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Feldegast42 posted:I need to revisit FFX-2. it's a genuinely pretty good game that suffers in some places from being a followup to FFX with how diametrically opposite it is both tonally and gameplay-wise i do think a lot of the thematic elements fit well with it being a post-sin spira, and i'm not sure a different setting would've been able to hit the same notes, but it creates some strange whiplash if you go from "reasonably serious story of loss and sacrifice" to "lighthearted j-pop globetrotting adventure" immediately. i think playing FFX and then playing FFX-2 with a couple months removed is the best way to do it
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Mix. posted:just bought a tv stand with led lights on the glass shelves i bought a new keyboard and it's got literal rainbow LED gamer lights underneath the keys, and i cannot be bothered to hit up the BIOS to disable them
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Jan 2, 2023 01:17
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Last Celebration posted:Sekiro has one weapon and Elden Ring makes you use an Ash of War just for a parry that doesn’t blow chunks? elden ring doesn't make you farm blood vials, so we'll call it even
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Jan 2, 2023 06:56
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Monkey Fracas posted:I guess I can understand that they set this in motion before the total collapse of Apes but who's left that's gonna buy into this horseshit at this point i think this is less "SE is going to be run into the ground by insane tyrant matsuda" and more that pivoting away immediately from a clearly unprofitable direction is a great way to spook investors, who have typically invested in you because they thought that direction was going to profitable and may still be holding out hope i'm sure it'll be quietly dropped over the next 2 years and never mentioned again
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Jan 2, 2023 20:17
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poking through the recent TAS videos uploads has revealed this absolute gem of a genesis game ending, and i'm wondering how many poor kids got traumatized for life playing this poo poo
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Jan 3, 2023 02:15
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Mode 7 posted:I've spent many years joking about how I have gaming ADHD as I often just bounce rapidly between games without finishing any of them. congratulations, and i hope the treatment goes smoothly speaking as a fellow ADHDer: pay attention to the type of stimulant medication they'll likely prescribe. there's two main branches - amphetamine-based (adderall, vyvanse) and methylphenidate-based (ritalin, foquest) - that get prescribed the most frequently, with differences in both how they affect brain chemistry and how they're metabolized by the body. if you get prescribed one branch and it ain't working after the dose gets ratcheted up a few times, request to try the other and see if that one works better
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Jan 3, 2023 02:35
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Infinitum posted:So did Cyberpunk end up being good in the end after all the patches? general consensus i've seen is that it's a perfectly enjoyable high fidelity GTA-alike and seems to be almost permanently on sale
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Jan 4, 2023 02:16
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signalis is a pretty good time if you like oldschool survival horror, although i will recommend that you play on normal difficulty and not survival, as the game is terribly stingy with ammo and doesn't seem to have any kind of RE-style dynamic item spawning for if you run out
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Jan 4, 2023 18:50
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Bananasaurus Rex posted:RE4 really was so good. Its so over the top stupid sometimes. But never overly so. It hit that sweet spot of being enoyably corny. Plus its fun to play. RE5 and RE6 are direct responses to the market veering sharply into copying RE4's homework and the necessity to keep escalating the spectacle in order to keep pace with those changing trends i'd argue we would not have gotten a game as phenomenally good as RE7 if RE5/6 hadn't pushed RE into as much of a franchise death spiral as they did. RE7 is only possible if you realize as a company that you're dangling by your fingernails, and so they gave nakanishi and his team total creative freedom and an incredible inhouse engine, and the result is arguably one of the best survival horror titles ever
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Jan 5, 2023 17:47
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Mr. Trampoline posted:humans are bad at understanding probability so when you miss with a true 90% hit people think the game is bullshit and bugged, when really missing 1/10 times isn't that unlikely games like that also often have some form of luck fudging baked into the calculations to reduce positive/negative streaks, and it's far easier to just pop up an approximate #% rather than trying to lay out the complicated math on-screen
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Jan 5, 2023 22:23
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:can the game be played entirely offline yet? they are slowly adding NPC party members to every story-required dungeon - i think their goal is to have all of heavensward done by the next expansion, and then stormblood during that expansion's cycle - although you still have to do the 3-5 8 person trials every expansion has with real humans for the moment due to their complexity i think the intent is to eventually have the entire game be playable offline for when the servers inevitably switch off, but that's a very long term project, and i wouldn't expect a fully solo playable game until like, 5-6 years minimum
