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Pener Kropoopkin posted:what games are those Legend of Heroes, the only good jrpg series Also the only videogames that portray the bourgeoisie as the true enemy rather than the nobility Trails of the Sky 1-3 are on steam as is Trails of Cold Steel 1 and 2 (which is the game pictured)
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Like one of the big moments in Trails of Cold Steel 2 is when the mc realizes that the nobility are just enemies of circumstance, and that they were in fact the main force opposing Erebonian imperialist foreign policy which makes it all the worse when the bourgeoisie win the civil war and promptly annex a neighboring country. Roll credits.
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Venom Snake posted:Whats c-spams recommend city builder/city sim if Skylines is just Traffic Management 2018
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Red dead online is funny. Playing on my own I'm. Hill as hell and focused on just wandering around hunting and gathering. The moment I posse up? "lasso that pubbie and drag him off a cliff, haha did you see his dumb rear end ragdoll off"
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jBrereton posted:Pharaoh, still the greatest. Walkers are an infuriating mechanic tho, even with Pharaoh's roadblocks.
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Bro Dad posted:Like one of the big moments in Trails of Cold Steel 2 is when the mc realizes that the nobility are just enemies of circumstance, and that they were in fact the main force opposing Erebonian imperialist foreign policy You missed the part where the best system presented is an aristocracy run the good nobles who uphold noblesse oblige and preside over a perfectly functional class system every segment of society is more or less happy with
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Venom Snake posted:Whats c-spams recommend city builder/city sim if Skylines is just Traffic Management 2018 Tropico Make tiny little paradises with free food/housing/healthcare/social security. Population happiness through the roof, economy humming, new college graduates showing up on every boat to take one of our high paying jobs on this tropical paradise!
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Willie Tomg posted:Walkers are an infuriating mechanic tho, even with Pharaoh's roadblocks. Gotta make your designs beautiful and functional, totally legit.
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multijoe posted:You missed the part where the best system presented is an aristocracy run the good nobles who uphold noblesse oblige and preside over a perfectly functional class system every segment of society is more or less happy with Idk the games are pretty clear that every noble not in the party is a irredeemable scumbag like the whole point of the noble city chapter in 1 is about how its good they dont run the country anymore and they totally deserve the boot on their necks theres also the fact you spend the entire first two games fighting the nobles who overthrew the government because they were becoming irrelevant Bro Dad has issued a correction as of 02:36 on Dec 2, 2018 |
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Ostiosis posted:https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-12-01-turns-out-bethesda-did-make-fallout-76-canvas-bags-and-gave-them-out-to-influencers its unreal how much Bethesda has hosed up fallout.
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Bro Dad posted:Legend of Heroes, the only good jrpg series I played the first Trails in the Sky and it's really good storytelling wise, although the Trails in the Sky series didn't seem very political beyond the geopolitics of living in a tiny nation--state existentially threatened by a big neighboring empire.
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Tunnel Snakes rule!
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mother 3 has a rather boilerplate "consumerism makes monsters of us all" plot, but i'll take it
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Bert Roberge posted:Tunnel Snakes rule! Going back to kill all the Tunnel Snakes owned
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get that OUT of my face posted:mother 3 has a rather boilerplate "consumerism makes monsters of us all" plot, but i'll take it wolfenstein is very unapologetically "murder every fascist" red dead redemption 2, labor abuses aside for a moment, lets you go loving hog wild on Klansmen, Slave Catchers, Confederate Soldiers, Pinkertons, Eugenics enthusiasts, and US soldiers. burn them, dismember them, drag them to their death, throw them off a loving cliff. and then the player character is all "I will kill every last one of you bastards" which is just loving amazing
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get that OUT of my face posted:mother 3 has a rather boilerplate "consumerism makes monsters of us all" plot, but i'll take it mother 3 pretty cspam in general as the only way to play it in english is to pirate it
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Ostiosis posted:https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-12-01-turns-out-bethesda-did-make-fallout-76-canvas-bags-and-gave-them-out-to-influencers lol forever at the concept of influencers
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any game that lets you torture and mutilate pinkertons is GOTY, all years
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I played the first Trails in the Sky and it's really good storytelling wise, although the Trails in the Sky series didn't seem very political beyond the geopolitics of living in a tiny nation--state existentially threatened by a big neighboring empire. lol japan
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While we're on the topic of good JRPGs the Suikoden series has always been a favorite of mine, because it's one of the few game series that can take a broad historical analysis of human affairs. Even if it avoids the issue of politics and ideology, it plants its world squarely within a dialectical framework. All 108 "stars of destiny" may be fated to rise to the occasion and become historical actors, but they're not fated because they're special or because they have some in-born trait - they're fated by the very dialectical processes of history itself to be empowered as historical actors. While the first two games were geopolitical dramas, the third one took this framework to its philosophical conclusions by having an antagonist who had previously played bit parts, but who is now filled with an existential dread for the fate of the world, as the dialectical forces behind history will eventually divide the universe into the binary oppositions of perfect order and chaos. Then they ruined the historicity of the series by making Suikoden 4 a prequel, and Suikoden 5 was like who cares. Now the whole series has been languishing for twelve years without a proper sequel.
