general gaming

[astral bolt]

God this music is as good as it always was

[river veldt]

who wanted to be pinged about Persona 4 i forgot

[random steppe]

At Fate's End (next game from the Spiritfarer devs) and Gears of War

[little badger]

Sea of thieves?

[young creek]

I need a guy to come on stage and say one more thing

[slim thorn]

oh, right, I still haven't tried Spiritfarer

[river veldt]

Rare when will you make Banjo Threeie

[orchid sundial]

LFG PERSONA 4

[rancid herald]

where spyro 4

[astral bolt]

Pirate Borderlands, but it's the movie version of Borderlands

[river veldt]

Season 17 oml

[young creek]

Oh the boys video game

[astral bolt]

They made an Invincible game?

[river veldt]

oh Invincible ?

[astral bolt]

Who would play a game where you get your ass kicked?

Oh right, Souls games

[river veldt]

i still need to watch season 2 and 3

[astral bolt]

I like the cell-shading tho

[young creek]

this looks good but do they have any gameplay

[slim thorn]

tbf that's also nearly every game where the MC is way stronger at the end

[river veldt]

yeah it looks really nice

[astral bolt]

Lmfao

[random steppe]

Ok probably the best genre for this

[astral bolt]

3 Viltrumites vs Invincible and two people who would die from being breathed on by a Viltrumite

[river veldt]

oh it's a fighting game.....

[random steppe]

I was about to comment how little I am interested in playing an Invincible game, but this makes sense

[astral bolt]

Yeah saw that coming a mile away

[young creek]

i think maybe a 3d type fighting game like some of the dragon ball games could have worked

feels like theres so many of these new 2d fighters

DID ANYBODY ORDER A FUCKING PIZZA

[astral bolt]

Is this part 2 out of 15 for FF7 remake?

[young creek]

What..

[river veldt]

oh ! it's coming to Xbox

[young creek]

No that was part 1

[river veldt]

yeah

[young creek]

Why is it not on xbox yet

[random steppe]

FFXVI as well I assume

[astral bolt]

Sephiroth shows up in PArt 1? I thought Part 1 ends when you leave the city

[river veldt]

iirc it was only on playstation for a while

[random steppe]

It was originally a PS exclusive, I assume they had a pretty long excluvie clause on it

[young creek]

Sephiroth shows up every 5 minutes because he has no life

[river veldt]

true.....

[astral bolt]

That tracks for him

[young creek]

Im near the end of Remake I think

im climbing Shinra tower

[slim thorn]

it does, Sephiroth is introduced in the city

[river veldt]

holy shit double fine

[astral bolt]

I don't remember that but I trust you

[river veldt]

psychonauts 3

[random steppe]

This is slighly nightmarish

[young creek]

In the original Sephiroth does not show up in Midgar just so we're clear

its new in Remake

[random steppe]

I don't think I ever played as a lighthouse in a game

[slim thorn]

iirc one of the big act 1 twists was that Sephiroth ||kills the Shinra CEO who you were there to kill, which ofc throws off all of your plans||

[young creek]

No that happens in the original too

But you dont see it happen

[astral bolt]

Oh okay

[slim thorn]

ah

[river veldt]

this is kind of nightmarish

keeper

[young creek]

A GUY ON STAGE

Hes here to say one last thing

[river veldt]

stop being ahead of me

[random steppe]

It's gonna be TES

If it's only one thing

[river veldt]

it hasn't been two hours yet

[young creek]

whats TES

[river veldt]

25 years of Xbox

[random steppe]

The Elder Scrolls

[river veldt]

the elder scrolls

HALO ?

[young creek]

Balatro mentioned

[astral bolt]

[young creek]

One last thing...

[random steppe]

I do bet on TES sadly

[young creek]

fuuuuuuuck

[little badger]

Halo?

[young creek]

Fuck you stupid ass robot

[river veldt]

gotta be Silksong

[random steppe]

Nevermind

[river veldt]

o

[young creek]

Alright guys but they are actually going to show it at the June Nintendo Direct

see you there

[river veldt]

ok i believe you

[astral bolt]

Detroit: Become Human Too

[river veldt]

but if you're wrong im gonna be upset

[slim thorn]

how many directs are there now

[young creek]

🤣

[astral bolt]

Another great day for Silksong fans, see you next time

[river veldt]

idk there's the weird Outer Worlds one right after this

[little badger]

Next is gamescom in August

[river veldt]

probably gonna be a June Nintendo Direct too there usually is

why would you squish the butterfly :(

oh

[random steppe]

The irony is that they did give us new footage, so it's not nothing.

[grave tide]

When we got 6 games of Black Ops series

WTF

[astral bolt]

Yeah we saw Greener Path, and wall climbing

[random steppe]

Also yeah, IDK why I didn't see this coming, they own COD now, of course that'd be the "one last thing"

[river veldt]

did they seriously "one last thing" a CoD

[random steppe]

Makes perfect sense

[river veldt]

well the handheld Xbox looks pretty cool

[rancid herald]

is it over, are we free?

[cerulean herald]

What games did they show

[visual hill]

looks like an Ally with handles, which is intruiging

it'll probably harm portability, but it's not like you can fit a ROG Ally in a pocket anyway

(or a Steam Deck for that matter)

[young creek]

super meat boy 3d was the only good one

[river veldt]

Indiana Jones DLC looks cool

[hidden elbow]

This looks nice
https://youtu.be/8hwNM-OVS6s?si=exX9rNTpgjfujXJP

[random steppe]

Imo this was easly the best thing they've shown; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIXzZF9uiVQ

[hidden elbow]

I was surprised by how many new ips there was

[random steppe]

I can't wait to cry like a baby

[young creek]

That was the best thing but I couldnt remember the name

[cerulean herald]

Ooh

[hidden elbow]

Yeah , Spiritfarer was.....it hit me harder than i expected

[wind stump]

P4R pog

[arctic fern]

Wait why are we mentioning spiritfarer?
I haven't been following the stream or conversation

Was there a sequel mentioned?

[hidden elbow]

This game

[wind stump]

should have been called Persona 4 Rewind

[arctic fern]

Well I'm sold

[hidden elbow]

Me too , the game looks excellent

[arctic fern]

Spiritfarer made me fully break down crying
I'm not ashamed to admit it
What a powerful experience
I haven't finished it
I stopped after the ||hedgehog lady||

[random steppe]

The trailer for At Fate's End looks really good too

I would be hyped even if it wasn't from the Spiritfarer's dev

But it is which it's even better

[grave tide]

What I missed in last 10 minutes on PC Gaming Show?

[wind stump]

-# sheeeka
-# shiiiiikaaa

[grave tide]

WTF, Payday 3 is so bad, so we have clones of it

[hasty patio]

Den of Thieves was always going to come out, but it is headed by one of the former devs (and the voice of Wolf in the Payday series), along with a few folks from that studio.

[quiet swift]

shauniiiiiiii

[old notch]

A spiritual successor for guns of icarus, in space, just got announced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQSOF3HGQo4

[wind stump]

G A Y P R I D E N E E D L E Z

[hasty patio]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/602960/announcements/detail/499449376025873325

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H-wslA4kbY

[arctic fern]

i should play baro
i was a beta tester for the steam release

[hasty patio]

TIL

[arctic fern]

yeah! before manechat i spent a significant amount of time playing the early free baro game demo thin with a public community server and discord
...lotta drama bullshit

dont hang out there anymore

[umbral zinc]

😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

i'm incredibly crying and happy and shitting myself

[astral steeple]

Why is call of duty black ops 7 releasing on xbox one and ps4 LMAO

[hasty patio]

Because they can and it will make some money.

[light gate]

Wait so Microsoft announced Xbox Ally, and the trailer just shows a fullscreen Xbox UWP app? So its still Windows but instead of the desktop booting, its the app?

I don’t think its gonna work well.

I hoped for the OS to be fully integrated but I guess its the bare minimum.

[visual hill]

that's how it works on the ROG Ally

[orchid sundial]

it's gonna run worse than bo6

welcome back bo3 for ps3/x360

this is literally bo3 ps3/x360 3

the second was bo6 on ps4/xbo

[quiet swift]

...expedition 42, what did you DO. Why is there a Souls boss fog door!?!?!

....oh god

[astral steeple]

Dawg wtf

I thought it'd take the money out now

[hidden elbow]

....oh so THIS is why they had to rewrite a good portion of the code

[craggy vine]

||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPJCiBra9aw||

Oh sorry I forgot it's 2025

God damn it I miss playing SCP and all the mods

I loved SCP Ultimate edition

Would love to play some of the older mods but they are on old versions and old SCP kinda sucks compared to the newer versions

[bitter stream]

that's a disturbing thumbnail... why did MLP get so accompanied by horror themes in some of its fanworks i'll never know

Minecraft I get it, it's kinda a horror game early on without some armour.

Mon Hun, strangely enough, isn't horror coded that much, you're sorta expected to work your way up to tough fights.

It has little hints of it for people that aren't hunters though

[green fulcrum]

Can you please maybe get rid of that embedded thumbnail By putting < and > around the link? It's making me uncomfortable. :/

Sorry

[wise frigate]

This is a legendary picture how does it make you uncomfortable

[craggy vine]

hm I have spoilered it

[craggy vine]

Well, SCP Containment Breach is a full on horror game. And this just a mod of SCP. So I don't know why you're compared it to Minecraft

[hidden elbow]

Whats this ugly smiling about ?

[craggy vine]

SCP did have some odd mods for it, I remember the MLG mod as an example. Was just funny, and very very of its time.

