My Shadow Black controller is randomly disconnecting, I could get a replacement at Best Buy but not doing that in this madness. I ordered a new one from GameStop and it got here super fast, I was surprised.
Picked up Nier again and I'm enjoying it a lot more. Just got to the amusement park and it's been a nice bizarre WTF. Took a bit to figure out a custom control scheme that feels good
RT: evade
RB: pod program
LT: fire
LB: lock on
Is there a rule of thumb for what counts as a low slot count for chips? I'm guessing I only want to fuse low slot chips but I'm not seeing any indicator of a range for a particular chip.
Edit: i guess I should be putting this in the Nier thread.
Picked up Nier again and I'm enjoying it a lot more. Just got to the amusement park and it's been a nice bizarre WTF. Took a bit to figure out a custom control scheme that feels good
RT: evade
RB: pod program
LT: fire
LB: lock on
Is there a rule of thumb for what counts as a low slot count for chips? I'm guessing I only want to fuse low slot chips but I'm not seeing any indicator of a range for a particular chip.
Edit: i guess I should be putting this in the Nier thread.
Really, it's procedurally generated as far as I know, so it comes down to having a bunch of the same chip (which you will have, the game is very much based on repetition) and noting the lowest slot cost (marked by a diamond).
Picked up Nier again and I'm enjoying it a lot more. Just got to the amusement park and it's been a nice bizarre WTF. Took a bit to figure out a custom control scheme that feels good
RT: evade
RB: pod program
LT: fire
LB: lock on
Is there a rule of thumb for what counts as a low slot count for chips? I'm guessing I only want to fuse low slot chips but I'm not seeing any indicator of a range for a particular chip.
Edit: i guess I should be putting this in the Nier thread.
Really, it's procedurally generated as far as I know, so it comes down to having a bunch of the same chip (which you will have, the game is very much based on repetition) and noting the lowest slot cost (marked by a diamond).
I was wondering what that diamond meant. Good to know, thanks.
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I feel like I may have bought enough Game Pass now. They're not going to bill me until 2022... I've only paid them for 7 months total since last July.
I'm in the same boat.
I'm good on game pass ultimate through November of 2022 and I think I've paid like full price for 3 months and the rest have been deep discounts or BOGO stuff.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
I feel like I may have bought enough Game Pass now. They're not going to bill me until 2022... I've only paid them for 7 months total since last July.
I'm in the same boat.
I'm good on game pass ultimate through November of 2022 and I think I've paid like full price for 3 months and the rest have been deep discounts or BOGO stuff.
I picked up 3 months via Microsoft Rewards (I'm about halfway to that again, a bit past, but I don't think I will again, haha).
Damn it’s saying a game I want is on special, but when I click and go to the games store page it’s just showing the full price. It’s not a gamepass or gold thing, I have both of those. I don’t really want to click through to the buy page to check because the sale is a big difference (from 150 to 45)
Never mind hard reset and reloaded the store and sales over. Pretty ridiculous that it takes a hard reset to update the store. I hope this kind of shit is fixed for the series x.
I just found out that Too Human is not only backwards compatible, but it's also free! I know the general gaming community hated the game due to the lead dev being a dick and blatantly stealing the Unreal Engine while refusing to pay, but I loved the hell out of that game. Now that it's free, I may actually be able to play with people.
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While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
Damn it’s saying a game I want is on special, but when I click and go to the games store page it’s just showing the full price. It’s not a gamepass or gold thing, I have both of those. I don’t really want to click through to the buy page to check because the sale is a big difference (from 150 to 45)
Never mind hard reset and reloaded the store and sales over. Pretty ridiculous that it takes a hard reset to update the store. I hope this kind of shit is fixed for the series x.
This is where I tell people to stop using Always on once again, and then somebody chimes in to tell me to shut up, despite things like this being a constant companion to using it.
