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Who What Now posted:That sounds right. I remember it being a competent but ultimately forgettable FPS about time travel where you spent the first third of a mission using period appropriate weapons to fight period appropriate enemies, the next third using modern/future weapons to shoot period appropriate enemies, and then the last third fighting enemies from the future. Yeah, I don't regret buying it for five bucks at Ollie's Discount Warehouse, but I'd have likely been upset if it had cost any more. Plus the ending's a cliffhanger, which struck me as absurdly optimistic for a game that clearly was never going to get a sequel.
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etalian posted:Witcher Thronebreaker is really good since you can execute smug elves.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:Just finished and deeply enjoyed Night in the Woods, and especially appreciated characters getting some political positions (e.g. young socialists membership) despite the game really having no politics driving it. it's good, yeah, it's like a metroidvania except the enemies are narrative elements representing alienation, identity crisis, and a lack of desirable opportunity- also I moved back in with my parents at 20 after flunking college for depression reasons so it's weirdly nice to see that represented both the feelings around that kind of perceived failure and everything about the call center are, in my experience, spot the gently caress on
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snoremac posted:I was playing Witcher 3 last night and there’s a racist as hell elf who’s disgusted that the once pure elder blood resides in Ciri. Ciri and Geralt get mad and trash her laboratory to cheer themselves up. Thronebreaker wow RPG game with Gwent battles. Also Ciri owns
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Venom Snake posted:Except EYE Divine Cybermancy, which is good drat that's another one that's been sitting untouched in my library for a long time.
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C-Euro posted:drat that's another one that's been sitting untouched in my library for a long time. It's such a strange game
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Bert Roberge posted:I loved number munchers and all of those The Learning Company games like Midnight Rescue! 
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MizPiz posted:I was actually thinking of Josephine and I could've sworn she hosed Wellington. I even remember hearing that she said he was better than Napoleon. Can't find anything on it now, though. no, I can say pretty confidently that Josephine never hosed Wellington she hosed a guy named Hippolyte Charles who made his bones in the French Republican cavalry, then got out of active service to make a fortune using his connections to sell supplies to the military. napoleon found out just as he was preparing to leave for egypt and nappy b was by all accounts completely secure in his sexual performance, because he also (according to all surviving expert testimony) was a completely perfunctory lover who never gave the least care to his partners' pleasure. if one of his lovers had slept with wellington and started bandying about that wellington was better hung or whatever, he'd have laughed it off with some comment about wellington being pussywhipped. dude was a raging misogynist even by the standards of the times whose idea of sex was banging one out in the course of a few minutes, except maybe with marie louise
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This thread is three days old and exceeds the cspam book thread by 90 posts.
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snoremac posted:This thread is three days old and exceeds the cspam book thread by 90 posts. readers rise up
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C-Euro posted:drat that's another one that's been sitting untouched in my library for a long time. it owns snoremac posted:This thread is three days old and exceeds the cspam book thread by 90 posts. it owns
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Captain_Maclaine posted:
it's also the main plot of shadowrun returns, which admittedly not a lot of people played, but it's also a significant background detail to the entire setting (in the main SR setting, Chicago is quarantined because of a bug spirit infestation, which leads to the various megacorps developing weapons to fight the bugs that end up causing a lot of excessive collateral damage, and of course also using these alien creatures as spirit-/bio-weapons) but the shadowrun returns series of games were also made in that weird period from like 2012 to 2014 where it seemed like things were going to continue along the way they were going with not much changing and nothing to really upset the order of the world, this also goes for the entire shadowrun franchise as a whole including the works produced in the 80s/90s where it was obvious the writers understood the increasing power of capitalism was and did awful poo poo but the competing ideology was in decline so it seemed like there wasn't much to do to stop capitalism's supremacy which is why shadowrun (and all other forms of cyberpunk) are largely about carving out your own niche in a world that is impossible to understand because of its scope and complexity, a place where your gang of freaks and weirdos can watch each other's back and protect each other through a collective defense and community organization that exists outside the normal rules and structure of society because the rest of the world wants to strip you all to the fillings it can criticize capitalism in the sense that it recognizes the failings of capitalism and the harm done by capitalism, but it can't offer alternatives to those failings because the starting assumption of the setting is that capitalism has won a final victory that can't be undone at least that's my take as a certified frankfurt school dropout
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snoremac posted:This thread is three days old and exceeds the cspam book thread by 90 posts. Read better books IMO
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SpaceGoku posted:it can criticize capitalism in the sense that it recognizes the failings of capitalism and the harm done by capitalism, but it can't offer alternatives to those failings because the starting assumption of the setting is that capitalism has won a final victory that can't be undone for my money that's about right. there's also the aspect that most ways of fighting megacorps in-setting involve buying branded guns or 'ware and taking jobs from other megacorps for more money to keep doing it and in doing so feeding into that cycle further, etc this can be instructive in the sense that there isn't such a thing as ethical consumption, i guess
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snoremac posted:This thread is three days old and exceeds the cspam book thread by 90 posts. Sweaty, plump xXxKEK420xXx came from the stairhead, bearing a controler on which a spread of orange dust and grease lay smeared together. A yellow anime housecoat, untied, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the controller aloft and intoned: —Actually, it's about ethics in games journalism
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bethesda delenda est it loving rules if bethesda AND blizzard ate poo poo at the same time
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Honestly the industry needs a crash that brings down all the major companies
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Phi230 posted:bethesda delenda est what did blizzard do
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I made this for that really old assassin photoshop thread.  Also these   
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Wheeee posted:Honestly the industry needs a crash that brings down all the major companies 
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01011001 posted:what did blizzard do oh it doesn't matter what they did, just the fact that they made gamers angry and them going under would make gamers even more angry is hilarious
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they should make an Oregon trail where you start in Missouri and travel east and have to hunt industrial barons and plutocrats for food.
