/games/ - Games

A great tactical turn based strategy game in early access. There's a free demo too. Jagged alliance vibes but in the future and with entire squads and vehicles instead of individual characters. I'm having a lot of fun, lots of customization and options, there's a "supply" system which limit the amount of what you can bring but a lot of flexibility in the builds, and some campaign wide mechanics and resources (trust with different factions, off map calls-in like missile strikes, manpower reserves) and some random event for flavor. At least 3-4 different enemies factions for now.
Squad leaders have skill trees and voice acting with personality.

So does anyone know why exactly every Phantasy Star related forum is full of AI bullshit now? I swear, at first I thought it was just the subreddit (because of course it would), but other places like the pscave forums have AI art bullshit plastered everywhere, and even searching for youtube remixes leads me to AI music.
I'd talk about the irony of so much AI garbage being made by the community, when Phantasy Star 2 especially is so anti-AI, but it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Like is everyone who plays these now just utterly, creatively bankrupt?
…Later, ace!

>game from 1995, height of Clinton presidency
>game is about a bunch of reptiles passing around kidnapped babies on an island

Miyamoto-sama… what did you know?!?!

Im making a thread about VNs because there isnt one on the catalogue and i wanna talk about my experience. I just finished danganronpa 2, which im not certain counts as a VN or if it's a point and click murder mystery social deduction game, and i think im pretty confident to say that it presents a pretty interesting moral dilemma. On one hand, the hope faction is pretty clearly a technocratic organization who obsesses over "Ultimates", or people who possess immense talent in a particular field or study, for example the world's best scientist, or the world's best doctor. It is revealed in the story of goodbye despair that before despair took over, hope's peak academy created a method of artificially forcing someone to become extremely talented, which dialectically had the potential to equalize mankind and develop the talents of anyone, which would make the idea of meritocracy, or ruling over others due to better talents or knowledge, completely obsolete. Despair on the other hand spawned as a result of the mass movement of reserve students, malcontents who became disaffected with the idea that people with talent mattered more than the rest, since hope's peak academy was formed to research peoples' talents and how to cultivate them.
I think it would be pretty easy to side with the latter out of frustration, especially if you're talentless like i am, but i think the idea that talent could be forcibly cultivated out of someone who never realized it before would be the "productive forces" argument. Not to mention that junko destroyed civilization, which is dialectically bad.
Your turn to die is a great game too, very similar to danganronpa on a surface level, i finished it a while ago and im glad i played it. Free btw. Anyone got visual novel recommendations? I need a weeb fix.

>assassins sanctioned by the government to take care of any mess, past members worked with pedophiles when it benefited them and only killed them once their cover was blown or they didn’t have any use for them, calls western leftists useless

How did suda know that it wouldn’t be until a couple of decades that shit would go down????

>Even if the player has completed the Communist Vision Quest and has their highest political affiliation in Communism, The Deserter will still call them a "fascist" and a "liberal pederast"

>The exception is if the player tells him "I'm also a communist", then passes a passive Conceptualization check (requires approx. ≥10) while talking about the statue of King Filippe III and agrees that all artists should be sent to Yekokataa. The Deserter will then briefly entertain the notion that Harry is a fellow Mazovian and muse about being arrested for the sins of "revisionism, reactionary ideation, and desertion."

it was a /leftypol/ simulator all along?!?!?!

Has anyone here played space station 13 or 14?

Its this job simulator where you and about 50 other people try to keep a space station running while it is attacked by various antagonists from traitors, to changlings (which is basically the thing meets parasyte), to of course, revolutionaries which the attached image is describing.

the revolutionaries aren't actually communists, though. It is implied to be a color revolution set up by an enemy coorperation. the collapse of a 'third soviet union' is mentioned in passing in the backstory.

< God of War Trilogy Remake features a “new combat system,” says Kratos actor Christopher Judge

20 years ago people were making fun of the God of War games for being too simple and now they’re seriously considered "too technical". 13 years of over the shoulder "cinematic experiences" have fried gamers' brains

Are you excited about anything game's related lately?
games, mods, etc.

2026-2027 as long as it hasn't been released and it's keeping you on your toes you can post it here.
body isn't too short nor empty

it brings me no pleasure to announce this, but it's peak. the furry twink has done it again. total tumblr teen victory. i can't sleep at night and my life is irrevocably changed.