Didn’t watch the vid but saw the patch notes. Looks like everyone got a buff. Can’t wait to see how Guardians str/dex increase shakes out

Oh absolutely

I say that less as a knock on the game and more that there were technical compromises made back in the day as well. Nostalgia sometime last hits and people assume everything ran blazing fast.

Classics still had lag. DK Country 3’s final boss was so laggy it’d affect the boss music.

Not quite super classic you mentioned but a chunk of the speed run tech around Super Mario 64 is how to optimize the camera to avoid lagging on certain effects (the sunshine to the wing cap, the top tower in whomps fortress, the sub in dire dire docks).

Also OOT only ran at 20 fps

I mean I wasn’t really arguing that Concord had good character designs. Just that a chunk of his criteria (obesity and gender conformity) aren’t good criteria of it.

I don’t think you’re trying to engage honestly but I’m going to on the off chance someone is reading this thread on a bad day and thinking “maybe he has a point? Why can’t I be attracted to XYZ?”

You’re trying to twist this into a question of “do I have to be attracted to everyone in order to be accepting”?

The original question that’s being engaged with is why, in your words, does

• “morbidly obese”
• “gender non-conforming”

Make for “the worst character designs in living memory”? Why can’t gender non-conforming characters have an interesting character design? Why is physical fitness required for an interesting character design?

The subtext I’m reading from this is you think that in order for a character to have an interesting design that they must be attractive. If that’s not what you’re trying to say feel free to claim otherwise, but I don’t know why else you’d bring those factors in if you weren’t…

A counter argument to your claim: I claim deep rock galactic has very interesting character designs. The costumes all have a similar theme but are distinct enough I can tell the difference between the characters. The colors are both grimy to indicate being underground for long periods of time but also each has a bright color palette so you can easily distinguish between characters. I think these designs are great.

I am not attracted to any of these characters. I would never want to fuck any of them. I still think their designs are great. I don’t think attractiveness is a requirement for interesting character design.

Yeah I’m with you like this take always gets weirder to me.

I’m a straight man. I love hot girls (or if you want me to get pedantic girls that I find attractive)

I don’t have a requirement that I must want to fuck a majority of the women presented in each video game.

It’s also okay for people that aren’t like me to be in video games. Even for, gasp, the entirety of the cast to be people not like me.

It’s the one thing with those conservative media grift circles that gets me. If they truly had their way and every piece of media conformed to their “standards” it would be an absolutely boring fucking world where all media would just be sterile versions of the same turds pumped out. There’s be no new perspectives. No differing thoughts or challenging themes.

Concord sucked and had a lot of problems. The characters not being conventionally attractive and “gender non-conforming” weren’t problems.

Shitposting on Reddit and demanding PSN accounts

I feel like there are much higher targets for the signal right now.

Honestly I mostly agree with you if you include the DLC. IMO Outer Worlds is a game about moments. Each contained story arc in Emerald, Monarch, and the 2 dlc locations are so good. There’s a lot of different ways to approach them and different turns you can take. There’s also so many small moments like the woman in Byzantium who

But the over arching story isn’t there. It builds up to some cool points and then just sort of stops. If I didn’t play it with the DLC I could see how people would be disappointed.

Also like you said if you go into it expecting FO NV in space you’ll be sorely disappointed as there’s not much gear reward for exploring. There’s unique weapons but if you invest in the bare minimum into engineering you can craft much better weapons. It’s more about building something YOU want to run. Which is cool and fun , but if you’re expecting a loot game you’re gonna be disappointed. I think this part is less a knock on the game though and more of a lack of engaging with what the game wants you to do if that makes sense.

I agree with your general point, but I think the problem is OW1 didn’t stick the landing.

Not gonna lie if I didn’t buy it on sale and didn’t get the DLC I would have been disappointed. Emerald Vale and Monarch had really great self contained stories but once you get to Byzantium it starts to lose steam. The 2 DLC are also the strongest stories in the game.

Ooh yeah that’s a bit much.

