general gaming

[fickle garnet]

I'm talking specifically about the manuscript pages you find thought the game that are written by Alan Wake. The sentence structure just seems very similar

I should've specified that I'm not talking about the whole games writing, and made it clear that I was taking about the in game character, sorry

Anyways, Alan Wake 2 is very good so far

[hasty patio]

https://www.ign.com/articles/clair-obscur-expedition-33-is-getting-a-free-update-featuring-new-dungeon-enemies-bosses-and-costumes

[green fulcrum]

@slim thorn You started your playthrough at an interesting time, haha

[wind stump]

Man
Decided to start playing Pro Skater 4 (PS2) on a whim and this game is harder than I thought

[visual hill]

THPS got harder over time (or at least more mechanically demanding) because there's a lot more features to worry about

I believe THPS4 also has some nerfs from THPS3 and its arguably overtuned switch system, which made infinite combos too easy

[wind stump]

or maybe because i'm using the custom skater

so the stats are poo poo

Meet John ProSkater

[fresh bane]

lol my Underground 2 character is named Jane, so I guess she's literally Jane ProSkater
or Jane Underground in this case

I have a funny relationship with Tony Hawk's because I knew about Pro Skater games when I was a kid but I never got the chance to actually play them, but the one I did play constantly and was my introduction to skating and Tony Hawk's was Underground 2, and I played the hell out of this game
also, apparently, one of the most disliked games by some because a lot of people didn't vibe with the more Jackass style tone and story of this

[chilly mural]

yeah, story wise, it rides off the coattails of jackass

the inclusion of Bam's dad Phil being a big part of it

but gameplay wise, it's great

[fresh bane]

Which is all I look for in a Tony Hawk game, I know people really vibed with the story aspect of Underground 1 which is why so many people rank it over 2 but when it comes to a tony hawk game I really don't even need that, classic mode and I'm good

[bronze abyss]

underground 2 remix was peak

[bronze abyss]

what a pretty lad

[wind stump]

They really don't make them like they used to.

i don't know how much of Ranger Bob is true but i think it was worth murdering him

fuck it, i'm downloading Underground 2, the best game.

[tiny wigeon]

Is that a game?

If so what’s the name

[gaunt marten]

This is Pizza Tower

With a pinkie pie mod

[astral steeple]

Minecraft movie 2 announced

July 23rd 2027

[mossy flume]

…why

[astral steeple]

Why not

[green fulcrum]

It was only a matter of time

[cerulean herald]

any guesses on what the plot could possibly be about

maybe we finally get the end

[green fulcrum]

Well, Alex is definitely gonna be in it

That was the big tease from the last one

No idea otherwise

[astral steeple]

Emma stone as Alex please lol

[gaunt marten]

Alex from Half Life

[wind stump]

🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧

[wind stump]

The 2000s were a... Time.

A COP JUST CALLED ME WANKER AFTER DOING A GRAB TRICK OVER HIM AND GRABBED HIS HAT

PEAK

[arctic fern]

ok i saw that message pop up in modchat and genuinely thought you had pissed off a real copper
didnt notice what channel it was from XD

[wind stump]

Lmao
No no, I restrict my police bullying to vidya game

[river veldt]

lfg

[river veldt]

because the first one made nearly a billion dollars

[wind stump]

Don't ask me how that works.

Amazing.

Ironic that a website used for piracy is now being used as a cosmetic in an emulated game.

[cerulean herald]

Napstablook

[fresh bane]

Ironic, or poetic?

[graceful bridge]

https://bsky.app/profile/remedygames.com/post/3m2rutvlalf2d

Remedy Entertainment (@remedygames.com)

Apple takes CONTROL!

You will soon be able to enter the Oldest House on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro alongside Mac. Play with a game controller, or tap into the action with touch controls.

Discover a world unknown when Control arrives on these platforms in early 2026.

#ControlRemedy #RMD30

Bluesky · Oct 9, 2025, 7:21 PM

Maybe I'll actually finish the game this time.
-# Narrator's note: they did not.

[river veldt]

hey im replaying this rn

[mossy flume]

And Vision Pro? Ooooo

[fresh bane]

I remember when Tony did that trick

that was a weird day

[fresh bane]

It's true, it really is

[wind stump]

is that Disturbed in the background, lmao

ah this truly is peak 2000s

[fresh bane]

Of course

there's some punk rock goodies in there too

this and Need for Speed builds your entire music taste if you play these games as a kid

[visual hill]

the iPhone 17 Pro really tamed the latest AAA games, hopefully it will also handle this one

[chilly mural]

your character looks like Riza Wildman from princess resurrection https://www.phixiv.net/en/artworks/454228

リザ by (@石っころ)

リザ
腰が悩ましい
#Liza, #Princess Resurrection, #リザ・ワイルドマン

https://github.com/thelaao/phixiv · Feb 21, 2008, 4:06 PM

[fresh bane]

Oh nice that's the werewolf girl with the paw hands, I've never seen this anime but I think I saw the opening once

It's a good design, unfortunately immediately after I designed my character I found out that redhead with black top plus green cargo pants (or any black/green/red color combination) isn't as rare of a design choice as you would initially think so now she probably looks like quite a couple of characters

[visual hill]

the nice thing about going back to early races to 100% the game with the best cars is that you can get great leaderboard positions 🙂

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ9RU7pznTs I'm just expecting a bunch of zombies to start swarming everything to the tune of Dies Irae

[mossy flume]

PSA: A few hundred physical copies of Pokémon Legends Z-A have been stolen and are actively being sold/redistributed on the black market. Beware prerelease spoilers.

[dense crypt]

or a weirdly designed wooden siege engine to rush in and destroy everyone and everything

[obsidian salmon]

smallest patch I've ever seen goes to trombone champ

somehow that fixed 6 things and it isn't even a kilobyte

[river veldt]

what's above terabyte

[sacred grove]

petabyte, I believe

[river veldt]

peterbyte

sorry

they should shove a petabyte onto a micro sd card

[sacred grove]

We would have to invent some crazy new storage technology to fit 1,000 TB onto that size

[river veldt]

i found this low quality chart

i wonder what uses a geopbyte

[rugged flax]

I've put together server racks at work with like half an exabyte of storage in them and almost a petabyte of RAM

[mossy flume]

Hot dang

Servers I would love to work on

[river veldt]

if i had a petabyte in my steam deck i don't think i'd ever have to worry about storage ever again

[mossy flume]

Indeed

[rugged flax]

that was cumulative over the whole rack, but they were still some quite beefy servers individually

[mossy flume]

I’m a data hog and even my needs are satisfied at around 150TBs

[river veldt]

they should make a game that's a terabyte in size

[sacred grove]

The more dense we make data, the more it'll need increasingly sophisticated manufacturing processes and/or ways to get around the limitations of physics, lol

[mossy flume]

The game studio that does this will be burned to the ground by an angry mob haha

Actually!!!

If we want to be pedantic

Microsoft claims that the total data used for Microsoft Flight Simulator is on the order of well more than 2 petabytes

[river veldt]

oh my

[mossy flume]

Which is why all data is streamed from the cloud when you’re playing

[river veldt]

well that has the whole world doesn't it

[mossy flume]

Yeah

It’s satellite and geometry data

And weather data

[river veldt]

i wonder if i could find my apartment building in that game

[mossy flume]

This is a good argument to be had that MSFS2020 is the first AAAA game

(However we ultimately define that)

[mossy flume]

Probably. My house is visible on it

Basically it should be visible since it’s partly using Bing Maps (is that the name?)

[sacred grove]

There are tradeoffs of course. Requiring an external component like this isn't so great in the game preservation aspect. The servers go down, there goes your flight sim

[mossy flume]

Yeah

MSFS 2020 allows you to download a lower resolution model of the world to your machine, but that’s still hundreds of GBs. My own installation clocks in at about 550GB (it varies wildly depending on what you grab)

But 2024 doesn’t seem to let you do this??

[river veldt]

is msfs fun ?

[sacred grove]

Depends on what you find fun. Do you want to feel like you're flying and controlling an actual plane?

It's a simulator, so it does simulation-y things

You get all the readouts and instruments in the cockpit, you control all the things, you do smooth takeoffs and landings, that sort of thing. To my understanding, anyway. I haven't played modern msfs myself

[sacred grove]

I believe it also has VR support, for maximum immersion of being in a cockpit and pressing all the buttons

[river veldt]

like those racing games

[mossy flume]

Yeah, but it’s even more involved

It does proper physics simulations on the aircraft and the entirety of the aircraft’s controls are available to you

You can turn on assists to make it easier, but it’s not really a game so much as it’s just a straight up simulator which expects you to know how to fly a plane, understand ATC, etc

It can train you on the basics though

MSFS and X-Plane 11 are good enough to be fairly decent introductions to learning how to pilot an aircraft if you configure them correctly

[mossy flume]

Yep, and also has support for integrating live IRL air traffic into your world along with multiplayer

MSFS 2024 introduced scenarios, so there’s now a “campaign” in it

Which is basically “you learn how to fly from the ground up and then you start doing pilot jobs that get more complicated”

[little badger]

Battlefield 6 is now live

[wind stump]

i think my Isaac broke

[bronze abyss]

my game is not broken at all

[wind stump]

new first person mode just dropped

[visual hill]

playing a MMO in first person has always felt odd to me

even Toontown can be played this way

[wind stump]

And even the Award Winning MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV Online-

[worthy rose]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/s/ls0mkJbCYm well, this is terribly cute

Woman gives her fiancé a board with calculations to do. Some of the numbers are homophones in Chinese to mean stuff like "I love you" and "all my life" or similar. The end result is 5090. When he gets it, a bridesmaid pulls out a 5090 GPU

[bronze abyss]

bro i just fucking died cuz i touched a plant what the fuck

[wind stump]

Gravity Circuit is one of the free EGS games this week and it's fun

Mega Man with a grappling hook

[fresh bane]

We talked about this game earlier this year when I was playing it

[slim thorn]

I might've tried it if this wasn't the year that it is with too much else to play

[fresh bane]

It was pretty good it felt really really solid to play, I just didn't have much interest on the Megaman style of game so I never got around to finishing it

If I liked Megaman I bet I would be all over that game probably

[slim thorn]

same

[visual hill]

wow, I just found out my bank of all things offers 1 year of premium access on Trackmania

there it is again 🙂

[fickle garnet]

I want to bank somewhere that gives me benifits for gaming

[visual hill]

it's BoursoBank, a French online bank

they are pretty modern, I've found them to be the best by quite a wide margin so far

(I've been at 4 different banks in my life already... 5 if I count the account I had to open to store money when I was < 18)

[quiet swift]

Huh. Watching a youtuber's videos of them playing MGS 1 & 2, since i've never played them myself. The Colonel (Campbell)'s voice sounds so terribly familiar, but I can't see from their IMDB what I'd know them from

[random steppe]

IIRC he's a very prolific VA

I don't think he has top billings, rarely a major supporting characters or antagonist, most of the time like, random background voices of unnamed character, but he's everywhere so you no doubt heard him a bunch

[quiet swift]

OH

Narrator in Diablo

[random steppe]

2?