[hidden elbow]

I kinda miss these old pony and mlg mods

[craggy vine]

I do too

[hidden elbow]

Sure they were.....hit or miss ,but really charming

[craggy vine]

https://www.gameoftheyear420blazeit.com/ anyone remember this?

[wise frigate]

Yup

[hidden elbow]

And sometimes lead to a true..... masterpieces

[craggy vine]

And there's pewdiepie playing it on the site eheh

[craggy vine]

omg yes

[hidden elbow]

be me a owner and a leader of one of the three families on the strip
Want to sabotage the owner of the street and take over vegas
Shoot in the head and throw in grave courier that was delivering platinum chip
After a few days he comes back with the goddess of the sun with him
What in a goddamn ?!

[craggy vine]

I will never get over mlp mods for l4d2

Especially for some of the other mods I combine it with

[visual hill]

it's edgy and MLP was pretty popular among edgy teenagers at some point, simple as that 😛

[craggy vine]

I was an edgy teen and that's how I got into mlp

I got into mlp because of cupcakes and rainbow factory

[visual hill]

reminds me of myhouse.wad's sudden rise in popularity, largely thanks to that audience

although myhouse.wad stands very well on its own and is a good play even if you're not a horror fan

[craggy vine]

omg yes

I love that

That is a lot more modern too I think

[forest shoal]

https://bsky.app/profile/jayeaaaaa.bsky.social/post/3lr6kvjlbac2y

Jaye (@jayeaaaaa.bsky.social)

JokeyPony: Pony-themed Balatro mod

Score lots of Chips with your favourite ponies!

Download here: github.com/Jayeaaaaa/Jo...

#mlp #mylittlepony #balatro

Bluesky · Jun 9, 2025, 2:15 PM

[wind stump]

babby

T H I C C

how are those goggles on

[visual hill]

Kirby and the Forgotten Fish

[wind stump]

lmao if you fail with a big enough fish Kirby Fucking Dies

SHINY FEESH

[wind stump]

[young creek]

some of those are stupid hard

[wind stump]

Thankfully the clear time is optional

[slim thorn]

wow, apparently it's not just me

[worthy rose]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/of-course-team-cherry-didnt-deign-to-tell-anyone-that-hollow-knight-silksong-is-arriving-before-christmas-in-a-weekend-of-showcases-but-via-a-random-discord-message/

[slim thorn]

okay, Apollo may be a very entertaining bird, but THIS IS NOT THE TIME

[random steppe]

To be fair, them saying this was literally damage control because the subreddit was about to militarise.

So it's not like it was something planned to be done that way

[visual hill]

I finished Sly 2, so I started Sly 3 this weekend

also, remember those red-blue 3D glasses? The game supports them! I don't have a pair of those at hand, but I remember using that when I was a kid

[slim thorn]

lol I remember that too

I also remember it not feeling any different from normal play for me

[visual hill]

I've been told the PS3 version kept that feature, while supporting active 3D glasses

[slim thorn]

I believe the biggest practical difference between 2 and 3 was that 3 overall has way more playable characters and minigames, so on that basis alone it's easy to understand someone preferring either game (personally I like 2 the most )

[fresh bane]

mmmmmmm look at those pixel chunks in those cutscenes mm mmm!

[slim thorn]

it is interesting that FMV like that was only poppular back when pixels only came in chunks

[visual hill]

relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wunfHCvkZAg

[fresh bane]

Yeah I just saw that video before installing the game and installing OpenJKDF2

Old Master Katarn...

[visual hill]

yeah, kind of a shame as the tech would have been a lot better in the HD era

[fresh bane]

PS3 era games with FMVs would've been interesting

also I don't know if it's because of the music which is incredible but this game just feels so much more elaborate and higher value production than Dark Forces already

it controls like a motherfucker though I gotta say, feels like the game only really wants you moving forward and turn by aiming rather than strafing because Kyle moves around like a car, if you keep moving forward he gets so fast and strafing kills your entire momentum really hard
there's also old game controls like jump being right click/X, spacebar being interact, C for crouching, X for secondary fire but I weirdly like all those things, I have more nostalgia for old PC game jank like this than I do for boomer shooters like Dark Forces 1 because unlike boomer shooters I grew up with old PC game jank

[fresh bane]

TIL, Windu wasn't the first purple lightsaber, and neither were the prequels the first SW live action productions to use as heavy CGI as they did

[visual hill]

streaferunning is pretty fun in this game, but you don't jump very far due to the high gravity

it looks like Quake but controls more like Doom

and yeah, there's a basic dynamic music system in place

also, the game has online multiplayer... I have yet to try it

[fresh bane]

Supposedly the openjkdf mod reworks some multiplayer stuff but... I doubt there's any people actually playing this specifically
Jedi Academy is your best best and even then I doubt it's too big of a playerbase there too

[fresh bane]

Aahhhh I knew it

[slim thorn]

I do have Jedi Academy installed and still haven't tried it

maybe I should plan on that next weekend in between RotN sessions

[fresh bane]

The jump and movement is very weighty but the jumps do go much further than I thought they would

[fresh bane]

I'd recommend a very quick and easy mod guide before jumping into it just to ensure no issues appear considering it's quite an old game
There's certain ones that don't add many intrusive crazy options and try to keep things as vanilla as possible

[slim thorn]

being on Steam isn't enough?

[fresh bane]

I'm not really sure myself, last time I played this game it was like 2014 in windows 7 and I did use vanilla everything, but it's been a while and most of these big mods started right around that time after the source codes leaked in 2013

https://youtu.be/Am21rf_f5U8?si=sg66Tw1_Z0sKWfHy

OpenJk is like the base mod for all these that the others are based on and build upon, it's the first one and the most vanilla one, just fixes for modern computers basically

JAEnhanced is for any extra bells and whistles that for a first casual playthrough may not be really necessary

I guess if you're not bothered by old game stuff then you could just go vanilla though

[slim thorn]

hm, "client" sounds like multiplayer stuff, which I wouldn't be doing anyway

(if I was that bothered by "old game stuff" I just wouldn't play old games :P)

[fresh bane]

Those two are for single player only, MP client is TaystJK because vanilla MP is dead and apparently potentially unsafe as well

[fresh bane]

I know I know, but you know some people may like things like widescreen support or better aspect ratio stuff and all that

Just thought I'd throw it out there just in case

[slim thorn]

I guess personally I'd rather just play the game in a suboptimal but stable state, than spend time doing tech support for a thing I don't even know if I like yet

[fresh bane]

Yeah, if the old game stuff doesn't bother you at all then it's completely up to you, game's still great regardless, the vanilla experience worked for me for years when I was a kid

[slim thorn]

for me part of the point of revisiting old games is to see the old game stuff without any filtering, so I can form my own opinion on it

like when I played RE2 both OG and remake

I may not be a fan of tank controls and the remake may be objectively better now (don't @ me), but I totally get why they work in the originals, and the comparison itself is tons of fun

[fresh bane]

That's fair, although this is less a case of a complete overhaul and more a case of installing RE2SHD instead of playing vanilla

[slim thorn]

e.g. coming off the remake I remember being genuinely shocked that OG Mr X was "just" a handful of scripted events in fixed locations

and it turns out OG RE3 was where the boss monster started doing dynamic chasing

weird how that flipped

[fresh bane]

I'm gonna play through DF2 for the first time but with some of those OpenJKDF enhancements just because I like the support for bigger resolutions and 60+ frames and such, just some nice modern port options but otherwise the same game, I'm not even gonna install any upscale or HD mods or anything, those do kinda mess things up for me when it comes to a first playthrough

[fresh bane]

Yeah.... Tell me about it

[slim thorn]

on the flip side, I don't think I've ever felt like "this type of game peaked 30 years ago and everything since just isn't as good"

there are a few cases where I think a game that old is roughly tied with modern entries (e.g. Link to the Past is shockingly good, LBW only barely beats it for me)

but not to the point that I'd replay the old thing over and over and over

every genre I care strongly about has newer games that are as good if not better (even if they're now indie revival things long past the genre's popularity peak)

[visual hill]

vanilla versions of JO/JK work OK on modern PCs, I would just increase FOV if playing on widescreen using the console (/cg_fov 106 for 16:9), and possibly use /r_ignorehwgamma 1; vid_restart to fix gamma issues if the game looks too dark

OpenJK is a better experience, but if you have no time for it, vanilla is still usable in 2025

it's the same for RTCW

[visual hill]

arena shooters are a bit like that, none of the modern attempts have lasting power

[fresh bane]

did you play or see anything about Echoes of Wisdom at all? I feel like it genuinely is one of the best 2D Zelda experiences

[fresh bane]

There's a handful of old games I replay the hell out of, especially survival horror games, RE1, RE2, RE4, Silent Hill 2, 3, I don't know what it is I just don't really get tired of replaying them every so often I'll fire them up and see how I do end, I even replayed a bunch of Crow Country
Interestingly I didn't replay Signalis at all, I think I associate that game with a lot more story emphasis and I never felt the need to revisit it based on the gameplay

Metal Gear too, but for a game like that and for some of the others like RE1 or RE4 it's mostly replaying them in a short span just because I'm going through all difficulties

I never replayed a whole bunch of any Zeldas though which is the other franchise I'm super big about, I've always been okay with playing them once, but maybe I'll get on that especially now that I lost my saves for all of them

[fresh bane]

that's good to know for me too, although I'll probably go for either OpenJK or JA Enhanced since I'm replaying this game for like, the millionth time now

so it'd be cool to experience with some enhancements

[slim thorn]

well, for me Signalis and Crow Country are an(other) example of newer games matching the earlier peak of classic RE+SH (not to mention most of the RE remakes)

I have played SH2… twice? and since then it’s all analysis videos and other people’s LPs

[slim thorn]

saw a bit, never felt like playing

[slim thorn]

oh right, with multiplayer you can’t just treat popularity and quality as independent variables

[green fulcrum]

It's also waaaay buggier than 2, iirc.

