Sky Island games are so hot right now

Oh thank fuck it finally has a release date: October 30th.

I’ve been waiting on this one for a little while.

Then you should check out some trailers and other threads online about it. I can’t really describe it well unless you’ve played Cloudpunk, which this is a sequel to.

It takes place in a vertical cyberpunk city with flying cars and holo-highways and just a whole cool-ass vibe.

Edit: I’m in a better place now to put my thoughts into words. Cloudpunk/Nivalis Nights take place in the last major city of humanity on Earth: Nivalis. It’s a miles-tall vertical city with a lot of cool worldbuilding in its history and lore in-game. Cloudpunk has a voxel-based graphics/art style and an open world you’re able to explore in your flying car (called a HOVA), with different districts being different tiers of the city, and many places for you to park and explore on foot and take in the immaculate vibes of the city. You can even buy different vehicles to drive, with different upgrades like armor or speed. There’s a DLC that I admittedly haven’t played even though I bought it out of support for the devs, in hopes to see this release someday, but I’ve heard it’s even bigger than the base game with even more mechanics.

Nivalis Nights is more a slice-of-life sim where you run a ramen shop in one of the lower districts, and perform different tasks or activities to keep it afloat/popular, and there’s even fishing. The graphics are still somewhat voxel, but the art is much deeper and more detailed this time as it’s in a first-person POV as opposed to third person from the first game (though they did add a first-person mode in a future update so you could see the city in more detail).

IT’S FINALLY OUT

Why are games like this so popular right now? Buckshot Roulette, this, and others based around gambling/games of chance (like that multiplayer one with animals, Liar’s Something)

Have you ever had heat exhaustion? It fucking sucks and is incredibly dangerous to go through, leading to heatstroke and other heat-related illnesses and death.

I got it once during a high school football game. It was the 4th quarter and we were down a few points anyway, but when I took the field and literally couldn’t even catch my breath and I wasn’t even sweating anymore? The ref called the game and sent me to the opposite sideline so they could stuff bags of ice in my uniform. The school we were playing at thankfully had a pool that they also had me float in for a few minutes to cool down.

It was honestly terrible and I wouldn’t wish it on most people.

Edit: I’d also like to add: NO ONE CAN TAKE THAT HEAT. That’s almost 160°, which is almost fully cooked temp, and 20° more than chicken needs to be done.

I wonder if you could just turn around and go the opposite way?

Did this start because of the Cuphead gaming journalist memes, where the person literally couldn’t even finish the tutorial because their hand-eye-coordination was just absolute shit and they couldn’t jump over literally the first obstacle?

They’re going through with it? Alright.

Not fucking soon enough.

Sonic Adventure DX and Sonic Adventure 2, plus Chao Resort Island if you enjoy the Chao Gardens from the other two (it’s a free fanmade project that’s almost exactly like the GBA Chao Garden, but with much more functionality and mechanics)

I just finished it for the first time in probably 20 years, but Blinx 2 as it takes place across a few different biomes/locales, with the very first taking place in a tropical island setting much like a lot of Sonic games (the character Blinx was apparently created by Sonic’s creator too). It’s very fun and you can customize your own Time Sweeper and Tom Tom members, equipped with their own teams and weapons/gear. I mostly mention this as I feel like more people need to know about and play this game, but it is incredibly fun (I’d love for there to be a Blinx 3 somewhere down the line). There’s also co-op and multiplayer, which the first game didn’t have.

Rollin’ Rascal isn’t really out yet, but there’s a demo on steam that’s been getting fairly regular updates for the last year or so, but it’s super fun imo. It’s basically a 3D Sonic knock-off but everything just works so smoothly and there’s plenty of techniques to learn to get through stages faster. There’s even multiplayer on the demo so you can race other people online and customize your own “Rascal.”

Dishonored 2 maybe?

I remember people being upset when Nexus came under new ownership a couple years ago, but I’ve been happy with what they’ve done so far. Vortex has been getting steady updates, and it’s honestly made modding so much easier with a more-or-less “plug and play” approach.

That’s what I’m thinking. OP might be some 180 mhz, 120 fps, whatever overclocking to get the most out of the game type of person. Which is fine, but when it holds you back from enjoying a large percent of all video games ever released, it’s a little ridiculous.

ETA: in fact I just did a couple-hundred-hour playthrough a couple months ago and it looked fine. A little muddy cause it’s like 11 years old now, but it still looks good imo. The stylization really helps to make it not look as dated. Also I used a shitload of power armor mods cause I wanted to be a collector of exotic armors. My favorite is probably the NCR PA based on the one from the show.

I agree with everyone else here. What would voting republican accomplish? That’s literally the opposite of what we want right now.

Unless you’re just a troll and this is your poor attempt at rage bait?

Maybe they’re talking about something like this Key & Peele sketch?

I agree with the other comment. How did you “watch” the show but not pay enough attention to learn characters’ names?

Uhhh… The show basically confirms your “head canon” in season 2.

Also, I’m just gonna say that I absolutely hate how people will still claim that Todd hates New Vegas/Obsidian; he’s gone on record multiple times saying that’s not the case, the entirety of season 2 of the show was literally “New Vegas 2.” The only reason your playthrough/ending of NV isn’t canon is because in lore it’s been about 15+ years since, and we all know nothing is ever permanent in Fallout.

I’m getting real tired of people spreading straight-up false information because it makes them feel better about a game they played when they were 10-13.

Edit: just gonna leave this article here for folks to read.

In the lore, the “Zetans” have visited/researched Earth for at least a few centuries (the Mothership Zeta DLC for FO3 has you meeting different characters like a feudal samurai, a cowboy from the old west, and an astronaut from before the bombs dropped). They are not why the world ended though.

Before The Great War, international tensions were at an all-time high, with global resources dwindling to dangerous levels. The US fought a war against China and annexed Canada, which the US occupation was more like turning the entire country into one big internment camp. The real reason why the nuclear apocalypse happened hasn’t been explained in any of the Fallout media yet, but it feels like the show is going to reveal it at some point if it didn’t already. But that’s also not really the point of the games/story of Fallout in general; the tagline is literally “War Never Changes” because it’s about human nature.

You should watch the show. It’s great and very accessible for someone who hasn’t played the games. Plus it might give you the itch to try them out, and they’re incredibly fun.

The Boys made multiple jokes about using AI to write or rewrite some of the most important documents in human history.

Art imitates life imitates art. Fuck this place.

And there’s a demo on steam. Hell yes.