/games/ - Games

>>43637
Reactionary uyghas are really going to buy a dogshit sequel from the devs that couldn't even properly remake/remaster the original while calling anyone pointing that out tourists.

Splitgate 2… 2!

>>43649
What I don't get about splitgate, is that its meant to be marketed to Halo fans, but it doesn't have a campaign. Like the multiplayer was only half the game, people liked Halo just as much or even more for the story mode, which isn't there.

>>43646
>while calling anyone pointing that out tourists.
this is the part that always gets me lmao

doesn't this defeat the entire point of the game in the first place?

>>43496
Roundscape Adorevia should have a major update soon where they are redoing lots of old art.
Other than that Corruption of Champions with OtherCoCAno (/hgg/? not sure what the current official name is) mod is my only recommendation. DL link here: https://mega.nz/folder/St0HiaTC#oNQs48SWTDvmDBLHWZuHHA/folder/n8ti1JjQ

As >>43529 said, porn games are all trash, trying to find good ones is like digging for gold nuggets in a mountainpile of shit.

I finished Tales of the abyss. Soulful and kino. Especially the endgame sections.

>>43534
Have you played other games in Tales series? The only one I did was Berseria, which also I would describe as soulful and kino, but it had that standard quality of JRPGs where it is not really an RPG, but an anime with episodes gatekept behind grind requirement. I wonder of other games in the series have some actual choices or branching paths.

>>43563
I played Tales of Symphonia and I liked it too. Symphonia has an affection system, where various scenes change depending on your relationship with the characters in your party. One can actually die if you have a bad relationship and is replaced by another new party member.

>>43522
>>43526
Spiritually cis? Queer coded? What the fuck does this mean? I don't play any of these games so it doesn't matter. Actually I have played Sims and I did find it enjoyable but that was years ago but still.

>>43587
I was going to tell you to check out dominions 6 but if you couldn't figure out civ3… that's crazy

>>43596
No, i could figure out the basics and almost finished one game where i messed up the generation and every other player was fighting stuck on a small island at the other side of the map. The attack rating and my below average macro, habit of largepoxing and overall averseness to risk taking just interact in a way where when i try to take an enemy position, the current of siege and balanced units i throw at it usually completely fizzles out while rapidly depleting my gold stockpiles.
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>>43587
>influence as a currency has been clunky ever since
I didnt play before influence (or more exactly, I did like 2 games a decade ago when everything was so different it was another game), but yeah, always felt the influence was an annoying to get mana, gatekeeping too much diplomacy and expansion without even making much sense
merging unity and influence might be good actually (like convert influence from unity)

commerce is also lackluster I feel. Special resources arent that needed or scarce, trade is some magic that happens mostly inside your empire, there is no "trade hubs" whether in or between empires, and theres not that much emphasis for it even when playing fucking megacorps

and even the combat feel kinda bad, sensors have too much range, cant hide in ambush without specific stealth tech, designs are easy to optimize and too limited, lack of supply lines and magic reinforcement/retreat, no training and limited veterancy system, ground combat is even more simplistic… A system like hoi doctrine might be good.
And gateway are too powerful and easy to mass build, and the fact you cant sabotage them just suck.

And their war/peace system is frankly annoying af. They should have taken a page from eu4 on that front.
Definitely a lot of wasted opportunity in the espionage and internal politics too.

So yeah, game is still fun especially when you dont know most events yet, but there is much that could be better.

>>43614
>And their war/peace system is frankly annoying af.
I don't have any problems with the war exhaustion mechanic and long peace durations, yet all of it meshes terribly with the war goals/claim system. The occupations being limited by claims means you can potentially fight a moderately successful war, while not taking anything of importance and wasting your alloys, icentivizing to instead turtle until you can wipe out the other empire in a single war.
>even the combat feel kinda bad
Combat isn't really a draw for me, so i like that corvette spam is still kind of viable.
>not that much emphasis for it even when playing fucking megacorps
Commerce is kind of useless except to utilize low-habitability planets, but i think megacorps have one of the best gameplay loops with a strong emphasis on getting commercial pacts and maximizing the resource output of branch offices.
>the fact you cant sabotage them just suck
The espionage system really needs a overhaul, doesn't it?

>merging unity and influence might be good actually
Making the tradition tree currency useful for other things results in a double bind. Either players don't have enough and will consider not recruiting a new leader or not activating a useful edict, or they will generate enough that it doesn't matter. I liked the old system more, as trading off energy and empire sprawl respectively is more meaningful and easier to justify than delaying the next tradition. They fit thematically closer as well.

>gatekeeping too much diplomacy and expansion without even making much sense
I feel the gatekeeping itself makes sense and building up fleet power to increase influence growth is appropriately expensive, only there should be one or two more options. Using the same currency for starbase expansion, military expansion, diplomacy and megastructures is terrible though. At least one of them needs to go, maybe splitting them into interior and foreign policy could work, tied to empire sprawl and the envoy systems respectively, something that current unity tries to do, badly.

>>43614
Imagine you went to the UN but the bouncer said you're out of influence

>>41978

*ui

>>41935
Conservative reformer

>>41935
stalinist because that was easy mode on the first game.

