Various video game stuff not deserving its own thread

[Tweed]

Is there some kind of a running gag or literary flourish with the phrase "I don't rightly know"? Because it shows up a lot in games that guys from Black Isle and Obsidian worked on. You even get a chance to say it in Baldur's Gate 2 at the beginning of the Jaheira romance and she insults you for it.

[Rand]

Perhaps because most people wrongly "know" so much?

[WhiteShark]

Is there some kind of a running gag or literary flourish with the phrase "I don't rightly know"? Because it shows up a lot in games that guys from Black Isle and Obsidian worked on. You even get a chance to say it in Baldur's Gate 2 at the beginning of the Jaheira romance and she insults you for it.

I don't rightly know, but this website claims it's older English that mostly survives in Southern and Appalachian dialects. Perhaps Jaheira is a yankee.

[Tweed]

Is there some kind of a running gag or literary flourish with the phrase "I don't rightly know"? Because it shows up a lot in games that guys from Black Isle and Obsidian worked on. You even get a chance to say it in Baldur's Gate 2 at the beginning of the Jaheira romance and she insults you for it.

I don't rightly know, but this website claims it's older English that mostly survives in Southern and Appalachian dialects. Perhaps Jaheira is a yankee.

Heh...

"Rainin’ Like a Cow Peein’ on a Flat Rock." - My dad says this all the time.

[Tweed]

I recognize a lot of these, or some variation of them. Not really that surprising, family came out of the Dust Bowl.

[Tangerine]

Is there some kind of a running gag or literary flourish with the phrase "I don't rightly know"? Because it shows up a lot in games that guys from Black Isle and Obsidian worked on. You even get a chance to say it in Baldur's Gate 2 at the beginning of the Jaheira romance and she insults you for it.

Not sure which movie, but this sounds like something you'd hear in a Western.

[Nico]

New Steam Hardware announcement. Interesting stuff.

Not sure about some of the actors though.

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[Rand]

New Steam Hardware announcement. Interesting stuff.

Not sure about some of the actors though.

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More DEI depicted in the video beyond the ***** and possible ****.
Old hispanic women and sheboons? These are large gamer demographics, right?

[rusty_shackleford]

New Steam Hardware announcement. Interesting stuff.

Not sure about some of the actors though.

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More DEI depicted in the video beyond the ***** and possible ****.
Old hispanic women and sheboons? These are large gamer demographics, right?

I think that's @orinEsque on the left

[Segata]

The GabeCube

[Rand]

The new Anno 117 (Roman imperial era) is woke infested nonsense.

The "emperor" is a woman.
There are female ship/fleet captains.
And a surprising number of SSAfricoons. As in any at all, really. There's a centurion that would not look out of place at an Atlanta Popeye's Chicken or an episode of Cops.

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For example, the one ship captain from "Egypt" is very questionably colored. With cornrows, of course:

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[rusty_shackleford]

you're telling me the game made by germoids is …woke?
wow

[Rand]

you're telling me the game made by germoids is …woke?
wow

TURBO woke

[Havitner]

The new Anno 117 (Roman imperial era) is woke infested nonsense.

In '0 A.D.', female units get a bonus to their berry picking speed.

EDIT: They also have a nagging aura that makes male units work faster.

[J-12]

Anyone got any fun games to recommend? I looked at steamunlocked main page for a while now and can't chose anything.

[Rumbles]

Anyone got any fun games to recommend? I looked at steamunlocked main page for a while now and can't chose anything.

What do you generally like genre-wise?

[J-12]

Anyone got any fun games to recommend? I looked at steamunlocked main page for a while now and can't chose anything.

What do you generally like genre-wise?

I guess i do like stuff with immersive sim elements to it but don't really stress over that. I do like 2000s games, stuff that capcom/rockstar/ubisoft of the old used to make before they fell off. Bully/Manhunt/GTA VC/DMC series/Original Resident Evil series/etc.
Played this recently, it was short but fun.

[Rumbles]

Anyone got any fun games to recommend? I looked at steamunlocked main page for a while now and can't chose anything.

What do you generally like genre-wise?

I guess i do like stuff with immersive sim elements to it but don't really stress over that. I do like 2000s games, stuff that capcom/rockstar/ubisoft of the old used to make before they fell off. Bully/Manhunt/GTA VC/DMC series/Original Resident Evil series/etc.
Played this recently, it was short but fun.

Definitely play Mass Effect series if you haven't yet, not the greatest shooter but the story and narrative itself is great. Then another one of my personal favourites is Pathologic (2), the Russian autists behind it made an incredible gem, that game makes you think and wonder for a long time. Pentiment is a very interesting game in the story/choice type of genre, the art and general style might be off-putting at first but I enjoyed it. If you are open to almost-horror then Soma is the best game probably in that story-narrative category, the aesthetic is just great even if there is not much to gameplay. These are just the main(stream) suggestions

[J-12]

Definitely play Mass Effect series if you haven't yet, not the greatest shooter but the story and narrative itself is great. Then another one of my personal favourites is Pathologic (2), the Russian autists behind it made an incredible gem, that game makes you think and wonder for a long time. Pentiment is a very interesting game in the story/choice type of genre, the art and general style might be off-putting at first but I enjoyed it. If you are open to almost-horror then Soma is the best game probably in that story-narrative category, the aesthetic is just great even if there is not much to gameplay. These are just the main(stream) suggestions

Mass effects seem less interesting the more time passes. I played 1-2 on their releases, then 3 some time after it came out, had a friend who said it had fun multiplayer arena-like mode and yes, it was fun to get to play as Geth prime. I actually got that game for free when bought someone else's account for battlefield 3 for literally pennies, that account had ME3 too.
The SOMA was chewed up for me by certain youtuber recently so not much reason to go and actually play it now, maybe later. Guess ill try the other two then.

