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Am I biased and have a strange perception of history, or did games really have a separate subculture and identity around it 15 years ago? Now it's been completely subsumed and merged into the major culture if that time was real. Sure, games were popular then but never to this degree. Same thing with anime. Sometimes I feel this sense of pride and superiority because it's like "I was here first, I've been doing this longer than some other people, so therefore I'm more actual than them when it comes to gaming" or something. Sometimes it's less about a superiority and more like having an in group, an identity, a people I belong to. Everybody wants that, right? I just chose gaming as my group I belong to, and I'm really attached to that. But the thing is if the group has everyone in it, then the concept of the identity disappears. It's hard to explain.

It makes me resentful that one Tumblr post that said that gamer should never have been an identity in the first place, like an outsider who identifies as one personally attacking me.

Everybody's against gamers. Not saying that self identified gamers are oppressed, but serious, we're like the laughing stock of the entire internet.
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>>40668
>Absolutely, gaming used to be a very nerdy thing until those "cinematic" AAA games came along. Games weren't taken seriously until they became like movies, ironic.
I wouldnt put it there, think it was the rise of gta 3 and halo and other bro games, and the aging of the audience into college.

>>41249
I think it had mainstream appeal before then. My normie unc who loves playing sports gave me his old PS1 with his games when I was a kid and his game library was mostly composed of racing games (F1, Ridge Racer) and sports games (FIFA, Tony Hawk, some snowboarding game).

>>40665
This is something I realized when I was in school. Nearly all the guys played video games but it was mainly stuff like GTA or CoD when we talked. Same with anime. Trying to talk to people about anything that wasn't airing on toonami or was super popular online was a crapshoot. Nowadays if someone asks me if I play games I just say something like "I usually just play tetris while listening to a podcast" which isn't a lie.

The absolute worst thing about gaming being so mainstream is having the hear random people's video game shit takes in public.

Apply the dialectic.
Smart phones rise in popularity around 2012.
The majority of internet traffic is from smart phones now.
Everyone carries a computer in their pocket.
That computer has access to App Store games.
That computer connects to the consolidating social media platforms and nothing else.
Culture becomes both increasingly isolating and homogenized.
Corporations realize nerd shit is profitable.
Corporations realize nerd shit is identity through consumption.
Corporations normalize liking nerd shit.
Corporations like selling intellectual property that requires no manufacture.
Nerd shit is no longer nerd shit.
Nerd shit now is the culture.
Everyone knows iron man.
Everyone knows Minecraft.
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Remember when game developers would make game worlds feel large by adding multiple entrances, exits, pathways, and secret rooms to their levels while forcing the player to move through all that space rather than just literally making the in game maps larger and add fast travel? I miss that era…
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shmups are all awful

Design a lock and key open-world map right fucking now

You don't need to make the game "feel larger" just make the space that exists INTERESTING. One of the worst things about the open world trend has been how boring and samey everything is. Like yeah it's cool in theory that I can choose where I go and how instead of being restricted to a linear or branching set of rooms, but it's fucking boring if there's no shit to do on the way.

yeah, fast travel that isn't built into the game mechanics and lore is pretty lazy design

A lot of indies still do this. Don't really know what's up with the AAA scene that's turned it into rollercoasters.


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a thread to discuss Danganronpa, its marxist-leninist undertones, and why Celestia Ludenberg is a gorgeous angel who can do no wrong

The body was too short or empty. The body was too short or empty.

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>>41690
wow, um…so himiko actually makes me really uncomfortable and id like it if youd refrain from posting her, but i guess if you really like her its okay! its just some people really dont want to see that…

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from /smtg/

>>41692
As someone who never played or watched any Danganronpa content, I wonder what is the reason behind that it made you uncomfortable and some people dont want to see it


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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.
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If you for some forsaken reason haven't played the originals DOOM 1 & 2 please do. They're RPGs

>>41431
>the originals DOOM 1 & 2 are RPGs
You're trippin

>>41423
>character progression
Might fall into what you're looking for though it has 0 rpg elements. Try bright memory infinite (theres a game called bright memory, but thats just a somewhat interesting to play techdemo. Infinite is the real game)

You basicly get skillpoints you can use to learn abilitys and thats it

Dark Messiah
Ghostrunner

Fallout New Vegas and 4 have iron sights and RPG elements
3 is only iron sights for some of the guns


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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.

It's crazy that balatro got flagged as a gambling game while gacha and other predatory shit is still targeting kids who don't know any better.

