Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

[CyrusHowler]

Seems like the pc port for Final fantasy XVI is not very good, many people have been reporting very heavy stuttering, low framerate for their hardwares, visuals that fail to update to the correct settings, and the cutscenes are locked at 30. This is obviously only in the demo that was released, but I don't see why it wouldn’t also be the same on the final product.

Yikes.

 

[Spaced Outside Cargo]

The developer for the indie game Soulash 2 just released an update allowing you to marry npcs and start a family.
Posting about it before he is ripped to shreds by a very loud and annoying group of people.

 

[BananaSplit²]

What percentage of you are still buying consoles these days especially with the way they seem to be going? Or are more people just doing PC gaming/emulation?

With the majority of "exclusive" games being released on PC either at launch or later on and emulation being a thing I haven't seen a reason to own a console since the PS3/360 era.

The situation has a complete opposite effect on me as someone who used to be more into PC in prior decades, but my vidya interest has shifted primarily into Japanese games, 'indies' and the occasional western title (which is either 10 years old at minimum by now or a rare gem like Kingdom Come Deliverance that I'm currently doing).

I barely see the point of a gaming PC these days when a Nintendo Switch does the job well good enough (without any tinkering and in a convenient form factor) in addition of mobile taking care of retro emulation (PS1 & PSP albeit it's missing PS2 there as part of my holy trinity). I occasionally play on PC for one or two specific releases per year, such as Lies of P and Earth Defense Force 6, but I guess it's only a matter of time until the Switch 2 comes out.

That doesn't mean someone else won't see PC as a better personal choice but I don't believe in PC being this "end-it-all" platform.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Buy a new keyboard, really nice, clicky and simple with no software; keys start ghosting and I have to swap triggers around.
Dualsense controller starts drifting; add some deadzone, not enough before the controls feel so sluggish it might as well be lag.
Mouse is skipping; old but not old enough to shit the bed.

Man gaming fucking sucks.

 

[EmpGulcasa]

The situation has a complete opposite effect on me as someone who used to be more into PC in prior decades, but my vidya interest has shifted primarily into Japanese games, 'indies' and the occasional western title (which is either 10 years old at minimum by now or a rare gem like Kingdom Come Deliverance that I'm currently doing).

I barely see the point of a gaming PC these days when a Nintendo Switch does the job well good enough (without any tinkering and in a convenient form factor) in addition of mobile taking care of retro emulation (PS1 & PSP albeit it's missing PS2 there as part of my holy trinity). I occasionally play on PC for one or two specific releases per year, such as Lies of P and Earth Defense Force 6, but I guess it's only a matter of time until the Switch 2 comes out.

That doesn't mean someone else won't see PC as a better personal choice but I don't believe in PC being this "end-it-all" platform.

See, that falls apart for me because I can play Switch games and any other emulated titles with better frame rates and upgraded graphics on my PC. After playing something like Tears of the Kingdom at 60FPS with mods that make it prettier I can't imagine going back to playing it on the actual hardware.

 

[foam rolla]

Something like a Steam Deck might be the best middle ground as you can do all the emulation stuff, play switch games while also having the same portability as a Switch.

Honestly, the Switch is the only current console I would buy as it's the only one with a bit of innovation or original library. I like at xbox and sony and can't see any point.

 

[Spaced Outside Cargo]

Buy a new keyboard, really nice, clicky and simple with no software; keys start ghosting and I have to swap triggers around.
Dualsense controller starts drifting; add some deadzone, not enough before the controls feel so sluggish it might as well be lag.
Mouse is skipping; old but not old enough to shit the bed.

Man gaming fucking sucks.

What keyboard?
Cherry switches are pretty solid and havent given me issues yet. I got a keyboard preassembled with some cherry browns from some chinese company and it's been pushing for 5+ years without issue. Wired of course. My Razer one before that was pretty bad though and the backplate was made of pig iron and rusted through from the moisture in the air.

The real travesty is gaming headsets though if you dont like being completely cut off from the sounds in your house.
Everyone wants to be a twitch streamer and sweat hard in PvP games so one-ear headsets are out of style. Everything has to be noise cancelling over-the-ear. And Bluetooth is pretty bad because it gets spotty unless the tower is within 3ft of your head.
My Razer Nari has a 2.4Hz dongle and i can walk across the house to let the dog outside and still hear perfectly through multiple walls (good for meetings), so i bought a second one and chopped an ear off it and printed a housing for the battery. Works better than the most expensive techslop you can find online and the worst part is no one knows we've gone backwards with functionality.

 

[Judge Dredd]

This is going to be more of unpopular opinion post than a chat post, but whatever.

Do people stick to a general fantasy? Do you always go "aight what's the closest thing to a paladin" etc? I feel whenever I find a class I enjoy in a game I have to reevaulate my general outlook on the class in other games.

I tend to avoid fantasy games because they're so general. The whole human-elf-dwarf fighter-wizard-ranger rigamarole is tiresome. At least with sci-fi there's differences in setting. Halo is different from Doom is different from Fallout.

Is there any way VtM- Bloodlines 2 won't be a massive disappointment at this point?

It depends. Will people be disappointed? Absolutely. VtM is a game that's reached mythical status, but I struggled to see the appeal. I tried it years ago and it was broken and unbalanced to the point of being unplayable for me.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

The situation has a complete opposite effect on me as someone who used to be more into PC in prior decades, but my vidya interest has shifted primarily into Japanese games, 'indies' and the occasional western title (which is either 10 years old at minimum by now or a rare gem like Kingdom Come Deliverance that I'm currently doing).