[craggy vine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpXwhqGmlMQ&list=PL3tRBEVW0hiAAPW-07x3LDpbfu_oEovxp
Nostalgia mode engage

Hey there's this new website called Youtube, where people can upload videos, and there's this guy called Markiplier uploading some really cool videos of games and they are so fun to watch

Broo this is just so weird seeing markiplier play scp for the first time, having no clue what is going on, with the video being so blurry you can only just make out what is happening

[green fulcrum]

I have become obsessed.

OBSESSED with this song. It's so good. It makes me cry. It makes me wonder. It makes me smile. It makes me whistle. It makes me hum. It makes me feel so happy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpkc-NU1KA0

@slim thorn It's no small wonder why you love this game so much (at least I think you do? I think I've seen you gush about it before.)

This soundtrack is beautiful.

I love banjos so much, and to hear it played so well here just makes me so giddy.

[cerulean herald]

I know Rom played it on VC before

[green fulcrum]

Wish I could've seen that. Oh well.

But God I could listen to this soundtrack for years on end and not get tired of it. This song in particular has been permanently etched into my brain. Something about it just calls to me.

[slim thorn]

it's the first game I made a randomizer for, and I've played most of the "story mods" the community's made, so yeah just a bit

[slim thorn]

TIL about the "leaf sheep", which I'm posting here because I don't think I've ever seen an animal that screams "Pokemon IRL" this much

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1_twa1nd3Rc/maxresdefault.jpg

[bitter stream]

yo that's amazing

go Leaf Sheep go

[slim thorn]

apparently it's a sea slug that photosynthesizes by "stealing" chloroplasts from the algae it eats

[bitter stream]

that's so metal

"My leaves grow greener with every algae I destroy!"

also must be some wicked biomechanics to do that

[gaunt marten]

Humans do the same

They eat food containing living bacteria, they don't digest the bacteria. The bacteria lives and reproduces inside of them, and helps them digest stuff their body can't, like complex carbohydrates

If your gut bacteria dies you start to suffer, so you can undergo poop transplant surgery to steal someone else's bacteria

[bitter stream]

they really use poop for that? isn't that kind of.. unhygenic?

or is it like a really tiny piece of it or something?

[gaunt marten]

It is unhygienic. That's why they make sure it's safe before they do it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_microbiota_transplant

The specifics vary and are still not set in stone

[bitter stream]

oh wild, thanks for the info

[astral steeple]

Wtf

Why'd they not include carnival and Chicago

[wind stump]

maybe they need unlocking

[astral steeple]

Nope they're just straight up not included

Unless they add them post launch

[wind stump]

https://youtu.be/d7ve2zWmkEA

squid

[gaunt marten]

https://i.imgur.com/OBzus6i.png

Excuse you?! I'm literally Genghis Khan, what do you mean "never succeeding in making a name for himself"?

I'm the only person to ever make a name for himself

[quiet swift]

https://www.gog.com/en/game/warhammer_40000_gladius_relics_of_war currently free!

[worldly summit]

nintendo: hey guys here's the biggest splatoon update in 2 years hope you enjoy it's coming on Thursday so not long to go 😃

are they insane

not to mention the reveal of a new game

[gaunt marten]

I think people are mad I'm pillaging their land which I rightfully invaded https://i.imgur.com/YYctIbN.png

[cerulean herald]

They should stop resisting

Ungrateful smh

[hushed onyx]

Reddit conquest of South Australia when?

[hushed onyx]

Surely Qin Shi Huangdi has to fall in that category too…Augustus Caesar also I suppose.

Rarefied company…

[gaunt marten]

I don't count Qin Shi Huangdi because the name doesn't ring a bell and it has to for it to count

[hushed onyx]

The first emperor of China, who literally invented the title “emperor of China”.

[quiet swift]

[green fulcrum]

And the second game still isn't out yet.

They released the trailers for it waaaay back in...2016? 2017?

[quiet swift]

I think there was one in 2008, actually

[slim thorn]

yeah this was legendary vaporware for a while

but BG&E was never the most popular title so it disappeared under the waiting for Half-Life 3 and later for Silksong

[quiet swift]

Ubisoft still hasn't announced as cancelled, shockingly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5wxNYPeinY ah, 2009

[eager bane]

Wonder what gets shut down first, the game or Ubisoft

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBJP-4OOMqQ and then these two

[river veldt]

pige

[gaunt marten]

This should be the last of the annoying nomad achievements where you click a lot a lot a lot https://i.imgur.com/PzHxbco.png

Remaining https://i.imgur.com/We1rMzI.png

Plus persistent survivor, which is playing the game from 867 to 1453

[river veldt]

adorable Terraria tattoo lol https://www.rxddit.com/r/Terraria/s/B2G8LHLsN2

[river veldt]

the Nintendo Switch 2 sold over 3.5 million units in the first 4 days

jeez louise

[cerulean herald]

[light gate]

The power of a plumber.

And a bunch of Karts.

[slim thorn]

and hardly any competition

[arctic fern]

on the one hand, im kinda glad that xbox is doing a handheld, on the other, i know its going to be a locked-in console OS, playing games that you can buy on steam cheaper, bringing nothing unique to the table, and therefore be worse than the steam deck

[slim thorn]

yeah, I wish competition was based on the actual systems, not on the associated exclusives

a lot can be said about Apple and Android but at least those phones are competing primarily on their phone-ness

[arctic fern]

i often feel like consoles are holding back gaming more than helping
every new game needs to work on a console that, by this point, is using years old technology, has to work on a controller with limited buttons, limited hardware, on a TV...

AAA games need to function on console, which inherently limits any creativity in UI and control scheme
oh and price

oh yeah, does microsoft and sony filter the games they release in console?

[slim thorn]

pretty much; ever since the discs became glorified DRM keys, I haven't seen the value in a physical console

(except of course handhelds for those of you who actually carry them around outside )

[arctic fern]

well the switch actually brings a unique aspect to the medium, being both a portable and stationary console genuinely brings a lot
plus unique games designed with the console specifically in mind, rather than being ports

i dont know about the swtich 2 yet but i've said for a while that the switch is the best actual console since the wii

[slim thorn]

yes I was including Switch under "handhelds" for that last statement

I wouldn't personally own one if not for the exclusives and still think it'd be healthier for everyone if games weren't so closely tied to consoles, but yes the Switch would clearly be worth owning for many people even if it wasn't relying on the Nintendo catalog

[arctic fern]

actually now i say that, i realise the xbox handheld actually DOES bring those things to the medium, admittedly a generation after nintendo did it first
but i cant trust microsoft
i know nintendo will make good games, microsoft cant even get halo right

their one unique title

"unique"

[slim thorn]

yeah...

(funny you phrase it that way, since half of Infinite's problem was being less Halo than a usual Halo)

[astral steeple]

I only played bits and pieces of the infinite insider test thing a while back and enjoyed it

5 was really good

Overall halo has been in a decent spot with 343

[arctic fern]

thats a brave take

[slim thorn]

I never understood the hate for 343 (well, beyond all the usual reasons the successor studio would get it before any actual fault) since 4 and 5 were perfectly solid, 5 even bringing good new ideas to the table, at least in the single player I can judge

Infinite felt way more like corporate mandates that don't gel with a Halo game than a developer issue

[arctic fern]

Probably because 4 and 5 were... fine
Halo was HUGE remember, 1 and 2 were literally the main selling points of Xbox Live, the first successful online console thing

They needed to be amazing and what we got was mediocre

Also the story was dum

[slim thorn]

oh yeah I remember

I was the only one who liked 5's story and I was upset that Infinite basically said "that all got resolved off-screen, don't worry about it, now let's redo a strange mish-mash of plot points from 4 and 5 since none of you remember those right"

[worldly summit]

I thought about it and realised I can't really name a Nintendo game I've played with a really good story. What should I check out to get that?

In this case I'm classifying Breath of the Wild & Splatoon, as being very immersive and rich in lore but the actual stories and characters tend to be nothing crazy

[arctic fern]

Paper mario and paper mario the thousand year door

[worldly summit]

ah yep, thousand year door is on switch right?

[arctic fern]

Re-released, yeah

Remastered actually

[worldly summit]

of course lol

I wonder how many people never heard of the game til last year

[arctic fern]

Nintendo don't generally focus on story, they focus on world design, level design and solid gameplay usually

Oh, the metroid prime games?

[wind stump]

Super Paper Mario, Wind Waker, most Fire Emblems, Kirby if you squint hard enough...

[arctic fern]

Wind waker, twilight princess and shudders skyward sword, yeah
Forgot there was much more lore and story in those games

[worldly summit]

ooh yeah actually, Three Houses is good right?

I didn't really hear anything good (nor bad) about Fire Emblem Engage

[wind stump]

I heard good things about it

(Three Houses)

[worldly summit]

yeah, maybe I'll check out one of those

[wind stump]

If you want to play TTYD, the remake is the definitive version.

[worldly summit]

I have Astral Chain unfinished but the gameplay is not a genre I'm familiar with

yeah TTYD and Three Houses seem up my alley

[arctic fern]

I'd recommend the original paper mario first, as ttyd is just better pm

[worldly summit]

pm?

