Random Gaming Talk Thread

[MMaRsu]

I mean if your name is james I dont trust you for sure

[Great Rumbler]

James 


https://twitter.com/joaocomassetto_/status/1333411275641131008

[paprikastaude]

Reading through that, no wonder his videos have sucked for so long and he seems completely checked out and over the AVGN stuff. And all those new, terrible people that suddenly started getting into all the videos he put up.

lol love me some diss reddits (I know what I'll be reading during work today), but I don't think anyone should glorify the old videos too much The likes of Mike weren't exactly writing amazing comedy either back in the day, it's just been one of the first of its kind that we've seen when we were idiot teens. But I guess at least the old videos were coherent, while now it's just jarring when the character talks about Resident Evil or Devil May Cry, making it blatantly obvious that the fatties wrote it. But then again, it doesn't help either that the world now knows that James really doesn't give a shit about gaming and really wants to be a movie maker (even though he sucks so bad).

edit:


https://old.reddit.com/r/TheCinemassacreTruth/comments/k3xygy/sad_scene/

[paprikastaude]

On a related note. Out of sheer boredom, after FF16 was announced, I checked whether Spoony is still commenting this shit - I'm not sure why I even remembered that guy. Turns out, he became a bum who tweets daily suicide notes Who could've thought that gimmick internet people eventually all become miserable when their one-note gimmick isn't interesting anymore. 

[Pissy F Benny]

daily suicide notes? sounds like he'd fit in over at

[Don Rumata]

On a related note. Out of sheer boredom, after FF16 was announced, I checked whether Spoony is still commenting this shit - I'm not sure why I even remembered that guy. Turns out, he became a bum who tweets daily suicide notes Who could've thought that gimmick internet people eventually all become miserable when their one-note gimmick isn't interesting anymore. 

The guy genuinely seems to have some mental issues, i don't think it's related to his gimmick failing.
He was pulling good money off of patreon (like 5k a month) when he opened that, and still let it go to waste because kept being miserable instead of making the content his patrons wanted (his usual stuff).
He had some romantic toubles, IIRC, and in general he probably developed some deeper form of depression, by reinforcing that cycle of miserability, but if he started to do his classic content on a normal basis, his fanbase would probably be happy to pay for it.

[mormapope]

Spoony is a unhinged alcoholic/pill popper with servere mental health problems. I was a fan of his FFVIII videos like everyone else in 07/08, I liked his videos enough at the time to join his forum.

For the last six years at least he'll spend hours on twitter posting tweets non-stop. He non stop self loathes, feels above getting a normal job, and rambles about wrestling and D&D. He's most likely a bit polar narcissist that has never bothered to redeem himself in any way.

[Pissy F Benny]

tweeting about wrestling

[mormapope]

tweeting about wrestling

*Rants about wrestling
*Cries about fucking up his relationship
*Reminisces about his past car
*Critiques random media
*Cries about being an anti social shut in
*Goes on narcissistic tirade against life
*Rants about wrestling
*Cries about not having money


There's the past six years of Spoony.

[Don Rumata]

Yeah i don't think it's his gimmick's fault, he just needs to get some serious mental help, and get the head out of his own ass, while he's at it.

[Mr Gilhaney]

https://www.royalpanda.com/ca/most-intelligent-gamers/

expected

[Nintex]

https://www.royalpanda.com/ca/most-intelligent-gamers/

expected

Checks out. 

[Pissy F Benny]

nintendie? more like nintardie

[BIONIC]

Nintoddler is the preferred nomenclature.

[Nintex]

"He who plays no Nintendo games has no heart, he who only plays Nintendo games has no brain" - Nintex

[Svejk]

  Ok good.. I'm still smart. Lol

[Great Rumbler]

PC Master Race stays winning!

[BIONIC]

PC Master Race stays winning!

Bire mods using Nazi terms 

[Great Rumbler]

[Don Rumata]

What's the deal with the PC Master Race? If it's the master race, how can it be Politically Correct?

[bork]

https://twitter.com/LimitedRunGames/status/1334588548922683400

[EchoRin]

Could have gone into the music thread, but we're in the middle of a little shindig

https://www.destructoid.com/stories/supergiant-recorded-a-10th-anniversary-orchestral-album-that-takes-us-all-the-way-back-to-bastion-612164.phtml

[MMaRsu]

Persona 5 strikers coming to Steam, PS5 and Switch..

but like.. who is this for? Persona fanboys?

I loved P5 but I have zero interest in a fighting game featuring these characters 

[Bebpo]

Persona 5 strikers coming to Steam, PS5 and Switch..

but like.. who is this for? Persona fanboys?

