What game are you playing?

[J-12]

B-But WOKE??!!!!

Nope, nothing like that. It's just a new campaign on level in quality, if not better, with oppossing force.

[Finarfin]

B-But WOKE??!!!!

Nope, nothing like that. It's just a new campaign on level in quality, if not better, with oppossing force.

I'm not the one saying that it is woke. Rusty is because I sent a picture of the game on the "Game Sale & Freebies" thread with the female scientist and that the main color of the facility is purple.

[J-12]

B-But WOKE??!!!!

Nope, nothing like that. It's just a new campaign on level in quality, if not better, with oppossing force.

I'm not the one saying that it is woke. Rusty is because I sent a picture of the game on the "Game Sale & Freebies" thread with the female scientist and that the main color of the facility is purple.

There are some wierd moments where focus shifts on that scientist girl, but that's about it. She has maybe 10-20 lines to say here and there troughout 8-hours long campaign and besides her name player doesn't get to know anything about her.
I suppose she might be there with intent to not invoke that feeling of being all alone like in Selaco where player doesn't encounter a single neutral/friendly humanoid for entire campaign.
As for purple, i think it's mentioned somewhere in the game that it was chosen due to it's rarity in nature so that if wearer goes missing/dies it'd be easier to find them.

[Stack of Turtles]

As for purple, i think it's mentioned somewhere in the game that it was chosen due to it's rarity in nature so that if wearer goes missing/dies it'd be easier to find them.

But purple isn't rare in nature at all, it's a perfectly common color of many flowers and fruits
In real life, we use fluorescent orange for that purpose.

[rusty_shackleford]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexual_lighting

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YouTuber Kyle Kallgren notes that the blue, purple, and magenta colours do not appear in nature, and had become cinematic shorthand for the unnatural

???
Where is this coming from? Do these people live in the arctic?

[J-12]

As for purple, i think it's mentioned somewhere in the game that it was chosen due to it's rarity in nature so that if wearer goes missing/dies it'd be easier to find them.

But purple isn't rare in nature at all, it's a perfectly common color of many flowers and fruits
In real life, we use fluorescent orange for that purpose.

Right, but that's what they say in the game.
Maybe they meant Xen's nature.

[Roderick]

Christmas-core

[Roguey]

Finished with Pizza Tower. Great soundtrack and animation, but I called it quits with the final boss rush that you have to do entirely in one go. Just watched the rest on youtube.

Edit: I was mad enough about this to change my mind and see it through to the ending. Though as krokodil would say and the game itself noted, I didn't actually beat the game.

[Finarfin]

Playing Granblue Fantasy Relink and also Slitterhead @GhostCow said it was pretty good and I saw that it had a demo and was convinced.

[wndrbr]

I called it quits with the final boss rush that you have to do entirely in one go. Just watched the rest on youtube.

Roguey we all know and love.

[DDC]

Playing Granblue Fantasy Relink and also Slitterhead @GhostCow said it was pretty good and I saw that it had a demo and was convinced.

Is it worth it? I've had my eye on it for a long time but read that the main story is ~15 hours long and the postgame involves running repetitive missions over and over.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Playing Granblue Fantasy Relink and also Slitterhead @GhostCow said it was pretty good and I saw that it had a demo and was convinced.

Is it worth it? I've had my eye on it for a long time but read that the main story is ~15 hours long and the postgame involves running repetitive missions over and over.

Yes. I have an indepth review post here:

[DDC]

New mentally ill game binge progress update:

-Continued blowing through Call of Duty single player campaigns on Hardened. Knocked out the entire Black Ops series. Surprised at how well BO2 & BO3 hold up given their age. Bought Ghosts and Infinite Warfare on steam sale.
-Thoroughly enjoyed the PC port of FF7 Remake in preparation for rebirth. Graphics are amazing.
-Working on Crisis Core remake. I had it on PSP but don't remember what happened or if I even beat it. Fun game, enjoying the story.
-Berserk Boy - seems like a combo of Mega Man and Sonic. Great reviews but hasn't quite landed in the short time I've played. I'm doing the hard mode and taking way too many hits due to the character reacting in unexpected ways to control inputs. Exact opposite of Mega Man where every move you do is precise and predictable.
-New Star GP - a Virtua Racing clone. Good game with some great music. Had my eye on it for a long time and never realized that rather than putting it on sale from it's $20+ price, they just did a cut to $9.99, so it never showed up when I sorted by discount.
-NBA 2K25 - Had been boycotting this for a long time until they put the next gen version on PC. Great basketball game if you ignore all the P2W and just play offline, horrendous business practices.
-Ready or Not - a modern day SWAT with some entertaining level scenarios. Fun and intense but the user reviews seem a bit over the top. A bit of jank but feels a bit limited in what you can do. I'm pretty sure you can't rappel down things, and windows are also treated as if they don't exist from an interaction/tactical perspective. It's not as good as the old Rainbow 6 games.
-Psyvariar Delta - I had been waiting for a reasonable markdown on this Shmup for a while and the winter sale obliged. Fun game, I'd rate it a 7/10 but if you don't have a lot of shmups there are many other more worthy games. Very annoying is that the game speed is tied to your monitor refresh rate, so I have to change my windows desktop from 120hz to 60hz or it runs at double speed.

