Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

[FatalTater]

I dropped Water Park Simulator after running back and forth getting hot dogs while people kept slipping and getting hurt.

Until I can get hot lifeguards and/or people drowning because my wave pool is just too awesome, no go.

Once I was able to get vending machines I got rid of the other snack stands to free up workers (and myself) for other tasks. Makes all the difference in how much swearing is required to get through a day.

 

[HTTP Error 404]

Why is this awful cunt suddenly everywhere after disappearing for like a decade?

Money run out?

She never left, she just kept it on the down low. She's been doing the consulting thing the entire time. It's just that people noticed in Slay the Spire 2 and pointed it out, and then started noticing it elsewhere. For example, Devolver Digital? I still can't find a source for that image that looks suspiciously like a photoshop slide from a presentation she'd herself give to a company she was trying to extort money and control over.

She doesn't brag about it like the Sweet Baby Inc or Black Girl Gamers or other danegeld groups. She doesn't have a public bragging website trying to sell herself. Because she's not a retarded black woman who is physically incapable of being silent for 5 minutes.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

I ordered the eXtremeRate microswitch face button mod for the DualSense Edge, it converts the D-pad and face buttons from membrane to microswitches. I am excited to do the mod and see how it feels!

 

[Fount of BadSpeak]

She never left, she's just trying to be relevant again and everyone's falling for it again. Her recent tweets bragging about being at gdc make this obvious. Same with mixtape, they're just revitilizing the same playbook where they throw out rage bait to get free publicity. It's a shame outrage sells so well because the bait is being taken.

What are you talking about? The outrage isn't selling well. Mixtape sold like shit. Peoplle always peddle this lie of "no such thing as bad publicity", but it's never supported; people despise Sarkeesian and she is sales poison, which is why your explanation for her being hired makes zero sense.

 

[Toxic BRAAAAP Mask]

I hope she does glom onto Sandfall and the frogs get everything they deserve.

 

[Cod of War]

Is fucking sad that upgrading your system can lead to worse performance. Take the PS2 game The Warriors, it worked fine on PS4 but on PS5 there are graphical glitch that, in my opinion, ruin the game. It's fucking bizarre. Well, I guess I have to emulate it to play it properly now.

 

[broners]

Is fucking sad that upgrading your system can lead to worse performance. Take the PS2 game The Warriors, it worked fine on PS4 but on PS5 there are graphical glitch that, in my opinion, ruin the game. It's fucking bizarre. Well, I guess I have to emulate it to play it properly now.

It's a shame, but you're better off that way. The versions they sell digitally now all have a gutted soundtrack.

 

[Lurkerish Kandor]

After procrastinating for literal years, I've finally refreshed my OS (nothing fancy, Win10LTSC just to have simple access to as many old games , software and emus as possible) and holy shit dusting out those cobwebs has made it purr again. I'm talking average gains of minimum 20-30 fps across everything I've tried. I'm genuinely fucking shocked, I had no idea I'd let it get this fuckin' bad.

I'm curious to see how many games I was just-shy of running acceptably that now work great. Lords of the Fallen reboot is a great example: I was getting utterly fucking heinous constant stuttering, I'm talking every half second freezing for a couple frames, which I attributed to UE5 because I've had similar problems in other UE5 games. But that shit's totally gone now, and I can crank it on High (haven't tried Ultra yet) and it's smooth as a well-maintained maglev train.

Spoiler: Quick LotF Sperging

People threw heaps of shade at LotF reboot, and I'm assuming it was bad at launch, but as it is now, it's good enough that I was playing it even with that shitty stutter. It has tons of gameplay modifiers and a couple of them explicitly state they revert that gameplay aspect to how it was "pre-nerf" [sic].

I think the other reason Souls veterans in particular didn't like LotF reboot is that they would've immediately noticed the ways it's similar to Dark Souls 2, particularly the visuals. Personally I fucking loved DS2 even before the Scholar re-release made it a lot better, but LotF reboot really leans more towards Bloodborne gameplay. Overall, it's much more fast, aggressive, and actiony than your average ploddy Souls-like. Sometimes that makes the animations a bit unpolished, but that's the worst thing I can say about it so far.

