General Games Chat; The Chat Thread!

[Cheeky Devlin]

Epic has bought Aquiris, the Brazilian developer most well-known for the Horizon Chase Turbo games.

The studio will be renamed Epic Games Brazil and has been tasked to "create groundbreaking content and social experiences within Fortnite". Its existing projects and IP will "continue to operate" alongside this fresh assignment for the developer.

I strawberry floating hate it when one of these small developers, doing interesting work and making good games, get swallowed by a publisher who immediately put them to work on the most corporate, souls sucking franchises available. Like Raven software being reduced to a CoD B-Team. Or Campo Santo who got swallowed by Valve and still haven't released their follow-up to Firewatch (Though they did work on Alyx and DOTA at least) even though it's still technically coming.

Parasites

[rinks]

Parasites

[rinks]

More like the Borg, really.

[Cheeky Devlin]

Yeah the Borg are probably a more appropriate example.

[Xeno]

I would like to know why Capcom hates money so much? They need to use the Resi IP with more game types. How about a Racoon City extraction shooter?

....the last 5 years they've prettty much been releasing a major RE game every year to critical and commercial success, I don't think they're struggling!

When they have ventured outside the mainline series in the past, its fair to say results have been mixed.

But they could have more.

[Ironhide]

A bit pissed off with Persona 5, had no problem with playing P4G with just the onscreen keyboard but When the game starts, the mouse cursor disappears and the mouse controls the camer so I can't use my on-screen keyboard. had a look in the settings and can't see an option to totally disable mouse input, I'm pretty sure I could play it otherwise.

Bought it just after Christmas so can't refund it.

[rinks]

A bit pissed off with Persona 5, had no problem with playing P4G with just the onscreen keyboard but When the game starts, the mouse cursor disappears and the mouse controls the camer so I can't use my on-screen keyboard. had a look in the settings and can't see an option to totally disable mouse input, I'm pretty sure I could play it otherwise.

Bought it just after Christmas so can't refund it.

I realise this is potentially unworkable, but what happens if the mouse is disconnected?

[Ironhide]

A bit pissed off with Persona 5, had no problem with playing P4G with just the onscreen keyboard but When the game starts, the mouse cursor disappears and the mouse controls the camer so I can't use my on-screen keyboard. had a look in the settings and can't see an option to totally disable mouse input, I'm pretty sure I could play it otherwise.

Bought it just after Christmas so can't refund it.

I realise this is potentially unworkable, but what happens if the mouse is disconnected?

I wouldn't be able to use the onscreen keyboard then.

[rinks]

Oh, yeah, I see. Sorry, I’ve had a drink.

[Ironhide]

No worries, I'll have to try using my Xbox accessibility controller to see if I can improvise a workable control scheme.

If not I'll just play something else from my backlog.

[Ironhide]

Actually wondering if I could play it via gamepass streaming as that would probably bypass the mouse input and let me use the onscreen keyboard.

Not available on cloud streaming

[rinks]

Bugger. Flashback 2 is now not out until November (was originally meant to be late last year).

New trailer, though, and it’s looking good.



https://www.eurogamer.net/flashback-2-o ... ay-trailer

[KK]

Eurogamer have announced they’re bringing back review scores, adopting ARCADE, Xbox Gamer (briefly) and C&VG’s 5 STAR system: https://www.eurogamer.net/eurogamer-rev ... e-changing

[OrangeRKN]

Sounds fair enough but the likes of metacritic are just going to double the star rating and treat it like a score out of 10 anyway

[Monkey Man]

[Knoyleo]

Posting in here to avoid shitting up the Tears of the Kingdom delivery update thread, but man do I struggle to not get caught up in the hype train for releases like this. Even knowing that I didn't enjoy Breath of the Wild because I just didn't like the gathering crafting and survival stuff, and seeing that crafting appears to be an even bigger feature of the new one, I'm still feeling super involved in this release and wanting to play it.

I don't know why I get like this with games I know are in a genre that I don't enjoy. I don't do this with other media. If the latest Marvel movie gets rave reviews across the board, I couldn't care less, I know I don't like superhero guff, and I let it pass me by. Same for books and music. But a videogame gets 10/10s, and even though I din't enjoy the prequel, and this looks like more of the stuff I didn't enjoy from that, I can't help buy get all excited about it and think it's going to be great.

[kazanova_Frankenstein]

Posting in here to avoid shitting up the Tears of the Kingdom delivery update thread, but man do I struggle to not get caught up in the hype train for releases like this. Even knowing that I didn't enjoy Breath of the Wild because I just didn't like the gathering crafting and survival stuff, and seeing that crafting appears to be an even bigger feature of the new one, I'm still feeling super involved in this release and wanting to play it.

