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>>263567
Or 2000 dollary doos if you don't and get caught.

>>262837
It's a 20 year old game engine. I don't know how hard it would be to just add in some better enemy AI, but I'm playing through Black Mesa again and I know what you mean. Hard is the only acceptable difficulty level, but even then all it does is make the enemies have more health and I assume damage me more. The military enemies have way too good of accuracy with their weapons, and it just feels synthetic. Like it's obvious I'm fighting a computer and not a real person or even a character. The zombies are insanely retarded, to the point of being non functional. Enemy AI is a big problem on the source engine

>>263567
Oh yeah? How about Black Myth Wukong? Or even Persona 5. Are those free?

>>263567
Can you torrent games older than 5 years without being hueniggered yet? Because I'd rather just buyfag than deal with that shit.

>>263420
No, because I didn't realize that bezomart would be niggers about the packaging until after I ordered it.

>>263422
>get an internal 3.5 hotswap bay so you can treat your drives like giant cartridges
Already got the bay, I was thinking along those exact lines. That was the point of my original question; I didn't know whether to keep it or exchange it for an enclosure. I think I'll keep the bay and get the cases.

Is there a room escape game which has more than 0 replay value? I.e. not the exact same puzzles where you have to use the exact same steps to solve them.
Things like multiple possible solutions, or the puzzles are somehow randomized so you have to solve them differently.

>>263515
That talos puzzle game?

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I've been replaying OG Advance Wars since I never beat it when I was a teenager, and I had this headcanon that I'm sure others have talked about but I never did.

I always imagined Advance Wars was in a universe where people didn't die in war.  Like the battle animations just show the machines getting destroyed, but the people always just sort of "fly off" in a cartoony style.  I always imagined that explosions did the same thing where the people inside would just be all black and charred like in a Wily Coyote cartoon, but otherwise be perfectly fine.  You know, cartoon physics.  In a weird way, in my headcanon, this also explained why Andy didn't know what an airport was.  Since fall damage doesn't exist and cartoon physics does in Advance Wars, if you wanted to travel anywhere in the Advance Wars universe, you'd just sorta "Team Rocket" yourself into the stratosphere to travel around.

Wars in the Advance Wars universe, then, amount to gaining territory by a giant "King of the Hill" game, as opposed to slaughter.

Aside from the animations conveying this, this was the only thing that made sense to me given how...lackadaisical everyone treated war?  Like otherwise, Sonja is A-OK killing everyone in her army for test missions just for intel.  However, if all her men just sort of temporarily "fly off" and wars are this "King of the Hill" game, then her actions and everyone's disregard makes a lot more sense.  It also makes sense how there's "no harm done" from Orange Arm

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uh, im playing SMT the PSX port with a translation patch, long story short the game feels like a grindfest, i hit a major roadblock at post timeskip Shinjuku where i had to grind for hours at Shibuya untill i had enough yen to get M16´s and able to resurrect my dead demons, once i got back on my feet i managed to fuse a few demons here and there and get a party strong enough to keep progressing through the game, i breezed through roppongi actually, anyways now i got to Ginza and im back at square one with all enemy encounters being borderline lethal, i tried the police station and got party killed twice at the boss, so it looks like im back to grinding untill i can deck out the crew again and get more demons

is the whole game like this? grind untill you can beat the area then proceed untill next difficulty spike? or am i doing something wrong? game feels like a chore and whatever novelty it had went out the window the second i hit Post-Timeskip Shinjuku

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>>259651
>All the gay jewish shit in the remake is actually...
NO

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>>259651
> downfall of the society in which you're exploring the ruins of.

Are you fucking shitting me?

>>258977 (OP) 
>Given everything that's happened to gaming over the past decade, with so much info and shit flying around, I just wanted to see what companies are deemed as "safe" or "parasites" by various Anons and their reasons why? If you can, be sure to includes links and infographs. I just want to be better informed.
At this point i'd say that no company can be fully trusted, but you have to judge game by game.
For instance, i once thought that CDprojektRed was "safe" and look at what happened to them.
Now i am not going to play, let alone buy a single game from them ever again.