The Umbral (Soul Reaver style undead-trash dimension invisible to mortals) is visually very cool, and mechanically really interesting even just a couple hours in - it's used for lots of puzzles, revealing more of those DS1 spiralling routes and treasure dead-ends, and as you're waving your magic Lantern around to see into the Umbral, creatures on the other side can see you from outside your field of vision/what the lantern reveals, sneak up on you, and fucking pull you in to the Umbral against your will (just like if something had Umbral'd you normally by killing you).

Also, I can actually passably run Bloodborne on ShadPS4 now. It still freezes like an absolute bastard any time it has to load new assets of any kind, but who's not used to eating shit to each new enemy type a couple times, anyway? I just wanna play the fucking game after all these years, dammit.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

I bought Forbidden Solitaire and have played it for 2-3 hours, I think I'm getting close to the end. At this point I can't recommend the game enough. There's really nothing to it and I had expected it to be more of a [redacted: idea too brilliant to post].
Value: $5, currently sells for $15 so I give a -10, it costs too much for what it is.

Another card game I've played lately is Menace from the Deep, someone mentioned it in a thread and I got curious. It's pretty fun. If you've played a Slay the Spire-like you know what to expect, except there's some changes and additions that I think is fun. Like an optional story mode! The story is extremely forgettable but it's fun to get a little dialogue and a cutscene to mark progression after a run fails. "The investigator we sent out has been found dead [unlocks relic/card]".
Instead of a path that is branching here and there the journey forward is determined by one of three playable card piles(and you can peak underneath a card to see what the next one is going to be). So you can delay a fight a little bit if you're in rough shape, or you can delay a motel(healing) and take a fight or two if you're in great shape. Or let a vendor be until you collected a bit more money, or let the sanitarium be until you lost some sanity.
Value: $15, currently sells for $15 so my score is 0. You get exactly what it says on the back of the box: 94% Slay the Spire, 4% Darkest Dungeon, 2% questionable balancing.

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

what is this mixtape thing that i suddenly hear abouy?
is this dustborn 2?
cause it looks like one

 

[RacistComputer79]

what is this mixtape thing that i suddenly hear abouy?

Astroturfed "'we're indie" (The game is published by Annapurna Interactive, founded by Megan Ellison, daughter of billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.) industry plant game. Think of it as cutsceneslop like "life is strange" but it's shorter. IGN is glazing it with a 10/10 as always, because those dicksuckers would rather watch a 2 hour cutscene than touch the controller for 10 minutes.
Game made by outta touch fags for out of touch fags.

 

[JustWant2PlayVidya]

what is this mixtape thing that i suddenly hear abouy?
is this dustborn 2?
cause it looks like one

I've given it a look as its free on gamepass.

Commenter above basically nailed it. Very little actual gameplay, just small interactions and the odd "transport" section like skateboarding etc. If you go off path it just reminds a few secs, so its basically just follow the path.

Trying to go for a nostalgic 90s slice of life vibe but its anachronistic as fuck, quite jarring.

It's pretty shit. Definitely no 10

 

[NewYorkPizzaRat]

Astroturfed "'we're indie" (The game is published by Annapurna Interactive, founded by Megan Ellison, daughter of billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.) industry plant game. Think of it as cutsceneslop like "life is strange" but it's shorter. IGN is glazing it with a 10/10 as always, because those dicksuckers would rather watch a 2 hour cutscene than touch the controller for 10 minutes.
Game made by outta touch fags for out of touch fags.

Someone I know was trying to convince me to get this when it released and boy am I glad I dodged a bullet; Ended up playing No Man's Sky instead

 

[Cod of War]

Someone I know was trying to convince me to get this when it released and boy am I glad I dodged a bullet; Ended up playing No Man's Sky instead

You should uppercut them....in minecraft.