/games/ - Games

tf2 is pure shit but godspeed to you guys I guess

>>47502
>>47517
>>47518
im on a trip til saturday and all i have is a Intel Celeron laptop with 4GB of ram and my phone so i can't play shit

>>47517
not yet, will setup the server later next week

>>47525
We'll wait for you

>>47505
>gc?
group chat!

>>47532 (me)
Should the server have random crits enabled?

>>47533
y not.

Baffled by the positive reception of chapter 5.
(Almost) nothing of note happened. Dialogue was cringeworthy. Jokes were more misses than hits. References for references sake. Flat characters incorporated as round characters. Waaay too long.
Seen some buzz around this or that being unexpected, but something being unexpected is not itself a good thing. The secret boss seems a good example of this (regardless of the character or fight itself).

What do chapter 5 enjoyers see what I am missing?

>>47281
>saw this image in a certain 4chan thread
wait wtf are the threads more connected than i thought

I enjoyed chapter 5 and thought Flowery was very cool

>>47529
im still enjoying deltarune itself but my biggest criticism is that toby fox overcorrects and panders to the fanbase way too often instead of doing his own thing. fandom culture is where art goes to die

>>47530
how so? i dont keep up with the fandom much at all
all i know is that apparently gaster is a green clean pirate and has teamed up with a protein loving horde of cats in search of the delta rune, or something

b u m p

>>43690
classic video up there with richard spencer getting punched in the face

>>39561
I like the idea of quicktime dialogue events like they were used in Katana Zero, even though those were not the central point of the game. Trying to convince someone a union is worth their time when they're trying to go back from their lunch break of they're in the parking lot about to go home could be treated in a similar way.

>>39437
this seems like a cartoony base building game so I'm not sure how the playstyle would translate to union organizing

>>39561
you could have different union organizing scenarios for different national situations. Being a union in the 1920s USSR must have been so much different than being a union in the 1920s USA

>>47423
Oh no I forgot to mention but the problem isn't even actors, most of the time it's the actual dubbing process with the direction of the acting, now that's the real amateur hour

>>47438
From what I heard lots of dubs in the past were done with no direction whatsoever, voice actor would just be given their lines and told to read them into the microphone.

>>47439
That is why the quality of the dubbing could vary widely, for instance you could end up with a group of unemployed actors from North Carolina dubbing your anime.

>>47437
Modern voice actors are closer to the SCABs, as they literally work for peanuts in exchange for 'exposure' while unionized actors are sidelined simply because it is cheaper to hire YouTubers and e-celebs.

>>47445
>>47437
scabs are a problem but they are a side effect of the reserve army of labor

>>47515
this girl needs to work on her pronunciation, but I liked the probably unintentional asmr on my left side cuz her audio was fucked. anyway, yeah, man. internet drama. fucking VIDEO GAMES FRIEND VIDEO GAMES.

fans of "lite edgy" creators always think they're cool stoic guys who are above all drama but devolve into the exact kind of whiny caricature they despise when said creators get criticized

>>47516
Yeah, the video isn't great but it was the only one I saw that wasn't full of the same edgelord shit and kiwifarms comment section endlessly parroting

>woke mind virus
<mentally unwell
>complaining about playing video games for a living
<lolcows
>schizoid
<troll's remorse

Etc etc.

>>47522
It's pretty crazy because in listening to the actual stream, Dingdong pegs them immediately in his description about people callously blowing off reports of abuse, mistreatment, or exploitation at places like Activision because when you get right down to it, they want that activity to just continue.

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why is this shit even on the video games board lmao dingdong is a psychotic freak that barely puts up the pretense of streaming games for a few minutes only to ramble endlessly about people he made up in his head. moviebob levels of terminally online schizophrenia

a charitable interpretation of the dd and julian drama is that they likely have some valid complaints, but their personal echo chamber has made them paranoid and they exaggerate things that are mostly nothingburgers. oneys style of edgy humor exists in this grey area where they dont condone awful shit, but will happily joke about it because pushing boundaries (without overdoing it) has always produced great comedy and its never that deep or serious. you can tell by their tone if you arent autistic or socially maladjusted

>>47516
the whole drama is more targeted at chuds who made smiling friends their latest FOTM rather than the creators tbh. just more culture war and outdated woke 1.0 slop when 2026 is the year of woke 2.0

>>47522
>>47526
ngl this reads like you feel the need to have an opinion on anything and just heard about this shit yesterday from some random video essays

Moved to >>>/siberia/809822.

>>45125
Archie is a mixed big, the general consensus is that the comic was mostly shit until Ian Flynn picked up the pencil, and there's more diehard fans who think the comic went to shit when Ian Flynn picked up the pencil. I however thing that Archie, just like the games, is a mixed bag throughout. There's good Penders/Bollers stories and there's bad Flynn stories, but there's also good Flynn stories and shitty Penders/Bollers stories. Though lumping Pneders and Bollers is unfair because Bollers is a better writter and person than Penders. Fleetway clears Archie, though.

