Random Gaming Talk Thread

[D3RANG3D]

https://www.gog.com/news/introducing_gog_connect

[archie4208]

I haven't been able to connect the accounts. 

[Rufus]

Yeah, servers are getting hammered.

[Great Rumbler]

I'm stuck on the "Processing your request" screen, too.

[archnemesis]

They've added a message. "Due to exceedingly high demand this may take up to several days, please check back later. Thank you for your patience."

[Kara]

They've added a message. "Due to exceedingly high demand this may take up to several days, please check back later. Thank you for your patience."

Legit angry they didn't use the word agog.

[chronovore]

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[Great Rumbler]

I'm stuck on the "Processing your request" screen, too.

When I checked back just now, the verification had gone through!

[Syph]

So Bully is cheap on PSN today, should I indulge? Big Rockstar fan and it's basically the only title I don't have. How is the aiming though? Is it bad like in the early GTA games ala III or Vice City or is it improved?

[Positive Touch]

i haven't played bully, but i can tell you that everyone likes bully

[Rufus]

I'm stuck on the "Processing your request" screen, too.

When I checked back just now, the verification had gone through!

Same, but a couple of my games weren't recognized. Not yet, anyway.

[D3RANG3D]

I finally got mine recognized, not sure if it's all of them though.

[Syph]

i haven't played bully, but i can tell you that everyone likes bully

lol ive heard the same, but i've been playing Vice City lately and don't want to deal with that outdated aiming scheme if possible

[Joe Molotov]

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Saints Row doe

[brob]

http://www.gamesradar.com/konami-remade-mgs-3-in-fox-engine-for-a-pachinko-game-and-everyones-furious/?utm_content=buffer55184&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

[Rufus]

I finally got mine recognized, not sure if it's all of them though.

It's telling me that FTL, VVVVVV, To the Moon and couple of other games are not in my Steam library, even though they are.

[D3RANG3D]

You have to make your steam profile public like alot of those link your steam profile things to work. It also doesn't help that the servers are getting hammered too.

[Rufus]

Still nothing. Oh well. :B

[Joe Molotov]

http://www.gamesradar.com/konami-remade-mgs-3-in-fox-engine-for-a-pachinko-game-and-everyones-furious/?utm_content=buffer55184&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

I'm sure we'll hear about this in the latest Jimquistion. #FucKonami

[demi]

Amazon has 1 Year XBL for $40 - useful since my year is up in about a week

http://amzn.to/1sPh6TR

[Trent Dole]

So Bully is cheap on PSN today, should I indulge? Big Rockstar fan and it's basically the only title I don't have. How is the aiming though? Is it bad like in the early GTA games ala III or Vice City or is it improved?

Bully is the best thing R*s ever done, PLAY IT.
..we all knew MGS pachinko was going to happen after Kojima left and the CV one had happened.

[chronovore]

So Bully is cheap on PSN today, should I indulge? Big Rockstar fan and it's basically the only title I don't have. How is the aiming though? Is it bad like in the early GTA games ala III or Vice City or is it improved?

BULLY is an absolutely fantastic game, but the aiming is identical to older GTA games: lock on, then cycle left/right through targets as needed. HOWEVER, there is not as much shooting in general. BULLY focuses more on brawling than any other GTA game, with grappling, takedowns, and striking. It's simple and elegant.

[chronovore]

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Saints Row doe

Yeah, I gushed at GDC to several Volition dudes how they are the god-kings of open world games. The character customization was an inspiration for the implementation we used for customized characters.

[demi]

Nope. SNES is the best. Theres only a handful of NES games I can replay.

[tiesto]

NES may very well have a better lineup than SNES for arcadey action-platformers, imo (in the 16 bit era a lot of these games went to the Genesis), though slower-paced mascot platformers dominated both consoles.

[Bebpo]

I dunno, all my memories of NES are that the games sucked outside of Megaman and Mario, but I was too young and didn't know gaming could be better.  I really don't feel like NES games hold up and it's not the graphics, it's the gameplay/UI/controls.  16-bit era is when things got more playable by modern standards imo.  Then again, I'm not a retro gamer and I'm try not to go back before PS2.  PS2 is the advent of modern gaming imo, all the games we play today are pretty much evolutions of PS2-era stuff. 

[mormapope]

I used to be a staunch PS2 supporter, but after revisiting and playing PS1 games I never played before, the PS1 is a lot more interesting and fun to go back to versus the PS2.

[tiesto]

Yeah, everybody talks about how the PS2 is the best library ever and I'm just like... ehh. I mean it was probably the best system of its gen, but at least for RPGs, the SNES and PS1 had much better libraries. PS2 was certainly better than what came after, though...

[Positive Touch]

nes Era was when long single player campaigns really started so there was a lot to trial and error in those days. lots of extremely cheap deaths, unexplained features,  lots of repetitiveness. and of course u. i.  and player feedback were generally terrible. you ended up with a ton of games that are frustrating to play. i think save states and online faqs help out a ton nowadays, but the fact remains that a LOT of NES games are cumbersome and frustrating to play.

