general gaming

[gaunt marten]

You can just play the game

[unreal idol]

Nevermind

I'm going to disengage, no matter what I say it will be wrong

[random steppe]

It's just not how it works psychologically.

[gaunt marten]

Well it is how it works for me

I really like the idea of being able to optimize up without being able to optimize down

So I start with the impression that the minimum IVs are the base state, and the game is designed for any Pokémon to be playable with these minimums IVs

This turns any and all IVs into a bonus

Sort of like how they did world of warcraft's rest experience bonus thing

[random steppe]

It is a good mindset to have, but it's probably not how people in general see it.
Maybe a good way to keep it would be the ability to transfer IV

[gaunt marten]

Yeah

[random steppe]

Like let's say you get a low IV pikachu, then later you find another pikachu with high IV, maybe have a way so you can put them somewhere when they play, and become friends, and when you go grab your pikachu now it has the same IV as the other one

[gaunt marten]

Last I checked the best way to transfer IVs is to breed carefully, and equip an item. This transfers all but one IV

[random steppe]

No I mean in the one you already invested in

So you don't run into the midiclorians problem

[gaunt marten]

Why would you run into the midichlorians problem to begin with?

You either care about IVs, in which case you would immediately calculate your Pokémon's IVs and get another one if you're unhappy with them, or you don't, in which case you just play, or you change your mind, in which case you can just get a new one

[random steppe]

Because Jack is my best friend but he sucks (hypothetically) and I dropped John with isn't my best friend and has higher midiclorians.

It would suck to have to breed Kyle form John because Kyle is not Jack

[quiet swift]

Filling out a form to participate in a local game play test... someone tells me if something pops out in this list

[gaunt marten]

Name Kyle Jack

Panama canal is a bit specific

[random steppe]

Nah, doesn't work with the fantasy for me

[gaunt marten]

Maybe they made it so they can catch people who check everything

[quiet swift]

Flitter: that's my guess

[random steppe]

Not saying you can't work around it if you want to suspend your disbelief, but not everyone will want to do that

[gaunt marten]

There's no way a DnD player knows how to drive a cargo ship and a helicopter

[mossy flume]

I did

I liked it

I generally agree that IVs just kinda overcomplicate the games

[random steppe]

Imagine they had someone sign up but he was out at sea for 340 days a year to cross the Panama canal.

That would suck for scheduling

[mossy flume]

The idea is that no two Pokémon are alike, but… meh, it causes too much minmaxing

[gaunt marten]

Apparently there are about 400 Panama canal licensed pilots

[random steppe]

Google tells me cargo ships have an average of 20-25 crew members, so if we assume every pilot is on one it's about 10k people

[gaunt marten]

So if you mix Panama canal with helicopter with collectible card game you would get a probability of less than 0.01% of a single person existing who does all three (not taking into account confounding factors like the fact that some people like to collect licenses

[cerulean herald]

it is complicated, but I'd bet the vast majority of players wouldnt really care about IVs/EVs
the games also dont make it that easy to check that stuff, and only use vague terms like "decent" and "very good"
only reason you should care is if youre entering the competitive scene
otherwise it is not relevant in a normal playthrough tbh, it is pretty easy to ignore

[gaunt marten]

I'm assuming 400, 35k, 50m, and a world population of 10b people

That is, 400 Panama canal pilots, 35k card players in the world, and 50m helicopter or airplane pilots

[random steppe]

You see your assumption is faulty, they didn't specify if Tch would be piloting the ship

He could just be part of the crew

[gaunt marten]

Does crew navigate?

[random steppe]

I assume everyone that is working to make the ship go is navigating

[gaunt marten]

I assume the captain navigates and maybe one person who reads the instruments navigates

Others are riding

[random steppe]

1 sec, let's ask an expert
@green fulcrum weren't you in the navy or something?

[gaunt marten]

I may have a misconception of the term navigate because to me it implies active participation in how the ship is directed, instead of only how it moves

[random steppe]

Or currently are?

[green fulcrum]

Eh?

I was, yes

What's up?

[random steppe]

Is navigating referring to someone piloting the ship or the whole crew
We are talking of a cargo ship in this case but I don't think it would change.

Like you would say "I navigated the baltic sea" if you were a random seaman aboard the ship

(this argument serves no purpose, but I am curious now)

[visual hill]

I thought IVs in Pokémon meant Initialization Vectors for the longest time

like, a RNG seed

[green fulcrum]

It would refer to the helmsman of the ship, as well as the CO and XO (or the Officer of the Day, if neither the CO or XO are on the bridge). I believe the XO is usually the one who gives the orders, the CO directs the XO, and the helmsman inputs the directions into the computer and steers the ship.

They aren't pilots, that's airforce.

That said, I was never on an actively deployed ship, I was posted to a ship in refit, and I was a marine technician so I would never be on the bridge anyway unless there were repairs underway. If I was on a deployed ship, my main area would be the center of the ship, in the machinery control room (MCR), where I would be assisting in repairs and maintainence as well as hull systems, propulsion systems, and damage control systems.

[random steppe]

Ok, can you quickly call an helsman if you know any? (Do not i'm joking)

[gaunt marten]

Makes sense

[green fulcrum]

Even if you weren't joking, I couldn't because I don't know any

[gaunt marten]

Why do they call them helmsmen if they're not even allowed to wear horned helmets and raid villages

[green fulcrum]

I never hung out with the bridge bunnies

[quiet swift]

✅ Achievement Unlocked: Derail the Conversation!

ding

[random steppe]

I wouldn't call that derailng, if anything it'd be setting it off course

[green fulcrum]

[quiet swift]

[random steppe]

That said I don't think you can do that in the panama canal, you kinda have like, one direction you can go or you famously ends up delaying half of the global deliveries

[wind stump]

https://youtu.be/UswSUCGemdg

Nostalgia

[river veldt]

added to my watch later, love videos like this

[wind stump]

i miss playing gmod

[river veldt]

here's a video that's similar. despite having little to no nostalgia for Halo, i still get weird nostalgic feelings in empty multiplayer maps
https://youtu.be/wXs1DRtFGio?si=vcBAHGO0-zCfC9jd

[river veldt]

gmod's so fun

i just like to download maps and splore

[cerulean herald]

virtual liminal space

[river veldt]

yeah basically

[cerulean herald]

I remember watching these series of videos a long way back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNDfvNqPILg

[slim thorn]

#Spiritfarer: I love how the hummingbird is characterized

[minor plover]

FWIW the term they use for things like this is "attentiveness check". Very common in surveys. It's a way of filtering out people who aren't actually paying attention so that they don't end up selecting people (or bot accounts) that just speedrun. It's actually pretty similar to the role here that's designed as bait where if you click the role it auto-quarantines you.

[gaunt marten]

Except the bait role has not been triggered once

We ended up getting rid of it because people kept wanting to see what it does but bots or spammers never fell for it

[river veldt]

im enjoying my second playthrough of Halo a lot more than the first, but i still get lost pretty easily wish there was a map

[visual hill]

Evergreen players: Am I a joke to you?

I remember the hype around the game that parodied the Suez canal incident

[minor plover]

I have other servers where the bait role has been fairly effective. IDK why it doesn't work here.

[glad girder]

the problem with the bait role is some small part of me will always be tempted to press that button when I know I shouldn't

[cunning galleon]

Finally, 100 sprays done in GTA SA

75% completion

I'm doing the trucking missions before doing oysters, horseshoes and snapshots

[hidden elbow]

Okay started playing symphony of the night and WDYM THE INVERTED CASTLE

(not that i am complaining at them having more difficult second act i just wasn't expecting that)

[bitter stream]

yeah yeah! welcome to Castle Australia

everything there is really out to get you, unlike real australia, where it's only like 30%

[hidden elbow]

I was surprised just how.... weirdly disconnected the game felt from other CV i played, aside from rondo of blood , only two demons from cv 4 which is weird because CV as a series usually loves its legacy and then we get to inverted and the game goes "Alright git a hang of things ? Now lets get your fan service, original bosses line up , Simon's quest Dracula remains , and fake trio from third game) i love it lol

[hidden elbow]

(on a side note Richter re design is really pretty)

[fresh bane]

That's another character that gets a redesign in a remake, his Chronicles version wears an outfit really similar to his SotN version and has the same short hair
I actually don't know which I'd prefer, the original design being so 90s anime is too iconic and compared to Simon's original dollar store Conan design I actually don't mind this original one that much

I think they change his bandana for a cravat in the redesign, but the bandana is too iconic honestly, even if the redesign is more fitting with his later appearance

It's not bad at all either, but ultimately just like with the original RE2 Leon and Claire the charm of the unique anime inspired look is too much so I ultimately prefer those even if the updated looks "make more sense"

I guess if you're still doing classic CV you could play that remake, it's the PSP Dracula X Chronicles (seriously Japan, what is it with you guys and putting X on stuff?)
But I don't know how much of a difference it has with Rondo

[hidden elbow]

I like to think that he always had long hair they were just covered by bandana so when he put it off he just revealed his comically long hair beneath

[astral steeple]

WHAT

[indigo pine]

April 1. possibly prank

[green fulcrum]

Little early

[astral steeple]

The release was always the 1st

[green fulcrum]

Wait, really?

[astral steeple]

Yes

They already confirmed pikmin were appearing too

[green fulcrum]

Holy shit it's real

I just looked it up

[slim thorn]

I feel like that would've hit harder as a surprise when we all finally watched it, but oh well

[cunning galleon]

Those typically happen in April 1st and not March 26th

Or if you want it to be a surprise, release the teaser on April 1st then actually release it on the date used in the teaser

[indigo pine]

fair nuf

[light gate]

Wished it was kept as a surprise.

[gaunt marten]

Don't worry, it'll just as cool when Twilight Sparkle shows up

[cunning galleon]

https://youtu.be/vZA0GkLNDeQ gaijin genius

Released on April 1st

Absolutely everyone thinks it was a high effort April fools — basically typical of Gaijin — turns out it wasn't and it was actually real

[green fulcrum]

I wonder if they're setting up a Super Smash Bros movie?

