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With Halloween coming up, what's your excuse for not having played the free critically acclaimed 1-hour game P.T.?

PC port of P.T. (2014, PS4):
>mediafire.com/file/64vmpecbawu0sll/P.T._Emulation_1.4.rar
>reddit.com/r/silenthill/comments/m3oxkl/pt_emulation_14_for_download/

Controls: WASD for movement, use right-click a lot for focus/zoom, at least one other button is used

>>105912
A better not-Silent Hill game than Silent Hill F.

https://www.h3.gg/

Website for watching Heroes of Might and Magic 3 games featuring the biggest nerds in the world lol heh

>you have to make a (free afaik) account

JUST

Finally got around to playing BG3. Maybe I'll give a more in depth review later, but I overall think it's pretty good. I don't like 5e's rule set very much, and I was surprised by the incredible lack of feats. Part of the reason for this is things that used to be feats in earlier editions are just something all classes inherently get. You don't need to take weapon finesse, because DEX is always applied to finesse weapons if your DEX is higher than STR, and you don't need two-weapon fighting because every class can just dual-wield like a pro with any light weapon they're proficient in, which is silly. As a result making characters that are a "jack-of-all" trades has become easier, while making ultra-specialized builds depends more on your character stats and gear choices than anything else.

Arcane spell-casters feel like they've gotten the shaft here too, since they have fewer equipment proficiencies, they have fewer casts per day than in earlier editions, and spells aren't as potent as they used to be. A big reason for this is that you can't stack a lot of spells now, because they require concentration and if you cast another concentration spell it cancels the last one. To try and make up for this power decrease they've added cantrips, which are infinitely free to cast, and unlike Pathfinder cantrips, they're about as strong as a standard weapon attack and the damage scales with your level, unfortunately that doesn't amount to much, and casters don't get an extra attack like all the warrior classes do. These balance changes make casters feel useless a lot of the time, especially when you realize that any class can use scrolls with no skill or feat requirements. What were they smoking when they made that decision? Doesn't matter if you've got a dumb as bricks barb, there's no "use magic item" skill in 5e and that means all scrolls get cast with a 0% failure rate by anyone. Yes, your spell casting DCs against enemies will be poor, but there are ways to mitigate that and for a lot of spells it just doesn't matter.

So what's fun about the game? While I bitch about 5e, and I could go on, I don't find it awful, just worse. I think it's strength lies in how the game lets you interact with the environment. Just about any object in the game world can be manipulated, carried, or destroyed. As a result you are given a lot of options for how to handle quests and encounters.You could kill every NPC you meet and then talk to dead bodies or animals for information if you wanted to. There's really nothing stopping your progress, and you're given plenty of tools to experiment with. Both with in-game dialogue and outside of it, I never felt like I was being railroaded. The No.1 complaint I've heard about this game is that it's "woke" and you can fuck a literal bear. While I'm pretty sure the bear-fucking was a bug resulting from a transformed druid, I will say regardless of your character's gender every party member is going to hit on you, and sometimes it isn't immediately apparent that they are and what you're walking into by continuing the dialog tree. And if you ignore every advance and stay single, the skeleton NPC that exists just so you can respec will have the audacity to chastise you. Most of the writing isn't that bad, but I don't think I've ever seen another game where the characters are so forward. Usually romance in an RPG is something initiated by the player. That said, you have the option of recruiting mercs for party members or going solo if you wish to avoid stuff like that, and it doesn't persist much after the first act.

How you fucks can manage to play video games well into your 20's is beyond me. I stopped playing with I was 15 because of an overwhelming spiritual urge that there was more to life than fantasy.

>>105925
In my case I'd largely abandoned games over the past 10 years, even now I probably spend less than 100 hours a year immersed in games-I cannot easily assuage the pangs of guilt I feel subconsciously when I play them because there was a time in my late teens and early 20s you could have probably added a zero to the end of that and then some.

However, I'd also realized that never participating in the creativity of others as expressed in games-or even shunning all forms of entertainment such as books and movies as a spartan ascetic would and I kind of did in the same time frame-ultimately did nothing to advance my own goals and may have even harmed them. It's okay to enjoy certain things in moderation, the less degenerate or subversive the better, of course.

>>105925
gb2 ur minecraft server kid

>>105925
Soulless npc.

>>105923
>I overall think it's pretty good
<actually let me tell you about how much it sucks

>>105925
It helps that society is collapsing, rendering life as having no meaning, and as life is meaningless there's nothing to work towards because the future is fucking dead, which makes playing vidya that much more possible.

