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I mean he has been consistently doing Friday streams (I didn't know if Esco was confused by seeing the Twitch channel go live, it does that every week) and also that patreon money is split among him and the other members of the crew
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Oh I’m not saying I think he shouldn’t make that much, but people do get upset about it for whatever reason. I mean I listen to a really stupid podcast that makes $127,000 between two people for 2 one hour podcasts a week and it makes me lol every time i see it go up.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I mean he has been consistently doing Friday streams (I didn't know if Esco was confused by seeing the Twitch channel go live, it does that every week) and also that patreon money is split among him and the other members of the crew I got overexcited by it being so early
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Tim Rogers' videos should be filmed while he's working as a diner bus boy
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veni veni veni posted:Does it have any comfort options? I think the way the player is leveled to the ground instead of the car is actually making me queasier and feels very goofy to me. like the car is just bouncing around around me. Oh this happened to me. I restarted the headset and reset the play area. Big tip for playing sitting is that the default sitting area is too small. Make a standing area that encompasses your entire living room including your couch, make sure the floor is the correct height, then just sit down on your couch in it. It works perfectly. Also helps to have that tracking assist setting on that puts the border on your tv. Don’t turn this on if you’re not playing in front of your tv or it goes wild. Hue bulbs really seem to gently caress with this thing. I can see them flicker at their Hz rate in the pass thru view of the headset. Playing with them on makes the play area bounce all over the place. Regular incandescent bulbs and natural sunlight are the best.
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fridge corn posted:I had removed Atomic Heart from my watch list after the reviews came out but if BP says it's worth considering its worth considering imo Escobarbarian posted:I like BP’s positivity for maligned games atm, definitely causing me to think twice about avoiding them. And I can play Atomic Heart for free with Xbox Game Pass, the best deal in gaming! Wait wrong thread I swear I'm not just trying to be contrarian!  And there's no reason why my opinion should matter more than anyone else's here, though it feels good that you hold me in esteem. I think my beef with media tastemaker game crit these days is that those with prominent platforms seem to want to have an opinion of games while actually playing them as little as possible. So I guess the main goal is to be the first to denounce or promote something within the big collective game of social media that we all play, and people are more interested in watching games be maligned over twitch than actually spending the time to interact with them? Because if that's the case then I don't know what it says about the medium. Maybe we're still in the Reality TV phase of video games. Anyways, more  incomingMr Hootington posted:$30 game? I think that would be a great deal, but the value is gonna be different for everyone. It's not a condensed experience like Titanfall 2 where you can blast through it in 6 hours, though I love that game and also value that kind of experience. It's got the pacing and level design of a Half-Life game where you'll get there when you get there, and the combat and platforming design of something like Doom Eternal where it rewards precise dashes and dodges. The skills and vibe definitely crib from Fallout and Bioshock, sure, but all in all mechanically it's kind of a tribute to all western FPS games broadly. This isn't without its drawbacks. AH throws so much at the player in the first few hours that it's easy to get kind of worn down learning new systems, the first 2 hours felt like a survival sim, and it's paced really gradually. There's great incentive to learning to slow down, save often, and just thoroughly explore the environments. This kind of goes hand in hand with how poor the localization is, which is a shame because a lot of people will dismiss it out of hand due to that, but playing in russian and reading the subs caused me to pace myself in the first few hours. There's just a lot going on (and a lot of the background chatter is dull). I'll admit there's still stuff that gets fundamentally lost in translation, like the humor is either extremely crass or very dry. The sexy fridge is one thing in its own bawdy tasteless way, but the more pervasive feeling of being caught in communist beuarocracy doesn't always come across perfectly, in some moments it falls flat and in others it hits. And for every player that's gonna be a different process of acceptance. You have these enormous and grand public infrastructure projects like maglev dining-car monorails with the symphony playing inside on a loudspeaker and robot-waiters to operate them, but you can't get the thing to move without having a long winded exchange with that very same uptight robo-waiter, and apparently the ride is only free (as you are reminded multiple times) if you are pregnant or have a disability. But all the ticket windows are closed, because everyone's actually dead and everything blew up. So you're wandering around looking for a non-expired ticket from various talking dead bodies and ...the humor of the situation is just so bizarre. In a Bioshock game you'd just throw the glowing lever and be off. Brings to mind regarding the disintegration of the communist bloc, how people could take social services for granted because the broad feeling within the culture predisposed them to be completely exhausted with waiting in line all the time. The difficulty in translating that vibe beyond just the garish iconography we've come to expect from media that depicts eastern european communism can't be overstated. There's just no way as an american in the present to fully inhabit the mindset of that kind of industrial society, no matter how many earnest posters we see on the digital walls. Sakurazuka posted:Atomic Heart is a game that includes pointless busy work than has the main character break the forth wall complaining about the pointless busy work it just had you do. How many marxists can dance on the head of a surplus value? BeanpolePeckerwood fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Feb 25, 2023 |
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Wo Long rules. The bug with the button prompt aside, it was all great stuff. The focus on parrying everything really does make it feal like Nioh + Sekiro. Shame it's releasing so close to RE4 though. No way I'm not getting that game first. Hope they still manage to sell well.
