general gaming

[river veldt]

oh ok

[slim thorn]

but yeah, this is the big canon example of him surviving a literal fall from orbit with only the armor, mostly because Mjolnir armor is just that OP

[river veldt]

the new UI is interesting

[slim thorn]

I like how someone still has to find him down there and turn it off and on again before he can get up

[gaunt marten]

Master chief taking his helmet off when he gets in the ship https://i.imgur.com/IPuUehV.png

(He has another helmet under it)

[green fulcrum]

[cerulean herald]

...how did he fall off a spaceship

[river veldt]

tbf it was a Covenant ship so maybe they chased him off it

i like this new plasma gun a lot

no overheating

spiker !

that's what it's called

so i guess it's not a plasma gun

[slim thorn]

wasn't he hanging onto the outside of the spaceship when it launched?

[river veldt]

iirc he was inside

at least in the remade cutscene

[slim thorn]

oh yeah he is

[river veldt]

i just got an achievement for fighting alongside a guy named "Chips Dubbo"

[slim thorn]

welp I have no idea how he fell out then

[gaunt marten]

Who's writing this dialogue https://i.imgur.com/OiHioVx.png

The guy's name is literally on him

What's worse is he knows my name even though I've never told him

[river veldt]

are youu playing Old School Runescape

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

[hushed onyx]

I always figured he jumped, in order not to be alone on a ship full of Covenant.

[static bluff]

I played 11 one-minute per player games in 30 minutes and tied for first place!

[gaunt marten]

Nice

[teal sonnet]

damn

[gaunt marten]

Finished the Misthalin Mystery quest in OSRS. Having sound effects and visual effects turned off makes the boss fight where you use the mirror to reflect knives so much more annoying

The writing is pretty silly. Bit too silly for me. It's self-contained, well-designed for an MMO. I can see why people like it

https://i.imgur.com/J2vHGNb.png

https://i.imgur.com/tYVlZ0U.png This guy has several alts he multiboxes to mine worthless ore

[bitter stream]

oooh, OSRS is a classic. It's strange to me that they never updated it's graphics, but i guess that's part of what makes it easy to run for folks

[gaunt marten]

They did update the graphics many times

I am intentionally running on garbo mode

There's also this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncofgVboXwk

[bitter stream]

oh neat, I'll have ot give it a shot whenit comes out

I've not played in years, probably can't recover my account, I couldn't find it last time i tried

[gaunt marten]

I'm playing a randomizer where chunks and items are locked behind doing various random tasks

So if you don't have a chunk unlocked, you're not allowed to do anything in it. You're allowed to cross it towards a chunk you do have unlocked. If you try to equip an item you have without permission, the plugin prevents you from doing that

[bitter stream]

wait, how does that work? is that a mode for when you make an account? or is this a third party thing?

[gaunt marten]

It uses a runelite plugin

Runelite is a third party client that is officially integrated into the jagex launcher

The plugins are individually checked to make sure they're safe from a programming perspective, and they let you do all sorts of things like create overlays, look up stuff, change graphics

[bitter stream]

oh interesting, that's neat that it's integrated

[wind stump]

[cunning galleon]

Gutted

[wind stump]

i feel like Mario Kart Tour tracks are just genuinely dogshit in MK8D

like "wow, the layout changes. riveting."
Doesn't stop it from being a flat, boring ass stage that feels like i'm going to fall asleep at the wheel, somewhat literally

[worthy rose]

https://share.google/3WCuU0nthUSJqu8Tx

[fickle garnet]

Interesting

I still need to finish E33

[wind stump]

E

[astral steeple]

https://youtu.be/l181WSin3g4?si=XbuiVGgNPuTHxbi5

https://tenor.com/view/minecraft-minecraft-movie-a-minecraft-movie-steve-jack-black-gif-4079785775268000209

The legend returns

[worthy rose]

https://share.google/b885TDmWDc70b1SQU

"As Dune: Awakening celebrates 1 million players, Funcom reveals an unforgiving 816,720 deaths to Shai-Hulud and over 6 billion grams of Spice consumed by fans of the survival MMO"

[static bluff]

ha, nice

Yeah it looks pretty cool.

[random steppe]

I still think the spice hallucinations are the coolest thing they put into the game

[fickle garnet]

I want to play it but $65 is a lot

[random steppe]

65? Which platform it's 65 on?

[fickle garnet]

Steam. This is in Canada dollars

[random steppe]

Oh, makes sense

[fickle garnet]

I wonder if it'll go on sale for the summer sale

[random steppe]

Maybe a 10-15% is realistic

[fickle garnet]

Yeah probably

[fresh bane]

jump into battlefront 2
it's triple exp day!
go into heroes vs villains match
people are immediately insulting each other

wow, this game really is healing

[hasty patio]

https://mw5mercs.com/dlc/shadow-of-kerensky

[river veldt]

why are people suddenly so back into Battlefront 2

[gaunt marten]

Because it's 2025

They make a new Star Wars Battlefront 2 every ten years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Battlefront_II

[visual hill]

I can't wait for Star Wars Battlefront II (2029)

[fresh bane]

May 4th, also the game with all DLCs is like 3 bucks

And it looks good, and it plays good, and it runs really good

[visual hill]

it was also free on EGS at some point (with all DLCs)

and yeah, people slept on it because of the microtransaction debacle

EA community manager, we salute you.

[river veldt]

ah ok

yeah i remember only hearing about the MTX

[fresh bane]

I'm actually a little mad that I didn't hear about how good the game was before (although I would've never payed full price for this plus the DLC) because I was there when the first and second Battlefronts came out and when the whole thing with the microtransactions with BFII happened and the whole 'sense of satisfaction' thing that was a huge meme

but I was always under the impression that the game was also kind of bad

[visual hill]

as I hear it, singleplayer is not great, especially in the first modern game (2015)

[fresh bane]

But no it's actually fantastic it's incredibly fun and fortunately it seems like it's actually gotten the most players it ever had in its entire lifetime

I remember hearing something about the campaign being bad but I don't remember if it was BF1 or BF2

[gaunt marten]

I'm definitely not giving money to EA for any reason

[robust latch]

but think of the poor execs needing their bonuses. wont anyone please think of the execs

[gaunt marten]

I'll think of them when they think of me

[visual hill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-iLvy0w8hs

[chilly mural]

these trailers are so sick

[quiet swift]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/wanna-make-mods-for-stalker-2-thatll-be-700-gb-of-hard-drive-space-please/ what the hell

[gaunt marten]

They probably just released the internal dev kit after making sure nothing they're not allowed to release is included

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.951917/gov.uscourts.cacd.951917.29.0.pdf

Guy who cheated in competitive Fortnite got sued and didn't show up to court, getting a default judgement

in the amount of $175,521.00 from the date of entry of judgment in this action.
Defendant and his officers, agents, representatives, servants, employees, heirs,
successors, and assigns, and all others in active concert or participation with
Defendant are permanently enjoined from:
i. Infringing, or inducing, contributing, or enabling others to infringe,
Plaintiff’s copyrights;
Case 2:24-cv-10835-KK-JC Document 29 Filed 06/24/25 Page 1 of 2 Page ID
#:324

copyrighted works, including but not limited to Fortnite;
iii. Circumventing any of Plaintiff’s technological measures that control
access to Plaintiff’s copyrighted works, including but not limited to
Fortnite;
iv. Using any software or device not authorized by Plaintiff that provides
Fortnite players a competitive advantage in Fortnite; and
v. Aiding or assisting another person or entity in any of the activities
described in (a)–(d) above```

[slim thorn]

but it's i through iv, not a through d

[visual hill]

it's very common for AAA game dev repositories to be over 500 GB

for a game that has a 100 to 150 GB install size, 700 GB is not out of the question

[gaunt marten]

if the defendant didn't show up do you think the proofreader will?

Interestingly, the guy's children are also banned from Fortnite

[slim thorn]

oh damn you're right

well unless he disowns them

[gaunt marten]

You never disown your children

[visual hill]

that's a very strange decision to be fair

not sure I've ever seen it before

[slim thorn]

I think Flitter and I are just nitpicking the legalese

[gaunt marten]

You send them to sea until they get scurvy, then throw them in the oubliette and hope the -6 health kills them

[visual hill]

also, this is true in some countries, you cannot disown someone in France

[gaunt marten]

If you just disown them they'll come back with an equal army size to you and fight as claimants

[random steppe]

I am not sure they are, reading it

At least by how I read it, it might be meaning that they can't help him play fortnite.

As in "all these categories are banned from playing fortnite while in active partecipation with the individual"

[gaunt marten]

I read this as "and all others in active concert or participation with"

[random steppe]

It would be very weird if they could ban his employees from playing for example

Or maybe anyone that might have helped him cheat

[slim thorn]

it's funny how legalese is supposed to clarify things, but it mostly just adds more questions unless you have a lawyer handy

[gaunt marten]

https://xkcd.com/191/

xkcd: Lojban

zo'o ta jitfa .i .e'o xu do pendo mi

[proper storm]

Mario Maker 3 when?

[gaunt marten]

The pathing plugin doesn't like canoes

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

[slim thorn]

huh, the new Liam Triforce video is about Mario Kart World

maybe I'll end up understanding what GT was on about the other day

[green fulcrum]

No idea who that is, so maybe not. All the stuff I said was just my own observations and it was technically biased by my own opinions on what constitutes as fun. I'm no critic, just a guy.

[slim thorn]

just a guy who does video essays I watch sometimes, nothing to know other than he tends to focus on the Nintendo serieses

[green fulcrum]

At least he owns the game. I can't tell you anything about how it plays, how it runs, or how it controls. All the knowledge and observations I have of it are based on videos and streams I've seen of it.

