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Morality is a spook or something.

i dont think they have crippling debt, if it's anything like the US military they were probably pretty posh to begin with: since piloting has a high barrier of entry, then pilots are usually people who come from well-off families who can afford to dedicate themselves to the entire process. so it is kind of an "art-imitates-life" thing – fox withdrew from corneria's army and even convinced slippy to do so as well, to start his own career in the private market, which is kind of what happens in the US: fighter jet pilots are extremely scarce because they often leave for PMCs or commercial airlines (which strained the US bombing operations in iran). this scarcity seems to be the case for corneria's army as well, since general pepper is desperate to fill in the ranks with extremely expensive mercenaries. if anything fox is a ruthless businessman, deliberately mooching off corneria's army after receiving training from them, and then double dipping by charging them for the favor of filling in corneria's ranks, fully knowing that corneria's defense army is lacking in fighter pilots. if pepper wasn't an imbecile, he would lock his ass up and then make it punishable to defect from the army.

Playing Stalker Anomaly because Stalker 2 is apparently anti-soviet and piece of shit in general

>>45195
I played it for the first time about 6 months ago. Got the "bad" ending and was then too lazy to go back and keep playing for the other endings. It felt like a weird cross between Half Life 1 and Fallout 3. It was very linear, but also kind of "open world." There's factions but it's super easy to permanently piss them off. Duty was on my ass every time I was in the Bar area and I had to save scum and keep killing them until there was a mountain of corpses outside the bar. I didn't like all the backtracking to do side quests, which for me is the main thing I usually do in games like this. I did like the realism of the firefights which was ahead of its time. Guns felt correctly inaccurate from a distance and taking out random unaligned stalkers in their little hideouts was riveting. The anomalies were sometimes interesting but usually really annoying. I found myself selling the artifacts instead of wearing them, because I preferred to have a lot of guns and health packs.

>>47430
You probably might want to skip Clear Sky if you didn't totally fall in love with the first game, but Call of Pripyat improves upon SoC in almost every aspect, I swear. The basic idea of the game and mostly the engine is the same of course.

While I find your analysis of the game pretty much accurate, I don't even know why but I think STALKER is my favorite game series ever? I've spent 140 hours in SoC alone. I think it's the atmosphere. And mods make the games more open-world so you can waste away days playing

>>47412
Stalker 2 is just trying to ape Metro instead of actually embracing what was good about Stalker

no one knows about this indie game, OP

Portal 2.

Portal had an ominous atmosphere with Aperture Science largely being a mystery, with it being uncertain whether they were as unethical as the test chambers would suggest or whether it's a result of GlaDOS taking over.
Portal 2 completely destroys that mystery by repeatedly insisting upon itself that Aperture Science was extremely unethical.. but only out of stupidity, then Valve makes Aperture Science a self-insert for their 9001 VR tech demos.

I get they weren't going to get through a much longer game without some kind of story that elaborates on Aperture Science, but the writers made every single aspect of Aperture Science goofy and wacky and lol robots ftw.

And then they had the barefaced cheek, the fucking bollocks, to complain that "the cake is a lie" was overdone, unfunny and had to be excluded from their wackiness.

>>47382
half life 2 no, but definitely the episodes and alyx

All Final Fantasy games. I haven't played a single one which ddn't have a totally ridiculous story. All Persona games too for that matter. 200 fucking hours of high school cringe dialogue simulaton stuffed with the most boring combat system ever made by any human being.
I demand total jap game dev death NOW

VA-11HALLA, Logic Bombs, Underrail, Colony Ship, Age of decadence, anything made by a /v/irgin.

>>46802
Wtf is "save rooms irl"

bazinga

>>47402
Decoration style with emphasis on candles, wooden crates and old-timey typewriters. Usually soothing background music is listened while drinking red cocktails or taking a nap in such spaces.

