Video Game Discussion Thread vol. 2

MillionX · December 16, 2023

Skyrim---so the unmodded character I had was extra fresh, just a mere level 2 weakling... Imperial I named "Lucien". The modded one is basically the same character with the "better vampires" mod on; I'll switch over to that one if I get that mod again. I remember that mod had all kinds of interesting stuff to improve the vampirism roleplay aspect of the game. (like making it so sunlight does constant damage to you, adding "ranks" of how powerful you are as a vamp [starting as a "fledgling"], etc.)

CDB2k20 · December 17, 2023

Playing through the first few chapters God of War Ragnarok's Valhalla

Spoiler

*Audio issues thanks to OBS fail at the end of this one

This shit is immaculately GOOD!!

Edited December 17, 2023 by CDB2k20

Hecatom · December 17, 2023

Spoiler

Edited December 17, 2023 by Hecatom

Sonichuman · December 17, 2023

extra

Videogamedunkey - Avatar Frontiers of Pandora

Sonichuman · December 17, 2023

I love the more personal intros between characters! More of these please!

MillionX · December 17, 2023

Ok yeahhhh I'll have to get into this again.... the Skyrim modders out there have really gone all out in recent years to add so much cool stuff....

Edited December 17, 2023 by MillionX

Jion_Wansu · December 17, 2023

20 hours ago, purbeast said:

These would be terrible in SF6. They don't go with the game at all. These "sound" like 16 bit songs on SNES.

These are the actual sounds from the arcade machines. Some of the "instruments" are louder than others.

EDIT:

These remixes:

Edited December 17, 2023 by Jion_Wansu

Hecatom · December 17, 2023

iStu X · December 17, 2023

Idk why I’m laughing so god damn hard at this

Edited December 17, 2023 by iStu X

MillionX · December 17, 2023

haha I still have the Burger King games---- Sneak King and Pocketbike Racer. Unfortunately they are not backwards compatible for the XB1 or Series X; I actually tried playing them several months ago out of curiosity to see if they would work on the new systems, so I'd have to fire up the old 360 to play those again.

I also had "YARIS" too....and those Doritos Crash Course games. Doritos Crash Course still works on the Series X, actually; I played that one some months ago

(partly because I was looking for easy achievements--- back when the MS Rewards program was still a thing..... as of recently that Rewards program has been nerfed so damn hard it may as well not even exist. I'd be willing to be that no one is going to bother with it anymore at this point; thanks for ruining a great thing, MS. It wasn't even that long ago that I was telling a friend that I wish Nintendo and Sony would implement a rewards system that's even half as good as what MS had going on; it was easy to earn a decent amount of points each month but that'd dead for sure now.)

Edited December 17, 2023 by MillionX

Hecatom · December 17, 2023

VirginDefiler · December 17, 2023

genshin impact has godlike music. the composers are top notch

i havent heard arabesque style music this good since prince of persia

BornWinner · December 17, 2023

Hecatom · December 18, 2023

VirginDefiler · December 18, 2023

how did this not get nominated at the vga? then again sumeru region might have been released b4 23

cuz thats vanille chocolat baby. thats velvet.

Hecatom · December 18, 2023

TheInfernoman · December 18, 2023

Hecatom · December 18, 2023

MillionX · December 18, 2023

holy shit look at what's going on with Skyrim mods these days

That new magic system... the new combat stances...

RSG3 · December 18, 2023

https://fxtwitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1736769229641138673?t=mSGE2SWPCbpGRBj1Ep91QQ&s=19

I am devastated.

Edit: Won't embed. Dunno why. I'm sure Elon is to blame.

James McCaffrey, the voice of Max Payne, among many many other Rememdy titles, has passed away of cancer. He was 65.

Edited December 18, 2023 by RSG3

Darc_Requiem · December 18, 2023

@RSG3I got you fam and damn that's sad. He's one of those actors that you when you see their face, you recognize them because they've been in so many things.

Edited December 18, 2023 by Darc_Requiem

AriesWarlock · December 18, 2023

1 hour ago, RSG3 said:

Edit: Won't embed. Dunno why. I'm sure Elon is to blame.

It didn't embed because of that "fx" part in the hyperlink.

Sonichuman · December 18, 2023

vids

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AriesWarlock · December 18, 2023

https://www.artstation.com/liangxing

Jurassic · December 18, 2023

Other games include Diablo IV, Quake II and some other retro games.

Edited December 18, 2023 by Jurassic

Darc_Requiem · December 18, 2023

2 hours ago, AriesWarlock said:

It didn't embed because of that "fx" part in the hyperlink.

Yeah @RSG3telling Elon "F, X!" pisses him off. 🙃

Darc: "Elon, you should really check out Legion. It's pretty good."

Elon: "What channel is it on?"

Darc: "FX 👀"

Eon: "Security! Remove this man from the premises!"

Edited December 18, 2023 by Darc_Requiem

AriesWarlock · December 18, 2023

Anyway, here’s the top ten list of most searched characters on Pornhub.

Chun-Li (Fortnite)
Tifa (Final Fantasy)
Dva (Overwatch)
Lara Croft (Tomb Raider)
Lady Dimitrescu (Resident Evil)
Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Ada Wong (Resident Evil)
Mario (Super Mario Bros.)
Widomaker (Overwatch)
Mercy (Overwatch)

Darc_Requiem · December 19, 2023

I guess since everyone else is doing it and yes I did grab Midnight Suns. It was like $28 on Steam with all the DLC.

Lantis · December 19, 2023

1 hour ago, AriesWarlock said:

Anyway, here’s the top ten list of most searched characters on Pornhub.

Chun-Li (Fortnite)

Tifa (Final Fantasy)

Dva (Overwatch)

Lara Croft (Tomb Raider)

Lady Dimitrescu (Resident Evil)

Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Ada Wong (Resident Evil)

Mario (Super Mario Bros.)

