February Games Chat Thread: It's Not March Yet

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FirstAidKite: Nov 8, 2009

Hi feb games chat thread, not sticking around long because I'm tired and am gonna try to sleep because I'm not feeling well, but I haven't told anybody that I hope they're doing well in a while and I wanted everyone here to know that I'm still thinking of them and wishing them the best. Keep on keeping on. I believe in you.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 06:58

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# ? May 9, 2024 09:25

StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
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FirstAidKite posted:

Hi feb games chat thread, not sticking around long because I'm tired and am gonna try to sleep because I'm not feeling well, but I haven't told anybody that I hope they're doing well in a while and I wanted everyone here to know that I'm still thinking of them and wishing them the best. Keep on keeping on. I believe in you.

Take care of yourself, FAK. You are appreciated.

Also hey - I just beat Mushroom 11! ... I'm ready to play a fun game now, haha.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 07:17

Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

FirstAidKite posted:

Hi feb games chat thread, not sticking around long because I'm tired and am gonna try to sleep because I'm not feeling well, but I haven't told anybody that I hope they're doing well in a while and I wanted everyone here to know that I'm still thinking of them and wishing them the best. Keep on keeping on. I believe in you.

Kindness in a cruel world

TT_TT

Thanks fak

# ? Feb 22, 2017 09:19

Nasgate: Jun 7, 2011

FirstAidKite posted:

Hi feb games chat thread, not sticking around long because I'm tired and am gonna try to sleep because I'm not feeling well, but I haven't told anybody that I hope they're doing well in a while and I wanted everyone here to know that I'm still thinking of them and wishing them the best. Keep on keeping on. I believe in you.

Thanks buddy, hope you feel better and get some good rest.

StrixNebulosa posted:

You are appreciated.

I just wanna say, this is not said enough to anyone. I had a customer tell me that the other day during a hard day at work, and it made the whole day better.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 12:03

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Nasgate posted:

And yeah, the QTEs were the first AAA game that really used them and really overused them iirc from the reception when it was new.

Shenmue.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 12:22

Sakurazuka: Jan 24, 2004; NANI?

I'm with you but I don't think any Dreamcast game counted as AAA :smith:

# ? Feb 22, 2017 12:26

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

The Dreamcast will always be the AAA of my heart.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 12:27

Sakurazuka: Jan 24, 2004; NANI?

exquisite tea posted:

The Dreamcast will always be the AAA of my heart.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 12:28

oddium: Feb 21, 2006; end of the 4.5 tatami age

yeah... Awful, Awkward, A bad console

i don't really believe that don't @ me

# ? Feb 22, 2017 12:30

Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

Catching up on the thread but I wanna say I saw speed racer in the theater and it was an intense as hell experience, I was shocked it was so enjoyable. Everything having a candy coated look to it was great.

StrixNebulosa posted:

You guys have me curious now - where can I go on youtube to see the best fighting game players play?

Look up the top 8 evo matches for, say, marvel vs capcom 3, street fighter iv and v, and guilty gear xrd for the last couple years and you'll have plenty to watch. The mvc3 stuff is funny to see because you have lots of cookie cutter builds, then there's a period of waning interest where less textbook teams start showing up, then cookie cutter builds show up again as the popularity returned

PantsBandit posted:

Do long-rear end manga like that actually feel like they're building to some conclusion or is it just arc after arc so the artists have consistent work until the pen drops from their hand due to a sudden brain aneurysm?

Like, I have a friend that still reads One Piece and it seems strange to me to invest yourself in a story that has gone for literal decades and may go for more.

One piece is literally the most enjoyable story I've read, and while the ending may not live up to the buildup(or it could, who knows, Oda's a great storyteller!), the journey has been more than worth it. I can't recommend it enough. SuperEyepatchWolf did a really good video about the series and it's really well done, and he's going to do a more in depth Why You Should Read for it later this year. I love that he can't resist talking about Senor Pink during it, a character who is around for basically a single fight but has better character depth than a lot of main characters in other series.

He also makes note that a lot of series tend to have individual arcs which break up the series, but One Piece has always been about the one single adventure, with mini-adventures along the way, which gives it a hell of a lot stronger continuity than other series. And it's absolutely building towards the ending, though that is likely still 5-10 years away due to the final obstacles standing between them and the One Piece.

Here's SEW's great video on it and where to begin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZqnC-eVwrE&hd=1

Mr E posted:

Berserk has an endgame in mind but I don't expect it to ever end, kinda like HxH. One Piece may never end but it's still enjoyable so whatever.

Oda has said he has the ending written out and everything so that if anything happens to him, his work can be finished. He also apparently told a kid dying of cancer everything that happens in one piece from here to the end. Oda is a cool dude.

