Random Gaming Talk Thread

[Kara]

This was one of the last corporate conversations I had.

Player 1: Is anyone at [BASENAME]? Are they still camping us?
Me: Nah I'm not at our base, I'm on the other side of the universe running missions right now.
Player 2: [tedious chatter that lasts minutes]
Player 2: So [Karakand], where exactly is "the other side of the universe"?
Me: Comms aren't secure, sorry. 

*cue a couple of /tells from newbies going *

Editor's Note: Because our corporation was at war, I could be attacked anywhere in the galaxy with no ramifications by members of our mysterious bete noires (if you attack people in high security space--where I was running missions at the time--without a corporate declaration of war it's generally not advisable, but with one the fuzz are like ). If I had divulged my location I would have easily been hunted down.

New Eden is the perfect place for someone who trusts no one. I can't think of a better place to quit on life.

[Kara]

Put in my first 7 figure sell order brehs. We ball hard outchea.

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Dat MMORPG inflation over time in full effect.

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[Joe Molotov]

Work hard, play hard. 

[Kara]

Kapitan Karakand's EVE Chronicles Episode 0.2 - "Don't Forget to Read the Fine Print"

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Stardate A.C. 195

During a DUST 514 podcast I listen to on the reg there was a discussion about the people who fly the most bling ships in EVE; turns out they're mission runners and not corporate samurais fighting war after war with other neckbeards for digital real estate. It makes sense to a certain degree. Anyway, I've decided this is my true calling. Not only can I ball hard, but I can be decidedly anti-social in a game that's supposed to be social.

The consequence of this? I'm even more off-put by being hustled to join a corporation. Thank Slaanesh I'm not a woman irl, I don't think I could ever handle real, actual thirst.

Today I'm blowing spacerats up with my new flying dildo that shoots a fuckton of missiles when I get a recruitment email.

Hey [Karakand], I noticed you're still in an NPC corporation. You know you pay a ton of taxes to that corporation for nothing in return right? (We presume the recruiter didn't know we live in America and are used to this sort of thing. -ed.)

Come join our corporation! Your tax rate is ONLY 5%. (This is approximately 50% of our current corporate tax rate. -ed.)

We're a newbie friendly corporation and we show you how to go into no security space where you can make BILLIONS of ISK!

Having learned my lesson about corporations that prey on newbies in episode 0.1, I started looking at this corporation.





Yeah, I'm definitely going to fly into no security space with a friendly fire corporation.

I didn't bother to transcribe the email verbatim, but there were peculiar formatting errors. Errors that only appeared around the corporation's name. i.e. The name was copy pasted into a saved email.

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[suppadoopa]

typical nintendo fan game collection

[Yulwei]

So apparently FFVII remake is actually happening?

trigger warning

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=167954318&postcount=1376

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A third large scale project from a company that seems like it can barely handle one at a time?  I'm guessing this is going to be of substantially lower budget than FFXV and KH3, or it's going to come out no sooner than 2020

Still, I've never played FF7 so I am looking forward to this.

[Positive Touch]

wow only a decade late great job squeenix

[demi]

Yooooo earthbound zero tho! Buying when i get home

[Great Rumbler]

I'd buy an HD remake of FF7.

[Positive Touch]

I mean I would too, but it woulda made a lot more sense to put it out back when they were releasing all those spinoffs.

still have trouble believing the game is almost twenty years old.

[TakingBackSunday]

not sure I entirely trust square to not fuck up a remake/remastering of an old classic (X/X-2 HD)

[naff]

not sure how their engine works, what the state of the original assets are etc. but it would be sweet if they just up rez the original backgrounds, give the characters new models, mash some version of the paradigm system in there and make levelling materia a mini game. whatever happens i just want it to be controversial, no doubt there will be many tears involving this sacred cow before all is said and done.

