Minecraft /leftypol/ server thread
Since a lot of time has passed since the old thread was made and all the old servers apparently got nuked by the hosting service, I have decided to create a new one on the Aternos account that I have registered back in the Bunkerchan days. Just like the previous one, it runs on one of the newer versions (1.19.2) of the game with a simple custom modpack that contains tech mods like Mekanism and the Thermal series, as well as some that add new elements to the game world as a whole such as Biomes O' Plenty and Aquaculture. Some previous additions like Pam's Harvestcraft and Chisel had to be pruned however due to lack of a 1.19.x version or being too resource extensive.Hello /games/
It has recently come to our attention that the users of /games/ are seeking a reliable method of communication for online play and general conversation about games. I am unsure if anyone is aware, but, there currently exists and unoffical matrix room specifically for this located at: https://matrix.to/#/#leftypolgaming:matrix.orgBalancing skyrim with my own mods
I’m going through the effort to do something I never thought I’d do and it’s patching out all the broken and busted shit you’d find in a TES game. I mean specifically the metaUbishits open world design
It’s bad but not because the lands this company makes are barren in content but the content in it is badly designed.NSFW games
What is your opinion on proliferation of porn games on mainstream gaming platforms?Fallout General - What side is do you choose in Fallout new Vegas ?
of course most /pol/tards side with caser's legion but looking at it almost every single faction is awful one way or the other, The NCR is literally a reboot of America that is in the middle of a manifest destiny, House is a egotistical maniac and probably appeals to Musk bros and Yes man is just a libertarian wet dreamRain World Downpour
I just finished the More Slugcats campaigns and they were all great. Downpour is such a good DLC, the base game worked fine on its own and the DLC expanded it in a really natural way and the story and world were presented awesome as always. There's as many new regions as were in the base game and they're all exciting to explore. They also managed to keep a sense of wonder despite expanding the world into places only teased at before, like I still was thinking about what was out there in the distance. Explaining and expanding on a lot of things in the story could have made it boring but they didn't ruin the important things and most questions just created new answers. This is especially important since explaining the void sea and the cycle would ruin a lot of the mystery and horror. Wordbuilding lore was great though and it was so cool to see the world change over time and see the similarities in places which had drastically changed. This was greatly helped by the greatly expanded soundtrack with both new songs and previously unused ones (including some real bangers). There's just so much new stuff like dozens of new creatures as well as slugpups! That's not even mentioning the mountain of bonus content in the form of expeditions, challenges and safari mode as well as jolly co-op. Theres so much to explore, its an awesome expansion for an awesome game. It's not a half baked AAA DLC which adds some gimmick, its more like Echoes of the Eye in the way it perfectly expands on a game most people considered complete, adding things the developers didn't have time for in the base game or hadn't thought about.Pathfinder CRPGs
Anyone play Kingmaker or Wrath of the Righteous? I enjoy playthroughs until I get near the endgame where things get sorta bullshit, the encounters drag on way too long (especially if playing turn-based) and you pretty much have to take the same feats on every character to make the fights tolerable. Higher difficulties severely restrict the number of viable builds, which is a shame. I'd hoped WotR didn't go the same direction but they doubled down on everything I disliked, still fun games overall.Minetest thread
Since joining to my Minecraft server has proven to be quite a headache for a lot of players, I want to propose the board admins to host a server for its free, open-source alternative: Minetest (minetest.net).Can we please talk about bad ui design
I know I’ve already shit talked mmos for this like months ago but this shit is everywhere in modern games now except for elden ring and tes shockingly. The rest is all of this visual aids and it’s fucking horrible. What’s even the point most game designers make it so that players can still register wtf is happening in them even without all this clutter which makes most of it pointlessSeriously why do MMO RPGs still exist at this point
They’re not profitableChess
I'm making this thread here, because the other boards are practically dead. If a mod chooses to move it to /hobby/, that's cool, I just wanted some exposure on /leftypol/.Snap point turning
I was goofing off with oblivion ds2 Skyrim and some other older games and after watching maulers video on ds2 as a game I realized snap point turning a bug that existed was ds2 was actually extremely common to find in a shitload of older games in general including gta. Snap pointturning to someone unfamiliar with this concept is the instance where a 3d game has restricted areas a character can actually turn in relative to the cameras angle ingame that ultimately make moving that character visibly infuriating to pull off and jankyVisual Novels
