No.85650
They had the audacity to show a Borderlands 4 teaser trailer after the movie with the centenarian jew-mutt cast flopped hard. Professional fart-huffer Peter Molyneux is desperately clinging to his Legacy and releasing a new god game for moms with a Fable veneer on top. There is another nondescript Call of Duty announced. Uh, The First Berserker looks mildly interesting. PS5 is making a cute Animal Crossing clone called Floatopia.
No.85690
HAHAHA THIS NIGGER MASTURBATES TO CARTOONS
No.85711
>>85690right, OP should be getting sodomized by packs of pozzed feral mandingos like a responsible well adjusted adult (me)
No.85721
Humble has a 30USD Resident Evil steam key bundle that "contains every entry", meaning no OG RE1/2/3 (to be fair, they don't have a steam release) and I think it has original RE4 instead of the remake. It also has the Revelations kusoge. Only games I like out of the pack are RE1 HD and RE0, but maybe someone is interested in getting all the new ones (except RE4 remake) cheap.
No.85722
>>85721Humble has really gone downhill. I remember getting bundles for like two bucks back in the day, but now they're as expensive or more than normal steam sales.
No.85723
I've gotten enough steam bucks from selling space engineers skins that I could probably buy a cheap game heh.
No.85745
>>85737I like how your first thought at seeing cartoon butts was fantasizing about a man stroking his dick to them. Fagboy slips again. I was posting asses because Gamescon has been ass so far.
No.85834
>>85789I'm confused, it's not a game about your life?
No.85848
>>85834no its a game about yours
No.85867
It's absurd how bad some of the Command and Conquer games run natively on current generation hardware/OS.
C & C Remastered works fine (now, but I remember it being a choppy mess at release)
Red Alert 2 was unplayable without a third-party patch (works fine on my Steam Deck fwiw-just my much more powerful Windows pc it would have huge framerate drops until I did some sleuthing in the forums)
Tiberian Sun series is unplayable; it runs just as bad-maybe worse-than it did 20+ years ago on my eMachines pc at the time.
How the FRICK is this possible? I never got to play Tiberian Sun back in the day (I played it, suffering through 5fps as long as I could stand, mind) and now it looks like I might not ever get to heh
We need a total shutdown on EA remasters until we can figure out what the heck is going on
No.85879
>>85868Yeah that was where I got the third party file that fixed the RA2 Windows Steam release. Tiberian Sun works pretty well on Steam Deck too apparently, just like RA2 did, so it may be a Wangblows 11 issue as much as anything else heh
Going to strongly consider dual booting into Steam OS at minimum in the future given how unhinged Windows 11 is
No.86019
>>86012SOVL.I hate those oversexualized voices of jap women.
No.86021
>>86012I miss this. Professional VAs are some of the biggest faggots on the planet, and they're a waste of money given that amateurs who are just trying their best adds more charm anyway. Stuff like that is a product of its time that can't be deliberately replicated, because trying to do so would turn it into "ironic" cynical shit. Dedicated localization teams have been nothing but a blight.
No.86024
>>86021They're shit now because the localization industry is full of kike nepobaby retards with Steve Blumenthal as their regent lord. Quality isn't a concern, only replacing clear phonetic mentions of America with Kuwait in Angel Cop's subtitles matters. Can't have the goyim catching onto any anti-semitic messaging.
No.86120
Delver is stupid. The only thing that is remotely lethal is explosive damage. I either die to an explosive jar, a jar that contained a random bomb or using a fire wand and getting killed by splash damage even though it appears that my target is far away.
