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>>47365
mneh like modern gta games aren't saving at each checkpoint

of the devil

Detective visual novel set in cyberpunk future.

its not chudded out like Val-hall-a and gameplay mechanics are pretty good. p sure the author is lefty sympathetic bc they explicitly mention gentrification, neoliberalism, anarchists, communists, and the whole cyberpunk shebang in the lore tidbits that integrate with the story. No the plot is not some revolutionary but a criminal(youll find out when you go through it what type of criminal she is) who masquerades as a lawyer. also i love the art style. spritzes(light mist) you with common themes in cyberpunk and sci-fi like autonomy of inorganic(read AI/clankers) beings, gender, and stuff and of course capitalism but it doesnt really distract from the game or the characters itself. i think its the brain fog or maybe im just stupid but its quite a brain teaser if you cant remember details that well.

>>47370
oops forgot to write the rest.

like when you do make mistakes, its like oh duh of course. that makes sense. Logically sound. You cant really fail the lawyer sequences unless you run out of chips, which serves as the currency/pseudo-health bar which is pretty neat just typing it out. The main way of gaining chips is by selecting the correct dialogue chains and you can gamble them in key moments to up your chips even more.

Although I myself do not mind this, characters are written to be more contemporary and thus in line with fandom culture. You wont get a lot of depth from each character as it is drip-fed and often played for jokes/funny moments. But they are enjoyable characters to get you through the story. Although ive never played the game, its supposedly inspired by Phoenix Wright with zany characters you slowly unravel that has been satisfying for all three cases(there are going to be 5 in total but only the first two have been released as the prologue does not "count" as a case) .Cases are usually murder cases but the world itself is the character as various people in the world and their roles, beliefs, motivations, and political views unravel and entangle themselves neatly as each case progresses. Exchanges of dialogue centered around determining if the cybernetic of a working class mechanic was utilized for self-expression or if it was because it was produced by companies as necessary for on the site jobs are key moments in the trials, and the neat part is either scenario could be plausible so you have to really think before you lay down you cards.

the music is mostly open source but they made sure to emphasize their game is indie and individually produced. Not like multi-millionaire company produces indie aesthetic, but small team of friends producing bits and pieces of the game. There are original soundtracks composed for the game. If you're not familiar with Visual novel games, this would definitely be a linear visual novel with variants of static images for different character emotions and 3D rendered environments for that cyberpunk flare with neon colors. personally all the open source music is pretty good and i already mentioned it but I ADORE THE ARTSTYLE. first time an artstyle clicked for me in a way that i didnt know until i saw it that I wanted it.

>>47370
>>47371
I played the first episode and i'm both intrigued and somewhat disappointed.

The story didn't strictly impress me, yet it's a very solid set up. Morgan seems like both a fun character and someone you rarely see as a protagonist, so i would really like to see how she is utilized and plays off the future suspects. Gameplay was a mixed bag, because everything was so easy and tempting to savescum. Still i can see future episodes making more creative use of the gambling mechanic and thus making it harder to savescum without genuinely minmaxing.

>I ADORE THE ARTSTYLE
This is where i need to disagree the hardest. The 3d environment mixed with 2d characters invites comparisons to Danganronpa, which i see as extremely unfavorable. The smooth, washed-out environments feel non-specific and lifeless, like an empty Garry's Mod map, clashing with the decent character art. I don't know if this a generational thing, but i absolutely cannot stand the plasticy blender look of many modern indie games.

On a side note, camera movement is extremely jarring and a lot of other individual ui elements feel super scuffed. Why would i want to look at the diegetic navigation device phone from the side instead of the front like a normal menu! Again Spike Chunsoft did all of this right from the very start. The last i played was V3, so i'm probably going to start playing the fangames now.

>its not chudded out like Val-hall-a
Could you elaborate in what way it's chudcoded specifically. I was getting more of a strong lolbert current, because of the way it glorified living in literal Night City – Chiba, Japan.

