Video Game Discussion Thread vol. 2

[YourFavGrandpa]

On 1/6/2023 at 10:59 AM, YourFavGrandpa said:

I'm considering it as well tbh. Dunno if I'll go with a physical copy, since I don't trade games in; but it beats not being able to play until the afternoon of release (unless I go out to Target at 8am to get a physical copy).

I'm probably gonna wait until some point in February to pick it up. I still have quite the backlog of Switch games to get through; so I'm probably safe on waiting to get this. I might get this for completing my 5K, I'm not entirely sure.

Also:
https://limitedrungames.com/collections/all-games/products/switch-limited-run-166-arcade-classics-anniversary-collection

 

Shmup highlights include Twinbee (the very first one), Salamander, and Gradius I & II. I really want to get this, but I may end up getting it digital because of funds being short this next week. I might be able to switch some funds around and get the Classic version, if not just the game cart by itself.

Edited January 7, 2023 by YourFavGrandpa

[Hecatom]

7 minutes ago, BornWinner said:

Most accurate adaption to break the video game adaptation curse by the way.

 

 

 

 

As expected, people are not happy

 

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I am not even fan of the games, but I know this changes are some bullshit since it removes one of the most iconic things about the setting, and what added tension.

 

Edited January 7, 2023 by Hecatom

[Wellman]

8 minutes ago, BornWinner said:

Most accurate adaption to break the video game adaptation curse by the way.

 

 

I know it isn't that big of a deal but still funny given his boast.

[Faltimar the Dark]

To me it seems like a big deal.  I didnt even like the game (only played the first) but that is the entire reason the fuckin' shit happened in the game.

[RSG3]

So are they just typical bite zombies now?

[Hecatom]

1 minute ago, RSG3 said:

So are they just typical bite zombies now?

 

 

 

[Sonichuman]

Got to meet Tee Lopes!   He was at Anton's concert and I was able to spot him with the mask on!  Dude is chill AF!  I told him about how much I enjoyed his music and even downloaded the TMNT ost before playing it just to hear him.  He gave me a Sonic Mania instruction booklet that he signed in front of me unprompted.  Dude is just cool.

 

Also was able to get a picture with Mega Ran who's as chill as I expected him to be. This Magfest has been amazing!

[Sonichuman]

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[iStu X]

2 hours ago, Hecatom said:

 

 

 

Yivo for Last of Us Adaptation confirmed 

 

 

Edited January 8, 2023 by iStu X

[Sonichuman]

I remember saying that smash earlier that Smash people not showering wasn't just a mutually eclusive thing and god damn if I didn't get a reminder of that shit while I was in line for a concert just now.  Whoever the fuck it was that I was downwind of for the time I was in the line clearly has not taken a shower since Magfest started on Thursday because GAAAWD DAMN.  Making my fucking eyes sting with this shit.  I'm surprised I didn't see literal stink lines coming from whoever it was.

 

 

Edited January 8, 2023 by Sonichuman

[iStu X]

4 minutes ago, Sonichuman said:

I remember saying that smash earlier that Smash people not showering wasn't just a mutually eclusive thing and god damn if I didn't get a reminder of that shit while I was in line for a concert just now.  Whoever the fuck it was that I was downwind of for the time I was in the line clearly has not taken a shower since Magfest started on Thursday because GAAAWD DAMN.  Making my fucking eyes sting with this shit.  I'm surprised I didn't see literal stink lines coming from whoever it was.

 

 

 

 

[Hecatom]

 

 

[RSG3]

Invited my mother over for lunch and she showed up and handed me this. Said she found it while cleaning out the storage. Dope.

 

[JGreen]

3 hours ago, Sonichuman said:

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Damn. I’ve got to play this game next. Everything I’ve seen about it looks fantastic but I keep getting sidetracked by other games. Fire Emblem Engage is not going to help my gaming backlog either. 

[Sonichuman]

Supposedly sitting your PS5 vertically is not good for the ps5

https://wololo.net/2023/01/05/youre-killing-your-ps5-by-using-it-vertically-due-to-a-design-flaw-by-sony-according-to-hardware-experts/

[Chadouken]

6 hours ago, Hecatom said:

 

 

 

Gets hired to make a show based on a zombie game.

 

"We wanted to avoid making a zombie show."

