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Have you ever looked at DnD-esque RPG's and thought "Wow, some of these classes suck. Who the gently caress wants to be a bard in a world of epic heroism? That's like being the janitor to someone else's CEO."? Well guess what. Way back when some dude redid the bard class in Neverwinter Nights 2 so that it plays in the same style of Guitar Hero. As in, you literally have the Guitar Hero timed button presses to deal with along with a similar interface. It' called "Lute Hero" and the best part is that it works in combat too. Features include: Breathing fire at your enemies from behind your mighty guitar as you solo E1M1 from Doom, smiting any that dare to close with you with lightning bolts from the power of your shredding, and just making your enemies randomly explode from how awesome your riffs are. Seriously, watch the video. It's nuts. Especially if you're familiar with how limited NWN2 was on the module front. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n0vmCqv5yo Archonex fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Jan 4, 2017 |
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So here's a neat Skyrim mod. It adds in Dwemer mecha. And they are loving badass looking.   There's a bunch of different styles and loadouts. Apparently they also show up in dungeons as well as being rare loot drops. Incidentally, ever wanted to know how the Dragonborn would fare against a GITS style Dwemer spider bot?  And my favorite: Bandito Robot. Who literally can be used to take down aerial dragons by firing explosive flak shells.  Sadly there's no video I can find up on Youtube that isn't loaded up with sex mods. So if you want to see it in action then you'll have to deal with that. NWS, obviously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knJZsPKkQx4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxtMXok_z04 Archonex fucked around with this message at 15:49 on May 25, 2017 |
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Arma 3 is an amazing platform for modding that sadly goes unappreciated in favor of small scale "dynamic combat" mods that are often just the equivalent of placing a few random assets somewhere to cap or take out. Don't believe me? Check this out. Someone remade Katamari Damacy in Arma 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAxJDjPUk-g Edit: Other highlights of Arma 3 modding include: Whole Lotta Altis --- A map wide customizable progressive simulation of an entire war that starts off with you opting to play as guerilla insurgents or inserted NATO special operatives and ends with a full blown war zone with multiple factions duking it out over the island independent of your efforts. An increasing number of mech mods that are pilotable. Said mods include Wanzer, Macross, and Mechwarrior mechs. Said mechs can be piloted alone or in duo's. And if you can pilot them alone then you know you are pro at the game, given how hard it is. They're also disturbingly effective in the right hands and situation.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpZj3PEb_Cg Archonex fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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Reposting this from the Skyrim thread, since it's pretty amazing and deserves more attention.quote:Speaking of talented modders. I meant to post this before I was distracted by the Creation Club thing. This guy is doing some absolutely batshit insane stuff (in a good way) with Skyrim. It's easily the most complex and impressive thing i've seen, and once it's finished will probably make it a whole new game in an actual dynamic world. Also, the creation club is going to be a glorious cluster gently caress if Bethesda isn't really careful both on the design and PR end of things. Archonex fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Jun 12, 2017 |
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Diabetes Forecast posted:they've gone from one form of greebling (doom 3 times infinity) to now just aping the gently caress out of WETA Workshop because it's the new hot style, nevermind that they don't actually understand what makes WETA's stuff work in the first place. In the end Epic is getting worse because they have no consistent idea of who they are what they're doing, and it's eventually going to bite them in the rear end. A man-portable anti-air flak cannon? Seriously, either the camera is distorting the size of it or that thing is loving huge.
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So War for the Overworld is a pretty fantastic homage to Dungeon Keeper 2 with a few flaws that are hopefully getting fixed in the future. Mostly the lack of a way to tell minions to guard and patrol an area without lots of micro coupled with a lot of the keepers being the same in terms of units and playstyle. But that's not what this post is about. It's about the insane maps people have made thanks to the recently included workshop support. Why are they insane? Well...   The mapping utility is detailed enough to let you create pixel art via the preview image. And it's gotten to the point where enough people have started using it for that that the workshop has added it's own category to search by. Typically i'm as annoyed by porny mods as anyone else. But holy poo poo. It's actually pretty impressive that someone could pull off making cheesecake art using something like that. Of course, it isn't just used for that. 
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The Kins posted:What a horrible night to rip and tear. Oh my god. It even has the wall meat.
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To be fair, Kaleido Bloodlust is a legit awesome name for a member of a metal band.
