Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

[Overly Serious]

You have also made me interested in the game, my impression was that it was just Xcom with Marvel and that sounded boring. Did you ever play Chimera Squad btw?

I had not. But I've just spent about twenty minutes watching a play through of it on YouTube. It's much closer to Midnight Suns but still fundamentally different. Watching the playthrough you can tell the same people designed it. For example, the city map in Chimera Squad is similar to the mission table in Midnight Suns. Chimera Squad appears to have pre-designed characters with distinct abilities / play styles but which can still be tweaked. That's very much like Midnight Suns. The missions in Chimera Squad look much more traditional RPG explore and positional tactics, though. Midnight Suns is essentially an arena battle though positioning is still a key element. When I'm in a battle in Midnight Suns I'm very much thinking about movement economy. For example, if I only have 1 move left, I may not be able to do what I want to do but I look at my options see that if I play a particular attack against a particular enemy, I'll end up in a similar spot and from there I can use my 1 move left to knock a second opponent into an exlposive. Midnight Suns tactics is all about mentally running through possible sequences to find the optimum solution. Like cracking a code. And the higher the difficulty you put it on the fewer the solutions there are.

Midnight Suns has a little bit of Dragon Age as you explore the abbey environs, pick up lore and solve puzzles and collect reagents (optionally). It has a bit of character role-playing as you develop friendships, deal with rivalries in the team and manage your own Light / Dark balance (dark powers tend to be quite destructive, light powers tend to be buffy or healing and a lot of your powers are neutral) and interact with various marvel characters. There's a dash of "build your base" as you add new features. And then the whole tactical arena battle missions.

Most of the missions are a single battle but a few are multi-battle which is pretty alarming when you've picked up injuries, used up those cards and equipment which exhaust and suddenly have to go into round 2.

I'm not going to tell Captain Autism what his experience was like, but I'll just say that I personally didn't have stuttering and was playing on nearly maxed out settings. And whilst Denuvo got off to a bad start, I had thought that generally the issue it caused in the early days were mostly resolved these days.

Anyway, if what I've described sounds fun, I'd say give it a try. I'd love to have someone else on here who had played it to compare notes with.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

I had not. But I've just spent about twenty minutes watching a play through of it on YouTube. It's much closer to Midnight Suns but still fundamentally different. Watching the playthrough you can tell the same people designed it.

Ok, that's what I was curious about. Chimera Squad was such an odd release but if they were testing the waters for the Midnight Suns systems it suddenly makes much more sense.

 

[thegooddoctor]

Jesus Christ /v/ made a second one of these, Autism aside can anyone tell me who most of these characters even are?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

ok you fucker, I'm buying it. I judt got Vampire survivors and 5 hours vanished...how is this shitty looking game so addictive?

I bought it today out of curiosity and already on the third play through got through the 30 minute mark. Kinda disappointing tbh. I don't think I'll continue to play it but it was nice enough to not refund.

 

[Just_a_Bored_Guy]

View attachment 5023680
Jesus Christ /v/ made a second one of these, Autism aside can anyone tell me who most of these characters even are?

Second one of what? Site's not doing so great with images

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

This week, I’m taking out both the Slim PS2 and FAT XBOX for playing. It’s just kind of insane to think that in 2023, I still play these consoles as if I’m still living in the 2004-05 season.

Only difference is that I do not have the Game Crazy/Blockbuster catalogues that I used to spend a lot of time looking at while renting DVDs and the occasional VHS tape that I used to make sure not to get a late rental fee for not giving it away on time.

 

[Articles and Nudes]

Late as hell on this, but Project Warlock is pretty dope. Any game that let's me use slugs for shotguns is a winner.

 

[CuzinEd]

This week, I’m taking out both the Slim PS2 and FAT XBOX for playing. It’s just kind of insane to think that in 2023, I still play these consoles as if I’m still living in the 2004-05 season.

Only difference is that I do not have the Game Crazy/Blockbuster catalogues that I used to spend a lot of time looking at while renting DVDs and the occasional VHS tape that I used to make sure not to get a late rental fee for not giving it away on time.