[hushed onyx]

Also, it's a permanent injunction, so barring his kids means that even after he's dead and they're grown adults they still wouldn't be allowed to play

[slim thorn]

for once, 💀 feels like an appropriate laugh emoji

[river veldt]

i love you Liam Triforce

holy shit he's doing a Mother series video soon

[fresh bane]

whew
this dueling thing is pretty intense

this was another nice long duel that got pretty close too, I actually fought the Grievous immediately after and won that fight too
I got some pretty good matches today (and some awful ones, lots of disconnecting and gamers being gamers)

I'm actually really surprised at how much this feels like playing Jedi Academy, down to some of the tech you have to pull off with the mouse flicks and a lot of people being down to respect the 1v1 rule and just sort of stand around and watch waiting for their turn to jump in

I was doing the mouse flick thing pretty hard in this fight, but it's tricky and the characters (I assume intentionally) are super weighty to control and there's a noticeable input delay with pretty much any of your actions other than just basic movement, so you can't quite spam or mash your keyboard at least not in a way that would benefit you at all (any player that knows how to parry and when to block would beat you pretty much immediately)

but it's interesting, I like it, whenever there's nobody being toxic or racist in chat or any players leaving the match this is a pretty fun time, I rematched quite a lot with some familiar usernames and that was almost always a guaranteed good match

[visual hill]

whenever there's nobody being toxic or racist in chat
disabling chat probably helps

I have voice chat off in games that don't have a strict requirement on it, it's almost never a good experience in a public lobby

but even text chat off is worth considering in games that have a bad reputation for toxicity, at least for the enemy team

[graceful bridge]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1lkzhmg/steam_summer_sale_2025_megathread/

Summer sale starts at <t:1750957200:t>

[visual hill]

obligatory https://manebooru.art/images/1763070

[quiet swift]

https://manebooru.art/images/915375

[visual hill]

I remember thinking this is how online payments worked as a kid

[quiet swift]

[astral steeple]

Oh hell yeah

Just got 250 dollars from the ftc epic games thing

[random steppe]

Sable is a pretty good game

[gaunt marten]

Apparently this quest has a random sequence for each person you need to memorize https://i.imgur.com/CHHDQUe.png

[fickle garnet]

I'm trying to decide between buying Silent Hill 2 and Ghost of Tsushima

[river veldt]

i say Silent Hill 2

Steam isn't even loading for me rn lol

[proud warren]

(Deltarune chapter 4 stuff) ||hot damn, I beat the hammer of justice fight first try without knowing anything about what to expect from the fight||

[fickle garnet]

I'm gonna buy SH2

[slim thorn]

assuming you've heard all the content warnings for it, yeah SH2 is an experience you'd be hard pressed to get from any other video game

I haven't personally played Tsushima but from everything I've heard it's "just" another solid AAA open world, we've probably all played a few of those by now

[river veldt]

this is flames

[fickle garnet]

I can probably get Ghost of Tsushima for cheaper as a used physical copy tbh

[eager bane]

Steam Servers seem to be cooking

I get timeouts

[fickle garnet]

I have bought SH2

[cerulean herald]

"you have been banned from steam" /s

[cunning galleon]

I want zomboiiiiid

[eager bane]

[cunning galleon]

But I've got bills to pay... It's only 4 dollas

Grrrr maybe next time then

Its always 33% anyway

[bronze abyss]

damn i got happy for a sec but its 13eur here

[cunning galleon]

Regional pricing

[coral folio]

Aaaaa steam is not loading

[quiet swift]

meanwhile, on prime

[hushed onyx]

Not me

[slim thorn]

uh

crap what do we actually recommend in that space

Breath of the Wild?

[hushed onyx]

Nothing, because I’m not going to play one anyway 😛

Don’t have the time.

[river veldt]

Breath of the Wild and Read Dead Redemption 2 are the best open world games imo

[cunning galleon]

Project zomboid is great but its isometric and its a zombie game

[bronze abyss]

Rdr2,dying light,and potentially baldurs i would say are rhe best,each in different categories,though baldurs might be semi open?

[fickle garnet]

Baldur's Gate 3 is just the best game

I need to continue RDR2. I got it at the same time I got Death Stranding, and I got distracted by that

I really enjoyed it tho

[cunning galleon]

Tahiti

[visual hill]

I got them all 🙂

[visual hill]

BotW is still very good in my book if you want an open world game that eschews the typical flaws of the genre

[slim thorn]

yeah, BotW worked for me, while I know I wouldn't enjoy RDR2 or BG3 much, though I can at least appreciate what they're going for

[visual hill]

I thought you played BG3, I must have confused with someone else

[young creek]

botw mentioned 🗣️

[fickle garnet]

Silent Hill 2 is fucking creepy

[slim thorn]

when you get far enough to do some theorizing, feel free to use https://discord.com/channels/98609319519453184/1032836636490346576

[fickle garnet]

Oh I didnt know there was a Silent Hill thread

[slim thorn]

yeah, we have a lot of quiet threads that only wake up when someone feels like playing that game

[fickle garnet]

I've wanted to play SH2 for a while now, so its nice to finally play it, even if it is the remake

Which people obviously liked the remake a lot

And I can get why

[slim thorn]

I'm familiar with both versions and honestly I don't think the remake is even a downside here; the original and remake both have things they do better than the other, and I suspect the remake's advantages work out better for a first-time player anyway

[fickle garnet]

This is my first Silent Hill game btw

[slim thorn]

that's also fine, 2 in particular is a very self-contained story

there's a few references to the events of SH1 but for the most part the only thing worth knowing is that there was another game of spooky supernatural stuff happening here, so by the time you get really confused about the plot, e.g. "the entire town is made up" is not a theory on the table

[river veldt]

real

[fickle garnet]

There was one ambient noise while on the fire escape to the apartment building that scared the shit out of me and made me jump

[slim thorn]

oooh I think I remember that spot

is that the one you use to move between two bedrooms because the second one's door is locked

[fickle garnet]

Yeah

[slim thorn]

yeah I think we're talking about the same spot then

[fickle garnet]

It's where you get the button for the jukebox

[slim thorn]

IIRC the noise there is slightly random so back in the day there would be stories of people disagreeing about whether that noise was even real because "it didn't happen in my playthrough"

oh whoops that fire escape

I'm thinking of a later part then

wouldn't surprise me if they did the same noise thing over there though

[fickle garnet]

I'm pretty sure the noise was just metal creaking, but I was not expecting it

[slim thorn]

now that I'm thinking of the correct spot, probably yeah

[river veldt]

wasn't Silent Hill 1 ||a cult or something ?||

[fickle garnet]

I can already see why so many people love this game tho

[slim thorn]

mostly yes

[slim thorn]

what's really impressive about the remake is that it has those unique SH2 vibes even in parts like what you're playing now which were completely invented for the remake (most of the jukebox puzzle is remake-only content)

[fickle garnet]

Death Stranding 2 is done downloading so I'm gonna play it now

[slim thorn]

fair

[river veldt]

fine i will watch Liam Triforce's SH video

[velvet fiber]

[slim thorn]

how many body parts were you missing by the end of that

[bronze abyss]

gg

[bronze abyss]

peakggle and crash for 5$ combined

[green fulcrum]

Might get the N-Sane Trilogy.

[visual hill]

I played the first one on game pass but didn't have time for the other two

should I bother? 😛

[green fulcrum]

The third game is considered one of the best games of all time, at least the original is.

[gaunt marten]

Remake is good too

Only has minor flaws (like capsule shaped collision making it easier to slip off of thin platforms)

Comparison:
https://old.rxddit.com/r/crashbandicoot/comments/l8hvy4/the_grand_finale_of_differences_between_crash_1/

The remastered trilogy is competently made and the people who made it knew what they were doing, but they still did it from scratch

The original trilogy was made by absolute masters, and it's a shame not all the good bits carried over.

[cerulean herald]

What good stuff was left behind?

[gaunt marten]

Lots of subtle things. Easiest one to explain is the physics changes

You can read this blog series for insight into the development process and clever things they did you would never think to do
https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/

[chilly mural]

oh cool, someone brought up crash 1 and it specifically has the native wall stages

it has this one sample in the song that apparently is the basis for jeh jeh rocket

https://youtu.be/n2s0k7mJC1E?si=AKGebbtWL5NYs2Hr&t=261

[bitter stream]

steam sale is cool, but I just need to focus on what I already own I think

even as good as those sales are atm

[gaunt marten]

My pathing plugin wants me to spend an expensive teleport spell instead of taking ten steps to the destination https://i.imgur.com/P15PGt4.png

[astral steeple]

Good lord lol

[bitter stream]

ah, I suppose CoD is trying to become the next fortnite, so I suppose it makes sense in that angle

[green fulcrum]

It's so stupid

[bitter stream]

yes, but it prints so much money lol

despite all the crazy skins, nicki minaj included, BO6 was

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 finished as both the best-selling premium video game of December and the 2024 year. Call of Duty was the best-selling video game franchise in U.S. full game dollar sales (excluding add-on content) for a record 16th consecutive year.

[wind stump]

https://youtu.be/LIRvK2zBA6w

equipping a fire tome in your 4th character's second hand slot allows them to one hit kill every enemy... And can also delete the save in Slot 1

[graceful bridge]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1151340/Fallout_76/

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Fallout 76 is $10 USD right now. Best price if you want to just try it out.

[static bluff]

lol nearly every day I watch the same speed runner try to get a FF1 speedrun WR. it's so painful

[gaunt marten]

More people should do 100% GBA speedruns for FF1

Alas, everyone does any% or any% glitchless

And they use the original for some reason

[wind stump]

blood sword deals 1/16th of enemy's maximum HP
can attack multiple times a turn

IT FUCKING HEALS YOU

[unreal idol]

Fire... tome?

