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victoria 3 devs know ball (also isnt pacifica a dev and she left TNO for victoria 3?, wonder why TNO is taking other directions)

>>48554
As far as I'm aware, Pacifica was the head dev of TNO when Chairwoman pink stepped down, then she [Pacifica] stepped down and then went onto to work for Paradox on Vic 3

>>48554
There's also this DE reference

>>48235
Socialism vs. Communism still make no sense. If "Communism" = Leninism, why are Workerism, Left Communism, and "Apple Pie Communism" (presumably from Browder) under it? Why are "socialist zionism" and social democracy socialist when the latter still betrayed it in 1914+1919+1920s, while the former is literally just moderate apartheid state succdemry?
Unironically the tags should be "Leninism" and "Revolutionary Communism" instead.

>>48606
>If "Communism" = Leninism, why are Workerism, Left Communism, and "Apple Pie Communism" (presumably from Browder) under it?
Because they're leninist
>Why are "socialist zionism" and social democracy socialist when the latter still betrayed it in 1914+1919+1920s, while the former is literally just moderate apartheid state succdemry?
Maintstream social democracy is still kautskyist centrist marxism not just keynesian welfarism in TNO, and socialist zionism is all about kibbutz shit which goes beyond welfarism
>the tags should be "Leninism" and "Revolutionary Communism" instead.
They shouldn't because not all socialist subids are communist or revolutionary, they're there because they're either non-marxist, non-communist, non-revolutionary or all 3.

more minor notes as I watch through the no commentary let's play:

• they fucked up the spiritual stone theme, they removed the first six seconds of lyre notes that give the thing its depth and flavor, and only kept the part from 8 seconds onward
  
• when link dives off of water falls like in zora's domain, he no longer does the assassin's creed style haystack dive, he just jumps in like normal, legs first. so much less rizz

>>48602
Ganondorf walking into the sacred realm while link is frozen and forced to watch is actually what I imagined as a kid. They didn't show that part, it was just implied. I like the nice added touch of actually showing that. I remember around 2010 wishing there was a movie for the game and imagining that.

>>48603
They seem to have removed the implication that the sages had to die to become sages, which removes some of the sadness from the story. Saria for example says she was making her way through the forest temple when she was called to the sacred realm by Rauru, whereas in the N64 version it's more ambiguous and implied that she might have been killed.

>>48602
> they fucked up the spiritual stone theme,
sheik's theme redone is peak however

>>48588
OK I finished skimming through it, it's pretty good, pretty faithful adaptation with lots of quality of life and artistic improvements. My complaints are very minor and already mentioned above. I think overall anyone who thinks it's ass is just kinda grumpy. whatever reservations I had about the art style honestly went away the more I watched it. It grew on me.
>>48022
see this guy right here is just grumpy

See? Look closely. The endmins hair is inferior by default. Soycow. Everything you've ever known, soycow.

It basicly leads up to that.

I caved in and bought star wars galactic racer and it's pretty good. they really brought back burnout 3, in star wars form. it has the kinetic energy that was completely lacking in burnout paradise. and the rouge-lite stuff is really good, it makes the game exciting without it being super frustrating, more games should follow suite i think, just make the player endure a gauntlet of challenges before letting him progress to the next set of challenges. and like sound wise and presentation it's all very cinematic, very good stuff. the only sad thing is that they got rid of the twin stick controller scheme from episode I racer and racer revenge, but at least it's sort of justified I guess, and you can mod it in i suppose. probably the fastest pod racer game since, well, wipeout hd.

Started Planescape:Torment due to everyone talking about it inspiring Disco Elysium. I'm enjoying it, but I think it's pretty funny how I'm playing int/wisdom/charisma as my higher stats, so combat is me stabbing things with a knife while Morte tanks for me. Hopefully I can make it through the catacombs and learn how to be a mage.

>>48353
I wanna play it but I dont wanna give like £60 to Disney, oh well it will be cracked eventually right

it sucks
cod1 and it's expansion from 5 years before were better

back then they weren't afraid of plagiarizing famous ww2 movies. now, I don't know if you have noticed, but there aren't good (western) war movies anymore. fury was the last big one and it was kind of mid, specially compared to t34

I hope the see see pee makes a videogame adaptation of the battle at lake changjin

COD is a ZOGbot production psyops, as well as almost every shooter game that was ever made.

>>48536
No other game lets me play as a badass soviet tovarish in Stalingrad and Berlin. The pacific campaign remains unmatched as well.

>>48533
>it was a modern shooter with WW2 paint over it.

How? All of the COD games had been WW2 themed at that point except modern warfare (which wasn't even made by the same studio)

>>48553
because they recycle engines, and the mw engine was made for modern tacticool fast-paced room clearing. all the cod games since mw have been "war on terror" gameplay with different coats of paint on top
ww2 is too slow for modern games

hype moments and aura

>>48583
>The same north Africa that was part of the Roman empire for hundreds of years?
The Roman Empire wasn't a purely European empire. It also controlled parts of the Middle East, and I don't think you'd claim that the Middle East is European.

>>48590
>>48591
>>48592
The Roman Empire was more "Mediterranean" than it was specifically "European." While it could be said that North Africa, the Middle East and Asia Minor were "colonized" by the Romans, they weren't any more "colonized" than its European holdings outside of the core territory in the Italian peninsula, and they rather infamously thought that Northern Europeans were basically orcs.

