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General Video Game discussion, aside from games that have their own threads.
What are you currently playing, what you are looking forward to, favorite games, favorite consoles, gamer set discussion, reviews, praises, complaints, questions, etc.
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Princess Maker 5 gets critized for it's shitty translation a lot, but is it at-times-unintelligible-shitty or is it a-2018-release-of-a-2008-game-shouldn't-sound-like-PM2-shitty?
No. 330198
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it looks really good. trying not to get too hyped in case its bad but it looks like it could be fun
No. 330267
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on my 3rd elden ring playthrough! hi nonas!
No. 330366
I just bought the Civilization bundle from Humble…never played a Civ game in my life and can't wait to completely fail at it. I really want to try more strategy games, particularly Age of Empires because I love Roman history but they're so intimidating. Are any nonnies here familiar with these types of games? Is it better to just learn as you go or do you use guides?
>>330174I don't have an answer to this but I adore this art.
No. 330386
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Any other nonnies playing reverse 1999? The artstyle is gorgeous and I really like how non coomerish the artstyle is (great designs too!) It's sadly a gacha tho I haven't played enough of those but I really liked the main story
No. 330415
>>330198Same here
nonny. I've lost all my trust in Konami but I really want this to be good.
No. 330417
>>330386I'm not paying attention to the story, I like the designs (it's not my fave artstyle but the designs make up for it, I love the characters that are just like.. a bedsheet ghost)
I really like the gameplay, feels involved but not a slog. Great for a free game so far.
No. 330432
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>>330422Its 90% female characters, I just checked it out and it actually has a lot of coomer designs. Like the promotion art shows characters that are cute but the game has characters like pics related. Honestly, my first impression is that it's like any other waifu game for moids. With slightly better art.
No. 330473
>>330386I was very excited for the game because I like the concept a lot, and yesterday I had fun reading the story. I liked the designs we first see in the game a lot but then I saw this
>>330432 in tutorials and the naked child villain and my hopes died. Feels like another tencent attempt at that one big game just like Alchemy Stars, and if it follows in AS' footsteps then the gameplay will feel boring and the story will lose its spark soon unfortunately. But for now I'll keep playing to read the story and I'll attempt to play with only free units.
>>330450I saw this too but how are they passing censorship in China? Then again they sell porn with atk stats and don't get into trouble
No. 330478
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>>330473genuinely dont get why anyone is praising the designs, they look like shit. You can tell they were made by moids that know nothing about fashion and would rather stick their stylus up their arse that draw female characters in non-sexyfied clothes(aka most of the fashion form those times). All of them look really modern. This is genuinely awful. Now i wanna steal the concept and make it better and with actual good designs.
No. 330481
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>>330478>All of them look really modernDid you play the game? Because the cities also look modern. The houses have european interior designs (I can't tell if it's exactly the time period, I'm not european) but in one instance they went back to 1920s and they had a city full of skyscrapers, like how you would imagine new york in a century from now. It must be an alternate universe where civilization developed at a different pace, probably thanks to the time bender people. I personally love when games develop their own world and just take inspiration from real world designs, where's the fantasy in keeping everything historically accurate? I can understand how it would ruin the immersion for historyfags though
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>>330481They could have done so much with the designs thanks to the unique concept, but decided to go with generic gacha designs that look undistinguishable from any other waifu gacha game. What's the point in having the game's gimmick be time periods if you aren't going to take the time to actually research the fashion of those decades. It's like if girl's frontline gave all their vintage gunfus, like Springfield(1903-1975), generic modern outfits. I genuinely hate 99% of gacha designs, they all look the same. You could give them the coolest concepts to work with but the average gacha trash anime coom artist will draw the same generic overdesigned anime girl. It's so tiring, i actually like gacha as i find it relaxing and fun to play while on the shitter, but outside of GF i haven't found any other with actually nice designs.
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>>330450its true(although i think its more likely the androgynous anime chara trope than non binary shit)….ill keep playing it though until i get tooth fairy and for the story,but yes sadly after playing it a bit there is a naked child character…i had hopes for it but gacha cant ignore coomer bucks
No. 330589
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>Just encountered an armpit and thigh fetish character be voiced as an actual child
Excuse me???
No. 330594
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>>330589The image is worse than you think. Then she has the voice of a child to top it off. If you don't want to see it but know
>holds arm behind head to show armpit, hair is parted at the armpit, the position of the arm is stupid for what she's holding>her skirt is wet and clinging to her thighs, riding up the side of them >is a literal child. this is not the anime style looks young type of deal>is standing like she's holding in her pee>has an uncomfortable facial expressionThe more I look at it the worse fetish material I find so I'll stop. How does this not get caught with China's censorship shit. They censor tattoos on TV and this is a game anyone can play.
No. 331230
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azure gleam was a massive disappointment.
No. 331254
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>>331241who's your fates husbando, nona? jakob is qt. i only played the blue lions route but 90% of it was everyone trying to appease some dumb, violent scrote kek
while edelgard is an infantalized brainwashed shell of herself who is completely degraded at every turn. literally revenge porn fodderif you liked azure moon, this game will likely kill any affection you had towards the cast.
No. 331266
>>331254>who's your fates husbando, nona?There are too many of them. But I really want to see Xander and Ryoma again. It sucks that Niles is a DLC character but at that point I'm willing to pay a little for him, Owain and Oboro if I get the game.
>if you liked azure moon, this game will likely kill any affection you had towards the cast.I played that route first and liked it a lot because it felt like a complete story with good characters. So I guess I should prioritize FE Warriors then kek.
Does Edelgard gets to act like an actual piece of shit cool villain this time or did the IS marketing team force the writer to still make her kawaii and moe to compensate for her role in the story? That's the one thing I wish happened in FE3H. No. 331289
>>331272Nta but isn't the game Chinese?
Though, maybe all Asian countries are the same to you.
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…i thought china censored this bullshit?…i was having fun with the story until i read this
No. 331792
>>330366I played a decent amount of V and VI. I started out by playing on teams with my friend who is an expert in V, which helped me get started, and then just played with my other friends who are casuals.
I have a pretty different playstyle from all of them since they just go for the warmongering scorched earth domination strategy while I like to go for the silent religious victory. Incidentally, they are all male… dunno any other women who play
Never played the old games but I started up the first one once and the intro's kinda funny
No. 331818
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Has anyone heard about this game? The Coffin of Andy and Leyley. The art seems fine, but apparently, there's ton of coomer art because the subject involves incest without it having actual incest.
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>>331818hey this game is a guilty pleasure of mine. also yeah there's incest, it's barely even "implied" as the siblings are pretty obviously into one another (see picrel).
i like andy – somewhat, second chapter kind of ruined him – but leyley annoys me. just hate that she's such a stereotypical manic pixie bpd-chan
No. 331834
>>331818It was talked about last thread and elsewhere on this site.
How about you talk about games you've played and actually enjoy rather than boring drama.
No. 332215
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game recommendations for mobil??
No. 332218
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>>330594not defending anything else but isn't the pose a reference to this painting by Ingres ?
No. 332257
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>>332215black black is a minimalistic puzzle game with 50 levels in black and white. I like how intuitive the solutions often are and the in-game music. The game developer has made six other colour-themed games and while they're fun too black (and blue) are my favourites.
Peach BloodYou play as a thumb-on-legs-shaped thing eating smaller thumb and running away from bigger thumbs. It's a bit like agar.io for one and really addictive.
Cats & GhostsIn this game you feed stray cats who give you money to buy cat toys and furniture. There's not a lot going on, it's relaxing to just feed the cats.
As far as I remember all three games have ads to get hints or in-game currency, but they're not shoved in your face or necessary to advance
No. 332266
>>332215DEEMO
bloons
dragon raja
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>>330595John titor kawaii….
No. 332472
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Anybody playing Fashion Dreamers? I've been so excited, and I'm picking up my physical copy at Best Buy later today. I thought it could be fun to exchange in-game codes with fellow farmers.
No. 332476
>>332472Yes, I'm super excited!
Waiting on a ROM/dump though, I hope the moids in the switch hacking community will get on it quick. Delete and repost cuz i see the NSP is already uploaded, nice! I'm gonna download and get started right now.
Drive safe to Best Buy and enjoy your game nona ♥
No. 332608
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>>332472i preorderd it but my switch just broke
No. 332699
>>331254>appease some dumb violent scroteThats going to be Dimitiri kek. The infantalized brainwashed Edelgard is literally how he remembers her ("at first i thought she was difficult… but then that facade fell away, revealing her
true self beneath") and sees her ("she was being dragged all over, unable to live the life she wanted"). Edelgard is always at her weirdest in Dee's routes.
>>331266Oh fuck off. Fire emblem franchise has a shitton of irredeemable female villains. Edelgard is clearly not one of them. Complaining about her having soft spots is like complaining about Arvis loving his family and having noble goals (I kind of hate equating them, cuz its cliche at this point. But they are really similar - although imo Arvis is more relatable and realistic). They are tragic characters, who do bad actions because their worldview is corrupted, not because they are genuinely malicious. Fe in general (like many other franchises) has a history of such tragic and likeable "villains": Zephiel, Travant, Lehran, Michalis (to an extent - this bitch is totally fashist), Berkut… Like where does this stupid sentiment even come from? If you want a girlboss irreedeemable villain go jerk off to Petrine or Hilda, stop trying to ruin more complex characters.
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>>332736Same here, I only played for an hour or so. The gameplay loop isn't as satisfying as Style Boutique because well… there's no boutique. You have to run in endless circles around a deceptively large map, talking to the same 4-5 people, all of whom are very boring. The dialogue and profile blurbs in Style Boutique were cute and interesting, but I don't even read them in Fashion Dreamer. Plus, when you reload the map, they'll have taken off the outfit you last put them in, so it's like you have no lasting effect on the world around you.
That said, it has all the trappings of a very impressive dollmaker. If you only want to make cute characters, then yes absolutely you should buy it! However, you collect new clothes at a snail's pace (unless I'm doing something wrong?) so it will take time to build up the ~unlimited~ wardrobe options shilled in the trailer.
Online play is probably more fun, too, especially if you have friends who like the game as well. People on Reddit say that you don't need a Nintendo Online Membership, which might convince me to buy a legitimate copy. Even if the game has some flaws, I want it to perform well so we can get some more fashion games. The Girl Game genre has all but died out, maybe Fashion Dreamer can revitalise it?
No. 332792
>>332511samefag, I bought it. I'm really enjoying it despite a lot of differences, I miss the amount of layers you could have & more complex outfits but I understand why that's (probably) not possible. The filtering also annoys me no brand/colour/style etc sorting
>>332748I agree it feels empty just running around, as well when styling npcs their descriptions (especially in higher friendship lvls) for outfits are boring
>you collect new clothes at a snail's paceI'm not really having this issue, I just go around liking everyone's outfits & keep up with the trend area where you can get clothes off the boards. I find the bigger issue is that it's the same stuff since it's early days of the game. Also utilise the item creation/your brand if you want a specific item.
No. 332812
>>332773She has this kind of backstory not because she is a cute waifu. Red emperor having a genius plan to manipulate some dark shizo cult and then (predictably) fucking up is a cliche in fe games. Similar to archetypes, insane dragons, etc etc.
She has her waifu moments, but they are all with Byleth. If you delete Edeleth from the game she becomes a good character.
>>332758You said: "does Edelgard gets to act like an actual piece of shit cool villain this time", ie complete bs, since Edelgard by design was never supposed to be "an actual piece of shit cool villain".
You misunderstand the character, project some your fantasies on her and then get mad that people call you out for it? Go back to twitter yourself, clownanon.
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>>333052yeh i wished they padded the romance in the main story of the first game greater than what was in the game. i also loved seeing the glimpses in the letters they sent you tho. if the cg stories are anything to go by, maybe there'll be more romance this time. not sure if they can add female love interests in the second game, but the CCP same sex ban doesn't really seem enforced even after the ban announcement bc i still see a lot of BL and GL webtoons being posted so hoping they will be okay to add for players who wanted more of that from the first game.
No. 333295
>>332968Fashion dreamer was published by Marvelous not Nintendo
Also came here to see anons thoughts on the game and it was pretty much what I expected. I made the mistake of going to the subreddit for the game and it's full of people sucking the game's dick despite lacking content. Sucks cause this game has potential and I do enjoy some aspects of it. I'm trying so hard to resist sperging about this game so much.
No. 333652
>>332955No. Hack your 3DS to play HHD for free (it's very easy) and if you like it then go for the Switch DLC afterwards. As much as I loved HHD when it came out, it can't compare to the breadth and depth of interior design in ACNH.
>>332792Yeah the lack of proper filters is frustrating, I can't see why they wouldn't have them? If not for style then at least for colour/pattern. For a game that prides itself on having unlimited inventory, it sucks that I can't find my way through half of it. Also the inability to zoom in while building the outfit. I can never see what colour the glasses are and it's messing up my coords.
Overall though I really like it, I find myself itching to play again and make cute outfits. I'm not sure it's worth 50 bucks but I am glad to have it. I can only hope they'll add some QOL improvements with the upcoming update.
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Does anyone here play or like Dead by Daylight? I'd like to make a thread for it. They just rereleased their Stranger Things DLC and announced Chucky.
No. 334505
>>332472I forgot this was coming out around this time! I was interested when I saw it revealed in the direct because it seemed to have lolita stuff. What's the online play like? I was originally planning on
pirating it regardless of how good it was but I may buy if there's any worthwhile way to play with other farmers.
No. 334534
>>334356I like Styling Star the best because it has the cutest characters. I don't remember how it compares to others in terms of features and gameplay, but it definitely has the most memorable story in the series
>>334420Ugh yeah they're all terrible. I hate the ones with facial hair especially, they all disgust me so much I don't even talk to them. Dreading the day I have to grind and level them all up to get more makeup/hair
>>334505Without online play the game is extremely sad and empty. Also the textures are glitchy. If you want to enjoy it you'll need a legit copy and IMO it is worth it
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>>335216personally don't mind kpop but just though the song was kinda bland, animation quality is good as usual, I just miss when they would do more lore related animations this is just a cash grab for a game that has already been buried by being a cash grab. to really drive the nail into the coffin they made the skins 19 dollars a piece. picrel, the promo art for this immediately reminded me of the KDA album cover, the art is cute but the whole thing just screams KDA clone.
No. 335314
>>334420I'm starting to feel this too, I've been avoiding doing lookits for males since my collection of items is lacking and pretty shit and OH. MY. GOD. there's males everywhere. I get bored walking around cocoons pretty quickly cause I'm always looking for female NPCs to dress up and instead I keep seeing fugly males. I really wish the game would stop pushing NPCs that I have a low relationship with, so many of them are ugly as hell. Even the actually cute ones that I like aren't popping up as often anymore cause I have a high relationship with them this sucks nonnas.
>>334356Any of the 3DS games tbh I put so many hours into trendsetters when I was a kid and fashion forward has been very fun although the lolita stuff in that game looks way more cartoonish for some reason. Haven't played styling stars yet but I believe that one was digital only so if you ever want to play it you'll need a hacked 3DS and hShop.
No. 335777
>>335768kek there was that one nintendo direct a while back that was like 70% farm games. It was insane, every time you thought it was the last one they'd throw in another
>>335334I know this is not what you're getting at but I wish the idea of girl games was expanded, I actually like a lot of moidy games where you do stuff like fighting/killing. I think it'd be cool to see a game of a male-dominated genre that's designed to target women, like genuinely by-women-for-women rather than the coomer approach of just making the whole cast a hot girl and having pink UI.
No. 335892
>>335817Well anon up thread was already saying she wished the list could be expanded because games she personally enjoys aren’t on it.
It sounds like gender stereotyping with extra steps. What makes something a girl game? Is it anything with a majority female player base? And what’s the actual point of this for people who aren’t marketers trying to sell a house pink and blue version of the same thing?
No. 335961
>>335789>>335892i'm the anon who originally expressed the wish, the thing is that those games are designed for men and thus favor male interests. For instance you often have games revolving around male characters while female characters are sidelined or used as eye candy. Most of the people you can play with will be male and the devs generally aren't considering female players much at all. It's hard to really pinpoint, but it's like an overall atmosphere thing, I guess? It's not about the genres or gameplay mechanics themselves but the way they present them.
Of course idc what the target demographic is, if I like a game then I like it and I'll play it. I don't think those games should necessarily be "for men" it's just a reality that they are designed with men in mind. The coomer depictions of women do kinda annoy me tho
No. 335983
>>335789>Why does there even need to be an idea of ‘girl games’? Just play what you enjoy.Because "girl" is the specific human experience that I want to be catered to (I am an adult, but I don't want adult themes in my games at all or I guess I would have asked for "woman games" lol jk). No one is saying people can't just play what they enjoy, it's just that there's a lack of good girly games directed towards girls/females only.
For example there are a ton of girly kawaii aesethtic anime games full of cute girly characters - which sounds great, but then you look closer and oops it's actually a violent and/or sexual game made for adult males. It's not as easy as just "play what you want" when the experiences and interests of being an adult male or young female differs so greatly and there's always an intended audience for every game. Why shouldn't there be good games made for girly girls specifically? Imagine a zelda botw sized game that's just girly adventures in a magical kingdom instead. Defeat your enemies with a runway fashion show, craft your own dresses, beat the evil queens by befriending them, unlock a mermaid form, design magic wands, collect all the animal friends, discover magical secrets etc. I want all the girly adventures me and my fellow girl friends played out as kids.
I get that the phrase "girl-(anything)" makes some people cringe but I unapologetically think girls are a distinct group that are worthy of being catered to without it being seen as bad or cringe. Some games are not intended for males and why should they have to be, you know?
No. 335995
>>335992>A shooter that targets to women by having cool female characters that aren't sexualizedDestiny?
It actually has a lot of nice female characters, and you can play as a female MC, it's just no good for beginners with all the story wipes.
No. 336021
>>335999Hate when people say something is shit just because of hearsay, have you ever played it?
Yeah the servers can get jank at the beginning or end of new content drops but it's to be expected considering the size of the playerbase.
But there aren't any other games with the same combination of artstyle/story/gameplay as far as I know.
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I noticed VNs and text-heavy games tend to have a huge female fanbase, and often the devs end up catering to them. The last Ace Attorney game has great female characters with non-sexualized designs, and some of the male ones were designed to appeal to women (which worked wonderfuly, every woman I know goes crazy for at least 1 of them & their merch always reach insame prices in the aftermarket keek).
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>>335992Not sure what anyone's complaining about but the Valkyrie profile series tends to have decent female representation and its criminally underrated imo
No. 336130
>>336043>I noticed VNs and text-heavy games tend to have a huge female fanbaseWomen generally prefer reading over men, even games that are clearly targeting men over women like the persona series still have a sizable female fandom because of the character interactions. I remember they also did a poll for danganronpa and it had a higher percentage of female over male fans.
In general though I think the western gaming industry only realized within the past decade or so that the games women generally like playing are life sims, RPGs and VNs and I personally don't think that's a bad thing at all.
No. 336134
>>335620OP of the post bringing up the topic, I did not realize there was so much infighting since it's been a while since I've checked the threads.
If you guys still want to do a spreadsheet though I'm fully for it!
No. 336159
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Is a steam deck worth it?
No. 336163
>>336159I have one and if you play a lot of PC games and emulation and need it to be portable, yes.
You have to be willing to tinker if you come across a game that won't work out the box but that's an exception and not the rule.
No. 336173
>>336168Really depends if you're willing to compromise on how high you like setting games, long sessions are possible if you're frugal but 2 hours minimum if you like a lot going on, which is still good.
>>336170It is just very good and I'm glad someone took a page from Nintendo and made it good and not a cash grab (coughPlaystationcough)
Obviously if you want better storage capacity, that's when the price is a bit eye watering.
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>>336173>coughPlaystationcoughIs the PlayStation portal that bad?
No. 336225
>>335986are you mixing me up with another anon? I did not say that
Like I said in my 2nd post, it's not about genre but about the dev's intended audience, I don't see any genre as being "for men" "for women" I'm talking about how they don't have a female audience in mind when designing the game
No. 336228
"Girl game" is a demographically descriptive category that doesn't necessarily have to mean that only or all girls can like it. Same way the term "shoujo" works.
>>336134That would be great!
No. 336229
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>>335986If you're going to be this myopic, apologize to Growlanser.
No. 336230
>>336229Growlanser isn’t RTS
I don’t get what your point is either
No. 336291
>>336287strategy games, puzzle games, fps games, RTS games, card games, rougelikes, platformers, immersive sims, rhythm games, shoot em ups, simulators, racing games, sports games? like don't get me wrong I'm not saying there's no bias or that coomshit doesn't exist, and lots of triple A games are guilty of this, but there's also a huge section of games that don't pander to men at all and only focus on gameplay. indie games, lesser known games and emulated games are also really good. I promise the gaming ocean is deeper than you think. though, I will admit some bias on my part, I don't really care about story or romance and I recognize that as an underdeveloped area for women.
No. 336294
There is so much comfy shit nowadays, why would you want even more? just go play animal crossing, its million of copies on the switch, or this boring shit. You arent opressed, if anything you are more than cattered to nowadays.
>>336071you arent opressed because women dont want pink shit being shoved down our troath anymore
No. 336313
>>336291You're right
nonnie. Most games I grew up playing had no gender bias when I think about it. I played tons of movie shovelware games, final fantasy and other japanese rpgs (which were actually all seen as girly games in my country, boys only played fifa and gta) and I never felt like any of those games catered to men in particular. Sure in the 80's and 90's there was an expectation that most gamers will be men, but that already started waning in the 2000's when the industry started becoming more profitable.
I think this large male bias only remained in online and competitive games mostly, if you look at mmos and mobas yeah sure, they're full of fanservice for men but most games are surprisingly gender neutral.
