Heliocentrical

You will be waiting until the heat death of the universe then. Dark Souls uses steamworks for online match making for all three games. Just go ahead and buy Dark Souls 1 and 3, avoid 2 at all costs.

also i'm not usually one to defend valve because their customer service has sunken below EA levels, but you're missing out on basically everything since steam is the biggest digital content distributor in the PC market

If taking a stand against DRM and Valve's digital distribution monopoly means I miss out on a few games then so be it. I will not support Valve under any circumstance.

The images I posted are from Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1, which takes character positioning into account when it comes to tactics and weapons can have different attack patterns with some being unique to certain characters. Since turn based JRPGs don't seem to be your speed, what about Dark Souls?

Haven't played Dark Souls, I'm waiting for it to come to GOG first. I hate DRM and I want to support GOG as much as possible. Valve has too much of a monopoly over the digital distribution platform with Steam.

JRPGs are more like a puzzle of numbers rather than an action game. It's more about figuring out how to win in the next fight or how to beat a really tough boss.

Yes I've played games that were a puzzle of numbers except the combat was more nuanced then what a typical JRPG would offer. Take the Fallout series for instance. While I'm not particularly fond of how the combat functions overall in those games you can at least move around, get different functioning weapons, buff ahead of time and take on more than 3-5 enemies at any given time. By contrast most JRPGs are pure number crunchers with non of these basic features I mentioned. What's the difference between a dagger and halberd? Well the halberd does more damage and that's it. I don't even like Fallout 1 & 2 yet I still rank them higher in overall complexity compared to JRPGs. That's how basic JRPGs are and I find their combat to be worse then Fallout 1 & 2's .

I'm Agnostic, IMHO you can't know whether god exists or not and I think that sort of debate misses the point of what religion is about entirely. Sure it might mention something about the afterlife but I believe that religion has more so to do with a way of life then anything else. Religion is about teaching a way of life, it's values and it's stories as a means of conveying those values. From my perspective whether god does/doesn't exist is completely irrelevant.

*JRPG Combat

Just no, I'd rather go watch a let's play at that point and spare myself the pain. What on earth do JRPG designers think combat is? Your characters can't move and your actions look completely identical to one another. There is nothing interesting about this combat system. I'm so glad that the more recent Final Fantasy titles have addressed this and are working on fixing it. I actually really liked the combat in Final Fantasy 12 because it felt much closer to actual combat. It's not ideal mind you but I still consider it to be an overall improvement compared to the other Final Fantasy games' combat systems. I'm also looking forward to FF15 and the FF7 remake since it looks like I'll be able to play them.

But it's so hard... All I ever want is for people to be happy. They aren't asking for any trouble. They never did. But I made a mistake and it seems that no matter what I do, I'm not going to get what I want. Every time I try and get what I want, shit happens. I long to start over. New people, new scenery, to leave all my reputation behind. But I can't. In a few days, I'll be going to school and everyone is going to ask me what's happened. The least I can do now is to act like I'm new. Give myself a new hair style, or... Buy new clothes. If people are going to start taking everything away from me then fine. I'll find some other identity then.

Alright Jeb, you do you then.

if I were in the same position as you there would've been hell to pay. In fact I was in a similar position to yours where I had every single aspect of control taken away from me. They could never just leave me alone no matter how nice I was, no matter how much I went along with it. That's all I ever wanted, was for them to fuck off and leave me be. But no, they kept prodding me and poking me just to see how much hold over my life they had and they were never satisfied with how much power they already had. Eventually I had to decide whether I would continue being a slave to these people or take my life back. I choose the latter and I cannot emphasize how I hated everything I had to do to get it back. I couldn't bear to acknowledge my options, the fact that I had to choose between hurting people or being stomped on made me want to cry. But if I didn't wouldn't be here talking to you. Had I chosen the former I would've been far too afraid to talk to anyone. Before I made my decision I agonized over why someone would be upset with me even if I did nothing wrong, even if there wasn't a person shouting at me to begin with. It had gotten so bad I imagined people yelling at me daily, at this point it was something my own head was doing to me. It would've never ended had i not chosen to fight for myself. I did what I had to do out of survival and by no means was it pleasant. But I assure I did survive. Please, don't be afraid do what is necessary so you don't lose yourself.

I'm losing everything. My possessions, my money, my emotions, my mind, my trust in people, and trust from others. I don't know how to feel anymore. I want to start over... Wake up and be in another place in another time. But I can't... I don't know what I did to deserve all this... I must be a terrible person to have everything happen this way to me. But I've been trying so hard to be good. I don't understand.

Then be a terrible person Jeb and own it. There's nothing wrong with giving assholes a taste of their own medicine. Fight back, if they can't love/respect you then make them fear you. Make it seem like you could snap at any moment and that they'll be on the receiving end. That's all they ever deserve and you make them regret every minute of it.

Do you know why? And is it something you WANT to change? Sorry for my prying. XP You can ignore me.

