing people found concept arts for || Jam || and || Kum || is also in the files apparently
I guess I'm not booting up Strive just in case until they say something about it, could be dangerous

[fresh bane]

You say that but I'm gen z and I'm still mad about that but you're not wrong entirely

I guess I just happened to be on the internet at the same time as those millenials so I just grew up with that general culture

[slim thorn]

yeah I'm not sure where the boundaries fell exactly

but it feels like Konami has been a big nothing for core gamers ever since P.T. failed to become anything more than a T

(putting out one good remake doesn't count )

and P.T. was... oh god 2014

[fresh bane]

They're really trying now after they saw Capcom come back from nearly dying with their remakes and new projects so they want a piece of the pie

I mean it's been almost 10 years since then but I guess better late than never

10 years since RE7 I mean, I'd say Rev 1 and 2 were some RE projects that were already showing a lot of promise but they had their issues, Revelations 1 released on the 3DS and bothered a lot of players because the original trailer was nothing like the final game, and Revelations 2 bizarrely released episodically so it didn't seem to catch on, Re7 was when Capcom really reached that mainstream massive audience again and completely revitalized itself

Meanwhile you have Konami bringing Silent Hill back after so many years with... Ascension

I still can't believe that was the first thing they released from all the promising new SH projects they have going on

[slim thorn]

the "It's Trauma!" sticker isn't real, it can't hurt you

[fresh bane]

Unfortunately it is real and it hurt me a lot

It was also really funny that Hideo Kojima was a phrase explicitly banned from the live chat in that game

And then Short Message was.... fine, it was okay

MGS3 Delta looks good too, I like what they've been showing off, Master Collection did good and they're doing the other one, they definitely want to play it safe with all their big IPs first

still no new Castlevania though, oops

[slim thorn]

tbf Castlevania was kinda declining anyway for reasons unrelated to Konami execs

at least I think it was at the time

[fresh bane]

I'll admit Castlevania is the one franchise I was never really too savvy about especially ''what happened'' with Konami at around the same time all the other franchises also started to fall off, I was always more on the MGS/SH side of things

I just assumed they kinda just... stopped making those games, for whatever reason

and they made the poopy 3D ones

[slim thorn]

same, I'm mostly aware of Castlevania because of the incessant Metroid comparisons

but now that I've watched a video essay or two on the subject I have a better picture of what happened with the CV series as a whole

and never quite figuring out how to make the CV formula work in 3D was one of the factors actually

one of the other big factors was Koji Igarashi leaving Konami in... would you believe that's also 2014

hang on when did Kojima leave

2015!

[fresh bane]

2015 ish like pretty soon after TPP

[slim thorn]

ok yeah sometimes history does wrap itself up in a neat little narrative for you

[fresh bane]

I remember because TPP had won or had been nominated for an award or something and Kojima was straight up not allowed to go to the event at all which made a lot of people mad

[slim thorn]

damn I didn't even hear about that

but given corporate cultural differences it makes perfect sense

[fresh bane]

https://www.wired.com/story/konami-bars-hideo-kojima-from-collecting-metal-gear-solid-award/

[fresh bane]

and then Igarashi makes his own modern Castlevania-like game, and it's really successful, and it turns out, you didn't really need to change the formula to 3D at all

[slim thorn]

yeah, now that I've seen the full series in context, it's obvious they spent way too much time and resources on the idea of trying to make a 3D CV come close to Metroid Prime's success

[fresh bane]

but people in gaming companies can be really stubborn, especially during those transitional periods where there's new technologies and new styles of games that become really popular, I can imagine some people still wanting to make 2D Castlevania but being told no by higher ups because it's too outdated and 3D is the future and it's the modern way and what not

Luckily Nintendo realized that with Metroid and made Samus Returns and Dread alongside Prime

[slim thorn]

of course before it happened how could anyone have known one would work and the other wouldn't

tbf there's loads of examples of people being too stubborn in both directions when there's a big transition; until it's all over it's just impossible to tell who's going to be right

and it probably is fair to say that the biggest financial blockbuster successes of video games very quickly became mostly 3D around that time

[fresh bane]

Well I think at least nowadays they're generally more aware that sometimes these ''old'' styles still have their value and charm for a lot of people so maybe they'll think it's worth revisiting it again whenever they're done with MGS and Silent Hill, or try doing a 3D one again who knows, not that I'm in a hurry for a new Castlevania but I know if I was a Castlevania fan I'd be mad they haven't even talked about doing a new one at all yet

I mean I know they keep re-releasing the games and what not but i guess that doesn't fully count

and I guess that crossover with Dead Cells and Vampire Survivors also doesn't really count as a new game even though it does count as them still doing something with the ip

[river veldt]

no

[visual hill]

TIL RetroAchievements supports standalone games since recently (i.e. games that are not running within an emulator): https://docs.retroachievements.org/general/standalone-support.html

this could open the door to a lot of things, e.g. custom Doom WADs having achievements

[arctic fern]

https://youtu.be/MlrY3URE06M this video deserves some recognition
Sp0ntaneous has been making video game music videos somewhat sporadically for some 15 years now, using a variety of instruments and editing styles, and spent the last 3 years making this monster video which uses edited clips of his past works as the music
It's insanely good

[obsidian salmon]

Favorite bit of worldbuilding in Fallen London so far: in The University, there's:

The department of _______

I have to type it like that because it's literally just seven underscores. And it's said in game:

You note that they pronounce '_______' silently, but with a knowing glance, a waggled eyebrow and tilted head.