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Jan 7, 2023 23:38
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fridge corn posted:One day bp, one day. Until then, Y'shtola will be waiting for you.. come play solo now discreetly, m'lord
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Jan 7, 2023 23:47
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Jay Rust posted:The AI dps is terrible at playing ffxiv the developers trained them wrong as a joke so that you'd be encouraged to complete stuff with real people, although the difference in overall speed is pretty small if you're not running with some hyper-optimized group anyways
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Jan 7, 2023 23:53
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Jay Rust posted:In my experience npc teams took like 50% longer i timed them before while leveling sage and it was something like 21-22 minutes with a human team and 25-26 minutes with an NPC team, although this varies depending on your own personal DPS and what role you're playing
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Jan 7, 2023 23:55
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victrix posted:easily my game of the year, but it was a pretty darn good year i'm loving pumped for wo long now that i have a computer that can actually play it acceptably
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Jan 8, 2023 00:24
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a reminder that AGDQ 2023 starts today, though it is regrettably once more online only. sucks, but the terrible economic situation would probably make an in-person thing impractical even if there weren't an ongoing global pandemic as it is
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bone emulator posted:I think I heard something on a podcast or something about the weird social manipulation and psychology behind those weird mobile ads. the "what the gently caress" factor's been around for a while and has become a dominant force in advertising, it's hard to turn a corner on TV without running into some wacky old spice-esque skit intended solely to grab your attention
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Jan 9, 2023 01:58
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Walla posted:I'm thinking about getting into Hearthstone. Why is that a bad idea? you will have to spend hundreds of dollars to have fun if you want a teeth-grit multiplayer competitive experience just play league like every normal human (i.e. me), or if you want a card game play legends of runeterra which has a sensible MTX model that isn't trying to gut you like a fish
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Jan 9, 2023 03:39
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Jay Rust posted:Hearthstone has loads of free single player content let me tell you about a lil game called "slay the spire"
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:i was considering getting into the riot card game just because it was on the frontpage of gamepass lol it's nothing earthshattering but it's a good time if you like CCGs, and, as previously mentioned, is designed in a way to not force you to fork over paychecks hand over fist just to be able to play it
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Jan 9, 2023 04:42
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:The holidays are over and I have to make some tough decisions with my gaming time... ER is a good "friday night with pizza" kinda game where you can sit down on the couch and get engrossed, so i'd do something like that
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Jan 9, 2023 05:58
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I started playing Legends of Runeterra because it was on the frontpage of Gamepass welcome to the magical world of runeterra, summoner...
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Jan 10, 2023 02:59
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Dewgy posted:Finished my first game this year, I’m In Love With Your Dead Grandmother. It’s basically a semi-interactive DVD and it’s kind of terrible and I spent about 30 minutes straight laughing. Well worth the five bucks. i wonder when we'll hit the nostalgia point for DVDs like we did with VHS just get a whole bunch of low rent youtube horror where people discover secret options in an interactive DVD menu and enter a spiral of disc skipping terror
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Jan 10, 2023 08:03
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The 7th Guest posted:what if rainbow capitalism wrote a tv show this feels less like rainbow capitalism and more like a writing room of 40 year olds being handed a list with a title like "relevant topics for today's teens"
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Jan 11, 2023 05:13
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the best RPG shopkeep is definitely maughlin the armorer from DS2 where he starts off as this timid milksop bellyaching about his failure as a merchant and, if you buy enough of his items, eventually is just loving leanin in his shop giving you poo poo every time you come to buy from him
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Jay Rust posted:Wtf is skull & bones open world ubisoft pirate game that's at this point notorious for having been delayed a truly comical number of times (it started production in 2013!)