Widomaker (Overwatch)

Mercy (Overwatch)

Now this is a list I can get behind (except for Sonic, because of course those weirdos would)

MillionX · December 19, 2023

haha, so yeah, I didn't really think about that until now.... Fortnite has introduced a whole new generation of promising young creeps to the greatness that is Chun Li. That's good work.

Great choices out of that pornhub list too; Lady D is new on the scene but already worthy of legend status, I'd say.

Interesting that on this list--- Mercy, Widowmaker and Dva made the cut but NOT Tracer?

RSG3 · December 19, 2023

Lady Croft still breaking the Top Five 25 years later.

Sonichuman · December 19, 2023

David Jaffe thinks Kratos is too soft now

https://80.lv/articles/god-of-war-s-creator-thinks-that-the-character-of-kratos-took-a-wrong-turn/

He's said some other stuff including saying he thinks the team should have put their experiences into a different game other than God of War. I'm going to respectfully disagree...Saying Kratos is soft is a weird take to have especially if you've atleast been through the first fight with Balder/Stranger. I feel like that was really the whole main purpose of that fight cause at first the game was pretty melancholic and slow and it lulls you. "Is this really Kratos? Man he really got a handle on himself" and then WHAM...UPPERCUTED TO WHOLE DIF ZIPCODE. "Oh wait no this is God of War". I'd say Kratos is more nuanced in the 2 recent games...soft isn't it.

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Edited December 19, 2023 by Sonichuman

Sonichuman · December 19, 2023

Muta apparently released the entire call that Karl, him and Jirard were on in response to legal threats

It's 47 minutes...and I haven't listened to it but based on the comments....Muta and Karl don't have anything to worry about.

Hecatom · December 19, 2023

1 hour ago, Sonichuman said:

Muta apparently released the entire call that Karl, him and Jirard were on in response to legal threats

It's 47 minutes...and I haven't listened to it but based on the comments....Muta and Karl don't have anything to worry about.

It amuses me how stupid is Jirard, knowing full well they have him on record and that the receipts are public, and still decides to threaten with legal action.

I wouldn't fault his friends for still trying to defend him, even with the evidence, but at the same time, they should give it more thought besides coping with, he is a nice guy as a reason.

Hecatom · December 19, 2023

2 hours ago, Sonichuman said:

David Jaffe thinks Kratos is too soft now

https://80.lv/articles/god-of-war-s-creator-thinks-that-the-character-of-kratos-took-a-wrong-turn/

He's said some other stuff including saying he thinks the team should have put their experiences into a different game other than God of War. I'm going to respectfully disagree...Saying Kratos is soft is a weird take to have especially if you've atleast been through the first fight with Balder/Stranger. I feel like that was really the whole main purpose of that fight cause at first the game was pretty melancholic and slow and it lulls you. "Is this really Kratos? Man he really got a handle on himself" and then WHAM...UPPERCUTED TO WHOLE DIF ZIPCODE. "Oh wait no this is God of War". I'd say Kratos is more nuanced in the 2 recent games...soft isn't it.

Edit:

Well, he is indeed more soft now.
That by itself is not a bad thing.

Saying that.
I still think the Greek Era is superior in everything to the Norse era.

AriesWarlock · December 19, 2023

free game:

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

Metroidvania style^

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

Edited December 19, 2023 by AriesWarlock

Darc_Requiem · December 19, 2023

It's been driving me nuts the past few days, trying to remember what show or movie I remember James McCaffrey from...

Edited December 19, 2023 by Darc_Requiem

Faltimar the Dark · December 19, 2023

https://s.team/y23/dmdgcqn?l=english

Chadouken · December 19, 2023

28 minutes ago, Faltimar the Dark said:

https://s.team/y23/dmdgcqn?l=english

89 games? ? Holy shit, you must have spent a fortune!

OPTIMUS124 · December 19, 2023

Beat GOW:R Valhalla. For free DLC it was pretty awesome.

AriesWarlock · December 19, 2023

purbeast · December 19, 2023

Here's the leaked Wolverine gameplay footage.

https://streamable.com/f7ciqn

Sonichuman · December 19, 2023

This really sucks for the devs cause I know they're still working and ironing out details on stuff for these unannounced games that may or may not happen all because some assholes were trying to hem them up for 2 mill and they refused to pay them. I don't even know what ultimately the hackers think their end goal here was because this isn't somthing that's like damning evidence or an email from a corporate exec being racist or anything like that. They release all this info out aaaand.....???? Ok so now everyone knows that there's potentially more X-men games coming. OH MAN....YOU REALLY DID A NUMBER ON INSOMNIAC THERE.

axeman61 · December 19, 2023

16 hours ago, Sonichuman said:

David Jaffe thinks Kratos is too soft now

https://80.lv/articles/god-of-war-s-creator-thinks-that-the-character-of-kratos-took-a-wrong-turn/

He's said some other stuff including saying he thinks the team should have put their experiences into a different game other than God of War. I'm going to respectfully disagree...Saying Kratos is soft is a weird take to have especially if you've atleast been through the first fight with Balder/Stranger. I feel like that was really the whole main purpose of that fight cause at first the game was pretty melancholic and slow and it lulls you. "Is this really Kratos? Man he really got a handle on himself" and then WHAM...UPPERCUTED TO WHOLE DIF ZIPCODE. "Oh wait no this is God of War". I'd say Kratos is more nuanced in the 2 recent games...soft isn't it.

Edit:

I kinda get what he's getting at; Kratos has matured A LOT for someone who did the shit he did in GOW3. But still: is Kratos supposed to just be a stab-happy murderer forever? Wouldn't that get stale?