general gaming

[visual hill]

I've never seen any other game do this, not even other UE1 games

[bitter stream]

what the heck haha

[visual hill]

Slippi doesn't need a CRT to achieve CRT-like latency, just get an overclockable adapter and a 120+ Hz display

it's harder on macOS though, that OS is not very friendly to low-latency gaming unfortunately

LG G5 and later can also go up to 165 Hz, C4/G4/C5 and later up to 144 Hz

[cinder hatch]

Why did he say “wild” like that?

[quiet swift]

Ooh. 20% off E33 to celebrate the one year release anniversary

For those who come after haven't played it yet

[rancid herald]

one year

god

I'm old

shriveled

[quiet swift]

[fickle garnet]

A year later and I still haven't finished it😭

[cerulean herald]

well Finnish it then smh

[winter cargo]

To quote Zelgius, "Interesting maneuver"

[wheat aurora]

Imagine me, a year later and I still haven''t bought it

[unreal idol]

Wait it's been out for a year? Man

[cerulean herald]

remember that Expedition 33 will be delisted from all stores on March 3 2033, so be sure to play it before it becomes lost medium

[unreal idol]

It doesnt feel like its been out for a year

[astral steeple]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/battlefield-movie-michael-b-jordan-chris-mcquarrie-1236574195/

What

[river veldt]

what game should i play don't say Elden Ring i'm mad at it right now

[winter cargo]

Halo

[wind stump]

Lego

[winter cargo]

Lego Halo

[indigo pine]

portal

[cerulean herald]

Halo

[quiet swift]

Half life 1

[river veldt]

im playing Portal 2 but i'll play Halo after

thanks for the answers everypony

[wind stump]

no lego

[cerulean herald]

Lego'nt

[arctic fern]

Legone

[quiet swift]

Oh dang. E33 has hit 8 million copies sold

[cerulean herald]

i wont be satisfied until it sells 33 million copies

[quiet swift]

Sadly unlikely to happen

[cerulean herald]

[quiet swift]

they made discord emojis and made them available to all!

[river veldt]

fuck i forgot i was on the Library mission in Halo 1

[river veldt]

i think the install was bad because whenever i loaded up Halo 1 it just crashed instantly

annoying

[winter cargo]

I'll just need to buy 25 million copies

[cerulean herald]

we just need a million ppl to buy 33 copies

i think its doable

[winter cargo]

I want to buy it

I just keep forgetting

[winter cargo]

Meh, I gotta buy a 4 TB storage medium so that I can get my computer fixed fully

And possibly a window AC unit because I don't trust my apartment complex to fix mine

[slim thorn]

it feels like it's been out half a year because that's when I played it

[quiet swift]

Well it's 20% off right now!

[winter cargo]

But I need 160 to get 4TB Hard drive to act as temp storage

[cerulean herald]

I specifically played it after its been 33 days since it came out

[quiet swift]

[random steppe]

Download Dead as Disco demo

[quiet swift]

[fickle garnet]

That was close

If I stubbed my toe, I would've died😭

I love that you can regain lost health by damaging enemies

Epic gaymer moment

[spiral kraken]

Lelo

[rugged flax]

interesting future release i found while trawling through Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3283240/THE_LIFT_Supernatural_Handyman_Simulator/

Steam

THE LIFT: Supernatural Handyman Simulator

The Institute was humanity's most advanced research facility – until a catastrophic incident left it drifting through the void, plagued by cosmic decay and slowly fading into oblivion along with its dark secrets.

Awakened from stasis, you must restore the Institute and uncover what went wrong.…

Release Date

2027

[visual hill]

that's basically Doom 2016/Eternal glory kills 😛

there is a perk you can unlock so that regular kills drop some health too (not as much)

[fickle garnet]

In bloodborne?

Oh wait no, in Doom

[cunning galleon]

wrecker activities

[cerulean herald]

[wind stump]

What game is this?

[cerulean herald]

Chrono Gear: Warden of Time

pretty fun, you can even pet the dawg

[wind stump]

IT COSTS MONEY?

[cerulean herald]

yea that was my reaction too

but lotta effort was put into this tbf

[green fulcrum]

Looks cute, I think I might pick it up

[winter cargo]

I recommended it to someone who is into VTubers

[green fulcrum]

I only have a passing interest in Vtubers overall (some I like, others are meh), but the game itself looks fun

[river veldt]

ive never watched a vtuber

they kind of live in the uncanny valley for me

[cerulean herald]

fair

[slim thorn]

so what do we call Jerma's location? the uncanny cave?

[river veldt]

exactly

[random steppe]

I did try a few times, but I largely agree.
I generally watch people for reacions and when like, the person don't really have a face it's kind of difficult to enjoy those.
Technology just isn't there for it to work for me.

[slim thorn]

I've always reacted more to words than faces, which I assume is one of the reasons it works for me

[random steppe]

It doesn't feel as genuine at least

[cerulean herald]

it's been good so far, had to fiddle with keybinds for a bit, but im pretty picky about that sorta thing. otherwise its nice to play through

it has a lot of the vtubers from the Hololive group, even if youre not familiar with them, I think the game does a decent job at capturing their character quite well. takes great advantage of the "lore" these vtubers have and you might get a good gist of what they may be like

[random steppe]

It's definitely not the artstyle because I can relate to anime characters just fine, it's the barrier between the model and the human

[wind stump]

oh my god it's Clownpiss!

[slim thorn]

granted the ones I watch the most are the ones that feel more genuine to me, with either more expressive models, or at least it feels like their models successfully express how the person emotes

[cerulean herald]

I love her

she sit

[wind stump]

they're the same person, you can't convince me otherwise

[green fulcrum]

I've seen a few Fauna streams before she graduated. She was nice, reminded me a lot of Fluttershy.

And I know Poppy is a big Vtuber fan. He likes Gawr Gura/Saba and a few others.

[cerulean herald]

oh yea Fauna is very much Fluttershy coded
I rly like her Minecraft streams

she still streams under a new channel, Nimi Nightmare

[green fulcrum]

Oh, I thought she hadn't created a new channel yet

[wind stump]

Let's try this again...

[cerulean herald]

yeah, it can be a bit tricky to keep track

[wind stump]

YO COTL HAS CO OP

there's a thread, apologies for not checking before

[cerulean herald]

bad guys in media be like

[fresh bane]

whuh

[indigo pine]

new high :3

[quiet swift]

When was the last time you played it? Pretty decent patch with new content and stuff

[fresh bane]

Since christmas, I kinda got spooked from playing further because the computer crashed for the first time since I've had it during a run and then it happened again while playing TOTK and haven't really figured out why they happened, I had it crash with Battlefront 2 which didn't happen at all before but still couldn't figure out what was the cause and everything's working fine but I did get spooked so I haven't been playing much in this time, I also got busy too so I've mostly been playing older shorter games before going back to stuff like Hades and just hoping that those crashes don't happen anymore

I got as far as fighting Cronos just the one time so far

[slim thorn]

you got farther than me

[fresh bane]

I haven't been able to get back to the Cronos area since that time but I did boot it up a couple weeks ago it says March 11, I don't remember if I tried going for a run or not but I do remember I did take the chance to just get some upgrades I think and do a bunch of crafting that I completely missed last time I left off

I appreciate the continuous support but it does kinda give me the feeling of ''can I play the game now? or do I wait 4 more months?'' since they are updating the game with pretty significant amounts of content

doesn't affect me but it does affect people who already finished the game and probably feel like they're missing out now

[slim thorn]

at some point you just have to decide to play the game and be okay with missing future updates

I haven't touched E33's DLC since I fully completed it before the DLC was even announced

[hushed onyx]

That, or it could have been EOLed and there won't be any future updates (e.g., Kerbal Space Program or Starbound)

(Although then you need to worry about mod updates )

[slim thorn]

I also never got around to playing Hollow Knight's Pale Court mod

I should make time for Silksong DLC though

[fresh bane]

I was considering the idea of buying Silksong but I already got made fun of for playing Hades 2 without playing 1 first

Hollow Knight, just like SOTN, is one of those games I never stopped hearing about but still knew nothing about them and never went out of my way to play

well, I guess now I scratched off SOTN from that list

[slim thorn]

some sequels do assume you've played the first game, and those are both examples

in Silksong's case the stories are detached enough for it to be fine, but the difficulty is likely to smush anyone who didn't play Hollow Knight first

-# it nearly smushed me

[cerulean herald]

it smushed me in HK

[river veldt]

i did play Hollow Knight and Silksong smushed me

[cerulean herald]

tbh I'm still not quite sure how I managed to beat the final boss in a reasonable amount of attempts

[slim thorn]

I guess technically I'm still early enough in Hades 2 I can't really say to what extent it assumes I know 1

[quiet swift]

Honestly, before this patch the game was in a finished state. It got this stuff because it finally launched on PS5/XBox, and they added a post-endgame thing that doesn't really give any real rewards (just cosmetic), just a different spin on a run. There's also a bit more dialogue.

[bitter stream]

sci fi tank battling game! Looks interesting, and i hope it's got better monetisation than the usual suspects haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wy-s8ps6vU

[cerulean herald]

F l o w e r

[fickle garnet]

I still need to finish up HK

I'm so close to the true ending, I just keep getting distracted with other games

[dense crypt]

this looks like a more tactical Tanki Online

[bitter stream]

what is Tanki Online? I've not really played many tank games apart from the 2D ones haha

[dense crypt]

its a russian sporty tank fighting game where you pick a turret and a chassis and then shoot the enemy teammates while doing objectives

[bitter stream]

ah neat!

