Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

[Yog-Sothoth]

I think frontier fucked up elite dangerous.

 

[Fastest Hand In The East]

So I've played Cuberpunkdreams, a text based adventure game where you play as a person, send to the Cinci(natti) with a mission, which you choose yourself at some point. Most of the PC memory is blocked as a precaution in case of the capture and you have certain triggers that remove blocks. The world is a clusterfuck like Cyberpunk 2077- most of the earth is fucked with chemicals, nukes, natural disasters and general neglect due to hyper-urbanization. You start as noone fromt he wasteland, trying to get into the city and then you slowly develop your character.
I quite like it, you get many options for building the character and many avenues to act upon.
But be warned- for some stupid reason crator has decided to make it like one of those crappy social network games- you get a certain number of action points, when they depleate you must either wait or pay for insta recharge. This is moronic and gives the game an outlook of a low quality cash grab trash. But the game itself isnt actually bad. The points you get for free per day are enough to play for about 1-2h, so its not THAT bad,
Could recommend for screwing around, since its "free" and the writing is actually suprisingly good. I really hope the creator listens to the consoomers and make the next game just a regular text adventure without the points shit, he has got something good going.

 

[Dark Edea]

I think frontier fucked up elite dangerous.

Huge world, nothing to do. A large puddle.

Elite is very disappointing. At lest Star Citizen keeps me guessing. Will I be fling through the wall of my ship today? Maaaaaaaybe.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I still wish Pepsi Man was revived into today’s world so they can make a sequel, or put him in a fighting game of some sort.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

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I still wish Pepsi Man was revived into today’s world so they can make a sequel, or put him in a fighting game of some sort.

i could see a runner type game on mobile tbh, but why they havent made such a thing yet? the world may never know

 

[Pissmaster]

The universe is subtly suggesting that you play the infinitely superior XCOM Enemy Unknown/Within instead. It also runs great on everything, including fucking iPads.

so I decided to pirate Enemy Within on my telephone and it's hilarious how smooth it is compared to XCOM 2. It's a nice way to play it, too. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Lovecraft's Cat]

Need some game suggestions. What are some good rpgs that allow you to make retardedly autistic character builds? I would prefer the game to be cheap, and somewhat unique.

 

[Radical Cadre]

so I decided to pirate Enemy Within on my telephone and it's hilarious how smooth it is compared to XCOM 2. It's a nice way to play it, too. Thanks for the heads up.

My condolences as I welcome you to earth. See if you can get the Long War mod on your phone.

Everything works better pirated. Kill the Government. Play @L50LasPak's forum game. DIE FOR US.

 

[TFT-A9]

Need some game suggestions. What are some good rpgs that allow you to make retardedly autistic character builds? I would prefer the game to be cheap, and somewhat unique.

Most of them, in varying numbers and severity. The most derp character build I can think of off the top of my head is Wizardry 8's "Faerie Ninja using the Cane of Corpus". It's both incredibly silly to think about (you're like, a 2-foot tall faerie with a fucking stick, what are you going to do?) and insanely powerful once fully developed (OH SHIT THE FAERIE'S GOT A STICK).

 

[Captain Syrup]

What are some good rpgs that allow you to make retardedly autistic character builds?

Shadowrun Returns was good for that.

Dead Man's Switch is too easy. Hong Kong is lethargic. Dragonfall is best. I rolled a Troll Adept, which is almost a contradiction in terms. I named him Mauer, which is German for "Wall." I did not train him to use a katana, which halved his damage output. No cyberware apart from the Adrenal Pump you normally get. This is essentially playing the game on hard mode. Mauer was slow on his feet and couldn't use firearms. I tried to max out his STR without sacrificing the needed buffs. By chance, he landed the killing blow on the last boss, ramming his spiked gauntlet through Audran's chest repeatedly.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Well the oddly cheap game arrived, it's not a bootleg.

But I saved a huge chunk of change, they honestly had the game mismarked.

Now only if I could be as fortunate with a PS5. All new consoles irregardless of manufacturer are all getting new alterations done to the internals, different parts but no change to clock speed or power. So a post launch PS5 will have different internals than a launch one, the switch models will be different from current and pre-corona ones, and the xbox will have different types of housing apparently for the hardware since some of their parts are now needing different spatial dimensions. Mind you there will be no different SKU, so if you're a collector you would have to find the right barcode or barring that take them apart.

 

[Lovecraft's Cat]

Shadowrun Returns was good for that.