No. 336314
>>336294Anyone who says we want boring shit and shovelware is completely missing the point. Yes, the market is being flooded with cozy games and 95% of them suck. Why? Because female audiences are undervalued by the moids in charge and indie releases are made by amateurs. Just compare the quantity of high quality releases targeted at men vs. women. Think of how many critically acclaimed, well received, beloved by fandom "girl games" there are. In the past 20 years, there are not that many. As franchises, I can think only of Bokujo Monogatari, Animal Crossing, and Style Savvy, and the first two could be considered ""gender neutral"" by many. Then, compare every other kind of game and there will be hundreds of super epic awesome le game of the year stuff for men. What I'm trying to say is that girl games have quality issues, not because the concepts are inherently boring, but because they are carelessly developed. Fashion Dreamer COULD have been as engaging and entertaining as its predecessors, but it's not. Shining Nikki COULD be as interesting and challenging as BOTW, but it won't be. I'll keep playing whatever games appeal to me, whether they are "for girls" or not… but who could blame me for wanting to play a 'perfect' game? One tailored to my interests, with enjoyable gameplay mechanics, in my preferred genre? Obviously that's a big ask and I doubt I will ever see that dream come true, but is it so bad to WANT it? That's what it comes down to, I think. Anons are NLOGing it up because some of us want to play fashion games. Like what you like, seriously it's no skin off my nose if you want to play Doom Destroyer 64 The Reckoning Covenant. I'm glad you have a game that you enjoy, that's a lovely thing. I also want to enjoy games— just a different kind. I don't see any reason why I shouldn't want that or, more importantly, why I shouldn't ask for it and demand better when developers fail to deliver.
No. 336336
>>336193Looks pretty good and it would be nice to actually have a life sim with nice graphics but
>kraftonexpect korean spaghetti code that will require a massive super computer to run well, on top of usual korean greed
No. 336343
>>336314>Yes, the market is being flooded with cozy games and 95% of them suck. Why? Because female audiences are undervalued by the moids in charge and indie releases are made by amateursNo, 95% of them suck because devs just want to hop on the bandwagon and make a quick buck. That's the case with literally any trend ever. Souls like games also exploded after ds3/elden ring and most of them are trash. Same with undertale clones. Women being undervalued as consumers doesn't play a large part here imo.
>>336340What, that games for girls = homemaking, pink, friendship, kindness and fashion, and that everything else that doesn't fit into that category is for men because men are the default? We don't need more of that shit. I'll always advocate for a better character customizing and costuming aspect in games but miss me with the sexist stereotypes that your average tranny thinks is what defines a woman, there's nothing more infantilizing than attributing that to "girls" when a good portion of us here spent our lives rebelling and wanting to shed those stereotypes away.
No. 336363
>>336331A moment of weakness, I apologize. I will now display empathy appropriate to my ~*feminine nature*~.
>>336343I understand where you're coming from. When you're gender nonconforming and everything around you is divided up into boy/girl categories, then you end up "othered" from people in your hobby/community. And of course it's unfeminist and reductive to say that girls only like pink, fashion, friendship, etc.; that girls never have other interests; or that being female excludes you from anything that was not specifically targeted at your demographic. I haven't read every post ITT, but I know
I'm not saying any of that. What I'm advocating for is more variety and higher quality.
And when I ~empathize~ with the corporations pouring money into marketing these games, I understand that they would label them as "for girls," since that's whom they intend to sell to. And I understand why consumers label them the same way, since they are almost exclusively played by female gamers!
Is the issue mainly in the name? Would you prefer if they were called something else? To me, because "girl game" is an established term in the gaming community with a generally agreed upon meaning, I want to keep using it. It's broad yet succinct, it's alliterative, and honestly I just like the word "girl." But if you have a suggestion I'd be happy to hear it.
No. 336374
>>336363I’d call it girly game then. Or maybe dame game. Like chick flick? Lol. In all seriousness if male is the default (I could argue about that but whatever) segregating into a separate category won’t help. My solution would be to improve what’s considered default, for example both male and female romance options rather than just female.
Women are already pushed out enough. Like I saw a video of a guy complaining that his gf was playing minecraft ‘like a man’ because she was mining and not homemaking (yes be was serious). Even in on here people are called nlog for their honest taste. I think some of us got annoyed because calling it ‘girl game’ or ‘games for girls’ unintentionally implied that girls don’t play games that are complex or challenging and only want dress up, life sims or romance and that anything else is ‘autistic moid shit’. Zoomers in general seem obsessed with re-establishing gender roles- you probably didnt mean in that way, but some people probably got
triggered. The way people say girl instead of woman doesn’t help with this as well, like it it was ‘shoujo but for gaming’ it would be less jarring because it’s understood it’s for young girls. I also don’t see what’s wrong with the existing genres of farming sim or dress up game, just say you want better produced games in those genres (which is completely fine obviously).
Sorry for wall of text
No. 336453
>>336314>but who could blame me for wanting to play a 'perfect' game? One tailored to my interests, with enjoyable gameplay mechanics, in my preferred genre?The issue was that you were calling your tastes and interests a "girl" thing and some anons were telling they don't share the same experience. I hope you get the perfect game for you one day, I really do, but we all want out games to be tailored to our tastes. It's just not a universal "girl" thing to want fashion dreamer, plenty of girls don't like these games and that's ok, same way it's ok if you like them and you wished they were more polished. A lot of us who like to play "Doom Destroyer 64" want the games to cater to us as well, so we both want the same thing but from different directions, you want to expand the games you like to have more complexity and quality and some of us want the games we already like the gameplay or concept to properly cater to women. We aren't blind to the reality that these games are mostly targeted to moids, we still wish for better versions of them even if we still manage have some enjoyment from moid targeted games.
>>336363Yes, I hate the term girl game, call it fashion game, cozy game, farming game, cooking game or whatever the game actually is than trying to shove these interests into a experience that isn't an universal one, it's not a nlog thing for me to say I don't want to play fashion games and that I like shooters or rpgs. We don't have boys games because we as society accept men can have a wide range of interest, but for some reason we group a specific set of interest as a "girl" thing. I want this category to die so we can call things for what they are and yes we should push more female gaze and quality in all possible categories of games.
No. 336520
>>336453>>336347Hypothetically, how would you go about making something like Doom cater more to women? You could make Doomguy a woman, but since he's just a faceless, silent protagonist it wouldn't really change anything. You could tone down the blood and gore, but that just feeds into the stereotype that women can't handle violence.
Is it just a matter of adding more sex appeal for women? Would you consider the Street Fighter or Soul Calibur games gender-neutral if they added more hot guys in addition to the hot girls?
No. 336585
>>336520I don't see why change Doom, it is what it is, a fps that you shoot monsters. Either you like it or not, I don't remember being extreme moments of misogyny in the very few story moments. I see it as something neutral. Something like Resident Evil on the other hand, then I would absolutely change the disgusting scenes where they sexualize the female characters, like Jill being deep throated, give better outfits for Ada that aren't cocktail dresses and high heels and so on.
Maybe both solutions can happen, some games can add more sex appeal for women to put things on a equal footing, others can just tone down unnecessary sexualization of character that contribute nothing but cooming material, each person will decide what caters to what they want. Personally I don't want male characters in the same skimpy outfits they put women into, but
if they insist in putting bikini armor, they better include the same for males. I don't think there is a single solution for all games in how to cater to women, in the end the best would be to just have a variety of options. Neutral games without unnecessary sexualizations, games with sex appeal for both audiences or even games with sex appeal just for women. Like the other anon mentioned, why not a female gaze version of Witcher with no male protagonist options like baldurs gate or dragon age.
No. 336631
>>336374>My solution would be to improve what’s considered default, for example both male and female romance options rather than just female. I disagree I think that would just lead to more problems with male gamers pushing against it, and by the end neither genders would be happy with the end product.
a good example of this are comics vs manga, manga had segregated it's targeted audience and by that crated products that satisfied both consumers, on the other hand comics didn't have any segregation so the targeted audience ended up being male by default (just like games) and when they tried to appeal to the female audience (even if very badly) they got very hard backlash from male readers by the end not satisfying anybody.
Also leaving aside the idea of pink, cozy games being girl games, don’t nonnas here want good games that appeal to the female audience by having handsome guys and romance, like otome games but not just vns? And yeah yeah that could happen with games targeted at general audiences but why wouldn’t you want a game that is specifically only aimed at girls? And it doesn’t have to be pink and a live sim it could be boulder’s gate but specifically with only a female audience in mind.
No. 336644
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>>336639Yeah I wish games focused more on fun gameplay rather than graphics, for example. I hate hearing about a new game, or getting recommended a game, and the first thing the person has to say about it is "muh graphics!!!" I don't care. I don't need a game to look hyper realistic to feel immersed in it. A game's first priority should be that it's
fun not that it's pretty and overheats even the strongest of computers. Give. Me. Fun! Give. Me. Cool! Give. Me. Gameplay!
No. 336647
>>336639>>336644Autistic rant but I wish I knew how to code or script bc I have an idea for a game that i feel would be fun to play
you play as a crippled character that has no use of her legs, but has a set of symbiotic automaton legs that can attach/detach from her body at will. When fighting the legs detach from her body to engage in combat. The challenge is that the human host is left vulnerable so you must both eliminate the enemies and keep your host safe. There would be parts where you would need to work in tandem with the human body and where the legs would get damaged, forcing you to find parts to fix them it would have a whole alien cult story weaved into it, and it would be set in a steampunk/biopunk world. If someone has the ability please make this dream real for me
No. 336658
>>336652I wrote with
NO male protagonist options. As in a game like the witcher that you have a fixed main character with no option of creating your avatar, but instead of being a man, mc would be a woman.
>I like RE games a lot. there isnt any real issue with them. I always found them to be fine for both audiencesYou can enjoy games at still think there is room for improvement, if you don't see how they unnecessarily sexualize the female characters, then idk what to tell you. Just because Jill isn't in a samus zero suit in the remake doesn't mean they don't manage to slip in retarded coomer shit, like the deepthroating zombie that just exists for Jill, we didn't see it inseminating Leon or Chris in any other game, I wonder why hmmm. I love the RE series, but it doesn't mean they are perfect. I can enjoy games and play them even if I disagree with some choices, I don't expect a perfect curated game, everyone is going to have their own opinion, but we can all still criticize or wish for things. In my experience I can overlook that stuff in RE because there is more in it that I enjoy, but don't be disingenuous and say there isn't any issues with them.
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>>335983a lot of being a "girly girl~" is just socialization imo. i get what you're saying and to a point i do agree but i think a TRUE good game for little girls doesn't involve a lot of femininity – at least not as a main thing. it just has strong, good female characters. they can do (or be) anything. picrel is a great example of what i mean – outside of like, rarity and fluttershy i don't find any of these characters particularly feminine, but they are women who do fun and diverse things (or women-coded i guess because uh, horses).
also personally when i was a kid i was beating my friends with sticks and pretending to be a war chief. not everyone was playing dress up and spinny skirt glitter pink unicorn barbie saccharine sweet disney princess etc.
>>336882maybe search for afab only discord servers or something. anything labeled 'girls' only' these days is a honeypot for troons sadly
No. 336897
a little late to the party but I get what nonnies mean. my nieces play games and I have to think, what new games right now are actually being made with young girls in mind that aren't shit? kirby, animal crossing maybe? but they're pretty gender neutral so they aren't made for them. if you look at ds games I feel like they knew girls were playing it and they were the target audience for a lot of its games. yes, they don't want to be limited to just "girl games", nobody here is saying that. like while my nieces are "tomboyish" in that they're rambunctious, in a million sports, playfight, whatever, they also love pink girly clothes, getting their hair and nails done, etc. where is that variety for them in gaming? I think all anons are saying is that they want quality games made where girls are the target audience. all I can think of is the new peach game for the switch.
it's similar to the manga discussion, where people are noticing a lack of shoujo being made and a lot of josei manga are being published in seinen like young jump because they don't see value in girls as a target demographic, and know the series will then be seen as "less than" because god forbid a boy enjoy a series targeted towards young girls.
jesus, I didn't intend for this to be such a longpost whoops.
No. 336898
>>336896AFAB is becoming a slur in the troon community nowadays, if you keep up with the /snow/ thread. A term they themselves invented, kek. Well if anyone finds one, please tell us how it goes.
>>336897Honestly I think a game that scratches that itch for "girliness" are games with lots of customization, outfits, decorating, etc. Like parts of the game dedicated around collecting cool clothes with enchantments or buffs or whatever aids the gameplay. Think the new Zelda game with all the different outfits you can dress your slutty Link in. And think of all the games with housing options and furniture and decorating your own base/house/castle, mmmm that's the shit I like personally.
No. 336904
>>336901yes you're making sense
and i agree with what you've defined as girlishness. focusing on things that aren't beauty or kindness or other very stereotypical femininity chains but are also associated with girls is good to me as well
>>336898>AFAB is becoming a slurthat's so weird when "cis" essentially means the same thing…troons can't be "cis women" or afab kek
No. 336909
>>336897Whatever games your nieces gravitate towards are for them (with consideration to age appropriateness, of course). That might be dress up games, horse games, animal crossing/the sims, or princess peach/kirby; or it could be something like ratchet & clank/spyro, 4x games, zelda:BOTW, or idk kena: bridge of spirits. I don't think girls aren't being targeted because they're not seen as a valuable market (they are), but because general audience games are a much safer bet on so many levels once you start making anything more complex and sprawling (eg a game like botw that only and aggressively targeted a female audience is a much riskier product to develop and publish, as not only are you alienating the male demographic's wallets, but also a lot of women are likely to be turned off by being targeted in that way, especially if they prefer more general audience or masculine titles. women still make up a smaller fraction of gamers when it comes to AAA games especially [iirc they're the majority for mobile titles though], so you're casting a smaller net while still hoping to make bank on the time and money spent developing and publishing the game). Maybe try letting your nieces pick out a game themselves, or ask them what they really like in games and someone here might have a rec that fits?
I do miss that era of DS games though, especially all the pet sim games kek
While I'm not saying that a lack of interest from publishers isn't a factor, I think it's good to keep in mind that as it becomes more and more acceptable to branch out from 'girls content for girls', a female audience will start to migrate towards whatever content they find personally interesting rather than necessarily 'made for them'. Shoujo may be partly on the decline because more girls in Japan are reading shounen and may no longer find the tropes and cliches of shoujo appealing. Female audiences globally have been historically railroaded towards certain kinds of acceptable, 'feminine' media that reinforces gender stereotypes/roles, and it isn't uncommon for that kind of media to reduce in popularity once its audience is able to move on to different pastures without social stigma.
(sorry for the rant, and I do understand what you originally meant, I just had a lot else to say apparently lol. hope you find some good games for your nieces!)
No. 336973
>>336893Thank you for being interested since I know that this thread is not really for this.
I don't have the whole backstory fleshed out but the most basic stuff that is important to gameplay. Yeah, the legs are automaton legs but they actually have like a living flesh growing on them making them appear as some living entity. The twist with them actually being automaton legs is revealed later in the game, once the repair mechanic is introduced. Your legs are actually one of the automatons used to pilot rickshaws/carriages in the world but it has become infected with an alien symbiote that is capable of taking over machinery alongside infecting living creatures. The alien itself has difficulty taking humans as hosts but is capable of infecting humans using machines as a proxy. There's this cult that worships the alien symbiote things that is trying to successfully merge the symbiotes with humans to essentially make super humans. I still haven't developed the backstory out fully but I want it to be really well integrated with the actual game. I feel that the game play itself wouldn't be engaging enough just being fighting. I really want the story to slowly unfold as you're playing similar to certain horror games like silent Hill or forbidden siren. I'd also want there to be puzzles you'd have to solve.
And yeah, I don't really want the game to have full voice acting. Id want voice acted cutscenes, but not much, the speaking would be largely text based. You would only really hear your character call out when hurt or something.
No. 337207
>>336973is this a fetish? its ok
nonnie you can tell me
No. 337264
>>337207I know this bait but it's not a fetish, I just have an Autistic interest in creating stories. I've always had a big imagination. And like some other users said, games don't tend to lean on interesting gimmicks or playstyles to garner interest anymore since graphics are so good. I believe that truly engaging gameplay is not stuff that is difficult for the sake of being difficult but rather presents a learning curve that the player must overcome in order to complete the game. Usually horror games use these gimmicks, because putting limitations on the player adds to their vulnerability.
But thats part of the interest of those games, like fighting ghosts with only a camera, or being forced to shoot invisible aliens that you only can know where they are from an annoying beeping drone that goes off when they are around.
I got my idea from that painting of a woman with no use of her legs being stuck out in a cornfield forced to drag herself all the way home.
No. 337614
>>337557I never beat the game because I didn't like how the endings were either side with the evil institute and their stupid plan or nuke the institute.
Not all the scientists in there were evil, why couldn't we just cooperate.
No. 337642
>>337631>evacuate the institutehuh, didn't know
I only read about the endings a bit then decided not to bother.
I only got far enough in the storyline so I could romance Danse. Then I just never bothered to finish.
No. 337730
>>337631I know how you feel anon, Fallout is one of my fave franchises. I hated 76 and I hope they don’t make 5 even though I’d love to play it.
That’s why in this play through I’m not really progressing the story, I’m just killing/looting shit with companions.
I must say though, I really wish they didn’t make Gage a romanceable character, but at least if you complete that DLC before you meet Preston at concord, and then kill all raider gangs, you get all the perks and he won’t hate you.. and you don’t have to deal with Gage being your life partner kek.
New Vegas is my fave tbh, I loved that game
No. 337926
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Should I replay Fallout4? This discussion, plus the fact that I haven't finished it, and also the fact that one of my Steam friends has been playing it kind of makes me want to either finish it, or start a new player and play until the end.
>>337730>>337787New Vegas is a masterpiece, I might replay that one instead. As for a potential Fallout5, I have no faith in Bethesda to make it good. If they do make a new Fallout it better be on the west coast. The east coast games are kind of disappointing. But I'd love to revisit Shady Sands, Vault City, and see newer locations like maybe Hollywood…
Unrelated to Fallout, are there any good games for sale right now on Steam?
No. 337999
>>337631Danse had a whole backstory programmed into him bc of the railroad. They would rewrite/mindwipe the "saved" synths so they could better hide their identity as synths.
As for the eating/sleeping things yes, synths do need to eat and sleep and generally do all the things humans need to do to survive. They are no longer machines at this point and are essentially clones but with a computer component in their brains that the institute uses to track them. They are similar to the replicants in Bladerunner.
There is a terminal in one of the institute labs that touches on this, with Sean saying that it is incorrect to call them androids as they are more human than machine. Plus, if you go into one of the labs you get to see the synths get produced, it reminds me of the scene in the 5th element, with machines implanting living tissue on a skeleton to produce them. They are not made out of machine parts but living tissue. And the only thing I can think of as to why Sean made a synth clone of himself was because he was dying of cancer and didn't think any of the other scientists were worthy of replacing him. You were essentially released as a test to see if you would be a worthy replacement. Sean admits this if you do certain actions that
trigger a meeting on the roof of one of the original institute buildings. Sean wanted you to raise synth Sean while you were director and then name him as director after you stepped down. If you infiltrate the institute with the minutemen you get the option to save synth sean. And Sean also makes it clear that the he doesn't see the surface dwellers as worthy to repopulate earth so he wanted them eradicated and replaced with synth versions which would then work to make the surface a more hospitable place for the "worthy" institute members. Which I frankly find moronic but whatever. They made Sean a total sniffing his own facts character.
No. 338015
>>337999Same fag but I have such a huge problem with the storyline in this game, and there's a ton of stuff I'd frankly want to talk about but Id just go on an hours long tangent.
I don't like the relationship with Shaun they create. I get that Shaun was raised by Kellogg so that doesn't help him emotionally but they make him the most emotionally devoid/apathetic character. He has no friends, nobody he considers family or on the level of family, he holds no love for anyone. He only cares about the institute and continuing to improve it. You would think with him discovering what happened with his birth parents he would hold some animosity or any kind of emotion towards the very people who ruined his life but he does not. I consider the bunker hill mission and the consequent meeting on the building after a poignant part of the game. It really confirms how apathetic and uncaring he is toward everything including you. Playing the first time I didn't care about joining no stupid faction I cared about finding my SON, the one who was wrenched out of my dying husband's arms, the one who I birthed and raised as an infant before the world ended. But all he says to you in that moment was that you were an experiment. I was a lab rat, and ultimately a servant. Chosen to do his bidding simply because I was the most genetically viable since I was his biological parent. That's a stake through the fucking heart.
And to try to make up for all that shit with the clone kid is like a gut punch. All the the timelines in that game are hell timelines.
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hogwarts legacy for switch finally came out and i love it sooooo much. some framerate issues bc my switch lite is weak but it's incredibly addictive and the world is so beautiful. love the historical fashions also, you bet my girl is traipsing around the countryside in mutton sleeves and knickerbockers
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>>337999I'll be honest I completely forgot about the synth manufacturing sequence until you mentioned it.
Maybe instead of fucking around with flesh robots, our dipshit son should have been trying to cure cancer kek.
I think the biggest problem I have with the FO4 main plot is that you can't really accomplish anything as leader of the institute of you side with them, for good or ill. In fact, all the main factions basically have no endgame content.
Also, why the fuck were the institute even fucking with supermutant stuff when they already have synths? Either kill ppl and replace them with robots or kidnap ppl and turn them into mutants, don't do both. And then you can find the room full of dead cats and it gets explained as they were feeding cats to their mutant captives. It was just excessive. Like, I get it, they're the bad guys, enough.
No. 338119
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Is there a mod to make this fucker more handsome
No. 338235
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is anyone playing class of '09?