[dense crypt]

this is my current tank, its a superheavy with a mid-long range turret. also has a homing missile launcher.

[bitter stream]

oooh cool,

[dense crypt]

theres hover hulls and tracked hulls, hovers have driftier movement but can move in all directions. tracked hulls have better turn speed and much better control over their movement, and better speed overall.

[rugged flax]

ohno
more furry bait
Bubsy is back
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3237970/Bubsy_4D/

Steam

Bubsy 4D

Join Bubsy on a new, intergalactic, platforming adventure! Yeah, we couldn’t believe it either. The world’s most infamous, wise-cracking bobcat has returned to 3D with new challenges, new moves, and even more purrsonality – in space! Run, jump, glide, and roll across alien planets, battle robotic sheep, and collect tons and tons of yarn.…

Price

$17.99

Release Date

May 22, 2026

[gaunt marten]

Bubsy feet real

[green fulcrum]

He's been back for a while. I still can't believe it.

[winter cargo]

What in the kentucky fried hell is that!?

All I saw was a cockpit and a worm with a face that looked like it crawled out of my worst dreams

[indigo pine]

enemy :3

it's called the face

it's the worse cousin. of the mass

the game is called white knuckle.

I suggest you go blind besides what you saw

this game will try your patience. your will to live.
and your temperament to repeated close calls

[minor plover]

I cannot think of a worse recommendation for a game than "I suggest you go blind" and with no indication as to what the game even is. I genuinely can't.

[indigo pine]

besides typing that currently. there is a steam page

half the fun of the game is the random shit you encounter.
but basic description is.
climbing roguelike.

[indigo pine]

there is also worse. spoiling every single detail. leaving no story element unturned immediately.

[gaunt marten]

If only there was a happy medium between these two extremes

[minor plover]

"climbing roguelike" is close. Is it a climbing horror roguelike? That's kind of what I get from the screenshots. (Also reply pings are not needed)

[river veldt]

ye i think it's spooky

[indigo pine]

it is.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3195790/White_Knuckle/
here ya go

Steam

White Knuckle

White Knuckle is a first person roguelite speed-climbing game.

Use momentum-based movement mechanics with precision, deploy a variety of tools and resources, and ascend as fast as you can. …

Price

$14.99

Recommendations

8727

this solves all the problems

good luck.

[cunning galleon]

i like this

[gaunt marten]

Goth Toga Himiko

[cunning galleon]

Missing twin buns

[fresh bane]

Gaaaaah geeeeeez I almost got fucked over by the USB sd card reader again, mid transfer too which made it even more nerve wracking but I managed to disconnect it in time before it started connecting and disconnecting over and over so the files were fine, then after I connected it again on the same USB port nothing happened and I transferred everything else without issue, which makes it even more infuriating when this stuff just happens randomly, not being able to pinpoint the issue and it happening and then not happening is so infuriating
I might just get a USB cable for PSP file transferring purposes, or a better SD card reader, a nice high quality one to avoid the problem entirely. I know it's not the USB port itself cause I've had periferics connected to them without issue and even transferred stuff to hard drives and thumb drives without any problems at all before

[fresh bane]

worse of all, I hear this Bubsy game is actually good too

[cunning galleon]

got a hat and im positively bloody

[dense crypt]

For Khorne

[cunning galleon]

also found spiked armor on a zombie

was bit

but i have a trait that makes me immune

i think she's just sick

[arctic fern]

Is that a modded trait?

[cunning galleon]

yes

she's immune but like it takes a while to cure from the sickness

[arctic fern]

Ah ok yeah

[cunning galleon]

Well, that ends my run. Some reason there like 500 zombies in the house

the corpse of my character in the bedroom
cute girls doing cute things anime plays in the background

[bitter stream]

[fresh bane]

Project Zomboid is so bizarre to me, I remember way back in the day like 2014 I was so obsessed with wanting to play it, it seemed so cool to me and I never had the money or a computer good enough to run it, it's always been one of those games I've always wanted to get but never did so it's always been this super mysterious thing to me, and the gameplay was unlike anything I had seen up until that point, I always compared it and put it in the same category as DayZ as one of those immersive simulation zombie games where you have to really care about every single detail you'd otherwise not care about in a videogame
and then I look at it now all these years later.. and it looks exactly the same as it did back then except now I guess it's 3D and people can make goth girls in it now too

https://youtu.be/_Q90jEkCV-k?si=zHYmQkYQttLz--44

this is the Project Zomboid that lives in my mind

[bitter stream]

project zomboid development goes super slowly haha

i'm still waiting on b42 to be done lol

[cunning galleon]

Project Zomboid b42 unstable is pretty stable now

Compared to like the first release of b42

[bitter stream]

that's good to hear

[cunning galleon]

That's some super old zomboid huh

[fresh bane]

Ouch

[cunning galleon]

This game will end up on the Beamng development cycle

Atleast Zomboid isn't in early access like Beam

[cunning galleon]

Don't worry 2014 is only like 12 years ago

I think you always had the ability to make goth girls, Mods just make it possible for more clothing options

The blood system seems to be the same one for a decade

[bitter stream]

Do you think they'll do any major changes from current unstable to release?

[cunning galleon]

Probably

Maybe more farming like actual tractors now

[bitter stream]

ah yeah. how are the new crafting setups and such? Are they fun to use?

[cunning galleon]

I've been trying to find a place to settle down so i didn't have a chance to do crafting yet

I think it's cool though

[bitter stream]

fair enough. I never really live long, so I'm not sure how much i'll get to use it hahah.

it sounds awesome for wilderness starts though

or like, any modding setups

[cunning galleon]

It does

I like the fact you can start from scratch

[bitter stream]

aye aye

I wonder if there'll be a new set of "fallout inspired" tech or workbenches

it seems like it'd be a cool way to build out modding weapons and the like

oh, some of those have updated already, whoa

[cunning galleon]

Scrap weapons and the ability to make your own fuel and bullets would be crazy tho

[bitter stream]

yeah yeah, that'd be neat!

[cunning galleon]

~~madmax project zomboid ~~

[arctic fern]

Yeah they take years to make updates lol, b41 was around for several years before they even talked about 42

[cunning galleon]

By build 50 i would be dead

[arctic fern]

If i recall, 41 was multiplayer

Which just ahows how long its been around

Oh 41 multiplayer was reworked, but had been around since 24
Mb

[cunning galleon]

Yea 41 adding multiplayer feels too wrong

[arctic fern]

Cars were in b39

[cunning galleon]

Wtf so people were walking from b1 to b38

I couldn't even imagine walking from west point to rosewood

[arctic fern]

Yes

I think the map was smaller back then, they started with muldrah

Loiville was relatively recent, i think 41

[cunning galleon]

Yea Louisville is pretty recent, it was the craze

All the Louisville challenges

[arctic fern]

well it also got a big change with the skyscrapers, those are neat

[peak berry]

https://lociterm.com/play/?host=midnight.horse&port=7777

[cunning galleon]

eating some beans omw to Echo Creek

[indigo pine]

i finally escaped

[wind stump]

Wow there's TWO different Drive colours? /s

[winter cargo]

There's six. First gear, second gear, third gear, fourth gear, fith gear, and sixth gear.

[hasty patio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8wJ5nHyKEc

[wind stump]

creature

[visual hill]

PS: consider enabling anisotropic filtering in Dolphin's graphics options to get nicer textures 😛

also relevant: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/14578

it's not included yet, but Dolphin will eventually support HDR output for a big portion of games

it won't work on every game due to how some of them render things (e.g. it's not supported in Wind Waker), but it works in a surprisingly large number of games

[chilly mural]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imR8V-BUwXc

[cerulean herald]

oh lawd, she MASSIVE

insert attack on titan theme

[fresh bane]

https://tenor.com/view/tsukumo-sana-ochame-kinou-fukkireta-vibing-singing-gif-24340995

The galaxy is speaking to me.... And it speaks Australian

[dense crypt]

Crikey!

[winter cargo]

Guys, I finally found my old pony OC

See. He's great

He even has clothes made by Rarity

[dense crypt]

What does the scouter say about his pony level!?

[graceful bridge]

This looks like it could be silly fun:
https://youtu.be/BsnwXZgp_4g?si=_pIu8AxLOhkwkybV

[wind stump]

gives me Worldbox vibes, but more focused on creating societies rather than blowing stuff up

[cunning galleon]

Ts2009:
Click start, scanning for added asset files.
Cancel, close window.. Scanning for added asset files what the fuck is wrong with this abandoned game

Finally it loads files

Woah holy shit this has a lot of content in it

[astral steeple]

https://youtu.be/Qc-Sf7-MOn0

Peak

[wind stump]

I AM BECOME DEATH
DESTROYER OF COAL

[quiet swift]

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamcontroller looks like it's price at 99$

[visual hill]

yay, low-latency wireless out of the box

[graceful bridge]

I'll take your entire stock!

[gaunt marten]

I'm unimpressed with the design. Doesn't look comfortable to hold

[graceful bridge]

**Wait, what is Grip Sense? **

Grip Sense is what we're calling the new input that uses capacitive touch sensors to sense if you're holding the handles. There is one sensor in each handle of the Steam Controller. The primary use for this is to enable/disable Gyro quickly so you can reset your position when you get to the edge of your comfortable zone (called "ratcheting"). Kind of like when you reach the end of your mousepad and pick up your mouse to recenter it.

You can even map Grip Sense like any other button! We love using it to pull up menus, weapon wheels, and even pause the game when you put the controller down.

[graceful bridge]

Shouldn't be different from using an XBox controller. There's just some thumb pads there, where it'd normally be open.