ONE YEAR LATER posted:

Thanks for the replies duders, gonna download the first few volumes on my kindle post haste.

There are a lot of shockingly good manga including in the vein of dragonball. I made a thread that lists a lot of them with summaries and opinions in bss as a sort of outreach program(the adtrw western comic thread didn't survive long sadly), though there's easily hundreds of others I have yet to read that are also great, and I plan on adding to the thread with a bunch of newer series I've picked up. Here's a link:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3568801

Nate RFB posted:

I am kind of inconsolable about this whole situation, if I am honest.

Me too. I was listening to the bombcast at work and read a post that he was leaving, and was just like "wow I can't even listen to this right now". He's been a staple of the site for nearly a decade and if we're honest, one of the best of the crew. His ability to make subtle but incredibly funny jokes is unparalleled by the others, and he was a drat good video producer too. This is a real dark time for gbwest and I am really hoping they can pick up two no-names who turn out to be amazing like austin walker

Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Feb 22, 2017

# ? Feb 22, 2017 14:15

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Against all my expectations, River City Ransom Underground's beta has been fixing almost every problem I had with it a few weeks ago, and it might actually be as awesome as the trailers make it look by the time it releases next week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us7MnovsPKs

# ? Feb 22, 2017 14:29

Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

I keep forgetting the point SEW makes that One Piece is the third best-selling comic in human history, third only to Batman and Superman, and recently ousting Spiderman. And those are franchises, not a single series.

If you want to see some people be utterly, utterly bewildered by One Piece, Giant Bomb's Quick Look of One Piece: Unlimited World RED is just adorable as hell, because it throws them straight into the deep end from word go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7i7Nfw-cIo&hd=1

I wish it was available on PC though

# ? Feb 22, 2017 14:57

Sakurazuka: Jan 24, 2004; NANI?

Red is real bad game and the best OP game, Pirate Warriors 3, is on PC.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 15:01

oddium: Feb 21, 2006; end of the 4.5 tatami age

Lurdiak posted:

Against all my expectations, River City Ransom Underground's beta has been fixing almost every problem I had with it a few weeks ago, and it might actually be as awesome as the trailers make it look by the time it releases next week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us7MnovsPKs

what a ride...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3edFLXSf1eo

# ? Feb 22, 2017 15:03

Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

Sakurazuka posted:

Red is real bad game and the best OP game, Pirate Warriors 3, is on PC.

Is it? It doesn't look top quality but it doesn't look awful either, what makes it terrible?

# ? Feb 22, 2017 15:05

Sakurazuka: Jan 24, 2004; NANI?

...I may have mixed it up with the bad brawler that came out last year.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 15:18

Help Im Alive: Nov 8, 2009

oddium posted:

what a ride...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3edFLXSf1eo

Why are the youtube comments on video game songs always like this

e: that's from the dkc2 ice song

# ? Feb 22, 2017 15:22

oddium: Feb 21, 2006; end of the 4.5 tatami age

i don't think there's a single majora's mask song that doesn't have something like that or made up lyrics, except maybe deku palace

# ? Feb 22, 2017 15:26

FirstAidKite: Nov 8, 2009

Sakurazuka posted:

Red is real bad game and the best OP game, Pirate Warriors 3, is on PC.

Pirate Warriors 3 is fun but I'm still surprised I can't play as Arlong or as the giraffe samurai. Wtf

# ? Feb 22, 2017 15:54

Guy Mann: Mar 28, 2016; by Lowtax

In Training posted:

What even is the worst aspects of RE4...QTEs?

Imagine if RE4 had QTEs that popped up in the middle of random gameplay segments with the same frequency and unpredictability as during cutscenes and that failing one meant replaying a 15+ minute stealth action sequence from the beginning and you have an idea of how infuriating Evil Within's booby trap system was.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 16:02

Harrow: Jun 30, 2012

FirstAidKite posted:

Hi feb games chat thread, not sticking around long because I'm tired and am gonna try to sleep because I'm not feeling well, but I haven't told anybody that I hope they're doing well in a while and I wanted everyone here to know that I'm still thinking of them and wishing them the best. Keep on keeping on. I believe in you.

You're a good dude, FirstAidKite. Rest up and feel better.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 16:03

Snak: Oct 10, 2005; I myself will carry you to the Gates of Valhalla...
You will ride eternal,
shiny and chrome.; Grimey Drawer

I'm not a very good button masher, I got run over by those boulders like 10 times each.

Edit: FirstAidKite is a ray of sunshine in a field of bitter, cynical, mean shadows.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 16:03

Help Im Alive: Nov 8, 2009

What was the 15 minute stealth section in the evil within? There was a checkpoint like every 2 minutes in that game (i know because I beat the difficulty where you die in one hit)

I think there was some word of a sequel maybe a year ago and I guess nothing came of it. I really liked that game

# ? Feb 22, 2017 16:05

Sakurazuka: Jan 24, 2004; NANI?