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TTBF posted:Stellaris recently released DLC focused on playing as interstellar machine empires. One of the machine people you can choose to look like is a floating squid orb. Its my favorite of the new robots and a modder improved upon it. Oh man, I came here to post that.  I noticed that SkyUI is launched for Special Edition. Is this a paid thing or not?
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Cicadas! posted:I want to say that Sims as a whole probably attracts lots of oddballs due to its God-simulator properties, but it's more likely that most modders are just strange people with strong ideas about how they want things to be, and putting more than one of them in a communal setting will usually lead to clashing viewpoints or worse. Another part of it was that at one point there was a perception that there was money to be made on it. So people would flip the gently caress out if someone did something remotely similar or better than their mod. It's kind of like an even spergier version of the Minecraft community in that regard.
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ProfessorCirno posted:The actual best mod(ding) is the modding still being done on Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, because that engine is one of the most unstable pieces of poo poo in the industry, and in fact has it's inventory (and a LOT of other stuff) hard-coded. People are making entire new areas for a game where you can never add a new inventory item ever. It's sheer, unrelenting madness. But at least it's not toxic and garbage madness. Heck, there's even a team making a prelude mod that lets you play as a hunter and let's you flesh out what was going on before the game started. It includes all new areas, skills, characters, and everything. There's also the Antribu mod, which is literally nothing but new clans that people were interested in like the Tzimisce, Nagaraja, etc, etc each with their own unique mechanics and drawbacks. Though it turned out that the creator was a bit nuts it did come out in a somewhat playable state. quote:No one really knows what the gently caress he's doing but he just sort of quietly does whatever it is and is apparently happy doing it. Apparently he's one of the people on the prelude mod team. So mostly that when he's not working on the community patch. Which is basically what his patch is at this point. Also, they can definitely add new things in. My best guess at how is that someone somehow decompiled or obtained access to the source code at some point in the past and just aren't telling people outside of the long time modder community. Because at this point many of the long time modders are adding stuff they literally could not add in before, like new characters, items, entire new playable clans with their own mechanics, etc, etc. Edit: Beaten.
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Bieeardo posted:You're going to cause a slipgate accident, you know. Pretty sure people dicking about with science like this is dangerously close to how at least one of the Doom games got started. Three months after he runs the experiment he'll re-appear with a scarred up body and a strange cube that gives him super powers. Archonex fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Jan 6, 2018 |
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Agents are GO! posted:
This is really disappointing. I was thinking he'd be the sort of guy to blame Obama for there not being dolmens and old skyshards from ESO in Skyrim or something like that.
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Angry Diplomat posted:For some reason "Missy's Shirts" is absolutely cracking me up. It's the perfect deadpan punchline. This makes me want to feed a list of Nexus mods through a text to speech converter. The deadpan and phonetic nature of it would probably make for a few chuckles. Never mind highlight how ridiculous some of the adult ones are.
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Screaming Idiot posted:STRIP AND BARE... UNTIL YOU HAVE CUM So are the glory kills just gonna be money shots or what? Holy gently caress, fantastic TotP. 
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OwlFancier posted:Do you think doomguy jizzes hell energy? Given how over the top the carnage in the new Doom is I assume the Argent Filters would explode not from him punching it but from him vigorously humping the thing. Possibly while Hayden exasperatedly bitches at him for the energy crisis he just hosed into being. Ditto for glory kills. Picture three seconds of Doomlayer bending some poor terrified imp over and banging it for a few seconds before it inexplicably explodes. Or y'know...Don't. 
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Now someone needs to change the song that happens when Mr. X gets near you to that Gay Bar song and it'd be amazing.
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Internet is crapping out but in the few minutes i've managed to get of this i've seen a close up of what appears to be a demonic crotch and a foot long dong asking me to make a "DOOMSDAY CLICK" while the options "STRENGHT, DEXTERITY, CHARISMA, BODYBUILDING" are displayed, a man riding a gigantic chicken into battle, what appears to be the grimdark empire from that Riddick movie, a skeleton in a dress with the dress looking like a cross between an MS paint nightmare and a technicolor rave, and what appears to be a horde of revolutionary war dressed Ork's from Warhammer 40k about to light some stuff up with some dakka. If it ain't satire then the person has a few marbles loose. Edit: And yes, it's spelled "STRENGHT". That wasn't a typo. At least, not on my part.