[river veldt]

it looks comfortable to me but i may just have big hands

[river veldt]

the Duke

[visual hill]

this sounds really interesting, one of my gripes with gyro aiming is that recentering isn't as frictionless as I'd like

(frictionless... after all, a gamepad with gyro is a frictionless mouse)

[quiet swift]

LTT already has a video about it

[visual hill]

I will probably get one for Godot purposes when it's in stock (it'll probably be out of stock for a bit)

but keep in mind it needs Steam Input to work, so non-Steam games must be launched through Steam to work

hopefully the community will figure out workarounds for this, this is going to be a hassle for gamedevs otherwise. Engines could add game entries to Steam, but this requires Steam to be closed so the entry can be seen on launch

[quiet swift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpJB7LTs5_s

[graceful bridge]

https://youtu.be/0idmNj1syPs?si=bS8X3id7pTMR1xpO

https://youtu.be/a55UIaiTE-A?si=EUlPAtV6nf5yU7vh

[fickle garnet]

$150 cad

I guess I'll stick with my Xbox controller

[mossy flume]

Hm… maybe. But I’m probably just going to stick with my Xbox and PS5 controllers.

[light gate]

$100 bucks aint worth it

sorry

[cerulean herald]

looks a bit awkward to handle

[mossy flume]

Honestly it looks like it might be more confortable than the first one, which I rather despised.

Like the Steam Deck, appearances may be deceiving

It probably doesn't feel much different from the Steam Deck or an Xbox controller

But that's just a guess, of course..

[graceful bridge]

Yeah, I like my Steam Deck so much, I'll probably get one of these.

[wind stump]

i'm going to scream

in a good way

this fucking stage can BITE ME

[wind stump]

gonna take a knife to the bread mod

[glad girder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRFDW2Pm9nk

Buckshot roulette: I sleep
Buckshot roulette with anime girls:

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/a55UIaiTE-A?si=iL_zZny4o0MicGiS

Weapon wheel on L4D2?

[light gate]

Its probably a Steam Input API

[shell shore]

Harvey dent warning? I don’t know? still have no idea where to put tomodachi stuff lmao

[fresh bane]

Oh my god, you can activate and de activate the gyro with the grip sensors which is like a thing a lot of people don't bother using gyro for because they don't want gyro aiming to be activated 100% of times on every game

That's actually legitimately genius

[river veldt]

on the Steam Deck you can have it so gyro only activates when you touch the right stick it's cool

[light gate]

Every time I see someone use gyro controls, my wrists begin to scream.

[fresh bane]

If you're twisting and turning your wrists around using gyro you're using it wrong, you really don't need extreme hand adjustments to use it well

[light gate]

I have no idea how to even use it correctly

[fresh bane]

the problem is when people assume it's used for everything the same way they assume Wii games used motion for everything (which some did and it was annoying), when you mix it with normal gameplay it's legitimately the best way to play, that's why Resident Evil 4 is still the best on the Wii

[light gate]

Tried it once, absolutely hated it

[sacred grove]

Thankfully it also has dual trackpads. I'd probably use those if the game requires constant precise aiming as opposed to occasional

[light gate]

Yeah the trackpads look good

[fresh bane]

Well, hopefully with the new steam controller people will give it an honest try this time, because being able to do something like only using gyro aiming when you're aiming a gun in a videogame is the best way to use gyro, for every other movement you play as normal and only adjust your aim like you would with a mouse with gyro

[light gate]

I probably should watch a tutorial

Maybe when I get some free time

I have the Switch Pro controller as well

[fresh bane]

I ended up getting some refurbished Classic Controllers for my nephew's Wii but before I did that I did actually play a bit of RE4 with the wiimote and nunchuk and it was so much more intuitive than I was expecting, when this sort of stuff is properly supported and designed it really is super comfortable to play with

[light gate]

Wait, you aren’t supposed to move the controller like a mad scientist?

[fresh bane]

Nerrel has some great videos on the topic of gyro and motion controls

https://youtu.be/binPB4YbWmM?si=CNEAUPBuME9yLzES

https://youtu.be/RZ0xDRkC8LI?si=ZgVemxo_VHfpS11k

Even if you don't particularly care about the topic they're at least fun and really well made videos to watch just really quick

[visual hill]

it's an overlay injected by Steam Input, it's not part of the game

CS:GO has an actual weapon wheel (added in Panorama IIRC) along with HL2 (Steam Deck update) and CS2

[fresh bane]

I mean..... if it works!

[slim thorn]

before watching the videos...

I'm like 99% sure this is entirely the fault of the gaming industry for pushing out so many bad uses of motion controls, and by the time actually useful gyro aiming was invented, they never explained it, so I ended up playing several games which had the feature and even mistook one or two of them for having "ridiculously inaccurate aiming" because I had no idea I was gyroing

it's like how people basically correctly have negative impressions of crossover fanfics because 99% of them are terrible, even though it has also been done well in rare cases

[unreal idol]

I liked the Wii motion controls cuz I was 16 and not 36

[slim thorn]

I think Metroid Prime 3 is the only game I've ever personally played where the motion controls actually mattered, and there they were pretty great (probably in part because the motion component was mostly for "supplemental precision aiming", very similar to the gyro aiming of Switches and normal-shaped modern controllers)

[fresh bane]

On a super big nutshell that's pretty much what these videos boil down to it's essentially ''gamers don't hate motion controls/gyro, what they hate is when developers cram it into every single aspect of a game making it a chore to play, when they're well implemented nobody cares because they don't even notice it''

on a very, very big nutshell

[slim thorn]

tbh these videos feel like they're ignoring a lot of the reasons people formed these associations. Especially the statement that "Microsoft and Sony haven't been known to push players out of their comfort zones" feels like this guy completely missed the era where Microsoft in particular was infamous for pushing terrible Kinect games that made their entire "core gamer" player base feel abandoned, reinforcing all the negative stereotypes to such a degree that it became genuinely rational to assume a game with motion controls was some ill-conceived shovelware.

[unreal idol]

i can confirm that was how MS felt in that era

[river veldt]

my new Kinect Halo game will make you feel like Master Chief

[unreal idol]

I've never owned an Xbox, but that era of Xbox really felt like they turned their back on their core demographic

[river veldt]

ive never owned an Xbox either

[cerulean herald]

same

[river veldt]

always been a Nintendo guy until i got my steam deck

[unreal idol]

Kinect felt like "lmao what is this?" a cheap imitation to cash in on Nintendo

[fresh bane]

PS3 also had a kinect-like thing too didn't it?

[river veldt]

yeah it had the weird wiimote thingies with the balls on top

[slim thorn]

The Xbox 360 era was peak console gaming for me. By the time the Kinect hype was going on, I'd already mostly jumped ship to PC because of all the usual reasons "AAA" felt stagnant and the PC indie boom became a genuine alternative.

[unreal idol]

Yeah, but it wasn't pushed to the dgree that Kinect was

[fresh bane]

Both MS and Sony were trying to cash in on that whole Wiimote idea in different ways at the time but neither really ''got'' it

[slim thorn]

yes, PS Move was similar to Kinect around the same time but didn't engender nearly as much ill will for a bunch of reasons

[fresh bane]

The Kinect was way worse but both ended up contributing to people's bad association with motion controls

[river veldt]

what games did Kinect and PS Move even have

[unreal idol]

MS felt like they were shifting from a core gamer demographic to a family deamographic

[slim thorn]

I'm not aware of any noteworthy ones, which was kinda my whole point

[river veldt]

i see

[unreal idol]

that goofy han solo dancing game

[fresh bane]

I'll give you a clue

I'm feeling like a star you can't stop my shine...

[river veldt]

im feelin like a star you cant stop my shine
im lovin cloud city du dud du
im han solo im han solo han solo solo

nooo now it's stuck in my head again

[unreal idol]

It's kind of sad how far Xbox has fallen

[slim thorn]

tbf it's also recovered since then

but these days the consoles are just less interesting all around

Switch and Steam Deck have the obvious portability hook

[fresh bane]

Well with any luck they'll bounce back a little bit after that whole rebrand they did recently but.... probably not

[unreal idol]

FF14 on Switch 2

[slim thorn]

but other than that, why would you not game on a PC? there aren't even that many exclusives that anyone cares about any more

[cerulean herald]

bc muh brand loyalty /s

[unreal idol]

Consoles are comfy and ther's a part of my brain that's still trapped in the mid 90s

[slim thorn]

I transplanted that part of my mind by buying a USB Xbox controller for my laptop

[unreal idol]

Child-me might bite so I'm not risking that

[slim thorn]

bite?

