Vidya Games Thread

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

good bad character was already bad

Also I'm 90% sure reeds punches already headshot jankman 4 the win.

I'm mostly skipping my mode myself not interesting enough to keep me interested.

Nope, Reed's punches didn't punch before and it is an entirely new mechanic for this mode. A lot of shit is headshotting and making this a complete clusterfuck. Iron Man's unibeam headshots in this mode. Magik's dash and projectile headshots you. Thor's awakened lightning arcs headshot you. You die VERY fast in this game mode because you can get 2-tapped by most of the people in the roster.

This is an interesting and dumb game mode but it's quickly ruined by the whole leaderboard shit, resulting in people queueing with stacks and making this shit retarded to play as they're desperate to be the top 10 rated players for their specific hero by the end of the weekend. I have seen more Lord proficiency Star-Lords in the brief two hours I've played this mode than I have ever seen in the several hundred hours I've played this game.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Nope, Reed's punches didn't punch before and it is an entirely new mechanic for this mode. A lot of shit is headshotting and making this a complete clusterfuck. Iron Man's unibeam headshots in this mode. Magik's dash and projectile headshots you. Thor's awakened lightning arcs headshot you. You die VERY fast in this game mode because you can get 2-tapped by most of the people in the roster.

This is an interesting and dumb game mode but it's quickly ruined by the whole leaderboard shit, resulting in people queueing with stacks and making this shit retarded to play as they're desperate to be the top 10 rated players for their specific hero by the end of the weekend. I have seen more Lord proficiency Star-Lords in the brief two hours I've played this mode than I have ever seen in the several hundred hours I've played this game.

Must have been dreaming then.

but yeah I agree those chasing the worthless titles are making the game mode worse i can see people dropping it because of the tryhards.

 

[Smelliest007]

As of a few minutes ago, Breath of Fire IV has been preserved on GOG using their Dreamlist program - $9.99:



While Capcom might never make a non-gacha Breath of Fire again, if this does well, it could spell success for other Dreamlist entries, such as Freelancer! (copium)

Please Dreamlist, make Zoo Tycoon 1 fucking happen. Fuck you, Microsoft.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

So glad GoG exists and while it's not perfect even a tiny change for the better is a good change.

 

[Smelliest007]

Nothing ever happens, but anything that can potentially shit on Ubisoft can't be bad.

Based in Austria, the non-profit NOYB - European Center for Digital Rights has taken on the case of a Far Cry fan who contacted Ubisoft to find out what data it had collected. The firm alleges that Ubisoft has flouted GDPR rules, and now risks a potential fine of up to €92m (£78m) - four percent of Ubisoft's €2.3bn turnover last year. Eurogamer has contacted Ubisoft for comment.


NOYB (which stands for None Of Your Business) was set up by privacy activist Max Schrems, who previously helped surface allegations of personal data being passed from Europe to the USA for use in the NSA's PRISM mass surveillance programme.

While playing prehistoric adventure Far Cry Primal, Ubisoft told the user it had obtained the kind of data you'd expect - information on when the game was launched, how long it was played for, and when it was shut down.


Still, examination of the data Ubisoft had obtained showed a connection to external servers 150 times in 10 minutes, NOYB claims, referring to this as a "secret data collection".


As for the need to connect online, Ubisoft told the user this was required to verify ownership of the game upon its launch. NOYB argues that because the user's copy of Far Cry Primal was bought through Steam, the game could be verified through that without additionally logging into a Ubisoft account.


GDPR laws state that data collection should only take place if "necessary", otherwise it is "unlawful", NOYB's complaint continues. An option that Ubisoft advertises to play PC games via Ubisoft Connect while offline still requires an initial connection, meanwhile.

Privacy firm files Ubisoft legal complaint over data collection, forced online in single-player games | Eurogamer.net | Ghostarchive

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[UberSoldat]

Never seen this happen before

The new shooter from the former 4A Ukraine studio was supposed to launch today, but instead it got a last-second delay and nobody knows for how long

A closed beta test earlier this month was also delayed, and apparently did not go very well.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[UberSoldat]

Gman reviews reboots good and bad

 

[John Vtuber👁️]

Day's Gone DLC is up, $10, adding additional gameplay modes as well as PS5 controller support, and Photo Mode. It also has an extensive medical warning on the store page that's just slightly longer than the feature list itself, which is certainly something!



