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I seriously cannot understand how monster hunter games are still the only games with a coherent ecology for their over worlds. From a developer standpoint, they shouldn’t be hard to implement—at least on a highly superficial level. Just separate neutral mobs from hostile mobs based off a zone so players have a choose between venturing off into places with dangerous territory vs venturing to hunting grounds. Ffs, we already have level bands and levelled areas, how hard is something like this to implement? I’m not even going deep on this like with realistic day/night cycles or mob migration. This is purely the superficial stuff.

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Worldbuilders often consider this stuff, weather or not they get it right.

There are a few reasons why it's like this, probably more I didn't think of. You're right though it's a cool thing to do and it makes the world feel more alive when this gets proper attention.
>it's just more effort to do world building
>Game development is a very iterative process, and sometimes whole elements get added or subtracted. If you build the setting with a particular structure in mind it can restrict the process of designing, implementing, testing features like creatures.
>Most games are very focused on game mechanics and any extraneous elements tend to confuse or annoy players who expect anything in the game to be relevant or at least interactive with the tools they have.
>Most games empower the player character to essentially be a walking mass extinction event. Tracking how many creatures the player has killed takes up resources in the save data and has to be implemented in a way that feels natural and fits the game. If things just reset every time you return to an area, especially after you just hunted everything down, it feels very video-gamey and kind of defeats the purpose of having a verisimiltudinous ecology being simulated.
>Games (especially large ones) tend to focus their energy as much on the main features as possible, and tertiary things like more in-depth worldbuilding is generally not considered relevant enough to worry about (especially since people are used to having completely nonsensical settings from an ecological or even geological perspective).

So-called gygaxian worldbuilding was actually the norm in rpgs before the advent the of the jrpg corridor.

>>45111
>>45110
Interesting



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Does anyone else has experience with obvious Steam moderators alt accounts?

it seems to happen so often that users jump into threads instigating others to attack them and then get people banned, this is a known fact.

however what i don't see enough people talking is how these accounts seem to go undetected by moderators if not downright a lot of them have moderators as friends

some of these go as far as to have groups with names like "cabal, cult" and such.

one would think it's just users weaponizing moderation

til you realize these users can go around breaking every single rule without getting banned for months, if at all.

some people claim their accounts have turned into "moderator magnets" in which you can't even engage in any discussion as moderator alt accounts will start to target you hoping you'll give them anything at all they can to stick a ban to you

the more common reason for these bans is that you were being "argumentative or combative"
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Werent forums always like this?

Oh, and Gaben memes and the current HL3 hope posting are obvious forced shill propaganda

>>45104

Internet forums don't have some people's life savings on a chokehold like Steam does

a community ban also keeps you from being able to trade items so if you're one of those people who invest on skins (not me anymore) a community ban could fuck you up bad.

>>45106
then stop answering the LGBT ragebaiters ?

>>45112

i don't

like i said, anything slightly uppitty or out of context even sarcasm will get you in the moderators sights.



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Welcome, comrades! Here we discuss everything Sonic the Hedgehog.

/lsthg/ #1 - Free as the Wind Edition

NEWS
>Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Accolades Trailer
https://youtu.be/C6BSu_x0gcE

>Sonic Rumble arrives this November

https://x.com/Sonic_Rumble/status/1978491359452364988

>Sonic the Hedgehog 4 to release on March 19, 2027

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sonic-4-release-date-march-2027-1236280697/

RECENT SEGASONIC GAMES
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>>45094
He's nice. He's cool. He likes chili dogs.

>>45095
Sonic is like an autistic person's idea of being cool

>>45096
(not hating just making an observation)
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This is more of a franchise post than a game post, but I typed it up and don't want to delete it now so I'm gonna throw it in this general anyways:

I get, from internet takes, that the Ken Penders Sonic (and spinoff) comics are mostly loathed today for being shitty melodrama that have little to do with the rest of the franchise except in name, but when I was growing up they looked like the most radical shit ever and I wanted to read them so badly but never got the chance. My only direct knowledge of Sonic came from a few games so stumbling across blogs and fansites that catalogued all the insane lore and character drama in the comics felt like catching a glimpse of something greater. It's hard to describe the appeal but I must have been at the right age and right mindset to really be enchanted by the comics' mix of familiar kid-friendly characters and tweeny edginess.

I could still sit down and read them someday as an adult just to please my inner child but I know the magic is long gone and there isn't really anything I could get out of them now.

