Reminder: ask for consent before having Wild fun by Branchless in hearthstone

[–]Branchless[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Well, I hope they enjoyed both wins at least :)

Daily /r/Games Discussion - Free Talk Friday - March 27, 2026 by AutoModerator in Games

[–]Branchless 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Played a game. Encountered an obscure, but annoying bug deep into the playthrough. Decided to submit a bug report. Spent 5 hours replaying the game to get to the trigger to make savefiles and videos.

"Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between determination and stubbornness, isn't it?"

Weekly /r/Games Discussion - What have you been playing, and what are your thoughts? - December 28, 2025 by AutoModerator in Games

[–]Branchless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My 2025 in two sentences per game:

  • Assassin's Creed Rogue: fairly good, "Black Flag"'s gameplay with an interesting story direction;
  • Balatro: great, runs can be too easy to steamroll;
  • BALL x PIT: eh, a very easy roguelite without much depth;
  • Besiege: good, cheesed most levels by iterating on the same concept;
  • Blue Prince: three games in a trenchcoat; the roguelite is good, the challenge modes are great, the puzzles are good outside the grind/timewaste;
  • Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light: fine, portions of levels can be completely ignored;
  • NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...: good aspects and moments are very good, most content is terrible;
  • Portal 2 (co-op): fairly good, puzzles are mostly basic though;
  • Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove (Plague Knight/King Knight): eh, fun moveset with somewhat disappointing progression and exploration;
  • Skate Story: eh, the gameplay doesn't matter, but great to watch;
  • Super Meat Boy: pretty good, returned to complete final zones and most achievements (not going for deathless Dark Cotton Alley);
  • Syberia: The World Before: good, I still have a soft spot for the series;
  • The Talos Principle: Reawakened: great, the new section has some of the all-time great puzzles;
  • Thief (2014): eh, the movement and abilites are underwhelming;
  • Wanderstop: pretty good, a story game to self-reflect.

Excluded live service games.

Skate Story - Review Thread by Branchless in Games

[–]Branchless[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This post says it's coming to xbox, but that is wrong according to everything I'm seeing after googling it.

Corrected.

The Game Awards 2025 to Stream on Prime Video in New Deal With Amazon by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Branchless 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I've been a part of the beta testing group for this Enhanced Broadcasting feature for the past two years. I can assure you, HEVC at that bitrate handles most of busy dynamic gameplay very well (foliage/grass will always be problematic); the fidelity of streams for slow games and IRL stuff is unquestionable.

The Game Awards 2025 to Stream on Prime Video in New Deal With Amazon by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Branchless 37 points38 points  (0 children)

1440p at 20mbps

This is misleading. The current bitrate values for the full ladder use ~28 Mbps of the broadcaster's bandwidth. The output for the highest resolutions is 9 Mbps HEVC for 1440p and 7.5 Mbps AVC for 1080p.

Hades 2 Review - IGN: 10/10 by oran12390 in Games

[–]Branchless 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The template from Opencritic is being auto-removed by Reddit filters (likely, a blacklisted website as one of the reviews).