General Gaming Thread 2024

[METALMAN]

Benji this is the gaming thread not a metaphysics seminar. 

[Ruki]

I am in the end game of Unicorn Overlord (only last mission to go)... accidentally found a side mission I didn't complete. It's level 14, most of my units are 35+. Ooops.

[Your Mom]

Just saw a story about how Star Wars Outlaws has to be connected to the internet to be installed even if you have a physical copy and I was confused. Don't you always have to be connected to install a game? What am I missing? They also said that makes it harder to install in like 10 years but I just don't get it. Can someone explain this to me?

[Bobfoc]

Most physical games just install from the disc, with any additional patches being downloaded. In the case of Outlaws, you would need to be connected to the internet every time you want to reinstall it, regardless of whether or not you have all the updates.

The potential problem is that the servers won't be online forever, and so there would be a point in the future when reinstalling it wouldn't be possible under the current setup. Therefore, the only way to retain access to the game in physical form would be to keep it installed forever.

It could be that some sort of product registration system will be introduced later on to ensure that physical owners can retain the ability to play the game. Then again, with digital-only consoles seemingly inevitable at some point, you could argue that any physical games you own at this point won't be compatible with future generations of machines.

[stokeriño]

Things I found today:

 

* My old 3DS ✔️

* Its charger cable ✔️

* The game cartridge I wanted to play ❌

* My old PSP ✔️

* Its charger cable ❌

* The game cartridge I wanted to play ❌

 

So close, yet so far...

[Captain Kirk]

May have just bought a Steam Deck OLED. 

[TheWho87]

So it looks like Fallout 4 is finally getting it's next gen updates on April 25th.

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Fallout 4 upgrades are coming to next-gen consoles

Bethesda Game Studios is releasing a free Fallout 4 update for download on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5.

This free update includes native applications for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, Performance mode and Quality mode settings, as well as stability improvements and fixes. Experience up to 60 FPS and increased resolutions!

Fallout 4 players on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will also receive a free update with stability improvements, login and quest fixes .

Updates for PC players

We are also releasing a free Fallout 4 update for PC players! Experience Fallout 4 on your next-generation PC with widescreen and ultra-widescreen support, as well as fixes to Creation Kit and a variety of quest updates.

Players with PC versions of Fallout 4 on Steam, Microsoft Store and GOG will receive stability, mods and bug fixes. For Japanese and Chinese language players on PC, Bethesda.net login issues have been resolved, fixing access to mods.

Alongside this exciting update, Fallout 4 will be available to purchase on the Epic Games Store.

Fallout 4 will also be Steam Deck verified.

Even more content!

There's even more content in the Fallout 4 updates, including the following free Creation Club items!

Enclave Remnants
Enclave Remnants brings the Pre-War cabal, The Enclave, into the Fallout 4 storyline. In this new quest, “Echoes of the Past,” can you stop The Enclave from spreading their dangerous ideology and gaining a foothold in the Commonwealth?

Along with workshop items and the Enclave Colonel uniform, we are including the following previously released Creation Club content:

• Enclave Weapon Skins
• Enclave Armor Skins
• Tesla Cannon
• Hellfire Power Armor
• X-02 Power Armor
• Heavy Incinerator

Makeshift Weapon Pack
Ever thought a piggy bank would make a great weapon in a pinch? This weapon pack includes a variety of unconventional objects that have been transformed into deadly weapons, such as: a baseball launcher, a nail gun and a piggy bank.

Halloween Workshop
Leftover from an ill-fated Halloween party, thrown by the New England Technocrat Society, these 38 new Halloween decorations include witches, cauldrons, ghouls and more! Decorate for Halloween or make your settlements spooky all year round!

Annoyingly this drops days after Fallout London, so that'll be a fun period of a mod dropping, the game updating and breaking the mod and the rush to fix the mod.

[Bobfoc]

It turns out that those fears are correct. Fallout London has been delayed indefinitely so that the team can work out how to make it work with the new update.

[TheWho87]

8 hours ago, Bobfoc said:

It turns out that those fears are correct. Fallout London has been delayed indefinitely so that the team can work out how to make it work with the new update.

That makes sence, why drop it only for it to highly likely break a few days later, makes more sence to wait, make sure it works and then drop it, don't want a fiasco like TEW2020's launch.

[TheGrandAvatar]

I didn't expect to get a little emotional with a take X from A to B type of quest in State of Decay 2 when I returned to the Trumble Valley map from the first game. 

Story spoilers below. 

Spoiler

Ray Santos was a character I liked in the first game, and the dude gives you a fast car to mow down the zombies down with.

