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Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Berseria is good too though.

Zestiria however would belong. That ones dire.

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Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Also the second Lara Bow game.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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The devs are obviously huge tank nerds because the game's full of references to the actual tanks and their quirks.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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TenaciousTomato posted:

Steam down for anyone else?

It's maintenance Tuesday.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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I dont know posted:

They just removed the most blatantly porny screen shots from the store page. Which was apparently enough for Valve.

And changed the store banner so it's not a butt without text any more.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Its from the tank dating simulator guys so obviously extremely tongue in cheek.

Its also a parody of Go Go Nippon which also deserves to be in this thread.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Palpek posted:

There's definitely a lot of stuff that could be listed to show that Japan is in fact crazy. That man however, saw a 7-11 and his jaw dropped at the ingenuity of Nippon.

I watched part of an LP out of morbid curiosity and the narrator is also absolutely amazed by the existence of trains.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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FactsAreUseless posted:

Spelunky uses Z to jump and X to whip, and it works fine.

Apparently it's pretty standard for Asia-developed games to use z,x,c as the main action buttons which works fine if you use cursor keys for movement.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Really Pants posted:

ICEY's alright

Yeah the combat in it is pretty fun and it's got a weird Stanley Parable vibe (though not as funny)

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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CommissarMega posted:

I mean, I'm not opposed to sex (in videogames or otherwise), and honestly, if Steam wants to sell tittygames they should have the balls (again, can't think of a sex joke) to let people post the uncensor patches or sell the games unadulterated.

Supposedly this runs afoul of content laws in several countries Valve does business in. They'd have to region lock those games and maybe not even make them visible in the store.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Mr.Misfit posted:

No, according to itīs trailer itīs worse. Wolf3D was a good game for itīs time. This looks worse. Far worse.

The trailer is also apparently using unlicensed music according to the steam forums. It's a really lovely asset flip.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Bert of the Forest posted:

This has been removed from Steam, by the by. Valve was quick on this one, at least. The developer has apparently been going on a tirade about it too, claiming it shouldn't have been removed because it's apparently a "satire" ABOUT pedophilia, not condoning it. :v:

Yet the other horrible one linked on the previous page that is openly about incest AND paedophilia is still there.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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corn in the bible posted:

Report it, then. Valve never checks any games at all unless people tell them to!

Already did. Hopefully others do too.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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It's been brought up before. It's just another asset flip.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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It's a side project of the devs of Stardrop, a game in early access that looks pretty decent.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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As I mentioned, it was made by a legit indie developer for their daughter.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Mr.Misfit posted:

Was CLANNAD the one every VN-nerd claimed was the greatest VN ever but that totally looked like rear end? Well, it certainly looks weird, thatīs for sure. Also 45$?! wtf?

I think Higurashi is the one you're probably thinking of. It has a very well written story but the graphics look like bad MS Paint in a lot of it.

Clannad was super popular when the anime version came out and is considered a classic, but yeah it's also pretty ugly.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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I'm also pretty sure most of those art assets are stolen,

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Subjunctive posted:

How did Witcher get around the no-sex thing? Is frontal nudity and obscured on-screen sex ok?

I think it's more that Witcher isn't completely about sex and there's no genetalia shown.

Which apparently is also the case for a few of the games this ban is targetting?

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Avalerion posted:

Some/most of them do have official nude patches that you have to get from the dev's site. It's GTA hot coffee all over again.

Kindred Spirits on the Roof is being targeted and, from what I've read, is no worse than Mass Effect. And it was put up uncensored with approval from Valve.

Christine Love has also confirmed that she's heard nothing regarding Ladykiller in a Bind being pulled which is just as explicit than many of these and also completely uncensored.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Parenthesis posted:

I wonder what is going to happen to Campo Santo now that they've been bought by Valve. I do believe they will release Valley of the Gods after a reasonable dev cycle, but after that it's going to be interesting.

Their artists will produce DOTA 2 items. Their writers will end up working on Artifact as quite a few game writers have.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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FirstAidKite posted:

Is Kantai Collection the one where there are these weird cthuloid shipgirl monsters that are based on the American navy?

I think there was something that had that.

Yeah that's the one.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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FoolyCharged posted:

So we now know what it takes to make valve pretend they curate the store: being yelled at on national news.

Or mass reporting by Christian concern groups.

Basically anything that annoys Gaben enough.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Old Boot posted:

That's Scorn, yes, which basically looks like a straight-up loveletter to body horror, and the aforementioned artistic aesthetic. It was announced at roughly the same time as Agony, I think, which made mixing up the two even easier.

Scorn sadly looks extremely dull and generic in the gameplay department. The aesthetics are amazing though,

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Klyith posted:

hopefully they don't start treating achievements seriously, the utility for unlocking all your achievements without even playing the game is kinda the only way to opt out of cheevo crap

There is already the option for server side achievements that SAM can't activate. Most devs just don't use them.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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LORD OF BOOTY posted:

The former is... sorta dumb but I at least get why they had to cut it, the latter I straight up don't get since they're weird elderly baby-men and not realistic babies.

