/games/ - Games

I like to use flashcarts when I can. I prefer to play on the original hardware, but I don't want to pay for original software prices anymore.

>>27343
you make NES/GB games???
how is it like

>>27330
Man I haven't heard that name of the emulator for a while. Takes me back to the old days of Retsupre when they were making fun of Let's Players and one of them kept constantly reloading since they were playing a Kazio Mario Mod. Every time SNES9x would pop up and Slowbeef interrupted himself from reading a paper he found.

>>27438
lol I remember that video

Retroarch will always perform a bit worse than the original client and it becomes more noticeable the more demanding the emulation becomes - everything past the N64/PSX.

>>27329
The new zeldas also follow this mindset

>>27331
Nah the only thing technologically new about the zelda titles on switch is the physics ported from pc games. Just cause did a lot more physics wise to create an interesting open world environment

>>27329
>Or even why developers stopped prioritizing adding a lot of detail to games upon realization that most players would never actually play long enough to see them.
It really bugs me every time I beat a game on steam and see that less than 10%-20% of players got the achievement. Goes down to below 1% for most games above normal difficulty. It really seems like all that work is going to waste.

>>27434
Believe me man. Most developers are aware that most of their players rarely ever finish their games. The ones that know what they’re doing provide veterans with NG+ content and appeal to them the most often since they’re the most likely to buy micro transactions and extra content wether that’s an expansion or new game entirely. It’s not that different with how most alcohol companies get most of their money off alcoholics or why blizzard had so much of WOWs content be dedicated to endgame shit only to then make levels buyable

>>27352
ragdoll physics can be done well, as seen by f.e.a.r. I would even argue that ragdolls physics are superior if done well, as SEEN BY F.E.A.R

"realistic movement" is what is killing modern games. this focus on realism is crippling artistic creativity and shows that modern audiences have less suspension of disbelieve. it's not fun to have to turn left then wait for your legs to pass a bill. thankfully this trend is starting to show it's age with games like callisto protocol

>>27380
>"realistic movement" is what is killing modern games.
You could extend this to all 3D animation, which generally disregards the animation principles devveloped for 2D. You're never going to 1:1 match reality without some crazy Avatar budget (maybe not even then) so you should lean into the style and exaggerate movement to help sell it. It probably wouldn't even be that hard to implement, if you animate based on key poses you can interpolate between them using different functions according to how you want the movement to look.

There's already standard "fade in" and "fade out" styles of motion tweening but you could significantly advance this by just adding in some variables and allowing for numbers beyond the range between one pose and the next. Pic related, some motion tween curves using classic animation principles. At least they could do a first pass this way to get more traditionally animated movements before adjusting and doing secondary animations (or use soft body simulation for it in video games).

>>27380
everyone wants to be the next nostalgia critic and has their brains reddit-wired to demand realism and be on the lookout for "plot holes"

>>27382
Honestly I prefer realistic and grounded gameplay. I’m at a point with games that I just need them to be quiet and slow enough in terms of the pacing and excitement in them that I have space to relax and play however I want in a setting where the mechanics don’t feel completely out of place

>>27386
To be honest there is a fair point being made behind the usual /pol/ bullshit that supposedly morally flawed characters in recent dramatic fiction are just mildly more rulebreaking self-inserts that allow liberals to vicariously live out fantasies of getting in fights with and beating anyone they consider problematic. Having characters in historical settings always defend movements and ideas that would not have had majority support in their time is dumb and even progressive types have questioned the trope on occassion.

>>27415
As long as its not as egregious as the fucking Wolfenstein games.

>>27415
I dunno, I feel like in the case of RDR2 specifically, I don't think the game would be enjoyable if you just got put in the shoes of the average nazi american thirsty for black and native blood.

>>27415
Why would I want to play a game where I play as some evil shitbag. There were people that disagreed with the prevailing morality even in the olden days you know.

>>27415
>vicariously live out fantasies of getting in fights with and beating anyone they consider problematic
That's the point of the game though. Arthur is intentionally written as that kind of guy. He's written to be the ideal anarchist, a dude who can believably live up to the fantasy of slaughtering KKK members by the dozen, but in the end, he dies and the gang falls apart.
The gang is the living embodiment of that kind of liberal vicariousness. They rebel against racism and inequality with uncoordinated violence, but never actually achieve anything. Dutch couches his ideology in American Dream-style libertarianism, which leads to him retreating into sophism once things start going bad. The whole game is a tragedy about how, in real life, the "beating anyone they consider problematic" guy is destined to be crushed by the forces of capital.
Does the game still serve to carry out that fantasy? Sure, but it still goes out of its way to give a lot of commentary about it.

crazy this happened the same week nintendo forced a hacker to pay 30% of his income to them for the rest of his life

Reminder the Pinkertons sued Rockstar for having RDR2 show them as the nasty pieces of shit slave catchers and murderers they are.

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>>17623
Basically pic rel lel

Was chess the Monopoly of feudalism?

https://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/enochian.html
<Chess variants are sometimes created and played in a particular subculture outside the chess community itself. Notable examples of such an origin include Tridimensional Chess, hailing from the world of Star Trek, and Gary Gygax's Dragonchess, an offspring of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing phenomenon. Enochian chess, an interesting variation on Chaturanga for Four Players, also has its origins in a particular subculture, in this case the world of Victorian occultists
Enochian chess, anyone?

>>3302
Lichess has an interactive tutorial
https://lichess.org/learn#/

>>27383
>which is the most likely to help a person successfully evade a police chase by car:
Mario Kart.

>Which is most likely to help a person successfully survive in the wild:
The Forest because you going to run into cannibals at some point who are very hungry.

