Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

[Lith]

There is only one good Mario film.

Rest are impostors. Pasta la Vista.

[SleepingSilence]

>An hour and thirty minutes of messing around with controls and trying to grasp simple movements later...

Okay...

So I have stopped playing games that I've wanted to like more, because of how the basic controls felt. (Shovel Knight felt clunky to move as, Celeste made diagonal jumping seem harder than it should've been to pull off, and Rain World felt like it was first made on Newgrounds and had some kind of archaic control scheme as a result. Yet the devs raised the game's base price recently, w/o adding anything. But one problem at a time.)

But now I've discovered an entirely different beast that makes me want to rant and rave. So I'll do it here...

Outer Wilds has THE WORST

I repeat.

THE FUCKING WORST flight controls that I've ever experienced in a video game on Steam. It's like I'm playing a shitty Kinect game. AND NOT ONCE, is that mentioned in its general reviews.

And again, this would've been refunded already, if had I bought this game myself. (Making it a strong contender for 'the most disappointing game that I played this year'. Along with Ghost Song and the rest of the games that haven't lived up to their critical reception.)

[Zmija Sebastian]

I began in Halo with a visit to a Sam's Club store where I saw Halo 1 playing on T.V. screens.
I didn't play Halo 1 until like 2013 with the Halo 1 Combat Evolved Anniversary, many years after having started with playing Halo 2 but got Xbox Live for Halo 3. Made it to Field Major on Halo 3, was in a PvP Gaming Community called DRO Gaming - I became "DRO Acid".
Got to play the Reach protogame to consequitve Halo 3 gaming without needing to own the ODST discs - which by this time I needed to play all Halo 3 maps and didn't I didn't want Halo to be a trend but a rivalarity for me. So I played however long I could until that got bothered staunchly. Halo 1 Anniversary, Halo 4, played. I quit for some years after that H1A because I couldn't respond to the adequateness of new Halo games with the new owners of Halo, 343 Industries, presenting as an enterprise - I had to party to get back to partying, nawmean?

When I got back to Halo the Master Chief Collection and Halo 5 had been out like 4 years without me. I played at Ignite Gaming Lounge testing them on crisp screens before I began furbishing my room to play like a MLG, seeing how great Halo 5 was. It's been like a year or two since Halo Infinite, and I saw the whole community switch games to Infinite shambly. And now a "bandit" gun is coming, so I quit Infinite to Solo gain the MCC campaigns how I have them on the individual games before the MCC came out; Which'll be me quitting Halo, because I ain't that syops-bandit-asounder-bitch type called NERD-Bravo or GEEK-Echo, but I don't mind OPERATOR-Hotel.

I began fathoming about Halo 2 needing to be accomplished on Heroic, but had only accomplished co-op on Normal, so it wasn't til Halo 3 that I got Xbox Live. Free-For-All is my favorite, if it's rank- not the social rumble pit stuff. Inevitably upon my return I defeated Halo 5 on Heroic and it reendowed me to try to avenge myself on MCC, for Heroic. With the hype being playing for legendary, I played legendary at parties outside Xbox Live, probably (lol now I'm ready for rumble pit but Halo Infinite tried to be scandalous to me), I totally did legendary Solo only because of peer pressures. And have calculated all the games well into an accuracy test of mirth; Halo Wars 1 and 2 just completed them on Easy, the Halo Spartan Strike and Spartan Assault games have no difficulty settings so I imagine they're Normal if not Easy, Halo 3 ODST has such random history with me - and once had a chance to be completed on legendary through co-op but I didn't get the achievement, so not to be rueful I kept my Halo might and accepted it near the froob, got it completed on Normal when I got my own game disc, Halo 4 was completed on Normal when it came out and I never tried it after (but for the MCC, where I instead am going to get the Spartan Ops completed on Normal. It's completed on Easy, just like the Halo 4 original game's.), THIS IS WHERE it get's even: H1A got played on Normal but wasn't finished, when I came back to gaming years later I finished the MCC's Halo 1 on Classic on Normal, as a prelude to my gaming. I got the Xbox One and finished Halo 1 Combat Evolved Anniversary on Heroic then finished the MCC on Normal for every game but Halo 3, that was done on Heroic, prepping me subconsciously to play Halo 2 on Heroic in the future.

