general gaming

[astral steeple]

Idk

I prefer the current xbox one/series ui a lot

Blade dashboard was decent but the later iterations of the dashboard on 360 got way better

Then xbox one dashboard was even better

[gaunt marten]

I agree

Old console UI was nostalgic, but pretty terrible in general

[slim thorn]

probably a lot of the visual theming can be brought back though

[random steppe]

UI is one of those things that famously, the immediate reaction is almost always gonna be negative, but you kinda need to wait for a while to properly assess if it's actually an improvment

[slim thorn]

especially for public software with enormous userbases

at my day job we can generally separate the constructive criticism from the "it changed f u" reactions, but there's a bunch of reasons for that, one of which is social media is not our primary feedback channel

[visual hill]

which game is that?

[cunning galleon]

Gran Turismo for the PSP

[spiral kraken]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFBCNnOhYgs YO LOOK AT THIS

[gaunt marten]

Oh, it's probably a website to help people organise and play games together, rather than actually reviving multiplayer games with dead servers

[visual hill]

retrogaming dating let's gooooo

[hidden elbow]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1229490/view/494969252845979630?l=russian

omg

[worthy rose]

https://bsky.app/profile/bitshammer.bsky.social/post/3mf3ts5p4nk2y

Bits (@bitshammer.bsky.social)

I don't know what game this is, but importing the Space Marine 2 character models into it was genius.

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Bluesky · Feb 18, 2026, 12:40 AM

[mossy flume]

TIL that The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is the first Zelda game ever to not credit a single person from the original Zelda 1 dev team. At least three of them had a hand in each Zelda game up until then.

[gaunt marten]

TIL that The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is the first Zelda game ever to not credit a single person

[mossy flume]

(And it’s not because they’ve passed away, it’s just a passing of the torch)

[arctic fern]

wow, thats pretty wild

a real breath of the

[wind stump]

that's
that's wild

[cerulean herald]

insert Wild Manes "that's wild" sticker

[hidden elbow]

Even gets some tears because of old hyrule kingdom

[fresh bane]

Well, it has been 40 years now, after so long I'm sure many of those people moved on to other positions where they're not as hands-on with game dev anymore

still, if Echoes of Wisdom is supposed to be the first foray into a completely new team for Zelda, they did an S+ job because that's one of the best Zelda experiences I had

and it makes me mad that nobody talks about it

[rancid herald]

wasn't it developed by a whole other company?

[fresh bane]

It was developed by the same guys who did OOT3D, MM3D and Link's Awakening

Lizzo or something like that /s

(it's Grezzo)

[rancid herald]

right, but that explains it

those other games are based on games that the normies made

whereas this one is wholly original

[river veldt]

Link's Awakening remake mentioned !

[fresh bane]

Well, it was still co-developed with Nintendo

so yes but sort of

also, if I can say one negative thing about the game, is that we're still reusing the ALTTP world map and locations all these years later
I desperately wish to see a brand new 2D Zelda world, an actual new one

at least we got 2D Gerudos this time, and they're super cute

[rancid herald]

I feel like zelda has only ever done hyrule

except that time we went to rando land and that time hyrule got flooded and that time that it was new hyrule which was apparently overrun by train nerds

but other than that it's hyrule all the time

[fresh bane]

that's not what I mean, I mean I don't want to see the exact map of ALTTP again

[rancid herald]

best we can do is breath of the wild's map again

[hidden elbow]

I mean of you want to be technical there were Koridai, Gamelon, and Tolemac but.....these are remembered for not the right reasons

[fresh bane]

There's Termina too

the Oracle games I think take place in a different land too

Those two are my blindspots though, I don't know anything about the oracle games

[wind stump]

https://youtu.be/Hp8aUEoM7SM

must shill anything Wambu is in

< has not played Bananza

[rugged flax]

https://youtu.be/kII9xxDdQeM

Andrew made food from Arc Raiders

[quiet swift]

Oh dang, that's a pretty good discount

[river veldt]

today's featured article on Wikipedia

[visual hill]

first time getting a leaderboard top 1 on RetroAchievements!!

[indigo pine]

I finished watchdogs legion. and it. felt weird. bagsly technically died. Albion got a figurative boot. and the only reason I enjoyed it is because I quite literally limited my self to 2 operatives

also. blume felt kinda. not a villain in this one

really uninvolved as a villain in this game

[random steppe]

Darn that is tempting.
I am in a very 40k time of my life

I might have binged the 15 Gaunt's Ghosts audio-books in the past couple of months

Been commuting a lot

[bitter stream]

damn! how is the series, i've heard good things

[random steppe]

Excellent, he is a very compelling character and they don't overdo it with the fights description which is a common problem with 40k fiction

If you have like, 15 pages of nothing but fights it starts to mush together, they keep it reasonable

[bitter stream]

ahh yeah, that's cool

[random steppe]

I had some problems here and there, a few characters definitely overstayed their welcome, and a few plot points were kind of meh, but overall it was excellent for what it is, which is definitely not overly deep but well thought out action Bad Company style war stories set in the 40k universe

[bitter stream]

nods

[random steppe]

Ideal for a daily commute, it's definitely not going to overtax your brain but it's gonna keep you awake through the whole trip

[bitter stream]

Related to the Space Marine 2 discount, I'm still kinda unsure if I'll enjoy it haha. I jumped back into R6S and a touch of Counter Strike 2 and that's kind filling the "pick up and play a round" gaps

also the ammount of DLC for SM2 is huge haha

[random steppe]

Yeah those are staying there until they all get out and are wrapped in one convenient package at a reasonable price

[bitter stream]

fair fair

[green fulcrum]

Have you played Rogue Trader yet?

[random steppe]

I am currently going through that

[green fulcrum]

Oh nice

[random steppe]

So far, story is 9/10
There is the occasional bit where I would like a bit more agency but overall really well done

The systems I think aren't quire as intuitive as I would like to be, I had to mod in infinite respec without costs because paying for them with profit factor was way too steep, but apart from that I've been enjoying it throughly

i wish las weapons were stronger, they are supposed ot be kind of almost objectively better than solid ammo weapons but I feel like solid ammo do edge them out in most cases unless the enemy has a ton of dodge, and I feel like bolt weapons should also be stronger given they are supposed to be pretty insane.
Apart from that though, can't complain, extremely satisgying to play when you finally land on the right gear and abilities

Also still hasn't found any proper power armor, looking forward to that

[quiet swift]

[random steppe]

You can be a PROPER asshole in that game, which I always appreciate the option though, even if I rarely take it

It is kind of fun that you can be a decent person and literally everyone in your party goes "Oh, you didn't order the immediate summary execution of a few hundreds people in the offchance they might have thought badly of you, that's novel, are you sure you didn't hit your head on concrete as a child" essentially

[quiet swift]

What's the CRPG where you can be the most evil without it completely shutting off a lot of options for you?

[random steppe]

Isn't there the one where you are kind of supposed to be part of an evil reign that essentially won and took over the land, Tyranny

This one: https://store.steampowered.com/app/362960/Tyranny/

Steam

Tyranny

Play an RPG with meaningful, world-altering choices, unique and memorable companions, and a new perspective on morality. Tyranny casts you as the arbiter of law in a world devastated by war and conquered by a despot. Will you work inside the system or try to dismantle it… and will it be for the glory of Kyros, for the good of the world, or for…

Price

$29.99

Recommendations

9655

Metacritic

80

[quiet swift]

Unfortunately I've already played that one and still kinda ended up playing the 'good' evil guy

[random steppe]

I think BG3 does well with providing evil characters viable options

Rogue Trader you can literally execute like, main characters, because you don't like them.
That's arguably even the proper thing to do for a domgmatic playthrough
Hell you can blow up planets where it's arguably the proper thing to do

[quiet swift]

[random steppe]

In fact your crew is kind of evil by deafult, you kinda have to tell them that is bad, and no you can't torture the poor because it's a lot more convenient for them to do it.

They do the thing where it's like, how the world works, so they kinda act by inertia

[quiet swift]

That'st he one of the three you suggested I haven't played. I should get around to it

[river veldt]

just remembered one of the hardest youtube videos ever
https://youtu.be/M9J6DKJXoKk?si=F6k_VYVZBP3pJ6o3

(spoilers for Half Life 2 and it's episodes)

[green fulcrum]

Well, yeah, this is the 40K universe, being an absolute scum-of-the-earth snobby asshole who executes people on a whim is expected, lol. Being an actually nice, good person in 40K is not only exceptionally rare, it is often outright punished.

So you can imagine how hilarious it is that when people write 40K/MLP crossover fanfics, the Ponies being nice to the Space Marines and still being able to wreck shit if threatened is seen is utterly bewildering.

[random steppe]

It is very nice that they give you just enough authority to be the one calling the shots about how stuff goes, yeah, you can kinda enforce a certain level of niceness despite the onion of bullshit inherent to the setting

Within reason

[green fulcrum]

Whenever I get to playing it I want to be the person who leads well, who everyone under their command likes well enough, and who does their best to make people's lives a little better, but who also doesn't take shit from people and knows how to tread the line between "good" and "forceful".

[hasty patio]

That Warrant of Trade is a powerful thing, especially an original one that gives more.

[arctic fern]

https://bsky.app/profile/rj-palmer.com/post/3mfflijhdws2p

RJ Palmer (@rj-palmer.com)

Happy Zelda 40th anniversary!

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Bluesky · Feb 21, 2026, 9:38 PM

[cerulean herald]

been playing Twilight Princess as of late, which is my first ever Zelda game

[arctic fern]

Underrated one too, very enjoyable

Basically oot but bigger

...which is why its underrated

[gaunt marten]

I liked it a lot when I was younger

Nowadays I can't handle the bloom

[slim thorn]

the bloom is just funny to me

I've heard the HD version tones it down too

[gaunt marten]

Yeah! I don't have a setup that can run it

[visual hill]

WW HD has more bloom, TP HD has less bloom than the respective OGs

WWHD is generally seen as a straight upgrade for the most part, but TPHD is more divisive

[arctic fern]

Gotta get those miiverse stamps!