[arctic fern]

Paper mario

[worldly summit]

ah yeah

[arctic fern]

Sorry I didn't feel like typing paper mario out again, because paper mario is long

Paper mario

[wind stump]

The problem with Paper Mario is that it's a nearly 30 year old game with no real "better" way to play it

[arctic fern]

Well you can emulate it very cheaply

[worldly summit]

whaaaat I would never even consider that .. . . out loud

[gaunt marten]

It's fine on dolphin

[worldly summit]

Fortune Street for Wii is 🔥 if you get it for the bargain price of 0 bucks

[gaunt marten]

That is, TTYD

[wind stump]

I 'spose.
But like, I'm thinking in terms of a modern player trying it out without all the bells and whistles TTYD remake has

[arctic fern]

If we're recommending games, pikmin 1 and 2 are fire af tho basically have zero story

I didn't personally enjoy 3 and 4 is fun but still feels... off to me

[worldly summit]

yeah I sometimes find that emu- I mean playing very old titles. The lack of common convenince features makes me less likely to come back the next day

Chrono Trigger was perfect though, I was blown away by how seamless it was to play

[wind stump]

fuck nintendo say the quiet part out loud and advocate piracy

[arctic fern]

Fucking millennial
Back in my day we had 8 bits and liked it
Conveniences like "autosaving?" We didn't have any saving

[slim thorn]

they're great, but they don't tell strong narratives

unless you're the kind of person who likes being let loose in a world with near zero context and spending half your playtime scanning every other rock, then the Metroid Primes are uniquely strong lol

[river veldt]

iirc you can install steam on it

[worldly summit]

yeah it can be really cool but would probably be for similar reasons as BOTW, not what I'm thinking of

[arctic fern]

That's fair

It's been a while

[worldly summit]

are you calling me a millennial or yourself a millennial?

[arctic fern]

It was a joke, I am a millennial

[worldly summit]

lol

I was gonna sa Gen Z doesn't know how to pirate games, it's a logical conclusion

[slim thorn]

I've only played Fire Emblems 7-10 myself, but of those 9 (Path of Radiance) absolutely had the best story. But I can't vouch for how it compares to e.g. Three Houses since I'm only ~halfway into Awakening atm.

[river veldt]

there's so many Fire Emblems wtf

[arctic fern]

Needs more fire, less emblem

[slim thorn]

careful, that's how you turn into FE9's final boss

[worldly summit]

sounds good! definitely appreciate tips on which entries are the best in a series like that, because I'd probably just play a few

looking at Final Fantasy in particular

[slim thorn]

yeah, FF is another series you probably need to gather multiple opinions on

[worldly summit]

I'd like to play 4, 6, 7, and 10. Most interested in 6, then 7, and the other two I'll see if I get around to

[slim thorn]

e.g. I've personally only played 7 and 9, so I can vouch for those both having great stories (albeit enormous ones that badly require you to dedicate enough time to get through the games before you forget everything)

[worldly summit]

ooh 9

[slim thorn]

but ofc if we're dropping the "Nintendo" qualifier and it's just best stories in any games, then I have to point at things like Disco Elysium or Planescape: Torment or Signalis or Silent Hill 2 for my personal preferences

[arctic fern]

Bin are you looking for uniquely Nintendo games or just games for the switch?

[arctic fern]

Good choices

[worldly summit]

looking for Nintendo properties yeah, happy to talk about other games tho ofc

[arctic fern]

Try the phoenix wright games

[slim thorn]

gotta end our epic saga with a nice cozy save-the-world final boss, got it

[arctic fern]

Lol

[worldly summit]

definitely! I have the original trilogy purchased I'm just sitting on it unplayed (like disco elysium)

[slim thorn]

(that's actually a very strong trend in the examples listed so far, both ways, lol)

[arctic fern]

I love seeing people experiencing phoenix wright for the first time
Join the thread for it when you start playing!

[slim thorn]

or in my case, the second time after forgetting everything

||still can't believe he tampered with the bird witness, who does that||

[worldly summit]

my steam library has OMORI, In Stars and Time, Yume Nikki, and Your Turn To Die of which I can be confident at least one of will become an obsession based on other games I enjoy

[slim thorn]

indeed, if I had infinite free time I'd likely have fit in some or all of those at some point

[worldly summit]

it's so hard to choose what game to play only to end up putting another 100 hours into Minecraft, but I choose carefully

[slim thorn]

Phoenix Wright does have the very obvious stopping points between the "cases", so that's a good one to do side-by-side with another game

[worldly summit]

mmm, would you say that if I enjoyed Phoenix Wright then I'd enjoy watching a streamer play through it after I've beaten the game?

context is one of my favourite streamers has playthroughs for basically every game in the series so I could just watch them play

[slim thorn]

personally I can't stand when people try to do amateur voice acting on every single line of a VN like that

[worldly summit]

lmao

[slim thorn]

but otherwise yeah it's definitely the kind of story where seeing other people's reactions, and who guessed what correctly how soon, is a big part of the fun

[gaunt marten]

Unless they're good amateurs

[worldly summit]

oh I'm absolutely losing my mind watching this youtube lets-player piece together THE reveal from Zero Time Dilemma

[slim thorn]

I still need to play that one, I've finished 999 and VLR

[worldly summit]

I won't say a word more

that mystery aspect is one of the only things the third entry has going for it

[river veldt]

good video about the manta boss from Super Mario Sunshine https://youtu.be/DjBZFczVV0U?feature=shared

[arctic fern]

Personally loved watching rtgames playthrough
Some streamers add voices which add to the experience

[wind stump]

if you want voices watch the anime

[arctic fern]

Still need to watch that!

[wind stump]

this makes the whole videos worth it

Cataquack is from Mario Sunshine, No. 48 is from Mario Land 2, Elder Shrooboid is Partners in Time and Rat Funk is Super Mario RPG.
thank you Google-fu

... okay hoiw the fuck does this guy go from making an hour long video on matchup methods that uses Fate footage to geeking out over a goddamn manta ray for half an hour

[arctic fern]

Adhd probably

[wind stump]

be me fighting a Spirit in Smash Ultimate because beans
lay down mine
try to bait opponent into it
"fuck it"
rolls into mine, hitting both me and the opponent and winning

[arctic fern]

Legit strats

[wind stump]

nothing like spending two minutes trying to choke slam Isabella as a very large demon man

[visual hill]

that's my favorite way to end games as Snake

[proud warren]

"There"

[visual hill]

I always hear it as "damn"

[wind stump]

god tho
this is why i remain a doc mario main

[proud warren]

Fun fact about Doc Maero, their neutral air's sweet spot in near the end of the moves life span rather than the beginning.

Unlike... basically every other single hit n-air out there

It can be really silly edge guarding with that move

[wind stump]

GOD I LOVE DOC

[proud warren]

Try the n-air, it feels very silly to land the sweet spot

[wind stump]

nah i need my meteor S M A S H

[proud warren]

pwease?

[wind stump]

"I said get off my stage and BY GOD I MEANT IT."
sends you to Hell

[gaunt marten]

I went to war with the Italian revolt for the duchy of Verona, which I got a claim on thanks to the pope, but winning the war didn't give me Verona, it gave me the whole of the revolt https://i.imgur.com/hECS9z9.png

The king of Italy doesn't mind, since I got it legally, and I ended the war fast, so the revolters couldn't surrender to the king for protection

[rotund forge]

Just finished the Ace Attorney Trilogy

Man that was a blast

[wind stump]

ROADHOG TIME

[river veldt]

#Indy and the Great Circle - noooo the doggy :(

[river veldt]

it's ok

i can just whip crack by it and it runs away

no dog death

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NVgwS2IbLA really interesting look into the voice actor video games strike

[quiet swift]

https://bsky.app/profile/shanasae.bsky.social/post/3lrdscyqhf22z

shanasae (@shanasae.bsky.social)

Got blindsided by a German translation today LMAO

What a treat it can be sometimes to know both languages djwidhakdbejf

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(ace, in english)

[minor plover]

this seems like something you'd call your friend when they're acting out of pocket

"Dave, you blitzball ass"

[rancid herald]

apparently SAG has suspended the strike against video games

[green fulcrum]

I mean, he is a bit of a Blitzball-ass character.

[cerulean herald]

What character/game is that?

[dense crypt]

Final Fantasy X

[quiet swift]

On a similar topic, during my stint at EA customer service for SWTOR, my favorite ticket ever was someone who was playing and they came across a space ship with the name ACE-PLUG 642, in english.

...The game was also fully translated in to German.

You can see where I'm going with this. 🍑

[fresh bane]

I remember always wanting to get into SWTOR especially because as a kid I would never say no to a Star Wars game that was $Free.99

but as a kid I didn't have a computer strong enough to run it and then I never got around to playing it

Maybe I should give it a shot sometime, I mean what do I have to lose?

unless it's one of those mmorpgs that are really really bad, in which case maybe not lol

[cunning galleon]

Interwar tank designs be like for some reason

[quiet swift]

It's actually pretty good! It is free to play, but what I'd recommend is one month sub, which unlocks all expansions' story/mission content up to the current status. Which is like 5 xpacs by now? Also I think you're limited in level as a pure free to play, but the 1 month unlocks the ability to go max level even if you unsub

There's 8 classes and they all have their own storyline, then the first two expansions have their campaign stories and I think some class specific stuff, by the third xpac (knights of the fallen empire/eternal throne) it's all one story for all classes, but it's a biiiig story

And it's all Old Republic era stuff

[fresh bane]

Content being unlocked even if you cancel the sub does sound really good
Although if enough substantial content is available for f2ps that sounds great because I don't even know if I like mmorpgs at all, it would kinda be the first one I even try at all, so it would be a great way to just try it out and see how it goes

[wind stump]

also til Replays in GG Strive record your inputs

and i am a FILTHY BUTTON MASHER

(but i fucking won, got 3 wins out of like 15 matches )

[gaunt marten]

I ought to have Glitterhoof banished https://i.imgur.com/SOm8sNF.png

... The pope too? https://i.imgur.com/1R2svWC.png

[gaunt marten]

If you sucessfully make or steal every book in the game, future books are just nothing https://i.imgur.com/aNnb86t.png

[gaunt marten]

The high chief of Epirus sent two guys all the way to siege my vassal in Wales https://i.imgur.com/jr2dSni.png

[quiet swift]

It's not all of it. I think it's like 6 or so xpacs total past the initial (level 50) content? I think you get the up to 50 stuff (class missions), then Rise of the Hutt Cartel, and then Shadow of Revan. The rest afterwards I think is not counted

[hushed onyx]

Lame, even Neoptolemus was a king.

