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The problem with procedurally generating textures in order to make them more distinct is the same problem as just having a lot of unique textures hand-crafted or sourced from photography or something. You still end up needing to store a large amount of texture files to keep things consistent. You might be able to get around this is you use a random seed type of system, so that you don't have to store the textures in the game files, but you still have to store them in system memory when you load a scene unless you have a way to instantiate the procedural textures at render time.

>>28030
Good point.

>>28030
This would never work. There’s a reason for why tlou2 and mw2 had such freakishly large file sizes. Just look at the textures for objects not related to the terrain

>>27769
Story of seasons is old harvest moon.

>>27770
Yeah, and natsume, being the original localization team for the series kept the name "harvest moon" and made their own shit.
None of the harvest moon games since 2014 are worth a shit.
story of seasons at least remade the goat, friends of mineral town

>>27771
Then you should read my post again, i said that story of seasons is pretty bad for a long time, and not that the new harvest moon games are bad (even though they are pretty bad aswell).

The last good story of season game was a new beginning, and that was already a massive downgrade from hero of leaf valley

>>27768
This is why the creator of Stardew Valley made that game, OG Harvest Moon is still a banger and needed a proper remake/spiritual successor.

Stardew is the superior kulak harem isekai

>>27984
fuck

I lost 40 hours on my 80+ hour Etrian Odyssey 4 save where I'd already beaten the game since I was an idiot and deleted my most recent backup by accident and the closest one before that was halfway through the game. I wouldn't mind replaying it to complete it again but fuck it if I'm going through Golden Lair again.

When I was a kid my brother overwrote my Black & White save where I was on the final level, which was probably 30-40 hours of playtime. In KOTOR 2 I got that Nar Shaddaa bug that softlocks the game, I didn't have any backups from before reaching the planet and got so pissed I didn't pick up the game again for another couple years. Recently in Kenshi I lost a save I'd put more than a hundred hours into because of a weird outpost assault bug that reliably crashed the game even after disabling mods and importing. I was basically done with the game so it wasn't too bad.

>>27977 it runs well on my system, and i think it should run well on most systems, because the visual presentation is technically very simple, although very pretty artistically. i recommend that you get it even if ur pc only manages 30 fps or less, because it doesn't really require fast reaction times, & i was really enjoying my time until my save got yoinked (thanks obama)


>>27980 jesus christ, that sucks

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When I am done playing a game I make a point to delete the save data. It helps remove any incentive to spend more time playing it when I could do something else, and it makes me feel like God deleting the universe and everything in it.

Favorite racing game: Mario Kart 8
Favorite action game: Sekiro
Favorite adventure game: Breath of the Wild
Favorite shooter: Half Life 2
Favorite RPG: Persona 5
Favorite puzzle game: Portal 2

>>27791
hi data mining person, please tell to your bosses that I don't want another disco elysium or the witcher saga. stop wasting money writing scripts and stories: I consciously refuse to read game dialogs. and no, adding more rails to your rail adventure games doesn't make them open world. come up with some actual game mechanics with emergent gameplay potential and I might consider spending money on your product

>>27988
Greetings customer, might I suggest Battle Brothers or Wartales? They are open world tactical RPGs, in which you manage a group of mercenaries in a low-fantasy medieval world, taking various contracts and building your reputation with factions, exploring, fighting or trading in order to lead your company to wealth and glory. Both games are critically acclaimed and available on Steam and GOG store.

>>27990
battle brothers also has a dynamic economy

>>27996
A delightful game, but I never really managed to get into it. The company size is at fault, at the beginning you grow attached to your brothers, getting levels and equipment for them is exciting, but when you have 15 guys micromanaging them is just tedious.

>>27684
IDK about that, mostly saw people praising his quest line, which is one of the better ones in the game. Anyhow, I think the main story is pretty mediocre, but that's pretty similar to the books themselves, the source material is not all that great outside of the two short stories collections, which weren't focused on Ciri that much.

There's not much I can say about this game that hasn't already been said over the years. I got a mild interest in metal gear playing rising as a teen but I wasn't driven to go play the rest of the games until I saw the 2013 E3 trailer for phantom pain, and it looked so cool to me that I saved up for the legacy collection for ps3 and played through the mainline series and PW a few months before TPP released.

I liked the game the first several hours I played but fell out of it halfway through when I realized how bland the environments and mission design were. The game gives you a ton of options and the most effective one will always be shooting soldiers with a tranq and then launching them with a fulton so they're gone for good without having to kill them. There's hardly any The cost of making weapons started to rear its head and I would do shit like leave my ps3 on while I was at school (side ops missions you sent soldiers on took IRL time too now that I remember) because a gun took 9 IRL hours to make. FOBs felt half assed and MGO3 was fun for a day until they patched all the busted shit and it became a bland, both made me wish they just axed both of them during development and implemented coop instead like in PW. The story's significance to the overall plot of the series is hilarious, especially with how the marketing was hyping it up as the final thread to everything.

>>27695
MGS5 is in my top 10 games of all time for sure, in terms of fun the gameplay is unparalleled for me. I do like MGS1 and 3 too and somewhat like 2, never cared for 4 or PW.