[quiet swift]

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

1

[random steppe]

Makes sense

[quiet swift]

Possibly 2, i forget when it shifted to be more Deckard centric

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-taeHDX48Io no, still there

Yeah, that's the main source I know it from....which is wow. Can't believe I remembered something that old

[astral steeple]

Uh what

[fresh bane]

sure why not

[cerulean herald]

[green fulcrum]

...Of course they pick an attractive actress for Chica's role, lol.

[river veldt]

this is interesting because i don't think the classic animatronics were voiced in the first movie

[fresh bane]

I kinda don't care what voice the animatronics have I don't think I feel strongly one way or the other

[astral steeple]

Oh Matpat is playing toy Bonnie

[river veldt]

lol that's kind of funny

[proud warren]

Supposedly it's cus her kids are fans of the franchise

[cunning galleon]

he is devastated

[cunning galleon]

fucking hate italy tech tree

[peak berry]

0w0

[forest shoal]

https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-ObIdJXcmt199PPX3-rz
https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-ObIYGN5nOth79KS0nmC

Good luck!

[wind stump]

adhd simulator

[wind stump]

remember i said my Isaac save broke?

Magically Unfucked Itself™🌈

[glad girder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xQvdqbF0Zs

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/fVtdkNqbiKE?si=r3SuZCNvIyx56T_A

FighterZ coming back from the dead like Perfect Cell walking out of a dust cloud

[bitter stream]

Amazing lol

[visual hill]

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

[bronze abyss]

choking runs in the most stupid way possible 🔥

huge pb

[wintry canopy]

I picked up two boxes of battles of legend monster mayhem, i haven't opened them yet I'm just waiting on some hard sleeves. I'm going for the dragonmaids that I'm missing.

[cunning galleon]

Hmm.. Dbr with a scope

[wind stump]

ngl this little fucker is kinda adorable

[wind stump]

weird fucking cat

[worthy rose]

https://share.google/F37HCs7yq7yz5oN9Y

[quiet swift]

Huh. Xcom 2 is on the Prime Gaming giveaway

[bitter stream]

good game, wish we got a sequel lol

[visual hill]

I had it from a previous EGS or GOG giveaway

since it's a GOG giveaway, is the key generated on Prime Gaming linked to my account?

[quiet swift]

Should be, yes

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/nmbPIyWY-i0?si=Pwl08vlogirOKi9m

They're really doing some good work with these Tomb Raider games huh

[quiet swift]

I should get around to playing the third of the newer series. Played the first two but never got around to... shadow of the tomb raider, I think it was?

[fresh bane]

I never played any of them

[quiet swift]

They are very very good!

A very different feel from the old TR games, of course, but highly recommended. If you see them on a steam sale, very worth it

[fresh bane]

I've always been interested in the Tomb Raider series but I never got the chance to play any of them growing up, and by the time I could get games I was just interested in other things, I wanted to try out the original ones with that new remastered collection that I kept watching videos about because of how good they are, but I think the controls would actually end up winning against me I'm all for tank controls on survival horror but I heard about how precise turns and jumps have to be in those original Tomb Raider games and how they can be a bit of a headache

[quiet swift]

Yeah, that's something that is less of an issue in the newer ones

[fresh bane]

the closest I got to actually playing these games is recently trying out the very beginning portions of Anniversary and Underworld because I recently modded a Wii

[quiet swift]

I think the middle series recently got a remaster as well?

[fresh bane]

4-5-6 did iirc

[quiet swift]

Yeah, that

[light gate]

This is made by the community, not Aspyr.

[fresh bane]

Regardless it's nice to see that they did a good job with these remasters and the community is still strong enough for these games to have done this project

[arctic fern]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4048980/Project_117/ i have no idea if this game is good or not, but it is a fallout equestria survival horror apparently, or will be

Steam

Project 117

You wake to silence. You're not alone. And something has gone terribly wrong.

Project 117 is a first-person survival horror game built in Unreal Engine 5. Set within a sealed subterranean facility once built to preserve life after the end of the world, the systems that once kept everything running have long since broken down. Protocols colla…

Release Date

To be announced

[visual hill]

Legend trilogy (Legend/Anniversary/Underworld) doesn't have a remaster yet, but luckily, it's less jank than the first 5 games in their original form

[fresh bane]

aren't those technically already remasters?

I don't know how much they change from the originals

[visual hill]

Anniversary is a remake of the original game, but the other two are new stories

they are fairly jank on modern PCs, so a remaster would be pretty welcome

[arctic fern]

oh its not very good
bunch of random jump scares
which sucks, aesthetically it looks great

[visual hill]

Backrooms enthusiasts strike again

[mossy flume]

I’ve finally gotten around to completing Ghost of Tsushima. Now off to Ghost of Yōtei.

[bitter stream]

how was Ghost of Tsushima?

[toxic seal]

I'm playing Ghost of Tsushima literally right now lol

[mossy flume]

Very nice. A beautiful game and emotional story.

[river veldt]

ive been playing Elden Ring

fun but also frustrating sometimes

though it's nice that if i hit a wall with a boss i can go splore other places for a while and level up and stuff

[bitter stream]

oh nice Pony Prof, that's good MA, and fair enough captain Mario, I think that's one of Elden Ring's strengths

[quiet swift]

what weapon/build type?

[green fulcrum]

If it isn't a katana, loin cloth, and a pot on the head, it ain't the right setup

[river veldt]

originally i was doing a pure strength build, but seeing all the cool incantations and sorceries made me respec into a spellsword build. rn im using the Blade of Night and Flame but i eventually wanna use Bastards Stars cause it looks really cool

[quiet swift]

Nice, nice, my first playthrough was a dual whip build until like level 75

[green fulcrum]

Ahhh, a Mage Knight

[quiet swift]

Then I went dual twinblades until i beat the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tbs-0dKvlA

[river veldt]

do you have any tips for Radahn really struggling with him atm

[quiet swift]

Honestly? not really. Learn his patterns and exploit the times where he's not attacking

But obviously don't forget to get an army of ghosts to help you

[river veldt]

that purple arrow attack he does at the very start sucks so bad lol

at least it's fairly simple to dodge on Torrent

[quiet swift]

Oh, one tip I can absolutely give. Do you know if you are doing the normal dodge roll or fat rolling?

[river veldt]

im light rolling

[quiet swift]

Good, good. Fat rolling is an absolute curse

remind me, incantations are str/faith?

[river veldt]

i think just faith

[quiet swift]

So that video I linked, I really enjoy that guy's builds because he does explain in a "early/mid/late" game sense and is pretty thorough about it, rather than just being "THIS GAME IS OP... IN NEWGAME+" which is always like 150+

When I did another playthrough in coop with my fiancée, I did his "paladin" build which is str/faith and it was pretty good (which can lean into a 'demonic paladin' build as well as you get closer to endgame)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKkiRgsZHWU Pally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvBjmn1502c demonic pally, if you want a bit of direction for a build that I think is kinda matching what you are doing

[river veldt]

i'll have to check it out tomorrow

[quiet swift]

[wind stump]

For his neutral special-

[cunning galleon]

Clog

[visual hill]

his neutral special gets stronger the longer it's out!

[graceful bridge]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4054540/Star_Trek_Voyager__Across_the_Unknown_Demo/

Steam

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown Demo

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown is a story-driven survival strategy game in which the fate of the iconic starship is in your hands. Take the helm, manage the ship and resources, and make difficult decisions. Will you be able to bring home the ship and its crew?Demo ContentExperience the first sector of the journey as the Captain of the…

▶ Play video

[sacred grove]

Kinda surprised they're paying attention to Voyager in 2025

[proud warren]

What gun- sorry, game is this?

[wind stump]

Trails 1st

[worthy rose]

Still watching that youtuber play music, and what the fuck is this dialogue and writing and plot

Mgs * not music

[river veldt]

Hideo Kojima

[visual hill]

which MGS game?

[quiet swift]

1 and 2

[proud warren]

finally, a won run

[bitter stream]

nicely done

[mossy flume]

Oh fun. Based on data allegedly stolen in a Nintendo hack, extensive documents are supposedly giving details on Pokémon gen 10 and gen 11 games, among other things. And some clickbait factory website decided to put the alleged titles of the Gen 10 games right in their headline, which Google decided to show me.

[rugged flax]

Literally unplayable
This dude knows his hazmat

[fresh bane]

boy I hope someone got fired for that blunder

[toxic seal]

I had a mild crashout in a Tales of game (can't remember which) that had a single your/you're error in otherwise flawless translation and localization.

I think it was Vesperia

[mossy flume]

PH just told me something rather interesting about BF6: when you finish the campaign, the play campaign button turns into an uninstall button and it stays that way forever

[cunning galleon]

Philippines told you?

[green fulcrum]

The first 20 seconds of this video are insanely funny. I am out of breath and wheezing, man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9L3p0pD-UI

(Ignore the thumbnail, it's always like this, but seriously, watch WorstPremadeEver, these guys are comedy gold.)

