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On 16/04/2024 at 7:21 PM, Julius said:Ooooo!
I watched the Digital Foundry interview about this with the fine developer folk over at Redemption Road last month and they seem a lovely and earnest bunch, well worth a watch
Looks like it'll be a brilliant time
hope it comes to console at some point! Think they've mentioned Xbox before but hopefully it comes to other platforms too 
It's really great that they're putting so much effort into optimisation.
Seems to have become an increasingly neglected area of game development in recent years. 
I have very high hopes for this game.
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3 hours ago, Sheikah said:For starters, forget using a keyboard and mouse on a sofa - it's not comfortable.
I have actually tried that in the past and yeah, it really isn't.
Luckily, these days I use one of those small wireless keyboards that has a built-in touchpad, which works great.
Admittedly, I don't really play those more traditional PC genres, like strategy or simulation type games, but for the few titles I've got that require mouse/keyboard I'll just map mouse movement to my controller's gyroscope with Steam Input. -
33 minutes ago, Dcubed said:Bit late on responding here, but bravo on the Parappa stage there @RedShell, I see you really did your homework there. It's basically spot on to the original game!
Hehehe, cheers!
Yeah, it's just missing a few aspects due to hitting the weight limit (and to keep performance decent) I also had to make the onion on the back wall a Smash logo, again for technical reasons. Stage builder really does not like it when you draw objects with too many colours/terrain parts.
At least I was able to include the wood panelling on the walls though, a detail that they seemingly forgot in the Battle Royale version of Fruites Dojo.
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On 20/04/2024 at 2:07 AM, Sheikah said:
The majority will never take to PC as their main gaming platform. Expensive, inconsistent and not well suited to being used on a TV - which is important for many. Those who say it's superior to console are looking at a spec sheet and not the practicalities of modern life.I've been using a PC exclusively on TV for about 4 years now and can safely say that is no longer the case. The only issue I've encountered there is with much older titles that run at lower/unusual resolutions, but even then there's always a relatively simple solution to get it working. I consider it the modern-day equivalent of blowing on a cartridge.
On 19/04/2024 at 9:24 PM, Nicktendo said:PC and Switch is the place to be at the moment
Couldn't agree more.
I've not looked back since dropping Playstation and shifting all my 3rd party stuff over to PC. Cheaper games, better performance, no cost for online play, more customisation options, mods, and backwards compatibility that's truly future-proof. Sure, the initial costs with PC is very high compared to console, but in the long run I think it's well worth the extra investment.
I don't expect the combo of PC + Nintendo console will change for me any time soon.-
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11 hours ago, Glen-i said:In hindsight, @RedShell's stage shouldn't have surprised me. Parappa is one of the vanishingly few inspired characters in that game, and I can totally imagine he likes that game.
Indeed I do.
11 hours ago, BowserBasher said:Great games, my only win came from the guy that destroys the world. And fun impromptu final match was fun.
You almost did an amazing comeback against Glen-i on my Epic Flail stage though (Ryu vs Ken) I was on the edge of my seat spectating that battle.
Anyway, cheers for the games everyone!
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Got a heads-up on the theme from Glen-i, enabling me to create an appropriate custom stage for tonight. It's a pretty simple one, yet I somehow managed to crash stage builder while making it!
However, this also led to an incredible new gimmick discovery
(I'm talking cannon graveyard level silliness ) but I'm going to hold it back for another build and to do some more tweaking, so you won't be seeing that tonight.
If all goes to plan though... Mwahahahaaaa!!!!
Anyway, see you later for some "all-star" battles.
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This looks utterly bonkers.
*adds to wishlist*
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57 minutes ago, Dcubed said:Word of warning, apparantly the PC version of DR2/Off The Record does not support Xbox One/Series controllers. They will only support Xbox 360 controllers and nothing else from what I understand.
Cheers for the heads-up.
How strange though. DR1, 3 and 4 all have full controller support.
