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I wanna rail Ralsei's sissy goat ass.

Noelle wants to be in a poly lesbian relationship with their childhood friend and their teenage crush

>>27391
it is weird how the cyberpunk aesthetic has shifted from "green" (cool colors, low-poly models) to "orange" (warm colors, cartoonish models). this orange cyberpunk feels like a parody tbh

>>27391
Looks like a mixture of EYE Divine Cybermancy and Cowboy Bebop.
>>27396
To be honest, by this point the genre has been pretty much reduced to a package of aesthetics and tropes for more conventional sci-fi works to parody and adopt. Straightforward and truly dystopian cyberpunk that primarily focuses the themes of alienation and social inequality wrought by a new wave of rapid capitalist industrialization is pretty rare nowadays.

>>27397
>Straightforward and truly dystopian cyberpunk that primarily focuses the themes of alienation and social inequality wrought by a new wave of rapid capitalist industrialization is pretty rare nowadays.
Cause it hits too close to home

>>27396

>it is weird how the cyberpunk aesthetic has shifted from "green" (cool colors, low-poly models) to "orange" (warm colors, cartoonish models). this orange cyberpunk feels like a parody tbh

green/blue (2000s/90s 'the matrix') and orange = 2010s/2020s ex: bladerunner 2049

>>27396
I think they're trying to split the difference between fallout new vegas and cyberpunk aesthetically

>>27563
this thead
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Other than Fear and Hunger, What vidya let's you get raped? aSking fur a fren

>>27562
Nah, video since electronic would include all the niche ones like picrel

>>27565
FEAR 2: Project Origin

why do we call it video conferencing if it's real time

>>27540
They also made deathloop a rougelike castlevania type shooter that did its job of being fun pretty well and even got a perfect from ign in terms of game design and it was pretty fun for me. This game was supposed to be a lot larger but for arkanes development cycle 2 years isn’t gonna cut it

>>27547
I don’t think you realize how hard it is to make AAA games. Outside of marketing budget shenanigans you literally make these games by throwing more people at these projects otherwise you get management issues out of them. Elden ring was developed in 4 years and was under supervision by a high class studio called Bandai Namco and still had issues with content and a boring world. Most modern cod titles including the black ops games take 4-5 years to make but have to be handled by different teams. Tlou2 is a marvel of gaming tech and animation but took nearly a decade to make for only 12 hours of content just do to the sheer manpower and time it took to polish out each and every level on top of working with havok and engine upgrades. I could keep going but you get the point. Games like red fall aren’t games like Celeste, they need time to be fleshed out, alot of time

>>27549
Sorry the campaign is 20-30 hours for tlou2

>>27534
why are western aaa covers so shitty

>>27551
They mostly hastily put these together in the final days of a game's production cycle. In Redfall's case its even worse because the whole thing was hastily put together over the course of like 2 years on a seemingly abysmal budget.

Deathloop was already very bad and now this. Oh well, I liked Arx Fatalis, Dishonored and Prey, but the people that worked on them are probably long gone now.

civ 5, Japan
civ 6, Scythia
their buildings and units aren't the best but i don't give a shit

V: Wu Zetian
VI: idk Trajan I guess

Nuclear Ghandi, for he is the True Posadist of Civilization series.

I remember playing the hell out of the LoTR Two Towers game as a kid and finding it really epic. I thought Isildur's armor looked badass and was so excited when I found out you could unlock him as a playable character. One of my favorite things to do was camp by the pit monster in the forest (Fangorn?) level, kick orcs into it one by one and watch their blood splatter out.

Plenty of anime have video games.

>>27519
What are some good anime-based games you would recommend? Heard the Evangelion ones are pretty good, but haven't played them yet.

>>27518
>50mb gif
are you out of your mind

Depends on the engine. Sometimes it would just be too much work to implement that. There are also often cases where spaces are kept separate because they aren't actually consistent. A lot of the time buildings are bigger on the inside because if they weren't it would be too difficult to move around (often because your movement speed is inappropriate indoors, or because of collision issues) or the buildings would have very large exteriors that would make it more tedious to move around outside.

You could still get around this by having the spaces be separated and putting a portal on the doors (as Valve did a lot in Portal 2), but that is a lot more effort and introduces additional problems.

Probably the smart fix for this is better character movement. Simplest thing would be to change the character behavior depending on whether they are inside vs outside or whether combat is happening, etc. A really good solution might involve a simple AI that recognizes obstacles near the character and steers them away and maybe toward interactable features. Lots of games have adopted a "cinematic" interactivity with physical spaces that characters move through. They are usually "baked-in" in the sense that they have specific preset animations and a limited number of known locations that allow the devs to debug them. However, you could definitely implement a more dynamic version of this, so that for example you have a wide open exterior with features inside of that flagged for specific types of "terrain" and then have various objects flagged for different types of reaction. Furniture and doors could trigger specific interactive behavior using the movement/behavior engine. Hazards could trigger an avoidance behavior, from a basic animation to altering the character's path etc. NPCs could trigger more careful movement weaving between them.

Some AAA games have done these kinds of things to different degrees. Assassin's Creed, Red Dead Redemption, the recent Tomb Raider reboot series… just some examples. But the point here is that you could probably design the movement system so that the characters can move through consistently sized interior spaces. It does pose a problem for action-oriented games, though.

