Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

[Kulee Baba]

I'd love to play a "Schizo-horror" game where you play as a sanitary worker cleaning the houses of hoarders. The horror bit progressively builds from the first level into the latter ones. At first you visit the homes of otherwise sane people and deal with regular hoarding, but later on, you start meeting hoarders who start to dip into horrorcow territory, you start finding bones, creepy nonsensical notes, nauseating smells that will require you to wear a mask to go further, insect swarms, corpses, underground "sex dungeons" and many worse things...

Not the same thing, but i think one of the games that got this atmosphere the best was SWAT 4 in some of the levels. Like the 2nd mission with the weird fetish bunker or the 9th with the cult's children graveyard.
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It's not what you're really asking for, but if you asked me for "Schizo-Horror" game I would say Cruelty Squad.

I know it's kind of a flavor of the month game, but goddamn I just played the Cult Level and it feels like the sensation of being in a nightmare hallucination. Part of the time I was just laughing at the insanity of the level design and then freaking out a little bit over not knowing what could be next. Real good shit.

 

[Realthir]

I’ve spent almost 4 years playing nothing but CS:GO and only now I’ve found enough strength to remove it. Hope I will never come back to it, such a waist of time. At least, I’ve managed to sell CS:GO skins for a couple of bucks

What cool offline games have been released over the last 4 years that I should try?

 

[Coolio55]

I’ve spent almost 4 years playing nothing but CS:GO and only now I’ve found enough strength to remove it. Hope I will never come back to it, such a waist of time. At least, I’ve managed to sell CS:GO skins for a couple of bucks

Good riddance. I used to play that a lot but quit when I finally realized just how miserable it was.

If you want good offline games all I can recommend are a bunch of retro games.

 

[Realthir]

Good riddance. I used to play that a lot but quit when I finally realized just how miserable it was.

If you want good offline games all I can recommend are a bunch of retro games.

I played a lot of games before that, so there's almost no chance I missed anything worthy. Yesterday, I stared to play Days Gone and I love it.

Can anyone recommend some more good titles released over the past 4 years?

 

[TrippinKahlua]

(Don’t know where to post this observation of mine)

So I’ve had Duck tales on NES ever since I was a kid and its my original copy. But there was always one thing about the cover that confused me.

The Beagle Boys, common villains of the Duck Tales cartoon, were on the cover, but I couldn’t find them anywhere.

I saw Magica De Spell, Flintheart Glomgold, but no Beagle Boys.

It wasn’t until I was well in my thirties did I find out the Beagle Boys were there all along!

That big guy walking around who kidnapped Huey? That’s the Beagle Boys! Oh! Now it makes sense!

Could you blame me for not making the connection? These sprites are mostly white. The Beagle Boys dressed in Red. It’s the same colouring mistake with Scrooge how he is normally depicted in a blue suit but wears Red in the game.

I just never put 2 and 2 together on this. I never even noticed touching these guys took $10,000 from your score, spelling out these guys’ identity.

I feel dumb and like a bad lifelong Duck Tales fan.

 

[Least Concern]

I feel dumb and like a bad lifelong Duck Tales fan.

 

[Win98SE]

Anyone ever play P.N.03? It was a GameCube exclusive and one of the "Capcom Five". I saw it back in the day but never got around to trying it out until now.

Incredibly weird game mechanically, as it looks like a third-person shooter, but has tank controls, dodge rolls/jumps, and fighting game-like combos for special abilities.

This is a good review of it IMO. Straight to the point:

 

[Least Concern]

Anyone ever play P.N.03? It was a GameCube exclusive and one of the "Capcom Five". I saw it back in the day but never got around to trying it out until now.

I also never played it but ever since I first saw it back in the day I thought it was an interesting-looking project. Very stylish and unusual - it looks like something that would have been at home on the Dreamcast if it had lasted a little longer. It seems to be one that reviewers either liked or despised. Unfortunately I no longer have a GC or Wii, and it didn't get shoveled over to other consoles as some of the other Five did, so I probably never will be able to give it a try myself.

 

[Sundae]

One of the best things about Voodoo Vince is the soundtrack:

I was so glad when this game got an HD re-release a few years ago (including a Steam release).

Anyone ever play P.N.03? It was a GameCube exclusive and one of the "Capcom Five". I saw it back in the day but never got around to trying it out until now.

Incredibly weird game mechanically, as it looks like a third-person shooter, but has tank controls, dodge rolls/jumps, and fighting game-like combos for special abilities.

This is a good review of it IMO. Straight to the point:

I remember that game. Not a bad game, but teen me wasn't very good at it (back then I wasn't use to tank controls). Definitely worth emulating if someone wants to give it a try.

Good soundtrack, too:

 

[LightDragonman1]

I remember that game. Not a bad game, but teen me wasn't very good at it (back then I wasn't use to tank controls). Definitely worth emulating if someone wants to give it a try.

Good soundtrack, too:

Btw, some of the tracks for that game may sound familiar if you are a Resident Evil fan:

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

been on a vampire kick lately

kinna wanna play Vampyr

I've never heard about it before til tonight, it looks pretty cool

Vampire Rain, it's so strange.

Anyone ever play P.N.03? It was a GameCube exclusive and one of the "Capcom Five". I saw it back in the day but never got around to trying it out until now.