[visual hill]

➕ Yeah!

[mossy flume]

Duplicating this PSA since some might miss it if they don’t subscribe to #1032733661671460937 : While initially, Nintendo’s documentation claimed that the upcoming Pokémon FireRed & LeadGreen re-releases on Switch 1 & 2 were going to be compatible with Pokémon Home in an upcoming post-release update, they have since removed this note with no clarification.

If you’re purchasing these eShop versions of Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen assuming this compatibility will exist, you may want to reconsider until further confirmation one way or the other is available.

The upshot being that it might not be possible to complete the PokéDex in these versions of the games without hacking.

[fresh bane]

Yeah but it gets rid of the moody lighting completely
it also makes the flashback scenes crisper which is a downgrade to me because the whole appeal of those is precisely that they look blurry and hard to make out as if you're looking into someone's memories

[slim thorn]

in this case I prefer the crispiness

[mossy flume]

I do agree that the HD version lost what made part of the atmosphere so damn good in Twilight Princess

The color grading and lighting is off

The blurriness did accidentally add to it as well, tbh, but I'm torn on it

[cerulean herald]

yeah I think the Bloom is what I'm playing with
didn't know it was point of contention

[mossy flume]

Twilight Princess's experience relies so much on subtle atmosphere, so...

Since it's meant to feel generally gloomy and melancholic

[slim thorn]

kinda reminds me of the debate over whether (original) SH2's voice acting is "bad" or "appropriately uncanny"

except the SH2 one I care about and this TP thing I really don't think makes a significant difference either way

the blurriness never looked like an intentional creative choice to me, since it's equally present everywhere, so it just looks like weak old game graphics; there's plenty of gloom in all the other design and story decisions

[mossy flume]

The blurriness was indeed a consequence of it being a 480i game, but it happened to give it a bit of a dreamlike quality

When mixed in with the rest of the design details

But as I said, I’m torn on that one

[slim thorn]

for me to buy a "they didn't understand the aesthetic" argument, they'd have to do something like... replace the silence after Ganondorf's death with happy fanfare music

[river veldt]

i forgot you were talking about twilight princess and my brain automatically read tp as Twin Peaks

[fresh bane]

The thing that makes it complicated is that it's not a case of this one's bad that one's good, it's a tradeoff situation
It's the typical case of whether you want the full atmosphere of the original or if you wanna play the original game on a higher resolution with a texture pack installed but may be missing some lighting effects and it may look a little flat at times
So overall certain areas are lit up way higher, and the shadows aren't nearly as strong as in the original, sometimes some effects may be missing the intensity or missing entirely, but it does add certain new effects like on the Temple of Time the light is beaming down into the room whereas in the original it wasn't doing that, and that's what makes it kinda hard to really say

[mossy flume]

I'm not sure I would argue they didn't understand the aesthetic, mind

Just modern rendering techniques made it feel a bit different, is all

[fresh bane]

Of course it was the graphical limitations at the time, but it was still a conscious stylistic choice done even on games from other consoles, there are ports of PS2 games that have similar effects on their cutscenes that are completley missing on newer ports because they just don't bother to replicate it, it's both a result of the limitation but it's also a conscious artistic decision regardless

whether it's an important one to you is a different deal, and that's why in the case of TP you could go with either version

except the Wii version, because playing that game mirrored is cursed

[gaunt marten]

It's a tradeoff. You trade bad graphics for good graphics

[fresh bane]

If you wanna put it that way sure

I don't particularly think slapping higher res textures on lower poly models makes for better graphics on a general case

[mossy flume]

I never played the GameCube version

Playing the WiiU HD version felt weird as a result

[gaunt marten]

Yeah, not generally. It worked out for Twilight Princess

Fun fact

[river veldt]

they should port WWHD and TPHD to Switch and make a trillion dollars

[gaunt marten]

In classical Arabic you do it the other way around. Saying "You trade bad graphics for good graphics" means you got rid of good graphics and got bad graphics

[river veldt]

maybe this year since it's the 40th anniversary ? idk

[mossy flume]

I’m hoping as much

[cerulean herald]

cap what's ur fav Zelda game

[river veldt]

that's a tough question

[mossy flume]

I want to play Twilight Princess again and I’m not going to bother setting up my Wii

[river veldt]

probably BotW or Link to the Past

[cerulean herald]

I've been using Dolphin

[slim thorn]

I guess that's not wrong per se, but stated this generally I don't want to endorse such a vague argument that amounts to "if it's different it must be wrong" worded more poetically, when that's just not how art works in general. There has to be some specific reason why "blurry" is a good thing before the argument that "being less blurry is a downside" has any real weight besides nostalgia.

And in this specific concrete case, again, the fact that it's uniform over the entire game causes it to have zero emotional impact for me as an alleged stylistic choice, so I don't consider it a downside. If they actually had applied more or less blur based on how real or unreal a certain scene should be, then we'd have something. But TP never did that.

[river veldt]

i love Zelda 1 and Link's Awakening a lot too

and Zelda 2 as well

[slim thorn]

TBC I completely agree with this. Especially for animations. There are a lot of "graphical upgrades" where the upgrade only highlights how janky the animations always were and it ends up being more distracting overall.

[river veldt]

i think i just like Zelda tbh now that i'm thinking about it. basically every Zelda game ive played i loved

[cerulean herald]

which version of Links Awakening

[river veldt]

though i kind of bounced off of OoT

[river veldt]

remake

[cerulean herald]

I think there was only one Zelda-like(?) I played, called Lenna's Inception

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1114870/Lennas_Inception/

Steam

Lenna's Inception

A New Hero Rises
The Kingdom of ▜̴͈̔▕̴͜͝▯̴̳̈́░̷̪͗▚̷̪̆▒̸̣̓ is glitching. The evil Chairman of the Banker’s Guild has captured the Prince, opening the way for destruction at the hands of the Archangels. With the Hero eliminated, and the world horribly unraveling, reluctant tutor Lenna must step up to save the kingdom\…

Price

$9.99

Recommendations

247

it was pretty fun

[slim thorn]

I did try Lenna's but it didn't do much for me

[gaunt marten]

Play Tunic

[rancid herald]

tunic was somewhat zelda like, but I feel like it suffers a bit by trying to be the 90s

[river veldt]

Tunic didn't do much for me sadly

[rancid herald]

Cap confirmed for shirtless

[cerulean herald]

I should give it another chance, I tried it but the combat wasnt for me, but also I only had access to it with a free gamepass subscription so I was extra picky

[cerulean herald]

that's fair, I appreciate what it was trying to do, sometimes it felt a bit convoluted(?) dont know if thats the right word but there was a specific segment that I struggled to figure out

[mossy flume]

It’s pretty obtuse, yeah

I quite enjoyed it, but I also struggled with it

[random steppe]

I'm sorry I wouldn't be able to play the one on the right, it looks like someone smeared a thick layer of vaseline over the screen

[glad girder]

I think I know how to fix the problem with the Wii U version, thank you

[slim thorn]

convoluted? that sounds more like a Tunic complaint than a Lenna complaint lol

my main problem with Lenna's was that it's basically trying to be procedurally generated old-school Zelda, but it 100% has the standard procedural generation problem that none of it is nearly as interesting as a handcrafted map/dungeon

[fresh bane]

That's fine, that's why I said people can go either way with it, I think it adds a certain quality to it mixed with the harsher darker shadows that makes me like it more

if they put TP on the online gamecube service and ported the HD version to Switch then you'd have either to choose from to play

[glad girder]

is anyone following the stuff with the luke ross vr mods? it's kind of funny seeing him crash out, but it's just baffling that people liked them in the first place

[slim thorn]

never heard of it

[glad girder]

He's a guy who develops VR conversion mods for games, but is very opinionated and broke TOS for some games. And has since basically freaked out online

[river veldt]

im gonna freak it

[cerulean herald]

yeah i wasnt sure of the wording, but yeah I can see your point there

[glad girder]

He had a subcription model on patreon for continued access to mods, tried to contact CD Projekt Red to get his mod included as part of cyberpunk 2077, and they DMCA'd him

[cerulean herald]

oh I think i heard of this

[mossy flume]

Oh yeah, he was profiting off of the mods and that's generally a no-no in my books

[glad girder]

the baffling part is he tried asserting that he did not charge for his mods. Despite charging money for continued access/support. and on top of that they use alternate eye rendering and don't have any motion controls

it's just like flat gaming except it makes you nauseous

everything going on with VR right now just makes me

[slim thorn]

VR for me is still in the space of "if I ever end up with a device that happens to do VR, maybe I'll finally play Half-Life: Alyx, but otherwise I feel zero need to go specifically acquire such a device"

especially when I have a hundred other games to play

[glad girder]

Yeah

[river veldt]

yeah that's about how i feel too

[mossy flume]

I feel like VR is underappreciated :<

I see why though

[slim thorn]

that's what the VR people have been saying since... before I was born, I think literally?

[glad girder]

right now probably the easiest way is a used quest 2, sidequest, and virtual desktop or ALVR

[mossy flume]

News to me

[slim thorn]

tbf they sound a lot more plausible this decade than they did back when the Virtual Boy was the new hotness

[river veldt]

i do really wanna play Alyx though but i dont think it's worth it to buy a thousand dollar thing

[mossy flume]

I didn’t think VR was any good until the Oculus came around, and wasn’t mainstream ready until the Index came out

[slim thorn]

it's mainstream already?