I loved P5 but I have zero interest in a fighting game featuring these characters 

It's a musou game, not a fighting game.

Also it's a story sequel. I doubt it's great story or anything, but if you want your filler anime sequel to P5, there you go.

[MMaRsu]

Linus Mech tips

[MMaRsu]

Persona 5 strikers coming to Steam, PS5 and Switch..

but like.. who is this for? Persona fanboys?

I loved P5 but I have zero interest in a fighting game featuring these characters 

It's a musou game, not a fighting game.

Also it's a story sequel. I doubt it's great story or anything, but if you want your filler anime sequel to P5, there you go.

Lmao a musou game, even worse 

[MMaRsu]

The Con Pays Off: After Years Of Feigning Interest, George R.R. Martin Has Bolted From The ‘Elden Ring’ Offices With All The Topless Elf Concept Art His Arms Can Carry



https://ogn.theonion.com/the-con-pays-off-after-years-of-feigning-interest-geo-1845800147?utm_campaign=TheOnion&utm_content=1607018914&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=twitter

“When George R.R. Martin first agreed to help write the backstory to my upcoming title, I had no reason to suspect that this was all part of a long con to secure himself thousands of sketches of undressed nymphs and sorceresses,” said Miyazaki, describing his deep dismay at watching a gleeful Martin sprinting out of the office. “Because he took so many, the papers kept getting caught in the wind and blowing onto the street, and then even more would fall out of his arms when he stopped to pick them up. And the whole time he kept chuckling and saying what a bunch of suckers everyone at FromSoftware was for buying his story hook, line, and sinker.”

[Pissy F Benny]

buzz off with your fake news troll

[bork]

https://twitter.com/supernova_73/status/1334701976119021569

[Great Rumbler]

Fortnite really is trash.

[Mr Gilhaney]

finally kratos is in a good game

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/GilvaSunner/status/1336246347423494144
 

[Joe Molotov]

🎵 Wah wah wah wah wah wah 🎵

 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/gameinformer/status/1336424085182705664

300GB bois 

[MMaRsu]

Lmao

[BIONIC]

Why is Woody Alan at the head of the table? 

Do you infiltrate a pedo ring in-game? 

[Pissy F Benny]

Wtf is the 300 gig going on, cuz it sure as shit isn’t assets going by that screenshot

Are they gonna make you download every language pack

[Nintex]

I think the game has some cinematics but I'm not sure.
Anyway, it seems that you need 350GB of storage space to install/unpack and then it takes 177GB of space on your SSD after installing.

Recommended specs: 350GB free space, RTX 2080, i7-9700k, Nvme SSD 

[Don Rumata]

Alyx takes the space of a normal game (and looks better than that), so they're doing some fuckery.
Unless it has some massive multiplayer component?

[benjipwns]

huh, didn't even know it had multiplayer

[Nintex]

THE ROAD AHEAD
I’m fortunate to have worked with incredibly talented teams my whole career. The Infinite team is no exception. Folks here don’t just understand Halo, they love the core gameplay and characters and community—everything that makes Halo, Halo—just as much as I do. And, like me, they also feel a deep responsibility to serve.

We aren’t making this game for us. We’re making it for you. Starting with this update, we’re going to be sharing more about what we’re doing and, most importantly, why we’re doing it. So here are a few things I’d like to share:

My first week on the job, I played the entire Infinite campaign. Twice. I was, in a word, stunned—in the best possible way—by what the team had done. Infinite is, by far, the most expansive and vertical Halo world, ever. Why did the team do this? Because they understand that wonder and freedom are key to the Halo experience.

I could feel the classic Halo “30 seconds of fun” beating at the heart of Infinite’s world. But I had never felt more powerful, more mobile, more in command of a rich set of tactical choices. This was the Halo we imagined back in 2000, finally come to life, after 20 years of technical and creative innovation.

Sure, there were bugs in the build and clearly more work to do. But this concept art by Martin Deschambault (one of the many incredible pieces he’s made for the game):

It encapsulates all the excitement and curiosity and joy I felt on my first journey through Zeta Halo, the most mysterious, dangerous, and possibility-rich place in the entire Halo universe. Everywhere I looked, I saw choices:

Do I explore off the golden path? Assault that Banished war base guarding the valley pass? Follow a flight of Forerunner Sentinels into that unexpected cavern? Rescue a squad of marines dug-in and desperate halfway up that mountain? Or do I keep pulling the mainline story thread that feels epic and intimate at the exact same time?

Truly, Halo Infinite is a world in which I love spending time and that I’m thrilled to return to, both as a designer and a player. On behalf of the entire team, thank you for your patience and your passion. We can’t wait for you to join us on the Halo Infinite adventure, first with Insider flighting later next year, and then when we ship in Fall 2021.