That's not an item in FFI

[wind stump]

You're not SUPPOSED to be able to equip one

Also this is FFII

[unreal idol]

Oh. It said FF and you were all talking about FFI

[wind stump]

yeah i had to double check the title

especially with the reused assets, lmao

[fickle garnet]

I have played Death Stranding 2 for around five hours and I've already cried twice

[unreal idol]

What exactly is that game about anyway?

[slim thorn]

the original or 2 specifically? (I only played 1)

[unreal idol]

Sure

[slim thorn]

#1032716748887179434 message

[unreal idol]

I dunno anything about Death Stranding except it involves creepy looking babies for some reason

Aha. Interesting

[slim thorn]

the "bridge babies" are a whole thing in that game because they're specifically stillborn babies, who by virtue of never truly becoming alive retain a connection to the other side, which allows them to sense certain things (especially the game's metaphysical enemies) better than any living human or technology can

[static bluff]

oh my

Rule 5c would have been nice here but i guess the game has been out for ages

[slim thorn]

isn't this early game exposition stuff?

[static bluff]

Wouldn't know

[river veldt]

BB my beloved

[slim thorn]

ah

then yeah for DS1 this is literally tutorial information

[arctic fern]

id say you spoiled that for me but i was never gonna play the game anyway

[slim thorn]

spoilers would be things like ||why your bridge baby is special, and why another character is so interested in it||

[young creek]

Yeah... like princess Beach

[river veldt]

is BB a boy or a girl i can't remember

[arctic fern]

ive watched several videos on the game and its never been explained lol

[unreal idol]

[slim thorn]

maybe those videos didn't repeat all the basic mechanics explained in the tutorials? lol

[arctic fern]

maybe

[fickle garnet]

Yeah it is

[unreal idol]

Its right on the edge of "oh this is kind of interesting" and "oh the game devs were on some serious fucking drugs"

[slim thorn]

it is the Kojima game where he was allowed to go full Kojima

[unreal idol]

I know he put a vtuber in the sequel

[slim thorn]

(and I reiterate: this is all before it gets weird)

[unreal idol]

I take it its probably not available on switch

[young creek]

no

but Nintendo worked on the sequel apparently

kinda nuts

Just weird to see Nintendo credited in a ps5 exclusive

[unreal idol]

Oh its PS exclusive? Nevermind then

Back to YT and scanning invoices

[young creek]

The sequel is for now afaik, original is available on PC

[arctic fern]

maybe they wanted to release it on switch but couldnt for technical reasons

[fickle garnet]

The first game is on pc, PlayStation, and xbox

[arctic fern]

or its on a temporary exclusivity contract with sony

[young creek]

Thats what I think

like final fantasy

[arctic fern]

i find it kinda weird still

but whatever

[visual hill]

it's rare for Kojima games to be day 1 on PC

[random steppe]

Death Stranding got on PC a long while later as well

Not gonna complain though, one of the few japanese games with a pretty solid PC port performance wise

[visual hill]

Decima magic

[cunning galleon]

Yup, this is my dream vehicle

[wind stump]

oh lfg, the Dave the Diver discord just implied the Godzilla DLC is making a return

[visual hill]

I got N-Sane Trilogy and Robocop

I also checked various simracers' prices during the sale and wow, the DLC policies didn't get better

[bitter stream]

what are their DLC policies?

[visual hill]

pricy, very pricy

if you want a truly complete edition of a game, prepare to pay over €100 for many of them

even ETS2 is like €160 right now if you want everything

Automobilista 2 has the base game for €3.69, and the complete edition will cost you about €75

iRacing looks cheap right now, but the thing is that you need a subscription to play it

the OG Assetto Corsa ultimate edition is usually decently priced, but looking on IsThereAnyDeal, it's still a fair bit more expensive than its lowest point a few years ago

it's probably the best value for money in simracing, since it has a lot of mods but you will need DLC for many of them

[bitter stream]

oh damn, that sucks

I guess I'll stick to arcade racers lol

[forest shoal]

I just have BeamNG Drive

[visual hill]

when it comes to simracing, I have BeamNG, Project CARS 1/2, DiRT Rally (OG and 2.0)

not many of them support VR well though, Project CARS 2 does a pretty decent job at it

(my simracing setup is not in front of a screen, so I need passable VR support)

[cunning galleon]

Beamng being called a simracer is pretty new to me

[visual hill]

I mean "simracer" as in "best played with a wheel" to be fair

ETS2 is not a game where you do racing, but it's best played with a wheel for sure, so I put it in that category as well

[cunning galleon]

Beamng is really fun to mess around in

[cunning galleon]

Depends on how you drive

You can race in a Scania with a load

[visual hill]

there are dedicated truck racing games out there too

[cunning galleon]

... Probably harder to race in a truck at Europe

[visual hill]

but most ETS2 players don't seem too concerned about setting the fastest times for a given route, it's a chill game for the most part

[cunning galleon]

I love both ets2 and ats

ATS is just.. Press W and look at the scenery though

[visual hill]

I suppose ATS is easier since it has wider roads and less complicated turns?

no roundabouts designed to make drivers cringe

I have both games but have mostly played ETS2, although I only have its older map DLCs like Going East and Scandinavia

[wind stump]

fekkin hell

[visual hill]

you should win if you're tied with second place, nearly all singleplayer racing games work like that

[bronze abyss]

im stuck with really bad routes because i only have the baltic dlc

[visual hill]

technically, this means most racing game championships can always be won by being first 50% of the time, and being second the other 50%

[wind stump]

yeah, i did

but it came down to the fucking wire
like
very last second passing Lakitu

[visual hill]

at least this didn't happen to you: https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxmUGdmbxYN-ChOHlfroktt35mm6cKZKpM

(that's a YouTuber/streamer I know)

[wind stump]

i like the Tour tracks more

[visual hill]

he tested a bunch of GameCube NSO games after playing Perfect Dark

[wind stump]

LMAOOOOO

[visual hill]

(which is still just as ass on Switch 2 than it is on Switch 1)

[wind stump]

ahhh i feel that in my BONES

FUCK TRIDENT

[visual hill]

I have yet to play a F-Zero game

[wind stump]

i say this as someone who actually beat everything but DIamond Cup on Master

[wind stump]

like the tracks being simpler in design means the route changes matter more

also i like the Yoshi bike a lot

it's both pratical AND cute!

gets hit by red shell
"no, fuck off."
uses mushroom

Flawless Victory. FATALITY.

[orchid sundial]

hey folks, I know this sounds awkward, but I'm thinking of giving another m rated game a try. specifically gta vice city. While it is true I am not a fan of m rated games no matter how much I can't get into them, i think it's important to give one a try once in a while. The chances of me liking this game will be very slim, but who knows. the reason why I am thinking about playing this game is because a mlp parody of it appeared in my youtube recommendations, and it caught my interest. I've played another gta game before, that being san andreas, but i wasn't a fan of it. the vibes of it didn't sit right with me. it just felt way too much for me. my middle brother plays gta iii sometimes since out of the 3d trilogy, it seems to be the least bad. but the vibes of it don't appeal to me either. i like the looks of vice city, so i'd like to give it a try. I'm not really into 80s stuff, but it's more appealing to me than iii and san andreas. Also, I used to have a friend who played vice city a lot in their childhood (they played it since they were 4 years old. thats... concerning) and it influenced their tastes in a lot of stuff, especially music and clothing. commemorating to my former friend is not much of concern to me, but i still felt like bringing it up. So, what do you say, should I give the game a try or not really?

[cunning galleon]

I mean, VC is the most tame out of III and San Andreas

San Andreas is just flat out goofy sometimes, its mrated because you can shoot at people

[wind stump]

and even Adults Only at one point due to content that was in the game at launch (tho ultimately unused) that ah... Did ruffle some feathers, despite it being unused

but yeah, still dealing drugs, shooting people, comitting crimes

[cunning galleon]

Yea its one of the beta features they were too lazy to remove

I mean, if it won't be seen why bother

[cunning galleon]

Grand theft auto in Grand theft auto?? Preposterous

San Andreas is worth it for woozy and cj

"i know you blind man but you gotta see this" 😭

[hushed onyx]

You could imagine a police simulator named “Grand Theft Auto” after all

[cunning galleon]

"I gotta tell you something, man.. I'm black, not Chinese." -cj

"I'm blind, carl. Not stupid" -woozy

[wind stump]

and i don't think i can mention the name of that minigame without the mods Hammer of Dawning the shit out of me (even if it's fully clothed boinking) but it's probably easy enough to find further info given how infamous it was

[cunning galleon]

All in all, you can easily avoid a lot of those

The map feels larger than it is

VC has none of what SA has other than killing people

[river veldt]

San Andreas has Big Smoke making it the best

[cunning galleon]

My favorite San Andreas character is woozy

[orchid sundial]

i'm not a fan of the vibe that san andreas has... i get what they were trying to go for but it doesn't make me feel comfortable

[cunning galleon]

He races good even when he's blind

[visual hill]

Hmm, nice bike.
--Tommy Vercetti

by all means, go for it, Vice City is probably the best GTA game if you want the simpler oldschool experience of the 3D universe

none of that RPG stuff that comes with GTA San Andreas onwards

[cunning galleon]

Yup, Vice City is incredibly simple and fun

Horrid missions i HATE the construction drone one

I've gone that far on mobile and i cannot beat it

Why is it timed who the fuck designed this mission

Oh uh its not any worse than any of zero's missions in GTA SA but atleast that one is Optional and doesn't really matter to the main story

[visual hill]

I've never failed that misssion a single time, it's just a bit of a chore

in my experience, Vice City is overall easier than GTA III. It's probably the easiest 3D universe game