[rancid herald]

I can't believe the meme is coming true

[arctic fern]

the most ambitious cinimatic crossover ever

but unironically, because comic book movies had a track record of doing decently well, but video game movies have sucked for ever

[unreal idol]

Man almost nobody seems excited for this

[green fulcrum]

I'm seeing a lot of excitement for it everywhere I look

A lot of bafflement too, but plenty of excitement

[mossy flume]

I’m pretty excited for it

…although I might not be able to make it to the viewing

[light gate]

https://youtu.be/LYbphU-J2j8?

So we got another pokemon open world game. One without guns.

I decided to look who worked on it, some company named Kingsglory Games. Traced it to a private game company who owns said game dev company called FunPlus, which made the infamous mobile game… State of Survival.

Dunno if it’ll be good or bad but that mobile game surely is uhh… interesting.

[winter cargo]

Nintendo remembers that Starfox exists?

[slim thorn]

I'm probably going to see it since the first one was pretty fun, I just haven't had anything to say about it

-# I am the general audience

[unreal idol]

The vibe i get is a lot of "theyre putting too much crap into the film"

[slim thorn]

I mean

that's a fair criticism of the first Mario film too?

I probably wouldn't recommend it to people who weren't already sold on the premise of Mario being in a film

[rancid herald]

I worry that they’re putting too much into the film and there won’t be enough time to really do the deep and complicated story of Mario justice

[winter cargo]

They added that guy that I sound like whenever I get sick(Everyone says when I get sick I sound like Seth Rogen)

[arctic fern]

Do they need to do that? Its not like the last movie was complex

[winter cargo]

I mean to be fair... Mario 1 had kind of a dark story that had you murdering the denizens of the Mushroom Kingdom all to try to find coins and powerups.

[slim thorn]

it feels weird to say the Sonic movie(s) had restraint, but, having Sonic as the only alien character in the whole 1st film was the right move in retrospect

[winter cargo]

I remember wanting to see that movie in theaters just to watch the train wreck. And then I heard, "No, it's a good movie actually" and decided to wait til I could get it on DVD.

I also kinda wanna watch the trilogy again

[slim thorn]

the recent OSP video essay made me rewatch Sonic 1

[winter cargo]

I also initially didn't know what to think of Jim Carrey as Robotnik. And now I can't think anyone else other than Mike Pollock playing the role.

[slim thorn]

polar opposite: Carrey was half the reason I gave the film a chance back when it was new

[unreal idol]

Both are great Eggmans

Eggmen?

[winter cargo]

They really are.

[gaunt marten]

Eggs man

[cunning galleon]

I actually enjoyed his role as dr. robotnik

I'm not a big sonic fan but I watched the movies because of Jim Carrey and i think I'd give that sonic cartoon a chance someday

[winter cargo]

Sonic Prime, Boom, X, Underground, Adventures of, or SATAM?

[astral steeple]

LMAO

IT STILL WORKS

[cunning galleon]

I think it was Boom?

[green fulcrum]

Boom and AoStH are fantastic, and I have a soft spot for Prime and SatAM even though they're more controversial. Sonic X is hit or miss, and Underground is hot garbage.

[little badger]

Speaking of @river veldt

[winter cargo]

Boom was a good cartoon. The games... not so much

[green fulcrum]

Shattered Crystal and Fire & Ice were alright

[cunning galleon]

The games didn't interest me but the cartoons did!

[green fulcrum]

Rise of Lyric was the shitty one

[little badger]

Tails: is this a towel?
Eggman: what am I supposed to do with that? Are you making fun of me?!

[green fulcrum]

"I thought your middle name was 'The'?"

[rancid herald]

is sonic not canonically an alien?

[cunning galleon]

i think in the films he is one all because he isn't from earth

[winter cargo]

Neither game canon has him as an alien. I mean not technically. The western canon was a bit weird.

Then again Earth in the Sonic games looks nothing like Earth half the time when you're in space, so...

I like to point at Sonic Unleashed as the point where the "This planet is Earth" thing gives up and shrugs to say, "Unnamed planet"

[indigo pine]

ima start :3

[little badger]

Do you have a favourite sonic game

[green fulcrum]

In the movies he is, but in the comics, shows, and games, he isn't, because humans live alongside the animal inhabitants (known in the fandom as Mobians based on the old Archie Sonic continuity).

[little badger]

Starting in 5 minutes some new games will be shown https://www.youtube.com/live/2oSdTPAvpZs?si=hcV-AJ0yv727Pa0t

[green fulcrum]

I'm not at home so I can't watch it. I'll check the highlights later

[little badger]

New serious Sam game https://youtu.be/jHl-GhG5szc?si=faFYgnY4HBaUgtyI

[graceful bridge]

https://youtu.be/akemL0MHLg4?si=G4BXk4UWJJFIBz70

[little badger]

[little badger]

Remember sign up for the beta

[river veldt]

any Doom news ?

[little badger]

Not yet. Did you see the Mario post?

[river veldt]

ye

[little badger]

He's voiced by sonic aka Roger Craig smith

[river veldt]

oh that's cool

[little badger]

[worthy rose]

https://www.ign.com/articles/our-teams-will-have-to-pick-up-the-pieces-fortnites-remaining-staff-say-they-cannot-even-fully-understand-the-mass-layoffs-impact-on-the-game-this-year-and-beyond oof. Is this signaling the decline of fortnite?

[slim thorn]

maybe, but I wouldn't assume corporate investment in the game is tightly correlated with player interest/loyalty/etc, especially for something fortnite-sized where the "but it's what everyone else is playing" effect applies

[astral steeple]

I mean they still have a lot of huge stuff releasing throughout the year and the years after

Including the massive disney mode

At most some stuff might be delayed but the game won't decline over all

[slim thorn]

come to think of it, what are the player numbers like

[astral steeple]

One sec

[slim thorn]

...not over just 24 hours lol

[visual hill]

finally Nintendo is marketing to furries... about time 😛

[visual hill]

check out Corporate Clash, it's the best fan server for Toontown these days in my book (better difficuly, more endgame content, etc)

I play it regularly

[slim thorn]

hm, the all-time graphs google's showing me look pretty spikey as you'd expect, but the steady playerbase seems to be somewhere around 1-3mil depending how you measure it, with a recent decline back down to 1mil

[astral steeple]

That image above uses the in game player counts

[winter cargo]

What do you mean? Krystal exists and was totally not my furry awakening. Nope.

[slim thorn]

whether this particular decline is unusually steep seems to depend on how it's graphed which I'm not qualified to judge, but it doesn't seem particularly out of step with some past declines, so these layoffs probably have just as much to do with Epic overspending during a high as it does with actual player behavior

[astral steeple]

I mean yeah tim himself said they were spending more than they were making in the layoff email

[visual hill]

I mean, it's been almost 10 years since we saw Fox in first-party Nintendo media, when you don't include Smash

meanwhile, the furry fandom grew massively (thanks to covid lockdowns), so it was a bit surprising to see him missing for so long

[winter cargo]

Was I really 27 when Starfox Zero was released!?

[visual hill]

2016, yes

[astral steeple]

The lawsuits with apple etc didn't help much either

[winter cargo]

Oh my god, I was.

[little badger]

Lance who is that in your profile picture? I'm on mobile so can't see it properly.

[astral steeple]

And them giving out GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics cards and ps5 consoles recently probably didn't help much either lol

[winter cargo]

It's a younger rendition of me with a proper beard in Starcraft Terran Power Armor

[slim thorn]

well I doubt they gave away so many of those it made a dent in their overall finances

[winter cargo]

I actually have friendly muttonchops

[little badger]

Oooooh very nice

[astral steeple]

It was 20 people who got the graphics card and 5 people who got the ps5s iirc

[fickle garnet]

They also got Dwayne Johnson for the new season, which would cost a lot

[little badger]

@graceful bridge here is the collectors edition

[astral steeple]

That too yeah

Dwayne is ridiculously expensive to cast for stuff

His last appearance in the story was over 3 years ago

Which now is like super ironic considering one of the people who got laid off was the lead narrative guy

So all they likely have for the current story will likely end abruptly within the next few seasons unless they bring him back or find another person still there on the storyline team to continue the story

[mossy flume]

Aw hell yeah

https://youtu.be/akemL0MHLg4?si=MA3rRaP832QnSQ2b

Looking fantastic

At the very least, they got The Expanse vibes part of it down

Gameplay looks awesome too

[slim thorn]

you know, it has been a long time since I played a cover shooter

[mossy flume]

The Mass Effect vibes are pretty good too

Speaking of

https://youtu.be/vZ3pQzb23JM?si=ojDLDLdIgl7qDAPt

Even more Mass Effect

[little badger]

[mossy flume]

The Expanse will be a shorter game, from what I understand

Which is a little unfortunate, but if they make a good quality experience it’ll be a fair trade off

[little badger]

It's actually 30-40 hours long depending how you play

[mossy flume]

Not too bad

[slim thorn]

yeah, in 2026 I'm always going to prefer a shorter game with zero filler

[mossy flume]

That’s fair

[little badger]

If you get any founders edition the beta lasts until the game launches

[mossy flume]

Also might be a little eurojank. The studio is known for CRPGs, so doing a third person shooter is a shift.

But from their trailer here it appears they have the gameplay side down

At the very least they’ll have the storytelling and world building down, and that’s quite important for The Expanse

[little badger]

Midnight DLC when

[mossy flume]

I’m looking forward to it. Looks very good.

[wind stump]

out of the B L U E?