In the meantime, I hope all of you have a restful Holiday season. We’ll catch you in the new year!

[Rahxephon91]

So does MS have any big titles for the first half of 2021?

[Raist]

So does MS have any big titles for the first half of 2021?

Yes, Deathloop and Ghostwire Tokyo.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Both PS5 only for a while

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[EchoRin]

GilvaSunner stuff
 

I hate this so much. These purges are the worst.

Nintendo of Japan. Of course. Archaic buzzkills.

"oh gee. This music track sounds cool. What game is it from? Oh? Really? I'll check it out."

Too bad you can't do that with several games now. Idiots. Good luck having someone bump into a 16 year old game that isn't being talked about on game websites because they aren't current. But they might bump into them on some dork's "my favorite game tunes" youtube account.

I constantly find out or re-remember games through music.   

[MMaRsu]

Nintendo is a garbage company

[tiesto]

huh, didn't even know it had multiplayer

I'm just hoping they do a crossover with Above and Beyond for this game

[Joe Molotov]

Above and Beyond the amount of storage space I have left.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/aarongreenberg/status/1336709324215734273

 

Sony: "Here's a stellar first party line-up arriving in the coming months exclusively on PlayStation 5"

Third parties: "Here's our exciting new line-up for 2021"

Microsoft: "Plz don't make vidya award hype - we reboot Perfect Dark development again - play old games plz until we finish HaLo :'("

[Bebpo]

I have the best or worst no sleep story from last night.


I picked up Telling Lies (from the creator of Her Story and starring best Tom Hardy clone Logan Marshell-Green) on ios because I saw it was $3.99 and I'd had it on my steam wishlist at like $20 and $12 on sales for a while and $3.99 was the right price.

I started playing it in bed around midnight to try for a bit before sleep. You play as someone at their desktop clicking on files for the interface. I was checking out all the files on the desktop and they had Solitaire. I used to play that all the time as a kid and haven't played it in 20+ years so I fired it up.

Got back into it, but kept losing every.single.game. Was like fuck this, I'm gonna win this shit! And kept at it for an hour slowly getting the feeling more and more the Solitaire in this game is a joke and is rigged so you can't win. I started getting good at counting cards and figuring out what cards are left hidden. Finally I got a run where only 1 card was hidden and I was missing both a 2 and a King and I was like WTF THIS SHIT IS RIGGED.

I googled it and yeah, found out it's rigged and there's an achievement called Pointless if you keep playing. You can't win. A card is always missing.

So now it's like 1:30am and I'm super annoyed that I just spent an 90 mins trying to beat a rigged solitaire and losing every match. So I did the obvious thing which was to go get some freeware Solitaire game so I can WIN.

I grabbed one and I kept winning every hand and was like wtf, this is too easy. Not satisfying. I looked in the options and saw that this one was RIGGED too, so that every hand is winnable and there was an option to play random hands with a warning that some hands may be unwinnable. But that's the whole point of Solitaire, it's skill & luck. So I switched on Random.

Around 2-2:30am now, I keep getting hands close to winning but losing. After a while I start to realize I'm playing the same fucking deck hand over and over that is unwinnable. Turns out hitting try again just retries with the same hand/deck.

Around 3-3:30am now start using NEW GAME each time instead of Try again and getting different random hands. Lose a lot from unwinnable hands but win some every few hands. Feeling determined to get a few good fast wins in to feel like I've conquered solitaire and then I'll go to sleep.

Around 4:30am finally got a few quality wins in a row and I'm good. Finally get to sleep around 5am.


tl;dr Solitaire is still addicting as crack and I hate losing (also why I don't play Multiplayer games).

[Great Rumbler]

[Nuitangg]

Faerie Solitaire might be my most played Steam game. 

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

I also enjoy the solitaire minigames in Zachtronics games.

[MMaRsu]

Faerie Solitaire might be my most played Steam game. 

Faerie Solitaire you say huh

  

[Joe Molotov]

Faerie Solitaire might be my most played Steam game. 

[MMaRsu]

Got another nice gift from my colleagues for my birthday

[Bebpo]

Faerie Solitaire might be my most played Steam game. 

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I gotta try this!

[brob]

a friend of mine who is really into solitaire swears by regency solitaire and shadowhand

[demi]

I played the shit out of Fairway Solitare on my iPod Touch

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id887640616

I have this on my phone now, it's free and you get them achievements

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-solitaire-collection/id1103438575

[Mr Gilhaney]

[paprikastaude]

why do Japanese developers revolt so much against going back to normal 2D graphics. Why is Vanillaware the only ones left who have a feel for 2D art direction.