Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

[whatever I feel like]

I got the bad ending in Witcher III. Total bullshit, I made all the right choices.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

I got the bad ending in Witcher III. Total bullshit, I made all the right choices.

dont be a male slut

 

[whatever I feel like]

I meant for the Ciri aspects. Oh well...

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Everyone is playing the new Animal Crossing and DOOM ETERNAL, while I’m still stuck playing Final Fantasy X for the PS2.

I’m not old, but I feel old.

 

[BroccoliBrain]

Spent a good chunk of time on Code Vein then Mount & Blade, then bought Death's Gambit because I was sick of my old games. Instead of enjoying that shiny new game feel, muscle memory was really fucking me up with DG because both it and CV are soulslike even though both of them are wildly different to each other. I don't make the same mistakes in M&B because it's different 'enough'. Controllers 'feel bad' to me which makes sense because I only started using one for PC in my late teens and I grew up with a Nintendo DS. Going from that to having two sticks, more buttons and swapped button letters just fucked me up fam. If I knew how to drive I guess it's like going from auto to manual. Or knowing archery then being given a rifle on the assumption you know how to use one because they both shoot. My brain hurts.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Everyone is playing the new Animal Crossing and DOOM ETERNAL, while I’m still stuck playing Final Fantasy X for the PS2.

I’m not old, but I feel old.

I'll make you feel better: if you were actually old you would have been raging about Titus-laugh on the internet 19 years ago. If you can avoid doing that you will be young forever.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Baba is You
You is stupid
Game is incomplete

Seriously, I am a legitimately smart person, all my professors said so, how can this game be beating me so badly.

 

[Radical Cadre]

Spending time with the extended family, mostly making sure my nephews don't kill each other while their parents are at work. I am noticing some things about this generation of gamers that makes me disappointed as a gamer. These kids are between the ages of 12 and 17, as are some of their friends that I've watched play.

• First off, they don't turn their PlayStation off. Ever. That fucker is on all night and all day, just running. It makes my skin crawl. I turn it off after they go to bed.
• They have this really nice controller charging station, it's cool stuff! They never dock their controllers after finishing a session with a game. Then bitch and moan about the controllers never having enough battery.
• Monetization has turned them into the kind of addicts that 90s parents could only imagine in their worst nightmares. The packs and skins are more exciting than the recycled gamepla- oh I guess that just clicked with me.
• Single-player is fucking dead. If it doesn't have multiplayer, it's not a video game.
• These kids have no clue how to operate a computer and zero proficiency with electronics. A bit broad here, but damn these walled gardens of Apple and Android (lesser) have stripped away any useful skills that could be acquired passively.
• "Gaming PC" is never going away. Fuck me in the ass.

I'm working with the youngest one though. His skill level is lower than his brothers so he doesn't immediately want to compete all the time. He said Shadow of the Colossus looked neat, so I have that downloading overnight for him to try. It'll be a tough game for him, but at least he shows an interest. He also thought SWAT 4 on my computer looked cool, but wished it had multiplayer "like Rainbow"...

It's a process. Otherwise the kids are pretty cool. I just don't get the lack of care for their stuff, that's a really big one for me. They take care of their guns and compound bows (children having these things is normal in hunting country), but not their equally-expensive and fragile gaming hardware. There's very little appreciation for the equipment.

 

[Ihavetinyweewee]

Finished 'The Outer Worlds', I thought it was mediocre.

The game was massively overhyped. The world/lore/characters became grating or boring...

The combat, although slick, was extremely easy...

The whole consumable system was pointless and cumbersome...

But the most dissapointing thing was the humor. It was mostly unfunny. I was expecting something overtly satrical. Instead it was either snarky or whimsical. Most of the jokes fell flat...

Still, I finished it while completing over 90 percent of the trophies.

I don't think I can muster another playthrough for a platnium. I have zero interest to revisit it...

 

[Water-T]

• First off, they don't turn their PlayStation off. Ever. That fucker is on all night and all day, just running. It makes my skin crawl. I turn it off after they go to bed.
• They have this really nice controller charging station, it's cool stuff! They never dock their controllers after finishing a session with a game. Then bitch and moan about the controllers never having enough battery.
• Monetization has turned them into the kind of addicts that 90s parents could only imagine in their worst nightmares. The packs and skins are more exciting than the recycled gamepla- oh I guess that just clicked with me.
• Single-player is fucking dead. If it doesn't have multiplayer, it's not a video game.
• These kids have no clue how to operate a computer and zero proficiency with electronics. A bit broad here, but damn these walled gardens of Apple and Android (lesser) have stripped away any useful skills that could be acquired passively.

This describes my pre-teen nephew to a T. Never turns off his fucking PS4. Doesn't fucking charge his other controller and then bitches about the controller dying. Is always begging his mom for PSN cards to buy more useless skins. Mostly plays multiplayer garbage like Fortnite and Dragonball Xenoverse. Constantly calls me on the phone when his PS4 so much as freezes up (because he continues to run Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, and GTA Online at the SAME FUCKING TIME). Even his tech-tarded mom knows how to use an iPhone better than he can.