GTA III has... things like Espresso-2-Go!, S.A.M, Marked Man that are notable difficulty spikes

the lack of bikes also makes some gameplay approaches harder, since you can never shoot in front of you while driving

can't shoot tires or bail out of cars as well

[cunning galleon]

The most difficult missions I've every played is the compulsory flight school

Actually no that was pretty easy

Just hard to gold

Hm. Yea it's Zero's missions, tedious and stupid

[worldly summit]

GRIS, Steins;Gate, Crypt of the Necrodancer are all 90% off this summer sale

https://steamdb.info/sales/ this lists the highest-rated games that are on sale

[gaunt marten]

Nothing's on sale this summer

[robust latch]

Steam sale. An incentive to fill your game list with things you will never play

[gaunt marten]

https://i.imgur.com/bqKG0YA.png

Yeah I'm going to play the games I have for now

[slim thorn]

I see a lot on that list I'd endorse but I think I own most (all?) of what's relevant to me already

ah, now that I can filter by wishlist, a lot of my maybes have steep discounts too

I'll have to think about how much is worth buying when I'm not sure how much of it I'll ever get to

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, a big part of shopping for videogames is coming up with free time predictions

[worldly summit]

yeah it's 50% off

[static bluff]

Hmm. Cyberpunk 2077 is on sell. $21. I'm thinking about getting it

[quiet swift]

[fresh bane]

https://bsky.app/profile/gameovergreggy.bsky.social/post/3lslub2vnqc2w

Greg Miller (@gameovergreggy.bsky.social)

To be on this set...

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Bluesky · Jun 27, 2025, 2:33 PM

the fact that Kojima saying ''look up, a whale!'' doesn't actually let you know what game he could be talking about because that specific imagery shows up in at least two of his games is pretty nuts

[slim thorn]

what’s the second one

[fresh bane]

MGSV

[rugged flax]

Apparently Windows Defender sees A Hat In Time as a threat

[toxic seal]

It's telling you to be wary of the crows that ask for personal details

[rotund forge]

PECK

[rugged flax]

?

[cerulean herald]

havent played Hat in Time myself yet, but as I understand it, "Peck" is an audio sample from the game thats been memed quite a bit

[green fulcrum]

It's basically an in-game variation of "fuck".

So when one of the characters inevitably calls you a "peck neck", they're basically calling you a "fuck head".

[gaunt marten]

Attack surface reduction doesn't imply it's a threat

[proud warren]

the mafia's in that game, of course it's labeled as a threat /j

[hasty patio]

https://bsky.app/profile/sonic-official.bsky.social/post/3lslzbdgabk2d

Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic-official.bsky.social)

We're incredibly excited to announce that Sonic the Hedgehog is coming to Magic: The Gathering in the new @mtgsecretlair.com x Sonic Superdrop!

Three unique drops beginning July 14th. Stay tuned!

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Bluesky · Jun 27, 2025, 4:02 PM

[random steppe]

I was thinking of doing a modded run, but that'll have to wait until this new big patch come out, and I see what's compatible

There is this Cyberpsychosis mod I was dying to try out though

[cunning galleon]

Chi-nu in a plane game

[arctic fern]

if you do buy it, get it with phantom liberty. you will enjoy it.

[craggy vine]

how many games will I buy on summer sale that will take me years to play

[gaunt marten]

Zero is a good number

[craggy vine]

That is true

[visual hill]

I'm waiting for a complete edition (game + all DLCs) to be below the €20 point personally

it will happen eventually, I expect sometime next year

by that point, the game will probably be in its actual final version too, as it's still getting a patch this year

[visual hill]

it did this to dgVoodoo for me, it got rid of the executable 3 times after I restored it

fuck Defender, and I mince my words

[static bluff]

That's a good call, honestly.

My backlog is full anyway

[craggy vine]

I would personally buy cyberpunk at full price. I don't think I did but with how much I love it, I certaily could have

[quiet swift]

The patch WAS going to be 2 days ago but they delayed it

[visual hill]

I can't justify buying games at full price given my backlog, and the fact I prefer buying games once they are fully patched and "definitive"

[cunning galleon]

Out of context game

[wind stump]

the icon gives me holo vibes

[cerulean herald]

its the Cover logo, but green

[wind stump]

Oh. What game is this, then?

[cunning galleon]

It's some random dating Sim idle game that caught my attention

CrushCrush

[visual hill]

random dating Sim idle game
Luigi's favorite dating sim

he can date by doing absolutely nothing

[wind stump]

"Ichiban has never killed anyone."

[bitter stream]

Rocket Launcher inside a small room? everyone is dead lol

[craggy vine]

Makes sense yeah. I would say cyberpunk is already complete. Idk what they are doing in new updates.

[worthy rose]

It isn't known yet. They seem to be implying it's content of some form but no details

[arctic fern]

There are many game i consider feature complete, but they still produce updates for
Terraria and stardew valley for example

[shell shore]

Need some help finding a game i used to play

I remember this ONE level, it was super mario and mario, Luigi, and peach were trapped in a mountain and on top was bowser and he was throwing rocks, you had too dodge it like donkey kong

I remember it was 3D and it was on a 3DS

[bitter stream]

🤔 was it a party game? could be one of those Super Mario Party ones

[shell shore]

Nah i looked

I think i played as yoshi

[gaunt marten]

Lmao, apparently, Runescape's god of chaos has a tiny temple in the northwesternmost part of the free to play world. Zamorak's Chaos Temple is full of monks who are neutral and allow you to worship at the temple. On a table is a jug full of Wine of Zamorak, an unholy addictive material used in making potions. If you try to grab it, all the monks will attack you, driving you out of the temple or killing you, AND Zamorak will curse you, temporarily lowering your combat skills and dealing damage to you, as well as talking to you in game chat. As a wizard I can telekinetally grab the wine safely, taking minimal damage, and repeat the process every time the wine respawns to make a tidy sum. https://i.imgur.com/lhHRYmf.png

Eventually my magic stat is too low for me to steal wines, or my inventory is full. At which point I can go home and sell the wine

[bitter stream]

ah wow, that's kinda funny

[bitter stream]

did it have a yarn aesthetic?

because apart from the old remakes of yoshi games, I can't think of much else that lets you play as yoshi outside the party games

[arctic fern]

there was the 64 ds remake?

[gaunt marten]

Yes

[arctic fern]

thats the only 3d 3ds mario game i can think of

[bitter stream]

ah true ,but I don't think there's a section in that that has Bowser in a donkey kong style level? though it's been a long time so who knows

[arctic fern]

there were minigames, i dont remember all of them

[bitter stream]

fair enough, i'll check

@shell shore https://mario.wiki.gallery/images/1/11/SM3DL_Final_Bowser_Part_1_W8.png did it look like this?

this is a DK style mario level from Super Mario 3D Land.

[arctic fern]

3d land! never played that one

[shell shore]

No

It was really colorful and stuff

[bitter stream]

[shell shore]

Even chatgpt couldn’t find it

[gaunt marten]

We'll have to resort to the nuclear weapon

@river veldt do you have any idea what this game is?

[young creek]

the description definitely sounds like super mario 64 ds

you play as Yoshi and have to save Mario, Luigi and Wario

and it has a big mountain level

the rest is your imagination filling in the blanks

[river veldt]

it sounds familiar but yeah you might be conflating 3D Land and 64 DS

this is going to bother me all day

[bitter stream]

which one it is? Hopefully Maye can confirm after seeing 64 DS

[wind stump]

why am i doing this to myself?

[bitter stream]

no, run HC

it's a gacha

just run away

[wind stump]

[slim thorn]

I thought you hadn't even seen the anime; why this gacha?

[wind stump]

Why noooot?

[gaunt marten]

Because you can do other things that are more fun and safe

[slim thorn]

(tbf I've been told this is pretty fair on f2p players by gacha standards, but still)

[wind stump]

But I wanted to play Blue Archive but Steam won't let me

[gaunt marten]

Ah, "we have blue archive at home"

[bitter stream]

Surely there are better ways to consume the content of these gacha games than actually playing it?

for example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-6BMyAMMyc&list=PLTpD-lAtY-jDTdS-KXfVpkfbYmCqkK77z

The story collections, there's a few of em for blue archive

you can see all the story, and not have to risk exposure to gambling mechanics

[random steppe]

I mean, if you want to play a game, the play part is probably somewhat part of what you are looking for

[bitter stream]

sure, I just think it's a poor trade in like, every gacha hahah. The games are predatory by design, and that's not new in gaming, but gacha is worse on top of that with the gambling for actual play pieces

Imagine if for chess you had to gacha to get pieces unlocked on the board, it's nuts

[wind stump]

but i like gambling!

[bitter stream]

Well I can't stop you, but please be careful? it's not a particularly safe hobby.

[wind stump]

i'll be oke

[slim thorn]

are you planning to stick to f2p?

[wind stump]

yesh

[slim thorn]

that probably does address the personal financial safety concern

[visual hill]

Gran Turismo 7 did it for cars, so...

anything is possible nowadays

[slim thorn]

not that I've played any of these myself but I've heard that there's a few gachas like Uma Musume and Ark Knights that are fairly easy to play 100% free

(especially from people who dropped Mihoyo games because they are, uh, not as easy lol)

[bitter stream]

Aye, that's something I've heard too. I don't think I'll say more lol, I feel like i'd be harping on and the points are obvious anyway.