He's like this helpful person in the valley who supplies people with anything they need to survive the zombie apocalypse in their time of need and does a pay it forward scheme in payment or asks them to help out other's with supplies. So nice kind of guy and pretty cool to work for. 

Anyway I do know he's in the DLC Heartland as that is set before the main campaign of State of Decay 2. Plus having already met his character in the early part of it. However I'm yet to play it. 

To the point of this post. You find him when you return to Trumble Valley in the main game as you need to check on him. He seems a little quiet and not so good. Which in turn you find out he is dying, he knows this as he has seen his father and grandfather the same way. It's cancer. Pretty much a gut punch and reality check of even if a zombie doesn't kill you out here, something else will do. You end up doing a few jobs for him. 

I think I'm near the end of his characters life span.

In the first game there's the church home which is the first base you have. Ray just asked me to pick him up and take him back to the church so he can 'stay' there until it's time. He gives you a story of how since the day's of his grandparents and before them someone has always gone every Sunday since it was built. Which I took as him going there every Sunday even after the apocalypse and to have his moments of peace. Him wanting to return to it just made me feel sad, but also understand how we turn to faith or stuff we remembered at time's of struggle, illness and with grief. Ray having probably lost a lot of good people he knew. 

Escorting him there he reveals that he let some people take over and look after it but has not heard from them for a few days. Already this does not sound good.

You have to kill the turned survivors in the end. To where Ray just says "They moved here wanting safety and to start a family." Think that is what stuck with me about all this and Ray. Came out of the base with the character and just sat in there car for a few moment's about the questline and how I would relate to it. 

Quite an emotional gut punch. None of it is reality. But love a good story when it can make you think, but also question the characters and who they are, see their humanity and reasons with a moral compass. Yet you can relate to experiences of yourself, how you might feel and react.

Never actually viewed State of Decay 2 before this way and it was a silly 'take X from A to B and kill the Zs' type quest of all thing's. No fancy cut scene. Just dialogue. 

 

[stokeriño]

Am playing the third Professor Layton game (the Lost Future). The first two games are fairly similar in tone/scope, i.e. "wandering around these dozy little towns and there's a big secret in the building at the back that we'll get to at some point". The third game... Well, it was right at the point where you build a machine gun out of casino slot machines and start blasting gangsters with high-velocity coins that I realised how utterly bonkers it was.

Of this, I approve.

[Ruki]

 

[METALMAN]

Oh nice! I got the last KCD game because I really liked the idea of it and what the creators were trying to do. But I’ve also got to admit I didn’t play it that much. It was kind of a combination of its jankyness and steep learning curve but I still really liked the intention behind it.

[Ruki]

https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1c9jywa/eiyuden_chronicle_hundred_heroes_review_thread/

Reviews seems to be all over the place for Eiyuden Chronicle. I was hoping for a better reception!

[gunnar hendershow]

There feels like to have been a bit of a radio silence in the lead-up to the game's release which I instinctively take as a worrisome sign.

Think I'll hold off on it for awhile.

[Bobfoc]

What I find interesting is that some reviewers love the story and others find it utterly dull. It seems that they're in agreement that the gameplay is a bit 90s-esque, and so your enjoyment might hinge on how fond you are of games like Suikoden.

As a game that was crowdfunded by Suikoden fans, that probably shouldn't be a surprise. It sounds as though it's doing what those people wanted it to.

[Captain Kirk]

43 minutes ago, Bobfoc said:

What I find interesting is that some reviewers love the story and others find it utterly dull. It seems that they're in agreement that the gameplay is a bit 90s-esque, and so your enjoyment might hinge on how fond you are of games like Suikoden.

As a game that was crowdfunded by Suikoden fans, that probably shouldn't be a surprise. It sounds as though it's doing what those people wanted it to.

Although I’m not sure you could ever call Suikodens story dull though.

[apsham]

It apparently runs pretty bad on the Switch which would've been my ideal place to play it, all things considered - but since it's on Gamepass anyways it's just a better choice to play it there anyways I suppose.

Ultimately I think it'll end up being something I enjoy - I think RPGs in general for the most part have drifted away from what I liked about them in an attempt to find the next step in the process, and a good ol' throwback will be just the thing in the here and now.

...and push comes to shove the Suikoden I+II remasters are on the horizon too so, eh.

[King Ellis]

Of the 20 reviews that carry a score that are summarised in that Reddit thread, 18 of them are a 7 or above. Just over a quarter of them are a 9 or above.

"Reviews look a bit divisive, guys."

[DragonCore]

I still have to play the second part of FF7 and Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth but I have been stuck on Personas since I played 3 Reload.  Beat 4G, now on 5R..  taking a while..