[winter cargo]

Well, I finally own Starcraft 2. Still on the Terran Campaign of 1. Specifically... Episode 1, not 5

[wind stump]

god i love kirby

it's just always a nice comfy game

if you couldn't tell from my bio

[slim thorn]

Kirby just wouldn't be the same without that teensy dash of eldritch horror

[wind stump]

he just be vibin

[astral steeple]

Doom 64 is apparently free to claim on xbox for anyone who is interested lol

Image Is from Wario64 on Twitter etc

[visual hill]

those giveaways cost a drop in the bucket, probably nothing for them in fact since the brand providing hardware is usually the one who pays for it (in exchange for advertising)

[wind stump]

a few stamps

[wind stump]

MOVE THINE ASS

[fresh bane]

Legitimately really funny to imagine the children watching this movie thinking ''who tf is this guy? ''

I don't even know when was the last Starfox game but that franchise hasn't had the kind of relevancy it had since.... like, the Gamecube....?

https://youtu.be/w-1n05w4-cE?si=KBwWRMKkeP7Fkz-D

Also Hades 2 coming to Xbox game pass + a brand new animated snippet made just for this announcement

I have to link the Xbox video because the thumbnail from the Supergiant yt account I don't think I could get away with sharing here

[wind stump]

I love glitches

[arctic fern]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/305620 oh i didnt know the long dark is 90% off rn

Steam

The Long Dark

Bright lights flare across the night sky. The wind rages outside the thin walls of your wooden cabin. A wolf howls in the distance. You look at the meager supplies in your pack, and wish for the days before the power mysteriously went out. How much longer will you survive?…

Price

$3.49

Recommendations

105573

[winter cargo]

DOOM 64 is great but its punch animation is... Awkward

[river veldt]

pawnch

[frozen gate]

yeah sadly you can only play it on the nintendo 64 due to the console's 64 cpus that doom 64 requires to run it

the series x ofc has no cpus as you can tell by the big X that stands for No (cpus)

[visual hill]

shotgun is more awkward to me, it feels so unsatisfying to look at when you shoot it 🙁

the Doom 64: Absolution (or Retribution) GZDoom mods fixed this by making it closer to the PC version, but this wasn't included in the re-release

the re-release has a bunch of features cut from earlier efforts to be closer to "canon", including Kaiser's own Doom 64 EX

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/W1FbDuRWPho?si=N8F5XvOqax69sbkY

Thank you youtube recommendations

That was a very important video

also apparently that game that got announced is part of the world of VTMB if I'm not mistaken? The hunter one, I never heard of that franchise though

[winter cargo]

Well, I'm back to the one mission that I've always gotten stuck on in Starcraft which sucks, but hey. Seriously, whoever designed New Gettysburg. Congratulations. You're a dick.

For those who do not know... the objectives are that the Protoss attacking force be completely eradicated, No Zerg Building be destroyed, and... and Kerrigan must survive. Sounds easy, right?

The protoss have no problem assaulting the Zerg. The Zerg seem more focused on killing you. And the Protoss will have no qualms about killing you. So you're in a melee a trois... and everyone wants you dead.

[green fulcrum]

Oooooh, is that the one where afterwards the Zerg automatically overwhelm you and Kerrigan gets left behind in the story?

That mission's a beast

I remember I made this massive wall of bunkers, goliaths, anti-air towers, siege tanks, and more, just dumped them all into that one chokepoint the Zerg keep coming down from, just far enough away that they wouldn't go aggro'ing onto any of the buildings. I would then use whatever forces I had left to whittle away at the Protoss (and using ghosts to nuke them from afar).

By the end of the mission, my wall of tanks and bunkers and anti-air actually held. Not a single Zerg was getting through and there was just a massive amount of corpses on that chokepoint ramp. It was glorious.

[minor plover]

I believe this is the standard strat. Wall off against the zerg and then just build a good-enough force against the Protoss.

[green fulcrum]

It is, but I went above and beyond.

They would not take Kerrigan alive on my watch :P

[winter cargo]

Wait, you can do that!?

[minor plover]

yeah, just build bunkers and siege tanks behind supply depots -- make sure the tanks are far enough back they can't hit the stuff up on the ridge -- and then focus on your anti-Protoss attack force

I've done it with battlecruisers above my bunkers IIRC

[green fulcrum]

Yeah, you can also just tell units to stand their ground and not move, so that any units that are free-floating like battlecruisers basically act as stationary towers.

[quiet swift]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Major-PS5-and-PS5-Pro-price-increase-rumored-as-Sony-faces-memory-shortage.1259950.0.html oh boy. On the plus side, it might make the steam machine price look reasonable in comparison!

[mossy flume]

Ah, Sony finally ran out of their stockpile, I see

[fresh bane]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/1s433su/silent_hill_f_to_get_a_manga_adaptation_with_a/

Silent Hill f is getting another ending

https://www.rxddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/1s4p68e/dmc5_devil_hunter_edition_rated_in_taiwan_for/

also DMC5 possibly coming to Switch 2

probably the Special Edition
if they add any Switch 2 exclusive content I'm gonna be so mad

[ripe mica]

Why you never fight the elderly in anime

Game is called Samurai Bringer btw

The gundam version (Metal Bringer) is the latest one that's been released

[orchid sundial]

good thing I got mine before this price increase

can the bubble just pop already

also, these insane prices are driving me into pc gaming more

because at least with your pc build it can stick around for longer

[little badger]

PS5 prices are going up also the portal and pro are as well

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/03/27/new-price-changes-for-ps5-ps5-pro-and-playstation-portal-remote-player/

[light gate]

You’re telling me that I can now sell a used PS5 for $365 dollars?

Heck, even $400 sounds like a bargain, holy hell.

[little badger]

Just imaging what the PS6 will cost

[light gate]

At that point I wouldn’t even bother

[teal sonnet]

Just wait for XBOX Copilot S and XBOX Copilot X

their prices will be crazy

Plus the subscription for XBOX Gaming Copilot+

where AI will give you tutorials and tips, even play for for you

[quiet swift]

You say that but sony is the one who has applied for/put in a patent for exactly that

[slim thorn]

it would be hilarious if that somehow stopped them

[frozen gate]

yeah, the hunter game is set in the world of darkness

massive frequency illusion on me cuz it got announced when i started playing vtmb

[astral steeple]

lmao apparently this is in sony's TOS

[green fulcrum]

Lol, that's not gonna stop people from selling games to their friends.

[indigo pine]

its also unenforsable

[little badger]

It's been there for years they will never do anything about it

[winter cargo]

Finally, after 26 years I eget to play Starcraft Episode 2 as I have finally destroyed the Ion Cannon. I had a different name for it

Feels nice to see Zerg Campaign incomplete instead of Terran finally

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/0XbyOWe5ITU?si=x6utx-JdDrQaSc9R

why yes youtube I would like another hour long video essay on how hellish it is to be a tomb raider developer despite having played no games yet and never looking up anything about tomb raider before

[gaunt marten]

You never looked up anything about tomb raider?

I figured you'd be a big fan

[fresh bane]

You would think so, but I just never really stumbled upon the franchise before and I never went out of my way to look up anything about it

I'm only now thinking about just doing a TR marathon and playing at least the first three games and hopefully also the other 3 or so afterwards

if I wanna get into it I might as well get the full experience

[hasty patio]

https://www.ign.com/articles/legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-switch-2-remake-reportedly-coming-this-christmas-new-star-fox-this-summer

[river veldt]

interesting

[fresh bane]

Weirdly enough if that's true that would be kinda disappointing

[wind stump]

oh you can use Sand in Return to Dreamland Deluxe like Whip to collect stuff through walls

i think this power is a tad op

it's like if Whip and Leaf had a weird sandy baby

[mossy flume]

Interestingly enough, I’ve been contemplating the idea of Super Metroid and OoT/MM remakes as of late… it would make sense to revisit these at this point.

[fresh bane]

back at Core things only went from bad to worse when Sony changed the specs of the PS2 hardware for revisions to the console. The Next Generation team had been working on unfinished Playstation 2 architecture and now with such a radical change in internal hardware they were forced to scrap over a year's worth of work including the engine they'd made
oh wow so the development of these games is just straight up cursed then

[mossy flume]

I still want to see Twilight Princess again, though

[river veldt]

Super Metroid remake with Dread controls 🤤

[fresh bane]

I don't see much of a point on remaking a game that already had a successful remake in the 3DS that everyone still continues to ask for a port of, I was expecting a brand new Zelda by this point not another Wild sequel or a remake

[mossy flume]

Mercury Steam is rumored to have been assigned to making a Super Metroid remake, but who knows if that’s remotely true or not.

I think they would have the experience necessary to do it right

[mossy flume]

I’d be happy with a port of the 3DS remake, but I certainly wouldn’t complain about a fresh one in an updated engine

[fresh bane]

I would hope MercurySteam would use the momentum of Samus Returns and Dread both being pretty successful to start a new phase for Metroid, they're not really doing frequent enough releases to do what Capcom is doing where they release a new game and a remake almost yearly, so focusing on a bunch of remakes now would kinda feel like taking some steps back

[mossy flume]

Dunno about new Zelda, though. I’m sure they’re exploring the next entry.

Just might be a bit until it shows up.

[river veldt]

TotK wasn't too long ago

only 3 years

[mossy flume]

They did say shortly after TotK launched that they were looking into it

[river veldt]

interesting

[mossy flume]

Maybe. But on the other hand, Super Metroid has never gotten a remake or remaster of any sort.

either way is fine with me

I might prefer Metroid 6, but a modern Super Metroid would be great too

[river veldt]

i think a Super remake in the style of Dread would be amazing

[cerulean herald]

is Dread your fav Metroid game

[mossy flume]

It’s probably my favorite 2D Metroid, yeah

[river veldt]

same

[cerulean herald]

what about for 3D

[river veldt]

idk i havent played much of the Prime games

[wind stump]

[mossy flume]

I adore all of the Prime games, but either Prime 1 or Prime 3 is my favorite

[fresh bane]

https://fxbsky.app/profile/moomanibe.bsky.social/post/3mi2w5wyycs2i

Aura/Moom (@moomanibe.bsky.social)

okay this turning out to be actual concept art because the real actual concept art - being internal and not for public use - WAS IN FACT a paintover of ninja gaiden 2 art, is incredibly, incredibly funny. now that's real gamedev

Quoting cullen Forever! The Movie (@cullenforever.bsky.social)
︀
Apparently their art book just has stolen and recolored art from Ninja Gaiden II lmaooo
︀︀www.reddit.com/r/ninjagaide...

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FxBluesky · Mar 27, 2026, 8:06 PM

https://fxbsky.app/profile/cullenforever.bsky.social/post/3mhyfq7fxpc2w

cullen Forever! The Movie (@cullenforever.bsky.social)

Apparently their art book just has stolen and recolored art from Ninja Gaiden II lmaooo
︀︀www.reddit.com/r/ninjagaiden/comments/1s4bz81/the_new_bloodrayne_collection_is_using_sonias/

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FxBluesky · Mar 26, 2026, 8:06 PM

so first of all, apparently there's gonna be a Bloodrayne collection? so that's pretty awesome

secondly, amongst the sea of genAI theft stories going around, it's refreshing to find one where it's just good old human-made plagiarism

https://fxbsky.app/profile/pimscrypt.bsky.social/post/3mhyfayvn6k2d

Pim’s Crypt! (@pimscrypt.bsky.social)

The trailer for Bloodrayne Definitive Collection contains something I think I’ve never seen in any video game trailer previously.
︀︀
︀︀The Nvidia screen recording notification in the top right corner.
︀︀
︀︀Not once.
︀︀
︀︀But TWICE!?
︀︀
︀︀BECAUSE THEY REUSED THE CLIP!!
︀︀
︀︀Love it!!!