To be honest I don't know, I've felt jaded before but this is different. I've never felt so genuinely destructive and vile before.

I've been feeling just bitter, cold and sour towards everything lately. I've had a few instances this week where I've made women almost cry just by talking to them or what I perceive to be just talking to them if that makes sense. My confidence is effectively dead at this point and I'm not sure if I care about changing my attitude or not. I mean that's just how I am naturally. If I'm being nice then I probably fucking hate you and want to spend as little amount of time conversing with you as possible.

I knew I was an anarchist.

DEATH TO AUTHORITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously though this site is full of shit. Yesterday it said I was on the Libertarian Left and now it's saying I'm on Libertarian Right. Also what do questions like "Astrology accurately explains many things." or "Abstract art that doesn't represent anything shouldn't be considered art at all." have to do with politics?

Holy shit, I cannot keep a straight face looking at this. Please someone help me, I can't breath.

 

Right on my street. It was a loud as fuck bang. XD

:I Didn't get power back for a while.

Soo... the weather is windy as all fuck.

If a tree falls does it make a sound? Jeb says it did.

Although I don't like it, its not my business what happens at someone's bedroom. Its just the process and the way its "given to us" that I have something against. But that's not that important tbh, there are a lot more important things around us.

Why do you care for something as cold and detached as sex? Sex in of itself has no depth. At this point it's just another commodity that some countries choose not to participate in for "morale" reasons. When you really think about it fucking a prostitute is about as mundane as buying groceries.

...I may have an unhealthy nostalgic love for first Quake.

I'm actually finding that I like Quake 1 more than I like Doom. Quake 1 feels thematically cohesive whereas Doom's theme feels like someone just smashing together the things they like and while there's nothing wrong with that I really do appreciate games with thematic vision.

Oh I just remembered another one.

*Upgrade Systems

They're awkwardly crammed in everywhere in modern games and I hate it. They're usually incredibly minimal so what's the point in having them? Also Super Bunnyhop has an excellent video about upgrade systems which I totally agree with and will post here.

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I have quite a few pet peeves with video games that I figured I would just make a thread solely dedicated to them as these pet pet peeves are much more tangential.

*Secrets in FPSs

In FPSs like Doom I've found that purely beneficial secrets such as more ammo/health packs/armor really do fuck with the overall pacing of the game and as result they significantly reduce my overall enjoyment of a game. If I find all of the purely beneficial secrets in a given level I'm basically untouchable and there are so many purely beneficial secrets in a doom level that I become untouchable far too often for my liking. I've done it so often that it's become boring and unchallenging. Now I'm actively going out of my way to avoid secrets. I really wish Doom's secrets had more secret levels or alternate paths like how Crash Bandicoot. I know I'm comparing a platformer to an FPS but I feel the same overall principle could still be applied

*Hamfisted Story Elements

Hamfisted story elements can really get under my skin. I hate it when I the player can figure out how the narrative in a video game will play out. One of the most recent instances for me that I can think of was with Suchong from Bioshock 1. For whatever reason the same game that had interesting characters such as J.S Steinman and Sander Cohen couldn't think of a way to make Suchong interesting. So the game decided to go with the most immediate shock value available and have Suchong

so that that Suchong could pretend to interesting. This element of Suchong's character was so poorly thought out and hamfisted to the extreme that it made me think worse of Bioshock 1 for it. In fact the entire latter half of Bioshock 1 is just a mess but I digress.

*Fictional words that do not explain how to pronounce them.

There needs to be a rule that if a video game provides a fictional word in text it must also provide how that word is pronounced if it's going to be spoken at some point. I'm still incredibly hung up on how I pronounced Skellige for the first twenty minutes of the Witcher 3. I had no idea that's it's pronounced skell-egg-gu and not skell-egg until the game told me later down the line. That was just annoying.

Oh, hey - no suicide pacts here, you two.

Oh alright, *Heliocentrical stuffs the shotgun up his shirt* I have better applications for my shotgun anyway. Speaking of which does anyone have any spare grenades I could borrow? No reason in particular.

Maybe if the spread is good you can kill us both at the same time.

I dunno, the shotgun is telling me it only fires in one direction. Should I take a match to the buckshot, cross our fingers and see what happens?

"Oh hey! You think X game is best one in series, this view is different than mine, UNFRIEND!" WHO THE HELL DOES THAT KIND OF SHIT?!

ME, I WILL FUCKING CUT YOU IF YOU SAY SKYRIM IS BETTER THAN MORROWIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well that's what younger me would've said.

Somebody just kill me now. -.- Repeatedly. Make sure I'm really dead.

Well I was going to off myself sooner or later, I guess I could use the company. It wouldn't be much trouble to load this extra shotgun shell I had lying around. Killing two birds with one stone really or more like a thousand because the shells' are buckshot but I digress. You first or I?

@Rarity: I have to say, your programming work just... freaking astounds me. XD I really wish I could do shit like that.