They literally have the department of in this universe

Fucking hilarious

[green fulcrum]

[quiet swift]

So, tested that tencent game today. Can't say anything due to NDA, but was fun enough despite being in a pre alpha state. Good potential there but needs work

[green fulcrum]

What Tencent game?

[sacred grove]

You mustn't ask such questions. Ninja assassins are already on their way, though strangely they're dressed like lawyers.

[bronze abyss]

me when ea playtest

[green fulcrum]

But seriously, I don't know what game Tcher is even referring to.

Also, Noelle, how did you get that "Pony" tag on your name?

I've seen lots of people with tags like that but I can't figure out what it is or how to get it.

[cerulean herald]

I assume they can't disclose which game bc of the NDA

[toxic seal]

Something about a blood sacrifice

[bronze abyss]

settings>global profile>scroll down till you see a dropdown

if you have available ones they will show up there,in this case its plaza

[toxic seal]

I haven't found which god to offer something to I'm running out of things people won't miss

[green fulcrum]

But they said "that" Tencent game, indicating that it's been shown off before.

[cerulean herald]

I took it to mean "remember that playtest I mentioned earlier"
Instead of a specific "that", if that makes sense

[green fulcrum]

Oh

Also I found the tag

Just wish it wasn't just for Pony Plaza. Not a fan of that place. I just stay for the emojis.

[bronze abyss]

it was actually a weird situation with it,just a day back a different server had it but it doesnt anymore and some including me got kicked from it as well as it getting its icon/name changed

plaza for some reason got the same tag instead now,which ig in this case is better tbh

[green fulcrum]

Would've preferred it to be Mane. Oh well.

Shame about the other server though. Hopefully it wasn't something awful that happened.

[fresh bane]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1996010/view/505076346647480063?l=english

Crow Country update

[rugged flax]

the tags aren't exclusive
multiple servers can have the same one
and we haven't gotten the feature yet

[rugged flax]

the server got nuked
everyone in it got booted and banned
the name was changed to something....unsavory.

[bronze abyss]

ah,thought they were cuz thats usually how such tags are everywhere else

[gaunt marten]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/rct/comments/1kiomia/leroy_the_perfect_guest_speedran_my_park_in_0/

0 ride time spent on this guest, got all his money, he left consuming no other items```

[quiet swift]

Yeah, it's nothing that's released or even announced. I just mentioned a few days ago that I'd be going in for a survey/initial impressions type thing, but it's a strict NDA

[quiet swift]

[green fulcrum]

Ah, cool

[obsidian salmon]

But yeah, those tags will be rolling out to us eventually, so you won't have to wait too long

I'm also mostly there for emotes, but also to shill g5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJrQPqB0-2M

TIL they gave a CPU a taunt system with rules that annoy competitive players not because of bad manners, but because she does it at the worst times

(I also learned that ice climbers are known as ICs, not Icies like I've been thinking cuz of their neutral B)

[visual hill]

I didn't even know Nana taunted on purpose

it's not like I played ICs for more than 20 minutes to be fair

[visual hill]

the eternal struggle of the game developer working on Unannounced Title and Unannounced Title 😉

(I see this a lot on resumes)

[river veldt]

i love working with the antlions in HL2 but i always feel bad when i accidentally shoot them lol

[quiet swift]

You monster

[wind stump]

[visual hill]

TIL there's a RetroAchievements set for Pony Kart DS: https://retroachievements.org/game/33037

(a MLP romhack of Mario Kart DS)

[light gate]

I hope its just a bug and not something intentional by Microsoft.

[river veldt]

this is great https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/s/YQOtOu4qsn

[visual hill]

daily reminder that Doom actually invented the rocket jump. 😛

Legacy of Rust makes a nice callback to Mt. Erebus here

[river veldt]

Doom might have invented it but Quake perfected it imo

[visual hill]

it is possible to straferun to that ledge apparently, but it looks pretty difficult (probably can't SR50 here due to the low amount of space for manoeveuring available)

[visual hill]

yeah for sure, adding Z awareness and jumping makes it a lot more versatile

[dense crypt]

i tried legacy of rust, but level 2 was too much.

[visual hill]

it definitely has difficulty spikes, and it's quite hard overall so you probably want to play it on HMP for a first playthrough (if you are not very familiar with Doom mechanics)

[green fulcrum]

...He just casually walked through lava.

[visual hill]

if you look carefully (after I rocket jump), I time my movement through lava so the weapon bob cycle doesn't end while I'm on lava

this is done on purpose to avoid taking damage, since this damaging floor deals 20 damage per second, I'd die otherwise. The damage taken is always in sync with the weapon bob cycle (one per second)

in fact, on my first attempt, I died this way after making the rocket jump successfully

this is why I'm appearing to move randomly before leaping, so I can gauge the bob cycle

[river veldt]

yeah he's Doomguy

[cerulean herald]

does doomguy have superpowers

[river veldt]

yeah

[visual hill]

he also has neck pain so he can't look up or down

and he skipped leg day so he can't jump

[cerulean herald]

damn

[green fulcrum]

(From Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.)

[gaunt marten]

Gresilla, priestess of Nicotina

[gaunt marten]

https://bsky.app/profile/giantbomb.bsky.social/post/3lou2vs2v2c2t

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[river veldt]

nice !

who is the giant

[gaunt marten]

The guy in the background

He's so big the camera can't capture all of his photons

[river veldt]

that's crazy

[gaunt marten]

That's why he's transparent

[river veldt]

Fandom should sell Wookieepedia next so i dont have to use their shitty site when i need Star Wars info

[gaunt marten]

For anyone unaware, Giant Bomb is basically a videogame website with a focus on community and personalities, made by former gamespot people.

