Gaming Shout Thread

[Maf]

Strive No.1? Shameful behaviour. @Nag will be very disappointed in you 

 

[one-armed dwarf]

Well hopefully he'll be pleased to see a high ranking for Tekken then

[Nag]

Strive needs to fuck off and die already.

[Maf]

They said "Don't hate the player, hate the game" and @Nag said yeah, I fucking will, actually 

[Nag]

👍

[Maf]

 

So this my 2024 in gaming

 

Had to work backwards with Steam. It says my playtime on Elden Ring is 82.4 hours which was 47% of game time so divide by 47 times 100, I guess

 

I guess this is before me being finished with BO6 on Xbox as well 

[Sly Reflex]

https://s.team/y24/fvfkdbk?l=english

 

1483 hours 22 mins apparently. I have no idea why this isn't just hard baked into the Wrapped instead of being something you have to hackerman your way into using inspect element. Just typical PC shit, I guess?

[DANGERMAN]

https://s.team/y24/dbgbvrg?l=english

 

 

I'm a little surprised Vampire Survivors hasn't popped up. I didn't play it anything like as much this year, but it still felt like a lot. Robocop must have taken longer than I thought 

[shinymcshine]

I've got easy access to Series S, 360, PS4 and Switch - but the question is - if I wanted some old school local co-op Gauntlet action (just sticking with 1-4, top down 'arcade' style) can I actually download / play it ?

 

I know it didn't appear on many of the Atari compilations (I've got Atari 50, NS, and it's not on there) and couldn't see it on a quick scan of eshops.

[HandsomeDead]

There is Gauntlet: Slayer Edition on PS4.  It's a reissue of an Xbox game from 2014 which has since disappeared but is still on the PS store.

[shinymcshine]

Yep, played the Slayer one (PS4) - but it felt too much like it was trying to be Diablo, just fancied the basic old school arcade / MD version.

[Craymen Edge]

Go on then, here's another Steam replay

https://s.team/y24/ddnncmf?l=english

 

 

I think that's a decent increase in games played from last year, also Balatro became my 2nd most played game on Steam.

 

[Maf]

I’ve played too many games over the past few days and I’m lost. Every time I pick up the controller dodge is on a different button.
 

But the things I’m fighting DO NOT RESPECT THIS I’m like the button has a circle on it. Most dodges are people rolling and if I had to draw a person rolling the shape it most closely look like is a circle so why is it on X. 
 

I also haven’t been playing small games, I’ve been playing big games and beat the opening to all of them so no matter where I turn I’m faced with huge worlds, infinite tasks and heavy, serious stories about very unserious stuff. 
 

I’m going to retreat to the Switch the Switch doesn’t treat me like this. Switch goes hey look the game is a straight line but trusts me, the line is world class we used rulers and levels and all sorts

 

The game I have spent the least amount time playing is Silent Hill 2 Remake and NO. I keep waiting all day saying I should play this at night and then it gets to night and I’m like NO I mean tomorrow night. 

 

I’ve also ruined my sleep schedule because I’m gaming until 2am, going to sleep at 3am, waking up at 9am, trying to go back to sleep until 10am giving up and gaming again at 11am I am very tired and they keep changing the dodge button PLEASE

 

In 2 days time I know I’m opening so many games it’s going to get so much better/worse/tired 
 

I have less than 7 days to fit in about 4000 hours worth of games I feel like if I activate speed run mode and stop stopping for food and toilet I can probably do it 

 

[one-armed dwarf]

Balatro doesn't have any dodge button, but is also not very good for your sleep cycle.

[Maf]

FUCK I forgot about that. How does it play best with mouse or touch screen

[one-armed dwarf]

Probably mouse but I'm on phone and can only play it on that cause of no cloud saves to steam, also Marvel Rivals doesn't have a dodge button but you do seem to be dodging that game, I guess cause you're scared of how real it is on the streets of Tokyo 2099

[Maf]

I just got a brand new console that I’m putting through its paces while playing Indiana Jones, while playing Dragon Quest, while reading 1000xResist 

 

I’ve been having fun. I will get to Rivals probably after Christmas Day 

 

EDIT: As a complete aside I was watching someone play X-Com 2 and he’s guy just ran up in the street and killed an alien and the streamer went “He Luigi’d him” it happened about 15mins ago and I’m still laughing 

[Maryokutai]

Has anyone tried out Drova: Forsaken Kin? There's been a lot of buzz in the German videogame space about it because apparently it's basically 'isometric pixel Gothic'. I never looked into it too closely because for some reason I was convinced it was a PC game, but it's actually available everywhere. 

 

I don't find it super appealing visually, but the comparison makes me rather intrigued. I think I'm going to check that out next year.

[DANGERMAN]

I don't think I've ever even heard the name 

[shinymcshine]

Drova - hadn't heard of it, but saw it made it to the consoles too (Series S, £20.99) so maybe one to check out sometime....