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Kikas posted:Wait what the gently caress how does choosing NATO put you on a side?  explanation that's off topic to the forum:During the 90's there were numerous conspiracy theories about NATO and the UN being a shadowy new world order. However, they were believed in only by the most fringe of crackpots. NATO and the UN were hardly the only group that had such conspiracy theories (and arguably was the least of them, relatively speaking) created about them too. FEMA and numerous other governmental agencies had similar "the government is controlled by an evil conspiracy" theories. Incidentally, this informed pop culture a bit. Games like Deus Ex and shows like the X-Files all played on this stuff with things like UNATCO and the X-Files various story arcs and such. Most of the guys and gals that believed that stuff back then were just nuts or in really desperate places and needed something to latch on too. They were largely anti-state on (crazy) principles. Then towards the early-middle to middle of the Bush years the right wing media finally started to spin up to it's full inspire-people-to-batshit-crazy-beliefs potential and it started to suck otherwise normal people into those sorts of fringe conspiracy groups. This exacerbated things and brought those beliefs to people that would have otherwise ignored them since a lot of that media was presented as if it had an air of legitimacy to it. Then when the Obama years rolled around the aforementioned right wing media machine tore off the mask and went "SURPRISE, MOTHERFUCKERS, IT'S ABOUT RACISM/GETTING REPUBLICANS ELECTED ALL ALONG!" and everyone that was hooked into those spheres promptly followed suit as they repeatedly doubled down since they were uncritically listening to them (and therefore trusted them) for well over a decade past when a lot of the FEMA/NATO/UN conspiracy theories got started and were largely abandoned by their original proponents. Coincidentally, most pop culture portrayals nowadays of things like FEMA, the UN, NATO, etc, etc, as being evil conspiracies tend to be avoided outside of retreads of old games like Deus Ex. Which is probably at least partially because portrayals of these conspiracy theories in that light puts you adjacent to the sort of guy that's so nuts or angry at the world he'd happily genocide the jews/immigrants/lgbt people/whatever their hated enemy of the hour is. If the game was in development 12 years ago that does put it in the range of it being towards the early Obama/late Bush years. Even so, the timing of it doesn't necessarily mean it's a game from some racist crazy person. Then again, I haven't seen the video of it yet and other people have posted some stuff that makes it look pretty questionable (Like that damned near satanic looking Star of David. That's a big red flag.  ) so  . Edit: I forgot that I was going to talk about another mega mod/standalone game I found over the past year called AMC TC before I saw this conversation. Basically, it's a mod built off a renovated version of the old Duke3D game engine that details what happens when Duke Nukem goes missing and is...Well, the only way to put it is that it's insanely huge and is the work of a ton of modders working together to make what's essentially the Duke Nukem version of the Avengers. Which are predictably all expies of corny heroes from one game or another when they're not just outright assholes that'd be the villain of their own game. It's literally bigger than most commercial games and is basically every old shooter put together. Quake, DOOM, Duke3d, Blood, Deus Ex, Hexen, and more --- It's all there in a copyright friendly manner. And when I say it mixes games like Doom and Duke3d I do mean that literally. In one mission you can be fighting an army of demons in a level straight out of DOOM and then in the next take on cultists that are basically an expy of Blood's cultists. And that's before you get into the meat of the gameplay with how each character interacts with the world differently. Hell, this applies to the variability in all the content too. In one mission I was driving a tank through a city as part of a communist revolution with a squad of AI soldiers supporting me in my charge to take the palace from a corrupt dictator. In the next, I had found out that a different character could engage in a freaking hacking minigame that doubled as a jumping puzzle. Said hacking minigame then transitioned into being able to control a giant killer robot because hey why the gently caress not? Basically, not only is the gameplay of the gunplay (or sword play/magic play) represented in the characters you have available but their respective enemies from their games are there too with some upgrades and additions. It's nuts. And it's actually kind of loving awesome once you get over the Duke3d era jank and the corny voice acting. The latter of which is apparently being worked on. The game is as mentioned quite huge. But how huge it actually is tends to shock the poo poo out of everyone that plays it. With around 8ish unique playable characters that are all copyright friendly versions of protagonists from old games, a full scale X-COM-esque campaign and research system based around salvage and exploring action sites between doing investigation oriented missions, mass combat "war" style missions, and classic shooter style missions, and an insanely huge world that starts with the entire solar system and then escalates to nearby solar systems before somehow topping itself again with literally a galaxy it's quite possibly the biggest old school game mod out there. Notably, it's still in production despite running on the old Duke 3D/Blood game engine. I can talk about it more if people want, but in the mean time i'd suggest checking out that IcarusLives guy that does a lot of reviews of mods of old games if it sounds interesting. He did a nearly 20 minute piece on it worth watching despite him having to cut it short. I say he had to cut it short because after trying to explain everything about it and eventually giving up (He himself points out the video would be hours long if he did and he had already played for 6 hours by that point just to get that video with all it's info up.) he eventually just lapses into raving about how loving huge the game is and how ridiculous it is that these modders have done something this big for this long with pretty much no one noticing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZDtipqEnZA Note that it took him 20 minutes to go over episode 1. There are three episodes out with at least a fourth one coming and a fifth planned.