No.86140
recently downloaded duckstation
rec me some ps1/ps2 games
i currently have:
>tomba
>spiderman (ps1)
>dino crisis 2
>crash bandicoot (might delete this)
No.86145
>>86140https://cdromance.org/psx-iso/roll-away-usa/in settings
bios -> enable fast boot
console -> increase read speedup to 3x(6x speed), don't go higher or some games won't launch or will crash, don't change anything else here
display -> set renderer to d3d11 hardware, all other renderers are buggier or slower
display -> i think bilinear sharp looks better than bilinear smooth
display -> i crop all borders, haven't had an issue
display -> turn off OSD messages i think they're annoying
enhancements -> internal resolution scale to automatic
enhancements -> turn on true color rendering
enhancements -> disable interlacing
enhancements -> turn on geometry correction and culling correction, unsure about perspective correct textures i think it might've added intermittent flickering texture bug to grandia so it's off for me
No.86183
>>86145im not doing all that
No.86239
Playing Icewind Dale rn
I never had the patience to learn how to play it in the past-and even still with access to the 400 page manual certain important things remain cryptic for now (how tf do I bind my mage's spell to her hot bar ffs)-but I've managed to make it to the second town which is much further than I'd expected to get heh
On the topic of voice acting most of the acted npcs and the narrator are great, it's charming in its old-fashioned sincerity.
No.86267
>>86239Oh, you just right-click it heh
No.86286
>>86267You were trying to memorize them from the spellbook, right?
No.86332
>>86286Yeah I figured it out eventually. It's not quite as un-intuitive as I thought. If I didn't have access to this manual (no real thanks to Steam other than hosting an independent post on the game's page), it would be mortifying. Even still it's pretty obtuse though. I don't think it says anything about how memorizing spell scrolls can fail, in game or out, for example. At least not in a specific way
>t. the one "Identify [item]" scroll available in the town ended up failing No.86334
>>86332RNG can be pretty brutal on CRPGs unless you savescum constantly.
No.86342
>>86335didnt ask what you have for breakfast
No.86356
>>86334Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of having to play that way-but when they have a frequent auto-save and quick save is hard baked and even hotkeyed into the gameplay mechanics I feel like the devs are telling you that it's the way the game is meant to be played. I haven't died THAT many times since learning how to play, but I have been penalized with appreciably worse loot rolls after having had to retry and that feels like punishment enough I suppose.
No.86406
Cleared a cave called Discotheque on Pikmin 4 today. The boss was a real cocksmoker. It's basically a rave party Long Legs-class boss. It has a strobe light body that changes colors as it shifts between phases. It starts out blue, then changes colors after enough damage (pink -> yellow -> red) and it plays dance music. It also periodically spews gas out that charms pikmin to dance beneath it (whistling doesn't free them) and speeds up with every phase. It's weird, though. You could just attack it a bit, stay out of range for a bit and it will reset to the starting phase retaining damage. Wonder how much of a bastard this guy is on a speedrun, because I really didn't like fighting it during yellow and red phases. The choice of colors for the phases is also misleading. The cave recommends taking red and yellow pikmin before entering and you can turn 10 of them into fairy pikmin over the course of the cave. I got all my fairy pikmin charmed on my first attempt because I thought pink lights means they're immune to the gas during that phase. I tried off-color pikmin depending on the strobe colors too. It's entirely arbitrary. Bit of a stupid design choice in my opinion.
No.86414
>>86413why the fuck would you buy a slow noisy hdd instead of a sata ssd
go return it before the return window
your waifus gonna kick it again n u'll b crying
$150 AUD for Kingston KC600 1TB SSD
https://au.pcpartpicker.com/product/mQH7YJ/kingston-kc600-1024-tb-25-solid-state-drive-skc6001024gif you're really stingy get the Corsair MX500 for $100 but recent batches reportedly have a high failure rate (around 20%), but it's otherwise high quality like the KC600 if you're not one of the unlucky 1/5
https://au.pcpartpicker.com/product/h3tQzy/crucial-mx500-1tb-25-solid-state-drive-ct1000mx500ssd1
>What cloud sharing platforms do you recommend that have a lot of bandwidth that I can use in the future to back up important shit on the cloud/in addition to my externals?b2 pay-as-you-go is cheapest, they charge by storage so if you have 1 TB you'll pay $6 USD per month, if it's 0.5TB then $3/mo, etc.
https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricingtheir phone app
https://www.backblaze.com/apps/mobilebut a samsung bar plus USB should be good enough unless you really need the mobility
No.86419
>>86356Icewind dale is beatable without savescumming, especially if you're familiar with dnd.