[quiet swift]

Yep, just checked it. First two are included for the free stuff and its a lot of good stuff, the rest of the big story stuff i mentioned before starts with knights of fallen empire, etc, that needs t he sub

[river veldt]

can popes even drink

[river veldt]

horse ???????

[rancid herald]

They drink wine

But popes in general haven’t always been super holy like you’re thinking

Lot of pope bullshit over the centuries

[shell shore]

NOO I JUST FOUND OUT RE REQUIEM IS ONLY GONNA BE ON PS5

[gaunt marten]

Popes drink Jesus's blood, silly.

[river veldt]

idk how i forgot communion

[gaunt marten]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/500575275933763410

Steam now shows accessibility features like these in store pages and makes them searchable

[river veldt]

oh cool

[random steppe]

Very nice

[visual hill]

"Save Anytime", perfect for my savescumming needs

[gaunt marten]

Save any time doesn't necessarily mean "supports savescumming"

Crusader Kings 2 ironman mode allows you to save every time but in order to savescum you have to manipulate the save system out of the game

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/NXaDgU72gRI?si=z3JUJ3gDf_aCrh0u

MGS Delta: Snake vs Ape for Playstation, Snake vs Bomberman for Xbox versions

Secret Theater is back and there's some new original MGS Delta secret theater scenes

new MGO mode: Fox Hunt

I'm glad this is looking to be an experience worth going through even for people who already played MGS3 with all the new stuff that's being added on top of the entire gameplay just feeling like a much smoother modern version of what MGS3 already does, which is what a remake should always be
It's not quite the old MGO, but they are right in saying that the landscape of online games has changed and the appeal of simply full-on deathmatch servers isn't quite enough today

I imagine Foxhunt will have various different modes with various objectives but functionally, it's basically MGO

alright now I'm gonna skip the entire showcase to see the Silent Hill news

[river veldt]

this is so good omg

[fresh bane]

couple of gameplay shots of Silent Hill f

some of the new enemies

The team members and directors sound like they're really putting their everything into this and they seem very passionate about it, they might be cooking something great here

.......you motherfuckers

Silent Hill 1 remake

That theme suddenly starting after the end of the SH f showcase hit me like a ton of bricks

[worthy rose]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/roguelike/they-made-balatro-for-stock-trading-and-i-fear-i-may-never-write-another-article-ever-again/
For some reason, I feel like i should keep this away from Hclegend...

[visual hill]

lol, this is a real thing? I would have thought this is a shitpost usually

gotta use your franchises somehow...

[hollow folio]

Have any of u ever played the Mutant Beasts mod??

If u did, which one of the 4 main ones (creeper, skeleton, zombie, & enderman) did you have the most trouble fighting?

[cerulean herald]

I only saw YTers play with the mod (I had no idea how to install mc mods back then) but this def reminds me of mod showcases, which have practically gone extinct nowadays

[rotund forge]

Popularmmos was the goat. It's sad to see and hear all that has happened to him since then

[cerulean herald]

Yeah, that was very unfortunate, he was one of my most watched YTers back in the day

[cunning galleon]

I do want to say the cops handled that situation very very bad, and that's all i can say

(they ridiculed him for being a YouTuber, basically)

But yea, i agree. He doesn't really deserve this. He was also one of the YouTubers i used to watch back then

[river veldt]

watching old Jonas Neubauer Tetris matches and man, it's so sad how young he died

[river veldt]

https://youtu.be/a3ZGGIdpfEM?feature=shared

ive never seen this before it's pretty awesome

[bitter stream]

oh damn, that's cool

[slim thorn]

I remember this from back when Halo 3 was being hyped up

[bitter stream]

Halo at the time was huge right?

[visual hill]

I've installed a bunch of games on my Ally X, Halo MCC is one of them

[bitter stream]

wait, is that the new XBOX handheld you're talking about?

[slim thorn]

yeah, the original trilogy was massive

[visual hill]

trying to pick early-mid 2010s games mostly, so they run well without community patches but are not too demanding for 60 FPS

[slim thorn]

Halo 1 basically made console FPSs a thing

and Halo 2 basically made multiplayer console FPSs a thing

[visual hill]

it's the handheld the Xbox Ally will be based on

[bitter stream]

Ah I see, fair enough

How's it to play games on?
Yeah that's right, Halo 2 sort of made that cool

[visual hill]

it works well, Forza Horizon 4 can do 1080p60 with medium settings

I installed SteamOS earlier this week, so the interface is the same as a Steam Deck

[bitter stream]

oh awesome

[slim thorn]

I never personally looked up sales numbers but it feels like 3 was the peak of the franchise's mainstream popularity

[bitter stream]

I've kinda given up trying to get "Good Multiplayer FPS" on PC after being served 3 separate video ads after each match in "The Finals". If i'm gonna deal with that, I may as well play R6S, so I'm re-installing that.

Yeah could well be Ixrec

[slim thorn]

while 4, 5 and Infinite feel like... well, the term "sequel trilogy" is a bit tainted but honestly the situation is not that different from Star Wars's ST

[bitter stream]

was 4 and 5 bad? I've not played em

[slim thorn]

so I enjoyed 4 and 5 about as much as 1-3

[visual hill]

The Finals mentioned!!1

[slim thorn]

in fact 5 has the most unique core gameplay loop of 1-5 in a few ways, mainly additional movement options (jetpack hover/slide) and controllable NPC spartans; it's the one I often "miss" features from when I replay the other Halos

[bitter stream]

Do you play The Finals Calinou?

Ah, seems neat Ixrec

[visual hill]

no

I'm just aware of the meme 😛

[slim thorn]

but story-wise, Infinite throws out everything 5 was doing, and 5 arguably undoes some of what 4 did; they certainly were not written together as a coherent story the way 1-3 feel like they were

(although I'm sure 1 was originally written without any sequel guarantees, you don't feel that when playing 1-3)

[bitter stream]

ah, that's a shame

[slim thorn]

and, let's face it: you can't really match the peak of "made console FPS a thing", at some point you can only go downhill

Oh right: and Infinite is the least interesting for gameplay. It's still fun, but IMO everything it does well was already done well in 1-5 (especially 3), so it's the only main entry I never felt like replaying. In particular, "open world" just doesn't make sense for Halo. It was never that kind of game.

even the Halo: Reach prequel managed to stand out by focusing on a bunch of other spartans who... don't have the extreme plot armor that Master Chief does

[bitter stream]

ah right, that's a fair point

Hell Halo is kinda built on "cool levels"

The Library

[slim thorn]

but it does feel like everyone just lost interest in the series after Infinite came out and seemingly impressed no one

[bitter stream]

yeahh

[slim thorn]

it's funny you picked this example because that's the usual pick for a Halo level that overstayed its welcome
(but I agree it looks cool, if you just deleted a couple of the cool but copy-pasted hallways no one would mind)

[bitter stream]

huh, I guess when I played, it just seemed difficult, and fun

[slim thorn]

probably part of it is that I hear chatter from the kind of people who replay Halo on higher difficulties

and every level is longer on the higher difficulties

iirc even for Legendary speedrunners, certain parts of the Library are just RNG

like when you get locked in that tiny room and flood pour in, including the shotgun guys who can one-shot you at that range on that difficulty

anyway

I guess if I had to pick a single "cool iconic Halo level", it'd be The Silent Cartographer

that has a nice mix of indoor/outer, vehicle/non-vehicle, beach/forest/forerunner terrain, all the major covenant types including hunters and cloaked elites, all tightly interconnected in a straightforward but effective way

(and I'm pretty sure I'd be saying that even if it wasn't the specific level that Outer Wilds referenced)

[bitter stream]

ahhh yeah, i can see that

Did you ever play the modern DOOMs?

[slim thorn]

I did play 2016 and Eternal, haven't felt like TDA

2016 was really fun at the time in part because it's such a different approach to shooting from the Halos

[slim thorn]

oh, with Halo 3's "The Covenant" as a close second, probably first for some (all the "nice mixes" apply here too, but also there's both covenant and flood, it even has the double scarab setpiece fight, and there's even a good back-and-forth story-wise with which of your allies and enemies make headway in what order)

[bitter stream]

ooh neat, I lookforward to getting to that

I've got MCC, playing through 1 slowly

[graceful bridge]

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/12/steam-finally-goes-native-on-apple-silicon-heres-how-to-try-it/

[visual hill]

2016's multiplayer was made by the same devs as Halo 4 multiplayer, which is why they feel quite alike

singleplayer is a different story, of course

[wind stump]

nice.