If you like Balatro you should try Shotgun King which is a roguelite take on Chess.


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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?
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>>39067
They want games that they dont like to not exist. If a 'woke' game is released to them it is harming them.

>>41576
It's like the asmongold logic where if you're pro-anyone who isn't white straight and male, you're actively anti-white straight male.

>>41563
>They'll complain about Japanese devs pandering to the west, but then none of them played Kunitsu-Gami.
Because when they say "pandering to the west", they only mean nonwhite(black brown and asian in a way they don't find hot) and gay stuff(they start fighting each other over whether or not yuri and yaoi are woke enough, because one side is "well I'm okay with gay shit if it's not in my face bro" and the other side just openly hates gay people).
It's always cringe when western chauvinist types suddenly start fucking yapping about cultural relativism and western cultural imperialism, but only when it's their weeb shit and only if there's "woke" that wasp probably in their favorite game they played when they were 12

I also like when they talk about superior Japanese games, and they choose fucking coomer gacha with no fucking gameplay and tons of manipulation to make you gamble for more jpegs.
Do these guys really like games?

>>41584
>Do these guys really like games?
Old /v/ermin joked about hating video games so much the newer generations took it entirely seriously.


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> 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
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>>38654
Eviscerated for what? B team doing a spinoff product? Although it's clear to me that they've added the Elden Ring part just for marketing purposes

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>>38655
It's not just for marketing purposes. It also saves a shit ton of money reusing assets, and in exchange the game isn't full price.
It's not that far off from the meme.

>>38656
I meant that they were making a "Nightreign" game that was a fromsoftware soulslike multiverse PVE battle royale kind of a game, but then slapped on the Elden Ring name for better sales

>>38656

honestly, nightrein (and duskbloods) looks like a big experiment about multiplayer (and new movement mechanics) in souls games rather than just a cash grab, and besides microtransactions would be way worse so pick your poision

fromsoft fanboys shitting on nightrein have NO IDEA how bad it can get

Having one cashgrab multiplayer game is annoying but tolerable, having TWO in a row is dumb as fuck and is tarnishing the Fromsoft brand.


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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.

>>41462
All cutscenes to remind you why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXrALvaQIGI

>>41462
This was one of my favourite games as a kid, Keira was my first waifu

>>41462
Why? Because it's a cartoon?

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Reminder that Jak 1, 2, and eventually 3 are all natively playable on PC.
https://opengoal.dev/


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Chuds lost.
>body too empty or short
>body too empty or short
>body too empty or short
>body too empty or short
>body too empty or short
>body too empty or short
>body too empty or short
>body too empty or short
>body too empty or short
>body too empty or short
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>>40787
Chuds lost the moment they were born

>>40790
have you ever played any western open world game of the last 10 years?
if so you already know exactly what the gane plays like

>>40827
I like that cute animal

the last AC games i tried were origins and syndicate, thought they were awful and dropped them fast, but shadows looks kinda fun, but it has denuvo so i won't play it until 6 years later when it goes on sale for 70% off.

>>41499
All you need to know about shadows is already present in this video about mirage

Ubisoft definitely listened to criticism about AC not being about assassins anymore, but they stopped caring about making the best games they could a while ago.


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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.
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>>41422
i think they mean in ancient china, and yeah there were Romans (not like a ton but trading and even diplomatic delegations occasionally) and people from asia would make it to ancient europe. There was an event where a buddist monks self-immolated in Roman ruled Alexandria as an expression of faith, people get around.

>>41421
I was talking more about KCD1. Anon >>39553 was implying that the creative lead must be some kind of chud supreme who would have needed to specifically instruct his team to not include any black people in a game set in rural, medieval Bohemia.

Given the setting, I would argue that including black people would be the more conscious decision. Not that such a thing would be impossible, but black people making their way that far into the heart of Europe would have been a rare sight indeed. The way KCD2 handled it was perfect: Musa is basically an explorer.

>>41445
I know the character is a tribute to Mansa Musa, but I honestly would have liked it more if the Ibn Battuta inspired explorer/physican/diplomat had been an arab or turkish ottoman envoy with basically the same backstory as Musa has, and then have an african character be an ethiopian pilgrim/knight tied into sedletz monastery and such. I don't think any of the things Musa is are 'forced diversity' on their own and entirely authentic and plausible in the setting, but all being forced into one character is a bit much. I'd prefer more diversity spread out across characters.

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