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  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR_wIb_n4ZU

    If you haven't played this game what the fuck is wrong with you

    Please explain below

    Sell me on it. I thought it was another generic open world rpg

    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    JebusUD wrote: »
    Outer Wilds was good but... best game of all time or whatever is really overselling it.

    It is an information based metroidvania with realistic orbital mechanics basically.

    A puzzle game where you can blast off to space.

    I dunno...
    The Sun Station
    When you get there and see the observation deck, then read the log entries and realize the assumption of what was happening is wrong?

    I just sat there for a while. It was a unique emotional experience I haven't ever had in a video game. That game hits hard.

    Basically everything is incredible, including the story.

    Also apparently in order to make the mechanics work correctly, when your character jumps, what's actually happening is the entire game is moving down and your character remains fixed in place. Programming games is weird!

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/08/baby-shower-cannon-explosion/
    Expectant parents fired a cannon to celebrate their baby shower. It exploded and killed a guest.
    We will one day stop the hets

    If you fire a cannon and kill a guest at the shower, what do you even do for the gender reveal? A scorpion missile filled with pink or blue antipersonnel metal balls?

    My sister had a balloon with coloured confetti in it.

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR_wIb_n4ZU

    If you haven't played this game what the fuck is wrong with you

    Please explain below

    Sell me on it. I thought it was another generic open world rpg

    You've graduated space academy and get to go to space in your rickety wooden spaceship!

    Slight spoilers about time mechanic:
    And then something happens and resets you and now you have to figure out why that's happening! The thing:
    THE FUCKING SUN EXPLODES AHHHH

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    I'm too worked up about this game, I really really love it, so instead please discuss:

    Is Groundhog Day just Majora's Mask the movie?

  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR_wIb_n4ZU

    If you haven't played this game what the fuck is wrong with you

    Please explain below

    Sell me on it. I thought it was another generic open world rpg

    Clever

  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR_wIb_n4ZU

    If you haven't played this game what the fuck is wrong with you

    Please explain below

    Sell me on it. I thought it was another generic open world rpg

    You might be thinking of Outer Worlds?

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    I'm too worked up about this game, I really really love it, so instead please discuss:

    Is Groundhog Day just Majora's Mask the movie?

    I don't know but Mass Effect 2 is the second half of Final Fantasy 6.

  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    I'm too worked up about this game, I really really love it, so instead please discuss:

    Is Groundhog Day just Majora's Mask the movie?

    I mean Majoras Mask is just Groundhog Day the Zelda Game, but yes

  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/08/baby-shower-cannon-explosion/
    Expectant parents fired a cannon to celebrate their baby shower. It exploded and killed a guest.
    We will one day stop the hets

    If you fire a cannon and kill a guest at the shower, what do you even do for the gender reveal? A scorpion missile filled with pink or blue antipersonnel metal balls?

    My sister had a balloon with coloured confetti in it.

    We just called people and told them. Because I still don't understand where this gender reveal party thing came from or who is doing them because literally no one I know is involved with this apparent phenomenon.

  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    I think Outer Wilds may be the best game I have ever played.

    It’s also the most rewarding. I played totally blind, no hints, no reviews or news articles or forum posts, for about a whole month. I consider it one of my proudest gaming moments in the past 38 years of gaming.

    Switch: SW-7690-2320-9238Steam/PSN/Xbox: Drezdar
  • joshgotrojoshgotro nah nahRegistered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    I'm too worked up about this game, I really really love it, so instead please discuss:

    Is Majora's Mask just Groundhogs Day the game?
    Yes

  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    Chat: Myst in space, game of the century, sploosh.

    and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
    but they're listening to every word I say
  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    what I look for in a space game is some combination of: space combat, exploring planets, resource management, betrayal, minecrafting, character customization, rude titties, rpg progression, lots of space guns, cool lore, tower of hanoi puzzle, spaceship customization, quirky companions, and space magic (explained by lore as being technology)

    hopefully outer wilds can tick a few boxes

    mass effect 2 hits a large number of these boxes and is my favorite space game, stellaris is also up there and ticks even more once you add steam workshop in

    Bolded are featured in Outer Wilds

    Italics are arguable

    acceptable

  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    JebusUD wrote: »
    Chat: Myst in space, game of the century, sploosh.