[cerulean herald]

I knew I thought they were familiar, i saw a Ready or Not vid from them not too long ago

[arctic fern]

oh neat, its nextfest

[arctic fern]

im a try 16 demos lol

[little badger]

The father of the founders that created rockstar games has died.

[fickle garnet]

This reminds me of that clip of this one guy playing Modern Warfare 2019 criticizing all the stuff the devs did wrong with the forklifts

[river veldt]

RIP D'Angelo
https://youtu.be/eP_0yz605Sw?si=hCzGLYPaQr7N7E8Q

[bronze abyss]

a sequel to a great small roguelite is releasing november 11th,really recomend yall check out the first game or even the 2nd when it comes out,the first game you can find on sale for as little as 1-2$

[little badger]

Summer games fest returns next year.

[wind stump]

Announcing our game announcement ceremony where the whole point is to announce our product for you to purchase... Product.

[slim thorn]

are you sufficiently announced yet

[gaunt marten]

Steam feats are used for announcements but they're more minisales

[wind stump]

at least Steam Fests come with discounts

[little badger]

Speaking of steam you might like this @graceful bridge https://store.steampowered.com/app/4054540/Star_Trek_Voyager__Across_the_Unknown_Demo/

Steam

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown Demo

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown is a story-driven survival strategy game in which the fate of the iconic starship is in your hands. Take the helm, manage the ship and resources, and make difficult decisions. Will you be able to bring home the ship and its crew?Demo ContentExperience the first sector of the journey as the Captain of the…

▶ Play video

[bronze abyss]

we eating good tonight

[astral steeple]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/mortal-kombat-veteran-dan-forden-212237531.html

The end of an era

[gaunt marten]

Good news

The bot I've been watching play runescape killing wyrms 20 hours a day is almost maxed

https://i.imgur.com/OyHpkb0.png

I report him every time I go in to kill wyrms

He has a randomly generated name, has been wearing the same equipment since I first saw him a couple of months ago https://i.imgur.com/L20dVaV.png

And does nothing but fight wyrms, collect all the loot, put it in the bank

He's in the area day and night, but logs out for a minute every ten minutes or so to evade detection

[cunning galleon]

"my tank looks fine"

*turns camera

[quiet swift]

ooh, the ballxpit demo on steam got expanded a bit for this next fest

[quiet swift]

Oh, because it also fully released today

[gaunt marten]

OSRS has a temporary game mode going on

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/grid-master---out-today?oldschool=true

It's a bingo-style task list where finishing a task, a row or a column of tasks gives you various rewards in the mode itself https://i.imgur.com/o5KWNTU.png

[mossy flume]

Pokémon Legends Z-A time

[bitter stream]

have fun!

[river veldt]

what is chat's opinion on Super Mario Sunshine

[robust latch]

too bright like any sunshine

[cerulean herald]

never played it, but it looks fun and I hope i can somehow play it one day
especially the Galaxy games too

[robust latch]

seriously though its ok and has its moments but i prefer the Galaxy mario games

[bronze abyss]

id recomend going with galaxy 2 personally

prefered it much more to the first game and honestly maybe even more than any other 3d mario game

[chilly mural]

I love the song that's played in the secrets in levels

[robust latch]

Mario games alwasy did gave great music

[mossy flume]

I really enjoyed it. Janky and unusually difficult, though

[river veldt]

omg it is so jank lmao

[river veldt]

Galaxy 2 is good but compared to 64 and Odyssey is lesser imo

[mossy flume]

Yeah, even Miyamoto acknowledges that Sunshine is really janky and wishes he could polish it up XD

[river veldt]

lol

[tiny wigeon]

galaxy 2 over galaxy 1?

[bronze abyss]

yes

[mossy flume]

Really? I'd recommend Galaxy 1 over Galaxy 2.

[robust latch]

2 is a lot better then 1 but both are fun

[river veldt]

hmm

[tiny wigeon]

interesting

[mossy flume]

But they're both fantastic

[tiny wigeon]

I would def put 1>2

[river veldt]

i wanna get Galaxy 2 for my Switch

[mossy flume]

I just think Galaxy 1 was better executed

[river veldt]

both have the best Mario music at least

[robust latch]

i found 2 they got some of the mechanics a little more ironed out

[mossy flume]

Galaxy 2 didn't seem.... necessary?

[robust latch]

but i wouldnt say its exceptionally better as theya re both still really good

[mossy flume]

And the Starship Mario thing was a weird choice

[river veldt]

well it was originally supposed to be dlc but then it got too big

[bronze abyss]

galaxy 2 is the only mario game i 100% because i liked it that much..and odyssey but odyssey was because i felt guilty about spending 40$ on it so i had to squeeze the playtime out of it

[tiny wigeon]

Puzzle plank galaxy in Galaxy 2 was a banger tho

[river veldt]

i like Starship Mario i just wish it was bigger

[robust latch]

one of these days i should actually finish odyssey

i got it on release day

and never finished it

[river veldt]

you get caught on environmental stuff a lot lol

[river veldt]

omg yes

amazing game

[tiny wigeon]

yeah, Rosalina's spaceship made galaxy 1 feel so special

[river veldt]

64 i think still has the best 3d Mario hub world, it's so big and there's so many cool secrets

Delfino Plaza is cool too

[robust latch]

yeah the hub world in 64 was great and the whole entering level mechanic

[river veldt]

the entering painting mechanic is so good Dark Souls 1 would shamelessly steal it 15 years later /j

[gaunt marten]

Great concept. Don't like the controls, don't like the washing stuff off mechanics, like the world design a lot! I really wanted to explore it and chill

[river veldt]

controls are def weird

[mossy flume]

the villain’s motivation in Z-A

[gaunt marten]

Sunshine is the entirety of my top ten videogames I want to be remastered

They could fix it so easily

[river veldt]

oh man that would be awesome

[mossy flume]

[slim thorn]

I thoroughly enjoyed it way back when I played it, so I was surprised to discover how low the internet rates it

[arctic fern]

its arguably the worst 3d mario

honestly it has so many great ideas, who doesnt love fludd for example, but also so many genuinely angering and frustrating ones (pachinko anyone?)

[green fulcrum]

From what I gather, everyone loves:

• Fludd
• The graphics
• The music
• The platforming and moveset improvements over Mario 64
• The overall silly tone of the game
• The personality of the animations

Most people hate:

• The Piantas
• The Fludd-less sections (because it's Mario 64 but without all the good moves and with controls not suited for Mario without Fludd)
• The blue coins
• The watermelon mission
• Some of the miscellaneous missions
• The Piantas
• How obscure some of the Shine Sprites are to find
• The story
• The stupid pachinko
• The Piantas

[cerulean herald]

what is wrong with piantas

[green fulcrum]

It's overall a mixed bag. Some extremely good stuff like Fludd, and then some stinkers like the Piantas

[green fulcrum]

Ohhhhhhh DAO...

People loathe them. They are considered some of the worst characters to exist in Mario history.

[light gate]

||”I’m a chuckster!”||

[green fulcrum]

Mainly because of how greedy, stupid, and selfish they are. They hoard their own Shine Sprites, the very thing keeping their islands lit and lively, as prizes for you to win IF you do stuff for them.

And the tanooki/bear(?) shopkeepers are also hated because they also hoard Shine Sprites and will only sell them to you if you have blue coins. The Piantas never think to arrest them for holding out on the things that keep the islands alive.

So yeah, people really do not like the citizens of the Delfino Isles.

[cerulean herald]

yeah Im starting to see now damn

[green fulcrum]

Don't even get me started on these guys. You can't really control OR SEE where they chuck you, and if you're just the slightest degree off, they'll fling you into the void.

Again, those Shine Sprites are keeping the island alive. They're the very things they accused Mario of stealing. And yet the citizens happily just be selfish and keep them to themselves. It's not like they're unwilling to part with them, it's that they will only part with them when you basically act as their personal servant for a bit and do all the work for them while they take the credit. All the while treating Mario as a criminal.

Granted, not all of them do this, but most do.

[light gate]

If I was forced to pick a game to play that was extremely difficult and the only choices were Sunshine or Dark Souls., I’d play Dark Souls.

[green fulcrum]

Ehhh, I wouldn't call Sunshine extremely difficult. It can be hard sometimes, but isn't super difficult overall. Most of its difficulty is you being forced to fight against the game due to frustration.

OH

That reminds me

The thing people hate even more than the Piantas and the pachinko and the blue coins

The utter insult that is the "have a good vacation!" card you get after beating the game 100% and getting every Shine Sprite. It's nothing more than bragging rights. You don't get anything special for going out of your way to get everything.

In Mario 64 you got some cool goodies, you got to see the top of the castle, you got a permanent wing cap, and a message from the developers given to you by Yoshi. It was fun!

Sunshine? A card. That's all.

Again, Sunshine is by no means a bad game. I'd personally rank it as a perfectly fine game at 7/10. But if you're gonna play it, be prepared for frustration. Those three detracting points hit hard.

[proud warren]

[green fulcrum]

RIP

[proud warren]

I wouldn't say that exactly, I'd personally say it's probably the hardest 3d mario game, as well as the fact that the difficulty seems to be pretty scattershot across the whole game rather than a fairly steady rise in difficulty

(this is just me personally speaking, as an individual who hasn't played the game in like 8 years)

realistically tho, what I think people are the most pissed about when looking back on sunshine is 100% the blue coins, no questions asked due to how cryptic some of them can be

anywho, I need to sleep: it's nearly 3 in the morning for me

[arctic fern]

eh the pinatas are fine, mostly
now the chucksters on the other hand...

[arctic fern]

what are you on about? you also get a hawian shirt for mario! and i think sunglasses at 70 shines
might be the other way round

[green fulcrum]

Admittedly I did forget about the Hawaiian shirt. But I really did not like the postcard, and neither did a lot of other people.

The sunglasses were at 70 shines, iirc.

