/games/ - Games

Please recommend me some single player first person shooters on PC with character progression or RPG elements.

I just beat Robocop Rogue City and I want more. I have Game Pass if that helps at all.

Also games that have iron sights please I want to use Gyro controls.

I was getting tired of roguelikes but I'm glad I gave Balatro a chance, now I'm obsessed with 100%ing it. Too bad its success opened the floodgates for lazy devs to pump out low-effort, card-based roguelikes with slapped-together aesthetics and shallow mechanics, all hoping to cash in on the same momentum.

Why don't chuds just stop consuming shitty mass produced culture? They only play AAA videogames and watch capeshit and then complain about how woke and DEI it is.

Why not play indie videogames and watch art films instead where the creators have total creative freedom?

> Co-op survival game
> Battle royale mechanics
> Hero shooter-like class mechanics, each class has special abilities that operate with a cooldown
> Hack n slash gameplay
> Auto level up feature
> Revival mechanic where you press A until bar is filled
> Each "level" is a randomized mishmash of FromSoft assets from previous games

you can barely tell they're getting purchased by sony

Jak 2 is basically lefty/pol/ The Game. Not in terms of its literal politics, but in spirit.

In fact, I'd probably count this as the best depicted revolution in video games. The edginess, the slow times, the fast and dangerous times, but above the slow grind until Baron Praxis is overthrown.

Chuds lost.
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I think the Kingdom Come: Deliverance of the problem of trying to make an authentic artistic product amid culture war bullshit.

Despite the fact that KC:D is historical fiction and is set in the real, historical medieval kingdom of Bohemia, the first came came under fire for its lack of diversity. What were they thinking, making all the inhabitants of rural villages in medieval Bohemia white?! And coming to the defense of this admittedly ridiculous criticism were a bunch of right-wing and GamerGate types.

Now we have Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and… what's this? There's one (1) Muslim traveler from the Mali Empire in Bohemia? And what's this? You can have a gay romance? Are you trying to tell me there were GAY people in the middle ages? This game isn't BASED anymore!

It really shows how creatives are sandwiched between two tribes of dipshits wanting equally stupid changes so that all media products signal towards their tribe.

I really don't understand the entire genre of "cozy" simulator games that are just a minimum wage job.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I don't know if this fits here, but I've been thinking of console wars, My theory is that the breakdown of both the nuclear family and the nation state has led to individuals seeking out tribal loyalties from the only places guaranteed not to turn them down: companies selling a product that want their money. Same with sports. Rather than having a tribal affinity with your family/hometown/nation/people, this instead gets redirected to rooting for this squad of steroid freaks recruited from all over the country over this other squad of steroid freaks recruited from all over the country because the nearest major city has them playing at McBankTM Stadium, Thing is, with a few exceptions, I don't think it's artificially induced the way /pol/ does. I think it has arisen naturally out of the decline of important institutions of belonging: people are naturally reaching out, and like a kid trusting a man offering sweets, they are not necessarily doing so very intelligently.
The apogee of this within gaming was the console war of the mid-2000s. Trump hate is as nothing compared to Sony versus Microsoft. I know this stuff is ancient, like the Byzantine Riots over the coloured chariot racing teams, but I can't help but notice how most of that stuff occurred in the pre-modern era, before nations, religious institutions and families were really crystallised in full. Something needs to be done about this, we can't keep atomising forever.

What is this franchise about?
Can anyone recommend a good analysis?
I have tried a few but games are pretty intellectually stunted. I have a hunch that Simulation and Simulacra (and maybe Society of the Spectacle in some ways) was some kind of inspiration especially in MGS2 on the themes about truth and perception, but i have never seen anything related making this connection (having said that modern google and DDG are stunted in depth as search engines. google-fu is dead)
In MGSV how much of the game was real and how much of it was perceived? Was it essentially a subtler reenactment of MGS2 in which you are nothing but a weapon directed by others?
Is MGSV What happens to then Venom Snake a foreshadowing of what happens to him as Grey Fox later in his life and the inevitable complete breakdown through loss of who he is, every identity implanted in him to make him nothing but the perfect soldier.
Did Huey really do all of those things, but most specifically, the betrayals of diamond dogs intentionally or were we presented information in a way that created his guilt? He was after all the only person questioning you were not the man everybody is reinforcing you to be, that would be reason enough for him to need to be gone, he directly states that you are not the snake he new and the nature of truth on mother base multiple times, humorously with the dog that is clearly a wolf. Also the same kind of anger in the soldiers is fomented against Quiet in the act before, which is shown as to be based in irrationality and in-group/outsider dynamics. Is what happens to Huey a copy of that?
1984 is heavily referenced in MGSV, in any analogy that can be made who is roughly analogous to who when it comes to characters?

These are just things worth exploring, I don't holds strongly to any of these suppositions. So don't debate-mode come at me plz.




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