[unreal idol]

Failed attempt at humor

[river veldt]

i thought it was funny

[cerulean herald]

its ok, my child doesnt bite

the child:

[river veldt]

i thought this was an interesting video. the only part of a game that's made me tear up lately was around two years ago when i was playing Dark Souls and i got to Ash Lake, something about that area be it the music or the theories just really got to me
https://youtu.be/Qt8gXZ_afHY?si=Jfp7utrAmtRZkmF9

[cerulean herald]

so far, it was bloody Omori that got me tearing up

[river veldt]

ooh omori

[cerulean herald]

[icy crescent]

only ori 2 and rdr 2 got me so far

[river veldt]

oooh yes RDR2 always gets me

[cerulean herald]

i will never not read it as R2D2 on first sighting

[proud warren]

Only "To the Moon" made me weepy thus far

[astral steeple]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ps5-digital-games-reportedly-now-have-30-day-online-check-in-drm/

Dawg

Why tf

[bitter stream]

Supposedly that's unintentional, form the article itself. I guess time will tell

[gaunt marten]

What's unintentional is them revealing it too early. You don't accidentally make DRM

[bitter stream]

Well, that sucks if they are implementing always online DRM to digitally bought games

Needing an internet connection just to play on console is weird af

[cerulean herald]

Xbox One tried to do that IIRC

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

"fortunately, we have a product for people who arent able to get some form of connectivity, it's called Xbox 360"
"Right, so stick with xbox 360 thats your message"

lol lmao even

[bitter stream]

I forgot about that hahah

what were they thinking

[mossy flume]

Nintendo's NSO apps have a similar check to verify if your NSO subscription is still valid before launching the emulator

But that's the only such implementation on the Switch that I'm aware of

[cerulean herald]

astrogirl

[fresh bane]

beeeeeeeeeeg

beeg sana is beeg

https://tenor.com/view/sana-tsukumo-sana-hololive-vtuber-virtual-youtuber-gif-24469088

[cerulean herald]

LMAO SHE REACTS TO THE FACE PLANTING

if you fall from a high enough height

I love that

[fresh bane]

''gwak-- good thing no one saw me faceplant''

but Sanana is always watching 🪐

[dense crypt]

a video game about v-tubers?

[cerulean herald]

yup

[cerulean herald]

biblically accurate Boros

[winter cargo]

That one got me. I was scrolling down and laughed out loud. Everyone in the apartment's trying to sleep

[cerulean herald]

can confirm, I heard hysterical laughter outside and wondered what that was a bout

[eager bane]

Honestly, I'd be quite happy just sticking with an Xbox 360 nowadays

[hushed onyx]

I started playing Old World last night (well, I got through some of the tutorials). So far it looks like a reasonably well-executed Civilization-style 4X, but...I've grown to be less interested in this type of historically-themed 4X than I was back when Civilization III or Civilization IV came out.

Fundamentally, the fun for me from playing historical (as opposed to fantasy or sci-fi) 4X/grand strategy games comes from a more simulationist aspect of having to handle something like the real historical situation and hopefully doing better than the real historical leaders in that situation.

You can munge Civilization-style games into being something like that, somewhat like the strategy layer of Total War games, but that's not what Old World does; at best, you can use pre-made maps, and maybe you could write some kind of custom starting script that only allows playing the historical nations for that map and puts them in the correct places.

That being said, considering I got it for $2.50 I'm not complaining whatsoever.

Actually, now that I say that a mod that creates a pre-set map of that sort, like you would have in Total War or a Paradox game, would be pretty interesting...

[rugged flax]

FDev is giving their newest ship in Elite away for free
https://www.elitedangerous.com/store/product/FORC_FDEV_V_MEDIUMTRANSPORT01_BUNDLE_001

[rugged flax]

Cinematic trailer for Subnautica 2 drops on the 30th
We can reasonably expect an EA release date announcement then

[quiet swift]

[fickle garnet]

https://youtu.be/KOEWmfXM5SQ

This looks pretty cool

[wind stump]

every green laser is a thing hitting a block.
yes i'm so powerful that i am hitting shit off screen

[dense crypt]

i hate rich peepo!

[gaunt marten]

What the hell, that guy is evil

[hasty patio]

It's from Darktide (40K).

[ripe mica]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsAFst9yISY

[chilly mural]

https://bsky.app/profile/phons0.bsky.social/post/3mklbz4cmuc2b @fresh bane

Phons0 (@phons0.bsky.social)

"Who entered the KOF under the sea?
YURI SQUAREPANTS~!"

Bluesky · Apr 28, 2026, 7:11 PM

[fresh bane]

Firmly grasp it! impales hand with fan

[random steppe]

I am always fascinated by depiction of systematic evils, and 40k is pretty consistent with it

Warframe also is pretty great with that, for one character in particular

WH40k in Rogue Trader for example, you have sympathetic characters that explicitly tell you that they did partecipate in hunting the underclasses for sport.
Now this guy is depicted to be evil, those two characters I'm thinking about aren't depicted to be explicitly evil, they are though, near everyone that has the ability to exercise any agency in that society functionally is.

[cerulean herald]

[green fulcrum]

[cunning galleon]

Shubaduck

I like how shubaduck escaped hololive and spread

[fresh bane]

https://tenor.com/view/hololive-oozora-subaru-subaru-sway-hip-gif-22318397

Zamn!
She's duck?!

[cunning galleon]

Always has been

Subaru is like my number 3 YouTuber of all time

[quiet swift]

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

[wind stump]

NOW THIS IS MINING

I AM GOING TO BUY THE PLANET

[cunning galleon]

Flamin' hot brakes

[glossy cave]

Here is a video game that you’ve never heard of before. This is “Horse Racing” for the Intellivision, and this was from 1980. The object is to place bets for one of the opponent’s horses, and after you bet them, it’s off to the race to see which opponent would win. It’s a variety of gambling and horse racing. It plays up to 6 players, and this is the game that every pony can play. https://youtu.be/FunrEqdJ_iM?si=7muWRDpAiKgFkfL8

[unreal idol]

Steel ball run

[dapper cedar]

been on the castlevania train what with the new game this year. finally proper sat down and went through CV2 for the first time, got the worst ending, but couldn't stop thinking about it and so did another run soon after netting a better end. it's not good but it is very interesting, the way the world wraps around itself i found real neat, and of course the music always rocks it's a 'vania. farming for hearts, tedious backtracking thanks to false platforms, and the notoriously rough translation were the worst parts imo

[astral steeple]

https://about.roblox.com/newsroom/2026/04/roblox-reality-hybrid-architecture-democratizing-photorealistic-multiplayer-gaming

Ew

They're just using ai now to make roblox super realistic looking

[cerulean herald]

humor in this game has been top notch

[fresh bane]

I can't say I was expecting Roblox to use the whole stupid ''democratizing art'' argument but I can't say I'm surprised

[fresh bane]

and so Dracula was gone for good this time and he'd totally not come back again..... and again.... and again.... and then one more time...

and then he reincarnated into some japanese teenager that one time

[river veldt]

Castlevania 2 sucks but i love it anyways

[fresh bane]

I only finished CV1 so I can't speak on anything CV related

[unreal idol]

Castlevania is a fantastic game

[astral steeple]

It doesn't even look that good anyways. Like roblox itself used to have a really good and simple art direction to begin with

I stopped playing in like 2013. My account itself was made in like 2008 or 2009

[unreal idol]

I should play it again

[river veldt]

ye Castlevania 1 is great

but hard too

[frozen gate]

ive played a decent chunk of the castlevania games but i don't actually have much of an opinion on them so it feels weird

probably my favorite was Rondo even over SotN or other igas just because it's the one i think about going back to

[slim thorn]

of the "classic" CVs I tried, I agree Rondo of Blood was the best, although Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon is even better

SotN, despite its historical significance, did not age nearly as well

[fresh bane]

All I can say is that I tried a bunch of CVs and none of them really hooked me, the only one so far I'm considering playing through is precisely SOTN because it felt so good to play from the get go, but I tried Aria and I didn't super get into it, I tried Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance and I didn't really care for them enough to get anywhere past the first screens, Circle felt a little better than Harmony but I don't like the whip-vanias

[cerulean herald]

what did CV2 do

[fresh bane]

I liked Order of Ecclesia a little better for a very silly reason but it still had the same ''problem'' of Aria where it didn't particularly feel super satisfying to play, I just don't get the same feeling compared to when I booted up Metroid Zero Mission, or Samus Returns, or Dread, or even Super which is my least favourite Metroid

[slim thorn]

yeah, the whole Castlevania side of the genre doesn't have nearly as good of a core mechanical gameplay loop as the Metroid side or the post-HK renaissance

the Bloodstaineds are the best I've played of that semi-genre, with the usual weaknesses being the smallest they've ever been, but all of them were still present

[cerulean herald]

was there a dark ages before HK

[slim thorn]

nope, if anything it was an upward trend from the PC indie boom to HK and then it was even more up

Metroid and Castlevania themselves did slow down quite a bit, but in the big picture that was effectively when the genre shifted to being mostly indie

[river veldt]

it's like, really weird and cryptic

almost nothing like the first game

it's fairly open ended whereas the first one was linear and straight forward

it's very similar to Zelda 2

[slim thorn]

I like to define the current phase of MVs by HK, not because "MVs were dead until HK" (they weren't; Cave Story and Ori predate HK) but because nearly every great MV to come out since HK has some shared elements

[river veldt]

i liked Hollow Knight well enough but it didn't blow my mind like it seemed to for everyone else

[astral steeple]

https://mp1st.com/news/report-injustice-3-in-development-at-netherrealm-studios

finally lol

[slim thorn]

which is fine, no game is mind-blowing for literally everyone

there's even a few things about HK/SS that I personally dislike (but don't cause much harm in practice)

[river veldt]

i bounced off Silksong pretty hard

i'll probably pick it back up someday though

[slim thorn]

because of the difficulty or something else?