[visual hill]

I try to minimize playing F2P games myself, even though I'm not the kind of person who regularly buys in-game purchases anyway

(I've only ever bought a map stamp for TF2 premium access, and two battle passes in CS:GO - and you could mostly recoup the battle pass investment by selling the items you got)

[slim thorn]

I'm in a weird limbo with respect to all of these issues because none of the genres which got gacha'd are ones I actually play, so none of the gacha games have any intrinsic appeal to me to be tempted by in the first place

[bitter stream]

yeah I hear you calinou, I'm kinda unsure whether to get out of F2P games myself, even the ones with "consumer friendly" monetisation.

Like, what the heck do I do with warframe. Game is fun, doesn't have lootboxes or gacha. just pay for the thing you want.
OTOH some of it's MTX costs as much as Valorant skins and the Free to Play path is grindy as hell and sometimes they make it fun and sometimes they don't

And it's kinda spread to non-f2p games too right?

like look at any modern AAA game, they've all got MTX shops and cosmetics you can buy like a f2p game, but without the free path

Especially in any multiplayer sphere

Rainbow 6 Siege went the Counter Strike route, with skins, lootboxes, and a player market to sell skins to each other for in-game currency

[river veldt]

only f2p game i've ever gotten into was fortnite

but that was a long time ago

[bitter stream]

fair enough, that game makes a ton of content

and I dearly wish they hadn't made "LLM AI Voice generated Darth Vader"

[river veldt]

yeah....

[slim thorn]

my lack of interest in multiplayer is probably the main concrete reason gacha/mtx has yet to intersect with what I personally play

[bitter stream]

yeah, that makes sense. Multiplayer has a lot of push to sell skins and make constant money from it's userbase. as well is just being hella profitable

look at fortnites revenue without any lootboxes

it's kinda nuts, and why many games chase it

[visual hill]

we got rid of lootboxes but now we have grindy battle passes and cosmetics that are really out of place... we kind of traded one problem with another

[slim thorn]

multiplayer games have also always been the games that tried to "last forever", while everyone expects a single player game to eventually run out of content and then you move on to another thing unless you're some kind of speedrunner

[bitter stream]

yeah, engagement farming sucks, but I guess I'll take it over lootboxes hahah

aye, Multiplayer games, the players are the content so to speak. Put 10 people in a map and you'll get infinite possible variations with as simple a setup as Counter Strike

I think that's part of why hero shooters ( along side the selling of skins for heroes) are so effective in the multiplayer space. they have unique tools for the multiplayer arena

[slim thorn]

and why that genre is so perfect for the parasocial gacha nonsense we started all this with

not that Uma Musume is a "shooter" but these all revolve around having characters with distinct abilities

[random steppe]

Why? That was one of the few situations in which Ai was used pretty ethically

[bitter stream]

People would "hack" it to say all kinds of racist stuff in the lobby

[random steppe]

Listen, you don't need to hack Darth Vader to hear racist stuff in a fortnite lobby

It's always a bad day to have ears there

It had some growing pains, it was patched quick enough tho

[bitter stream]

hmm. I'll have to look into it I guess. It was really unpleasant at the time I stopped playing.

You could mute players, but not darth vader

[wind stump]

-# i'm sorry for mentioning gacha

[random steppe]

I don't really play the game, but I'm gonna be honest, hearing Darh Vader talk with Hatsune Miku about strategy is funny as fuck

[bitter stream]

yeah, there's some great clips on youtube and such

[random steppe]

I'm mostly concerned about people not getting their work stolen, and Darth Vader, seems like was on the up and up, with the actor having signed the rights for their voice to be used that way consensually.

There are concerns for sure, like, if companies try to push those kind of contracts to people, so hopefully people are able to negotiate so it's not something that VAs are expected to give the rights for in exchange for peanuts

[bitter stream]

I guess I might as well re-install fortnite lol, I enjoyed the gameplay before, it'll be neat to see a new season of stuff

I'm not sure if I'm too easy to convince or if it's good that I can change my mind about things hahah

[shell shore]

Im begging BEGGGING the crk gods

I don’t even wanna use her i just cannot handle not having all the cookies

[wind stump]

speaking of being addicted to gacha-

actually i don't know what the fuck cookie run kingdom is

[shell shore]

Its making me pull my hair out

ITS BEEN 2 MONTHS and i STILLLLL dont have her

[wind stump]

yeah looking it up it's giving me everything BUT what the fuck the gameplay even IS

i DON'T CARE ABOUT THE LORE JUST TELL ME HOW THE FUCK THE GAME WORKS

[gaunt marten]

Just watch someone play it

(It's opening lootboxes)

[slim thorn]

"gacha" might not be a genre term if every gacha game was required to have an actual game game underneath the gacha part

[wind stump]

okay, christ, it's a city builder/sorta idle RPG type game
WAS THAT SO DIFFICULT

-# yes. clearly.

[shell shore]

I always skip the cutscenes

And about that city building stuff, i dont do shit lmao

My cookies are homeless

They drink the ocean water and eat the grass

[shell shore]

I forgot to share but i got tomodachi on my phone and now my oc is being sassy

[cunning galleon]

Got me scares for a sec

2 500lb dumb bombs landed on where the craters are and this beast hunk of metal survived both with a lot of damage to the tracks, sideskirt and main cannon

[fickle garnet]

The new REPO update is great. I really like the expressions

[visual hill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOdY_7dKNSU

Zelda x Ace Attorney crossover romhack 🙂

[wind stump]

ah yes, who do we have for Phoenix's stand in?
THE MUTE KID

[worldly summit]

NEWER TEAM???

I never could have predicted this comeback

[shell shore]

My collection grows

[river veldt]

luigi

[visual hill]

yah

I've started playing Just Cause 2 again, I remember almost 10 years ago when I first tried it

[cunning galleon]

lesgo

[bitter stream]

is this a car mechanic game? or a racer?

[cunning galleon]

Drive to the end of time survival game

[cunning galleon]

It's just a game, it's just a game, it's just a game.. PLEASE just push B already

[bitter stream]

huh, neat Gl HF

[wind stump]

{DEMONITIZED] KIIIIICK

[craggy vine]

https://www.equestriagaming.net/
How have I only found this site now, this is awesome

[little badger]

New Halo game will be revealed in October https://bsky.app/profile/culturecrave.co/post/3lstwqkj52s2s

Culture Crave 🍿 (@culturecrave.co)

Halo Studios will show a 'first look at what they've been cooking' in October 🎮

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Bluesky · Jun 30, 2025, 7:38 PM

[fresh bane]

I still find it weird that I basically heard nothing about Infinite and its quality or where it stands as a Halo game

I remember all the fuss about it during the leadup to it but afterwards I just heard nothing, not even anything about the multiplayer

the only thing I remember seeing about Infinite was || all the scenes with the ''new cortana'' which I remember some people were upset about but I thought she was really cute and the only other thing I know about Halo at all is that at like Halo 3 or 4 || || Cortana sacrifices herself because something and that's about as far as I know ||

[slim thorn]

(is that "nothing" excluding my whining? )

[fresh bane]

If you did whine about it then I don't think I remember

[slim thorn]

Ixrec — 6/13/25, 12:02
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.

Ixrec — 6/11/25, 13:11
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"

I think that covers it

[fresh bane]

Oh, I thought you meant you talked about it all the way back not just that convo a week or two ago, I do remember that

but even then the fact that that's all you had to say about it kinda proves my point at least with some of the other Halos people go on and on about how much they like or hate so and so but with Infinite it's like ''oh yeah it came out, it was... fine''

[slim thorn]

yeah, usually when a game gets regular chatter it's because people are playing it, so even the games people are complaining about are ones still good enough to play (or at least skilled enough at manipulating you that you haven't broken free yet)

[visual hill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d_xcLp_rlw
first steps towards playable Driveclub in ShadPS4 (at 60 FPS no less) 🙂

[bitter stream]

ooh what is ShadPS4? I can see it's an emulator, but like is it a new one?

[visual hill]

PS4 emulator, it already runs Bloodborne from start to finish

Gravity Rush I think is also playable right now?

[bitter stream]

oh damn, I should look this up

Wipeout Omega Collection is such a vibe

[visual hill]

Driveclub is a highly sought-after game, it's Sony's attempt at a Forza (Horizon) killer

it was a commercial failure, but it's remembered for its very good graphics by 2013 standards

[bitter stream]

ah yeah

and now forza is on playstation too

ah damn, looks like Omega Collection Wipeout doesn't even boot on NVIDA GPUs

[visual hill]

compatibility varies a lot across platforms right now, more so than any other emulator I know

only 5 games are reported to be playable on macOS

[little badger]

I miss this game. I know you can still play it offline but it was a good game

[fresh bane]

Kaz, we got weebs in motherbase

[blissful sand]

yo

anyone play battlefront II and wanna squad up ?

[fresh bane]

(fun fact that reminds me that canonically in the MGS universe Kaz is actually a pioneer of idol culture and one of the first idol managers considering he fully wrote Koi no Yokushiryoku and had Paz sing and perform it at a motherbase event in like 1974)

[visual hill]

if you're still up, I can install it and try out the game. Never played before

I have it on EGS but I think it's cross-play?

[blissful sand]

it is cross play!

esg will make you go through EA, and then i recommend only lauching through EA

egs launching ea then bfII does some wonky stuff sometimes

[visual hill]

I use Heroic anyway, I've never installed the actual EGS app

[blissful sand]

i'm going to bed now, feeling sick, i think i ate something expired

but i'm playing it basically everyday so tomorrow let's go if you're up!!