[arctic fern]

ah i was right

yeah it is a bit underwhelming

[green fulcrum]

Oh, no wait, it was at least 30 Shine Sprites

[slim thorn]

now I'm even more confused because I don't remember Sunshine being hard

but I do remember the jump rope in Odyssey

[green fulcrum]

The game itself overall isn't hard

[slim thorn]

and I guess it needs to be said

I don't come to Mario games for the character writing

a lot of those "hate" points are such a tiny fraction of the experience, that helps explain why I didn't have any big problems with it

heck I don't even remember the Pachinko level, I couldn't tell you if I just never found that or I found it and decided not to bother or I completed it without much frustration

[green fulcrum]

It's possible you never found it, it is a hidden shine

[cerulean herald]

I know of Pachinko from those "hardest Mario levels/stages" lists

[slim thorn]

this is interesting since I never found most of this when I played SM64, I remember it as essentially the same "watch a cutscene, credits roll" experience I expect from 99% of games on completing the final level/boss/whatever

the internet has since informed me of Yoshi on the roof but that was many years after I played it

I guess I probably would agree that the Piantas are the weakest character writing in the 3Ds I've played. SM64 mostly didn't try; "I baked you a cake" was all the motivation we needed. But Galaxy and Odyssey have story moments I do remember fondly (Rosalina's storybook, Peach's post-game vacation) despite being small parts of the experience.

[river veldt]

people don't like the Piantas ????

[green fulcrum]

No, they really, really do not like the Piantas.

Goofy designs aside, they are hated across the internet, but especially the Chucksters.

[astral steeple]

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/legendary-developer-tomonobu-itagaki-creator-of-dead-or-alive-and-ninja-gaiden-2004-has-died

RIP

[little badger]

Yeah. shared this earlier

[little badger]

Battlefield 6 has sold 7 million copies in 3 days

[visual hill]

Mario should have gotten a "I completed Super Mario Sunshine and all I got was this lousy T-shirt" shirt instead

that's the Vice City approach

[icy crescent]

yessir, now they have more money for the battle royale and improving portal

[little badger]

You can now play the crew 2 offline! https://traxion.gg/the-crew-2-is-now-playable-offline-in-new-hybrid-mode/ @eager bane

[eager bane]

I thought they patched in an offline mode a while ago after the controversy of the first game started?

( https://www.dlcompare.de/spiele-news/the-crew-2-geht-offline-gewinn-fur-spieleerhaltung
German source )

I didn't like Crew 2 or Motorfest much
But I'm happy that the first game is playable again thanks to that offline mod

Already played it a bunch

[arctic fern]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4100390/Pakku_Pony/ neat this is wishlistable now
Demo coming soon

Steam

Pakku Pony

Do you wish you could take care of your very own tiny pony creature?

Because in this game, you don't have a choice! We, at the Pakku Pony Digital Company are thrilled to give you your very own colourful best friend!…

[uneven epoch]

is cat playing cat game like a horse riding horse kinda situation

[wind stump]

man, Borderlands 1 is a trip

Excluding the... Unfortunate naming of certain vertically challenged psychos

Revolvers and repeaters are two different weapon types with their own ammo (Later games would just call them "pistol"), you can buy healing potions you can pop that give a over time heal, quests with multiple objectives give you one waypoint at a time...

[arctic fern]

i honestly prefer bl 1

the revolver/pistol ammo thing made both, in my opinion, more worth using

the healing things were a crutch but it at least gives you significantly more control on your hp, you dont need to spec into hp regen if you'd rather spend the coin

[wind stump]

i have to say that the simpler skill system is... refreshing.

[arctic fern]

i much prefer bl1 skills

you really do feel like a god near the end of the game, with so many broken abilities

[wind stump]

and yes of course i'd play Roland

[arctic fern]

roland is strong AF!

[wind stump]

even aside from that, he's always been my favourite of the OG 4

Plus in a solo run, Scorpio comes in clutch (I'm going for damage at the moment but I'll probabl respec into support towards endgame)

Wonder what legendary I'll end up leaving in Borderlands 3 at ||Roland's Rest.||

tho i'll never forget my first run of 2 either, facing down the final boss right before i domed him.
||"This is for Roland."||

Borderlands came into my life at a weird time, lol

[arctic fern]

i had so much fun with bl1

i remember playing with my riends...

i also remember dicovering a weapon dupe glitch lol, probably would still work today

fisrt, be in multiplayer
you held a gun in inventory, and moved to one of the beacons that autosaved the game (mostly to make sure your inventory was saved before trying this)
once youve saved, move away from the beacon
drop any guns you wanna dupe on the ground
then cut the internet
the game saved your inventory locally, but the guns are in your friends game
congratulations, you have duped

[mossy flume]

So, any thoughts on whether TPC will make the Mega Evolution stones that you acquire through the Z-A ranked battles available at a later date through alternative means?

[unreal idol]

TIL there's a portable Xbox???

[mossy flume]

Yep, the Xbox Ally X

Was announced a while ago and I guess reviews dropped today

[unreal idol]

I literally just heard about it lol

I thought they were exiting the console business

[mossy flume]

It was made in collaboration with ASUS

Despite the apparent lack of a point of Xbox hardware, it seems like Microsoft may very well make a whole new next gen Xbox anyway

But who knows

I can't figure out what their hardware strategy is

[unreal idol]

Oh apparently its not an xbox?

?????

[mossy flume]

But making a native portable device makes sense

Yeah it's basically a Steam Deck competitor with Xbox cloud built in?

Something like that I haven't looked too closely

[arctic fern]

in theory not a bad idea
in practice probably gonna be bad

[wind stump]

[forest shoal]

Just get a Steam Deck

[visual hill]

they only pledged to add offline modes to TC2 and TCM back then

(not TC1, but TC1 has an unofficial offline mode now)

[visual hill]

yeah, it's stuck between a rock and a hard place. Entry-level is well covered by the refurbished Steam Deck LCD (or Lenovo Legion Go S), mid-range by the Steam Deck OLED, high-end by the Legion Go 2. The Go 2 is more expensive, but if you can spend €900 on a handheld, you can probably spend €1,200...

[eager bane]

It's a successor to the ROG Ally, which was a pretty awesome device! Had two Steam Decks, and one Ally.
The Xbox branding isn't all that important tbh

the price tag, however, is

[visual hill]

I have an Ally X, I bought it for €750 during the last Christmas season, which was a significant cut from its list price (€900)

it's a good device especially with SteamOS installed, but I find the screen too small, and it's noLED 🙂

I did make use of the 3 months of included Game Pass Ultimate to play a bunch of games, like the Spyro Trilogy, Wreckfest, Indiana Jones, etc

[eager bane]

I like the smaller form factor of the original Ally (never had an X in my hand) bought mine for 500€ which was a really good deal back then. On the used market, they're pretty affordable now

might get another one sometime if one pops up for cheap on <craigslist equivalent>

[visual hill]

I'm waiting for the Go 2 to go on sale, it will probably do so given there are only so many people you can sell a handheld to for €1,200+

[eager bane]

I remember the days when these devices were niche and 1000€+

[visual hill]

the GPD Win era... my brother had the very first one

I remember when it felt like a revolution to run Overwatch on those

(remember the OW hype?)

[cunning galleon]

Dairy line

[quiet swift]

Hm, yes, I think I'm enjoying this game. (Came out yesterday)

[rotund forge]

I'm playing Slime Rancher

[cunning galleon]

naomi

https://tenor.com/view/saunders-girls-und-panzer-m4sherman-sherman-firefly-gif-16912855

[little badger]

Free game with prime

[cerulean herald]

hell yea
cap would be esctatic

[little badger]

@river veldt

[wind stump]

https://youtu.be/poEo0GrQTtQ

Tl;DW Turns out the Skimmer was programmed incorrectly this whole time and it only came up when Windows 11 dropped.

(Strangely this doesn't affect Vice City since the Skimmer was designated as a "boat" and not a "plane".)

[arctic fern]

damn windows 11 again

WHEN WILL YOUR REIGN OF TERROR END

also this is a great into to a video game lol:

im a pick d because its the funniest

[wind stump]

i love how B is the only sane answer

[arctic fern]

this is from the demo of this game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3991070/Orderthe_New_Dawn/
i have no idea if its good but the opening was funny

Steam

Order:the New Dawn

In the demo of Order: New Dawn, you become a legendary captain, leading your squad to begin your own epic saga in the Regma star system.Facing the swirling undercurrents of the Regma system, will you choose to restore order, let it sink into ruin, or plunge it into even greater chaos?

In this demo you'll experience an early tech tree and colony…

▶ Play video

[wind stump]

C and D don't even relate to the fucking question and it cracks me up

[arctic fern]

its not tho! its 50 because "today is the 4th working day of the calendar"
50 happens to be correct for the arong reason

[wind stump]

clearly you should throw away half of the crew

[arctic fern]

i did lol

[wind stump]

do it again, with predujice

[arctic fern]

oh this game is rimworld

[wind stump]

THE CHILDREN YEARN FOR THE MINES

(and also yearn to throw away half of the crew)

[arctic fern]

oh this game is just a worse rimworld
well to be fair its still a demo, thats what nextfest is, but still.
has a few issues, ui isn great, not very intuitive construction, have to make "compressed wood" to make wooden stuff along with regular wood, whoch also requires stonecutting researched?

i dunno,m has promise

been doing nextfest demos of games taht look interesting

[wind stump]

TIL you can fuck up the final battle of Twilight Princess by forgetting to acquire the Final Blow skill

Like, you can literally make Ganondorf undefeatable because he requires being hit by the Final Blow

[unreal idol]

Oh shit Nintendo DS might be coming to NSO

[wind stump]

"Low% is no longer the 25 hour run i knew and loved"

[wind stump]

Y'know, I dunno how to feel about how inventory upgrades work in BL1

On the one hand, it's not like the side quest for each area is particularly taxing, on the other, your inventory feels constantly full throughout the game.

[sacred grove]

Gotta be honest, one of the most generic game titles I've seen lol

[arctic fern]

Yeah the gameplay was just a clunky rimworld

[wind stump]

Losing one point of Impact (flat damage buff) for 50% fire rate AND a +3 to Metal Storm (Increases stability and fire rate on kill)?

"What's t he fire rate?"
"Yes."