Im making a thread about VNs because there isnt one on the catalogue and i wanna talk about my experience. I just finished danganronpa 2, which im not certain counts as a VN or if it's a point and click murder mystery social deduction game, and i think im pretty confident to say that it presents a pretty interesting moral dilemma. On one hand, the hope faction is pretty clearly a technocratic organization who obsesses over "Ultimates", or people who possess immense talent in a particular field or study, for example the world's best scientist, or the world's best doctor. It is revealed in the story of goodbye despair that before despair took over, hope's peak academy created a method of artificially forcing someone to become extremely talented, which dialectically had the potential to equalize mankind and develop the talents of anyone, which would make the idea of meritocracy, or ruling over others due to better talents or knowledge, completely obsolete. Despair on the other hand spawned as a result of the mass movement of reserve students, malcontents who became disaffected with the idea that people with talent mattered more than the rest, since hope's peak academy was formed to research peoples' talents and how to cultivate them.Rage bait
I don’t get it or wtf is wrong with the people that fall for this shit, I didn’t watch any gameplay or play forspoken, I didn’t watch Velma or care for it, i didn’t watch or play back 4 blood all for the same fucking reasons. I don’t care or want to play them cause I don’t find them interesting but why tf are there so many retards buying these dumbass games or shows whatever they fucking hate and advertising about how much they dislike them, not in the sense that you’d advertise that hate out of passion for the IP I mean literally just buying the fucking thing to bitch and complain about it. Wtf is the pointPokémon arceus
Let’s say only gamefreaks staff were working on the game and only 15 of their workers were actually animating anything ingame and it took 30 minutes at most to animate a single move ingame for a single animatorSekiro is one of the only arpgs that got blocking right
The purpose of blocking in most fighting games is to give players a defensive option so they aren’t discouraged from disengaging from conflict for the sake of trying to avoid an attack. In most aroma or just action games in general this basic concept of attacking is often overlooked and what ends up happening is blocking as a mechanic becomes completely useless which results in players running around waiting for bosses or enemies to throw out some basically unpunishable attack first and then decide to do anything after waiting for several seconds for the enemy to finish their trillion hit combo or whatever.Cramped games like ds2?
The ingame world is 50+ hours of content, the level design is amazing but the world design breaks a level of cohesion and trying to navigate through it without bonfires feel like a maze. I think the shaded woods are a perfect example of this considering the region is technically like what 6-8 zones? But then it’s all sectioned off into room like zones that occasionally break each other by having enemies be visible behind invisible walls the player should be able to move through or just how fucking drastic moving from one major location to another can feel like majulua to the forest of the fallen giants for the first time after walking through a literal fucking dungeonHitman: World of Assassination
Figured we could do with a thread now that Freelancer and the big trilogy rebrand is out. Anyone else playing this? I've sunk an embarrassing amount of hours into it since 2016 and am still discovering new things. It's a very satisfying sandbox to fuck around in.Rougelikes
I hate rougelikes. Randomizing the map every playthrough is an awful idea since it entirely removes map design. Enemies are spammed without a thought for their place in the level or even room (or worse, they're always in the same predictable place every time). Every room is completely independent of one another rather than being a cohesive world. This ends up affecting gameplay, progression and also the atmosphere and worldbuilding.HoI4 + HoI4 modding thread
By Blood alone waiting room edition.chudchan is holding its 38th iteration of /int/craft
And this upcoming war is WW2. I think /leftypol/ should know because naturally there is a Soviet Union nation and this would be your great Patriotic War. Also some of yall have nothing better to do.Man far cry 2 is a weird one
For a game that heavily prioritized realism in its design I’m a little confused as to why they didn’t go all the way with interactivity in the gamePC Building Thread
Not sure if this should go here or on /tech/ but I will try here since I'm more interesting in a functional gaming PC than a linux box./gamedev/ - Game Development General (SHARE YOUR VIDEOGAME IDEAS ITT)
So I'm not an experienced game developer or anything, but I figured we should have a general dedicated to this sort of thing, especially since I'm interested to hear peoples' ideas on lefty-orientated videogames that would be cool for me to make./Blender/ general
>Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software tool set used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D-printed models, motion graphics, interactive 3D applications, virtual reality, and, formerly, video games. Blender's features include 3D modelling, UV mapping, texturing, digital drawing, raster graphics editing, rigging and skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, soft body simulation, sculpting, animation, match moving, rendering, motion graphics, video editing, and compositing.best/leftist videogame youtubers/content creators