[gaunt marten]

I recommend you use Firefox mobile and this extension so you don't have to use Fandom's site https://getindie.wiki

[unreal idol]

Hellyes

[river veldt]

blue eyes white dragon

[gaunt marten]

@slim thorn I did the trick you were thinking of https://i.imgur.com/NUdcOSD.png

Turns out there are two ways to get here

I was trying to drag one of the flying enemies over so I can jump, get air time then talisman dash

But you can just talisman dash then shoot two arrows east

And to reliably trigger the miniboss dying, you have to jump into the spikes https://i.imgur.com/MveLyGd.png

[gaunt marten]

Not sure how to do this one though https://i.imgur.com/eSL4e1h.png

I figured out how to cross the bridge without enabling it

But the miniboss doesn't show up

Oh okay you just use the lasers west

[green fulcrum]

[gaunt marten]

Me when I meet so many people I have to compress them in memory so they all fit

[green fulcrum]

...Oh this is gonna be...annoying. I am in a city that shifts and moves buildings around to reveal pathways and hidden spaces whenever I move my camera into facing a specific direction.

This means that pretty much every step I take has to be done from four cardinal directions to see if anything opens up.

Oh. Not just cardinal directions...

The camera has to face a very specific direction for certain buildings and bridges to move and shift around. This means north, south, east, west, northwest, northeast, southwest, southeast, and in-between all of those as well.

[bitter stream]

oh gosh haha

[wind stump]

has it really been that long?

[visual hill]

yes, we're in 2020-5 now

[wind stump]

feels like yesterday i first picked up the nepnep

[wind stump]

LET'S GO GAMBLING!

[cerulean herald]

When did you first pick up Touhou

[wind stump]

like 2020

[chilly mural]

That’s like 20 years ago

[gaunt marten]

I have discovered this channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM3Ul1mfK0RdxtVVKmLLLzA

[young creek]

this game looks pretty cool

[gaunt marten]

It is very cool. Highly recommended

[slim thorn]

I probably would've been doing something similar this weekend had circumstances not conspired to force an update to my OW mod

[cerulean herald]

what's the ow mod

[slim thorn]

oh, the Archipelago Randomizer

Outer Wilds and Nine Sols are the two games I maintain randomizers for

[young creek]

OoTMM needs a new dev just throwing that out there..

[slim thorn]

oh I'm aware

I'm actually following the thread where some guy is trying to pick up the N64 OoT AP now that the original maintainer left

[young creek]

what a waste of time

thats only half the game

[gaunt marten]

The good half

[visual hill]

https://www.readonlymemo.com/dinosaur-planet-recompiled-pc-port/

it got a few more patches recently, now ultrawide support seems to work quite well

[sacred grove]

De/Recompilation are such high-effort ways to preserve games, but I'm glad people are doing it

[slim thorn]

I believe it's usually done to facilitate modding; it'd certainly be overkill if preservation was the only goal

[sacred grove]

I mean. It's high-effort either way

[fresh bane]

also playing OOT and MM recomp is probably way better and more stable than N64 emulation which is a pain in the ass

other consoles/emulators don't have this problem, most actually, it's particularly N64 which has always been hard to do

[slim thorn]

oh right, I never seem to emulate that one so I keep forgetting it's uniquely weird

decomping every good N64 game seems unrealistic... but it's kinda unrealistic how many have already happened, so what do I know

[fresh bane]

The last Nerrel video showcased a lot of ongoing N64 recomp projects going on, Smash Bros, Kirby Crystal Shards, Quest 64, Dinosaur Planet, Banjo, which is pretty cool, all still being worked on though and just like he said in the video N64 games can be tricky and may require different steps because of the inconsistent development even with decomp/recomp tools that make it easier
recompiling every game for preservation is probably not the goal here and would take an insane amount of time probably what we're gonna see is people just picking projects for games they particularly feel interested in or want to see enhanced

that's how I see these projects anyway, just enhanced more stable versions of these games ideally with much easier mod support, but for preservation's sake emulation works well enough

like yeah you can totally perfectly emulate Majora's Mask like normal but having a 7k fully remade world map with pinpoint accurate real time tracking that also keeps track of any changes made in the overworld and reflects them on the map is really cool

[slim thorn]

this is crossing the line from decomp/recomp into fan remake

[fresh bane]

That's not a default thing from the recomp that's from addons like a texture pack

It's just a showcase of mods and addons that you can add or disable at any point you want with a whole interface just for that

[slim thorn]

so... a mod manager?

[fresh bane]

Yeah the recomp has a mod manager to make modding easier

[visual hill]

I wonder if a Smash recomp makes rollback netcode easier... probably

the hard part would be porting Smash Remix over

you can't use the romhack as-is, the recomp codebase targets a single ROM

[slim thorn]

I'm still thinking about maybe playing MM someday, now it seems like the question is when will be the optimal time to do that with all the re-whatevers going on these days

[visual hill]

Remix is so good it would be a shame not to have it

[fresh bane]

Nerrel very briefly mentions something that could relate to that in the video showing a mod being developed that makes it possible to sync game information on the zelda recomp, it's not a full blown multiplayer mod but it could eventually lead to one, since the smash 64 recomp isn't even out yet though I don't really know about the possibility of that but if people managed to get rollback working on games like USF4 I bet a recomp would be ''simple'' enough if it ends up catching on with a lot of players, the thing about fighting games especially older ones is that newer ways to play are almost always never successful, for example a game like Darkstalkers or Garou Mark of the Wolves have been re-released with rollback netcode but people still choose to play on Fightcade just because it's where people have been playing for years and years now, I assume Smash has its own way of doing it for Smash 64 too so the hard part is just transfering all the people using this old method into the new one

