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Oh shit Kal knew about Elves back in chapter 7.

took a break from this game, but plan to get back into it now that I have more stamina to read lately.

>>47758
lmao based retard

>>47759
He probably either realized he couuldn't cash out or he knows he's had poor OPSEC and is basically done for so has decided to make it about principles and whatnot to at least build public sympathy.
The Leek motif is a nice touch though, reminds me of lulzsec days.

He'll drop the dev build eventually and it will be glorious. Finally all gaymers will be freed from the hassle of the rape device known as the Rockstar Games Launcher. Based Hacker freeing millions of people from DRM.

>>47771
I just wonder how close the leaked build is to the final release one

>>47725
I hoped someone here would

>>47634
it's cool and everything but I don't really know what to say about it. it's like if you posted a thread about
>hey check out this old school big-as-a-brick gameboy that survived nuclear explosion
or whatever. it's just like… それはとってもいい話だね^_^

>>47728
Let me know if you have other interesting links. I have this faggy kind of dream of finding and binging a wiki that just collects "history from below" stuff like this about particular games/genres/scenes. The site in the OP has some stuff like that but not as much as I'd like

This article might also be of interest https://aeon.co/essays/before-minecraft-or-snapchat-there-was-micromuse

>>47767
I think your idea for a site sounds really interesting, because as the number of entries grows, you would also have to sort them chronologically and establish different diverging and recombining strains of internet culture. Like something that quotes sources on arpanet-era university networks, usenet, 90s dialup, cracking culture, the pre-FANG internet and our favorite basket-weaving forums in a grand multi-narrative epic of the internet as we know it. Or you know it could be just another wikipedia clone.

>>47609
Temu halo

MGS3 delta did a good job thoughbeit

>>47661
No

>>47663
Why not?

>>47667
just like, because, okay?

>>45992
>violent saturday morning cartoon
oh, yeah that works. Finally i have a term for what dawn of war is. I was stuck in the is it parody, is it serious, or whatever. This term works

>>45951
I don't disagree with you, but then I think that modern 40k is better as a narrative than what was before. Attempts to sell minis like primaris marines destroy the narrative, though. Aesthetics are really nice and unique for every faction, after decades of refining (lore or stories aren't as good, though). There are missed opportunities like necrontyr creating humanity to wear as bodies, or tyranids becoming kind and understanding, but otherwise - it became better.

What they need to do to finish the transformation is to bleach all space marines, remove all retarded paint schemes and keep only camo, gray and other no fun options, and then there will be much less cringe

>>46176
My headcanon with the colours is that the power armour has an adaptive camouflage setting that is switched on in combat which matches the surrounding terrain not just in colour but texture. Also, the power armour has a cooling system which expells heat into the warp or something that calibrates to the background temperature, meaning space marines are invisible to infra-red detecting cameras. I know neither of these are true but it would be so cool if they were and it would mean space marines could still have the bright colours without just being walking drone targets.

>>45927
Also, the writers will sometimes forget that the Imperium of Man is evil and villainous at all.

Like, there was this short story called "The Last Church" sneaks into a church and has a religious debate with a priest. The whole thing is kind of undermined because it forgets that the Emperor, the guy arguing for atheism and rationalism, isn't some good and aspirational figure, he's fucking Space Mega-Hitler. Like, the Emperor actually argues that religion is bad because its killed millions of people. My guy, you kill untold TRILLIONS of people not even counting the innumerable alien species you genocide for the crime of not being human.

>>47762
*Like, there was this short story called "The Last Church" where the Emperor sneaks into a church
Whoops.

Looks cool I'm gonna try it out.

4 was the last one I'd consider 'good', but they've functioned as US military propaganda since its inception as well as acting as a simulacra of the war films that influenced them like Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down.

>>47650
Saving Private Dicklicker came out and every military shooter for the next 10 years had to have a fucking Normandy Beach scene

>>47652
MoH Frontline was a decent military shooter at least, but I did notice that basically every military shooter felt like they needed a D-Day scene because of that movie.

>>47668
Until band of brothers came out and suddenly all the normandy beach scenes became paratrooper scenes

>>47636
Call of Duty was always absolute garbage. I’m grateful that the 7th-generation era of generic military shooters remains dead—today and forever. I’d take the current era of Rollslop and gachaslop over going back to that dark age. Nostalgia is fascist.

>>47658
>a violently beautiful lady😍🥰ed out game like deltarune
Was it really? I know how the fanbase is but if you play the game casually I don't remember it being that in your face. There was the gay guards. They wouldn't care about the fish/dino lesbian ship. The mew mew thing came later and was a secret. Maybe I forgot it's been awhile.

Anyway this reminds me of when people wondered how so many MLP fans could be right-wing ancaps/fascists when the show supposedly goes against that. It's funny because when it 1st came out some conservative media called it feminist propaganda, then some years later right-wing fans said it was based because it had monarchy and ethnostates. I also remember some lefty claiming it was conservative catnip because of the rural, semi-pre industrial setting. Lefties can ONLY love cities, industry, and pollution, okay?

>>47750
Oops nevermind for some reason my dumb brain read deltarune as undertale. Even then I don't see why they'd care about the susie/noelle thing either. I haven't played the latest chapter yet tho.

People on this site are so obsessed with looking clever that they'll twist themselves into pretzels trying to frame "why do queerphobes like a game stuffed with unambiguously queer characters" as a ridiculous question lmao.

