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Hi everyone. I was looking for a new community to settle down in and found this place via Google. I enjoy RPGs and adventure games, particularly games where your choices affect the story like Mass Effect and Detroit: Become Human. I got into Shin Megami Tensei games recently and I'm currently playing through Devil Survivor: Overclocked on my New 3DS. Aside from gaming, I also like to binge-watch older TV shows like The Sopranos and The Wire, but I haven't had much time to do that ever since I got into the SMT-binge. Oh well. Feel free to ask me any question so that we can know each other better. 🙂 I hope to see you guys around soon.

Welcome to VGR, we're happy to have you.

I gotta give props to the people who make these wild creations in Minecraft, especially taking 6 years of their life to make something such as this. This person decided to make an as close as possible replica of Hogwarts as they could. The creator used the likes of video footage of the movies and photos as well. Source: https://www.gamesradar.com/this-incredible-minecraft-hogwarts-build-took-6-years-to-make/ Clip of the build:

I don't mind quicktime events that aren't frustratingly long and annoying. I can handle them sometimes, but it's when they go on too long or don't stop and have annoying checkpoints. Or are the simon says style quicktime events where they have different levels of difficulty. That's not fun for me.

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I'm still looking for where or how to get all The Powerpuff Girls cartoon in one collection. There's no way I can never get tired or bored by the cartoon. How they fight monsters is still so fresh in my mind like I watched it few minutes ago.

This is where our individual differences and preferences kicks in. I have been bored to death with what EA have been doing with their FIFA games for years. Now comes the concept behind the development of Rocket League. The difference it's got from actual football game is what makes it a continual play game for me.

If you ever played simulation games for too long, they always tend to bore you out. It's why I don't spend too much time on them. The DLC was a good escape that adds a little bit of fresh air into the game. It's only Microsoft Flight Simulator that never bored me no matter how much I played it.

Some video games doesn't just click with you no matter what you do or how many times that you try to force play it. It's happened to me with quite a few number of games and I knew right away that there's no point in try to push it.

I never found it any easier either when I played it. I hope you're making progress? I'm have been playing Gran Turismo 7 all day.

Hey there. welcome to VGR, enjoy your stay, it's a fun place around here parts. 😉

Sounds great. 😄 I am enjoying the SMT games so far, so I'm glad to see more fans around. No kidding. Devil Survivor in particular is consuming the most of my time so far with its annoyingly tricky victory conditions. I can't even rely on the typical Atlus paid DLCs to boost my level up for an easier game because there is none for DeSu. It reached a point where I just feel like giving up on cracking the skills during battles and just get it over with by defeating the enemies ASAP, regardless of whether I've succeeded in cracking the skills. Thanks. Looking forward to seeing you too. 🙂

Welcome to VGR! We're glad you found us! Looking forward to seeing you around the forum.

Welcome to vgr, if you like Shin Megami Tensei games i'm sure you feel right at home here as many of us do. Just promise you'll keep some time left over to post on vgr because Smt games can be quite the time sinkers.

Long term members will likely know how I feel about this already, but for the rest, games with no difficulty options are stupid. People have the right to get want they want out off the games they buy. If someone is more interested in story and exploration over combat and challenge, they should be able to tailor that experience. Likewise if somebody finds a game to be too easy and less engaging as a result, the are within thier rights to make it more challenging and satisfying to play. Contrary to what the "Git Gut" pricks say, having difficulty options creates challenging experiences in games, not deny them it. Having these options available also puts developers in a place where they actually have to put the effort onto all these aspects of the game, so the game itself is just generally better for it. Better stories, more interesting game worlds, better gameplay, only good thigs for everyone can come out of games having difficulty options. However, focusing only on difficulty for a game with no difficulty options usually makes a game worse. When making a game as hard as possible in this mantra, the game becomes cheap and unempowering to play. When trying to hard to make it easy, the player engagement suffers and the game becomes boring and and you care less about what's going on. In some types of games like platformers, some bullet hell games, puzzle games, multiplayer, interactive narratives or games made for young children, it does make sense to not have difficulty options, but otherwise the only reasons developers don't include difficulty options is laziness, sheer arrogance or both. Fuck games that do this for no good reason. They are worse than other, similar games just for doing this and also worse as a result of doing this as they are made by people who do not have thier priorities straight from minute one. It's not like I don't enjoy a challenge, for example I can't play Horizon Zero Dawn on any difficulty other that Ultra Hard anymore, but because that game can be made playable for people only interested in the story and exploring the open world, it's a better game than anything from From Software (Even thier name is annoying, do they seriously think that's funny?). I would be more forgiving of thier games if difficulty was genuine instead of the cheap and cryptic "trial and error" approach they use instead. They are sluggish, crippling and limiting in terms of control, something that is again done on purpose create a false challenge, with enemy combat strengths and weaknesses and aspects of the the environment that serve as beginners traps. Whereas in Horizon ZD, you are given all the info you could want about the enemies as soon as you scan them, offered a wide variety of weapons and combat strategies and the game is empowering in the way it controls with swift, purposeful movement and instant, connected reactions. They do that and still mange to make a challenging game. The benfit of that is that every triumph and every mistake you own complexly, unlike when I played Demon Souls and Bloodbourne where I either felt robbed or "got lucky" that time after every fight. I hated it.

