u/Slippery_Williams

EDIT: yeah yeah I get it humans are the real invasive species, just humour me

I’m watching a documentary on Ringneck parakeets that basically took over areas of London, originally being pets that escaped and basically took over things, pushing other native birds out of nesting spots, hogging the bird feeders etc and it got me thinking

What country or area do you think has the most delicate ecosystem that could be absolutely ruined and thrown off balance if you introduced many breeding pairs of any animal into them? What country and what animal do you think would have the biggest effect in a few years?

My fave tv show of all time crossed with one of my fave games ever. I’m replaying the game again and never get tired of hearing Johnathon Frakes, Micheal Dorn or John DeLancie

Would have loved to have Brent Spiner or Patrick Stewart in too, what roles do you think they could have played? I love getting a Skirmisher with Worf’s voice or a Marina Sirtis Reaper

EDIT: if they make xcom 3 it better damn well have the cast of Frasier doing the voices

EDIT: wow this question really hit a note with people. I guess beating an arcade game is a big achievement when you are in and around your teens, it was for me

Back in the 90s at a holiday resort me and some of the other kids there would get together to play the 4 player Simpsons arcade game over the week or two we were there. Eventually one day we brought enough spare change to keep our characters alive long enough to finally get to the last boss and beat mr burns and see the end credits screen

I use touch or trackpad which work fine, a two finger press is right click but 3 fingers opens the keyboard and 4 the menu. I’m trying to play Baldur’s gate via my iPad and it works great but I can’t middle click to rotate the camera

Is there a way to configure this or at least have a separate key on the screen specifically to hold when I want middle click to be held? Thank you

I can do virtually everything by just tapping the screen with the setting on pointer to touch mode or trackpad mode, right clicking with a two finger tap. All I can’t do is rotate the camera as I’m not seeing a button to press on the hud, the game says it is middle click and a 3 finger or 4 finger tap brings up the keyboard or game menu

Anyone able to help me find a way to rotate the camera? I’m fairly new to using steam link so sorry if it’s an easy solution

Only got vague memories of seeing bits of it on late night tv and obviously remember the well known ending shot, but that last act was absolutely exhausting in a great way. You can definitely see the late 50s style of movie characters just talking to each other and scientists, theorising, discussing and following up leads style you’d expect to see at a drive in movie and I’d bet money the ‘THEY’RE COMING!’ old guy was a direct reference/homage to the original

Really neat to see a slower paced movie where people just logically and emotionally discuss stuff, then seeing it as the transition point between movies like that and the shock grotesque body horror of 80s as things start kicking off. It is slow and ‘mundane’ for most of the 2 hour running time but very engaging as the characters feel very realistic and the weird grotesque scifi alien stuff sprinkled in hits harder because of it

Even though everyone knows ‘that’ ending shot, it was still really chilling after watching everything what he went through, his friend’s emotional breakdown as he screams at her and the dead silence over the credits was gut wrenching. Plus seeing all the school kids being bussed into the city and told its time for a nap was absolutely grim. Reminded me of the scene where he hopefully runs towards the ship docking thinking they’ve found an escape but then looks defeated when he sees them loading pods into it

It’s an incredibly oppressive, hopeless movie in the best way and genuinely shocked me in parts as the weirdness of the dog monster came out of absolutely nowhere and I completely forgot the scene where the lady lead falls apart in his arms and melts away after falling asleep. The dog monster is just a regular dog in a rubber mask and looks silly in a vacuum, but it’s so uncanny and different from what you’ve seen so far and comes out of nowhere it genuinely shocked me. It was a nice touch setting up his relationship with this character and his dog and seeing what happens to him. The banjo music was a bit much but I totally get that they wanted to make sure you knew he was the banjo player with the dog

Plus it was neat seeing younger Jeff Goldblum and Leonard Nimoy, you can tell they cast him well for The Fly remake as he does have that neurotic talkative scientist vibe but it was still a surprise to see him so skinny as I remember him pretty ripped in The Fly comparitavley

I usually don’t engage with walking sims because I just see them as pressing w until I trigger an event flag cause I know all I can do is run, hide and trial and error my way into finding the intended path

When the game gives me a full arsenal of tools and weapons but still manages to be super tense, atmospheric and still scary I super appreciate that they can pull that off even if you have the tools to defend yourself

My fave examples are

- alien isolation, you have a pistol, flamethrower, shotgun, stun prod, pneumatic rivet shooter etc but the trick is that using these will attract the unlikable alien cause of the noise, and the best these can do is periodically stun or scare it off

- amnesia the bunker is very similar to alien isolation, lots of weapons and tools but they are loud and attract and only stun or hold back the monster

- condemned/2 gives you guns, a taser and all kinds of great melee weapons but you are always on edge by the idea of crazy hobos leaping out at you, especially great in hard mode

- dying light, night time is pure hell thanks to the super zombies/volatiles so even when you are stocked up on great weapons and tools it’s still scary as hell to be chased by them, I usually play on nightmare mode so it’s especially scary then

- Darkwood gives you lots of weapons and tools but the atmosphere, enemies and environment are so disturbing and creepy, especially when you are stuck in your house at night the game stays very tense and keeps you on edge. It’s a very ‘what the fuck is that thing can I even hurt it?’ kinda game, especially when it comes to the non monster stuff like the really fucked up stuff in the environment or events that happen at night

Stuff like dead space are great fun but just push over that line where you feel a bit too powerful and confident with kickass weapons imo

What are your favourite examples?