No. 338248
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>>338237>emo/scene fashion in its 2008 glory days>people use gay as an insult>"sociopathic" female main character named Nicole>father commits suicide and blames her>brother is a fatty manchild NEET video game addict>gym teacher and student counselor regularly try to fuck the students>male students regularly harass the female students >"all men are rapists and pedophiles">Nicole gets a guy to jump off the school roof>gives a girl an eating disorder for being fat>steals a CD and gets shot by a mall cop>sells crack to help the community>pretends to have gotten sexually assaulted to skip class>starts "Nicoleism" where girls remove all emotional attachment from anyoneIt's pretty funny and the voice acting is great.
No. 338267
>>338248"Edgy: The Game."
I never understood what is the purpose of these games.
No. 338284
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https://racheldrawsthis.itch.io/dead-platethought i'd share this because it's a homoerotic horror-themed VN by a woman, which made me rejoice, no TIF in sight
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>>337730fallout 4 was such a huge disappointment aside from some of the companions being really cute. 76 was so boring i stopped playing even with a friend to partner up with. i still always go back to new vegas, which is immaculate as far as i'm concerned
No. 338395
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I just asked in the HP thread but I'll expand on it here too for a bigger input: what makes a game "mid"?
I'm only just now playing hogwarts legacy and I had kept hearing people call it a mid game so my expectations weren't high, which made me surprised over how much I enjoy it. In my opinion it's a good game, not a mid one. Mid to me means it's "less than" good, it's a step below. Good obviously doesn't mean "perfect" or "amazing", but still solidly good. I know a lot of TRA/handmaidens bashed the games for gender reasons so I did take criticisms of HL with a pinch of salt, but I also saw anons on here say it too. So what makes a game "mid" compared to "good" or "bad"?
No. 338398
>>338395I think a lot of times a 'mid' game is one that isn't necessarily bad or even lacking, but one that doesn't 'wow' people. My friend is actually playing through Hogwarts Legacy and he says that he can't really fault it, that everything is done pretty well, but it's just lacking a certain spark to push it into being a great game (which I agree with, I feel the game is unfortunately too safe and that it doesn't quite deliver the Harry Potter Experience as effectively as I think a lot of people were looking for).
Mid games, in my experience, are ones that either play their stories/mechanics too safe or generically, lack a strong identity, or are objectively good in a lot of ways but have a poor gameplay loop/feel (this means that I find quite a few games that are heavily praised to be 'mid', though I wouldn't call them bad and might even call them good when talking about them). There's also so much choice now when it comes to games and so many new titles all throughout the year, so people's standards might either be very high or require a new game to be more obviously unique/impressive before they'll call it good or great, so average or decent but not mindblowing games get tarred with the mid brush (calling something mid also seems to be negative as well a lot of the time, even if there's nothing technically wrong with the game, which is annoying lol).
Glad you're enjoying the game though! What's your favourite aspect so far?
No. 338404
>>338395I played it and I can kind of understand people's point about it being mid. Like it was a good game, but like
>>338401 said a lot of missed potential. I made a big mistake by playing bg3 first, the npcs and dialogue there is a lot better.
The best thing about the game was Hogwarts self, they modeled it wonderfully. So if you are not a Harry Potter fan and don't have that nostalgia I can understand why someone would find it mid. I liked the combat also, but some combat spells felt redundant and I don't even use.
What they really missed was the relationship building with npcs like in bg3. In Hogwarts Legacy the characters are all so flat, and a lot of them immediatly see you as there bestfriend even though you barely know them. The building and progressing relationships with characters was just very lacking imo.
Also a thing I really was upset by is that you don't do anything in your common room. I chose Hufflepuff and it's so pretty and cozy. But you can't even sleep there and only itteract with npcs if they have a quest. Why the hell do you only give the option to sleep through the night in the map or at certain location by just waiting on the floor. At least give me the option to use the bed kek.
But yeah it was a good game, especially for a smaller/newer studio but it certainly had some points that needed to be improved
No. 338427
>>338395It's going to depend from person to person on what their prior gaming experience is, what quality of games they have played. Also will depend on what year it released, whether you want to compare it against the games of its time or all games. Some games have aged better than others and I think there are a lot of older games that would still hold up well today if they got a remaster that included modern quality of life features and accessibility (like font size changing, being able to change the speed of battle, being able to set your name to longer than 3, 6, or 8 characters). It ultimately comes down to someone's individual expectations of what games can be and achieve.
For Hogwarts Legacy in particular, I too felt that it was pretty middling at best. If I were a kid and this was one of the first few games I encountered, I would probably think the combat was fun but I don't think I would have been wowed with anything else. As an adult with many years of gaming experience, these are some of the issues I had with it (switch port, not finished yet but about 35 hours spent playing):
>the hogwarts setting felt shoehorned in. most of the time you're running around the overworld, dungeon crawling, and killing things. i get that you're a fifth year student, so your circumstances are a little strange, but i barely felt like a hogwarts student. i didn't watch much footage or read much about the game going into it, but i thought i'd be spending most of my time as an actual student, doing student things, with some mechanics maybe from Bully. i found it very hard to suspend my disbelief. why am i such an unrepentant killer? why do my professors keep sending me in particular on these weird quests? why do they keep reaching out to me outside of school hours like this? i'm supposed to be a kid and they're adults. probably one of those things that kids playing the game don't find weird at all, the strange student-teacher relations.
>tying into the first point, the setting didn't really feel like harry potter/hogwarts to meit felt if you changed the names of some things, if i saw footage of someone playing, most of the time i wouldn't realize it was supposed to be harry potter. this is not something particular to this game, but i feel a lot of games are converging in on each other nowadays with having many of the same mechanics and this game was another reminder of that. the gearing system, the ability to sneak kill, having a player 'room' (room of requirements), hoarding lots of materials for a shallow & unnecessary crafting system, the inclusion of a crafting system at all, mounts, on and on. the animal rooms didn't need to exist at all and added nothing good to the game, just more unnecessary item hoarding and time wasting. basically, this game could have passed for a shittier assassin's creed odyssey skin most of the time.
>poor art directionthe environments didn't wow me at all. hogwarts was OK. the overworld was mostly very drab and boring to look at. it felt like there was very little attention put into things like the flora and fauna.
>massively neglected student-student relationshipstowards the beginning of the game they have you meet your other housemates. ok cool, can't wait to get to know them. then what do you do with them? very little, for the most part. maybe i got spoiled by persona, but i thought there'd be more relationship building and daily interactions with your classmates, but it mostly was contrived quests and walking while talking. i wasn't expecting romancing, but i was expecting some notable friendships. there's no sense of camaraderie. and even aside from your classmates, the characters all feel pretty flat. did jkr write for this game at all? because it didn't feel like it. it felt like most of the dialogue was very interchangeable between characters.
>laughably easy combat system that becomes cheesier and cheesier as you go onnone of the combat encounters have felt threatening or challenging. and seriously once you get the item transfig spell and the skill where it turns them into an exploding barrel, it's basically an instant win button for clearing out encounters. it looks like it will become even more broken once I get avada kevadra, the skill that spreads curses, and the one that enables avada kevadra to kill all enemies with curses. i'm not even sure why they bothered to include the lower tiers of gear because the game has thrown so much of the top two gear colors at me that i don't think i've ever equipped something below purple or orange level.
>cumbersome character creation interfaceprobably not so much an issue in the PC version of the game since you have a mouse, but the navigation for the character customization was awful with a controller. for example, with the hair options, i expect to be able to use my dpad to click easily between options, but instead they have you using the joystick to move around your cursor and then click on each option. it was unnecessarily cumbersome to interact with. i did appreciate that the hair options weren't divided by gender like most games do, but they should have been sorted by hair length.
>"""open world""" that doesn't feel much like an open worldAny time you walk into a building in hogsmeade, the game enters a loading screen. A lot of the time when you're running around hogwarts, you'll get stopped at a door and have to wait for the loading circle. I don't know if this is a limitation of the switch hardware or if the pc version does that too but the pauses in gameplay make the world feel more disjointed than I expect from big budget games nowadays. most of the dungeons/caves/whatever had that distinct boring corridor feeling.
>unclear who the audience of this game was intended to beas touched on earlier, the writing feels very flat and juvenile but you're running around killing things most of the time. they also seem to try to nostalgiabait older fans who grew up with the series with naming characters like Black and Weasley, but then they never really do anything with that.
So, overall, the game has a distinct lack of that magical feeling that reading the books gave me. I came into the game wanting to love it and did not. It felt like some studio wanted to use the hogwarts setting because it was established and it would sell well, but they didn't do a good job capturing the magic of why fans love harry potter and hogwarts. As a game, it doesn't bring anything new or unique to the table and it doesn't do anything particularly well. It's another shitty ubisoft-esque collectathon game with no heart, amateur hour shit. I would not feel good about paying for this game so I'm glad I pirated it. I would have had a better time just playing KOTOR over again.
No. 338505
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>>338288>>338306what are your fave DLCs? mine are lonesome road > dead money > old world blues > honest hearts in that order. i find the humor in OWB annoying but it has a pretty cool setting, and i don't mind the setting of honest hearts but it's such a horribly boring and awkwardly racist story and the only saving grace is that joshua graham exists.
No. 338509
>>338505I never did finish Lonesome Road. Got up to the point where EDE gets taken and was immediately over encumbered and didn't feel like cleaning everything up.
Also really didn't want to go into the super irradiated area for some of the collection achievements.
No. 338515
>>338508Chin up,
nonnie! Destiny 2 is Bungie's main money maker, so don't be so ready to think that the game is over once TFS releases–they still have those three extra chapters releasing after it too, right? As far as I understand it, their new game is still a ways away, so they'll need something to keep 'em going until its release. Plus, there's no guarantee their new game will take off like Destiny has, especially considering extraction shooters are something of an old hat at this point. They kinda struck gold with D2, and it would be incredibly stupid to lose out on so much money just because the main story that the entire franchise was built upon is finally reaching a tangible conclusion.
No. 338798
>>338784Make a handy list of games you want to play, but don't buy any of them until you actually have time to play them. That's what I do, it makes the game feel fresh and new at the point I do spend money on it and gives me that little dopamine kick of having bought a new shiny toy. It also prevents the guilt and stress of having a pile of "should play" games laying around. In addition it also stops me from sinking money into games I won't play until 5 years later (if at all), at which point it's probably on sale so I could have gotten it way cheaper. Hoarding can be tempting but it doesn't do you any good.
The only argument for buying a game early is that you support the franchise/creators, but I can't think of anything more sad than knowing someone bought something you made but never actually played it. And you'll still be supporting them even if it's 5 years later.
Since you already have a backlog, just give yourself permission to never play any of the backlog games, ever. Doesn't matter if you've been meaning to play it for years, maybe it just wasn't meant to be if your heart isn't into it anymore. Then start a new list of games you really, really want to play the most. If it's one of the backlog games, then great, play that one! If none of the backlog games make it to the list, that's totally ok.
No. 338944
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>>335804I'll play with you nona
No. 339003
>>338868Yeah I did on /v/ lol
The dev does sound like a cow but I also hate moids who just dogpilled on her out of pure pettiness. As if there aren't any male indie devs who do much worse and trace/steal content and don't get nearly as much hate or even get a pass.
No. 339097
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>tfw the best Fire Emblem game isn't even made by IntSys
Bleak… I don't think there will ever be an FE game as good as this unless they hire Koei Tecmo again. Its only flaw was that it was too ambitious for its own good. Maybe I'll play Tactics Ogre or Triangle Strategy to fill the void or something…
No. 339246
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>>339136Also, despite having many husbandos in the past, this game made me
absolutely certain I will
never find my dream husband irl. Real men not only don't look like that, they also don't talk like that and they don't think and feel like that… It's over
No. 339427
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>>339298>>339325Seconding The Witcher 3. Still one of the greatest RPGs ever imo. It has entertaining NPCs I remember by name, and great storytelling and sidequests I still think about today even though I played it 7 years ago. If the base game wasn't enough it has two incredible expansions for you to enjoy. The time investment might seem daunting but I promise you won't even feel the hours go by.
No. 339451
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Speaking of girlcore games, I know a lot of anons like Style Savvy and stuff. Recently when I've watched Japanese y2k-nostalgia videos the girls mention some sort of fashion game called Love and Berry (ラブアンドベリー). What is this game? Has anyone here played it?
No. 339519
>>339298Samefag but Dragon's Dogma is like $5 on the Switch right now, so I bought it to scratch the open world itch. And I'm obsessed, this shit is so fun. I can't beliece I get all this content for that cheap.
>>339325>>339427Will try Witcher 3 at a future date since it is so heavily recommended here.
No. 339652
>>339498Ohhh so it's a rhythm game, that's a bit disappointing actually.
>>339499 this looks absolutely insanely fun though, a card swipe system. Must have been so fun to be a young girl collecting the cards with your friends. Thanks anon! This answered so many questions!
No. 339658
>>339466How is it gross? It's girly games targeted at little girls. It's only gross if moids turn it into a weird fetish thing but thankfully they dgaf about this kind of game.
I'm actually looking for refs for fashion games. Aside from Style Savvy and gacha options, what are some good ones out there?
No. 339667
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>>339543Probably because open world games these days are so boring and empty. There's no motivation and sense of curiosity to explore the game world when it's filled with the same side quests, banal dialogues, map markers that handhold you to go to a certain direction, and annoying UI designs that clutter up 75% of the screen. The last open world game that was done very well is Elden Ring because there is a reason to explore and it's up to the player to discover whatever they can find, and the quests just happen so much more organically. It also made a lot of Ubisoft devs seethe (picrel), known for making many uninspiring open world games. Modern Assassins Creed game is everything wrong about open-world games these days.
No. 339808
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Can I consider that I beat Pokemon Legend Arceus after I beat Volo and caught all the legendary pokemon except Arceus? I don't feel like completing the pokedex. I looked it up and it seems like it's a huge pain in the ass because of the space-time distortions being rare and only showing me the same 5 pokemon most of the time. I decided to dust off my 3DS and replay FE Fates, it's as fun as I remember it. I'm playing Birthright first and the Conquest and Revelation, I want to visit castles and do online battles as long as it's still possible. Ryoma just joined my team so I'm going to fuck him and try to recruit all the kids.
No. 339884
>>339847I don't care about GTA. I don't like roleplaying as a criminal.
Wish there were more games that took place in a big city with a different premise, like you're a private detective or bounty hunter or something.
That's what I liked about Cyberpunk, just exploring the city and dressing up in different outfits.
No. 339888
>>339884Have you played LA Noire? That might be more to your taste.
>>339885What do you mean? Did the trailer impress you that much?
No. 339897
>>339888>LA Noirea little too old fashioned of a setting for me.
I will forever rue the fact that that Prey 2 game where you were supposed to be a space bounty hunter on an alien planet got canceled.
No. 339975
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Anyone playing Lethal Company atm? I know it's very flavor of the month and it's widespread because of tiktok videos but I gave it a chance with several groups of friends and it was fun. I think the reason it took off is there arent a lot of coop horror games that utilize the whole proximity chat thing. I just hope the dev uses the money wisely and puts some of it back into the game because it does get repetitive after 4-8 hours of playing. Luckily downloading mods does bring some extra hours of entertainment when you've played vanilla long enough.
No. 340028
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i hope the coomer faggot who made this game kills himself
No. 340066
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>>339897I know it’s Star Wars but this might be up your alley anon. Looks like it may be pretty fun even if it ends up following the Ubisoft open world formula
No. 340071
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>>339843tbh I think they expected most people not to play. There are some lore recaps out there but tbh all you need to know imo is that
Tris manipulated an amnesiac Geralt into a relationship and didn't bother informing him about his surrogate daughter pre-game and that's why you pick Yennifer or you wait for Shani.
Also you absolutely should select the option to simulate having played the witcher 2 because if you don't the game will select certain options that lock you into some negative outcomes and you'll miss some content. Picrel are the decisions you should pick imo so you have a better game. The last one is an absolute must because it gives a whole questline. These questions come up after the tutorial town is over but the option to simulate the save is at the start of the game. If you're being shaved and a guy starts asking questions that's when you're being asked about the witcher 2 options and I recommend choosing these ones
No. 340082
>>340072yen is my
problematic waifu but I would be lying if I didn't say I once watched what happened and laughed my ass off
No. 340093
>>339847People hyping this game up when it's just gonna be another moidfest of degrading women and doing crimes.
>>339884I also, I wish we could be a detective in a big open world game.
No. 340115
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Did anyone grow up with a dreamcast? favorite game? I've played Illbleed a few times on an emulator. Weird but fun game.
No. 340119
>>338235>>338248haven't played this game yet so maybe there's something I'm missing but from reading the vndb page the bully protagonist is the pusedo-emo (kind of normieish?) one? emos were the ones bullied by others in the 2000s not the other way around. some can be mean but not necessarily in some alpha stacy-like role. it really does come across as what
>>338307 said unless it's some kind of subversion or revenge story
No. 340130
>>340115Me and my brothers were begging for a Playstation for Christmas but our parents bought us a Dreamcast because it was new.
That was before I really got into video games though. We just had Sonic Adventure, Power Stone, Shenmue, and some sorta lame RPG I can't remember the name of.
Nothing I would call a favorite.
No. 340139
>>340133Never got a PS1, but we eventually pooled gift money and bought a Gamecube and PS2 later.
That's when I really got into gaming with the Xenosaga series and Twilight Princess.
No. 340140
>>340137that's probably a really good way to do things honestly.
I want a standalone Ciri game so bad
No. 340163
>>340072I didn't even know that happened, kek. I didn't
reject her cause I felt like Geralt canonically wouldn't but doing so is actually kind of a massive fuck you to the incel moid cuck author of the books so this is based. So pissed I had to read that garbage so I could play the greatest RPG of all time. CDpr is based for retconning half of his crack schizo plot points
like Ciri's father wanting to fuck and impregnate her. It's also awesome that as Ciri
you can say the rose tattoo is the result of some bullshit mistake. I hated that whole rapist rats section so fucking much. No. 340199
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>>339847>new rockstar game>no fujobaitso what would the point of me playing this be exactly?
No. 340210
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>>340202>gta 5mike x trevor is top tier old man yaoi, trevor is a perv to wade and his male cousin, mike x franklin cute
>gta 4ballad of gay tony, niko gets shipped with roman and brucie
>rdrarthur is a hot cumdump
>manhunt 2shit game but has a fight club thing going on between leo and danny
>bullyjimmy can kiss all the boys, but especially gary and pete
ignore the part where most of these characters are ugly. it adds flavor.
>>340209based
No. 340224
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>>340115Powerstone, House of the dead and Space channel 5 were my favorite dream cast games ever.
No. 340233
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Can wait for thursday game awards and BG3 winning absolutely everything
No. 340252
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>>340235It's the greatest dating simulator of all time, enough for goty
No. 340319
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>>340235it's too ugly for me to care about. literally looks like a weird mashup of skyrim and dragon age. and none of the characters are attractive, especially not this fag.
No. 340368
>>340235I haven't tried it but i will eventually because i want to understand what the fuss is all about.
I usually don't like western games but it looks like something i can tolerate however i really don't like it when games that aren't dating sims have romantic options, it's like they try to spoon feed me and usually i don't even find the characters attractive.
New Vegas was so good for giving us the option to fuck around few people but not letting us romance our companions kek. (i know it's the same for Fallout 3, but those companions weren't really much to me)
No. 340415
>>340317I think it's a decent game, but doesn't deserve the insane praise it's getting. So many people are focused on the romance in the game. I don't want to fuck a single character. All your hear about is people talking about fucking Astarion and now that fag is getting so much fame and hype because of his ugly portrayal of an old vampire.
Storyline wise, it's okay. Nothing ground breaking. I don't really like the battle system, even though I've played turn base RPGs most of my life. It just feels okay.
No. 340432
>>340421What's your take on half the husbando thread loudly lusting after TF2 characters, Astarion, Paul Dano, and musty shit smelling serial killers as long as they keep the paper bags over their heads during sex?
Rhetorical question. Let's not have this cope based infight again.
No. 340475
>>340235BG3 is the best game I have ever played imo, like I can understand the subjective take on finding the characters ugly or not enjoying tactical turn based combat inspired by d&d. But man, this game just lets you be so creative. Like you can do almost anything in this game combat and rp wise. It definitely deserves all those awards.
Also I don't understand the coomer complaint people have since you can literally skip all romance. Again you get so much choice as the player character. You hate Asterion? Well then just kill him or don't even recruit him to your party kek. You actually get multiple opportunities, to abandon/kill your companions.
No. 340490
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I don't hate the RE4 remake Leon but i really love how he looks in the original still, tho i am biased because i just really like how models looked around that era, it's like they look perfect no matter in what lighting they are in, plus i don't like hyperrealism, but that's just a visual matter i guess.
No. 340545
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>>340522I admit that when i was younger i did not ignore the bad sides, especially when some games would show you CGI art or cutscenes and it made me wish that in the future we would get to have those kind of graphics… which we kinda did, but i feel like they are just oversatured with unnecessary things that ruin the picture they want to show sometimes, but even without those expectations i agree that low poly in general can be its own thing and i'm happy to see some indie companies messing around with it at least.
Staying on a realistic look and trying to stay on the same era, some other games that i liked visually are Final Fantasy X/X-2, Silent Hill 2/3, Resident Evil 0, Haunting Ground, Devil May Cry 3, Metal Gear Solid 2/3, Tekken 5 but mostly Rule of Rose and Resident Evil 4.
There are surely other games i don't know but that's what came to my mind right now, maybe the fact that most of those games had dark colors helped their looks since they could let some things pass lol.
No. 340546
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>>340527I can totally understand that, honestly i would have tried more older western games if i wasn't so picky about the characters (and poor) lol, so many of them were a bit too ugly looking on their faces to me but i'll eventually try them out.
I've always been into titles with grim atmosphere but now i really appreciate it when i can find games that have specific artistic choices that i enjoy.
