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Haha, that's funny since at the time RE4 was considered such an improvement over earlier RE games. Though yeah, nowadays, ooof for sure. I've tried playing it a couple of times on PC now, and I just haven't been able to make it more than a couple of hours, mostly due to the controls.

First up, this game managed to really freak me out because of an odd coincidence. I have never, that I can remember, encountered my actual name in a game. In RE7, in the span of like 10 minutes, I found a pair of notes with my name in them and then I found the lady's name on a tag floating around in the morgue. That's just creepy (and I know it's just coincidental, but still creepy as hell). The kiddo and I did end up playing a ton of it together today, and it was fucking great! Despite the fact that we were both in single player games, it felt so much like actually playing the game together, because we made sure we entered every room at the same time, pointed out items to one another, etc. We're committed now to playing the whole thing together, originally we didn't know if we would, but it was just that rad. We got to the Greenhouse and decided to call it quits after clearing that. Overall I think it's a great game, and barring something unforeseen, I'd say it's easily one of the best 2 or 3 REs ever. Throwing out all the experiments of the last few games and dialing back to what RE does well is exactly what the series needed. My system is certainly getting a little aged, but RE7 has been the first game that I've had to turn everything either off to Low to get it to run at a consistent framerate. I didn't want to spend too long fiddling with settings since I was playing through it simultaneous with my daughter, so I may start it up tomorrow and spend awhile just messing with settings to see if there is something specific that's causing it. What's interesting is that it ran fine up until I got to the Main House, and then just went straight into the shitter. I also had it crash once from a lack of memory, which I have 8GB, nothing crazy but not something that I usually have any issues running out of memory on a game with. So I suspect that the amount that it loads into memory once you get into the Main House might be part of the issue. Dropping everything down to Low settings easily cut out 2GB of memory that it was using. Per your spoiler, I didn't have any problems with teleporting AI. Obviously cutscene stuff they just appear where needed, but in terms of sneaking around them, I never once had either of those teleport to me, or detect me when I was out of sight and make a beeline for me.

Mother 3 has been on my list of shit to play since the fan translation came out. Good to hear a first hand account that the translation is good. I hadn't really looked into it a lot besides knowing it exists.

The kiddo and I pushed back starting 7 until Sunday cause she had something come up last night, so I started playing Revelations because I was still in the mood for some RE. I've played most of the RE games, and good lord their overarching story is such a mess. There are so many characters and organizations and acronyms. I've got so little idea what's actually going on in Revelations. The gameplay is fun, it's alternating between traditional, old style RE exploration/survival and then sequences which are pure action where you don't have to worry about bullets and heals (because some parts are flashbacks). It's got a terrible mechanic of having to scan the environment to find bullets and heals. Which just means you have to move more slowly through areas, activating the scanner every few feet to see if the it detects anything near you, then look all around til you find it. If you didn't take the time to do it, I don't think you'd have nearly enough bullets to deal with enemies.

An activist friend has been raving about OJ and how it explicitly deals with race in a way that is very seldom or ever seen in anything that might reach a mainstream audience. He's got me interested in it because of that.

Watched the Ratchet and Clank movie tonight. It was fun! Not like super great, but both the lady and I are fans of the games, and it was definitely worth the watch. I imagine if someone had never played the games, it probably wouldn't be as charming and would be a lot more confusing.

You also get a 10 percent discount while you're subscribed, so if you buy the regular version of the game, you get $6 off. If you're downloading it, there's not much reason not to try Access for a month.

She's a grown ass adult now 22 and living out in Seattle, so we usually have to schedule time to get some gaming in together, and it really doesn't happen all that often, so this will hopefully be really cool!

Okay, I'm actually super excited about RE7 now. Was chatting with the kiddo earlier today, and she really wants to play it but is worried that it's going to be too scary for her to play. So we're going to start it together on Friday night at the same time and sit on a voicechat as we each play through the first couple of hours of it. This will be neat! As a kid, she loved watching me play the old resident evils, but this will be the first time she's played one in single player herself. We did play through RE5 together. We tried RE6 and it just didn't really grab either of us.

I dusted off my barely used Twitter account to ask if early access included multiplayer, and it does!

The things I'm reading about it (pretty much all spoiler free) have me really interested, to the point of buying a launch game that isn't a Souls game for the first time in years. But I've also drifted away from horror games over the last few years, to the point that I haven't been able to even finish one in a long time. I either get bored (the hide from the monster approach) or I find them stressful in ways that aren't interesting to me now. But I do have a super soft spot for RE.

You'll be able to play Andromeda as early as Mar. 16th if you're an Access subscriber (but only for 10 hours, then you gotta wait for the official launch).

This seemed familiar, but I couldn't tell why. "Nioh was first shown off in a trailer at the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo, where it was announced as a PlayStation 3 exclusive." Holy development hell batman.