Fairly new to using the steam link but I’m pleasantly surprised how well xcom 2 plays on my iPad with the official control scheme. I have slay the official ports of spire and mini metro on my iPhone from the App Store for my fairly small iPhone so I’m wondering what other games play perfectly well when streamed to a handheld device. Preferably non action as I’m surprised how well something like sonic mania plays streaming to my small iPhone but playing action games and not being able to feel the physical buttons just doesn’t feel right to me at all

I’m messing around with steam link and it’s super neat to be able to play high end games from my pc on my iPhone, but I’ve noticed some games like xcom 2 have an official control scheme layout which works very well for the game and saves a ton of messing around trying to get a comfortable control scene working

I was curious if there was an option in steam big picture mode to immediately categorise what games have built in official or at least good community steam link layouts so I don’t have to test every game I own. Like I can just click something and it puts all the games with official control schemes like xcom 2 in a list for me so I know what will work ‘out of the box’

Also any good advice on generally setting up good control schemes? I’ve found trackpad mode works nicely for a few mouse only games

Is there a way I can designate specific keystrokes to touchable buttons? There are a few available in the control setup in games like wasd but I’d like to be able to assign any keystroke to its own button if I run out of available buttons, thanks

I beat the shrine of Amana in Dark Souls 2 before the patch updated it because I played the whole game offline, also a few hours after that I realised I’d been playing the game up to that point with half health when a pal told me how humanity worked and had no idea

It’s taken a huge chunk of the tension out of the game for me knowing I have infinite of everything

EDIT: just to clarify I AM looking for more games with unique mechanics and mixes of them so I hope that’s okay for the sub rules

I was wondering what mechanics or combinations of mechanics you’ve seen in some games that you loved and are surprised that other games haven’t done the same thing because they work so well

Btw the nemesis system from the Shadow of Mordor/War games would be one but they patented that system so lawfully nobody can use it which really sucks because it’s a great system

I love Against the Storm because I like settlement builders but always get bored if I don’t have a very clear goal to work towards and am the kind of person that will chronically restart building games because I will learn more and want to make a more efficient setup from scratch

ATS is super for me because it gives you around 8 randomised objectives to complete per settlement with the ability to pick which ones you want from a list or you can ignore that and focus on making your settlers really happy, or more likely do a combination of both so you have a very clear goal

Also each settlement is meant to be played between 1 and 3 hours as the game revolves around the early game of building a settlement to the point its sustainable and you have finished your objectives and then move on and make a new one with fresh objectives, modifiers, starting resources, settlers etc

I’ve never seen a building game like this that encourages starting from scratch so often which vibes super well with me because even if I want to start again I can just knuckle down for an hour max and know I can start brand new next time so it actually makes me play them longer and the very clear roguelike style objectives to work towards make the game even better for me

I’m just curious if crime rates drastically spiked or villains got away with way more than usual because there was no more Batman to stop them. I’m referring to the point in time where Bruce had a heart attack and pulled a gun on a criminal before hanging up the Batman Beyond suit before Terry took it. I’m not sure how many years passed between those events

Did any other superheroes watch Gotham? Did Bruce take more of an Oracle role at the Batcave helping out the police with information?

I’d beaten the game on hard a few years ago and read horror stories about how nightmare is pretty much ‘impossible’ but personally I’m really not struggling after starting a fresh game on it. Bee-lining the main quest and have just done the water tower and have only died a few times

Granted I never try and fight volatiles and I’m only in the first area but throwing knives to the head generally solve 90% of problems so far to the point they feel a bit broken

Do people struggle with nightmare because they want to kill absolutely everything and get killed a lot? Enemies don’t feel very spongy as I was led to believe but I only really fight when I need to and am constantly crafting more throwing knives and using my best weapons

I was just expecting nightmare to feel super unfair impossible after what I’d read but it genuinely doesn’t feel that bad atm

I’ve tried a lot but the biggest gripe for me is that they are too easy because you get overpowered loot right away or the game expects you to go through the game at least once or twice before you can unlock the challenging modes where you really have to get good and tweak your builds

I want games where loot is kinda weak so you really have to tweak your build and aren’t just flooded with legendaries and epics all the time

Games I really enjoyed
- remnant 2 (hard/hardest mode, absolutely love this one)
- borderlands 2
- Diablo 2
- Dying light 1/2 (hard mode)
- Torchlight 1/2

Games I enjoyed until I got bored because they were too easy cause I got flooded with too much great loot or had to grind to unlock hard modes
- path of exile
- Diablo 3/4
- Grim Dawn
- Borderlands 3

I tried really hard to like Remnant 1 but the game is way less polished than 2. I’ve replayed 2 on the hardest difficulties multiple times even with the DLC, one of my fave games. Excellent level of difficulty and loot and skill distribution that really matters