I barely see the point of a gaming PC these days when a Nintendo Switch does the job well good enough (without any tinkering and in a convenient form factor) in addition of mobile taking care of retro emulation (PS1 & PSP albeit it's missing PS2 there as part of my holy trinity). I occasionally play on PC for one or two specific releases per year, such as Lies of P and Earth Defense Force 6, but I guess it's only a matter of time until the Switch 2 comes out.

That doesn't mean someone else won't see PC as a better personal choice but I don't believe in PC being this "end-it-all" platform.

I tend to lean toward older games as well, but the issue with the Nintendo Switch and me is that there's nothing really compelling about it that makes it a must buy.

1. I like Nintendo games and several of them of them still populate my top ten; however, I find it hard to justify wanting to spend a ton of money on the current Nintendo titles. Even Breath of the Wild was not a selling point to me.

2. There are a number of indie titles on the Switch that I have in my Steam library; but I don't want to rebuy them for a gimped version (no mods, no K&M control, etc.)

3. Life situations don't allow me a couch and television anymore (which sucks, I know), and handheld (for a limited definition of what handheld games are) are not as useful to me as an adult as they were 15-20 years ago.

 

[Captain Chromosome]

Just got Dredge off GOG. This is more enjoyable than I expected.

 

[EmpGulcasa]

I miss sitting on a couch to play video games, but not enough to play on anything but a PC. Some autist needs to design the perfect combination of a desk chair and a recliner or something to allow for max comfort at a desk.

 

[BananaSplit²]

Something like a Steam Deck might be the best middle ground as you can do all the emulation stuff, play switch games while also having the same portability as a Switch.

I do already own a Steam Deck (the 512GB LCD model with anti-mat screen) since last year but I plan on selling it to someone more interested rather than leaving it untouched most of the time and potentially damaging the battery one day. It's nowhere as practical and hybrid/portable as a Switch in actual use so it was restricted to the very few games I couldn't have on the Switch instead. But its ultimate demise was to fail in running EDF6, a highly anticipated title and the main reason I bought the Deck for, without frequent random crashes and in spite of fix attempts.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Attention, very classic adventure game fans!

FIVE YEARS AFTER THE DEMO VERSION 'THE CRIMSON DIAMOND' HAS BEEN RELEASED!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/The_Crimson_Diamond/

It's a text parser adventure inspired by The Colonel's Bequest. It's a single-dev project made by a canadian artist that loves that game. She learned programming and that type of very limited sprite art just to see what she could do. At some point she leveraged those skills to make sprite art for Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator. She seems nice. She probably hates Trump & Co because she's a Canadick etc. But I've watched Matt Barton's long interview with her and to repeat it again: she seems nice. I wish her the best and also bought the game.

 

[King Vidiot]

I miss sitting on a couch to play video games, but not enough to play on anything but a PC. Some autist needs to design the perfect combination of a desk chair and a recliner or something to allow for max comfort at a desk.

Something like this?

I first heard about Bauhutte when their gaming bed made the news when it came out:

 

[Google.com]

I do already own a Steam Deck (the 512GB LCD model with anti-mat screen) since last year but I plan on selling it to someone more interested rather than leaving it untouched most of the time and potentially damaging the battery one day. It's nowhere as practical and hybrid/portable as a Switch in actual use so it was restricted to the very few games I couldn't have on the Switch instead. But its ultimate demise was to fail in running EDF6, a highly anticipated title and the main reason I bought the Deck for, without frequent random crashes and in spite of fix attempts.

I'd check if it even still works. I don't know what type of battery valve shoved in this thing but I use mine only for traveling so it is left unattended for two months or so each time. It once was for 3 and the battery broke plus firmware got corrupted, had to send it for repairs. Theres a special mode your supposed to put it in when you plan on leaving it unattended for long periods of time I would do that now if you haven't already guide. If not it's like a $150 dollar repair and takes a month to get it back.

 

[I Know 孤独のせい]

Finished Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines a couple of days ago and got hit with the" finished an amazing game and don't know what to do now" feeling. What an exceptional game, really don't make them like they used to do. Playing some fighting games in between, but probably we either start Gothic 2 or Kingdom Come soon.

 

[The Ugly One]

I first heard about Bauhutte when their gaming bed made the news when it came out:

I like how efficient the design is, like how no space is wasted for a second person.

 

[foam rolla]

I do already own a Steam Deck (the 512GB LCD model with anti-mat screen) since last year but I plan on selling it to someone more interested rather than leaving it untouched most of the time and potentially damaging the battery one day. It's nowhere as practical and hybrid/portable as a Switch in actual use so it was restricted to the very few games I couldn't have on the Switch instead. But its ultimate demise was to fail in running EDF6, a highly anticipated title and the main reason I bought the Deck for, without frequent random crashes and in spite of fix attempts.

You should just load up a shit tonne of old system roms and install something like Emudeck on it.

 

[Pissmaster]

Huh. Just noticed this in Steam reviews. Mouseover the little star or Steam Deck icon:




Did those messages just get added?

 

[The Last Stand]

I've never heard of Black Myth: Wukong until today. That game just came out of nowhere.