I've already pre-ordered this on the PS5 because it contained a bonus quest available on the platform. Plus, open world magic school; I'd say it's about time. I'm not a big HP fan either (I find the latter half of the movies kinda boring with their YA romance/drama), but just the idea of being able to attend a magic school like Hogwarts kinda draws me in... plus I always found the discussions of "which House do you belong in?" interesting (I was often slotted into Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff), so I'm glad that we can finally get slotted into those Houses for real this time.

I generally don't tell people I watch anime, because even in modern communities, especially Discord, people still make fun of you for being a "weeb." It really doesn't hep that I'm also a big visual novel fanatic, and VNs tend to be labeled as "weeb games with naughty anime girls," when nothing could be further from the truth.

Currently playing through Devil Survivor: Overclocked. It's a pretty challenging SRPG. The story's not bad though.

I Googled "video game forums" when I was looking for a community to interact with. 🙂

Excited for EoS since it's game instead of the usual current mint and milk projects. Hope the project gonna fly~

It depends on which distro you’re using. Ubuntu, Mint, and elementary are pretty set it and forget it. If we’re talking about Arch and Gentoo, then that’s a different story.

Haha I think its always good to try something to see if its something you're into 😄 What did you try to work on anyway? Thanks btw ^.^ Yay the trailer is my first attempt at making a trailer so its kind of rough , thanks for being gentle on me and not roasting too much haha. Yesir , it's a little different than normal NFTs since these aren't sold by us but collected by the players who get them from a drop table in game and we offer free minting on 2 different blockchains so its no cost for the players. They can buy them, sell them, use them, collect them etc. They are unique because only NFTs are visible on your character outside of its original appearance. You can get "virtual items" but they just provide attributes to your stats and not the visible appearance. Its like this because I had the characters made from scratch and the NFTs so whenever you make them you have to create animations for each individual hero and item so it would be nearly impossible to recreate virtual items in the same way. In terms of blockchains and NFTs there's a tonnnn of bad actors out there.. It was a new phase and a bubble so it attracted a bunch of really negative intentions which drew even more negative attention haha. NFTs need real use cases and have a ton of potential, I chose to use NFTs because I plan to make a few other games once this one is completed, by using NFTs it allows players who own an NFT in one game to use it in another game! So lets say you have a favorite sword or pet in 1 game you can transfer it to another game by just having the NFT in your blockchain wallet. It allows for easier development by pulling "metadata" and just adding it to the new DB of a different game instead of actually having to recode it into the hard code of the game itself! The blockchain and NFTs are super useful if you actually use them for their intended purposes. We aren't even offering a "cryptocurrency" for the games right now and may never do so. Right now the focus is simply on integrating a useful technology and hope that people enjoy playing the games we make ^.^ Thanks for the wishes Kane 😛 Well the Prototype will be live within the next 72 hours based off current development phases, but its just a prototype which is like a live public version of Beta but people can still collect NFTs / learn the game while helping us better balance and stress test the servers. Polishing hmm. Well the main game itself will go live in November and it has enough work to keep an army of developers busy xD We have 95% of the main game map complete in terms of design and the backend will be complete once we launch the Proto. We actually made the proto so we could design the backend and blockchain portions without waiting until the entire game was completed. It was a better way to streamline production / test as we go so when we launch the main game its perfected as far as it can be in real time. A roadmap is a little different for us as we are new to it, we ended up having to work backwards on our "roadmap" in so many ways since we didn't anticipate the workloads or workflow of certain aspects of the game design 😄 Right now I'm actually designing the main games crafting tables, drop chances, etc etc since I'm already finished with the prototype, the developer is just finishing up blockchain stuff for the prototype and then he will switch over to the main game with me as soon as we launch the proto. If anyone wants free access to the game Id be more than happy to get some accounts created with pre activated passes so you guys dont have to do the blockchain stuff ^.^ P.S I didn't expect any replies so I wasn't following the thread XD

