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viewmaster_pi posted...

this party's cool, but i wish there was a way to find the geeks and gamers in the crowd

(Adjusted for 2022)
Most lethargic, youtuber-esque voice possible: "hashtag when it be a fidget spinner and harambe and we are number one but its megalovania and y'all be like a spongebob jojo reference"
*All the geeks and gamers appear and participate in the saying of the very funny things*
*Everyone is happy*

party_animal07 posted...

That was the ps3. The ps2 was the rpg with a side of variety pack console.

It wasn't a casual console so much as it had something for everyone. That's a good thing for gaming.

Also, all consoles are mindless time sinks.

PS3 and 360 both doubled down on it because it was what PS2 was and what made it work.
Glass half full/half empty on the something for everyone part. I'd take a game console that was all game over one that was general entertainment spread much thinner.
I'll probably always see it as the running start on the path to the mtx ridden/nonfunctional with day 1 patch/interactive movie mess we ended up with.

party_animal07 posted...

How exactly was the ps2 more casual friendly?

It was the mindless guns and graphics console, the shovelware factory of its time. The standard came collection you'd expect from a PS2 enthusiast was GTA, generic shooter, football/sports sim, generic realistic car simulation, a few movie tie ins and occasionally an RPG or Kingdom Hearts that they'd try not to be overheard discussing.

Not saying there weren't good games but they were way off in the background.

Agreed.
There was encroaching darkness in the form of Sony harnessing the forbidden power of casuals with the PS2.
Which was followed with total darkness when Nintendo fought back in kind and unleashed the full might of the casuals with the Wii.

Other than that Gamecube was the happiest time.

The count on the other board's already up to 920-somethingK
It's slightly harder to gauge the rate it's moving at though since it's started updating in 2 increments a day.

The gameplay's pretty solid but the campaign doesn't lend itself well to replays.
Mercs is the best part, it's completely dominated by this one grenade glitch if you're after high scores but aside from that it's a lot of fun to just put some background sound on and play with the combat system. Mercs has a bunch of costumes with different loadouts but the odd thing is in this one you can't use the different costumes in the main game. Pirate Leon does not care for the adventure, he just wants to destroy.

They toned down the power tripping a little, instead of infinite ammo being like it was before you have to reload your clip from your endless supply now. Co-op on pro difficulty, infinite ammo disabled and agent hunt on is more fun anyway. Player controlled enemies that drop first aid sprays is hard to say no to. The counter system is basically there to fill in for infinite ammo anyway, a lot of them are insta-kills, buy you a sec of invuln time that a partner can act on and even though they drastically nerfed their ability to hit multiple enemies with one swipe, it's still possible.
Ustanak was super fucking cool and I wish they'd integrated him a little better. More player controlled Ustanak opportunities for agent hunt coulda been pretty metal.

5 > 4 > 6 >>> the walking simulators
Never played Revelations, thought about it for years but kept my distance because it looked like they sucked a lot of the fun out.

They should make it as boring as possible, call it atmospheric and see what happens from there.

So if you have a prosthetic limb does that shrink too? Is anyone with extra discs and plates and chunks of metal in them now in serious trouble?

No but I do think about this a lot.

This sounds like a botched supervillain plot to make resources last by shrinking almost everything.
Or Attack on Titan with unusually small victims instead of unusually large aggressors.

Everyone'd be too small to operate a gun so you'd have a period of hand to hand combat or staged accidents being the only form of combat.

Okay that really doesn't help her case, being asked to visit FF15 is even worse than a temple trial and I'd forgotten in X you're not talking about just some naturally occurring entity, it's actually some sort of manifestation of someone who sacrificed themselves.

Sheva is the best option here by a mile. Even with the big handicap you gave the other two by using the default costume and not Fairy Tale or Business. She has a mercs loadout with a handcannon and 5 gold eggs (5 full health bars and they all stack on one inventory spot, man), can do spinning jump kicks, will happily follow you around with 8 first aid sprays and a longbow to keep you safe and healthy and she got to meet RE5 Wesker in person which is has to be some sort of blessing, enlightenment or misc good luck spell. Never forget Chris assaulted that boulder for her. You don't do that for just anyone.

Shiva doesn't talk which sucks and she probably radiates cold which I don't need because it's winter already. She would probably attract a lot of negative attention just by being some sort of ice demon that shoots ice blasts. She also might try to make me attend one of those Yevon temple trials which I'm not in the mood for. Non-verbally. I bet that's not obtuse and tiring.

Sheeva is from the cartoonishly evil MK dimension where people tear each other limb from limb over small disagreements. I'm not even going for the easy cosmetic insults. She probably has little to no concept of empathy and has values wholly incompatible with what you'd want. Last time I checked her moveset sucked, getting taken clothes shopping with her would be an absolute ordeal, she's probably not very interesting to talk to and probably puts way to much effort into trying to sound tough. Any ideas in your head about what four arms could do will probably only lead to frustration when she either won't or can't understand and reciprocate.

