Random Gaming Talk Thread

[Stoney Mason]

[Shrew]

I knew about this one, but I just found out he did it twice?

[Rufus]

I watched a bunch of 3S tournament clips a few years back and parrying Chun's super was very common, at least among Japanese players.

[Mr. Nobody]

I've gone from a bit of a drought to being swamped with new games.

Yakuza 0
Gravity Rush 2
Nioh

Nier Automata in March

Persona 5 in April

Probably Injustice 2 in May

Tekken 7 in June


 

[Mr. Gundam]

The Nioh demos made me feel like an absolute idiot who had no idea how to play video games, so I'm not buying it. Oh well. 

[benjipwns]

imagine that i edited this to put jade raymond's head on everyone but the one asian lady

[Bebpo]

The Nioh demos made me feel like an absolute idiot who had no idea how to play video games, so I'm not buying it. Oh well. 

It's just dark souls.  Kill some easy dudes, get xp, go back and level up, do this a couple of times to gain a few levels, then go as far as you can before dying, turn around and go back and use the xp to level up and you'll keep getting further and further as you get stronger and stronger.  It's a good formula, it works and is fun, but it's pretty straightforward.  It's only offputting if you don't go back and use your xp to level up.

[archie4208]

Anyone playing Fire Emblem Heroes?  It's pretty fucking good and exceeded my (low) expectations.

[demi]

It seems fun, and at least it seems to have actual progression of a story/single player. Finally a use for my Platinum Points on My Nintendo

[archnemesis]

Anyone playing Fire Emblem Heroes?  It's pretty fucking good and exceeded my (low) expectations.

I played through the first five story chapters yesterday and it's okay. I should probably play Fates Conquest or Fates Revelation instead.

It's quite similar to Final Fantasy Record Keeper and that game got old after a couple of weeks. Combat is too simple and with the tiny maps there isn't much room for strategy. I'm currently using a party of samurai, healer, archer and dragon. AI seems to always attack the closest target and I can often lure them into a situation where they can only hit one of my units, and then I can heal that unit every turn.

[demi]

Sounds like Fire Emblem

[The Legend of Sunblade]

It's ok if you like fire emblem.

[archie4208]

Pulled a 5* Roy on my first attempt. 

[tiesto]

Man, when will people get tired of gatcha/F2P mechanics?

[Joe Molotov]

Pulled a 5* Roy on my first attempt. 

http://kotaku.com/fire-emblem-heroes-fans-are-deleting-and-reinstalling-t-1791957296

lemme just reinstall the app a few dozen more times until I get one too!

[chronovore]

https://twitter.com/Polygon/status/827886412561317890

[Great Rumbler]

Bought an OG Xbox today along with some random games: Burnout 3, Wreckless: The Yakuza Mission, Dead or Alive 3, Halo, Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, Quantum Redshift, Advent Rising, Demon Stone, Midtown Madness 3, Sega GT 2002/Jet Set Radio Future, Project Gotham Racing 2, Bloodwake, Crimson Skies, and Soul Calibur 2. What games should I absolutely get?

[demi]

Your brother probably didnt tell you but I have a disc only copy of Dino Crisis 3 you can have

My library:

Advent Rising
Azurik: Rise of Perathia
Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space
Blinx: The Time Sweeper
Breakdown
Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller
Crimson Skies
Dead to Rights
Destroy All Humans!
Dino Crisis 3
Enclave
Fable: The Lost Chapters
Galleon
Genma Onimusha
Ghost Recon: Island Thunder
Grabbed By The Ghoulies
Halo 2
Jet Set Radio Future
Metal Dungeon
Nightcaster
Nightcaster 2: Equinox
Ninja Gaiden Black
Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors
Otogi: Myth of Demons
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Phantom Dust
Sneakers
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Sudeki
The Chronicles of Riddick
The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2X
Voodoo Vince

[Purrp Skirrp]

Bought an OG Xbox today along with some random games: Burnout 3, Wreckless: The Yakuza Mission, Dead or Alive 3, Halo, Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, Quantum Redshift, Advent Rising, Demon Stone, Midtown Madness 3, Sega GT 2002/Jet Set Radio Future, Project Gotham Racing 2, Bloodwake, Crimson Skies, and Soul Calibur 2. What games should I absolutely get?

Conker: Live & Reloaded
Def Jam: Fight for NY
Ninja Gaiden Black
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks
Otogi: Myth of Demons
Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors
OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast
Panzer Dragoon Orta
The Warriors

[a slime appears]

Bought an OG Xbox today along with some random games: Burnout 3, Wreckless: The Yakuza Mission, Dead or Alive 3, Halo, Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, Quantum Redshift, Advent Rising, Demon Stone, Midtown Madness 3, Sega GT 2002/Jet Set Radio Future, Project Gotham Racing 2, Bloodwake, Crimson Skies, and Soul Calibur 2. What games should I absolutely get?

OG Xbox is an amazing system. It's no PS2 (nothing is lol) but it had a great lineup of exclusives and third party games were always superior on it.