[Roderick]

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Done with Payne. Pleasantly consistent was always fun to play from start to finish.

[Oyster Sauce]

I beat Shadow of the Tomb Raider. It sucked. Barely even a video game.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

Finished Signalis.

I liked solving the puzzles and figuring out how to best use my resources to get through the levels. Didn't like the bosses at all, worse than Silent Hill bosses, especially the last one which is aggravating on multiple levels (ammo/inventory restrictions and having to dodge projectiles while waiting for an opportunity to actually hit the boss, losing health ******* up your vision). Didn't really care for the opaque story either. Yeah yeah, East Germany's bad, tragic lesbians, Lovecraft, gratuitous Ghost in the Shell reference. German game all right.

Woke game

I thought you like games that **** on communism.

[Roguey]

Finished Space Wreck. I hated it at first because the randomization had extreme consequences (interacting with any computer interface with a 2 out of 5 in scitec will often result in your breaking the machine) and it has pre-seeded rolls so reloading won't help you, and there was a sidequest in the first area that was frustrating in how your options are limited: a woman wants birth control, you find the pills but then she sees the computer can put in a birth control implant. You can read some emails upstairs that mention the machine is broken and needs a new part, but it won't even let you try to install it without a high enough tinker skill to see that there's a problem, and you can't tell the woman the machine is broken and to give up on it, so the quest just remains unresolved.

But it all started coming together with the second area. I leveled up and put a point in scitec, and with a 3, I wasn't breaking computers anymore (lesson learned: don't try to do anything with fewer than 3 points invested). I had fun playing with the systems and scripted content to get what I came there for and to get my confiscated items back. The final area kept the quality consistent. I ended up being won over. Perfectly fine with the length (finished in about eight hours).

Of course there's some borderline-incoherent ESL writing and typical Eastern European cringe.

[Acrux]

Finished Space Wreck. I hated it at first because the randomization had extreme consequences (interacting with any computer interface with a 2 out of 5 in scitec will often result in your breaking the machine) and it has pre-seeded rolls so reloading won't help you, and there was a sidequest in the first area that was frustrating in how your options are limited: a woman wants birth control, you find the pills but then she sees the computer can put in a birth control implant. You can read some emails upstairs that mention the machine is broken and needs a new part, but it won't even let you try to install it without a high enough tinker skill to see that there's a problem, and you can't tell the woman the machine is broken and to give up on it, so the quest just remains unresolved.

[rusty_shackleford]

Lmao a quest for birth control holy **** I hate liberals

[Roguey]

Finished Space Wreck. I hated it at first because the randomization had extreme consequences (interacting with any computer interface with a 2 out of 5 in scitec will often result in your breaking the machine) and it has pre-seeded rolls so reloading won't help you, and there was a sidequest in the first area that was frustrating in how your options are limited: a woman wants birth control, you find the pills but then she sees the computer can put in a birth control implant. You can read some emails upstairs that mention the machine is broken and needs a new part, but it won't even let you try to install it without a high enough tinker skill to see that there's a problem, and you can't tell the woman the machine is broken and to give up on it, so the quest just remains unresolved.

So you don't get the wrong impression, she wants the birth control to reduce the pain of her monthly cycle, not to have sex (she was attracted to my character, a woman, so she's lesbian/bisexual). When I was in high school, my girlfriend at the time took it for the same reason.

[rusty_shackleford]

Finished Space Wreck. I hated it at first because the randomization had extreme consequences (interacting with any computer interface with a 2 out of 5 in scitec will often result in your breaking the machine) and it has pre-seeded rolls so reloading won't help you, and there was a sidequest in the first area that was frustrating in how your options are limited: a woman wants birth control, you find the pills but then she sees the computer can put in a birth control implant. You can read some emails upstairs that mention the machine is broken and needs a new part, but it won't even let you try to install it without a high enough tinker skill to see that there's a problem, and you can't tell the woman the machine is broken and to give up on it, so the quest just remains unresolved.