Well, I just finished Metro: Last Light since Steam was giving it free (and since I read 2033 a long time ago I knew it to be written by the scum that is a liberal russian). So yeah, we did it guys! The base is secured and the reds are dead! So full of anger they are that they are red!
The game played itself apart from the beasts that torn you up if you didn't buy shotgun shells. And sadly Beria 2.0 loses in both endings.
How to say it? Apart from the obvious white russian adjacent propaganda (insert Trotsky as a demon a top a mountain of skeletons kind) it is slow but decent 6/10 (I would have given it a 7 but seeing the old -maybe it was a mania in games from its time- walk through ventilations and hear everything in exposition trope tired me by the 3rd time it happened)

>>27927
AAA
And I miss the second most important thing that made me just be zombie in the ending!!
>Miller kept opening the doors of the ancient bunker and kept finding more bioweapons instead of supplies
What the hell were you expecting retard! That a secret russian/soviet bunker lab is going to be a bread stand!
Didn't someone knew for that goverment they were working for!
The writing men, the writing. I can only seem to think that the writer put a or his gooditooshoeness in "Miller for making it seem like the honest man whom he intends the prota and reader/player to intend to be.

That's what happens when your franchise is built around characters killing each other. Then you realize fans want to play as the classic characters and have to think of the ways of not letting them stay dead.

>>27837
Except the original MK timeline went through 7 main games without any of this shit.

>>27844
The story was already retarded as fuck due to all the deaths, they just resorted to regular resurrections instead of multiverse type shit.

Story? I just want to kick my family members ass until they quit.

>>27854
Finally someone understands mortal kombat

>dude revenge is bad. it's just a vicious cycle that destroys lives
>also you are stupid if you don't like a character who's introduced taking revenge against the protagonists and destroying their lives
such writing
many theme
wow

>>27847
That's because Cuckmann is a retarded writer. I can write a better script on toilet paper in 5 minutes than that hack.

Here's a plot outline I thought up in 5 minutes on how I would fix TLOU2:

Abby:
>Still part of the Fireflies
>The Fireflies are still active but maintaining a much-reduced presence after the events of the first game. Their goal is still to find a cure, but Abby's personal group of Fireflies also desires revenge for what Joel did to the hospital outpost - this revenge mission is totally unsanctioned, and the Firefly higher ups are unaware of Abby's group’s real objective
>The Fireflies, realizing the dangers and the high casualty rates that come from maintaining large standing outposts after Joel's attack, have gone back to their guerilla roots and reorganized themselves into an pseudo-intelligence network with many hidden cells that can act independently, and have sent infiltrators into multiple other towns and factions such as the WLF and the Seraphites in order to keep tabs on everyone so that they can continue to try to search for and to kidnap immune candidates to further their research, in addition to the side benefit of receiving a pre-emptive heads up in case anyone else wants to attack them like Joel did
>Abby has successfully infiltrated into Jackson and is keeping tabs on Ellie and Joel by the start of the game
>Her cover story is claiming to be a defector from WLF (which will be true as her original assignment was to infiltrate the WLF – not Jackson, which the Fireflies have been ordered to stay away from for fear of provoking another Joel rampage or larger attack) warning Jackson about the WLF's expansionist ambitions and desire to eventually control all of what used to be the United States (which will be false as in this story they will be isolationists instead of yet another generic power-hungry military group)
>Abby will be constantly urging Tommy, Maria, and any other Jackson leaders to send scouting missions led by her to Seattle, the HQ of WLF (as she knows the locale and can keep everyone relatively "safe") so that Jackson can keep tabs on and receive an early warning if the WLF decides to attack Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

N one in this thread is realizing that nobody actually apologized. Abby left Ellie alive twice not because she wanted her alive but out of exhaustion and wanting to leave to somewhere else with the fireflies with lev
Ellie didn’t give up on killing Abby twice because she forgave her for anything. She got exhausted off her own violence and was already dealing with too much going on in Jackson to see killing Abby while she’s in possession of a child as worthwhile

>>27851
>giving up on vengeance because you are le tired
points for originality in this interpretation lol

>>27852
Didn’t she also get beaten to near death and told to not come after again by both Abby and her wife Dina for her own health?

>>27838
Awful story and morality system though.
>"Look all these fun items and abilities you have! Btw if you use them you get shit ending."
>"We really want player to think about moral implication of their actions, the destructiveness of violence and toll it takes on them and the world around them, so if you kill enemies you get shit ending. Also lets portray every enemy in the game as a puppy-kicking psycho devoid of any redeeming qualities."
>"Hey, our story about being betrayed and now having to enact vengeance while protecting young queen ran out halfway through the game, what should we do?" "Hm, how about our character gets betrayed and now has to enact vengeance while protecting young queen?"
>"Should we in any way address all those interesting parts of our setting, the magic, the witches, occultism, mystical entities?" "NO"

>>27840
agreed, the 'non lethal to get the good ending' craze, when the people you're killing are evil fucks, is retarded

It's just you creating more chaos when using lethal methods. It's not good/bad. Non lethal is a more restrained approach, in some cases it's even more brutal, like sending that lady away with a weirdo. (She ends up poisoning him or something). People are being too bitchmade about this system, even if it's far from perfect.

>>27840
>>27841
It makes perfect sense.
>Killing more guards, aristocrats, officials, etc. increases chaos, crime, and confusion as the state collapses from lack of personnel
>Plague speeds up even further when you've decapitated and destroyed 90% of the security apparatus in the local area
>Demoralization and complete anarchy spread

That's why going full murder hobo in the Daud DLC is so much fun because unlike Corvo your character is not concerned about broader society and you can use all the fun stuff because hey it's not like you cared about anyone anyways.

>>27843
Also, the devs are most likely libs who think "bloody revolution bad". Like that boatman who bitches at you when dropping you off in the last mission. Just kill that old faggot, enjoy the chaos.