Must-have exclusives:

• Breakdown
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
• Conker: Live and Reloaded
• Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller
• Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
• Dead or Alive 3
• Fable: The Lost Chapters
• Forza Motorsport
• Galleon
• Grabbed by the Ghoulies
• Halo: Combat Evolved
• Halo 2
• Jet Set Radio
• MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf
• Ninja Gaiden Black
• Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
• Panzer Dragoon Orta
• Phantom Dust
• Shenmue 2
• Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse

Must-haves if you're rich:

• Steel Battalion
• Metal Wolf Chaos

Must-have 3rd party:

• Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance
• Beyond Good & Evil
• Burnout 3
• Cold Fear
• Fatal Frame II
• Freedom Fighters
• Genma Onimusha
• Gladius
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast
• Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy
• Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
• Psychonauts
• Sega Soccer Slam
• SSX3
• The Thing
• Timesplitters: Future Perfect
• The Warriors

Other interesting games:

• Advent Rising
• Arx Fatalis
• Blinx: The Time Sweeper
• Blinx 2: Master of Time and Space
• Bloodwake
• Dead or Alive Ultimate
• Deus Ex: Invisible War
• Dino Crisis 3
• Doom 3
• Dr. Muto
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
• Full Spectrum Warrior
• Gunvalkyrie
• Jade Empire: Limited Edition
• Midtown Madness 3
• Otogi: Myth of Demons
• Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors
• Oddworld: Munch's Odyssey
• Project Gotham Racing 2
• Rallisport Challenge 2
• Star Wars: Republic Commando
• Thief: Deadly Shadows
• Top Spin
• Toe Jam & Earl III
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2X
• Tron 2.0: Killer App
• Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions

I'm probably forgetting a few, lol.

[thisismyusername]

No mention of Dead or Alive Ultimate (for 1 Saturn port and 2 port with Hitomi included along with looking really good).

If he mods his X-box, he could just download an iso of Metal Wolf Chaos and install it to the drive. It's not that hard to softmod the X-box. But I dunno if "xbins" is still around.

Phantom Dust is a must have, IMO. But it's getting a PC port (and re-releasing on X-box) before E3. So in like... 4-5 months or so if you can wait around. It'll pretty much be a straight-up port (no "HD remaster" work AFAIK) but the game is still solid and since I doubt the original X-box version will have online included, I'd suggest waiting on the re-release and playing the game multiplayer as that's the REAL draw of the game (the single-player is solid as well, but it's really designed around 2v2 multiplayer)

[Great Rumbler]

Advent Rising is actually kinda cool.

[demi]

I've only been saying it since 2005

[Bebpo]

I think my favorite Xbox game was Gunvalkyrie.  There was other great stuff, Phantom Dust or PGR2 or Rallisport Challenge 2 are probably tied second best and Blue Dragon/Lost Odyssey behind that.  Halo 2 as well and JSRF.  Gunvalkyrie was just like perfection Japanese hardcore action.  Miss those days.  Vanquish was probably the last game of that era imo.

[a slime appears]

No mention of Dead or Alive Ultimate (for 1 Saturn port and 2 port with Hitomi included along with looking really good).

Yeah that was deliberate. It's not worth picking up these days unless you're a die hard fan of the series. I own it myself though.

Speaking of which a few games I listed are probably not "must-have" exclusives either since they aren't that great (LOOKING AT YOU, BREAKDOWN) but they're so unique and cheap it's worth getting regardless.

[Positive Touch]

finished mirror's edge catalyst last night and god dammit that game was fantastic. absolutely didn't deserve the hate it got. will do a write-up later today.

[Bebpo]

finished mirror's edge catalyst last night and god dammit that game was fantastic. absolutely didn't deserve the hate it got. will do a write-up later today.

I'm looking forward to reading it!  I gotta sub for EA one of these days and play it and Unravel.

[Great Rumbler]

Catalyst does some things better than the first, but some things not quite as good. The tighter construction of the runs [with prebuilt levels] makes it more fun to hit your stride and fly through the level, but I actually liked having the open world and finding the best routes from one place to another. Basically, more choices overall for movement, but they're not quite as compelling. So, it's a bit of a tradeoff, there, but the mechanics themselves are still totally solid and fun. Combat's a somewhat bigger focus [certain objectives require you to defeat all enemies before they can be completed] and it does work better overall than the first game, but it's still just...whatever. It's just not an interesting part of either game.

Overall, I just really enjoyed the ME world and any excuse to explore it was just fine with me.