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John Murdoch posted:Look closer. It's flashing a generic "faiths of the world" lineup. Not to say that you can't read into it how it's centered and framed and such but taken in context and at face value it doesn't seem anywhere near as bad as you think. Mordja posted:According to her moddb profile, the creator is from Japan so that might put a different spin on the whole NATO stuff. Whether she's just using it as a surface-level thing, or if it's some nationalistic statement, I obviously don't know. Aaaaaaand I will say that a flag on a website profile doesn't mean much and for all I know she's just a western weeb. But still, there is the possibility that she's approaching it from an angle that's got nothing to do with an American conspiratorial zeitgeist. Ah. Still seems kinda skeevy but okay. Maybe it's just hearkening back to old 90's era conspiracy media then? Kind of a weird thing to go retro with but I guess trends have gotta start somewhere. I will say that Japan has some really crazy nationalistic types too. So who the gently caress knows. Guess i'll wait until goons report more on it to make a judgement. Also, why the heck didn't the goon that helped make AMC TC post it here? It's right up this thread's alley. Once I got back into the swing of playing games like that and redid the Duke3d control scheme to something modern it was a blast. Kyte posted:(even slab doesn't dig that deep into the abyss) I don't believe there's worse than the Slab. Not unless you show me.  Granted, it seems like the Slab modders have been winding down these past few years given that no one has posted any really new and particularly egregious examples of their stuff here to gawk at and make fun of. Maybe because they kinda peaked with that horrifying parasitic porn mod? Honestly, you aren't getting creepier than that thing. Archonex fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Dec 12, 2019 |
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Danaru posted:We made it more easily searchable by adding the name of an already currently popular game to the title And added in such an easily recognizable key to replace the S in string! Boy howdy am I glad that the helix key replaced the home key a year or two ago. Typically renames looking for recognition actually rename the thing. Not, y'know, just add subtitles and have their title fancy up the original name.
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Cardiovorax posted:Because of course that would be a thing. It's funny in that it's technically better than Mount and Blade when you look down at the reviews and see what sort of features the game has. It has a tech tree and era system that means that you start out with anime girls attacking each other with spears and swords, tech up to primitive guns, then eventually modern weaponry. Also, it has functional vehicles ranging from horses to tanks from what i'm reading. And better control over the cities with the ability to place housing and all sorts of other stuff instead of it all just being stats on a readout with instanced fake sections of the city for things like industries. But then they had to release a pre-alpha that's creepy as heck. Because waifus. Archonex fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Feb 12, 2020 |
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Cup Runneth Over posted:I thought you said it was technically better than M&B? All that stuff you listed sounds awful. That's stuff that a lot of the bigger mods have been trying to do for a long time. Problem is that Warband and MnB in general are just too damned janky to pull it off effectively for most mod makers. That someone made an original anime waifu game that did that and is clearly copying off of MnB is 100% hilarious. In particular I remember there was some soviet revolution mod that tried to put tanks in way back in the earlier Warband days. Imagine some potato headed looking peasants in tanks charging the enemy in heavy armor to run them down and smack them with their sabers. All while they randomly poo poo explosions with invisible arrows at the horizon. It was amusing in that "What the gently caress am I looking at?" sort of way. But it didn't really work. About the only mod I ever saw pull off working vehicles was that zombie apocalypse sim mod. Archonex fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Feb 12, 2020 |
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lurksion posted:Makes for an amusing inventory screen at least Don't forget what looks like a gothic maid outfit. Because real soldiers appreciate style when they have to sweep up all those spent rounds from WW2 era guns and tanks.