what do ya'll watch on youtube? and which do you consider leftist-ish?General thoughts on flash party
It feels janky compared to smash bros and Brawlhalla but less janky and floaty in comparison to multiversus that’s it.Steam christmas sales 2022
so what did you all bought on the Steam sales?Games where you kill cops
Hard mode: no GTA games1945 turn-based game
Next month I'll be running a text-based, turn-based game set in the world of 1945. You can find the rules and who has signed up as what here: http://eregime.org/index.php?showtopic=20098Tactical RPG thread
i got 90 hours into XCOM 2 just this week, i'm enjoying the game almost as much as i enjoyed Jagged Alliance 2 the first time i played it.i just beat golden eye 007
i just beat golden eye 007 on secret agent difficulty (medium) and I don't feel good, because it was much harder than I thought it would be, this janky ass douchebag game. all of the levels in this game NEED to be really long, and then at the VERY END some bullshit happens that gets you killed instantly (like a bunch of enemies get spawned right behind you, and you only find out when they kill you, because they make no footstep sounds), and the game has n checkpoints, so you gotta do it all over again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the game is rly technically impressive though, and the gunplay feels great, so i get why it's so beloved, but it aged AWFULLY in my opinionFear and Hunger: Termina
Anyone else has played the sequel to F&H? I‘ve played like half of it and also watched others play it. It seemed like an improvement in every game mechanical sense and new elements were added which gave it a novel touch. I‘m only disappointed over some of the endings. But the last game was also changed and expended over time, so perhaps the creator will change some things.Dark souls 2
It’s crazy knowing how much fromsoftwares design team started mutating the way they’d build future 3d action games like these based off this. And I specify dark souls 2 because it brought in the most significant amount of change, ds1 and demon souls were not necessarily hard or even complex games but with ds2 outside of just shitty mechanics that were later removed like the health or item durability thing shit like actual parry mechanics, stances, and a fuck ton of new animations the developers rolled out would see games like blood borne and sekiro brought out into fruition. You’d still see games like dark souls 3 and to a lesser extent elden ring that didn’t deviate to much from the original demon souls era design but man to say elements of ds2 didn’t heavily influence the design decisions or even just simple things of how enemies functions is naive.Callisto Protocol
Are horror games the last bastion of anti-imperialism and leftism in the video game industry?Minecraft Server Agitprop
I recently stumbled upon a mod that lets you export MineCraft books to a text file, and import them from clipboard. Seems like it could be worthwhile, or at least fun, to build libraries in various public MineCraft servers with leftist literature among their repertoire. Especially on cracked servers where people there will likely already have strong opinions about capitalism. Plus v1.20 is adding chiseled bookshelves, which can store books, so players will be actively curious about any library builds that use them.A few ideas for making elden ring combat more interesting without relying on parrying
Variable recovery time on hit.VICTORIA 3 PLAYABLE LEAK
I played it myself already.Barotrauma
>2D coop "sidescroller" submarine indy gameFoss alternatives to animal crossing?
I recently got a phone because my old one burned out a few years ago, and I saw there was a mobile animal crossing game called pocket camp. It was fun for a week or so, but they fucking drown you in mechanics that are just there to make you discontent so you buy the solution. Unplayable by level 42.You know what. Single player action games will never have complex combat
Kingdom come deliverance and sekiro were the closest games ever to contain a mere fraction of the level of complexity and depth found in the average fighter with sekiro essentially serving as a block punish simulator made easy and kcd as the closest example of the skills in spacing and parrying needed in the average fighter but still gets too easy a few dozen hours in.Late Capitalism Simulator
Lately I’ve seen a huge influx of good games that try to update the outdated capitalist realist Cyberpunk genre to the current political and economic landscape. Stuff like Disco Elysium is getting more and more recognition they rightfully deserve for depicting the hopeless and bleak death of modern revolution. However they’re still have some semblance of hope like with Ghostrunner having the corporation being destroyed by a revolution in contrast to the sad oppression of the system.Free unused steam codes thread
I'm going to post a master thread for fellers who want to share codes for games they are not going to use, I will specify that the codes I am posting are for steam, so please leave a note if the code is for another platform.To the Surprise of Absolutely Nobody: CoD is National Security State Propaganda
