Random Gaming Talk Thread

[demi]

So what's the big reveal, who is Icefrog?

[archie4208]

Some guy named Abdul Ismail.

[Yulwei]

That yooka layee trailer just made me realize E3 is in like a week 

Feeling zero hype for this year's event.

Yooka layee looks fucking great though. Really happy with how that game has turned out and I can't wait to try it.

[Rufus]

i love mascot collect-a-thon platformers and this seems real cute. party like it's 1999 brehs.

Minecart section

[Joe Molotov]

Some guy named Abdul Ismail.

He was the kid that made the clock and got to meet Obama, right?

[brob]

Minecart section

abandon the cynicism and allow this joy into your life breh

[Rufus]

I never liked pure platformers. :I

[demi]

No wonder spergs these days are jaded. Platformers rule. Fire up the classics

[eleuin]

Some guy named Abdul Ismail.

His name had been coming up forever in rumors connected to icefrog iirc, its just funny that a rival CEO outed him

and hes just a normal dude as expected

[archie4208]

That name has been floating around for years as a rumor, but having Tryndamere confirm it 100% is very poor form, even by Riot standards.

[Great Rumbler]

i love mascot collect-a-thon platformers and this seems real cute. party like it's 1999 brehs.

Minecart section

It wouldn't be a true mascot platformer without a minecart section.

[demi]

Mega Man Legends 2 is only TWO FITTY on PSN this week.

In your face eBay reseller scum

[Positive Touch]

if you don't buy it this week then you are a literal piece of shit

[mormapope]

Got Mega Man Legends 2, Breath of Fire IV, Street fighter Alpha 3 Max, and FFIX.

[TVC15]

One of you bitches buy Psychonauts on PS4 and tell me if it runs like shit.

[Positive Touch]

I've been waiting for dmc4 special edition to go on sale, and now it finally is... for $18 damn dollars. god dammit Capcom i didn't even pay that much for the original release plz give me a break

[tiesto]

Got Mega Man Legends 2, Breath of Fire IV, Street fighter Alpha 3 Max, and FFIX.

Join me with my BOF4 playthrough!

[demi]

Rise of Iron

[Kara]

The Fallen are my favorite foes, awesome.

Wonder if it's a new faction or "new" like the Taken were...

[toku]

new zone on earth and more earth lore/grimoire cards

[brob]

spelunky solo eggplant run under 10 minutes is insane.

if u don't know eggplant run requires:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

a wrapped present (can only be gotten from a shop)

sacrifice the wrapped present on an altar to turn it into an eggplant

go to the black market (secret door in the jungle) and get the ankh

get an NPC in the spaceship level (special door in the ice caves)

destroy two altars to get the ball & chain curse

use the ball & chain to destroy the moai head

kill yourself on the level with the moai head and revive with the ankh and get the headjet, use the hole made with the ball & chain to get the  eggplant before you go to the next level

kill anubis and get his staff, use the npc to carry the staff while you carry the eggplant through to the next level

use the staff and headjet to open the city of gold, and get the book of the dead

use the book of the dead to open hell

go through hell and throw the eggplant at the last boss' face

[close]

[Joe Molotov]

Wow, why would I want to pay $20 for an 9 minute game? Glad I saved my money on that one.

[Rufus]

You can get it for free if you somehow manage to accrue 5000 XP on GOG's summer sale.

[demi]

$6 Okami HD code on Amazon

http://amzn.to/1XJC1oU

[benjipwns]

Wow, why would I want to pay $20 for an 9 minute game? Glad I saved my money on that one.

Game was even shorter for me:

[Kara]

New Destiny expansion is current gen only. :'(

[Joe Molotov]

New Destiny expansion is current gen only. :'(

Time to get a second job. 

[bork]

Picked up a 2TB HDD for my PS4.  It got to the point where I couldn't even get game updates to download anymore and I was tired of constantly uninstalling/reinstalling games.

Holy SHIT were those HDD bay screws on there way too tight.  Ended up having to use pliers to loosen them.