>>47375

unfortunately i dont think the base formula will change. in fact it might even get easier especially in high rolling mode which doesnt really prevent savescumming. you get lots and lots of chips from winning. Of course they could balance this by making the stakes even higher but for the first two episodes if you've accumulated a lot of chips, even if you dont save scum you're basically god mode. I think high roller mode should not allow a "save file" at all unless you fully complete the episode.
oh i havent played danganronpa . i think that waS one of the games they are inspired by it. agree w your critiques tho.

>lolbert current
yeah its apologetic because of all the tech and stuff and its implied benefits. Maybe i was a bit heavy handed with non-chudded out but i think thats just a problem with cyberpunk in general, the glorification of night city. at best it takes on an attitude "sigh thats horrible but what can you do right?". I wouldnt say its a strong lolbert current, I think the writing, especially in news articles gives it a decent lefty spin. Not in depth of course but communism, anarchism etc does exist.

I assume you're done with the prologue right? Although dont expect too much, the first two episodes should shake off a little of that lolbert flavor I'd hope/if i remember correctly. At worst it makes the capitalist adjacent characters into quirky fun villains.

What does that mean?

>>47376
Anything by Jonathan Blow.

>>47378
It means pretentious.
No idea what "pretentious" gameplay/interactivity (as opposed to movies/book) would be looking like tho, outside of david cage style "realism"

>>47380
>No idea what "pretentious" gameplay/interactivity (as opposed to movies/book) would be looking like tho

I think read dead redemption 2 is an example of "pretentious" gameplay. What with absolutely every action being animated and with everything being very slow and intentionally boring while at the same time being very impressive. And the souls likes as well, with tons of content being hidden by obscure choices, and with the cryptic story and all.

half life 2 and deus ex

>>47352
piracy HAS to work because it's not only a means of obtaining stuff, it's literally a means of archival. clamping down piracy worries me more than digital distribution ever will, because that means losing access to shitton of movies, video games and music IP holders have 0 interest in distributing in my country

This shit is so annoying!
I have no idea how anyone can be a capitalist in 2026

>>47359
at the end of the day all games are 1s and 0s so as long as nerds have the time and energy to decompile and/or crack games, they cannot be gatekept. As long as we have access to portable storage devices, we can share media, even if it has to go offline.

>>47363
a capitalist is a person who owns means of production and exploits workers. people like being capitalist because it makes them a lot of money. a capitalist is not simply a worker who "believes capitalism is the best system". that's called false consciousness.

I loved Undertale back in the day but I can't bring myself to care about this. I don't even doubt that it's good. Ship just sailed. Right time right place yadda yadda

<we're gonna need Moses if it keeps flooding like this

>>47333
as someone who was huge into homestuck when i was a teen (that's the only age you're allowed to read homestuck at) but has never played undertale/deltarune i feel like how magic johnson must feel in that i caught that infection pretty early on and by all means i should've succumbed to the disease but, by the grace of god, i didn't…

>>47326
He would never

Baffled by the positive reception of chapter 5.
(Almost) nothing of note happened. Dialogue was cringeworthy. Jokes were more misses than hits. References for references sake. Flat characters incorporated as round characters. Waaay too long.
Seen some buzz around this or that being unexpected, but something being unexpected is not itself a good thing. The secret boss seems a good example of this (regardless of the character or fight itself).

What do chapter 5 enjoyers see what I am missing?

I wonder if in hoi4 vanilla mp is it possible to beat UK's navy as Italy (assuming both are experienced players), since the game favours more numbers of ships & stat stacking in the naval calculation.
Ig its near impossible :'(

I am also having hard time thinking of counters to some metas, like what will be counter to low visibility, high speed, light/torpedoe attack dd spam, maybe armored light cruisers or light attack heavy cruisers , or maybe cheap battleship spam with only one turret to maximize armor/hp.

>>47193
i'm bored, who should i play as? in any mod you recommend

>>47214
Not the OP but,

If you are visual novel enjoyer,
TNO - Iberian Union,
If you want more fighting, more war mechanics, and then a story,
EAW - Changelingia
(Or Posada's Hippogriffia / Siren's Hippogriffia )
If you want to larp & have a challenging game
Kaiserredux - German Empire w kaiserredux expert ai mod, its actually difficult fighting the two front war with Communards and Russian Sphere.