[cerulean herald]

I feel like VR is just not accessible to the general public, nor does the average person wanna bother setting it up
so companies dont invest much into VR

[glad girder]

it's a combination of weight/fatigue, higher cost, as well as currently subpar experiences from things like meta subsidizing costs to dominate the market and then trying to torture all of those users with invasive garbage and aggressive monetization

[gaunt marten]

I think VR is unappreciated but not underappreciated

[mossy flume]

I said mainstream-ready, as in it’s gotten good enough to where it CAN go mainstream if it gets the software support from devs

And the ecosystems became easy enough to use

And relatively bug free

More of just set up and go rather than endless technical tinkering

[slim thorn]

oh sorry my brain somehow missed the "ready" in there

[visual hill]

work on a PC port is in (very) early stages, so it might be worth waiting

[slim thorn]

usually I'm on the receiving end of that glitch wow

[mossy flume]

True facts

[visual hill]

the VR market is a bit weird as a whole

you can tell the devs that target VR users are counting on the fact that most VR users have disposable income, so a lot more things are paywalled than usual

it's kind of like simracing, space sims, etc

[visual hill]

help us, Obi Steam Frame

[cerulean herald]

The GabeCube

[visual hill]

Steam Frame, not Steam Machine

I don't think the Steam Machine will turn out great with the pricing situation. Might be a replay of the 2015 events of the Steam Machine of yore...

[cerulean herald]

ohh didn't know Steam was entering the VR scene

wonder how that will play out

[wind stump]

https://youtu.be/kEPo-OtCLg4

[cerulean herald]

I still cannot believe that is real

[light gate]

I love how they created it again but instead of making the parts be cross compatible (with the exception of the stand, somehow) the rest of the parts are incompatible.

Woulda been cool if they actually made some of the buttons and shell components be actually compatible.

[slim thorn]

tbf who is gonna be swapping parts with the '95 hardware

[light gate]

people who have virtual boy machines that are severely damaged

but still work

I mean, its a niche thing.

Still nice the stand works, but you can't even buy it as a part lol. So yeah, I wouldn't be shocked if in the near future some of the og virtual boys get virtual boy 2026 parts.

[mossy flume]

They did so a while ago with the Valve Index, which I personally contend is still the best VR gaming headset on the market at the moment.

Steam Frame is their second one and it is almost certainly going to be the Meta Quest killer, thankfully.

[glad girder]

If I could take any piece of software, engrave its source code onto a piece of hardened shit, and launch it into the sun after pissing all over it it would’ve the Meta horizons app

I hope mark zuckerberg is haunted by three ghosts every night for how bad this shit is

[cerulean herald]

interesting, im not too well versed with the VR scene, the only one im somewhat familiar with is Occulus

[glad girder]

You need it to manage and access the headset and download screenshots

[mossy flume]

Oculus was rendered obsolete a very long time ago. Meta bought them and its subsequent successors were the Meta Quest headsets.

[glad girder]

Sorry, correction: there’s four ghosts in A Christmas Carol

[mossy flume]

There have been a ton of VR headsets and substantial improvements in the technology since the Oculus came around

[cerulean herald]

how much do they usually cost nowadays?

[light gate]

Depends.

[mossy flume]

Depends on what kind you get! But entry-level (which tbh is good enough for most people) is now roughly $300

In the vein of the Meta Quest 3

[light gate]

Entry as in restricted to the Snapdragon.

[mossy flume]

Which the Steam Frame will probably beat out

Yeah

Room-scale VR with lighthouses and such is still about $1000

[light gate]

I'm curious about the Steam Frame but that chip is honestly pretty upsetti.

[mossy flume]

General computing VR headsets like the Apple Vision Pro are more than that

Room-scale VR configurations like the Valve Index are probably obsolete for most people

Still useful if you want full body tracking, though

[cerulean herald]

what VR headsets do you guys have?

[mossy flume]

I have... like seven

[light gate]

I have none lol, I just am waiting for a cheap entry that isn't Meta.

[slim thorn]

I definitely don't have any dedicated VR devices

I've heard claims you can turn some phones into a VR headset but I've never looked into it

[mossy flume]

I have the PSVR 1 and 2, Valve Index, Apple Vision Pro, Oculus, HTC Vive, and a few others

And Meta Quest 2 adn 3

[light gate]

Ohh.. that's right... I think I have one of those things.

[light gate]

It was given to me for free, it sucks.

[cerulean herald]

wow thats a lot lmao
which of those do you like the most

[mossy flume]

For the ones on the market right this second... I generally recommend the Meta Quest 3 to everyone.
But I would wait, because the Steam Frame will almost certainly render the Meta Quest irrelevant and I would probably recommend that instead. It comes out this year.

My favorite headsets are the Apple Vision Pro and Valve Index.
I do use my Meta Quest sometimes but I don't like using it.

The Apple Vision Pro is both the best damn VR/XR headset that exists on the market today and I adore the hell out of it, and simultaneously one I cannot recommend to anyone, at all.

Because it's very expensive

And you don't really get what you pay for in anything other than the hardware itself. Developer support is scarce.

It's an early adopter type of device, so...

[cerulean herald]

what do you normally play on those

[mossy flume]

Valve Index, I almost always just play Beat Saber and occasionally like VRChat. I've played a ton of games on it through my Steam library and it works well for this, like Half-Life Alyx and such.

Meta Quest has several good games on it, but they're tied up in their own walled garden. There's a multiplayer minigolf game called Walkabout Minigolf which is both bullshit and hilarious fun. Peach and I play that sometimes. They have several exclusive games too which actually do have some serious production value behind them, like Demeo, Asgard's Wrath 2, Batman: Arkham Shadow, Assassin's Creed Nexus, Resident Evil 4 VR, and a trilogy of Star Wars VR experiences.

The VR games on Steam lean more towards arcadey experiences while Meta's ecosystem has invested a ton of money into getting more fleshed out RPG-style and immersive tabletop games into it

[cerulean herald]

Beat Saber is one i hear about quite a lot

[mossy flume]

Beat Saber is the killer app that put VR gaming on the map, yeah

[cerulean herald]

is it like a rhythm game?

[mossy flume]

But it's like.. the ONE killer app it managed

Yes

Rhythm game but you're swinging lightsabers in both hands to slash blocks flying at you in the correct direction

While also didgling walls flying at you

It's quite fun and a good cardio workout

IMO, at least

I've been busy and so I haven't played in a while, but I've played it a lot

There's an active modding community which adds custom tracks and maps that do wild things that the base game can't do

But every update they release comes out like every two weeks, and every update

1. Intentionally breaks all mods
2. Is mandatory and can't be blocked

Because Facebook says fuck you

(Meta bought them)

[cerulean herald]

[slim thorn]

there are mods for the VR device, not the games?

[mossy flume]

Both

There are mods for the games and there are jailbreaks (and sideloading) for the Meta Quest devices

Meta Quest sideloading is a big deal, there are several game emulators for it and you can load game mods onto it that way, since games are run locally on-device on the Meta Quest.

Someone even made a 3DS emulator for it to take advantage of the perfect 3D that VR provides and it worked very well. I'm not sure if it's still maintained.

[slim thorn]

ah, makes sense those can't be officially supported things

[mossy flume]

Meta breaks the Beat Saber mods on every update basically because of all the music licensing the game has. Or at least that's how they justify it.

Their explanation was a little squirrely IMO

[slim thorn]

one wonders how much of that is legally required and how much is placating the M-whatever acronym is the music people

[mossy flume]

Indeed

Meta doesn't exactly fight you on app sideloading, though

It's really easy and they don't seem to ever break it

Probably helps that it's just running Android

[cerulean herald]

idk why but I had the assumption it had its own OST
guess that makes more sense

[light gate]

Apple:

[mossy flume]

It does! But it's mostly licensed music now.

When it originally came out it was all original music

[cerulean herald]

what genre would u say it falls under?

[mossy flume]

EDM

Most of the music is electronic

[cerulean herald]

ooh. might check the ost out then

[mossy flume]

Some of it has hints of D&B

It can get pretty dubsteppy too

But including all of the music it has now, it’s definitely all over the place

[mossy flume]

Oh, correction, even the base vanilla game had some licensed music

Such as Porter Robinson’s Angel Voices as a “secret song” (at the time, it’s now unhidden by default; from his Virtual Self act)

[visual hill]

sideloading is how you install any of TeamBeef's ports too

which lets you play lots of classic FPS games in VR. The ports are really well-made

[green fulcrum]

I have decided to buy some horses:

[bitter stream]

enjoy!

[quiet swift]

More games need a char face creation like this

[craggy vine]

https://youtu.be/fg07w8N70q8?si=do_XVe8bGP2iLlTF

[little badger]

Simpsons hit and run remaster could be happening. As the company that made it is back but under New radical games instead of radical games

https://www.newradical.ca

[visual hill]

I don't see it happening personally due to the licensing mess

Simpsons IP is rather strict

maybe not 007 levels of strict, but still strict

[river veldt]

Jerma has a Hit and Run playthrough and it's amazing

[little badger]

If they gave Disney a good amount it may happen

[river veldt]

genuine descent into madness

[wind stump]

i'm going to cry

[wind stump]

another boss down, yay MAX rank

[river veldt]

i love these rats at the juice bar

[little badger]

Since you are French. You may have heard of him

[wind stump]

i wonder if devlolver digital published this game

[green fulcrum]

I know him as Robotnik from Sonic SatAM. RIP...

[slim thorn]

did you get to the part where he disables the skip text button

[wind stump]

yes

[quiet swift]

I think I only ever heard him as Nappa in French, since when I was growing up and watching it, it was in French and around that timeline...

[glad girder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB_uMG4tC4A

it's another voxel based open world building game except this one has a destructable environment and chisels and bits

[sacred grove]

I've been kind of keeping an eye on this game. I think it's the closest to a "pure" voxel game. That is, each voxel is a solid color/material, making it more in line with being 3D pixels

[glad girder]

Building looks like it's going to be a lot of fun compared to how minecraft has stagnated since its inception

[sacred grove]

It looks okay. Hytale has the better combat, IMO

I supported Lay of the Land on patreon for a little bit, just to get a taste. The build I played (about a monthish ago) had some steep system requirements compared to Minecraft or Hytale. My laptop isn't the most powerful, but it runs those two games easily with 120+ fps (though usually I limit it to 60 since I don't have high refresh here). Lay of the Land was something like 40-50 fps

I believe it's a raytraced voxel renderer. There's even an option to make use of RT hardware

[light gate]

It reminds me of Delver

[fickle garnet]

Snake is so stealthy, he's not visible/j

[green fulcrum]

Looks cool and pretty, but I still like Minecraft and Hytale better.

