Control Volume posted:

goombastomp: having a penis inside your rear end and cumming all over yourself

mysterious loyall X posted:

That feel when you click on a thread called stealth games and inatead of shadow tactics, mgs, mark of the ninja, tenchu etc ppl are talking about pbug and h1z1
Truly sad!

Major Isoor posted:

Well, you're always welcome to draw attention away from PUBG! (Which I think I will now pee-bug instead of pub-gee as per your typo, as that sounds much better/more easy to remember!) I only brought it up, because I like playing games similar to PUBG stealthily, rather than running-and-gunning like a lot of players seem to.

Also, I agree about Thief ttjo, although I prefer Deadly Shadows (or whatever it was called) over the earlier ones, myself. I think I'm in the minority on that, though.

Seventh Arrow posted:

Unless they've been ported to PC, I don't have a way to play them.

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

Honestly you can just, like, run around a corner and crouch and they'll forget you're there in about ten seconds. Fun game though. I like having a couple of absurdly beefy lads blowing things up while my stealth and hacker stroll in in the background

Major Isoor posted:

I don't know about you guys, but I've just preordered Hitman 2 gold edition. I'm looking forward to picking up the story (and finding more crazy assassination methods) in mid-November!
Hopefully all my unlocked suits get moved across from the previous Hitman game, though - I quite like the gloved variants of some of those.

Also, Sean Bean is the first elusive target for Hitman 2; they even made a teaser for it, haha (I'd link it, but I'm at work currently) I think he gets unlocked around the 20th November.

Seventh Arrow posted:

The original "Gangsters" game was like this, although it was kind of buggy and you didn't really have control over your li'l mobsters. If I recall correctly, you started with a barebones crew and then you would buy up properties and make them into front businesses and then send out your guys to either recruit more mobsters or enforce your protection rackets. It was pretty fun for what it was.

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

ah, I see you've made it to jedi outcast then

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

It's extremely funny that that section is followed by the biggest set piece in the game where you and Luke go Dynasty Warriors on a million sith then blow up the entire place, like Kyle Katarn just forgot he was a Jedi for half an hour. I know that's always the case in those sections but it's so particularly loving dumb lol

In Training posted:

In the Shenmue one the guards kick Ryo out and then he goes to sleep for 23 hours

STONE COLD 64 posted:

when i was in 5th grade i did something similar in the little doorway to my classroom, shimmying myself all the way up and keeping myself up there through the tension of pressing my legs and hands against the walls of the outer doorway. i held this until my teacher immediately spotted me from the little window above the door.
he yelled at me to get down from there but with how high i had climbed i was too scared to just drop down so they had to get the janitor to bring his ladder to come get me.

Love Stole the Day posted:

New stealth game that came out a couple of weeks ago: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1355650/Filcher/

Major Isoor posted:

Ah, your stealthgaming senses were tingling! Perfect timing as always

Shadwen seems cool though, after reading your post! That time-pausing ability seems cool. Kinda reminds me of Blades of the Shogun in a way, I guess. Welp, sounds like I'm adding two more games to my growing list

Seventh Arrow posted:

Sneak Thief







It's garbage.

Seventh Arrow posted:

Maybe I'll do the whole Deus Ex series. I really did not like the closet-sized levels in IW when it came out, but I can give it another shake after all these years.

I'm going to review both Plague Tale games since the first one was $20 on GOG

Sub-Actuality posted:

Chaos Theory would be a solid game club pick

Love Stole the Day posted:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1531020/SPECTRE/

Announced a new indie Splinter Cell multiplayer-like

Michael Transactions posted:

Seventh Arrow posted:

The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay







Usually when I do reviews, I'll put a link to the digital storefront for the game so interested gamers can go buy it directly from Steam or GoG. Not so here! Why? Because you can't get it on digital storefronts anymore. Not sure why, but I assume it's licensing-related. So if you didn't get it back in the day, your only option for now might be to get a hard copy. Apparently, Vin Diesel has another Riddick movie or two coming down the pipe, so hopefully this will inspire a re-release of the game on digital platforms. Also, this title is from 2004 and there is some archaic DRM to bypass. There are threads on the Steam and GoG message boards that will show you how to do this.

The game starts with you - one Richard B. Riddick, being incarcerated in...you guessed it! The sci-fi prison complex known as Butcher Bay. Riddick engages in a number of wacky hijinx, which often result in him being captured, only to escape again. At first you have a bit of limited freedom, being able to move within specific areas of the complex; however, you eventually wind up moving through mining structures, a space port, offices, and lots and lots of corridors. Stealth afficionados may be dismayed to find out that, for much of the first part of the game, the gunplay is generous and the stealth is minimal. It's about at the halfway point that RBR gets his infamous "eye-shine" - his night-vision that allows him to see in the dark. Of course, you're going to regret using it in brightly-lit areas, as it turns everything around you into visual mush. One you get the eye-shine, the stealth becomes a much more predominant feature in the game. Especially because it's about the same time that you get the tranquilizer gun, a weapon that lets you shock guards as well as wreck any lights in the area. This sounds like it would trivialize the game - and it kind of does - but the cheaty, omniscient nature of the guards AI means that they often get the drop on you even when you have the blackened room advantage. Still, the stealth is fun while it lasts, and hopefully you enjoy it because once certain designated story beats occur, you're back to a more run-and-gun playstyle for the rest of the game. Granted, they give you a minigun with unlimited ammo, but people who wanted sci-fi Splinter Cell might be disappointed.

The settings and environment look good for a 2004 game. Mind you, the game apparently was given a remaster when its sequel, "Assault on Dark Athena" was likewise given a remaster, but a lot of its design and esthetic remains from the original release. The UI is minimalistic and unintrusive. When you are in stealth mode and hidden by shadows, the screen and UI will have a subtle blue tint to it. This gives you a good indicator of when you are unseen without having to look at a light meter in the corner all the time. And it's not as ugly as the screen turning black and white like it does in Splinter Cell: Conviction. For those who care, yes Vin Diesel does the voice of Riddick. Although this game came out after Deus Ex (but just before Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory), there aren't really many approaches to solving problems. You're stuck with going down corridors and doing things the way that the developer wants you to. All of this may make it sound like I'm being down on Escape from Butcher Bay, but I'm actually not. This is a pretty quality game, and is revered for good reason. However, from a stealth perspective you may want to evaluate how much run-and-gun, non-stealth you want to put up with before you approach it.