Much less based on vehicle combat if you can believe it, game is hard but the AI is kind of retarded because I assume it's in an early state. The campaign "demo" is extremely short and only gives a taste of the wider game, the scavenger mode is great fun, stealing supplies and living out the insurgent terrorist fantasy they're selling with the sequel is really fun. Even if you struggled I still highly recommend you give it a shot.
Anyone here tried the new game Motorslice? I bought it since I had sort of followed the development, but I have been too busy to try it. Looks like a mix of Mirror's Edge, Shadow of the Colossus, and Nier Automata. Seems like it has positive reviews but was just curious if anyone had tried it.
Remember, they did everything right, too. James Bond is already playing second fiddle to diversity recasts of the rest of the cast AND I'm pretty sure he has a black female handler to remind the player every few minutes that you can't risk white men getting uppity or forgetting their place.
Everything right and they still have to die. Amazing that people still aren't learning the lesson of what it means to be an "ally" with the left.
It's funny, isn't it? Even when they make the White male indulgence fantasy directly antithetical to White men, it still isn't enough. It shows that you just shouldn't even try to placate them to begin with.
This is probably the worst fucking thing that managed to poison any discourse about video games. Sick and tired of this bullshit. Games are first and foremost products and need to be evaluated as such. Reviews are not think pieces or even worse opinions, they are meant to objectively evaluate if a game works as intended or not. And since this simple notion somehow got lost we have been blessed for years with broken games left and right. But its art so it's okay if its doesn't work, just a statement about how bad capitalism is or some other insane babble.
There are of course other metrics that make up games, and they can transcend just being mere products, but this is the cherry on top not the baseline.
Anyone here tried the new game Motorslice? I bought it since I had sort of followed the development, but I have been too busy to try it. Looks like a mix of Mirror's Edge, Shadow of the Colossus, and Nier Automata. Seems like it has positive reviews but was just curious if anyone had tried it.
i've been playing a lot of noita recently and the whole alchemy part of it is pissing me off. am i supposed to just dump all my potions into a pit to see what happens? hard to get to that point when the odds of me getting something that can heal myself are already really fucking low
it's still fun but holy fuck i hate getting noita'd
Twilight Princess recomp just released, I'm not sure how good it is since this recomp was only announced a few weeks ago but apparently it's made by part of the team that decompiled it.
Been trying to play Farever, and I'm getting the network issues I expected out of an online game. It's a good bit of fun when it works properly, but thanks to Gumbloodwallman it apparently got picked up by, like, an additional ten thousand people. Devs say they only expected 5k at most, so shit is going down constantly and there are huge rollbacks (inconsistent. I had my character roll back an hour or so, but some streamers apparently had their level 20s rolled back to the starting zone lmao).
The perfect block system is fun when the networking is working, but that's not particularly common right now.
So, I recently found out that my dad had (for some reason) kept the 360 I had given him and my mom years ago to play a bunch of free card and board games they enjoyed that I had installed on it. Among the small pile of games he still had on disc was one I haven't thought of in years. Eternal Sonata. A lesser know, but still fantastic RPG that I remember buying almost at random due to the fact that it involved one of my favorite composers. I brought the old machine home, managed to hook it up, and god damn this game is as great as the day I first played it.
The story is great, the combat is fun, the mechanics have some unique features to them that makes the game stand out. And since it is a lesser known game, there aren't a billion guides online so I am having to figure this out on the fly from scratch. It reminds me of when I was a kid 30 years ago playing RPGs with no clue what I was doing and having a blast. I dont care about fucking up a fight, or missing some random objective that gives me the OH EM GEE BEST ARMOR IN THE GAME. I accept my fate, and just keep chugging along knowing I can win, but it won't be retard easy.
God I miss gaming like this. Now, when a game comes out you already have 200 walkthroughs to look at or 20 'every achievement first playthrough' videos on day 1. For us older gamers, there was a real sense of accomplishment when we beat a game. Maybe our strategy was bad, maybe our team build was dogshit, or our gear woefully under par. But when that final boss went down, we loved it all the same and knew damn well we had earned it. People now expect the easy route of others planning everything out in front of them so they never have to think or figure things out for themselves.
Man gaming isn't what it used to be. I need to smoke a cigg after that marathon session.
Mixtape looks like shit, probably has barely any interactive parts, and looks like it's some sort of gay zoomer's idea of what the 1990s were like, but how woke is it?
Been finally getting around to using the Steam Deck I got earlier this year a bit more and honestly I'm really impressed with it.