[visual hill]

ah

sure, I think I'm available tomorrow. I'll install the game and configure stuff

[blissful sand]

it's very well optimized so i think you can go for ultra everything

i can go full ultra on a gtx 970 4g and an i7 8x

[visual hill]

probably, I target 4K 225 FPS though 😛

but I can do that just fine on Forza Horizon 4, for instance

[blissful sand]

i do 144fps 1080p

iirc you got a beast pc

i'm sure it'll be more than capable of handling it

[visual hill]

I mean yes, 9950X3D + 5090

literally nothing faster on the planet as we speak

[blissful sand]

yeah if you got any issue with it then wtf lol

it's a well optimized 2017 game

[visual hill]

when I was on the Corporate Clash pride parade, I went down to 12-13 FPS due to the sheer single-threaded CPU load

it turns out the game is not particularly designed to draw 200+ toons at once

[blissful sand]

also bf II has a cool gamemode that can theoritically go forever until a team win

and that's p cool

[visual hill]

kind of like Foxhole, I guess?

[blissful sand]

i don't know about it but maybe

you start on the ground, if you win the ground assault you get to attack the enemy spaceship

to win you have to destroy their reactor cores

if you don't do it in the available time, you go back to the ground

and you can go between the two teams ships for as long as it takes

the space battles also are very good

the coop modes, the different pvp gamemodes etc

good game

[visual hill]

well, looks like it can't work with Heroic anymore due to EA app updates that broke its integration: https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/issues/4563

I guess I'll need to install the full-blown EGS, which I wanted to avoid

[blissful sand]

yeah i don't even launch it through egs but you still need it

and that sucks

it's on steam for 5 bucks rn though i think

but still will gotrhough EA

[visual hill]

the game is hard-capped to 200 FPS 😢
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/12h2byj/i_cant_increase_my_fps_cap_in_the_console_or_in/

it's the Doom 2016 curse

it's why you shouldn't have hard FPS caps, gamers from the future will suffer from it

[fresh bane]

I know it's probably an important issue for those who push their computers to the limit and have high end systems and all, but as someone who grew up most of their life playing old games on old computers and playing any ''modern'' game (any game released ~2010) at the absolute lowest settings just to get a stable 25-30fps it always amuses me when I see people talking online and sometimes complaining about a game ''only'' going up to 1440p resolution or ''only'' going up to 120fps or something

[cerulean herald]

I remember the olden days when 60 fps was considered good enough

[river veldt]

Doom 2016 is a weird game because when i play it the fan goes absolutely insane on my Steam Deck but when i play Eternal i can barely hear it

[fresh bane]

I've been playing MGSV which seems to be capped at 1080p 60fps and honestly I'm delighted I can play it with everything maxed out and with a completely stable 60fps all the time, but again maybe it's because all my life I've been used to not getting the chance to do that

and to be fair MGSV is a crazy well optimized game, I hear Death Stranding 2 is too

[visual hill]

MGSV is capped at 60 FPS by default, you can mod it but it will break grenades (they are stuck in the air when you throw them)

it's too bad because everything else is flawless, and MGS' movement is sublime at high framerates

[fresh bane]

Which is a funny comparison to bring up, because I've seen a lot of gamers upset that DS2 apparently looks bad but it's really just angry twitter people using screenshots of distant mountains to make the game look bad for some weird reason

[visual hill]

the way the animation and camera work is done just becomes even better

DS2 isn't on PC yet, we'll know more about how it works under the hood once it gets a PC port

[fresh bane]

Peace Walker has a similar issue when you mod it to play at 60fps or higher, at least on the PSP, where grenades will actually jump way further as well as the entire game basically running at twice the speed the whole time

[visual hill]

it's on the Decima engine like the first game (and like Horizon), that's all we know

[fresh bane]

It's not but I just heard that it runs extremely well and it also looks incredible, which is pretty much exactly what they did back in 2014 with MGSV, that game was absolute insanity

I still fully believe games don't really need to look any better than that

[visual hill]

anyway, I got everything up and running

[visual hill]

me in 2006: This is as good as graphics are gonna get.
me in 2010: This is as good as graphics are gonna get.
me in 2016: This is as good as graphics are gonna get.
me in 2020: This is as good as graphics are gonna get.
the cycle continues 😛

[fresh bane]

Yeaaah but I do really think we're getting there now though, especially after a game like GTA 6 comes out and it sets a completely new bar for any games made after
But I wasn't exactly saying this is as good as graphics are gonna get, I'm just saying I genuinely believe games don't need to look any better than what most games achieved already in like 2018, I just fundamentally disagree that resources and time need to be spent (or wasted) on trying to get fancier rather than on other more important stuff when it comes to games, but I know that's not the way it's gonna go

that said I'll accept fancier mocap tech like what DS2 is doing, some of these expressions and physics stuff is uncannily good, or the scrunchy noses from the trailer
I just am fine with not having the maximum poly count or the highest res 8k textures on everything (at least let me choose to install those separately)

[fresh bane]

if you're in the game right now I could join your game for a round or two

[visual hill]

I gotta go for now, but maybe tomorrow (so we can also have Yanis)

also, this is still quite a good-looking game for its time, Tatooine at night with HDR is pretty striking

it could have better antialiasing (DLAA would be ideal for my use case) but it's not too bad

[fresh bane]

Which is why I say what I say, Battlefront 2 is another game where I look at it and I just think ''games could stay like this forever and I'd be more than fine with that'', it helps that it also actually runs really good

I thought I'd be pushing it with putting everything on max for this game but it actually still runs perfectly fine for me

[gaunt marten]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/500576552635859540 more advanced performance monitors than just an FPS counter

[bitter stream]

oh awesome

that's handy for troubleshooting

[fickle garnet]

Is Resident Evil Zero good?

Its $7 and i was thinking of buying it

[fresh bane]

It's good if you're a Resident Evil fan specifically a classic Resident Evil fan

for anybody else, I would say eh, if 7 bucks is money you're fine parting with and you're willing to go into it and see if you like it sure

[fickle garnet]

I really enjoy Resident Evil, so I decided to buy it

[fresh bane]

If you're already pretty into, and I mean pretty into RE then it can be a pretty good time, but it's always been a game that went under the radar and people never seemed to fully like for valid reasons, since it tries to do things a bit differently and it doesn't always quite hits the mark, but it has enough redeemable qualities that there are people out there that still love the game despite the questionable design choices and frustrating mechanics

[craggy vine]

When the game physics start to break at above 30 fps

And the in game fps cap is either 30 or nothing making an unplayable mess

Doom 1 on ms dos had a 35 fps cap

gamers when doom 1 only gets 1000 fps on their rtx 5090

[wind stump]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vf7tECBofI this is why i love Pot

[slim thorn]

Having played Zero from start to finish, it's a mixed bag. Story's pretty dumb/whatever, but the gameplay can be as fun as any other RE if you're prepared for the problems.

The opening Train area is pretty great, to the point that on sale I'd say it's worth buying even if you just play that part and then drop it.

Most of the issues are with how the game's "two controllable characters" work. Unfortunately there is no shared inventory, each character's inventory is quite small, switching mid-combat is impractical, the AI can't be relied on for shooting efficiently, and no ender chests like in most REs. So (post-Train) in practice the system basically demands you leave all your extra items on the foyer floor, then play as one character the whole time with the other being a pack mule. Until specific parts of the game where you're forced to play as one or the other.

The biggest problem is the few places when you're forced to play as only one character without any prior warning or way back to give you a chance to shuffle around inventory items, potentially losing access to half your weapons/ammo, which post-Train can effectively be a softlock. So you're gonna want to be very paranoid about saves, or regularly talk to someone who knows where these points are.

[visual hill]

they did a great job at it, I think they are actually breaking new ground here

[fickle garnet]

I really do not like having to control two characters in RE0

[slim thorn]

iirc only Rebecca can mix herbs so I mostly played as her when given the choice

[fickle garnet]

I was having fun with the game untill I had to start controlling two characters

[slim thorn]

pack mule strats ftw

[wind stump]

The Mana has Escalated.

[bitter stream]

ugh, why do I suck at anti gravity racers. It's such a cool genre, but when I play it i'm rebounding into walls, missing item usage, and just going slow.
Maybe this s another "Fighting Game" genre for me.

[slim thorn]

maybe, I've noticed I tend to adapt to that kind of non-euclidean stuff better than some people

if I liked racing games more in the first place I'd probably click with the anti-grav kind

in fact I have the fighting game problem even in non-fighting games; some Igavanias (including Bloodstained: RotN) have fighting game-like combo moves which I can't execute reliably enough to use in practice

[bitter stream]

yeah fair enough

Motion Inputs can be a barrier, though the utility they bring can be cool too

[slim thorn]

my impression was that the vast majority of motion controls have traditional button/key equivalents that are just better (or would be if implemented properly)

with the main exception being point-at-screen aiming

[bitter stream]

hmm... that's, not what I meant

Motion Inputs as in Quarter Circles, DragonPunch motions, etc

let me find some notation, I don't have it on hand

this sort of stuff

[slim thorn]

oooh

yeah that's the kind of thing RotN wanted me to do and it just doesn't work reliably when I try it

[bitter stream]

aye! that's part of the point, at least in fighting games. I'm less confident about keeping it as a main enabler in non-competitive games

It can be funny secret input stuff, but it can also just be a pointless barrier

[slim thorn]

it is hard for me to judge since I've never put in the time to break through the barrier

but it's also really easy to tell that it is a significant reason why I dismissed these entire genres as not for me back when I was new to gaming and trying all the genres I heard of

[bitter stream]

that's understandable. I can explain some of why I like their existance in fighting games if that'd be of interest, even though I've not broken that barrier myself, at least not to the level of consistent playing with them

[slim thorn]

sure

[bitter stream]

so, where to begin.

1. Many different moves from limited buttons. This is arguably the fundemental use of motion inputs. With a directional input ( historically an arcade stick) and as few as 2 buttons you can give a character a ton of moves.

[slim thorn]

yeah, it's pretty easy to see why it was necessary in the days of arcade cabinets, and maybe easier to execute with an actual arcade stick

[bitter stream]

mhm!