This project has a lot of potential. I'm excited to try it out. And follow it for a long time.

To be honest, if I didn't know what you guys were talking about, I'd be as confused as @The Blackangel.

Alien Isolation Outlast & Outlast 2 Forbidden Siren Dead Space Resident Evil 2 Remake and RE 7 The Evil Within Dying Light

There is a PC port of TLOU Part 1 (the new game) coming.

I'd have to disagree with you there in some regard - the original release of Battlefront 2 in 2017 was full of bugs in addition to the microtransactions and yes the gameplay is fun but then it does become repetitive as well.

As a company, when you're dealing with millions of dollars and you have a lot to lose, pride tends to go out the window very quickly. They'll probably have their back and forth subtle disses but I'm certain Microsoft won't make any decisions that hamper them financially just to spite Sony.

Modern Rockstar/ Take 2 interactive are the definition of greed - they're not really that much better than EA. Most people here would agree with you because we've seen them doing a lot of crap in the last few years/

The CEO of the company backed it up publicly and even criticised gamers who are not in support of it. Big time silly man.

Well it's Pong.... I don't think I'd have much more to say about it.

A distro or distribution is just a different version of Linux. Since Linux is free & open source, anyone can make their code and alter it into their own version of Linux and call it whatever they want, that's essentially a distro. There are many different Linux distros from; Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Arch Linux, Red Hat, OpenSuse, Gentoo, Fedora and more. A lot of them do much of the same, as they replicate how Windows machines work with their GUI (guided user interface). But it's much different when it comes to installing apps and all that. I think of it like having different flavors of Linux. With Windows for example, they are closed source I believe, where only MS and certain licenced companies can put out their version of the OS, and very little can modify it. With Linux, you can modify pretty much anything you want with it. I like to also think of it as anyone being able to make their own operating system. I really like Linux, because it allows you to get away some from Windows and it's horrible update options and other problems. The only downside with Linux is that it's kinda tough to get games to work proper. It can be done, but it's not always easy. Thankfully Steam and other marketplaces are starting to support Linux gaming.

There was an arcade unit but only in japan. I'm not really harping on the game for being short because, like you said, it's in the same ball park in terms of game time as Time Crisis or House of the Dead. I'm harping on it for being shit! for the sake of perspective I'm going to tell a little story. I always remember as a kid I was at a holiday park that had an arcade area and in there was as a machine for Time Crisis 2. I was playing it with one of my brothers and we were doing pretty well. We'd gotten to maybe half way through where we, inevitably, started to run out of lives and continues. It wasn't often you see people get this far and by this point a small crowd had gathered around the machine, I figured it was just some people waiting in line but then, without us asking, some of them actually started to put in money out of their own pocket so we could keep playing! Thanks to the contributions from our unexpected sponsors we ended up beating the game. So why did these people pay for someone else to play an arcade machine? It wasn't because of us, it was because they wanted to see the rest of the game, to know what happens. I know this because later in the week I saw the same thing happen several times. That's the mark of great when you can get people even for a short while, that invested in it. Now @Kane99, I don't really know what the arcade version of Resident Bitch Code 2 Balls X (I can't be bothered to remember the title anymore) was like but I'm going to a wild guess that it didn't get the reaction that I observed with Time Crisis 2. I mean if you were in an arcade and you watched some play Code Veronica's Zombie Lap dance would you pay to see level 4? Almost certainly not. If the arcade was even half decent money maker they'd have surely released it outside Japan. So fuck Capcom's President's Lively Wasteland Survival Guide, both versions, Hard copy and Paperback!

