February Chat: What's up with February? Why is it spelled like that? Weird!

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Who is your favourite former IK? This poll is closed.
metis	5	7.04%
Metis!	16	22.54%
Me, tis	18	25.35%
emits	14	19.72%
Hydrossity	18	25.35%
Total:	71 votes

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Arzaac: Jan 2, 2020

Captain Invictus posted:

it's been a stressful day and a lot has happened, I'm recovering from covid booster + flu shot, the forums are burning down, it's all terrible. so why not chill with some nice relaxing video game music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5baJg-Ldgl0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJRHcrANUeU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xplujKvLrMA

Always been a fan of this one, personally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzvXBFwcyek

# ¿ Feb 7, 2023 22:57

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# ¿ May 20, 2024 06:46

Arzaac: Jan 2, 2020

Dabir posted:

Tim Follin! I heard a story where Shigeru Miyamoto got actually mad at him about the Plok soundtrack because he thought the SNES couldn't sound that good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peuTnilEv9g

I'm sure most people know by now but I would also like to present one of his greatest pieces, the Solstice theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gObHt1uZA

# ¿ Feb 8, 2023 03:37

Arzaac: Jan 2, 2020

Relax Or DIE posted:

atb is fine in theory just every game that uses it moves far too slowly. this is due to the fact that the core jrpg audience is composed of weak gamers who would fold under any real time pressure.

turn based is good too but, like chess without a clock, on some level fundamentally cowardly. the player abdicates any real stress in pursuit of a meaningless perfection. even the illusion of pressure is too much to bear.

in conclusion, real time with pause wins again

So what I'm hearing is that Baten Kaitos is in fact the perfect rpg

# ¿ Feb 14, 2023 09:45

Arzaac: Jan 2, 2020

I'm wondering if the top row is all PS2 mascots: Ratchet, Sly, and Jak?

# ¿ Feb 14, 2023 18:44

Arzaac: Jan 2, 2020

Looper posted:

idk if you're interested in 100% but if you do play dk64, there's a bug on the water level (gloomy galleon) that makes it much harder to get a specific banana after getting a specific ability. it's the one that involves shooting a robot fish's heart if you wait until you have the sniper scope

At the same time though if you just turn off the sniper scope between shots you can still manage to do it

Absolutely a nasty glitch though

# ¿ Feb 16, 2023 17:48

Arzaac: Jan 2, 2020

StoryTime posted:

I randomly installed Void Bastards from my backlog, and this game kicks rear end.

It's a roguelite FPS game, where you raid abandoned space ships full of monsters and hazards for various junk, that you can then craft into weapons and other permanent upgrades. Each mission is about 5 minutes long, depending how it goes. Sometimes it's a clean sweep and loot operation, sometimes it's a massive clusterfuck of pratfalling on oil slicks while getting hammered by rocket turrets and ghosts.

There isn't that much to the game, most ships you enter are pretty similar, but the different modifiers and enemy combinations and everything else makes for a lot different gameplay situations. 10 hours in and I'm still getting surprised by strange emergent messes the game manages to land me in.

Very clean roguelite systems implementation as well, almost every feature in the game feels impactful.

Have these people made other games? How's the DLC? I wouldn't mind throwing some money at them if they're still active.

The DLC adds a couple of things; there's Tydy bots, that roam around the map like pirates. Ships being cleaned by them have 1 or 2 Tydy Bots roaming around, and if they spot you they don't deal any damage, but start draining Oxygen. It also adds a new weapon (a vacuum cleaner that drains health from organic enemies, and slag from mechanical ones), and TYDY ships, which either have a lost and found (you get the choice of 1 of 3 parts, can authorize for another selection) or furnaces (have a guaranteed heart starter, but you need to find the key + deal with the wall of fire inside).

It's only 5 bucks and it adds a bit of variety, so I rather like it.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2023 18:03

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# ¿ May 20, 2024 06:46

Arzaac: Jan 2, 2020

Foul Fowl posted:

i've never played any of them tbh but i've watched someone play them and they're some of the funniest games ever. yakuza gets 0 laughs from ten thousand lines of dialog, shenmue kills with a single terribly voiced NPC saying 'try asking the Chinese about Chinese' lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckD0MFHMNuQ

# ¿ Feb 28, 2023 18:30

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