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Video Games General

Melmar said:
Huh, looks like the pants might be optional in the new Donkey Kong? That's good cuz it looked silly and I can't imagine it was comfortable with his fur.

Also, I didn't realize that this one is Donkey Kong the third. Cranky's the original and Rare DK was Jr.
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I think Cranky was the original, DK Jr. Was his son, and all the DK since have been Donkey Kong the Third. So new DK would be the Fourth, if it's the next generation.

Are we going to see adult Diddy and Dixie?
 
Scygnus said:
I think Cranky was the original, DK Jr. Was his son, and all the DK since have been Donkey Kong the Third. So new DK would be the Fourth, if it's the next generation.

Are we going to see adult Diddy and Dixie?
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Iirc, Cranky called DK 64 Donkey his son so that was Jr.
 
I looked into it some more and apparently they're about as consistent on it as anything else Nintendo. Sometimes Cranky is his father, sometimes he's Donkey's grandfather.
 
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A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
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So, I was looking through the internet for a game that I remember playing a long time ago, back when Impulse was Stardock's child, not GameStop's. Then, after some serious digging, the name was found: Elements of War.

The premise is surprisingly simple: you play as an American officer just as the weather (and Earth) go nuts, leaving you and the base to start picking up the pieces in the area. As you fight the general lawlessness that follows any good apocalypse, you discover US units with a raven insignia that don't respond, and that a Russian-led European coalition unit has landed on US soil to find out what the hell is going on. As you progress, you get access to weapon systems that manipulate the weather and cause earthquakes.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCouCEGlHG8&ab_channel=EinfachZocken

Too bad I can't find the game on abandonware sites I have seen so far... :(
 
Arc-on-Fire said:
>oblivion remaster is out
GENTLEMEN...! Your thoughts?
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Hopeful that Bethesda used the opportunity with the remaster to integrate and refine some of the older systems for future releases. (It`s on the Unreal 5 engine, so fingers-crossed for there to be less bugs for future games. I`ll have to check-out a Playthrough to see what has changed before even thinking of buying a copy myself.)

More so, I want them to figure out how to include third party mod support so we can keep the community alive. (Also my wish that they finally dumb Gamebryo and just stick to a REAL modern engine for future projects. Bethesda glitches were funny when it was random, now the engine breaks so consistently that player can fix it faster then the developer can by days, or even months.)

Still, I feel overall good and have high hopes it turned out well.
 
I'm just going to assume they messed it up given how they shadow dropped it. At the moment I'm expecting some horrid bug or issue popping up a few days from now. Maybe no modding due to unreal engine bs or some such.
 
Arc-on-Fire said:
>oblivion remaster is out
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Skimming through steam reviews, it's currently 82% positive on steam, with most negative reviews being bugs and crashes. That said, there are a lot of positive reviews saying it runs great, so make of that what you will. Given it's a game that has a RTX 2080 as it's recommended spec, it's probably not something you should try to crank all the settings up if you don't own a brand new computer.

Beyond that, shit loads of nostalgia in the reviews, so maybe not the most objective crowd, but reviews are mostly positive. Watched a bit of a stream, and it looked great...until they got to the character creator. In short, the ability to make horrific affronts to god and man has been retained, and clicking randomize almost always gives you something deep in uncanny valley, with the exception of the Argonians and Khajitt, who I guess are already alien enough that it isn't as much of an issue. Thankfully, looks like switching races resets things to the defaults, which are mostly fine. You can probably make some decent looking characters, but it'll likely take some work. NPCs mostly looked fine, but I'm a little uncertain how random bandits and such might end up looking if the computer's just hitting randomize.

But by far the bigger issue seems to be that they're not releasing modding tools. This is apparently running on some unholy union of Creation and UE5, with the guts running on the former while the latter handles graphics, but apparently we aren't getting modding tools for this. Given how big the Elder Scrolls modding community is, there will undoubtedly still be mods regardless, but the lack of tools is going to be a problem.

On the plus side, Bethesda is definitely not shutting down Skyblivion, and apparently actually sent the entire mod team free keys for the Remaster. So even if you don't want to shell out for the Remaster, there's still that to look forward too.
 

It's actually a heart, but I screenshotted when I saw it from this angle because it looked like a cheeky reference.

Trying to collect enough swamp coral for the anti-theft backpack before I go into the Deep Zone, but it's an absolute bitch. Not least because Marsh areas in the mid-zone keep coming with ultra-shitty junction conditions like Turncoat, Eerie Darkness, and acid water. I have a resource scanner and thermal vacuum, just need to find a marsh that isn't shit. Might've gotten more the last run, but my engine was going out and I was almost out of repair items.
 
tacobowl8 said:
I just finished Ender Magnolia yesterday. Great game. A step up in terms of QoL, gameplay, combat, etc. compared to Ender Lilies. I will say that I felt Ender Lilies was a bit more focused and managed to coordinate everything to really nail the setting and feel it was going for, while Magnolia was a bit more scattered.
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Just finished it myself jsut now. I'm going to have to agree there that while the gameplay is definitely upgraded from the first game, I do feel Lillies' mood and setting was better. Kinda wish Lillies had offered conversations in respites as well, but alas.

At least we got good fanart. I esepcially find the upper left of that one a bit amusing.

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