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so is vic 3 finally dead. Looking at the player count, things aint looking good

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I did not care for it.

The gameplay loop is fun and the graphics are cool enough; the story and Borderlands-tier dialogue aren't.

Body is still too short or empty, are you kidding me? What more do you want me to write here? I don't have anything else to say. Is this long enough? Can I just submit this post already? Come on, man.

Can anyone give me advice on how to programme a game? For my entire life I have been completely repulsed by anything STEM and I could not learn Python even when I was in a programmer friend group growing up. I am autistic in a way where I can't really understand this stuff at all. On top of this, I am completely incapable of being an artist, I tried at school but I could never learn things like perspective.

Is there any way I could try making a game? I have done modding before but I only had to mess with a little bit of code there which the community basically told me what to do, I didn't understand the code I just changed it (slightly). I am 100% sure I could make a great game and I have the perseverence to see it through, I just can't actually do the technical parts of it.

Tbh I don't understand why so many people make video games instead of books, because its so much easier to write a book, all you have to do is sit down and write, while for a video game you have to learn all this weird shit basically that I am too retarded for.

I can’t even blame blizzards retail team for ts no more man. Gear scaling in wow since burning crusade has always been pretty bad given that unlike morrowind or RuneScape 2 there aren’t character build restrictions (like class, stats, or race) preventing you from equipping certain gear. That mechanic exists to make sure that players prioritize getting an actual build and playstyle rather than trying to do everything. It’s not like the devs haven’t tried to make the gear scaling more like what’s in morrowind and less like what’s in diablo (not diablo 1, but 2 and up), but most attempts failed.
What sucks is that TWW and dragon flight have absurdly fast levelling meaning players can expect to run into issues with how dry the base games roleplaying feel is way earlier if they’re new or returning and get rushed into the convoluted mess that is modern gear scaling way earlier. Is this blizzards fault? No. Ignoring endgame content, the base game since classic has never been roleplaying heavy. Early wow relied mostly on the social aspect of the game and still does for classic to keep players engaged. The actual questing and exploration mechanics have been shallow for the longest time unlike in morrowind or ocarina of time, and fixing those aspects of gameplay would mean having to completely rebuild the game plus every expansion.

hahahahahaha, what the fuck is this

https://xcancel.com/mattshumer_/status/1981406315693187430#m

this is what's responsible for 90% of GDP growth in the US economy right now

I feel like we need to discuss why MMOs as a genre were never good, but how they were also fucking amazing. This is all due to when MMOs became a thing.
Most if not all MMOs people actually care about were from the early 2000s. They were all pushing the boundaries of capitalism over video games with either a subscription or whatever the hell is wrong with the korean industry, but, and I must stress this, but…they came out during the ONLY MOMENT they would've been successful.
They were social spaces, social WORLDS in fact, they were by definition larping sims. In an era where that was still a new thing. From 2003-2012, MMOs had THIS as their main wow factor. This is also their only staying power in media ABOUT video games, their sense of community and ability to break barriers…of course, all those external pieces of media also made it about how MMO players were losers, but nontheless, that was why they became a genre.
After social media became a permanent staple of human life, MMOs had practically no point anymore. Most of them were already garbage gameplay wise. This is why we all want classic wow, or classic maple, or the return of wonderking (which, by the way, looks like actual garbage, to my dismay).
We didn't "grow out" of MMOs, that is what idiots with no argument say to shut you up, the WORLD outgrew MMOs, and sadly, we have been conditioned to not be impressed or enamoured.
>what the fuck are you saying OP??
I'm saying what I mean, anon. Maybe I was groomed by this industry to endure capitalism, but DAMN IT, there was a time talking to someone as your personal chibi avatar was cool and FUN! Now it's a fucking bore, I cannot understand why anyone would play an MMO in 2025, almost all of them are bad wow clones.

Hosting a New Vegas Themed game jam this month. Going to be hosting a new game jam every month going forward, so this thread is for that!

Come join: https://itch.io/jam/new-vegas-jam

Watching a playthrough of MGS Delta reminded me what a poor writer Hideo Kojima is.

>uhm acktually he wasn‘t involved in making the gaym
It‘s a remake that kept the same story.

Kojima‘s shortcomings as a story writer are that he uses way too much exposition. Scene after scene of giving explicit and longwinded speeches about what is happening in the world. It’s laborious to pay attention to everything and you forget the shit anyways. Which leads me to the next problem.

His endless world building. He keeps introducing new layers, groups, conflicts and conspiracies that simply overwhelm the audience. More world building is only desired if it‘s actually interesting but Kojima seems to simply assume that it makes his stories more intriguing when in actuality he is just confusing his audience and makes them frustrated if they even cared to pay attention.

Another problem is that he adds plot twist after plot twist after plot twist, seemingly for the same reason that he believes it makes his stories more intriguing. In retrospect it‘s funny how unphased every plot twist has left me. There was no built up to make me invested in whatever has been overturned.
>Oh, the shaggy dogs weren‘t actually double spies but tripple spies for the cyber homolords? Damn.. anyways

It‘s odd to me he has gotten so successful. Don‘t get me wrong I actually like the MGS series, but it‘s selling points for me have been Kojima‘s creativity and the gameplay being somewhat unique. It has character. But the writing is awful.

i need good psp and ps1 games recommendations, i haven't played much ps1 games tho so. yeah














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