Incredibly weird game mechanically, as it looks like a third-person shooter, but has tank controls, dodge rolls/jumps, and fighting game-like combos for special abilities.

This is a good review of it IMO. Straight to the point:

What really dragged that game down was how incredibly stiff it felt, that was something that seemed to go directly against what the gameplay should be. The concept was intriguing, in my mind the surface level idea wasn't that they were making a dancey-shootey Devil May Cry, it seemed more like they were going for a clever spin on Panzer Dragoon. It did not work out though but it could have been great.

 

[Coelacanth]

Tfw you want to play Dwarf Fortress but you have no idea what kind of fort you wanna create or what challenges you want to add.

Seriously I go on an embark and create the beginning of a fortress but then my mind goes blank and I get bored. Am I doing something wrong? Am i not playing the game right? Am I just not having enough !!FUN!!? Please help.

 

[Marissa Moira]

So with GOG and EGS integration, it makes me wonder just how close they'll wind up being in the end.

 

[ZMOT]

Seriously I go on an embark and create the beginning of a fortress but then my mind goes blank and I get bored. Am I doing something wrong? Am i not playing the game right? Am I just not having enough !!FUN!!? Please help.

the point is trying to get as far as possible before you inevitably get fucked one way or another, the fun is in the journey and how it happens.

it's pretty freeform, maybe you need a bit more structure before it works for you, but basically it's trying to survive -> new dwarfs -> trying not to lose too many/train them properly -> new dwarfs/attacks etc. that big picture depends on a lot of little tasks, like what do you need for a proper dwarven milita and defenses, little projects to optimize your base, built traps and shit to lure in goblins, keeping crafters happy before they off the rails go columbine on your fortress, etc., all while reading how a pregnant dwarf bites off a goblins head or something.

baby steps, and the you notice it's already dawn.

 

[Coelacanth]

the point is trying to get as far as possible before you inevitably get fucked one way or another, the fun is in the journey and how it happens.

it's pretty freeform, maybe you need a bit more structure before it works for you, but basically it's trying to survive -> new dwarfs -> trying not to lose too many/train them properly -> new dwarfs/attacks etc. that big picture depends on a lot of little tasks, like what do you need for a proper dwarven milita and defenses, little projects to optimize your base, built traps and shit to lure in goblins, keeping crafters happy before they off the rails go columbine on your fortress, etc., all while reading how a pregnant dwarf bites off a goblins head or something.

baby steps, and the you notice it's already dawn.

I did look around at other peoples' DF playthroughs and I realised part of my problem is I'm not quick enough. Most experienced players have a functioning (usually temporary) fort with defenses and a military a year and a half into the game.

The other thing I realised is that I'm not playing the way I usually do with other games - thinking outside the box. What's the most balls-to-the-walls bonkers, absolutely retarded thing I could do in this game?

The answer came from an unlikely source.

Spoiler: Potential Spoilers for DF Newbies

I was messing around with another fort I haven't touched in a while and decided to dig for adamantine, knowing full well what delving too deep and greedily would do. But what caught my attention instead was the vast magma sea around the veins of the blue good shit. I know others have made magma forts before, but that's kinda boring on its own.

I happened to be listening to Oney's playthrough of SM64 in the background and noticed they were in Lethal Lava Land. And that's when it hit me - the most bonkers idea I could do in the game. Why not make a fort that's the exact shape of Lethal Lava Land, complete with erupting volcano and moving red coin puzzle?

I'm doing research into it, but I think my next playthrough is going to be very, very interesting.

Either that or an announcement that a weregiraffe is on the map pops up before I've even got the embark wagon empty. Either way it'll be fun.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Sandy Petersen talks Quake and John Carmack. He's got a similar video about the development of Doom called "Why is Doom like that?"
They're pretty fascinating in a dorky way.

 

[Pissmaster]

Far Cry 5 is pretty fun but I just did a whole part where you defend a guy's house and airplane hangar from a bunch of cultists in a big violent shootout, then watched a cutscene where a guy is talking to his uggo pregnant wife about getting the hell out of there and she pushes him to stay because that's his family home, and then they throw in a thing about how the guy said he wanted to pass his business down to his son and she corrects him with "you mean daughter you saw the ultrasound" and he decides to stay

she's pregnant and just lived through a gory firefight where a literally who deputy just saved them and she's the one insisting on standing her ground

also look at her haircut:


lol this is the exact kind of thing that's going to make this game feel 2018 as fuck in the future, that whole scene is as stereotypically late 2010s/early 2020s as this image is 1980s:

it's like, it's so cheesy I'm already having nostalgia for a time that hasn't actually passed yet

 

[Coelacanth]

So today, over a year and a half since I first got into Dwarf Fortress, I finally learned how to irrigate water into an artificial farm.

I swear every time I figure out how to do the more advanced things in this game my IQ goes up by about 10 points. It's crazy.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

How true is this?

 

[Marissa Moira]

So Persona 6's main color theme is white.

All the merch of the new MC is currently hidden, but FeMC from 3 is also being referenced so there's a rumor that the new MC could be a girl.

There's 7 new persona related projects in the works. I'm wondering if 3 Remastered is among them and if it will combine FES and Portable.