[visual hill]

wait until you discover Snooze + crit charged fsmash at ledge

or Snooze + Psyche Up charged fsmash at ledge, that should work too

[fresh bane]

oh hell yeah you can actually sort of bhop in this game, good to know

who needs force powers man

[cerulean herald]

why cant they fly using the force, are they stupid

[rugged flax]

look at the specs requirement for this game I found on Steam
Cookie if you can spot what's sus about this

[green fulcrum]

No cookies for me, it seems. What's wrong with it? Is it the fact that the CPU recommendations are the same for both?

[rugged flax]

16GB RTX 3070 never made it to retail
As far as I know, every 3070 only ever had 8GB of VRAM.

[river veldt]

idk why but it reminded me of the undertale soundtrack system requirements

[quiet swift]

A shit ton of ram /vram needed?

ah, scrolling down helps

[green fulcrum]

The only serious one is the storage space, lol

[rugged flax]

and yes, it is a shitload of ram/vram
it reeks of unoptimized Unreal 5

[quiet swift]

I present to the channel: absolute eldritch horror.

[rugged flax]

what in the fuck

[quiet swift]

As I said. Horror.

[fresh bane]

This gives me the same feeling I would get as a kid watching the Star Wars prequels everytime Coruscant would appear on screen and you see all the busy traffic in the background

[quiet swift]

Or Trantor in Foundation. City planets, basically

[cerulean herald]

makes me think of Star Wars 1313, what could have been

[light gate]

Deltarune OST has a different type of comment lol.

[fresh bane]

my goodness this platforming

I know this was checks date 1997 but man
it's not even that it's particularly unresponsive though that too a little bit, but it's just so tricky and unclear the first time

but also something cool I noticed while swinging this thing around is that it actually controls fairly similar to how they'd make it control in Outcast and Jedi Academy later on, where the swings you perform are dictated by which direction you're currently moving in, which is actually pretty cool, left and right for wide swings, back for a nice upwards slash and forward for a little flurry
it adds a little bit more intentionality behind the combat instead of just being wild random swings every time, makes you feel more in control of what you're actually doing

also I heard that the Mysteries of the Sith expansion for this game is god awful so I'm excited to see what that's gonna be like

but it has Mara Jade as the protagonist so I gotta check it out

[gaunt marten]

Rimworld devs fixed pathing

Previously it was singlethreaded with some sort of node-based shortcut that made it commit all sorts of silly mistakes

Now it's multithreaded and works properly

[random steppe]

I can't wait to somehow fuck shit up because I adjusted my gameplay to my pawns pathing like drunk chickens for half a decade.

Good shit though

[visual hill]

This is what a great management game looks like before it dies.

[visual hill]

I remember that stage

[visual hill]

it's not awful but it's worse than the first game

...like most 90s game expansion packs, to be fair

I think only HL: Opposing Force is a real standout

most expansion packs are not terrible either, but some exceptions like Duke Nukem 3D: Nuclear Winter exist

[wind stump]

YOU'RE NOT MEEEEE

[wind stump]

that is adorable

[proud warren]

The fatty whale cosplay is insane

[wind stump]

NEED

[peak berry]

a cool dump

[wind stump]

EXPLOSIIIOOOON

[fresh bane]

You know this is making me realize I never actually played a single Kirby game before

I don't even know what they're about

[wind stump]

smal pink ball kills god

@fresh bane Do you want some recommendations on which Kirby game to play first? You have a lifelong Kirby fan right here to give some (probably) good opinions

[fresh bane]

I mean I can't say I'm aching to play Kirby right now but now that I'm thinking about it I guess I could get one or two recommendations to check what these games are like in the future

[green fulcrum]

I understand this reference, lol.

[snow tartan]

i do know that super kirby clash 2 is free and there’s a couple of free demos too

[snow tartan]

wait is it 2? i can never remember i haven’t played that game in years

[wind stump]

Okay so first of all, this is my opinion and I'm very partial towards praising Kirby games in general, this shit is my blood

So, I think some good picks are Kirby Super Star/Ultra (The DS remake that adds new content, but DS games are kind of a pain to play IME), Return to Dreamland (Either the original Wii version or the Switch rerelease are good, the Switch version also has new content, but shouldn't really have bearing what you play, both are good games and are very much the smae outside of one or two additions)

I personally love Triple Deluxe on 3DS, but that was the first Kirby game I played since like Super Star so I do have a bias towards it and even then I think while it's not a bad game overall, you should probably not pick it as your first. Planet Robobot on the other hand is very much a solid pick (Same console/engine, just a lot more polished IMO)

Finally there's Forgotten Land, the newest entry in the series and also one that completely changes the game from 2D platformer to 3D linear sorta collectathon-ish gameplay. It's a fantastic game to be sure, but it's not exactly representitive of a majority of Kirby games.

Special mention to Kirby Star Allies for basically being a big celebration of the franchise as a whole. but it only got really good with the last update/free DLC patch and a lot of that comes from the fanservice so I would say avoid that until you get some familarity with the other games.

One game I would advise avoiding outright is the original Kirby's Adventure, since Nightmare in Dreamland is basically a wholly superior version of it and there's little reason to play it other than seeing how badly it aged, lmao.

There's other games like Kirby 64 the Crystal Shards and Kirby and the Amazing Mirror that have their own quirks (the latter being an up to 4 player metroidvania and the former being a 2.5D game that features the ability to have two powers at once (so like you can combine Fire with Sword to make a big flaming sword you yeet at enemies or fire and bomb to make a firework)

as you can tell i like Kirby a fair bit

[gaunt marten]

I think Kirby Super Star Ultra is both the best version and the easiest to play

[wind stump]

It is but I do have nostalgia for the OG Super Star because I had it on Virtual Console

[gaunt marten]

The original is not bad

[wind stump]

I am 100% biased, ngl

Ultra is probably the better pick (Hell, any of the updated ports like Return to Dreamland DX or Nightmare in Dreamland are)

tho Return DX has one quirk that i find hilarious, that one of the bosses on the Extra difficulty had their theme replaced with Roar of Dedede from Forgotten Land

which i can't even be mad at, that's just a straight objectively good choice

[slim thorn]

fwiw, I've personally played Amazing Mirror, Canvas Curse and Epic Yarn; I enjoyed all of those, though didn't feel any were god-tier must-plays, and obviously that's nowhere near enough of the series to give advice as useful as Hc's

[river veldt]

Forgotten Land is good

[gaunt marten]

https://i.imgur.com/D7AhCvb.png You don't have to make it weird, we're married

[gaunt marten]

After two thousand hours of stalling in case I got this achievement at random, it finally happened https://i.imgur.com/1jfEx5b.png

[hasty patio]

That is a PITA to do. Congrats.

[gaunt marten]

Thanks

In order to maximize your chances you need to invite a smart person with each education type and level four education trait and assign them to the appropriate child then get lucky five times

And you also need to manually assign each child to the education focus they need or else they're unlikely

In my case I just made sure to have as many children as possible

[wind stump]

I'd say "useful" is subjective when dealing with someone who absolutely adores the Kirby series

[gaunt marten]

Today I learned an interesting fact about the Islamic Iqta system, wherein the Caliph granted land to nobles and commanders in lieu of salary, expecting them to maintain troops and collect taxes (keeping some for their use).

Turns out that unlike in CK2, it was not supposed to be hereditary, and when you die the land is assigned to someone else

It only became hereditary in regions of decentralized rules, and eventually this decentralized rule progressed into full autonomy, where the local leaders had full control and no longer reported to the Caliph

You were supposed to have regular audits, and income beyond a set limit was sent back to the Caliph, who was expected to use it for the good of all Muslims

In CK2, both Caliphs and smaller rulers had Turkish-style open succession where the strongest or most fortunate of your sons inherited your position

(even in times prior to the succession system existing)

[hushed onyx]

TBH, that's how most "feudal" systems (very heavy scare quotes there) get started. The king appoints local governors and in theory they're supposed to just be appointed representatives of the king who can be replaced at will or at least arbitrarily at death, but in practice they try to manuever their way into it being hereditary.

You see similar patterns in Ancient Egypt with the nomarchs during various periods, and in Japan in the Nara period leading into the long decentralization of the Heian period and the shogunates.

[gaunt marten]

I wonder what a good way to simulate that would be in CK2.

You start with viceroyalties for kingdoms, duchies and counties, plus free retraction of titles and vassals. Vassals give you less tax and levy if they don't like you (CK3 has the hooks system which is more effective for this) and may rebel if they think they can win

There still needs to be a good way to simulate the natural move from centralization to decentralization that is actually hard to combat

[hushed onyx]

Vassals have plots and can use hooks (in CK3) to get you to appoint their children as count/duke/king after them, and if that happens several times then they can also get plots to convert from a viceroyalty to a hereditary holding.

They're especially likely to do this when the ruler has just ascended, so it becomes difficult to oppose them.

[cunning galleon]

FN Surcuof, based on the submarine Surcuof!

Well, its literally just the sub under all those extra additions

[quiet swift]

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[river veldt]

lmao

[young creek]

guy said fuck motion controls

game said fuck you

[arctic fern]

Omg amazing

[static bluff]

I've been waiting to do this for years but never had the hardware. I can now seamlessly play my PC games in the theater room. My old PC acts as the middleman. I'm using Moonlight and Sunshine to connect them. It's magic and perfect.

[visual hill]

whoa, nice

these days, Apollo + Artemis tends to be used more since they perform automatic resolution/refresh rate changing (useful for streaming to devices of varied resolution). They create a virtual display so your PC's display is unaffected

[eager bane]

Wish we AMD users had an equivalent to that
Awesome setup!

