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I’m sick of endless grinding and new content and updates and loot boxes and leveling and ranked matches and micro transactions.

Obra Dinn rocked my world. I haven’t played a game that reminded me of the magic of the medium in years until pic related. Just finished Dredge and it was a cute little experience.

I’d like this thread to be for games that can be finished in a few days and leave an impact. Like when you look at a book on the shelf you’ve read and go ‘oh yeah, that was great’. I want to go through my steam library and not just see slop, I want to see something closer to art.

Recs, please!

Has there ever been another game that has been even more reddit-focused than helldivers 2?
The satire sucks ass, but hits perfectly for redditors to cling into it, the beginning months were chokefull of vietnam memes because of malevelon creek, which lead to not stale, but rotting memes that redditors just love to cling to ("the trees speak binary", they repeat as the kid that, after several tries, has discovered an joke which has made people laugh), which alongside the "in here we can be racists cause we're hating ironically on other species" and the dev team being absolute cornballs (duolingo and it's consequences) has lead to this army of autists that hold onto this game like it's the best thing to come out in 2024.
Every Helldivers 2 fan deserves to be hanged.

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

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Game is an indie dystopian future multiplayer game, and has roles: prole, enforcer and terrorist and as a prole you have to work in a laundromat and get rewarded with drugs, as an enforcer you have to occasionally punish thieving/lazy proles and fight terrorists. It has a mid 2000-2010s aesthetic in terms of poly count and texture quality.

I can't remember the name though, I think it had a number like a roman numeral in the title like Dysphoria IV or Delirium IV. When I try to search google or YouTube with various search terms I find unrelated crap and I know I've seen a playthrough on YouTube.

If a video game character completely broke the fourth wall to look at the camera and say “skibidi toilet” you would see fire emblem fans calling it genius writing and peak comedy.

Operation Deep Sneed edition

Made a new thread since the other one is full. You know the drill folks, gather here to discuss and/or complain about Hearts of Iron 4 and all the alt history mods that make the game relevant. From green natpops to sicko mode Savinkov we've got a lot of exciting stuff coming in the next Kaiserreich update, one which will make the LKMT look like pre-rework Germany by comparison. But dont worry TNOomers, you're getting some new content too! After a year and a half and three focus trees that only last for four years, we finally have something new and that's…

…three years of fucking Antarctica

Strive is such an annoying thing to have takes about because if you say that you think May's design is a downgrade because the game is embarrassed by the series aesthetics you'll get a wall of 20 year old trans girls saying it's better because they like hoodies and it's like yeah okay idc. Even complaining about the new shitty mechanics will get people defensive because of the latest culture war!

It’s finallly OOOOOOOUT.

DOOM THREAD / RETRO FPS THREAD - Last thread: https://boards.4chan.org/vr/thread/11698643 (RIP)

Doom/Quake/Duke/Heretic/Hexen/Unreal/Sam/Half-Life/etc
Gameplay, WADs/Maps/Mods, Source Ports
All other 90s FPS welcome
~ Let's post like gentlemen ~

FAQ/GENERAL GUIDE
https://rentry.org/vrbin

SO YOU WANT TO PLAY SOME FUCKING DOOM
(or Quake, Duke, Marathon, Deus Ex)
https://imgur.com/a/wWS8zXz

Same thing, in video format:
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