Random Gaming Talk Thread

[chronovore]

Technology is hard.

[magus]

these horror games keep getting scarier and scarier...

...

oh wait! it's just NBA 2015 newest feature

http://datfacescantho.tumblr.com/

[Joe Molotov]

I liked this one from SB Nation.

[Barraco Barner]

Were there any decent FPS exclusives on PS3? I feel like shooting dudes but don't want to take the 360 out.

[demi]

There werent much exclusive FPS on either machine. All youll come up with is Resistance...

[Rahxephon91]

Not really. Resistance is a pretty meh and forgettable series. 3 at least looks nice and has the best sense of running ever, but other then that I didn't find anything stand out about it.

Killzone 2 people seem to dislike. It's a very sluggish and weighty shooter, but that feels deliberate to me. It can feel pretty hectic thanks to the cover system, but I don't think people really like the game. It still looks rather decent.

Killzone 3 looks great and it's less sluggish then two. It honestly seems a bit more generic then two as well. I don't really remember much. Then again i think that summaries all these games. None of them were terrible, but they weren't stand out titles beyond the fact that they looked good and were exclusive.

[cool breeze]

Resistance 3 is maybe the only PS3 FPS that's universally liked.

[Joe Molotov]

[Great Rumbler]

THANKS OBOLA

[a slime appears]

Too busy with work getting this game full speed into production. Have to drop forums completely for the foreseeable future. :'(

I've been playing a lot of Smash and Hyrule Warriors though. The latter being my favorite Musou game. Would love to play Shadows of Mordor but GameFly refuses to function like a competent business, lol. Looks like I'll need to hit up my friend at WB for a copy.

[Joe Molotov]

The cycling Duck Dynasty tags are bringing me no end of amusement. Activision or Valve keeps removing the joke ones, and people just vote new ones up. We're currently on "Survival Horror, Point and Click". At one point "Female Protagonist" and "Kawaii" were on there.

[demi]

club nintendo games

[cosmicblizzard]

Alright, PS TV shipped!  That's all that was holding me back from playing Persona 4 Golden.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Considering getting a PS3 for upstairs.
I need a media server/streaming device upstairs and really to get a used PS3 is only like $60 more than getting a Roku or something.
Question, the policy on PSN games and stuff is up to 2 PS3s?

[Rahxephon91]

Streaming and media services are also coming to Vita tv just so you know.

[Joe Molotov]

club nintendo games

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Star Tropics II

Everything else

[Takao]

Question, the policy on PSN games and stuff is up to 2 PS3s?

Yeah.

[D3RANG3D]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=911846

 

[D3RANG3D]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=911846

 

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Might be a false alarm

 

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[tiesto]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=911846

 

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Might be a false alarm

 

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Never forget Suikoden 2 rated by the ESRB for PSN

[Icon A]

- Pokémon X / Y will be compatible with ORAS, but there will be no patch to make the primal evolutions available in X and Y. The same goes for the new mega evolutions.

 - You remember the trumpets? Yeah, they are going to be present in the Remakes, but not as much as before.

bye, trash!

[hampster]

Lobosjr was streaming a Lords of Fallen last night. I love his dark souls speed runs so if there's anyone you want playing Lords its probably him. I haven't been paying attention to the game but it looked really good and he seemed to be having fun. A casual dark souls

http://www.twitch.tv/lobosjr

[toku]

[Great Rumbler]

Rog never doesn't deliver the real-talk.

[Himu]

Looks fantastic. Looks to be a possible goty contender for me.

[Himu]

Chaos Rings 3 impressions from our one Oscar:

http://toucharcade.com/2014/10/20/chaos-rings-3-preview-import-impressions/

[Himu]

omg

http://toucharcade.com/2014/10/20/gekido-coming-to-ios/

[Positive Touch]

never played that but it looks cool

[SmokyDave]

omg

http://toucharcade.com/2014/10/20/gekido-coming-to-ios/

Fuck, that looks cool. Fingers crossed for MFi controller support.

[toku]

omg

http://toucharcade.com/2014/10/20/gekido-coming-to-ios/

[Cheddahz]

omg

http://toucharcade.com/2014/10/20/gekido-coming-to-ios/

ahh fuck yeah

[demi]

San Andreas coming with Achievements

http://www.xboxachievements.com/game/grand-theft-auto-san-andreas/achievements/

[Rufus]

This guy:


I think he could take Yoshichan.

[Kara]

So I've been chipping away at 2010's Medal of Honor on those rare moments when playing vidcons don't cause me to feel overwhelming existential dread.

