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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Warframe handles this problem pretty well by having the progression path be modular, and each new expansion adds more to the world and the way you relate to it. Like, in the new Fortuna expansion you can get to the point where you can liberate the proles from corporate rule, and they form a whole new organization with its own agenda. The main enemy factions are also a libertarian ancap conglomerate, and a genocidally militaristic group of degenerating clone warriors. I'm MR 16 and I haven't said a single word about the war crime simulator 
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Victory Position posted:I'm MR 16 and I haven't said a single word about the war crime simulator It's not a war crime if everybody's doing it.
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Incidentally, whatever you might think about Jim Sterling's opinion on games (his Fallout 4 review is insanely bad), he's done some of the best coverage on just how bad and ruthlessly exploitative the gaming industry has become. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPVOeyRYBPk Child Gambling Quadruples In UK, Loot Boxes Named And Shamed
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i aspire to getting to this level, how do i reach it?
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:I picked up Destiny 2 for free. the main enemy of that game is literally a space roman empire. and the other enemy factions are even more hosed up and terrible than them. destiny 2 sucks in nearly every way possible but "secretly fascist" isn't one of them
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The only game I truly enjoy is Dwarf Fortress
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Ora Tzo posted:i aspire to getting to this level, how do i reach it? I know there's some kind of grognardy PC game about the Russian Revolution and the Polish-Soviet war, but for the life of me I can't find it online.
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Start with civilization, move onto paradox games, mess with some dwarf fortress, eventually od on a real time simulation of ww2
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Eh, this one is slightly funny. You're playing a schoolgirl who goes around shooting pedophiles, which is like the opposite of loli porn. I envy people with enough time on their hands to slap together stuff like this as a stupid joke.
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on gacha
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actually i take on the role of giant blobs of mangudai because mongols were OP
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Siljmonster posted:
man i love this trend where its ok to like something thats complete dogshit because you formed your own opinion maaaaaaan
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you have to convince yourself that the cynical asset-flip is good because otherwise your $60 spent would have been a foolish purchase, you would be a fool if you bought it and didn't like it, you have to like it!!!
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Sad there's no mention of THE SABOTEUR which was a fun as hell GTA Clone. You're an irish spy sent into nazi-occupied Paris with one goal: kill all nazis. It also has a really neat mechanic where nazi controlled areas are black and white (with red as well for the sin city look) but go to full color when you liberate them. It's not very marxist but it's a game about killing nazis and hanging out with the workers of the Moulin Rouge .
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I should mention that arcades are egalitarian by nature as any and all can play the game presented
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SpaceGoku posted:you have to convince yourself that the cynical asset-flip is good because otherwise your $60 spent would have been a foolish purchase, you would be a fool if you bought it and didn't like it, you have to like it!!! I knew 76 was gonna be a piece of poo poo but I bought it anyway because my Turkish friend talked me into playing it with him. So here's the kicker about that: Bethesda is only distributing 76 online through Bethesda.net because they're trying to cut out Valve as the middle man, which makes sense. But they can't do digital distribution themselves in many places outside of the United States, and they're only stocking console copies of Fallout 76 in Istanbul. So the guy who talked me into buying the game can't even buy the game himself. Although I did get the OP and this thread out of it, so I guess it wasn't a total loss.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I know there's some kind of grognardy PC game about the Russian Revolution and the Polish-Soviet war, but for the life of me I can't find it online.
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Victory Position posted:I should mention that arcades are egalitarian by nature as any and all can play the game presented false, the child with rich parents and infinite quarters rules the roost
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actually the most left-wing game in history is guevara for the NES, which had to be released in the U.S. under the title guerrilla war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ21DbD_AZg oh i guess it's on the list already i really like the level where you're barreling down a mine shaft and have to rescue hostages with a lasso BrutalistMcDonalds has issued a correction as of 06:39 on Nov 22, 2018 |
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I knew 76 was gonna be a piece of poo poo but I bought it anyway because my Turkish friend talked me into playing it with him. So here's the kicker about that: lmao naturally this would be the case, that sucks that they can't even get it right to be able to play on PC with people outside of the US cutting down on steam's monopoly is probably good in theory but I'm imagining an end state where every publisher has their own store and you have to maintain an account with each publisher and have credit card info on file with them, and then their store is always going down for maintenance or has download speeds that are 5% of steams or w/e, there probably isn't a good future here as long as money still exists regardless, valve's stewardship of steam has gotten really bad, it's not possible to get a sample screenshot right now because it's in the middle of a sale, but during normal weeks so much of their storefront is just shovelware trash with titties stapled onto it and even outside of that their curation of their own storefront is so poor that it becomes a chore to find titles you might be interested in unless you already know exactly what you're looking for (game title, or at least publisher name) valve is the absentee landlord of web retailing
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SpaceGoku posted:lmao naturally this would be the case, that sucks that they can't even get it right to be able to play on PC with people outside of the US Ok now get this: Bethesda finally released a patch for Fallout 76 5 days after launch, but the 14 gig update required a full 49 gigs of hard drive free space for the entire game just to download. I had to go into my itunes backlog and delete all the downloads just to make room for it.