[slim thorn]

speaking of which, how does Hytale compare to Minecraft now that those of you playing the games have had plenty of time to judge Hytale

(I've only seen clips and I'm confident Hytale's combat is better but the rest is less clear)

[green fulcrum]

I still haven't played it, but from what I gather, it's still too early to say. Minecraft has had like 15 years of content added to it. So much of Hytale's content is still locked behind its creative mode, its better terrain gen is still in the testing phase and won't be ready for at least a year, and the story mode is nowhere near ready yet. We're missing mobs, biomes, zones, weapons, minigame servers, movie-making, live coding, and sooooooo much more.

Hytale's confident is infinitely better, that much is certain.

I think Minecraft does mining better, but Hytale does tool and armor progression way better

I also personally prefer Minecraft's crafting method of using manual recipes instead of just having the ingredients on hand and holding down a crafting button like in Hytale.

But that's up to personal taste, neither method is "better" than the other.

As for everything else, still too early to make a fair comparison. Right now Hytale's main complaint is that it's too "empty", and that's because it is. It launched with only like 10% of its actual planned content.

[bronze abyss]

hytale has all the right foundations,it just has to do something with them

[green fulcrum]

Exactly, right now it's still setting those foundations up.

[little badger]

It’s the French voice actor for him but still sad

[visual hill]

reminds me a bit of Voxile, which has ambitious custom tech too

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2283580/Voxile/

Steam

Voxile

ADVENTURE MODE

Your journey to unravel the mysteries of the ooze spreading throughout the Voxisles takes you through meticulously handcrafted islands brimming with quirky characters, dangerous monsters, challenging puzzles, and – true to the name – epic adventure!…

Price

$14.99

made by aardappel of Cube Engine/Flatbuffers fame

[green fulcrum]

Oh the French VA, my mistake. Still, RIP

[cunning galleon]

That's a millisecond lead against Webber

[indigo pine]

ship

[quiet swift]

Huh, there's already a demo for Zero Parades? (the next za/um game, of disco elysium fame)

[fresh bane]

I saw the beginning of the demo today

The intro drags on a fair amount, it didn't nearly hook me as much as Disco's did, but I didn't see much further than that, I might give it a look myself just to see how long it may be

At the very least I really like the spy drama setting I think that's really interesting but I saw very little of it so far

and, of course, it's up to everyone whether they want to support za um too

[quiet swift]

To be fair, starting as an amnesiac blackout drunk policeman with terrible facial hair is a hell of a start to top

[fresh bane]

The intro is very similar to Disco's actually, like almost an identical room, a lot of people were a little ticked off by that because they saw it as a souless copy of what Disco was doing, but I don't know if I'd go that far

all I know is by the time Disco shows you a couple characters and gets you interested in what the hell is going on, you're still walking around the room in Zero Parades and going through dialogues

[quiet swift]

[fresh bane]

So it's not bad or good all I can say is it drags on a fair amount compared to Disco, the only other thing is completely subjective and it's just that I felt like some of the dialogue is trying a bit too hard to be verbose and 'deep', but that may be a complete bias on my part because Disco was such an irreplaceable experience, maybe I'm just wrong on that

'cause it's not like Disco invented that, so it feels a little unfair to say ''wow they're super trying to copy Disco'', especially since the developers are the developers who stayed behind who also worked on Disco, and they deserve credit for the work they did too, buuuut I also can't really stop that feeling so I'm just gonna say that's maybe my bias there

[quiet swift]

Nah that's fair. Folks will either say 'it's trying to copy it too much' or think 'hey, this feels exactly like disco, that's exactly what i'm looking for'

[fresh bane]

So how is it so far?

[quiet swift]

Interesting so far. Just ||exited the building||. I don't really feel like it dragged on so much unless you're exhausting absolutely every single option just for the heck of it. ||Though my char seems like an anxious wreck, hit the limit pretty fast||. Gonna stop there for now as I have stuff to do

[arctic fern]

https://bsky.app/profile/hr-bananabird.bsky.social/post/3mfk3akzsy22w

hr. 🌱 (@hr-bananabird.bsky.social)

The SM64 "backwards long jump" is such a disappointing name once you learn that the Japanese name for this trick is the "ass warp".

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[astral steeple]

https://youtu.be/h_GNt0ILldw

New mobile top down overwatch game

[light gate]

It looks okay

Touch controls still are a pain point, and bringing a controller kinda defeats the purpose unless you pony up for a mobile controller or the world’s smallest controller.

[wind stump]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkhIoYDj9TU

[bitter stream]

incredible crash out

what's the context for Happy Mask Salesman btw?

[wind stump]

it is a mystery

-# i forgor

[bitter stream]

fair enough

anyone a big competive gamer? I think I've forgotten how to have fun during a loss streak lol, any tips?

[little badger]

Wolverine releases on the 15th of September

[bitter stream]

are you a big DC fan Blade?

[river veldt]

holyyyyy shit

[little badger]

Yeah I like it

[bitter stream]

nice nice, hope the game is good for the folks who'll play it

I think for me personally, it looked a little too bloody haha

[river veldt]

idk much about Wolverine he and the X-Men are kind of a blindspot for me

i liked him a lot in Deadpool & Wolverine

[bitter stream]

ah yeah, fair enough Captain mario

X-men are cool, but i never read much of the comics

just played some of the games on occasion

[slim thorn]

I've read some of the X-Men comics, by which I mean "only" hundreds of issues and still only a small fraction of the total

I feel like Wolverine got hyper-popular mostly as one of the early examples of that perfect 90s anti-hero balance of being badass enough to win fights, a big softie on the inside, but also willing to do what needs to be done even if the rest of the team is too goody-goody for it

iirc he's the only mutant who regularly shows up on both the main X-Men team and the edgelords-only X-Force team, most characters are firmly in one or the other

[river veldt]

wow wolverines are cute

i was expecting them to be more

idk

vicious looking

[gaunt marten]

Where are the stripes?

Oh wait the Pokémon is a mongoose

[little badger]

The original on the PS3 is a rare game, as you can see by the price it has been nearly £80 before but comes down from time to time.

[cerulean herald]

don't forget about the wolverine dinosaur

Therizinosaurus

[worthy rose]

[light gate]

Final Fantasy 7 now on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/final_fantasy_vii

[little badger]

@wind stump don’t you play this on mobile?

[wind stump]

non

[indigo pine]

am collectin

[mossy flume]

?

[visual hill]

it's an Ultrakill thing

[hasty patio]

8th Layer of Hell IIRC.

[indigo pine]

ye

[glad girder]

I wish gamers would just stop and by gamers I mean annoying people

Luke Ross is crashing out because he tried contacting senior Larian employees to do what he did to CDPR and thinks they're ghosting him when he's just delusional and Tyler McVicker just said he thinks Valve is cancelling their hardware plans

So prepare for a lot of people freaking out over nothing tomorrow

[slim thorn]

there's gamers and then there's Gamers

[glad girder]

I just don't see any likelihood that Valve would wholly cancel their plans like that but people want to believe in the worst so they will

At worst there's going to be a limited hardware release until things settle

[random steppe]

thinks Valve is cancelling their hardware plans
I mean...isn't every console manufacturer kind of reconsidering their hardware plans? WIth SSD and RAM prices being so wild lately?

[river veldt]

who is Luke Ross

[mossy flume]

I had to look this up. It’s the guy who was making VR mods of games you had to pay for.

[glad girder]

He's a guy who charges money for shitty VR mods that use the worst kind of eye rendering hacks and lack motion controls

[random steppe]

I don't think it's such a wild assumption to make when we know Sony literally delayed the next generation console, right?

[river veldt]

oh

lmao

[light gate]

I can see Valve withholding for next year but not aborting, too much money has gone to SteamOS & other initiatives.

[mossy flume]

Well, reportedly.

But also… it’s not like pushing it back to 2027 is exactly surprising

[river veldt]

Tyler McVicker is a trusted leaker but i think he might be off base with this one

[light gate]

He sometimes is.

[random steppe]

Oh probably it's early to say that they are aborting the whole thing or not

[mossy flume]

Never heard of him.

[glad girder]

He mostly covers Valve games

[mossy flume]

But uh… I would be shocked if Valve cancelled anything.

[light gate]

Tyler McVicker essentially was the guy who kept seeing HL Alyx VR.

Like he called it before anyone else.

[glad girder]

datamining and looking at added classes and strings to figure out what might come out in future games

[mossy flume]

TIL. Alyx just shadow dropped out of nowhere as far as I was aware.

[random steppe]

That said, hardware plans can only be delayed so long, given the fact that new hardware come out to replace the old, if you delay long enough you kind of have to rethink your hardware strategy from screatch by sheer necessity

[light gate]

He found code references, text files, and a few hints in CS:GO & certain source engine updates.

Essentially, he knew Valve was cooking by just looking at scripts lol.

[mossy flume]

Hm. Guess those leaks didn’t bubble up into my usual feeds.

[glad girder]

Here's a Miro board where people track this stuff https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVINqBTwM=/

[light gate]

That's because nobody wanted to believe him. I believed him though.

[mossy flume]

The fuck is Miro

[glad girder]

It's a digital whiteboard site that people use

there's a lot of stuff

[light gate]

That is what copium looks like.

Silksong fans had it easy.

Its extremely well made too, lots of proper research.

[glad girder]

there's even employee resumes and work histories for recent Valve hires there

[light gate]

After Tyler called HL:Alyx, the community started taking updates way more seriously.

[mossy flume]

That’s a corner I pay zero attention to, so I guess it tracks that I’ve never heard of him

[random steppe]

I feel like that stuff like this is really not very useful
I mean unless you plan an investment on a publicly traded company right before a big announcement, if you are a fan learning some stuff sometimes earlier isn't really giving you any benefit.

[glad girder]

They look at engine additions, found files, recent acquisitions and their experience/specialty, etc

[light gate]

Well, fans gonna fan.