>>47702
tbqh based on Mother 3 he seems like a vibes-based anticapitalist who wants to RETVRN to an imagined past where everything was simple, what Marx/Engels called "reactionary socialistm", looking backwards, not forwards

>>47752
A lot of anti-gay people don't tend to care about lesbian stuff tho unless they think the chars are ugly.

>>47641
I clapped

>>47567
>is now painfully outdated, it's been 20 years and it has barely changed
It's the exact opposite issue, they had the formula right in the 00s and ruined it afterwards because they wanted to make prestige TV shows in video game form. The most insecure cultural industry in history naturally rewarded them for it.

>>47567
>>47727
You are both wrong, GTA gameplay formula was way ahead of its time, and fucking sucks. It was a fancy skinner box even back in GTA3/VC era, with San Andreas being a little more free form. It is brandead, you follow objective markers and do exactly what the game tells you to do, with no space for thought left anywhere. That is why the series became such a juggernaut, by being the lower common denominator of gaming. The series has a style, decent writing, but gameplay is shit, it has always been shit, you just never noticed because you played it when you were 12

>>47739
>you follow objective markers and do exactly what the game tells you to do
This is so hilariously reductive (the game "tells you what to do" by giving you… objectives, to say nothing of how this implies entire genres like rhythm games are illegitimate since they don't involve strategy) that it could only come from someone who's trying really hard to hate the series more than they actually do. It's also wrong on a literal level, as there are multiple missions in 3/VC/SA that you can cheese through lateral thinking.

>>47743
>this implies entire genres like rhythm games are illegitimate
It really doesnt. GTA is not a rhythm game, it is supposed to be an open world sandbox, you need freedom for that to work. Otherwise what are you left with other than mediocre racing game mixed with flat out bad 3th person shooter? There is fun to be had while free roaming, but the mission design, which is where you will spend most of your playtime, is on par with something like CoD, a heavily scripted tunnel, which is fine for CoD game because that plays to strengths of its mechanics, but not to an open world sandbox.

>could only come from someone who's trying really hard to hate the series
I really dont. Played SA and VC as a kid. Liked them a lot. But when I attempted to replay them (and GTA3) years later, even nostalgia glasses could not hide how flawed the series is.

>>47737
TLOU2 vastly improved on and fixed all that you're complaining about for TLOU1's gameplay btw. TLOU2 is probably the best third person shooter ever made gameplay-wise, but unfortunately the story shit the bed so it will never be as fondly remembered as the first.

>>47738
>TLOU2 is probably the best third person shooter ever made gameplay-wise
I haven't played the second one so I couldn't say, and I'm not going to shell out 50 burgerbucks just to find out. maybe if it ever goes on sale… 10 bucks max.

>>47737
But there are, I mentioned Mirror's Edge which was released almost 20 years ago. But I can think of a few others. But god damn I'm sick of crafting, leveling, grinding, "character progression" systems (number go up). I know a few recent games that avoid doing this, but they're either not very challenging or they're outright walking simulators.
Something I consider "good" game design is where a challenge is rewarded with an even bigger challenge. Or maybe I'm too puzzle-brained/oldschool for what gaming has become nowadays.

>>47741
When I think "modern game" I think something that was made in the last 5 years, tops. As you said, Mirror's Edge is something like 20 years old, thus it's not modern by any stretch of the imagination. At any rate, you say there are games like this in existence, but nothing comes to mind for me, aside from maybe Hollow Knight/Silksong or Blasphemous I and II, because those games require the player to "git gud" enough to defeat bosses and explore the environment by using upgrades and equipment to avoid certain death, but by the very nature of how "Metroidvanias" work, they still feature character progression in various forms, whether it's exp grind or the acquisition of new weapons and abilities. This is why I said you're not really going to find a game that doesn't feature these things, and you sort of have to narrow down your list of objections to in turn accept a larger list of games you might be interested in playing.

Here, five modern games I think you might be interested in, that are popular and at least 5 to 10 years old:
>Hitman World of Assassination
There's 47 flavors of murder, true, but 47's entire arsenal is more or less unnecessary, because 47 can kill his target with his bare hands, and all that variety exists primarily for variety's sake. Plus there are challenges you can do that make things interesting; One of the challenges I remember is that you have to equip your weapon at all times, and if you unequip it, you have like 20 seconds to equip it again or you automatically fail the mission. This is challenging because the guards and other NPCs will notice you carrying it and you could blow your cover or be forced into open combat, which ruins any stealthy approach. Obviously you can circumvent this challenge by wearing an appropriate disguise, but how about you try not to do that?

>The Forest
It's an open world survival game with crafting and collectibles, but for the most part you're as strong as you'll ever be from the outset. You need certain equipment to fight against certain enemies, and the acquisition of that equipment mostly requires exploration in a hostile world full of enemies that can appear at any time and murk you. Therefore, it pays to know when to engage and when to entire avoid combat. The learning curve at the outset, like most games, Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>47742
>Hitman WoA
Have looked it up and am interested in trying it out.
>The Forest
Played it and loved both the co-op experience and the inventory system which discourages hoarding and was a good indicator of what you actually needed.
>DOS2
Played that one too and enjoyed both singleplayer and co-op. Even if it still has the same issues I mentioned.