/v/ - Video Games

>>34900
You forgot "scattering Humans to the far reaches so as to nullify singular governorship and ensure the continuation of the only thing reality has bothered to harbor that's worth anything."
That's the best reason to send people out and it's also why all those fags won't do it.

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>>34910
>Believing in things

>>34900
When will we ditch rockets and embrace grav-engines?

>>34921
When magnetic pulse anti-grav begins to work in vacuum and when localized grav wells don't collapse into themselves causing a massive implosion.

>>34910
Why did you feel compelled to post some niggers dancing.

The Last of Us Part 2
A post apocalyptic game with ugly trannies, a 12 year old angst filled girl who can kill veteran mercenaries and intact synagogue you can't shoot in.

>>34430
pixel art != low effort.
I mean, soy infused "developers" might think it's the case, but then their garbage is low effort, not pixel art or retro.

>>34430
>talking simulator that forces you to watch 10 second long animations whenever you're not talking to one of the 5046346 NPCs trying to figure out what the fuck you're meant to do
Couldn't last 10 minutes, though the fact that pressing the run key makes you run forward is what actually made me quit.

>>34471
It's kind of getting old because the platforming and combat are so stiff and the puzzles/exploration feel fairly straightforward. I'm most likely dropping it.
On the plus side you get to die that godawful purple hair by the second town.

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Jesus Christ this art. I mean the game looks like Guacamelee otherwise but they couldn't have picked a more appealing banner art for the storepage?

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SKETCHFUL.IO GAME TONIGHT, LADS

MARK YOUR FUCKIN CALENDARS

5:30 PM CENTRAL STANDARD TIME

BE THERE

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IT'S TIME!

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First time attending one of these, it was a blast!
Here are some of my favorites

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Explorer's Day pic as I'm knee deep in mushroom season. Side note: fuck this cunt giraffe. Haven't got shit from her.

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>dobutsu no mori e+ finally translated
>translator locks it behind patreon

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I quit New Horizons and started playing Doubutsu no Mori+ instead. The villagers definitely have more personality to them.

>>25966
>her

>>34454
Learn Japanese so you don't have to cuck yourself to translators.

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Time to make good on my promise, months late of course. A golden spot appeared in front of the door of one of my worst villagers, so naturally I took advantage. I also robbed Nook blind on his end of October lottery, taking all the prizes with no need to savescum. The trophy sits beside my Super Tortimer upstairs.

>>34542
>Gracie is a male in the original Japanese version of the game
Didn't know that. Fuck that cunt giraffe regardless.

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Halloween was an awful idea, it made me hate everyone in town more than I mostly already did. I got real sick of trying to find the real Jack real fast. I did enjoy watching this villager helplessly run back and forth under the cliff, unable to reach me though. That wrapped October, November was a busier month with the weekly fishing tourneys, Thanksgiving, and Sale Day.

I use a made up metric called time to smile.
If I'm smiling within ten minutes of playing the game I know I'm in for something good. If I've given a game an hour and still haven't begun to enjoy it then I'm dropping it and not looking back. It's not a perfect metric, because you can start of really enjoying something and then it completely shits in your mouth(Cyber Hook, Doom Eternal, Trials of Mana remake) but it's solid enough to work as a general case.

>>30278
Interesting metric, but most of the time it's sone dialogue that makes you smile and not the game with it's gameplay.

>>30182 (OP) 
If you're having fun keep playing. If you feel like you're forcing yourself to keep going stop. Nobody but autists should care about if you actually find out you don't enjoy a game as long as you give it a decent shot first.

I'll play through absolute stinkers as long as they are interesting enough. Theres a bunch of trash I've played that I wouldn't call good but I finished it anyway.

>>30196
There's tons of classic games that are great once you break into them. System Shock 1 was one. First 2 levels filtered me at first but the game got way better later after them, pretty much immediately when I got to the 3rd level. System Shock 2 also because I knew the RPG system was full of traps but I didn't want to just follow a walk-through on what to build.