No. 340552
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>>340545>>340546Nothing special but i also liked the enemies of Extermination, if it was very realistic it would just miss its charm to me
No. 340676
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>>340546Man, Deus Ex was so awesome. I'm glad I got to play it when it was still relatively recent. (And HR when it was brand new.)
No. 340769
>>340661I went in with no expectations and tbh i wasn't very intrigued by most of those trailers, maybe some turn out to be interesting but i'll know it when they're out.
The First Berserker is the only game that got me curious, i don't like anime style in 3d like that but the designs and settings look kinda nice, i hope the fighting and story is decent enough so i will try it out but i'm not very hyped because it's a korean game and i only know them for dungeon fighter online kek.
I've seen the Kojima game and yeah it's just question mark like usual but for some reason it gives me conspiracy vibes and Elphelt's new design disappointed me.
No. 340795
>>340770I wish Arkane Lyon was doing an original IP, but they have a good track record so it'll probably be good.
>>340772It's survival horror? I think the original was sorta a cult classic thing, didn't sell much but had it's fans.
No. 340796
>>340755Kirby and the Forgotten Land,
To add on to the other anon with JRPGs, The World Ends With You and Live a Live (haven't played this yet but heard it's good) are also on there and pretty short, like less than 20 hours.
No. 340813
>>340793If you want something of a niche challenge, almost all of the SaGa games have been remastered in great quality on the Switch.
Now is honestly the best time to get into the series,with Emerald Beyond arriving in 2024 and there being more English resources for the existing entries' byzantine mechanics than ever.
No. 340888
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>FF7Rebirth about to come out in a few month
>Vincent's official render comes out
>his face still looks exactly like Sephiroth's face
>people on twitter talking about how Vincent could be Sephiroth's father because they look so much like each other
Anons, we're so fucking back. It makes me feel like I'm back on deviantart in 2007.
No. 340939
>>340888Kek I'm sure I read a fanfic like that a long time ago
>>340897Wdym? They all have retarded hair, it's final fantasy after all. Anyway, can't wait for Cid.
No. 341086
>>341084>>341082I liked peace walker and ground zeroes
and i kind of started liking mgs4 lately but i really dont like him and his fans that play into his ego and jerk him off. I really hate that people act like you disliking his newer works means you dont want to see someone grow and try new things. Like, I was all on board for death stranding until I played it and saw how god awful the writing is. Genuinely like the gameplay, but i dont even know what the story is beyond the first 4 hours because I skipped every cutscene kek.
But I agree with you about the hollywood-ification of his games. I would rather he and his team come up with original character designs and ideas over whatever actor kojima likes and can get his hands on. He's such a star fucker and definitely peaked in 2004 with mgs3. But I also do feel like he could have produced better games had he been able to hand off the mgs series to someone else earlier. I think having to churn out those games killed a little bit of his creativity
No. 341190
>>341082I never really cared about 3 because of the past setting.
My favorite Kojima game is Zone of the Enders 2. It's a shame we'll probably never get another fast paced robot game like that with a single player story.
>>341086Of course the story won't make sense if you skip it all.
Death Stranding has that kind of story that makes no sense at the start but everything gets explained eventually.
I did love the gameplay of it, very novel.
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shit
No. 341222
>>341082I'm glad nonas here think the same.
I still have to check out DS i suppose, i would never play it and i don't know how good it would be if i just watch it, but if i do it it's just because i like the setting.
I'll probably want to check whatever he's making now too regardless of the tranny but that's just on a visual way, and i hate it when games try to be movies, most of art movies suck anyway.
No. 341846
>>341613I love the parkour exploration but I am absolutely shit at parrying so I'm glad there's easy modes.
Cere sounded super familiar so had to look it up and she's Savathun, lol and then the 'can you really trust her' stuff got brought up.
No. 341864
>>341846Yeah, I played on standard knight mode, but it was still difficult to master the parry technique. I love Cere. I recognized her as Debra Wilson from Mad TV, because I'm an old fag. She's a fantastic addition to SW and this game was better in every way than the garbage ST we got. I hope you enjoy the game,
nonnie.
No. 341878
>>341864Knight is easy mode, but I did have to switch it down to baby story mode for the ninth sister fight cause I didn't feel like learning the pattern.
But I beat all three Marathon games on Kindergarten difficulty so no shame in it.
That's why I can't get into Dark Souls/Elden Ring. They don't have difficulty levels.
No. 342830
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Been playing through New Vegas for the first time, I love it. I like that even for an older game there are so many options and the world feels fully fleshed out compared to a lot of modern RPGs. When the DLC goes on sale on steam I'll be buying all those too. Are the other Fallout games worth it? I've heard some of the later ones in the series are ass.
No. 342877
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Spoilers for AI The Somnium Files and Nirvana Initiative I guess but I don't really get Saito's motivation to this day. The whole thing about the lack of oxytocin because of his fucked up hypothalamus or pituitary gland making him feel no positive emotion at all isn't hard to believe, the writers should have just made it about him being a psycho in general and having extreme daddy issues. My own hormonal issues caused by the same organs just made me a depressed, perpetually tired womanlet but that's it. I thought the antagonist in Nirvana Initiative was way more believable despite the crazy, forced plot twists about him and the cult. I don't know, maybe I take this a bit too seriously because of my own personal experience even though it's a video game with sci-fi elements.
No. 342922
>>342830Fallout 1 is great if you don't mind older rpgs with an isometric perspective. It has some odd design quirks and the story is fairly simple compared to New Vegas, but it's still good and shows you the origins of the NCR, the Brotherhood of Steel, and the Super-mutants.
Fallout 2's graphics and gameplay are mostly the same as Fallout 1, but it's a bigger game with more interesting sidequests and places to explore. If you end up playing it, I recommend using the Fallout Restoration Project mod unless you insist on having a vanilla experience for your first playthrough.
Fallout 3 is the first Fallout game by Bethesda. It introduced the first person shooter gameplay and uses the same engine as New Vegas. It's very detached from the original games and sometimes feels more like a reboot than a sequel, even though it's supposed to take place in the same world. It's still a fun game, and the gameplay is very similar to New Vegas. Just don't expect as much quality in terms of story or world building.
Fallout 4. The shooting gameplay is a big improvement over it's predecessors, but the rpg elements have been dumbed down. It also has a fully voiced protagonist, which a lot of players disliked. The story wasn't great either.
If you're wondering how the games connect to eachother in terms of lore and story, Fallout 1,2 and New Vegas(the games on the west coast) are more directly connected to each other, while 3 and 4 (the east coast games) are mostly their own separate thing.
No. 343057
>>342999nah, going by the descriptions it's story/easy/normal/hard, not easy/normal/hard/very hard.
Anyway, can't believe they actually made you play through the Order 66 segment, poor Cal.
Though the serious scenes afterward were kinda dimmed cause I had him wearing the pink poncho.
No. 343217
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>>343057Jedi Knight is normal difficulty, anon.
No. 343313
>>342830The DLCs are absolutely to die for. You won't be disappointed by it. Did you like Veronica at all? She's was my instant wife that game and she's related to a couple of characters in one of the DLCs. I actually modded the game to bring one of the characters back with me kek. They stayed in my base with Veronica and myself
slightly awkward as I'd wifed Veronica by this point in my head but idk, we'd make it work. I just felt they deserved to be with each other again. Maybe we're a throuple? I'd be happy to share her with them. Veronica deserved happiness and getting a good ending for her was hard and that story tugged at my heart so bad.Also the end cards include your choices in the DLC, some characters change their ending depending on what you've done or don't have end cards unless you do a DLC
No. 344037
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LMAO
No. 344138
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I love this game, I love the Lisa series, but Dingaling gets on my nerves. Years ago, he tweeted that Lisa (the rape and abuse victim who killed herself to escape the abuse of her pedophile father Marty) was the "worst person in the series". So for years in spaces meant to discuss the Lisa series, I had to watch retarded moid players eat up and parrot this idea that a child victim of abuse and rape was the most morrally corrupt character in the whole game and somehow even worse than her pedo, rapist, child-beating father, blaming the stupid and abusive actions of grown-male characters (like Buzzo) on Lisa, and all just because Dinagling said so. Years after he made that stupid ass comment and let the fandom run with it, it's only THEN that Dingaling came back to twitter and clarify what he even meant: which is that Lisa was the worst CHARACTER, as in he felt that she was the worst WRITTEN. So Dingaling misled all these retarded moid fans of the game into blaming and antagonizing the deceased child victim character for all of the terrible events in the lore and saying that she was worse than Marty (who again, is supposed to be the child rapist), and for no real fucking reason. What gets me about that misunderstanding is how much the fandom took Dingaling's stupid tweet as a fact with no questions asked. These motherfuckers really looked at that tweet and ran with this idea that Lisa (the victim) was truly the worst person in the entire game, even more than Marty (who is the RAPIST). These retards didn't even question how ridiculous that implication is, they just ran with that degenerate, victim-blaming take because Dingaling "said so". But how can I be so surprised? Scrotes are scrotes, so they're gonna think like a scrote (AKA using an ungodly amount of mental gymnastics to victim-blame a literal child character and make her seem more evil than a fat fucking pedophilic rapist). It was a big twitter misunderstanding, but it almost feels like some kind of thought experiment that only pushed my man-hate button.
No. 344162
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>>344140Now that you mention it, The Painful part of the series is ironic. The first character we're introduced to in the series is Lisa: a young girl with gardening hobby, a morbid mind, and a thirst for freedom due to the abuse her father places on her. Then we get to Painful, and we learn that a wildly curious, intelligent but violent girl named Buddy is the only female left in a post-apocalyptic world after a strange event called The White Flash takes place. And despite the significance of Lisa being the first protagonist, with Buddy ending up the last girl alive; Dingaling still found a way to make The Painful (AKA the most popular and longest Lisa game) focused more on some thrown in older brother named Brad than either of the two girls, who are the most lore-important characters inside the game. Now I'm fantasizing on what Lisa the Painful and what Lisa the Joyful would look like if Dingaling stayed focused on fleshing out Lisa and Buddy, and not having the gameplay centered around Brad's journey.
No. 344194
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two threads ago an anon mentioned palia and i finally got around to checking it out yesterday. so far i'm enjoying it! is anyone else playing?
No. 344208
>>344138>>344140as a fan of the series i'm not really sure where this hatred is coming from. while yes he made a mistake with the original tweet, that was MANY years ago and dingaling has since faced accusations from the worst of his own fanbase that he's a faggot cuck sjw for retweeting and saying stuff that doesn't align with that exact mindset. i also think joyful was a great exploration of buddy's character, and i have to agree with him that lisa herself is terribly written. also not sure how you guys missed that brad is also a
victim of rape and abuse from marty just the same? like the other anon said, dingaling clearly feels more comfortable writing male characters and probably avoided fleshing out lisa because he realized her entire character sucked the way he wrote her.
No. 344362
>>344227>>344229kek same, I reached my full/adult height at around 19, but I'm also tall lmao. All my short female friends pretty much stopped at 12, and yeah the average or lesser-talls stopped at 14-16.
As for the depiction in games
>>344026 I think it's just an awkward visual shorthand for age, as stupid as that sounds when you actually think about it. People will relate height to maturity, so I guess it made sense back in the day to have teenage sprites just be in between the adult and child character ones, and that's carried over even into more modern games.
No. 344474
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I wish we could do some kind of gifting thread here for nonnas like /v/ does.
No. 344703
>>344699huh, makes sense. didn't get mine til I was 15-16, so unsurprising everything else took its sweet time to be done with kek.
Back on-topic though, what's a game with a world that you really enjoyed exploring/milling about in (as well as/even instead of enjoyed actually playing the main campaign/storyline)? Need something to get lost in rn, but that doesn't have too many obligations either
No. 344795
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>>344775 I would recommend the Resident evil 1 remake first, but 4 is a fine place to start too.
4's plot is sort of disconnected from the other RE games, so you don't really need to know much lore going into it.
No. 344941
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Why do people say this about Slay the princess, it's the most generic premise that's been made so many times with loads of pretentious 2deep4u dialogue that drags on and uninspired rehashed lovecraftian horror, you can predict every single "twist" a mile away. I guess if it's baby's first philosophical body horror VN it's mindblowing but for someone who's seen this done so many times it's fine and there's nothing really fundamentally wrong with it I think, but a masterpiece? What the fuck. Maybe I'm just getting old. The horror genre is just getting gentrified so hard.
No. 345355
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Any VR multiplayer recommendations? My BF got me a Meta Quest for Xmas and I want something fun to play with him. I'd prefer something without guns.
No. 345411
>>344941the "why thing i like is a masterpiece" genre of youtube videos needs to die.
I bet this video has a constant lofi soundtrack playing and a vhs filter, and at some point the youtuber will go on a jargon about how depraved modern society is and how some sort of ism has made us selfish which affects how we play video game I feel like whenever a meta visual novel is released everyone rushes to call it innovative.
>The horror genre is just getting gentrified so hard.it's because horror games streams are popular amongst children. Horror devs are designing their games so they are entertaining on stream
No. 345441
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does anyone else play outlast trials? this game makes me kinda horny ngl
No. 345657
>>345442The whole
you were playing as a dead body the entire time and what the AI was doing were freaky, but
It's a copy not a transfer is something I've seen before so it wasn't that creepy to me.
I would've let copy Simon live if he wasn't gonna be trapped in a post apocalyptic hellscape.>>345482I don't usually play horror cause I'm not interested in supernatural stuff or serial killers.
I think it was really mostly scary because you can't fight back, playing on that safe mode they added seems like it defeats the purpose though.
No. 345664
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>>345657No idea how it would work for Soma but I played Amnesia: Rebirth using it and probably wouldn't have been able to otherwise. I enjoyed it for the story even if it had a little bit of a generic female character arc and some issues. I liked that since I wasn't worried about monsters I could explore every inch of the world and read all the notes and things, they also gave extra matches which was nice. Some of the environments were super cool so I liked going around exploring.
The developers do atmosphere really well so I still felt on edge even if I knew nothing was gonna kill my character. There were enough scares about and (mild vague spoiler)
a scripted scene where a monster spots you and then runs up and grabs you which scared the piss out of me among others so I think they had enough to keep you scared and engaged but feel safe. This game had the safe mode in mind from the start so they created puzzles to replace some monster scenes. I found that one out cause I was stumped at the first one and the walkthroughs all told me a monster was going to chase me through what was an empty closet and a brick wall to me kek. But in their defense I didn't get stumped anywhere else and progression was smooth so it felt like it was properly built up. And the solution to the first puzzle is obvious if you remember you're able to move most things in the world unlike most games so fair enough.
Of course, you can also chose to totally ruin the atmosphere with it but there are sections where you have to sneak around monsters and if you didn't know they wouldn't aggro you, you'd sneak carefully and it makes lore sense why in doing so they'd ignore or miss you so it doesn't break immersion at all. Or you can run into them a few times to ease the fear. I don't think you can do this for boss fights though, didn't try myself. I ran into the monsters once midway through cause I wasn't sure if the safe mode was working as I didn't think I'd be seeing them out and about and started getting progressively scared kek.
I'm so bad playing horror but I love reading it so I put myself through some games. I'm basic so I've replayed Silent Hill 1-3 multiple times and love them to death. Speaking of, I'm going to have to play the HD fan remaster soon of Silent Hill 2. Has anyone tired it yet? I hope it's not too buggy. What makes me kek is that among Silent Hill fans I don't think I've heard anyone play the remake, only excited about the fan remaster. Fair considering what happened last remake and Konami itself.
No. 346076
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So to everybody else who played Lisa the Joyful…do you have ANY guesses on wtf this ending was supposed to mean?
No. 346125
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>>345955I'm a little torn on remakes. On one hand, they're a way for younger players to discover old games that would otherwise be lost to the past. On the other hand, some remakes differ so much from the originals(like most of the Resident Evil remakes) that they're basically different games, so they just bury the originals even more without actually providing a good replacement for them.
By the way, were you talking about Baroque?
No. 346323
>>346318If it's just for Just Dance I would get a Wii instead (just get rechargable batteries). Both the console and games are way cheaper, plus they have released more JD games on Wii than Switch.
Though I cant give recomendations from the top of my head, the Wii has more games were you move your arms/remote since it was the console's main gimmick as well.
No. 346326
>>346318there is a mobile version of Just Dance called Just Dance Now that doesn't require a console. Though I think you need to pay for each individual song? They have some songs for free though so you can try them out and see if you like it.
Otherwise I agree with
>>346323 that you should get a Wii instead of a Switch. They are easy to find cheap
No. 346350
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I want to beat the person who made an Omori meme where every single RPG protagonist (including Madotsuki) were in a circle and with arrows all pointing to Sunny in the goddamn middle, as if fucking Omori was the perfect amalgam of every single RPG. This is the most online-opinion I have, but I want to bully zoomers who treat Omori like it's the king and queen of all RPGs, even though it's the newest and probably the shittiest one (lore-wise). You know how Undertalefags liked to take RPG-styled games that came out ten or twenty years before and judge them based on Undertale and treated Undertale like the God of RPGs? Well now Omorifags are doing it, and I want to stomp on an Omori cartridge.
No. 346356
>>346350Kek is it any surprise? Omori has all these FLASHING COLORS and all those NOISES and Yume Nikki is… quiet requires patience… you really think their little zoomie brains can take that?
Nah but real talk, it hurts when you consider that Omori and UT both descend from Earthbound, which is far superior to both
No. 346371
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>>346350>>346356If Mother was remade with Mother 3's combat mechanics it would blow all these clones out of the water. I will give Yume Nikki props for being so strange and esoteric though.
Mother: Cognitive Dissonance is my favorite of the Earthbound "clones" though unfortunately it hasn't aged well because the creator had to fight with RPG Maker every step of the way to get it to do a fraction of what he wanted.
No. 346372
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>>346350I agree that Omori is overrated but I also have a hard time getting mad about it because most of its fans are literal children… I remember being 12 and thinking undertale was the best and ~deepest~ game of all time (it was my first rpg) but then I started playing the Mother series and my opinion quickly changed kek. I'm excited for those omori kids to one day play the game their fave is a derivative of and get their minds blown
No. 346393
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i have successfully managed to emulate wii on my pc but what i really want is playstation 2 and i don't understand how to do it. anyone here have ps2 emulator and can give tips/tut? sry for spoonfeeding request
No. 346395
>>346316>>346373Thanks these looks pretty fun!
I played a little bit of VRChat too. It seems to be mostly furries and zoomers screaming slurs in public lobbies. I did find some pretty worlds though. I like the one with the ducks. I think I'm going to stick to private worlds though.
No. 346409
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Has anyone here played Inscryption? I got it over the holidays and loved it. I thought it was going to be a zoomer horror game but it was really fun. The ending got me pretty teary. I'm going to get The Hex next.
No. 346423
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>>346377I was halfway through college when I played Undertale. I feel like some wise old crone reading this.
No. 346429
>>346318Get a Wii or Wii U and jailbreak it and download all the games for it lol. Honestly switches are so expensive and the Wii era has so many exercise based games and things
>>346393If you got Wii emulation going ps2 emulation should be a breeze. I've been using this one for almost a decade now.
Download:
https://pcsx2.net/This is the guide:
https://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-Official-English-PCSX2-configuration-guide-v1-2-1 No. 346450
>>346409Act 1 was amazing. Everything after that was boring and needless and destroyed immersion. It takes you out of the atmosphere of trying to escape this cards-obsessed old man in a dingy gothic cabin setting, for what? To titillate the players into exploring the dev's retarded Hitler corpse ARG? Spoilers but
even if you don't look into the ARG, it's stupid that the game characters are akshually alive, and I'm also personally offended that P03 is such a huge part of the plot at all when he was the most annoying piece of shit character in the history of annoying piece of shit characters. The entire vibe gets thrown out the window and I don't think Kaycee's mod makes up for it at all. But the gameplay was good so eh.
No. 346476
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The silly fish was voiced by Astarion's VA all along!? lol, why you splurging on that DE. Arthur's 3 lines were from the MC of FF16 too.
I've only heard him in Detroit and RE.
No. 346512
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I'm a sucker for dark fantasy. I would've LOVED Fear And Hunger if it didn't have a tranny sidestory and if 50% of the enemies didn't have their dicks out. Tfw there's so much cock in the game that even one of it's "girls" has one…
Just like with the manga Berkerk, moids can't write dark fantasy without rapeyfying it to hell and back. I'm not even gonna bother with this game.
No. 346521
>>346512Tbh anything sex related is part of the horror to me, show me an open ribcage and i'd be less disgusted than seeing a dick kek.
Anyway i get you, i didn't finish the first game yet but from what i know the tranny is only in the second one? Then i think there are mods to hide the dick content but ofc that doesn't change that you're playing a game made by a person that wanted to put those things in so i would totally understand not wanting to play it at all.
Something that i don't get is also the artstyle, i like it overall but it's so inconsistent sometimes.
No. 346537
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Atlus anons, should I play Persona 1 and 2? I've played 3 and 4, but I genuinely couldn't stand another high school game by the time I tried playing 5. Are persona 1 and 2 like the other games? Should I just play SMT?
No. 346542
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>>346537they're nothing like the other games. highly recommend 2IS and 2EP, 1 isn't bad either I liked it more than 4 and 5.
for smt, I can recommend 2 (best), 3, dds 1 and 2, soul hackers 1, and the devil survivor games if you want a bit of a change of pace.
No. 346548
>>346537I enjoyed P1 and P2 lots, they're very different from P3-5. The P2 duology is the one that stays away from HS the most (it starts off at a school, but branches out later. EP has an adult cast), but P1 barely has any HS stuff either; they're full-on RPGs instead of the social sim/RPG mix from 3-5.
Playing P1 made my experience with P2 more fun (specially for EP), so if you don't mind the 1st person dugneon crawler gameplay I recomend playing it before P2.