I just found out that Too Human is not only backwards compatible, but it's also free! I know the general gaming community hated the game due to the lead dev being a dick and blatantly stealing the Unreal Engine while refusing to pay, but I loved the hell out of that game. Now that it's free, I may actually be able to play with people.
I wanted to love Too Human so bad. I played a lot at the endgame trying to get a full set of Red armor. I got a Red rarity helmet early on, and then 10 hours in got another Red helmet.. I quit then. Too much heartbreak.
Keep in mind people only farmed the last missions because it dropped the best loot, so it got old very quickly.
I just found out that Too Human is not only backwards compatible, but it's also free! I know the general gaming community hated the game due to the lead dev being a dick and blatantly stealing the Unreal Engine while refusing to pay, but I loved the hell out of that game. Now that it's free, I may actually be able to play with people.
I wanted to love Too Human so bad. I played a lot at the endgame trying to get a full set of Red armor. I got a Red rarity helmet early on, and then 10 hours in got another Red helmet.. I quit then. Too much heartbreak.
Keep in mind people only farmed the last missions because it dropped the best loot, so it got old very quickly.
The red loot was maddening. From what I was told, you had to play with a full party to start getting those drops. I tend to not PUG games like that, partly because I have dealt with too many asshats.
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
For a sport with a tradition of unsurprisingly harsh penalties for bad behavior on the track, the AI in F1 2018 is way too tempted to just slam into you and fuck you over for a whole race, penalties be damned.
20 laps in that game to get the Game Pass quest, and I realize that driveatars are absolutely restrained by comparison.
Interesting news: a remaster of Saints Row: The Third will be coming to Xbox One and PS4 later in May. No news on a Switch release (the conversion of the original game to Switch was limited somewhat by hardware, apparently), but as I understand it, The Third is generally held as being the best game in the franchise? It was the one I played the most.
Depends on who you ask. A lot of people think that 2 is the best one and that 3 jumps the shark.
I've heard that two too, with the caveat that SR3 is substantially better optimized on PC (and even console) than its predecessor (and SR4 re-uses that same engine).
I'm not really a fan of the whole franchise across the board, but since I don't really like GTA that much, a different take/parody of it isn't so attractive.
Saint's Row 1 was a knock-off of the GTA franchise at the time.
Saint's Row 2 was a knock-off of the GTA with some fun over the top things, like a side mission where you drive a septic tank truck and spray high dollar value properties to lower the value for a scummy realator to buy on the cheap.
Saint's Row 3 realized that the fun over the top things were better than the GTA clone and ditched them. Your first mission has you fighting in a cargo plane, then bailing out and fighting in mid air, then landing on a law enforcement building and fighting some more so you can save your homie. Later on, one of the islands is infected by a strange chemical that turns the inhabitants to zombies. It's over the top in all the right ways, with enough grounding to help you appreciate how over the top it is.
Saint's Row 4 buys in totally on the over the top stuff, and turns you into a superhero fighting evil aliens in a virtual matrix style copy of the earth that the aliens made.
Gat Out of Hell is a sequel to SR4 in which you go to hell to rescue the same homie from SR3. It plays a lot like SR4 in a new world with demonic skins instead of sci-fi.
Agents of Mayhem takes the mediocre shooting of GTA and SR games and dials it up to 11, with a minor bit of superhero abilities thrown in. Unfortunately mediocre stuff dialed up to 11 is still mediocre, just flashy. Crackdown 3 and AoM have a lot in common.
SR2 doesn't get enough credit, it had a lot of wacky stuff. Games where you Chuck people into chainsaws, the 4 player zombie survival mode, all sorts of stuff. The cheats were crazy too. If anything SR took the mantle of zany cheats from the original GTA games and carried that torch forward. These days that's a lost art.
GTA drove me bananas because it tried to tell a super-serious story in a world filled with "satire" seemingly produced by a disappointing 8th grader. I spent an hour diving into 4's version of the internet trying to find the funny only to develop a burning hatred for the game's writers. Though even if you avoided that, you still had to endure the radio ads and crap like the internet cafe being named "Tw@t." Har! The @ means it is internet!