Having finished the original Halo 3 and Halo Reach on Legendary, and a mild playing of Halo 2 Xbox Live multiplayer before Field Major on Halo 3. I began questing for Halo 2 Anniversary to be completed on Heroic. 4 levels to go and it's completed on Heroic solo. I'm about to rebegin that quest, no longer with Xboxs, because I matured to get muscular and stop playing explicitly. I'll be returning to the Gaming Lounge to play the level that is reminiscent to my first Halo 2 system link party 2 years before I got Xbox Live 9th Grade - fighting with swords in the schism level. I am so hyped because I became a good party fighter to attain Bachelor premises against beer and stuff, not merely avenging a Damsel to be my Soulmate for friending her too long, which I assaulted the precinct of the geeks that I system linked for props! I'm sure their ethnicity made them regard it as an insult, but I I am just fulfilling my mandate manifestation of popularity to have done so because I wasn't a loser masquerading behind "controller" (That's a Player thing. I don't control when a Guest, I learned to load my account and have a "remote" if needed). So, just like Lockout, and the Honor Guards hype on Heroic level difference from Normal actually proven, I am so hyped that Halo Infinite has begun to fail. No game should have a "bandit" gun.

[Lith]

Every single game should have a "Bandit" gun.

[Fabricant451]

It's bad for me but I can't stop playing Overwatch 2 still

It's not even fun anymore

[Dark Cloud]

@Fabricant451 that isn't good.

[Zmija Sebastian]

Losers.

[BangoSkank]

I don't know what in the fuck a bandit gun is supposed to be, but I like all the bandit armors and handmade guns from Fallout 4. Good fun.

[SleepingSilence]

From all the issues and disappointments I've had with games lately. I was worried about all the "framerate stuttering" problems that this game was supposed to have...(According to Steam.)

But Cult Of The Lamb runs perfectly fine and is an enjoyable enough time sink. (One in which I had to restart from scratch, because I failed to understand and properly build several crucial things that I needed to progress.)

And now I'm also playing Borderlands 3, since it was on sale, and I can crossplay it with a friend. (Hopefully it'll be better than the Prequel game was, at least.)

[Lith]

I hoard metadata in a frontend for games called EmulationStationDE. Since I think it's cool to see what different platforms had + see box art, gameplay video, yatta with scraping.

Been playing with their 2.0 beta releases and themes + editing some of them myself.

This one in particular has a cool aesthetic.

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What the guy did with the theme I recreated with a few platforms is if there isn't a sprite, taking stock photos and shrinking them down then overlaying scanlines on top. lol Lazy but it's hard to discern the difference.

[Fabricant451]

And now I'm also playing Borderlands 3, since it was on sale, and I can crossplay it with a friend. (Hopefully it'll be better than the Prequel game was, at least.)

@SleepingSilence

Borderlands 3 is great if you turn off the voices and just make up your own story because anything anyone comes up with is better than what is actually in the game.

Anyway, I tried Atomic Heart because it's on GamePass and that game wants so desperately to be Prey but instead it barely manages to become BioShock

[Dark Cloud]

Today, I will sit down and play OTII. Can't wait to let yall know what it plays like!

[BangoSkank]

I kind of want to try Atomic Heart but I'm doing Fallout 4 very slowly instead.

[Lith]

If you're playing Fallout 4 and open to mods:

nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/56984

Highly recommend that one. TLDR of it is you can super vary up where you start and who your character is so you're not just Veteran/Lawyer.

If it's your first time then it's whatever but after, it makes replaying the game kino.