>>27373
I don't see any evidence of that, unless you make the faulty assumption that "nobody would enjoy RPing as a Nazi unless they were actually a Nazi" which is just as stupid as "Someone playing Farming, Truck Driving, Power Washing etc..Sim either wants to or is capable of/training to do these behaviors as their occupation". Likewise any sort of "Anyone who RPs a cop in GTA Online RP servers, or even a dirty cop, must be in favor of police brutality in real life! Why you would ever take on such a role if you were not an evil person!" nonsense.

I don't want to list the particular server group here that I looked into the community (I am actually inclined to grab GMOD on sale just so I can see how it actually plays out in person and if it differs from what is on the community site) as I don't trust people here not to harass them, but I dont' see anything that suggests its serious "Actual Nazi or Cryptonazi losers", its a very comprehensive RP , including saboteur and resistance factions and a lot of civilian, commercial, and bureaucratic roles even on the Nazi side that are not the kind of thing the usual roles those who seriously support the ideology usually want to take on. You don't see a lot of hardcore Nazis chomping at the bit in order to make Gerhart Dummkopf, a mid level manager at a textiles factory stamping papers and ensuring boxes get loaded to take processed cloth to varying other fabrication plants or something.

Outside of either "Everyone who plays this is a real Nazi!" or "Well, real Nazis will eventually come play and like it therefore we can't have that" equally inaccurate and fallacious rationale, I don't see any reason to be upset about this conceptually

>>27375
It is absolutely exactly the same thing. In both cases someone sees something "PROBLEMATIC AND DANGEROUS" from their perspective that people are having fun PRETENDING to do, and ascribes that either they either adhere to the same ideology in the real world already as who else would pretend to do something "BAD" or that it will be a "corrupting influence" leading them into actual BAD and we just can't take that chance! Everyone's fun must stop to PROTECT _ and after all something BAD really shouldn't be fun in thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>27376
Well my only real exposure to these servers is from Gmod trolling videos, and it just looks like a bunch of teenage losers from that, I admit that's hardly a comprehensive look but still.

>>27377
Ahh okay, yeah that's kind of a selection bias, its a bit like those pushing "lefties dont' know anything" agendas go and find the most obnoxious and ill informed person willing to get on camera at Occupy , or the /r/Antiwork disaster etc

I'm sure that there will be trolls and edgelords and kids who just wanted to play on a server they can dress up in Hugo Boss uniforms etc.. but that doesn't make it justified shutting it down, or eliminate those more mature RP servers with a higher threshold of interaction. Like most moral panics, people will find the most objectionable thing they can hope to push their viewpoint even if it isn't representative. Besides, if the worst thing on the server is a bunch of edgy kids that's no reason to make everyone else pay for it - at most its a moderation issue.

>>27378
I feel conflicted because on the one hand I agree that people should be allowed to do most anything they want that isn't affecting others, but on the other hand… Nazis. Then again I play TNO so can I really criticise?

>>27346
Spell charges make magic feel way too "normal" though. Like you are just using a fancy gun.

>>25837
I would say Julianos is more of a conduit and Magnus and the stars are the real source. Magicka itself is fading out of Aetherius because the holes in its fabric are closing, and if nothing cannot be done about it Magnus will likely remain the only source of magicka aside from the plane of Oblivion, which would leave Daedric magic as alternative.

>>25750
Counter point: the magic system in final fantasy 15 is similar to scroll (making then based off of a item resource), and it was a massive failure.
Turns out restricting your ability to use the spells will just lead you to never use the system and thus use anything else like physical attacks.

A better idea is that magic has a downside.

I think using calories as ammo for magic could be interesting. Use it too much and you'll overheat.

In Arknights, using Arts can cause your oripathy (basically cancer but instead of cells it's crystals that can be used as a power source) to worsen. No mana system in it, just cool downs. But like canonically they gotta take meds to lessen the spread since no cure has been found yet. Doesn't effect gameplay tho.

>>27365
>I think using calories as ammo for magic could be interesting. Use it too much and you'll overheat.
If you ever play Cataclysm: Bright Nights, there are actually magic mods that feed into that, you can get mutations that let you rapidly burn off calories for mana to use for spells. Especially since there is a survival angle to that game, it can make it an interesting tactical choice where you can burn resources for mind bullet daka but really have to scavenge to make up for the lost calories, or limit your magic to your body's natural regeneration and only use it in very limited bursts.

>>27340
You can also just not bloat a game with endless systems that make it hyper exploitable to begin with and just you know, balance the systems that do exist in them.

>>27340
meta was the single unifying force behind what made brood war a timeless top-of-the-list esport for over a decade

>>27340
I can think of three ways of "naturally" balancing out the concept of a gameplay meta
1. extremely good balance that makes everything situational and creates places for all the possible strategies
2. a small enough set of choices so as to reduce the distance between meta and off-meta configurations
3. a big enough (massive) set of choices and exploitable mechanics so that the established meta is always a step behind emergent gameplay and creativity
1 and 2 are easy to understand, good balance so there are no "wrong" choices, and not having that many choices in the first place. the only game that I can think of that has successfully implemented 3 is the dominions saga and some single player roguelikes

>>27340
You could add more randomness to the environment and enemies.
That way a meta build would need to be more diverse, as to facilitate multiple potential playstyles.

One thing that MMORPG games do that encourages meta is ghettoize its gameplay, so the players at one time have to be only focused on doing one task, which means naturally, they are going to optimalise towards it. Leveling, PvE, dueling, large scale PvP, each exist separated from each other, so player never has to make tradeoffs between what they want to be good at at the expense of something else, they just switch to whatever build gives biggest numbers in specific situation.