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Gotta say, lots of the parts of that rant would make for a good thread title. Just to name a few: The Awful/Awesome Mods Thread: Look upon her and rejoice The Awful/Awesome Mods Thread: Unrivaled Intellect and Taste Alternatively if it's not too big: The Awful/Awesome Mods Thread: Look upon her and rejoice you simpering neophytes Edit: Oh god. I checked the posts section and it gets worse. The people dumping on him are hilarious though. Archonex fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Feb 13, 2020 |
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OwlFancier posted:I am fairly sure that's a piss take but I can't quite be sure, given the context It's definitely serious. The guy is in the comments defending his choice as politely as he can without coming off as completely loony tunes.
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bony tony posted:They follow the gospel of St Albert, and want Complete. Global. Saturation. At one point the voice actor straight up parodies his line and would fit this thread. Complete. Global. Masturbation. Eh, the heck with it. Here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p52-QBTXZyM Magmarashi posted:You'd be surprised at the number of people who really don't get obsessed with anime art being 'cringe' In the case of the anime waifu game, it's not even that it's anime. You could do a game with a cell shaded or outright anime art style and have it look gorgeous. Granted, it's hard as heck to do and expensive in the latter case. This is just some guy's soft core wank bait masked in a better version of MnB. It's like taking a dump on top of a sundae and calling it chocolate when people complain about your creepy tastes.
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Here's a mod for Total Warhammer 2 that adds a curious Bastiladon (an ankylosaurus-like dinosaur) that tags along with an archmage. So I gotta ask. What happens if the Bastiladon gets the Sword of Khaine? Because i'm assuming it starts with the music from Doom playing and ends with a dead army or something like that.
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Mordja posted:I don't know from Starfox but this is mad impressive. (This is originally Freespace 2.) All of his mods are impressive. That is the guy who made Hyrule: Total War. I did a lot of large effort posts on it way back when, and suffice to say that it was basically TW Warhammer before Warhammer existed only with extra bells and whistles. For instance, the Shiekah faction didn't even have a conquest oriented gameplay. Instead they were the secret police of Hyrule (Which was split into playable provinces, meaning that if you played as Hyrule itself it had a sort of Rome-esque set up where it had to keep them in line while waging war.), sending in their ultra-elitist playstyle armies to take out threats to it. Or if you wanted to let it happen, you could betray Hyrule and get that wizard antagonist; getting to recruit the cool looking soldiers from a Link to the Past while transitioning to a proper nation playstyle. Likewise, Labyrinna or whatever it was called was basically colonialism.txt with extra gunpowder units, magic punk mechs, and brutal WW1 style trench warfare later on. This could occur against more fantasy oriented armies which was  as gently caress when you factor in all the batshit crazy stuff like the Gohma Horde (Basically, the Tyranids if they existed in Warhammer FB and went up against a somewhat steampunk-esque WW1 army that used trench warfare as a doctrine. Take a moment to envisage that scene for a moment.), etc, etc and is something that the TW Warhammer devs haven't done yet.TL;DR: Each faction was genuinely interesting. Sadly though the engine literally couldn't handle all the stuff he was doing like naval combat and multiple settings/worlds so he had to switch over to a much more scaled down RTS after trying for years to get it to not be so unstable. Archonex fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Sep 20, 2021 |
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Mordja posted:Yeah I I tried to play it a while back but was faced with crash after crash on top of your standard M2TW jank. He's remaking it on the 0 A.D. engine which is more like an AOE game. If you can find the right older version and patch the exe to have 64 bit memory allocation it doesn't usually crash. You miss out on some neat features though. It's a shame he's doing it on 0 A.D. since not only is it super janky but the AI isn't there for it, meaning that only like two nations are playable against in skirmish so far since they have to design the AI. Also, the scale of the game is cut way down.
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RareAcumen posted:Oh no, the monsters are next! Isn't that the horrible penis looking monster? Where do you think the drool comes from now? This is unironically awesome. Sounds like some old school Armored Core music too, for bonus points.
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