 

[J-ride]

Expectations subverted! 🤡

Edited January 8, 2023 by J-ride

[TheInfernoman]

So if I were to guess The Last of Us was bought for the brand name only. They want to make a show that focuses on wrong parts of what made the game good and assume the average viewers won't care about details like what causes the "zombies" in this world to be how they are. 🙃

[MillionX]

So...I actually saw an Xbox Series X at a store recently...but oddly enough I passed up the opportunity.  I haven't even played my XB1 in quite a while lately, since I've been playing more stuff Switch, PS5 and Steam Deck... almost seems like there's not much of a point in that system right now, at least for me.  One good thing is perhaps that's a sign that things are going back to how it was in the good ol' days when you could just buy a system whenever you feel like it if you have the money to do so..?  I'd hate for it to stay as "the new normal" that you have to hope to get lucky in your hunt for the system you want.

 

*of course, this would be different if the next Gears of War game were due to be released very soon, but I've heard nothing about that so I assume it's far off into the future... and the next Fable is probably way off as well (*and doubtful it could match the concept potential Kingdoms of Amalur already realized several years ago)....those are the only exclusives of note that would mean something to me.  There's a new Perfect Dark in the works apparently so there's that too, I guess....maybe those exclusives will show up at some point 302 years from now, right after that next Elder Scrolls game...shortly after the Gambit film and Beyond Good & Evil 2 is out.

Edited January 8, 2023 by MillionX

[HD-Man]

I hate these writers/directors that use video game properties and ignore the game. Im not expecting a remake of the game in video form, but respect the goddamn source material

 

Just make your own show/movie property if you're just gonna do what you want anyway 

[Chadouken]

[Hecatom]

The only reason why I think that the series is still not considered a potential trainwreck like the Halo series is because is the Chernobyl dude making it, so at least we know that the human drama will be hopefully well written as in Chernobyl, but outside of that, it feels like he has contempt/disdain for the source material.

 

 

[Darc_Requiem]

On 1/7/2023 at 4:23 PM, Wellman said:

I know it isn't that big of a deal but still funny given his boast.

I'm not big TLOU fan but it's a huge deal.  I mean it's plays into Ellie having to hide her immunity. I mean it's huge tension point in the game. It makes the "zombie show" comment even more humorous in my view because the spores were big thing that separated TLOU from the standard zombie fair. Breathing in the wrong air would seal your doom. Now it doesn't.

[Hecatom]

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[Sonichuman]

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[MillionX]

Ah, there is actually 1 reason for me to get a Series X then... I forgot that this is *apparently(?) an exclusive...

...hell yeah I'm looking forward to this... I'd prefer to be on the side of the vamps and cultists though.  That could've been an interesting alternate story-path, though I realize that's a lot of extra writing and development to do... but imagine you start off as one of the regular human cultists, and eventually the vampires reward you and your chapter of the cult with the embrace after proving your worth for a few sidequests... then you become one of them.

[Sonichuman]

 

[AriesWarlock]

 

Oh, LRG, in what have you gotten involved now

 

 

Kara Lynne, the now-ex community manager of Limited Run, was reportedly fired following complaints from a trans activist on Twitter who had dissected Lynne’s social media history.

 

Jonathan “Jessica” Blank, a trans-identified male better known in the My Little Pony fan community as Purple Tinker, published a Twitter thread on January 6 accusing Lynne of “transphobia” and tagging Limited Run Games in an apparent effort to have her penalized.

The so-called infractions Blank leveled against Lynne included that she had been following popular conservative social media account Libs of TikTok, and had posted a tweet expressing opposition to self-identification laws in 2016.

 

 

 

Despite Blank’s recent campaign against Lynne for “transphobia,” Blank has been accused of serious infractions by some within the My Little Pony fandom. The accusations include those of racism, sexism, stalking, and doxing.

 

Blank has even been accused of transphobia himself, and penned an apology in 2013 for threatening to “out” a trans-identified individual he disliked.

Other posts which received backlash include comments made by Blank in 2014 on Tumblr in which he appeared to challenge the “legitimacy” of statutory rape “as a concept,” and other comments he made around the same time defending childhood porn exposure.

 

Jonathan Blank, the trans-identified male ostensibly responsible for launching the campaign that got Lynne fired, has deactivated his Twitter account since backlash began to accumulate.