No.86423
>>86419I believe it. tbh I never wiped or came close to wiping once-have just had the (for now, somewhat useless) dart-spamming mage preset character get crit twice because of bad positioning and/or pathing, and chose to go back a save instead of playing it out and reviving her at the temple. Oh actually my berserker died once to these fat little beetle fellas as well. If this was the year 2000 and the game just came out I would feel a little ashamed of myself maybe, but I feel like I just want to get through this one at a brisk pace without taking too much extra time for largely arbitrary stuff like that; got nuffin' to prove these days innit
No.86425
>>86414I just got the one with the same model as my actual laptop, for compatability because I was concerned it wouldn't run on my Asus X550J.
I'll definitely look into Pay-As-You-Go, $6 USD is pretty good tbh
No.86432
>>86239When I was a kid I couldn't beat that game without cheating since I was too dumb to understand the mechanics. The class disparity in 2e is so outrageous there's never any reason to play a pure caster or rogue. Multi/dual-classing fighter is practically required, otherwise you can't hit a god damn thing while also having bones made out of glass.
No.86440
>>86423Back in the day "savescumming" wasn't considered cheating. It was just what you do. Don't feel bad about it.
Cheesing the game mechanics is also valid. For example you can stack your wizard with fireballs, lightning bolts, and cones of cold, and then send him into a room, nuke all the enemies, and then rest to regain the spells. Rinse and repeat. It sounds stupid but tbh that's the way some real dnd games go too LOL.
No.86441
>>86432Casters in 2e are more role specific. They aren't suppose to hit things, although clerics can do it in a pinch. They are suppose to cast spells, and when those spells are gone, they stand back and do nothing.
Clerics heal and buff.
Wizards shoot fireballs.
Thieves unlock doors and disarm traps.
Fighters/Paladins mop up after the wizard nukes the room.
Multiclassing fighter with your caster makes them more versatile but you lose access to the better spells, which is the whole reason your brought a caster.
No.86448
>>86419It's extremely easy if you know how to cheese it, but likely much harder for people who don't know. Also as a side note, I never understood people who play meta builds in actual DND. Seems autistic as fuck. Smashing through campaigns isn't really the point of pen and paper RPGs. It's more like an acceptable form of playing make-believe for adults, like when kids would raid the closet and pretend to be pirates or cowboys or whatever.
No.86451
>>86441>Multiclassing fighter with your caster makes them more versatile but you lose access to the better spells, which is the whole reason your brought a caster.You don't really lose access to better spells, it just takes longer to level up IIRC, which can be mitigated by running a leaner party in IWD. The casters are going to almost entirely be dead-weight for the first couple of levels, so from a "meta-gaming" perspective running a full party with pure casters is kind of a trap.
No.86452
We should play one of the infinity engine games in MP sometime. Seems like it would be fun.
No.86453
>>86448A lot of people, especially those coming to tabletop gaming from a video game background, can't wrap their head around roleplaying. They see rpgs as being like jrpgs, complex battle systems involving number crunching and fighting monsters and getting exp, rather than the systems being there to facilitate roleplaying in a make believe world.
Blame final fantasy I guess.
>>86451There is a finite pool of exp in any game, and icewind dale in particular. I don't believe the enemies respawn so it's not like you can grind them to level up higher if you gimp yourself. First level casters are absolutely useless yes, but the first few areas of icewind dale (and any rpg tbh) are pretty easy and you can make do.