[mossy flume]

Didn’t know Valve had any leaks. Given how small they are, it would be difficult to exfiltrate any information

[random steppe]

Unless you enjoy it of course

[mossy flume]

Ah

[random steppe]

Everyone has an hobby

[light gate]

He even found some cut content which is like huge in the HL community.

[mossy flume]

So he’s a hobbyist analyst. Neat.

[glad girder]

There's a lot of people who do this, but he's one of the more popular ones

[light gate]

Just say HL2 Beta and you'll get a squad sent to personally rip your hard drive out and slap it on the internet.

[glad girder]

I'm waiting for the full version of that "THE CITADEL IS A GUN" video to come out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0vvBNcS1aM

[slim thorn]

that's what I said last year when I discovered our UX guy uses it

[glad girder]

this might be one of the most interesting fan theories I've seen for half life and portal as a franchise

and it's less than 3 minutes (Psssst, watch it Deviant)

[light gate]

I will, gotta do dishes first.

[glad girder]

No worries

the citadel is just a massive portal gun

[river veldt]

holy shit

that actually makes so much sense

[glad girder]

the video shows more about Xen species and Aperture Science engineering and has clips and excerpts that all add to it

The Citadel, Vortigaunts, Portal Gun, etc all have 3 limbs and they share references to quantum entanglement and black holes and dark matter. and the gravity gun also has 3 limbs and a ton of other Xen species

[fresh bane]

no kidding on the anxiety, I barely even started

hah

[light gate]

Ultrakill Update now out, 1.4gb

[frozen gate]

the new-old ff7 rerelease no longer has the required login to play

so none of the ps1 final fantasy games need you to log into square anymore

which is nice

[fresh bane]

[forest shoal]

https://youtu.be/Yiy-plVqG64

[river veldt]

holyyyyy shit

[light gate]

Yup, I knew about this for months.

It slaps HARD.

Also, this is how FF7's newest launcher looks like. No more Square-Enix or weird Eidos stuff!

[frozen gate]

[river veldt]

nice wallpaper, idk what it is but it looks familair

[fresh bane]

Cult of the Lamb

[fresh bane]

That's a very old-school looking launcher ironically enough

[light gate]

I vibe with it.

You can change the settings in game too.

DotEmu was responsible for this port it seems.

Songs are in .ogg format too and soundfonts exist in the directory.

[fresh bane]

Oooooohhhh, the A-pose

[fresh bane]

they did FF stuff before so that's fair

[fresh bane]

A little more options when it comes to the volume would be nice but I guess I can't ask for much for a PC port of a game that was probably not designed to leave the PS1

it's just funny to see ''volume options'' and the only option is the master volume

[quiet swift]

Oh god damn it game. Critical fail on a lore roll

[sacred grove]

Just bought Ultrakill and played for like half an hour. Fun shooty-shooty game

I can tell that they put everything into shooting and combat. The rest seems kind of secondary, but then again I'm seemingly only scratching the surface

[indigo pine]

they did revamp the graphics 1 update ago.
but yea. okay more. you will enjoy it

[light gate]

Its a really good game, just wished I wasn’t burnt out atm.

(I say this knowing today I played it and got a Perfect level)

[fresh bane]

There was a gate I could open with some pliers that I thought would be a simple dialogue interaction but it was an actual check, I was very afraid of failing it and the game making fun of me for failing at such an incomprehensibly easy task

[quiet swift]

For me it was talking to the ||audiophile guy. Trying to get more info about the disc was a tech roll and I needed a 4? I got a fucking two.||

[fresh bane]

''was his coat better than mine?''
''I'm afraid so''
STATUS GAINED: ANXIOUS

[fresh bane]

Heyyyy I know who's that guy in the photo frame to the right there!

[fresh bane]

mmmmmmm!
very interesting section at the end there, very fun little multiple choice section thingy
that was actually really intriguing

[quiet swift]

I stopped playing it after a bit, I want to play it full when it's released instead

[fresh bane]

I wasn't really expecting to fully do the entire demo but I'll say it actually kept me fairly interested, I do still think that it doesn't quite capture that... I don't know, that esoteric quality that Disco has, and I do think at the beginning and in some areas, it's trying really hard to capture it or appear like it,
but I can't really lie, it kept me pretty intrigued and interested the whole time, the setting is really fascinating and a lot of these characters are actually pretty fun and interesting

if anything, even if it doesn't manage to offer this super fascinating, deep and moving experience like Disco did, it at the very least looks like it's going to be a very fun time and a fairly entertaining game to play, in the style of Disco

[quiet swift]

I think getting the same disco feel is near impossible to do without the same characters/setting (a direct sequel? I guess) but an 'in the style of' disco game seems like a grand time too

[fresh bane]

maybe some people would say it's the soulless corporate clone of Disco, but I mean this is something that the people who worked on Disco did and I feel like they at least deserve a chance, what happened with za um was really detestable but these are still those same devs even if they've been splintered off from the rest of the team, so I want to at least keep an open mind here and hey, I got through the entire demo in one sitting because I found this world and characters very intriguing

[quiet swift]

It's the same reason I stopped, I feel like the demo probably wouldn't do it justice (not being able to access the 'conditionings' for example) and I want the full experience from start to finish. What I saw is enough to make me want to play more

[fresh bane]

Luckily it stopped right before I was going to give up, I hadn't seen the door to enter the office, as in the prompt literally wouldn't show up on my screen, so I was wandering around wondering what the hell I had to do, || or what I hade to trade with the monkey || to progress

I don't know if this is charming eurojank or if it's a result of it being a demo, a lot of other things were also super broken

but luckily it stopped right when it was starting to get a little frustrating so I managed to finish it in one go and I think it stopped at a good enough point to still keep me intrigued, I definitely don't think I'm gonna be piecing the story together any better than if I had stopped earlier

[quiet swift]

And there's a high chance we put our points in totally different things so we probably got different results up to where we respectively stopped

[fresh bane]

Maybe, I did try to go back to that final section and || this time I chose to tackle the photos guy, unfortunately it led to the exact same result I just... chose to tackle him before instead of just walking past ||
but to be honest, that was a physical check I somehow managed to pass, whereas the one I had chosen previously was I think an emotion check or whatever, which is how I was building up my character, but still I was hoping for a slightly different result or interaction there but nothing really happened

but I guess that's how it is with games this big with all these scenarios and choices, still wish it proved me wrong though... it was just the one interaction but it was the first showcase of that new mechanic so it would've been cool, I didn't go back to check and see what the other paths lead to so maybe I'm wrong and there was more to that

[hasty patio]

From Ocarina of Time, he was a Discord side quest giver, where you helped him to sell masks (with the ultimate reward being the Mask of Truth; it allows you to understand the Gossip Stones).

In Majora's Mask, he is knocked out prior to the start of the game by the Skull Kid, who takes the mask and becomes possessed by it. He follows Link once he comes to Termina and becomes Deku Link at the beginning of the game, showing himself afterwards in the inside of the Clock Tower.

Early on, once Link gets his Ocarina back and goes back to the start of the sequence, he teaches Link a song that:

"This is a melody that heals evil magic and troubled spirits, turning them into masks
Once freed, he asks Link for his end of the bargain, and flips out when he learns that he failed, but gives him 3 days to return his "precious mask" before he leaves. Link succeeds eventually and he leaves, its power gone.

https://giphy.com/gifs/mm-legend-of-zelda-majoras-mask-GJtfejeAtTuJa Known for that phrase mostly.

[bitter stream]

oooh interesting, that's wild

thanks LunarWolves

[arctic fern]

Play MM
Its fantastic, tho confusing
The 3ds remake does help you keep track of everything better

[bitter stream]

I've still got to finish the Zelda games I own haha, maybe afterward

[arctic fern]

Lol understandable

[fresh bane]

Majora's is weird, it's super sandboxy in its design, and it may be confusing but that's part of the adventure
Unfortunately it's not as clear cut whether the 3DS version is an improvement over the original like OOT... For as many qol improvements it may have, I feel like it messes with various things it didn't need to, to the point that if I were to recommend it it'd be with a BIG asterisk after

Regardless though definitely should be played at least once, hell I might actually need to replay it cause it's been a while

[arctic fern]

You are 100% correct that 3ds messes with things it didnt need to
But the fact the in-game notebook is far better at tracking tasks, which is far beter for new players, means its the version id recommend for new folks

[wind stump]

it was almost cool

[indigo pine]

i hate this challange

[quiet swift]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4420780/Cosmic_Holes_Demo/

Steam

Cosmic Holes Demo

You are a test unit of C.O.D.E. division — silent hardware in the hands of scientists who recently salvaged a wrecked alien vessel.

On board they found Hole Puncher  — a device capable of tearing spatial fabric and creating stable wormholes. Now you’ve been dropped into the test complex to determine how far this technology can be push…

There's homages, there's inspired by, and then there's absolutely blatant

[arctic fern]

Damn yeah thats fucking carbon copied

Is that a whole game or mod of portal

[slim thorn]

to be fair, Cosmic Hole Puncher would be a great parody name, if that's what it wanted to be

[quiet swift]

Game, I think

[arctic fern]

Looks unreal

As in unreal engine

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4280640/Cosmic_Holes/ full game page

Steam

Cosmic Holes

You are a test unit of C.O.D.E. division — silent hardware in the hands of scientists who recently salvaged a wrecked alien vessel.

On board they found Hole Puncher  — a device capable of tearing spatial fabric and creating stable wormholes. Now you’ve been dropped into the test complex to determine how far this technology can be push…

Release Date

Coming soon

[mossy flume]

Yep that’s unreal engine for sure

[wind stump]

nah looks legit to me

[mossy flume]

I’m particularly amused that all of the screenshots include a frame rate counter

[toxic seal]

TIL you can [SUBNAUTICA Spoilers] ||Save the Sunbeam. If you get cured and disable the quarantine enforcement platform without ever listening to a radio message, the first message you receive will be the Sunbeam saying they got the distress signal but there is too much orbital debris to attempt a rescue. They pass the info on to Alterra and move on.||

[random steppe]

I am almost positive it's a new addition btw

Like, relatively recent compared to the game release

What happened before that was ||that the gun shot anyway, except it didn't play the animation, it looked really scuffed so I assume they did fix it.||

[quiet swift]

I see you saw that youtube short as well

[astral steeple]

https://www.ea.com/ea-studios/full-circle/news/an-update-from-fullcircle

Oh more layoffs

[umbral zinc]

FRAUD was PEAK

but man it is SO laggy

[arctic fern]

Addquo...