Now I'm re-downloading and installing everything.  Makes me glad that most of the games I have are on discs, but man I am not looking forward to some of the DLC reinstalls.  I think I have almost 600 items for DOA5LR.

[jakefromstatefarm]

Is Arkham Knight playable now on pc? Thinking about picking it up during the next steam sale

[Great Rumbler]

It ran a lot better the last time I played, about 3 months ago.

[bork]

Is Arkham Knight playable now on pc? Thinking about picking it up during the next steam sale

I got it on sale or from some price fuck-up for real cheap some months back and it worked great on my PC, aside from an issue where the game would start and then the game window would disappear.  Had to find a fix online and then it was fine.

[Bebpo]

Is Arkham Knight playable now on pc? Thinking about picking it up during the next steam sale

Sorta.  You can't really go above 1080/60fps and there's still gonna be drops here and there, but mostly if you've got powerful enough cards it runs fine at 1080p/60fps.

[benjipwns]

I love how Warner pretty much said they're not touching it again and just going to assume that hardware eventually takes care of it.

And they knew it was a horrible port and told Iron Galaxy to keep quiet and just release it.

IIRC, they did the same thing with Origins and Warner Montreal had to fight management to get even an additional single player patch done. And that was with missions that were broken and often couldn't be completed.

Best part is how they didn't just give everyone the Season Pass or whatever. Wait, no, the best part is how for two Arkham games in a row they didn't even meet the already low standards for what they said was coming in the season pass and quietly just moved on.

[Fifstar]

It's kinda weird that the first two Batman games were actually really good well optimized. I guess City had that micro stutter problem but it still was impressive.

[Take My Breh Away]

It's kinda weird that the first two Batman games were actually really good well optimized. I guess City had that micro stutter problem but it still was impressive.

God no. Arkham Asylum was a good port. but City was fucking awful. Nvidia got microstutter and frame pacing issues. AMD got damn near unplayable at parts in DX11 mode. You could only really run it on DX9. Even on top level AMD Cards. Whatever revision of Unreal Rocksteady/Netherrealm use is just complete shithouse on PC. Even QLOC couldn't unfuck MKX. 

[bork]

The moral of the story is- Don't buy WB Games on PC.  The games get shitty ports and WB doesn't care enough to optimize them.  Stick to consoles.

I see people bitching that Injustice 2 is not on PC, but after the Injustice 1 port and especially with what happened with MKX...why would you want it?

[Bebpo]

Yeah WB not doing PC versions is basically them throwing in the towel saying "our cheap shitty broken ports keep getting us in trouble and it's not worth the sales to try to do a good job so we'll just skip the bad press and avoid PC altogether" which is...telling. 

When was the last time a major publisher did anything like that?  Definitely makes me not support them fwiw. 

[toku]

Thing with sales though, last time i saw MKX did 500k on steam so...

[Bebpo]

Yeah it's crazy.  These are $$$ sales they are dropping all because they don't want to spend real $$ to hire a good PC port team. 
Maybe all the flack they've take on the PC front they're scared.  But you'd think a multi-million if not billion dollar publisher would have thicker skin than that.

[naff]

Seeing new FFXII trailer made me pretty hype to replay with the Zodiac job system, never did get around to playing it on pcsx..... Then I figured maybe I should just try the new FF MMO. tho I loathe organising things with other people online, is it p easy to just jam FFXIV with other randoms for Dungeons etc? Can i just be a misanthrope and ignore other ppl altogether?

Never really played an mmo before...

[Positive Touch]

super easy to solo play. after you unlock a dungeon in the story you just click on it in a menu and it will queue up a party in a few minutes. you don't have to talk to anyone, and even if you do the community is extremely friendly up until you get to the really high-level challenges. it's a great game.

[demi]

Bought this guy today

https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/13415616_10153807685028473_8816339116570163015_o.jpg

[archie4208]

I spent $4 to play the Monster Hunter Generations demo early. 

[Kara]

I spent $4 to play the Monster Hunter Generations demo early. 

"We are debased creatures, Le'Furion."