I'm not a fan of main line SMT (gameplay itself is fun, but I guess I'm too used to text-heavy games, I need lots of story/interaction between characters to keep me engaged), but I like their spin-offs. Right now I'm playing Devil Survivor and loving it despite my hatred over SRPGs.
No. 346571
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>>346512The sequel is better and tones down the SA stuff massively. It's also more it's own thing rather than just lifting 70% of stuff from Berserk. It doesn't require a guide open constantly to make any progress. I only played about 2 hours into Fear 1 but I wasn't lost plot wise in Fear 2, it takes place a couple hundred years after the first.
No. 346639
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>>346541Baroque is a Sting game, so its gameplay is hostile, byzantine, and sort of a menu hell. But it has a passionate cult following for a reason, and I definitely recommend at least trying it if you can to see if its your speed.
No. 346661
>>346512I don't see much of the point of the game when all everyone does is see walkthroughs because its either that or not getting anywhere ever.
I like the aesthetic but the game sucks tbh.
No. 346690
>>346571>sequel tones down the SA stuff>better>not lifting 70% of stuff from berserkDoesn't sound like an improvement to me! But anyway, almost 6 hours into the first game and I haven't used any guides yet but I am slowly but surely making 'progress' but will probably end up failing anyway. My character has no legs anymore, for one.
>>346661I don't understand how people aren't getting anywhere? Maybe I'm not at that point in the game yet where I need a walkthrough. I'm just about to go into the dark underground cave area. I've been in it before but I wasn't ready. I know there's a mine to go into.
No. 346715
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>>346638 >>346537Even when SMT protagonists are high school students, it's usually easily ignored. For example,in SMT1 the protagonist is technically a high school student, but we never see him go to school or hang out with his friends. Similarly, the SMT Nocturne protagonist being a student is only relevant for the first 30 minutes of the game before everything goes nuts.
No. 346722
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It's going to rob me all out of my info and purchase nfts in my name right
No. 346744
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Has any nonnie played this game yer? I was quite suprised the mcs name is the same as our boardtan. Really loved how pretty the game is! And surprisingly the retro anime style isn't too ugly as well.havent cleared all the endings yet!
No. 346754
>>346744I'm playing it right now
nonnie and I've been liking it so far! The 90s aesthetics is appealing to me plus the yuri romance. I've been avoiding spoilers of the game but apparently some of the bad endings made yurifags seethe kek so looking forward to see what that's about
No. 346757
>>346744I'll probably get on it soon! Just finished up with Baroque and still have a few others on my plate.
>>346754Oh no, does it involve a forced marriage to a man or something (asking someone who has finished it)? Truly a nightmare
>>346571To be fair doesn't that one have a tapestry of other references/inspirations?
No. 346760
>>346757>To be fair doesn't that one have a tapestry of other references/inspirations?It mixes it up a lot more. Like Termina and the moon is obvious but they got semi obscure horror like Needles the clown being lifted from Terrifier. I don't mind mix and matching things from other media otherwise we'd have nothing because pretty much everything's been done. Off the top of my head
>Knight is Casca>Barbarian is Guts>L'garde is Griffith (this is the most blatant)>Tortur is the guy who tortured Griffith>Thorn armour is the Berserker armour>Nas'hrah is Ganishka>The whole dungeon feels like QliphothSome things get a really cool twist. I love the stuff about Alll-Mer and Jesus lore but first one leaned far too hard on Berserk. I do think Fear 3 will be really great however
I'm worried with the Logic ending it's going to have to go cyberpunk.
No. 346893
>>346877AoE 2 is a good starting point! The single-player campaigns are based off of real events, has a Joan of Arc campaign too. There's an autistic competitive scene still to this day, which is mildly amusing to watch.
The original Rome Total War is good too, look up some clips of gameplay, it's got RTS battles and then a civ-esque map management of your settlements/army units etc. Has a mode where you fight actual historical battles, which might interest you too.
Hope this helps nona!
No. 346903
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>>346350difference being omori and undertale suck shit while the other games that paved the way for them to exist are good
>>346571except you have to deal with the fact that there's a tranny mc and a female character is obsessed with him for some reason and the fandom and creator all adore him and act like hes the best character ever made
No. 346905
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>>346382video games are supposed to be fun anon, if you like action games keep playing action games. Not familiar with Castlevania, but Earthbound is very fun and laid back. Some of the fights can be challenging if you arent used to turn based combat but if youre curious check it out! both are easy to emulate
No. 346923
>>346906a lot of so-called "remasters" are just crappy ports tbqh
>spoilersomething between 2 and 3 with elements from both would be ideal imo but electronic sharts just can't anymore
No. 346941
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why does everyone want to fuck this creature
No. 346956
>>346903There's like 9 MCs. You can just pick someone else and completely avoid that plot. Even then he's basically like Bridget from Guilty Gear forced in troonism by his family. No ones saying he's heckin
valid in the game.
No. 346965
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>>346941Just a shitty Baeloth. Then again, you can't fuck Baeloth.
No. 347007
>>346984Nta but i couldn't stand undertale. Its like the game congratulates itself for being so quirky and just felt cringe. Haven't played Omori but it exudes "woe is me" vibes
>>346879For the purely dungeon crawling experience you should honestly give Nocturne or SMT IV a try. Soul hackers is also really fun spin off
>>346941I havent gotten into this game because the entire discussion around it is so horny. Its been off putting tbh.
No. 347044
>>347012Don't play then. And keep seething.
>>347028Same. I was confused about all the love he was getting online. I disliked him in the beginning of the game too, but eventually I began to enjoy him and look forward to every interaction.
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>>347028Same. At first I thought he was too flamboyant and wondered if it was gendies hyping him up or something. But playing the game and getting to know his story makes it very obvious why he’s loved by women. He’s the tortured prince trope in every romance novel kek.
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>>347157>"your taste sucks">unironically wants to fuck this curdled old faggot>only other people on earth who like him are the same tumblr aidens who want to fuck Harry from disco elysium and tf2 charactersanon pls
(infighting) No. 347204
>>347203>you want more pictures/discussions of himand when did I say that, old man fucker? all I ever said was the "government psyop ecksdee" anon needs to let their unfunny joke die. it wasn't even funny the first time.
>terminally online liehe was fucking written by one of them, nony. cope. point me to these normie women playing bg3 that definitely definitely 100% do exist.
No. 347209
hi nonnies! Can I get some recommendations for co-op games about going on an adventure? I've been struggling lately to find some. my friend suggested RDRO 2 online but it seems boring.
>>347204you're the one that posted the busted pic of him, most of us here don't even like the way he looks. do you have a game you like that you'd like to talk about instead?
No. 347221
>>347218that was in reference to you saying all people that at all like him are tumblr ftms that like ugly men like Harry. his looks are a L enough for me to not be a fan nor want to sleep with him, but I liked his arc. I wasn't arguing that people into him are normies.
>>347216actually I remember that one! I'll give it a go, thank you
nonny. I'm sorry you lost your partner tho.
>>347215I strongly suspect she doesn't care that much about games.
No. 347295
>>347198They hated anon because she told them the truth
That being said, nice nipples. The texture looks so real
No. 347330
>>347278I played both on the Switch actually. I really enjoy playing adventure games and VNs on handhelds, it's super comfortable, especially in bed a before going to sleep. I also had no clue if my laptop could run them to begin with. I liked the first story a lot too, and the issues I have with Nirvana Initiative is that it's trying very hard to be a standalone title so you can play it without playing the first game… in theory and at the very beginning you're even asked a few things about what happens at the end of the first game to remove some lines that could potentially be huge spoilers. I think that was a bad idea, no spoilers in my post but feel free to ignore what's next if you're worried about that. But it's like the devs thought that made some people couldn't possible be able to play the first game before getting this one as if it were released 15 years ago on an obsolete console with no online store. Even Ace Attorney didn't give a shit about that when it was released on the GBA and then on the DS.
Some importants plot twists contradict some important stuff from the first game and the big plot twist was dumb as fuck. It didn't make me go "omg everything makes so much sense now!" like in the first game, it made me go "uh, that's it? why??" and there were too many actions scenes to the point it got annoying as hell, but at least it's done with mocap this time because the
fist fight between Saito and Date at the end of the first game looked goody as hell. There are enough things I loved about the game to not make me regret playing it but still. I really loved Ryuki and Tama at the very least and I won't say who else because again, spoilers. But if you want to see what Tama is like I can still recommend it because she's hilarious and it seems to often be on sales anyway.
Now, for real spoilers
I loved the secret ending so much. It saved the pile of garbage that a certain character's existence caused for me, that shit was genuinely disturbing. No. 347358
>>347343not any of those anons, but I was a zero escape fan (well, 999 and VLR). how contrived was it compared to that?
>>347355what is a RPG alternative to BG3 that's recent that you love and would recommend?
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>>347317bg3 is a pretty good game but it's far from "one of the highest quality games of the decade"
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Portal: Revolution came out two days ago, are there any anons playing it?
The puzzles were okay and of medium difficulty, quite fun a few of them. The visuals are pretty. I didn't like the story nor the dialogues at all. Since it's new there are a few bugs and it often crashes on linux machines. Worth a try if you like Portal and it's free.
Also, I've been replaying Portal 2 and the co-op mode is so fucking fun.
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Any nonita played alan wake 2? I have money for one game, and I'm between this one or little nightmares 3, but it won't come out yet
No. 347482
>>347386>>347387Kek now I'm more indecisive than before but thank you nonnies
>>347393I never did portal coop. I tried to play it by myself with one joystick on each hand but it got trickier in timed events so I gave up.
No. 347524
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>>347330Sad to see AiNi jumped into the "lets not spoil anything" trend. I don't know why devs keep doing it, if someone decides to play "Game: The Sequel" without having played "Game" they have to expect to find spoilers from the previous entry, who starts a series by playing a late entry, specially if its a story-based game?. These people are stupid and treating spoilers like something sacred really ruins stories for lots of games, I wish they stopped coddling to them and start narrating stories normally again.
On the game itself, thanks for your thoughts. I found the original game's story pretty weak actually, at least compared to Uchikoshi's other games, the characters are what carried it to me. The true end gave me a "Uh, that's all?" impression as well, from top of my head the joke one, Mizuki and the weeb kid endings were the only ones I found great (but it has been a hot second since I played it). So I'm not expecting a groundbreaking story for Aini either, but thanks for the heads up about the plot twists, I kind of got my first spoiler yesterday thanks to 2 custom nendoroids someone posted (kek) and got curious about who was the other character
(A girl identical to Mizuki, I haven't seen how it looks but I know there's a 3rd eyeball aside from Aiba/Tama in this game so I'm guessing she's the owner of it) so I will keep my expectations low about the reveal.
Glad to hear you liked Tama, I never buy DLC but I'm considering getting AiNi's because she and Aiba look wonderful in these kimonos.
No. 347569
>>347543I have two:
Crypt of the necrodancer, a pixel dungeon game where you have to move and kill enemies at the rhythm of the music's beat (the dlc is really good) and Furi, no so rhythm based but it has some good music and it's a little difficult too. There's also soundfall but I haven't tried it
No. 347583
>>347543Hatsune Miku Project Diva games (Future Tone is the most complete), or Project Mirai on the 3DS for the nendo version
Taiko no Tatsujin
If you like DJMax maybe Superbeat Xonic
No. 347620
>>347543+1 to superbeat xonic. that game always got my blood pumping and/or put me in a good mood, though there are a few less intense songs. I feel it's a bit easier than some of the more notoriously intense rhythm games. If you're really good, it might be a bit boring for you.
Full Song List:
https://youtu.be/P5IC69hfgGs?si=de8Ns3QbogZ812ALI like Crypt of the Necrodancer too and there's always osu! which has a humongous library of songs and quite a few different ways to play so there will likely be at least one interaction style that you like.
>>347548Lol, me too. I've been seeing some people say this was such a good year for games, one of the best, and I just don't get it. I think I've become too jaded with modern gaming.
No. 347654
>>344941I finally decided myself to play it and it was the most annoying experience ever. I didn't unlock ALL the endings but MOST of them and it's honestly quite banal.
I understand the dev's passion in creating it, but it's obviously overrated.
No. 347761
>>347569>>347583>>347620Thanks for the recs!
I was about to buy Crypt of the Necrodancer on steam and it turns out I already own it, kek. It's pretty fun. I played a bit Superbeat Xonic and that is right in my lane.
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I hate the Yor costume that Street Fighter put out. I’m an animefag too, but all that hype of Yor and Chun Li fighting just for a skin? Also, the example picture they used is absolutely fugly. It looks like they put a little kid face on an adult body.
No. 347774
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>>347770Looks like those cursed anime figure bootlegs.
No. 347781
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>>347774Evil God Sasuke is not a bootleg. Show some respect
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>>347770kek i thought i was looking at the bad art thread, reminds me monkey jesus
No. 347801
>>347762If you like the FPS gameplay and don't mind watching a lot of vids to catch up with the story, maybe.
There's at least one year of new content left after Final Shape comes out.
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>>347770All I could think of
No. 347846
>>347840kek spot on
Does anyone know any good game with only the protagonist and no one else as characters? Any genre is okay i guess, it's better if it's not one that lets you create your hero or one of those first person games with invisible and unnamed generic protagonists
No. 347849
>>347841In Nirvana Initiative it's even worse because instead of ignoring events from the previous games it contradicts and entire route, an important character's backstory
I still can't believe I'm saying this but Mizuki shouldn't have been a playable character. The twist with her and her clone would have worked better if it were with Ryuki and his brother somehow, and it still potentially "spoils" something at the very end of Nirvana Initiative that's considered a huge hint to Date's real identity
the scene where he and Hitomi shamelessly flirt with each other in front of everyone regardless of whether you said you played the first game or not in the prologue. Then the important characters from the first games are still here and you wouldn't know why you're supposed to give a shit about them if you didn't play the first game yet the game is still like "oh shit it's Iris! Oh shit it's Amame! Remember Amame? Yeah it's her!" idk it's just strange. Reminds me a little of when Ace Attorney 4 was supposed to be a new story with a new cast to create new backstories and mysteries without contradicting what was established in the GBA games until Capcom told Shu Takumi to put Phoenix as an important character no matter what.
No. 347857
>>347846kingsfield, shadow tower, smt nocturne.
these game technically have a few npc interactions but very sparse, silent and brief. They are designed to make you feel lonely in an hostile world.
No. 347904
>>347902i loved The Ancient city. The atmosphere and Ost in that game is amazing.
As much as people say that Souls games are the spiritual successor i really wish they'd bring Kingsfield back. Those are very unique games.
Did you play Lunacid?
No. 347906
>>347904>Those are very unique games. Yeah I love the whole PS1 era. They were still trying to figure out how to make 3D work so you got a bunch of really weird takes. Super interesting. Everything is too homogenised now. I loved the old jankiness.
>Did you play Lunacid?Never heard of it but I looked it up there and it's interesting. I might give it a buy
No. 347910
>>347906Is like the first Silent Hill were the limitations actually contribute to the game feel.
Haven't played Lunacid for long but its the only modern game i've played that tries to resembles Kingsfield and its actually does a pretty good job at mimicking the psx look and feel so i'd definitely recommend it if that seems appealing to you.
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>>347855>>347857>>347879>>347901Omg. thank you all for the suggestions!
> Shadow of the Colossus & The Last GuardianI don't know much of these games other than they seemed pretty appreciated, i'll be sure to look into them!
> King's Field & Shadow TowerKek, i was always a bit curious about them, i've grown spoiled by modern graphics but if these two can give me that lonely atmosphere i'll try them out.
> Dead SpaceGood idea, i still have to play the remake, but from my memory the first two games are not "dead" enough to me kek.
> Alien: IsolationI might have heard of this game but i didn't really know about it, thank you, i should also watch the Alien movies at some point…
> Shin Megami Tensei: NoctureI'm sooo ashamed that i've never played SMT or Persona games, Nocture seemed so popular and i was always interested in it but i had no idea that it didn't really have many relevant characters in it? I'm super curious now.
> Little NightmaresGood mention! It's not really my type of game but it was nice, still a bit too populated and lively than what i was thinking but it does feel actually like you're alone and on your own.
> The SimsKek, good idea, i've mostly messed around 2, 3 and 4 but they're still not something i would play at all, i know you could live alone but some npcs always show up at some point, maybe the original is different?
> Project ZomboidNo one mentioned this but it just came to my mind, it gets a bit boring after some time but i really enjoyed playing it offline, it gives me a good sense of dread and loneliness but also peacefulness when i don't have to be paranoid or scared to die kek, i always prefer games with some action in it.
No. 347948
>>347940>have many relevant characters in it? the protagonist is completely silent and the very few human characters you encounter in the story are just there as stand ins for philosophical ideas, they have only a few short lines in the whole game which determine your alignment but thats it. SMT is not about the characters at all. you don't even know anything about them but their names. In the game everyone on earth died except 5 humans.
Persona is the complete opposite, you have a party and most of the game is a social sim.
No. 347951
>>347948Nona thank you so much! I always try to stay distant enough from games i'm interested because i fear that it would ruin my expectations but the setting sounds great, also i love silent characters and the artstyle has always been very intriguing to me, it's my priority now!
(Didn't expect the remaster to cost 50 euro on steam kek)
>>347946Those are good suggestions too, they are much more lonely than Little Nightmares but again, personally i prefer games with more action and character presence, thank you though!!!
No. 347967
>>347910>>347906 Just to let you know, the Lunacid dev is a cringey troon, but I hear the game itself is good if you can ignore that. I guess troon or pro-troon devs are almost unavoidable in indie games these days anyway.
>>347846When you say no characters, does that include friendly npcs? Are you looking for games that have a feeling of isolation?
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>>340490Late I know but RE Engine facial scan was a fucking mistake. We used to get games where characters looked like they were chisled out of marble and now we get games where the characters are designed to look like post wall moids and weeaboo streamers. At least Square is still fighting the good fight.
No. 347987
>>347260Not yet, I barely finished the first. I've come to really dislike VNs with multiple timelines and whatnot. Like:
>Wasn't that twist cool? Well fuck it! It never happened! Now you have to go play the other route with the shitty character you don't like that you didn't choose to hang out with last time! Don't give up! Don't you want to see the "true" ending?Also the reveal that sexy Date was actually some old hairy scrote was too much for me. Borderline twunk erasure.
No. 347999
>>347987I really like Date
in his real body and I wish he looked like that in the sequel because I bet the mocap would have made him look way better. Like idk, Date
in Saito's body is hot too, obviously, but I think it's subjective and I just really like tired, disheveled anime men in suits. I recently checked how the English dub is and I think I would have been disappointed if I played it first because I'm now sure the reason why
you can't switch between Saito's body and Date's real body in the sequel is because they have different VAs in English despite both having the same VA in Japanese. I guess him keeping the same VA in Japanese made it seem less like an abrupt change when they both got their bodies back. Speaking of checking some scenes from the 1st game recently but in English
I completely forgot that Saito's reason for killing Iris' mom was jealous. You learn about it only after doing his somnium when he's in Iris' body so I didn't realize that in this somnium he's making out with with father until now… Sejima should have quietly thrown him in a psych ward forever because wtf. No actually if there's a sequel we need it to have time travel so we can see Sejima before he reproduces and castrate him.By the way, I like multiple endings, I like how the butterfly effect can work on this kind of stories a lot. I think it worked way better in the first game than in the second one but the second one isn't well written to begin with.
No. 348002
>>347260I also hated it. The
new Mizuki backstory and
world domination plot were the worst offenders for me. I loved the first game because of how grounded a lot of the story and character writing was in spite of the advanced SciFi technology flavoring. I can't remember getting that "cozily mundane" feeling in the sequel for even a second.
The main villain was so random, too. Not in the sense that they came out of nowhere, but rather that they just felt like a stranger.
Saito was involved with almost everyone in the cast in some way, and his personal resentment towards the protagonist made his interactions so memorable. Tearer (or whatever the fuck I forgot his name) was angry at some other guys we saw one time, for reasons completely unrelated to any of the protagonists (or the main cast for that matter), killed them and then decided to be a Sunday cartoon villain taking over the entire world. Did I speedread through the reason I should give a fuck about it at the end of the day? If the answer is anything to do with the Frayer gimmick I'll be pissed.
There's plenty of other minute details that left a bad taste in my mouth but I don't feel like going over it all.
No. 348003
>>347999>By the way, I like multiple endings, I like how the butterfly effect can work on this kind of stories a lot. I think it worked way better in the first game than in the second one but the second one isn't well written to begin with.
Having to play Ota after Mizuki's route broke me. A game can't come back from pulling shit like that.
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>>347983Hear hear. Clive is sucha cutie pie. I was happy with the character designs in FF16
No. 348027
>>348002He's yet another one of Sejima's son that Sejima abandoned because he's an illegitimate child so it would have ruined his career if anyone knew. But the game doesn't try to make you care about him for this reason so it's not really that important. Like, at that point I'm just gonna assume their relationship is just to explain why he's good looking, since Saito is also a bishonen and the other guys look like shit aside from the real Date and Ryuki. Sejima needs to stop reproducing. I think the game tries to make you care about Tearer by drawing parallels between him and the other characters who got experimented on, especially Mizuki but it doesn't work because they utterly ruined Mizuki's backstory with that shit. They should have done something like make his goals more grounded and personal imo. And again, they should have made that twist with Mizuki and Bibi with Ryuki and his twin brother. He already has a disorder that impacts his memories so it could have worked without Mama of all characters explaining everything to the camera. Idk, either make the twin another member of Abis who helps with the investigation 6 years later but we don't know it at first, or make him the killer who got kidnapped and experimented on by the two retarded cultists to make him recover after he got pancaked by truck-kun, it would have worked better. Actually the last one could make Ryuki betraying everyone work so much better. Between worrying about losing your computer and worrying about losing your twin brother, your only family, who you thought was dead for years was so dumb. Tearer could have been like "if you disobey me I'll kill you by making your AI ball explode inside your head anytime I want" but he doesn't so you have Ryuki going like "nooo, don't break my sexy computer I couldn't upload her data on the cloud foe 3 days what if I lose some of her data noooo" and when that shit happens to Aiba in the same game… she manages to get repaired soon after and she gets her data back in the epilogue. Like ok… That's it? No. 348079
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I like this game but holy shit is filled with genderspecials girls and predatory men. I was told I'm wrong for calling a npc a "she" when "they are obviously a they!" Is impossible to find people who touch grass in there.