[toxic seal]

Ackshually, I was watching a tiny vtuber play Subnautica and someone mentioned it in the comments.

And then I looked up a video about it.

[umbral zinc]

for those uninformed: viral indie shooter ultrakill released its new level called FRAUD

a layer of hell based on non-euclidean geometry, chaotic paths and headache inducing visuals

we've been waiting on this for quite the time (2 years kinda?)

and as usual, the level is great, we meet ||one of Gabriel's apprentices from the council||, we finally get some kind of visual about ||how God looks like in the ULTRAKILL lore|| and the new enemies are a pain in the ass

also NEW TECH WOOHOO

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/hH_UPfrzoVU?si=Ij2zFtFOygsqx0N7

lots of awesome clasic Marvel game collections lately

[astral steeple]

https://youtu.be/F28YoW4HiRc

[dense crypt]

Welcome, to die!

Aw damn

[fresh bane]

busts door open
sees full RPG party
''....nevermind''

after Zero Parades I figured I'd keep it up with the RPGs and while I'm at it finally get through my ever growing backlog because despite how busy I am or aren't unless I go through some of this stuff at least a little bit every day I'm never finishing any of it
I almost forgot how nice it is to just exist and walk around the enviroments in this game, I think that's a self defense mechanism... everytime I remember I get more sad that Riot keeps shooting all of its projects in the back, I would've loved more League RPGs like this

[mossy flume]

What game is this?

[humble anvil]

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story

[fresh bane]

the Ultimate animations in this are also really nice, I appreciate how much they tried staying close to the artstyle of the actual game

[fresh bane]

the Ruined King RPG

[mossy flume]

TIL this exists

[fresh bane]

https://www.gog.com/en/game/ruined_king_a_league_of_legends_story

[fresh bane]

and that's exactly the problem

[humble anvil]

I never heard of most of the Riot Forge published games until recently.

[fresh bane]

almost full party, the gang's almost complete

pet that dawg

[quiet swift]

Of those, Ruined King by far and away got the most eyes on it, I think it had a fairly successful launch. I also remember hearing about Hextech Mayhem too. The rest I'm not surprised folk have not heard of, I haven't either

[fresh bane]

Ruined King and Song of Nunu were kinda the ''biggest'' ones, Song of Nunu was pretty well anticipated by fans but I don't know if it reached anywhere outside of the League community and even then only the ones who were paying attention

Mageseeker and Ruined King are the best ones from what I've seen/heard
Convergence was... okay, the gameplay was fine, but the story was pretty bad actually. Song of Nunu is also okay especially if you're into the lore from what I hear, it's a fun little PS2 style platformer adventure, but probably no appeal to anyone outside of the League community unfortunately

the others I don't even know about even as a League fan

[quiet swift]

I think mayhem was a platformer or metroidvania sort or something similar

[fresh bane]

Convergence was the metroidvania, it wasn't super good though

[quiet swift]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1651960/Hextech_Mayhem_A_League_of_Legends_Story/

Steam

Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story™

In this fast-paced rhythm runner, every action has an explosive reaction and no amount of mayhem is too much. Take on the role of yordle and Hexplosives expert Ziggs as you rampage through the neighborhoods of Piltover.

Bomb, bounce, and bop to the beat of the music to avoid obstacles, disarm enemies, and light fuses to achieve maximum chaos.…

Price

$9.99

Recommendations

2224

Ah, a rhythm runner

No wonder it didn't do well

[cunning galleon]

Spitfire

[quiet swift]

[cunning galleon]

Spitfire, again.. But POV from a Bf-109

[obsidian salmon]

"time to finally get back into osrs, wonder what they're up to-"

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/cow-boss-is-out-today?oldschool=1

surprisingly this is free to play content, too

[quiet swift]

Cow level, you say? 🪓 🐮

[gaunt marten]

Gives a f2p steel defender equivalent, has negative defence and a 100% experience bonus

Makes him one of the best early training methods

[mossy flume]

Just unlocked the secret gay romance with Raymond /s

[umbral zinc]

yeah between the new enemies and the lagging it will be impossible to p-rank this on brutal

[dense crypt]

peppino rank

[little badger]

@green fulcrum this is who she voices in other media

[green fulcrum]

Surprisingly, I know her from Octonauts, lol

But that's cool that Vanilla got a voice again! The last time she had one was in Sonic X, iirc.

Waaaaaaaaay back in ye olden days

[little badger]

Nice to see her again

[little badger]

[bitter stream]

Let's gooo

[wind stump]

tried playing Ape Escape for the first time

the controls are almost as bad as the voice acting

[proud warren]

It's a classic. First game to use the dualshock joysticks iirc

Cus initially, all games before that on the Playstation just used the dpad, and that was it

[wind stump]

the fucking rowboat...

[gaunt marten]

Ape Escape's controls ARE bad, but here's the trick

You don't gotta use most of them

You can do everything with a slingshot, the club, and the net

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugAPy4E5zBs

[arctic fern]

Sounds like a bad knock off rock paper scissors

[gaunt marten]

This video was made by a speedrunner and randomize developer

[wind stump]

i know the GOD DAMN ROWBOAT is basically optional

but i'm trying the 2nd game anyway

and oh god they're british

oh GOD DAD PUNS

OH NO GAMBLING-

[visual hill]

I see you're using the PAL version, which is 50 FPS (or 25 FPS)

why not use NTSC instead?

the main reason to use PAL in emulation is if you want multilanguage support, and even then, it can be hacked around in many NTSC games (either thanks to leftovers or fan patches). RetroAchievements support is often limited to NTSC versions too, but I've seen a bunch of games support PAL there

[wind stump]

That's a good qwuestion.

[visual hill]

I don't know if there's a way to transfer saves if you want to continue your playthrough from PAL to NTSC though

[wind stump]

eh i did one stage

[visual hill]

some PAL games do support 60 Hz mode, but it's on a case-by-case basis, and usually requires you to hold a button on startup (which is nonstandard unfortunately)

[wind stump]

watch the NTSC version have different VAing entirely

but yeah i'm sure that extra 10fps will help with my speedrun

[arctic fern]

https://youtu.be/geiTg6Z7w3A

[wind stump]

i was joking

For context, in PAL he's called Hikari

can i go back to the PAL version so i can laugh at the british VAing-

I FUCKING KNEW IT
JIMMY IS VOICED BY ASH KETCHUM

aka Veronica Taylor
extremely appropriate given the nature of the game

[graceful bridge]

https://youtu.be/aWkConHLXDU?si=ufpIrdNZN2ogE_GC

[worthy rose]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-26/the-story-behind-the-failure-of-highguard ah, schreier weighs in on highguard

[unreal idol]

Paywall

[little badger]

Stage tour is made by ex guitar hero and DJ hero devs. https://youtu.be/4LwvzQVHpso?si=QrZYB3VQIqifz-A3

https://stagetour.com

[quiet swift]

On epic

and via Prime

[river veldt]

what the hell is Duke Nukem Forever /s

[green fulcrum]

So this means that Duke Nukem, the epitome of "America, Fuck Yeah"-itude, is in fact a Canadian.

You heard it here, folks. Canada is the ultimate evolution of America. Which means we Canadians in fact won Olympic gold in hockey, it's just on a lower end of the evolutionary ladder. It'll catch up eventually. 🇨🇦

[fickle garnet]

GT is right, Canadians are just built different

[shell shore]

Clint got picked as a marriage candidate

[mossy flume]

In other news, I searched "pokemon" in the iOS app store yesterday and found a high-ranking and highly rated (with clearly faked reviews) fake Pokémon game using brazenly stolen Pokémon assets and loaded with microtransactions.

It would be nice if Apple had a report button.

It's one thing to be a clone

It’s another to do shit like this

[river veldt]

"Transcend, tame be master"

[mossy flume]

The description is hilariously broken English, too

"Step into epic domain. Gather rare elf, quest, rise as top master."

[river veldt]

"Gather rare elf" 😭

reminds me of uhhh

pokémon vietnamese crystal

[mossy flume]

Ha yep

[glad girder]

Most isekai protagonists when they realize they can buy a slave:

[mossy flume]

I'm rather amused at how all the reviews for Pokémon Pokopia are just "This is... actually really good?? Seriously?"

[slim thorn]

it is weird how often that comes up in isekai

[river veldt]

oh yeah when does that come out Midnight

[mossy flume]

March 3rd I think, let me double-check

It should be next week

[slim thorn]

(though IME protag always frees the slave so it's fine, just hmmmm)

[mossy flume]

March 5th

[river veldt]

is it Switch 2 exclusive ?

[mossy flume]

Yes

[river veldt]

damn

well someday then

pokémon: dragon quest builders does sound good

[light gate]

Sometimes you can find this button if you scroll down to the information section.

And yeah, its just sometimes. Some apps don’t have this button.

[mossy flume]

They don’t have it on that app

[light gate]

Try <reportaproblem.apple.com>

[fresh bane]

Yo uh

RE9 is fucking sick

Is good, good game

[quiet swift]

And WoW: Midnight's early access is going pretty damn well. It's not the same scale but the remade Silvermoon feels lived in. A bit like how Cyberpunk made night city feel alive, there's so many NPCs around that it feels like a lived in town/area

[fickle garnet]

I'm so fucking excited

Gonna go pick up my pre order of it tomorrow

[obsidian salmon]

just fought him for the (easier) uniques

i am now milking a cow for 10 continuous hours to fill up the bucket because i am an ironwoman

(yes, this is with the amulet on)

it'd be almost 12 without it

[hasty patio]

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/styx-publisher-nacon-files-for-insolvency-just-a-week-after-we-gave-its-latest-game-82-percent-asks-white-knuckling-creditors-to-figure-out-whats-next-in-a-calm-and-constructive-framework/

[dense crypt]

as a Blood Bowl 3 player, this is not good to see

[fresh bane]

12 hours into RE9

so this is def longer than 12 hrs

which is good, it's longer than usual

[indigo pine]

benjamin

[indigo pine]

p ranked the twink

[robust latch]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1091560617397198901/1476909359018803221/642458353_1566274558330742_3244535353551076765_n.png?ex=69a2d686&is=69a18506&hm=83f1d516db3417abf73c9b157ff650573dcecfd25e56fb5cd432cf4e720f1be6&

[green fulcrum]

Lol, that's the D&D spirit. This kid is gonna go places

[gaunt marten]

Why is browt not also brown?

