/games/ - Games

>>27542
I'm afraid femboy disease is psychologically transmitted

>>27543
I'll have to quaruntine I suppose from this femboy board.

>>27544
Too late pal. You might as well stay with us now.

>>27541
Project Zomboid is not wacko enough for me.
In CDDA I'm past the shitty interface now that I have some muscle memory to navigate the menus, there's just still a lot to learn so I keep dying but I'm getting better.

>>27457
it's okay floor
i will protect you

>>27624
Yeah, its lazy and it sucks. Thats why some of the older games like Half-Life 2, Doom 3 and FEAR look so favorable compared to even some of the newer titles, because they used ambient lighting sparingly if ever and instead used static and dynamic light sources to light levels up and made use of various lighting tricks like chiaroscuro to create mood in their scenes.

>>27626
It’s not even just that it’s the colour choice
Take a look at this frame from fear and compare it to an ordinary screenshot of dying light 2s map, far cry 6, and watch dogs legion. If the UI for fear was disabled this image would look convincing but with the new games they have so many over saturated colours that it looks fake. Maybe this was for stylistic reasons so these games could consistently look good in the future but for me I hold the sentiment that it just makes these games look cartoonish similar to Fortnite

It's a fixed capital vs variable capital thing. It's simply more labor intensive to set up the kind of lighting you want, which imitates the lighting techniques of film crews and tries to carefully select the proper light for each important element. Ambient lighting lets you drop your light sources into the level and let the computer do all the work. It might be more "realistic" but that's not the same as looking good. A lot of people focused on graphics tend to think of video games more as visual simulations than as visual art.

There's a bit from the Lord of the Rings commentary tracks where Elijah Wood talks about a conversation he had with the lighting guy about a particular scene. The scene involves a close-up on Frodo's face as he's facing a wall, with the camera being positioned "inside" the wall. Wood observed that in that position his face should be too dark for the camera to see anything and jokingly asked the lighting guy where the light's coming from. He replied "the same place as the music."

>>28581
wow comrade gratis digital produce is underfunded???

>>28585
it's not always gratis
what is a common thing is that dev offer consulting services, making the software itself a loss leader

>>28586
*devs

>>28583
not a bad idea. probably text would be easiest way to pull it off. maybe painted illustrations
I've had some training in what to do if you arrive at a disaster scene like a car crash. one thing people tend to do is become confused and just wander off

>>27491
What a charming game! The visuals are beautiful, like a great children's picture book.

>>27493
It really is, not lying when I say it's one of the best build-your-own-car games to this day.

Since I mentioned it in another thread, I'll write a few words about the Disaster Report series.

The genre is survival. Just survival, no horror. Your character (or characters) are trying to survive natural disasters, such as earthquakes and tsunamis. There is no combat whatsoever in these games, although sometimes you do need to avoid some dangerous people. In part 2 you can combine items to make bum style coats that protect you from rain, they degrade with time too. Watching your body temperature is important, it's pretty much your life bar, although it's very generous. In part 1 you have to drink water, but the taps are everywhere, they got rid of the idea in 2. The environments break apart in real time (it's scripted), which looks very impressive, especially for the time.

1 and 2 were released on PS2 in the west. 3 was a Japan only PSP game, there's a fan translation but I don't recommend playing it, too boring. 4 is on everything, even on Steam, and it's a great game, but they changed the formula, making it more akin to Yakuza side missions that take place during an earthquake. You run around and talk to people even more than usual in 4, there's more exploration as well.

Also, in part 2 there are 6 playable characters with their own campaigns, and a bunch of endings that depend on your choices during the game. 1 also has a few endings but only one playable character.

Lastly, for some reason they made most characters blonde in 2 for the Western release of the game. Just giving them Western names wasn't enough, apparently.

Wooden Ocean. Found it from a few people taking about it on twitter several months ago because of a patch note detailing how walls in combat affect humidity, temperature, and clutter. Then I went to its steam page (which barely tells you what the game's about) and saw it was an rpgmaker game which piqued my interest that an rpgmaker game has combat effects that detailed. I bought since it was on sale at the time without trying to look up more about it and was expecting it to be a 4-12 hour rpgmaker game with some weird gimmick in combat regarding the environment.

It turned out to be a big and open game with systems for stuff like town management where you hire people to do various jobs that influences what goes on in the towns themselves, enemy encounters and scaling are dependent on how many "resources" they have which can be reduced by just killing regular ones a lot, bosses, quests, etc, and if it goes up too much they can attack and destroy towns you run. Combat is more straightforward than I was expecting it to be (exploit status effects and enemy weaknesses while making sure the enemies can't do the same to you easily), but it still has stuff like equipment weight affecting your speed, spells altering the environment in minor or major ways, and party members/enemies becoming terrified depending on how the battle goes.