"There is no overkill. There is only 'keep firing' and 'i need to reload'."
-Roland, 2009, probably

[wind stump]

screaming

[dense crypt]

Heavy pistol guy

[wind stump]

FIRST NATURAL LEGGO LFG

ORANGE GIVES ME L I F E

[arctic fern]

oh thats neat
im playing https://store.steampowered.com/app/4054540/Star_Trek_Voyager__Across_the_Unknown_Demo/ and you have to rebuild voyager's internals basically from scratch
that makes sense tbh
kinda reminds me of xcom 2 so far

Steam

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown Demo

ABOUT THE DEMO
The demo of the game is English only. The full version will feature localization into additional languages, partial voice over as well as updated music and sound effects.

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown is a story-driven survival strategy game in which the fate of the iconic starship is in your hands. Take the helm, ma…

▶ Play video

ha the warpcore works like frostpunks generator

these faces arent terrible, but they look older
i wonder if they used the current actors likenesses rather than just trying to recreate the faces from the original show

[arctic fern]

oh god no

can we leave? id like to leave pelase

[mossy flume]

Average Pokémon Mystery Dungeon fan spotted in Z-A

The background chatter in Z-A is so funny and yet sometimes weirdly specific that it comes across as “random devs venting”

[fresh bane]

oh so those are real then, I saw one about a guy talking about wanting to smell pokemon and thought it was an edit

[arctic fern]

best character!

[mossy flume]

Oh yeah, there are some really interesting ones in there

There’s a lot of dialogue

[arctic fern]

yo wtf? thats wildly different from the pic i just showed

looks nothing like the emh

[dense crypt]

Computer, deactivate iguana.

[arctic fern]

oh shit i can do the smart option and run the fuck away

chat, do i do it?

[minor plover]

I've always wanted to do that

but seriously like, just rig some fucking bombs on the array to go off right after it sends you home

[arctic fern]

right? honestly smh

they dont have a lot of time but they have enough time to attach a timer to a torpedo

[cerulean herald]

yes

[arctic fern]

i did it

congratulations! you skipped out on the whole game!

honestly tho this game looks pretty sweet, ngl

im gonna restart things

i do have some issues, if i recall things like stellar cartography was added in the middle of the shows run, yet its right here at the start
should have just been long range sensors, which later gets upgraded to stellar cartography
but also who actually cares about voyager timeline
theres already a borg tech tree available to research lol

[arctic fern]

[arctic fern]

ok so re: this game
is good
kinda a mix between the base building/management of xcom and... actually i cant think of a second game. battlestar galactica i suppose.
its got space combat, its a bit rudimentary space combat from the little you get and i found it a bit clunky tbh, but that might just be me. it doesnt feel like the biggest focus, its trying to be good at everything, not great at just combat
its got ship-rebuilding, youve gotta clear out sections of the ship and maintain life support for each deck
or power down entire decks to maintain a positive power balance
eventually i suppose you would be able to optimise the layouts of various decks, for better placement of rooms and power management
honestly so far feels like what the show should have been
i wonder if threshold will be mentioned in the full game

you wander around solar systems and harvest resources from points of interest, but while your ship is doing anything at all you're draining fuel, forcing you to keep moving
and you have limited cargo space for fuel so you cant just stock up
missions require you to send an away team, with various skillsets providing different opportunities and margins for success or failure
the away teams seem to be just made of named chars from the show, who get stressed on missions as you call on them. tuvoc has the best combat skill but if you keep using his skills for each encounter, he gets more tired and all his skills get worse. you gotta rest your crew between options. its a neat system

is p good from the demo, has a lot of potential

[green fulcrum]

Honestly...mood. Though my preferred Pokemon reincarnation would be a Galarian Ponyta.

[cerulean herald]

G Ponyta my beloved
not big on G Rapidash, but i love the direction that line went

[dense crypt]

i love em both

Rapidash is great, ponyta is just... pony.

though if i chose a pokemon reincarnation, i'd probably go with uuuuuh

hmmmmmm

damn, so many to CHOOSE from...

[mossy flume]

I'd be either a Riolu, Quilava, Mew, Eevee, Latios, Greninja, Zoroark, Zeraora, Furret, Fennekin...

Not like I've spent 25 years contemplating that question or anything

[gaunt marten]

Gotta be smart and have fingers

[random steppe]

Ok so, over the years I tried to get into Path of Exile many times, I got to maps maybe twice into POE1 and twice in POE2 only to drop it after maybe a few hours at endgame AT MOST.
This patch I finally broke through in POE2 and it's a problem, I finally learn enough to at least craft some good gear and it's so fun, and the fact that they completely deleted all barriers from trading, send help.
I leveled 3 characters through the campaign, did probably north of 100 maps up to tier 16, this game is so fucking good.

[toxic seal]

I'd probably choose one of my favorites: Metagross, Joltik, Gardevoir, Chandelure

Those would be cool to be

[mossy flume]

Gardevoir is also a good shape

[gaunt marten]

I talked to someone yesterday who told me they stopped playing PoE2 because it's the worst time ever to get into the game, so hearing you say this is very amusing

[cerulean herald]

incredible taste

i think Chandelure might be my fav ghost type

[random steppe]

The consensus of this patch is that it's very good, it has some problems of course, it's not perfect, but compared to the previous one most people agree the game it's in a pretty good place.

[river veldt]

whatkind of game is PoE

[random steppe]

Action RPG, the closest comparison is Diablo 2 but with more complex endgame systems

Or like, any endgame system

Since Diablo 2 was before these games were expected to have an endgame

[river veldt]

ah yeah looking at these screenshots i see the Diablo

the only Diablo game ive played is Minecraft Dungeons /j

[random steppe]

PoE1 is much more complex but has a decade of development and patches

POE2 is still in Early Access, only has about half the classes that the final release is gonna have and 4/6 campaign acts

And a pretty expansive endgame (even though it still needs more stuff)

[river veldt]

oh it's f2p ? is that just cause it's in early access ?

[random steppe]

The opposite

You have to pay because it's in early access, the final release will be F2P

POE main strenght and at the same time its biggest weakness is the complexity.
Any class can use any weapon and any skill if they want to, they differ from where they start on the massive passive tree and their ascendancies, which make things pretty varied if you want to.

it's why it took me, like, 7 tries to properly get into one of the two games

It's no fun if you have a feeling you have no idea what you are doing all the time, it only becomes fun once you start to have the feeling you know what you are doing at least some of the time

[river veldt]

ooh

[random steppe]

It also ruined every other game of the genre for me because it has wasd controls and rolling which is like, IMO, a lot more fun than click to move that is standard in the genre

[visual hill]

I wish old games like Dungeon Siege had WASD to move, but it would probably be a mess when controlling multiple characters at once

I played Ratchet & Clank 2 earlier this week, I remember it from my childhood 🙂

even the cutscenes seem pretty familiar to me, although I had the game in French back then

I learned what "pèze" is in French thanks to this game.
(slang for "money")

[rotund forge]

Why is Slime Rancher so addicting?

[mossy flume]

https://tenor.com/view/sr-sr2-ringtail-slime-rancher-2-ringtail-slime-gif-15776221767227221136

Maybe because this

I mean come on, that’s just so adorable

[river veldt]

tanooki

[dense crypt]

this is ratchet and clank 3

[cerulean herald]

I thought that was a Clodsire at first

[visual hill]

it's 2 (Up Your Arsenal), actually 😛

check my RA profile, you'll see it appear: https://retroachievements.org/user/Calinou

[dense crypt]

up your arsenal comes after going commando, which comes after Ratchet & Clank

[visual hill]

ah you're right

wow, I was gaslit for like 2 years on this

this is why game titles that don't feature the number are evil.

I was convinced Going Commando is the one that's more divisive of the trilogy

[dense crypt]

i'd say none of them are, before Tools of Destruction

[visual hill]

Deadlocked is pretty divisive to be fair

even though I recall liking it back in the day

[dense crypt]

its my favorite game

i can see why it would be divisive though

that said, it's funny as fuck and the gameplay is peak R&C

[slim thorn]

yeah my memory was that Deadlocked was the first one that was "divisive" in any way because of the shift in focus, 2/GC and 3/UYA were just clear upgrades over 1

although I personally never got around to playing any of them after 1-3, until Rift Apart came out on PC

[gaunt marten]

Deadlocked was a different kind of fun

A worse one

[slim thorn]

in particular 2/GC was the one where the series really found its footing; this was back in the era where seemingly every good game trilogy had a kinda janky first entry, a second entry that was peak of its genre, and a third iterative but also great one

[forest shoal]

Improved my Adventure Ponies TAS

Shaved off a whopping 38 Frames

[cunning galleon]

how?

this is some girls und panzer bs

[green fulcrum]

Where's the little white flag?

[hidden elbow]

So i started play Oddworld series , already besy oddessy anf gotta say Oddworld Abe's exodus is just...so much better than the first game its not even funny

Not only finally they added a proper save and quick save system , but also design of puzzles and locations is much more vary and unique

The problem i felt in odyssey was that outside of Rupture farms , zulags and free fire zone most locations while pretty weren't all that special feeling , Paramonia suffered the most from that i feel , but in exodus even something as simple as mines and jungles are unique and vary and i am not even going to talk about barraks and soul storm brewery

Like Necron jungles look so good here

[glad girder]

so the new Anbernic RG DS has been shown emulating 3DS games

[river veldt]

Mewgenics is only 4 months away im so excited

[gaunt marten]

Tell me about mewgenics

[river veldt]

it's like

[gaunt marten]

How like is it?

[river veldt]

it's like Xcom but you breed cats and has roguelike gameplay

[gaunt marten]

That actually does sound cool

I was like "I think I'm done with Ed's games. Nothing he makes could bring me back"

But if anything could, it's something like that

[quiet swift]

BallxPit: okay, I see now why the nosferatu ball is so hard to make. Good lord is it powerful

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/4FYpXlv-dXI?si=FtANGXGgifjFDsGX

It's really funny to me that whenever you have a problem, there's almost always a near 100% guarantee that someone on reddit or github has a solution for you

also good call on not connecting to the internet after installing some of those API extensions, just to be safe, it was pretty scary seeing him just downloading and installing all this stuff just like that

[bitter stream]

have any other folks been trying ARC Raiders? Any thoughts on it?

