Video Games...Discuss Them

[Irish]

Mortal Kombat 11 teaser. 2 minutes and 29 seconds and somehow completely exhausting.

[Irish]

"Atlas." MMO from the guys who did "Ark: Survival Evolved." Devs claimed on stage that it'll be able to support 40,000 concurrent players.

[Irish]

"The Last Campfire." Puzzle adventure from Hello Games. Release TBA.

[Irish]

"The Pathless." From the creators of "Abzu." Looks like chick with a bow adventure and stellar art direction. PS4 / PC.

ETA: A surprising number of these announcements feature the Epic Games platform.

[Ezee E]

Mortal Kombat 11 teaser. 2 minutes and 29 seconds and somehow completely exhausting.

People still like these?

[Irish]

"Stranger Things 3: The Game." Looks a little ... weird? Release TBA but will be on all platforms: PS4, XBox One, Switch, and PC.

[Irish]

So Nintendo announced Joker from "Persona 5" will be part of "Super Smash Bros Ultimate" DLC ... but nothing about "Metroid 4" or the next "Zelda." :/

Anyway, holy shit this was a terrible event. All awards shows are promotional but JFC. This one made it seem handing out the actual awards was the filler and the announcements, trailers, and straight up commercials were the main event.

What a huge waste of time. Why did I watch this. I am never doing this again, lol.

[Morris Schæffer]

I was hoping for 3 announcements: Alien Blackout, First Metroid Prime 4 footage, and Metroid Prime trilogy for Switch.

Talk about fucking striking out.

[Dukefrukem]

Look at Irish picking up the mantel of game show updates while I get old and fall asleep at 9pm.

[Dukefrukem]

Far Cry New Dawn trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eLHk2Eug78

I guess I'll play it...

[Dukefrukem]

"Anthem" story trailer. EA/ Bioware. (Yuck.)

I got invited to teh Alpha last night. Installed it and promptly fell asleep.

[Dukefrukem]

"The Outer Worlds." Obsidian ... the same devs behind the original "Fallout" and "New Vegas." (2019, PS4 / XBox One / PC)

I am also interested in this. It’s like Fallout and Mass Effect and Deus Ex had a baby, Thought it still amazes me how unoriginal character design has become in video games. The characters look like Destiny, Anthem and Boderlands combined.

[Irish]

Gameplay footage from "The Outer Worlds" (along with some truly inane YouTuber commentary).

It's kinda sorta interesting? But on the whole, I agree with Duke. Everything about this game looks generic as hell'

[Irish]

BTW, Scar, are you strictly PS4?

"Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice" is part of the XBox Game Pass this month.

[Scar]

Yeah, I’m exclusive to PS4, except for an occasional game of Civilization (5?) on the computer.

[Irish]

I've been playing "Diablo III" portable mode for the last hour. Digging the monk so far.

[Morris Schæffer]

Rockstar wasn't kidding about RDR2's bond with the horse. I had to put mine down, probably didn't help that I gave the thing the name of my dog. That was....tough.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Friend of mine told me about how Diablo was free to DL on Blizzard's site, so then I checked, and yep, StarCraft (the original / Brood War) was also available to DL for free. So for the past week, I've become obsessed. Liked it in college, but really getting into it right now, practicing with different races, watching competitions online (those Korean players are fucking crazy, to the point their prowess is measured in APM (actions per minute)). And it's as fun a game as ever. The balance between the races has always impressed me, with the all-around Terran, the fast/weak/multitudinous Zerg, and the slow/powerful Protoss.

[Milky Joe]

I was hoping for 3 announcements: Alien Blackout, First Metroid Prime 4 footage, and Metroid Prime trilogy for Switch.

Talk about fucking striking out.

there's like 50 new and cool and original looking videogames announced and it's a "strikeout" because all you want is a re-release of a 20 year old game and two other games in old series. smdh

[megladon8]

I found it pretty lacklustre, too.

[megladon8]

Does anyone here have an Xbox One that they play 360 games on with the backwards compatibility feature?

Just wondering if you still unlock achievements? Or does it just work like an emulator?

[Irish]

It's a full 360 emulator. You can still unlock achievements. Any 360 achievement counts towards the XBox One leaderboards.

https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/com...60_games_give/

https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/com...patible_games/

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/games...es-on-xbox-one

https://www.windowscentral.com/xbox-...e-leaderboards

(I tried hard to rationalize buying a XBox One X and a 4K TV, but in the end I couldn't do it.)

[Stay Puft]

You still unlock achievements. All the functionality is intact. The emulator replicates the Xbox 360 at a system level, almost entirely in software. It functionally turns the One into a virtual 360 console. If you want to get technical, Eurogamer has an article on how it all works: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/d...-actually-work

edit - oops, Irish beat me to the punch while I was reading eurogamer

[megladon8]

Sweet thanks for the info guys ��

I’ve dug it out and am thinking of digging out my 360 collectibles well.

It seems many of my faves are still not playable, but a good chunk of my collection works.

[Irish]

I've been playing "Diablo III" portable mode for the last hour. Digging the monk so far.

To catch up: I'm finding DIII highly polished and playable and ... fun, I guess? But off the mark from the original game and the sequel. Waaaay off the mark.

Years ago, I played a Diablo knockoff on the original iPad over a long weekend and I hate to say ... DIII feels a lot like it. Almost exactly. So at this point I really don't understand the folks at Blizzcon beefing about Diablo Immortal.

Also, after years of playing WoW, it's weird to see how much Blizz plagiarizes from itself. Barbarians in DIII are a straight rip from Fury Warriors in WoW. And I guess now there's Demon Hunters in WoW now, too? Ugh.

(And it's not a fair comparison, but this experience has been a HUGE step down from Breath of the Wild. Good God. But still ... fun, I guess?)