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Roleplaying game developers need to force players to start walking at a normal pace again. There is no greater feeling of immersion created than by simply walking through the barren wastes of the mojave man with your sniper ready for any caravan or raider passing by.

For those of you who don’t know, ever since the frontier mod launched, new Vegas has gotten many map expansions. Most of the mods I’m going to list expand the games default map:
NV interiors project
NV interiors project remastered
Freeside interiors
Open Mojave
<as the names imply, these mods add new interiors to the game world and they integrate entire locations to the base game world seemlessly respectively.
Nova Arizona expansion
<effectively doubles the size of the base map by making the eastern portion traversabke with new quests
Dry wells
<another legion expansion mod that makes the northern part of the map accessible with new quests
Long 15 before the remaster
<made in 2010s. Allows you to explore the far wests without needing to complete lonesome road

The new expansion is going to add a brand new location to the Mojave wastes. Now you get to do NCR quests in it. The community has been developing the mod for years, and I’ve seen a lot of good stuff come out of it. New Vegas almost feels finished with this new expansion.

What did you do to engage in class antagonism today?

I told someone to kill themselves for having the new $500 dollar Ahri skin in League of Legends and got banned.

The body was too short or empty.

Every fantasy game their in almost makes these creatures as needlessly posh and obnoxious as possible. Only some elf tribes in wow and tes allow elves to bare any semblance of originality. All the other elves exist as greenskin knock offs like in the Harry Potter series or the Victorian ideal of what British people are supposed to be like.

Elf weapons are always the most disgustingly parsimonious and needlessly elegant tools ever. You can tell the concept authors just had to tell the players “oh yeah, these guys are just so much better than everyone else for using knives and slim bows instead of massive clubs and blades like all the other races.” That garbage comes off as so overly sanitizing that it can feel insulting to all the other cool factions.

Also the thalmor were not persecuted enough.

What is this franchise about?
Can anyone recommend a good analysis?
I have tried a few but games are pretty intellectually stunted. I have a hunch that Simulation and Simulacra (and maybe Society of the Spectacle in some ways) was some kind of inspiration especially in MGS2 on the themes about truth and perception, but i have never seen anything related making this connection (having said that modern google and DDG are stunted in depth as search engines. google-fu is dead)
In MGSV how much of the game was real and how much of it was perceived? Was it essentially a subtler reenactment of MGS2 in which you are nothing but a weapon directed by others?
Is MGSV What happens to then Venom Snake a foreshadowing of what happens to him as Grey Fox later in his life and the inevitable complete breakdown through loss of who he is, every identity implanted in him to make him nothing but the perfect soldier.
Did Huey really do all of those things, but most specifically, the betrayals of diamond dogs intentionally or were we presented information in a way that created his guilt? He was after all the only person questioning you were not the man everybody is reinforcing you to be, that would be reason enough for him to need to be gone, he directly states that you are not the snake he new and the nature of truth on mother base multiple times, humorously with the dog that is clearly a wolf. Also the same kind of anger in the soldiers is fomented against Quiet in the act before, which is shown as to be based in irrationality and in-group/outsider dynamics. Is what happens to Huey a copy of that?
1984 is heavily referenced in MGSV, in any analogy that can be made who is roughly analogous to who when it comes to characters?

These are just things worth exploring, I don't holds strongly to any of these suppositions. So don't debate-mode come at me plz.




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I’m playing far cry 2 with redux+ realism and I’m amazed by the level of immersion and sense of control I have over my time with it. The mod fully disables all in-game features to assist the players availing to navigate the map meaning your paper map and some screens showcasing your location is all you get to figure out where to go. I’ve navigated my way through several missions off my own accord, having to learn to be patient with outposts, run the fuck away from anything that looks like trouble and fight with barely any ammo is such a unique experience you can’t create in so many games. The world itself even without mods is beautiful and every hour I spend playing makes me feel like I’m genuinely apart of it, something you wouldn’t typically get from a non roleplaying game.

Enough of the doom and gloom, what games do you consider a credit to the shitstorm that is modern AAA gaming? Only the games that were released in the past five years count.

Also name your favorite AA games.

I think the Kingdom Come: Deliverance of the problem of trying to make an authentic artistic product amid culture war bullshit.

Despite the fact that KC:D is historical fiction and is set in the real, historical medieval kingdom of Bohemia, the first came came under fire for its lack of diversity. What were they thinking, making all the inhabitants of rural villages in medieval Bohemia white?! And coming to the defense of this admittedly ridiculous criticism were a bunch of right-wing and GamerGate types.

Now we have Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and… what's this? There's one (1) Muslim traveler from the Mali Empire in Bohemia? And what's this? You can have a gay romance? Are you trying to tell me there were GAY people in the middle ages? This game isn't BASED anymore!

It really shows how creatives are sandwiched between two tribes of dipshits wanting equally stupid changes so that all media products signal towards their tribe.

"woke" aside, it is very weird how so many games with 100+ million budgets flopped hard lately, what do you think is going on behind the scenes?
Is it a problem with the higher ups? The devs? The market researchers? It just doesn't make any sense

Well, hello there, re/v/isionists and re/v/olutionaries! Why have you not watched the most GAMER anime ever yet?

Go watch it right now. It is hilarious. Chio is literally me frfr smh.