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FxBluesky · Mar 26, 2026, 7:58 PM

lol apparently you can see the nvidia recording notification on the corner of the footage used on the trailer

[wind stump]

thought this was bloodborne for a second

[fresh bane]

if you squint really hard its kinda like bloodborne

but with a hot vampire lady instead

[winter cargo]

Dhampyr

[wind stump]

oh hey, a character that didn't exist at this point in the original game!

[winter cargo]

Alucard is hotter

[wind stump]

wife

[cerulean herald]

was my Switch pfp before learning she was from a Kirby game

[wind stump]

and then you stopped using her as an avatar

[cerulean herald]

it has been ages since I touched my Switch, lemme check

nvm
no battery

[winter cargo]

The red one is hotter

I'll see myself out

[fresh bane]

https://fxbsky.app/profile/bearfestival.bsky.social/post/3mhyuc6uisk2z

Bear Festival - 3D Artist (@bearfestival.bsky.social)

I feel like this shot I got in Pokopia goes unnecessarily hard

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FxBluesky · Mar 27, 2026, 12:27 AM

It surprises me that it took this long for them to combine Animal Crossing with Pokemon

you'd think they would've done it in the Wii era or something

actually, the Wii did have some weird Pokemon spin offs but I never played them

[mossy flume]

There are many things that they haven’t done that they really seem like they should do.

It’s weird how few games are built around the premise of playing as a Pokémon

[fickle garnet]

I should try Pokemon Mystery Dungeon

[fresh bane]

I think the ones I'm talking about from the Wii have you play as Pikachu

the PokePark games

but I have no idea what they're about, the other Wii game is like Stadium which is cool

[mossy flume]

You play as a few different ones, I think

But yeah

PokéPark are among the few games I haven’t played

[visual hill]

Pokken Tournament was a thing too

my only interaction with it is watching a video titled "Is there still hope for Pokken Tournament?" (competitively, that is)

I think Betteridge's law of headlines did the hardwork here.

[fickle garnet]

How many PMD games are there, or is it only one?

[mossy flume]

There are 4 main PMD games

And three Japan-only WiiWare titles, but those can be ignored

1. Red Rescue Team [GBA]/Blue Rescue Team [DS]/Rescue Team DX [Switch 1 remake]
2. Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky [DS, where Sky is the “definitive third version”]
3. Gates to Infinity [3DS]
4. Super Mystery Dungeon [3DS]

PMD1 is pretty good but suffers from First Game Disease, and Explorers of Sky is typically considered the best of them all. Although some argue that Gates to Infinity is best instead.

It’s sorta an anthology series, none of them have much of anything to do with each other story-wise. They’re all self-contained, but carry over similar ideas between them.

So they can be played in any order.

[fickle garnet]

I see

[uneven epoch]

from the point of QoL features, pmdx is probably best. such nicer menuing of, everything really

every pokemon direct a tiny voice in my head goes "sky remake?" and alas

[mossy flume]

Indeed

My only complaint with DX is that the animation isn’t as nice as the original sprites

The sprite animation was quite fluid and DX’s animation work is stiff by comparison

But it is overall an improvement over the original versions in gameplay

I really want a Sky remake… that would just make my day

I’m a little torn though, I’m not sure if I would prefer a Sky remake or PMD5

[uneven epoch]

its always cute when inevitably the newest starter group gets put in pmd gear. favorite sort of fanart

https://www.tumblr.com/s0upjuice/809931094456680448/the-new-starters-are-so-pmdable

[cinder hatch]

Tried to make Rainbow Dash in tomodachi life living the dream

[winter cargo]

So after playing as the Zerg for 6 missions I have come to a conclusion.

I do not like playing as the Zerg in Starcraft. It feels... weird.

[minor plover]

Zerg in SC1/Brood War is hard to get your head around

[quiet swift]

They do take some getting used to. Also, don't forget to make multiple hives to pump out units faster

[minor plover]

yeah, zerg you really want to be expanding and building macro hatches and such

[quiet swift]

Put all the hives in a control group, then select all larva, evolve into units, bam, instant large group

[obsidian salmon]

it's been 7,000 years...

[winter cargo]

I have my name on about 400 systems in that game.

I also charted out a Neutron Highway to Beagle Point. This was before Fleet Carriers became a thing.

I still remember the vessel I used to make it there. Explorer 5. That number wasn't symbolic, there were 4 that came before it. The first one I blew up intentionally at Sagittarius A*. The second one I was going to make a quick White Dwarf jump to a different system to restock(The one with Jameson Memorial), I got caught in its field and that blew up. Explorer 3 didn't even make it out the station. Explorer 4 blew up exactly how Explorer 2 did

But to anyone who wants to chart a new system. Get out of the bubble, do not make a beeline for Beagle and do not go to Colonia. There are millions of systems out there waiting for you to find em and chart them.

[river veldt]

in Halo in the level "343 Guilty Spark" the part where Master Chief watches the footage of that squad of soldiers discovering the Flood is ripped straight from Aliens lol

[bitter stream]

huh, wild haha

[green fulcrum]

Each race has a different playstyle that suits them best.

Zerg: Expand, expand, expand, lightning attacks with overwhelming numbers of fragile units whose main strength comes from the adage of "they can't kill all of us at once". That's pretty much all there is to it. They have the weirdest methods of creating troops and bases, requiring that you sacrifice units to create more, but you have a LOT of reserves, and because overlords act as your supply chain, you can stick most of them in a corner somewhere and basically forget about them and use the rest as observers.

Terrans: hunker down and play defensively. Use supply depots and bunkers to create walls that enemy units can't get past, set up choke points, use siege tanks at strategic locations where melee units can't reach them, and use the subtler approach to combat by using nukes, air raids, and entrenching tactics.

Protoss: a combination of both, really. Their units are expensive so you can't make a lot of them, but you can be sure that you'll get your money's worth for each one. Their main advantage is that they can set up bases extremely quickly and you only need a single probe to do it, whoch makes expanding very easy. For combat, they're a hammer and anvil. Build smaller armies with strong troops, and send them out over and over again. This doesn't give the enemy enough time to rebuild, so it will inevitably punch through their defenses through sheer brute force. Also, micromanage. Multiple Protoss units have psionic abilities and buffs/debuffs. Using them will make things a lot easier. Also also, dark templar. One of the best units in the game to go up against Terran opponents. Send out small search-and-destroy squads of four or five and have them attack from multiple angles. The Terrans can't have eyes everywhere. Dark templars are also excellent at wiping out an opponent's economy without alerting them, because they can kill probes and drones in one hit (not SCVs, though), which does not set off the "we're under attack" alarm.

[cerulean herald]

wait is this where that Zerg Rush meme comes from

[fresh bane]

I should really get WC3 again or Age of Mythology and get back to RTS games and really get down to the nitty gritty of the genre
I remember when I would check some high level plays or something it all seemed so unnatainable, like my head can't possibly compute it
When I was a kid playing WC3 and AoM my usual strategy was always turtle the fuck down exactly where you spawn and just keep building this big army and just sort of wait for the enemy to come to me

The idea of having a certain win condition to strive towards, focus on certain materials first, prioritize certain units first, send scout groups to harass/find the enemy and check their progress, etc never even crossed my mind
It was all work work work, get wood get gold train grunt, that's how you win right?

Oh wait I guess I can't get WC3 anymore, they replaced it with that remastered version...

[bitter stream]

could wait for a sale on Age of Mythology, I think it got a remaster right?

[fresh bane]

It did and it sounds like it's really great
But.... my Orcs.... And my elves.... WC3 was the one that got me into RTS at all I'd play it all the time on cyber cafes coming home from school

[bitter stream]

yeah fair enough

[indigo pine]

just found out you cant upgrade non iconic weapons in cyberpunk

[arctic fern]

yes

[indigo pine]

its stupid.

[arctic fern]

the reason being that if you liked an iconic but were low level when you got it, youre not fucked

why

just get a new gun

[indigo pine]

because i have to rely on random chance to get a new usefull upgrade to guns. and some dont even have upgrade slots

[arctic fern]

yeah

thats how it be

thats how most RPGs work?

hell the ability to upgrade iconics is realy generous

[indigo pine]

it used to not be that way within it. if you had the matterial you could upgrade stuff

also. most rpgs that include crafting do allow for weapon upgrading

[arctic fern]

yes! many RPGs DO let you craft new, better weapons!

or they make you have one iconic weapon (type) you upgrade!

[random steppe]

Those upgrade requirements get kind of crazy later in the game, I think it's done so you don't use precious material on weapons you can just drop

I am just happy that now the weapons aren't with random rarity anymore

Which made little sense for a sci-fi setting

[indigo pine]

am just kinda miffed that i cant keep the same weapon i find and upgrade it to high hell

[random steppe]

Makes sense, you can do that with iconic weapons that do end up being the most interesting of the bunch at the end of the day, but yeah, I understand the complaint

[indigo pine]

also i am a sucker for shotguns. ive barely used any other weapon

[arctic fern]

there arent as many iconic shotguns, thats fair

[winter cargo]

Wait? There are weapons in Cyberpunk other than Gorilla Arms?

[indigo pine]

yes

[winter cargo]

I never knew that. I sort of solve all of Night City's problems by punching it til it stops being a problem

Including MaxTac

[indigo pine]

yea. you can absiluetly go that. i prefer. going to spitting distance and just pumping them wtih lead

[wind stump]

YERRR GAMBLING

[indigo pine]

also one more thing i am kinda miffed about. but also its more understanfable. the fact that i cant put ammo in my car although thats more so a thing that can be solved with mods

[cinder hatch]

Gameplay

[indigo pine]

i dont know what does the calculations

[arctic fern]

Do you prefer double barrel or pump action?