2. Skill expression inside the game system under high pressure. This is harder for me to explain, but the skill ceiling for competive games with motion inputs let's people do wild stuff, and if the ceiling is high enough, even have unique styles with the same characters.

It's easier in training mode to pull a perfect combo, but pulling it off at a tournament against an opponent is a different boardgame

there's even a like, "push-pull" aspect to competing with them

Do you go for the hard stuff to optimise damage? or take easier buttons inorder to react faster?

Anti Airs are the classic version of this in Street Fighter

Dragon Punch motions give you invuln, high covering anti-airs

but a Crouching HP will also anti-air in a pinch

They beat more options with the DP, but you can whiff the input, or not input fast enough

It's why someone like Daigo and other pro's get well known for "great execution"

You can know all the right counters, but you've got to be able to input them.

And there's weirder stuff too

Like Option Selects

err, how to explain... TL:DR if you put a certain set of inputs into the buffer of say, Streetfighter, you get different moves based on what the opponent does, getting the right option depending on what came out.

An option select is basically when a player inputs commands (often times for multiple moves) and the output is different depending on the priority of each move given in the current situation.

The most commonly used option select is a crouch tech option select. You hold down + back and press lp + lk in sync with the opponents attacks. If they attack, no move comes out because you will be in block stun. If they do nothing, a lk will come out since lk takes priority over lp. If they throw, you will tech the throw.
-from a reddit post

it's really really high level stuff, that makes watching pro FGC players so fun to watch

I'm sure someone more involved could say more here, but that's about the extent I can easily explain for 2.

[slim thorn]

that's probably as far as I can get in a few minutes anyway

I had to stop and think to figure out that lp/k probably mean low punch/kick

[bitter stream]

close enough!

[slim thorn]

lol

[bitter stream]

3. You can balance characters through their inputs.
   Guile vs Ryu is the usual example

To "flash kick" a guile has to be holding down or down back (I think). This means that on defence, they can have it charged and ready to go, but on offence, they lose access to it as to move forward, you can't hold down or down back.

Super moves fall into this too

Usually requiring 2 sequential motion inputs

like Quarter Circle Forward +Quarter Circle Forward --> Punch

It takes more time to input, so it can be slower than other moves.

You can get really wacky with this

like Guilty Gear Strives Half Circle inputs for Behemoth Typhoon... for the big guy with the alien in a coffin

can't recall his name

It's a strong move, but you'll be slower to get it out

TL:DR, influence play patterns by what moves require what inputs to use.

That's sort of the Big 3 for me, and there are plenty of Fighting Games that don't require motion inputs but capture much of the same complexity

[slim thorn]

yeah this all makes sense to me in a multiplayer context

I guess I'm used to most of the same goals being achieved in single player games with cooldowns/charges/resources, or with simpler forms of the overlapping/faraway inputs technique

like in Nine Sols, there's an insane amount of skill expression in the final fight because almost everything in your toolkit is a valid way of dodging and/or punishing most boss attacks, but many are easier or harder than others, which is where you get things like the "level 0" version of that fight being so much fun to practice because it's not just same fight no mistakes, it forces me to dodge and attack in completely different ways than I usually do

[bitter stream]

that sounds like a lot of fun to practice/execute

[slim thorn]

my favorite example of that is probably Eigong's "crimson slam"

in a normal playthrough you'll probably use the Unbounded Counter / superparry move to just completely negate it and get some easy damage after she's stunned (and the fight's plenty hard for a new player even with this option), since the wind-up is nice and long

but on level 0, you simply don't have UC, so either you run away from it entirely, or you have to practice this sequence of moves where as she slams down her sword, you dodge under her, then jump, then attack the back of her head, and if you get the timing wrong then her sword or the fire generated by it will hurt you

[bitter stream]

sweet

This sounds like some hollow knight kinda combat

[slim thorn]

it's definitely closer to Hollow Knight than a typical Metroid or a Castelvania

although a lot of people prefer Nine Sols specifically because the combat is more complex / typically has more options than in Hollow Knight

(standing on the shoulders of giants and such)

[bitter stream]

that's fair, I'll have to look into it once I get through Hollow knight

or, if I get through hollow knight lmao

[slim thorn]

meanwhile a lot of people prefer Hollow Knight because it's one of the most non-linear metroidvanias, so easy to get lost in and yet (unlike seemingly every Igavania ) difficult to get truly stuck with nowhere left to explore

[bitter stream]

what's an Igavania btw?

Hollow Knight is just kind of beautiful too

[slim thorn]

so, the term "Igavania" refers to Koji Igarashi, who was heavily involved in many Castlevanias and (after Konami stopped being a video game company) the Bloodstaineds

as a genre term it's basically "the Castlevania side of metroidvanias", since you can't really say that "Bloodstained is a Castlevania"

[bitter stream]

Ah I see, that makes a weird kind of sense

[slim thorn]

fwiw I currently see metroidvanias as having roughly three subgenres; the Metroid-likes, the Igavanias, and the modern post-Hollow Knight/Dark Souls ones

but afaict "Igaavnia" is the only one of the three that has a name at all

[bitter stream]

huh, neat

I suppose because Metroidvania used to be a more accurate umbrella term

[slim thorn]

back when Metroids and (post-SotN) Castlevanias were most of the genre, yeah

I'm sure fans of other genres have a similar tree of microgenres or at least design tropes in their head

like there's probably some huge differences between the 80s and 90s "D&D but digital" CRPGs, and the Larian-era(???) CRPG revivals that I am completely unable to articulate

and I don't even know if there's a chunk in between or if the genre was truly 100% dead in the middle lol

I know fighting games have the "platform fighters" subgenre, and there's also that distinction between fully 2D ones and the ones where you can sidestep along the z-axis so it's sorta 3d?

[bitter stream]

aye, that makes sense to me. RTS was quieter for a long while too, though more in the sense of fewer big releases than being truly devoid

aye it's true with fighters, though there are subdivisions used commonly under them too

[slim thorn]

but since I'm really into metroidvanias I can point at specific things, like how almost all of my favorite ones since HK/DS have adopted a Souls-like bonfire and estus flask system, as well as an HK-like charm system

[hushed onyx]

It was not wholly dead, you had Neverwinter Nights and Neverwinter Nights 2 in the early 2000s. There were a few bridge RPGs like Wasteland 2 or the Pathfinder games between the 1990s and D:OS II, too.

[slim thorn]

oh yeah the early kickstarter era

[bitter stream]

heh, I kickstarted a few RPG books, for 5E DND, but i never really got them to the table

I would have loved to back some boardgames, but I saw so many examples go poorly that I'm thoroughly scared off

Thanks for the conversation around these topics btw, it's been nice.

[slim thorn]

another fun example might be that almost all of my favorite metroidvanias since HK/DS have primarily melee combat (traditionally, that'd be "the Castlevania side" of the genre) but also have very high mobility like i-frame dodges/rolls and air dashes (traditionally, "the Metroid side")

in fact I can't think of one before Hollow Knight which has both of those

[bitter stream]

ah, interesting

it does make for fun platforming and combat

[slim thorn]

now that you mention it, I can't think of a segment in an Igavania where the platforming itself was a major part of the challenge (unlike e.g. HK's White Palace), usually even something like double jump or literal flight is "just" a progression gate

[bitter stream]

hmm, would the clockwork towers count? though i guess that's more enemy spam than precise platforming

[slim thorn]

yeah, avoiding medusa heads is as close as it gets

honestly "is there a clock tower with tiny floating enemies" is one of the easiest litmus tests for whether a metroidvania is an Igavania

[bitter stream]

hahah fair enough

[slim thorn]

Bloodstained: RotN managed to up the ante by doing a 2.5D clock tower where you run around the half-broken spiral ramp along the outside of it

[bitter stream]

oh nice, that's cool

[slim thorn]

(and then it had a whole second tower that was secretly a boss arena: #1032716748887179434 message )

[bitter stream]

[slim thorn]

I should really finish that, I'm literally one boss away from credits

as much as I prefer the Metroid-likes and the HK-likes, RotN is easily the best Igavania I've tried so far, just a straight upgrade from Aria of Sorrow

[bitter stream]

nice nice, go for it! It'll feel nice to have it squared away

[gaunt marten]

Peak gaming https://i.imgur.com/wpnOXV8.png

Take fourteen unstringed emerald amulets I made earlier, and fourteen balls of wool, make fourteen proper emerald amulets. Once all one thousand are made sell them on the grand exchange

[gaunt marten]

Gonna take a while for them all to sell at that price https://i.imgur.com/KHQMHSN.png

[fresh bane]

It's funny now that I think about it Revelations 2 makes controlling two characters actually pretty fun to do and cool

The revelation games are ones I would totally recommend if they're dirt cheap on sale right now, both of them are great games, I got both like two sales ago for basically pocket change

Why am I Canadian?

[gaunt marten]

It's Canada day

[fresh bane]

Ah

[cerulean herald]

do we get to receive free maple syrup

[wind stump]

Why does Byleth leave her stomach exposed?

[gaunt marten]

You and I know the answer to this

[wind stump]

maybe
but i wanted to point it out

[slim thorn]

unrealistic eye candy armor may be an omnipresent trope, but I still find it immersion-breaking

[wind stump]

still better than Corrin not wearing shoes at all

[proud warren]

Tbf I think it has to do with their curse also affecting their feet, rendering shoes a pointless investment

[wind stump]

that sounds more like a solution looking for a problem

[proud warren]

I mean you saw what happens to their hands and feet when they go dragon mode

[wind stump]

You know what, I'll concede on that one, that does make some sense.

[visual hill]

@fresh bane @blissful sand you around for Battlefront 2?