Can't say much for the story (because I spent most of my time I did play it trying to figure out where to go because I kept wandering into giant dungeons that seemed to lead into several different areas including other giant dungeons) but between the intro and the game starting it's a weird tonal shift. The intro's tone is what I was expecting going into it but the moment it's over it nearly 180s and goes from being dreamlike and horrifying to weird and comedic. Not sure if I'd call it a hidden gem until I've seen more of it but it's a really obscure and interesting game.

Does World of Horror count as obscure? I don't think so, but it's not a smashing hit either. Something in the middle. In any case, it's a great game, you should play it.

a thread died for this

I wanna rail Ralsei's sissy goat ass.

Noelle wants to be in a poly lesbian relationship with their childhood friend and their teenage crush

>>27563
this thead
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Other than Fear and Hunger, What vidya let's you get raped? aSking fur a fren

>>27562
Nah, video since electronic would include all the niche ones like picrel

>>27565
FEAR 2: Project Origin

why do we call it video conferencing if it's real time

>>27540
They also made deathloop a rougelike castlevania type shooter that did its job of being fun pretty well and even got a perfect from ign in terms of game design and it was pretty fun for me. This game was supposed to be a lot larger but for arkanes development cycle 2 years isn’t gonna cut it

>>27547
I don’t think you realize how hard it is to make AAA games. Outside of marketing budget shenanigans you literally make these games by throwing more people at these projects otherwise you get management issues out of them. Elden ring was developed in 4 years and was under supervision by a high class studio called Bandai Namco and still had issues with content and a boring world. Most modern cod titles including the black ops games take 4-5 years to make but have to be handled by different teams. Tlou2 is a marvel of gaming tech and animation but took nearly a decade to make for only 12 hours of content just do to the sheer manpower and time it took to polish out each and every level on top of working with havok and engine upgrades. I could keep going but you get the point. Games like red fall aren’t games like Celeste, they need time to be fleshed out, alot of time

>>27549
Sorry the campaign is 20-30 hours for tlou2

>>27534
why are western aaa covers so shitty

>>27551
They mostly hastily put these together in the final days of a game's production cycle. In Redfall's case its even worse because the whole thing was hastily put together over the course of like 2 years on a seemingly abysmal budget.

Deathloop was already very bad and now this. Oh well, I liked Arx Fatalis, Dishonored and Prey, but the people that worked on them are probably long gone now.

civ 5, Japan
civ 6, Scythia
their buildings and units aren't the best but i don't give a shit

V: Wu Zetian
VI: idk Trajan I guess

Nuclear Ghandi, for he is the True Posadist of Civilization series.

I remember playing the hell out of the LoTR Two Towers game as a kid and finding it really epic. I thought Isildur's armor looked badass and was so excited when I found out you could unlock him as a playable character. One of my favorite things to do was camp by the pit monster in the forest (Fangorn?) level, kick orcs into it one by one and watch their blood splatter out.

Plenty of anime have video games.

>>27519
What are some good anime-based games you would recommend? Heard the Evangelion ones are pretty good, but haven't played them yet.

>>27518
>50mb gif
are you out of your mind

Depends on the engine. Sometimes it would just be too much work to implement that. There are also often cases where spaces are kept separate because they aren't actually consistent. A lot of the time buildings are bigger on the inside because if they weren't it would be too difficult to move around (often because your movement speed is inappropriate indoors, or because of collision issues) or the buildings would have very large exteriors that would make it more tedious to move around outside.

You could still get around this by having the spaces be separated and putting a portal on the doors (as Valve did a lot in Portal 2), but that is a lot more effort and introduces additional problems.

Probably the smart fix for this is better character movement. Simplest thing would be to change the character behavior depending on whether they are inside vs outside or whether combat is happening, etc. A really good solution might involve a simple AI that recognizes obstacles near the character and steers them away and maybe toward interactable features. Lots of games have adopted a "cinematic" interactivity with physical spaces that characters move through. They are usually "baked-in" in the sense that they have specific preset animations and a limited number of known locations that allow the devs to debug them. However, you could definitely implement a more dynamic version of this, so that for example you have a wide open exterior with features inside of that flagged for specific types of "terrain" and then have various objects flagged for different types of reaction. Furniture and doors could trigger specific interactive behavior using the movement/behavior engine. Hazards could trigger an avoidance behavior, from a basic animation to altering the character's path etc. NPCs could trigger more careful movement weaving between them.

Some AAA games have done these kinds of things to different degrees. Assassin's Creed, Red Dead Redemption, the recent Tomb Raider reboot series… just some examples. But the point here is that you could probably design the movement system so that the characters can move through consistently sized interior spaces. It does pose a problem for action-oriented games, though.

The other really big problem with this is the camera. It's difficult to have a controllable 3rd person camera in an interior space. This isn't limited by the current tech either, because you have to find something that works betweenPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>21975
No
Depends on how the ingame world is designed. In Bethesda games interiors are separated from exterior spaces for the sake of performance while rockstar and naughty dog use camera tricks to hide assets loading between levels and environments