general gaming

[mossy flume]

Yeah, really hoping to get something

If anything I just want Mass Effect 5 to come out before the Saudi PIF takes over EA and kills it because it's too progressive

[little badger]

I still trophy/achivement hunt. It’s just something I enjoy I’m currently finishing off sanandreas

[mossy flume]

I guess in my case it was a bit of competiton with my friends

[slim thorn]

of course, the best achievement in the entire history of gaming will always be

now I wish I'd looked at this when it was 43.0%

[cerulean herald]

what game would that be

[slim thorn]

Stanley Parable

[mossy flume]

The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe

[cerulean herald]

ah, I know there's that "don't play for 5 years" or something

[slim thorn]

actually doing this triggers a whole sidequest when the narrator goes "hmmmm... I don't feel like you earned that achievement, maybe go click on that other door six times" (and there's another dozen steps)

[mossy flume]

I don't have that achievement, now I'm tempted to do that bit

[slim thorn]

by the time you clicked on every random piece of office equipment the correct number of times and the narrator is maybe-unironically cheering you almost feel like you earned it

[mossy flume]

Man I love that game

[slim thorn]

have you seen The Serious Room?

[mossy flume]

I've heard of it but never found it

[slim thorn]

yeah, unless you're familiar with Source engine console commands, you just have to look it up

but it's a great scene worth looking up the trigger for

[mossy flume]

Oh, yeah I'm not XD

Ah, gotta use a cheat command

Heh

[river veldt]

lol i instantly knew this was Stanley Parable

[light gate]

Man… Halo on PS5

[mossy flume]

Yeah, it was just a matter of time.

[light gate]

I feel like we’ve entered a new dimension.

Or timeline.

[mossy flume]

Figured this was coming iminently

Oh, Xbox is just a brand now

[light gate]

What’s an Xbox at this point snk.

[mossy flume]

Has been for a while. It was pretty inevitable that Microsoft games, even the big ones, would show up everywhere else

I'm still not sure if it makes sense for them to bother with a dedicated console anymore, but it probably does somehow

[light gate]

2013 really was the year Xbox would never recover huh?

[slim thorn]

I'm not sure that's an xbox thing so much as a modern gaming thing

[mossy flume]

^

[slim thorn]

it's been multiple generations since I had any reason to care about a console

[light gate]

I dunno.

[mossy flume]

The Xbox Game Pass really set them up for a new business model

[hasty patio]

"Betcha can't stick it, Master Chief".

[slim thorn]

I genuinely have no idea if the PS or Xbox is "winning" this generation because neither mattered to me from the start

[light gate]

I’m not even talking about that

[slim thorn]

oh

[light gate]

I like how that is the immediate assumption.

[hasty patio]

PS "won", but what is not defined.

[visual hill]

I don't have a stake in the whole thing, but it was clear Xbox was in a decent position for like 1 year, then everything started to go south as games started to be better optimized for PS5 on average (higher market share, so it's more worth spending time on for developers and porting houses)

the covid shortages helped Xbox a lot, many people wanted a PS5 but bought an Xbox instead because it was slightly more available

[slim thorn]

so... what does "Xbox would never recover" refer to if not its popularity compared to other gaming systems?

[light gate]

I’m more thinking about how will the Xbox brand survive by the request of 30% profit margin.

Like…

CFO is essentially demanding.

[visual hill]

Xbox also had the dev mode thing going for it - the XSX and XSS were very cheap emulation machines at the time, compared to a PC

I wish they fully embraced this, it could have been their saving grace (to an extent at least)

[light gate]

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/report-microsoft-cfo-amy-hood-has-forced-xbox-to-deliver-an-insane-30-percent-profit-margin-which-is-why-everything-is-crazy-right-now

I’m just like…

[slim thorn]

what is going on with big companies this decade

[light gate]

[visual hill]

I was somewhat hyped to see Microsoft open up, e.g. with forward-compatible controllers, open source GDK (makes PC Game Pass ports possible, and Xbox ports a bit easier)

[mossy flume]

Instead, the Game Pass ended up being more successful than anyone predicted and it’s basically becoming their primary mode of the Xbox’s business model

[hasty patio]

The biggest thing going for XBX is its connection to PCs and MSFT isn't too crazy about where you play their shit, as long as you do. Sony hasn't quite understood the latter.

[visual hill]

but they didn't commit to this fully, you still need NDA'd SDKs to publish to Xbox today

meanwhile in iOS land... you have a walled garden platform that doesn't require NDAs to publish to

so yes, it can be done 😛

[slim thorn]

the Game Pass part probably needs to be qualified by that recent price and benefits change making it unclear how many will renew their sub

[mossy flume]

I think Sony and Nintendo also require NDAs

[light gate]

Isn’t the Xbox technically a walled garden?

[visual hill]

yes, but my point is Xbox was probably in the best position to drop this requirement. Nintendo would never do this, and Sony is very unlikely to ever attempt this too (their "Linux on PS3" days are far away)

[mossy flume]

True

Dunno, maybe that’s on the roadmap

[slim thorn]

AFAIK only "walled" to the degree that every console and mobile device always has been

[hasty patio]

A console, in general, is a walled garden.

[mossy flume]

They’re playing the long game

[visual hill]

Xbox also had a decent market share among indie game players, which is the community that would benefit the most from publicly available SDKs

[slim thorn]

true, gamepass was amazing for indie visibility

[visual hill]

when you put the Switch on the side for a second, Playstation tends to be a "CoD and FIFA" machine after all, so it's usually the platform with the least indie players... but this has changed recently, with Xbox sales faltering

[mossy flume]

I genuinely see a future where the Xbox as a game console you physically buy stops being a thing. And instead it’s just a major quasi-platform-independent publishing platform.

[light gate]

I don’t see that.

I don’t see that working… there are too many variables still.

[slim thorn]

or it slowly merges with normal PCs, and at some point we're just buying a "computer" designed to sit under a TV versus a computer designed for a desk or whatever

[mossy flume]

Xbox Game Pass is the one thing that’s working for the brand.

The rest is on a steep decline

[light gate]

Game Pass for now its working, but if they keep increasing the price… it wont.

There is a limit.

[slim thorn]

this is super weird to me since all my console biases were formed back when Playstation was the colorful cartoon platformer console and Xbox was the gritty shooter action console

[visual hill]

consoles are computers.

[visual hill]

funny how the tables turned, kind of

[light gate]

Regardless, I guess we’ll still be stuck with Windows until the anti cheat situation is figured out.

For now, having a console still makes sense. Its still cheaper and easier than building an entire rig that can run the latest titles.

[slim thorn]

I still like having a laptop that can run the latest titles on potato settings

[mossy flume]

To clarify, it's "a" future I see, not "the" future. But this is definitely a posture that Microsoft is currently dipping their toes into to see how it does.

[light gate]

I know, I just know that Microsoft is triple downing everything. They gotta pay their uhh… ML servers somehow.

[mossy flume]

What is a console, anyway? A place you play games.
Does the manufacturer of that console matter?

[light gate]

Kinda.

[river veldt]

the future, always in motion it is

[visual hill]

What is a console? A miserable pile of gaming!

[mossy flume]

Does it, though?

[slim thorn]

it used to matter a lot more when the manufacturer was tied up with a bunch of exclusive games, services and features

[light gate]

A console manufacture matters when Valve tried to do their Steam Machines. People didn’t like the entire concept.

[mossy flume]

Gamers have been saying for years how they're all literally the same.

They're just nearly identical x86 machines now

[slim thorn]

these days it feels more like the question is which manufacturer/publisher do you think is least likely to do something astonishingly stupid that effectively deletes your stuff

[light gate]

People prefer a centralized solution rather than an open one, because its easier.

Like, I got a PS5 to play games.

[slim thorn]

I thought people loved Steam Decks

[river veldt]

yeah they're awesome

[light gate]

The steam deck is centralized?

???

Its made by Valve, controlled by Valve.

[mossy flume]

It's an open platform. Anyone can make their own and their games will still work.

The idea that there's a fixed box made by one company that you need to play your games on is dying

[light gate]

Yeah, but that doesn’t mean it has been as successful as the Steam Deck. Being an open platform means little if the main player still reaps the rewards.

[river veldt]

xbax

[mossy flume]

The idea that you can just pick up any of the devices that you own and play the games that you own/have access to is slowly becoming the expectation

[light gate]

By who?

???

[slim thorn]

I have no idea who's arguing for what now

[light gate]

I’m confused.

[visual hill]

refurb Steam Deck is on sale now by the way

including 1 TB OLED

some of the refurbs are cheaper than a Switch 2, just saying 😛

[light gate]

I hope they already release a Steam Deck 2 w sticks that don’t drift.

[mossy flume]

Have you not seen the Steam Deck? Or its myriad competitors? Or the PlayStation's own implementation of that? Or the Nvidia or Xbox or Playstation clouds? You can just... get a game and play it wherever in a manner that's more suitable to how you want to use it. Heck, the Switch is also blurring the line between a fixed console and portable devices.
Not sure how this is confusing. The basic idea is that the device itself is a bit less relevant.

[light gate]

No?

Are you talking about the cloud?

If that’s the case, then I have zero interest in the cloud. Like I can’t handle the latency.

[visual hill]

local cloud gaming can be really nice with the right setup

even if you are in a remote location not too far away, as long as the machine at home is on Ethernet

[mossy flume]

Cloud gaming is part of it, but not exclusively what I'm referring to.

Like... you don't need to buy a Valve branded Steam Deck to use your Steam library on a portable tablet, like the ASUS ROG thing or any of the fifty other SteamOS tablets. Is that... not self-evident?

[visual hill]

Apollo + Artemis has been pushing things forward for around a year now, and Sunshine before that

[light gate]

No?

[mossy flume]

…how.

[river veldt]

huh i guess the steam deck is kind of like a tablet isn't it

[light gate]

I’m sorry Aegis, I think I’m confused right now.

[slim thorn]

there was a brief period where "phone" and "tablet" got blurred enough that people started saying "phablet" for the medium-sized ones

does that make the Steam Deck a... conlet? tabsole?

