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Anyone know if the Stadia controllers are any good? Looks like they're being sold off dirt cheap, so assuming they still work with Windows, I might pick one up for the novelty.

Dark_Silvergun posted...

So, since it is streaming only, what will people do with their unplayable game system?

I thought the whole point is (sorry, was) that there's no 'system', just a controller (which I'd assume will work as a wireless PC controller) and a Chromecast (which I'd assume still works as a Chromecast).

Trekkie Monster from Avenue Q meeting Puppet Spock. With puppeteers visible.

The Extra/Extella series and the Zero anime look most interesting to me. I know Grand Order is stupidly popular, but I'm not sure if I can be bothered with another gachafest even if it does have a very long and complex plot.

Any recommendations on what to read/watch/play/avoid?

Banishing Racer

It's a side-scrolling platformer starring an adorable little cartoon car. Who jumps on other vehicles to knock them off the road.

IIRC, the plot suggests that he's nominally involved in a race, but the gameplay doesn't involve actual racing at all (for one thing, every enemy vehicle is going the other way).

Satan (Old Harry's Game)

IIRC, 90% of the 'connections' are based on fictional brands, which just means that they bought their props from the same company.

The basic idea is fine as a weird thing to think about, but some people stretch way too far to 'prove' it applies to everything.

If they can fix up the spotty translations, that would be nice.

Avenue Q - There's A Fine, Fine Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z-uW9gb72g

I've watched a few 'bad game' reviews of Left Alive, and part of me still thinks it looks really good. I like the aesthetic and the idea behind it, and I hate that the gameplay sucks so much because it could have been great if it was just a bit different.

Wonderworld and Quiet Man are fundamentally flawed from the concept up. And I'd never even heard of Babylon Fall until this, and I'm finding it hard to believe that Platinum made a game that bad.

GavsEvans123 posted...

the Mortal Kombat announcer

Isn't the announcer supposed to be Shao Khan?

A parody biopic about Weird Al, and still the strangest thing about that trailer was the phrase "Roku original"

I don't play YGO, but I've heard there's cards based on the cast of the Ganbare Goemon series, so... whatever Yae's card is called must be the best one.

I love both of those series, and... I'm looking forward to Armed Fantasia.

Although, it's a bit cheeky that they're subtitling their game after an iconic tune that they presumably won't be able to use, even if Michiko Naruke is on board. I assume she'll come up with something similar, but still.

This has to have character customisation, right? Build your own minifig fighter and assign moves like a Mii in Smash?

There's a cool card game called Channel A where you have to pitch ideas for animes made up of random words. I always wanted to retheme it for video games. Anywho, let's see what we get...

The First Battle (the hour gives me Mystery Dungeon, which I'm going to interpret as Roguelite)

The four gods each appeared in the world at the same time, and, upon seeing their brethren, immediately began fighting for sole dominion over the world. Each god created followers, and for ages they have clashed hopelessly. You play as a new soldier who, thanks to a quirk of fate, has the ability to slay the gods. Gameplay would be a procedurally generated sandbox with musou-esque combat, as you explore the world searching for the skills and equipment you need to grow stronger, assault the strongholds of the gods, and finally bring an end to the First Battle.

Labyrinth

Maybe... I've seen them in the windows of those weird shops that mostly sell phone cases and vape fluid, but have a window full of totally genuine and not at all stolen high-end tech.

So theye're either PS5s that the police are still looking for, or famiclones in PS5 shells.

Growl, a beat-em-up in which you rescue rare animals from poachers and then the final boss sprouts an enormous chestburster which you're told is the alien who was controlling the poachers all along.

Arguably Doom II, if you consider that the Icon of Sin is just room decoration and the real target is John Romero's severed head on a stick.

I'm calling it now- the stinger will involve the party being enveloped by a strange mist and winding up in the Demiplane of Dread.

Admittedly, that's mainly what I want to happen.

Actually, is Ravenloft-the-setting even a thing these days, or is Curse of Strahd still just a standalone module set in a regular world?

OWLBEAR!

*Books tickets immediately*

Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire, the first book of the October Daye series.

October "Toby" Daye is a changeling private detective who lost fourteen years of her life (as well as her marriage and daughter) after the person she was tailing turned her into a fish. When the spell broke, she tried to cut herself off from fae society until a powerful friend of hers was killed, after leaving a voicemail containing a powerful gaes that forces Toby to solve the murder or die.

The series is currently about twenty books long, with great background lore, lots of minor details that turn out to be setups for things much later on, and is generally (IMO) fantastic. Seanan writes a whole bunch of other stuff too, mostly various flavours of urban fantasy, as well as medical horror thrillers under the pen name Mira Grant.

Cryptocurrency isn't inherently a scam, just a catastrophically awful solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

NFTs always were and always will be 100% pure scam. And also catastrophically awful.

If we ever do get Sanderson adaptations, I wonder if they'll be strictly alternate continuity, or somehow make it so that the adaptations are their own part of the Cosmere, with changes from the books being significant in some way.

I mean, it's way more likely that the studio would meddle until we got an unrecognisable mess that nobody's happy with and is completely incompatible with the metaplot, but a well-executed "It's a retelling but also sort of not" would be very on-brand.

BlueCrystalTear posted...

If I see a glass-backed phone without a case, I presume the person is an idiot and has to frequently replace the thing.

iPhone users replace them every six months anyway, every time Apple completely revolutionises the entire concept of computing, phones, and life itself.

An actually Complete version of a Koei Tecmo game? At a reasonable price without hundreds of dollars of DLC? Never thought I'd see the day.

