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CorrodedCranium, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 20th
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The OG Splinter Cell. I modded my original Xbox not top long ago and am looking to play games on it so it wasn’t a waste so I figured why not give it a try?

I am enjoying it so far but I’m used to playing the new Hitman games where the AI is rather predictable and I can gun my way out of most situations. I just beat the Kalinatek level and feel like I need to finish the game at this point.

I don’t know if I need to play one game after the other to full understand the overall plot or what game I should stop at if I just want to play the best in the series.


Not sure if I’ll play Baldur’s Gate 3 because I own the first two on multiple systems and haven’t beaten them

ampersandrew,
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There is a bit of a continuing story in Splinter Cell, but for the most part, each one is its own story. I'd say I was fairly unimpressed with Pandora Tomorrow and Double Agent, but neither is bad. Conviction is very different from the games before it but still plenty of fun, and Blacklist somehow manages to marry Conviction's gameplay with the classic gameplay of the series in a modern way, but Michael Ironside was battling cancer at the time, so Fisher was unfortunately recast. If you're asking the average person which one is best, most will say Chaos Theory, and then you'll get a contingent of people such as myself who prefer Blacklist, but CT is still great.

As for the old Baldur's Gate games, no better time than now to go through them. I'm inching closer to finishing 2 after beating 1 earlier this month. They're great.

DracEULA, do gaming w How does multiplayer gaming fit into your life?

I play usually with my spouse, and occasionally my brothers. With the former, we usually get pretty into ARPGs (PoE, Titan Quest, Van Helsing, older Diablo) or Don’t Starve Together. With my siblings it’s usually random stuff they suggest that’s not too complicated so we can catch up while we play.

I used to do Overwatch, but the time commitment to stay good is just too much, and the games end up sucking more often than not. Haven’t touched OW2. TF2 is still fun, and I’ve been doing a bit of Sea of Thieves solo but occasionally interacting with other crews. Basically anything that involves playing with strangers is usually not worth the effort for me.

giacomo, do piracy w (rec) riseup vpn is a free VPN that supports P2P

Don’t trust “free” services.

reddthat,
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Riseup is free because it is made by people who want the internet to be better. The same way tor is free.

But you should be donating if you find it useful. And I could nearly guarantee that a service that is used for censorship resistance that gets used for P2P will go from nice and fast to ungodly slow

can, do piracy w (rec) riseup vpn is a free VPN that supports P2P

What’s the catch?

reddthat,
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Technically you should be donating if you get value out of it

Ilandar,

The catch is that free services like this are run for people who need them, not people who want to save money. In my opinion it is very scabby to use something like RiseUp for potentially data intensive tasks like torrenting if you can afford a paid VPN service. Leave it for those who genuinely need it.

willya, do piracy w To those who use IPTV services, why?
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Usually free high dollar sports packages and free paper views like ufc fights are included.

Devjavu,

Brother, it is pay per view. Not paper view.

iturnedintoanewt,
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Boneappletea?

skankhunt42,
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The ghost is clear, pick up the paste.

Callie, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 20th
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I’ve been playing Divinity Original Sin 2 with my partner, we both never really got that far into it in the years we both owned it, so we’re trying to get more into it in anticipation of playing Baldurs Gate 3

flamingos, do gaming w What's a good game you played with an awful tutorial?

The Binding of Isaac, just some drawings on the ground that don’t actually tell you anything.

ampersandrew,
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That game is very good at introducing concepts gradually though, and plenty of other things you'll discover by accident, as intended.

Euphoma, do gaming w What's a good game you played with an awful tutorial?

Acceleration of Suguri 2 has a tutorial that is just 9 pages talking about the games systems telling you about how specific buttons are for what attacks and which button combinations and other stuff, but it never tells you what those buttons actually are, it just says they are the attack A, attack B, dash button, hyper button, super button. It took me an hour of playing the game to figure out what all of the buttons were.

NateSwift,

This is super common with fighting games. The expectation is that people will be playing on all kinds of input devices, many of them custom. I wonder if part of it comes from the older game’s tutorials being written for arcade cabinets where that’s how the buttons were actually labeled

Euphoma, do gaming w What are some open source games you can recommend for Linux?
pamymaf, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 20th
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@chloyster
Not a new game, but I've been replaying Undertale as part of a large randomized multiworld. Every item or big event I unlock turns into a random item or unlock for somebody else's game. And random items in their games are sent to me as random items in mine (or another game). It's called Archipelago, it's really fun and there are games you wouldn't expect to be supported (like The Witness). It's called Archipelago.

chloyster,

Oh cool! I’ve been really wanting to try out Archipelago but the setup for it all seems pretty involved. Still really want to give it a try sometime

Weylandyuta, do games w PC Game Recommendation for a Broken Arm?

Darkest dungeon dungeon should be playable with only one hand available.

Pajonk, do zapytajszmer w Jakie tipy macie w walce z pracą dyplomową?
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Wybierz temat który cię interesuje, ale na to chyba za późno. No i coś co przeczytałem kiedyś u Hitchensa, pisząc pracę wyobraź sobie że wygłaszasz ja do publiczności.

nudnyekscentryk,
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heh, interesował mnie póki nie zacząłem się wczytywać (: no i tak, za późno, zmiana tematu po czerwcu przedłużyłaby mi studia do lutego :/

Gnorv, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 20th

I started Convergence. It is pretty entertaining and also somewhat challenging on highest difficulty.

TheOakTree,

As someone who almost always plays mouse and keyboard on PC, I had a few struggles with Convergence feeling like it was made console-first.

I understand why, but it just makes me want to go play Hollow Knight or something.

Gnorv,

I had the same behaviour, I played everything with mouse and keyboard. Dead Cells, Assassins Creed, Sekiro, Dark Souls, etc. Then with Elden Ring I gave the controller a try just to see how it is, and it worked flawlessly. I think it is just about with what you to a game first.

TheOakTree,

Elden Ring m&k was a million times better of an experience than original Dark Souls on m&k. What a nightmare.

I think I just expect metroidvanias to feel snappy and robust, and Convergence on m&k did not live up to that standard.

lysy, do zapytajszmer w Duplikujące się posty.

Hmm, a korzystasz z jakiejś apki? Ja na webappce i mobilnej webappce nie zauważyłem tego.

Mixel,
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Korzystam z aplikacji Liftoff

Kolanaki, do gaming w what's some of the best dialogue systems you've seen and why?
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The best systems I’ve seen so far are super new and janky because they use AI and you just actually fucking talk to them, and are also only in some niche indie games atm. It’s what I’ve always dreamed to be the future of dialogue systems in games since getting into RPGs way back in the 90’s. The systems themselves are perfect; but the AI still has a little ways to go.

MJBrune,

Honestly, personally, I find that the worst way. Especially since you could get stuck in a dialogue forever. I don’t find that a flaw in the AI, the AI is doing exactly what it’s supposed to, the issue is the open-ended nature of the system. I don’t want to get RSI from just trying to get a key from an AI that was told never to give me the key.

Kolanaki,
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You don’t type. You use the mic and talk to them.

MJBrune,

eh, I don’t think that makes it better. I didn’t do that for Binary Domain and I don’t think the free form nature is a benefit.

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