[visual hill]

fun fact: 5.2" was considered a phablet at first

today's more compact phones are like 6.2" now, and the larger ones are 6.9" or even 7" (foldables up to 8"... and the Mate XT which is like 10.2")

[mossy flume]

Yeah, phones used to be 3.5”

And that was entirely reasonable

[light gate]

Gawd I’m struggling to understand. I think Aegis was trying to tell me that an ROG device can access the steam library yeah.

But what I’m trying to say is that most folks I’ve talked only know about the Steam Deck. Heck, they don’t even know most other vendors other than ASUS, and don’t know how to install an OS or even understand file systems. They know you can install Steam on ‘any device’, but that doesn’t mean those devices can run all their games which is why most like consoles. Consoles don’t need any of that extra vigilance or responsibility, its plug and play. The Steam Deck by definition is plug n play because it was designed around Steam OS. (You even get a system that tells you what games work and don’t work, something that PCs essentially are hard to figure out for most consumers)

I don’t know if I’m making sense typing this but yeah I hope that clears something.

Well, that took some time writing.

I gotta get some stuff done now.

[mossy flume]

https://youtu.be/hSjbIM0iegY?si=h7bVQvSqOD6KI5Dq

Uninterrupted gameplay, no commentary

Looks like they got Blur Studio to do their cutscenes again?

[light gate]

That honestly looks gorgeous.

[mossy flume]

Looking forward to needing to buy a GeForce 6090 to play this

[light gate]

https://youtu.be/fElUNYerY0w?

[quiet swift]

That reminds me of a wow commercial. Question to you folks: what was the weirdest/most memorable commercial/advertisement for a game? Not something that uses ingame graphics/selling the story, but someting more weird like that Halo Nvidia commercial, or the one I'm gonna post

[visual hill]

WoW had the Mr. T/Alexandre Astier commercials in France, they are definitely quite well-famed here

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u15HmEMp2Qc

[visual hill]

Ford also had a Focus SE commercial with David Hayter voicing Snake

[quiet swift]

Oh I know those, but I meant this one. This one is WILD.

[visual hill]

when it comes to weird ads, this one is a bit weird/funny too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suZ_T1mOZTw

an English version also exists, with different questions being asked in the interview phase... and it's missing the "yeaaaahh!" at the end too, how sad

[river veldt]

not a game but a game console
https://youtu.be/gqkNPcUMffU?si=fb_Jn3nrnT7YU06W

[quiet swift]

Come to think of it. Didn't the Rabids have crazy ones too?

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

[fresh bane]

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/10/you-wouldnt-see-street-fighter-or-tekken-putting-this-garbage-out-mortal-kombat-art-book-accused-of-using-ai-upscaling

https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/1of7wof/the_mortal_kombat_artbook_flawless_victory_likely/

cool, so we're at that stage now where this is just a common thing everyone is gonna start doing

now granted AI upscaling isn't anything relatively new (basically any remaster of a 2D pixeled video game uses this AI upscaling and it smoothens out the pixels and looks god awful) and it's not the same thing as generative AI, but I've been seeing more and more things like remaster projects and books like these just use it with wild disregard

I'd much rather a super shitty low resolution blurry image, it's not like you're getting any more detail when doing things this way anyways

[quiet swift]

I mean, even COD (I think?) was using AI generation for some posters for some of their zombie events, I think it was. Or something similarly huge, so yeah, it's being used everywhere

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/call-of-duty/call-of-duty-admits-its-using-generative-ai-to-help-develop-some-in-game-assets-and-suddenly-all-those-poorly-made-calling-cards-make-sense/

[fresh bane]

They always try to paint it as this ''tool'' that is ''helping the artists'' but it's always implemented in the absolute most lazy way possible no artist even touches up the AI output image later, it's just generating the image and copy pasting it into the files without a single care

Not that I would agree with AI being used even if an artist touches it up later, I just fundamentally oppose the use of AI in any way that isn't doing a boring time consuming task that isn't part of the creative process, but at least if an artist actually touched it up later it can look not incredibly shitty and like the art is melting

[chilly mural]

I can fully see capcom or bandai namco do the same thing

netherrealm doing it is funny though

[fresh bane]

Capcom is going that way too anyways, I don't remember what it was but a new Megaman thing I remember people were saying was using AI

[sacred grove]

AI upscaling can and does sometimes "add detail". The caveat is that it can only ever imagine/confabulate what that extra detail is. That is, it doesn't necessarily re-create what an actual hi-res master would have looked like

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, all it can do is make plausible information based on patterns it learned, which is not desirable in art

[wind stump]

Finished Borderlands and... Yeesh, you can tell the game was made on a shoestring budget.

Especially the last DLC puppeteering the literal corpses of previous antagonists... Twice.

Not saying it's a bad game, but 16 years and four sequels has really shown its age.
Hopefully this means the leap to 2 will keep it more engaging than it has in past attempts.

[smoky sonnet]

yeah, its not bad, but the games really just improved that much

[wind stump]

For the record, this isn't like it's the first time I've played the OG (Well, it's my first time playing the remaster)

[arctic fern]

i still think i prefer the original
the story sucks but the guns are guns

[wind stump]

TIL the FPS segments in Banjo-Tooie are literally Goldeneye maps

[mossy flume]

What Pokémon Legends Z-A and future titles need is for Pokémon Amie to come back. Let me pet my critters T_T

[cerulean herald]

at the very least do what Palworld does and have a button where i can pet them in the overworld, but alas

[mossy flume]

That’s needed too. Let me pet the Pokémon that are chilling out in the world

[visual hill]

some GE multiplayer maps are also available in Perfect Dark

with Facility being renamed to Felicity

GE weapons too, but you can't use them in multiplayer on N64, only XBLA or PC port

[rotund forge]

Pets literal gods

[mossy flume]

Exactly what I do in FFXIV

[plain harbor]

I always hug ||Hydaelyn|| after beating her in her trial.

[mossy flume]

Well damn, Z-A did in fact get weirdly epic

[mossy flume]

Whoa, no way!

[hasty patio]

Amazing

[bitter stream]

how are you finding helldivers 2 so far MA? it's fun, though i wish it was less buggy at times haha

[arctic fern]

The patch has mostly works on that front

...mostly

I can run at good graphics without issue now

[ripe escarp]

You hear there's a new Source Port for Doom now that GZDoom got fucked by the project lead using AI code and stuff?

[sacred grove]

Yeah, UZDoom is where development is happening now

[green fulcrum]

@rugged flax @arctic fern @toxic seal @quiet swift Since I know you four would be interested in this: https://gamerant.com/subnautica-2-publisher-ai-first-company-change/

[rugged flax]

Welp

[quiet swift]

Already saw it, yeah 😐

[arctic fern]

yes we've seen it already

[green fulcrum]

Ah, sorry

[rugged flax]

(I hadn't)

[quiet swift]

(shunnnnn! )

[rugged flax]

Ohno
Not the crow of judgement

[fresh bane]

also, the current owners of Hi-Fi Rush's IP rights

Saw a youtube comment that put it perfectly, Hi-Fi Rush saw the light at the end of the tunnel only to realize it was a muzzle flash

[ripe escarp]

We must destroy the CEO of Krafton

[mossy flume]

Yeah, saw that. Krafton, Embracer Group, and Tencent are just utterly destroying this industry.
And now we have to worry about the Saudi PIF too…

[ripe escarp]

Saudi isn't a new problem, they've owned SNK for a while

[mossy flume]

Big money being used to quietly crush creativity, innovation, and progressivism in video games >_>

You’re right, it’s not new

The EA acquisition move is nevertheless an alarming one

[ripe escarp]

Obviously there is one specific thing at the core of all of this but we're probably not allowed to talk about it

[mossy flume]

Indeed

[ripe escarp]

At the very least, the game industry needs more unions

Isn't there just like, one

[mossy flume]

There are a few

[sacred grove]

A significant portion of gamedev is in the US, which, to my understanding, doesn't offer as much protection to unions as it should

making it harder for them to gain traction

[ripe escarp]

Correct.

[mossy flume]

Accurate

[sacred grove]

I'm all for both expanding union protection and also expanding the indie scene

[slim thorn]

it's really difficult to produce a union system that has enough teeth to prevent these problems, without becoming its own big powerful establishment causing other problems

but it's pretty clear some industries are way too close to the "unions aren't a thing" extreme

[visual hill]

Raven Software QA union was a big event because of this, there was basically no videogame union in the US before

[random steppe]

To be fair, Tencent has been largely hands off on their investments

Still, the potentiality is always there

[slim thorn]

what even happened with Embracer

the headlines I heard were they bought a million devs, spontaneously combusted, and those devs are high and dry

[visual hill]

they embraced and extinguished without even going through the extend step

[green fulcrum]

This is why we need more people like Larian Studios in the industry.

People who make games for the love of games, and who have positive, consumer-friendly mindsets and models, who promise big and deliver bigger, and who treat their employees with respect.

For them, it was never about profit. It was always about making a change.

[visual hill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-nrhVO_980

preview of the GTA 4 RTX Remix mod

[quiet swift]

Saudis had promised a 2 billion dollar investment push, and that promise had held for like half a year, during which Embracer bought a bunch of companies left and right. Then something like the day before the deal was going to be finalized and go through, the saudi group called off the deal. So basically Embracer spent money they didn't have and had to sell of a bunch of companies/ip/and close companies/fire a bunch of people to claw back the money they spent

[gaunt marten]

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

Read the 2022-present section

[sacred grove]

In fairness, this is a lot easier to say when you make as much money as Larian does. The success of BG3 has firmly secured their freedom, but they're certainly in a very privileged position

Commercial gamedev, at the end of the day, has expenses. You have to sustain yourself and your team somehow, and sometimes you might not even be lucky enough to get enough exposure even if you poured your heart and soul into a game. Having the principle of 'not caring' about profits, while noble to some degree, also needs a degree of privilege in order to get there sustainably

I wish it weren't the case, but yeah. Making a good game, while it obviously helps, is not a guarantee by itself that you will make any money

[green fulcrum]

Their message hasn't changed. They were saying these things even way back when they were still making Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2, it's just that now after BG3 people are starting to take notice of them.