[fresh bane]

It's a tricky thing because while I'm very excited about all the additions, tweaks and enhancements for a game like Majora, not even getting into 7K resolution fully interactable customizable real time tracking maps, but just quality of life additions and tweaks, retroactively adding features and qol improvements from the 3DS version into the original and things like that, there is an argument to be made about just playing the game as it originally was just like everybody else played it, it's not one of the best games ever for no reason after all and it's not like it's obsolete or anything
I think it depends on whether you would feel right about playing a game for the first time and having it modded, I think if you could set up Majora's recomp to have mods that would add the features of the 3DS version into the original, and then customizing that however else you'd want (with things like widescreen or any texture packs and what not) then that'd probably be the perfect experience

[slim thorn]

well, at some point having to go through an emulator at all is already a significant difference from how "everybody else played it"

certainly most games should be played mod-free the first time around, but the older it gets the less true that is

usually the problem with older games is that the people familiar with the modding options have played the game so many times they lost perspective on what's good for a first-time player

and MM has the additional problem that basically everyone agrees the 3DS changes were, at best, a mixed bag, and I have no idea if there are "MM despecialized" mods out there trying to pick out the good parts

[river veldt]

i just play the most readily available version to me

[slim thorn]

the whole thing is just a headache that kinda makes me want to go play a game that just exists and doesn't require research just to decide how to get started

[river veldt]

lol yeah

[slim thorn]

speaking of, I should do more Curse of the Moon

[river veldt]

Curse of the Moon ? is that a Castlevania

[slim thorn]

it's a Bloodstained

[river veldt]

oh

were those good i dont remember

[slim thorn]

reasonable confusion, Circle of the Moon is a Castlevania

[fresh bane]

That's why it's tricky, there's some people that would bounce off an old game like Majora's playing it completely vanilla but would be convinced to give it a try with all these bells and whistles and enhancements, there's some people that wouldn't, maybe there's people that would care more about the additions the 3DS version has and don't care that much about the shortcomings, but it's too hard to tell when someone is going at it for the first time and it's awkward from the get go just going through this entire questionnaire before the person even booted up the game
That's why for Majora I think ultimately I'd always go with the 64 version just to avoid the headache, I'm pretty confident in recommending the 3DS version of OOT over the 64 version though, even for new players, but then you have to deal with dual screens and much lower screen size/resolution which I know a lot of people probably don't wanna deal with, which makes me wonder why they haven't ported those over to Switch already

[slim thorn]

and Bloodstained is generally known as "the games the Castlevania guy made after he left Konami"

[river veldt]

i have Majora's Mask for 3ds but i havent played it yet

[fresh bane]

I bought my nephew a 2DS as a birthday gift last year and before I gave it to him I tested out some games and played through a good bit of OOT on it and it's real good, I don't remember if I tested Majora

I'm hoping to one day stumble upon a new nintendo 2ds xl I can get for relatively cheap around here... it's a particularly great model for... reasons

and I never cared for the 3D effect

so it's a win win

[young creek]

[river veldt]

artiks whenever you post this emoji it kills me

[young creek]

if discord didnt chicken out on soundmojis I could have it play Sealed Vessel (2nd half only) ....

[wind stump]

it doesn't help that Iga had his filthy hands on it

[river veldt]

we're gonna put flitter in the crystal

[slim thorn]

I like the design of this boss

[wind stump]

ohhhh, the 2D one

never played it

[fresh bane]

I heard it's really good but I didn't give any of the Bloodstained games a try

[slim thorn]

my impression so far is that, compared to Rondo of Blood (the one "classic"/pre-SotN Castlevania I played since I was told it's the best of that era despite also being one of the most obscure), it's an improvement all across the board

[wind stump]

"Oh there's a fire over there, why is there a fire over th-"

WHY IS THERE A FUCKING LAVA RIVER ON THE SURFACE

[slim thorn]

there's still a lot that just isn't to my personal preferences in a video game, e.g. the jump/attack/stair climbing movements are very inflexible compared to my favorite games, but with all the improvements and generally better design going on here it's just a preference instead of being a "save states are mandatory" thing lol

[river veldt]

oh this looks kind of like shovel knight

[slim thorn]

well, it is a modern indie recreation of a (S)NES era style of game, so I guess that's not wrong

[cerulean herald]

your home is on top of a volcano

[wind stump]

it's actually a minute or so away, I was just getting oak for my house when I saw it

[slim thorn]

second try

[unreal idol]

Castlevania with the serial numbers filed off?

