Random Gaming Talk Thread

[Svejk]

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23510923/amazon-tomb-raider-game-crystal-dynamics



Next thing you know, Slamazon will acquire CD later this year... Followed by a Tomb Raider Amazon series...  Hate to call it out now...   

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/headfallsoff/status/1603180277995642880

[Nintex]

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23510923/amazon-tomb-raider-game-crystal-dynamics

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Next thing you know, Slamazon with acquire CD later this year... Followed by a Tomb Raider Amazon series...  Hate to call it out now... 

It's singleplayer, multi-platform and Crystal Dynamics
https://twitter.com/tombraider/status/1603428553021718534

I don't care who prints the discs tbh

[Bebpo]

https://twitter.com/headfallsoff/status/1603180277995642880

Why do they say "new" Crisis Core?
Aren't the script and cutscenes 1:1 the same as the old game?

Also CC is fine in Japanese. It's not the best written/story for a jrpg, but there was nothing really "dinner dance" bad or anything. Always just seemed like a game that was localized badly given all the script complaints in western reviews. From what I understand they recast the game this version but they still used the old script which is where all these complaints are from in the first place. Should've done a new translation.

[Svejk]

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23510923/amazon-tomb-raider-game-crystal-dynamics

(Image removed from quote.)

Next thing you know, Slamazon with acquire CD later this year... Followed by a Tomb Raider Amazon series...  Hate to call it out now... 

It's singleplayer, multi-platform and Crystal Dynamics
https://twitter.com/tombraider/status/1603428553021718534

I don't care who prints the discs tbh

I hope that's all they have their hand in and just throw endless money at it without any say/influence in it... My trust record with Amazon isn't very high on the totem atm.

[Potato]

They either have to make Atreus the main character or incorporate the original trilogy somehow. Since Kratos' character arc in the new game hinges on you knowing who and what he was.

*record scratch*

Kratos: "I bet you're wondering how I got into this situation. Well let me tell you, I used to be a badass that went around killing gods for fun. But my real battle is learning how to be a good father. This is my story."

Yeah, I'm not sure you should post this. Someone will probably see it and actually use it as the basis for the series.

[Potato]

https://twitter.com/headfallsoff/status/1603180277995642880

And how is that different from all the modern Final Fantasy games?

[Nintex]

[Potato]

Is that the real soundtrack? Please tell me it is.

[Nintex]

[Tasty]

They either have to make Atreus the main character or incorporate the original trilogy somehow. Since Kratos' character arc in the new game hinges on you knowing who and what he was.

*record scratch*

Kratos: "I bet you're wondering how I got into this situation. Well let me tell you, I used to be a badass that went around killing gods for fun. But my real battle is learning how to be a good father. This is my story."

Yeah, I'm not sure you should post this. Someone will probably see it and actually use it as the basis for the series.

We only gotta worry if Gary Whitta is involved. OHSHI

[bork]

[paprikastaude]

Is that a Devil's Third sequel? 

[Pissy F Benny]

Imagine being the sick freak who'd want another Devil's Turd game

[BIONIC]

I am that sick freak

[Nintex]

Looks like 74.99 Euro games won't last long.
Just bought Need for Speed Unbound for 44.99.

Which launched just 2 weeks ago. I expect Callisto and other games to drop in price soon as well.

Normies can't afford games and holiday gifts so we're eatin'

[Potato]

You'd have to be a fucking distinguished mentally-challenged fellow to pay full price for any game in Australia quite frankly. Only the morons that shop at EB Games would do it because they're the only retailer that charges RRP.

I think the big boring AAA PS5/XB games regularly go for $100-125, but if you wait a week that shit drops dramatically in price. So only the morons that need to have games on launch day get suckered into paying that much.

[Polident Hive]

Ys Oath getting a remake remaster only for Switch is a bit of a shame. I loaded those games up in the steam deck, Oath Origins and Ark, there’s some funkiness to them. A modern PC port of the best Ys game? would’ve rebought it. Mostly sounds like mixing the PC and PSP versions plus some QOL additions.

Ys X is sounding interesting. Read speculation on the few details, but finally ditching the three party system from 7? Just Adol and a support character. Gone too is the slash bash piece thing. Ys 7 was 2010? A PSP game. It got old in Celceta.

At Falcoms rate, I can look forward to playing both in English by 2027.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1603798091001659394

https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1603878835459543040




103 Million gamers watched Xbox die 

[benjipwns]

Benji-Sales has a direct line to the Dorito Pope!