>>105935
><actually let me tell you about how much it sucks
If I thought it sucked I would have written at least 3 more paragraphs of complaints. I've put 90 hours in over the course of a month, so I would consider it above average. I only play a handful of games a year and I rarely stick with anything new.
>>105925
I don't advocate investing into low-effort time-sinks if you have no desire to do so, but I am sure you will reach a point where you cease to enjoy whatever it is that's currently occupying your time, and when that happens you will probably understand.

Played a bit of "Dispatch" last night, it's a "Quick Time Event"/CYOA game kind of like the Walking Dead or Wolf Among Us. It's definitely Californian (it even takes place in Hollywood, heh) but hasn't been too gay or whatever so far. It's a little soy and cringe but enjoyable for what it is up to this point. I do have serious reservations going forward but I've been wanting to play a game in this genre for a while so I decided to give it a shot.

>>105958
I've heard it's basically a capeshit game, except you sit in a cuck chair and watch other people do hero stuff.

I can't play anything past 6th gen and if I do then it's a retro inspired game.

Kind of want heh

Starsector is goat.

Who's copping?

Hollow Knight was great. Iconic soundtrack

>>106513
Still working on that one a bit. Felt it was overrated at first but as you unlock more abilities and are countered with more obstacles and enemies that challenge your ability to employ them I feel it starts to really shine.

While quite a bit different I will strongly endorse "Death's Door". Its gameplay has a bit more in common with an older zelda game but at a Diablo-like isometric perspective. Very, very good gameplay-wise and its soundtrack is an all-timer for me.

>>106514
How far have you gotten in Hollow Knight?

>>106512
>Steam Machine
I think the market is too saturated for it. Why would someone who already owns either a gaming PC, Steam Deck, PS5, Xbox Series S/X, Switch or Switch 2 want to buy this?
Maybe I'm underestimating the number of Valve cultists who'll buy it anyway, like the Apple cultists who have to buy every new iPhone generation.

I always thought doggo boss was a guy, but tons of people refer to it as a girl due to its name. I can't recall any in-game text ever confirming one way or the other. I wish this fight could be skipped. Saving Sif in the time travel DLC should've made him or her stand down.

Just learned that the French turned one of my childhood games (Rayman) into a hardcore coomer game

>>106608
Uh, based?

>>106544
People have been referring to Sif as a girl for as long as I can remember. Don't know why.

Lol heh

dis mod has good music tbhfam

>>106611
Sif is originally the name of a Norse goddess. Other than that, I don't think there is anything else to indicate what sex Sif is either way. Doesn't seem like enough to determine it's female to me. It could've drawn inspiration from the wolf in Princess Mononoke, which is a girl, since Artorias' story is about fighting and succumbing to corruption and that movie is about humans corrupting nature. Guess it doesn't matter, just used to calling it a dude with other people when I played the first Dark Souls a lot. Nobody was enough of a nerd to correct everyone.

Brighter Shores one year later.

>>106612
HAHAHA

>>106518
I don't remember rofl
Last thing I remember is rescuing some boomer bug knight but I may have hit a couple of milestones thereafter. I was jumping between a stage with Jellyfish and one with mantis like bugs but I may have cleared that one

Contemplating buying Look Outside

>>106667
dont do it
pirate before you buy it

Wake up Anon, you're old

>>106671
It's $10 nigga

>>106677
That's 10 bucks you could spend on something valuable. Do you go around burning money often?

>>106671
Where do people pirate things now? The only actual safe place I know in 2025 is Vimm's Lair but that's purely for retro emulation. Internet Archive and TBP are sussy

>>106677
It's self-debasing and immoral to hand over your shekels for anything developed or published by a public corporation (a crown-sanctioned international cartel of cutthroats, who are far more dangerous to you and destructive to soyciety than just a small group of merchants or craftsmen) if it can be pirated.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolver_Digital
https://www.zoominfo.com/pic/devolver-digital-inc/358055878

Shareholders, like bankers and landlords, be scoundrels whose goal is to plunder, "enshittify", "quota-ize", "AI-ize" and feudalize everyone and everything. They'd murder you and other h'white males if they could, spit on your grave and replace you with pajeets and somalians for half the grog ration. If their games can be pried from their monstrous ships, it's not piracy, it's justice. Let their goods walk the plank into our bay. Yarr!

>>106682
rutracker.org (search on yandex.com with site:rutracker.org followed by game title) or 1337x.to. Sometimes you can find smaller games on archive.org. Recommended to install something like simplewall, turn on load on system startup, and use it to prevent unnecessary things from having internet connections (e.g. single-player games, random PowerShell scripts that pop up if ever, etc.) to eliminate keylogging risks.

>>106682
Vimm's lair got shut down actually.

Here anon:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/

Here's a great big list of pirate sites. goggames is good. The emulation sites on there are good. I also use igg-games and thepiratebay and rutracker, because I'm not a pussy but they have been known to have malware. For books, I like z-library and oceanofpdf.