Thats really the question here
Figure out which play style you like more

[indigo pine]

double barrel definetly. but like. the double barrel has everything better. yet its calculated asa downgrade

[arctic fern]

Because the pump has a higher dps i think

[indigo pine]

ic

[arctic fern]

Which is why its up to preference

Weapons in cyberpunk are limited yet varied
Stronger guns are "just" stronger versions of the same guns
There are only two types of double barrel shotgun for example
I think a third in dogtown?
Not including iconics that is

[green fulcrum]

@uneven epoch Iirc you really liked KCD. Sorry to bear some bad news :(

https://kotaku.com/kingdom-come-2-translator-gen-ai-fired-warhorse-2000682854

[indigo pine]

yea. short barrel. long barrel. and one i havent encountered,
short barrel is very good for burst damage and fast reload. long barrel is good for sustained fire

[wind stump]

https://youtu.be/tLH-1P_VrvA

[gaunt marten]

Yes

[winter cargo]

Guys, I don't think Humanity is going to win this particular match. I kept advancing by making Photon Cannons to protect my nexuses so that I could get a supply base running while prepping a proper frontline base. I've also been running my observer around.

I've been prepping for like a doomsday fleet of terran battle cruisers, nukes to rain down from the sky, siege tanks to blast me from afar.

Turns out the Terrans have sat around with their thumbs up their ass all game.

They just got an academy

And because of pathfinding they were able to capture literally... the entire map because my force of dragoons couldn't figure out that they could walk around a building and instead tried to move down the highway. All of them.

[worthy rose]

I see you are using the carrots skins

Carbot *

[winter cargo]

I watched that entire series. My niece was watching me dying on the floor laughing

And then she watched me cry during the finale

[green fulcrum]

His Helldivers 2 series is very similar to it

Though it's not as popular (or as lengthy)

[winter cargo]

As I have a terrible idea for a skin pack for Starcraft 1/Brood War

Pony themed Now you can see a pony in a Dragoon

[visual hill]

https://github.com/m-x-d/Heretic2R
Heretic 2 source port, at last

[wind stump]

It's over 8000!

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/SEBz6QP55LU?si=0aTOckD6pcdThRQl

God the soundtrack for this game is just so phenomenal it's so nice to listen to

I might have to do another Crow Country playthrough....

maybe throw Signalis into the mix I haven't played that one since 2022 or something

[mossy flume]

What game is this?

[wind stump]

The Coin Game

it's an arcade sim

With both a sandbox and survival mode

[winter cargo]

But can you die for good in Survival Mode and give your life to Aiur?

[wind stump]

nah

[winter cargo]

So it's not as survival as My Summer Car

[visual hill]

funny easter egg in Brutal Wolfenstein

[mossy flume]

I'm watching Aliens and I'm realizing that everyone at Bungie must've been required to watch this. Because the aesthetics of so many elements are so damn similar to Halo.

[winter cargo]

It's possible it was just an accident

[random steppe]

I mean, not really an accident, it's more like that Aliens did create a lot of the sci-fi aesthetic

[mossy flume]

Yep

But also, just watching it I see inspirations and designs that are so similar and specific that they can't be accidental.

But it makes sense, conceptually

[random steppe]

It's a bit as if you look at the aliens from Helldivers, are they taking inspiration from Starcraft, Starship Troopers or WH40k,
The answer is "yes" because all of those things loop on each other all the time

[winter cargo]

As a creative I can definitely say that there are times creatives will create a thing. Think it's original. And then realize they had created something exactly the same as something they saw when they were younger or even recently

[river veldt]

from Halo's wiki page

Bungie has also acknowledged James Cameron's film Aliens as a strong cinematic influence.[95]

[mossy flume]

[river veldt]

it is cool

i am enjoying my second playthrough of Halo CE a lot more than my first

[winter cargo]

I recently played all the bungie Halo Games. Most for the second time. Reach for the first. But ODST for my first time? I was actually very surprised. I loved it

Reach is still the best

[fresh bane]

30 dollars?!

this might end up being fighting game of the year

''the fighting game'' is still such an awful subtitle, it reeks of all those ''[thing]: The Game!'' titles from 2000s movie tie-in PS2 games

pretty good base roster

https://youtu.be/NSPaqSNHupo?si=sGaWDcOds69c88rJ

[winter cargo]

Aww, I can't play as my waifu

Uncle Iroh

I'm going to have to point out that the Waifu bit is a joke. I genuinely like Uncle Iroh.

[dense crypt]

i should show this game to my aunt, she loves Avatar

[gaunt marten]

I thought the avatar was there to stop fighting

[green fulcrum]

Eh, he's still gotta know how to fight, and thus needs to train.

[cerulean herald]

violent pacifism

[dense crypt]

Baruuk Warframe

[rotund forge]

I have acquired...the Apollo Justtice Ace Attorney trilogy

[arctic fern]

Nice

There is the #1155888464089329765 thread if you wanna discuss it

Ive been playing through investigations

I love watching people play the AA games, as does bringi

[winter cargo]

I need to crack that open and play through it at some point.

[arctic fern]

Its worth it

Well... there are some rough points in each game, bjt the overall story is so well written

[cunning galleon]

Let's mentally torture myself by 100%ing PS2 GTA San Andreas on my phone

(I'm not actually gonna do it, I'm just trying it out)

[wind stump]

aw shit, here we go again

[indigo pine]

apperantly. me rushing and doing all the police work in teh sector led me to having already required itmes. kek

[visual hill]

the future of Assetto Corsa Rally modding: https://v.redd.it/aoiaixqir0pg1/CMAF_1080.mp4?source=fallback

@wind stump ^ 😛

[wind stump]

THE DORO

[indigo pine]

kinda mood

[cerulean herald]

[indigo pine]

honestly one thing i might do is remove the level cap. i already have 20 street cred and im havent even got 4 missions deep in the story line

also. less stress about being locked out

[winter cargo]

There's a Level Cap?

I know about the street cred cap, that's 50, I have that. But a level one?

[indigo pine]

60

with dlc

50 without

i changed it to 221

bevcause a limitation for no apperant reason is one i dont like

sure. by the end. if i grind it ill be overpowered. but that at least rewarding me for putting the effort

[random steppe]

I mean, to each their own, but I'm gonna say I never felt the need for a higher levelcap in Cyberpunk

If anything towards the end lvl ups were an annoyance because I could just kill everything already and then some.

[indigo pine]

i like hoarding stuff. my car trunk has 400 something weapons already

[winter cargo]

I was like level 32 by the time I ||went into Arasaka tower with Jackie.||

The security must have shat a brick when I punched their mech into scrap metal.

[indigo pine]

dont spoil ;-;

am still on the pickup

[winter cargo]

Sorry

[indigo pine]

dont worry!

[winter cargo]

I also picked a fight with the NCPD until they sicced MaxTac on me... and killed two MaxTac operatives, with my bare hands

[indigo pine]

that can be fun.

i might do it at later

[winter cargo]

I joked that after doing that and escaping with my life, there is no one in Night City that doesn't know my name

[winter cargo]

My niece got me to play Kingdom hearts again, and all I could remember is one line from Red vs Blue.

"Or it's a key all the time and when you stick it in people, it unlocks their death."

Which is kinda how keyblades work

[fresh bane]

weird, I seem to remember in the PS1 version this cutscene just plays automatically as soon as you pass by here, in the GC version I have to actually interact with the door, it actually caught me off guard because I couldn't tell if it would play at all so I guess maybe it was intentional...

this could've gone better but I'll definitely be needing to master this dodge as best as I can, taking a pip or two of damage in exchange for saving up ammo is a good trade-off

[river veldt]

Morrowind theme is so good

im not actually playing im watching Jerma

[hidden elbow]

So i finished Sotn and it had gorgeous atmosphere and aesthetics, really fun exploration and gear but also...it felt a little too easy

[hidden elbow]

Like only at first forth of normal and first forth of inverted castle I haven't felt absolutely overpowered

[rotund forge]

My bro found a ton of Atari game cartridges yesterday

[winter cargo]

I had a dumb idea while playing a little bit of Kingdom Hearts between exercise and working on my book.

What if instead of a keyblade, Sora had a gun

[bitter stream]

"And for his B special, he has a gun!"

wait, would that make it a persona game?

[winter cargo]

I mean he does have magic and summons, so... kind of

[bitter stream]

and you could build social links? it kinda fits

I don't really understand KH story though

[winter cargo]

That's the neat part. No one else does either. And I say this as someone who has been following it since I was 15

[bitter stream]

doesn't that get in the way of the audience of the game understanding why things are happening though?

[winter cargo]

I've never asked why others are into the series. I just kinda gave up following the greater plot and started nodding my head along around Birth by Sleep.

The series starts to feel like the Star Wars Prequels at times. Nomura has an idea and no one has the courage to tell him no.

With how complicated the lore and story is, I could write a thesis paper on the Dark seeker saga alone

[bitter stream]

yeah fair enough

why are you into it?

[winter cargo]

This is going to be strange coming from someone who is self-admittedly a goth, but the colorful environments, the message of friendship and bonds basically endear me to the series. It also really helps that the gameplay is extremely fun to me, with all sorts of options for how I approach combat.

Also Billy Zane in the first game as Ansem. Richard Epcar isn't bad, but he more fits Xemnas' emotionless state than Ansem's hammier personality.

Plus kind of been a fan of the series for 22 years. I might not have melody of memory(yet), but I still love the games. They're fun.

[bitter stream]

ah awesome

and honestly that makesk sense to me

this is an MLP server after all

[little badger]

Xbox showcase on June 7th. And the full reveal of Gears of war E-Day after it

@sage raptor it's been a while since we heard about the new game

[eager bane]

June 7th huh
I think I'll be in Italy around then

[sage raptor]

I am waiting patiently. Very excited tho :)

[little badger]

insert it's been 84 years meme here

How you been? Haven't seen you here in a while

[sage raptor]

I've been well, thank you. Playing a lot of games

[little badger]

What you been playing? I've just been going back to old games recently.

[sage raptor]

Played RE9 like 4 times, and now I'm playing it again with the new VR mod.

And started Death Stranding 2 :)

[little badger]

Ooooh nice. Could I add you as a friend on here?