I once wrote my own control scheme for Unity because the one Unity had implemented can't be rebound in game and just all around sucked. I converted the keycodes to strings, saved them in playerprefs and that was pretty much it but the amount of functionality I had just gained was astounding. Let me put it this way if I felt like binding a function to the num lock or system requirements key in game I could totally do that now. It was an impressive amount of work that I did all by myself with no help.

This really was a weird/disturbing episode. Like the boomerang, it came out of nowhere.

I can't remember what exactly did the boomerang do? Did it give everyone random personalities or opposite personalities?

Also all of Ed, Edd n Eddy's episodes are weird/disturbing; that's what makes them so great . While I can't remember any of the episodes by name I do remember what went on in most of them. My personal favorite Ed, Edd n Eddy's episodes are the one where Ed turns into a monster and the episode where the Edds fight robots in the junkyard. The cursed phone, the going up episode and the episode where Ralph challenges Eddy to a duel with fish were pretty good too. I can't really think of an episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy that I didn't like.

Morrowind and Planescape Torment, you can beat either of these games in one sitting provided you know what you're doing . I've considered writing up a speedrunning guide specifically for PS:T because I know it inside and out now that I've beaten it. Almost all of the quests you do are purely optional and I believe it's actually beneficial to do all them at the last minute due to the way PS:T distributes EXP. Since you get different characters at different points of the game odds are that once you find that one particular character you'll be 2-3 levels above that character.

You hit the nail on the head there, you've got the right attitude for dealing with fundamentalists. I can't tell you how much fun I've had over the years using the old "you know what they say about those that preach the hardest" routine on people utterly convinced by their own righteous exactitude. The same principle works hilariously effectively on homophobes. I've had absolutely awe-inspiring trainwrecks of conversations with people that resulted in them becoming genuinely furious at my implying that their macho heterosexual insistence was more for their own benefit than anyone else. If you can't convince yourself then you can absolutely try to convince everybody else! I know the whole self-loathing homo shtick is an absolute cliche, but it still works against people of limited intelligence. I'm actually quite surprised by their seeming lack of understanding of what I'm subjecting them to, and how relatively easily they could counter my disingenuous trolling by letting me know that they know, if you catch my drift. It's an entirely one-sided and utterly mean-spirited joke that never gets old.

 

YOU CAN'T CATCH ME GAY THOUGHTS

Looking back on my post I can't help but notice that I'm basically acknowledging my own hypocrisy here. As someone who's genuinely lied to himself about who he is I can sort of relate to where those people come from if only to a basic degree. It's a self-perpetuating cycle of denial where your actual self is in conflict with your ideal self. You know that you're not who you say you are so you effectively turn it into a competition within your mind in order to exhibit your most idealized trait of yourself. If you have a massive ego problem like I do then you can't bear the thought that you didn't know exactly who you are at all times.

For a long time I've had this idealized version of myself where I was effectively Sherlock Holmes. The very definition of an independent man who was dedicated solely to his work and wasn't held back by some women/partner. As I found out that I wasn't actually Asexual like Sherlock Holmes and in fact had a preference for women to the point of considering the possibility of being in a relationship with a women. It was so crushing that I refused to acknowledge the notion and went out of my way saying just how Asexual I was. I'm still having issues accepting the idea that wanting a partner is okay and that my independence won't be destroyed because of it.

I hope that made sense, I'm not at all justifying the homophobic behavior that you're describing here. In all honesty I find this whole thing to be kinda sad that we just can't accept who we are regardless of it being self-imposed or environmental.

I think I played the Sims 1 waaaaay ages ago when I was a wee little ankle-biter. XP But, I haven't heard the soundtrack recently. I've been playing The Sims 3 lately though, does that count?

Sims 3 has got bits and pieces of Sims 1's soundtrack but it's not as good as Sims 1's soundtrack. Sims 1's soundtrack was scored by Jerry Martin and his work is excellent. I found a video of the whole Sims 1 OST a while back so this should give you a feel for Jerry Martin's work. Particularly All the build mode songs which start at 40:08 and end at 1:06:05.

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I had a fiddle with the LMMS program. It's really nice. I created a score in MuseScore, turned it into a midi file and gave it to LMMS. For some reason the sound seems better in that program, dunno why but I had a play around with the effects and stuff and ooohhh my gosh this is amazing, holy fuck.

If you thought you couldn't get dizzy from music... you're wrong. XD Chuck a pulsator effect on that thing and woaaaah... the music phases from ear to ear real quickly and repeatedly and wow... is this what it's like to consume illegal substances? XD

Anyway, this was my test song I suppose, just a piano song. But I really want to do something with more intruments now. That can be my next creation.

Thank you very much Helio for this. ^-^

You're welcome Jeb , glad you like LMMS. I'm getting a very Sims 1 vibe from your piano song, it's really good. Have by chance heard any of the Sims 1 soundtrack?