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>>12059
Hidden Agenda 1988

I have noticed recently that graphic fanboys have been making a comeback. Especially started with the new console meme and the Cyberpunk copium. Most of the excuses for bad games are just about look at the pretty pictures. What happened? I thought this kind of gay corporate shills got phased out by the gameplay focused direction a few years back.

>>12080
The industry will always be (or at least seem) louder than the passionate crowds.

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2021/09/07/dolphin-progress-report-august-2021/
Cool debugging?

>>12057
The paper Mario series have been one of my most fond memories with games.

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>>12091
nice ass

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t. leftcum flag

Elves being a weak/dying/going extinct/ancient race being displaced by humanity is the most generic fantasy trope there is.

Examples:
Lord of the Rings
Warhammer 40k
TES
Dragon Age
Witcher

There's hundreds more examples but I just picked some recent ones.

>>12066
For a decently long while in TES there was a pan-human alliance which threw itself against every elfen force that opposed them so you can chalk up every elf force except for the Falmer and Lefthand Elves.

The Falmer were defeated in a war of attrition, being a low-density population inhabiting Skyrim they were basically unprepared for the mass-migration of fuckangry Atmorans, who mind had the favor of actual dragons on their side as well.

The Lefthand elves are weird, they are implied to be dimensional-hoppers in some sources so they may as well have just fucked off as they might've been genocided.

Orcs were said to have not have any kind of central leadership until the end of Daggerfall, so for the most part Orc tribes were little better than buff goblins.

Ayleids were destroyed by a coalition of Cryods (the pre-Imperials) and Nedes (the pre-Nords) working together, plus a good number of sympathetic Bosmer as well. The Ayleids were desperately outnumbered and without their slave-economy they could not produce magical constructs to help defend themselves because they relied on soul gems from their slaves to power them. Not to mention by the midpoint of the war a load of Ayleid lords turned traitor and supported the humans anyways.

>Bretons, being the weakest of all due to mixture with Elves, only massacres Orcs from time to time
This one is a bit less clear-cut because the Bretons were initially the slaves of the Altmer that lived in the region, but since they didn't enforce the blood-purity shit of the Summerset Isles and they eventually freed all of their slaves they freely intermingled and ended up producing an entirely new race with time. There is still a few island chains in and around High Rock which is more Altmer than Breton, but they are considered part of the Breton people anyways because of their shared ties.

The Dwemer didn't get eradicated as much as… fucked off? Were completely erased from history by a vengeful god? We're still not entirely sure. They made a giant brass artificial god in the process, whatever happened to them.
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>>11335
if you mean a mixture of stretagy & shooter you should take a look at the arma/ofp cti mods for inspiration (and fun)

Have any of you ever just fucked around with game assets? Having previously worked in a job that used game engines, I can confirm the pleasure that can be achieved by spawning a few thousand instances of an asset and raising it a mile in the air.

>>12014
I've never played Warcraft, but are you assuming the game is the same size?
Because it's I assume possible for one professional graphics designer to make a tiny game with that same graphics quality, which would be far, far easier than a full game with that quality. One half is the artistic skill and the other half is doing it over and over again which takes time and motivation.
I'm skipping over the actual gameplay stuff and graphics engine stuff because I'm assuming a game engine would work.

>>12015
yeah like a similar level fo 3d graphics to the early 2000s in polygon count or w/e or better, but a smaller scale game.

What do you recommend for making fighting games?

I love F-Zero GX

Did they ever manage to fix the glaring control flaws in DKC Returns?

>>8694
Toki return to monke. Toki save woman.

>>8694
>monke game thread
>Not a single post about the greatest TD game series ever
Pathetic display. And I thought this board had taste.

Monkey Mischief

>>9188
connected to*

>>9188
How tho?brocialismBrocialism

>>2314
I finished this game for the first time a week or so ago, it was really great, played through with my BF and enjoyed it thoroughly.

I can only emphasise the other good stuff people have said in this topic about it, I will say that I was expecting there to be more combat (since there's pretty much none) but I'm not disappointed in what ended up happening. I found the bit with the phasmid at the end to be really beautiful, also.

>>6151
Blu and Redd Mann?!

Got into TBC Classic recently, EU Zandalar Tribe, Horde. Played in Classic, so I just finished going through 60-70. Honestly most kino RPG gameplay progression I have seen, possibly ever. Hilariously TBC story was considered dogshit because it fucked up the big epic storylines by character assasinating all of WC3 cast, but in the down-to-earth world story it was the best the game ever was. World felt big, interconected and believable. Factions felt like real unlike the faction wide reputation factions in nu-wow.

Honestly nu-wow is a ship of Thesius. There is no single thing that ruins it, or makes it so bad when compared to say TBC. Yea world is fucked now in SL, but I can see TBC that has this same design in terms of questing but still remains good in other parts. The new loot system that basically invalidates everything each tier could work in TBC wothout ruining much as well. Same with raidfinder. Same with crossrealm. Same with store mounts. Same with tmog. Same with items being boring turds. Same with idiotic end game systems. Same with new talents. Same with streamlined proffesions. But if you drop all of that shit at once it just completely breaks the experiance. I honestly don't know if live can ever recover. One thing I believe should be prio number one is to beef up the world: break the lazy design where all zones are seperate, add backtracking between various zones, add actual group content, fix up reps to not be so isolated, add in rewarding gear that competes as being prebis for heroics (or at least normals) in raids, hell, add in MoP challange modes as seperate thing from M+ and lock them with an attunement, and by god Jack, kill that fucking retarded WQ system and bring back proper dailies.

>>11951
im thinking of playing classic TBC the thing is I feel like i'll be really behind in terms of gear now that its been out for how long

>>12010
It was only out for summer and Blizzard slacked off on releasing P2, which will come in 2 weeks now. Personally I srarted a few weeks back and already got my character some respectable gear for raiding, mostly because pre-raid items are possible to aquire while leveling and there are some good easy to get options out there. Also Karazahn is easy and there are pugs for Mag and Gruul, so the gear isn't that painful to get, only if you are really trying to get full bis.

Everything I don't like is woke SJW: An internet guide to Ch*d discussions

>>11995
nu

>>11972
vro stop playing games designed for the undeveloped minds of children

Here's your hardcore street gang bro

>>12006
Based, unironically love the WD2 vibe