[sage raptor]

Of course

[slim thorn]

The KH story isn’t as hard to follow as the memes often imply. There is a lot going on, but (when you aren’t waiting years between games) most of it is no harder than any other long-running series that’s built up a lot of lore at a reasonable pace. If anything, the overarching story of KH1-3 is relatively straightforward compared to some franchises since everything is Xehanort’s fault and the answer is always more power of friendship

(not to say there aren’t any real story problems, but the real ones like “way too many side games between 2 and 3” or “DDD overcomplicated things” or “nothing interesting happened in Coded” or “did you have to fridge Aqua for that long?” don’t make the memes)

[gaunt marten]

This is why I wait for shows to be finished before I watch them

[orchid sundial]

they made a port/remaster of the game for the NVIDIA Shield which was a hybrid of the GCN/Wii versions, it would be cool to see them do it again for Switch 2, though they're most likely just going to release the GCN version

also with the new Xbox exploit discovered, I wonder how much a hacked Xbox One would cost

the Xbox One we have is the first model

[indigo pine]

mamamia!

[hushed onyx]

I found out today that Old World is having a 90% off flash sale:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/597180/Old_World/

Steam

Old World

Old World is a historical strategy game where you lead your empire through multiple generations, building a grand legacy to last beyond your own years. This is an era of great leaders, from the revered to the feared. Which will you be?…

Price

$3.99

Recommendations

5330

Metacritic

80

I've heard good things about it...

And it's been on my wishlist for a while, so I picked it up.

[hushed onyx]

On a different note, the old controller I had "borrowed" permanently to have a controller for the odd game doesn't work with my Mac any more

Does anyone have any suggestions for a replacement...?

I'm not likely to ever get a console, but it would be nice to have one that will also work with a PC (not that this is a particularly stringent criteria).

[gaunt marten]

The PS5 controller is pretty good for PC use

[hushed onyx]

I was about to mention that the "obvious" "safe" choice would be a Dualsense controller since Apple provides official support for it, but it costs $74 and it seems stupid to get a Playstation controller when I'm not likely to ever own a Playstation.

[gaunt marten]

It looks weird but feels fine and lasts a while and has no big flaws

[mossy flume]

I think both the Xbox and PS5 controllers work well. I can do some testing for you with either kind if you have any specific requests.

But yes, I use both the PS5 and Xbox controllers for PC gaming and they work well for that purpose.

When it comes to Mac it might be a little bit different, but nothing comes to mind immediately

[hushed onyx]

Nah, I was just wondering if anyone knew of any third-party controllers that might be cheaper and just as good.

[mossy flume]

Hmmm… unfortunately I’m not well versed in that market

I’m sure there are some good ones somewhere

Well I do have 8BitDo controllers…

[hushed onyx]

Just as good bearing in mind that there are only a few games that I play that require controllers, to clarify.

[mossy flume]

But they’re not much cheaper, if at all

[gaunt marten]

Just as good? No

[mossy flume]

Flitter is probably right. Meeting “just as good” is probably a tall ask.

[hushed onyx]

Hmmmm, well, again, I really only have a few games that need a controller. So when I said "just as good," I meant in the sense that if you spent maybe 20-30 hours using it over a relatively short period of time and then put it in a box, it wouldn't be especially worse than a first-party controller.

But I'll probably just get a Dualsense.

[orchid sundial]

i was thinking about getting the orange box on xbox but i found out you need game pass to play tf2 so no thanks

[fresh bane]

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Incredible how this game refuses to be forgotten

[gaunt marten]

Can't forget a game if I have no idea what it is

[river veldt]

Façade

[astral steeple]

https://youtu.be/IV_MnwHPpqk

[craggy vine]

I always thought this game was basically an early form of ai

[gaunt marten]

Not an early form

AI has been around for decades before it

[craggy vine]

Ai is from like the 80s then?

1995 is one decade before that game. 1985 is 2 decades.

[gaunt marten]

1950s

[craggy vine]

oh damn

[gaunt marten]

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

This is only counting artificial intelligence as a technology, not as an idea

[fresh bane]

Eeeeeh not exactly, it's not that much different in concept from choosing different dialogue choices in an RPG and getting a different response, it's just incredibly in-depth and sophisticated so there's loads of different responses to loads of different things you can say and how you can say them, and it took the devs a lot of time to make it
I think they were the first ones to try to make something like this into a proper game, but the way that game works isn't exactly the way a LLM works

I mean the game probably still uses artifical intelligence of course, but nowadays what is generally understood as being ''AI'' isn't the same as what the term actually means

[craggy vine]

I see I see

I haven't seen the game since I was like 13 to be fair as well

[slim thorn]

a lot of people have been recently misusing "AI" as if it specifically meant LLMs and/or generative AI, but "AI" has always been a far broader category than that

[fresh bane]

The devs did resurface and are supposedly working on a new game that is actually implementing ''AI'' (whatever that means) into the game but we'll see what that actually results in, if it ends up being some really bad chatbot I'd be heavily disappointed, I would imagine a more sophisticated integration of the technology currently being used to better aid what those guys were going for which is try to imitate the natural flow of a conversation as accurately as possible

[river veldt]

daisy daisyyyy give me your answer dooo

[hasty patio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyZ-J_fCokI

[mossy flume]

https://youtu.be/MILJzR0x3IY

[fresh bane]

five. thousand. korok seeds.

https://tenor.com/view/unngh-breath-of-the-wild-zelda-korok-gif-16494171950178284069

Really funny how a lot of the comments are saying ''man a open world zelda with linear well designed dungeons would be so nice''
You're describing Link Between Worlds.
It's just Link Between Worlds.
Oh my god just play A Link Between Worlds!!!!

[river veldt]

or Link to the Past

[fresh bane]

This kind of thing is really annoying when it happens, I feel like it happens a lot more with japanese creators, ''oh yeah I created some of the games that 3 decades later are still considered some of the best in history but whatever those are old now look at this new gameplay and design philosophy though! Everything has to be made like this going forward!!''

Capcom notoriously didn't really want to allow GOG to do the really good brand new PC ports they did for Resident Evil because they didn't see the value on it, because why would anyone want to play those old games when the clearly objectively superior version exists now? It's not like RE1-2 are always described as some of the best games ever made or anything....
It's just this really weird handwaving and almost distaste for their previous work and an obsession with the new thing, it's very strange and annoying coming from creators who are so skilled at what they do

I don't remember if it was a confirmed thing or just a theory that it was because of him but some of the changes made to Majora's Mask 3D kinda exemplify a bit of Aonuma's mindset like that too, a lot of what made Majora's Mask so unique and strange was sanded down and made to work like a conventional Zelda experience, some aspects could be a little confusing or difficult but ultimately it's what makes the experience fun but at that time they probably thought ''this plays nothing like a new Zelda like Skyward Sword so we need to fix this'', and it created a really strange mixed bag especially when OOT3D was so excellent

[winter cargo]

What if I wanna play Bort instead of Link?

[river veldt]

you can name him Bort

[winter cargo]

I haven't watched BrainscratchComms in almost a decade. I still name Link Bort every time I can

[river veldt]

im boring and just name him Link every time lol

[winter cargo]

Well, there was that one time I named him My Dude. Which makes everyone, even ganondorf really chill

CURSE YOU... My Dude!

[bitter stream]

"I will destroy you, My dude"

[river veldt]

reminds me of when Game Grumps named their Pokémon character "I never"

[winter cargo]

Man, now I wanna play OoT through Ship of Harkinian. I got three seperate versions. One for HD, one for Malon, and one for a total conversion of every NPC and enemy in the game. Every single one to be a Megaman enemy. And added the "DLC" to it to make adult Link, MMZ Zero

[hushed onyx]

Hmmmmm, I wonder how "dude" or "my guy" would come off now

[river veldt]

how do you mean ?

[winter cargo]

For some reason Talon is Megaman X. Not any of the sages. Those are Dr. Light, Palette, Steel Massimo, Layer, Alia, and Marino.

Because when I think of stealth, ninjas, and shadows. I think of the navigator that not once stops talking. For four games.

[slim thorn]

I believe this happens mostly with creators from the very early era of gaming where technical restrictions were a far bigger factor than they are now, so the "all-time classics" they made were also genuinely compromised versions of the creative vision they had at the time. So when that same creator is no longer restricted, and players consider it strange that they create something different, that's because the players liked something in the primitive, limited creation that the original creator simply did not (which doesn't necessarily mean anyone is "wrong").

My theory is your feeling that it's more JP creators is true but largely a side effect of Nintendo dominating that particular era, not a JP culture thing. I feel like we could get a similar example out of some old western CRPG series like Ultima, but I'm drawing a blank right now.

[fresh bane]

It's not about the simple act of making something different, it's about the almost disdain towards your own previous work and seeing it as a mistake to be fixed when, clearly, despite what the devs originally may have wanted or what they could have done had they had the technology, the end result still worked and it worked really well
It's fine to do something different now that there's better tech, but when you tell me that Aonuma went back to play Windwaker and saw the fact that there are puzzles with just the one solution as a mistake to be fixed and that the same degree of freedom of BOTW must be maintained for future games... that's just not right

It's like Square Enix refusing to make FF turn based again despite the fact that clearly there's an audience that would actually love that, and with newer tech more variety of gameplay styles and game design is a good thing, but we can't go back to that obviously because it's old and limited and janky and outdated
Like, clearly there's a value to having a more structured experience, just because it was the way previous Zeldas games did it doesn't inherently mean it's a bad design, it just seems like he got so head over heels by Breath of the Wild's fresh new take that he has absolutely no intention of mixing that with the actual essence of the franchise thus far and he sees no value in it whatsoever, it's not so much the actual experimenting and doing new things that's the problem it's the ''this is the old way of doing things and it's clearly outdated and wrong why would you ever like this?'' attitude that's so baffling

and, in a way I can understand where Aonuma comes from because even back during the Majora's Mask days he was kinda done and if I'm not mistaken he was basically told ''tough shit nerd, make a new Zelda game'' everytime, happened with MM, it happened with TP, and I think by TP he had admitted he just had no idea what to do, so I get that he's going to pivot into having fresh new blood on the team with fresh new ideas and takes, but I feel like his own distaste for his own work is preventing him from seeing a way to successfully combine these two things into one great thing

[winter cargo]

I watched a video about that. Square Enix is afraid that its core audience has gotten old and wants to reduce the average Final Fantasy gamer age. Which is around my age at the moment.