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the best jrpg is chrono trigger it doesnt really have a sophisticated message at all its just better than all the rest of them
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Sir Tonk posted:its unreal how much Bethesda has hosed up fallout. yeah it feels almost ridiculous describing it as a failure directly because of capitalist rent-seeking because it's such a clear and coherent example of how perpetual growth is not only impossible but pursuing it is outright self-destructive it's the videogame communist version of "I worked on this story for a year, and he just tweeted it out!" it even demonstrates the inflexibility of capital because the genre it tried to clone was one that was popular with streamers and youtubers a few years ago but has been almost completely abandoned by that demographic in favor of fortnite
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Shear Modulus posted:the best jrpg is chrono trigger Chrono Trigger is one of the few jrpgs where your choices actually matter, since there's several ways you can affect the timeline.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I played the first Trails in the Sky and it's really good storytelling wise, although the Trails in the Sky series didn't seem very political beyond the geopolitics of living in a tiny nation--state existentially threatened by a big neighboring empire. I remember enjoying trails in the sky, very simple but satisfying combat. The Japanese tropes become unbearable in cold steel tho lol, maybe its the act of jumping into 3d that really undoes it all. The whole no homicide is at least feasible in concept when you're wielding a quarterstaff, cold steel man has a fuken samurai sword, how the gently caress. On the upside, you do get to see a guy making a blood and soil speech get murked.
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Homeless Friend posted:I remember enjoying trails in the sky, very simple but satisfying combat. The Japanese tropes become unbearable in cold steel tho lol, maybe its the act of jumping into 3d that really undoes it all. The whole no homicide is at least feasible in concept when you're wielding a quarterstaff, cold steel man has a fuken samurai sword, how the gently caress. On the upside, you do get to see a guy making a blood and soil speech get murked. Ys is the better series because the Chad Adol can finish what he fukken starts, unlike the Virgin Rean whos main enemies escape in cutscenes half the time
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SpaceGoku posted:yeah it feels almost ridiculous describing it as a failure directly because of capitalist rent-seeking because it's such a clear and coherent example of how perpetual growth is not only impossible but pursuing it is outright self-destructive Oblivion and Fallout 3 became megahits because Bethesda was filling in an unsupported niche in gaming, with big open worlds that you could explore with fully voiced NPCs. Now open world games are a dime a dozen, so to differentiate themselves Bethesda has to go back to what made Morrowind and Fallout great, which is compelling storytelling in settings that are incredibly different and novel compared to everything else on the market. Instead of taking a risk and returning to form, they milked Skyrim for 7 years and eventually farted out Fallout 76. It's just another way in which capitalism is inherently risk-averse in its pursuit of profit. You can be risk-averse if you're extracting resources from out of the ground, or manufacturing millions of yards of cloth, but you can't be risk-averse when it comes to more complex things that satisfy an unfulfilled social or intellectual element in the same way art can. Eventually people just get tired of the same old stuff and move on to something else that seems fresh and novel.
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IDONTPOST posted:mother 3 pretty cspam in general as the only way to play it in english is to pirate it untrue:  + Plus loading the fan translation on whatever that GBA loader cart is called, would let you play it on your GBA, legally.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:While we're on the topic of good JRPGs the Suikoden series has always been a favorite of mine, because it's one of the few game series that can take a broad historical analysis of human affairs. Even if it avoids the issue of politics and ideology, it plants its world squarely within a dialectical framework. All 108 "stars of destiny" may be fated to rise to the occasion and become historical actors, but they're not fated because they're special or because they have some in-born trait - they're fated by the very dialectical processes of history itself to be empowered as historical actors. While the first two games were geopolitical dramas, the third one took this framework to its philosophical conclusions by having an antagonist who had previously played bit parts, but who is now filled with an existential dread for the fate of the world, as the dialectical forces behind history will eventually divide the universe into the binary oppositions of perfect order and chaos. Mathiu sighed and drew his katana.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Then they ruined the historicity of the series by making Suikoden 4 a prequel, and Suikoden 5 was like who cares. Now the whole series has been languishing for twelve years without a proper sequel. suikoden 5 was good tho
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any grognard mil-sim fans, please feel free to check out a Russia v. Japan conflict scenario in Let's Play: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3871512 We're at the point where I'm spamming anime jams to get these weeaboo cowards to fight for their lives
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i am rally bad at making faces in games so im riding around in rdr2 with a fetal alcohol syndrome looking leprechaun with giant mutton chops. a guy made me kidnap some dude and kill six of his body guards for the princely sum of $4.31
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IDONTPOST posted:mother 3 pretty cspam in general as the only way to play it in english is to pirate it
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I still need to flash the firmware on my RS-97 handheld so I can play all the GBA games I want on this crummy Chinese GBA Micro wannabe handheld I bought forever ago
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oh cool theres a free hitman 2016 demo on steam oh... its just the two tutorials......
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cumshitter posted:i am rally bad at making faces in games so im riding around in rdr2 with a fetal alcohol syndrome looking leprechaun with giant mutton chops. a guy made me kidnap some dude and kill six of his body guards for the princely sum of $4.31 that's enough to buy four gold wedding rings or two cans of baked beans
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"too expensive" for a $200 edition lmfaoBro Dad posted:suikoden 5 was good tho It's been over ten years since I played it, but I don't remember it being particularly compelling. The whole problem with the prequels was that 4 was set too far in the past to matter when it came to events in the main series, and 5 was set on a different continent even though it was only 6 years before Suikoden 1. Prequels work when they provide more context to the original story, but those two just felt superfluous.
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Stairmaster posted:oh cool theres a free hitman 2016 demo on steam don't they give you the freeform boat tutorial hitman 2 is absolutely worth it. it's incredible fun. if not then just settle for Blood Money, which in some ways I prefer to Neo-Hitmans
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