Kai Tave posted:

Yeah, I'm gonna be charitable and say they sometimes make cool games but uh FF13 wasn't great shakes, they had to remake their MMO because it was kinda bad, and as a publisher they seem to make a lot of shall we say questionable decisions like what happened with Mankind Divided. Maybe Hitman depending on how strongly you feel about always-online. Nier Automata might be the best thing with the Square name on it to come out recently but it's also worth pointing out that Square didn't make that one, they just published it, Yoko Taro and Platinum were the ones responsible for making it.

raditts posted:

Capcom and Konami are the two developers whose 90s golden age I miss the most. They used to make such good games, and so many of them...

raditts posted:

Capcom and Konami are the two developers whose 90s golden age I miss the most. They used to make such good games, and so many of them...

raditts posted:

Capcom and Konami are the two developers whose 90s golden age I miss the most. They used to make such good games, and so many of them...

oddium posted:

is the configuration to always have run on

oddium posted:

i would suggest always having run on

StrixNebulosa posted:

Is this an actually good thing to do? As in, good at helping me survive so I can get further into the game?

ImpAtom posted:

It depends on what makes you comfortable but a lot of people have said it improves their gameplay once they get used to it.

StrixNebulosa posted:

Is this an actually good thing to do? As in, good at helping me survive so I can get further into the game?

oddium posted:

well i do it and i've gotten speedlunky/low scorer. here's the most important thing you can do in spelunky i think:



Kill All Shopkeepers because the shotgun alone is insanely useful on top of the amount of free items you get. it'll take a lot lot lot of practice to get good enough to take them on though. here's how i usually get the first one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_oCvmP4tuo&t=115s

oddium posted:

well i do it and i've gotten speedlunky/low scorer. here's the most important thing you can do in spelunky i think:



Kill All Shopkeepers because the shotgun alone is insanely useful on top of the amount of free items you get. it'll take a lot lot lot of practice to get good enough to take them on though. here's how i usually get the first one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_oCvmP4tuo&t=115s

Lurdiak posted:

ImpAtom posted:

This is an actual for-real tactic.

Get used to killing shopkeepers and when it is a good idea to do so. The risk represented by an angry shopkeeper is often far outstripped by the reward of free items and to get to the last true area and the 'real' final boss you basically must kill Shopkeepers or get lucky.

StrixNebulosa posted:

I killed a giant spider with my new turbo running powers and it was great!

...Then I tried to kill a shopkeeper and put the bomb too close to him and he ramboed me.

Sakurazuka posted:

Mario Sunshine is my favourite 3D Mario

Kai Tave posted:

Yeah, I'm gonna be charitable and say they sometimes make cool games but uh FF13 wasn't great shakes, they had to remake their MMO because it was kinda bad

The Moon Monster posted:

This is seriously underselling. It was easily the worst major MMO release I've ever played and I've played a lot of poo poo MMOs. It was well under the bar set by Age of Conan and Hellgate: London.

oddium posted:

i miss good hair brad

Captain Invictus posted:

Anyone else here headed to PAX East this weekend? I'll be around, lugging a huge heavy yellow bag and this thing which is a real handy conversation starter and beacon to find me in a crowd:



here is an extremely tired Brad Shoemaker holding it, for scale


Only a few hundred were made so it's pretty unique, I got it completely by accident when I was buying some other stuff and noticed they had a single one left because someone's order got cancelled. I sold the item code it came with for twice what the sword cost, so hey, free giant fiberglass sword. I've been bringing it to PAX East the last two years, going from talking to a couple dozen people a day to easily 300 people a day was a real shock, but I've brought it every day since. Learned the hard way not to rest it on my shoulders too much though without some kind of padding, my shoulders were insanely bruised by the end of the three days the first year around.

If you see me around, say hello! I generally wander around from room to room checking out what folks are playing, jumping in on smash bros, or whatever in between panels.

MinibarMatchman posted:

I never cared so much about a single Zelder until this one, it really feels like a huge adventure as opposed to a bunch of fetch quests to get 3 stones and then 7 crystals plus acquire a sword and do these donjons in order.

Guy Mann posted:

Has anybody read Souls of Darkness? The idea of a fake Worlds of Power book about a modern game that's also a parody of the source material sounds like the kind of thing that could work very well or not at all and its cameo minigame in Frog Fractions 2 made me remember that I never actually got around to reading it and apparently it was successful enough for them to launch a Kickstarter for a sequel based on Fallout.

Guy Mann posted:

The last time a small-numbers RPG with flat stylized graphics based on a cartoon with an insufferable fanbase that I stopped watching years ago came to consoles it gave us noted surprise goodgame South Park: The Stick of Truth.

So needless to say, I'm cautiously optimistic that lighting will strike twice with Steven Universe: Save the Light.

Quest For Glory II posted:

John Carmack, the chief technology officer of Facebook-owned Oculus, sued ZeniMax Media on Tuesday, saying it still owes him money from buying the video game studio that he founded. Maryland-based ZeniMax bought id Software, a Richardson-based video game studio, in 2009. Carmack left the company in 2013 to become Oculus' CTO.