It was never about their position or privilege, they've always had this stance on games.

[slim thorn]

these points do not contradict

[mossy flume]

Indeed. The thing that a lot of people don't want to hear is that Larian's approach is not sustainable for... basically anyone.

[visual hill]

Larian can afford to put out a native Linux port (for Steam Deck users) for a custom engine because they can

[mossy flume]

The reality is that economics exists and there's only so much runway any game development project has before it needs to ship, whether it's ready or not.

[visual hill]

it's a very uncommon decision in 2025, I don't think I've seen this elsewhere for like 5 years now

[sacred grove]

That being said, I do see this reasoning used to justify the horrid state of the games industry, which I don't intend to do. I'd rather have shitty companies fold than compromise everything to make shareholders happy

[mossy flume]

Indeed. More common for games built on Unity, but I certainly can't name any in-house engines doing this these days.

[mossy flume]

Acknowledging the realities of something != "justifying" or "defending" those things.

Something I've found a lot of people have trouble understanding...

[sacred grove]

Right. I was just making my position clear

A smaller example. Team Cherry took their sweet time on Silksong. In principle, they don't care about profits either. But the only reason they can have that principle is that Hollow Knight made them truckloads of money, more than they know what to do with. And the team is small.

[visual hill]

it reminds me a bit of comparisons with id Software in the late 90s to early 2000s

id Software was drowning in cash back then, Carmack regularly made the news about having a Ferrari collection (including one he gave away to Thresh, who won a contest)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAmNtOfpR8Q

if you want to see the gameplay that could win you a Ferrari in 1997

it's pretty basic by today's standards (moving like this would get you demolished in a 2025 rookie league), but you can see the strategies already put in place (timing items, shooting preemptively RL spawn when getting out of water, etc). Also, not jumping ensures you don't give away your position too early

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7hwBurx5_w

Some of these answers coming from unexpected people

[river veldt]

my GOAT Mattea Roach in the first 3 minutes

[quiet swift]

I was actually at a recording of an episode last week, was fun to see

[river veldt]

my other GOAT James Holzhauer

[green fulcrum]

Oh hey, I just found out what getting the "Earn 100 stars!" option on the Bowser space choices does in Mario Party. Bowser quickly distracts the player character and then just fucks off as fast as he can, lol.

[bitter stream]

oh lol rip

[gaunt marten]

He should give everyone 100 stars

[ripe escarp]

He doesn't have that many stars are you crazy

[tranquil tartan]

Princess celestia.

[bitter stream]

is this satirical? or just like, hater energy?

[arctic fern]

it looks like they just make abominations in char creators for fun
dont think they're a hater

[bitter stream]

huh, ok

[tranquil tartan]

Yeah it fun to do stuff because i can.

This piece was made in responce to people saying i made my characters all look the same and it turned out being really fun to make.

[bitter stream]

ah ok, neat. what game was this character made in?

[tranquil tartan]

Wo long: fallen dynasty to make them i needed cheat engine so the skin can be any color and the sliders can have values changed from the og -20 to 20 increased-127 to +127 so thry can be tall and have odd purportions.

This one is in the same look but more equstria girls inspired as i just loved this mans story a out feeling friendship has failed him XD.

[bitter stream]

oh dear

but fun to put twilight there

[tranquil tartan]

For sure :D

In nioh 2 i also did a simular hack and did around 60 mlp characters or so total.

But mostly low effort color swaps as it was like 1 to 3 hours doing that alone i did try but it is tricky for me to do creative stuff.

Some had character builds even like vynal scratch bass cannon

Sirens singing to stunlock bosses if you had all 3 of them in a co op team.

[bitter stream]

you could give them abilities?

[tranquil tartan]

Within the ones in game yes in wo long less abilities but nioh 2 had more choices.

[bitter stream]

ah yeah, neat

[tranquil tartan]

Sadly though it was tricky for me to make pretty characters so i just had fun with them like the resting angry face that i put on the princess celestia.

[wind stump]

physics engines are funni

[wind stump]

Friendship! 🌈

[frozen gate]

ohh

didnt kill warden i see

otherwise i dont think they ever send u to this location for anything else

there's no side quests there i yhink?

try out the toxic cloud skill on maya, whatever it was called, for funsies

[wind stump]

oh no i did, this was just part of a sidequest

[frozen gate]

oh wow

i guess i just barely remember this place

a lot of my hours were farming specific guns

[wind stump]

Toxic Cloud is fun

[frozen gate]

obscenely strong esp since there's a looot of armored enemies in this game's campaign

i love it

[wind stump]

just got myself a slag revolver

[arctic fern]

time to slag somoene off

[bronze abyss]

man playing blue protocol makes me sad,its literally all that kurtzpel could have been if the devs didnt take a shit on and burried their own community and the game as a whole

[mossy flume]

https://youtu.be/-7VhlsqeeqI?si=WF_c31K9QNPP9Iq2

This fucking guy XD

I swear he knows this game better than any of the devs did

[cerulean herald]

oh its him

[river veldt]

i love you pannenkoek

[arctic fern]

If youre wondering why they haven't been posting, watch the vid
||spent 3 months making a tas||

[bronze abyss]

still sad about it but this game isnt safe either,biggest piece of dogshit ive seen its absolutely disgusting i hate it, mixed reviews it currently has sound appropriate but id even go into overwhelmingly negative,unrefined,rushed,unoptimised,purest form of slop possible,it was on its way to be the first and possibly best of its kind but now its just a shitty genshin clone that does everything worse only time ive been more dissapointed was when tekken 8 released,5-6 years of waiting for blue protocol were absolutely worthless

[river veldt]

i wonder if pannen can even play Mario 64 normally anymore

holy shit this vid is an hour long i'll have to watch it tomorrow lmao

[mossy flume]

Yeah it’s pretty good

I love his vids, they’re fascinating

[ripe escarp]

Between him and Kaze I've learned so much about Super Mario 64

[wintry canopy]

The new dragonmaids are finally in master duel, when I was crafting for a second glossy cehrmba I got a royal.

Now I'm just missing 2 alternate art house and hospitality.

[slim thorn]

Oh right, I started that vid but never finished

[cunning galleon]

Ponies?!

[bitter stream]

cute artwork

[cunning galleon]

Idk who made it, it's from the game itself. It's very cool

[bitter stream]

yeah yeah

[wind stump]

i love borderlands

[wind stump]

That's dark.

[proud warren]

What's that red thing on the table next to the chicken?

Is that a napkin holder or something?

Looks fucking weird if that is what it is

[ripe escarp]

I think it's a marker

[proud warren]

Oh yeah I see it now

I was confused that the other stuff connected to it was

Only to realize it's a ketchup bottle and... something I can't see too well what it is

[fickle garnet]

I started playing Ghost of Tsushima. It's really good so far, I've wanted to play it since it was first revealed, and am finally playing it

[bitter stream]

nice nice, enjoy

[wind stump]

https://youtu.be/MIFzsZgTS30

[slim thorn]

"I'm unreasonably invested in this"

ok this might be the only morally correct use of vibe coding

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU2fxy8mDmc

[fresh bane]

and here I thought fiddling around with modding a Wii was already a bit of a headache, doing any type of homebrewing/modding with these older systems is not just a headache, it's an expensive headache lol so many add-ons and peripherals to buy to even get things working at all

at the same time, pretty mind blowing to see a full port work of Sonic 1 on the C64, I feel like the Sonic fandom is one of the few ones dedicated enough to actually go through with projects like these, because who would even think of doing something like this on the first place, and having the end result be an actually high quality port (also one of the few rare cases where PAL is actually superior to NTSC what with requiring much less fiddling around with add-ons and third party hardware)
https://youtu.be/dp-wC8mgSVg?si=3yHAYNA78jZQ-EDu

[proud warren]

this game's wild man

[visual hill]

Commodore/Amiga hardware was more popular in PAL land, especially the UK

early PC gaming is mostly an EU thing, US/Japan was more consoles-focused

[slim thorn]

what does "early" mean in this context?

I was PCing in the early 00s, my console-only era was roughly the 360's life

[sacred grove]

PC gaming ramped up in earnest in the 90’s

when IBM compatibles became the standard, and hardware across the board developed in leaps and bounds

[wind stump]

crack cocaine meets meth

[gaunt marten]

This is why I play this game

Player: Can I transport My Arm in your boat?
Larry: Well, yes, I'm sure you've transported your arm every time you've used my boat. Isn't it always attached to the rest of your body?
Player: My Arm is a troll.
Larry: Your arm is... a troll? It's really not. I can see both of them. Sorry, have you had your brain shrunk into a penguin suit too many times?
Player: This kind of thing happens a lot when I take My Arm out to places.
Larry: You take your arm out to places? And what the heck is THAT?
My Arm arrives, frightening Larry.
My Arm: My Arm here!

Larry: You want my boat? Yes, yes, take my boat and go a very long way from me! And take your arm with you!

[wind stump]

but who's on first?

[gaunt marten]

Player: You only need to let My Arm in, not me.
Boulder: Human sound confused about how body work. See, mortal body is intrinsic part of mortal being. It not like we got our souls floating up in da sky controlling bodies like puppets.
Boulder: We mortal beings - troll, human, goat - we are our bodies, and our bodies are us. You human got dumb ideas 'bout mind/body dualism.
Boulder: Anyway, Boulder not here to talk ontological distinction between mind an' matter, especially with dumb human who not know what his arm is. So push off.