Sheva could also defeat both of them because the RE5 infinite rocket launcher is out of control in the best way.

EA/Ubisoft/Sony/Bethesda logo nice and visible on all the promotional pics and videos.

Covid's a mixed bag.
Sometimes you get optimistic vaccine progress, sometimes you get alarming spikes, sometimes you get CHAOS.
Better than raw negativity.

Why would you not want to spend a lot of time with a joke name?
All my Dark Souls and New Vegas characters have idiotic names. If spending all that time on an old video game is dumb I might as well lean into it and have some fun right?

Art and Covid news somehow. I'm disgracefully bad at drawing things but it is kind of rewarding to make some small progress in a puzzle game kind of way. Covid I try to check in on a lot because 1 it's nice to see actual news on the news for once and 2 it's still doing numbers and I shouldn't take my eye off it.

It was music until very recently, I think I just hit that point where I've listened to the thing I like too much and it's started really losing its lustre.
It would be video games if they were still good or some of the older ones had good playerbases. Would be nice to find a good long source of background noise to prop up the ones that've gotten stale too.

I like to think there's some news writer somewhere sitting there with the article about the explosion already written, just eagerly waiting for the event to go down so they can fill in the blanks like a mad libs.

*Steamrolls through levels with infinite ammo minigun, hydra shotgun, rocket launcher and handcannon.*
*Cutscene starts, player characters are suddenly depicted clumsily bum rushing villain with weak pistols they should not have then they are defeated.*
cool

*Stunlocks Xenoblade boss for 5 minutes with yellow and green stuns and more team attacks than any enemy in the game would ever require*
...
*Gets bored, accepts fate and stops so the dumb boss can do his dumb move and we can look pathetic and helpless in the cutscene*

You'd think a game about messing with futures and defying fate would account for this sorta stuff on my second lap through. Just let me trample him, give me a ng+ exclusive reward and then play the cutscene regardless.

Edit: And for the record I started trying to put that into spoiler free words before you declared this a flopic.

Could also say "END OF TUTORIAL"

I'm still leaning toward you doing the manifestation of someone's inner negativity character gimmick thing. Like you're wearing the dark robe and talking all sombrely then I look at your sig and it's like the a draft of wind hit the robe and I caught a glimpse of the miscolored sports shoes you're wearing.

Oh that's okay, just stick with it for a while like No Man's Sky and Fallout 76 and you'll eventually get the opportunity to help rehabilitate the company's image by acting like it's gotten much better and that you were right to bet on it all along.

Probably sprint to cover and go AAAAGGGHH I NEEED A MEDIC BAG!!

Wait is this not normal?

yeah you missed the glorious and addicting dmc2 as the witty and gameplay rich DmC devil may cry reboot starring an embittered game dev.

I know Youtubers and Tiktokers are a damning indictment of everything around us but even they don't deserve to be lumped in with NFT fuckers.

I can only imagine you sounding kind of like that cornholio voice. With extra weird noises in between words, some of them aggressive sounding and others more confused.
Edit: Wait not quite cornholio, a bit more Kermit like. I know these remind me of something really weird but I can't recall what.

No, I spend too much time weighing the pros and cons and I'm very sure I'd keep my distance.

I don't watch him and haven't for a long time but he was alright.
The thing I remember most isn't really any of his reviews but rather those fight videos he made with AVGN.
"Oh don't you talk shit about my boxes, I LIKE BOXES!"

As long as it's just crypto scumbags eating each other. It's out of hand once it's reaching into the real world and affecting innocents.

Lately when I get up I have to sit down and go "Uh what do I like again?" for an increasingly long time and I've suddenly gotten much worse at picking out a song that I'm feeling as background noise.
Worst part of the day is if I don't come up with anything and it starts to envelop the whole day.
If that doesn't happen though then yeah the getting up part is usually a drag.

I occasionally remember this and use it as an ice breaker question in TF2 matches.
I wonder if the ending's going to reflect the miserable state they've left the game in.

Gwynevere posted...

Bloodborne being stuck on PS4 is one of gaming's biggest sins. The performance really tanks in some areas, and hasn't gotten a next gen touch up. It's actually the only reason I cant get rid of my ps4, or I would have traded it in for some cash towards a series s ages ago

Bloodborne really needs to come to PC

Back when it had some hype yeah it was a real shame. At this point it looks like Dark Souls with a dash, a much less interesting world and a heavier insistence that you must adhere to the playstyle it's picked out for you. It's weird but I could go either way, if it helps them with their looming buyer's remorse, keep it.

Capcom though, an entire lineup of IPs to go back to getting this treatment would be disgraceful.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Ill agree about the replay value thing. But there's a large amount of gamers that don't replay games. So, not everyone is looking towards that and letting it effect their initial play. The rest, you're just blindly against something. I don't see how LoU, God of War, Ghost of Tsushima etc. is dumbed down in gameplay. You'd have to only be focused on what's not in those games and completely ignore how well made what is in it is. Complain about stuff that wasn't the the point from the start.

