/games/ - Games

more lefties use reddit than this site anon :^)

>>6033
As I said it's probably some anons from 8/leftypol/ (might be 8/leftpol/ idk), as it was never mentioned /leftypol/.
Bat'ko linking to ULP in his channel and talking about discord drama. Danov did link to ULP as well. Again nobody talks about ULP here it is non-existent in /leftypol/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYxtxQ1xVaE (Bat'ko's alternatives to /leftypol/ after old BO contreversy)
https://youtu.be/T3SM40yI8ec (Danov links to ULP)

Finally, /leftypol/'s community strongly rejected a suggestion to open a discord server for /leftypol/ and instead decided to have a matrix room.

>>6058
Here is the thread about opening a discord for /leftypol/
https://archive.is/2f7x7

>>6044
*liberals

Learn the difference polyp

>>6412
really? you really didn't enjoy the deconstruction in stanley parable?

>>6408
/v/ermin cry about "walking simulators" but are perfectly fine with kusoge VNs.

>>6422
Talking simulators

>>832
All the hidden traitors games that are getting popular lately (project winter, among us,…) are just objectively worst versions of The Resistance: Avalon

>>6402
Yes. It doesn't detract from >me&lt the consumer but it takes away a whole layer of creativity from the artists game designers.

From a mere development perspective, balancing different difficulty levels take away time from the devs, improper balancing can create whack situations like lower difficulties being the actual hard modes, or easy spreadsheet methods that invariably makes "hard" a synonymous for tedium.

From a more important perspective for me, I think making games too hard for no reason, or too easy for no reason, takes away from the intended experience. Creative people craft different scenarios with certain emotions and reactions in mind and difficulty certainly plays a big role in that. "This guy is your rival it sure would be a bummer if you could one-shot him while underleveled", "this stretch in the game punishes your mistake very hard to drive point home how dire the situation is for the heroes", "this area is meant to be a huge skip if the player can deal with the difficulty spike".
If you can just lower the difficulty slider or give yourself god mode at those points at will, then what good was it all for?

I think our disagreement here is that you seem to see games as mere products; if they're too hard you can't consume them and therefore they've failed at their task, akin to a fast food meal that's too hot to eat immediately. I wholeheartedly disagree with this approach, just accept that hard games are hard and either improve or move on imo.

>>3797
Its a community-made mod that still relies a lot on TF2s own codebase and visual assets, not sure what you were expecting? You still require TF2 and 2013 Source Multiplayer SDK, both of which you can only get from Steam. The "open" in Open Fortress just stands for open-source, as in the code is open to contributions from the community. It has nothing to do with dependencies or distribution platforms.

>>476
the games is on its last games now.Its pretty sad to see this kind of a great game die .Valve probably already forgot about it so its gonna die soon .I used to play it in 2014 it was literally the gaame of my childhood and I can't help it but feel extreme sadness and nostalgia about it .I played some of the community mods but its just not the same .They are good in their own way tho

my laptop is on it's last legs after 6 years
it's completely greasy and dusty but i still need it for work

if i install this game will my laptop die?

>>3309
Play community servers until you get at least somewhat decent at the game. Keep in mind TF2 is a pretty hard game for most people, unless you play retarded classes like pyro and heavy.

>>3309
have you tried creators.tf? I heard that it’s a good server to play TF2 on but I haven’t had the time to try it.

>>5487
dude just hold down m1 bruh how is even hard lmao just hold down m1 and press w wtf imagine asking for advice on the easiest character in the game hahahaha

switch to Tomislav for your primary it's what everyone uses

>>5487
Heavy is fucked in a fast paced arena game such as TF2, so if your team is retarded and can't watch your back you aren't going to have a good time in pubs as Heavy.

The class is balanced but he's also kinda boring. Just try to not stay out in the open and always rev up when going around corners.

>>4594
This is clever as fuck.

No Kozotsky Dance? Someone post a good version right now!

>>140
>The only people still sticking around nowadays are people who don't want to buy games, and those who have too much of their money invested into the trading economy.
Or you know, people who enjoy the fucking game?? TF2 is one of the most fun and unique FPS of all time, it has great base gameplay and offers something that no other game can replicate.
>Overwatch is a million times friendlier on the wallet (surprisingly enough for actiblizz) and appeals to the same audience
It's also a horribly balanced and unfun mess of a game that is nowhere near the masterpiece TF2 is.
>CSGO provides the alternative for those who want a more serious and balanced f2p FPS.
How are those even comparable? Counter strike is completely different from TF and always has been.

>>6340
Why do people equate a not living board with a dead board? Why are we such defeatist bunkerchan?

>>6342
Because they're newfags and doomers

sounds good to me think itll take a bit to pick up activity cus this is one of the more dead boards on bunkerchan

I would join your group if it was on Matrix.

>>6500
In anticipation of posts like this, given the popularity of Matrix on bunkerchan, we have been considering a Matrix bridge to the IRC channel. I think there are some user consent issues to work out though: even though Matrix isn't Discord, it still represents an added layer of logging not normally present on IRC that some users may object to.

