/games/ - Games

>>48190
I want to go full heretic. Although from what I heard heretic includes the standard selfish evil choices, which I dont find very fun or interesting.

>>48195
wrong the tau are a parody of feudalism not slavery. it's a caste system not a slave system.

>>48217
>it's not feudalism because feudal lords didn't indoctrinate their subjects
aren't you forgetting about the whole divine right of kings, inherently noble bloodlines, and other wonderful lies that feudalism pushed on everyone?

>>48157
No, it wasn't. If you like the Company of Heroes (or Warhammer Dawn of War 2 ) style of RTS its pretty solid. The only problem was there wasn't enough long term support and content. What Ithink undid them is what happens to most RTS devs in the past decades - they decided to focus on competitive PVP tournament garbage first of all. This also doomed Stormgate and many others and that one actually had SC2 style Co-Op from the start but they let it rot etc…but I digress. Comp PVP is only of interest to a handful of hardcore players (and these usually are actively hostile to growing your userbase) whereas campaigns, co-op, custom games and the like are way more desirable, especially for a new game with a new setting

Iron Harvest's setting and story was a unique alt-history WW1 dieselpunk take, but they were working with small kickstarter resources and because they didn't keep growing the playerbase with the aforementioned it didn't get the kind of long term support it could have used. There's a reason that even the Age of Empires series for instance is adding more campaign and co-op stuff and they're doing much better. Iron Harvest isn't bad, but it would have benefited from more campaigns, co-op special missions and standard campaigns etc. Its still worth a play on sale for the campaigns if you like the mechanics/settings, its just a pity it didn't get more.

By comparison, DoW4 has a huge amount of buzz behind it given the interest in all DoW1 and 2, which both had significant DLC and modding expansions alike. We'll see where it goes but I hope for the best.

>>48467
>This has downstream effects for everyone
it has a downstream effect on inflation, which in turn drives interest rate policy, which is what has been pinning the AAA gaming studio crisis since 100% of game development is strategic, thus driven by investment and liquidity is at an all time low

>>48471 (me)
like if you think about it, the downsizing started with biden, because AAA gaming was a zero interest rate phenomena all along, and now that money is expensive, it will never be a thing again.

>>48469
Veilguard is one of the biggest examples. Plenty of others to one degree or another. You have things like
>Baldur's Gate 3
>Spider-Man 2
>Wolverine
>Horizon series
>Ghost of Yotei
>Relooted
>Concord
>Dustborn
and many more as central to the whole thing, but many others like FFVII Remake trilogy that have negatively been affected by having to censor their content to develop in fear of social media outrage being bad PR for global sales (inaccurately assuming that these people were speaking for the majority of potential players; an issue that has gotten worse as Japan has become aware of the outrage but not its context). There's quite a bit more, sadly from AAA projects down to indies.

>>48471
>>48472
Like streaming there was a huge amount of game development going into the audience at home during lockdown and so the goal to capitalize on it was pushing money in. Now we'll see that's not sustainable in and of itself, among other things going on in the economy, much the same way that greenlighting every possible streaming show isn't viable either.

>>48475
>naming games that sold shitloads of copies like BG3 and Horizon series

????

>>48476
BG3 was one of the only ones that sold 'shitloads' of copies on its merits. The game overall was very good, the woke stuff was as I said before a debuff - putting eye rolling nonsense in a fantastic game makes it less fantastic but it still may be very good.

Horizon was made worse in Forbidden West (including the infamous redesigns for Aloy) but the copies sold were heavily bolstered by HZD / HFW both being pack-ins sold with consoles. It was a decent game made worse by demands to uglify the protagonist among other decisions.

Perhaps one of the best examples are games like the Marvel related sony games, particularly Spider Man 2 and Wolverine. Spider-Man 2 is mechanically, superior to its previous titles and having Venom show up will of course be a crowd pleaser. However, there was a lot of the often memed stuff that was directly resultant for letting consultants direct too much of development notably the infamous SweetBaby. Lots of the "woke" stuff brought down the title and would have been better without it (many, many, many examples), but it was still a spider-man game. Wolverine allowed the rot to get to critical levels to the point it affected core gameplay mechanics as well as aesthetics and story elements; a very troubled development hobbled game is made far worse by performative idpol nonsense as there isn't much else for people to say "Well aside from that, it was good". The well of "good" had run dry so the debuff of wokeness really ended up being a critical hit, leading to many of the responses to the title focusing on those aspects. Where with SM2 it was a "look at how much good stuff we could have had if the wokeness could have gotten out of the way" this game did't have that assurance

>>48402
Wrong. The Twilight Realm is AES. KKKokiri Village are imperialist fascists.