[river veldt]

yeah difficulty

[slim thorn]

totally fair

[river veldt]

which is odd because i love Dark Souls and Elden Ring but whatevs

[cerulean herald]

I see, yea that makes sense now

[slim thorn]

and I'm still that one weirdo who had an utterly awful experience with Dark Souls

despite half of my favorite games, including the post-HK MVs, taking heavy Souls inspiration

[river veldt]

man i should replay Dark Souls

but i should actually finish Elden Ring first

[river veldt]

it took me a couple tries to get into it but once it clicked i got really obsessed with it

[fresh bane]

Castlevania came out with a fair amount of games in the 00s but Lords of Shadow were the ones that kinda fully slowed them down and stopped them until now, since SOTN they came out with CV 64, Legends, Circle of the Moon, Chronicles, Harmony of Dissonence, Aria, Lament of Innocence, Dawn of Sorrow, Curse of Darkness, Portrait of Ruin, X Chronicles which was a remake of Rondo which included SOTN and the og Rondo, and then Ecclesia, all from 1999 all the way up until 2008 was like a good 10 years worth of pure CV stuff coming out pretty consistently
Metroid slowed down a bunch since Prime came out cause they focused on Prime games, Fusion came out before Prime for GBA and then Zero Mission after Prime in 2004, then Prime 2 and 3 and some Prime spin-offs and it wouldn't be until 2017 coincidentally the same year HK came out that they'd come back with the Metroid 2 remake

[cerulean herald]

I guess they're 3D games, where SS is 2D?

[river veldt]

perhaps

[fresh bane]

and then Dread, and now we're still waiting for whenever the next Metroid is, but Metroid never really had a super consistent schedule of games coming out outside of the Prime series and even then 4 famously was in the works for a while

[slim thorn]

usually a metroidvania is 2D while a Zelda(-like) or Soulslike is 3D

(extremely large asterisks)

[river veldt]

Metroid Dread is still the only Metroid game ive completed

[mossy flume]

Samus is disappointed in you

[slim thorn]

full context: my introduction to metroidvanias was Metroid Zero Mission and Fusion. I think I replayed Fusion literally dozens of times in middle and high school. Partly because they let me take my GBA to school

[fresh bane]

Coming across people saying they want a SOTN remake where it's 3D and is more of a Soulslike rattles my head like nothing I've come across, and I really like the Souls franchise

[slim thorn]

didn't Castlevania basically already try to do that multiple times and nobody liked it

[cerulean herald]

what's a good example of a 3D metroidvania

[slim thorn]

hooo boy

I'll spare you the long answer and say Pseudoregalia is my usual go-to example for that

[hushed onyx]

Metroid Prime 😛

[fresh bane]

I think people liked Lament of Innocence well enough, it was the Lords of Shadow series that they didn't like

[cerulean herald]

oh yeah that one

[slim thorn]

and yeah the literal 3D Metroids and Castlevanias get included since they are the genre namesake

[indigo pine]

half life

[mossy flume]

Metroid Prime is what I would say

What's Pseudoregalia? Never heard of it

[slim thorn]

but it's often reasonably argued that the 2D and 3D Metroids are basically different genres so oh look we're doing the long version

[hushed onyx]

Really!?

[slim thorn]

it's a relatively niche title

[hushed onyx]

Anyway, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoregalia

[slim thorn]

Nire and I got deep into it but if you aren't looking for these kinds of games like I am it's very easy to have just never heard of it

[hushed onyx]

Yes, but Virtus is furry enough I would have thought they would hear about it on that basis.

[fresh bane]

Oh yeah I found Pseudoregalia's creator Bluesky last night they shared a higher poly Sybil model they were doing

[slim thorn]

still it's got easily my favorite 3D platforming mechanics in I dunno how many years

[fresh bane]

https://fxbsky.app/profile/rittzler.bsky.social/post/3mkjlcu3vn22g

rittz (@rittzler.bsky.social)

one more for the road

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FxBluesky · Apr 28, 2026, 2:52 AM

[frozen gate]

i liked ecclesia for the very biased reason that i thought shanoa was pretty and that's also the reason i played ritual of the night

[mossy flume]

Huh, never crossed my sphere

[cerulean herald]

goat

[frozen gate]

because miriam looks like shanoa

if i squint

[river veldt]

baaaaaah

[slim thorn]

to my knowledge, those two are basically the only female protag Igavanias, so very understandable

[fresh bane]

well I mean that's kinda why I liked it too is purely because of Shanoa, it's also why I was more drawn to Hades 2 whereas I hadn't played Hades 1 before

[river veldt]

you guys need to stop being interesting im trying to watch a movie /j

[slim thorn]

(Curse of the Moon doesn't count because it's swapping between 4 protags and Zangetsu is clearly the main one)

[cerulean herald]

what's Igavania

that's a new term for me

[frozen gate]

witch aesthetic was cooler to me than the vampires then so that was really it haha

[mossy flume]

I have a hard time following the indie game scene these days because it became so incredibly flooded

[random steppe]

The best thing about that game is still that they had to patch in pants to stop people from being distracted by the featurless MC lack of clothing

[frozen gate]

the more rpg orientated castlevanias directed by iga iirc

someone will answer better than me

[river veldt]

instagram vania

[slim thorn]

so, the term "Igavania" refers to Koji Igarashi, who worked on several classic Castlevania titles, and famously left Konami to co-found the studio that then made the Bloodstained games

so in practice I mostly use "Igavania" to mean "Castlevanias + Bloodstaineds"

[cerulean herald]

ah I see, yea am not familiar with Bloodstained

[slim thorn]

and yeah having more RPG elements is one of the distinguishing features of the Igavania side of Metroidvanias, as opposed to the Metroids and the post-HKs

the Bloodstaineds are basically Castlevania but it's good again because Iga left Konami

[cerulean herald]

[fresh bane]

I think it was precisely Iga who deleted her from canon but there was also Sonia Belmont

[slim thorn]

and I'm not even simplifying/kidding there, I've played enough of both now to comfortably say that Bloodstained: CotM and RotN are the best Igavanias (in the "classic/arcade" style and "modern/MV" style respectively)

(well maybe CotM 2 is slightly better than 1 but I didn't try that :P)

[fresh bane]

All I know is the new CV looks pretty dope and hopefully I can get into that one compared to the ones I've tried

[cerulean herald]

Igavania sounds like someone gave up on genre naming

"what kind of game is this"
"idk, ig a vania"

[fresh bane]

and it's not a roguelike or a roguelite or a 3d or a soulsike, it looks like it's gonna be just a good old Castlevania game but modern

[slim thorn]

tbf, using some guy's literal name is not the most common move in video game genres

[fresh bane]

https://tenor.com/view/belmont-belmont's-curse-castlevania-belmont's-curse-castlevania-gif-15357690882395410495

[river veldt]

what if we called platformers miyamotolikes

[fresh bane]

The traversal certainly looks much more fun than any other CV I've seen

[gaunt marten]

But Miyamoto is not a platformer

[fresh bane]

very Blasphemous-y

[hushed onyx]

4X games Meier-likes

[slim thorn]

or called metroidvanias "search action games" like they do in Japan

that won't confuse anyone

[river veldt]

soulslikes are now Miyazakilikes

[slim thorn]

good thing there's only one famous guy named Miyazaki

[river veldt]

ok true i used to get Hayao and Hidetaka confused all the time

[slim thorn]

tbf there's probably a billion guys with "Iga" in their name

[cerulean herald]

why they call it Doom Clones
but not Doom-likes

[river veldt]

every shooter except the ones i don't like are Doom clones /j

[slim thorn]

I think it was meant to be a value judgement at the time but I'm not sure

[frozen gate]

might've saved the roguelike/lite genre confusion if they called em rogue clones vs roguelites

[cerulean herald]

parents will just say "Nintendo-likes"

what's your favorite genre?

Nintendo

[slim thorn]

probably unironically true for some

[mossy flume]

Yep. Plenty of people only care about Nintendo-made video games and have no interest beyond that sphere.

[gaunt marten]

Candy Crush

[cerulean herald]

I grew up heavily on the DS and Wii
then defected to PC

[mossy flume]

You young whippersnappers

I grew up on the N64, Gameboy, and Gamecube

[fresh bane]

I mean, the Wii is a Gamecube....

it even has GC ports and everything

[cerulean herald]

hey, my DS supported GBA cartridges, so I played a lot of Super Mario Bros 3 bc that had a GBA port

so same thing

[mossy flume]

Heh, true enough

[winter cargo]

The most lovely of all belmonts. I'm late, I know

[visual hill]

https://bsky.app/profile/slippi.bsky.social/post/3mknrm34sm22m

Project Slippi (@slippi.bsky.social)

Introducing a brand new mode in Slippi: Party Mode 🎉. Live now!

This a free-for-all mode with items. There are 8 stages and 10 items in the rotation each week. Info: slippi.gg/party

We hope this mode will provide a casual/chill experience for newer players or players looking to sweat a bit less.

Bluesky · Apr 29, 2026, 6:55 PM

4-player FFA Melee matchmaking with rollback, at long last

[gaunt marten]

I don't know what slippi is

[visual hill]

rollback netcode for Smash Melee

[mossy flume]

I don’t know what “rollback” means in this context

[visual hill]

client-side prediction, if you will

https://glossary.infil.net/?t=Rollback Netcode

[mossy flume]

Ah

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/ZJSurHA-g4Y?si=zQbsAfge6D6iL2kI

finally

[glad girder]

I'm obsessed with this design in Pukey Goddess

She's so cute

[green fulcrum]

She is

[glad girder]

here's some more details of her. all of these are by the designer odyknms

[cerulean herald]

friendly reminder that Watame did nothing wrong

[fresh bane]

https://tenor.com/view/watame-角巻わため-ホロライブ-tsunomaki-watame-hololive-gif-13832022852096992433

giri giri warukunai watame 🐑

[quiet swift]

did vtuber channel breach containment?

[cerulean herald]

yes

am playing Chrono Gear: Warden of Time
its very fun
even has a fishing mini-game

[fresh bane]

it's a vtuber game so it's allowed on technicality

[quiet swift]

[fresh bane]

[mossy flume]

There’s a vtuber channel?

