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2015-07-01 09:21:10 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

The weirdest thing about all that is that console architecture is now fairly similar to PCs these days iirc so it should really hard to fuck up! I mean presumable it was outsourced to a company that has worked on PC games before.

arkarian

2015-07-01 09:24:32 pm

red chamber dream

yeah and i mean, the xbone is literally just windows

Toozin

2015-07-01 09:54:18 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

Iron Galaxy did the PC port. They also did the PC port of Arkham Origins and the Vita port of Borderlands 2.

So these guys are really shitty at ports.

arkarian

2015-07-01 09:55:41 pm

red chamber dream

oh wow yeah, both of those were notably terrible iirc

tomatobob

2015-07-01 09:57:31 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

To be fair if the Arkham Origins port was a mess it probably wasn't their fault. :v

Toozin

2015-07-01 09:58:13 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Galaxy_Studios

They've worked on and assisted for some pretty high profile stuff so I guess that's why they keep getting work.

arkarian

2015-07-01 09:58:47 pm

red chamber dream

ah i've heard of divekick too

Toozin

2015-07-01 10:06:10 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

Quote from tomatobob:

Real talk though the challenges were not that hard, 100%-ing those games was actually pretty quick.

It's not about difficulty for me, I just lose interest in challenge modes very quickly in any game. I dunno what it is, I just can't be bothered to finish.

Turtle

2015-07-01 10:26:16 pm

I like turtles.

The challenges always felt to me like filler meant to keep me from 100% rather than fun content I would enjoy on the way there. I feel like it's because they were so segregated and irrelevant to the main game. AK averts that nicely so far, with a lot of the optional stuff going toward upgrade points at least.

Turtle

2015-07-03 01:15:44 pm

I like turtles.

Really loving Terraria 1.3. Most of the new difficulty mode is actually pretty well-balanced (like, actual balance instead of "make everything a chore to progress through"), lots of new content, and the degree of polish it's reached at this point is simply leagues ahead of most major video game releases - like, for any system ever.

Opium

2015-07-03 01:21:21 pm

Hey what was the name of that vampire game that someone was playing a while back? I think it was a PS2 game and there was a first game and one sequel.

arkarian

2015-07-03 01:23:16 pm

red chamber dream

do you mean soul reaver? the first one was on ps1 and dreamcast, but the second was a ps2 game yeah

Opium

2015-07-03 01:31:30 pm

Yeah that's it. Dang, only SR2 is available for download.

Opium

2015-07-03 01:36:37 pm

Is it Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver?

arkarian

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arkarian: 2015-07-03 01:41:33 pm

2015-07-03 01:41:18 pm

red chamber dream

that's it. the overall series is called legacy of kain. before the soul reaver games the was blood omen: legacy of kain which i sadly also haven't played

Opium

2015-07-03 01:46:07 pm

I think I'm gonna run by the retro store and see if they have SR on PSX. I'm in a gaming slump. I've started playing like 5 different games in the past couple days and couldn't get into any of them. I'm jonesin' pretty hard at this point.

arkarian

2015-07-03 01:58:01 pm

red chamber dream

i think you might like them. they're story-heavy and have a cool gothic feel, definitely unlike any other games that came out at the time

Opium

2015-07-03 03:01:33 pm

Success! Gotta love Game Force.

Turtle

2015-07-11 01:25:11 am

I like turtles.

So I'm almost done with Arkham Knight and if your name isn't arkarian ( Wink

) and you haven't played this yet it's probably worth your time. So good. And I'm saying that playing it on PC.

Poision Envy

2015-07-11 03:32:30 am

Club 27 Goals

so I caved and bought Elite: Dangerous since it's on sale on steam. I looked in my steam inventory and apparently I had some skins in CS:GO that were worth over $70 a pop, so I got $150 in my steam wallet and blew it on Elite Dangerous and a few other games I had my eye on (read: MMO garbage).