Boulder: Human arm might taste good, maybe, so if Wolfbone sent your arm as snack, we happy to take it an' eat it.
Player: I'm not letting you eat my arm.
Boulder: Urgh - human arm attached to human body with human mouth what keep talking an' talking. Shut up an' go away.
``` They're milking this one joke for all it's worth

In OSRS, trolls are named after the first thing they eat

That's why the big one is called Dad

[mossy flume]

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/nintendos-palworld-case-japan-patent-office-rejects-claim-not-original-enough

[wind stump]

G o o d

[mossy flume]

Good. The patent and their lawsuit against Pocketpair are both patently ridiculous

[toxic seal]

Heh, patently

[bronze abyss]

funny thing i just realised,despite being at the end of act 2 i still havent gone to baldurs gate...in baldurs gate 3

[bronze abyss]

amazing,now try suing monster hunter cuz you can capture monsters in it iunstead of killing them

[mossy flume]

Their lawsuit hasn't been axed at this time, to be clear.

But it does weaken Nintendo's position

Personally I think the entire thing is frivolous and every patent is clearly null and void, because all the patents Nintendo is citing in their lawsuit were filed and granted after Palworld came out.

Thus, Nintendo is literally suing them by retroactively patenting components of Palworld's game design and then claiming infringement.

It's purely just intimidation and bullying them to try to stamp out successful competition.

Everything Nintendo has cited has prior art as well

[bronze abyss]

im all the way with palworld,the game is amazing,the game support is amazing, and i find it impressive that they managed to make a genuinely great game with what seems like an asset flip

[mossy flume]

They're original assets!

Nintendo lost the copyright infringement argument. It's why they're only taking the patent route.

[bronze abyss]

ah,i wasnt sure honestly cuz ive heard a lot of talks of it being an asset flip,but that doesnt really worsen my opinion on it any bit even if it is

[mossy flume]

Yeah, a lot of anti-Palworld people assert that Palworld is using stolen assets.
There are indeed a lot of very similar designs, but they did indeed make the designs themselves and they pass copyright law originality requirements.

[slim thorn]

what I heard on release was the asset flip claims were just rumors that no one ever produced even alleged evidence for

[mossy flume]

I assume some assets in there were bought on asset stores

[mossy flume]

Theonly evidence people provided were "LOOK AT HOW SIMILAR IT IS!"

[slim thorn]

yeah, if that rumor mill sounded like a potentially legitimate point, it's worth re-evaluating where you "hear" stuff

[mossy flume]

People deconstructed the models and found that the meshes were original

They were very likely copying ideas, but they didn't steal assets

[bronze abyss]

i didnt give it enough thought to do that since i loved the game from the very beginning really

[river veldt]

i didn't know Palworld was still a thing tbh

[slim thorn]

oh it's been a thing this whole time

[mossy flume]

There are a lot of Pokémon fans who are... very confusingly taking the stance of "Leave the multibillion dollar company alone! Burn down the indie studio!" as if having any sense of competition at all is somehow a bad thing

[bronze abyss]

it is and its thriving

[slim thorn]

like almost every successful video game, it drops out of the headlines once non-players run out of things to say about it, and then it's just players actually playing it in the background

[bronze abyss]

actually theres a major update coming soon iirc

[mossy flume]

It's still expanding and thriving. They've added content updates and there are more expansions planned.

Yep

Palworld is also launching their own spinoff games

And merch and community events and stuff

They're not going anywhere

[bronze abyss]

i have a chillet plush thats as tall as me i need more merch of it still

[slim thorn]

it'd be like one of you saying "uma musume is still a thing?" and me just looking at the last ten fanarts posted today in our uma thread lol

[river veldt]

maybe im not in the right circles idk, i just haven't heard anything about it in a while

[mossy flume]

Probably. They've been putting out a lot of content.

[hushed onyx]

Basically what Ixrec said, players are playing it but non-players aren't really paying attention to it any more, so you don't hear about it unless you're interested.

[bronze abyss]

i noticed that not a lot of people talk about it even if alot play it,i think it might have to do with the fact that in some places palworld fans were kinda bullied out of talking about it early on in the game's release

[mossy flume]

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

The spinoff game they announced recently

They're also constantly making cute animated shorts on their YouTube channel. And they have continuity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEVIBHP37eM

[wind stump]

PALWORLD PLAYER

[mossy flume]

Also a dev update

[mossy flume]

Yep, a lot of places on the internet decided to shit on Palworld and their fans, entirely on baseless assumptions

[bronze abyss]

at one point in some places i was frequenting mentioning palworld was borderline as bad as mentioning ai for a while

[mossy flume]

There was a period where Palworld fans were being equated to AI art thieves

(Palworld does not use AI despite the many many many many many many many claims)

[bronze abyss]

my beloved

[slim thorn]

it's also, just... not normal for people to keep talking about a game they don't even play indefinitely?

[mossy flume]

Hell, one of my Pokémon Discords actually banned any discussion of Palworld. On the theory that Palworld was somehow morally bankrupt.

[slim thorn]

falling out of the news cycle is what normally happens to every topic eventually

[river veldt]

ok im sorry lol

[mossy flume]

https://tenor.com/view/chipi-chapa-chillet-palworld-dance-gif-14580102890554114777

Look at this noodle!

How can you not

[bronze abyss]

also my beloved

[mossy flume]

I love him so much

[rugged flax]

noodle

[slim thorn]

lol great timing for someone to post even more uma art in the uma thread

[mossy flume]

There's also the Palworld thread in here somewhere

[visual hill]

I think it's people being very attached to Pokémon out of nostalgia

but as someone who grew up during Pokémon hype, I don't have that much nostalgia for it, nor do I play the modern games

some people probably feel it's justified to défend Pokémon (and Nintendo more generally) as they're the last bastion of AAA gaming without the usual caveats (microtransactions, unnecessary padding, too much emphasis on story over gameplay, etc)

[gaunt marten]

Remember when Nintendo was known for making their games hard to pad out playtime?

[visual hill]

good old Nintendo hard 🙂

that's basically Star Fox 64 when you think about it, and people think it's the best in the series...

[mossy flume]

I'm absolutely obsessed with Pokémon. My house is filled to the brim with Pokémon merch, I own a legitimate copy of nearly every game they ever put out, I go to events, I still get TCG cards, and I'm basically always playing the video games. Started playing when Pokémon Red & Blue came out and never stopped. Hell, my most commonly used 'sonas are Pokémon

But also I'm happy to get Palworld and other competitors because they fucking need competition and Game Freak really needs to get their shit together. I enjoy Palworld. I don't understand people who take the position that there should be no competition. Uh, hello? More games to play? You suddenly have more meals to choose from on the menu, how is this bad?

People need to understand that you can like more than one thing

Insert "Holy shit two cakes" meme here

[slim thorn]

tbf that difficulty level wasn't unique to Nintendo (especially in the era of arcade game dominance), they just made so many of the good games back then

[visual hill]

I like both Quake and Unreal, even though I'll always think Quake has the better movement out of the two games

[slim thorn]

yeah, this is like whenever someone expressed genuine distress over Silksong never coming out and I'm just "...half of the best metroidvanias came out after Hollow Knight, wtf are you doing to yourself"

[mossy flume]

^

The whole idea of "brand loyalty" is silly

[hushed onyx]

But I don't care about metroidvanias, I care about Hornet

[mossy flume]

(One might assume I'm über loyal to Apple, which I am in a sense, but I'm quite happy to shit on them too)

[river veldt]

real

[hushed onyx]

In actual fact the difficulty dissuades me from trying as I experience that type of game as particularly troublesome to begin with, but for that reason I also have no interest in the genre in general and will only be interested in a particular game despite that, for reasons like: the main character is cute.

[static bluff]

The real reason why Hades did so well...

[mossy flume]

That's essentially why I favor some games/brands over others. I just like that particular flavor of dish they're serving and it becomes my safe go-to anytime I go to the restaurant, as it were. But in no way am I opposed to trying out new things on the menu or doing something different.

Speaking of, I need Metroid Prime 4 already

Why is December so far away

[visual hill]

you have plenty of games to play in your backlog until then, probably 🙂

I basically never wait for games these days... the games wait for me

[static bluff]

oh i just play Slay the Spire again intead of picking a new game

[mossy flume]

TIL Animal Crossing New Leaf's dialogue script is 1.1 million words, making it one of the longest scripts in video games

[river veldt]

where does new horizons fall

[mossy flume]

I believe it has less, but I can't find a hard number on NH. The scripts for the first game and subsequent titles are known, but I don't know if the files for NH's script have been extracted and analyzed

The OG game had about 450,000 English words

[astral steeple]

See with pokemon I never really got into the regular games at all. I liked the one movie and the shows growing up and the cards but the only pokemon games I even cared for and played regularly was stadium 1 and 2 on n64 lol

[mossy flume]

For some context, New Leaf's script is longer than all of the Harry Potter books combined. LotR trilogy is almost half a million. Baldur's Gate 3 is over 2 million and I think has the crown for the longest script in all of gaming. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is also over 2 million.
For the most part, the rest of the contenders are basically visual novels.

[uneven epoch]

kcd II mentioooooon!!!!!!!!!!!

[cerulean herald]

yes I love Chillet
my other top faves would be Petallia, Dazzi, Flopie, Katress

[mossy flume]

Those are great

[visual hill]

Chillet's design is very cute

[frozen gate]

one of the Trails games have to be up there

[mossy flume]

Depresso and Cremis are great too

[frozen gate]

but also like wow where is all that text in New Leaf coming from

[ripe escarp]

Are there official plushes yet

[mossy flume]

New Leaf has a ton of event dialogue and conditional dialogue

[mossy flume]

Yep https://store.aniplexusa.com/palworld/

I have a few of them

