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>>21636
Wait, what promises exactly did it fail to deliver on? **Excluding the "no sales" part of course
>caring about dev's opinion on the Hohlostan spectacle
Pretty much every dev and gaming resource does it because if they did not they would get lynched by the shitlib mob. Although this is not exactly the last moment when Kovarex showed himself to be a liberal rightoid twat (his age of consent debate on the game's R*ddit that started a miniature drama where he would lash out on "cancel culture") so I am not surprised that he ended up supporting Ukraine so vehemently.

>>21641
I mean you can just say nothing about the Ukraine situation

>>21641
The dev roadmap had originally called for having a meaty campaign with hand-designed levels and was going to be moving towards an innovative new kind of RTS in multiplayer where you built your own combat units from components and commanded them remotely. That was all scrapped because, like other early-access projects, the devs became subservient to their paymasters on the forums who only knew how to demand more features. Players generally don't know how to ask for levels and goals because they don't know what they want. The devs got bogged down endlessly tweaking their feature list and completely forgot about creating a complete game such that the end result was a map generator and a grand total of 3 monster types with the pathetic win state of launching a rocket.

The Ukraine sperg out was especially ironic given how popular Factorio is in Russia.

>>21623
This. You have to have severe autism to do it for any other reason.

>>21636
>memedustry
dropped my phone, with no intentions of picking it back up. some ants are typing this rn

>>21634
>>21637
do these built in search features give any indication as to wether the game's crack has coronavirus in it? Like user reviews or comments or something?

>>21639
is this legit?

>>21643
i'm scared of clicking that

>>21644
It works for most games
Use the .net link though it’s only useful for single player games

>>21644
I've never got a virus from a crack (as far as I know), most people shilling viruses aren't going to bothered to keep a torrent seeded when they can just bruteforce viruses into boomers PCs through ads/links/etc.

>>21644
rutracker is pretty legit, although you are going to have to use a translator to navigate it properly. russkie pirates are some of the most prolific ones out there so do not worry about getting a virus because they check every new release for that shit.

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first game was so bad, I'm surprised they even thought about making another one

>Game has been in development hell for almost a decade
>In that time Dying Light came out and had a sequel not too long go
>Trailer is just cinematics and barely any actual gameplay
it'll be shit like the 1st one

>>21595
Mass effect andromeda
Anthem
No man’s sky
Fallout 76
Battle for Azeroth
Shadowlands
Law breakers
Battleborn
Diablo immortal
Saints row 2022
Cyberpunk 2077
Sea of thieves
Battlefield 5
Battlefield 2042
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>>21587
heck fucking yeah brother! i remember playing Dead Island 1, riptide and escape from dead island. all shit. can't wait to dunk on this sequel.

>>21587
It's baffling to me people are excited for this considering the dead island games are some of the most uninteresting shooters ever made. Seriously it's peak early 2010s design it's mind numbing action, play literally anything else.
>>21596
Yeah there's been a lot of shitty launches (add the gta trilogy to that list) but there's still some that are fine like elden ring or apex. It's baffling how half baked games can feel when they come out now though, just compare halo infinite's launch to halo 3 or reach.

>>21590
One I didn’t buy it

Two dude I was playing old games like hl2 and fucking around with mods for Gmod new Vegas and quake

Three I want to understand why this game hurts to learn about

i would've played this game
flying around in iron man suits

i'd like that

>>21483
I also forgot to mention that players blasted nzoth in half with a titan orbital laser in battle for azeroth but everyone criticized blizzard for killing 2 old gods in one expansion.