[cerulean herald]

https://discord.com/channels/98609319519453184/1033585093526179840

dont ask why the thread is under "games"

[quiet swift]

Probably because they end up playing a lot of them

[indigo pine]

me and the 2 fellow dumbasses

@eager bane @cosmic lynx observe this one

[eager bane]

Observed!

-# still don't like the game

-# I'm sorry

[indigo pine]

which is fair :3

I just wanted to show you wacky shit you can do with mods

[cosmic lynx]

Ye

[astral steeple]

such a needed feature lol

[hasty patio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EZhCzFaQuw

[rugged flax]

May 14th, 2 weeks!!

[wind stump]

https://youtu.be/c3JRK0SNqfU

[slim thorn]

conditional formatting

[mossy flume]

https://youtu.be/v9J3Y1ypDMc?si=7wT_gp_G2S1M9o6i

October 6th, 2026

It would be nice if they showed off more of the actual pods rather than the speeders

[wind stump]

dunno, do i want to go with "canon" names?

[green fulcrum]

For story-driven games like these that come with default names, I usually stick with the defaults. If they have no name by default, that's when I pick my own name.

That is what I would do. I have not the foggiest what you would do. :P

[wind stump]

I stuck with default

TRENO?
LIKE FFXIV?-

Just like NieR Replicant and Automata, this playthrough is literally the guy pointing meme

SO BEGINS MY GAMBLING ARRRRC

[wind stump]

"Wait, I recgonise this song, but not from XIV!... At least, not directly"

[winter cargo]

You're better than me. I once did a LP of FFVII and intentionally decided to piss off both halves of the fandom.

I named Ms. Gainsborough... Aeriths

I even admitted that was the reason I did it

[wheat aurora]

What about in undertale? Only way I know where that's got a special feature to it

[wind stump]

Man, I love Steiner

failhusband <3

[uneven epoch]

best character tbh

[wind stump]

HE EVEN REFERENCED MONTY PYTHON

[arctic fern]

oh hey that vids done
neat

oof tho, being away from home and 10 games need updating

[visual hill]

ah yes, the famous French soccer player

(the French localization renamed him to Djidane because of this)

[wind stump]

won my first fight, give me that FF victory theme

[slim thorn]

the final results of that were way more plausible than I was expecting

[wind stump]

oh god abilities are tied to equipment?

[slim thorn]

isn't that a pretty common thing in RPGs

[wind stump]

but like i have to equip the equipment THEN equip the passive

[green fulcrum]

How horrifying

[fresh bane]

I want to say I think that was a thing leftover from FF8? In FF7 I'm pretty sure the items and abilities weren't tied to each other and it was just Materias

I should play FF8 sometime.... it's the only other one of that era of FF that I never played

[slim thorn]

materia's what I had in mind

I guess in E33 you could argue the pictos aren't "equipment" per se? not sure what sort of definition hc had in mind

[uneven epoch]

the materia grind never stops

[wind stump]

[uneven epoch]

yeaaaaaaaaaaah

[river veldt]

ive only ever played FFVII

[uneven epoch]

thats okay, it happens a lot

[wind stump]

thank god i had 3 Phoenix Downs

... used all 3 but you know

[slim thorn]

7 is a lot of people's only FF

was mine for a while

[fresh bane]

I never played it

but I played Crisis Core....

[dense crypt]

I've played 5, 7, and 8, 14 doesn't count, I keep losing my save files for 9, 10 lost my attention, I ought to play 13 and give it a chance, the original three games aged like milk, got near the end of 4 and lost my save, 6 I got stuck on a boss, and 15 tried to be kingdom hearts but forgot that it was more than just mashing one button.

[fresh bane]

If you're like me and you hate ATB, and if you're playing on PC, there's Moguri mod for FF9 which is super handy, has a ton of new features amongst which is an alternative battle mode for true turn based

https://sites.google.com/view/moguri-mod/home

[wind stump]

so keep item on long enough, get it forever

[fresh bane]

Yeah and level up the ability too

[dense crypt]

Really encourages exploration and going for item chests wherever you spot them

Also the crafting system, basic as it is

[wind stump]

i did give it a look earlier, but

1. I'm iffy on the AI upscailing
2. It's 5 fucking gigs. That's like, half the game's size.

[slim thorn]

I have no strong opinions on ATB because all the things about turn-based RPGs that bother me are at a far higher level; saying anything about ATB in isolation would be missing the point

[fresh bane]

These upscale projects are always gonna be a little iffy but I really appreciate how neat and clean it all looks, I use the upscaled versions of RE2 and RE3 for Dolphin whenever I play just because sometimes the crunchiness of the backgrounds with the higher resolution models really distracts me, but there's 100% a lot of background details that are sometimes a little messed up or don't necessarily look better

but yeah any HD mod is gonna be pretty big

the RE4 restoration mod is gigantic

[wind stump]

only took me near 3 hours to get into the actual game

[fresh bane]

tutorial finished

[wind stump]

plus like, i know i'm playing the Steam version, but I do want as much of a "vanilla" experience as possible

SHE CAN SUMMON FUCKING BAHAMUT?

[dense crypt]

Dragon King be like GIANT LASER BEAM

[fresh bane]

That's fair but at the same time there's a lot of features on something like the Moguri mod I can see being helpful to newcomers that would otherwise drop the game because of how old it is, it's not so much a wacky crazy mod as much as it is trying to put a bunch of bug fixes and QoL features and leave the rest untouched, that's really mostly what it is

but if you have a tolerance for older games sure, I know I'm one of those weirdos that doesn't care about playing old jank PC games

[quiet swift]

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[random steppe]

Well, abilities werent' gained directly from equipment, but equipment had mateira slots and the way they were arranged definitely did impact what ability you could use.

FF8 it was bullshit tied to the summons (guardian forces) that were bound to your characters.

[wind stump]

What kind of QoL features are we talking?

[random steppe]

I replayed FF9 half a dozen times and it didn't even pass through my head to look up mods for it, now Im curious.

[fresh bane]

Bugfixes, Widescreen, 60 FPS, improved effects and improved camera cause the original can be a little jaggy at times, optional original PSX font if you wanted it, improved audio, true turn based mode (not ATB or 'wait') and the ability to skip things like the intro to every single battle or adjust the speed of battles, controller support, basically the whole shabang you can expect from something like a modern remaster of a game instead of a straight port of the exact original experience, and it's all fully modular so you can enable what you want to enable and not worry about other stuff if you don't want it

[visual hill]

I thought this was a mod of the PS1 version at first

[fresh bane]

Memoria is the custom launcher you can install mods with super easily if you're the kind of person that doesn't mind setting this sort of thing up, I've always loved messing around with mods and stuff like this on my games so I never cared but I know some people don't care to bother with setting a bunch of stuff up and just want to directly play the game

[fresh bane]

I think that would actually turn the PS1 into a nuclear reactor

[visual hill]

I remember Beetle PSX HW got modified to support HD textures largely because of a Final Fantasy AI upscale project

but maybe that was FF8

in fact, I thought FF9 was a PS1 exclusive until now

[fresh bane]

I mean, technically it is

I'm pretty sure it didn't get re-released so much as it just had the original rom made available on PS stores and the PC port came out iiiinnnnnnn

2016

so relatively recent

Moguri Mod is also pretty recent like 4-5 years old as well

[visual hill]

it's one of those games you can feel runs on a PS1-oriented SDK even on PC too

(camera angles are imprecise, for instance)

probably not the worst offender, but I can really notice it in games like Rollcage on PC

[fresh bane]

I think that's pretty much the sort of thing Moguri/Memoria ''fix'' for FF9

Memoria Engine is a community rewrite of Final Fantasy IX's game engine that aims to add features, fix bugs and expand mod making capabilities (adding content, localizing...). Memoria includes a built-in Mod manager, bugfixes and optional improvements (camera, framerate, audio, controller, UI, options, cheats...) while supporting third-party mods.

yea

[wind stump]

that's how Burn works in FFXIV!
or it's called Pyretic, but technicalities

(well technically it's not an instant kill, but the concept is the same)

"man i'm doing so good at this boss fight-"

[fresh bane]

oh hell yeah pink Zidane

[wind stump]

BRUH DID THE BOSS JUST USE BLIZZARD ON ITS ON MINION TO HEAL IT

[fresh bane]

(also weird apparently he's called Yitán in Spanish following the JP pronunciation of ''Jitan Toraibaru'')

[wind stump]

well at least i know one of Zidane's Dyna attacks is multi target

(yes in my first attempt I killed Black Waltz 1 that quick)

[wind stump]

Apparently people don't like Garnet's new name being Dagger?

"New" as in, the identity she assumes after the Ice Cave

[fresh bane]

The streamer I watched play FF9 called her 'Shanks'

and I kinda like it better than Dagger...

[slim thorn]

I like her name change but "Dagger" does feel like it's lacking something

[fresh bane]

the funny thing is you can just call her Garnet still which is funny cause she's supposed to be hiding

[slim thorn]

somehow I suspect if I'd played in JP it would've had more oomph

well she should just undo the fusion, nobody's looking for ruby and sapphire

[wind stump]

AHAHAHAHAHA

[fresh bane]

Ganetto and Dagaa? I dunno....

[wind stump]

Zidane and Steiner: fuckin' goin' at it like wild dogs
Vivi: "aight i'm out"

[wind stump]

See that is a good name, but I do want to stick to canon names... Even if I do think Dagger is kinda dumb, it suits her "sheltered princess" personality

It is dumb, but I can see why.