[Positive Touch]

not sure how their engine works, what the state of the original assets are etc. but it would be sweet if they just up rez the original backgrounds, give the characters new models, mash some version of the paradigm system in there and make levelling materia a mini game. whatever happens i just want it to be controversial, no doubt there will be many tears involving this sacred cow before all is said and done.

assuming they still have the old assets on hand

[chronovore]

not sure how their engine works, what the state of the original assets are etc. but it would be sweet if they just up rez the original backgrounds, give the characters new models, mash some version of the paradigm system in there and make levelling materia a mini game. whatever happens i just want it to be controversial, no doubt there will be many tears involving this sacred cow before all is said and done.

assuming they still have the old assets on hand

It's unlikely they would ever work directly from the original assets with as much manpower and "free overtime" as Squeenix enjoys.

[Great Rumbler]

Yeah, there's no way they've still got the original assets. But developers like inXile and Obsidian have proven that games with prerendered HD backgrounds can be made in the modern era at relatively low cost.

But I doubt this remake [if it exists] will have prerendered backgrounds.

[recursivelyenumerable]

my understanding is many/most of the FF7 "prerendered" backgrounds weren't actually generated from 3D models, but were made in 2D using Photoshop etc.

[Kara]

Kapitan Karakand's EVE Chronicles Episode 0.3 - "Double Secret Indemnity"

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I found a lucrative noobie system. And by lucrative I mean the missions hand out skill books (what you use in lieu of RPG experience points) and Merlins like candy--things I've been #struggling to pay for since I started playing.

Anyway, a few of these missions involve sacrificing a ship to complete the objective. Now it could be "hold out as long as you can" or "LARP Mohamed Atta," but your ship is always going to ass-plode by the end of the mission. Since this is a newbie zone the NPCs give you the ships to sacrifice to the glory of the "State" for free.

Before I flew my first mission I was like, hold up, you're GIVING me a free ship? That's going to get destroyed for certain on this mission? Can I buy insurance on these?

Well friends it turns out you can in fact buy insurance on a ship you didn't pay for whose destruction is all but guaranteed. Insurance that pays out when that guaranteed destruction takes place.

Pocketed a couple hundo thousand ISK for pennies on the.......... ISK.

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[Joe Molotov]

brb, reporting Kara for insurance fraud

[toku]

I gotta go lay down

[a slime appears]

I just played Mighty No. 9 for the first time and I was genuinely impressed by how shitty that game was. Controls were awful, level design was boring, and the visuals were ugly. I have literally sat through student projects presentations that looked and played better and those were made for free.

[Beezy]

I just played Mighty No. 9 for the first time and I was genuinely impressed by how shitty that game was. Controls were awful, level design was boring, and the visuals were ugly. I have literally sat through student projects presentations that looked and played better and those were made for free.

I backed it...

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Just enough to get the game though.

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[chronovore]

I just played Mighty No. 9 for the first time and I was genuinely impressed by how shitty that game was. Controls were awful, level design was boring, and the visuals were ugly. I have literally sat through student projects presentations that looked and played better and those were made for free.

Does it look recoverable? I mean, are these the types of problems coming from an early build, or did they feel foundational?

[Positive Touch]

this game has been in "troubled development stage" longer than it took to complete development of most finished mega man games

[a slime appears]

I just played Mighty No. 9 for the first time and I was genuinely impressed by how shitty that game was. Controls were awful, level design was boring, and the visuals were ugly. I have literally sat through student projects presentations that looked and played better and those were made for free.

Does it look recoverable? I mean, are these the types of problems coming from an early build, or did they feel foundational?

I feel like I'm being too harsh on it but the problem I keep coming back to is that this is coming from a highly regarded developer and he's sold a large group of people a bill of goods that isn't to the same level of quality as other games in the market.

I guess to answer your question; I don't think it's recoverable. On a fundamental level the game feels like it was made by amateurs. The direction was to clearly mimic Mega Man as much as possible but it plays poorly in comparison and has none of the production values or artistic quality you'd expect from a recent release. I wasn't exaggerating about my student project comment. I have personally played superior fan-made Mega Man clones that looked/played better and was created just to be part of someone's portfolio.

I just see a game like Freedom Planet, which was made on a shoestring budget by guys who never made a game before but yet completely nail the retro gameplay, then look at Mighty No. 9 and wonder what the fuck happened.

[chronovore]

That's sad; I know a few people involved with it, and I think they were all super hopeful.

[a slime appears]

I know those dudes too and they're good people.

