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Brolo

BEHOLD THE MIGHTY, GIRTHY LIST OF ALL OF 2024'S BIGGEST VIDEO GAMES RELEASES

SO FAR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61-a-12MkSI
Welcome to Mighty Marbles, a cute physics based game where you control the level to guide the marble to victory. Inspired by the desire to see real life physics toys as a video game! Roll, solve and triumph in the fast paced bite sized levels. 20240109 Mighty Marbles (Early Access Action Casual Retro Physics)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmwbHdJLadE
RAID: Shadow Legends is a free-to-play collection RPG with 800+ playable Champions and 8 game modes. Heed the Arbiter's call and defend the dark fantasy world of Teleria. 20240109 RAID: Shadow Legends (RPG Dark Fantasy Turn-Based Combat Loot )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrCHDM0rNiY
Embark on an epic journey in Primateria, a game redefining the roguelike deckbuilder with a nod to classic Yu-Gi-Oh! experience. Fuse cards, battle divine beings, and navigate through a universe teeming with challenges and surprises. Embrace the thrill of endless combinations and tactical depths. 20240108 Primateria (Card Battler Dungeon Crawler Roguelite Strategy )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSRNO9aSQWg
Explore a vast open world and crawl through dungeons in first person, then fight tactical turn-based battles from a top-down perspective. Guide your adventuring party through Archaelund, mankind's last frontier, and uncover its many secrets. 20240108 Archaelund (RPG Adventure Early Access Party-Based RPG )

it's uh... it's three games and RAID: shadow legends, I guess

milski

You aren't DJ Eebs, you are not the chosen one!

Burtletoy

mortal sky wrote:

On a completely different note i played like 20 hours of Hades before I actually learned I was supposed to be playing it on controller and not MnK. I should try it again now that I own a controller, hopefully it tears up my wrists less

Iirc there's a full page splash screen that tells you that every tome you load the game or maybe even every time you start a new run?

Morninglord

Gasp Brolo disobeyed Geth.

Take him down!

I needed anime to post.

better to rule in hell (being the moviebob of gaming) than serve in heaven (listening to a fuckin' robot)

Morninglord

When I saw he had notified non Brolos I was like pscht Robot, don't try your power move around here, we only have one game thread opper in these parts.

Brolo

milski wrote: »

You aren't DJ Eebs, you are not the chosen one!

somehow, brolo returned

i realize this isn't what anyone wanted, but look, he's back now, and we're all going to have to deal with it

i think if we ignore him this time, he might just go away on his own? it's worth a shot

as for the smell... okay yeah the smell is getting worse, i don't know what the hell that guy eats but it seems like it's fermenting inside of him or something and he lets it out fart by fart

Crippl3

hate to be that guy but reposting my post from the end of the last thread for @The Zombie Penguin

BL3 and Wonderlands have guns that feel way better and are much more diverse, with the manufacturers making guns feel wildly different from each other* and keep them from all feeling interchangeable. A Jakobs shotgun is very different from a Hyperion shotgun from a Torgue shotgun, etc. even before taking stats and rolls into account due to their behavior. Enemies in general feel less bullet-spongy as well, at least on the first playthroughs. It's just a much better feeling game overall, especially when you add in things like the new movement system with sliding and mantling.
Also, you get your class skill (or skills, in some cases) during the tutorial at level 3 in BL3's case and at the start of the game in Wonderlands, with way more customization of it (changing the way it functions, changing damage types, equipping two at once, etc.)

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• Torgue guns all shoot mini rockets that you can swap to sticky remote bombs at any time that detonate when the gun is reloaded
• COV/Bandit weapons have infinite magazines but an overheat mechanic instead
• Dahl weapons all have multiple ROFs and scopes you can switch between
• Vladofs are all full-auto but have alternate weapons attached you can use like under-barrel grenade launchers and shotguns
• Jakobs guns are all semi-auto precision weapons with bullets that ricochet between multiple enemies when hitting crits
• Hyperion are high accuracy with shields that appear when you ADS that can do things like reflect bullets or become a wall in front of you when crouched
• Atlas guns shoot normal high-damage bullets but the alt-fire allows you to mark targets in different ways (like a grenade that explodes and marks everyone in the radius) to make the gun temporarily homing
• Maliwan guns are all elemental damage and many require charge time like rail gun snipers or a continuous laser SMG
• Tediore guns you throw away to reload and they turn into different things like turrets, homing missiles, or bouncing bombs

Poorochondriac

Continuing to poke at Jedi Survivor in the odd spare hour

This character whose name is a reference to Adam Sandler vehicle Big Daddy is WAY more prominent than I would have guessed

IronKnuckle's Ghost

How come the enormous success of indie darling Stardew Valley like ten years ago or whatever didn't cause all the big studios to make farm games with $100 million budgets?

