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Have you managed to free yourself of your nostalgia biases? Let's perform a test. Think of some games in series or franchises that you you experienced first as a kid before trying out earlier entries. Are you capable of recognizing any of the earlier entries as superior games?

Honestly, it's surprising that something like "Marvel Rivals" hasn't happened before. In retrospect, it seems obvious. A basic hero-shooter format, but with an established and expansive universe, with literally hundreds of variations for skins.

ITT discuss custom rules for tabletop, card, board, or pen & paper games.

What house rules do you use?
What official rules do you ignore?
Are you cooking up anything currently?

What do you use to run Windows games on Linux? Vanilla Wine, Bottles, Steam?

furries+prison movie tropes+ infuriating rngesus+ all of martin scorsese's scripts+ nice soundtrack= this game

prison was too short but not empty prison was too short but not empty prison was too short but not empty

Napoleon once said something about fortifications mattering the most to the outcome of an invasion even more so than how an invasion was organized.

After reviewing footage of the current invasion in Congo, I realized that there was difference between capturing territory and securing it. I already knew that there was a distinction between the two terms, but the implications of that distinction only became obvious to me recently. Okay, but what does this have to do with RTS games?

Basically, I think game developers should reconsider the definition of capturing territory in these games to be more than just taking over land. Simply occupying land doesn’t necessarily mean any captured territory is actually secure. Without defence systems installed and any chance of internal rebellion suppressed, no territory has been really secured.

I think games like Paradox RTS games, Men of War, and warhammer should have a built in rebellion feature and an “unsecured debuff.” By leaving any invasive land much more vulnerable to be lost either due to internal strife from the player’s actions or from the fact that the territory captured isn’t really defended, the player is forced to make harder decisions about whether invading their neighbours is worth the potential costs and about how they should treat those they subjugated.

I think RTS games would be much more realistic, but that they would have a lot more to say about the nature of warfare.

Objectively the best kind of shooters

Sometimes I forget that the reason why the average warhammer fight doesn’t look like this is because the overwhelming majority of fights are between non augmented or genetically altered humans.

If there was a gene transfer program to make every human an ogryn that isn’t buff this fucking franchise would be xeelee tier levels of fucked up. Transhumanist sci fi will always be uniquely and conceptually horrifying

After the Activision buyout, Blizzard’s leading game designers would go on to ruin AAA gaming for millions of people. Personally, I think blizzard’s mentality for accessibility is what caused the problems.

Blizzard used to keep world of warcraft (WOW) easy. Old WOW used to be simple to learn and simple to play. The progression system was easy, so was the combat, and the quests were simple to understand. For most players, the game wasn’t too competitive and it was easy to make friends.

Milsims like Arma and Squad still have that “easy to learn, easy to make friends” kind of appeal. Even the early soulsborne series had that “simple in design, easy to find fun” appeal despite what the masochists claimed about the souls series. Most AAA games released by blizzard and other high-ranking studios abondoned this approach to game design.

Blizzard catered to the hardcore players too much and made WOW hard. I’m glad that the devs are going back on most of the changes, but the damage and legacy is all still there. Multiplayer shooters are worse than ever. It’s basically impossible to get into any new multiplayer game without being bombarded with endlessly convoluted systems and a hardcore player-base. Gaming is so much harder now. Even games that should feel easy like path of exile 2 play as if I need a manual again to understand what’s going on.