Anyway, awhile back some folks got on this hype train about Spec Ops: The Line being perhaps the first anti-war, anti-shooter shooter... or something like that. (Consume Grantland articles unironically brehs.) I don't really agree with that reading; well, rather, I should say that I agree that that's what was intended by the creative team, I just don't agree that their execution fulfilled that intention. The mall scene in particular was when it crossed over from borderline disturbing violence into Spinal Tap territory for me (coincidentally I'm sure, there's a miniature wargaming shop in this level that has a Folex version of 40K prominently on display).

Medal of Honor 2010 however, I cannot help but feel quite disgusted by shooters while playing it, which I feel pretty confident in saying was not intended in any manner whatsoever by the people who made it. It's nihilistic in its narrative (at least so far) and the sterility of the violence (filtered through large amounts of jargon) is more than off-putting to say the least. I think it was around the time when I found myself flanking through the rubble of an Afghan settlement that my team had had blasted to hell by an AC-130 and came upon an unlawful combatant cowering under organized suppressing fire by just 2 dudes and armed with one of the hodge-podge of Soviet personal arms the disorganized enemies in this game wield that it occurred to me that for the entirety of this game not only had I not been fighting a fair fight, but the game reveled in this asymmetry--and not in a self-aware way... hell, not even in an 80s action movie way, but in a way that was devoid of anything beyond "America's Angels of Death, fuck yeah!"

Having more than a passing familiarity with the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, I know the people I'm fighting aren't saints, but holy hell the game does not even bother trying to establish this fact. Even Call of Duty 4 managed to maintain that pretense.

[benjipwns]

I really like MoH's narrative because of much of that. Every single person in the game is pretty unemotional as you're destroying everything in sight and slaughtering countless people. And many of the missions are based around "go here, kill these people" and that's it to the narrative. You aren't saving villagers or hostages too much. You're detached pretty much from any grand narrative of "we have to do this because then master super criminal will gain control of Russia and invade Europe before nuking Japan because well shut up!" Except for some dumb little cutscenes that even then don't go much above "we're at war in Afghanistan."

The best part of the game is the mission where you hold out in a house against a mountain range of Taliban. Because other than the ammo breaking of immersion it seems like a very direct counter to Call of Duty's "big moment of importance" resolutions.

Second best part is how some of the missions flow between you on the ground as some dudes who call in air support then you play as air support for a while before moving down to sniper or guy lasering for markers because it fits you into the full connected enterprise of a military operation rather than singular components.

Plus MoH doesn't wear out its welcome since it's like four hours long or something. Some of the lesser shooters, and even some of the good ones, don't know when it's time to pack it up because there's nothing more for you to do here.

The sequel I think proves a lot of what worked about MoH (its low keyness, the banalty of the missions, the sort of mechanical way everyone operates) wasn't intended by the team and happened accidentally. (Unless there were major personnel changes, I haven't looked into it.) Though the flooding was semi-cool but could have been sweet.

[Rufus]

Spec-Ops moment was cheapened by the game making it look like a choice at first

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and having you fire at the obvious huddle of civilians.

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As intense as games can be, it needed to fool me a bit more. I can see someone making a hurried decision like that in real life, but you're too detached in front of the screen to make that work. The whole reveal later on also did absolutely nothing for me. The moment they had you obviously hallucinating in combat was when that part fell apart for me. Less is more with that sort of thing.

I remember people speaking in awed tones about CoD4's helicopter scene and how it put news footage in perspective for them. Given how the series developed I'm not sure it was ever meant to look anything but as real as possible and therefore cool.
Now it's just a moden military shooter trope, like a turret sequence. Pretty funny to see it in Splinter Cell: Blacklist, aprospos of nothing, because it's just another thing you put in military games now. Probably best to leave it uncommented, but the sausage factory treatment is jarring.

[Positive Touch]

I think it was right around the "stab three sleeping Viet cong soldiers to death" achievement in black ops that I realized the America fuck yeah genre of first person shooter wasn't for me

[toku]

My adhd doesn't allow me to actually enjoy games that aren't Call of Duty. Really looking forward to being a PMC ripping poor people out of cars and throwing them across highways in Advanced Warfare.

[Kara]

I really like MoH's narrative because of much of that. Every single person in the game is pretty unemotional as you're destroying everything in sight and slaughtering countless people. And many of the missions are based around "go here, kill these people" and that's it to the narrative. You aren't saving villagers or hostages too much. You're detached pretty much from any grand narrative of "we have to do this because then master super criminal will gain control of Russia and invade Europe before nuking Japan because well shut up!" Except for some dumb little cutscenes that even then don't go much above "we're at war in Afghanistan."

