Video game thread

@Cyborg_pony  
This is like hearing that your cancerous tumor has developed a terminal condition. >.<

I’m still disappointed the burglary and fraud desks were cut from LA Noire.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
“You defraud young boys, Valdez?”

@Officer Hotpants  
>debuff  
I think you would get a rage buff.

@Officer Hotpants  
It took me until about the 5th replay of that case until I connected the dots between the notebook and the phone call.

@Havoc  
Yeah but intelligence & perception would go down.
 
@EverfreeEmergencies  
Never played it. I just half-watched, half-listened to the Super Best Friends play it back in the day.

@Officer Hotpants  
If you’re at all interested I would wholeheartedly recommend grabbing it when it’s on sale. It has it’s issues, but I’d say it’s one of the better games to come out from the 2010s. Even if it’s quite clear they weren’t sure how to join and wrap up the story in the late game (which I suspect is in part due to cutting two desks)

Anyone interested in Dune: Spice Wars? It sounds like an inversion of Total War, being an RTS primarily with 4x elements. I’m watching to see how that turns out.

@ANoobis  
jesus, harkonnen looks even fatter this time around  
also  
>An RTS match can be over in minutes  
(laughs in coh and coh2 half hour to over an hour long matches)

@ANoobis  
I’m just waiting for it to come out.

Decided to try Stellaris again after not touching it for months, and the first event chain the game throws me immediately bugs out.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Are you sure you had all 47 of the major DLCs? And you’re not running any mods older than two months, are you? Referencing cut content will screw with the game.

Sony is purchasing Bungie.

@ANoobis  
I thought Microsoft owned them.

@Officer Hotpants  
Oh no, they split from Activision over a year ago. And it looks like they learned nothing from their time under the corporate boot. >.<

@FeatherTrap  
From everything I’ve heard for the last decade or so, Sony is a god damn nightmare to work for, too.

@Officer Hotpants  
I have no hope for Bungie making anything good again, frankly. Especially since so much of the old talent is gone.

I think I’ve had more fun playing Endless Sky than with any game over the last three years I’ve paid money for.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
I’ve noticed a similar phenomenon whenever my friends and I are streaming for each other:
 
Modern Games: (Halo Infinite, Red Dead Redemption II, Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy…)  
“AAAARGH! STUPID PIECE OF SHIT! WHY WON’T YOU WORK?!? WHERE DID THOSE TEXTURES GO?!? CAN YOU HAVE A LOADING SCREEN SHORTER THEN THE AVERAGE PREGANCNY CYCLE?!?”
 
“I’m not even playing and I am in physical pain…”
 
 
Classic Games: (Ratchet and Clank, Call of Juarez, Bungie Halo, Sacrifice…)  
“Wow, this game looks like so much fun!” :D
 
“That’s cause it is fun” ;)

@FeatherTrap  
People were excited for Banjo-Kazooie on the N64 online for a reason.

@FeatherTrap  
“a loading screen shorter than the average pregnancy cycle”
 
my fucking sides
 
id say thats nostalgia talking but me and some of my friends have a pair of “everything new is most probably shit” glasses

@TeamBlueplant  
Those glasses are more often right then not.

“DURR, HALO ISN’T GOING WOKE FEATHUUUR, UR JUST A DUMB CONSERVITAAAARDDDD”
 
Mmmhmmm, want to explain to me why woke activism talking points like Black History Month (the only month we can talk about the history of black people in America and get brownie points for it apparently) are in the official news feed for Halo Infinite? The news feed that should be solely about updates and information around Halo content?
 
Well obviously I know you retards don’t want to, because you weasels can’t defend this. This is a painfully clear sign that 343 is full of woke trash activists pretending to be game devs.
 
But I’m gonna demand you explain it to me anyway.

@FeatherTrap  
I thought it was painfully clear when black and alphabet soup nameplates were added to MCC with a big MOTD announcement. Further reinforced when they nixed the planned NMPD nameplate for ODST’s release to appease offended twittards.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Yeah but no-one cares about MMC except for people like me who got to use it as a chance to introduce his friends to Halo…and on the PC no less. Because it’s a very bad port, and with every “update” they destroy the servers a little more…
 
 
Halo Infinite is fresh and new and everyone with +10,000 follower count in the Halo fandom is simping for it, hard. I’m not just talking about HaloFollower or HiddenXperia, you know the youtubers whose entire content is based around following every little tweet from anyone related to the brand and licking it’s balls like it’s a competitive sport. I expect that sort of behavior from them.
 
It’s a lot more aggravating when I see someone like The Act Man doing the same thing, cause I actually expect better from him then this.