Goddamn kids nowadays shouldn't be allowed to have a console until they can play an Atari or NES game without crying about "where are the microtransactions and online multiplayer?"

 

[whatever I feel like]

Aren't PS4's designed to be always on? Nintendo's been doing that since the Wii era. Totally agree with you about the stupid fuckers and their never charged controllers though, the same thing happens with my idiot cousin.

 

[Radical Cadre]

Aren't PS4's designed to be always on? Nintendo's been doing that since the Wii era. Totally agree with you about the stupid fuckers and their never charged controllers though, the same thing happens with my idiot cousin.

They seem to be designed to be left on for long periods of time but I always try to turn any computer/device off at least once every 24 hours if at all possible. Bringing a system back to zero is usually a good move for continued system health.

The young one started Shadow of the Colossus today. He seems to like the game but he was on his cellphone during the entire opening sequence and now expects me to tell him what is happening. I told him to restart the game and try it without his cellphone this time. He was not pleased.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Haha, holy shit. Wendy's, the restaurant, has a twitch channel. The comments are all people talking about food, there are ads in the top and bottom corner of the stream and right now the Animal Crossing character being played is customized to look just like the mascot.

wendys - Twitch

Choppin' Trees and Free !Delivery

www.twitch.tv

 

[Joe Swanson]

Why out of any game franchise does Kirby attract so many troons, I just don't get it.

 

[No Exit]

Was hoping to buy an old Switch online so I can hack it and cure this lockdown boredom but damn, everyone is asking nearly full retail price for them. The emulator is taking a long time to be properly functional too. I got that comfy soy game itch and the older stuff just isn't scratching it as good as it used too.

I really wish Nintendo things depreciated in value as quickly as other game companies stuff does. No game console is worth paying $500+ for, especially when half the libraries are on PC nowadays.

 

[Coolio55]

Why out of any game franchise does Kirby attract so many troons, I just don't get it.

Cutesy art style and lore with some weird out of place creepy shit. Plus it's japanese.
That's pretty much all they like.

 

[The Last Stand]

First off, they don't turn their PlayStation off. Ever. That fucker is on all night and all day, just running. It makes my skin crawl. I turn it off after they go to bed.

I had younger siblings do that. Not knowing that they're prolonging the life expectancy of their consoles.

I learned that PS4 and Xbox One has standby mode like a computer by default. That amazed me; I could have a game in the system and continue where I left off. Provided it's single player and I don't completely shut off the console.

Turn off your consoles when they're not at use; your consoles and electricity bill will thank you.

 

[Trilby]

I had younger siblings do that. Not knowing that they're prolonging the life expectancy of their consoles.

I learned that PS4 and Xbox One has standby mode like a computer by default. That amazed me; I could have a game in the system and continue where I left off. Provided it's single player and I don't completely shut off the console.

Turn off your consoles when they're not at use; your consoles and electricity bill will thank you.

Certainly an important lesson to be learned for anything a child has that goes to waste because they're not conscious of their actions. Reading the previous poster's message about how these kids play these consoles also makes me sad inside too, and I came from the days of the Atari.

 

[AsbestosFlaygon]

They seem to be designed to be left on for long periods of time but I always try to turn any computer/device off at least once every 24 hours if at all possible. Bringing a system back to zero is usually a good move for continued system health.

Actually no it's not, turning on and off shit's what causes the most stress, especially for modern electronics which don't have much in terms of moving parts. This is why the Centennial Light has its own dedicated power supply for example, it doesn't matter if it's on or off that much what matters is the initial expansion from it being turned on or off is what damages it. Granted the difference is not that big so it's not worth keeping a a console on all the time just because you want to have it last longer. But by the same token it's like not getting damaged to any major degree, worry about shit like electrical consumption, not that. As long as it's entering sleep mode I don't think it's worth worrying over, and if it's not you should set it up so that it does then you don't have to worry about it as much.

 

[Radical Cadre]

Actually no it's not, turning on and off shit's what causes the most stress, especially for modern electronics which don't have much in terms of moving parts. This is why the Centennial Light is has its own dedicated power supply for example, it doesn't matter if it's on or off that much what matters is the initial expansion from it either being on or off as that's what damages it. Granted the difference is not that big so it's not worth keeping a a console on all the time just because you want to have it last longer. But by the same token it's like not getting damaged to any major degree, worry about shit like electrical consumption, not that. As long as it's entering sleep mode I don't think it's worth worrying over, and if it's not you should set it up so that it does then you don't have to worry about it as much.

You're comparing a computer with random access memory to a filament light bulb? I appreciate what you are suggesting and in the case of a filament bulb you are correct.

The reason you turn off a computer is to clear system memory and prevent system slowdown and glitches, not to ensure the integrity of the circuits themselves.