I just use a really long HDMI cable

[visual hill]

Sunshine/Moonlight works on any GPU vendor

even macOS as a host is possible

[visual hill]

I do that too because it has lower latency and higher quality

4K 144 Hz gaming in the living room from a 5090 is pretty nice

[eager bane]

Oh, damn! I had in mind that there was some NVidia exclusive thing that AMD didn't have at some point.
I switch hardware pretty regularly and remember that I was super happy with that Nvidia implementation, but had trouble getting a similar streaming quality with my back-then AMD gpu

Might try again sometime.

[visual hill]

the server part used to be NVIDIA-only until Sunshine came along

NVIDIA eventually deprecated GameStream and removed it from their drivers last year

[gaunt marten]

You don't need any GPU to do that

[eager bane]

As mentioned above, in the past I only really had decent streaming quality with that Nvidia protocol it's been a while

[static bluff]

Oh thank you for the tip! I've never done anything like this before so I must have been using old info

[light gate]

I didn’t know Tomb Raider 2 was gonna start this hard. Looks deceitfully easy but I died like ten times.

[visual hill]

this is a rather new development (6 months ago or so)

[fresh bane]

*Miller liked that

[fresh bane]

the greatest soldier of the 20th century

[slim thorn]

those are some loud footsteps

[fresh bane]

Well to be fair Big Boss is a pretty heavy dude

At least strong enough to stop a Metal Gear leg by himself

[slim thorn]

Rules of Nature moment

[fresh bane]

Yeah basically

[fickle garnet]

I beat Cerberus in DMC3

I just hovered around the back of the arena while shooting the fuck out of him with Ebony & Ivory

[fresh bane]

Pretty much how everybody deals with him the first time around

[toxic seal]

She's fine

[toxic seal]

[quiet swift]

[green fulcrum]

Hat In Time but modded?

[toxic seal]

No it's vanilla

You can play as Bow Kid standard now instead of as being her as player 2 in co-op

The book screenshot is just because the devs are based

[green fulcrum]

Tbh, I didn't even know there was another kid besides Hat Kid and Mustache Girl

[fresh bane]

look at this guy crawling around the pipes like an insect, what a weirdo

''is that our boss up there? ''

[river veldt]

why did you kill that poor man 😭

[fresh bane]

He was looking at me weird

But actually they like it

also, DD 🐶

[wind stump]

[bitter stream]

Falcon, Pawwwnch!

[visual hill]

Kirby's inhale move is probably the single move that took the most artist time in Ultimate

gotta design 85 heads for Kirby now

[visual hill]

fun fact: you can use the move airborne and reverse your facing direction at the beginning (B reverse), which can be useful when recovering high to ledge to catch opponents offguard

[wind stump]

well it's more like 24

god i love playing Kirby

[bitter stream]

damn, that looked sick

[wind stump]

okay i might be getting too into this whole combo thing

i had a much sicker one that had Link bounce off of the bottom of the stage to his death instead of me having to ledgeguard

[proud warren]

Also fun fact, the same can be said for Ganondorf, but unlike Captain Falcon, Ganondorf's version is actually stronger in the air (somehow) but there is no possible way to land it normally unless you get launched really high by the opponent, or if you do major disrespect and jump off the ledge to edge-guard low

(And yes, Kirby's version acts the same way except he could get much higher on his own due to... being Kirby and not Ganondorf)

[gaunt marten]

My perfect husband divorced me because some rando gave him a temple in another country https://i.imgur.com/MrfeN1E.png

I didn't know that could even happen

...I'm going to have him assassinated

[proud warren]

jealous much? /j

[gaunt marten]

It's 'till death do you part, not 'till you get a title in fuckass nowhere

Now I'm going to have to look for a husband all over again

[river veldt]

the energy sword might be one of the most fun fps weapons ive ever used

it's so ridiculously satisfying

[arctic fern]

Halo?

Yeah it's pretty great

Are you on 3 or 2

[river veldt]

2 still

[slim thorn]

adding a burst of forward movement to the actual swing was such a great choice

[arctic fern]

Cool
3 has the gravity hammer, which is hilarious

[slim thorn]

you're supposed to see the hammer in 2 and then be mad you can't use it before starting 3

[river veldt]

im on a level called "Regret"

[slim thorn]

oh that's a good one

[arctic fern]

Ye

[slim thorn]

also probably the best sword fly in the speedrun

[arctic fern]

I should play halo again myself, but it's most fun co-op

[slim thorn]

I do have MCC

[arctic fern]

So do i

When would you be free

[slim thorn]

work just ended for me today

and my PTO starts this friday, depending how much you're looking for

[arctic fern]

Ah I'm on a bus right now and also need to reinstall it

I'd need an hour, maybe 2

[slim thorn]

np

[river veldt]

the rocket launcher is really good too

[arctic fern]

Ye

2 added lock on, which unfortunately no other halo did

[slim thorn]

I feel like lock-on is fun at first, but quickly turns into "okay this is the weapon I pick up when banshees exist" and it feels more like a scripted turret sequence than a true choice of weapons, so I'm personally on board with later Halos giving you stuff like the Spartan Laser instead so it's more viable to aim at vehicles and then also use the leftover ammo for non vehicles

but that's a very vague half-remembered impression, I have not played 2 or 3 in years

[arctic fern]

Oh the laser is awesome

[river veldt]

i think my favorite video game rocket launcher is HL2, i love the guided missile

[arctic fern]

I do disagree tho
The launcher is a power weapon, you use it for fun or for a tough enemy

I don't remember how I deal with banshees in 2, maybe I did just use the launcher

[slim thorn]

my memory is I'm more likely to kill myself than the enemy if I try using it anywhere other than an outdoor vehicle fight, but again that was a long time ago, and I might be remembering legendary more than normal/heroic since legendary runs take so much more time and effort

[river veldt]

i get what you're saying Ix, the level i just completed gave me a rocket launcher with just enough ammo to deal with two Banshees, which was fun, but did feel more like a scripted turret part

THE HAMMER

[arctic fern]

Thr hammer was in 2? Man I don't remember that game

[river veldt]

it's in a cutscene

at least so far

[slim thorn]

and of course this is Halo 2 we're talking about, half the game is just great and the other half is "good stuff that needed one or two tweaks to be great" and oh look at all the tweaks in 3

[arctic fern]

Was there a boss fight in 2 with it?

[river veldt]

do you like the Arbiter levels

[slim thorn]

Mega: you're probably thinking of ||the Tartarus fight at the end||

[arctic fern]

I actually think I prefer 2
The gameplay in 3 was better, agreed, but I dunno
2 was just the right amount of cheesy action
Plus nostalgia, it was my first halo, first online console gaming
Might have been my first fps actually

3 is better tho, better balanced, better gameplay, forge...

[slim thorn]

and some people just like the less polished experiences

[arctic fern]

Ye

[slim thorn]

I often lean towards 1 when I'm forced to choose and that's obviously less polished than 3

[arctic fern]

I got 1 after I played 3, I have no real special attachment to it, but it's still good

[slim thorn]

and then 5 gets the weird distinction of being by far the most interesting Halo not in the MCC

[gaunt marten]

RPG Limit Break have a backup recording of a run to play in case the event stream fails
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aur2jz9kgMg

[arctic fern]

home now, looks like 15 min download? i think?

lets say 20 to be safe

...now its 25 anyway

lol

[arctic fern]

damn i thought this was gonna be a fast install, but no i had time to go cook food in the time it took
and its still not done

[slim thorn]

oh right, I forgot to pause my torrents to speed up my own install

[arctic fern]

lol

[slim thorn]

wheeee

[arctic fern]

lol

installed!

50 mins

[slim thorn]

mine's looking like ~50m to install

[arctic fern]

dangit

no worries

im just annoyed i chose to eat a snack than the pizza i have im my fridge that goes off today

[slim thorn]

can you believe the internet in 2025 still takes a whole hour to download 30 gigs of game

what are we even paying them for

[gaunt marten]

My phone gets 400mbps, which means a 30 gigabyte game should be ten minutes

[arctic fern]

the download was about 20 mins, installing the game took longer

[slim thorn]

ah, my Steam claims to be installing in parallel with the download, but we'll see how true that is when it's done

[gaunt marten]

if you structure your installer properly this is very doable

[slim thorn]

oh I'm sure it's doing something, my skepticism is of the "you're done installing the installer, now let's run the installer to install your game" variety

[light gate]

Installing VC-Redistributable 2025

[arctic fern]

redistributing the redistributor

[gaunt marten]

1- decomposable compression makes it possible to download files one by one.
2- once uncompressed, you can just put most files in the correct folders
3- dependencies can be precomputed for popular hardware configurations and prepared in parallel.
4- environment setup (create directory tree, placholder files, empty registry entries) can be done first thing or at any time

Steps like actual system changes have to be done at a fixed time and in order

So it's likely that it'll do a bunch of installation whenever it can, and also need a bunch more time at the end

[slim thorn]

[arctic fern]

lol

[slim thorn]

it thinks it's installing files it hasn't downloaded yet...

[arctic fern]

its gonna go through installing the files a few times as i think each campaign is different install

[slim thorn]

or more likely, the second bar is excluding some of the "data" from the total so the numbers aren't comparable

[arctic fern]

its not letting me sign into my microsoft account >:(

Ok there we go

Weirdly annoying process for something that should be like 2 clicks

[wind stump]

FUCK SHIT ARSE

[arctic fern]

sweet

[arctic fern]

vc?

[slim thorn]

gotta do the M$ account stuff first

[wind stump]

FINALLY

the boss fight on Hard is Hard, guys

[dense crypt]

Your knee of justice struck his back-spike with such force without shattering that Giga just up and died.