Games are gonna copy major mechanics. Look at all the BOTW clones that came out after Breath of the Wild was successful. But you have to put a liiiittle effort into mixing up the art style and color palette.

The commenter should peruse LinkedIn for 20 minutes and they’ll be able to spot AI images instantly

Jesus Christ that’s like comic book super villain bad.

Like I’m not the biggest fan of gen ai but a generic computer screen feels like a good use case for filler text.

When they add the ability to pause in I’ll give it a look.

Now that I have kids playing games that don’t let you pause is impossible.

Is Duke Nukem going to Iraq now?

Fallout 3 for me works well as a sandbox and less as a narrative driven RPG. I had a lot of fun with it but I know if you went in expecting it to be something it’s not (like the first 2 fallout games) you’re gonna be disappointed.

Aww boo. Bad writing can still be fun.

Is this like an Balan Wonderworld bad? Where it’s polished but just an awful experience? Or is it just buggy and meh?

Balans are some of my favorite because there’s something fascinating about a well polished turd that you can’t look away from.

I loved Yoshi’s Story as a kid. Never knew there was hate for it for a long time.

I played this as a kid. I was so bad at this game. I wanted to get farther but I think the third or fourth level broke me.

https://www.thegamer.com/walt-williams-writer-spec-ops-the-line-working-on-marvels-wolverine/

Wish I had a better link for it but this is what I could find quickly on DDG

This is the one written by the guy that did spec ops the line right? I have a soft spot for it and hope it does well.

Woo!

So no steam release? Lame.

Hot take. I’m excited this is going 3d. I think it has a chance to outshine the original and give it extra depth.

Also random question, wtf is Xbox PC? Is that just their branding of the PC version? Or is it exclusively on their store/client?

I’m with you. All I wanted for 7 was a graphical update and instead you got alternate dimensions bullshit.

Fuck. Yes. I’ve been waiting for a new bloodstained entry for ages.

Activision has always been awful but they’ve really done their damndest to ensure I never want to play a COD game again

• Requires a phone number to play online
• Their UI is the absolute worst thing I’ve laid eyes on. It spends more time advertising other products instead of showing, yknow, how to launch the game I paid money for. I quite literally had to google how to launch the CoD remake because their UI was so confusing
• install sizes are absurd. I still remember the COD remake took 500GB to install
• and now micro transactions in loadout screens

And this doesn’t even include all the fuckery with their C-Suite.

I don’t know why they make it so awful to try to play the game you paid full price for.

I thought some of that was them trying to wash away the original fascist roots of OG 40K. Haven’t they been trying to slowly retool and rebrand the imperium more as the “good guys” so they can sell more merch?

I’ve heard Ori is good. And Wasteland 3 is a blast. Those alone are worth 10.

It also affects timing of tricks that are “frame perfect”.

If the old version was frame perfect and you had 1/30 frames and now you have 1/60 you’ve made the trick twice as hard.

I just bought it last night and this is quickly becoming one of my favorite games. Everything just hits so well.

I haven’t had a story draw me in like this one in years.

I think we just need to split roles again.

Discord did there best to be an all in one solution and we just need a return to real time chat and voice along with asynchronous communication like forums

I remember the multiplayer almost killed this game. They had an early beta of the MP and it was a lukewarm reception. I personally tried it and thought it was ehhh. Then it released and everyone raved about the single player.

I know it’s silly but I’d legit consider getting a print subscription again.

It’s kinda weird. I loved the first 30 hours of it and liked the idea of the job system they had. But something hit me and I just dropped it. I kept going back to the same classes and that just ruined the fun. I may go back and try it again at some point.

Doesn’t help that the story isn’t as good as P5 or P4.

It’s still fun. I’d just wait for a sale if you’re on the fence.

Peak 2006 GameSpot. Alex Navarro’s video on this game.

https://youtu.be/mB1zWEhgrLs

I love Rogue Trader so much.

I wish more of the game was like act 2. That’s where the game really shines

I’m still rocking a 6800. I should see what the improvement is. The VRAM would be nice for genai stuff