Snak posted:

I'm not a very good button masher, I got run over by those boulders like 10 times each.

Lol aww

# ? Feb 22, 2017 16:05

Leper Residue: Sep 28, 2003; To where no dog has gone before.

humble bundle is doing civilization games now. Civ 3 and Civ 4 + DLC for a loving dollar. Civ 5 + DLC for 8 bucks currently and then if you feel like throwing money away you can get beyond earth for 15.

Dollar tier is awesome, 8 dollar tier is pretty good too.

edit: The store also has really good deals on Abzu, Brothers: A tale of two sons, and Marlow Briggs.

Leper Residue fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Feb 22, 2017

# ? Feb 22, 2017 16:06

Mordja: Apr 26, 2014; Hell Gem

Snak posted:

Edit: FirstAidKite is a ray of sunshine in a field of bitter, cynical, mean shadows.

Yeah, I hate him too.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 16:12

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

oddium posted:

what a ride...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3edFLXSf1eo

It's crazy that a game went from nearly-unplayable 3 years into development to Real Darn Good in less than a month's time, but here we are.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 16:15

Alfalfa The Roach: Oct 13, 2012; You need to be a badass first.

Does anyone have Night in the Woods? I saw a friend streaming it and it looks real cute and neat, but I wanna know what other people think of it

# ? Feb 22, 2017 17:28

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Alfalfa The Roach posted:

Does anyone have Night in the Woods? I saw a friend streaming it and it looks real cute and neat, but I wanna know what other people think of it

Noted indie dev Francis Coulombe spent all of last night playing it instead of sleeping, so I assume that's a recommendation from him.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 17:37

Wowporn: May 31, 2012; HarumphHarumphHarumph

Alfalfa The Roach posted:

Does anyone have Night in the Woods? I saw a friend streaming it and it looks real cute and neat, but I wanna know what other people think of it

It's real good

# ? Feb 22, 2017 18:45

Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

there's this:

MinibarMatchman posted:

Polygon was streaming Night in the Woods and got stuck on a plaforming segment, then deleted the stream lol

hence, the game is bad, because bad gamers can't beat the simplest mechanics.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 18:51

DLC Inc: Jun 1, 2011

from what I've heard, Night in the Woods is around 8 or 9 hours and is a pretty chill slice of life adventure mid20s animals game. I'll probably pick up that and RCR Underground, and wait on Horizon 0 Dawn until after I finish RE7 / get like halfway done with Nioh.

I feel like I was overleveled for mission 2 in Nioh at level 22 or so (I did the side mission beforehand) but it didn't matter, I still got surprised by loving bats like it was Castlevania for the NES and dropped into a gorge at on point. I'm kind of rushing towards Omoyo level 10 so I can eventually get Sloth Magic.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 19:32

Shindragon: Jun 6, 2011; by Athanatos

Lurdiak posted:

Against all my expectations, River City Ransom Underground's beta has been fixing almost every problem I had with it a few weeks ago, and it might actually be as awesome as the trailers make it look by the time it releases next week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us7MnovsPKs

Oh sweet thats' good to hear. Can't wait for my backer's key. 27th can't come soon enough.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 19:48

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

beep. If I haven't really played much Civ, is 4 or 5 better? Trying to decide which tier of the bundle to get. Beep

# ? Feb 22, 2017 19:59

MMF Freeway: Sep 15, 2010; Later!

5 assuming that it comes with both expansions

# ? Feb 22, 2017 20:04

CharlieFoxtrot: Mar 27, 2007; organize digital employees

Civ V with all the expansions is, no hyperbole, one of the ten best games in the history of video games

# ? Feb 22, 2017 20:10

precision: May 7, 2006; by VideoGames

PantsBandit posted:

I thought Evil Within tanked because it was hot garbage

It kind of is, but it's the kind of hot garbage that is secretly also pretty good, like Deadly Premonition.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Civ V with all the expansions is, no hyperbole, one of the ten best games in the history of video games

# ? Feb 22, 2017 20:20

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

hey buds! I've been playing more games lately, I had slacked off a bit

im playing Hotdogs Horseshoes and Handgrenades on my vive, Elder Scrolls Online, and BF1

they are all very fun and i would recommend

# ? Feb 22, 2017 20:23

Phantasium: Dec 27, 2012

The Evil Within is what happens when you take RE4 and apply it to Bethesda's bug testing.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 20:23

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# ? May 9, 2024 09:25

CharlieFoxtrot: Mar 27, 2007; organize digital employees

Today's news makes me want to play some more Stellaris.

# ? Feb 22, 2017 20:24

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