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simon "i really need to get the driveway repaved" pegg
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TheWorldsaStage posted:https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1613162836921819138?t=FLMiU0DBkxox4kkLXhrUvg&s=19 it's a clickbait headline, FF16 has the usual six month exclusivity period and then it'll make its way to PCs the "buy a playstation 5" bit is very much said in a tongue-in-cheek way in the quote, like it's the company line and he can't really do anything to change it
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:FF7R took 20 months to appear on PC, and when it did it the port was rough as hell. It also never made its way to another console. All bets are off. my calculation is that a mainline title's gonna make the leap a lot faster, especially since it's being directed by one of the few actual PC gamers in japan
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Jay Rust posted:Idk if a game-director-who-works-at-a-monstercorp’s personal preferences will enter the equation in this case considering he's also on the board of directors, it very well may
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Based on what? aside from the aforementioned, AFAIK it's being developed on the same crystal tools branch that FFXIV was, which means its nuts and bolts have already had plenty of time to be rigorously tested on PC and should thus cut down a lot on porting efforts maybe it won't be exactly six months and one day but i'm counting on it being a lot more prompt than, say, FFXV was
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:You're saying you employed the ancient divination method of ceromancy, dripping molten wax into a jar of water and reading the signs. please, it's anthropomancy or bust
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Mode 7 posted:Ubisoft have a gameplay thing up for Skull & Bones. pretend i still had that french battleborne UI screenshot on my PC and i just posted it here
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the horizon people were probably seething more by proxy over their publisher leaving them hanging out to dry with that awful release dare
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FirstAidKite posted:I'm having a problem getting a steam game to work so I'm hoping that by complaining in here then maybe it'll start working. greetings, cat and/or baby
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victrix posted:only tangentially related to vidya, but I'm enjoying watching wizards of the coast speedrun burning D&D to the ground it's hilarious that they took the once-in-a-lifetime renaissance that critical role and stranger things provided and decided that the best way to spin it would be to spend every shred of community goodwill on trying to get their mitts on whatever measly profits pathfinder is making good loving riddance for them mishandling 4E so poorly
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Runa posted:They tried to pull some poo poo with their Open Gaming License to retroactively take ownership of all third-party and homemade material derived from their IP. to explain in more detail: the OGL has been around since 3E and it basically gave you carte blanche to include the core 3E reference material in your own original works royalty free, although you weren't allowed to use other branding elements like settings or artwork they're trying to do the same thing blizzard did with WC3 reforged where they realize they missed the boat on capturing a hot new product (pathfinder) and are now clumsily adding in a "uhhh yeah actually we own everything and it's all ours now but you can still make us free money if you want" clause to the OGL, which has royally pissed off everyone and will probably lead to paizo (pathfinder's publisher) releasing their own OGL-esque ruleset and probably taking WotC to court
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Feldegast42 posted:Games Workshop has been making some real bad moves with community content too but are somehow better than Wizard's bullshit they also finally successfully expanded into the video game sphere in a big way, whereas WotC has almost completely regressed, with nothing really on the horizon aside from baldur's gate 3, and hearthstone/LoR handily eating arena's lunch it's just poo poo brand management that's now being made even worse because they believed they had more pull than they did, and now will have to furiously backpedal in a way where no one's gonna trust them again and more and more people will gradually shift to paizo's side of the table
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HopperUK posted:LegalEagle is a fairly fun youtube lawyer guy who has just put out a video about the D&D thing. it's a good watch; the tl;dr of the vid is that he doesn't think WotC actually has a leg to stand on, since you cannot copyright actual gameplay rules (a "procedure") in a way that would make monetizing the license meaningful. paizo's legal threat will probably be enough to force them to back down if that's the case
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all you need to know about how magic the gathering is doing is that they released a special limited edition holofoil reskin of a creature as negan from the walking dead
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