Unfortunately, the people that keep showing up are not who Square Enix wants to attract, but old farts like me.

[fresh bane]

Attracting a brand new audience works better when that audience actually has some games to play... Square Enix's problem is that it's taking them a full decade to create a remake of FF7, during that period of time back in the 90s-00s different generations of FF fans had multiple different FF games to choose from
it's the same with Zelda to a degree, except Zelda does have new games! They made BOTW, then they remade Link's Awakening, then TOTK, then Echoes of Wisdom, they threw in the musou spin offs in there, that's probably why the current Wild era of Zelda is so popular, it has the most content made out of a single iteration of Zelda so far

[indigo pine]

okay so. i went to act 2. i am sad.

[slim thorn]

tbf FF also has new games; that the remake is the only one making waves is a different issue

It's like Square Enix refusing to make FF turn based again despite the fact that clearly there's an audience that would actually love that,
tbc this is exactly one of the examples I had in mind. For FF in particular, I'm pretty sure creator interviews have told us that the older turn based gameplay was (at least for them) primarily a technological limitation, and every time the hardware improved they pushed immediately toward more cinematic presentation and realtime gameplay.

personally I think other devs, especially indies, picking up these turn based styles by choice in the modern era is a perfectly healthy and likely even optimal result

(there's a reason I never enjoyed turn-based combat until E33 )

[indigo pine]

i have some disparity in my stuff

[arctic fern]

you're gonna ahve that yeah

you level what you most use, so its fine that the other trees lack

[indigo pine]

ic ic

me chasing everything with a shotgun to meele range is usefull for something at least

[mossy flume]

https://youtu.be/KtsUVpnBFg0

[cerulean herald]

lets goooooo

[astral steeple]

LMAO

[wind stump]

Kirbo a good boi

[indigo pine]

gun standing up :3

[arctic fern]

seems inviting

[arctic fern]

steer well clear of these spots
ill mark em for ya

cheers mate! found some new looting locations

[indigo pine]

and i have to redownload cyberpunk

[green fulcrum]

This is the most British thing ever, lol

[frozen gate]

reminds me of amnesia the bunker

jus cuz

cave and a green very destructible looking wooden door

[river veldt]

true

that's a great game

[arctic fern]

this is so jarring to me
im currently in a quaint little country village
local pub, local shop, local farm, small cottages, surrounded by a bloody huge concrete wall and barbed wire and more soldiers than locals

and propaganda going 24/7 on loudspeakers

[indigo pine]

makes me reminisce about the old military base near the village my dad grew up in. took us there as kids.

also. I found out my harddrive was possibly a bottleneck on writing speeds. by like 10mb.

[frozen gate]

incredible game yeah

had it free off epic n beat it there but i love frictional and amnesia especially so i wanted to get it on steam and track achievements and have the occasional custom story

[fickle garnet]

Expedition 33 is just Mario & Luigi, but French/hj

[arctic fern]

seeing this fills me with dredd

[arctic fern]

big pen you got there mate

(i think thats a truncheon?)

[frozen gate]

what game is this

[river veldt]

big pen game

[random steppe]

I think it's Atomfall

[arctic fern]

its atomfall yeah

cant think of anything more british than a bus like this
covered in graffiti

[gaunt marten]

"Piss off"

Highly british

[river veldt]

Portal 2 still one of the best games ever

[astral steeple]

True

[fickle garnet]

It is a very good game

[astral steeple]

My pc wallpaper at one point was portal 2 chell

Found it

Goated wallpaper

[winter cargo]

She's also 500 years old

[astral steeple]

lol

[visual hill]

it's why Conker characters love to use that phrase

Rare humor at its peak

[teal sonnet]

with horizons and rec room shutting down

vrchat CEO made an statement

https://hello.vrchat.com/blog/were-here

they not going anywhere

that is good

That statement does sum up vrchat

it is what a true "metaverse" is

purely community driven, people can literally do whatever the fuck they want, and be whatever the fuck they want

if VRChat ever shuts down, vr concept as a whole is buried dead rotting at this point

[astral steeple]

I mean

A metaverse doesn't really need vr

Multiple "metaverse" based games have done good without it

[teal sonnet]

What a VR “metaverse” like vrchat allows people to do does not even come close to be similar to non vr ones

its a whole different category

a whole different experience

People in vrchat have whole second lifes, jobs, make actual shitton of money, whole social lifes

it is actually insane

[sacred grove]

That is what Second Life used to be, back in its heyday

Except that SL wanted to be a single, persistent world where all editing and creation was done cooperatively, in-game

which it still is, though it's not as nearly as popular as it once was

Mostly because it has a history of being mismanaged and allowed to stagnate

[fresh bane]

Habbo Hotel and Club Penguin too

I remember when playing Habbo Hotel on Facebook in like 2013 was pretty much all I was doing, Club Penguin was more kid oriented but in Habbo people actually just straight up used it as a virtual life of sorts it got pretty hardcore for some people

https://youtu.be/QSMDb1CWD6Y?si=FN3GCCuoCPIIjMFu

This is a pretty great video on a similar game

[indigo pine]

the silly

[bitter stream]

what are we looking at Uima?

[dense crypt]

Some perks in the Body tree in Cyberpunk 2077

[bitter stream]

ah ok, thanks Red

[hidden elbow]

I think CRT shaders and effect in retro games is slightly overrated, sometimes it does make wonders and make the game s literally shine but sometimes it makes the game too mushy, also maybe its just me but i have hard time playing with it for too long , my eyes just grow tired a lot faster

[bitter stream]

ahh interesting, I've not tried CRT shaders, though i've not played a lot of older games

[hidden elbow]

I'd say they work best if you stay in 8-16 bit era , anything after and early 3d with just doesn't really do it for me

[bitter stream]

ah ok, fair enough

[arctic fern]

question
do i continue atomfall or play the long dark which just finished chapter 5 of the story?

tho it will be hours before i get back there

[bitter stream]

well, atomfall seems neat but if there's new content in Long Dark maybe it's worht a shot?

[arctic fern]

thats the crux of the issue

i stil havent actually inished chapter 4 lol

you cant mod the campaign anymore, only the survival mode, so i had less fun playing it knowing what i was missing

[bitter stream]

is the base game less good than modded?

[arctic fern]

no its great

its just

i miss things like modded extra foods, the ability to turn on lights in houses when its not the aroura, modded tools...

lots of changes

[bitter stream]

ah ok. hmm. I suppose you could let the new content build up in The Long Dark, then tackle it in one block of time?

[arctic fern]

chapter 5 is the last chapter, ergo why the hype and why i dont know what to do

[bitter stream]

It's not going to disappear or something right? or is it more worry about online spoilers?

[arctic fern]

no worries lol

im just indescisive

i was debating starting a new long dark right before the update came out but wasnt sure if they were gonna change anything or add new features

i guess ill stick with atomfall, wait for bugfixes

[bitter stream]

have fun!

[craggy vine]

https://youtube.com/shorts/1xLLBpsAtAM?si=6faok2cTNTbs4-u8
"beep"
"okay"

Why is that interaction so cute aaaa

[quiet swift]

The first of the disco elysium successors to have a release date is actually the one from ZA/UM themselves, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies. May 21st this year.

[green fulcrum]

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/us-patent-office-revokes-nintendos-patent-on-summoning-characters-to-make-them-battle/

Win for indies

[gaunt marten]

non-final ruling

[mossy flume]

Not the final ruling, but good progress nevertheless

[green fulcrum]

Ah

[cerulean herald]

fingers crossed at least

[visual hill]

proof that being the furry platform is the long-term winning choice

Coincidence? I think not

[worthy rose]

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/starcrafty-strategy-game-stormgate-is-about-to-lose-its-multiplayer-modes-due-to-an-ai-company-buying-up-frost-giants-server-provider

Another ai victim

[green fulcrum]

🥀

[indigo pine]

arent companies supposed to honor contracts for up till the term end?

[arctic fern]

in theory yes, depends on the contract and if you have the ability to fight in the courts

but if they were on monthly roling contracts, then no, they;re fucked

[hushed onyx]

Sort of. Contracts will usually have some way of getting out of them early, at the very least if it becomes impossible for one party to perform for reasons that are not their fault. There are also some ways to void a contract under certain circumstances, although these depend on your ability to fight it out in the courts and the court's willingness to agree with your arguments.

[arctic fern]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/218620/view/505104250950386503?l=english lol payday 2 got an update, they added the welrod, and a bunch of other updates

[indigo pine]

2 big mags :3

[indigo pine]

by god

there are worse ones

[winter cargo]

Change out the locusts for crickets and it'd not be bad

Crickets, when you don't really think about it and you eat them dessicated... are kinda like popcorn really.

[hushed onyx]

Artichoke and avocado just sounds like a Californian thing.

[winter cargo]

Tuna and Pineapple does sound wrong though

[wind stump]

stooooooonks

[light gate]

top, my steam copy, bottom, the app store version

[gaunt marten]

That sucks

Gonna get a refund?

[light gate]

Can't technically, above the play time limit. What I find infuriating is that I have the game demo.

Which the demo has a mac build.

I wouldn't say anything if it came out today but it came out a few days ago.

Which seems to indicate there are no plans to do a Windows / Mac build for Steam?

[gaunt marten]

You can definitely ask

[light gate]

I could give it a shot.

I liked the game but the story was... not good.

Music is sick though.

[bronze abyss]

same case with palworld unfortunately

[craggy vine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTUHhzPqNlc I can't get over this, it is so awesome aaaa

Twi is so cute

[bitter stream]

that is cute

[fresh bane]

Capcom finally wisened the hell up

the RE PC ports are on Steam now

[craggy vine]

what currency is that

[quiet swift]

Uruguay?

[winter cargo]

Oh hey, they finally have the original version of RE1-3. For the people who want the old versions

[fresh bane]

Uruguayan pesos

[fresh bane]

Not finally, these were on GOG years ago

they just now put them on Steam

They also re-released them for Playstation

[winter cargo]

I knew they were on GoG. Now they're on Steam

I still remember when they were released on GoG... which still won't stop trying to get me to buy them

[fresh bane]

Sure enough the description on the Steam pages says these are re-published versions of the GoG releases

[winter cargo]

With added Engima Protector.

