Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

[GreenTips]

Kinda feel like Halo is a sort of "you need to have been there" franchise. I've been slowly chipping away at the campaigns and dabbling in multiplayer and they've all been pretty lame to me. I only have 4, 5 and Infinite left to play and so far Reach was the only one I can say I really liked.

I don't disagree with you. I've been replaying the Master Chief Collection after having played all of them at release and it doesn't have the same feeling when it was new. You have to kind of look at it from the lense of the original 3 being so cutting edge for their time and kind of the zeitgeist of FPS at the time. It just won't have that same impact that it did because there was also a cultural element to it. Bringing your Xbox and TV over to people's houses to have LAN parties, Xbox Live and voice chat becoming more accessible, all the cross marketing of Halo and other products like Mountain Dew, early YouTube montages to Disturbed, things like that are all missing when you try and play it today. It's cultural impact at the time was massive and sadly we are never going to get to experience that peak of gaming as a whole that was the late 90s and early 00s.

 

[Miller]

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Gang of Dragon sounds like a "what if Tony Soprano was a jap?"

Larian Studios CEO Responds to Backlash Over GenAI Use, Says Its Use Is To Try and Make “Everyone’s Working Day Better, Not Worse”

Also Zoe Quinn is trying to insert herself into the Larian AI controversy.

 

[Spaced Outside Cargo]

Kinda feel like Halo is a sort of "you need to have been there" franchise. I've been slowly chipping away at the campaigns and dabbling in multiplayer and they've all been pretty lame to me. I only have 4, 5 and Infinite left to play and so far Reach was the only one I can say I really liked.

True Halo fans pray by the bed every night that the series finally dies.
It was fun at the time but both Halo and Call of Duty are cautionary tales as to what happens when you refuse to end a franchise for 20 years.

 

[CIS White Droid]

True Halo fans pray by the bed every night that the series finally dies.
It was fun at the time but both Halo and Call of Duty are cautionary tales as to what happens when you refuse to end a franchise for 20 years.

Even at the time I was utterly baffled by the decision to bring back John for Halo 4 given that 3's ending was the perfect way to finish his story. As much as I love ODST and Reach the series would've been much better off if it had remained a trilogy.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

My Steam Recap of this year had me playing few games on them when compared to last year’s (2024). I’m going to make an effort to play more games throughout 2026, since they also added that I played a lot on the Steam Deck. It was a nice touch.

 

[Spaced Outside Cargo]

Even at the time I was utterly baffled by the decision to bring back John for Halo 4 given that 3's ending was the perfect way to finish his story. As much as I love ODST and Reach the series would've been much better off if it had remained a trilogy.

I think the purpose of ODST and Reach were literally to hammer in that even though John’s story is over, he wasnt the only hero in the game’s universe.
My controversial take is that halo 4 wouldve been better off introducing a new character entirely. They had another opportunity to do that with halo infinite with a new enemy faction. Create a new self-insert of a character bravely rising to the occasion despite being way out of their depth.

Speaking of halo 4 i still think it was incredibly stupid of them to try to explain chief’s armor change as “nanobots” when they really couldve just stood behind it and said “we are trying out new art styles”. It’s like if the most sniveling coward you knew was making a game.
Too scared to try a new main character and too scared to stand behind their art decisions.

 

[The Ugly One]

Kinda feel like Halo is a sort of "you need to have been there" franchise. I've been slowly chipping away at the campaigns and dabbling in multiplayer and they've all been pretty lame to me. I only have 4, 5 and Infinite left to play and so far Reach was the only one I can say I really liked.

It's one of those games where so much was copied by later games that unless you know enough to mentally contextualize it, you can't appreciate it.

• The enemy AI was visibly better and more reactive than anything we'd ever seen
• Drivable vehicles in FPSes before then were basically nonexistent, certainly not as fun as the Warthog
• There was a lot of implied lore and at least some thought put into the world-building, something you didn't see a lot in shooters back then
• Having two Xboxes and two TVs for an eight-man game was MIND BLOWING in 2001

All this was even more true if you were coming to the Xbox from the Playstation or N64.

 

[Lone Wandering Courier]

Kinda feel like Halo is a sort of "you need to have been there" franchise. I've been slowly chipping away at the campaigns and dabbling in multiplayer and they've all been pretty lame to me. I only have 4, 5 and Infinite left to play

I felt similarly when MCC first came out on Steam. I didn't really get what the big deal was and still don't.