>running a full party with pure casters is kind of a trapSure, but you're suppose to have a diverse party. Standard rpg stuff. A cleric to heal, a fighter or a barb to tank, a wizard to nuke, a thief to open doors, that sort of thing. At earlier levels the physical classes like fighter dominate but later on the casters outclass them by orders of magnitude. It isn't balanced in the slightest but that's dnd for you.
No.86456
>>86452why so you can IP grab and stalk us?
No.86466
>>86452I think I would be down for it.
>>86453>I don't believe the enemies respawn so it's not like you can grind them to level up higher if you gimp yourself. Pretty sure ambush spawns from resting are infinite.
>It isn't balanced in the slightest but that's dnd for you.It's not necessarily a bad thing, but the disparity feels more drastic than IWD2 and 3E. Even pure rogues have shitty THAC0 for some god-forsaken reason. Not min-maxing is based, but it's rough when little Timmy is going in blind. Tangentially related, but it's funny that a lot of people seemed to have a similar issue with Morrowind as a kid.
No.86467
>>86456I post here raw so I couldn't really do that and get away with it even if I ever thought about doing that a single time in my life.
No.86469
>couldn't figure out why "Inspect" spell wasn't working
>had to do more reading to learn that you can't wear armor and cast spells at the same time
reeee
No.86472
>>86466>Pretty sure ambush spawns from resting are infinite.You're right, that's true. Grinding those feels like an exploit though tbh. Although I'd also say resting every room for 8 hours feels like an exploit (and is massively immersion breaking) but that's just kinda what you do in dnd so...
>but it's rough when little Timmy is going in blindAn unfortunate thing about most dnd games, with the possible exception of neverwinter nights 2, is that they assume you're already familiar with the system to some extent I think. There's very little handholding to explain the mechanics. I bet not-hdv had to look up that lower armor class is better in 2e for example. It isn't intuitive.
When most kids picked up morrowind, they went into that cave outside of sneedna neen (basically the tutorial dungeon) and tried punching the bandits with a dagger, and got killed after seeing MISS MISS MISS MISS MISS appear on the screen 40 times. It's a good game but that sort of shit is just bad game design, and turns people off the game before they've even gotten started.
No.86473
>>86469Clerics can wear heavy armor and cast spells but they are the only class... I think. I can't remember if druids can wear light armor.
No.86481
>first major dungeon in the game
>come upon a large door with gears and such obstructing the path shortly after a very pain in the ass fight with a powerful skellington
>alludes to the presence of a nearby switch that should open it
>explore the entire floor and clear every chest and item cache by any other name
>there's no switch or visual indication of there being a switch in this room
>reading 20+ year old forum post about how to progress at this point, they claim the switch is on one of the three pillars
>just not seeing it
No.86483
When you do see it it's pretty obvious-but the combination of Fog of War, multiple line tangents with details on the floor and a complementary color scheme it doesn't make it easy to see in the moment. I guess you can press "tab" to see clickable stuff which would have been helpful to know
No.86485
>>86483Back in the day, the game would have come with an instruction manual that had all the keybinds.
No.86487
>>86482That was the first really interesting dungeon of the game. Congrats on getting through it.
No.86648
>>86645I don't actually know how well these games run in multiplayer. Just always been curious about it. Looks like you can assign characters to players or let them create their own. I saw some lobbies when I looked at multiplayer, but didn't try joining any.
No.86819
>>86678They (Firefox) are literally controlled opposition from google with a pampered, do-nothing femoid CEO. I think it was 80-90% of their funding and 100% of their marching orders comes directly from google heh. Brave for all its flaws is ostensibly the new Firefox
No.86864
Concord is already shutting down.
No.86866
>>86864those damn far righters making the game shit with their nazi powers
No.86888
>>86877Would you prefer the dates here remain "09/03/24" as default and "X Y ago" when hovering the cursor or "X Y ago" as default and "09/03/24" when hovering the cursor?