In their dev update video they posted a few weeks back, they seemed to be teasing a bigger Chillet plushie

[ripe escarp]

Ough...

[frozen gate]

ive played it i guess it just never struck me as text heavy, at least not by that much

wild

[visual hill]

lifesize Chillet

[mossy flume]

Heh, that would be great XD

[mossy flume]

Oh I guess they're all sold out for now?

I can't find a way to buy them from an official store

I'd like to get the Chillet Ignis one to pair with the blue one

I have a lifesize Lucario plushie and I was so close to getting that lifesize Gardevoir they put out recently XD But alas, no room for more plushies

[gaunt marten]

Wise Old Man: You have my support.
My Arm: And My Arm.

[mossy flume]

https://youtu.be/cEcaY7IW0WU?si=29RRnGgv-uh3NTYm

Also apparently this

They also did an Ultrakill collab and a Terraria collab

[cerulean herald]

the terraria one was lots of fun

[gaunt marten]

Steam halloween sale is going on

@slim thorn how do you feel about https://store.steampowered.com/app/1796220/Laika_Aged_Through_Blood/?

Steam

Laika: Aged Through Blood

Laika: Aged Through Blood is a thrilling action-adventure Metroidvania set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic western world.

Take on the role of Laika, a coyote mother and relentless warrior on a quest to avenge her fallen people from the tyrannical Birds, who have claimed superiority and conquered the land.…

Price

$6.99

Recommendations

4992

Metacritic

83

▶ Play video

It's finally cheap enough for me to afford

[slim thorn]

aaaah

[mossy flume]

Ooo furries

[slim thorn]

Overall, very good, not quite a top 10-20 for me. I loved the unique platforming and combat mechanics with the motorbike. Overall exploration was solid in the usual metroidvania way, with plenty of distinct areas and sidequests and upgrades and excuses to revisit old areas. Story's fine. As previously discussed I think the gore's overdone. Some of the boss fights really could've used more checkpoints.

[gaunt marten]

Hell yeah, thanks!

[slim thorn]

oh, I should add, definitely play it when you're in the zone, because part of those "unique mechanics" is that you always die in one hit (in context this is a good choice overall but still)

[gaunt marten]

I will probably give it a try. Thanks again

[fickle garnet]

Playing The Outer Worlds 2, and this is my character that I made

[astral steeple]

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/resident-evil-requiem-release-date-february-27-2026-epic-games-store

Oh RE Requiem is coming to EGS

[slim thorn]

[astral steeple]

What

[fickle garnet]

Pretty sure everyone already expected this

[slim thorn]

ok yeah it's also on Steam

so not sure why this is news

did we not have a date before? I wasn't following RE that close

[astral steeple]

It's apparently Capcoms first introduction to being on the egs

Hence the tie in with pre-ordering the game

[fickle garnet]

We had a date as soon as it was revealed iirc

[cunning galleon]

The umamusume thread is No Uma's Land

[cerulean herald]

most palworld talk is on the Palwolrd thread, tho admittedly its not super active lately

but ppl still play it, its still in the top 100 steam games by concurrent players (right now its 53rd with 21k players online currently)

[cunning galleon]

Hello magikarp

[mossy flume]

I like my space boat

Can I just appreciate how this is actually a really good destroyer design

[ripe escarp]

hort

[dense crypt]

mine is named "princess of twilight"

[arctic fern]

Same lol

[arctic fern]

Its not a good ship for space combat, but as a ground attack/support craft its an amazing design, yeah

Literally a bunch of guns pointed down

[cunning galleon]

Angel of death firing from the heavens

[mossy flume]

Peach Hack's ship is Lady of Twilight

[arctic fern]

Also this is my ships name

[mossy flume]

[river veldt]

what game is this ,?

[mossy flume]

Manechat try not to use Twilight's name in Helldivers challenge

[river veldt]

oh helldivers

[mossy flume]

Helldivers 2, yeah

[arctic fern]

They literally handed it to us on a platter

[mossy flume]

True

[hasty patio]

"Eye of the Stars" for mine.

[fickle garnet]

I think mine is Forerunner of Audacity

[mossy flume]

https://www.lacedrecords.com/products/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-limited-edition-deluxe-double-vinyl

https://www.lacedrecords.com/products/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-limited-edition-deluxe-x8lp-boxset

Some unusual decisions by Nintendo here: Actually releasing a soundtrack outside Japan

[forest shoal]

https://youtu.be/7nODHyw3lgs

Oh my god

Don't take me back

[unreal idol]

How is Animal Crossing nowadays

[cunning galleon]

COME... AS A CAR

[unreal idol]

Oh. Apparently they removed furniture and gyroids?

[graceful bridge]

https://bsky.app/profile/gog.com/post/3m4fiuh2ij42l

GOG.COM (@gog.com)

Resident Evil HD Remaster and Resident Evil 0 are now available fully DRM-free on our platform and are also joining the GOG Preservation Program!

The future of Resident Evil looks as strong as its past. We’re honored to help preserve it.

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Bluesky · Oct 30, 2025, 8:05 AM

[unreal idol]

So how is Switch emulation

[mossy flume]

Pretty good these days

Takes some setup though

Switch 2 has not been hacked or reverse engineered yet

[mossy flume]

This is pretty rad

[sacred grove]

Eden is an emulator that is currently actively developed. Probably the best path forward at the moment. https://eden-emu.dev/
(for those wondering, it's a fork of Yuzu with legit improvements behind it, and people who know what they're doing)

[unreal idol]

[sacred grove]

And of course, you should only ever use it on your definitely legally acquired games, with definitely legally acquired firmware and decryption keys. Also I think Nintendo is a very handsome company who never ever does anything wrong, ever.

[fickle garnet]

No Rauru villager😔

[mossy flume]

Last I saw, Ryujinx's revived fork is still the better one. How is Eden?

[sacred grove]

Eden is pretty good, last I checked. But I think it's hard to measure which one is "better". Better at what? Some games function better in one over the other. Some games perform better in one over the other. They're just very different emulators

[unreal idol]

When it comes to emulation , I value accuracy

But that becomes harder with more advanced systems

[sacred grove]

Yeah, I was gonna say. Accuracy isn't a singular measurement in emulation. There are lots of little things and components that could be more accurate or less accurate

[visual hill]

for LDN multiplayer, Eden is generally better than Ryubing or Kenji-NX

[river veldt]

what are the best video game horses ?

[wind stump]

this one

[river veldt]

is that a horse

[wind stump]

Saki Kurokoma (驪駒 早鬼 Kurokoma Saki) is a Kurokoma, or flying horse, who is the leader of the Keiga Family, one of the major organizations made up of wolf spirits that dominate the Animal Realm.

[ripe escarp]

hoers

[proud warren]

https://youtu.be/FBiZNLWen70?si=yQ6sLZg_Bmo0Zlow

[wind stump]

lovely to see that Crypt is still getting support over a decade later

finally
Hatsume Miku and Shovel Knight in the same game

[bronze abyss]

oh my god we are eating good this season,terraria 1.4.5 is coming within a couple months and some of the biggest mods are getting MAJOR updates

my terraria steam page bout to look again like
last two weeks:100h

[green fulcrum]

I remember when 1.4 was the very-last-update-ever, lol

Relogic just can't help themselves

[proud warren]

so I checked what the album art for that balatro theme remix in vampire survivors looked like and...

this is offical btw, like this is actually in the game

[visual hill]

hop on fvs

[plain harbor]

The team I was on in Battelfront II (2017)'s Starfighter Assault mode got absolutely wrecked for two phases (mainly because a few max level players were spawn camping), then in the last phase (D'Qar map, where the First Order team must destroy all fighters to win before time runs out), they completed the objective in seconds... but they didn't win. My team was still able to spawn in until time ran out, giving us the win somehow. I've never seen that happen before.

[bronze abyss]

easiest mega satan fight of all time

[arctic fern]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1601580/view/809085268448510868?l=english frostpunk 2 dlc release date and content announced
im... actually disappointed its not a scenario, but it does sound like a lot of utopia/freeplay content so i cant complain

[bitter stream]

If I had a dollar for everytime a Multiplayer Shooter added more absurd MTX's to a game and made me reconsider playing, I'd have 5 dollars, which isn't enough for an MTX, but it's wild that it just keeps happening lmao

I mean, my expectations were pretty low, but somehow they failed even those lmao. Thanks Fortnite, very kind /s

https://www.epicgames.com/help/en-US/fortnite-battle-royale-c-202300000001636/gameplay-c-202300000001721/how-do-i-customize-the-appearance-of-my-sidekick-a202300000021343

You can customize the Appearance of your Sidekick one time after obtaining it.
You can purchase a Sidekick multiple times and give them different Appearances; however, each Sidekick customization you own in your Locker must be unique. Duplicate Appearances are not allowed.

Want to change the appearance of what's basically a pet? Nah buy another one lmao

[fickle garnet]

That's fucking ridiculous

[bitter stream]

Yeah it's nuts. They even have skins you can customise as part of what you get for the skin. like with wraps/colours or whatever. So this is just wild

[slim thorn]

but do they have horse armor

[bitter stream]

Nah, that's a bethesda Special lol

[fickle garnet]

It's just straight up greed

[bitter stream]

They could easily have made nearly as much money selling them and letting you customise them properly. Alas, this poor indie company really needs to extort it's userbase to feed their poor shareholders

[fickle garnet]

Yeah. There's already a bunch of outfits in the game that let you customize them as many times as you want, so there is no reason for them to do this besides greed

[bitter stream]

Maybe I should switch to like, Terraria / hollow knight or something

R6S is a loot box marketplace hell, same as CS2, and APEX is somehow worse despite not having a marketplace.
I'd buy battlefield 6 but given their new owners I don't trust it to stay with ok MTXs for long.

The point being, there's a million other games out there, just have to get used to them as a go-to over multiplayer shooters I guess.

[fickle garnet]

I've been playing a lot less Fortnite lately tbh

[slim thorn]

huh, from multiplayer/live service games to single player/finite games?

[fickle garnet]

I still need to finish Hollow Knight

I just have no clue what to do in it currently

[slim thorn]

if you ran out of hints we can help with that in #1091169976217509918

[fickle garnet]

That's my main problem with metroidvanias, I get confused on what to do so easily

[slim thorn]

we could also talk about ones more straightforward than HK, it is on the more cryptic side

though I'm guessing you've heard of e.g. Ori by now

[fickle garnet]

Yeah I have

I wanna finish HK, cuz I want to play Silksong

[slim thorn]

