Video Game Thread v. Wii4One

[Chino]

Hey so remember how I said I probably won't build a PC til the end of the PS5/XSX cycle? Looks like I'm buying a new PC from my buddy who had a customer back out, today or this weekend (in the next few days, regardless). 

It has a 1080 Ti in it. I might take it out (since it's going to be a music rig) and just put it in my other rig.

Get Red Dead! We have a posse called Barstool Warriors.

[The Walrus]

Hey so remember how I said I probably won't build a PC til the end of the PS5/XSX cycle? Looks like I'm buying a new PC from my buddy who had a customer back out, today or this weekend (in the next few days, regardless). 

It has a 1080 Ti in it. I might take it out (since it's going to be a music rig) and just put it in my other rig.

Get Red Dead! We have a posse called Barstool Warriors.

Killer name but I can't double dip on Red Dead haha. I'm still only 14% complete with the console version and only on chapter 4. I'll be playing that game forever. Honestly I'm not sure what I'll use it to game with. If anything I would probably use it to check out Microsoft's catalog, the Game Pass thing basically applies to PC and Xbox together yeah?

[ReaperKK]

Started replaying Kentucky Route Zero now that it's complete and also the interludes are included. Such an amazing game. I've also played Sayonara Wild Hearts and Beeswing. The former is a syntwave-ish music game, very fast paced, very creative. Wished controls weren't kinda clunky and the themes a little stronger but damn it was a lovely and short experience. Beeswing as well except it's a pretty experimental piece with hand-drawn and watercolor-painted art about grief, getting old, existentialist dread, and small towns. Amazing soundtrack too.

I've gotten through the first act of KR0 and it's an interesting game for sure, I'll try to finish i tup soon.

[Sacul]

Wii had amazing games tho

I camped out overnight for one and I stan Nintendo real hard but I disagree with that haha

Really? What games did you play? Kinds surprises me

Started replaying Kentucky Route Zero now that it's complete and also the interludes are included. Such an amazing game. I've also played Sayonara Wild Hearts and Beeswing. The former is a syntwave-ish music game, very fast paced, very creative. Wished controls weren't kinda clunky and the themes a little stronger but damn it was a lovely and short experience. Beeswing as well except it's a pretty experimental piece with hand-drawn and watercolor-painted art about grief, getting old, existentialist dread, and small towns. Amazing soundtrack too.

I've gotten through the first act of KR0 and it's an interesting game for sure, I'll try to finish i tup soon.

I finished the second act last night and damn I forgot how good it was, quite better than the first one. Give it a go, acts are pretty short.

[cramx3]

YASSSS!

https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/61639/GTA-Online-and-Red-Dead-Online-Updates-Coming-Soon?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=gtaordo-updates-07242020&utm_content=newswire

With both games playing home to more players than ever before in recent months, we know the community has been awaiting news of any updates for GTA Online and Red Dead Online and we are happy to share that both games will receive exciting new updates in the weeks ahead.

For Red Dead Online, players can expect a massive new update to arrive Tuesday, July 28th featuring a new Frontier Pursuit that will introduce players to the secrets of naturalism as part of an all-new Role, plus a new Outlaw Pass, tons of community-requested features and fixes, and much more to play and discover in the months to come.

A summer update to GTA Online is also on the way, offering up a fun mix of diverse new content from the game’s massive array of experiences to enjoy.

Later this year players can expect more big updates for both games, including some exciting new extensions and augmentations to an existing role in Red Dead Online, and the biggest ever update for GTA Online, featuring our latest take on Heists in an entirely new location.

Community Feedback

Thanks to your submissions via our official feedback channels, we have added a number of highly requested features across recent updates – including musical instruments in Red Dead Online, the ability to run all businesses via the Master Control Terminal in GTA Online and more. More of your suggestions will find their way into our games in the next few weeks, so please keep the feedback coming by sending us your thoughts via the GTA Online and Red Dead Online feedback pages.

We are also committed to ensuring that our games are fun for everyone and as safe as possible from modders, cheaters, hackers and those who seek to harass other players. So far this year, we have taken action on hundreds of thousands of players caught violating community rules across both games. Please help us keep our communities safe and fun by reporting any sort of cheating either directly in-game or via our dedicated web reporting tools for both Red Dead Online and GTA Online.

I've got no interest in this unless it includes heists or similar but it only mentions that for GTA.... I am not loading this game back up to take pictures of animals.  They are 4 months and too little too late IMO unless there is more than what they are saying.

[cramx3]

So I played Call of Duty Warzone last night with a hacker.  I didn't realize at first until I died and was spectating my teammate as he only had a few kills at that time but then just started aiming at the sky and shooting down people who were respawning.  This type of thing is absolutely ruining the game, and historically, the hackers have ruined just about every BR game that got popular (Maybe besides Fortnite, I just never got into that one to know if hackers are a problem there too).  Well being that this was a scenario I had never been in, I decided to use the in game chat and pretend that I thought he was really good while using my own mic to rip on him and recorded the entire game. I got the hacker to buy me back a few times  and we eventually won and I just ripped him at the end as he had 47 kills and over 30 spectators who all stayed to the end to make fun of him.  I think I have my next youtube video, but honestly, this makes me so fucking mad that it's so rampant and the game isn't doing nearly enough to stop it especially when it's SO obvious.