No.86890
>>86888Dates are more useful for dead websites such as this, if it ever gets archived.
No.86891
>>86890Yeah it's better for archive.org. I can change it so it changes/replaces it immediately to "X Y ago" while hovering and then back to the date when not hovering instead of just a tooltip which has a 1 second delay, but that might be too annoying/distracting.
No.86892
>>86678>>86819Think I found a fix for the YouTube stuttering thing in Brave. It started stuttering again on YouTube after some time yesterday, but going to brave://flags and then switching Graphics Backend from the default D3D11 setting to OpenGL seems to have gotten rid of the stuttering.
https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/vsvuej/comment/j5o3fvy/https://community.brave.com/t/brave-browser-lags-stutter-gpu-spikes-at-100/435189/4 No.86897
Trying out Cassette Beasts. Seems pretty gay so far. They have a pronoun option in character creation. There is a fusion feature that is interesting, but after fusing the first time the girl you fused with talks about it like you had casual sex. The music is lame too.
No.86898
There's a gang of people called Landkeepers on Cassette Beasts. Commies complaining about landlords in their video game.
No.86899
>>86898Uh, based? Landlords are parasites.
No.86900
Videos of people buying cheap retro video games from retarded old people at yard sales piss me off because I know the buyers don't give a shit about any of that stuff past reselling it for jacked prices.
No.86913
Bought Pokemon Scarlet with the DLC pass for one of my kid brothers. Can't believe the base game is still $60. With the pass I paid around 110USD. Nintendo is so jewish. I should get my hacked console working again so I can play Violet with him for free locally. Gonna be quite a few hours of work to accomplish that though.
No.87045
>>87029Weird since it's not a game about your pathetic life?
No.87096
>>87029It's a fun game. Probably the only turn-based RPG I've enjoyed in years
that aren't pokemon romhacks.
No.87114
>>87108You're nostalgic for generic CoD entry #6,000,001. That series is beloved by little gay squeakers. Zero room to be calling anyone a manchild.
No.87117
>>87114cod is way less shit than pokemon, manchild
No.87118
also stop going through my post history you loser
No.87121
>>87118Nobody needs to do that to know who you are.
No.87124
>>87117>CoD is way less shitLiterally the most stale FPS series in existence. You probably unironically listen to Eminem, too. Literal boy taste.
>muh post history muh muh muh mod boogeyman muh!!!1Not a mod and don't need to go through your post history when you posted about it yesterday, retard.
No.87228
Pikmin 4 has annoying lock-on targeting, which seems to do more harm than good. I remember it being a lot easier to one-shot the little bulborbs by throwing a pikmin on their backs. Now the pikmin land on their faces.
No.87229
STONKS-9800 is kind of a cute game. Japanese stock market simulator. Been playing it off and on for a bit.
No.87232
>>87121you eat shit and are gay
>>87124imagine defending pokemon
>mw2>staleliterally how
>Not a mod and don't need to go through your post history when you posted about it yesterday, retard.yes you do, stalker mong
>>87228>pikminok grow up
>>87229grow up
No.87236
>>87232>hurr how is sequel to the game that solidified the series formula for the past 17 years stale durr??? *drools*Even Pokemon has been more innovative during the same span of time. You're just a retard i.e. you are on the level of a child mentally.
>h-hurr u really r stalking me mod!!You only believe this because you have the memory of an insect, so you can't relate to anyone without retardation.
No.87237
>>87236you play pokemon, youre a retarded manchild, nothing you say to me i care about
No.87238
>>87237Just one more way you're an autistic, immature, overcompensating retard.
>Me big adult, me play big adult army man game for 10-year-olds.Like holy shit, what a pathetic faggot lol.
No.87239
>>86913The funny thing is, all they had to do was reduce the price slightly, and include both DLCs together, and it would've been fine.
That and not release a glitchy mess.