The best part of the game is the mission where you hold out in a house against a mountain range of Taliban. Because other than the ammo breaking of immersion it seems like a very direct counter to Call of Duty's "big moment of importance" resolutions.

Second best part is how some of the missions flow between you on the ground as some dudes who call in air support then you play as air support for a while before moving down to sniper or guy lasering for markers because it fits you into the full connected enterprise of a military operation rather than singular components.

Plus MoH doesn't wear out its welcome since it's like four hours long or something. Some of the lesser shooters, and even some of the good ones, don't know when it's time to pack it up because there's nothing more for you to do here.

The sequel I think proves a lot of what worked about MoH (its low keyness, the banalty of the missions, the sort of mechanical way everyone operates) wasn't intended by the team and happened accidentally. (Unless there were major personnel changes, I haven't looked into it.) Though the flooding was semi-cool but could have been sweet.

benji, why don't you lie down and tell me about your mother love of escaping reality by engaging in decontextualized state violence.

[benjipwns]

In the multiplayer you can play as the STATELESS freedom fighters against the oppressive imperialist violence of the U.S. forces.

I also liked Jarhead and Band of Brothers.

My most played modern shooter is TF2 which is about two corporations and their willing insane employees battling for market share THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 

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What's the horrible original caption on that image?

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[Kara]

I just GIS'd "shrink couch" and it was on the first page. It seemed sufficiently nonserious to correspond with the tone I was going for in my post and I didn't bother to research it further.

On a tangential note, James Gelvin has (or at least had) an interesting analysis of AQ pre-American invasion of Afghanistan as more or less being an anarchist group in the vein of late 19th century ones. I imagine he's had to revise that hypothesis about violent Islamist groups post-IS however.

[demi]

Use the 10 scale, Ruzbeh

[Joe Molotov]

So, a 6.5?

[CajoleJuice]

I played it a bit a while back. So much zzzz

I hate all MOBAs though.

[bork]

 

[Joe Molotov]

Nothing will quell your thirst for blood. Nothing. Not even a really big drink.

[bork]

 

[Great Rumbler]

Jim Sterling did a 10-minute first impression video of some garbage game recently released on Steam. The developers of the game were really upset by this and put response text over his first impressions video. Jim Sterling saw the video and did a voice commentary of the developer's response video.

[brob]

such pettiness over a My First FPS zombie game

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Binding of Isaac Rebirth in 24 hours 

[Himu]

Another ruzheh troll post. I'm convinced there's not a single post of his on games that's not a troll.

[Great Rumbler]

Super Meat Boy was all about that feel when you finally get in the zone and pull off a perfect run of a level that had been absolutely destroying you up until that point.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

It's not a fucking troll post.

I bought Super Meat Boy. I have every reason to try to play and like it. It's shit. All I remember is the shit graphics (which is forgivable if the gameplay is good) and the shit gameplay (not forgivable then). The one thing I recall thinking was the stupidest shit ever was the infinite lives thing. I remember a pitfall early in the level being utterly pointless because you can just instantly come back to life at no cost. Which makes that very first pitfall feel pointless and indeed is pointless. It's so fucking dumb. And these simple motherfuckers think they're on Miyamoto's level? On Super Mario's level? Fucking FUCK that shit.

  Weak troll.

[Stoney Mason]

I'm not somebody who fell in love with Super Meat Boy myself like everybody else did either. But then I'm mature enough to understand that my opinion isn't the only one and there is big scale and you sound pretty dumb when everything on that scale is only on the extreme of complete shit or the other end of the scale of rare perfection.

The problem with people like Ruzbeh isn't that they often have contrarian opinions. It's that they lack basic language skills to explain and back up those opinions.

Or they think trolling is high form of wit when its about the laziest and easiest thing to do in the world.

[Stoney Mason]

Now that's how you effectively troll somebody. Not that weak sauce you bring.

[Himu]

I can support someone not liking super meat boy but ruzbeh says EVERYTHING is shit to the point where it's hard to take him seriously at all

[Positive Touch]

we traded in a magoose for a ruzbeh

[Himu]

Magus > Ruzbeh

Magus was informative and passionate gamer. Ruz doesn't like shit except lame Nintendo games and his criticisms are often nonsensical.

[demi]

Wouldnt be an issue if you guys didnt dogpile OH WELL

[Positive Touch]

Wouldnt be an issue if you guys didnt dogpile OH WELL

well then we just wouldn't have any fun