reasonable

[bitter stream]

Yeah, from Multiplayer to Singleplayer games. They don't neccessarily have to be finite per se, as I really enjoyed my time with Enter the Gungeon for example.
Terraria is a game I never finished, and I'm like, 1/3rd or so through hollow knight

I've not even touched the modding scene for Terraria and I hear there's some banger mods there

let alone like... actually playing through a chunk of Modded Minecraft

[slim thorn]

oh right, roguelites and survival games and Rimworld-likes and so on also go for the infinite replayability thing

[fickle garnet]

I also struggle with the platforming in HK

[slim thorn]

okay so I won't recommend Bo or Pseudoregalia or Rusted Moss

[fickle garnet]

I like Pseudoregalia, I still need to finish it tho

[hushed onyx]

Rimworld-likes? Rimworld is well-designed, don’t get me wrong, but the basic idea of building a settlement that has to face military challenges is much older, e.g. Tropico or the Caesar games and spin-offs.

The general city-builder genre has always been noted for focusing on high replayability.

[gaunt marten]

I consider city builders and rimworld entirely different genres

[slim thorn]

I play none of those games so I don't know the exact venn diagram

[hushed onyx]

If not quite the same, there is at least a large amount of overlap. I consider colony-building games with detailed individual characters a smaller-scale subset of the city-builder genre.

[visual hill]

I know someone who bought the pumpkin lady skin the other day.

(I forgot her name)

[wind stump]

FIND THEM
AND SHAME THEM

[fickle garnet]

i bought a furry skin in Fortnite recently cuz I had enough in game currency for it

[worthy rose]

Oho, expedition 33 is 20% off during this steam sale

For those who come after who haven't tried it yet

[slim thorn]

We continue shilling it

[fickle garnet]

I want to buy Arc Raiders, but I have no one to play it with

[fresh bane]

damn, they got Chun Li looking great on Fatal Fury
a lot of people were criticizing this game when it came out for looking bad visually, I don't know what they're talking about, the comic aesthetic is really well done
https://youtu.be/Pz8RfgSDXGQ?si=QBOvhOAco8U_CJb8

[robust latch]

https://youtu.be/wcym2tHiWT4

[rugged flax]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/882140/view/568142596105306319?l=english
for the space nerds
this has been a long time coming

[mossy flume]

https://www.ign.com/articles/pokemon-legends-z-as-ranked-battle-mega-stone-rewards-are-getting-easier-to-obtain

In an official news post, The Pokemon Company revealed that at the start of Season 2 of its online Ranked Battle mode, players will be able to receive Greninjite at Rank Y, and Delphoxite at Rank S. Previously, in Season 1, players had to achieve Rank K to receive Greninjite (Delphoxite was not yet available).

Some good news for Z-A, getting the mega stones may get easier soon

I hope they do this for all of them. Rank Y is muuuch easier to get.

[cerulean herald]

it wasnt too bad to get K, but this is a welcome change

still sucks that this is the only way to obtain tho

[mossy flume]

Getting Rank K is basically a no-go for me

Not a fan of being forced to grind through sweaty competitive multiplayer for exclusive rewards that shouldn't be exclusive

[cerulean herald]

and requiring NSO on top of that

[cunning galleon]

Comfy vibe

[astral steeple]

Only the fur color and eye color etc are permanent

The actual base appearance itself

You unlock cosmetics for the pets themselves as you play and use the pet itself in game without having to buy the clothes etc at all and those can be customized at any time

Its super worth it

Not even greed

It's meant to be uniquely yours

It's pretty much like an irl pet

You pretty much just pick the one you like the most and go with it

[fresh bane]

[green fulcrum]

...What's wrong with it?

[cerulean herald]

idk but I'm just now realizing his face is the origin of that godforsaken pfp/meme way back when

[ripe escarp]

It looks like shit

[fresh bane]

Same old same old as is usually the case with a lot of remasters, a lot of people simply don't vibe with the changes and think it looks worse, ironically in an attempt to look better by having higher resolution textures and 'fancier' lighting, it's simply not as cohesive visually despite the fact that on a technical level it's more impressive, it feels sloppy and unfinished, pretty similar to what happened with the GTA Trilogy actually
of course the game isn't even out yet and it could improve somewhat between now and release, like Soul Reaver's remasters improved a little bit, but that's all you're getting in 3 months time, just a slight adjustment to something that people already aren't liking that much

but that's a lot of remasters honestly, so I guess nobody should expect different from this, with a lot of older games like this you really need a super skilled team to pull off a remaster well like Nightdive did with System Shock, it just takes a really careful set of hands to translate the aesthetic of the low poly 'realism' and grittiness into a higher fidelity style, with these old games they really tried to squeeze as much detail from those low poly models and low res textures as they could to get a certain kind of realism look to the games, when you try to just add more polygons to that it's not gonna end up looking the same, you can't just replace the models with higher poly models (barely higher poly for that matter) and run the textures through an AI upscaler and call it a day, it's just not gonna look right

but I don't think Aspyr is gonna care that much, the Soul Reaver remasters were similarly underwhelming and had some of the same issues, Soul Reaver 2 saw more improvements because it was an early 2000s game in between that PS1 era and the higher fidelity late PS2 games so it did look like it could use a touch up, but a lot of the grittiness of Soul Reaver 1 was completely lost because of similar issues to what's going on with Deus Ex

[ripe escarp]

Oh no it's Aspyr?

[fresh bane]

Lighting is just weird, brighter, less contrast, high poly models mixed in with much lower poly models, some textures look way too clean, etc etc, it all just combines to make something that looks way less cohesive than the original game that's less technically impressive

[fresh bane]

Of course

[ripe escarp]

augh

[fresh bane]

Our good friend Aspyr

the part that puzzles me is that they did pretty good with the Tomb Raider games so I don't know what's happening here

Maybe because Soul Reaver and Deus Ex have less mainstream pull they just thought it'd be more worth it to do them quick and dirty and not spend too many resources on them? I really can't tell

[cunning galleon]

Happy birfday war thunder

[hidden elbow]

Tbh Soul Reaver remaster was pretty good too , but deus ex is just.... what?

[random steppe]

I think it looks fine

At least the one pic on the article embed, maybe there are worse ones

[quiet swift]

[visual hill]

I restarted to play The Nameless Mod this week

[visual hill]

I bought it but can't play it on Windows, because it needs .NET 3.5 which I can't install due to broken Windows Update... I would need to reinstall Windows to fix it

it "works" on Linux but freezes constantly during gameplay, and I couldn't get HDR output to work. I've spent more time troubleshooting this than playing the game

I have everything else working on Linux, from DLSS to LSFG for framegen

I have the EGS version but no DLCs, I wanted to play just the DLCs

but DLCs on sale on EGS (not currently on sale) are the same price as the full game on Steam

I did try to copy the Steam DLC files to the EGS version which is DRM-free and doesn't need .NET to run, but it doesn't work

anyway, I'm a bit peeved about the whole thing. I ended up just playing Bulletstorm instead today

[frozen gate]

i remember doing this in the reverse direction for fallout new vegas

kind of funny

[visual hill]

with Duke Nukem, of course

[ripe escarp]

I need to play Deus Ex myself someday

[wind stump]

but the mod has a name, lol

[gaunt marten]

Whoa https://i.imgur.com/vUY3NLw.png

I wanted to just buy Laika, but I also had removed Cursed to Golf from my wishlist because I didn't want to pay that much for it

I guess I get both

[river veldt]

i forgot how fun Steve was in Smash bros

[cerulean herald]

it is, tho I havent touched SSBU in a while

[proud warren]

I forgot how hopeless it feels fighting against steve in smash

[cerulean herald]

fuck it we spam minecart

[proud warren]

I had a friend who knew how to cancel their knockback with steve black magic

[visual hill]

I find Steve not very fun to play personally, mostly because he's so slow. Also, one of his win conditions is camping and this automatically makes the character half as fun as other characters for me...

[visual hill]

spamming cart in disadvantage is pretty bad at high level, especially if you don't have powered rail 😛

[river veldt]

idk any of the meta strats for Steve i just like mining and crafting

[proud warren]

I guess y'all didn't keep up with the terrifying tech he could pull off that WhyDo discovered /j

[fresh bane]

JWong is never gonna live this one down for the rest of his entire life
(@ the official EVO twitter acc)

[bitter stream]

omg they did it again

Poor Justin

[fresh bane]

I hope Ken and Chun get people talking about this game again, it kinda hasn't been talked about as much as I thought it would since it came out

I would've bought it if it wasn't for the fact that I spent too much money on other stuff this year and I'm on a big saving up mode right now

[fickle garnet]

Fighting games are so complicated. Idk if I'll ever be able to actually learn a character in one

[bitter stream]

See, I agree, but I feel like the same is true of any competitive FPS or RTS game if you approached it with the view that you needed to learn it all to even get started playing.

I can't do a combo well in tekken, but that doesn't mean I can't play and learn through just playing against CPU or the story mode

It's just that I learnt FPS growing up, so I've got transferable skills to learn a new one

Whereas with fighting games, I'm learning the basics from scratch sometimes

What sort of fighting game do you really want to play @fickle garnet ?

[visual hill]

Mr. Game & Watch would like to know:

• Your location

[fickle garnet]

I would like to play Street Fighter 6 and Guilty Gear Strive tbh

[fickle garnet]

Smash is the only fighting game I'm decent at

[bitter stream]

ah yeah! both of those seem like good games, and I'm tempted to try out GG Strive myself at some point.
It's a little pricy atm, but it'll go on sale again I'm sure.

There are heaps of beginner guides for both IIRC, and SF6 has modern controls too for learning the game

[river veldt]

i love smash

[fickle garnet]

By "decent" I mean my skill level isn't six feet under, it's about ground level

[proud warren]

👨‍⚖️

[visual hill]

my Melee combos have started to improve a little, I just wish I could shorthop consistently with Fox as it would open up a lot of combo routes

also this one, looks a bit funny but it worked 🙂

[cunning galleon]

BRO.. I had a fucking bulletproof vest on in zomboid to protect from bites but the motherfuckin zomboid bit through it

[ripe escarp]