No.87249
>>87239I think the DLC was sold like a season pass deal originally. You only paid once for staggered content in two installments, as far as I recall. It was called "Hidden Treasure of Area Zero" and the first installment was "Teal Mask" with second being "Indigo Disk", releasing a few months apart.
Just spent a bunch of time comparing price histories of AAA games released around the same time and I guess Nintendo actually isn't that far off not only from other Japanese publishers, but Western ones too. I just usually buy a bunch of shit on sale or off Humble, so the $110 for the game and two DLC felt more shocking than it should have. Still jewish, but I guess the entire industry is and I just forgot due to changing purchasing habits a long time ago.
No.87250
>>87232Tyrone's big black willie isn't going to suck itself avid.
No.87251
>>87096Recc me some pokemon romhacks.
No.87264
>>87251Crystal Clear is an open-world hack where you can start in any town I think. Also have like 24 different starters to choose from. What sucks is the fags who made it jammed original donut steal characters and nigger trannies into it, too. I think the image from
>>87240 is a screenshot of it. Looks similar at least.
Radical Red for FireRed is probably the most popular difficulty hack for any of the games.
Liquid Crystal is just Crystal ported to the FireRed/LeafGreen engine.
Emerald Rogue is just Emerald as a roguelike (randomly generated routes and trainers, stronger items and pokemon appear the farther you get into a run).
Fool's Gold is Gold version but every pokemon has a new typing and sprite.
Pokemon Glazed is a romhack with 3 regions. Don't know how many pokemon it has, but has an assortment up to gen 5 I think. I remember a romhack having a quest log like a MMO and I think this was the one.
Pokemon Clover made by /vp/ on 4chan. All the pokemon are custom. Never played it so don't know if it's fun. I think it has moot and W.T. Snacks as legendary pokemon.
Pokemon Vega, made by a Japanese team. Has a lot of new pokemon, but also mixed with real ones kinda like actual pokemon games.
There are a ton of prepatched roms on this website:
https://www.pokeharbor.com/Sometimes the roms there are glitchy, though. In which case, you should find the .ips patch file and use a web app version of Lunar IPS to patch the clean roms, though I haven't looked into good websites for base roms since Vimm's layer got closed.
No.87265
>>87264Pokemon glazed sounds like avid's kind of game.
>moot and W.T. Snacks as legendary pokemonKind of cool heh. I will look into that one.
No.87269
>>87265>Kind of cool heh. I will look into that one.of course you will, manchild
No.87280
>>87277Bring back snacks.
No.87281
>>87264Emerald Rogue sounds like exactly what I'm looking for
No.87284
>>87280haha le ebin anonalouse is winz0rZ amirite!!!!
No.87292
whats the hell are a videos games
No.87303
>>87281It's pretty nice, condenses the formula quite a bit. A Pokemon roguelike seems like such an obvious idea to make, considering how much variety the series has and the popularity of the nuzlocke ruleset. I think Emerald Rogue DX has some new pokemon or forms, too. Don't entirely recall, but I swear I remember getting a Galarian Zapdos (fighting/flying instead of electric/flying, looks like a roadrunner) during a run. Could've been a dream.
No.87305
Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun works great on the Deck but, gosh is it a slow game compared to Red Alert 2 heh. Every mission feels like a slog. A mission that would otherwise take 15-20 minutes takes an hour because of a hidden structure somewhere on the map that so slowly reveals itself. The structures build very slowly and the resource gathering moves at a snails pace. You can turn the game speed up but it's just silly to have the units move comically fast.
No.87525
>>87522This "game" sure has a lot of spergs on it. Seemed like every single thing to come out of the Ninetales kid's mouth was bitch-bitch-bitch-bitch-bitch. I tried it out one time when it was new. Walked around a server full of avatars you could clone. Some guy was running around as Kermit doing his voice to say stuff like "1488 gas the kikes race war now!"