Dead Man's Switch is too easy. Hong Kong is lethargic. Dragonfall is best. I rolled a Troll Adept, which is almost a contradiction in terms. I named him Mauer, which is German for "Wall." I did not train him to use a katana, which halved his damage output. No cyberware apart from the Adrenal Pump you normally get. This is essentially playing the game on hard mode. Mauer was slow on his feet and couldn't use firearms. I tried to max out his STR without sacrificing the needed buffs. By chance, he landed the killing blow on the last boss, ramming his spiked gauntlet through Audran's chest repeatedly.

I remember getting the Shadowrun Collection on Epic Games when it was free. Might have to check them out sometime.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

I picked up Days Gone, and it's kind of nice.

I've had really bad luck with video game purchases the last 2-4 years. Cyberpunk 2077 was just the stepped on cherry from a wino's ass of the entire shit sundae that has been video games lately.

Textures stay good, no real popin problems. The Hordes looks like fucking hordes. Most games, unless it autokills you, I get good enough to take on the undefeatable hordes pretty quick. The LOTR games pretty much devolve into an Orc Murder Simulator for me where I can just do chained kills in one area for like an hour. Not this time, it's run or die.

I like the story so far (I'm probably 2/3rds through) and it's had some surprises. Not in "what a twist" but more like "Holy shit, the writers weren't fucking lazy as shit".

One thing that's REALLY gratifying?

The people in the encampments appreciate what you're doing. None of this Skyrim/Fallout/Whatever bit where everyone acts like your dogshit when you come rolling in wearing power armor/dragonbone armor, wielding weapons that can level a town, and people act like complete assholes.

The morally gray things are morally gray. NPC's make decisions I don't approve of, but they feel like decisions made by NPC's because of characterization, not just shit writing.

I'm having fun. There's probably lots of bitching by people.

Riding's smooth, the landscape is fucking gorgeous, the graphics as far as characters and outfits go are a fuckton better than CP2077 or Last of Us Troons. I don't mind the scavenging, the skill system is easy as fuck to handle.

I'm running it on a Radeon R590X, a 8 core AMD black, an SSD, and 32GB RAM, and a 36" Ultra-Wide Screen monitor and even the hordes render smoothly.

One thing, if you remember Omega Man and I Am Legend, you'll recognize the Freaks within the first 1/4 of the game. So far, they haven't referenced either (or the book), but I get a kick out of the resemblance.

If you don't want to grab it at full price, keep an eye out and grab it later.

I was pleasantly surprised for a Sony/Playstation port.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I picked up Days Gone, and it's kind of nice.

I've had really bad luck with video game purchases the last 2-4 years. Cyberpunk 2077 was just the stepped on cherry from a wino's ass of the entire shit sundae that has been video games lately.

Textures stay good, no real popin problems. The Hordes looks like fucking hordes. Most games, unless it autokills you, I get good enough to take on the undefeatable hordes pretty quick. The LOTR games pretty much devolve into an Orc Murder Simulator for me where I can just do chained kills in one area for like an hour. Not this time, it's run or die.

I like the story so far (I'm probably 2/3rds through) and it's had some surprises. Not in "what a twist" but more like "Holy shit, the writers weren't fucking lazy as shit".

One thing that's REALLY gratifying?

The people in the encampments appreciate what you're doing. None of this Skyrim/Fallout/Whatever bit where everyone acts like your dogshit when you come rolling in wearing power armor/dragonbone armor, wielding weapons that can level a town, and people act like complete assholes.

The morally gray things are morally gray. NPC's make decisions I don't approve of, but they feel like decisions made by NPC's because of characterization, not just shit writing.

I'm having fun. There's probably lots of bitching by people.

Riding's smooth, the landscape is fucking gorgeous, the graphics as far as characters and outfits go are a fuckton better than CP2077 or Last of Us Troons. I don't mind the scavenging, the skill system is easy as fuck to handle.

I'm running it on a Radeon R590X, a 8 core AMD black, an SSD, and 32GB RAM, and a 36" Ultra-Wide Screen monitor and even the hordes render smoothly.

One thing, if you remember Omega Man and I Am Legend, you'll recognize the Freaks within the first 1/4 of the game. So far, they haven't referenced either (or the book), but I get a kick out of the resemblance.

If you don't want to grab it at full price, keep an eye out and grab it later.

I was pleasantly surprised for a Sony/Playstation port.