[unreal idol]

Hellyeah

I'm fairly familiar with Castlevania on NES but not so much future entries

[slim thorn]

ah, then the other part you care about is:

Ixrec — 20:23
my impression [of Curse of the Moon] so far is that, compared to Rondo of Blood (the one "classic"/pre-SotN Castlevania I played since I was told it's the best of that era despite also being one of the most obscure), it's an improvement all across the board
there's still a lot that just isn't to my personal preferences in a video game, e.g. the jump/attack/stair climbing movements are very inflexible compared to my favorite games, but with all the improvements and generally better design going on here it's just a preference instead of being a "save states are mandatory" thing lol

[unreal idol]

Sounds pretty solid

[slim thorn]

having 4 characters with different base moves and different subweapons to switch between, lots more alternate paths throughout the level, a "casual" difficulty to let you respawn mid-level for us normies, hearts actually mean health , better tutorialization, etc

[unreal idol]

lmao hearts

[slim thorn]

even Iga finally relented on that one

but yeah, for anyone curious what classic CV was like, I would absolutely recommend B:CotM as their first experience with this formula

for all CV, much less metroidvanias in general? I have other stuff I'd rank higher, but this is still damn good

[wind stump]

i just realised the wall food in Shovel Knight is a Castlevania thing

[slim thorn]

that was so weird when I first discovered it in CV:RoB

[wind stump]

fun tidbit, in Specter of Torment, all of the food is rotted
this is relevant because Specter Knight is... Literally Death, like, straight up Castlevania-ass Death

[sacred grove]

It's mostly legacy reasons that N64 emulators are like this. There's nothing inherent to the console that prevents people from making it a traditional monolithic emulator

Back in the day, since N64 emulation was a lot less accurate, they made a plugin system so that people could experiment and mix-and-match independently of the core. But as time went on, this became less valuable and more of a hinderance

[random steppe]

I think I'm really curious to see how the new Doom will land

And it's not exclusively because now I have a dog in the race for GOTY, since I'm in love with Expedition 33.

[sacred grove]

There's already reviews of The Dark Ages. The embargo lifted the other day

[random steppe]

I did bounce off Eternal but the new one does look very interesting

[static bluff]

Genryu I've been window shopping PCs all week because of you

[sacred grove]

General critic consensus seems to be that it's a solid 8-9/10 game

[random steppe]

lol

What did I do?

[static bluff]

Expedition 33 sounds amazing

[random steppe]

It is

[static bluff]

but my PC can't run it, so I want to buy a new one.

[random steppe]

Oh wow, good luck

[static bluff]

IKR

[random steppe]

I mean probably now it's a good moment to upgrade

[sacred grove]

Also yeah, from what I've seen of the beginning, E33 is a banger

[random steppe]

Since prices are likely to rise because tariffs

Future proof and huker down for the next few years is probably a winning move E33 or not

I think I am out of my honeymoon phase for E33 and yeah, still up there, still one of the best games I ever played.
Some games I am afraid of overhyping, and I guess this one does have some flaws, but it's hard to do it with this one since it does like, 5 things really well so something has gotta land even if for some reason, someone doesn't like one aspect

It also really lands in an interesting place, because it's not really doing anything experimental...every mechanic that's there feels really mature as if this was a tried and true formula.
But it's not really been done this way before, and everything around it feels really high quality, so it feels fresh.

It's really unique, I've been watching and reading so many post mortems about it.

[static bluff]

That sounds exactly like what I want,

[visual hill]

Slippi rollback works by exploiting Melee's hidden debug mode, which has a built-in fast forward function apparently

that, and a customized version of Dolphin tailored for Melee to make it run faster (it's literally called Faster Melee), which is how rollback can perform decently on not-so-fast hardware

[visual hill]

Minecraft likes to make those on the occasion (also lava lakes), but they are less common than they were in Beta 1.7.3

seeing cooked porkchops or meat near them with no context was always funny

[wind stump]

also i was mining for like an hour and found 0 coal

i found lapis and iron. But no coal.

[visual hill]

coal is biome-dependent in recent Minecraft, you also won't find it if too low in altitude (this changed recently too)

this was made so that there's no longer a single optimal height for mining, you need to mine at at least two different heights (and biomes, perhaps)

[wind stump]

[visual hill]

that reminds me, I've seen progress on Brawlback's Discord recently, it seems to be advancing slowly but surely

maybe we'll see an alpha this year, fingers crossed 🙂

[cerulean herald]

coal isnt biome dependent

youre maybe thinking of emerald ore

@wind stump see if this helps

[wind stump]

why is emerald so rare?

[cerulean herald]

no idea
though i guess it doesnt really matter bc you can easily get a bunch just from trading with villagers, so mining is not rly a method of obtaining them

[visual hill]

that's an old chart

[cerulean herald]

oh, thats unfortunate

[slim thorn]

iirc back when emeralds were introduced, their only practical use was trading with villagers, so I assume their relatively rarity was simply a balance choice

[visual hill]

yeah and trading sucked back then too 😛

it was so not worth it to spend time trading with villagers

it honestly felt like Mojang was trolling their playerbase by adding some kind of shops and making them unviable on purpose

[slim thorn]

it was a very strange time

tbf Minecraft's never been that great at anything involving balance

there's a reason we all classify it as a "sandbox" game

[green fulcrum]

This chart is waaaay out of date. This is the one as of 1.18, courtesy of the devs:

As for why emeralds are rare, they only exist in one biome, and you find them more above ground than you do underground.

[visual hill]

I like the massive spread for optimal iron mining

either Y = 16 or... Y = 232

good luck finding actual mountains at that height, but if you do, you'll find even more iron

[green fulcrum]

It can happen

[visual hill]

it's probably more common in Augmented world type

[green fulcrum]

I've seen some CHONKERS on the PonyCraft server, lol

[visual hill]

that reminds me, I should hop on the server

[green fulcrum]

Also, it's "amplified"

[river veldt]

finding emeralds does give me crazy dopamine

[cerulean herald]

huh, it was made not long after the dev's graph, just made to be more easier to read since the official one can be a bit much at first

i thought of using that but the mc wiki made me think it was outdated too

[river veldt]

same with diamonds

[visual hill]

oh right

My vision is augmented.