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Has anyone mentioned Omegaland yet? Starts out as a bog standard (if a little tongue in cheek) platformer and takes a hard left and doesn't stop. I don't want to spoil too much because it has some good 'holy poo poo' moments
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Ok now get this: Bethesda finally released a patch for Fallout 76 5 days after launch, but the 14 gig update required a full 49 gigs of hard drive free space for the entire game just to download. I had to go into my itunes backlog and delete all the downloads just to make room for it. this is some version control straight out of the mid-00s
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Incidentally, whatever you might think about Jim Sterling's opinion on games (his Fallout 4 review is insanely bad), he's done some of the best coverage on just how bad and ruthlessly exploitative the gaming industry has become. Jim can have some absolute rear end opinions on games sometimes (as can everyone) but he's like the only person I can think of that has been saying how loving awful and ruthless the game industry has been for years and years now. his humors a bit hit and miss tho.
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Valve is what happens when a developer finds a new passion for creating and loving with economic systems, and also has unlimited money. Their games are still the best in their respective niches though, even if they only trickle them out.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Yoko Taro titles are the only thing Squenix's publishing house is any good for. The enemy in FF7 is an evil corporation that exploits labor, practices environmentally-devastating energy extraction, builds weapons of mass destruction, and ultimately ends up endangering life on the entire planet with their unethical science projects. Please respect the revolutionary praxis of Final Fantasy.
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No. 1 Apartheid Fan posted:The enemy in FF7 is an evil corporation that exploits labor, practices environmentally-devastating energy extraction, builds weapons of mass destruction, and ultimately ends up endangering life on the entire planet with their unethical science projects. Yeah but the true enemy is a space monster that eats planets
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Peanut President posted:Sad there's no mention of THE SABOTEUR which was a fun as hell GTA Clone. You're an irish spy sent into nazi-occupied Paris with one goal: kill all nazis. It also has a really neat mechanic where nazi controlled areas are black and white (with red as well for the sin city look) but go to full color when you liberate them. It's not very marxist but it's a game about killing nazis and hanging out with the workers of the Moulin Rouge . Game is fun.
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Terror Sweat posted:Yeah but the true enemy is a space monster that eats planets The space monster is effectively dead at the beginning of the game; the evil corporation keeps it on life support in a glass jar and then the supersoldier they create from its DNA revives it. What I'm saying is Google Area 51
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Terror Sweat posted:Yeah but the true enemy is a space monster that eats planets your avatar, is there a question and huntress manga
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this is an extremely pro-click video that goes into detail about a really bad game (company of heroes 2), but also inadvertently deconstructs a lot of media that acknowledges the soviet role in WWII while diminishing the country's importance and reiterating stereotypes created during the cold war, long after the allied victory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m4SCUaBHS8
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Incidentally, whatever you might think about Jim Sterling's opinion on games (his Fallout 4 review is insanely bad), he's done some of the best coverage on just how bad and ruthlessly exploitative the gaming industry has become. This will always be my favorite Jim Sterling video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvHIpxJE2Ss A decades old, rock simple game made in a Soviet computer institute becomes a bloated, unplayable mess in the hands of capitalists.
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silent storm, sentinels and hammer & sickle. they're balls hard, but you kill a fuckin' tonne of nazis. it's also subversive, where if you start as a nazi you wind up killing nazis. the walking tanks are kinda poo poo, but you can get a laser gun to handle that tedium. the expansion and second game have you murdering capitalists.
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jfood posted:silent storm, sentinels and hammer & sickle. they're balls hard, but you kill a fuckin' tonne of nazis. it's also subversive, where if you start as a nazi you wind up killing nazis. Yeah the panzerwalkers or whatever completely threw off the balance of the game to the point it wasn't any fun anymore, because all the element of risk in having your guys taking fire goes away. Power armor in WW2 tactical strategy sounds like a great idea, but you have to build the whole game around it. Hammer & Sickle was way better if only because it didn't have any power armor.
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TrilliontonNixon posted:This will always be my favorite Jim Sterling video: Holy poo poo that "slave Tetris" he shows at the end 
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not using the 'panzerkleins' keeps the late game super fun and challenging. you still have to go up against them, but you can headshot the dudes inside with moisins and the laser gun completely ignores the armor. nazis in power armor slumping to the floor all sad like is wonderfully rewarding. the second game, hammer and sickle, does force you into specific character builds if you want to... stay agile, I suppose, in the story. one of your allies will betray you and if you don't have a character with high initiative, they'll just murder you with a submachine gun. the prejudice against stealth and skill based builds is real. upgunned shitpost has issued a correction as of 09:33 on Nov 22, 2018 |
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Ora Tzo posted:i aspire to getting to this level, how do i reach it? you buy Command: Modern Air And Naval Operations and you resign yourself to being on a DoD watchlist forever after lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddhTe4skXdk
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Willie Tomg posted:you buy Command: Modern Air And Naval Operations and you resign yourself to being on a DoD watchlist forever after lol Haha. What CMANO can simulate and the scenarios that are available for it makes a place on the list tempting. Its not like were all not on one.
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