Days Gone PC Data Collection Policy Is a Privacy Nightmare​

Sony's latest first-party game to make its way to PC, Days Gone, is facing flak for its data collection policies. Caught by Steam user Higgsterman (via IGN reader Aworas), Days Gone reportedly tracks every keystroke a player might make on their computer while the game is running.

Other data collected by Days Gone while it is running includes details on folders and all of their contents regardless of file type. According to users on Reddit, there is no way to properly opt out of any sort of data collection.

Players, however, have found workarounds to be able to play Days Gone without having to sacrifice their privacy. The methods involve essentially blocking the game with a firewall so that, even though it collects data, the data can't be transferred to a server.

According to Sony Bend, the draconian data collection policies in place are supposed to prevent the use of cheats and hacks. Players don't approve of this since cheating or hacking a single player game is a player's own prerogative, since there's no multiplayer balance that would be upset, and griefing isn't really possible in a single player game.

Days Gone is the second Sony first-party game to come to PC, following Horizon Zero Dawn. Leading up to its release, studio Sony Bend revealed that Days Gone on PC will not support Nvidia's DLSS technology, which essentially uses machine learning to keep visuals looking good while offering higher frame rates. Ray-tracing is similarly not supported in Days Gone on PC.

Days Gone is available on Steam, priced at Rs. 2,999. If you're curious about why that's poor value, here are some details.

Days Gone PC Data Collection Policy Is a Privacy Nightmare

Caught by several players, Days Gone's data protection policies are quite zealous about reading players' keystrokes, folders, and files.

in.ign.com

 

[Marissa Moira]

Days Gone PC Data Collection Policy Is a Privacy Nightmare

Caught by several players, Days Gone's data protection policies are quite zealous about reading players' keystrokes, folders, and files.

in.ign.com

The data collection thing is allowed by Steam's TOS and it's not a unique situation.

However it's being used entirely for the marketing of Playstation so they can collect user's parts data and what manufacturers they use so any mid generation update to the PS5 or future playstation will factor in parts that will draw people from PC over to console. Steamboxes never took off because the PS4 existed, so there is a lot of logic behind it. It's also routinely done by all popular smartphone games so many people have probably already done something similar without realizing it.

So really any and all future PC ports are all going to be designed like this. They're only giving PC some crumbs so people will eventually want the full experience.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

Is just cause 3 any good or valkyria Chronicles both are on sale on psn

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

Days Gone PC Data Collection Policy Is a Privacy Nightmare

Caught by several players, Days Gone's data protection policies are quite zealous about reading players' keystrokes, folders, and files.

in.ign.com

Of fucking course.

Can't have one good fucking thing at all. Ever.

Son of a bitch.

 

[Lovecraft's Cat]

I've been thinking about getting Morrowind for the first time. What mods so you guys recommend? Should I get it on Steam or GoG?

 

[Pissmaster]

Steamboxes never took off because the PS4 existed

Steamboxes never took off because they were overpriced, underpowered Debian OS PCs aimed at a market that doesn't give a shit about computers. Imagine buying one blind as a console gamer because you read a bunch of idiots online busting a nut over Steam and PC gaming in general:

• over half of everything on Steam won't work on your machine because it's not running Windows, and Proton won't be released for several years
• everything you try starts up in 4:3 stretched and you think that's just how it's supposed to be because you don't know about changing graphic settings
• some games have controls that just don't work despite the store page saying they work with your Steam Controller, but you don't know that you're supposed to configure all the controls yourself
• then you buy a brand new game that just came out and surprise surprise it runs like total shit and looks terrible compared to the console versions because it's one of those retarded games that defaults to everything running at high settings but at a low resolution and has shit like godrays enabled by default

I don't know what they were thinking. It's kind of reminiscent of the PlayStation TV in a weird way: both had next to no marketing, game libraries where a lot of titles just won't run, and the only people who cared are enthusiasts that had better ways to play their games anyway.

Is just cause 3 any good or valkyria Chronicles both are on sale on psn

Just Cause 3 is pretty good and worth $3 if you want a fairly shallow but giant sandbox where you goof off and destroy buildings in a tropical environment. If you've already played Just Cause 2, it's just the same but prettier.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Of fucking course.

Can't have one good fucking thing at all. Ever.

Son of a bitch.

Well it wouldn't have happened if people didn't insist on going all digital.


Uplay and other things attached to steam have served the same function. Even modern battle.net collects player data like that.

Steam even decided to end windows support for 7 because they track what OS people log in and use.