    That reminds me, I want to replay Myst.

    Why are there so many inexplicably different versions of this game?

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR_wIb_n4ZU

    If you haven't played this game what the fuck is wrong with you

    Please explain below

    Sell me on it. I thought it was another generic open world rpg

    You might be thinking of Outer Worlds?

    That's not impossible. I vaguely remember two games with more or less the same game coming out at the same time

    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR_wIb_n4ZU

    If you haven't played this game what the fuck is wrong with you

    Please explain below

    Sell me on it. I thought it was another generic open world rpg

    It is probably the single video game that best exemplifies the concept of "discovery" for me. It's a space exploration game with an intricate toy solar system that you explore in a freeform manner, trying to slowly uncover the workings of this universe and understand what's happening. In the end the entire solar system becomes a sort of puzzle that you are slowly unraveling bit by bit to create a complete story of it and of the people who came before you in it.

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    JebusUD wrote: »
    Chat: Myst in space, game of the century, sploosh.

    Game lets you land a space ship on a planet with zero load screens in between take off and landing. Does the thing No Man's Sky promised better than No Man's Sky

    AND you can be a space archaeologist and translate old languages and explore cool places and play banjo on the moon

    A+++

  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited February 2021
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    I'm too worked up about this game, I really really love it, so instead please discuss:

    Is Groundhog Day just Majora's Mask the movie?

    Little known fact: Harold Ramis was actually the lead designer of Majora’s Mask, but he went by his stage name “Shigeru Miyamoto” through the project.

    Drez on
    Switch: SW-7690-2320-9238Steam/PSN/Xbox: Drezdar
  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    You can also sit on a distant alien world with your lone fellow traveler and roast marshmallows at the campfire.

  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    JebusUD wrote: »
    Chat: Myst in space, game of the century, sploosh.

    That reminds me, I want to replay Myst.

    Why are there so many inexplicably different versions of this game?

    There’s now an Oculus/VR version as of a month or two ago. I never beat Myst either but I’m gonna play through the Oculus version.

    The only drawback is that sometimes you may want to take notes while playing Myst and VR isn’t very conducive to that.

    Switch: SW-7690-2320-9238Steam/PSN/Xbox: Drezdar
  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    edited February 2021
    So y'all know that I consider Majora's Mask to be my favorite game and one of the greatest games of all time, but I really enjoy this video essay on how Ocarina of Time is actually equally brilliant in its themes

    https://youtu.be/GyUcwsjyd8Q

    I think the two games actually form two halves of an overall philosophical meditation on aging and mortality, as well as the importance of relationships and their inevitable loss and how to grieve etc

    The older I get, the more sacred I find these themes

    Eddy on
    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    if i don't manage to max every s-link in p5 royal so help me god

    i'll have to replay it again, and date another milf

  • MimMim I prefer my lovers… dead.Registered User regular
    zepherin wrote: »
    This chat isn't about buttstuff. I refer to the area around my b-hole as the outer wilds.

    you just reminded me that in the midst of deep cleaning, I found expired flavored dental dams. Was hoping to use them one day for licking butts, but alas...

    BlueSky: thequeenofchaos Steam: mimspanks (add me then tell me who you are! Ask for my IG)
  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    shryke wrote: »
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR_wIb_n4ZU

    If you haven't played this game what the fuck is wrong with you

    Please explain below

    Sell me on it. I thought it was another generic open world rpg

    You might be thinking of Outer Worlds?

    That's not impossible. I vaguely remember two games with more or less the same game coming out at the same time

    Outer Wilds is Majora's Mask in space.
    Outer Worlds is an Obsidian RPG in space.

    Yes, they came out the same year.
    Yes, it confused everyone.
    Yes, Obsidian should be prosecuted.

  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    I mean

    I just bashed in the head of a giant snake with a cluster of knives for a nose and two smaller snakes for arms by using a kusarigama, the ability to turn into a giant monkey and throw a spear, and temporarily shifting into a floaty demon with a purple spinning sword, and when it was done I had the biggest sense of relief to the point I smiled and laughed.

    I think what we're looking for in a game might not be the same thing.