[wind stump]

now that i have a heavy character it's time to start drop kicking motherfuckers

[green fulcrum]

I forgot how Goddamn freaky Bowser is in that form.

[gaunt marten]

This guy fucking disappeared so I can't win the war against him. Somehow he's everywhere at once https://i.imgur.com/4aBAbDK.png

[fresh bane]

riding my horsie around getting to mission spots while listening to tapes is a total vibe I gotta say

it's just too bad I gotta pay extra attention to the subtitles playing like this because the JP voices of BB, Kaz and Ocelot are super similar

[bitter stream]

why not listen to it in english?

[fresh bane]

I already have multiple times, I wanted to replay it in jp this time

it reminds me more of Peace Walker that way (I also have a Peace Walker BB mod)

[bitter stream]

ah wow, nice

and fair enough on PW

I've... still got to play through MGS V. the PC controls were really bad, but I might try again with a controller

[fresh bane]

I disagree on the controls but I'm not necessarily gonna argue about it, for me though they feel like second nature I'm very comfortable playing this on a keyboard and mouse

It's partly the reason why I got super into Helldivers because that game controls eerily close to this game

[bitter stream]

I just wish I could re-bind a few things

it doesn't even seem to have that as an option

[fresh bane]

seems to let me rebind stuff

I never felt the need to but I can see others feeling like rebinding stuff around

[bitter stream]

hmm

[fresh bane]

I guess I just got very used to the default bindings on PC for this

[bitter stream]

Let me re-open it up and see, maybe I really just missed it after completing the tutorial

[fresh bane]

To be fair to you, MGS games are made for a PS controller specifically

But, this was the first time they did the multi-platform release for MGS and I personally think they did a great job on PC, also the game is weirdly extremely well optimized in my experience, I remember running TPP on a very old low end computer in like 2018

[river veldt]

i think ive been playing too much Halo because i saw Master Chief for a split second

[bitter stream]

huh, I really did just miss the menu. I went into controls instead of key bindings, 👓

thanks for the help Nire

[fresh bane]

Yeah everytime these games have control setting tabs they almost always have ''PC Settings'' or ''Key Binding Settings'' tabs separately for the PC version I've noticed

[river veldt]

Arbiter is such a badass he only needs one hand to hold an SMG

hand ?

idk

claw ?

[toxic seal]

Oopsie Woopsie

The Seal the Deal DLC has a bunch of incompetent seals as the crew on a cruise ship and dey aww tawk wike dis

[toxic seal]

Egg

[dense crypt]

in these trying times?

[rugged flax]

🥚

[plain harbor]

Seal: Egg.
Me: O-Okay. I don't - I don't know what to do with this information. I don't know if I want anything to do with this information.

[proud warren]

not the :3 key

[fresh bane]

I'm over here sweating out over this shooting challenge and I got some damn furry next to me talking about touching D-Dog's paw pads

[fresh bane]

I can't talk right now Ocelot, I'm doing something important here

[slim thorn]

[hidden elbow]

Well.....i did it

Was it worth it ? Probably yeah , but tbh fan campaigns and maps are much more fun than most of the official ones

Also the nightmare achievements look really funny together

[bitter stream]

woo nicely done

[dense crypt]

Is that an achievement for finishing quake without killing any enemies?

[hidden elbow]

Only the first level it would ve been incredibly hard to do on later levels

[visual hill]

maybe I can play next week 🙂

[visual hill]

congrats!! I did it too

my last achievement was discharging without dying in multiplayer, I did it by joining a server on dm3 and grabbing LG + pent. 10 seconds in, a player jumps in water, I discharge and they ragequit

[visual hill]

fun fact: the "You're not supposed to be here!" achievement icon is a reference to Quake Saturn's loading screen

for some reason, loading screens on the Saturn loved having the game's protagonist doing a "ssh!" gesture to the viewer. Rayman is the same, it was also in the PS1 version

[visual hill]

The Painless Maze is a no-damage achievement on one of Quake's hardest levels, doing it single segment is very difficult but thankfully, you can load saves

[hidden elbow]

Lol , its funny , because Ranger my man what are you shhushing about ? You are the one running with loud nail gun and rocket launcher

[visual hill]

it's possible to play it quiet in Quake, it's useful if you grab ring. Avoid jumping at all costs, avoid bumping into enemies, use RL/GL as much as possible

Quake 1 enemies are not aware of your jump sound still, unlike Quake 2

[hidden elbow]

Oh it was such a nightmare even with saves

[hidden elbow]

HAH, i had the same thing , but instead of rage quitting he wrote in a chat something like "AGAIN !?"

[quiet swift]

nowadays, it's a 70gb + download....

[visual hill]

I play competitive Quake weekly so I'm pretty used to strats on The Big Three (dm2/dm3/e1m2)

the weirdest strat is probably the one that involves grabbing pent on dm3, then going to RL and standing on the player spawnpoint next to it so that any respawning players are telefragged by you (pent deflects telefrag attempts)

[visual hill]

does WoW still use torrents to deliver the game files? I remember this was done at some point

[quiet swift]

I'm not sure I do remember that but I don't know if it ever changed

[rugged flax]

https://www.polygon.com/news/607104/nexusmods-sold-darkone-robin-scott-pc-gaming-mod

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/1lcyzxz/nexus_mods_was_acquired_by_chosen_a_company/

[quiet swift]

RIP nexus mods then

[rugged flax]

now where are we all gonna go for game mods

[rancid herald]

github?

[gaunt marten]

It was getting worse and worse anyway

There's GitHub, thunderstore, a bunch of other platforms

[visual hill]

GitHub isn't quite as centralized for game mods, it also can't host files > 2 GB each. HD texture mods often exceed this size

it's a very good platform otherwise, I can't believe how many things it offers for free (and with no ads to boot)

[bronze abyss]

nah its a blessing, no more shitass vortex manager

[quiet swift]

On prime this week

[bronze abyss]

god forbid you need to bulk install mods on vortex, gg

[rancid herald]

I thought people mostly used steam tbh for mods

now this

[slim thorn]

of the games I’ve played modded, only one used Steam Workshop, and the mod dev seemed to have mixed results from that decision

[visual hill]

Workshop is nice but it won't help you if you got your game on EGS, GOG, etc

[forest shoal]

Thank goodness GitHub is good for Balatro mods

[gaunt marten]

You never needed to use vortex

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gv0eQjJ-gY ! new content patch!

[wind stump]

is it fully released yet?

or like,out of Early Access?

[river veldt]

no 😔

[fickle garnet]

I just always manually install mods

[quiet swift]

Still early access, however this is probably the last full "content" patch, so gameplay wise this is what it'll look like. They might still add some story element stuff as the launch approaches though

[little badger]

Marathon has been delayed. No release date as of today https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/marathon_update

[fresh bane]

[river veldt]

soon?

[fresh bane]

I need to get on that, I gotta play more of this game last session I played I was so close

I feel like when I bought Hades 2 it felt pretty complete to me so I feel like I'm playing the game earlier than everyone else

[fresh bane]

I better make some backups of some of my favourite mods, just in case

[river veldt]

im waiting for full release but whenever i hear more about it the temptation to play Early Access gets stronger

[slim thorn]

I'll probably just play Hades 2 whenever the mood strikes me, whether that's during EA or after full release

[quiet swift]

I'd guess end of this year or jan/feb ish 2026

[gaunt marten]

https://i.imgur.com/iNG3Hr5.png When you assassinate an incapable ruler in their bathtub you get this joke

[proud warren]

https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1ldnxll/the_balatro_wiki_has_moved_from_fandom_to/

[river veldt]

flames

[quiet swift]

Narcissus finally has a model!

[fresh bane]

oh shit

oh yeah the lady from the third ish level also had a placeholder model too I remember

[wind stump]

i bet he's happy to finally be able to look himself in the mirror

[quiet swift]

She has a model now too

[visual hill]

yay TR remastered!!

[fresh bane]

man that new banner is gorgeous

they have a dramatic reading of the patch notes?

I don't even recognize one of the characters on the thumbnail... that should tell you how little I still know about this game

only 6 hours, newbie numbers

[quiet swift]

That's Schelemeus! The skeleton

[quiet swift]

Yes, quite

[river veldt]

werewolf

[bitter stream]

Sims 4 rendition?

[shell shore]

Took me 20 min too make her but 2 hours to find werewolf cc

[dapper cedar]

hades 2? more like YAYdes WOO i like it a lot, have just gotten new update downloaded

[bitter stream]

how is HADES 2 Clean Sweep?

[toxic seal]

I forgot about this part. These crow things sometimes ask you to put in words to describe things and it asked "What legal term would you use to describe your crime?" I was being facetious and accidentally created gold.

[quiet swift]

Pretty damn great, the new additions in this patch definitely need some tweaking I feel, but it's great fun to be experimenting

[toxic seal]

Also Mustache Girl sounds like Hakos Baelz

[tawny jacinth]

There being more Mongolians than French, Swedish and Danish players combined in the CS Major playoffs is really funny

Apparently the Chinese CS scene is actually improving because the Mongolians are actually giving them a decent challenge for once

(Chinese CS is known for "all aim, no brain", due to the relative lack of other players in the region leading to all the good players only developing aim

[bitter stream]

oh neat

how is the CS scene atm? I've not been following much. Any major tournaments coming up?

[forest shoal]

Mapple Mloom

[dense crypt]

Mapple Mloom

[tawny jacinth]

Mapple Mloom

[empty copper]

Sybil goes hard