Random Gaming Talk Thread

[MMaRsu]

https://twitter.com/ItsameDennis/status/846367112973176832

I honestly didn't realize that the lead character of Horizon was a chick until my friend corrected me. Thought it was supposed to be a legolas-lookin dude.

Wut.

[Rufus]

Yeah, it's not that bad.

[MMaRsu]

 

[CatsCatsCats]

Really wish Destiny did matchmaking for everything

[Rufus]

bork pls

[Boredfrom]

Ehh people are upset because me1 and 2 had decent to great writing. The mood and atmosphere is unlike many other games. Especially me1 has a very decent story.

This new game just looks like a fake ass turd

I mean, is fun to see the contrast between TB apologist review of how story or dialogue doesn't matter that much for immersion and how side quest and colony building was sweet and Brad in the Bombcast arguing the game is not that fun to begin with or the colony building is actually a little more disconnected that he liked just to filling a bar and get some shitty dialogue.

I don't doubt that I can get a kick out of this game given that I liked stuff like Dragon Age Inquisition or the mo filler side quests to rebuilt colonies in Xenoblade X, but I feel like people should aknowledge that people get kicks out from different things in Mass Effect games (or video games in general).

[Positive Touch]

Really wish Destiny did matchmaking for everything

i want destiny 2, but if it doesn't have better matchmaking, the ability to create and request groups, and in-game communication, then I'm skipping. fuck using reddit for party formation.

[D3RANG3D]

[Raist]

Has anyone forwarded this to the ME:A team?

[D3RANG3D]

[chronovore]

It's weird; I agree with both these guys' observations. I know that's the writers' goal to some degree, but it's still surprising. I had just been wondering the other day why Watch_doges is not part of the Assassins Creed continuity. Seems like it could have been easily connected.

(Yes, I know about the easter eggs.)

[Kara]

That Outcast remake is almost as painful to look at as the Unreal Engine 7896274987 remake of System Shock. Let the past be.

[Rufus]

Re-using the old voice acting (and possibly the animations?) sticks out pretty bad, but aside from that it's fiiine.

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What I really want is the canceled PS2 game.

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I would've been excited if the remake stuck to a voxel engine.

[chronovore]

https://twitter.com/LukePlunkett/status/848689479376265216

[Great Rumbler]

The facial animations were outsourced via time machine to Bioware circa 2007.

[chronovore]

The facial animations were outsourced via time machine to Bioware circa 2007.

There's a larger conversation which can take place here about what is acceptable to outsource and what's not. Or what is "outsourcing" vs. "calling a specialist." There's an easy equation to determine which is which: if it costs less than internal dev, it's outsourcing. These anims do not look like they were handled by a specialty house.

[Rufus]

I would've been excited if the remake stuck to a voxel engine.

Man, if they could borrow Hello Games' No Man's Sky tech. It would have all been worth it.

Alas, we don't live in a just universe.

The facial animations were outsourced via time machine to Bioware circa 2007.

There's a larger conversation which can take place here about what is acceptable to outsource and what's not. Or what is "outsourcing" vs. "calling a specialist." There's an easy equation to determine which is which: if it costs less than internal dev, it's outsourcing. These anims do not look like they were handled by a specialty house.

For sure. The wide eyed stares and the stupid smirk on female Ryder's neutral (!) facial expression speak volumes. 

[Great Rumbler]

It's incredible to me that 4 games into the series and they still can't get rid of the duck lips.

[Great Rumbler]

[fistfulofmetal]

Every few weeks I see something about Stellaris online and I end up pulling up the Steam page and stare at it for a few days. One day I'm gonna buy it and only play an hour or two because it's too dense for me

[benjipwns]

They suggest it basically looks about the same as the old PC version maxed out. (After the ini's were unlocked and fixed and stuff, if you remember they locked all sorts of stuff and then protected the config files at launch.) Unlike say the BioShock (or Batman) Remasters that did some various stuff around the edges with effects and texture stuff due to engine changes to various degrees of success.

Also you can play as Duke Nukem.

And GFWL is gone. Instead it has Denuvo.

So I guess no reason to pick it up on PC? It's 15% off for launch (which is still $43), no discount for owning the original like BioShock and others did. Also the original version isn't broken by GFWL, it works fine in offline mode IIRC.

[Joe Molotov]

I may pick up on PS4 when releases slow down.

[Rufus]

I tried to re-play it not too recently, but my copy was from Greenmangaming and they don't actually provide downloads any more. That part of the company was sold off or spun off or something and I coudn't even log in, even though I should have been able to. Ugh.

[Rahxephon91]

I mean Bulletstorm was a really good game. Surprisingly even. It even had an actual decent story.

It's just yeah theres too much out and $60 is kind of ridiculous.

[nudemacusers]

finally got around to buying my little tv friendly pc (i3 7100, 8gb ram, 1050 ti, and most importantly, the fractal node 202 case)... much excitement for it to finally arrive

[Shuri]

Bought a second n64 to customize it it, expect pics soon.

I also acquired a  N64 Everdrive, it's pretty damn nice but I take back what I said about the snes library, the N64 lineup is much crappier than I remembered. The everdrive itself is rad -- a lot of people are doing all sorts of hacks for the thing, such as Golden Eyes X, which is the entire GoldenEye game ported into the Perfect Dark engine. It's a bit buggy, I need to spend more time with it

Random fact: Goldeneye had a 16:9 mode, and it works fine on a modern lcd. I had no idea about this. I completely ignored the n64 back in the days. Dat framerate tho.. 