[astral steeple]

I think the joke with that one is moreso the eyebrows lol

While pombon is a pomeranian

Then gecqua is a aqua gecko

[little badger]

First look at Kratos and Atreus in the god of war series

[cunning galleon]

Sun dried Pikachus

[mossy flume]

Crispy

[random steppe]

This image was unintentionally hilarious after the 3 previous pics of pokemon in the wild

[slim thorn]

would you eat a Mareep to survive

[cerulean herald]

yeah the Pokemon broke out of the Pokemon thread
theyve breached containment

[cerulean herald]

Shiny Mareep is basically cotton candy

[mossy flume]

I’m really happy with how it looks

Game Freak can cook once they have decent hardware

Those early previews look great. And they finally remembered that Dive exists.

The region seems to be inspired by the islands of Southeast Asia? The Philippines or southern Japan, maybe?

[cerulean herald]

Indonesia first pops to my mind

but def the SEA area

[mossy flume]

Indeed

Don't forget to claim your Legends Z-A mystery gift, by the way

[cerulean herald]

ooh, what is it this time

[slim thorn]

Winds/Waves are good names for a tropical island setting

have they not done a region like that before

[mossy flume]

Mega Garchomp Z

[mossy flume]

Gen 3

[slim thorn]

ok that sounds like a Sentai character

[gaunt marten]

They have

[mossy flume]

Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald were quite inspired by that

[gaunt marten]

They should call the new one Infinite Wealth

[mossy flume]

Also, they confirmed that the FireRed & LeafGreen re-releases on Switch will indeed be compatible with Pokémon Home. So they're actually kinda worth grabbing just for that.

[little badger]

[cerulean herald]

there is the Hoenn region, gen 3's Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald

and ORAS too ig

[mossy flume]

7.5/10 too much water

https://bsky.app/profile/serebii.bsky.social/post/3mfuainbwds2t

Serebii.net (@serebii.bsky.social)

Serebii Update: It is confirmed that you get the Mystic Ticket and Aurora Ticket in Pokemon FireRed & LeafGreen after entering the Hall of Fame on Nintendo Switch www.serebii.net/index2.shtml

Bluesky · Feb 27, 2026, 5:31 PM

Oh thank god

[cerulean herald]

funny you mentioned that

[mossy flume]

LAWL

[teal sonnet]

LMAO

[mossy flume]

We've come full circle

[river veldt]

what are the mystic ticket and aurora ticket ?

[fickle garnet]

I got my copy of RE Requiem

[river veldt]

enjoy !!!!!

oh shit Jack just uploaded part 2

[fickle garnet]

Is he enjoying it so far?

[river veldt]

ye

[fickle garnet]

Nice

[mossy flume]

They're the event distributions for FR/LG that you're required to have in order to get Deoxys, Lugia, and Ho-Oh in them.
Historically, you were required to physically visit a limited time one-time Pokémon event and bring your FR/LG cart with you in order to get these items. They're otherwise not possible to obtain without hacks.

[sacred grove]

Penny (snapcube) streamed it last night too

at midnight eastern lol

[wind stump]

o yeah Pokemon XDDDDD is coming to NSO

[river veldt]

that's epic

[mossy flume]

Yeah. Adding a little hack to just automatically give them to you is such a huge relief.

Along with that and the fact that the FR/LG releases on Switch can actually do wireless local trading with other Switch consoles means that it is possible to legitimately complete the PokéDex in these releases.

...I kinda wish that you could trade with yourself if you bought both.

But oh well.

I do own multiple Switches
I guess I'll have to do that

It would've been cool if they had also shadow dropped Emerald in this manner too... but alas

[fickle garnet]

I love when companies re-release old games on new hardware

[mossy flume]

...it's not like I can't play them right now if I wanted to. But I'd like to have the legacy titles in a format that's linkable to Pokémon Home.

It would be pretty epic if they had long-term plans to make that happen for all of them...

[obsidian salmon]

im sorry what the fuck

only the devs can use that broadcast feature

what the shit-

[fickle garnet]

That's menacing

[gaunt marten]

It's about the next Leagues event, which is themed after Yama, the contract demon

[obsidian salmon]

oh, like snatcher

[gaunt marten]

Slightly less funny, but only slightly

[mossy flume]

Man. Satoshi Tajiri is 60.

Time is the worst, man.

[wind stump]

still can't believe Ash's English VA voices Jimmy in Ape Escape 2

[indigo pine]

p-1 was.. difficult

[little badger]

Oof

[gaunt marten]

I think you should post the bloomberg article instead of the tweet that mention it

Manechat is not a twitter feed

Even then, avoid posting news for no reason

Only post things you want to talk about, and start the conversation instead of just posting it then leaving

[little badger]

I'll post the links instead of screenshots if the source has one

[gaunt marten]

I'd rather not

Posting links is no good if you won't have a conversation

[river veldt]

i genuinely might freak it

[little badger]

It would've been nice to see it happen

Link to the image above https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-27/sony-s-bluepoint-pitched-bloodborne-remake-before-closure?

(Paywall)

[little badger]

Yes sometimes I don't talk about the subject I post. But I will start talking

[arctic fern]

"Sometimes"

[glad girder]

To me if I share something it’s because I want to talk about it

It feels weird to just drop something and run

[little badger]

I will try though

[fresh bane]

I'll be honest, I still don't understand the obsession with Bloodborne remake
It just seems like one of those things gamers just want to happen just because rather than because there's anything to fundamentally improve on the experience there, people obviously loved Bloodborne and they clearly want more of it, but why do they keep asking for a remake instead of a sequel? Why this incessant obsession with remaking a game that's just barely older than 10 years now? Even if I wasn't so absolutely done with remakes so much that just thinking about the word sours my mood I'd still think the idea of remaking a game made in 2015 is ludicrous

[river veldt]

i just want a pc port

[slim thorn]

I've only ever heard people asking for a pc port, what's this about a remake

[little badger]

I haven't played it in a long time but I might go back to it

What classes did everyone use on their first playthrough

[fresh bane]

A PC port is completely different from asking for a remake, whenever the topic comes up people are ravenous for this supposed Bloodborne remake, as if it's this long anticipated return for a super popular old franchise that has stayed dormant for 20 years or something, it's such a weird attitude I keep coming across that I still can't understand why
I would understand a remaster maybe, ports for modern platforms and PC with good optimization, but seeing people practically begging Sony for BB remake is just a next level must consume attitude to me

[fresh bane]

The full article:

[gaunt marten]

A remake can come with a PC port

[little badger]

Thanks nire

What did you prefer Flitter Dark souls or Bloodborne

[gaunt marten]

I did not play Bloodborne because it did not come out on PC

[little badger]

Ah you only play on PC?

[gaunt marten]

I don't have PS3 money

[little badger]

Some games on the PS3 store are still full price which is really weird

[visual hill]

ShadPS4 is starting to be really good for Bloodborne

not perfect yet, but I trust it'll keep on improving

hopefully we can find a fix for the reducing running speed when above ~105 FPS

[little badger]

Is that an emulator?

[visual hill]

yes

[little badger]

[light gate]

I tried Layer 8 in Ultrakill.

My framerate got ultrakilled.

[fresh bane]

Final time for RE9 requiem

around 20 hours (hard diff, classic mode)

the in-game timer counts ~10 hours but it's super not accurate

[cerulean herald]

How was it

[fresh bane]

Best way I can put it without saying anything spoilery, it's a celebration of all the RE games up until this point

I actually really liked RE8 gameplay wise so I wouldn't say RE8 was a bad game but I would say this is probably gonna be the most well received out of the 7-8-9 'trilogy'

7-8 drew in the new audience, 9 is for the fans

It was preeeeetty good

[wind stump]

Press

[worthy rose]

https://youtu.be/t4J7s0S37y0?si=zgFcvb8e46vkMYQZ

[indigo pine]

disable blood and gore. helps massivly with the frame

[wind stump]

COMEDI

[gaunt marten]

You should play the Japanese-only PS2 ape escape game where you have to vacuum all the pants and wash them

[uneven epoch]

if anyone remembers me posting the 4 hour video about 30 year old point n click detective game, the youtuber released a 30min speedrun dissection thats pretty fun https://youtu.be/Fj2tZsVpKjI?si=nKXxjIF0Q14jvvlz

[slim thorn]

I do, actually, that was a great video

[uneven epoch]

"oh, you dont know who watney little is? i didnt mention him this ENTIRE time? WEEELL-"

somethin about it just tickles me

[slim thorn]

I see what they were going for but man did it miss hard

ok that taxi skip is ridiculous

whenever I see a point-and-click speedrun I always wonder why would that be a fun game to speedrun, but glitches like that explain it

[uneven epoch]

it earned a place in my list of "long format videos that are so fun i rewatch them once a while". shoutout to legends like bobbybroccolis hendrik shön triology, fallout anthology agdq of 2020 and that one video about a absolute disaster of an arc of an anime i didnt even watch

[slim thorn]

ah, I've rewatched pannenkoek's invisible walls vid and bobbybroccoli's cold fusion trilogy

[worthy rose]

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[rare dew]

Just

Absolutely fuck right the shit off with this AI nonsense

[slim thorn]

on top of all the obvious problems with this

did you really have to call it copilot

2 AIs called copilot was already too many

[rare dew]

ONE was pushing it

In the words of a certain hyper-sane clown... we live in a society. And it's working my last goddamn nerve

[mossy flume]

Maybe someday everyone will figure out that AI doesn’t actually replace humans.