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What are some good platformer collectaton games like Spyro the dragon? I also played the other Crash bandicoots, a hat in time and cuphead, but it's like the devs completely forget that platformer games exists, lately we've been getting all rpg and horror shit.
No. 348273
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>>348240There's an indie game coming out (idk when) called zera: myth's awaken. I played the demo and it's a lot like Spyro and it's pretty fun so maybe keep an eye out for this in the future.
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>>348027>they should have made that twist with Mizuki and Bibi with Ryuki and his twin brother.I thought the exact same thing. Doing this to
a new character instead of changing a pre-established one that players had already gotten attached to would have made it so much more palatable. And when I think about how the game is supposedly meant to be playable for those who hadn't played the first game it gets even worse, because my reaction to
her AI1 backstory would've been completely different, in a negative way, if I had known her AI2 backstory at the time. That, and Date's unfortunate situation in this "sequel" would've been easily avoided. Really, I just can't imagine anyone who hadn't played the first game would give a fuck about anyone and anything that happened in the second; and as someone who was a fan of the first game beforehand, I was incredibly displeased with how much it didn't capitalize on the strengths of the first game due to how much it avoided any real continuation of it.
>He's yet another one of Sejima's sonI remember this now that you say it, but it was thrown in with no substantial relevance to anything else that I disregarded it as an excuse to include him in the cast.
I want to give a shoutout to one of Uchikoshi's earlier works,
Remember11, which feels like the place all the twists in AI2 were derived from yet still does them all better nearly 2 decades before it. (Spoilered because I feel like comparing the two is a spoiler to one if you've already played the other.)
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>>348294If they made the twist about
Ryuki and his little brother it would have worked because they're twins and if they're identical twins
it would perfectly fit with what they did with the whole "Mizuki has a clone" thing. Since identical twins are literal, natural clones of each other. And I could imagine something like how you play as our Ryuki for the first half of the game, then after the timeskip you play as both Mizuki (imagine Bibi not existing in that case obviously) and the younger twin brother depending on the chapters. And then we suddenly learn that our Ryuki was acting weird as fuck because there were two of them, one who's on sick leave for becoming a schizo with the virus and the younger one who integrated ABIS later because he wasn't as much of a model student as his big brother and/or he spent years recovering in the hospital after the truck accident or some shit. And since our Ryuki is already a schizo he could have been hallucinating about his brother actually dying when he recovered or something. Or maybe he didn't know he survived because his little brother got healed thanks to the secret experiment of the institution which would tie everything going on in the story to the actual main character in a more personal way without making it seem like the story was written by someone who didn't even play the first game. So instead of Mama, a literal who, telling you about the twist, the main characters and you figure it out at some point and one part of the story would be our Ryuki trying to understand how everything he lived happened, in which order. I'm rambling, I'm sure there are many more way you could "correct" the story. And that would also mean we wouldn't need a 6 years gap, but maybe a much shorter one
because Date fucking off for 6 more years and losing his memories again was really fucking stupid. Insulting to the audience, even. By the way, I'm honestly 100% the concept art of Tama being a bishonen, pic related, would have worked a lot better in the game we actually got in a specific scene
in the explosion ending, when Ryuki and Tama are the killer's hostages. I still can't believe Ryuki risked people's lives only for a sexy dominatrix computer/tulpa. I'm repeating myself but at least he and Tearer could have also mentioned that Ryuki's head would have exploded like Saito's if he didn't obey. Meanwhile I bet concept art!Tama was supposed to look like Ryuki and his twin without the headband so I bet in that situation Ryuki would have freaked out and obeyed Tearer just because he's so traumatized by his brother's death he made a parallel between him and Tama. iirc the first game says that the AI balls look like people the users are comfortable with, Aiba has Boss' haircut because Boss found Date first when he lost his memories and gave him a job, Tama is a female Date because Ryuki has a crush on Date, Tama being based on Ryuki's brother would have made sense.I did hear about
Remember 11 before but I' haven't heard about the actually story. Maybe I should give it a try then, to at least cope with how stupid AI2 was. My god I could write a 10 pages essay on what went wrong. Thank god some stuff in AINI were really good like Ryuki, Tama or
Amame or I would have hated it completely.
No. 348376
>>348352I'm with you nona, don't worry. I love fantasy, but I wish devs would be more creative about what fantasy could look like, because no, medieval settings aren't peak fantasy. Maybe once upon a time they were interesting, but we're beating a dead horse at this point. I have very little interest in playing ER and TW3 for the same reasons.
One of the things that will keep me playing a game is a vibrant world space and these games just completely lack that. I think this is why I've been struggling to get back into Skyrim. It's just so fucking bland. It's also why I won't play Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I know people praise it for "realism" but I don't play games for realism, and that game is as bland as they come. At least with BG3 the Underdark was decently gorgeous.
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>>348369Based. I don't even like futuristic stuff unless it's completely desolate/apocalyptic. I guess I'm a basic bitch for being a sucker for pic related but I can't help myself. I totally get where
>>348163 is coming from though, no matter how good the game is, if the setting doesn't interest me I probably won't ever play it.
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>>348352What about really weird looking fantasy worlds? This art isn't from an actual game, but would a fantasy game with this kind of design appeal to you?
>>348369To be fair, even people who like space games thought Starfield was boring. The lore, world, and character design was very bland.
No. 348393
>>348390I love Brom's art and love Dark Sun but sadly Wotc's executive producer said they can't bring it back because its """
problematic"""
The last time anyone made a videogame from Dark Sun (for which Brom did the art for) it was the early 90s.
No. 348421
>>348393What makes Dark Sun more "
problematic" than the other DnD settings?
No. 348423
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>>348240It's old but Banjo-Kazooie is my favourite 3d platformer by a wide margin. Rare did other good stuff like Conker's Bad Fur Day and Donkey Kong 64 on the same gen. The PS1/N64 gen was full of platformers.
It's pretty combat heavy but Hollow Knight is a great 2D platformer.
No. 348425
>>348421i assumed he meant the slavery and fantasy racism. A halfling wizard literally tried to genocide all other races and the lore reason there aren't some races like gnomes and kobolsd is because he actually achieved it.
All the usual naughty things that happen in a post-apocaliptic setting that fragile people think can't be be portrayed or otherwise its endorsing them. Dark Sun in general is pretty grim, you actually get punished if you want to play as a nice person because using magic kills the environment so if you want to be a hippie and use it ethically doesn't mean every other psychopath you encounter will.
No. 348511
>>348506The Forgotten Realms is still a medieval fantasy world at it's core. This is it's description on wikipedia.
>"Economically and technologically, Faerûn is comparable to Western Europe during the late Middle Ages, giving most new players using this campaign setting an intuitive grasp of the way the society functions. Most of the population of Faerûn consists of farmers, who are organized somewhat loosely in a semi-feudal system. There are also several notable cities and trade between nations is common, as in the Renaissance era. Likewise, there are regions where more barbaric tribes and customs persist."> What else would you describe it as?
No. 348547
>>348545i was referring to the male executive producer who said it was
problematic retard.
No. 348574
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>>348511I literally can't describe it as medieval because it has technology like advanced submarines that didn't exist in medieval times like submarines. BG is arcanepunk/technomancy/magitek, just because it has
some elements of medieval setting doesn't mean it's medieval itself. When I look at shit like picrel "medieval" is the last thing that comes to my mind
No. 348576
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>>348575And inside the submarine
No. 348577
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Thoughts on the new prince of Persia?
I played the demo yesterday, it was kind of good but god the dialog is stupid. There's a conversation you have with a blacksmith lady that last around one minute and they both say the word "mortal" like ten times kek. Also, the demo ends with a boss fight introduction, shouldn't it end after you defeat the boss? So you get a clear answer if you like the game or not?
I'm not buying it but it was fun trying it
No. 348583
>>348548It's time for CAVE schmups nonna!
Also for the metroidvanias you could just play Castlevania. Most of the entries in that style are pretty easy.
No. 348593
>>348550That looks weird and fun thanks nonna!
>>348578Looks hard and frustrating but I'll give it a go
>>348583CAVE looks…like bullet hell with anime girls on the side? Not my thing but thanks anyway. Maybe I really should just play Castlevania.
No. 348611
>>348593For CAVE I'd recommend Ketsui and Garegga which aren't too anime if that's your hangup. All of the modern ports come with tons of different modes, difficulty options, unlimited continues, etc. so you can modulate the difficult to whatever you like.
For Castlevania I think you may like the three DS games and Aria of Sorrow on the GBA. Order of Ecclesia is the hardest out of that bunch.
No. 349613
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I hope it's okay to talk about gaming youtubers in this thread.
Nitro Rad's really fallen off of late. The main thing I liked about him was that he DIDN'T spend 2/3 of the review summarising the games plot in absolutely excruciating detail like all the other youtube game reviewers. If I want to know the plot of the game I'd read the wiki, just tell me what it's actually like to play. His most recent video is over an hour long and most of it's spent summarising the plot of a ps2 zelda clone aimed at 6 year olds. his videos have always had a lot of obvious mistakes in them (he goes on a rant criticising people for saying the final level is hard in his psychonauts review when he was playing the severely nerfed steam port, in his most recent video he complains about a stealth section being too hard when it's obvious even without having played the game that you're supposed to equip the invisibility cloak-reminder that this is a game aimed at children), but they're unwatchable now, especially with him doing more unscripted videos. He posted picrel, so clearly enough fans have noticed him padding his videos for it to get under his skin.
No. 349616
>>349613Better suited for the youtubers thread but I did enjoy John Wolfe basically saying 'here's some background jk you all fuckin know' in his goosebumps video because yes autistic monologues should be done at home towards your stuffed animals, it's very much just get to the content.
Too many men think we want to listen to them talk.
No. 349617
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>>349613I thought it was scummy of him to delete his heartbeat video when the dev got outed as a
terf even though they'd been friends and she'd even drawn some nice art for his channel
No. 349630
>>349613the only couple gaming youtubers i am enjoying are majuular and dungeon chill but overall i am really sick of the long format.
Some of these retrospectives are longer than the games themselves and they only stretch it that far because yt is incentivizing impossibly long videos. I specially cringe when they start going on tangents about how some game saved their life and "when i was a kid… " bullshit
No. 349703
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Ssssso…
No. 349705
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>>348374Spelljammer had the coolest fucking art. I wish there were fantasy games that were this level of insane/creative.
No. 349706
>>344214Same, and
being an SA "survivor" I wish these kinds of games didn't exist to begin with.
No. 349773
>>349764Yeah less than $1000 for an i7-13 something and a 3060 is probably good, but graphics cards just confuse me. The benchmark site says a 2000 something card would be better but isn't the best a 4000 something? Isn't bigger number better lol.
Anything would be better than my current 12 year old PC that is finally breaking down though.
Ready to be disappointed by Starfield and Cyberpunk DLC and to finally play Deathloop.
No. 349776
>>349653Its true. And that is the most boring part but i at leas like there isn't much self insertion and they cover some old niche games i find interesting but are not that big with other reviewers. All the criticism against the long format are still true, but those are thw ones i tolerate as bg noise when working on the PC.
Grimbeard is ok but a bit too boring for me. He would benefit a lot just by shortening the vids.
No. 349798
>>349791Intel® Core™ i7-13700
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3060 (12 GB GDDR6 dedicated)
16 GB DDR4-3200 RAM (2 x 8 GB)
512 GB SSD
1 TB SATA HDD
I deliberately wanted a separate hard drive for all my files not one huge SSD, but also not like 4TB like some other prebuilts I saw.
There's space to upgrade ram if I ever really need it.
Only a 500w power supply but idk. And no CD drive so I've gotta keep some old stuff around if I ever want to rip something I find in a closet or whatever.
No. 349809
>>349798nta this is a nice pc
nonnie but like you said the psu is a worrisome if it doesn't have a reputable brand, can you see what kind it is when you take off the side panel? and what kind of cpu cooler does it have? is it one of the smaller stock coolers or something with a radiator?
No. 349812
>>349809Listen to this nona about PSUs. On my first build I got a cheap unrated one and it fried my computer after 2 months. Make sure it's rated on 80 Plus. It doesn't even need to be high. I've got a bronze and it's done well for 5 years.
>>349798>There's space to upgrade ram if I ever really need it.The industry is moving to DDR5. If you want to upgrade in a few years it might be hard to find good DDR4.
No. 349820
>>349809Well it's HP so hopefully it's not total shit, but a PSU is cheapish and easy to replace if something does go bad.
I just ordered it so not here yet, I don't think there's any fancy cooling though.
>>349812Yeah it's 80 Plus bronze.
16GB Ram will hopefully be fine for games still in a few years and if that needs upgrading other stuff would probably need to upgrade too.
>>349813Wish this stuff was more transparent.
No. 349847
>>349813AYRT thank you
nonnie! I'll keep this in mind when I start looking at building a pc
No. 349923
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I remember years ago hearing about a point and click game that had a racist puzzle in it. As in, you sold a black woman into slavery to solve this puzzle and progress in the game. So I looked it up again (called "Goodbye Deponia"), and, to no one's surprise, it was made by Daedaelic Entertainment. But this time I did some digging and found an article from 2014 that basically exposes the game for what it is: misogynist as fuck and racist. All the female characters are designed as eye-candy ('cause you can't have a woman move in that game without tits bouncing), and there's also a pedophile joke in it, too.
The article is here (
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/wot-i-think-goodbye-deponia), but the best part was the developer in the comments trying to defend his shitty, awful games. Picrel is him saying his game isn't racist, and he should know, accompanied by a pic of himself: a white, fat, German scrote.
Somehow there's going to be a sequel to Deponia this year, btw. I don't get why Steam agreed to that, or why they're still selling Goodbye Deponia on their store, either.
No. 349935
>>349923This game always comes up because it's almost always on sale and the female character's design has always rubbed me the wrong way, I have it because of one of those random game steamkey things but the art has always put me off playing it.
Glad to have a good reason not to now.
No. 350201
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>>350183Yeah I downloaded it and was really disappointed after character creation it was immediately find wood to make bench, now slap trees and rocks to get resources to make Palballs.
There's some cool ideas in there like you can make your island a persistent instance where you can have 32 people around. Mounts are done pretty well. Being able to throw Palballs at your friends to capture them is pretty funny. If it kicks off it might make Gamefreak actually innovate.
Being able to strap you Palmons is hilarious but weird af.
No. 350455
>>350383Apparently it's entirely made of default unity assets and ripped off pokemon designs, and the dev refuses to show concept art so people are saying the game used AI.
Shit game shilled by fags with no taste.
No. 351116
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Pokémon company released statement regarding Palworld. To be honest I don’t know if they’ll claim copyright because palworld could be seen as “parody” but I’m not too familiar with the laws.
The game looks mediocre anyway so I can’t say I particularly care either way, especially since I get the impression the devs were lazy with the game design.
No. 351121
>>351116Serves them right lmao. I really can't stand plagiarism, no matter who you steal from. Anyone who defends this sounds like those twitterfags that ree about "muh rich companies" showing they literally understand nothing about what plagiarism is.
>>351118That one probably was easier to take down because the models were the exact same. Here they probably need to gather some evidence. Or maybe they can't do anything because the devs made sure to modify the models enough so they wouldn't infrige any copyright laws.
>basedCringe, but there are people in this board using AI image generators, so what can I expect. I don't get why they didn't hire some Pokemon fan artist to work on the game, ffs. There are hundreds out there, just get in touch with one.
No. 351142
>>351121>Or maybe they can't do anything because the devs made sure to modify the models enough so they wouldn't infrige any copyright laws.if they can prove it was their models that got edited they definitely have a case
>I don't get why they didn't hire some Pokemon fan artist to work on the gamewhy would they when they can just steal their designs too and get away with it? they didn't want to make a fun game, they wanted to make money and piss off the pokemon company
No. 351188
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>>351185yeah it's not like men have written about deepfaking their friends and random women they've stalked into porn or anything. ai is cool and i don't care when it's used so long as i have fun!
(infighting/derailing) No. 351196
>>351188>>351185You think we should get rid of the internet too because men use it as a tool to groom kids and easily access violent porn and cp? Photoshop because men have used it to make deepfakes since it's creation too? Men are freaks who use everything at their disposal to be disgusting. Calling to outlaw the tools because of the people
misusing them accomplishes nothing. You aren't going to get anywhere thinking that way. It's not going anywhere and neither are the bootleg pokemon.
No. 351198
>>351196I couldn't care less about pokemon, I was just pointing out the public and easy access to such technology is dangerous. Yes, men missuse everything they can get their hands onto, but when elementary school children are making realistic porn of their female classmates in seconds, it becomes a problem. Don't act like a fool, easy access to porn or being able to groom someone over the internet doesn't have the same weight as being able to ruin someone's life via making videos of them comiting crimes (and seeing how fast it's evolving, I don't think it will take long to generate stuff indistinguishable from realitt), and while image, audio and video editing programs has always been here, it can take time and effort to get a passable result, instead of anyone being able to do so in seconds now with AI. I'm in favor or AI since I believe it can be useful in some cases, but it needs to be regulated and not be public.
(derailing) No. 351202
>>351196Your argument is invalid, because those things (photoshop or the internet) weren't made for that.
AI promotes fakeness and shamelessly stealing work from humans at its deep core.
Same way a weapon's purpose is harming humans.
Just to stop derailing, which game(s) that is/are coming out in 2024 are you most excited about? I'm currently thinking about pre-ordering that new Peach game, I hope it's good because I really liked the DS game.
(contributing to derail) No. 351210
>>351202>>351198>those things (photoshop or the internet) weren't made for that.Are you serious? AI wasn't made for porn either. It's existed for decades, all that's changed is the technology has improved and it–especially image, audio, video, and text generation–has become more accessible. It is the same situation and there were people who had negative reactions for the exact same reasons back then. When these bots can be created alone relatively easily, regulation and private-only usage is a pipe dream. The same results can be achieved not only alone in editing software but even more easily by commissioning someone to do it for you (or generating it for you if it ever did manage to gain restrictions, because it wouldn't be a grand challenge for someone with the time and resources at their disposal to create their own bot and accept anonymous exchanges for generations. Even more realistically, many countries will not choose to regulate it at all and finding a bot to use will only be a matter of getting your hands on a VPN). No matter your personal feels about its usage and supporting projects that utilize it, sooner or later you need to accept that it's not going anywhere.
>AI promotes fakeness and shamelessly stealing work from humans at its deep core.>Same way a weapon's purpose is harming humans.>being able to ruin someone's life via making videos of them comiting crimes (and seeing how fast it's evolving, I don't think it will take long to generate stuff indistinguishable from realitt)I acknowledge these are pressing issues near the same level of severity as AI assisted gangstalking. But I must ask you two to take your meds.
(infighting/derailing) No. 351212
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>>351211not sure if you noticed but this is a
video game thread babe
No. 351249
>>351214Incredibly embarrassed for the pokebros who think an actual open world pokemon game wouldn't absolutely destroy palworld, Nintendo couldn't give less of a fuck.
Nintendo has just released an incredibly buggy pokemon game and suffered no losses.
Seriously I don't think they're evolved enough, like they went straight from weird tadpole thing to 24 year old male on reddit.
No. 351257
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>>351116Idk wouldnt digimon also have to be struck by copyright then? Like a lot of the pokemon designs are inspired by real life nature, animals and yokai. Which the gamefreak doesn't own. Like
>>351214 said palworld doesnt look like pokemon at all. Its more of a survival game, with also a lot of managment. Playing it with friends is really fun. I dont mind if games take inspiration gameplay or design wise, aslong if its done well. Some of the palworld designs are really ugly tho, but then again pokemon has been looking like shit too. So maybe its more so modern day designs that are just trash.
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>>351257It's fine to take inspiration, but on some of their creatures it's very likely they ripped off the models from Pokemon games. Some of them look like they just took the model and edited the mesh slightly because otherwise everything else lines up perfectly. Of course no one knows for sure but it seems pretty damning for them in the comparisons
No. 351273
>>351214Well palworld is the biggest game on steam now. I would almost want to say it’s embarrassing because the game looks uninteresting, it’s just relying on the “Pokémon but guns and it’s edgy” angle.
Looks cheap, uninspired but I guess that’s what sells. This whole controversy would annoy me much less if the game had anything going for it.
>>351249Legends of arceus was quite well-received. I’m sure it would be possible for Nintendo to expand on that idea but they are lazy because Pokémon is a money-printing machine, and the fans will consume anything (as exemplified by palworld’s success)
No. 351274
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>>351256outsell, probably not, but it's doing some wild numbers for an early access indie game. not even 6m away from legends arceus now. but game freak will not be shaken by it and continue to do the bare minimum for new pokemon games since kids and nintendo adults will still be there to play them no matter how bad they get.
No. 351275
>>351257I guess something else to note is that digimon at least has its own identity in terms of how the monsters look stylistically.
Whereas palworld, you could tell me these models
>>351274 are from a Pokémon game and I could believe it. Imo the style is heavily inspired by Pokémon, not just the idea.
No. 351960
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>>351637There's a lot of misinfo over Palworld due to the fake controversy and viral marketing surrounding it, so I'll try to make a post covering every major misinfo out there.
- The twitter user who compared the models did not actually modify the models themselves. He scaled them to become bigger so the silhouettes could match. The two wolves have very similar silhouettes
if they're scaled up or down to match eachother's sizes. The guy candidly admitted to it but people make it sound like he was trying to bribe others.