 

In 2014, Blank boasted of coding a redirect targeting a specific IP address he believed belonged to an individual who was visiting his website for “hateful” reasons. Rather than being granted access to his site, the unsuspecting visitor was sent to pages containing My Little Pony rape fantasy art, hardcore pornography, and the website of the pro-pedophile North American Man-Boy Love Association.

 

Their next couple of tweets from LRG had people calling them out, so they had to disable comments for subsequent tweets.

Edited January 9, 2023 by AriesWarlock

[TheInfernoman]

I called them out too

[Hecatom]

LMAO

 

 

And then some people wonder why G4tv never had a chance, lol

[RSG3]

I didn't need to read that to know he hates all gamers lol.

 

Mans fueled by hate and the sooner he disappears from the gaming sphere on every level, the better off gaming will be. He's the scumbag he rants about in those tweets.

[Hecatom]

30 minutes ago, TheInfernoman said:

I called them out too

 

Speaking of which.

The person who got the whole situation rolling, getting the woman fired after searching through 6 years of her tweeter history, is a well documented groomer and has plenty of tweets, many very recent mind you, talking about how 14yo should be allowed to have sex with adults if they want to...

 

 

 

 

 

I guess that being exited about Hogwarts Legacy is bad (this whole shit started because the woman fired expressed her hype about the game), but grooming is OK according to LRG 🤣

 

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This person is so toxic that the people working on MLP FiM detest him, since he has harassed staff and voice actors in the past, the majority of the community don't want to get involved with him and his convention at all, since it is the embodiment of all the negative stereotypes that the community is blamed of being.

 

Then add that most of the victims of his harassment are women.

Was part of the harassment campaign towards a person who ended committing suicide, etc, etc.

Edited January 9, 2023 by Hecatom

[Wellman]

I honestly will not go into any side of this but I will just say the fact that the company which bought Limited Run Games is called the Embracer Group is funny especially in this context.

[Hecatom]

9 minutes ago, RSG3 said:

I didn't need to read that to know he hates all gamers lol.

 

Mans fueled by hate and the sooner he disappears from the gaming sphere on every level, the better off gaming will be. He's the scumbag he rants about in those tweets.

 

I am totally with you on that.

I just find humorous how terminally online this dude is and how unhinged he is that he went on 9 hours rant about gamers.

[Sonichuman]

God damn...LRG landed on one hell of a land mine.  That conversation that jerk had about statutory rape is WHOA.  I mean I disagree with Lynne but if she's not actively going around punching trans people in the face or actively harming someone then firing her is rough.  If the trans woman had actually found evidence that Lynne's was actually doing transphobic stuff or harming people then that would have been one thing cause LRG ain't Disney.   I didn't know who TF this Lynne woman was and her pull on anything is probably minimal at best.  She's not in the limelight and her opinions probably have barely any sway over someone who is a legit person of influence.   And that's before we even finding out that this trans person is a hypocritical asshole which makes everything WAAAAY worse.

 

Edit:  Yeah after reading the laundry list of stuff above, Jessica is definitely the worse kind of human being possible it looks like.   She's pretty much the reason why conservatives think the venn diagram for pedophilia and and the alphabet mafia is a circle.

Edited January 9, 2023 by Sonichuman

[Camacho]

1 hour ago, Sonichuman said:

God damn...LRG landed on one hell of a land mine.  That conversation that jerk had about statutory rape is WHOA.  I mean I disagree with Lynne but if she's not actively going around punching trans people in the face or actively harming someone then firing her is rough.  If the trans woman had actually found evidence that Lynne's was actually doing transphobic stuff or harming people then that would have been one thing cause LRG ain't Disney.   I didn't know who TF this Lynne woman was and her pull on anything is probably minimal at best.  She's not in the limelight and her opinions probably have barely any sway over someone who is a legit person of influence.   And that's before we even finding out that this trans person is a hypocritical asshole which makes everything WAAAAY worse.

 

Edit:  Yeah after reading the laundry list of stuff above, Jessica is definitely the worse kind of human being possible it looks like.   She's pretty much the reason why conservatives think the venn diagram for pedophilia and and the alphabet mafia is a circle.

People like this purple tinker cretin love to pretend that anyone not actively tossing their salad is committing violence against them. We've gone from asking for tolerance and acceptance to demanding unrelenting praise, and millions of bandwagon hoppers are glad to give their wretched campaigns steam.