[Bebpo]

Yeah, everybody talks about how the PS2 is the best library ever and I'm just like... ehh. I mean it was probably the best system of its gen, but at least for RPGs, the SNES and PS1 had much better libraries. PS2 was certainly better than what came after, though...

Nah, PS2 has the best rpg library imo.  PS1/Snes have a handful of good stuff, but PS2 has like 3 dozen great rpgs, the best action games, the best music games, and the best weird as hell games, especially with imports.
PS1 is alright, very, very few PS1 rpgs still hold up.  The loading is killer on so many.  SNES is alright too and has some classics but most of the rpgs are pretty shallow and lack the depth of PS1 and beyond.

I want to think I own every rpg ever released in Japan from the PS1-era on, as its the genre I collect because I want to play them all one day.  My PS2 library before it was sitting in boxes in storage was like the biggest library outside of PC digital gaming that I have.  Backloggery tells me I have about 300 PS2 games and I'd wager at least half of them are good and still hold up.  Also most of the PS1 rpgs that are dated these days have revamped more playable versions on PSP.  Like Suikoden I & II on PS1 still hold up and are classics, but the PSP versions are even better and easily the definitive modern versions.  Or Tactics Ogre, where the PSP version is amazing and the PS1 version feels dated trying to play it now.  I really wish Xenogears got a PSP/Vita updated version, because it's one of my favorites but trying to play it today is shit because the game is slow and shitty to play.

I mean straight up, I'll never find tighter actions game than Shinobi, Devil May Cry 3, Zone of the Enders 2, MGS3 (well, MGS5 plays better but the story is terrible in that one, and MGS3 still has better boss fights).  All of those still hold up if you pop them in right now.  On the rpg side, stuff like Shadow Hearts 2, Front Mission 5, FFX or XII, DQVr, Makai Kingdom, Soul Nomad, etc.. still hold up fantastically. 

But anyhow, I'm not into retro and nostalgia does very little for me.  I like the PS2 because when I play those games I get enjoyment out of them not because of some voodoo nostalgia magic, but because I put them in and they still play as good as modern 2016 games and look and sound great to boot.  I'm happy with PS2-era visuals for life.  I mean that's what I got on PSP, and to a degree 3DS and even iOS stuff like Chaos Rings and I've been happy with those games visually.

[mormapope]

Sounds like you can't stomach PS1 visuals and framerate issues, which is fine, but you're downplaying the PS1's library a lot.

The PS2 undoubtedly beats the PS1 when it comes to horror games and sports/racing games. Any other genre and it would be a debate.

[Bebpo]

Nah, I'm not a graphics person.  I'm fine with PS1 visuals.  I'm not fine with PS1 load times, d-pad only controls, bad user interfaces.  PS1 had some good stories and some good battle systems (Vagrant Story for example), but for the most part PS1 games are just not as fun to actually play gameplay-wise as PS2 onwards.

Also PS2 beats PS1 hands down in action games and fighting games.  I mean the genre of games I play, my favorites are rpgs, action games, horror games, racing games, fighting games probably in that order and PS2 was great for all of that.  I don't want to get into list wars because it's dumb and a waste of time to list all the classic rpgs on each system since there are so many, but for me personally PS2 is easily the rpg-king with PSP/SNES/PS1 behind it, though PSP mostly because of superior versions of almost all the best PS1 rpgs.  Tales of Eternia is another example that's better on PSP.

I think we can at least all agree that PS3/X360 was a step back for great classic rpgs.  There's still a dozen good ones, and a handful of ok ones, but it's a step back from the earlier generations for sure.  PS4 isn't doing much better yet, but at least it's slowly improving and getting a steady release of new rpgs.  If they keep it up and the system sticks around for a while, maybe it'll be better than PS3/X360 for rpgs.

[Trent Dole]

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.

[Great Rumbler]

Cosmic Star Heroine is finally coming out:



I've been really looking forward to this since they did their Kickstarter several years ago. There just aren't enough old-school Japanese-style RPGs that are actually more than just RPGMaker guff.

[Positive Touch]

i don't get how you can say ps1 has way more weird games than ps2.  like ps2 had loads of weird quirky games and tons of them were localized. maybe yall didn't play them or something but they're definitely there

[Beezy]

Cosmic Star Heroine is finally coming out:

I've been really looking forward to this since they did their Kickstarter several years ago. There just aren't enough old-school Japanese-style RPGs that are actually more than just RPGMaker guff.

That bar on the right during battles... is it suppose to work like Grandia/Child of Light?

[Kara]

demi wasn't embellishing when he said The Taken King was like a new game.

[Bebpo]

So what's the deal with it and Destiny now?  Does the game have a decently told story like Halo now? 

[Kara]

It's still nonsense, but now it's epic nonsense. With cinematics and everything.

The first level is Doom (apocalyptic demon things attacking Phobos), too.

[Bebpo]

6/30/16 - Super Robot Wars OG: The Moon Dwellers


??/17 - Super Robot Wars V


Both will have English subtitles in the Asia release which comes out about a month later FYI

[demi]

demi wasn't embellishing when he said The Taken King was like a new game.