Given the general tone of the game's marketing I wouldn't be surprised if they cut it just to claim they were CENSORED.

The game is pure edgelord.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Jamfrost posted:

I need to know more.

Everything I've seen of Meltys Quest is horrifying.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Synthbuttrange posted:

Article is poorly written and claims its confusing police investigations deliberately because it uses the computer glitch aesthetic a lot later. :v

According to interviews the Sun might have the wrong game completely as the kid was into one of the Asian free to play MMOs mostly.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Unfortunately graphics sell a game more than AI so they're going to be eating up most of the resources.

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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

I don't know what doomsday is about but it should have been Cletus as Rufus trying to figure out how to save Elysium and go go back to being Cletus

Doomsday is kind of hilarious in that it acknowledges exactly how much of a poo poo Rufus is by being a time travel plot of Rufus aimimg for a happy ending where he avoids dying, only for him to ultimately fail and end up in the exact same spot again.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Yep that was the point of it.

As that interview points out, Ellison was heavily involved in the writing side of it though not much else and had to approve of everything that went in.

Though the interview says he didn't object to much, Ellison seems like he was the type who would have spoken up if he didn't like any of the ideas presented to him.

Thanks for linking that btw. It changes my impression of the man a bit.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Tombot posted:

One of the games that have been banned recently (according to that banned games list) is called Far-out: Selene. Didn't look that bad at all, I wonder what happened with it?

Going by the steam forum for it, the game was incredibly broken at release.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Truga posted:

what no

the reason for that is that japan gets literally no pc games because of corporate interests, so obviously only pc games are games that can't be published by sony. it's not the porn games it's the lack of everything else.

It's also because piracy was insanely rampant in Japan which caused devs to flee PC gaming completely in the 90s. The PC market basically destroyed itself.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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I really wish I could find some because I suspect it would be a fascinating read.

PC gaming was fairly big in Japan in the 1980s with quite a few domestic systems (like the original Metal Gear 1 and 2 were games for a Japanese computer system called the MSX) but died by the 90s for quite a few reasons:
-arcades remained big in Japan and arcade games tended to transition to consoles instead of PCs
-conformity: Japan's culture is all about fitting in so once consoles became the accepted norm, most of gaming followed
-big business: the PC developers were mostly gobbled up by growing console companies. Small companies do not last long in Japan before being absorbed or dying.
-the aforementioned piracy: as PC gaming became more and more niche, gamers started pirating games more. Half due to the costs and half due to games simply being harder to get a hold of as the console monopoly took hold. Most games were western developed so they had to be imported.
-social stigma: as the PC market shrunk, the only developers staying on PC were making erotic games that the consoles would never allow on their systems.
-real estate: most Japanese homes are pretty small by western standards, not allowing for what a lot of us consider a gaming space. There's also the fact that most Japanese adults do not spend much time at home during the work week. Even current consoles are in decline in Japan due to this with the main exception being the Switch (which can be played when commuting by train or bus)

PC essentially became synonymous with porn and piracy.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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Yep and stuff like PUBG got popular because it's played in gaming cafes where folks rent computer time.

That market is definitely much much larger in South Korea though.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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I'm not so sure. They hardly had any domestic PC development going, only arcade.

Porting from arcade to PC was pretty rare in the 80s (though it did happen.)

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

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The thing about no NPCs turned out to not be true either.

It's just that there are no human NPCs.

Mokinokaro
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:

I heard that they have costumes just as flagrant but they're hidden behind hundreds of dollars worth of DLC costume packs.

This.

Basically DOA has been "toning it down" to levels EVO considers respectable since at least 4. It's just that the requirements get stringier the older the average fighting game scene audience member gets (and the fact they want to stream on services like Twitch who have their own set of requirements as well.) With the skimpy outfits being DLC, they won't be used in tournaments.

Mokinokaro
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Kchama posted:

I don't think the lawsuit would be trouble otherwise, but from what I've been hearing, there's a lot of rumors rumblings that GOG's financial situation is surprisingly bad, and that an expensive lawsuit might be a straw that breaks the camel's back.


GOG just let around a dozen staff go and cut their fair price program, citing financial difficulties.

My guess is Cyberpunk is being managed as well as Witcher 3 was (W3 apparently had six project managers all with their own vision for the game and did almost bankrupt the studio even with the significant art grants CDPR got solely for the franchise.)

They basically run themselves close to the red line or just below it and hope the game release saves them.

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Mokinokaro
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ultrafilter posted:

Isn't that how most studios operate?

Not as much nowadays and the big different with CDPR is the publisher isn't floating reserve cash to the extent a lot of the other publishers do.

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