https://www.mintpressnews.com/call-of-duty-is-a-government-psyop-these-documents-prove-it/282781/Gunplay differences between retro and modern FPS games
>retroRate my COUNTRY
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=imperial_lads_mvanaAn AI named Cicero can beat humans in Diplomacy, a complex alliance-building game. Here’s why that’s
https://theconversation.com/an-ai-named-cicero-can-beat-humans-in-diplomacy-a-complex-alliance-building-game-heres-why-thats-a-big-deal-195208Far Cry 2
Is Far Cry 2 a leftist game? It's setting is Africa and it's factions are based on groups that vy for power in Africa with mercenaries on either side and the main antagonist "The Jackal" who sells weapons to both groups and who despite doing this he heavily criticizes the US exploiting Africa for cheap goods people in the US use.Watching cod fans rage over movement tech in arena shooters is some funny fucking shit
B hopping and sliding has been in these types of games for fucking ages and it’s not even something that’s hard to learn either it’s just a fundamental skill that takes a few minutes to get the hang of and alot of practice to hit consistently. Cod fans rage quitting and screaming over cod veterans playing arena shooters as arena shooters is funny and also clarifies why activitision doesn’t and shouldn’t give to flying shits about whatever the fuck their fans screech aboutSIGNALIS THREAD
Wtf leftybros I thought you would be all over this.My Game
I've been working my ass off making this game for more than a year. The destruction system was a pain in the ass to make (what do y'all think?). It's a city mayhem game with Just Cause like outposts, Zelda like dungeons, and Ratchet & Clank like gunplay. I have absolutely no idea how to market the thing. Wish me luck! If u'r a dev, pls tell me how u do ur marketingI know this is stupid to care about but I wish it was like this
Mw2 a campaign is literally the only enjoyable component of the game but the plot and core gameplay is synonymous with a 1980s Hollywood power fantasy that serves to glorify the us armyReading in video games
I think the only games that have ever gotten me to sit down and readGaming Companies being Porkies
2022 Interactive Fiction Competition Ballot
https://ifcomp.org/ballotSf6 beta animations feel really twitchy
The best way I can describe them is if a 3d model was rotoscoped over the sprites of sf2. Or in a sense move like the characters available in DBFZI like how simple of a game pubg is
No forced in hero systemMetal Gear Solid Series
Is metal gear solid a leftwing series of games?I take back what I said about sonic frontiers it looks amazing in its current state
The combat is just dumb fun, the level design is open and allows so many different ways to move fast compared to the linear structure of most games before it, I love the new 3d platforming mechanics and overall the game is looking a lot more stable than what was first shownI don’t wanna watch or play anything and I feel like other gamers have been in the same situation
It’s not that I can’t find a game I like or that I don’t have fun with them. I’m having a blast at the moment with terraria and sekiro but right now it feels like every once in a while my urge to play just dies and I just don’t wanna play at all. Coincidentally I also don’t wanna watch anything or read anything that’s fictional either. The fuck causes this sudden climaxSquare Enix Says Japanese Too Old For Vidya
Just fucking delete or completely rework pk fire and pk thinder
I just came back from watching a tournament and every singleWhat went wrong with cyberpunk
>bugs10 years since armoured core 5
11 years since SkyrimWarhammer and Leftypol
There was an abortion of a thread in the main leftypol. This is for discussing W40k from a leftist reading, sort of Sigmarxist lite.MMO combat is so fucking awful
The only 2 mmos I know whose combat mechanics aren’t revoltingly shitty are wizard101 and new worldThird person Skyrim
I don’t get why every component of this game FEELs like Skyrim. And I specify Skyrim over the other TES games because elden ring feels dangerously close to that game in particular over the othersStamina systems are awful. Stance systems are where it’s at
Stamina systems are simply unrealistic and mechanically unfun. Unrealistic because in real life humans are a fucking pillar of evolution and have been documented to be able to preform actions like running for days and in rare cases weeks on end without having to stop for breaks, a trained soldier should be able to swing as many times as they please without constantly needing breaksStat bloating
I’m gonna use this term to describe the instance where a game designer artificially bloats the stats of an enemy in an rpg to compensate for that enemy or the game itself mechanically being badly designedDark souls 2 is more annoying and contrived than it is fun and difficult
I got to the last giant and after getting straight up one shotted at max health I had enough quit and uninstalled and then played cube world to calm myself.I now understand why sekiros combat felt so good
The introduction of the posture system pretty much gave incentive to play far more aggressively compared to previous dark souls where most time would be spent playing passive, and timing dodges properly due to how much range so many attacks in dark souls have and how many attacks wipe out all your stamina instantlyIt took me dozens of hours to realize this shit about skyrim