>>45094
I'm autistic and I prefer crash



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> yeah bro, my games universe has magic, paranormal stuff, and mysticism that normal people interact with daily
> oh but magic, yeah that’s some elite stuff that only a conveniently select few type of people know about
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>>45018
SSEEDIT

I already nodded my Skyrim heavily for the combat by removing perks that gave npcs arbitrarily high magicka regeneration and removed a bunch of spells from mages who didnt specialize in certain fields of magic

This is more of a world building problem than a gameplay problem. But gameplay should come first, the world building should be created after the fact.

I don't even see how you could implement magic in a game that's more complex than what you get in something like D&D or just being superpowers with an occult theme. Real life magical/occult practices are usually subtle and free form in how they're supposed to work. It's something I only see working narratively.

>>45026
WRONG. No gameplay loop no matter how perfect is worth anything if the world you play in is boring as shit

yeah bro, my universe has tech, industrial stuff, and machines that normal people interact with daily
oh but engineering, yeah that’s some elite stuff that only a conveniently select few type of people know about



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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 dream
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>>44902
oh yeah they fucked up by having the face move

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>>44903

i meant this

last time i saw him he looked like an old asparagus and he magically became young again?

>>44904
The scenes when hes young are like flashback scenes to before the war

>>44901
>Looks like House got the platinum chip
G A Y

FNV prerelease builds got leaked along with debugging info



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Does leftypol play minecraft? I have no friends and wanted to start a new lan world
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>>45023
Nobody plays vanilla here?

>>45082
i used to play vanilla smp but it's too boring in singleplayer for me

>>45084
Wrong thread, bot

>>45082

i got done with vanilla after this phase i had about overtaking servers with my clan

then i tried making my own PvP server but my mom deleted it and i couldn't play Minecraft again for years

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>>45089

just realized this was 12 years ago it feels like has been longer



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not surprised at all that the studio raising funds for Azov is taking it out on small indie game devs

you can't even see the game store page at the moment anymore

give these people a hand and they'll take an arm

critical support to Platypus Entertainment and their struggle against NATOcucks
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Damn it, I was about to get that game to play with my friend.

Maybe bro shouldn't have supported the imperialist russian invasion of Ukraine while ripping off a Kiyv studio 🙄

Zigger shit ass game lmao

>>44813
>>44814
зов хахаха

>>44806
Metro 2033 also has guitar player sitting at fire.



 

Post in this thread every time you play a new game and rate it, I'll start, currently playing Dread Dawn, pretty jank and honestly not that good but I'm desperate for more zombie games to wait until PZ 42 comes out. 6/10.
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I just picked Stardew Valley up again to resume plugging away at my minmaxed Perfection farm after burning out and dropping it for a while. It's a miserably boring slog of ticking off boxes and in retrospect not how I would choose to play the game again, but there is something unintentionally poetic about optimizing all the fun and relaxation out of the game and ruining the experience for yourself for no real reason other than "because you can."

>>45055
id play this game but so few pixels

>>44742
I have to reflect that, it was terrible for me to be basically forced into a relationship with a girl that threw herself at me. Also you need to choose between your manager or a worker under you and the game knows it's problematic because at the end if you pick invisibitch your manager says "it will be a problem with HR" and I was like "yeah" just after forgiving Coupé, a psychopathic serial killer (because I'm a good guy), but then she's like "no I'm just kidding". Very toxic workplace.

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>Post in this thread every time you play a new game
Rome Total War; Barbarian Invasion on my smartphone. What a time to live.
>and rate it
10/10 classic but almost impossible to play battles on a small touch screen.

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I have finished Hades 2. It is a really good hack n slash game, and I say that as someone who does no enjoy hack n slash genre. Similar to its predecessor, but improved in almost every way. I love the characters and am already hoping there are going to be DLCs so that I can play it some more.



 

Rightoids: Oh no, we got banned from Steam forums for hate speech. We must create our own review site!
Die Site: https://deiwatchdog.com

Looks inside: Anonymous reviews. No account required.

Assassins Creed Black Flag is 2/5 woke and DEI, KEK

How about raiding the review board? There is nothing stopping us.

>>45051
>Disco Elysium: The Final Cut
>Game Score: (4.8/5)
>Infected By: WOKE (2/5)
>Perfect game, criminally underrated and misunderstood
Um

>>45059
All they care about is owning the libs and being racist, both of which you can do in Disco Elysium.



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How the vast the sea stretches from Mother Base. You can feel the absolute loneliness that Venom Snake is experiencing at this moment, after having to kill all of his comrades.



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