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Nintendo Switch 2 Games Will Cost Up To $80 For Digital, $90 For Physical
Nintendo has fucking balls charging above current premium with graphics 15 years out of date and games that are mostly asset flips. Easiest skip of my life but it will still probably sell gangbusters.

where to find lefty game devs?

i'd keep looking here but it's lowkey a small pool of people interested + the people in /games/ is even smaller

we are mostly over halfway our first roadmap milestone and we mostly need an animator but we don't mind getting a bigger team if we can.

at the moment we're staying realistic towards the organization of a smaller team but our goal at a long term would be to break the indie model because imo it's a hyper individualistic focused standard for cheap games with no real long term goals or plans for the longevity of the game.

despite that we have kiiinda searched in Godot forums and such but the problem is that a lot of those spaces are very "lib" so to speak in the meaning that we don't mind them but we don't know if they'd mind the focus the game's taking, both in scope and themes found in the game.

we're not saying we'd be edgy out of being edgy, but yeah, the game's kinda edgy.

like, meme-edgy not like "right wing" game studio edgy you know?

picrel a character we wanna introduce as a reward for finishing the game with a gamepad.

It’s finallly OOOOOOOUT.

How are we feeling about it?

I am cautiously optimistic from the all the gameplay footage released. It genuinely looks like it will be a fun multifaceted game.

Has there ever been another game that has been even more reddit-focused than helldivers 2?
The satire sucks ass, but hits perfectly for redditors to cling into it, the beginning months were chokefull of vietnam memes because of malevelon creek, which lead to not stale, but rotting memes that redditors just love to cling to ("the trees speak binary", they repeat as the kid that, after several tries, has discovered an joke which has made people laugh), which alongside the "in here we can be racists cause we're hating ironically on other species" and the dev team being absolute cornballs (duolingo and it's consequences) has lead to this army of autists that hold onto this game like it's the best thing to come out in 2024.
Every Helldivers 2 fan deserves to be hanged.

https://www.torn.com/3680050
if you sign up using my ref link, I'll send you some money to get started.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torn_(2003_video_game)
>Torn is a text-based, crime-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game.[1][2][3] The game was developed by the British developer Joe Chedburn in 2004, and is one of the largest text-based online video games.[4][5][6] The game involves a virtual world based around crime and business.[1][7] It has an in-game currency, which can be obtained in many ways, like mugging, drug trafficking, bank investments, dividends paid out from stocks, missions, and selling game items via the item market with other players among many other ways.

How many of you still play old games from the 90s-2000s?
<Retro gaming refers to the practice of playing video games from previous generations. Retro gaming is often driven by a desire to relive childhood memories or experience the history of video games.

Hey, I am editor anon again. Currently, I made the legion much more dangerous in a mod I’m working on.

Simply put, I replaced most of the legion’s weapons with the 12.7mm submachine gun. For those unaware, this gun is one of the strongest guns in game, and it is used canonically by the Legion’s assault divisions. By having most legion soldiers use this gun, the legion stands a better chance against most factions, and fighting the legion feels much more fierce than a point and click experience against tribesmen with literal spears.

So why did I buff the legion? Well, I am trying to fix the gunplay, and I feel like I found the solution. My approach is to make guns stronger and more widely used. I believe that if most characters use guns, New Vegas’ gameplay should feel much more exciting. From the play tests I have, this idea holds up. Having more enemies use guns makes the game play more like a shooter. Coincidentally, the increased firepower also makes the game feel more representative of the lore.

Bonus point if it's games that aren't horror themed, or-if not SPECIALLY games that were/started as horror games but ended up taking a more action approach and how does that evolved?

out of the tip of my tongue Devil May Cry which was supposed to be a Resident Evil game with a particular horror focus; ended up being known for being the SSStylish action game and i mean maybe it was because i played it as a 5 year old but back then i was scared shitless of traversing through the game
there's a lot of Resident Evil remains that are even scarier
makes me wish they had kept a lot of them and commited just slightly more to the horror bit, even in future games where they perfected the action formula
then there's the psychological horror which i think in turn you can get something like affective horror which is present across nearly every Devil May Cry game, the generational trauma in Vergil, Dante's constant joking becomes a coping mechanism

then there's Half-Life 2 which i mean it's a very special case when the 2nd entry was even scarier than the 1st one even though the 1st one is more set up as a horror game?
impressively enough a lot of this is done through the eerie ambience, when you're alone personally while Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt are kinda spooky, my defacto to Half-Life 2 scaries is usually Canals, when you're all alone with a boat in the evening and the sun is starting to set, you can find remains of hideouts and remains of people's lives, and yeah the game is full of these places, where you're hoping to find someone and there's just you and random props

Now then there's Majora's Mask which is a particularly interesting game, the game is cheery most of the time, but it's also eerie and creepy at others, even after playing it before there's times where you can feel uneasy despite knowing what's next, there's obviously the countdown and the feeling of unpending doom, the pressure, but also something about the ambient that feels so cozy yet so creepy at times. like feeling comfortable but knowing there's something lurking around, even if it's just the time.

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Asking because i was making a game based on Fear & Hunger but just like Devil May Cry we ended up focusing more in the action department but i still really wanna bank on the horror theme even if it's not the focus anymore.
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