Saint's Row did a much better job of blending the wackiness of the world into the plot. You could argue it still wasn't exactly something that would excite lit professors, but at least it was mostly goofiness and not "satire." (And the jokes never got as bad as Tw@t.)
SR2 doesn't get enough credit, it had a lot of wacky stuff. Games where you Chuck people into chainsaws, the 4 player zombie survival mode, all sorts of stuff. The cheats were crazy too. If anything SR took the mantle of zany cheats from the original GTA games and carried that torch forward. These days that's a lost art.
GTAs satirical bullshit writing is such a waste of a detailed world and game. I’m so glad red dead actually goes for it and tries to tell a serious story and doesn’t hedge it’s bets and go “oh none of this matters look how silly this is! Oh the story is nonsense and the characters pointless? That’s intentional! It’s satire! Any of the parts you get bored by, or don’t make sense, or any time we try to be serious and it lands like a thud, that’s because it’s satire!”
GTAs satirical bullshit writing is such a waste of a detailed world and game. I’m so glad red dead actually goes for it and tries to tell a serious story and doesn’t hedge it’s bets and go “oh none of this matters look how silly this is! Oh the story is nonsense and the characters pointless? That’s intentional! It’s satire! Any of the parts you get bored by, or don’t make sense, or any time we try to be serious and it lands like a thud, that’s because it’s satire!”
There was a bit of satire in RDR2 if you read the descriptions in the catalogs. Though that worked perfectly because it took the stilted language of early 20th-century ad copy and just dialed it up a few notches with an eye toward how America was actually like at the time. And there was some story goofiness (here I'm thinking of the mission that was 100% "Arthur and Lenny get plastered"), but they fit into the plot, build characters, and set up future plot developments.
It's kind of amazing how much I hate GTA's world and love RDR's, yet they're from the same company.
The story/meta-story in GTA has always been divergent. It only grew even more after IV. It is, admittedly, off-putting. But I dislike SR's in-your-face-and-up-your-ass way of doing it.
I prefer GTA because the world design feels more real. Wandering around Liberty City in IV and Los Santos in V feels more 'immersive'. There is a reason I didn't care for SR3 compared to the first two.
I never had any interest in the SR series, so I can't say much. But with GTA, I've played the original top-down on PS1 through V and I can say that after San Andreas, they basically just turned into a Madden game: once you play one, you've played them all. I have not enjoyed a GTA since San Andreas.
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
The Long Dark (ID@Xbox) – April 16
Gato Roboto (ID@Xbox – Day One with Xbox Game Pass) – April 21
Deliver Us The Moon (ID@Xbox – Day One with Xbox Game Pass) – April 23
HyperDot (ID@Xbox) – April 30
Levelhead (ID@Xbox – Day One with Xbox Game Pass) – April 30
PC: (No dates given):
Deliver Us The Moon (ID@Xbox – Day One with Xbox Game Pass)
Gato Roboto (ID@Xbox – Day One with Xbox Game Pass)
Gears Tactics (Day One with Xbox Game Pass)
HyperDot (ID@Xbox)
Levelhead (ID@Xbox – Day One with Xbox Game Pass)
The Long Dark (ID@Xbox)
Machinarium (ID@Xbox)
Games leaving on April 30th:
Console:
The Banner Saga 2
Bomber Crew
Braid
Fallout 4
Full Metal Furies
Metal Slug 3
Ruiner
Silence: The Whispered World 2
Smoke and Sacrifice
Wolfenstein: The New Order
PC:
The Banner Saga 2
Bomber Crew
Full Metal Furies
Ruiner
Silence: The Whispered World 2
Smoke and Sacrifice
Saint's Row 2 was the series high point; the main story was serious business and the side missions were wacky fun. It was a really great balance and in the end, they really embraced that you're a prick villain.
