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DC Murderverse posted:Can you give me a lowdown on this shady poo poo because I’ve heard this multiple places and all I seem to see is “they’re Russian” and something about data stealing, which could be real but also could be a TikTok-esque overreaction to a thing being made in a place we’re supposed to be at odds with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs7QEo3LmVE This is a good and comprehensive rundown of the whole development of the game. 20 minutes. Gives you background on key figures within the company, their stances on the invasion, where it is getting its funding and generally a lot of the dog-whistles being baked in to the previews of the game in Russia itself. Can come to your own conclusions. Like I said, had I not seen this video or read stuff on twitter about the development of the game or your information being given to the Russian government, the gameplay in the preview video looked extremely bad.
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I do not expect 'soviet bioshock' to be an ideologically coherent premise in any way whatsoever considering Bioshock could barely keep the wheels on...but Atomic Heart's art direction looks fuckin incredible. At the very least I want to play it to see and shoot cool dancing robos with an AK, if there's anything more interesting in there that would be cool, too, but with such a troubled production I'm not exactly expecting Disco Elysium here.
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Feb 12, 2023 21:36
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I use a soundbar and some wireless speakers... I've gone crazy trying to figure out if there's an audio delay or not lol.
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Feb 12, 2023 21:38
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Most rhythm games I've played have some sort of calibration mode in them but they can be difficult to judge
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Feb 12, 2023 21:40
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:I use a soundbar and some wireless speakers... I've gone crazy trying to figure out if there's an audio delay or not lol. My wireless sub gave out and it was the final insult. Soundbars are just e-waste
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Feb 12, 2023 21:41
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Feels Villeneuve posted:i don't want to bother with a whole hifi setup in an apartment because those are such a pain to move so i have powered bookshelf speakers. they are epic Even the shittiest bargain basement powered speakers will beat the piss out of tv speakers It’s at the point where it’s almost as upsetting to deal with as being somewhere that they haven’t turned off the goddamn motion smoothing
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Feb 12, 2023 21:42
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Feels Villeneuve posted:i don't want to bother with a whole hifi setup in an apartment because those are such a pain to move so i have powered bookshelf speakers. they are epic Yeah I’m tempted to go that direction. Powered bookshelf speakers are awesome. It’s just tough for me since attaching them to a tv isn’t realistic and I use my tv on a mounted arm at different angles throughout the day.
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Feb 12, 2023 21:45
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I ditched my old soundbar when I got my current TV because the TV speakers sounded better. I consume most stuff through headphones anyway and I don't give a poo poo if Guy's Grocery Games isn't in audiophile quality or whatever
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Feb 12, 2023 21:47
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History Comes Inside! posted:Even the shittiest bargain basement powered speakers will beat the piss out of tv speakers im actually tempted to try the motion smoothing mode that's intended specifically for 30 fps-locked games that this TV has, benefit of it running at 120hz
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Feb 12, 2023 21:48
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Where I live I have neighbors and thin walls so it's headphones for me 
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Jimbot posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs7QEo3LmVE This video was really well done, thanks for sharing it. I think it’s kind of funny that the company has done backflips to make it seem like they’re a “global company” and desperately avoiding looking Russian (even before the war started but especially since then) when I just assumed from the drop that it was a Russian game. Also love the “we make games we don’t do politics” thing, some of the trailer moments reminded me of the first hours of Bioshock Infinite (the only good part of that game) and this reminds me of some of the less good things surrounding that game. I’m curious to see if the whole game will end up as USSR-revisionist as it looks like it might be. I know that Putin and his regime have been using some of that to appeal to people in a nationalist sense, this could definitely fit in with that depending on how the story goes. Somehow I doubt it’s going to end up being some big anti-authoritarian statement.
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Feb 12, 2023 22:03
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Feels Villeneuve posted:im actually tempted to try the motion smoothing mode that's intended specifically for 30 fps-locked games that this TV has, benefit of it running at 120hz  Motion-smoothed Bloodborne....
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Feb 12, 2023 22:05
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Hector Delgado posted:Where I live I have neighbors and thin walls so it's headphones for me Been there, most of the PS4 gen. It's a life. And hey, piss5 3D audio is pretty loving incredible if you have a pair of headphones you like.
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Feb 12, 2023 22:09
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Been there, most of the PS4 gen. It's a life. And hey, piss5 3D audio is pretty loving incredible if you have a pair of headphones you like. I do, thankfully. Got the InZone H7 on sale for like $149 a month ago and they're amazing. 3D audio in Dead Space is very cool.
