What game are you playing?

[wndrbr]

@aweigh I didn't want to play it because it's the fourth installment in a series. I think Sony should've ported the 1-2-3 collection instead of Uncharted 4.

FWIW, I had no issue doing PS3 emulation recently if you wanted to play those first.

Yeah I tried and it worked alright, BUT I can't play with a gamepad. I want to play with mouse and keyboard, and it doesn't work all that well.

[aweigh]

@aweigh I didn't want to play it because it's the fourth installment in a series. I think Sony should've ported the 1-2-3 collection instead of Uncharted 4.

i haven't played 1-3 either. It works out, tho, because 4 is retro-active fan-fiction basically. The whole game is about Drake's relationship with his older brother, a character who they made up for the 4th game, so it ends up being a fine entry point anyway as they introduce several portions where they show their "back story" of them growing up together (never introduced in the previous games because the brother character did not exist yet).

[rusty_shackleford]

@aweigh I didn't want to play it because it's the fourth installment in a series. I think Sony should've ported the 1-2-3 collection instead of Uncharted 4.

FWIW, I had no issue doing PS3 emulation recently if you wanted to play those first.

Yeah I tried and it worked alright, BUT I can't play with a gamepad. I want to play with mouse and keyboard, and it doesn't work all that well.

I've actually come to prefer a lot of games with gamepad. My only issue with game pad is camera control, I wonder if steamcontroller with the little digital pad is better for it

[aweigh]

FWIW, I had no issue doing PS3 emulation recently if you wanted to play those first.

Yeah I tried and it worked alright, BUT I can't play with a gamepad. I want to play with mouse and keyboard, and it doesn't work all that well.

I've actually come to prefer a lot of games with gamepad. My only issue with game pad is camera control, I wonder if steamcontroller with the little digital pad is better for it

get a flydigi vader 5 pro, the difference in stick quality is yuge even someone who isn't used to differentiating will notice it. i literally cannot use anything else for CoD because no other sticks come close.

[rusty_shackleford]

So you gut and dismember women, and they all gargle blood and cry for help and call their mommies while hugging their bloodied stumps and trying to put their intestines back into their bellies

Based druckmann????

[logincrash]

So you gut and dismember women, and they all gargle blood and cry for help and call their mommies while hugging their bloodied stumps and trying to put their intestines back into their bellies

Based druckmann????

I stopped playing Sifu because you had to brutally beat up women in it.

[rusty_shackleford]

So you gut and dismember women, and they all gargle blood and cry for help and call their mommies while hugging their bloodied stumps and trying to put their intestines back into their bellies

Based druckmann????

I stopped playing Sifu because you had to brutally beat up women in it.

Thanks, I'll add it to my list

[wndrbr]

Funny how Sony cancelled TLOU live service game after spending five years worth of money on it. It'd probably be way more successful than all of the other multiplayer games Sony currently have in their pipeline by virtue of having grounded aesthetics and a violent postapoc setting. Something like this would've had easier time finding audience than another garish Concord-like with characters looking like bisexual clowns.

[rusty_shackleford]

Funny how Sony cancelled TLOU live service game after spending five years worth of money on it. It'd probably be way more successful than all of the other multiplayer games Sony currently have in their pipeline by virtue of having grounded aesthetics and a violent postapoc setting. Something like this would've had easier time finding audience than another garish Concord-like with characters looking like bisexual clowns.

I've read that TLOU multiplayer was actually really fun. Never played it ofc

[Finarfin]

Played 007: First Light since release. Game looks quite nice, even though I lowered settings. Characters were fine most of the time and no, the game didn't play itself.

