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Year in and year out the EA sports games make up a good chunk of the best selling games. How? Are sports gamers really out there buying the same game every year?

Do sports gamers even exist? Maybe I live in a bubble but I don't ever hear anyone talk about these games. I feel like I'm being lied to.


To prevent this thread from being completely negative I will say that there are some old football games I played as a kid that I still look back fondly on

>new Lolipop Chainsaw game announced
>James Gunn, Suda51 and grasshopper nowhere near the project
>"we are le anti DEI" sentiment in official statements
>looks worse, sounds worse, is more glitchy than the charming original
awesome

What video games do you play? If you don't play video games thats fine but please don't shit up the thread with how you think they are "reactionary". Nobody cares.

The stellaris payback origin feels half-baked (like most of the game, actually, like, how come there's no scenario editor? That would be so cash, but Paradox is fearful of success). Firstly the MSI is a shit ass civilization with nothing going on with it, just an megacorp whose type of business is making slaves from pre-FTL worlds by giving them technology and then being like "you have a debt to pay, remember? give me people", but whatever, let's just say it makes sense, mostly because if it didn't there wouldn't be a story to tell.

From there, you start, and the first thing that grinds my gears. They spawn wherever. the MSI should spawn a few stellar systems away from you, so that it makes it one of your interstellar neighbour, in fact they could be a small vassal to a bigger megacorporation that keeps several corporations under their leash and so on, and make the campaing about slowly but surely liberating and killing this supermega-corporation that practically controls the galaxy. But nah, just an advanced state you kinda have war with and be done with this, which would be cool if there were an actual war, but there isn't as they spawn at the other fucking corner of the galaxy.

Anyway, Stellaris thread, the game that could have been peak, but wouldn't for whatever reason. What are your civilizations like? Do you play with humans or as aliens? What's your prefered playstyle?

Alright so hi hows everyone doing today, I hope youre doing well. I came here to write a mile-long post bitching about the state of Team Fortress 2, its design, and how commentary around its design has rapidly changed over the past few months.

To introduce people who don't know a shit about TF2; it's basically the game that set in stone the genre of "hero shooter" [Class Shooter] and how it should generally work. Prequels to Team Fortress 2, such as Team Fortress Classic, or Team Fortress [Quake Mod] do exist and show more barebones gameplay, but Team Fortress 2 did the concept so well that it's been solidified as the OG of the genre. The game has been subject to 9 years of pre-release closed-house development [1998 to 2007], 9 years of post-release open-house development in the form of regular updates [2008 to 2017], and then a further 8 going on 9 years of ignorance where there was basically no development and no novel… anything… in the TF2 community [2018 to present].

The biggest implication for (You), random passerby, is that TF2 is a game witha whole bunch of concepts and jargon that are thrown around within the community of TF2 that means something far more specific than what it does outside the TF2 community. For example, when discussing the game's design, "Competitive" is used not just to describe a moment in TF2 where player-versus-player competition is generally increased; be it the Valve-designed mechanic of Dominations [getting 4 kills on a player without said player killing you back, which puts a literal target over your head plus other aesthetics to encourage that player to target you and vice-versa], or the outright existence of organized competitive leagues. In TF2, "Competitive" is used as a shorthand for the rulesets generally used by competitive TF2 leagues. "Valve Competitive" is used as a shorthand for the "competitive TF2 que" that Valve had added in its ill-fated 2016 Meet-Your-Match update. The "Competitive Community" is a semi-existing strata of players who agree that competitive TF2 is good, and its implied at least some of them want "Competitive" to be TF2's main ruleset.

I'm not going to write the whole history, so if you ever have four fucking hours to yourself, I'd recommend watching this video by a local chud of the TF2 community: https://youtu.be/JNxg5stxlhk

This video was announced months hitherto its Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

If there are no more delays it should release soon, in about a month. Are you ready for some late soviet kino? Are you going to be a reformer or a conservative in your first playthrough?

Anyone playing this? What are your favorite paths? How well do you think it represents leftist politics or politics in general? I'm currently trying the socialism through reforms path (with a guide since I'm bad).

ITT we talk about indie games which could pierce through your skin and fill you with emotions, feeling being pulled uncontrollably to gaze in awe for more and more throughout the story!

Those pieces of arts, aka games I consumed, had me loads of pressure of awe spreading through my chest—
It is amazing how an art piece could bring the one to such intense heights… it was almost unbelievable how overwhelmed one gets!! 0_o

So, post about indie games here you played recently and so on!!

>game has multiple political factions
>game has anarchist faction
>gamers insist it is not an anarchist faction and that the character is secretly always working against you
Why can I name many such cases? I think with Yes Man especially it is laughable, he's physically incapable of betraying the courier, even without "word of god" it's pretty obvious that wild card depends entirely on your character's actions.
Are players just incapable of believing anarchy is possible, even in a fictional setting? Is that why the NCR is the most commonly picked faction?

Is Balloons Tower Defense the ultimate leftist game?:

>play as a group of monkeys (minorities) who use guerilla tactics (throwing darts from the sides of the pathways) to stop invading balloons (imperialists)

>purchase a wide variety of units such as ninjas, wizards and super monkeys (multiculturalism)

>no matter how many balloons you pop, there will always be more that come (the game is a neo-liberal forever war)

>You can also use cheat codes to unlock infinite money (achieving real communism)

What do you guys think? Is Ninja kiwi keyed?