The project is already a success and I think overall this will probably be received well. It fills a niche that no one is servicing. I just have a very specific perspective.

In any-case I'll be buying it because I want to support them and Comcept!

[demi]

Mighty number shit sandwich, lmaooooo game was mud

[OnlyRegret]

Mighty number shit sandwich, lmaooooo game was mud

How'd you get into E3?
Make sure you write up your experiences, please.

[chronovore]

Mighty number shit sandwich, lmaooooo game was mud

How'd you get into E3?
Make sure you write up your experiences, please.

demi is secretly the "game luminary," Tim Schafer. It is both a disguise and unexpected humbleness that is the reason he spends so much time disparaging Double Fine games here on TheBore.

[Mr. Nobody]

I just played Mighty No. 9 for the first time and I was genuinely impressed by how shitty that game was. Controls were awful, level design was boring, and the visuals were ugly. I have literally sat through student projects presentations that looked and played better and those were made for free.

Does it look recoverable? I mean, are these the types of problems coming from an early build, or did they feel foundational?

I feel like I'm being too harsh on it but the problem I keep coming back to is that this is coming from a highly regarded developer and he's sold a large group of people a bill of goods that isn't to the same level of quality as other games in the market.

I guess to answer your question; I don't think it's recoverable. On a fundamental level the game feels like it was made by amateurs. The direction was to clearly mimic Mega Man as much as possible but it plays poorly in comparison and has none of the production values or artistic quality you'd expect from a recent release. I wasn't exaggerating about my student project comment. I have personally played superior fan-made Mega Man clones that looked/played better and was created just to be part of someone's portfolio.

I just see a game like Freedom Planet, which was made on a shoestring budget by guys who never made a game before but yet completely nail the retro gameplay, then look at Mighty No. 9 and wonder what the fuck happened.

I'd definitely play that game if it didn't give off this super furry vibe.

Sonic is my limit brehs

[Great Rumbler]

I'd definitely play that game if it didn't give off this super furry vibe.

Sonic is my limit brehs

It's got two modes: Story Mode and Classic Mode. Classic Mode is just the levels and none of the story.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Furries ruined anthropomorphic cartoon animals for me forever. Before I wouldn't have bat an eye at Freedom Planet's art, but now I can't even play Jazz Jackrabbit without imagining the fanart that must exist

[Fragamemnon]

Furries ruined anthropomorphic cartoon animals for me forever. Before I wouldn't have bat an eye at Freedom Planet's art, but now I can't even play Jazz Jackrabbit without imagining the fanart that must exist

In the future far from now, a small team is going to go all 12 monkeys on the past just to ensure that deviantart never exists.

[Rufus]

Furries ruined anthropomorphic cartoon animals for me forever. Before I wouldn't have bat an eye at Freedom Planet's art, but now I can't even play Jazz Jackrabbit without imagining the fanart that must exist

In the future far from now, a small team is going to go all 12 monkeys on the past just to ensure that deviantart never exists.

They'd be fighting a hydra. There are probably hundreds of specialized Deviantwart clones out there.

[Kara]

EVE University (an educational corporation) has an unofficial campus that's basically pioneering. They're set up in a pocket of high security space that's surrounded by low / zero security space and lot's of shit is super hard to get out there. Sounds like fun.

[toku]

The animal squad, woop woop. They run deep.

[Kara]

Just went space trucking to Jita IV-4 (the trade hub of EVE).

Shit was intense, was sweating bullets the whole time that I'd get ganked by hisec pirates.

Seeing almost 1,000 players in one place.

The market order lag from 1,000 players in one place.

[VomKriege]

Microtransactions in the single player of MGSV. 
Konami milking hard Big Cow.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/there-s-no-pay-to-win-option-in-metal-gear-solid-v/1100-6428359/

"While it is true that a few microtransactions option due exists, the entire game has been carefully balanced to be fair and enjoyable with or without using these options," Konami said. "There's no pay to win option. Rest assured that every single item, weapon, and mission in the game is available to all players without paying a single cent."

"However, due to the sheer scale of the game and the time required to explore it all, microtransactions were added as a completely optional feature for players who might not be able to spend as much time with the game, nothing more, nothing less."

