General Video Game Thread

[Solstice]

Considering detoxing from the internet for this week to avoid the inevitable gleeful spoiling of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

I’ve been really enjoying the reimagining of the series, and I swear, if some random clickbait article throws a spoiler in the title (or a “clever” nonspoiler attempt, which is somehow worse), I am going to be so very grouchy.

[GF]

@Solstice said in General Video Game Thread:

Considering detoxing from the internet for this week to avoid the inevitable gleeful spoiling of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

Sephiroth didn’t betray and murder Cloud’s father. He is Cloud’s father.

[Solstice]

@GF said in General Video Game Thread:

Sephiroth didn’t betray and murder Cloud’s father. He is Cloud’s father.

[Roz]

@GF said in General Video Game Thread:

@Solstice said in General Video Game Thread:

Considering detoxing from the internet for this week to avoid the inevitable gleeful spoiling of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

Sephiroth didn’t betray and murder Cloud’s father. He is Cloud’s father.

More like Cloud’s daddy.

[dvoraen]

@Roz said in General Video Game Thread:

@GF said in General Video Game Thread:

@Solstice said in General Video Game Thread:

Considering detoxing from the internet for this week to avoid the inevitable gleeful spoiling of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

Sephiroth didn’t betray and murder Cloud’s father. He is Cloud’s father.

More like Cloud’s daddy.

Excuse me, this is Final Fantasy VII reMAKE, and reBIRTH, not reWRITE or reFANFIC.

[GF]

I think I hate video games?

So I recently started replaying an oldish game I bought, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Came out in 2019. I mostly really liked it; good gameplay, though the story and character design were weird about women in ways I don’t care enough to get into because for once, that’s not the point. The point is that when I fired up the game, a bunch of updates had to download. When the updates were downloaded, the game was broken in ways it hadn’t been before. Mostly minor things like money falling through walls so you can’t collect it, familiars preventing you from collecting loot or glitching out so you can’t switch familiars when you need to. Stuff like that.

None of it breaks the game, but it grates. These problems weren’t there at launch, and now are because the game I bought is no longer the game I bought. That bothers me. No matter how good a game is, it can be altered after the point of purchase to become less fun and less playable.

It seems like that should not be how things are.

[Solstice]

A similar note: I cannot stand when games micro-update and it breaks all of my mods.

Beat Saber, I swear to god I do not care that you just added a new Fall Out Boy DLC that I can buy for $9.99 or whatever, let me get my library of like 400 modded songs back.

[Pavel]

@Solstice Yes!

Let me choose when to get an update. Looking at you every game I have on Steam.

[Solstice]

So, in full transparency, I didn’t care for Alan Wake II because the plot didn’t grab me and the gameplay loop wasn’t quite my jam.

But holy hell it’s a gorgeous game. The dingy interiors, the oppressive way that the woods close in on what should be ‘wide open’ levels make it feel claustrophobic in a way that really works for a horror setting. I didn’t feel relieved to be outdoors, I felt uneasy. It’s got such a cohesive art design that I really need to give kudos.

And that one level (I’ll just be vague here since spoiler tags are being a butt, but you know. The one with lots of video.) was just so out there and different that I was giggling throughout. Such a fun idea, and brings to mind similarly freaking weird portions of the Max Payne franchise.

A lot here to like.

[Cobalt]

@Solstice said in General Video Game Thread:

Considering detoxing from the internet for this week to avoid the inevitable gleeful spoiling of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

I’ve been really enjoying the reimagining of the series, and I swear, if some random clickbait article throws a spoiler in the title (or a “clever” nonspoiler attempt, which is somehow worse), I am going to be so very grouchy.

Same. Also I had a fight with my spouse about who got to play it first, because he got to play ff16 first and there was no point in playing such a linear game after watching it played.

[Duke Whisky]

Realised haven’t done a round-up for a while.

Manor Lords - I’ll keep mentioning this game, 15 days away from Early Access being released. It’ll be the perfect medieval-themed city builder.

Norland - Kind of medieval-themed Rimworld, saw the trailer for this game yesterday. Looks fun, looks like a good colony-builder game.

Song of Silence - So the graphics are a bit mobile-game, but it had an interesting mesh of genres. I’d put it closer to old Might and Magic style games than anything else. The voice acting though was pretty poor.

Rimworld Anomaly DLC - Releases later today. It is Rimworld the daddy of colony games.

Supermarket Simulator - Sounds stupid but running a supermarket is really chill. I can tell customers that giving $100 for a bottle of water is awful.

[Snackness]

@Duke-Whisky Anomaly comes out TODAY!? Be back in a week…

[Duke Whisky]

@Snackness - Right?! I swear that just snuck out suddenly. What happened to a fortnight?!

[dvoraen]

I’ve been eyeing Manor Lords, myself. My city-builder game for now has been Farthest Frontier, which is close to 1.0 launch and just had a major update for its combat system that I haven’t explored yet.

Lightyear Frontier - Early Access. This is a life sim type game for 1-4 players with a little alien civilization mystery attached. I spent about 30-40h on just the basics before I put it down for the next update, having done virtually everything the EA launch had to offer. I have not found all the secrets, though, so I may go back to that.

Soulmask - Early Access in June; open limited-time beta on May 1. This is kind of like Conan Exiles, in that it’s a survival-tribal type of game with PVE elements. I’m not sure how to fully explain it. I wanted to like it, but I had a hard time getting into it alone, so I feel like it’s meant for multiplayer. There are PVP elements to it as well (PVE and PVP servers, for example).

[somasatori]

I picked up Broken Roads, which is a new Dingo Elysium game (dialogue 'em up set in Australia). It’s all right so far! Still figuring out if I’m enjoying the philosophical system as it sort of seems like the usual RPG choices but with a reference to Hume or Machiavelli. Like, should I save the raider chief’s life because all human life has inherent good and I’m a staunch Kantian? Or should I kill him for the utilitarian greater good? OR should I kill him because he might come after me and I’m a nihilist and therefore must maximize my own chances to survive?

I mean, it’s cool so far. The controls and pathfinding are a little clunky. It has an isometric fallout feel, as it’s post apocalyptic.

Edit: It has terrible reviews, seemingly because of the clunky controls and bugs, but they haven’t really bothered me yet. Maybe it’s like a YMMV situation.

[Pavel]

@somasatori said in General Video Game Thread:

I’m a staunch Kantian

That phrase has a very different meaning in Australia.

[somasatori]

@Pavel said in General Video Game Thread:

@somasatori said in General Video Game Thread:

I’m a staunch Kantian

That phrase has a very different meaning in Australia.

Both meanings fit me, I think.

[Cobalt]

@dvoraen PLAY LIGHTYEAR FRONTIER WITH ME PLEASE

[Cobalt]

I spent 100+ in Enshrouded and now I have nothing left to do in the game and my life is meaningless.

[Solstice]

@Cobalt

You must start to build one voxel at a time!