No.87791
I was playing Enshrouded (open world survivor, similar to Valheim/Ark) but it doesn't run well on my pc - rx 580, i5 9400f (mid range from about 2 years ago I guess). The game itself isn't enough to inspire me to upgrade. I guess its a bit of fun to see people's house/base builds on yt. I prolly spent like 25 hours on it at least. It seemed like you could spend a ton of time constructing a house/base the way you wanted to, there were few limitations. And the gameplay loop was fun - do quests and otherwise go out into the pve enviro to find stuff to upgrade your gear, it was rewarding. A new Ark game - that is actually good - would be good...
No.87989
>>87856No disc drive no buy
No.88198
One of my brothers randomly brought over his Steam Deck. I got the new family sharing thing running with him and another account for the family to use. Don't have a huge library to share, just a few hundred games, but I guess they made game sharing a lot less gay now. It doesn't stop you from playing any game if another account is playing anything from your library anymore, so this will help to avoid unnecessary repurchases between us all. The only real limitation is that however many accounts in the same family can only play the same game simultaneously based on how many licenses the family has in total for that specific game. Gonna take forever to install Yakuza 7, but gonna try that out on the Steam Deck at some point. I think I can play singleplayer games in offline mode without kicking my family off of my account at their house.
No.88201
Deck having SEGA/Xbox layout is throwing me off since it's shaped like a switch lol (A/B and X/Y are swapped between SEGA/Xbox and Nintendo)
No.88218
>>88201Coming from a Snoy Playstation background I feel like I'll never get used to the X/Y A/B thing heh
No.88223
>>88218At least most of the face buttons are unique. I think the deck has a setting to swap the button functionality and I usually don't have the lights on to see the faces anyway so I might use that.
Also I wish Xboxes went forward with the original plan to be backwards compatible with Dreamcast. I kinda want to jailbreak my OG box. Actually seems like one of the better systems to softmod.
No.88246
>>86453>A lot of people, especially those coming to tabletop gaming from a video game background, can't wrap their head around roleplaying. They see rpgs as being like jrpgs, complex battle systems involving number crunching and fighting monsters and getting exp, rather than the systems being there to facilitate roleplaying in a make believe world.I was thinking about this and I don't agree with this perspective. Especially earlier editions of D&D read like they're meant to be meat-grinders, where you are expected to re-roll fairly frequently. The idea that the mechanics are supposed to take a back-seat to the role playing elements seems like the more modern sensibility. For example when I tried to get back into D&D a few years ago every DM was very obviously soft-balling encounters, and that's a big reason I never stuck around. I don't expect them to make brutally difficult campaigns(even though that would be based), but I expect them to play optimally for the encounters they've created. They didn't because they all have the believe that the story takes precedence over the actual game.
No.88266
>>88246>The idea that the mechanics are supposed to take a back-seat to the role playing elements seems like the more modern sensibility. For example when I tried to get back into D&D a few years ago every DM was very obviously soft-balling encountersI'm teaching people how to play TTRPGs right now. I tell them it's like reading a story, where you control a single character in a story and the GM controls everything else. The game system introduces an element of chance, balance and fairness
It's okay to fudge rolls in secret occasionally if it results in greater fun for all parties, but typically the most fun thing of all is pure random chance. Full party death is fun. Maiming, crippling, all the terrible things out there make the game have real stakes and genuine fun
If the players act like retards they should all die like retards. There's absolutely zero fun to be had if the characters have God on their team and can't lose at all
No.88268
>>88266TLDR: playing with cheats isn't fun
No.88325
Space Marine 2 works pretty good on the Steam Deck. Just have to lower the resolution to 1024 x 768 but it doesn't look too bad; still some pretty significant frame drops in scenes with a lot of Guardsmen and Tyranid swarms but it's very playable
No.88326
>>88268Min-maxxing nerds can be annoying, I think it's valid to be invested in the gameplay mechanics and playing well too, of course, but I agree it's really about group storytelling first heh