The Zombie Penguin

@Crippl3 the problem there is I'd have to give gearbox money, and also play more Borderlands. I'm pretty chill without either, honestly.

Karoz

The Zombie Penguin wrote:

BL2 i'll give props for it's art style, minus the stupid arse decision to start you in a frozen wasteland rather than it's wonderful colorful highlands later, but the actual gameplay had like... not budged one iota, despite the huge room for improvement. It was honestly impressive. I'm pretty sure by the time BL2 came out even WoW had started going "Wow, tis style of incremental gain .5% damage talent tree is actually really bad!" or something?. But nope, crap guns and crap leveling and that's... your starting point. Oof

Honestly this is why the Pre-sequel blew 2 out of the water. You get your active skill during the prologue mission at level 3. Characters are voiced and have great personality they express instead of being mutes. They got rid of slag and added in fricken laaazers. Also low grav jumping and butt slams!

Crippl3

The Zombie Penguin wrote: »

@Crippl3 the problem there is I'd have to give gearbox money, and also play more Borderlands. I'm pretty chill without either, honestly.

valid

shoeboxjeddy

IronKnuckle's Ghost wrote: »

How come the enormous success of indie darling Stardew Valley like ten years ago or whatever didn't cause all the big studios to make farm games with $100 million budgets?

Because it caused every indie studio to make 57 Animal Crossing chore simulators instead.

Crippl3

I remember someone mentioned it in the Holiday thread, not sure who it was, but in case they're still around the save deletion bug in the Xbox version of BG3 is finally getting fixed:

https://twitter.com/larianstudios/status/1744776397388747062

It will require an Xbox firmware update, available starting on the 16th. The issue is on the console side, people have theorized that it's an issue with how the system deals with uploading cloud saves where it kinda gets lost in the shuffle and not uploaded but then deletes the local save as if it were uploaded anyway.

I needed anime to post.

https://twitter.com/Bubbletchi/status/1744742671439327670

Prohass

It’s not out till Feb but Banishers Ghosts of New Eden is probably what I have my eye on the most for the early year, at least in terms of unknowns

Also the prince of Persia story trailer looked genuinely excellent but again another question mark in terms of how it actually turns out. Tho I think there’s a demo soon so hopefully that’s a good sign

Grey Ghost

Poorochondriac wrote: »

Continuing to poke at Jedi Survivor in the odd spare hour

This character whose name is a reference to Adam Sandler vehicle Big Daddy is WAY more prominent than I would have guessed

Wait... which one is that

minor incident

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Poorochondriac wrote: »

Continuing to poke at Jedi Survivor in the odd spare hour

This character whose name is a reference to Adam Sandler vehicle Big Daddy is WAY more prominent than I would have guessed

Wait... which one is that

Scuba Steve

Sorry, "Skoova Stev"

And I'm just remembering that I yell "It's not his fault he can't read!" at my wife in reference to our dog on a semi regular basis and I had totally forgotten where that came from until now.

3cl1ps3

minor incident wrote: »

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Poorochondriac wrote: »

Continuing to poke at Jedi Survivor in the odd spare hour

This character whose name is a reference to Adam Sandler vehicle Big Daddy is WAY more prominent than I would have guessed

Wait... which one is that

Scuba Steve

Sorry, "Skoova Stev"

And I'm just remembering that I yell "It's not his fault he can't read!" at my wife in reference to our dog on a semi regular basis and I had totally forgotten where that came from until now.

Skoova's also like...the most interesting character in the game.

Karl

https://youtu.be/Daw0dS0WJj4?si=rTkFrwvSSD65WNKe

Ubisoft might actually pull a sneaky and release a tightly focussed metrovaina that is........good?

Karl

It's also coming out January 15th.

Brolo is slipping. Or he just didn't know about this because who was expecting Ubisoft to be working on two Prince Of Persia games at the same time

I needed anime to post.