Wonder if they'll finally localise Musou Orochi Z now.

Wow, so much hate for the UK dub. I liked it, especially since (in the sequels, at least) it kept the Japanese names for everyone.

Anyway, fantastic series, needs to make a comeback.

Alternatively, I've always felt Nintendo could do a great knockoff if they replaced all the monkeys with Pokemon.

Pokemon Rainbow and Monochrome
Pokemon Matte and Gloss
Pokemon Death and Taxes
Pokemon Breaking and Entering
Pokemon Clear and Present (plus Danger DLC)

Best Jedi: Aayla Secura
Best pilot: Wedge Antilles
Best droid: R5-D4

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #MD. A mockumentary following a pop group as they tour the country by day, and secretly transform into superheroes at night to battle demons by summoning the spirits of classic Sega characters!

I read stuff on it quite a lot, but don't even have an account.

The first half-season is okay, the second half-season is good, seasons 2 and 3 are very good. Haven't seen 4 yet, because Netflix UK lost it to Paramout+ which has only just launched here. And they wonder why people pirate stuff.

It's not hugely weird, but I find it amusing that every Dynasty Warriors game is numbered one lower in Japan, because the localisation team treated Shin Sangoku Musou as a sequel to Sangoku Musou, rather than a spinoff.

plasmabeam posted...

I'd recommend Lost Dimension for $6.24 as its copyright is up next year, I believe.

The PS3/Vita versions were removed from PSN recently for that same reason.

Never heard of this one before, but it does look intriguing. I'm a big fan of deception games like The Resistance, and this looks like it takes a lot from that (although I suppose Among Us would be the modern reference point).

As for other games, how's 428: Shibuya Scramble if I prefer my VNs to have a decent puzzle element (like Zero Escape, Danganronpa or Ace Attorney)? I know you have to keep switching characters and getting them to unblock eachothers' paths, but is it logical "Person A's problem could be overcome if Persona B did that action" or more "Try options and see what happens, one of them will work"?

ninkendo posted...

but I've always said Jif

You monster

I always feel like there's loads of weird little games I've been meaning to check on, but can't remember any of them. And then when the sale ends, I'll think "Of course, I wanted to see if [insert game here] was cheap!"

There are times when I've felt an easy mode was too forgiving to be fun, like you said with the beat-em-ups.

R-Type Dimensions has an easy mode where you get infinite lives and immediately respawn at the point where you died without losing any progress. I'd much rather have the infinite lives and get sent back to a checkpoint (both so that you have a chance to power up again, and to make it so you actually have to practice and improve, not just wear down the boss over dozens of lives), but sadly, that's not an option.

ninkendo posted...

Trails is weird because they're technically part of the Legend of Heroes series (with the first game, Trails in the Sky, being The Legend of Heroes 6 in Japan), but then they kinda just dropped the numbering as the series went on

It gets better- all Trails games are The Legend of Heroes VI, and all The Legend of Heroes games are Dragon Slayer VI, which puts them in the same metafranchise as the Xanadu series (which started as Dragon Slayer II)

Didn't the creator originally say that he'd planned out nine 'chapters' to the Ogre Battle Saga, and decades later we've still only got three of them, and they just keep rereleasing two of them?

LUCT is a great game, but how about actually making one of the other episodes, eh?

Park > World > That part of World 2 where it goes all Resident Evil for a bit > Park 2 > Most of World 2 > Park 3

Haven't seen World 3 yet.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

I'm not familiar enough with the community to know if you can mod an actual PS2 ISO like that.

You can. Although it's a set of Action Replay codes rather than an ISO patch, and is still a bit buggy- IIRC, the game crashes if anyone other than the MC uses certain items, or selects the change persona menu option.

paperwarior posted...

I think the SFV upgrade coupon is broken. It currently applies to SFV itself on Humble.

Also, as far as I can tell, "Street Fighter V Season 5 Champion Edition Upgrade Kit" isn't a thing. The Champion Edition Upgrade Kit and Season 5 Character Pass are two separate bits of DLC.

Make it a Ghost/Water type, then it can be Ghost Pirate LeChonk

I feel like making all the CoDbros play Spec Ops: The Line might improve gaming culture a bit, but that's probably being overoptimistic.

I'm well aware it will never happen, and I don't think they're greedy. I'm just saying that I don't like the subscription model, and since the question was "what would be the point of an offline version", I was providing a hypothetical reason to want one.

WhiteLens posted...

Not sure why you would even think offline would make a difference because the game is like 90% solo anyways.

I'd assume that an offline bundle wouldn't require a subscription. If they made a properly single-player version with all the expansions for a one-time payment, I'd buy it in a heartbeat, but I'll never subscribe.

Honestly, I would be happy to pay for expansions if I could carry on being a second-class non-subscriber, but their weird "Once you've spent anything you can never revert" model means they won't get a penny out of me.

_SecretSquirrel posted...

Shout out to Chrono Trigger's G for being accepted as currency for over 65 million years.

How about Star Ocean's Fol, which is accepted in all cultures on all planets, including ones that have no contact with or even concept of life on other worlds.

Yes, I know SO3's infamous plot twist sort of explains this, but I refuse to accept that bullshit. Plus it was already the case in SO1&2, and I don't believe they had it planned ahead of time.

Part of me feels there's something inherently wrong about doing a remake when the series was left off on a cliffhanger. Like, you can't just start over without resolving your damn story!

On the other hand, Dead Space 3 wasn't great and DS1 was awesome, so... more of the good stuff please!

(I'd still rather have a good DS4 though).

What was the controversy with Chandra?