[Joe Molotov]

You know Elie, we really are the Monster Hunter Generation.

[chronovore]

PS2 was great, but PS1 had lots of cool weird ass innovative shit like Square making a shooter in Einhander, Parappa and it's freaked out pancake art style, etc. Course PS2 is home of the almighty Katamari so such bizarro projects existed on it too but I think they were in greater abundance on Sony's first machine.

The thing is, Sony was DESPERATE at the time to get developers on board. Pretty much everyone who made games "knew" that only Nintendo and Sega made consoles, and the idea that a Walkman and TV manufacturer wanted in on the business was ridiculed by them. Many companies at first feared retribution from Nintendo and Sega, and didn't want to sour the business relationship, so Sony was begging for anyone to develop for their system in the PS1 era. That's why there's so much crazy stuff on PS1.

After they established their upstart dominance, Sony's PS2 era was basically the opposite. You had to prove worthiness to be able to ship on it, because they wanted to be arbiters of quality.

[chronovore]

So what's the big reveal, who is Icefrog?

Some guy named Abdul Ismail.

Just call him "Ishmael."

[Bebpo]

PS2 was great, but PS1 had lots of cool weird ass innovative shit like Square making a shooter in Einhander, Parappa and it's freaked out pancake art style, etc. Course PS2 is home of the almighty Katamari so such bizarro projects existed on it too but I think they were in greater abundance on Sony's first machine.

The thing is, Sony was DESPERATE at the time to get developers on board. Pretty much everyone who made games "knew" that only Nintendo and Sega made consoles, and the idea that a Walkman and TV manufacturer wanted in on the business was ridiculed by them. Many companies at first feared retribution from Nintendo and Sega, and didn't want to sour the business relationship, so Sony was begging for anyone to develop for their system in the PS1 era. That's why there's so much crazy stuff on PS1.

After they established their upstart dominance, Sony's PS2 era was basically the opposite. You had to prove worthiness to be able to ship on it, because they wanted to be arbiters of quality.

Uhhhhhh, you sure that wasn't like PS3?  There's so much crazy shit like Mr. Mosquitto on PS2 and all the simple 2000 games, that would really surprise me.  I mean even Cave shmups were fine on PS2, it was PS3 where they started running into issues with Sony and went to MS.  I think you're thinking of PS3.

[demi]

A few digital PS4 deals on Amazon (price match from PSN sale)

Shadow of Mordor ($12) - http://amzn.to/1UEsNDv
Battlefield Hardline ($5) - http://amzn.to/23gHhQc
Dragon Age Inquisition ($8) - http://amzn.to/23gHxi1

[VomKriege]

I'm really liking the Idle Weekend podcast, refreshing to have a couple of normal people discussing videogames with none of the bullshit and usual disclaimers and limiters. Turns out it is pretty easy to speak about games and their place in society when there's not a bunch of manchildren throwing their hands up in the air with outrage at every sentence. Not that the main Idle Thumbs podcast is bad on that front, but it still has a bit of insularity since they're mostly game devs.

Also the latest Designer Notes has a long interview of Westwood co founder Louis Castle by Soren Johnson :

https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes

I was not 100% attentive all the way through because laundromat but I found it fascinating, lots of talk about the nitty gritty technical aspect (how they set up a motion capture studio by themselves at a time when the technology was not well spread) and business. Castle is also surprinsingly gracious to EA in that, saying Westwood's demise was first and foremost his own and caused by trying to do too many games at once. It's nice for once to have some in depth discussion on the matter instead of just "Big publisher is evil, closes poor defenceless small beloved studio".

Not everyone is a fan of the pretty loose format of Soren's interviewing, but I think it works well to wander off the usual straight jacketed format.

[brob]

https://twitter.com/TheN4Us/status/744632185286582277

 

[Bebpo]

https://twitter.com/TheN4Us/status/744632185286582277

 

Wait, what?  Why would these people be drinking red bull and not alcohol? 