>>106684
>It's self-debasing and immoral to hand over your shekels for anything developed or published by a public corporation (a crown-sanctioned international cartel of cutthroats, who are far more dangerous to you and destructive to soyciety than just a small group of merchants or craftsmen) if it can be pirated.
I'd extend this to any corporation. Public, private, they're all tentacles of the same octopus.

I fundamentally don't understand why people feel smug about buying (a licence for) video games. You aren't even getting a cd or whatever it's just permission from daddy gaben to play a game.

>>106684
>yes goy always pirate games from the gentile-owned <50 employee micro corporation Devolver Digital that's helped fund multiple bangers such as the aforementioned Look Outside, Katana Zero, Ruiner and BroForce-as well as redpilled classics like Serious Sam and Shadow Warrior

I'm on to you, moishe

>>106680
$10 is a small price to pay to avoid having to ever have the slightest worry about bitcoiner miners, keyloggers and ransom wear on my sh*t tbh

>>106690
All those games except Look Outside were published before Devolver Digital "went public" (sold out to the devil). Public companies explicitly operate under continuous infinite growth, as opposed to merely being profitable. The only way you can achieve that is through enshittification. They ought to go bankrupt before they're allowed to ruin shit and scam victims in the future.

>>106691
hmm, I see. heh

lol heh

>>106690
>$10 is a small price to pay to avoid having to ever have the slightest worry about bitcoiner miners, keyloggers and ransom wear on my sh*t tbh
Mindless, ignorant cowardice then. You're more likely to get malware with something legitimately purchased, in the form of denuvo or something similar.

>>106690
>gentile-owned <50 employee micro corporation
Shareholder owned. 50 employees, unknown number of shareholders, all of whom want nothing more than quarterly growth at any cost to make the stock price go up. The company making money doesn't matter, the company being viable in the long term doesn't matter, only that stock price because nobody invests in companies and holds nowdays. It's just a casino for jews. Devolver Digital most likely won't even exist in a few years. Its ips will be swallowed up in some corporate buyout after all value has been sucked out of it by parasitic shareholders.

Your ten dollars aren't going to the people who made the video game. They've already been paid, and were probably already fired and replaced by jeets. The money is going to a pile of jews and middle men who have probably never even seen a video game in their lives. The people who made the game don't own the rights to it. It was stolen from them, and now you have the opportunity to steal it from the thieves like robin hood. You have a moral obligation to do so.

>>106693
Cool stuff

>>106696
Why do these companies go public to begin with, you have to wonder. The fact an offer is even being made implies that the company is healthy and profitable and will continue to be so under its current trajectory. It stands to reason that a private company will yield its founders (the people most able to determine whether a company should stay private or go public) greater returns in the long term than an injection of quick public investor cash would. Gabe Newell would be a (relatively) broke ass nigga if he'd made a public company out of Steam years ago, but there would be a lot of these as-described mysterious wealthy middle men.

>>106715
It's just selling out. They hype up the company for an initial public offer, then sell the shares, take the cash, and bail.

>>106716
Cool.

After annoying debacle eventually discovered problem was latest AMD graphics drivers bugged, had to switch to older version got ps3 emulator working. Fun playing old console exclusives. Soul Caliber 4 and Dragon's Crown currently. Anyone have game recommendations?

Soon.

>>106729
God of War 3

>>106739
Isn't that a profoundly anti-white series where some soy guy kills all of the European gods (who are mocked clown versions of their normal selves)?

>>106739
I just saw the announcement for Timesplitters Rewind. Very based, though the game doesn't hold up to modern shooting conventions it's still a genuinely good game for those with an open mind. It's as good as the "Goldeneye" mechanical formula has ever gotten

>>106729
Dragon's Crown is probably the best beat-em-up game ever by any objective metric. Including circumference lol heh

>>106747
Yeah basically.

>>106747
It's not soy until after 3.

Tried of zoomers praising H.R. Giger-inspired walking-simulator indie slop.

>>106798
based and cute pilled

Playing this right now. A westoid production openly inspired by the Ace Attorney series. I'm a few hours in and enjoying it so far heh

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2689930/Detective_Instinct_Farewell_My_Beloved/

LOL

>>106824
Beat it. I think it captured the character of the AA games fairly well but it was lacking in some of the gameplay gimmicks that make AA such a standout series. It's more like a walkthrough VN for better or worse, but an enjoyable one nonetheless

Played some of the Dawn of War Definitive Edition today. Same game with marginally better graphics, it's nice to revisit it-cheesy voice acting by the legendary Scott Mcniel and all-and it still holds up pretty well