[fresh bane]

I do think it's supposed to be this sheltered girl being like ''see I can have a cool name too!!'' sort of thing

[slim thorn]

oh it absolutely is that

[wind stump]

see i can do media analysis on games i barely know about

since i never mentioned it before
love the fact her hood is a White Mage robe

even if for some reason she can fucking summon Bahamut

if whm did that i might play the damn job in FFXIV

[green fulcrum]

"Dagger" is the only default name in FF9 you can kinda get away with changing, because it really doesn't matter. It's a fake name anyway.

[wind stump]

but i like the idea of
"hey Zidane what are these you dropped?"
"Daggers?"
"Damn... that sounds cool, that's my name now."

[green fulcrum]

I like the idea of her going:
"What are these?"
"Daggers."
"Oh. That's a shit name. Let's go with Raven."

[fresh bane]

she looks so cute in it I wish she kept it longer

[green fulcrum]

I think that's a reference to the White Mage outfit from FF1

[fresh bane]

I love white mages look at this little gremlin

adorable

[wind stump]

she is literally a white mage after all... that somehow double classed into Summoner- SERIOUSLY WHY CAN SHE SUMMON BAHAMUT-

moral of the story tho don't let me name things

[cerulean herald]

what pokemon ROM hack is this

[mossy flume]

Moemon

[wind stump]

not a romhack, fully original game called Touhou Puppet Dance Performance: Shard of Dreams
it plays very much like pokemon, but different mechanics entirely

[mossy flume]

Oh

[wind stump]

see look it's left and right instead of bottom corner/top corner, completely diff /s

[cerulean herald]

damn, a fine addition to my collection

[wind stump]

'tis a bitch to install tho

especially if you want the Extended mod that adds up to TH18 characters

[cerulean herald]

Ill cross that bridge when I get there

[graceful bridge]

https://youtu.be/817lxO6xBRs?si=T5GY7laFSjOm2VKL

[wind stump]

legit may or may not require you to switch your OS's language to Japanese

[river veldt]

finally someone i trust reviews this thing

[fresh bane]

I still love how this controller seems like Valve went ''fuck it, slap everything on it''

[wind stump]

Savage Adams is a gamer?!?!?!

[cerulean herald]

...oh

[fresh bane]

two track pads, two analogs, four buttons on the back, and sensors on the triggers that can detect when your fingers are on them, it's wireless but also you can use it wired if you wanted too and gyro, of course

[wind stump]

Or maybe it was this

do that, reset your PC, bing bam boom you can actually install the fucking thing

[slim thorn]

isn't that "locale" setting what we mean by "switching your OS to Japanese"?

[green fulcrum]

Is that really surprising?

[wind stump]

yes
i am hardly tech literate

[slim thorn]

kk

[mossy flume]

Yeah, sorta!

He's into tech

He has talked a lot about how much he loves the Apple Vision Pro, for example

And in general he knows a few things about computers. (But he doesn't know how to code. I asked him that once in person. XD)

But mostly it's the other staff members of Tested who do the tech reviews

I think he's a casual gamer. Still mostly spends his time working with his hands, of course.

[green fulcrum]

@rugged flax https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JXp-DzcXXuE&pp=0gcJCd4KAYcqIYzv

[rugged flax]

hell yes, new Badger
i know what i'm watching while having dinner

[quiet swift]

Speaking of controllers, I just briefly tried stellaris on the steam deck. Absolute nope.

[river veldt]

what is stellaris

[mossy flume]

Stellaris is a 4X realtime grand strategy game set in space

https://store.steampowered.com/app/281990/Stellaris/

Steam

Stellaris

Get ready to explore, discover and interact with a multitude of species as you journey among the stars. Forge a galactic empire by sending out science ships to survey and explore, while construction ships build stations around newly discovered planets. Discover buried treasures and galactic wonders as you spin a direction for your society, creati…

Price

$9.99

Recommendations

139803

Metacritic

78

[river veldt]

holy moly

[mossy flume]

Yeah there are a few expansions

Each session can get, uh.... very long, too.

I have 550 hours in it and I'm still learning new things about it

[hasty patio]

It's a PDX game, so it's usually loaded with expansions and lots of shit to learn.

[quiet swift]

So many xpacs that at this point the subscription model they have kinda makes sense

[mossy flume]

If you like games where a single run can take you anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks to finish, Stellaris might be of interest to you

Also they manage to stuff basically every scifi reference ever into it.

[hasty patio]

They just added the ME Citadel.

[dense crypt]

Personally more of a Total War Warhammer 3 guy, love me a big battlefield filled with carnage at the hands of fantasy dudes.

[hasty patio]

I should play it one day when the mood hits.

[winter cargo]

Guys, my Frieza Race character found some pants. They're a bit Satanic though

[river veldt]

im replaying Arkham Asylum and man the Arkham games have gotta be the best superhero games ever

[winter cargo]

I would argue Insomiac Spider-Man, but I'm a little biased towards Spider-man And his nice butt

[river veldt]

Insomniac Spidey is definitely a close second for me

and im definitely biased too because i like Batman more

[astral steeple]

Spiderman remastered and 2 are peak yeah

[river veldt]

i havent actually played the second one yet but i love the first

[winter cargo]

I got the platinum on PS4 for Spider-man.

Didn't for Miles Morales. If only because a couple achievements required NG+

[river veldt]

i dont think ive ever done NG+ on either Arkham or Spider-Man

[astral steeple]

I don't like the original look for peter at all

Remastered and 2 made him look so much better

[winter cargo]

Although I can admit that some of the things Spider-man does with his webs I 100% would not do if I was Spidey

[river veldt]

i have gotten all the Riddler trophies in the Arkham games though so im pretty proud of myself there

[winter cargo]

Hanging someone upside down? The cops either get there fast and somehow get them down or that's a manslaughter charge

I would instead do it right side up.

[random steppe]

There is definitely some concession to realism for expediency in the games in general

[river veldt]

people in comic books are more durable than irl people

[random steppe]

Nevermind that I did glue a few people to cars that later exploded, let's forget that incident

[winter cargo]

Nah, you didn't kill them. The cars did

[astral steeple]

The next spiderman game they do they need to include cooper coen/web weaver as a costume

Would be peak

[river veldt]

Arkham Knight is still one of the best looking games ever imo

it's crazy how it's 10 years old and it still looks amazing

[winter cargo]

That's the one in the series I don't own, yet

[river veldt]

it's pretty good

not as good as City but still good

[random steppe]

Knight is the one that I bounced off on.

[winter cargo]

Man, I could never be batman

[river veldt]

the story in Knight is a bit ehhh but the moment to moment gameplay is some of the best in the series

[winter cargo]

Not enough coffee in the world to keep getting me through nights

[random steppe]

I liked City a lot, I liked Asylum, Origins was meh but had better bossfights IMO, which made me enjoy it well enough

[river veldt]

Origins def has some of the best boss fights

[winter cargo]

I liked City until the goons wised up and figured out what a gun was

[river veldt]

but i definitely think Origins is the weakest of the four

[winter cargo]

Then I never really figured out how to disarm them

[river veldt]

the Arkham games also have the honor of being the only games i actually like being stealthy in

usually i hate stealth in games

[winter cargo]

What about heavy stealth?

[river veldt]

what's that

[winter cargo]

No survivors

No one can prove you were there if there were no witnesses

Which is kinda par for the course in how I beat most MGS areas. I try regular stealth, fail, and just kill enough people they stop sending people at me

[slim thorn]

It would be cool if someday there was a superhero game where actually keeping everyone alive was part of the harder difficulty.

[dense crypt]

Prototype 2 was a really cool superhero game, even if you're more of a villain

[river veldt]

i really want Sony to port infamous to the pc

[winter cargo]

Same here, those games were so good

[river veldt]

i have fond memories of watching my aunt's husband playing that game

[visual hill]

RPCS3 got big performance improvements for inFAMOUS recently

I think the first game is playable from start to finish now

[winter cargo]

I remember watching my brother play that game and be like... super evil, while I was a good guy. Well, I say good, my morality was Famous.

I still was not a good person to my enemies.

[rugged flax]

Payday 2 gets a patch
in the patch notes:
Killed enemies in loud now alert other nearby enemies
you mean they didn't alert enemies already before?

[indigo pine]

nope

[mossy flume]

Holy moly is payday 2 STILL getting updates?

[indigo pine]

yea. it is a cash cow. they still service it and port stuff from payday 3 when possible

[mossy flume]

Incredible

Huh, TIL there's a Payday VR now too

[quiet swift]

It sees more play than payday 3, that one has been plagued with issues since launch so to keep the company alive payday 2 is still getting updates

[mossy flume]

Honestly all they need to do with Payday 2 is upgrade the graphics, they didn't need a Payday 3

[rugged flax]

Starbreeze gave the update rights over to Sidetrack Games
they're maintaining the game now

while Starbreeze pumps what money they have left into trying to keep Payday 3 alive

they dropped a few new weapons with this update too
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4543600/PAYDAY_2_Espionage_Weapon_Pack/

Steam

PAYDAY 2: Espionage Weapon Pack

Perfect for the undercover heister and secret agent alike, the Espionage Weapon Pack adds five brand new tools to your arsenal. Compact, quiet, and adaptable, these tools ensure the job is done right while maintaining their punch if the situation gets out of hand.