[archie4208]

https://twitter.com/TheN4Us/status/744632185286582277

 

#esports

[chronovore]

PS2 was great, but PS1 had lots of cool weird ass innovative shit like Square making a shooter in Einhander, Parappa and it's freaked out pancake art style, etc. Course PS2 is home of the almighty Katamari so such bizarro projects existed on it too but I think they were in greater abundance on Sony's first machine.

The thing is, Sony was DESPERATE at the time to get developers on board. Pretty much everyone who made games "knew" that only Nintendo and Sega made consoles, and the idea that a Walkman and TV manufacturer wanted in on the business was ridiculed by them. Many companies at first feared retribution from Nintendo and Sega, and didn't want to sour the business relationship, so Sony was begging for anyone to develop for their system in the PS1 era. That's why there's so much crazy stuff on PS1.

After they established their upstart dominance, Sony's PS2 era was basically the opposite. You had to prove worthiness to be able to ship on it, because they wanted to be arbiters of quality.

Uhhhhhh, you sure that wasn't like PS3?  There's so much crazy shit like Mr. Mosquitto on PS2 and all the simple 2000 games, that would really surprise me.  I mean even Cave shmups were fine on PS2, it was PS3 where they started running into issues with Sony and went to MS.  I think you're thinking of PS3.

I definitely meant PS2 era, but I am specifically referring to the North American market, not Japan.

I'm forgetting who the studio head was at the time, but IIRC it was a British dude and a cohort woman who had come over with him to run SCEA. At the time SCEA and SCEI were very separate entities, with different policies and approaches. Japan was still up for having whatever developers wanted to make be available, but in North America SCEA was run with the kind of arrogance that only Nintendo and Sega had previously enjoyed. They didn't care if the game had been approved and published in Japan, they would mandate review for the American market and insist on additional content. If it didn't pass initial review, it could not be resubmitted without substantial changes to its content. They felt themselves arbiters of the PS2 brand outside Japan, and they were serious about guarding that gate.

[Take My Breh Away]

i love mascot collect-a-thon platformers and this seems real cute. party like it's 1999 brehs.

I loved them too but Rare games aged awfully and I hate most of the character design(Aside from that cool snake wearing pants). It'll probably be mediocre.

The impressions on the showfloor were rather meh as well. It's not out for a while but there's a small platformer resurgence with Ratchet remake being decent and ReCore getting some good buzz for being "3D metroidvania meets Ikaruga". Yooka Laylee seems like it might be pleasant in the end but other titles are starting to enroach where it was going to hit the spot and more platformers on the way (Miyamoto said the next Mario will likely be at E3 2017).

Sea Of Thieves hitting a ton of "Game Of The Show" lists and awards while this didn't make a splash leaving the "The real talent left Rare" fanboys in a mess tho'

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Blast Corps never aged

[close]

[brob]

what makes a collect-a-thon platformer good is being chill. after a hard day as a productive laborer I'm not looking for jiggies or color coins or whatever else shit to raise my blood pressure u know

how do u expect the enthusiast press to appreciate such common needs of the working gamer

[Positive Touch]

PS2 was great, but PS1 had lots of cool weird ass innovative shit like Square making a shooter in Einhander, Parappa and it's freaked out pancake art style, etc. Course PS2 is home of the almighty Katamari so such bizarro projects existed on it too but I think they were in greater abundance on Sony's first machine.

The thing is, Sony was DESPERATE at the time to get developers on board. Pretty much everyone who made games "knew" that only Nintendo and Sega made consoles, and the idea that a Walkman and TV manufacturer wanted in on the business was ridiculed by them. Many companies at first feared retribution from Nintendo and Sega, and didn't want to sour the business relationship, so Sony was begging for anyone to develop for their system in the PS1 era. That's why there's so much crazy stuff on PS1.

After they established their upstart dominance, Sony's PS2 era was basically the opposite. You had to prove worthiness to be able to ship on it, because they wanted to be arbiters of quality.

Uhhhhhh, you sure that wasn't like PS3?  There's so much crazy shit like Mr. Mosquitto on PS2 and all the simple 2000 games, that would really surprise me.  I mean even Cave shmups were fine on PS2, it was PS3 where they started running into issues with Sony and went to MS.  I think you're thinking of PS3.