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>>259480
>its a falseflag because it has games i like on it
>these other groups which recommend woke games are even better!
Wow. Compelling arguments.

>>262885
0/10, try harder

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This game surprised me back then; instead of doing some silly game vaguely following the story of the movie (like most of these did back then) they just took the cool parts of the setting and made their own thing.

>>259888
I remember being turned off of it after seeing the bad review score on xplay.
Did I get conned by Sessler?

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Even though i didn't even fucking watch the movie i remember discovering this game on a shareware CD and playing with my bro on PC. Playing it again now it's a somewhat standard buttonmashy co-op beat 'em up, but it's not bad and you can tell it had a bit more care put into it than most licensed kids games. I've played far worse.
>loads of unlockables like concept art, 3d model progress videos, minigame stages, hats, and even some of the original Over The Hedge comics
>was released a bit earlier than the movie, yet acts as a continuation kinda like that Scarface videogame
>voiced dialogue for all the four playable characters on missions, depending on which two you picked and which was selected

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>>259733 (OP) 
scooby-doo night of 100 frights&unmasked were pretty good. they rarely get mentioned anymore 
there was always a bunch of games that I wanted to play but couldn't get to because copies of them were simply not possible to  find.
still even today I haven't played them simply because I'm too lazy to boot them up in a emulator.

>>259856
>Where does anon think the line is between "adaptation" and "licensed game"?
I assume adaption is a game based on a movie. They tend to be bad because there is limited creative leeway since the game has to follow the the same characters and plot points of the movie and they have harsher deadlines because the game has to be released when the movie is released otherwise there is no point.

>>259791
There was an earlier wolverine game for ps2 which was ok. A 3rd person hack and slash but it had some interesting mechanics like when the enemies were lined up in certain positions (like one in front, one behind you) then you could trigger special attacks so that made the combat more tactical and dynamic. They also had a zelda thing going on with the bosses where each one had a different gimmick you had to figure out to beat it.

>>263020
You don't need a subscription nor do you need to verify your phone number for every server on Dofus, but you need to do both for the Dakal servers (which mostly seem to be at maximum capacity anyway). Kind of annoying how the single-account servers are the gated ones since those probably have the least issues with botting/multiboxing.

Finally got a character made on Dakal 2. Name is Sonicfan.

>>263020
You only need to set up 2FA for the mono servers and it can be done through mail, that's how I have mine set up
>>263024
I've told the others to invite you, but if you haven't received an invitation to the guild you can just apply to it it's called "The Hams"

>>263030
Sorry, the guild is named "Steamed Hams"

>open website
>blank page
>it forces a reload automatically
>and again, and again, and again
>"Max challenge attempts exceeded"
Call me when registration works.

>>251288
Old phone games.

Recently 1cc Devil Blase Reboot on hard. Now I just got to do inferno. Really fuvking good game.

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>>240186
Is that shit actually canon?

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>>262866
>no sir, you can't have a girl (with a dick) fucking another girl, it needs to be a REAL man so that I can get fully aroused

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>>230587
>Starfox (and other rail shooters
Not this idiocy again.  Star Fox and Rez are in two fundamentally different game genres.  Star Fox involves player avatar control in dodging hazards.  This makes it fundamentally like Gradius with one extra dimension, AKA a 3D shmup.  Actual rail shooters like Rez and most lightgun games do not, you're literally on rails and only concerning with aiming a gun at things, which is why they're called rail shooters.  Don't tell me to play Star Fox when I ask for more rail shooters, and don't tell me to play House of the Dead when I ask for more 3D shmups.

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>>260797
idk man, she looks fine to me.

>>260787
The rest, sure, and that anon is blind and/or gay, but what's wrong with #2?

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>OK, Frankie. But first, feast your eyes upon my work.
>Now this, is my most violent shot.