Strix Pistol
This Soviet-era pistol continues to see combat around the world to t…

Price

$2.99

[mossy flume]

I last played this circa 2017/2018, I think. It was a fun little game loop

[nimble moon]

Haven't seen this winscreen in a really long time

Bro really stole ssj3 Goku's whole flow

[rugged flax]

oh my god
Unknown Worlds
You madlads
So, in the first Subnautica...the radio says

Rescue operation will be dispatched to your location in 9...9...9...9...9... hours.
The first game was released into EA on December 16th, 2014 at 18:30 UTC
SN2 EA is dropping on May 14th, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
The time between these dates is.... 99999 + 5.5 hours, a 0.0055% difference
G motherbucking G Unknown Worlds
If that's only a coincidence, it's a damn hell of a convenient one

[bitter stream]

whoa, that's cool

[fresh bane]

https://youtu.be/a-dTm7CA040?si=5xdbMcC6apXSSk-P

Damn south americans out here grinding the RE speedruns

First an Uruguayan gets the RE4 WR and now a Chilean gets the RE3 WR

[cerulean herald]

today I learned that Chrono Gear Warden of Time is made by Galaxy Trail
the same ppl behind Freedom Planet

I did think some levels felt sonic-y

[fresh bane]

Speaking of Sonic-y games, there was this one indie game I saw recently that felt very Sonic-y but I can't remember the name right now

this one

there was Penny's Big Breakaway too which was by Sonic Mania devs

[cerulean herald]

gotta make haste

[fresh bane]

but I don't hear anything about that game after all this time

Haste is fun, but even though people compare it to Sonic it really only starts and ends at: ''gotta go fast''
It's not really the kind of gameplay I expect out of a Sonic game, Shadow Gens was legitimately the peakest Sonic game I've played in recent memory, way better than what Frontiers was doing, but what does come to mind is Haste feels like all those fan-made projects people make about Sonic where it's a very large map and they let you go really fast, which are fun projects and all but they kinda feel like those Flash fan project games where you can go really fast and then after 10 seconds the novelty wears out and you go ''alright, so what now?''

but it's good it looks like one of those high speed high focus games

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1796470/Haste/

Steam

Haste

Haste is a high-speed third-person running game, set in a collapsing universe. Race through a variety of worlds, master your movement and use items and abilities to progress through each level before it falls apart around you. The game consists of ten Shards, each featuring a collection of procedurally generated levels that must be completed wi…

Price

$11.99

Recommendations

11456

I had never heard of Freedom Planet though, I might check that out later

[cerulean herald]

this is a pretty good description of the development

Game director Sabrina DiDuro (a.k.a. Strife) first began developing Freedom Planet as a Sonic the Hedgehog fangame using characters created by DeviantArt user Ziyo Ling for its main cast. Early into development, she lost interest in creating a derivative work and reconceived the project as her own intellectual property. Sash Lilac, originally a hedgehog, became a dragon; antagonist Doctor Eggman was replaced by Lord Brevon with his eyebrows resembling Doctor Eggman's mustache; and the Sonic series' ring-based health system was abandoned. Further changes were suggested by fans and incorporated throughout development.

so, very much inspired

ig I'll play that after Chrono Gear, I do have both Freedom Planet and its sequel

[rugged flax]

Subnautica 2 EA release times
Price will be $29.99 (with region localized prices)

Apparently the SN2 devs said in their Discord that if you buy during the first week of EA you'll get a Reaper statue for your base

[arctic fern]

Sold

[wind stump]

the common folk

[gaunt marten]

It was really funny when in my game she went "You may no longer call me Garnet. My new name is..."

"Garnet"

[nimble moon]

Gohan black who is actually black is actually exists wth

[wind stump]

i was internally debating going with Garnet, but decided to go with the "canon" names... regardless of how silly Dagger is.

(again, not a knock against the game, I get why she chose that name and the implications, it is funny though)

they're so adorable

[quiet swift]

[green fulcrum]

Nah, the funniest thing isn't that she can choose the same name, it's that everyone else goes along with it, and nobody notices, not even their enemies.

[ripe mica]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOw2r-be7a8

[wind stump]

GOOD JOB DAGGER
YOU REALLY CURED VIVI THERE

suffering

[winter cargo]

You haven't seen SSJ4 Gogeta?

[nimble moon]

Yes

Who doesn't know him

[winter cargo]

My 8 year old nephew, my 6 month old niece, my 36 year old ex-girlfriend

[gaunt marten]

Did you know that this guy will never kill Garnet?

[wind stump]

yeah he just kidnaps her

(i lost this fight)

I don't want to make the Vivi sad but
I can't lie to him either, can I?

[gaunt marten]

He is one year old. You have to lie to him

[winter cargo]

He's one year old. He's old enough to learn the truth

[wind stump]

vivi needs a hug

[green fulcrum]

Oh, you haven't seen anything yet.

🤫

[wind stump]

i know this is a remaster, but damn these cutscenes look good

i mean, relatively

[winter cargo]

My favorite part of FF9 is when Vivi beats Seifer in a competition where you use bats to knock balls out of people

[wind stump]

-# the joke is Kingdom Hearts right

<gwok>

that's all i have to say

[green fulcrum]

[wind stump]

Met Freya, died laughing at why Cid is the way he is, gotta stop for now because I got support

man six hours in and it feels like i've barely scratched the surface

well Steam says 8.1 but that could also be me leaving the game on pause/game overs

silently waiting for the Roses of May hammer to drop

[green fulcrum]

You've got a loooooooooong way to go still :P

There are even like two or three points where you feel like the game is about to end and then there's another twist

Good twists though

[graceful bridge]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1920490/announcements/detail/694259874864824928

tl;dr The original edition of Outer Worlds is being delisted from Steam and GOG on May 27th. As compensation, everyone who owns it before that date will get the "Spacer's Choice" edition free.

XBone, PS4, and Switch are not affected by this change. Instead, XBone and PS4 owners will need to own the base game and both DLCs in order to upgrade to SCE, but the upgrade itself will become free if you do.

They're also patching a bunch of bugs in SCE, and adding grenades.

[visual hill]

the good ending™

(although ideally, they should give players the original edition whenever you have SCE... like Serious Sam classic when you have HD)

[winter cargo]

Oh noes, I'm getting the Spacers Choice Edition for free.

[hushed onyx]

Same

[dense crypt]

Adding grenades? That's neat, actually.

Really ought to play the game...

I own it but barely touched it.

[visual hill]

they had nostalgia for Team Fortress Classic

conc jumping in Outer Worlds is gonna be lit

[wind stump]

It can't be that dangerous outsi-

[river veldt]

happy 24th anniversary to Morrowind

[wind stump]

HOW MANY POINTS-

[wind stump]

okay Mene i know Choco was yours, but PERSONAL SPACE

[fresh bane]

Nice, you met Ratchel

[wind stump]

she's a p good rat

still stuck on the serpent bastard, i think i'm underlevelled

[bronze abyss]

this is cool n all but is there any way to skip the animation

[wind stump]

man i'm really struggling with just 3 party members
hey did you know you can get a party member at this point by catching a frog?

[green fulcrum]

Quina! They're very fun and adorable

[cerulean herald]

froge

[wind stump]

I'M BACK ASSHOLE

MY GOAT
I KNEEL FOR THE FROG SLAYER

[wraith condor]

Quina’s very good once you know how to use their Blue Magic effectively and which enemies to eat.

[astral steeple]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/gamestop-preparing-offer-for-ebay-wsj/ar-AA22c56C

Please no

[bronze abyss]

"oh wow my run is going great,im almost at the level i need"
the ever so humble this bitch:

[cerulean herald]

what is that thing

[river veldt]

a spooky specter

[bronze abyss]

budget creeper,gets near,explodes

got through like half of my healthbar

[graceful bridge]

Oh no

[slim thorn]

this is laser-targeted at a subset of this server which does not include me

have fun y'all

[rancid herald]

I wonder what kind of miniatures they will be

[graceful bridge]

Its Modiphius, so like thire other ones
https://modiphius.us/collections/the-elder-scrolls-call-to-arms

Unpainted resin with some assembly required

https://modiphius.net/en-us/pages/xcomtheminiaturesgame

[hasty patio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzm9P4LK62E

[fresh bane]

yes, very cute...

[cerulean herald]

finished Chrono Gear: Warden of Time
it's a great game & had good fun with it, great platformer, and nice attention to details, love the spritework, it's so pretty at times
writing is nice, lots of nods & references but also seems like it could maybe be decent intro for those who are not familiar with Hololive
(humor especially is nice, got me many times )

story is something I didnt expect, so
massive SPOILERS if you want to play it
it is something I highly recommend to go blind in
but I'll give a breakdown bc it's pretty cool

||you play as Ouro Kronii who's part of a council to keep order in the universe
she represents Time, & the other members have roles like Space, Nature, etc

an event that happens at the start of the game causes you to go out & fix the space-time continuum, & stop the main villain of the game, Laplus Darkness, plus her 4 friends (the 5 making up the HoloX villain group)
But that Laplus is from a different timeline that has been dying (and her HoloX members being dead) so she's trying to take over your timeline, using that timeline's version of HoloX to do her bidding||

||except its not yours either because the Kronii you've been playing as, is from the same decaying timeline as the villain, the whole time, the original Kronii died when spacetime got messed up, & the Kronii you're controlling has replaced her
but not rly out of malice, she takes it upon herself to fix things since her actions & her timeline is what caused the rupture in the first place
it's a combination of her wanting to right that wrong and fill in the old Kronii's role, but also being a bit selfish because her own council and friends perished, & she wants to be with "them" again
She keeps this all a secret too, none of the council members know that their Kronii is dead, & has been replaced. It's a plot twist that happens later in the game but there are hints & bits of foreshadowing||

[winter cargo]

I heard XCOM. I am here

[fresh bane]

oh goodness look at this precious thing

perfect

[mossy flume]

I love how done she looks.

[cerulean herald]

Dragoon

[dense crypt]

summoner just has a big green horn on her head