It can handle PS4/Xbox One era stuff handily and will surprisingly run newer stuff well on low to medium settings most of the time. It excels for newer indie games, pretty much the ideal way to play them.
Using it to stream Gamepass stuff works fairly well after a bit of fiddling around but the real standout is using Chiaki to play your PS5 games on it. It works better than the PS Portal and it's free.
Apparently it can emulate the Switch as well but I haven't tried that yet because I already have a Switch so it seems a bit pointless to play games from that platform on another handheld.
I'll probably get the Steam Machine or whatever the fuck they are going to call it if it isn't a crazy price because the Deck has proven to me that a Linux based platform can actually work really well for gaming.
It is confirmed. Mixtape is a nepo-backed astroturfed game.
It is developed by a small Australian studio, Beethoven and Dinosaur, and funded by Annapurna Interactive, headed by Megan Ellison. Yes, THAT Ellison family, where her father Larry Ellison, who is one of the most connected to Israel's elites, donated over $16 million in 2017 alone.
Larry's son, David Ellison's Skydance/Paramount, secured nearly $24 billion in equity investments from the Saudi public investment fund, plus others from Qatar and Abu Dhabi. Meanwhile Larry himself is personally funding portions of the equity commitments in the media deals.
That means Annapurna Interactive, with family ties to the Ellison wealth, has incredibly deep pockets that most indies could only dream of. This is why they were able to secure expensive music licences, massive marketing, and a multiplatform launch. No evidence that Israel or Middle East money touched the game, but the money is in the family and family talk.
Critics are eating it up like slop with near-universal 9-10 of 10 ratings, while the players are skipping it, calling it an overrated walking sim.
Annapurna Interactive markets itself as a "prestige" publisher, which aligns with the "high class" artsy vibe that critics love, but the audience doesn't care for. Their only massive commercial success was Stray, the cat game...
Meanwhile, pretty much every other game published by Annapurna was a flop or niche... and this one is proving the same as well, with barely 2000 people playing the game on steam.
The game is like 3 hours long, the retarded lead character is a self insert of this tranny looking nepobaby, there is no gameplay. It's a visual novel with a 3d camera. And it certainly doesn't catch the vibes of the 90s.
A true 90's game would be debanked in modern era. Kids back then used gay as a synonym for uncool. Not on like secret forums, in public, at school. it was the last decade to still beat the gays, it was before women were encouraged to act like men, so tranny shit didn't exist. You were a gross nerd if you were into video games. so, it was before the video game/internet explosion. Kids who were angry at eachother hurled over the top insults about their mom's, flung slurs (in public, cancel culture wasnt a thing) and death threats (people werent over feminized faggots scared of violent words). Kids roamed the neighborhoods at night causing trouble and having fun. Fights at school still happened, and schools didnt have police officers, metal detectors, or transparent back packs. A lot of boys became friends after swapping blows.
It was back when 'in real life' still existed and everything wasn't digital. oh, and it was 'just' before the pornification of children. Kids back then didnt know what deepthroating was or much about sex. there was porn, but since the internet hadn't blown up, the porn which existed in mainstream would be borderline considered sfw by modern standards. like playboy centerfolds. The only children who knew a lot about degen sex were the ones getting raped.
If you were a tech savvy 90s kid, you were shunned. It was before nerds became 'cool' and being into comics and shit was considered massively gay. However, the smaller internet was waayyyyy more fun back then, and had arguably more crazy shit on it. The typical 90s kid wasn't super plugged in.
Friend groups were 'big' back then. if you just hung out with two other kids, you were a certified loser. You'd regularly roam the streets with 4 other kids and it wasnt uncommon to see 20 kids hanging out at a park, playground, or parking lot (if older). Girls only lead girl friend groups. While they have just begun to infiltrate male spaces, you'd find just a few hanging out with guys, and those girls were generally shunned by other girls. Conversely you'd have a few guys in female spaces but all of them were in the closet gays.
I watched 20 min of the visual novel. It felt like it was written by someone over sheltered who never had friends growing up. The dialog felt 2005 to 2015. Not 90s.
It is confirmed. Mixtape is a nepo-backed astroturfed game.
It is developed by a small Australian studio, Beethoven and Dinosaur, and funded by Annapurna Interactive, headed by Megan Ellison. Yes, THAT Ellison family, where her father Larry Ellison, who is one of the most connected to Israel's elites, donated over $16 million in 2017 alone.
I avoid the games produced by Annapurna Interactive. Ellison's dyke daughter keeps asking her dad for money to fund her company. All she wants to do is produce that type of indieshit game.