(Power rangers pose) Go go well-intentioned brain damage ramblings.

That's a terrible demographic to want to be part of. The interactive movie crowd. People who buy it once for the pre-release hype, walk from start to finish on easy or maybe medium difficulty then throw the thing out and get in line for the next shiny movie. I shouldn't suddenly turn around and put the current corrupt industry meta right up there with the actual good video games just because it's allegedly doing well by the new shallow ruleset it's come up with. Recognising something is all bells and whistles and responding by going "Oh but they're nice bells and whistles, that one's gold and that one looks silver but it's actually that rainbow oil spill color if you look close." does not sit right with me.

I am focusing on what's not in them because what's lost in exchange for what's gained is a seriously raw deal. Why would you trade your extra game modes, difficulties that go beyond bullet sponges and higher spawn rates, unlockable characters, dumb fun cheat codes and all that for talk about experiences, patronisingly easy modes for people who literally come for the one-time-movie, paid alternate skins and of course graphics which do nothing to the game and will be outdated sooner than later. You don't even need to buy the thing to look at the graphics.

Most the gameplay is your average point and shoot, mash the button for the QTE, never stop mashing if it's a beat em up because you don't want gameplay stopping players from experiencing the immersive cinematic experience, that'd be gatekeeping and that's hashtag unlit. Pick up the ladder, walk around with the ladder, set it down. Good. You will now be administered your reward, the characters will talk at length. I point out Resident Evil but I should be getting at more of the survival horror genre, if you know what's going to jump out when and where in a game that prides itself almost entirely on atmosphere to the detriment of the gameplay well then that's a one and done right there. You probably another playthrough on the samey higher difficulty and one extra playthrough with the one hit kill gun and that's only if there's any catharsis to it. God of War maybe but that had nowhere to go but up, that was real deal mash the punch button to unsatisfyingly stunlock crowds monotony.

Brain damage rant yes but I wish this shit would stop getting not only a pass but treated like video game royalty. They see every other cut corner, slight graphical/framerate fault, greedy dlc shenanigan, broken launch but somehow the all-hype-no-substance triple-a not-a-game-we-do-not-use-the-word-fun streamer bait gets a pass.
I wish video games would hurry up and either get better or repulse me to the point I'm finally ready to just walk off.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Also the gameplay is good like most PlayStation Exclusives. Add that and you're dead on.

No that's untrue. Walking around slowly listening to exposition and being pestered by cinematic interjections sucks. Tack that on to a dumbed down version of any genre and there's your exclusive.
Replay value taking a backseat is what really takes it from bad to awful though.

Pocket Sand and it's not even a competition.
Who even are the non-Anakin runners up? Who cares?
Pocket Sand.

Resident Evil might as well already be Sony exclusive already though considering it's just graphics and walking around slowly.

It'd be really nice of Sony to take Ubisoft and EA out of circulation and contain them in their bubble. I don't know if it'd be a redemption story but hey I bet the game stores would look nicer with less space polluted by yearly rehashes.
This is hell though so that's not happening.

What, you mean like whales? From mobile games? Yeah I know a couple of people who're happy to respond to a game being quarantined on a terrible console by rewarding everyone involved with the quarantining by just buying it all anyway.

You're probably right about 4, but I went with 5. 5's for me inspires this overwhelming sense of "AW FUCK YEAH IT'S GO TIME" because it almost always precedes Barry Burton or Wesker kicking an entire village worth of asses.

That might be the last straw.
I know Capcom's best days are behind them but them getting the Bloodborne quarantined on the walking simulator console that seems to actively loath Japanese games is just flat out not good enough.

You talk like one of those characters who's an evil manifestation of someone's negativity. Is that what you're going for?

segasaturn posted...

While I was watering my lawn

You're still watering your lawn, Paul?!

I believe that's the name of those puppet enemies in Devil May Cry 1, but I do not have one of those to present to you unfortunately. I think more spawn on DMD difficulty if you're planning to go searching.

Does the maid option account for mermaids?
Is the nurse overworked because of the times we live in?
Or is this actually just a question of which outfit do I think is better?

This is all I can think of every time this news story appears.

The year 2022 has arrived. A herd of truckin' ugly truckers are rushing from the border.
Covid rate skyrocketed! Canada is ruined! Therefore the Canada government called Pierre Trudeau's relative "Justin" for the mass vaccinations of the truckers. "Justin" is a vaccine machine.
Wipe out all 1.2 billion of the Covid Bioterrorists!
However, at the US border there was a secret project in progress! A project to transform the deceased Delta variant into an ultimate weapon!

A happy ending can be a sad ending.
"It's over. It's all resolved, they're happy and they don't need your participation anymore. Go away."

For some reason I got my hopes up for Wesker.

Back off, he's got the crypto personality! He must have been hiding a bite!