On the pcgaming wiki page it has a green check mark next to XInput compatible controllers, pretty sure the controller I use can be switched to that. Anyway, even if it doesn't work, I could always use the custom controller mapping feature in Steam, right?
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3 hours ago, Hero-of-Time said:@RedShell Yeah, the original Dead Rising is fantastic. I had a huge amount of fun on it back when it was released on the 360. The sequel is pretty good as well but everything after that turned a bit rubbish.
Yeah, I'd heard that the games dip in quality after the sequel. I definitely plan to check out the second game at least, I'm just a bit confused about which version to get as it seems there are 2 Dead Rising 2.
As far as I can tell, the "off the record" version is the one to go for, because it features Frank and all the photography stuff again.
4 hours ago, Hero-of-Time said:I think there was an achievement for killing 50,000 of them or something ridiculous like that. I vaguely remember having to drive around in the tunnels in a van and grind the kills that way.
Indeed there is.
And for sure, you would've done it buy driving around the maintenance tunnels, ludicrous amounts of zombies in there.
4 hours ago, Hero-of-Time said:That Garfield mod looks hilarious.
Yup, unfortunately it doesn't make the cat talk, had it also included Garfield's sarcastic commentary I would have replayed the entire game! There is, however, another mod that replaces all cat meows with fart sound effects, which combines well with the Garfield skin.
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On 14/04/2024 at 3:08 PM, Hero-of-Time said:I LOVED this. I vaguely remember @RedShell enjoying this a couple of years back and now I can see why. It's a massive love letter to Pikmin and plays exactly how a top down, 2D Pikmin game should. Instead of a whistle to call your creatures, the main character rocks what is essentially a Proton Pack from Ghostbusters. You suck up the little creatures to get them back to you. The development team knew what they were referencing because when you fully upgrade it this is what the trophy us called.
Yeah, great little game. Glad to hear you also enjoyed it.
Been a while since I posted an update, hmm... let's see if I can remember what I've played...
Well, February got pretty much completely taken over by one game, a controversial game that a lot of people loved to hate, I am of course talking about:
Palworld:
While I wasn't exactly sold on it at first, I ended up getting hooked on the damn thing and then couldn't stop playing it!
As an early access game (and one made by an inexperienced dev team at that) it obviously has quite a lot of issues, and it's not exactly the most original game ever made *cough* but you know what? Neither of those things stopped it from (eventually) being a lot of fun! Played it for around 100 hours in total and in that time I caught the majority of the Pokém-err... Pals, defeated all bosses and unlocked every achievement.
It was the base building aspect that ended up appealing to me the most though, it's super simple to use yet pretty flexible in what it allows you to build. But me being me, I went and made a 15 storey Baby Face tower for my main base:
Yep, it was just a bit big:
So yeah, base building was really great, and alongside being able to make essentially any shape base you like, there's an assortment of furniture items available to craft for decoration. It's cute how your Pals also help out with constructing stuff and can be assigned to various tasks within the base itself, like planting/harvesting food, manufacturing items or weapons, etc. And depending on the type of Pal/skills, they'll be better suited to certain tasks, it makes collecting and levelling them up feel a lot more worthwhile as a result. Unlike in Pokémon, where I always focus on my team and all remaining Pokémon are just left gathering dust in the storage box, in Palworld you want to have a load of different Pals trained up and then set to your base/s.
Another aspect where Palworld seems to make an improvement over Pokémon is in the online play department, although it's not something I personally tested, as far as I'm aware the entire game is playable in co-op. No doubt a contributing factor to the crazy success of this game.
Despite Palworld one-upping Pokémon in some areas though, it still needs work, it's an ambitious title with a lot going on and all in a huge open world, Pals can get stuck on parts of the environment, characters will randomly T-pose, all that sort of fun stuff. There were already a few updates back while I was still playing that fixed up some bugs, including a major one where it was possible to capture bosses! That's right, not just the Pals, but their NPC trainers too!
Luckily I managed to "catch 'em all" before the fix arrived, an unusual advantage of playing via Game Pass, where patches would be delayed over the Steam version.