>>41935
The new inflation mechanic is fucking up my economy, just like corruption did with their last game.
You'd think you master one Slav jank mechanic, they keep adding new ones and expect of you to figure them out, without giving you the formula.

>>43517
Gotta keep you on your toes

>>43420
>Literal polcompass in a videogame about holding power
Reddit moment

>>43478
Elaborate what your issue is.

Which is the most historically and economically progressive option from a socialist point of view. Worker's council, or full state/crown ownership?

>>43485
Political compass is bullshit.

>>43510
How does that relate to Sollism/Sordish reformism and Malanyevism/Arcasian capitalism axes?

>>42151
but what if you can make money smuggling artifacts for the west, have you considered that

I thought anarchists were retarded from going to their assemblies and having to watch them waste time discussing irrelevant shit but online ""anarchists"" are absolutely fucking worse.

>>42150
Destroy the securitrons at the fort then, bleh

nah people just pick the NCR because it is obviously supposed to be a representation of the capitalism that they all love

i thought the anarchist faction were the fiends

Quite fond of it's recent art direction and the resulting fanart.

anarco-privitivism kino series

>>43449
anarcho-primitivism*

No it isn't, the monkeys in bloons are capitalists: you can literally build the imf

>>42527
What he is talking about is not flowey saving a friend for the sake of saving a friend. What he is talking about is flowey saving a tool (clover) so flowey could achieve his true goal, which is to get the souls.
This is not a redemption arc for flowey. This is instead flowey telling clover a half truth (asgore genocide plan without mentioning asgore wont do it) so to convince them to go to asgore. And then use that event as an opportunity to achieve his (flowey) true goals (get the souls)
This does not conflict with flowey goals at all. Flowey letting clover die is what conflicts with his goals since he's allowing a needed tool (clover) to achieve his goals, to die.

>>37933
I finished this game yesterday. Did four routes: pacifist, flawed pacifist, genocide and neutral. I am surprised to see a thread for this game here so I am going to drop my thoughts completely unsolicited.

Before I started, people told me the characters were written much better than the original Undertale cast. What the fuck were they talking about? The game completely ignores Undertale’s metanarrative, probably because it would’ve been impossible to top, fair enough. Instead, it goes for a more narrative-driven approach, but the result is that it constantly lives in Undertale’s shadow. The original’s metanarrative is what made it incredible.
I struggled to care about the characters. Going pacifist first, all I could think about was how they’d react if I killed them. To be fair, the main writer was 16 when they started making Undertale Yellow, so they likely didn’t have much literature or life experience to draw from. The first character is some vampire guy whose name I’ve forgotten. He’s written like a socially inept, anxious teenager. Martlet in Snowdin? Same thing, also written like a socially inept, anxious teenager. No unique traits, no meaningful development. The game is missing date scenes or specific character interaction moments for growth like in Undertale.

Starlo was probably the one I liked most. His arc was simple but effective, despite being surrounded by a shopping cart of characters we’re apparently meant to see as our best friends. Why do the Feisty Five exist? Who even are they? They just become completely irrelevant 10 minutes after meeting with them.

Then the game shoves Ceroba at you. Sure, you hang out with her in the Steamworks and learn a bit about her, but then the plot dumps a whole heap of drama on you. Her daughter, her husband’s evil plan… honestly, I couldn’t bring myself to care. The writing nosedives at the end of Steamworks, just when it seemed like it might turn around. I thought we’d head to the lab, meet the daughter, maybe help her. Instead, Ceroba runs off to a rooftop and you get thrown into a FOUR-PHASE boss fight. The final phase uses Hopes and Dreams as a completely undeserved leitmotif.

The game tells rather than shows, to a painful degree. You get clunky flashbacks and constant cutscenes instead of subtle environmental storytelling like in Undertale. The Waterfall arPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>43102
fax

>>43102
FACTS

currently replaying the game and have reached snowden. Read dalvs dialogues.
Reading the dialogues after knowing about the ending is a painful expirence. Reading how dalv values clover as a friend and how he hopes to meet him in his next birthday. Reading the shit about dalvs original friend (kanako) dissapearing one day. And remembering how ceroba is connected to these two things. Its reviving my negative feelings towards roba
welp lets see if my negative feelings continue as i replay the game. Or i will grow to forgive her

>>43133
respect, gramps

Dustforce SS on all levels

Lemmings

>>43099
personally? tied between halo 2 legendary and Halo SPV3.3 legendary

>>43099
Spongebob "Flip or Flop" flashgame

>>42303
i used to be into 100% completion, eventually looking up guides for things i might miss. for smaller, decision-based rpgmaker games this experience can be bearable, because a lot of the time you know what you want but not what you're getting. i think most types of missable content are bad game design though: what's the point of something deliberately hidden so many players won't see it? i just want to have fun playing the game and not open a guide every few minutes or constantly feel like i just missed something. night in the woods, which i'm currently playing, is somewhat of a counter-example, where many interactions are optional yet the barrier to them being usually quite low.

>>42301
Just as capitalism is a social construct so is a bideo game running on made up rules that you can break.
>>42323

wow and i thought threads couldnt get more retarded

>>42353
it's a refrence to a real retard

>>42782
Is shitting on company time speedrunning