>>48565
It remains to be seen whether the elderly white boomers at the top of Bethesda have any creative vision left for TES, and whether we're sufficiently post-woke for gamers to accept the existence of black people in a video game.

Oh my god I just thought of it but they're going to have a customisable ship or some shit like that as the gimmick

>>48598
Good, ship is a far more fitting base of operation for a murderhobo than a house.

>>47924
You're not doing it right

>>47925
I have no idea, maybe image searching would help though.

>>47797

tbf the only russian cheaters i've found are also in NA boosting kids from Florida
or just downright diasporoids, but that's not only for russians, atp whenever i see a diasporoid i'm almost sure they're cheating, and about 80% of the time i'm god damn right.

>>47796
I play single player or with small groups.

If I'm playing with randoms, I just want to troll and fuck around. I only play serious when my team is people I care about, I.E friends

>every server i have to share with american players they're either cheating, trolling-or just downright begging for attention with racist rants or in the case of queers, just turning the whole server into ERP

I wouldn't say this group of people represent the average video game player of any nationality, it's just trying to get a rise out of people for enjoyment, the game being enjoyable or not isn't really relevant to them.

>immediately detaching themselves off the game whenever someone tries to take it serious, literally being too high off their fucking brains to even know where they are-

I don't really see a problem with this, if they prefer to enjoy the game being stoned out of their fucking minds then it's just their individual option. It might be annoying to you in game if your playing something multiplayer, but in that case I would say to try and find people who share your outlook and play with them.

>and the most "hardcore oldfag" gamers spend more time complaining about videogames than playing them

With this I'm assuming your talking about people at places like 4cucks /v/ or RPGcodex and whatever like your video suggests. In which case no, they don't enjoy video games. But the video games aren't actually the point of those places either, just like the first group they are tertiary to the actual purpose they fill for them. Which is using the idea of these "Hardcore, niche, old" games as a way to boost their own egos and achieve a false sense of superiority over others AKA: Pure identity reasons. It's kind of why every discussion about video games on those sites is always through the lens of "This game is better because it's less popular among duh normalfags, Casuals, zoomers" etc. The games are essentially talismans, or shibboleths used to prove ones "intelligence" and "superiority" over the society and people they feel spurned by. Why they do this is probably better fit for a different thread though since its mostly comes down to capitalism, alienation and material reasons and so on.

because ur gay

i have watched the trailer and decided ur not stricken with gaiety, rather u seem like a rather morose fella, apologies

>>48562
That's what makes it so based

Just wanted to show my singleplayer cave cus i play with at least 200 mods so i can't play multiplayer :(
i get bored without mods

>>48580

i have a bridge too

>>48564
This is why mostly reactoids like this evil game

>>48581

I finally have copper! :D

>>48514
No. I have literally never played a GTA game in my life and have no interest in GTA6.

>>48515
PS: Don't you play as a criminal doing crimes in GTA games? Why would it even have romance?

>>48517
When I think of active career criminals, I definitely don't think of romance.

>>48509
Plenty of people have sex and even brief relationship just for the fun of it though. Ideally, it would be up to the player to figure out if it's just titillation or there's a real relationship between these tow hypothetical characters.

>>45195
I played it for the first time about 6 months ago. Got the "bad" ending and was then too lazy to go back and keep playing for the other endings. It felt like a weird cross between Half Life 1 and Fallout 3. It was very linear, but also kind of "open world." There's factions but it's super easy to permanently piss them off. Duty was on my ass every time I was in the Bar area and I had to save scum and keep killing them until there was a mountain of corpses outside the bar. I didn't like all the backtracking to do side quests, which for me is the main thing I usually do in games like this. I did like the realism of the firefights which was ahead of its time. Guns felt correctly inaccurate from a distance and taking out random unaligned stalkers in their little hideouts was riveting. The anomalies were sometimes interesting but usually really annoying. I found myself selling the artifacts instead of wearing them, because I preferred to have a lot of guns and health packs.

>>47430
You probably might want to skip Clear Sky if you didn't totally fall in love with the first game, but Call of Pripyat improves upon SoC in almost every aspect, I swear. The basic idea of the game and mostly the engine is the same of course.

While I find your analysis of the game pretty much accurate, I don't even know why but I think STALKER is my favorite game series ever? I've spent 140 hours in SoC alone. I think it's the atmosphere. And mods make the games more open-world so you can waste away days playing

>>47412
Stalker 2 is just trying to ape Metro instead of actually embracing what was good about Stalker

no one knows about this indie game, OP

>>47412
I'm playing it rn, the devs are are a bit chauvinistic about the war iirc which may have led to some russian chuds thinking they live in the soviet union seethe but the game is quite fine even if I would have hoped for something better. I don't think it's anti soviet, or all the franchise can be read as much… After all it echoes the IRL Chernobyl incident which was caused by scientists and engineers overconfidence, a poor safety culture, too much secretiveness and general mismanagement. Which are themes that are in all the games, 2 comprised, with all the experiments going awry, the military constantly failing to take control of the situation, a secretive group scheming in the background and so on.