There are no unique actor models. If you’ve played new Vegas and fo3 you know what I’m talking about because they’re the only fallout games that had all of their human enemy models dictated by an algorithm that shuffled between the ingame race optionsMy honest thoughts on tekken(and just traditional fighters in general)
>note I’m speaking about tekken 7Terra Invicta
Playing this game rn.All Platformers are Surrealist
I agree with the idea of this video that Mario is surrealist,Why I think most aim trainers suck
Because most are unrealisticFallout New Vegas
>Great game ,The MOBA ranked system needs death
I was playing apex a long while ago and my rank got set back after hours upon hours of constant death because of the last season came outGames set in communist/socialist nations
Check this out. An erotic visual novel set in a Soviet pioneer camp. WTF.Gundam Evolution
Anyone playing this? Its a pretty good game. The main problem is pay to win, you can get mechs through in game money but you can also just buy them. Balance is also a massive issue, Exia stomps everyone and can 1v6 since it appeals to teenagers the most, sort of like Yone in LoL. The Sazabi is pretty fun though and thats also one of the coolest designs./Ukraine/ thread - Childhood Games Nostalgia Special Edition
So, we ended up discussing childhood games in the /Ukraine/ thread, but since it's off-topic, this thread was created to continue the discussion.Cult of the Lamb
GOAT or not? Been playing this for a while and I like the whole critter cultist commune building thing as well as the aggressive melee-focused combat, but I also think that the followers themselves are a bit too shallow and that the storyline could be longer instead of simply ending with you killing/recruiting the cat god guy.Apex review haha ;_;
Ok so one of the first and most obvious things about apex is the performance, the game really should run on most systems as good as hl2 considering the graphics of apex are nothing fancy yet the performance is visibly bad even with good systems but that’s not everythingThis game, graphicaly speaking looks like shit
I can’t tell if it’s the colour choice being nonexistent, the effects, the aesthetics not matching up with the style of gameplay or the font choice on the UI, or just how cluttered the UI feels but something about mw2I’m amazed at how boring new Vegas feels since I took a break from it
I legitimately can’t name a single component of new Vegas that made the entire base game for me boring after my first few play throughs but rather a clusterfuck of stupid outdated shitOppan Emulation Style!
Retroarch for everything or standalone for some stuff?Gaming is the largest industry, Thoughts from a marxist persepctive?
Anyone find it insane that games are the biggest industry now? People always talk about films and movies box officeInstant air attacks
One really common things in games is to allow movement while performing an action however in fighting games some moves cause you to stick in place but still allow the above to occur if you jump and attack at the exact same timeStrings and combos
The difference between a combo and a string in any fighter is that combos are undodgeableFanmods, total conversions, and independent projects
I was kind of intending this thread to be a storehouse of replies forLearn something cool about skyrims shield bash mechanic
If and only if(since I don’t know if this works on creatures) an NPCs head is visibly larger than the nail on your shield in your POV you can actually shield bash early and always hit regardless if your opponent has a long ranged weapon like a steel great swordParrying advice please
I’m currently playing Skyrim with my magicka set to 0, carry weight set to 95 and all my perks dumped into magic perks since they’re useless in this playthrough5600g thread, Making a list
I am going to be making a PC with my own APU soonGaming Eye-Care
So anything above 1080p is like B.S right?Sims is a nightmare
Wake up, get ready, go to work, come back, level up some skill for a bit, eat some shitty food and shower, go to sleep, repeat until you receive paycheck to spend on AESTHETICS, do it all over again.I tried out exile 3 and daggerfall haha
Short thread: they play a lot worse than I rememberXpiratez
I'm finna play Xpiratez, I have started 2 playthroughs but never finished it yet, apparently it has catgirls in it now so that's cool.I found them I found the ones
>play dark souls 2 and morrowind for a weekActual click bait
Literally no one except for sekiro and blood borne fans was mad over elden ringI used to hate passiveness but now I fully embrace it
I made a thread earlier discussing my woes with passivity in fighting games being I thought it was unfun but now I’m realizing it does have a lot of benefits I didn’t initially seeskyrim storylines discussion thread
ciuil uarVirtual Divegrass General
A general permanent thread for the ICUP and /pol/eague meme tournaments.Why does this piece of software keep causing problems?
It’s the industry standard to combat hackers and modders in online games yet it has only partially achieved its main purposeMultiversus
It’s basically nick all star brawl Warner bros editionSouls and elden ring isn’t hard at all. The combat isn’t deep either
An actual game with good deep combat with similar mechanics is kingdom come deliverance as you can’t cheese fights through button mashing the dodge roll key and cheese fights with magical bs and bowsIs real time loading actually hard to implement?