[visual hill]

contrary to common belief, connecting to the Internet on an old Windows does not enroll you into a botnet in 5 seconds

(even XP)

[fickle garnet]

BallxPitt is really fun

[quiet swift]

Right?!

[rugged flax]

Fallout New Vegas is now 15 years old as of today

[cerulean herald]

[fresh bane]

I think that was just because of those unofficial updates he downloaded that he didn't know what they were actually doing or if there was some background process so just in case he did everything else with the computer off the network

I know an old OS just existing while connected to the network isn't immediately going to turn your computer into a bitcoin farm but still why risk it

[mossy flume]

https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/lakitu-reveals-that-youre-going-to-have-to-replay-mario-64-because-he-forgot-to-hit-the-record-button/

Goddammit, Lakitu

[wind stump]

Imagine getting 120 WR and then Lakitu says that

[visual hill]

next time, you'll need to replay it because he ran out of storage space on the SD card

[tawny jacinth]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jUfX4d0wJdU

This is such a fascinating video because it’s amazing watching pros start playing like silvers and constantly running it down

The players found spots to fall off the map that I didn’t think we knew existed

There’s a moment where a tracer intentionally whiffs their ult, only for an enemy to intentionally run into it

[dense crypt]

why are they doing this

[gaunt marten]

Click the video to find out! Make sure to have your ad blocker off

[slim thorn]

oh yeah that was fun

[tawny jacinth]

TLDR whoever wins this match will have to fight Once Again, who is the best team in China. This results in both teams throwing as hard as possible to avoid winning

[slim thorn]

probably would've been way funnier if these games were not just a blur of meaningless color to me but the commentary managed to break through that

[tawny jacinth]

Yeah that’s the main problem with Overwatch. I have no clue what the fuck is going on because the map design and visuals are so poor

[slim thorn]

oh, it's any multiplayer FPS for me

[bronze abyss]

I dont see the problem with either?

[bitter stream]

I've had the time to do some solo gaming tonight, but just ended up watching youtube and streams instead T_T. I'm starting to get the feeling some of my games are never going to be finished/played.

[frozen gate]

hard agree personally

well on the visuals

for a while it really hurt my eyes bc the game is so bright with a bright white HUD on bright white maps it takes a really long while to get used to it

i kept thinking i was alone on that take tho lol

[frozen gate]

it takes a lot of energy to play games so it's easy to procrastinate on them which sucks

it's been a lot morr convenient if u have some portable option bc of the ability to just pick up n play

[slim thorn]

it also depends a lot on the game

I happen to mostly like games that are, uh, "high-effort"? closer to Silksong than to Farmville

even when I play a game primarily for the story I often set the difficulty one above "story mode" (most recently with Silent Hill f and Expedition 33)

[frozen gate]

i find it harder to "just play" with more story-focused games since that demands more attention to properly parse it, but ultimately those really are the most interesting ones lol

i just have to get my brain ready that i'm gonna be really sitting down and focused on this thing

[tawny jacinth]

The problem is that in Overwatch it constantly looks like this. Where are we. What is happening.

[tawny jacinth]

Compare that to comp TF2 at its most chaotic. There’s so much less shit going on

The maps are also far better color-coded in terms of palette so it’s easy to tell exactly where you are most of the time (this is a bad example, since most of it is bluish wood)

[slim thorn]

those sure are gun games, yup

[tawny jacinth]

Overwatch does the same. The problem is that the color palettes appear to be inverted from the spec team 1/2 colors and you’re always blue from your POV

[wind stump]

i think the difference is that TF2 stumbled into being competively viable and Overwatch tried to force it

also inherently less chaotic given the "smaller" amount of options in any given match, in terms of matchup (though the skill ceiling is definitely way, WAY higher than ever intended)

daily reminder not to BLOW YOURSELF UP WITH YOUR OWN ROCKETS FOR ADDED MOBILITY IRL PLS

[frozen gate]

TF2 was intentionally designed for visual clarity, the maps themselves are all very muted vs the character models and theyre cartoony and exaggerated so theyre distinct from each other

but overwatch makes EVERYTHING bright and desaturated so it's horribly hard to differentiate enemies from the background that is just barely remedied with required outlines

that and Overwatch continues to add characters that are just skinny pencil thin

Overwatch is also a game where peeking has to be ultra frantic bc spam damage would kill you instantly, it's extremely fast paced and hard to parse

and im still continually frustrated by the white hp bar being contrasted by a translucent grey when youre missing health

it can be a fun game it's just really awful in the visual clarity department which makes it nauseating

[visual hill]

character skins also made it harder to quickly identify characters in OW

TF2 has this issue, but much less so, even with unusuals

unusuals also make you a bullseye, so there's that... 🙂

[frozen gate]

oh yeah they recently broke their rule that skins in OW have to keep their like

body shape i guess, actually be them, Ana can be a straight up omnic now

[visual hill]

we should go back to this, clearly

(my QuakeWorld looks much more detailed than this, but still, it's very easy to spot teammates/enemies and you can give individual teammates their own color too)

[frozen gate]

that's why we didnt get funny outright werewolf skins before, it hurt their identity

[frozen gate]

yeah unironically haha

[visual hill]

also notice that sweet FPS counter, 1155

[frozen gate]

shooter games would do best to just be as minimalist as possible

or probably all games imo, i kind of dislike when games get like

ridiculously uhh

[visual hill]

Trackmania 2020 is quite readable thanks to its more stylized art direction

[frozen gate]

well my biggest example is monster hunter before and after world? the games before that point were pretty flat and low contrast, it wasn't interesting to look at but it was easy to see, but World happened and they had a big visual focus with extremely highly contrasting colors and a ton of foliage and stuff that genuinely hurt my eyes to look at so i couldn't play it very long

it kind of sucks, i wish the small stuff was more emphasized

sound design and visual clarity

[frozen gate]

that was also my experience with Xenoblade 3 but more that way too much was going on in battle to actually follow it

idk i just want games to tone themselves down a bit, i guess

[visual hill]

XC2/3 suffer from low resolution, they are pretty much carried by emulation (ideally) or at least Switch 2 backcompat

so it's not surprising you find them painful to look at for long periods of time

[frozen gate]

that definitely also didn't help lol

[bronze abyss]

in a way i would say its more difficult with tf2 to decipher whats happening,just cuz you need knowledge of weapons and what they do n all that shit,in overwatch its a bit easier because of the vfx,since they convey a specific meaning pretty clearly

[tawny jacinth]

You need a basic understanding of the game and what the weapons do, that’s true of any game

The problem is when there is simply so much shit happening at once on screen the fucking bitrate tanks

[frozen gate]

i would disagree in that all the classes' main weapons keep the same concept, soldier can only get different kinds of rocket launchers, spy only gets different kinds of knives, etc, plus now Overwatch has perks so you need to understand also what 4 perks and each combination between them does on every character in the roster

yhe secondaries in tf2 can be different but theyre not usually that big to really be a massive shock, unless ur a spy encountering a razorback the first time maybe

fundamentally Overwatch has way more angles to learn from bc each hero must do somethinf entirely different

[bronze abyss]

most of the time it does not look like this

[frozen gate]

yeah i admit that's not the best choice for a screenshot aha

im not sure if a single screenshot can really convey the issue well either way, imo

[frozen gate]

oh yeah for bitrate tho it def like

doesnt look good on videos

[tawny jacinth]

Like it’s genuinely not hard to find very important moments that end up looking lile fhis

[frozen gate]

fair enough for that

[bronze abyss]

most of the chaos here is caused by a singular ult that will be off screen in like 2 seconds

[tawny jacinth]

This clip actually shows the problem because the ults obscured a Roadhog who promptly hooks and kills the Sombra player

[tawny jacinth]

2 seconds can be make or break. As shown in this case.

[bronze abyss]

thats kinda on the sombra for standing p much in front of the hog,and when you're actually playing he would be visible through the ult still

[frozen gate]

the bigger issue is why did hanzo aim their dragon into their own team

is he dumb

[bronze abyss]

the sombra could be flanking?

hard to tell from 1 screenshot

i would say the sombra is dumb if anything cuz what the fuck is she gonna do when theres a hog in front of her with all his cooldowns,a fucking lifeweaver ult as well

[tawny jacinth]

They just popped ult I believe

[bronze abyss]

i dont think that would do much either unless her ult gives anti heal as well

[frozen gate]

oh ya sombra running down mid with a livw roadhog on the team translocating into it was just a really bad play

[frozen gate]

it is rly funny tho

[tawny jacinth]

Not sure ngl, but still. Ideally you shouldn’t have ended up with your teammate basically throwing a smoke as part of their ult

[frozen gate]

roadhog and sombra is a match made in hell they def deserve each other at least

[frozen gate]

yeah normally it's used to block the enemies off from escaping so it comes up behind them when ur team pushes and forces a fight so it's in a rly goofy spot

worse tho lifeweaver can still outright grief games if he chooses to, i've been pulled into death after a lost fight bc of one recently

i did have one where they just tree'd the spawn door

[bronze abyss]

in practice it doesnt really block almost anything visually at all

[visual hill]

there's the stock shotgun which 4 different classes can use, that one always struck me as odd (if you hear someone firing, you don't know if it's a soldier/pyro/heavy/engineer)

[frozen gate]

that one is a lil funny

tho i figure it's just bc soldier, pyro and heavy only use their shotguns in niche cases and will mostly only be firing from their primary

pyro vs pyro, soldier vs pyro and heavy if he gets jumped

since their primaries do way more damage

[visual hill]

don't underestimate the shotgun when playing those classes, it got me a lot of kills in the situation where the primary wouldn't

(like pyro, when the enemy is just a bit too far away from your flamethrower)

[frozen gate]

yeahh

[visual hill]

against scouts, it's not a bad idea to switch to shotgun early on, since he will probably run away

and he will die to it easily, given his 125 HP

[frozen gate]

pyro in particular i think works way better w a shotgun than the flare gun but idk

[visual hill]

flare gun is better for MvM, but for PvP, I prefer the shotgun for all the classes

(or panic attack, maybe)

[frozen gate]

oh ya u can still combo the degreaser and panic attack it's just way tighter without the stacking swap speed

but u have to risk like

arthritis lol

[frozen gate]

ofc the gas can absolutely breaks MvM from what i've heard so that's ultimately the best choice right? the community just really hates how broken it is so it's like an informal ban

whatever the gas can is called

flare gun is decently fun for the airblast skill shot at least so i kinda like going for it sometimes

[visual hill]

I remember the degreaser + axtinguisher combo being the meta in the early 2010s

[visual hill]

I think you can make a bind that switches weapons, fires while the button is held and switches back on release

I have something similar for gauntlet in Quake 3

[visual hill]

I don't have gas passer in my inventory, but yeah, some people dislike it for making MvM too easy

I also don't have frontier justice or rescue ranger, which are the meta shotguns for engineer in MvM... so I use the pomson instead

[frozen gate]

sketchek before and after he confessed he faked his death prompting valve to remove a whole line from the axtinguisher was kinda funny

we have uh

the same pfp

looking at the chat history on the pfp side is kinda silly

[visual hill]

it's quite close in expression

[bronze abyss]

isek 👍

killed ultra greed in like 5 seconds

[fickle garnet]

Ninja Gaiden 4 is really fun so far

[dense crypt]

Is it out already?