[OPTIMUS124]

LRG is a company based right outside of Raleigh. I am surprised I haven't seen anything about them in any of the tech journals yet. 

[Sonichuman]

 

[DarkSakul]

4 hours ago, Hecatom said:

 

Speaking of which.

The person who got the whole situation rolling, getting the woman fired after searching through 6 years of her tweeter history, is a well documented groomer and has plenty of tweets, many very recent mind you, talking about how 14yo should be allowed to have sex with adults if they want to...

 

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I guess that being exited about Hogwarts Legacy is bad (this whole shit started because the woman fired expressed her hype about the game), but grooming is OK according to LRG 🤣

 

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This person is so toxic that the people working on MLP FiM detest him, since he has harassed staff and voice actors in the past, the majority of the community don't want to get involved with him and his convention at all, since it is the embodiment of all the negative stereotypes that the community is blamed of being.

 

Then add that most of the victims of his harassment are women.

Was part of the harassment campaign towards a person who ended committing suicide, etc, etc.

There a reason why now Bronycon is defunked and they are no longer around.

[Sonichuman]

Druckmann says he's intrigued by Elden Ring's approach to storytelling

https://www.ign.com/articles/naughty-dogs-neil-druckmann-is-intrigued-by-elden-rings-storytelling

 

Based on his words it sounds like they might be trying to make whatever game they're working on a bit more loose in design.

[DoctaMario]

5 hours ago, Sonichuman said:

God damn...LRG landed on one hell of a land mine.  That conversation that jerk had about statutory rape is WHOA.  I mean I disagree with Lynne but if she's not actively going around punching trans people in the face or actively harming someone then firing her is rough.  If the trans woman had actually found evidence that Lynne's was actually doing transphobic stuff or harming people then that would have been one thing cause LRG ain't Disney.   I didn't know who TF this Lynne woman was and her pull on anything is probably minimal at best.  She's not in the limelight and her opinions probably have barely any sway over someone who is a legit person of influence.   And that's before we even finding out that this trans person is a hypocritical asshole which makes everything WAAAAY worse.

 

Edit:  Yeah after reading the laundry list of stuff above, Jessica is definitely the worse kind of human being possible it looks like.   She's pretty much the reason why conservatives think the venn diagram for pedophilia and and the alphabet mafia is a circle.

This is the kind of culture that's been created though. It doesn't even matter if the allegations are true, all that has to happen is for them to be made and the company has to do backflips to assure people they aren't murdering choo choo people in the basement.

 

It's hilariously ironic though that all the people who make these allegations turn out to be uber shitbags. Like when someone makes these types of allegations I'm like

waiting to find out what kind of skeletons THEY have going on.

Edited January 10, 2023 by DoctaMario

[Hecatom]

 

[DoctaMario]

6 hours ago, Hecatom said:

 

I need to run through Order Of Ecclesia again; I only beat that one once and as I remember t was probably the best of the DS games.

[Sonichuman]

vids

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bkKKnAAKmA&

^ ChrisB Crisps - History of Star Fox Part 2

 

Dunno why it won't embed but I definitely do not remember that they had announced a Starfox arcade game to go with Assault.  Shame that never made it.

 

[Sonichuman]

Reviews for The Last of Us HBO series are starting to hit today it seems...the ones that I've skimmed over are VERY POSITVE.  A few of them are saying it's the best VG adaptation put out now.  Whether that's true or not remains to be seen but just throwing that out there in case people want to look around.  Really sucks that they took the spores out.

[Chadouken]

1 minute ago, Sonichuman said:

Really sucks that they took the spores out.

It does, but I still have faith that it'll be a decent show. I like Pedro as an actor, and that bad ass princess bitch from GoT, even though they don't look much like their videogame counterparts. HBO has a good track record for quality content. For the most part.

[DangerousJ]

I'm not too invested in TLOU, but I always thought Josh Brolin with a beard would be a great Joel and Ellen Page (pre-transition) would be decent as Ellie.

 

 

Edited January 10, 2023 by DangerousJ

[Sonichuman]

21 minutes ago, DangerousJ said:

I'm not too invested in TLOU, but I always thought Josh Brolin with a beard would be a great Joel and Ellen Page (pre-transition) would be decent as Ellie.

 

 

Not sure if you're joking or not but this was actually a point of contention when the game first released.