[fresh bane]

Which is why I'll stick to the emulators, but mainly because of the HD texture packs and because I like the DS version of RE1 the best

It's cool they're on Steam, but the GOG version will probably still be the better option

but I know that the average player is just going to want to have the games on their preferred platform and not go out of their way to make an account on a different store even if it may be objectively a better option, that's just how people work

[winter cargo]

It's at least nice to have them on Steam.

[quiet swift]

The third games on a weird schedule. First two are free until they cycle out tomorrow

[spiral kraken]

https://a.co/d/0eUVzBmk Cheap but pretty good wired controller (specially the retro grey color, because it also has the PS controller color scheme on it)

[hushed onyx]

It turned out that all I needed to do to play the game I was interested in was...use my mouse instead of the trackpad, which obviously costs less than any controller.

[random steppe]

Ok so, I feel obliged to say this because I tried to use a PS1 controller not long ago and this is the same shape.
This old design to me feels like the most clunky thing to hold after I have been used to the ergonimic advancements of modern controllers.
It's like holding a brick

Maybe it's fine for you, but as someone that grew up on the PS1, I was not ready to go back, I don't want to go back.

[unreal idol]

I use a PS2 controller to play FF14

[random steppe]

I couldn't

[unreal idol]

I do it for ease of access

PS3 and PS4 controllers dont ever want to work on Windows unless you download some extremely sketch Chinese drivers that may or may not be Spyware

[random steppe]

I legit didn't believe controllers actually advanced much in ergonomics until I had to hold an older one.
In my memories holding older controllers felt like holding modern ones.

[unreal idol]

I never notice it much but I also tend to use older controllers more commonly than modern ones

[random steppe]

It'd probably be less noticeable if you never stopped using them yeah

[unreal idol]

So I'm probably the worst possible data point for something like this

[visual hill]

In my memories holding older controllers felt like holding modern ones.
same, I can't believe how bad PS2/PS3 controllers feel in the hands now

my 9 year old self thought the PS3 controller was perfect

[visual hill]

DS4Windows is still rather trusty these days, but Nefarius no longer maintains ViGEmBus

[unreal idol]

I never had much luck with it

[frozen gate]

havent even needed to use it much, last few game i played had native ds4 support and otherwise steam will pretend it's an xbox controller 4 u

even open morrowind had native dualshock support and the right sigils felt like a blessing

there is exceptions though

Sekiro actively refuses to work, no support and it apparently doesnt play nice with how steam and ds4windows does it

no idea why

[obsidian salmon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZrGarjbIxE mr bones wild ride has nothing on this

[winter cargo]

I need to watch that. Marcel is great

[teal sonnet]

what the fuck

those languages are new to pokemon btw, no other games had them before

but why, how, what in the fuck, what

who code this thing

[unreal idol]

Isn't CentroLeaks a hack

[teal sonnet]

no clue

but if they are, nintendo is in need of hiring some people who knows how to code

because I am so confused

[unreal idol]

I seem to recall them making up a bunch of BS rumors a lot

A hack as in, not a computer hack

As in a fraud

It's probably true because that's par for the course for Gamefreak but I'd wait for another source

[visual hill]

I had to use an app to turn my DualSense into an Xbox controller from the game's perspective for it to work in New Super Lucky's Tale

I forgot the app name

[rugged flax]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/264710
Subnautica is on free to play for the weekend until the 6th

Steam

Subnautica

Subnautica is an underwater adventure game set on an alien ocean planet. A massive, open world full of wonder and peril awaits you!Dive Into a Vast Underwater World

You have crash-landed on an alien ocean world, and the only way to go is down. Subnautica's oceans range from sun drenched shallow coral reefs to treacherous deep-sea trenches, l…

Price

$7.49

Recommendations

310619

Metacritic

87

[quiet swift]

To promote interest for the early access of #2, I'd figure

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmXZpf3K0ow the irony of ubisoft being sued by a watchdog is chefskiss

[winter cargo]

To anyone who doesn't have Subnautica yet. Get it. It's a steal at full price. For free? They're just giving you peak

[gaunt marten]

It's free to play, not to keep, I thought

[winter cargo]

Still worth it

[light gate]

Gonna see if it works well on my gaming laptop.

Because the PS5 port was a disaster and wasted my money.

[indigo pine]

my build :3

[bitter stream]

looks neat!

[indigo pine]

yis!

plus my safekeeps for when i need other stuff

the shotgun is my first shotgun. i keep it as a charm :3

also. i have started to clear the map of police quests

[fresh bane]

I never watched someone else play Cyberpunk so I always get weirded out when I see other people's V's and remember oh yeah, this character can technically look like anything and not like my V

[indigo pine]

:0 pretty!

i went for retired dad look

[fresh bane]

If you're early in the game and you want to spend 10+ hours doing them to get more money and weapons and levels then sure, but otherwise just be warned there's hundreds of these

[indigo pine]

i am aware. ive already cleaned up the first region

technically ive only done like. 4?-6? story missions.

ive been doing every side quest there is

i havent even done "playing for time" yet

[fresh bane]

I kinda ruined my experience by doing that, but just because I forgot so many story events because all I did was side jobs and gigs for the first... 60 hours of my game, and then I did Phantom Liberty before even actually starting the main story which was a major mistake, and then I just beelined the entire story which was another major mistake

[indigo pine]

a lot of the self contained ones are the first ones that are unlocked. since i am not even a 10th of the way through the story

delamain.
zen master
random encounters

now i am pulverizing every gang in the map

also. while technically un-needed at this scale. i have modded it slightly

removed level cap. and weapons restrictions

the only thing that this has ruined is my scale of danger,

but this means that aperantly easy missions can also take me out by surprise

[fresh bane]

Yeah no by the time I did the main story I already did every single side job and every single gig plus all of PL so I just went right through it

and that's vanilla

[indigo pine]

i shall learn from your mistakes and not do that :3

[uneven epoch]

this happens all the dang time with FFXIV trailers

"who the fuck is that guy and why is he hanging out with my friends- ooh wait right. trailer Warrior of Light, right"

[indigo pine]

also. i enjoy hoarding equipment

[quiet swift]

By the end I think I pretty much just had named guns though in that playthrough I went netrunner build

[indigo pine]

this is my junk [in inventory] and i semi-regularly clean it

[fresh bane]

Last time I played I did a pretty thorough cleanup of my inventory and put everything in my bike stash or at my home

I got to the point in the game where I got high level enough weapons I wasn't gonna switch anyways and I already decided I wasn't gonna equip new clothes either

this is my only other outfit I wear ocassionally

[indigo pine]

ooh yea. unless i find pretty clothes like this. or somnething that screams "balkan dad on a cookout" i aint switching either

[quiet swift]

I had a brief experiment to see if clothes off got any reactions from NPC. They do not

[indigo pine]

i found someone wih the.. sumo wrestler atire.

[winter cargo]

Oh, we're showing our Vs? Hold on

[quiet swift]

(I am reinstalling it just to get a screenshot of my V and gear/build)

[winter cargo]

I also have one of me and the gang doing Sailor Moon Poses. With the other three being dudes

[indigo pine]

i might consider this

[quiet swift]

[indigo pine]

:0 thats fast!

*i has to download cyberpunk twice. on 5/mbs

[river veldt]

ive tried playing Cyberpunk in the past but i cant get into it

the menus confuse me

[winter cargo]

I Mean I tried to play it as a shooter but couldn't get into it. And then I learned how to play it as a professional boxer

[indigo pine]

same! i sugegst remaping it

who puts alt as the weapon switch

[winter cargo]

You don't have to switch weapons when all you do is punch people

Actually, the keybinds are a pain in the neck. I'll admit

[indigo pine]

i switched it to mouse 5

[winter cargo]

How does one get the other buttons on a mouse to work with being unique controls. I've never been able to do that

[indigo pine]

i just did. although i think i have tinkered with computer settings ages ago so idk

[quiet swift]

87%... almost there!

100% Time to load it up and see

[indigo pine]

yay

[quiet swift]

( i think that playthrough I've completed nigh everything that I can think of)

[fresh bane]

I still haven't done the final mission....

[quiet swift]

oh damn, i'm at the last moment of the DLC

...the fuck is the menu button at

[indigo pine]

"i" for inventory

[quiet swift]

oh. My V has a jacket on. That's it.

And no items... the heck did I do?

Ah, here we go

[indigo pine]

[quiet swift]

Tech ability edgerunner spec, reflexes were Submachine gun fun, Intelligence for Spillover and smart guns for overclock fun

All I'd really have left to do are ncpd scanner missions

[indigo pine]

huh. i have high af weight limit.

[quiet swift]

lots of points in str?

[river veldt]

sunset shimmer ???!?

[quiet swift]

My car

[quiet swift]

Honestly I think yes? I was probably thinking of that

[indigo pine]

not exactly

[quiet swift]

Okay, went on a brief rampage then uninstalled again

No idea why most of my savegames for phantom liberty were in the nude

[indigo pine]

wanted to see a reaction?

also. there is one clothin related convo change

also. i found something hillarious.
screwdriver doing racket wrench sounds. while touching a pannel

[astral steeple]

lol what

New halo X Fanta armor

[green fulcrum]

Oh hey, it's Grif

[winter cargo]

Too thin to be Grif

[green fulcrum]

He lost weight after leaving the army

And now makes his living doing ads for Fanta

He's their new mascot

[winter cargo]

I would say that I hope this isn't going to be a real skin. But I wouldn't be surprised if it is

[astral steeple]

It's a real skin in halo yeah

[quiet swift]

There's actually rewards for a bunch of (now) Microsoft owned IPs. Halo, COD, WoW, diablo 4, forza horizon

https://www.coca-cola.com/us/en/offerings/fanta/wanta-fanta

[winter cargo]

A few years since I booted this up, got the original on PC.

And I picked one of the worst locations to start. 0 Rare Metals. 0 Water. 0 Metals

[quiet swift]

rip

[river veldt]

what game is this

[quiet swift]

surviving mars

[fickle garnet]

I love Cyberpunk, it crashes every time I open it and I have no clue why😭

Going to try reinstalling it

God forbid I want to play a game I love.
The game hates me😔

[mossy flume]

Playing Tales of Arise, and suddenly an entirely different franchise appears, with voiced lines

[quiet swift]

Kirito!