I fired up and played a couple of rounds of ME3MP tonight for the first time in will over a year. In the interim, I've played several hundred hours of Warframe and in my head the games were relatively similar as horde, sci-fi, co-op games with magic space powers. Hoooooly shit had I managed to forget what ME3 combat is really like. It's heavy and slow. Which isn't bad or a critique, but all my time in Warframe with its space ninjas on meth level of speed had reset the default speed that my brain wanted to engage with this kind of game in. Also, the maps in ME3 are tiny. Even the biggest maps are little bitty things. I imagine that had to do with the limitations of the consoles at the time. Like, I know the enemy could only spawn....I think it was 8 enemies at a time in ME3MP, mostly due to memory and processing limitations on the 360. It was refreshing to have a challenge though. Warframe's balance may as well not exist past a certain point, you can annihilate thousands of enemies with barely a thought made even at higher levels, but in ME3, even on Silver a handful of enemies can overwhelm you fairly quickly. At any rate, it was a really interesting contrast to play those two games within a few days of each other. I was pleasantly surprised to find plenty of players, getting into a match was just a matter of seconds. Though I imagine that there are plenty of people either getting into it fresh or picking it back up with news about Andromeda finally starting to dribble out.

Well that was an informative and entertaining thread.

Release date! March 21st, two days after my birthday And it's supposed to be one of the EA games that you can download a few days early if you are subscribe to their Access program. I feel dirty y'all, cause I think I might sign up for an EA thing so I can play Mass Effect on my birthday. Also, they still haven't released PC specs I'm assuming I'll be able to run it okay, but my system is starting to get a little long in the tooth. Edited to add: Waaaaaatttt? What happened to the grouchy tomato for the sad face?

There are SOOOOO many local multiplayer games on Steam now, it's crazy compared to just a few years ago. Cook, Serve, Delicious is an arcadey restaurant sim game that I think is a lot less hectic than Overcooked If she likes rhythm games, Crypt of the NecroDancer is fucking amazing (even though I am terrible at it) If you want a slower paced horror game, Obscure and Obscure 2 are Resident Evil 1 style horror games with local co-op. A bit on the janky and aged side, but they fill a rare niche in local co-op. Serious Sam 3 is possibly the best local co-op shooter available on PC. Victor Vran is a diablo-like that recently got local co-op patched in, and is one of the very few arpgs on PC with local co-op. Spelunky Broforce is super dumb super fun side scrolling action murder. Guacamelee! is a pretty good co-op metroidvania style game A lot of the Pixeljunk games are on Steam now, and I can't recommend Monsters enough. NomNom Galaxy and Shooter are good, but I don't think were quite as good as Monsters. Of the ones you rattled off already owning, I will say that we bounced really hard from both Monaco and Magicka, I think for similar reasons. Both can be very difficult to tell what's going on when things get hectic and for us led to a lot more frustration than fun.

First, I like this thread! Second, the original Puzzle Quest remains my single favorite of the match-3/RPG hybrids ever made. They captured something special with it that I don't think of their the sequels or their imitators have ever been able to duplicate. And I remember it being really genuinely funny throughout as well, but it's possible that my standards for games writing a decade ago were pretty low.

A guy bought firewatch on sale, and a credit card processing error caused it to charge to this bank account more than 7300 times resulting in a negative balance of -$93,000. Are you a big enough firewatch fan to buy it 7300 times? (it's been resolved and had nothing to do with either Campo Santo or Steam, just funny that someone was temporarily charged $93,000 for Firewatch)

I thought about starting up a new playthrough when he released the big patch with new starting farm layouts, but I know he's also hard at work trying to integrate co-op, and I decided to hold off until that comes out.

Gorm, dude, I've barely been on the forums (or chat) for over a month, just the holidays and work crushing me. But feel free to pm me either here or on Slack if you want to chat. That's rough, and I've got lots of thoughts, but not necessarily ones to drop in the public forums. Love you dude. I may have also been out drinking this evening and this is making me a bit more emotional than I would normally be here.

LISA is so fucking good, it's legit one of my favorite games I've played in the last couple of years. I really need to go back and play the expansion/sequel that was released after I finished it. Sanctuary RPG was interesting, and worth screwing around with for a few evenings, but I never came close to finishing a run. I found starting new runs to get pretty boring after a bit, as there's just not enough diversity in the early content for the number of times you'll have to play through it to have a shot at actually beating it. But I still considered it well worth picking up on sale to mess around with.

It's quite aged at this point, but I've been playing through Anachronox off and on for awhile and it scratches the Mass Effect itch fairly well for me in terms of exploring a space and talking with people. The combat is JRPG style, and if someone mostly wanted to just explore and talk, combat difficulty can be turned down to easy. There are also some minigame sections, but if you fail, you can elect to just skip them rather than beating your head against them. It's a game that's incredibly friendly to players who just want experience the story and characters, given its age.

Yeah, I was going to specifically bring that up. It definitely clarifies that he's just internalized a few tired, old stereotypes and rounded them up to reality. But y'all, he did "research" and had "discussions". Quoted from the comments: "And personal observations: I’ve known some bi women and a large proportion of the nominally straight women I’ve known have discussed bi impulses or experiences they’ve had. In contrast, every bi man I’ve ever known has ultimately ended up identifying as gay. These patterns seem to apply even in very gay-friendly social contexts."