General video game discussion

[Gradine]

Big fan of Ishii, mostly through her Dropout stuff though. Does she voice act in any traditional cRPGs?

They voice femme-coded American accent Rook in Dragon Age: Veilguard. Otherwise she's mostly done some minor roles here and there, particularly in MMO/live-action games (Destiny 2, Fallout 76, WoW).

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah, just took many pieces to juggle for it all to be polished. In my current playthrough I decided to take out the foundry first before going after Gortash, and despite that I still got a message from the Elder Brain afterwards congratulating me on taking him down and bragging that it had taken out the foundry and eliminated all witnesses as a favour to me.

This seems like a new bug - twice I’ve dealt with the foundry before tackling Gortash and I’ve never had dodgy messages about it.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Currently playing the old Blade Runner point-and-click game on the Switch. It's enjoyable, does a good job at capturing the atmosphere of the movie while pulling in some plot points it skipped over from the book. However, some of the actions required to move the plot forward aren't always intuitive. I spent a while stuck because I didn't see a clue only a few pixels in size.

Back in NightCity

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She pulls my trigger
Got me up, all right
It's a danger, pretty
Here in Night City
Here in Night City
Got me up, all right (All right)
Here in Night City (Night City)

Like Skyrim and Dark Souls, I'll be returning to Night City for years and playthroughs to come. The world is compelling, and there's still stuff I haven't discovered.

 

[CleverNickName]

I played Winter Burrow over the holiday break--I got it as a gift from my partner, who probably heard about it through the Sweet Baby Inc chatter on some of the internet channels they follow (SBI was a consultant for this game.) It's a hand-drawn little survival game where you play the role of a mouse trying to fix up his home for winter. It's a great game for kids--cute character, cozy vibes, and a surprising amount of heart, and the survival mechanics aren't too stressful. (CW: there are spiders in the game, but you can turn them off in the Options menu if they creep you out too much.)

It took about 12 hours for me to beat the game from start to finish, and another 2 hours to complete all achievements. If you like chill, if you like cozy, and if you like hand-drawn art, check it out.

 

[Reynard]

I did not want to start a whole thread for this weird question, so...

Are there any folks on YouTube who make video game playthroughs as highly edited "movies" or "shows"? Like, if I want to watch someone play Skyrim but it is a STORY, not just a let's play, does that exist?

 

[MarkB]

I did not want to start a whole thread for this weird question, so...

Are there any folks on YouTube who make video game playthroughs as highly edited "movies" or "shows"? Like, if I want to watch someone play Skyrim but it is a STORY, not just a let's play, does that exist?

Depends on the level of story-ness you're looking for. Certainly some content creators do a fair amount of editing to keep things flowing. I like Many a True Nerd for his playthroughs.

The issue to bear in mind is that it's a really inefficient way for someone to make content, especially with YouTube's lousy monetisation these days. Not only are they getting less useful content per hour of game they play, they're also increasing the amount of editing time required to make a finished product - and if they're trying to tell a specific story, they probably can't even hand it off to someone else to do the editing.