- The Pal designs themselves are a mixed bag in terms of rip offs.
Some pals seem to be fully original or just inspired by existing pokémon without literally copying/tracing the design, like the sheep.
Certain designs on the other hand copy some aspects of various pokémon to useless degrees, like Azurohe's hair shape is identical to Primarina's hair and its muzzle is weirdly similar to Serperior's, or Dinossom, a weird copy-paste of Goodra and Meganium that didn't need to be so close to either.
The most egregious example is Verdash (picrel) and you have to be purposefully blind or trolling to not see it's a traced Cinderace OC.
Regardless, the copied models and textures, even the most damning, don't seem to be lifted from Pokémon as much as
traced which I'm not sure is a crime.
- The company CEO praised AI but the game itself doesn't seem to use it. Some people suspect AI textures but that's it. Palworld seems to be AI free.
- This CEO is a real piece of work who pulled the "my Pal artist just received death threats :(" pity party card the moment the comparisons between Pals and Pokémon started becoming viral. But we haven't seen this Pal artist anywhere, we don't know her name and we haven't seen her art. We just know she's female from an interview. How'd she get death threats? Granted, her name could be in the credits, but imagine any major CEO talking about the death threats their employees get get: they'd be called out for spilling the beans when, especially in Japan, they should contact the authorities. You don't see the dev of HeartBeat RPG mention the immense amount of death threats she got over her
TERF views (that whole story is horribly depressing btw and worthy of recap).
That said I don't endorse death threats and I think it's ridiculous they happened over Palworld.
- Some troll also made a fake tweet about official Palworld NFTs. That's just fake, it's not real milk.
- Pokémon fans aren't angry about Palworld as much as they're baffled by similarities between Pal designs and Pokémon. Media outlets such as IGN still painted them as raging manchildren despite the fact they really haven't been this time around (absurd, I know).
There's something very weird to me about this whole thing. Aside from the various absurd things I just listed, I find it unusual that Palworld fans tend to defend the game in very similar ways, with hyperreactions and shitflinging. Even here on lolcow I've seen the suspiciously samey overreacting arguments to Palworld criticism, even if said criticism is a mild annoyance or a puzzled concern. Which is weird considering the game has real fans and real players enjoying it.
Regardless, the Pokémon famdom is one of the worst fandoms in the world but they've also been the ideal "enemy" for this viral marketing campaign.
I'm very interested in seeing how it develops or looking back at all the events and reactions in a year or so.
No. 351961
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>>351960Cinderace for reference.
Was it necessary to copy its ugly sausage arms? Lol
No. 351971
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>>351933it's a fun little game. it has more content than plenty of triple A titles that cost 2x what it does and mods, active development, fun co op, etc.
No. 351974
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>>351960palworld fans are the same type of people who jump on the trains of among us, fall guys, lethal company etc and act like it's going to be the next best + biggest game ever made and that they aren't going to be distracted by the next set of keys jangling at them in a few more months. the playerbase is fully consoomers who don't care what it is, it's new and popular, and they need to join everyone else or risk FOMO.
No. 352000
>>351990have you played it or any pokemon game from the past decade for more than 5 minutes? the one lie in that anons post was the
>Pokémon fans aren't angry about Palworldpart, this very thread proves otherwise. even if the anons so pressed about it here aren't active fans, they likely grew up with it and feel protective over muh tendie ips. it's just a fun game, people like it because it's fun and cute. simple as. there hasn't been a fun pokemom game since gen 5.
No. 352021
>>352000>have you played it or any pokemon game from the past decade for more than 5 minutes? Nyart but thankfully I did not even touch them but that doesn't mean I can't find the deal with Palworld weird.
Do I think it's all a psy-op? No way, that'd be ridiculous, I believe there are genuine Palworld enjoyers out there and personally speaking it looks fun to me. But I am inclined to believe a lot of this outrage is fabricated to both garner attention and hide the fact the devs of Palworld are basically tracing over pokemon to make their own OCs donut steels.
>this very thread proves otherwise. even if the anons so pressed about it here aren't active fans, they likely grew up with it and feel protective over muh tendie ips.Nobody itt is really protective of pokemon as an IP or a game. Most pokemon fans I see online are playing the game and enjoying it since it's partially tailor made for them, and a good chunk are hoping GameFreak learns from Palworld.
There are some pokespergs over Palworld but it's very overblown. The most serious criticism for it comes from 3D artists and concept artists that noticed some Pal designs are basically traced from modern pokemon (curiously from like gen 5 onwards and some earlier gen designs thrown in like Meganium).
If you ask me Pocket Pair should have drawn inspiration from existing pokemon like they already did for some Pals, but their other Pals that have blatant tracing smell fishy. Not even simply "we must save time lol" fishy but plain "let's blow up some controversy" fishy.
Over here people rightfully laughed at their early pokemon slavery trailers, but in Japan it sparked controversy for animal abuse since it was revealed… it's like they're speedrunning trying to get attention. Good for them that they managed to make a fun game but their modus operandi is obnoxious.
I want to see how the situation unfolds, regardless. I might buy or pirate the game one day but not in 2024 early access.
No. 352031
>>352000Are you implying that gen 5 was fun? BW2 is ok but BW was boring as hell and a step in the wrong direction:
>muh story, you keep getting interrupted every 5 minutes by NPCs talking to you and the game is more linear until you beat the "final" boss to accommodate the frankly mediocre plot>human characters look meh for the most part except for a few specific ones>the pokemon's moving sprites in battle look like a hot pixelated mess, especially your own pokemon>the way you gain exp sucks ass, but I admit it's a very subjective opinion>no berries unless you do some shitty WIFI shit which doesn't work anymore>contest like side quest is replaced by pure shit, the fucking music hall. The Pokewood should have been introduced in the original BW>introduces two new types of battles but it doesn't matter in the main game, unlike double battles in gen 3 and especially in Emerald>the legendaries that aren't the main ones look like hot shitGen XY and SM were unironically more fun than BW1. You can kick my ass for this unpopular opinion, I stand by it.
No. 352045
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>>347940sorry for the late response but i really recommend king's field 4 to start if you're gonna check out the series nona, the atmosphere is unmatched. after playing it i was left with some feeling of dread knowing i'll never experience anything quite like it again.
>>348163(ditto) bg3 and elden ring have vastly different aesthetics, i say this as someone who absolutely loathes bg3's art direction.
No. 352101
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>>352031gen 6 (xy) was my fave tbh. i've never been one to care about the story but i loved the world, the legendaries and mega evos were so cool and the 3d grphics were fresh and new. i loved pokémon-amie especially, oit was great to finally be able to interact with your pokes. i had a lot of fun just walking around buying outfirts, doing stupid self-imposed challenges like beating the league with 6 gengars, and filling my dex by peddling piplups on the gts
No. 352138
>>352120You tried Genshin? It's really not that bad. And Traveler is a fun power fantasy character for me.
I'm having fun with Love and Deepspace too.
It would help if you said what systems you have and what you've played before.
No. 352162
>>351960I’m the anon you replied to. Thanks for the info, it’s been a lot to keep up with. I totally agree that it’s some viral marketing around the game where outrage = curiosity and sales.
However, the outrage definitely isn’t fabricated. Pokémoids have been losing their shit. Nintendo had to issue a statement cause the pokéspergs sent so many complaints about Palworld. Which is ridiculous, palworld is a harmless fun game. The hype is not gonna last over a year but it’s fun for what it is.
No. 352225
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god fucking damn it
No. 352285
>>352225Fuck!
I hope it wasn't supposed to be a continuation of MD.
At least if there's never a third game he'll never canonically die and I can imagine whatever I want…
What the hell is Eidos even working on anyway? They never announced anything officially as far as I know.
No. 352289
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>>352225Fuck fuck fuck. I don't husbando often but Adam was great
No. 352415
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Anyone want to play this?
No. 352447
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>>352415I like they had the little emojis pop up so I know how I'm supposed to feel
No. 352668
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Did anyone play the Silent Hill: Short message game on PS5 for free? It felt so awful. I had very low expectations and konami still somehow disappointed. It was a game about bullying and suicide with multiple warnings through out the game and a female mc who wouldnt stop talking. People are calling it Life is Strange: Silent hill. It's really bad… Konami is def trying to cash in on zoomers and older gen alpha kids. I really hate it. I wish they would just stop making silent hill games. This felt like a $2 generic steam horror game; a walking simulator..
You are walkign through a school while people call you a dumb slut, stupid whore, etc. You are using SMS and social media to relay your messages. It's bad. I thought it was going to be about female trauma, but it wasnt even subtle.
No. 352692
>>352668I haven't played it but someone mentioned it to me in work today that it was like a new PT. God damn it Konami. With this and that bizarre Twitch/live service thing they put out, I have zero faith in Silent Hill F or the remake of 2 being good. Silent Hill 3 is one of my favourite games, I have no idea how they keep messing it up.
Konami just need to pack it in and stick to gambling machines.
No. 352728
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InB4 "herp, Walking Simulator 2", any other nonnas as excited as I am for picrel?
No. 352734
>>352733Yep he's one of the few directors that can just do anything without a feature being focused tested to death.
I can kinda understand the publishers POV though. Games right now are insanely expensive to make. Back in the PS2 era is was cheaper and you could take a few loses. Now if a game underperforms (not even flop) it can sink a studio.
No. 352748
>>352728Interested but not buying a PS5.
So I'm gonna try to ignore it as much as possible till it comes out on PC so I don't get spoiled.
No. 352893
>>352748Fair. I'm going to get it once released on PC too cuz I don't have the budget for a PS5
the amount it costs is reserved for traveling . The doll/puppet thingy in the picture kinda creeps me out, I hope it's not a character in the game that's going to be appearing a lot.
No. 352970
>>352668Worst part is, this is a lot of zoomers first ever Silent Hill game. Boggles my mind these morons don't even know SH 1-4 exist, yet alone the semi decent ones like Origins or Shattered memories. Imagine growing up in a post Team Silent Konami era. It's not even worth it. They need to stop making SH games, because this just proves they cant do it. I have no faith in SH2 remake being good, and I'm pissed off it's even happening. Instead of remaking sh1, they jumped right onto SH2 because it's so popular. I am not here to see more fake gamers talk about pyramid head.
>>352728I'm excited as hell. I honestly really enjoyed Death Stranding a lot. It was a fun to me, and the visuals were gorgeous. Great environment and story too. I dunno, but Kojima is such a madman and I've been on this ride since MGS1.
No. 352979
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>>352968I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought it looked like a resident evil remake, that was my initial reaction to the camera angle and combat.
I think what makes part of SH2 so ethereal and creepy (at least for me) is the fact that the graphics ARE dated by today's standards and you can't always immediately make out what is happening in the distance.
No. 353033
>>353025High five!
I'm getting all nostalgic over old games here. Koudelka, aside from an atmospheric gothic environment, also had a unique OST which makes it memorable. I think creators of modern games can learn from older games by being a bit more vague and not making overything hyperdetailed (which loses the mystery) and daring to be more creative with graphics and music.
No. 353101
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>>353096no I'm being serious, I thought we'd get something cuter. He looks retarded to me
No. 353232
The only remaster I'm playing is this fan remaster that I'd been following since before the remake trailer came out kek. Planned on replaying the original 3 in a bit and was waiting for this to come out.
It's just a texture applied to the game files so you install it over your installed game
https://enhanced.townofsilenthill.com/SH2/about.htm No. 353233
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>>353232oh never mind, it seems they've added some bug fixes and general good stuff as well
https://enhanced.townofsilenthill.com/SH2/config.htmnot gonna bother with the new one unless it somehow comes out fantastic
No. 353251
>>352668I just watched the forst 30 min of the demo and it's incredibly lame.
The mc you play is jealous of another girl (her art and follower count - yes seriously) and she's also mentally ill and is/was on medication and self harms/ed and of course the cliche "no one understands me, I'm so alone" teenage bs. One of her friends mentioned that she should go to art college. It really is like LiS: Silent Hill.
I got excited because the mc was a woman and all the other characters too but it looks like they're targeting people who aren't over 25.
SH always dealt with difficult themes, and while this is partially one of them, it somehow doesn't fit a horror game because anyone out of high school would be annoyed at it within an hour or less.
No. 353254
>>353232Yeah, this is actually a decent version, but the OG scaled up is still the best one.
>>353251It's so bad. The dialog is unbelievably bad.
No. 353356
>>353033Koudelka and Shadow Hearts are my favorite video games. I love the soundtrack and story in both so much. I wish the games would be ported to newer consoles, cuz nowadays even with an adapter to plug my old PS2 into HDMI on my TV, there would be too much input lag.
>>353310I could never had past the first fight of the game back in the day. Games still were challenging back then (though I found Drakengard 2 slightly underwhelming), t'was cool.
No. 353550
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>>352639I agree with a lot of the comments on youtube, it doesn't look or feel like a sequel to Bloodlines, the dialogue and overall writing feel stiff, it really seems like TCR already had a game they wanted to make and they're trying to force this one into that box. I also am not a big fan of the dialogue choices not showing the actual lines of dialogue. Also kinda hate that not just the player character, but a secondary character as well, are constantly commenting on what's going on, it's so distracting. It's looking like the most fun part of this game, if it ever comes out, will be the reviews tearing it apart.
No. 353575
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Any of you anons playing P3 Reload? I'm liking it a lot so far, but that might also partially be nostalgia driven because I remember playing this one when it came out and loving it. I've seen people complain about how it's too similar to P5 but outside of general quality of life updates I'm not really getting that comparison.
No. 353598
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>>353596depends on how much gay sex it has
No. 353609
>>353575The lack of serious answers kills me, but it's great. It's incredibly easy though, at least in my opinion. The music is a major downgrade though, they should've just kept the old music. Better yet, they should've added femcs to it.
>>353596It's like reading a story without having to visualize things myself. I love it.
No. 353613
>>353596to the same extent a manga or light novel can be a masterpiece imo.
the format is basically a book with added stuff going on, so theoretically a vn could have not only godly writing, but amazing romance choices, beautiful character art, cgs and bg art, an amazing soundtrack etc etc. obviously a lot of thats gonna be subjective, but theres still so much room for a vn to be considered a genuine masterpiece.
>>353598anon you made me think this was the fujo thread but your pic is based so i forgive you
No. 353990
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>>353936Me too
nonny, that blew me away. I can't wait to explore these environments.
No. 353996
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>>353232i'm watching someone play it. it's so fucking cringe and literally looks like one of the thousands of half-baked "horror games" on steam that use free assets and all have the same vaguely PT-ish plot.
>>353741this is so true, like wtf is this dialogue lmao written by some old boomer who can't think of anything to write for a story about a woman's trauma but people calling her "ugly" and a "slut"
No. 354230
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Are Atelier games coomy? I know a lot of the players are men, but the games have a very girly look and most of the protagonists are female, and the gameplay seems appealing. I'd like to know which, if any, of the games nonnas here recommend, and whether the girls are actually decently written instead of just being vapid waifubait.
I'm currently looking into Ayesha, but any installment on the Vita is accessible for me.
No. 354242
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>>354230kind of? the only one I kind of like is Atelier Annie. it's really silly, I like the event system, and the protagonist starts off as a clumsy, broke neet. I tried Atelier Lulua and fell off of it so quickly.
No. 354325
>>354242Annie and the other NDS Atelier games are apparently very different from the core series. The gameplay is more about money and time management than alchemy, relationshipss, or combat. That said, I loved Annie. The writing is simple and comedic and the characters are all wackos, so it was a lot of fun. Not very much depth there, but as I remember it the female characters were not sexualised either.
>>354230I only played Annie to completion and dipped my toes in some others, so unfortunately I can't give much advice. But whatever you do, don't play Sophie. Garbage waifubait right from the beginning. Male fans claim the Ryza games are the best in the series because of the difficulty, story, and quality of life, but it looks like it panders to the coom as well. Maybe go with your gut and start with Ayesha? And report back because I want to play too.
No. 354328
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>>354327up forgot to post picture
No. 354459
>>354451atlus wouldn't be listening to a vocal minority of upset players no matter how long they kept it up because they've shown time and time again that they couldn't care less. they throw women a bone in the form of some fujobait with their silent bishie protagonists and call it a day. oldfags knew they weren't going to add her as soon as they announced it… right after the p3p re-release. femcgate has been going on for 3,000 years.
I have a hard time believing the only people praising it in the first place aren't just people playing p3 for the first time, diehard fans, and people who haven't played it in a decade feeling nostalgic. it's the same crusty old 80 hour rpg running on the p5 engine, no1curr.
No. 354499
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>>354461Fun fact: Even the P3 mangaka ships MC/Ryoji and has written doujin of them not once, but twice (Picrel, "ichigo-chan say Goodbye" and "Waltzing Cat". Cover for the later seems to be done by other member from his doujin circle, but Sogabe participates on it as well). So at the very least, in the manga it isn't fujobait, it's the actual mangaka shipping them kek Learning about this made lots of things about the manga make sense.
No. 354500
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>>354499fujos infiltrated the persona team like roaches and kaneko handfed them kek
No. 354505
>>354500It makes me sad the persona western fandom is so male-dominated, with things like the interview you posted and the P1 protagonist being androgynous so both men and women could relate Persona seemed to push for the female market on its start. The JP side seems way more female (at least almost every Person aartist I see is a woman) and it's more comfortable. I'm sick of coomers repeating the same 2 jokes over and over and having no reading comprehension because they're too busy with waifu, ships and name wars.
>>354502I haven't played Catherine yet, but what's wrong with that? I did heard Fullbody added tranny shit though.
No. 354508
>>354505You got it all wrong. The original Catherine had a tranny character and him being a tranny is plot relevant because
it explains some red herrings throughout the whole story. You only find out at the end of some routes but it's easy to guess after some point. Catherine Fullbody was developed by new Atlus employees, many of them are young women (and most likely some are fujoshi) and it doesn't add tranny shit. It makes the troon characters more obviously a troon because of flashbacks showing Vincent and his friends in high school from time to time. The new love interest is a cute trap and Vincent is shocked at first because instead of just telling him normally, Rin just shows him his dick 5cm away from Vincent's face.
They can get married obviously depending on the endings. So obviously, nothing wrong with the new love interest unless you think his new scenes kind of ruins the pacing and suspens of
why some men die in their sleep and who's behind it. No. 354523
>>354519Yet trannies were seething HARD because they think a crossdressing anime guy proudly saying he's a guy is against everything they stand for. When the trailer for Fullbody got released troons and TRAs got mad at Atlus and wouldn't stop accusing them of transphobia and mentioning Erica and Naoto from p4, and Rin's route is about how gay he and Vincent are for each other and how
Rin is an alien from outerspace helping humans, and not about Rin's gender identity or some other bullshit. The flashbacks showing Erica before he trooned out and
Catherine's new ending showing a timeline where Eric never transitioned and stayed a normal gay man also made them seethe, perhaps even more. It was pretty funny, but I guess it's easy to think troons would love that out of context.
No. 354538
>>354500Based. Fujos or not women need to infiltrate and colonize coomer spaces because they've been shoving their waifu porny shit down everyone's throat for too fucking long. Plus the products become 10 times better when a lot of women are involved, men can't write shit.
>>354529P5r team went hard with the fujobait with akeshu but the rest was still too coomery to be fully enjoyable.
No. 354567
>>354555>>354563big games pander to both sexes to maximize income. I'm not going to exclusively play indie harvest moon bootlegs, nintendo, and otome for the rest of my life because there's a lady with big boobs in an otherwise well-made full game, sorry, schizochan. its starting to sound like your real problem is that the fujo pandering bothers you just as much as the moid pandering if not moreso.
>There are a good number of non porny JRPGs/games with female designers and writersname some of your favorites for us
No. 354568
>>354555If companies see that women buy their shit then they will slowly start catering to them. If women are the ones slowly taking over the company then they will make more and more things that are by women for women and it's already happening. You're just too used to see moid shit and waifus and you think it will and should remain the norm. Keep crying and seething, women will get their yume girl fantasy and fujo content like it or not.
>>354541That's why I said women and not trannies.
>>354563>PornifyingYou speak as if women wanted to see hardcore porn in their games and swinging cocks and balls all the time like moids do with their waifus. Women have different (better) fantasies and everything horny a woman puts out will be more tasteful and better-written than whatever a moid will make. It's a good thing for everyone.
No. 354580
>>354567>name some of your favorites for usSuikoden
Suikoden II
Suikoden III
Suikoden IV
Live a Live
Xenogears
Drakengard 1
Shadow Hearts
Shadow Hearts Covenant
Tales of Symphonia (I hate Abyss but its writer was also a woman, alas)
999
Baten Kaitos
Baten Kaitos: Origins
Romancing Saga/Saga franchise
No. 354584
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>>354580>every single game listed is 20-30 years old, from a 10+ year dead series, just as "pornified" as the games your sperging out about, and/or made by square>xeno gamewhat point were you trying to make again
No. 354590
>>354580Such a great list. I love suikoden 1 and 2 so much. They're so timeless.
Both tapes of symphonic and abyss are my favorite titles
No. 354591
>>354540The VA industry is super close knit or you're a celeb cast. One of the few good things coming out of the whole "you have to be the same skin color as the person you're VAing" is that it's introducing fresh talent.
Also she's Canadian so I think she doesn't have to work with the US VGA rules. Don't quote me on that though.
No. 354592
>>353736I don't get how you can have a remastered edition and then include the same DLC as DLC again.
Also still extremely salty about FeMC. I played P3P first and I'm not likely MMC at all. She seemed to be fun and people liked being with her. MMC is just like a bit of cardboard to bounce lines off of.
No. 354615
>>354580Are you planning to play Emerald Beyond in April? I'm beyond hyped for my lesbian buddy cop route. The news that it'd inherit so much of SF1's spirit was amazing for me since RS2 and SF1 are my favorites.