Instead of The Last of Us I + II eternally re-releasing for the next 100 years, making a Days Gone 2 might actually see the sales Sony's bigwigs are hoping for! Resist the urge to include further [CURRENT YEAR] subversion, keep the protagonist as a stereotypical biker who regularly listens to conspiracy theory radio stations while surviving in the American Zombie Apocalypse, because that's unironically more creative than most output in the past decade of AAAA releases!

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

Day's Gone DLC is up, $10, adding additional gameplay modes as well as PS5 controller support, and Photo Mode. It also has an extensive medical warning on the store page that's just slightly longer than the feature list itself, which is certainly something!



Instead of The Last of Us I + II eternally re-releasing for the next 100 years, making a Days Gone 2 might actually see the sales Sony's bigwigs are hoping for! Resist the urge to include further [CURRENT YEAR] subversion, keep the protagonist as a stereotypical biker who regularly listens to conspiracy theory radio stations while surviving in the American Zombie Apocalypse, because that's unironically more creative than most output in the past decade of AAAA releases!

The funny bit about Bend Studios is that, being in Bend, Oregon, they well understand that the Zombies don't win in a Zombie Apocalypse. That area between the Cascades and the Rockies (Bend being on the rainshadow side of the Cascades) is so vast and the perfect escape space. Which is actually what happened when the Explorers reconnected the continents and 90% of the Americas population died off.

 

[ValkyrieAce]

good bad character was already bad

Also I'm 90% sure reeds punches already headshot jankman 4 the win.

I'm mostly skipping my mode myself not interesting enough to keep me interested.

Yeah I ain't suffering through that just for those creepy emotes.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Yeah I ain't suffering through that just for those creepy emotes.

not a fan of early 2000's cartoons?

 

[JMForte]

Been playing the Oblivion Remaster, they did something worse than the body type selection. They removed the backflip.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Been playing the Oblivion Remaster, they did something worse than the body type selection. They removed the backflip.

Perhaps doing a backflip outside the bethesda offices would encourage them to readd it.

 

[UberSoldat]

Jonathan and Dave look at the guns of Atomfall

 

[Superduper Samurai]

Jonathan and Dave look at the guns of Atomfall

Its still quite amusing that American company Gamespot, kicked out two britoids who were doing firearm deep dives because guns bad. And they just picked it back up with no issue on their own

 

[TKN_Lurker]

Its still quite amusing that American company Gamespot, kicked out two britoids who were doing firearm deep dives because guns bad. And they just picked it back up with no issue on their own

It really was the dumbest thing Gamepsot did. Firearms Expert reacts is presented in the most non-offensive and educational way with some classic british humour. How do you fumble the bag with a winning formula? It's not like they're championing the Second Amendment like most guntube channels do. Game journos must be allergic to success.

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

It really was the dumbest thing Gamepsot did. Firearms Expert reacts is presented in the most non-offensive and educational way with some classic british humour. How do you fumble the bag with a winning formula? It's not like they're championing the Second Amendment like most guntube channels do. Game journos must be allergic to success.

No "must", they absolutely are. They're all on sinking ships and act like it.

 

[Smelliest007]

Its still quite amusing that American company Gamespot, kicked out two britoids who were doing firearm deep dives because guns bad. And they just picked it back up with no issue on their own

Wait, they fired them over fucking gun control? Castrate all games journalists.

 

[JMForte]

Remastered Oblivion has such awful difficulty levels. Adept is WAY too easy, I can one shot wolves, I bump it up to expert and suddenly wolves take like 10 hits.

 

[Superduper Samurai]

Wait, they fired them over fucking gun control? Castrate all games journalists.

No idea, the last experts' react has a comment pinned by the dave guy,



He was "made redundant" out of the blue and let go, seemingly while still recording for a Valkyria Chronicles episode

I checked and they actually had another experts react episode in production that they released a couple months after the above