Oh, quick mention on the music before I move on. For the most part it was basically non-existent, as they were going for that BotW vibe
just some light piano here and there. So I'd come to the conclusion that the game wasn't going to offer much in that regard, but then I was hit with this!:
Crazy good!
It's basically the only memorable track from the entire game (for me at least) but yeah, what a belter.
Anyway, I stand by what I said about Palworld originally, in that I just hope its success will snap Game Freak out of their rut. It's quite frankly embarrassing how a small rookie studio (regardless of how they went about it) has been able to produce a more entertaining "Pokémon" game than any of the recent titles in that series.
Game Freak needed a wake up call, and hopefully this is it.While subbed to Game Pass I noticed Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night had returned to the service, it's a game that I'd previously played through on there and really enjoyed, so I decided to download and check it out again. A couple of hours into it and I was having such a blast once more that I realised I should probably just buy it, so picked up a copy on Steam. It's rare that I replay games, but this one is so good that I simply couldn't resist. I absolutely love it!
The visuals, the music, the flow of the game and huge variety of weapons and movesets all make it super replayable.
There's only 1 thing wrong with Bloodstained, and that's the atrocious font they used for the dialogue text. Yuck! What were they thinking with that!? I tried searching for a mod to change it to a serif style, something a bit more... Gothic, but there was nothing. I know, that's such a trivial thing to complain about, but it still really annoys me.
On the plus side, I discovered other mods that helped distract me from the horrible font at least.@Jonnas, I see this is one of your games to play this year, hope you get around to it.
Very briefly revisited Stray to check out a mod that let's you play as Garfield:
Game is now 11/10.
No More Heroes III:
This also popped up on Game Pass, having already played 1, 2 and Travis Strikes Again, I figured I should finally give 3 a go as well.
But apart from the combat (which was really good) and the humour (that's so unbelievably stupid it made me laugh, a lot) it's probably the weakest entry in the series, I just wasn't a fan of the way it's structured. You have several large areas with pretty much nothing in them that are just like hubs for mission markers, you then have to do a number of these repetitive missions to open up the boss battles, that was ok initially, but towards the later stages of the game it got pretty tiresome. 
I would've preferred some proper levels to explore with a greater number of enemies to progress through occasionally. 
Anyway, the boss battles and ridiculous story/cutscenes were enough to keep me playing through to the end, but were it not for those things I would've struggled to finish it I reckon.Dead Rising:
Where the hell has this game been all my life?!
So I randomly purchased this on Steam as I was in the mood for even more silliness after NMH3, and let's just say that this game did not disappoint!
Playing this for the very first time in 2024 was quite the experience, a fantastic blast from the past, back when big developers were still relatively free to make highly entertaining games without needing to worry about political correctness and all the other constrictive nonsense they have to deal with now.Anyway, won't go into details on what I liked about this game, because that's basically everything!
So I'll instead comment on the single aspect that I truly hated and that stops Dead Rising from being absolutely perfect, and that's its boss battles. 
My word, frustrating doesn't even begin to describe how awful they are. Damage sponges that can destroy you within seconds using attacks that are so damn cheap it feels like encountering a cheater in an online game. You need to either possess super human reflexes, or cheese the AI in some way to create a window of opportunity to attack. And even then they can just pull a completely unpredictable move which will be impossible to react to. Infuriating.Terrible bosses aside though, this game is gold. The setting, the freaky characters, the OTT (non-boss) gameplay
... so much fun. I was also super impressed by the amount of zombies on screen simultaneously and the multitude of ways they react to attacks too, that must've been so impressive back in 2006! It still holds up really well today. I completely lost it the first time I threw a metal pipe at one and it got stuck inside them. "Let off some steam, Bennett!" I've come to realise that apart from some indie stuff I actually have a lot more fun playing older games now than modern ones, so I'm going to try and catch up on other classics that I might have missed out on over the years, provided they can be found on PC. Hopefully I'll be able to discover some other wacky gems like Dead Rising.