Let's put it this way: I'm sorry I asked.

And that's perfectly fine.

@ForwardSlashDownPoke If you continue your homophobic rants, I will recommend you for a ban. I am a lesbian, and your fear and bigotry is not something I will tolerate. Also you will not attack a staff member and call them stupid. Becoming a staff member is not an easy thing to come by. We are chosen by well thought our, intelligent contributions to topics. We are not chosen by lottery. And to quote @Crazycrab either post your sources (that are NOT politically biased) or Get The Fuck Out. We will not allow personal attacks, homophobia, transphobia, or bigotry of any kind in any way. Consider this another severe warning. You're on thin ice right now. You don't want to fall in the water.

I've got no need to embarrass you, as it appears you're quite capable of doing that yourself without any help. I literally need not say anything. I'm not presenting any kind of argument or debate here, I'm just giving you a very simple instruction from mod' to member. Don't spread hate on these boards. All I'm asking you to do is not insult fellow members and keep your sexism and homophobia off VGR, something that shouldn't tough for such a well educated individual. Now, can you do that or not? And, try to loosen up a little if possible? I understand you're a bit sensitive (clearly), but try to relax, and thus not get triggered so easily.

Dude I could care less about your theories as well. I posted facts about conspiracies. You aren't trained in law; you're a video game forum moderator. I just posted facts about a recent "conspiracy" that took place just a few days ago. You're so fucking stupid you don't even know what a conspiracy is and nobody spread any "homophobia" on these boards -- LITERALLY FUCKING AT ALL EVER. What you are saying is that you are some left wing piece of complete utter trash who is having a meltdown because I criticized literal drag queen lard asses dressing up in drag and dancing in front of children while being protected by armed militias of violent left wing retards who should be in prison. I get banned from every single left wing video gaming board and I have more to offer this board that 10 versions of some left wing clown like you combined. If you'd like to debate me out in public on LIVE radio, I would embarrass you in front of all of your clown friends. You have zero authority to warn anyone as I own my own business, radio show, video gaming forum, have multiple world records, straight A's in college, and 57 competitive gaming #1 ranks. All little clowns like you do is hide behind a computer like a little ho and run your mouth about republicans in an internet bubble. As soon as somebody criticizes your PROVABLY FALSE beliefs, you have a little hissy fit and a meltdown then try to ban the opposition like Hitler. No need to ban me, bitch. I would be more than happy to stop posting at this left wing shithole voluntarily if your shitty ass left wing website (that has literally no viewers) does not even tolerate Republican perspectives. You're a fucking loser ass dirtbag. You'll have like 16 regular posters on your board with thousands of registrants. You are a clown... And I will actually sue if I continue to go to VIDEO GAME message boards and keep getting threatened by mods. Consider your punk ass warned with a discrimination lawsuit.

I could care less about your conspiracy theory's. Gay people exist, and if you can't handle that reality, find your own way to deal with it. One think I won't allow though is homophobia on the boards. There are people (including staff members) who grace these threads who are on the spectrum, but even if there weren't, hate has no place here. Consider yourself warned.