>>48402
deku tree is tree stalin, fr fr

>>48400
>Ganondorf and the Gerudo are oppressed third worldists, Link and Zelda are treatlerites.
some russian guy did a novelization of LOTR where mordor was the good guys in an anti imperialist struggle against the westerners

I was so confused because mods in siberia said this thread moved to tech then it turned out to be in games

>>48406
Yes, The Last Ringbearer, where Mordor is a bunch of scientists or something. Never read it tho. In the original Sauron was objectively progressive, introducing industry to Middle Earth, he wanted to rationalize the world but went "too far" which made him evil, sound familiar, also he was opposed by royals and God.

>>44736
Some people can take a joke, crazy, right?

>>44736
>>44734
I think a big chunk of mainling SMT's fandom in Japan is women in their 30's too, and Persona was considered the younger and more male series
I think a selectable female protag would fit mainline even more since half the games are about a random ass normie going through wastelands

>>45680
source if you want to read it for yourself

Is posting on here possible while 4chan is down? Has anyone played the translated patch for the Aegis First Mission game yet?

>>48342
The php shut down is over but I wanted to ask, is this translation part of the new AI vibe coding slop trend where everyone is putting out translation patches for various smt games? I haven't played this but do you know if anyone is working on translation patches for the other G-Mode phone games?

>>48349
Every single Paradox rip-off game I played ended up sucking, so I have very little expectation of this one.

>>48350
Eh, ad long as the core is okay I wont mind so much, modding can fix the rest.
Looking forward to adding in a successful John Brown with insurgency and breakaway Republic. Looking forward to adding the anarchist movement in detail. As long as its half decent at its core.
Vic3 is too sadly unfinished.

>>48356
If Vicky3 is unfinished, what makes you think this game, made by studio with far less resources, wont be?

>>48358
Because such a small studio cannot absorb the costs of the release unfinished shit and polish it over many years business model of Paradox.

>>48349
Little look in to some of the modding tools.

I tried playing Umamusume but the insane time commitment, multiple layers of RNG, and extreme reliance on pay to win made me drop it. Fuck Cygames for making a 2011 gacha in 2021.

I love anges tachyon, I haven’t even played any of the games I just think she’s really cute, she reminds me of an autistic lady in her early thirties

>>45480
I like how the only thing that signifies that shes old are the laugh lines

sad

>>47673
the recommended specs are like 2GB of RAM lol

>>47675
The remastered ask for 12

>>47677
>Playing demasters
ngmi

>>47677
well then dont play that

Jogo massa

I cant explain this forever. The lightphone post single handedly destroyed this board and the kind of the entire gaming industry. You might want to click it.

See? Look closely. The endmins hair is inferior by default. Soycow. Everything you've ever known, soycow.

It basicly leads up to that.

I caved in and bought star wars galactic racer and it's pretty good. they really brought back burnout 3, in star wars form. it has the kinetic energy that was completely lacking in burnout paradise. and the rouge-lite stuff is really good, it makes the game exciting without it being super frustrating, more games should follow suite i think, just make the player endure a gauntlet of challenges before letting him progress to the next set of challenges. and like sound wise and presentation it's all very cinematic, very good stuff. the only sad thing is that they got rid of the twin stick controller scheme from episode I racer and racer revenge, but at least it's sort of justified I guess, and you can mod it in i suppose. probably the fastest pod racer game since, well, wipeout hd.

>>48335
And to text in OP
>Western Tumblr-trained artists who completely desexualize and ruin all of the theming

>>48280
The top pic looks like a playboy girl with batwings bolted on, something boomers would love I guess. Bottom looks more like a demon but it's drawn in a ugly way (not an artist not sure how to describe it aside from the "digital art" look that infested everything after photoshop and drawing tablets reached critical mass).

I think most people would prefer the top design because it's more memorable and iconic. Regardless of whether these designs are sexy or not, the top illustration just clearly has more work put into it. The bottom one is very flat and looks like every other style you would see on twitter. Western artists all derive their inspiration from cartoons whereas it's obvious Kojima derives their inspiration from a more serious study of real world subjects and painting. This is the problem with contemporary western art, it doesn't have any depth to it and people think that adding a million different accessories will make up for the fact that you're drawing a flat cartoon with no personality and no character to it.

On the topic of Eroticism, it works well when it has a level of verisimilitude. The succubus on the top has flesh that looks fleshy and soft, hair that looks textured and voluminous, and an erotic and suggestive expression. The bottom succubus only looks erotic if you're somebody who's only attracted to cartoons. It doesn't look like someone that could seduce you, it just looks like a circus clown. I know, I understand that some people are attracted to that, but it just doesn't speak to the primitive human sex drive.

> erik houdini
i wouldn't say the first one is more memorable but it's obviously more ambitious, it's wearing the yoshitaka amano inspiration on its sleeve and leverages the art nouveau style to communicate "goth" victorian decadence, the bottom one loses that context completely because it's going for something purely functional. i understand not liking what ultimately comes across as generic digital art but what does it need to relate to sexuality necessarily, do you need to masturbate to gustav klimt paintings before finding him appealing

>>48323
I like that your picture is like the exact opposite of OP