[DecadeRiptide]

Fetish Locator Week Two

https://www.gog.com/en/game/fetish_locator_week_two

[Maximilian]

Holy crap The Witcher 3 is a long *** game I've put some 70h so far and I'm still at the first Kaer Morhen bit

I played it a few years ago on a laptop and was barely able to enjoy the visuals with 20fps, now it's a much smoother experience. Also I play those wack cards this time around

[Tweed]

Coming to the end of Atomic Heart: Blood on Crystal

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Utawarerumono #5 Past and Present Rediscovered

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I don't think the writers thought this "joke" through. "We're visiting the house of the samurai lord of Nakoku, and it is rumored he is a pederast who "steals" something from young people!" "Whoops! Just kidding! He's just a rambling old man who likes to steal the time of polite young people who are the only ones who will stay up the whole night till dawn listening to his rambling!".

[DrSneed]

I also jumped back in somewhat recently, but without subbing. TOR is one of those annual games that I'll jump into for a week or two, get my fill, and then bounce. Despite having finished all class stories, I do get enjoyment out of replaying the 1st acts of most of them. It's after the A1 resolution, though, when class stories pivot to their next arc, that I tend to lose interest and bail.

I've also never played any post-60 content. Although I do have multiple level 70 boosts. Prob should give that a try one day.

How would u rate the combat and UI? Also is the story "modern" or?

SWTOR combat is the most faithful WoW clone combat in that it actually feels just as responsive/fluid. If you've played WoW then you know exactly what to expect.
Class stories range from great to OK(I did all of them), the expansions likewise. Some people seem to not like the KOTET/KOTFE expansions but I thought they were (mostly) excellent.

If it was an offline game with optional multiplayer it would easily be considered one of Bioware's best games, one of the best Star Wars games, a proper KOTOR game, a great RPG in its own right, etc.,

Wish they'd do a classic progression server
I miss running end game content
that **** is completely dead now in this ****** erp game

[mattig]

I recently got back into Ace Combat 5. Thankfully I still have my save card files, and totally legit games.

God this game is just peak...man I wish they made games like this again. Hopefully 8 is going to be as good.

[methoxetamine]

still playing TROUBLESHOOTER. games ******* excellent and a must-play for SRPG enjoyers. almost done with the base game after 80ish hours

[fork]

Finished the Nightdive remix Powerslave Exhumed.
The game is still phenomenal, one of the most enjoyable FPSs of all time, and while I prefer the PS version, the Kex port is definitely worth playing.

Went back to Doom after that. Replayed No Rest For The Living, probably the best official release for Doom and Doom 2, not a single low-point in the entire set, and Sigil, which is a bit ******** on UV, but otherwise great as well. Currently slogging through Plutonia and looking forward to finally trying Sigil 2 for a change of pace.

Finished Plutonia on UV. Well, it's still great, but some maps are ********.
Instead of Sigil 2 I replayed Doom 3, and I must say it didn't age well. id really went downhill after Quake.

Currently playing Pragmata, and while the story is kinda ****, I really enjoy the gameplay, and the hacking, while gimmicky at first, is really satisfying once you get the hang of it. Diana, the little girl, is quite adorable and adds to the enjoyment when/if you're in the right state of mind, if you're not, she's ultra annoying. :> First playthrough is a bit on the easy side, since the hard difficulty is locked until you complete standard.
Recommended for gameplayfags looking for something new.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I am playing Monster Hunt Wilds again.

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The graphical fidelity and the performance is very odd, even after the "fix" patches. Even on "high" textures for 2026 AAA photorealistic games, main characters have low rez blurry textures on their longcoats.

I am playing the two-handed greatsword class, because I do not have to memorize combos or a rotation. For attack, I just hold Y to charge up a heavy swing. That's it. Most of my gameplay is not button mashing, but instead moving into position so I can get a hit in, which is much more engaging.

Unfortunately, it seems that (as usual for a videogame), crafting anything other than the highest DPS greatsword is pointless. I was interested in trying the paralysis sword, but apparently it builds up paralysis on the enemy via a lot of hits. So if you want to inflict status conditions, then you need to be playing a fast attacking weapon like dual blades.