You know how some games separate interior from exterior world spaces so games run better hence why there’s random loading screens when you enter a building or some new zone?Should leveling be removed?
I feel grind based leveling in games like diablo and destiny is a shallow form of progression compared to action based leveling in games like RuneScape and TESRanking fighting game characters is stupid
Why? Because characters in fighting games are built to be balanced and which character is the “best” one heavily depends on contextAuto combos are for idiots.
They just lower the skill floor and encourage bad habits among new players to fighting games like button mashing over understanding how moves and inputs work or learning to handle your controller/keyboard well in a way that allows you to naturally transition between stringsAn armour related question about TES
One thing that’s always bothered me is how morrowind was seemingly the only one in the franchise that had a normal defence system as it didn’t have any caps and allowed you to survive fatal hits as long as the armour you were wearing boosted your survivability stat enoughDAGEROUS GAMES PSA
DO NOT PLAY ADDICTIVE GAMES* WHILE LISTENING TO PODCASTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I don’t understand why dl1 fans hate dl2
I liked the rebalance of things like the grappling hook and abolishment of most firearms it forced players to actually use parkour and combat than just cheese and spam their way through every section of the game which made it really fun for me along with the focus on a input based story than a linear one made me feel like I had a say in what happened even if some changes were shallow I’d take that over what I experienced in games like half life and halo where all I did was stand around while pre scripted unstoppable dialogue playsWhy did the animation quality of Pokémon degrade when the switch games came?
I can’t be the only one to notice how every other aspect of Pokémon games at least somewhat improved or genuinely became more fun than what you’d traditionally expect from these RPGs but the combat animations for PokémonWoW
What was the exact moment everything went so horribly wrong?Difficulty for the sake of difficulty isn’t fun
The only time difficulty is acceptable in games is if the games mechanics are complex enough to justify that level of skillMMO clipping
The following images are from guild wars 2, ESO and RuneScapeWhy is anthem still so painful so many years later
I don’t get why it hurts to watch the gameplay and the trailers.I played world of Warcraft again for the first time since 2011
I’m surprised by a few thingsI strongly dislike passivity in fighting games
Passivity is basically a play style where one or more players in a match focus primarily on parrying and dodging while dealing damage when convenient in order to win a match, a sort of “hit and run” strategy applied to fighting gamesI tried my damb hardest to like or at least not completely hate Genshin impact
Literally the fucking opening of the game made me feel like I was suppressing anger when the lifeless character design and setup for the plot reminded me of how fucking boring and isekai infested modern anime is which is why I refuse to watch it several years since I first quitI think blizzard will leave activision like bungie
If the whole Microsoft buyout thing fails it’s likely blizzard will have all the financial reasons to just split off activision entirely as they do have their own subset of investors and it’s clear that the joint with the company isn’t actually doing anything to promote blizzards reputation nor its profits due to its dead communityDark souls 2 on a pc is an experience
You can tell the game was built for consoles because holy fuck are the default controls cartoonishly awfulThe tab target system needs to die
For those of you wondering the tan target system is called that because in most MMOs back then you literally pressed tab to lock the camera onto whatever you were fighting againstWindows 7 Blues
The Minecraft modding community circa 2011-2013 was a time to be alive, especially with the Java codebase which was easy to decompile and mod endlesslyA cool but significant detail I noticed about games like far cry 2
The bullet ejects out of the muzzle of the gun itself and not from the centre of the screenGood UI design
When designing HUDs developers need to factor in the reality that most players at most can pay attention to 2-3 things at a time and likewise having too much information on screen is often times badThis Is The Police
Anyone played this game?Words can’t describe how much I fucking hate HATE the quakes ogres
I fucking get it I’m playing hard mode but spamming a million of these fucking cunts in nearly every level with some sections being exclusively these bullet sponge grenade spamming fucks is batshit evil and lazy as fuck level design(Except for shooters)All skins are bad in PVP games
Reason: anticipation framesUbisoft REALLY wants to make an RPG
That’s proven by the past 3 AC games if anythingAnyone else noticing how mediocre physics in games got?
