Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Thanks! It is very amateur, immature and unprofessional (and we are terrible at self promotion) but to be honest, it is so much fun being silly and making them that we just do it for the love of it to be honest. I think when it become a boring chore we will stop but at the moment we make each other laugh making up silly gaming news stories or doing fake industry interviews. Got to put that GCSE drama qualification to some use!

Hey guys, I'm looking for some info about The Last of Us 2 but I can't find anything here. Suggestions?

@andreoni79 ha ha nice one! I try to avoid Push Square for gaming news when they go overboard like this as I've missed other stuff in the past. Shame cos normally the articles are pretty good, but I'd rather get it from somewhere else when this happens.

@andreoni79 Try NintendoLife.

The only let's plays I've spent much time watching are Markiplier's Five Nights at Freddy's playthroughs. I'm interested enough in those games and their lore, but too much of a wuss to ever want to actually play them.

Other than that, I don't watch much in the way of Let's Plays. Time spent watching people play games is time I could be spending gaming.

@RogerRoger Yeah i don't to get them at all, if I wanna play a game I'll just play it. Even if you watch someone play a game you not gonna get totally what it feels like to experience it. I don't see the point of them. And don't get me started on stuff like Gogglebox, it really annoys me that it is so popular and all reality tv should be binned imo. If I was ever to do a 'Room 101' it would probably be top of the list to go in.

@RogerRoger I've seen some great streamers and Let's Plays and I think there is a real skill to it so I get why people do want to watch it. However, with time being limited and already filled with games, movies, youtube, websites etc. I just can't see myself getting into it.

@LN78 Ah ha so you have listened to my podcast then? I will order more pebbles!

@LN78 Oh that wasn't meant as self promotion (and I don't really gargle pebbles). If you check out my twitter feed or website link on my signature it should have details. But don't feel obliged to listen. Also, it is for grown ups.

@LN78 Thanks! No worries if you hate it. I recommend later episodes as sound quality etc. is better.

@RogerRoger I never watch these sorts of vids. Partly, my attention span isn't good enough to sit and watch something along those lines for 30mins plus as they often are. I also find them to be a bit dull or people try to be too zany/aggressive/OTT that it's all a bit galling for me.

I tried watching the North/Baker ones but it seemed like forever until they actually did anything!

I used to use the cracked.com forums a few years ago and some people did Let's Plays in the gaming section forum which I found good fun. Someone did one for Don't Starve and posted loads of screenshots but would also then let people following decide what to focus on next and that worked really well.

I've only really watched let's plays of games I'm either never going to get or be able to play @RogerRoger and/or something like Detroit/Heavy Rain/Until Dawn which doesn't have too much gameplay to it

My main problem though is finding someone I actually like. As Thrillho says above they're usually either too dull or too over the top. Never really found a nice inbetween

This heatwave we are having in the US(i live in west Virginia) is insane. It was 96° today, in October. What is up with this.

@RogerRoger Yeah I have a range of Youtube content creators that I like but to be honest, I only look at others when I get a direct recommendation. I'm a big fan of Jim Sterling, though not to a lot of peoples tastes, but I also like a some smaller Youtubers, especially Retro gamers. I went through a phase of being addicted to Bloodborne videos when I was playing.

Yesterday I got really angry!

😂😂

Soon on the way to restored stereoscopic vision! 😀

@RogerRoger I am hopeful.
Though I'm having to wait for a delivery of saline before I can actually wear the new lenses away from the eye infirmary 🙄

I've got to build up wear time. So 4-6 hours a day for a couple of weeks. Those hours will mostly be after work, so it's shmup time! 😂

@LN78 Ha don't get me started on Rom the Vacuous Spider! I think I watched some if the IGN coverage as well.

I like Jim Sterling because as you say, he is passionate and intelligent and even if you don't feel as passionate, his writing and jokes are sharp and filled with a lot of humour. It is a big character act that I enjoy and I also feel he is pretty fair with most games. That said, @RogerRoger says, he is a pure Marmite entertainer!

@RogerRoger I don't actively watch it, but it works as background noise. Of course, it helps if the person playing it is informative IMO. I'm actually occasionally watching Retro Replay, because it nice to hear about the development of Uncharted for example. And yeah, I don't play horror games either, but I do like horror films, so I've watched some horror game let's plays in the past as well.

@KratosMD Nice one! Glad you have got the balance right and feeling better.

I'd love to know the formula as I am struggling with that at the moment between work, family and downtime.

Not sure where to post this thought/question, and I don’t think it warrants its own thread, so I’ll just plop it down here:

Having “watched credits roll” on another game today, I was wondering if anyone actually watches the credits. Obviously the Marvel movies have revolutionized things with the post credits scenes — something I was happy to see they carried over into Insomniac’s Spider-Man game. Surely the upcoming Avengers game will likewise follow suit. I’m not sure if post-credits scenes were a thing before the MCU, but I’m sure someone out there will educate me if they copied the practice from someone else.

As for gaming, I sometimes watch the credits if the music is good but usually I just frantically push the “options” button, the touch pad, the “cross / X” button (😑), the triggers, anything to see if I can abort the credits to get back to the main menu. Many games don’t allow a way to bypass the end game credits. Titanfall 2 was like that today for me. So I watched as they cycled through the endless lists of names. At one point they listed “Titanfall 2 babies” which I can only assume were a list of all the babies that were born to employees of Respawn during the game development. I’m not sure how I feel about this. Sure, it’s cute and all, but basically any person who has any even minor affiliation with the studio during the game development appears to be listed. And that’s fine, it’s their game — they can do what they want. But at least give us the option to skip the credits if we want. There was a very minor post credits scene at the end of TF2, but it was next to nothing really.

Now, NieR Automata — that was some awesome end game credits. An interactive extension of the game, with symbolism mixed in and a true meaningful continuation of the narrative and the now famous final decision about sacrificing your game save ... just genius.

Anyways, while I was stuck watching every baby at Respawn be credited this afternoon, I wondered how many people actually watch the credits. My guess would be less than 10% of people actually pay any attention to end game credits. Maybe I’m wrong.

There were definitely post credit scenes before the marvel films @Th3solution.

I remember the film Underworld had one of all things as a sequel hook. The first Pirates Of The Carribbean had a little scene too with Jack the monkey. Dead Man's Chest actually had a reveal tied to it's after credit scene...

Plenty of others I'm sure too, just the first two older ones to pop into my head

Horizon had a babies list and I think Crash Team Racing had one too. I think it's pretty weird honestly...

Also I skip 'em as often as I can... If it's unskippable I'll usually go do something else like grab a biacuit or make a sandwich/get a drink til it's finished