I heard they want to bring back Block Buster. It sounds like a dumb idea though. It was struggling when NetFlix was mailing DVD's to people's houses. RedBox was a major source of competition for them. They won't last long with streaming and everything else.

 

[Articles and Nudes]

Ghostwire Tokyo dropped for game pass, and I'm really enjoying it. I've aways loved Japanese myth and urban legend, so being able to explore a place like this is wonderful. That I'm one of the weirdos who enjoys Ubisoft collectathons probably helps.

 

[Hugbox Kommissar]

Wartales is out of early access on Steam, anyone have any experience with it? Looking for something to scratch the Battle Brothers itch.

 

[Glowie]

Tranny dev mass revoked to a five year old game HARE that no-one gives a shit about reciting HURRR DUURRR ILLIGEMATE KEYS

Five year old game that get updates a game nobody plays I might add. Forum was nuked and everyone was mass banned who called out the bullshit

Reason: WE ARE LOSING REVENUE
Needless to say the troon is blacklisted from multiple sites and no one is buying games by Zelun.

 

[SandyCat]

I think Planetside 2 is faking player queues to push memberships.

For those who haven't played the game there's several massive maps and 3 (technically 4) factions. Each map has a limit on how many players can be on it, too many players and you have to wait in a queue. If there's a player imbalance for a faction you have to wait in queue if your faction has too many players.

The 4th faction allows you to play as a robot that can play with any faction allowing you to skip faction imbalance queue times entirely. I was in a 78 player queue for the map Indar on my New Conglomerate character. I hopped over to the faction that lets you skip faction queues (NSO faction for short) and it put me on New Conglomerate. Hop back over to my New Conglomerate character; 78 minute player queue. Hop back over to my NSO character: instantly puts me on New Conglomerate skipping the 78 player queue.

Why is it putting me on New Conglomerate if its a overpopulated faction at that time with a 78 player queue? It should put me with the terran communists or the alien humpers, not with the chad capitalist faction.
This is really activating my almonds

TL;DR: Planetside are being greedy cunts

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Played Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk and its sequel. While games about depression are (rightfully) mocked, it's nice when a game goes past it into a character who's a downright schizo without holding back.

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

Looks like some furry-esqe game got released recently, Curse of the Sea Rats:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H2xQds__nA

Anyone play it yet? How is it?

 

[Articles and Nudes]

Finished up Project Warlock, and I'm definitely cooler to it than I was before - the second half takes a bit of a nose dive, and weapon balance is fucked so the game's difficulty utterly collapsed even on hardcore.

Do you want a shotgun that uses twice the ammunition for a bit more damage, or do you want a shotgun that uses half the ammo, sets everything on fire, and does enough damage to one shot everything anyway? Do you want a mini gun you can pop down as a turret for a few seconds, or a mini gun that has no start-up time, recoil and does nearly twice the damage of its base version?

That said, this is apparently the work of a single 17 year old, so I can't bring myself to hate on it.

 

[Slap47]

Megaman fanbase is peaking its autism.

 

[ATandTism]

So dredge was short but fun. Nice little game.

I just finished a playthrough. Short sweet little game with an enjoyable enough gameplay loop.

 

[Back me up!]

I just finished a playthrough. Short sweet little game with an enjoyable enough gameplay loop.

Dredge was one of the rare games that know just how long to keep their gameplay loop going before ending the whole thing.

 

[Burt Ryan]

View attachment 5023680
Jesus Christ /v/ made a second one of these, Autism aside can anyone tell me who most of these characters even are?

I can see:
- Makoto Makimura from Yakuza 0 (100 suffering, 10 deserved)
- Julianne "Jill" Stingray from VA-11 Hall-A (15 suffering, 20 deserved)

Pretty fucking dumb graph, as to be expected from /v/

ok you fucker, I'm buying it. I judt got Vampire survivors and 5 hours vanished...how is this shitty looking game so addictive?

It's an old article but I really enjoyed all the references and memes the dev put in.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

I can see:
- Makoto Makimura from Yakuza 0 (100 suffering, 10 deserved)
- Julianne "Jill" Stingray from VA-11 Hall-A (15 suffering, 20 deserved)

The Rabbid one at 5/75 is pretty funny. I'm reading it as a "what they got/what they deserved" chart.