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Blah, the drift on my left stick on my PowerA controller has gotten bad enough that it's starting to frustrate me, when my character started running down the screen by himself while I was playing Dark Alliance today. I've had it about three months which sucks even though I basically got it for free using a Christmas gift card, I didn't expect it to go bad this quickly. Now I have to figure out if I want to buy an actual Pro controller, or just use the joycons.
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May 22, 2021 09:20
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Just dump a gallon of WD-40 into it. Should solve it for a month or two. Then just repeat until you run out of WD-40.
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May 22, 2021 09:25
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100YrsofAttitude posted:I never played Halo, unsurprisingly, are they just the best FPS, or really that good of games? What makes them work so well? It's not a genre I'm all that into, though I've had fun with some iterations. Yeah, to go along with the other reply, in short they are just really, really solid FPS games, plus you've got multiplayer that really popularized console-based LAN parties back in the day. Why bring your entire desktop PC when your (equally-heavy) OG Xbox console would suffice? They took something like that and made it easy and rewarding. Aside from having an NES, I was a PC gamer for years and years growing up. I never hosted a PC LAN party. I've hosted 5 Halo LAN parties. Me: "Ok, you 4 get the big tv in the living room, you two get the smaller one that we've put into the hallway, and Jeff, you can use my tv in my room." Jeff: "Sweet!" Me: "Jeff, the tv is 13", which is smaller than 1/4" of the big tv. I'm sorry." Jeff: "Well, at least there won't be any screen-lookers."  Edit: Subnautica-related, this is the locker where I keep all of my rocks. 
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May 22, 2021 11:01
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Yeah obviously its strongly tinged by nostalgia but OG Halo was some of the best gaming times I've ever had. Playing it co-op legendary with my best friend at school was endless fun, and then going down the street to his friend's house with 4 TVs, Xboxes and 16 excitable teenagers haphazardly arranged around his living room was mindblowing for the time.
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May 22, 2021 12:02
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https://twitter.com/Crosish/status/1396045992034721794?s=20 Just utterly astounding. Months after Versus Evil finally patched Pillars of Eternity and ended up breaking the ranger class in the process (leading to them officially abandoning the port), they actually went back and put out another patch to fix rangers... but then somehow made it so all character models are colorless 
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May 22, 2021 12:41
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100YrsofAttitude posted:I never played Halo, unsurprisingly, are they just the best FPS, or really that good of games? What makes them work so well? It's not a genre I'm all that into, though I've had fun with some iterations. They're fine and then the series shits the bed when another company takes over
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May 22, 2021 13:04
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This is done insanely well. Holy poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDPRwLlpdTU
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May 22, 2021 13:55
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:This is done insanely well. Holy poo poo. The little touch of Links reflection was great
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May 22, 2021 14:13
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Playing MCC again on my PC, Halo 1 is actually the best story of the lot because it's the purest form of a very loud and bright neon tribute to films like Aliens and Starship Troopers. Crucially the original game finished development before 9/11 happened; every successive version gets more grandiose and self-serious, and by the time you get to Reach it's full-on war on terror in a dusty landscape against suicide bombers. I didn't even want to find out what happens in 5 after watching the trailer where a bunch of spartans slide weightlessly across the snow while loving Muse plays over the top.Butterfly Valley posted:Yeah obviously its strongly tinged by nostalgia but OG Halo was some of the best gaming times I've ever had. Playing it co-op legendary with my best friend at school was endless fun, and then going down the street to his friend's house with 4 TVs, Xboxes and 16 excitable teenagers haphazardly arranged around his living room was mindblowing for the time. LAN Halo was absolutely revolutionary, I used to work in a hotel in the middle of nowhere so they provided staff accommodation for late shifts/early starters, and the main common room had multiple linked Xboxes set up with a league table on a whiteboard for the different teams like top kitchen, clubhouse, golf shop, etc. People who'd never touched a game before were getting stuck right into it. One night one of the chefs lost it big time after a bad defeat and cracked someone on the other team over the head with one of the old massive controllers. Magical.
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May 22, 2021 15:52
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Halo has very convincing AI as well, so the same fights play out differently every time.
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May 22, 2021 16:05
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There are 999 things to collect in Mario Odyssey?? What the gently caress happened to 120
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May 22, 2021 16:06
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Alec Eiffel posted:There are 999 things to collect in Mario Odyssey?? What the gently caress happened to 120 120 is so 25 years ago.
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May 22, 2021 16:10
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Alec Eiffel posted:There are 999 things to collect in Mario Odyssey?? What the gently caress happened to 120 Kids are smarter now.
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May 22, 2021 16:14
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Unlike previous 3D Marios, Odyssey is a genuine collectathon with Moons just scattered around on top of ones connected to actual platforming challenges or story progression. There's small rewards for 100%ing it, but you get the major endgame rewards long before that.
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May 22, 2021 16:16
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You can hit credits after like 120 some moons though
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May 22, 2021 16:19
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Alec Eiffel posted:There are 999 things to collect in Mario Odyssey?? What the gently caress happened to 120 There are only 800-something, but in the post game you can spend coins to increment the counter up to 999 for a couple very minor cosmetic rewards if you really want to.