Those r what comes to my mind rn.

>>47215
Cheers. Have already played all of those (except KRR but played it in KR, not with expert ai though) but good suggestions.

Thoughts on map-game-in-development, Espiocracies iteration on event chains? Kind of interested, as event chains have become very stale:
>Technically, it's a kind of advanced event chain, so it has all the usual features of event popups known from other strategy games – trigger conditions, flavor text, clickable decisions, and effects on the game world. The caveat is that they are never triggered automatically; they are launched through a conscious governmental decision (so the Soviets may decide to never launch the blockade).
<Inside, what makes it "advanced" is that the event has a decision tree (a'la dialogue tree) which is traversed in turns by two opposing parties.
>Every decision has defined availability and costs (in terms of state budget, strategic intelligence, military deployment, etc). Once chosen, a decision:
<-directly influences the game world; for instance, "nuclear escalation" means actual progress up the escalation ladder, which may lead all the way to WW3;
<-modifies the event's -100 to +100 score (similar to a "war score");
<-grants a new set of decisions to the other side.

>The point of divergence is won by either side once the score reaches -100/+100, or when the end of the decision tree is reached (in which case the side with no responses left loses the confrontation), or when external circumstances derail the event (eg. the aforementioned WW3). The final outcome implements a wide range of bespoke history-rewriting consequences. For instance, a Soviet victory in West Berlin will cause further Western retreats, delay the establishment of NATO (or significantly weaken NATO if it is already established), damage the image of the current American administration, turn the German population against the West, and so on.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1670650/view/697642648593240744

Deus Ex

I think Cyberpunk 2077 looks better at day than it does at night

there's a LUT mod for cyberpunk 2077 or whatever that lets you tone down saturation which makes it look a lot like your third image and less like los angeles. in fact cyberpunk 2077 is hands down the best rendering of a cyberpunk city ever made for a video game, too bad the game itself is so fucking shit.

Cloudpunk is really the only game i've seen capture cyberpunk urban sprawl/arcology at anywhere near the correct scale. The sequel is going to be a lifesim, and largely ditch the voxel graphics, so it could either turn out great or completely disappointing in that aspect.

>>47361
pure kino

>and I don't just mean the surface level "good = left, evil = right"
<The Pacifist Route embodies leftism at it's core: doing what's right
<Conversely, the Genocide Route embodies the right wing: going out of your way to make things worse for everyone
uyghur, I don't know why I believed you

play another game

>I don't just mean the surface level "good = left, evil = right"
<leftism is when good values and rightism is when making things worse
fucking retarded pseud

>>47320
>leftism is when good values and rightism is when making things worse
Thats pretty much correct.

>>47340
But much of the "historically progressive" things have been declared evil: slavery, genocide of natives, enclosure, child labor, the early industrial system, Manifest Destiny, and the British conquest of India.

>>47345
Capitalism is progressive vis a vis feudalism, doesn't mean that it is right now

>>47305
>Maybe its going to be like decision whether to escape and abandon your partner, or both of you going to prison or something like that. But there is no way in hell Rockstar will give player option to murder their girlfriend.
the game literally ends in the game theory prisoner dilemma lol

>>47307
If I can't murder by girlfriend then what's the point?

>>47307
how is that supposed to work in a single player game?

>>47309
it looks at who you have played as the most and you make the choice for them while the game makes the choice for the other character based on like relationship or karma or whatever.

>>47301
>>47302
the sad thing is that i think the special edition is vastly outselling which shows despie all the people complaninig rockstar won fleecing their fans.

anyone here play napoleonic wars
if you see a faggot by the name of rice lord, thats me. And no i dont feel bad smacking you with dragoons

why does everyone in this mod's loading screen looks like they want to die?

>>47298
No anime

>>47298
This is either a painting of the middle ages or something heavily inspired by this, and European medieval painters were not good at faces in general. It's a question for art historians really.

I wish I could play even bigger battles in this.