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One day after complaining about lack of weapon smithing options I found the godslayer greatsword in Elden Ring with juuuust enough stones to smith it up to +7 where my bloodhound sword was at, kind of the perfect confessor weapon imho Of course then I go to lava town where half the enemies are made of fire so I assume the fire damage part isn't doing poo poo but that's the biz baby
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Bugblatter posted:Wo Long rules. The bug with the button prompt aside, it was all great stuff. The focus on parrying everything really does make it feal like Nioh + Sekiro. I slammed the triggers and bumpers and it went off, which one was it supposed to be exactly?
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:I swear I'm not just trying to be contrarian! mm. also the robots got mad rear end
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I don't see what the big deal is with Suicide Squad. Barely anything of the single player campaign has been revealed. I seriously doubt Rocksteady spent all the years since Arkham Knight building what I saw last week. We saw Suicide Squad's take on TLOU Factions and everyone's freaking out like it's the whole game. I will probably play that dumb co-op mode if it's fun, but I'm getting the game because the single player campaign is likely to be fantastic given the pedigree.
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negativeneil posted:I don't see what the big deal is with Suicide Squad. Barely anything of the single player campaign has been revealed. I seriously doubt Rocksteady spent all the years since Arkham Knight building what I saw last week. We saw Suicide Squad's take on TLOU Factions and everyone's freaking out like it's the whole game. I will probably play that dumb co-op mode if it's fun, but I'm getting the game because the single player campaign is likely to be fantastic given the pedigree. 
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negativeneil posted:I don't see what the big deal is with Suicide Squad. Barely anything of the single player campaign has been revealed. I seriously doubt Rocksteady spent all the years since Arkham Knight building what I saw last week. We saw Suicide Squad's take on TLOU Factions and everyone's freaking out like it's the whole game. I will probably play that dumb co-op mode if it's fun, but I'm getting the game because the single player campaign is likely to be fantastic given the pedigree. Because what you are seeing is the single player campaign. It's a multiplayer focused loot grinder.
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I'll wait until I play the loot grind missions in single player mode with three companion bots before I make any judgements thank you very much!
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MechaSeinfeld posted:mm. also the robots got mad rear end horny fridge be thicc as a bric a brac
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Even if they've made really good games before, this one does look awful, like the game they have been set to make is an awful tedious and uninspired grindathon with the express purpose of checking every single box in the games-as-a-service style sheet. It would be very strange if they showed only the worse and least appealing aspect of their new game, and instead showcase only the underwelping co-op hijinks that can be carried by the actual good content of the game. I'm not too sure how much a good developer can redeem something that is rooted in a design so formulaic and tired that "gaas" has become an immediately recognisable criticism in gaming circles. It doesn't matter if they can and do make good games when the newest game they've been working on is trash by design, you know? You can't bank on them going above and beyond when the specification is "Give us the bare minimum, and leave us space where we can slot in new assets to periodically juice our playerbase for income". Like imagine if I had an artist who has designed some evocative and beautiful sculptures about nature and ecology and environmentalism, and then they are commissioned to make a giant cock and balls out of green gelatine and also asbestos for some reason, I'm not going to go "Oh yeah they'll make something good out of this". Actually I think them taking eight years to make that would worry me further, not reassure me.
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boz posted:I slammed the triggers and bumpers and it went off, which one was it supposed to be exactly? The first counter tutorial was stuck on my screen for the entire first mission, even though I had successfully countered pretty much everything. As a result, the tutorial to unleash your spirit beast couldn’t display and I had no idea what button combo to push (circle + triangle). negativeneil posted:I don't see what the big deal is with Suicide Squad. Barely anything of the single player campaign has been revealed. I seriously doubt Rocksteady spent all the years since Arkham Knight building what I saw last week. We saw Suicide Squad's take on TLOU Factions and everyone's freaking out like it's the whole game. I will probably play that dumb co-op mode if it's fun, but I'm getting the game because the single player campaign is likely to be fantastic given the pedigree. That is the single player campaign, as much as there is one. It’s a Destiny style GaaS game. The only fully solo way to play is to have bots instead of coop. They have been pretty explicit about this. There is no other campaign.