Well yeah it's a bulletproof vest not a biteproof vest

[quiet swift]

[fresh bane]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0azdhfK4OEk

lol what

[river veldt]

Babymetal ?

[fresh bane]

I thought they reused her cutscenes from RE8 this is fully lip synced and acted

[river veldt]

ooh

[fresh bane]

they're a metal band

like an idol metal band

[cunning galleon]

True..

I certainly did not go down drinking bleach like a wuss

Well.. Died to like 7 naked zombies inside a bathroom

[fresh bane]

lol I unearthed my super old reddit account to ask a question on the subreddit for wii hacking about a super specific problem I've been having that I cannot find a single answer for and I kicked back thinking at some point someone's gotta answer only to check on the post a bit later and realize it's been immediately deleted this whole time and apparently the specific subreddit doesn't allow any help request type posts gee thanks, what's even the point of having a reddit about modding of all things at that point

the only other alternative if I want to get any answers on this problem is probably to make a gbatemp account and try my luck making a post on the forums there, but who even knows if they also have any arbitrary rules about ''no help request'' posts

[frozen gate]

they're always against it bc supposedly communities get annoyed by them which is funny bc it almost exclusively applies to near-dead communities so they're effectively gatekeeping themselves to death

[fresh bane]

I understand that sometimes people can ask the same questions repeatedly and sometimes forums could get clogged with ''help with X problem!!11'' type posts, but being so uptight about it especially on a community centered around modding which is so extremely prone to requiring specific solutions and can be finnicky is just really weird

they have a discord where apparently questions and help is allowed so I might try that, just because I really do wanna find out about this problem I've been having

the good news is I'm almost certain it's a hard drive problem and not any problems with my modding, the bad news is that means I probably have to get a new hard drive to fix this (and ensure it's compatible )

[worldly summit]

reddit should have the ability to section of certain tags to a seperate page, so that subreddits don’t have another way to avoid being drowned with a single type of post

[cunning galleon]

Woah there's a horse training center in project zomboid?

[bitter stream]

are you playing on mobile or something?

I don't recall the full control scheme being part of the HUD.

[cunning galleon]

Yup, unofficial emulator that runs natively on your phone instead of like emulating windows or something

I keep dying weird deaths that I don't think it's even an issue of mine

[arctic fern]

Zomboid has a great deal many unique locations, the latest build has an anachronistic wild west tourist town

Its one of my fave games

Can't wait for MP

[cunning galleon]

I didn't realize it because the big complex was kinda intimidating to me because it's just a big fenced off area and i just thought it would be hard to deal with the zombies in it

I might go back and just build a gate though

My new girl skirted on death but I think she's a goner

Anxious AND Queasy after a laceration? I think she was bound to die so i just put my stuff in the front seat of my car.. Then i promptly died by ramming a bush

Speaking of PZ in general, i fell in love the moment i knew it's open world

And isometric

[arctic fern]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2792387747 you should buy the game on steam tho
just so you can use this mod

[slim thorn]

it's probably because chat is far better than forums for debugging; there's never enough information in the original question to completely solve the problem (if you knew what information was needed, you would've solved it yourself, etc), so it's always a discussion and never a Q&A
(and specifically the 1-on-1 kind of discussion, not the "everyone makes 1 comment" kind that reddit specializes in)

[cunning galleon]

Well, you do need the steam version to play it

[arctic fern]

oh

[cunning galleon]

If it used PZ files it probably would get in trouble so they're like all other emulators, "find them on your own vro"

[slim thorn]

IMO it's a major reason why StackOverflow declined so much. After everyone asked all the classic "what's the best way to resize a vector?" questions with clear objective answers, it became harder and harder to ask a question that wasn't a discussion prompt in disguise, and attempts to push people toward answerable questions just gave everyone the impression they don't want questions at all any more

[arctic fern]

wow ok i got accepted int the fp2 playtest for the DLC beta, alright
had to sign an NDA and everything so i cant talk about it, im installing stuff now tho

i thjink ive only got a few hours to play lol

[wind stump]

One day there should be an NDA that just outright says "no you can't even say you signed this NDA"

[arctic fern]

bold of you to assume i actually read it

[wind stump]

Honestly I'd make an NDA like that only for the bottom to say "This NDA isn't actually an NDA, lmao, please give me free advertisement via talking about my game"

[arctic fern]

a PDA, a PLEASE discussion agreement

[wind stump]

legal shilling requirement

[gaunt marten]

I signed one of those

They're more common than the other way around!

[fickle garnet]

Omg

[visual hill]

a lot of NDAs work this way

whether it would hold up in court if challenged is another thing though, especially in EU. It's more that nobody wants to challenge it 🙂

[sacred grove]

Seems like a dumb rule though. Even if your answer to a sensitive question is "I'm not at liberty to say", you've still indirectly implied the same thing

[mossy flume]

This is pretty common

[visual hill]

https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_talos_principle_2_deluxe_edition
Talos Principle 2 + DLC for €15.19, cheaper than on Steam

[fresh bane]

Well I got an answer... Sort of. I just got a "maybe it was defective" answer which I guess is good enough so the good news is I didn't mess up with my modding, the bad news is now I gotta get another hard drive and hope this one works

It's a very strange issue, for some reason only the FMVs/videos lag and stutter and can end up freezing the whole console, but the actual games play just fine if you skip the FMV or can get through it
I'm guessing it really is either a defective HDD, or the weird automatic sleep function is messing up the loading on the Wii games and it automatically turns off the HDD for a second but it's enough to bork the entire console

Well the good news is whenever I do get another hard drive I can just keep this one after switching I guess, I can store my gameplay footage there so it's not all bad

[fresh bane]

I can understand that, at the same time I understand the perspective of the average person wanting to quickly ask someone about an issue without having to look at the mega thread on a forum from 2009 and scroll through 25 pages to find kind of an answer

[slim thorn]

indeed, which is why the least bad solution everyone seems to have landed on for actual troubleshooting / debugging / etc is a format like Discord forum channels: anyone can open a new thread for their issue, everyone who might be able to help can discuss that issue in real time with you, and having a whole thread to itself prevents confusion from potentially unrelated issues

[bitter stream]

Anyone know any monster raising Non-Combat games?
I tried recommending someone Monster Hunter Stories 2 as an alternative to a mobile game but they aren't looking for combat in games and I'm not really sure what to recommend instead that has Monsters you raise.

[wind stump]

ORGA WITH DA STEEL CHAIIIIIIIIR

[frozen gate]

slime rancher?

but ofc those are ONLY slimes

i cant name any past that since the genre is rooted in SMT and Dragon Quest

im curious tho

[bitter stream]

fair enough, slime rancher is a good shout.

[cerulean herald]

<@&98904370497740800> theyre spamming the same phrase in the other threads

[gaunt marten]

Dealt with. Thanks

[bitter stream]

well done with the Targeting Laser DAO. Liberty spring your step to extraction.
haha

[gaunt marten]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1864950/Beastieball/

Steam

Beastieball

Coach a sports team of Beasties in this turn-based volleyball RPG!

Beasties' teamwork is powered up by the relationships they form together. Whether they become BESTIES, PARTNERS, RIVALS or SWEETHEARTS they'll get a powerful combo move that's unique to every pair and can turn the tide in a tough match!…

Price

$21.24

Recommendations

1181

▶ Play video

[bitter stream]

Thanks Flitter, I'll look into this and maybe run it by em

[gaunt marten]

There's also Ooblets but I heard it's been mismanaged by developers

There's https://store.steampowered.com/app/1978150/Kamaeru_A_Frog_Refuge/ but it's not monsters

Steam

Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge

Kamaeru is a cozy frog collecting game about farming and preserving nature. You play as a kind soul helping an old friend restore the wetlands of your childhood by transforming them into a safe haven for friendly little frogs. With the help of the game’s cast of welcoming NPCs, you will photograph and breed frogs to increase your reputation,…

Price

$19.99

Recommendations

192

▶ Play video

[bitter stream]

this looks perfect for them, thank you

[slim thorn]

oh my god Kamaeru is the perfect pun for that

[bitter stream]

why's that?

[slim thorn]

kaeru = frog
kamau = to care for/look after
kamaeru = to be able to care for/look after

eventual consistency moment

[gaunt marten]

No I deleted the second one

[slim thorn]

manual eventual consistency moment

[ripe escarp]

There's also Wobbledogs

It's technically a monster-raising sim

[slim thorn]

is this lowkey an enormous genre and I've only barely heard of one game in it (slime rancher)

[gaunt marten]

I wouldn't call it enormous

There's like two hundred games in the whole genre

[ripe escarp]

Wobbledogs only counts if you count genetic abominations as monsters though

[frozen gate]

i know a proper monster-raising game without combat must have a decent market but likely just not big enough for more than small indie games to fill that void

ive always been saying pokemon would do even more numbers if it just made a pure amie-style pet simulator game alongside the main series myself

[slim thorn]

I could've sworn Pokemon tried that at some point...

[frozen gate]

had they?

[ripe escarp]

They did it twice but never really right

[frozen gate]

i only remember them doing it in the form of a minigame in gen 6 that basically cheats the game w the benefits you get

[slim thorn]

hm... I might be thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_You,_Pikachu!

[fickle garnet]

Ya know what? If I can learn DMC, then I can learn a fighting game

[ripe escarp]

Once with voice and once with a fucking TV

[frozen gate]

ah yeah this thing

[cerulean herald]

this too
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pokémon-Amie

[frozen gate]

it was kind of weird

[ripe escarp]

I have the shitty TV one

[slim thorn]