My Steam Recap of this year had me playing few games on them when compared to last year’s (2024). I’m going to make an effort to play more games throughout 2026, since they also added that I played a lot on the Steam Deck. It was a nice touch.

Yeah I played fewer games than last year as well. Looking at my steam backlog almost fills me with dread even though it's under 100 games.

 

[Asian tech support]

It’s like if the most sniveling coward you knew was making a game.
Too scared to try a new main character and too scared to stand behind their art decisions.

Knowing 343 Halo Studios now, that's an extremely on point assessment.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

there should have been campaign released after halo 3 where you play as a low ranking brute. as i'm typing this out i'm realizing that could have prevented the rape of halo

 

[The Ugly One]

Speaking of halo 4 i still think it was incredibly stupid of them to try to explain chief’s armor change as “nanobots” when they really couldve just stood behind it and said “we are trying out new art styles”. It’s like if the most sniveling coward you knew was making a game.
Too scared to try a new main character and too scared to stand behind their art decisions.

Just do like they did with Halo 2, Master Chief steps out of the technology tube, Cortana asks him how he likes the new armor, he says it's cool, and off we go.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Niche Gamer: Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis will adjust difficulty for modern gamers (archive)

The (((modern gamer)))

 

[DeadwastePrime]

Niche Gamer: Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis will adjust difficulty for modern gamers (archive)

The (((modern gamer)))

i mean the 1996 controls are borderline insane in a modern context. even the remasters allowed for slightly more modern controls, which did mess with some puzzles, but there was at least an attempt

 

[The Last Stand]

I love these end of the year sales to buy games you'll just forget about over time. Here's my backlog, let me know if it's good.

Cyberpunk 2077 (with Phantom Liberty,) Hogwarts Legacy, RoboCop, Middle Earth: Shadow series, the Batman Arkham series, Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, and Destroy all Humans 2.

I was thinking of getting the Pandora's Box of Borderlands which includes all Borderlands games up to 3, DLC included for $40.

 

[long waters]

Cyberpunk 2077 (with Phantom Liberty,) Hogwarts Legacy, RoboCop, Middle Earth: Shadow series, the Batman Arkham series, Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, and Destroy all Humans 2.

I played Cyberpunk on release and I loved it despite all the bugs and such. I got the DLC but I never played it, it's on my backlog :V But hey, if I liked it back then, I imagine it's much better and worth playing nowadays!

Hogwarts Legacy I also played on release, initially I got it because of the whole memey JK Rowling TTD Simulator vibes, but I actually had fun with it. The game itself is pretty casual and relaxing I think, but The Hogwarts architecture is really peak! Also it's really funny once you get the death-murder-spells how you can go around enacting total goblin genocide and no one bats an eye at your murderous rampage. I kind of want to replay it now...

Btw, if you're raycyst, there used to be a "Historically Accurate" mod, aka no dark ones. It used to be hosted here under the name NoBlakkks but the download link for this version is dead. I found a different version of it here too. I'm not sure if it works anymore with current release, according to comments there, mods were broken in some recent update and you might need to rollback to a previous version?...

 

[Google.com]

I played Cyberpunk on release and I loved it despite all the bugs and such. I got the DLC but I never played it, it's on my backlog :V But hey, if I liked it back then, I imagine it's much better and worth playing nowadays!

The DLC really blew it out of the park. The main story is good but the DLC is executed much much better.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

It's one of those games where so much was copied by later games that unless you know enough to mentally contextualize it, you can't appreciate it.

People shitting on "open world slop" that copies 1:1 from modern ass creed. God of war, horizon, hogwarts.

 

[BingBongDingDong]

Winter sale 2025 is live. All I see so far that I might get is Wartales and Atmoic Heart. What are some games you all have had on your wishlist youre getting?

 

[Asian tech support]

Winter sale 2025 is live. All I see so far that I might get is Wartales and Atmoic Heart. What are some games you all have had on your wishlist youre getting?

Looking at picking up a couple copies of Aneurism IV as gifts for a few nights of griefing with the lads.

 

[I Know 孤独のせい]

What are some games you all have had on your wishlist youre getting?

Haven't made any concrete plans yet, waiting until all shops have their winter sale running so I can see which games are historical lowest or close to it.