I know Kawazu still has a remake planned and I'm really hoping it'll be RS1 (although knowing him, I feel like it's more likely to be Ultimate)
No. 354618
>>354597None of the ones I'm familiar with on that list are coomerish. I don't think nonna knew what she was seething about on account of her
>xeno gamepoint. Assuming older xeno games are the way modern ones are is a… laughable assumption kek.
Beside the point, there's a lot of great unporny stuff in JRPGs as long as you're willing to play older games. The modern trend of coomer consoomerism has deteriorated the quality of the genre a lot IMO anyways. And a lot of them are super accessible.
The SaGa franchise in particular is the beloved child of a current SE exec so despite its niche status and lack of mainstream appeal, it gets incredible treatment in its ports and most of the mainline games are available in high quality on modern systems, with more becoming available each year. I highly recommend it to fans of offbeat, challenging JRPGs. There's a high amount of variance between each entry, too, so you're likely to find at least one game you like as long as you have the mettle to learn the mechanics.
Sperging at this point, but I'd also like ti add the original Skies trilogy of games to the list of uncoomery JRPGs. It's a masterpiece story of a JRPG with a well-written cast of characters, including a female protagonist.
No. 354629
>>354627it's kind of moidy. For me personally the rest of the game was good enough to look past it but it's there. The main storyline is pretty clean and none of the plot-relevant female characters are sexualized. There's collectible gravure cards, a softcore porn shop and a literal coomer character but none of it is played straight. It's all optional side quests that you can ignore.
It helps that both main characters are really respectful and empathetic to women, and the red light district is portrayed in a negative light as one of the unsavory parts of being in organized crime alongside the corruption and violence. I feel like they handled it pretty well. I definitely prefer it over GTA where you can just go to the strip club or beat up a prostitute
No. 354671
>>354584>every single game listed is 20-30 years old, from a 10+ year dead seriesNTA but why do point that like it's a bad thing, do you limit yourself to play only games that were released in the last 3 years? There are gems that are worth playing even if they don't have a fandom or new sequel. Devs had way more free reign in older gens, the creativity in them is unmatched, nowadays most companies always play safe (and on every aspect: character design, stories, gameplay…) because even small games need an absurd budget so we are stuck on a loop of remakes and uninspired stories.
>>354597From that list, 999 has scanty female designs but at least they're written as actual people and are important to the story despite the writter being a bit of a degen. Very good game, specially the DS version.
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Really enjoying Chants of Sennaar
No. 354786
>>354619I have it installed on my laptop and already 30 hours of gameplay, but I know me enough to know that I am definitely not going to advance the plot. Instead I'm going to play the race cars mini game
gotta beat the kids with my awesome mini race car cuz it's okay to win against virtual kids kek , max out the karaoke, try to "git good" at mahjong and do the free real estate stuff and do that for 6-8 hours of my free time, when I have chores or other stuff at home to prioritize. The game is good (with a small amount of Japanese moidy/perverted touch you can easily avoid by not pursuing the quests/mini games in question). But the side quests man, side areas, unlocking shit by doing something extra that's not part of the main plot, that's what I live for
which ain't compatible with a 40 to 50 hrs/week job much.
No. 354811
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I finished the talos principle some days ago, it was so good. Took me some time to figure out some levels but it was really worth it, and the soundtrack is amazing as well. I'm really fucking sad that my ps plus membership ran out so I won't be able to play it again unless I buy it kek
No. 354894
>>354811Based! It's one of my favorite puzzle games of all time. You should get it on steam, it frequently goes on sale there for pennies including the OST and it runs great on old machines. Plus you get access to workshops. Did you play Road to Gehenna? The story was even better than the main game. The puzzles weren't that much more difficult so don't be discouraged by others talking about a huge difficulty spike.
Also, I really enjoyed the sequel. While the puzzles were a lot easier and it lacks a bit of the melancholic lonely atmosphere of the first one, the new puzzle mechanics were really cool and the new characters/companions grew on me.
No. 354934
>>354325I actually really like the Atelier Ryza series. Like
>>354328 mentioned, this design in particular is especially coomerish, but she's cool as a character. If you don't like Ryza's design, each game has alternate outfits for her that are more on the cute side. The coombait is only in the designs, nobody makes perverted jokes, leers at the girls or comments on their bodies, etc. In fact, a lot of moids complained because the games were too family-friendly and they expected sexually charged dialogue. And Ryza is one of my favorite Atelier protagonists because she's stubborn, a bit hot-headed, and not meant to be brainless and non-threatening waifu bait like Ayesha and Sophie.
No. 355009
>>354989I'm the original asker and unfortunately I do think Ryza's design is too coomery for my tastes because of the thighs– I do not want to watch that running around my screen for dozens of hours. A shame since Ryza does sound like it is the game with best QoL.
You sound experienced with the Atelier games, what entries did you think had the best gameplay?
No. 355028
>>354894I didn't knew I could play it in my old computer, that's good news! I started road to Gehenna but I only made a few levels my ps subscription died kek. I'm happy I read your comment because I was thinking of spoiling myself the ending to the dlc but what the heck I'm gonna wait until it goes on sale so I figure it out myself.
I did realize from the early screenshots that The Talos principle 2 wasn't going to feel as lonely as the first one, but it looks gorgeous and maybe a little goofy too, I'm glad you had fun!
No. 355047
>>355036no need to be a drama queen. there's endless good games that don't have stuff like that so only there's no reason to stop gaming because of it, and that nonna wasn't shaming people that do play them unlike what you accuse her of.
>>354325happy to see another Anniepreciator here!
No. 355056
>>355052>do you just have delusions of yourself as some grand revolutionaryWtf are you talking about?
Disliking coom and participating in lengthy arguments over what constitutes as coom are two different things, the latter is borderline derailing. This level of coom obsession is as annoying as the coom itself and it's a waste of everyones time. There's a sexism in games thread if you need to sperg about it that badly.
No. 355057
>>355056That nonna simply just wanted to know if there was a less moidy outfit - like what the other person said there was - and then you started ranting about how she wants to delusionally change the industry, that she should stop gaming forever, and something about somebody puking over Pyra in spite of Pyra not at all being mentioned (assuming you're the same anon). Case in point
>>355009 asked about which one had the best gameplay, but, nope, never got a reply from anybody of course.
No. 355067
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>>355017How is this more coomery? And all of the games have at least a couple alternate outfits like this.
>>355009I like the Mysterious series (not Sophie), particularly Lydie and Suelle. I usually recommend it over the first two games in the trilogy, because they are not as polished and the story in these games isn't that deep that you need to play all of the games in order. However I think Lydie's design is worse than Ryza's (her shirt is cut off from the side) but it has some of the best gameplay + alchemy of the series, plus the two main character (they are sisters) are adorable. However it really depends on your taste, there's a lot of slice of life and comedy.
No. 355213
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>>355028>I didn't knew I could play it in my old computerYeah, TTP is incredibly well optimized. I played it last year and it still looks beautiful. The devs used their own engine. TTP2 in comparison is a bit heavy to run because of UE5 but I was still able to play it on my Steam Deck with low to medium settings. Definitely check the requirements first but it's very likely you'll be able to run TTP well on an old computer. It's a 10 year old game after all.
> I'm happy I read your comment because I was thinking of spoiling myself the ending to the dlcThat makes me happy too! If you managed to go through the main game, there's no doubt you'll be able to solve the DLC as well. It would be a shame that you spoil it for yourself when it adds so much to the game in regards to lore and puzzles.
I hope you enjoy it just as much when you get to finish it.
>I'm glad you had fun!Thanks! I hope we get a DLC on par with Road to Gehenna and hopefully a level editor. They went creative with the puzzle tools so it would be a shame to not make the full use of it.
No. 355458
>>355373I installed a mod that changes the battle music to star wars battle themes and I'm having a blast stealing ships and exploring the universe helping people. I'm not done the main story cause I'm pretty much focused on the side content and exploration but it's giving me what I wanted, a fun game in space with some cute stories and interesting enough lore (that I can mod into a star wars universe and live out my childhood fantasies in future playthroughs kek).
I've also modded the cutter so it has a hello kitty skin and unlimited range and have been using that as my main weapon for a bit of fun entirely based on finding that super cute cutter skin. It's made the game harder but probably for the best otherwise I find I get overpowered too quick in their games.
I can't wait until proper modding support is added, I've probably added way too much already but I'm weirdly hooked on changing and adding little things. I really hope there will be a way to mod the game allowing you to take some of the ships the game locks you out of
I really wanted Hurst's ship, at least I could fuck him over.
No. 355537
>>355504On the Switch, with complete character creation
>Story of Seasons: A Wonderful LifeFarming life simulator. Satisfying remake of a beloved game, good story
>HarvestellaFinal Fantasy farm sim. Didn't play this but I believe it was well received
>Stardew ValleyFarming, exterior design, combat. Didn't play this one either but it is insanely popular
Honourable mentions, also on Switch
>Rune Factory 4 SpecialGender choice and minimal costume changes. The ultimate farming/romance/RPG. Better than Stardew (IMO)
Kek all of my recommendations are farming games, I'm sorry. I hope others can recommend more adventure or story focused titles.
No. 355651
>>355504For Switch, there's
>Animal Crossing: New Horizons>XCOM2>Skyrim>Divinity Original Sin 2>Monster Hunter Rise>Pokemon Legends Arceus >Pokemon Sword&Shield>Miitopia>Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen>Dark Souls (kinda crappy customization but it's there)Some of these should be available for you on PS5 as well, and will most certainly run better than on Switch. Since you're more fond of RPGs, give Divinity Original Sin 2 & Dragon's Dogma a look first.
No. 355792
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why do so many new video games look like ass
theres so much detail here and yet nothing stands out, it looks like AI
No. 355799
>>355792I feel the worst of both worlds (MMOs and gatcha) are just coming together more and more often on console games. Now everything has 3px font and design characters using a “more is more” philosophy since in gatcha the more complex the outfit is, the more valuable the card is even if it doesn’t make sense.
There’s a game I’m curious about since I love the art director, but they pushed the artistry too much and every screenshot looks like a mess of colors and words, it’s really hard to distinguish anything because it all blends together.
No. 355844
>>355504A decent amount of western games with create a character protags, but not many that also have romance.
I can't think of anything past Bioware/newer Bethesda/Cyberpunk.
Thinking of games with actual gameplay, not VN's or sim stuff.
A lot of the reason I'm still hooked on Destiny and Warframe is because I got attached to my create a protags, but no romance.
doesn't stop the husbando imagination though No. 356610
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I saw this game on sale the other day and it made me wonder, is it worth it?People call it walking simulator which personally I don't care that much to be honest, as long as it's fun.Im looking for a fun game with horror elements like American McGee's Alice but the only thing that stops me from getting most titles are jumpscares and romance.
So if it has either of these I'm not playing it kek
No. 356665
>>354619The hostess club minigame is my crack
>>354589I don’t understand how anyone shilled this game as a sims replacement
No. 356735
>>354230The dusk trilogy is the least coomery I believe, still has some odd moments but shouldn't be anywhere as bad as ryza. I have yet to touch the arland series although that seems to have weird pedobait in it. I played through Sophie (it was my first one) and I enjoyed it, although the
nonnie above saying to avoid it is right about the waifubait and only one character has an outfit that I consider coomery. If memory serves me correctly the coombait should mainly be some character designs and one party member having jiggle physics. I have played worse so it didn't bother me to a huge extent.
No. 356930
>>356887Hm, I think I know which CD drama you're refering to, but iirc it was mostly Ryoji gushing about people in general. It has been pretty long since I last listened them though, so I might be wrong.
About Social links, he has "one" in Reload (link episodes, they're social links in everything but the name honestly) and he literally tells the MC he wants to be "more than friends" with him kek I can't grab the pic since I haven't reached him yet and don't want spoilers for new stuff, but you can probably find the screencap easily.
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>>356967mario wonder is sick too, I also enjoyed 3d world + bowser's fury even if it appears a little basic at first. mario's just fun.
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>>356966Do it! the Wii u is stable and easer to hombrew compared with the wii which wasn't hard either tbh. My parents almost never bought games for my sister and I cause of the prices so we're tag teaming yoshi's woolly world finally and it's killing us with cute.
No. 357074
>>357063Posted up thread, I've been playing this too, gotta beat it before my free month of gamepass runs out.
The areas don't get too repetitive for me because the rougelike elements make it so you're just going in for your one objective then leaving, not exploring.
I find it rather amusing how goofy Colt is compared to the Dishonored/Prey serious protags.
also 2bit a cute.
No. 357092
>>357074I found some negative reviews (before I bought) saying Colt was annoying but he's just a fun lil guy I don't get that critique.
So far the repetitivness hasn't hurt it for me because the areas are so fun with all their paths even though I do have to unlearn exploring everywhere since you come back, I've lost some great items.
Do not like the online stuff though.
No. 357128
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Since we're still talking about atelier, I find it crazy how coomery the series has gotten with Ryza. Sure the series wasn't completely free of moidshit but at least the older protag designs didn't have booty shorts cutting off circulation to the girl's big thighs. Any of you nonnies know of the time they collabed with otomate for an otome game? What happened nonnas
No. 357233
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>>357128I've read about this, it seems interesting but closer to a visual novel. It's too bad, Atelier games aren't awfully complicated games to begin with and their secondary market IS women who want a chill game to play. They could have easily done well making a female-catered game with both the usual mechanics and dating sim elements, sounds very cozy. But I think for a long time, and even now, companies have put out low quality products mechanically by underestimating female audiences.
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I used to have a link to a Google spreadsheet with Dreamcast ROMs - I think the sheet has been fucked with so sadly it no longer works. Does anyone know where I can find something similar?
Looking to emulate other consoles too so if any nonnies have resources for any of those I would be very grateful. Thinking of trying some XBOX games
No. 357304
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>>357291Emuparadise (
https://www.emuparadise.me/Sega_Dreamcast_ISOs/1) still works wonders and has no viruses. You will need a script to access the download links though, I use this one
https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/968sm6/a_script_for_easy_downloading_of_emuparadise_roms/ and had no problems so far. I have been using Emupara since 2009 and I don't trust any other site kek It's a goldmine for older games/consoles (sadly it looks like you can't download Wii games from here anymore)
No. 357347
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Wuthering Waves gameplay is out and what a disappointment. The world looks so grey and bland, like visual mush. How hard is it to make a vibrant, colorful world? I don't want to look at, much less explore a grey and brown soup. The only part that looks good are the pet summons.
No. 357566
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This is a long shot, but has anyone ever played this game? It was also called Shadow of Destiny, it was a ps2 game. I know it has the yaoi anatomy with the giant long legs, the graphics weren't the best (At the time I thought the models looked so good kek), and the voice acting was weird, but I remember enjoying the story. I get it that most people didn't like that the lack of combat and it would be now described as a walking simulator, but I miss these puzzle games that just tell stories. I just love the concept of time travelling in games and I like when there are alternative endings.
No. 357583
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>>357566i love this scene
No. 357584
>>357573It is, I wished more people played it back then. I recently found out the writer, director and character designer was a woman, Junko Kawano, she worked on suikoden as well, but I never played that. I liked how creepy the ost was. It's been years, I don't remember the character's names tbh, was Isaac the main guy?
>>357583Kek I remember that, the scene when he avoids death with a frying pan always made me chuckle. I liked how each period of time had a color scheme as if they looked like paintings or old photographs from the time.
No. 357590
>>357566I played the psp port of this but I don't remember a damn thing.
Looking at my gamefaqs list I played a lot of mid DS and PSP games that I don't really remember anymore when I was on a pirate kick before I got my PS4.
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No. 358094
>>357583Haha, such an underrated game. I love it so much.
>No one gets hurt. This time>>357584Yes, I believe Isaac was the main dude with the blonde hair. I love his 90s aesthetic so much.
No. 358095
>>358088So, this is what hollywood is doing now? Turning beloved cartoons and game series into live action? I know they're doing it with Fall Out as well, and I'm also not looking forward to it. I just dont care anymore.
I also dont give a shit about any of these celebs. It's all so tiring. I hate that they are still trying to bring video game stuff to main stream
No. 358120
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>>358088borderlands 1 and 2 are some of my most favorite games ever made. i refuse to watch this. let me just live in a utopian reality where they stopped making borderlands-related things after BL2.
No. 358173
>>356943Congrats on taking the plunge. I was nervous about mine but glad I did it. Some games I've liked:
>Zenbound2 - one of the few games I like with the joycon. Peaceful puzzle-ish game where you're attempting to wrap rope around different shaped wood objects to cover the object as much as possible.>Yoshi's Crafted World - like other Yoshi games, but this years chosen aesthetic. Good use of 3d in the stage constructions. Good co-op implementation.>Undertale - available on other platforms of course but if you haven't played it yet, give it a try. I forgot how charming the dialogue was until I picked it up again recently.>The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening - an updated version of the old gameboy / gameboy color. Probably partly nostalgia speaking for me, but an enjoyable re-release.>Taiko no Tatsujin - drum rhythm game. Tons of dlc songs you can add too. >Super Mario Odyssey - finished it quicker than I anticipated but still had fun with it. One of the more fun Mario games for the system. >Sea of Stars - Wow usually kickstarter games suck but I would recommend this to anyone that likes rpgs. Satisfying ending. I made fun of Garl for being a fat kid at the very start and boy how wrong I was to judge him so quickly like that. Many options for tweaking the combat difficulty to adjust how you want it. Personally I liked having auto-heal after combat on, made it a much smoother and uninterrupted experience for me. >Ori and the Valley of the Wisps - I can't remember if the first one is on the Switch too but I don't think it's necessary to play it before picking this one up. Metroidvania with a beautiful aesthetic and setting.>Omori - another kickstarter that surprised me with how good it was.>Octopath Traveler>NEO The World Ends with You - definitely pick this up if you played the first TWEWY on the DS. Otherwise, I'm not sure how enjoyable this would be for you.>Monster Sanctuary - surprisingly fun little pokemon-ish game with, imo, much more depth to how you develop your monsters, despite the lower tier graphics. Pleasant music too.>Into the Breach - turn-based strategy game that's deceptively challenging. Easy to pick up and put down for however long you want.>Front Mission 2 REMAKE - if you're a prior Front Mission fan, check out how we finally got this one ported over! Or if you like mecha, a military setting, and classic tactical RPGs. The FM games are like the Final Fantasy games where you don't need to have played the previous ones.>Baba is You - very strange but satisfying puzzle game that I can't help but keep going back to try and figure it out. Hope you have fun with at least some of these!
No. 358248
I was looking up reviews for Potion Permit and the amount of people commenting about how mean the NPCs are is hilarious. I went in thinking the NPCs would be telling me to kms but they’re just like “we don’t like you, we don’t trust you. Leave!” It was pretty benign and definitely not worth commenting on. So ridiculous. Aside from that the reviewers were right in that it’s kind of boring and feels under utilized despite the fantastic pixel art and interesting premise. Bit of a shame, especially if there’s no plans to add anything.
>>358173Thanks nonna! I’ll look into the ones I haven’t played yet for sure, the Zelda and yoshi games sound right up my alley.
No. 358342
>>358340I wouldn't say I get guilty, but there's a reason I don't play stuff like GTA or Call of Duty.
I was feeling a little bad killing the Stormtroopers in Jedi Fallen Order because they have a surprising amount of character.
I like stealth games that let you just avoid or knock out the mook enemies. Though Deathloop wasn't so bad because the ridiculous premise meant you were never permanently killing anyone.
And FPS games like Destiny and Doom are fine cause you're just killing aliens or demons.
But then somehow I'm fine killing human enemies in stuff like Starfield or Warframe, probably because of the unrealistic situations and because they have no personality.
No. 358356
>>358340I'll be honest, I liked the extra detail in the Arkham games that when you go into x-ray mode you can see that everyone you beat up is "unconscious" kek. Yeah they're all criminals but going around killing mobs of people still feels wrong even with contrived reasoning. I find myself taken out of games where you just kill swaths of people like the Witcher 3. It's a game I enjoyed for the most part but I could never take it that seriously because at a certain point I'd killed around a village's worth of unnamed npcs.
Also RDR2 did hit harder too when it came to that stuff, I felt really bad about the quests even if most had options to go easy on people. One of the points of the game is that it's wrong which is probably why it is made to hit harder, but you'd have to be a total troglodyte to not see that without a game telling you. Then again, it's made by the GTA team so they probably knew their audience needed to learn it.
No. 358358
has anyone played through Library of Ruina? is it worth it? I have a thing for really difficult games with arcane mechanics and lore but I heard that some of the later boss fights are really just ridiculous like they require hyper-specific patterns to overcome that you wouldn't know the first time. also torn on whether or not I should try the Lobotomy Corporation.
>>358341oof, I feel that. I used to dub myself the "Chaos Lord" in games and cause as much destruction as I could as a kid. now I can't bare to hurt a chicken.
No. 358454
>>357602If you don't mind emulating old games, you should give it a try.
>>358340I don't feel too bad in general, but I've avoided some games as I aged. There is a very graphic scene in Martha is dead and I'm never playing that. I don't mind old games or when it's monster themed like RE or Dead Space. I'm actually into horror movies, but I prefer psychological ones and the old B-rated horror movies that everything looked cartoony and silly. As soon as it got too realistic or the gore is the main and only premise, then I don't like it. Same goes for games, but they didn't seem as realistic as before, I lost interest in some games because I don't want to play torture simulator. Some deaths from RE4R disturb me, I don't know if it's because I'm older or if it's the new graphics, but I don't remember being as distubed when I played the original. I know they made sure to tone them down in the Remake but the realism makes it feel more crude.
No. 358464
>>357631During the ending when she was like
Ask me questions about myself and you just … don't I was so confused like you're dangling what I want in front of me.
App the game is in the dishonoured universe so definitely sequel potential.