  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    Elendil wrote: »
    if i don't manage to max every s-link in p5 royal so help me god

    i'll have to replay it again, and date another milf

    the milf dating will not stop until elendil's demands have been met

  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    edited February 2021
    I am not sure Outer Wilds is even a game or that it cares about the idea of play

    I think the devs enjoyed coding parts of it more than playing it

    Tumin on
  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    Outer Wilds is my favorite game of all time. It's not my usual medium- to high-difficulty action game — it's a mystery and exploration game set in a time loop that encompasses a whole solar system.

    The mystery and the puzzles are very natural and embedded in the world, and they're quite novel. The feel of exploring in space, finding out what a world is about, penetrating more deeply into the mysteries on that planet, gradually figuring out the connections between planets and between the things you've learned, finding new answers and new mysteries in places you didn't even consider... It's magical. It's a genuinely wonderful experience. I was spellbound.

    It's also moving and engaging. I found it genuinely affecting. The feeling of a grand, archaeological mystery... I'd compare it to Heaven's Vault, honestly, another weird little mystery/exploration game.

    This is a game that gives you a beautiful little toy solar system but also instills it with a sense of real grandeur and meaning. Sometimes you'll learn something immense just at the end of a loop, and you'll just stand there, contemplating it, watching the end come so you can begin again.

    I found it very beautiful.

  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    Tumin wrote: »
    I am not sure Outer Wilds is even a game or that it cares about the idea of play

    I think the devs enjoyed coding parts of it more than playing it

    Of course it’s game. It challenges you to discover and to apply logic and inferences to continue discovering and has a narrative throughput that can only be achieved through said discoveries which, again, can only be achieved through said challenges.

    Switch: SW-7690-2320-9238Steam/PSN/Xbox: Drezdar
  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    I mean

    I just bashed in the head of a giant snake with a cluster of knives for a nose and two smaller snakes for arms by using a kusarigama, the ability to turn into a giant monkey and throw a spear, and temporarily shifting into a floaty demon with a purple spinning sword, and when it was done I had the biggest sense of relief to the point I smiled and laughed.

    I think what we're looking for in a game might not be the same thing.

    I mean I’m playing Nioh, too.

    Switch: SW-7690-2320-9238Steam/PSN/Xbox: Drezdar
  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    I actually really liked flying the spaceship around in Outer Wilds, but it did take some getting used to

    Also remembering to put my environment suit on before I hopped out onto a planet with no air. That definitely killed me more than once.

  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    But not Nioh 2.

    Switch: SW-7690-2320-9238Steam/PSN/Xbox: Drezdar
  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    I am playing RE7. These bad guys are frustrating to shoot because they walk like drunk old people and seemingly take random amounts of headshots to die.

    I also am not a fan of clicking down L3 to run and R3 to crouch, because I inevitably click them on and off during a fight when I’m trying to back off and fire at the same time, making aiming difficult.

    It feels like it was a better game when I had no weapons and was just scared of everything.

  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    The problem with RE7 is that there isn't even an incredibly tall woman who chokes you

  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    I think the definition of a game would have to be bizarrely and narrowly limited to exclude Outer Wilds.

  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    I am certain every cosplayer with an Onlyfans has already sourced a white dress, wide brimmed black hat and is learning about shooting from low angles.

  • SixSix Caches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhex Registered User regular
    I bought Outer Wilds and believe I’d love it but only played like an hour and then walked away and for some reason can’t restart it.

    can you feel the struggle within?
  • SixSix Caches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhex Registered User regular
    This thread and all others like it continue to remind me of my failure

    can you feel the struggle within?
  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    I am playing RE7. These bad guys are frustrating to shoot because they walk like drunk old people and seemingly take random amounts of headshots to die.

    I also am not a fan of clicking down L3 to run and R3 to crouch, because I inevitably click them on and off during a fight when I’m trying to back off and fire at the same time, making aiming difficult.

    It feels like it was a better game when I had no weapons and was just scared of everything.

    All valid criticisms of RE7

    Stick-clicking is IMO a huge controller design mistake and really needs to be reconsidered, but I can't really blame games for doing the now-universal FPS controller scheme I guess. In re: giving PCs weapons: I feel like they learned nothing from the past decade of horror games or even the first half of their own damn game

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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