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I think it was quite obvious, doesn't seem like a huge revelation. I would like to see your analysis of Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge expansion.

>>38628
C&C is basically a product of the End of History.
>>38629
>I would like to see your analysis of Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge expansion.
NTA but as somebody that used to be a C&C fan, I'll give this a shot. The original Red Alert was basically "Icebreaker the game", where the Soviets are portrayed as invading and enslaving Europe, with the Soviet campaign beginning with gassing a Polish village and massacring the survivors. Imagine a WWII game written by a bunch of NAFOids. RA2 was more of a comedic parody, with the Soviet leader being this pastiche of Yeltsin and Bhrezhnev.

>The best advice I can give to any new player is to put massive amounts of effort into
something that's actually worth doing and not some dumbass timesink video game.

>>38673
Actually, the point of putting so much into logistics at the start is so you don’t have to work on it for the remainder of the game (most of the gameplay). Just ramping up production on belts and inserted does a lot to save dozens of hours.

>death stranding is a game about being a mtf transhumanist & communism

what

>>38588
wut huh duh?

>>38583
It's clearly the main focus there.

>>38590
Kojima is a fucking legend

Kojima hasn't made a good game since mgs2

We needa 2d indie game in which we play as fantasy soviet revolutionaries and destroy all the other 'counter-revolutionary' cultures with schemes and magic.

Like imagine a scenario where a group of 2-4 soviet soldiers finding themselves stranded in a mysterious island, where many tribes and kingdoms inhabit. And their goal is to establish red terror with magic and schemes

Would be awesome… *drools*

>>38657
someone didnt advance enought through the story

>>37369
>melee over ranged
Sun Tzu proverbs dont make it any less retarded.

>>37404
This literally almost never happens. Even on vraks, melee was restricted almost entirely to underground fights in cramped environments and even then, guns were the primary weapons. It’s not even like ranger warfare is an imperium thing. Literally every faction (including tyranids) uses any type of ranged weapon first and relies on melee if it’s somehow too dangerous and inconvenient to use anything else.

The only way I will respect games workshop is if they completely destroy the imperium, kill the emperor and have all space marines killed by a warp virus unceremoniously.

Eldar > All
no I will not elaborate

>>37752
Doesnt GOG version run at 1080p 60fps by default?
Gothic is one of those games that for me defined what an RPG should be. Well, Gothic 2, but I also liked the first one.
I love the factions, that you can get to know them, do jobs for them and decide which one to join. I love that you start as a absolute nobody, dressed in rags and armed with a stick, getting your ass handed to you by local vermin, but over the course of the game morph into the hero. I love that despite being high-fantasy setting, magic is still treated as magic, as a mystical force unfamiliar to most. I love the super-tight world design, small open world but every corner filled with contend. I love that enemy design clearly communicates their difficulty level, fancy armor = good fighter, large and filled with fangs and teeth = dangerous beast. I do really hate one thing though, how the leveling system expects you to exterminate all wildlife to earn XP, I dont like that, its very roleplay-unfriendly.

Steam version worked for me as is. Launcher says it's running version 1.08k_mod, if that's helpful. Only put a few hours into it but the one thing I'd change is the spoken language cuz the main characters English voice acting sucks cock

Great game, the 2 also, I love the feeling of going from a nobody getting rekt by anything to a demi god. Reminds me I need to play The Chronicles Of Myrtana