Saint's Row 2 was the series high point; the main story was serious business and the side missions were wacky fun. It was a really great balance and in the end, they really embraced that you're a prick villain.
Im really hoping next gen is when the total war guys realise they have a game that would work perfectly fine on consoles, because it’s not really twitch based, and just try to get a version running. They would corner the market as there’s really nothing else like it, and there’s a lot of people like me who grew up on total war but can no longer justify having a gaming pc
Im really hoping next gen is when the total war guys realise they have a game that would work perfectly fine on consoles, because it’s not really twitch based, and just try to get a version running. They would corner the market as there’s really nothing else like it, and there’s a lot of people like me who grew up on total war but can no longer justify having a gaming pc
As much as I enjoy the franchise (in the past and present) I doubt they'd see much sales on consoles.
Im really hoping next gen is when the total war guys realise they have a game that would work perfectly fine on consoles, because it’s not really twitch based, and just try to get a version running. They would corner the market as there’s really nothing else like it, and there’s a lot of people like me who grew up on total war but can no longer justify having a gaming pc
As much as I enjoy the franchise (in the past and present) I doubt they'd see much sales on consoles.
I dunno it’s just always seemed odd for me, I mean xcom comes to consoles, and their studio is much smaller. And there’s games like civilisation etc, it’s just weird. Lots of strategy games and indies come to consoles, hell cities skylines is there and doing well. If they’re looking at like internal data they’ve done to gauge its success fair enough, but it seems like a no brainer for me
It just seems weird they’ve never tried once in the history of the franchise to bring any one of their games to a console
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@Synthesis you son of a bitch, how dare you try to spread your dirty terms at other outlets
@Synthesis you son of a bitch, how dare you try to spread your dirty terms at other outlets
It's hard to describe how happy this makes me.
But I'm going to put that aside and get down to business: first, you know who to come to if you want to find actual good prices on Playstation 4 consoles.
(Me. Come to me.)
Second, @Hardtarget stop stalking me. I know it's hard, but stop.
EDIT: Also, you know "PSFro" came from Kotaku, right? Their podcast no less.
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Edit: nevermind, I didn't notice it was a buy one get 3 more months free situation.
Shadow Magenta!
RB: pod program
LT: fire
LB: lock on
Is there a rule of thumb for what counts as a low slot count for chips? I'm guessing I only want to fuse low slot chips but I'm not seeing any indicator of a range for a particular chip.
Edit: i guess I should be putting this in the Nier thread.
Really, it's procedurally generated as far as I know, so it comes down to having a bunch of the same chip (which you will have, the game is very much based on repetition) and noting the lowest slot cost (marked by a diamond).
I was wondering what that diamond meant. Good to know, thanks.
I'm in the same boat.
I'm good on game pass ultimate through November of 2022 and I think I've paid like full price for 3 months and the rest have been deep discounts or BOGO stuff.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
I picked up 3 months via Microsoft Rewards (I'm about halfway to that again, a bit past, but I don't think I will again, haha).
Never mind hard reset and reloaded the store and sales over. Pretty ridiculous that it takes a hard reset to update the store. I hope this kind of shit is fixed for the series x.
This is where I tell people to stop using Always on once again, and then somebody chimes in to tell me to shut up, despite things like this being a constant companion to using it.
I wanted to love Too Human so bad. I played a lot at the endgame trying to get a full set of Red armor. I got a Red rarity helmet early on, and then 10 hours in got another Red helmet.. I quit then. Too much heartbreak.
Keep in mind people only farmed the last missions because it dropped the best loot, so it got old very quickly.
20 laps in that game to get the Game Pass quest, and I realize that driveatars are absolutely restrained by comparison.
It was supposed to be a trilogy. I don’t think it eggs with a cliffhanger but the story was not complete in any way.
Saint's Row 1 was a knock-off of the GTA franchise at the time.
Saint's Row 2 was a knock-off of the GTA with some fun over the top things, like a side mission where you drive a septic tank truck and spray high dollar value properties to lower the value for a scummy realator to buy on the cheap.
