Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

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Are videogames for children?

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Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
Obviously and I've been saying that since forever it feels like.
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It's going to be fascinating to see what happens with the next-gen consoles, especially given the RAM crisis. They're generally expected to launch in 2027 but could easily be delayed to 2028.

MLID leaks have indicated:

Up to 192-bit 48 GB GDDR7 for Xbox Magnus (presumably 24 GB using 2 GB modules, 36 GB using 3 GB, or 48 GB using the 4 GB modules that don't exist yet)

Up to 160-bit 30 GB or 40 GB GDDR7 for PS6 (same story of choosing between 3 GB and 4 GB modules)

The RAM capacities chosen will lock in what PC gaming looks like for the following decade. Local LLM/voice features are going to be hungry for RAM. It could be this situation all over again, but specifically for AI/ML NPCs:

Originally, the Xbox 360 was equipped with only 256 MB of RAM, but Epic, the Gears of War developer, demonstrated to Microsoft that the console should have 512 MB of RAM to deliver much better performance. When asked about this, Epic Games Executive Vice President Mark Rein said in 2006: "So the day they made the decision, we were apparently the first developer they called; we were at Game Developers Conference, was it two years ago, and then I got a call from the chief financial officer of MGS and he said 'I just want you to know you cost me a billion dollars' and I said, 'we did a favour for a billion gamers'."
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Even if a game isn't using local AI, more RAM is always better. It will also have an effect on the amounts we see in flagship consumer GPUs, the amounts shipped with prebuilt gaming PCs, etc.

Bad time for unobtainium RAM pricing. Hopefully, it drops before they make the final decisions.
 
"Wow Expedition 33 is so innovative for incorporating timed button presses into turn based RPG combat! No one has ever done something so bold and different before!"

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Bought that Lords Of The Fallen 2023 game for like $5 and I'm unimpressed so far, talk about clunky.

I have many many criticisms of Fromsoft but at least they know how to make a game feel good.
 
Jonah Hill poster said:
Undertale is currently $3 on Steam, and since I’ve never played it before in my life, I’m about to buy it.
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That reminds me, might I shill Kamala Tale? It's an Undertale parody and I found it to be very funny. It's only about 1 hour long, dunno if you think that's worth a few bucks or not.
 
Jonah Hill poster said:
Expedition 33 winning Game Of The Year at this year’s Game Awards might be a wise choice, in my opinion. I don’t think they want to risk another Matan Evan situation when things don’t go the right way for them.
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What else could it even be though? Like what other games released? Personally for me itd be Blue Prince but a game like that doesn't make it to goty for an award show.
 
Just binged through Gloomwood, positively surprised. Expected vantablack troonslop from the artstyle, got a really nice spiritual successor to Thief.

Despite being EA it seemingly gets updated reasonably often and in my opinion the content already in the game is enough for the price point it's asking for (especially with the steam sale going on).
 
latinlover said:
Just binged through Gloomwood, positively surprised. Expected vantablack troonslop from the artstyle, got a really nice spiritual successor to Thief.

Despite being EA it seemingly gets updated reasonably often and in my opinion the content already in the game is enough for the price point it's asking for (especially with the steam sale going on).
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Just in time for the new area.
 
I'm going through Robocop: Rogue City. It's actually quite good. They really made the atmosphere feel like run-down 80's Detroit.

The dialogue is pretty funny too. While patrolling the streets, Robocop encounters 2 hobos warming themselves over an oil can. One goes into a long conversation about the stock market and future forecasts and ends it with "So guys, it's a great investment!"

And the other hobo goes "But Frank, you're homeless."
 
Ive come to realize that my three most anticipated games of 2026 involve going into another people's homelands and having mechanical incentives to beat them until theyre a pile of bloody viscera
 
>haven't been paying attention to Diablo as a franchise for years
>only really play D1 and D2, pretty often and with belzebub/plugy
>steam throws this up at me just now
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WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT!?
WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU, RED GUY!?
WHY THE FUCK DID YOU GUYS DO EARLY ACCESS!?
"Quite a mouth on him, isn't there?"
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS, AN MMO!?
WHY ARE THERE WoW ITEMS!?
"I believe the answers that you seek lie within my companion's Battle Pass..."
WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN? HAS EVERYONE GONE FUCKIN' NUTS!?
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO DIABLO'S FACE!?
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there are a total of four (4) games that looked interesting to me at the gaym awards
Audio Mech
Pragmata
Bradley the Badger
Star Wars Galactic Racer

i hope they are good
 
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