They are revealing the next expansion next Thursday, too

[Positive Touch]

So what's the deal with it and Destiny now?  Does the game have a decently told story like Halo now? 

story still sucks,  but with taken king campaign it at least had a coherent narrative with personality, levels with memorable design in them, etc. it's not mind blowing out anything, but it is a trillion times better than destiny's "here's a nap with some bad guys hanging around go kill them ok" mission structure

[mormapope]

Best part of Destiny for me was the PvP. Some of the strikes were neat but any and all story stuff was D Grade shit. The story missions wouldn't be that bad if you can marathon through them on the same planet one after the other, instead you have to go through loading screens and finding quest givers.

There should've been one big ass planet with loading zones and environments. The amount of time you spend doing nothing in Destiny is ass. The RPG elements themselves also contributed less than create a class in CoD.

[Kara]

demi wasn't embellishing when he said The Taken King was like a new game.

They are revealing the next expansion next Thursday, too

Traveller watch over us.

[demi]

Best part of Destiny for me was the PvP. Some of the strikes were neat but any and all story stuff was D Grade shit. The story missions wouldn't be that bad if you can marathon through them on the same planet one after the other, instead you have to go through loading screens and finding quest givers.

There should've been one big ass planet with loading zones and environments. The amount of time you spend doing nothing in Destiny is ass. The RPG elements themselves also contributed less than create a class in CoD.

PVP was great in Y1 but lately its just garbo. Skill Based Matchmaking, constant lag constant NERFING of weapons (idk when the last time a weapon was buffed)

[mormapope]

The lag was terrible when I played it in January and February of this year. You'd be a fool to not use a scout rifle as your main weapon, with a handgun or sniper as a sidearm. Rocket launchers are useless compared to the machine guns.

Biggest issue with PvP would be the maps and map rotation in general. Every single Destiny map favors scout rifles.

[demi]

You'd be surprised....

Current Meta is basically:

MIDA Multi-Tool (Scout)
Doctrine of Passing / Arminius-D (Auto Rifle)
The Last Word (Handcannon) / Hawkmoon (HC) / Eyasluna w/ good perks (HC)
Hawksaw / PDX / Grasp of Malok (Pulse)

Party Crasher +1 w/ good perks (Shotgun) / [Any Sniper Rifle] (Sniper Rifle)

It's very hard to win with any other gun. The TTK (time to kill) is so slow that most people just play super passive w/ snipers.

[mormapope]

Auto rifles were so shitty when I played. TTK with a scout rifle that has no recoil and a decent fire rate meant multiple headshots and damage trading always being in your favor. Sticking with teammates and racking up assists or stealing kills with a scout rifle is how the game has to be played. Destiny has a similar ebb and flow with combat compared to Halo, with Destiny feeling a lot cleaner/smoother than past Halos.

The lag was really bad when I would play, so any close quarter combat was sloppy and constantly inconsistent.

[demi]

Its only difficult because of how the game draws enemies. Because of the NES limitation. Try the Ninja Gaiden Trilogy on SNES and see if you do any better (it uses passwords, too). The music is terrible, unfortunately

[Bebpo]

So what's the deal with it and Destiny now?  Does the game have a decently told story like Halo now? 

story still sucks,  but with taken king campaign it at least had a coherent narrative with personality, levels with memorable design in them, etc. it's not mind blowing out anything, but it is a trillion times better than destiny's "here's a nap with some bad guys hanging around go kill them ok" mission structure

Ok, yeah I played like 3-4 hours of the game in 2014 when it came out and dropped it because of all the negativity about busted narrative and grind.  I actually liked what I played gameplay-wise, the shooting felt really good.  Might try going back to it at some point.

[Kara]

It's a lot more frenetic. There's a new faction that eats all the other factions so you can come across three way fights on the overworld, it's like the civil war in Halo 2 but cranked to 11.

[Positive Touch]

combat is definitely fantastic and the only thing worth playing for outside of the great visuals and music (good damn the soundtrack is so good). too bad there's no structure to keep you going beyond grinding

[Kara]

I played my first Crucible match today (free for all) and won due to a timely ultimate and camping the special weapon ammo for the entirety of the second half of the game. Kids these days never learned Doom / Quake multiplayer skills, smh.

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Dat PlayStation 3 userbase doe.

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[toku]

destiny story complaints? you lames should read a grimoire card sometme, do yall even know what sword logic is

 

[archie4208]

The CEO at Riot Games (company who make League of Legends) just outed Icefrog's (Dota 2 lead developer) real identity. 

There were rumors of who he was, but this is the first real confirmation.

[Positive Touch]

why was the lead developer of dota 2 not publicly known

[brob]

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

[archie4208]

why was the lead developer of dota 2 not publicly known

I'd be afraid of 13 year olds crying bloody murder because their favorite character was nerfed.

Wouldn't you?

[Kara]

why was the lead developer of dota 2 not publicly known

Not everyone needs to tie their name to their success.

[Positive Touch]

i forgot that dota fans sent death threats to the president when they didn't get free content