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>Metroid Prime 4 is open world with a motorcycle
Literally everything is open world slop now. Even a series that named the genre where you explore intricate interconnected levels.
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>>45176
Original Metroid Prime was named for the final boss of the game, and the name stuck for all the 3D metroids.

>>45174
There is a lot of bandwagoning happening. It’s really not the that bad. Mckenzie is about as annoying as Otacon from MGS to me. The desert portion feels tacked on a bit because it’s basically used to collect gems for a later part of the game. That might be annoying for some players but I collected them while traveling to different locations so it wasn’t a big deal. I think people were expecting more modern elements like an actual open world rather than a hub, but I knew that was never going to happen while the game was being held back by the switch 1. If your expectations aren’t that high and you like metroid it’s a good time. People are complaining about the story but I would still rank it higher than Other M despite it being paper thin.

>>45256
expectations seem to have been a bit overflown, but also there seems to be a general sense of bitterness towards nintendo because the switch 2 is a bit expensive and they still don't have a definite "killer game" that justifies the entry price

>>45256
>>45260
Also scathing reviews of other Nintendo sequels (TotK) have been doing number recently so some people are probably trying to bottle that lightning.

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I decided to create this general for TCOAAL since 4chan is currently out of service so discuss about TCOAAL or any of Nemlei's other games.

Store Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2378900/The_Coffin_of_Andy_and_Leyley/
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>>45194
it's because he want to justify himself for being DRAIN GANG

>>45194
Engels fucked French hookers by the truckload. He said Frenxh hookers were his teason for living.

>>45222
Based

>>45158
Is that even a real thing?

>>45286
yes,in certains private schools and youth centers (in USAnia at least) you can enroll both at a discount


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Why has no one made a thread about this game, yet? Hello?? It's a Soviet city builder game. Has anyone here played this?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources_Soviet_Republic/
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>>38885
Is it even playable at this point? Was completely broken when it came out.

>>39009
Bud the Spud was just made a hero of socialist labour for delivering a record number of potatoes in a single day.

It's hard

>>38885
I have it, although i haven't played it in like a year

I just started playing. I wish there was a mode where you can play as Albania, and you get support from China but you can't trade with the Soviets or NATO.


 

No shmup thread in the catalogue so I'm making one. Today's shmup is Birdcage - Halcyon from Polygon Bird Games.

Post about shmup news, games you like or dislike, criticisms or praise, and your shoot em up hopes, dreams, and memes here.


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Thoughts on Arknights?
Kinda surprised there's not already a thread about this, there's so much politics crammed into this game's story I'd imagine people here would have interesting takes on.
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The new game looks meh. Looks like genshin impact or something and the only guns are pistols everything else is melee

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Oh shit Kal knew about Elves back in chapter 7.

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Visual Novel General #1


This general is for the discussion of English-translated Japanese visual novels.
All posting of untranslated visual novels belongs on…oh wait :(
E-celeb shitposting is not allowed.
Kindly use spoiler tags appropriately when discussing plot spoilers to facilitate smooth discussion.

>Having trouble with your VN? Try the following before you ask for tech support:
1. Be in Japanese locale
2. Read the Readme
3. Check https://rentry.org/4chan-vn-help
4. Copy error messages with CTRL+C and paste them with CTRL+V into DeepL
5. Google it

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>>44260
Everlasting Summer

Is it weird if I love short VNs but I can't really get into long ones with branching paths? I don't like doing the different paths because it feels like I am betraying my favourite characters, I don't want to go with the ones I don't like. Planetarian is my favourite VN for this reason. Also I was thinking of playing Chaos Head but I can't find a translation.

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>>44432
Have you played a Type-Moon VN yet? The sex scenes in tsukihime can be a bit grating, yet otherwise it's a fine mystery novel. It uses branching, mostly unrelated, paths to make the narrative feel more extensive, while remaining introspective and small in scope. Fate Stay/Night does this even more effectively, but as the progenitor of the Fate franchise its setting isn't as intriguing as it should be, feeling more fantastical in contrast to tsukihime albeit still very anime-edgy and nasu. In any case playing with a guide is usually the right choice for non-dating, non-gimmicky VNs.

Oh, and at the moment i'm playing Dies Irae. It's utter chuuni dreg, but it also has a few great fights and passably well-written heroines, so i'm not complaining.

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This is actually much better than I initially grasped.

When I watched the anime at 13 I just believed it was one of those gauche shock horror animes, but the visual novel and manga gave this much more depth than I would suspect it had. At first I thought the story writing was kind of vapid, until I realized it‘s a rabbit hole with twist after twist that made my head spin but also made me enjoy detangling the story like a detective. Story writing that employs time lines and considers the knowledge base of the viewer/reader at certain moments is very difficult considering how convoluted the story gets. Much respect to the author for that. Additionally, the uncanny feeling of the series is quite distinct. The story goes from slice of life, light hearted anime to irreversible tragedy and frightening loneliness and madness in such an unexpected but convincing way. I usually dislike the old school anime look, but the visual novel made the style grow on me and it surprisingly works very well with the eerie mood in the second half of each chapter when shit hits the fan.

Definitely recommend. The visual novel I mean, not the anime which leaves out so much that you will underappreciate the series.


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Has anyone on here played S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?

It's set in post-soviet ukraine, about a cast of "stalkers" searched for artifacts in a mystical chernobyl exclusion zone.
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>>45205
Are you the guy who tried to mod NV desert full of empty ruins

>>45210
those are called miracles in the bible, bestie

>>45230
Yes, and the mod did work surprisingly well. I just cannot take the amount of crashing issues I initially had with it. The issue got fixed, but I still don’t want to release the mod regardless because there’s two major mods for NV that are came out

Long 15 and dry wells together effectively tripled the size of the games map. There’s other worldspace mods that affect that games issues with its map size which combined quintuple the maps size. I feel that introducing more worldspace mods is overkill at that point.