Finished the video, the full game with the hacker with some of my stupid commentary over parts of it.  It's not until the 5:30ish mark that I realize my teammate is using aimbot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw0T6iYjzpw

[cramx3]

Ugh, I just won Warzone again thanks to being matched with a hacker.  This time though, he had a hot mic with people in the room.  I could hear him talking to his friends about cheating.    So I annoyed the hell out of him the entire match. He had 37 kills and at one point said "I'm carrying the team to a win"  like he actually thinks he's playing legit or something?! UGH I'm so annoyed, the day I make a video of my first cheating teammate, I get in a game with another  I did get some enjoyment out of him audibly being annoyed with me!  I kept standing in front of him to block his view but as he even said "I don't think they realize I can aimbot through them"

[Podaar]

Is anyone interested in Ghost of Tsushima? I'm probably going to pull the trigger on that one when fall rolls around and I have more time for gaming. I think it looks fun as hell.

Dude, it's amazing. The amount of ways you can attack and kill enemies is insane. Look at this ridiculous kill:

https://twitter.com/SunhiLegend/status/1285353539045404678

It's one of the two best looking games I have ever seen, too (the other being RDR2). I find myself stopping almost every few seconds to play with the photo mode, no exaggeration.

Downloading the game now, Mike. I guess I won't wait until Fall after all. 

[Herrick]

Carrion came out a couple days ago. Did anyone play the demo? It was pretty cool. I'm going to wait for a sale though.

https://www.gog.com/game/carrion

https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/

[Progmetty]

Chino, I'm thinking of trying out Red Dead online but I've never been much of an online gamer, I think last time I played online was MGS4 in 2008. Any advice?

[Chino]

Chino, I'm thinking of trying out Red Dead online but I've never been much of an online gamer, I think last time I played online was MGS4 in 2008. Any advice?

Umm... Just have fun with it. You can earn gold fairly easily by doing the daily challenges. There's a big update dropping tomorrow, so now is probably a good time to start up. I'll probably be playing this week if you wanted a partner.

I find the horse you choose doesn't really matter much, and the side missions can be a lot of fun. There's a live map online that I can share with you that shows you where all the hidden stuff is for the roles you could play.

Also, some people are very vengeful in that game 

[cramx3]

I actually fired RDR2 up over the weekend as some friends were playing Saturday night and I was bored.  The new update needs to be significant, I didn't enjoy playing it much at all besides the effect of just playing with friends. 

Also, some people are very vengeful in that game 

    

[Dublagent66]

I'm on a Tomb Raider spree now.  TR Definitive Edition.  Rise of the Tomb Raider (20 year celebration).  Shadow of the Tom Raider. 

[Herrick]

I'm on a Tomb Raider spree now.  TR Definitive Edition.  Rise of the Tomb Raider (20 year celebration).  Shadow of the Tom Raider. 

For whatever reason, I couldn't get into the last Tomb Raider. It seemed just as good as the previous newer games but I don't know...

[ErHaO]

2013 was a blast. Rise was pretty good but it just did not impress me, and it felt less focused than the first. Story was pretty bad too. I played Rise around the same time as Uncharted Lost Legacy and the difference was huge to be honest, in favour of Uncharted. Shadow seems pretty good but I have yet to really play it.

[cramx3]

I'm on a Tomb Raider spree now.  TR Definitive Edition.  Rise of the Tomb Raider (20 year celebration).  Shadow of the Tom Raider. 

For whatever reason, I couldn't get into the last Tomb Raider. It seemed just as good as the previous newer games but I don't know...

As much as I really liked it, I actually never finished it.  I wonder if I have the same issue as you, thought it was just as good as the others but I couldn't get motivated after awhile to finish it.

[Dublagent66]

2013 was a blast. Rise was pretty good but it just did not impress me, and it felt less focused than the first. Story was pretty bad too. I played Rise around the same time as Uncharted Lost Legacy and the difference was huge to be honest, in favour of Uncharted. Shadow seems pretty good but I have yet to really play it.

I like Shadow the best out of the three I mentioned.  As fun as TR is, you're right about Uncharted LL.  The entire Uncharted series is way more complete and better overall experience.

[The Walrus]

I am really excited to talk about my top 25 games when I'm done with this roulette. I had a revelation this week and I believe I have figured out my #3 of all time, which made a jump up a few places from what it's always been.

[ErHaO]

I am really excited to talk about my top 25 games when I'm done with this roulette. I had a revelation this week and I believe I have figured out my #3 of all time, which made a jump up a few places from what it's always been.

My top 3 is set and was quite easy to think of, but anything after that is extremely difficult to determine. But I do have an early list.