Well, that's my gaming diary up to now, I think.
Spoiler- Bramble: The Mountain King
- Stray
- Palworld
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (replay)
- No More Heroes III
- Dead Rising
The only other thing I've been playing regularly alongside everything else is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, N-E online battles on Saturday's and creating custom stages the rest of the time I'm on it.
Yep, still addicted to making those, here are some screens of my latest creations:
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Ok then, note to self: Do not throw Beetle into Piranha Plant's Poison Cloud:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2119049352?t=0h47m20s
19 hours ago, BowserBasher said:You had the perfect Mii to counter Sephiroth’s moves there in that first fight, even then it was close.
Yeah, it took me way too long to realise that though.
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1 hour ago, Glen-i said:I like to think I'm incredibly impartial when I say this.
Best stage ever, @RedShell. No notes. Might as well retire.
Thanks. Had a feeling you'd like that one.
Great games tonight (as always) cheers everyone.
Will have to wait for @S.C.G's vid to confirm, but I think I somehow hit myself (when playing as "Bomberman" Mii Brawler) with the Beetle!
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55 minutes ago, Glen-i said:Wouldn't that completely ruin the joke though? Because if you had Castlevania in there, you'd have to have Alucard as a playable character, and that means there would be a vampire in this game.
At this rate, by the time they get around to the final DLC (if they ever do
) most people probably won’t even remember that joke.
Anyway, will be interesting to see just how many content updates the game does eventually end up with, I get the feeling it’ll be quite a lot though.
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2 hours ago, Dcubed said:… of course it’s not Castlevania LMAO!
Saving that for the final update.
I actually think it's not completely impossible now, seeing as they've managed a Contra crossover! Hope so anyway, Castlevania DLC would seriously be the icing on the cake for this game. -
Interesting vid:
It really is pretty nuts what some games were able to achieve on that hardware.
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10 hours ago, Glen-i said:Alright, @RedShell. Question. Did you mean for the P logo to start glowing Pink whenever Peach does her Final Smash?
I sure did!
Nah, just another one of those "happy little accidents", I must be the Bob Ross of Smash Bros stage building.Anyway, cheers for the games, and for holding back the theme night.
That 4 player Peach battle was great:https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2106271684?t=0h5m38s
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The stage is set for Peach!:
I have enough other custom stages that roughly follow the theme too.
10 hours ago, Glen-i said:Mii Swordfighter is allowed, but the Mii must actually be wielding a sword, so no Goemon, for example.
So this would be OK then?:
Come on, we can't break the tradition of somehow shoehorning in Goemon Mii Fighter now!
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Now this would be a Zelda film that I'd absolutely love to watch:
Also, Lol @ Tingle!
Sure as hell nothing like what we're going to end up getting, but with AI generated video improving so damn quickly at least there's a chance that an entire film in that style could be created some day.
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18 hours ago, Dcubed said:I don’t actually want better graphics, I just want the same graphics we have now with better performance/higher resolution.
I’d be fine with the same graphics and just better performance!
Think I may have mentioned this before, but I still consider 1080p to be more than adequate when it comes to resolution.
I’ve experienced quite a few games at 4K now and while the extra clarity is nice, in my opinion it is nowhere near worth the additional power required to process it, certainly not natively at least. Then again, I don’t use an enormous screen by today’s standards (42”) meaning 1080p content is still crisp on a 4K panel of that size, so even if I’m playing a title that my PC can easily handle at 4K I always drop the resolution down to 1080. And if I’m still using the same size display when Switch 2 arrives, I reckon I’d do the same with that too.
18 hours ago, Dcubed said:The thing I really want more than anything else though is some new & interesting control input/communication/screen gimmicks; or at least the return of some of the hardware innovations we lost with Switch (dual screens, stereoscopic 3D, Streetpass, IR Pointer, Active Stylus, cameras, microphones etc). I miss the wacky hardware and interesting gameplay possibilities we used to have in the Wii/DS/3DS/Wii U eras.