The photorealistic movie cutscenes are pretty good, and your customizeable main character gets to be the hero. Oddly, you can't change your body proportions (ie shoulder width) at all.

There are both funny moments,

and tense scenes.

I like the viscerality of the combat. Your character while carrying a greatsword has momentum and cannot start and stop instantly. You cannot dodgeroll far (or even very fast) at all compared to other action games. You get thrown back a lot (though fall damage is not a thing). The impacts of the huge monster into the earth constantly throws up dirt. Volumes of water are pushed at you. Etc.






Art direction wise, the game does not make a good first impression with the starting area, which is a sandy desert with a brown hue. It is not until a few hours into the game that the weather clears and the brown hue is gone and you get to see the desert in more vibrant colors with yellow grass and a blue sky, and then you head into the forest biome.

Music so far has been unmemorable.

I am playing with the English dub. Even though a lot of these are the same VAs I have heard in a lot of anime and JRPGs, the voice direction is pretty good and it is much more convincing.

I like the skits that play inside the tent.




The food animations are very good. Oddly, this is the first time I have seen characters in a Japanese game pray before dinner in a very long time, but only with this african-esque tribe. There are so many JRPGs and VNs set in medieval european themed worlds with a Christianity stand-in, but no one every prays there.

The cartoony armors from the prior games look very out of place for this game, and worse they seem to take up most of the selection you can pick from.

Gemma by default wears an outrageous outfit. For Alva at least you can download a free winter outfit for her to wear (that is also insane to wear in a hot and humid environment) but I do not think there is any solution for Gemma, and I didn't see any decent alternate outfits on nexus mods.

This seems like a death world where settlements are constantly on the verge of being wiped out by gargantuan monsters. But unskilled people with no weapons or selfdefense capability are constantly running off alone. About 1/3rd of the missions are me finding out that some young fool ran off alone and now I have to catch up to him before he gets eaten.

The main antagonist and endgoal monster to kill of the game, Arkveld, looks cool. It does not look like a stereotypical creature or dragon. It looks like some sort of tiger-dragon thing. It can fly, but it seems to be primarily terrestrial and only uses flight to travel long distance rather than for combat. It has thorny electrifying tentacles.

[methoxetamine]

I am playing Monster Hunt Wilds again.

Let me know how the title update monsters are, I played 50 hours at launch but haven't fired it up since I finished my gear (outside of minmaxing autism). I'm really looking forward to the expansion, but I probably won't get back to the game until it's much closer to release, especially with Endless Ragnarok coming so soon

[Bhaalspawn Jr]

Still playing Xenoblade X...

On and off really. It's kind of overstayed its welcome if I'm being honest.

There was a critical point in the story there where foids were leading battalions and squadrons and ****, and I just thought: "this a Blizzard game?" Seems every engineer developing the high-tech skells in the main city hub is a foid too. And they all insult the men constantly. I did not notice this any of this when I started playing.

Worst offender is the insufferable 'heroine', Elma. Despite all these hostile xenos races wanting the human race extinct, she continues to try and make peace over and over despite the xenos constantly killing humans. It's actually disgusting. She literally let this psycho alien ***** go free after it murdered a bunch of her comrades. Before letting it go, she says something along the lines of "we can all learn to coexist together in peace". Now, this is all sounding VERY familiar i.e. she's like a woke liberal foid wanting her precious diversity while never minding the cost of her own people's lives to get it.

Which got me thinking about the other games in the series... They all promoted diversity of races and species living together in the same space in peace and harmony... The themes of these games are all about coexistence and understanding. They make it appear as though different races can set aside their differences and work together for the greater good in an imaginary multi-racial utopia... It's funny how you don't notice any of this **** unless you've woken up.

Yeah, I'm done with this franchise. I'll finish this one, but Monolith Soft can get ****** going forward.

I'll still always have fond memories of Xenoblade 2 though.