I had that meme in mind, it's why

[visual hill]

is it just me or spiders look different now?

maybe it's my resource pack (Misa) but they're even more of a test for arachnophobia than they used to be

(and Misa spiders always looked scary... but cute, somehow)

[cerulean herald]

when was the last time you played?

[visual hill]

a few months ago

[cerulean herald]

I'd say its the resource pack
spiders did have a minor tweak to the texture of their legs back in like 2022

[river veldt]

spider

[visual hill]

that's what it looks like
(spoilered because big juicy spider)

it caught me off-guard at first

[river veldt]

oh god

yeah that's a resource pack

[visual hill]

its legs clip through terrain because they spread apart quite a bit wider

this is the perfect opportunity to use the water bucket release to land safely... 👀

(also notice the Halo HUD mod, I found it again)

[green fulcrum]

Oh God f*cking GOD.

I play with Fresh Animations, and that pack does make spiders slightly more realistic, but not that realistic. That is horrifying!

[river veldt]

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/s/Pd2mWqjZog

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0knWDes2UtM

[obsidian salmon]

well, this is terrifying

when a game offers to let you sacrifice resources for a better outcome, you usually trust it, but...this is fallen london

for all I know that's purely a roleplaying choice

(also, "do not fuck with the masters" is a recurring theme from what I've seen)

[gaunt marten]

Pay up for option 2

[obsidian salmon]

yeah i did. and indeed nothing bad happened, he even gave me some (mostly-cheap) gems

sorry, it*

the masters use it pronouns

so hard to adjust to

[obsidian salmon]

welp, got kicked out of the university, so that was fun

[arctic fern]

Only just got kicked out?

I was booted a while ago

Good luck getting back in! You need a boat for that (not a spoiler the game expressly tells you this in multiple places)

I have not gotten a boat yet. They're hella expensive

[arctic fern]

That was the option I picked too

[cunning galleon]

Fancy Armored car

[graceful bridge]

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/532097310616717411

What hardware does SteamOS Compatibility apply to?
Any hardware running SteamOS that’s not a Steam Deck. Currently the only other officially supported device running SteamOS is Lenovo Legion Go S, but we see this expanding to more devices in the future.

[random steppe]

I just realised that we'll get Expedition 33 music in the final medley at the Game Awards, assuming it is nominated, and now I'm excited

[green fulcrum]

[obsidian salmon]

Yeah so I need to be a person of some importance…but I’m holding off on that so marriage doesn’t become extortionate

[fresh bane]

Welcome back F2P's

[visual hill]

(Scout with 124 HP) MEDIC!

by the way, Open Fortress is on Steam now, you can wishlist it 🙂

[fresh bane]

I saw a video about that the other day, I don't know if I'm gonna be jumping into any new versions of TF2 for now personally I might end up doing it later down the line if there's a particular version that looks good and amassed a good number of players or something but it's just too early for that

[dense crypt]

AT LAAAAST

[arctic fern]

You can get married before that? Shit

Because it is extortionate rn :(

[dense crypt]

Multiverse, nice

[peak berry]

yup Multiverse mod

[arctic fern]

nice

[peak berry]

One of the mod accomplishments Twilight Sparkle searches for crystal ponies

When found the Crystal Six-Legged Horse

[dense crypt]

Whats that crystal with the ring around it, and the ship panel with the crew healthbar?

[arctic fern]

the sideways ship on the left is the player ship
its cloaked and has its sheilds up

[peak berry]

Crew's active skills

[dense crypt]

Ah, neat

[wind stump]

HMMMMMM

[slim thorn]

#NineSols: apparently all the modders working on harder versions of the Eigong boss fight decided to combine them into this insanity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OvJuj3Zn74

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1775490/view/505076346647480194?l=english

Slice and Dice has been translated to french, italian, spanish, portoguese and russian

They also removed achievements to make it easier to get 100% on Steam

Some of these achievements are insane

Some are just jokes https://i.imgur.com/egtAeW9.png

[wintry canopy]

I got a box of alliance insight here's my best pulls.

[hasty patio]

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/tekken-boss-wants-to-add-an-official-waffle-house-stage-but-says-its-ignoring-his-calls/

[bronze abyss]

yet he does not wanna make a playable game

[astral steeple]

MARIO MOVIE 2 IS OFFICIALLY CALLED SUPER MARIO WORLD

LET'S GO

[green fulcrum]

Source?

[astral steeple]

NBC Universal

https://www.nbcuniversal.com/article/nbcuniversal-presents-2025-upfront-content-slate-

[green fulcrum]

Alrighty then

Actually, I think that's just them getting the franchise name wrong, because they also have "Shrek" there, and not "Shrek 5".

[slim thorn]

it does seem like a harder mistake to make than just leaving off the number...

but yeah definitely not official or confirmation

[river veldt]

yooooo

[rancid herald]

wait

downtown abbey?

wasn't that with live humans? flesh creatures, if one can conceive of such a thing?

[river veldt]

yeah a lot of those on that list are live action fleshy people

[fresh bane]

''exclusively on Peacock''

also out of all of those I'm excited for Bad Guys 2

[slim thorn]

NBC straight-up rebranding to "Peacock" was such a 2020s move

[green fulcrum]

Surprised "poodoo" isn't in this list, just for the silly Star Wars pun.

[river veldt]

pee yoosa

[green fulcrum]

Or that

[fresh bane]

https://bsky.app/profile/nesbot.bsky.social/post/3lp35kgcwn72r

NESbot (@nesbot.bsky.social)

Following City of the Wolves massively flopping, the SNK CEO will transition to an advisory role
www.resetera.com/threads/11...