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Also Grimbeard looks at the latest System Shock demo (pc) that recently released and drat it looks good. Especially like how the colors are looking, the blue hallways just look so drat appealing. Glad this is coming to consoles. Some early game spoilers but most likely things that you probably knew already. https://youtu.be/qGYB9OnqYiY
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DC Murderverse posted:I’m curious to see if the whole game will end up as USSR-revisionist as it looks like it might be. I know that Putin and his regime have been using some of that to appeal to people in a nationalist sense, this could definitely fit in with that depending on how the story goes. Hard to say, it's schizo to me. There's a reason why Putin has an easy time using historical references to the USSR even though there's a world of difference between them, because people remember that material conditions in life were better under the Soviet Union than what they ended up with after the wholesale privatization of everything in grabbing range after the capitalist overthrow. If anything, the art style's mixed palette of Soviet iconography with fun-house utopia killing machines resembles more the market liberalization period when the former Soviet countries were flooded with a cornucopia of flashy consumer goods while basic living necessities were essentially foreclosed upon. Impossible to tell if the game itself will have anything on its mind historically besides the flashy extremity of Communist Robos, but I guess we'll find out soon. Gameplaywise it looks like most eurojank does, but I enjoy Stalker and Metro well enough.
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Finally got a chance to try the Theatrhythm demo and this is soooooooooo my thing. Square Enix can sell me nostalgia products like this for the rest of my life. What an amazing job SE has done breathing life into old characters/games. Thanks to FFRK and DFFOO I was excited to see characters like Minwu and Leon from FF2 in the demo. Popped huge for Ultimecia! 
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Hector Delgado posted:Where I live I have neighbors and thin walls so it's headphones for me Same except I bought big chonky loudspeakers to drown them out instead
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Feb 12, 2023 22:33
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quiet hours after 10pm means i can be as loud as i want before then
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Only major problem I have with Theatrhythm at the moment, is that it appears as if Jack Garland isn't in it.
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Unfortunately, Chaos is in it, and he has a restraining order against Jack Makes the ending reeeeeeal weird, I'll tell you what
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Guillermus posted:A man who never eats pork buns is NEVER a whole man! 
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Feels Villeneuve posted:ive become a person who is extremely judgmental when I see someone using a very nice TV and the lovely rear end TV speakers This was me for a long time but now I use some form of headphones for almost everything on my TV
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Jimbot posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs7QEo3LmVE This dev definitely has some history of shadiness, but most of the video is just complaining about a for profit game company trying to make money on an investment. It’s of course problematic as some big funding has apparently come from Russian nationalists, but the game company was started by Russians in like 2016. Yes things have changed since then but I don’t think they can be condemned for being Russian. As far as we know they had no choice but to continue with the games development less they end up in the gulag to their creditors. In any case I’m not buying it cause I’m p. Sure this one is on gamepass 
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the controversy around atomic heart has the same deranged haughtiness as the people saying cyberpunk 2077 was tainted by the hands of the naturally bigoted polish. too many degrees of association
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Only major problem I have with Theatrhythm at the moment, is that it appears as if Jack Garland isn't in it. his theme is in it, but I guess Jack Garland character is unknown https://twitter.com/FinalFantasy/status/1620814614392102914
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Jimbot posted:I wouldn't pick up Atomic Heart. There's a ton of shady poo poo going on with the developer. I can just play it on Gamepass fortunately
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I wonder what the discourse would have been like if an Iraqi had made a video asking people to not buy the latest call of duty.
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How much stuff from 7 remake and 13 is in the theatrhythm demo?
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I will continue to observe my 20-year boycott of Call of Duty, because I don't care for those games, but also imagine it's because I am a very principled and ethical person.
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I bought the space COD for tenbux my 20 year boycott is fail 
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Mr Hootington posted:I wonder what the discourse would have been like if an Iraqi had made a video asking people to not buy the latest call of duty. I doubt it would have gotten nearly as much traction. Not saying trans people are some radically powerful bloc, but they're probably better represented in the field of people who write about games. Also, Call of Duty being racist, jingoistic propaganda is an incredibly cold take at this point, whereas a lot of people didn't want to accept that the wizard TERF game was tainted in that way. I'd probably prefer that lack of discourse at this point, honestly. Play the wizard game, fine, whatever, but don't ask people to validate that decision for you. I'm not going to tell you you're a good person for buying an indulgence by donating money to charity to offset a video game you're guilty about playing.
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imhotep posted:How much stuff from 7 remake and 13 is in the theatrhythm demo? Nothing from 7r, 5-ish songs from 13. O.G. 7 is the one that’s in the demo, and I think has five songs as well. Full game is about a dozen or so from each.
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imhotep posted:How much stuff from 7 remake and 13 is in the theatrhythm demo? There's nothing from the 7 remake in the demo, but XIII has 5 songs in it, and it's mostly the most prolific battle tracks
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:nobody is talking about the wizard game yeah, here, lucky us e: lol I forgot we were talking about Atomic Heart and not HL, my bad Arist fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Feb 12, 2023 |
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oh gently caress, I looked up the XIV tracks and they put the Brute Justice theme in there, hell yes
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Arist posted:oh gently caress, I looked up the XIV tracks and they put the Brute Justice theme in there, hell yes They could release a hundred tracks from XIV and not run out of awesome ones. Under the Weight Theatrhythm will rule.  Oh my god. Good King Moggle Mog is in! Oblivion (Shiva’s theme) too!
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Arist posted:yeah, here, lucky us couldn't be bothered to read 1000+ posts this morning but it does seem like the zogchortz thread is going well lol
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