>>47403
That group combined with the laziness of modern sonic twitter is going to kill what creativity this fandom had. I can already feel the autism venting out of sonic spaces as more and more normalfag cattle wander in now that it's "cool" to like sonic again.

I might be going schizo but I feel like we're getting less and less fangames and projects as the years go by.

>>47500
Sonic has one of the worst examples of consumerist hype culture I've seen.

People will get overly defensive because it's "the new thing to consume" and "atleast isn't (Poorly recieved thing)" but the moment the hype dies down and people are allowed to criticize it more, they'll suddenly wonder why they're "switching up on it".

It never happens in any other franchise. Star Wars fans will despise anything new regardless of it's quality and Pokemon fans will eat up anything new regardless of how awful it is, but atleast they remain comparatively static.

It also doesn't help how normgroids will dismiss any meaningful discussion of aesthetics, storytelling or game designs as "Sonic fans being autistic". r/SonictheHedgejerk being one example of corporate slavery.

>environmentalism as the root of sonic's subtextual political leanings
ok, I can see why you'd think that. sonic and tails, two natural beings of the known world, who are one with nature, attempt to stop a mad scientist from harnessing the power of chaos to assume world domination, subjugation of the entirety of the planet and its living beings through industrialization for his own selfish ends.

however, this is not much different from the basic premise of super mario, which was: a lone supplicant of the crown takes it upon himself to save the kidnapped monarch of the realm from the forces of an imperialistic warlord who would see her as his wife-slave for the sake of encroaching upon the supposedly harmonious kingdom, that has absolutely no problems, social or economical or territorial or otherwise.

in the end, that's a lot of subtext to infer for what amounts to nothing more than tom and jerry, looney tunes type shit. sonic is the roadrunner to robotnik's wiley e. coyote; mario is a masculine power fantasy at his core, that of the braggadocious male who gets the girl in the end by defeating the bad guy, much like the premises of ninja gaiden, shinobi, double dragon, and a slew of other games whose protagonists set out on a haphazard quest to save their wives or girlfriends, and almost entirely divorced from political commentary or underpinnings beyond the assertion and affirmation of gender roles and tropes.

I just think people have a propensity to weave a tapestry of assumptions, that lead from conclusions they've drawn about any given source material, which are more a reflection of themselves than the material in question.

>>47504
I still believe Sonic's themes were far more intentional, while yes, he was made to be a corporate mascot, the games still had a lot of real artistry to them, CD being the best example of this, being a game about how technology is only as good or bad as we choose make it, all conveyed through gameplay, visuals and music, referring to the superior Japanese OST of course.

Subtle things like how this struggle for harnessing the power of chaos to assume world domination is something that's been happening long before Sonic and Eggman were alive and has ruined entire civilizations (through the Echidnas in SA1), or how the goverment is allowed to get away with literally anything through sheer power (GUN in Sonic Adventure 2) make Sonic as an artpiece a lot closer to something more thoughtful like The Lorax than Mario's simple escapist fairy tale shenanigans or the male power fantasies of the 80's, let alone just "Looney Tunes sillyness that's suddenly edgy because reasons" like normies wrongly assume the franchise to be at first glance.

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>>47481
Trvkes, we need more sexy men.

>>47481
I've tried reading some x-men comics but couldn't get over Cyclops' bulge and magick's ass. Shit is distracting

>>47451
>gooner stealth thread
Defeat this goddess if you can.

>>47451
When the goy cannot stfu about titties in vydia.

>>47507
Majikoi is the only time I got upset that a VN wasn't more gooner lonely guy bait than it actually was. So many great and unique girls in that series but most of the routes aren't all that romantic.

In Double Agent you can betray the U.S. government, and I think in later Splinter Cells Fisher gets betrayed by the government. Chaos Theory and earlier Splinter Cell plots were very run of the mill post 2001 patriotism iirc.

Rain World has the best gameplay out of any video game ever made

>>47511
>cutesy characte traversing desolate ruin environment
The definition of indieslop.

>>47506
Depends on what you want to play. But overall, it doesn't matter much what you decide to play next. What matters is whether you're capable of developing appreciation of games. As Matthew Matosis nicely put recently, some games are harder to enjoy than others, and that doesn't mean they're less fun, just that you need a different frame of mind and expectations when approaching them. You might need context and outside information as well.

>>47512
Obese /v/edditor

>>47508
>Timesplitters
I played Timesplitters 2 when it came out and I have no idea why people like it. Very arcady mid-tier shooter.
Let me remind you that in the same year came Battlefield 1942, Morrowind and Hitman 2, so it wasnt a technical issue. Some damn good games came out that year and Timesplitters 2 is just bleh.