There are lots of protos and betas to check out, so I'm going to be exploring this in the coming days.

[toku]

[Great Rumbler]

[FatalT]

The FORCED music you have to immediately mute for cracked PC games are hilarious. Lately CODEX is all about Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up." Had I not heard it for a previous game I'd probably laugh even harder at it being used for Bayonetta.

[nudemacusers]

Looks like a fun one to play with my son

[Great Rumbler]

Zeboyd's Phantasy Star inspired RPG is finally out:



http://store.steampowered.com/app/256460/
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/cosmic-star-heroine-ps4/

[FatalT]

Zeboyd's Phantasy Star inspired RPG is finally out:



http://store.steampowered.com/app/256460/
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/cosmic-star-heroine-ps4/

Oh that RPG Maker-looking game that seems like a direct rip-off of Chrono Trigger in every way? Eh.

[Great Rumbler]

Even if we're just talking graphics, CSH is a big step up from any of the RPG Maker games I've seen on Steam.

[chronovore]

Looks like someone really enjoys Laika films.

[benjipwns]

not really anything new if you've spent time with this stuff, but there is an interesting aspect where Richard was already working in games journalism at the time (on official Saturn magazine for the UK) and he's obviously not a fan of going back to old technology like John

and they put in game footage and stuff in post so it's not just them sitting there talking

Richard talks about how Saturn magazine couldn't get demo discs from Sega, while the PS mag got one every month and basically sold the magazine alone and probably helped the PS1 too.

They do a lot of Dreamcast talking near the end because all Sega discussion leads to Dreamcast amirite.

[FatalT]

Even if we're just talking graphics, CSH is a big step up from any of the RPG Maker games I've seen on Steam.

I saw you picked it up. Any good?

[Great Rumbler]

Only played it about two minutes, because Persona 5.

OST is pretty great from the outset, though.

[FatalT]

So this is what all the uproar was about.

Um, okay.

[benjipwns]

i preferred dunkey's version

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DANNY DEVITO!

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HE'S THE FUCKING BIRD THE BIRD IS JON TRON

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[FatalT]

i preferred dunkey's version

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DANNY DEVITO!

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HE'S THE FUCKING BIRD THE BIRD IS JON TRON

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He said "distinguished mentally-challenged"



DAMMIT NOW I'M TRIGGERED!

I was trying to find that story someone wrote about how there's a spider or something in Donald Trump's hair that tells him what to do but I can't find it.

[thisismyusername]

[demi]

that's about as entertaining as watching a screen saver. just don't get the appeal of mods.

[Raist]

So this is what all the uproar was about.

Um, okay.

If you play it backwards at 0.59x speed he's reading Mein Kampf.

[Great Rumbler]

So this is what all the uproar was about.

Um, okay.

[nudemacusers]

That feel when your innards arrive but your case is still 4 days away 

Otoh looking at this stuff putting computers together is way easier than back in the olden days of the pentium 2 era (last time I build one lol)

[benjipwns]

when i "rebuilt" my current one (saving case, HDs, DVD drive, etc.) i was shocked at even the advances in "plug in one thing and it works" just since 2008 when my last real build from scratch was

though i did get a laugh looking at my old mobo and how it was just when they went to color coding all the ports on the back just in time for everything to just switch over to usb

my favorite thing about the pentium 2 days were those bigass carts you plugged in for the CPU

[benjipwns]

lol

omg with a fan on the back, bet that one's running at 300MHZ

[Great Rumbler]

USB and SATA

[nudemacusers]

Sdram

Fuckin up ur isa card interrupts

[FatalT]

I'm still rocking an E8400 Intel Core2Duo. I REALLY need a CPU upgrade but I haven't had the expendable income to support a new motherboard along with the new CPU. FML.

[benjipwns]

That's what I had! Went straight to i7-6700k because after some expiring credit and various stuff added up on my order it was only like $35 more and i was like fuck it, let's go for the "eight" cores i'm saving too much money buying thousands of steam games anyway.

All to play Civ and clicker games.

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and Titanfall 2

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[benjipwns]

call of duty black ops is tagged as "point and click" on the humble store

[Rufus]

I tried to re-play it not too recently, but my copy was from Greenmangaming and they don't actually provide downloads any more. That part of the company was sold off or spun off or something and I coudn't even log in, even though I should have been able to. Ugh.

So, after a long back and forth with support where they had to fix something with my account so that I could log in using their rickety client, I finally found that Bulletstorm is inaccessible to me now, which was not unexpected. Should have backed up those files, I guess.

They did however give me store credit for it. Didn't even ask for it.

Fortuitously, they have an easter sale going on, so I bought Thief Gold, Thief II and Deus Ex with my newly acquired wealth. I don't know where my disc for Thief is (not that I could use it, anyway, since I don't currently have a disc drive hooked up), I don't think I ever owned Thief II legitimately (ahem...) and Deus Ex GOTY was a Direct2Drive game that I also lost access to and didn't keep back-ups of. </livejournal>

[Great Rumbler]

I bought Thief Gold, Thief II and Deus Ex with my newly acquired wealth.

[Rufus]

If I had received 4.99 instead of 4.82 or whatever it was, I would probably have picked something with less old-school cred.

[Great Rumbler]

[nudemacusers]

Will be very disappointed if the game does not look like that

[Raist]

So Armored Core, and whatever this is. Last one is Bloodborne 2 plz?

[chronovore]

Will be very disappointed if the game does not look like that

Has Namco done anything interesting looking in the last decade?