Bluesky · May 13, 2025, 6:48 PM

oh god

From the little sales data available from the Japanese launch (6300 sales for the PS5 version) and the low Steam player count, all signs point to City of the Wolves being a massive flop.

People were really doomposting about this game early on but I thought 4k players was pretty good respectable numbers but I didn't see how much it dipped there

[slim thorn]

any idea why

[fresh bane]

Why it dipped?

[slim thorn]

and/or why this new thing flopped

[fresh bane]

It's not quite a 'new' thing, Fatal Fury is one of SNK's oldest franchises (1991) and where King of Fighters came from, this one specifically is a sequel to the last one which was Mark of the Wolves (1999) which had a bit more of a distinct style compared to the previous ones, but this one has always been the least popular franchise compared to KOF, and even then KOF was never as popular as other franchises like Street Fighter, Tekken, Mortal Kombat, and even then fighting games have always been relatively niche and have had way smaller player retention than any other gaming genre

People have mentioned the addition of ''real lifers'' like Cristiano Ronaldo and that weird DJ guy that the Saudi Arabian prince really likes contributing to this game not sitting well with people but I think that bothered already established fans and people that were already going to buy the game more than any newcomers, I don't really know how much of a tangible effect that whole drama had on the player count here

I think there's also just too many fighting games out right now for most people to feasibly get into, you got Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Guilty Gear Strive, DB FighterZ, Virtua Fighter 5 REVO, Mortal Kombat 1, KOF15, the new Capcom fighting collection coming out soon too, and since this is a niche within a niche sort of situation I guess that's kind of what happened, which is weird to me that it happened because they really tried to market the hell out of this game, the other week or so they even made a promotional video with Speed and KSI and they've been sponsoring the hell out of streamers to play the game and kind of spread the word so I really thought there'd be more people playing, but maybe the playerbase is just more spread out between consoles and PC

[slim thorn]

yeah, even I saw ads for FF so I would've been aware of it without Manechat, and that's not normal for a fighting game

[fresh bane]

You got vtubers too playing matches with each other and running small tournaments and stuff I really thought this game was gonna really be up there

[light gate]

Doomposting has a really nasty effect of echoing hard and reaching general consensus, primarily because people trust friends and family more than random online strangers. Which seems like an oxymoron, yet the hive mentality of trashing a game can cause anyone to be negative about a title with enough time and echoing.

One example is literally the new Marathon, in the first two days the alpha launched, the game was blasted to Kingdom Come... Deliverance 2 for all sorts of things.

Some reasons were valid, while others are just plain ridicule, and their official discord server was the worst thing I've ever seen during the invitational alpha. It was extremely toxic to the point that you couldn't have a single piece of constructive criticism or suggestion. Which honestly doesn't surprise me why Bungie has stopped listening in some areas. Ironically the only place that was mostly a safe haven was the art section, that be a yike.

So to hear about a game that 'failed' because [people don't know this old franchise] / [people were dooming it for many reasons] / [had a respectable number and yet is dropping] sucks really bad.

[light gate]

The ironic part in using Marathon as an example is that these users/players have probably trashed the same genre before. Tarkov gets a crap load of shit which once more, some can be valid while other things is just plain silly. Yet that game is successful enough. I wonder if Marathon releases before ARC Raiders on consoles would help them while on the PC it'd be a long climb.

[fresh bane]

Luckily I've seen a lot of people shutting down any attempts to doompost about or downplay COTW by showing the low playerbase pretty consistently so I'm glad people aren't allowing others to be persuaded to think less of the game or feel like they shouldn't even bother playing at all or something like that just because of a relatively low number from one platform where the game can be played (also a lot of times people would intentionally pick specific times of the day where people weren't playing to show the 'low' player count)

also in other news, DMC3 Crimson is finally here

a little sloppy gameplay because the progression in this game with mods gets fucked up a little bit so my styles weren't upgraded to max

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/category/creature_collector

Sale on Pokemon games

[bitter stream]

yeah, some neat ones on sale, though I've not tried em

Is casset beasts any good?

[gaunt marten]

I'm not interested in that one

[bitter stream]

ah, is pokemon style games not your thing?

[gaunt marten]

No, I like them! Just not that one

I recommend https://store.steampowered.com/app/814370/Monster_Sanctuary/

Steam

Monster Sanctuary

Master the Monster Sanctuary!
Delve deep into the Metroidvania inspired world of Monster Sanctuary, explore the expansive lands and call upon your monsters to lend their aid in and out of combat! Use their unique skills to fly, ride and brute force your way through environmental puzzles and precise platforming! The world is yours to traverse as…

Price

$7.49

Recommendations

9272

Metacritic

81

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[bitter stream]

interesting, i'll take a look. Platformer Pokemon sounds different

oh it has a randomiser built in? neat

[gaunt marten]

Hell yeah

And it's archipelago compatible

[bitter stream]

oh nice, A few friends of mine have been going ham on that addon/mod/thing

and at the current price, it seems like a good deal

[gaunt marten]

Mind you, the deal right now is 75% off on the game plus the soundtrack and artbook

The base game itself is not discounted. If you wait for it to get discounted you can get it for half as much

[bitter stream]

ah ok, I'll check the price history

yeah looks like it goes as low as 7$AUD pretty frequently

I'll put it on my wishlist and see if a sale pops up

thanks for the recomend and price advice

[gaunt marten]

Good luck! I hope you enjoy it

[gaunt marten]

I like how they're marking coriander as a poison https://i.imgur.com/JHIORx9.png

[wind stump]

mmm, tastes like soap

[visual hill]

I think market saturation happened around 2023. It's the downside of the "we're eating good" phase

I have no idea how SF6 manages to stay popular to be fair

[grave tide]

https://www.xda-developers.com/89-million-steam-account-details-leak/

Change password, 2FA service was hacked

[cunning galleon]

o

[gaunt marten]

Do not change your password

Also, 2FA service was NOT hacked

If you use steam's 2FA, stick with it. If you don't, start using it.