[Podaar]

I'm really enjoying getting my Samurai on with Ghost of Tsushima! Putting points into stances has really helped me with the combat learning curve. I don't find the Samurai skill tree nearly as compelling (except Sprint Strike to put down pesky archers quickly). I haven't delved much into the stealth skills yet, the sword play is too much fun to abandon for assassinations. It will probably become more necessary as the game progresses, but for now facing enemies head on is a riot.

Oh, and the game world is compelling, atmospheric, and beautiful!

[The Walrus]

I really hope it's possible to put points into everything. That will bug me if I'm forced to leave some empty. I've been doing all of the side content and exploration, so I've only done the bottom half of the first of the 3 major areas, but I've finished act 1. I enjoy water stance most of all and seem to mow through enemies with all my points thrown into that. I need to get better at using smoke bombs, kunai etc. more often, and being able to fluidly swap in and out of certain weapons. I've upgraded my bows a lot and I've gotten real good at picking off enemies.

[Podaar]

I really hope it's possible to put points into everything. That will bug me if I'm forced to leave some empty. I've been doing all of the side content and exploration, so I've only done the bottom half of the first of the 3 major areas, but I've finished act 1. I enjoy water stance most of all and seem to mow through enemies with all my points thrown into that. I need to get better at using smoke bombs, kunai etc. more often, and being able to fluidly swap in and out of certain weapons. I've upgraded my bows a lot and I've gotten real good at picking off enemies.

Last night I spent some time practicing switching between Stone and Water stances during combat so that I used them against appropriate enemies. Takes a little getting used to, but is well worth it. But, yeah, water is probably the most versatile.

[The Walrus]

It was a bit of a process but since they were already on my photo dump Twitter, I wanted to see if I could make quick GIFs of my animated screenshots. Success!

[cramx3]

You took like multiple screenshots and turned it into a gif or you can take an animated screenshot in the game?

Game certainly looks cool.  I watched Cristina Scabbia (singer of Lacuna Coil) play some on twitch.

[The Walrus]

You took like multiple screenshots and turned it into a gif or you can take an animated screenshot in the game?

Game certainly looks cool.  I watched Cristina Scabbia (singer of Lacuna Coil) play some on twitch.

So there's a tracking shot function in the photo mode that you can use to sweep and pan the camera around in a cinematic style, but I haven't gotten good enough with that quite yet to use it. So I just find a good cinematic still shot, hide the UI, take a quick video capture, then take the Twitter video and convert it to a GIF. Bit of a tedious process but it's just a few clicks so it could be way worse. I seriously have spent about half my time (or more) with the game trying to get the best shots I can 

[Dublagent66]

Yeah, the images and environments in Ghost are amazing.  I picked it up last Friday (a week after release) and it's quite impressive.  I'm still getting used to the combat controls mostly for defense.  I'm more of a stealth kill player than the stand off type.  I really don't like taking on multiple opponents unless I have a gun.

[Podaar]

I really don't like taking on multiple opponents unless I have a gun.

We each like what we like. I'm not a very skilled controller user, so the hand to hand combat is (especially when surrounded) a pretty big learning curve for me. Still, when you successfully perform what you are intending, i.e.; stagger the shield user and get off a heavy thrust, immediately dodge a spear thrust, get off a quick counter to his head before sprinting 6 meters to chop down an archer... ooo, boy. Nerdgasms all the way.

[ErHaO]

It was a bit of a process but since they were already on my photo dump Twitter, I wanted to see if I could make quick GIFs of my animated screenshots. Success!

Very nice, cool that you made gifs using the animated mode, as this game shines the most when everything moves. Such a stylish game with one stunning vista after another.

[ErHaO]

Some of my shots, framed these with the cinema bars and cut them off. Not the most colorful shots, but I have plenty of those too. Haven't entered photomode as much as this since Uncharted 4.

I sometimes play in Kurosawa mode and I love doing that for a minor sidequest. One of my favourite films of all time is Harakiri (1962), still such a tense movie and with some cool unexpected turns. Ironically while I love some of the old Japanese cinema, I don't really enjoy the Kurosawa classics.

[The Walrus]

GORGEOUS photos, dude. I have been trying to capture the perfect fox photo but just haven't found the perfect location for the lighting and position of the fox.  Yours is beautiful.

Also if anybody needs samurai TV there's an episode of season 2 of Westworld with a brutal samurai fight 

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

Heavy Rain Glitch

The mother of all glitches 

[Evermind]

Not unexpected, coming from the game that gave us JASON! JASON! JASON!

[ariich]

That's a lot funnier than it should be.

[ErHaO]

GORGEOUS photos, dude. I have been trying to capture the perfect fox photo but just haven't found the perfect location for the lighting and position of the fox.  Yours is beautiful.

Also if anybody needs samurai TV there's an episode of season 2 of Westworld with a brutal samurai fight 

Thanks, and yes those damn Foxes always choose awkward spots, haha.

And I still need to get to Westworld, but as of now the legal options to watch it non-existent because HBO is tied to a cable company I can't subscribe to. Thankfully HBO is finally launching an actually accesible service in the future.

[cramx3]

Heavy Rain Glitch

The mother of all glitches