[Nintex]

Ys Oath getting a remake remaster only for Switch is a bit of a shame. I loaded those games up in the steam deck, Oath Origins and Ark, there’s some funkiness to them. A modern PC port of the best Ys game? would’ve rebought it. Mostly sounds like mixing the PC and PSP versions plus some QOL additions.

Ys X is sounding interesting. Read speculation on the few details, but finally ditching the three party system from 7? Just Adol and a support character. Gone too is the slash bash piece thing. Ys 7 was 2010? A PSP game. It got old in Celceta.

At Falcoms rate, I can look forward to playing both in English by 2027.

It's pretty weird to see more and more Switch games being announced this late into its lifespan.

Folks seem confident that some kind of new Switch hardware drops next year in time of Zelda but I'm not so sure. I haven't seen any signs that Nintendo is jumping on new hardware anytime soon when their current hardware is doing this good and still selling so well. They still have the likes of Donkey Kong Country to bring back too.

[Nintex]

Bought FF1+FF2 of these on Steam. Finally heading for Switch and PlayStation (xbox is dead)

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1604357750103760897

[Bebpo]

I hate being a huge FF fan, loving the Pixel Remasters on Steam, having that 40 year old adult disposable income, and having woken up in the middle of the night right when this LE went on sale and before it sold out.

$300 for a Vinyl and an Art Book. I am a sucker for sure.

Still a better value than blowing $300 on some modern game LE like FFXVI though.

[paprikastaude]

https://twitter.com/dark1x/status/1604444454613663753

I thought ok, maybe having 1-5 compiled in one shelvespot still is worth it. Not like I'm gonna track down individual GBA/PSP copies at this point. But apparently even the "non-special" phyiscal version is limited and costs 100 bucks with shipping 

[Bebpo]

the font outrage  is so fucking stupid. I played FF1 with a font mod and didn't notice the difference and just used the default font for FF2 onward.

Also there are reports they have changed the font for these console versions and they accidently put up old screens from  the Steam version. They pulled the screens right after.

[Bebpo]

also the performance thing is just judder which was easily fixable in the Steam versions. I'd be surprised if the console versions have it. Stuff like that tends to be a PC issue when games are made for consoles.

[Svejk]

I think there could've been more QOL improvements from what I played of FFVI PR.  The lack of portrait mode for the Android release (which is platform specific, but still).  But also the UI is clunky and cumbersome when it doesn't need to be.  When using an item or casting magic for someone, it brings up a member menu selection with only their names.  Fuck if I remember who needs what.., I initiated the action because of portraits, HP/MP number/meter, but the name boxes overlap all that information.  It's a really distinguished mentally-challenged interface for that matter.  This may be just an Android thing and minor in the grand scope things, but it does not make it fun to play on there.

[Nintex]

I didn't notice any performance issues in FF1 or FF2 on the Steamdeck

[Pissy F Benny]

why won't the fuckers ever put the 6 remaster on sale

[Bebpo]

why won't the fuckers ever put the 6 remaster on sale

Eventually. I think SE doesn't like to sell anything that is less than $15 period. They'll discount games down to $15/20/25 but I don't think I've ever seen a deep discount SE game that's like...$5 80% off or anything.

Reminds me of Ubisoft and AC Odyssey. That game has been in every gamepass/ubi+ whatever, but it's still never gone below $15...ever. Or been included in any humble bundles. Same with Total Warhammer 2 and the $20 price point. Some games companies just don't want to ever discount too hard or give away :\

[Bebpo]

I think there could've been more QOL improvements from what I played of FFVI PR.  The lack of portrait mode for the Android release (which is platform specific, but still).  But also the UI is clunky and cumbersome when it doesn't need to be.  When using an item or casting magic for someone, it brings up a member menu selection with only their names.  Fuck if I remember who needs what.., I initiated the action because of portraits, HP/MP number/meter, but the name boxes overlap all that information.  It's a really distinguished mentally-challenged interface for that matter.  This may be just an Android thing and minor in the grand scope things, but it does not make it fun to play on there.

I haven't played the PR versions of V/VI yet, so can't confirm but I didn't notice any issues on PC outside the screen judder which is fixed by upping the refresh rate. Might be a phone thing.

[Polident Hive]

In the betting pool between friends I bet the new Gungrave MC would be ~50 because it looked like shit and this team's last Gungrave was Gungrave VR which supposedly is shit.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-5/gungrave-gore

https://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-series-x/gungrave-gore

Got close.
/cue the Gungrave jokes about dragging an old IP's corpse

Update: I tried Gungrave GORE. About 10 minutes into the first level, the game failed to load a hallway and I fell through the floor. The game happened to auto save at that exact moment.