>>45233
My curiosity and pattern recognitionisms have been satisfied, thank you

>>45234
Your welcome. Check out nexus for dry wells and long 15. The mods got released and triple the games base map size


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A thread for discussing Mount & Blade series.
Which game do you play? Do you have favorite mods? Are you active in multiplayer? Do you roleplay? Tell us about your characters and their adventures!
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>>43304
It's a shame you can't accept it and send them back a finger. "You get what you pay for."

>>43304
lmao

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War Sails DLC is already out (for couple weeks now). Mixed reviews on Steam, which is discouraging, although so does Viking Conquest, and Viking Conquest is the peak Mount and Blade experience.
I read through recent patch notes and they seem to finally be nerfing ranged troops slightly. Not nearly enough, and TW seems to not recognise that crux of the issue lies in bows doing piercing damage.
I am having an itch to roleplay Chaos Warrior, with goal of killing every single noble in the game, leaving the game world overrun by bandits, brigands and raiders. Although I should probably wait for more patches to come out before starting.


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40k reads like a superhero comic disguised as a military drama.

Most of the books and official animated media focus more on spectacle, exaggeration, humour, absurdity, and hype than on believability (not realism, believability and consistency) and immersion at the cost of tonal consistency and the depth of many of its characters. This series has many issues with scaling and tension when a new world/empire threat ending pops up each edition while the imperium is written to feel nearly always reactive and in a vegetative state. The imperium was never good, but never written to be so laughably incompetent that major galaxy ending crises could casually manifest without any pushback. Remember when the imperial guard was so strong it had to be nerfed in lore? Yeah I miss when the scaling of the series wasn’t 100% catered to the astartes and the times when the authors tried to write the guard and planetary defence forces as actually useful for protecting humanity…
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>>45214
>spectacle, exaggeration, humour, absurdity, and hype
its 40k wtf were you expecting. they are returning to tradition, if they ever departed. you are just old and grumpy
>uhm akshually armies are more like dhl and less like rambo
ok smart guy, feel free to pick literally any other franchise or hobby

>>45223
It showed they were pivoting to stories that were more small-scale and character focused that didn't really advance the setting in any meaningful way. Not that theres anything wrong with those type of stories but I always found the perpetual storylines boring and kind of meaningless.

>>45224
Fuck you talking about, modern imperial guard is anything except Rambo. You know how bad they’ve been shafted in the recent books? Like at least for a time, the authors tried writing them and the planetary defence forces as actually competent and intimidating soldiers. The recent editions make it questionable why the imperium even has these guys active.

>>45225
Literally the opposite problem. Every fucking edition brings a new galaxy ending crises somehow worse than the last one where the power scaling gets even more nonsensical and absurd (apparently the emperor fought Horus through 13 dimensions or some shit in one of the newest books), entire systems are casually given Horus heresy level disaster situations for just because for narrative convenience (like how marvel seemingly has a new world ending threat every week just to find a lazy excuse to keep publishing avengers comics) at the complete cost of tonal consistency and believability in the 40k setting.

>>45227
Well if it makes you feel better it looks like they're getting ready to chuck the whole thing in the toilet and start over age of sigmar style


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>In 1983 the video game industry crashed, plunging from an estimated global market value of $42 billion in 1982 to only $14 billion in 1985. It was catastrophic for what had seemed an unstoppable industry and, like most economic crashes, spawned many myths about its causes and outcomes.

>The popular imagination blames the crash on a combination of poor-quality games (most famously, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), the rise of home computers, and the increasing number of video game consoles for consumers to choose from. These myths have largely been accepted and perpetuated by historians, social media personalities and popular culture.

>Fast forward to 2025 and the video game industry seems to be going through another crash. Just this year alone, according to the website GamingLayoffs.com, the industry collectively has laid off 3,563 game developers. Gaming website Kotaku reports that Virtuous Ltd, the studio behind one of the biggest successes of the year with The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered, is laying off three hundred employees.

>What the crash of 1983 and the ongoing crash of 2025 have in common is that in both cases, most media, historians and social media influencers have muddied the waters on the cause and source of the crisis.

>In a way, the gaming industry is a canary in the capitalist coal mine. Video games are a sort of luxury goods – nobody ever died from not being able to play Donkey Kong Country or failing to grab the latest Call of Duty game. What this means in practice is that the capitalists who own and run the industry can be as greedy and rapacious as possible, above and beyond what they think they can get away with in more “serious” industries.

>Going back to 1983, Atari’s home version of Pac-Man – considered one of the worst games ever made – still managed to sell a total of seven million copies. Subjectively that’s an eye watering sum of units to sell; objectively it was the highest selling game the Atari console would ever sell. But despite this, Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 console reveals one of the unspoken truths about capitalism: it’s not enough to be successful. While Pac-Man sold seven million units, the corporate executives had banked on selling twelve million – that target would have required every single AtariPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>44845
It seems to be a crisis of overproduction caused by the post-pandemic crisis and the collapse of the Western video game industry, especially in the US (at least compared to East Asia), although we mustn't forget that video games as an industry are a huge economic miracle compared to the rest of the global economy (thanks to China, by the way).

>>45186
>collapse of the western video game industry
didn't happen,give me one studio who collapsed

>>45190
several small studios collapsed, but you're right, that's less of a collapse, and more like a concentration of capital towards the top

>>45190
Massive layoffs since 2021

>>45209
that's just the covid/post covid boom in the market no longer being relevant,so they fire people to compensate with the hirings that happened back then


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