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Tonight I'm putting on the new ae sets with a fat J and some Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. Head in the 90s for a minute.. 

Its really impressive how much work that team has dedicated to improve and expand their game.

  On 11/7/2024 at 5:33 PM, Silent Member said:

Its really impressive how much work that team has dedicated to improve and expand their game.

It really is a passion project for Sean. From what I've read, their next game is using a modified version of the NMS engine, so they keep applying backwards compatible upgrades to this game, for free.

Sean pls

I beat Pacific Drive. Pretty unique game where you drive into sci-fi zones and complete objectives and complete runs for resources. Ending didn't wrap things up that well, but nice to see indie devs doing new things.

I just started Indika. Also indie, also some very unique stuff going on.

This might motivate me to get the physical copy 

  On 11/13/2024 at 4:46 AM, Rubin Farr said:

This might motivate me to get the physical copy 

 

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That looks really nice- I should buy a physical copy as well also with Nintendo confirming that all switch games will run on the next generation as well 

Happy 20th HL2 - Gabe dons his early santa suit with demos of

Half Life 2 circa 2000

Half Life 2 circa 2002

Screen capture of *that* 2003 tech demo

...and finally a 2 hour making-of doc

There's also a nice big 4gb update to it when you launch Steam if you've got it installed

Got myself a second hand PS2 been playing Fifa 03 and San Andreas so far but got other PS2 classics waiting to be played

This looks quite intriguing:

it also runs pc games 

  On 11/16/2024 at 3:08 PM, mcbpete said:

Happy 20th HL2 - Gabe dons his early santa suit with demos of

Half Life 2 circa 2000

Half Life 2 circa 2002

Screen capture of *that* 2003 tech demo

...and finally a 2 hour making-of doc

There's also a nice big 4gb update to it when you launch Steam if you've got it installed

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Hard to believe HL2 launched quite literally half my life ago - off by only one day. Poetic, really.

Finished Indika. It was all right. Some interesting ideas, but don't fully come together for me.

I started playing The Last of Us Part II. I beat it when it came out, but now it has a new roguelike mode. So I figured I'd beat it again then try the new mode. Great game.

Finished Persona 3 reload just now. First persona game that I actually finished 

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is finally here. And I just put in a couple of hours.

I like it so far. It certainly feels like an evolved X-Ray engine. Plus it appears that a couple of NPCs from the previous games have made a return. Still getting a feel for the UI, but it has a next-level sense of realism and immersion from where the series left off, over 14 years ago.

It's also a game that punishes carelessness, which I appreciate. Without spoiling anything further, I recommend it for sure. Just be ready for about a 150 GB download if anyone decides to give it a go.

EDIT: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 actually runs on UE5, not X-Ray

  On 11/16/2024 at 3:08 PM, mcbpete said:

Screen capture of *that* 2003 tech demo

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it's wild how much of a landmark this has become. I got a disc with all these videos on it in my box for CS: Condition Zero in early 2004, watching them blew my mind and effectively started me down the path of being a PC-building vidya enthusiast. all my builds have been for new games, with the first one being for HL2.

  On 11/21/2024 at 1:31 AM, ambermonk said:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is finally here. And I just put in a couple of hours.

I like it so far. It certainly feels like an evolved X-Ray engine. Plus it appears that a couple of NPCs from the previous games have made a return. Still getting a feel for the UI, but it has a next-level sense of realism and immersion from where the series left off, over 14 years ago.

It's also a game that punishes carelessness, which I appreciate. Without spoiling anything further, I recommend it for sure. Just be ready for about a 150 GB download if anyone decides to give it a go.

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This game is old school in the best of ways. No on-the-rails, polished scripted BS that's blatantly staged for you the player. No tutorial. Wanna have fun? Fuck you, learn to survive. I thought I was getting swarmed by bandits in the rain but it turned out to be two factions fighting each other. My shoddy gun keeps jamming and I can't loot the enemies I killed because the sky opened up with radioactive lightning, and now there's dogs fighting a mutant hog thing. This world doesn't give two shits about you. Amazing. 

  On 11/21/2024 at 12:41 PM, chim said:

This game is old school in the best of ways. No on-the-rails, polished scripted BS that's blatantly staged for you the player. No tutorial. Wanna have fun? Fuck you, learn to survive. I thought I was getting swarmed by bandits in the rain but it turned out to be two factions fighting each other. My shoddy gun keeps jamming and I can't loot the enemies I killed because the sky opened up with radioactive lightning, and now there's dogs fighting a mutant hog thing. This world doesn't give two shits about you. Amazing. 

Yep. The only forms of hand-holding really are the early tutorials (for basic controls/item use) and the mission markers. Otherwise it comes down to survival of the fittest.

I also like how the only cue for incoming enemy grenades is the metallic plinking sound when it already lands nearby. Also had an encounter when I looted a stash inside a downed helicopter in the middle of a pond, then suddenly a group of guys showed up out of nowhere and started opening fire, but it turns out wild dogs were also there. So I guess they were shooting at the dogs, but it still wasn't clear if they were Bandits or Loners. So I wonder if the factions were made intentionally harder to identify and discriminate out in the open.

And the Poppy Fields...pretty much a death trap if you're not prepared.

Preordered the physical ver. for this, along with some freebie merch

Started this the day of the first lockdown here in the UK

https://ivark.github.io/AntimatterDimensions/ / https://store.steampowered.com/app/1399720/Antimatter_Dimensions/ /

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kajfosz.antimatterdimensions&hl=en_GB  <- the version I played

Over 4 years of seeing numbers go up has never been more compulsive !

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3345970/Benign_Land/

Stellar Blade 

Nine Sols. Usual "Hollow Knight meets Sekiro" sentiments around it are actually quite apt. Delivers!

Hate to say it but I've been loving Black Ops 6 a lot lol