>>21487
Not him but it’s clear that WoWs story seriously needs to be decentralized for the average player because blizzard
No I really mean blizzard as an independent studio now that some devs are gaining power and damage control is being implemented for the games really need to recognize the reality that the lore of wow is inherently large and players can’t keep track of everything at once on top of gameplay

OP here I’m having fun again

I managed to escape the dogwater tutorial and finally alllowed to just play the game and holy is it as fun as it was when I first played this game. Having a few UI addons and macros to lower the amount of clutter to a reasonable extent certainly helped as I’ve spent more time roaming aimlessly and chatting with randos I come across than giving a shit about anything related the world something I love about RPGs meaning I can reinvest myself into anything whenever I want

I feel like playing more

Op here update

Anybody have a source to where I can find an encyclopedia of mobs in this game in a pdf format
Specifically those allied to the horde as I’m still getting used to the terminology and not having most menu features here to hold my hand occasionally makes me feel stupid for not always remembering aspects of the world. Especially now I’m doing a quest line where I’m rounding up some townies in lakeshire east of whatever that city for the alliance was called to prevent a horde invasion that could cause a refugee crisis and mass death

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Get good?

The Guilty Gear XX series addresses this well by rewarding aggressive actions like hitting the other player and moving towards them with meter gain while punishing retreat with meter loss, and providing a large number of useful things to spend your meter on, including a kind of blocking that nullifies any chip damage. In fact, if you spend long enough running away you'll actually lose your entire tension meter. It also addresses the problem of projectile spam by giving most characters both a ground and an air dash, allowing them to fly over or run under projectiles.

>>21350
Injustice 2 does this better with combo damage scaling that literally encourages winning through aggressive play by scaling up the amount of damage a player can deal with the amount of times they can land a hit in a short period of time

>>21341
>there are defensive options that aren't just blocks and that supers don't necesseraly counter,like meterless invincible DPs
And crouching kicks or slide moves can make you duck lower than normal ducking. I like that dual-use stuff.

I used to think like this but I think it’s not only fun but an essential part of combat

You should only play aggressively in scenarios where victory is obvious not in situations where your opponent is equal to you in any real world situation hence in a game it’s not different. Besides it adds in a level of depth to combat as well as it means shuffling between multiple strategies and recognizing immediate weaknesses and strengths and also learning to back off opponents that lack any vital flaws

>>21574
No it’s an art game, I avoid those because the meaning is poorly established and often has little to do with the actual game. If you wanna establish an idea expressed in a game the best way to do it is clearly either through writing or gameplay not making the player run around in circles coming up with a much better story, or theme than the author did

>>21576
>art game
<hey let’s survive in this hellish world in which everyone and everything are trying to murder you
There’s literally no more meaning. Just you trying to make the best of a bad situation. The best part of it is that the animals act like real living creatures and not game enemies.
>>21574
Finished it already. Waiting patiently for the expansion. Having more slug cats is always more fun.

>>21578
Yeah I’m aware rainworlds AI and animation is above average as it uses methods of animation and ai typically only used in position papers for computer graphics

Specifically those developed I think in like the late 80s but that alone isn’t what I want out of a game like it, I just wanna have fun and rainworld brings the same emotions as a game like half life 2 did. The game feels more like a tech demo than it does a fun experience

>>21579
>isn’t what I want out of a game like it
Then what do you want out of a game as a side scrolling semi open world with timed mechanics though? From the title alone and the few beginning snippets you’re already know that it’s not going to be forgiving.

Having a game be a slower burn experience that give out dopamine in unfrequent doses doesn’t mean that it’s not “fun”. But I agree on the Half Life 2 part though. The gunplay sucked in that game to the point that Alyx was superior.

>>21576
The art in the game is astounding but I think just calling it an art game is missing the engaging gameplay. You have loads of ways to approach encounters, either through running or fighting, and there is good enemy variety. The platforming is exciting and even just walking through the world is fun since you have to engage with gameplay mechanics even in downtime, which by the way is very important for any game and especially so for a game which is portraying such a strong atmosphere. That being said I've mostly been playing hunter difficulty and mods so the spawns might be higher for me, but there isn't really that much time spent without having to deal with encounters or platforming. I don't know how long you've played it and I don't blame you for just not enjoying a game, but I would try it again until you get to the underhang at least.