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May 22, 2021 16:43
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get 500, beat the final level, call it a day.
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May 22, 2021 16:46
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wuggles posted:get 500, beat the final level, call it a day. Yeah the only significant thing they lock off is this, so don't feel like you have to get them ALL
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May 22, 2021 16:49
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It’s fun to get them all anyway, nothing like the Korok seed stuff
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May 22, 2021 16:51
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Getting all the regular moons was fun, grinding coins to buy the other 100+ was not fun. I guess there were a few moons that weren’t much fun like jump rope and beach volleyball and the darker side of the moon but that’s only a few.
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May 22, 2021 17:03
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Just got Katamari on sale. Never played it, hope it's good!
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May 22, 2021 17:19
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Twelve by Pies posted:Blah, the drift on my left stick on my PowerA controller has gotten bad enough that it's starting to frustrate me, when my character started running down the screen by himself while I was playing Dark Alliance today. I've had it about three months which sucks even though I basically got it for free using a Christmas gift card, I didn't expect it to go bad this quickly. Now I have to figure out if I want to buy an actual Pro controller, or just use the joycons. I got an SN30 Pro+ and have never looked back.
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May 22, 2021 17:37
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Alan_Shore posted:Just got Katamari on sale. Never played it, hope it's good! C'MAAAWWWWWWWN EVERYBODY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwmDUVxBxA0
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May 22, 2021 17:42
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Alan_Shore posted:Just got Katamari on sale. Never played it, hope it's good! The soundtrack is among one of the best of all time if nothing else (the game is actually a blast too). I could use more Katamari on this system.
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May 22, 2021 17:43
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Butterfly Valley posted:Yeah obviously its strongly tinged by nostalgia but OG Halo was some of the best gaming times I've ever had. Playing it co-op legendary with my best friend at school was endless fun, and then going down the street to his friend's house with 4 TVs, Xboxes and 16 excitable teenagers haphazardly arranged around his living room was mindblowing for the time. I worked IT support in college and we definitely supported a LOT of Halo tournaments in big conference rooms where the final match was played on a 60' projection screen. I mean, at the time I was too cool for Halo because all of the guys who played it were bros who didn't like me anyway but looking back those bros looked like they had a lot of fun.
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May 22, 2021 17:50
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I remember using that Gamespy tunneling software to play Halo 1 online. OG Xbox 
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May 22, 2021 19:00
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100YrsofAttitude posted:The soundtrack is among one of the best of all time if nothing else (the game is actually a blast too). I'm seriously baffled at how they launched Katamari years ago and there's no hint of a rerelease for We Love Katamari.
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Though it's probably never going to get a Switch release, given that we don't even have We Love Katamari for it, I will always be happy that Katamari Forever combined my favorite music tracks from the first two Katamari games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0KzYztRZiw
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Social Animal posted:I remember using that Gamespy tunneling software to play Halo 1 online. OG Xbox Ahh yeah XBConnect was fun times. That's where I learned how to glitch out of blood gulch and wowed my friends at the next lan.
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May 22, 2021 21:02
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:This is done insanely well. Holy poo poo.  
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:This is done insanely well. Holy poo poo. Lmao this is extremely good.
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May 22, 2021 23:34
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Base building and planning in Subnautica is so loving addictive, holy poo poo.
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After playing Dark Alliance a bit more, it seems that items on the ground turn invisible whenever the game has to reload the area. This can be after a death, or if you go to another area and come back. This is exceptionally frustrating in the last level, the Onyx Tower, where there's no shops and so you're wholly dependent on the healing/rejuvenation potions and arrows in barrels and pots, if you're at full carrying capacity and break a barrel and leave it for later, you'd better remember where it's at because you won't be able to see them if you die or head to the next level and try to come back to grab them later. You can at least try to avoid breaking things until you absolutely need to, but it's still a problem.
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Is the Bioshock collection a good set of ports for someone who somehow never played any of them?
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May 23, 2021 00:12
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Huxley posted:Is the Bioshock collection a good set of ports for someone who somehow never played any of them? They're obviously way better on ps/pc/xbox, but if none of those are an option you should still play them on switch. There's a reason they have glowing reputations.
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May 23, 2021 00:18
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Huxley posted:Is the Bioshock collection a good set of ports for someone who somehow never played any of them? I played through 1 and 3 recently and technically they’re great ports. Narratively i preferred the first game, the third dragged a bit in the end but I still enjoyed both of them. Worth the money.
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May 23, 2021 00:30
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:This is done insanely well. Holy poo poo. This is worth watching. Did not expect that ending.
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May 23, 2021 00:36
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What’s the final verdict of Snowrunner on Switch? I had mudrunner on Steam and had good fun. Haven’t got the sequel yet and having in portable on Switch is tempting.
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May 23, 2021 01:15
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:This is done insanely well. Holy poo poo. I stumbled on this a few weeks ago and was gobsmacked at the production values. Pity that the coming B&B revival will probably be rubbish.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:This is done insanely well. Holy poo poo. I will always watch this in full whenever it is posted. Such a treat.
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