Games

[endar]

of course how else would he turn the lights on ha ha

haaaaaaaaake

(hussssssss)

(warn)

[blombluss]

groodf mAN

An English man!

[Mrak]

I played the first few hours of new Zelda this afternoon. Nice, but also it feels like all this raft building might get kind of wearying after a while

I heard someone else had this same concern, but then they said that the raft building wasn't as prominent as they feared

[vom]

there are certainly lots of other different things to build after the initial rafty bit

[dng]

I stuck a rocket on a rock and fired it into a mountain

[blombluss]

Teletext Doom (sort of)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIgQV4ClmQ0

[vom]

haha I love the teletext rendition of doom guy's face

[dng]

i want this style of graphics to replace green vector graphics as the 80s action film computer screen graphics of choice now

[endar]

looks like zx81 doom

[blombluss]

New Consolevania, except it isn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG8JGxqyUAA

It's like the orig, and has the same name, and this new show was made with the blessing of the original creators.

Which all confused me a tad.

[blombluss]

i want this style of graphics to replace green vector graphics as the 80s action film computer screen graphics of choice now

This is the first thing I'll do when I invent a tyme machin.

[Bruce Sato]

New Consolevania, except it isn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG8JGxqyUAA

It's like the orig, and has the same name, and this new show was made with the blessing of the original creators.

Which all confused me a tad.

Rab and Ryan made a statement (and indeed an episode) relinquishing their rights to the name and format of Consolevania about a year ago, either to get more people doing things, or because they were thinking of stopping making the show themselves, or both (although they're still making new episodes anyway). There hasn't been a huge reaction, largely I suspect due to the show's small reach nowadays. This guy has now made three episodes, which shows a certain amount of tenacity, but he doesn't have their lightness of touch, while he's still very much set in the early 2000s in terms of humour - which would bother me less if the jokes were funnier.

This episode (by a different guy, who I think is mates with Ryan, and who Mark and I know a little) is much closer spiritually to the real thing, while still being its own thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1kTnfcThLo

[blombluss]

Ta for the info, Bruce! I think it's an interesting move on their part, and I hope they get something worthwhile back for doing this.

Hey, I ought to make a Teletext-y Consolevania episode! I'd need to work on my Scottish accent (for there is only one accent!), though!

re: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1kTnfcThLo

I really enjoyed that. The great outdoors + gaming anecdotes + plus music = very much my jam.

[blombluss]

Hey, I ought to make a Teletext-y Consolevania episode!

Taa Daa!

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[dng]

How beautiful

[endar]

very touching and totes emosh

[blombluss]

Thanking YOU and YOU! x

[blombluss]

I never knew Sega made a 3D sequel to their Choplifter arcade machine game:

Air Rescue (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E79ii2IMCN4

I just love that slightly shonky sprite scaling, and the fact these helicopter rescue missions appear to take place within a 100 metres!

[The Robotic Anomaly]

It's beautiful

[dng]

yes

[dng]

theres a magic to baffling old arcade games that nothing else seems to have

[The Robotic Anomaly]

Yes absolutely
I played one the other day (in real life) that had a steering wheel and a shit gun, neither of which worked very well, and together were just abysmal

Needless to say I loved it

[vom]

I love the identical hostages giving thumbs up as they cheerfully board the helicopter

[The Robotic Anomaly]

https://youtu.be/nuZrZi53nrg

[vom]

DAMAGE

[endar]

Lucky AND Wild

11/10

[dng]

amazing

[blombluss]

KNEEDRIVINGAT16SeCUNds!

God, I'd love a go on that... And that applies to the arcade game, too!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111

[endar]

This video totally nails it regarding the state of modern racing games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVry84ACu0k

Trig we need you

[blombluss]

I'm about 10 minutes into that so far - interesting stuff! Ta!

[dng]

this video also basically applies to modern football games

[endar]

Totes

[dng]

Well, after 12 years, four fairly complete playthroughs and about 500 hours or so of entirely wasted life, I've finally 100%'d skyrim

[dng]

(done all the questlines, major quests, dlc stuff, most of the dungeons, all the bloody achievements, and even finally grinding all the way up to level 80 so I could get the last final hidden special quest)

[dng]

The last final hidden special quest is utter shit, obviously (a man turns up and asks for a fight, and by now you're so overpowered you kill him in three hits, even though he's the ultimate hero, or something, who knows)

[dng]

And his special gear isn't even special. It's just rubbish

[dng]

Anyway, maybe now I will never play another computer game again

[endar]

hooray

[endar]

I became Archmage. That is all.

[dng]

hooray. lovely old wizards

[dng]

i finally bothered doing the werewolves quests and they were rubbish. you become leader of the werewolves in about four minutes, not one of your werewolf followers ever turns into a werewolf at any point after the first reveally bit, even when they're your companion and almost/actually dying, and actually being a werewolf is so shit i don't know why they bothered really

[dng]

when they added the vampire dlc, they even gave the werewolves a whole separate perk/levels system. to earn each perk, you have to eat ever increasing numbers of people while a werewolf (about 150 people to earn them all) and each time you eat a person, it adds another minute to your total transformation time (you can't change back manually), so if you eat say 5 bandits in a room, you have then basically have to spend five minutes just standing there, waiting to not be a werewolf again, because while you're a werewolf you can't loot people, search chests, pick anything up, pick locks, use keys, fast travel, look at the map or your inventory at all, talk to people, or any of the other million things you usually need to do to actually progress forward in whatever dungeon you accidentally triggered being a werewolf in

[endar]

now you can try all the mods

[dng]

and also you have to play in bloody third person mode when you're a werewolf, making it even more annoying

[dng]

now you can try all the mods

i did spend 8 whole pounds getting the anniversary edition, which added loads of rubbish quests all delivered by that bloody courier who would never leave you alone ever wherever you were. just endlessly running around skyrim giving me letters to start new quests because all the anniversary edition stuff was just fan made rubbish with no voice acting at all so it always had to use letters for everything. letters, and notebooks and endless bloody journals, everywhere, forever

[dng]

but then occasionally there'd be a good quest in a new location which was nice i suppose. and also now you can buy even more houses, and also a farm

[dng]

also survival mode (as brutally unfun as anything ever) and fishing (shite)

[Pual]

In a couple of months you’ll be able to play starfield which will be exactly the same but in space

[dng]

i got so depressed watching that starfield trailer/presentation thing recently

[dng]

because yes