[Oyster Sauce]

Worst offender is the insufferable 'heroine', Elma. Despite all these hostile xenos races wanting the human race extinct, she continues to try and make peace over and over despite the xenos constantly killing humans. It's actually disgusting. She literally let this psycho alien ***** go free after it murdered a bunch of her comrades. Before letting it go, she says something along the lines of "we can all learn to coexist together in peace".

Just wait lil *****

[rusty_shackleford]

Worst offender is the insufferable 'heroine', Elma. Despite all these hostile xenos races wanting the human race extinct, she continues to try and make peace over and over despite the xenos constantly killing humans. It's actually disgusting. She literally let this psycho alien ***** go free after it murdered a bunch of her comrades. Before letting it go, she says something along the lines of "we can all learn to coexist together in peace". Now, this is all sounding VERY familiar i.e. she's like a woke liberal foid wanting her precious diversity while never minding the cost of her own people's lives to get it.

tbh this is a reoccurring thing in a lot japanese media

[Val the Moofia Boss]

She literally let this psycho alien ***** go free after it murdered a bunch of her comrades. Before letting it go, she says something along the lines of "we can all learn to coexist together in peace".

This suicidal pacifism was in the first Xenoblade too with an identical setup. The first half of the game is about Shulk hunting a mass murdering monster, and then halfway through he finds out it is piloted by a human and suddenly 180s and is trying to save him instead of killing him (and even blocks Dunban's strike), even though Metal Face still willingly killed all of those people for fun. It is also a broader issue with Japanese pop culture entertainment, where the predominant narrative about war in anime/JRPGs/VNs/etc is that "oh no, if only we could just stop having bad feelings and all get along!" and usually does not want to admit that there can be just reasons for war (perhaps because it would remind people of WW2).

As for the different species getting together like furballs and robot people, I would not read too much into it as a deliberate allegory for the multiracial globalism as pushed in Western media (though that is a thing in some Japanese works, see the latest Trails games).

[Valter]

She literally let this psycho alien ***** go free after it murdered a bunch of her comrades. Before letting it go, she says something along the lines of "we can all learn to coexist together in peace".

This suicidal pacifism was in the first Xenoblade too with an identical setup. The first half of the game is about Shulk hunting a mass murdering monster, and then halfway through he finds out it is piloted by a human and suddenly 180s and is trying to save him instead of killing him (and even blocks Dunban's strike), even though Metal Face still willingly killed all of those people for fun. It is also a broader issue with Japanese pop culture entertainment, where the predominant narrative about war in anime/JRPGs/VNs/etc is that "oh no, if only we could just stop having bad feelings and all get along!" and usually does not want to admit that there can be just reasons for war (perhaps because it would remind people of WW2).

As for the different species getting together like furballs and robot people, I would not read too much into it as a deliberate allegory for the multiracial globalism as pushed in Western media (though that is a thing in some Japanese works, see the latest Trails games).

Cue Persona 4 giving me the bad ending for agreeing to kill a known kidnapper. God I hate preachy writers

[Oyster Sauce]

Worst offender is the insufferable 'heroine', Elma. Despite all these hostile xenos races wanting the human race extinct, she continues to try and make peace over and over despite the xenos constantly killing humans. It's actually disgusting. She literally let this psycho alien ***** go free after it murdered a bunch of her comrades. Before letting it go, she says something along the lines of "we can all learn to coexist together in peace". Now, this is all sounding VERY familiar i.e. she's like a woke liberal foid wanting her precious diversity while never minding the cost of her own people's lives to get it.

tbh this is a reoccurring thing in a lot japanese media

The game ends with

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the cast forgiving and mourning the death of the guy who tries to kill every last remaining human by deflecting to the alien race that blew up the earth

[Val the Moofia Boss]

[Bhaalspawn Jr]

She literally let this psycho alien ***** go free after it murdered a bunch of her comrades. Before letting it go, she says something along the lines of "we can all learn to coexist together in peace".