I can’t be the only one to notice this and it doesn’t even make senseI can’t find any fun in competitive games anymore
It’s just not fun for me to play any pvp based games.One game breaking optimization found in MMOs
The reason why I state optimization and not feature is because this exists to reduce lag on most MMO gamesLevel caps and BDO
Level caps especially in RPGs are introduced(ideally) for balance since some rpgs especially MMOs have pvp components and obviously having someone have a level in the hundreds is obviously gonna document a difference in overall power compared to someone whose level is in the dozens hence why level caps are enforced(excluding wow)what console do i buy?
i'm thinking about buying a new videogame console. i want one that is very aerodynamic. i'm not very interested in using it to play videogames, i just want to toss it around like a frisbee. my old console broke for some reason when i tried to use it for this purposeObscure and abandonned multiplayer games
Multiplayer games can be really fun and great as long as there are people playing them. Most people play games like Fortnite, CS:GO, Battlefield or Call of Duty Call of Glowie, but I think there are some underrated gems that could be great if more people were playing them, whether it's an old game that isn't supported by the developpers anymore or a more recent but niche game.I feel like far cry and other games like it should play more realistically
No this isn’t a thread to shill far cry 2 hear me outHow come Brawlhalla has survived so long while others like it fell off?
I can’t be the only one to notice this after multiversus launched with the game straight not even be affectedThe insanity of oblivions progression is the most beautiful and confusing shit I’ve observed
If you’ve played any TES game you’ll know what level scaling is and in oblivion the situation of scaling is so awful that it’s possible to trigger scaling by walking in a straight lineProvide a legitimate argument against camping in shooters
Complainers of it say it’sStory in Bideo Games
Let's talk about stories in video games.World of Warcraft
Does anyone play this game or wow classic? I used to play quite a bit of classic, TBC, WOTLK and early cataclysm. TBH i consider the first three expansion packs unbeatable in their quality, esp. Vanilla and TBC. WOTLK was also the height of Arena pvp.Some aspects about classic RPGs
>the maps were largerKenshi thread.
>"You ever listen to the word of Okran?"Low end gaming
After playing half life 2 and comparing the graphics of that game to modern titles I can’t shake off the feeling that the amount of lag, stuttering and consistent crashes games have attributed to their graphics is justified in any aspectCSGO is a casual game
>reason one: generally bullets always hit the centre of the screenHalf life 2 in 2022
I’m just gonna say it immediatelyCommunist video game design
Hypothetical question for you guys:Is the AAA gaming bubble gonna burst?
Games are getting bigger, with enormous production teams. Development is getting more and more expensive, which incites to elongate the lifespan of games by abusing psychological failings of our brain (gambling dopamine, FOMO,..). These companies, having more at stake, innovate less and start to release the same games every year or two. Add that AAA games themselves are getting more expensive and with inflation in general tighting the budget of the "middle class" who is the main demographic of AAA gaming, it is inevitable at this point? Is the future budget PCs and lite consoles like the Series S or the Switch. Not saying it is good or bad. The death of high end consoles will kill AAA gaming, again I am not doing a moral judgement. Thoughts?Elden Ring bosses
I'm confused why people seem to hate the Elden Ring bosses so much. For me the main bosses are among the best Fromsoft has made, only really beat by some stellar bosses in Dark Souls 3. I read that people dislike the Elden Ring enemies because they have delayed attacks which put you off, feints followed by quick blows, long combos leaving you sprawling and little down time for you to hit them. These are all exactly why I love the Elden Ring bosses! It is much more engaging for me to fight an enemy like this than your standard Dark Souls knight with 3 part combos. I love being put on the back foot, having to guess when an attack is coming, seeing through a feint and not attacking into it, having only a second to retaliate. Basically the poster child for this is Margit, who people seem to ruthlessly critisise, but man that boss battle was awesome. I really had to treat it like a fight. And I get its a game with crazy magic and dodge rolls and such, and I wish they added better parrying, but its just so much more intense than 90% of Dark Souls bosses. I'm more of a casual gamer but I loved the challenge and my favourite boss has got to be Malenia since its just so tight to fight her. Not even considering her awesome visuals and presentation, she probably has the best boss design in the entire franchise (I haven't played Bloodborne so idk) since you are punished even further for mistakes because of the healing, and mistakes are incredibly easy to make, meaning you have to constantly fight at your best. I must have spent 100 tries on her but when I got her it felt amazing. I was on my toes the entire time, frantically dodging her crazy attack combos and retaliating when I could. I loved how she would quickly change combos making me change my own play style. I want more of that!Bethesda is an amazing studio, Skyrim is shit and the mods are worse
I wouldn’t say it’s fair to say bethesda games are buggy and unstableLinear gravity
Hey everyone just wanted to mention why games typically don’t see players accelerate when fallingIf we can have this and dragons and horses in the elder scrolls?