>>5014
Pepsi-fag spam would make /v/ reee as much as /pol/ would reee about commies modding their vidya about killing "le sandn*ggers"

Is there any reason to listen to the retards who claim cod tried to pin the real highway of death on Russia

>>6498
they let you nuke the west with american nukes so, maybe?

>>5014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KbBDC6i_a8

Can't ever take COD seriously anymore after this video (not that I really could before but hey)

WE BOUT TO GET STUPID

>>6504
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk0RkkACfdE

Now I just wanna post more montage parodies. Those were the good times truly.

>dirtbag left
You're very obvious

>larping
go back to /pol/ rightfag

>>6396
Probably wanna remove the dirtbag left statemnet

Can I make my own nation state?

The mods over there are just as cancerous as over there.
Litterally banning the word two in some convenient contexts.

Best game to roleplay an Amish Jeffersonian democracy with Khmer Rouge characteristics?

>>6458
Dwarf Fortress.

>>6466
kek

>>6463
Based game tbh

>>6463
>>6458
Pretty sure you can nail the feel better with Rimworld.

>>6479
The exceptions to this being Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium and maybe No Man's Sky

I think it's a really good game about managing a small community of individuals with different skills, needs and personalities.

Pretty barren but it is a really good platform for modding with lots of open space for turning the game into whatever you want, from making a colony of raiders moving across the planet and razing settlements to exploring the stars in your handmade spaceship and fighting the mechanoid hoards.

Warfare in RimWorld is fucking terrifying because every warrior is a guy you have spent hours with, you understand their importance, you know of their relationships, you understand their personalities and if they die there's a true sense or loss there.

Vanilla is pretty barren, but there are excellent mods for this.
Much recommended for any leftyanon

The only good thing about Stellaris is that it conforms to the leftist worldview (ironically, porky Collectivism equals Authoritarianism versus Individualism equals Freedom equals Entrepreneurship was overtime changed to Freedom equals Egalitarianism and Communism, Private business equals oligarchy)

The game, however, was broken by later patches. It's overcomplicated and requires tedious routine, but also doesn't have any variance at all. It's perfectly balanced, but due to being overcomplicated and drawnout doesn't work out for multiplayer. Like every other 4x strategy game, it seems to think that throwing a billion different menus and mechanics at players is an acceptable substitute for actual fun. Even if I don't mind it breaking the KISS principle, the issue is it doesn't get anything from it. The reason for their design is to try and make it a "real sim of a sci-fi galaxy". It awfully bungles it, as none of the systems are actually in any way deep. Its just a bunch of puddles that haphazardly get dug with each DLC.
For instance:

It would be cool to have each empire be ideologically or culturally different…
But in practice this is done by barely noticable gameplay wise (unless they are op) traits that have no effect on the procedural "story".
It would be cool to have politics of your empire…
But in practice its just a tab that you farm influance from that has no narative response to your actions.
It would be cool to have space trade…
But its just a simple pact with a flat income boost and a non-specific value resource that maybe atracts pirates if you are stupid and can't play the game right.
It would be cool to have your empire evolve over time…
But all the outcomes in the civics are predecided, you just choose when to unlock them.
It would be cool to explore the Galaxy…
But there is zero randomly generated expedition sites, so you will see the same shit each game.
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>>6482
Huh, so what is this? A collective review? That actually sounds like a rather iteresting idea. We could do something like "/games/ reviews X" and make compilations like this. Weird how this one fits together well.
Also bonus points for making me feel somewhat insane, as parts of that were posted by me, so I had this weird moment of "wait… did I post this? Why is it bumped up? And did I also write those other parts?"

>>6484
To be honest I noted that the Stellaris and Rimworld threads were basically dying since the topic is too specific to stay alive, so I proposed making a single Space simulator thread for smaller games that aren't relative big shots like Outer Worlds. I compiled the best posts, edited them a little and added my own two cents (or old posts).

Your idea holds quite some merit however

>>3909
It's not so much that they're bad, but that they aren't good.

The main thing you get out of buying and using an RPG somebody wrote, aside from incidental setting "fluff", is rules, especially for conflict resolution and world generation. But rules in storygames invariably boil down to "make shit up", just like little girls holding a pretend magical tea party, thus the epithet "MTP".

Now, there's nothing wrong with using MTP sometimes, there's even a discreet reminder about it in D&D with "rule 0". The problem is, every child already knows MTP, so anything written inside a published tabletop RPG must be different from and superior to MTP for at least some tasks, otherwise it's just a book full of "fluff" instead of a functional RPG.

Aside from weak or outright nonfunctional rules, however, actual rules and guidelines typical of storygames are also corrosive. For instance, fate points and narrative control disassociate players from their characters, and discourage detailed worldbuilding, in favor of vague worlds that leave room for limitlessly escalating bullshit:
>the wolves press you to the cliff's edge
&lti jump off
&ltso you fall to your doom?
>*burn a fate point* *POOF* *a branch appears*
>no, i grab a branch and climb back up after they leave

>>3922
I see, hey, so Burning wheel is a storygame, but it's like a thousand pages of rules and shit, what say you?

>>3922
think it really depends on who you're playing with and what kind of person the dm is

Any DMs willing to start an online /leftypol/ D&D campaign?

>all this discussion
&ltnobody even plays
MFW