This suicidal pacifism was in the first Xenoblade too with an identical setup. The first half of the game is about Shulk hunting a mass murdering monster, and then halfway through he finds out it is piloted by a human and suddenly 180s and is trying to save him instead of killing him (and even blocks Dunban's strike), even though Metal Face still willingly killed all of those people for fun. It is also a broader issue with Japanese pop culture entertainment, where the predominant narrative about war in anime/JRPGs/VNs/etc is that "oh no, if only we could just stop having bad feelings and all get along!" and usually does not want to admit that there can be just reasons for war (perhaps because it would remind people of WW2).

As for the different species getting together like furballs and robot people, I would not read too much into it as a deliberate allegory for the multiracial globalism as pushed in Western media (though that is a thing in some Japanese works, see the latest Trails games).

It's def a WWII thing.

And I think it is a deliberate allegory. (America still bosses Japan around).

[Val the Moofia Boss]

She literally let this psycho alien ***** go free after it murdered a bunch of her comrades. Before letting it go, she says something along the lines of "we can all learn to coexist together in peace".

This suicidal pacifism was in the first Xenoblade too with an identical setup. The first half of the game is about Shulk hunting a mass murdering monster, and then halfway through he finds out it is piloted by a human and suddenly 180s and is trying to save him instead of killing him (and even blocks Dunban's strike), even though Metal Face still willingly killed all of those people for fun. It is also a broader issue with Japanese pop culture entertainment, where the predominant narrative about war in anime/JRPGs/VNs/etc is that "oh no, if only we could just stop having bad feelings and all get along!" and usually does not want to admit that there can be just reasons for war (perhaps because it would remind people of WW2).

As for the different species getting together like furballs and robot people, I would not read too much into it as a deliberate allegory for the multiracial globalism as pushed in Western media (though that is a thing in some Japanese works, see the latest Trails games).

It's def a WWII thing.

And I think it is a deliberate allegory. (America still bosses Japan around).

It's a VIDEOgame. You go on an adventure and meeting many different characters with whacky designs, save them, and then all these people you met across the journey come back at the end and help you defeat the bad guy and you have saved everyone at the end and feel good. Suikoden did it with the dog people, the elves, the duck people, the beaver people, etc. Dragon Quest does it. Final Fantasy does it. Etc. No one was standing over Murayama's back when he was making Suikoden and so on. Chinese games have it where all of the different whacky factions you meet come help out at the end and you save them all, and those games have the grip of the CCP and their anti-degenerate policies on them. It's just a genre convention that is ingrained and is satisfying. This long predates Blackrock buying shares in companies like Nihon Falcom and incentivizing DEI mandates.

[Manny V]

I am playing Monster Hunt Wilds again.

lmk if you want any multiplayer buds, i've stopped playing since they finished adding title updates and event quests and whatnot, but am always down to help a newblood, did the same with @Mordred and played a bit with @Finarfin and @mercerxiv

also

Let me know how the title update monsters are, I played 50 hours at launch but haven't fired it up since I finished my gear (outside of minmaxing autism). I'm really looking forward to the expansion, but I probably won't get back to the game until it's much closer to release, especially with Endless Ragnarok coming so soon

The title update monsters, while not numerous, definitely added some much needed difficulty to the game, and are good fun imo. Lagiacrus and Seregios are pretty tough(and lightning croc boy is of course kino for a Tri enjoyer like myself), and Gogmazios, while gimmicky and not too difficult, is a flashy and enjoyable fight. They did the Final Fantasy crossover where you fight the big robot Omega Planetes, which is the equivalent to the Behemoth fight in World if you did that. Hardest fight in the game; requires proper teamwork and coordination, but is satisfying to beat. Also the arc-tempered versions of the Apex monsters are a good challenge, and Arkveld in particular is a very different and difficult fight, and is a solid 'final challenge send-off' to the game (kinda like Arch Tempered Nergigante in World)

Should gather the boyz for a hunt