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Blizzard announced a mobile Diablo game and broke all the fans hearts, because it'll be a slicked up trash fest with a freemium currency system because those types of games are money printing machines these days. I kind of agree that video games could use some sort of industry shake up, but it wouldn't dislodge the cancer that's slowly taking over, which are barely-disguised skinner box games wallpapered in popular IP and cranked out/maintained by tiny teams working 100 hour weeks using cut & paste game engines and art assets. We're kinda rocketing into a desolate binary wasteland of shovelware/clickers/freemium garbage and impossibly overwrought AAA titles with nothing in between.
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ShriekingMarxist posted:Blizzard announced a mobile Diablo game and broke all the fans hearts, because it'll be a slicked up trash fest with a freemium currency system because those types of games are money printing machines these days. anything that gets people to stop slobbing blizzard’s knob is fine by me tbh. in general it sucks though things like dead cells succeeding give me some hope but so it goes, middle-budget poo poo gets squeezed out in film too
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Yeah, I don't regret buying it for five bucks at Ollie's Discount Warehouse, but I'd have likely been upset if it had cost any more. Plus the ending's a cliffhanger, which struck me as absurdly optimistic for a game that clearly was never going to get a sequel.
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snoremac posted:This thread is three days old and exceeds the cspam book thread by 90 posts. i will never read a book, but i will always play a game ShriekingMarxist posted:Blizzard announced a mobile Diablo game and broke all the fans hearts, because it'll be a slicked up trash fest with a freemium currency system because those types of games are money printing machines these days. indie games were supposed to be the saving grace of this pattern but whoops, turns out that small studios can be just as lazy and lovely as big ones and a lot of them would rather remake minecraft for the 10000th time than do anything interesting
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etalian posted:Yennefer is the better waifu choice than Triss Both is the canon choice
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MizPiz posted:Both is the canon choice Acutally pissing everyone off and dying alone is and thats a lot more relatable for most gamers anyway
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there's still a lot of good poo poo happening in the indie scene but it's getting filled with a lot of bad poo poo, too I think this goes back to steam/valve failing in their curator role for their own store because it's easier to just let anyone put anything up there and take a percentage cut than it is to hire people to make sure the games are good so there's a shitload of predatory shovelware crowding out the legit small developers and now a lot of your success depends on finding a popular streamer or youtuber or website to advocate for you, or hoofing it around to every con in the country that will sell you a postage stamp of floor space so you can talk to people for 16 hours a day about how they should buy your game you're gonna release in 18 months if you ever get time to work on it between traveling to cons to promote it there's got to be a better way! 
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oh, don't get me wrong, there are some fantastic indie games and devs out there. but for every 1 game that's actually interesting, it seems like there's 5000 other minecraft clones or anime titty games or _______ but with zombies/pirates/pixels games. steam greenlight was a mistake
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ur in my world now posted:steam greenlight was a mistake Gaben's gotta get the world's largest knife collection somehow
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i think Steam is "Bad For Games, Actually", but I dunno how to articulate that without sounding ridiculous distribution and an easy suite of tools for the indie guys and one-man-studio outfits is great, but there are so many negative aspects, namely greenlight, early access, and the russian shovelware steam trading card grift (for the uninitiated: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/05/valve-takes-aim-at-fake-games-that-exploit-steam-trading-cards/) which are still running rampant and why there are 500 releases a day of hot garbage. the barrier to making and distributing games was erased, and like if the barrier to building structures anywhere you wanted in the real world was erased, the landscape is a loving mess of shanties and lean-tos and whatnot crowding out the actually interesting developments luckily there's really no shortage of interesting stuff, you just have to get better at finding it, like all things media related these daays, curation and signal boosting are becoming more important abilities than anything else. as trump might say that's okay i'll keep playing that garbage.
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Chillgamesh posted:Gaben's gotta get the world's largest knife collection somehow it's hilarious how much money valve has to be pulling in from dota hat $$$ and skimming off of steam sales and yet the only thing they've made in the last 6 years is a card game. gaben has to be building a castle out of cocaine bricks or something
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is the videogame crash of the 80s even a remotely applicable allegory for the glut of low-quality mobile titles and lootbox-driven critical failures? I assume it isn't because the collapse was at least partially premised on games having an overhead associated with physically producing, storing, and selling the cartridges
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Frog Act posted:is the videogame crash of the 80s even a remotely applicable allegory for the glut of low-quality mobile titles and lootbox-driven critical failures? I assume it isn't because the collapse was at least partially premised on games having an overhead associated with physically producing, storing, and selling the cartridges The cost of swapping art assets on what is essentially the same digital gatchapon game has to be pretty negligible.
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