Switch wasn’t completely devoid of hardware innovations.
We got HD rumble, which has been criminally underused.
Having messed about with it extensively in both LABO and Game Builder Garage I became a lot more aware of its potential, so it’s always incredibly disappointing when developers (even Nintendo themselves sometimes ) seemingly put minimal effort into utilising the feature at all!
Err... We also got the IR camera on the right Joy-Con, which managed to be even more neglected than HD rumble.
It briefly became a bad VR headset.
The Ring-Con and leg strap?
Yeah ok, it would be cool if Nintendo have some new quirky tech ideas for their next console. I get the feeling they won’t though, at least not anything particularly bonkers as it’s obviously a risk, meaning they’ll probably play it safe. This time.
Oh-oh! I just made a prediction about Nintendo! Watch them go and release the wackiest hardware ever now.
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14 hours ago, BowserBasher said:So I got this on the iPad as it was free when everyone was raving about it but just couldn’t get into it and would die within a few minutes. Decided to give it a go on Switch cause of the free trial, thought maybe using an actual controller may help. Well it certainly does, managed to last a lot longer and even break 10 minutes within a few tries. But damn, I have no idea what I’m doing when it comes to powering up things and what to pick. Best I’ve found so far is to get the garlic power up item. Other than that I just end up running around avoiding things and just picking a new weapon.
May decide to buy it one day.A good tip when starting out is to focus on only a few weapons and constantly upgrading those at every opportunity, rather than collecting lots of different ones and therefore having a bunch of weaker attacks.
Garlic is a great choice though, especially if you can combine it with the books that rotate around your character and the holy water. Get those 3 running simultaneously and powered up and you’ll be laughing.
6 hours ago, Hero-of-Time said:I fired it up yesterday and enjoyed what I played but did question just what I would get out of it. I liked that there was an in game achievement system as it would give me something to work towards should I decide to buy it. Is there even an end to the game or is it just a question of surviving as long as you can and that's it?
For most people (as has been mentioned) getting all the achievements is considered the end of the game. I have 100% completion on my Steam copy with around 50 hours playtime.
Not sure if it’s still the case, but they used to add new unlocks/achievements with each update and DLC which would lower your achievement percentage, a lot of people were complaining about that though so it might be done differently now. Personally it never bothered me much and I actually looked forward to unlocking the new ones each time, but obviously some people just want to reach the end and be done with the game.
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2 hours ago, Cube said:The DLC is much, much better than the standard campaign.
Yep.
It also has a ludicrously difficult final boss battle that I thoroughly enjoyed, despite my struggle to defeat it:
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Decided to give this a whirl on Switch, seems like a very solid port.
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13 hours ago, BowserBasher said:It was noted on the puff-puff Jessica stage that apart from when you respawn it seemed only Piranha Plant could get up there to the hair platform on his own during normal play. Good camping ground, so maybe some platform or some other way to get up there.
Yep, that was actually somewhat intentional. You see Hero can also get up there if you time his jumps right and fully charge his up B.
The idea was to give him a slight advantage on that stage (similar to what I did with the R.O.B one, where R.O.B's final smash can trigger the stage collapsing) but as you saw, Piranha Plant can also get up there, and quite a lot of characters can actually, but obviously not everyone, so yeah, it isn't particularly balanced. It's not possible for me to add anything else to that stage though, as the weight limit has been reached, and then some.
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Oh man, Captain Falcon on Great Smash Ball:
"Falcon Falcon Falcon Falcon Falcon Falcon Falcon Falcon Kick!!"
Shame I didn't realise what the plan was for that final custom stage match, an all Hero battle on Puff-Puff Jessica would've been cool.
Oh well, hope you all enjoyed that stage as much as I enjoyed making it. Anyway, cheers for the games! And have fun next weekend.
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General Switch Discussion
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So it seems there could potentially be issues with playing second-hand Switch games online now, if the information in this video is correct:
Pretty messed up if true.
Anyone heard about this before?