Why can’t we have cars in fallout 4??? This can happen in fallout 3 and new Vegas, Bethesda themselves added in working dragon and horse physics in Skyrim and oblivion, and they’re making entire space ships and planetary physics in starfield, why couldn’t we have vehicles in 4?Video game guns just don’t hit right
The only time they feel like actual guns is in sims and battlefield games that’s itA question on decals, corpses and save bloat
One thing that’s bugged me about games is decals and corpses disappearing randomly“It’s the frostbite engine”, “it’s the creation engine”, “stalker is like that due to X-ray engine”
You know why blaming how buggy and limited a game is in terms of its technical capacity is fucking retarded?A better approach to graphics
Typically games will increase the quality of graphics in their games using higher resolution textures and models and on occasion VFx. Although this method isn’t necessarily wrong it doesn’t do enough to actually improve the graphics of a game especially for games like gta definitive edition that’s an overglorified San Andreas mod that uses ai upscaling. The features mentioned are reasonably long considering how large the world of graphics isMetal Gear Rising
What are the politics of MGR?A major issue with starfield(and it doesn’t even have anything to do with the gameplay itself)
It’s the renderingConfused at the love of Banjo Kazooie?
So I started playing Banjo Kazooie earlier this week and I'm absolutely baffled at how beloved this game is. I understand this game is made for kids but even rare themselves made kids games with more of a challenge (I absolutely love the DKC games). I'm at the haunted house level now so I think I probably only have a couple worlds left but here are my problems with the game so far.21:9, fov 120, no camera shake and bobbing: the ultimate FPS setup
These 4 settings are by far the best settings I’ve used in gaming. It has made even the shittiest clunkiest FPS games I’ve ever played like RE village, morrowind or ffs no man’s sky whose appeal isn’t even in the combat feel like playing doom as a toddler again.Why is modding Skyrim so popular
The base game by itself is fine and doesn’t need anything beyond bug fixesCan you find a solution to this camera problem for me?
Cameras in games typically use a frustumModern gaming exists in spite of Capitalism not because of it
Al had never seen a side scrolling like this for the PC. "Wow," he told Carmack, "you should patent this technology."Who tf plays and blows money on this dumbass botw clone
It’s like they say what Nintendo did and made the same game but made everything about it shittier. The only reason I can imagine anyone playing this isEvery bug in gaming I could think of
StutteringBeing out of bounds is strange
You know it, I know itGameplay vs story
Fucked around schizo Elijah’s channel and saw this comment and made me fucking question the importance of gameplay vs storyDeveloper tricks in games
>pop inMy personal suggestions on wave defence games
>seamless wave transitionI’ve never understood the hyper around graphics
They’re not getting better with every new major title that comes out and by graphics I mean shit like textures and models. If graphics were to improve things likeBullet sponges and why combining RPG mechanics in first person shooters is horrible
Bullet sponges in these kinds of shooters aren’t just annoying because they waste your ammo but because of the followingSo let me understand this about rockstar
So let me get this straight right? Rockstar made two widely known and loved games known as gta 4 and gta 5 in the years it took to make those games on top of online modes and DLC no oneI think games got harder and generally more complex
I used to think it was the opposite where old games were difficult while new games were easy to appeal to casuals but as I got older I’m beginning to see things are actually the inverseBethesda fallout games have shit gunplay part 2: movements even shittier
I already posted a thread weeks ago about this shit but after fucking around in apex and f3 it dawned on me it wasn’t just how garbage the gun mechanics in bethesdas fallout games are but the movement mechanics are even worse that makes the base game completely unfun without the RPG and storytelling mechanicsShit about modern RPGs I hate
The biggest fuckup out of all of themOncoming major PR disasters of late 2022 and 2023
>mass exodus of fallout 76 playersWhy I like skill based matchmaking
It gives new players a chance to win and get betterWhy diablo 2 is so relaxing to play
The easiest answer is the visualsFOV and view distance in games
The human eye has an average horizontal FOV of 135 and a vertical FOV of 180That’s not enough time
One yearShit i fucking despise about new Vegas and the stalker series
Weapon durabilityThe star field game
From everyone’s favourite dum-studio comes starfieldMy favourite game
Couldn’t give less of a shit about the story but holy the movement options and exploration in this game is fucking satisfying to the point where levels designed to be completed in a pre calculated way can be side stepped if you understand the dash mechanics and abilities well enough. This all makes the game intensely fun to play through on a second run as it feels like a breeze the second time aroundIt’s bad but it’s good at the same time
If I had to describe this dumbass game it would be