[blissful sand]

Shi I just stopped playing

Spilled ice tea on my PC and lost the will to play for tonight 😔

[visual hill]

ah, too bad

I won't be available tomorrow, but maybe Thursday

[fresh bane]

I could join you for a game or two if you're still playing

[visual hill]

sure, I'll be there in 5 minutes. In the meantime, you can add Calinou1 on EA

[fresh bane]

There's a lot more Calinous in here than I thought

I hope I got the right one

[visual hill]

I've accepted the invite

now how does it work? It seems I'm the party leader

[fresh bane]

alright, let me know if you're done customizing your characters and all that

It should be me, I invited you, I guess we'll see once I pick a gamemode I never did this before

[visual hill]

alright

I haven't done any character customization, I'm still brand new

so feel free to start searching a game

I have little experience playing Battlefield-style games in general, all I know is that it's a bit like TF2 but on a larger scale

and you have abilities like Overwatch, I noticed

[fresh bane]

You probably won't have much to do still because you start unlocking starting at lvl 2 so maybe after we play a round or two but you can pick some skins if you bought the celebration edition

So I'm probably gonna go with Supremacy for the sake of simplicity, it's basically capture command posts style gameplay, there's galactic assault but that's all about going through various objectives and I feel like supremacy is probably better as a simple gamemode to just sort of get used to playing first

[visual hill]

I have the celebration edition

I got an error

[fresh bane]

Yeah I'm looking for a game again, it must be freaking out because we're nowhere close to each other and it doesn't know which server to pick from

[visual hill]

probably, I remember reading somewhere that I should change my matchmaking region

the ping site in the EA account settings

[fresh bane]

You can do that?

[visual hill]

I suppose you're on the Brazil one? I can switch to that one

or we can use both Virginia, so latency is not as bad on my end

[fresh bane]

well we found a match apparently

[visual hill]

did you crash? I don't see you anymore

[fresh bane]

Yeah I got disconnected for a second there I'm joining again though

[visual hill]

there's a guy with force lightning who is basically unkillable 😢

[fresh bane]

Palpatine lol yeah once you get enough points you can play a hero

[visual hill]

we got destroyed but it's fun

[fresh bane]

So if you want you can do the server switch thing but I don't know if it's gonna be too much of a problem

[visual hill]

I got many kills by playing Chewbacca and camping a point, using abilities randomly

[fresh bane]

You should be able to customize some characters now probably

[visual hill]

yeah I've changed it to Virginia

[visual hill]

this is the second time I blast a Grevious with a rocket launcher and he's resistant to it

[fresh bane]

they're pretty tough especially if they got any cards that maximize their health or health regeneration

but luckily Grievous can't block blaster fire

[astral steeple]

Wow I'm actually kinda tempted to update warzone again and buy the beavis and butthead tiers lol

[visual hill]

I did a bit better in tihs one (8th out of 20), still figuring out what ability does what

F1 has helpful descriptions but you need to test them in practice to see what they're worth 😛

[visual hill]

@fresh bane did you crash?

[fresh bane]

got dc'd I'm on queue to join the server again

[visual hill]

TIL trying to melee the generator kills you

[fresh bane]

[visual hill]

gg, first game won 🙂

[fresh bane]

we actually won that one

yeah

[visual hill]

also, I found that on this map, you can capture some of the points by standing on the roof

[fresh bane]

So we can also go for galactic assault if you want, which is less about the constant tug and pull of command post capturing and more about single objectives each team has to do if you want

[fresh bane]

oh you have a green reticle

Oh you joined another game cause we got separated

I'll try to join your game

[visual hill]

yeah

oh you have a green reticle
it's a shame you can't make the crosshair smaller, I find it too large

[fresh bane]

I do too, but the rifles are kind of not super accurate anyways so I find it weirdly helps

[visual hill]

I can drop out of this game if you want to do another mode

[fresh bane]

eh only if you want it's not necessary, I'm joining your game already

[visual hill]

ah, I didn't understand you needed to hold G to board

I was just standing there below the vehicle

[fresh bane]

Yeah it's confusing

not very well explained

alright let's blow them up

woooooo

[visual hill]

ggs! I'll call it a night

[fresh bane]

yeah those went a bit longer

[visual hill]

I did pretty well on this one, 3rd or 4th on our team's scoreboard

my strategy was to keep all the points to respawn as enforcer all the time during the final phases

[fresh bane]

if you get your ship boarded and fend the enemy off you go back to the ground and do it again

so those can go pretty long lol

after playing for a bit you get a specific card that gives you more points during the match

so you can pick heroes and different classes more often

but I like the default classes

[fresh bane]

also luckily we encountered no cheaters

I hear those are a big problem still

[shell shore]

I FINALLY GOT HER

SHES MINEREEEUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHSHBAHAHAH

2 MONTHS

HAHSHEHEHEH

[fresh bane]

replaying RE2R with this mod is hurting me, because it fits so well and it plays so good, the more I play like this the more mad I get that this isn't the way it was by default

actually getting my hands on this thing and fiddling around with the settings I gotta say I'm really happy and I'm super into all the options this gives you too, it's very nice

I just played around with the camera settings because I like a semi-fixed camera system but it also lets you tweak around the controls and the aiming to your liking, you can even set the option to disable the fixed camera while aiming if you don't want the fixed camera auto-aim or manual aim which is really really cool
in an ideal world they would offer this as an option officially, maybe as a neat unlockable after finishing the game, although as much as I really want that to be I also realize that designing an experience around either fixed camera or third person and slapping the other one on top later doesn't quite exactly work perfectly, but at this point I'll take a slapped on fixed camera option regardless, but I doubt that would happen anytime soon I guess this will have to make do for now

[gaunt marten]

I have discovered something interesting https://i.imgur.com/aACelOB.png

Apparently this NPC was the host of the 2017, 2022, 2023, and 2024 pride events

He gives you this outfit https://i.imgur.com/9689JuP.png

Apparently the current CEO is a coward who cancelled this year's, overruling lower staff's desire

[fresh bane]

damn and here I thought I couldn't get this to be any more perfect

[green fulcrum]

Ngl, I don't like gacha games, but this art style is suuuuper adorable

[dense crypt]

Yeah it is. Great character designs and theyre frickin COOKIE

[bronze abyss]

https://music.apple.com/lt/album/symbiosis-feat-cassie-wei/1792579961?i=1792580607 i think its time to replay ender magnolia

[worldly summit]

everything I'm picking up in the steam sale

[gaunt marten]

Hell yeah

[bitter stream]

enjoy Bin200

[gaunt marten]

Crosscode is one of my favorite games of all time

[visual hill]

Atlyss mentioned!!

[uneven epoch]

ouuuuugh spiritfarer.........

very good game but watch out

[blissful sand]

EA launcher sucks so much oh my god

I got a new drive

And you can't change a game file's location

I gotta download the whole ass game again

[visual hill]

I found a solution on reddit actually

[bronze abyss]

id know im in a playtest for a game

[visual hill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HCQYtuzqgk

not tested on my end

[blissful sand]

I'm doing this :')

It just got stuck at 6% for 10 minutes

[visual hill]

I was looking for a way to open the game's installation folder and found that video by chance

[blissful sand]

I just started doing it again

[quiet swift]

https://80.lv/articles/all-three-subnautica-studio-heads-left-for-unknown-reasons Weeellllll fuck

[green fulcrum]

[blissful sand]

EA is the worst launcher

How is steam so old with so few updates better than any recent launcher with big updates every months

EA discontinued the origin launcher for their EA launcher just to make it worse when it was already trash 😭

[gaunt marten]

Steam updates more than most other launchers

Are you not paying attention when I talk about new features they add?

[random steppe]

Nice selection

I would agree that Steam having had like 20 years to develop and mature is like, the main edge it has over the competition.
That said, EA launchers are especially shit even compared to more recent competition

Also, I like steam, but they should really knock off with facilitating child gambling in their games

[bitter stream]

lol yeah, CS 2 being like, the prime example

[random steppe]

It's especially that it's actual gambling and not like, gamgling-like mechanics that makes it especially bad even for the low low standard of the industry

[bitter stream]

yeah... T_T. None of the regulators seem to care though, despite people suggesting, hey, shouldn't we like, do somethign abotu that

[random steppe]

To be fair, it's complicated.
And precedent probably works in their favour legally speaking, that said they should like...stop

Regardless of the legality of it

[arctic fern]

#stopkillinggames https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
EU and UK folks there are two petitions to sign up for to maybe have something changed about games you already owned being removed from the market and shut down completely

[astral steeple]

Tf

I updated call of duty on my xbox one and it was 113gb and now it said there was another update which was 115gb

[little badger]

@green fulcrum Jurassic park is coming to crossworlds

[cunning galleon]

My tank got shaved why does it look like that 😭

The ass was bombarded with a shit ton of 50cal and i almost died, but MGed his gunner and crew because open top

[astral steeple]

BRO??????

STAN????????

[cunning galleon]

What the fuck is this

[astral steeple]

Call of duty X American dad lmao

[wind stump]

ah yes
not being able to see the screen is nice

[toxic seal]

Goodbye creative direction

Papoutsis is currently leading Striking Distance Studios, the team behind The Callisto Protocol, as Chief Executive Officer.
Oh no

[cunning galleon]

Hello gaymers and gamers alike, is persona 5 worth picking up?

[river veldt]

if you can tolerate 10 hours of tutorials yeah i think so

it clearly wasn't for me but people enjoy it for a reason

[slim thorn]

yeah, it's one of those long JRPGs that expects a big upfront commitment to get the most of out of it

(I watched someone else play through it so I got to see the story)

[fickle garnet]

Call of Duty is just Fortnite now

[slim thorn]

competition breeds imitation