[slim thorn]

yet another reason I'm staying at the same company forever is no one here seems to have ever caught that delusion

[random steppe]

Ai articles are pretty common now sadly

[mossy flume]

Honestly, bot-generated content has been common since the mid-2010s before the advent of LLMs…

But it has definitely exploded

[random steppe]

Which makes sense, since even before the AI explosion written articles were already in massive decline, so eliminating more human now that is possible is the next logical step to keep the company profitable

[slim thorn]

There are some niches where auto-generated "news" is actually desirable, but not the LLM slop kind. The news department where I work has algorithms scanning for unexpected stock moves and has article templates so if something weird happens in the market it can publish a quick "just the raw numbers" article immediately without human intervention. An LLM would literally be too slow for this use case.

[gaunt marten]

https://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3890

[slim thorn]

but for almost any other news-like use case, where you want some kind of synthesis or analysis or proper curation of which so-called facts are real and relevant, yeah you need well-paid humans, and you're probably only going to find those behind paywalls

[green fulcrum]

Should've called this one "Pilot" just for the pun.

[cerulean herald]

waiting for one they'll call "Autopilot"

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/lRPnJYsjLJA?si=wvoYMZf9p1vMzZ_P

Oh

oh this rules

oh this is good

Lara Croft getting health packs on the RPD while Crash is eating the herbs like a wild raccoon, that's good

[river veldt]

gonna try out Cyberpunk again

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/49DYiIfhtFw?si=Y_nxCcrpQs0xQTv8

So Toph is apparently a super good character in this game

as expected of the melon lord

[indigo pine]

what is dat?

[fresh bane]

an animation reveal for Nemesis for a fan concept of a PS1 Smash clone

[indigo pine]

ah. COOL!

[cunning galleon]

Is this the "mesugaki" azur lane fans are talking about

I wonder if Azur Lane just randomly assigns a personality trait to a ship or if they do research on its background like Uma Musume does

[rugged flax]

oh hey Neo is here
I'm scrolling through the Next Fest demos and I just saw this

[cunning galleon]

M4A3E8 so cool

Now you can live in a life of a Sherman Tank Commander during the closing years of the second world war

THIS GAME HAS A D POINT

[rugged flax]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1451050
here

Steam

Sherman Commander

Sherman Commander seamlessly blends a fresh take on tank simulation with tactical RTS to deliver a unique mechanized warfare experience unlike any other game before.

Take command of the iconic American M4 Sherman tank and embark on an epic war adventure following Allied landings in Europe.…

Release Date

Mar 14, 2026

[cunning galleon]

Wow there is a D point

This is so cool

It gives IL-2 Sturmokovic Ground Battles

8gb of storage needed?? Thanks for bringing this demo to my attention

[rugged flax]

there's always interesting things in the Next Fest demos

[cunning galleon]

I'd imagine a "boss tank" in this game is a Tiger I

Which can easily be taken out by the Easy Eight at rage

[indigo pine]

you can also take out a tiger 1 by streifing it till it breaks down

[cunning galleon]

Strafing with what exactly

tanks get sprayed with machine guns and auto cannons all the time so it's no big deal, literally made for heavy tank fire imagine getting taken out with auto cannons

The real problem is CAS

Or Sherman Fireflies

Here's Tiger 231 after the battle of kursk (largest tank battle in history btw)

(interestingly enough, this same tank is in France now)

All these tigers needed to die was just Shermans (the regular 75mm won't be able to kill this, only the 76) or Bazookas.. I think so, that's what it took on Enlisted

[astral steeple]

Ps3 minecraft source code got leaked btw for anyone who cares lol

Includes the source code for all the console versions as well

And a pc version used for testing which is able to be compiled

[indigo pine]

I don't know with what. but seriously those tanks had often mechanical failures.

[cunning galleon]

Nope, the Tiger I was actually mechanically reliable

It's up to how it's treated

It's just.. Overengineered, when it broke down it's harder to repair on the field

Compared to the Sherman's foolproof design atleast

[tiny wigeon]

Master mode Zenith seed in Terraria, most miserable play through ever - done

took about 45 hours going in blind to complete

every boss required a specialized arena

[bronze abyss]

good shit

master mode is so cancerous i would rather do deathless infernum

[bitter stream]

I wish R6S had bots instead of players lol. I feel like i could play that game forever if I didn't have to mute the team chat because someone gets upset at me being bad at the game. sigh T_T

[arctic fern]

the problem with all pvp games in my opinion

[cinder hatch]

My goat

[bitter stream]

yeah, for any team game it's like that with randoms. I suppose I could stick to 1v1 PvP titles, which I guess is basically RTS only at the moment?

[cerulean herald]

yeah if i ever play multiplayer I just dont pay attention to the chat

sometimes there will be a gem like this

but in all seriousness, I think most Gamers would blame their teammates for losing, even if that isnt the issue, just the usual "it cant be my fault, I gotta blame something else"

I do not know what to say other than to not pay any mind to it, easier said then done, I know. But it is not "personal" if that makes sense, they'll just pin the blame on anyone that is not meeting their high expectations, just looking for a scapegoat

[bitter stream]

sure, and I could ignore chat for a while, or mute people if they got particularly bad but I'm starting to think my time would be better spent on singleplayer/co-op stuff

it's a shame, R6S gameplay is so good

[slim thorn]

most of these games never seemed to me like they could be fun unless played with friends you can trust to have the "what did I actually do wrong" constructive criticism conversation

[bitter stream]

I had a lot of fun playing casual in R6S, even with the occasional toxic teammate. I just enjoyed the faux-tac shooting elements and the gadgets and the interplay between all the systems in the game

You can twitch drone a goyo cannister to make cover for the attacking side, or (new) thatcher a wall to pretend you're breaching but breach elsewhere (admitedly a 2 person opperation).

And like, even when it does come to guns only, destructable walls opens up whole new angles

it helps that it's popular enough that you can get a game at 4am Australian time

[cerulean herald]

oh you're aussie?

[bitter stream]

mhmm

don't ask me why I'm up at 4am lol

[cerulean herald]

my sleep schedule is kinda messed up, dw

[bitter stream]

And speaking to games like League in particular, or other MOBAs, I used to have that thirst for victory, and a 1v9 was all the sweeter because it's possible to do. Working with randos was a skill to be honed, alongside CS'ing and skillshots hahah. At some point i lost it for league, but R6S casual que is so short and low-stakes that it stuck with me

[cunning galleon]

I too critic my teammates on their performance in war thunder because holy shit they aren't kidding when they say German Tech Tree mains are bad at the game

Sometimes i have my moments but most of the time i end up at the top in the team while my teammates get a KD of 0.1

[bitter stream]

... I think you've missed the start of the above convo Neo. I was annoyed at the very behaviour you're espousing. if it's casual que, what does it matter that someones playing badly?

[quiet swift]

Casual queue can be even more toxic than ranked

[slim thorn]

do you think that's because the people who opt-in to ranked have better aligned expectations, or that the most toxic people are the type who'd stay in unranked to find people they can bully

[quiet swift]

all of the above

[wind stump]

wake up babe

new valefisk torture sim dropped

[arctic fern]

oh hecc nice

[cunning galleon]

All

I once played a game that has ranked and unranked and unranked is much more toxic because all the bad toxic players playing ranked go to unrank to pick on newbies

[fickle garnet]

The first time I played R6 Siege ranked, my teammate called all of us the r slur cuz of who we banned

[cunning galleon]

War Thunder low br is really quiet

[arctic fern]

https://youtu.be/U2CjirXUyBU

Procedural infinite create mod train tracks

[bitter stream]

oooh

is this like, out in the world?

whoa, watching the video is sick

[arctic fern]

the beta seems to be yeah

[bitter stream]

nice nice, that'd be cool for a "mobile base" or something

where travelling is a major part of the group or solo playthrough

or you could spread out on the tracks and visit eachother via trains easily enough

[dense crypt]

a mobile train-base sounds great honestly. nomadic lifestyle and all that.

and theres plenty of mods for proper train systems

[arctic fern]

its create mod trains

but yeah

i would love a mod pack where like the world slowly desertifies or freezes behind you and you build a train base, keep moving forward, ahead of whatever's coming

[cunning galleon]

• limited fuel

[arctic fern]

yeah

the bigger your train, the more fuel it uses

but you can build more eficcient engines and powerful fuel sources

start with mining coal and steam boilers, move onto nuclear power and electric engines

[bronze abyss]

thats literally the dnd campaign im making

just without trains,its all on foot

[arctic fern]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1177980/Little_Kitty_Big_City/ i just discovered this game exists and it looks adorable

Steam

Little Kitty, Big City

A peaceful catnap turns into a whimsical adventure!

Will you make your way home or will you explore what the big city has to offer first? I mean, getting home is obviously your main priority. Obviously. Well, it's one of your priorities. Maybe more of a guideline... It's definitely on your To-Do list somewhere! But first? Exploration!

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Price

$24.99

Recommendations

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[quiet swift]

Cat based 3d platformer/puzzle game

[visual hill]

I played it on gamepass last year, I recommend it

[little badger]

Sonic 4 is now filming @green fulcrum

[dense crypt]

This image goes hard

[little badger]

[mossy flume]

Hell yeah

[bitter stream]

wait, is that Amy's hammer? is that what this is meant to show?

also, how was the third movie? I never did end up waching the sonic series of live action movies

[slim thorn]

imo all three were decent to good

[little badger]

Yup

I'm glad the first movie model got reworked

[gaunt marten]

Can't wait for Amy Rose to be played by Chris Pratt

[slim thorn]

very cliche in a lot of ways but mostly solidly executed, I find myself laughing at the jokes and genuinely engaged by the action scenes even when it's blindingly obvious who will win and who will switch sides or power up or whatever

casting Jim Carrey as Eggman was a stroke of genius, I'm kinda glad that's how the next generation will remember him