I definitely meant PS2 era, but I am specifically referring to the North American market, not Japan.

I'm forgetting who the studio head was at the time, but IIRC it was a British dude and a cohort woman who had come over with him to run SCEA. At the time SCEA and SCEI were very separate entities, with different policies and approaches. Japan was still up for having whatever developers wanted to make be available, but in North America SCEA was run with the kind of arrogance that only Nintendo and Sega had previously enjoyed. They didn't care if the game had been approved and published in Japan, they would mandate review for the American market and insist on additional content. If it didn't pass initial review, it could not be resubmitted without substantial changes to its content. They felt themselves arbiters of the PS2 brand outside Japan, and they were serious about guarding that gate.

also in regards to ps2,  people lots their shit things like Katamari and the Fresh Games label were announced simply because weird ps2 games in the US has become so rare. it felt like a big deal whenever a niche titles was released here from what i remember.

also it's interesting that you say the ps2 was when scea had some shit policies because i always saw the ps1 generation as having most restrictive policies. a ton of games got left untranslated because they didn't met secas silly rules for having enough 3d or whatever.

[Joe Molotov]

PS2 was great, but PS1 had lots of cool weird ass innovative shit like Square making a shooter in Einhander, Parappa and it's freaked out pancake art style, etc. Course PS2 is home of the almighty Katamari so such bizarro projects existed on it too but I think they were in greater abundance on Sony's first machine.

The thing is, Sony was DESPERATE at the time to get developers on board. Pretty much everyone who made games "knew" that only Nintendo and Sega made consoles, and the idea that a Walkman and TV manufacturer wanted in on the business was ridiculed by them. Many companies at first feared retribution from Nintendo and Sega, and didn't want to sour the business relationship, so Sony was begging for anyone to develop for their system in the PS1 era. That's why there's so much crazy stuff on PS1.

After they established their upstart dominance, Sony's PS2 era was basically the opposite. You had to prove worthiness to be able to ship on it, because they wanted to be arbiters of quality.

Uhhhhhh, you sure that wasn't like PS3?  There's so much crazy shit like Mr. Mosquitto on PS2 and all the simple 2000 games, that would really surprise me.  I mean even Cave shmups were fine on PS2, it was PS3 where they started running into issues with Sony and went to MS.  I think you're thinking of PS3.

I definitely meant PS2 era, but I am specifically referring to the North American market, not Japan.

I'm forgetting who the studio head was at the time, but IIRC it was a British dude and a cohort woman who had come over with him to run SCEA. At the time SCEA and SCEI were very separate entities, with different policies and approaches. Japan was still up for having whatever developers wanted to make be available, but in North America SCEA was run with the kind of arrogance that only Nintendo and Sega had previously enjoyed. They didn't care if the game had been approved and published in Japan, they would mandate review for the American market and insist on additional content. If it didn't pass initial review, it could not be resubmitted without substantial changes to its content. They felt themselves arbiters of the PS2 brand outside Japan, and they were serious about guarding that gate.

also in regards to ps2,  people lots their shit things like Katamari and the Fresh Games label were announced simply because weird ps2 games in the US has become so rare. it felt like a big deal whenever a niche titles was released here from what i remember.

also it's interesting that you say the ps2 was when scea had some shit policies because i always saw the ps1 generation as having most restrictive policies. a ton of games got left untranslated because they didn't met secas silly rules for having enough 3d or whatever.

Vic Ireland tried like hell to get that shitty looking Goemon game released on PS2, and SCEA was just like "nah dawg".

[Bebpo]

Got a New Nintendo 3DS XL because my ex is kind of hanging on to my US 3DS and I wanna play Rhythm Tengoku.  Man, the XL is fucking HUGE.  No other comments.

[demi]

Square Enix sale on PSN, if you missed the last time most of these games were on sale

https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/square-enix-sale/cid=STORE-MSF77008-SQUAREENIXSALE