As for the story, I don't understand your critisism. Also I think you shouldn't critisize a story before finishing it since there could be something later on which recontextualised the entire experience. Perhaps the fact that death doesn't matter to the slugcat does contrast with the harshness of the world, but things can have different stories and themes in them, and as for the whole cycle thing from what I gather for most people it isn't like the last cycle is crystal clear in their memory, its almost more of a spiritual / theoretical thing. But the gameplay is very much linked to the story, since the different enviroments reveals much to the player through their art and atmosphere, and emotion is expressed just by moving through different enviroments, especially the more climatic areas, which is accomplished through a very effective combination of art, sound, level design and enemy threat. This game manages to tell a more effective story with atmosphere and gameplay alone than most games can tell with a thousand lore books, and this game has lore as well.

Major spoilers
As for the lack of writing, there actually is dialogue in the game, you just have to get to Five Pebbles, who you get to through the underhang. Then you can being lore pearls to Looks to the Moon, who will read them for you. Also, the ending is crazy and like the whole game really melancholy, in fact I would say its verging on eldrtich

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>>21494
Yeah I’m aware that shitloads of the cunts here browse
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And that some of the mods are from that space. I’m just amazed at how many of them are even on that game consistently, like it’s shocking knowing how on point all that slandering from the shitposts were

No one os going to talk about the fact these japs are purposefully making softcore pedo porn to get pedo bux? Yeah everyone agrees pedo weebs are disgusting, but how come we don't consider the companies making the pedo porn disgusting.

>>21525
I always assumed the authors were just like that on a foundational level over there
Like fuck I knew that these people did appeal to that low ass denominator of the anime community but whenever I saw the authors behind that shit they were always kind of deranged so I didn’t care

>>21525
It's standard for eastern MMOs to have a playable little girl race, pedos are the biggest paypigs and kept games like TERA afloat for years. They're chasing profitable market segments wherever that may lead.

>>21525
It's Chinese made.
Also, I would ram Paimons cervix like the Gauls did Rome.

Blizzard has lost most of its developers so even if it went independent, it would still not be able to produce a worthwhile game.

>>21571
Didn’t they literally just buy out an entire studio this year

Yeah i think it was the one that made spell break, obviously those devs still need training and a marketing team still needs to be present but realistically to make even one game with how low standards are these days they really wouldn’t have much trouble pulling it off

>>21572
Not him but if that breakup happens it NEEDs to happen soon. Blizzard as a studio is even worse off than it was as a subsidiary of vivendi during its collapse despite the increased wealth the studio has. the influence of activision coupled with the increasing alienation from their community has sent that studio into a decade long down spiral of bad update after bad game after bad PR nightmare while all their partner can do is fuck up their employees and milk cod while ignoring everything else the two studios have made.

It’s clear after the nightmare that was BFA which was considered to be the worst expansion ever made the devs won and a serious push to be better was implemented with lowering the level cap back down to 60, releasing classic, switching up management, updating dragon physics, being honest about diablo 4 as much as they could etc but the changes aren’t drastic enough to repair their games much less repair the state of the community which has long since eroded into nothing

Dark souls 2 in general is an experience, play any other souls game

One of the things that I loved about dark souls 2 was how optimized it was for pc at the time of release. Remember how absolute shit Dark Souls PTDE was when it was released on steam? Remember Windows live and the ds fixes? Well, DS2 didn't have those problems. Sure the controls had to be slightly reworked on keyboard but compared to what came before, it was a godsend.

>>21568
Yeah they didn’t even have a pointer lock system for the mouse until the remastered version came
Shame all the fun components of the game got overclouded by the bs systems they ended up removing in ds3 and never brought back again like having your health reduce to 50% for dying which caused an issue of appeal due to the fact that new players kept quitting out of frustration over being punished for death or how badly placed the checkpoints were which made a lot of deaths unnecessarily tedious to deal with due to the time it would take to come back to your original spawn

Either way ds3 set the standard of how from software games would design their titles later on to be more fun