Impressions of those 10 minutes were bad. It feels like a game jam project using generic asset flips. There’s no impact or flair to it. It’s like that Jump Force game where it’s incongruent and awkward looking. Some might say it’s like going from Madworld to Anarchy Reigns. But Anarchy Reigns still had an aesthetic. This is nothing. There’s a skull on the UI, as in the original, and even that looks like a generic skeleton asset. They released a patch with a cel shaded option, along with other fixes and additions. I’ll try it out. Maybe the floor is fixed.

Afterwards I loaded up PS2 Gungrave on the steam deck. Still really stylish and fun.

[Pissy F Benny]

why won't the fuckers ever put the 6 remaster on sale

Eventually. I think SE doesn't like to sell anything that is less than $15 period. They'll discount games down to $15/20/25 but I don't think I've ever seen a deep discount SE game that's like...$5 80% off or anything.

Reminds me of Ubisoft and AC Odyssey. That game has been in every gamepass/ubi+ whatever, but it's still never gone below $15...ever. Or been included in any humble bundles. Same with Total Warhammer 2 and the $20 price point. Some games companies just don't want to ever discount too hard or give away :\

AC Odyssey is on soypass rn btw

[Bebpo]

Yeah, it's on everything except being able to actually own the damn thing for dirt cheap/free.

Only AC I haven't played. Will play it someday. Hopefully will be in a bundle in another 3-4 years.

[MMaRsu]

I just got the gold edition for 20 or something, some keyshite

[Pissy F Benny]

Odyssey is the weakest of the nu AC games imo anyway. Origins is still the best (and best in the whole series imo). Valhalla is a good game but is TOO FUCKING LONG.

[MMaRsu]

I just like the setting of Odyssey more, but Origins is a good game

[Tasty]

103 Million gamers watched Xbox die 

[Tasty]

Maybe it wasn't alive in the first place

[Pissy F Benny]

Dorito Pope is a pony and a tendie confirmed

[Svejk]

Personally hating it already based off of this.  So tired of that AC formula.   

[MMaRsu]

I mean its a phone game

[Svejk]

I mean its a phone game

Even worse

[Bebpo]

I think it's a shame that they're doing an interesting location/setting, but the gameplay stuff looks boring by the books AC gameplay. Feels like a wasted opportunity.

[benjipwns]

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Maybe it wasn't alive in the first place

Meanwhile, looking at the titles in the left column:

 

[bork]

[Nintex]

Symphony of the Waifu's 

So many interesting games, so little time to play 

[Bebpo]

How does Inti Create make so many fucking games 

I never play any of their stuff but I swear they have a new game every six months.

[Polident Hive]

Found this YouTube channel that compiled the entire library of a console in one long video, around ten seconds per game. The PS2 video is over 11 hours, with over 4000 games. By comparison GameCube is under two hours with 650 games. Yes this is digging back to console warzzz two decades removed. And yes most of that 4000 are junk. Thought the DS would dwarf it for the cheap mobile games it had, but that’s 3500.

More surprising to me is the 3DS nearing 1000 games. Probably only own about ten games for it. Four are Zeldas.

[Bebpo]

Is the Wii U one like 10 mins?

[HardcoreRetro]

WiiU had a load of indie stuff. Should be around the length of the Gamecube one.

[Polident Hive]

There doesn’t seem to be Wii U yet, but the shorter I saw is the Jaguar.



Somehow a new Jaguar emulator came out last month. Finally, all 56 games are playable. From Aircars to Zoop.

[MMaRsu]

Play this game you heathens

[Svejk]

Play this game you heathens

Bring that shit to PS Fif and I will.

[Svejk]

Just bought RE8 on the current sale for $20.  Can't wait to not play it till I can manage a PSVR2! 

[Tasty]

There doesn’t seem to be Wii U yet, but the shorter I saw is the Jaguar.



Somehow a new Jaguar emulator came out last month. Finally, all 56 games are playable. From Aircars to Zoop.

[Nintex]

9(!) GHZ

https://twitter.com/VideoCardz/status/1605575715029647361

[Nintex]

I really need to start playing this once I finish Live A Live.
Cool throw back to the FF2 font.

[Bebpo]

I really need to start playing this once I finish Live A Live.
Cool throw back to the FF2 font.

I want to play the DLCs but they made the stupid decision of requiring grinding to get started on them so that's a skip for me.

Base game was great though. Definitely play it. There's a story bit in it that's really good.

[Tasty]

9(!) GHZ

https://twitter.com/VideoCardz/status/1605575715029647361

I remember being 11 and thinking the GHz would go on forever... That part of me is excited by this news for some reason.