[Positive Touch]

so yeah I dunno why mirror's edge catalyst got trashed in reviews when everyone and their mother wants to claim they're the biggest fan ever if the original.

bottom line is the new game gives a lot more courses, with better controls to boot. the main campaign is about the same length as the original, but there's a ton of extra challenges placed all over the map, including user-created courses. add in collectibles that basically have you figuring out a parkour puzzle, and there's plenty to keep you busy. i also found it was a lot less frustrating than the original because Faith builds speed quicker and the controls are vastly more responsive. no more hopping into a pit when you were trying to do a wall run! the awful parts in the original that required you to stop and slowly look around for the next place to jump are gone too. every map feels designed to keep you moving at top speed no matter what.

now I can certainly see how people might be disappointed in the game, because instead of refining the problems of the first game they tried something new and created a whole new set of problems. the open world isn't as amazing as it could have been. it's not boring at all but there are choke points that you'll end up running thru again and again. in some ways it was necessary to keep segments of the map gates until later in the story, but there are areas when there just aren't enough alternative routes that open up. i ended up using quick travel a lot. combat doesn't have shitty guns anymore but they replaced them with spammy melee. they also put in a lot more enemies unfortunately so sometimes you end up kicking around a bunch of guys till you have a clear path forward.

oh also the story sucks just as bad as everyone said. "both sides are bad!" f u dude that shit doesn't fly anymore in Donald trumps America.

anyway my mind is wandering so I'll type up more later maybe. this game is fun and I like it

[CatsCatsCats]

Fractured But Whole delayed again last time I preorder anything

[chronovore]

https://imgur.com/gallery/CEtrv3f


UBISOFT QUALITY

[Rufus]

Deleted Clicker Heroes.

Freedom.

[Joe Molotov]

Deleted Clicker Heroes.

Freedom.

Deleted your account.

[Rufus]

Enabler!

[zomgee]

The Humble Freedom Bundle is fantastic:

https://www.humblebundle.com/freedom

It can all go to the ACLU.

Edit: Shit, sorry it was in the gaming deals thread.

[D3RANG3D]

http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/10/14560050/for-honor-deus-vult

 

[Atramental]

I just knew Polygon or Kotaku was going to make a stink about this. 

[benjipwns]

“Deus vult” has an uncomfortable connotation for many

Despite the lighthearted use of the phrase by the For Honor community, rooted in pre-existing video game culture, the alt-right had resurfaced the age-old battle cry months earlier for more sinister purposes.

While this connection has been debated — some argue that the phrase’s popularity is only attributable to Crusader Kings — the prevalent understanding is that “Deus vult” in the alt-right context is just another code word for hate-mongering. (It’s also another example of the movement re-appropriating iconography for its purposes. Refer to the history of the “Pepe the frog” meme for more on that.)

“The current surge of Deus Vult does not seem to be part of [Crusader Kings], but part of a growing hatred for islamification, proved by simply reading the comments that come with that phrase,” explained one Redditor to another

We’ve contacted Ubisoft for comment and will update if we hear back.

GAMES JOURNALISM

[MMaRsu]

Ill have to replay Ninja Gaiden Black and Ninja Gaiden 2 soon after I beat Nioh. I have a hankering for more sweet ninja games. Gonna see how Nioh compares to those old NG games I loved so much back in the days.

[Atramental]

https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/the-stardew-valley-modder-who-added-jerk-off-schedules-for-every-guy?utm_source=mbfb

Why? Because. 

edit: Nice journalism, Patrick Klepek. 

[Atramental]

http://www.businessinsider.com/valve-gabe-newell-vr-failure-2017-2

 

[Joe Molotov]

https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/the-stardew-valley-modder-who-added-jerk-off-schedules-for-every-guy?utm_source=mbfb

Why? Because. 

edit: Nice journalism, Patrick Klepek. 

Some call it jerking off, others call it masturbating. How'd you decide on calling it jerking off?

[a slime appears]

http://www.businessinsider.com/valve-gabe-newell-vr-failure-2017-2

 

[archie4208]

[D3RANG3D]

http://www.businessinsider.com/valve-gabe-newell-vr-failure-2017-2

 

(Image removed from quote.)

This should replace the old gabe emote.

[Joe Molotov]

Bork Laser sized emotes, tho.

[D3RANG3D]

it can be resized. 

[Joe Molotov]

Yeah, Bork will resize it to make it larger, then add it.

[D3RANG3D]

 

[Atramental]

The absolute madman.

[Raist]

https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/the-stardew-valley-modder-who-added-jerk-off-schedules-for-every-guy?utm_source=mbfb

Why? Because. 

edit: Nice journalism, Patrick Klepek. 

"the amount of horniness hiding in the mods for Stardew Valley [had] left me shaken."

 

[Trent Dole]

taco Klepek, everybody.

[archie4208]

https://gfycat.com/ActualIckyBellfrog

Girls are icky and have cooties. 

[Trent Dole]

Somebody tweet this at him

[Great Rumbler]

 

[benjipwns]

yeah but where am i supposed to get a copy of the original doom game? what's that thing he holds up when he says it some kind of big flash drive?

[benjipwns]

well, this explains the toaster in that video, he's not really using the car i bet!

[chronovore]

https://imgur.com/gallery/JiLpDeU

[benjipwns]

why didn't she warn her

some friend

[Stoney Mason]