Change your password when Valve lets you know that you should

[cunning galleon]

Why not? I forgot what it was anyway

[visual hill]

I've just changed my password

it was also an opportunity to transfer my authenticator, since I sold my previous phone

the transfer code is sent by SMS so thankfully I wasn't locked out

otherwise, I would have been in trouble

[gaunt marten]

Changing your password when an unknown vulnerability is going around can just make your new password vulnerable too.

[visual hill]

to be fair, if they got strong hashes (and strong passwords) from the leak, it will take a while for them to crack even a single password

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, and if you use 2FA it doesn't matter whether they know the password

[visual hill]

I doubt Valve is using SHA-256 for password hashing

something tells me they are using something at least a bit more secure... 🙂

[graceful bridge]

https://bsky.app/profile/khemia.moe/post/3lp55pvdtb22u

Khemia Mistwalker 💎🐉 Crystal Dragon VTuber (@khemia.moe)

-# ↩ ChaosMole (@chaosmole.bsky.social)
The person who this article uses as a source was contacted by Valve and told that they don't use the vendor in question at all.

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Bluesky · May 14, 2025, 1:56 PM

So the entire thing was likely a hoax.

[gaunt marten]

The article says as much

[wind stump]

ehhhh don't need to worry about that last one, fuck PETA.

[gaunt marten]

https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lp5gttmudc2h

SteamDB (@steamdb.info)

The alleged "Steam data breach" appears to be SMS delivery logs from some provider, if it is true at all. Twilio says there is no indication that this data was obtained from Twilio.

You don't have to change your password, such a provider would not have your account information.

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Bluesky · May 14, 2025, 4:40 PM

[visual hill]

new Quake 2 episode being worked on by the community 🙂
https://youtu.be/wBd4Q8xotpE

[sacred grove]

https://bskyx.app/profile/tannerofthenorth.bsky.social/post/3lp572utm5c2c

So it was apparently an AI hallucination spread as fact

[quiet swift]

Go home underdark.ai, you're drunk

[river veldt]

good grief

genuinely scary

[wind stump]

finally, did this without dying

[cerulean herald]

you should go to the hospital

[wind stump]

nah

[fickle garnet]

Idk if I'll be able to finish DMC1, got to the ||third Nelo Angelo|| fight, and have not been able to get past it

I got farther into the game than I thought I would tbh

[tropic kindle]

OOOH!

Oh my goood….

Finally

[gaunt marten]

Nine Sols: https://i.imgur.com/U8s0Sv0.png

Ji was a lot easier in the second playthrough

The only boss so far aside from the first one that I didn't die to

[little badger]

@river veldt

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/533224478739530145?l=english

You do not need to change your passwords or phone numbers as a result of this event. It is a good reminder to treat any account security messages that you have not explicitly requested as suspicious. We recommend regularly checking your Steam account security at any time at https://store.steampowered.com/account/authorizeddevices

We also recommend setting up the Steam Mobile Authenticator if you haven’t already, as it gives us the best way to send secure messages about your account and your account’s safety. ```

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e57JN5V6NbM (haven't watched yet, so possibly spoilery?)

[astral steeple]

Dead island 2 will be free on epic games store in 30 minutes

[random steppe]

No spoilers here really

[astral steeple]

• The Witcher 3 ($20 → $4)
• GTA 5 Enhanced ($30 → $15)
• Red Dead Redemption 2 ($60 → $15)
• Alan Wake 1 Remaster ($8 → $1)
• Alan Wake 2 Deluxe ($63 → $25)
• God of War ($40 → $16)
• Cyberpunk ($53 → $21)```

Holy lol

[random steppe]

Witcher 3 for 4 bucks is pretty solid

[gaunt marten]

The Witcher 3 80%
GTA V 50%
RDR 2 75%
Alan Wake 1 87.5%
Alan Wake 2 60%
God of War 60%
Cyberpunk 60%

[random steppe]

I assume it's without the two expansions?

Now I'm curious, I'm gonna check

[gaunt marten]

Complete Edition is more expensive but also 80%

[random steppe]

Very nice

[cunning galleon]

RDR2 for 15? Damn

[astral steeple]

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/roblox-now-lets-creators-sell-physical-products-within-their-experiences/

[river veldt]

yeah that's an amazing deal

[wind stump]

-# yeah but how bout just pirating it so it costs 0

[worthy rose]

Lol, so i signed up and got selected for a survey/questionnaire thing that a market research company is doing. Seemed to be about digital card games as it asked about my experience playing hearthstone. Got there on time, signed in, 10 of the 12 people were asked to go to the next room. US lucky two were let go and immediately paid. 175$ for doing nothing

Though I am curious what the survey would have been about, exactly

[arctic fern]

You're the control group
They're taking a study on people who answer studies

[proud warren]

this is official: battle cats is getting a sonic collab

[young creek]

LETS GOOOOO

[proud warren]

i really hope it doesn't stay in japan