>>33924 (OP) 
Barriers to entry have been eliminated at every stage. Unity and UE4 allow you to make games with a tiny budget and very basic skills, and Steam provides you with a huge market with zero quality control. The number of good games per year has stayed more or less constant since 2007, but now they're buried under an endless sea of shovelware. Now that I think about it, this is disturbingly close to what the crash of '83 looked like. Except this time, it doesn't look like the market is ever going to recover.

>>34212
Play better games then

>>34227
The crash won't happen you idiot, the crash happened due to everyone manufacturing 300 different consoles, massive game refunds and Home computers becoming affordable fort the first time.

What we're seeing now is the opposite of what happened in the late 2000s and early 2010s where AAA companies are seeing less profits, PC gayman is booming, home consoles are declining and there has been massive decentralization of the medium with tons of small and mid sized publishers and devs being able to thrive.

You're not seeing a crash, you're seeing small companies thrive and megacorps resizing and being hit with layoffs  and diminishing returns.

>>34238
>Play better games then
I'm not talking about games that I've played, I'm talking about daily releases. Did you even read the OP?

>>34227
Most of what you say is true (pretty much same that I said in my previous post), but I doubt any crash will happen. AAA publishers have grown too big and rich to fail even after releasing several flops in row over a decade, Steam also has become too big and rich to fail, and the entry bar for indieshit has become too low to be affected by any crash.

We might see a downturn, and while the good/garbage ratio nowadays might be even worse than in '83/'84, the market will never crash again on its own. The only way the vidya market could crash again is as side effect of a severe worldwide socio-economical depression.

>>33924 (OP) 
>Why does it seem so hard to make a good game?
Only straight, white or Japanese, non-leftard men can create good things.
>There's more people who are into videogames than ever before
And that is the problem. The cattle is composed of low IQ plebs. The more of them, the worse things will get.
>less companies working on good games than ever before
Laziness and greed go hand in hand.
>Did all the developers get siphoned by bloated AAA companies who keep wasting their talents and motivations on shitty interactive movies?
Yes.
>Are people too blackpilled due to the state of the world and lack of future?
Yes.
>Did everyone's brains shrink from soy overconsumption?
Yes.

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>>18118
>El Fuerte from SFIV is a manly character
What the fuck are you even implying? Some other motherfucker necrobumped a much shittier thread, and this one isn't too bad.

>>27603
>El Fuerts from SFIV
Are you retarded or "merely pretending?"
>necrobumped 
If you're referring to the Ubisoft hostage thread, that was spam.

>>27607
>Are you retarded or "merely pretending?" [sic]
Don't worry, anon. I'm only eating shit <ironically. Besides, I can't really take luchadores as a manly archetype when all of them are pulling a play with their in-ring characters. At least King had an impotent figure, and most importantly, never talked and/or showed his face.In fact, I'll make a stretch and object no spic character can ever come across as manly.

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>>27610
>impotent
Luciano has possessed my hands what the hell. I was trying to say imposing.

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adam jensen is a hyper-augmented madlad from the future, who takes out 100 man FEMA camps and doesn't even give a 2nd thought to all the lives he ends. Saul Myers literally takes out entire crime families, the military, guerillas, and the fucking CIA single handedly.

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>>28800
Took quite a while before I returned to Noita to actually end that run. Was trying to decide what to do with it since I'm probably not going to go to NG+++ or further again. Decided to just end it, the further you go into NG+ the more the world gen starts to become chaotic and it becomes harder to find your way around, didn't feel like trying anything with that.

Here's the wand I built, I'm not sure how I could make this type of wand any better except maybe adding piercing which killed the mana when I tried. Failed to get a good screenshot of the DPS, it went somewhere into 300k. The end boss is the only thing to test DPS on since it still takes damage for a while after dying.

I really hate having no variety on starting spells.

>>32026
Just play nightmare mode, you get wands at the start :^).

Are there any good mods for this?