Saint's Row 3 realized that the fun over the top things were better than the GTA clone and ditched them. Your first mission has you fighting in a cargo plane, then bailing out and fighting in mid air, then landing on a law enforcement building and fighting some more so you can save your homie. Later on, one of the islands is infected by a strange chemical that turns the inhabitants to zombies. It's over the top in all the right ways, with enough grounding to help you appreciate how over the top it is.
Saint's Row 4 buys in totally on the over the top stuff, and turns you into a superhero fighting evil aliens in a virtual matrix style copy of the earth that the aliens made.
Gat Out of Hell is a sequel to SR4 in which you go to hell to rescue the same homie from SR3. It plays a lot like SR4 in a new world with demonic skins instead of sci-fi.
Agents of Mayhem takes the mediocre shooting of GTA and SR games and dials it up to 11, with a minor bit of superhero abilities thrown in. Unfortunately mediocre stuff dialed up to 11 is still mediocre, just flashy. Crackdown 3 and AoM have a lot in common.
Saint's Row did a much better job of blending the wackiness of the world into the plot. You could argue it still wasn't exactly something that would excite lit professors, but at least it was mostly goofiness and not "satire." (And the jokes never got as bad as Tw@t.)
Yes, but did it have Whored Mode? Hmmmm?
There was a bit of satire in RDR2 if you read the descriptions in the catalogs. Though that worked perfectly because it took the stilted language of early 20th-century ad copy and just dialed it up a few notches with an eye toward how America was actually like at the time. And there was some story goofiness (here I'm thinking of the mission that was 100% "Arthur and Lenny get plastered"), but they fit into the plot, build characters, and set up future plot developments.
It's kind of amazing how much I hate GTA's world and love RDR's, yet they're from the same company.
I prefer GTA because the world design feels more real. Wandering around Liberty City in IV and Los Santos in V feels more 'immersive'. There is a reason I didn't care for SR3 compared to the first two.
Console:
Gato Roboto (ID@Xbox – Day One with Xbox Game Pass) – April 21
Deliver Us The Moon (ID@Xbox – Day One with Xbox Game Pass) – April 23
HyperDot (ID@Xbox) – April 30
Levelhead (ID@Xbox – Day One with Xbox Game Pass) – April 30
Gato Roboto (ID@Xbox – Day One with Xbox Game Pass)
Gears Tactics (Day One with Xbox Game Pass)
HyperDot (ID@Xbox)
Levelhead (ID@Xbox – Day One with Xbox Game Pass)
The Long Dark (ID@Xbox)
Machinarium (ID@Xbox)
Console:
Bomber Crew
Braid
Fallout 4
Full Metal Furies
Metal Slug 3
Ruiner
Silence: The Whispered World 2
Smoke and Sacrifice
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Bomber Crew
Full Metal Furies
Ruiner
Silence: The Whispered World 2
Smoke and Sacrifice
Comics, Games, Booze
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
More of a puckish rogue, really...
As much as I enjoy the franchise (in the past and present) I doubt they'd see much sales on consoles.
I dunno it’s just always seemed odd for me, I mean xcom comes to consoles, and their studio is much smaller. And there’s games like civilisation etc, it’s just weird. Lots of strategy games and indies come to consoles, hell cities skylines is there and doing well. If they’re looking at like internal data they’ve done to gauge its success fair enough, but it seems like a no brainer for me
It just seems weird they’ve never tried once in the history of the franchise to bring any one of their games to a console
@Synthesis you son of a bitch, how dare you try to spread your dirty terms at other outlets
It's hard to describe how happy this makes me.
But I'm going to put that aside and get down to business: first, you know who to come to if you want to find actual good prices on Playstation 4 consoles.
(Me. Come to me.)
Second, @Hardtarget stop stalking me. I know it's hard, but stop.
EDIT: Also, you know "PSFro" came from Kotaku, right? Their podcast no less.