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Been playing a lot of Quake recently. Mostly Arcane Dimensions. Very good stuff, everything from core mechanics to visuals is significantly improved, without going out of style. Many new weapons and monsters too, and the best thing is maps, those are heavenly good. I did finish it yesterday, and today gave a try to some standalone maps from Siteseer. Found this gem on 2-3 screenshots in the latest Black Fog Zine. Quite small, but very well made and with a nice final fight.

>>262711
>A certain amount of damage should also change how they behave i.e. A piece of their armor gets blown off and they try to use cover more.
>>262711
>Just imagining shooting at some tanky enemy and pieces of it's armor flying off and gradually making their armor look more fucked up, this alone makes fighting them sound kinda fun.
Haha, if only there was something like that already...

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I think baked into the definition of a bullet sponge is an enemy who isn't also reactive or has a lot going for him in general other than a big health bar. Bosses are good because they have all their interesting attacks and things, and the fat HP bar is just a contrivance to keep you fighting them for long enough so you see all they have to offer. An enemy's tankiness should be matched to how complex they are. Bullet sponges are when that balance isn't achieved.

>>262761
They're actually a pretty good spongey enemy. The only real fault is breaking their armor doesn't really feel satisfying.

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Damage sponges without attack variety is one of the classic hallmarks of Euroshmup design.  It's really quite remarkable how consistent Euroshmups are in repeating this mistake.  What is it about their design approach that makes them so oblivious to this obvious form of tedious un-fun gameplay?  A lot of other aspects of Euroshmups can be attributed to a pretentious mentality of the Thinking European Man who needs to "intellectualize" an action genre with stupid mechanics.  But this doesn't quite explain why they fuck up bosses or other enemies with too much health and too little attack variety so often.

>>262700 (OP) 
To me it feels like Quake 2 is the perfect illustration of that, even more so with the expansions, as it does feature tanky enemies that are somewhat interesting to fight (Berserker, Gladiator) as well as some of the worst bullet sponges you can find

>>262706
>Can you really say bosses are bullet sponges when their intent isn't to sit there and soak damage?
What are most FPS bosses

>>262711
See Ratchet & Clank, it helps, but  not as much as you'd think

>>262700 (OP) 
Hi a sponge is not fun to fight.
A boss is.
If all you do is sponge bullets,
You are a bullet sponge.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk

>>253377
Replying to my own post to share the entire Spyro wallpaper collection, now uploaded on the internet archive:
https://archive.org/details/SpyroHD
disregard the title, the upload is 100% complete

>>256209
nice

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I always liked HOMM 5 artwork.

>>262569
I dunno. I found it to be a merely "all-right" game that you shouldn't expect too much from. It has a totally borked difficulty curve though. Kinda tough in the beginning and laughably easy later on unless you set constraints for yourself.
Sound design and soundtrack is god tier though.

Minecraft
bought multiple accounts too to give away
never imagined it would be pozzed by microkikes

>>262604
What was wrong with Dread?

>>262640
Its 2D metroid but with some gimmicks. Gunplay alright and so is the graphics. Its just not as groundbreaking people remember every other Metroid game was.

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>>262640
To me it just felt bland.
Gameplay was just okay, but mediocre in every other aspect.
Planet ZDR had nothing interesting or unique going on,  the EMMI looked stupid and the mechanics involving them were garbage, the music was crap,  the alien/enemy design forgettable, the story was dumb shit and graphics were washed up.
And the most important thing, there was NO FUCKING ATMOSPHERE.
Personally, what i like about Metroid was its unique blend of sci-fi and a hint of horror (the series took inspiration from Alien, after all) that in dread was completely absent.
If you ask anyone about Super, they will tell you their favorite area and related theme, in Dread all of them were uninspired and forgettable.
To see Nintentards give this game a 10/10 or even compare it to Super is a fucking joke.
Truth is, if this game didn't have the Metroid name attached to it and was instead yet another 'Metroidvania' game, the same morons would have no issues admitting how mediocre it actually it.
Again, it plays okay, but there's nothing interesting about it.
I hope anyone but Mercury Steam (hopefully some japs or retro) develops the next one.