>>38621
>The Chronicles Of Myrtana
Thats a game I really wanted to like, but couldnt. It almost recaptures magic of the first two games, but here are certain design decisions in it that are too antithetical to Gothic DNA. The scripted sequences are the most obvious one. Then there is tendency to just hand player stuff. For example at the beginning you need a health potion for a quest, you can either buy one from alchemist, at the point of the game when 50g or whatever it costs is signification portion of your wealth, or sneak into a warehouse to steal it. Or stumble upon the one thats thrown on the ground behind alchemists house. For another quest you need boar meat, again, beginning of the game, boars are challenging opponents, but right next to the place where you pick this quest is a shack with alchemists apprentice, that will escort you into the forest outside the town for different quest, where conveniently two boars are hanging out, which he will kill and you get to loot. Another quests demands roasted lamb, there is a shortage in town so the butcher wont sell you any, so your options are either to sneak into his house during night and lockpick the chest, or undetected kill a lamb from village herd, or kill the lost one, which you are supposed to find for another quest, so you have to decide which of these quests you want to finish. And also random traveling merchant in town has exactly one piece of lamb. There is a new weapon type in Chronicles Of Myrtana, crossbows. In the town there is one just laying around in front of smithy, doesnt belong to anyone, you can just take it. And most disappointingly, magic. Replacing learning circles tied to story chapters by finding books and runes in the world sounds great, lets mages progress more organically, gives them incentive to explore to find equipment as any other build would have, from roleplay perspective could be really fun, crawling through mystical places and searching for magical artifacts and knowledge, great, but the ease of access makes it feel meaningless. The first circle training book is carried by two bandits outside the gates of the first town. The first rune I found was in an abandoned shack right next to the road. The magical powers that in previous games you had to earn through lengthy questlines, which made them acquiring them feel meaningful, even though mechaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Gothic 1 > Gothic 2

>>27013
I don’t know the relation of this mod with a similar project, but I tried Mantella with kobold and xvasynth and it works with both text and mic.

>>35927
Just imagine the millions of dev hours that could have been used to create cool and fun single player games that instead went into yet another fucking moba/battle royale/open world survival/mmorpg

>>35933
(I know everyone is entitled to like the kind of things that they like but many/most of these games are nothing but snowclones with no original ideas whatsoever that do nothing but try to turn their players into addicts)

bump

>>38526
No, I was talking about how shit starship troopers the movie and the video game starship troopers extermination are in comparison to the book.

The original book series straight up defined nearly every sci fi trope. Power armour, space marines, drop pods, laser weapons, alien empires, humanity as a space faring empire, handheld nuclear weapons, and so much more. It had its own vibe created solely by McCarthyism that lacked subtlety and felt fucking cool. The bugs are both a communist and legitimate threat. Something I haven’t seen in ages in other anti-socialist anti-communist propaganda. Coincidentally, the bugs are fucking cool. They have lasers man, lasers.

>>38528
>I was talking about how shit starship troopers the movie and the video game starship troopers extermination are in comparison to the book.
Then why is this in /games/ and not /hobby/?

>>38531
Extermination is the game, and it sucks dick compared to what it should have been.

>>38528
Why do you find specifically the anti-communist part of it cool? Yeah the nuclear power armour is cool, that doesn't mean the fascist part is at all.

>>38541
You know how the enclave is so stereotypically American that they become genuinely funny strawmen archetypes of what McCarthyists were like? Yeah that’s what I think the Terran federation is like.

Zealous, fanatical, and completely incompetent.

>>38593
One last thing, make sure the fighting happens at a distance. Keeping enemies spread out ensures that the player is constantly having to decide who to shoot at and is having to constantly adjust their aim. This effect can prevent the fighting from feeling like a game of whack-a-mole.

>>38593
I'm saying if you want to experience realism try ARMA you keep talking about like RPG shooters and shit.

>>38594
In ARMA the shooting is based off real life engagement distances so you are usually so far away you can't really hear the gunshots. Just a lot of crack crack crack of supersonics blasting past your head. But 99% of gamers don't want a realistic gunfight experience.

>>38595
Aight

>>38593
>Adding all those interventions to the gunplay design should encourage movement and thinking when aiming and shooting to break up the monotony.
The problem isn't the lack of realism but rather that most AAA slop is in this bleak grey area between boomer shooters and tactical shooters. People realized this and so we had boomer shooters' surge in popularity. It's all CoD's fault, it made everything too casual, both boomer shooters and milsims both encourage movement and thinking but arcadey military shooters rely on the spectacle alone. And you can do nothing about it, that's just trends.

Realistic gunplay would have the player rushing between cover repeatedly under fire while trying to cooperate with your squad who are doing the same thing, meanwhile the enemy sits in positions playing whackamole. Remember when designing levels that it takes less than an hour to dig a fighting hole, less than two days to dig a trench shallow system.