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"Each character has a power level in the game that we call 'gear score'. As you acquire new gear in the game your 'gear score' goes up and as that number goes up it means you can take on much harder missions" Ungh tell me more Rocksteady man I need to learn more about this amazing gear score progression system
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Game looks like a good 7.5/10 I dont understand what's so upsetting. There's LOOT? You have to GRIND? It's the entire concept of the genre. If people can watch new star trek shows certainly playing some power fantasy grind isn't the worst way to use your time. If there's some pay to win mechanic then yeah its poo poo, but otherwise it looked sorta fun to me 
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Nuts and Gum posted:Game looks like a good 7.5/10 I dont understand what's so upsetting. There's LOOT? You have to GRIND? It's the entire concept of the genre. If people can watch new star trek shows certainly playing some power fantasy grind isn't the worst way to use your time. If there's some pay to win mechanic then yeah its poo poo, but otherwise it looked sorta fun to me It’s because a lot of people don’t like the genre, especially if there were hoping for something in the vein of the Arkham series. Also… Star Trek? …what?
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Nuts and Gum posted:Game looks like a good 7.5/10 I dont understand what's so upsetting. There's LOOT? You have to GRIND? It's the entire concept of the genre. If people can watch new star trek shows certainly playing some power fantasy grind isn't the worst way to use your time. If there's some pay to win mechanic then yeah its poo poo, but otherwise it looked sorta fun to me But it's one of the most hyped AAA titles at the moment. It was the premier preview from the Sony State of Play, getting exponentially more coverage than anything else. They've been advertising hard for it, and it's just mediocre at best. A mish-mash of systems we've already seen. Add on the GAAS, always-online bullshit and I get it.
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Developers need to understand I don't want to play games with other people most of the time.
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Yeah a big part of the issue is fans of the Arkham series have been wanting a proper followup from the devs for 8 years and instead they’ve revealed that the sequel is something else entirely. It doesn’t help that it’s in the lineage of other Destiny wannabes like Anthem and Avengers which didn’t survive a year. The target demographic of GaaS is mostly already dedicated to other games.
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Jelly posted:This is kind of where I'm at as well, but I think the overzealous backlash is just from how it was revealed. Like if it was some low-key release like Hi-Fi Rush no one would be blasting it. I missed the state of play so didn’t realize how hard it was being pushed. Honestly it looks like a better anthem, which I know is making GBS threads on my own point lol but at least it has cool traversal options.
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The best gaas loot game ever is Ghost of Tsushima.
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Has anything been confirmed though? Everything we saw last week was to show off co-op mode. Is everyone just deducing from the confirmation that single player requires an internet connection? I just assumed they had a single player game in an open world that had some drop-in/drop-out co-op areas that are somewhat seamless like destiny.
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JBP posted:The best gaas loot game ever is Ghost of Tsushima. Does it have microtransactions? I got the shadow of the colossus and Bloodborne outfits then didn’t play it again
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imhotep posted:Does it have microtransactions? I got the shadow of the colossus and Bloodborne outfits then didn’t play it again Lol no it doesn't. It has a FreeLC loot based co-op made that absolutely rules.
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negativeneil posted:Has anything been confirmed though? Everything we saw last week was to show off co-op mode. Is everyone just deducing from the confirmation that single player requires an internet connection? I just assumed they had a single player game in an open world that had some drop-in/drop-out co-op areas that are somewhat seamless like destiny. Yes, it has been very explicitly confirmed. That’s not the co-op “mode,” that’s the whole game. If you want to play without people you use bots. There isn’t another campaign. It’s not a deduction, this is from the interviews.
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negativeneil posted:Has anything been confirmed though? Everything we saw last week was to show off co-op mode. Is everyone just deducing from the confirmation that single player requires an internet connection? I just assumed they had a single player game in an open world that had some drop-in/drop-out co-op areas that are somewhat seamless like destiny. Have you ever played either Destiny or either Division game? It's 1000000000000000% going to be that sort of game. There's no 'single player campaign.' There's no explicit co-op mode. There's a set of missions that you do in order to level up and complete the story to a point, but the meat and potatoes is the 'end game' and the grind that goes with it. Yes you can do those missions single player if you want to but they are 100000000000% designed around the idea of a full squad. There will also absolutely be content that can ONLY be tackled with a full group. This isn't like...Call of Duty for example. You can buy most Call of Duty games, blow through the SP campaign in a few hours and never touch any multiplayer modes at all. Gaas games have all this poo poo baked in. There will be a hub. There will be a button to matchmake.
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Some people do enjoy going through the basic campaign of stuff like Division and Avengers where they just say 'okay I'm satisfied' and stop playing. I think you're right though there's absolutely gonna be some kind of end game grind and that's how they keep you playing.
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Ineffiable posted:Some people do enjoy going through the basic campaign of stuff like Division and Avengers where they just say 'okay I'm satisfied' and stop playing. True but for those games you really don’t get to touch the really fun weapons and gear unless you want to do the endgame stuff and grind. It’s how they get you.
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Jose Oquendo posted:True but for those games you really don’t get to touch the really fun weapons and gear unless you want to do the endgame stuff and grind. It’s how they get you. Oh boy I love waiting until the endgame to have access to the fun stuff
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