I don't know why I get like this with games I know are in a genre that I don't enjoy. I don't do this with other media. If the latest Marvel movie gets rave reviews across the board, I couldn't care less, I know I don't like superhero guff, and I let it pass me by. Same for books and music. But a videogame gets 10/10s, and even though I din't enjoy the prequel, and this looks like more of the stuff I didn't enjoy from that, I can't help buy get all excited about it and think it's going to be great.

Substitute TotK with Elden Ring and that's exactly how I was. I put it down to being far more invested in gaming than any other..... thing.

[Knoyleo]

Posting in here to avoid shitting up the Tears of the Kingdom delivery update thread, but man do I struggle to not get caught up in the hype train for releases like this. Even knowing that I didn't enjoy Breath of the Wild because I just didn't like the gathering crafting and survival stuff, and seeing that crafting appears to be an even bigger feature of the new one, I'm still feeling super involved in this release and wanting to play it.

I don't know why I get like this with games I know are in a genre that I don't enjoy. I don't do this with other media. If the latest Marvel movie gets rave reviews across the board, I couldn't care less, I know I don't like superhero guff, and I let it pass me by. Same for books and music. But a videogame gets 10/10s, and even though I din't enjoy the prequel, and this looks like more of the stuff I didn't enjoy from that, I can't help buy get all excited about it and think it's going to be great.

Substitute TotK with Elden Ring and that's exactly how I was. I put it down to being far more invested in gaming than any other..... thing.

I get where you're coming from. Gaming as a hobby is something most of us will feel more invested in than other forms of media. I don't consider myself a cinephile, that's for sure. I guess I actually do something similar with reading, actually. I'll constantly attempt books with really strong reputations, even if they're well outside my usual comfort zone. Often I'll get a way in and decide it's not for me, but I like that I've challenged myself to give something different a go. I suppose most of those books are already decades old by the time I'm attempting them though, and it's certainly not a hype thing.

Then again, most literature is pretty easy to confine to a particular genre, even literary "non-genre" fiction, is typified by stylistic expectations that tend to stay in their lane. Games, as a relatively younger medium, still play about massively with genre blending and slapping together feature sets that will create a new combination, which for some can absolutely produce games that contain bits they really enjoy, alongside stuff they absolutely can't stand, while others will love the feeling of those elements side by side. It makes the medium itself very exciting and constantly shifting, but it can create a lot of very frustrating experiences for individuals along the way.

[kazanova_Frankenstein]

Posting in here to avoid shitting up the Tears of the Kingdom delivery update thread, but man do I struggle to not get caught up in the hype train for releases like this. Even knowing that I didn't enjoy Breath of the Wild because I just didn't like the gathering crafting and survival stuff, and seeing that crafting appears to be an even bigger feature of the new one, I'm still feeling super involved in this release and wanting to play it.

I don't know why I get like this with games I know are in a genre that I don't enjoy. I don't do this with other media. If the latest Marvel movie gets rave reviews across the board, I couldn't care less, I know I don't like superhero guff, and I let it pass me by. Same for books and music. But a videogame gets 10/10s, and even though I din't enjoy the prequel, and this looks like more of the stuff I didn't enjoy from that, I can't help buy get all excited about it and think it's going to be great.

Substitute TotK with Elden Ring and that's exactly how I was. I put it down to being far more invested in gaming than any other..... thing.

I get where you're coming from. Gaming as a hobby is something most of us will feel more invested in than other forms of media. I don't consider myself a cinephile, that's for sure. I guess I actually do something similar with reading, actually. I'll constantly attempt books with really strong reputations, even if they're well outside my usual comfort zone. Often I'll get a way in and decide it's not for me, but I like that I've challenged myself to give something different a go. I suppose most of those books are already decades old by the time I'm attempting them though, and it's certainly not a hype thing.

Then again, most literature is pretty easy to confine to a particular genre, even literary "non-genre" fiction, is typified by stylistic expectations that tend to stay in their lane. Games, as a relatively younger medium, still play about massively with genre blending and slapping together feature sets that will create a new combination, which for some can absolutely produce games that contain bits they really enjoy, alongside stuff they absolutely can't stand, while others will love the feeling of those elements side by side. It makes the medium itself very exciting and constantly shifting, but it can create a lot of very frustrating experiences for individuals along the way.

I personally quite like a bit of dissonance in my games - many of my favourites feature it (Yakuza is in more of a ludonarrative form but still).

For me I think it's because whilst we are still being told gaming is the biggest thing in the world, Elden Ring and Fortnite would still get reviewed and featured in the same way across gaming culture websites (IGN, Polygon etc). Take That, however, would not feature in an issue of Kerrang!

I think this subconsciously means that I start putting all of gaming in one basket, even though half of those games are not "eggs" at all in my eyes.

#notmyeggs.

Also - wow, Take That is my popular culture reference.

[kazanova_Frankenstein]

Danny O'Dwyer makes the BBC news. In a good way.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-66136597