Games Chat Thread IX: Revelations (September Games Chat Thread)

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Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Help Im Alive posted:

XCOM2 is good, right? I never got to play it because I don't have a good PC but I loved XCOM1 on PS3

I think it might overall not be as good as 1 but still pretty good.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2016 17:21

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 19:01

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

CrashCat posted:

which is why i laugh when the kids backlash about tarted up women in video games these days, they don't even realize how it used to be so much worse

I've literally never seen anyone who thinks this is a recent development, only disappointment that it's somehow still happening.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2016 22:25

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

So does that new youtube rule mean people who basically make a living yelling about Anita Sarkeesian are now hosed?

# ¿ Sep 1, 2016 09:00

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

CJacobs posted:

yeah i guess but so are people who don't do that because they skipped "hate speech" and went straight for "all speech" do not pass go do not collect monetization dollars

Yeah I'm not going "woop woop good job youtube!" but if as a side effect of this lovely new rule the most horrible people get hosed over that's p. funny.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2016 09:03

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Palpek posted:

It's supposed to be a coffee cup with a star in the coffee but I know it's not readable. I only realized when I saw it shrinked down. I'll replace it with something clearer shortly when I figure out what other thing would be cool for the Twin Peaks/Deadly Premonition brand. I'm thinking about an owl.

Slice of pie.

Golden Goat posted:

What's the new rule?

It's really vague language

code:

Controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including subjects related to war,
political conflicts,natural disasters and tragedies, even if graphic imagery
is not shown

But it seems to extend to videos that are basically calling out people. You can still make such videos but the youtube robots will turn monetization off for them.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2016 09:41

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

CJacobs posted:

Thankfully most people who have a patreon seem to be aware that doing purely-subscriber-only content will gain them a lot of dislike. For most I've seen it's stuff like "get a video a day early" or "get behind the scenes making-of stuff" etc.

Get the uncensored and futa versions of this steven universe fanart at the 15 dollar tier.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2016 12:48

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

In Training posted:

Here's Septembers games of the month

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr9QWQNqWRg

That trailer REALLY doesn't want me to get a good look at the game.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2016 14:48

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

FirstAidKite posted:

I dunno what you're talking about, that is the game

Is it a mobile game or something? That screen is tiny.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2016 14:53

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

In Training posted:

its an arcade game, you need to rotate your monitor to 9:16

You'd think they'd have a widescreen pan or something.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2016 14:58

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

In Training posted:

I'm sorry that wanting to see the game at a reasonable size is weird to you.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2016 15:00

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

CrashCat posted:

In a shoot 'em up? Don't you need to see everything?

In a trailer. Dodonpachi is known for its spritework, showing it at such a tiny size is not good use of youtube real estate.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2016 15:05

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Sometimes I forget everyone but me is an idiot.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2016 15:07

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

CJacobs posted:

final fantasy 14 has a follower pet that's a dog that's a king

It rolls over on its stomach if you do a /pet at it

Gestahl is the evil emperor from FF6, for you gamers born after 1998.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2016 16:33

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Alfalfa The Roach posted:

Everyone needs to start boycotting YouTube now imo

They already are, since the internet's decided to interpret the new dumb policy as "everything ever is banned".

# ¿ Sep 1, 2016 21:31

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

CJacobs posted:

Personally I don't like it because of their hypocrisy; instead of taking down videos that break the rules of the policy, google takes away the user's monetization on the video and then monetizes it themselves. It's messed up.

I think the biggest problem right now is how incredibly vague the new guidelines are. When you're talking about potentially taking away someone's livelihood, you don't get to be like "I'll know it when I see it". You need to show people exactly where the line is.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2016 22:01

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Zaphod42 posted:

Its not just youtube, its the government. Our whole society respects big name companies and basically gives little care or rights to small individuals or small businesses.

If you don't have your own lawyers on retainer, gently caress you.

DMCA is a very "shoot first, ask questions later" type of legislation.

Seize the means of content creation.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2016 23:09

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

CJacobs posted:

Is there still a goon game dev thread here in Games? I thought there was one but I can't find it and can't remember the thread title.

I could make a new one.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2016 00:34

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

The only Metroid-y Castlevanias I'd call great are Symphony, Circle of the Moon and Aria of Sorrow. The others were decent to bad. I don't have a ton of faith in Bloodstained because IGA has way more bad and mediocre CVs to his name than good ones.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2016 20:30

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Phantasium posted:

The only Metroid-y Castlevania games I'll call good are... hrm... all of them.

Actually, that's not productive. What insane criterion makes the others bad?

How about YOU make an argument for why Portrait of Ruin and Harmony of Dissonance don't suck.

Shindragon posted:

Though if Iga was the one responsible for HOD then can't blame him.

Harmony of Dissonance was IGA going "Circle of the Moon is BULLSHIT, let me show you how it's done" and then he made a bad game.

He also made those awful PS2 3D Castlevanias.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2016 20:37

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Phantasium posted:

It is less that and more that I don't understand how people can like one of them and hate a ton of other similar ones. But that is not something unique to you.

Each game has different art assets, music, level design and even mechanics. I judge games on their specific elements and not their overall vibe. None of the CVs were so bad that I flat out hated them but I'd still call some of them pretty darn bad.

ImpAtom posted:

This is entirely your fanfiction and has no actual basis in anything anyone has ever said about HoD.

I was being hyperbolic, but IGA specifically got the reins back to make CV games on the GBA because he thought he could do a better job than the US team and mentioned in several interviews he didn't consider their games canon.

Lurdiak fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Sep 2, 2016

# ¿ Sep 2, 2016 20:43

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

ImpAtom posted:

... the US team who made Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, based out of Kobe Japan and staffed entirely by Japanese developers?

... drat, I've been working off bad information for a long time.

ImpAtom posted:

Yeah, Juste has a giant blue outline around him to try to compensate for the lovely-rear end original GBA with no backlight. On anything that isn't a old-model GBA it looks positively garish.

There is an entire era of GBA games that look horrible due to compensating for lack of backlighting, it's a shame.

Lurdiak fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Sep 2, 2016

# ¿ Sep 2, 2016 20:49

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Sakurazuka posted:

And, uh, Hybrid Heaven I think. They didn't have a great N64 track record.

I kinda love Hybrid Heaven. I mean it's not really a good game but I love the weird ideas it has.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2016 21:12

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Phantasium posted:

Is that the weird Parasite Eve-ish game where you suplex mutants?

I should try that again.

Yes and yes.

Your body parts level up separately.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2016 21:18

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Ciaphas posted:

Should I even bother downloading Shadow Warrior? It seems like it's gonna be hard to top DOOM

It's p. good.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2016 21:49

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

By the time I get into Overwatch I'm gonna be so behind on the memes.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2016 02:49

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

CJacobs posted:

Play Stardew Valley though it's a good remedy

Do not play Stardew Valley if you have depression.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2016 06:51

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

CJacobs posted:

Why not

It's the Everquest effect.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2016 07:19

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

CJacobs posted:

edit: I hope this doesn't autoplay at max volume for anybody, it doesn't for me but computers and phones are all different creatures

RIP everyone's ears.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2016 18:14

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Speaking of horrendous, are the Battleborn servers shut down yet?

# ¿ Sep 4, 2016 19:01

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Just get a Wii U.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2016 13:26

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Quest For Glory II posted:

trying so hard to wait for crosscode to finish before playing it

I guess Barkley 2 did come out after all.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2016 14:21

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Palpek posted:

Here's the original recruitment thread for it. The OP last posted in 2014. This is from him on the first page of that thread:

Reading all that praise in that thread from different people is great even today.