Video Game General 2: Definitive/Remastered Edition

I found out the PS3 controller ONLY charges when the PS3 console is on, and my USB isn’t charging the controller.
Someone told me you can buy a charging dock. What charging docks do you recommend?

@Background Pony #1251
You can put it in sleep mode, can’t you?

@Lord WyrmSpawN
Not the PS3. You’re thinking PS4. (and probably PS5, IDK, I don’t have that console yet)

Diablo IV is coming to steam this month.

@Mikey
So nothing exciting. I’ll stick with Grim Dawn.

There’s something amusing about games like Conker’s Bad Fur Day or Team Fortress 2 using lore and narrative to justify why the characters losing their lives and respawning is indeed not a big deal within their universes.

As a way to say “emm yeah man, is nothing particularly bad, you are just dead, don’t worry, you’ll get back to the world of living in a pinch”.

@Twi Clown
“Conker’s Bad Fur Day” was the first M-rated game I ever beat. 2007.

Even the explanation is no big deal in TF2, as it has had like 8 different reasons.

@Twi Clown
You forgot Borderlands.

@Meanlucario
Never played Borderlands so naturally couldn’t include it out of my ignorance.

So as the story goes, after pitching several ideas Ed Boon and John Tobias wanted to call it “Mortal Combat”. But there was no way they could get that trademarked. They were still attached to the name so they intentionally misspelled it as “Mortal Kombat”.

And then the trademark guys just shrugged and basically went “Sure why not.”

Okay I hope I’m not the only one who’s experiencing this, but there’s something VERY weird going on in Mario Kart 7 whenever I play online, and this has only been happening within the past 10 minutes:

So I’ve been going online (because of that aforementioned 3DS/Wii U online shutdown coming next April or earlier), I’ve been playing more because I wanna see how high I can get my VR points racked up (I started over recently…don’t ask, maybe I felt like a fresh start?), and so far I keep getting paired up with the same two people, one named “Player” and another one named…I dunno, he had a diamond in his name. Then when it goes into spectate, it keeps focusing on two drivers, one Mario and one Yoshi, and both haven’t even crossed the starting line while everyone else is going. Then when the game starts up (to either select a course or begin the race), my 3DS is forced to restart.

And please, no joke answers like my 3DS being possessed by the devil. I just need assurance like it might be a glitch and that the best thing to do is leave the game alone for an hour or two until the problem passes.

@DanielOrange
I would say one of them hacked.

@Dustcan
Still a more creative name than having to replace “Soul Edge” because of a certain…someone I won’t mention.

Mortal Kombat. The K is for the coolness factor. And it works.

Yeah, but I do gotta say that not only does “Soul Calibur” sound cooler it also still fits the theme of naming the games after the plot relevant swords. Especially since Soul Calibur was introduced in the game it was named after.

It’s odd but I like it.

@Dustcan
Then that nutjob tried to go after “Mirror’s Edge”. That ended up backfiring.

@icicle wicicle 1517
That’s a good start.

I’m VERY curious on how Ratchet managed to perform a “willful disruption of the space-time continuum” briefly mentioned as one of his citations in “Ratchet & Clank” (2016).

Think I’m gonna pick up Darktide.

@Lord WyrmSpawN
I would hope it’s more enjoyable than Vermintide. I wanted to like that game, but I bounced off of it.

Shame, really. Vermintide could have been amazing if it were designed for the single player experience.

Darktide is also built on co-op multiplayer, with no real consideration towards solo play. Just FYI.

@Kazapsky
I figured as much.

Does anyone have Indie game recommendations?
I’m not gonna buy anything right away but I’d like to check stuff in Steam.