So you don't get the wrong impression, she wants the birth control to reduce the pain of her monthly cycle, not to have sex (she was attracted to my character, a woman, so she's lesbian/bisexual). When I was in high school, my girlfriend at the time took it for the same reason.

[Acrux]

Finished Space Wreck. I hated it at first because the randomization had extreme consequences (interacting with any computer interface with a 2 out of 5 in scitec will often result in your breaking the machine) and it has pre-seeded rolls so reloading won't help you, and there was a sidequest in the first area that was frustrating in how your options are limited: a woman wants birth control, you find the pills but then she sees the computer can put in a birth control implant. You can read some emails upstairs that mention the machine is broken and needs a new part, but it won't even let you try to install it without a high enough tinker skill to see that there's a problem, and you can't tell the woman the machine is broken and to give up on it, so the quest just remains unresolved.

So you don't get the wrong impression, she wants the birth control to reduce the pain of her monthly cycle, not to have sex (she was attracted to my character, a woman, so she's lesbian/bisexual). When I was in high school, my girlfriend at the time took it for the same reason.

That didn't help at all.

[1998]

Space Wreck was tough. Hard to get into, I rushed through it once in something like less than 5h, but yeah...not great

[Roderick]

Not touching that **** after reading that.

[rusty_shackleford]

space wreck is made by a giga-libtard baltoid

[WaterMage]

Playing Wizardry 6. Good game but is insanely hard to figure out what to do.

[Roguey]

Gave up on Gone Rogue after about 2 hours. I picked it up because it looked like Thief meets Commandos, but it's a crappy stealth puzzle game with only one solution to get through levels, trial and error, and crappy writing/setting. No thanks to Rusty for putting it on my radar, don't think I would have seen this indieslop otherwise. Though it's on me for not taking the negative reviews more seriously, as well as not paying enough attention to the fact that only 30% of players have made it past the fourth mission (I quit on the third).

[rusty_shackleford]

Gave up on Gone Rogue after about 2 hours. I picked it up because it looked like Thief meets Commandos, but it's a crappy stealth puzzle game with only one solution to get through levels, trial and error, and crappy writing/setting. No thanks to Rusty for putting it on my radar, don't think I would have seen this indieslop otherwise. Though it's on me for not taking the negative reviews more seriously, as well as not paying enough attention to the fact that only 30% of players have made it past the fourth mission (I quit on the third).

Try Seven Days Long Gone for an actual bird's eye view Thief. The prologue kinda sucks so just stick with it for a bit.

[Nooneatall]

Finished Space Wreck. I hated it at first because the randomization had extreme consequences (interacting with any computer interface with a 2 out of 5 in scitec will often result in your breaking the machine) and it has pre-seeded rolls so reloading won't help you, and there was a sidequest in the first area that was frustrating in how your options are limited: a woman wants birth control, you find the pills but then she sees the computer can put in a birth control implant. You can read some emails upstairs that mention the machine is broken and needs a new part, but it won't even let you try to install it without a high enough tinker skill to see that there's a problem, and you can't tell the woman the machine is broken and to give up on it, so the quest just remains unresolved.

But it all started coming together with the second area. I leveled up and put a point in scitec, and with a 3, I wasn't breaking computers anymore (lesson learned: don't try to do anything with fewer than 3 points invested). I had fun playing with the systems and scripted content to get what I came there for and to get my confiscated items back. The final area kept the quality consistent. I ended up being won over. Perfectly fine with the length (finished in about eight hours).

Of course there's some borderline-incoherent ESL writing and typical Eastern European cringe.

Can you list all the games you like so I can avoid?

[Roguey]

Can you list all the games you like so I can avoid?

My favorites are Super Mario Bros 3, Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger, Sonic 2 3 and Knuckles, Yoshi's Island, Flashback, Doom, Quake, Devil May Cry 3, Silent Hill 2, Resident Evil 4, Donkey Kong (GB), World of Goo, Stealth *******, Stealth Inc 2, System Shock and 2, Fallout and 2 and New Vegas, Deus Ex, Hitman Blood Money, New Hitman and 2, Half-Life 2 and Episodes, Portal and 2, Mask of the Betrayer, Saints Row II-IV, Nier Replicant and Automata, Super Mario Bros Wonder. I think that covers the ones I like best.