[rusty_shackleford]

https://shining.wiki/wiki/Fangs:_The_Saga_of_Wolf_Blood

[Vaako]

looks like they put a Morty/Claptrap style npc into the next Metroid which follows you arround and annoys you with talking at the beginning for a while. And if he dies somehow game over. Even the IGN shill didnt like him.

[KnightoftheWind]

I hate Microsoft for closing/selling Tango Gameworks before they had the chance to release an update for the original Evil Within. It's one of my favorite horror games, who's only flaw is it's poor performance and technical issues thanks to id Tech 5. We give Unreal a lot of **** but I'd argue it's better than id Tech 5 was, by a mile. If the update fixed that, it would've been perfect.

Now the IP will rot for an eternity and it's a shame.

[logincrash]

I'm getting really tired of this "voice in your head" trope that's been surprisingly prevalent in vidya lately. Like, 4 games off the top of my head: Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Avowed, Bloodlines 2.
What is up with that? Is that a case of ****** ****** writers only being able to write what they know?

[WhiteShark]

I'm getting really tired of this "voice in your head" trope that's been surprisingly prevalent in vidya lately. Like, 4 games off the top of my head: Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Avowed, Bloodlines 2.
What is up with that? Is that a case of ****** ****** writers only being able to write what they know?

I haven't played any of those, but is it being used as a convenient narrative tool to direct the player? I can also imagine writers using it as a mouthpiece the player can't simply avoid.

I actually really like that trope in books, but viewing an inner dialogue from the third person is very different from a disembodied voice talking at you while you're trying to play a game.

[Tangerine]

I'm getting really tired of this "voice in your head" trope that's been surprisingly prevalent in vidya lately. Like, 4 games off the top of my head: Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Avowed, Bloodlines 2.
What is up with that? Is that a case of ****** ****** writers only being able to write what they know?

I haven't played any of those, but is it being used as a convenient narrative tool to direct the player? I can also imagine writers using it as a mouthpiece the player can't simply avoid.

I actually really like that trope in books, but viewing an inner dialogue from the third person is very different from a disembodied voice talking at you while you're trying to play a game.

This trope is about a separate character in the protagonist's head. Cyberpunk has Keanu Reeves and BG3 has a gay illithid talk to you.

[WhiteShark]

This trope is about a separate character in the protagonist's head. Cyberpunk has Keanu Reeves and BG3 has a gay illithid talk to you.

Yeah, I understood that part. That's why I said 'inner dialogue'. I've read several books where the protagonist has another entity living inside his head that talks to him.

[logincrash]

I'm getting really tired of this "voice in your head" trope that's been surprisingly prevalent in vidya lately. Like, 4 games off the top of my head: Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Avowed, Bloodlines 2.
What is up with that? Is that a case of ****** ****** writers only being able to write what they know?

I haven't played any of those, but is it being used as a convenient narrative tool to direct the player? I can also imagine writers using it as a mouthpiece the player can't simply avoid.

I actually really like that trope in books, but viewing an inner dialogue from the third person is very different from a disembodied voice talking at you while you're trying to play a game.

This trope is about a separate character in the protagonist's head. Cyberpunk has Keanu Reeves and BG3 has a gay illithid talk to you.

Bloodlines 2 has a reddit noir detective (who's just fine with ******* and ********) and Avowed has a ******* magical negro sheboon constantly babbling in your head about "Mother Nature" nonsense.

[Tangerine]

That's why I said 'inner dialogue'.

I read that to mean the character talking to himself, but to further clarify, the voice is not just directing the player on how to play/where to go next, the plot is built around it existing as a separate entity that you need to deal with. Not sure if that's the case in Avowed and Bloodlines 2.

[asf]

the voices tell you are being racist

[DemoGraph]

I'm getting really tired of this "voice in your head" trope that's been surprisingly prevalent in vidya lately. Like, 4 games off the top of my head: Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Avowed, Bloodlines 2.
What is up with that? Is that a case of ****** ****** writers only being able to write what they know?

I haven't played any of those, but is it being used as a convenient narrative tool to direct the player? I can also imagine writers using it as a mouthpiece the player can't simply avoid.

I actually really like that trope in books, but viewing an inner dialogue from the third person is very different from a disembodied voice talking at you while you're trying to play a game.

Also, it might be a good trope for CYOA games, where people voting for actions on a forum act as voices in the head of a protag. e.g. they were present in
- treave's EPIC on Dex,
- awful hospital,
- my hiatused CYOA had this planned, though it wasn't obvious.
In all cases they've added something to worldbuilding and/or character.
In the books Pratchett made a similar thing for Tiffany Aching, though her voices in the head weren't independent. And in Dune all the reverend mothers and Alia in particular also had them.