[Maark Abbott]

Tiste Simeon, on 18 February 2021 - 06:50 PM, said:

Hello my brother wants to get Hades for his birthday and I said I'd get him one but I can't find a copy anywhere - tried Amazon, Nintendo and some game shops in the UK. Does anyone know why it might be so hard to find? I thought it was a new game...

If he owns a Switch, best bet is to get him some Nintendo Store credit and he can pick it up directly. There's no way right now to gift someone a copy unless Steam allows for it iirc (is it even on there? out of the loop me)

[Mentalist]

Maark Abbott, on 19 February 2021 - 08:45 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 18 February 2021 - 06:50 PM, said:

Hello my brother wants to get Hades for his birthday and I said I'd get him one but I can't find a copy anywhere - tried Amazon, Nintendo and some game shops in the UK. Does anyone know why it might be so hard to find? I thought it was a new game...

If he owns a Switch, best bet is to get him some Nintendo Store credit and he can pick it up directly. There's no way right now to gift someone a copy unless Steam allows for it iirc (is it even on there? out of the loop me)

Yes, Hades is on Steam.

[Tiste Simeon]

Maark Abbott, on 19 February 2021 - 08:45 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 18 February 2021 - 06:50 PM, said:

Hello my brother wants to get Hades for his birthday and I said I'd get him one but I can't find a copy anywhere - tried Amazon, Nintendo and some game shops in the UK. Does anyone know why it might be so hard to find? I thought it was a new game...

If he owns a Switch, best bet is to get him some Nintendo Store credit and he can pick it up directly. There's no way right now to gift someone a copy unless Steam allows for it iirc (is it even on there? out of the loop me)

Thanks I'll take a look!

[Malankazooie]

Just a general query for you guys: so, we're at the halfway point of Q1 2021. Anyone buy, or have been gifted, a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X yet?

[Aptorian]

Nope and given the global shortage of semiconductors I suspect many won't be getting one in 2021:

https://www.bloomber...d-game-consoles

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All that has dried up the spigot for smaller-volume buyers such as the makers of cars and gaming consoles: Nintendo Co., Sony and Microsoft Corp. have struggled to make enough Switches, PlayStations and Xboxes for about a year. The game hardware industry is bracing for supply to get worse before it gets better in 2021, potentially even affecting the next holiday season, people familiar with the matter say.

[Mentalist]

Blizzard is actually making a D2 remaster.

And it will be playable offline, and just like the StarCraft remaster, you can switch graphics from new to old on the fly, and UNLIKE War 3 Reforged, they aren't retroactively breaking the original.

Joyous times, when Acti-Blizz displays basic competence.

Also, Age of Empires II DE already has a new DLC entry in Steam DataBase

[Maark Abbott]

Tried master rank Kirin, I now have incurable stage ten terminal butthole corprus to the point even Divayth Fyr would say 'damn son'.

Good lord whoever programmed that piece of shit needs to be subjected to hot pokers in the kneepits.

[Mentalist]

Days Gone is coming to PC this spring, as the first in "a slate" of PlayStation Studios games to be ported.

Don't much care for the zombie-shooting, but this is still cool news.

[Cause]

Baldurs gate 3 looks amazing!

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Cause, on 25 February 2021 - 12:05 AM, said:

Baldurs gate 3 looks amazing!

Still no release date beyond EA first act, though I see they recently added Druid as a playable class (which 'among many other interesting abilities can turn into a burrowing death badger with glowing eyes'...).

'NPCs will react to particular animal forms, giving the example of chatting to bears when you're a bear. As a D&D game the Druids also come from one of their two traditional "circles", adding yet another customisation option.'

https://www.pcgamer....al-loaded-dice/

[Mentalist]

Sony's doing a 30 minute thing about upcoming games. 30 min, 10 games, 2 of them new ones.

If anyone's curious.

I'm gonna be out for a walk, since the weather's nice for the first time this week, gonna catch up later, but thought people might want a heads up.

[Malankazooie]

I'm going to have to catch a review of what was covered sometime later. The first thing the jumps to mind - more details about God of War: Ragnarok.

[Aptorian]

I won't bother to stay up for it. I'm pessimistic about this year, I expect anything and everything to get delayed or have content cut because of the pandemic.

Anything Next Gen will either get pushed to 2022 if possible or neutered so that they can make a PS4 version.

[Mentalist]

well, Kena and Solar Ash both continue looking pretty. Solar Ash is looking quite similar to "The Pathless", though, feels like someone at Sony Indie wing is quite partial to parkour exploration games.

That new indie game, Sifu looked okay. Nothing else really stands out, tbh.

[Malankazooie]

What'd you guys think of that Sifu footage from the Sony State of Play? I'm gonna follow this now, it looked pretty cool. Kung Fu cinema in full/perfect expression come to a video game?

Also, latest images from Halo Infinite. Looks a lot better (albeit just images), but still compared to that trailer where it looked like a Halo game on the Xbox 360. I'm guessing some hope has returned?

[Obdigore]

Maark Abbott, on 23 February 2021 - 08:42 AM, said:

Tried master rank Kirin, I now have incurable stage ten terminal butthole corprus to the point even Divayth Fyr would say 'damn son'.

Good lord whoever programmed that piece of shit needs to be subjected to hot pokers in the kneepits.

Lol Kirin isn't that bad compared to some of the others. Just wait for Raging Brachy.

[Obdigore]

Played the Outriders Demo over the weekend. That was fun. The powers seem nifty and stuff, but since so much of it is based on 'regaining health when killing enemies', I'm not sure how I feel about the boss fights, where you don't get that. Luckily my friend was the sniper/support class so he was able to heal us through it (to an extent, lots of time hiding from the boss) but still.

[Maark Abbott]

Obdigore, on 01 March 2021 - 01:35 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 23 February 2021 - 08:42 AM, said:

Tried master rank Kirin, I now have incurable stage ten terminal butthole corprus to the point even Divayth Fyr would say 'damn son'.

Good lord whoever programmed that piece of shit needs to be subjected to hot pokers in the kneepits.

Lol Kirin isn't that bad compared to some of the others. Just wait for Raging Brachy.

See now Raging Brachy was nowhere close to as bad as Kirin. We killed him on Monday night on our sixth attempt. My reasoning is thus:

Ragey B:

- big boi, big hitboxes, but sensible ones
- if you dodge improperly he will fuck up your day and you've only go you to thank
- literally an optional challenge to swing your big dick about after beating
- fast but not twitching due to cocaine intake

Fuck Horse:

- Brony fantasy
- Moveset is literally horseshit, disjointed hitbox lightning that zaps out of nowhere with no indicator or warning and his rage mode makes him immortal unless you can twat his horn somehow
- literally smashed ten lines of pure Colombian gold before you saw him
- all oert oyle, fuck you melee

In short, Raging Brachy felt fair throughout and any carts came about entirely due to player error. In the final attempt where we got him, we didn't cart once and didn't expend our vigorwasp free cart either.

Next on the agenda is Furious George or maybe Yian.

[Aptorian]

Guess who's excited about their new cardboard box?

Also I got an Xbox series X!

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[Malankazooie]

Use the money you were going to purchase a new game and instead get that tortured creature to a pet groomer. FFS SMH.