The other really big problem with this is the camera. It's difficult to have a controllable 3rd person camera in an interior space. This isn't limited by the current tech either, because you have to find something that works betweenPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>21975
No
Depends on how the ingame world is designed. In Bethesda games interiors are separated from exterior spaces for the sake of performance while rockstar and naughty dog use camera tricks to hide assets loading between levels and environments

>>27522
Yeah when they fix the infrastructure to population ratio first and make building space efficient cities more rewarding

>>27523
you may seethe, but you know deep inside sim city is dead, and city skylines is the only future left

>>27524
Yeah cuz ea fucking killed it by preventing the modding community from adding any replay ability to the games. Something that didn’t occur to skylines. Outside of that I still occasionally play 4 and love it more than skylines just because of how much more you can build in the base game without as many restraints seen in skylines that tries to hard to be realistic with its roadway system that I personally couldn’t deal with

>>27525
yeah which sucks but what can ya do

>>27523
Babe it's 50 000 population, time for your 3rd hospital and yet another highway entrance

Modern CODs on veteran are piss easy. You just inch forward 2cm, kill all the soldiers you see, then inch forward another 2cm, etc.
COD Veteran campaigns are more like hide and seek than an FPS. It requires no real strategy, just an awareness of where the enemy is coupled with abuse of cover.

>>27459
Not really. One old respawning is infinite and where enemies are is influenced by your companions positions aswell which adds a layer of rng meaning unless your playing a level like mile high club it’s unlikely that youll do well in veteran without reliance on peeking and your marksmanship skills. Cod single player content doesn’t play like doom, you have to play a lot more carefully and prioritize your aim and your position relative to the bots a lot more than you would in a game like ultra kill where projectiles are slow enough to be dodgeable

>>27445
Waw has the hardest campaing if u think you got what it takes, go for it

>violence is expensive
Very rarely does violence on a mass scale come with benevolent intentions within these titles and throughout far cry 2
<and I mean far cry 2 I wrote 3 as a typo
and hotline Miami you can see how many resources are used up just to get by and commit these Far cry 2s gameplay is as violent as it is exhausting, sprinting is a limited action, ammo on higher difficulties is scarce enough that you’ll frequently run out, guns break in the middle of combat or jam before you can kill anything, you’ll frequently die either from gunfire or from disease all just to take down one man. In between these sessions of killing the player has opportunities to save themselves by gaining medicine through protecting refugees, taking moments to be with their companions in safe houses and ceasefire zones away from conflict. thus the developers showcase how much commitment is involved in making violent decisions through the level of adversity the player endured through the core elements of gameplay and show how many opportunities for peace are formed through this level of commitment by refugee interactions, so much so that by taking the chance to free refugees instead of trying to continue fighting against either ingame faction for their behaviours the player character is granted a new opportunity to start over in life and has granted thousands a chance to see peace.

Hotline Miami does this in a similar fashion. The fast paced action and equally paced deaths can lead to intense gameplay that may leave players feeling more exhausted than satisfied once a level is complete. Watching companions die for each playable character in the two games and recognizing when opportunity’s they had to start anew we’re stripped for seeking peace at the wrong time and wrong places wether it be the thug that was murdered by the fans, the biker whom failed to stop the bombs or jacket for failing to protect his lover can showcase an opposite view that far cry 2 did. Showing how violence isn’t just commital to one’s life as an action but a part of life that has to be addressed a with a level of responsibility lest it takes control over one’s life in ways they wouldn’t want.

>>27465
>the disposition of an individual isn’t tied to their violent tendencies
Thanks to the massive effort by naughty dog and debating towards storytelling this idea is explored through to such detail I couldn’t explain all this in a conventional amount of time in this post. But I’ll do what I can.

Hotline Miami 1 tells us a lot about this concept just off with jacket. The man kills not because he’s loved anyone, or because his life is in any immediate danger(hitherto when the calls start arriving). Simply he calls out of patriotism for the USA and seeks to channel his passion for the country through the often brutal murders of whatever his advisors consider to be enemies, communists, Russians, maybe even troops outside of the countries listed at any point would be included. You can see this aspect of him clearly through how during the murder of a homeless man next to one of his missions he shows visible disgust unable to rationalize his actions or use factionalism as a tool to justify his frustration. His disposition doesn’t change ingame until his girlfriend is seen dead upon rejecting a call, changing his character between each mission to reject violence and his patriotism for the USA as time passes only seeking to be reunited with those who were once with him like beard and isolation away from murder. Ultimately this never happens and by the end he finds little meaning in life once the mafias completely stopped and soon lands himself in prison with little motivation to free himself or find any reason to seek solace in what he’s done.

For the case of Ellie we see a separate scenario where her character was already predisposed to violence. Ellie is a violent person, an aspect of her existing as a sign of her upbringing, in the beginning she would kill and would kill frequently people and infected alike for any reason. In the sequel this aspect of her only amplified her problems and more time is spent acknowledging and exploring how she copes with this as time passes. At the start of part 2 and the entirety of part 1 she openly celebrates violence, complimenting her loved ones for their abilities in killing and her own, but by the murder of Nora she changes. Her passion for killing manifests into an endeavour for tranquility of the situation she was in upon realization of why Joel had conflPost too long. Click here to view the full text.