We will regret our words and deeds.

[Rahxephon91]

So this means MGSV will have grinding like PW.

What the fuck?

[VomKriege]

So this means MGSV will have grinding like PW.

What the fuck?

Haven't played PW, but all the talk of "Fulton" and "Mother Bases" to be designed make it clear they took some pointers from it. Also the game is supposedly long as hell, like JRPG long, so yeah... grinding.
I think MGS needed a good shake up and maybe breaking the linearity was the way, but this not bodes too well.

[brob]

http://www.avclub.com/article/reviewing-fashion-or-lack-thereof-e3-2015-keynotes-221018

Taro Yoko

[VomKriege]

 

[chronovore]

Microtransactions in the single player of MGSV. 
Konami milking hard Big Cow.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/there-s-no-pay-to-win-option-in-metal-gear-solid-v/1100-6428359/

"While it is true that a few microtransactions option due exists, the entire game has been carefully balanced to be fair and enjoyable with or without using these options," Konami said. "There's no pay to win option. Rest assured that every single item, weapon, and mission in the game is available to all players without paying a single cent."

"However, due to the sheer scale of the game and the time required to explore it all, microtransactions were added as a completely optional feature for players who might not be able to spend as much time with the game, nothing more, nothing less."

We will regret our words and deeds.

Things Japanese console-game developers do not understand how to implement properly (read: "fairly" or "with reasonable value"):

• Online
• Updates/Patches
• Achievements/Trophies
• Microtransactions/DLC

[brob]

How about we let the market decide what's "fair" and "reasonable value" before we go running our mouthes about who "understands" what here

#WhatWouldBigBossDo #American #tcot

[suppadoopa]

For someone who doesn't enjoy south park, is stick of truth still worth checking out for the gameplay?

[tiesto]

For someone who doesn't enjoy south park, is stick of truth still worth checking out for the gameplay?

Combat was kinda 'ehh'... basically Paper Mario with all semblance of balance thrown out the window and a much more limited moveset. And some questionable controls for environmental actions... I really liked the game but that's because I'm a big fan of the show, and the game has both heaps of fanservice and scenarios that wouldn't be out of place in the actual TV show. I'd imagine there's not too much to offer if you're not a fan of SP though...

[demi]

For someone who doesn't enjoy south park, is stick of truth still worth checking out for the gameplay?

Nope. The humor is the main draw.

[Mr. Nobody]

Cracked and installed the Daemon Tools Lite version listed in this guide: http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/SSF#Free_Virtual_Drive_Software

Was so paranoid, I even cut my router off during installation 

So far so good though...no toolbars or nothing (even though it lists the program as Daemon Tools Toolbar in my program list for some reason  ) but nothing malicious has happened nor shown up in Firefox or my hard drive. Nothing has slowed down and the HDD indicator light isn't going berzerk...I think I'm good.

I've been down that road before and I don't want to go back  :'(


Anyway, SSF works like a charm now 

Time to catch up on Saturn titles I missed aka everything

[Kara]

Dual processing ca. 1996

[suppadoopa]

this triggers me

[Trent Dole]

nmcao!

[Kara]

NM Cao Cao. -Sima Yi

[Mr. Nobody]

My PS2 Smartjoy adapter works with SSF 


Lik-Sang 

Sony 

[Rufus]

They patched out the letterboxing on Evil Within. On all platforms, no less. Well, they added the option to turn it off, anyway.

[Kara]

Bought Dork Souls 1 and 2.

[chronovore]

Bought Dork Souls 1 and 2.

Does your masochism know no boundaries?

[cool breeze]

Driveclub PS Plus edition is finally coming out something like ~600 days after initially planned

[Kara]

Bought Dork Souls 1 and 2.

Does your masochism know no boundaries?

Whenever I fuck up and die in Demon's Souls I think to myself how frustrating these games would be for people who didn't hate themselves and / or thought playing From Software jank made them anything more than an .

[archie4208]

The new Fire Emblem has same sex marriage and incest.

And people say Nintendo is kiddy.   

[demi]

Dont forget if you have any club nintendo coins, the program shuts down in a week. I am cashing out my last 1200 coins on random VC crap I will never play.