(pushes glasses up nose) brolo listed only games that have come out in this thread, and not games that have yet to come out

Karl

Oh look the brolo stans are out in force

1 is a force

Prolegomena

I needed anime to post. wrote: »

(pushes glasses up nose) brolo listed only games that have come out in this thread, and not games that have yet to come out

games that were, games that are, games that have not yet come to pass

I needed anime to post.

i mean yeah that basically sums up star citizen

Maddoc

Tiny Tina's Wonderland was pretty good actual, despite the whole Tiny Tina thing

Crippl3

Maddoc wrote: »

Tiny Tina's Wonderland was pretty good actual, despite the whole Tiny Tina thing

My friends and I are playing through it in co-op currently, once a week
I'm liking it mostly more than BL3, though I wish the playable characters were more interesting. Having a customizable created character is neat, but they lack the personality and designs of the best characters from the previous games. Also the skill trees are pretty anemic and not very interesting, though you get to choose 2 to mix things up which is better.
The level design, quest design, writing, and art style blow BL3 out of the water though, and I love the crazy character skills and new types of loot. The Overworld is also a really cool idea that makes it feel way more like an actual connected world than just a bunch of random zones like the older games.

Maddoc

I can't say I've ever really cared about the Borderlands playable characters, hell one of the biggest failings in Borderlands 2 was assuming I gave a shit about Roland or whatever. All I remember is that Axton made fucking Oprah references.

So just being able to pick two skill trees to smash together worked for me.

Karoz

Correct move was caring about the pre-sequel playable characters

Wait

Shit

SanderJK

I stood still and listened to every one of Stevs stories. A rare thing in videogames.

Karl

Athena was the best pre-sequel character and I will die on this hill

Karoz

Karl wrote: »

Athena was the best pre-sequel character and I will die on this hill

Well yeah she was the only good guy who still almost gets murdered by the other good guys


Won't stop me from playing claptrap

Raijin Quickfoot

Once my wireless adaptor comes for this desktop I’m going to start playing more games on Steam.

Blake T

Karl wrote: »

https://youtu.be/Daw0dS0WJj4?si=rTkFrwvSSD65WNKe

Ubisoft might actually pull a sneaky and release a tightly focussed metrovaina that is........good?

I haven’t played a good Metroid style game for a while, I might check this out.

Perrsun

The old thread ended with some talk about how Suicide Squad and Avengers type games have this weird aspect of “you get to be the super hero” but also “there are 2 Hulks and 2 Iron Men on this mission” and then Freedom Force got brought up.

So it made me think: would it be a better setting for Suicide Squad if they pulled a City of Heroes and let you make your own almost-that-hero character?

Like instead of being Harley Quinn let me make my own Chaotic Harlequin character with Big Surprise Hammer ultimate attack, and maybe I go on missions with Harley.

Or is that not changing enough to have a significant impact?

Karl

Blake T wrote: »

Karl wrote: »

https://youtu.be/Daw0dS0WJj4?si=rTkFrwvSSD65WNKe

Ubisoft might actually pull a sneaky and release a tightly focussed metrovaina that is........good?

I haven’t played a good Metroid style game for a while, I might check this out.

The game was designed to run at 1080/60 on the switch, which means it's PC requirements are very reasonable in the year of our lord 2023:

https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/article/1GT2lrlCsG38oTo15Kr7ud/prince-of-persia-the-lost-crown-pc-specs-and-console-performance-revealed

Even my old PC could do 4k which WILD to me.

It's an Epic Store exclusive which is the first time I've seen an epic store exclusive and thought "I might need to download the epic store launcher".

minor incident

I feel like it's been a while since I saw a new game with a GTX 960 as the "recommended" spec.

Dizzy D

Karl wrote: »

Athena was the best pre-sequel character and I will die on this hill

Well, obviously, because she was the only one that was in Tales of the Borderlands.

Karoz

Perrsun wrote: »

The old thread ended with some talk about how Suicide Squad and Avengers type games have this weird aspect of “you get to be the super hero” but also “there are 2 Hulks and 2 Iron Men on this mission” and then Freedom Force got brought up.

So it made me think: would it be a better setting for Suicide Squad if they pulled a City of Heroes and let you make your own almost-that-hero character?

Like instead of being Harley Quinn let me make my own Chaotic Harlequin character with Big Surprise Hammer ultimate attack, and maybe I go on missions with Harley.

Or is that not changing enough to have a significant impact?

What was it DC universe that let you choose a hero or villain as your mentor?

Wish the dungeon roles were less opague but it was otherwise fun enough.

Karl

minor incident wrote: »

I feel like it's been a while since I saw a new game with a GTX 960 as the "recommended" spec.

I've only seen it in the indie games space, AAA has moved to the 20x GPU/AMD equivalent as far as I can tell.

I am obviously biased as someone with an old PC but it's nice to see