I played it half a year or so ago, but got bored after a couple hours in, never really got into whatever endgame there is in the game.  I unironically think it'd make a pretty good phone game, but if I'm going to sit down at my pc I'm gonna play something more substantial.

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SINGLE
SINGLE
SINGLE
TETRIS
YEAH

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>>33258
Quality shitpost. Keep it up.

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Put dispenser here.

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>>34097
OOOAAOAOAUughh...

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>>34102
Spy!

>>31726
Sonic < Sonic 2 < Sonic CD < Sonic3 < SRB2 < Sonic 3&K

>>31742
>lack luster
>vague, generic complaints
The level design is solid.  Not as intricate and interconnected as I've seen from better 2D exploration games, but enough to make new areas feel surprising and intriguing.  The game's worst part is that the first area the player encounters it the city hub level, which has a truly oppressive atmosphere and little music.  I actually feel the graphics are a weak point: despite the good, consistent, cute art direction for most things, the actual sprite resolution is pretty low and the characters would benefit a lot from software-level smoothing/dithering to make them more round.

>>31773
>parry attacks being absurdly strong compared to the rest of your moveset 
I don't think I used the parry much in the time I played it, but I'm so sick of trash like this.  Having one option which usually isn't very hard to use be better than the rest of a character's moveset is just lazy.  It obsoletes so many other potentially interesting attacks or moves.
>and controlling it felt bad
It did feel extremely heavy and sluggish to me.  I couldn't bring myself to play past the first area since it was large, unfocused, and pain in the ass to navigate.

>>31795
I am pretty sure most people here are your nigger. Anyone who was born before 2000 and had a sega loved s3&k

>>31741
You literally can not bypass the dash capsule without an unobtainable password. Even if you use one, the ending is programmed to assume you obtained them and shows X with them anyways.

>>29666 (OP) 
X4>X1>XTreme 2>XTreme>X2>X3>X6>X5

I hate missable stuff in games, and think X2 and X3 suffer for it, though I still like them quite a bit. The Game Boy Color games are underrated, and don't have missable items, so I'm not as irritated while playing them. X5 and X6 are both shit and I'm not quite sure which I think is worse, but that X5's ridiculous RNG mess might annoy me even more than X6 being basically nothing but missable items.

>>31634
>until swoshit was that they built on top of each other. Even if your favorite mon had come out 10 years ago you'd still be able to use it in the latest game
Hoennbabbies lying again. Gen III excluded random smatterings of Pokemon, and removed backwards compatibility, among many other features that the previous games included, such as the real time clock and all the things that went with it, such as the morn/day/night cycle, which actually affected spawn rates and tons of other things. Plus there were things that happened on particular days of the week.

But none of that clock stuff matters compared to not being able to trade over my old mons that I had already traded to Gen II. And then not only that, you couldn't even catch them all again. But they didn't even have the decency to at least make a whole new pokedex, so I'm constantly reminded of guys I can't get, because I can get other old ones, so I'm left wondering through the whole games which ones I can get and which ones I can't.

Oh, but don't worry, you can get them! Only now, not only do you need to buy two or three copies of the same game, you need to re-buy two of the old games that were randomly locked out from compatibility with the new games. Games which you almost surely already owned, since they were only a couple years old and the best selling games of all time. And don't tell me that some stupid shit like stat changes made them incompatible, since changes happened between every other gen, and they were still compatible with each other, and now the games actually are compatible with the newest games, which have many more changes comparatively. Oh, but that's not even the best part! That only covers half the games that were randomly locked out of compatibility! To get Pokemon from the rest of the games, you need to buy a Gamecube, a special GC/GBA Link Cable that was basically only good for like two other games which you might not have anyway,  and two particular Gamecube games, and you'd better get the special limited editions. All this, just so you can get the old Pokemon. You thought paying for DLC is bad in the new games? It is, but at least you don't have to buy a whole different console just to get old Pokemon you already caught.

It took until Gen IV to fix all the shit Gen III took away, and even then, not completely. Gen III is fucking garbage and always has been.