[fickle garnet]

It just came out like an hour ago where I am

[fickle garnet]

My DMC muscle memory is making me accidentally press RB instead of RT to go into bloodraven form. RB is the item wheel in this game

[mossy flume]

I hope they expand the PokéDex in Z-A. They have a nice selection here, but it’ll be good to see more ‘mons here

[wind stump]

HAWK TUAH

[little badger]

Halo will be revealing the next game on Friday

[hasty patio]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/starbreeze-hands-off-payday-2-to-a-another-developer-as-it-goes-all-in-on-trying-to-salvage-the-beleaguered-payday-3/

[dense crypt]

Oh boy

[worthy rose]

https://share.google/70oYPgl5vIcc1EEOE

"Congratulations to Victoria 3 players on causing 860,000,000,000,000,000 deaths by famine in a single year, enough to depopulate Earth 107,000,000 times"

[mossy flume]

Kirby Air Riders is getting its second dedicated Nintendo Direct while we’re still waiting on Prime 4 to get one.

[mossy flume]

Luigi’s Mansion dropping on the Nintendo GameCube VC on Switch 2 on October 30th, just in time for Halloween.

[gaunt marten]

I'm unhappy with paradox getting statistics from players' games

Also, this link won't force open chrome on Android:
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/congratulations-to-victoria-3-players-on-causing-860-000-000-000-000-000-deaths-by-famine-in-a-single-year-enough-to-depopulate-earth-107-000-000-times/

[hasty patio]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/132594565864620032/1430351861172666483/image.png?ex=68f9767a&is=68f824fa&hm=3ec5e3dbde6b6e65aa4d7be9446318631d0941091b3c269e472ef86324b4057a&

[bitter stream]

isn't that just another "advertise new releases" feature for steam?

Idk if it really needs more store front

[green fulcrum]

Man, people really do not like humanity, do they?

[hasty patio]

I'll check when I get home. I know it has a few filters.

[rancid herald]

starvation is, from what I remember, kind of easy to fall into

[quiet swift]

More a showcase of people not playing well and ending up starving their populations

[cerulean herald]

"should gamers be held accountable for their in-game war crimes?"

[frozen gate]

wdym

being a *Gamer is a war crime

[gaunt marten]

That's capital G Gamer

Small g is legal

[frozen gate]

sorry correcting it

[hasty patio]

There is a fair number of events and the like that introduce that too, all without player invention or creation. That said, a lot of it is caused by the player in some form.

[fickle garnet]

Got Pcsx2 up and running. these are the games I have currently

Oh, and Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2

[hasty patio]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110?emclan=103582791457287600&emgid=507342099205587494 Full article on the Steam Calendar, since I was at work.

And for those that want to see it in action: https://store.steampowered.com/personalcalendar

[frozen gate]

go for all of sly cooper

and shadow of the colossus is great too

[fickle garnet]

I've wanted to play Sly Cooper for a while, so im finally going to play it

[quiet swift]

Checking my own calendar and what the. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3215050/Surviving_Mars_Relaunched/ Did this need relaunching/remastering?!

Steam

Surviving Mars: Relaunched

See the Red Planet like never before, land for the first time all over again, and discover some brand-new secrets.
Welcome home! The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded, and more stunning than ever. Your mission: colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming human coloni…

Release Date

Nov 10, 2025

▶ Play video

(original is from 2018 so it's not even like it's a distant past...)

40$ launch price, 50% off if you own the base game already... ( wonder if that applies to gog, since I got it there originally)

[random steppe]

I think the original has like, more than a few DLC and this is meant to be more of a complete edition that also does some updating

[mossy flume]

Yeah it's basically a Definitive Edition

[random steppe]

I mean not amazing to be fair, if you bought all the DLCs and you see this one dropped on you

[quiet swift]

Yeah, I have a fair amount of the DLC from years ago (missing I think 1-2), then there's apparently a new political system too that is being added. And it looks like relaunched is not coming to gog, just steam (and some consoles?). So that discount price is unlikely, booooo

Ah, it's 20$ after discount for relaunched base game. With the dlc (ultimate edition), it'll still be 40$ after the discount, I think

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3905630/Tower_Lords/ and now for something unrelated... idler game, but god damn did they spend a lot of time on art (not in the thumbnail, but watch the clip)

Steam

Tower Lords

Harness the mystical light and build your tower.

Build a mighty army with freed souls and survive waves of the Dark Lord’s titans.

Use the power of your dragon to cleanse six mighty towers across six lands.…

Release Date

Oct 24, 2025

▶ Play video

[bronze abyss]

https://medal.tv/games/binding-of-isaac/clips/llQVcJRF52EPVXpIt?invite=cr-MSxZMk0sNzE5OTIxMzQ holy fuck i was shitting bricks

mf brought me down from full hp just by teleporting into me,and the last seconds of the fight almost killed me as well thius was ridiclous

one of the longest delirium fights ive had as well cuz the items were horrible for dps

[bronze abyss]

bit rusty on stamina,but still got some of it

[bronze abyss]

WE ARE SO BACK

[wind stump]

Wau. No idea what I'm looking at, but wau.

[bronze abyss]

https://medal.tv/games/etterna/clips/llT3sG5la5gtRFvQC?invite=cr-MSwyOGQsNzE5OTIxMzQ&v=30 play this at 1.1x speed and thats p much what i did but for like 4 minutes straight

[wind stump]

Arthritis simulator

Then again, I have recorded proof of pure keyboard abuse on raid nights, I have no room to talk.

[bitter stream]

i've posted this to the no man's sky thread too but https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/275850/view/678479604962297715?l=english

[bitter stream]

the corvette they showed off for doing it looks sick too

someone made this, somehow

https://www.nomanssky.com/media/iiqpotfh/u_propzie.png

[little badger]

Out now on Ubisoft connect for pc and steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3929740/Tom_Clancys_Splinter_Cell_Pandora_Tomorrow/

Steam

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

SUSPENSEFUL TECHNOTHRILLER
Play as elite agent Sam Fisher and navigate through high-stakes missions across the globe, from the tense corridors of the American Embassy in East Timor to a high-speed train bound for Nice, France, as you race to thwart a global bio-terror threat.

CUTTING-EDGE STEALTH MECHANICS
Evade, outsmart, and silently neutra…

Price

$5.99

Recommendations

128

[hasty patio]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1561510/Immortal_Space_God/ Same dev behind Void Destroyer 1 and 2.

Steam

Immortal Space God

After an unwinnable war, survive against all odds.

Immortal Space God is a space combat simulator with survival crafting elements.

You regain consciousness in a hangar. Damaged and abandoned, barely capable of building and launching fighter drones. This is all you need to repair your ship, find a proper base of operations and claw your way b…

Release Date

To be announced

▶ Play video

[tranquil tartan]

For context this man turned away from friendship and stopped believeing so i made this twilight sparkle to guide them.

[toxic seal]

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

[astral steeple]

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/still-embroiled-in-subnautica-2-drama-pubg-and-hi-fi-rush-owner-krafton-announces-its-an-ai-first-company-now-as-it-plans-to-spend-usd70-million-on-the-tech/

lmao

[slim thorn]

r/nottheonion ?

[gaunt marten]

AI first? Ahead of what?

[astral steeple]

They're now gonna be using ai for everything within the company

[random steppe]

Idk, maybe, all it actually tells me is that they are publicly traded and want their stock price inflated.

Since that's the current bubble

They could still actually use it in development though, which would ba giga shit.
I guess we will see, it's a fair worry to have though

[arctic fern]

one thing i know for sure: i aint buying subnautica 2

[astral steeple]

Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit and Bendy and the Ink Machine will be released for free on the Epic Games Store from October 30th to November 6th

Based

[wind stump]

https://youtu.be/-hj9ataxWRo

go super saiyan
walk into store
sell your lunch your mom made you
refuse to elaborate
leave

[frozen gate]

oh yeah they silently added this to steam along with a whole SC series sale a couple days ago

Pandora Tomorrow wasnt like available before bc graphics errors on modern gpus

apparently they fixed the shadow issues but it's still 4:3 and it broke previous widescreen fan patches and also they are forcinf you to make a ubisoft connect account to play it lol

[slim thorn]

how much of that applies to Chaos Theory? (that's the one I'd recommend people try first)

[frozen gate]

that one should be fine

i dont think either og SC or Chaos Theory should have ubisoft connect iirc

[visual hill]

I wonder how they fixed it, did they make their own wrapper or manage to compile a modern version using a modern toolchain?