>>47399
I can see how "Kishotenketsu" is pretentious if you just mean to say a "story without a villain". The "engine grain" refers to how games made in the same engine tend to look similar, especially if devs don't fiddle much with the defaults, and I think it's an OK word. One must have a super-human sensing for when people are being pretentious if that word triggers something, though I can imagine such a person existing. But "invisible walls" is just self-explanatory. And "sound chip", wtf?

>>47420
doesn't 'sound chip' refer to older consoles that had a dedicated sound card, like the sega genesis' yamaha ym2612?

>>46244
I'm honestly just waiting for the next Sonic game, there's nothing else that really hyped me in the last 1 or 2 years.

gta 6, persona 6, cassette beasts 2002, Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave

>>46734

those are not my games, those are just the top page games with most mods in Nexus :T

>>46736

i remember being really hyped for Skyrim in 2011
then playing it in 2016 and being like "this is just a frozen desert :T"

then i installed a shit ton of sex mods and it was when i realized that i didn't like having sex in videogames, til i started playing as a woman named, you guessed it; "lilith"
but it wasn't as immersive, so i casually tricked my parents into telling me the name i would've had if i had been born a cis female.

And it was "Sabina", and i loved it so much i just legally changed it to it :)

Gears E-Day looks fun

>>47130
DELTARUNE CHAPTER 6!!!!!!!!

anyone here play napoleonic wars
if you see a faggot by the name of rice lord, thats me. And no i dont feel bad smacking you with dragoons

why does everyone in this mod's loading screen looks like they want to die?

>>47298
No anime

>>47298
This is either a painting of the middle ages or something heavily inspired by this, and European medieval painters were not good at faces in general. It's a question for art historians really.

I wish I could play even bigger battles in this.

Bro, in fable 3 you essentially have to become a landlord or you cannot get all your citizens to survive.
Half the damn game is landlord sim.

This looks like Fable 1 if it got fed through an AI filter.

Peter Molyneux is the king of hacks, and those people are always smarmy capitalists promising the world only to go away with money bags while the cucksumers are left empty except for disappointment. It completely makes sense that this Fable is like that because he gave that degenerate DNA to the game. Remember that "Curiosity: What's Inside The Cube" shit was a huge scam.

>>47219

I interpret it as you need to nationalize the land to finance your military defense without otherwise fucking over society.

Still, it would have been much better if the game operated with real resources & industrialization & militarization were real issues with tradeoffs (including needing to crush at a few large landowners & capitalists to get ahead without fucking over the majority of the population too much).

Video games are bourgeois. S-poster confirmed LARPer for not launching a Protracted People's War in Wales. S poster is revisionist and class collaborationist and probably fascist and dengist as well.

>>46719
Yeah, nothing wrong with pirating unless you really wanna support the devs, the only downside is if you wanna do co-op or multiplayer, usually cracked games fuck that up.

Fuck them, pirate the hell out of the game. I mean, i buy stuff out of Steam. But if it was 24-27% of my salary, i would think "y'know, these fuckers want to rob the shit out of me". By the way, i'm sorry your salary is that low, you're not even living anymore, you're surviving or basically paying to breathe.

I have not paid for a singleplayer game in years

Yes but I played pirated Death Stranding 2 after playing a legit version of the first one and I stopped after the prologue because I realized the connection with other players was important to me narratively and not just a gimmick, so I'll wait until a hard discount for this particular game. But piracy is the way.

First of all, pirate all you want. I pirated games my entire childhood, and now that I have a job and a disposable income, I'm filling in my catalogue with games I loved as a little boy.

Second of all, there are tons of good games you can get for very, very cheap. Check out someplace like https://www.cheapshark.com/

Looking at it at the moment of writing, I can see you can get Metro 2033 for 99 cents, Dishonored for $1.99, Homeworld for $3.49, Frostpunk for 3 bucks. These are all amazing games available at a 90% discount. Have you played literally every good game of yesteryear? I doubt it.

But you don't have to do that. You can just pirate, it's literally fine.