It's not ridiculous it all; in fact: it's a pretty normal and basic conquering tactic that goes back literally centuries if not thousands of years to get warriors and men to learn musical instruments and the arts of femininity so that when the population in which they dwell is abused by authoritarian regimes, the men do not resist the abuse. I've mentioned in other topics how human beings can have their minds "erased", or fractured, and then have a new personality sort of implanted via MK Ultra (CIA Mind Control) techniques; and more and more people aren't simply waking up one day and "deciding" that they are queer, or a 3 year old boy "deciding" he is a female one day. This stuff is factually being pushed onto the populace, although its debatable how much and to what extent the content is being pushed. Even just last night I looked at right wing journalist Andy Ngo's Twitter and there was a fairly outrageous display of full grown men in drag queen strip tease dance shows having a large drag event where they were teaching literally children how to give the drag people tips like a stripper, and antifa were guarding the event with an armed militia with AR-15's, etc. Is this country serious about this stuff? That is pure decadence at its finest, and if and when the country collapses, don't say you weren't warned because the moral decline and the decadence comes before the collapse. The big lie is that you are being sold some sort of ridiculous "progress", when in fact humanity has likely already gone through various phases of a build up to high levels of technological achievement only to face a great catastrophe (whether it is natural or planned); and then they have to restart everything again. Also known as the great reset and very similar to how there were actually 5 versions of "NEO" before the one in the original Matrix trilogies. Yes, there are conspiracies. And yes there are conspiracies all the time. I study law and conspiracies happen on the daily. All a "conspiracy" is, is when 2 or more people collude in order to commit a crime -- similar in a way to contract law. Yes, yes, yes there are "conspiracies" -- but the various intelligence agencies have convinced people that there's no such thing as a conspiracy and what a ridiculous idea the notion is. ANTIFA plots conspiracies in writing right on Twitter on a constant basis. This is an uncontested fact. Some of my knowledge is also well ahead of the 21st century, which would technically make me ahead of you; so good luck with that one. Trying to prop up a society that is going to a very GENERALIZED and cookie cutter process of collapse via decadence and moral decline is not some sort of way of traveling into the future. This awesome 21st century future you're bragging about is going to feature your local neighborhood lemings in bread lines after the collapse while things head towards a banana Republic like Venezuela. And chili dogs will, of course, be 200,000 dollars a piece, but since we are dealing with the grand "future" of humanity -- inflation will be so downright spectacular and wonderful in the 21st century version of America that chili dogs will increase in price by the hour (just like they do in Venezuela as of August 29th, 2022). And if you don't like chili dogs being 17 billion dollars, or whatever form of currency they have after a collapse, then snitches will rat you out as an enemy of the state and a person will likely be placed on the terrorist watch list.

If I were a superhero, I'd probably be a fry cook, then one day I slipped on some greasy patty that fell on the floor, and I got stabbed by a dimension travelling scorpion the wandered near the patty on the floor, I'd be named SCORPION MAN (totally original yeah?) 🤣

That's ridiculous. More people come out these days because the human race (or at most of us) know better than we used to and understand that's it's perfectly normal and aren't threatened by the fact it's more accepted. That's the "Captain Obvious" part. There's no agenda, there's no conspiracy, just people living thier lives in a way that doesn't hurt you, so either join us in the 21st century or get left behind.

More people are identifying as LGBTQ because it is likely an intentional push (via the media machine and their cohorts) by the left. I don't watch any Matt Walsh, but I would imagine he is probably pointing out Captain Obvious type stuff, whether people want to hear it or not.

Oops I became a supervillain on accident xD

Another deal breaker is games with drm or require you to always be online. Especially if it's a single player game. I never understood why drm is a thing. I know it's meant to stop people from sharing and downloading these games for free. But I think it hurts more than anything. Because when that games servers are shut down, you can't play it. So I never liked drm and stuff like it.

Oh yeah, getting stuck somewhere when there's no clear path. I've been there with many games. I hate having to get out a walkthrough for a game to figure out what to do next. But if it's something I just can't figure out on my own, and I have sat there for a while trying to figure it out, I'll use a walkthrough just to get to the next point. But then I always find myself relying on the walkthrough for the next parts too.

Not a 100% deal breaker, but a major negative for me is when a game practically requires looking at external sources of information because the in-game guidance is so poor. People moan about hand-holding, but there's a line between that and having you wander around for hours, re-exploring old areas accomplishing nothing in a vague hope to decipher what the developer was thinking, if they'd actually put much thought into that bit.

PS5 might be scarce, but I've seen lots of people here in my locality selling it's fairly used version, which is close to $1,000 in price around $900 for PS5. Check the link below to see one of them listed at jiji.ng: Jiji.ng/PS5

This semi-conductor shortage is long reaching nightmare. I was at a job interview this past week with an engineering firm that manufactures refuse and recycling collection vehicles. OK, dumpster trucks and bin lorries, but this place was struggling to acquire components to meet orders for the same reason games consoles and PC component manufactures are struggling.