(pretty challenging for a 20+ year old game, even if they have the full source code at their disposal)

I doubt they would go back to Visual C++ 2005 or so just to make a fix 😛

(you'd probably have to be using Windows XP or 7 to run it too, not sure if you can run it on 10/11)

[wind stump]

Fair point, lmao

[bitter stream]

GGG (Path of Exile) devs livestream in 15 minutes, here's hoping for cool reveals

😔 looks like my friend hasn't been able to wake up in time for the stream, ah well

[frozen gate]

i have no idea honestly, im not good with tech stuff and i guess people haven't bothered dissecting it since ubisoft put it on steam silently so there's no buzz

[mossy flume]

Daaaaang he crammed in so much into this, this is awesome

[fresh bane]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2464280/Tormented_Souls_2/

Steam

Tormented Souls 2

The award-winning survival horror classic is back!

Following the harrowing events at Wildberger Hospital, Caroline Walker hopes for a normal life with her sister, Anna. Yet in the months that follow, Anna is haunted by visions of violence and death, compelling her to create disturbing drawings that rapidly manifest into horrifying reality.

De…

Price

$26.99

▶ Play video

oh hey this is out already

wishlisting that for later and the first game too

[ripe escarp]

Have y'all played Yooka-Replaylee yet

[quiet swift]

First one is I think still available to claim on Prime. Though they've shifted it to being all amazon Luna for stream gaming so it's harder to find the claims page

Huh. Got another email from Blizz Research for an on-campus testing thing again. Looks like Hearthstone. Can't attend though, already busy that day

[visual hill]

bookmark https://luna.amazon.com/claims/home

[visual hill]

not yet, but it's on my ITAD waitlist 🙂

[mossy flume]

https://stupidpenisx.com/OoCPokemon/status/1981374930496409845

Out of Context Pokémon (@OoCPokemon)

i don't blame him for reacting that way to this monstrosity of a dish

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Oct 23, 2025, 2:59 PM

[quartz pawn]

completely justified.

[quiet swift]

"My France hurts!"

[rancid herald]

Imagine being French, going home after a long day of hearing about how your crown jewels have been stolen, and you turn on pokemon z-a to relax only to be greeted with this

[quiet swift]

On that topic, I came across this and it had me lol'ing. https://bsky.app/profile/drskyskull.bsky.social/post/3m3lmi7ziik27

Dr. SkySkull (@drskyskull.bsky.social)

Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE

-# Carrie Tait (@carrietait.bsky.social)
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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Bluesky · Oct 20, 2025, 1:00 AM

[proud warren]

everyone's looking at the lavishly dressed guy on the right, but I'm here going "is that Steve Carell?" on the left

[green fulcrum]

Okay, jokes aside, that guy is impeccably dressed. Handsome fella.

Also:

[mossy flume]

Yeah, damn. Wish I could dress that well.

[green fulcrum]

Exact same vibes as this:

Almost the same face, even

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkxy-u38kyAWFdsE4izKCqKw9Hle-AKAK0c also, this line lives rent free in my head and has for the past 25-30 years

[mossy flume]

Totally forgot about that one

[quiet swift]

The delivery is so goddamn good

[mossy flume]

It is impeccable

[rancid herald]

I, too, think giant orange arrows the height of fashion

[slim thorn]

I greatly appreciate the "(singing the french national anthem)" subtitle

[cunning galleon]

comfy

[arctic fern]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2416450/MOUSE_PI_For_Hire/ oh my god someone is making a classic cartoon animation style doomclone

Steam

MOUSE: P.I. For Hire

MOUSE: P.I. For Hire is an action-packed first-person shooter that draws inspiration from the classic cartoons of the 1930s. Its black and white rubber hose visuals are drawn by hand, frame by frame, delivering a striking vintage aesthetic. Unravel layers of corruption with a thrilling noir-fueled detective story, lively environments to ex…

Release Date

Mar 19, 2026

▶ Play video

[bitter stream]

oh neat

[wind stump]

https://youtu.be/SXYpitUMWcE

[bronze abyss]

i may actually be just built different

this score would have been insane even if i was still playuing actively but i pulled it after a year of not playing the game

for reference,average player would have scores of around 20,top 200 players generally have scores in the low to mid 30s

[wind stump]

Yay

[visual hill]

Fildrong represent!!

[little badger]

Halo combat evolved coming to PS5 next year

It’s also a remake.

[wind stump]

it's jover

[river veldt]

yoo that's awesome

[little badger]

https://youtu.be/AMGJ7OMqyvI?si=m6vnNfzROshLPYc5

[slim thorn]

ah, so Infinite did crash hard enough they need to reboot the IP?

[little badger]

I liked infinite but it felt a bit different to the others.

[slim thorn]

yeah... Infinite wasn't bad, but it was by far the weakest of the 6 main games, since there's kinda nothing in Infinite that hadn't been done better in 1-5 already, and the "open world" thing really doesn't do much for a Halo

[mossy flume]

Rad, so the rumors were true.

[mossy flume]

Honestly I kinda liked Infinite better than Halo 5, but yeah, it wasn't great

[mossy flume]

They rebooted the entire studio, too.

[little badger]

I would say reach or 3 is still my favourite

[slim thorn]

oh lol

3's probably up there for most of us, it's definitely the one I would recommend a new player try out

[mossy flume]

343i was renamed to Halo Studios and was completely reworked. They have also abandoned their almost 30 year old game engine in favor of Unreal Engine 5.

This remake is an exercise for them to get proficient with UE5

[slim thorn]

(as much as I love 5's movement, it's certainly not "normal Halo", and not everyone liked that)

[river veldt]

i liked Halo 2 a lot i still haven't played Halo 3 all the way through

[mossy flume]

I'm honestly torn, the Bungie Halos all have something really special in each of them

[slim thorn]

oh yeah I've replayed all of 1-5 at various points

recommend to a new player was meant to be specific; I would say 3 is the most polished, and maybe the best at the things most people associate with Halo single player

when I was replaying them I personally played 1 and 5 the most because I like the simplicity and nostalgia of 1, and 5's movement/squadmate features make it play more differently from 1-4 than 1-4 from each other

[mossy flume]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-tXi1NC_aU

Here's the full reveal video

[slim thorn]

anyway

do we know if they're changing anything besides graphics

[mossy flume]

I'm going through it now, but they're modernizing it to some extent

This is a remake in which they're wanting to make some changes.

[slim thorn]

hopefully it's stuff like "make the snow levels not feel like they copy-pasted all the rooms and bridges"

[mossy flume]

Yeah, added some content, updated the gameplay while being as 1:1 with the original as possible otherwise.

Oh wait what

LAWL you can use the plasma sword in this

Nice

[slim thorn]

oh, yeah, fair change, I always forget they weren't usable until 2

[mossy flume]

Yep

Also 4 player co-op is now an option

[slim thorn]

but can they make the needler good

[mossy flume]

(Originally just two player)

[wind stump]

THEM'S FIGHTING WORDS

[mossy flume]

Ohhhh, they reworked the cinematics. Mocap, redubbed the voices with the original VAs...

This is a hefty remake

[slim thorn]

oh I'd assumed redone cutscenes and filed that under "graphics"

[mossy flume]

They remade them entirely

Not just a coat of paint

[slim thorn]

after all we already got the version of Halo CE where you can toggle old vs new graphics but the underlying models/animations are the same, which causes the "new" graphics to look wrong in a bunch of places

[mossy flume]

Also apparently possibly changed them a bit

Yeah, none of that here

The original game isn't running underneath in this one

Alright, yeah, I see what they're doing here. Makes sense.

Not just a new coat of paint, but taking Halo 1 and applying lessons learned over the past 25 years to modernize it, bring the gameplay & presentation in line with modern Halo, and take advantage of more technical freedom for cinematics and such while making sure not to change too much. At least that's how I interpret what they're communicating here.

"What if Halo 1 was made today instead of in the late 90s?" basically

When the rumors of a new Halo 1 remake started coming around I was skeptical because I didn't... see the point when we already had Anniversary.

This makes a bit more sense

[slim thorn]

iirc that version even modernized the controls

so, I am curious what those statements mean in more concrete terms

[mossy flume]

Mostly just the mappings

[slim thorn]

(we've been burned by "modernization" far too many times in the past)

[mossy flume]

It didn't change physics or anything

[little badger]

gravemind on legendary never again

[mossy flume]

I did Halo 2 Legendary exactly once and I'm never doing that again.

[slim thorn]

heh, every Halo has parts that are just not fair on Legendary

[mossy flume]

Halo 2 was the worst

Halo 3's worst parts in Legendary were the flood segments

[little badger]

The first level was a bit tedious as well

On halo 2

[mossy flume]

Yeah

[slim thorn]

I think Halo 1 might be the only one I did a full Legendary clear of, in fact that might be what taught me where the "not worth it" line was for me

[mossy flume]

I did all the Bungie Halos on Legendary on the Xbox 360... then MCC came out and I was just not interested in doing that again.

[little badger]

Now cortana from halo 3

Time gap was due to not playing it for a while

I did them on the 360 as well but I’ve always liked a challenge

[mossy flume]

I can't really do it anymore, tbh

Got a bit rusty since then and I don't really have the time to practice enough for it again

Doing Heroic gets really tough for me now

[slim thorn]

based on the last time I played a bit of Halo, it feels like my skill hasn't changed since the games were new

but I also never did any extreme LASO grinding back in the day either

[mossy flume]

I made the mistake of doing LASO solo

Was really obsessed with getting those achievements back in the day, haha

Such a profound waste of time

[slim thorn]

I've always been confused by people who act as if they must full platinum/all achievement a game before they can move on to the next one, then complain about how not fun several of the achievements are

[mossy flume]

Halo and Mass Effect were really the only ones I bothered to do that for.

Like you I really don't care otherwise. I just really liked them and that completionist urge took over.

[little badger]

Speaking of

[slim thorn]

that sounds entirely healthy

[mossy flume]

Yeah, I saw that.

[slim thorn]

A really convenient example in my library is Ender Lilies. I have 37/38 achievements for it. The missing one is "Reach level 100". Obviously I could get that, but it'd just be grinding for the last 10-20 levels. What's the point?

[mossy flume]

Indeed

I have many games that are like that, where there are just one or three achievements left but they're for really silly things and I just couldn't care less

[little badger]

Mass effect day is soon. So hopefully a new teaser.

[mossy flume]

I only really bothered with achievement hunting for a couple years before I got bored of it