arguably Pokemon Snap falls in here somewhere since it is non-combat... depending on how violent you consider apple throwing to be

[mossy flume]

I miss when big developers weren’t afraid of doing weird, experimental games

[frozen gate]

ya that's what i referenced but it was only just a minigame

[bronze abyss]

g6 my beloved

[ripe escarp]

Nintendo still does weird experimental stuff sometimes

[mossy flume]

This, Pokémon Channel, Pokémon Snap, Colosseum, stuff like that. We don’t see things like that anymore. Just safe bets.

[frozen gate]

it scratches a similar itch but it wasnt enough to push me to play, i wanna like

raise a bulbasaur

or smth

[slim thorn]

in a Zoo Tycoon way or a Nintendogs way

[frozen gate]

nintendogs into nintenpokémon

[cerulean herald]

the Legends series seems to be in the right direction, hopefully

[ripe escarp]

Actually, it's usually the hardware they do weird experimental stuff with

[mossy flume]

Or daring ventures into unexplored genres

[mossy flume]

Indeed

[frozen gate]

answered this accidentally lol but zoo tycoon way also kinda sounds interesting

zoo sim pokemon game sounds

incredible

[mossy flume]

That would be awesome

[slim thorn]

there has to be an indie game for that somewhere

[mossy flume]

I remember hoping that’s what Pokémon Ranch would be, but alas

[frozen gate]

they have it wholly set up too

[river veldt]

hey you pikachu jumpscare

[frozen gate]

the PC just sends them to that ranch

different ranches each box i figured

[mossy flume]

I owned Hey You, Pikachu back in the day

[ripe escarp]

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

This is what I had

[mossy flume]

I played the shit out of Pokémon Channel

It just had such an interesting vibe

[slim thorn]

Pokemon Snap (the original N64 one) is still the only Pokemon game I've personally played

[mossy flume]

Chill with your Pokémon

[ripe escarp]

Immaculate vibe

[mossy flume]

I would still have a copy of Pokémon Channel if one box full of GameCube stuff didn’t get stolen/lost during the move to my current house

[river veldt]

i would love a mainline pokemon game where like, pokemon are in their natural environment and do normal animal things like how they do in Snap

[ripe escarp]

The gameplay was pretty basic but the vibes were good

[bronze abyss]

that reminded me of the pokemon tv app on mobile

[river veldt]

idk if i phrased that correctly

[bronze abyss]

i remember downloading episodes on there to loop during vacations

[slim thorn]

having to figure out how to lure them out before doing the normal battle capture routine does sound cool actually

[mossy flume]

Legends Arceus is almost this. But alas, bad decisions with making it a grindfest

[frozen gate]

reminds me how the pokemon safari encouraged you to throw rocks at them lol

[river veldt]

they should add missingno officially in the next game

[slim thorn]

though I guess that would require scripted instead of random encounters which is a much bigger shift than I initially thought

[ripe escarp]

Mud, actually

[mossy flume]

Nope, it’s rocks

[frozen gate]

i couldve sworn with the one in GSC

yeahh

[mossy flume]

Rocks in gen 1

[ripe escarp]

I swear it's been mud in every game I played

[river veldt]

throw a rock at a

[ripe escarp]

Yeah makes sense

Gen 1? Makes sense

[river veldt]

eggsecute ? were those in the safari zone

[mossy flume]

Gen 2 doesn’t have a Safari Zone

[frozen gate]

no?

HGSS?

[mossy flume]

It was planned but it was cut due to time constraints

[frozen gate]

did they add it there

[mossy flume]

HG/SS is different

Yeah, it was added there IIRC

[frozen gate]

yeah that's what i remembered then

[river veldt]

i was sad when let's go pikachu didn't have the safari zone

i guess pokemon go is like an irl safari zone

[mossy flume]

The original gen 2 games have some incomplete safari zone data in them

[frozen gate]

https://tenor.com/view/safari-zone-rock-pokemon-gif-14548806398443002170

[mossy flume]

Yep, it’s always been rocks

[river veldt]

rock on

[slim thorn]

in retrospect, I do have mixed feelings about the parts of Pokemon Snap that kinda sorta require you to beat up the pokemon to get an optimal photo (especially Mew)

[frozen gate]

i guess cuz the gameplay of the LGPE games is basically safari? idr

[frozen gate]

haha

[mossy flume]

Mew was so dang hard

[frozen gate]

it is really weird

[river veldt]

oh yeah good point

speaking of snap i do have new pokemon snap but have never played it

[frozen gate]

i dont think the little pidgey can take a rock

havent you heard 2 pidgeys one stone

[frozen gate]

i forgot they remade it

[cerulean herald]

weak to rock as well

[frozen gate]

wild

[slim thorn]

for those unfamiliar with OG Snap's Mew encounter: https://youtu.be/JVWuJu7dyek?t=65

[mossy flume]

It’s pretty good

[river veldt]

it's not a remake itms a brand new game i think

[mossy flume]

It’s not a remake, it’s a whole sequel

[frozen gate]

it's 2x effective, two birds

[bronze abyss]

the temptation to buy atomic heart dlc but theres games coming out soon that i will be 100% buying

[frozen gate]

that's wilder

[mossy flume]

It takes place several years after the original

Yeah it was unexpected but I’m so glad they did it

[river veldt]

holy shit that mew picture was incredible

[mossy flume]

Snap needed the sequel

[frozen gate]

yeahh

[ripe escarp]

What's the worst Pokemon game

[frozen gate]

mainline or including apinoffs?

[river veldt]

hey you pikachu

[ripe escarp]

All

[mossy flume]

Damn I never got anything near that good back then XD

I think my best was about 6000 points

[frozen gate]

well hey you pikachu is a good answer

[slim thorn]

I don't remember if I went through with this myself or just read about how to do it

[frozen gate]

but they def made some weird pokemon games

does it count, the one where u had to pay to basically just have a 3d pokedex up to gen 5

[cerulean herald]

randomly thinking of that Black/White typing game

[mossy flume]

Magikarp Jump

[river veldt]

i remember reading about how you could take your pokemon snap cartridge to blockbuster i think and print out your pictures you took

[river veldt]

dont talk shit about my goat 😤 😤😤😤 /j

[mossy flume]

Or Learn With Pokémon Typing

[frozen gate]

learn with pokemon typing adventure bahah

yeahh

[cerulean herald]

lmao

[frozen gate]

gen 5 specifically did some weird stuff

[river veldt]

i love you gen 5

[mossy flume]

Or [list of long lost Japan-only pre-smartphone era phone minigames]

[frozen gate]

Kingdom Hearts on V-Cast

[ripe escarp]

Lost media

[slim thorn]

"worst X" always becomes a taxonomy game unless "X" is really clearly defined

[frozen gate]

yeah i figured like

they do need to be separated into their own i suppose

[frozen gate]

found apparently

i mean since like

rhat's how i could provide a "hq" screenshot

[gaunt marten]

What's the worst Pokémon game released between the years of 2007 and 2008?

[frozen gate]

uhhhh "intellectual drill: pokemon diamond and pearl letter and number intelligence game"

[quiet swift]

Le boo. I got tempest rising and wanted to play it, but it seems to instacrash when I even just press play on steam

[gaunt marten]

It's Pokémon Battrio

[slim thorn]

maybe the better question is why would you want to know the worst game

were you planning to play every non-worst game in the series

[gaunt marten]

I'm playing the games from worst to best so I can have an even better time with each game

[ripe escarp]

No I was planning to play the worst

[gaunt marten]

Basically simulating Nintendo evolving from a garbage useless company to an amazing developer

[river veldt]

ok play Black/White and Black2/White2 last them

[gaunt marten]

Hell yeah

[slim thorn]

what even is the current gen

[cerulean herald]

9

Scarlet Violet/Legends ZA

[gaunt marten]

Pokémon Pizza

Hey don't respond with a real answer before my joke answer gets through

[cerulean herald]

[river veldt]

what is the bezt pokemon

[cerulean herald]

the Snivy line

[river veldt]

by best i mean favorite

[cerulean herald]

what about yours cap

[river veldt]

Beedrill is my top favorite

[cerulean herald]

i do love mega beedrill, sick design

[river veldt]

yeah Mega Beedrill is badass

im always sad when Beedrill isn't in a game

[cerulean herald]

youll be happy to know its in ZA at least

[frozen gate]

pokemon pizza and pokemon spaghetti (italy inspired region)

[frozen gate]

salazzle

i love poison types

[cerulean herald]

my fave fire starter

[river veldt]

oh shit fr ?

[cerulean herald]

yup!

[river veldt]

damn

[cerulean herald]

my fav poison type would be Mareanie/Toxapex

[river veldt]

i made a vow long ago to consume any and all beedrill content

[cerulean herald]

[frozen gate]

it's vv cute

i loove dragalge too

and i like muk & grimer, big fan of goofy looking ones

swalot is a poison type too isn't it

[cerulean herald]

yep

[cerulean herald]

i do like Alolan Muk

[frozen gate]

it's full of rocks i think thats cool

[slim thorn]

it's so weird watching a speedrun-related video and randomly recognizing one of the users in the discord screenshots

[gaunt marten]

Me

[quiet swift]

[insert dicaprio meme here]

[fickle garnet]

I finally got past a level I was stuck on in DMC 3, it really helps if I actually switch between weapons, instead of just using one

[cunning galleon]

Shaving like wrek grimes

I think i settled just fine

The zombies are urban focused so hardware store runs would be... Hard

Pun unintended

[real yarrow]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1429976481773125743/1431056208348975308/Untitled_video_-_Made_with_Clipchamp.mp4?ex=68fc0673&is=68fab4f3&hm=5d74291a4a5ac13332d9eedf5019511e9d3322b24a7258192dc36c6617839cb1&

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1429976481773125743/1431057457962160178/Untitled_video_-_Made_with_Clipchamp_1.mp4?ex=68fc079d&is=68fab61d&hm=2d593179b20aa780052f36c6ba07a3b3cdc721fd444d863e942ae6ef91d83e68&

peak clips

[cerulean herald]

I think youre too new to send videos/pictures
need to wait for a while after joining in order to do so

[slender wolf]

I could see them but I had to download them

Also I don't know what they express because I've never played the game

[minor gorge]

What game?

[real yarrow]

shell shockers

its a first person shooter game

its goofy asf but its pretty fun, sometimes

[minor gorge]

[cunning galleon]

Looks like the farmstead i settled on has a farm besides it

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/LYipECdYpXc?si=uW7Gtnb7k733YLAe

Sure youtube, I'll watch a 9 hour 46 min video of Frodo walking on an MMORPG

why not

I guess this is the only way I'll ever find out what these books are about because I never watched LOTR

[cerulean herald]

I haven't either

[cunning galleon]

Decided to settle here, building a wall

[tranquil tartan]

This princess celestia in nioh 2.

[gaunt marten]

Milestone? https://i.imgur.com/IuGhJXz.png

https://i.imgur.com/ySzGMv6.png

[arctic fern]

Mod aboos

[gaunt marten]

What abuse is it?

[arctic fern]

I was joking?

[quiet swift]

pretty sure that loops, i think i got 100k message a year ago in this channel and then it drops to 99999 again for some reason

[cerulean herald]

[wind stump]

i haven't even done one task in Postal 2 but I have 40 donuts and 3 crack pipes