[BangoSkank]

I thought about using that but im helping test Horizon 1.9

That vault opening is boring as shit though.

And Nate is the worst character of all times.

Of all times.

SHAAAAAUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNN-uh! MY BOOOOYYYYYYYYY

[Dark Cloud]

@Lithfangel it's too bad consoles don't have all those cool mods. But there is a community of modders for us console players.

I just wish I could use the lighting and texture mods without having trophies disabled on my Ps4.

[SleepingSilence]

Borderlands 3 is great if you turn off the voices and just make up your own story because anything anyone comes up with is better than what is actually in the game.

@Fabricant451

You aren't kidding about the voices. They are insufferable. (And that's coming from someone who tolerated BL2 dialogue's just fine.)

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>Watches supposedly dramatic cutscene with a death of a character, while my invisible pet's shotgun is floating around awkwardly the entire time.

An obvious bug that you'd expect to be patched out already. But that's the type of quality one can expect from Gearbox.

"It's all your fault! You killed her! You did! You!"
>Less than a second later.
"Oh, what a sweet girl. She blames herself."

Straight up gaslighting me with this dialogue, are ya?

[Dark Cloud]

@SleepingSilence do you like any video game? Or do you always find something to dislike? Haha, no just giving you a hard time.

[SleepingSilence]

@SleepingSilence do you like any video game? Or do you always find something to dislike?

@Dark Cloud

Cult Of The Lamb runs perfectly fine and is an enjoyable enough time sink.

@SleepingSilence

Yes. :P

My brain is always turned on, and I critique and analyze all the content that I consume. (The only difference between me and many others, is I think it's actively beneficial to do so. So I've never reacted negatively/dubiously to someone else's critical taste. Only their reasoning as to why.)

But I'd like to think bad writing and immersion-breaking bugs are pretty easy to dislike...

Though I'm still playing BL3, so it has to be doing something right.

But even with the few positive/appreciated add-on's that BL3 does offer. (Alternative firing modes, teleporting to your vehicle, or a slide move that I rarely utilize.) It doesn't really change the core gameplay loop. It's simply more Borderlands. (With a much more annoying set of characters to listen to. And a hub world that has seven different advertisements to buy its DLC content.)

I'm just happy that I picked the class that I did. (One with a pet that revives you.) Because the game is a lot easier than BL2. Except for the bosses & their abrupt difficulty spikes. (The last boss I fought one-hit ko'd me twice, basically out of nowhere.) So I'd love to see how other classes handle that one solo.

But I also found a legendary shotgun (many levels ago) that simply dwarfs the damage/reload speed of every other weapon in the game to the point of near-uselessness. So it's hard to be excited about the higher frequency of "rare" loot drops. (When it's all worse than the gun I already have.) Though it's amusing when you can turn every living/blathering opponent into a silent cloud of red dust in one shot, every time. It makes the rare times I do feel challenged (because a half dozen enemies spawned/fired upon me, before they even appeared on my screen) feel incredibly cheap.

And Borderlands 2 didn't feel nearly this unbalanced to me. (The rocket launchers and sniper rifles were a necessity in that game. With the trade off of having less/harder-to-find ammo. But sniper rifles barely function here, with how most enemies don't appear until you get closer. And I've not found a single rocket launcher that's worth using yet in BL3.)

So I struggle to see/agree with the same positives that other reviewers mention. (Someone like Skill Up, for instance.) It's also hard to appreciate 'the improved visuals'. When I'm running this thing on my mid-tier PC, with the graphical settings turned down. And even with the best computer possible, the game supposedly still has a frequent stuttering problem. (Plus, I don't know how smart it was to hype up "Twitch integration systems" in a game that clearly loathes streamers, and made them the literal villains of your story.)

But I digress.

How's Elden Ring? :P

[Dark Cloud]

Going well, but on hold cause I'm playing Octopath Traveler II